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1997 Austin Whitaker, schoolmaster classical scholar/archivist, dies at 90
1997 Pananayiotis Taki Vatikiotis, middle east scholar, dies at 69 1997 Sayed Mutawli ad Imam scholar/broadcaster-Darsh, dies at 66 1997 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 Junaidu ibn Buhari, scholar, dies at 90 1996 Bernard Frank, oriental scholar/writer, dies at 69 1996 Kenneth Muir, english scholar, dies at 89 1996 John Stachniewski, scholar/teacher, dies at 42 1996 Andrew Rodger Waterson, scholar Naturalist, dies at 84 1996 Edward McInnes, German scholar, dies at 60 1996 Ivo Rudolph Jarosy, film scholar/exhibitor, dies at 74 1996 Peter Clemoes, Anglo-Saxon scholar, dies at 76 1995 Charles James Dunn, japanese scholar, dies at 80 1995 John Cruickshank, French scholar, dies at 70 1995 Jacques Berque, Islamic scholar, dies at 85 1995 Philip Owen A Sherrard, scholar theologian poet/translator, dies at 72 1995 Alexander Hyatt-King, Mozart scholar, dies at 84 1995 Gilbert Gadoffre, French scholar, dies at 84 1995 John Pinsent, classical scholar, dies at 72 1995 Robert Clifford Latham, pepys Scholar, dies at 82 1994 Lloyd James Austin, french Scholar, dies at 79 1994 Nyanaponika, Siegmund Feniger, German scholar/author, dies at 93 1994 Rupert Davies, methodist scholar, dies at 84 1994 Jean Gattegno, translator/scholar, dies at 58 1994 Harry Levin, literary Scholar, dies at 81 1993 Youssef Sebti, Algerian scholar/poet, murdered at 50 1984 Uwe Johnson, writer, scholar, editor, dies at 59 1982 Leckie, Suriname scholar, murdered 1975 Julian S Huxley, English scholar/director-General (UNESCO), dies at 87 1973 Otto Eissfeldt, German old testament scholar, dies at 85 1968 Lucien Cerfaux, Belgian biblical scholar, dies 1966 D T Suzuki, Zen Buddhism scholar, dies in Tokyo, Japan at 96 1965 Alberto Vaccari, Italian jesuit/old testament scholar, dies at 90 1964 Reginald Horace Blyth, Zen teacher/scholar, dies in Japan at 66 1963 W E B Du Bois, scholar/founder (NAACP), dies at 95 in Accra Ghana 1962 Rav Aaron Kotler, Orthodox Talmudic scholar, dies in Lakewood NJ 1961 Willem J M van Eysinga, people rights scholar, dies at 82 1955 Eugen Herrigel, Zen philosopher/scholar, dies in Germany at 70 1953 John Stachniewski, scholar/teacher 1953 Felix M Abel, French dominican/biblical scholar, dies at 74 1951 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 Jeremy Treglown, English scholar/editor, TLS 1945 Nishida Kitaro, scholar/philosopher/Zen practitioner, dies at 74 1945 Michael Dorris, born in Louisville, Kentucky, writer, scholar, first unmarried man to adopt child, Raynold Abel, wrote about Reynold in 'The Broken Cord' 1944 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 Kostis Palamis, Greek poet/scholar (Flogera tou Basilia), dies at 84 1941 Jose Leite de Vasconcelos, Portuguese scholar (Etnografia), dies at 82 1939 Bryan Gould, born in New Zealand, politician, Rhodes Scholar, Labor Member of Parliament for Southampton Test, served as Shadow Chief Secretary 1938 Douglas Leedy, born in Portland, Oregon, pseudonym, Bhishma Xenotechnites, composer, music scholar, performer, works include 'Trio' 1935 Edward McInnes, German scholar 1935 Jean Gattegno, translator/scholar 1934 Uwe Johnson, born in Pomerania, Poland, writer, scholar, editor, wrote fiction, won International Publishers' Formentor Prize 1933 John C Gardner, scholar/writer, Grendel, Sunlight Dialogues 1931 Marcel Planiol, French private law scholar, dies 1930 Sayed Mutawli imam ad-Darsh, scholar/broadcaster 1928 Jane Ellen Harrison, scholar/archaeologist, dies 1928 Pananayiotis Taki Vatikiotis, middle east scholar 1927 Bernard Frank, oriental scholar/writer 1925 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 John Cruickshank, French scholar 1922 John Pinsent, classical scholar 1922 Philip Owen Arnould Sherrard, scholar theologian poet/translator 1921 Ivo Rudolph Jarosy, film scholar/exhibitor 1920 Peter Clemoes, anglo-Saxon scholar 1918 Chaim Soloveitchik, Rabbi of Brisk, talmudic scholar, dies 1918 Jack Morpurgo, American Literature scholar, Leeds University 1918 Richard Ellmann, U.S., literary scholar and writer, Oscar Wilde 1915 Lloyd James Austin, French Scholar 1915 Charles James Dunn, Japanese scholar 1915 Francis Berry, poet/Shakespearean scholar 1913 Eberhard Nestle, German biblical scholar, dies at 61 1912 Harry Levin, literary Scholar 1912 Andrew Rodger Waterson, scholar/naturalist 1912 Robert Clifford Latham, pepys Scholar 1911 Alexander Hyatt-King, scholar, Mozart 1911 Francis Galton, English scholar, dies at 88 1911 Gilbert Gadoffre, French scholar 1910 