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2007 Death - Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., dies of caridac arrest at 89, newspapers remembered him as a historian of power

2004 Death - Pierre Berton, journalist/historian, Klondike Fever, dies at 84

2004 Death - Iris Chang, Chinese Historian

2004 Death - Alan Bullock, British Historian

2003 Death - David Lavender, American Historian

2003 Death - Christopher Hill, English Historian

2003 Death - John Edward Christopher Hill, English Historian

2003 Death - Hugh Trevor-Roper, English Historian

2002 Death - Stephen Ambrose, historian/writer, Band of Brothers, dies at 66

2001 Death - Leopold Page, leathergoods retailer/historian, convinced Thomas Keneally to write Schindler's List, dies at 87

2000 Death - Sir Steven Runciman, historian, A History of the Crusuades, dies at 97

2000 Death - Steven Runciman, British Historian

2000 Death - William P. Bundy, American Historian

2000 Death - Franklin Garrett, American Historian

1997 Death - James Lees-Milne, architecural historian, dies at 89

1997 Death - Dorothy Stroud, garden historian, dies at 87

1997 Death - Leon Poliakov, historian, dies at 87

1997 Death - Clare Lucy Madeleine Evans, historian, dies at 37

1997 Death - Alfred Leslie Rowse, historian, dies at 93

1997 Death - Sam Moskowitz, San Francisco fandom historian, dies at 76

1997 Death - Peter Morris, historian of France, dies at 50

1997 Death - Callum Alexander MacDonald, historian, dies at 49

1996 Death - Michael Roberts, historian, dies at 88

1996 Death - Raphael Samuel, historian, dies at 32

1996 Death - George Duby, historian, dies at 77

1996 Death - Hugo Buchthal, art historian, dies at 87

1996 Death - John Gorman, printer/socialist historian, dies at 66

1996 Death - Rohan Butler, historian, dies at 79

1996 Death - Belinda Quirey, dance historian/teacher, dies at 84

1996 Death - Albert Hughes Williams, teacher/historian, dies at 89

1996 Death - Denis Frank Owen, Natural historian, dies at 65

1996 Death - Tony Parker, oral historian, dies at 73

1996 Death - Sybil Marion Rosenfeld, theatre historian, dies at 93

1996 Death - Anthony Nicholas Maria Wahl, historian, dies at 68

1996 Death - Renzo de Felice, historian, dies at 67

1996 Death - Burton Stein, historian, dies at 69

1996 Death - David Shipman, film historian, dies at 63

1996 Death - William K Everson, film historian, dies at 67

1996 Death - Edwin Clarke, historian/neurologist, dies at 76

1996 Death - Peter Nailor, civil servant/historian, dies at 67

1996 Death - Aled Eames, mAritime historian, dies at 74

1996 Death - Meyer Schapiro, art historian, dies at 91

1996 Death - Richard Leslie Hill, historian, dies at 94

1996 Death - Charles McCorquodale, art historian, dies at 47

1996 Death - Alistair Cameron Crombie, historian of science, dies at 80

1996 Death - Edward Thomas, historian/intelligence expert, dies at 77

1996 Death - Richard Charles Cobb, historian, dies at 78

1996 Death - John Phillipps Kenyon, historian/teacher, dies at 68

1995 Death - Lindsay Oliver John Boynton, furniture historian, dies

1995 Death - Dmitri Antonovitch Volkogonov, soldier/historian, dies at 67

1995 Death - Simon Bailey, Reverend Simon Bailey, priest, Anglican, Labor Party member, socialist historian associates include Dorothy Thompson, J.B. Priestly, E.P Thompson, died while distributing leaflets for the Labor Party

