Educators, Teachers & Scholars Chronology

Paolo Sarpi, Venetian patriot and scholar, dies at age 70.

Ref: 70

1630

Tetsugen Zen teacher (Jodo sect converted to Obaku Zen), dies.

Ref: 5

1636

Oct 11

Yen Jo-chu Chinese scholar of Ch'ing dynasty, is born.

Ref: 5

Nov 11

Yen Jo-chu Chinese scholar of Ch'ing dynasty, is born.

Ref: 5

1638

Sep 14

John Harvard clergyman, scholar: Harvard College named for him; dies.

Ref: 68

1649

Elihu Yale, the English philanthropist for whom Yale University is named, is born.

Ref: 68

1662

Richard Bentley Oulton, scholar/controversialist, is born.

Ref: 5

Richard Bentley Oulton, scholar/controversialist, is born.

Ref: 5

1685

Tiberius Hemsterhuis Dutch Classical prof, baptized, is born.

Ref: 5

1721

Jul 08

Elihu Yale, the English philanthropist for whom Yale University is named, dies.

Ref: 68

1722

Jan 24

In Cambridge, Mass., Edward Wigglesworth was named to fill the newly created Thomas Hollis chair at Harvard College. Mr. Wigglesworth thereby became the first divinity professor commissioned in the American colonies.

Ref: 5

1746

Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi Switzerland, educator (Leonard & Gertrude), is born.

Ref: 68

Jan 21

Johann H Pestalozzi Zurich Switzerland, educator (Leonard & Gertrude), is born.

Ref: 5

1750

Frederick Augustus Conrad Muhlenberg, US statesman, Lutheran clergyman, first president of Muhlenberg College, PA, is born.

Ref: 17

1753

Mar 27

Andrew Bell, Scottish clergyman who developed popular education, is born.

Ref: 70

1763

Jul 31

James Kent Fredericksburgh NY, legal scholar (Columbia), is born.

Ref: 5

1769

Edward Holyoke, American educator; president of Harvard University (1737-69), dies at age 79.

Ref: 70

Hakuin Ekaku Zen teacher (reformer of Rinzai school), dies in Japan.

Ref: 5

1777

Mar 19

Anton R Falck Dutch minister of Education/diplomat, is born.

Ref: 5

1778

John Strachan, Scottish-born Canadian educator and first Anglican bishop of Toronto, is born.

Ref: 70

1782

Apr 21

Teacher, author, toy maker: inventor of kindergarten Friedrich Froebel is born in Germany.

Ref: 4

1785

Dec 26

Laurent Clerc teacher: first deaf teacher in U.S., helped establish American School for the Deaf in Connecticut; is born.

Ref: 4

1786

Feb 13

Abraham Baldwin selected president of University of Georgia.

Ref: 5

1787

Emma (Hart) Willard educator: pioneer in higher education for women: Waterford Academy for Young Ladies, Troy Female Seminary, Emma Willard School; Willard Association for the Mutual Improvement of Female Teachers [1837]; writer: textbooks: geography, history, astronomy, A Treatise on the Motive Powers Which Produce the Circulation of the Blood [written a year before women were admitted to medical schools; is born.

Ref: 5

Dec 10

Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet educator: founded first public school for deaf children [now the American School for the Deaf]; is born.

Ref: 4

Dec 22

Rasmus Rask Denmark, language scholar, is born.

Ref: 5

1789

Dec 23

Charles-Michel abbé de l'Epéé (school for the deaf), dies at 77.

Ref: 5

1796

May 04

Horace Mann educator: the father of public education in the U.S.; founder of Westfield, MA State College; author, editor: Common School Journal; is born.

Ref: 4

Aug 27

Sophia Smith, American philanthropist; founded Smith College, is born.

Ref: 70

1797

Feb 28

Mary Lyon US, educator (Mt Holyoke) (Hall of Fame), is born.

Ref: 5

Jun 24

John Hughes archbishop, founded Fordham University in the Bronx, is born.

Ref: 5

1800

Sep 06

Catherine Esther Beecher, educator who promoted higher education for women, is born.

Ref: 2

Sep 23

William Holmes McGuffy, educator, author: McGuffy Readers [122 million copies sold as of 1999]; 4th president of Ohio University, is born.

Ref: 4

Nov 09

Birth of Asa Mahan, American educator and Congregational clergyman. President of Oberlin College in Ohio from 1835_1850, Mahan was instrumental in establishing interracial college enrollment and in the granting of college degrees to women.

Ref: 5

1801

Jun 04

Frederick Augustus Conrad Muhlenberg, US statesman, Lutheran clergyman, first president of Muhlenberg College, PA, dies.

Ref: 17

Nov 10

Samuel Gridley Howe, educator of the blind, is born.

Ref: 2

1802

Feb 04

Mark Hopkins educator: Williams College president: U.S. President Garfield said, “All that is needed for a superior education is Mark Hopkins on one end of a log and a student on the other.”; is born.

Ref: 4

1803

Sep 03

Prudence Crandall, founded school for "young ladies of colour", is born.

Ref: 5

1804

Elizabeth Palmer Peabody, educator: established first kindergarten in US in 1860, is born. She is also the sister-in-law of Nathaniel Hawthorne.

Ref: 4

1805

Colonial American theologian Henry Ware, 41, was confirmed as the first Unitarian professor to teach at Harvard University. Soon after, the Trinitarian Congregationalist teachers began withdrawing from the school, and in 1808 established Andover Theological Seminary.

Ref: 5

1807

Jan 11

Ezra Cornell, the founder of Western Union Telegraph and Cornell University, is born.

Ref: 68

May 28

Jean Agassiz, naturalist and educator, is born.

Ref: 2

Jul 01

Thomas Green Clemson mining engineer, endowed Clemson University, is born.

Ref: 5

1808

Jul 15

Sir Henry Cole, English art patron and educator, is born.

Ref: 70

1809

Louis Braille, developed system of writing that could be felt and interpreted by the blind, is born in Coupvray, France.

Ref: 4

May 05

Frederick Barnard, American president of Columbia College (1864-1889), is born.

Ref: 70

1810

John McCloskey US, president of St John's College (Fordham University), is born.

Ref: 5

1811

Jan 05

Cyrus Hamlin educator/missionary (established Robert College, Turkey), is born.

Ref: 5

Jan 24

Henry Barnard, American education commissioner, is born.

Ref: 70

1812

Hugo Kollataj Polish teacher/minister, dies at 61.

Ref: 5

1813

Sir Isaac Pitman, English educator and inventor of shorthand, is born.

Ref: 70

Gideon Hawley becomes first state school superintendent in US (NY).

Ref: 5

József Eötvös Hungarian Minister of Education (1848), is born.

Ref: 5

Aug 16

Sarah Porter, American educator, is born.

Ref: 70

1814

Apr 02

Erastus B. Bigelow, American industrialist; founder of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, is born.

Ref: 70

1820

Anne J. Clough, English educator/feminist, is born.

Ref: 2

1822

Ahmed Djevdet Pasha Turkish minister of Education/Justice, is born.

Ref: 5

Dec 05

Elizabeth Cabot Agassiz, American naturalist and educator, is born.

Ref: 70

1823

(Friedrich) Max Muller, German orientalist scholar, is born.

Ref: 70

1824

Feb 19

Constantine D Uschinsky Russian educator, is born.

