Henry V of England (1386-1422) Born: Monmouth Castle, Monmouth, Wales. Buried: Westminster Abbey, Westminster, London, England. Cradle, Museum of London, 150 London Wall, City, London, England. College: Queen's (Oxford)
Henry VI of England (1421-1471) Born: Windsor Castle, Windsor, Berkshire, England. Buried: Windsor Castle, Windsor, Berkshire, England.
Laurence Olivier (1907-1989) Born: 26 Wathen Road, Dorking, Surrey, England. Buried: Westminster Abbey, Westminster, London, England. Riad Laurence Olivier (Hotel), Marrakech, Morocco. College: Central School of Speech and Drama
Catherine of Valois (1401-1437) Born: Hotel Saint-Pol, St Paul Church, 4eme, Paris, France. Buried: Westminster Abbey, Westminster, London, England.
Henry VIII of England (1491-1547): Born: Old Royal Naval College, Greenwich, London, England. Buried: St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle, Windsor, Berkshire, England. Hampton Court Palace, Richmond-upon-Thames, London, England.
Margaret of Anjou (1430-1482) Born: Pont-a-Mousson, Lorraine, France. Buried: Angers Cathedral, Angers, Anjou, France.
Lady Grey (Elizabeth Woodville) (1437-1492) Born: Grafton Regis, Northamptonshire, England. Buried: St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle, Windsor, Berkshire, England.
James II of England (1633-1701) Born: St James's Palace, Westminster, London, England. Buried: Church of the English Benedictines, Rue St Jacques, 5eme, Paris, France.
Cecil Scott Forester (1899-1966) Beat to Quarters (1937), Ships of the Line (1938), Flying Colours (1939) Born: Cairo, Egypt. Buried: Loma Vista Memorial Park, Fullerton, Orange, California.
Arthur Joyce Cary (1888-1957) The Horse's Mouth (1944) Born: Bank Place, Derry (Londonderry), Northern Ireland. Buried: (?) College: Trinity (Oxford)
Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864) The Scarlet Letter (1850), The House of the Seven Gables (1851), The Marble Faun (1860) Born: Nathaniel Hawthorne Birthplace, 54 Turner Street, Salem, Essex, Massachusetts.(*****3-4-01*****) Buried: Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts.(*****7-20-97*****) House of the Seven Gables, 115 Derby Street, Salem, Essex, Massachusetts.(*****3-4-01*****) The Wayside, 455 Lexington Road, Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts (*****7-20-97*****). The Old Manse, 269 Monument Street, Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts. College: Bowdoin.
Samuel Butler (1612-1680) Hudibras (1663-78) Born: Strensham, Worcestershire, England. Buried: St Paul's, Covent Garden, London, England (*****6-21-99*****)
Tobias Smollett (1721-1771) Humphrey Clinker (1771) Born: Dalquhurn, Renton, Strathclyde, Scotland. Buried: Old English Cemetery, Livorno, Tuscany, Italy. Cameron House, Loch Lomond, Alexandria, Dunbartonshire, Scotland. College: Glasgow.
In my old literary tourism guides from the 1970s and 80s the Cameron House, which was home to the Smollett family for many generations, was apparently open for regular tours and contained a small museum dedicated to the writer in one of its rooms. It looks as if now it has been transformed into a five star luxury resort, however.
Pierre Loti (1850-1923) An Iceland Fisherman (1888) Born: La Maison Pierre Loti, 141 Rue Pierre Loti, Rochefort, Poitou, France. Buried: Saint Pierre d'Oleron, L'Ile d'Oleron, Poitou, France. Pierre Loti Hill, Istanbul, Turkey. Pierre Loti Tepesi (Café), Idris Koeskue Cad, Eyup, Istanbul, Turkey. Pierre Loti Hotel, Sultanahmet, Istanbul, Turkey. College: Brest Naval College.
