S
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra: April
23
with Shakespeare; Alberto Manguel’s account of him on June 27; his portrait on Nov 25; he is mentioned on Jan 18, March
29
and July 10, and performed à la Brel on Nov 22; alongside Lope de Vega on
Nov 25 [serious
scribes]
Daniel Ortega Saavedra: born Nov 11 [political ideologues]
Albert Bruce Sabin: the man who found an oral vaccine for polio, born Aug 26
Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti: electric-chaired on
Aug 23
Oliver Wolf Sacks: the man who mistook his profession for a science; died Aug 30 [philosophers]
Victoria Mary (Vita) Sackville-West (born
March 9 1892; died June 2 1962): Orlando's gardener on March 28
Muhammad Anwar es-Sadat:dared to visit Israel on Nov 19; regretted it on Oct 6; [Africa page]
Donatien Alphonse François,
Marquis de Sade: born June 2: appears from a window on July 14; died Dec
2; (mentioned somewhat obscurely on Dec
16) [serious scribes] Hugo de Sade, who was presumably an ancestor, married Laura de Neves on Jan 16
Carl Edward Sagan: two entries sourced in his splendid "Cosmos”, one
on Aug 18, the other on Aug 23 [E,M&C2]
Charles-Camille Saint-Saëns:
born Oct 9 [musical maestros]
Andrei Dmitrievich Sakharov: translated
by Anatoly Shcharansky on Jan 20; born
May 21; atom
bombs versus peace prizes on Oct 9;
referenced on July 10 [E,M&C2 and responses
to bullying]
Jerome David (J.D) Salinger: born Jan 1,
banned Dec 6 [serious
scribes]
Jonas Edward Salk: vaccinated against polio on Oct
28; listed among the scientific achievements on Jan 1
- and see Albert Sabin on
the same E,M&C2 page
Lou Andreas-Salomé: renaming René Rilke on
Dec 4;
not to be confused with Richard
Strauss' "Salome", who can be found on July 7 [philosophers]
Mrs Thrale, née Salusbury, but more colourfully known by her second
married name, as Hester Lynch Piozzi;
writing a bitchy-snobby letter on Oct 5
Margaret (Higgins) Sanger (aka
Margaret
Sanger Slee): brought
birth control to the USA, clearly unsuccessfully to judge by its birth rate, on
Sept 14 [political
ideologues]
Jorge Agustín Nicolás Ruiz de Santayana y
Borrás (George Santayana): born Dec 16 [philosophers]
Santorio Santori (Sanctorius): born March 29, died
Feb 22. This page gets mentioned on Sept 13, and the March
29 page gets mentioned on March 30, but Feb 22 is the one that matters; listed among the scientific achievements on Jan 1 [E,M&C2]
José de Sousa Saramago: rethinking Pessoa
on Feb 8 [serious scribes]
Tibors de Sarenom, sometimes written as Tiburge
de Sarenom: one of the Trobairitz on Jan 13 [The Poets]
Félix Rubén García Sarmiento (Rubén Dario): compared with Cervantes
on Jan 18 [The Poets]
Jean-Paul Charles Aymard Sartre: born on June 21;
referenced re Spinoza on Feb 21; “Les Mouches” on May 30; mentioned on Jan 9 and 26;
gave up both essence and existence on April 15
[philosophers and
the world as stage]
Siegfried Loraine Sassoon: born Sept 8; his
“Alcuin” poem on May 19; mentioned on Feb 28 [The Poets]
Érik Alfred Leslie
Satie (Virginie Lebeau was his pen-name for his writings): born May 17 [musical
maestros]
Alfred Louis Sauvy: living in the Third World on April 18
Richard Savage: biographied
by Samuel Johnson on Jan 16; he also had a child with Eliza Haywood,
though that isn't mentioned on her listing on Feb 25 [The Poets]
Louise de Savoie, Duchesse d' Angoulême, Duchesse d' Anjou: writing her astronomical journal
with her daughter Marguerte de Navarre on April 11 [serious scribes and the Mediaeval page of Woman-Blindness]
Antoine Joseph (“Adolphe”) Sax: born
to blow his own trumpet on Nov 6 [musical maestros]
Giuseppe Doménico Scarlatti: born
Oct 26 [musical maestros]
Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller: born
Nov 10;
admiring Madame de Staël on April
22 [the world
as stage]
Alma Schindler: married Gustav Mahler and sung by Tom Lehrer on March 29; hosting a dinner party on Feb 11
