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

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

2004 Iris Chang, Chinese Historian

2004 Alan Bullock, British Historian

2003 David Lavender, American Historian

2003 Christopher Hill, English Historian

2003 John Edward Christopher Hill, English Historian

2003 Hugh Trevor-Roper, English Historian

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

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

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

2000 Steven Runciman, British Historian

2000 William P. Bundy, American Historian

2000 Franklin Garrett, American Historian

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

1997 Dorothy Stroud, garden historian, dies at 87

1997 Leon Poliakov, historian, dies at 87

1997 Clare Lucy Madeleine Evans, historian, dies at 37

1997 Alfred Leslie Rowse, historian, dies at 93

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

1997 Peter Morris, historian of France, dies at 50

1997 Callum Alexander MacDonald, historian, dies at 49

1996 Michael Roberts, historian, dies at 88

1996 Raphael Samuel, historian, dies at 32

1996 George Duby, historian, dies at 77

1996 Hugo Buchthal, art historian, dies at 87

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

1996 Rohan Butler, historian, dies at 79

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

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

1996 Denis Frank Owen, Natural historian, dies at 65

1996 Tony Parker, oral historian, dies at 73

1996 Sybil Marion Rosenfeld, theatre historian, dies at 93

1996 Anthony Nicholas Maria Wahl, historian, dies at 68

1996 Stephen Jones, art historian, dies at 41

1996 Renzo de Felice, historian, dies at 67

1996 Burton Stein, historian, dies at 69

1996 David Shipman, film historian, dies at 63

1996 William K Everson, film historian, dies at 67

1996 Edwin Clarke, historian/neurologist, dies at 76

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

1996 Aled Eames, mAritime historian, dies at 74

1996 Meyer Schapiro, art historian, dies at 91

1996 Richard Leslie Hill, historian, dies at 94

1996 Charles McCorquodale, art historian, dies at 47

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

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

1996 Richard Charles Cobb, historian, dies at 78

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

1995 Lindsay Oliver John Boynton, furniture historian, dies

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

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

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

1995 Allan Leslie Merson, historian, dies at 79

1995 Peter Hinchcliff, historian, dies at 66

1995 Albert Goodwin, historian, dies at 89

1995 Michael Balfour, historian, dies at 86

1995 Donald Cuthbert Coleman, economic historian, dies at 75

1995 Ragnhild Marie Hatton, historian, dies at 82

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

1994 Richard Krautheimer, art historian, dies at 97

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

1994 Maurice Ashley, historian, dies at 87

1994 John Richard Ravensdale, historian, dies at 73

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

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

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

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

1994 James Bysse Joll, historian, dies at 76

1994 Denys Hay, historian, dies at 78

1994 Thomas Millar, historian, dies at 67

1994 Thomas Stuart Willan, historian, dies at 84

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

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

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

1994 George Osborne Sayles, historian, dies at 92

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

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

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

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

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

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

1993 E. P. Thompson, British Historian

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

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

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

1993 C. Northcote Parkinson, British Historian

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

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

1992 Henri Guillemin, French historian, dies at 89

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

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

1991 Yasushi Inoue, Japanese historian, dies

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

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

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

1986 Marcel Liebman, Belgian historian, dies at 56

1986 Louis Lebeer, Dutch art historian, dies at 90

1985 Fernand Braudel, French historian, dies at 83

1985 Fernand Braudel, French Historian

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

1984 Michel Foucault, English Historian

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

1982 Edward H Carr, British historian, dies at 90

1982 Albert Soboult, French historian, dies at 68

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

1981 Guido Provoost, Belgian historian, dies at 41

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

1981 Kazimiroff Blvd in Bronx named for a Bronx historian

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

1980 Walter Rodney, Guyanese historian (bomanslag), dies

1979 Donald Creighton, Canadian Historian

1979 Herbert Butterfield, British Historian

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

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

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

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

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

1976 Samuel E. Morison, American Historian

1975 Hannah Arendt, German Historian

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

1975 Arnold J. Toynbee, British Historian

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

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

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

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

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

1973 Rodney Kite-Powell, historian

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

1972 Jacques Pirenne, Belgian historian, dies at 81

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

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

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

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

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

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

1970 B. H. Liddell Hart, British Historian

1968 Kenneth Scott Latourette, American Historian

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

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

1968 Iris Chang, Chinese Historian

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

1967 Herman Uyttersprot, Flemish literature historian, dies at 58

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

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

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

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

1964 Berthold Altaner, German church historian, dies at 80

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

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

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

1963 Charles Seymour, American Historian

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

1961 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 Clare Lucy Madeleine Evans, historian

