E
Amelia Mary Earhart: solo across the Atlantic on May 20; the mere crossing of the USA on Aug 24; lost over the Atlantic on July 3; sung by Joni
on Sept 24
George Eastman: born July 12
[illustrious illustrators]
Abba Solomon Meir Eban: died Nov
18
Eugénie Tell Éboué: elected to the French Assembly on Oct 21
Maria Edgeworth: beloved of Jane Austen
on her birthday, Jan 1 1768; but her full tale is on her
deathdate, May 22 1849; her friendship with Anna
Brownell Jameson on May 17 [serious
scribes and Woman-Blindness]
Thomas Alva Edison: “Mary had a little
lamb” on March 15
and Nov 20;
the electric chair on Aug 6;
stealing ideas for Oct 21
on July 24;
turned into a verb on Nov 6; listed among the scientific achievements on Jan 1, and mentioned
on Oct 22 [E,M&C2]
Alexandre Gustave Eiffel: his tower inaugurated March 31; himself born Dec 15 [illustrious
illustrators]
Albert Einstein: his Jewishness on Feb 3; his annus mirabilis on Feb 24 and July 6;
still Jewish on April 1;
the E failed to transmute into MC2 on April 18; relativity on March 20; university drop-out on Aug 18 [E,M&C2]
Alfred Eisenstaedt: born Dec
6 [illustrious illustrators]
Sergei Mikhailovich Eizenshtein
(Eisenstein): born Jan 23, mentioned on Dec 3 [the world as stage]
Juan de Elcano in his native Spanish, Juan
Sebastian den Cano in the Portuguese of his employers: took over
from Magellan on Sept 8, completed the circumnavigation on Sept 20; referenced on May 5 [pre-Columban
Americas]
Edward William Elgar: born June 2
[musical maestros]
Thomas
Stearns (T.S) Eliot: born Sept 26; quoted
on Jan 24; chez Gertrude Stein on Feb
3; turned down Tippett on
March 19; Harold Bloom on
July 11;
insinuated on July 3 and 13; in Cheyne Walk on Sept 29;
buried
beneath the lilacs on Jan 4 [The Poets]
Thomas Henry Elkins: refrigerated on Nov 4 [E,M&C2]
Ralph Waldo
Ellison: somewhat invisibly amongst the banned books on Dec
6 [serious scribes]
Ralph Waldo Emerson: born May 25;
fired "the shot heard around the world" on April 18; mentioned June 19
[philosophers]
Friedrich Engels: born Nov 28; “The Communist
Manifesto” published on Feb 26; mentioned on April 5 and Nov 6 [political ideologues and responses to bullying]
Richard Engländer: “Peter Altenberg” is quoted with lots of name-droppings on Feb 21; he is also included on the Pseudonyms page, because
his name was not Peter Altenberg, but... Richard
Engländer [lighter
writers]
Marie d’Ennetières, but usually remembered as Marie Dentière (circa 1495-1561):
daring to be a female theologian on April 27;
(reverend writers, and on the Ancien Régime page of Woman
Blindness)
Maurits
Cornelis (M.C) Escher: born June 18; pictured on June 26 [illustrious
illustrators]
Emilio Estevez Estevez - and why is he not Sheen, like his father? because it
was dad who took the stage-name Sheen, which actor-brother Charlie also went
for: inventing history on June 24
[the world as stage]
Euripides: born Sept
23 [the world as stage]
Mary Ann(e) Evans (Marian Evans Lewes; George
Eliot): born on Nov 22; Casaubon on Feb 8 and Nov 28; contrasted with Maria
Edgeworth on May 22 and Isabelle de Charrière on Oct 20; three Georges on July 1; Zionism on August 29; in Cheyne Walk on Sept 29; “Silas
Marner” on Oct 28; possible source of
her nom de plume on Oct 30; quoted on Nov 5; mentioned re Mary
Astell on Nov 12; her fictional Casaubon
counted among the reverend writers on Nov
28; died on Dec 22 [serious scribes]
John Evelyn: born Oct 31; his home trashed by
Peter Romanov on June 9; [serious scribes] - Frances
Evelyn Glanville (Fanny Boscawen) was his great-great
niece, on July 23; and it was his grandson, also
named John Evelyn, who brought her up, with his wife Mary Boscawen
Medgar Wiley Evers: murdered on June 12; mentioned
with Emmett
Till and
Nat Turner, and then sung by Bob Dylan, on Aug 28 [responses to bullying]
Michel Eyquem, Seigneur de Montaigne:
born Feb 28; translated by Giovanni (John) Florio on Jan 30; mentioned on June 19 and Nov 30; "adopted"
Marie le Jars de Gournay on Sept 14 [philosophers]
F
Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit: pre-empted by Sanctorius
on Feb 22;
born May 14 (though
some say 24th); converts to Celsius on Nov 27; (Ray Bradbury’s
“Fahrenheit 451“ expurgated on Dec 6) [E,M&C2]
John Fairfax: all washed up on July
19
Cicely Isabel Fairfield
(Rebecca West): born Dec 21 [serious scribes]
Maksymilian Faktorowicz (Max
Factor): rivalling
Estée Lauder on July 1; with his half-brother Yakov,
or Yankel, or John, but really
“Jake the Barber” Faktorowicz (same father,
different mothers) on Aug 18; and see Al
Capone on Oct 17
William Cuthbert Falkner (he added the u to make it Faulkner
when he needed to sound British to join
the Canadian RAF): at loggerheads with Hemingway on March 15; born Sept 25; taking last orders on Dec 29; mentioned on Jan 1 and July 28 [serious scribes]
Michael Faraday: with Ada Lovelace
on June 5;
born Sept 22
[E,M&C2]
Guy Faux (mis-spelled and mis-pronounced Fawkes): his “real” story on Jan 6; the trial of the Gunpowder Plotters on Jan 27; “executed” on Jan 31; affected by calendar shift on June 23; pseudo-history on Nov 5; referenced on Feb 22, Nov 17,
Dec 20 and Dec 29
Millicent Garrett, married name Millicent
Garrett Fawcett, but not
