Matthew Arnold (1822-1888) Balder Dead (1855) Born: Laleham, Surrey, England. Buried: All Saints' Churchyard, Laleham, Surrey, England. College: Balliol (Oxford)
William Morris (1834-1896) Born: Fire Station, opposite site of Elm House, Walthamstow, London, England. Buried: St George's Churchyard, Kelmscott, Oxfordshire, England. William Morris Gallery, Lloyd Park, Forest Road, Walthamstow, London, England. Kelmscott Manor, Kelmscott, Oxfordshire, England. Red House, Red House Lane, Bexleyheath, London, England. Kelmscott House (William Morris Society), 26 Upper Mall, Hammersmith, London, England. College: Exeter (Oxford)
Felix Salten (1869-1945) Bambi (1929) Born: Budapest, Hungary. Buried: Israelitischen Friedhof, Zurich, Switzerland.
Walt Disney (1901-1966) Born: 2156 Tripp Avenue, Chicago, Illinois. Buried: Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale, Los Angeles, California. Walt Disney Family Museum, 104 Montgomery Street, San Francisco, California. Walt Disney World, Lake Buena Vista, Florida. Disneyland, 1313 South Disneyland Drive, Anaheim, Orange, California.
Par Lagerkvist (1891-1974) Barabbas (1950) Born: Vaxjo, Sweden. Buried: Lidingo Kyrkogard, Lidingo, Sweden. College: Uppsala
Barabbas: Jerusalem, Israel. Creation Museum, 2800 Bullittsburg Church Road, Petersburg, Kentucky. Painting, Brooklyn Museum, 200 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn, New York.
Jesus Christ (6 B.C.-27) Born: Bethlehem, Israel. Tombsite: Church of the Holy Sepulchre. Jerusalem, Israel. Baptism Site, Al-Maghtas, Jordan.
Pontius Pilate. Born: Bisenti, Abruzzo, Italy (tradition). Grave (tradition): Plan de l'Aiguille, Vienne, Rhone-Alpes, France. Pilate Stone, Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel. Scala Santa, Chapel of San Lorenzo, Rome, Italy (the steps Jesus climbed to meet Pilate).
Alan Blair. Translator. I can find no biographical information.
Pierre Caron de Beaumarchais (1732-1799) The Barber of Seville (1775) Born: Rue Saint-Denis, 1ere, Paris, France. Buried: Pere Lachaise Cemetery, 20eme, Paris, France. Hotel Caron de Beaumarchais, 12 Rue Vieille du Temple, 4eme, Paris, France. Seville, Andalusia, Spain.
Gioachino Rossini (1792-1868) Born: 34 Via Rossini, Pesaro, Marches, Italy. Buried: Basilica di Santa Croce, Florence, Italy. Original Tomb (now empty), Pere Lachaise Cemetery, 20eme, Paris, France. College: Conservatorio di Bologna.
Charles Dickens (1812-1870) Pickwick Papers (1837), Oliver Twist (1839), Barnaby Rudge (1841), A Christmas Carol (1843), Martin Chuzzlewit (1844), David Copperfield (1850), Bleak House (1852-3), A Tale of Two Cities (1859), Great Expectations (1861) Born: Charles Dickens Birthplace Museum, 1 Mile End Terrace, Portsmouth, Hampshire, England*****(6-30?-99)***** Buried: Westminster Abbey, Westminster, London, England*****(9-7-96)***** Charles Dickens Museum, 48 Doughty Street, Holborn, London, England*****(6-24-99)***** Dickens World The Grand Tour, Leviathan Way, Chatham Maritime, Kent, England.
Lord George Gordon (1751-1793) Born: Upper Grosvenor Street, Mayfair, London, England. Buried: St James Chapel Piccadilly (destroyed), public garden, Hampstead Road, Euston (?), London, England. Wedgewood Cameo, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York.
Anthony Trollope (1815-1882) The Warden (1855), Barchester Towers (1857) Born: 6 Keppel Street, Bloomsbury, London, England. Buried: Kensal Green Cemetery, Kensal Green, London, England. Trollope Collection, http://www.broxbourne.gov.uk/leisure_and_culture/museums%2C_galleries%2Cexhibitions/lowewood_museum.aspxLowewood Museum, High Street, Hoddesdon, Hertfordshire, England.
Percival Christopher Wren (1875-1941) Beau Geste (1924) Born: Deptford, South London, England. Buried: Holy Trinity Churchyard, Amberley, Gloucestershire, England. College: St Catherine's (Oxford)
Ronald Colman (1891-1958) Born: Richmond, Surrey, England. Buried: Santa Barbara Cemetery, Santa Barbara, California. Niles Essenay Silent Film Museum http://www.nilesfilmmuseum.org/index.htm, 37417 Niles Boulevard, Niles (Fremont), Alameda, California.