George D Kilpatrick, Canadian/British bible scholar 1910 Jacques Berque, Islamic scholar 1909 Rupert Davies, methodist Scholar 1907 Austin Whitaker, schoolmaster classical scholar/archivist 1907 Kenneth Muir, English scholar 1906 John Humphreys Whitfield, scholar of Italian language and literature 1906 Fritz Schaudinn, German animal scholar: examined amoebasis, dies at 34 1901 Gerhard von Rad, German old testament scholar, Deuteronomium 1900 James Sutherland, English literature scholar/actor, Rob Roy 1953 1896 Roman Jakobson, linguist/Slavic scholar, Fundamentals of Language 1894 Henri E J A de Page, Belgian private law scholar 1891 William F Albright, U.S. old testament scholar/archaeologist 1887 Otto Eissfeldt, German old testament scholar 1883 Karl Wilhelm Dindorf, classic scholar, dies 1881 William John Gruffydd, Welsh poet/scholar, Ynys yr Hud 1878 Felix M Abel, French bible scholar, Jerusalem Nouvelle 1877 Daniel Plooy, Dutch new testament scholar 1876 Joseph Bosworth, lexicographer/scholar, dies 1875 Alberto Vaccari, Italian jesuit and old testament scholar 1870 D T Suzuki, Kanazawa Japan, Zen Buddhist scholar 1870 Pieter Cornelis Boutens, Holland, mystic poet/scholar, Verzen 1866 Sophonisba Breckenridge, scholar, teacher and social activist 1863 Johannes Weiss, German New Testament scholar 1862 Montague Rhodes James, scholar/author/editor 1859 Kostis Palamas, Greek poet/scholar, Flogera tou Basilia 1853 Marcel Planiol, French private law scholar 1851 Eberhard Nestle, German orientalist/biblical scholar 1847 Solomon Schechter, U.S. Talmudic scholar/Jewish leader 1839 Eugenio Maria de Hostos, Puerto Rico, patriot/scholar 1832 Rasmus Rask, Danish language scholar, dies at 44 1824 Carlos Calvo, Argentina diplomat/people rights scholar, Calvo Clause 1823 Ernest Renan, French philosopher/historian/scholar of religion 1820 George Grove, born in London, England, biblical scholar/misicographer 1808 Richard Porson, scholar, dies 1807 Joan Lucaz, Dutch scholar/journalist/patriot, dies at 60 1798 Corneille F de Nelis, Flemish scholar/bishop of Antwerp, dies at 62 1789 Peter Camper, anatomist/animal scholar, dies at 66 1787 Rasmus Rask, Denmark, language scholar 1781 Andres Bello, Venezuela poet/diplomat/scholar, Silvas Americanas 1767 Firmin Abauzit, French huguenot/scholar, dies at 87 1765 Michail vs. Lomonosov, Russian scholar/poet, dies at 53 1763 James Kent, Fredericksburgh NY, legal scholar (Columbia), dies 1736 Corneille F de Nelis, Flemish scholar/bishop of Antwerp 1711 Michail V Lomonosov, Russian scholar/poet 1672 Georg Stiernhielm, Swed scholar, author and poet (Hercules), dies at 73 1662 Richard Bentley, Oulton, scholar/controversialist 1656 James Ussher, Irish bible scholar/anglican archbishop, dies at 76 1655 Jan Luyts, Netherlands, scholar/physicist/mathematician/astronomer 1636 Yen Jo-chu, Chinese scholar of Ch'ing dynasty 1620 Francois Charpentier, French scholar/archaeologist 1618 Walter Raleigh, English scholar, poet and historian, beheaded for treason 1617 Nicolas Antonio, Spanish scholar, Censura de historias fabulosas 1610 Charles Du Fresne Du Cange, French scholar/philologist 1607 John Harvard, England, clergyman/scholar, founded Harvard University 1600 Vatican convicts scholar Giordano Bruno to death 1599 Florence Estienne Meric Casaubon, classical scholar 1593 Vatican opens 7 year trial against scholar Giordano Bruno 1591 Luis de Leon, scholar/poet, dies 1559 Isaac Casaubon, naturalized English classical scholar, theologian 1558 Reginald Pole, English cardinal/scholar/"heretic", dies at 58 1546 Martin Luther, biblical scholar/religious reformer, dies at 62 1545 Thomas Bodley, England, diplomat and scholar 1536 English scholar Reginald Pole appointed cardinal 1502 Damiao de Gois, Portuguese humanist scholar 1484 Julius Caesar Scaliger, Italy, scholar, On the Subtlety of Things 1466 Desiderius Erasmus, Holland, scholar/author, In Praise of Folly 1463 Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, Italy, scholar/platonist 1295 Sancho IV, the Brave, scholar/king of Castile/Leon, dies 1275 Raymundus of Penafort, Spanish church law scholar, dies 1270 Ramban Nachmanides, Talmudic scholar (Hiddushei Ha-Ramden), dies 1253 Grosseteste, an English scholar, dies at 78 1245 Alexander van Hales, English scholar, dies 1204 Maimonides, Jewish philosopher/talmudic scholar, dies in Cairo at 69 1003 Gerbert, French scholar, dies in Rome 804 Alcuin of York, English scholar, dies in Tours France at 69 309 Pamphilus van Caesarea, Palestinian scholar/martyr, beheaded 130 Claudius Galenus, Italian physician/scholar |
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