Of the many splendid manuscripts commissioned by Margaret when she was Duchess of Burgundy, the richest, most powerful and stylish Duchess of Europe, pride of place goes to the illuminated Visions of Tondal illuminated by Simon Marmion ( now at the Getty Museum ; a facsimile has been published ).

Illuminated manuscripts in the library dating from the 12th to 16th centuries include: the Eadwine Psalter, Canterbury ; Pocket Book of Hours, Reims ; Missal from the Royal Abbey of Saint Denis, Paris ; the Simon Marmion Book of Hours, Bruges ; 1524 Charter illuminated by Lucas Horenbout, London ; the Armagnac manuscript of the trial and rehabilitation of Joan of Arc, Rouen.

* 1489 in art-Death of Simon Marmion

* 1425 in art-Birth of Simon Marmion

* Simon Marmion

* Simon Marmion ( French, 1420 – 1489 )

Valenciennes in this period, however, had several famous sons — the chronicler Georges Chastelain, the poet Jean Molinet, the miniaturist Simon Marmion, the sculptor Pierre du Préau and the goldsmith Jérôme de Moyenneville ).

The major artists of this period include Campin, van Eyck, Rogier van der Weyden, Dieric Bouts, Petrus Christus, Simon Marmion, Hans Memling, Hugo van der Goes, Geertgen tot Sint Jans, Gerard David, Hieronymus Bosch and Bruegel.

Simon Marmion is often regarded as an " Early Netherlandish " painter because he came from Amiens, which was intermittently by ruled the Burgundian court between 1435 and 1471.

* La Flora book of hours, before 1489, with 22 fullpages-miniatures of Simon Marmion: Napoli, Biblioteca Nazionale

* Huth Hours, around 1480 with 24 fullpages-miniatures and 74 smaller ones of Simon Marmion: London, British Library

Hellmouth or the Mouth of Hell, by Simon Marmion, from the Getty Tondal, detail, ca.

He married the widow of the miniaturist and painter Simon Marmion, after whose death he inherited the considerable Marmion estate.

* 1901 – Simon Kuznets, Ukrainian economist, Nobel laureate ( d. 1985 )

* 1969 – Simon Doull, New Zealand cricketer

* 1958 – Simon Baron-Cohen, English psychiatrist and author

* 1984 – Simon Bird, English actor and comedian

* 1975 – Simon Katich, Australian cricketer

* 1957 – Simon McBurney, English actor, writer and director

* 1924 – Simon & Schuster publishes the first crossword puzzle book.

** Simon Magus ( 8: 9 – 24 )

* 1265 – Second Barons ' War: Battle of Evesham – the army of Prince Edward ( the future king Edward I of England ) defeats the forces of rebellious barons led by Simon de Montfort, 6th Earl of Leicester, killing de Montfort and many of his allies.

* Simon Newcomb, A Compendium of Spherical Astronomy ( Macmillan, 1906 – republished by Dover, 1960 ), 160-172.

* 1965 – Simon Fowler, English singer and musician ( Ocean Colour Scene )

* 1966 – Simon Chikovani, Georgian poet ( b. 1902 )

* October 18, 1975 episode ( host: Paul Simon ) – failed Candid Camera stunts and home movies

In doing so the bulk of Liberals remained supporting the government, but two distinct Liberal groups had emerged within this bulk – the Liberal Nationals ( officially the " National Liberals " after 1947 ) led by Simon, also known as " Simonites ", and the " Samuelites " or " official Liberals ", led by Samuel who remained as the official party.

* Simon Collier and William F. Sater, A History of Chile, 1808 – 1894, Cambridge University Press, 1996

* Duraisamy Simon Lourdusamy ( 5 April 1993 – 29 January 1996 )

His paternal grandfather was painter Simon Elwes, whose father was the diplomat and tenor Gervase Elwes ( 1866 – 1921 ).

* 1988 – Simon Zenke, Nigerian footballer

* 1976 – Simon Goodwin, Australian rules footballer

* 1984 – Gilles Simon, French tennis player

* 1552 – Simon Forman, English occultist and astrologer ( d. 1611 )

ET was an independent time-variable, proposed ( and its adoption agreed ) in the period 1948 – 52 with the intent of forming a gravitationally uniform time scale as far as was feasible at that time, and depending for its definition on Simon Newcomb's Tables of the Sun ( 1895 ), interpreted in a new way to accommodate certain observed discrepancies.

* 1970 – Simon Pegg, British comedian and actor

* 1980 – Simon Gagné, Canadian ice hockey player

The series features rotten boroughs ( or " robber buttons "), Dr. Samuel Johnson ( played by Robbie Coltrane ), William Pitt the Younger ( Simon Osborne ), the French Revolution ( featuring Chris Barrie, Nigel Planer and Tim McInnerny as the Scarlet Pimpernel ), over-the-top theatrical actors, a squirrel-hating transvestite highwayman, and a duel with the Duke of Wellington ( played by Stephen Fry ).

Mighton cites a 2000 paper by Simon and two co-authors which counters arguments by French mathematics educator Guy Brousseau and others suggesting that excessive practice hampers children's understanding:

French psychologist Alfred Binet, together with psychologists Victor Henri and Théodore Simon, after about 15 years of development, published the Binet-Simon test in 1905, which focused on verbal abilities.

* 1644 – Simon Foucher, French philosopher ( d. 1696 )

* 1792 – Charles Simon Favart, French dramatist ( b. 1710 )

* 1638 – Richard Simon, French critic ( d. 1712 )

* 1873 – Amedée Simon Dominique Thierry, French journalist and historian ( b. 1797 )

* 1710 – Charles Simon Favart, French dramatist ( d. 1792 )

* 1913 – Claude Simon, French writer, Nobel laureate ( d. 2005 )

The Vexin was a buffer state between Normandy and the French king's lands, and Simon had been a supporter of William's.

Bonzi station, from Yamoussoukro on the Bouaflé road, was set on fire, and the French administrator, Simon Maurice, was spared only by the intervention of Kouassi N ' Go.

As the situation returned to normal, Simon Maurice, judging that Bonzi had become unsafe, decided to transfer the French military station to Yamoussoukro, where the French Administration built a pyramid to the memory of Kouassi N ' Go, Chief of the Akoué.

* Pierre Simon Laplace, French physicist and mathematician

** Claude Simon, French writer, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 2005 )

* April 23 – Simone Simon, French actress ( d. 2005 )

* November – Simon Arnauld de Pomponne, French diplomat and minister of Louis XIV ( d. 1699 )

* May 12 – Charles Simon Favart, French dramatist ( b. 1710 )

* May 13 – Richard Simon, French Biblical critic ( d. 1712 )

* March 23 – Pierre Simon de Laplace, French mathematician and astronomer ( d. 1827 )

* November 13 – Charles Simon Favart, French dramatist ( d. 1792 )

* January 9 – Simon Vouet, French painter ( d. 1649 )

* April 11 – Richard Simon, French Biblical critic ( b. 1638 )