Bill Doolin's ambition, it appeared, was to carve out his name with bullets alongside those of Jesse James and Billy the Kid, and Bill Tilghman had sworn he would stop him.

Its iconic characters such as Dennis the Menace, Roger the Dodger, Minnie the Minx, The Bash Street Kids, Calamity James, Ball Boy, Ivy the Terrible and Billy Whizz have become known to generations of British children.

In late 1954, he teamed up with harmonica player Billy Boy Arnold, drummer Clifton James, and bass player Roosevelt Jackson, and recorded demos of " I'm A Man " and " Bo Diddley ".

While the Super Bowl XX Champion Bears were a fixture of mainstream American pop culture in the 1980s, the Bears made a prior mark with the 1971 American TV movie Brian's Song starring Billy Dee Williams as Gale Sayers and James Caan as Brian Piccolo.

The Irish Catholic supporters of James II referred to these northern Protestant supporters of " King Billy ", as " Billy Boys ".

The ceremony was attended by some of Hollywood's biggest stars, including Katharine Hepburn, Spencer Tracy, Judy Garland, David Niven, Ronald Reagan, James Mason, Bette Davis, Danny Kaye, Joan Fontaine, Marlene Dietrich, James Cagney, Errol Flynn, Gregory Peck and Gary Cooper, as well as Billy Wilder and Jack Warner.

The film also featured such acts as The Rolling Stones, Chuck Berry, Gerry & the Pacemakers, James Brown, Billy J. Kramer & The Dakotas, Marvin Gaye, The Supremes, Lesley Gore, Smokey Robinson & The Miracles, and The Beach Boys ( whose sequence was later cut from the film, due to contract issues ).

The film was directed by Billy Morrissette and stars James LeGros, Maura Tierney and Christopher Walken.

Rocca has 3 music videos to his credentials and wrote / rapped / starred in the " James Bond Spoof-Secret Agent OO Soul-with Billy Dee Williams ".

In the 1971 Emmy Award winning TV movie " Brian's Song " which portrays the story of former Chicago Bears running backs Brian Piccolo and Hall of Famer Gale Sayers, it ’ s the night after Piccolo's second surgery and Piccolo ( James Caan ) is talking to Sayers ( Billy Dee Williams ) on the phone.

* August 7 – Billy T. James New Zealand comedian ( b. 1948 )

* April 28 – Billy the Kid escapes from his 2 jailers at the Lincoln County Jail in Mesilla, New Mexico, killing James Bell and Robert Ollinger before stealing a horse and riding out of town.

However, the song writers were the performers, so that the recipients were the same in only 16 cases ( Domenico Modugno, Paul Simon, Christopher Cross, Michael Jackson & Lionel Richie, Billy Joel, Bobby McFerrin, Natalie Cole, Eric Clapton, Seal, Shawn Colvin & John Leventhal, James Horner, U2, the Dixie Chicks, Amy Winehouse, Coldplay, Lady Antebellum, and Adele ).

The cast includes Margaret Colin ( Lady Croom ), Billy Crudup ( Bernard Nightingale ), Raúl Esparza ( Valentine Coverly ), Glenn Fleshler ( Captain Brice ), Grace Gummer ( Chloë Coverly ), Edward James Hyland ( Jellaby ), Byron Jennings ( Richard Noakes ), Bel Powley ( Thomasina Coverly ), Tom Riley ( Septimus Hodge ), Noah Robbins ( Gus Coverly / Augustus Coverly ), David Turner ( Ezra Chater ), and Lia Williams ( Hannah Jarvis ).

Famous residents have included Mary, Queen of Scots ; King James VI of Scotland ; Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman ; documentary film pioneer John Grierson ; film music composer Muir Mathieson ; animation pioneer Norman McLaren ; TV presenter Kirsty Young ; and footballers Billy Bremner ( captain of Leeds United and Scotland ) and Frank Beattie ( captain of Kilmarnock ).

