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#19301

Charles Rolls

1877 - 1910 (33 years)

Charles Stewart Rolls was a British motoring and aviation pioneer. With Henry Royce, he co-founded the Rolls-Royce car manufacturing firm. He was the first Briton to be killed in an aeronautical accident with a powered aircraft, when the tail of his Wright Flyer broke off during a flying display in Bournemouth. He was aged 32.

#19302

Demetrius Lacon

150 BC - Present (2176 years)

Demetrius Lacon or Demetrius of Laconia was an Epicurean philosopher, and a disciple of Protarchus. He was an older contemporary of Zeno of Sidon and a teacher of Philodemus. Sextus Empiricus quotes part of a commentary by Demetrius on Epicurus, where Demetrius interprets Epicurus' statement that "time is an accident of accidents."

#19303

Metrodorus of Lampsacus

500 BC - 464 BC (36 years)

Metrodorus of Lampsacus was a Pre-Socratic philosopher from the Greek town of Lampsacus on the eastern shore of the Hellespont. According to Diogenes Laertius, he was a contemporary and friend of Anaxagoras.He died in 464 BC.

#19304

Dioscorides

300 BC - Present (2326 years)

Dioscorides , sometimes known as Dioscurides, was a Stoic philosopher, the father of Zeno of Tarsus and a pupil of Chrysippus. All other information has been lost. Another Dioscorides is mentioned by Diogenes Laërtius. This philosopher was a Pyrrhonist, and was a student of Timon of Phlius.

#19305

Charles Dibdin

1745 - 1814 (69 years)

Charles Dibdin was an English composer, musician, dramatist, novelist, singer and actor. With over 600 songs to his name, for many of which he wrote both the lyrics and the music and performed them himself, he was in his time the most prolific English singer-songwriter. He is best known as the composer of "Tom Bowling", one of his many sea songs, which often features at the Last Night of the Proms. He also wrote about 30 dramatic pieces, including the operas The Waterman and The Quaker , and several novels, memoirs and histories. His works were admired by Haydn and Beethoven.

#19306

Ernest Arthur Edghill

1879 - 1912 (33 years)

Ernest Arthur Edghill , B.D., was an Anglican priest and theological writer. He was the Hulsean Lecturer at Cambridge 1910–11, and Lecturer in Ecclesiastical History at King's College London. Ernest Arthur Edghill was educated at Eton and King's College, Cambridge, where he studied theology.

#19307

Robert King Stone

Robert King Stone

1822 - 1872 (50 years)

Robert King Stone was an American physician and professor at Columbian College Medical School . He was considered "the dean of the Washington medical community". Stone served U.S. President Abraham Lincoln during the years of the American Civil War, frequently treating maladies from the Lincoln family. Stone was present at Lincoln's deathbed and at his autopsy in 1865. Stone was one of 14 doctors to attend President Lincoln at his death bed. Stone was the only witness to his condition at the military tribunal, and his testimony has been shared by the National Archive of the United States.

#19308

Aubrey Otis Hampton

1900 - 1955 (55 years)

Aubrey Otis Hampton was an American radiologist remembered for describing Hampton's hump and Hampton's line. He graduated from Baylor College of Medicine in 1925, undertook his internship in Dallas and worked at the Massachusetts General Hospital from 1926. He became chief of radiology at Massachusetts General in 1941, serving as chief of radiology at the Walter Reed Army Hospital in Washington, D.C. from 1942 to 1945. Hampton was said to be one of the most accurate radiologists in diagnosing during his era.

#19309

Simon of Faversham

1260 - 1306 (46 years)

Simon of Faversham was an English medieval scholastic philosopher and later a university chancellor. Simon of Faversham was born in Faversham, Kent, and educated at Oxford, receiving a Master of Arts degree. He probably taught in Paris during the 1280s. His philosophical work consists almost entirely of commentaries on Aristotle's works. He was made Chancellor of Oxford University in January 1304 until his death in 1306.

#19310

Andreas Ludwig Jeitteles

1799 - 1878 (79 years)

Andreas Ludwig Joseph Heinrich Jeitteles or, in Czech, Ondřej Ludvík Jeitteles was a Czech physician, author of medical literature, journalist, politician, poet and writer; under the pseudonym, Justus Frey.