Ref: 5

Mar 09

Leland Stanford, railroad builder and founder of Stanford University, is born.

Ref: 17

1825

Birth of Brooke Foss Westcott, British N.T. scholar. In 1881, he and F. J. A. Hort co-edited a famous critical text of the Greek New Testament -- one which is still used today.

Ref: 5

Jun 05

Jabez Lamar Monroe Curry Georgia, educator (Rep-Ala, 1857-61), is born.

Ref: 5

1827

Feb 17

Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi Swiss educator, dies at 81.

Ref: 68

Mar 25

Stephen Luce, American founder and first president of the Naval War College, is born.

Ref: 70

Nov 16

Charles Eliot Norton, American scholar, is born.

Ref: 70

1828

Johan H van Dale schoolmaster (New Dutch Language Dictionary), is born.

Ref: 5

1829

Silas Weir Mitchell US physician/author (Roland Blake), is born.

Ref: 5

Jul 21

Birth of public school teacher Priscilla Jane Owens. A Methodist who remained in Baltimore all her life, she left behind two enduring hymns: 'We Have an Anchor' and 'Jesus Saves.'

Ref: 5

1830

Emily Davies, English pioneer in securing university education for women, is born.

Ref: 70

1832

Andrew Bell, Scottish clergyman who developed popular education, dies at age 78.

Ref: 70

Nov 07

Andrew Dickson White educator/1st President of Cornell, is born.

Ref: 5

1834

Charles William Elliot, Boston MA, President of Harvard (1869-1909), is born.

Ref: 5

1835

Jan 10

Yukichi Fukuzawa, Japanese educator and publisher, is born.

Ref: 70

Jul 17

Sir Erskine Holland, English legal scholar, is born.

Ref: 70

Sep 10

William Torrey Harris, American public school educator and philosopher, is born.

Ref: 70

1836

Dec 19

Maria L Sanford pioneer educator (PTA), is born.

Ref: 5

1837

Oct 09

Francis Parker, educator and founder of progressive elementary schools, is born.

Ref: 2

1839

Mar 25

William Bell Wait, American educator of the blind, is born.

Ref: 5

May 08

Francis W Warre-Cornish English vice-provost of Eton/writer, is born.

Ref: 5

Aug 09

Gaston Paris, French philologist, educator, and writer, is born.

Ref: 70

Sep 23

Helen Almira Shafer, American educator; president of Wellesley College (1888-94), is born.

Ref: 70

1841

Apr 27

Imakita Kosen, first Zen teacher of D T Suzuki, found the awakening.

Ref: 5

Nov 12

Lord Rayleigh England, physicist/chancellor of Cambridge (1908-14), is born.

Ref: 5

1843

Mar 16

Anton R Falck Dutch minister of Education/Colonies, dies at 65.

Ref: 5

Jun 07

Susan Elizabeth Blow US, pioneered kindergarten education, is born.

Ref: 5

1845

Hallie Quinn Brown, American educator, women's rights leader, is born.

Ref: 2

1846

May 29

Albert György earl Apponyi Hungarian minister of Education, is born.

Ref: 5

1847

Dec 07

Solomon Schechter US Talmudic scholar/Jewish leader, is born.

Ref: 5

1848

Sep 29

Caroline Ardelia Yale US, educated deaf, is born.

Ref: 5

1849

John Henry Comstock, American educator and researcher, is born.

Ref: 70

Mar 05

Mary Lyon educator: founded Mount Holyoke Seminary, now Mt. Holyoke College, one of the first permanent colleges for women; dies.

Ref: 4

Sep 01

Elizabeth Harrison US, educator (Natl Congress of Parents & Teachers), is born.

Ref: 5

Sep 28

Dudley Allen Sargent US, physician/educator (Harvard U gymnasium), is born.

Ref: 5

1850

Seth Low, American philanthropist/educator, is born.

Ref: 70

Feb 22

Isaac L Rice Germany, (namesake of Columbia University's Rice stadium), is born.

Ref: 5

Mary Mills Patrick US, first president of Istanbul Women's College, is born.

Ref: 5

Jun 11

Birth of David C. Cook, pioneer developer of Sunday School curriculum. In 1875, Cook founded the David C. Cook Publishing Co., headquartered today in Elgin, Illinois.

Ref: 5

1851

May 01

Eberhard Nestle German oriëntalist/biblical scholar, is born.

Ref: 5

May 02

Graham Taylor, US clergyman, founder of the forerunner of the University of Chicago School of Social Work, is born.

Ref: 17

Aug 13

Felix Adler, American educator and founder of the Ethical Movement, is born.

Ref: 70

Sep 10

Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet educator: founded first public school for deaf children [now the American School for the Deaf]; dies at age 63.

Ref: 70

1852

Louis Braille developed system of writing that could be felt and interpreted by the blind; not widely recognized until after his death; dies at age 43.

Ref: 4

Jun 21

Friedrich Froebel, educator and developer of the idea of the kindergarten, dies.

Ref: 70

1853

Nov 28

Helen Magill White, American educator and first American woman to earn a Ph.D. degree, is born.

Ref: 70

1855

Josephine Marshall Jewell Dodge, American educator, pioneer in the concept of day nurseries for children, is born.

Ref: 2

Feb 21

Alice (Elvira Freeman) Palmer educator, administrator: president of Wellesley College [1882], member of Massachusetts Board of Education [1889], first dean of women: University of Chicago [1892], helped organize American Association of University Women; is born.

Ref: 4

1856

Feb 19

Rudolf Stammler, German jurist and teacher, is born.

Ref: 70

Booker Taliaferro Washington, former slave, educator, founded the Tuskegee Institute, is born in Franklin County VA.

Ref: 2

Dec 13

Lawrence Lowell, American lawyer, educator, and president of Harvard University (1909-1933), is born.

Ref: 70

1857

Jan 02

Martha Carey Thomas, women’s education advocate: first president of National College Women's Equal Suffrage League, president of Bryn Mawr College for women [1894-1922]; is born.

Ref: 4

Johannes T de Visser theologist/Dutch first minister of Education, is born.

Ref: 5

1858

May 15

Emily Folger, Shakespeare scholar, is born.

Ref: 2

1859

Jan 11

[Gerard] Jan Ligthart Dutch educator (Nog bij mother, Ot & Sien), is born.

Ref: 5

Aug 02

Horace Mann educator: the father of public education in the U.S.; founder of Westfield, MA State College; author, editor: Common School Journal, dies at age 63.

Ref: 4

1860

American College established in Rome by Pope Pius IX.

Ref: 5

1861

May 27

Victoria E Matthews educator, is born.

Ref: 5

1863

Pieter Oosterlee Dutch educator, is born.

Ref: 5

Jul 13

Emma Mary Wooley educator (Mary Anna Wells), is born.

Ref: 5

Sep 23

Mary Church Terrell, educator and civil rights advocate, is born.

Ref: 2

Dec 13

Johannes Weiss German New Testament scholar, is born.

Ref: 5

1864

John Hughes, founded Fordham University in the Bronx, Irish-born American religious leader; first Roman Catholic archbishop of New York

Ref: 70

Aug 07

Ellen Fitz Pendleton, American educator; president of Wellesley College (1911-36), is born.

Ref: 70

1865

Aug 09

Janie Porter Barrett, American welfare worker and educator, is born.