1995 Death - Gwyn A Williams, historian/socialist, dies at 70

1995 Death - Derick Frederick George Emmison, archivist/historian, dies at 88

1995 Death - Allan Leslie Merson, historian, dies at 79

1995 Death - Peter Hinchcliff, historian, dies at 66

1995 Death - Albert Goodwin, historian, dies at 89

1995 Death - Michael Balfour, historian, dies at 86

1995 Death - Donald Cuthbert Coleman, economic historian, dies at 75

1995 Death - Ragnhild Marie Hatton, historian, dies at 82

1995 Death - Fernand Lodewick, literature historian (Literature), dies at 85

1995 Death - S van der Linde, church historian, dies at 89

1995 Death - Margaret Barbara Lambert, British historian (Saar), dies at 88

1995 Death - John AG Gere, English art historian (Raphael and his Circle), dies at 73

1994 Death - Mary Durack, poet, author, historian, dies at 81

1994 Death - Henry Phelps Brown, historian/economist, dies at 88

1994 Death - Richard Krautheimer, U.S. art historian, dies at 97

1994 Death - Richard Krautheimer, art historian, dies at 97

1994 Death - John Wyndham Pope-Hennessy, English art historian, dies at 80

1994 Death - Maurice Ashley, historian, dies at 87

1994 Death - John Richard Ravensdale, historian, dies at 73

1994 Death - Wolf Donner, Austrian movie historian/festival director, dies at 55

1994 Death - Giovanni Spadolini, Italian historian/journalist, dies at 69

1994 Death - Frederik "Frits" van der More, archaeologist/art historian, dies at 87

1994 Death - Robert Jungk, German/French/Us/Austrian philosopher/historian, dies

1994 Death - James Bysse Joll, historian, dies at 76

1994 Death - Denys Hay, historian, dies at 78

1994 Death - Thomas Millar, historian, dies at 67

1994 Death - Thomas Stuart Willan, historian, dies at 84

1994 Death - D Nauta, theologist/church historian/lawyer, dies at 96

1994 Death - Angelus Gottfried "Golo" Mann, German/US historian, dies at 85

1994 Death - Edith Porada, art historian/archaeologist, dies at 81

1994 Death - George Osborne Sayles, historian, dies at 92

1994 Death - Harold Acton, English/Italian historian/art collector, dies at 84

1994 Death - Fouad Fram al-Boustani, Lebanese historian (Rawaeaa), dies at 88

1993 Death - Jozsef Antall, historian/premier of Hungary (1990-93), dies at 61

1993 Death - Maurice Bessy, French film historian (Cinemonde), dies at 82

1993 Death - Ben Scholtens, historian (Gaama Duumi), murdered at 39

1993 Death - Roy Armstrong, English historian (Traditional buildings), dies at 91

1993 Death - E. P. Thompson, British Historian

1993 Death - Victorine Hefting, historian/wife of Bert Baker, dies at 88

1993 Death - Cut Meijer, Saul Messel, historian/rabbi to Paramaribo, dies at 80

1993 Death - C Northcote Parkinson, English historian/sociologist (Law of P), dies

1993 Death - C. Northcote Parkinson, British Historian

1993 Death - W Sybout A Colenbrander, Dutch historian/journalist, dies at 82

1992 Death - Loek Elfferich, Dutch journalist/historian (Treason in Rotterdam), die

1992 Death - Henri Guillemin, French historian, dies at 89

1991 Death - Hanson Baldwin, U.S. military historian, dies at 88

1991 Death - John Korbal, film historian (Marlene Dietrich), dies at 51

1991 Death - Yasushi Inoue, Japanese historian, dies

1990 Death - Alan J P Taylor, British historian (Origins of WW II), dies

1989 Death - F de Jong Edz, Dutch historian/director (IISG), dies

1989 Death - Barbara Tuchman, historian (Guns of August-Pulitzer), dies at 77

1986 Death - Marcel Liebman, Belgian historian, dies at 56

1986 Death - Louis Lebeer, Dutch art historian, dies at 90

1985 Death - Fernand Braudel, French historian, dies at 83

1985 Death - Fernand Braudel, French Historian

1985 Death - Gerard Schmook, Flemish literature historian/custodian, dies at 86

1984 Death - Michel Foucault, English Historian

1983 Death - Anthony F Blunt, British art historian/spy for U.S.S.R., dies at 75

1982 Death - Edward H Carr, British historian, dies at 90

1982 Death - Albert Soboult, French historian, dies at 68

1982 Death - Gerard[us PM] Knuvelder, literature historian (Anthology), dies

1981 Death - Guido Provoost, Belgian historian, dies at 41

1981 Death - Ben Seijes, historian (WW II), dies at 73

1981 Event - Kazimiroff Blvd in Bronx named for a Bronx historian

1981 Death - Clarence A Bacote, historian/political scientist, dies at 75

1980 Death - Walter Rodney, Guyanese historian (bomanslag), dies

1979 Death - Donald Creighton, Canadian Historian

1979 Death - Herbert Butterfield, British Historian

1979 Death - Arthur van Schendel, Dutch art historian, dies at 68

1978 Death - Bruce Catton, U.S. historian/writer (Civil War), dies at 78

1978 Death - Annie [Anna HM] Romein-Verschoor, Dutch historian (Omzien), dies at 83

1977 Death - Pieter Jan Bouman, Dutch sociologist/historian, dies at 74

1976 Death - Samuel Eliot Morison, U.S. historian (Admiral of Ocean Sea), dies at 88

1976 Death - Samuel E. Morison, American Historian

1975 Death - Hannah Arendt, German Historian

1975 Death - Arnold Toynbee, English historian/cultural sociologist, dies at 86

1975 Death - Arnold J. Toynbee, British Historian

1975 Death - Jan A de Jonge, Dutch historian, dies at 48

1975 Death - Constant Burniaux, Belgian art historian (L'amour Vivre), dies at 82

1974 Death - Cornelius Ryan, war reporter/historian (Bridge too Far), dies at 54

1974 Death - Jacob Bronowsky, British mathematician/cultural historian, dies at 66

1974 Death - Ludovicus J Rogier, Dutch historian (Reborn in Freedom), dies at 79

1973 Death - Henry J Elias, Flemish historian/mayor of Gent, dies at 70

1972 Death - Jacques Pirenne, Belgian historian, dies at 81

1971 Death - John A Emmens, art historian/poet (Dog of Pavlov), dies at 47

1971 Death - Korneel Goossens, Flemish literary/art historian, dies at 70

1970 Death - Richard Hofstadter, U.S. historian, dies at 54

1970 Death - Jacob Presser, historian/writer (Doom, Ondergang), dies at 71

1970 Death - Desiderius A Stracke, Flemish jesuit/literature historian, dies at 94

1970 Death - Basil H Liddell Hart, English military historian, dies at 74

1970 Death - B. H. Liddell Hart, British Historian

1968 Death - Kenneth Scott Latourette, American Historian

1968 Death - Willem Kooiman, Dutch theologist/church historian, dies at 65

1968 Death - George P Gooch, English historian/House of Commons leader, dies

1968 Birthday - Iris Chang, Chinese Historian

1968 Death - Erwin Panofsky, German/US art historian/iconologist, dies

1967 Death - Herman Uyttersprot, Flemish literature historian, dies at 58

1967 Death - David Cohen, historian/chairman (Jewish Council), dies at 84

1967 Death - Isaac Deutscher, Polish/English historian (Stalin-biography), dies at 60

1966 Death - Pieter C A Geyl, historian (History of Dutch Race), dies

1965 Death - Erik A Blomberg, Swedish art historian/poet/author, dies at 70

1964 Death - Berthold Altaner, German church historian, dies at 80

1963 Death - Philibert Schmitz, Belgium, historian (Order of St. Benoat), dies at 75

1963 Death - Ernst Kantorowicz, German/US historian, dies at 68

1963 Event - Historian Lee Allen says Indians-Senators game is 100,000th in history

1963 Death - Charles Seymour, American Historian

1963 Death - Obe Postma, Fries, poet/geography/historian (Own Cart), dies

1963 Death - Van Wyck Brooks, U.S. historian (Ordeal of Mark Twain), dies at 77

1963 Death - Alfred Whitney Griswold, American historian and educator, President of Yale 1951 - 1963, dies of colon cancer

1963 Death - Arthur D Nock, English/Americans historian (St. Paul), dies at 60

1962 Death - George MacAulay Trevelyan, English royal historian, dies at 86

1962 Death - Jan M Romein, historian (Breaking of Two Ages), dies

1962 Death - Andre Lhote, French painter/art historian, dies at 76

1961 Death - John Acton, 1st Baron Acton, English historian, friends with De Tocqueville, Bluntschli, Montalembert, his extensive library was purchased after his death by Andrew Carnegie, dies

1960 Birthday - Clare Lucy Madeleine Evans, historian

1960 Death - Johan E Elias, Dutch historian (Elias Family), dies at 84

1959 Death - Alfonso Reyes, Mexican poet, historian and diplomat, dies at 70

1959 Death - Gustave Charlier, Belgian literature historian, dies

1958 Death - Frederik Gerretson [Geerten Gossaert], historian/poet/politician, dies at 74

1958 Death - Max Jakob Friedlander, German/Dutch art historian, dies at 91

1958 Death - Mary Ritter Beard, American historian, dies at 82

1958 Death - Michael G the Boer, historian (Harbor of Amsterdam), dies at 91

1958 Death - John Lindeboom, Dutch vicar/church historian, dies at 75

1958 Death - Paul Fechter, German writer/historian (God's Magician), dies

1957 Death - Fritz Schulz, German law historian (Classical Roman Law), dies at 78

1956 Death - Lucien Febvre, French historian (Un Destin, Martin Luther), dies at 78

1956 Death - [Emile M] Louis Madelin, French historian (Fouche), dies at 85

1956 Death - Ernst R Curtius, German literature historian, dies at 70

1956 Death - George A L Sarton, Belgian/US historian, dies at 71

1956 Death - Henricus P Bremmer, Dutch art historian (Beeldende Kunst), dies at 84

1955 Death - Fiske Kimball, U.S. architect/art historian, dies at 66

1955 Birthday - Caleb Carr, born in Manhattan, New York City, author, military historian, wrote, 'The Italian Secretary', 'Casing the Promised Land', 'The Alienist'

1955 Birthday - Simon Bailey, born in Halifax, England, Reverend Simon Bailey, priest, Anglican, Labor Party member, socialist historian associates include Dorothy Thompson, J.B. Priestly, E.P Thompson

1954 Death - Floris HL Prims, Flemish priest/historian/archivist of Antwerp, dies

1954 Birthday - Michael Shermer, born in Glendale, California, science writer, historian, television producer of Fox series 'Exploring the Unknown', founder, The Skeptics Society

