L
Bilba Labingi (Bilbo Baggins is a Middle Aenglisch translation
from the original Hobbitish): returned to his home at Bag End "today"
in 1342 (Shire Reckoning), “today” being calculated on the blog as June 22 (J.R.R Tolkien
mentioned) [serious pipe-smokers scribes]
Claire-Rose Lacombe (Red Rose): leading Révolutionnaire
Républicaine on Aug 10; getting Lafayette ousted
on Sept 18 [political
ideologues, and listed on the Napoleonic Era
page of “Woman-Blindness”]
Jean-Baptiste
Pierre Antoine de Monet de Lamarck :
born Aug 1 [E,M&C2]
Alphonse Marie Louis de Prat de
Lamartine: born Oct 21 [political
ideologues]
Caroline Lamb: dishing the dirt on Byron on May 9 [lighter writers]
Charles
Lamb: born Feb 10;
sister Mary Lamb is on Dec
3;
both are mentioned on April 27 [lighter writers]
Giuseppe
Tomasi di Lampedusa: born Dec 23 [serious scribes]
Friedrich
Christian Anton (“Fritz”) Lang: born Dec 5 [the world as stage]
Kathryn
Dawn (k.d) Lang: born Nov 2 [musical
maestros]
Nancy Witcher Langhorne (Lady Astor): died May 2; won
a by-election on Nov 28; No 4 St
James' Square on Dec 4
Philip Arthur Larkin: born Aug 9 [The Poets]
Pierre Athanase Larousse: born Oct 23 [the
librarians of Babel]
William Lassell: discovered two
moons of Ouranos on Oct 24; listed among the scientific achievements on Jan 1 [E,M&C2]
Antoine Laurent Lavoisier: came out of the
test tube on Aug 26 [E,M&C2]; his wife Marie-Anne
Paulze Lavoisier (born January 20 1758; died February 10 1836) is at his side
till the very last on the same page
David Herbert (D.H.) Lawrence: born
Sept 11; Frieda
Emma Johanna Maria Von Richtofen’s account of his
death is on March 2; Katherine Mansfield on Jan 9;
“Art for my sake” on Feb 28; borrowing
from Frankenstein on March 11; “John Thomas and Lady
Jane” on March 15; “Pansies”
on June 19; “Plumed Serpent” on June 30; David Hockney on July 9;
essay on Galsworthy on Aug 14; Crowed
and Naipauled on Aug 17; HD on Sept 10; mentioned
on Oct 20; “The
Rainbow” banned on Nov 13; dead-heated
with Mary Ann Evans on Nov 22 [serious scribes and illustrious
illustrators]
Thomas Edward
Lawrence (of Arabia): died
May 19; filmed on June 24; an unlikely route to Aqaba on July 6; born Aug 15 [serious scribes]
Emma Lazarus: born July 22 [The Poets]
Louis Seymour Bazett Leakey: born Aug 7;
his wife, Mary Douglas Nicol, can be
found on the same date [historians]
Edward Lear: born May 12 [illustrious illustrators not Poets]
Timothy Francis Leary: born Oct 22 [philosophers]
"Reine Audu", born Louise-Renée
Leduc (date
of birth unknown, date of death sometime in 1793): leading The Women's March on
Versailles on Oct 5; mentions on March 18 and Aug 10 [responses to bullying]
Nelle Harper Lee: born April 28
(mention of Truman Capote whose Sept 30 page likewise mentions her); available
for banning on Dec 6 [serious
scribes]
Robert E Lee (born
January 1807; died October 12 1870): is he a GER? E for Edward on April 9; JB for John Brown on Dec 2 [apparently he was a good guy overall: "Robert E.
Lee is well known as a Confederate military general, but perhaps his greatest
contribution to the United States was his effort to reunite the country
following the American Civil War. In the opinions of his contemporaries and
historians, Lee played a crucial role in restoring peace following the war"]
Joseph Fernand Henri Léger: born Feb 4 [illustrious illustrators]
Thomas
Andrew (Tom) Lehrer: born April 9; singing to Alma Schindler on March
29 [musical
maestros and responses
to bullying]
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz: born July 1; uprooted by Voltaire on
May 30; optimistic about Pierre Bayle (and probably pessimistic about Voltaire but that isn’t on
the page) on Nov 18, but this needs to be understood in the context of
Nihilism v The Zero Positive, and why he is right about “optimism” (sadly,
given human nature and the 3rd-rateness of God if there even is one, ours
almost certainly is “the best of all possible worlds” - he wrote that in
“Théodicée”, in 1710); he also invented Calculus and Binary numbers, came up
with the first calculating machine that could add, subtract, multiply and
divide, and formulated the theory of monads, inter alia (here) [scientific achievements and E,M&C2]
John Winston Lennon: born Oct 9; can
you really imagine him like this on Nov 9?; mentioned on Oct 22 [musical maestros]
Juan Ponce de León: “discovered” Florida on April 2 [pre-Columban Americas]
Nicole-Reine Étable
de la Brière (but remembered by her married name as Nicole-Reine Lepaute; her husband was the royal clockmaker Jean-André Lepaute): predicting the future mathematically on April 1; and mentioned, I
think that must be five days later, geting somewhat eclipsed herself by being
just one on a much longer list, on April 6; (Ancien Régime page of "Woman-Blindness", and a listing, because Time is a function of Space,
on the page for E,M&C2)
Jeanne Julie Éléonore de Lespinasse: insisting that her head be
opened six hours after her death on May 23 [serious
scribes and the Ancien Régime page
of "Woman-Blindness"]
Graziadio Carlo Levi: stopped
forever in Eboli on Jan 4 [serious scribes]
Primo Michele Levi: quoted on Jan 11; could take no more on June 3; provided witness testimony on Aug 3 and Dec 28 [serious scribes]
Suzanne Lévy, the birthname of Suzanne
Buisson, une
Femme de la Résistance on Jan 26
John Lewis (of Richmond): Beat the Bounders
as well as the Bounds on May 16 [responses to
bullying]
Harry Sinclair Lewis: seeking God on Jan 1
[serious scribes]
Willard Frank Libby: emerged from the elements on Dec 17; reduced to carbon on Sept
8
[E,M&C2]
Roy Fox Lichtenstein: born Oct 27 [illustrious illustrators]
Abraham Lincoln: advised by Frederick
Douglass on Feb 9 and 14; see Peter Doyle on March
15 for an eye-witness account of his death, though the death itself
can be found on April 14; turned into
a military brigade on July 22, and
into a county on Nov 23; issued the
Emancipation Proclamation on Sept 22
(see also Dec 17), and the Gettysburg
Address on Nov 19; mentioned twice in
fact on Feb 14, the second time not terribly significant [political ideologues and
responses to bullying]
Charles Augustus Lindbergh: born Feb
4
Lorenzo
Lippi, or sometimes Perlone
Zipoli [pseudonyms]: born May 5, on which day you will also find Fra Lippo Lippi [illustrious illustrators]
Jonas Ferdinand Gabriel Lippman: gave Daguerre colour on Aug
16 [illustrious illustrators]
Ferenc (Franz) Liszt: born Oct 22; central to the life and work of Erno Dohnányi on July
27; lover of Marie
d'Agoult and father of Cosima Wagner on Dec 24; buy my Wagner
novel here [musical maestros]
Malcolm Little (Malcolm X,
el-Hajj Malik el-Shabazz): born on May 19; destroyed
by J. Edgar Hoover on Aug 17; suspended by Black Muslim leader Elijah Muhammad on Dec 4 [responses
to bullying]
Ivo Livi (Yves Montand): born Oct 13 [the world as stage]
David Livingstone: met Henry
Morton Stanley on Nov 10;
also mentioned on Sept 29
Jorge Mario Pedro Vargas Llosa: at loggerheads with Gabo on March
15; quoted on Sept 1 [serious scribes]
John Locke: “the father of liberalism”, born Aug 29 1632 (died 28 October 1704) and
mentioned on Jan 18, but
unfortunately both of those entries are tabula rasa; critiqued by Mary
Astell on Nov 12 [political ideologues]
Alan Lomax: born
Jan 15; mentioned
on March
15 [musical maestros]
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: translating
Dante on March
7; "The Howe Tavern", as it should be called, not The
Wayside Inn, on March
15; Paul Revere on April 18 [The Poets]
Roderigo Lopes: The man
himself can be found hanging from his gallows, despite the queen’s insistence
that he was her most loyal and beloved servant, with proof of it on her
ring-finger, on March 15;
as Kit Marlowe’s “Lopus the Jew” on
the same date; with Vesalius on June 1; on June 29 in friendships with Shakespeare and Ben
Jonson; and much more on that Shakespeare
relationship on Sept 2.