Aron Hector (“Ettore”) Schmitz (Italo
Svevo): pseudonymed on Feb 8;
born on Dec 19 (wife Livia and her
"plura belle" hair are on the same page); mentioned on Feb 2 and March
15 [serious scribes]
Leonard Alfred Schneider (Lenny
Bruce): died on Aug 3; first arrest on Oct 4; also mentioned on Aug 4 [the world
as stage]
Christian Friedrich Schönbein,
or Schoenbein:
obtained the patent for cellulose nitrate explosive on Dec 5,
but he is also the man who named “ozone” and was the first to describe
guncotton (nitrocellulose); listed among
the scientific achievements on Jan 1 [E,M&C2]
Arthur Schopenhauer: born Feb 22; Menckened
on Sept 13 (and mentioned as such on Sept 12); simply mentioned on April
22 [philosophers]
Franz Peter Schubert: born Jan 31 [musical maestros]
Erwin Schulhoff - Ervín Šulhov in his native
Czech (8 June 1894- 18 August 1942): performed on April 1; mentioned on July 27 [musical maestros]
Charles
Monroe Schulz: "Peanuts"
first published on Oct 2; born Nov 26 [illustrious
illustrators]
Robert Schumann: born June 8;
played by Gideon Klein on April 1 and by Pablo
Casals on Nov 13; created
the EFB♭ Sonata on Oct 27 (pianist Clara
Schumann) [musical maestros]
Ludwig Philipp Albert
Schweitzer: born
on Jan 14 (and a cartoon for a birthday present) [reverend writers]
Robert Falcon Scott ("of the Antarctic"): born July 16; with Shackleton
on Jan 5; beaten by Amundsen
on Jan 15 and Dec 14; Oates
and the camp at Mount Buckley on March 17
Walter Scott: born Aug 15;
referenced on June 24; breeding bulls
for beef-eaters on Sept 8; mentioned on the Charlotte Turner Smith page, Oct 28,
and on Maria Edgeworth's page, May 22 [historians]
Winfried Georg (“Max”) Sebald: the destruction of Yuan Ming Yuan on Jan 11; attempted the dramatic monologue on April 6; mentioned with Magris
on April 10; Danielle
Casanova on May 9 [serious scribes]
Charles Louis de Secondat, baron de
La Brède et de Montesquieu: quoted and quoted on Jan 18; the innocent source of the world’s most
anti-Semitic book on Aug 26; with Madame de
Staël on April 22; referenced
on June 19 [philosophers]
Peter (Pete) Seeger 1919-2014: born May 3 [musical maestros and
responses to bullying]
Simone Segouin, nom de guerre Nicole Minet: une des Femmes
de la Resistance on Jan 26
Alexander Selkirk (though
there is some suggestion that it may have been Selcraig
originally):
rescued by Woodes Rogers
on Feb 1
Léopold Sédar Senghor: poet and
politician (click here):
March 24, 1959 is commemorated as
Southern African Liberation Day (click here),
presumably because it was the day on which the "Party of the African
Federation (PFA)" was established in West Africa (then ruled by the
French), by Monsieur Senghor
[Africa and political ideologues]; and I am presuming this is
the same Léopold
Senghor who
became the first head of state when Mali gained independence from France on
June 20 1960
Ernesto Rafael Guevara de la Serna (“Che”): killed on Oct 9;
mentioned on June 15 [political
ideologues and pre-Columban
Americas]
Miguel Servet (aka Miguel Serveto, Michel
Servet, Michael Servetus, Miguel de Villanueva, and Michel de Villeneuve): condemned
to death for blasphemy on Oct 26 [reverend writers]
Robert William Service: "Sam McGee" and "Dan McGrew"
referenced on April 18; with
Jack London in the Yukon on Aug 16; mentioned on Feb 9
and Feb 28 [The
Poets];
Georges Pierre Seurat: born Dec 2
[illustrious illustrators]
Ernest Henry Shackleton: died on Jan 5; beaten by Amundsen on Dec 14
Anthony Joshua Shaffer, screenplay writer, and Peter Levin Shaffer, playwright, born within
seconds of each other, and completely identical, May
15. Anthony’s “Wicker Man”
is mentioned on Nov 5 [the world as stage]
Rabindra (“Ravi”) Shankar
Chowdhury: born April 7 [musical
maestros]
Gulielmus Shakspere (William Shakespeare): despised for coming from the wrong class on Jan 5;
R&J on Jan 30; Deutschified
by Voß on Feb 8; bite-sized
