Thomas William Victor ( Vic ) Richardson ( 1891 – 1968 ), World War I Australian soldier and diarist

" The surprise at Cremona ," wrote the diarist John Evelyn, "… was the greate discourse of this weeke "; but appeals for succour from Vienna remained unheeded, forcing Eugene to seek battle and gain a ' lucky hitt '.

The famous diarist Samuel Pepys was the Member of Parliament for Harwich.

While the diarist acknowledged that the book was the " greatest fashion " he could not see why it was found to be so witty.

His sister, the poet and diarist Dorothy Wordsworth, to whom he was close all his life, was born the following year, and the two were baptised together.

Within the walls of Verulam, which he took for the name of his Barony, the essayist and statesman Sir Francis Bacon built a refined small house that was thoroughly described by the 17th century diarist John Aubrey.

It was in this year when San Luis Obispo received its nickname as the la Cañada de los Osos (" Valley of the Bears ") by diarist, Padre Juan Crespí.

Marie Bashkirtseff ( born Maria Konstantinovna Bashkirtseva, ; 24 November 1858 — 31 October 1884 ) was a Ukrainian-born diarist, painter and sculptor.

It wasn't until 1769 when the area known as Northridge was descriptively first reported by Father Juan Crespi, the prolific diarist who accompanied the exploration party of Spanish explorer Gaspar de Portolà on its arduous trek through California, including the Sepulveda Pass leading to the San Fernando Valley.

He was the son of Henry James, Sr. and the brother of philosopher and psychologist William James and diarist Alice James.

Among people associated with Deptford are Christopher Marlowe, who was murdered at Deptford Strand ; diarist John Evelyn ( 1620 – 1706 ) who lived at Sayes Court, and had Peter the Great ( 1672 – 1725 ) as a guest for about three months in 1698 ; and Sir Francis Drake who was knighted by Queen Elizabeth I aboard the Golden Hind in Deptford Docks.

Accompanying Portolà was a Franciscan priest from Father Junipero Serra's order in Mexico, Juan Crespí, who served as the diarist of the expedition.

Mrs Taylor, wife of the first stationmaster, was a " good cook " and " gracious hostess ", and as described by one diarist, knowing " what to do with beans and dried apples.

Michael Derek Elworthy Jarman ( 31 January 1942 – 19 February 1994 ) was an English film director, stage designer, diarist, artist, gardener and author.

Clark's elder son, Alan Clark, became a prominent Conservative MP and was a writer-historian and celebrated diarist.

* Christen Henriksen Pram ( 1756 – 1821 ) was born in Lesja and became an economist, civil servant, poet, novelist, playwright, diarist and magazine editor.

John Evelyn ( 31 October 1620 – 27 February 1706 ) was an English writer, gardener and diarist.

Robert " Rex " King-Clark MBE MC ( 27 November 1913 – 29 December 2007 ) was a British soldier, pilot, racer, photographer, author, and diarist.

He was born in Rotterdam, Netherlands, and it is sometimes thought that his father may have been the Englishman Samuel Gibbons, who worked under Inigo Jones, but even two of his closest acquaintances, the portrait painter Thomas Murray and the diarist John Evelyn, cannot agree on how he came to be introduced to King Charles II.

Hester Lynch Thrale ( born Hester Lynch Salusbury and after her second marriage, Hester Lynch Piozzi ) ( 27 January 1741 – 2 May 1821 ) was a British diarist, author, and patron of the arts.

Charles Cavendish Fulke Greville ( 2 April 1794 – 17 January 1865 ) was an English diarist and an amateur cricketer who played first-class cricket from 1819 to 1827.

" Notorious female shoplifters in London included Mary Frith, the pickpocket and fence also known as Moll Cutpurse, prostitute and pickpocket Moll King, Sarah McCabe whose shoplifting career spanned twenty years, and Maria Carlston ( also known as Mary Blacke ), whose life was documented by diarist Samuel Pepys, who was eventually executed for theft, and who for years shoplifted clothing and household linens in London with one or more female accomplices.

Parson Woodforde, the famous Norfolk diarist, also dined there in 1781, and Horatio Nelson, whose cousin lived in Aylsham, is said to have danced in the Assembly Room attached to the inn.

He was a cousin of John Evelyn's wife and the diarist visited him at Broad Hinton in 1654, noting that he was living in the manor's gatehouse because he had burnt down his home in order to prevent the Roundheads setting up a garrison there during the Civil War.

Caspar was a cousin of Revolutionary diarist Sally Wister and nephew of Samuel Morris.

The Venetian diarist Marino Sanuto, who saw Anne when Henry VIII met Francis I at Calais in October 1532, described her as " not one of the handsomest women in the world ; she is of middling stature, swarthy complexion, long neck, wide mouth, bosom not much raised ... eyes, which are black and beautiful ".

's move to Hollywood to write for films as " prostituting himself "; Allie wrote poetry on his baseball glove ; and Phoebe is a diarist.

* John Manningham ( sixteenth-and seventeenth-century diarist, lawyer ; noted for recording details of an original performance of Shakespeare's Twelfth Night )

However a second fire on 4 January 1698 destroyed most of the remaining residential and government buildings ; the diarist John Evelyn noted succinctly the next day, " Whitehall burnt!

