Meanwhile, Douglas was selected as the candidate of the Northern Democrats, with Herschel Vespasian Johnson as the vice-presidential candidate.

The cluster was given its name by John Herschel.

NGC 2403 was first discovered by the 18th century astronomer William Herschel, who was working in England at the time.

The Blue Planetary was discovered by John Herschel and named for its color's similarity to Uranus, though the nebula is three times larger than the planet.

Its first meeting was held at York in 1831 ; and Brewster, along with Babbage and Sir John F. W. Herschel, had the chief part in shaping its constitution.

The shape of the Milky Way as deduced from star counts by William Herschel in 1785 ; the solar system was assumed to be near the center.

The first attempt to describe the shape of the Milky Way and the position of the Sun in it was carried out by William Herschel in 1785 by carefully counting the number of stars in different regions of the sky.

Their son Herschel Grynszpan was in Paris at the time.

The existence of infrared radiation was first discovered in 1800 by astronomer William Herschel.

Karl's father, Herschel Marx, was middle-class and relatively wealthy: the family owned a number of Moselle vineyards ; he converted from Judaism to the Protestant Christian denomination of Lutheranism prior to his son's birth, taking on the German forename of Heinrich over Herschel.

The number of nebulae was then greatly expanded by the efforts of William Herschel and his sister Caroline Herschel.

As far as can be ascertained, it was Sir John Herschel in a lecture before the Royal Society of London, on March 14, 1839 who made the word " photography " known to the world.

The constellation is located close to those forming the old constellation of Argo Navis ( the ship Argo ), and in the 19th century astronomer John Herschel suggested renaming Pyxis to ' Malus, the mast ', but the suggestion was not followed.

The word " photograph " was coined in 1839 by Sir John Herschel and is based on the Greek φῶς ( phos ), meaning " light ", and γραφή ( graphê ), meaning " drawing, writing ", together meaning " drawing with light ".

William Herschel was the first astronomer to attempt to determine the distribution of stars in the sky.

Ty Cobb was born in Narrows, Georgia in 1886, the first of three children to Amanda Chitwood Cobb and William Herschel Cobb.

The first white dwarf discovered was in the triple star system of 40 Eridani, which contains the relatively bright main sequence star 40 Eridani A, orbited at a distance by the closer binary system of the white dwarf 40 Eridani B and the main sequence red dwarf 40 Eridani C. The pair 40 Eridani B / C was discovered by William Herschel on 31 January 1783 ;< sup >, p. 73 </ sup > it was again observed by Friedrich Georg Wilhelm Struve in 1825 and by Otto Wilhelm von Struve in 1851.

Sir Frederick William Herschel, KH, FRS ( Friedrich Wilhelm Herschel ; 15 November 1738 – 25 August 1822 ) was a German-born British astronomer, technical expert, and composer.

Eli Herschel Wallach ( born December 7, 1915 ) is an American film, television and stage actor who gained fame in the late 1950s.

* John Herschel Glenn, Jr., USMC ( born 1921 ); first American to orbit the Earth, 20 February 1962

Herschel was born in Slough, Berkshire, and studied shortly at Eton College and St John's College, Cambridge.

John Herschel Glenn, Jr., ( born July 18, 1921 ) is a former United States Marine Corps pilot, astronaut, and United States senator.

Krusty the Klown, born Herschel Shmoikel Pinchas Yerucham Krustofski, is the son of Hyman Krustofski.

Herschel Grynszpan was born in Hanover, Germany.

On March 28, 1921, Herschel was born.

Caroline was born in Hannover to Isaac Herschel and Anna Ilse Moritzen of Hannover.

Patton was born and spent the first half of his childhood in Savannah, Georgia, attending Herschel V. Jenkins High School before moving to Atlanta with his Aunt Renne.

* August 25-William Herschel, astronomer ( born 1738 )

* May 11-John Herschel ( born 1792 ), English mathematician and astronomer.

* January 9-Caroline Herschel ( born 1750 ), German astronomer.

Herschel Junior Walker ( born March 3, 1962 ) is a former American college and professional football player and a mixed martial artist.

Fox is the second of two daughters born in Los Angeles, California to Jewish American parents Herschel Fox and Judy Spitzer.

* John Herschel Glenn Jr., USMC, ( born 1921 )

He was born Herschel Goldhirsch in the shtetl Mikulintsy, Ukraine, then part of Austria-Hungary.

* 2 July-Andries Abraham Stockenström le Fleur, Griqua leader, is born in Herschel

* Herschel Sparber ( born 1943, Gary, Indiana ), a Jewish American actor, voice over artist

Herschel Savage ( born November 25, 1952 ) is an American pornographic actor and porn movie director.

He was born Herschel Cohen to Russian Jewish parents in New York City.

Born in Hanover, Germany, Herschel followed his father into the Military Band of Hanover, before emigrating to Britain at age 19.

With financial assistance from the Hanover Jewish community, Herschel was sent to a yeshiva ( rabbinical seminary ) in Frankfurt, where he studied Hebrew and Torah: he was by all accounts more religious than his parents.

Caroline returned to Hanover in 1822 following her brother's death, but did not abandon her astronomical studies, continuing to verify and confirm William's findings and producing a catalogue of nebulae to assist her nephew John Herschel in his work.

Caroline Herschel died at Hanover on 9 January 1848.

In 1832 he was made a Knight of Hanover, an honour which he shared with John Herschel, Frederic Madden, and others ; and he was knighted in 1833.