* 1904 – William L. Shirer, American historian ( d. 1993 )

The historian William Hepworth Dixon referred to the Code Napoleon as " the sole embodiment of Bacon's thought ", saying that Bacon's legal work " has had more success abroad than it has found at home ", and that in France " it has blossomed and come into fruit ".

Film historian and author William S. Pechter described Capra's style as one " of almost classical purity.

After her death in July 1852 he married secondly Norah Creina Blanche, daughter of Sir William Napier, the historian of the Peninsular War, whose biography he edited.

In the book The Wild Frontier: Atrocities during the American-Indian War from Jamestown Colony to Wounded Knee, amateur historian William M. Osborn sought to tally every recorded atrocity in the area that would eventually become the continental United States, from first contact ( 1511 ) to the closing of the frontier ( 1890 ), and determined that 7, 193 people died from atrocities perpetrated by whites, and 9, 156 people died from atrocities perpetrated by Native Americans.

Stephen Pearl AndrewsFor American anarchist historian Eunice Minette Schuster " It is apparent ... that Proudhonian Anarchism was to be found in the United States at least as early as 1848 and that it was not conscious of its affinity to the Individualist Anarchism of Josiah Warren and Stephen Pearl Andrews ... William B. Greene presented this Proudhonian Mutualism in its purest and most systematic form .".

For American anarchist historian Eunice Minette Schuster " It is apparent ... that Proudhonian Anarchism was to be found in the United States at least as early as 1848 and that it was not conscious of its affinity to the Individualist Anarchism of Josiah Warren and Stephen Pearl Andrews ... William B. Greene presented this Proudhonian Mutualism in its purest and most systematic form .".

* 2000 – William Roscoe Estep, American historian ( b. 1920 )

The historian William J. Cooper has stated that Davis believed in southern social order that included " a democratic white polity based firmly on dominance of a controlled and excluded black caste.

Writing in 1872, church historian William Stephens said “ The Patriarch of the Eastern Rome appeals to the great bishops of the West, as the champions of an ecclesiastical discipline which he confesses himself unable to enforce, or to see any prospect of establishing.

In contrast to Vincent, historian William Chester Jordan concludes that the pair were a " companionable couple " who had a successful marriage by the standards of the day.

According to historian William Manchester, his great grandson Alfried Krupp would interpret these outbursts as a prophecy fulfilled by the coming of Hitler.

For American anarchist historian Eunice Minette Schuster " It is apparent ... that Proudhonian Anarchism was to be found in the United States at least as early as 1848 and that it was not conscious of its affinity to the Individualist Anarchism of Josiah Warren and Stephen Pearl Andrews ... William B. Greene presented this Proudhonian Mutualism in its purest and most systematic form .".

Based on his accurate description of towns, cities and islands, as well as correctly naming various official titles, archaeologist Sir William Ramsay wrote that " Luke is a historian of the first rank ; not merely are his statements of fact trustworthy ... should be placed along with the very greatest of historians.

* 1837 – William Dean Howells, American writer, historian and politician ( d. 1920 )

* 1551 – William Camden, English historian ( d. 1623 )

* 1897 – William Seymour Tyler, American educator and historian ( b. 1810 ).

* 1917 – William Hardy McNeill, Canadian-born historian

According to television historian William Boddy, " Paramount's checkered anti-trust history " helped convince the FCC that Paramount controlled DuMont.

The term " Physicist " was coined by English philosopher, priest, and historian of science William Whewell in 1840, to denote a cultivator of physics.

English philosopher and historian of science William Whewell coined the term scientist in 1833, and it was first published in Whewell's anonymous 1834 review of Mary Somerville's On the Connexion of the Physical Sciences published in the Quarterly Review.

* 1810 – William Seymour Tyler, American educator and historian ( d. 1897 )

* William Francis Ganong-botanist, historian, cartographer

Newfoundland marine insurance agent and historian William A. Munn ( 1864 – 1939 ), after studying literary sources in Europe, suggested in his 1914 book " Wineland Voyages: Location of Helluland, Markland & Vinland " that the Vinland explorers " went ashore at Lancey Meadows, as it is called today ".