#19311

Ioannis Doukas

1845 - 1916 (71 years)

Ioannis Doukas or Dukas was a Greek painter and one of the main representatives in 19th century portrait painting in Greece. Life Doukas was born in 1841, in Gjirokastër . He started his studies in art at the School of Fine Arts of Athens, Greece, in 1859. He continued his studies outside Greece: initially in the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich , being a student of the German painter Karl von Piloty. He then moved to Paris and became student of Jean-Léon Gérôme.

#19312

Luigi Cornaro

1484 - 1566 (82 years)

Alvise Cornaro, often Italianised Luigi , was a Venetian nobleman and patron of arts, also remembered for his four books of Discorsi about the secrets to living long and well with measure and sobriety.

#19313

Robert Lee

1793 - 1877 (84 years)

Robert Lee FRS was Regius Professor of Midwifery at the University of Glasgow in 1834. He held the Chair for the shortest period of any holder to date, resigning from his position immediately after giving his opening address.

#19314

Niko Miljanić

1892 - 1957 (65 years)

Dr. Nikola "Niko" Miljanić was a Montenegrin and Serbian anatomist and surgeon, professor of anatomy at Belgrade Medical School, resistance participant during World War II and the president of Montenegrin wartime Assembly.

#19315

Ludwig Richter

1803 - 1884 (81 years)

Adrian Ludwig Richter was a German painter and etcher, who was strongly influenced by Erhard and Chodowiecki. He was a representative of both Romanticism and Biedermeier styles. He was the most popular, and in many ways the most typical German illustrator of the middle of the 19th century. His work is described as typically German and homely as are the fairy-tales of Grimm, for whom he produced several woodcuts.

#19316

James Ormiston Affleck

1840 - 1922 (82 years)

Sir James Ormiston Affleck FRSE was a Scottish physician and medical author. Life Affleck was born in Edinburgh in 1840, but not to a medical family. He studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh, graduating in 1867 with MB ChB. He completed his doctorate in 1869 and began practicing in the Stockbridge area of the city, operating from 12 Claremont Place. He also took on the role of public vaccinator at the New Town Dispensary.

#19317

Curt Schimmelbusch

1860 - 1895 (35 years)

Curt Theodor Schimmelbusch was a German physician and pathologist who invented the Schimmelbusch mask, for the safe delivery of anaesthetics to surgical patients. He was also a key figure in the development of mechanical methods of sterilisation and disinfection for surgical procedures, on which his Anleitung zur aseptischen Wundbehandlung was considered a seminal work.

#19318

Katarina Jovanović

1869 - 1954 (85 years)

Katarina A. Jovanović was a Serbian translator, literary historian, publicist, philosopher, journalist and humanitarian. She translated into German Petar II Petrović Njegoš's masterpiece "Mountain Wreath" .

#19319

Nicolas d'Orbellis

1500 - 1472 (-28 years)

Nicolas d'Orbellis was a French Franciscan theologian and philosopher, of the Scotist school. Biography He was born about 1400. He seems to have entered the monastery of the Observantines, founded in 1407, one of the first in France.

#19320

Sebastián Fox Morcillo

Sebastián Fox Morcillo

1526 - 1559 (33 years)

Sebastian Fox Morcillo , a Spanish scholar and philosopher, was born in Seville between 1526 and 1528. Around 1548 he studied in Leuven. Following the example of the Spanish Jew Judas Abarbanel, he published commentaries on Plato and Aristotle, in which he endeavoured to reconcile their teachings. In 1559 he was appointed tutor to Don Carlos, son of Philip II, but he was lost at sea on his way to Spain to take up the post.

#19321

Abdallah al-Qutbi

1879 - 1952 (73 years)

Abdallah ibn Mu'allim Yusuf al-Qutbi was a Somali polemicist, theologian and philosopher who lived in Qulunqul , Somalia. Biography Sheikh Al-Qutbi is best known for his Al-Majmu'at al-mubaraka , a five-part compilation of polemics that was published in Cairo ca. 1919–1920 . Sheikh Abdullahi Qutbi, a disciple of Sheikh Abdulrahman Al Shashi and member of Qadiriyyah congregation, an Islamic school of thought or tariqah.

