S
Charles Saatchi: using PR
to sell failed art on Feb 5 [illustrious
illustrators]
Delphine de Sabran, Marquise de Custine: (born March
18 1770; died July 13 1826): fictionalised by Mme de Stael on April
22
Jonathan Henry Sacks: his usual self on Aug
30 [reverend writers]
Hugo de
Sade, who was presumably
an ancestor of the more infamous Marquis,
married Laura de Neves
on Jan 16 [reverend writers]
Edward Wadie Said: protesting colonialism on Aug 20 [historians]
-
more here
Jean François de Saint-Lambert: studying anatomy
with Émilie du Châtelet on June 12 (the outcome, Stanislas-Adélaïde,
also gets a mention)
Antonio Salieri (born
August 18 1750; died May 7 1825): did not poison Mozart on Dec 5; the defense here
[musical maestros]
André Salmon, but he also used Pol de Comène and
sometimes Paul
de Comène for his writings (born October 4 1881; died March 12 1969): 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 [illustrious
illustrators]
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 [lighter writers]
Benedita Souza da Silva Sampaio: the first woman of African ancestry elected to the Brazilian Senate [pre-Columban Americas]
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 15 - here and here
Raymond Samuel: husband of Lucie
Aubrac on Jan 26
Richard Samuel: his painting “The Nine Living
Muses” on July 23
William Sancroft, Archbishop of
Canterbury: helping the “impoverished
gentlewoman" Mary
Astell on Nov 12
Raffaelo di Giovanni
Santi, or possibly Raffaelo
Sanzio da Urbino, and sometimes just one “f” (but either way known in English, incorrectly, as Raphael: contributing to the Sistine Chapel on Nov 1: providing
this blog with an uncommissioned and unpaid illustration on Dec 25 [illustrious illustrators]
Ken Saro-Wiwa: Africa page has
"1995:
Nigeria is expelled from the British Commonwealth because of its human rights
abuses, including the execution of Ken Saro-Wiwa and
eight other Ogoni political activists who had brought international
attention to the exploitation of the oil-producing Niger Delta."
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 for Rabbi Loew on
March 11 [reverend writers]
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 [on the page of The Poets]
George
Savile, the 1st Marquess of Halifax: his "Advice From a Father to his
Daughter" translated by Geneviève d'Arconville on Dec 23
Jonas Savimbi: fought a 27-year-long cvil war with Angola's
Marxist government [Africa]
Mary
Elizabeth Sawyer (born
1806):
she of the lamb on March 15
William Sawyer: another of the
victims of Thomas Edison on July 24
Zelda
Sayer:
married F. Scott Fitzgerald on April 3 [serious scribes]
Arthur Scargill: fighting
for the abolition of serfdom on June 15 [responses to bullying]
Guiseppe di Scarlatto: the ashes of his
“Tempus Fugit” can be found on Jan 8
Paul
Scarron:
burlesque poet who married Françoise
d'Aubigné on Nov 27 [serious scribes] -
more on him here
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 on April 1, click here [musical maestros]
Hans Schäufelein: the woodcutter behind Andrea Alciato's "Emblemata" on Feb 28
Caroline
Schelling: one of the five Universitätsmamsellen
on June 14
Maurice Henri Joseph Schérer (Eric
Rohmer): riding the Nouvelle
Vague on Dec 3 [the world as
stage]
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 [musical
maestros]
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel (born March 10
1772; died January 12 1829): translating Shakespeare into Hoch Deutsch on Feb 8; visited by Anna
Brownell Jameson on May 17 [The Poets]
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 [historians]
Dorothea
Schlözer: one of the five Universitätsmamsellen
on June 14
Livia Veneziani Schmitz, Italo
Svevo’s wife, can be found on Dec 19 and here
[serious scribes]
Abraham Alexander Schneider (born October 21 1908; died February 2 1993): his piece for violin performed by Mieczyslaw Horszowski on Nov 13 [musical maestros]
Arthur Schnitzler (born
May 15 1862; died October 21 1931): name-dropped by Peter Altenberg on Feb 21 [serious scribes]
Gerhard Scholem, when he was born in
Berlin on December 5 1897; but Gershom Scholem, adopted it as his name,
not just his pseudonym, when he arrived in Palestine in 1923: the name means
"sojourner"; merely mentioned on Aug 5; became, and this