hyphenated: April 27
(though it really belongs on the 23rd) [Woman-Blindness]
Itzik Feffer (איציק פֿעפֿער in Yiddish;
Исаàк Соломòнович Фèфер in Russian; Izaak Solomonovich Fefer in English): one of
twenty-six ruined on “The Night of the Murdered Poets”, or the “Yiddish writers
plot” if you take the other view, on... his death-date, obviously: Aug 12 [serious scribes] – for the full
account go to my WordPress blog
Kai Feinberg: family, April
15
Federico Domenico Marcello Fellini: born
Jan 20 [the world
as stage]
Enrico Fernando Fermi: born Sept 29
[E,M&C2]
Élisabeth Ferrand (1700-1752): the end of her life of remarkable
achievement is on Feb 17 and the Ancien Régime page of "Woman-Blindness" (E,M&C2)
Alessandro di Mariano di Vanni
Filipepi (Botticelli): provides the picture
on March 17;
died May 17;
mentioned on Nov 1;
the nickname is a type of small wine flask [illustrious
illustrators]
Robert (Bobby) James Fischer: beat Boris
Spassky on Sept 1
Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald, remembered as F. Scott: chez Gertrude Stein on Feb
3; married Zelda Sayre
on April 3; born Sept 24; banned on Dec 6; mentioned on Jan 1; name-checked on March 3 [serious
scribes];
Gustave Flaubert: with George Sand
on June 29
and July 1;
born Dec 12
[serious scribes and responses to bullying]
Quintus Horatius Flaccus
(Horace): born Dec 8 [The Poets]
Marie Catherine Sophie de Flavigny: remembered by
her friends as Marie Comtesse d'Agoult,
but by her readers as Daniel Stern (born
December 31 1805, died March 5 1876): mothering Cosima Wagner with Franz Liszt, and falling out with George Sand, on Dec
24 [serious scribes]
Alexander Fleming: born Aug 6 [E,M&C2]
Yvonne Joyce Fletcher: remembered on Nov 28 and Dec
4
Giovanni Florio (John Florio
when he moved to England): translator of Montaigne
and hugely signficant to Shakespeare on
Jan 30
[historians]
Ferdinand Jean Marie Foch: born Oct
2
Daniel Foe (de Foe, Defoe): Man Fridayed on Feb 1; pseudonymed on Feb 8; buried among the dissenters on Nov 28 [serious scribes]
Francis Edward (Frank) Foley: much
honoured on May 7
[responses to bullying]
Rabbi Isaac Aboab de Fonseca (1605-1693): pastored the first
Jews in the Americas on Feb 1; excommunicated Spinoza on Feb
21
Edward
Morgan (E.M) Forster: born Jan 1; “only connected” on Jan 3, but, because you need two entities to make
a connection, on Sept 14 as
well [serious scribes]
Jean Bernard Léon Foucault: born Sept 18 - this one’s the scientist [E,M&C2]
George Fox: Nov 28 [reverend writers]
Terrance (Terry) Stanley Fox: started walking on April 12, but stopped on Sept 1; the full story is told on his death-date,
which is June 28
Elizabeth Fowler (Eliza Haywood): acting, writing,
publishing The Female Spectator, and massively influencing Jane Austen on Feb
25 (world as stage and serious scribes)
Catherine Fradonnet (born 1542; died 1587): co-hosting a salon and co-writing poetry with
her mother Madeleine Neveu - "Mes Dames
Des Roches" as they became known - on Nov 17 [Ancien Régime page of Woman-Blindness, and among the serious scribes)
Herbert Ernst Karl Frahm (Willy
Brandt): born Dec 18 [responses to bullying]
Annelies (Anne) Marie Frank: born, and posthumously published by her father Otto Frank, on June 12; with Hélène Berr on
April 10 and 15; arrested Aug 4; see also Dec 23
[serious scribes]
Benjamin Franklin (aka Silence Dogood, Polly Baker, and
Richard Saunders): among the pseudonyms on Feb 8 [political ideologues]
Rosalind Elsie (“Rosie”)
Franklin: mentioned on June 8; ”Tenzinged” on July 24
[E,M&C2]
James George (J.G) Frazer: born Jan 1; mentioned with Joseph Campbell on
March 26 [historians]
Sigismund Schlomo (Sigmund) Freud: born on May 6; his
Jewishness on Feb 3 and April
1; referenced re Montaigne
on Feb 28
and Maimonides on March 30; failed
to invent the Super-Id on May 3; deluded
about Carl Jung on July 26; Sarah Kofman on Sept 14; mentions
on Feb 21, Feb 24
and July 5
offspring Anna (the psychiatrist) and Lucian
(the painter) can be found on Dec 3 and on the MM list [philosophers]
Robert Lee Frost: quoted
on Feb 22; born March 26 [The Poets]
Louis de Freycinet: circumnavigating the
globe with his wife, Rose Marie Pinon,
disguised as his cabin-boy, on May 7
Leonhart Fuchs: Oct 26 [E,M&C2]
G
Gabriel (no other name is known): led a slave rebellion in Virginia
on Aug 30 [responses
to bullying]
Yuri Alexseyevich Gagarin: 1st man in space on April 12; listed among the scientific achievements on Jan 1
Thomas Gainsborough:
born May 14 [illustrious illustrators]
Galileo di Vincenzo Bonaiuti de' Galilei: 3
satelites of Jupiter on Jan 7; died
on Jan 8; Hebdoed on Jan 14;
enhanced by Sanctorius on Feb 22;
numerous discoveries on March
29; William
Gilbert on July 24;
the model for Foucault’s pendulum on Sept 18;
disoutlawed on Sept 24; named
it “aurora borealis” on Dec 11;
outlawed on Dec 14; mentioned
on May 4
and Oct 13; listed
among the scientific achievements on Jan 1 [E,M&C2]
Johann Gottfried Galle: discovered Neptune on Sept 23; listed among the scientific achievements on Jan 1 [E,M&C2]
John Galsworthy (used John Sinjohn as a pen-name for his first few books, then abandoned it): born
Aug 14 [serious scribes]
Vasco de Gama: set sail on his first voyage July
8 1497
