* 1917 – William Scranton, American politician, 13th United States Ambassador to the United Nations

** Pennsylvania Governor William Scranton announces his candidacy for the Republican Presidential nomination, as part of a ' stop-Goldwater ' movement.

* July 19 – William Scranton, American politician

He attended Yale University ( where he studied French history and was a member of the Berzelius Secret Society along with friends such as William Warren Scranton, later Governor of Pennsylvania ), and the University of Virginia School of Law.

* William Scranton ( born 1917 ), former Pennsylvania Governor and 1964 US Presidential candidate

Metropolitan Edison notified the Pennsylvania Emergency Management Agency ( PEMA ), which in turn contacted state and local agencies, Governor Richard L. Thornburgh and lieutenant governor William Scranton III, to whom Thornburgh assigned responsibility for collecting and reporting on information about the accident.

Twenty-eight hours after the accident began, William Scranton III, the lieutenant governor, appeared at a news briefing to say that Metropolitan Edison, the plant's owner, had assured the state that " everything is under control ".

* The Original United States Warship " Monitor " Correspondence between Cornelius Scranton Bushnell, John Ericsson, Gideon Wells, published 1899, 52 pages, compiled by William S. Wells.

Joseph Crape, Charles A. Smith, Francis Hendrick, Nelson Clements, Marcus Peck, Samuel Dowling, Barnard S. Uline, John Z. Robbins, William Slemmer, Scranton E. Wade, William H. Saxby, Andrew Trumble, Barney Marvin, Ervin E. Cole, Albert E. Adams, M. Knowlton, Leroy M. Hawkins and John Willy.

* William Scranton ( former Governor of Pennsylvania )

William O ' Hara, the first Bishop of Scranton, as St. Thomas College.

* William W. Scranton, former Governor of the Commonwealth.

* William Warren Scranton, ( b. 1917 ), Republican Governor of Pennsylvania from 1963 to 1967.

* William Joseph Hafey, Bishop of Scranton ( 1914 – 1925 )

These include: Charles W. Yost one of the founders of the United Nations and US permanent representative to the United Nations ; and Arthur J. Goldberg, former Justice of the US Supreme Court and US permanent representative to the United Nations ; James S. McDonnell, former chairman of the McDonnell-Douglas Corporation ; Elliot L. Richardson, former US Attorney General and US representative to the Law of the Sea Conference ; William Scranton, former Governor of Pennsylvania and US permanent representative to the United Nations ; Cyrus Vance, former Secretary of State ; and John C. Whitehead, former Deputy Secretary of State.

Horace Grant Underwood and his wife, William B. Scranton, his wife, and his mother ( Mary Scranton ), made Korea their new home in May 1885.

The growing importance of primaries became evident at the 1964 Republican National Convention in San Francisco, California, where Arizona Senator Barry Goldwater won the nomination, easily turning away Governor William Scranton and others more favorable to the party establishment.

Other members of that era included Gerald R. Ford, Peter H. Dominick, Walter Lord, William Scranton, R. Sargent Shriver, Cyrus R. Vance, and Byron R. White.

Paul William Richards ( b. May 20, 1964 in Scranton, Pennsylvania ) is an American engineer and a former NASA Astronaut.

* 1770 – Frederick William III of Prussia ( d. 1840 )

Alexander III was also the grandson of William the Lion.

Following the Glorious Revolution, the line of succession to the English throne was governed by the Bill of Rights 1689, which declared that the flight of James II from England to France during the revolution amounted to an abdication of the throne and that James ' son-in-law, ( and nephew ) William of Orange, and his wife, James ' daughter, Mary, were James ' successors, who ruled jointly as William III and Mary II.

The Bill of Rights also stated that the line of succession would go through their descendants, then through Mary's sister Princess Anne, and her descendants, and then to the issue of William III by a later marriage ( if he were to marry again after the death of Mary II ).

However, Mary II died childless in 1694, after which William III did not remarry, and Princess Anne's last surviving child, Prince William, Duke of Gloucester, died six years later, after which it was unlikely she would have any more children due to her age and the large number of miscarriages she had previously suffered.

