* 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 )

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.

According to the historian J.

Another historian, H. J. Cowdrey, argued that the laudes were composed at Winchester.

* 1884 – J. C. Squire, British poet, writer, and historian ( d. 1958 )

Although he used the usual French terms " avant J .- C ." ( before Jesus Christ ) and " après J .- C ." ( after Jesus Christ ) to label years elsewhere in his book, the Byzantine historian Venance Grumel used negative years ( identified by a minus sign, −) to label BC years and unsigned positive years to label AD years in a table, possibly to save space, without a year 0 between them.

" English historian A. J. P.

In May 1948 Thomas and his family moved to his final home, the Boat House at Laugharne purchased for him at a cost of £ 2, 500 in April 1949 by Margaret Taylor, first wife of historian A. J. P. Taylor.

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 ".

This Wöhler Myth, as historian of science Peter J. Ramberg called it, originated from a popular history of chemistry published in 1931, which, " ignoring all pretense of historical accuracy, turned Wöhler into a crusader who made attempt after attempt to synthesize a natural product that would refute vitalism and lift the veil of ignorance, until ' one afternoon the miracle happened '".

Summarizing his account of Honorius ' reign, the historian J. B.

The historian Richard J. Evans translated the term as " forcible-coordination " in his most recent work on Nazi Germany.

The historian N. J. Higham offers another explanation for their attendance, arguing that Æthelberht sent the pair to the council because of shifts in Frankish policy towards the Kentish kingdom, which threatened Kentish independence, and that the two clergymen were sent to negotiate a compromise with Chlothar.

The historian J. M. Wallace-Hadrill assumes that both letters were general statements of encouragement to the missionaries.

* 1929 – J. F. Ade Ajayi, Nigerian historian

The historian N. J. Higham speculates that one reason for his attendance may have been to assert the English Church's independence from the Frankish Church.

The historian N. J. Higham connects the timing of this episode with a change in the " overkingship " from the Christian Kentish Æthelberht to the pagan East Anglian Raedwald, which Higham feels happened after Æthelberht's death.

As the historian A. J.

The intellectual historian A. J.

* The Decline of the West was an important influence on historian Arnold J. Toynbee's similarly themed work A Study of History.

Likewise, the 20th century historian Zoltan J. Kosztolnyik states that " it seems more than unlikely that Rome would have acted in fulfilling Stephen's request for a crown without the support and approval of the emperor.

British historian Richard J. Evans describes the difference in technique between historians and revisionists thus:

Another well-known theory, first proposed by the historian L. V. D. Owen in 1936 and more recently floated by J. C. Holt and others, is that the original Robin Hood might be identified with an outlawed Robert Hood, or Hod, or Hobbehod, all apparently the same man, referred to in nine successive Yorkshire Pipe Rolls between 1226 and 1234.

The literary historian E. J. W. Gibb observed that " at no time, even in Turkey, was greater encouragement given to poetry than during the reign of this Sultan ".

* 1878 – J. F. C. Fuller, English army officer and historian ( d. 1966 )