* John W. Campbell, an influential science fiction writer who " shaped the Golden Age of Science Fiction "

* 1871 – John Millington Synge, Irish writer ( d. 1909 )

However, its intermediate result storage mechanism, a paper card writer / reader, was unreliable, and when inventor John Vincent Atanasoff left Iowa State College for World War II assignments, work on the machine was discontinued.

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.

* 1735 – Freedom of the press: New York Weekly Journal writer John Peter Zenger is acquitted of seditious libel against the royal governor of New York, on the basis that what he had published was true.

* 2006 – Julia Thorne, American writer, ex-wife of John Kerry ( b. 1944 )

* 1923 – John Mortimer, English barrister and writer ( d. 2009 )

* 2009 – John Michell, English writer ( b. 1933 )

Fans of the strip ranged from novelist John Steinbeck, who called Capp " possibly the best writer in the world today " in 1953, and even earnestly recommended him for the Nobel Prize in literature — to media critic and theorist Marshall McLuhan, who considered Capp " the only robust satirical force in American life.

John Altschuler, formerly a writer for King of the Hill, told a Rolling Stone reporter that he saw signs that Mike Judge was thinking of reviving Beavis and Butt-Head.

* 1: John Arcudi, writer / Lee Moder, pencils / Ande Parks, inks.

It was first popularized in the 1920s by John J. Fitz Gerald, a sports writer for the New York Morning Telegraph.

Astrophysicist and science writer John Gribbin describes it as having fallen from primacy after the 1980s.

In 1950, St. John Publications produced the digest-sized, adult-oriented " picture novel " It Rhymes with Lust, a 128-page digest by pseudonymous writer " Drake Waller " ( Arnold Drake and Leslie Waller ), penciler Matt Baker and inker Ray Osrin, touted as " an original full-length novel " on its cover.

He remains the only person, along with John Finch, to have held the three posts of script editor, writer and producer.

In the wake of John Byrne's reboot of Superman continuity in The Man of Steel, many traditional aspects of Clark Kent were dropped in favor of giving him a more aggressive and extroverted personality ( although not as strong as Lois ), including such aspects as making Clark a top football player in high school, along with being a successful author and Pulitzer Prize-winning writer.

This fact was one of the main inspirations for the 1980s reboot of the Clark Kent half of the Superman character, according to writer and artist John Byrne in the article " Super-Discussions " published by Attic Books in Comics Values Monthly Special # 2 ( 1992 ).

In connection with this interpretation, David and Margaret Leeming describe Genesis 1 as a " demythologized myth ", and John L. McKenzie asserts that the writer of Genesis 1 has " excised the mythical elements " from his creation story.

She is the niece of Diana Barrymore and the grandniece of Lionel Barrymore, Ethel Barrymore and Helene Costello, the great-great-granddaughter of John Drew and actress Louisa Lane Drew, and the great grandniece of Broadway idol John Drew, Jr. and silent film actor / writer / director Sidney Drew.

* 2003 – John Gregory Dunne, American writer ( b. 1932 )

* 1954 – John Raymond Hubbell, American writer ( b. 1879 )

* John Disney ( Unitarian ), English writer

Now in his thirties, Oxford bought a sublease of the premises used by the boy companies in the Blackfriars sometime after November, 1583, and then gave it to his secretary, the writer John Lyly.

In 1993, USA Today included a weekly columnist on fantasy baseball, John Hunt, and he became perhaps the most visible writer in the industry before the rise of the Internet.

* 1879 – John Ireland, English composer ( d. 1962 )

William Walker ( composer ) | William Walker, the composer who first joined John Newton's verses to " New Britain ", to create the song that has become " Amazing Grace "

The first known instance of Newton's lines joined to music was in A Companion to the Countess of Huntingdon's Hymns ( London, 1808 ), where it is set to the tune " Hephzibah " by English composer John Jenkins Husband.

* 1946 – John Rubinstein, American actor, composer, director

* 1949 – John Altman, British film composer

Fern Hill has been set to music by the American composer John Corigliano, for SATB chorus with orchestral accompaniment.

* 1938 – John Harbison, American composer

Hugh Le Caine, John Hanert, Raymond Scott, composer Percy Grainger ( with Burnett Cross ), and others built a variety of automated electronic-music controllers during the late 1940s and 1950s.

* 1947 – John Coolidge Adams, American composer

* 1721 – John Reid, British army general and composer ( d. 1807 )

* Sir John in Love, 1924 – 1928, an opera by composer Ralph Vaughan Williams based upon The Merry Wives of Windsor.

* 1876 – John Alden Carpenter, American composer ( d. 1951 )

* 1938 – John Corigliano, American composer

American avant-garde composer John Zorn released an album called Grand Guignol by Naked City in 1992, in a reference to " the darker side of our existence which has always been with us and always will be ".

* John Young ( composer ) ( born 1962 ), New Zealand-born composer

* 1962 – John Ireland, English composer ( b. 1879 )

* 1952 – John Tesh, American composer

* 1782 – John Field, Irish composer ( d. 1837 )

* 1712 – John Stanley, English composer ( d. 1786 )

* 1886 – John J. Becker, American composer ( d. 1961 )

* 1676 – John Weldon, English musician and composer ( d. 1736 )

John Dowland ( 1563 – buried 20 February 1626 ) was an English Renaissance composer, singer, and lutenist.

John Coolidge Adams ( born February 15, 1947 ) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American composer with strong roots in minimalism.