* Gregory Holman Bromley Way ( 1776 – 1844 ), English lieutenant-general

* 2003 – John Gregory Dunne, American writer ( b. 1932 )

* 2003 – Gregory Peck, American actor ( b. 1916 )

* 1551 – Gregory Cromwell, 1st Baron Cromwell ( b. 1514 )

* 1846 – Pope Gregory XVI ( b. 1765 )

* 1276 – Pope Gregory X ( b. c. 1210 )

* 1932 – Lady Gregory, Irish playwright ( b. 1852 )

* 1378 – Pope Gregory XI ( b. 1336 )

* 2007 – Mike Gregory, English rugby league footballer ( b. 1964 )

* 2008 – Gregory Bryant-Bey, American convicted murderer ( b. 1955 )

* December 14 – Gregory Ratoff, Russian actor and director ( b. 1897 )

* January 11 – Gregory " Pappy " Boyington, American pilot, United States Marine Corps fighter ace ( b. 1912 )

* July 8 – Pope Gregory XV ( b. 1554 )

** Gregory Jarvis, American astronaut ( b. 1944 )

* May 22 – Lady Gregory, Irish writer and folklorist ( b. 1852 )

* November 6 – J. Gregory Smith, Vermont governor ( b. 1818 )

* November 14 – Gregory Palamas, Archbishop of Thessalonica ( b. 1296 )

* June 1 – Pope Gregory XVI ( b. 1765 )

* January 25 – Gregory Nazianzus, theologian and Patriarch of Constantinople ( b. 329 )

* April 10 – Pope Gregory XIII ( b. 1502 )

* February 18 – Pope Gregory V ( b. c. 972 )

* December 17 – Pope Gregory VIII ( b. c. 1100 )

* October 16 – Pope Gregory XIV ( b. 1535 )

* August 29 – Gregory King, English statistician ( b. 1648 )

* October 10 – David Gregory, Scottish astronomer ( b. 1659 )

* Gregory II, Patriarch of Constantinople 1283 – 1289 ( b. 1241 )

Dr. Menas S. Gregory was another.

There had been reading at table, especially from two books, Pope Gregory The Great's account of St. Scholastica in his Dialogues and my own The World Of Washington Irving.

The actual function of patristic communism was adequately set forth by St. Gregory almost a millenium before More wrote Utopia.

But when tiny, 145-pound Albert Gregory Pearson of the Los Angeles Angels, who once caught three straight fly balls in center field because, as a teammate explained, `` the other team thought no one was out there '', hits seven home runs in four months ( three more than his total in 1958, 1959, and 1960 ), his achievement borders on the ridiculous.

Laos has been construed by Gregory Nagy, following Leonard Palmer, to mean a corps of soldiers, a muster.

The original 22-member Board of Trustees included Chair Gregory Peck and Vice Chair Sidney Poitier as well as Francis Ford Coppola, Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., Jack Valenti and other representatives from the arts and academia.

* 1955 – Gregory Bryant-Bey, American convicted murderer ( d. 2008 )

Australia had scored a massive 586 ( Syd Gregory 201, George Giffen 161 ) and then dismissed England for 325.

For the first time, the tactic of using two express bowlers in tandem paid off as Jack Gregory and Ted McDonald crippled the English batting on a regular basis.

Australia's ageing post-war team broke up after 1926, with Collins, Charlie Macartney and Warren Bardsley all departing, and Gregory breaking down at the start of the 1928 – 29 series.

The first case recorded of the partial exemption of an abbot from episcopal control is that of Faustus, abbot of Lerins, at the council of Arles, AD 456 ; but the exorbitant claims and exactions of bishops, to which this repugnance to episcopal control is to be traced, far more than to the arrogance of abbots, rendered it increasingly frequent, and, in the 6th century, the practice of exempting religious houses partly or altogether from episcopal control, and making them responsible to the pope alone, received an impulse from Pope Gregory the Great.

The lives of numerous abbots make up a significant contribution to Christian hagiography, one of the most well-known being the Life of St. Benedict of Nursia by St. Gregory the Great.

Gregory of Nyssa discusses the long-before believed possibility of purification of souls after death.

The same word in adjectival form ( purgatorius-a-um, cleansing ), which appears also in non-religious writing, was already used by Christians such as Augustine of Hippo and Pope Gregory I to refer to an after-death cleansing.

* Conceptions of the Afterlife in Early Civilizations: Universalism, Constructivism and Near-Death Experience by Gregory Shushan, New York & London, Continuum, 2009.

Two days after Theodosius arrived in Constantinople, 24 November 380, he expelled the Homoiousian bishop, Demophilus of Constantinople, and surrendered the churches of that city to Gregory Nazianzus, the leader of the rather small Nicene community there, an act which provoked rioting.

Ambrose ranks with Augustine, Jerome, and Gregory the Great, as one of the Latin Doctors of the Church.

( The later pope St. Gregory I the Great is not known to have composed any Gregorian chant, the plainsong or " Romish chant ".

However, this was not successful, for according to Gregory of Tours, Amalaric pressured her to forsake her Roman Catholic faith and convert to Arian Christianity, at one point beating her until she bled ; she sent to her brother Childebert I, king of Paris a towel stained with her own blood.

It is worth noting Ian Woods advice that although Gregory provides the fullest information for this period, where it touches Merovingian affairs, he often " allowed his religious bias to determine his interpretation of the events.

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

Their raids throughout the three parts of Gaul were traumatic: Gregory of Tours ( died ca 594 ) mentions their destructive force at the time of Valerian and Gallienus ( 253 – 260 ), when the Alemanni assembled under their " king ", whom he calls Chrocus, who " by the advice, it is said, of his wicked mother, and overran the whole of the Gauls, and destroyed from their foundations all the temples which had been built in ancient times.

The war of Clovis with the Alemanni forms the setting for the conversion of Clovis, briefly treated by Gregory of Tours ( Book II. 31 ) Subsequently the Alemanni formed part of the Frankish dominions and were governed by a Frankish duke.