As he aged, Gielgud sought out distinctive new voices in the theatre, appearing in plays by Edward Albee ( Tiny Alice ), Alan Bennett ( Forty Years On ), Charles Wood ( Veterans ), Edward Bond ( Bingo, in which Gielgud played William Shakespeare ), David Storey ( Home ), and Harold Pinter ( No Man's Land ), the latter two in partnership with his old friend Ralph Richardson, but he drew the line at being offered the role of Hamm in Beckett's Endgame, saying that the play offered " nothing but loneliness and despair ".

William Henry Storey of Southend-on-Sea filed for a patent.

The film was directed by Lee Storey who is married to early alumnus William Storey.

* William B. Hixson Jr., Moorfield Storey and the Abolitionist Tradition ( 1972 ).

Instead of voting for protectionist Republican William McKinley, however, many, including Edward Atkinson, Moorfield Storey, and Grover Cleveland, cast their ballots for the National Democratic Party presidential ticket of John M. Palmer and Simon Bolivar Buckner.

William Robson " Rob " Storey, QSO ( born 16 July 1936 ) is a former New Zealand politician.

* October 24 – William Benson Storey, president of Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway 1920-1933 ( born 1857 ).

* May 2 – Samuel T. Bledsoe succeeds William Benson Storey as president of Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway.

Sometimes credited as William Roll, or informally, Bill Roll, he was a parapsychologist since the 1950s and authored or coauthored many investigation research papers, articles, and four books: The Poltergeist ( 1972 ), Theory and Experiment in Psychical Research ( 1975 ), Psychic Connections ( 1995, with co-author Lois Duncan ), and Unleashed: Of Poltergeists and Murder: The Curious Story of Tina Resch ( 2004, with co-author Valerie Storey ).

Other notable premiers include The Pleasure of Honesty by Luigi Pirandello, Simone by Ben Hecht, Translations by Brian Friel, A Decent Birth by William Saroyan, Command by William Wister Haines, Ten Times Table by Alan Ayckbourn, The March on Russia by David Storey, The Archbishop ’ s Ceiling by Arthur Miller, The First Monday in October by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee, Lillian by William Luce, The Cemetery Club by Ivan Menchell, The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-In-The-Moon Marigolds by Paul Zindel, Jerusalem by Seth Greenland, The Smell of the Kill by Michele Lowe, and Bright Ideas by Eric Coble.

Storey was born at or near Huskisson, New South Wales, Australia to English immigrant parents, William John, a shipbuilder, and Elizabeth Graham.

In 1916 the non-parliamentary party attempted to discipline Premier William Holman, and elected a Cabinet headed by Storey 27 April.

William Benson Storey, Jr. ( November 17 1857 – October 24 1940 ) was the fifteenth president of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway.

Storey was born November 17 1857, in San Francisco, California, the son of William Bainbridge Storey, an express, stagecoach and newspaper agent, and Ellen Dean ( Benson ) Storey.

The now all professional Chicago White Stockings, financed by businessman William Hulbert, became a charter member of the league along with the Red Stockings, who had dissolved and moved to Boston.

One role of the Swedish central bank was lending to the government, which was likewise true of the Bank of England, created in 1694 by Scottish businessman William Paterson in the City of London at the request of the English government to help pay for a war.

He had nearly finalized a deal to sell the team to businessman William Collins, who planned to move them to Northern Virginia.

* 1821 – William Henry Vanderbilt, American businessman ( d. 1885 )

The history of Rice University began with the untimely demise of Massachusetts businessman William Marsh Rice.

Rudolph William Louis " Rudy " Giuliani, KBE (; born May 28, 1944 ) is an American lawyer, businessman, former politician, and public speaker from New York.

* William Stephenson ( 1897 – 1989 ), Canadian soldier, airman, businessman, inventor, and spymaster

* 1900 – William Marsh Rice, American businessman, founded Rice University ( b. 1816 )

* 1861 – William Wrigley, Jr., American businessman, founded Wrigley Company ( d. 1932 )

William Marsh Rice ( March 14, 1816 – September 23, 1900 ) was an American businessman who bequeathed his fortune to found Rice University in Houston, Texas.

** William Redington Hewlett, American businessman ( b. 1913 )

* March 22 – William Hanna, American animator and businessman ( b. 1910 )

* May 14 – William Randolph Hearst, Jr., American businessman ( b. 1908 )

* May 20 – William Hewlett, American businessman ( d. 2001 )

** William S. Paley, American businessman ( CBS ) ( died 1990 )

* November 28 – William Machin Stairs, Canadian businessman and statesman ( b. 1789 )

* August 22 – William Morris, 1st Viscount Nuffield, British businessman and a philanthropist ( b. 1877 )

* October 8 – William Henry Stark, American businessman ( b. 1851 )

* January 21 – William Machin Stairs, Canadian businessman and statesman ( d. 1865 )

* October 5 – William Todd ( 1803 – 1873 ), American businessman, Canadian senate nominee ( b. 1803 )

* November 24 – William Backhouse Astor, Sr., American businessman ( b. 1792 )

* April 25 – William Backhouse Astor, Jr., American businessman ( b. 1830 )

* July 7 – William Henry Smith, British businessman ( d. 1865 )

* July 10 – William Todd ( 1803 – 1873 ), American businessman, Canadian senate nominee

William Tecumseh Sherman ( February 8, 1820 – February 14, 1891 ) was an American soldier, businessman, educator and author.