E
Amelia Mary Earhart: solo across the Atlantic on May 20; the
mere crossing of the USA on Aug 24; lost over the Atlantic on July 3; sung by Joni on Sept 24
George Eastman: born July 12
Abba Solomon Meir Eban: died Nov 18
Maria Edgeworth, born Jan 1, and findable among the Blue-Stockings as well
Thomas Alva Edison: “Mary had a little lamb” on March 15 and Nov
20; stealing ideas for Oct 21 on July 24; the electric chair on Aug 6; turned
into a verb on Nov 6; mentioned somewhat sceptically on Jan 1
Alexandre Gustave Eiffel: his towgougeser inaugurated March 31; himself born
Dec 15
Albert Einstein: his annus mirabilis mentioned on Feb
24 and July 6; still Jewish on April 1; the E failed to transmute into MC2 on
April 18; relativity on May 11; university drop-out on Aug 18
Alfred Eisenstaedt: born Dec 6
Sergei Mikhailovich Eizenshtein (Eisenstein): born Jan 23, mentioned on Dec 3
Juan Sebastian den Cano (in Portuguese), Juan
de Elcano (in Spanish): took over from Magellan
on Sept 8 and completed the circumnavigation on Sept 20
Edward William Elgar: born June 2
T.S (Thomas Stearns) Eliot: buried beneath the lilacs on Jan 4; quoted
on Jan 24; turned down Tippett on March 19; Harold Bloom on July 11; insinuated on July 3 and 13; born
Sept 26
Thomas Henry Elkins: refrigerated on Nov 4
Ralph Waldo Emerson: fired "the shot heard around the world"
on April 18; born May 25; mentioned June 19
Friedrich Engels: “The Communist Manifesto” published on Feb
26; born Nov 28; mentioned on April 5 and Nov 6
Marie Dentière, or correctly d’Ennetières, is not findable under any date in the main blog, for reasons explained where she can be found, mis-named in a corner beneath the trees, but nevertheless added to my page "Ancien Regime" in "Woman-Blindness"
M.C (Maurits Cornelis) Escher: born June 18, pictured on June 26
Emilio Estevez: inventing history on June 24
Euripides: born Sept 23
Mary Ann Evans (George Eliot): Casaubon
on Feb 8 and Nov 28; three Georges on July 1; Zionism on August 29; “Silas
Marner” on Oct 28; possible source of her nom de plume on Oct 30; quoted on Nov
5; born on Nov 22; died on Dec 22
John Evelyn: his home trashed by Peter
Romanov on June 9; born Oct 31
Medgar Wiley Evers: murdered on June 12
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne: translated by Giovanni (John) Florio
on Jan 30; born Feb 28 ; mentioned on June 19 and Nov 30
F
Max Factor (Maksymilian Faktorowicz):
rivalling Estée Lauder on
July 1; with
his half-brother Yakov “Jake the Barber”
Faktorowicz (same father, different mothers)
on Aug 18, but see Al Capone on Oct 17
Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit: pre-empted by Sanctorius
on Feb 22; born May 14
(though some say 24th);
converts to Celsius on Nov 27; Ray
Bradbury’s “Fahrenheit 451“ expurgated on Dec 6
John Fairfax: all washed up on July 19
Cicely Isabel Fairfield (Rebecca West): born Dec 25
Michael Faraday: with Ada
Lovelace on June 5; born Sept 22;
William Cuthbert Faulkner (or Falkner actually;
he changed the spelling when he needed to sound British to join the Canadian
RAF): at loggerheads with Hemingway on March 15; born Sept 25; taking
