Near the end of his life, DeMille began pre-production work on a film biography of Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell, the founder of the Scout Movement and had asked David Niven to star in the film, which was never made.

Jean le Rond d ' Alembert withdrew from the enterprise and other powerful colleagues, including Anne Robert Jacques Turgot, Baron de Laune, declined to contribute further to a book which had acquired a bad reputation.

Well-known currently active British actors and actresses include: Gemma Arterton, Rowan Atkinson, Christian Bale, Sacha Baron Cohen, Kate Beckinsale, Paul Bettany, Orlando Bloom, Emily Blunt, Helena Bonham Carter, Kenneth Branagh, Jim Broadbent, Daniel Craig, Daniel Day-Lewis, Judi Dench, Rupert Everett, Ralph Fiennes, Colin Firth, Michael Gambon, Anthony Hopkins, Jeremy Irons, Ben Kingsley, Keira Knightley, Hugh Laurie, Jude Law, James McAvoy, Ewan McGregor, Ian McKellen, Helen Mirren, Carey Mulligan, Thandie Newton, Bill Nighy, Gary Oldman, Clive Owen, Robert Pattinson, Daniel Radcliffe, Vanessa Redgrave, Joely Richardson, Alan Rickman, Tim Roth, Kristin Scott Thomas, Jason Statham, Patrick Stewart, Alex Pettyfer, Gerard Butler, Emma Thompson, Emma Watson, Rachel Weisz, Kate Winslet, Tom Hiddleston, Ray Winstone and Catherine Zeta-Jones.

In 1995, Robert May, Baron May of Oxford, at the time the Chief Scientific Adviser to the British government, requested that the organizers no longer award Ig Nobel prizes to British scientists, claiming that the awards risked bringing genuine experiments into ridicule.

Robert Clive, 1st Baron Clive.

* 1936 – Robert May, Baron May of Oxford, Australian-born British scientist

In a note prefixed to the Collected Edition of his wife's poems, Robert Browning tells us that " On the early death of his father, he ( Edward Moulton ) was brought from Jamaica to England when a very young child, as ward to the late Chief Baron Lord Abinger, then Mr. Scarlett, whom he frequently accompanied in his post-chaise when on pursuit.

* 1979 – Robert John Sinclair, 1st Baron Sinclair of Cleeve, British businessman and public servant ( b. 1893 )

Norman Robert Foster, Baron Foster of Thames Bank, OM Kt.

* 1930 – Robert Gavron, Baron Gavron, English publisher

The group grew to include Paul Éluard, Benjamin Péret, René Crevel, Robert Desnos, Jacques Baron, Max Morise, Pierre Naville, Roger Vitrac, Gala Éluard, Max Ernst, Salvador Dalí, Man Ray, Hans Arp, Georges Malkine, Michel Leiris, Georges Limbour, Antonin Artaud, Raymond Queneau, André Masson, Joan Miró, Marcel Duchamp, Jacques Prévert, and Yves Tanguy.

* November 22 – Robert Clive, 1st Baron Clive, British general and statesman ( b. 1725 )

* September 29 – Robert Clive, 1st Baron Clive, British general and statesman ( d. 1774 )

* " Introducing Robert Ross " on Baron Records 1981

* November 29 – Robert Ferrers, 3rd Baron Ferrers of Wemme ( b. 1373 )

* Robert de Burghersh, 1st Baron Burghersh

* January 18 – Robert FitzWalter, 1st Baron FitzWalter, English baron ( b. 1247 )

* May 13 – Robert de Ros, 1st Baron de Ros

Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell | Robert Baden-Powell ( pictured ) commanded the defence of the town against the Boers ' offensive

* Sacha Baron Cohen interview with NPR's Robert Siegel

Both Quesnay and Anne Robert Jacques Turgot, Baron de Laune recognized that capital was needed by farmers to start the production process, and both were proponents of using some of each year ’ s profits to increase productivity.

