The Gap looming before him -- the place where had confronted Jack English on that day so many years ago -- was his exit from all that had meaning to him.

" The term made an impact into English pulp science fiction starting from Jack Williamson's The Cometeers ( 1936 ) and the distinction between mechanical robots and fleshy androids was popularized by Edmond Hamilton's Captain Future ( 1940 – 1944 ).

* 1998 – Jack Scanlon, English actor

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.

* 1990 – Jack O ' Connell, English actor

* 1946 – Jack Straw, English politician

* 1717 – Blind Jack, English road builder ( d. 1810 )

* 1958 – Jack Richards, English cricketer

* 1930 – Jack Taylor, English football referee ( d. 2012 )

* 1882 – Sir Jack Hobbs, English cricketer ( d. 1963 )

* 1963 – Jack Hobbs, English cricketer ( b. 1882 )

English folklore tradition holds that Jack Frost, an elfish creature, is responsible for feathery patterns of frost found on windows on cold mornings.

* 1917 – Jack Karnehm, English sportscaster ( d. 2002 )

* 1989 – Jack Haig, English actor ( b. 1913 )

* 1988 – Jack Whitehall, English comedian and actor

* 1929 – Jack Higgins, English novelist

* 1892 – Jack MacBryan, English cricketer and field hockey player ( d. 1983 )

* Judah Bergman (" Jack Kid Berg "), English world champion Hall of Fame junior welterweight boxer

* Jack Brown ( cricketer ) ( 1869 – 1904 ), English cricketer

Bradman had also appeared uncomfortable against the pace of Sandy Bell in his innings of 299 not out, when the desperate bowler decided to bowl short to him, and South African Herbie Taylor, according to Jack Fingleton, may have mentioned this to English cricketers in 1932.

* 1973 – Jack Davenport, English actor

* 1935 – Jack Charlton, English footballer

* 1991 – Jack Rodwell, English footballer

* 2007 – Jack Edward Oliver, English cartoonist and writer ( b. 1942 )

* 1993 – Jack Butland, English footballer

* Jack English Hightower, Memphis, Texas, native ; former member of both houses of the Texas State Legislature, and former U. S. Representative

* Jack English Hightower, Democrat, U. S. Representative from 1975-1985

Projects include a graphic novel called Jack Hightower produced in tandem with Dark Horse comics.

His roles have included Wes Hightower in Urban Cowboy ( 1980 ), astronaut Alan Shepard in The Right Stuff ( 1983 ), Emmett in Silverado ( 1985 ), Commander Bart Mancuso in The Hunt for Red October ( 1990 ), Jack Crawford in The Silence of the Lambs ( 1991 ), Roger in Training Day ( 2001 ), Ezra Kramer in The Bourne Ultimatum ( 2007 ), and The Wise Man in Sucker Punch ( 2011 ).

* Jack Billion ( born 1939 ), the 2006 Democratic Party candidate for governor of South Dakota

Their son, Jack, was born in 1988.

Chris Sarandon ( born July 24, 1942 ) is an American actor who is best known for playing Prince Humperdinck in the film The Princess Bride, the vampire Jerry Dandridge in Fright Night and Detective Mike Norris in the first entry of the Child's Play series, and providing the speaking voice of Jack Skellington from The Nightmare Before Christmas.

Harrison Hagan " Jack " Schmitt ( born July 3, 1935 ) is an American geologist, a retired NASA astronaut, university professor, and a former U. S. senator from New Mexico.

Calling it " really an emotional decision ", she explained: " He was so full of promise, like Jack ; they were born in the same year.

* John Gardner Ford ( born 1952 ), American business executive who co-founded Outside magazine in 1977 ; second son of President Gerald R. Ford ; best known as Jack Ford

Jack Kirby ( August 28, 1917 – February 6, 1994 ), born Jacob Kurtzberg, was an American comic book artist, writer and editor regarded by historians and fans as one of the major innovators and most influential creators in the comic book medium.

Jack Kirby was born Jacob Kurtzberg on August 28, 1917, on the Lower East Side of Manhattan in New York City, where he was raised.

Sir John Arthur " Jack " Brabham, AO, OBE ( born 2 April 1926 ) is an Australian former racing driver who was Formula One champion in, and.

Leon Max Lederman ( born July 15, 1922 ) is an American physicist who, along with Melvin Schwartz and Jack Steinberger, received the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1988 for their joint research on neutrinos.

Mann was born in Chicago of Jewish heritage, the son of grocers Esther and Jack Mann .< ref >

Their son Hopper Jack Penn, born August 6, 1993, is named after two family friends, Dennis Hopper and Jack Nicholson.

The corporate name honors the four founding Warner brothers ( born Wonskolaser WON Sko La ' Ser or Wonsal )— Harry ( born Hirsz ), Albert ( born Aaron ), Sam ( born Szmul ), and Jack ( Itzhak or to some sources Jacob ).

Jack, the youngest, was born in Canada.

* Jack O ' Neill ( businessman ) ( born 1923 ), American surfer and businessman, founder of O ' Neill, the surfwear and equipment brand

Grace Kelly was born in Philadelphia to John Brendan " Jack " Kelly, and his wife, Margaret Katherine Majer.

John Griffith " Jack " London ( born John Griffith Chaney, January 12, 1876 – November 22, 1916 ) was an American author, journalist, and social activist.

* Jack Soo ( born Goro Suzuki ), Japanese actor

Birch was born in Los Angeles, California, the eldest child of Jack Birch and Carol Connors.

* Jack Cuthbert ( born 1987 ), English rugby union player

Jack McDevitt ( born 1935 ) is an American science fiction author whose novels frequently deal with attempts to make contact with alien races, and with archaeology or xenoarchaeology.