* 1979 – Dave Douglas, American singer-songwriter and musician ( Relient K and Ace Troubleshooter )

* 1970 – Ulf Ekberg, Swedish musician ( Ace of Base )

* 1967 – Jonas " Joker " Berggren, Swedish musician ( Ace of Base )

** Ace Frehley, American musician

** Jonas " Joker " Berggren, Swedish rock musician ( Ace of Base )

* On December 24, 1954, the American blues musician Johnny Ace killed himself in Texas after a gun he pointed at his own head discharged.

Helms presented top blues performers including Country Joe and The Fish ; Howlin ' Wolf ; Bo Diddley ; Muddy Waters ; Little Walter ; Buddy Guy ; Junior Wells ; the Paul Butterfield Blues Band ; Buddy Miles ; James Cotton Blues Band ; John Mayall ; Big Mama Thornton ; Albert Collins ; Steve Miller ( musician ); Mike Bloomfield ; Elvin Bishop ; Blues Project, with Al Kooper ; John Hammond ; Charlie Musselwhite ; Siegal Schwall ; rock bands like the Doors ; Buffalo Springfield ; the Byrds ; Bill Haley & His Comets ; The Kinks ; The Edwin Hawkins Singers ; the Animals ' Eric Burdon & War ; Mothers of Invention ); Lovin ' Spoonful ; The Carlos Santana Blues Band ; Sir Douglas Quintet ; the Soul Survivors ; the Fugs ; Blood, Sweat & Tears ; The Association ; Shorty Featuring Georgie Fame ; Iron Butterfly ; the Youngbloods, with Jesse Colin Young ; Vanilla Fudge ; Steppenwolf ( band ); Poco ; Love, with Arthur Lee ( musician ); sarode-player and Indian music teacher, Ali Akbar Khan ; Sandy Bull ; Blue Cheer ; the Leaves ; New Riders of the Purple Sage ; Barry McGuire ; Flamin ' Groovies ; the Loading Zone ; It's a Beautiful Day ; Joy of Cooking ; the Grass Roots ; the Sons of Adam ; Sons of Champlin ; Captain Beefheart ; the Electric Flag ; Son House ; Velvet Underground ; Pacific Gas and Electric ; Moby Grape ; the Sopwith Camel ; 13th Floor Elevators ; The Charlatans ( U. S. band ); Allmen Joy ( see http :// wingswest. net ); Mother Earth ; Southern Comfort ; The Ace of Cups ; Tyrannosaurus Rex ; Cleanliness and Godliness Skiffle Band ; Flying Burrito Brothers ; Congress of Love ; Notes From the Underground ; Chrome Circus ; Initial Shock ; Oxford Circle ; Daily Flash ; Electric Train ; Sparrow ; the Orchestra ; Hourglass ; Kaleidoscope ; Mt.

* Johnny Ace Palmer ( born c. 1961 ), American musician

" Air Ace " Dave Dixon was a musician himself who co-wrote the Peter, Paul and Mary hit " I Dig Rock and Roll Music.

* Animal ( Motor Ace album ), a 2005 release

The Lancer / Ace editions ( 1966 – 1977 ), under the direction of de Camp and Lin Carter, were the first comprehensive paperbacks, compiling the material from the Gnome Press series together in chronological order with all the remaining original Howard material, including that left unpublished in his lifetime and fragments and outlines.

Later series of new Conan material include the Bantam editions ( 1978 – 1982 ), Ace Maroto editions ( 1978 – 1981 ), and Tor editions ( 1982 – 2004 ).

A half-decade after Double Indemnity and The Lost Weekend, Billy Wilder made Sunset Boulevard ( 1950 ) and Ace in the Hole ( 1951 ), noirs that were not so much crime dramas as satires on, respectively, Hollywood and the news media.

Over the next five decades, he created covers for numerous books and magazines, notably Astounding Science Fiction both before and after its title change to Analog ; Mad magazine ( for whom he painted many early covers featuring the iconic character, Alfred E. Neuman ) from 1958 to 1962 ( he started at Mad in February 1957 and by July 1958 was the magazine's new cover artist ; he painted most of its covers until October 1962 ); cover art for DAW, Signet, Ballantine Books, Avon, all 58 Laser Books ( which are now collectors ' items ), and over 90 covers for Ace books alone.

* Phoenix Wright ( character ), an Ace Attorney character

Some players use a house rule that if a player receives a hand with an abundance of nines ( variously, " a hand of 6 nines, or 5 nines and no meld ", or " 4 nines and no Aces, or 5 nines and only one Ace ", for example ), they can toss in their hand and declare a misdeal ; the cards are then re-dealt by the same dealer.

* Mako Suzuki ( Maggey Byrde ), from Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney-Justice for All

By late 1980, the band had recruited two guitarists, and the setlist was made up of songs by bands such as Motörhead (" Overkill ", half of the Ace of Spades album ), Judas Priest (' Tyrant ' was their closer ), and Riot.

These retail areas are currently home to anchors Walmart Supercenter, Jewel-Osco, Walgreens ( 2 locations ), Wisted's Supermarket, and Ace Hardware.

* Oscar Schwidetzky ( 1875 – 1963 ), philanthropist, inventor of the Ace bandage and the disposable syringe.

