* 1965 – David Robinson, American basketball player

In 1985 David Gower's England team was strengthened by the return of Gooch and Emburey as well as the emergence at international level of Tim Robinson and Mike Gatting.

* 1928 – David Robinson, Irish horticulturist ( d. 2004 )

* 1949 – David Robinson, American drummer ( The Modern Lovers, DMZ, and The Cars )

( C ) 1983 Acorn Computers Ltd. Thanks are due to the following contributors to the development of the Electron ( among others too numerous to mention ):- Bob Austin, Astec, Harry Barman, Paul Bond, Allen Boothroyd, Ben Bridgewater, Cambridge, John Cox, Chris Curry, 6502 designers, Jeremy Dion, Tim Dobson, Joe Dunn, Ferranti, Steve Furber, David Gale, Andrew Gordon, Martyn Gilbert, Lawrence Hardwick, Hermann Hauser, John Herbert, Hitachi, Andy Hopper, Paul Jephcot, Brian Jones, Chris Jordan, Computer Laboratory, Tony Mann, Peter Miller, Trevor Morris, Steve Parsons, Robin Pain, Glyn Phillips, Brian Robertson, Peter Robinson, David Seal, Kim Spence-Jones, Graham Tebby, Jon Thackray, Topexpress, Chris Turner, Hugo Tyson, John Umney, Alex van Someren, Geoff Vincent, Adrian Warner, Robin Williamson, Roger Wilson.

Through the work of Werner Israel, Brandon Carter, and David Robinson the no-hair theorem emerged, stating that a stationary black hole solution is completely described by the three parameters of the Kerr – Newman metric ; mass, angular momentum, and electric charge.

Chaplin's childhood was fraught with poverty and hardship, prompting biographer David Robinson to describe his eventual trajectory as " the most dramatic of all the rags to riches stories ever told.

David Robinson notes that the film provided " a welcome distraction " from the " wretchedness " of his home life ; Grey was pregnant for a second time, frustrating Chaplin and exacerbating difficulties between the pair.

Today, the film is seen by the British Film Institute as one of Chaplin's " great features ", while David Robinson says it shows the star at " his unrivalled peak as a creator of visual comedy.

According to David Robinson, this also had an effect on the quality of the film.

According to David Robinson, unlike in more conventional slapstick comedies, the comic moments in Chaplin's films centred on the Tramp's attitude to the things happening to him: the humour did not come from the Tramp bumping into a tree but from his lifting of his hat to the tree in apology.

In the 20th century, theologians like Jürgen Moltmann, Hans Küng, John Robinson, Bishop David Jenkins, Don Cupitt and Bishop Jack Spong challenged traditional theological positions and understandings of the Bible ; following these developments some have suggested that passages have been mistranslated or that they do not refer to what we understand as " homosexuality.

It has inspired a new genre, the Robinsonade as works like Johann David Wyss's The Swiss Family Robinson ( 1812 ) adapt its premise and has provoked modern postcolonial responses, including J. M. Coetzee's Foe ( 1986 ) and Michel Tournier's Vendredi ou les Limbes du Pacifique ( in English, Friday ) ( 1967 ).

* 1987 – Sir David Robinson, English philanthropist and entrepreneur ( b. 1904 )

Robinson has been referred to by author David Falkner as " the father of modern base-stealing.

She and Jackie had three children: Jackie Robinson Jr. ( born November 18, 1946 ), Sharon Robinson ( born January 13, 1950 ), and David Robinson ( born May 14, 1952 ).

For many years Robinson also worked as legal advisor for the Campaign for Homosexual Law Reform with future Trinity College senator David Norris.

* Robinson, David and Jennifer Lowery ( Editors ), 2000.

The 1992 Olympic basketball Dream Team, the first to use current NBA stars, featured Michael Jordan as the anchor, along with Bird, Magic, David Robinson, Patrick Ewing, Scottie Pippen, Clyde Drexler, Karl Malone, John Stockton, Chris Mullin, Charles Barkley, and Christian Laettner.

Tim Duncan and David Robinson won the 1999 championship with the Spurs, and Shaquille O ' Neal and Kobe Bryant started the 2000s with three consecutive championships for the Lakers.

Modern ragtime composers include William Bolcom, Trebor Tichenor, David Thomas Roberts, Max Morath and Reginald Robinson.

