It followed a year long campaign first initiated by students who had worked together to block the appointment of former United States Secretary of State Henry Kissinger to an endowed chair at the university in 1977.

Charles Henry Alston ( November 28, 1907 – April 27, 1977 ) was an African-American painter, sculptor, illustrator, muralist and teacher who lived and worked in the New York City neighborhood of Harlem.

" Another joke puts a question concerning the definition of blunderbuss to " the four wise clerks of Oxenford " ( a reference to Chaucer's Clerk ; Tolkien had worked for Henry Bradley, one of the four main editors of the Oxford English Dictionary ):

Henry was also known as " Henry Beauclerc " ( because of his education — as his older brother William was the heir apparent and thus given the practical training to be king, Henry received the alternate, formal education ), worked hard to reform and stabilise the country and smooth the differences between the Anglo-Saxon and Anglo-Norman societies.

Over the next two years, Harley and his childhood friend Arthur Davidson worked on their motor-bicycle using the northside Milwaukee machine shop at the home of their friend, Henry Melk.

Henry Maudslay, who trained a school of machine tool makers early in the 19th century, was employed at the Royal Arsenal, Woolwich, as a young man where he would have seen the large horse-driven wooden machines for cannon boring made and worked by the Verbruggans.

* Charlotte Dupuy, slave who worked for Van Buren at Decatur House, while her suit for freedom against Henry Clay proceeded

In 1913, Sanger worked as a nurse at Henry Street Settlement in New York's Lower East Side, often with poor women who were suffering due to frequent childbirth and self-induced abortions.

* 1972 – Vietnam War: In Saigon, Henry Kissinger and South Vietnamese President Nguyen Van Thieu meet to discuss a proposed cease-fire that had been worked out between Americans and North Vietnamese in Paris.

That turned out not to be so, and Philip Gell of the OUP forced the promotion of Murray's assistant Henry Bradley ( hired by Murray in 1884 ), who worked independently in the British Museum in London, beginning in 1888.

The couple formed the small " Patrick Henry League " in 1958 ; and they worked in the 1964 Barry Goldwater campaign.

Over the next two years, Morris and party founder Henry Hyndman worked together as the best-known leaders of the fledgling organisation.

Many distinguished figures have taught, worked and studied at the University of Glasgow, including six Nobel laureates and two Prime Ministers, Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman and Andrew Bonar Law.

Henry Bessemer worked on the problem of manufacturing cheap steel for the purposes of ordnance production from 1850 to 1855 when he patented his method.

At the same time, Holbein worked for Thomas Cromwell as he masterminded Henry VIII's reformation.

He also worked in the interest of Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley, Mary's eventual choice of husband.

Until his death on September 18, 2008 at the age of 93, Henry Z. Steinway, the great-grandson of the Steinway founder, still worked for Steinway and put his signature on custom-made limited edition pianos.

He was born in the parish of St Martin-in-the-Fields, London, in 1670, and in 1695 became the leading bass singer in the company with which Henry Purcell worked, playing roles such as the magician Ismeron in The Indian Queen, where he sang the major aria " Ye twice ten hundred deities ".

Upon his return to England, Rivers became aware of a series of experiments being conducted by his old friend Henry Head in conjunction with James Sherren, a surgeon at the London Hospital where they both worked.

Hersholt was born in Copenhagen, Denmark, the son of Claire ( née Petersen ) and Henry Hersholt, actors who worked with the Danish Folk Theatre.

In April 1260, Boniface worked with Richard of Cornwall to broker a peace between King Henry and Prince Edward.

In 1517, having spent a year in England, she returned north, after a treaty of reconciliation had been worked out by Albany, Henry and Cardinal Wolsey.

His father, Henry Churchill de Mille ( 1853 – 1893 ), was a North Carolina-born dramatist and lay reader in the Episcopal Church, who had earlier begun a career as a playwright, writing his first play at age 15.

The playwright William Shakespeare had already used the family history of Northumberland's family in his Henry IV series of plays, and the events of the Gunpowder Plot seem to have featured alongside the earlier Gowrie conspiracy in Macbeth, written some time between 1603 and 1607.

Henry Mayhew ( 25 November 1812-25 July 1887 ) was an English social researcher, journalist, playwright and advocate of reform.

* 1912 – Henry Ephron, American playwright, screenwriter, and producer ( d. 1992 )

In Shakespeare's Henry V, the King of France's reference to " that black name, Edward, Black Prince of Wales " suggests that the playwright may have interpreted the name in this way.

* Henry Killigrew ( 1613-1700 ), playwright and chaplain to James, Duke of York ( the future king ), was born in Hanworth.

* Henry Churchill de Mille, Washington-born playwright and the father of film pioneers Cecil B. de Mille and William C. de Mille and the grandfather of the dancer and choreographer Agnes de Mille.

James Henry Miller ( 25 January 1915 – 22 October 1989 ) who used the stage name Ewan MacColl was a British folk singer, songwriter, socialist, actor, poet, playwright, and record producer.

The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, often known simply as Tom Jones, is a comic novel by the English playwright and novelist Henry Fielding.

In 1894, theatrical manager and actor Henry Irving commissioned Burne-Jones to design sets and costumes for the Lyceum Theatre production of King Arthur by J. Comyns Carr, who was Burne-Jones's patron and the director of the New Gallery as well as a playwright.

David Henry Hwang (; born August 11, 1957 ) is an American playwright who has risen to prominence as the preeminent Asian American dramatist in the U. S.

In Tom Stoppard's play The Real Thing, the playwright protagonist, Henry, frets over his forthcoming appearance on Desert Island Discs, worrying about whether he should be honest and admit his admiration for pop music ( particularly pop music derided by critics ) or pretend to favour more conventionally admired music.

Such poets as Marilyn Chin and Li-Young Lee, Kimiko Hahn and Janice Mirikitani have also achieved prominence, as has playwright David Henry Hwang.

A Broadway revival in 2002 starring Lea Salonga had a rewritten plot by playwright David Henry Hwang but retained the inter-generational and immigrant themes as well as most of the original songs.

* January 2-George Henry Boker, poet and playwright ( born 1823 )

* October 6-George Henry Boker, poet and playwright ( died 1890 )

His father was probably Edmund Kean ( see Ó Catháin ), an architect ’ s clerk, and his mother was an actress, Anne Carey, daughter of the 18th century composer and playwright Henry Carey.

* February 11 – Henry Killigrew ( born 1613 ), clergyman, poet and playwright

* June 7-John Day kills fellow playwright Henry Porter, allegedly in self-defence.

The 2007 play Yellow Face by Asian-American playwright David Henry Hwang places this incident in context to a greater number of cases dealing with racial profiling against Asians, particularly the Chinese during the 1980s.

* David Henry Hwang, Chinese-American playwright

* David Henry Hwang, US American playwright ( b. 1957 )

Inês de Castro ’ s history is immortalized in several plays and poems in Portuguese, such as The Lusíadas by Luís de Camões, and Spanish, such as " Nise lastimosa " and " Nise laureada " ( 1577 ) by Jerónimo Bermúdez, Reinar despues de morir by Luís Vélez de Guevara, as well as a play by French playwright Henry de Montherlant called La Reine morte ( The Dead Queen ).

Conductor Maxim Shostakovich once lived in town, as did Time magazine owner Henry Luce and his wife, Clare Boothe Luce, who was also a playwright and Congresswoman.