1997 Death Austin Whitaker, schoolmaster classical scholar/archivist, dies at 90 1997 Death Pananayiotis Taki Vatikiotis, middle east scholar, dies at 69 1997 Death Sayed Mutawli ad Imam scholar/broadcaster-Darsh, dies at 66 1997 Death Michael Dorris, writer, scholar, first unmarried man to adopt child, Raynold Abel, wrote about Reynold in 'The Broken Cord', commits suicide in Concord, New Hampshire, at age 52 1997 Death Junaidu ibn Buhari, scholar, dies at 90 1996 Death Bernard Frank, oriental scholar/writer, dies at 69 1996 Death Kenneth Muir, english scholar, dies at 89 1996 Death Andrew Rodger Waterson, scholar Naturalist, dies at 84 1996 Death Edward McInnes, German scholar, dies at 60 1996 Death Ivo Rudolph Jarosy, film scholar/exhibitor, dies at 74 1996 Death Peter Clemoes, Anglo-Saxon scholar, dies at 76 1995 Death Charles James Dunn, japanese scholar, dies at 80 1995 Death John Cruickshank, French scholar, dies at 70 1995 Death Jacques Berque, Islamic scholar, dies at 85 1995 Death Philip Owen A Sherrard, scholar theologian poet/translator, dies at 72 1995 Death Alexander Hyatt-King, Mozart scholar, dies at 84 1995 Death Gilbert Gadoffre, French scholar, dies at 84 1995 Death John Pinsent, classical scholar, dies at 72 1995 Death Robert Clifford Latham, pepys Scholar, dies at 82 1994 Death Lloyd James Austin, french Scholar, dies at 79 1994 Death Nyanaponika, Siegmund Feniger, German scholar/author, dies at 93 1994 Death Rupert Davies, methodist scholar, dies at 84 1994 Death Jean Gattegno, translator/scholar, dies at 58 1994 Death Harry Levin, literary Scholar, dies at 81 1993 Death Youssef Sebti, Algerian scholar/poet, murdered at 50 1984 Death Uwe Johnson, writer, scholar, editor, dies at 59 1982 Death Leckie, Suriname scholar, murdered 1975 Death Julian S Huxley, English scholar/director-General (UNESCO), dies at 87 1973 Death Otto Eissfeldt, German old testament scholar, dies at 85 1968 Death Lucien Cerfaux, Belgian biblical scholar, dies 1966 Death D T Suzuki, Zen Buddhism scholar, dies in Tokyo, Japan at 96 1965 Death Alberto Vaccari, Italian jesuit/old testament scholar, dies at 90 1964 Death Reginald Horace Blyth, Zen teacher/scholar, dies in Japan at 66 1963 Death W E B Du Bois, scholar/founder (NAACP), dies at 95 in Accra Ghana 1962 Death Rav Aaron Kotler, Orthodox Talmudic scholar, dies in Lakewood NJ 1961 Death Willem J M van Eysinga, people rights scholar, dies at 82 1955 Death Eugen Herrigel, Zen philosopher/scholar, dies in Germany at 70 1953 Death Felix M Abel, French dominican/biblical scholar, dies at 74 1951 Birthday Ned Sublette, born in Lubbock, Texas, composer, musician, musicologist, producer, guitarist, studied classical guitar with Emilio Pujol, composition with Kenneth Gaburo, Cuban music scholar, known for mixing country-western, afro-Caribbean salsa, cumbia, rumba music styles 1946 Birthday Jeremy Treglown, English scholar/editor, TLS 1945 Death Nishida Kitaro, scholar/philosopher/Zen practitioner, dies at 74 1945 Birthday Michael Dorris, born in Louisville, Kentucky, writer, scholar, first unmarried man to adopt child, Raynold Abel, wrote about Reynold in 'The Broken Cord' 1944 Birthday Neely Bruce, born in America, composer, conductor, pianist, scholar of American music, Professor of Music and American Studies at Wesleyan University, chorus director for Connecticut Opera 1943 Death Kostis Palamis, Greek poet/scholar (Flogera tou Basilia), dies at 84 1941 Death Jose Leite de Vasconcelos, Portuguese scholar (Etnografia), dies at 82 1939 Birthday Bryan Gould, born in New Zealand, politician, Rhodes Scholar, Labor Member of Parliament for Southampton Test, served as Shadow Chief