1954 Death - Ahmad Amin, Egyptian historian/author, dies at 67

1954 Death - Aart A van Schelven, church historian (Willem of Orange), dies at 73

1954 Death - Jan Kalf, Dutch literature/art historian, dies at 80

1951 Death - Rafael Altamira Crevea, Spanish lawyer/historian, dies at 85

1950 Death - Carter G Woodson, American historian (black studies), dies at 74

1950 Death - Carter G. Woodson, American Historian

1949 Death - James T Adams, U.S. historian (Pulitzer 1921)

1948 Death - Charles A. Beard, American Historian

1948 Death - Albert F Pollard, British historian (Evolution of parliament), dies at 78

1948 Birthday - Charles McCorquodale, art historian

1947 Death - Joseph Cuvelier, Belgian historian/general, dies at 78

1947 Birthday - Callum Alexander MacDonald, historian

1947 Birthday - R J Evans, FBA, historian

1947 Death - Franz VM Cumont, Belgian religious historian, dies at 79

1947 Death - Joannes D M Cornelissen, historian (Johann de White), dies

1947 Birthday - John Thorn, American Historian

1947 Death - Veit Valentin, German/US historian (German People), dies at 61

1946 Death - Conrad Haebler, historian (Hundert Kalenderinkunabeln), dies at 89

1946 Birthday - Peter Morris, historian of France

1946 Death - Abraham Bredius, Dutch art historian (Rembrandt), dies at 90

1945 Death - Herman T Colenbrander, historian, dies at 73

1945 Death - Johan Huizinga, Dutch culture historian (Homo Ludens), dies at 72

1944 Death - Camille Looten, Belgian priest/literature historian, dies

1944 Death - Max HHR Nettlau, Austrian historian (Der Anarchismus), dies at 79

1944 Death - Marc Bloch, French Historian

1944 Death - Paul Hazard, French literature historian, dies at 65

1944 Birthday - Anthony Farrar Hockley, military historian

1944 Death - Adolph Goldschmidt, German/Swiss art historian, dies at 80

1943 Death - Gerard W. Kerncamp, historian/editor-in-chief (Green Amsterdam), dies

1943 Birthday - Doris Kearns Goodwin, American Historian

1942 Death - Erich Kuttner, German journalist/historian (Vorwarts), dies

1942 Death - Hans Lietzman, German theologist/church historian, dies at 67

1942 Death - Alfred Coville, French historian (Lesson premier Valois), dies at 81

1941 Death - Hippolyte Delehaye, Flemish historian, dies at 81

1941 Death - Ludwig Quidde, German historian/politician (Nobel 1927), dies at 82

1941 Death - Johann Peter Kirsch, Luxembourg church historian, dies at 79

1941 Death - Joseph Schmidlin, German church historian, murdered at 67

1940 Birthday - Guido Provoost, Belgian historian

1940 Death - Herbert Albert Laurens Fisher, historian, dies

1940 Birthday - Averil Cameron, British historian

1939 Birthday - Patrick Cormack, born in Grimsby, England, politician, journalist, author, historian, Conservative Party, Member of Parliament for South Staffordshire

1938 Birthday - Anita Brookner, art historian/novelist

1937 Death - William M Conway, English historian/explorer (Spitzbergen), dies at 81

1937 Death - Albert Verwey, Dutch poet/literature historian (Motion), dies at 71

1936 Death - Jacques Bainville, French historian/essayist/journalist, dies at 57

1935 Death - Henri Pirenne, historian (Lesson villes ouch moyen-age), dies at 73

1935 Birthday - Roy Strong, writer/art historian/director, Victoria and Albert Museum

1935 Death - Lodewijk Scharpe, Flemish literature historian, dies at 65

1934 Birthday - Raphael Samuel, historian

1934 Birthday - Lindsay Oliver John Boynton, furniture historian

1933 Birthday - Robert Rhodes James, historian, Gallipoli

1933 Birthday - Richard Schickel, born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, documentary filmmaker, film critic, author, journalist, historian, received Guggenheim Fellowship, published in Time, and Life, magazines, books include, 'Woody Allen: A Life in Film', 'Elia Kazan: A Biography'

1932 Birthday - David Shipman, film historian

1932 Birthday - Bronislaw Geremek, born in Warsaw, given name Benjamin Lewertow, social historian, politician, Minister of Foreign Affairs

1931 Birthday - Denis Frank Owen, Natural historian

1930 Death - Friedrich von Bernhardi, German war theorist/historian, dies at 81

1930 Birthday - John Gorman, printer/socialist historian

1930 Death - Karl von Amira, German historian, dies at 82

1930 Death - Rudolf Hapke, historian (Entstehung Holland Wirtschaft), dies at 45

1929 Death - Peter J Blok, Dutch historian, dies at 74

1929 Death - Thomas F Tout, historian (Manch school of historiography), dies at 74

1929 Birthday - Marcel Liebman, Belgian historian

1929 Birthday - Renzo de Felice, historian

1929 Birthday - WIlliam K. Everson, film historian

1929 Birthday - Peter Bingham Hinchcliff, British church historian, 1 Sided Reciprocity

1929 Birthday - Peter Hinchcliff, historian

1929 Birthday - Len Deighton, British Historian

1929 Death - Dietrich Schafer, German historian (Mein Leben), dies at 83

1928 Birthday - Peter Nailor, civil servant/historian

1928 Death - F A Alphonse Aulard, French historian, dies

1928 Birthday - Anthony Nicholas Maria Wahl, historian

1928 Death - Manuel de Oliveira Lima, Brazilian historian, dies at 60

1928 Birthday - Donald Cameron Watt, historian

1928 Birthday - Tom Sharpe, English historian/author, Riotous Assembly, Want

1928 Birthday - Dmitri Antonovitch Volkogonov, soldier/historian

1927 Birthday - John Phillipps Kenyon, historian/teacher

1927 Birthday - Phillip Burton, historian, Vanishing Eagles

1926 Death - Jan Six, Dutch art historian/collector, dies

1926 Birthday - Jan A de Jonge, Dutch historian

1926 Birthday - Thomas Millar, historian

1926 Death - August Sauer, Austria literature historian, dies at 70

1926 Birthday - Annie nee Becker Kriegel, historian

1926 Birthday - Michiel de Ruyter, Dutch jazz historian, Mister Jazz

1926 Birthday - Burton Stein, historian

1926 Death - Frederik Pijper, Dut vicar/church historian (Monasteries), dies at 67

1926 Birthday - Douglas Johnson, historian

1925 Birthday - Gwyn A Williams, historian/socialist

1925 Death - Jan P Veth, Dutch painter/lithographer/art historian, dies at 61

1924 Death - Clemens Baeumker, German historian (Christian Philosophy), dies at 71

1924 Birthday - John A Emmens, art historian/poet, Kunst and Vliegwerk

1924 Birthday - John Grigg, British historian

1924 Birthday - Mary Tregear, Oriental art historian

1924 Birthday - E. P. Thompson, British Historian

1923 Birthday - John Hale, born in Ashford, Kent, linguist, historian, professor, editor, attended Johns Hopkins University, Harvard University, served as a Fellow of the British Academy

1923 Birthday - Tony Parker, oral historian

1923 Birthday - Peter Gay, American Historian

1923 Death - Gustav Enestrom, Swedish historian, dies at 70

1922 Death - Samuel Muller Fzn, Dutch historian/archivist, dies

1922 Birthday - Howard Zinn, American Historian

1922 Birthday - James Holt, medieval historian

1922 Birthday - William Manchester, born in Attleboro, Massachusetts, historian, Death of a President

1922 Death - Louis A Ranvier, French anatomist/historian, dies at 86

1921 Birthday - John Arthur Giles Gere, English art historian, Pre-Raphaelite painter

1921 Birthday - Aled Eames, maritime historian

1920 Birthday - John Richard Ravensdale, historian

1920 Birthday - Robert Feenstra, Dutch law historian

1920 Birthday - Jan W. Schulte Nordholt, Dutch poet and historian, Blossoming Stone

1920 Birthday - Sam Moskowitz, San Francisco fandom historian

1920 Death - Max Weber, German sociologist/economist/historian, dies

1920 Birthday - Cornelius Ryan, U.S. historian and writer, Italians: Face of a Nation

1920 Death - Alexandru D Xenopol, Romanian historian, dies at 72

1920 Birthday - Donald Cuthbert Coleman, economic historian

1919 Birthday - George Duby, historian

1919 Birthday - Edwin Clarke, historian and neurologist

1919 Birthday - F de Jong Edz, Dutch historian

1918 Birthday - James Bysse Joll, historian

1918 Death - Henry Adams, U.S. literature historian (Esther), dies at 80

1918 Birthday - Edward Thomas, historian/intelligence expert

1918 Death - Henry B. Adams, Historian

1918 Death - Willem H de Beaufort, Dutch historian/liberal politician, dies at 73

1917 Birthday - William Hardy McNeill, historian, Rise of the West

1917 Birthday - Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., Ohio, historian, 1946 Pulitzer-Age of Jackson

1917 Birthday - Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., born in Ohio, American historian, author, democratic activist, Pulitzer prize recipient

1917 Birthday - William P. Bundy, American Historian

1917 Birthday - Richard Charles Cobb, historian

1917 Birthday - H C Allen, American historian

1917 Birthday - GE Goran Schildt, Finnish art historian and writer, Solbaten

1917 Birthday - Rohan Butler, historian

1916 Birthday - Allan Leslie Merson, historian

1915 Birthday - Alistair Cameron Crombie, historian of science

1915 Birthday - Denys Hay, historian

1915 Birthday - Theodore H White, historian and writer, Making of President

1915 Birthday - John Hope Franklin, historian

1914 Birthday - Alan L Bullock, British historian

1914 Birthday - Alan Bullock, British Historian

1914 Birthday - Daniel J. Boorstin, American Historian

1914 Birthday - Philippe Aries, French historian

1914 Birthday - Albert Soboult, French historian

1914 Birthday - Roger Aubert, Belgium, church historian, Le Pontificat de Pie IX

1914 Birthday - Lord Dacre of Glanton, British historian

1914 Birthday - Hugh Trevor-Roper, English Historian

1913 Birthday - John Wyndham Pope-Hennessy, English art historian

1913 Birthday - Mary Durack, born in Adelaide, Australia, poet, author, historian, wrote Kings in Grass Castles and Keep Him My Country

