Among the notable alumni of AFI are: Darren Aronofsky, Jon Avnet, Keith D. Black, Wally Pfister, Stuart Cornfeld, Bill Duke, Edward James Olmos, Carl Colpaert, Rodrigo García, Steve Golin, Patrick Creadon, Amy Heckerling, Marshall Herskovitz, Janusz Kamiński, Matthew Libatique, Mimi Leder, David Lynch, Terrence Malick, John McTiernan, Paul Schrader, Frank Spotnitz, Mark Waters, Gary Winick, Edward Zwick, and Susannah Grant.

On April 14, 1865, President Lincoln was shot and mortally wounded by John Wilkes Booth, a Confederate sympathizer, who conspired to coordinate assassinations of others, including Johnson, Ulysses S. Grant and Secretary of State William H. Seward that same night.

" Iron Man " Torres, played by John Dehner-the world's first cyborg, plans to assassinate President Grant in New Mexico.

* Bernard Mulgrew, Peter Grant, John Thompson: Digital Signal Processing-Concepts and Applications, Palgrave Macmillan, ISBN 0-333-96356-3

* The traditionalist view that the epistle is written by Paul is supported by scholars that include Ezra Abbot, Asting, Gaugler, Grant, Harnack, Haupt, Fenton John Anthony Hort, Klijn, Johann David Michaelis, A. Robert, and André Feuillet, Sanders, Schille, Brooke Foss Westcott, and Theodor Zahn.

* Appleton's Cyclopedia of American Biography, edited by James Grant Wilson, John Fiske and Stanley L. Klos.

On a cold 30 January, Everard Digby, Robert Wintour, John Grant, and Thomas Bates, were tied to hurdles — wooden panels — and dragged through the crowded streets of London to St Paul's Churchyard.

* Appleton's Cyclopedia of American Biography, edited by James Grant Wilson, John Fiske and Stanley L. Klos.

John Symonds and Kenneth Grant attach a deeper occult significance to this preference.

* 1932 – John Grant, British politician ( d. 2000 )

Slasher films of the 1970s and 80s such as John Carpenter's Halloween ( 1978 ), Sean S. Cunningham's Friday the 13th ( 1980 ), and Wes Craven's A Nightmare on Elm Street ( 1984 ) " owe much to the original Night of the Living Dead ", according to author Barry Keith Grant.

A " Red Tory " is a member of the more moderate wing of the party ( in the manner of John Farthing and George Grant ).

The Wizard of New Zealand QSM, Directed by Grant John Neville and Director of Photography Karlos Filipov is an award winning documentary that follows the life of the first ever man in the world to be appointed by a government as an Official Wizard.

By the end of August 1861, Grant was given charge of the District of Cairo by Maj. Gen John C. Fremont, an outside Lincoln appointment, who viewed Grant as " a man of dogged persistence, and iron will.

Grant, who was headquartered at Cairo, was given an open order by Union General John C. Frémont to make " demonstrations ", not including attack, against the Confederate Army at Belmont.

Major General John A. McClernand was authorized to raise an army in his home state of Illinois for the purpose of taking Vicksburg ; Grant was very frustrated at the lack of direction he was receiving to move forward from his station in Memphis, and more aggravated to learn of this apparent effort to brush him aside.

After a series of battles and having taken a railroad junction near Jackson, Grant went on to defeat Confederate General John C. Pemberton at the Battle of Champion Hill.

Grant put the refugees under the protection of Chaplain John Eaton who authorized them to work on abandoned Confederate plantations harvesting cotton and cutting wood to fuel Union steamers.

When Sheridan reported suffering attacks by irregular Confederate cavalry under John S. Mosby, Grant recommended rounding up their families for imprisonment as hostages at Ft. McHenry.

The film stars of the time that starred in these films, playing both heroes and villains alike include Greer Garson, Cary Grant, James Cagney, Raymond Massey, Basil Rathbone, Walter Slezak, Dana Andrews, Don Ameche, Richard Loo, Humphrey Bogart, Paul Henreid, Richard Conte, Anthony Quinn and the most popular film star of the era, John Wayne.