Ref: 70

1866

Apr 01

Sophonisba Breckenridge scholar/teacher/social activist, is born.

Ref: 5

Anne Mansfield Sullivan (Macy) ‘The Miracle Worker’, teacher who educated Helen Keller, is born.

Ref: 2

Oct 07

Martha McChesney Berry US, founded Berry School for Children, is born.

Ref: 5

1867

Simon Abramsz Dutch teacher/writer (For the Young Ones), is born.

Ref: 5

Nov 01

John Strachan, Scottish-born Canadian educator and first Anglican bishop of Toronto, dies at age 89.

Ref: 70

1869

Jun 25

Edward Holyoke, American educator; president of Harvard University (1737-69), is born.

Ref: 70

Jul 18

Laurent Clerc teacher: first deaf teacher in U.S., helped establish American School for the Deaf in Connecticut; dies.

Ref: 4

1870

Constantine D Uschinsky Russian educationalist, dies at 46.

Ref: 5

Emma (Hart) Willard educator: pioneer in higher education for women: Waterford Academy for Young Ladies, Troy Female Seminary, Emma Willard School; Willard Association for the Mutual Improvement of Female Teachers [1837]; writer: textbooks: geography, history, astronomy, A Treatise on the Motive Powers Which Produce the Circulation of the Blood, written a year before women were admitted to medical schools; dies.

Ref: 4

Jun 12

Sophia Smith, American philanthropist; founded Smith College, dies at age 73.

Ref: 70

Aug 31

Birth of Maria Montessori, Italian educator. She developed a theory of teaching which emphasized a reinforcement of initiative, and a freedom of movement for the child. Her theory of elementary education has since been named, appropriately, the "Montessori Method."

Ref: 5

Dec 18

D T Suzuki Kanazawa Japan, Zen Buddhist scholar, is born.

Ref: 5

Dec 22

Constantine D Uschinsky Russian educator, dies at 46.

Ref: 5

1871

Jun 18

Nicolae Iorga, Romanian scholar, statesman and historian, is born.

Ref: 70

Oct 23

Birth of Edgar J. Goodspeed, American Greek N.T. scholar. He taught at the University of Chicago 1898-1937. In 1931, he co-authored with JMP Smith "The Bible: An American Translation," better known today as "Smith and Goodspeed."

Ref: 5

1872

May 19

Johan van Dale schoolmaster (New Dutch Language Wordbook), dies at 44.

Ref: 5

1873

May 04

William Holmes McGuffey, educator famous for his book Eclectic Readers, dies at age 72.

Ref: 70

1874

Jul 20

Gustav Holst, English composer and teacher, is born.

Ref: 70

Jul 31

Patrick Francis Healy was inaugurated president of Georgetown University, the oldest Catholic university in America. Healy at the same time became the first African-American to head a predominantly white university.

Ref: 5

Dec 09

Ezra Cornell, the founder of Western Union Telegraph and Cornell University, dies.

Ref: 68

1875

Jan 21

Paul E Kahle Germany, professor of oriental studies, is born.

Ref: 5

Jul 10

Mary McLeod Bethune, educator, founder of Bethune-Cookman College and the National Council of Negro Women, is born.

Ref: 2

1876

Jan 09

Samuel Gridley Howe, American educator and social reformer, dies at age 74.

Ref: 70

May 27

Joseph Bosworth lexicographer/scholar, dies.

Ref: 5

Sep 26

Edith Abbott dean U of Chic Social Sciences, is born.

Ref: 5

1877

Daniël Plooy Dutch new testament scholar, is born.

Ref: 5

Jul 05

Judah Leon Magnes, American founder of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, is born.

Ref: 70

1878

Christian Gauss educator/writer (Phi Beta Kappa award namesake), is born.

Ref: 5

1879

Erastus B. Bigelow, American industrialist; founder of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, dies at age 65.

Ref: 70

1882

Simon Elzinga Dutch educator, is born.

Ref: 5

Sir Henry Cole, English art patron and educator, dies at age 73.

Ref: 70

Jun 27

Eduard Spranger, German educator and philosopher, is born.

Ref: 70

Jul 27

Eduard Spranger, German educator and philosopher, is born.

Ref: 70

1884

Aug 31

George Sarton, Belgian-born American scholar, is born.

Ref: 70

Sep 02

Frank Laubach Benton Pa, educator, taught reading through phonetics

Ref: 5

1887

Helen Parkhurst US educator (Education on the Dalton plan), is born.

Ref: 5

Feb 22

Mary Ellen Chase educator/author (Windswept, 1959 Sarah Hale Award), is born.

Ref: 5

Mar 07

Helen Parkhurst, educator, developed a technique later known as the Dalton Plan, is born.

Ref: 68

Jun 17

Ref: 70

Sep 16

Nadia Boulanger Paris, music teacher (Lasir‚ne Ideology), is born.

Ref: 5

1888

Jul 11

Dr Lyman Bryson Valentine Nebr, educator (UN Casebook), is born.

Ref: 5

1889

Apr 27

Frederick Barnard, American president of Columbia College (1864-1889), dies at age 79.

Ref: 5

May 06

Stanley Morison, English typographer and scholar, is born.

Ref: 70

1890

Mordecai W Johnson educator, is born.

Ref: 5

1891

May 22

Robert Gordon Sproul educator/college president (University of California), is born.

Ref: 5

William F Albright US old testament scholar/archaeologist, is born.

Ref: 5

1892

Jan 16

Imakita Kosen Zen teacher/abbot of Engagkuji monastery, dies.

Ref: 5

Feb 27

Anne J. Clough, English educator/feminist, dies at age 72.

Ref: 70

Birth of George Arthur Buttrick, English Presbyterian pastor and educator. A teacher at both Union Theological Seminary and Harvard University, Buttrick is best remembered as chief editor of "The Interpreter's Bible" (1952_57).

Ref: 5

1893

Mar 26

James Conant, American educator and scientist, is born.

Ref: 70

Jun 30

Harold Laski, English political scientist, educator and writer, is born.

Ref: 70

1894

Elizabeth Palmer Peabody, educator: established first kindergarten in US in 1860, dies at age 89.

Ref: 4

Helen Almira Shafer, American educator; president of Wellesley College (1888-94), dies at age 54.

Ref: 70

Oct 12

Dr Charles Hodge Calif, NYU professor (Answers for Americans), is born.

Ref: 5

1895

Aug 01

Benjamin E Mays first black president of Atlanta Board of Education, is born.

Ref: 5

Sep 03

Charles Houston, American lawyer and educator, is born.

Ref: 70

1896

Oct 11

Roman Jakobson linguist/Slavic scholar (Fundamentals of Language), is born.

Ref: 5

1897

Sir Isaac Pitman, English educator and inventor of shorthand, dies at age 84.

Ref: 70

1898

Apr 08

CM Bowra professor of poetry (Oxford University), is born.

Ref: 5

May 03

Septima Poinsette Clark, civil rights activist/educator, is born.

Ref: 5

1899

Robert Maynard Hutchins US, educator/civil libertarian, is born.

Ref: 5

Mar 26

James B Connant chemist/college president (Yale), is born.

Ref: 5

1900

Feb 17

Sarah Porter, American educator, dies at age 86.

Ref: 70

Jul 05

Henry Barnard, American education commissioner, dies at age 89.