Antoinette de Louppes, his cousin, and the mother of Shakespeare’s beloved Michel de Montaigne, gets a mention on Feb 28. Wife Sarah gets a mention on March
15
I have a product placement deal with my
publisher The Argaman Press, so you can expect to find my book “The Plausible Tragedie of Roderigo Lopes” at any available opportunity, all of them of
course entirely legitimate and valid. March 11 (John Dee,
who ran the international intelligence network for which both Roderigo and his brother Luis were senior operatives);
July 19 (Lady Jane Grey, whose brother-in-law the Earl of Leicester hired
Roderigo as his house physician); July 24 (William
Gilbert is quoted in the novel in relation to science and medicine);
Sept 30 (Oliver Cromwell, who
brought the Jews back to England officially, even though scores of them were
already there, and hugely significant to the Tudors), Oct 29 (Walter
Raleigh, like Roderigo, was
one of the many victims of the vile Earl of
Essex).
Federico del Sagrado Corazón de
Jesús García Lorca: born June 5 [the world as
stage]
Alfred Charles Bernard Lovell: born Aug 31 [E,M&C2]
Amy Lawrence Lowell: born Feb 9 [The Poets]
Robert Traill Spence Lowell: draft-dodging on Oct 13;
tutoring Anne Sexton on Nov 9; sharing a slot at McLean’s with her and
Sylvia Plath on Nov 17; mentioned on Feb 9; mentioned ironically on Dec 6 [The Poets]
Clarence Malcolm Boden Lowry: erupted into life on July 28; mentioned on Sept 17 and Dec
13
[serious scribes]
Solomon Abramovich (Alexander among the Russians) Lozovsky: born
March 16 1878; not one of the poets, but murdered anyway, on Stalin’s personal orders, on Aug 12 – for the full account go to my
WordPress blog; his bio here
Andrea d'Agnolo di Francesco di
Luca (known as “del Sarto”, or “tailor’s
son”): born July 14; mentioned on June 24 [illustrious
illustrators]
Ned Ludd: on strike on Dec 20; mentioned on May 16 [political ideologues]; also named as Edward
Ludnam on Dec 20
Giovanni Battista Lulli (Jean
Baptiste Lully): born Nov 28 [musical maestros]
Sidney Arthur Lumet: born June 25 [the world as stage]
Isaac ben
Solomon Ashkenazi (Isaac Luria, ha-Ari): died
Aug 5 [counted among the reverend writers, even though he left
none of his own behind at his death]
Martin Luther: nailed his 95 Theses on Oct 31; excommunicated for them on Jan 3; mentioned on Jan 1, May 4 and Dec 16 [reverend writers]
M
Yo-Yo Ma (or really, in Chinese, the other way around, Ma Yo-Yo): born Oct
7 [musical maestros]
Goldie
Mabovitch (Goldie Myerson, Golda Meir): born May 3; Yom Kippur war on Nov
3 [political ideologues]
Thomas Babington Macaulay: born Oct 25 [historians] see his distant relative and history-of-England
precursor Catharine Macaulay on July 23
Niccolò di
Bernardo dei Machiavelli: born May
3; interesting mention on Aug 26 [political ideologues]
Carlos Fuentes Macías: born Nov 11 [serious scribes]
James Louis Macie (that’s James Smithson of the Smithsonian Institute; or probably Jacques-Louis Macie on his French birth certificate): the Institute established on Aug 10, mentioned on Feb 9 and March 3; why he
changed his name here
[illustrious
illustrators]
Charles Rennie Mackintosh: put on his raincoat on June 17; mentioned
on May 26 [bloomers]
Rowland Hussey Macy: finally worked out how to run a business on
Dec 23
Gnaeus Pompeius (Pompey):
born Sept 29
Claudio Magris: sailing the Danube on April
10 [serious scribes]
Gustav
Mahler: his Jewishness on Feb 3 and April
1; with Alban Berg on Feb 9, Bruckner
on Feb 11, Spinoza on Feb 21,
Schönberg
on Feb 24, Nielsen on June 9;
married Alma Schindler on March 29; principal conductor on July 7 (his birthday); played too fast by Bernstein on Aug
25
[musical
maestros]
Mahpiua-Luta (Red Cloud) chief of the Oglala Sioux: with Sitting Bull on July
20; his wounded knee banned on Dec 6;
died Dec 10 [pre-Columban
Americas]
Moshe ben Maimon (Maimonides, the Rambam): influenced Spinoza
on Feb 21; born March
30; in Jerusalem
on Oct 12; discussing
hygiene on Nov 14;
referenced on Oct 10 [reverend writers]
Cywka Małchin (Peter Zvi Malkin): kidnapped Ricardo Klement on May
11 [responses to bullying]
Anne Malet de Graville (circa 1490-circa1540): steadfast
in her steadfastness on Dec 14 [the Ancien
Régime page of Woman-Blindness, and
among the Poets]
Louis Marie Malle: born Oct 30 [the world as stage]
Georges André Malraux: born Nov 3; his
involvement as Minister of Culture with Christiane Desroches-Noblecourt over Aswan on Oct 21
Italo Giovanni Calvino Mameli: born Oct 15 [serious scribes]
Les Soeurs Mancini: Anna Maria (“Marie”) Mancini, Princesse de
Colonna and
Hortense Mancini, Duchesse de Mazarin (1646-1699); with uncle Mazarin
on March 9; writing
up the Grand Tour d'Europe on June
22 (Ancien Régime page of Woman-Blindness
and among the serious scribes); turned into a book by Mary Astell on Nov 12
Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela
(Prisoner 46664): unlisted, but freed at 4:14 local time
on Feb 10 1990; left Robben Island on
Feb 11 (see also Oct 10); “Invictus” on June 24; arrested on Aug 4; role-modelling on June 16,
June 28 and Aug 23 [Africa list and responses to bullying] The Nobel Peace
Prize that he shared with De Klerk is under
1994 on the Africa page, as is
his becoming President on May 10 1994
Osip Emilyevich Mandelstam: banished
on Jan 8; saved by Pasternak on Feb 10
(see also Oct 23); read by Yevtushenko
on July 18; shared a lover with Modigliani on July
12 (not at the same time,
silly); gets
a mention on Aug 12, but is absent on Aug 20 [The Poets]
Édouard Manet 1832-1883: born Jan 23; yet
one more for Durand-Ruel on Feb 5; painting Jeanne
Duval on April 9 [illustrious illustrators]
Alberto Adrián Manguel: a tale of Cervantes on June
27 [serious
scribes]
Paul Thomas Mann: born June 6 [serious scribes]
Robert Michael Mapplethorpe: born Nov
4 [illustrious illustrators]
Avraham (Abraham) Mapu: born Jan 11 [serious scribes]
Italo Pietro Marchioni (with an "i"
please, not a "y"): first ate ice cream from a cone on Dec 15