by Charles and Mary Lamb on Feb 10
and Dec 3;
recovered by David Garrick on Feb 19; Roderigo Lopes on Feb 28
and June 29
(the night The Globe burned down); Richard Tarlton and
Will Kempe
and Robert
Armin and much much more on March 15; “The
Tempest” on March
29; studied by Hélène Berr on April 10; Madame de Staël on April 22; with
Cervantes on April 23
and Ben Jonson on June 11; doing
Midsummer Night on June 23;
his patron the Earl of Leicester on July 19; getting
Macbeth completely wrong on Aug 15 and June 24,
and Richard III mis-shapen on Aug 22
and Nov 5 (but see also the frog who went a-courtin’ on March 15); R&G from Hamlet on Sept 2; Elizabeth Montagu on Oct 2; Emperor Claudius as Hamlet on Oct 13,
and Hamlet alone on Nov 20; compared with Racine on Dec 22; merely
mentioned on Jan 3, Jan 8, Jan 9, April 13 and 30, May 11, 16 and 17, June 24, July 6, Aug 20
and Sept 23; his dad gets a mention on Nov 26 [the world as stage]
Helen Patricia Sharman: the
first woman to visit the Mir space station, on May 18; and mentioned alongside Tim Peake on June 18
George Bernard Shaw: at home in Fitzroy Square on May 18; “St Joan” and “Man and Superman” on May 30; born July
26; performed in “Hamlet” on Sept 2;
not doing much on Sept 10; actively doing
Fabian Society summer school with Rebecca West
on Dec 21; merely mentioned on May 16 [the world as
stage]
Anatoly Borisovich Shcharansky (Natan
Sharansky when he got his exit visa): born Jan 20 [responses
to bullying]
Percy Bysshe Shelley: hymned Adonais on Feb 23;
drowned July 8, but see Aug 13 as well; studied by Hélène Berr on April 10; also mentioned on Jan 1, Feb 1,
Feb 21, March
11, April 27 and Aug 10 [The Poets]
Richard Brinsley Sheridan: born Oct 30
[the world as stage]
Boris Abramovich Shimeliovich:medical director of the Botkin
Hospital in Moscow, born December 2 1892; died on the Night of the Murdered
Poets, Aug 12 1952; more here, and for the full account go to my WordPress blog
El-Azar ben Shimon: Lazarus in the gospels, where the father's
name is not given, but it was at his house that El-Azar
and his sisters Mary and Martha were living, and where the party was
hosted that Jesus attended; Christian scholars question his paternity, but
probably they just don't like the fact that Shimon had leprosy (which he
didn't, that was a different Shimon; this one was more likely Shimon the
Pharisee (click here)! Sept 21 and Dec 17
Christopher Latham Sholes: needs Tippex on June 23 [E,M&C2]
Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich: set
Yevtushenko on July 18;
born Sept 25; initially
on Oct 27; mentioned on Sept 5 [musical maestros]
Joseph Yuzefovich Shpinak (Shpinak was his family name
but he didn’t use it for his writings): (1890–1952): one of the unlucky thirteen on the Night of the Murdered
Poets, Aug 12 – more on him here and here, or for the full account go to my WordPress blog [serious scribes]
Johan Julius Christian (Jean) Sibelius: born Dec 8;
mentioned on June 9 [musical maestros]
Philip Sidney: born Nov 30 [The Poets]
Gerard ("Jerry")
Silverman: start of WW2 on July 22 [musical
maestros]
Paul Frederic Simon (with or without Art
Garfunkel, whose date is Oct 13):
in Central Park on Sept 19; at
Bunjies on Oct 3; mentioned on Oct 22 [musical
maestros]
Michelangelo di Lodovico
Buonarroti Simoni: born March 6; offered to build a tomb for Dante on June
24; “can’t do fresco” on Aug 21
and Nov 1; referenced by Victor Hugo on Oct
18; mentioned May 18 [illustrious illustrators]
Elizabeth Simpson, remembered by her married name as Elizabeth Inchbald; acting, though not in Jane Austen's production,
on Oct 15
Clive Marles Sinclair: born
July 30 [E,M&C2]
Upton Beall Sinclair: born Sept 20; banned Dec
6 [serious
scribes]
Isaac Merritt Singer, the sewing machine man; or was he? see Elias Howe on Oct
3: born Oct 27 [E,M&C2] (Not to be confused
with Isaac Bashevis Singer, who you
will find under Z!)
