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 only including here those folk of whom I
approve, and for whom I have admiration, or who make their appearance in
history as a merely mentioned of innocuous proportions. I have left out all of
those whom I consider ghastly, though they do 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 as well.
Otherwise you can always use the search button in the top left hand corner of
the screen and seek them there.
I have also left out most of the royalty, save only the one or two who I regard as meriting inclusion for something they achieved as human beings. Some of these have their own pages among the "Themes"; the remainder will either appear among the “Merely Mentioneds”, or have been confined among the GERs.
Be aware that not everyone is here alphabetically - if they are closely associated with someone else, they may well be under the other’s name. Also there are abbreviations and pseudonyms and stage names and noms de guerre by which people are now known (see the page for "Pseudonyms"), and I will have placed them by their real/full/birth name. Women in almost every case are listed under their birth name, unless there is a very good reason not to.
In
the early versions of this book, people were generally placed by their birth or
their death date, because that tends to be how they are recorded in the annals.
As I have developed the book I have tried to remove them from these, unless
there was something inherently significant about them, and placed them instead
on what seems to me the date or dates of real significance in their lives; but
I am still working on this!
I am also still working on the Amber pages in the blog, so there may well be a name that comes up there, but which has not yet been listed here; the same applies to the Merely Mentioneds, the GERs, etc
A
Jorge Francisco Isidoro Luis Borges Acevedo: alluded on Feb 2; quoted on Feb 5, Aug 12, Oct
4 and Dec 5; pseudonymised on Feb 8; referenced on July 3 and Sept 13; birthdate
noted on Aug 24
Albert Chinụalụmọgụ (Chinua) Achebe: born Nov 16
Ansel Easton Adams: born Feb 20
Alfred Adler: born Feb 7
Alcuin:
died on May 19
Konstantin Sergeyevich Alekseyev (Stanislavski was his stage-name): preceding Lee
Strasberg on Jan 17; referenced on Jan 22, May 22, Aug 8, Nov 17
Alexander of Macedon: a student of Aristotle on April 5 and Oct 2; Mary
Renault's "Alexander Trilogy” on Sept 4; main tale on Oct 1; towns named
after him on Nov 3; mentioned on Dec 16; and should he be here, or on the GER list despite all those positives? I am leaving him
here in order to ask that question at the very start of this list, and leaving my
reader to determine who else the question applies to.
Mirza Husayn-‘Alí, known as “Bahá’u’lláh”,
“the glory of al-Lah”, became the prophet of the Baha’i faith on Dec 8
Durante di Alighiero degli Alighieri (Dante): expelled from
Florence on Jan 27; honoured by Sam Beckett
on April 13, Mo Mowlam on April 24,
and Victor Hugo on Oct 18; in his
tomb in Ravenna on June 24; alongside Ariosto
on Sept 8, and Vergil on Oct 15; eponymised
on March 11 and Aug 24; referenced on Jan 3, Jan 8, March 30, June 11 and Sept
4
Emily Allchurch: illustrator for Dec 5
Macon B. Allen: passed his law exam on May 3
Salvador Allende: overthrown on Sept 11
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
Aloysius (Alois) Alzheimer: died, still compos mentis, on Dec 19
Roald Engelbregt Gravning Amundsen: born on July 16, 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
Roberta Joan Anderson (Joni Mitchell): with Charlie Mingus on Jan 5 and W.C Handy on Nov 16 and Sept 27; 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; pretending to be Van Gogh on Dec 23
Sherwood Berton Anderson: born Sept 13
Mordechai Anielewicz (nicknamed Aniołek, "Little
Angel"):
leading the Young Guard in Warsaw and in Sinai on May 8 and April 19
Margaret of Anjou: founded Queen's College Cambridge (and King's, and Eton, though not on the same date) on April 15; see also The English List, and the Mediaeval page of "Woman-Blindness", plus an indirect mention on April 29
Rodolfo Alfonso Raffaello Pierre Filibert
Guglielmi di Valentina d'Antonguella (Rudolph Valentino): his name-day on Feb 14; born May 6
Nicolas-François Appert: born Oct 23
Aliénor d'Aquitània (Aliénor d'Aquitaine; Eleanor of
Aquitaine): among the Super-Idesses on April 17; mentioned on Sept 8
Marie-Geneviève-Charlotte Darlus, 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 on the Ancien Régime page of "Woman-Blindness"
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)
Ludovico Ariosto: born Sept 8
Aristocles (“Plato” or “flat-head”): died on April 5; entirely passive on June
25; banning Bloom’s Taxonomy from the Republic on Sept 13; fell out with Aristotle on Oct 2; mentioned on Jan 3 and May
11.
