Some notes before we start:
Like God at the time of Creation,
we name the world into existence, requiring the words even more than we do the
Word, if we are to articulate however much understanding we may have managed.
So, when a woman goes into labour, the first question asked of her partner by
friends and family is always: have you decided on a name yet? Why? Because the
child too will be named into existence, and how it deals with that identity
will form the basis of his or her future life. So, in this index, let us too
...
In the great tradition of Indexes,
I am including here only those folk of whom I approve, and for whom I
have admiration, the positive contributors to human civilisation; they are in
Green.
Those who make their appearance in
history as a part of the tales of those positives can be found in a separate
Index called "The Merely Mentioned". They are in Brown.
Unless their presence as historical
figures is unavoidable, I have left out all of those whom I consider ghastly,
and the included only appear in a separate Index known as "The Index of
GERs"! I am sorry if this offends you because you hero-worship them, but
sides have to be taken, and bad enough feeling obligated to write about them in
the blog at all, I don’t see why I have to lower the human achievement level of
this Index by including them here or among the "Merely Mentioneds" as
well. They are in blood-red.
Royalty are generally among the
historically unavoidable, and like Popes insist on being dressed in Purple.
Theme-pages are listed on the Index
in Light Red
Dates in Mauve, and usually
abbreviated, indicate that they are on the blog on that date
Finally, names that are
"de" or "von" or otherwise "from", like those
that mean "son of" (Ben or Bar among the Jews, ibn in the Moslem-Arab
world, Fitz chez les Normandes) get listed under the family name, if there is
one; otherwise by the place - this is because, in England, mediaeval laws
required common folk to take surnames based on their trade (James Fenimore Cooper, Oliver Goldsmith, Thomas
Faryner), but in France and Spain they were attached to the estate of their
feudal lord - Françoise d'Aubigné, Jehanne d'Arc - who was also known by the name of that estate. So, for example, Gonzalo Jimenez de Quesada is under J not Q, because his
family name is known, as well as the place where he lived. So, for example, Trobairitz Maria de Ventadorn was the wife of the castelier,
where Troubadour Bernart de Ventadorn was simply a poet given patronage at his court; both, nonetheless, will be
listed under V. Much the same applies with Dutch and German names -
eg Van Gogh and Von Beethoven denote places. The same for Spanish hermaphronyms (my neologism: they like
to join the two surnames with an "and", as in Simón José Antonio de la Santísima
Trinidad de Bolívar y Palacios, who is listed under B for the first part of that hermaphronym).
All names in this Index are by
birth-certificate, which may not be the name by which you know them (try Rebecca West under F, Tony Morrison under W, or Maxim Gorky under P).
At the top left-hand corner of
every screen there is a flat rectangular box with an icon of a
magnifying-glass: your search bar. You may well find it easier to find the
person you are seeking there.
A
Jorge Francisco Isidoro Luis
Borges Acevedo: Referenced on Feb 2; flying wild geese on Feb 5; oblivious on Aug 12, Oct 4 and
Dec 5; birthdate noted on Aug 24; referenced on July 3 and Sept
13; pseudonymised on Feb 8
[serious scribes]
Albert Chinụalụmọgụ (Chinua)
Achebe: born Nov 16 [serious scribes and
Africa page]
Ansel
Easton Adams: born Feb 20 1902 (died
April 22 1984) [illustrious illustrators]
Douglas Noel Adams: in
a café at 42 Rickmansworth High Street on Dec 5; lost in constellation
Ophiuchus on Dec 10 [serious scribes]
Alfred Adler: born Feb 7 [philosophers]
Anna Laetitia Barbauld, née Aikin, and published
her first volume of poems under that name: among the Blue-Stockings on July 23 and Oct
2 [The Poets and Woman-Blindness]
Andrea Alciato: publishing Christian emblems on Feb 28
Alcuin (or sometimes spelled Alchoin,
sometimes written as Ealhwine or Alhwin): died on May
19 [reverend writers]
Konstantin Sergeyevich
Alekseyev (Stanislavski was his stage-name): pre-staging Lee Strasberg on Jan
17; referenced on Jan 22, May 22, Aug 8,
Nov 17 [the world as stage]
Max Alexandre, though he
signed his books as Léon David Morven le
Gaëlique [The Poets] and his paintings as Max Jacob [illustrious
illustrators]: mostly on Aug 19, but also dinner chez Matisse on Dec
12, and a mention on Jan 26
Durante di Alighiero degli
Alighieri (Dante): learning the sonnet
from Immanuel Giudeo
on Jan 13; expelled from Florence on Jan 27; honoured by Sam Beckett on April 13,
Mo Mowlam on April 24, and Victor
Hugo on Oct 18; studied by Madame de Staël on April
22;
in his tomb in Ravenna on June 24;
alongside Ariosto on Sept 8, and Vergil
on Oct 15; referenced by Victor Hugo on Oct 18; eponymised on March 11 and Aug
24; referenced or mentioned on Jan 3,
Jan 8, March
7 and 30, April 6, June
11, Aug 25 and Sept 4 [The Poets]
Fatma Aliye, sometimes with Topuz added, sometimes Halim:
Turkish novelist on Oct 9
Macon Bolling Allen: passed his law exam on May 3 [responses to bullying]
Hernán Cortés de
Monroy y Pizarro Altamirano (Fernando Cortez to most Italians
and Portuguese): landed in Anahuac (México) on March
4; traduced Montezuma on June 30 (sung by Neil
Young on both dates); travelling with "Black Spaniards",
including Juan Garrido, among the Conquistadors on the Africa page [pre-Columban Americas]
Aloysius (Alois) Alzheimer: died,
still compos mentis, Dec 19 [E,M&C2]
Roald Engelbregt Gravning Amundsen: (born July 16 1862;
died June 1928): reached the South Pole on Dec
14 (beating Scott and his team on Jan 15 and March
17)
Charles Edward Anderson (Chuck
Berry): born Oct 18; mentioned
on Oct 22 [musical maestros]