* Uncredited cast members include Hooper Atchley, James Donlan, Don Douglas, Billy Engle, Robert Fiske, James Flavin, Byron Foulger, Gregory Gaye, Fay Holden, Mary Howard, Gladden James, Cyril Ring, Henry Roquemore, Syd Saylor, Frank Sully, Phillip Terry and Richard Tucker.

Prominent temperance leaders in the United States included Bishop James Cannon, Jr., James Black, Ernest Cherrington, Neal S. Dow, Mary Hunt, William E. Johnson ( known as " Pussyfoot " Johnson ), Carrie Nation, Howard Hyde Russell, John St. John, Billy Sunday, Father Mathew, Andrew Volstead and Wayne Wheeler.

A pivotal event in the history of the Naskapis occurred in early 1975, when, after separate visits to Schefferville by Billy Diamond, Grand Chief, Grand Council of the Crees ( of Quebec ) (" GCCQ "), and Charlie Watt, President, Northern Quebec Inuit Association (" NQIA "), the Naskapis decided to become involved in the negotiations leading to the signature of the James Bay and Northern Quebec Agreement (" JBNQA ").

His support for these causes continues to this day, and includes an annual benefit concert held at New York's Carnegie Hall with Billy Joel, Elton John, James Taylor and other music superstars.

Mr. Milne (" Billy " to one and all who knew him ) started at once with his idea and by the latter part of the summer of 1909 had formed a troop of Boy Scouts with about a dozen boys from the Sunday School Class of the First Baptist Church, Barre, Vermont, Mr. James Grearson, teacher.

** Billy Ray Cyrus ( born 1961 ), American musician and actor

Billy Whelan, one of the eight Manchester United players who lost their lives in the Munich air disaster of 6 February 1958, was born locally on 1 April 1935.

* Billy Birmingham ( born 1953 ), Australian humorist

* Billy Slater ( born 1983 ), Australian rugby league player

As with the first marriage, this too produced two children: a daughter Jane ( 1677 – 1702 ); and a son William, " Poor Billy " born June, 1679, who was developmentally delayed.

Scotland international footballers Billy Bremner, John Colquhoun, Duncan Ferguson, and brothers Gary and Steven Caldwell were born in Stirling.

The couple's four sons were Mickey Jr. ( 1953 – 2000 ), David ( born 1955 ), Billy ( 1957 – 94 ), whom Mickey named for Billy Martin, his best friend among his Yankee teammates, and Danny ( born 1960 ).

* Billy Bass Nelson ( born 1951 ), bassist, founding member of Parliament-Funkadelic.

* Billy Singleton ( born 1968 ), British basketball player

William Stephen " Billy " Wright, named after his grandfather, was born in Wolverhampton, England on 7 July 1960 to David Wright and Sarah McKinley, Protestants from Northern Ireland.

Pat Garrett, the lawman famed for killing outlaw Billy the Kid, was born near the town of Cusseta in 1850.

* Billy " Crash " Craddock, country music legend, born and lives near Greensboro.

* Billy Davis, Jr. ( born 26 June 1938, St. Louis, Missouri )

Two-time Governor of Virginia, William " Extra Billy " Smith, was born at Marengo in 1797.

* Brit-rocker Billy Idol ( William Michael Albert Broad ), was born in Stanmore.

* Billy Ray Smith, Jr. ( born 1961 ), American football player

* Billy Smith ( second baseman ) ( born 1953 ), American infielder in Major League Baseball, 1975 – 79 ; 1981

* Billy Smith ( pitcher ) ( born 1954 ), American pitcher in Major League Baseball, 1981

* Billy Smith ( baseball, born 1930 ), American minor league first baseman and manager and Major League coach and scout

* Billy Smith ( footballer born 1882 ) ( 1882 –?

* Billy Smith ( footballer born 1895 ) ( 1895 – 1951 ), English footballer with Huddersfield Town

* Billy Smith ( footballer born 1900 ), English footballer with Hartlepool United, Huddersfield Town and Rochdale