* 1779 – Francis Scott Key, American lawyer, author, and songwriter ( d. 1843 )

His contemporaries include Martin Scorsese, Paul Schrader, John Milius, George Lucas, Francis Ford Coppola, John Carpenter, and Ridley Scott.

" The Star-Spangled Banner " has special meaning to Baltimore historically, as it was written during the Battle of Baltimore in the War of 1812 by Francis Scott Key, a Baltimorean.

Maryland Historical Society plaque marking the birthplace of Francis Scott Key

Fort McHenry looking towards the position of the British ships ( with the Francis Scott Key Bridge ( Baltimore ) | Francis Scott Key Bridge in the distance on the upper left )

Francis Scott Key ( August 1, 1779 – January 11, 1843 ) was an American lawyer, author, and amateur poet, from Georgetown, who wrote the lyrics to the United States ' national anthem, " The Star-Spangled Banner ".

Francis Scott Key was born to Ann Phoebe Penn Dagworthy ( Charlton ) and Captain John Ross Key at the family plantation Terra Rubra in what was Frederick County, Maryland ( now Carroll County, Maryland ).

* Francis George Scott

The new area was led by Allison Mankin and Scott Bradner, and had a directorate with 15 engineers from diverse backgrounds for direction-setting and preliminary document review: The working-group members were J. Allard ( Microsoft ), Steve Bellovin ( AT & T ), Jim Bound ( Digital Equipment Corporation ), Ross Callon ( Wellfleet ), Brian Carpenter ( CERN ), Dave Clark ( MIT ), John Curran ( NEARNET ), Steve Deering ( Xerox ), Dino Farinacci ( Cisco ), Paul Francis ( NTT ), Eric Fleischmann ( Boeing ), Mark Knopper ( Ameritech ), Greg Minshall ( Novell ), Rob Ullmann ( Lotus ), and Lixia Zhang ( Xerox ).

Scott was born in the North East Tyneside coastal town of South Shields, England, the son of Elizabeth and Colonel Francis Percy Scott.

After Huntford's book, debunking Captain Scott became commonplace ; Francis Spufford, in a 1996 history not wholly antagonistic to Scott, refers to " devastating evidence of bungling ", concluding that " Scott doomed his companions, then covered his tracks with rhetoric ".

At the Battle of Baltimore in 1814, the rockets fired on Fort McHenry by the rocket vessel HMS Erebus were the source of the rockets ' red glare described by Francis Scott Key in The Star-Spangled Banner.

* September 14 was the day that Francis Scott Key wrote The Star Spangled Banner, the national anthem of the United States

* 1814 – The poem Defence of Fort McHenry is written by Francis Scott Key.

* 1814 – Francis Scott Key finishes his poem " Defence of Fort McHenry ", later to be the lyrics of " The Star-Spangled Banner ".

During the battle, Francis Scott Key composes his poem " Defence of Fort McHenry ", which is later set to music and becomes the United States ' national anthem.

The lyrics come from " Defence of Fort McHenry ", a poem written in 1814 by the 35-year-old lawyer and amateur poet, Francis Scott Key, after witnessing the bombardment of Fort McHenry by the British Royal Navy ships in Chesapeake Bay during the Battle of Fort McHenry in the War of 1812.

Francis Scott Key's original manuscript copy of his " Star-Spangled Banner " poem.

On September 3, 1814, following the Burning of Washington and the Raid on Alexandria, Francis Scott Key and John Stuart Skinner set sail from Baltimore aboard the ship HMS Minden, flying a flag of truce on a mission approved by President James Madison.

Key work on the traditional ballad was undertaken in the late 19th century in Denmark by Svend Grundtvig and for England and Scotland by the Harvard professor Francis James Child.

Key figures in the movement included Hugo Ball, Emmy Hennings, Hans Arp, Raoul Hausmann, Hannah Höch, Johannes Baader, Tristan Tzara, Francis Picabia, Richard Huelsenbeck, Georg Grosz, John Heartfield, Marcel Duchamp, Beatrice Wood, Kurt Schwitters, and Hans Richter, among others.

Through his mother, he was the great-grandson of Francis Scott Key, the author of the " Star Spangled Banner ", and John Eager Howard, governor and senator from Maryland.

On June 14, President Harding was also the first president to be heard by the U. S. public on the new mass medium: he spoke on radio at a dedication site in honor of Francis Scott Key, who wrote the words to the Star Spangled Banner.

