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Charles Saatchi: using PR to sell failed art on Feb 5
Jonathan Henry Sacks (born March 8 1948; died November 7 2020): his usual self on Aug 30
Hugo de Sade: unusual for me to list someone on the Index and this list, but he is an unusual case; much to Petrarch’s consternation, he married Laura de Neves on Jan 16
Edward Wadie Said (born November 1 1935; died September 24 2003): protesting colonialism on Aug 20 - start here
Antonio Salieri (born August 18 1750; died May 7 1825): did not poison Mozart on Dec 5; the defense here
André Salmon (born October 4 1881; died March 12 1969): had dinner chez Matisse, with Max Jacob and Pablo Picasso and Guillaume Apollinaire, as a result of which Cubism was mis-shaped into existence, on Aug 19 – his website here
Siegmund Salzmann (Felix Salten was his nom de plume): born on September 6 1869 in the Pest half of Budapest; died on October 8 1945, but in Zurich, not in the pest-corner of Auschwitz where other European Jews were dying at that time: name-dropped by Peter Altenberg on Feb 21, though god knows why, given that Salten’s only achievement as a writer was the creation of that Disneyesque super-stag Bambi – click here
Sammuramat, or Shammuramat, or Shamiram, but usually remembered as Semiramis: among the Supra Idesses on April 17 – bio here
Chief Rabbi Isaak Julius Samuel (born in Freudenberg, Germany, in 1862; died December 16 1942 in Auschwitz): leading his people out of Norway on April 17 - here and here
Raffaelo di Giovanni Santi, or possibly Raffaelo Sanzio da Urbino, and sometimes just one “f” (but either way known in English, incorrectly, as Raphael (born 1483; died April 6 1520): contributing to the Sistine Chapel on Nov 1; providing this blog with an uncommissioned and unpaid illustration on Dec 25
Jacob ben Aaron Sasportas (born in Oran in 1610; died in Amsterdam April 15 1698): amongst the first and most significant of Cromwell’s Jews, his key details are on the blog-page for Sept 30
Yakob ben Chaim Sasson: analogising water on March 11
General Richard Savage, 4th Earl Rivers (born circa 1654; died August 18 1712): the man the poet Richard Savage claimed as his father, on Jan 16, with the Countess of Macclesfield (Mrs Brett later on) supposedly doing the mothering. The evidence for this parenting is, however, still awaiting verification.
Arthur Scargill: fighting for the abolition of serfdom on June 15
Rafael Schächter (born in Brăila, Romania - though he is now claimed as a Czech - on May 27 1905; died you know where at some point in 1945): principal organiser of cultural activities at Terezin from his arrival in November 1941; conducted Brundibár in secret in 1941; see April 1, and here
Alma Maria Schindler (Mahler-Gropius-Werfel) (born August 31 1879; died December 11 1964): with Gustav Mahler on Feb 11; and making all the ladies jealous here
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel (born March 10 1772; died January 12 1829): translating Shakespeare into Hoch Deutsch on Feb 8
Johann Ludwig Heinrich Julius Schliemann (born January 6 1822; died December 26 1890 in Naples): buried at the First Cemetery in Athens, in honour of his having discovered Troy, on June 11
Livia Veneziani Schmitz, Italo Svevo’s wife, can be found on Dec 19 and here
Abraham Alexander Schneider (born October 21 1908; died February 2 1993): his piece for violin performed by Mieczyslaw Horszowski on Nov 13
Arthur Schnitzler (born May 15 1862; died October 21 1931): name-dropped by Peter Altenberg on Feb 21
Gershom Scholem (born December 5 1897 in Berlin; died February 21 1982 in Jerusalem where he was, and this really was his official title, Professor of Jewish Mysticism at the Hebrew University): a personal view here, the bio here; the critical appraisal here; his mention is on Aug 5
Christian Friedrich Schönbein (or Schoenbein) (born October 18 1799; died August 29 1868): obtained the patent for a cellulose nitrate explosive on Dec 5, though I gather he is better known for inventing the fuel cell, and for coining the word “ozone” (click here and here)
Arnold Schönberg (Schoenberg) (born September 13 1874; died July 13 1951): ran out of musical ideas on Feb 9; his student Viktor Ullmann is on April 1
Zigmund (sometimes Zikmund, sometimes Sigmund) Schul (born January 11 1916; died at Terezin on June 2 1944): amongst the artists and musicians on April 1
Heinrich Schütz (born October 9 1585; died November 6 1672): with Buxtehude and Handel on Nov 19; “the most important German composer before Bach” on every website I visit, so why have I/you never heard of him? - try here
Leo Walder Schwarz (1906-1967): quoted, from his "Memoirs Of My People", on Oct 12 - a full guide to his life and work here
