Antonio Aliberti (1938 - 2000)

Author. He wrote 18 poems books, among them are “Límites Posibles,” “Cuartos Contiguos,” “Delicado Equilibrio” and “Incierta Vocación.” He also wrote five essays books and several anthologies.  (bio by: 380W)

Jeanne-Claude (1935 - 2009)

Artist. She joined with her husband Christo to create numerous very large temporary (mostly) urban works of art. Born Jeanne-Claude Denat de Guillebon in North Africa (she and her husband each used only their first names), she lived a somewhat vagabond childhood due to her mother’s several marriages. After education in France and Switzerland, she […]

Wilfred Jackson (1906 - 1988)

Motion Picture Animator, Director. He was a key associate of Walt Disney for over 30 years. Wilfred Emmons Jackson was born in Chicago and raised in Los Angeles. Cartoons fascinated him from childhood. While studying at the Otis College of Art and Design in 1928, he approached Disney and offered to pay him “tuition” for […]

Horatio Alger, Jr (1832 - 1899)

Author. Raised in a strict Calvinist home he attempted to follow in his father’s footsteps of being a clergyman but heeded the call to write instead. A native of Revere, Massachusetts he graduated from Harvard Divinity School having studied under the famed poet, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. His attempt to join the Union army was thwarted […]

John Jay (1970 - 1970)

Builder and stonemason, erected the neo-gothic Chapel at Abney Park Cemetery (bio by: David Conway)

Francesco Algarotti (1712 - 1764)

Philosopher, Art Critic. Born into a privileged Venetian family, Algarotti studied in Rome, Bologna, Florence and Paris before settling in London in 1744 where he became a member of the Royal Society, officially known as The Royal Society of London for Improving Natural Knowledge. He studied and wrote on topics from classical literature and paintings, […]

Horst Janssen (1929 - 1995)

Painter, Honour citizen of Oldenburg.  Family links:  Spouse:  Beatrice R Walker (1922 – 2011)* *Calculated relationship

Vittorio Alfieri (1749 - 1803)

Italian poet.

Caroline Risque Janis (1883 - 1952)

Artist. Caroline was a well-known painter and sculptor, selling numerous paintings in New Orleans as well as St. Louis before her marriage. She later opened a studio in St. Louis and was the head of the Art Department for John Burroughs School for many years. She was one of “The Potters,” a group of eight […]

Shana Alexander (1925 - 2005)

Journalist, Author. She is best known for her debates with conservative journalist James J. Kilpatrick during the “Point-Counter Point” segments that ended every episode of the television news program “60 Minutes” in the 1970s.  Family links:  Children:  Kathy Alexander (1961 – 1987)* *Calculated relationship

Djura Jaksic (1832 - 1878)

Poet and painter. He studied fine arts in Vienna and Munich. He has been a teacher and professor in various towns in Serbia. He belongs to the most expressive representatives of Serbian romanticism. Passionate, of impetuous imagination, flamy emotions, rebellious and a freedom-lover, he has written, with romanticist pathos, songs about freedom, against tyranny, and […]

Margaret Abigail Walker Alexander (1915 - 1998)

Author. Using her maiden name, Margaret Walker, as her pen name, she published works in almost every genre, and is best known for “Jubilee”, her widely acclaimed novel based on her own family’s experiences in the years during and after slavery. Her poetry, including the prize-winning “For My People”, alos has gained acclaim. Growing up […]

Albert Jaegers (1868 - 1925)

Sculptor. Born in Elberfeld, Germany, he came to America and lived in Cincinnati, Ohio. At first he was an apprentice to his father, a wood carver. Later he worked in an architect’s office. He studied at the Cincinnati Art Academy. His most famoust sculpture is a monument to General von Steuben, located in Lafayette Park, […]

William Addison “Billy” Ireland (1880 - 1935)

Beloved cartoonist for Columbus, Ohio Dispatch for 37 years with humorous “Passing Show”. An accomplished political cartoonist.  Family links:  Spouse:  Florence Sayre Ireland (1881 – 1962)* *Calculated relationship

Lloyd Alexander (1924 - 2007)

Author. A writer of children’s fantasy fiction books, he is best known for the “Chronicles of Prydain” series and won the Newbery Medal for “The High King” in 1969.  Another of his novels, “The Black Cauldron”,  was made into a 1985 Walt Disney Studios animated motion picture. After serving in the United States Army during […]

George Percy Jacomb-Hood (1857 - 1929)