Ref: 70

Aug 03

John T. Scopes, a high school teacher and the focus of the famous 1925 Scopes Monkey Trial where he was convicted of teaching evolution in Tennessee school, is born.

Ref: 4

Oct 28

(Friedrich) Max Muller, German orientalist scholar, dies at age 76.

Ref: 70

Nov 18

Dr. Howard Thurman, theologian and first African American to hold a full-time position at Boston University, is born.

Ref: 2

1901

Feb 03

Yukichi Fukuzawa, Japanese educator and publisher, dies at age 66.

Ref: 70

Jul 27

Death of B.F. Westcott, 76, English N.T. scholar. In 1881, he and colleague F.J.A.Hort published the most precise critical text of the Greek New Testament ever compiled --still in use today.

Ref: 5

Aug 14

Sir James Pitman England, educator/publisher/phonetic speller, is born.

Ref: 5

Oct 10

Frederick Douglass Patterson, American educator; president of Tuskegee Institute (1935-53) and founder of United Negro College Fund, is born.

Ref: 70

1902

Ref: 5

Dec 20

Max Lerner, American educator and columnist, is born.

Ref: 70

1903

Mar 06

Gaston Paris, French philologist, educator, and writer, dies at age 63.

Ref: 70

1904

Theodore Brameld author/educator (Use of Explosive Ideas), is born.

Ref: 5

Apr 16

Birth of Merrill C. Tenney, American N.T. scholar. In addition to his many scholarly writings, Tenney was dean of the Wheaton College Graduate School in Illinois from 1947-71.

Ref: 5

Jun 23

Dr Carleton Coon prof of anthropology (What in the World), is born.

Ref: 5

Jul 24

James R Killian Jr MIT pres (1948-59), is born.

Ref: 5

Sep 19

Dr Bergen Evans Ohio, English professor ($64,000 Question), is born.

Ref: 5

1906

Kathleen Tillotson, Emeritus Professor of English (Bedford College), is born.

Ref: 5

Apr 10

Kathleen Major principal (St Hilda's College, England), is born.

Ref: 5

Jun 30

John Hope becomes first black president of Morehouse College.

Ref: 5

Oct 16

Cleanth Brooks, Kentucky-born writer and educator, is born.

Ref: 2

Oct 27

Alfred Whitney Griswold, American educator; president of Yale University (1950-63), is born.

Ref: 70

1907

Alan Strode Campbell Ross professor (coined the terms U & non-U), is born.

Ref: 5

Mar 13

Albert Hughes Williams teacher/historian, is born.

Ref: 5

Mar 19

Nakagawa Soen Formosa, Zen teacher (Rinzai line), is born.

Ref: 5

Nathan M Pusey, educator (1963 Natl Assoc for Social Sciences Medal), is born in Council Bluffs IA.

Ref: 5

May 05

Kenneth Muir English scholar, is born.

Ref: 5

May 13

Austin Whitaker schoolmaster classical scholar/archivist, is born.

Ref: 5

Jun 27

Elizabeth Cabot Agassiz, American naturalist and educator, dies at age 84.

Ref: 70

Andrew Hutchings teachers' leader, is born.

Ref: 5

1908

Jun 29

Birth of Cyrus H. Gordon, American Jewish archaeological scholar. Having taught Assyriology and Egyptology at Dropsie College in Philadelphia, his his technical writings include the 'Ugaritic Handbook' (1947).

Ref: 5

Oct 21

Charles Eliot Norton, American scholar, dies at age 80.

Ref: 70

Dec 22

Marie Jungius Dutch teacher/fairy tale writer, dies at 44.

Ref: 5

1909

Jan 08

Evelyn Wood, American educator, is born.

Ref: 70

Jan 10

Grace Mitchell educator, is born.

Ref: 5

Charles Wislon principal (Glasgow University), is born.

Ref: 5

Edward Moss Hutchinson educationalist, is born.

Ref: 5

Sister Maria Innocentia Hummel kindergarten art teacher: her work was inspiration for the famous Hummel figurines, is born.

Ref: 4

Nov 05

William Torrey Harris, American public school educator and philosopher, dies at age 74.

Ref: 70

1910

Lord Grey of Naunton chancellor (Ulster University), is born.

Ref: 5

1911

Jan 16

Gilbert Gadoffre French scholar, is born.

Ref: 5

Francis Galton English scholar, dies at 88.

Ref: 5

A G Ogston president (Trinity College-Oxford), is born.

Ref: 5

Alec Cairncross chancellor (Glasgow U), is born.

Ref: 5

Mar 24

Herman W "Fritz" Liebert US OSSer/librarian (Yale curator), is born.

Ref: 5

W R Lee language teacher, is born.

Ref: 5

Jun 26

Edward Levi professor (Intro to Legal Reasoning), is born.

Ref: 5

Dec 24

Eric Briault educationalist, is born.

Ref: 5

1912

Edmund George Love US, teacher/historian/author (A Small Bequest), is born.

Ref: 5

Mar 11

Robert Clifford Latham Pepys Scholar, is born.

Ref: 5

Andrew Rodger Waterson scholar/naturalist, is born.

Ref: 5

William Murray teacher/educationalist, is born.

Ref: 5

Samuel Curran vice chancellor (Strathclyde University), is born.

Ref: 5

Dec 12

Yusef Bedri educationist, is born.

Ref: 5

1913

Mar 09

Eberhard Nestle German biblical scholar, dies at 61.

Ref: 5

Mar 21

George Ghita Ionescu academic, is born.

Ref: 5

Cyril English British educator, is born.

Ref: 5

Dec 29

Laurence Gower academic, is born.

Ref: 5

1914

Mitsu Suzuki teacher of tea ceremony at San Francisco Zen Center, is born.

Ref: 5

Sep 28

Harold Taylor Canada, educator (Art & the Future), is born.

Ref: 5

1915

Jan 25

Michael Duane educationalist, is born.

Ref: 5

Mar 28

Birth of Kurt Aland, New Testament textual scholar. He co-edited the two most definitive modern critical editions of the Greek Scriptures: the United Bible Society's "Greek New Testament" and Eberhard Nestle's "Novum Testamentum Graece."

Ref: 5

Apr 02

Antony Dornhorst professor of medicine, is born.

Ref: 5

May 13

John Habakkuk principal (Jesus College in Oxford), is born.

Ref: 5

1916

Eugene Maleska educator, crossword puzzle buff: created new puzzle designs and clue styles; crossword puzzle editor: NY Times; is born.

Ref: 4

Feb 16

[Gerard] Jan Ligthart Dutch educator (Ot & Sien), dies at 57.

Ref: 5

William Walsh academic, is born.

Ref: 5

Sep 17

Seth Low, American philanthropist/educator, dies at age 66.

Ref: 70

1917

Feb 10

Johanna Westerdijk installed as Netherlands first female professor.

Ref: 5

Theodore Hesburgh Syracuse NY, president (Notre Dame), is born.

Ref: 5

May 25

Theodore Hesburgh ex-president of Notre Dame, is born.

Ref: 5

Jul 28

Stephen Luce, American founder and first president of the Naval War College, dies at age 90.

Ref: 70

1918

Dom Aelred Watkin headmaster (Downside School), is born.

Ref: 5

Mar 15

Richard Ellmann US, literary scholar/writer (Oscar Wilde), is born.

