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Haywood, William Dudley (Big Bill; orig. William Richard Haywood)
US Communist and labor leader co-founded Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) 1905 with John Reed, one of two Americans...
[ 36% ] Last updated: Tue 25th Jul 06
Peet, William Bartlett Sr. (Bill; orig. William Bartlett Peed)
US author, illustrator, and screenwriter developed storyboards for many early Disney animated movies wrote screenplays...
[ 36% ] Last updated: Tue 25th Jul 06
Brenton, William (William)
1610 - Brenton was born in Hammersmith, England. - The Brenton family was prominent in England. 1633-1637 - William...
[ 35% ] Last updated: Mon 27th Aug 07
Brodie, William (William)
1741 - William Brodie was born. - Brodie was a respectable businessman, member of the burgh council and deacon (or presi...
[ 35% ] Last updated: Tue 28th Aug 07
Bouck, William (William)
1786 - Bouck was born and later died in Schoharie County, New York on the 7th of January. 1843 - He Became governor of...
[ 35% ] Last updated: Tue 21st Aug 07
Berczy, William (William)
1744 - Born on the 10th of December in Swabia, Germany. - He studied at the Akademie der bildenden Künste in Vienna and...
[ 35% ] Last updated: Fri 03rd Aug 07
Howard William Cohen (Howard William Cosell)
1925 - Born in Howard William Cohen on the 25th of March. 1941 - Cosell was admitted to the New York state bar. 1944 -...
[ 34% ] Last updated: Fri 02nd Feb 07
Faulkner, William Cuthbert (William Cuthbert Falkner)
1897 - Born on September 25th in New Albany, Mississippi. An American Nobel Prize-winning novelist and short story writer...
[ 34% ] Last updated: Fri 29th Dec 06
Orpen, William Newenham Montague (Orpen, William, Sir)
1878 - Born on November 27th in Stillorgan, County Dublin, Ireland. British painter, best known for his vigorously chara...
[ 34% ] Last updated: Thu 16th Aug 07
Cory, William Johnson (orig. William Johnson)
English educator, historian, and poet
[ 34% ] Last updated: Tue 25th Jul 06
Siemens, Charles William, Sir (Siemens, William, Sir; Siemens, Karl Wilhelm)
1823 - Born on April 4th in Lenthe, Prussia (now in Germany). German-born English engineer and inventor, important in...
[ 34% ] Last updated: Wed 28th Jan 09
Brewster, William (Elder William Brewster)
1560 - William Brewster was baptised in Scrooby, Nottinghamshire. 1584 - William junior studied briefly at Peterhouse, C...
[ 32% ] Last updated: Tue 01st May 07
Wood Prince, William Henry (orig. William Henry Wood)
US meat-packing businessman
[ 32% ] Last updated: Sat 12th Jan 08
William Forsyth Sharpe (Sharpe, William)
1934 - William Forsyth Sharpe, born on the 16th of June. He is the STANCO 25 Professor of Finance, Emeritus at Stanford ...
[ 32% ] Last updated: Thu 26th Apr 07
Taylor, William (William Taylor of Norwich)
1821 – He was born on the 2nd day of May this year in Lexington district, Virginia, United States of America. 1843...
[ 31% ] Last updated: Sat 07th Apr 07
Fulbright, [James] William (J. William Fulbright)
US Democratic politician president of University of Arkansas 1939-1941 Representative from Arkansas 1943-1945 Senator...
[ 31% ] Last updated: Tue 25th Jul 06
Macy, William Hall Jr. (William H. Macy)
US actor husband of Felicity Huffman 1997
[ 31% ] Last updated: Tue 25th Jul 06
Verity, [Calvin] William Jr. (C. William Verity)
US administrator and steel industrialist Secretary of Commerce 1987-1989
[ 31% ] Last updated: Tue 25th Jul 06
Middendorf, [John] William II (J. William Middendorf)
US administrator, composer, and diplomat US ambassador to Netherlands 1969-1973 secretary of the navy 1974-1976 US ambas...
[ 31% ] Last updated: Tue 25th Jul 06
Ditter, John William (J. William Ditter)
US Republican politician Representative from Pennsylvania 1933-1943 died in airplane crash
[ 31% ] Last updated: Tue 25th Jul 06
William Bruce Rose Jr. (Axl Rose, William Bruce Bailey)
1962 – He was born William Bruce Rose, Jr. on the 16th day of February this year in Lafayette, Indiana, USA. He...
[ 30% ] Last updated: Thu 31st May 07
Adams, William Henry Davenport (William Davenport Adams)
1878 - 1904 - He was an editor of provincial papers, and a dramatic critic from 1878 to 1904 - He compiled an unfinished Dictionar...
[ 30% ] Last updated: Tue 02nd Jan 07
McDonald, William
1858 - William C. McDonald was born in Jordanville, New York. 1912-1917 - He was a U.S. Democrat politician and the...
[ 28% ] Last updated: Thu 26th Apr 07
Jones, William
1760 - William Jones was born on January 19th in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The 4th Secretary of the Navy. - He was a s...
[ 28% ] Last updated: Fri 23rd Mar 07
Church, William
1778 - William Church was born. 1822 - He was an American inventor who patented a typesetting machine, generally conside...
[ 28% ] Last updated: Tue 17th Jul 07
Blackwood, William
1776 - William Blackwood was born on the 20th of November. Scottish publisher and founder of the firm of William Blackwo...
[ 28% ] Last updated: Fri 10th Aug 07
Still, William Grant
1821 - The date of William Still's birth is given as October 7th, by most sources, but he gave the date of November 1819...
[ 28% ] Last updated: Thu 26th Apr 07
Wrigley, William
1933 - William Wrigley III, born on the 21st of January in Chicago, Illinois. was President of the Wm. Wrigley Jr. Compa...
[ 28% ] Last updated: Wed 16th May 07
Cosby, William
1690 - Born in Stradbally Hall, Queen's County, Ireland. 1703 - 13 year old William Cosby traveled to Italy and earned...
[ 28% ] Last updated: Wed 16th May 07
Gregg, William
1800 - William Gregg was born. - President of the first cotton mill in the South, organized the S.C. Institute to encour...
[ 28% ] Last updated: Wed 16th May 07
