* 1925 – John Kraaijkamp, Sr., Dutch actor and comedian ( d. 2011 )

In 2003, on his television show John Safran Vs God, Australian comedian John Safran tricked Sheikh Omar Bakri into placing a fatwā on Safran's colleague Rove McManus by showing him falsified evidence seeming to indicate that McManus had been making fun of Islam.

* 1994 – John Candy, Canadian comedian ( b. 1950 )

* 1957 – John Kassir, American actor and comedian

* 1950 – John Candy, Canadian comedian and actor ( d. 1994 )

* 1930 – John Morgan, Welsh-Canadian comedian and actor ( d. 2004 )

* January 24 – John Belushi, American actor and comedian ( d. 1982 )

* September 21 – John Bunny, American film comedian ( d. 1915 )

* August 26 – John Bunny American silent film comedian ( b. 1863 )

* June 28 – John Inman, British comedian ( d. 2007 )

On December 18, 1997, comedian Chris Farley was found dead in his apartment on the 60th floor of the John Hancock Center.

Dudley Stuart John Moore, CBE ( 19 April 193527 March 2002 ) was an English actor, comedian, composer and musician.

* John Cleese, Actor and comedian of Monty Python fame

It also features comedian Buster Fiddess ( as ' Mr Crawley ') and Addie Black, and guest appearances by Johnny Young, Evie Hayes and John Farnham ( then known as Johnny Farnham ).

* John Elroy Sanford, birth name of comedian Redd Foxx

Famous gay residents currently include journalist Andrew Sullivan, filmmaker John Waters, and comedian Kate Clinton.

* John Melendez, comedian, The Howard Stern Show and The Jay Leno Show

Owen John " Terry " Scott ( 4 May 1927-26 July 1994 ) was an English actor and comedian who appeared in seven Carry On films.

John Eric Bartholomew OBE ( 14 May 1926 – 28 May 1984 ), known by his stage name Eric Morecambe, was an English comedian who together with Ernie Wise formed the award-winning double act Morecambe and Wise.

* Wired ( book ), a 1984 by Bob Woodward about the American actor and comedian John Belushi

John Franklin Candy ( October 31, 1950 – March 4, 1994 ) was a Canadian actor and comedian.

Michael John McKean ( born October 17, 1947 ) is an American actor, comedian, writer, composer and musician, perhaps best known for his portrayal of Squiggy's friend, Leonard " Lenny " Kosnowski, on the sitcom Laverne & Shirley ; and for his work in the Christopher Guest ensemble films, particularly as David St. Hubbins of Spinal Tap.

He was cameraman on the film, It's Nice Up North with comedian Graham Fellows as his character John Shuttleworth.

So frequently have pictures of the bridge appeared in books and in national publications that it vies with the old John Brown Fort at Harpers Ferry as the two nationally best known structures in West Virginia.

Although there are seven other types of annual awards presented by the Academy ( the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award, the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award, the Gordon E. Sawyer Award, the Scientific and Engineering Award, the Technical Achievement Award, the John A. Bonner Medal of Commendation, and the Student Academy Award ) plus two awards that are not presented annually ( the Special Achievement Award in the form of an Oscar statuette and the Honorary Award that may or may not be in the form of an Oscar statuette ), the best known one is the Academy Award of Merit more popularly known as the Oscar statuette.

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.

According to David Steel, curator of European art at the North Carolina Museum of Art, Erin Jones " brought that museum into the modern era ," employing " a top-notch curator, John Nolan ," and following " best practices in conservation and restoration.

The ordinary ones are signed John Sargent, the best are signed Cecilia Beaux, which is, of course, nonsense in more ways than one, but it is part of the generous chorus of praise.

Historically, one of the best known nominal damage awards was the farthing that the jury awarded to James Whistler in his libel suit against John Ruskin.

He was educated at Northampton Grammar School and, after the age of 14, Mill Hill School in London ( on scholarship ), where he studied mathematics, physics, and chemistry with his best friend John Shilston.

According to David Biello and John Pavlus in Scientific American, Singer is best known for his denial of the health risks of passive smoking.

In view of this complex and multi-layered history it is meaningless to speak of a single " author " of John, but the title perhaps belongs best to the evangelist who came at the end of this process.

* John Salmon Ford ( 1815 – 1897 ), American political figure in Texas ; best known as " Rip " Ford ; served in state Congress and Senate ; veteran of Mexican War and Civil War

* John Ford ( dramatist ) ( 1586 – ca. 1640 ), English playwright and poet during Jacobean and Caroline literary eras ; best known for 1633 tragedy Tis Pity She's a Whore

* John Gardner Ford ( born 1952 ), American business executive who co-founded Outside magazine in 1977 ; second son of President Gerald R. Ford ; best known as Jack Ford

John Baskerville ( 28 January 1706 – 8 January 1775 ) was an English businessman, in areas including japanning and papier-mâché, but he is best remembered as a printer and typographer.

John Napier is best known as the discoverer of logarithms.

Severn is best known for his many portraits of Keats, the most famous being the miniature portrait in the National Gallery ( 1819 ), the pen-and-ink sketch, Keats on his Deathbed ( 1821 ), and the oil painting of the poet reading, John Keats at Wentworth Place ( 1821 – 23 ).

John Norman " Johnny " Haynes ( 17 October 1934 – 18 October 2005 ) was an English footballer, best known for his 18 years at Fulham.

His roles in the early 1990s included playing a young, affluent widower opposite Susan Sarandon in White Palace, John Cusack's best friend in True Colors, and a poker-playing drifter who collides with Mandy Patinkin in The Music of Chance.

Under American advice ( by American envoy John Kenneth Galbraith who made and ran American policy on the war as all other top policy makers in USA were absorbed in coincident Cuban Missile Crisis ) Nehru refrained, not according to the best choices available, from using the Indian air force to beat back the Chinese advances.

When asked by conductor Karl Reinthaler to add additional sectarian text to his German Requiem, Brahms responded, " As far as the text is concerned, I confess that I would gladly omit even the word German and instead use Human ; also with my best knowledge and will I would dispense with passages like John 3: 16.

* John Brown ( builder ) ( 1809 – 1876 ), prolific Canadian builder best remembered for building Ontario's Imperial Towers

John's lack of religious conviction has been noted by contemporary chroniclers and later historians, with some suspecting that John was at best impious, or even atheistic, a very serious issue at the time.

Keith John Moon ( 23 August 1946 – 7 September 1978 ) was an English musician, best known for being the drummer of the English rock group The Who.

He lost to Coldplay's Viva La Vida for best Rock Album and John Mayer's " Say " for Best Male Pop / Rock Performance.

According to the New Musical Express, The Stone Roses ' relationship with their future producer John Leckie was settled when they all agreed that " Forever Changes " was the " best record ever ".