* 1773 – James Mill, Scottish philosopher and historian ( d. 1836 )

* 1865 – James Henry Breasted, American archaeologist and historian ( d. 1935 )

The contemporary historian James W. Loewen agrees with the oral traditions in his book, Lies Across America: What Our Historic Markers and Monuments Get Wrong ( 1999 ), but there is not a consensus within the professional academic community.

Other names connected to the city include Max Born, physicist and Nobel laureate ; Charles Darwin, the biologist who discovered natural selection ; David Hume, a philosopher, economist and historian ; James Hutton, regarded as the " Father of Geology "; John Napier inventor of logarithms ; chemist and one of the founders of thermodynamics Joseph Black ; pioneering medical researchers Joseph Lister and James Young Simpson ; chemist and discoverer of the element nitrogen, Daniel Rutherford ; mathematician and developer of the Maclaurin series, Colin Maclaurin and Ian Wilmut, the geneticist involved in the cloning of Dolly the sheep just outside Edinburgh.

In historian J. E. Neale's view, Elizabeth may not have declared her wishes openly to James, but she made them known with " unmistakable if veiled phrases ".

* 1942 – James Loewen, American sociologist and historian

The historian James Partington further thinks it likely that Greek fire was not in fact the creation of any single person, but " invented by chemists in Constantinople who had inherited the discoveries of the Alexandrian chemical school ".

Pulitzer Prize winning historian James McPherson, writing for the American Historical Association, described the importance of revisionism:

Political historian James Jupp says that, in domestic policy, Holt identified with the reformist wing of Victorian Liberalism.

It may have been just chance, but historian James Campbell has suggested that Chlothar summoned clergy from Britain to attend in an attempt to assert overlordship over Kent.

Book first, together with some account of the life and acts of the Author, of his ancestors, and of his descendants, illustrated by a selection of characteristic anecdotes, as collected by their historian, Mevlānā Shemsu'd-dīn Ahmed el-Eflākī el -' Arifī, translated and the poetry versified by James W. Redhouse, London: 1881.

The historian James Loewen is among those who assert that the United States purchased only France's claim to the Louisiana Territory, as the land belonged to the tribes who inhabited the area.

Baseball historian Bill James described Martínez as being exponentially more effective than his pitching peers due to his variety of pitches, pitch speeds, pinpoint control, and numerous modes of deception.

Irish historian James Emerson Tennent theorised Galle, a southern city in Sri Lanka, was the ancient seaport of Tarshish, from which King Solomon is said to have drawn ivory, peacocks and other valuables.

James Gunn described Gold's focus as being " not on the adventurer, the inventor, the engineer, or the scientist, but on the average citizen ," and according to SF historian David Kyle, Gold's work was to lead inevitably to the New Wave.

Regarding Gilliam's theme of modernity's struggle between spirituality and rationality whereas the individual may become dominated by a tyrannical, soulless machinery of disenchanted society, film critic Keith James Hamel observed a specific affinity of Gilliam's movies with the writings of economic historian Arnold Toynbee and sociologist Max Weber, specifically the latter's concept of the Iron cage of modern rationality.

Chief Justice Morrison Waite, who consulted the historian George Bancroft, also discussed at some length the Memorial and Remonstrance against Religious Assessments by James Madison, who drafted the First Amendment ; Madison used the metaphor of a " great barrier.

* Dr James Belich, New Zealand historian

** James Chace, American historian ( d. 2004 )

* January 11 – James Milton Carroll, Baptist pastor, historian, and author ( b. 1852 )

* August 5 – James Anderson, Scottish historian ( d. 1728 )

* April 3 – James Anderson, Scottish historian ( b. 1662 )

* October 20 – James Anthony Froude, English historian ( b. 1818 )

** James Bryce, 1st Viscount Bryce, Irish-born politician, diplomat and historian ( b. 1838 )

However, historian Lady Antonia Fraser asserts that Queen Mary was already on her way to visit Bothwell on matters of state before she heard about his illness, and that therefore this visit is not evidence they were already lovers at the time of his accident.

This charge had previously been made by historian Ronald Fraser in his Blood of Spain: An Oral History of the Spanish Civil War, who commented that direct force was not necessary in the context of an otherwise coercive war climate.

Commentators have stated that, " more than just a pretty face ", Antonia Fraser is an accomplished historian and " an intellectual ".

In 1975 Pinter began a serious affair with the historian Lady Antonia Fraser, the wife of Sir Hugh Fraser, which he confessed to his wife that March.

The author and historian Antonia Fraser describes Catesby's mentality as " that of the crusader who does not hesitate to employ the sword in the cause of values which he considers are spiritual ".

Norden's first partner was the journalist Nancy Spain ; after her death in 1964 she was succeeded by journalist Anne Scott-James, and then in 1979 by writer and historian Antonia Fraser.

According to historian Alexander Begg, Fraser " was offered a knighthood but declined the title due to his limited wealth "

Despite this rigorous approach, the panel ’ s first choice of historian Manning Clark did not please conservative politicians, as Clark had been critical of the Fraser Government ’ s social policy.

According to historian Derek Fraser, the fear of social disorder following the plague ultimately resulted in the state, and not a " personal Christian charity ", becoming responsible for the support of the poor.

" She wished also to avoid family ties, and her decision to live in France after 1903 may have been the result of her desire to escape the overpowering personality of her famous brother, although, according to art historian David Fraser Jenkins, " there were few occasions when she did anything against her will, and she was the more ruthless and dominating of the two.

* Bruce Hutchison -- editor / writer and historian, publisher and editor for many years of the Vancouver Sun, author of several books on BC history and geography, notably The Fraser, concerning that river

His son was Patrick Fraser Tytler, traveller and historian.

* James E. Fraser ( historian ) ( fl.

Her innocence has been generally assumed, but the historian Patrick Fraser Tytler considered her guilty.

Patrick Fraser Tytler ( 30 August 1791 – 14 December 1849 ) was a Scottish historian.

In her book The Warrior Queens: Boadicea's Chariot, British historian Antonia Fraser presents Caterina Sforza as a contrasting figure to her contemporary Isabella I of Castile.

* William Fraser ( historian ) ( 1816 – 1898 ), Professor of Scottish History

Her designs were also worn by public figures such as the author and historian Lady Antonia Fraser and the publisher Carmen Callil.

In 1823 he married a daughter of Alexander Fraser Tytler, Lord Woodhouselee, a sister of the historian Patrick Fraser Tytler.