* Francelia Billington ( 1895 – 1934 ), American actress

Headed by director Kenean Buel, his crew consisted of star actress Alice Joyce, George Melford, Jane Wolfe, Frank Lanning, Howard Oswald, Frank Brady, Knute Rahmn, Francelia Billington and Daisy Smith.

He married actress Francelia Billington in 1920 and the two made fourteen films together until their divorce in October 1925.

They had at least one daughter, Jessie Francelia White ( 1856 – 1880 ).

The origins of Hurricane Francelia were from a tropical wave – an elongated low pressure area – that exited the western coast of Africa on August 19.

Concurrently, the storm intensified into hurricane status after its winds reached 75 mph ( 120 km / h ), and late on September 1 Francelia passed over Swan Island.

* 1929 – James H. Billington, American educator and librarian

* 1942 – Rachel Billington, English author

* November 16 – Michael Billington, British drama critic

* Billington Heights – A location in the south part of the town.

* Michael Billington – Critic, author and radio presenter.

* August 25 – Elizabeth Billington, opera singer ( b. 1768 )

In the 1991 – 92 NHL season, he was called up to the Devils on an emergency basis for four games when Devils goaltenders Chris Terreri and Craig Billington became injured.

Billington was a longtime member of the editorial advisory boards of Foreign Affairs and of Theology Today, and a member of the Board of Foreign Scholarships ( 1971 – 76 ; Chairman, 1973 – 1975 ), which has executive responsibility for academic exchanges worldwide under the Fulbright-Hays Act.

* John Billington ( 1580s – 1630 ), an immigrant on the Mayflower and first Englishman to be hanged in New England

* Michael Billington ( actor ) ( 1941 – 2005 ), the popular British film and television actor

* Teddy Billington ( 1882 – 1966 ), US Olympic cyclist

* Elizabeth Billington ( 1765 – 1818 ), British opera singer

* Fred Billington ( 1862 – 1917 ), English singer and actor

* Ray Allen Billington ( 1903 – 1981 ), American historian

* Thomas Billington ( composer ), English composer ( 1754 – 1832?

built by Arthur Macnamara at Billington, Bedfordshire | BillingtonArthur Macnamara ( 1831 – 11 February 1906 ) was squire of Billington near Leighton Buzzard in Bedfordshire, where he turned a ruinous village into a model Victorian Estate.

* James Billington ( executioner ) ( 1847 – 1901 ), executioner for the British government

* Samuel Pyeatt Menefee, " Meg and Her Daughters: Some Traces of Goddess Beliefs in Megalithic Folklore ," in Sandra Billington and Miranda Green eds., The Concept of the Goddess ( 1996 ): pp. 78 – 90.

# Lady Rachel Billington – 1998 – 2000

*" No Man's Land " – BBC Four online feature for Pinter at the BBC, hyperlinked ; includes link to RealVideo clip of Michael Billington discussing No Man's Land ( 2 mins., 17 secs.

People involved in the arts and born in the town include the actress Kathleen Harrison in 1892 ; Alfred Wainwright, author of the Pictorial Guides to the Lakeland Fells, in 1907 ; broadcaster Russell Harty in 1934 ; the internationally renowned Contemporary artist Ross Eccles in 1937, many of his paintings feature Blackburn and Lancashire scenes and landmarks ; the writer Josephine Cox in 1941 who set many of her novels in Lancashire ; the actor Anthony Valentine in 1939 ; the actor Michael Billington, star of UFO in 1941 ; actor Ian McShane in 1942 ; rock musician Tony Ashton in 1946 ; actor Jon Walmsley in 1956 ; film maker Michael Winterbottom in 1961 ; actor Steve Pemberton in 1967 ; actress Wendi Peters in 1968 ; actor / comedian Lee Mack in 1968 ; television host Debbie Travis ; author Tony O ' Neill in 1978 ; television presenter and documentary director Michael Gibson in 1980 ; and singer and actress Diana Vickers in 1991.

