* 1726 – Charles Burney, English historian ( d. 1814 )

Charles Burney wrote that Arne introduced " a light, airy, original, and pleasing melody, wholly different from that of Purcell or Handel, whom all English composers had either pillaged or imitated ".

* Charles Burney, English musician and music historian

* April 12 – Charles Burney, English music historian ( born 1726 )

* April 12 – Charles Burney, English music historian ( d. 1814 )

Charles Burney expounded c. 1789, in A General History of Music: " The name, according to Bochart, who derives it from the Phoenician, implies a songstress.

Handel's own experience of Gluck pleased that composer less: Charles Burney reports Handel as saying that " he knows no more of contrapunto, as mein cook, Waltz ".

Jennens commented that the Sinfony contains " passages far unworthy of Handel, but much more unworthy of the Messiah "; Handel's early biographer Charles Burney merely found it " dry and uninteresting ".

Farinelli surpassed the trumpet player so much in technique and ornamentation that he " was at last silenced only by the acclamations of the audience " ( to quote the music historian Charles Burney – this account cannot be verified one way or the other, since no surviving work which Farinelli is known to have performed contains an aria for soprano with trumpet obbligato ).

Of " Per questo dolce amplesso ", Charles Burney reports: " Senesino had the part of a furious tyrant, and Farinelli that of an unfortunate hero in chains ; but in the course of the first air, the captive so softened the heart of the tyrant, that Senesino, forgetting his stage-character, ran to Farinelli and embraced him in his own.

Music historian Charles Burney, a close friend of the Arne family, indicates that he was Thomas Arne's natural son but there is some speculation among modern scholars that he may have been adopted.

Charles Burney wrote that Michael's father " tried to make him a singer, but he was naturally idle and not very quick.

Elizabeth died on 1 May 1769 while he was in prison and Charles Burney blamed Arne for his wife's early death due to the overwork and stress he had subjected her to.

Other major 18th century English novelists are Samuel Richardson ( 1689-1761 ), author of the epistolary novels Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded ( 1740 ) and Clarissa ( 1747-8 ); Henry Fielding ( 1707 – 54 ), who wrote Joseph Andrews ( 1742 ) and The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling ( 1749 ); Laurence Sterne ( 1713 – 68 ) who published Tristram Shandy in parts between 1759 and 1767 ; Oliver Goldsmith (? 1730-74 ) author of The Vicar of Wakefield ( 1766 ); Tobias Smollett ( 1721 – 71 ) a Scottish novelist best known for his comic picaresque novels, such as The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle ( 1751 ) and The Expedition of Humphry Clinker ( 1771 ), who influenced Charles Dickens ; and Fanny Burney ( 1752-1840 ), whose novels " were enjoyed and admired by Jane Austen ," wrote Evelina ( 1778 ), Cecilia ( 1782 ) and Camilla ( 1796 ).

Kidd was an intimate friend of Richard Porson and Charles Burney the younger.

Thus he came to sing alongside the great soprano castrato Farinelli, and their meeting on stage ( in the pasticcio Artaserse ) led to a famous incident, reported by the music historian Charles Burney.

In 1774 Dr Charles Burney and a Signor Giardini made an unsuccessful attempt to form in connection with the hospital a public music school, in imitation of the Pio Ospedale della Pietà in Venice, Italy.

He was educated under Dr. Charles Burney, his mother's brother-in-law, at Greenwich, and remained there until he was articled in 1804 to his father, whose partner he became in 1811.

* Aluigi, Metastasio's life, ( Assisi, 1783 ), London: Charles Burney, 1796, and others.

Vinci's opere buffe, of which Li zite ' ngalera ( 1722 ) is generally regarded as the best, are full of life and spirit ; his opere serie, of which Didone Abbandonata ( Rome, 1728 ) and Artaserse ( Rome, 1730 ) are the most notable, have an incisive vigour and directness of dramatic expression praised by Charles Burney.

Charles Burney by Joshua Reynolds | Sir Joshua Reynolds in 1781

Charles Burney FRS ( 7 April 1726 – 12 April 1814 ) was an English music historian and father of authors Frances Burney and Sarah Burney.

Charles Burney was born at Shrewsbury, and educated at Shrewsbury School.

-- The board of regents of Paris Junior College has named Dr. Clarence Charles Clark of Hays, Kan. as the school's new president.

This was the last of Whale's films to be produced under the Laemmle family ; the Laemmles lost control of the studio to J. Cheever Cowdin, head of the Standard Capital Corporation, and Charles R. Rogers, who was installed in Junior Laemmle's old job.

* Charles R. Floyd, Democratic State Senator who served three four-year terms ; pioneer of the Texas Farm-to-market road system and an original founder of Paris Junior College

* A son named after his father ( but not after his grandfather ) is often referred to as Junior, Chip ( also a diminutive of Charles, but in this case in reference to " a chip off the old block "), Skip, Sonny, Bud, Buddy, or Deuce.

