* 1934 – John Beck, New Zealand cricketer ( d. 2000 )

O ' Brien was introduced to producer John Beck who promised to find a studio to make the film ( at this point in time RKO was no longer a production company ).

In 1963, Merian C. Cooper attempted to sue John Beck claiming that he outright owned the King Kong character, but the lawsuit never went through as it turned out he was not Kong's sole legal owner as he had previously believed.

When John Beck sold the King Kong vs. Prometheus script to Toho ( which became King Kong vs. Godzilla ), he was given exclusive rights to produce a version of the film for release in non-Asian territories.

John Beck enlisted the help of two Hollywood writers, Paul Mason and Bruce Howard, to write a new screenplay.

In the American version, producer John Beck used stock footage of a violent earthquake from the film The Mysterians to make the climactic earthquake seem far more violent and destructive.

During the 1765 season, four pilots were engaged at 4 shillings a day each: John Beck for the coast west of " Great St. Lawrence ", Morgan Snook for Fortune Bay, John Dawson for Connaigre and Hermitage Bay, and John Peck for the " Bay of Despair.

In an April 11, 2008, interview on the CNN Headline News Glenn Beck Show Voight stated that he had thrown his support to Republican Senator John McCain for President.

Spacey hosted Saturday Night Live twice: first in 1997 with musical guest Beck and special guests Michael Palin and John Cleese from Monty Python's Flying Circus ; and again in the last episode of season 31 with musical guest Nelly Furtado.

In 1966, Moon worked with Yardbirds guitarist Jeff Beck, session man Nicky Hopkins, and future Led Zeppelin members Page and John Paul Jones to record an instrumental, " Beck's Bolero ", released as a single-double later that year.

Page wanted to form a supergroup with him and Beck on guitars, and The Who's Keith Moon and John Entwistle on drums and bass.

The group never formed, although Page, Beck and Moon did record a song together in 1966, " Beck's Bolero ", in a session that also included bassist-keyboardist John Paul Jones.

Songs recorded by Hurt have been covered by Bob Dylan, Jerry Garcia, Beck, Doc Watson, John McCutcheon, Taj Mahal, Bruce Cockburn, David Johansen, Bill Morrissey, Gillian Welch and Guthrie Thomas.

John Burkett and Bill Swift both had 20 + wins, and closer Rod Beck was dominant with 48 saves and a 2. 16 ERA.

Sutch's album Lord Sutch and Heavy Friends was named in a 1998 BBC poll as the worst album of all time, a status it also held in Colin Larkin's book The Top 1000 Albums of All Time, despite the fact that Jimmy Page, John Bonham, Jeff Beck, Noel Redding and Nicky Hopkins performed on it and helped write it.

Conservative hosts Limbaugh, Ingraham, Bennett, Prager, Hannity, Beck, Levin and Hewitt coalesced around endorsing former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney for president at the end of January 2008 ( after Fred Thompson, the described favorite of some of the hosts, dropped out ), in an effort to oppose the nomination of Sen. John McCain ; however, Romney suspended his campaign in February of the same year, and endorsed McCain.

* January 28 – John Beck, American actor

Some of the most prominent names include The Grateful Dead, Tom Waits, Patti Smith, Iggy Pop, Bobby " Werner " Strete, Mod Fun, Virgil Thomson, Jeff Beck, Chick Corea, Dee Dee Ramone, Johnny Thunders, Phil Lynott, Henri Chopin, John Cale, Édith Piaf, Joni Mitchell, Bob Dylan, Alice Cooper, Alejandro Escovedo, Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, Peter Walker, Canned Heat, Sid Vicious, Vivian Stanshall, Richard Hell, Jobriath Boone, Little Annie, Rufus Wainwright, Lance Loud, Abdullah Ibrahim / Sathima Bea Benjamin / Jean Grae, Vasant Rai, Jacques Labouchere, and Leonard Cohen.

The album featured high profile guests such as Elton John, Little Richard and Jeff Beck.

** John Beck Elementary School ( founded independently of the district and incorporated ; serves the northern part of Warwick township and Elizabeth township )

Sir John Barrow, born at Dragley Beck, Ulverston, was the Admiralty's Second Secretary: a much more important position than First Secretary.

Abraham Addams was the first chief burgess ( mayor ), and John M. Cauffman, Christian Beck, James R. Gilmer, and Jacob Emerick, were members of the first Borough Council.

Mining entrepreneurs such as John Q. Packard, John Beck, Jesse Knight, and Walter Fitch Sr. were important figures in Eureka and Tintic history.

* John Austin ( legal philosopher ) ( 1790 – 1859 ), English jurist

* John Arnold Austin ( 1905 – 1941 ), American sailor

* John M. Pierce ( 1886 – 1958 ) was one of the founders of the Springfield Telescope Makers.

Historian John Huddleston estimates the death toll at ten percent of all Northern males 20 – 45 years old, and 30 percent of all Southern white males aged 18 – 40.

He was the fourth child of Ondrej Varchola ( Americanized as Andrew Warhola, Sr., 1889 – 1942 ) and Júlia ( née Zavacká, 1892 – 1972 ), whose first child was born in their homeland and died before their move to the U. S. Andy had two older brothers, Paul, born about 1923, and John, born about 1925.

* 1385 – John, Master of the Order of Aviz, is made king John I of Portugal.

* 1808 – John Jacob Astor incorporates the American Fur Company, that would eventually make him America's first millionaire.

* 1849 – John William Waterhouse, British painter ( d. 1917 )

* 1871 – Prince Alexander John of Wales ( d. 1871 )

* 1947 – John Ratzenberger, American actor

* 1960 – John Pizzarelli, American jazz guitarist, songwriter, singer and bandleader

* 1792 – John Lambton, 1st Earl of Durham, English statesman ( d. 1840 )

* 1940 – John Hagee, American pastor and televangelist

* 1944 – John Kay, German-Canadian singer-songwriter and musician ( The Sparrows and Steppenwolf )

* 1865 – Abraham Lincoln dies after being shot the previous evening by actor John Wilkes Booth.

* 1971 – John Boyne, Irish novelist

* 1981 – John O ' Shea, Irish footballer

* 1665 – John Hervey, 1st Earl of Bristol, English politician ( d. 1751 )

* 1724 – John Joachim Zubly, Swiss-American pastor, planter, and statesman ( d. 1781 )

* 1904 – John Hay Whitney, American businessman, publisher, and diplomat, founded J. H.

* 1947 – John Morrison, New Zealand cricketer

* 1948 – John Mehler, American drummer ( Love Song )