Gugliemo Giovanni Maria Marconi: on air as of July 13 [E,M&C2]
Marguerite de Navarre, though you may find her encyclopaediaed as Marguerite of Angoulême, or even
Marguerite of
Valois-Angoulême; and sobriqueted as: "The Mother of the
Renaissance": the bridge
between the Mediaeval age and the Ancien Régime on April 11; also mentioned on April 27 and with Anne Malet de Graville on Dec 14 [Poets and the Mediaeval
page of Woman-Blindness]
Marguerite de Valois: (born May 14
1553; died March 27 1615), "La
Reine Margot", the first full-length memoir by a woman in
French on May 14,
the Ancien
Régime page of Woman-Blindness, and among the serious
scribes
Marie de France (Dame Marie)
lived somewhere between 1160 and 1215: not actually a Trobairitz,
but their inspiration and a wonderful poet and translator, in multiple
languages, probably the first woman writer in the history of Europe, on Jan 13 [Trobairitz and The Poets]
Marie de
l'Incarnation (born October 28 1599; died April 30 1672):
educating the French settlers in Canada on Aug 1
and among the reverend writers, as well as
the Ancien Régime page of Woman-Blindness
Peretz Davidovich Markish: murdered on Stalin’s orders on Aug 12 – for the full account go to my
WordPress blog [serious scribes, where son David can also be found]
Robert Nesta (Bob) Marley: died May 11; mentioned on Oct 22 [musical maestros and responses to bullying]
Christopher (“Kit”) Marlowe: translated
Ovid on Jan 8
and wrote “Hero and Leander” on May 3
(though only on the MM page); why is he
here and not on the GER page, vile
anti-Semite that he was? for which see March 15; stabbed to death on May 30;
was he a spy or an informer on Nov 5;
mentioned Jan 5
and Sept 23 [the world as stage]
Publius Vergilius Maro (Vergil
or Virgil): his “Georgics”
translated by Voß on Feb 8; Feb 28 debates his spelling; born Oct 15; mentioned on March 30 and
Aug 25
[The Poets]
Gabriel José de la Concordia Garcia
Marquez (“Gabo”): at
loggerheads with Maria Vargas Llosa
on March
15 [serious scribes]
Wynton Learson Marsalis: born Oct 18 [musical maestros]
Julius Henry (“Groucho”) Marx: born Oct 2 [the world as stage]
Karl Heinrich
Marx: born on May 5; his
Jewishness mentioned on Feb 3 and
July 5; "The Communist
Manifesto" on Feb 26; deploying Demetrieff on March
18; Marx and
Engels appear together on April 5 and
Nov 6; Marxism on June 28 and
Aug 20;
the goal of Marxism on Dec 20 [political ideologues and responses to bullying];
Henri Émile Benoît Matisse: chez Gertrude
Stein on Feb 3; that Cubist dinner party on Aug
19 and Dec 12; born Dec 31 [illustrious
illustrators]
Matityahu Bar Galil (Matthew
the Apostle): not his correct
name, but probably as near as we are likely to get, if he even existed: his
name-day is on Sept 21 [reverend writers] and the page also includes Mark, Jesus, Moses, Elijah, Oannes/John the
Baptist, Mary Magdalene, Lazarus (see Dec 17), Martha, Mother Mary, Tammuz,
Adonis, Peter, James and John, none of whom have listings elsewhere in these
indexes.
Amonute Matoaka (“Pocahontas” means “playful”):
married John
Rolfe on April 5 [pre-Columban Americas]
William Somerset Maugham: born Jan 25; taken
swiftly to Margate on Dec
29
[serious scribes]
Henri René Albert Guy de
Maupassant: born Aug 5 [serious
scribes]
François
Charles Mauriac: born Oct 11 [serious
scribes]
Daphne
Du Maurier: born May 13 [lighter
writers]
Vladimir Vladimirovich Mayakovsky: born on July 19;
mentioned on July 18 [The Poets]
Yacov Moshe Maza (Jackie Mason): born June 9 [the world as stage]
Giulio Raimondo Mazzarini, but known in France as Cardinal Jules Mazarin (born July 14 1602;
died March 9 1661): bringing some quite extraordinary women to prominence on March 9 [ancien régime
page of Woman-Blindness]
Josephine Bernadette McAliskey
(Devlin); MP for mid-Ulster: born April 23 [Éireland]
William Henry McCarty Jr (Billy the Kid, or sometimes Henry Antrim, at others William H. Bonney): his
death in Fort Sumner, New Mexico, on July 14;
his tale on Nov 23
Donald McCarthy Jr: led the team of astronomers that found Arthur Dent
hitch-hiking in star system 42 on Dec 10; listed among the scientific achievements on Jan 1 [E,M&C2 ]
Rosa Louise McCauley (Parks): born on Feb 4; stays seated on Dec 1, and her story plays a prominent role on
Feb 6; role-modelling on May 16 (John
Lewis), June 7 (Gandhi), July
12 and Aug 23 [responses to bullying]
Donald (Don) McLean: played
Black Jack on March
15; born Oct 2; the pie was baked on Dec 16 [musical maestros]
Herbert Marshall McLuhan: born July 21 [the librarians of Babel]
Margaret Mead: born Dec 16 [historians]
Mechthild of Magdeburg (probably 1207-1282): flowing light from the
godhead on Feb 24 [beguines]
Fernäo
de Megalhäes (in Portuguese), Fernando de Magallanes (in Spanish), Ferdinand Magellan (in English): dead before
it happened on Sept 8; gets the
credit anyway on Sept 20; still
entitled to it on Nov 28 [pre-Columban
Americas]
Zubin Mehta: born April 29
[musical maestros]
Adèle Paulina Mekarska, though she went by the nom de
révolution of Paule Mink, or sometimes Minck: leading the Paris Commune on March 18
Melesigenes of Smyrna (Hómēros in
Greek, Homer in
English): why
the name on Feb 8; fully clothed on March
13;
major part on June 11 and Aug 15; mentions on April 9, June 16, June 24 and Nov 3 [The Poets]
Herman Melvill(e) (the “e” was added by
his father when Herman was about nineteen):
born Aug 1; published Nov 14; sources of “Moby-Dick” and “Billy Budd”
on Nov 20; banned Dec 6; referenced on Oct 26 and Nov
22 [serious scribes]
Moses ben Menachem (Moses Mendelssohn): died Jan 4
1786 [reverend writers]
Henry Louis Mencken: born Sept 12, quoted on Sept
13 [philosophers]
Gregor Johann Mendel: born July 22 [E,M&C2]
Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleyev: born Feb 7 [E,M&C2]
Josephine Esther Mentzer (Estée
Lauder): born July 1
Yehudi Menuhin: born April 22 [musical maestros]
Prosper-Marie Mérimée: July 1 with George Sand; born Sept
28 [serious scribes and on the
