** Pan Tadeusz by Adam Mickiewicz ( 1834 )

** Reviewed by Adam Thorpe in The Guardian, 23 December 2006.

** Adam Everett, American baseball player

** Adam Pengilly, British skeleton racer

** Adam Małysz, Polish ski jumper

** Adam Saitiev, Chechen wrestler and Olympic gold medalist

** Adam Godley, British actor

** Adam Loewen, Canadian pitcher

** Adam Lamberg, American actor

** Adam Irigoyen, American actor

** Adam Richman, American actor and television personality

** Adam Clayton, Irish rock bassist ( U2 )

** Adam Clayton Powell, Jr., African-American politician ( b. 1908 )

** Adam Politzer, Austrian otologist ( b. 1835 )

** Adam Sandler, American actor and comedian

** Adam Horovitz, American rapper ( Beastie Boys )

** Adam Faith, English singer and actor ( d. 2003 )

** Adam Savage, American TV show host

** Adam Rickitt, English actor, singer and model

** Adam Walsh, American murder victim, inspired Code Adam ( b. 1974 )

** Master criminal Adam Worth is captured in Liège, Belgium during an attempted robbery of a money delivery cart.

** Adam Ferguson, Scottish philosopher and historian ( d. 1816 )

** Adam Sędziwój Czarnkowski, Polish nobleman ( d. 1628 )

** Trace Cyrus ( born 1989 ), American musician ; ( former ) lead guitarist of Metro Station

** USS Sacramento ( AOE-1 ) was the lead ship of Sacramento-class fast combat support ships, commissioned in 1964 and decommissioned in 2004.

** Reggie Jackson blasts 3 home runs to lead the New York Yankees to a World Series victory over the Los Angeles Dodgers.

** Burundian presidential election, 1993: The first multiparty elections in Burundi since the country's independence lead to the election of Melchior Ndadaye, leader of the Front for Democracy in Burundi.

** Randy Owen, American country lead vocalist, rhythm guitar player

** In Holmdel, New Jersey, scientists at Bell Labs announce they have created a digital optical processor that could lead to the development of superfast computers that use pulses of light rather than electric currents to make calculations.

** A then-record number of viewers ( for an entertainment program ) tune into the U. S. TV soap opera Dallas to learn who shot lead character J. R. Ewing.

** Billie Joe Armstrong, American rock musician and lead singer / guitarist ( Green Day )

** Queen lead singer Freddie Mercury dies from pneumonia induced by AIDS.

** David Draiman song writer and lead singer for the band Disturbed

** Australian Democrats leader Don Chipp retires from federal parliament and is succeeded by Janine Haines, the first woman to lead a political party in Australia.

** Phil Lynott, lead singer and bassist of Thin Lizzy ( b. 1949 )

** Ron Brown is elected chairman of the Democratic National Committee, becoming the first African American to lead a major United States political party.

** Fidel Castro and his brother lead a disastrous assault on the Moncada Barracks, preliminary to the Cuban Revolution.

** Grease: You're the One that I Want !, a U. S. 2007 reality TV show casting the lead roles in revivals of the musical

** Grease is the Word, a U. K. 2007 reality TV show casting the lead roles in revivals of the musical

** lead, mercury, organotins ( trimethyltin )

** Tiberius Sempronius Gracchus, Roman politician, who, as a plebeian tribune, will cause political turmoil in the Republic through his attempts to legislate agrarian reforms ; his political ideals will eventually lead to his death at the hands of supporters of the conservative faction ( Optimates ) of the Roman Senate ( d. 132 BC )

** La Fayette ( F710 ), French stealth frigate, lead ship of the La Fayette class

** The pathologic process, injury, or disease that directly results in or initiates a series of events that lead to a person's death ( also called mechanism of death ), such as a bullet wound to the head, exsanguination caused by a stab wound, manual or ligature strangulation, myocardial infarction resulting from coronary artery disease, etc.

** SMS Königsberg ( 1905 ), lead ship of the class, stationed in German East Africa at the start of World War I

** SMS Königsberg ( 1915 ), lead ship of the class

** German cruiser Königsberg, lead ship of this class

** 1996: Rajiv Kapoor's film Prem Granth with Madhuri Dixit, Rishi Kapoor and Shammi Kapoor in lead roles.