January
2 Jan 1893 — John Obadiah Westwood died at age of 87.
3 Jan 1900 — The eminent lepidopterist Prof. Zdravko Lorkovic was born in Zagreb, Croatia.
7 Jan 1745 — The date of birth of Johann Christian Fabricius.
8 Jan 1823 — The English naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace was born at Usk, Gwent.
9 Jan 1929 — Jacques L. Reverdin died at age of 86.
15 Jan 1853 — The date of birth of Aurivillius, Per Olof Christopher.
21 Jan 1995 — Charles Bridges died in Urbana, Illinois, USA.
30 Jan 1883 — John Adams Comstock was born in Evanston, Illinois.
February
1 Feb 1927 — Rudolf Püngeler died in Aachen.
5 Feb 1860 — The date of birth of the famous explorer
Grigorii E. Grumm-Grshimailo.
6 Feb 1799 — The date of birth of Imre von Frivaldszky.
8 Feb 1868 — Lord Rothschild was born in London, England.
11 Feb 1900 — Charles Èmile Blanchard died at the age of 80.
15 Feb 1857 — The date of birth of Rudolf Püngeler.
19 Feb 1935 — Adolf Binder died in Vienna, Austria.
20 Feb 1992 — William Dewitt Field died.
24 Feb 1860 — The German Adalbert Seitz was born at Mainz.
March
3 Mar 1896 — The date of birth of Aleksej I. Kurentzov, the famous explorer of the Far East.
4 Mar 1959 — Roger Verity died in Florence at age of 75.
6 Mar 2001 — Ebbe Schmidt Nielsen died in Santa Barbara, California.
7 Mar 1866 —
Hans Fruhstorfer was born in Passau, Germany.
10 Mar 1932 — James J. Joicey died.
18 Mar 2002 — Ernest M. Shull died.
28 Mar 1932 — Richard South died at age of 86.
29 Mar 1934 — Otto Bubacek died at age of 61.
31 Mar 1938 — Edward Meyrick died at age of 83.
April
9 Apr 1922 —
Hans Fruhstorfer died in München at age of 56.
11 Apr 2003 — Lt. Col. John N. Eliot, the famous specialist on the Oriental fauna, died.
21 Apr 1939 — Margaret Fountaine died in Trinidad.
22 Apr 1899 — The famous novelist and lepidopterist Vladimir Nabokov was born in St. Petersburg.
May
3 May 1921 —
Henry Rowland-Brown died at age of 55.
6 May 1966 — Nikolaus S. Obraztsov died in New York.
7 May 1819 — The date of birth of Charles Èmile Blanchard.
9 May 1836 — HMS Beagle with Charles Darwin departs Port Louis, Mauritius.
13 May 1707 — Carl Linnaeus was born at Råshult in the parish of Stenbrohult in Småland, Sweden.
16 May 1862 — The date of birth of Margaret Fountaine.
19 May 1940 — The Austrian lepidopterist Hans Rebel died at the age of 78.
28 May 1925 — Arthur Gardiner Butler died at age of 80.
30 May 1993 — F. Martin Brown died in Colorado Springs, USA.
June
1 Jun 1924 —
Charles Oberthür died in Rennes.
2 Jun 1742 — The date of birth of Eugen Johann Christoph Esper.
16 Jun 1949 — The date of publication of W. H. Evans’s ‘A Catalogue of the Hesperiidae.’
17 Jun 1799 — The date of birth of Jean B. A. d’Echauffour Boisduval.
27 Jun 1844 — The date of birth of Arthur Gardiner Butler.
29 Jun 1920 — The famous pieridologist Eduard J. Reissinger was born in Kempten, Germany.
July
2 Jul 1977 — The famous novelist and lepidopterist Vladimir Nabokov died in Montreux, Switzerland.
8 Jul 1836 — HMS Beagle with Charles Darwin reaches Saint-Helena.
16 Jul 1991 — The German pieridologist Eduard J. Reissinger died at the age of 71.
19 Jul 1846 — The date of birth of Richard South.
27 Jul 1810 — The famous Eugen Johann Christoph Esper died at the age of 68.
August
1 Aug 2002 — The Russian lepidopterist
Yuri P. Korshunov died in Novosibirsk.
