* 1670 – William Congreve, English playwright ( d. 1729 )

The story is the basis of an opera, The Judgment of Paris, with a libretto by William Congreve, that was set to music by four composers in London, 1700-1701.

* 1806 – Napoleonic Wars: Forces of the British Empire lay siege to the port of Boulogne in France by using Congreve rockets, invented by Sir William Congreve.

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* May 16 – William Congreve, British rocket pioneer ( b. 1772 )

* January 24 – William Congreve, English playwright ( d. 1729 )

* May 20 – William Congreve, British rocket pioneer ( d. 1828 )

* January 19 – William Congreve, English playwright ( b. 1670 )

* Love for Love by William Congreve ( New Phoenix Repertory Co. at the Helen Hayes Theatre, November 1974 )

They have a son, William Berry Jr., and a daughter, Mrs. J. M. Cheshire of Griffin.

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* In 1764 William Harrison ( the son of John Harrison ) sailed aboard the HMS Tartar, with the H-4 time piece.

They had one son, Col. William Preston Johnston, who would also serve in the Confederate Army.

" is attributed to his son William De Morgan, but a family friend John Thomas Graves was prolific, and a manuscript with over 2, 800 has been preserved.

is the title of a novel by William Faulkner, and refers to the return of Thomas Sutpen's son.

After the Battle of Hastings, Ealdred joined the group who tried to elevate Edgar the Ætheling, Edward the Exile's son, as king, but eventually he submitted to William the Conqueror at Berkhamsted.

He was born at Haddington, East Lothian, the only son of the Scottish king William the Lion and Ermengarde of Beaumont.

Johnson's grandfather William was poverty stricken, and was unable to educate his son Jacob or pass on any land to him.

Frederick William was the eldest surviving son of Karl Christian of Nassau-Weilburg and Princess Wilhelmine Carolina of Orange-Nassau.

In 1738 Nehemiah's son William Champion patented a technique for the first industrial scale distillation of metallic zinc known as distillation per descencum or " the English process.

* Skemp, Sheila L. Benjamin and William Franklin: Father and Son, Patriot and Loyalist ( 1994 )- Ben's son was a leading Loyalist

The son of John Smith, designer of the earlier castle, William Smith was City Architect of Aberdeen from 1852.

Mumy was born in San Gabriel, California, the son of Muriel Gertrude ( née Gould ) and Charles William Mumy, Sr., a cattle rancher.

The youngest son of William Edward Parkinson ( 1871 – 1927 ), an art master at North East County School and from 1913 principal of York School of Arts and Crafts, and his wife, Rose Emily Mary Curnow ( born 1877 ), the young Parkinson attended St. Peter's School, York, where in 1929 he won an Exhibition to study history at Emmanuel College at the University of Cambridge.

During the Anglo-French War ( 1627 – 1629 ), under Charles I, by 1629 the Kirkes took Quebec City, Sir James Stewart of Killeith, Lord Ochiltree planted a colony on Cape Breton Island at Baleine, Nova Scotia and Alexander ’ s son, William Alexander, 1st Earl of Stirling established the first incarnation of “ New Scotland ” at Port Royal.

The first cement to consistently contain alite was made by Joseph Aspdin's son William in the early 1840s.

He was the youngest son of William the Conqueror.

William of Malmesbury writes that Gofraid, together with Sihtric's young son Olaf Cuaran fled north and received refuge from Constantine, which led to war with Æthelstan.

William states that Æthelstan stood godfather to a son of Constantine, probably Indulf ( Ildulb mac Constantín ), during the conference.

** William Erasmus Darwin ( 1839 – 1914 ), eldest son of Charles Darwin ( 1809 – 1882 )

Pitman's short book about his desperate escape from a Caribbean penal colony for his part in the Monmouth Rebellion, his shipwrecking and subsequent desert island misadventures was published by J. Taylor of Paternoster Street, London, whose son William Taylor later published Defoe's novel.

:* William Godolphin, Marquess of Blandford ( 1700 – 1731 ), elder son of the 2nd Duchess, predeceased his mother without issue

* John Albert William Spencer-Churchill, 10th Duke of Marlborough ( 1897 – 1972 ), elder son of the 9th Duke

Malherb is introduced as the younger son of a noble family and he builds the Fox Tor house to be the impressive gentleman's residence suggested by William Crossing rather than the humble cottage which it actually is.