Candidates compete to be Queen of the Rose Festival in 2001 Puerto del Rosario.

* The majority of the Portland Rose Festival occurs.

In 2009, Lewis traveled to the Cannes Film Festival to announce his return to cinema, after a 13 year absence, for the film Max Rose, his first leading role since Martin Scorsese's The King of Comedy.

During the Portland Rose Festival every summer, the Tigard Festival of Balloons is held at Cook Park near Tigard High School.

* The Golden Rose Festival, annually in spring ( 1961 – 2003 ), which awarded the Golden Rose of Montreux, an international award for television.

Queen also appeared in 1984 and in 1986 at the Golden Rose Festival and Queen guitarist Brian May appeared in 2001 at the Jazz Festival.

The Rose Festival is an annual local garden festival dating from 1967.

After the first series, the special Frost Over England was produced, winning the Golden Rose at the Montreux Television Festival.

The town hosts the regional finals of the Rose of Tralee ( festival ) in June and the Halloween Howls Comedy Festival on the October bank holiday weekend.

The annual Richmond Rose Festival honored the rose industry and was a popular summer attraction.

The city deems itself the City of Roses and holds an annual Rose Festival.

The Rose Festival is held annually, usually in the first weekend of May.

Since 2008, the nearby Texas Rose Horse Park has been the home of the annual Super Ride: International Festival of the Equestrian Arts.

Known as the rose capital of France, a " Festival of the Rose " is held in July of each year where in one park alone more than 800 varieties can be seen.

The first episode won the Golden Rose, as well as two other major prizes at the 1991 Rose d ' Or Light Entertainment Festival in Montreux.

Tralee is also famous for the Rose of Tralee International Festival which is held annually in August.

Pat Nolan, who plays Barry O ' Hanlon, won a Rose d ' Or award in the ' Best Soap Actor ' category at the international Rose d ' Or Festival in Switzerland on 7 May 2005.

These seminal events took place in Iowa state and at the annual Rose Festival Dragon Boat Race in Portland, Oregon.

Portland's Rose Festival Dragon Boat Race hosts North America's largest Taiwanese-style boat racing.

The Welland Rose Festival is one of Niagara's longest running festivals.

* 1946 – Father Divine, a controversial religious leader who claims to be God, marries the much-younger Edna Rose Ritchings, a celebrated anniversary in the International Peace Mission movement.

* 1923 – Rose Marie, American actress and singer

The Sun Devils have played in the Fiesta Bowl five times, and in 1987 the ASU football team won the Rose Bowl, defeating the University of Michigan 22 – 15.

* 1941 – Pete Rose, American baseball player

* 2012 – Matt Branam, American academic, 14th president of Rose – Hulman Institute of Technology ( b. 1954 )

* Harold Rose ( 1925 – 26 )

* 1939 – Charlie Rose, American politician ( d. 2012 )

* 1960 – Bernard Rose, English director

* 2007 – Lobby Loyde, Australian musician, songwriter, and producer ( Purple Hearts, Wild Cherries, and Rose Tattoo ) ( b. 1941 )

* Sorbus, genus of about 100 – 200 species of trees and shrubs in the subfamily Maloideae of the Rose family Rosaceae

One of New York City's major non-commercial radio broadcasters is WFUV, an National Public Radio – affiliated 50, 000-watt station broadcasting from Fordham University's Rose Hill campus in the Bronx.

The youngest son of William Edward Parkinson ( 1871 – 1927 ), an art master at North East County School and from 1913 principal of York School of Arts and Crafts, and his wife, Rose Emily Mary Curnow ( born 1877 ), the young Parkinson attended St. Peter's School, York, where in 1929 he won an Exhibition to study history at Emmanuel College at the University of Cambridge.

* 1886 – Rose Wilder Lane, American writer and reporter ( d. 1968 )

* 1999 – Rose Bird, American judge ( b. 1936 )

* 1954 – Fred Rose, American songwriter and music publishing executive ( b. 1897 )

* Rose Dione ( 1875 – 1936 ), French actress

* 1920 – George Rose, British music hall entertainer ( d. 1988 )

* 1943 – World War II: Members of White Rose are executed in Nazi Germany.

* 1977 – Timo Rose, German filmmaker

* 1977 – Kevin Rose, American businessman and television host, founded Digg

* 1962 – W. Axl Rose, American singer ( Guns N ' Roses )

* 1943 – The Nazis arrest the members of the White Rose movement.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, who once lived in Birmingham, may have borrowed Baskerville's surname for one of his Sherlock Holmes stories, The Hound of the Baskervilles – which, in turn, was borrowed by Umberto Eco for the character William of Baskerville in his best-selling novel, The Name of the Rose ( Sean Connery played the character in the film based on the book ).

* 1987 – Mia Rose, English / Portuguese singer