* 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.

Leslie S. Hiscott directed the first two films, with Henry Edwards taking over for the third.

* 1919 – Leslie Irvin of the United States makes the first successful voluntary free-fall parachute jump using a new kind of self-contained parachute.

" Bloom did not respond to the offer, but his referral to Dick James's partner Leslie Conn led to Bowie's first personal management contract.

Sydney Brenner, Jack Dunitz, Dorothy Hodgkin, Leslie Orgel, and Beryl M. Oughton, were some of the first people in April 1953 to see the model of the structure of DNA, constructed by Crick and Watson ; at the time they were working at Oxford University's Chemistry Department.

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 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.

Leslie McFarlane wrote the first four Dana Girls stories in 1934 and 1936.

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.

Winning the first two rounds of the Playoffs, the Shock had to face two-time champion Los Angeles Sparks and reigning Finals MVP Lisa Leslie in the 2003 Finals.

Harriman wants to be on the first flight of the Pioneer but the ship only has room for one pilot, Leslie LeCroix.

In her next film, The Petrified Forest ( 1936 ), Davis co-starred with Leslie Howard and Humphrey Bogart, but Bogart, in his first important role, received most of the critics ' praise.

She is the first of nine children born to Lenora Marie ( née Criscione ) and Phillip Leslie Tomalin, who worked as an advertising executive, television producer, and nightclub singer during the big band era.

* Sir Leslie Stephen, critic, first editor of the Dictionary of National Biography, father of Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell

Leslie Stephen, in a best-selling book first published in 1871, defined the Alps as “ the Playground of Europe .” The book highlights the incredible success of the mountains but it also reflects the tensions that emerged among their visitors.

One of the first scholars to do so was American critic Leslie Fiedler.

Caballero is divorced from his first wife Susan, with whom he had a daughter, Kayla Leslie.

He told Leslie, " When I sit down to make a sketch from nature, the first thing I try to do is to forget that I have ever seen a picture ".

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.

Leslie Thomas Manser was born in New Delhi, India during his father's employment as an engineer with the Post and Telegraph Department and, when the family returned to England, they settled in Radlett, Hertfordshire.

Patrick Leslie and his two brothers originally settled in the area as squatters, naming their run Canning Downs.

In 1847 the NSW government asked Leslie to select a site on his station for a township, which was to be called ' Cannington ,' although the name ' Warwick ' was eventually settled on.

In 1840 Patrick Leslie started with stock from a New England station, then the most northerly settled district in New South Wales, and formed Toolburra and Canning Downs ( at ), the first stations on the Condamine River, before the river had been identified as a tributary of the Darling River.