5 Aug 1936 — Leopold Müller died in Linz at age of 67.
21 Aug 1958 — Henry A. Leeds died.
22 Aug 1969 — Leo Sheljuzhko died in München at age of 78.
25 Aug 1967 — The date of publication of H. Stempffer’s ‘The genera of the African Lycaenidae.’
27 Aug 1937 — Lord Rothschild died at age of 69.
28 Aug 1842 — Jacques L. Reverdin was born in Genf.
29 Aug 1836 — The date of birth of Colonel Charles Swinhoe.
September
2 Sep 1861 — Hans Rebel, one of the leading European lepidopterists, was born.
8 Sep 1811 — Peter Simon Pallas died at the age of 69.
12 Sep 1876 — Adolf Binder was born in Vienna, Austria.
13 Sep 1923 — Albert Schwartz, the author of ‘The Butterflies of Hispaniola,’ was born in Cincinnati, Ohio.
14 Sep 1890 — Leo Sheljuzhko was born in Kiev, Ukraine.
19 Sep 1814 — Cajetan Freihher von Felder was born in Vienna, Austria.
20 Sep 1962 — Georg Warnecke died at age of 79.
22 Sep 1933 — The Russian lepidopterist
Yuri P. Korshunov was born in Chernorechka Village, Novosibirsk Region.
23 Sep 1938 — Emilio Turati died at age of 79.
27 Sep 1976 — The famous Zygaenidae specialist Prof. Hans Burgeff died at age of 93.
30 Sep 1905 — The publication date of the first installment of Verity’s Rhopalocera palaearctica.
October
2 Oct 1802 — Edouard Ménétriés was born in Paris, France.
3 Oct 1880 — Edward A. Cockayne was born in Sheffield.
9 Oct 1985 — Lionel George Higgins died at the age of 95.
18 Oct 1992 — Albert Schwartz died at age of 69.
30 Oct 1922 — Mary De la Beche Nicholl died at the age of 83.
November
1 Nov 1915 — A medallion bearing the name of Alfred Russel Wallace was placed in the Westminster Abbey.
2 Nov 1925 — The German specialist on Zygaenidae Günter Reiss was born in Stuttgart.
4 Nov 2002 — Douglas C. Ferguson died.
6 Nov 1958 — Attilio Fiori died in Bologna.
7 Nov 1913 — The English naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace died in Broadstone.
10 Nov 1862 — The date of birth of Wilhelm Niepelt.
11 Nov 1998 — The famous pieridologist Prof. Zdravko Lorkovic died in Zagreb, Croatia at the age of 99.
13 Nov 1956 — Brigadier W. H. Evans died.
21 Nov 2000 — Sir Cyril Clarke died in Cheshire, England at the age of 93.
24 Nov 1854 — The date of birth of Edward Meyrick.
26 Nov 1922 —
Henry J. Elwes died at Colesborne, Gloucestershire.
28 Nov 1873 — The date of birth of Fritz Wagner.
29 Nov 1762 — The date of birth of Pierre André Latreille.
30 Nov 1894 — The famous Cajetan Freihher von Felder died at age of 80.
December
2 Dec 1923 — Colonel Charles Swinhoe died at age of 87.
3 Dec 1760 — Moritz Balthazar Borkhausen was born in Giessen.
17 Dec 1985 — Miguel Rafael Gómez-Bustillo died in Madrid at the age of 65.
22 Dec 1805 — John Obadiah Westwood was born in Sheffield, England.
26 Dec 1970 — John Adams Comstock died at age of 87.
30 Dec 1879 — Jean B. A. d’Echauffour Boisduval died at age of 80.