Pseudonyms page]
Hildegard Merxheim-Nahet
(Hildegard von Bingen): mentioned with, though not herself one of the Beguines, on Feb 24; reduced to sainthood
on May 10; her abbey rededicated Sept 17 [musical maestros and reverend writers, and see the Mediaeval page of Woman-Blindness]
Friedrich (Franz) Anton Mesmer: born May 23 [E,M&C2]
Louise Michel: anarchism, socialism and feminism on March 18
Shlomo Mikhoels: murdered on Stalin’s orders on Aug
12 – for the full account go to my WordPress blog
John Stuart Mill: born May 20 [political
ideologues]
Alton Glenn Miller: went awol on Dec 15
[musical maestros]
Arthur Asher Miller: the source of “The
Crucible” on Feb 29 and July 19; born Oct
17; mentioned on July 18 and
Sept 23; alluded to on Jan 1 [the world as stage and responses to bullying]
Henry Valentine Miller: born Dec 26 [serious
scribes]
Robert Andrews Millikan: gave a name to
Cosmic Rays on Nov 11; but see Victor Hess, who got the Nobel for discovering them;
listed among the scientific achievements on Jan 1
[E,M&C2]
John Milton: born Dec 9;
his blindness referenced on May 22 [The Poets]
Charlie
(Charles) Mingus: great
photo with Joni Mitchell on his
death-date, Jan 5; born
on April
22; made Hejira on Sept 24 [musical maestros]
Joan Miró i Ferrà: born April 20 [illustrious illustrators]
Margaret
Munnerlyn Mitchell (born November 8 1900; died August 16 1949): amongst the banned books on Dec
6
[lighter writers]
August Ferdinand Möbius: born Nov 17;
turned into cartoons on Sept 26 [E,M&C2]
Amedeo Clemente Modigliani: born July 12; painting
Max Jacob on Aug 19 [illustrious
illustrators]
Oscar-Claude Monet: born Nov 14; discovered by Durand-Ruel
on Feb 5; mentioned on Oct 6 [illustrious illustrators]
Thelonious Sphere Monk: born Oct 10 [musical maestros]
Harriet Monroe: born Dec 23 [serious scribes]
James Monroe: proclaimed his doctrine on Dec
2; invited Gilbert
Lafayette to
tour America on Sept 18, though it was his wife Elizabeth who saved Adrienne
Lafayette from
the guillotine [same date] [political ideologues]
John Montagu: gets
sandwiched in between Nov 2 and Nov 4, but also confused with Hawaii on Jan 18;
grandfather-in-law
of blue-stocking Elizabeth Montagu on Oct 2
François de Montcorbier, or sometimes François
des Loges; François Villon only
in his poetry: my
stolen version of his tale on Jan 5; set to
music by Gideon Klein on April 1
Georgette de Montenay (1540–1581):
creating emblematic art on Feb 28 and the Ancien Régime page of Woman-Blindness [illustrious illustrators]
Maria Tecla Artemisia Montessori: born
Aug 31 [educators]
Montezuma (which
probably should be Motecuhzoma
II Xocoyotzin): killed on June 30 [pre-Columban
Americas]
David Schultz (Davey) Moore: born March
26; “Cock
Robin” on Feb 6; allegorised on March 15
George Edward (G.E; he hated both names and never used them) Moore (Bill to his wife): born Nov 4 [philosophers]
Henry Spencer Moore: at
the AGO on Feb 28; born
July 30 [illustrious illustrators]
Hélène Victoria Mordkovitch, or Hélène Viannay when
she married: one of the Femmes de la Resistance on Jan
26
Hannah More of Fishponds: Oct 2, one of the original Blue Stockings on July 23 (Woman-Blindness,
and with the serious scribes)
Thomas More: imprisoned on April 17 and Oct 25; beheaded on July 6; mentioned on Jan 3 and May 4 [reverend writers]
Camille de Morel (1547-1611) poetesse invisible, on the Internet anyway; visible
on this blog on Sept 18 [the Ancien Régime page of Woman-Blindness, and among the Poets]
James Humphry (Catharine Jan when she
transgendered) Morris: born Oct 2 [serious
scribes]
William Morris (the
artist; the car manufacturer is listed as Lord
Nuffield]: born March 23 [illustrious
illustrators]
James Douglas (Jim) Morrison: died
on July 3. Not
to be confused with George Ivan (Van) Morrison, who can be found on Aug 31 [musical maestros]
Norma Jean Mortenson/Baker/Miller (Marilyn Monroe): found dead on Aug 5; photographed by Alfred Eisenstaedt on Dec 6 [the world as stage]
Anna Mary Robertson Moses
("Grandma" Moses): died Dec 13 [illustrious illustrators]
Phoebe Ann Moses (Annie Oakley): shot down by disease on Nov
2
Marie-Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de La Fayette: born Sept 6; spelled as a single word on Nov 23 - with his wife Adrienne de Noailles on Sept 18 (she is on the Napoleonic Era page of Woman-Blindness); head of the Parisian National Guard, but objected to most vehemently by Claire Lacombe on Aug 10
But not to be confused with Marie-Madeleine Pioche de la Vergne, who was also a Comtesse de la
Fayette, and
wrote what is regarded as the first French, indeed possibly the first European
novel, "La Princesse de Clèves" in 1878; her dates are 1634-1693 and
she gets a mention on Aug
25
Jean Pierre Moulin: in the Picasso-Max Jacob meet-up
group on Aug 19 [illustrious illustrators]; founding the Unified Movements of the Resistance on Jan
26 [responses to bullying]
Elizabeth Moulton-Barrett: born March 6; with Virginia
Woolf on March 28, Anna
Brownell Jameson on
May 17, and Lily
Gaskell on Sept 29; married to Robert Browning on March 6
and Sept 12; mentioned on July 1 [The Poets]
Marjorie
(Mo) Mowlam: still magnificent
on April 24 [Éireland]
Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart ("Amadeus" is a Latin translation of Theophilus and was not his name, but simply Mozart amusing himself): his "Adagio" performed by Gideon Klein on April 1; his G major piano concerto, K. 453, played by Ernő Dohnányi on July 27; died in poverty on Dec 5; mentioned on Feb 25, March 19 and April 16 [musical maestros]
His sister Nannerl
(Maria Anna Walburga Ignatia Mozart) can
be given birthday presents on July 30 and is also mentioned re Mary
Astell on Nov 12 [musical maestros]
Kamau wa Muiga (Mzee Jomo Kenyatta): President of independent Kenya on June 1 (Independence on Dec 12 and see the Africa list); with George
Padmore on June 28; “Mzee” is apparently a Swahili term of respect and affection