1913 Birthday - Ragnhild Marie Hatton, historian

1912 Birthday - Jaap Meijer, Saul van Messel, Dutch historian/rabbi in Paramaribo

1912 Birthday - Edith Porada, art historian/archaeologist

1912 Birthday - Studs Terkel, born in New York, author, historian, broadcaster, Pulitzer Prize winner

1912 Birthday - Belinda Quirey, dance historian/teacher

1912 Birthday - Edmund George Love, U.S., teacher/historian/author, A Small Bequest, =

1912 Birthday - Christopher Hill, English Historian

1912 Birthday - John Edward Christopher Hill, English Historian

1912 Birthday - Barbara Tuchman, U.S., historian/author, Pulitzer, Guns of August

1911 Birthday - Fitzroy Maclean, British diplomat soldier politician and historian

1910 Birthday - Leon Poliakov, historian

1910 Death - Albert Vandal, French earl/historian (Napoleon), dies at 57

1910 Birthday - Cicely Veronica Wedgwood, British historian, William the Silent

1910 Birthday - Arthur van Schendel, Dutch art historian

1910 Birthday - Andrew Gilchrist, historian/diplomat

1910 Birthday - David Lavender, American Historian

1910 Birthday - Dorothy Stroud, garden historian

1910 Birthday - Thomas Stuart Willan, historian

1909 Birthday - Nigel Tranter, author/historian, River Realm, Robert the Bruce

1909 Death - Henry Charles Lea, American Historian

1909 Birthday - Fernand Lodewick, literature historian

1909 Birthday - Hugo Buchthal, art historian

1909 Birthday - Cyril Northcote Parkinson, England, historian, Pursuit of Progress

1909 Birthday - Hermann Bengtson, German historian, Greeks Ancient Times

1909 Birthday - C. Northcote Parkinson, British Historian

1909 Birthday - Herman Uyttersprot, Flemish literature historian

1909 Birthday - Golo Mann, Gottfried, German and U.S. historian, Antisemitism

1909 Birthday - Rene Etiemble, French literature historian, Parlez-vous Franglais

1908 Birthday - Michael Balfour, historian

1908 Birthday - Lab Rachel Katherine Hamilton-Russell ouchere, local historian

1908 Birthday - James Lees-Milne, architecural historian

1908 Birthday - Walther Vanbeselaere, Flemish art historian

1908 Birthday - Michael Roberts, historian

1908 Birthday - Jacob Bronowsky, British mathematician/cultural historian

1908 Birthday - Ben Seijes, Dutch historian, WW II

1908 Birthday - Walther Vanbeselaere, Flemish art historian

1907 Birthday - Anthony F Blunt, British historian/spy for U.S.S.R.

1907 Birthday - Maurice Ashley, historian

1907 Birthday - Robert Humphreys, British? historian

1907 Birthday - Frederick George Emmison, archivist/historian

1907 Birthday - Isaac Deutscher, Polish/English historian, Stalin/Trotsky biography

1907 Birthday - Albert Hughes Williams, teacher and historian

1907 Birthday - Mircea Eliade, religious historian, Le Yoga

1906 Death - Leon Vanderkindere, Belgian historian/mayor of Ukkel, dies at 64

1906 Birthday - Margaret Barbara Lambert, British historian, Saar

1906 Birthday - Alfred Whitney Griswold, born in Morristown, New Jersey, American historian and educator, President of Yale 1951 - 1963

1906 Birthday - Hannah Arendt, Germany, historian, Origins of Totalitarianism

1906 Birthday - Franklin Garrett, American Historian

1906 Birthday - Countess of Longford, biographer/historian

1906 Birthday - Albert Goodwin, historian

1906 Birthday - Safford Cape, US/Belgian conductor/composer/music historian

1906 Birthday - Alan J P Taylor, British historian, English history 1914-1915

1906 Birthday - A. J. P. Taylor, British Historian

1906 Birthday - Henry Phelps Brown, historian/economist

1904 Birthday - Frederik van der Meer, Dutch archaeologist/art historian

1904 Death - William GGVV Harcourt, historian/English Secretary of State, dies at 76

1904 Birthday - Meyer Schapiro, art historian

1904 Birthday - Harold Acton, English/Italian historian/art collector

1904 Birthday - William L Shirer, historian, Rise and Fall of 3rd Reich

1904 Death - Peter Prime Minister Alberdingk Thijm, Dutch historian/writer, dies at 76

1903 Birthday - Alfred Leslie Rowse, historian

1903 Death - [Christian M] Theodor Mommsen, German historian (Nobel 1902), dies

1903 Birthday - Willem Kooiman, Dutch theologist/church historian

1903 Death - Vincente F Lopez, historian (Historia the Chile), dies at 87

1903 Birthday - Mauritius van Haegendoren, Flemish historian/senator

1903 Birthday - Steven Runciman, British Historian

1903 Birthday - Sybil Marion Rosenfeld, theatre historian

1902 Birthday - Fernand Braudel, French historian

1902 Birthday - Wolfgang Kunkel, German law historian

1902 Birthday - Murk Ozinga, Dutch building historian, Monuments of Curacao

1902 Birthday - Henry Commager, Pittsburgh, Steele historian

1902 Birthday - Henry Steele Commager, born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, historian, Atlas of Civil War

1902 Birthday - Pieter John Bouman, sociologist/historian

1902 Birthday - Fernand Braudel, French historian, Civililization and Capitalism

1902 Birthday - Roy Armstrong, English historian, History of Sussex

1902 Death - Charles Kendall Adams, historian, educator, served as second President of Cornell University 1885 - 1892, President, University of Wisconsin 1892 - 1901, dies at age 67, in Redlands, California