last orders on Dec 29; mentioned on Jan 1 and July 28
Guy Faux (mispronounced Fawkes by those who can't speak French): his “real” story on Jan 6; the
trial of the Gunpowder Plotters on Jan 27; “executed” on Jan 31; affected by
calendar shift on June 23; pseudo-history on Nov 5; referenced on Feb 22, Dec 20 and Dec 29
Millicent Garrett Fawcett: April 27 (though it really belongs on the
23rd)
Marie-Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du
Motier, Marquis de La Fayette: born Sept 6 ;
spelled as a single word on Nov 23
Kai Feinberg: April 15
Federico Domenico Marcello Fellini: born Jan 20
Enrico Fernando Fermi: born Sept 29
Joan Miró i Ferrà: born April 20
Elisabeth Ferrand, left behind a phenomenal scientific legacy on Feb 17, about which you can read much more on the Ancien Régime page of "Woman-Blindness"
Alessandro di Mariano di Vanni Filipepi (Botticelli): born May 17; provides
the picture on March 17; mentioned on Nov 1. The nickname is a type of small
wine flask
Robert James Fischer: beat Boris
Spassky on Sept 1
F. Scott (Francis Scott Key) Fitzgerald: married Zelda Sayre
on April 3; born Sept 24; banned on Dec 6; mentioned on
Jan 1
Gustave Flaubert: with George
Sand on June 29 and July 1; born Dec 12
Quintus Horatius Flaccus (Horace): born Dec 8
Alexander Fleming: born Aug 6
Yvonne Joyce Fletcher: remembered on Nov 28 and Dec 4
Giovanni Florio (John Florio
when he moved to England): translator of Montaigne, and hugely signficant to Shakespeare, on Jan 30
Ferdinand Jean Marie Foch: born Oct 2
Daniel Foe (de Foe, Defoe): Man Fridayed on Feb 1; pseudonymed on Feb 8; buried
among the dissenters on Nov 28
Francis Edward (Frank) Foley: much honoured on May 7
Rabbi Isaac Aboab de Fonseca (1605-1693): pastored the first
Jews in the Americas on Feb 1; excommunicated Spinoza
on Feb 21
Edward Morgan (E.M) Forster: born Jan 1; “only
connected” on Jan 3 and, because you need two entities to make a connection, Sept
14 as well
Jean Bernard Léon Foucault: born Sept 18
George Fox: Nov 28
Terence Stanley Fox: started walking on April 12, but stopped on
Sept 1; the full story is told on his death-date, which is June 28.
Catherine Fradonnet: co-hosting a salon and co-writing poetry with her mother Madeleine Neveu, in the Ancien Régime section of "Woman-Blindness"
Marie de France (1160-1215), probably the first woman writer in the history of Europe, can be found, with the Trobairitz, on Jan 13
Herbert Ernst Karl Frahm (Willy Brandt): born Dec 18
Isabella of France: alluded to on Jan 20; mentioned on the English List; told in full on the Mediaeval page of "Woman-Blindness"
Annelies Marie (Anne) Frank: born and posthumously published on June
12; arrested Aug 4; see also Dec 23
Benjamin Franklin (aka Silence
Dogood, Polly Baker, and Richard Saunders): among the pseudonyms on Feb 8
Rosalind Elsie (“Rosie”) Franklin: mentioned on June 8;
Tenzinged on July 24
James George (J.G) Frazer: born Jan 1
Sigismund Schlomo (Sigmund)
Freud: his Jewishness on Feb 3; failed to invent
the Super-Id on May 3; born on May 6; deluded about Carl
Jung on July 26; referenced re Montaigne
on Feb 28 and Maimonides on March 30; mentions on Feb 21, April 1 and July 5.
