Gothic is a 1986 horror film directed by Ken Russell, starring Gabriel Byrne as Lord Byron, Julian Sands as Percy Bysshe Shelley, Natasha Richardson as Mary Shelley, Miriam Cyr as Claire Clairmont – Mary Shelley's half-sister – and Timothy Spall as Dr John William Polidori.

* Julian Sands as Percy Bysshe Shelley

Percy Robert Sands ( 1881 – December 1965 ) was an English footballer, who spent seventeen years playing for Arsenal, making him one of the club's most enduring servants.

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In 1919 he was made Arsenal captain, succeeding the recently departed Percy Sands.

He signed several influential players including Archie Cross, Percy Sands, Jimmy Jackson and Jimmy Ashcroft for Arsenal, and brought in a Scottish style of play with short passing and fluid movement into position.

With the arrival of Percy Sands in 1903, Dick moved to right half, and continued to be an ever-present as Arsenal won promotion from the Second Division to the First Division in 1903-04.

** Percy Lefroy Mapleton, British journalist and murderer ( d. 1881 )

An early case was that of Percy Lefroy Mapleton ( 1860 – 1881 ) hanged for murder and the subject of the first composite picture on a wanted poster.

Rockefeller is related to several prominent Republican Party supporters and former officeholders: He is a great-grandson of Nelson W. Aldrich, U. S. Senator from Rhode Island ( 1881 – 1911 ); a nephew of David Rockefeller, the Rockefeller patriarch ; Winthrop Rockefeller, 37th Governor of Arkansas ( 1967 – 71 ); and Nelson Rockefeller, 49th Governor of New York ( 1959 – 73 ) and 41st Vice President of the United States ( 1974 – 77 ); the son-in-law of Charles H. Percy, U. S. Senator from Illinois ; and a cousin of Winthrop Paul Rockefeller, 13th Lieutenant Governor of Arkansas ( 1996 – 2006 ).

* Percy Lefroy Mapleton, who murdered Isaac Frederick Gold on a train between London and Brighton for his watch and some coins ; Mapleton was arrested almost immediately, but escaped before being arrested again, convicted, and hanged on 29 November 1881.

P. T. ( Percy ) Selbit ( 1881 – 1938 ) was an English magician, inventor and writer who is credited with being the first person to perform the illusion of sawing a woman in half.

* Edward John Trelawny ( 1792 – 1881 ), English author, friend of Percy Bysshe Shelley, beside whose ashes he is buried

* 1881 – 1884: Percy Cust

** Lord Josceline Percy ( 1811 – 1881 ), politician

* Percy Gomery ( 1881 – 1960 ) author and novelist.

In 1881 the notorious railway murderer Percy Lefroy Mapleton alighted at the station after having killed Isaac Frederick Gold and dumped his body in Balcombe tunnel.

Sergeant Percy St. Helier LeSueur ( November 18, 1881 – January 27, 1962 ) was a Canadian senior and professional ice hockey goaltender.

Percy Ashburnham ( 22 November 1799 – 25 January 1881 )

* Lord Josceline William Percy ( 1811 – 1881 ), married Margaret Davidson and had issue.

Percy Bysshe Shelley composed a " Hymn of Apollo " ( 1820 ), and the god's instruction of the Muses formed the subject of Igor Stravinsky's Apollon musagète ( 1927 – 1928 ).

* 1923 – Percy Heath, American jazz musician ( Modern Jazz Quartet ) ( d. 2005 )

England managed to stay in contention until the deciding final Test at The Oval, but yet another double hundred by Bradman, and 7 / 92 by Percy Hornibrook in England's second innings, enabled Australia to win by an innings and take the series 2 – 1.

* 1980 – Percy Watson, American wrestler and football player

* 1792 – Percy Bysshe Shelley, English poet ( d. 1822 )

* 1882 – Percy Williams Bridgman, American physicist, Nobel laureate ( d. 1961 )

* 1908 – Percy Faith, Canadian composer, conductor, and bandleader ( d. 1976 )

* Percy Harris 1940 – 1945

* 1976 – Percy Faith, Canadian musician ( b. 1908 )

* Peter ' Percy ' Jones – played 249 games for the Carlton Blues in the VFL

* 1913 – Percy Thrower, British Television Gardener ( d. 1988 )

* 1924 – Percy Rodriguez, Canadian actor ( d. 2007 )

* 1882 – Percy Grainger, Australian composer ( d. 1961 )

* 1938 – Percy Qoboza, South African journalist ( d. 1988 )

* 1816 – Lord Byron reads Fantasmagoriana to his four house guests at the Villa Diodati, Percy Shelley, Mary Shelley, Claire Clairmont, and John Polidori, and inspires his challenge that each guest write a ghost story, which culminated in Mary Shelley writing the novel Frankenstein, John Polidori writing the short story The Vampyre, and Byron writing the poem Darkness.

* 1888 – Percy Kilbride, American actor ( d. 1964 )

* 1993 – Stuart Percy, Canadian ice hockey player

* 1455 – Henry Percy, 2nd Earl of Northumberland, English politician

* 1916 – Walker Percy, American author ( d. 1990 )

* 1988 – Percy Harvin, American football player

* 1811 – Percy Bysshe Shelley is expelled from the University of Oxford for publishing the pamphlet The Necessity of Atheism.

* 1461 – Henry Percy, 3rd Earl of Northumberland, English politician ( b. 1421 )

* 1883 – Percy Marmont, British actor ( d. 1977 )

* 1941 – Percy Sledge, American musician

Henry IV appointed Henry Percy – the famous ‘ Hotspur ’ – to bring the country to order.