Alfred Sisley 1839-1899: Yet another of the Durand-Ruel finds on Feb 5; born Oct 30 [illustrious illustrators]
Maria (Marie) Salomea Skłodowska-Curie: isolated radium with husband Pierre on April 20; both mentioned on March 1 and listed among the scientific achievements on Jan 1 [E,M&C2]
Elizabeth (“Bessie”) Smith: born April 15
[musical maestros]
Adam Smith: investigating the wealth of nations on March 29; translated
by Sophie de Grouchy on May 5
John Allyn Smith Jr
(John Allyn McAlpin Berryman): died
on Jan 7 [The Poets]
Joseph Smith: founded the Mormons on April
6
[reverend writers]
Florence Margaret (“Stevie”) Smith: peeled onions on Sept 20; mentioned on Nov 17
[The Poets]
Spartacus: epitomising the only valid response to bullying and
coercion on Sept 29 (the full story here); mentioned with Nat Turner and Gandhi
on Oct 2
Edward George Geoffrey Smith-Stanley: PM, Earl of Derby,
and owner of Chatham House on Dec 4
Manoel Dias Soeiro (Menasseh ben Israel): the return of the
Jews to England under Oliver Cromwell on Sept 30 [reverend writers]
Aleksandr Isayevitch
Solzhenitsyn: Nobel Prize on Oct 23; witnessed the Gulag on Dec 28; mentioned on Sept 5 [serious scribes]
Hernando de Soto: born May 21 [pre-Columban
Americas;
there is also an obscure reference to an African on his ship on the Africa page]
Akinwande Oluwole (Wole) Babatunde Soyinka: born July 13; Africa page has
"1986:
Wole Soyinka of Nigeria becomes the first African to win a Nobel Prize in
Literature" [serious scribes]
Boris Vasilievich Spassky: castled in his chair on Sept 1
Percy LeBaron. Spencer: patented the microwave oven on Dec 7; listed among the scientific achievements on Jan 1 [E,M&C2]
Benedict de Spinoza (Bento or Baruch Spinoza): analysed
by Montesquieu on Jan 18,
and by Pierre Bayle on Nov 18; died Feb 21; used as an exemplar on June 3 and Sept 13; excommunicated on July 27 1656,
though my account of it is actually on Feb 1; David Nieto on Sept 30; mentioned
on Oct 10 and 20 [born
November 24 1632 but I don’t have that on that date] [philosophers]
The (Decidedly Ir-Reverend) William Archibald Spooner: born July 22
Anne Louise Germaine de Staël-Holstein (Madame
de Stael): born April 22; also with Sophie de Grouchy on May 5 and Manon Roland on Nov 8 [political ideologues]
Aristotle Stagiritis: kindled on Feb 28; rainbowed
with Seneca on
March
29; in disagreement with Plato on April 5, June 25 and Sept 13, and with Pyrrho
on May 11;
wrong about gravity on Sept 18; mentioned
Jan 3, July 23, Aug 26, and somewhat obscurely on Oct 8; died
on Oct 2 [E,M&C2]
Henry Morton Stanley: met what he presumed was Dr Livingstone,
at Lake Tanganyika, on Sept 29 and Nov 10; at Lake Albert in the Congo on Dec 5
Freya Madeline Stark: born Jan 31 [serious scribes]
Gertrude Stein: green traffic-lighted on her birthday, Feb 3 [serious scribes]
John Ernst Steinbeck: born Feb 27; his 1962 Nobel Prize is on Oct 25; plus mentions on Jan 1, March 26, Oct 3 and 23;
and a localised banning on Dec 6 [serious scribes]
George Robert Stephenson: born on June 9;
travelled on his own steam train on Sept 27 [E,M&C2]
Lina Solomonovna Stern (or Shtern): the only one of the “Yiddish Writers
Plot” to survive on Aug 12; quite an
extraordinary woman she was too [E,M&C2 and Poetikos main page]; for the full account
go to my WordPress blog
György Stern (Georg Solti): taught by Erno Dohnányi
on July 27; born Oct 21 [musical
maestros]
Itzhak (Isaac) Stern: born July 21 [musical
maestros]
Laurence Sterne: born Nov 24;
mentioned on Nov 28 [serious
scribes]
Elizabeth
Cleghorn Stevenson (Mrs Gaskell): born
Sept 29; chez Anna
Brownell Jameson on May 17 [serious scribes and Woman-Blindness]
Robert
Louis Balfour Stevenson: born Nov 13 [serious scribes]
William Joseph Still: Building
electric cars on Dec 5; listed among
the scientific achievements on Jan 1 [E,M&C2]
Daniel Chapman Stillson: patented the 1st adjustable
pipe wrench on Dec 5 (what do you mean, I must be joking? In the world of
plumbers this ranks as the number one scientific invention in human history,
ever; and you trying living without plumbing!); listed among the scientific achievements on Jan 1 [E,M&C2]
Karlheinz Stockhausen: born Aug 22 [musical
maestros]
Harriet
Beecher Stowe: not banned, just written against, on Dec 6 [serious scribes and reposnes to bullying]
Antonio Stradivari: died Dec 18 [musical
maestros]
Tomás Straüssler (Tom Stoppard): born July 3, “Rosencrantz and Guildernstern”
on Sept 2; mentioned on Dec 3 [the world as
stage]
Israel Strassberg (Lee
Strasberg): picked up Stanislavski’s method on Jan 17; used
it on Aug 8; born
Nov 17;
mentioned May 22 [the world
as stage]
Edward L Stratemeyer: introduced Nancy Drew to the Hardy Boys on Oct 4 [lighter
