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François Rabelais (born somewhere between 1483 and 94 - yes, the historians are that vague, because the archives are that vague; died 1553, though which day...): He is on the blog on Jan 5
Emmanuel Radnitzky (Man Ray, but it wasn’t originally a pseudonym; his family changed their name in 1912; he was known as Manny, which he then reduced to Man as a nom de photo-appareil): (born August 27 1890, in Philadelphia despite the Russian name and the lifelong French connection; died November 18 1976, in Paris): among the great Photographers on Feb 20; his website here
Ovsei-Gershon Aronovich Radomyslsky (Grigory Yevseyevich Zinoviev on his Communist papers), Lenin’s closest confidante on Aug 20: more about him here, but also here; and here for an odd side-story; and see Rosenfeld (Kamenev), below
Sergio Ramirez (Mercado): burying his fathers on Jan 18
Alisa Zinovyevna Rosenbaum (Ayn Rand is her pen-name, Wikipedia thinks she’s Alice O’Connor) (born February 2 1905 in Saint Petersburg - the Russian one, not the one in Florida; died March 6 1982): alluded to on Nov 27; named outright on Aug 10 - the authoress of what has to be one of the most vile ideologies – "Objectivism" is its utterly objectionable name - ever thought up by selfish and greedy and uncaring human beings – and sadly it is what the USA is all about
Abū Jaʿfar Hārūn ibn Muḥammad ar-Rāshīd (born February 19 766; died March 24 809): started the Islamic Golden Age on March 29; much more on him in “The Persian Fire”.
Ernst von Rath (born June 3 1909; assassinated November 9 1938): a minor civil servant who became the pretext for Krystallnacht on March 19: the full tale here
Terence Mervyn Rattigan (born June 10 1911; died November 30 1977): deep in "The Deep Blue Sea" on Dec 3; his website here
Ida Rauh (born March 7 1877; died February 28 1970): among the last friends of DHL in Santa Fé on March 2 (click here), when she made a sculpted bust of him; her bio is well worth exploring in its own rights, civil as well as theatrical, here
Joseph Maurice Ravel (born March 7 1875; died December 28 1937): cresting the wave on Feb 9; his “Kaddish ‘In Memoriam’" on April 1; rearranging Mussorgsky on June 2 – bio here
Michael Scudamore Redgrave (born March 20 1908; died March 21 1985): honoured by Clifton on June 20 - more here
Edward John David Redmayne: unrecognisable as himself on Aug 8 or Dec 3; but definitely himself on the Thespians page
John Edward Redmond (born September 1 1856; died March 6 1918): took over from Parnell on April 24 and the Eirish page, and then secured Home Rule
Johann Baptist Joseph Maximilian (“Max”) Reger (born March 19 1873; died – pretty grimly: click here - on May 11 1916): taught Erwin Schulhoff in Leipzig on April 1; generally not much loved as a composer today: click here
Steve Reich: a completely blank space on Feb 9
Pierre-Auguste Renoir (born February 25 1841; died December 3 1919): his portrait of Durand-Ruel is on Feb 5
Wilfred Rhodes: debuted on June 1 - apparently he batted number 10 but took some wickets – scorecard here
Ulrich Friedrich-Wilhelm Joachim von Ribbentrop (born April 30 1893; died October 16 1946): guided by Wehrmacht 4th-in-command Oskar Schindler on Aug 23
Daniel de Ribera: the third of the excommunicees on Feb 21, but I am unable to find anything more about him
Edward Flanders Robb Ricketts (born May 14 1897; died May 11 1948): hanging out with Joseph Campbell and John Steinbeck on March 26; bio here; his major contributions to marine biology here
The Belgian Jacques Mornard, the man who killed Trotsky on Aug 20, was really a Spaniard named Jaime Ramón Mercader del Río (1913-1978), and Mornard his nom de guerre in the Communist Party, though he also used Frank Jacson, Ramón Ivánovich López, Leon Jacome and Leon Haikys: the full tale here
Angelo Maria Ripellino (born December 4 1923; died April 21 1978): creating a Golem on March 11
Robert LeRoy Ripley (born February 22 1890; died May 27 1949: anthemless on March 3, and online here
Anthony Widvill Rivers (but misremembered as Anthony Woodville) (born somewhen in 1442; died June 25 1483): giving Caxton his first book on Nov 18 (lucky Caxton didn’t turn him down because he didn’t do unsolicited material!) – bio here
Henry Morton Robinson (born September 7 1898; died January 13 1961): playing the cardinal role of Humphrey Earwicker Chimpden to Joseph Campbell’s rather more mythological Anna Livia Plurabelle on Feb 16
Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen (Roentgen) (born March 27 1845; died 10 February 1923): discovered x-rays on Nov 8 (also listed among the Scientific Achievements on Jan 1); connected to the Curies on March 1
Pierre Roger (Pope Clement VI) (born circa 1291; died December 6 1352): defended the Jews against a variant form of Blood Libel on July 14
Carl Ransom Rogers (born January 8 1902; died February 4 1987): wobbling between good and bad behaviour on March 30 - try here
Woodes Rogers (born circa 1679; died July 15 1732): “rescued” Alexander Selkirk on Feb 1
John Rolfe (born circa 1585; died March 1622): married Pocahontas on April 5; he was an English explorer who became the first tobacco planter in Jamestown, Virginia; she converted to Xtianity; full tale here
Lev Borisovich Rosenfeld (Lev Borisovich Kamenev on his Communist papers): purged on Aug 20: which is to say: removed from his positions in 1926 and expelled from the party in 1927, before submitting to Stalin's increasing power and rejoining the party the next year. He and Zinoviev were again expelled from the party in 1932, as a result of the Ryutin affair, and were re-admitted in 1933.
Philip Milton Roth (born March 19 1933; died May 22 2018): idolising Edna O’Brien on Dec 15 - interesting interview here
Lord Rothschild, or 2nd Baron Rothschild actually, Lionel Walter (born February 8 1868; died August 27 1937); recieved a letter of some importance from not-yet-Lord Balfour on Nov 2 (click here), though I suspect he might have wanted to be remembered even more for the materials he left to the Natural History Museum, for which click here; the full bio here
Jacob Leon Rubenstein (Jack Ruby): yet another criminal-Jewish connection with the Kennedys on Nov 24 (John Wilkes Booth is on April 14; Jake the Barber on Oct 17): bio here; opinions here and here
Harriet Rubin's "Dante In Love" quoted on June 24
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