meaning "the old man" and it is now applied by most of his admirers
(click here for example)
Edvard Munch: born Dec 12 [illustrious illustrators]
Hector Hugh Munro (Saki): born Dec 18 [lighter writers]
Jean Iris Murdoch: born July 15 [serious scribes]
Anna Brownell Murphy, but remembered by her married name, which
was Jameson: born May 17;
with Lily Gaskell
on Sept 29
Egbert (Ed) Roscoe Murrow: born on April
25
Robert Mathias Edler von Musil: born entirely without qualities on Nov 6 [serious scribes]
Alfred Louis
Charles de Musset-Pathay: born Dec 11; died
May 2; playing love-poems with George Sand on July
1 [the world as stage]
Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky: arrogantly scored the “pictures at an exhibition” by Viktor Alexandrovitch Hartmann on June 2 [musical maestros]
Abel Tendekayi Muzorewa: formed Zimbabwe-Rhodesia’s first and only government
on June 1 [Africa]
N
Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov: poshlost on March 4; born April 22;
with Roman Polański and Lolita on Aug 18 [serious scribes]
Vidiadhar Surajprasad (V.S)
Naipaul: born Aug 17 [serious
scribes]
James Naismith: bouncing balls on born Nov 6
Edson Arantes do Nascimento
(Pele): the 17 year-old Brazilian soccer star who led Brazil to its first World Cup
title, in Stockholm, in 1958; born Oct 23
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid): banned on Jan 8
[The Poets]
Thomas Nast: born
Sept 27 [illustrious illustrators and responses to bullying]
Beatrijs van Nazareth in the Dutch Hochland, but Beatrice
van Tienen in the Flemish Flanderland (1200-1268):
suggesting seven manners of love on Fev 24 [the
reverend writers and the Beguines]
Indira Priyadarshini Nehru
(Indira Gandhi): became PM on Jan 18; assassinated on Oct 31; also
mentioned on Jan 30, Feb 29 and Dec 27
Jawaharlal Nehru: born Nov 14
Horatio Nelson: born Sept 29, run over in Trafalgar Square on Oct 21, and again on March
31, but still
enstatued there on Feb 3; mentioned
on Aug 10
Benjamin (“Bibi”) Netanyahu: speaking to Congress on March 3; the Entebbe raid in which brother Yonatan
died is on July 3
Madeleine Neveu (born circa 1520; died 1587);
and Catherine
Fradonnet (born 1542; died 1587): a mother and daughter team known as "Mes Dames Des Roches" on Nov 17 (Ancien Régime page of Woman-Blindness, and among the serious scribes)
Isaac Newton: “Principia Mathematica” quoted on May 11, published on July 6, born on Dec
25, but you will need to verify all of thse those dates for
yourself;
his home now a library on Sept 27 [E,M&C2]
Zhong Ni (his birthname, but he was given the title Kǒng Fūzǐ - 孔夫子, "Master Kong" - which is alternately phoneticised as Kon Fu Se, and then
Latinised as Confucius): either Aug 27 or Sept
28 for his birthdate; mentioned on Jan
3 [philosophers and the China page
but I have also listed him among the purple cloaks,
because some insist that, like Buddhism, Confucianism may be a philosophy now,
but its roots were a religion - and actually the same could be said for
Talmudic Judaism]. His website here
Imran Ahmad Khan Niazi: everything that's gone wrong since Pakistan
was created, told in the life of one man, on Dec
27
Eugénie Mouchon-Niboyet (born September 10 1796; died January 6, 1883): editing “The Women’s Voice”
on March 19 [serious scribes and Woman-Blindness]
Carl August Nielsen: born June 9 [musical maestros]
Joseph Nicéphore Niépce: ”Tenzinged” Daguerre on Jan 2 [illustrious
illustrators]
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche: born Oct 15; “Human,
All Too Human” on Jan 11; key
to Kazantzakis on Feb 18; inhuman all too inhuman (the
"Ubermensch") on Feb 21; mentioned re Spinoza
on Feb 22 and Oct 10; Nihilism
on May 11; Shaw’s “Man and Superman” on May 30; Menckened on Sept 13; Sarah Kofman on Sept 14; cartooned
on Sept 29; Wagnered on Oct 27; Pessoa
on Nov 30; confirmed dead by
representatives of God on Aug 25; [philosophers]; sister Elisabeth and her husband Bernhard Förster are
in the planh on his death on Aug 25
Florence Nightingale: born
in the town whose name she bears on May 12
Alfred Bernhard Nobel: born Oct 21
Namgyal
Wangdi (Sherpa Tenzing Norkay): and of course he shouldn't be on this
list at all, but only among the Merely Mentioneds... the first man to the summit of Mount Everest
on May 29; which generates the concept of “Tenzings”: I have created a special list for him,
which you can find on the home-page, a mention on Jan 2, and an explanation on July 24
Jessye Mae Norman: born Sept 15 [musical maestros]
Michel de Nostre-Dam
(Nostradamus): Napolloron on Feb
3; failed to predict the date of his own death on July 2
Grigory Yefimovich Novykh (“Rasputin”,
his nickname, means “debauched one”, though see also Haile Selassie on
the non-British purpole cloaks page, because
that first syllable takes on a whole new meaning when placed against the second
and third syllables here): finally succumbed on Dec 29
Malcolm Ivan Meredith Nurse
(George Padmore): born June 28,
mentioned on Aug 17 [political ideologues and responses
to bullying]
O
Lawrence Edward Grace ("Titus") Oates: with Shackleton
on Jan 5, and part of the Scott
expedition on Jan 15, though he isn’t actually mentioned on that latter;
went outside on March
17; also
mentioned on Dec 14 (the Amundsen
expedition)
Barack Hussein Obama: had no idea PM Netanyahu
was speaking to Congress on March 3;
should have given back his Peace Prize on June
29 (and see Nov 10 and pre-Columban Americas); announced plans to introduce a "Dream
Act" on Oct 3 (my tribute-song
"yes we can, but no we won't" can be found at my Songs&Poems
blog: click here
- though if you've understood the title you won't be surprised that the website
doesn't open!);
elected President on Nov 4
Josephine Edna O'Brien: born Dec 15 [serious scribes]
Clifford Odets: born July 18, mentioned on Jan 1 [the world
as stage]
Francis
Russell (Frank) O'Hara: not to be confused
with John Henry O'Hara on Jan 31; born March
27 [The Poets]
John
Henry O’Hara: born Jan 31 [serious scribes]
