* April 11 – Gerald du Maurier, British actor ( b. 1873 )

In 1925 he joined Sir Barry Jackson's Birmingham Repertory Company, where many eminent British actors, from Edith Evans and Cedric Hardwicke to Derek Jacobi, learned their craft, and Richardson under the veteran taskmaster H. K. Ayliff " absorbed the influence of older contemporaries like Gerald du Maurier, Charles Hawtrey and Mrs. Patrick Campbell.

He was the father of actor Gerald du Maurier and grandfather of the writers Angela du Maurier and Dame Daphne du Maurier.

The family name " FitzGerald " comes from the ( Norman ) French " Fils du Gerald ", i. e. " Son of Gerald ".

Amongst those outraged were theatre mogul Gerald du Maurier, father of the more famous author Daphne du Maurier of Jamaica Inn and Rebecca fame.

The Ringer was successful with audiences and critics alike and made a great profit for both Edgar and Gerald du Maurier.

* Ernest Woolley – Lord Loam's nephew, Gerald du Maurier

Sir Gerald du Maurier was actor-manager of the St James's for several years in the 1920s and 1930s.

Christopher Finzi married Hilary du Pré, a flautist, in 1961, and they raised their four children in the family's home built by Finzi's parents, the composer Gerald Finzi and his wife Joy an artist, at Ashmansworth near Newbury, England.

He was one of the most successful playwrights of the early 1930s in London with star-studded West End productions of his work including Diversion ( 1928 ), After All ( 1929 ), London Wall ( 1931 ) with Frank Lawton and John Mills, There's Always Juliet ( 1931 ), Somebody Knows ( 1932 ), Behold, We Live ( 1932 ) with Gertrude Lawrence and Gerald du Maurier, The Distaff Side ( 1933 ) and Flowers of the Forest ( 1934 ).

* Bulldog Drummond ( 1925, by Gerald du Maurier and McNeile )

He later attended Trinity College, Cambridge where he joined the Amateur Dramatic Club, following in the footsteps of both his uncle, actor Gerald du Maurier and his dramatist guardian.

These were followed by The Blue Train ( 1927 ), Alibi ( 1928, directed by Gerald du Maurier with Charles Laughton as Hercule Poirot ), By Candlelight ( 1928 ), and Journey's End ( 1929 ).

The portrayal of the character Sir John Mernier was loosely based on that of the actor Gerald du Maurier who was a friend of Hitchcock.

Helderberg College, under the academic leadership of Gerald T du Preez, received such accreditation and registration in 2001.

Sir Gerald Hubert Edward Busson du Maurier ( 26 March 1873 – 11 April 1934 ) was an English actor and manager.

* Sir Gerald du Maurier, Actor, Manager and Producer, Obituary, The Times, 12 April, 1934

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In 1930 Johnson played in Cynara with Sir Gerald Du Maurier and Gladys Cooper.

Once established as a major star, Campbell assisted in the early careers of some noted actors, such as Gerald Du Maurier and George Arliss.

She had, at the age of 19, while on tour in England, been rumored to be engaged to the Duke of Manchester, actor Gerald Du Maurier, writer Richard Harding Davis and the aforementioned Churchill.

She appeared in the Pitt production she was working on, with Gerald Du Maurier in the straight play SOS at the St James's Theatre, with also a cabaret spot at the Cafe de Paris following this.

Harrison's mentor Gerald Du Maurier played the nephew in the original production.

These included letters from Harrison Ainsworth, Wilkie Collins, Maria Susanna Cummins, Louisa M. Alcott, Marguerite Gardiner, Baron Lytton, Dinah Craik, Thomas Carlyle, Charles Dickens, Benjamin Disraeli, Gladstone, Thomas Babington Macaulay, George Henry Lewes, George Eliot, Nathaniel Hawthorn, Washington Irving, Longfellow, Elizabeth Gaskell, Charles Lever, Thackeray, Charles Reade, Tennyson, Robert Browning, Gerald Du Maurier, James Payn and Robert Louis Stevenson.

Returning to England in 1911, Tempest joined a star-studded cast for Herbert Beerbohm Tree's production of The Critic by Richard Brinsley Sheridan, also starring Arthur Bourchier, C. Hayden Coffin, Lily Elsie, George Grossmith, Jr., Charles Hawtrey, Cyril Maude, Gerald Du Maurier, Gertie Millar, Edmund Payne, Courtice Pounds, Violet Vanbrugh and Arthur Williams, among others.

Although not officially announced, the original backup crew consisted of Fred Haise ( CDR ), William R. Pogue ( CMP ) and Gerald Carr ( LMP ) who were targeted for the prime crew assignment on Apollo 19.

