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15807 | John Horton Conway | | image = John H Conway 2005 (cropped).jpg
| caption = Conway in June 2005
| birth_date
| birth_place = Liverpool, England
| death_date
| death_place = New Brunswick, New Jersey, U.S.
| education = Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge (BA, MA, PhD)
| thesis_title = Homogeneous ordered sets
| thesis_url http://ethos.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Horton_Conway | 2025-04-05T18:32:00.901758 |
15809 | July 10 | EventsPre-1600
*138 – Emperor Hadrian of Rome dies of heart failure at his residence on the bay of Naples, Baiae; he is buried at Rome in the Tomb of Hadrian beside his late wife, Vibia Sabina.
*420 – Having usurped the throne of Emperor Gong of Jin, Liu Yu proclaims himself Emperor of the Liu Song dynasty.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_10 | 2025-04-05T18:32:01.006191 |
15812 | June 24 | Events
Pre-1600
*1312 BC – Mursili II launches a campaign against the Kingdom of Azzi-Hayasa.
*109 – Roman emperor Trajan inaugurates the Aqua Traiana, an aqueduct that channels water from Lake Bracciano, northwest of Rome.
* 474 – Julius Nepos forces Roman usurper Glycerius to abdicate the throne and... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/June_24 | 2025-04-05T18:32:01.079725 |
15813 | January 30 | Events
Pre-1600
*1018 – Poland and the Holy Roman Empire conclude the Peace of Bautzen.
*1287 – King Wareru founds the Hanthawaddy Kingdom, and proclaims independence from the Pagan Kingdom.
1601–1900
*1607 – An estimated 200 square miles (51,800 ha) along the coasts of the Bristol Channel and Severn ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/January_30 | 2025-04-05T18:32:01.133796 |
15814 | January 29 | Events
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* 904 – Sergius III is elected pope, after coming out of retirement to take over the papacy from the deposed antipope Christopher.
* 946 – Caliph al-Mustakfi is blinded and deposed by Mu'izz al-D... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/January_29 | 2025-04-05T18:32:01.383275 |
15815 | June 18 | Events
Pre-1600
* 618 – Li Yuan becomes Emperor Gaozu of Tang, initiating three centuries of Tang dynasty rule over China.
* 656 – Ali becomes Caliph of the Rashidun Caliphate.
* 860 – Byzantine–Rus' War: A fleet of about 200 Rus' vessels sails into the Bosphorus and starts pillaging the suburbs of th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/June_18 | 2025-04-05T18:32:01.421416 |
15816 | June 13 | Events
Pre-1600
* 313 – The decisions of the Edict of Milan, signed by Constantine the Great and co-emperor Valerius Licinius, granting religious freedom throughout the Roman Empire, are published in Nicomedia.
*1325 – Ibn Battuta begins his travels, leaving his home in Tangiers to travel to Mecca (gone 24 ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/June_13 | 2025-04-05T18:32:01.498038 |
15817 | June 19 | Events
Pre-1600
* 325 – The original Nicene Creed is adopted at the First Council of Nicaea.
*1179 – The Battle of Kalvskinnet takes place outside Nidaros (now Trondheim), Norway. Earl Erling Skakke is killed, and the battle changes the tide of the civil wars.
*1306 – The Earl of Pembroke's army defea... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/June_19 | 2025-04-05T18:32:01.529560 |
15818 | June 20 | Events
Pre-1600
* 451 – Battle of Chalons: Flavius Aetius battles Attila the Hun. After the battle, which was inconclusive, Attila retreats, causing the Romans to interpret it as a victory.
*1180 – First Battle of Uji, starting the Genpei War in Japan.
*1295 – The Treaty of Anagni, an attempt mediated... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/June_20 | 2025-04-05T18:32:01.567898 |
15819 | June 21 | Events
Pre-1600
* 533 – A Byzantine expeditionary fleet under Belisarios sails from Constantinople to attack the Vandals in Africa, via Greece and Sicily.
*1307 – Külüg Khan is enthroned as Khagan of the Mongols and Wuzong of the Yuan.
*1529 – French forces are driven out of northern Italy by Spain at... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/June_21 | 2025-04-05T18:32:01.632826 |
15820 | June 5 | Events
Pre-1600
1086 – Tutush, brother of Seljuk sultan Malik Shah, defeats Suleiman ibn Qutalmish, the Turkish ruler of Anatolia in the battle of Ain Salm.
1257 – Kraków, in Poland, receives city rights.
1284 – Battle of the Gulf of Naples: Roger of Lauria, admiral to King Peter III of Aragon, destroys the Neapolitan ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/June_5 | 2025-04-05T18:32:01.732097 |
15821 | Jack Lemmon | | birth_place = Newton, Massachusetts, U.S.
| death_date =
| death_place = Los Angeles, California, U.S.
| resting_place = Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery
| years_active = 1949–2001
| notable_works = Performances
| alma_mater = Harvard University (AB)
| occupation = Actor
| party = Democratic
| spouse =
*
}}... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Lemmon | 2025-04-05T18:32:01.761995 |
15823 | Joseph Conrad | | birth_place = Berdychiv, Kiev Governorate, Russian Empire<!-- Please do not add "in Ukraine" -- it is already mentioned in the main body of text. -->
| death_date
| death_place = Bishopsbourne, Kent, England
| resting_place = Canterbury Cemetery, Canterbury
| occupation = Novelist, short-story writer, essayist
| nat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Conrad | 2025-04-05T18:32:01.865525 |
15824 | John Updike | | birth_place = Reading, Pennsylvania, U.S.
