Jan Amos Komensky (1592 - 1670)

Philosopher. He was a theologian and cartographer, but most considered as the first modern educationalist. His book ‘Orbis Pictus’ was the the first picture book for teaching children and remained a standard text in Europe (and in America) for over 200 years. Born in Moravia, (now in the Czech Republic), he died in Amsterdam in […]

Shinzo Koizumi (1970 - 1970)

Economist. Also served a president of Keiogijuku University. (bio by: Warrick L. Barrett)

Tatsuo Kishimoto (1970 - 1970)

Educator. Served as the founder and president of Meiji University. (bio by: Warrick L. Barrett)

Samuel Kirkland (1741 - 1808)

Missionary, Educator. Educated as a lawyer at Princeton, he was ordained to the Congregational ministry and commissioned Indian missionary by the board of correspondence of the Missionary society in 1766. During the Revolution he was active in endeavoring to preserve the neutrality of the Indian Six Nations, made several long journeys among the tribes and […]

Kyosuke Kindaichi (1882 - 1971)

Linguist, literary scholar. (bio by: Warrick L. Barrett)

Dairoku Kikuchi (1855 - 1917)

Educator and mathematician. Also served as president of Tokyo University. (bio by: Warrick L. Barrett)

Amos Kendall (1789 - 1869)

Amos Kendall (August 16, 1789 – November 12, 1869) was an American lawyer, journalist and politician. He rose to prominence as editor-in-chief of the Argus of Western America, an influential newspaper in Frankfort, the capital of the U.S. state of Kentucky. He used his newspaper, writing skills, and extensive political contacts to build the Democratic […]

Hiroyuki Kato (1836 - 1916)

Political scientist, scholar. He is the subject of a book,”The Moral and Political Naturalism of Baron Kato Hiroyuki” (1996). (bio by: Warrick L. Barrett)

Vuk Stefanovic Karadzic (1787 - 1864)

Educator. A Serbian language and literature scientist, he was the founder of the Serbian modern grammar and language. His works were play a very important role in the development of all Slavic languages. (bio by: Frantisek Zboray) Cause of death: natural causes

Umaji Kaneko (1970 - 1970)

Literary scholar, philosopher. (bio by: Warrick L. Barrett)

George Junkin (1790 - 1868)

George Junkin was the son of Joseph Junkin, and the sixth of fourteen children born in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania. His early years were spent on his father’s farm where he prepared for college. He graduated from Jefferson College now Washington and Jefferson College in 1813. After studying theology privately, he entered the Theological Seminary of […]

Joshua Henry Jones (1856 - 1934)

President, Wilberforce University 1900-1908.

Ezra Milford Jones (1896 - 1932)

Gangster. A member of the “Cuckoo Gang,” Jones (real name Jonas) committed robberies and murders all over the Midwest during Prohibition. Jones worked with the Purple Gang of Detroit and was a close friend of Fred “Killer” Burke. He had a particular hatred for Italian criminals, as they comprised most of his victims. Milford Jones […]

Cyril Edwin Mitchinson “C.E.M.” Joad (1891 - 1953)

Author. He was a philosopher. author, teacher and one of the best-known British radio personalities of the 1940’s. He was born in Durham and was educated at Blundell’s School in Tiverton, Devonshire, and at Balliol College, Oxford. At University, he developed the pacifist and socialist views which led him to become a conscientious objector in […]

La Jana (1905 - 1940)

Dancer. A pretty brunette trained as a classical ballerina, she is remembered for her many appearances in German films and stage revues. Born Henriette Margarethe (“Henny”) Hiebel, she was raised in Frankfurt from a young age, and studied at the Frankfurt Opera Ballet where she made her initial professional stage appearances at around age eight. […]

Amadeo Jacques (1813 - 1865)

Professor and philosopher. Between 1863 and his death, he was Director of the Colegio Nacional de Buenos Aires. One of his pupils, Miguel Cané, years later remembered him in his book. (bio by: 380W)  Family links:  Children:  Francisca Jacques (1859 – 1948)* *Calculated relationship

Shuji Izawa (1851 - 1917)

Prominent educator. (bio by: Warrick L. Barrett)

B.K.S. Iyengar (1918 - 2014)

B.K.S. IYENGAR Yoga Master. Born Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja, he was noted as one of the world’s best-known yoga gurus. Referred to as “the father of modern yoga”, he founded the style of Iyengar Yoga which established him as an International teacher. In a 2002 article, the New York Times profiled “no one has done more […]

Yoshiharu Iwamoto (1863 - 1942)

Educator. Served as vice-president of the Meiji Girls’ School. (bio by: Warrick L. Barrett)

Keisuke Ito (1803 - 1901)

Scholar and physician. Interested in many subjects, Ito learned Confucianism and medicine from his father, a physician. He was also interested in botany. Ito published seventeen books, among them the well-known “Nippon Sanbutsushi” and “Nippon Shokubutsu Zusetsu Soubu.” He later examined methods of vaccination against smallpox and established a method of vaccination for use in […]

Jun Ishihara (1970 - 1970)

Scholar and ethicist. Ishihara was a well known professor of physics who taught at Tohoku University. One of his important theological teaches was that while people “sense the divine in wondrous natural providence,” things which cannot be understood through the natural sciences ought to be left unknown. He also suggested that it “defies good reason […]

Randai Inoue (1970 - 1970)

Scholar of Confucianism. (bio by: Warrick L. Barrett)

Robert Stewart Hyer (1860 - 1929)

Scientist, Educator. He earned a B.A. in physics from Emory in 1881 and immediately became a physics professor at Southwestern University in Georgetown, Texas and later president. Among his scientific achievements, in 1904 he designed the first wireless station in Texas, transmitting a message over a distance of one mile. He moved to Dallas to […]

Ralph Huchenson (1970 - 1606)

President of St. John’s College, Oxford, and one of the translators of the New Testament for the Authorized Version. (bio by: David Conway)

Robert Leslie Howland (1905 - 1986)

Master of St. John’s College, in his youth an Olympic athlete for Britain. (bio by: David Conway)

Heishu Hosoi (1728 - 1801)

Educator. He was one of the great scholars in Edo period. He opened a school in Edo (now Tokyo)and his teachings had a great influence on many people including Yoshida Shoin, an intellectual and hero of the Meiji Restoration, Takamori Saigo, a veteran statesman of the Meiji Restoration and upon whose life “The Last Samurai” […]

John Hope (1868 - 1936)

Kanetane Hirata (1797 - 1879)

Scholar of classical Japanese. (bio by: Warrick L. Barrett) Scholar of National Learning (kokugaku) of the late Edo and early Meiji eras. Born in 1799 in Niiya, Iyo Province (present-day Ehime Prefecture), Hirata’s original lineage name was Midorigawa. In 1824 he married Hirata Atsutane’s daughter Chie and subsequently became the great scholar’s adopted son. From […]

Friedrich August von Hayek (1899 - 1992)

Austrian economist. Born in Vienna. The son of August von Hayek, a Prussian doctor in the municipal health service. At his father’s suggestion, Friedrich, as a teenager, read the genetic and evolutionary works of Hugo de Vries and the philosophical works of Ludwig Feuerbach.  In school Friedrich was much taken by one instructor’s lectures on […]

Seiichi Hatano (1877 - 1950)

Philosopher. (bio by: Warrick L. Barrett)