* January 3 – Anna McNeill Whistler, James Whistlers mother and subject of his painting ( b. 1804 )

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He was the first child born to Anna Matilda McNeill and George Washington Whistler, a prominent engineer.

Anna McNeill Whistler posed for the painting while living in London with her son.

* Anna McNeill Whistler ( 1804 – 1881 ), mother of the artist James McNeill Whistler and model for the painting Whistler's Mother.

He later married Anna Matilda McNeill, with whom he had five sons.

Whistler's Mother, a portrait of Anna, by their first son, James McNeill Whistler, is among the most famous paintings in American art.

Whistler's Mother, a portrait of Anna by her son, James McNeill Whistler ( 1871 ).

Anna Matilda ( née McNeill ) Whistler ( September 27, 1804 – January 3, 1881 ) was the mother of American-born, British-based painter, James McNeill Whistler, who made her the subject of his famous painting " Arrangement in Grey & Black No. 1 ", often titled, Whistler's Mother.

* Whistler's Mother: the Life of Anna McNeill Whistler, by Elizabeth Mumford.

* The Correspondence of Anna McNeill Whistler, 1855 – 1880, edited by Georgia Toutziari

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In January 1881, Anna Whistler died.

Anna Whistler circa 1850s.

Several unverifiable stories surround the making of the painting itself ; one is that Anna Whistler acted as a replacement for another model who couldn't make the appointment.

John and Anna Whistler had fifteen children.

Anna Whistler circa 1850s.

This group had been Palfrey's greatest worry since Anna was in bad health, and her children were too young to work for their keep.

In recent years Anna Xydis has played with the New York Philharmonic and at Lewisohn Stadium, but her program last night at Town Hall was the Greek-born pianist's first New York recital since 1948.

It was there that their first child, a daughter they named Anna Bronson Alcott, was born on March 16, 1831, after 36 hours of labor.

Bronson described her as " a very fine healthful child, much more so than Anna was at birth.

He was born into a family of writers, the best known of whom was his paternal aunt, Anna Letitia Barbauld, a woman of letters who wrote poetry and essays as well as early children's literature.

Alexios was the son of Ioannis Komnenos and Anna Dalassena, and the nephew of Isaac I Komnenos ( emperor 1057 – 1059 ).

The mother of Alexios, Anna Dalassena, was to play a prominent role in this coup d ' état of 1081, along with the current empress, Maria of Alania.

The real driving force behind this political alliance was Anna Dalassene.

Anna then protested that the family was in fear for their lives, her sons were loyal subjects ( Alexios and Isaac were discovered absent without leave ), and had learned of a plot by enemies of the Komnenoi to have them both blinded and had, therefore, fled the capital so they may continue to be of loyal service to the emperor.

This request was granted and Anna then manifested her true theatrical and manipulative capabilities:

Straboromanos tried to give her his cross, but for Anna this was not sufficiently large enough so that all bystanders could witness the oath.

Anna was highly successful in three important aspects of the revolt: she bought time for her sons to steal imperial horses from the stables and escape the city, she distracted the emperor and gave her sons time to gather and arm their troops and she gave a false sense of security to Botaneiates that there was no real treasonous coup against him.

Alexios was for many years under the strong influence of an eminence grise, his mother Anna Dalassene, a wise and immensely able politician whom, in a uniquely irregular fashion, he had crowned as Augusta instead of the rightful claimant to the title, his wife Irene Doukaina.

Dalassena was the effective administrator of the Empire during Alexios ' long absences in military campaigns: she was constantly at odds with her daughter-in-law and had assumed total responsibility for the upbringing and education of her granddaughter Anna Komnene.

After the war, he played piano and guitar ( his first guitar was built by friend and author Sydney Hopkins, who wrote Mister God, This Is Anna ), and in 1949 joined Chris Barber's Jazz Band where he met blues harmonica player Cyril Davies.

While the early explorers used horses to cross the outback, the first woman to make the journey riding a horse was Anna Hingley, who rode from Broome to Cairns in 2006.

He was a son of Albert of Prussia and Anna Marie of Brunswick-Lüneburg.

Maria was a daughter of Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor and Anna of Bohemia and Hungary.

Charles Henry Alston was born on November 28, 1907 in Charlotte, North Carolina to Reverend Primus Priss Alston and Anna Elizabeth Miller Alston, and was the youngest of five children.

She was a daughter of Henry V of Iron, Duke of Żagań and Anna of Mazovia.

Anna Sergeyevna Kournikova (; born 7 June 1981 ) is a Russian retired professional tennis player.

Frederick I of Ansbach and Bayreuth ( also known as Frederick V ; or ; 8 May 1460 – 4 April 1536 ) was born at Ansbach as the eldest son of the Albert III, Margrave of Brandenburg by his second wife Anna, daughter of Frederick II, Elector of Saxony.

The couple later had three daughters: Taylor Mayne Pearl ( born 1992 ), August Anna ( born 1994 ) and Allie Colleen ( born 1996 ).

Whipple was born to Ashley Cooper Whipple and Frances Anna Hoyt in Ashland, New Hampshire.

He was born as Pólya György in Budapest, Austria-Hungary to originally Ashkenazi Jewish parents Anna Deutsch and Jakab Pólya who converted to Roman Catholicism in 1886.

Heinz was one of eight children born to John Henry Heinz and Anna Margaretha Heinz ( surviving siblings were Elizabeth Heinz Mueller, Henrietta D. Heinz, John Heinz, Mary A. Heinz and P. J. Heinz ).

The couple had three children: Anna Christina, born 1983, Philip Immanuel, born 1985 and Laura Helene, born 1986.

J. Edgar Hoover was born on New Year's Day 1895 in Washington, D. C., to Anna Marie ( née Scheitlin ; 1860 – 1938 ), who was of German Swiss descent, and Dick Naylor Hoover, Sr. ( 1856 – 1921 ), of English and German ancestry.

Anna had a daughter Jadwiga of Lithuania born in 1408.

He also had a brother ( name unknown ), and a sister named Anna who was born deaf-mute.

Kaplan was born in Švenčionys, Lithuania, to Rabbi Israel and Haya ( Anna ) Kaplan.

Rømer was born on 25 September 1644 in Århus to a merchant and skipper, Christen Pedersen, and Anna Olufsdatter Storm, daughter of an alderman.

* Anna Phoebe ( born 1981 ), violinist

She was born in Breda, the sister of Samuel Bayard of Amsterdam, who was married to Anna Stuyvesant, his sister.

Heydrich was born in 1904 in Halle an der Saale to composer and opera singer Richard Bruno Heydrich and his wife Elisabeth Anna Maria Amalia Krantz, a Roman Catholic.

Warren was born in Guthrie, Kentucky, which is very near the Tennessee-Kentucky border, to Robert Warren and Anna Penn.

Stephen J. Ditko was born in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, the son of first-generation Americans of Slovak descent: Stephen Ditko, an artistically talented master carpenter at a steel mill, and Anna, a homemaker.

Herschel was born in Hanover, Electorate of Hanover, one of ten children of Isaak and Anna Ilse, née Moritzen, Herschel.