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
