* 1603 – William Gilbert, English physicist and physician ( b. 1544 )

The first electrical engineer was probably William Gilbert who designed the versorium: a device that detected the presence of statically charged objects.

The scientist William Gilbert proposed, in his De Magnete ( 1600 ), that electricity and magnetism, while both capable of causing attraction and repulsion of objects, were distinct effects.

Electricity would remain little more than an intellectual curiosity for millennia until 1600, when the English scientist William Gilbert made a careful study of electricity and magnetism, distinguishing the lodestone effect from static electricity produced by rubbing amber.

During this century the English scientist William Gilbert spent 17 years experimenting with magnetism and, to a lesser extent, electricity.

In 1600, the English scientist William Gilbert returned to the subject in De Magnete, and coined the New Latin word electricus from ηλεκτρον ( elektron ), the Greek word for " amber ", which soon gave rise to the English words " electric " and " electricity.

Beckett was born at Hammersmith, United Kingdom, the eldest son of Gilbert Abbott à Beckett and the brother of Arthur William à Beckett.

In 1600, William Gilbert published his De Magnete, Magneticisque Corporibus, et de Magno Magnete Tellure ( On the Magnet and Magnetic Bodies, and on the Great Magnet the Earth ).

Today some rabbis who advocate some form of process theology include Bradley Shavit Artson, Lawrence A. Englander, William E. Kaufman, Harold Kushner, Anton Laytner, Michael Lerner, Gilbert S. Rosenthal, Lawrence Troster, Donald B. Rossoff, Burton Mindick, and Nahum Ward.

American Impressionist painters noted for this style during this era included, Guy Rose, Robert William Wood, Mary Denil Morgan, John Gamble, and Arthur Hill Gilbert.

* Gilbert Osofsky, Puttin ' on Ole Massa: The Slave Narratives of Henry Bibb, William Wells Brown, and Solomon Northup ( New York: Harper and Row, 1969 )

Truth started dictating her memoirs to her friend Olive Gilbert, and in 1850 William Lloyd Garrison privately published her book, The Narrative of Sojourner Truth: A Northern Slave.

* William Gilbert ( 1544 – 1603 ) published On the Magnet and Magnetic Bodies, and on the Great Magnet the Earth in 1600, which laid the foundations of a theory of magnetism and electricity.

At first, Alan of Brittany had custody of the duke, but when Alan died in either late 1039 or October 1040, Gilbert of Brionne took charge of William.

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On 12 September 2009, William Gilbert Grace was posthumously inducted into the ICC Cricket Hall of Fame at Lord's.

Their eldest son William Gilbert junior ( 1874 – 1905 ) was born on 6 July.

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* May 29 – William S. Gilbert, English dramatist ( b. 1836 )

* December 10 – William Gilbert, English scientist ( plague ) ( b. 1544 )

* William Gilbert publishes De Magnete, which describes the Earth's magnetic field and is the beginning of modern Geomagnetism.

Almost three centuries later, William Gilbert of Colchester replicated Petrus Peregrinus ' work and was the first to state explicitly that Earth is a magnet.

* May 24 – William Gilbert, English scientist ( d. 1603 )

William studied liberal arts and theology in Paris and Orléans for about ten years, with professors who had been students of Thierry of Chartres and Gilbert de la Porrée.

She became the romantic interest for some of MGM's leading male stars, among them Ramón Novarro, William Haines, John Gilbert and Tim McCoy.

The Christian hymn " The Lord is in His Holy Temple ", written in 1900 by William J. Kirkpatrick, is based on verse 2: 20.

There are about a million British prints including more than 20, 000 satires and outstanding collections of works by William Blake and Thomas Bewick ..

In response, New York's governor, William Tryon, issued warrants for the arrests of those responsible, and eventually put a price of £ 20 on the heads of six participants, including Allen.

In 1778, Simcoe, during a foraging expedition opposed by rebel militia, commanded the attack on Judge William Hancock's house, killing 20 American rebels in their sleep and wounding 12 others.

In order to enter at a talent competition at University High School, Berry and Torrence helped form a doo-wop group known as " The Barons " ( named after their high school's Hi-Y club, where they were members ), which comprised fellow University High students William " Chuck " Steele ( lead singer ), Arnold P. " Arnie " Ginsburg ( born November 19, 1939 ) ( 1st tenor ), Wallace S. " Wally " Yagi ( born 20 July 1940 ) ( 2nd tenor ), John ' Sagi " Seligman ( 2nd tenor ), with Berry singing bass, and Torrence providing falsetto.

Alexander was the host of the Comedy Central Roast of actor William Shatner on August 13, 2006 ( first airdate: August 20, 2006 ).

A 20, 000 strong army under Papal legate William of Modena crossed the frozen sea while the Saaremaa fleet was icebound, in January 1227.

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On 20 January 1192, Philip met with William of FitzRalph, Richard's seneschal of Normandy.

On November 20, 1798, the French frigates L ’ Insurgente and Volontaire overtook Retaliation while her consorts were away and forced commanding officer Lieutenant William Bainbridge to surrender the out-gunned schooner.

By Elizabeth he had four children: David II, John ( died in childhood ), Matilda ( who married Thomas Isaac and died at Aberdeen 20 July 1353 ), and Margaret ( who married William de Moravia, 5th Earl of Sutherland in 1345 ).

William Dampier called into St Helena in 1691 at the end of his first of three circumnavigations of the world and stated Jamestown comprised 20 – 30 small houses built with rough stones furnished with mean furniture.

A second set of arguments were submitted for Millar by William Blackstone on 7 June, and judgment was given on 20 April 1769.

In May of that year, he was next accused of extorting 100 shillings from Margaret King and William Hales of Monks Kirby, and, the next August, of committing the same injury against John Mylner, for 20 shillings.

* William Wallace Lincoln, third son of Abraham Lincoln, the 16th President of the United States, died February 20, 1862 of typhoid fever.

On July 20, 1868, Secretary of State William H. Seward certified that the amendment had become part of the Constitution if the rescissions were ineffective, and presuming also that the later ratifications by states whose governments had been reconstituted superseded the initial rejection of the prior state legislatures.

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William gave generously to the church ; from 1035 to 1066, the Norman aristocracy founded at least 20 new monastic houses, including William's two monasteries in Caen, a remarkable expansion of religious life in the duchy.

* May 20 – William Hewlett, American businessman ( d. 2001 )

* November 20 – Francis William Aston, English chemist, Nobel Prize laureate ( b. 1877 )

* February 20 – Venezuela Crisis of 1895: President Grover Cleveland signs into law a bill resulting from the proposition of House Resolution 252 by William Lindsay Scruggs and Congressman Leonidas Livingston to the third session of the 53rd Congress of the United States of America.

* May 20 – William Emerson, English mathematician ( b. 1701 )

* June 20 – John William Colenso, Bishop of Natal ( b. 1814 )