In 1952, William Buckler identified the author of the novel as Charles Warren Adams and in 2011 American investigator Paul Collins found a number of lines of evidence that confirmed Buckler's initial claim.

President James Madison appointed Adams as the first ever United States Minister to Russia in 1809 ( though Francis Dana and William Short had previously been nominated to the post, neither presented his credentials at Saint Petersburg ).

Adams sat for the earliest confirmed photograph still in existence of a U. S. president in 1843, although other sources contend that William Henry Harrison had posed even earlier for his portrait, in 1841.

In the PBS miniseries The Adams Chronicles ( 1976 ), he was portrayed by David Birney, William Daniels, Marcel Trenchard, Stephen Austin, Steven Grover and Mark Winkworth.

Though Jackson had won the popular vote, neither he nor any of the other candidates ( John Quincy Adams, Henry Clay, and William H. Crawford ) had won a majority of the electoral vote.

In the presidential election of 1824, Van Buren supported William H. Crawford and received the electoral vote of Georgia for vice-president, but he shrewdly kept out of the acrimonious controversy which followed the choice of John Quincy Adams as President.

Van Buren had originally hoped to block Adams ' victory by denying him the state of New York ( the state was divided between Van Buren supporters who would vote for William H. Crawford and Adams men ).

* Sumner, William Hyslop, An Inquiry Into the Importance of the Militia to a Free Commonwealth: In a Letter from William H. Sumner ... to John Adams, Late President of the United States ; with His Answer, Cummings and Hilliard, Boston, 1823

The case resulted from a petition to the Supreme Court by William Marbury, who had been appointed by President John Adams as Justice of the Peace in the District of Columbia but whose commission was not subsequently delivered.

* 2005 – William G. Adams, Canadian politician ( b. 1923 )

The collapse of logical positivism renewed interest in philosophy of religion, prompting philosophers like William Alston, John Mackie, Alvin Plantinga, Robert Merrihew Adams, Richard Swinburne, and Antony Flew not only to introduce new problems, but to re-open classical topics such as the nature of miracles, theistic arguments, the problem of evil, ( see existence of God ) the rationality of belief in God, concepts of the nature of God, and many more.

The Academic Quad, anchored by a statue of founder William Marsh Rice, includes Ralph Adams Cram's masterpiece, the asymmetrical Lovett Hall, the original administrative building ; Fondren Library ; Herzstein Hall, the physics building and home to the largest amphitheater on campus ; Sewall Hall for the social sciences and arts ; Rayzor Hall for the languages ; and Anderson Hall of the Architecture department.

* 1564 – William Adams, English sailor and navigator ( d. 1620 )

Only once since then has the House of Representatives chosen the President: In 1824, Andrew Jackson received 99 electoral votes, John Quincy Adams ( son of John Adams ) 84, William H. Crawford 41 and Henry Clay 37.

Five presidents of the United States were Unitarians: John Adams, John Quincy Adams, Millard Fillmore, Thomas Jefferson, and William Howard Taft.

On July 17, 1850, Vega became the first star ( other than the Sun ) to be photographed, when it was imaged by William Bond and John Adams Whipple at the Harvard College Observatory, also with a daguerreotype.

In 1930 John Angel ( sculptor ) completed the Founder's Memorial at Rice University depicting a seated William Marsh Rice in line with specifications by architect Ralph Adams Cram.

* September 24 – William Adams, English navigator and samurai ( d. 1620 )

* May 16 – William Adams, English navigator and samurai ( b. 1564 )

* April 18 – American Revolution: Paul Revere and William Dawes, instructed by Dr. Joseph Warren, ride from Boston to Lexington to warn John Hancock and Sam Adams that British forces are coming to take them prisoner and to seize colonial weapons and ammunition in Concord.

* Adams ' Grammar School in Shropshire, England is founded by William Adams.

William " Captain " Kidd ( c. 1645 – 23 May 1701 ) was a Scottish sailor remembered for his trial and execution for piracy after returning from a voyage to the Indian Ocean.

* William B. Gould, formerly enslaved and Union Navy sailor

* 1866 – Edward William Exshaw, British sailor ( d. 1927 )

* 1909 – John William Finn, American sailor, Medal of Honor recipient ( d. 2010 )

* 1927 – Edward William Exshaw, British sailor ( b. 1866 )

* William Moor, Canadian sailor and explorer

Robin William Askin was born in Sydney, New South Wales on 4 April 1907 at the Crown Street Women's Hospital, the eldest of three sons of Ellen Laura Halliday ( née Rowe ) and William James Askin, an Adelaide-born sailor and worker for New South Wales Railways.

* September 9 – William Bligh, English sailor ( d. 1817 )

* William Pelham ( Medal of Honor recipient ) ( 1845 / 47-1933 ), American Union Navy sailor, recipient of Medal of Honor

William Henry Smyth ( 21 January 1788 – 8 September 1865 ) was an English sailor, hydrographer, astronomer and numismatist.

* William Smith ( Medal of Honor ) ( 1838 – 1902 ), American Civil War sailor and Medal of Honor recipient

* William E. Holyoke, US Navy sailor ; recipient of the Medal of Honor

Toranaga's rise to the Shogunate is seen through the eyes of the English sailor John Blackthorne, called Anjin (" Pilot ") by the Japanese, whose fictional heroics are loosely based on the historical exploits of William Adams.

His sailor brother William with children to provide for had been made Ranger of Bushy Park in 1797.

Mercer continued to voice the one-eyed sailor for the Fleischers, for Paramount's Famous Studios cartoons ( 1942 – 1957 ), for a series of television cartoons for King Features Syndicate, and for a Saturday morning cartoon show ( 1978 ) produced by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera.

Another notable trial was that of the Spanish sailor Josef Garcia, convicted of murdering William and Elizabeth Watkins and their three youngest children ( Charlotte, 8 years, Alice, 5 years and Frederick, 4 years ) in 1878 at Llangibby.

Grave of William Adams ( sailor ) | William Adams in Hirado

* William Jones ( sailor ) ( 1831 –?

* William Yetter Jr. as German sailor

* William Troy ( 1848 – 1907 ), US Navy sailor awarded the Medal of Honor

When in his teens, his sister revealed in an argument that his biological father was really a Swedish sailor named William Björklund.

* William Chretien ( born 1916 ), former American sailor during World War II, Received Purple Heart.