1902 Birthday - Donald Creighton, Canadian Historian

1902 Death - John E E Dalberg baron van Acton, English historian, dies at 69

1902 Birthday - Hendrik J Elias, Flemish historian, mayor-Ghent

1902 Death - Samuel R Gardiner, British historian (Oliver Cromwell), dies at 72

1902 Birthday - Arthur D Nock, English/U.S. historian, St. Paul

1902 Birthday - Nikolaus Pevsner, Engl, art historian, The Buildings of England

1902 Birthday - Gerard P M Knuvelder, Dutch literature historian, Vocation, Kitty

1901 Birthday - Andre Malraux, Berger, France, novelist/art historian, L'Espoir

1901 Death - John Fiske, Edmund Fisk Green, U.S. historian/philosopher, dies

1901 Death - Hermann Grimm, German writer, poet and historian, dies

1901 Birthday - George Osborne Sayles, historian

1901 Death - William Stubbs, historian/bishop, dies

1901 Birthday - Richard Leslie Hill, historian

1901 Death - Bernhard Erdmannsdorffer, German historian (Mirabeau), dies at 68

1901 Death - Mandell Creighton, English bishop/historian, dies at 57

1901 Death - Victor Balaguer, Catalaans historian/politician/author, dies at 76

1900 Birthday - Korneel Goossens, Flemish literature/art historian

1900 Birthday - Herbert Butterfield, British Historian

1899 Birthday - Bruce Catton, U.S., historian and writer, Civil War

1899 Birthday - Alfred Kantorowicz, German historian, Spanish Diary

1899 Birthday - Otto E Neugebauer, Austrian/US math historian

1899 Birthday - Jacob Presser, Dutch historian and writer, Down-fall

1899 Birthday - Arthur Bryant, English historian, King Charles II

1899 Birthday - John Randall, Jr., Michigan, historian/philosopher, Western Man

1899 Death - Robert J Fruin, Dutch historian (80-year war), dies at 75

1899 Birthday - Joseph Nathan Kane, historian, Famous Firsts

1898 Birthday - Gerard Schmook, Flemish librarian/historian/custodian

1898 Birthday - Martin David, German/Netherlands law historian

1898 Death - Constant A Serrure, Flemish historian, dies at 62

1898 Death - Alphonse Wauters, Belgian historian, dies at 81

1898 Birthday - Hans van Werveke, Flemish historian, Diocese Terwaan

1897 Death - Jacob Burckhardt, Swiss cultural historian, dies at 79

1897 Birthday - Richard Krautheimer, art Historian

1896 Death - John GR Acquoy, Dutch theologist/church historian, dies at 67

1896 Death - Ernst Curtius, German archaeologist/historian (Olympia), dies at 81

1896 Death - Hendrik G Kleyn, church historian dies at 36

1896 Death - Allard Pierson, theologist/philosopher/art historian/poet, dies

1896 Birthday - Jan N Bakhuizen van den Brink, theologist/church historian

1896 Death - Heinrich von Treitschke, German historian, dies

1895 Birthday - B. H. Liddell Hart, British Historian

1895 Birthday - Louis Mumford, cultural historian/city planner/writer

1895 Birthday - Louis Lebeer, Dutch art historian

1895 Birthday - Charles Petrie, Liverpool, historian

1895 Birthday - Louis Finkelstein, U.S. historian/theologist, Pharizees

1895 Birthday - Earnest Kantorowicz, German/US historian, Laudes regiae

1895 Birthday - Frans Ganshof, Belgian historian

1895 Birthday - Annie [Anna HM] Romein-Verschoor, Dutch historian, Erflaters

1894 Death - Willem JF Nuyens, Dutch physician/RC historian, dies at 71

1894 Birthday - Erik A Blomberg, Swedish art historian/poet/author, Jorden

1894 Birthday - Ludovicus J Rogier, Dutch historian, Henric van Veldeken

1894 Death - Franjo Racki, Croatian historian/politician, dies at 65

1893 Death - Jacobus J Backer, German sea historian, dies at 68

1893 Birthday - Jan M Romein, Dutch historian, Low Countries at Sea

1893 Birthday - Joannes DM Cornelissen, Dutch historian, Hooft and Tacitus

1893 Death - Hippolyte Taine, French philosopher/historian, dies at 64

1892 Birthday - Eduard J Dijksterhuis, Dutch mathematician/historian, Fall and Throw

1892 Birthday - Constantly Burniaux, Belg, art historian, Temps Inquiets

1892 Birthday - Edward H Carr, born in England, historian, History of Soviet Russia

1892 Birthday - Erwin Panofsky, German and U.S. art historian

1892 Birthday - Dumas Malone, Mississippi, historian, Jefferson and His Time

1891 Death - George Washington Williams, historian (History of Negro), dies at 41

1891 Birthday - Jacques Pirenne, Belgian historian

1891 Birthday - Hans Ruin, Finnish Swedish-language historian

1891 Death - George Bancroft, American Historian

1890 Birthday - Gerardus van der Leeuw, Dutch religion historian/minister of Education

1889 Death - Michele Amari, Italian historian/minister of Education, dies at 83

1889 Birthday - Alfonso Reyes, Mexican poet, historian and diplomat, Higenia Cruel

1889 Birthday - Arnold Toynbee, born in England, historian, Study of History

1889 Birthday - Arnold J. Toynbee, British Historian

1889 Death - Thomas T H Jorissen, historian, dies at 56

1889 Birthday - Philip Guedalla, historian

1889 Birthday - Guido Kisch, Czechoslovakian/German/U.S. historian, Jews in medieval Germany

1888 Birthday - Fiske Kimball, U.S. architect/art historian

1888 Birthday - Philibert Schmitz, Belgium, historian, Ordre the St-Benoat

1888 Death - Carel Vosmaer, art historian/poet/editor (Netherlands Spectator), dies at 62

1888 Death - Henry James Sumner Maine, English Historian

1887 Birthday - Pieter C A Geyl, historian, History of the Dutch Tribe

1887 Birthday - Francis Bull, Norway, writer, Norsk literature historian

1887 Birthday - Samuel Eliot Morison, historian, Admiral of the Ocean Sea

1887 Birthday - Samuel E. Morison, American Historian

1887 Birthday - Erich Kuttner, German journalist/historian, Vorwarts

1887 Death - Pavel Annenkov, Russian literature historian, dies at 73

1887 Death - Pavel Annenkov, Russian literature historian/critic, dies at 73

1886 Birthday - Ahmad Amin, Egyptian historian/author

1886 Death - Wilhelm Scherer, German literature historian, dies at 45

1886 Birthday - Marc Bloch, French Historian

1886 Birthday - Ernst R. Curtius, German literature historian

1886 Birthday - Van Wyck Brooks, New Jersey, literary historian and writer, Ordeal of Mark Twain

1885 Death - Louis-Prosper Gachard, Belgian historian, dies at 85

1885 Birthday - Will Durant, U.S., author/historian, Story of Civilization

1885 Birthday - Berthold Altaner, German church historian, Patrologie

1885 Birthday - Gustave Charlier, Belgian literature historian/critic

1885 Birthday - Andre Lhote, French painter/art historian, Traite du paysage

1885 Birthday - Veit Valentin, German/US historian, Deutsche Revolution

1885 Birthday - Charles Seymour, American Historian

1884 Birthday - Bastiaan de Gaay Fortman, Dutch historian/Justice of Curacao

1884 Birthday - George Al Sarton, Belgian/U.S. historian

1884 Birthday - Kenneth Scott Latourette, American Historian

1884 Birthday - Alexander Byvanck, Dutch art historian/archaeologist

1883 Birthday - John G van Dillen, historian, Of Wealth and Oligarchists

1883 Death - Pavel Melnikov, Petsjerski, Russian historian, dies at 64

1883 Death - Pavel Melnikov, Russian historian/author, dies

1882 Birthday - David Cohen, Dutch historian/chairman, Jewish Council

1882 Birthday - Johannes Lindeboom, vicar/church historian, Netherlands Archives

1882 Birthday - Leo van Puyfielde, Flemish art historian

1882 Birthday - Manuel Galvez, Argentina writer, poet and historian, Paraguay

1882 Death - Jules Quicherat, French historian/archaeologist (Melanges), dies at 66

1882 Birthday - Floris H. L. Prims, Flemish priest, historian and archivist of Antwerp

1881 Death - Leopold von Ranke, historian, dies

1881 Death - Thomas Carlyle, historian/essayist, dies in London at 85

1880 Death - Bernard de Hair, vicar/poet/church historian, dies at 74

1880 Birthday - Aart A van Schelven, Dutch church historian, Willem of Orange

1880 Death - Jan K J de Jonge, Dutch historian, dies at 51

1879 Birthday - Fritz Schulz, German law historian, Classical Novel Law

1879 Birthday - Jacques Bainville, French historian/essayist/journalist

1878 Birthday - Mark N Tod, English classicist/historian

1878 Birthday - James Truslow Adams, historian, Pul-1921, Founding of New England

1878 Birthday - Paul Hazard, French literature historian