Georgia Totto O'Keeffe: born Nov 15
[illustrious illustrators]
Michael Gordon (Mike) Oldfield: born
May 15; mentioned
on June 20 [musical maestros]
Laurence Kerr Olivier: born May 22;
mentioned on Aug 8 [the world as stage]
Eugene Gladstone O'Neill: born Oct
16; mentioned on Jan 1 and
July 18; his play “The Emperor
Jones”, with Paul Robeson in the
title role, can be found under 1924 on the Africa
page but needs to be on Robeson's
birthdate April 9 as well [the world as stage]
Julius Robert Oppenheimer: born April 22
José Ortega y Gasset:
born May 9 [philosophers]
John Kingsley (Joe) Orton: born Jan 1 [the world as stage]
John James Osborne: born Dec 12
[the world as stage]
Ephraim Oshry: “The Annihilation of Lithuanian Jewry” on Oct 28 [reverend writers and responses to bullying]
Lee Harvey Oswald: born Oct 18;
shot by Jack Ruby
on Nov 24
Francis DeSales Ouimet: born May 7; his caddy Eddie Lowery is “Tenzinged”
on July 24
Wilfred Edward Salter Owen: mentioned on Aug 3
and Sept 8; quoted on Dec 1; joined the doomed of
all ages on Nov 4 [The Poets]
James Cleveland ("Jesse")
Owens: born Sept 12
Isaak Yudovick Ozimov (Isaac Asimov): born
Jan 2 [serious scribes]
P
Ignacy Jan Paderewski: born Nov 6 [musical maestros]
Niccolò Paganini: born Oct 27 [musical maestros]
Anne-Marie
Fiquet Le Page (though remembered by her married-name as Madame du Boccage): role-modelling Mme Verdurin on Oct
5; but among The Poets herself,
and on the Ancien
Régime page of "Woman-Blindness"
Marie Josèphe Rose Tascher de la Pagerie
(Joséphine de Beauharnais, Empress Joséphine): divorced
by Napoléon on Dec 16
Thomas Pain (he
added the "e"): born Jan 29; another of Joseph
Johnson's circle of radical thinkers on April 27; with Sophie de Grouchy on May 5; slightly
satirised on May 9 [political ideologues and
responses to bullying]
Benjamin Morgan Palmer: with his artificial leg on Nov
4 [E,M&C2]
Antonio Genesio Maria Panizzi (Anthony
Panizzi): born on Sept 16 [historians]
Héloïse du Paraclet: the polymath abbess of Argenteuil,
but first tutored in love by Pierre
Abélard, on May 15 [among the Mediaevals
in Woman-Blindness]
Charles (Charlie) Christopher Jr (nicknamed
“Bird” or sometimes “Ladybird”)
Parker:
born Aug 29 1920; died March 12, 1955): cited by Joni on Jan 5; contrasted with an Amazone on March 19 [musical
maestros]
Charles Stewart Parnell: founder of the
Irish Parliamentary Party on April 24;
married Katharine O'Shea
on June 25 [Éireland]
Blaise Pascal: born June 19; quoted on Jan 26 [reverend writers]
Ali Rıza oğlu Mustafa (on
his birth certificate; he acquired different titles as he progressed from Field
Marshall to President, becoming Mustafa Kemal
Pasha, then Ghazi Mustafa Kemal,
and finally Kemal Mustafa Atatürk,
the latter meaning “father of Turks”, and given him by the Parliament in 1934):
founder of the Turkish Republic on Oct 29; died Nov 10 [political
ideologues]
John Roderigo Dos Passos: born
on Jan 14; he also gets passing mentions on Jan 1 and June
22
[serious scribes]
Boris Leonidovich Pasternak: born Feb 10,
but his story is told on Oct 23 and he gets mentions on July 18, Aug 12
and Aug 20 [serious scribes and responses
to bullying]
Louis Jean Pasteur: milked by Nathan Straus
on June 12; born Dec 27 [E,M&C2]
Walter Horatio Pater: born Aug 4 [illustrious illustrators]
Alan Stewart
Paton: died April 12 [serious scribes and a mention on the Africa page]
Ivan Petrovich Pavlov: barking up the right tree on Sept 13; born Sept 14;
merely woofing on March 30, June 25 and Nov 14 [E,M&C2]
Timothy Nigel (Tim) Peake: doing the London Marathon, on a treadmill,
in zero gravity, on June 18
Charles Willson Peale: his mastodon can be found on Dec 24 [illustrious
illustrators]
John George Pearson: his biography of 007 can be found, missing
its most important detail (which I have provided), on Nov 11
Robert Edwin Peary: reached the North Pole on April 6; beaten there by Freddie Cook on April
21
Knud Pedersen (Knut Hamsun): born Aug 4 [serious scribes]
Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc: discovered the Orion Nebula on Nov 25; listed among
the scientific achievements on Jan 1 [E,M&C2]
Pelagius,
which may be a Latinisation of Morgan, a Celtic word meaning "of the sea":
the greatest (but virtually unkown) philosopher Britain has yet produced: Jan 11 [philosophers]
William Penn: born Oct 14;
the state named after him is on March 1 (though actually the state isn't named after him;
it was his dad, who was Admiral Sir William Penn, who was given the land grant
by Charles
II, and the
son founded the state, and named it for his dad) [reverend writers]
Samuel Pepys: started his first
diary on Jan 1; witnessed the Great
Fire on Sept 2; attended shul on Sept 30; wrote scathingly about George Downing on Dec 4 [serious scribes]
Eliezer Perelman
(Eliezer Ben Yehuda): revived Hebrew on Jan 7; mentioned
on Jan 11 [the
librarians of Babel]
José Julián Martí Pérez: born Jan 28; killed May 19 [political ideologues and The Cuban List]
Vincentella Périni (remembered as Danielle Casanova; Danielle was her nom de guerre,
plus Casanova which was her married name): heroine of the French Resistance on May 9; really belongs on Jan 26; among the committed Marxists on June 28, and fully
encountered as such by Max Sebald in this interview,
as well as in his novel “Vertigo”; and he did so on June 27, so it made it into
my own “A Journey In Time”. [responses
to bullying and political ideologues]
Itzhak Perlman: born Aug 31 [musical maestros]
Jean François de Galaup (La
Pérouse): travelled to Alaska on Aug
23
Szymon Perski (Shimon Peres): born Aug 16
Matthew Calbraith Perry: ruined the life of Madame Butterfly on July 8
Truman Streckfus Persons (Truman Capote): born Sept 30;
mentioned on April
28; "In Cold Blood" withdrawn on Dec 6 [serious
scribes]
Michael
Igor Peschkowsky (Mike Nichols): born Nov 6 [the world as
stage]
Fernando António Nogueira Pessoa: all of his heteronyms on Feb
8; mentioned on Feb 28 and
July 3; an entire page dedicated to
