William Archibald Spooner

William Archibald Spooner

male, deceased (1930)
William Archibald Spooner (July 22, 1844-August 29, 1930) was a famous Oxford don who lends his name to the linguistic phenomenon, the Spoonerism.
James Tilly Matthews

James Tilly Matthews

male, deceased (1815)
James Tilly Matthews was a London tea merchant with republican sympathies who became embroiled in a self-styled peace mission between France and...
Edmund Fanning

Edmund Fanning

male, deceased (1841)
Edmund Fanning (July 16, 1769 - April 23, 1841) was an American explorer and sea captain, known as the "Pathfinder of the Pacific." Born in...
John Cassell

John Cassell

male, deceased (1865)
John Cassell (23 January, 1817 - 2 April, 1865) was a British publisher and businessperson who published magazines aimed at the middle class. He...
David Carnegie

David Carnegie

male, deceased (1900)
The Hon. David Wynford Carnegie (23 March 1871 - 27 November 1900) was an explorer and gold prospector in Western Australia. In 1896 he led an...
Saichō

Saichō

male, deceased (822)
(767-822) was a Japanese Buddhist monk credited with founding the Tendai school in Japan, based around the Chinese Tiantai tradition he was exposed...
James Mayer de Rothschild

James Mayer de Rothschild

male, deceased (1868)
James de Rothschild, born May 15, 1792 in Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany - died November 15, 1868 in Paris, France, was a banker and a member of the...
Vincent Brome

Vincent Brome

male, deceased (2004)
Vincent Brome (14 July 1910 – 21 October 2004) was an English writer, who gradually established himself as a man of letters. He is best known for a...
Balfour Stewart

Balfour Stewart

male, deceased (1887)
Balfour Stewart, was a Scottish physicist. Stewart was born in Edinburgh, and was educated at the University of Edinburgh. The son of a tea...
Wilhelm ten Rhyne

Wilhelm ten Rhyne

male
Wilhelm ten Rhyne (1649 - 1700) was a Dutch doctor and botanist employed by the Dutch East India Company. He wrote the first European account of...