) Innovations in bracing design have emerged, notably the A-brace developed by British luthier Roger Bucknall of Fylde Guitars.

Its iconic characters such as Dennis the Menace, Roger the Dodger, Minnie the Minx, The Bash Street Kids, Calamity James, Ball Boy, Ivy the Terrible and Billy Whizz have become known to generations of British children.

The report of the British Consul Roger Casement led to the arrest and punishment of white officials who had been responsible for cold-blooded killings during a rubber-collecting expedition in 1903, including one Belgian national for causing the shooting of at least 122 Congolese natives.

* 1944 – Roger Scruton, British philosopher

* 1707 24 December – The first British Governor directly appointed by Queen Anne, Roger Elliott, took up residence in the Convent of the Franciscan friars.

* 1916 – The Irish Nationalist and British diplomat Sir Roger Casement is sentenced to death for his part in the Easter Rising.

His father, Roger Sterne, was an Ensign in a British regiment recently returned from Dunkirk.

Many Irish members of the British Army were interned there until the end of the war and at one stage they were visited by the Irish republican leader Roger Casement in an attempt to win recruits for the forthcoming Irish rebellion.

He learned additional concepts in mathematics from the British mathematician Roger Penrose.

* 1936 – Roger Whittaker, British singer

* 1877 – Roger Quilter, British composer ( d. 1953 )

According to anthropologist Roger D. Abrahams, these traditional performance art forms are " Nevisian approximation of British performance codes, techniques, and patterns ".

** Roger Delgado, British actor ( d. 1973 )

* December 26 – Roger Keyes, 1st Baron Keyes, British admiral ( b. 1872 )

* April 8 – Roger Chapman, British rock singer ( Family )

* December 21 – Roger Avon, British actor ( b. 1914 )

* March 23 – Sir Roger Bannister, British athlete

* December 24 – The first British Governor of Gibraltar, directly appointed by Queen Anne, Roger Elliott, takes up his residence in the Convent of the Franciscan Friars.

** Roger Williamson, British race car driver ( b. 1948 )

* October 4 – Roger Keyes, 1st Baron Keyes, British admiral ( d. 1945 )

** Roger Tonge, British actor ( b. 1946 )

* November 23 – Roger Newdigate, British politician ( b. 1719 )

* September 9 – Roger Fry, British artist ( b. 1866 )

* July 17 – Roger Sheaffe, British General

* April 25 – Roger Boyle, 1st Earl of Orrery, British soldier, statesman, and dramatist ( d. 1679 )

* In an episode of The Saint television series entitled ' Escape Route ' ( 1966 ), Simon Templar ( Roger Moore ) is sent to Dartmoor to uncover a planned escape.

Nine years earlier, Robert Hardy had played Donald's father, Sir Malcolm Campbell, in the BBC2 Playhouse television drama " Speed King "-both were written by Roger Milner and produced by Innes Lloyd.

* 1958: A television series based on the character of Ivanhoe starring Roger Moore as Ivanhoe

* 1992 – Roger Lemelin, Canadian novelist and television writer ( b. 1919 )

* 2010 – Roger Newman, British-born American actor and television writer ( b. 1940 )

Merlin plays a modern-day villain in Roger Zelazny's short story " The Last Defender of Camelot " ( 1979 ), which won the 1980 Balrog Award for short fiction and was adapted into an episode of the television series The Twilight Zone in 1986.

Many Saint novels were reprinted in new editions in the 1960s to capitalize on the popular The Saint ( TV series ) | television series, starring Roger Moore.

** Roger Ebert, American film critic and television personality

Ebert is known for his film review column ( appearing in the Chicago Sun-Times since 1967, and later online ) and for the television programs Sneak Previews, At the Movies with Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert, and Siskel and Ebert and The Movies, all of which he co-hosted for a combined 23 years with Gene Siskel.

In 1982, the critics moved to a syndicated commercial television show named At the Movies with Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert, and in 1986 they left to create Siskel & Ebert & The Movies with Buena Vista Television ( part of the Walt Disney Company ).

In 1983, Roger Price and Geoffrey Darby created a clone of YCDTOTV for the U. S. PBS public television network, titled Don't Look Now !.

According to cartoon creator / voice actor, Seth MacFarlane, the voice of Roger the Alien on the Fox television show American Dad!

Curtis appeared frequently on television ; he co-starred with Roger Moore in the TV series The Persuaders !.

In a review of the film written after it received its Academy Awards, Roger Ebert called it a " supremely well-acted, intelligent film that tries for too much, that attacks not only television but also most of the other ills of the 1970s ," though " what it does accomplish is done so well, is seen so sharply, is presented so unforgivingly, that Network will outlive a lot of tidier movies.

Roger's straight man is Tom, in early strips a director or producer, later a portmanteau figure, agent for Roger or television executive, to suit the script.

Episodes featured Ed Grimley in adventures, which start out as mundane, but turn very surreal and cartoonish, interspersed with science lessons from The Amazing Gustav Brothers, Roger and Emil, and a live-action segment with a " scary story " presented as a show-within-a-show by Grimley's favorite television host, SCTVs Count Floyd ( played by SCTV cast member Joe Flaherty ).

* Roger Bolton ( producer ) ( born 1945 ), British television producer and radio presenter

* Sir Roger Moore ( born 1927 ), film and television actor

Roger Abbott and Luba Goy began the show with a brief history of the show, closing with " the scariest three words on television: AIR FARCE LIVE!

Roger Lea MacBride ( August 6, 1929 – March 5, 1995 ) was an American lawyer, political figure, writer and television producer.

When the film was released, film critic Roger Ebert discussed the style and methods the filmmakers used, writing, " The makers of The Atomic Cafe sifted through thousands of feet of Army films, newsreels, government propaganda films and old television broadcasts to come up with the material in their film, which is presented without any narration, as a record of some of the ways in which the bomb entered American folklore.

Her television appearances include parts on Night Court, Silk Stalkings, Riptide, Three's Company, Knight Rider and Wings, and a guest appearance as a villain on the television adaptation of Roger Corman's film Black Scorpion in what would be her final role.

Roger Avary ( born August 23, 1965 ) is a Canadian film and television producer, screenwriter and director in the American mass media industry.