Roberta Joan Anderson (Joni
Mitchell): with Charlie Mingus
on Jan 5; counted as a modern
Trobairitz on Jan 13; listed among the
greats on April 22 and June 20; unable to attend
Woodstock but sang it anyway on Aug 15; making Hejira on Sept 24; born Nov 7; with W.C Handy on Sept 27 and Nov 16; pretending to be Van Gogh on Dec 23; mentioned on Oct 22 [musical maestros and
illustrious illustrators];
Sherwood Berton Anderson: born Sept 13
[serious scribes]
Pierre
Jean David (David d'Angers): died on Jan 5 [illustrious illustrators]
Mordechai Anielewicz, nicknamed "Aniołek",
"Little Angel": leading the Young
Guard in Sinai on May 8, but see also April 19, where he is not
named [responses to bullying]
Rodolfo Alfonso Raffaello Pierre Filibert Guglielmi di Valentina
d'Antonguella (Rudolph Valentino): his name-day on Feb 14; born May
6
Nicolas-François Appert: the man who invented tin cans, born Oct 23 [E,M&C2]
Tommaso (Tomás)
Aquino: alive on
May 4 and
July 22; was he poisoned on March 7? [reverend writers]
Aliénor d'Aquitània in her southern homeland, where they spoke
the Langue d’Oc, Aliénor d'Aquitaine among
the Langue d’Oil speakers in the north, Eleanor of Aquitaine on the
Aenglisch list (1122-1204): amongst the
Supra Idesses on April 17; mentioned
on Sept 8 and Jan 13; listed on the Mediaeval page of Woman-Blindness;
but
her main entry is on April
1
José Doroteo Arango Arámbula (Francisco
“Pancho” Villa was his “alias”): born June 5
Johanna Cohn Arendt (Hannah for
short): referenced, quoted
or simply mentioned on Jan 11, March 30, Aug 16, Aug 20, Sept 6; born Oct 14 (linked at Oct 10) [philosophers and responses to bullying]
Ludovico Ariosto: born Sept 8 [The Poets]
François Laurent d'Arlandes: flew his balloon on Jan 1 and Nov
21
Edwin Howard Armstrong: inventor of FM
radio, born Dec 18
[E,M&C2 and
mentioned among the scientific achievements on Jan 1]
Neil Alden Armstrong: the first human
(as far as we know) to set foot on the moon, at 02:56 GMT on July 21 1969 [Jan 1]
Malcolm Henry Arnold: born Oct 21 [musical maestros]
Matthew
Arnold: born Dec 24 [The Poets] His father Thomas Arnold can be found on the same date (on the blog, not the birth certificate) [educators]
François-Marie Arouet (aka
Voltaire): with Françoise de Graffigny on Feb
1, Madame de Staël on April 22, and Sophie de Grouchy on May 5; writing to "Sappho
de Normandie" (that's Mme du Boccage)
on Oct 5; quoted on Oct 2 and Nov
18; Nov 1 and Dec
5
for earthquakes; mentioned on Jan 18 and Feb 26;
turned
into mulch on May 30 [philosophers
and responses to bullying]
Mary Astell (1666–1731): a self-financing
professional authoress, more than a century ahead of Mary Shelley or Jane Austen,
on Nov 12 [serious
scribes and the Ancien Régime page of Woman-Blindness]
Szalom Asz (usually written in English as Sholem Asch): born Nov 1 [serious scribes]
Inca Atahualpa ("Inca" means “king”): strangled on Aug 29 [pre-Columban
Americas]
Richard Samuel Attenborough: born
Aug 29 [the world as stage] (brother David Frederick
Attenborough
gets a well-deserved mention on Oct 26)
Françoise d'Aubigné, also known
as Madame (Marquise) de Maintenon:
(1635-1719): aunt of Adrienne la Fayette
on Sept 18; born in debtors' prison
on Nov 27; secretly
married to Louis XIV on the Ancien Régime page of Woman-Blindness [and among the Educators]
Hubertine Auclert: “the first French feminist” on April 10
Wystan Hugh (W.H) Auden: born Feb 21,
mentioned on May 2
[The Poets]
Marcus
Aurelius: mistakeable for Montesquieu on Jan 18; fascinating link to George
Eliot's "Middlemarch” on Feb 8 [philosophers and purple cloaks]
Jane Austen: “By A Lady” on her published books, for which see June 11, and among the
pseudonyms on Feb 8; as Elizabeth Bennet on June 22; much
indebted to Maria Edgeworth
on Jan 1
and May 22,
Eliza Haywood on Feb 25, Fanny Burney
on June 13, and Charlotte Turner Smith on Oct 28; staging Elizabeth Inchbald's "Lovers'
Vows" on Oct 15; contrasted
with Isabelle de Charrière on Oct 20; "Sense and Sensibility" published
on Oct 30; mentioned re Mary Astell on Nov 12 [serious scribes]
Claudette Austin (Colvin was her married name): placed in juvenile detention for sitting on a bus
on Dec 1 [responses to bullying]
Stephen Fuller Austin: born Nov
3, but in Austinville Mines, in Virginia, which his parents
owned, and not in Austin Texas, which now bears his name
B
Charles Babbage: born Dec 26;
dinner with Ada Lovelace on June 5; in correspondence with Maria Edgeworth on
May 22 [E,M&C2]
Gaston Louis Pierre Bachelard: needs rethinking with every new piece of information
you learn about him, on Nov 22; also
mentioned on Jan 26 [philosophers]
Frank Gerhard Back: listed among the scientific achievements on Jan 1; highly
focused on Nov 23
[E,M&C2]
Fra Roger Bacon: Hebdoed on
Jan 14; revised
the calendar on April 23 and Sept 3; protegé
of John de Balliol
on May 4;
“empirically verifiable” on Sept 13; among the
suppressed on Oct 13; mentioned
on March 6 and July 22 [reverend writers]
Leo Baeck: at Treblinka on April 1, born May 23,
smichah for Regina Jonas on Dec 27 [reverend writers]
Joan Chandos Baez: born
Jan 9 [musical maestros]
John Logie Baird: switched
on his colour telly on July 3
[E,M&C2]
Arthur James Balfour: declared on Nov 2, resigned on Dec 5, mentioned on Feb 22 [Aenglisch
list]
Honoré Balssa (Honoré de Balzac): pseudonym on Feb 8; born on May 20; enstatued by Rodin and critiqued by Barthes on Nov 12; and is that just a coincidence on Dec 14? [serious scribes]
Sirima (Sirimavo) Ratwatte Dias Bandaranaike: born April 17
Matteo Bandello: a multiple source for Shakespeare on Jan 30 [the world as stage]
Roger Gilbert Bannister (“the lone wolf miler”): broke the barrier on May 6
William John Banville: in Prague on March 11 and Sept
2
(plus a link to these on March 29) [serious scribes]
Daniel Moses Barenboim: born Nov 15
[musical maestros]
Jeanne Baret: cabin-boy or field naturalist on Nov 15?