writers]
Oscar Solomon Straus: and other members of the family, including
parents Lazarus and Sara and sister Hermine,
descendants Nathan Junior, Jesse, Roger, Peter... start on Dec
23 for the overview; Oscar’s
plaque for Roger Williams is on Oct 13, and his promotion to Roosevelt’s Cabinet on Oct 23; Ida and Isidor went down with the Titanic on April 14; Dec
27 for Nathan Straus Sr’s
surprising connections with Louis Pasteur
and the town of Netanya in Israel; June 12 for Nathan
Straus Jr and his even more surprising connection with Anne Frank
Richard Georg Strauss: born June 11;
“Salome" turned down on July 7;
accused of collaborating on July 27; mentioned
in much the same regard on Dec 23 [musical maestros]
Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky: born on June 17;
mentioned on April 1 [musical maestros]
Jack Strawe: absolutely revolting on June 15 (not to
be confused with modern Jack Straw, who gets
mentioned on June 15, polled on April 29, involved
with honouring Frank Foley on May 7, and has
his spelling, rather than the other’s, on the castle in Hampstead)
Johan August Strindberg: born Jan 22 [the world as stage]
Eric Oswald (Hans Carl Maria Von)
Stroheim (the bits in brackets
were added when he moved to America): born Sept 22 [the world as stage]
Almon Brown Strowger: patented automatic telephone switching on Dec 5; listed among the scientific achievements on Jan 1 [E,M&C2]
Martina Šubertová (changed to Navratilova
in honour of her step-dad/coach): sought asylum in the US on Sept 6
Anne Sullivan: her achievement on April
5 and June 28; and this
without the benefit of Braille, who
is on Jan 4 [the librarians of Babel]
Patrick Süskind: born March 26
[serious scribes]
Joseph Wilson Swan: in partnership with Edison
on July 24; born Oct 31 [E,M&C2]
Emanuel Swedberg (changed to Swedenborg when he met God in 1741): born Jan 29 [reverend writers]
Jonathan Swift: Gulliver alluded to on Jan
16, April 11, July 3, Sept 2
and Sept 20; himself mentioned on Oct 25; died Oct
19; among the reverend writers on Nov 28; born
Nov 30
Captain Swing: sorry, no such person, on Dec 20
Hannah Szenes: executed on Nov
7 [The Poets and responses
to bullying]
Henrietta
Szold: died on Feb 13 [political
ideologues]
T
Leon Talmy (though he sometimes published as Leyzer Talminovitski): another of the thirteen in the “Yiddish Writers Plot” on Aug 12 – for the full account of which go to my WordPress blog [serious scribes]
Oliver Reginald Kaizana Tambo: born Oct
27 [Africa]
Abel Janszoon Tasman: reached Aotearoa
on Dec 13
Doris May Tayler (Lessing): born Oct 22 [serious scribes and
a mention on the Africa page]
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: born May 7; (quoted
on the MM page
under Tushmalov
on June 2); overturing on Oct 19 [musical
maestros]
Maria Telkes (Mária de Telkes originally, but she dropped the “de”, and the accent on
the “á” of Mária, when she moved to
America, and set up the first solar heating system, on Dec 24; listed among the scientific achievements on Jan 1 [E,M&C2]
Wilhelm or Guillaume Tell,
depending on whether you are using Schweize-Deutsch or Franco-Suisse (William Tell in English): died Nov 18
Alfred (Lord) Tennyson: “Charge of the Light Brigade” on April 18, Oct 4
and Oct 25; born Aug 6 [The Poets]
Emilia Teumin: born 1905; arrested and
tortured in 1949; murdered on Stalin’s
orders on Aug 12 1952: the Jerusalem Post version of the story here, and a very interesting website
that also tells the story here; or for the full account go to my WordPress
blog
William Makepeace Thackeray: in Tolstoy’s diary on Jan
21; multiple pseudonyms on Feb 8; born on July
18 [serious scribes]
Anne-Josèphe Terwagne, also known as Théroigne
de Méricourt: leading the women into revolution on Aug 10; crowned for doing so on Oct 5; beaten up by her fellow revolutionaries
on May 15
Rabindranath Thakur, but anglicised to Tagore;
Bhanusimha - "Sun Lion" - was his pseudonym: born
May 6 [The Poets]
François-Anatole Thibault (Anatole France): quoted on July 12 [The Poets]
Dylan Marlais Thomas: born Oct 27;
mentioned June 24 [The Poets]
Joseph John Thompson: electrons activated
on Dec 18; listed among the scientific achievements on Jan 1 [E,M&C2]
Henry David Thoreau: born July 12 [philosophers]
Emmett Louis (“Bobo”) Till: lynched on Aug 28
Michael Kemp Tippett: born
on Jan 2; "A
Child Of Our Time" on March
19 [musical maestros]
Alexis Charles Henri Clérel de Tocqueville: epitomised idealism on July
29 [political ideologues]
John Ronald Reuel (J.R.R) Tolkien: born
Jan 3;
mentioned on June 22 [serious scribes]; possibly creating a Golem on March 11
Lev (or possibly Lyof,
