He was early exposed to the mechanical world, and in his youth often helped his father, David Brown, master clock and watchmaker, as he plied his trade.

In 1838, a devastating fire gutted their small shop and soon thereafter David Brown moved west to Illinois, settling on a land grant in his declining years.

* 1956 – David McDowell Brown, American astronaut ( d. 2003 )

* David Goldblatt and Lee Brown, ed.

In 1947, David Brown Limited bought the company under the leadership of managing director Sir David Brown — its " post-war saviour ".

David Brown also acquired Lagonda that year for its 2. 6-litre W. O. Bentley-designed engine, both companies shared resources and workshops and that was the beginning of the classic series of cars bearing the initials " DB ".

In 1955, David Brown bought the Tickford coachbuilding company and its site at Tickford Street in Newport Pagnell.

In November 1798, David Brown led a group in Dedham protesting the federal government ; they set up a liberty pole, as people had before the American Revolution.

* 1962 – John David Brown, American illustrator, cartoonist

* 1950 – David Brown, American musician ( Santana ) ( d. 2000 )

The implications of these findings for the conservation of giraffes were summarised by David Brown, lead author of the study, who told BBC News: " Lumping all giraffes into one species obscures the reality that some kinds of giraffe are on the brink.

's as well as vocalists such as Edwin Starr, David Ruffin and Dennis Edwards from The Temptations, and Michael Jackson, who, throughout his career, cited Brown as his ultimate idol.

* 1959 – David Brown, Australian meteorologist

* 1916 – David Brown, American film producer ( d. 2010 )

* Brown, David, and Carlos A. López González ( 2001 ).

* David Brown: 16th-Century Mapmaker's Intriguing Knowledge, in: Washington Post, 2008-11-17, p. A7

* " 16th-Century Mapmaker's Intriguing Knowledge ", David Brown, The Washington Post.

* 2003 – Astronomers Michael E. Brown, Chad Trujillo, and David L. Rabinowitz discover 90377 Sedna, a Trans-Neptunian object.

The award was founded by Thomas Disch with assistance from David G. Hartwell, Paul S. Williams, and Charles N. Brown.

Vincent Irizarry, Sharon Case, Genie Francis, Maura West, Eden Riegel, Billy Miller, Elizabeth Hendrickson, Marcy Rylan, Amelia Heinle Luckinbill, Sarah Brown, Laura Wright, Veleka Gray, Robin Mattson, Lenore Kasdorf, Roscoe Born, Judith Chapman, David Canary, and Michael Sabatino have all played multiple soap roles.

New England quarterback Tom Brady started off the Patriots drive with a 16-yard completion to Troy Brown and finished it with an 8-yard touchdown pass to receiver David Patten with 31 seconds left in the half.

Directed by Peter Hunt, the musical starred Jesse L. Martin as Mack, Melissa Errico as Polly, David Schramm as Peachum, Karen Ziemba as Lucy Brown and Betty Buckley as a considerably older Jenny.

" He made a surprise guest appearance at David Gilmour's 29 May concert at the Royal Albert Hall in London.

Admiral of the Fleet David Richard Beatty, 1st Earl Beatty GCB, OM, GCVO, DSO, PC ( 17 January 1871 – 11 March 1936 ) was an admiral in the Royal Navy.

His brothers would later join the British Army, but early on young David developed an interest in ships and the sea and expressed a desire to join the Royal Navy.

There David attended the Royal Academy, based in what is now the Louvre.

Soon, David turned his critical sights on the Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture.

David, however, made his career precisely by challenging what he saw as the earlier rigidity and conformity of the French Royal Academy's approach to art.

File: Death of Marat by David. jpg | The Death of Marat ( 1793 ), Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, Brussels

The Britannica has an Editorial Board of Advisors, which includes 12 distinguished scholars: author Nicholas Carr, religion scholar Wendy Doniger, political economist Benjamin M. Friedman, Council on Foreign Relations President Emeritus Leslie H. Gelb, computer scientist David Gelernter, Physics Nobel laureate Murray Gell-Mann, Carnegie Corporation of New York President Vartan Gregorian, philosopher Thomas Nagel, cognitive scientist Donald Norman, musicologist Don Michael Randel, Stewart Sutherland, Baron Sutherland of Houndwood, President of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, and cultural anthropologist Michael Wesch.

David Warner played the role with the Royal Shakespeare Theatre in 1965.

Notable made-for-television productions of Hamlet include those starring Christopher Plummer ( 1964 ), Richard Chamberlain ( 1970 ; Hallmark Hall of Fame ), Derek Jacobi ( 1980 ; Royal Shakespeare Company, BBC ), Kevin Kline ( 1990 ), Campbell Scott ( 2000 ) and David Tennant ( 2009 ; Royal Shakespeare Company, BBC ).

David Wilkie ( artist ) | Sir David Wilkie, The Royal Hospital, Chelsea | Chelsea Pensioners reading the Battle of Waterloo | Waterloo Dispatch, 1822.

The Prince's style and title in full is His Royal Highness Prince Henry Charles Albert David of Wales.

David MacBrayne Ltd operated the Glasgow to Ardrishaig steamer service, as part of the " Royal Route " to Oban.

The non-legally binding KAA Protocols were developed and mediated between the heads of the Kuwaiti and Iraqi navies by Major David Hammond Royal Marines, the British naval lawyer and legal advisor to Combined Task Force 158.

He was long associated with London's Royal Court Theatre, where he was Co-Artistic Director 1969 – 70, and Associate Artistic Director 1971 – 75, directing premiere productions of plays by David Storey, among others.

Whether the adoption of the classical Alexander for the future Alexander I of Scotland ( either for Pope Alexander II or for Alexander the Great ) and the biblical David for the future David I of Scotland represented a recognition that William of Normandy would not be easily removed, or was due to the repetition of Anglo-Saxon Royal name — another Edmund had preceded Edgar — is not known.

The plane was piloted by David Cecil McKinley of the Royal Air Force.

The teleprinter evolved through a series of inventions by a number of engineers, including Royal Earl House, David Edward Hughes, Emile Baudot, Donald Murray, Charles Krum, Edward Kleinschmidt and Frederick G. Creed.

In 1855, David Edward Hughes introduced an improved machine built on the work of Royal Earl House.

* The town of Lanark in Scotland is made a Royal Burgh by David I of Scotland.

She also is the subject of a fictional biography, " The Royal Tigress " by a fictional character, David Powlett-Jones who is the main subject of To Serve Them All My Days, R. F.

In 1911, David Lloyd George, then Member of Parliament for Caernarfon boroughs, which included various towns from Llŷn to Conwy, agreed to the British Royal family's idea of holding the investiture of the Prince of Wales at Caernarfon Castle.