Offspring Anna (the psychiatrist) and Lucien (the painter) can be found on Dec 3
SRose de Freycinet: circumnavigating the globe disguised as a man on May 7, and on the Napoleonic Era page of "Woman-Blindness"
Robert Lee Frost: quoted
on Feb 22; born March 26
Leonhart Fuchs: Oct 26
G
Gabriel (no other name is known): led a slave rebellion in Virginia
on Aug 30
Yuri Alexseyevich Gagarin: 1st man in space on April 12. Listed among the scientific achievements on Jan 1
Thomas Gainsborough:
born May 14
Galileo Galilei: 3
satelites of Jupiter on Jan 7; Hebdoed
on Jan 14; died on Jan 8; enhanced by Sanctorius
on Feb 22; numerous discoveries on March 29; William Gilbert on July 24; the
model for Foucault’s pendulum on Sept
18; disoutlawed on Sept 24; named it “aurora borealis” on Dec 11; outlawed on
Dec 14; mentioned on May 4 and Oct 13. Listed among the scientific achievements on Jan 1
Johann Gottfried Galle: discovered Neptune on Sept 23. Listed among the scientific achievements on Jan 1
John Galsworthy: born Aug 14
Mohandas
Karamchand (“Mahatma”) Gandhi: assassinated on Jan 30; did a Rosa Parks on June 7; born Oct 2; referenced on
May 2 and mentioned on Dec 4
Rajiv Gandhi: assassinated on May 21, mentioned on Dec 27
Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Gangnus (Yevtushenko was his mum’s name and presumably he took it
because Gangnus just doesn’t work for a poet): born July 18; mentioned re Mandelstam on Jan 8
Arthur Ira Garfunkel: born Oct 13
André-Jacques Garnerin: parachute jumping on Oct 22 (listed among the scientific achievements on Jan 1)
David
Garrick (de la Garrique originally,
but it was his gradparents who made the change when they came to England): born
Feb 19, part of the Fanny Burney
crowd on June 13; amongst the actors on Aug 8; in Pepys’
diary with his wife Eva on Oct 2
Marcus Mosiah Garvey: born Aug 17
Hilaire
Germain Edgar De Gas (Degas): another of Durand-Ruel’s great discoveries on Feb 5;
among the Pseudonyms on Feb 8; born July 19
José Ortega y Gasset: born May 9
William Henry (“Bill”) Gates: born Oct 28; unveiled
the Apple Computer on June 24. Listed among the scientific achievements on Jan 1
Richard Jordan Gatling: patented his gun on
Nov 4 (it’s also listed on Dec 5)
Eugène Henri Paul Gauguin: yet
another of Durand-Ruel’s
great discoveries on Feb 5; born June 7
Charles André Joseph
Pierre Marie de Gaulle: elelcted PM on June 1
Siddhartha Gautama (in Sanskrit; Siddhattha Gotama in Pali; aka the Buddha): born May 8; parallels with Baha'u'llah, the
prophet of the Baha'i Faith, on May 29; reached enlightenment on Dec 8
John Gay: “Beggar's Opera” on March 15
Johannes Wilhelm (“Hans”)
Geiger: born Sept
30
Robert Frederick Zenon (Bob)
Geldof:
born Oct 5
Bachir Pierre Gemayel (بشير بيار الجميّل): assassinated Sept 14; revenged Sept
16
Jean Genet: born Dec 19
David Lloyd George: died March 26
Stephen Demetri Georgiou (Yusuf Islam
today, but once upon a moonshadow we knew him, and sang along to all his songs,
and in my mind he will always be, Cat Stevens)
born July 21; in Bunjie’s on Oct 3
Tiberius Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus (Emperor Claudius): novelised by Robert Graves on Sept 4; poisoned by Livia on
Oct 13; played by Derek Jacobi on Oct
22; not to be confused with his successor Marcus
Aurelius Claudius "Gothicus" (Claudius
II) on Feb 14, nor with Hamlet’s King Claudius on Sept 2, nor with Claudius Ptolemy on Oct 1
Goyakhla,
or possibly Goyaałé (Geronimo): born June 16
Jacob
Gershvin (George Gershwin): born Sept 26
