纪念页

T

Tycho Brahe

1546–1601

Measured the sky more precisely than anyone before the telescope

Church of Our Lady before Týn, Old Town Square, Prague

N

Nicolaus Copernicus

1473–1543

Moved the Earth; his grave was found by matching a skull to two hairs in a book

Frombork Cathedral, Warmia, Poland

A

Aimé Césaire

1913–2008

Coined négritude, and was mayor of Fort-de-France for fifty-six years

Cimetière La Joyau, Fort-de-France, Martinique

S

Sophie Germain

1776–1831

Studied under a man's name; her death certificate called her a property holder, not a mathematician

Père-Lachaise Cemetery, Paris

O

Olympe de Gouges

1748–1793

Wrote that woman has the right to mount the scaffold, and was proved right

Guillotined on the Place de la Révolution, now Place de la Concorde, Paris — no grave

J

Jean Jaurès

1859–1914

Shot through a café window three days before the war he had spent years trying to prevent

Panthéon, Paris

I

Ida Lewis

1842–1911

Lighthouse keeper credited with saving at least eighteen lives from the water

Common Burying Ground, Newport, Rhode Island

D

Dorothea Dix

1802–1887

Counted the mad kept in cages and cellars, and made legislatures read the list

Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Massachusetts

R

Robert Smalls

1839–1915

Stole a Confederate warship out of Charleston harbour and sailed his family to freedom

Tabernacle Baptist Church, Beaufort, South Carolina

C

Chief Joseph (Hinmatóowyalahtq'it)

1840–1904

Led his people 1,900 km toward Canada and was stopped 60 km short

Nez Perce Cemetery, Nespelem, Colville Reservation, Washington

J

Jane Addams

1860–1935

Built Hull House, invented American social work, and was called dangerous for opposing a war

Cedarville Cemetery, Cedarville, Illinois

E

Emma Lazarus

1849–1887

Wrote the words on the Statue of Liberty; they were added after her death

Beth Olom Cemetery, Cypress Hills, Brooklyn, New York

J

José Martí

1853–1895

Sentenced to hard labour at sixteen; killed in his first battle at forty-two

Santa Ifigenia Cemetery, Santiago de Cuba

C

Cora Coralina

1889–1985

Published her first book at seventy-five, after a life as a baker

Cemitério Municipal, Goiás, Goiás state

L

Leona Vicario

1789–1842

Financed the independence war and was the first woman honoured by the Mexican state

Rotonda de las Personas Ilustres, Panteón Civil de Dolores, Mexico City

R

Ramón López Velarde

1888–1921

Wrote the poem Mexicans learn by heart, then died at thirty-three

Rotonda de las Personas Ilustres, Panteón Civil de Dolores, Mexico City

L

Lise Meitner

1878–1968

Explained nuclear fission and refused to work on the bomb

St James's Churchyard, Bramley, Hampshire

O

Otto Hahn

1879–1968

Split the atom with Lise Meitner, and took the Nobel Prize alone

Stadtfriedhof, Göttingen, Lower Saxony

W

William Blake

1757–1827

Poet and engraver dismissed as mad; his grave was lost for 190 years

Bunhill Fields, London

E

Elizabeth Garrett Anderson

1836–1917

Britain's first woman doctor, admitted through a loophole that was closed behind her

Churchyard of St Peter and St Paul, Aldeburgh, Suffolk

M

Michael Faraday

1791–1867

A bookbinder's apprentice who found the link between electricity and motion

Highgate Cemetery, London — the Sandemanian plot on the west side

M

Mary Seacole

1805–1881

Refused as a nurse, she paid her own way to the Crimea and went anyway

St Mary's Catholic Cemetery, Kensal Green, London

S

Stonewall Uprising, 1969

1969

A routine police raid that the customers refused to accept

Stonewall Inn, Christopher Street, Greenwich Village, New York

S

Sinking of the Lusitania, 1915

1915

Eighteen minutes from torpedo to seabed; 1,198 died within sight of Ireland

Old Church Cemetery, Cobh, County Cork — mass graves of the victims