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January

01/01 b. Sir James George Frazer (anthropologist), Scotland 1854
01/01 b. Alfred Stiegliz (photographer), [where?], 1864
01/01 b. E(dward). M(organ). Forster (writer), England 1879
01/01 b. Jerome David Salinger, (writer) America 1919
01/01 d. Johann Christian Bach (composer), England 1782
01/02 b . Michael Tippett, (composer) [where?] 1905
01/02 b . Issac Asimov (science-fiction writer) Russia 1920
01/03 b . Marcus Tullius Cicero (writer and orator), Italy 106 B.C.E. .
01/03 b . Anna Pavlova (ballet dancer), Russia 1885
01/04 b . Giovanni Battista
01/07 b. Louis Braille (inventor of braille) France 1809
00/00 add Max Beerbom
01/06 b. Joan of Arc (warrior woman, visionary) France 1412
01/07 b. Bernadette (visionary) France 1844
  • 04/16 d. Bernadette (visionary) France 1879
01/09 b. Simone de Beauvoir (writer, philosopher, feminist) France 1908
01/09 b. Karel Capek (writer) Czechoslovakia 1890
01/17 b. Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (writer) Russia 1860
01/18 b. Alexis Emmanuel Chabrier (composer) France 1841
01/19 b. Paul Cezanne (painter)France 1839
01/20 b. Ernest Chausson (composer) France 1855
06/10 d. Ernest Chausson (composer) France 1899
01/22 b. Lord Geroge Gordon Byron (poet) England 1788
04/19 d. Lord Geroge Gordon Byron (poet) Greece 1824
01/23 b. Muzio Clementi (composer) Italy 1752
03/10 d. Muzio Clementi (composer) England 1832
01/25 b. Robert Burns (poet) Scotland 1759
07/21 d. Robert Burns (poet) Scotland 1796
01/22 b. Francis Bacon (scientific philosopher) England 1561
04/09 d. Francis Bacon (scientific philosopher) England 1626
01/27 b. Lewis Carroll (writer) England 1832 works
01/14 d. Lewis Carroll (writer) England 1898
01/28 b. Thomas Aquinas (liberal arts scholar, philosopher) Italy 1225
03/07 d. Thomas Aquinas (liberal arts scholar, philosopher) Italy 1274
00/00 d? Giovanni Battista Where?.

February

02/02 b. Henry Havelock Ellis (scientist, writer) England 1859
07/08 d. Henry Havelock Ellis (scientist, writer) England, 1939
02/02 b. James Joyce (writer) Ireland 1882
01/13 d. James Joyce (writer) Switzerland 1941
02/03 b. Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy (composer) Germany 1809
11/04 d. Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy (composer) Germany 1847
02/03 b. Gertrude Stein (writer, patron of the arts) America 1874
02/04 b. Francois Rabelais (writer) France 1494 04/09 d. Francois Rabelais (writer) France 1553
02/04 b. Dietrich Bonhoefter (writer, theologian) Germany 1906 04/09 d. Dietrich Bonhoefter (writer, theologian) Germany 1945
02/04 b. Charles Augustus Lindbergh (pioneer aviator) America 1902 00/00 d. Charles Augustus Lindbergh (pioneer aviator)
02/06 b. Christopher Marlowe (poet, dramatist) England 1564 06/01 d. Christopher Marlowe (poet, dramatist) England 1593
02/07 b. Harry Sinclair Lewis (writer) America 1885 01/10 d. Harry Sinclair Lewis (writer) Italy 1951
02/07 b. Charles John Huffman Dickens (novelist) England 1812 06/09 d. Charles John Huffman Dickens (novelist) England 1870
02/07 b. Sir Thomas More (scholar, writer) England 1478 07/06 d. Sir Thomas More (scholar, writer) England 1535
02/08 b. John Ruskin (art critic, social prophet) England 1819 01/20 d. John Ruskin (art critic, social prophet) England 1900
02/08 b. Martin Buber (social philosopher) Austria 1875
06/13 d. Martin Buber (social philosopher) Israel 1965
02/10 b. Charles Lamb (essayist, critic) England 1775 12/27 d. Charles Lamb (essayist, critic) England 1834
02/10 b. Leontyne Price (opera singer) America? 1927 00/00 d. Leontyne Price (opera singer)
02/10 b. Bertolt Brecht (poet, playwright) Germany 1898 08/14 d. Bertolt Brecht (poet, playwright) Germany 1956
02/10 b. Boris Pasternak (poet, novelist, translator) Russia 1890 05/30 d. Boris Pasternak (poet, novelist, translator) Russia 1960
02/11 b. Thomas Alva Edison (pioneer industrialis, inventor) America 1847 10/18 d. Thomas Alva Edison (pioneer industrialis, inventor) America 1931
02/11 b. William Henry Fox Talbot (photographer, archaeologist) England 1800 09/17 d. William Henry Fox Talbot (photographer, archaeologist) England 1877
02/12 b. Thomas Campion (poet & composer) England 1567 03/01 d. Thomas Campion (poet & composer) England 1620
02/12 b. Charles Robert Darwin (naturalist, writer) England 1809 d. Charles Robert Darwin (naturalist, writer)
02/14 b. Thomas Robert Malthus (economic reformer) England 1766 d. Thomas Robert Malthus (economic reformer)
02/15 b. Michael Praetorius (composer) Germany 1571 d. Thomas Robert Malthus (economic reformer)
02/15 b. Heinrich Engelhard Steinway (piano-maker) Germany 1797 d. Heinrich Engelhard Steinway (piano-maker)
02/15 b. Susan Brownell Anthony (advocate of women's rights) America 1820 03/13 d. Susan Brownell Anthony (advocate of women's rights) America 1906
02/15 b. Galileo Galilei (astronomer, physicist) Italy 1564 d. Galileo Galilei (astronomer, physicist)
02/17 b. Arcangelo Corelli (composer) Italy 1653 d. Arcangelo Corelli (composer)
02/18 b. Andre Segovia (classical guitarist) Spain 1893 d. Andre Segovia (classical guitarist)
02/19 b. Luigi Boccherini (composer) Italy 1743 05/28 d. Luigi Boccherini (composer) Spain 1805
02/19 b. Nicolaus Copernicus (astronomer) Poland 1473 d. Nicolaus Copernicus (astronomer)
02/20 b. John Blow (composer) England 1649 10/01 d.. John Blow (composer) England 1708
02/20 b. Ansel Adams (photographer, pianist) America 1902 00/00 d. Ansel (photographer, pianist)
02/21 b. Anais Nin (writer) France 1903 d. Anais Nin (writer)
02/21 b. Wystan Hugh Auden (poet) England 1907 09/29 d. Wystan Hugh Auden (poet) Austria 1973
02/21 b. Constantin Brancusi (sculptor) Rumania 1876 03/16 d. Constantin Brancusi (sculptor) France 1957
02/21 b. John Henry Newman (mystic, writer) England 1801 d. John Henry Newman (mystic, writer)
02/22 b. Frederic Francois Chopin (composer) Poland 1810 10/17 d. Frederic Francois Chopin (composer) France 1849
02/22 b. Edna St. Vincent Millay (poet, writer) America 1892 d. Edna St. Vincent Millay (poet, writer)
02/22 b. Arthur Schopenhauer (philosopher) Germany 1788 d. Arthur Schopenhauer (philosopher)
02/22 b. Arthus Eric Rowton Gill (Sculptor, typographer) England 1882 d. Arthus Eric Rowton Gill (Sculptor, typographer)
02/23 b. Georg Friedrich Handel (composer) Germany 1685 d. Georg Friedrich Handel (composer)
02/23 b. Samuel Pepys (diarist) England 1633 d. Samuel Pepys (diarist)
02/24 b. Wilhelm Grimm (philologist, mythologist) Germany 1786 d. Wilhelm Grimm (philologist, mythologist)
2/24 b. Winslow Homer (painter, naturalist) America 1836 d. Winslow Homer (painter, naturalist)
02/25 b. Enrico Caruso (operatic tenor) Italy 1873 08/02 d. Enrico Caruso (operatic tenor) Italy 1921
02/25 b. Dame Myra Hess (pianist) England 1890 d. Dame Myra Hess (pianist)
02/25 b. Auguste Renoir (painter) France 1841 d. Auguste Renoir (painter)
02/26 b. Victor Marie Hugo (poet, novelist) France 1802
02/27 b. Lawrence George Durrell (writer) India 1912 d. Lawrence George Durrell (writer)
02/27 b. Sir Charles Hubert Hastings Parry (composer) England 1848 10/07 d. Sir Charles Hubert Hastings Parry (composer) England 1918
02/27 b. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (poet) America 1807 d. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (poet) America
02/27 b. John Ernst Steinbeck (writer) America 1902 d. John Ernst Steinbeck (writer)
02/28 b. Michel Eyquem de Montaigne (essayist) France 1533 d. Michel Eyquem de Montaigne (essayist)
02/28 b. Stephen Spender (poet) England 1909 d. Stephen Spender (poet) England
02/29 b. Gioacchino Antonia Rossini (composer) Italy 1792 d. Gioacchino Antonia Rossini (composer)