either way the first woman known to have sailed fully around the world; and mentioned with her successor, Rose Marie de Freycinet, on May 7 [Ancien Régime page of "Woman-Blindness"]
Harley Granville Barker (he added the hyphen): born Nov
25 [the world as stage]
Christian Neethling Barnard: the tale of the first heart transplants,
his real on Dec 3, Denton Cooley’s on April 4 artificial; born Nov 8;
listed among the scientific achievements on Jan 1 [E,M&C2, and a
mention on the Africa page]
Natalie Clifford Barney: out-witticising some of the giants
of literature on March 19
Jacob Barsimson (who was probably Ya'akov Bar Shimon): arrived in New Amsterdam on July 8
Roland Gérard Barthes: born Nov 12 [the librarians of Babel]
Fanny Cäcilie Mendelssohn-Bartholdy (Hensel was her married name): born November 14 1805; died May 14 1847):
mentioned re Mary Astell on Nov 12 [musical
maestros]
Jakob
Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, brother
of Fanny
Hensel: born Feb 3; given as a prize on April 1; played by Pablo
Casals on Nov 13 [musical maestros]
Ricardo Neftalí Reyes Basoalto
(Pablo
Neruda was
his seudónimo): born on July 12; kicked out by coup
on September 11; photographed on Feb 8, but see my entry on Verlaine on the same date [The Poets]
Madeleine Françoise Basseporte (in bloom on April 28 1701; died September 6 1780):
teaching Marie-Marguerite Bihéron how
to paint plants on her birthday; mentioned on Dec
23; her own paintings can be found
on the the Ancien
Régime page of "Woman-Blindness", and
among the illustrious illustrators
Charles Pierre Baudelaire: quoted on Jan 4;
life with Jeanne Duval on his
birthday, April 9;
"Les Fleurs du Mal” published on June 25, but banned on Jan 8; mentioned on Jan 5 [The Poets]
Pierre Bayle: not on Jan 23,
that’s Stendhal
(Marie Henri Beyle), this is an earlier thinker; thoughts on Spinoza on Nov 18 [philosophers]
Katherine
Mansfield Beauchamp: born Oct 14, died Jan 9 [serious scribes]
Anne de
Beaujeu, Duchesse de Bourbon, known today
simply as Anne of France, or sometimes Madame la
Grande (1461-1522): writing
lessons for her daughter [Suzanne doesn't actually get named there] on Dec 6 and among the lighter
writers - she and husband Pierre are
also mentioned with Anne Malet de Graville
on Dec 14
Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais: born Jan 24 [the world as stage]
Simone Lucie Ernestine Marie Bertrand de
Beauvoir: became sexistential
on Jan 9, mentioned on Jan
26 and April 15 [philosophers
– also W-B]
Mary Becket: made an abbess as damages for her brother's murder on Dec 29
Thomas Becket (no à): mentioned on March 15 and June 24, murdered on December 29 [Aenglisch list]
Samuel Barclay Beckett: central to the essay on Feb 16; thinking like Lucky on Feb 28; born on April 13; performed by Billie Whitelaw on June 6; eponymised on July 3; quoted by Peter
Hall on Sept 11 and Dec 3; listed on Sept 23; can’t remember who Krapp was
on Oct 28;
died Dec 22; [the
world as stage]
Antoine Henri
Becquerel: became radioactive on March 1; listed among the scientific achievements on Jan 1 [E,M&C2]
Jakob
Liebmann Meyer Beer (Giacomo Meyerbeer):
died May 2 [musical maestros]
Henry Maximilian (“Max”)
Beerbohm: born Aug 24 [lighter writers]
John Beers: crowned on Nov 4, but with enamel, not a purple
cloak [E,M&C2]
Ludwig van Beethoven: born
Dec 16, died March 26,
last appeared on stage on May 7; played by Gideon Klein on
April 1; conducted by Ernő
Dohnányi on July 27; minored
the C on Oct 27; lessons
with Haydn on
Dec 12 (see also Nov 19); mentioned
on Feb 11, April 16, Sept 17 [musical maestros]
Menachem Volfovich Begin: born Aug
16, mentioned on
June 5; at odds with his defense monster (sorry, mistyped - minister) on Sept 16
Brendan
Francis Aidan Behan: born Feb 9 [the world as stage]
Quentin Claudian Stephen Bell: born
Aug 19 [illustrious illustrators]
Solomon Bellows (Saul Bellow): born July 10;
mentioned July 11
[serious scribes]
Victoire Léodile Béra, then Champseix, then Malon, but remembered as André Léo: fighting for
the rights of women on June
17 [W-B]
Alban
Maria Johannes Berg: born Feb 9; with Erwin Schulhoff
on April 1
[musical maestros]
Dovid Rafailovich Bergelson: caught up in the
Yiddish writers plot on Aug 12 – [for the full account go to my WordPress
blog - but it isn't yet live] [serious scribes]
Damion Berger: photographic on Feb 20 [illustrious illustrators]
Ernst Ingmar Bergman: born July 14 [the world as stage]
Henri-Louis Bergson: born Oct 18
[philosophers]
Louis-Hector Berlioz: “Symphonique fantastique” and “Requiem” premièred
in Paris, and Les Troyens” premièred in Karlsruhe, all on Dec 5 (different years, same day); born on Dec 11 [musical maestros]
Henriette-Rosine Bernard (Sarah Bernhardt): died March 26, born Oct 22 [the world
as stage]
Lucie Bernard when she was born, Lucie Samuel when she married, but the
memorials all honour her by her nom-de-guerre, which was Lucie Aubrac: Une Femme de la Resistance on Jan 26 [responses
to bullying]
Giovanni Lorenzo (Gianlorenzo) Bernini: born Dec 7
[illustrious
illustrators]
Louis (Leonard) Bernstein: studying
with Nadia
Boulanger on Aug 21; born
Aug 25 [musical maestros]
Hélène Maxime Camille Berr: diarist of the Nazi
occupation of Paris on April 10 (and
mentioned on April 15)
[responses to bullying]
Beruriah (bat Hananiah ben Teradion): her
story told on Jan 12;
referenced on June 3 and Dec 5 [mediaeval
page of Woman-Blindness]
Bruno Bettelheim: born Aug 28 [philosophers]
Marie Henri Beyle (Stendhal): born Jan 23; with Madame de Staël on April 22; confused with Pierre Bayle on Nov 18 [serious scribes]
Rabbi Judah Loew ben Bezalel, the “Maharal” of
Prague: doing battle with Friar
Thaddeus on March 11 [reverend
writers]
Krishna Bhanji (Ben Kingsley): born Dec 31; in the actors hall
of fame on Aug 8 [the world as stage]
Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto: born on June
21; assassinated on Dec
27
(her dad, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, can be found on the same date)
Marie-Marguerite Bihéron (anatomist and inventor) (1719-1795):
studying the bodies of plants with Madeleine
Basseporte on April 28;
studying the bodies of humans in more detail than anybody previously on Dec 23; on the
Ancien Régime
page of "Woman-Blindness"; and managing to find a place, for exactly the same
work, among the pursuers of E,M&C2 and the illustrious
illustrators
Bantu Steve Biko: mentioned on May 9, May 16, June 28 and July 10; murdered on Sept 12; his founding of the anti-Apartheid
South Africa Students Organization (SASO) in 1968 is on the Africa page; he is also listed among the responses
to bullying
Anna Bilińska-Bohdanowicz: Fastidiously Accurate on Dec 8 [illustrious illustrators]
"The Birmingham Six", Hugh
Callaghan, Paddy Hill, Gerry Hunter,
Richard McIlkenny, William Power and John Walker, released from prison on March 14; Christopher
John (Chris) Mullin, the
journalist who did the work that got them released is on the photo at the link
Maurice Rupert Bishop: ousted in a coup on Oct 19 (and
replaced on Oct 25) [also on the pre-Columban Americas page]
Alexandre-César-Léop Georges
Bizet: born Oct 25 [musical maestros]
Anthony Charles Lynton Blair, "Tony" to those who make
donations to his ego-foundation; taking thirty shekels to write nicely about
Pontius Pilate on June 13; should
really be on the GER page, for the
disgusting war crimes committed in Iraq - for which see June 29 - but the June
13 article is the main piece on that page, so my self-set rules
require him to be on this Index
Eric Arthur Blair (George
Orwell): pseudonymed on Feb 8, born June 25 [serious scribes]
William Blake: hating the dark
Golemic mills created by monstrous men on March
11; among the Bunhill dissenters on Nov 28; biographied by Alexander and Anne
Gilchrist on Nov 30; quoted
on Dec 1; mentioned on April 27; and see Jane Taylor among the
lighter writers [The Poets]
Louis Charles Joseph Blériot: born July
1
Benjamin Samuel Bloom: Compared with Pavlov
on his death-date, Sept 13;
referenced on Feb 21,
Aug 9
[educators]
Harold
Bloom: born on July 11; re-spelling Vergil on Feb 28; gets a rather negative mention on Nov 5; cited
re Pessoa on Nov 30 [serious scribes]
Amelia Jenks (Bloomer): born May 26, referenced on July 12 and Nov 3 [Bloomers list]
Pierre Boaistuau (aka Pierre
Launay or Sieur de Launay):
originated two genres, the “histoires tragiques” ("tragic tales"),
and the “histoires prodigieuses” ("weird tales"), on Jan 30 [the world as stage]
Humphrey DeForest Bogart: born Dec 25 [the world as stage]
Niels Henrik David Bohr: born Oct 7 [E,M&C2]
Simón José Antonio de la Santísima Trinidad
de Bolívar y Palacios: ”El Libertador” in London on June 24; full story on July 5; compared with El Cid on July
10; negatively role-modelling on July
23; named president of Peru on Sept
10; has a country named for him on Nov 3 [political ideologues]
Heinrich Theodor Böll: born Dec 21
[serious scribes]
Robert Oxton Bolt: well-seasoned on July 6; born Aug 15
[the world as stage]
Rosa Bonheur: maestra of the painting of animals on March 16 [illustrious illustrators]
Dietrich Wilhelm
Bonhoeffer: with Hans von Dohnányi on July 27 [reverend writers and responses
to bullying]
Franz Bopp: comparative linguistics founder, born Sept 14 [librarians of Babel]
James Boswell, 9th Laird of
Auchinleck: born Oct 29 [Scots
& Cymru list]
Louis-Antoine, Comte de Bougainville: enflowered on Oct 26 and Nov 15
Marie-Juliette Olga (“Lili”) Boulanger: born Aug 21 (sister
Juliette Nadia is on the same page) [musical maestros]
Pierre Louis Joseph Boulez: born
March 26 [musical
maestros]
Thomas Bowdler: (apparently he died in a very painful and
unpleasant manner, but that is not how posterity has chosen to represent it;
much better to say that he died peacefully in his sleep, with his family all
gathered around him, and his will approved by everybody with a smile); born
July 11, but March 15 is
the main page; outcomed on Feb 10 and Dec 6. My literary essays collection ”Homage to Thomas Bowdler”,
which is not about him at all, gets marketing opportunities on June 24, Sept 11, Oct 15 and Oct
21 [lighter writers]
Ray
Douglas Bradbury: “Fahrenheit 451“
thrown on the fire on on Dec 6
[serious scribes]
Omar Nelson Bradley: born Feb
12
Tycho Brahe (Latinised
as Tyge Ottesen Brahe): 777 fixed
stars on March 29; with William Gilbert on July
24; Banvilled with Kepler on Sept
2; born Dec 14 [E,M&C2]
Johannes Brahms: played by Gideon Klein
on April 1; born
May 7; key
influence on Dohnányi on
July 27; his part
in the F.A.E. Sonata on Oct 27 [musical maestros]
Louis
Braille: born Jan 4 [librarians of Babel]
Marlon Brando (Brandau when
his family were still Germans, but they had already changed it before he was
born): stage debut on Oct 19,
student of Lee Strasberg on Nov 17, and the outcome on Dec 3; mentioned on Jan 17 [the world as stage]
Georges Braque: born May 13,
mentioned on Feb 17,
Sept 17
and Dec 12
[illustrious illustrators]
Eugen Berthold
Friedrich Brecht (but always referred to as Bertolt): born Feb 10; "St Joan of the Stockyards" on May 30; mentioned on May 16 and July 3 [the world as stage and responses to bullying]
Solomon Bregman: one of the leaders of the Jewish
Anti-Fascist Committee formed in the Soviet Union in April 1942 and caught
up in the Yiddish writers plot on Aug 12; he
collapsed into a coma during the trial and died in January 1953 – [for the full account go to my WordPress blog]
Jacques Romain Georges Brel: in the hall of fame
on June 20; laughing and
dancing on Oct 9; “Don Quixote in New
York” on Nov 22; mentioned on June 20 [the world as stage, musical
maestros and responses
to bullying]
Anne de Bretagne: sister-in-law of the other Anne,
