* 1994 – Péter Lékó becomes the youngest chess grand master.

In Star Wars, Yoda is the grand master.

Jalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Balkhī (), also known as Jalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Rūmī (), and more popularly in the English-speaking world simply as Rumi ( 30 September 1207 – 17 December 1273 ), was a 13th-century after whose death in 1284 Rumi's younger and only surviving son, Sultan Walad ( died 1312 ), favorably known as author of the mystical Maṭnawī Rabābnāma, or the Book of the Rabab was installed as grand master of the order.

The grand master became a vassal of Polish crown and was obliged to welcome ethnically Polish members to the congregation.

In the International Taekwon-Do Federation, instructors holding 1st to 3rd dan are called Boosabum ( assistant instructor ), those holding 4th to 6th dan are called Sabum ( Instructor ), those holding 7th to 8th dan are called Sahyun ( master ), and those holding 9th dan are called Saseong ( grand master ).

* Nikolai Aleksandrovich Tolstoy ( 1761 – 1816 ), grand master of court ceremonies

* Ivan Matveyevich Tolstoy ( 1806 – 1867 ), grand master of court ceremonies and minister of post service

* January 21 – Artashes Minasian, Armenian chess grand master

* Guillaume de Gisors, grand master of the Priory of Sion ( b. 1219 )

On 19 July 2005, Licio Gelli, the grand master of the Propaganda Due or P2 masonic lodge, received a notification – required by Italian law – informing him that he was formally under investigation on charges of ordering the murder of Calvi along with Giuseppe Calò, Ernesto Diotallevi, Flavio Carboni and Carboni's Austrian ex-girlfriend, Manuela Kleinszig.

As grand master of the Propaganda Due ( P2 ) masonic lodge, Gelli had ties with very high level personalities in Italy and abroad, in particular in Argentina.

On November 23, 1995, the Court of Cassation ( Corte di Cassazione ) convicted Licio Gelli ( grand master of P2 ), Francesco Pazienza and SISMI officers Pietro Musumeci and Giuseppe Belmonte of diverting investigations in relation to the Bologna Massacre.

Unlike other Serbian monasteries, this one was built in the Romantic style, under the authority of grand master Vita from Kotor.

His reputation as a grand master of world cinema reached a new peak after the release of his spectacles Madame Du Barry ( retitled Passion, 1919 ) and Anna Boleyn ( Deception, 1920 ).

Kalfu is a feared and respected Loa reputed to be the grand master of charms and sorceries.

The sitting President of the Republic, as grand master of the order, wears the Grand Collar of the Légion, which is presented to him upon his investiture.

The president is also the designated grand master of the Order of the Falcon.

He was, perhaps more than anyone before or since at the Law School, a grand master of consensus.

In some areas of software development it is at this stage that the release is referred to as a grand or gold release ; the latter seems to be confined mainly to game software though Apple also refer to GM ( gold master ) releases.

He was born at La Roche Guyon, the son of François Armand de La Rochefoucauld, duc d ' Estissac, grand master of the royal wardrobe.

Quitman was grand master of the Mississippi Masons from 1826 to 1838 and again from 1840 to 1845.

Duncombe was a Freemason, serving as first master of the Mount Moriah lodge at Westminster ; in 1836, he set up a grand lodge independent from the British lodges and became its first grand master.

Due to this difficulty, and due to the lack of any observed effect of grand unification so far, there is no generally accepted GUT model.

Due to the changing nature of combat with the introduction of artillery in the European Middle Ages, and infantry firearms in the Renaissance, attempts were made to define and identify those strategies, grand tactics and tactics that would produce a victory more often than that achieved by the Romans in praying to the gods before the battle.

Due in part to contacts with Benjamin Franklin who was there contemporaneously he conceived of the idea of separating the grand duchy from Sweden.

Due to the Federal Council's unique nature as a voluntary grand coalition of political opponents, its operation is subject to numerous constitutional conventions.

Due to the expensive fees paid to host a grand prix, the race would require a title sponsor to be economically viable.

Due to military and administrative importance of Bhera, Sultan Sher Shah Suri ( 1540 – 1545 ) constructed a grand mosque at Bhera, outside the wall city along the road.

Due to the poor result of the previous year's Latvian entry on home soil, Fomins and Kleins had to take part in the novelty of a Eurovision semi-final, in which they failed to achieve the top-ten placing needed to advance to the grand final.

Due to Spain's role as one of the leading financial contributors to the Eurovision Song Contest, Son de Sol were one of fourteen entries with a bye directly into the grand final in Kiev on 21 May, in which they also competed against ten qualifiers from the semi-final.

Due to a conflict in scheduling, the grand final games in Brisbane were played at the Bullets former home, the Entertainment Centre, instead of their regular home at the Convention Centre.

Due to the great depression during the 1890s, the grand building was originally designed as a haven for craftsmen.

Due to the uneven settling of the tower's foundation to one side by several inches, and the resulting un-alignment of the tower's elevator rails, the grand opening for the complex was delayed until February 1987.

During grand jury testimony in December 2003 – which was illegally leaked to the San Francisco Chronicle and published in December 2004 – Giambi allegedly admitted to using many different steroids, including fertility drugs ( which could account for his declining health in the past few years ).

* Barry Bonds has been indicted by a federal grand jury for allegedly perjuring himself in testimony before a grand jury in 2003 as part of the BALCO steroid scandal, in which he denied using any performance-enhancing drugs.

In United States v. Calandra,, the Supreme Court ruled that grand juries may use allegedly illegally obtained evidence in questioning witnesses because " the damage to that institution from the unprecedented extension of the exclusionary rule outweighs the benefit of any possible incremental deterrent effect.

Also on October 30, Kenneth Mark Fobbs, Tribble's roommate, was charged with perjury for allegedly lying to the grand jury about the last time he saw Tribble.

This grand residence had four huge reception rooms which could be interconnected depending on the size of event, allegedly 60 rooms ( counting small dressing rooms as well as proper rooms ) and a glazed cupola rising to 70 feet above ground.

On July 8, 2010, Christie and 13 other individuals allegedly associated with the THC Ministry were indicted by a Federal grand jury in Honolulu on Marijuana Possession and Trafficking charges.

The chosen dates have the distinction of allegedly marking a planetary alignment with the Sun, Moon and six out of eight planets being " part of the grand trine.

While not one of the suspects in the trial, Dante was allegedly questioned by Illinois grand jury and ultimately passed a lie detector test.

On September 18, 2012, James Timothy (" Tim ") Turner was arrested after having been indicted by a federal grand jury in Alabama on one count of conspiracy to defraud the United States under by, among other things, allegedly filing a false 300 million dollar bond in an attempt to pay taxes, one count of passing a false 300 million dollar bond in violation of subsection ( a )( 2 ) of, five additional counts of violations of section 514 ( a )( 2 ), one count of filing false Form 1096 reports with the Internal Revenue Service in violation of Internal Revenue Code section 7212 ( a ),, one count of willful failure to file a federal income tax return under Internal Revenue Code section 7203,, and one count of giving false testimony in a federal bankruptcy proceeding, in violation of.

The BBC version of " Ogre Battle " did originally have a long intro featuring a grand guitar build up ; it was not used for this release, allegedly because the original tape was damaged.