Following the Assize held at Oxford in 1577, later deemed the Black Assize, over 300 died from Epidemic typhus, including Sir Robert Bell Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer.

* Robert Blake, Baron Blake ( 1916 – 2003 ), British historian

One of these daughters, Sophia Churchill, married Horatio Walpole, a great grandson of Robert Walpole and Mary Burwell who was also descended from the 1st Baron Burghley.

* Robert Boyle publishes Nova experimenta physico-mechanica, setting forth the law bearing his name.

* John Robert Gregg first publishes Gregg Shorthand.

* Robert Wood publishes The ruins of Balbec, otherwise Heliopolis in Coelosyria in English and French, making the ancient city of Baalbek in Syria known to the West.

* Welsh-born mathematician Robert Recorde publishes The Whetstone of Witte in London, containing the first recorded use of the equals sign and also the first use in English of plus and minus signs.

* Robert Burns publishes Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect.

* Robert Wood publishes The ruins of Palmyra ; otherwise Tedmor in the desart in English and French, making the ancient Syrian city of Palmyra known to the West.

* July 14 – CIA leak scandal: Washington Post columnist Robert Novak publishes the name of Valerie Plame, blowing her cover as a CIA operative.

* The historian and naturalist, Robert Plot, publishes his Natural history of Staffordshire, a collection of illustrations and texts detailing the history of the county.

* 1965: # Robert D. Workman of the U. S. Navy Experimental Diving Unit ( NEDU ) publishes an equation for computing decompression requirements suitable for implementing in a dive computer, rather than a pre-computed table.

* 1951 — The research group of Robert Robinson with John Cornforth ( Oxford University ) publishes their synthesis of cholesterol, while Robert Woodward ( Harvard University ) publishes his synthesis of cortisone.

* Robert Chambers's publishing company publishes The Songs of Robert Burns.

* Plagiarist Robert Baron publishes his Deorum Dona, a masque, and Gripus and Hegio, a pastoral, which draw heavily on the poems of Edmund Waller and John Webster's The Duchess of Malfi.

On June 17, 1980, the Star Tribune announced it would cease publishing Harper's Magazine after the August 1980 issue ; however, on July 9, 1980, John R. MacArthur and his father, Roderick, obtained pledges from the directorial boards of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the Atlantic Richfield Company, and CEO Robert Orville Anderson to amass the one-and-a-half million dollars needed to establish the Harper's Magazine Foundation that currently publishes the magazine.

The Southern Review, a literary journal co-founded in 1935 by Robert Penn Warren and Cleanth Brooks and located on the campus of Louisiana State University, publishes fiction, poetry, critical essays, interviews, book reviews, and excerpts from novels in progress by established and emerging writers.

It also publishes sermons from a wider spectrum of evangelicals of past generations, including Hyman Appelman, Harry A. Ironside, Bob Jones, Sr., R. A. Torrey, Robert G. Lee, Dwight L. Moody, Billy Sunday, T. De Witt Talmage, and George Truett.

For example the U. S. group publishes the newspaper Workers Vanguard, which is known for its acerbic running commentary on the activities of other leftist groups, its sarcastic wit, and its obituaries of leftist figures whose lives often are inadequately analyzed and / or memorialized in the mainstream media, recently including Bill Epton, Richard Fraser, Robert F. Williams, and Myra Tanner Weiss.

* 1906 – Robert Hunter publishes " Poverty ", describing the 10 million Americans living in poverty

* 1844 (- 1849 )-George Robert Gray head of the ornithological section of the British Museum, now the Natural History Museum publishes Genera of Birds ( 1844 – 49 ), illustrated by David William Mitchell and Joseph Wolf.

* Scottish surgeon Robert Kerr publishes The Animal Kingdom, the first two volumes of an English translation of Linnaeus ' Systema Naturae.

* Robert Remak publishes Untersuchungen über die Entwickelung der Wirbelthiere in Berlin, providing evidence for cell division, which is supported ( but not acknowledged ) by Rudolf Virchow.