March

03/01 b. Giles Lytton Strachey (writer) England 1880 d. Giles Lytton Strachey (writer) England
03/02 b. Bedrich Frederick Smetana (composer) Czechoslovakia 1824 d. Giles Lytton Strachey (writer)
03/03 b. Alexander Graham Bell (inventor of the telephone) Scotland 1847 08/02 d. Alexander Graham Bell (inventor of the telephone) Canada 1922
03/05 b. Heitor Villa-Lobos (composer) 1887 d. Heitor Villa-Lobos (composer)
03/06 b. Elizabeth Browning (poet) England 1806 06/29 d. Elizabeth Browning (poet) Italy 1861
03/06 b. Buonarroti Michaelangelo (painter) Italy 1475 d. Buonarroti Michaelangelo (painter)
03/07 b. Maurice Joseph Ravel (composer) France 1875 d. Maurice Joseph Ravel (composer)
03/07 b. John Wilbye (madrigal composer) England 1574 d. John Wilbye (madrigal composer)
03/07 b. Sir John Frederick William Herschel (astronomer) England 1792 d. Sir John Frederick William Herschel (astronomer)
03/08 b. Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (composer) Germany 1714 12/15 d. Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (composer) Germany 1788
03/08 b. Alan Hovaness (composer) America 1911 d. Alan Hovaness (composer)
03/09 b. Samuel Barber (composer) America 1910 01/23 d. Samuel Barber (composer) America 1981
03/10 b. Arthur Oscar Honegger (composer) France 1892 d. Arthur Oscar Honegger (composer)
03/11 b. Carl Ruggles (composer) 1876 d. Carl Ruggles (composer)
03/12 b. Thomas Augustine Arne (composer) England 1710 03/05 d. Thomas Augustine Arne (composer) England 1778
03/12 b. Jack (writer) America 1922 d. Jack (writer)
03/13 b. Hugo Wolf (composer, especially of songs) Austria 1860 d. Hugo Wolf (composer, especially of songs)
03/13 b. Genet (writer) America 1892 d. Genet (writer)
03/14 b. Maksim Gorki (writer) Russia 1868 d. Maksim Gorki (writer)
03/14 b. Georg Philipp Telemann (composer) Germany 1681 d. Georg Philipp Telemann (composer)
03/14 b. Albert Einstein (theoretical physicist) Germany 1879 d. Albert Einstein (theoretical physicist)
03/15 b. Nicolo Vaccai (voice teacher, composer) Italy? 1790 d. Nicolo Vaccai (voice teacher, composer)
03/16 b. Caroline Lucretia Herschel (singer, astronomer) Germany 1750 d. Caroline Lucretia Herschel (singer, astronomer)
03/17 b. Kate Greenaway (artist, illustrator) England 1846 d. Kate Greenaway (artist, illustrator)
03/17 b. Rudolf Nureyev (dancer) Russia? 1938 d. Rudolf Nureyev (dancer)
03/18 b. Stephane Mallarme (poet) France 1842 d. Stephane Mallarme (poet)
03/18 b. Nicolai Andreyevich Rimski-Korsakov (composer) Russia 1844 d. Nicolai Andreyevich Rimski-Korsakov (composer)
03/20 b. (poet) Italy 43 B.C. d. (poet)
03/20 b. Henrik Johan Ibsen (playwright) Norway 1828 d. Henrik Johan Ibsen (playwright)
03/21 b. Modest Petrovich, or Musorgski Moussorgsky (composer) Russia 1839 d. Modest Petrovich, or Musorgski Moussorgsky (composer)
03/21 b. Johann Sebastian Bach (composer) Germany 1685 07/01 d. Johann Sebastian Bach (composer) Germany 1750
03/23 b. Erich Fromm (psychiatrist, writer) Germany 1900 d. Erich Fromm (psychiatrist, writer)
03/24 b. Lawrence Monsanto Ferlinghetti (writer) America 1919 d. Lawrence Monsanto Ferlinghetti (writer)
03/24 b. Harry Houdini (magician, escapologist) Hungary 1874 d. Harry Houdini (magician, escapologist)
03/24 b. William Morris (poet, designer) England 1834 d. William Morris (poet, designer)
03/25 b. Bela Bartok (composer) Hungary, now Rumania 1881 09/26 d. Bela Bartok (composer) America 1945
03/26 b. Tennessee Williams (playwright) America 1911 02/25 d. Tennessee Williams (playwright) America 1983
03/26 b. Robert Frost (poet) America 1874 d. Robert Frost (poet)
03/26 b. Alfred Edward Housman (poet) England 1859 d. Alfred Edward Housman (poet)
03/27 b. Edward Steichen (photographer) Germany 1879 d. Edward Steichen (photographer)
03/28 b. Rudolph Serkin 1903 d. Rudolph Serkin
03/29 b. Sir William Turner Walton (composer) England 1902 d. Sir William Turner Walton (composer)
03/30 b. Vincent van Gogh (painter) Holland 1853 d. Vincent van Gogh (painter) H
03/31 b. Edward Fitzgerald (poet, translator) England 1809 d. Edward Fitzgerald (poet, translator)
03/31 b. Andrew Marvell (poet, satirist) England 1621 d. Andrew Marvell (poet, satirist)
03/31 b. Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol (novelist, dramatist) Russia 1809 d. Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol (novelist, dramatist) Russia
03/31 b. Robert Wilhelm Bunsen (chemist, inventor) Germany 1811 08/16 d. Robert Wilhelm Bunsen (chemist, inventor) Germany 1899
03/31 b. Rene Descartes (philosopher) France 1596 d. Rene Descartes (philosopher)
03/31 b. Franz Joseph Haydn (composer) Austria 1732 d. Franz Joseph Haydn (composer)

