* 1792 – Tiradentes, Brazilian revolutionary, leading member of Inconfidência Mineira ( b. 1746 )

Aegina appears to have belonged to the Eretrian league during the Lelantine War ; hence, perhaps, we may explain the war with Samos, a leading member of the rival Chalcidian league in the reign of King Amphicrates ( Herod.

De Palma is often cited as a leading member of the New Hollywood generation of film directors, a distinct pedigree who either emerged from film schools or are overtly cine-literate.

Before, during and after his career as a bureaucrat Karmal was a leading member of the Afghan movement.

In particular, the successful entrapment of Graham Riddick and David Tredinnick in the " cash for questions " scandal, the contemporaneous misconduct as ministers by Neil Hamilton ( who lost a consequent libel action against The Guardian ), Tim Smith, and the convictions of former Cabinet member Jonathan Aitken and former party deputy chairman Jeffrey Archer for perjury in two separate cases leading to custodial sentences damaged the Conservatives ' public reputation.

Chief Richard Akinjide, a former Nigerian Attorney-General and Minister of Justice who had been a leading member of Nigeria's legal team, described the decision as " 50 % international law and 50 % international politics ", " blatantly biased and unfair ", " a total disaster ", and a " complete fraud ".

There they came to the attention of a leading member of the Society, Edward Gardner.

Ryzhkov became the Head of the Economic Department of the Central Committee, and became the leading Central Committee member on matters regarding economic planning.

Robert Ashcroft, a leading member, wrote an article which challenged Christadelphian belief in plenary inspiration and which, although he himself left, led to a division in the main body.

A founding member of the Futurians, he was a leading influence on science fiction development and fandom in the 20th century United States.

After the abdication of Napoleon following the War of the Sixth Coalition, Austria participated as a leading member of the Holy Alliance at the Congress of Vienna, which was largely dominated by Francis's chancellor Klemens Wenzel, Prince von Metternich culminating in a new European map and the restoration of Francis ' ancient dominions ( except the Holy Roman Empire which was dissolved ).

He was a leading member of the Duke of York's administration, was created a Lord of the Articles in June and in November 1681 Lord President of the Privy Council.

The leading candidates for the office — all of whom were black — were Dumarsais Estimé, a former school teacher, assembly member, and cabinet minister under Vincent ; Félix d ' Orléans Juste Constant, leader of the Haitian Communist Party ( Parti Communiste d ' Haïti — PCH ); and former Garde commander Démosthènes Pétrus Calixte, who stood as the candidate of a progressive coalition that included the Worker Peasant Movement ( Mouvement Ouvrier Paysan — MOP ).

Heinrich Luitpold Himmler ( 7 October 1900 – 23 May 1945 ) was Reichsführer of the Schutzstaffel ( SS ), a military commander, and a leading member of the Nazi Party ( NSDAP ) of Nazi Germany.

Since World War II France has been a leading member in the UN, the European Union and NATO, and remains a strong economic, cultural, military and political influence in the 21st century.

Maududi's political ideas influenced Sayyid Qutb, one of the key philosophers of Islamism, and a leading member of the Muslim Brotherhood movement.

One of the outstanding halakhists of the movement, he served as a leading member of the Committee on Jewish Law and Standards from 1948 until his death in 1979.

Iceman is among the original X-Men captured by Krakoa, leading to a new incarnation of X-Men of which he is not a member.

In 1992 David Mellor, a cabinet minister, had been exposed as having an extramarital affair, and for accepting hospitality from the daughter of a leading member of the PLO.

He traveled to Germany and France between 1782 and 1785, and upon his return to London, became a leading member of the Grand Professional Concerts at the Hanover Square Rooms in Soho.

Lorenzo's grandfather, Cosimo de ' Medici, was the first member of the Medici family to combine running the Medici bank with leading the Republic.

During the process leading up to elections in October 1994, the United States served as a significant financier and member of the most important commissions established to monitor implementation of the Rome General Peace Accords.

Monument to Karol Małłek, leading member of Masurian resistance to Nazi Germany and pro-Polish Masurian activist

Past presidents include Jørgen Randers, co-author of the Club of Rome Report Limits to Growth ; Peter Lorange, former president of IMD in Lausanne, Switzerland ; Leif Frode Onarheim, a former member of the Norwegian Parliament and current CEO of leading Norwegian fish farming company Marine Harvest.

Among the leading acts were the Real Kids, founded by former Modern Lover John Felice ; Willie Alexander and the Boom Boom Band, whose frontman had been a member of the Velvet Underground for a few months in 1971 ; and Mickey Clean and the Mezz.

