* 1974 – Michael Mason, New Zealand cricketer

* 1947 – Barbara Mason, American singer-songwriter

* 1896 – Skookum Jim Mason, George Carmack and Dawson Charlie discover gold in a tributary of the Klondike River in Canada, setting off the Klondike Gold Rush.

* 1925 – Anthony Mason, Australian judge and Air Force Officer, Chief Justice of Australia

* 1861 – American Civil War: The Trent Affair: Confederate diplomatic envoys James M. Mason and John Slidell are freed by the United States government, thus heading off a possible war between the United States and United Kingdom.

* 1725 – George Mason, American statesman ( d. 1792 )

* 1966 – Anthony Mason, American basketball player

* 1938 – Dutch Mason, Canadian blues musician ( d. 2006 )

* 1947 – Harvey Mason, Jazz drummer ( Fourplay )

* 1919 – Mason Adams, American actor ( d. 2005 )

George Mason, ( 1725 – 1792 ) after whom the University is named.

In March 1979 the Virginia General Assembly authorized the establishment of the George Mason University School of Law ( GMUSL ) – contingent on the transfer of the Kann's building to George Mason University.

" Gardner's biographer Philip Heselton theorised that this group consisted of Edith Woodford-Grimes ( 1887 – 1975 ), Susie Mason, her brother Ernie Mason, and their sister Rosetta Fudge, all of whom had originally come from Southampton before moving to the area around Highcliffe, where they joined the Order.

* 1923 – Shirley Ardell Mason, American psychiatric patient ( d. 1998 )

* 1944 – Nick Mason, English drummer ( Pink Floyd )

* 1974 – Derrick Mason, American football player

* 1976 – Scott Mason, Australian cricketer ( d. 2005 )

* 1792 – Lowell Mason, American composer ( d. 1872 )

* 1979 – James Mason, English wrestler

* 1986 – Mason Gamble, American actor

* 1996 – Mason Bennett, English footballer

* 1982 – Mason Ryan, Welsh wrestler

* John Mason Brown ( 1900 – 1969 ), United States literary critic

It is sometimes considered as the western extension of the Mason – Dixon Line that divided Pennsylvania from Maryland, and thus part of the border between free and slave territory, and between the Northern and Southern United States or Upper South.

* 1767 – Surveying for the Mason – Dixon Line separating Maryland from Pennsylvania is completed.

The cuisine of the Southern United States is defined as the historical regional culinary form of states generally south of the Mason Dixon Line dividing Pennsylvania from Maryland and Delaware as well as along the Ohio River, and extending west to southern Missouri, Oklahoma and Texas.

By the mid-20th century, some speakers applied the word to any American born north of the Mason – Dixon Line, though usually with a specific focus still on New England.

Maskelyne took a great interest in various geodetical operations, notably the measurement of the length of a degree of latitude in Maryland and Pennsylvania, executed by Mason and Dixon in 1766 – 1768, and later the determination of the relative longitude of Greenwich and Paris.

* Maskelyne is a supporting character in Mason & Dixon by Thomas Pynchon.

The Maryland – Pennsylvania boundary was surveyed and marked between April 1765 and October 1767 by astronomer Charles Mason and surveyor Jeremiah Dixon.

Postmodern novelists such as John Barth and Thomas Pynchon operate with even more freedom, mixing historical characters and settings with invented history and fantasy, as in the novels The Sot-Weed Factor and Mason & Dixon respectively.

* Thomas Pynchon's three novels Gravity's Rainbow, Mason & Dixon and Against the Day are historical, and they variously contrast outrageous personal, subjective, hallucinogenic or even supernatural events with very real, well-researched accuracies from the past.

That boundary would finally be settled in 1763 when surveyors Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon incorporated the line as the definitive boundary between Delaware and Maryland.

The intersection of these two historical lines is the midpoint of the Transpeninsular Line, fixed by Mason and Dixon between 1763 and 1767.

The Mason – Dixon Line ( or Mason and Dixon's Line ) was surveyed between 1763 and 1767 by Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon in the resolution of a border dispute between British colonies in Colonial America.

In popular usage, especially since the Missouri Compromise of 1820 ( apparently the first official use of the term " Mason's and Dixon's Line "), the Mason – Dixon Line symbolizes a cultural boundary between the Northeastern United States and the Southern United States ( Dixie ).

As part of the settlement, the Penns and Calverts commissioned the English team of Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon to survey the newly established boundaries between the Province of Pennsylvania, the Province of Maryland, Delaware Colony, and parts of Colony and Old Dominion of Virginia.

Mason and Dixon confirmed earlier survey work which delineated Delaware's southern boundary from the Atlantic Ocean to the ” Middle Point ” stone ( along what is today known as the Transpeninsular Line ).

The stones may be a few to a few hundred feet east or west of the point Mason and Dixon thought they were ; in any event, the line drawn from stone to stone forms the legal boundary.

Doyle said the Maryland – Pennsylvania Mason – Dixon Line is exactly:

The disputants engaged an expert British team, astronomer Charles Mason and surveyor Jeremiah Dixon, to survey what became known as the Mason – Dixon Line.