April

04/28* b. (day arbi- month historical) Lucrezia Borgia (patroness of writers & artists) 06/24 d. Lucrezia Borgia (patroness of writers & artists) Italy? 1519
04/02 b. Hans Christian Anderson (writer of fairy tales) Denmark 1805 08/04 d. Hans Christian Anderson (writer of fairy tales) Denmark 1875 04/02 b. Max Ernst (painter, writer) Germany 1891 d. Max Ernst (painter, writer)
04/02 b. Sir Alec Guinness (actor) England 1914 d. SirAlec Guinness (actor)
04/02Emile Zola (novelist) France 1840 d. Emile Zola (novelist)
04/03 b. George Herbert (poet) Wales 1593 d.George Herbert (poet)
04/05 Algernon Charles Swinburne (poet) England 1837 d. Algernon Charles Swinburne
04/07 b. William Wordsworth (poet) England 1770 d. William Wordsworth (poet)
04/09 b. Charles Baudelaire (poet) France 1821 08/31 d. Charles Baudelaire (poet) France 1867
04/11 Christopher Smart (poet) England 1722 d. Christopher Smart (poet)
04/12 b. Imogen Cunningham (photographer) America? 1883 d. Imogen Cunningham (photographer)
04/14 b. Morton Subotnik (composer) America? 1933 d. Morton Subotnik (composer)
04/15 b. Leonardo Da Vinci (painter, sculptor, inventor) Italy 1452 d. Leonardo Da Vinci (painter, sculptor, inventor)
04/15 b. Henry James (writer) America 1843 d. Henry James (writer)
04/16 b. Kingsley Amis (writer) England 1922 00/00 d. Kingsley Amis (writer)
04/16 b. Charles Spencer Chaplin (actor, comedian) England 1889 00/00 d. Charles Spencer Chaplin (actor, comedian) America 1977
04/16 b. Anatole France (poet, playwright, novelist) France 1844 d. Anatole France (poet, playwright, novelist)
04/16 b. Wilbur Wright (inventor) America 1867 d. Wilbur Wright (inventor) America
04/20 b. Dunstan Pruden (silversmith) England 1896 d. Dunstan Pruden (silversmith) England
04/21 b. Charlotte Bronte (novelist) England 1816 03/31 d. Charlotte Bronte (novelist) England 1855
04/21 b. John Muir (naturalist, explorer) Scotland 1838 d. John Muir (naturalist, explorer) Scotland
04/22 b. Henry Fielding (novelist) England 1707 d. Henry Fielding (novelist) England
04/22 b. Yehuddi Menuhin (violinist) America 1916 d. Yehuddi Menuhin (violinist) America
04/23 b. Serge Prokofiev (composer) Russia 1891 d. Serge Prokofiev (composer) Russia
04/23 b. Sergei Vassilievich Rachmaninoff (composer) Russia 1873 d. Sergei Vassilievich Rachmaninoff (composer) Russia
04/23 b. Joseph Mallord WilliamTurner (landscape painter) England 1775 d. Joseph Mallord WilliamTurner (landscape painter) England
04/24 b. Anthony Trollope (novelist) England 1815 d. Anthony Trollope (novelist)
04/25 b. Walter John De la Mare (poet) England 1873 d. Walter John De la Mare (poet) England
04/25 b. William Temple (essayist) England 1628 d. William Temple (essayist) England
04/26 b. Ludwig Johann Wittgenstein (philosopher) Austria 1889 d. Ludwig Johann Wittgenstein (philosopher) Austria
04/26 b. John James Audubon (ornithologist, water-colorist) Haiti 1785 01/27 d. John James Audubon (ornithologist, water-colorist) America 1851
04/26 b. Natalie Burlin (transcriber of AmerIndian songs) America 1875 10/23 d. Natalie Burlin (transcriber of AmerIndian songs) France 1921
04/26 b. William Shakespeare (playwright, poet) England 1546 d. William Shakespeare (playwright, poet) England
04/27 b. Cecil Day Lewis (poet) Ireland 1904 d. Cecil Day Lewis (poet) I
04/27 b. Samuel Finley Breese Morse (inventor, artist) America 1791 d. Samuel Finley Breese Morse (inventor, artist) America
04/30 b. Franz Lehar (operetta composer) Hungary 1870 d. Franz Lehar (operetta composer)

May

05/04 b. (last name) Alighieri Dante (poet) Italy 1265 d. (last name) Alighieri Dante (poet) Italy 1
05/01 b. Joseph Addison (essayist) England 1672 06/17 d. Joseph Addison (essayist) England 1719
05/02 b. Alessandro Scarlatti (composer) Italy 1660
05/03 b. Marcel Dupre (composer) France 1886 d. Alessandro Scarlatti (composer) Italy 1660
05/03 b. Marcel Dupre (composer) France
05/03 (month & day arbi) b. Aristotle (philosopher) Macedonia 384 B.C.E. 03/07 d. Aristotle (philosopher) Macedonia 322 B.C.E.
05/05 b. Soren Aabye Kierkegaard (philosopher) Denmark 1813 d. Soren Aabye Kierkegaard (philosopher)
05/05 b. Margaret Rutherford (actress) England? 1892 d. Margaret Rutherford (actress)
05/06 b. Sigmund Freud (psychiatrist) Moravia 1856 d. Sigmund Freud (psychiatrist)
05/06 b. Sir Rabindranath Tagore (poet, exponent of Indian thought) India 1861 d. Sir Rabindranath Tagore (poet, exponent of Indian thought)
05/07 b. Robert Browning (poet) England 1812 12/12 d. Robert Browning (poet) Italy 1889
05/07 b. Johannes Brahms (composer) Germany 1833 04/03 d. Johannes Brahms (composer) Austria 1897
05/07 b. Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky (composer) Russia 1840 d. Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky (composer)
05/08 b. Edward Gibbon (historian) England 1737 d. Edward Gibbon (historian) England
05/09 b. Sir James Mathew Barrie (writer) Scotland 1860
05/13 b. Sir Frank Brangwyn (painter) Belgium 1867 06/11 d. Sir Frank Brangwyn (painter) England 1956 06/19 d. Sir James Mathew Barrie (writer) England 1937
05/10 b. Karl Barth (writer) Switzerland 1886 12/10 d. Karl Barth (writer) Switzerland 1968
05/11 b. Salvador Dali (painter) Spain 1904 d. Salvador Dali (painter)
05/12 b. Gabriel Urbain Faure (composer) France 1845 d. Gabriel Urbain Faure (composer)
05/12 b. Edward Lear (painter, children's poet) England 1812 d. Edward Lear (painter, children's poet)
05/12 b. Jules Emile Frederic Massenet (composer) France 1842 d. Jules Emile Frederic Massenet (composer)
05/12 b. Dante Gabriel Rossetti (poet, painter) England 1828 d. Dante Gabriel Rossetti (poet, painter)
05/12 b. Florence Nightingale (reformer in the field of health) Italy 1820 d. Florence Nightingale (reformer in the field of health)
05/13 b. Daphne du Maurier (writer) 1907 d. Daphne du Maurier (writer)
05/13 b. Sir Frank Brangwyn (painter) Belgium 1867 d. Sir Frank Brangwyn (painter)
05/13 b. Georges Braque (painter) France 1882 08/31 d. Georges Braque (painter) France 1963
05/13 b. Walt Whitman (poet) America 1819 d. Walt Whitman (poet)
05/14 b. Lou Harrison (composer) America? 1917 d. Lou Harrison (composer)
05/15 b. Stephen Heller (composer) Austria 1814 d. Stephen Heller (composer)
05/15 b. Claudio Monteverdi (composer) Italy 1567 d. Claudio Monteverdi (composer)
05/15 b. Katherine Anne Porter (writer) America 1890 d. Katherine Anne Porter (writer)
05/16 b. Honore de Balzac (writer) France 1799 08/17 d. Honore de Balzac (writer) France 1850
05/17 b. Eric Satie (composer) France 1866 d. Eric Satie (composer)
05/18 b. Dame Margot Fonteyn (ballerina) England 1919 d. Dame Margot Fonteyn (ballerina)
05/18 b. Bertrand Arthus William Russell (philosopher, writer) England 1872 d. Bertrand Arthus William Russell (philosopher, writer)
05/19 b. Johann Jakob Froberger (composer) Germany 1616 d. Johann Jakob Froberger (composer)
05/20 b. Pietro Bembo (poet, linguist) Italy 1470 01/18 d. Pietro Bembo (poet, linguist) Italy? 1547
05/20 b. John Stuart Mill (philosopher, economist) England 1806 d. John Stuart Mill (philosopher, economist)
05/20 b. Henri Rousseau (painter) France 1844 d. Henri Rousseau (painter)
05/21 b. Alexander Pope (poet) England 1688 d. Alexander Pope (poet)
05/21 b. Albrecht Durer (artist) Germany 1471 d. Albrecht Durer (artist)
05/22 b. Wilhelm Richard Wagner (composer) Germany 1813 d. Wilhelm Richard Wagner (composer)
05/22 b. Mary Casatt (painter) America 1844 06/14 d. Mary Casatt (painter) France 1926
05/23 b. Carl Linnaeus (naturalist) Sweden 1707 d. Carl Linnaeus (naturalist)
05/25 b. Theodore Roethke (poet) America 1908 d. Theodore Roethke (poet) A
05/25 b. Ralph Waldo Emerson (poet, philosopher) America 1803 d. Ralph Waldo Emerson (poet, philosopher)
05/27 b. Samuel Dashiell Hammett (writer) America 1894 d. Samuel Dashiell Hammett (writer)
05/27 b. Enoch Arnold Bennett (writer) England 1867 03/27 d. Enoch Arnold Bennett (writer) England 1931
05/27 b. Isadora Duncan (dancer) America 1880 d. Isadora Duncan (dancer)
05/28 b. Rachel Carson (biologist, writer) America 1907 04/14 d. Rachel Carson (biologist, writer) America 1964
05/29 b. Issac Manuel Albeniz (composer) Spain 1860 08/18 d. Issac Manuel Albeniz (composer) France 1909
05/29 b. G(ilbert). K(eith). Chesterton (writer) England 1874 04/14 d. G(ilbert). K(eith). Chesterton (writer) England 1936
05/30 b. Alfred Deller (counter-tenor) 1912 d. Alfred Deller (counter-tenor)

