Ackerman was born Forrest James Ackerman ( though he would refer to himself from the early 1930s on as " Forrest J Ackerman " with no period after the middle initial ) on November 24, 1916 in Los Angeles, to Carroll Cridland ( née Wyman ; 1883 – 1977 ) and William Schilling Ackerman ( 1892 – 1951 ).

Puns and other forms of word play have been used by many famous writers, such as Alexander Pope, James Joyce, Vladimir Nabokov, Robert Bloch, Lewis Carroll, John Donne, and William Shakespeare, who is estimated to have used over 3, 000 puns in his plays.

Spike Lee was born in Atlanta, Georgia, the son of Jacqueline Carroll ( née Shelton ), a teacher of arts and black literature, and William James Edward Lee III, a jazz musician and composer.

* William Carroll Crawford

Since the losses from yellow fever in the Spanish – American War in the 1890s were thirteenfold higher than the losses due to military operations, further experiments were conducted by a team under Walter Reed, composed of doctors James Carroll, Aristides Agramonte, and Jesse William Lazear, that successfully proved the ″ Mosquito Hypothesis ″.

He also defines the term “ skepticism ” as he uses it and identifies two types of skeptic, the Apollonian, who is “ committed to clarity and rationality ” and the Dionysian, who is “ committed to passion and instinct .” William James, Bertrand Russell, and Friedrich Nietzsche exemplify the Apollonian skeptic, Carroll says, and Charles Sanders Peirce, Tertullian, Søren Kierkegaard, and Blaise Pascal are Dionysian skeptics.

There have been a number of notable Old Rugbeians including the purported father of the sport of Rugby William Webb Ellis, the inventor of Australian rules football Tom Wills, the war poets Rupert Brooke and John Gillespie Magee, Jr., Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, author and mathematician Lewis Carroll, poet and cultural critic Matthew Arnold, the author and social critic Salman Rushdie ( who said of his time there: " Almost the only thing I am proud of about going to Rugby school was that Lewis Carroll went there too.

* Carroll County, Tennessee, named for William Carroll, the sixth and ninth governor of Tennessee

Instead he ran for, and won, the office of governor of Tennessee, defeating the former governor, William Carroll.

* Uncredited cast members include Eddie Acuff, Murray Alper, Ward Bond, Walter Brooke, Georgia Carroll, Glen Cavender, Spencer Charters, Wallis Clark, William B. Davidson, Ann Doran, Tom Dugan, Bill Edwards, Frank Faylen, Pat Flaherty, James Flavin, William Forrest, William Gillespie, Joe Gray, Creighton Hale, John Hamilton, Harry Hayden, Stuart Holmes, William Hopper, Eddie Kane, Fred Kelsey, Vera Lewis, Audrey Long, Hank Mann, Frank Mayo, Lon McCallister, Edward McWade, George Meeker, Dolores Moran, Charles Morton, Jack Mower, Paul Panzer, Francis Pierlot, Clinton Rosemond, Syd Saylor, Frank Sully, Dick Wessel, Leo White and Dave Willock.

The soldiers Preston sent were Corporal William Wemms, Hugh Montgomery, John Carroll, William McCauley, William Warren and Matthew Kilroy.

It was named for Governor William Carroll.

Heat starred Carroll O ' Connor as the white police chief William Gillespie, and Howard Rollins as the African-American police detective Virgil Tibbs.

In the fourth season, Carroll O ' Connor took complete control of the show by firing the entire writing staff, except for Cynthia Deming and William J Royce, making them Story Editor ( s ).

Since the new post office could not be called Camden, as that name was already being used by the post office at Camden in Carroll County, Indiana, the new post office was named Penn, allegedly by Grisell, who was a great admirer of William Penn, the famous Quaker.

It served as the county seat of Gallatin County until 1838 when the county was split, creating Carroll County, and Port William was renamed Carrollton and became the seat of the new county.

* William Henry Appleton ( 1814 – 1899 ), Daniel Appleton's son, publisher of Lewis Carroll, Arthur Conan Doyle, Charles Darwin, Thomas Henry Huxley, Herbert Spencer, and John Stuart Mill

Members of the Institute include Revd Dr Vivian Boland OP ( Director ), Revd Dr Fergus Kerr OP ( Founding Director ), Prof. Steve Baldner ( Visiting Fellow, Trinity term 2006 ), Dr William Carroll ( Aquinas Fellow Hilary Terms ), Revd Dr Simon Gaine OP, Revd Peter Hunter OP, Revd Dr Aidan Nichols OP and Revd Dominic Ryan OP.