Wilhelm Richard Geyer (Wagner ): Tolkiened on Jan 3;
born on May 22; “Die Walküre” at the annual Wagner Festival at Bayreuth on July
22; studying with Weber on Nov 19; mentioned as somebody's influencer on Feb 9, June 9
and Aug 21; merely mentioned on Feb 11, Oct 27 and Nov 6
Edward
Gibbon: declined and fell, but only in print, on June 27
André Paul Guillaume Gide: with Oscar Wilde on April 5; subjected to Bachelardian analysis on Nov 22; paralleled with Roger Casement on Sept
1, and Victor Serge on Aug 20; living
in Le Corbusier’s Le Havre on Oct 6
William Gilbert (or sometimes Gilberd): rubbed pieces of cloth together on
July 24
John
Birks "Dizzy" Gillespie: born Oct 21
Irwin Alan Ginsberg: Howled into banishment
on Jan 8
Hippolyte
Jean Giraudoux: born Oct 29
George Robert Gissing: born Nov 22
William Ewart Gladstone: the Irish Question
on April 24; living at Chatham House on Dec 4
Jean-Luc Godard: born
Dec 3
Lady Godiva/Queen Guinevere: March 15
Mary
Wollstonecraft Godwin (Shelley): died on Feb 1, but
that page also tells the Geneva-Frankenstein story with PB and Byron and “Pollydolly”
(John Polidori); Kosher Frankenstein
on March 11; April 27 has mum, Mary
Wollstonecraft (Godwin); PB drowned on July 8; Mary was born on
August 30 1797, but that is only an Amber listing in my drafts folder and has
not yet gone live. Mentioned on Jan 22
Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol: became a dead soul
on March 4
Johann
Wolfgang von Goethe: born Aug 28
Vincent Willem Van Gogh: cut off his ear on Dec
23; mentioned on March 19; brother Theo can be found on Feb 5
Frank Owen Goldberg (Gehry): born Feb 28
William Gerald Golding: born Sept 19
Oliver Goldsmith: honoured by
Thackeray on Feb 8; “Vanity Fair” on Feb 28; docked on March 15; born Nov 10
Andrea
di Pietro della Gondola (Palladio): born Nov 30
Francisco Pizarro González: founded Lima on Jan 18
Benjamin David (Benny) Goodman: living up to his name in a major key on Jan
16; born on May 30
Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev: hired Kim Philby on Jan 23; ousted
on Aug 19 but resigned on Dec 21 - which seems to me a clash of histories
Nadine Gordimer: born Nov 20
Odetta Homes Felious Gordon: born Dec 31
Marie-Olympe de Gouges; originally Marie Gouze, guillotined on Nov 3 1793 for daring to authoress the “Declaration of the Rights of Woman and of the Female Citizen” (she is also on the Napoleonic Era page of "Woman-Blindness")
Eleanora Fagan Goughy (Billie
Holliday) her “Lady Day” on April
7
Glenn Herbert Gould: seated on a Toronto bench on Feb 23; born Sept 25
Emmeline Goulden (Pankhurst): born July 14; with Millicent
Fawcett on April 27
William Gilbert (W. G) Grace: passed his final test on June 1
Marie le Jars
de Gournay: Montaigne's "fille d'alliance" on Feb 28; a great thinker in her own write on the Ancien Régime page of "Woman-Blindness"
Françoise de Graffigny: discovered by Voltaire on Feb 11, developed by Emilie du Châtelet, until they fell out over Joan of Arc, on the Napoleonic Era page of "Woman-Blindness"
Hiram Ulysses (the middle-initial “S” was a clerical error when he entered
Congress) Grant: became a reformed anti-Semite
on Dec 17
Harley Granville-Barker: born Nov 25
Günter Wilhelm Grass: quoted on March 15; born Oct 16
Jean-François Gravelet (Charles
Blondin): taking a pedestrian
wander across the Niagara Falls on June 30
Robert von Ranke Graves: alongside J.G
Frazer on Jan 1, and Joseph Campbell
on March 26; born July 24, “Claudius” novels on Sept 4 and Oct 22. His
