Avco-Embassy Pictures, the film's financial backer, preferred either Charles Bronson or Tommy Lee Jones to play the role of Snake Plissken to Carpenter's choice of Kurt Russell, who was trying to overcome the " lightweight " screen image conveyed by his roles in several Disney comedies.

* 1732 – Charles Lee, British-born American Revolutionary War figure ( d. 1782 )

* 1986 – The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inducts its first members: Little Richard, Chuck Berry, James Brown, Ray Charles, Fats Domino, the Everly Brothers, Buddy Holly, Jerry Lee Lewis and Elvis Presley.

Among the irregular contributors with just a single Mad byline to their credit are Charles M. Schulz, Chevy Chase, " Weird Al " Yankovic, Andy Griffith, Will Eisner, Kevin Smith, J. Fred Muggs, Boris Vallejo, Sir John Tenniel, Jean Shepherd, Winona Ryder, Jimmy Kimmel, Jason Alexander, Walt Kelly, Rep. Barney Frank, Tom Wolfe, Steve Allen, Jim Lee, Jules Feiffer, Donald Knuth and Richard Nixon, who remains the only President credited with " writing " a Mad article.

* 1977 – Charles A. Lee, American athlete

Lee graduated second in his class behind Charles Mason, who resigned from the Army a year after graduation, and Lee did not incur any demerits during his four-year course of study — five of his 45 classmates earned a similar distinction.

Charles was the son of Maj. Gen. Henry Lee II ( 1730 – 1787 ) and Lucy Grymes ( 1734 – 1792 ).

The Septuagint: A column of uncial text from 1 Esdras in the Codex Vaticanus Graecus 1209 | Codex Vaticanus c. 325 – 350 CE, the basis of Sir Lancelot Charles Lee Brenton's Greek edition and Brenton's English Translation of the Septuagint | English translation.

The other men include hotheaded, inexperienced Chico ( Horst Buchholz ); Chris's friend Harry Luck ( Brad Dexter ) who believes Chris is seeking treasure ; the drifter Vin ( Steve McQueen ), who has gone broke after a round of gambling ; Bernardo O ' Reilly ( Charles Bronson ), a gunfighter of Irish-Mexican heritage ; cowpuncher Britt ( James Coburn ); and an on-the-run gunman Lee ( Robert Vaughn ), who is in the midst of a crisis of confidence.

* Chemistry – Dudley R. Herschbach, Yuan T. Lee, John Charles Polanyi

* Charles Lee, U. S. Attorney General ( d. 1815 )

Ross has also worked with John Lee Hooker, Lightnin ' Hopkins, Brownie McGhee, Memphis Slim, Sunnyland Slim, Otis Rush, Dr. John, Bobby Lewis, Pinetop Perkins, Charles Neville, Cyril Neville, Big Mama Thornton, Louisiana Red, J. B. Hutto, Eddie Kirkland, Floyd Jones, Homesick James, and many other blues greats.

* September 5 – Charlotte Lee, Countess of Lichfield, illegitimate daughter of King Charles II of England ( d. 1718 )

He is a method actor, taught mainly by Lee Strasberg and Charles Laughton at the Actors Studio in New York.

Actors from the 1950s and 1960s such as John Wayne, Steve McQueen and Lee Marvin passed the torch in the 1970s to actors such as martial artist Bruce Lee, Tom Laughlin, Charles Bronson, Chuck Norris, Clint Eastwood and Sonny Chiba.

* Lees Ferry: John Doyle Lee, Emma Lee French ( 17th of John Lee's 19 wives ), J. S. Emmett, Charles Spencer

Charles Lee ( February 6, 1732 – October 2, 1782 ) was a British soldier who served as a General of the Continental Army during the American War of Independence.

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Charles Xavier Joseph de Franque Ville d ' Abancour ( 4 July 1758 – 9 September 1792 ) was a French statesman, minister to Louis XVI.

** Charles Darwin ( 1758 – 1778 ) physician and scientist, uncle of Charles Darwin ( 1809 – 1882 )

* Charles Spencer, 3rd Duke of Marlborough ( 1706 – 1758 ), third son of Lady Sunderland

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* 1835 – Antoine Charles Horace Vernet, French painter ( b. 1758 )

* September 8 – Charles d ' Abancourt, French statesman ( b. 1758 )

* Charles Dumont de Sainte Croix ( 1758 – 1830 ), French zoologist

Harrison was a representative for Surry County, Virginia, ( 1756 – 1758 ) and Charles City County ( 1766 – 1776 ) to the House of Burgesses.

The nebula was independently rediscovered in 1758 by Charles Messier as he was observing a bright comet.

Lady Burlington died in this bedchamber in 1758, as did the Whig leader Charles James Fox in 1806.

* Charles Spencer, 3rd Duke of Marlborough ( 1706 – 1758 ), general and politician, second son of the 3rd Earl of Sunderland

* Charles Lee ( Attorney General ) ( 1758 – 1815 ), American lawyer and former United States Attorney General

Charles Lee ( 1758 – June 24, 1815 ) was an American lawyer from Virginia.

Wieland's tastes had changed ; the writings of his early Swiss years — Der geprüfte Abraham ( The Trial of Abraham's Faith, 1753 ), Sympathien ( 1756 ), Empfindungen eines Christen ( 1757 ) — were still in the manner of his earlier writings, but with the tragedies, Lady Johanna Gray ( 1758 ), and Clementina von Porretta ( 1760 ) — the latter based on Samuel Richardson's Sir Charles Grandison — the epic fragment Cyrus ( 1759 ), and the " moral story in dialogues ," Araspes und Panthea ( 1760 ), Wieland, as Gotthold Lessing said, " forsook the ethereal spheres to wander again among the sons of men.

On 8 March 1758, the group executing Charles Viner's will reported to Convocation that Viner had recommended creating a Chair of English Law, with a £ 200 salary.

* Charles Spencer, 3rd Duke of Marlborough 1755 – 1758

In 1758 he was joined by Commodore Charles Steevens ( d. 1761 ), but the reinforcement only raised the squadron to seven small line-of-battle ships.

* Charles de Rohan, Prince of Soubise ( 1715 – 1787 ), Marshal of France in 1758

* Charles Spencer, 3rd Duke of Marlborough ( 1706 – 1758 )

* John Baptiste Charles Lucas ( 1758 – 1842 ), US congressman from Pennsylvania

Both Charles and his brother Thomas were enrolled in the Westminster School, where they remained after the rest of the family returned to South Carolina in 1758.

Charles Pinckney ( died October 29, 1758 ) was a noted South Carolina politician and colonial agent.