James Smithson

James Smithson

male, deceased (1829)
James Smithson, F.R.S., M.A. (1765 - June 27, 1829) was a British mineralogist and chemist noted for having left a bequest in his will to the...
Mary Berry

Mary Berry

female, deceased (1852)
Mary Berry (1763-1852) was an English author, born at Kirkbridge, Yorkshire. She and her sister Agnes (who was 14 months her junior) had a...

Wulfrun

female
Wulfrun is an Anglo-Saxon woman's name which is recorded in these places:- * Year 943 entry in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle says that Vikings seized...
Walter Loomis Newberry

Walter Loomis Newberry

male, deceased (1868)
Walter Loomis Newberry (born 1804, East Windsor, Connecticut; died November 6, 1868 at sea) was an American businessman and philanthropist, best...

John Stewart Kennedy

male, deceased (1909)
John Stewart Kennedy (1830 - 1909) was an American capitalist and philanthropist. He was born near Glasgow in Scotland, received a scant education...
Rebecca Jackson

Rebecca Jackson

female
Rebecca Jackson is a former Republican politician from Louisville, Kentucky, previously serving as the Jefferson County Judge/Executive and also...
John Snell

John Snell

male, deceased (1679)
Sir John Snell, founder of the Snell exhibitions at the University of Oxford, was born in Ayrshire, Scotland, the son of a blacksmith. He joined...
Philippe de Cabassoles

Philippe de Cabassoles

male
The Bishop of Cavaillon, Philippe de Cabassoles, Seigneur of Vaucluse, was the great protector of Renaissance poet and orator Francesco Petrarch....
Mary Lucretia Creighton

Mary Lucretia Creighton

female, deceased (1876)
Mary Lucretia Creighton (February 3, 1834 - January 23, 1876) was born Mary Lucretia Wareham in Dayton, Ohio. Creighton was a philanthropist who...
Walter Havighurst

Walter Havighurst

male, deceased (1994)
Walter E. Havighurst (November 28 1901 - 1994) writer and professor of English at Miami University. He was the son of Lawrence College professors...