Edwin Howard Armstrong: inventor of FM radio, born Dec 18 and mentioned among the scientific achievements on Jan 1
Neil Alden Armstrong: first man on the moon at 4.17pm local time
on July 16. Listed among the scientific achievements on Jan 1
Malcolm Henry Arnold: born Oct 21
Matthew Arnold: born Dec 24. And his father Thomas Arnold, same date (on the blog, not the
birth certificate)
François-Marie Arouet (aka
Voltaire):
quoted on April 27, Oct 2 and Nov 18; Nov 1 and Dec 5 for earthquakes;
mentioned on Jan 18 and Feb 26; died May 30
François Laurent d'Arlandes: flew his balloon on Nov 21 (listed among the scientific achievements on Jan 1)
Mary Astell: born on Nov 12, life-tale on the Ancien Régime page of "Woman-Blindness"
Szalom Asz (usually written in English as Sholem Asch): born Nov 1
Inca Atahualpa (Inca means “king”): strangled on Aug 29
Richard Samuel Attenborough: born Aug 29 (brother David
Frederick Attenborough
gets a
mention on Oct 26)
Françoise d'Aubigné, also known as Madame (Marquise) de
Maintenon: (1635-1719); born in debtors' prison on Nov 27; secretly married to Louis XIV on the Ancien Régime page of Woman-Blindness
Wystan Hugh (W.H) Auden: born Feb 21, mentioned on May 2
Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus (also known as Octavian): destroyed Ovid on Jan 8; conducted a census on April 29;
born Sept 23
Publius Aelius Traianus Hadrianus Augustus (Emperor Hadrian): born Jan 24, walled
on Nov 10; mentioned on Jan 12
Marcus Aurelius: mistakeable for Montesquieu
on Jan 18; fascinating link to George
Eliot's "Middlemarch” on Feb 8
Claudette Austin (Colvin): placed in juvenile
detention for sitting on a bus on Dec 1
Stephen Fuller Austin: born Nov 3
Salāḥ ad-Dīn Yūsuf ibn Ayyūb (Saladin): captured al-Quds on Oct 2
B
Charles Babbage: dinner with Ada
Lovelace on June 5; born Dec 26
Gaston Louis Pierre Bachelard: Nov 22
Frank G Back: highly focused on Nov 23 (listed among the scientific achievements on Jan 1)
Fra Roger Bacon: Hebdoed on Jan 14; revised the calendar on April 23; 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.
