Almost immediately after the order of Kotaka was placed, Fernando Villaamil, second officer of the Ministry of the Navy of Spain where he was put in charge of developing the concept of a new ship designed to combat torpedo boats, placed an order for a large torpedo gunboat in November 1885, with the British builder James and George Thompson, of Clydebank, not far from where the Yarrow shipyards would move from London 20 years later.

The former HBC Fort Dallas at Camchin, the confluence of the Thompson and Fraser Rivers, was renamed in his honour by Governor Sir James Douglas in 1858 as Lytton, British Columbia.

Well-known currently active British actors and actresses include: Gemma Arterton, Rowan Atkinson, Christian Bale, Sacha Baron Cohen, Kate Beckinsale, Paul Bettany, Orlando Bloom, Emily Blunt, Helena Bonham Carter, Kenneth Branagh, Jim Broadbent, Daniel Craig, Daniel Day-Lewis, Judi Dench, Rupert Everett, Ralph Fiennes, Colin Firth, Michael Gambon, Anthony Hopkins, Jeremy Irons, Ben Kingsley, Keira Knightley, Hugh Laurie, Jude Law, James McAvoy, Ewan McGregor, Ian McKellen, Helen Mirren, Carey Mulligan, Thandie Newton, Bill Nighy, Gary Oldman, Clive Owen, Robert Pattinson, Daniel Radcliffe, Vanessa Redgrave, Joely Richardson, Alan Rickman, Tim Roth, Kristin Scott Thomas, Jason Statham, Patrick Stewart, Alex Pettyfer, Gerard Butler, Emma Thompson, Emma Watson, Rachel Weisz, Kate Winslet, Tom Hiddleston, Ray Winstone and Catherine Zeta-Jones.

* Thompson, James Westfall.

* February 12 – Two-year-old James Bulger is abducted, tortured and murdered by two 10-year-old boys, Jon Venables and Robert Thompson.

Notable members of the Industrial Workers of the World have included Lucy Parsons ; Helen Keller ; Joe Hill ; Ralph Chaplin ; Ricardo Flores Magon ; James P. Cannon ; James Connolly ; Jim Larkin ; Paul Mattick ; Big Bill Haywood ; Eugene Debs ; David Dellinger ; Elizabeth Gurley Flynn ; Sam Dolgoff, Monty Miller ; Indian Nationalist Lala Hardayal ; Frank Little ; ACLU founder Roger Nash Baldwin ; Harry Bridges, briefly, later helped form ILWU ; Minnesota Governor Floyd B. Olson ; Buddhist beat poet Gary Snyder ; Fredy Perlman ; Australian poets Harry Hooton and Lesbia Harford ; graphic artist Carlos Cortez ; artist Kevin McCoy ; counterculture icon Kenneth Rexroth ; Surrealist Franklin Rosemont ; Rosie Kane and Carolyn Leckie, former Members of the Scottish Parliament ; labor and environmental organizer Judi Bari ; folk musicians Utah Phillips, Harry McClintock, Anne Feeney, and David Rovics ; crime writer Jim Thompson ; Finnish folk music legend Hiski Salomaa ; Catholic Workers Dorothy Day and Ammon Hennacy.

Republican governor James R. Thompson reorganized low-profile departments before his re-election in 1978.

Fur traders included Manuel Lisa, Robert Stuart, William Henry Ashley, Jedediah Smith, William Sublette, Andrew Henry, Thomas Fitzpatrick, Kit Carson, Jim Bridger, Peter Skene Ogden, David Thompson, James Douglas, Donald Mackenzie, Alexander Ross, James Sinclair and other mountain men.

* James Westfall Thompson, History of Livestock Raising in the United States, 1607-1860 ( Washington: U. S. Department of Agriculture, 1942 ).

The first mob of bullocks to attempt to use the stock route set out in January 1911 ; however the party of three drovers, George Shoesmith, James Thompson and an Aboriginal stockman who was known as ' Chinaman ', were killed by Aborigines at Well 37.

