Washington Irving, a prominent American writer with a European reputation, was approached by John Jacob Astor to mythologize the three-year reign of his Pacific Fur Company.

* Astoria ( book ), a biographical account about John Jacob Astor by Washington Irving

In 1927, Oldsmobile President Irving Jacob Reuter and his wife Janet built Meadowvue, an English Tudor mansion, at which they lived for nine years.

See Irving Jacob Reuter.

Jacob (" Jack ") Drucker and Irving (" Big Gangi ") Cohen were put on trial separately for the murder of racketeer Walter Sage in the Catskills.

As journalist and writer of neoconservative ideology Jacob Heilbrunn states: “ neo-conservatism was turned into an actual movement by Irving Kristol and Norman Podhoretz.

** John Pfeiffer ( producer & notes writer ), Ray Hall, Thomas MacCluskey, James P. Nichols, Anthony Salvatore, Jon M. Samuels, David Satz ( engineers ), J. J. Stelmach ( art director ), Gabriel Banat, Grant Beglarian, Robert Cowan, Mortimer W. Frank, Richard Freed, Erick Friedman, Harris Goldsmith, Josefa Heifetz, George Jellinek, Irving Kolodin, Jacob Lateiner, Laurence Lesser, Myra C. Livingston, John Maltese, John Anthony Maltese, Leonard Pennario & Brooks Smith ( notes writers ) for The Heifetz Collection performed by Jascha Heifetz & various artists

Writers for the magazine during this era included neoliberals Mickey Kaus and Jacob Weisberg along with Charles Krauthammer, Fred Barnes, Morton Kondracke, Sidney Blumenthal, Robert Kuttner, Ronald Steel, Michael Walzer, and Irving Howe.

** John Pfeiffer ( producer & notes writer ), Ray Hall, Thomas MacCluskey, James P. Nichols, Anthony Salvatore, Jon M. Samuels, David Satz ( engineers ), J. J. Stelmach ( art director ), Gabriel Banat, Grant Beglarian, Robert Cowan, Mortimer W. Frank, Richard Freed, Erick Friedman, Harris Goldsmith, Josefa Heifetz, George Jellinek, Irving Kolodin, Jacob Lateiner, Laurence Lesser, Myra C. Livingston, John Maltese, John Anthony Maltese, Leonard Pennario & Brooks Smith ( notes writers ) for The Heifetz Collection performed by Jascha Heifetz & various artists

Foster, Eugene Dennis, John B. Williamson, Jacob Stachel, Robert G. Thompson, Benjamin J. Davis, Jr., Henry Winston, John Gates, Irving Potash, Gilbert Green, Carl Winter, Gus Hall.

Later leaders were Judge Joseph M. Proskauer, industrialist Jacob Blaustein, and lawyer Irving M. Engel.

* English Inn ( formerly Medovue Manor ), Eaton Rapids, Michigan built in 1927 for Oldsmobile President Irving Jacob Reuter

Most notable among them were: Washington Irving, Samuel Morse, Daniel Webster, John Jacob Astor and U. S. Presidents John Quincy Adams and Martin Van Buren.

Among her most celebrated roles with Irving were Ophelia, Pauline in The Lady of Lyons by Edward George Bulwer-Lytton ( 1878 ), Portia ( 1879 ), Queen Henrietta Maria in William Gorman Wills's drama Charles I ( 1879 ), Desdemona in Othello ( 1881 ), Camma in Tennyson's short tragedy The Cup ( 1881 ), Beatrice in Much Ado About Nothing, another of her signature roles ( 1882 and often thereafter ), Juliet in Romeo and Juliet ( 1882 ), Jeanette in The Lyons Mail by Charles Reade ( 1883 ), the title part in Reade's romantic comedy Nance Oldfield ( 1883 ), Viola in Twelfth Night ( 1884 ), Margaret in the long-running adaptation of Faust by Wills ( 1885 ), the title role in Olivia ( 1885, which she had played earlier at the Court Theatre ), Lady Macbeth in Macbeth ( 1888, with incidental music by Arthur Sullivan ), Queen Katherine in Henry VIII ( 1892 ), Cordelia in King Lear ( 1892 ), Rosamund de Clifford in Becket by Alfred Tennyson ( 1893 ), Guinevere in King Arthur by J. Comyns Carr, with incidental music by Sullivan ( 1895 ), Imogen in Cymbeline ( 1896 ), the title character in Victorien Sardou and Émile Moreau's play Madame Sans-Gêne ( 1897 ) and Volumnia in Coriolanus ( 1901 ).

Irving Andrew Heikes, the valedictorian of his class at Lehigh, was initiated as the first student member of Tau Beta Pi on June 15, 1885.

* 1865 – Irving Babbitt, American critic and academic ( d. 1933 )

* 1913 – Robert Irving, English conductor ( d. 1991 )

* Arthur Irving, 1996 – 2010

* 2012 – Irving Fein, American film and television producer and manager ( b. 1911 )

* 1926 – George Irving Bell, American mountaineer ( d. 2000 )

* 2000 – The Texas 7 hold up a sports store in Irving, Texas.

