* 1786 – Joseph Jackson Lister, English opticist and physicist ( d. 1869 )

Movement founder Joseph Smith, Jr. told his earliest followers that the Garden of Eden had been located in Jackson County, and that the New Jerusalem where Jesus will come in the Second Coming would be built in Independence.

These include Richard Kirwan, John Smeaton, Henry Moyes, John Michell, Pieter Camper, R. E. Raspe, John Baskerville, Thomas Beddoes, John Wyatt, William Thomson, Cyril V. Jackson, Jean-André Deluc, John Wilkinson, John Ash, Samuel More, Robert Bage, James Brindley, Ralph Griffiths, John Roebuck, Thomas Percival, Joseph Black, James Hutton, Benjamin Franklin, Joseph Banks, William Herschel, Daniel Solander, John Warltire, George Fordyce, Alexander Blair, Samuel Parr, Louis Joseph d ' Albert d ' Ailly, the seventh Duke of Chaulnes, Barthélemy Faujas de Saint-Fond, Grossart de Virly ,, Johann Gottling.

* May 14 – American Civil War – Battle of Jackson ( MS ): Union General Ulysses S. Grant defeats Confederate General Joseph E. Johnston, opening the way for the Siege of Vicksburg.

* July 26 – Joseph Jackson, Father of the Jackson Family

** Smart Money-Lucien Hubbard, Joseph Jackson

Joseph Daniel Jackson came to the area in 1882 as part of Company B of the Texas Rangers assigned to protect the railroad.

* Joseph Jackson Fuller ( 1825-1908 ), Jamaican missionary to pre-colonial West Africa

* Joseph Jackson Lister ( 1786-1869 ), Quaker, amateur opticist and physicist, inventor of the modern microscope and the father of Joseph Lister ; spent his early married life in Stoke Newington.

Learning that Jackson County Missouri was Zion meant much to Joseph Smith and the members of the Mormon Church.

This can mean that Zion can be anywhere, but when God referred to Jackson County as Zion he also told Joseph that this land would be the New Jerusalem.

Many members ( including notable members — Joseph Smith and Brigham Young among them ) of the mainline LDS Church, past and present, have believed that Jackson County was the site of the biblical Garden of Eden.

* Joseph Bernard Jackson 1927-1951

About 1912 he sold the hotel to Joseph W. Jackson, who operated the place as the ' Commercial Hotel '.

Many famous people came to Crown Point to be wed including 2009Tom Mix, Rudolph Valentino, Cassius Clay, Jackson 5 patriarch Joseph Jackson.

* Raymond Joseph Cannon, U. S. Representative from Wisconsin, attorney for Shoeless Joe Jackson and several of the Chicago Black Sox

The area was settled by Europeans in 1834 when Hiram and Joseph Putnam moved briefly to the area from Jackson.

The private schools, Washington School and Greenville Christian School, also serve the city ; as well as the parochial schools, St. Joseph High School and Our Lady of Lourdes Elementary which are part of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Jackson.

Abba Mari ben Moses ben Joseph, was a Provençal rabbi, born at Lunel, near Montpellier, towards the end of the 13th century.

In the Biblical account, unlike Rachel's first son, Joseph, Benjamin was born in Canaan.

Muslim tradition, however, fleshes out the details regarding Benjamin and refers to him as being born from Jacob's wife Rachel, and further links a connection, as does Jewish tradition, between the names of Benjamin's children and Joseph.

The description of Benjamin being born after the arrival in Canaan is thought by some scholars to refer to the tribe of Benjamin coming into existence by branching from the Joseph group after the tribe had settled in Canaan.

* Becher ( meaning first born ), in reference to Joseph being the first child of Rachel

Barnabas (), born Joseph, was an early Christian, one of the earliest Christian disciples in Jerusalem.

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The period is sometimes referred to as the era of Viennese Classic or Classicism (), since Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Joseph Haydn, Antonio Salieri, and Ludwig van Beethoven all worked at some time in Vienna, and Franz Schubert was born there.

Craig Joseph Charles ( born 11 July 1964 ) is an English actor, comedian, author, poet, television presenter and radio DJ.

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints traces its origins to western New York, where Joseph Smith, Jr., founder of the Latter Day Saint movement was born and raised.

David Hume, originally David Home, son of Joseph Home of Chirnside, advocate, and Katherine Falconer, was born on 26 April 1711 ( Old Style ) in a tenement on the north side of the Lawnmarket in Edinburgh.

* The beginning of the nine-day celebration beginning December 16 and ending December 24, celebrating the trials which Mary and Joseph endured before finding a place to stay where Jesus could be born ( Christians of Spanish-origin ):

Ethan Allen was born in Litchfield, Connecticut, the first-born child of Joseph and Mary Baker Allen, both of English and Puritan descent.

He is known to have been living in Northampton, Massachusetts in the spring of 1766, where his son Joseph was born, and where he invested in a lead mine.

He was born in Texing in Lower Austria to unmarried mother Josepha Dollfuss and her lover Joseph Weninger.

Wray, a descendant of both Springfield, Massachusetts, settler William Pynchon and Mormon pioneers, was born on a ranch near Cardston, Alberta, Canada, to two Mormons, Elvina Marguerite Jones, who was from Salt Lake City, and Joseph Heber Wray, who was from Kingston upon Hull, England.

Gavin MacLeod ( born Allan George See, February 28, 1931 ) is an American actor notable for playing Joseph " Happy " Haines on McHale's Navy, Murray Slaughter on The Mary Tyler Moore Show and Captain Merrill Stubing on The Love Boat.

Joseph Harry Fowler Connick, Jr. ( born September 11, 1967 ) is an American singer, big-band leader / conductor, pianist, actor, and composer.

Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin (; born Ioseb Besarionis dze Jughashvili, ; 18 December 1878 – 5 March 1953 ) was the Premier of the Soviet Union from 6 May 1941 until his death in 5 March 1953.

James Brown was born in Barnwell, South Carolina on May 3, 1933, to Susie ( née Behlings ) Brown ( August 8, 1916-February 26, 2004 ) and Joseph (" Joe ") Gardner ( March 29, 1911-July 10, 1993 ) ( who changed his surname to Brown after Mattie Brown who raised him ).

He was born Joseph Levitch ( some sources say Jerome Levitch ) in Newark, New Jersey, to Russian Jewish parents.

* Christopher Joseph Lewis ; born October 1957 to Patti Palmer

* Anthony Joseph Lewis ; born October 1959 to Patti Palmer

* Joseph Christopher Lewis ; born January 1964 to Patti Palmer, died October 24, 2009 from a narcotics overdose.

* Joseph was born about 1628 and died in Bridgewater on February 8, 1696 / 7.