him on his deathdate, Nov 30, which
also has a link to my fuller essay about him in “Private Collection”; quoted on
Dec 1; and two obscure insinuations,
one on Sept 30, the other on Oct 20 [The Poets]
Francesco
Petrarca (Petrarch): "discovered" the Cicero letters on Jan 3; first saw Laura
de Neves -
or did he? - on April 6;
sadly for him she got
married to Hugo de Sade
on Jan 16 [reverend writers]
Pheidippides, or possibly Philippides: ran the first marathon on Sept 2; the battle itself is on Sept 28
Harold
Adrian Russell (“Kim”) Philby: “defected” on Jan 23
Calvin Phillips: may have shrunk on Jan 14
Marie-Jeanne Phlipon, aka Marie-Jeanne "Manon" Roland de la Platière, or simply Manon Roland: (born March 17 1754; guillotined Nov 8 1793) [Woman-Blindness]
Jean William Fritz Piaget: born
on Aug 9;
referenced on Feb 5
and June 24;
but should also be read alongside Isaac Luria
on Aug 5
and Bloom’s Taxonomy on Sept 13 [educators]
Gioacchino Giuseppe Maria Ubaldo Nicolò Piazzi, remembered as Giuseppe
Piazzi, observed the dwarf planet Ceres orbiting between Mars and
Jupiter on Jan 1
Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan
Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Ruiz y
Picasso (honestly!): chez Gertrude Stein on Feb
3; Guernica on April
26, Georges Braque on May 13; Max Jacob
on Aug 19; provides an illustration in both senses on Sept 13 and 17; mentioned somewhat obscurely on Oct 8, but less so on Jan 26; his earliest known painting on Oct 22; born Oct 25; dinner with Matisse
on Dec 12 [illustrious
illustrators]
Rose Marie Pinon:
circumnavigating the globe with husband Louis de Freycinet on
May 7 and the Napoleonic Era page of
"Woman-Blindness"
Harold Pinter: born Oct 10; mentioned on Sept 23 and Dec 3 [the world as stage]
Luigi Pirandello:
born June 28 [the world as stage]
William Pitt “the elder”, and William Pitt
“the younger”: Dec 4; and a mention on April 22, though I have no idea which one it
is
Christine de Pizan: Virginia
Woolf, but 600 years ahead
of her, on Jan 13 [also among The Poets]
Sylvia Plath (but
published "The Bell Jar" under the pseudonym Victoria Lucas): discovered that the gas-jet was also poetry on Feb 11; with Ted
Hughes on Aug 17; peeling
onions on Sept 20; born Oct 27; with Anne
Sexton and Robert Lowell
on Nov 9 and 17; with me but also David Hockney on July 9
[The Poets]
Gary Jim Player: born
Nov 1
Charles Plumier: what
else but a botanist on Oct 26 [E,M&C2]
Edgar Poe (“Allan” was added when he was adopted): born Jan 19; “The Raven” on April
18;
first marriage on May 16; mentioned in Baltimore on Sept 12; found dead in a gutter en route to his second
wedding on Oct 7 [serious scribes]
Joel Robert Poinsett: the “ia” grafted on, on Oct 26
Sidney Poitier: playing Vergil
on Feb 28; Oscared on April 13 [the world as stage]
William
of Poitiers: or really Guilhèm IX, duc d'Aquitània e de Gasconha, or
even Guilhèm VII, comte de Peitieus;
the first of the Trovères on Oct 22
Rajmund Roman Thierry
Polański: born Aug 18 [the world as stage]
John William Polidori
1795-1821:
wrote the first vampire novel on Feb 1
and March 11; will
eventually get a mention on Caroline Lamb's page (May 9), and has one already on Charlotte
Turner Smith's, Oct 28 [lighter
writers] - and see the Rossettis, who were his niece and nephew
Paul Jackson
Pollock: born Jan 28; mentioned on Oct 21 [illustrious illustrators]
Marco Polo: died
Jan 8,
but more about him on Jan 9; enabled
to return to Venice by Arghūn Khan on March 5; celebrating
Kublai Khan’s
anniversary on Sept 28;
the incident on the bridge named after him that started the war between Japan
and China can be found on July 22
and the China page
[serious
scribes but
under Rustichello
da Pisa because I
don't have a section for serious givers of dictation]
Lester William Polsfuss (Les Paul): born playing Gibson guitars on June
9 [musical
maestros]
Alexander Pope: mentioned
re Richard Savage on Jan 16; born May 21; died
May 30; translated Homer’s
“Iliad” on Bloomsday (June 16); letter from Jonathan
Swift on Nov 30 [The Poets]
Jean-Baptiste Poquelin (Molière): born Jan 15; mentioned on Jan 8 and 18; parodied by the Marquise de Sévigné on Feb 5; entitled
by Madame de Villedieu on Oct 20; also
mentioned on Sept 5 and 23 [the world as stage]
Marguerite Porete born 1240; holding up the Mirror of Simple Souls on Feb 24; burnt
at the stake for refusing to cease doing so on June 1 1310 [Beguines]
Cole Albert Porter: born June 9 [musical maestros]
William Sydney Porter (O. Henry): born Sept 11 [lighter writers]
Wiley Hardeman Post: flew
around the world on July 1
Francis Jean Marcel Poulenc: born
on Jan 7 [musical maestros]
Ezra Weston Loomis Pound: chez Gertrude
Stein on Feb 3; Bollingen Prize on Feb 19;
indicted July 26 [The Poets and the GER page]
Anthony Dymoke Powell: began
dancing to the music of time on Dec 21 [serious scribes]
Francis Gary Powers: shot down on May 1
Boruch Praszkier: collaborating
in his own victimhood on Feb 6;
the family story as told by Mayer Hersh
on Feb 12,
by my father on Sept 23
[responses
to bullying]
Jacub
Praszkier: leading the
resistance on Feb 6 and April 19 [responses to
bullying]
Jacqueline Mary du Pré: mentioned
alongside Itzhak Perlman on Aug 31, Daniel Barenboim on Nov 15; died
Oct 19 [musical maestros]
Gertrude Malissa Nix Pridgett ("Ma" Rainey”): died Dec 22 [musical maestros]
Sally Jane Priesand: ordained on June 3
John Boynton (J.B) Priestley: born Sept 13 [the world as stage]
Gavrilo Princip: caused the First
World War single-handed on June 28 [responses to
bullying]
Victor Sawdon Pritchett: born Dec 16 [serious scribes]
Sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev: born April 23
[musical maestros]; and
I cannot resist adding here that Прокофьев
comes from the Greek Προκόπios (Prokopios), and can mean any form of
advancement, progress, growth or success, while Серге́й
(Sergei) denotes a protector or guardian - what a wonderful name to have
bestowed on you from the moment of your birth!
