R
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...): not François
Villon on Jan 5;
just in time for one of the salons of Mes Dames Des Roches on Nov 17 [reverend writers]
Emmanuel Radnitzky, or Man Ray, "or",
because 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): chez Gertrude
Stein on Feb 3; among the
great Photographers on Feb 20; his
website here [illustrious illustrators]
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 [political ideologues]
Seewoosagur
Ramgoolam: chief
minister in the colonial government, first Prime Minister when Mauritius gained
independence from Britain on March 12 1968 [Africa]
Sergio Ramirez (Mercado): gets a mention with Ruben
Dario on Jan
18 [serious
scribes]
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 [the world as stage]
Ida Rauh Eastman (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 [illustrious illustrators]
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 [musical maestros]
Thomas Ravenscroft: collecting songs on March 15 (but not the one who collects songs on Radio 6 today) [musical maestros]
Michael Scudamore Redgrave: honoured by
Clifton College on June 20, click here [the world as
stage]
Edward
(“Eddie”) John David Redmayne:
unrecognisable as himself on Aug 8 or Dec 3; but definitely himself on the world as stage
John Edward Redmond (born September 1 1856;
died March 6 1918): took over from Parnell on April 24 and the Éireland 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 [musical maestros, though he is generally not much loved as a composer today:
click here]
Maria Paula Figueiroa Rego:
painting Germaine Greer on Jan 29
Steve Reich: a completely blank space on Feb 9 [musical maestros]
Pierre-Auguste Renoir (born February 25 1841;
died December 3 1919): his portrait of Durand-Ruel is on Feb 5 [illustrious illustrators]
Juan
Guerra de Resa : led the 1598 expedition
which began the colonisation of what is now New Mexico [Africa and pre-Columban Americas]
Bernice Ruth Reuben (Bernice Rubens on some of her book-covers): second winner of
the Booker Prize on Dec 21
Samuel William Reynolds: painting Frances Reynolds on July 23
Wilfred Rhodes: debuted
on June 1 - apparently he batted number 10,
but took some wickets – scorecard here
Daniel de Ribera: the third of the excommunicees on Feb 21, but I am unable to find anything more about him [philosophers]
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 [E,M&C2]
Nicholas
Ridley:
one of the three blind mice on March 15 and 21; the others
were Geoffrey
Howe
and Nigel Lawson - no, sorry,
that was a different Nicholas Ridley, that
threesome blinded by daggers on June 15 - in this
instance the other two were Thomas Cranmer and Hugh Latimer [Aenglisch page]
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 [political
ideologues]
Angelo Maria Ripellino (born December 4 1923;
died April 21 1978): creating a Golem on March 11 [The Poets]
Robert LeRoy Ripley (born February 22 1890;
died May 27 1949): drawing cartoons on March 3, and online here [illustrious illustrators]
Joseph Ritson: his "Gammer Gurton’s
Garland", aka “The Nursery Parnassus”, collects at least four of the
rhymes on March 15 [historians]
Anthony Widvill Rivers, but remembered 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 [The Poets]
Fatuma Roba: the first African woman (Ethiopian
in her case) to become an Olympic marathon champion; at the Atlanta Games in 1996
[Africa page]
Pierre François Joseph
Robert: husband of Louise-Félicité Guynement de Kéralio-Robert
on Aug 13
Joseph Jenkins
Roberts: became the first president of independent (?
- see Samuel Kanyon Doe) Liberia on July 26 1847 [Africa]
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 [serious scribes]
Albert Jean Michel de
Rocca: 2nd husband of Madame de Staël on April 22
Freddy Rodriguez: playing
the busboy on June 24 [the
world as stage]
Carl Ransom Rogers (born January 8 1902;
died February 4 1987): wobbling between
good and bad behaviour on March 30; try here [philosophers]
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 [pre-Columban Americas]
David (Dave) Kenneth
Ritz Van Ronk: singing "Kentucky Moonshiner"
on March 22
Franklin Delano Roosevelt: 1943 on the Africa page
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 [political ideologues]
Isaac Rosenberg (born
November 25 1890; died April 3 1918 on the Somme): proving he was not a louse on Aug 3 - try here and here [The Poets]
Lev Borisovich Rozenfeld, Lev Borisovich Kamenev on his
Communist papers, born in Moscow on July 18 1883; died on August 24 1936,
and surprisingly still in Moscow, not Siberia: 1st head of state when it
was still the SFSR and not yet the USSR;
purged on Aug 20: he was 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-re-admitted in 1933. [political
ideologues and reponses to bullying]
Philip Milton Roth (born March 19 1933;
died May 22 2018): idolising Edna O’Brien on Dec 15; - interesting interview here [serious scribes]
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 [historians]
John Roulstone: claimed to have written “Mary Had
A Little Lamb” on March 15 – the full debate 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 [historians]
Liuba Russakova: wife of Victor Serge on Aug 20
John B.
Russwurm: appointed Governor of the Cape Palmas district of
Liberia by the American Colonization Society in 1836 [Africa]
Admiral Michiel de
Ruyter of Holland (1607-1676) versus Admiral General George Monck of England
(1608-1670), the original battle of Dunkirk (Dunkerque) on June 4; apparently the latter was “the chief architect of
the Restoration of the Stuart monarchy in 1660”; more on that here; a rather ominous-looking Ruyter here
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