They had several children ; daughter Mary married Richard Pepys, kinsman of the diarist Samuel Pepys.

Glückel of Hameln ( also spelled Gluckel or Glikl of Hamelin ; also known as Glikl bas Judah Leib ) ( 1646 – September 19, 1724 ) was a Jewish businesswoman and diarist, whose account of life provides scholars with an intimate picture of German Jewish communal life in the late-17th-early eighteenth century Jewish ghetto.

His eldest daughter Charlotte Williams-Wynn was a well-known diarist ; his son, also named Charles, followed him into Parliament.

Amongst the well-known residents of this house were Sir William Yorke, baronet ; the Venetian ambassador ; the architect Samuel Pepys Cockerell ( a great great nephew of the diarist Samuel Pepys ); and the General Commander in Chief of the Army, Viscount Hill, who left in 1836 ( and who gave his name to the modern road bridge north of Westbourne Grove called Lord Hill's Bridge ).

A British diarist and Samuel Johnson's friend, Hester Thrale, in her book Observations and reflections made in the course of a journey through France, Italy, and Germany, describes a Polish plait she saw in 1786 in the collection of the Elector of Saxony in Dresden: " the size and weight of it was enormous, its length four yards and a half 4. 1 m ; the person who was killed by its growth was a Polish lady of quality well known in King Augustus's court.

Reports of the reasons behind Lehzen's departure varied ; court diarist Charles Greville noted she was leaving " for her health ( as she says ), to stay five or six months, but it is supposed never to return.

Celebrities who were far more famous after their deaths than during their lifetime ( and often were completely or relatively unknown ) include Greek philosopher Socrates ; scientist Galileo Galilei ; 1800s-era poet John Keats ; painter Vincent van Gogh ; poet and novelist Edgar Allan Poe ; singer Eva Cassidy ; writer Emily Dickinson ; artist Edith Holden, whose 1906 diary was a best-seller when published posthumously in 1977 ); writer Franz Kafka ; diarist Anne Frank ; philosopher Soren Kierkegaard ; writer John Kennedy Toole ( who posthumously won a Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 12 years after his death ); author Stieg Larsson ( who died with his Millennium novels unpublished ) and William Webb Ellis, the alleged inventor of Rugby football.

The flames came within 100 yards or so of the building, but then the wind changed direction, saving the church and a number of other churches on the eastern side of the City. The church was a favourite of the diarist Samuel Pepys, who worked in the nearby Navy Office and worshipped regularly at St Olave's.

As one diarist wrote: " We must observe and protect everything with a critical eye, draw sketches of everything that occurs ..." so that they would be remembered.

On January 29, 1661, the diarist Samuel Pepys went to the Duke ’ s playhouse, where “ after great patience and little expectation, from so poor beginning, I saw three acts of ‘ The Mayd in ye Mill ’ acted to my great content .” It was Nokes who was playing the title female role of the Mayd.

Among the people who chose to stay were Samuel Pepys, the diarist, and Henry Foe, a saddler who lived in East London.

Venetians — who were opposed to the pope's new militaristic policy — were amongst the most vocal, most notably the diarist Girolamo Priuli, and the historian Marino Sanudo.

Among other younger members were Lytton ’ s niece the writer Julia Strachey, and the diarist Frances Partridge who had married into Lytton Strachey ’ s ménage in the 1930s.

" Despite their wealth, the Flashmans " were never the thing ": Flashman quotes the diarist Henry Greville's comment that " the coarse streak showed through, generation after generation, like dung beneath a rosebush.

The two communities grew together and flourished while the docks were the main administrative centre of the Royal Navy, and a few grand houses like Sayes Court, home to diarist John Evelyn, and Stone House on Lewisham Way were erected.

Accompanying Portola were a Franciscan Father from Father Junipero Serra's Franciscan order of Mexico, and Juan Crespí, the expedition's diarist.

Ghetto diarist Emmanuel Ringelblum speculated that Romanies were sent to the Warsaw Ghetto because the Germans wanted :... to toss into the Ghetto everything that is characteristically dirty, shabby, bizarre, of which one ought to be frightened, and which anyway has to be destroyed.

Indeed, the 17th century diarist Samuel Pepys noted how Welsh celebrations in London for St David's day would spark wider countercelebrations amongst their English neighbours: life-sized effigies of Welshmen were symbolically lynched, and by the 18th century the custom had arisen of confectioners producing ' Taffies ' – gingerbread figures baked in the shape of a Welshman riding a goat-on St David's Day.

Ritchie was a scion of prominent families — the Almons, Ritchies, and Stewarts were all major families in Nova Scotia — and his brother, Charles Ritchie was an important Canadian diplomat and diarist.

Through their mother they were great-great nephews of the diarist Samuel Pepys.

He was also a diarist, and his diaries were published in many volumes and were well received, in later years attracting a cult following.

Charles II sponsored the Royal Society, which courtiers were eager to join ( for example, the noted diarist Samuel Pepys was a member ), just as Royal Society members moved in court.