Artist. He was educated at the Slade Art school in London, England, where he won a scholarship and the Poynter Prize. He later studied in Paris, France under artist Jean-Pual Laurens. On returning to England he set up a studio in Fulham, London. He began exhibiting at the Royal Academy in 1878 and also showed […]

Joseph Grubb Alexander (1887 - 1932)

Motion Picture Screenwriter. A former civil engineer, he started his career as a vaudeville songwriter and later wrote plays. He began writing motion picture screenplays with Universal Studios in the mid-1910s and worked on a number of serials.  He later wrote for Fox Studios and signed a contract with Warner Brothers in 1928. In all, […]

Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (1780 - 1867)

Major French Neoclassicist painter of the 19th century. He was a hero of Degas’. He was a consummate draughtsman who worked most of his career in Rome. He was a master of the female nude and portraiture.

Arne Jacobsen (1902 - 1971)

Architect, Industrial designer. Professor of architecture at the Academy of Fine Arts from 1956 to 1965. Arne Jacobsen helped to introduce functionalism into Denmark in the 1930s. He gained international fame through his work in almost all areas of architecture generating a renewal both in housing, in public buildings such as town halls and schools, […]

Charles Alexander (1897 - 1962)

Author. He wrote such books as “The Fang in the Forest,” “Bobbie, a Great Collie,” the “Abel and Ailse” series and over 200 stories in “Collier’s Sunset” magazine. He won the O. Henry Memorial award with his story “As a Dog Should.” (bio by: Laurie)

Jessie Mary Jacob (1970 - 1970)

Stained-glass artist.

Sibilla Aleramo (1876 - 1960)

Author, Social Reformer. Born Rina Faccio in Alessandria, Piedmont, Italy, her first novel, “A Woman” was published in 1906 and republished in 1973. It gained wide acclaim for it’s autobiographical telling the story of her escape from a forced marriage to a man who had raped her and of her struggle to live independently as […]

Wilfred Jackson (1906 - 1988)

Motion Picture Animator, Director. He was a key associate of Walt Disney for over 30 years. Wilfred Emmons Jackson was born in Chicago and raised in Los Angeles. Cartoons fascinated him from childhood. While studying at the Otis College of Art and Design in 1928, he approached Disney and offered to pay him “tuition” for […]

Vicente Pío Marcelino Cirilo Aleixandre y Merlo (1898 - 1984)

Poet. He was awarded the the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1977. Among his books are “La Destrucción o el Amor,” “Poemas de la Consumación,” and “Diálogos del Conocimiento.”

Clementine Hunter (1970 - 1988)

African-American folk artist whose works depicted scenes of daily life on Melrose Plantation, where she lived for approximately 85 years.  Although there is some doubt about her actual date of birth, it is generally believed that she was at least 100 years old when she died in 1988.  She is buried next to her close […]

Sholem Aleichem (1859 - 1916)

Author. Born Sholem Naumovich Rabinovich in Voronko, Russia, he became to be considered one of the great Yiddish writers, being best known for his humorous tales of life among the poverty-ridden and oppressed Russian Jews of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. His works include five novels, many plays, and some 300 short stories. […]

Harry Jackson (1924 - 2011)

Artist. He was a renowned painter-sculptor, best known both as an abstract expressionist and a Western artist. He began his career in 1943, as the US Marine Corps’ youngest combat sketch artist serving with the Marine’s V Amphibious Corps general intelligence group during World War II. After his discharge, he went to New York City […]

Bess Streeter Aldrich (1881 - 1954)

Author, Novelist. Her writing career spanned over forth years, during which she published of around 200 short stories and articles, 13 novels, and two books of short stories. Born Geneva Streeter, she was the youngest of eight children. A writer since early childhood, she won a writing contest at age 14 and another at age […]

Richard Morris Hunt (1827 - 1895)

Distinguished architect, designer and influential taste-maker. One of five children of Jonathan Hunt, a prosperous lawyer and landowner, who served in Congress and in the House of Representatives in Washington. Richard was educated in the comfortable worlds of New Haven and Boston; receiving his architectural training at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris, being the […]

Wroe Alderson (1898 - 1965)

Author.  Considered by many to be a leading marketing executive ahead of his time, he authored the books “Marketing Behavior and Executive Action,” “Theory in Marketing,” and “Planning and Problem Solving in Marketing,” in which he theorized that mathematical models and quantitative techniques could be used to analyze consumer tastes and determine the best methods […]