| death_date =
| death_place = Danvers, Massachusetts, U.S.
| occupation =
| genre = Literary realism
| notableworks = Rabbit Angstrom novels: Rabbit, Run (1960)<br />Rabbit Redux (1971)<br />Rabbit is Rich (1981)<br /> Rabbit at Rest (1990)<br />Henry Bech stories<br />The... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Updike | 2025-04-05T18:32:01.908967 |
15825 | John Steinbeck | | image = John Steinbeck 1939 (cropped).jpg
| caption = Steinbeck in 1939
| birth_name = John Ernst Steinbeck III
| birth_date =
| spouses =
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| children = Thom, John IV
| death_date =
| birth_place = Salinas, California, U.S.
| death_place = New York City, U.S.
| education = Stanford University
| occupation =... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Steinbeck | 2025-04-05T18:32:01.974249 |
15826 | Joshua Reynolds | | image = Sir Joshua Reynolds - Self-Portrait - Google Art Project (2315517).jpg
| caption = Self-portrait,
| birth_date
| birth_place = Plympton, Devon, England
| death_date
| death_place = Leicester Fields, London, England
| works = The Age of Innocence
| resting_place = St Paul's Cathedral
| education = Plympton ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joshua_Reynolds | 2025-04-05T18:32:01.997735 |
15827 | Joseph Schumpeter | | contributions = Business cycles<br />Creative destruction<br />Economic development<br />Entrepreneurship<br />Evolutionary economics
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|education=University of Vienna (PhD, 1906)}}
Joseph Alois Schumpeter (; February 8, 1883 – January 8, 1950) was an Austrian political eco... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Schumpeter | 2025-04-05T18:32:02.046388 |
15830 | John Lee Hooker | <!-- Do not change his year of birth unless agreed by discussion on the article talk page --> or 1917 – June 21, 2001) was an American blues singer, songwriter, and guitarist. The son of a sharecropper, he rose to prominence performing an electric guitar-style adaptation of Delta blues that he developed in Detroit. Hoo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Lee_Hooker | 2025-04-05T18:32:02.062340 |
15831 | June 23 | Events
Pre-1600
* 229 – Sun Quan proclaims himself emperor of Eastern Wu.
*1266 – War of Saint Sabas: In the Battle of Trapani, the Venetians defeat a larger Genoese fleet, capturing all its ships.
*1280 – The Spanish Reconquista: In the Battle of Moclín the Emirate of Granada ambush a superior pursui... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/June_23 | 2025-04-05T18:32:02.120445 |
15834 | Satires (Juvenal) | |first |illustrator <!-- Illustrator used consistently throughout
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|country =Roman Empire
|language = Latin
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|subject |genre Satire
|form = 16 poems divided into five books
|meter = dactylic hexameter
... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satires_(Juvenal) | 2025-04-05T18:32:02.135072 |
15837 | Jean Cocteau | | birth_place = Maisons-Laffitte, France
| death_date
| death_place = Milly-la-Forêt, France
| occupation =
| spouse | partner
| years_active = 1908–1963
| signature = Jean Cocteau signature.svg
| signature_size = 263px
| website
}}
Jean Maurice Eugène Clément Cocteau ( , ; ; 5 July 1889 11 October 1963) w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Cocteau | 2025-04-05T18:32:02.164337 |
15838 | John Donne | | birth_place = London, England
| death_date <!--31 March 1631 (aged 59)-->
| death_place = London, England
| occupation =
| nationality = English
| alma_mater = Hart Hall, Oxford<br/>University of Cambridge
| genre = Satire, love poetry, elegy, sermons
| subject = Love, sexuality, religion, death
| movement = Metaphy... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Donne | 2025-04-05T18:32:02.194294 |
15839 | Joey Ramone | | birth_place = Queens, New York City, U.S.
| death_date
| death_place = Manhattan, New York City, U.S.
| genre = Punk rock
| occupation = Singer
| years_active = 1972–2001
| label =
| past_member_of =
| website =
}}
Jeffrey Ross Hyman (May 19, 1951 – April 15, 2001), known professionally as Joey Ramone, was an Am... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joey_Ramone | 2025-04-05T18:32:02.207495 |
15842 | June 29 | Events
Pre-1600
* 226 – Cao Rui succeeds his father as emperor of Wei.
*1149 – Raymond of Poitiers is defeated and killed at the Battle of Inab by Nur ad-Din Zangi.
*1170 – A major earthquake hits Syria, badly damaging towns such as Hama and Shaizar and structures such as the Krak des Chevaliers and t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/June_29 | 2025-04-05T18:32:02.329400 |
15843 | June 30 | Events
Pre-1600
* 296 – Pope Marcellinus begins his papacy.
* 763 – The Byzantine army of emperor Constantine V defeats the Bulgarian forces in the Battle of Anchialus.
*1422 – Battle of Arbedo between the duke of Milan and the Swiss cantons.