George Farquhar (1677-1707) The Beaux' Stratagem (1707) Born: Shipquay Street, Derry, Northern Ireland. Buried: St Martin's-in-the-Field Churchyard, Strand, London, England. College: Trinity (Dublin).
Gerhardt Hauptmann (1862-1946) Before Dawn (1889), The Weavers (1892), The Beaver Coat (1893) Born: Szczawno-Zdroj, Poland. Buried: Near church, Hiddensee, Mecklenberg-Vorpommem, Germany. College: Friedrich Schiller University of Jena. Gerhardt Hauptmann Museum, Gerhardt-Hauptmann Strasse 1, Erkner, Brandenburg, Germany. Museum Agnetendorf (Gerhardt Hauptmann House, Jelenia Gora-Jagniatkov, Poland. Carl und Gerhardt Hauptmann House, 11 Listopada Street #23, Szklarska Poreba, Poland. Gerhart Hauptmann House, Hiddensee, Mecklenberg-Vorpommem, Germany.
Ludwig Lewisohn (1882-1955) Born: Berlin, Germany. Buried: Brookline, Norfolk, Massachusetts. College: College of Charleston.
John Gay (1685-1732) The Beggar's Opera (1728) Born: 35 High Street (plaque on Joy St side), Barnstaple, Devonshire, England. Buried: Westminster Abbey, Westminster, London, England.
Kurt Weill (1900-1950) Born: Dessau, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. Buried: Mount Repose Cemetery, Haverstraw, Rockland, New York. College: Berlin University of the Arts. Kurt Weill Zentrum, Dessau, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany.
John Hersey (1914-1993) A Bell For Adano (1944) Born: Tianjin, China. Buried: Martha's Vineyard, Dukes, Massachusetts. College: Yale. Bell Tower, Licata, Sicily, Italy.
George Patton (1885-1945) Born: San Gabriel, Los Angeles, California (on family ranch). Buried: American Cemetery and Memorial, Luxembourg City, Luxembourg. College: Army. General George Patton Museum of Leadership, 4554 Fayette Avenue, Fort Knox, Kentucky. General Patton Memorial Museum, 62-510 Chiriaco Road, Chiriaco Summit, Riverside, California. George Patton Memorial Museum, Pobrezni 10, Plzen, Czech Republic. General Patton Memorial Museum, Ettelbruck, Luxembourg.
Lew Wallace (1827-1905) Ben Hur (1880) Born: Brookville, Indiana. Buried: Oak Hill Cemetery, Crawfordsville, Indiana. General Lew Wallace Study and Museum (www.ben-hur.com/), 200 Wallace Avenue, Crawfordsville, Indiana. Circus Maximus, Rome, Italy.
Chester Alan Arthur (1830-1886) Born: Fairfield, Vermont (http://historicsites.vermont.gov/directory/arthur) Buried: Albany Rural Cemetery, Menands, Albany, New York. College: Union
Alessandro Manzoni (1785-1873) The Betrothed (1827) Born: Via Visconti di Modrone 16, Milan, Lombardy, Italy. Buried: Cimitero Monumentale, Milan, Lombardy, Italy. Casa del Manzoni (http://www.casadelmanzoni.mi.it/) Via Morone 1, Milan, Lombardy, Italy.
A.B. Guthrie, Jr. (1901-1991) The Big Sky (1947) Born: Bedford, Indiana. Buried: Mt Lebanon Cemetery, Glendale, Queens, New York. College: Harvard.
Aristophanes (448-385 B.C.) Lysistrata (411 B.C.), The Frogs (405 B.C.), The Birds (Date unknown?) Born/Buried: Athens, Attica, Greece.
Anna Sewell (1820-1878) Black Beauty (1877) Born: 26 Whitehorse Plain, Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, England. Buried: Quaker Burial Ground, Lamas, Norfolk, England.
Anna Sewell's birthplace was a museum for many decades, but is now a tea room. This appears to have happened some time within the past six years.
Gertrude Atherton (1857-1948) Black Oxen (1923) Born: Rincon Hill, San Francisco, California (plaque north Lafayette Park, at Octavia & Washington). Buried: Cypress Lawn Memorial Park, Colma, San Mateo, California.
Robert Browning (1812-1889) A Blot in the 'Scutcheon (1843) Born: Southhampton Street, Camberwell, England *****(6-28?-01)***** Buried: Westminster Abbey, Westminster, London, England. College: University College (London). Armstrong Browning Library (http://www.browninglibrary.org/), 710 Speight Avenue, Waco, Texas.
Maurice Maeterlinck (1862-1949) The Blue Bird (1907) Born: Ghent, Belgium. Buried: Stele of platform near Palais Maeterlinck, 8 Boulevard Maurice Maeterlinck, Nice, Provence-Alpes-Cote-d'Azur, France. College: U. of Ghent.
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