1878 Birthday - Lucien Febvre, French historian, Un destin: Martin Luther

1878 Death - Jose Amador de los Rios, Spanish historian/poet, dies at 59

1876 Death - Jeronimo de Bosch Kemper, Dutch sociologist/historian, dies at 68

1876 Birthday - Mary R. Beard, born in Indianapolis, historian, Woman as a Force in History

1876 Death - Frantisek Palacky, Czechoslovakian historian/MP, dies at 77

1876 Death - Guillaume Groen van Prinsterer, Dutch historian/politician, dies at 74

1876 Birthday - Joseph Schmidlin, German church historian/antifascist

1876 Birthday - George Macauley Trevelyan, England, historian, Giuseppi Garibaldi

1876 Death - Charles EH de Coussemaker, Belgian musicologist/historian, dies at 70

1875 Death - Michail P Pogodin, Russian historian/writer (Povesti), dies at 75

1875 Birthday - Carter G Woodson, New Canton, Virginia, American historian, black studies

1875 Birthday - Carter G. Woodson, American Historian

1875 Birthday - Desiderius A. Stracke, Flemish jesuit/literature historian

1875 Birthday - Johan E Elias, historian, Amsterdam

1875 Death - Edgar Quinet, French writer/historian (Ahasverus), dies at 72

1875 Death - Arthur Helps, British Historian

1875 Birthday - Hans Lietzman, German theologist and church historian

1874 Birthday - Charles A. Beard, American Historian

1874 Death - Jules Michelet, French historian (History of France), dies at 75

1874 Birthday - Ernst Rabel, Austrian/US law historian, Grundzuge

1873 Birthday - George P Gooch, English historian/MP

1873 Death - Friedrich von Raumer, German historian/parliamentarian, dies at 92

1873 Birthday - Emil Ermatinger, born in Switzerland, literature historian

1873 Birthday - Jan Kalf, literary/art historian, Preservation of museums

1872 Birthday - Johan Huizinga, Dutch culture historian, Homo Ludens

1872 Death - Theophile Gautier, French poet/writer/historian/critic, dies at 61

1872 Birthday - George Louis Beer, historian, authority on British colonies

1871 Birthday - Herman T Colenbrander, Dutch historian

1871 Birthday - Nicolae Iorga, writer/poet/literature historian/president of Romania

1871 Birthday - Henricus P Bremmer, art historian, Modern Kunstwerken

1871 Birthday - [Emile M] Louis Madelin, French historian, French revolutionary

1869 Birthday - Albert F Pollard, British historian, Dict of natural biography

1869 Birthday - Lodewijk Scharpe, Flemish literature historian

1869 Birthday - Joseph Cuvelier, Belgian historian/archivist

1868 Birthday - Obe Postma, Frisian poet/geography/historian, Frisian Clay Farm

1868 Birthday - Franz V M Cumont, Belgian religious historian

1867 Birthday - Manuel de Oliveira Lima, Brazilian historian/diplomat

1867 Birthday - Max Friedlander, German art historian, Altniederlandische Malerei

1867 Death - Archibald Alison, Scottish historian, dies at 74

1867 Birthday - Michael G de Boer, historian, Harbor of Amsterdam

1866 Birthday - Benedetto Croce, Italy, humanist/historian/editor/philosopher

1866 Birthday - Bannister Fletcher, London, architect and architectural historian

1866 Birthday - Rafael Altamira Crevea, Spanish lawyer/historian

1865 Death - Heinrich Barth, German historian/geographer (Central Africa), dies

1865 Birthday - Wilhelm Bousset, German theologist/historian

1865 Death - Reinier C Bakhuizen van de Brink, Dutch historian, dies at 55

1865 Birthday - Albert Verwey, Dutch poet/literature historian, Motion

1865 Birthday - Max HHR Nettlau, Austrian historian, Le Premiere Internationale

1864 Birthday - Gerard W. Kernkamp, Dutch historian/editor, Groene Amsterdammer

1864 Birthday - Jan P Veth, Bayern, Dutch painter/etcher/lithographer/art historian

1864 Birthday - Max Weber, German sociologist/economist/historian, Ancient Judaism

1863 Birthday - Rene [Raphael] Viviani, French historian/social premier, 1914-15

1863 Birthday - James Harvey Robinson, born in Illinois, historian, Ordeal of Civilization

1863 Birthday - Adolph Goldschmidt, German historian

1862 Birthday - Henri Pirenne, Belgian historian, History of Belgium

1862 Birthday - Daniel Halevy, French historian and writer, La fin des notables

1862 Birthday - Henry John Newbolt, English sea historian/poet

1861 Birthday - Frederick Jackson Turner, Wisconsin, historian/educator, Harvard U

1861 Birthday - Johann Peter Kirsch, Luxembourg church historian/archaeologist

1861 Birthday - Ursmer Berliere, Belgian historian, Monastican Belgium

1861 Birthday - Pierre M M Duhem, French naturalist/philosopher/historian

1860 Death - Constantine S Aksakov, Russian historian/poet, dies at 43

1860 Birthday - Alfred Coville, French historian, Lesson etats de Normandie

1859 Birthday - John W Fortescue, military historian

1859 Death - Thomas Babington Macaulay, English essayist/historian, dies

1859 Death - Nicolaas C Kist, Dutch church historian/archivist, dies at 66

1859 Birthday - Hendrik G. Kleyn, church historian

1859 Birthday - Hippolyte Delehaye, Flemish historian/hagiographer

1859 Birthday - Frederik Pijper, Dutch vicar/church historian, The Monasteries

1859 Death - Antoine GB Schayes, Belgian historian/archaeologist, dies at 50

1858 Birthday - Ludwig Quidde, German historian/politician, Nobel prize 1927

1858 Death - Georg F Creuzer, German philological/historian, dies at 86

1857 Birthday - Conrad Haebler, German historian, Early printers of Spain/Portugal

1857 Birthday - Jan Six, Dutch art historian/art collector

1856 Birthday - William M. Conway, English historian and explorer, Spitzbergen

1855 Birthday - Camille Looten, Belgian priest/literature historian

1855 Birthday - August Sauer, Austria literature historian, Euphorion

1855 Birthday - Thomas F Tout, London, historian, Manchester school of historiography

1855 Birthday - Abraham Bredius, Dutch art historian, Jan Steen

1855 Birthday - Peter J Blok, Dutch historian, History of the Dutch People

1854 Birthday - Hans Muller, music historian

1854 Death - Karl F Eichhorn, German law historian, dies at 72

1853 Birthday - Clemens Baeumker, German historian, Patristischen Philosophie

1853 Birthday - Albert Vandal, French earl/historian, Le Pacha Bonneval

1853 Death - John C de Jonge, Dutch historian/archivist, dies at 60

1850 Birthday - Herbert Baxter Adams, U.S., historian, American Historical Association

1849 Birthday - Friedrich von Bernhardi, Germany historian, Germany and the Next War

1849 Death - George Washington Williams, 1st major black historian, dies

1849 Birthday - F. A. Alphonse Aulard, French historian

1848 Birthday - Samuel Muller Fzn, Dutch historian/archivist, Middle Ages

1847 Birthday - Godefroid Kurth, Belgian historian, La cite de Liege au moyen age

1847 Birthday - Alexandru D Xenopol, Romania, historian

1845 Birthday - Dietrich Schafer, German historian, Deutsche Hanse

1845 Birthday - Willem H de Beaufort, Dutch historian/politician

1843 Birthday - Mandell Creighton, English bishop/historian

1842 Death - Emanuel A D M J count de las Cases, French historian (Napoleon), dies at 76

1842 Birthday - John Fiske, Edmund Fisk Green, U.S. historian and philosopher

1842 Birthday - Leon Vanderkindere, Belgian historian/mayor, Ukkel

1842 Birthday - Vasili O Klyutshevski, Russian historian

1841 Birthday - Wilhelm Scherer, German literature historian

1840 Birthday - John Addington Symonds, British historian and writer, Probs in Greek Ethics

1838 Birthday - James, 1st Viscount Bryce, historian/statesman

1838 Birthday - Henry B. Adams, born in Boston, Massachusetts, historian, writer, Education of Henry Adams

1835 Birthday - Louis A Ranvier, French anatomist/historian

1835 Birthday - Constant A. Serrure, Flemish historian

1835 Birthday - Charles Kendall Adams, born in Derby, Vermont, historian, educator, served as second President of Cornell University 1885 - 1892, President, University of Wisconsin 1892 - 1901

1834 Birthday - Heinrich von Treitschke, German historian/parliament member

1834 Birthday - John Acton, born in Naples, Italy, 1st Baron Acton, English historian, friends with De Tocqueville, Bluntschli, Montalembert, his extensive library was purchased after his death by Andrew Carnegie