*1521 – Spanish forces defeat a combined French and N... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/June_30 | 2025-04-05T18:32:02.376323 |
15844 | July 1 | Events
Pre-1600
*69 – Tiberius Julius Alexander orders his Roman legions in Alexandria to swear allegiance to Vespasian as Emperor.
* 552 – Battle of Taginae: Byzantine forces under Narses defeat the Ostrogoths in Italy, and the Ostrogoth king, Totila, is mortally wounded.
*1097 – Battle of Dorylaeum:... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_1 | 2025-04-05T18:32:02.445118 |
15845 | January 25 | Events
Pre-1600
*41 – After a night of negotiation, Claudius is accepted as Roman emperor by the Senate.
* 750 – In the Battle of the Zab, the Abbasid rebels defeat the Umayyad Caliphate, leading to the overthrow of the dynasty.
*1327 – Fourteen-year-old Edward III ascends the throne of England after ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/January_25 | 2025-04-05T18:32:02.509799 |
15846 | July 2 | This date marks the halfway point of the year. In common years, the midpoint of the year occurs at noon on this date, while in leap years, it occurs at midnight (start of the day).
Events
Pre-1600
* 437 – Emperor Valentinian III begins his reign over the Western Roman Empire. His mother Galla Placidia ends her r... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_2 | 2025-04-05T18:32:02.542466 |
15847 | January 11 | Events
Pre-1600
* 532 – Nika riots in Constantinople: A quarrel between supporters of different chariot teams—the Blues and the Greens—in the Hippodrome escalates into violence.
* 630 – Conquest of Mecca: Muhammad and his followers conquer the city, and the Quraysh association of clans surrenders.
* 930 &nd... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/January_11 | 2025-04-05T18:32:02.638449 |
15848 | July 3 | Events
Pre-1600
* 324 – Battle of Adrianople: Constantine I defeats Licinius, who flees to Byzantium.
* 987 – Hugh Capet is crowned King of France, the first of the Capetian dynasty that would rule France until the French Revolution in 1792.
*1035 – William the Conqueror becomes the Duke of Normandy,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_3 | 2025-04-05T18:32:02.702672 |
15849 | July 4 | Events
Pre-1600
*362 BC – Battle of Mantinea: The Thebans, led by Epaminondas, defeated the Spartans.
* 414 – Emperor Theodosius II, age 13, yields power to his older sister Aelia Pulcheria, who reigned as regent and proclaimed herself empress (Augusta) of the Eastern Roman Empire.
* 836 – Pactum Sic... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_4 | 2025-04-05T18:32:02.748379 |
15852 | John Lennon | | birth_place = Liverpool, England
| death_date
| death_place = New York City, US<!-- "US" does not take full stops/points in British English -->
| death_cause = Gunshot wounds
| resting_place = Cremated; ashes scattered in Central Park, New York City
| occupation
| years_active = 1956–1980
| spouse =
*
}}
| partne... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Lennon | 2025-04-05T18:32:02.896161 |
15854 | June 3 | Events
Pre-1600
* 350 – The Roman usurper Nepotianus, of the Constantinian dynasty, proclaims himself Roman emperor, entering Rome at the head of a group of gladiators.
* 713 – The Byzantine emperor Philippicus is blinded, deposed and sent into exile by conspirators of the Opsikion army in Thrace. He is suc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/June_3 | 2025-04-05T18:32:02.936747 |
15855 | June 2 | Events
Pre-1600
455 – Sack of Rome: Vandals enter Rome, and plunder the city for two weeks.
1098 – First Crusade: The first Siege of Antioch ends as Crusader forces take the city; the second siege began five days later.
1601–1900
1608 – The Colony of Virginia gets a charter, extending borders from "sea to sea".
1615 ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/June_2 | 2025-04-05T18:32:03.087766 |
15856 | June 1 | Events
Pre-1600
1252 – Alfonso X is proclaimed king of Castile and León.
1298 – Residents of Riga and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania defeat the Livonian Order in the Battle of Turaida.
1495 – A monk, John Cor, records the first known batch of Scotch whisky.
1533 – Anne Boleyn is crowned Queen of England.
1535 – Combined ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/June_1 | 2025-04-05T18:32:03.245423 |
15857 | June 22 | Events
Pre-1600
*217 BC – Battle of Raphia: Ptolemy IV Philopator of Egypt defeats Antiochus III the Great of the Seleucid kingdom.
*168 BC – Battle of Pydna: Romans under Lucius Aemilius Paullus defeat Macedonian King Perseus who surrenders after the battle, ending the Third Macedonian War.
* 331 – T... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/June_22 | 2025-04-05T18:32:03.346582 |
15858 | John Cleese | | birth_place = Weston-super-Mare, Somerset, England
| alt = Cleese smiling
| alma_mater = Downing College, Cambridge
| occupation =
| years_active = 1961–present
| spouse =
*
*
*
}}
| children = 2
| website =
}}
John Marwood Cleese ( ; born 27 October 1939) is an English actor, comedian, screenwriter, producer,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Cleese | 2025-04-05T18:32:03.401182 |
15861 | July 5 | Events
Pre-1600
*328 – The official opening of Constantine's Bridge built over the Danube between Sucidava (Corabia, Romania) and Oescus (Gigen, Bulgaria) by the Roman architect Theophilus Patricius.
