David MacRitchie was the younger son of William Dawson MacRitchie and Elizabeth Elder MacRitchie.

David MacRitchie was a prominent proponent of the euhemeristic origin of fairies, a theory tracable to the early 19th century that considers fairies in British folklore to have been rooted in a historical pygmy, dwarf or short sized aboriginal race, that lived during Neolithic Britain or even earlier.

* Works by David MacRitchie at Internet Archive

He worked with David MacRitchie as editor of the quarterly journal of the Gypsy Lore Society until its dormancy in 1892.

David MacRitchie was one of its founders and he worked with Francis Hindes Groome until 1892 to produce its quarterly journal.

Alexander died in April 1124 at his court at Stirling ; his brother David, probably the acknowledged heir since the death of Sybilla, succeeded him.

In April 2010, Atari board member and former CEO David Gardner resigned.

The musical premiered in the West End at the Adelphi Theatre on April 15, 1975 and starred Jean Simmons, Joss Ackland, David Kernan, Liz Robertson, and Diane Langton, with Hermione Gingold reprising her role as Madame Armfeldt.

David Hume, originally David Home, son of Joseph Home of Chirnside, advocate, and Katherine Falconer, was born on 26 April 1711 ( Old Style ) in a tenement on the north side of the Lawnmarket in Edinburgh.

David Thompson ( April 30, 1770 – February 10, 1857 ) was a British-Canadian fur trader, surveyor, and map-maker, known to some native peoples as " Koo-Koo-Sint " or " the Stargazer ".

David Lawrence Angell ( April 10, 1946 – September 11, 2001 ) was an American producer of sitcoms.

By the time David died, the painting had been completed and the commissioner Ambroise Firmin-Didot brought it back to Paris to include it in the exhibition " Pour les grecs " that he had organised and which opened in Paris in April 1826.

With such business implications in mind, David Liddle ( General Manager, Xerox Office Systems ) and Metcalfe ( 3Com ) strongly supported a proposal of Fritz Röscheisen ( Siemens Private Networks ) for an alliance in the emerging office communication market, including Siemens ' support for the international standardization of Ethernet ( April 10, 1981 ).

* Sir David Pepper ( April 2003 – July 2008 )

*" Becoming France ," David Bell, The New Republic, 1 April 2009 ( in English )

In April 1977 the Young Liberals ' annual conference unanimously passed a motion to call on the Liberal leader ( David Steel ) to move for the impeachment of Ronald King Murray QC, the Lord Advocate.

In April 2010, Polgár played an eight-game rapid chess match against Czech GM David Navara which was part of the ČEZ Chess Trophy 2010 festival of the Prague Chess Society.

* David was born about 1642 and died in Duxbury between July 2, 1718 and April 1, 1719.

Jellicoe was made a Viscount in 1918 and was promoted to Admiral of the Fleet in April 1919, along with David Beatty.

In April 2007, citing the reduced sentence for the Australian prisoner David Matthew Hicks, Lindh's attorneys made a public plea for a Presidential commutation to lower his 20-year sentence.

Kenneth David Kaunda ( born April 28, 1924 ), also known as KK, served as the first President of Zambia, from 1964 to 1991.

*" Intel 8080 Microprocessor Oral History Panel " Steve Bisset, Federico Faggin, Hal Feeney, Edward Gelbach, Ted Hoff, Stan Mazor, Masatoshi Shima, Computer History Museum, April 26, 2007, moderator: David House.

Current league commissioner David Stern took office on April 1, 1984, and oversaw the expansion and growth of the NBA to a global commodity.

* Schaefer, David Lewis ( 2008 ) Robert Nozick and the Coast of Utopia, The New York Sun, April 30, 2008.

Their version attracted a good deal of attention, not least from David Bowie, as it was released in June 1979 just six weeks after Bowie's version had hit the UK Top 10 in April.

During her contract with the label, Amos recorded vocals for two songs for David Byrne's collaboration album with Fatboy Slim, entitled Here Lies Love, which was released in April 2010.

Finally, in April 1863, Grant marched Union troops down the west side of the Mississippi River and crossed east over at Bruinsburg using Adm. David Porter's naval ships.

In March 1865, while Lincoln met at City Point with Grant, Sherman and Admiral David Dixon Porter, Union forces finally took Petersburg and then captured Richmond in April, after an unsuccessful Confederate assault on Fort Stedman.

* April 4 – David Cross, American actor and comedian

A full three minute version of the countdown music was made available on BBC News Online and David Lowe's own after a remix on 16 May 2006.

* David Lempert, “ Foreign Aid: Creating Conditions for the Next Civil War ,” Phnom Penh Post, 16 / 01, January 12 – 25, 2007, available on the internet.

Bob checks, David checks, Alice bets $ 10, Bob folds, David raises $ 16, and Alice calls, ending the second betting round.

Queen Marie Antoinette on the way to the guillotine on 16 October 1793 ( drawing by Jacques-Louis David ).

Louis David Riel (, ; 22 October 1844 – 16 November 1885 ) was a Canadian politician, a founder of the province of Manitoba, and a political and spiritual leader of the Métis people of the Canadian prairies.

" More recently and University of Florida anthropologist David Daegling has asserted that even at 16 frame / s the creature's odd walk could be replicated: " Supposed peculiarities of subject speed, stride length, and posture are all reproducible by a human being employing this type of locomotion " compliant gait ".

Yankee pitching had been paced by David Cone ( 20 – 7, 3. 55 ), Andy Pettitte ( 16 – 11, 4. 24 ), David Wells ( 18 – 4, 3. 49 ), Hideki Irabu ( 13 – 9, 4. 06 ) and Orlando Hernández ( 12 – 4, 3. 13 ).

David Edward Sutch ( 10 November 1940 – 16 June 1999 ), also known as " Screaming Lord Sutch, 3rd Earl of Harrow ", or simply " Screaming Lord Sutch ", was a musician from the United Kingdom.

Buffalo then played against Denver Broncos, who were coming off a 26 – 24 win over the Houston Oilers in which quarterback John Elway led them on an 87-yard drive to set up kicker David Treadwell's game-winning field goal with only 16 seconds left.

Among them were the New York Philharmonic's Sondheim: The Birthday Concert, which was held March 15 and 16, 2010 at Lincoln Center's Avery Fisher Hall and hosted by David Hyde Pierce.

* September 16 – David McCreery, Irish footballer

* April 16 – The gunman David Pratt shoots South African Prime Minister Henrik Verwoerd in Johannesburg, wounding him seriously.

* August 16 – David Anderson, Canadian politician

* March 16 – Gemini 8 ( David Scott, Neil Armstrong ) docks with an Agena target vehicle.

* April 16 – David Lean, British film director ( b. 1908 )

* July 16 – American Civil War: David G. Farragut becomes the first rear admiral in the U. S. Navy

* October 16 – David Ben-Gurion, first Prime Minister of Israel ( d. 1973 )

* August 16 – David Brearley, American Revolutionary War coloner, signer of the U. S. Constitution for New Jersey, and federal judge ( b. 1745 )

* October 16 – David Macpherson, Canadian-born American civil engineer ( b. 1854 )

* July 16 – Johann David Heinichen, German composer ( b. 1683 )

She was married three times and had a daughter, Christina ( born May 16, 1968 ) by her second marriage, to British actor David Cameron.

* December 16 – Battle of Annan: The loyalists of David II defeat Edward Balliol in Scotland.

( Pen and ink by Jacques-Louis David, 16 October 1793 )