but definitely not Leo) Nikolayevich Tolstoy:
Jan 21 has
a quote from his diary; born Sept 9; July 1 mentions him [serious scribes]
Clyde William Tombaugh: “discovered” Planet
Pluto on Feb 18; listed among the scientific achievements on Jan 1 [E,M&C2]
Henri Marie Raymond de
Toulouse-Lautrec-Monfa: the Durand-Ruel
list just grows and grows on Feb 5; born Nov 24 [illustrious illustrators]
Edward John Trelawny: died Aug 13;
mentioned on Jan 22 and Feb 1 [serious
scribes]
Flora Tristan: fighting for workers rights and womens
rights on April 7
Joseph Philippe Pierre Yves Elliott Trudeau (that’s Trudeau senior): born Oct 18
François Roland Truffaut: died Oct 21; Nouvelle
Vague on Dec 3; Film Noir on Dec 5 [the world as
stage]
Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev: born Nov 9; mentioned on Feb 28 [serious scribes]
Charlotte Turner Smith: why isn't she on the A level
syllabus? see Oct 28
Nathanial (“Nat”) Turner: played Spartacus
on Aug 21 and 23; his
story told on his birthdate, Oct 2;
executed on Nov 11; mentioned on May 16 and Aug 28 [responses
to bullying]
Desmond Mpilo Tutu: born Oct 7;
mentioned Aug 28 [Africa page has "1984:
Anglican Bishop Desmond Mpilo Tutu of South Africa is awarded the
Nobel Peace Prize in Stockholm, Sweden"]
Walter (Wat)
Tylere: leading the anti-feudal liberation
army on June 15 [responses to
bullying]
U
Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov (Lenin): born April 22; shared
a coffee bar in Zurich with James Joyce
on Bloomsday (June 16); shared a
political dream with Trotsky, and
especially Victor Serge, on Aug 20; survived an assassination attempt on Aug 30; given to Castro
as a prize on Nov 13 [political ideologues and responses to bullying]
Miguel de Unamuno y Jugo: born Sept 29 [reverend writers]
Leon Marcus Uris: born Aug 3, “Mila
18” on April 19 [historians]
V
Various Valentines where you would expect to find them, on Feb 14: two named Valentinus; Rudolph Valentino can be found under A, in this Index, and on May 6 on the blog
George de Valero when he was born; Edward de
Valera by 1901; he only became Éamon
de Valera when Éireland achieved its liberation: The Easter Rising
on April 24; Roger Casement on Sept
1; born Oct 14 [Éirish page]
Ambroise Paul Toussaint Jules Valéry: born Oct 30 [The Poets]
Cornelius (“the Commodore”) Vanderbilt: born Nov 27
Giorgio di Antonio Vasari: born July 30;
referenced on Feb 5 and Aug 4 [illustrious illustrators]
Ilya Vatenberg and his wife Chaika
Vatenburg-Ostrovskaya: two more victims of the so-called “Yiddish writers plot” on Aug 12 [serious scribes] -
for the full account go to my WordPress blog
Ralph Vaughan-Williams: born Oct 12 [musical maestros]
Lope Félix de Vega y Carpio: born Nov 25
[reverend writers]
Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez: born June 6; mentioned on April 16 [illustrious illustrators]
Maria de Ventadorn: one of the Trobairitz on Jan 13
Giuseppi Fortunino Francesco Verdi: his “Requiem” played by Gideon
Klein at Terezin on April 1;
born Oct 10 [musical maestros]
Paul-Marie Verlaine: the reason for the first half of Pablo Neruda’s pseudonym on Feb 8; tried to kill Rimbaud on July
10
[The Poets]
Johannes (Jan) Vermeer: born Oct 31 [illustrious illustrators]
Elizabeth Vezey (sometimes spelled Vesey): hostessing the Blue Stockings on July 23
Eugene Luther Gore Vidal: born Oct 3 [serious scribes]
Marie Louise Élisabeth Louise Vigée-Lebrun: her portrait in
words on April 16; her portrait of Marie Antoinette on Oct 16; also with Sophie
de Grouchy on May 5 [illustrious illustrators]
Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci: born April 15;
died May 2; “Mona Lisa” stolen on Aug 21; drawings on Nov 21 [illustrious
illustrators]
Rodrigo (Ruy) Díaz de Vivar (“El Cid”,
which should be al-Sid, from the
Arabic): captured Valencia on July 10 [responses to bullying]
Kurt
Vonnegut: not so much banned
as rejected as an alternative to a banned book, on Dec
6
[serious scribes]
W
Derek Alton Walcott: born Jan 23 [The Poets]
Lech Wałęsa: Solidarność on Aug
31; Nobel Prize on Oct 5
Raoul Gustaf Wallenberg: born Aug 4;
mentioned on July 10; goes with Frank Foley among the extraordinary responses to bullying
Robert Walpole (born August 26 1676; died March 18 1745): his
son’s involvement with the Richmond Common saga is on May 16; his own in the Downing Street saga on Dec 4
Arthur Evelyn St. John Waugh: born Oct 28 [serious scribes]
Robert Clifton Weaver: became the first black cabinet member in
the US on June 28 [responses to bullying]
Carl Maria Friedrich Ernst von
Weber: born Nov 19; teaching Wagner
on May 22 [musical maestros]
Noah Webster: defined on April 21
[librarians of Babel]
Nathan (von Wallenstein?)