half-brother Philip Perceval Graves is on Aug 26
Anne Malet de Graville: translating her beloved Boccaccio on Dec 14
Thomas Gray: born Dec 26
Horace Greeley: stayed east on July 13
Henry Graham Greene: born Oct 2
Germaine Greer: born Jan 29; mentioned
on Jan 9 and July 11
Joseph Grimaldi: born Dec 18
Jacob Ludwig Karl Grimm, with younger brother Wilhelm Carl Grimm on Jan 4; Pied Piper on July 22
Elizabeth Griscom (Betsy Ross, Betsy Ashburn, Betsy Claypoole): born Jan 1, flying
on March 3
Sophie de Grouchy (“Citoyenne Condorcet”), bringing the two
ends of the French Revolution together on May 5
David Grün (David ben Gurion): born Oct 16, mentioned Feb 21
Tommaso dei Guardati (1410-1475), but remembered by his pen-name as
Masuccio Salernitano: the source of sources
for Shakespeare’s “Romeo &
Juliet” on Jan 30
Solomon Robert Guggenheim can be found in his FLW-designed warehouse on Oct 21, and again on
Dec 30. Simon (fully John Simon) and Benjamin (known as Ben) are also on Dec 30,
with Ben’s daughter Marguerite,
better known as Peggy, who is in
Bilbao with Frank Gehry on Feb 28. Further
mentions on Feb 5 and June 8
Pernette Du Guillet: died too young on July 17; her poems still alive on the Ancien Régime page of "Woman-Blindness"
Elizabeth Gurney (Fry): born May 21
Greta Lovisa Gustaffson
(Greta Garbo): born Sept 18
Woodrow Wilson ("Woody") Guthrie: born July 14; died
Oct 3; mentioned on March 15, May 24
H
Asaph Hall: discovered two moons of Mars on Aug 11. Listed among the scientific achievements on Jan 1
Peter Reginald Frederick Hall: diarising Mountbatten on Aug
27; reduced to simile on Sept 11; expanded to metaphor on Dec 3
Edmund Halley: cometed to fame on Nov, mentioned on his birthday, Jan 1
Frans Hals: in the Wallace Collection on April 16; died Aug 25
John Henry Hammond Jr: born Dec 15; his son is John P Hammond the
blues musician
Hammurabi-ili:
died on June 16; mentioned on Jan 3 and July 3
George Frideric Handel: with the now-forgotten Giovanni
Bononcini on March 15; Messiah premièred on March 23; mentioned on
Nov 19
William Christopher (W.C) Handy: born Nov 16; published
"Memphis Blues” on Sept 27
Joseph Aloysius Hansom: trade-named on May 26, June 17, July 12 and
Nov 3; born Oct 26
Thomas Hardy: born June 2; published "Far From the Madding
Crowd" on Nov 23
Robert Harrington: discovered Charon (Pluto's moon) with his
partner Jim Christy on June 22. Listed among the scientific achievements on Jan 1
Thomas Harriot: painting sunspots on March 29; mashed and
fried on July 28
Christopher Harris (known as
Christopher Fry): born Dec 18
George Harold Harrison: mentioned for Bangladesh on July 13; raising
actual money for it on Aug 1
Viktor Alexandrovitch Hartmann: exhibited musically on June 2
John Harvard: born on Nov 26 and mentioned on Nov 28, but it's the
college that gets the listings: Feb 9, April 9 and 18, Nov 17, and its key date
Oct 28
Anne Gray Harvey (Sexton): born Nov 9; at McLeans with Lowell and Plath
on Nov 17
William Henry Harvey: mentioned
on March 6 and March 29; rejected in favour of ibn
al-Nafis on Nov 14
Katharine Teresa Harwood (Gün): all charges dropped on Feb 23
Abū al-Qāsim Muḥammad
ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAbd
al-Muṭṭalib ibn Hāshim (Mohammed to you and me): mentioned on May 29; referenced on June 19; made
Hijrah on Sept 24
Nathaniel Hathorne (like William Falkner, he changed the
spelling; in his case to Hawthorne): “Scarlet Letter” published on March 16; born on
July 4; the book banned in 1852 (see under Dec 6)
