Avco-Embassy Pictures, the film's financial backer, preferred either Charles Bronson or Tommy Lee Jones to play the role of Snake Plissken to Carpenter's choice of Kurt Russell, who was trying to overcome the " lightweight " screen image conveyed by his roles in several Disney comedies.

* 1732 – Charles Lee, British-born American Revolutionary War figure ( d. 1782 )

* 1986 – The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inducts its first members: Little Richard, Chuck Berry, James Brown, Ray Charles, Fats Domino, the Everly Brothers, Buddy Holly, Jerry Lee Lewis and Elvis Presley.

Among the irregular contributors with just a single Mad byline to their credit are Charles M. Schulz, Chevy Chase, " Weird Al " Yankovic, Andy Griffith, Will Eisner, Kevin Smith, J. Fred Muggs, Boris Vallejo, Sir John Tenniel, Jean Shepherd, Winona Ryder, Jimmy Kimmel, Jason Alexander, Walt Kelly, Rep. Barney Frank, Tom Wolfe, Steve Allen, Jim Lee, Jules Feiffer, Donald Knuth and Richard Nixon, who remains the only President credited with " writing " a Mad article.

* 1977 – Charles A. Lee, American athlete

Lee graduated second in his class behind Charles Mason, who resigned from the Army a year after graduation, and Lee did not incur any demerits during his four-year course of study — five of his 45 classmates earned a similar distinction.

Charles Lee ( 1758 – 1815 ), U. S. Attorney General under John Adams.

Charles was the son of Maj. Gen. Henry Lee II ( 1730 – 1787 ) and Lucy Grymes ( 1734 – 1792 ).

The Septuagint: A column of uncial text from 1 Esdras in the Codex Vaticanus Graecus 1209 | Codex Vaticanus c. 325 – 350 CE, the basis of Sir Lancelot Charles Lee Brenton's Greek edition and Brenton's English Translation of the Septuagint | English translation.

The other men include hotheaded, inexperienced Chico ( Horst Buchholz ); Chris's friend Harry Luck ( Brad Dexter ) who believes Chris is seeking treasure ; the drifter Vin ( Steve McQueen ), who has gone broke after a round of gambling ; Bernardo O ' Reilly ( Charles Bronson ), a gunfighter of Irish-Mexican heritage ; cowpuncher Britt ( James Coburn ); and an on-the-run gunman Lee ( Robert Vaughn ), who is in the midst of a crisis of confidence.

* Chemistry – Dudley R. Herschbach, Yuan T. Lee, John Charles Polanyi

* Charles Lee, U. S. Attorney General ( d. 1815 )

Ross has also worked with John Lee Hooker, Lightnin ' Hopkins, Brownie McGhee, Memphis Slim, Sunnyland Slim, Otis Rush, Dr. John, Bobby Lewis, Pinetop Perkins, Charles Neville, Cyril Neville, Big Mama Thornton, Louisiana Red, J. B. Hutto, Eddie Kirkland, Floyd Jones, Homesick James, and many other blues greats.

* September 5 – Charlotte Lee, Countess of Lichfield, illegitimate daughter of King Charles II of England ( d. 1718 )

He is a method actor, taught mainly by Lee Strasberg and Charles Laughton at the Actors Studio in New York.

Actors from the 1950s and 1960s such as John Wayne, Steve McQueen and Lee Marvin passed the torch in the 1970s to actors such as martial artist Bruce Lee, Tom Laughlin, Charles Bronson, Chuck Norris, Clint Eastwood and Sonny Chiba.

* Lees Ferry: John Doyle Lee, Emma Lee French ( 17th of John Lee's 19 wives ), J. S. Emmett, Charles Spencer

Charles Lee ( February 6, 1732 – October 2, 1782 ) was a British soldier who served as a General of the Continental Army during the American War of Independence.

" Lee, Charles ".

da: Charles Lee ( 1732-1782 )

de: Charles Lee ( General )

fr: Charles Lee ( général )

* 1851 – Charles Bannerman, Australian cricketer ( d. 1930 )

* 1862 – Charles Turner, Australian cricketer ( d. 1944 )

* 1866 – Charles Vintcent, South African cricketer ( d. 1943 )

* November 16 – Charles Turner, Australian cricketer ( d. 1944 )

* Charles Jones ( cricketer ) ( 1902 – 1959 ), West Indian cricketer

* Charles Jones ( cricketer, born 1853 ) ( 1853 – 1904 ), English cricketer

* Charles Jones ( sportsman ) ( born 1934 ), English cricketer and field hockey player

* Charles Greville ( 1794 – 1865 ), diarist and cricketer

* Charles Douglas, 3rd Baron Douglas ( 1775 – 1848 ), MP for Lanarkshire, and a cricketer

* Charles Billingsley ( cricketer ) ( 1910 – 1951 ), Irish cricketer

* Charles Turner ( 1862 – 1944 ), former Australian cricketer

* Charles Coventry, Zimbabwean cricketer

Charles ( Charlie ) Wreford-Brown ( 9 October 1866 – 26 November 1951 ) captained the England national football team and was a county cricketer during the Victorian age, and later acted as a sports legislator during the 20th century.

Charles Cavendish Fulke Greville ( 2 April 1794 – 17 January 1865 ) was an English diarist and an amateur cricketer who played first-class cricket from 1819 to 1827.

James " Jim " Charles Laker ( 9 February 1922 – 23 April 1986 ) was a cricketer who played for England in the 1950s, known for " Laker's match " in 1956 at Old Trafford, when he took nineteen wickets in England's victory against Australia.

* Charles Chatham ( 1910 – 1994 ), English cricketer

* Air Vice-Marshal Charles Hubert Boulby Blount ( 1893 – 1940 ), RAF officer and cricketer

Osborne Gordon, the influential Oxford don, Sir John Josiah Guest, engineer, entrepreneur, and Member of Parliament, Sir Cedric Hardwicke, the Hollywood character actor, Ralph Lingen, 1st Baron Lingen, an influential Victorian civil servant ; Dr William Macmichael, physician to Kings George IV and William IV and author of The Gold-Headed Cane, Bishop Thomas Percy, Bishop of Dromore and author of Reliques of Ancient English Poetry, Henry John Roby, the classical scholar, writer on Roman law, and Member of Parliament, Bishop Francis Henry Thicknesse, inaugural Suffragan Bishop of Leicester, General Sir Charles Warren, Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police during the period of the Jack the Ripper Murders and a General in the Second Boer War, and Cyril Washbrook, the cricketer who played for Lancashire and England.

Other famous people who lived in Bromley include Alex Clare, Charles Darwin, David Bowie, Richmal Crompton, Pixie Lott, Starsmith, Christopher Tennant, Peter Frampton, Aleister Crowley, Siouxsie Sioux, Gary Rhodes, Billy Idol, Billy Jenkins, cricketer Jill Cruwys, the anarchist Peter Kropotkin, the former Clash drummer Topper Headon, historian Richard Jefferis, illustrator Charles Keeping, Formula 1 test driver Gary Paffett, children's writer Andrew Murray, actor Michael York who attended Bromley Grammar School for Boys, clarinetist Chris Craker, Don Perrin, Canadian author who attended Burnt Ash School in Bromley, and Sir Thomas James Harper, an officer decorated in the Crimean war.