1833 Death - Pieter G Witsen Geysbeek, historian/literary, dies at 58

1833 Birthday - Thomas T H Jorissen, Dutch historian

1833 Birthday - Bernhard Erdmannsdorffer, German, historian, Deutsche Geschichte

1832 Birthday - H H Bancroft, historian, publisher, History of Pacific States

1831 Birthday - Allard Pierson, Dutch theologiost, philosopher, art historian and poet

1831 Birthday - Justin Winston, historian/librarian, Harvard

1830 Death - Knud L Rahbek, Danish literary/historian, dies at 69

1830 Birthday - Numa D Fustel de Coulanges, French historian and sociologist

1829 Birthday - Moritz B Cantor, German math historian

1829 Birthday - John G R Acquoy, theologist/church historian

1828 Birthday - Franjo Racki, Croatian historian/politician

1828 Birthday - Jan K J de Jonge, Dutch historian

1828 Birthday - Hippolyte Taine, French philosopher/historian, Voyage in Italy

1827 Birthday - Petrus PM Alberdingk Thijm, Dutch historian and writer

1826 Birthday - Carel Vosmaer, Dutch art historian/poet/editor

1825 Birthday - Henry Charles Lea, American Historian

1825 Birthday - Jacobus J Backer, German sea historian

1823 Death - Vincenzo Cuoco, Italian historian (Naple revolution 1799), dies at 53

1823 Birthday - Robert J Fruin, historian, 80 year war

1823 Birthday - Francis Parkman, American historian/author, Oregon Trail

1823 Birthday - Willem J F Nuyens, Dutch physician/RC historian

1823 Birthday - Ernest Renan, French philosopher/historian/scholar of religion

1822 Birthday - Henry James Sumner Maine, English Historian

1820 Death - Joseph Banks, English natural historian (Cook/Australia), dies

1820 Death - Daniel W. Wyttenbach, Dutch classicist/historian, dies at 73

1819 Birthday - Charles Kingsley, Parson Lot, English vicar/historian, Westward Ho!

1818 Birthday - Pavel Melnikov, Russian historian/author, V Lesach

1818 Birthday - Pavel Melnikov, Russian historian/author, V Lesach

1818 Birthday - Jacob Burckhardt, Swiss cultural historian

1818 Birthday - Jose Amador de los Rios, Spanish historian/poet

1818 Birthday - James Anthony Froude, historian

1817 Birthday - Theodor Mommsen, Germ, historian/author, Imperial Lives, Nobel 1902

1817 Birthday - Alphonse Wauters, Belgian historian/archivist, Brussels

1817 Birthday - Constantine S. Aksakov, Russian historian and poet

1816 Death - Adam Ferguson, Scottish sociologist/historian, dies at 92

1815 Birthday - Johann J Bachofen, Swiss judicial historian

1815 Birthday - Jules Quicherat, French historian/archaeologist

1814 Birthday - Ernst Curtius, German archaeologist/historian

1814 Birthday - Vincente F. Lopez, Argentina historian, La Novia del Hereje

1814 Birthday - John Lothrop Motley, U.S., historian/author, Rise of Dutch Rep

1813 Birthday - Arthur Helps, British Historian

1813 Birthday - Pavel Annenkov, Russian lit historian, Zametsjatelnoje desjatiletie

1813 Birthday - Pavel Annenkov, Rus literature historian, Zametsjatelnoje desjatileti

1810 Birthday - Thomas Wright, historian

1810 Birthday - Reinier C Bakhuizen van de Brink, Dutch historian

1808 Birthday - Jeronimo de Bosch Kemper, sociologist/historian, Statistic yearbook

1808 Birthday - Antoine GB Schayes, Belgian historian/archaeologist

1807 Death - Adriaan Kluit, Dutch historian, dies at 71

1806 Birthday - Michele Amari, Italian historian/minister of Education

1806 Birthday - Bernard ter Haar, Dutch vicar/poet/church historian

1805 Birthday - Charles Edmond-Henri de Coussemaker, Belgian musicologist/historian

1803 Death - Joannes Natalis Paquot, Belgian priest/historian, dies at 80

1803 Birthday - Edgar Quinet, French writer/historian, Ahasverus

1801 Birthday - Guillaume Groen van Prinsterer, WW II Dutch statesman/historian

1800 Birthday - Michail P Pogodin, Russian historian/author, Povesti

1800 Birthday - Thomas Babington Macaulay, England, poet and historian, Ivry, Naaseby

1800 Birthday - George Bancroft, historian, Hall of Fame

1800 Birthday - Paulin Paris, French historian

1800 Birthday - Louis-Prosper Gachard, Belgian historian

1799 Birthday - Johann von Dollinger, German Old Catholic theologian/historian

1798 Birthday - Jules Michelet, French historian, History of France, L'Amour

1798 Birthday - Frantisek Palacky, Czechoslovakian historian

1795 Birthday - Thomas Carlyle, Scotland, essayist/historian, French Revolution

1795 Birthday - Thomas Arnold, English educator/historian, History of Rome

1795 Birthday - Jacques-Nicolas-Augustin Thierry, historian

1795 Death - Jean-Jacques Barthelemy, French historian (Ancient Greece), dies

1794 Birthday - George Grote, British historian

1794 Death - Edward Gibbon, historian (Decline and Fall), dies in London at 56

1793 Death - Jean-Sylvain, French historian (Napoleon), executed at 53

1793 Birthday - Johannes C de Jonge, Dutch historian/archivist

1793 Birthday - Nicolaas C. Kist, Dutch church historian/archivist

1792 Birthday - Archibald Alison, Scottish historian, History of Europe

1790 Death - Johann N von Hontheim, German religious historian/Bishop, dies

1790 Birthday - Per Daniel Amadeus Atterbom, Swedish historian/poet, Blommorna

1787 Birthday - Francois P G Guizot, French historian/politician

1787 Birthday - Johann D Passavant, German historian/painter/graphic artist

1783 Birthday - Erik Gustaf Geijer, Swedish historian/poet, Natthimmelen

1782 Birthday - Amable-G-P B de Barante, French politician/historian

1781 Birthday - Karl F Eichhorn, German law historian

1781 Birthday - Friedrich von Raumer, German historian/parliamentarian

1778 Death - Balthazar Huydecoper, translator/historian, dies at 83

1777 Birthday - Henry Hallam, British lawyer/historian

1773 Birthday - James Mill, born in Scotland, philosopher and historian, History of British India

1773 Death - Jan Wagenaar, Dutch historian, dies at 63

1771 Birthday - Georg F. Creuzer, German philological/historian, Idea und Probe

1770 Birthday - Vincenzo Cuoco, Italian historian, Naples Revolution 1799

1766 Birthday - Emanuel ADMJ, French historian, Napoleon

1763 Death - French van Mieris "the Young", painter/historian, dies at 73

1758 Death - Gerard Van Wage, historian, dies at 75

1758 Birthday - John Pinkerton, Scottish historian

1755 Death - Caspar Burman, historian/mayor (Utrecht), dies

1749 Birthday - Isaiah Thomas, U.S., printer/editor/publisher/historian

1746 Birthday - Daniel W. Wyttenbach, Dutch classical/historian

1737 Death - Cornelis van Alkemade, historian, dies at 83

1737 Birthday - Edward Gibbon, England, historian, Decline and Fall of Roman Empire

1737 Birthday - Edward Gibson, England, historian, Decline and Fall of Roman Emp

1737 Birthday - Edward Gibbon, English Historian

1736 Birthday - Jean-Sylvain, French historian, History of France

1735 Birthday - Adriaan Kluit, Dutch historian

1726 Death - Jeremy Collier, English bishop/historian/opponent to theater, dies at 75

1723 Death - Jacques Basnage, French/Dutch historian/vicar, dies at 70

1723 Birthday - Pedro R de Campomanes, Spanish economist/historian/literary

1723 Birthday - Adam Ferguson, Scottish sociologist/historian

1722 Birthday - Jean-Noel/Joannes Natalis Paquot, Belgian priest/historian

1720 Birthday - Martin Gerbert, von Hornau, prince-abbot/music historian