Ref: 5

Harry Kay vice-chancellor (Exeter University), is born.

Ref: 5

Earl Jellicoe chancellor (University of Southhampton), is born.

Ref: 5

Joan Bernard Principal (Trevelyan College, Durham), is born.

Ref: 5

Clifton Keith Hillegass, founder of the study guides known as Cliff's Notes, is born.

Ref: 2

Jack Morpurgo American Literature scholar (Leeds University), is born.

Ref: 5

Nov 04

Andrew White, American educator and diplomat; founder and first president of Cornell University, dies at age 85.

Ref: 70

1919

Apr 11

Raymond Carr Warden (St Antony's College Oxford), is born.

Ref: 5

Lord Maxwell senator/professor (college of Justice Scotland), is born.

Ref: 5

Jun 17

Kingman Brewster, college president (Yale), is born.

Ref: 5

1920

Peter Clemoes anglo-Saxon scholar, is born.

Ref: 5

Feb 19

Frances K Bairstow educator/labor relations consultant, is born.

Ref: 5

Mar 11

Kenneth Dover chancellor (St Andrews University), is born.

Ref: 5

David Walker Professor of Law (Glasgow University), is born.

Ref: 5

May 22

Hugh Armstrong Clegg industrial relations academic, is born.

Ref: 5

Dec 08

Ron Gulliford educationalist, is born.

Ref: 5

1921

Albert Sloman Vice-Chancellor (Essex U), is born.

Ref: 5

Ian Todd President (Royal College of Surgeons), is born.

Ref: 5

Margaret Gowing professor (history, science), is born.

Ref: 5

Jul 13

Emily Davies, English pioneer in securing university education for women, dies at age 91.

Ref: 70

1922

Bogumil Witalis Andrzejewski professor of Cushtic Languages, is born.

Ref: 5

Sir Arnold Burgen college president (Academia Europaea), is born.

Ref: 5

Margaret Scott founder (Australian Ballet School), is born.

Ref: 5

May 18

GMcC Kitson British principal (Central School of Speech/Drama), is born.

Ref: 5

Clifford Butler vice chancellor (Loughborough University of Technology), is born.

Ref: 5

1923

Feb 21

Zvi Zeitlin Dubrovnik Yugoslavia, violinist/professor (Eastman School), is born.

Ref: 5

Mar 06

Raymond "Bill" Hoffenberg college president (Wolfson at Oxford), is born.

Ref: 5

Miles Wingate deputy master (Trinity House), is born.

Ref: 5

1924

Roy Harding British teacher, is born.

Ref: 5

Jewel Plummer Cobb educator/president (California State University at Fullerton), is born.

Ref: 5

Mar 08

Victor "Toby" Neuberg teacher/writer, is born.

Ref: 5

Michael McCrum master (Corpus Christi College Cambridge), is born.

Ref: 5

1925

Henry Harris British professor of medicine, is born.

Ref: 5

Christopher Ball Oxford, warden (Keble College), is born.

Ref: 5

Aug 24

Former education secretary Shirley Hufstedler is born. (TWA, 1984)

Ref: 95

1926

Feb 25

Harvey McGregor QC/warden (New College-Oxford), is born.

Ref: 5

Graham Hills principal (Strathclyde University, England), is born.

Ref: 5

Apr 16

Barbara Tizzard British educator, is born.

Ref: 5

G M Hughes professor/zoologist, is born.

Ref: 5

Richard Laws Master (St Edmunds College Cambridge), is born.

Ref: 5

May 09

Alistair MacFarlane principal (Heriot-Watt University England), is born.

Ref: 5

90 Sir Erskine Holland 7/17/1835 5/24/1926 English legal scholar, dies at age 90.

Ref: 5

Derek Birley British Vice-Chancellor (Ulster University), is born.

Ref: 5

Aug 22

Charles William Eliot, American educator, President of Harvard (1869-1909), dies at age 92.

Ref: 70

1927

Jan 25

Seung Sahn Zen teacher (Korean line), is born.

Ref: 5

J D Hughes Principal (Ruskin College-Oxford), is born.

Ref: 5

Feb 27

Michael Butler Pro-Provost/chairman (Royal College of Art), is born.

Ref: 5

Feb 28

Bernard Frank oriental scholar/writer, is born.

Ref: 5

Mar 11

Alan Betts emeritus professor (Royal Veterinary College), is born.

Ref: 5

David Ingram Vice-Chancellor (University of Kent at Canterbury), is born.

Ref: 5

Apr 21

Robert Brustein New York NY, dean (Yale School of Drama), is born.

Ref: 5

Dec 30

M Lawrence Antouin college president (Emeritis), is born.

Ref: 5

1928

Jan 19

Dainin Katagiri Osaka Japan, Zen teacher, associate of Shunryu Suzuki, is born.

Ref: 5

Eric Ash rector (Imperial College of Science, Technology & Medicine), is born.

Ref: 5

Thomas Eric Evans dean (St Paul's), is born.

Ref: 5

Alan Fluck musical educationalist, is born.

Ref: 5

Feb 05

Pananayiotis Taki Vatikiotis middle east scholar, is born.

Ref: 5

Mar 12

Phil Jones principal (Trinity College of Music), is born.

Ref: 5

Peter Moore Principal (London Business School), is born.

Ref: 5

Jane Ellen Harrison scholar/archelogist, dies.

Ref: 5

Uwe Kitzinger president (Templeton College-Oxford), is born.

Ref: 5

John Horlock British vice-chancellor (Open College), is born.

Ref: 5

Reginald Askew dean (King's College London), is born.

Ref: 5

Sep 13

Ernest L Boyer educator/chancellor of NY's State Universities (SUNY), is born.

Ref: 5

1929

Eileen Stamers-Smith headmistress (Malvern Girls' College), is born.

Ref: 5

Geoffrey Marshall Provost (Queen's College, Oxford), is born.

Ref: 5

Michael Atiyah educator (Trinity College Cambridge England), is born.

Ref: 5

George Steiner professor (English), is born.

Ref: 5

May 07

Sally L Smith educator/founder (Lab School of Washington), is born.

Ref: 5

1930

Derek Bok college president (Harvard), is born.

Ref: 5

Apr 08

Mary Moore principal (St Hilda's College, Oxford), is born.

Ref: 5

Uwe Kitzinger president (Templeton College, Oxford), is born.

Ref: 5

Justin Gosling principal (St Edmund Hall Oxford), is born.

Ref: 5

May 11

M J Hamlin Principal/Vice-Chancellor (Dundee University), is born.

Ref: 5

May 14

Phillipo Seed social work academic, is born.

Ref: 5

Robert Bunyard Commandant (British Police Staff College), is born.

Ref: 5

David Smith principal/vice chancellor (Edinburgh University), is born.

Ref: 5

William Taylor British Chairman of Convocation (London University), is born.

Ref: 5

1931

Jean Burroughs educationalist, is born.

Ref: 5

Barrel [ABM] Frinking, teacher/Dutch MP (CVP), is born.

Ref: 5

Maezumi Hakuyu Taizan Koun teacher Rinzai/Soto lines of Zen Buddhism, is born.

Ref: 5

Dr John Rae British educator (Conscience & Politics), is born.

Ref: 5

John Henry Comstock, American educator and researcher, dies at age 82.