#19322

Marcin Król z Żurawicy

1422 - 1460 (38 years)

Marcin Król , also Martinus Ruthenus, Marcin z Żurawica, Marcin Król z Przemyśla, Martinus Polonus, Martinus Rex de Premislia was a Ruthenian-born Polish mathematician, astronomer, and doctor. Life Marcin Król, son of Stanisław Król, was born around 1422 in Żurawica near Przemyśl.

#19323

Mary Carr Moore

Mary Carr Moore

1873 - 1957 (84 years)

Mary Carr Moore was an American composer, conductor, vocalist, and music educator of the twentieth century. She is best remembered today for her association with the musical life of the West Coast.

#19324

Edmund Hansen Grut

1831 - 1907 (76 years)

Edmund Hansen Grut was a Danish ophthalmologist born in Copenhagen. In 1857 he earned his medical doctorate at the University of Copenhagen, and afterwards traveled to Berlin, where he studied with Albrecht von Graefe . In 1863 he opened an eye clinic at Nørregade, Copenhagen, and in 1873 founded an ophthalmic clinic at Havnegade , not far from the University Hospital.

#19325

Alfons von Rosthorn

Alfons von Rosthorn

1857 - 1909 (52 years)

Alfons Edler von Rosthorn was a gynecologist in Austria-Hungary who was native of Oed, a village that is located in the district of Wiener Neustadt-Land. In 1885 he earned his doctorate from the University of Vienna, where he studied zoology and medicine, and was a student of surgeon Theodor Billroth . Afterwards, he became an assistant to Rudolf Chrobak at the second university Frauenklinik in Vienna. In 1891 he was habilitated for gynecology and obstetrics, and in 1894 became a full professor of OB/GYN at the University of Prague. Later, he was a professor at the Universities of Graz , Hei...

#19326

Alexander Pope

1763 - 1835 (72 years)

Alexander Pope was an Irish actor and painter. Life He was born in Cork, Ireland. He was educated to follow his father's profession of miniature painting. He continued to paint miniatures and exhibit them at the Royal Academy as late as 1821; but at an early date he took the stage, first appearing in London as Oroonoko in 1785 at Covent Garden. He remained at this theatre almost continuously for nearly twenty years, then at the Haymarket until his retirement, playing leading parts, chiefly tragic. He was well known as Othello and Henry VIII.

#19327

Thomas McCall Anderson

Thomas McCall Anderson

1836 - 1908 (72 years)

Sir Thomas McCall Anderson was a physician and a professor of practice of medicine, at the University of Glasgow. Life He was born in Glasgow on 9 June 1836, was second of three sons of Alexander Dunlop Anderson, M.D. medical practitioner in Glasgow, who in 1852 was president of the faculty of physicians and surgeons of Glasgow, by his wife Sara, daughter of Thomas McCall of Craighead, Lanarkshire. His father's family was descended on the maternal side from William Dunlop, principal of Glasgow University, 1690-1700; and in the male line from John Anderson , the stout defender of presbyteriani...

#19328

Giovanni Bovio

1837 - 1903 (66 years)

Giovanni Bovio was an Italian philosopher and a politician of the Italian Republican Party. Bovio was born in Trani. He was a member of the Chamber of Deputies of the Parliament of the Kingdom of Italy. He wrote a philosophical work in 1864 called Il Verbo Novello.

#19329

Sophia B. Jones

Sophia B. Jones

1857 - 1932 (75 years)

Sophia Bethena Jones was a British North America-born American medical doctor and the first woman of African descent to graduate from the University of Michigan Medical School. She founded the Nursing Program at Spelman College, where she was the first black faculty member.

#19330

William Thomson

1601 - 1753 (152 years)

William Thomson was a Scottish folk song collector and singer. He is said to have been the son of Daniel Thomson, one of the king's trumpeters for Scotland. As a boy singer, he sang at a concert – The Feast of St. Cecillia – in 1695. Before 1722, he had settled in London, and according to Charles Burney had a benefit concert that year. He appears to have become a fashionable singer, as his volume, dedicated to Caroline of Ansbach, Princess of Wales, contains a lengthy list of notable persons as subscribers.