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

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

1959 Gustave Charlier, Belgian literature historian, dies

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

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

1958 Mary Ritter Beard, American historian, dies at 82

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

1955 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 Floris HL Prims, Flemish priest/historian/archivist of Antwerp, dies

1954 Stephen Jones, art historian

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

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

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

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

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

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

1950 Carter G. Woodson, American Historian

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

1948 Charles A. Beard, American Historian

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

1948 Charles McCorquodale, art historian

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

1947 Callum Alexander MacDonald, historian

1947 R J Evans, FBA, historian

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

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

1947 John Thorn, American Historian

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

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

1946 Peter Morris, historian of France

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

1945 Herman T Colenbrander, historian, dies at 73

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

1944 Camille Looten, Belgian priest/literature historian, dies

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

1944 Marc Bloch, French Historian

1944 Paul Hazard, French literature historian, dies at 65

1944 Anthony Farrar Hockley, military historian

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

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

1943 Doris Kearns Goodwin, American Historian

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

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

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

1941 Hippolyte Delehaye, Flemish historian, dies at 81

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

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

1941 Joseph Schmidlin, German church historian, murdered at 67

1940 Guido Provoost, Belgian historian

1940 Herbert Albert Laurens Fisher, historian, dies

1940 Averil Cameron, British historian

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

1938 Anita Brookner, art historian/novelist

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

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

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

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

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

1935 Lodewijk Scharpe, Flemish literature historian, dies at 65

1934 Raphael Samuel, historian

1934 Lindsay Oliver John Boynton, furniture historian

1933 Robert Rhodes James, historian, Gallipoli

1933 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 David Shipman, film historian

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

1931 Denis Frank Owen, Natural historian

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

1930 John Gorman, printer/socialist historian

1930 Karl von Amira, German historian, dies at 82

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

1929 Peter J Blok, Dutch historian, dies at 74

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

1929 Marcel Liebman, Belgian historian

1929 Renzo de Felice, historian

1929 WIlliam K. Everson, film historian

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

1929 Peter Hinchcliff, historian

1929 Len Deighton, British Historian

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

1928 Peter Nailor, civil servant/historian

1928 F A Alphonse Aulard, French historian, dies

1928 Anthony Nicholas Maria Wahl, historian

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

1928 Donald Cameron Watt, historian

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

1928 Dmitri Antonovitch Volkogonov, soldier/historian

1927 John Phillipps Kenyon, historian/teacher

1927 Phillip Burton, historian, Vanishing Eagles

1926 Jan Six, Dutch art historian/collector, dies

1926 Jan A de Jonge, Dutch historian

1926 Thomas Millar, historian

1926 August Sauer, Austria literature historian, dies at 70

1926 Annie nee Becker Kriegel, historian

1926 Michiel de Ruyter, Dutch jazz historian, Mister Jazz

1926 Burton Stein, historian

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

1926 Douglas Johnson, historian

1925 Gwyn A Williams, historian/socialist

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

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

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

1924 John Grigg, British historian

1924 Mary Tregear, Oriental art historian

1924 E. P. Thompson, British Historian

1923 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 Tony Parker, oral historian