Václav Havel: born Oct 5; sworn in on Dec 29
Franz Joseph Haydn: teaching Beethoven
on Nov 19 and Dec 12; obscurely mentioned on April 16
Patricia (Patty) Campbell Hearst: “captured” on Sept
18
Charlie Hebdo: Jan 14; also a mention on Jan 8
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel: born August 27
Johann Heinrich Heidegger: born July 1
Martin Heidegger: born
Sept 26
Jascha Heifetz: born Feb 2
Heinrich (Harry) Heine (later forced to rename himself Christian Johann
Heinrich Heine): burned
to a cinder on May 10 (see
also August 27 and December 6); born Dec 13
Lillian Florence Hellman: born but unfinished on June 20
Ernest Miller Hemingway: at loggerheads with Faulkner
on March 15; self-euthenased on July 2; volunteered for war on July 22 and Oct
6; banned on Dec 6; mentioned on Jan 1
Johnny Allen Hendrix,
or later James Marshall Hendrix, and
later still plain “Jimi” Hendrix: died Sept 18
Frederick William Herschel: discovered Uranus on March 31; born Nov 15. Listed among the scientific achievements on Jan 1
Mayer Hersh: a very
personal tale on Feb 12
Milton Snavely Hershey: born Sept 13; mentioned on Dec 2
Benjamin Ze’ev (Theodor) Herzl: born on May 2; 1st Zionist Congress on Aug
29;
mentioned on Jan 7; referenced on Feb 3 and July 14
Chaim Herzog: born Sept 17
Victor Hess: had issues with his electroscope on Nov 11 (but see my note to Robert Millikan re his entry on Jan 1)
Herman Karl Hesse: born July 2
Jack Aikman (John) Hetherington: arrested for wearing a top hat on Jan 15; mentioned
on May 26
Thor Heyerdahl:
born Oct 6
Edmund Percival Hillary: reached the summit of Mount Everest on May 29; Tenzinged on Jan 2 and July 24 (chronologically
these should be posted the other way around, but self-evidently Tenzing has to
be listed after Hillary, not before him)
Hillel the Elder: mentioned on May 16 and Sept 21; mine without nuts
please on Nov 3
Paul Hindemith: born Nov
16
Paul Ludwig Hans Anton von Beneckendorff und von Hindenburg: born Oct 2
Aurelius Augustinus Hipponensis (the earlier of the two Saints Augustine): quoted by Pelagius
on Jan 11; confessed on March 15; anti-Semitic on March 30 and July 14;
contrasted with Roger Bacon on Sept
13; born on Nov 13; his deathdate of Aug 28 differentiates him from St Augustine of Canterbury, the one who fired
up all those canons and gave his name to the Mini Minor; he can be found, Canter-buried,
on May 26. Saint Augustine is named as a town on Sept 8, though it is by no
means clear if Americans, even those who live there, know which of the two is
intended (according to the Smithsonian
magazine: “Legend says that Menendez first spotted land along today's Florida
coast on August 28, 1565. August 28 is also the feast day for the Catholic
patron saint of brewers, St. Augustine of Hippo. Upon reaching land several
days later, Menendez celebrated Mass and named the site after the saint.” And presumably enjoyed a good beer as well.
Kimitake Hiraoka (Yukio
Mishima): committed seppuku on Nov 25
Michinomiya Hirohito (Emperor Shōwa): enthroned on Nov 10
Thomas Hobbes: born April 5; mentioned on Oct 10
David Hockney:
born July 9 (but this is still in draft and unpublished)
Dustin Lee Hoffman: methodical
on Jan 17; even more so on Aug 8
William Hogarth: born Nov 10
Gustav Theodore Holst: born 21
Margaret Hookman (Margot Fonteyn);
born May 18
Daniel Hope: in
concert on April 1
Gerard Manley Hopkins: born July 28
Francis Hopkinson: born Oct 2
Edward Hopper:
born July 22
Vladimir Samoylovich Horowitz: born Oct 1