Secretary 1938 Birthday Douglas Leedy, born in Portland, Oregon, pseudonym, Bhishma Xenotechnites, composer, music scholar, performer, works include 'Trio' 1935 Birthday Edward McInnes, German scholar 1935 Birthday Jean Gattegno, translator/scholar 1934 Birthday Uwe Johnson, born in Pomerania, Poland, writer, scholar, editor, wrote fiction, won International Publishers' Formentor Prize 1933 Birthday John C Gardner, scholar/writer, Grendel, Sunlight Dialogues 1931 Death Marcel Planiol, French private law scholar, dies 1930 Birthday Sayed Mutawli imam ad-Darsh, scholar/broadcaster 1928 Death Jane Ellen Harrison, scholar/archaeologist, dies 1928 Birthday Pananayiotis Taki Vatikiotis, middle east scholar 1927 Birthday Bernard Frank, oriental scholar/writer 1925 Birthday Warren G. Bennis, born in New York City, New York, scholar, author, Leadership Studies pioneer, studied group behavior at MIT, prompting interest in the then-nonexistent field of leadership, published 'Revisionist Theory of Leadership', 1961, stating that humanistic, democratic-style leaders can best manage change in the leadership environment 1924 Birthday John Cruickshank, French scholar 1922 Birthday John Pinsent, classical scholar 1922 Birthday Philip Owen Arnould Sherrard, scholar theologian poet/translator 1921 Birthday Ivo Rudolph Jarosy, film scholar/exhibitor 1920 Birthday Peter Clemoes, anglo-Saxon scholar 1918 Death Chaim Soloveitchik, Rabbi of Brisk, talmudic scholar, dies 1918 Birthday Jack Morpurgo, American Literature scholar, Leeds University 1918 Birthday Richard Ellmann, U.S., literary scholar and writer, Oscar Wilde 1915 Birthday Lloyd James Austin, French Scholar 1915 Birthday Charles James Dunn, Japanese scholar 1915 Birthday Francis Berry, poet/Shakespearean scholar 1913 Death Eberhard Nestle, German biblical scholar, dies at 61 1912 Birthday Harry Levin, literary Scholar 1912 Birthday Andrew Rodger Waterson, scholar/naturalist 1912 Birthday Robert Clifford Latham, pepys Scholar 1911 Birthday Alexander Hyatt-King, scholar, Mozart 1911 Death Francis Galton, English scholar, dies at 88 1911 Birthday Gilbert Gadoffre, French scholar 1910 Birthday George D Kilpatrick, Canadian/British bible scholar 1910 Birthday Jacques Berque, Islamic scholar 1909 Birthday Rupert Davies, methodist Scholar 1907 Birthday Austin Whitaker, schoolmaster classical scholar/archivist 1907 Birthday Kenneth Muir, English scholar 1906 Birthday John Humphreys Whitfield, scholar of Italian language and literature 1906 Death Fritz Schaudinn, German animal scholar: examined amoebasis, dies at 34 1901 Birthday Gerhard von Rad, German old testament scholar, Deuteronomium 1900 Birthday James Sutherland, English literature scholar/actor, Rob Roy 1953 1896 Birthday Roman Jakobson, linguist/Slavic scholar, Fundamentals of Language 1894 Birthday Henri E J A de Page, Belgian private law scholar 1891 Birthday William F Albright, U.S. old testament scholar/archaeologist 1887 Birthday Otto Eissfeldt, German old testament scholar 1883 Death Karl Wilhelm Dindorf, classic scholar, dies 1881 Birthday William John Gruffydd, Welsh poet/scholar, Ynys yr Hud 1878 Birthday Felix M Abel, French bible scholar, Jerusalem Nouvelle 1877 Birthday Daniel Plooy, Dutch new testament scholar 1876 Death Joseph Bosworth, lexicographer/scholar, dies 1875 Birthday Alberto Vaccari, Italian jesuit and old testament scholar 1870 Birthday D T Suzuki, Kanazawa Japan, Zen Buddhist scholar 1870 Birthday Pieter Cornelis Boutens, Holland, mystic poet/scholar, Verzen 1866 Birthday Sophonisba Breckenridge, scholar, teacher and social activist 1863 Birthday Johannes Weiss, German New Testament scholar 1862 Birthday