Many of these were part of the corruption indulged in by Scott and the Pennsylvania's president, J. Edgar Thomson, which consisted of inside trading in companies that the railroad did business with, or payoffs made by contracting parties " as part of a quid pro quo ", as biographer David Nasaw writes.

Stanford sinologist David Shepherd Nivison, in the The Cambridge History of Ancient China, writes that the moral goods of Mohism " are interrelated: more basic wealth, then more reproduction ; more people, then more production and wealth ... if people have plenty, they would be good, filial, kind, and so on unproblematically.

David Cole writes that " the Chinese Room argument has probably been the most widely discussed philosophical argument in cognitive science to appear in the past 25 years ".

By now he had broken his drug addiction ; biographer David Buckley writes that Isolar II was " Bowie's first tour for five years in which he had probably not anaesthetised himself with copious quantities of cocaine before taking the stage.

Biographer David Buckley writes, " The essence of Bowie's contribution to popular music can be found in his outstanding ability to analyse and select ideas from outside the mainstream — from art, literature, theatre and film — and to bring them inside, so that the currency of pop is constantly being changed.

Stanford sinologist David Shepherd Nivison, in the The Cambridge History of Ancient China, writes that the moral goods of Mohism " are interrelated: more basic wealth, then more reproduction ; more people, then more production and wealth ... if people have plenty, they would be good, filial, kind, and so on unproblematically.

As David Kaiser writes, " since the middle of the 20th century, theoretical physicists have increasingly turned to this tool to help them undertake critical calculations ," and as such " Feynman diagrams have revolutionized nearly every aspect of theoretical physics ".

Biographer David Meyer characterized Coon Dog and Avis as loving parents: he writes in Twenty Thousand Roads that they are " remembered as affectionate parents and a loving couple ".

" Long lost, the tapes from this session have gathered a legendary patina ," writes David Meyer.

Also, contrary to common belief, David Lindberg writes, " the late medieval scholar rarely experienced the coercive power of the church and would have regarded himself as free ( particularly in the natural sciences ) to follow reason and observation wherever they led ".

Stanford sinologist David Shepherd Nivison, in the The Cambridge History of Ancient China, writes that the moral goods of Mohism " are interrelated: more basic wealth, then more reproduction ; more people, then more production and wealth ... if people have plenty, they would be good, filial, kind, and so on unproblematically.

As David Rothenburg writes, " The beautiful is the root of science and the goal of art, the highest possibility that humanity can ever hope to see ".

As anthropologist David Daegling writes, " he skeptics have not felt compelled to offer much of a detailed argument against the film ; the burden of proof, rightly enough, should lie with the advocates.

Although Falk appeared in numerous other television roles in the 1960s and 1970s, he is best known as the star of the TV series Columbo, " everyone's favorite rumpled television detective ", writes historian David Fantle.

As David M. Hart writes: " Governments would become political churches, only having jurisdiction over their congregations who had elected to become members.

In his book " The Education of a Coach ", David Halberstam writes that one of Bill Belichick's specific plans to combat the Bills involved convincing his defense ( who had been the best unit against the run in the NFL that season ) that they would win the game if Thurman Thomas ran for more than 100 yards.

In An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals David Hume writes:

David Parnas, in A Rational Design Process: How and Why to Fake It, writes:

David Bianculli in the New York Daily News writes that Willow's progression is " unlike anything else I can recall on regular prime-time television: a character evolving naturally over four seasons of stories and arriving at a place of sexual rediscovery ".

Film historian David Bordwell writes that in his films, " Vacations, parties and artistic pursuits are vain efforts to conceal the characters ' lack of purpose and emotion.

David Goldblatt writes: " That a single post could be responsible for such a massive workload suggests either naivety of lack of interest on the part of the FA ".

In the essay " Henry David Thoreau, Philosopher " Roderick Nash writes: " Thoreau left Concord in 1846 for the first of three trips to northern Maine.

As David Potter writes, " The coins of Vaballathus avoid claims to imperial power: he remains vir consularis, rex, imperator, dux Romanorum, a range of titles that did not mimic those of the central government.

and 70 CE, David picks up seven stones and writes on them the names of his fathers, his own name, and the name of God, one name per stone ; then, speaking to Goliath, he says " Hear this word before you die: were not the two woman from whom you and I were born, sisters?