Mohandas Karamchand (“Mahatma”) Gandhi: born Oct 2; assassinated on Jan 30; did a Rosa
Parks, or was it a Claudette Colvin,
on June 7; referenced on April 24 and May
2 and mentioned on May 16
and Dec 4; and on the Africa page for 1913 for leading a protest against the treatment of Indians in
South Africa [responses to bullying]
Rajiv Gandhi: assassinated on May 21, mentioned on Jan
30 and Dec 27
Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Gangnus (Yevtushenko was his mum’s name and presumably he took it
because Gangnus just doesn’t work for
a poet): born July 18;
mentioned re Mandelstam on Jan 8;
mentioned re Pushkin on May 26 [The Poets]
Arthur Ira Garfunkel: bridged
the waters of parturition on Oct 13 [musical maestros]
André-Jacques Garnerin: parachute jumping on Oct 22;
listed among the scientific achievements on Jan 1
David
Garrick (de la Garrique originally,
but it was his gradparents who made the change when they came to England): born
Feb 19; part of the Fanny Burney crowd on June 13; amongst the actors on Aug 8; in Pepys’
diary with his wife Eva on Oct 2 [the world as stage]
Marcus Mosiah Garvey: born Aug 17; and on the pre-Columban Americas page for founding "The Universal Negro Improvement Association" in
Jamaica with his wife Amy Jacques Garvey [responses to bullying]
Hilaire
Germain Edgar
De Gas (Degas, no accent on the e): another of Durand-Ruel’s great discoveries on Feb 5; among the Pseudonyms on Feb 8; born July 19 [illustrious
illustrators]
William Henry (“Bill”) Gates: born Oct 28; unveiled
the Apple Computer on Jan 24; listed among
the scientific achievements on Jan 1 [E,M&C2]
Richard Jordan Gatling: patented his gun on
Nov 4 (it’s also listed on Dec 5, but
questioned as one of the scientific
achievements on Jan 1 for obvious
reasons)
Eugène Henri Paul Gauguin: born June 7; yet
another of Durand-Ruel’s great discoveries on Feb 5 [illustrious
illustrators]
Charles André Joseph Pierre
Marie de Gaulle: elected PM on June 1; helped to become President by Marie-Madeleine Fourcade
on Jan 26; in the blue
corner against Christiane Desroches Noblecourt
on Oct 21 [responses
to bullying]
Johannes
Wilhelm (“Hans”) Geiger: born Sept 30; on
the Sherpa Tenzing page with Walther Mueller [E,M&C2]
Robert
Frederick Zenon (Bob) Geldof: born Oct 5 [musical maestros]; raising money for Eritrea on May 22
Bachir Pierre Gemayel (بشير بيار الجميّل): assassinated Sept 14, revenged
Sept 16
Jean
Genet: born Dec 19 [the world as stage]
David Lloyd George: died March 26. Mentioned on April
24 - most of
the other mentionees on that date are on the Éireland page
Stephen Demetri Georgiou (Yusuf Islam today, but once upon a moonshadow
we knew him, and sang along to all his songs, and in my mind he will always be,
Cat Stevens): born
July 21; in Bunjie’s on Oct 3; mentioned on Oct 22 [musical maestros]
Goyakhla, or possibly Goyaałé (Geronimo): born June 16 [pre-Columban Americas]
Jacob
Gershvin (George Gershwin): born
Sept 26 [musical
maestros]
Wilhelm Richard Geyer (Wagner): Tolkiened on Jan 3; born on May
22; "Tristan und Isolde" premièred on June 10; “Die Walküre” at the annual Wagner
Festival at Bayreuth on July 22; studying
with Weber on Nov 19; mentioned as an influence on Feb 9, June 9
and Aug 21; merely mentioned on Feb 11, Oct 27
and Nov 6 [musical maestros]
Edward Gibbon: declined and fell, but only in print, on June 27 [historians]
André Paul
Guillaume Gide: with Oscar Wilde on April 5; paralleled with Roger Casement on Sept
1, and Victor Serge on Aug 20; living in Le
Corbusier’s Le Havre on Oct 6; subjected to Bachelardian analysis on Nov 22 [serious scribes - and see my listing for Marc
Allégret among the illustrious illustrators]
William
Gilbert (or sometimes Gilberd): rubbed pieces of cloth together on July 24 [E,M&C2]
Alexander Gilchrist, but he wouldn't be
listed were it not for his wife Anne Gilchrist:
biographying Blake on Nov 30
John
Birks "Dizzy" Gillespie: born Oct 21 [musical maestros]
Irwin Alan Ginsberg: Howled
into banishment on Jan 8 and Dec 6 [The Poets]
Hippolyte
Jean Giraudoux: born Oct 29 [the world as
stage]
George Robert
Gissing: born Nov 22 [serious scribes]
William
Ewart Gladstone: the Irish Question
on April 24; living at Chatham House
on Dec 4 [Éireland]
Frances Evelyn Glanville, but remembered as "Fanny" Boscawen: one of the
original Blue Stockings on July 23 [W-B]
Jean-Luc Godard: born
Dec 3 [the world as stage]
Lady Godiva/Queen Guinevere
(Guinièvre): March 15 [Aenglisch list]
Mary Wollstonecraft
Godwin (Shelley): died on Feb 1,
but that page also tells the Geneva-Frankenstein story with PB and Byron
and “Pollydolly” (John Polidori); “Kosher
Frankenstein” on March 11; April 27 has mum, Mary Wollstonecraft (Godwin); PB drowned on July 8; Mary
was born on August 30 1797, but that is only an Amber listing in my drafts
folder and has not yet gone live. Mentioned on Jan
22 [serious scribes]
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: born Aug 28; his praise of Madame de
Staël on April 22 [Britannica describes him as “a German poet, playwright,
novelist, scientist, statesman, theatre director, critic, and amateur artist“,
so he should really be on several lists, but I am only placing him among the The Poets]
