* April 8 – John Havlicek, American basketball player

After Hal Greer's pass was stolen by John Havlicek — an infamous blow to 76ers fans, rubbed in by fabled Celtics announcer Johnny Most when he yelled into the microphone " Havlicek stole the ball!

* John Havlicek, former Boston Celtics player

In an April 2010 interview, Hall of Fame player John Havlicek said " the best ball-handler of all time was ( Pete ) Maravich.

*** The Boston Celtics, for Hall of Famer John Havlicek.

* In the second overtime, with 15 seconds left and the Suns trailing 109 – 108 after just making a basket, Westphal stole the ball from John Havlicek after Havlicek received the inbounds pass.

The very next season, on a now fabled team known as " The Miracle of Richfield ", and led by team captain Carr, scoring small forward Campy Russell, shooting guard Bobby " Bingo " Smith, and a supporting cast of largely unknown players such as starting center Jim Chones, and an aging Nate Thurmond, Fitch coached the overachieving Cavs to its first winning season, an almost unexpected playoff berth and the Central Division title with a record of 49 – 33, advancing to the Eastern Conference Finals against a heavily favored Boston Celtics team led by future Hall of Famers Dave Cowens, shooting guard John Havlicek, and All-Star point guard Jo Jo White.

Auerbach also emphasized the need for role players like Frank Ramsey and John Havlicek, who became one of the first legitimate sixth men in NBA history, a role later succeeded in by Don Nelson.

With his ex-player Tom Heinsohn coaching the Celtics and led by former sixth man John Havlicek, Auerbach's new recruits won the Atlantic Division every year from 1972 to 1976, winning the NBA title in 1974 and 1976.

In an interview with ESPN, Auerbach stated that his all-star fantasy team would consist of Bill Russell — who in the former's opinion was the ultimate player to start a franchise with — as well as Bob Pettit, Elgin Baylor, Oscar Robertson and Jerry West, with John Havlicek as the sixth man.

Jones, John Havlicek and Larry Bird, as well as contemporaries like Jerry West, Pat Riley, and Wayne Embry universally hailed Auerbach as one of the greatest personalities in NBA history.

A native of Blaine, Ohio, Niekro attended Bridgeport High School in Bridgeport, Ohio, and was a boyhood friend of NBA Hall-of-Famer John Havlicek.

In 2004, the Ohio Valley Athletic Conference saluted Mazeroski by electing him among the inaugural members of their Hall of Fame, alongside Boston Celtic great John Havlicek and former Olympic wrestler Bobby Douglas.

* the nickname of former Boston Celtics basketball player John Havlicek

Former small forwards known for their defensive abilities include John Havlicek, Scottie Pippen and Michael Cooper, all of whom were staples on the NBA All-Defensive Team.

In what has been called the greatest game ever played, Game 5 of the 1976 NBA Finals between the Phoenix Suns and Boston Celtics, the Suns found themselves one point down with one second left in double overtime, no timeouts remaining and possession of the ball under their defensive basket after a John Havlicek bucket.

* Hondo: Celtic Man in Motion ( 1977 ) coauthored with John Havlicek

Pierce also is one of only three Celtics, alongside Larry Bird and John Havlicek, who have scored over 20, 000 points in their career with the Celtics alone.

* Currently is the Celtics 2nd all time leading scorer, behind only John Havlicek.

A few of the many outstanding sports figures who were student athletes at Ohio State include Jesse Owens, “ The Buckeye Bullet ,” ( track and field ), John Havlicek, Jerry Lucas, and Katie Smith ( basketball ), Frank Howard ( baseball ), Jack Nicklaus ( golf ), Archie Griffin ( football running back, the only two-time Heisman Trophy winner ), and Chic Harley ( three-time All-American football running back ).

Nicknamed " Hondo ", ( a name inspired by the John Wayne movie of the same name ), Havlicek revolutionized the " sixth man " role, and has been immortalized for his clutch steal in the closing seconds of the 1965 Eastern Conference championship.