June

06/01 b. John Masefield (poet laureate, writer) England 1878 d. John Masefield (poet laureate, writer)
06/01 b. Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka (composer) Russia 1804 d. Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka (composer)
06/02 b. Sir Edward Elgar (composer) England 1857 d. Sir Edward Elgar (composer)
06/02 b. Thomas Hardy (novelist, poet) England 1840 d. Thomas Hardy (novelist, poet)
06/03 b. E. A. Cox (painter, wood-engraver) England 1879 d. E. A. Cox (painter, wood-engraver)
06/05 b. Frederico Garcia Lorca (poet & playwright) Spain 1898 d. Frederico Garcia Lorca (poet & playwright)
06/05 b. Socrates (philosopher) Greece circa 496 B.C.E. d. Socrates (philosopher) Greece
06/06 b. Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin (poet) Russia 1799 d. Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin (poet)
06/06 b. Thomas Mann (writer) Germany 1875 d. Thomas Mann (writer)
06/06 b. Diego Rodriguez Velazquez (painter) Spain 1599 d. Diego Rodriguez Velazquez (painter)
06/07 b. Eugene Henri Paul Gaugin (painter) France 1848 d. Eugene Henri Paul Gaugin
06/08 b. Robert Schumann (composer) Germany 1810 d. Robert Schumann (composer) Germany 1810
06/08 b. Tommaso Albinoni (composer) Italy 1671 01/17 d. Tommaso Albinoni (composer) Italy 1750
06/08 b. Frank Lloyd Wright (inovative architect) America 1869 d. Frank Lloyd Wright (inovative architect)
06/11 b. Benjamin Jonson (playwright, poet) England 1572 d. Benjamin Jonson (playwright, poet)
06/11 b. Julia Margaret (nee?) Cameron (photographer) India 1815 01/28 d. Julia Margaret (nee?) Cameron (photographer) Ceylong 1879
06/11 b. Richard Strauss (composer) Germany 1864 d. Richard Strauss (composer)
06/12 b. Djuna Barnes (writer, illustrator) America 1892 06/18 d. Djuna Barnes (writer, illustrator) America 1982
06/12 b. Dorothy Leigh Sayers (novelist) England 1893 d. Dorothy Leigh Sayers (novelist)
06/13 b. William Butler Yeats (poet, dramatist) Ireland 1865 06/18 d. William Butler Yeats (poet, dramatist) England 1902
06/15 b. Edvard Grieg (composer) Norway 1843 d. Edvard Grieg (composer)
06/17 b. Charles Francois Gounod (composer) France 1818 d. Charles Francois Gounod (composer)
06/17 b. Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky (composer) Russia 1882 d. Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky (composer)
06/19 b. Blaise Pascal (philosopher, phycisist, writer) France 1623
06/21 b. Jacques (composer) Germany 1819 d. Jacques (composer)
06/21 b. Jean Paul Sartre (writer, philosopher) France 1905 d. Jean Paul Sartre (writer, philosopher)
06/24 b. Harry Partch (composer) America? 1901 d. Harry Partch (composer)
06/24 b. St John of the Cross (Catholic mystic) 1542 d. St John of the Cross (Catholic mystic)
06/25 b. Gustave Charpentier (composer) France 1860 02/18 d. Gustave Charpentier (composer) France 1956
06/25 b. George Orwell (novelist) India 1903 d. George Orwell (novelist)
06/27 b. Gaston Bachelard (philosopher, writer) France 1884 10/16 d. Gaston Bachelard (philosopher, writer) France 1962
06/27 b. Helen Adams Keller (deaf/blind writer, lecturer) America 1880
06/28 b. Robert Franz (composer, especially of songs) Germnay 1815 d. Robert Franz (composer, especially of songs)
06/28 b. Jean Jacques Rousseau (writer, philosopher) Switzerland 1712 d. Jean Jacques Rousseau (writer, philosopher)
06/29 b. Peter Paul Rubens (painter) Belgium 1577 d. Peter Paul Rubens (painter)
06/29 b. Antoine de Saint-Exupery (writer, pilot) France 1900 d. Antoine de Saint-Exupery (writer, pilot)
06/30 b. Stanley Spencer (painter) England 1891 d. Stanley Spencer (painter)