His niece Ottilie gets a mention with Anna Jameson on May 17
Vincent
Willem Van Gogh: cut off his ear on Dec 23; mentioned on March 19; brother Theo can be found on Feb 5 [illustrious
illustrators]
Nikolai
Vasilyevich Gogol: became a dead soul
on March 4 [serious scribes]
Ephraim Owen Goldberg (Frank Gehry): born Feb 28 [illustrious illustrators]
William
Gerald Golding: born Sept 19, mentioned on July 9 [serious scribes]
Oliver
Goldsmith: honoured by Thackeray on Feb
8, “Vanity Fair” on Feb 28;
docked on March 15; born Nov 10 [the world as
stage]
Andrea
di Pietro della Gondola (Andrea Palladio):
born Nov 30 [illustrious illustrators]
Francisco Pizarro González: founded
Lima on Jan 18 [pre-Columban
Americas and a mention on the Africa page]
Benjamin David (Benny)
Goodman: living
up to his name in a major key on Jan 16;
born on May 30 [musical maestros and responses
to bullying]
Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev: hired Kim
Philby on Jan 23;
ousted
on Aug 19 but resigned on Dec 21 - which seems to me a clash of
histories
Nadine Gordimer: born Nov 20 [serious scribes and a mention on the Africa page]
Odetta Homes Felious Gordon: born Dec 31 [musical maestros]
Salvador Guillermo Allende Gossens: overthrown on Sept 11
Eleanora Fagan Goughy (Billie Holliday): her “Lady Day” is on
April 7
Glenn Herbert Gould: seated stone-faced on a bench on Feb 23; born Sept
25 [musical maestros]
Emmeline Goulden (Pankhurst): born July 14; with Millicent
Fawcett on April 27 [Woman-Blindness]
Marie-Olympe de Gouges is how she is remembered, but originally Marie Gouze; guillotined on Nov 3 1793 for daring to authoress the “Declaration of the Rights of Woman and of the Female Citizen” [listed in the Napoleonic Era page of "Woman-Blindness", and among the political ideologues]
William Gilbert (W. G) Grace: passed his final test on June 1
Hiram Ulysses Grant (which spells “HUG”, and he didn’t want to risk his
political career on so easy a piece of satire, so he first swapped the “H” and
the “U”, then dropped the “H” altogether and invented an “S”, a pure “S”, not
an initial for anything, when he entered Congress as Ulysses S. Grant): reformed anti-Semite on Dec 17
Günter Wilhelm Grass: quoted on March 15;
born Oct 16 [serious
scribes and responses to bullying]
Jean-François Gravelet (Charles Blondin): taking a pedestrian wander across the Niagara Falls on June 30 [the world
as stage]
Robert von Ranke Graves: alongside J.G Frazer on Jan
1, and Joseph Campbell on March 26; born July
24; the “Claudius” novels on Sept 4
and Oct 22 [historians]
His
half-brother Philip Perceval Graves can be found disclosing the fraudulence of
“The Protocols of the Elders of Zion” on Aug 26 [historians]
Thomas
Gray: born Dec 26 [The Poets]
Horace Greeley: stayed east on July
13
Henry Graham Greene: born Oct 2 [serious scribes]
Germaine Greer: born Jan 29; mentioned on Jan 9
and July 11 [this requires the feminine singular form,
which I believe is poētika, though in fact she
is on the page of the philosophae]
Lady Jane Grey-Dudley (Queen Jane): deposed on July 19; absent but asterisked on Dec 1 [Aenglisch
list] - and properly speaking she should be deposed from this Index as well, as she
counts among the Kings and Queens of Aengland;
except that she doesn't get counted, and I refuse to cut her head off for a
second time, so she is on both lists
Joseph Grimaldi: and I refuse to accept what all the encyclopaedia tell
me, that his full name was Joseph Giuseppe Grimaldi;
clearly one was English and the other Italian, though actually everybody called
him Joey; born Dec 18 [the world as
stage]
Jacob Ludwig Karl Grimm, with younger brother Wilhelm Carl Grimm on Jan 4; the
Pied Piper on July 22; compared with Maria
Edgeworth on May 22 [lighter writers]
Elizabeth Griscom (Betsy Ross, Betsy Ashburn, Betsy Claypoole): born Jan 1; flying
on March 3
Anna-Maria ("Marie") Grosholtz: Madame Tussauds on March 30
Sophie de Grouchy (“Citoyenne Condorcet”): bringing the two
ends of the French Revolution together on May 5 [philosophers and Woman-Blindness/Napoleonic
Age] ;
husband Marie-Jean-Antoine-Nicolas
de Caritat, Marquis de Condorcet is
on Aug 10
David Grün (David ben Gurion): born Oct 16;
in support of Spinoza on Feb 21 [political
ideologues]
Solomon Robert Guggenheim can be found in his FLW-designed
warehouse on Oct 21, and again on Dec 30. Simon
(fully John Simon) and Benjamin (known as Ben)
are also on Dec 30, with Ben’s daughter Marguerite,
better known as Peggy, who is in
Bilbao with Frank Gehry on Feb 28. Further mentions on Feb 5 and June
8
[illustrious illustrators]
Elizabeth Gurney (Fry): born May 21 [political
ideologues]
Greta Lovisa Gustaffson
(Greta Garbo): born Sept 18 [the world as stage]
Woodrow Wilson ("Woody")
Guthrie: born July 14; died Oct
3; mentioned on March 15 and
May 24 [musical maestros]
H
Hadewijch of Brabant (circa 1200-circa 1260): writing mystical but courtly songs on Feb 24 [musical maestros and Beguines]
Asaph Hall: discovered two
moons of Mars on Aug 11; listed among the scientific achievements on Jan 1 [E,M&C2]
Peter Reginald Frederick Hall: diarising Mountbatten on Aug 27; reduced
to simile on Sept 11; expanded to metaphor on Dec 3 [the world as stage]
Edmund Halley: cometed to fame on Nov 8; reappeared on April 1 (listed on Jan
