In American history important spokesmen included Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, J. Hector St. John de Crèvecœur ( 1735 – 1813 ), and John Taylor of Caroline ( 1753 – 1824 ) in the early national period.

* John ( 1331 – 1358 ), Lord of Elche, Biel and Bolsa, married in 1355 to Isabel Núñez de Lara and was killed by order of his cousin Pedro of Castile.

* John Philoponus: On Aristotle On the Intellect ( de Anima 3. 4-8 ), translated by W. Charlton.

* John Wallace de Beque Farris, Canadian senator

Dutch national first-team players Ryan Babel, Wesley Sneijder, Rafael van der Vaart, Maarten Stekelenburg, Eljero Elia, André Ooijer, John Heitinga and Nigel de Jong had also came through the ranks at Ajax and all are now playing for top-flight clubs.

* 1296 – First War of Scottish Independence: John Balliol's Scots army is defeated by an English army commanded by John de Warenne, 6th Earl of Surrey at the Battle of Dunbar.

In 1961, President John F. Kennedy and First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy of the United States paid their respects at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, accompanied by French President Charles de Gaulle.

The title of Baron Abergavenny, in the Nevill family, dates from Edward Nevill, 3rd Baron Bergavenny ( d. 1476 ), who was the youngest son of Ralph de Neville, 1st Earl of Westmorland by his second wife Joan Beaufort, daughter of John of Gaunt, first Duke of Lancaster.

* Jürgen Klötgen, Prieuré d ' Abergavenny – Tribulations mancelles en Pays de Galles au temps du Pape Jean XXII ( d ' après des documents français et anglais du XIV ° siècle collationnés avec une source d ' histoire retrouvée aux Archives Secrètes du Vatican ), in Revue Historique et Archéologique du Maine, Le Mans, 1989, p. 65 – 88 ( 1319: cf John of Hastings, Lord of Abergavenny ; Adam de Orleton, Bishop of Hereford, John of Monmouth, Bishop of Llandaff ).

* 1955 – John de Mol, Dutch media businessman

* Briggs, Xavier de Souza, Anita Miller and John Shapiro.

In the late 1950s she shared an exchange which was called " la croisée de deux sillages " (" the crossing of two wakes ") with actor and true-crime author John Gilmore, then an actor in France who was working on a New Wave film with Jean Seberg.

Big Brother is a reality television franchise created by John de Mol.

Jean Froissart states as follows: " Now will I name some of the principal lords and knights ( men-at-arms ) that were there with the prince: the earl of Warwick, the earl of Suffolk, the earl of Salisbury, the earl of Oxford, the lord Raynold Cobham, the lord Spencer, the lord James Audley, the lord Peter his brother, the lord Berkeley, the lord Basset, the lord Warin, the lord Delaware, the lord Manne, the lord Willoughby, the lord Bartholomew de Burghersh, the lord of Felton, the lord Richard of Pembroke, the lord Stephen of Cosington, the lord Bradetane and other Englishmen ; and of Gascon there was the lord of Pommiers, the lord of Languiran, the captal of Buch, the lord John of Caumont, the lord de Lesparre, the lord of Rauzan, the lord of Condon, the lord of Montferrand, the lord of Landiras, the lord Soudic of Latrau and other ( men-at-arms ) that I cannot name ; and of Hainowes the lord Eustace d ' Aubrecicourt, the lord John of Ghistelles, and two other strangers, the lord Daniel Pasele and the lord Denis of Amposta, a fortress in Catalonia ".

One of the chief commanders at both Crecy and Poitiers was John de Vere, Earl of Oxford, mentioned above.

This consisted of almost 300 pieces of objets d ' art et de vertu which included exquisite examples of jewellery, plate, enamel, carvings, glass and maiolica, among them the Holy Thorn Reliquary, probably created in the 1390s in Paris for John, Duke of Berry.

Cognitive science has a pre-history traceable back to ancient Greek philosophical texts ( see Plato's Meno ); and certainly must include writers such as Descartes, David Hume, Immanuel Kant, Benedict de Spinoza, Nicolas Malebranche, Pierre Cabanis, Leibniz and John Locke.

This process of evolving conquest that had been underway since the Norman invasion of Ireland, particularly as advanced by the Cambro-Norman magnates Hugh de Lacy and John de Courcy.

* John de Courcy, knight and Earl of Ulster ( b. 1160 )

* John de Courcy, Earl of Ulster ( d. 1219 )

Carrickfergus became an inhabited town shortly after 1170, when Anglo-Norman knight John de Courcy invaded Ulster, established his headquarters in the area and built Carrickfergus Castle on the " rock of Fergus " in 1177.

Sometime between 1203 and 1205, De Courcy was expelled from Ulster by Hugh de Lacy, as authorised by King John.

After having received a grant of Ulster from King Henry II of England, Norman Knight, John de Courcy set out from Dublin in early 1177 to take possession of it.

In 1183, John de Courcy brought in some Benedictines from the abbey of St. Werburgh in Chester ( today Chester Cathedral ) in England and built a cathedral friary for them at Downpatrick.

* The Mound of Down or Rathkeltair is one of the major earthworks of Ulster, situated on the NW edge of Downpatrick it is a good example of an Iron Age defensive earthwork in the middle of which a Norman Motte and Bailey was built by John de Courcy after his defeat of Rory Mac Donlevy in 1177.

* Ireland's Beaufort was Windscale Inventor-by Dr John de Courcy Ireland.

Another Norman family, the De Courcys, led by John de Courcy, settled in the Seatown area of Dundalk, the " Nova Villa de Dundalke ".

* Ireland's Beaufort was Windscale Inventor-by Dr John de Courcy Ireland

* 1996 John de Courcy Ireland

The building was begun by John de Courcy, who led the 1177 Norman invasion of East Ulster.

In 1189, John de Courcy, a Norman knight who had invaded Ulster in 1177, plundered Armagh.

* John de Courcy, 5th Baron Kingsale ( d. c. 1303 )

* John de Courcy, 8th Baron Kingsale ( d. c. 1387 )

* John de Courcy, 16th Baron Kingsale ( d. 1535 )

* John de Courcy, 18th Baron Kingsale ( d. 1628 )

* John de Courcy, 21st Baron Kingsale ( d. 1667 )

* John de Courcy, 25th Baron Kingsale ( c. 1717 – 1776 )

* John de Courcy, 26th Baron Kingsale ( d. 1822 )

* John Stapleton de Courcy, 28th Baron Kingsale ( 1805 – 1847 )

* John Constantine de Courcy, 29th Baron Kingsale ( 1827 – 1865 )

* John Fitzroy de Courcy, 31st Baron Kingsale ( 1821 – 1890 )