de Beaujeu, above; commissioned a "Book of Hours", a
personal prayer book, "Les Grandes Heures d'Anne de Bretagne"; but
alas she did so on a date unknown, which is why she is listed in the blog on Dec 6, the
date of her second marriage, to the other Anne's
brother King Charles VIII of France, an event which
thereby subjugated Brittany to rule by the French crown, though of course
it is always presented (in French history books anyway) as the union of the two
realms (see the mediaeval page of Woman-Blindness)
Gabrielle-Émilie Le Tonnelier de Breteuil, Marquise du
Châtelet: quite probably the
most extraordinarily brilliant human being before Einstein
on June 12, with mentions on May 30 and Aug 8, a listing on the the Ancien Régime page
of "Woman-Blindness", and her rightful place amongst the élite pursuers of E,M&C2
André Robert Breton: born Feb 18
[illustrious illustrators]
Emilie Charlotte Le Breton, (Lillie Langtry): imitating Lucy Lockett on March 15; born Oct 13
David Brewster: kaleidoscoped on Dec 11; with Ada Lovelace
on June 5
[E,M&C2]
Marie-Madeleine Bridou when she was born, Marie-Madeleine Méric with her first husband, Marie-Madeleine Fourcade when she left him, Marie Suzanne Imbert on her ID papers,
code name "Hérisson: Une des Femmes de la Resistance on Jan 26 [responses to bullying]
Marguerite de Briet, or
Hélisenne
de Crenne if you prefer pseudonyms: expressing the "Angoysses douloureuses
qui procédent d’amours", and feminising Vergil, on Aug
25 [on the Ancien Régime page of Woman-Blindness; and among
the Memoirists on the serious scribes page]
Constantin Brîncuși on his Romanian birth certificate, though he is now known
there as Constantin Brancuch; Constantin Brâncuși to the rest of us: born Feb 19 [illustrious
illustrators]
Vera Mary Brittain: born Dec
29 [her daughter Shirley
Williams is among the
political ideologues]
Edward Benjamin Britten: born Nov 22 [musical maestros]
Max Brod 1884-1968: mentioned, usually re Franz Kafka, on April 1, June 3
and July 3,
though he was highly poētikōs in his own write [serious scribes]
Lev ben David Bronstein (Leon Trotsky): expelled on Jan 31; shaing a coffee bar with Peter Altenberg on Feb
21; with Victor Serge
and murdered
on Aug 20: quoted on Sept 1; mentioned on June 15, Aug 26, Sept 13 and Oct 15 [political ideologues and
responses to bullying]; grandson Esteban Volkov can
be found on Aug 20, telling the tale of
his grandfather's assassination
Brontë sisters: Charlotte (Currer
Bell) born on April 21,
Emily Jane (Ellis Bell) on July 30; “Jane Eyre” published on Oct 6; Anne
(Acton
Bell) makes up the
threesome on Feb 8 and April 2 [lighter writers] Charlotte is mentioned re Mary Astell on Nov 12
Rupert Chawner Brooke: born
Aug 3 [The Poets]
Dorris
Alexander "Dee" Brown (born February 29 1908; died December 12 2002): amongst the banned books on Dec
6 [serious scribes]
John Brown: seized the US arsenal at Harpers Ferry on Oct 16; hanged and glorified on
Dec 2; referenced on the Africa page in 1914 [responses
to bullying]
Thomas Browne: ”Tenzinged” with William Gilbert
on July 24;
born Oct 19
[E,M&C2]
Robert Browning: “Pied Piper” mentioned on March 15 and April 18, its history on July 22; the dramatic monologue on April 6; Fra Lippo
Lippi on May 5; born on May 7; Andrea
del Sarto on
July 14; married to Elizabeth
Moulton-Barrett on March 6
and Sept 12 [The Poets]
David Warren (Dave) Brubeck: took five midwives to get him
born on Dec 6
[musical maestros]
Roibert a Briuis in mediaeval Gaelic, Robert
de Bruce (Robert the Bruce, Robert I of Scotland): died on June 7; Bannockburn
mentioned on Sept 21
[the Scots and Cymru list]
Josef Anton
Bruckner: born Sept
4;
9th symphony premièred on Feb 11 [musical maestros]
Filippo (changed to Giordano in honour of his metaphysics teacher
Giordano Crispo) Bruno (published in Latin
as Lordanus Brunus
Nolanus): died on Feb 16, among
the victims on March 29, May 4, July 24 and Oct 13 (but see also Jan 8 and Dec 6); Hebdoed on Jan 14 [E,M&C2,
though technically he belongs among the reverend
writers (they kicked him out)]
John Bunnion (in the parish records for his baptism, John Bunyan on his book; find him among the
pseudonyms on Feb 8);
born on Nov 28;
in jail on Sept 28,
but the book written there was published on Feb 18 [reverend writers]
Edward George Earle Bulwer-Lytton: born May 25
[serious scribes]
Napoleone di Buonaparte ( BonaparteNapoléon, Napolloron on Feb 3): fought at Rivoli on Jan 15; Feb 3 and Feb 9 have the Paris Sanhredrin; at war with Madame de Staël on April 22; died on May 5; Marseillaise on May 10; Waterloo on June 18; key to Simón Bolívar on June 24; declared consul for life on Aug 2; banned as a pig-name on August 21; turned down by La Pérouse on August 23; retreated from Moscow on Oct 19; crowned himself emperor on Dec 2; divorced Joséphine on Dec 16; influenced by Charlemagne’s coronation on Dec 25. Also mentioned on March 15, April 1, April 16, April 20, April 27, Aug 10, 13 and 29, Sept 18 and 29, Dec 9 and 20; referenced on Jan 5, April 18, June 22, July 23 and Sept 1 [also in political ideologues]
James
Burbage: theatre-building on
March 15 and April 13; watching it burn down on June 29; son Richard Burbage
gets mentions on June 25
and Aug 8,
and a satirical allusion on Aug 22
[the world as stage]
Frances ("Fanny")
Burney (Madame D'Arblay): in correspondence with Maria Edgeworth on
May 22; born June 13; one of the original
Blue Stockings on July 23; chez Lady Montagu on Oct 2 and Oct 5 (husband Charles is also mentioned on that latter date) [serious scribes and Woman-Blindness]
Robert (“Rabbie”) Burns: born Jan 25; with Helen Craik on June 11 [The Poets and the Scots and Cymru
list]
Ambrose Everett Burnside: born May
23
in 1824, but presumably didn’t start reversing his name, not even by a
hairs-breadth, until at least 1842; mentioned on May
26 [bloomers]