1)
Frans Hals: in the Wallace
Collection on April 16; died Aug 25 [illustrious
illustrators]
John Henry Hammond Jr: born Dec 15; discoverer-producer
of some of the giants; his son is John P Hammond the blues musician [musical maestros]
George Frideric Handel (1685–1759): and when I hear the name I immediately see the little blacksmith’s box on Stonegrove in Edgware, for most of my life a Jewish funeral parlour, but more recently a woman’s manicure opportunity, and now the seller of home-made croissants...But wait, we’re talking about George Frideric Handel, water musician, one of the truly greats... yes I know, but he was based in Canon’s Park, at the Whitchurch, and I catch the 142 home from Edgware at the bus stop right by the building... history is only significant when it’s also personal. As to the blog, his Messiah is premièred on March 23; he can be encountered with the now-forgotten Giovanni Bononcini on March 15; and he gets a minor key Baroque fanfare on Nov 19 [musical maestros]
William Christopher (W.C) Handy: born Nov 16, published
"Memphis Blues” on Sept 27 [musical maestros]
Joseph Aloysius Hansom: trade-named on May
26, June 17, July 12 and Nov
3; born Oct 26 [bloomers]
Françoise d'Issembourg du Buisson d'Happoncourt, though she could be here under
her married name, Françoise de Graffigny,
which is how history remembers her: discovered by Voltaire and
supported by Émilie du Châtelet on Feb 11, until
they fell out over Joan of Arc [serious
scribes and the Ancien Régime page
of "Woman-Blindness"]
Thomas Hardy: born June 2,
published "Far From the Madding Crowd" on Nov
23
[serious scribes]
Robert Harrington: discovered Charon
(Pluto's moon) with his partner Jim Christy on June
22; listed among the scientific achievements on Jan 1 [E,M&C2]
Thomas Harriot: painting sunspots
on March 29; mashed and fried on July 28 [scientific achievements and E,M&C2]
Christopher Harris (known as Christopher Fry): born Dec 18 [the world as stage]
Elinore
Harris on her
birth certificate, Eleanora Fagan in her childhood, Eleanora Fagan Gough during her brief first
marriage, Billie
Holiday on her
concert advertising: discovered by John Henry Hammond Jr on Dec 15, but her “Lady Day” is on April 7 [musical maestros]
George Harold Harrison: mentioned for Bangladesh on July 13; raising
actual money for it on Aug 1
Viktor Alexandrovitch Hartmann: exhibited musically on June
2
[illustrator]
John Harvard: born on Nov 26 and mentioned on Nov 28, but it is the college that gets the
listings: Feb 9, April 9 and 18,
Nov 17, and its key date Oct 28 - for him, see my listing for Daniel Chester French among the illustrious illustrators
Anne Gray Harvey (Sexton): born Nov 9; at McLeans with Robert
Lowell and Sylvia Plath on
Nov 17 [The Poets]
William Harvey: mentioned
on March
29; rejected in favour of ibn al-Nafis on March 6 and
Nov 14 [E,M&C2]
Katharine Teresa Harwood (Gün): all charges dropped on Feb
23 [responses
to bullying]
Nathaniel Hathorne (like William Falkner,
he changed the spelling; in his case to Hawthorne): “Scarlet Letter” published on March 16;
born on July 4,
the book banned in 1852 (see under Dec 6); admiring of Anna Brownell Jameson
on May 17 [serious scribes]
Václav Havel: born Oct 5, sworn
in on Dec 29 [the world as stage and responses to bullying]
Franz Joseph Haydn: teaching Beethoven
on Nov 19 and Dec 12; obscurely mentioned on April 16; performed by Ernő Dohnányi on July 27 [musical maestros]
Patricia (Patty) Campbell Hearst: “captured” on Sept 18
Charlie Hebdo: Jan 14;
also a mention on Jan 8 [responses
to bullying]
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel: born
Aug 27 [philosophers]
Johann Heinrich Heidegger:
born July 1 [reverend writers]
Martin Heidegger: born
Sept 26 [philosophers]
losef Ruvinovich (Jascha)
Heifetz: born Feb 2 [musical
maestros]
Heinrich (Harry) Heine (later
forced to rename himself Christian Johann
Heinrich Heine): burned to a cinder on May 10 (see also Aug
27 and Dec 6); born Dec 13 [The Poets]
Joseph Heller: caught with at least twenty-one other banned books on Dec 6
[serious scribes]
Lillian Florence Hellman: born
but unfinished on June 20 [the world as stage]
Ernest Miller Hemingway: chez Gertrude Stein
on Feb 3; at loggerheads with Faulkner on March
15, self-euthenased
on July 2; volunteered for war on July 22 and Oct 6; banned on Dec 6; alluded to on Jan 1 [serious scribes]
Johnny Allen Hendrix,
or later James Marshall Hendrix, and
later still plain “Jimi” Hendrix: died Sept 18 [musical maestros]
Frederick William Herschel: born
Nov 15; discovered Uranus on March 31; listed among the scientific achievements on Jan 1 [E,M&C2]
Mayer Hersh: a very
personal tale on Feb 12
Milton Snavely Hershey: born Sept 13;
mentioned on Dec 2
Benjamin Ze’ev ben
Ya'akov (Theodor) Herzl: born on May 2; 1st Zionist Congress on Aug 29; mentioned on Jan 7; referenced on Feb 3 and July
14
[political ideologues and responses to bullying]
Chaim Herzog: born Sept 17
Victor
Hess: had issues with his electroscope on Nov 11; listed among the scientific achievements on Jan 1 [E,M&C2]
Herman
Karl Hesse: born July 2 [serious scribes]
Jack (John) Aikman Hetherington: arrested for wearing a top hat on Jan 15; mentioned on May 26