1714 Death - Daniel van Papenbroeck, Flemish jesuit/historian, dies at 86

1713 Death - Pavao Vitezovic, Croatian historian, dies

1710 Death - Antonius Matthaeus, Dutch lawyer/historian, dies at 74

1709 Birthday - John Wagenaar, Amsterdam merchant/historian, baptised

1701 Birthday - Johann N von Hontheim, German church historian/suffragan, bishop

1695 Birthday - Caspar Burman, born in Utrecht, Netherlands, historian and mayor

1695 Birthday - Balthazar Huydecoper, Dutch translator and historian

1694 Death - Ulrik Huber, Frisian lawyer/law historian/polemist, dies at 58

1689 Death - Olfert Dapper, Amsterdam historian/geographer, buried

1689 Birthday - French van Mieris "the Young", Dutch painter/historian

1685 Death - Geeraerdt Burns, theologist, poet and historian, dies at 59

1685 Death - Pieter de la Court, economist/historian, dies at about 67

1683 Birthday - Gerard van Loon, Dutch historian

1682 Death - Abraham de Wicquefort, Dutch diplomat/historian, dies at 75

1682 Death - Simon van Leeuwen, Dutch lawyer/historian, dies at 55

1673 Birthday - Dimitrie Cantemir, Romanians historian/monarch of Moldova, 1710-11

1670 Death - Geory Horn, Hornius, theologist/historian, dies at about 50

1669 Death - Lieuwe van Aitzema, Frisian historian, dies at 68

1667 Death - Paul Foot, lawyer/historian, dies at 48

1666 Birthday - Gottfried Arnold, German theologist/historian/songwriter

1661 Death - Johann B Schup, Schuppius, German poet/historian/vicar, dies

1660 Death - Peter Scriverius, lawyer/historian, dies at 44

1660 Death - Peter Scriverius, Dutch lawyer/historian, dies at 84

1655 Death - Valerius Andreas, Flemish historian, dies at 66

1654 Birthday - Cornelis van Alkemade, Dutch historian

1653 Death - Mark Zuesius Boxhorn, historian, dies at 41

1653 Birthday - Jacques Basnage, French/Netherlands historian/vicar

1652 Death - Vredius, Olivier de Wree, Flem historian/mayor (Brugge), dies at 55

1652 Birthday - Pavao Vitezovic, Croatia, writer/historian

1646 Death - Matthew Vossius, historian (Annales Holland Zelandiaeque), dies at 35

1640 Death - Andre Duchesne, French historian/genealogy, dies

1639 Death - John I Pontanus, physicist/historian (Amsterdam), dies at 68

1639 Death - John Meursius, van Meurs, historian, dies at 60

1639 Death - Martin Opitz, German poet and historian (Troerinnen), dies at 41

1639 Birthday - Noel Alexandre, French theologian/historian

1635 Birthday - Antonius Matthaeus, Dutch lawyer/historian

1635 Death - Pieter Christiaensz Bor, Dutch historian, dies

1635 Death - Philips de l'Espinoy, historian/mayor of Ghent, dies

1628 Birthday - Daniel van Papenbroeck, Papebrochius, Flemish historian

1626 Birthday - Simon van Leeuwen, lawyer/historian, Roman-Holland regt

1626 Birthday - Geeraerdt Brandt, Dutch theologist, poet and historian

1625 Death - Ubbo Emmius, van Embden, Frisian humanist/historian, dies at 78

1623 Death - William Camden, English historian: Brittania/Annales, dies at 72

1623 Death - Paolo Sarpi, Italian church historian/politician, dies at 70

1619 Birthday - Philipp von Zesen, German poet and historian, Amsterdam

1619 Birthday - Paulus Voet, Dutch jurist/historian

1618 Death - Walter Raleigh, English scholar, poet and historian, beheaded for treason

1617 Death - Pieter C Bockenberg, Dutch historian, dies at 68

1616 Death - Diogo do Couto, Portuguese historian/archivist of Goa, dies at 74

1612 Birthday - Mark Zuesius Boxhorn, Dutch historian

1612 Death - Emanuel Van Meteren, merchant/historian, dies

1610 Birthday - Johann B Schup, Schuppius, German poet and historian

1608 Death - Martinus A del Rio, Spanish lawyer historian/theologist, dies

1607 Death - Paulus Merula, Dutch lawyer/historian (Historia Belgica), dies at 48

1606 Birthday - Abraham de Wicquefort, Dutch diplomat/historian

1606 Death - Carel van Mander, Flemish painter/art historian, dies at 58

1606 Death - Carel van Mander, Flemish painter/art historian, dies at 58

1605 Death - John Stow, British historian, dies

1603 Birthday - Christianus Schotanus Sterringa, Frisian theologist/historian

1602 Death - Everard van Reyd, Dutch historian, dies at about 51

1600 Birthday - Lieuwe van Aitzema, Dutch historian, Matters of State and War

1596 Birthday - Vredius, Olivier de Wree, Flemish historian/poet/mayor

1595 Death - Peter Opmeer, church historian/humanist, dies at 69

1589 Death - Lodovico Guicciardini, Italian historian, dies at 67

1588 Birthday - Valerius Andreas, Walter Driessens, Flemish historian

1579 Birthday - John Meursius, Dutch historian

1576 Birthday - Peter Scriverius, Dutch lawyer/historian

1575 Death - Hadrianus Junius, Adriaen the Jonghe, medical/historian, dies at 63

1571 Birthday - John I Pontanus, physicist/historian, Amsterdam

1566 Death - Bartholome de Casas, Spanish historian/bishop of Chiapa, dies at 92

1565 Death - Benedetto Varchi, Italian humanist/historian (L'Ercolano), dies at 62

1561 Death - Johannes Vasaeus, Flemish humanist/historian, dies at about 49

1558 Birthday - Paulus Merula, Dutch lawyer/historian

1556 Death - John Sleidanus, German humanist/historian (Commentary), dies at 50

1552 Birthday - Theodore-Agrippa d'Aubigne, French/Swiss historian/poet, Tragiques

1551 Birthday - Martinus A del Rio, Spanish/South Netherlands lawyer/historian/theologist

1551 Birthday - William Camden, English historian, Brittania, Annales

1548 Birthday - Pieter C Bockenberg, historian, Annales Hollandiae et Zeelandiae

1547 Birthday - Ubbo Emmius, van Embden, Dutch-Frisian humanist/historian

1547 Birthday - Justus Lipsius, Joost Lips, Dutch classic philologist/historian

1546 Birthday - Johann Pistorius, German theologist/historian

1540 Death - Francesco Guicciardini, Italian historian/president of Romagna, dies at 57

1535 Birthday - Emanuel van Meteren, Southern Netherlands, merchant/historian

1526 Birthday - Peter Opmeer, church historian/humanist, Historia Martyrum

1521 Birthday - Lodovico Guicciardini, Italian historian, Descrittione di Tutti

1514 Death - Hartmann Skull, German physician/historian (Skull's Liederbuch), dies

1511 Birthday - Giorgio Vasari, Italy, painter/art historian, Vasari's Lives

1511 Birthday - Hadrianus Junius, Adriaen de Jonghe, medical/historian/humanist

1507 Death - Jean Molinet, Burgundy historian (Chroniques), dies at about 72

1503 Birthday - Benedetto Varchi, Italian humanist/historian, Storia Fiorentina

1491 Death - Thomas Basin, French historian/bishop of Lisieux, dies

1440 Birthday - Hartmann Schedel, German physician/humanist/historian

1390 Death - Peter van Herenthals, Dutch theologist/church historian, dies at 67

1332 Birthday - Ibn Khaldun, Tunis, Arab historian/sociologist, Muqaddimah

1322 Birthday - Peter van Herenthals, South Netherlands theologist/church historian

1130 Death - Baldricus Burgoliensis, French historian/archbishop, dies at about 83

1103 Death - Frutolf, German monk/musicologist/historian, dies

1075 Birthday - Ordericus Vitalis, French monk/historian/poet

994 Birthday - Muhammad ibn Hazm, historian/jurist/author of Islamic Spain

923 Death - Abu Dja'far Mohammed Djarir al-Tabari, islamic historian, dies at 83

735 Death - Beda Venerabilis, English speaking church historian, dies at about 62













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