really was his official title, Professor of Jewish Mysticism at the Hebrew
University: a personal view here, the bio here [reverend writers]
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) [scientific achievements/Jan 1 and E,M&C2]
Arnold Schönberg (Schoenberg) (born September 13 1874; died July 13 1951): ran out of musical ideas on Feb 9; his student Viktor Ullmann is with
him on April 1 [musical
maestros]
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 [musical maestros]
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 [musical maestros]
Leo Walder Schwarz (1906-1967): quoted, from his "Memoirs Of My People", on Oct 12; a full guide to his life and work here
[historians]
Publius Cornelius Scipio "Africanus"
(born 236 BCE; died 183 BCE): sailing to North Africa in the Second Punic
War on the Africa page
David Paul Scofield: A Man
For A Silent Execution on July 6 [the
world as stage]
Martin Charles Scorsese: filming Kazantzakis on Feb 18 [the world as stage]
Sarah Scott: in the Jane Austen picture on Feb 25
Alexander Nikolayevich Scriabin: performed by Gideon Klein on
April 1
Jean Dorothy Seberg (born November 13 1938; died August 30 1979): totally breathless on Dec 3 [the
world as stage]
Victor Sejour: the New Orleans-born African-American
playwright's first play, "Diegarias", performed at the Theatre Français
in Paris in 1844: [pre-Columban
Americas and the world as stage]
Mobutu Sese Seko: the
President who renamed his country Zaire ("great river"), and ruled it
for thirty-two years, before Laurent Kabila staged a
coup [Africa]
Thomas William Selleck: not even
a walk-on, and barely a cameo, on Dec 3 [the world as stage]
Ousmane
Sembene: produced "Mandabi",
the first film in the Senegelese Wolof language, in 1968 [Africa and the
world as stage]
Irma Semtzka: the
girlfriend of Gideon Klein who saved his compositions at Terezin on April 1; more here [musical maestros]
Flavius Magnus Aurelius Cassiodorus Senator (circa 485-circa 585): described the eruption
of Mount Vesuvius on Aug 24; not to
be confused with Marcus Aurelius, and
generally remembered as Cassiodorus because people think Senator
was his title) [historians]
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 [E,M&C2]
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, Victor being his dad’s
birthname ansd Kibalchich dad's
family name before he nom de guerred himsdelf as Serge? 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 [illustrious illustrators]
Gaius Atilius Serranus: green-lighted
on Jan 3
Anna Seward: among the salonistes on Oct 5
Gustav Seyffarth: amongst the Bible Critics on Sept 7
Mary Ann Shadd: became, in 1853, the first
woman of African ancestry to publish a newspaper anywhere in the world when she
took control of the Provincial Freeman in Chatham, Ontario [serious scribes and Africa]
Robert Shafto: Bonny Bobby on March 15;
the two ladies in the verse are Bridget Belasyse and Anne Duncombe, the former his abandoned fiancée,
the latter the one he married – click here
Varlam Tikhonovich Shalamov (born June 5 1907; died January 17 1982): telling tales in Kolyma on Aug 20 [serious scribes]
Shammai - dates unknown, but
1st century BCE; dad's name unknown, so there is no Ben- for a patronym; but
in our need to have something he gets to be Shammai ha-Zaken, Shammai the
Elder, in the sense of a wise man, not someone followed by a Younger; what little is known can be found here: arguing relentlessly
with Hillel on May 16 (and
I insist that you challenge the information given above until I have satisfied you
with a full and thorough vindication) [reverend writers]
William (Bill) Shankly (born September 2 1913; died September 29 1981): in
his Liverpool shirt at The Cavern Club on Jan 16
Cecil James Sharp (born
November 22 1859; died June 23 1924): listening
to Mrs Goodey singiing Old Macdonald on March 15 [musical maestros]
Peter
Shaw:
his "Chemical Lectures" translated into French by Geneviève d'Arconville
on Dec 23
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
Thomas Shepheard: aiding and abetting John Lewis on May 16
Murasaki Shikibu, the Lady Murasaki, telling
the tale of Genji on Oct 9
Levi Shkolnik in Kiev, Levi
Eshkol in Israel: Israel’s third Prime Minister (after David Ben Gurion and Moshe Sharett) on May 3 - try here
(interesting website in itself!]
