* 1984 – Chester Himes, American writer ( b. 1909 )

He also was friends with fellow expatriate writers Chester Himes and James Baldwin, although the relationship with the latter ended in acrimony after Baldwin published his essay Everybody's Protest Novel ( collected in Notes of a Native Son ), in which he criticized Wright's stereotypical portrayal of Bigger Thomas.

Exploring the reasons Wright appeared to have little to say about the civil rights movement unfolding in the United States in the 1950s, historian Carol Polsgrove has gathered evidence of what his fellow writer Chester Himes called the " extraordinary pressure " Wright was under not to write about the American scene.

* Chester Himes, Blind Man with a Pistol

The New York Times noted that the mother of novelist Chester Himes " taught at the elite Scotia Seminary in North Carolina before her marriage.

* Plan B ( novel ), a novel by Chester Himes

MacDermot's film soundtracks include Cotton Comes to Harlem, a 1970 blaxploitation film starring Godfrey Cambridge, Raymond St. Jacques and Redd Foxx, based on Chester Himes ' novel of the same name ; Rhinoceros ( 1974 ) starring Zero Mostel and Gene Wilder, and directed by original Broadway Hair director Tom O ' Horgan ; and Mistress ( 1992 ).

In the United States, the original hardboiled style has been emulated by innumerable writers, including Chester Himes, Mickey Spillane, Ross Macdonald, John D. MacDonald, Robert B. Parker, Sara Paretsky, Sue Grafton, and Walter Mosley.

* Coffin Ed Johnson, a protagonist in Chester Himes ' Harlem Detective novels

If He Hollers Let Him Go is a novel by Chester Himes, published in 1945, about an African American shipyard worker in Los Angeles during World War II.

Category: Novels by Chester Himes

During the Popular Front era the party attracted support from a number of the brightest lights in African-American literature, including Langston Hughes, Richard Wright, Ralph Ellison, Chester Himes, some of whom joined the party, only to break with it in later years.

A survey of the literature of angst, covering writers from Fyodor Dostoevsky, through Franz Kafka and Samuel Beckett, to Chester Himes and Saul Bellow.

Darius James writes that Coonskin " reads like an Uncle Remus folktale rewritten by Chester Himes with all the Yoruba-based surrealism of Nigerian-author Amos Tutuola.

Image: Chester Street looking East, Chester, NH. jpg | Blacksmith Shop in 1909

On December 3, 1909, two years after Oklahoma statehood, the town of Newburg was renamed Atwood, honoring Chester C. Atwood as one of the significant pioneer members of the community.

* August Robert Meyer Memorial, ( 1909 ) Daniel Chester French, sculptor, Kansas City, Missouri

In 1908, Hawtrey became master of the Gloucestershire Historical Pageant at Cheltenham, followed by the National Pageant of Wales at Cardiff in October 1909 and the Chester Pageant in July 1910.

* Chester Long ( R-KS ) 1905 – 1909

* Chester, Austin, " The Art of Mr. Ernest Crofts, R. A .,"-Windsor Magazine, March 1909, pp. 455 – 468.

But they had certainly not previously been used by heirs to the English or British thrones ; indeed, in his 1909 book A Complete Guide to Heraldry, Arthur Charles Fox-Davies had written: " It is much to be regretted that the arms of HRH The Prince of Wales do not include ... any allusion to his dignities of Prince of Wales or Earl of Chester.

Krulak has served as the Senior Vice Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of MBNA Europe ( 2001 – 2005 ) and was based at the Chester campus in the UK.

Chester Burton " Chet " Atkins ( June 20, 1924 – June 30, 2001 ) was an American guitarist and record producer who, along with Owen Bradley, created the smoother country music style known as the Nashville sound, which expanded country's appeal to adult pop music fans as well.

* 1977 Best Country Instrumental Performance – Chester and Lester

The Chester Beatty Library houses the famous collection of manuscripts, miniature paintings, prints, drawings, rare books and decorative arts assembled by American mining millionaire ( and honorary Irish citizen ) Sir Alfred Chester Beatty ( 1875 – 1968 ).

Born in Boston, Colony of Massachusetts, to David Yale ( 1613 – 1690 ) and Ursula Knight ( 1624 – 1698 ), Yale was the grandson of Ann Lloyd ( 1591 – 1659 ), who after the death of her first husband, Thomas Yale ( 1590 – 1619 ) in Chester, Cheshire, England, married Governor Theophilus Eaton ( 1590 – 1658 ) of New Haven Colony.

* 1885 – Chester Nimitz, U. S. admiral ( d. 1966 )

* 1901 – Chester Morris, American film actor ( d. 1970 )

* 1945 – World War II: Admiral Chester W. Nimitz is placed in command of all U. S. Naval forces in preparation for planned assaults against Iwo Jima and Okinawa in Japan.

* 1886 – Chester Conklin, American comedian and actor ( d. 1971 )

* 1897 – Edmund A. Chester, American broadcaster and journalist ( d. 1973 )

* 1921 – Chester Kallman, American writer ( d. 1975 )

* 1954 – Chester Wilmot, American war correspondent ( b. 1911 )

In the early 20th century, people like Ordway Tead ( 1891 – 1973 ), Walter Scott and J. Mooney applied the principles of psychology to management, while other writers, such as Elton Mayo ( 1880 – 1949 ), Mary Parker Follett ( 1868 – 1933 ), Chester Barnard ( 1886 – 1961 ), Max Weber ( 1864 – 1920 ), Rensis Likert ( 1903 – 1981 ), and Chris Argyris ( 1923-) approached the phenomenon of management from a sociological perspective.

* 1273 – Alphonso, Earl of Chester, son of Edward I of England ( d. 1284 )

* 1672 – John Wilkins, English Bishop of Chester ( b. 1614 )

Chester also presented brass band music in a programme which started in 1984.

* September 1984 Hawarden By-Pass ( from a point east of Broughton on the Chester Southerly Bypass to Northop Hall )

Chester has also been credited with playing Drums with Santana in 1984 and is credited in the Beyond Appearances album along with Chester D. Thompson on Keyboards.

In 1984, Goodspeed Musicals added a second performance venue — the Norma Terris Theatre -- in nearby Chester, Connecticut.

Chester Alvin Ronning, ( December 13, 1894 – December 31, 1984 ) was a Canadian diplomat and politician.

Johnson was born in Chester, England, on 20 September 1984.

The quartet was originally formed in October 1998 when talent scout Judith Fontaine selected Holly Blake-Arnstein ( born August 3, 1985 ), Melissa Schuman ( born August 21, 1984 ), Ashley Poole ( born May 10, 1985 ), and Alex Chester ( born December 28, 1984 ), four teens from California, to comprise a new girl group.

During his time at Parsons, Jacobs won the Perry Ellis Gold Thimble Award in 1984, and in the same year was also awarded the Chester Weinberg Gold Thimble Award and the Design Student of the Year Award.

For example: Duke of Wellington, in the County of Somerset ( 1814 ) and Duke of Gordon, of Gordon Castle in Scotland ( 1876 ) but Duke of Fife ( 1899 ); Marquess of Cholmondeley, in the County Palatine of Chester ( 1815 ) and Marquess of Ailsa, of the Isle of Ailsa in the County of Ayr ( 1831 ) but Marquess of Zetland ( 1892 ); Earl of Craven, in the County of York ( 1801 ) and Earl Nelson, of Trafalgar and of Merton in the County of Surrey ( 1805 ) but Earl of Stockton ( 1984 ).