Robert Burton, Melancholy Anatomist, born Feb 8 [reverend
writers]
Albert
Dufts, Fred Albutts, Bert Dalfuts, Ted Flaubus... no that should be Alfred Butts, and in full Alfred Mosher Butts: and you can unscrabble
that for yourself on April 4
George Gordon, 6th Baron Byron: born Jan 22; Feb 1 and
March 11 for
Mary Shelley; Feb 23 for
the Keats
piece from my biography of Byron, “A Small Drop of Ink” (another marketing plug
on March 25); April 19 for
his death; meeting Madame de Staël on April 22; May 3 for
him swimming the Hellespont; May 9
for Caroline Lamb's
"Glenarvon"; June 5 for
daughter Ada Lovelace; Aug 13 for
Edward
Trelawney; defending the Luddites
in his maiden speech on Dec 20; April 2, June
30, Aug 10, Dec 2 and Dec 4 for passing mentions [The Poets]
Augusta Ada Byron (Augusta Ada
King-Noel, Countess of Lovelace): the full tale
of her brilliance on June 5; her home in London
is on Dec 4; her partner in
computing, Charles Babbage, reappears
on Dec 26; and unable to avoid her
dad on Jan 22 [E,M&C2 and W-B]
C
Juana Maria Ignazia Teresa de Cabarrús: remembered as Madame Tallien on July
28 (responses to bullying and Nap Age of W-B)
João Rodrigues Cabrilho: began the theft of
La Jolla and the Pauma on Sept 28 [pre-Columban Americas]
Joseph John Campbell: main essay on Feb 16, born March 26,
influencing Ted Hughes on Aug 17 [historians]
Albert Camus: il
faut imaginer qu’il est devenu heureux on Jan 4; referenced re Spinoza
on Feb 21; “La Peste” on March 15, April 15 and May 30; “L'Homme Revolté” on March 30; born Nov 7; mentioned on Jan
26, May 8 and Aug 20 [serious scribes and responses to bullying]
Louise-Léonie Camusat (Léonie Rouzade): feminism by allegory on Oct 25 [W-B]
Elias Jacques Canetti (Елиас
Канети in his native Bulgarian): born July 25 [serious scribes]
Chester F. Carlson: Xeroxed on Oct 22 [E,M&C2]
Thomas Carlyle: born Dec 4; a neighbour of Anne Gilchrist on Sept 29 [historians]
Andrew Carnegie: born Nov 25;
troubles in his hall on Jan 16 [educators]
Elizabeth (Eliza) Carter: one of the original Bluestockings on July 23; among the Montagu salonistas on Oct 2 [The Poets]
Howard Carter: King Tut on June 24 and Nov 4
[historians]
Rubin “Hurricane” Carter: conviction overturned on Nov 8
Jacques Cartier: at
Hochelaga on Oct 2; born Dec 31 [pre-Columban
Americas]
Henri Cartier-Bresson: born Aug
22 [illustrious illustrators]
Antonio Fernandez Carvajal: settled in England on Sept 30. His nephew Luis
Rodriguez de Carvajal ("El Mozo", "The Younger", but Joseph Lumbroso - Joseph the
Enlightened in his book "Memorias") can be found, but only as ashes, on Dec 8, and among the serious
scribes
Pau Carlos (Pablo) Salvador
Defillo de Casals: playing for JFK on Nov 13; mentioned on Aug 19 [musical maestros]
Giacomo Girolamo Casanova: born April
2
Isaac Casaubon: George Eliot’s
equonyms on Feb 8,
Oct 2
and Nov 28
(the
other was son Méric)
[reverend writers]
Roger David Casement: born
Sept 1; captured
on April 24 [Éireland]
Carlos César Salvador Arana Castañeda: born Dec 25 [historians]
Robert Catesby (and several Williams
as
well): Nov 5
William
Caxton:
Born on Aug 13,
but did you know he wrote as well as publishing and translating others? See March 8 and Nov 18; and
find him playing chess on March 15 [serious scribes]
Anders Celsius: bloomered on Feb 22; born Nov 27
(that would be May 14
in Fahrenheit) [E,M&C2]
Paul Cézanne: born Jan 19 [illustrious illustrators]
Moishe (Marc) Chagall: born on July 7; Hadassahed on Feb 13; provides the illustration on Feb 18; mentioned on Aug 19 [illustrious illustrators]
Eileen Mary Challans (Mary Renault): born Sept 4 [historians]
Jean-François Champollion: carved in hieroglyphs on Aug 23; born Dec 23
[historians]
John Griffith Chaney, though his books insist on Jack London: rushing
for gold on Aug 16; "The Call of the Wild" banned on Dec 6 [serious
scribes]
Charles Spencer (“Charlie”)
Chaplin: compared with Orwell on June 25, with Grimaldi
on Dec 18,
with Kafka on July 3; died Dec 25
[the world as stage]
Pierre Teilhard de
Chardin: born
May 1; mentioned
on May 9 [reverend writers]
Isabelle de Charrière, or sometimes Belle van Zuylen, and just to make it even
more complex her birth certificate says Isabella Agneta Elisabeth van Tuyll van
Serooskerken, which is why I am breaking
my rule and placing her here, under C: poems, plays, novels and philosophical essays
on Oct 20, the Napoleonic Era page of Woman-Blindness, and among the serious scribes
François Auguste René de Chateaubriand: born Sept 4; mentioned on July 1 [serious scribes]
Thomas Chatterton (aka Thomas Rowley,
Decimus): born Nov 20 [The Poets]
Charles Bruce Chatwin: memorialised on Feb 14; also appears on his
birthday, which is May 13, on Aug 17 as a whimsical poem,
and on Dec 5 as a whimsical idea [serious scribes]
Liu Che: became Emperor Wu of Han on March 29 and the China page
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov: born Jan 29; “Three Sisters” premièred on Jan 31 [the world as stage]
Avram Noam Chomsky: born Dec 7
[the librarians of Babel]
Fryderyk
Franciszek (Frédéric François) Chopin:
recognised on Feb 25; played on the
violin by Hélène Berr on April
10; with George Sand on July 1 [musical maestros]
J (James) Walter
"Jim" Christ[y]: discovered Charon
(Pluto's moon) with his partner Robert
Harrington on June 22;
listed among the scientific achievements on Jan 1 [E,M&C2]
Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill: "Iron
Curtain" speech on March 5; bombing
Cologne on Aug 14 and May 28; mentioned
on Sept 1 [historians]
his
ancestress, Sarah Jennings, or Sarah Churchill 1st Duchess of
Marlborough after her marriage, can be found on the Aenglisch list with her best friend Queen Anne
Marcus Tullius Cicero: his
letters discovered by Petrarch on
his birthday, Jan 3; referenced
by Montaigne on
Feb 28 [philosophers]
Arthur Charles Clarke: born Dec 16