Leo Baeck: at Treblinka on April 1; born May 23; smichah for Regina Jonas on Dec 27
Joan Chandos Baez: born
Jan 9
Bilbo Baggins (Bilba Labingi): returned to Bag End on June 22 (Tolkien mentioned)
John Logie Baird: switched on his colour telly on July 3
Arthur James Balfour: declared on Nov 2, resigned on Dec 5, mentioned
on Feb 22
Matteo Bandello: a multiple source for Shakespeare on Jan 30
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)
Honoré Balssa (Honoré de Balzac): pseudonym on Feb 8; born on May
20; statue by Rodin and critique by Barthes on Nov 12; but see also my note on Anne Malet de Graville
Sirima (Sirimavo) Ratwatte Dias Bandaranaike: born April 17
Daniel Barenboim: born Nov 15 (mentioned there with Jacqueline du Pré)
Jeanne Baret: Listed as Jean Baret on Nov 15; renamed Solanum Baretiae on the Ancien Régime page of "Woman-Blindness", but watch out, because nightshade can be deadly
Christian Neethling Barnard: Denton
Cooley on April 4, born Nov 8 (which for some reason gets mentioned on Jan 1); his own achievement on Dec 3
Jacob Barsimson (who was
probably Ya'akov Bar Shimon): arrived in New Amsterdam on July 8
Roland Gérard Barthes: born Nov 12
Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn
Bartholdy: born Feb 3; given
as a prize on April 1; played by Pablo Casals on Nov 13
Ricardo Neftalí Reyes Basoalto
(Pablo Neruda): born on July 12, kicked
out by coup (isn't that a splendid use of alliteration! he would be proud of
me) on September 11; also on Feb 8
Emilia Bassano: wrongly thought to have been Shakespeare’s
lover on Jan 30
Madeleine
Françoise Basseporte, in bloom on April 28, studying and painting the plants on the Ancien Regime page of "Woman-Blindness"
Charles Baudelaire: quoted on Jan 4; born on April 9; "Les
Fleurs du Mal” published on June 25, but banned on Jan 8; mentioned on Jan 5
Pierre Bayle: not Stendhal
on Jan 23, thoughts on Spinoza on Nov
18
Katherine Mansfield Beauchamp: born Oct 14, died Jan 9
Lady Margaret Beaufort: 1485-1509; mother of Henry VII of
England, her founding of two Cambridge and one Oxford college is alluded to on April 29, and in full on the Mediaeval page of "Woman-Blindness"
Anne de Beaujeu, Duchesse de Bourbon, known today simply as Anne of France, or sometimes Madame la Grande, listed with her sister-in-law Anne de Bretagne on Dec 6, and on the Mediaeval page of "Woman-Blindness"
Marie
Josèphe Rose Tascher de la Pagerie (Joséphine de Beauharnais, the Empress
Joséphine): divorced on Dec 16
Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais: born Jan 24
Simone Lucie Ernestine Marie Bertrand de Beauvoir: born Jan 9, mentioned on April 15
Thomas Becket: mentioned on June 24, murdered on December
29
Samuel Barclay Beckett: central to the essay on Feb 16; thinking like Lucky on Feb 28; 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
Antoine Henri Becquerel: became radioactive on March 1. Listed among the scientific achievements on Jan 1
Jakob
Liebmann Meyer Beer (Giacomo Meyerbeer):
died May 2
Henry Maximilian (“Max”) Beerbohm: born Aug 24
John Beers: crowned on Nov 4
Ludwig van Beethoven: born Dec 16, died March 26, last appeared on
stage on May 7, minored the C on Oct 27; lessons with Haydn on Dec 12 (see also Nov 19); mentioned on April
16, Sept 17
Menachem Volfovich Begin: born Aug 16, mentioned on June 6
Brendan Francis Aidan Behan: born Feb 9
Quentin Claudian Stephen Bell: born Aug 19
Solomon Bellows (Saul Bellow): born July 10; mentioned July 11
Alban Maria Johannes Berg: born Feb 9;
with Erwin Schulhoff on April 1
Damion Berger: photographic on Feb 20
Ernst Ingmar Bergman: born July 14
Henri-Louis Bergson: born Oct 18
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
Henriette Rosine Bernard (Sarah
Bernhardt): died March 26, born Oct 22
Giovanni Lorenzo (Gianlorenzo) Bernini: born Dec 7
Louis (Leonard) Bernstein: studying
with Nadia
Boulanger on Aug 21, born Aug 25
Beruriah (bat Chaninah ben Teradion): her story told on Jan 12; referenced on June
3 and Dec 5
Bruno Bettelheim: born Aug 28
Marie Henri Beyle (Stendhal): born Jan 23; confused with Pierre Bayle on Nov 18
