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Max Bernard Yasgur (born December 15 1919; made his name and his fortune between August 15 and 18 1969; died too soon afterwards to reap the rewards, on February 9 1973): stocking wood on Aug 15
Eleazar ben Yehudah (born circa 1176; fed to the worms, on some unknown date in 1238): one of the great Kalonymos family - in this blog on Feb 19, and more here
Sergei Aleksandrovich Yesenin (born October 3 1895; died December 28 1925): try here: added to Yevtushenko’s library on July 18, to Victor Serge’s on Aug 20; married to Isadora Duncan, though it isn’t mentioned on either of their blog-appearances - bio and lots of poems in translation here
Neil Percival Young: the arrow still very much intact on June 20; on his own here; with Buffalo Springfield here; with CS&N here
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David ben Zakkai of Pumbedita (917-940): engaged in a silly squabble with Sa’adia ben Joseph on May 16 - click here; and more on Sa’adiah here
Alexander von Zemlinsky (born October 14 1871; died March 15 1942): inspired Hans Krása on April 1; seems to have impressed everyone who mattered throughout his life, so why have none of us today heard of him? bio with much adulation here; interesting mother too! see the bio-link
Zerubabel - Zeruv-Bavel: the man who brought the first Jews back from exile in Babylon around 536 BCE, BibleNet linked on March 5 and March 10, those links also taking you to here
Wu Zetian, Wu Zhao her birth-name (born February 17 624; died December 16 705), Empress of China from 660 to 705, ruling first through others and then (from 690) in her own right - among the Supra Idesses on April 17 - bio here
Jacob Gedleyihlekisa Zuma: absolute power corrupts absolutely, on Feb 11: the ANC view of him here; a rather less idolatrous version here
Benjamin Levovich Zuskin (born April 28 1899; died August 12 1952): the last of the thirteen to be executed in the so-called “Yiddish writers plot” on Aug 12 – bio here
Shabtai Zvi, the original Hasidic Rebbe, though later known as Aziz Mehmed Effendi (born Av 9 5386/August 1 1626; died at some unkown date in 1676 CE so I can't give you the Hijri equivalent): convinced he was the reborn Mashi’ach on Sept 30 - bio here
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