Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Gere is a descendant of Mayflower Pilgrims Francis Eaton, John Billington, George Soule, Richard Warren, Degory Priest, William Brewster, and Francis Cooke.

Stephen presented London stars such as Edmund Kean, Alexander and Elizabeth Pope ( née Elizabeth Younge ), Mrs. Dorothea Jordan, his brother John Philip Kemble, Wright Bowden, his sister Sarah Siddons, Elizabeth Billington, Michael Kelly ( tenor ), Anna Maria Crouch, and Charles Lee Lewes.

* John Billington

Actually, despite fears by the executioner John Billington Fowler did not make a scene.

– September 8, 1642 ) was the first person hanged in the Massachusetts Bay Colony ( the first hanged in any of the colonies of New England being John Billington ) and the first known juvenile to be sentenced to death and executed in the territory of today's United States.

John Billington ( also spelled as Billinton ) ( c. 1580 – September 30, 1630 ) was an Englishman who came over on the Mayflower and was one of the signers of the Mayflower Compact.

Nothing is known about John Billington ’ s life in England.

Around Cowbit and Spaulding, in Lincolnshire, Francis Longland named young Francis Billington, son of John Billington, an heir ..

John Billington, his wife Elinor and two sons, John and Francis departed Plymouth, England on the Mayflower on September 6 / 16, 1620 with 102 passengers and about 30 crew members in a small 100 foot ship.

In May 1621 John Billington ( younger ) became lost in some woods for several days, eventually being returned home by some natives from Nauset on Cape Cod.

In 1624 John Billington was implicated in the Oldham-Lyford scandal ( a revolt against the rule of the Plymouth church ), but insisted he was innocent and was never officially punished.

John Billington married Elinor _____ in England.

Children of John and Elinor Billington:

In September 1630 John Billington was tried by a jury and hanged for the murder of John Newcomen, whom he saw as an enemy.

In February 2012 Armand appeared as John in Alan Ayckbourn's Absent Friends at the Harold Pinter Theatre, London, receiving a positive review from Michael Billington.

Together with two sets of English songs, discussed below, these collections, dedicated to powerful Elizabethan lords ( Edward Somerset, 4th Earl of Worcester and John Lumley, 1st Baron Lumley ), probably formed part of Byrd's campaign to re-establish himself in Court circles after the reverses of the 1580s.

His influence in ecclesiastical matters was considerable until it declined in the 1580s under Archbishop John Whitgift.

Jane Small continued to live in Paddington after her second husband's death, and her manor house was big enough to have been let to Sir John Popham, the attorney general, in the 1580s.

Howley Hall at Soothill was built during the 1580s by Sir John Savile, a member of the great Yorkshire landowners, the Savile family.

In the late 1580s one Eleanor White, daughter to the gentleman artist and explorer John White, was married in St Bride's, to the tiler and bricklayer Ananias Dare.

In the late 1580s, he helped John Whitgift search for the author of the Martin Marprelate tracts.

According to a highly influential study by military historian John F. Guilmartin, this transition in warfare, along with the introduction of much cheaper cast iron guns in the 1580s, proved the " death knell " for the war galley as a significant military vessel.

( Pairs of relatives were not uncommon in acting troupes in this era: the brothers John and Laurence Dutton in Oxford's Men and Queen Elizabeth's Men in the 1580s ; Anthony and Humphrey Jeffes in the Admiral's / Prince Henry's Men in the early 17th century.

* 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 )