Alfred Edward (A.E) Housman: born March 26
Samuel (Sam) Houston: President of Texas on Oct 22
Elias Howe: died Oct
3
Julia Ward Howe: born May 27; alongside less well-known
but just-as-meritorious-of-remembering husband Samuel
Gridley Howe on Dec 2
Joseph Leopold Ford Hermann Madox Hueffer (Ford Madox Ford): born Dec 17
Edward James (Ted) Hughes: Aug 17
Victor-Marie Hugo: born Feb 26; Jean
Valjean on April 2; his “Les Miserables” letter on Oct 18; mentioned on Aug 10
Milton LaSalle Humason: born Aug 18
Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich Alexander von
Humboldt: born Sept 14
James Henry Leigh Hunt: born Oct 19
John Vincent Hurt: playing Quentin Crisp and Joseph Merrick on Jan
22
Aldous Leonard Huxley: born July 26; with his wife Maria at DHL’s
bedside on March 2; mentioned on May 2
Christiaan Huygens: born March 29; discovered Titan, the moon of
Saturn, on March 25, and observed Saturn’s rings on April 14. Listed among the scientific achievements on Jan 1
I
Henrik Johan Ibsen: at war with Strindberg on Jan 22; première of “Emperor and Galilean” on Dec 5; mentioned on Aug 4
Marie de l'Incarnation: listed on the Ancien Regime page of "Woman-Blindness", gave up trying to force-convert Canadian First Nations on Aug 1
Eugen (Eugène) Ionescu: born Nov 26, (not his Rhinoceros on Sept
13)
Charles Edward Ives: born Oct 20
Christopher William Bradshaw Isherwood: born Aug 26
Yosef ben Ha Levi Ha Ivri (Luis de Torres when
he accepted conversion): thought Cuba was in Asia, probably because his brain
was fuddled by smoking tobacco, on Feb 1 and Nov 2
Chief Sitting Bull, whose real name was Tatanka Iyotake: surrendered July 20; killed by his own
people Dec 15
J
Max Jacob (pen name Léon David Morven le
Gaëlique): the full
tale on Aug 19; dinner chez Matisse
on Dec 12
Simone Annie Liline Jacob (Veil):
died June 30
Derek George Jacobi: born Oct 22
Henry James: born April 15; became a Brit on July 16
Jesse Woodson James: became an outlaw on April 3
Alfred Jarry: born Sept 8
Camille Javal (Brigitte Bardot
): born Sept 28
Charles-Édouard
Jeanneret (“Le Corbusier”):
Oct 6
Robert Thomas Jenkins: had his ear cut off on April 9
Edward Jenner: born May
17
Henry Jermyn:
established the "West End" on Dec 4
Quaid-i-Azam Mohammed Ali Jinnah: born Dec 25
József (Joseph) Joachim: hired Ernő
Dohnányi
on July 27; presented with the “FAE Sonata” on Oct 27
Louis Jolliet:
born Sept 21
Regina Jonas: portrait
by Marlis Glaser on Jan 12; smichah on June 3 and Dec 27
Marguerite Ann Johnson (Maya
Angelou): born April 4
Samuel Johnson: dictionaried on April 15; born on Sept 18; mentioned
on June 13 and 16; quoted on Oct 2; James Boswell
on Oct 29
Edith Newbold Jones (Edith Wharton): born Jan 24
Ynyr (Inigo) Jones: born July 15
William Jones: “Common source” on Feb 15
Benjamin (Ben) Jonson: born June 11; in the hall of fame on Sept
23; fought in the Netherlands on Nov 5; mentioned on June 29
Janis Lyn Joplin: born
Jan 19; died Oct 4
Scott Joplin: born Nov 24
Sa’adiah ben Joseph, the Ga’on of Sura: died May 16
James Augustine Aloysius Joyce: born on Feb 2; Joseph Cambell on Joyce can be found on March 26, but even more so on
Feb 16; generally granted
on April 9; cited by Beckett on April
13; Bloomsday is on June 16, though “Ulysses” is
amongst the banned books on Dec 6; student Italo Svevo is on Dec 19,
critic Harold
Bloom on July 11; mentioned on April
24; Benjamin Bloom’s
taxonomy is on Sept 13, and there are several other Blooms, Bloomers and
Bloomsburys along the way.