Robert Graves (1895-1985) I, Claudius (1934) Born: 1 Lauriston Road, Wimbledon, London, England. Buried: Deia Cemetery, Deia, Mallorca, Islas Baleares, Spain. La Casa de Robert Graves, Carretera Deia a Soller, Deia, Mallorca, Islas Baleares, Spain. College: St John's (Oxford).
Claudius (10 B.C.-54) Born: Lyon, Rhone-Alpes, France. Buried: Mausoleum of Augustus, Campus Martius, Rome, Lazio, Italy. Claudius Therme, Sachsenbergstrasse 1, Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.
Livia (58 B.C.-29) Born: (Rome?) Buried: Mausoleum of Augustus, Campus Martius, Rome, Lazio, Italy. Painted Garden of the Villa of Livia, National Roman Museum, Palazzo, Massimo, largo di via Perretti 1, Rome, Lazio, Italy.
Tiberias (42 B.C.-37) Born: Rome, Lazio, Italy. Buried: Mausoleum of Augustus, Campus Martius, Rome, Lazio, Italy. Villa of Tiberius, Sperlonga, Lazio, Italy.
Lancelot
Guinevere Born: Old Oswestry Hill Fort, Oswestry, Shropshire, England. Buried: Glastonbury Abbey, Somerset, England.
Pelleas
Ettarre
A.S.M. Hutchinson (1879-1971) If Winter Comes (1921) Birthplace: India.
For whatever reason there is a real dearth of biographical information available about Hutchinson compared to just about every other author on this list. I can find nothing with regard to a gravesite or scattering of ashes, whether he attended a university or not, or any more precise birth location than "British India".
Homer (before 700 B.C.) The Iliad (c.800 B.C.) The Odyssey (c.800 B.C.) Born: Smyrna, Turkey. Buried: Tomb of Homer, Plakoto, Ios, South Aegean, Greece.
I am aware that there is no hard historical evidence that any particular poet named "Homer" ever lived, or that either of these places has a definite connection with anyone with a claim to be the author of the Homeric poems. I am not a scholar, however, and in the absence of any positive evidence of anything, I happily revert back to these traditional memes, which have their origins in antiquity itself. While numerous cities and islands have also staked claims to being the birthplace of the legendary poet, the Smyrna (Izmir) claim is the one I have seen the most and in the most affable sources, so it is the city I have settled on to honor the poet pending further evidence.
George Chapman (1559-1634) Born: 35 Tilehouse Street, Hitchin, Hertfordshire, England. Buried: St Giles in the Fields, Camden, London, England.
Nestor: Nestor's Palace, Chora, Peloponnese, Greece.
Machaon Born: Trikala, Thessaly, Greece. Buried: Gerenia, Messenia, Peloponnese, Greece.
Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891), Lady Windermere's Fan (1892), The Importance of Being Earnest (1895) Born: Oscar Wilde Centre, 21 Westland Row, Dublin Ireland. Buried: Cimitiere du Pere-Lachaise, 20eme, Paris, France. Oscar Wilde House, 1 Merrion Square, Dublin, Ireland. College: Trinity (Dublin); Magdalen (Oxford).
Halldor Kiljan Laxness (1902-1998) Independent People (1945) Born: Reykjavik, Iceland. Buried: Fossvogskirkjugardur, Reyjavik (Hofudborgarsvaedi), Iceland. Gljufrasteinn, Posthof 250, Mosfellsbaer, Iceland.
Liam O'Flaherty (1896-1984) The Informer (1925) Born: Gort na gCapall, Inis Mor, Galway, Ireland. Buried: Haven't found this yet. College: University (Dublin).
Victor McLaglen (1886-1959) Born: Stepney (Tower Hamlets), London, England. Buried: Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale, Los Angeles, California. Quiet Man Cottage Museum, Circular Road, Cong, Mayo, Ireland. Danagher's Restaurant, Cong, Mayo, Ireland.
Charles Sheldon (1857-1946) In His Steps (1896) Born: Wellsville, Allegany, New York. Buried: Mount Hope Cemetery, Topeka, Kansas. Charles Sheldon Museum, 1248 SW Buchanan Street, Topeka, Kansas. (maybe). College: Brown.
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