*1316 – The Burgundian and Majorcan claimants of the Principality of Achaea meet in the Battle of Manolada.
... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_5 | 2025-04-05T18:32:03.440725 |
15862 | July 6 | Events
Pre-1600
*371 BC – The Battle of Leuctra shatters Sparta's reputation of military invincibility.
* 640 – Battle of Heliopolis: The Muslim Arab army under 'Amr ibn al-'As defeat the Byzantine forces near Heliopolis (Egypt).
*1253 – Mindaugas is crowned King of Lithuania.
*1348 – Pope Cleme... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_6 | 2025-04-05T18:32:03.515386 |
15863 | July 7 | July 7 (film)}}
Events
Pre-1600
*1124 – The city of Tyre falls to the Venetian Crusade after a siege of nineteen weeks.
*1456 – A retrial verdict acquits Joan of Arc of heresy 25 years after her execution.
*1520 – Spanish conquistadores defeat a larger Aztec army at the Battle of Otumba.
*1534 &ndash... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_7 | 2025-04-05T18:32:03.545003 |
15864 | June 8 | Events
Pre-1600
* 218 – Battle of Antioch: With the support of the Syrian legions, Elagabalus defeats the forces of emperor Macrinus.
* 452 – Attila leads a Hun army in the invasion of Italy, devastating the northern provinces as he heads for Rome.
* 793 – Vikings raid the abbey at Lindisfarne in Nort... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/June_8 | 2025-04-05T18:32:03.582980 |
15865 | June 9 | Events
Pre-1600
*411 BC – The Athenian coup succeeds, forming a short-lived oligarchy.
*53 – The Roman emperor Nero marries Claudia Octavia.
*68 – Nero dies by suicide after quoting Vergil's Aeneid, thus ending the Julio-Claudian dynasty and starting the civil war known as the Year of the Four Emperor... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/June_9 | 2025-04-05T18:32:03.652512 |
15866 | January 27 | Events
Pre-1600
*98 – Trajan succeeds his adoptive father Nerva as Roman emperor.
* 945 – The co-emperors Stephen and Constantine are overthrown and forced to become monks by Constantine VII, who becomes sole emperor of the Byzantine Empire.
*1186 – Henry VI, the son and heir of the Holy Roman Emperor... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/January_27 | 2025-04-05T18:32:03.749028 |
15870 | John Lynch (New Hampshire governor) | | birth_place = Waltham, Massachusetts, U.S.
| death_date | death_place
| party = Democratic
| spouse = Susan Lynch
| children = 3
| alma_mater = University of New Hampshire (BA)<br>Harvard University (MBA)<br>Georgetown University (JD)
| signature = John Lynch signature.svg
| residence = Hopkinton, New Hampshire
}}
... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Lynch_(New_Hampshire_governor) | 2025-04-05T18:32:03.772893 |
15872 | J. R. R. Tolkien | | image = J.R.R. Tolkien in the 1940s.jpg
| caption = Tolkien in the 1920s
| birth_name = John Ronald Reuel Tolkien
| birth_date
| birth_place = Bloemfontein, Orange Free State (now South Africa)
| death_date
| death_place = Bournemouth (then in Hampshire),<!-- Bournemouth was in Hampshire until 1974 --> England
| oc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._R._R._Tolkien | 2025-04-05T18:32:03.878827 |
15873 | July 11 | Events
Pre-1600
* 472 – After being besieged in Rome by his own generals, Western Roman Emperor Anthemius is captured in St. Peter's Basilica and put to death.
* 813 – Byzantine emperor Michael I, under threat by conspiracies, abdicates in favor of his general Leo the Armenian, and becomes a monk (under the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_11 | 2025-04-05T18:32:03.914393 |
15874 | July 8 | Events
Pre-1600
*1099 – Some 15,000 starving Christian soldiers begin the siege of Jerusalem by marching in a religious procession around the city as its Muslim defenders watch.
*1167 – The Byzantines defeat the Hungarian army decisively at Sirmium, forcing the Hungarians to sue for peace.
*1283 – Rog... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_8 | 2025-04-05T18:32:03.960803 |
15878 | July 13 | Events
Pre-1600
*1174 – William I of Scotland, a key rebel in the Revolt of 1173–74, is captured at Alnwick by forces loyal to Henry II of England.
*1249 – Coronation of Alexander III as King of Scots.
*1260 – The Livonian Order suffers its greatest defeat in the 13th century in the Battle of Durbe ag... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_13 | 2025-04-05T18:32:04.026035 |
15879 | James Branch Cabell | | birth_place = Richmond, Virginia, U.S.
| death_date =
| death_place = Richmond, Virginia, U.S.
| resting_place = Hollywood Cemetery, Richmond, Virginia, U.S.
| alma_mater = College of William and Mary
| life | occupation Author
| movement | genre Fantasy fiction
| notableworks =
}}
James Branch Cabell (; April 14, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Branch_Cabell | 2025-04-05T18:32:04.044490 |
15881 | Java (programming language) | | discontinued = <!-- Set to yes if software is discontinued, otherwise omit. -->
| ver layout = <!-- simple (default) or stacked -->
| latest release version
| latest release date }}
| designer = James Gosling
| developer = Oracle Corporation
| typing = Static, strong, safe, nominative, manifest
| memory management =... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_(programming_language) | 2025-04-05T18:32:04.082060 |
15883 | July 9 | Events
Pre-1600
*118 – Hadrian, who became emperor a year previously on Trajan's death, makes his entry into Rome.