Sei Shōnagon: notes on a pillow
on Oct 9; mentioned on Dec 14
Sarah
Siddons:
among the salonistes on Oct 5
Luca Signorelli (born somewhen
between 1441 and 1445; died October 16 1523): provides the illustrations on June 24 and Nov 1
; bio and pics here [illustrious illustrators]
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 [reverend writers]
Kennedy Alphonse Simmonds: the
first head of state when St. Kitts & Nevis became independent from Britain
in 1983 [pre-Columban
Americas]
Portia Simpson-Miller, leader of
the People's National Party of Jamaica, becomes the nation's first female prime
minister
in 2006 [pre-Columban Americas]
Wallis Warfield Simpson: saved
Britain from Hitler on Dec 11
Abū-ʿAlī
al-Ḥusayn
ibn-ʿAbdallāh
Ibn-Sīnā, Avicenna in English, born
in Uzbekistan on a date unknown; died in Persia on June 22 1037 and buried in
the tomb that bears his name as Abū-ʿAlī
Sīnā: way
ahead of European medicine on Nov 14 [E,M&C2]
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 on April
26 1916 – click here and here for more on that) -
though he appears on this blog among the “casualties” on April 24 [Éireland]
Leonard Edward Slatkin: rearranging Mussorgsky on June 2; bio here [musical maestros]
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 [scientific achievements and E,M&C2]
George Thomas Smart (born
May 10 1776; died February 23 1867): at whose home in London Weber died, here and on Nov 19 [musical maestros]
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 [musical
maestros]
Jane Smiley: full of qualities
on Nov 6
Benjamin Smith: mistook marriage for slavery, or
was it slavery for marriage, on Oct 28
John Stafford Smith (born
circa March 30 1750; died September 21 1836): Anacreontic
on March 3 [musical maestros]
Michael Smith:
parkwaying Frank Foley on May 7; his website and much more about the book here [historians]
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 [scientific achievements and E,M&C2]
Edward
Joseph Snowden: speaking out through the silence on Jan 3; mentioned as a role-model for the protection of
humanity from despots and tyrants on Feb 22 and Aug 12; his website here [responses to bullying]
John Soan(e), and it may even
have been Swan
before he fancied it up as Soan; he added the "e" when he
got his knighthood): merely mentioned on March 15 [illustrious illustrators]
Ann Somerset, but remembered by her married name as Lady Ann,
Countess of Coventry, and in her writings as Viscountess Deerhurst: one of the Mary Astell circle on
Nov 12
Socrates of Athens (born
circa 470BCE; died 399BCE): moving humanity into middle
school on Jan 3 [philosophers]
Sophocles of Kolonus (born circa 497BCE;
died circa 406BCE): among the great dramatists on Sept 23 [the world as stage]
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 [reverend writers]
Sordello da Goito: cannibalising Blacatz on Jan 13
Tome de
Souza: founded Sao
Salvador in Bahia, Brazil in 1549 [Africa
page and pre-Columban Americas]
Stephen Spender: judging the Booker
Prize on Dec 21
Steven Allan Spielberg: giving
his hero a thousand faces on March 26; turning
a two-faced criminal into a saint on June 24 and Aug 23 [the world as stage]
Baron Erik Magnus Staël von Holstein: husband of Germaine
on April 22
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 the world
as stage: 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 [musical maestros, though in his case this may be stretching the term somewhat]
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 [political ideologues]
William Steffe (circa 1830-circa1890): singing on Canaan's happy shore on Dec 2 [musical maestros]
Fritz Steinbach (born
June 17 1855; died August 13 1916): taught Erwin Schulhoff in Cologne on April 1 [musical maestros]
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 [illustrious
illustrators]
James Stephanoff (circa 1787-1874): imagining Anne Boleyn on June 1; more on him here [illustrious illustrators]
Archbishop Aloys Stepinac of Zagreb (born May 8 1898; died under house arrest February
10 1960; beatified by 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 [responses to bullying]
William and Elizabeth Stevenson: parenting Lily Gaskell on Sept 29
Alastair
Ian (Al) Stewart: making
time out of sand on July 2 [musical maestros]
Thomas Stewart: painting John Lewis on May 16
Alfred Stieglitz (born
January 1 1864; died July 13 1946): spouse of Georgia
O’Keeffe; insisting that photography is art on
April 11 [illustrious
illustrators]
Benjamin Stillingfleet: wearing blue woollen stockings on July 23
Abraham (“Bram”) Stoker (born November 8
1847; died April 20 1912): famous for writing “Dracula” on Feb 1 and March 11; 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 [the world as stage]
Leopold Anthony Stokowski (born April 18 1882; died September 13 1977): rearranging Mussorgsky on June 2;
bio here [musical maestros]
Sharon Yvonne Stone: beautifully role-modelling the role of beautician on June
24 [the world as stage]
Rory Storm and the Hurricanes: the very first beat night at The Cavern Club on Jan 16, with Ringo Starr on drums [musical maestros]
Ewald Sträßer (or Straesser) (born June 27 1867; died April 4 1933): taught Erwin
Schulhoff in Cologne on April 1 [musical maestros]
Josef (Jaroslav?) Suk: performed by Gideon Klein on April 1 [musical maestros]
Arthur Seymour Sullivan (born May 13 1842;
died November 22 1900): on this litle list on June 29 and Sept 2 [the world as stage]
Edward Vincent Sullivan: hosting
a TV show on May 19
John L Sullivan: defeated by Gentleman Jim Corbett
in a boxing match on Sept 7
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 Feb 24 [Beguines]
Brahame Swift: the ashes of his “Against
Slavery: A Polemic” can be found on Jan 8
Graham Colin Swift: taking last orders on Dec 29 [serious
scribes]
William Sykes: What the Dickens on Feb 8
Alan Sytner: Set up The
Cavern Club on Jan 16 [musical maestros]
Catherine Szenes: mother of Hannah on Nov 7
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