In 1347 he took the important step of ensuring the legitimation of his four sons, John, Earl of Carrick ( the future King Robert III ), Walter, Lord of Fife ( d. 1362 ), Robert ( the future Duke of Albany ) and Alexander, Lord of Badenoch ( and future Earl of Buchan ), and six daughters by petitioning Pope Clement VI to allow a canon law marriage to Elizabeth Mure.

He was a son of II Laird of Wilton Henry Wardlaw who was b. 1318, and a nephew of Walter Wardlaw ( d. 1390 ), Bishop of Glasgow, who is said to have been made a cardinal by the antipope Clement VII in 1381.

Bazett Wetenhall, Elliott Graham, and Walter Mytton all passed distinguished careers in India, and a fourth, Clement Sneyd, C. S. I., was secretary of the public works department of the India Office in London.

Walter Clement Alvarez ( 1884 – June 18, 1978 ) was an American doctor of Spanish descent.

In 1305, after having taken part in the election of Clement V, Walter set out from Perugia with several other cardinals to join the pope in France, but at Genoa he was seized with his last illness, during which he was attended by the dean of the Sacred College, Nicholas de Prato.

Speakers at ACS events have included U. S. Supreme Court Justices Stephen Breyer, Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Antonin Scalia, Vice President Joe Biden, former Vice President Al Gore, U. S. Senators Russ Feingold, Amy Klobuchar, Patrick Leahy, Charles Schumer the late Paul Wellstone, and Sheldon Whitehouse, U. S. Representatives Tammy Baldwin, Artur Davis, Barney Frank, Diana DeGette, Jesse Jackson, Jr., and John Lewis, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, former Attorney General Janet Reno and Attorney General Eric Holder, former Solicitors General Paul D. Clement, Walter E. Dellinger, Drew S. Days and Seth P. Waxman, and White House Counsel Greg Craig.

Clement Walter Labine ( August 6, 1926 – March 2, 2007 ) was an American right-handed relief pitcher in Major League Baseball best known for his years with the Brooklyn & Los Angeles Dodgers from 1950 to 1960.

Ernst Walter Mayr ( July 5, 1904 – February 3, 2005 ) was one of the 20th century's leading evolutionary biologists.

* Frere, Walter H. ( 1898 ) " Lancelot Andrewes as a Representative of Anglican Principles: A Lecture Delivered at Holy Trinity, Chelsea, February 28, 1897 " Church Historical Society, 44.

On 1 February 2009, the FARC-EP proceeded with the release of the four security force members, Juan Fernando Galicio Uribe, José Walter Lozano Guarnizo, Alexis Torres Zapata and William Giovanni Domínguez Castro.

Walter Houser Brattain ( February 10, 1902 – October 13, 1987 ) was an American physicist at Bell Labs who, along with John Bardeen and William Shockley, invented the transistor.

According to Walter, the " capper " was being booed on " Brantford Day " at Toronto's Maple Leaf Gardens in February 1975.

* February 24 – WWI: United States ambassador to the United Kingdom, Walter H. Page, is shown the intercepted Zimmermann Telegram, in which Germany offers to give the American Southwest back to Mexico if Mexico declares war on the United States.

* February 10 – Walter Houser Brattain, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1987 )

* February 21 – Howard Walter Florey, Australian-born pharmacologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine ( b. 1898 )

* February 7 – Walter Lang, American film director ( b. 1896 )

* February 11 – Walter Burley Griffin, American architect and town planner ( b. 1876 )

* February 23 – Walter Clopton Wingfield patents a game called " sphairistike " which is more commonly called lawn tennis.

* February 27 – Walter Hiers, American actor ( b. 1893 )

* February – Walter Charleton, English writer ( d. 1707 )

* February 16 – Walter Winterbottom, English football manager ( b. 1913 )

Sir Walter Winterbottom CBE ( 31 January 1913 – 16 February 2002 ) was the first manager of the England football team, serving from 1946 until 1962.

Howard Walter Florey, Baron Florey, OM, FRS ( 24 September 1898 – 21 February 1968 ) was an Australian pharmacologist and pathologist who shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1945 with Sir Ernst Boris Chain and Sir Alexander Fleming for his role in the making of penicillin.

They had two children: Helmut Walter ( 26 June 1944 – February 1945, died of meningitis ), and Susanne ( b. 1947 ), who works in London for Bloomberg Television.

