* 1696 – Maurice Greene, English composer ( d. 1755 )

* 1897 – Maurice Fernandes, Guyanese cricketer ( d. 1981 )

* 1925 – Maurice Pialat, French actor and director ( d. 2003 )

* 1805 – Frederick Denison Maurice, English theologian ( d. 1872 )

* 1862 – Maurice Maeterlinck, Belgian poet Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1949 )

* 1911 – Maurice Goldhaber, Austrian-American physicist ( d. 2011 )

* 1842 – Maurice Rouvier, French statesman ( d. 1911 )

* 1921 – Maurice Richard, Canadian ice hockey player ( d. 2000 )

* 1898 – Maurice Wilson, English soldier, mystic, mountaineer, and aviator ( d. 1934 )

* 1916 – Maurice Wilkins, New Zealand-born physicist, Nobel laureate ( d. 2004 )

* 1883 – Maurice Utrillo, French artist ( d. 1955 )

* 1896 – Maurice De Waele, Belgian cyclist ( d. 1952 )

* 1925 – Maurice Bambier, French politician ( d. 1994 )

* 1949 – Maurice Gibb, English musician ( The Bee Gees ) ( d. 2003 )

* 1838 – Maurice Lévy, French engineer ( d. 1910 )

* 1754 – Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord, French diplomat and statesman ( d. 1838 )

* 1952 – Maurice Lucas, American basketball player ( d. 2010 )

* 1907 – Maurice Cloche, French director and screenwriter ( d. 1990 )

* 1933 – Maurice Stokes, American basketball player ( d. 1970 )

* 1913 – Maurice Wilkes, English computer scientist ( d. 2010 )

* Hommage à Jean Cocteau, mélodies d ' Henri Sauguet, Arthur Honegger, Louis Durey, Darius Milhaud, Erik Satie, Jean Wiener, Max Jacob, Francis Poulenc, Maurice Delage, Georges Auric, Guy Sacre, by Jean-François Gardeil ( baryton ) and Billy Eidi ( piano ), CD Adda 581177, 1989

* 1905 – Maurice Roy, Canadian cardinal ( d. 1985 )

* 1902 – Maurice Duruflé, French composer ( d. 1986 )

* 1901 – Maurice Evans, English actor ( d. 1989 )

* 1912 – Maurice Bellemare, Canadian politician ( d. 1989 )

The new column by Maurice Stans regarding business scandals, is fair and accurate in most respects and his solution to the problem has some merit.

This opinion is supported by one of the nation's leading psychiatrists, Dr. Maurice E. Linden, director of the Mental Health Division of the Philadelphia Department of Public Health.

Yet, paradoxically, according to Dr. Maurice Linden, many wives despise their husbands for not standing up to them.

W. Averell Harriman of the United States, Malcolm MacDonald of Britain, Maurice Couve De Murville, France's Foreign Minister, and Howard C. Green, Canada's Minister of External Affairs, concluded, meanwhile, a round of consultations here on future tactics in the conference.

With loud huzzahs for the artistic success of the Presbyterian-St. Luke's Fashion show still ringing in her ears, its director, Helen Tieken Geraghty ( Mrs. Maurice P. Geraghty ) is taking off tomorrow on a 56 day world trip which should earn her even greater acclaim as director of entertainment for next summer's International Trade fair.

In its ruling, the state Board of Education upheld Dr. Michael F. Walsh, state commissioner of education, who had ruled previously that the Warwick board erred when it named Maurice F. Tougas as coordinator of audio-visual education without first finding that the school superintendent's candidate was not suitable.

By and large, Robert McEnroe's adaptation of Maurice Walsh's film, `` The Quiet Man '', provides the entertainment it set out to, and we have a lively musical show if not a superlative one.

Maurice Ravel met Gershwin in New York during Ravel's tour of the United States.

At the same time, he established centers and laboratories within France to provide an institutional context within anthropology, while training influential students such as Maurice Godelier and Françoise Héritier.

John Maurice, Prince of Nassau-Siegen, conquered the Portuguese possessions of Saint George del Mina, Saint Thomas, and Luanda, Angola, on the west coast of Africa.

Erik Satie ’ s Gymnopédie and Maurice Ravel ’ s Pavane pour une infante défunte, composed before World War II, reflect melancholy sentiment without angst in soft, quiet compositions.

* W. Maurice Young Centre for Applied Ethics at the University of British Columbia

There have been a number of radio adaptations of the Poirot stories, most recently twenty seven of them on BBC Radio 4 ( and regularly repeated on BBC 7 ), starring John Moffatt ( Maurice Denham and Peter Sallis have also played Poirot on BBC Radio 4, Mr. Denham in The Mystery of the Blue Train and Mr. Sallis in Hercule Poirot's Christmas ).

* 1872 – Frederick Maurice, English theologian ( b. 1805 )

After some political maneuvering, the Dutch Calvinists were able to convince Prince Maurice of Nassau to deal with the situation.

Maurice systematically removed Arminian magistrates from office and called a national synod at Dordrecht.

He then followed the fortunes of his friend Elector Maurice of Saxony, deserted Charles, and joined the league which proposed to overthrow the Emperor by an alliance with King Henry II of France.

These soon became so serious that a league was formed to crush him, and Maurice of Saxony led an army against his former comrade.

These fragments typically feature lacunae or gaps that scholars fill with ' educated guesses ', including for example a " brilliant supplement " by Maurice Bowra in fr. 34, a hymn to the Dioscuri that includes a description of St Elmo's fire in the ship's rigging.