July

07/01 b. George Sand (novelist) France 1804 06/08 d. George Sand France 1876
07/02 b. Christoph Willibald Gluck (composer) Bavaria 1714 d. Christoph Willibald Gluck (composer)
07/02 b. Hermann Hesse (poet, writer) Germany 1877 d. Hermann Hesse (poet, writer)
07/03 b. Leon Janacek (composer) Moravia 1854 d. Leon Janacek (composer)
07/03 b. Franz Kafka (novelist, essayist) Austria-Hungary 1883 d. Franz Kafka (novelist, essayist)
07/04 b. Louis Claude Daquin (composer) 1694 d. Louis Claude Daquin (composer)
07/04 b. Nathaniel Hawthorne (novelist) America 1804 d. Nathaniel Hawthorne (novelist)
07/04 b. Emmeline Pankhurst (suffragette) England 1858 d. Emmeline Pankhurst (suffragette)
07/05 b. Jean Cocteau (poet, choreographer, painter) France 1889 d. Jean Cocteau (poet, choreographer, painter)
07/07 b. Gustav Mahler (composer) Bohemia (now Czech.) 1860 d. Gustav Mahler (composer) Bohemia (now Czech.)
07/07 b. Marc Chagall (visionary painter) Russia 1887 03/28 d. Marc Chagall (visionary painter) France? 1985
07/09 b. Ann Radcliffe (novelist) England 1764 d. Ann Radcliffe (novelist)
07/09 b. Franz Boas (anthropologist) Germany 1858 12/21 d. Franz Boas (anthropologist) America 1942
07/10 b. Marcel Proust (writer) France 1871 d. Marcel Proust (writer)
07/10 b. James Abbott McNeill Whistler (painter, etcher) America 1834 d. James Abbott McNeill Whistler (painter, etcher)
07/11 b. Ronald David Laing (psychiatrist, writer) Scotland 1927 d. Ronald David Laing (psychiatrist, writer)
07/12 b. Richard Buckminster Fuller, (inventor, philosopher, engineer) America 1895 d. Richard Buckminster Fuller, (inventor, philosopher, engineer)
07/12 b. Amedeo Modigliani (painter, sculptor) Italy 1884 d. Amedeo Modigliani (painter, sculptor)
07/12 b. Henry David Thoreau (poet, naturalist) America 1817 d. Henry David Thoreau (poet, naturalist)
07/12 b. Andrew Wyeth (painter) America 1917 d. Andrew Wyeth (painter)
07/14 b. Ernst Ingmar Bergman (movie director) Sweden 1918 00/00 d. Ernst Ingmar Bergman (movie director)
07/15 b. Jean Iris Murdoch (novelist) Ireland 1919 d. Jean Iris Murdoch (novelist)
07/15 b. Pierre Joseph Proudhon (philosophical anarchist) France 1809 d. Pierre Joseph Proudhon (philosophical anarchist)
07/15 b. Julian Alexander Bream (guitarist, musicologist) England 1933 00/00 d. Julian Alexander Bream (guitarist, musicologist)
07/15 b. Harmensz Van Rijn Rembrandt (painter) Holland 1606 d. Harmensz Van Rijn Rembrandt (painter)
07/16 b. Mary Morse Eddy (Christian Science founder) America 1821 d. Mary Morse Eddy (Christian Science founder)
07/17 b. Issac Watts (theologian) England 1674 d. Issac Watts (theologian)
07/18 b. William Makepeace Thackeray (novelist) India 1811 d. William Makepeace Thackeray (novelist)
07/19 b. Hilare Edgar Germain Degas (painter) France 1834 d. Hilare Edgar Germain Degas (painter)
07/21 b. Ernest Miller Hemingway (writer) America 1899 d. Ernest Miller Hemingway (writer)
07/21 b. Herbert Marshall McLuhan (writer, philosopher) Canada 1911 d. Herbert Marshall McLuhan (writer, philosopher)
07/22 b. Gregor Johann Mendel (botanist, experimental gardner) Aus (now Czech) 1822 d. Gregor Johann Mendel (botanist, experimental gardner)
07/24 b. Ernest Bloch (composer) Switzerland 1880 07/15 d. Ernest Bloch (composer) America 1959
07/24 b. Amelia Earhart Putnam (pioneer aviator) America 1898 d. Amelia Earhart Putnam (pioneer aviator)
07/25 b. Eric Hoffer (painter) 1902 d. Eric Hoffer (painter)
07/26 b. John Field (composer) Ireland 1782 d. John Field (composer)
07/26 b. Robert Ranke Graves (mythologist, writer) England 1895 d. Robert Ranke Graves (mythologist, writer)
07/26 b. Aldous Leonard Huxley (writer) England 1894 d. Aldous Leonard Huxley (writer)
07/26 b. Carl Gustav Jung (psychologist) Switzerland 1875 d. Carl Gustav Jung (psychologist)
07/26 b. George Bernard Shaw (playwright, promoter of phonetics) Ireland 1856 d. George Bernard Shaw (playwright, promoter of phonetics)
07/27 b. Enrique Y Campina Granados (composer) Spain 1867 d. Enrique Y Campina Granados (composer)
07/27 b. Hilare Belloc (writer) France 1870 07/16 d. Hilare Belloc (writer) England 1953
07/28 b. Marcel Duchamp (painter) France 1887 d. Marcel Duchamp (painter)
07/28 b. Gerard Manley Hopkins (poet) England 1844 d. Gerard Manley Hopkins (poet)
07/28 b. Beatrix Potter (writer, illustrator for children) England 1866 d. Beatrix Potter (writer, illustrator for children)
07/30 b. Emily Jane Bronte (novelist) England 1818 12/19 d. Emily Jane Bronte (novelist) England 1848
07/30 b. Henri Moore (sculptor) England 1898 d. Henri Moore (sculptor)