Marie Theresa Heyer (Therese Huber) writing
prolifically on June 14
Thor Heyerdahl:
born Oct 6 1914; died April 18 2002
Edmund Percival Hillary: reached the summit of Mount Everest on May 29; ”Tenzinged” on
Jan 2 and July 24 (chronologically these should be posted the
other way around, but self-evidently Tenzing
has to be listed after Hillary, not
before him)
Hillel the Elder: mentioned on May 16
and Sept 21; mine without nuts please
on Nov 3 [reverend writers]
Mordechai ben
Hillel ha-Kohen: a
student of the Maharam and author of "Sepher Mordechai" on March 30 [reverend writers]
Paul Hindemith:
born Nov 16 [musical maestros]
Paul Ludwig Hans Anton von Beneckendorff und
von Hindenburg: (born Oct 2 1847; died August 2
1934); 2nd President of the Weimar Republic, the man who invited Hitler to become Chancellor; so should he be
counted as a GER-man? Click here for an answer to
that question
Aurelius Augustinus Hipponensis (the earlier of the two Saints Augustine): quoted
by Pelagius on Jan 11;
confessed on March
15; anti-Semitic on March 30
and July 14;
contrasted with Fra Roger Bacon on Sept 13;
born on Nov 13;
his deathdate of Aug 28
differentiates him from St Augustine of
Canterbury, the one who fired up all those canons and gave his name
to the Mini Minor; he can be found, Canter-buried, on May 26.
Saint Augustine is named as the first American town on Sept 8 [reverend writers and
the pre-Columban page]
Kimitake Hiraoka (Yukio Mishima): committed seppuku on Nov 25 [serious scribes]
Thomas Hobbes: born April 5;
mentioned on Oct 10 [philosophers]
David Hockney: born July 9 [illustrious illustrators]
Dustin Lee Hoffman: methodical
on Jan 17;
even more so on Aug 8 [the world as stage]
Dovid Hofshteyn (David Hofstein in
English): murdered on Stalin’s orders on Aug
12 – for the full account go to my WordPress blog [serious scribes]
William Hogarth: born Nov 10 [illustrious illustrators]
Gustav Theodore Holst: born Sept 21 [musical maestros]
Margaret Evelyn Hookman (Margaret de Arias; Margot Fonteyn): born May 18 [the world
as stage]
Daniel Hope: in
concert on April 1 [musical maestros]
Gerard Manley Hopkins:
born July 28 [reverend
writers]
Francis Hopkinson: designer of the Stars & Stripes, born Oct 2
Edward Henry Hopper: born July 22 [illustrious illustrators]
Vladimir Samoylovich Horowitz: born Oct 1 [musical maestros]
Alfred Edward (A.E) Housman: born
March
26 [The Poets]
Samuel (Sam) Houston: President of Texas on Oct
22
Elias Howe Jr:
died Oct 3 (I
wonder if they sowed him a shroud) [E,M&C2]
Julia Ward Howe: born May 27; alongside
her less well-known but just as meritorious of being remembered husband, Samuel Gridley Howe - he founded the Perkins
Institute after fighting in the Greek wars - on Dec 2
Joseph Leopold Ford Hermann Madox Hueffer
(Ford Madox Ford): born Dec 17 [serious scribes]
Edward James (Ted) Hughes: born Aug 17 [The Poets]
Victor-Marie Hugo: born Feb 26; Jean
Valjean on April 2; his “Les Miserables” letter on Oct 18; mentioned
on Aug 10 [serious scribes and responses to bullying]
Milton LaSalle Humason:
born Aug 18 [the only mule-skinner in history
to find a place on the E,M&C2
list]
Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich
Alexander von Humboldt: born Sept 14; mentioned
on June 17 [E,M&C2
list]
James Henry Leigh Hunt: born Oct 19; wrote “Hero and Leander” on May 3
[The Poets]
John Vincent Hurt: playing Quentin Crisp and Joseph Merrick on Jan 22 [the world as
stage]
Aldous Leonard Huxley: born July 26; with his wife Maria at DHL’s bedside on March
2; mentioned on May 2 [serious scribes and responses to bullying]
Christiaan Huygens: born March 29;
discovered Titan, the moon of Saturn, on March
25, and observed Saturn’s rings on April
14;
listed among the
scientific achievements on Jan 1 [E,M&C2]
I
Henrik Johan
Ibsen: at
war with Strindberg on Jan 22; “Emperor and Galilean” mentioned on Aug 4 and premièred on Dec 5 [the world
as stage]
Eugen (Eugène) Ionescu: born Nov 26,
(not his Rhinoceros on Sept 13) [the world as stage]
Iseut, or Iseult, or Isolde, the literary beloved of Tristan on June 10
Christopher William Bradshaw Isherwood: born
Aug 26 [serious scribes]
Charles Edward Ives: born Oct 20 [musical maestros]
Yosef ben Ha Levi Ha Ivri (Luis de Torres when he accepted conversion):
thought Cuba was in Asia, probably because his brain was fuddled by smoking
tobacco, on Feb 1
and Nov 2 [pre-Columban Americas]
Chief Sitting Bull, whose real name was Tatanka Iyotake: surrendered July 20; killed by his own people Dec 15 [pre-Columban
Americas]
J
Simone Annie Liline Jacob (Veil): died June 30; mentioned
on April 15 and Aug 24 [political ideologues
and on the Equal Sex page of Woman-Blindness]
Derek George Jacobi: born Oct 22 [the world as stage]
Henry James: born April 15; became gave up Washington Square for
Rye on July 16 [serious scribes]
Jesse Woodson James: became an outlaw on Sept 5; ceased to be one
on April 3
Alfred Henri Jarry: born Sept 8 [the world as stage]
Marie le Jars - de Gournay was added when her mum
moved the family to the estate of Gournay-sur-Aronde after dad died (1565-1645): Montaigne's "fille d'alliance" on Feb 28; a great thinker in
her own write on Sept 14, the Ancien Régime page of Woman-Blindness, and among the serious