Weinstein (Nathanael West): born Oct 17 [serious scribes]
Simone Adolphine Weil (born February 3 1909 in Paris; died August
24 1943 in a tuberculosis sanatorium in Ashford): philosopher and freedom
fighter on Jan 26 and Aug 24
Chaim Azriel Weizmann: announced on Feb 16; inaugurated on Feb 19; born Nov
27 [responses
to bullying]
George Orson Welles: born May 6; fought
the war of the worlds by radio on Oct 30 [the world as stage]
Herbert George (H.G) Wells: at DHL’s
bedside on March 2; in Rebecca West's bed on Dec 21; born Sept
21
[serious scribes]
Horace Wells: used N2O as an
anaesthetic on Dec 11: used, but
didn’t invent it: see Humphry Davy
on the MM page;
nevertheless it is listed among the scientific achievements on Jan 1
[E,M&C2]
John Wesley: English clergyman and founder of Methodism: born June 17, 1703; at the entrance to Bone Hill
Fields on Nov 28 [reverend writers]
Andries van Wezel (Andreas
Vesalius): fully anatomical on June 1 [illustrious illustrators]
James Abbott McNeill Whistler: born July 10; used as a urinal on
April 11;
in Cheyne Walk on Sept 29 [illustrious illustrators]
Gilbert White: born July 18 [E,M&C2]
John Anderson White: struck by lightning on Dec 2
Patrick Victor Martindale White: Feb 8 for Voß
and Leichhardt;
born May 28; Nov 17 for Hurtle Duffield; mentioned
on July 28 [serious scribes]
Billie Honor Whitelaw: born June 6, but
highlighted on Aug 8 [the world as stage]
Walter (Walt) Whitman: interesting man was Peter Doyle - see March 15; as to Whitman
himself: died March 26, “Leaves of
Grass” published on July 4, but banned
on Jan 8; also Dec 6 for the publication of his other bans
(the means of unmarrying a writer from his readers); and a mention on July 1 [The Poets]
Edward Whymper: thought the horn mattered on July 13
Eliezer (Elie) Wiesel: on Luria on Aug 5; born Sept
30; mentioned on Aug 3 and
Dec 28 [serious scribes]
Leon Wieseltier: saying Kaddish for Rabbi
Oshry on Oct 28 [serious scribes]
Simon Wiesenthal: born Dec 31 [responses to bullying]
William Wilberforce: fictitiously on Jan 8; genuinely on his birthdate, Aug 24; with Hannah More
on July 23 [responses
to bullying]
Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde: born Oct 16; arrested
April 5 [serious
scribes]
Thornton
Niven Wilder: chez
Gertrude Stein on Feb 3;
understanding Joyce on Feb 16 (linked to his birthday on April
17) [the world as stage]
Allen
Lane Williams: born Sept 21 [serious scribes]
Ella Gwendolen Rees Williams (Jean Rhys): born Aug 24 [serious
scribes]
Helen Maria Williams: born June 17;
mentioned on Oct 28 [The Poets]
Hiram King (“Hank”) Williams: born Sept 17 [musical maestros]
Roger Williams: banned on Oct 13;
plaqued by Oscar Straus on Dec 23 [reverend
writers]
Thomas Lanier (“Tennessee”) Williams: born March 26; “Streetcar” premièred on Dec 3; expurgated on Dec 6; mentioned on Jan 1 and July 18 [the world as stage]
William Carlos Williams: born Sept 17 [The Poets]
Brian
Douglas Wilson: born June 20 [musical maestros]
John Anthony (with an “h”!) Burgess Wilson:
Feb 8 [serious scribes]
Samuel (“Uncle Sam”) Wilson: born Sept
13
Thomas Clayton Wolfe: born Oct 3; mentioned
Jan 1 (not to be confused with Thomas Kennerly Wolfe Jr, whose ”Bonfire
of the Vanities” can be found on Jan 8,
“The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test” on Sept 17,
and a dig at Mailer
and Bellow on July 11) [both Wolves are listed among the serious scribes]
Mary
Wollstonecraft (Godwin): born April 27; this is mum, in case you are
confused [Blue-Stockings and philosophers]
Mary
Wollstonecraft Godwin, without the
bracket, is the daughter, better known by her married name as Mary 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; PB drowned on July
8; Mary was born on Aug 30 1797. Mentioned on Jan 22 [serious
scribes]
Donald James Woods: telling the world about Steve Biko on Sept 12