August

08/01 b. Herman Melville (writer) America 1819 d. Herman Melville (writer)
08/02 b. James Arthur Baldwin (writer, civil rights spokesman) America 1924 00/00 d. James Arthur Baldwin (writer, civil rights spokesman)
08/03 b. Rupert Brooke (poet) England 1887 04/23 d. Rupert Brooke (poet) Greece 1915
08/04 b. Knut Hamsun (writer) Norway 1859 d. Knut Hamsun (writer)
08/04 b. Percy Bysse Shelley (poet) England 1792 d. Percy Bysse Shelley (poet)
08/05 b. Conrad Potter Aiken (writer) America 1889 08/17 d. Conrad Aiken (writer) prob. America 1973
08/05 b. Henri Rene Albert Guy de Maupassant (short-story writer) France 1850 d. Henri Rene Albert Guy de Maupassant (short-story writer)
08/06 b. John Middleton Murray England? 1889 d. John Middleton Murray
08/06 b. Alfred Lord Tennyson (poet) England 1809 d. Alfred Lord Tennyson (poet)
08/08 b. Cecile Louise Stephan Chaminade ie (composer) France 1857 04/18 d. Cecile Louise Stephan Chaminade ie (composer) Monaco 1944
08/08 b. Majorie Kinnan Rawlings (novelist) America 1896 d. Majorie Kinnan Rawlings (novelist)
08/08 b. Sara Teasedale (poet) America 1884 d. Sara Teasedale (poet)
08/09 b. John Dryden (poet) England 1631 d. John Dryden (poet)
08/09 b. Jean Piaget (psychologist, writer) Switzerland 1896 d. Jean Piaget (psychologist, writer)
08/10 b. Witter Bynner (poet, writer) America 1881 00/00 d. Witter Bynner (poet, writer)
08/13 b. Alfred Joseph Hitchcock (movie director) England 1899 d. Alfred Joseph Hitchcock (movie director)
08/13 b. Lucy Stone (fighter against slavery & oppression of women) America 1818 d. Lucy Stone (fighter against slavery & oppression of women)
08/14 b. John Galsworthy (writer) England 1867 d. John Galsworthy (writer)
08/15 b. Thomas De Quincey (writer) England 1785 d. Thomas De Quincey (writer)
08/15 b. Sir Walter Scott (poet, novelist) Scotland 1771 d. Sir Walter Scott (poet, novelist)
08/17 b. Mae West (actress) America? 1892 d. Mae West (actress)
08/19 b. Frederick Ogden Nash (writer of light verse) America 1902 d. Frederick Ogden Nash (writer of light verse)
08/19 b. Orville Wright (inventor) America 1871 d. Orville Wright (inventor)
08/21 b. Aubry Vincent Beardsley (illustrator, designer) England 1872 03/16 d. Aubry Vincent Beardsley (illustrator, designer) France 1898
08/22 b. Dorothy Parker (writer) America 1893 d. Dorothy Parker (writer)
08/22 b. Ray Bradbury (science-fiction writer) America 1920 00/00 d. Ray Bradbury (science-fiction writer)
08/22 b. Achille Claude Debussy (composer) France 1862 d. Achille Claude Debussy (composer)
08/24 b. Robert Herrick (poet) England 1591 d. Robert Herrick (poet)
08/24 b. Jorge Luis Borges (metaphysical poet, writer) Argentina 1899 00/00 d. Jorge Luis Borges (metaphysical poet, writer)
08/26 b. Guillaume Apollinaire (poet) Italy 1880 11/09 d. Guillaume Apollinaire (poet) France 1918
08/26 b. Christopher William Bradshaw Isherwood (poet, playwright) England 1904 d. Christopher William Bradshaw Isherwood (poet, playwright) 00/00 d. Christopher William Bradshaw Isherwood
08/27 b. Eric Coates (composer) England 1886 00/00 d. Eric Coates (composer) England 1957
08/27 b. Theodore Herman Albert Dreiser (writer) America 1871 d. Theodore Herman Albert Dreiser (writer)
08/27 b. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (philosopher) Germany 1770 d. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (philosopher) 11/14 d. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (philosopher) Germany 1831
08/28 b. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (poet, playwright) Germany 1749 d. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (poet, playwright)
08/28 b. Elizabeth Ann Seton (humanitarian, educator) America 1774 d. Elizabeth Ann Seton (humanitarian, educator)
08/29 b. Ingrid Bergman (actress) Sweden 1917 08/29 d. Ingrid Bergman (actress) Sweden? 1983
08/29 b. Maurice Maeterlinck (writer, naturalist) Belgium 1862 d. Maurice Maeterlinck (writer, naturalist)
08/30 b. Antonio Allegri da Corregio (painter, muralist) Italy 1494 d. Antonio Allegri da Corregio (painter, muralist)
08/30 b. Mary Shelley (writer) England 1797 d. Mary Shelley (writer)
08/31 b. Theophile Gautier (poet, writer) France 1811 d. Theophile Gautier (poet, writer)
08/31 b. Maria Montessori (pyschiatrist, educator) Italy 1870 d. Maria Montessori (pyschiatrist, educator)

September

09/01 b. Johann Pachelbel (composer) 1653 d. Johann Pachelbel (composer)
09/02 b. Henry George (economist) America 1839 d. Henry George (economist)
09/03 b. Loren Corey Eisley (anthropologist, writer) America 1907 d. oren Corey Eisley (anthropologist, writer)
09/04 b. Anton Bruckner (composer) Austria 1824 10/11 d. Anton Bruckner (composer) Austria 1896
09/04 b. Mary Renault (historical novelist) England 1905 12/13 d. Mary Renault (historical novelist) prob. South Africa 1983
09/05 b. John Cage (composer) America 1912 00/00 d. John Cage (composer)
09/05 b. Arthur Koestler (writer) Hungary 1905 d. Arthur Koestler (writer)
09/05 b. Johann Christian Bach (composer) Germany 1735 d. Johann Christian Bach (composer)
09/07 b. Dame Edith Sitwell (poet) England 1887 d. Dame Edith Sitwell (poet)
09/08 b. Ludovico Ariosto (poet, playwright) Italy 1474 07/06 d. Ludovico Ariosto (poet, playwright) Italy 1533
09/08 b. Antonin Dvorak (composer) Czechoslovakia 1841 d. Antonin Dvorak (composer)
09/09 b. Count Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy (novelist, social reformaer) Russia 1828 d. Count Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy (novelist, social reformaer)
09/10 b. H.D. (poet) America 1886 d. H.D. (poet)
09/11 b. O'Henry (writer) America 1862 06/05 d. O'Henry (writer) America 1910
09/11 b. D(avid). H(erbert). Lawrence (writer) England 1885
09/12 b. Henri Louis Mencken (writer, satirist, critic) America 1880 d. Henri Louis Mencken (writer, satirist, critic)
09/13 b. Arnold Schoenberg (composer) Austria 1874 d. Arnold Schoenberg (composer)
09/13 b. Clara Josephine Schumann (composer) Germany 1819 05/20 d. Clara Josephine Schumann (composer) Germany 1896
09/13 b. John Boynton Priestley (writer) England 1894
09/14 b. Maria Luigi Carlo Zenobio Salvatore Cherubini (composer) Italy 1760 03/15 d. Maria Luigi Carlo Zenobio Salvatore Cherubini France 1842
09/14 b. Margaret Sanger (birth-control advocate) America 1883 d. Margaret Sanger (birth-control advocate)
09/15 b. Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie (writer) England 1890 01/12 d. Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie (writer) England? 1976
09/15 b. James Fennimore Cooper (writer) America 1789 d. James Fennimore Cooper (writer)
09/16 b. John Gay (poet, dramatist) England 1685 d. John Gay (poet, dramatist)
09/17 b. William Carlos Williams (writer, physician) America 1883 d. William Carlos Williams (writer, physician)
09/18 b. Samuel Johnson (dictionary-maker, writer) England 1709 d. Samuel Johnson (dictionary-maker, writer)
09/19 b. William Golding (writer) England 1911 d. William Golding (writer)
09/20 b. Upton Beall Sinclair (novelist) America 1878 d. Upton Beall Sinclair (novelist)
09/20 b. Sophia Loren (actress) 1934 d. Sophia Loren (actress)
09/21 b. Gustav Holst (composer) England 1874 d. Gustav Holst (composer)
09/21 b. Herbert George Wells (novelist) England 1866 d. ert George Wells (novelist)
09/23 b. Euripedes (playwright) Greece circa 484 B.C.E. (month&day arbi) 11/16 d. Euripedes (playwright) Greece 407 B.C.E. (month$day arbi)
09/24 b. Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald (novelist) America 1896 d. Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald (novelist)
09/25 b. Norman Oliver Brown (writer) Mexico 1913 00/00 d. Norman Oliver Brown (writer)
09/25 b. William Harrison Faulkner (writer) America 1897 d. William Harrison Faulkner (writer)
09/25 b. Jean Phillippe Rameau (composer, theorist) France 1683 d. Jean Phillippe Rameau (composer, theorist)
09/25 b. Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich (composer) Russia 1906 d. Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich (composer)
09/26 b. T(homas). S(tearns). Elliot (poet, playwright) America 1888 d. T(homas). S(tearns). Elliot (poet, playwright)
09/29 b. Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (writer) Spain 1547 04/23 d. Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (writer) Spain 1616