1923 Peter Gay, American Historian

1923 Gustav Enestrom, Swedish historian, dies at 70

1922 Samuel Muller Fzn, Dutch historian/archivist, dies

1922 Howard Zinn, American Historian

1922 James Holt, medieval historian

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

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

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

1921 Aled Eames, maritime historian

1920 John Richard Ravensdale, historian

1920 Robert Feenstra, Dutch law historian

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

1920 Sam Moskowitz, San Francisco fandom historian

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

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

1920 Alexandru D Xenopol, Romanian historian, dies at 72

1920 Donald Cuthbert Coleman, economic historian

1919 George Duby, historian

1919 Edwin Clarke, historian and neurologist

1919 F de Jong Edz, Dutch historian

1918 James Bysse Joll, historian

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

1918 Edward Thomas, historian/intelligence expert

1918 Henry B. Adams, Historian

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

1917 William Hardy McNeill, historian, Rise of the West

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

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

1917 William P. Bundy, American Historian

1917 Richard Charles Cobb, historian

1917 H C Allen, American historian

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

1917 Rohan Butler, historian

1916 Allan Leslie Merson, historian

1915 Alistair Cameron Crombie, historian of science

1915 Denys Hay, historian

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

1915 John Hope Franklin, historian

1914 Alan L Bullock, British historian

1914 Alan Bullock, British Historian

1914 Daniel J. Boorstin, American Historian

1914 Philippe Aries, French historian

1914 Albert Soboult, French historian

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

1914 Lord Dacre of Glanton, British historian

1914 Hugh Trevor-Roper, English Historian

1913 John Wyndham Pope-Hennessy, English art historian

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

1913 Ragnhild Marie Hatton, historian

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

1912 Edith Porada, art historian/archaeologist

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

1912 Belinda Quirey, dance historian/teacher

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

1912 Christopher Hill, English Historian

1912 John Edward Christopher Hill, English Historian

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

1911 Fitzroy Maclean, British diplomat soldier politician and historian

1910 Leon Poliakov, historian

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

1910 Cicely Veronica Wedgwood, British historian, William the Silent

1910 Arthur van Schendel, Dutch art historian

1910 Andrew Gilchrist, historian/diplomat

1910 David Lavender, American Historian

1910 Dorothy Stroud, garden historian

1910 Thomas Stuart Willan, historian

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

1909 Henry Charles Lea, American Historian

1909 Fernand Lodewick, literature historian

1909 Hugo Buchthal, art historian

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

1909 Hermann Bengtson, German historian, Greeks Ancient Times

1909 C. Northcote Parkinson, British Historian

1909 Herman Uyttersprot, Flemish literature historian

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

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

1908 Michael Balfour, historian

1908 Lab Rachel Katherine Hamilton-Russell ouchere, local historian

1908 James Lees-Milne, architecural historian

1908 Walther Vanbeselaere, Flemish art historian

1908 Michael Roberts, historian

1908 Jacob Bronowsky, British mathematician/cultural historian

1908 Ben Seijes, Dutch historian, WW II

1908 Walther Vanbeselaere, Flemish art historian

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

1907 Maurice Ashley, historian

1907 Robert Humphreys, British? historian

1907 Frederick George Emmison, archivist/historian

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

1907 Albert Hughes Williams, teacher and historian

1907 Mircea Eliade, religious historian, Le Yoga

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

1906 Margaret Barbara Lambert, British historian, Saar

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

1906 Hannah Arendt, Germany, historian, Origins of Totalitarianism

1906 Franklin Garrett, American Historian

1906 Countess of Longford, biographer/historian

1906 Albert Goodwin, historian

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

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

1906 A. J. P. Taylor, British Historian

1906 Henry Phelps Brown, historian/economist

1904 Frederik van der Meer, Dutch archaeologist/art historian

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

1904 Meyer Schapiro, art historian

1904 Harold Acton, English/Italian historian/art collector

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

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

1903 Alfred Leslie Rowse, historian

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

1903 Willem Kooiman, Dutch theologist/church historian

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

1903 Mauritius van Haegendoren, Flemish historian/senator

1903 Steven Runciman, British Historian

1903 Sybil Marion Rosenfeld, theatre historian

1902 Fernand Braudel, French historian

1902 Wolfgang Kunkel, German law historian

1902 Murk Ozinga, Dutch building historian, Monuments of Curacao

1902 Henry Commager, Pittsburgh, Steele historian

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

1902 Pieter John Bouman, sociologist/historian

1902 Fernand Braudel, French historian, Civililization and Capitalism

1902 Roy Armstrong, English historian, History of Sussex

1902 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 Donald Creighton, Canadian Historian