John Dennis (“Jack”) Profumo: resigned on June 5
Valentin Louis Georges Eugène Marcel Proust: entered lost time on July 10; influenced
by Marie-Catherine
Desjardins on Oct 20; mentioned on May
17, July 1, July 3, July 12, July 14, Aug 14, Aug 17, Oct 28 [serious scribes]
Mme Verdurin holds a salon on Feb 5, and is alluded to on Oct 5; see her entry on the MM page
József (Joseph) Pulitzer: born April 10; first
prize on June 4;
“Gone With The Wind” on Dec 6; Eugene O'Neill, who won it four times, is on Oct 16; Sinclair Lewis was
awarded the prize but turned it down on Jan 1 [serious
scribes]
Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin:
born May 26;
mentioned on March 4;
admired by Yevtushenko on July 18 [The
Poets]
Pyrrhōn ho Ēleios (Pyrrho of
Elis): highly
questionable if he did or did not father skepticism on May 11; discipled by Pierre Bayle on Nov 18 [philosophers]
Q
Thomas Penson (de) Quincey: yep, like Balzac and Foe and Arc,
the “de” got added as a pretension later, in this case by his mum:
born Aug 15 [lighter writers]
R
Solomon
Naumovich Rabinovitz (Sholem Aleichem):
born Feb 18; mentioned on Nov 1 [serious scribes]
Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, Marquise de Sévigné (1626-1696): pouring out letters
to her daughter Françoise-Marguerite (or
Madame de Grignan when she
married) on Feb 5; much in those letters about the Marquise de Maintenon, Françoise d'Aubigné, who can be found on Nov 27 [Ancien
Régime page of Woman-Blindness; and among the epistolerians on the page of the serious scribes)
Jean-Baptiste Racine: born
on Dec 22; mentioned
on Sept 5 and 23 [the world as stage] - will never
forgive Sarah Bernhardt on ... probably
he will; it isn't written yet, but will be posted eventually on Aug 31
Sergei Vasilyevich Rachmaninoff: born April 1 [musical maestros]
Walter Raleigh: shipping potatoes on July 28; executed Oct
29; mentioned on May 28
Jean Phillippe Rameau: born Sept 25 [musical maestros]
Jean-Pierre Louis Rampal: born
Jan 7 [musical maestros]
Simon Denis Rattle: born
Jan 19 [musical maestros]
Ronald Wilson Reagan: figure it out for yourself on Jan 14; mentioned on Oct 25
Milton (Robert was his nom de brosse) Rauschenberg: born Oct 22 [illustrious illustrators]
Vanessa Redgrave: born to play Isidora Duncan on Jan
30 (see also May 27); Julia
to Jane Fonda’s
Lillian Hellman on June 20; actors hall of fame on Aug 8 and Oct
22 [the
world as stage]
Paul Revere (originally Rivoire but his dad changed it): riding on April 18; mentioned on April
21
Frances Reynolds: one of the original Blue Stockings on July 23
Her
better-known brother Joshua Reynolds: painted
Kitty Fisher
on March 15;
teacher of Thomas Stewart on May 16; born
July 16; at
Elizabeth Montagu’s salon on July 23 and Oct 2 [illustrious illustrators]
Mordechai Richler: began his apprenticeship on Jan
27 [serious scribes]
Charles Francis Richter: reached
point zero on Sept 30; reached somewhere between 7.9 and 8.3 on
April 18 [E,M&C2]
Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn: born July
15; looking somewhat villonish on Jan
5 ; also a mention on Sept 30, and learning from Caravaggio on Feb 25 [illustrious
illustrators]
I have no idea if he
is a descendant, but Michel van Rijn
can be found on Oct 17
Bridget Louise Riley: born April
24 [illustrious illustrators]
René Karl Wilhelm Johann Josef
Maria Rilke (“Rainer”
was Lou
Andreas-Salomé’s suggestion): born Dec 4 (my piece about him
on that date also has links to three essays in which he figures in "Private Collection");
mentioned on July 3 [The Poets]
Jean Nicolas Arthur Rimbaud: born Oct 20; physically attacked on July 10; verbally attacked on Oct 8 [The Poets]
Rebecca Riots: sorry, no such person, on Dec 20
James & John Ritty: patented their cash register on Nov 4 [E,M&C2]
Paul Leroy Robeson: born April 9; a black actor on an
English stage, in 1924! [musical maestros, or should he be on the world
as stage?]
Elizabeth Robinson (Montagu): born Oct 2; one of the original
Blue Stockings on July 23; advising Mrs Thrale on
Oct 5 [Blue Stockings]
Luther (Bill) "Bojangles"
Robinson: born May
25 [the world as stage]
François de la Rochefoucauld: born Sept 15 [philosophers]
François-Auguste-René Rodin: born Nov
12 [illustrious illustrators]
Diego María de la Concepción
Juan Nepomuceno Estanislao de la Rivera y Barrientos Acosta y Rodríguez (Diego
Rivera): born Dec 8; Sept 17
for Frida Kahlo [illustrious illustrators]
Theodore Huebner Roethke: born May 25 [The Poets]
Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen (sometimes dis-umlauted as Roentgen): discovered x-rays
on Nov 8; connected
to the Curies on March 1; listed among the scientific achievements on Jan 1 [E,M&C2]
Peter Mark Roget: Sept 12 (click
here to determine how to describe what happened that day;
there are apparently 106 options, though this seems to me a remarkable
understatement, litotes, act of restraint...) [the librarians of Babel]
Romulus (with or without Remus):
the Lupercal she-wolf who suckled him on Feb 14;
the eclipse that coincided on April 6;
founded Rome on April 21; among the
twins on May 15
Theodore (“Teddy”) Roosevelt: mis-Invictused on June 24; Oscar
Straus as his Secretary of Commerce and Labour on Dec 23; visiting
Liberia on the Africa page
Julius LaRosa: failed to take Manhattan on Oct
19 [musical maestros]
Julius and Ethel (Greenglass) Rosenberg: sentenced to death on April
5 [political ideologues]
Susan Rosenblatt (Sontag): born Jan 28; mentioned
re Germaine Greer on Jan 29; at odds with Norman Mailer on March 15 [philosophae]
Frederik Rosenkrantz (and Knud
Gyldenstierne): from Shakespeare to Stoppard
on Sept 2 [the world as stage]
Christina Georgina Rossetti: born Dec 5, and listed among The Poets. Her brother Gabriel Charles Dante Rossetti can be found birthdaying on May 12, and among the illustrious
illustrators
Gioachino Antonio Rossini: born Feb 29;
mentioned on April 1 [musical maestros]
Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus: born Oct 27;
died July 12; mentioned May 4 [reverend
writers]
Dorothy Rothschild (Dot Parker): came in in a limo on Aug 22 1893; went out still doing the witticisms on June 7 1967: what better birthday
present? on Aug 22; can a Jewish girl
even be a wasp? I think I need to rewrite that, on Oct
26; mentioned on March 19 [The Poets]
Henri Julien Félix Rousseau (“Le Douanier”), born May 21; mentioned on April 15 [illustrious
illustrators]
Jean-Jacques Rousseau: born June 28; Madame de Staël on April 22, Sophie de
Grouchy on May 5, Manon Roland on Nov
8; mentioned on Jan 18, April
15, Oct 20 and Nov 18 [philosophers]
Étienne Pierre Théodore
Rousseau:
born April 15;
mentioned on Feb 5 [illustrious illustrators]
Jean François Pilâtre de Rozier: made the first
manned balloon flight, in partnership with François
Laurent le Vieux, the Marquis d'Arlandes, on Nov 21;
listed among the
scientific achievements on Jan 1
Peter Paul Rubens: cover-versioned on April 16; born June
28; died May 30 [illustrious illustrators]
Ernő Rubik: born (and wilfully cubed into a lego-land mis-spelling)
on July 13; mentioned on July 12 [E,M&C2]
Artur (Arthur) Rubinstein: born Jan 28 [musical
maestros]
Alfred Damon Runyon: born Oct 4 [lighter writers]
Ahmad
Salman Rushdie: born on June 19; fatwahed on Feb 14; quoted on April
23
[serious scribes]
John Ruskin: born on Feb 8;
mentioned with Rilke on Dec 4, which also has links to three essays in which he figures
in "Private Collection".
His book about Turner gets a mention on Anna
Brownell Jameson's page, May
17 [illustrious illustrators]
Bertrand Arthur William Russell: born May 18 [philosophers]
Henry Kenneth (Ken) Alfred Russell: born July 3 [the world as stage]
Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz: overthrow of Batista on Jan
1; José Martí on Jan 28; sworn in on Feb 16; mistaken for Hemingway
on July 2; the "26th of July
Movement" on July 26; born Aug 13; Casals
and the Bay of Pigs on Nov 13; satirised
on Dec 1 [political
ideologues and pre-Columban Americas]
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