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Contents 1 December 2009 2 November 2009 3 October 2009 4 September 2009 5 August 2009 6 July 2009 7 June 2009 8 April 2009 9 February 2009 10 January 2009 11 December 2008 12 November 2008 13 October 2008 14 September 2008 15 August 2008 16 July 2008 17 June 2008 18 May 2008 19 April 2008 20 March 2008 21 February 2008 22 January 2008 23 December 2007 24 October 2007 25 November 2007 26 September 2007 27 August 2007 28 July 2007 29 June 2007 30 May 2007 31 April 2007 32 March 2007 33 February 2007 34 January 2007 35 December 2006 36 November 2006 37 October 2006 38 September 2006 39 August 2006 40 Archives

[edit] December 2009

• Jesus ben Damneus - High Priest of Israel

[edit] November 2009

• J. Vernon Shea - American author of horror, fantasy, poetry, and essays; and a correspondent of H. P. Lovecraft, Clark Ashton Smith, and August Derleth.

[edit] October 2009

• Julian Thomas - British archaeologist, specialising in Neolithic and Bronze Age prehistory. Co-director of the Stonehenge Riverside Project.
• Shahid Kamal - Pakistan's Ambassador to Germany
• Hal Finney (cypherpunk) - Prominent cypherpunk, developer for PGP and early console games for Atari 2600 and Intellivision.

[edit] September 2009

• Christian Keyser and Johann Flierl Lutheran missionaries to New Guinea.
• Hermann Detzner German surveyor in Kaiser-Wilhelmsland, possibly last German to surrender in WWI?
• Jonathan Townley Crane 19th century Methodist Episcopal Minister, founder of Centenary College (Stephen Crane's father) and George Peck; the propensity of Pecks to be Methodist ministers caused Stephen to say that everyone in his family was a Methodist minister as soon as he could walk, the ambling nag saddle bag, exhorting kind.
• Nicholas M. Nolan - Civil War & Indian Wars, commander of Henry Ossian Flipper and commander of the "Buffalo Tragedy of 1877.
• Jules Garesche Ord - The officer now confirmed as the one who inititated and started the charge up the San Juan Heights.

[edit] August 2009

• John Bigelow, Jr. - The son of diplomat John Bigelow, the friend and model for many of Remington's sketches. A noted Army historian.

[edit] July 2009

• Louis H. Carpenter - MOH winner, he served 1861-1899. This article is a good article (GA) nominee.
• Samuel Carpenter - First Treasurer & Asst. Govenor to William Penn of PA.
• Ralph Crepyn - First Town Clerk of London
• Eliza Gutch - Founder of the Folklore Society. Just a stub at present, not much info to hand.

[edit] June 2009

• Michael B. Ellis - World War I Medal of Honor recepeint from the U.S. Army.
• Abdullah el Tell - Transjordanian military commander, Jerusalem, 1948.
• Mordechai Weingarten - Mukhtar of Jerusalem's Jewish Quarter, 1935-1948.
• Thomas C. Wasson - US Consul, Jerusalem, 1948.

[edit] April 2009

• Arturo Alcaraz - Guggenheim Fellowship awardee, volcanologist
• Caleb Huse Confederate Major chiefly responsible for purchasing arms from Europe for the CSA.
• John Carpenter, town clerk of London - major rewrite done - Author of Liber Albus first book of English common law.
• William Carpenter, Providence Rhode Island First surnamed Carpenter to settle in America, early settler of Providence
• William, Count of Melun WikiProject Middle Ages, French Knight & Noble during First Crusade.
• Frederic H. Balfour Victorian sinologist, editor, essayist.
• Evgeny Belyaev (1926-1994) Superb tenor, admired briefly but not really known in the West due to the Cold War.
• Shafik Chokin (1912-2003) The most recognized Kazakh scientist in energy sector, president of Kazakhstan Academy of Sciences
• K. Subrahmanyam - Foreign Policy expert, 'Doyen of India's strategic affairs community' - expanded from a stub