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

1902 Hendrik J Elias, Flemish historian, mayor-Ghent

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

1901 George Osborne Sayles, historian

1901 William Stubbs, historian/bishop, dies

1901 Richard Leslie Hill, historian

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

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

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

1900 Korneel Goossens, Flemish literature/art historian

1900 Herbert Butterfield, British Historian

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

1899 Alfred Kantorowicz, German historian, Spanish Diary

1899 Otto E Neugebauer, Austrian/US math historian

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

1899 Arthur Bryant, English historian, King Charles II

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

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

1899 Joseph Nathan Kane, historian, Famous Firsts

1898 Gerard Schmook, Flemish librarian/historian/custodian

1898 Martin David, German/Netherlands law historian

1898 Constant A Serrure, Flemish historian, dies at 62

1898 Alphonse Wauters, Belgian historian, dies at 81

1898 Hans van Werveke, Flemish historian, Diocese Terwaan

1897 Jacob Burckhardt, Swiss cultural historian, dies at 79

1897 Richard Krautheimer, art Historian

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

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

1896 Hendrik G Kleyn, church historian dies at 36

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

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

1896 Heinrich von Treitschke, German historian, dies

1895 B. H. Liddell Hart, British Historian

1895 Louis Mumford, cultural historian/city planner/writer

1895 Louis Lebeer, Dutch art historian

1895 Charles Petrie, Liverpool, historian

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

1895 Earnest Kantorowicz, German/US historian, Laudes regiae

1895 Frans Ganshof, Belgian historian

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

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

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

1894 Ludovicus J Rogier, Dutch historian, Henric van Veldeken

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

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

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

1893 Joannes DM Cornelissen, Dutch historian, Hooft and Tacitus

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

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

1892 Constantly Burniaux, Belg, art historian, Temps Inquiets

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

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

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

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

1891 Jacques Pirenne, Belgian historian

1891 Hans Ruin, Finnish Swedish-language historian

1891 George Bancroft, American Historian

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

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

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

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

1889 Arnold J. Toynbee, British Historian

1889 Thomas T H Jorissen, historian, dies at 56

1889 Philip Guedalla, historian

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

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

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

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

1888 Henry James Sumner Maine, English Historian

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

1887 Francis Bull, Norway, writer, Norsk literature historian

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

1887 Samuel E. Morison, American Historian

1887 Erich Kuttner, German journalist/historian, Vorwarts

1887 Pavel Annenkov, Russian literature historian, dies at 73

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

1886 Ahmad Amin, Egyptian historian/author

1886 Wilhelm Scherer, German literature historian, dies at 45

1886 Marc Bloch, French Historian

1886 Ernst R. Curtius, German literature historian

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

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

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

1885 Berthold Altaner, German church historian, Patrologie

1885 Gustave Charlier, Belgian literature historian/critic

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

1885 Veit Valentin, German/US historian, Deutsche Revolution

1885 Charles Seymour, American Historian

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

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

1884 Kenneth Scott Latourette, American Historian

1884 Alexander Byvanck, Dutch art historian/archaeologist

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

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

1883 Pavel Melnikov, Russian historian/author, dies

1882 David Cohen, Dutch historian/chairman, Jewish Council

1882 Johannes Lindeboom, vicar/church historian, Netherlands Archives

1882 Leo van Puyfielde, Flemish art historian

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

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

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

1881 Leopold von Ranke, historian, dies

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

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

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

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

1879 Fritz Schulz, German law historian, Classical Novel Law

1879 Jacques Bainville, French historian/essayist/journalist

1878 Mark N Tod, English classicist/historian

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

1878 Paul Hazard, French literature historian

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

