Argon ( αργος, Greek meaning " inactive ", in reference to its chemical inactivity ) was suspected to be present in air by Henry Cavendish in 1785 but was not isolated until 1894 by Lord Rayleigh and Sir William Ramsay in Scotland in an experiment in which they removed all of the oxygen, carbon dioxide, water and nitrogen from a sample of clean air.

* 1640 – William Cavendish, 1st Duke of Devonshire, English noble ( d. 1707 )

* William Cavendish, Anglo-Irish politician

* August 18 – William Cavendish, 1st Duke of Devonshire, English soldier and statesman ( b. 1640 )

* October 2 – William Cavendish, 4th Duke of Devonshire, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom ( b. 1720 )

* January 25 – William Cavendish, 1st Duke of Devonshire, English soldier and statesman ( d. 1707 )

* October 25 – William Cavendish, English courtier ( b. 1505 )

* December 6 – William Cavendish, 1st Duke of Newcastle ( died 1676 )

* December 14 – William Cavendish, 5th Duke of Devonshire ( d. 1811 )

* September 26 – William Cavendish, 3rd Duke of Devonshire ( d. 1755 )

* December 25 – William Cavendish, 1st Duke of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, English soldier, politician, and writer ( b. 1592 )

** William Cavendish, English courtier ( d. 1557 )

* William Cavendish

In the ensuing dispute, Tyler ( supposedly ) drew his dagger, and William Walworth, the Lord Mayor of London, drew his sword and attacked Tyler, mortally wounding him in the neck ; Sir John Cavendish, one of the King's knights, drew his sword and ran it through Tyler's stomach, killing him almost instantly.

She married William Cavendish, 4th Duke of Devonshire.

They were parents to William Cavendish, 5th Duke of Devonshire, George Cavendish, 1st Earl of Burlington and two other children.

She was married four times, firstly to Robert Barlow, who died in his teens ; secondly to the courtier Sir William Cavendish ; thirdly to Sir William St Loe ; and lastly to George Talbot, 6th Earl of Shrewsbury, sometime keeper to the captive Mary, Queen of Scots.

On 20 August 1547, Bess married the twice-widowed Sir William Cavendish, Treasurer of the King's Chamber, and became Lady Cavendish.

Sir William Cavendish died on 25 October 1557, leaving Bess widowed a second time.

In addition to her own six children, Bess was now responsible for the two daughters of Sir William Cavendish from his first marriage.

* William Cavendish, 1st Earl of Devonshire was the forebear of the Dukes of Devonshire.

Their son William Cavendish, 1st Duke of Newcastle-upon-Tyne is the forbear of the Dukes of Newcastle.

John William Ball, 68, of 133 Marietta St. NW, Apartment 101b, died Sunday at his home.

Funeral for William Joseph Brett, 1926 NE 50th Ave., who died Thursday in Portland, will be Monday 1 p.m. at the Riverview Abbey.

He had a brother William four years his elder and an older sister Elizabeth, who died in childhood.

After Anna died in 1281, in 1284 Andronikos II then married Yolanda ( renamed Irene ), a daughter of Marquis William VII of Montferrat, with whom he had:

William ( with a fleet of 200 ships ) landed in Epirus with a strong force ( 80, 000 men including 5, 000 knights ), and marched as far as Thessalonica, which he took and pillaged ruthlessly ( 7, 000 Greeks died ).

However, Mary II died childless in 1694, after which William III did not remarry, and Princess Anne's last surviving child, Prince William, Duke of Gloucester, died six years later, after which it was unlikely she would have any more children due to her age and the large number of miscarriages she had previously suffered.

In the United States, within 100 years, four presidents, Abraham Lincoln, James Garfield, William McKinley, and John F. Kennedy, died at the hands of assassins.

His father, William Jefferson Blythe, Jr., was a traveling salesman who died in an automobile accident three months before Bill was born.

He had an elder brother William, and a sister Agnes who died in childhood.

Beatty's other brothers were Charles Harold Longfield ( 1870 – 1917 ) who served with distinction in the South Africa wars before dying from complications after losing an arm in Flanders, Richard George ( 1882 – 1915 ) who died on active service in India, William Vandeleur Schruder ( 1873 – 1935 ) who became an army Major and Newmarket horse trainer, and one sister Kathleen Roma ( 1875 –).

In March 1825, John Allan's uncle and business benefactor William Galt, said to be one of the wealthiest men in Richmond, died and left Allan several acres of real estate.

In the spring of 1130, when Eleanor was six, her four-year-old brother William Aigret and their mother died at the castle of Talmont, on Aquitaine's Atlantic coast.

As these were the days when kidnapping an heiress was seen as a viable option for obtaining a title, William had dictated a will on the very day he died, bequeathing his domains to Eleanor and appointing King Louis VI of France as her guardian.

His father died in the winter of 1913, while Edwin was still in England, and in the summer of 1913, Edwin returned to care for his mother, two sisters, and younger brother, as did his brother William.

The Vitagraph company's The Man That Might Have Been ( William Humphrey, 1914 ), is even more complex, with a series of reveries and flash-backs that contrast the protagonist's real passage through life with what might have been, if his son had not died.

Frederick William died in 1740 at age 51 and was interred at the Garrison Church in Potsdam.

After both his father and older brother died when he was young, Washington became personally and professionally attached to the powerful William Fairfax, who promoted his career as a surveyor and soldier.

Soon after that second hospitalization, Cantor's youngest son Rudolph died suddenly ( while Cantor was delivering a lecture on his views on Baconian theory and William Shakespeare ), and this tragedy drained Cantor of much of his passion for mathematics.

The Village ( and surrounding New York City ) would later play central roles in the writings of, among others, Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, William S. Burroughs, James Baldwin, Truman Capote, Marianne Moore, Maya Angelou, Rod McKuen, and Dylan Thomas, who collapsed at the Chelsea Hotel and died at St. Vincents Hospital at 170 West 12th Street, in the Village after drinking at the White Horse Tavern on November 5, 1953.

In 1888, the old emperor William I died at the age of 90.

After the death of Frederick II in 1250, the German kingdom was divided between his son Conrad IV ( died 1254 ) and the anti-king, William of Holland ( died 1256 ).