* Earlier graduates include J. C. R. Licklider, pioneer in artificial intelligence ; Charles Nagel, founder of the U. S. Chamber of Commerce ; Julian Hill, co-inventor of nylon ; Clyde Cowan, co-discoverer of the neutrino ; James R. Thompson, Governor of Illinois ; David R. Francis, Governor of Missouri ; William H. Webster, former Director of the FBI ; Edward Singleton Holden, President of the University of California ; Nathan O. Hatch, president of Wake Forest University ; Thomas Lamb Eliot, President of Reed College ; and Abram L. Sachar, founding President of Brandeis University.

His most notable involvement in any naval activity was actually on the sidelines: when Lt. George Washington De Long and James Gordon Bennett Jr. set up the USS Jeannette Expedition to the North Pole in 1879, Thompson gave some advice to the preparations, but seemed determined to watch the extent of Government involvement in the project.

The theory was developed by the two psychologists Heiner Rindermann and James Thompson.

Thompson was assisted by unregistered surveyor assistants James Ellwood and Alfred Dale Edwards.

* Thompson, James Westfall.

He defeated each of his rivals, including James Thompson, Alexander Beaufort Meek, and two strong German masters, Theodor Lichtenhein and Louis Paulsen, the latter two in the semifinal and final rounds.

* The City of Dreadful Night by James Thompson ( Agraphia Press, 2003 )

Earliest known settlers ( by 1840 ) were Samuel Thompson, Robert Moore, John W. Burns, Jeff and Robert Montgomery, Benjamin Stephens, James Young, William Franklin, Isham Pool, and the Tuckers, according to Goodspeed.

Members included Donald Hodgen, Sam " Skelly " McCrory, " Fat " Jackie Thompson, James and Herbie Millar.

Fearing an ambush, Adair had his allies " Fat " Jackie Thompson and James " Sham " Millar smuggle a pistol for him to the meeting.

* James Hillman ( 1926 – 2011 ), post-jungian psychologist and founder of Archetypal psychology ; died at his home in Thompson.

* James Brown Mason ( 1775 – 1819 ), two-term US Congressman for Rhode Island ; born in Thompson

* James M. Munyon ( 1848 – 1918 ), publisher and doctor ; born in Thompson

* 1983 – Stephen James King, Australian actor

The period of Darling's captaincy saw the emergence of outstanding Australian players such as Trumper, Warwick Armstrong, James Kelly, Monty Noble, Clem Hill, Hugh Trumble and Ernie Jones.

* 1987 – James Wesolowski, Australian footballer

* 1991 – Tessa James, Australian actress

* 1868 – Henry James O ' Farrell, Australian attempted assassin of Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha

Robert James Lee " Bob " Hawke AC GCL ( born 9 December 1929 ) is a former Australian politician who served as the 23rd Prime Minister of Australia from 1983 to 1991.

* 1964 – James Blundell, Australian country singer

* 1977 – James Wan, Australian film director

In 1930, King George V and the Australian Prime Minister James Scullin discussed the appointment of a new governor-general to replace Lord Stonehaven, whose term was coming to an end.

* 1988 – James Troisi, Australian footballer

* 1977 – Rebecca St. James, Australian singer-songwriter, author and actress

* 1901 – Sir James Dickson, Premier of Queensland, Australian Minister for Defence ( b. 1832 )

* 1978 – James Hopes, Australian one-day cricketer

* 1924 – James Clavell, Australian author ( d. 1994 )

* 1939 – Clive James, Australian television presenter and writer

With the Australian Labor Party also holding 46 seats, the balance of power lay with the two re-elected Independent Labor member, James Geraghty and John Seiffert, who had been expelled from the party for disloyalty during the previous parliament.

* 1876 – James Scullin, Australian politician, 9th Prime Minister of Australia ( d. 1953 )

* 1967 – James Packer, Australian businessman

Lyons was elected to the Australian Federal Parliament in 1929 and served in Prime Minister James Scullin's Labor Cabinet.

* November 25 – Kerry James O ' Keeffe, Australian cricketer and commentator

* November 15 – James Kemsley, Australian cartoonist and actor ( d. 2007 )

* January 10 – Sir James Dickson, Premier of Queensland, Australian Minister for Defence ( born 1832

* April 9 – James Cowan, Australian novelist

* April 19 – James Dawson, Australian activist ( b. 1806 )

** James Roy, Australian author