Krishna Bhanji (Ben Kingsley): born Dec 31, in the actors hall of fame on Aug 8
Marie-Marguerite Bihéron: studying the bodies of plants with Madeleine Basseporte on on April 28; studying the bodies of humans in more detail than anybody previously on the Ancien Régime page of "Woman-Blindness"
Bantu Steve Biko: mentioned on
May 9, May
16, June 28 and July 10; murdered on Sept 12
Hildegard von Bingen: reduced to sainthood on May 10; her abbey restored on her death-date, on Sept 17
Maurice Rupert Bishop: ousted in a coup on Oct 19
Alexandre-César-Léop Georges
Bizet: born Oct 25
Eric Arthur Blair (George
Orwell): pseudonymed on Feb
8, born June 25
William Blake: among the Bunhill dissenters on Nov 28;
quoted on Dec 1; mentioned on April 27
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
Harold Bloom born
on July 11, and gets a mention on Feb 28 and Nov 5; quoted on Nov 30
Amelia Jenks (Bloomer): born May 26, referenced on July 12 and Nov
3; has her own page among the "Themes"
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
Madame (Anne-Marie Fiquet) du Boccage (née Le Page): Listed on the Ancien Régime page of "Woman-Blindness"; regaled snobbishly by Mrs Thrale on Oct 5
Humphrey DeForest Bogart: born
Dec 25
Niels Henrik David Bohr: born Oct 7
Anne Boleyn: crowned on June 1
Heinrich Theodor Böll: born Dec 21
Robert Oxton Bolt: well-seasoned on July 6; born Aug 15
Ugo Boncompagni (Pope Gregory XIII) 1572-85: fixed the
calendar on Feb 29; also April 23 and Oct 4. Is this Pope St Gregory the Great? Indeed it is, and he is on the GER LIST as well, and so needs to be counted among the Pulchrasauri
Dietrich Bonhoeffer: with Hans von Dohnányi
on July 27
Franz Bopp: born Sept 14
Jorge Agustín Nicolás Ruiz de
Santayana y Borrás (George Santayana):
born Dec 16
James Boswell, 9th Laird of Auchinleck: born Oct 29
Louis-Antoine de Bougainville: enflowered on Oct 26
Marie-Juliette Olga (“Lily”) Boulanger: born Aug 21 (sister Juliette
Nadia is on the same page)
Pierre Louis Joseph Boulez: born March 26
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;
he is 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, Oct 21
Hadewijch of Brabant: writing mystical courtly songs on Jan 26
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
Johannes Brahms: born May 7; key influence on Dohnányi on July 27; his part in the F.A.E. Sonata on Oct
27
Louis Braille: born Jan 4
Constantin Brâncuși: born Feb 19
Marlon Brando (Brandau when his family were still Germans): stage debut on Oct
19, student of Lee Strasberg on Nov
17, and the outcome on Dec 3; mentioned on Jan 17
Georges Braque: born May 13, mentioned on Feb 17, Sept 17
and Dec 12
Eugen
Berthold Friedrich Brecht: born Feb 10; "St Joan of the Stockyards" can be found on May
30; mentioned on May 16 and July 3
Nicholas Brekespear (Pope Hadrian IV): received his
heaven-visa on Sept 1
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
Anne de Bretagne: surrendered Bretagne to France through the act of union known as marriage on Dec 6
André Robert Breton: born Feb 18
Emilie Charlotte Le Breton, (Lillie Langtry): Lucy
Lockett on March 15; born Oct 13
David Brewster: kaleidoscoped on Dec 11, with Ada Lovelace on June 5
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, and on the Ancien Régime page of "Woman-Blindness"
Vera Mary Brittain: born Dec 29
Edward Benjamin Britten: born Nov 22
Max Brod 1884-1968: mentioned, usually re Franz Kafka, on April 1, June 3 and July 3,
though he was highly poetikos in his own right: click here
Lev ben David Bronstein (Leon
Trotsky): expelled on Jan 31; with Victor Serge
on Feb 21; murdered
on Aug 20: quoted on Sept 1; mentioned on June 15, Aug 26, Sept 13 and Oct 15
Brontë sisters: Charlotte
(Currer Bell) born on April 21, Emily Jane (Ellis Bell) on July 30; Anne isn’t
listed but she was published as Acton Bell:
the pseudonyms are on Feb 8); “Jane Eyre” published on Oct 6; mentioned
on April 2
Rupert Chawner Brooke: born Aug 3
John Brown: hanged and glorified on Dec 2; the reason why on Oct 16
Thomas Browne: Tenzinged with William
