* Leslie Peltier was a prolific discoverer of comets and well-known observer of variable stars.

Milne was an early screenwriter for the nascent British film industry, writing four stories filmed in 1920 for the company Minerva Films ( founded in 1920 by the actor Leslie Howard and his friend and story editor Adrian Brunel ).

It was to originally star Kristin Scott-Thomas ( Désirée ) and Leslie Caron ( Madame Armfeldt ).

At this time, Lerner was hired by film producer Arthur P. Jacobs to write a treatment for an upcoming film project, Doctor Dolittle, but Lerner abrogated his contract after several non-productive months of non-communicative procrastination and was replaced with Leslie Bricusse.

( One of her classmates was Leslie Caron ; fellow ballerinas nicknamed Bardot: Bichette Doe ).

Guest's paternal grandfather, Leslie, Baron Haden-Guest, was a Labour Party politician who was a convert to Judaism, and Guest's paternal grandmother's father was Colonel Albert Goldsmid, a British officer who founded the Jewish Lads ' and Girls ' Brigade and the Maccabaeans.

* In 1988, the prison played host to a storyline in EastEnders, where Den Watts ( played by Leslie Grantham ) was being held on remand for arson.

Éric Alfred Leslie Satie () ( 17 May 1866 – Paris, 1 July 1925 ; signed his name Erik Satie after 1884 ) was a French composer and pianist.

Satie was the son of Alfred Satie and his wife Jane Leslie ( née Anton ), who was born in London to Scottish parents.

In 1920 the short-lived company Minerva Films was founded in London by the actor Leslie Howard ( also producer and director ) and his friend and story editor Adrian Brunel.

Bogarde was later replaced by Michael Craig and Leslie Phillips, and the series continued until 1970.

It was given explicit statement by Robert Leslie Ellis in " On the Foundations of the Theory of Probabilities " read on 14 February 1842, ( and much later again in " Remarks on the Fundamental Principles of the Theory of Probabilities ").

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 ..

A public memorial was held on 27 September 2004 at the Salk Institute, La Jolla, near San Diego, California ; guest speakers included James D. Watson, Sydney Brenner, Alex Rich, Seymour Benzer, Aaron Klug, Christof Koch, Pat Churchland, Vilayanur Ramachandran, Tomaso Poggio, Leslie Orgel, Terry Sejnowski, his son Michael Crick, and his youngest daughter Jacqueline Nichols.

In the late 1960s and throughout the 1970s the distinctive sound of the B-3 organ ( often played through a Leslie speaker ) was widely used in blues, progressive rock bands and blues-rock groups.

The 1988 elections led to Professor Leslie Manigat becoming President, but three months later he too was ousted by the military.

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 ).

Leslie Howard though, was the star.

Botham was born in Heswall on the Wirral, to Herbert Leslie Botham ( who worked for Westland ) and Violet Marie, née Collett ( a nurse ).

* 1943 – British Overseas Airways Corporation Flight 777 is shot down over the Bay of Biscay by German Junkers Ju 88s, killing actor Leslie Howard and leading to speculation the downing was an attempt to kill British Prime Minister Winston Churchill.

According to Lieutenant General Leslie Groves, the primary military leader in charge of the Manhattan Project, Mills was anxious to have a very determined man involved, and – though he knew that Rickover was " not too easy to get along with " and " not too popular " – in his judgment Rickover was the man who the Navy could depend on " no matter what opposition he might encounter, once he was convinced of the potentialities of the atomic submarine.

A Leslie speaker ( best known through its historical and popular association with the Hammond organ ) creates vibrato as a byproduct of tremolo production.

Leslie Dawson ( 2 February 1931 – 10 June 1993 ) was a popular English comedian remembered for his deadpan style, curmudgeonly persona and jokes about his mother-in-law and wife.

Other popular areas nearby include Leslie Gulch, Cow Lakes, Antelope Reservoir, and the Three Forks Reservoir to the south.

The film is based on the life of the popular late Victorian songwriter Leslie Stuart, played here by Robert Morley, with Williams as Stuart's best friend.

Other popular albums published by Cheung through Cinepoly Records included Hot Summer ( 1988 ), Virgin Snow ( 1988 ), Leslie ' 89 ( Side face, IFPI Best Album of the Year, 1989 ), Final Encounter ( 1989 ), and Salute ( 1990 ).

Beginning his career in operetta, Leslie became best known for starring in, and writing ( under the pseudonym A. C. Torr, a pun on the word " actor "), popular burlesque plays and other comic works of theatre.

Unlike most popular music amplifiers and equipment, Leslie Speakers use an amphenol connector to interface directly to an organ.

This makes the 330 a popular Leslie to convert to tube amplification.

" If I Ruled the World " is a popular song, composed by Leslie Bricusse and Cyril Ornadel, which was originally from the 1963 West End musical Pickwick ( based on Charles Dickens's The Pickwick Papers ).

It was a popular attraction and stars including Gracie Fields, Leslie Henson and Claude Hulbert all performed there.

A string of popular but critically dismissed films followed, including The Magic Bow in which Granger played Niccolò Paganini and Madonna of the Seven Moons ( 1945 ) which the critic Leslie Halliwell called " novelettish balderdash killed stone dead by stilted production ".

By 1924, Hoʻopiʻi had moved to Los Angeles, where he formed the Sol Hoʻopiʻi Trio, with Glenwood Leslie and Lani McIntyre, including sometimes additional musicians, and he successfully performed in the local and then very popular Polynesian-themed night venues.

With the formation of the WNBA, Lisa Leslie established herself as the premier center, and the league's most popular player.

Instead this area today home to Cherry Beach, while the large breakwater known as the Leslie Street Spit is today a popular park and birding area.

Rudd has become one of the most popular and marketable stars of Apatow films and the like, often starring with other regulars like Seth Rogen ( four films ), Jonah Hill ( three films ), Leslie Mann ( three films ), Kristen Wiig ( three films ), Jason Segel ( three films ), Steve Carell ( four films ), Elizabeth Banks ( five films ), and Joe Lo Truglio ( seven films ).

Leslie Stuart ( 15 March 1863 – 27 March 1928 ) was an English composer of Edwardian musical comedy, best known for the hit show Florodora ( 1899 ) and many popular songs.

In evolutionary terms, he located this view of cultural ecology as “ multi-linear ,” in contrast to the unilinear typological models popular in the 19th century, and Leslie White ’ s “ universal ” approach.

In 1991, during a special day of programming transmitted on the BBC Two network to commemorate the closing of Lime Grove, a new edition of the programme was shown, a modern production of one of the original scripts with the roles filled by popular television soap opera actors of the day including Leslie Grantham.

Dean played Sharon Watts, the troubled and spoilt adoptive daughter of landlords ' Dirty ' Den ( Leslie Grantham ) and Angie Watts ( Anita Dobson ), from the show's inception in 1985 until 1995 — Sharon becoming one of the most popular and long-running characters in the serial.

(' Paddy ') Ryan and the popular Catholic controversialist Dr Leslie Rumble.

For the next Broadway production, Eliza Comes to Stay, Esmond travelled to New York to appear alongside his wife and the popular actor Leslie Banks.

He initially joined the series as a semi-regular character, first appeared in September of that year, but was so popular that during 1988 he became a full time cast member as his character became landlord of the Queen Vic pub, buying it from Den Watts ( Leslie Grantham ) during 1988.

The film was intended to establish a character who would replace Leslie Charteris ' The Saint, hero of a popular RKO series of B movies starring George Sanders.