Many of his students have gone on to successful writing careers ; they include Gretchen Mazur, Helen Fremont, Michael Byers, Jardine Libaire, Porter Shreve, Davy Rothbart, John Fulton, Marc Nesbitt, Patrick O ' Keeffe, Jess Row, Francesca Delbano, Peter Orner, Heidi Julavits, Karl Iagnemma, Achy Obejas, James Morrison and Elwood Reid.

In 1953, Grayson optioned the story It's Greek to Me, written by Helen Deutsch, to be accompanied by a score from Cole Porter.

It is named after Dame Nellie Melba, the stage name of Australian opera singer Helen Porter Mitchell.

* Sander Gilman, Roy Porter, George Rousseau, Elaine Showalter, and Helen King ( 1993 ).

* From This Place: A Selection of Writing by Women of Newfoundland and Labrador ( 1977 ), ISBN 0-920502-02-4 ( edited with Helen Porter and Geraldine Rubia )

Turner and Porter were replaced by Helen Scott and a variety of other ladies before Janet Harmon joined in the mid 1960s.

Artists in the permanent collection include Robert Motherwell, Robert Rauschenberg, Jasper Johns, Jim Dine, Helen Frankenthaler, David Hockney, Bruce Nauman, William Wegman, Nancy Graves, Dale Chihuly, Arthur Dove, Louise Bourgeois, Andrew Wyeth, Fairfield Porter, Georgia O ' Keeffe, Frank Stella, Lesley Dill, Romare Bearden, Christian Boltanski, Robert Mapplethorpe, Garry Winogrand, Kojo Griffin, Jim Hodges, Wayne Thiebaud, Hung Liu, Marcus Antonius Jansen, and Stephen Scott Young.

* Krieble, Helen et al., Charles Ethan Porter, 1847 ?- 1923 ( exhibition catalog, Connecticut Gallery, 1987 )

Her stage name Bronhill, which she used from 1952, was an abbreviation of Broken Hill, which was her way of thanking her home town for its support in raising money to send her overseas for professional training as a singer — in the same way that Helen Porter Mitchell chose the stage name of Nellie Melba ( after Melbourne ), and that Florence Mary Wilson chose the stage name of Florence Austral and Elsie Mary Fischer chose the stage name Elsa Stralia ( after Australia ).

* Helen Mirren – Door to Door as Mrs. Porter

* Helen Mirren for playing Irene Porter in Door to Door

Hawks was the oldest of five children and his birth was followed by Kenneth Neil Hawks ( August 12, 1899-January 2, 1930 ), William Bellinger Hawks ( January 29, 1901-January 10, 1969 ), Grace Louise Hawks ( October 17, 1903-December 23, 1927 ) and Helen Bernice Hawks ( 1906-May 4, 1911 ).

* January 1 – Helen Wills Moody, American tennis player ( b. 1905 )

* January 5 – Helen Smith, American female baseball player

Appleton was born in Los Angeles, California on January 4, 1939 to Jewish parents: Helen Jacobs Appleton ( born Philadelphia, 1908 ) and Charles Leonard Appleton ( born Haim Eppel Boim in Kishenov, Moldavia, 1900 ).

They had three children together: John Philip, Jr. ( April 1, 1881 – May 18, 1937 ), Jane Priscilla ( August 7, 1882 – October 28, 1958 ), and Helen ( January 21, 1887 – October 14, 1975 ).

Cutting, hauling and hand-peeling the logs, Pat and Helen Gwin completed and opened the lodge on January 1, 1952.

Keel had four children: three with second wife Helen Anderson – two daughters, Kaija Liane ( born January 14, 1950 ) and Kirstine Elizabeth ( born June 21, 1952 ), and a son, Gunnar Louis ( born June 3, 1955 ); one by his third wife of 34 years Judy – a daughter, Leslie Grace ( born September 1, 1974 ); and ten grandchildren.

Sophie, Countess of Wessex ( Sophie Helen ; née Rhys-Jones ; born 20 January 1965 ), is the wife of Prince Edward, Earl of Wessex, and member of the British Royal Family.

Sophie Helen Rhys-Jones was born at Radcliffe Infirmary, Oxford, on 20 January 1965, the second child and first daughter of Christopher Bournes Rhys-Jones ( born 1931 ), a retired tyre salesman, and his wife, Mary ( née O ' Sullivan ; 1934 – 2005 ), a secretary, who already had a son, David.

* 20 January 196519 June 1999: Miss Sophie Helen Rhys-Jones

Until 1953 the school was known as Wickett Ward School, but after the death of Mrs. Helen Gensler ( a teacher ), the Trustees on January 13, 1953 voted to change the name of the Helen Gensler Elementary School.

* A Sense of Place: The Life and Work of Conlon Nancarrow ( Helen Borten, writer / producer / narrator ; 28 January 1994 )

He died on 7 January 1988, from a combination of bronchitis, influenza and jaundice, in Arkley, Barnet, aged 74, survived by his widow Helen.

