* 1925 – David A. Huffman, American computer scientist, developed the Huffman coding ( d. 1999 )

Arbor Day reached its height of popularity on its 125th anniversary in 1997, when David J. Wright, noticed that a Nebraska nonprofit organization called the National Arbor Day Foundation had taken the name of the holiday and commercialized it for their own use as a trademark for their publication " Arbor Day ," so he countered their efforts, launched a website, and trademarked it for " public use celebrations " and defended the matter in a federal district court in the United States to ensure it was judged as property of the public domain, the case was settled in October 1999.

* Nicolle, David ( 1999 ) Nicopolis 1396: The Last Crusade.

Previous styles have included a series of fictional flags set to music between 1997 and 1999 before the major relaunch, incorporating the new contemporary music composed by David Lowe, and graphics developed by Lambie-Nairn.

* Lee, Simon, David, Phaidon, London ( 1999 ).

* Brigadier David Nicholls ( 1999 )

* 1937 – David Ackles, American singer songwriter ( d. 1999 )

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In 1999, there was an unconfirmed sighting of a pair of birds in the Pearl River region of southeast Louisiana by a forestry student, David Kulivan, which some experts considered very compelling.

As the executive producer of 1998's Wild Things, Bacon reserved a supporting role for himself, and went on to star in Stir of Echoes ( directed by David Koepp ) in 1999, and in Paul Verhoeven's Hollow Man in 2000.

The work of David J. Asher, Armagh Observatory and Robert H. McNaught, Siding Spring Observatory and independently by Esko Lyytinen in 1999, following on from the Kazan research, is considered by most meteor experts as the breakthrough in modern analysis of meteor storms.

* 1999 – Mayor David Hollister signs a 425 Agreement with Meridian Township in November to facilitate the development of the Governor's Collection / College Fields upscale housing development and golf course.

* David Jason, English actor, lived in Le Mans between 1965 – 1968 and 1999 – 2001.

* In The X-Files season 6, episode 7, first aired January 3, 1999, Dana Scully ( Gillian Anderson ) tells Fox Mulder ( David Duchovny ) that she believes a woman, Laura, played by Lisa Jane Persky, had taken a Mandrake medication to give herself a self-abortion to get rid of her " devil baby "

* Downie, David ( 1999 ).

* 1999 – David Strickland, American actor ( b. 1969 )

Tim Duncan and David Robinson won the 1999 championship with the Spurs, and Shaquille O ' Neal and Kobe Bryant started the 2000s with three consecutive championships for the Lakers.

* 1969 – David Strickland, American actor ( d. 1999 )

Smith opened " Ozzie's " restaurant and sports bar in 1988, started a youth sports academy in 1990, became an investor in a grocery store chain in 1999, and partnered with David Slay to open a restaurant in the early 2000s.

This was followed in 1999 by another graphic album titled A Cosmic Cornucopia, which includes extensive text by David Langford and two chapters dedicated to his work for Terry Pratchett's Discworld series.

* David Sylvian: Dead Bees on a Cake ( 1999, features Ryuichi Sakamoto on 7 tracks )

In 1997, the acute employment problem at St Helena was brought to the attention of the British public following reports in the tabloid press of a " riot " following an article in the Financial Times describing how the Governor, David Smallman ( 1995 – 1999 ), was jostled by a small crowd who believed he and the Foreign Office had rejected plans to build an airport on the island.

* Weider, Ben & Hapgood, David The Murder of Napoleon ( 1999 ) ISBN 1-58348-150-8 contains descriptions of the island and its inhabitants at the time of Napoleon's incarceration.

* 1904 – David Eccles, 1st Viscount Eccles, English politician ( d. 1999 )

SETI @ home was conceived by David Gedye along with Craig Kasnoff and is a popular volunteer distributed computing project that was launched by the University of California, Berkeley in May 1999.