The British failure at the Battle of Baltimore is a turning point in the war, and the American defense of the fort inspires Francis Scott Key to compose the poem later set to music as The Star-Spangled Banner.

August 1: Francis Scott Key

* August 1 – Francis Scott Key, American lawyer and lyricist ( d. 1843 )

The county seat is Frederick, which was home to several celebrated historical figures like Francis Scott Key, Thomas Johnson ( governor ), Roger B. Taney, and Barbara Fritchie.

Francis Hopkinson ( September 21, 1737 – May 9, 1791 ), an American author, was one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence as a delegate from New Jersey.

Francis Bacon, 1st Viscount St. Alban, Kt., KC ( 22 January 1561 – 9 April 1626 ) was an English philosopher, statesman, scientist, jurist, and author.

The Baconian theory of Shakespearean authorship, first proposed in the mid-19th century, contends that Sir Francis Bacon wrote some or all the plays conventionally attributed to William Shakespeare, in opposition to the scholarly consensus that William Shakespeare of Stratford was the author.

* Anthology, 4 CD containing numerous poems and texts read by the author, Anna la bonne, La Dame de Monte-Carlo and Mes sœurs, n ' aimez pas les marins by Marianne Oswald, Le Bel Indifférent by Edith Piaf, La Voix humaine by Berthe Bovy, Les Mariés de la Tour Eiffel with Jean Le Poulain, Jacques Charon and Jean Cocteau, discourse on the reception at the Académie française, with extracts from Les Parents terribles, La Machine infernale, pieces from Parade on piano with two hands by Georges Auric and Francis Poulenc, Frémeaux & Associés FA 064, 1997

* 1855 – Francis Bellamy, American author, editor, and Baptist minister ( d. 1931 )

* 1917 – Francis Parker Yockey, American author ( d. 1960 )

Francis Pharcellus Church, author of the famous editorial

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** Francis Xavier Lasance, American priest and author ( d. 1946 )

** Francis Meres, English churchman and author ( d. 1647 )

It is usually attributed to renowned orientalist and author Sir Richard Francis Burton, but the chief work was done by the pioneering Indian archaeologist, Bhagwanlal Indraji, under the guidance of Burton's friend, the Indian civil servant Forster Fitzgerald Arbuthnot, and with the assistance of a student, Shivaram Parshuram Bhide.

The theory of indifference curves was developed by Francis Ysidro Edgeworth, who explained in his book " Mathematical Psychics: an Essay on the Application of Mathematics to the Moral Sciences ”, 1881, the mathematics needed for its drawing ; later on, Vilfredo Pareto was the first author to actually draw these curves, in his book " Manual of Political Economy ", 1906 ; and others in the first part of the 20th century.

William Francis Nolan ( born March 6, 1928 ) is an American author, who writes stories in the science fiction, fantasy and horror genres.

Explorer, ethnologist, and author Richard Francis Burton traveled by coach in the summer of 1860 to document life in Great Salt Lake City, to investigate the claims of anti-Mormonists of his day, and to broaden his knowledge of the new faith.

In 1553 Sir Nicholas Bacon married secondly Anne Cooke ( 1528 – 1610 ), one of the daughters of Sir Anthony Cooke, by whom he had two sons, Anthony ( 1558 – 1601 ) and Francis Bacon ( 1561 – 1626 ), who became Lord Chancellor and was also a philosopher, author and scientist.

Francis Bret Harte ( August 25, 1836 – May 6, 1902 ) was an American author and poet, best remembered for his accounts of pioneering life in California.

Pierre Francis de Marigny Berton, ( July 12, 1920 – November 30, 2004 ) was a noted Canadian author of non-fiction, especially Canadiana and Canadian history, and was a well-known television personality and journalist.

St. Mary's County is where Francis Scott Key, the author of a poem which became The Star Spangled Banner, and professional wrestler Scott Hall grew up.

In the Evening Standard, British author Neil Norman called Francis Marion,

In his 1953 book, The Oak Island Enigma: A History and Inquiry Into the Origin of the Money Pit, Penn Leary believed that English philosopher Francis Bacon used the pit to hide documents proving him to be the author of William Shakespeare's plays.

* Francis Joseph Hall, was an American Protestant Episcopal theologian and author.