* 381 – The end of the First Council of Christian bishops convened in Constantinople by the Roman emperor Theodosius I.
* 491 – Odoacer makes a night assault with his Heruli guardsmen, e... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_9 | 2025-04-05T18:32:04.119268 |
15885 | Jason | | motion_actor = Todd Armstrong (1963), Jason London (2000)
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Jason ( ; ) was an ancient Greek mythological hero and leader of the Argonauts, whose quest for the Golden Fleece is featured in Greek literature. He was the son of Aeson, the rightful king of Iolcos. He was married to the sorceress Medea, the granddaughte... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jason | 2025-04-05T18:32:04.166258 |
15888 | July 24 | Events
Pre-1600
*1132 – Battle of Nocera between Ranulf II of Alife and Roger II of Sicily.
*1148 – Louis VII of France lays siege to Damascus during the Second Crusade.
*1304 – Wars of Scottish Independence: Fall of Stirling Castle: King Edward I of England takes the stronghold using the War Wolf.
*1... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_24 | 2025-04-05T18:32:04.205809 |
15889 | Judah ha-Nasi | Judah ha-Nasi (, Yəhūḏā hanNāsīʾ; Yehudah HaNasi or Judah the Prince or Judah the President) or Judah I, known simply as Rebbi or Rabbi, was a second-century rabbi (a tanna of the fifth generation) and chief redactor and editor of the Mishnah. He lived from approximately 135 to 217 CE. He was a key leader of the Jewis... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judah_ha-Nasi | 2025-04-05T18:32:04.229300 |
15890 | Jack Kerouac | | birth_name = Jean-Louis Kérouac
| birth_date
| birth_place = Lowell, Massachusetts, U.S.
| death_date
| death_place = St. Petersburg, Florida, U.S.
| occupation =
| period = 1942–1969
| alma_mater = Columbia University
| movement =
| notableworks = On the Road<br />The Dharma Bums<br />Big Sur<br /> Desolation An... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Kerouac | 2025-04-05T18:32:04.283632 |
15892 | July 26 | Events
Pre-1600
* 657 – First Fitna: In the Battle of Siffin, troops led by Ali ibn Abu Talib clash with those led by Muawiyah I.
* 811 – Battle of Pliska: Byzantine Emperor Nikephoros I is killed and his heir Staurakios is seriously wounded.
* 920 – Rout of an alliance of Christian troops from Navarr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_26 | 2025-04-05T18:32:04.347056 |
15893 | Jeff Mills | In the late 1980s Mills founded the techno collective Underground Resistance with fellow Detroit techno producers 'Mad' Mike Banks and Robert Hood but left the group to pursue a career as a solo artist in the early 90s. which is responsible for the release of much of his solo work.
Mills has received international rec... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Mills | 2025-04-05T18:32:04.363271 |
15898 | John Major | | image = John Major 1993 (3).jpg
| alt = Major, 49, in a photograph.
| caption = Major in 1993
| office = Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
| monarch = Elizabeth II
| deputy = Michael Heseltine (19951997)
| term_start = 28 November 1990
| term_end = 2 May 1997
| predecessor = Margaret Thatcher
| successor = Tony Bl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Major | 2025-04-05T18:32:04.472918 |
15904 | Jazz dance | Jazz Dance is a performance dance and style that arose in the United States in the early 20th century. Jazz Dance may allude to vernacular Jazz, Broadway or dramatic Jazz. The two types expand on African American vernacular styles of dance that arose with Jazz Music. Vernacular dance refers to dance forms that emerge f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jazz_dance | 2025-04-05T18:32:04.485156 |
15907 | Jabberwocky | , 1871]]
"Jabberwocky" is a nonsense poem written by Lewis Carroll about the killing of a creature named "the Jabberwock". It was included in his 1871 novel Through the Looking-Glass, the sequel to ''Alice's Adventures in Wonderland'' (1865). The book tells of Alice's adventures within the back-to-front world of the Lo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jabberwocky | 2025-04-05T18:32:04.517329 |
15908 | John Sparrow David Thompson | | image = John Thompson.jpg
| caption = Thompson in 1891
| order1 = 4th
| office1 = Prime Minister of Canada
| term_start1 = December 5, 1892
| term_end1 = December 12, 1894
| monarch1 = Victoria
| governor_general1 = The Lord Stanley of Preston<br />The Earl of Aberdeen
| predecessor1 = John Abbott
| successor1 = Mack... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Sparrow_David_Thompson | 2025-04-05T18:32:04.528330 |
15910 | List of compositions by Johann Sebastian Bach | thumb|upright=1.21| Canon triplex a 6: first printed in 1747 (below), it appears on both versions of the portrait Haussmann made of Bach (1746, 1748 – above). In the 19th-century Bach Gesellschaft edition the canon was published in Volume 451, p. 138. In 1950 the piece was assigned the number 1076 in Schmieder's catalo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_compositions_by_Johann_Sebastian_Bach | 2025-04-05T18:32:04.738385 |
15911 | July 30 | Events
Pre-1600
* 762 – Baghdad is founded.