[serious scribes]
Barney C Clark (though some of the records have him as Barney B Clark, and no one has a clue what either the C or the B might have
stood for): recipient of an
artificial heart transplant on Dec 2 [E,M&C2]
Cassius Marcellus Clay (“Cash”): mentioned on Jan 17, born Oct 19 [responses to bullying]
Cassius Marcellus Clay Junior (Cassius X, Muhammad
Ali): born Jan 17; conviction
overturned on June 28; first pro fight Oct 29; and under October 30 1974
on the Africa page for the famous slug-it-out in Kinshasa with George Foreman [responses to bullying]
John Marwood Cleese: born Oct 27;
compared with Grimaldi on Dec 18 [the world as
stage]
Samuel Langhorne Clemens (Mark
Twain): alluded to on Feb 5;
among the pseudonyms on Feb 8; published “Huckleberry
Finn” on Feb 18 (banned on Dec 6); an innocent abroad
on March 11; working by
typewriter on June 23; visiting Jerusalem
on Aug 29; born Nov 30 [serious scribes]
Hillary Diane Rodham (Clinton): born Oct 26; Bill does not appear on
Oct 15; George does on Dec
5 (and no, I have no idea if he was the same family)
Robert Clive: born
Sept 29
Leonard Norman Cohen: quoted on Feb 11, April 10 and Nov 13; sleeping with
gypsies on May 21 and waltzing with Lorca on June 5; hall of fame on June 20; not crazy and
reporting on Sept 11; born Sept 21; sung to by k.d.lang on Nov
10; mentioned by sheer coincidence on Nov 28 [The Poets and musical maestros]
Mícheál Ó Coileáin (Michael
Collins): unnamed but among the Easter rebels on April 24; assassinated
on Aug 22
[Éireland]
Samuel Taylor Coleridge: born Oct 21; one of Joseph Johnson's circle of radical thinkers on
April 27; mentioned on Feb 28, June 17 and Sept 28; the Man from
Porlock gets a mention on April 1; much
indebted to Charlotte Turner Smith on Oct 28 [The Poets]
Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette: born Jan 28
[serious scribes]
Christoforo Colombo (Cristóbal
Colón, Christopher Columbus): set
sail from Palos on his first voyage on Aug 3; Dec 5 discovered El Hispaniola - also on March 4 - and Haiti; 2nd voyage Sept 25; reached
his final harbour on May 20 - these in the order of his voyages.
Caught eating potatoes on July 28, and smoking on Nov 15; a somethat morbidly amusing play on his
name on Oct 26. His interpreter, Luis
de Torres, the first Jew to settle in the Americas, can be found on Feb 1 and Nov 2; March 29, May 5 and Nov 14 are just mentions [pre-Columban Americas]
William Congreve: born Jan 24
[the world as stage]
Cyril Vernon Connolly: born Sept 10 [serious scribes]
John Constable: born June 11, mentioned on April 15 and June 15 [illustrious illustrators]
Frederick Albert (Freddie) Cook: did he beat Peary on April
21?
James Cook:
reached Hawaii on Jan 18; captained Captain Bligh on Sept 29; born Oct
27; odd connection to Therese
Huber on June 14
Alfred Alistair Cooke (not the cricketer; he spells it Alastair and without an
“e” on Cook): born Nov 20 [serious scribes]
Denton Arthur Cooley: rather more artificial than Christian
Barnard on April 4
[E,M&C2]
William David Coolidge: born Oct 23
[E,M&C2]
James Fenimore Cooper: born Sept 15 [lighter writers, and
even then with reservations]
Francis
Ford Coppola: born April 7 [the world as stage]
Marie-Anne Charlotte de Corday d'Armont (plain Charlotte Corday in the history books) - doing
what needs to be done to tyrants on July 13; the price she paid, and willingly
on July 5 [responses to bullying]
Armando
Anthony (“Chick”) Corea:
born June 12 [musical maestros]
Pierre
Corneille: born June 6; parodied by the Marquise de Sévigné on Feb 5; mentioned on Sept 5 and 23 [the world as stage]
Noël Peirce Coward: born
Dec 16; died March
26 [the world
as stage]
William
Cowper: born Nov 26 [The Poets]
Helen Craik: "Poems by a Lady" on June 11
Prudence
Crandall: died on Jan 28, teaching P.L Dunbar
on Feb 9 [educators and responses to bullying]
Stephen Townley Crane: born Nov 1: amongst the banned
books on Dec 6 [serious
scribes]
Thomas Cranmer: one
of the “three blind mice” on March 15; burnt at
the stake on March 21 [reverend writers and the Aenglisch
page]
David "Davy" Crockett: born Aug 17
Edward Estlin Cummings (sorry that should read edward estlin cummings): born Oct 14
[The Poets]
George Armstrong Custer: another of those macho men whose fame rests
in the numbers that they killed in pointless and brutal wars; his Last Stand,
deservedly defeated by the native tribes, can be found on June 25
D
Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre: first ever photograph
of the moon on Jan 2;
first public showing on Jan 7;
turned into colour on Aug 16;
matched by Lunar Orbiter 7 on Aug 23;
mentioned on Nov 20;
listed among the scientific achievements on Jan 1 [illustrious illustrators]
Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dalí i
Domènech: entered surreality
on May 11; used even more so on March 15 [illustrious
illustrators]
Jehanne Darc (Jehanne d'Arc, Jehanne Tarc,
Jehanne Romée, or even possibly Jehanne de Vouthon): sung by Christine de Pizan on Jan 13;
mentioned on April 17;
winning on May 7; captured
on May 23; sold out
and murdered on May 30; canonised
on May 16 (Joan Van
Ark, the
actress, can be found on June 16)
Marie-Geneviève-Charlotte
Darlus, but remembered by her married
name as Marie
Geneviève Charlotte Thiroux d'Arconville: preserved
on this blog on Dec 23; treated with copper, camphor and cinchona among the pursuers of E,M&C2, and on the Ancien Régime page of "Woman-Blindness"
Charles Robert Darwin: born Feb 12; mentioned on Feb 21 and March 30 [historians]
Sa’ad al-Da’ula (Saʿd ad-Dawlah): assassinated on March 5; the Jewish Vizier, a splendid pairing for Pietro Pierleone,
the Jewish Pope, on Feb 14 [purple cloaks]
William Robertson Davies: born
Aug 28 [serious scribes]
Miles Dewey Davis:
born May 26 [musical maestros]
Moshe Dayan: born May 20
John Dee: spying
for Elizabeth