Ref: 70

Denis Lawton director (London University Institute of Education), is born.

Ref: 5

Martin Rogers director (Farmington Institute for Christian Studies), is born.

Ref: 5

Ruth Etchells principal (St John's College-Durham), is born.

Ref: 5

May 07

Nel J Ginjaar-Maas Dutch under-secretary of Education (VVD), is born.

Ref: 5

1932

Jan 15

Georg Kerschensteiner German educationalist, dies at 77.

Ref: 5

Jerome Lowenthal Philadelphia PA, pianist/professor (Jerusalem Academy of Music), is born.

Ref: 5

A J Zuckerman Dean (Royal Free Hospital School of Medicine), is born.

Ref: 5

Janet Bately Professor of English Language (King's College London), is born.

Ref: 5

Apr 10

Adrian Henri poet/president (Liverpool Academy of Arts), is born.

Ref: 5

Apr 13

Johannes T de Visser first Dutch minister of Education, dies at 75 [or 14th].

Ref: 5

Dominic Milroy OSB/headmaster (Ampleforth College England), is born.

Ref: 5

Arthur Jones principal (Royal Agricultural College, Cirencester), is born.

Ref: 5

John Armitage principal (College of St Hilda & St Bede Durham), is born.

Ref: 5

John Lyons Cambridge England, Master (Trinity Hall), is born.

Ref: 5

1933

Feb 07

Albert György Earl Apponyi Hung minister of Education, dies at 86.

Ref: 5

Evelyn Ebsworth Vice-Chancellor (Durham U), is born.

Ref: 5

Mar 06

Death of Amos R. Wells, 71, pioneer U.S. Christian educator. From l901 until his death, he was editor of "Peloubet's Notes for the International Sunday School Lessons."

Ref: 5

David James Moore educationalist, is born.

Ref: 5

Mar 27

J Geoffrey Parker high master (Manchester Grammar School), is born.

Ref: 5

Richard Rose Professor of Public Policy (Strathclyde University), is born.

Ref: 5

Apr 24

Felix Adler, American educator and founder of the Ethical Movement, dies at age 81.

Ref: 70

Jul 02

Caroline Yale, American educator of the deaf, dies at age 84.

Ref: 70

Sep 20

Annie Besant, British theosophist writer, educator and politician, dies at age 85.

Ref: 70

1934

B R White principal (Regent's Park College-Oxford), is born.

Ref: 5

Bryan Bass headmaster (City of London School), is born.

Ref: 5

David Jones British reverend/headmaster (Bryanston School), is born.

Ref: 5

Anthony Walker commandant (Royal College of Defense Studies), is born.

Ref: 5

1935

Gillian Beer professor/president (Clare Hall-Cambridge), is born.

Ref: 5

Christopher Ball linguist/warden (Keble College-Oxford), is born.

Ref: 5

Gillian Beer professor/president (Clare Hall-Cambridge), is born.

Ref: 5

Dec 02

Martha Carey Thomas, women’s education advocate: first president of National College Women's Equal Suffrage League, president of Bryn Mawr College for women [1894-1922]; dies.

Ref: 5

Dec 10

John H Aberson first rector of Landbouw high school, dies at 78.

Ref: 5

1936

Enid Castle principal (Cheltenham Ladies' College), is born.

Ref: 5

G H Blake Principal (Collingwood College, Durham University), is born.

Ref: 5

Peter Fletcher music teacher, is born.

Ref: 5

Andrew Miller British principal (Stirling U), is born.

Ref: 5

Feb 20

John Hope president of Atlanta University, dies at 67.

Ref: 5

Richard Baker Santa Fe NM, Zen teacher (Dharma Sangha), is born.

Ref: 5

John Albert professor (Master of University College Oxford), is born.

Ref: 5

Apr 11

Janet Allen Headmistress (Benenden School), is born.

Ref: 5

Maurice Shock rector (Lincoln College in Oxford), is born.

Ref: 5

Brian Fuller commandant (Fire Service College, England), is born.

Ref: 5

May 27

Eric Anderson headmaster (Eton), is born.

Ref: 5

Jul 26

Ellen Fitz Pendleton, American educator; president of Wellesley College (1911-36), dies at age 71.

Ref: 70

Aug 01

Benjamin E Mays named president of Morehouse College.

Ref: 5

Aug 31

Marva Collins, innovative educator who started Chicago's one-room school, Westside Preparatory, is born.

Ref: 2

Oct 20

Anne Sullivan Macy, the American teacher who helped educate the blind, deaf and mute Helen Keller, dies.

Ref: 70

1937

Jan 26

S J B Langdale Headmaster (Shrewsbury School), is born.

Ref: 5

Marilyn Butler, Rector (Exeter College-Oxford), is born.

Ref: 5

P J Squire British headmaster (Bedford Modern School), is born.

Ref: 5

David Summerscale head master (Westminster School England), is born.

Ref: 5

1938

Feb 17

Mary Frances Berry educator/head (US Commission on Civil Rights), is born.

Ref: 5

Mar 13

Patricia W Amicone educator/midwife, is born.

Ref: 5

Kenneth J Gregory warden (Goldsmiths' College), is born.

Ref: 5

Mar 27

A J Bellingham president (Royal College of Pathologists), is born.

Ref: 5

Peter Attenborough British headmaster (Charterhouse), is born.

Ref: 5

Gloria Dean Randle Scott educator/president (Beaumont College), is born.

Ref: 5

Carles Marsden professor (neurology), is born.

Ref: 5

David Dilks vice-chancellor (Hull U), is born.

Ref: 5

Apr 25

Rudolf Stammler, German jurist and teacher, dies at age 82.

Ref: 70

May 04

William J Bennett US Secretary of Education (1985-88), is born.

Ref: 5

Anthony Walker commandant (Royal College of Defense Studies), is born.

Ref: 5

Alan Smithers British professor, is born.

Ref: 5

Aug 14

Niara Shudarkasa, educator and first woman president of Lincoln University, is born.

Ref: 2

Sep 26

Graham Taylor, US clergyman, founder of the forerunner of the University of Chicago School of Social Work, dies.

Ref: 17

Martyn Taylor teacher/campaigner, is born.

Ref: 5

1939

Frieda Wunderlich elected first woman dean of a US graduate school.

Ref: 5

Bernard Glassman New York, Zen teacher/head (Zen Center of NY), is born.

Ref: 5

N R Bomford head master (Harrow School), is born.

Ref: 5

George Bain principal (London Business School), is born.

Ref: 5

Feb 25

A C F Verity master (Dulwich College), is born.

Ref: 5

Mar 26

Stuart Sutherland Professor Emeritus (Sussex University), is born.

Ref: 5

Dmitri Shostakovich appointed professor at conservatory of Leningrad.

Ref: 5

N R Bomford head master (Harrow School), is born.

Ref: 5

Dec 13

Clive Brain educationalist, is born.

Ref: 5

Dec 18

Christoffel "Stoffel" van de Merwe South Africa minister of Education, is born.

Ref: 5

1940

Feb 20

V Payne British headmistress (Malvern Girls' College), is born.

Ref: 5

William Ritchie vice-chancellor (Lancaster University), is born.

Ref: 5

Gareth Roberts chancellor (Sheffield University), is born.

Ref: 5

Nov 28

Nicolae Iorga, Romanian scholar, statesman and historian, dies at age 69.