October

10/00 b. Sir John Lennon (popular singer & song-writer) England 1940 12/08 d. Sir John Lennon (popular singer & song-writer) America 1980
10/01 b. Vladimir Horowitz (pianist) Russia 1904 d. Vladimir Horowitz (pianist)
10/01 b. Louis Untermeyer (writer) America 1885 d. Louis Untermeyer (writer)
10/01 b. Annie Besant (feminist, reformer) England 1847 09/20 d. Annie Besant (feminist, reformer) India 1933
10/02 b. Graham Greene (writer) England 1904 d. Graham Greene (writer)
10/02 b. Wallace Stevens (poet) America 1879 d. Wallace Stevens (poet)
10/02 b. Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (spiritual leader) India 1869 d. Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (spiritual leader)
10/03 b. Gore Vidal (writer) America 1925 00/00 d. Gore Vidal
10/03 b. Thomas Clayton Wolfe (novelist) America 1900 d. Thomas Clayton Wolfe (novelist)
10/04 b. Jean Francois Millet (painter) France 1814 d. Jean Francois Millet (painter)
10/04 b. Alfred Damon Runyon (writer) America 1884 d. Alfred Damon Runyon (writer)
10/05 b. Denis Diderot (philosopher, encyclopedist) France 1713 d. Denis Diderot (philosopher, encyclopedist)
10/07 b. Niels Henrik David Bohr (physicist) Denmark 1885 11/18 d. Niels Henrik David Bohr (physicist) Denmark 1962
10/09 b. Charles Camille Saint-Saens (composer) France 1835 d. Charles Camille Saint-Saens (composer)
10/10 b. Giuseppe Verdi (composer, esp. opera) Italy 1813 d. Giuseppe Verdi (composer, esp. opera)
10/11 b. Francois Charles Mauriac (writer) France 1885 d. Francois Charles Mauriac (writer)
10/12 b. Aleister Crowley (writer) prob. Scotland 1875 00/00 d. Aleister Crowley (writer) [where] 1947
10/12 b. Ralph Vaughan-Williams (composer) England 1872 d. Ralph Vaughan-Williams (composer)
10/14 b. Katherine Mansfield (writer, critic) New Zealand 1888
01/09 d. Katherine Mansfield (writer, critic) France 1923
10/14 b. Edward Estlin Cummings (poet, painter) America 1894 d. Edward Estlin Cummings (poet, painter)
10/15 b. P(elham). G(renville). Wodehouse (novelist) England 1881 d. P(elham). G(renville). Wodehouse (novelist)
10/15 b. Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (philosopher) Germany 1844 d. Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (philosopher)
10/15 b. Virgil (poet) Italy 70 B.C.E. 09/21 d. Virgil (poet) Italy 19 B.C.E.
10/16 b. Oscar Wilde (poet, dramatist> Ireland 1854 11/30 d. Oscar Wilde (poet, dramatist) France 1900
10/16 b. Eugene Gladstone O'Neil (playwright) America 1888 d. Eugene Gladstone O'Neil (playwright)
10/18 b. Henri Bergson (speculative philosopher) France 1859 01/04 d. Henri Bergson (speculative philosopher) France 1941
10/20 b. Charles Edward Ives (composer) America 1874 d. Charles Edward Ives (composer)
10/20 b. John Dewey (philosopher, psychologist) America 1859 d. John Dewey (philosopher, psychologist)
10/21 b. Samuel Taylor Coleridge (poet) England 1772 d. Samuel Taylor Coleridge (poet)
10/22 b. Doris May Lessing (novelist) Persia (now Iran) 1919 d. Doris May Lessing (novelist)
10/22 b. Timothy Francis Leary (psychologist, educator) America 1920 d. Timothy Francis Leary (psychologist, educator)
10/22 b. Franz Liszt (composer) Hungary 1811 d. Franz Liszt (composer)
10/23 b. Sarah Bernhardt (actress) France 1844 03/26 d. Sarah Bernhardt (actress) France 1923
10/24 b. Horace Walpole (historian> England 1717 d. Horace Walpole (historian>
10/25 b. George Bizet (composer) France 1838 06/03 d. George Bizet (composer) France 1875
10/25 b. Pablo Picasso (painter, sculptor, graphic artist) Spain 1881 d. Pablo Picasso (painter, sculptor, graphic artist)
10/25 b. Johann Strauss (composer) Austria 1825 d. Johann Strauss (composer)
10/26 b. Giuseppe Domenico Scarlatti (composer) Italy 1685 d. Giuseppe Domenico Scarlatti (composer)
10/27 b. Nicolo Paganini (virtuoso violinist, composer) Italy 1782 d. Nicolo Paganini (virtuoso violinist, composer)
10/27 b. Sylvia Plath (writer) America 1932 d. Sylvia Plath (writer)
10/27 b. Dylan Marlais Thomas (poet) Wales 1914 d. Dylan Marlais Thomas (poet)
10/28 b. Evelyn Waugh (novelist) England 1903 04/10 d. Evelyn Waugh (novelist) England 1966
10/29 b. James Boswell (writer) Scotland 1740 05/19 d. James Boswell (writer) England 1795
10/30 b. Ezra Loomis Pound (poet) America 1885 d. Ezra Loomis Pound (poet)
10/31 b. John Keats (poet) England 1795 d. John Keats (poet)