Miguel de Unamuno y Jugo: born Sept 29
Carl Gustav Jung: acolyte of Schopenhauer
on Feb 22; studied by Joseph Campbell
on March 26; born July 26; mentioned on March 30
Jeanne de Jussie: whose "Short Chronicle" recounts the horrors of the Protestant Reformation in Geneva, died on November 7, listed among the Ancien Régime in "Woman-Blindness"
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Franz Kafka: turned into an ism on January 4; Robinson Crusoe on Feb
1; born July 3; processed on Aug 12; diaries quoted on Nov 30; died June 3; mentioned
April 1
Chiang Kai-Shek:
became Chinese President Sept 13; born Oct 31; fled to Formosa (Taiwan) Dec 7
Emanuel (Immanuel) Kant: "Das Ding an Sich" on Feb 22; Der Mann in sich on April 22
Nikos Kazantzakis: born Feb 18; referenced
Nov 18
Joseph Francis (“Buster”)
Keaton: born Oct 4;
mentioned on April 11
John Keats: died Feb 23; referenced on Jan 22; autumnal on Sept 19
Helen Adams Keller: April 5 gets her first word; graduated June
28; mentioned on Jan 4 and Dec 2. Anne Sullivan
is listed below
Thomas Michael Keneally: gets Schindler
completely wrong on June 24, July 27, Aug 23 and Sept 1; born Oct 7
Edward Moore (“Teddy”) Kennedy makes a watery appearance on July 19.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy approved
Affirmative Action on March 6; ordered the blockade of Cuba on Oct 22;
assassinated on Nov 22; invited Pablo Casals
to perform on Nov 13; mentioned on Jan 1 and Nov 17.
Robert
Francis Kennedy: shot on June 5 (Emilio Estevez's film about it is
on June 24). JFK is also mentioned on Feb 14, as is RFK on Oct 17, and what
kind of conspiracy theory is this on Aug 5?
Johannes Kepler: announced the 3rd law of planetary motion
on March 8; and a great many more discoveries on March 29; with William Gilbert
on July 24; completed the "Tabulae Rudolphinae” on Sept 2; born Dec 27. Listed among the scientific achievements on Jan 1
Aleksandr Fyodorovich Kerensky: led the Revolution on May 24 (? 🤷🏽♀️- wasn’t it February? oh, that calendar change
again!); his deposition plotted on June 16; proclaimed Russia a Republic on Sept 15;
overthrown on Nov 6 (also April 22); mentioned on Aug 26
Jean-Louis Lebris de Kerouac (“Jack” to his readers): died Oct 21
Ken Elton Kesey: born Sept 17
John Maynard Keynes: born June 5
Setsen (Kublai) Khan: born Sept 28
Victor Lvovich Kibalchich (Victor Serge, В.Л. Кибальчич): with Trotsky
in Mexico on Aug 20; referenced on Jan 15 and Nov 22
Søren Aabye Kierkegaard: quoted on Jan 14 (sadly, Pope Francis
granted himself a Nihil Obstat on the subject as well); employing pseudonyms on
Feb 8; born on May 5; compared with Schopenhauer
on April 22
Martin Luther King: born
Jan 15; assassinated on April 4 (mentioned on June 28); museumed on Aug 1; civil
rights rally in DC on Aug 28; mentioned on Aug 17
Mary Henrietta Kingsley: died June 3
Aram Ilyich Khachaturian: born June 6
Paul Klee: born Dec 18
Gideon Klein: performed on April 1
Joseph Rudyard Kipling: contrasted with P.L Dunbar on Feb 9; born Dec 30; mentioned on
April 18 and Sept 29
Alfred Abraham Knopf: born Sept 12; published
Leon Wieseltier's "Kaddish"
on Oct 28
Robert Heinrich Hermann Koch: discoverer of the
cause of anthrax, born Dec 11, listed among the scientific achievements on Jan 1
Robert Johann Koldewey: born Sept 10
Allen Stuart Konigsberg (Woody Allen): hired as a token
Jew on March 6; hired as a klutz on July 3; completely bananas on
his birthdate, Dec 1
Mikolaj
Kopernik (in Polish,
but generally rendered as Nicolaus Koppernigk, then Latinised as Nicolas Copernicus): born on Feb 19; a
full essay about him can be found on March 21; plus an illustration on March 29;
and a passing mention on Jan 2. Listed among the scientific achievements on Jan 1
Józef
Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski (Joseph Conrad in English, for which see Feb 8): born on Dec 3
Wilhelm Albert Włodzimierz
Apolinary Kostrowicki (Guillaume Apollinaire): “Zone” on March 11; chez Matisse
on Aug 19; born Aug 26
Artú Kösztler (Arthur Koestler): born Sept 5
Ursula Kroeber (Le Guin): born Oct 21
Johannes Paulus Kruger: born Oct 10
Stanley Kubrick: born July 26
Thomas Kyd: born Nov 6
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