* January 16 – Helen Darville, writer

* January 1 – Helen Fielding, author

* Michael Glover, " Shock and awe: The art of Chris Ofili "; and extract from " Ekow Eshun interviews Chris Ofili ", edited by Helen Little in Chris Ofili ( Tate Publishing, 2010 ), The Independent, 22 January 2010.

( 1 ) 27 January 1943 Maj Hon Simon Nevill Astley ( b. 13 August 1919 ; d. 16 March 1946 ), 2nd son of Albert Edward Delaval, 21st Baron Hastings, by his wife Lady Margueritte Helen Nevill, only child by his second wife of Henry Gilbert Ralph, 3rd Marquess of Abergavenny.

At the close of the Civil War, he married Helen Frances Garrison, the daughter of the anti-slavery campaigner William Lloyd Garrison, on January 3, 1866.

Helen Folasade Adu OBE ( born 16 January 1959 ), better known as Sade, is a British singer-songwriter, composer, and record producer.

Helen Battles Sawyer Hogg, CC ( 1 August 1905 – 28 January 1993 ) was a prolific astronomer noted for her research into globular clusters.

Dorothea Helen Puente ( January 9, 1929 – March 27, 2011 ) was a convicted American serial killer.

She was born on January 9, 1929 as Dorothea Helen Gray in Redlands, California to Trudy Mae Yates and Jesse James Gray.

Lady May ( Helen Emma ) Abel Smith ( née Cambridge, born Princess May of Teck ; 23 January 1906 – 29 May 1994 ) was a member of the British Royal Family, a great-granddaughter of Queen Victoria.

* Colin Powell demands answers over Curveball's WMD lies, Ed Pikington, Helen Pidd and Martin Chulov, The Guardian, February 16, 2011

In February 2008 Helen Clark, the New Zealand Prime Minister at that time, announced a government crackdown on tagging and other forms of graffiti vandalism, describing it as a destructive crime representing an invasion of public and private property.

Prime Minister Helen Clark offered New Zealand's Chinese community an official apology for the poll tax on 12 February 2002.

* February 22 – Helen Parrish, American actress ( b. 1924 )

Helen Miller accepted the Bronze Star medal for Glenn Miller in February 1945.

Walton married Helen Robson on February 14, 1943.

Kennedy was born John Arthur Kennedy on 17 February 1914 in Worcester, Massachusetts, the son of Helen ( née Thompson ) and J. T.

Ives and Helen Peck Ehrlich were divorced in February 1971.

* February 9 – CBS presents the Royal Shakespeare Company's version of " A Midsummer Night's Dream ", starring Diana Rigg, David Warner, and Helen Mirren.

He married Helen Sweetman on February 21, 1936.

Genesis ' 385 MW combined cycle gas turbine project at Huntly was launched on 21 February 2005 by the Prime Minister, the Rt Hon Helen Clark.

* Lady Helen Frances ( 5 February 1888 – 21 October 1970 ), who married Brigadier-General Lord Henry Seymour ( 1878 – 1939 ) and was the mother of Hugh Seymour, 8th Marquess of Hertford.

Helen Gurley Brown ( February 18, 1922 – August 13, 2012 ) was an American author, publisher, and businesswoman.

For 53 years he was married to U. S. born Helen Smith ( February 16, 1924-November 4, 2001 ) and together they had and raised twelve children in the Hart mansion.

In February 2012, independent researcher Helen Radkey discovered that members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ( or " Mormons ") had conducted baptism for the dead ceremonies in the name of Karski, who was a devout Roman Catholic.

Adrian Mole: the Cappuccino Years was broadcast on BBC One between 2 February and 9 March 2001, starring Stephen Mangan as Adrian Mole, Alison Steadman as Pauline Mole and Helen Baxendale as Pandora Braithwaite.

Linda Helen Smith ( 29 January 1958 – 27 February 2006 ) was a British stand-up comic and comedy writer.

* Henrietta Helen Olive Robarts Durand-Deacon, ( 18 February 1949 )

He married second wife Helen Hughes on 5 February 2010 in a private ceremony in Christchurch, New Zealand.

Mary Astor was born Lucile Vasconcellos Langhanke on May 3, 1906 in Quincy, Illinois, the only child of Otto Ludwig Langhanke ( October 2, 1871 – February 3, 1943 ) and Helen Marie de Vasconcellos ( April 19, 1881 – January 18, 1947 ).

February 2003-February 2004: Helen Chapman

The February 1967 edition of Cosmopolitan, then edited by Helen Gurley Brown, reprinted the Ramparts article.

Hunt married Helen Duett Ellison in Holbrook, Arizona, on February 24, 1904.

made its U. S. premiere at the Helen Hayes Performing Arts Center ( since 2006 known as the Riverspace Arts in Nyack ) in Nyack, New York in February 2000.