The collection includes a large number of outstanding single items, such as the 14th century Chertsey Cartulary, the journal of James Cook on the HM Bark Endeavour, inscribed on the Memory of the World Register in 2001, the diaries of Robert O ' Hara Burke and William John Wills from the Burke and Wills expedition, and Charles Kingsford Smith's and Charles Ulm's log of the Southern Cross.

William " Bill " Boyd Watterson II ( born July 5, 1958 ) is an American cartoonist and the author of the comic strip Calvin and Hobbes, which was syndicated from 1985 to 1995.

The invention of the transistor in 1947 by William B. Shockley, John Bardeen and Walter Brattain opened the door for more compact devices and led to the development of the integrated circuit in 1958 by Jack Kilby and independently in 1959 by Robert Noyce.

His publication and design of the classic audio-visual magazines Cinquième Saison and OU between 1958 and 1974, each issue containing recordings as well as texts, images, screenprints and multiples, brought together international contemporary writers and artists such as members of Lettrisme and Fluxus, Jiri Kolar, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Tom Phillips, Brion Gysin, William S. Burroughs and many others, as well as bringing the work of survivors from earlier generations such as Raoul Hausmann and Marcel Janco to a fresh audience.

A series of critical academic books and articles, however, held in check any appreciable growth of anti-Stratfordism and Oxfordism, most notably The Shakespeare Ciphers Examined ( 1957 ), by William and Elizebeth Friedman, The Poacher from Stratford ( 1958 ), by Frank Wadsworth, Shakespeare and His Betters ( 1958 ), by Reginald Churchill, The Shakespeare Claimants ( 1962 ), by H. N. Gibson, and Shakespeare and His Rivals: A Casebook on the Authorship Controversy ( 1962 ), by George L. McMichael and Edgar M. Glenn.

The Big Country is a 1958 American Western film directed by William Wyler.

A different proof was obtained by William Boone in 1958.

* June 6 – William A. Glassford, American admiral ( d. 1958 )

He also appeared in several episodes of Armchair Theatre ( during the first of these in 1958, Underground, one of the lead actors died during the live performance ) and The Avengers in addition to many ITC drama series including: William Tell, The Four Just Men, Sir Francis Drake, Danger Man and as a recurrent guest in The Saint.

Scripps Company controlled United Press until its absorption of William Randolph Hearst's smaller competing agency, INS, in 1958 to form UPI.

James Strom Thurmond was born on December 5, 1902, in Edgefield, South Carolina, the son of Eleanor Gertrude ( Strom ) ( July 18, 1870 – January 10, 1958 ) and John William Thurmond ( May 1, 1862 – June 17, 1934 ), a lawyer.

* Omnibus of Speed: An Introduction to the World of Motorsport ( 1958, with William F. Nolan )

Derek William Dick, better known as Fish, ( born 25 April 1958, Dalkeith, Midlothian, Scotland ) is a Scottish singer, lyricist and occasional actor, best known as the former lead singer of the neo-progressive rock band Marillion.

The film starred William Holden and Alec Guinness and became the largest box office hit in the United States in 1958.

* William Arrowsmith, 1958: verse

Peck once again teamed up with director William Wyler in the epic Western The Big Country ( 1958 ), which he co-produced.

In 1958, he won an Obie Award for his performances in Children of Darkness ( in which he made the first of many appearances opposite his future wife, actress Colleen Dewhurst ), for As You Like It, and for playing the title character in William Shakespeare's Richard III ( a performance one critic said was the " angriest " Richard III of all time ).

* The Adventures of Robin Hood – Episode " Friar Tuck " as Sir William of Marmsbury, " Checkmate " as Count De Waldern ( series 1: 1955 ), " A Village Wooing " as Wat Longfellow ( series 2: 1956 ) and " The Reluctant Rebel " as Herbert ( series 4: 1958 ).

* Mulloy, William T., 1958.

* William Cotton ( 1880 – 1958 ), artist and playwright.

William Phillips, a New Zealand born economist, wrote a paper in 1958 titled The Relation between Unemployment and the Rate of Change of Money Wage Rates in the United Kingdom, 1861-1957, which was published in the quarterly journal Economica.

Lawford eventually bought the rights in 1958 imagining William Holden in the lead.

In 1958 the LPO appointed William Steinberg as chief conductor.

William Schutz ( 1958, 1966 ) looked at interpersonal relations from the perspective of three dimensions: inclusion, control, and affection.

Processual archaeology ( formerly the New Archaeology ) is a form of archaeological theory that had its genesis in 1958 with Willey and Phillips ' work Method and Theory in American Archeology, in which the pair stated that " American archaeology is anthropology or it is nothing " ( Willey and Phillips, 1958: 2 ), a rephrasing of Frederic William Maitland's comment that " y own belief is that by and by, anthropology will have the choice between being history and being nothing.