scribes
Camille Javal (Brigitte Bardot): born Sept 28 [the world
as stage]
Jeanne
de Jussie (born 1503; died Nov 7 1561, and the town is fully Jussy-l'évèque): writing
"A Poor Clare's Account of the Reformation of Geneva" on the Ancien Régime page of Woman-Blindness and among the Memoirists
on the serious scribes page
Charles-Édouard
Jeanneret (“Le Corbusier”): Oct 6 [illustrious
illustrators]
Robert Thomas Jenkins: had his ear cut off on April 9
Roy Harris
Jenkins:
egotistical about Mountbatten on August 27 [political
ideologues]
Edward Anthony Jenner:
born May 17 [E,M&C2 list]
Henry Jermyn:
established the "West End" on Dec 4
Quaid-i-Azam Mohammed Ali Jinnah: born Dec 25
József (Joseph) Joachim: hired Ernő
Dohnányi on July 27; presented
with the “FAE Sonata” on Oct 27 [musical maestros]
Joseph Johnson:
publisher and salon-host to a quite extraordinary group of intellectuals, on April 27 - more here. Not to
be confused with his contemporary James
Johnson (born
1753?; died February 26 1811): also a publisher, of books as well as music, and
best known for co-writing the songbook “The Scots
Musical Museum” with Robert Burns [serious scribes]
Lyndon Baines Johnson: March 6: My
“Human Lives Matter” poster - 1961: Affirmative action JFK + LBJ’s follow
up in 1965; both linked; gave up his futile and fatuous war in Vietnam on Oct 31 [responses to bullying]
Marguerite Ann Johnson (Maya
Angelou): born April 4 [serious scribes]
Samuel Johnson: born on Sept 18; dictionaried on April 15; among the Blue Stockings on July 23; mentioned on June 13 and 16;
quoted on Oct 2; bio'ed by James Boswell on Oct
29,
and biographying Richard Savage on Jan 16
[librarians of Babel]
Louis Jolliet:
born Sept 21
Regina Jonas: portrait
by Marlis Glaser on Jan 12; smichah on June 3 and Dec 27
Edith Newbold Jones (Edith
Wharton): born Jan 24 [serious scribes]
James Arthur Jones (Baldwin was his stepfather's name): published
"The Fire Next Time" while living in Paris; will be on Aug 4 but not yet live; [Africa
page, and among
the serious scribes]
Ynyr (Inigo) Jones: born July 15 [illustrious illustrators]
William Jones: “Common source” on Feb
15
[librarians of Babel]
Benjamin (Ben) Jonson: born June 11;
in the hall of fame on Sept 23;
fought in the Netherlands on Nov 5;
mentioned on June 29 [the world as stage]
Janis Lyn Joplin: born
Jan 19; died
Oct 4 [musical maestros]
Scott Joplin: born Nov 24 [musical maestros]
Sa’adiah ben Joseph, the Ga’on
of Sura: died May 16 [reverend writers]
James Augustine Aloysius Joyce: born on Feb 2; Joseph
Cambell on Joyce can be
found on March 26, but even more so
on Feb 16; generally granted on April 9; cited by Sam
Beckett on April 13; Bloomsday
is on June 16 though “Ulysses” is
amongst the banned books on Dec 6;
student Italo Svevo is on Dec 19, with wife Livia and her
"plura belle" hair; critic Harold Bloom on July 11; mentioned on April 24, May
17 and Oct 20;
Benjamin Bloom’s taxonomy is on Sept 13, and
there are several other Blooms, Bloomers and Bloomsburys along the way [serious
scribes]
Carl Gustav Jung: acolyte of Schopenhauer on Feb
22; studied by Joseph Campbell
on March 26; born July 26; mentioned on March 30 [philosophers]
K
Franz Kafka: turned into an ism
on Jan 4; Robinson Crusoe on Feb 1; born July
3; processed on Aug 12;
diaries quoted on Nov 30; died June 3; mentioned April
1 [serious
scribes]
Magdalena Carmen Frida Kahlo y
Calderón: born July 6, but the full tale is told on Sept 17 (and Dec 8
for Diego Rivera); plus a slightly
tongue-in-cheek reference on Nov 30; mentioned alongside Charlotte Delbo on Jan 26
[illustrious illustrators]
Chiang Kai-Shek (in English anyway; 蔣中正,
which is Jiǎng Zhōngzhèng, in Chinese; though he is also
known as 蔣介石 - Jiǎng Jièshí' - but
by his birthname he ought to be 蔣瑞元 - Jiǎng Ruìyuán:
became Chinese President Sept 13;
born Oct 31;
fled to Formosa on Dec 7 [China]
Emanuel (Immanuel) Kant: “Das Ding an Sich” on Feb
22; der mann in sich on April 22 [political ideologues]
Aaron
Copland Kaplan: born Nov 14; another of Nadia
Boulanger’s students on Aug 21 [musical maestros]
Nikolaos ("Nikos")
Kazantzakis: born Feb 18; referenced
Nov 18 [serious scribes]
Joseph Frank “Buster” Keaton: making a complete
Fool of himself on Oct 4
John Keats: died Feb 23; studied
by Hélène Berr on April 10; autumnal on Sept 19; referenced
on Jan 22 [The
Poets]
Helen Adams Keller: gets her first word on April
5; graduated June 28;
mentioned on Jan 4 and Dec 2. Anne
Sullivan has her own listing, and they can be found among the librarians of Babel
Thomas Michael Keneally: gets Oskar Schindler
completely wrong on June
24, July 27, Aug 23 and Sept
1; born Oct 7 [historians]
Edward Moore (Teddy) Kennedy makes a watery appearance on July 19.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy approved Affirmative Action on March 6 [responses to bullying], ordered the blockade of Cuba on Oct 22 [GER];
assassinated on Nov 22 (revenged on Nov 24?); invited Pablo
Casals to perform on Nov 13 [musical maestros]; mentioned on Feb 14 and Nov
17
Robert (Bobby) Francis Kennedy: shot on June
5 (Emilio Estevez's film
about it is on June 24). RFK is also mentioned on Oct 17 and Nov
13, and what kind of conspiracy theory is this on Aug 5?