* 1993 – Irving " Swifty " Lazar, American Hollywood talent agent ( b. 1907 )

* 1838 – Sir Henry Irving, British actor ( d. 1905 )

* 1867 – Irving Fisher, American economist ( d. 1947 )

* 19th century – Edward Irving and the Catholic Apostolic Church.

Irving Langmuir ( 31 January 1881 – 16 August 1957 ) was an American chemist and physicist.

* 1895 – Irving Caesar, American songwriter and composer ( d. 1996 )

* 1905 – Irving Johnson, American sailor and author ( d. 1991 )

* 1914 – Irving Brecher, American Screenwriter ( d. 2008 )

* 1917 – Irving Penn, American photographer ( d. 2009 )

* 1920 – Irving Kristol, American pundit, columnist and author ( d. 2009 )

* 1894 – Irving Mills, American jazz music publisher ( d. 1985 )

* 1898 – Irving Rapper, UK-US film director ( d. 1999 )

* Miff Mole, ( Irving Milfred Mole, 1898 – 1961 ), American jazz trombonist and band leader

* 1942 – Bing Crosby, the Ken Darby Singers and the John Scott Trotter Orchestra record Irving Berlin's " White Christmas ", the best-selling Christmas single in history.

* 1888 – Irving Berlin, American composer ( d. 1989 )

* 1895 – Henry Irving becomes the first person from the theatre to be knighted.

* 1942 – John Irving, American author

* 1899 – Irving Thalberg, American film producer ( d. 1936 )

* 1876 – Irving Baxter, American athlete ( d. 1957 )

However, the transition from Modernism to Postmodernism is often said to have happened at 3: 32pm on the 15th of July in 1972, when Pruitt Igoe ; a housing development for low-income people in St. Louis, which had been a prize winning version of le Corbusier's ' machine for modern living ' was deemed uninhabitable and was torn down ( Irving 1993, 480 ).

* The 1972 novel by Irving Wallace, The Word concerns archaeological forgery, the finding and translation of a supposed lost gospel by James the Just, close relative of Jesus Christ, as part of a large project to be published as a new Bible that would inspire a Christian revival, but which is possibly a forged document.

In 1972, the Garden's Chairman, Irving Mitchell Felt, proposed moving the New York Rangers and Knicks to a venue in the New Jersey Meadows ( now completed and known as Meadowlands Sports Complex or Izod Center ).

Life lost credibility with many readers when it supported Clifford Irving, whose fraudulent autobiography of Howard Hughes was revealed as a hoax in January 1972.

" ( Irving Janis, 1972, p. 9 ) This is a state in which even if they have different ideas, do not challenge organizational thinking, and therefore there is a reduced capacity for innovative thoughts.

The same unnamed technique also appeared in Irving Wallace's book The Word ( 1972 ).

In 1972, Robert Moore and Irving Zucker independently demonstrated through lesion experiments that the suprachiasmatic nucleus of the hypothalamus is required for the persistence of endogenous oscillations in rats.

* The Clifford Irving and the Howard Hughes biography ( 1972 )

Notable actors who have portrayed Shylock include Richard Burbage in the 16th century, Charles Macklin in 1741, Edmund Kean in 1814, William Charles Macready in 1840, Edwin Booth in 1861, Henry Irving in 1880, George Arliss in 1928, John Gielgud in 1937, Laurence Olivier at the Royal National Theatre in 1972 and on TV in 1973, Patrick Stewart in 1965 at the Theatre Royal, Bristol and 1978, plus ( as Shylock ) in a one-man stage show Mr. Stewart developed entitled " Shylock: Shakespeare's Alien " in 1987 and 2001, Al Pacino in a 2004 feature film version as well as in Central Park in 2010, and F. Murray Abraham at the Royal Shakespeare Company in 2006.

The Water Method Man ( 1972 ) is the second published novel by American novelist John Irving.

* The Man ( 1972 ), a theatrical film adaptation of the Irving Wallace book ( see above ).

In 1972 he co-founded, together with Mike Irving and Guy Sprung, the Half Moon Theatre near Aldgate, east London.

Irving Blitzer was an American bobsled two-time Gold Medalist at the 1968 Winter Olympics who finished first in two events again during the 1972 Winter Olympics but was disqualified from the latter for cheating and retired in disgrace to Jamaica, where he leads an impoverished life as a bookie.

He was a co-founder of Greenpeace in 1972 with Patrick Moore, Ben Metcalfe, Jim Bohlen, Irving Stowe, Paul Watson ( which is contested by Greenpeace ; more at this page ) and several other members.

* 1972 Clifford Irving: What really happened ; His untold story of the Hughes Affair by Clifford Irving with Richard Suskind

A critical history, 1919-1957 ( pub 1957 with Irving Howe and Lewis Coser ), The Negro and the American Labor Movement ( 1968 ), Soviet Communism and the Socialist Vision ( 1972 ) and Socialist Perspectives ( 1983, with Phyllis Jacobson ).

* Irving Romaine ( born 1972 ), Bermudian cricketer

* The Seventies: Problems and Proposals ( with Irving Howe ), 1972