Montague Rhodes James, scholar/author/editor 1859 Birthday Kostis Palamas, Greek poet/scholar, Flogera tou Basilia 1853 Birthday Marcel Planiol, French private law scholar 1851 Birthday Eberhard Nestle, German orientalist/biblical scholar 1847 Birthday Solomon Schechter, U.S. Talmudic scholar/Jewish leader 1839 Birthday Eugenio Maria de Hostos, Puerto Rico, patriot/scholar 1832 Death Rasmus Rask, Danish language scholar, dies at 44 1824 Birthday Carlos Calvo, Argentina diplomat/people rights scholar, Calvo Clause 1823 Birthday Ernest Renan, French philosopher/historian/scholar of religion 1820 Birthday George Grove, born in London, England, biblical scholar/misicographer 1808 Death Richard Porson, scholar, dies 1807 Death Joan Lucaz, Dutch scholar/journalist/patriot, dies at 60 1798 Death Corneille F de Nelis, Flemish scholar/bishop of Antwerp, dies at 62 1789 Death Peter Camper, anatomist/animal scholar, dies at 66 1787 Birthday Rasmus Rask, Denmark, language scholar 1781 Birthday Andres Bello, Venezuela poet/diplomat/scholar, Silvas Americanas 1767 Death Firmin Abauzit, French huguenot/scholar, dies at 87 1765 Death Michail vs. Lomonosov, Russian scholar/poet, dies at 53 1763 Death James Kent, Fredericksburgh NY, legal scholar (Columbia), dies 1736 Birthday Corneille F de Nelis, Flemish scholar/bishop of Antwerp 1711 Birthday Michail V Lomonosov, Russian scholar/poet 1672 Death Georg Stiernhielm, Swed scholar, author and poet (Hercules), dies at 73 1662 Birthday Richard Bentley, Oulton, scholar/controversialist 1656 Death James Ussher, Irish bible scholar/anglican archbishop, dies at 76 1655 Birthday Jan Luyts, Netherlands, scholar/physicist/mathematician/astronomer 1636 Birthday Yen Jo-chu, Chinese scholar of Ch'ing dynasty 1620 Birthday Francois Charpentier, French scholar/archaeologist 1618 Death Walter Raleigh, English scholar, poet and historian, beheaded for treason 1617 Birthday Nicolas Antonio, Spanish scholar, Censura de historias fabulosas 1610 Birthday Charles Du Fresne Du Cange, French scholar/philologist 1607 Birthday John Harvard, England, clergyman/scholar, founded Harvard University 1600 Event Vatican convicts scholar Giordano Bruno to death 1599 Birthday Florence Estienne Meric Casaubon, classical scholar 1593 Event Vatican opens 7 year trial against scholar Giordano Bruno 1591 Death Luis de Leon, scholar/poet, dies 1559 Birthday Isaac Casaubon, naturalized English classical scholar, theologian 1558 Death Reginald Pole, English cardinal/scholar/"heretic", dies at 58 1546 Death Martin Luther, biblical scholar/religious reformer, dies at 62 1545 Birthday Thomas Bodley, England, diplomat and scholar 1536 Event English scholar Reginald Pole appointed cardinal 1502 Birthday Damiao de Gois, Portuguese humanist scholar 1484 Birthday Julius Caesar Scaliger, Italy, scholar, On the Subtlety of Things 1466 Birthday Desiderius Erasmus, Holland, scholar/author, In Praise of Folly 1463 Birthday Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, Italy, scholar/platonist 1295 Death Sancho IV, the Brave, scholar/king of Castile/Leon, dies 1275 Death Raymundus of Penafort, Spanish church law scholar, dies 1270 Death Ramban Nachmanides, Talmudic scholar (Hiddushei Ha-Ramden), dies 1253 Death Grosseteste, an English scholar, dies at 78 1245 Death Alexander van Hales, English scholar, dies 1204 Death Maimonides, Jewish philosopher/talmudic scholar, dies in Cairo at 69 1003 Death Gerbert, French scholar, dies in Rome 804 Death Alcuin of York, English scholar, dies in Tours France at 69 309 Death Pamphilus van Caesarea, Palestinian scholar/martyr, beheaded 130 Birthday Claudius Galenus, Italian physician/scholar