Martin Charles Scorsese: filming Kazantzakis on Feb 18
Gaius Plinius Secundus, Pliny the Elder (23/24-79 CE), author, naturalist, natural philosopher, naval and army commander. Died in the eruption of Mount Vesuvius on Aug 24
Lotario dei Conti di Segni, Pope Innocent III (1198-1216): and not to be confused with the antipope Lando di Sezze, also known as Pope Innocent III; but 1179-1180, so well before the act of generosity to the Jews described on July 14
Irma Semtzka: the girlfriend of Gideon Klein who saved his compositions at Terezin on April 1 – more here
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (“the Younger”) (4BCE-65CE): Roman philosopher who picked up Aristotle’s musings about rainbows and their colours from back in 350 BCE, and elaborated upon them in Book 1 of "Naturales Quaestiones"; on March 29
Queen Seondeok of Silla, one of the three regions of Korea in her time (born somewhere between 595 and 610; died February 17 647): among the Supra Idesses on April 17 – bio here
Niccolò Sfondrati (Pope Gregory XIV) (born February 11 1535; died October 16 1591): elected Pope on Dec 5 - apparently all he achieved in his less than a year on the thone was to change one of the rules that a former pope had issued on abortions, and to threaten those caught gambling on papal elections with possible excommunication. No wonder he hasn’t been made a saint (click here for more)
Vlady Serge, Victor’s son who was an artist, on Aug 20 – but that can’t be his correct name! surely? Vladimir Victorovich Kibalchich possibly, that being his dad’s birthname? And yes, but also no: Vlady Kibalchich Russakov (born June 15 1920 in Saint Petersburg; died July 21 2005 in Mexico): bio and pics here
Gaius Atilius Serranus: green-lighted on Jan 3
Seymour family - data is in the blog-text on April 16; but also Nov 5; for Thomas Seymour, brother of Jane Seymour, the third wife of Henry VIII, see my novel “The Plausible Tragedie of Roderigo Lopes”; and here
Mahomed Shah, even Sir Sultan Mahomed Shah Aga Khan III, which is surely at least two titles too many (born November 2 1877 in Karachi; died July 11 1957 in Versoix, Switzerland), interrupting important international political events to pop in and see the dying DHL on March 2 – bio here
Varlam Tikhonovich Shalamov (born June 5 1907; died January 17 1982): telling tales in Kolyma on Aug 20
Shammai (full name unknown, precise dates unknown; 1st century BCE): arguing relentlessly with Hillel on May 16; what little is known here
William (Bill) Shankly (2 September 1913 – 29 September 1981): in his Liverpool shirt at The Cavern Club on Jan 16
Helen Patricia Sharman: the first woman to visit the Mir space station, on June 18
Cecil James Sharp (born November 22 1859; died June 23 1924): listening to Mrs Goodey singiing Old Macdonald on March 15
John Sheffield (1st Duke of Buckingham), and I have a problem, because Britannica tells me he was “7 April 1648-24 February 1721...The son of Edmund, 2nd earl of Mulgrave, he succeeded to the title on his father’s death in 1658”; but Westminster Abbey’s website, has him “born on 8th September 1647 the only son of Edmund Sheffield, 2nd Earl of Mulgrave” and he can’t have been born on both dates, though both clearly think they have the same man. Either way, he’s the bloke what built that big ‘ouse at the end of Green Park what gets a mention on Dec 4
Boris Abramovich Shimeliovich (born December 2 1892; died on the Night of the Murdered Poets, Aug 12): medical director of the Botkin Hospital in Moscow – more here
Joseph Yuzefovich Shpinak (1890–1952): another of the unlucky thirteen on the Night of the Murdered Poets, Aug 12 - more on him here and here
Luca Signorelli (born somewhere between 1441 and 1445; died October 16 1523): provides the illustrations on June 24 and Nov 1; - bio and pics here
Joshua da Silva: amongst the first of Cromwell’s Jews on Sept 30
Isaac ben Simon: the son-in-law of the Maharal on March 11
Abū-ʿAlī al-Ḥusayn ibn-ʿAbdallāh Ibn-Sīnā (Avicenna) (born in Uzbekistan on a date unkknown; died in Persia on June 22 1037): buried in the tomb that bears his name as Abu Ali Sina: way ahead of European medicine on Nov 14
Rabbi David Sinzheim of Strasbourg (1745-1812): President of the Sanhedrin of Paris on Feb 3 – bio here
Francis Joseph Christopher Sheehy-Skeffington (born December 23 1878; murdered in military custody April 26 1916 – click here and here): among the “casualties” on April 24 and the Eirish page, but I also wonder if he was a descendant of a rather more famous Skeffington – but I will only confess to knowing anything more about that ancestor if you torture me to make me (oh alright, I confess, the Irons were named for Skevington, not Skeffington, but maybe...)