Philip Charles Hardwick, Philip Hardwick and John Shaw Junior are buried there, as well as Nobel Prize-winning playwright Harold Pinter.

* Charles R. Drew Junior High School, Detroit, Michigan

At the time of Jones ' death at age 37, his son Charles was 12, his daughter Helen was 10 and his youngest son John Lloyd ( known as " Casey Junior ") was 4.

Beaver Brook Elementary ( formerly the Early Childhood Center or ECC ), located near the Charles M. Frolio Junior High School, serves kids first grade to fourth grade.

The Charles M. Frolio Junior High School serves seventh and eighth grade students.

* Charles B. Griffith as Voice of Audrey Junior / Kloy / Drunk dental patient / Screaming patient / Flower shop burglar

He was educated at St Charles RC Junior School, a Catholic school, and passed the eleven plus enabling him to attend the St Michael's Catholic College in Woodhouse.

Chávez attended both parochial ( St. Charles Borromeo and Holy Ghost ) and public ( Van Buren Junior High and Manzano High ) schools.

* 1954 Students vote to change name from San Mateo Junior College to College of San Mateo ( CSM ) in part to honor Charles S. Morris.

Furlong attended Charles W. Eliot Middle School in Altadena, and South Pasadena Junior High School in South Pasadena, California.

They have won gold in Men's Junior fours at the International Flemish junior Championships in Gent, Belgium two years in a row ( 2007 Niall Kenny, Edward Fitzgerald, Charles Doyle, Martin Oliver, and Eoghan Staunton Cox 2008 Keith Duffy, Peter Sherry, Eddie Mularkey, Charles Doyle and Patrick Oliver Cox ) and have had considerable success at home, winning men's novice 4's championship of Ireland ( Niall Kenny, Luke Smith, Michael Freeney, Edward Fitzgerald and Keith Duffy ).

At underage level, Stephen Hickey won the 2005 Mullingar Junior Snooker Championship and also the 2005 and 2006 Westmeath Junior Snooker Championships. When the junior got up and running again in 2011 Ed Kearney cleaned up wining the Westmeath and the Midland Junior opens but for the close tournament Stephen von Beaumont took the Mullingar close and Matty Charles took the Grand Prix.

McNeese State University was founded in 1939 as a division of Louisiana State University and was originally called Lake Charles Junior College.

The name became John McNeese Junior College in 1940 by resolution of the University Board of Supervisors in honor of this pioneer educator of Lake Charles.

He later played with Charles Mingus, Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers, Horace Silver, and Lou Donaldson, and led a group with Junior Cook.

King, Bill Doggett, Golden " Big " Wheeler, Billy Branch, Bo Diddley, Bobby " Blue " Bland, Bobby Rush, Buckwheat Zydeco, Buddy Guy, Calvin Jones, Carey Bell, Carl Perkins, Chicago Blues Museum All Stars, Barrelhouse Chuck, Chuck Berry, Clarence " Gatemouth " Brown, Dave Myers, Dion Payton, Dr. John, Eddie Boyd, Eddie C. Campbell, Eddie Vinson, Eddy Clearwater, Etta James, Fenton Robinson, Floyd Jones, Fontella Bass, Hank Ballard, Henry Townsend, Homesick James, Hubert Sumlin, James Cotton, Jerry Portnoy, Jimmy Johnson, Jimmy Rogers, Jimmie Lee Robinson, Jody Williams, John Lee Hooker, Johnnie Taylor, John Brim, Johnny Shines, Johnny Winter, Junior Wells, Keith Richards, Koko Taylor, Little Milton, Little Willie Littlefield, Lonnie Brooks, Lowell Fulson, Louisiana Red, Luther Allison, Lurrie Bell, Magic Slim, Matt Murphy, Memphis Slim, Mick Taylor, The Neville Brothers, The Ice Cream Men, Otis Rush, Pee Wee Crayton, Pinetop Perkins, Ray Charles, Robert Cray Band, Robert Lockwood, Jr., Sam Lay, Otis " Big Smokey " Smothers, Snooky Pryor, Son Seals, Lacy Gibson, Staple Singers, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Sugar Blue, Sunnyland Slim, Taildragger, Taj Mahal, Willie Buck, Willie Dixon, Yank Rachell, Lil ' Ed Williams and the Blues Imperials, and Johnny B. Moore.

Famous natives of the area include Cliff Hanley, the lyricist of Scotland's anthem Scotland the Brave, world-renowned plastic surgeon, Dr. Ian Jackson, and Charles Wilson, former editor of The Times, Junior Campbell, ( musician ) with sixties band The Marmalade, ( and, composer of the music for Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends ), all of whom attended the local school Eastbank Academy.