With the descendents of Charles I thus either childless ( in the case of William III and Anne ) or Catholic, consideration then fell to the descendants of Elizabeth of Bohemia, the only other child of James I to have reached adulthood.

* 1689 – William III and Mary II are crowned as joint sovereigns of Britain.

Owing to the refusal of the chief officers of the corporation to take the oath of allegiance to William III in 1688, the charter was annulled, and the town subsequently declined in prosperity.

This oath was imposed under William III, George I and George III.

The reigns of King Przemysł II of Poland ( 1296 ), William the Silent of the Netherlands ( 1584 ), and the French kings Henry III ( 1589 ) and Henry IV ( 1610 ) were all ended by assassins.

* John Ehrman, The Navy in the War of William III: Its State and Direction ( Cambridge, 1953 ).

William Jefferson " Bill " Clinton ( born William Jefferson Blythe III ; August 19, 1946 ) is an American politician who served as the 42nd President of the United States from 1993 to 2001.

William Jefferson Blythe III, in 1950 at age four

Bill Clinton was born William Jefferson Blythe, III, at Julia Chester Hospital in Hope, Arkansas.

* William C. Patrick III

Painting based on The Beggar's Opera, Act III Scene 2, William Hogarth, c. 1728

A Collect for 5th November, in Book of Common Prayer published London 1689, referring to the Gunpowder Plot and the arrival of William III of England | William III

He thus broke allegiance with Philip and assembled a broad coalition including Emperor Otto IV, King John I of England, Duke Henry I of Brabant, Count William I of Holland, Duke Theobald I of Lorraine, and Duke Henry III of Limburg.

He was born at Haddington, East Lothian, the only son of the Scottish king William the Lion and Ermengarde of Beaumont.

His father, William Jefferson Blythe, Jr., was a traveling salesman who died in an automobile accident three months before Bill was born.

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.

Bill Haley was born in Highland Park, Michigan as William John Clifton Haley.

Charles William " Bill " Mumy, Jr. (; born February 1, 1954 ) is an American actor, musician, pitchman, instrumentalist, voice-over artist and a figure in the science-fiction community.

Mumy was born in San Gabriel, California, the son of Muriel Gertrude ( née Gould ) and Charles William Mumy, Sr., a cattle rancher.

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.

* William " WAK " King ( trumpet, rhythm guitar, synthesizer ) – born January 30, 1949, Alabama.

Barks was born in Merrill, Oregon to William Barks and his wife Arminta Johnson.

Doris Mary Ann Kappelhoff was born in the Cincinnati neighborhood of Evanston to Alma Sophia ( née Welz, a housewife ) and William Kappelhoff ( a music teacher and choir master ).

William Dwight Schultz ( born November 24, 1947 ) is an American stage, television, film actor, and voice artist.

Atchison was born to William Atchison in Frogtown ( later Kirklevington ), which is now part of Lexington, Kentucky.

Their son William, and Henry's illegitimate son, Geoffrey, were born just months apart.

Bulwer-Lytton was born on 25 May 1803 to General William Earle Bulwer of Heydon Hall and Wood Dalling, Norfolk and Elizabeth Barbara Lytton, daughter of Richard Warburton Lytton of Knebworth, Hertfordshire.

Wray, a descendant of both Springfield, Massachusetts, settler William Pynchon and Mormon pioneers, was born on a ranch near Cardston, Alberta, Canada, to two Mormons, Elvina Marguerite Jones, who was from Salt Lake City, and Joseph Heber Wray, who was from Kingston upon Hull, England.

Although born in Inverness, was brought up and educated in Fort William.

* Justin Ryan-interior decorator and television presenter, although born in Glasgow, was brought up in Fort William.

* Allan MacDonald-Roman Catholic priest, Scottish Gaelic scholar, and pastor in South Uist and Eriskay, was born and brought up in Fort William.

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 ).

Beckett was born at Hammersmith, United Kingdom, the eldest son of Gilbert Abbott à Beckett and the brother of Arthur William à Beckett.

William Gary Busey ( born June 29, 1944 ), best known as Gary Busey, is an American film and stage actor, and artist.

His father, William Ford ( 1826 – 1905 ), was born in County Cork, Ireland, of a family originally from western England, who were among migrants to Ireland as the English created plantations.