The Bridgeport High School Gymnasium was renamed the " John J Havlicek Gymnasium " in January 2007.

This sense of moderation and fairness is superbly exemplified in an exchange of letters between John Jay and a Tory refugee, Peter Van Schaack.

Certainly, the meaning is clearer to one who is not familiar with Biblical teachings, in the New English Bible which reads: `` Then Jesus arrived at Jordan from Galilee, and he came to John to be baptized by him.

But it is in the process of so doing because it apparently gives priority to trying to downgrade John F. Kennedy.

According to Friends, the unit was organized by John Snook, a former World War 2, commando who is vice president and general manager of the telephone company.

An illustration of this attitude is found in John A. McCone's letter to Dr. Thomas Lauritsen, reported in a note elsewhere in this issue of The New Republic.

First of all, it is now known that Pope John sees the renewal and purification of the Church as an absolutely necessary step toward Christian unity.

In spite of the fact that the state legislature voted us neutral, John Hunt Morgan is openly flying the Confederate flag over his woolen factory ''!!

Roy Mason is essentially a landscape painter whose style and direction has a kinship with the English watercolorists of the early nineteenth century, especially the beautifully patterned art of John Sell Cotman.

Whereas, John Brown has cheerfully risked his life in endeavoring to deliver those who are denied all rights and is this day doomed to suffer death for his efforts in behalf of those who have no helper: Therefore,

This is in honor of John Ledyard, class of 1773, who scooped a canoe out of a handy tree and first set the course way back in his own student days.

One of these men is former Fire Chief John A. Laughlin, he said.

A difference of opinion arose between Mr. Martinelli and John P. Bourcier, town solicitor, over the exact manner in which the vote is handled.

Assuming the weather is halfway decent that day, hundreds of thousands of persons will mass along this thoroughfare as President John F. Kennedy and retiring President Dwight D. Eisenhower leave Capitol Hill following the oath-taking ceremonies and ride down this historic ceremonial route.

Now, the picture is clouded, and even US Sens. James O. Eastland and John C. Stennis, who remained loyal to the ticket, are uncertain of their status.

Mrs. John C. Vroman Jr. of Manzanola is spending several days in her Sherman Plaza apartment.

Her husband, who is the son of Alton John Mason of Shreveport, La., and the late Mrs. Henry Cater Parmer, was president of Alpha Tau Omega and a member of Delta Sigma Pi at Lamar Tech, and did graduate work at Rhodes University in Grahamstown, South Africa, on a Rotary Fellowship.

Mrs. Robert O. Spurdle is chairman of the committee, which includes Mrs. James A. Moody, Mrs. Frank C. Wilkinson, Mrs. Ethel Coles, Mrs. Harold G. Lacy, Mrs. Albert W. Terry, Mrs. Henry M. Chance, 2d, Mrs. Robert O. Spurdle, Jr., Mrs. Harcourt N. Trimble, Jr., Mrs. John A. Moller, Mrs. Robert Zeising, Mrs. William G. Kilhour, Mrs. Hughes Cauffman, Mrs. John L. Baringer and Mrs. Clyde Newman.

Mrs. John Charles Cotty is chairman of publicity for the country fair and Mrs. Francis G. Felske and Mrs. Francis Smythe, of posters.

C & O president Walter J. Tuohy was summoned back for cross-examination by New York Central attorneys before examiner John Bradford who is hearing the complex case.

She is the former Judy Chapman, daughter of John S. Chapman of this city.

In the end the good man, John Proctor, expresses what the audience has already come to feel when he says, `` A fire, a fire is burning!!

About that same time John Crosby's TV series on the popular arts proved again that giving jazz ample breathing space is one of the most sensible things a producer can do.

For the hero of this work by John Osborne and Anthony Creighton is a chap embittered by more than the lack of beer during a jam session.