#19331

Vito Fazio-Allmayer

Vito Fazio-Allmayer

1885 - 1958 (73 years)

Vito Fazio-Allmayer was an Italian philosopher, pedagogist and university teacher. Biography He was born in Palermo from Giuseppe Emanuele Fazio, originary from Alcamo and from Felicina Allmayer, of German origins but resident in Italy. Since a boy he was interested in the history of art; when he was 23 he graduated in Jurisprudence, but as he was fond of philosophy, he soon started the philosophical studies and attended the philosophical library of Palermo, where he met Giovanni Gentile.

#19332

William Cumin

1784 - 1854 (70 years)

William Cumin was Regius Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at the University of Glasgow between 1834 and 1840. He was the son of Patrick Cumin , professor of oriental languages at the University of Glasgow, and his wife Rachael Baird. The Scottish philosopher David Hume in a letter to Adam Smith in June 1761 had recommended Cumin's father for his position.

#19333

Ferdinand Laufberger

1829 - 1881 (52 years)

Ferdinand Julius Wilhelm Laufberger was an Austrian painter and etcher. Biography Laufberger trained at both the Academy of Fine Arts, Prague, and the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna. He initially painted genre scenes of peasant and village life then, in 1855, on behalf of Österreichischer Lloyd , travelled through the Danube Vilayet to Istanbul, creating a series of drawings that were made into popular engravings. While in Istanbul, Laufberger made several connections with Caucasus Germans that had settled in Istanbul, and the material he drew from them provided inspiration to his later work.

#19334

Peter of Capua the Elder

Peter of Capua the Elder

1150 - 1214 (64 years)

Peter of Capua was an Italian scholastic theologian and prelate. He served as cardinal-deacon of Santa Maria in Via Lata from 1193 until 1201 and cardinal-priest of San Marcello al Corso from 1201 until his death. He often worked as a papal legate. He wrote several theological works and was a patron of his hometown of Amalfi.

#19335

María Teresa Ferrari

María Teresa Ferrari

1887 - 1956 (69 years)

María Teresa Ferrari was an Argentine educator, physician, and women's rights activist. She was the first female university professor in Latin America and one of the first women allowed to teach medicine. She was a pioneering researcher in women's health, studying the use of radiation therapy rather than surgery for uterine tumors and developing a vaginoscope that revolutionized women's health care in Brazil. She established the first maternity ward and gynecological services at the Hospital Militar Central of Buenos Aires in 1925, which provided the first incubation services in the country.

#19336

William Kilpatrick Stewart

1914 - 1967 (53 years)

Air Vice Marshal William Kilpatrick Stewart, was a Scottish researcher in aerospace physiology, senior consultant in physiology to the Royal Air Force, and commanding officer of the RAF Institute of Aviation Medicine.

#19337

Reuben Ottenberg

1882 - 1959 (77 years)

Reuben Ottenberg was an American physician and haematologist, who served Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City with distinction for 50 years. He received his B.A. from Columbia University in 1902 and his M.D. degree from the College of Physicians and Surgeons three years later.

#19338

Aesara

400 BC - 300 BC (100 years)

Aesara of Lucania was a conjectured Pythagorean philosopher who may have written On Human Nature, a fragment of which is preserved by Stobaeus, although the majority of critical scholars follow Holger Thesleff in attributing it to Aresas, a male writer from Lucania who is also mentioned by Iamblichus in his Life of Pythagoras.

#19339

Soorjo Coomar Goodeve Chuckerbutty

1825 - 1874 (49 years)

Soorjo Coomar Goodeve Chuckerbutty, also spelled Surjo Kumar Chakraborty was the first Indian to pass the examination of the Indian Medical Service in 1855 and subsequently became the Professor of Materia Medica at Calcutta Medical College in the latter half of the nineteenth century.

#19340

Ivan Loveridge Bennett

1922 - 1990 (68 years)

Ivan Loveridge Bennett, Jr. was an American physician who was dean of the NYU School of Medicine and served as president of New York University 1980–1981. Bennett was educated at Emory University where he was a member of Sigma Chi fraternity. Graduated with a B.A. in 1943, and a medical degree in 1946. Bennett was Deputy Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy under Lyndon B. Johnson between 1967 and 1969. Bennett was also director of the department of pathology at Johns Hopkins University and also taught at Yale and New York University.

