The Anatomy of Melancholy

Jennifer Van Orman Yurges

Jennifer Van Orman Yurges

Ringling Circus clown Emmett Kelly was born December 9, 1898.

English actress Hermoine Gingold was born December 9, 1897.

Helene Smith, painted by Victor Brauner.  Smith was born December 9, 1861. She was a psychic medium who claimed to be the reincarnate of a Hindu princess and Marie Antoinette, as well as able to speak and write in Martian.

Singer Emma Abbott was born December 9, 1850.

Horminum tingitanum, an illustration by Rivinus, from Salvia tingitana.

German physicist and botanist Augustus Quirinus Rivinus was born December 9, 1652. 

Dutch astronomer Metius was born December 9, 1571.

Gilda Gray, born October 24, 1901.

Cyclist Octave Lapize, born October 24, 1887.

Artist and naturalist Marianne North, born October 24, 1830, photographed by Julia Margaret Cameron.

French opera singer Marie Fel, born October 24, 1713.