[edit] February 2009

• Matija Gogala, Slovenian entomologist

[edit] January 2009

• Edwin F. Harding, World War II Major General
• Al Kaprielian
• Brian Gorman

[edit] December 2008

• Madeline Perry - Irish professional squash player.
• Delia Arnold - Malaysian professional squash player.
• Sharon Wee - Malaysian professional squash player.
• Annelize Naude - Dutch professional squash player.
• Kasey Brown - Australian professional squash player.
• Annie Au - Hong Kong professional squash player.
• Dominique Lloyd-Walter - English professional squash player.
• Tricia Chuah - Malaysian professional squash player.
• Laurens Jan Anjema - Dutch professional squash player.
• Borja Golan - Spanish professional squash player.
• Low Wee Wern - Malaysian professional squash player.
• Jaclyn Hawkes - New Zealand professional squash player.
• Donna Urquhart - Australian professional squash player.
• Raymond Jackson, cartoonist who worked for the Evening Standard and was known as Jak
• Andy Collins (game designer), role-playing game designer.
• Richard Clarke Cabot - American Physician

[edit] November 2008

• Edmund Wright Brooks(1834 – 1928), English Quaker philanthropist and cement maker.
• Boris Bazhanov (1900-1983), Joseph Stalin's secretary who defected in 1928.
• William Dewsbury (circa 1671 – 1688), Quaker minister.
• Herold C. Hunt (February 8, 1902—October 17, 1976), noted educator

[edit] October 2008

• Michael Hudson, American economist on 2008-10-14
• Henri Rivière (painter), artist, designer and technical innovator in shadow plays
• Beth Nolan, American lawyer, GWU general counsel, former DOJ official, first woman (and Bill Clinton's final) White House Counsel

[edit] September 2008

• Ivan Regen, Slovene biologist, appeared on DYK? on october 2nd.
• Martin Cassini - of questionable notability
• John G. Jackson - Pan-Africanist and Afrocentrist writer
• Joseph Nourse, first United States Register of the Treasury

[edit] August 2008

• Joseph Fry (tea merchant) - husband of Elizabeth Fry
• Ger McDonnell - mountaineer and first Irish person to reach summit of K2
• Andrey Molchanov - Russian billionaire businessman and politician

[edit] July 2008

• Jane Collier - A fact from Jane Collier appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know? column on July 18, 2008.
• Arpad Vass - anthropologist request for over a year fulfilled - A fact from Arpad Vass appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know? column on July 8, 2008.
• John McIntosh (Saskatchewan MP)
• Richard Southam
• Bert Cadieu
• Roderick J. Thomson
• Albert B. Douglas
• Anthony Pratkanis‎ - anthropologist request for over a year fulfilled

[edit] June 2008

• David Stuart (diplomat)
• Ben Shearer - Australian artist
• Constance Reid - mathematical biographer and popularizer - article is not new but is expanded from stub and has much new material
• Kaye Don
• Marcus J. Ranum - Computer/Network security innovator. Article was redlinked from multiple places, so may have existed but been previously deleted. N/V/RS firmly established in new version.
• Michael Wyndham Hudson - Australian Admiral.
• Gwilt Jolley (1859-1916), an English painter

[edit] May 2008

• John Billingsley
• Amadou Lamine Ba
• Mark Andrew Kelly - Australian Major General
• Alan Beaumont - Australian Admiral
• Victor Smith - Australian Admiral

[edit] April 2008

• Christopher Levett
• Ulrike Lunacek
• Hans-Georg Stümke
• Thomas Grossmann
• Alexander Ziegler
• Azariah Southworth
• Claire Waldoff
• Jean Follain
• William Jarvis (merchant)
• Philippe Descola - French Arch. - article requested since 2006
• Eugene Cussons - Chimps
• Eugène Boban - French antiquarian and crystal skulls saleman. Needs help with translations from the French Wikipedia
• Stanley Diamond (anthropologist)
• Pietra Rivoli - author
• Edwin Jaggard - Historian
• Davyd Thomas - Australian Rear Admiral
• Robert Marsden Hope - Australian Justice and Royal Commissioner. First bio I've written. Would appreciate feedback or copyedit/cleanup etc Akitora (talk) 13:14, 20 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] March 2008