*1419 – First Defenestration of Prague: A crowd of radical Hussites kill seven members of the Prague city council.
*1502 – Christopher Columbus lands at Guanaja in the Bay Islands off the coast of Honduras during his fourth voyage.
1601–1900
*1609 – B... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_30 | 2025-04-05T18:32:04.797142 |
15912 | John A. Macdonald | | image = John A Macdonald (ca. 1875).jpg
| alt = Photograph of Macdonald circa 1875 by George Lancefield.
| caption = Macdonald, 1875
| order = 1st
| office = Prime Minister of Canada
| term_start = 17 October 1878
| term_end = 6 June 1891
| monarch = Victoria
| governor_general =
| predecessor = Alexander Mackenzie
... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_A._Macdonald | 2025-04-05T18:32:04.851770 |
15915 | John Diefenbaker | | caption = Diefenbaker in 1957
| image = John G. Diefenbaker.jpg
| order1 = 13th
| office1 = Prime Minister of Canada
| term_start1 = June 21, 1957
| term_end1 = April 22, 1963
| monarch1 = Elizabeth II
| governor_general1 =
| predecessor1 = Louis St. Laurent
| successor1 = Lester B. Pearson
| office2 = Leader of the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Diefenbaker | 2025-04-05T18:32:04.906876 |
15916 | Jean-Michel Basquiat | | birth_date =
| birth_place = New York City, U.S.<!--No boroughs/neighborhoods,just cities per format.-->
| death_date =
| death_place = New York City, U.S.
| resting_place = Green-Wood Cemetery, New York City, U.S.
| years_active = 1978–1988
| known_for = Painting, drawing
| notable_works =
| style =
| movement =... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Michel_Basquiat | 2025-04-05T18:32:05.010107 |
15918 | John Graves Simcoe | | birth_place = Cotterstock, Oundle, England
| death_date
| death_place = Exeter, England
| education = Exeter School, Eton College,<br />Merton College, Oxford
| spouse =
| parents = John Simcoe<br />Katherine Simcoe
| children = 11
| relations | allegiance Great Britain
| branch = British Army
| serviceyears = 1770... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Graves_Simcoe | 2025-04-05T18:32:05.027646 |
15919 | John Wilkes Booth | | birth_date
| birth_place = Bel Air, Maryland, U.S.
| death_date
| death_place Port Royal, Virginia, U.S. <br/>
| death_cause = Gunshot wound
| resting_place = Green Mount Cemetery, Baltimore, Maryland
| other_names =
| occupation = Actor
| years_active = 1855–1865
| party = Know Nothing
| known_for = Assassinatio... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Wilkes_Booth | 2025-04-05T18:32:05.103770 |
15920 | January 17 | Events
Pre-1600
*38 BC – Octavian divorces his wife Scribonia and marries Livia Drusilla, ending the fragile peace between the Second Triumvirate and Sextus Pompey.
*1362 – Saint Marcellus' flood kills at least 25,000 people on the shores of the North Sea.
*1377 – Pope Gregory XI reaches Rome, after d... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/January_17 | 2025-04-05T18:32:05.156469 |
15922 | July 27 | 7/27}}
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*1054 – Siward, Earl of Northumbria, invades Scotland and defeats Macbeth, King of Scotland, somewhere north of the Firth of Forth. This is known as the Battle of Dunsinane.
*1189 – Friedrich Barbarossa arrives at Niš, the capital of Serbian King Stefan Nemanja, during the Third Crus... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_27 | 2025-04-05T18:32:05.190375 |
15923 | Dan Quayle | | term_start2 = January 3, 1977
| term_end2 = January 3, 1981
| predecessor2 = Edward Roush
| successor2 = Dan Coats
| birth_name = James Danforth Quayle
| birth_date =
| birth_place = Indianapolis, Indiana, U.S.
| party = Republican
| spouse =
| children = 3, including Ben
| parents = James C. Quayle<br/>Martha Pull... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Quayle | 2025-04-05T18:32:05.250111 |
15924 | Julius Caesar | | years_active | office
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| opponents | spouse 84 BC; 69 BC
| Pompeia | 67 BC; 61 BC
| Calpurnia | 59 BC
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| partner = Cleopatra
| children =
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| relatives | awards... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julius_Caesar | 2025-04-05T18:32:05.337732 |
15925 | Jacobitism | Jacobite}}
| war =
| image = Prince James Francis Edward Stuart by Alexis Simon Belle.jpg
| image_size | caption James Francis Edward Stuart, Jacobite claimant between 1701 and 1766
| active = 1688–1780s
| ideology = * Restoration of the House of Stuart
* Indefeasible dynastic right
* divine right of kings
* Irish na... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacobitism | 2025-04-05T18:32:05.401739 |
15927 | J. G. Ballard | | birth_place = Shanghai International Settlement, China<br/>
| birth_name = James Graham Ballard
| death_date
| death_place = London, England, UK
| occupation = Novelist, satirist, short story writer, essayist
| genre = Dystopian fiction<br/>Satire<br/>Science fiction<br/>Transgressive fiction
| alma_mater King's Col... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._G._Ballard | 2025-04-05T18:32:05.448509 |
15928 | Journalism | Journalism is the production and distribution of reports on the interaction of events, facts, ideas, and people that are the "news of the day" and that informs society to at least some degree of accuracy. The word, a noun, applies to the occupation (professional or not), the methods of gathering information, and the or... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journalism | 2025-04-05T18:32:05.516077 |
15930 | John Calvin | | birth_name = Jehan Cauvin
| birth_date
| birth_place = Noyon, Picardy, France
| death_date
| death_place = Geneva, Republic of Geneva
| occupation = Reformer, minister, author
| notable_works = Institutes of the Christian Religion (1536)
| spouse
| children =
| era = Renaissance
| tradition_movement =
* Reformat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Calvin | 2025-04-05T18:32:05.583455 |
15935 | June 16 | Events
Pre-1600
632 – Yazdegerd III ascends the throne as king (shah) of the Persian Empire. He becomes the last ruler of the Sasanian dynasty (modern Iran).