#19341

Thomas Malcolm Knox

1900 - 1980 (80 years)

Sir Thomas Malcolm Knox was a British philosopher who served as Principal of St Andrews University from 1953 to 1966 and Vice-president of the Royal Society of Edinburgh from 1975 to 1978. Biography Knox was born in Birkenhead, Cheshire, England, on 28 November 1900, the son of Scottish Congregationalist minister James Knox and his wife Isabella Marshall.

#19342

Miles of Marseilles

1294 - 1301 (7 years)

Miles of Marseille was a Provençal-Jewish physician and philosopher of the Middle Ages. He was born at Marseille around 1294. In some manuscripts he is designated by the name "Bongodos," the Provençal language equivalent of "ben Judah."

#19343

David Boswell Reid

David Boswell Reid

1805 - 1863 (58 years)

Prof David Boswell Reid MD FRSE FRCPE was a British physician, chemist and inventor. Through reports on public hygiene and ventilation projects in public buildings, he made a reputation in the field of sanitation. He has been called the "grandfather of air-conditioning".

#19344

Richard Russell

Richard Russell

1687 - 1759 (72 years)

Richard Russell was an 18th-century British physician who encouraged his patients to use a form of water therapy that involved the submersion or bathing in, and drinking of, seawater. The contemporary equivalent of this is thalassotherapy, although the practice of drinking seawater has largely discontinued.

#19345

Menedemus the Cynic

400 BC - 300 BC (100 years)

Menedemus was a Cynic philosopher, and a pupil of the Epicurean Colotes of Lampsacus. Diogenes Laërtius states that he used to go about garbed as a Fury, proclaiming himself a sort of spy from Hades: He assumed the garb of a Fury, and went about saying that he had come from Hades to take notice of all who did wrong, in order that he might descend there again and make his report to the deities who live in that country. And this was his dress: a tunic of a dark colour reaching to his feet, and a purple girdle round his waist, an Arcadian hat on his head with the twelve signs of the zodiac embro...

#19346

Babowai

450 - 484 (34 years)

Babowai was Catholicos of Seleucia-Ctesiphon and Patriarch of the Church of the East from 457 to 484, during the reign of the Sassanid King Peroz I. Babowai was known for his pro-Byzantine leanings, for which he was often in conflict with other members of the anti-Byzantine Church of the East. He was executed in 484.

#19347

Benno Baginsky

1848 - 1919 (71 years)

Benno Baginsky was a German physician specializing in the field of otorhinolaryngology. He was a younger brother to pediatrician Adolf Aron Baginsky . He studied medicine in Berlin, obtaining his doctorate in 1870. Following service as a physician in the Franco-Prussian War, he began practicing medicine and soon found himself specializing in diseases of the ear, nose and larynx. In 1884 he became a privat-docent of otology, rhinology and laryngology at the University of Berlin, and in 1897 received the title of professor. Among his assistants at Berlin was fellow otorhinolaryngologist Jacob K...

#19348

August Wagenmann

1863 - 1955 (92 years)

August Emil Ludwig Wagenmann was a German ophthalmologist. August Wagenmann obtained a degree of medical doctor at the universities of Göttingen and Munich. After graduation, he received a position of assistant doctor in the Eye Clinic at Göttingen University, which was chaired by Theodor Leber. In 1888, August Wagenmann was qualified as a privatdocent in ophthalmology.

#19349

Otto Kahler

1849 - 1893 (44 years)

Otto Kahler was a physician and pathologist born in Prague, Austrian Empire. In 1871 he obtained his medical doctorate in Prague, and following an educational trip to Paris, returned to his hometown as an assistant to Joseph Halla at the internal clinic. In 1882 he became an associate professor at Karl-Ferdinands-Universität, and a few years later , was a "full professor" of pathology and therapy. In 1889 he relocated to the University of Vienna, succeeding Heinrich von Bamberger as professor of special pathology. After a year in Vienna, he developed tongue cancer and his assistant, Friedrich Kraus , subsequently took over his lectures.

#19350

Adolf Abicht

1793 - 1860 (67 years)

Adolf Abicht was a Polish-Lithuanian physician. He was a professor of general pathology, therapy, and medical history at the Vilnius University, and was a president of the Medical Society in Vilnius from 1829–1838.

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