* Daniel Boone ( November 2, 1734 October 22 – September 26, 1820 ) was an American pioneer, explorer, and frontiersman whose frontier exploits made him one of the first folk heroes of the United States.

Frontiersman Daniel Boone reported having shot and killed " a ten-foot, hairy giant he called a Yahoo.

The town is named for famous American pioneer and explorer Daniel Boone, and every summer since 1952 has hosted an outdoor amphitheatre portrayal of the life and times of its namesake.

Boone as seen from Howard's Knob Boone took its name from the famous pioneer and explorer Daniel Boone, who on several occasions camped at a site generally agreed to be within the present city limits.

" Horn in the West ", a dramatization of the life and times of the early settlers of the mountain area, which features Daniel Boone as one of its characters, has been performed in an outdoor amphitheatre above the town every summer since 1952.

The original actor in the role of " Daniel Boone " was Ned Austin.

In his travel notes, he claims to have encountered Daniel Boone.

Bogart, about Daniel Boone in 1876.

The Carson family settled on a tract of land owned by the sons of Daniel Boone, who had purchased the land from the Spanish prior to the Louisiana Purchase.

The four panels depict: The Preservation of Captain Smith by Pocahontas ( 1825 ) by Antonio Capellano, The Landing of the Pilgrims ( 1825 ) and The Conflict of Daniel Boone and the Indians ( 1826 – 27 ) by Enrico Causici, and William Penn ’ s Treaty with the Indians ( 1827 ) by Nicholas Gevelot.

* 1734 – Daniel Boone American explorer ( d. 1820 )

American frontiersman Daniel Boone, who often used terms from Gulliver's Travels, claimed that he killed a hairy giant that he called a Yahoo.

* Autumn – North Carolina woodsman Daniel Boone goes through the Cumberland Gap and reaches Kentucky, in defiance of the Royal Proclamation of 1763 issued by King George III.

* September 26 – Daniel Boone, American pioneer ( b. 1734 )

** Daniel Boone leads the first attempt by British colonists to establish a settlement in Kentucky, but is turned back in an attack by American Indians in which his son is killed.

June 7: Daniel Boone in Kentucky.

* June 7 – Frontiersman Daniel Boone first begins to explore the present-day Bluegrass State, Kentucky.

* November 2 – Daniel Boone, American frontiersman ( d. 1820 )

The Lager Beer Riot occurred in Chicago, Illinois in 1855 after Mayor Levi Boone, great-nephew of Daniel Boone, renewed enforcement of an old local ordinance mandating that taverns be closed on Sundays and led the city council to raise the cost of a liquor license from $ 50 per year to $ 300 per year, renewable quarterly.

Many thousands of settlers, typified by Daniel Boone, had already reached Kentucky and Tennessee and adjacent areas.

Daniel Boone and his party tried to settle in Kentucky, but the Shawnee, Delaware, Mingo, and some Cherokee attacked a scouting and forage party that included Boone ’ s son.

During this time, Richardson took on five more apprentices: Thomas Verren ( 1 August 1732 ), Richard Smith ( 6 February 1733 ), Matthew Stimson ( 7 August 1733 ), Bethell Wellington ( 7 May 1734 ), and Daniel Green ( 1 October 1734 ).

* 1775 – Daniel O ' Connell, Irish politician ( d. 1847 )

* 1927 – Daniel Keyes, American author

* 1986 – Daniel Preussner, German rugby player

* 1963 – Daniel Pelosi, American convicted murderer

* 1961 – Daniel House, American bass player and producer ( 10 Minute Warning and Skin Yard )

* 1979 – Daniel Browne, New Zealand rugby player

* 1956 – Daniel Willems, Belgian cyclist

* 1994 – Daniel Gabori, Hungarian actor

* 1986 – Daniel Dickey, American comedian and writer

* 1945 – Daniel Hulet, Belgian cartoonist ( d. 2011 )

* 1948 – Daniel Okrent, American writer and editor

* 1974 – Håkan Hellström, Swedish musician ( Broder Daniel )

* 1957 – Daniel Stern, American actor

* 1981 – Daniel Gygax, Swiss footballer

* 1926 – Frank Daniel, Czech writer, director, and teacher ( d. 1996 )

* 1961 – Daniel Clowes, American cartoonist and screenwriter

* 1875 – Daniel Soubeyran, French rower ( d. 1959 )

* 1980 – Daniel Lloyd, English cyclist

* 1987 – Daniel Schuhmacher, German singer

* 1952 – Daniel Hugh Kelly, American actor

* 1968 – Daniel Dae Kim, American actor

* 1980 – Daniel MacPherson, Australian actor

* 1784 – Peter Vivian Daniel, American jurist, Justice of the U. S. Supreme Court ( d. 1860 )

* 1731 – Daniel Defoe, English writer ( b. 1660 )