* February 1 – Walter de Stapledon, English bishop ( d. 1326 )

Walter Burley Griffin ( born November 24, 1876 and died February 11, 1937 ) was an American architect and landscape architect, who is best known for his role in designing Canberra, Australia's capital city.

On February 13, 1796, he married Maria Franklin, daughter of the prominent New York Quaker merchant, Walter Franklin.

James was murdered at Perth on the night of 20 – 1 February 1437 in a failed coup by his uncle and former ally Walter Stewart, Earl of Atholl.

In an influential broadcast on February 27, newsman Walter Cronkite stated that the war was a " stalemate " and could be ended only by negotiation.

In January 1959, he returned to work, but with more pain and declining health underwent abdominal surgery in February at Walter Reed Hospital when recurrence of the cancer became evident.

Her father, Walter Augustus de Havilland ( 31 August 1872 – 23 May 1968 ; aged 95 ), was a patent attorney with a practice in Japan, and her mother, Lilian Augusta ( née Ruse ; 11 June 1886 – 20 February 1975 ; aged 88 ) was a stage actress who had left her career after going to Tokyo with her husband – she would return to work after her daughters had already won fame in the 40s, with the stage name of Lillian Fontaine.

" Blue Spring Cave " by Larry E. Matthews and Bill Walter, published February 2010 by the National Speleological Society, ISBN 978-1-879961-36-4 ( Soft Cover ) ISBN 978-1-879961-37-1 ( Hard Cover ), 340 pages.

Kaye starred in 17 movies, notably The Kid from Brooklyn ( 1946 ), The Secret Life of Walter Mitty ( 1947 ), The Inspector General ( 1949 ), Hans Christian Andersen ( 1952 ), and – perhaps his most accomplished performance – The Court Jester ( 1956 ).

On October 17 the Egyptian-Khwarazmian army destroyed the Frankish-Syrian coalition, and Walter of Brienne was taken captive and later executed.

From November 17, 1947 to December 23, 1947, John Bardeen and Walter Brattain at AT & T's Bell Labs in the United States, performed experiments and observed that when two gold point contacts were applied to a crystal of germanium, a signal was produced with the output power greater than the input.

* March 17 – Walter Rudolf Hess, Swiss physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1973 )

* August 17 – Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, and Sir Walter Raleigh set sail on an expedition to the Azores.

* November 17 – Walter Terence Stace, British philosopher ( d. 1967 )

* December 17 – Walter Booker, American jazz bassist ( d. 2006 )

* June 24 – Weimar Republic foreign minister Walter Rathenau is assassinated ; the murderers are captured July 17.

* July 17 or July 19 – Sir Walter Ralegh is arrested for treason.

* November 17 – Sir Walter Ralegh goes on trial for treason in the converted Great Hall of Winchester Castle.

* June 17 – Fritz Walter, German footballer ( b. 1920 )

Supercentenarian Walter Breuning, the world's oldest verified living man from September 21, 1896 to his death on April 14, 2011, began working as a railroader for Hill's company in 1913 at the age of 17.

Friedrich " Fritz " Walter ( 31 October 1920 – 17 June 2002 ) was a German footballer.

* Walter F. Bossert, Grand Dragon of the Ku Klux Klan for Indiana and 17 other states.

Asimov decided to turn the story into a novel, and on March 17 he left it with Walter I. Bradbury, the science fiction editor at Doubleday, to get his opinion.

Bruno Walter ( September 15, 1876February 17, 1962 ) was a German-born conductor.

The Beaufort scale was extended in 1946, when forces 13 to 17 were added .< Ref > Walter J. Saucier ( 1955 ).

Walter Leland Cronkite, Jr. ( November 4, 1916 – July 17, 2009 ) was an American broadcast journalist, best known as anchorman for the CBS Evening News for 19 years ( 1962 – 81 ).

* Walter Cronkite, Iconic Anchor, Is Dead, The New York Times, July 17, 2009

" The direct cost of labour force losses has been estimated at $ 7 billion to $ 9 billion, with East German party leader Walter Ulbricht later claiming that West Germany owed him $ 17 billion in compensation, including reparations as well as labour force losses.

He started playing in local orchestras at the age of 17, with Bennie Moten, Terrence Holder and Walter Page.

Keyes retired in 1954 and died on September 17, 1967 at Walter Reed Hospital in Washington, D. C ..

Mark James Walter Cameron ( 17 June 1911 – 26 January 1985 ) was a prominent British journalist, in whose memory the annual James Cameron Memorial Lecture is given.

## Walter Franklin McLean ( September 17, 1984 )