Films made in Gallup included Billy the Kid ( 1930 ), Pursued ( 1947 ), The Sea of Grass ( 1947 ), Four Faces West ( 1948 ), Only the Valiant ( 1951 ), Ace in the Hole ( 1951 ), Escape from Fort Bravo ( 1953 ), A Distant Trumpet ( 1964 ) and The Hallelujah Trail ( 1965 ).

Quorthon ( then known as Ace, after Ace Frehley of KISS ), a seventeen-year-old guitarist, was joined by the bass guitarist Fredrik Melander and the drummer Jonas Åkerlund.

All the other hand combinations in video poker are the same as in table poker, including such hands as two pair, three of a kind, straight ( a sequence of 5 cards of different suits ), flush ( any 5 cards of the same suit ), full house ( a pair and a three of a kind ), four of a kind ( four cards of the same value ), straight flush ( 5 consecutive cards of the same suit ) and royal flush ( a Ten, a Jack, a Queen, a King and an Ace of the same suit ).

* December 12 – Ace Frehley is shocked on stage during a Kiss concert in Lakeland, Florida after touching an ungrounded metal railing.

In a 2000 interview, Wayne noted that there had always been a major split within the group about Secunda's tactics: " had the animals who would do what he wanted to do in Trevor, Ace, and me -- the fiery part of the stage act.

Radio historian Arthur Frank Wertheim recorded ( in Radio Comedy ) that, as a young newspaper reporter and columnist, Ace had written a witty gossip column that moved Benny himself to ask the young writer for some jokes for his stage act.

* Ace Darling ( born 1974 ), stage name for professional wrestler Mike Maraldo

* Johnny Ace ( 1929 – 1954 ), stage name of American singer John Marshall Alexander, Jr.

The Doctor and Ace both join the audience, noticing that the only other audience members are a small family of three – father, mother, daughter – who observe the central stage with stoic disdain.

Since 2003 the band has had thirteen Top 10 rock radio singles in Canada, including two chart-toppers, sold over 350, 000 albums, performed over 900 shows worldwide, and has shared the stage with The Rolling Stones, Robert Plant, Guns N ' Roses, KISS, Bruce Springsteen, Ace Frehley, Nickelback, Cheap Trick, The Tragically Hip, and Kid Rock among many others.

Deeply saddened by this, Gene and Paul Stanley leave the stage ( allowing Ace Frehley and Peter Criss to perform " Chattanooga Choo Choo ").

* In the Ace Combat series, Fenrir has been used as a squadron name on multiple occasions

The roulette wheel is believed to be a fusion of the English wheel games Roly-Poly, Reiner, Ace of Hearts, and E. O., the Italian board games of Hoca and Biribi, and " Roulette " from an already existing French board game of that name.

Spenser ( his first name is never revealed ) is a fictional character in a series of detective novels initially by the American mystery writer Robert B. Parker and later by Ace Atkins.

She is mentioned by name in at least two of his songs: " Kathy's Song " and " America ," and is referred to in " Homeward Bound " and " The Late Great Johnny Ace.

In March 1996, largely due to the cost of developing the new Ace, Angliss ' company went into receivership and was eventually sold to Pride Automotive in December 1996, who continued car production in Weybridge, Surrey under the name of AC Car Group Ltd.

* Trace, another name for Portgas D. Ace, a fictional character in the manga One Piece

Indian purchased the ownership of the name, rights, and production facilities of the Ace Motor Corporation in 1927.

The Mask also changes into his wolf-like form on occasion in the spin-off animated series of the same name, particularly in the animated crossover featuring Ace Ventura: Pet Detective.

His band began playing professionally in early 1921 as " Ace Brigode & His 10 Virginians "; a bit later they were renamed " Ace Brigode & His 14 Virginians "; this name stuck although the band varied between having 9 to 19 members over the years.

The band was formed in December 1972 in Sheffield as ' Ace Flash and the Dynamos ', but this name was quickly abbreviated to just Ace.

When this came to the fans ' attention, Jonas and Jenny independently stated that the new band would not be called Ace of Base, but have another name.

This alternative line-up later presented a slightly changed name: " Ace. of. Base ", but this was mainly a graphical adjustment used on the cover of their releases only.

In late June, 2010, Facebook and Twitter accounts for an Ulf and Jonas project without Jenny were launched under the name Ace of Base.

Ace was sued in 1940 because of the name he selected for a character.

Unknown to Ace, this resulted in the name of a real person who was publicly embarrassed by the use of his name on the show.

Ace became a regular columnist for Saturday Review ( formerly The Saturday Review of Literature ; he liked to suggest cause-and-effect in the magazine's name changing two weeks after his debut in its pages ) in the early 1950s.

" I respectfully suggest the name of Goodman Ace ... if he's still around ", Ace replied.

After changing their name to ' A ' in 1993, and abandoning their early progressive rock-inspired sound for a more punk rock style, they signed a European recording contract with British ( Warner Bros. Records ) in 1996 and released their debut LP How Ace Are Buildings in 1997.

The band later changed its name to " Popol Ace " to avoid confusion with the German band Popol Vuh.

Pliny the Elder ( N. H. 5. 19 ), using the name ' Pacida ', mentions that the river flowed from Lake Cendevia ( now below Mount Carmel ) for five miles ( 8 km ) to the sea near " Ptolemais Ace ", and that it was celebrated for its vitrous sands.

He retained his Shane Douglas ring name and was put into a tag team of skateboarders known as The Dynamic Dudes with Johnny Ace.