Gilbert on July 24; born
Oct 19
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 Sept 12
David Warren (Dave) Brubeck: took five midwives to get him born on Dec 6
Josef
Anton Bruckner: 9th symphony premièred
on Feb 11; born Sept 4
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 January
8 and December
6); Hebdoed
on Jan 14
John Bunnion (as per 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
Farrokh Bulsara (Freddie
Mercury): born Sept 8
Edward Bulwer-Lytton: born May 25
Napoleone di Buonaparte (Napoléon
Bonaparte, Napolloron on Feb 3): fought at Rivoli on Jan 15; Feb 3 and Feb 9 have the Paris
Sanhredrin; died on May 5; Marseillaise on May 10; Waterloo on June 18; key to Bolivar 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. And in addition: mentioned on March 15, April 1, April 16, April
20, April 27, Aug 10 and 29, Sept 29, Dec 20; referenced on Jan 5, April 18, June
22, July 23, Dec 17, Sept 1
James Burbage: theatre-building on 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
Frances ("Fanny") Burney (Madame
D'Arblay): born June 13, chez Lady
Montagu on Oct 2
Robert (“Rabbie”) Burns: born Jan 25
General Ambrose Everett Burnside: born May 23 in
1824, but presumably didn’t start reversing the syllables of his name, not even by a
hairs-breadth, until at least 1842
Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto: June 21 (unpublished); assassinated
on Dec
27 (her dad, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, and
Imran Khan, can be found on the same date)
Robert de Bruce (Robert the
Bruce, Robert I of Scotland): died on June 7, Bannockburn mentioned on Sept 21
Albert
Dufts, Fred Albutts, Bert Dalfuts, Ted Flaubus... no that should be Alfred Butts, and in full Alfred Mosher Butts: April 4
“By A Lady” (Jane Austen), which is among the pseudonyms on Feb 8, "Sense and
Sensibility" published on Oct 30; adoring of Maria Edgeworth on Jan 1
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; May 3 for him swimming the Hellespont;
June 5 for daughter Ada Lovelace; August 13 for Trelawney;
Dec 20 for his maiden speech; April 2, June
30, Aug 10, Dec 2 and Dec 4 for passing
mentions.
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
C
João Rodrigues Cabrilho: began the theft of La
Jolla and the Pauma on Sept 28
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
Joseph John Campbell: main essay on Feb 16, born March 26, influencing Ted Hughes on Aug 17
Albert Camus: il faut imaginer
qu’il est devenu heureux on Jan 4; “La Peste” on March 15, April 15 and May 30;
“L'Homme Revolté” on March 30 ; born Nov 7; referenced on Feb 21; mentioned
on May 8, Aug 20
Elias Jacques Canetti (Елиас Канети in his native Bulgarian): born July 25
Chester F. Carlson: Xeroxed on Oct 22, mentioned among the scientific achievements on Jan 1
Thomas Carlyle: born Dec 4
Andrew Carnegie: born Nov 25
Lope
Félix de Vega y Carpio: born Nov 25
Howard Carter: King Tut on June 24 and Nov 4
Rubin “Hurricane” Carter: conviction overturned on Nov 8
Jacques Cartier: at Hochelaga on Oct 2; born Dec 31
Henri Cartier-Bresson: born Aug 22
Antonio Fernandez Carvajal: settled in England on Sept 30. Luis Rodriguez de Carvajal can be found, but
only as ashes, on Dec 8
Pau Carlos (Pablo) Salvador Defillo de Casals: playing for JFK on Nov 13; mentioned on Aug 19
Giacomo Girolamo Casanova: born April 2
Isaac Casaubon: George Eliot’s
equonyms on Feb 8, Oct 2 and Nov 28
Roger David Casement: captured
on April 24, born Sept 1
Carlos
César Salvador Arana Castañeda: died Dec 25
Infanta Catalina de Aragón y Castilla (Catherine of Aragon): marriage annulled
on May 23; born Dec 16 (and see April 18 for the portrait of her mum - or is
that her twin-sister!)
Robert Catesby (and several Williams as well; real men, not made-up artificial ones): 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 15
Anders Celsius: bloomered on Feb 22; born Nov 27 (that
would be May 14 in Fahrenheit)
Paul Cézanne: born Jan 19
Moishe (Marc) Chagall: born
on July 7, Hadassahed on Feb 13, provides the illustration on Feb 18, mentioned
on Aug 19.