The historian Eleanor Searle speculates that William was raised with the three cousins who later became important in his career – William fitzOsbern, Roger de Beaumont, and Roger of Montgomery.

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

In the words of historian Henry Steele Commager, " In a Franklin could be merged the virtues of Puritanism without its defects, the illumination of the Enlightenment without its heat.

According to chemistry historian Henry Leicester, the influential 1923 textbook Thermodynamics and the Free Energy of Chemical Reactions by Gilbert N. Lewis and Merle Randall led to the replacement of the term " affinity " by the term " free energy " in much of the English-speaking world.

Some, like theologian and ecclesiastical historian John Henry Newman, understand Eusebius ' statement that he had heard Dorotheus of Tyre " expound the Scriptures wisely in the Church " to indicate that Eusebius was Dorotheus ' pupil while the priest was resident in Antioch ; others, like the scholar D. S. Wallace-Hadrill, deem the phrase too ambiguous to support the contention.

* 1838 – Henry Adams, American historian and novelist ( d. 1918 )

Henry Chadwick ( October 5, 1824 – April 20, 1908 ), often called the " father of baseball ," was a sportswriter, baseball statistician and historian.

* John Henry Brown ( 1820 – 1895 ), Texas politician, historian, chaired Texas articles of Secession

Hay was a close friend of Henry Brooks Adams, American historian and author.

That the Louisiana Purchase was illegal was described pointedly by the historian Henry Adams, who wrote: " The sale of Louisiana to the United States was trebly invalid ; if it were French property, Bonaparte could not constitutionally alienate it without the consent of the Chambers ; if it were Spanish property, he could not alienate it at all ; if Spain had a right of reclamation, his sale was worthless.

* 1918 – Henry Adams, American historian ( b. 1838 )

* 1902 – Henry Steele Commager, American historian ( d. 1998 )

In 1874, German literary historian Karl Elze dated both The Tempest and Henry VIII — traditionally labeled as Shakespeare's last plays — to the years 1603 – 04.

Polydore Vergil, Henry Tudor's official historian, would later record that " King Richard, alone, was killed fighting manfully in the thickest press of his enemies ".

" The historian Jasper Ridley, author of several biographies including one on Henry VIII and another on Mary Tudor, goes much further in his dual biography of More and Cardinal Wolsey, The Statesman and the Fanatic, describing More as " a particularly nasty sadomasochistic pervert ," a line of thinking followed by the late Joanna Denny in her 2004 biography of Anne Boleyn.

His friend, historian Henry Adams, proclaimed, " Roosevelt, more than any other living man .... showed the singular primitive quality that belongs to ultimate matterthe quality that mediaeval theology assigned to Godhe was pure act.

Although the historian Gilbert Burnet claimed that Henry called her a Flanders Mare, there is no evidence that he said this ; in truth, court ambassadors negotiating the marriage praised her beauty.

According to historian and Herald for Wales, Major Francis Jones, 1908 – 1993, the introduction of the recipe can be attributed to Captain Henry Lewis Edwardes 1788 – 1866.

" However, the abuse went both ways, as historian William Manchester noted: " above all, he should never have been subjected to the accusation of Henry Wallace, FDR's new vice-presidential candidate, that Willkie was the Nazis ' choice.

One of the first people to do so was the English historian Henry Bourne, who, writing in the 1720s, described the practice occurring in the Tyne valley.

** Henry Adams, American historian ( b. 1838 )

* January 21 – Henry Hallam, English historian ( b. 1777 )

* February 16 – Henry Brooks Adams, American historian ( d. 1918 )

* October 5 – Henry Chadwick, baseball writer and historian ( d. 1908 )

* July 9 – Henry Hallam, English historian ( d. 1859 )

* 1257 – Matthew Paris, English historian, personally interviews King Henry III of England for a week straight while compiling his major work of English history, Chronica Majora.