* 1933 – Leslie Crowther, British comedian ( d. 1996 )

* February 6 – Leslie Crowther, British TV comedian & game show host ( d. 1996 )

Officially approved by the NBA Board of Governors on April 24, 1996, the creation of the WNBA was announced at a press conference with Rebecca Lobo, Lisa Leslie, and Sheryl Swoopes in attendance.

The latter featured in Mark Greenstreet's 1996 comedy film ' Caught In The Act ' which starred Sara Crowe, Annette Badland, Nadia Sawalha, Paul Shelly and Leslie Phillips.

The new Leslie High School was built in 1996 at 4141 Hull Road to replace the first Leslie Public Schools building on Woodworth street, which was over 100 years old.

The 1996 team was captained by John Leslie and coached by Gordon Hunter.

In 1996, during her time on Men Behaving Badly, Leslie released a single " Tell Him " with co-star Caroline Quentin under the name of " Quentin & Ash ".

In 1996 Leslie Mann of the Chicago Tribune said that " Although the management of Claire's says the company doesn't advertise and is deliberately low-profile, the name " Claire " is as familiar to female Baby Boomers as " Ringo ".

* The history of the Faraday Society, Leslie Sutton and Mansell Davis, The Royal Society of Chemistry, 1996, ISBN 0-85404-863-4.

* Ringer ( 1996 ) ... Leslie Polokoff

In 1996, it was defined to consist of the parts of the City of Toronto and the Borough of East York north along Leslie Street, east along Queen Street East, north along Greenwood Avenue, east along Gerrard Street East, north along Coxwell Avenue and Coxwell Boulevard, west along Taylor Creek, the Don River East Branch and the Don River, northwest along Millwood Road, southwest along the Canadian Pacific Railway and the eastern limit of the City of Toronto, south along the Don River to Toronto Harbour.

A regional production ran at the Paper Mill Playhouse, Millburn, New Jersey, in April – May 1996 and starred Leslie Uggams.

She starred in Derek Yee's 1996 film, Viva Erotica, which was about the erotic film industry in Hong Kong, opposite Karen Mok and the late Leslie Cheung.

* Feinberg, Leslie ( 1996 ).

* Boy Meets World ( 1995, 1996 ) in episodes " The Thrilla ' in Phila ", " New Friends and Old " and " Sixteen Candles and Four-Hundred-Pound Men " as " Francis Albert Leslie ' Frankie ' Stechino, Sr ."

Marian Leslie Hobbs ( born 18 December 1947 ), a New Zealand politician, was a Labour Member of Parliament from 1996 to 2008.

Shanghai Grand, also known as Shanghai Grand 1996 to differentiate this film from the more illustrious television series of the same Chinese title, The Bund (), is a 1996 Hong Kong film directed by Poon Man-kit and starring Andy Lau, Leslie Cheung and Ning Jing.

* Red ( Leslie Cheung album ), a 1996 album by Cantopop musician Leslie Cheung

Leslie Douglas Sargent Crowther CBE ( 6 February 1933 – 29 September 1996 ) was an English comedian, actor and gameshow host.

Leslie Crowther died from heart failure on 29 September 1996 in the Royal United Hospital in Bath, at the age of 63, with his wife Jean and family at his side.

In 2009, LeBow made a $ 10, 000 campaign contribution to Manhattan District Attorney candidate Leslie Crocker Snyder, whose law firm-Kasowitz, Benson, Torres & Friedman-had represented the Liggett Group in smoking and health litigation since 1996.

( The quotation is repeated by Leslie ( 1996 ) on page 26, on the subject of nuclear war annihilation, which he still considered a significant risk – in the mid 1990s.

* Rees does not object to the probabilistic argument for human extinction offered by the Doomsday argument ( as championed by John Leslie in the 1996 book The End of the World: The Science and Ethics of Human Extinction ( Routledge, hardcover: ISBN 0-415-14043-9, paperback: ISBN 0-415-18447-9 )), but he does not consider it to describe the practical threats and solutions that he discusses.

The Britannica has an Editorial Board of Advisors, which includes 12 distinguished scholars: author Nicholas Carr, religion scholar Wendy Doniger, political economist Benjamin M. Friedman, Council on Foreign Relations President Emeritus Leslie H. Gelb, computer scientist David Gelernter, Physics Nobel laureate Murray Gell-Mann, Carnegie Corporation of New York President Vartan Gregorian, philosopher Thomas Nagel, cognitive scientist Donald Norman, musicologist Don Michael Randel, Stewart Sutherland, Baron Sutherland of Houndwood, President of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, and cultural anthropologist Michael Wesch.

Leslie was equally skeptical about the role of adhesion proposed by Desaguliers, which should on the whole have the same tendency to accelerate as to retard the motion ..

De Camp and Ley also claim that Sir John Leslie expanded on Euler's idea, suggesting two central suns named Pluto and Proserpine ( this was unrelated to the dwarf planet Pluto, which was discovered and named some time later ).