Ref: 70

1941

José Leite de Vasconcelos Portuguese scholar (Etnografia), dies at 82.

Ref: 5

Frank Gerstenberg Edinburgh, principal (George Watson's College), is born.

Ref: 5

Feb 25

Stewart Sutherland Principal/Vice-Chancellor (Edinburgh University), is born.

Ref: 5

Ron Johnston Vice-Chancellor (Essex University), is born.

Ref: 5

Baroness Hollis of Heigham history lecturer (U of East Anglia), is born.

Ref: 5

June Clark British Professor of Nursing (Middlesex University), is born.

Ref: 5

Kenneth Cooper New York NY, harpsichordist/professor (Barnard, Brooklyn), is born.

Ref: 5

Oct 10

Laurence Henry Tribe Shanghai China, Harvard Law professor, is born.

Ref: 5

1942

F R Hartley Vice-Chancellor (Cranfield University), is born.

Ref: 5

John Lewis Head Master (Eton College), is born.

Ref: 5

John Daniel British Vice-Chancellor (Open University), is born.

Ref: 5

1943

Lawrence Lowell, American lawyer, educator, and president of Harvard University (1909-1933), dies at age 86.

Ref: 70

Feb 16

J D Moore headmaster (St Dunstan's College), is born.

Ref: 5

Peter Graves supt minister (Westminster Central Hall), is born.

Ref: 5

Dec 01

Nicholas Peter Negroponte New York NY, founder/director (Media Lab at MIT), is born.

Ref: 5

1944

Feb 12

Desmond Nuttall English educator, is born.

Ref: 5

R P Mardling headmaster (Queen Elizabeth Grammar School, Wakefield), is born.

Ref: 5

David Melville professor/director (Middlesex Polytechnic), is born.

Ref: 5

Oct 28

Helen Magill White, American educator and first American woman to earn a Ph.D. degree, dies at age 90.

Ref: 70

1945

Wim J Deetman Dutch minister of education/MP (CDA), is born.

Ref: 5

Hilary Nicolle educationist, is born.

Ref: 5

Sasaki Shigetsu Sokei-an founder first Zen Institute of America, dies.

Ref: 5

1946

M J H Sterling Vice-Chancellor (Brunel University), is born.

Ref: 5

Apr 02

Lynda Carr educationist, is born.

Ref: 5

Jeremy Treglown English scholar/editor (TLS), is born.

Ref: 5

Nov 01

Charles S Johnson becomes first black President of Fisk University.

Ref: 5

Nov 06

Sister Maria Innocentia Hummel kindergarten art teacher: her work was inspiration for the famous Hummel figurines; dies.

Ref: 4

1947

Valerie Bragg principal (City Technology College-Kingshurst), is born.

Ref: 5

Michael Mavor Head Master (Rugby School), is born.

Ref: 5

Dmitri Shostakovich named professor at conservatory of Leningrad.

Ref: 5

Apr 11

Michael Wright Vice-Chancello, (Aston University), is born.

Ref: 5

1948

H C Tomlinson Headmaster (Hereford Cathedral School), is born.

Ref: 5

Gerhard Anschütz German professor, dies at 81.

Ref: 5

Aug 27

Janie Porter Barrett, American welfare worker and educator, dies at age 83.

Ref: 70

Oct 27

Judah Leon Magnes, American founder of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, dies at age 71.

Ref: 70

1949

Kieron Walsh academic, is born.

Ref: 5

D Watson director (Brighton University), is born.

Ref: 5

Mary Maples Dunn college president (Smith College), is born.

Ref: 5

Myra McCulloch teacher academic/administrator, is born.

Ref: 5

Oct 09

Harvard Law School begins admitting women.

Ref: 2

1950

P R Scott Headmaster (Bancroft's School, Woodford Green), is born.

Ref: 5

Mar 24

Harold Laski, English political scientist, educator and writer, dies at age 56.

Ref: 70

1951

Apr 24

Andrew John Fairclough trade union educator, is born.

Ref: 5

1952

Rosanne Musgrave headmistress (Blackheath HS), is born.

Ref: 5

May 06

Maria Montessori educator: first woman to attend medical school, first female Doctor of Medicine in Italy, worked with handicapped and socially deprived children, developed unique educational method known as the Montessori method; Montessori Schools named for her; dies at age 81.

Ref: 70

1953

C A Barnett headmaster (Whitgift School), is born.

Ref: 5

1954

Jun 22

Karl Taylor Compton, physicist/atomic bomb scientist, president of M. I. T. (1930-48), dies at age 66.

Ref: 70

Jul 24

Mary Eliza Terrell, American educator, social activist and civil rights advocate, dies at age 90.

Ref: 70

1955

May 18

Mary McLeod Bethune, educator, founder of Bethune-Cookman College and the National Council of Negro Women, dies at age 79.

Ref: 70

1956

Jan 15

Dmitri Shostakovich appointed honorary member of Academia Santa Cecilia.

Ref: 5

George Sarton, Belgian-born American scholar, dies at age 71.

Ref: 70

May 12

Hendrik P Marchant Dutch minister of Education, dies at 87.

Ref: 5

1957

Ruth Draper US elocutionist, dies at 67.

Ref: 5

1958

May 07

Nyogen Senzaki first Zen teacher to reside in USA, dies at 81.

Ref: 5

1960

Feb 29

Walter Yust, American editor in chief of the Encyclopedia Britannica (1938-1960), dies at age 65.

Ref: 70

1961

Jan 24

Willem J M van Eysinga people rights scholar, dies at 82.

Ref: 5

Léon Jeunehomme Belgian teacher (Pédagogie en Cours), dies at 77.

Ref: 5

Maria Radulphus [Adrian Hermus] Curaçao school inspector, dies at 91.

Ref: 5

1962

Jul 05

Death of Helmut Richard Niebuhr, 67. Christian Ethics professor at Yale for 30 years, Niebuhr is better remembered for his popular and oft-reprinted 1951 classic, 'Christand Culture' -- a work that explores available options of relating one's personal faith to the world's highest and noblest principles.

Ref: 5

1963

Alfred Whitney Griswold, American educator; president of Yale University (1950-63), dies at age 56.

Ref: 70

Sep 17

Eduard Spranger, German educator and philosopher, dies at age 81.

Ref: 70

1964

Oct 08

Dr Charles Hodge NYU professor (Answers for Americans), dies at 69.

Ref: 5

1965

Alberto Vaccari Italian jesuit/old testament scholar, dies at 90.

Ref: 5

1967

Oct 11

Stanley Morison, English typographer and scholar, dies at age 78.

Ref: 5

1968

Jan 16

Robert R "Bob" Jones founder (Bob Jones University), dies at 84.

Ref: 5

1970

Jun 11

Frank Laubach, Benton Pa, taught reading through phonetics, dies.

Ref: 5

Oct 21

John T. Scopes, a high school teacher and the focus of the famous 1925 Scopes Monkey Trial where he was convicted of teaching evolution in Tennessee school, dies.

Ref: 17

1971

Mar 29

Conrad Van Emde Boas becomes West Europe's first sexology professor.

Ref: 5

1972

Dec 21

Horace Mann Bond president of Lincoln University (PA), dies at 70.

Ref: 5

1973

Mar 28

Hakuun Yasutani Zen teacher/co-founder (Sanbo Kyodan), dies.