* Absalom's attempted coup against his father David is explored in the novel " Zoheleth " by J Francis Hudson ( Lion Publishing 1994 ).

* Court History of David or Succession narrative ( 2 Samuel 9-20 and 1 Kings 1-2 ): a " historical novel ", in Alberto Soggin's phrase, telling the story of David's reign from his affair with Bathsheba to his death.

Three previous judges of the award, Malcolm Bradbury, David Holloway and W. L. Webb, met and chose Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children ( the 1981 winner ) as " the best novel out of all the winners.

Chaplin is also one of the central characters in Glen David Gold's novel Sunnyside, which is set in the World War I period.

* Ceres Storm, a 2000 science fiction novel by American author David Herter

The suggestion that life could even occur within the plasma of a star has been picked up by other science fiction writers, as in David Brin's Uplift Saga or Frederik Pohl's novel The World at the End of Time.

In The Eternal Adam and the New World Garden, written in 1968, David Noble argued that the Adam figure had been " the central myth in the American novel since 1830 ".

* Cyclops, an organisation in David Brin's novel The Postman

In David Lynch's 1984 adaptation of the first novel, De Vries was played by Brad Dourif.

* Domitia and Domitian ( 2000 ), a historical novel by David Corson based on the works of Brian Jones and Pat Southern, revolving around the titular characters.

* David of King's, novel by E. F. Benson

In both the book and movie 2001, astronaut and scientist David Bowman is on a mission to track the source of an alien artifact found on the moon, which leads to a moon around the planet Jupiter ( in the novel, Saturn ); the story takes place in the year 2001.

The Time in Between is a novel by Canadian author David Bergen.

However, fame was still eluding him, and partly out of desperation, Coppola bought the rights to the David Benedictus novel You're a Big Boy Now and fused it with a story idea of his own, resulting in You're a Big Boy Now ( 1966 ).

In a 1996 interview with Michael Silverblatt, David Foster Wallace admitted that the structure of the first draft of Infinite Jest he gave to his editor Michael Pietsch was inspired by fractals, specifically the Sierpinski triangle ( aka Sierpinski gasket ) but that the edited novel is " more like a lopsided Sierpinsky Gasket ".

* In David Foster Wallace's novel Infinite Jest, Lang is mentioned in tandem with James Cameron on page 48.

Ackerman himself appeared as a character in The Vampire Affair by David McDaniel ( a novel in the Man from U. N. C. L. E.

In notes to accompany his biographical novel A Man of Parts David Lodge describes how Wells came to regret his attitudes to the Jews as he became more aware of the extent of the Nazi atrocities.

* Dune ( designs for unproduced Alejandro Jodorowsky adaptation of the Frank Herbert novel ; the movie Dune was later made in an adaptation by David Lynch.

In the original series, which ran on Radio 4 from 1973 – 83, no adaptation was made of the seminal Gaudy Night, perhaps because the leading character in this novel is Harriet and not Peter ; this was corrected in 2005 when a version specially recorded for the BBC Radio Collection was released starring Carmichael and Joanna David.

Many of the innovations that Sterne introduced, adaptations in form that should be understood as an exploration of what constitutes the novel, were highly influential to Modernist writers like James Joyce and Virginia Woolf, and more contemporary writers such as Thomas Pynchon and David Foster Wallace.

* 2006 – Alan Moore ( author ) and David Lloyd ( illustrator ), V for Vendetta graphic novel

The first novel was filmed as At the Earth's Core ( 1976 ), directed by Kevin Connor and starring Doug McClure as David Innes and Peter Cushing as Abner Perry.

The similarity between Q and Trelane, the alien encountered in Star Trek episode " The Squire of Gothos ", inspired writer Peter David to establish in his 1994 novel Q-Squared that Trelane is a member of the Continuum, and that Q is his godfather ...

* The Tomed Incident is the focus of David R. George III's 2003 novel Serpents Among the Ruins, which featured the crew of the Enterprise-B.