Tudor on March 11, June 24
and Nov 11; in Prague on March
11 [reverend writers]
Charlotte Delbo, Charlotte Dudach when she married, camp number 31661 in Auschwitz: Une Femme de la Résistance on Jan 26
Fritz (but he changed it to Frederick)
Theodore Albert Delius: born Jan 29 [musical maestros]
Juan Manuel Puig Delledonne: born Dec 28 [serious scribes]
René Descartes (Renatus Cartesius on his books): died on Feb 11; doubting whether he agrees with Spinoza on Feb 21; thinking that he
may agree with Pyrrhon on May 11; making his own mind
up on March 29 [philosophers]
Marie-Catherine Desjardins, Madame de Villedieu (circa 1640-1683): can't make up
her mind if she is a poet, a playwright or a novelist on Oct 20, but definitely a serious scribe on the Ancien Régime page of Woman-Blindness
Christiane Desroches-Noblecourt (Noblecourt was hermaphrophoned when she
married); born November 17 1913; died June 23 2011: Egyptologist on Feb 21 and Oct 21
William Castle
DeVries: performing the
first artificial heart transplant on Dec 2
Béatritz de Diá (Béatrice
de Die ): one of the Trobairitz on Jan 13 [also among The Poets]
Charles John Huffam Dickens: Bill Sykes and Boz on Feb 8; “The Old Curiosity Shop” on March 15; his friendship with Ada
Lovelace on June 5; “Martin Chuzzlewit”
on June 22; “David Copperfield” on Aug 17. Mentioned re Mrs
Gaskell and Anne
Gilchrist on Sept
29, and
en passant on Jan 1 and April 2. Charlotte Turner Smith's story is retold as "Bleak
House", but also as "Little Dorritt", on her page, which is Oct
28 [serious scribes]
Emily Elizabeth Dickinson: born Dec 10 [The Poets]
Denis Diderot de Langres: born Oct 5; mentioned on April 28, Oct 20 and Nov 18 [philosophers]
Marie Magdalene (Marlene)
Dietrich: born Dec 27 [the world
as stage]
Karen Christence Dinesen (married name Baroness
Karen Christenze von Blixen-Finecke; pen name Isak Dinesen): born April 17 [serious
scribes]
Benjamin d'Israeli in its proper spelling, Benjamin Disraeli when converted to Anglicanism: the novelist
on Feb 28;
the Zionist on Aug 29;
refurbishing Downing Street on Dec 4
[serious scribes]
Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (Lewis
Carroll): pops out of the mirror on March 15, through the
rabbit-hole on July 4 and Nov 26; also among the
pseudonyms on Feb 8, and a mention on
the Merely Mentioneds page, under Forshaw & Coles [serious scribes]
Ernő Dohnányi in Hungarian, but generally remembered in German as Ernst von Dohnányi; he and his son Hans von Dohnányi get mentioned on April 1, but the tale is on July 27 [Erno is among the musical maestros, Hans
among the responses to bullying]
Marguerite Germaine Marie
Donnadieu (Duras): born April 4 [serious scribes]; and on the same date
the reason for her pseudonym, Claire de Durfort, Duchesse de
Duras, née Claire
Lechat de Kersaint (1777–1828)
Hilda Doolittle (HD): born Sept 10 [The Poets]
Christian Andreas Doppler: came out into the light on Nov 29 [E,M&C2]
Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey
Douglass: born Feb 14; praised by P.L. Dunbar on Feb 9; made his first
public speech on Aug 11 [serious scribes and responses to bullying]
Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoievski: the entire family Karamazov on Feb 8; Ivan alone but with Spinoza
on Feb 21;
the Grand Inquisitor on March 30,
May 4
and 30, June 25; “Uncle's Dream” on April 1; influenced by George
Sand on July 1;
papa Karamazov alone on July 3; echoed by Victor Serge
on Aug 20;
born Nov 11;
pardoned on Dec 22
[serious scribes]
Francis Drake: false claims on Sept 8; in Bodega Bay on Nov 23; set off on Dec 13; mentioned on May 28 [pre-Columban
Americas]
Alfred Dreyfus: accused on July 12 and 14;
Zola does the accusing on Oct 18; his case referenced on Feb 3 and himself mentioned on Jan 5 and Oct
21; turned into a verb on Aug 23;
supported
by "La Fronde" on Dec 9 [responses to bullying]
Henri-Robert-Marcel Duchamp: bought a urinal on April 11; the Dada Manifesto
is on March 23 [illustrious illustrators]
Carol Anne Duffy: banned on Jan 8 [The Poets]
Jean-Henri Dunant: taken
by the angel of death on Oct 30
P.L (Paul Laurence) Dunbar: died Feb 9 [The Poets and responses to bullying]
Angela Isadora Duncan: listed on her
birthday, May 27, her birthdate
rather than her deathdate even though that birthdate is disputed; but her death
was simply too horrible; played by Vanessa Redgrave on Jan 30 [the world as stage]
Amandine Aurore Lucile Dupin de Franceuil - Dudevant was her married name, George Sand her nom de plume; (born
July 1 1804; died June 8 1876): turned
down by the Académie Française on Jan 30; by her pseudonym on
Feb 8; by her proper name
and with Chopin and de Musset on July 1, her birthday (and
see Dostoievski on the same date); in
correspondence with Flaubert on June 29; her death on June 8; mentioned re Mary Astell on Nov 12 [serious scribes]
Marguerite-Charlotte Durand de Valfère: founder and editor
of "La Fronde" on Dec 9 [serious scribes]
Paul-Marie-Joseph
Durand-Ruel: died Feb 5; discovered Monet
on Nov 14...
but the number of listings of people he discovered is too long to repeat here;
you can find them all on Feb 5 and the page of the illustrious illustrators
Albrecht Dürer (though his dad was Adalbert
Ajtósi, which is Hungarian for "doormaker", before he
moved to Germany and translated it as Türer,
which son Albrecht then changed to Dürer, and sometimes without the umlaut as Duerer): born May 21; mentioned on Aug 19 and Sept 13
[illustrious illustrators]
Gerald Malcolm Durrell: born Jan 7 [lighter
writers]
Lawrence George Durrell: born Feb 27;
mentioned on July 3 [serious scribes]
Charles Édouard Dutoit: born Oct 7
[musical maestros]
Jeanne Duval: Baudelaire's "Black Venus" on April 9
Antonín Leopold Dvořák: born Sept 8; supporting Erwin
Schulhoff on April 1
[musical maestros]
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