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

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

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

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

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

1876 Joseph Schmidlin, German church historian/antifascist

1876 George Macauley Trevelyan, England, historian, Giuseppi Garibaldi

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

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

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

1875 Carter G. Woodson, American Historian

1875 Desiderius A. Stracke, Flemish jesuit/literature historian

1875 Johan E Elias, historian, Amsterdam

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

1875 Arthur Helps, British Historian

1875 Hans Lietzman, German theologist and church historian

1874 Charles A. Beard, American Historian

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

1874 Ernst Rabel, Austrian/US law historian, Grundzuge

1873 George P Gooch, English historian/MP

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

1873 Emil Ermatinger, born in Switzerland, literature historian

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

1872 Johan Huizinga, Dutch culture historian, Homo Ludens

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

1872 George Louis Beer, historian, authority on British colonies

1871 Herman T Colenbrander, Dutch historian

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

1871 Henricus P Bremmer, art historian, Modern Kunstwerken

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

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

1869 Lodewijk Scharpe, Flemish literature historian

1869 Joseph Cuvelier, Belgian historian/archivist

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

1868 Franz V M Cumont, Belgian religious historian

1867 Manuel de Oliveira Lima, Brazilian historian/diplomat

1867 Max Friedlander, German art historian, Altniederlandische Malerei

1867 Archibald Alison, Scottish historian, dies at 74

1867 Michael G de Boer, historian, Harbor of Amsterdam

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

1866 Bannister Fletcher, London, architect and architectural historian

1866 Rafael Altamira Crevea, Spanish lawyer/historian

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

1865 Wilhelm Bousset, German theologist/historian

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

1865 Albert Verwey, Dutch poet/literature historian, Motion

1865 Max HHR Nettlau, Austrian historian, Le Premiere Internationale

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

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

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

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

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

1863 Adolph Goldschmidt, German historian

1862 Henri Pirenne, Belgian historian, History of Belgium

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

1862 Henry John Newbolt, English sea historian/poet

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

1861 Johann Peter Kirsch, Luxembourg church historian/archaeologist

1861 Ursmer Berliere, Belgian historian, Monastican Belgium

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

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

1860 Alfred Coville, French historian, Lesson etats de Normandie

1859 John W Fortescue, military historian

1859 Thomas Babington Macaulay, English essayist/historian, dies

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

1859 Hendrik G. Kleyn, church historian

1859 Hippolyte Delehaye, Flemish historian/hagiographer

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

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

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

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

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

1857 Jan Six, Dutch art historian/art collector

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

1855 Camille Looten, Belgian priest/literature historian

1855 August Sauer, Austria literature historian, Euphorion

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

1855 Abraham Bredius, Dutch art historian, Jan Steen

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

1854 Hans Muller, music historian

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

1853 Clemens Baeumker, German historian, Patristischen Philosophie

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

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

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

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

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

1849 F. A. Alphonse Aulard, French historian

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

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

1847 Alexandru D Xenopol, Romania, historian

1845 Dietrich Schafer, German historian, Deutsche Hanse

1845 Willem H de Beaufort, Dutch historian/politician

1843 Mandell Creighton, English bishop/historian

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

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

1842 Leon Vanderkindere, Belgian historian/mayor, Ukkel

1842 Vasili O Klyutshevski, Russian historian

1841 Wilhelm Scherer, German literature historian

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

1838 James, 1st Viscount Bryce, historian/statesman

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

1835 Louis A Ranvier, French anatomist/historian

1835 Constant A. Serrure, Flemish historian

1835 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 Heinrich von Treitschke, German historian/parliament member

1834 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 Pieter G Witsen Geysbeek, historian/literary, dies at 58

