Critic Jon Savage would later say that their singer Ian Curtis wrote " the definitive Northern Gothic statement ".

* 1956 – Ian Curtis, English singer-songwriter ( Joy Division ) ( d. 1980 )

New Order are an English rock band formed in 1980 by Bernard Sumner ( vocals, guitars, synthesisers ), Peter Hook ( bass, synthesisers ) and Stephen Morris ( drums, electronic drums, synthesisers ) – the remaining members of Joy Division, following the suicide of vocalist Ian Curtis – with the addition of Gillian Gilbert ( keyboards, guitars, synthesizers ).

Between 1977 and 1980, Ian Curtis, Peter Hook, Stephen Morris, and Bernard Sumner were members of the post-punk band Joy Division, often featuring heavy production input from producer Martin Hannett.

** Ian Curtis, singer / songwriter of acclaimed post punk band Joy Division, is found hanged.

** Ian Curtis, English rock musician ( Joy Division ) ( d. 1980 )

* May 18 – Ian Curtis, vocalist of pioneering post-punk group Joy Division, hangs himself in his Macclesfield home, just one day before Joy Division are scheduled to begin their first U. S. tour.

* May 18 – Ian Curtis ( 23 ), lead singer of Joy Division ( suicide )

In May, Joy Division singer Ian Curtis committed suicide shortly before a planned tour of the USA.

Chris Ott summed up Vini Reilly in 2003: " Friend to Ian Curtis and New Order, a borderline New Age celebrity within European muso circles and the creative force behind much of Morrissey's Viva Hate, Vini Reilly has unleashed untold volumes of music over the last twenty-five years.

Ian Curtis of the band Joy Division was inspired by " In the Penal Colony " to write the song " Colony " from the album Closer.

Painter Glenn Brown controversially appropriated individual space scene paintings by Foss and in the one case copying and altering it ( Exercise One ( for Ian Curtis ), 1995 ) and in the other, leaving it entirely unchanged ( Dark Angel ( for Ian Curtis ), 2002 ).

Following the death of lead singer Ian Curtis, the band reformed as New Order, and Hook played bass with them throughout their career until his departure in 2007.

Hook also contributed backing vocals on numerous Joy Division songs in concert and sang co-lead with Ian Curtis on live versions of Joy Division's " Interzone " and sings lead on two New Order songs (" Dreams Never End " and " Doubts Even Here " from the 1981 debut album Movement ).

On 18 May 2010, the 30th anniversary of Ian Curtis ' death, The Light performed a set of Joy Division songs including every number off Unknown Pleasures.

In Anton Corbijn's 2007 film Control, which focused on the life of Ian Curtis, he was played by Joe Anderson.

In May 1980, the band's vocalist Ian Curtis committed suicide.

In the Ian Curtis biopic, Control, he is played by James Anthony Pearson.

The core duo was joined by Karl Bartos, ex-percussionist and songwriter with Kraftwerk ( of whom both Sumner and fellow Joy Division member Ian Curtis were fans ), who commuted to Manchester for the writing sessions.

Wilson continues in the music business, and with his friends, starts Factory Records, signing Joy Division ( Sean Harris, John Simm, Ralf Little and Tim Horrocks ), led by erratic, brooding lead singer Ian Curtis ( Harris ), as the first band.

* Sean Harris as Ian Curtis ( Joy Division singer )

* Natalie Curtis ( daughter of Joy Division's Ian )

It features interviews with friends, peers, and admirers such as Dave Grohl, Slash, Ozzy Osbourne, James Hetfield, Lars Ulrich, Kirk Hammett, and Robert Trujillo of Metallica, David Ellefson of Megadeth, Scott Ian of Anthrax, Alice Cooper, Peter Hook of Joy Division / New Order, Dee Snider, Nikki Sixx, Mick Jones of The Clash, Kat Von D, Henry Rollins, Lars Frederiksen of Rancid, Jim Heath of Reverend Horton Heat, Slim Jim Phantom of The Stray Cats, Mike Inez, Joan Jett, pro skateboarder Geoff Rowley, pro wrestler Triple H, Fast Eddie Clarke, Jarvis Cocker, Marky Ramone, former Hawkwind

* Ian Curtis-Lead singer of English band Joy Division: lived and died there in 1980.

* Short, Audrey, Boldero, Joy and Luckman, Ian ( 1980 ).

Water " as a 7 " and 12 " single on the 10 year anniversary of the death of Ian Curtis from Joy Division.

* Control ( 2007 film ), a biographical film about Joy Division singer Ian Curtis

His other books include Ask: The Chatter of Pop ( a collection of his music journalism ) and Nothing, a biographical book reflecting on his father's suicide and that of Joy Division singer Ian Curtis, and unhappy parts of his teenage life such as the time he spent at Stockport Grammar School.

In the late 1970s, Gilbert was in a punk band with three girls who happened to rehearse next to Joy Division, which included singer Ian Curtis, guitarist Bernard Sumner, bassist Peter Hook, and drummer Stephen Morris.

He attended The King's School, Macclesfield ( the same school as the late Ian Curtis who was also in Joy Division ).

Reading were promoted to the Second Division as champions in 1986 under the management of Ian Branfoot, but were relegated back to the Third Division in 1988.