1407 – Ming–Hồ War: Retired King Hồ Quý Ly and his son King Hồ Hán Thương of Hồ dynasty are captured by the Ming armies.
1487 – Battle of Stoke Field: King Henry... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/June_16 | 2025-04-05T18:32:05.693371 |
15936 | June 15 | Events
Pre-1600
*763 BC – Assyrians record a solar eclipse that is later used to fix the chronology of Mesopotamian history.
* 844 – Louis II is crowned as king of Italy at Rome by pope Sergius II.
* 923 – Battle of Soissons: King Robert I of France is killed and King Charles the Simple is arrested by... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/June_15 | 2025-04-05T18:32:05.727112 |
15937 | Judit Polgár | |birth_place = Budapest, Hungary
|death_date |death_place
|title = Grandmaster (1991)
|rating = (inactive since September 2015)
|peakrating = 2735 (July 2005)
|peakranking =
|FideID = 700070
}}
Judit Polgár (born 23 July 1976) is a Hungarian chess grandmaster, widely regarded as the strongest female chess player of a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judit_Polgár | 2025-04-05T18:32:05.825174 |
15940 | January 22 | Events
Pre-1600
* 613 – Eight-month-old Heraclius Constantine is crowned as co-emperor (Caesar) by his father Heraclius at Constantinople.
* 871 – Battle of Basing: The West Saxons led by King Æthelred I are defeated by the Danelaw Vikings at Basing.
*1506 – The first contingent of 150 Swiss Guards ar... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/January_22 | 2025-04-05T18:32:05.868853 |
15941 | Jean-Jacques Rousseau | | birth_place = Geneva, Republic of Geneva
| death_date
| death_place = Ermenonville, Picardy, Kingdom of France
| partner = Thérèse Levasseur (1745–1778)
| era = Age of Enlightenment<br />(early modern philosophy)
| region = Western philosophy
| school_tradition =
| main_interests = Political philosophy, music, educ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Jacques_Rousseau | 2025-04-05T18:32:05.956704 |
15942 | John von Neumann | | birth_place = Budapest, Kingdom of Hungary
| death_date
| death_place = Washington, D.C., U.S.
| citizenship =
| module =
| alma_mater =
| thesis_title = Az általános halmazelmélet axiomatikus felépítése (The axiomatic construction of general set theory)
| thesis_year = 1925
| doctoral_advisor =
| academic_advis... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_von_Neumann | 2025-04-05T18:32:06.091504 |
15943 | John Newton | | birth_place = Wapping, London, England
| death_date
| death_place = London, England
| spouse
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John Newton (; – 21 December 1807) was an English evangelical Anglican cleric and slavery abolitionist. He had previously been a captain of slave ships and an investor in the slave trade. He served as a sailor in the Roy... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Newton | 2025-04-05T18:32:06.109464 |
15944 | Jet engine | thumb|Jet engine during take-off showing visible hot exhaust (Germanwings Airbus A319)
A jet engine is a type of reaction engine, discharging a fast-moving jet of heated gas (usually air) that generates thrust by jet propulsion. While this broad definition may include rocket, water jet, and hybrid propulsion, the term... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jet_engine | 2025-04-05T18:32:06.185043 |
15947 | July 16 | Events
Pre-1600
* 622 – The Hijrah of Muhammad begins, marking the beginning of the Islamic calendar.
* 997 – Battle of Spercheios: Bulgarian forces of Tsar Samuel are defeated by a Byzantine army under general Nikephoros Ouranos at the Spercheios River in Greece.
*1054 – Three Roman legates break rel... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_16 | 2025-04-05T18:32:06.257139 |
15948 | Jack L. Chalker | | birth_place = Baltimore, Maryland, United States
| death_date
| death_place = Baltimore, Maryland, United States
| education = Towson University<br>Johns Hopkins University
| occupation = Science fiction author, writer
| spouse = Eva C. Whitley
| parents | children 2
}}
Jack Laurence Chalker (December 17, 1944 – Fe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_L._Chalker | 2025-04-05T18:32:06.263638 |
15949 | James Blish | James Bliss}}
| birth_name = James Benjamin Blish
| birth_date =
| birth_place = East Orange, New Jersey, United States
| death_date =
| death_place = Henley-on-Thames, England, United Kingdom
| occupation = Writer, Literary critic
| language = English
| nationality = American
| education =
| period = 1940–1975
| g... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Blish | 2025-04-05T18:32:06.289775 |
15950 | James Madison | }}
* Elbridge Gerry (1813–1814)
* None (1814–1817)
}}
| term_start = March 4, 1809
| term_end = March 4, 1817
| predecessor = Thomas Jefferson
| successor = James Monroe
| order1 = 5th
| office1 = United States Secretary of State
| president1 = Thomas Jefferson
| term_start1 = May 2, 1801
| term_end1 March 3, 1809
| pr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Madison | 2025-04-05T18:32:06.393965 |
15954 | January 24 | Events
Pre-1600
*41 – Claudius is proclaimed Roman emperor by the Praetorian Guard after they assassinate the previous emperor, his nephew Caligula.