Ref: 5

Otto Eissfeldt German old testament scholar, dies at 85.

Ref: 5

Jun 01

Helen Parkhurst, American educator, author, and lecturer, dies at age 86.

Ref: 68

1976

Sep 10

Mordecai Johnson first black president of Howard U, dies at 86.

Ref: 5

1977

Feb 18

Maria Realino teacher (Botany of Curaçao), dies at 87.

Ref: 5

Robert M. Hutchins, American educator, dies at age 78.

Ref: 70

Jul 09

Dr Loren Eiseley, prof of Anthropology (Animal Secrets), dies at 69.

Ref: 5

1978

Feb 04

Bergen Evans, educator and author who wrote Dictionary of Contemporary American Usage, dies at age 73.

Ref: 70

James B Conant headmaster (Harvard University), dies at age 84.

Ref: 5

Dec 10

Miura Isshu Zen teacher, Hakuin Rinzai line, dies at 75.

Ref: 5

1979

Jan 02

Dr Benjamin E Mays, named president of Atlanta Board of Education.

Ref: 5

Dec 07

Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin first woman full professor at Harvard University, dies.

Ref: 5

1980

Jul 12

John W Davis Pres (WV State college), dies at 92.

Ref: 5

1981

Leo Collard Belgian minister of Education (1946/54-58), dies at 78.

Ref: 5

Brailsford Reese Brazeal dean (Morehouse College), dies at 76.

Ref: 5

Leo Collard Belgian minister of Education (1946/54-58), dies at 78.

Ref: 5

1982

Stringfellow Barr US educationalist (100 Great Books), dies at 85.

Ref: 5

Apr 30

Taisen Deshimaru founder of several Zen centers in France, dies at 67.

Ref: 5

1985

Mar 03

Sarah Blanding first US female college head (Vassar 1946-64), dies at 86.

Ref: 5

1987

Dec 15

Septima Poinsette Clark,7 American educator and civil rights activist, dies at age 89.

Ref: 70

1988

James Rhyne Killian, American president of M.I.T. (1948-59); helped create NASA, dies at age 84.

Ref: 70

Frederick Douglass Patterson, American educator; president of Tuskegee Institute (1935-53) and founder of United Negro College Fund, dies at age 86.

Ref: 70

Nov 08

Kingman Brewster, American educator, diplomat; president of Yale University (1963-77), dies at age 69.

Ref: 70

1990

Feb 26

Maurine Stuart Zen teacher (head of Cambridge Buddhist Association), dies.

Ref: 5

1991

Subhana, becomes first Australian woman to become a Zen teacher.

Ref: 5

1992

Jun 05

Max Lerner, American educator and columnist, dies at age 89.

Ref: 70

1993

Aug 05

Eugene Maleska educator, crossword puzzle buff: created new puzzle designs and clue styles; crossword puzzle editor: NY Times; dies.

Ref: 5

Dec 11

Ales Gartner Slavic ski trainer of Norway, dies at 45.

Ref: 5

Dec 19

Antoon Veerman Dutch ARP Assistant Secretary of Education (1973-75), dies at 77.

Ref: 5

1994

May 29

Harry Levin literary Scholar, dies at 81.

Ref: 5

May 30

Jean Gattegno translator/scholar, dies at 58.

Ref: 5

Dec 30

Lloyd James Austin french Scholar, dies at 79.

Ref: 5

1995

Robert Clifford Latham Pepys Scholar, dies at 82.

Ref: 5

Barrie Wilson academic, dies at 59.

Ref: 5

Feb 03

John Pinsent classical scholar, dies at 72.

Ref: 5

Feb 12

Terence Beckles pianist/teacher, dies at 82.

Ref: 5

Mar 03

Gilbert Gadoffre French scholar, dies at 84.

Ref: 5

Alexander Hyatt-King Mozart scholar, dies at 84.

Ref: 5

Mar 24

Trevor Oswald Ling religious Studies Professor, dies at 75.

Ref: 5

Peter Brinson dance educationalist, dies at 67.

Ref: 5

Michael Scott Montague Fordham jungian analyst educator, dies at 89.

Ref: 5

May 10

Hilde Jarecki educationist, dies at 83.

Ref: 5

May 14

Maezumi Hakuyu Taizan Koun teacher (Zen Buddhism), dies at 64.

Ref: 5

Kieron Walsh academic, dies at 46.

Ref: 5

Aug 25

Evelyn Wood, American educator, dies at age 86.

Ref: 70

Aug 26

Evelyn Wood, American educator, dies at age 86.

Ref: 70

Dec 02

Francis Joseph Quinn academic, dies at 90.

Ref: 5

Dec 08

Ernest LeRoy Boyer educator, dies at 67.

Ref: 5

Dec 09

Hugh Armstrong Clegg industrial relations academic, dies at 75.

Ref: 5

1996

Eric Briault educationalist, dies at 84.

Ref: 5

Victor "Toby" Neuberg teacher/writer, dies at 71.

Ref: 5

Feb 05

W R Lee language teacher, dies at 84.

Ref: 5

Feb 07

Lillian Rambach teacher violinist, dies at 84.

Ref: 5

Barry Troyna teacher/educational sociologist, dies at 44.

Ref: 5

Feb 21

Jean Burroughs educationalist, dies at 67.

Ref: 5

James Runcieman Sutherland academic, dies at 95.

Ref: 5

Mar 12

Charles Bruce Perry professor of medicine, dies at 92.

Ref: 5

Mar 14

Nico Kiasashvii professor of English Literature, dies at 69.

Ref: 5

Mar 16

Peter Clemoes Anglo-Saxon scholar, dies at 76

Ref: 5

Mar 17

Kenneth Jameson art educationalist, dies at 83.

Ref: 5

James William Rouse US builder (shopping malls), dies at 81.

Ref: 5

May 01

Ivo Rudolph Jarosy film scholar/exhibitor, dies at 74.

Ref: 5

Edward McInnes German scholar, dies at 60.

Ref: 5

May 22

Duncan Montgomery Stewart academic, dies at 66.

Ref: 5

May 25

Enid Kathleen Hutchinson adult educationalist, dies at 86.

Ref: 5

Det Glynn teacher/anti-apartheid activist, dies at 84.

Ref: 5

Dec 17

Elizabeth Hill teacher of Salvonic languages, dies at 96.

Ref: 5

1997

Litz Pisk movement teacher, dies at 87.

Ref: 5

Jan 09

Junaidu ibn Buhari scholar, dies at 90.

Ref: 5

Jan 21

Michael Duane educationalist, dies at 81

Ref: 5

Feb 08

Roy George Elroy Josephs jazz dance teacher, dies at 57.

Ref: 5

Junaidu ibn Buhari scholar, dies at 90.

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Dec 14

Owen Barfield philosopher of language, dies at 99.

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Dec 15

Pananayiotis Taki Vatikiotis middle east scholar, dies at 69

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Dec 23

Austin Whitaker schoolmaster classical scholar/archivist, dies at 90.

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Dec 24

Alan Fluck musical educationalist, dies at 69.

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Dec 25

Laurence Gower academic, dies at 84

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Dec 29

Robert Steel academic, dies at 82

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1998

Jan 26

Shinichi Suzuki music teacher (Suzuki Method), dies at 99.

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2002