Eileen Mary Challans (Mary
Renault): born Sept 4
Jean-François Champollion: carved in hieroglyphs on Aug 23; born Dec
23
Charles Spencer (“Charlie”) Chaplin: compared with with Orwell on June 25, Grimaldi
on Dec 18, Kafka on July 3; died Dec 25
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin: born May 1; mentioned on May 9
Charlemagne (born simply as Karl,
Carolus in Latin, on April 2).; Carolus Magnus Rex in the history books; Carlomagno, Carol
cel Mare and Carlemany in
other languages; advised by Alcuin on
May 19, crowned on Dec 25; referenced on July 6
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: poems, plays, novels and philosophical essays on the Napoleonic Era page of "Woman-Blindness"
François
Auguste René de Chateaubriand: born Sept 4, mentioned on July 1
Gabrielle Émilie Le Tonnelier de Breteuil, Marquise du Châtelet: opticable and verifiable on June 12; satirically admired by Voltaire on the Ancien Régime page of "Woman-Blindness"
Thomas Chatterton (aka Thomas
Rowley, Decimus): born Nov 20
Charles Bruce Chatwin: memorialled 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
Fryderyk Franciszek (Frédéric
François) Chopin: with George Sand on July 1
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov: born Jan 29, “Three
Sisters” premièred on Jan 31
Avram Noam Chomsky: born Dec 7
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
Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill: "Iron Curtain" speech on March 5;
bombing Cologne on Aug 14 and May 28; mentioned on Sept 1
Marcus Tullius Cicero: his letters discovered by Petrarch on his birthday, Jan 3; referenced by Montaigne on Feb 28
Arthur Charles Clark: born Dec 16
Barney C Clark: heart transplant on Dec 2
Cassius Clay (“Cash”): mentioned on Jan 17, born Oct 19
Cassius Marcellus Clay Junior (Cassius
X, Muhammad Ali ): born Jan 17; conviction
overturned on June 28; first pro fight Oct 29
Cleopatra Thea Philopator (Cleopatra VII): among the
Super-Idesses on April 17; aspicided on Aug 29
John Marwood Cleese: born Oct 27; compared with Grimaldi on Dec 18
Samuel Langhorne Clemens (Mark Twain): 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; quoted on Aug
29; born Nov 30
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; hall of fame on June 20; not crazy and reporting on
Sept 11; born Sept 21; mentioned on Nov 28
Mícheál Ó Coileáin (Michael
Collins): unnamed but among the Easter rebels on April
24; assassinated on Aug 22
Samuel Taylor Coleridge: born Oct 21; one of James Johnson's circle
of radical thinkers on April 27; mentioned on Feb 28 and Sept 28
Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette: born Jan 28
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. And also: caught
eating potatoes on July 28, and smoking on Nov 15; a somethat morbidly amusing
play on his name on Oct 26. His interpreter, Yosef ben Ha
Levi Ha Ivri (Luis
de Torres), the first Jew to
settle in the Americas, can be found on Feb 1 and Nov 2. March 29, May 5, Nov
14 are just mentions.