* 914 – Start of the First Fatimid invasion of Egypt.
*1438 – The Council of Basel suspends Pope Eugene IV.
*1458 – Matthias Corvinus is elected Ki... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/January_24 | 2025-04-05T18:32:06.437735 |
15956 | Journal of the Travellers Aid Society | | founder = Loren K. Wiseman
| founded = 1979
| finaldate =
| finalnumber = 25
| country = United States
| language = English
}}
'''''Journal of the Travellers' Aid Society is a role-playing game magazine devoted to Traveller, commonly abbreviated JTAS'.
History
Loren K. Wiseman created a magazine in 1979 to support... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journal_of_the_Travellers_Aid_Society | 2025-04-05T18:32:06.445271 |
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15962 | Jötunheimr | from the Hunnestad Monument that is believed to depict a female (or ) riding on a wolf with vipers as reins, which has been proposed to be Hyrrokkin.]]
The terms Jötunheimr (in Old Norse orthography: Jǫtunheimr ; often anglicised as Jotunheim) or Jötunheimar refer to either a land or multiple lands respectively in Nor... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jötunheimr | 2025-04-05T18:32:06.502357 |
15963 | Johann Friedrich Agricola | Johann Friedrich Agricola (4 January 1720 – 2 December 1774) was a German composer, organist, singer, pedagogue, and writer on music. He sometimes wrote under the pseudonym Flavio Anicio Olibrio.
Biography
Agricola was born in Dobitschen, Thuringia.
Leipzig
While a student of law at Leipzig (1738–41) he studied music... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Friedrich_Agricola | 2025-04-05T18:32:06.508537 |
15965 | James Hutton | | image = Sir Henry Raeburn - James Hutton, 1726 - 1797. Geologist - PG 2686 - National Galleries of Scotland.jpg
| alt = University of Edinburgh James Hutton Statue
| caption = Portrait by Henry Raeburn, 1776
| birth_date = 3 June 1726
| birth_place = Edinburgh, Scotland
| death_date = 26 March 1797 (aged 70)
| death_... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Hutton | 2025-04-05T18:32:06.552458 |
15966 | Jakob Abbadie | | death_place = Marylebone, London
| nationality = French
| occupation = Protestant minister, writer
}}
Jakob Abbadie (; 25 September 1727), also known as Jacques or James Abbadie, was a French Protestant minister and writer. He became Dean of Killaloe, in Ireland.
Life
Jacques Abbadie was born at Nay, Béarn, probabl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jakob_Abbadie | 2025-04-05T18:32:06.558830 |
15967 | Jerry Lewis | | birth_date =
| birth_place = Newark, New Jersey, U.S.
| death_date =
| death_place = Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S.
| resting_place | occupation
| alias =
| module
| genre =
| subject | website
| notable_work = Prof. Julius F. Kelp and Buddy Love in The Nutty Professor
}}
| years_active 1931–2017
| party | spouse |}}
... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Lewis | 2025-04-05T18:32:06.651405 |
15968 | July 29 | Events
Pre-1600
587 BC – The Neo-Babylonian Empire sacks Jerusalem and destroys the First Temple.
615 – Pakal ascends the throne of Palenque at the age of 12.
904 – Sack of Thessalonica: Saracen raiders under Leo of Tripoli sack Thessaloniki, the Byzantine Empire's second-largest city, after a short siege, and plund... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_29 | 2025-04-05T18:32:06.868013 |
15970 | Johannes Agricola | thumb|Johannes Agricola
Johann or Johannes Agricola (originally Schneider, then Schnitter; 20 April 1494 – 22 September 1566) was a German Protestant Reformer during the Protestant Reformation. He was a follower and friend of Martin Luther, who became his antagonist in the matter of the binding obligation of the law on... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johannes_Agricola | 2025-04-05T18:32:06.872775 |
15971 | July 12 | Events
Pre-1600
*70 – The armies of Titus attack the walls of Jerusalem after a six-month siege. Three days later they breach the walls, which enables the army to destroy the Second Temple.
* 927 – King Constantine II of Scotland, King Hywel Dda of Deheubarth, Ealdred of Bamburgh and King Owain of the Cumb... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_12 | 2025-04-05T18:32:06.934771 |
15974 | Johann Georg Albrechtsberger | thumb|right|Albrechtsberger; portrait by Leopold Kupelwieser
Johann Georg Albrechtsberger (3 February 1736 – 7 March 1809) was an Austrian composer, organist, and music theorist, widely regarded as one of the leading figures in counterpoint and composition theory during the Classical period. He was a prolific composer ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Georg_Albrechtsberger | 2025-04-05T18:32:06.940474 |
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