November

11/01 b. Benvenuto Cellini (goldsmith & sculptor) Italy (day & month prob. arbi.) 1500 03/13 d. Benvenuto Cellini (goldsmith & sculptor) Italy 1571
11/01 b. Victoria de los Angeles (operatic singer) 1923 00/00 d. Victoria de los Angeles (operatic singer)
11/01 b. Stephen Crane (writer) America 1871 d. Stephen Crane (writer)
11/02 b. Karl Ditters von Dittersdorf (composer) Austria 1739 d. Karl Ditters von Dittersdorf (composer)
11/05 b. William James Durant (historian, philosopher) America 1885 d. William James Durant (historian, philosopher)
11/07 b. Albert Camus (writer) Algeria 1913 01/04 d. Albert Camus (writer) France 1960
11/07 b. Marie Curie (physicist, chemist) Poland 1867 d. Marie Curie (physicist, chemist)
11/07 b. Joan Sutherland (coloratura soprano) Australia 1926 d. Joan Sutherland (coloratura soprano)
11/08 b. Katherine Hepburn (actress) America 1909 d. Katherine Hepburn (actress)
11/09 b. Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev (writer) Russia 1818 d. Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev (writer)
11/10 b. Francois Couperin le Grand (composer) France 1668 d. Francois Couperin le Grand (composer)
11/10 b. Nicholas Vachel Lindsay (poet) America 1879 d. Nicholas Vachel Lindsay (poet)
11/10 b. Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller (dramatist) German 1759 05/09 d. Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller (dramatist) Germany 1805
11/10 b. Oliver Goldsmith (writer) Ireland 1728 d. Oliver Goldsmith (writer)
11/10 b. William Hogarth (painter, engraver) England 1697 d. William Hogarth (painter, engraver)
11/11 b. Alexandr Borodin (composer & scientist) Russia 1833 02/27 d. Alexandr Borodin (composer & scientist) Russia 1887
11/11 b. Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky (novelist) Russia 1821 d. Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky (novelist)
11/11 b. Abigail Adams (writer, feminist) America 1744 10/28 d. Abigail Adams (writer, feminist) America 1818
11/12 b. Elizabeth Stanton (advocate for women's rights) America 1815 d. Elizabeth Stanton (advocate for women's rights)
11/13 b. Robert Louis Stevenson (poet, writer) Scotland 1850 d. Robert Louis Stevenson (poet, writer)
11/14 b. Aaron Copland (composer) America 1900 d. Aaron Copland (composer)
11/14 b. Auguste Rodin (sculptor) France 1840 d. Auguste Rodin (sculptor
11/15 b. William Cowper (poet) England 1731 d. William Cowper (poet)
11/15 b. Marianne Craig Moore (poet) America 1887 d. Marianne Craig Moore (poet)
11/15 b. Sir William Herschel (astromer, discoverer of Uranus) Germany 1738 d. Sir William Herschel (astromer, discoverer of Uranus)
11/15 b. Georgia O'Keefe (painter) America 1887 d. Georgia O'Keefe (painter)
11/16 b. Paul Hindemith (composer) Germany 1895 d. Paul Hindemith (composer)
11/18 b. Carl Maria Frederich Ernst von Weber (composer) Germany 1786 06/08 d. Carl Maria Frederich Ernst von Weber (composer) England 1826
11/18 b. Louis Jacques Maude Daguerre (inventor, photographer) France 1789 d. Louis Jacques Maude Daguerre (inventor, photographer)
11/18 b. Kahlil Gibran (mystic, poet) Lebanon 1883 11/21 b. William Walter Skeat (philologist, etymologist) England 1835
11/21 b. Voltaire Jean Francois Arouet> (poet, writer) France 1694 d. Voltaire Jean Francois Arouet> (poet, writer)
11/22 b. Wilhelm Friedemann Bach (composer) Germany 1710 d. Wilhelm Friedemann Bach (composer)
11/22 b. George Eliot (novelist) England 1819 12/22 d. George Eliot (novelist) England 1880
11/22 b. Andre Gide (writer) France 1869 d. Andre Gide (writer)
11/22 b. Benjamin Edward Britten (composer) England 1913 12/04 d. Benjamin Edward Britten (composer) England 1976
11/23 b. Maria Manuel de Falla (composer) Spain 1876 d. Maria Manuel de Falla (composer)
11/24 b. Lawrence Sterne (writer) Ireland 1713 d. Lawrence Sterne (writer)
11/24 b. Henri-Marie Raymond Toulouse-Lautrec-Monfa (painter, lithographer) France 1864 09/09 d. Henri-Marie Raymond Toulouse-Lautrec-Monfa (painter, lithographer) France 1901
11/25 b. Virgil Thompson (composer) America? 1896 d. Virgil Thompson (composer)
11/26 b. Eugene Ionesco (playwright) Romania 1912 d. Eugene Ionesco (playwright)
11/27 b. James (writer) America 1909 05/18 d. James Agee (writer) America 1955
11/28 b. William Blake (poet, artist, visionary) England 1757 08/12 d. William Blake (poet, artist, visionary) England 1827
11/28 b. Jean Baptiste Lully (composer) Italy 1632 d. Jean Baptiste Lully (composer)
11/29 b. Gaetano Donizetti (composer) Italy 1797 d. Gaetano Donizetti (composer)
11/29 b. Louisa May Alcott (novelist) America 1832 03/06 d. Louisa May Alcott (novelist) America 1880
11/30 b. John Bunyan (religious writer) England 1628 08/31 d. John Bunyan (religious writer) England 1688
11/30 b. Jonathan Swift (poet, satirist) Ireland 1667 d. Jonathan Swift (poet, satirist)
11/30 b. Jacques Martin Barzun (historian, educator) France 1907 d. Jacques Martin 00/00 (historian, educator)
11/30 b. Mark Twain (writer) America 1835 04/21 d. Mark Twain (writer) America 1910

December

12/02 b. Ruth Draper (actress) America 1884 d. Ruth Draper (actress)
12/03 b. Joseph Conrad (novelist) Poland 1857 d. Joseph Conrad (novelist)
12/04 b. Thomas Carlyle (philosophical moralist) Scotland 1795 02/05 d. Thomas Carlyle (philosophical moralist) England 1881
12/04 b. Rainer Maria Rilke (lyric poet) Germany 1875 d. Rainer Maria Rilke (lyric poet)
12/04 b. Samuel Butler (writer, painter, composer) England 1835 d. Samuel Butler (writer, painter, composer)
12/05 b. Christina Rossetti (poet, mystic) England 1830 d. Christina Rossetti (poet, mystic)
12/07 b. Joyce Cary (novelist, painter) Ireland 1888 03/29 d. Joyce Cary (novelist, painter) England 1957
12/08 b. Horace (poet) Italy 65 B.C.E. 11/27 d. Horace (poet) Italy 8 B.C.E.
12/08 b. Jean Sibelius (composer) Finland 1865 d. Jean Sibelius (composer)
12/09 b. John Milton (poet) England 1608 d. John Milton (poet)
12/10 b. Cesar Anguste Franck (composer) Belgium 1822 d. Cesar Anguste Franck (composer)
12/10 b. Emily Dickinson (poet) America 1830 d. Emily Dickinson (poet)
12/11 b. Hector Berlioz (composer) France 1803 03/08 d. Hector Berlioz (composer) France 1869
12/11 b. Alexandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn (writer) Russia 1918 d. Alexandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn (writer)
12/12 b. Gustave Flaubert (novelist) France 1821 d. Gustave Flaubert (novelist)
12/13 b. Heinrich (poet, writer) Germany 1797 d. Heinrich (poet, writer)
12/14 b. Roger Eliot Fry (painter, critic) England 1866 d. Roger Eliot Fry (painter, critic)
12/14 b. Tycho Brahe (astronomer) Denmark now Sweden 1546 10/24 d. Tycho Brahe (astronomer) Czechoslovakia 1601
12/16 b. Jane Austen (novelist) England 1775 07/18 d. Jane Austen (novelist) England 1817
12/16 b. Noel Coward (writer, actor, composer) England 1899 d. Noel Coward (writer, actor, composer)
12/16 b. Zoltan Kodaly (composer) Hungary 1882 d. Zoltan Kodaly (composer)
12/16 b. Margaret Mead (anthropologist, writer) America 1901 d. Margaret Mead (anthropologist, writer)
12/16 b. Francois Adrien Boieldieu (composer) France 1775 10/08 d. Francois Adrien Boieldieu (composer) France 1775
12/16 b. Ludwig von Beethoven (composer) Germany 1770 03/26 d. Ludwig von Beethoven (composer) Austria 1898
12/17 b. John Greenleaf Whittier (poet) America 1807 d. John Greenleaf Whittier (poet)
12/18 b. Christopher Fry (playwright) England 1907 d. Christopher Fry (playwright)
12/18 b. Edward MacDowell (composer) America 1861 d. Edward MacDowell (composer)
12/19 b. Jean Genet (writer) France 1910 d. Jean Genet (writer)
12/21 b. Jean Baptiste Racine (dramatist) France 1639 d. Jean Baptiste Racine (dramatist)
12/23 b. Orlando Gibbons (composer) England 1583 d. Orlando Gibbons (composer)
12/24 b. Mathew Arnold (writer) England 1822 04/15 d. Mathew Arnold (writer) England 1888
12/25 b. Dame Rebecca West (writer) Ireland 1892 d. Dame Rebecca West (writer) I
12/25 b. Clarissa Harlowe Barton (organizer of American Red Cross) America 1821 04/12 d. Clarissa Harlowe Barton (organizer of American Red Cross) America 1912
12/25 b. Issac Newton (astronomer, mathematician) England 1642 d. Issac Newton (astronomer, mathematician)
12/27 b. Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina .(composer) Italy 1526 d. Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
12/27 b. Louis (founder Pasteur of the microbiological sciences) France 1822 d. Louis (founder Pasteur of the microbiological sciences)
12/28 b. Maggie Smith (actress) England? 1934 d. Maggie Smith (actress)
12/29 b. Pablo Casals (virtuoso cellist) Spain 1876 00/00 d. Pablo Casals (virtuoso cellist)
12/30 b. Joseph Rudyard Kipling (writer) India 1865 d. Joseph Rudyard Kipling (writer)
12/31 b. Henri Emile Benoit Matisse (painter) France 1869 d. Henri Emile Benoit Matisse (painter)