Leonard Edward Slatkin: rearranging Mussorgsky on June 2 – bio here
Vesto Melvin Slipher of Lowell Observatory: “He was responsible for hiring Clyde Tombaugh and supervised the work that led to the discovery of Pluto in 1930. By 1917, Slipher had measured the radial velocities of 25 spiral nebulae, and found that all but three of those galaxies were moving away from us, at substantial speeds.” Aug 18
George Thomas Smart (born May 10 1776; died February 23 1867): at whose home in London Weber died: here and on Nov 19
Bedřich Smetana (born March 2 1824 in what was then Leitomischl in Bohemia but is now Litomyšl in the Czech Republic; died May 12 1884 in what was then Prazska but is now Prague): compared with Dvořák on Sept 8; his “Bartered Bride” performed at Terezin on April 1
John Stafford Smith (born circa March 30 1750; died September 21 1836): Anacreontic on March 3
Michael Smith: parkwaying Frank Foley on May 7; his website and much more about the book here
Edward George Geoffrey Smith-Stanley (14th Earl of Derby ), living in Chatham House on Dec 4
Willebrord van Roijen Snellius (born June 13 1580; died October 30 1626): proved the laws of refraction (Snell’s Law) and established the technique of trigonometrical triangulation for cartography (which is presumably why he has a lunar crater and a valley named after him: click here) on March 29
Edward Joseph Snowden: the precise opposite of treason on Jan 3; mentioned as a role-model for the protection of humanity from despots and tyrants on Feb 22 and Aug 12
Socrates of Athens (born circa 470BCE; died 399BCE): moving humanity into middle school on Jan 3
Sophocles of Kolonus (born circa 497BCE; died circa 406BCE): among the great dramatists on Sept 23
Eusebius Hieronymus Sophronius (Saint Jerome) (born circa 347 in Stridon, Dalmatia; died circa 419 in Bethlehem; his feast day is September 30): his translation of the Bible provided Wycliffe with a dreadfully inaccurate starting-point on May 4
Steven Allan Spielberg: giving his hero a thousand faces on March 26; turning a two-faced criminal into a saint on Aug 23
Grace Stansfield (Gracie Fields) (born in Rochdale January 9 1898; died in Capri September 27 1979): she’s on the Pseudonyms page but didn’t make it to Thespian World): corny in Capri on August 24
Richard Starkey (Ringo Starr): making the drums sound like the wheels of Thomas’ tank engine, at The Cavern Club on Jan 16
Vladimir Vasilievich Stasov (born January 14 1824; died October 10 1906): brought Hartmann and Mussorgsky together on June 2; the Tchaikovsky view here; the Marxist perspective here
William Steffe (circa 1830-circa1890): singing on Canaan's happy shore on Dec 2
Fritz Steinbach (born June 17 1855; died August 13 1916): taught Erwin Schulhoff in Cologne on April 1
Joseph Stella (born June 13 1877 in Muro Lucano, in Italy; died in the vicinity of Brooklyn Bridge on November 5 1946): lunching with Duchamp on April 11 - click here for his bio and paintings
James Stephanoff (circa 1787-1874): imagining Anne Boleyn on June 1 - more on him here
Archbishop Aloys Stepinac of Zagreb (born May 8 1898; died under house arrest February 10 1960; beatified by Pope John Paul II on October 3 1998 – click here): defending Jews and Gypsies on July 14 - well, “defending” may be overstating the matter: he decried their extermination, which is not by any means the same thing... and now read here
Lina Solomonovna Stern (or Shtern) (born August 26 1878; survived until March 7 1968): and the only one of the “Yiddish writers plot” on Aug 12 who did survive - quite an extraordinary woman she was too, equally a neurophysiologist and a biochemist: read her bio here; her major achievement, the “barrière hémato–encéphalique” (blood-brain barrier), here
Alastair Ian (Al) Stewart: making time out of sand on July 2
Alfred Stieglitz (born January 1 1864; died July 13 1946): spouse of Georgia O’Keeffe: insisting that photography is art on April 11
Daniel Chapman Stillson (birthdate unknown; died August 1899): not likely to make it to my Scientific Achievements list, but nevertheless there, wrenching pipes, on Dec 5
Abraham (“Bram”) Stoker (born November 8 1847; died April 20 1912): famous for writing “Dracula” on Feb 1; but actually far more interesting for having been the personal assistant of actor Henry Irving, and business manager of the Lyceum Theatre, which Irving actor-managed: more on that here.
Leopold Anthony Stokowski (born April 18 1882; died September 13 1977): rearranging Mussorgsky on June 2 - bio here
Rory Storm and the Hurricanes: the very first beat night at The Cavern Club on Jan 16, with Ringo Starr on drums
Ewald Sträßer (or Straesser) (born June 27 1867; died April 4 1933): taught Erwin Schulhoff in Cologne on April 1
Arthur Seymour Sullivan (born May 13 1842; died November 22 1900): on this little list on June 29 and Sept 2
Edward Vincent Sullivan: had a TV show on May 19
Edwin Vose Sumner (born January 30 1797; died March 21 1863): fortified on Nov 23
Laura Swan: definitely not a modern-day Beguine here; unfairly labelled “nasty” here; quoted on Jan 26
Graham Colin Swift: taking last orders on Dec 29 - try here
Alan Sytner: Set up The Cavern Club on Jan 16
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