* Kevin Billington ( born 1934 ), British film director

Among the many notable graduates of Lower Merion High School in Ardmore are General Henry H. " Hap " Arnold ( 1903 ), Commanding General of the U. S. Army Air Forces in WWII ; General Alexander M. Haig, Jr. ( 1942 ), the 59th United States Secretary of State ; James H. Billington ( 1946 ), the Librarian of Congress, and ; Kobe Bryant ( 1996 ), a professional NBA basketball player.

( 1988 ) along with Billington ( 1973 ), the leading full-scale biography

Stephen presented London stars such as Edmund Kean, Alexander and Elizabeth Pope ( née Elizabeth Younge ), Mrs. Dorothea Jordan, his brother John Philip Kemble, Wright Bowden, his sister Sarah Siddons, Elizabeth Billington, Michael Kelly ( tenor ), Anna Maria Crouch, and Charles Lee Lewes.

Billington is the author of Mikhailovsky and Russian Populism ( 1956 ), The Icon and the Axe ( 1966 ), Fire in the Minds of Men ( 1980 ), Russia Transformed: Breakthrough to Hope, August 1991 ( 1992 ) and The Face of Russia ( 1998 ), the companion book to the three-part television series of the same name, which he wrote and narrated for the Public Broadcasting Service.

Billington has received 33 honoris causa degrees, as well as the Woodrow Wilson Award from Princeton University ( 1992 ), the UCLA Medal ( 1999 ), and the Pushkin Medal of the International Association of the Teachers of Russian Language and Culture ( 2000 ).

* The Billington Food Group ( aka Billington's ), a sugar company in both the US and UK

* James H. Billington ( born 1929 ), the current U. S. Librarian of Congress

* Michael Billington ( critic ) ( born 1939 ), the drama critic of The Guardian

* Michael Billington ( activist ), activist in the LaRouche movement, author of Reflections of an American Political Prisoner

* Lady Rachel Billington ( born 1942 ), British author

* Craig Billington ( born 1966 ), retired Canadian ice hockey goaltender

Merchant took her stage name as a composite of the actress Vivien Leigh and her brother, who was a merchant seaman ( cited by Michael Billington ).

* 1895 – Oscar Wilde is arrested in the Cadogan Hotel, London after losing a libel case against the Marquess of Queensberry.

* 1895 – Dudley Nichols, American screenwriter ( d. 1960 )

* 1895 – Philippe Panneton, French Canadian physician, diplomat, and writer ( d. 1960 )

* 1803 – Edward Beecher, American theologian ( d. 1895 )

* 1895 – Andreas Alföldi, Hungarian historian and archaeologist ( d. 1981 )

* 1895 – Ernesto Lecuona, Cuban pianist and composer ( d. 1963 )

The Paris – Bordeaux – Paris race of June 1895 has sometimes been erroneously described as the " first motor race ", despite the 1894 event being decided by speed and finishing order of the eligible racers.

* 1895 – István Barta, Hungarian water polo player ( d. 1948 )

* 1895 – Bert Lahr, American actor ( d. 1967 )

* 1828 – Manuel Pavía y Rodríguez de Alburquerque, Spanish general ( d. 1895 )

* 1895 – Matt Henderson, New Zealand cricketer ( d. 1970 )

* 1817 – Archduke Albrecht, Duke of Teschen, Austrian general ( d. 1895 )

* 1895 – Neva Morris, American super-centenarian ( d. 2010 )

* 1895 – Marguerite Nichols, American actress ( d. 1941 )

* 1973 – Richard Marshall, American general ( b. 1895 )

The second generation was led by Fernand Braudel ( 1902 – 1985 ) and included Georges Duby ( 1919 – 1996 ), Pierre Goubert ( 1915 – 2012 ), Robert Mandrou ( 1921 – 1984 ), Pierre Chaunu ( 1923 – 2009 ), Jacques Le Goff ( 1924 – ) and Ernest Labrousse ( 1895 – 1988 ).

* 1895 – Robert Dean Frisbie, American writer ( d. 1948 )

* 1895 – Jack Gregory, Australian cricketer ( d. 1973 )