• Gustav Christian Schwabe - merchant, financier
• Alan G. Rogers - GLBT, iraqi casualty
• Andrew Toovey - composer
• Don Boyd - director
• Helen Donald-Smith - artist
• Alan Chadwick - gardner
• Jonathan Riley-Smith
• Bill Lann Lee - civil rights lawyer, asst. attorney general
• Clarence Lightner, first African-American mayor of a metropolitan Southern U.S. city
• Dona Cadman, widow of former Canadian Member of Parliament Chuck Cadman
• Benjamin Wills Newton, evangelist, former leader of Plymouth Brethren assembly
• Lena Yada
• Garry Tregidga, an academic at the Institute of Cornish Studies.
• Michael Williams (1784-1858), MP for West Cornwall and owner of Caerhays Castle.
• Edward William Wynne Pendarves (1775 – 1853), MP for West Cornwall.
• John Hearle Tremayne (1780 - 1851) was Tory MP for Cornwall for 20 years.
• Arthur Tremayne (1827 - 1905), Crimean War soldier and Cornish MP, son of J.H. Tremayne.
• Nigel Sheinwald british ambassador
• Jaymee Ong model
• Gottlieb Kirchhoff corn syrup
• Raymond L Brett (1917-1996) Professor of English at University of Hull.
• Francis Gregor (MP) (1760 - 1815 ), MP for the County of Cornwall.
• Sir William Molesworth, 6th Baronet (1758 - 1798), MP for Cornwall 1784 until 1790.
• Richard Davey (MP) (1799–1884), of Bochym in Cury. MP for West Cornwall for 11 years.

[edit] February 2008

• Samuel S. Carr English-born American 19th-early 20th century pastoral and landscape painter, Freemason and former President of the Brooklyn Art Club.
• William Penny Brookes, inspiration for the modern Olympic Games
• Edward Paisnel, the Beast of Jersey
• Barry Lee Myers, businessman
• Bill Dilks - of questionable notability
• Ian Bogost, game designer
• Rosanna Capolingua, Australian AMA
• Chris Columbo, jazz drummer
• Hugh Davson
• Eleanor Josaitis
• Ira Fusfeld
• Gentil Ferreira Viana
• Heidi Hammel
• Jalal El-Gharbi
• James Losh
• Jason Lawrence
• Scott Millan
• Paolo Vitelli, yacht maker
• Parvati Shallow
• Patricia Cahill (drug smuggler)
• Richard Pearsall, 1698-1762 -> Richard Pearsall
• Roman Sledziejowski
• Sarah Turner Butler
• Yuji Terajima, artist
• Andrey Petrov, Russian composer - article had been requested prior to 2006-07-16
• Alexander William Gaskarth
• Frederick Glaysher

[edit] January 2008

• Omar Osama bin Laden, son of Osama bin Laden
• Ross Drummond, golfer
• Robert Campbell Reeve Alaskan aviation pioneer and founder of Reeve Aleutian Airways.
• Dan Cavanaugh, professional ice hockey player
• Eryl McNally, former MEP
• Clive Needle, former MEP
• Bill Miller (Scotland), former MEP
• Mark Watts, former MEP
• Pierre Bonga
• Samuel Teresi

[edit] December 2007

• Tom Wontner, (British actor)
• Suril Shah, (IT prodigy)
• Howard Fox (1836 - 1922), Falmouth, Cornwall worthy
• Jean-François Cail (1804-1871)
• Andre Couder
• Jean Pierre Pellissier
• Terence Patrick O'Sullivan

[edit] October 2007

• H. S. S. Lawrence (Educationalist - India)
• Vernice Armour (military, African-American, female) October 6, 2007
• Jimmy Hutmaker The "Mr. Jimmy" mentioned in You Can't Always Get What You Want.
• Lonny Chapman actor (Come back, little Sheeba, McCloud)
• David Montagu, 4th Baron Swaythling baron, banker and businessman
• Anna Maria Fox (1816 – 1897), Falmouthian
• Celia Calle, illustrator
• Henry George Raverty

[edit] November 2007

• Eliyahu Berligne
• Georgi Mschvenieradze

[edit] September 2007

• Karl Dalhouse September 10, 2007
• Thomas Dalton and Lucy Lew (African Americans) September 24, 2007
• S U Hastings September 10, 2007
• Andrea Smith (academic) September 15, 2007

[edit] August 2007

• Anna Cora Mowatt, August 5, 2007
• Susan Kiefel August 13, 2007
• Col. michael Osos August 19, 2007
• Dr. Sivakumar Jaganathan August 20, 2007
• Margaret Hillert August 20, 2007
• Helen Hartness Flanders August 31, 2007
• Christa Calamas

[edit] July 2007

• Horace West, July 19, 2007
• Renato D’Aiello, July 28, 2007

[edit] June 2007

• Katie Hopkins, June 3, 2007
• Dean Redman, June 15, 2007
• Patricia Drake, June 15, 2007
• Leraldo Anzaldua, June 15, 2007
• John McPhail, June 15, 2007
• Marek Hamšík, June 22, 2007
• Samuel Slovák, June 22, 2007
• Alfred Herbert

