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.

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The Charles Men consists not of a connected narrative but of a group of short stories, each depicting a special phase of the general subject.

* 1865 – Charles G. Dawes, American general and politician, 30th Vice President of the United States, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1951 )

* 1946 – Charles F. Bolden, Jr., American general and astronaut

# Maria Paola or Marie Pauline Bonaparte ( 1780 – 1825 ), married in 1797 to French general Charles Leclerc and later married Prince Camillo Borghese.

* 1919 – Charles Sweeney, American general ( d. 2004 )

* 1760 – Charles Sapinaud de La Rairie, French royalist general and counterrevolutionary ( d. 1829 )

Boyle ’ s law, Charles ’ law and Avogadro ’ s law could be combined to give a general relation between the volume, pressure, temperature and the number of moles of a particular gas.

* 1761 – Charles Pichegru, French general ( d. 1804 )

The Republican party remained divided against itself, and in the general election Cleveland emerged the victor, with 535, 318 votes to Republican nominee Charles J. Folger's 342, 464.

Patience ( 1881 ) satirised the aesthetic movement in general and its colourful poets, in particular, combining aspects of Algernon Charles Swinburne, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Oscar Wilde, James McNeill Whistler and others in the rival poets Bunthorne and Grosvenor.

In 1833, Charles Babbage moved on from developing his difference engine ( for navigational calculations ) to a general purpose design, the Analytical Engine, which drew directly on Jacquard's punched cards for its program storage.

French brigadier general Charles de Gaulle declared himself on Radio Londres to be the head of a rival government in exile, and gathered the Free French Forces around him, finding support in some French colonies and recognition from Britain and the USA.

* 1777 – American general George Washington defeats British general Charles Cornwallis at the Battle of Princeton.

* 1763 – Charles XIV John of Sweden, Napoleonic general ( d. 1844 )

* 1739 – Charles François Dumouriez, French general ( d. 1823 )

Franz, Duke of Bavaria is the current heir general of King Charles I and so the present heir to the Jacobite claim.

* 1890 – Charles de Gaulle, French military general and statesman ( d. 1970 )

He excommunicated him after protracted negotiations on 13 April 1346 and directed the election of Charles IV, who received general recognition after the death of Louis in October 1347, ending the schism which had long divided Germany.

Second row: Brigadier general ( United States ) | Brigadier General Harry H. Vaughan, Truman's confidant and military aide ; Russian interpreter Charles Bohlen, Truman naval aide James K. Vardaman, Jr., and ( partially obscured ) Charles Griffith Ross.

Rather, in 1802, following the death of Charles Theodore, it was brought to Munich, where Baron Johann Paul Carl von Moll had obtained a general exemption of confiscation for the Bavarian collections.

In the midst of World War I, Charles Schenck, then the general secretary of the Socialist party, was found guilty of violating the Espionage Act after a search of the Socialist headquarters revealed a book of Executive Committee minutes.

France's great general, the Duke de Villars, joined Charles Emmanuel in Milan on November 11.

The heir general to Charles II was Louis, Le Grand Dauphin, the son of his elder half-sister, Maria Theresa, and Louis XIV of France.