Henry Woodward: patently another of Edison’s
appropriations on July 24 [E,M&C2]
Adeline Virginia Stephen (Virginia
Woolf): born Jan 25
(husband Leonard’s
birthday is on Nov 25; Bloomsbury is
on May 18); see also July 28; compared with
Christine de Pizan on Jan 13, and in company with with Vita Sackville-West on her death-date, March 28 1941[serious
scribes]
William Wordsworth: birthday on April 7;
sonneting Helen Williams on June 17; “Tintern Abbey” on July 13; much indebted to Charlotte
Turner Smith on Oct 28; passed
into immortality on April 23;
mentioned on April 27; [The Poets]
sister Dorothy is also quoted on the Charlotte Turner Smith page, Oct 28
Christopher Michael Wren: born Oct 20 [illustrious illustrators]; designed the Naval College
in Greenwich on Sept 7
Frank Lincoln Wright (Frank Lloyd Wright): born June 8;
Taliesen burned down on Aug 15; his Guggenheim helter-skelter can be found on
Oct 21; mentioned on Feb 28 [illustrious illustrators]
Orville Wright: born Aug 19
(older brother Wilbur flew with him
on Dec 17)
John
Wycliffe: declared a heretic
on May 4 [reverend writers]
Y
William Butler Yeats: Easter Rebellion on April
24; born June 13; quoted Sept 1; photographed by Ottoline Morrell on Nov 22; mentioned on May 17 and June
24 [The Poets]
Rabbi Shlomo Yitzhaki (“Rashi” is an acronym which is why I have
included his title): recorded words of Beruriah
on Jan 12; destruction of Würms on Feb 19; mentioned with Maimon on March
30 and Oct 10 [reverend writers]
Neil Percival Young: singing to Montezuma
and against Cortez on March 4 and June
30, and with the arrow still very much intact on June 20; debuted with CS&N
on July 25; born Nov 12; on his own here; with Buffalo Springfield here; with CS&N here [musical maestros];
mentioned on Oct 22
Marguerite Antoinette Jeanne Marie Ghislaine
Cleenewerck de Crayencour (Yourcenar,
her pen-name, is an anagram [albeit with a C missing]): born on June 8, but see especially Jan 24 [historians]
Z
Eliyahu ben Shlomo Zalman (Elijah ben Solomon in
English), aka “the Vilna Ga'on”: died on Oct 10 [reverend writers]
Ludwik Lejzer Zamenhof (Ludoviko Lazaro in Esperanto): born Dec 15; his language can be
found on July 26 and Aug 14 [the librarians
of Babel]
Mao Ze-Dong (Mao Tse-Tung): “The Three Worlds” on April
18; part of the GER debate
on Sept 1; died Sept 9; founded the People’s Republic on Oct 19; born Dec
26 [political
ideologues and responses to bullying]
Margaretha Geertruida Zelle
(MacLeod), aka Mata Hari: executed as
a spy on Oct 15
Zeruv-Babel, or Zerubabel,
or Zerubavel: bringing the Jews home
to Israel on March 10
Robert Allen Zimmerman (Bob Dylan): "coblas doblas" on Jan 13; Davey
Moore on Feb 6; “John Birch” on May
19; born on May 24; dreamed
he saw St Augustine on May 26; quoted on June
9; painting à la Hopper on
July 22; with MLK on Aug 28;
at Bunjies on Oct 3; sang for Rubin Carter on Nov
8; under an alias on Nov 23;
produced by John Hammond Jr on Dec 15; mentioned on Feb 18,
April 18, June
20, July 10 and Oct 22 [musical maestros, illustrious illustrators and responses to bullying]
Émile Edouard Charles Antoine Zola: forced to flee on Feb 26; born
April 2; accusatory on July 12 and Oct
18; Dreyfus again on July 14; assassinated on Sept 28; commissioned Rodin’s sculpture of Balzac on Nov
12 [serious scribes and responses to bullying]
Pinchas Zukerman: born July 16
[musical maestros]
Benjamin Levovich Zuskin: the last of the thirteen to be executed in the
so-called “Yiddish writers plot” on Aug 12 [serious scribes]; for the full account go to my WordPress blog
Huldrych Zwingli (some
prefer Ulrich): born Jan 1; killed on Oct 11;
mentioned on May 4 and Dec 16 [reverend
writers]
Izaak Zynger (Isaac Bashevis Singer, the novelist): born July 14; mentioned Oct 27 [serious scribes]
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