William Congreve: born Jan 24
Cyril Vernon Connolly: born Sept 10
John Constable: born June 11,
mentioned on April 15 and June 15
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
Alfred Alistair Cooke (not the
cricketer; he spells it Alastair and without an “e” on Cook): born Nov 20
Denton Arthur Cooley: well-served by Christian
Barnard on April 4
William David Coolidge: born Oct 23
James Fenimore Cooper: born Sept 15
Aaron Copland: born Nov 14; another
of Nadia Boulanger’s students on Aug
21
Francis Ford Coppola: born April 7
Marie-Anne Charlotte de Corday d'Armont: assassinated Jean-Paul
Marat on July 13; mentioned on July 5; guillotined on July 17; usually remembered as plain Charlotte
Corday
Armando
Anthony (“Chick”) Corea:
born June 12
Pierre Corneille: born June 6;
mentioned on Sept 23
Noël Peirce Coward: died
March 26; born Dec 16
William Cowper: born Nov 26
Prudence Crandall: died on Jan 28; teaching
P.L Dunbar on Feb 9
Stephen Townley Crane: born Nov 1
Thomas Cranmer: one of
the “three blind mice” on March 15; burnt at the stake on March 21
Francis Harry Compton Crick: born June 8 (Rosie Franklin does at least get a mention)
David "Davy" Crockett: born Aug 17
Edward Estlin Cummings (sorry that should read edward estlin cummings): born Oct 14
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
Jehanne Darc (Jehanne d'Arc, Jehanne Tarc, Jehanne Romée, or even possibly
Jehanne de Vouthon): 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)
Charles Robert Darwin: born Feb 12, mentioned on Feb 21 and March
30
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
Pierre Jean David (David d'Angers): died on Jan 5
William Robertson Davies: born Aug 28
Miles Davis: born May
25
Moshe Dayan: born May
20
John Dee: spying
for Elizabeth Tudor on March 11, June 24 and Nov 11
Fritz (but he changed it to Frederick) Theodore Albert Delius: born Jan 29
Juan Manuel Puig Delledonne: born Dec 28
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
Josephine Bernadette Devlin (McAliskey): born April 23
Charles John Huffam Dickens: born Feb 7; his friendship with Ada Lovelace on June 5; Bill Sykes on Feb 8; “The
Old Curiosity Shop” on March 15; “Martin Chuzzlewit” on June 22; “David
Copperfield” on Aug 17. Mentioned en passant on Jan 1 and April 2
Emily Elizabeth Dickinson: born Dec 10
Denis Diderot: born Oct 5; mentioned on Nov 18
Béatrice de
Die: among the Trobairitz on Jan 13
Marie Magdalene (Marlene) Dietrich: born Dec 27
Karen Christence Dinesen (married name Baroness Karen Christenze
von Blixen-Finecke; pen name Isak Dinesen): born April 17
Benjamin Disraeli: the novelist on Feb 28; the Zionist on Aug
29; refurbishing Downing St on Dec 4
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
Ernő Dohnányi (in Hungarian, but generally remembered in German as Ernst von Dohnányi), and Hans von Dohnányi: father and son, April 1, July 27
Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dalí i Domènech: entered surreality on May 11; used even more
so on March 15
Hilda Doolittle (HD): born
Sept 10
Christian Andreas Doppler: came out into the light on Nov 29
Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey Douglass: born Feb 14; praised
by P.L. Dunbar on Feb 9; made his
first public speech on August 11
Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoievski: the entire family
Karamazov on Feb 8; Ivan alone 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; echoed by Victor Serge on Aug 20; born Nov 11; pardoned
on Dec 22
Francis Drake:
false claims on Sept 8; in Bodega Bay on Nov 23; set off on Dec 13; mentioned
on May 28
Alfred Dreyfus: accused on July 12 and 14; Zola does the accusing on Oct 18; his case referenced on Feb 3; himself mentioned
on Jan 5 and Aug 23
Henri-Robert-Marcel Duchamp: bought a urinal on April 11; the Dada Manifesto is on
March 23
Jean-Henri Dunant: taken
by the angel of death on Oct 30
P.L (Paul Laurence) Dunbar: died Feb 9
Marguerite
Germaine Marie Donnadieu (Duras): born April 4
Amandine Aurore Lucile Dupin
Dudevant (George Sand): Feb 8 in full; by her
proper name and with de Musset on
July 1, her birthday; in correspondence with Flaubert on June 29; her death on
June 8
Lady Jane Grey-Dudley: deposed on July 19, absent but asterisked
on Dec 1
Carol Anne Duffy: banned on Jan 8
Angela Isadora (Dora) Duncan: born May 27
Paul-Marie-Joseph Durand-Ruel: died Feb 5; discovered
Monet on Nov 14
Albrecht Dürer: born May 21; mentioned on Aug 19 and Sept
13
Gerald Malcolm Durrell: born Jan 7; elder brother Lawrence George Durrell born Feb 27; mentioned on July 3
Charles Édouard Dutoit: born Oct 7
Antonín Leopold Dvořák: born Sept 8; supporting Erwin Schulhoff on April 1
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