In the 1960s the work of the engineer Alexander Thom and that of the astronomer Gerald Hawkins, who proposed that Stonehenge was a Neolithic computer, inspired new interest in the astronomical features of ancient sites.

Gerald Lawrence Schroeder is an Orthodox Jewish physicist, author, lecturer and teacher at College of Jewish Studies Aish HaTorah's Discovery Seminar, Essentials and Fellowships programs and Executive Learning Center, who focuses on what he perceives to be an inherent relationship between science and spirituality.

Antony Flew, an academic philosopher who promoted atheism for most of his adult life indicated that the fine-tuned universe arguments of Gerald Schroeder convinced him to become a deist.

The Gardners employed an Irish nursemaid named Georgiana " Com " McCombie, who was entrusted with taking care of the young Gerald ; she would subsequently become the dominant figure of his childhood, spending far more time with him than his parents.

* Ellen ( Robillard ) O ' Hara: Scarlett's gracious mother of French ancestry, Ellen married Gerald O ' Hara, who was 28 years her senior, after her true love, Phillipe Robillard, was killed in a bar fight.

* O ' Hara Boys: Three boys of Ellen and Gerald O ' Hara who died in infancy and are buried 100 yards from the house at Tara under twisted cedars.

The pioneers of the various Wiccan or Witchcraft traditions, such as Gerald Gardner, Doreen Valiente and Robert Cochrane, all claimed that their religion was a continuation of the pagan religion of the Witch-Cult following historians who had purported the Witch-Cult's existence, such as Jules Michelet and Margaret Murray.

Valiente offers another explanation for the negative reaction of some neopagans ; that the identification of Lucifer as the god of the witches in Aradia was " too strong meat " for Wiccans who were used to the gentler, romantic paganism of Gerald Gardner and were especially quick to reject any relationship between witchcraft and Satanism.

The " father of Wicca ", Gerald Gardner, who adopted Margaret Murray's thesis, claimed Wicca was a modern survival of an ancient pan-European pagan religion.

* John Gardner Ford ( born 1952 ), American business executive who co-founded Outside magazine in 1977 ; second son of President Gerald R. Ford ; best known as Jack Ford

The terms of the treaty were unacceptable to the Patriarch of Jerusalem Gerald of Lausanne, who placed the city under interdict.

She had built a life with her husband Gerald Frederick " Fred " Peterson ( who was a doctor ) and three daughters from Zimbabwe to Saint Paul, Minnesota, having assumed the alias Sara Jane Olson ; the surname chosen being one of the most common names in Minnesota due to the large decent of Scandinavian-Americans.

Lord Peter Wimsey's ( fictional ) ancestry begins with the 12th-century knight Gerald de Wimsey, who went with King Richard The Lion Heart on the Third Crusade and took part in the Siege of Acre.

The next year, he travels ( in Clouds of Witness, 1926 ) to the fictional Riddlesdale in North Yorkshire to assist his older brother Gerald, who has been accused of murdering Captain Denis Cathcart, their sister's fiancé.

Murray's ideas proved highly influential over the ideas of Gerald Gardner ( 1884 – 1964 ), an English Wiccan who founded the tradition of Gardnerian Wicca in the 1950s before authoring the books Witchcraft Today ( 1954 ) and The Meaning of Witchcraft ( 1959 ).

With the top drivers already signed to other teams, Mayer turned to James Hunt, a driver who biographer Gerald Donaldson reflected on as having " a dubious reputation ".

After the presidencies of Gerald Ford ( who favored the Michigan fight song over " Hail to the Chief ") and Jimmy Carter ( who dramatically reduced the formality of presidential functions ), Nancy brought a Kennedy-esque glamour back into the White House.

The figure at the forefront of the burgeoning Wiccan movement was the English esotericist Gerald Gardner, who claimed to have been initiated by the New Forest coven in 1939.

This practice may stem from the influence of Gerald Gardner who wrote ( ostensibly quoting a witch, but perhaps in his own words ): The witches tell me ' The law always has been that power must be passed from man to woman or from woman to man, the only exception being when a mother initiates her daughter or a father his son, because they are part of themselves ' ( the reason is that great love is apt to occur between people who go through the rites together.

One example is the outing of Oliver Sipple ( who saved the life of U. S. President Gerald Ford during an assassination attempt ) by gay activists, most prominently Harvey Milk.

* Gerald Archie Mangun ( 1919 – 2010 ) American evangelist, pastor, who built one of the largest churches within the United Pentecostal Church International

* Gerald Flurry, founder and head of the Philadelphia Church of God, who claimed he is ' that prophet ' mentioned in John 1: 21-22.