Because Blowers put the onus on slave owners to prove that they had a legal right to purchase slaves, slavery died out in Nova Scotia early in the 19th century.

* March 10 – Sampson Salter Blowers, American lawyer and jurist ( d. 1842 )

Sampson Salter Blowers ( March 10, 1742 – October 25, 1842 ) was a noted North American lawyer and jurist.

He was born in Boston, the son of John Blowers and Sarah Salter, but was raised by his maternal grandfather, Sampson Salter, after the death of his parents.

Blowers is probably most noted as one of the defence attorneys representing the soldiers accused after the Boston Massacre, along with such notables as John Adams and Josiah Quincy Jr.

Speaking to Michael Parkinson on BBC Radio 2 on 26 August 2007, when asked by his interviewer why he was commentating less these days, after initially attempting to side-step the question Blowers observed that " they obviously want to bring in new faces ", and added that during the Ashes tour in Australia during the winter of 2006 / 7 " I felt in a funny way that I wasn't part of it any more ".

Hawkins dominated the White Sox into the eighth inning, but after retiring the first two batters, Sammy Sosa reached on a fielding error by Yankees third baseman Mike Blowers.

Despite its eighteen long years of popularity and ratings success, the local current affairs program was axed, due to a major schedule clean up for making space for Nine's now-scrapped one hour current affairs program, This Afternoon, presented by Andrew Daddo, Katrina Blowers and Mark Ferguson from 4: 30pm weekdays starting the following Monday after its final ever broadcast.

Pure Champion and Embassy member John Walters, who had control over when to wrestle his title matches, chose to have the title defense immediately after Lethal's match, defeating the exhausted Lethal to retain his title following a trifecta of Lung Blowers.

Blowers should be operated periodically on a regular schedule.

* The American Maid ( 1909 ), also known as The Glass Blowers.

The Glass Blowers and Desirée have had revivals, the latter having been released on CD like El Capitan, the best known of them.

They were assisted by Sampson Salter Blowers, whose chief duty was to investigate the jury pool, and Paul Revere, who drew a detailed map of the bodies to be used in the trial of the British soldiers held responsible.

At this time there was an inn attached to the estate, named Blowers.

Blowers Township is a township in Otter Tail County, Minnesota, United States.

* John G. Blowers, Jr., Humble Oil heir, musician, closely associated with Frank Sinatra, Judy Garland, and Billie Holiday among others, philanthropist

& Trans Paul M. Blowers, Robert Louis Wilken.

The Mound City Blue Blowers had a number of hit kazoo records in the early 1920s.

The Mound City Blue Blowers featured Dick Slevin on metal kazoo and Red McKenzie on comb-and-tissue-paper kazoo.

* Jazz musician John G. Blowers, Jr .; former drummer for Frank Sinatra, Louis Armstrong, and the Harlem Blues & Jazz Band.

The Alderney Blowers give a full concert, and there is a car and bike show.

* The Alderney Blowers play every year.

In the late 20's, Hawkins also participated in some of the earliest interracial recording sessions with the Mound City Blue Blowers.

Blowers was also judge in the vice admiralty court from 1821 to 1833.

Most of his estate went to his adopted daughter, Sarah Ann Anderson, who had married William Blowers Bliss.

Before the Second World War Maskelyne was a " blaster " in the Ancient Order of Froth Blowers, a charitable parody of the Freemasons that operated from 1926-31.

In 1724, his father took Sterne to Roger's wealthy brother, Richard, so that Sterne could attend Hipperholme Grammar School near Halifax ; Sterne never saw his father again as Roger was ordered to Jamaica where he died of a fever in 1731.

John Thompson also died outside Canada, at Windsor Castle, where Queen Victoria permitted his lying-in-state before his body was returned to Canada for a state funeral in Halifax.

Lord Halifax, the titular head of the administration, died in 1715.

From the Earl of Newport, the lordship passed to George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax, and thence to his son, William Savile, the second Marquis, who died without issue.

He died at Crow Nest, Lightcliffe, near Halifax, West Yorkshire in 1876 and was buried at Saltaire Congregational Church.

Crabtree died of a stroke in December 1997 in Halifax General Hospital.

* April 16-Charles Montagu, 1st Earl of Halifax, English poet and statesman ( died 1715 )

* November 11-George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax, politician and writer ( died 1695 )

Ritchie died at his estate in the Northwest Arm of Halifax and is buried at St. John's Cemetery.

He died in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

Fagundes commemorative beside Halifax Harbour, Nova Scotia. João Álvares Fagundes ( born c. 1460, Kingdom of Portugal, died 1522, Kingdom of Portugal ), an explorer and ship owner from Viana do Castelo in Northern Portugal, organized several expeditions to Newfoundland and Nova Scotia around 1520-1521.

Lady Halifax died in 1884.

Lord Halifax survived her by just over a year and died in August 1885, aged 84.

He was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia, and was 100 years old when he died.

She died January l7th, 1886, and was buried at Halifax, Nova Scotia.

Educated at Eton College and at Trinity College, Cambridge, he was married in 1741 to Anne Richards ( died 1753 ), who had inherited a great fortune from Sir Thomas Dunk, whose name Halifax took.

Bonnett was taken to nearby Halifax Medical Center, but he had died on impact.

Wentworth died at Halifax, Nova Scotia, on April 8, 1820, aged 84.

In July 1859 failing health led him to seek rest in a trip to Europe, but he died on July 13, 1859 at Halifax, Nova Scotia, where he had been put ashore when it was seen that he probably could not last the voyage across the Atlantic.

The unusual war memorial commemorates a Halifax crew which all died when they crashed on the Naze.

She died in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, July 6, 1890, and is buried alongside her husband in Camp-hill Cemetery, Halifax.

He died at his home in Halifax, Nova Scotia on January 2, 1877 and was buried in that city at Camp Hill Cemetery.

MacMillan died in Halifax at the age of 83.

He died in Halifax.