The Japanese-made Uni-Vibe, designed to simulate the modulation effects of the rotating Leslie speaker, provided a rich phasing sound with a speed control pedal, and is heard on the Band of Gypsys track " Machine Gun ", which highlights use of the Uni-Vibe, Octavia and Fuzz Face.

In 1957 he had the first solo exhibition of his paintings in New York at the Tibor de Nagy Gallery and he had the final solo exhibition of his lifetime-Kenneth Noland Shaped Paintings 1981-82, which opened Oct 29 2009 at the Leslie Feely Fine Art Gallery on E. 68th St. in New York City and was scheduled to close January 9, 2010, though, the closing date was later extended to January 16.

In architecture, Leslie Green established a house style for the new stations built in the first decade of the 20th century for the Bakerloo, Piccadilly and Northern lines which included individual Edwardian tile patterns on platform walls.

The war between the two had started after two Majesdanians, Frank and Leslie Dean of The Pride had been kicked out for criminal activities ; the two travelled to Earth, where Frank and Leslie stopped the war against Earth in exchange for giving the Skrulls the location of Majesdane, which was hidden behind the corona of a white dwarf.

The complexity class # P was first defined by Leslie Valiant in a 1979 paper on the computation of the permanent, in which he proved that permanent is # P-complete.

The perfect matching counting problem was the first counting problem corresponding to an easy P problem shown to be # P-complete, in a 1979 paper by Leslie Valiant which also defined the classes # P and # P-complete for the first time.

On the punt Ortego forgot what the play call was for the punt return and the ensuing chaos resulted in him being penalized for running after a fair catch and Leslie Frazier, his teammate, suffering a knee injury which ended his career.

The singer Leslie Fish created a song called " Carmen Miranda's Ghost Is Haunting Space Station Three ", in which a space station is inundated with fresh fruit.

The BBC producer Leslie Bridgemont was responsible for a show called Merry-go-Round, which featured, in weekly rotation, shows based on the Army, Navy and RAF.

Niven joined what became known as the Hollywood Raj, a group of British actors in Hollywood which included Rex Harrison, Errol Flynn, Boris Karloff, Stan Laurel, Basil Rathbone, Ronald Colman, Leslie Howard and C. Aubrey Smith.

After that, the Syndicate focused on mystery series aimed again at its younger base: the Hardy Boys, which first appeared in 1927, ghostwritten by Leslie McFarlane and others, and Nancy Drew, which first appeared in 1930, ghostwritten by Mildred Wirt Benson, Walter Karig, and others.

The sibling relationship with his elder brother, the Honourable Erik Nielsen, a former Deputy Prime Minister of Canada, served as the premise of an HBO mockumentary entitled The Canadian Conspiracy in which Leslie Nielsen appeared, along with other prominent Canadian-born media personalities.

During the Brain Salad Surgery tour of 1974 ( one show of which was documented on the 3-LP set, Welcome Back My Friends, to the Show That Never Ends ), Emerson's keyboard setup included the Hammond C-3 organ, run through multiple Leslie speakers driven by HiWatt guitar amplifiers, the Moog 3C modular synthesiser ( modified by addition of various modules and an oscilloscope ) with ribbon controller, a Steinway concert grand piano with a Moog Minimoog synthesiser on top of it ( used for the steel drum part on Karn Evil 9, 2nd Impression ), an upright acoustic-electric piano that was used for honky-tonk piano sounds, a Hohner Clavinet and another Moog Minimoog synthesiser.

In his 1820 book The Philosophy of Arithmetic, mathematician John Leslie published a multiplication table up to 99 × 99, which allows numbers to be multiplied in pairs of digits at a time.

In 1784, he negotiated the Treaty of Pensacola with Spain, recognizing Muscogee control over of land claimed by Georgia, and guaranteeing access to the British firm Panton, Leslie & Co. which controlled the deerskin trade, while making himself an official representative of Spain.

In 1925, another version reached the screen which starred Alma Rubens, Edmund Lowe, Lou Tellegen and Leslie Fenton.

In 1975, Williams later starred with Leslie Phillips, Lance Percival, Miriam Margolyes and others, in the short-lived radio sketch show Oh, Get On with It ( based on a pilot episode entitled Get On With It ), which also featured appearances by Rambling Syd.

As a Leslie speaker is moved by the rotating mechanism on which it is mounted, it moves closer to or farther away from any given object ( such as a listener's ears ) not also mounted on the mechanism.

In 1985 he played the Mad Hatter in the Anglia Television serial adaptation of Alice In Wonderland, joining an all-star cast that included Michael Bentine, Leslie Crowther and Leonard Rossiter, and he also had an uncredited role ( as an arcade attendant ) in the Julien Temple film musical Absolute Beginners ( 1986 ) which stars Patsy Kensit.

The radio series had a tie-in with Suspense magazine which published four 1946-47 issues edited by Leslie Charteris.