Clay Perry, an American caver of the 1940s, wrote about a group of men and boys who explored and studied caves throughout New England.

* Floyd Collins ( 1887 – 1925 ), American pioneer caver

* William Edward Davies ( c. 1918 – 1990 ), American geologist and caver

* 1946 – Bill Plympton, American animator

* 1948 – Bill Campbell, American baseball player

* 1940 – Bill Musselman, American basketball coach ( d. 2000 )

* 1924 – Rudy Pompilli, American musician ( Bill Haley & His Comets ) ( d. 1976 )

* 1952 – Bill Belichick, American football coach

* 1925 – Bill Pinkney, American singer ( The Drifters ) ( d. 2007 )

* 1964 – Melinda Gates, American businesswoman and philanthropist, co-founded the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

* 1929 – Bill Evans, American pianist and composer ( d. 1980 )

* 1949 – Bill Spooner, American guitarist and songwriter ( The Tubes )

* 1931 – Bill Shoemaker, American jockey ( d. 2003 )

* 1946 – Bill Clinton, American politician, 42nd President of the United States

* 1951 – Bill Handel, American lawyer and radio host

* 1944 – Bill Malinchak, American football player

* 1966 – Bill Romanowski, American football player

* 1927 – Bill Daily, American actor

* 1917 – Bill Clements, American politician ( d. 2011 )

* Calamity Jane Martha Jane Canary ( May 1, 1852 – August 1, 1903 ), better known as Calamity Jane, was an American frontierswoman, and professional scout best known for her claim of being an acquaintance of Wild Bill Hickok.

* Pecos Bill is an American cowboy, apocryphally immortalized in numerous tall tales of the Old West during American westward expansion into the Southwest of Texas, New Mexico, Southern California, and Arizona.

* 1872 – Bill Johnson, American bassist ( d. 1972 )

* 2012 – Bill Skowron, American baseball player ( b. 1930 )

* 1902 – Bill Hallahan, American baseball player ( d. 1981 )

* 1944 – Bill Stoneman, American baseball player and manager

* 1965 – Bill Bellamy, American actor and comedian

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.

On one visit he stopped at the office of the American, where he was known surreptitiously as `` the Great White Chief '', and for the first time met his managing editor, fat Moses Koenigsberg.

The CTCA program of activities was profuse: William Farnum and Mary Pickford on the screen, Elsie Janis and Harry Lauder on the stage, books provided by the American Library Association, full equipment for games and sports -- except that no `` bones '' were furnished for the all-time favorite pastime played on any floor and known as `` African golf ''.

As I have repeatedly stated, this provision is much more restrictive than the general law, popularly known as the Buy American Act.

The group known as the American Association for Health,, Physical Education, and Recreation ( a division of the National Education Association ) initiated a conference which brought together representatives of the National Rifle Association, SAAMI and the American Fishing Tackle Manufacturers.

As Broadway itself becomes increasingly weighted down by trite, heavy-handed, commercially successful musicals and inspirational problem dramas, the American theatre is going through an inexorable renaissance in that nebulous area known as `` off-Broadway ''.

Unfortunately, few of the artists ( writers, movie producers, dramatists and musicians ) who have used American folklore since 1900 have known enough to distinguish between the two streams even in the most general of ways.

`` In the hard life of politics it is well known that no platform nor any program advanced by either major American party has any purpose beyond expressing emotion ''.

Andy Warhol ( August 6, 1928 – February 22, 1987 ) was an American artist who was a leading figure in the visual art movement known as pop art.

As the chemical properties of the elements were known to largely repeat themselves according to the periodic law, in 1919 the American chemist Irving Langmuir suggested that this could be explained if the electrons in an atom were connected or clustered in some manner.

* American Samoa ( IOC country code ), an unincorporated territory of the United States located in the South Pacific Ocean, southeast of the sovereign state of Samoa ( formerly known as Western Samoa )

Interestingly, the London Confession of 1689 was later used by Calvinistic Baptists in America ( called the Philadelphia Baptist Confession ), whereas the Standard Confession of 1660 was used by the American heirs of the English General Baptists, who soon came to be known as Free Will Baptists.

* Adrian Rollini ( 1903 – 1956 ), American multi-instrumentalist best known for his jazz music

NYSE MKT LLC, formerly known as the American Stock Exchange ( AMEX ), is an American stock exchange situated in New York City, New York.

* Ajax Orlando Prospects, also known as Ajax America, an American soccer team from Orlando, Florida

* 1862 – American Civil War: Second Battle of Bull Run, also known as the Battle of Second Manassas.

In the internal discourse within American Ásatrú, this cultural / racial divide has long been known as " universalist " vs. " folkish " Asatru.

The clambake as known today is a colonial interpretation of an American Indian tradition.

* Johnny Appleseed John Chapman ( September 26, 1774 – March 18, 1845 ), also known as Johnny Appleseed, was an American pioneer nurseryman who introduced apple trees to large parts of Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois.

* American Collectibles Network, former name of the American television network now known as Jewelry Television

* AUDIO ( group ), an American R & B band of 5 brothers formerly known as TNT Boyz and as B5