Graduates of world-renowned Łódź Film School include some of the icons of the world cinematography, e. g., Roman Polanski ( Knife in the Water, Rosemary's Baby, Frantic, The Pianist ) and Krzysztof Zanussi ( a leading director of the so-called cinema of moral anxiety of the 1970s ).

By 1740 the production of gin had increased to six times that of beer and because of its cheapness it became popular with the poor, leading to the so-called Gin Craze.

Some view this as leading to the so-called technological singularity as persuasion technology advocates the creation of more persuasion technology until all are persuaded to do nothing but work on improving technology-handing effective control of society to it.

Ohlin was also a leading figure within the school of doctrine with the same name, the so-called Stockholm school ; a group of leading Scandinavian economists influenced by Knut Wicksell, most of them active in Stockholm, either at the Stockholm School of Economics or the Stockholm University College.

By that time, he had become one of the leading politicians within the so-called Peace opposition.

DMS is oxidized to form sulfate which, in areas where ambient aerosol particle concentrations are low, can contribute to the population of cloud condensation nuclei, mostly leading to increased cloud cover and cloud albedo according to the so-called CLAW Hypothesis.

Images of the newly built Eiffel Tower in 1889 and 1890 gave impetus to the postcard, leading to the so-called " golden age " of the picture postcard in years following the mid-1890s.

Accepted by the sees of Rome, Constantinople, and Antioch, the Chalcedonian settlement encountered strong resistance in Alexandria ( and in Egypt generally ), leading ultimately to the schism between the Oriental Orthodox churches ( which reject Chalcedon ), on the one hand, and the so-called Chalcedonian churches on the other.

The countercoup brought in a new governor for the Buenos Aires Province, who would in time become the leading figure of a loose confederation of Argentine Provinces ( the so-called Argentine Confederation ).

In February 1927, an agreement was signed by five leading Hollywood movie companies: the so-called Big Two — Paramount and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer — a pair of studios in the next rank — Universal and the fading First National — and Cecil B. DeMille's small but prestigious Producers Distributing Corporation ( PDC ).

Land speculators and squatters began to defraud Creeks out of their allotments, and violence broke out, leading to the so-called " Creek War of 1836 ".

His grave served as the kernel of the so-called " cherry orchard "-a section of the cemetery which contains the graves of Constantin Stanislavski and the leading actors of his company.

Trevor-Roper was a leading player in the so-called " storm over the gentry " ( also known as the " gentry controversy "), a dispute with Christian Socialist R. H. Tawney and Stone about whether the English gentry were, economically, on the way down or up in the century before the English Civil War, and whether this had anything to do with the outbreak of that war in 1642.

Many economists contend that ISI failed in Latin America and was one of many factors leading to the so-called lost decade of Latin American economics, while others contend that ISI led to the " Mexican Miracle ", the period that lasted from 1940 to 1975 in which economic growth stood at 6 % or higher.

It is one of the leading film companies in the world, a member of the so-called Big Six.

In the early months of the American Civil War, Cooke collaborated with the secretary of the treasury Salmon P. Chase in securing loans from the leading bankers in the Northern cities ; his own firm was so successful in distributing treasury notes that Chase engaged him as special agent for the sale of the $ 500, 000, 000 of so-called " five-twenty " bonds — which were callable in 5 years and matured in 20 years — authorized by Congress on February 25, 1862.

The total economic collapse attending the Fall of Rome and leading into the so-called " Dark Ages " dissolved Classical civilization, replacing it with Christian theology and soteriology, administered through the Roman Catholic Church's ecclesiastical and monastic infrastructures.

" The three named composers had by then already become established as the so-called " titans " of Soviet music, enjoying worldwide reputation as some of the leading composers of the 20th century.

Remarkable is the so-called Great Gallery leading to the king's chamber: It has a niched ceiling and measures 28. 7 ft in height and 151. 3 ft in length.

As a senator, he was one of the so-called “ Magnificent 12 ” who voted to terminate the RP-US Military Bases Agreement leading to the withdrawal of American servicemen from the Clark Air Base in Pampanga and the Subic Naval Base in Zambales.

Both films also featured memorable performances from a number of young male actors who would go on to become leading men in the next decade ( as well as members of the so-called " Brat Pack "), including Tom Cruise, Rob Lowe, C. Thomas Howell, Emilio Estevez, the late Patrick Swayze, Mickey Rourke, Nicolas Cage, and Matt Dillon.

Salmon P. Chase, Abraham Lincoln's Secretary of the Treasury, was a leading exponent of so-called " greenback " currency during the American Civil War.

A leading figure in the so-called " Chicago school " of early Dixieland, he also played piano and sang on occasion.