* October – John Hanning Speke and James Augustus Grant leave Zanzibar to search for the source of the Nile River.

* Physiology or Medicine – Frederick Grant Banting, John James Rickard Macleod

* Buckham, Philip Wentworth ; Spence, Joseph ; Holdsworth, Edward ; Warburton, William ; Jortin, John, Miscellanea Virgiliana: In Scriptis Maxime Eruditorum Virorum Varie Dispersa, in Unum Fasciculum Collecta, Cambridge: Printed for W. P. Grant ; 1825.

John Grant of the Metropolitan Board of Works in 1859 set out requirements for cement to be used in the London sewer project.

The last of these, a tale of multiple homicide upon a Nile steamer, was judged by the celebrated detective novelist John Dickson Carr to be among the ten greatest mystery novels of all time.

* 1971 – John Boyne, Irish novelist

After 1890 came philosopher Josiah Royce ( 1855 – 1916 ), botanist Liberty Hyde Bailey ( 1858 – 1954 ), the Southern Agrarians of the 1920s and 1930s, novelist John Steinbeck ( 1902 – 1968 ), historian A. Whitney Griswold ( 1906 – 1963 ), environmentalist Aldo Leopold ( 1887 – 1948 ), Ralph Borsodi ( 1886 – 1977 ), and present-day authors Wendell Berry ( b. 1934 ), Gene Logsdon ( b. 1932 ), Paul Thompson, and Allan C. Carlson ( b. 1949 ).

* 1867 – John Galsworthy, English novelist and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 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.

The historical novelist and poet Maurice Hewlett published a series of articles in the literary journal John O ' London's Weekly, in which he concluded: " And knowing children, and knowing that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle has legs, I decide that the Miss Carpenters have pulled one of them.

* 1945 – John Banville, Irish novelist and journalist

* 1944 – John Sandford, American novelist

* 1878 – John Masefield, English novelist and poet ( d. 1967 )

* 1916 – John D. MacDonald, American novelist ( d. 1986 )

* John Brown ( American author ) ( born 1966 ), novelist and short story writer

* John Gregory Brown ( born 1960 ), American novelist

Coulton, an expert on Mediaeval monasteries, included her theories in his work, Five Centuries of Religion, Volume One ( 1923 ), as did the novelist John Buchan, who included it into his Witch Wood ( 1927 ).

* 1950 – John Swartzwelder, American television writer and novelist

Notable graduates include former U. S. Secretary of State and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Colin Powell, U. S. Senator John McCain, former NATO Supreme Allied Commander Europe Wesley Clark, former Chairmen of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Peter Pace and Hugh Shelton, former National Security Advisor and NATO Supreme Allied Commander Europe James L. Jones, former U. S Army Chief of Staff Eric Shinseki, former U. S. Chief of Naval Operations Elmo Zumwalt, retired Air Force General Arnold W. Braswell, U. S. Ambassador to Russia John Beyrle, World War II submarine officer and best-selling novelist Edward L. Beach, Jr., former military aide to President John F. Kennedy Godfrey McHugh, murdered U. S. Ambassador to Libya J. Christopher Stevens, and U. S. Air Force Chief of Staff Norton A. Schwartz.

* 1931 – John le Carré, English novelist

In his forenote to the novel, King wrote, " Don Robertson was and is one of the three writers who influenced me as a young man who was trying to ' become ' a novelist ( the other two being Richard Matheson and John D.

During the War, the propagandist John Buchan, became the pre-eminent British spy novelist.

The libretto was written for the adaptation by the children's novelist John Emlyn Edwards.

A number of references to the Stockholm Bloodbath appear in Freddy's Book ( Knopf, 1980, ISBN 978-0-394-50920-4 ; White Pine Press, 2007, ISBN 978-1-893996-84-7 ) written by American novelist John Gardner.

* October 19 – John le Carré, English novelist

** John Gardner, English spy novelist ( d. 2007 )

** John Cheever, American novelist and short story writer ( d. 1982 )