[edit] May 2007

• Joe Baksi May 12, 2007
• Josh Key May 20, 2007
• Henry Reed (merchant) May 27, 2007
• William Theed famous Victorian sculptor --McKDandy 21:08, 31 May 2007 (UTC)
• Greg Brady (broadcaster)

[edit] April 2007

• Geoff Plant Attorney General of British Columbia. April 27, 2007
• Tatsuo Kawai (diplomat) April 23 2007
• Dorus Rijkers April 13, 2007

[edit] March 2007

• John Joseph Mitty March 29, 2007
• Giuditta Bellerio Sidoli March 21, 2007
• Ken Noguchi March 20, 2007
• Paul Torrisi March 10, 2007
• Timothy Campbell March 2, 2007
• William G. Gale March 2, 2007
• Anne Curwen - YWCA
• Sidney Rosenthal - Magic marker
• Herbert Simon (real estate)

[edit] February 2007

• Cesare Cremonini 7 February 2007
• Leona Woods 20:20, 13 February 2007 (UTC)
• Ursula Pearson
• John Lester 03:50, 16 February 2007 (UTC)
• Tiffini Hale February 18, 2007
• Albert Fields February 18, 2007
• Chase Hampton February 18, 2007
• Deedee Magno February 18, 2007
• Marcus Brosch February 19, 2007
• Susan Solomon February 20, 2007

[edit] January 2007

• Michelle Paver 28 january, 2007
• Herb Jackson 16 January, 2007 by User:Jieagles
• Ajeet Bajaj 12:53, 3 January 2007 (UTC)
• Andy Burton (TV presenter)

[edit] December 2006

I apologize for finally tagging my articles with {{WPBiography}} tags. Here they are

• William Wrigley III 16:53, 9 December 2006
• Robert E. Johnson 16:53, 9 December 2006
• R. Eden Martin 16:53, 9 December 2006
• Paul Cornell (Chicago) 16:53, 9 December 2006
• Samuel Curtis Johnson, Sr. 16:53, 9 December 2006
• Herbert Fisk Johnson, Sr. 16:53, 9 December 2006
• Herbert Fisk Johnson III 16:53, 9 December 2006
• Helen Johnson-Leipold 16:53, 9 December 2006
• S. Curtis Johnson 16:53, 9 December 2006
• Winnie Johnson-Marquart 16:53, 9 December 2006
• Jennifer Martz 16:53, 9 December 2006
• August Busch IV 16:53, 9 December 2006
• August Anheuser Busch, Sr. 16:53, 9 December 2006
• Eberhard Anheuser 16:53, 9 December 2006
• Adolphus Busch III 16:53, 9 December 2006
• Antoine Thompson 16:53, 9 December 2006
• Seymour H. Knox I 16:53, 9 December 2006
• Seymour H. Knox II 16:53, 9 December 2006
• Northrup R. Knox 16:53, 9 December 2006
• Donald Trump, Jr. 16:53, 9 December 2006
• Tony Lopez 16:53, 9 December 2006
• Heath Irwin 16:53, 9 December 2006
• George Fisk Comfort 16:53, 9 December 2006
• Samuel Ealy Johnson, Sr. 16:53, 9 December 2006
• James Griffin (songwriter) 16:53, 9 December 2006

[edit] November 2006

• Mitch Clem 05:37, November 30, 2006
• Rosemary Firth 15:35, November 26, 2006
• Raymond Firth expanded from stub
• Cecil Gould 14:14, November 25, 2006
• K. A. C. Creswell 21:07, November 24, 2006
• Floyd M. Riddick 23:08, November 22, 2006
• Douglas A. Warner III 02:26, November 2, 2006

[edit] October 2006

• Leonard Orban 08:42, 31 October 2006
• Henry Bowen 23:25, October 15, 2006
• Charles F. Mercer 01:56, October 6, 2006
• James Breckinridge 00:40, October 6, 2006

[edit] September 2006

• George Rogers Clark Floyd 23:49, September 13, 2006
• Jamsetji Tata expanded from stub. Appeared on DYK on 11 September
• G. D. Madgulkar expanded from stub.

[edit] August 2006

• Alfred Ford appeared on DYK on 28 August
• William Brydon appeared on DYK on 25 August
• Yogendra Singh Yadav appeared on DYK on 21 August

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