1833 Thomas T H Jorissen, Dutch historian

1833 Bernhard Erdmannsdorffer, German, historian, Deutsche Geschichte

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

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

1831 Justin Winston, historian/librarian, Harvard

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

1830 Numa D Fustel de Coulanges, French historian and sociologist

1829 Moritz B Cantor, German math historian

1829 John G R Acquoy, theologist/church historian

1828 Franjo Racki, Croatian historian/politician

1828 Jan K J de Jonge, Dutch historian

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

1827 Petrus PM Alberdingk Thijm, Dutch historian and writer

1826 Carel Vosmaer, Dutch art historian/poet/editor

1825 Henry Charles Lea, American Historian

1825 Jacobus J Backer, German sea historian

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

1823 Robert J Fruin, historian, 80 year war

1823 Francis Parkman, American historian/author, Oregon Trail

1823 Willem J F Nuyens, Dutch physician/RC historian

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

1822 Henry James Sumner Maine, English Historian

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

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

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

1818 Pavel Melnikov, Russian historian/author, V Lesach

1818 Pavel Melnikov, Russian historian/author, V Lesach

1818 Jacob Burckhardt, Swiss cultural historian

1818 Jose Amador de los Rios, Spanish historian/poet

1818 James Anthony Froude, historian

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

1817 Alphonse Wauters, Belgian historian/archivist, Brussels

1817 Constantine S. Aksakov, Russian historian and poet

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

1815 Johann J Bachofen, Swiss judicial historian

1815 Jules Quicherat, French historian/archaeologist

1814 Ernst Curtius, German archaeologist/historian

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

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

1813 Arthur Helps, British Historian

1813 Pavel Annenkov, Russian lit historian, Zametsjatelnoje desjatiletie

1813 Pavel Annenkov, Rus literature historian, Zametsjatelnoje desjatileti

1810 Thomas Wright, historian

1810 Reinier C Bakhuizen van de Brink, Dutch historian

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

1808 Antoine GB Schayes, Belgian historian/archaeologist

1807 Adriaan Kluit, Dutch historian, dies at 71

1806 Michele Amari, Italian historian/minister of Education

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

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

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

1803 Edgar Quinet, French writer/historian, Ahasverus

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

1800 Michail P Pogodin, Russian historian/author, Povesti

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

1800 George Bancroft, historian, Hall of Fame

1800 Paulin Paris, French historian

1800 Louis-Prosper Gachard, Belgian historian

1799 Johann von Dollinger, German Old Catholic theologian/historian

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

1798 Frantisek Palacky, Czechoslovakian historian

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

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

1795 Jacques-Nicolas-Augustin Thierry, historian

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

1794 George Grote, British historian

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

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

1793 Johannes C de Jonge, Dutch historian/archivist

1793 Nicolaas C. Kist, Dutch church historian/archivist

1792 Archibald Alison, Scottish historian, History of Europe

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

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

1787 Francois P G Guizot, French historian/politician

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

1783 Erik Gustaf Geijer, Swedish historian/poet, Natthimmelen

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

1781 Karl F Eichhorn, German law historian

1781 Friedrich von Raumer, German historian/parliamentarian

1778 Balthazar Huydecoper, translator/historian, dies at 83

1777 Henry Hallam, British lawyer/historian

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

1773 Jan Wagenaar, Dutch historian, dies at 63

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

1770 Vincenzo Cuoco, Italian historian, Naples Revolution 1799

1766 Emanuel ADMJ, French historian, Napoleon

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

1758 Gerard Van Wage, historian, dies at 75

1758 John Pinkerton, Scottish historian

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

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

1746 Daniel W. Wyttenbach, Dutch classical/historian

1737 Cornelis van Alkemade, historian, dies at 83

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

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

1737 Edward Gibbon, English Historian

1736 Jean-Sylvain, French historian, History of France

1735 Adriaan Kluit, Dutch historian

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

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

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

1723 Adam Ferguson, Scottish sociologist/historian

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

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

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

1713 Pavao Vitezovic, Croatian historian, dies

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

1709 John Wagenaar, Amsterdam merchant/historian, baptised

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

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

1695 Balthazar Huydecoper, Dutch translator and historian

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

1689 Olfert Dapper, Amsterdam historian/geographer, buried

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

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

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

1683 Gerard van Loon, Dutch historian

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

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

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

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

1669 Lieuwe van Aitzema, Frisian historian, dies at 68

1667 Paul Foot, lawyer/historian, dies at 48

1666 Gottfried Arnold, German theologist/historian/songwriter

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

1660 Peter Scriverius, lawyer/historian, dies at 44

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

1655 Valerius Andreas, Flemish historian, dies at 66

1654 Cornelis van Alkemade, Dutch historian

1653 Mark Zuesius Boxhorn, historian, dies at 41

1653 Jacques Basnage, French/Netherlands historian/vicar

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

1652 Pavao Vitezovic, Croatia, writer/historian

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

1640 Andre Duchesne, French historian/genealogy, dies

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

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

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

1639 Noel Alexandre, French theologian/historian

1635 Antonius Matthaeus, Dutch lawyer/historian

1635 Pieter Christiaensz Bor, Dutch historian, dies

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

1628 Daniel van Papenbroeck, Papebrochius, Flemish historian

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

1626 Geeraerdt Brandt, Dutch theologist, poet and historian

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

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

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

1619 Philipp von Zesen, German poet and historian, Amsterdam

1619 Paulus Voet, Dutch jurist/historian

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

1617 Pieter C Bockenberg, Dutch historian, dies at 68

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

1612 Mark Zuesius Boxhorn, Dutch historian

1612 Emanuel Van Meteren, merchant/historian, dies

1610 Johann B Schup, Schuppius, German poet and historian

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

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

1606 Abraham de Wicquefort, Dutch diplomat/historian

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

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

1605 John Stow, British historian, dies

1603 Christianus Schotanus Sterringa, Frisian theologist/historian

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

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

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

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

1589 Lodovico Guicciardini, Italian historian, dies at 67

1588 Valerius Andreas, Walter Driessens, Flemish historian

1579 John Meursius, Dutch historian

1576 Peter Scriverius, Dutch lawyer/historian

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

1571 John I Pontanus, physicist/historian, Amsterdam

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

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

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

1558 Paulus Merula, Dutch lawyer/historian

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

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

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

1551 William Camden, English historian, Brittania, Annales

1548 Pieter C Bockenberg, historian, Annales Hollandiae et Zeelandiae

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

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

1546 Johann Pistorius, German theologist/historian

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

1535 Emanuel van Meteren, Southern Netherlands, merchant/historian

1526 Peter Opmeer, church historian/humanist, Historia Martyrum

1521 Lodovico Guicciardini, Italian historian, Descrittione di Tutti

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

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

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

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

1503 Benedetto Varchi, Italian humanist/historian, Storia Fiorentina

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

1440 Hartmann Schedel, German physician/humanist/historian

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

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

1322 Peter van Herenthals, South Netherlands theologist/church historian

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

1103 Frutolf, German monk/musicologist/historian, dies

1075 Ordericus Vitalis, French monk/historian/poet

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

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

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


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