Johannes Kepler: announced the 3rd law of planetary motion on March 8, and a great many more discoveries on March 29; with William
Gilbert on July 24; completed
the "Tabulae Rudolphinae” on Sept 2;
born Dec 27; listed among the scientific achievements on Jan 1 [E,M&C2]
Louise-Félicité Guynement de
Kéralio-Robert (1757-1821):
founder of "Journal d'État et du Citoyen" on Aug 13 (serious scribes)
Aleksandr Fyodorovich Kerensky: led the Revolution on May
24 (? 🤷🏽♀️- wasn’t it February?
oh, that calendar change again!); his deposition plotted on June 16; proclaimed Russia a Republic on Sept 15; overthrown on Nov 6 (also April
22); mentioned on Aug 26 [historians
and responses to bullying]
Jean-Louis Lebris de Kerouac (Jack to his
readers): died Oct 21 [serious scribes]
Ken Elton
Kesey: flew into the
cuckoo’s nest on Sept 17 [serious scribes]
John
Maynard Keynes: born June 5 [political
ideologues]
Victor Lvovich Kibalchich (Victor Serge, В.Л. Кибальчич): with Trotsky in
Mexico on Aug 20;
referenced on Jan 15 and Nov 22; mentioned on Aug 26 [political ideologues and responses to bullying]
Søren Aabye Kierkegaard: born on May 5; quoted on Jan
14 (sadly, Pope Francis granted himself a
Nihil Obstat on the subject as well); employing pseudonyms on Feb 8; listed with Schopenhauer
on April 22 [political ideologues]
Martin Luther King: born
Jan 15; assassinated
on April 4; museumed on Aug 1;
civil rights rally in DC on Aug 28; mentioned
on June 28 and Aug 17; his
receipt of the Nobel Peace Prize on December 10 1964 is on the Africa page [responses to bullying]
Mary Henrietta Kingsley: died June 3
[serious scribes]
Aram Ilyich Khachaturian: born June 6 [musical maestros]
Paul Klee: born Dec 18 [illustrious illustrators]
Gideon Klein (sometimes
known as Karel Vranek): performed on April 1 [musical maestros]
Joseph Rudyard
Kipling: born Dec 30; contrasted
with P.L Dunbar on Feb 9; mentioned on April 18 and Sept 29 [serious scribes]
Alfred
Abraham Knopf: born Sept 12; published
Leon Wieseltier's "Kaddish"
on Oct 28 [serious scribes]
Robert Heinrich
Hermann Koch: the German
bacteriologist who discovered the anthrax disease cycle in 1876, the bacteria
responsible for tuberculosis in 1882, and that of cholera in 1883, can be found
celebrating his own birthday in good health on Dec
11;
listed among the
scientific achievements on Jan 1 [E,M&C2]
Sarah Kofman: writing about Freud and Nietzsche on Sept 14
Robert Johann
Koldewey: born Sept 10 [historians]
Allen Stuart Konigsberg (Woody Allen): hired as a token
Jew on March 6; hired
as a klutz on July 3; completely
bananas on his birthdate, Dec 1 [the world as stage]
Mikolaj Kopernik (in
Polish, but generally rendered as Nicolaus Koppernigk, then
Latinised as Nicolas Copernicus): born on Feb 19; a full
essay about him can be found on March 21; the
start of modern science on March 28, plus an illustration on March
29, and a passing mention on Jan 2. Listed
among the scientific achievements on Jan 1
Józef
Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski (Joseph Conrad in English, for which
see Feb 8): born on Dec 3; quoted by Hélène Berr on April 10; horrorfied by Gide's Travels in the Congo on Nov 22 [serious scribes]
Wilhelm Albert Włodzimierz Apolinary
Kostrowicki (Guillaume Apollinaire): “Zone” on March 11; chez Matisse
on Aug 19; born Aug 26 [The Poets]
Artú
Kösztler (Arthur Koestler): born Sept 5 [serious scribes]
Hans
Krása: composer
of "Brundibár"; data about him is on the page for April 1 [musical maestros]
Ursula Kroeber (Le Guin): born Oct 21 [lighter writers]
Stephanus
Johannes Paulus Kruger: born Oct 10 [political
ideologues and a mention on the Africa page]
Stanley
Kubrick: born July 26 [the world
as stage]
Elizaveta
Lukinichna Kusheleva (Élisabeth Demetrieff was her nom de
guerre): organising the Paris Commune on March
18
Leyb Moiseyevich Kvitko: born October 15 1890; executed by
hanging, on
Stalin’s orders, on Aug 12 1952, another of the victims of the “Night of the Murdered
Poets” (the “Yiddish Writers Plot”) [serious scribes] - for
the full account go to my WordPress blog
Thomas
Kyd: born Nov 6 [the world
as stage]
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