Following their return to the First Division, Bobby Ancell took management of the club in 1955 and presided over an era in which highly regarded Scotland stars including Ian St. John and Charlie Aitken played for the club.

After finishing first-place in the CFL East Division, the Winnipeg Blue Bombers were rewarded with eight players ( Receiver Terrence Edwards and offensive linemen Brendon LaBatte and Glenn January, were recognized on offense, while defensive linemen Doug Brown and Odell Willis along with defensive backs Jovon Johnson, Jonathan Hefney and Ian Logan took home the honors on defense ) being named to the CFL ’ s 2011 East Division All-Star Team, the most by any other team in their division.

In September 1968, the Appellate Division of the Rhodesian High Court ruled that Ian Smith ’ s administration had become the “ de jure ” government of the country, not just the “ de facto ” one.

At the time of the landing at Anzac Cove, the intention had been to complete the NZ & Australian Division with the 29th Indian Infantry Brigade, commanded by Major General Vaughn Cox, however as the situation at the Helles landing deteriorated, General Sir Ian Hamilton directed Cox's brigade there to support the British 29th Division.

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.

Ambergris is key to the Ian Cameron novel The Lost Ones, from which came the 1974 Disney film, The Island at the Top of the World.

Among other composers who set Housman songs were John Ireland ( song cycle, Land of Lost Content ), Michael Head ( e. g. ' Ludlow Fair '), Graham Peel ( a famous version of ' In Summertime on Bredon '), Ian Venables ( Songs of Eternity and Sorrow ), and the American Samuel Barber ( e. g. ' With rue my heart is laden ').

One of the viewpoint characters of Ian Watson's novel Oracle is an eyewitness to her defeat.

The history of this newspaper rivalry and the raid appearance of comic strips in most major American newspapers is discussed by Ian Gordon.

Eric Liddell ( Ian Charleson ), born in China of Scottish missionary parents, is in Scotland.

Coleman is a flute player and has taken several flutes with her to the ISS, including a pennywhistle from Paddy Moloney of The Chieftains, an old Irish flute from Matt Molloy of The Chieftains, and a flute from Ian Anderson of Jethro Tull.

* In Wheelers, a novel by Ian Stewart & Jack Cohen, CMBR is explained as the encrypted transmissions of an ancient civilization.

British actor Ian McNeice's interpretation of the Baron in the 2000 Sci-Fi Channel miniseries Frank Herbert's Dune ( and its sequel, 2003's Children of Dune ) is, though dramatic, somewhat lighter and more eloquent in comparison to Lynch's version, and therefore more consistent with the novel.

Finally there are those archaeologists and evolutionary anthropologists – among them Ian Watts, Camilla Power and Chris Knight ( co-founder with James Hurford of the EVOLANG series of conferences ) — who argue that ' the origin of language ' is probably an insoluble problem.

The heir apparent is the present holder's eldest son George Ian Alastair Gordon, Earl of Haddo ( b. 1983 ).

The work is based on a speech given at DEF CON 13 by Ian Clarke and Swedish mathematician Oskar Sandberg.

* Ian Farmer is the Station Manager, the boss of the local studios.

* Ian Stewart – Australian Rules Footballer who played 127 games for St. Kilda including the clubs first ( and thus far only ) Premiership in 1966, he is also a member of the AFL Hall of Fame with legend status

The antihero of House of Cards is a fictional Conservative Chief Whip, Francis Urquhart played by Ian Richardson.

Ian Murdock ( born April 28, 1973 ) is the founder of the Debian distribution and Progeny Linux Systems, a commercial Linux company.

Ian Barbour in his book Issues in Science and Religion ( 1966 ), p. 133, cites Arthur Eddington's The Nature of the Physical World ( 1928 ) for a text that argues The Heisenberg Uncertainty Principles provides a scientific basis for " the defense of the idea of human freedom " and his Science and the Unseen World ( 1929 ) for support of philosophical idealism " the thesis that reality is basically mental ".

Sir Ian Terence Botham OBE ( born 24 November 1955 ) is a former England Test cricketer and Test team captain, and current cricket commentator.

James Bond, code name 007, is a fictional character created in 1953 by writer Ian Fleming, who featured him in twelve novels and two short story collections.

In Revenge of the Sith, Palpatine ( Ian McDiarmid ), who is really the Sith Lord Darth Sidious, manipulates Anakin's love for Padmé in order to turn him to the dark side and become his apprentice, Darth Vader.

Ian Fraser " Lemmy " Kilmister ( born 24 December 1945 in Burslem, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England ) is an English rock musician.

A number of economists ( for example Pierangelo Garegnani, Robert L. Vienneau, and Arrigo Opocher & Ian Steedman ), building on the work of Piero Sraffa, argue that that model, even given all its assumptions, is logically incoherent.

* Desolation Road ( 1988 ) by Ian McDonald is a magic-realist science fiction novel set on a planet that's never explicitly named ( though the name " Ares " makes frequent appearances in various contexts ) but is clearly meant to be a terraformed Mars.

Ian Hacking has also argued that much of what is called social constructionism of science in contemporary times is actually motivated by an unstated nominalist metaphysical view.