* 1978 – Edward D. Wood, Jr., American filmmaker ( b. 1924 )

* 1924 – Edward D. Wood, Jr., American filmmaker ( d. 1978 )

* December 10 – Ed Wood, American filmmaker ( b. 1924 )

Wood panelling from the room in the Crown and Treaty public house located in Oxford Road by the Grand Union Canal, was sold in 1924 to an American who installed them in his office in the Empire State Building.

( Wood City was acquired in 1924 as part of the original donation of land to the government but was used primarily as just a radio range until World War II.

By 1918 it was evident that a larger building was needed and a site was purchased in 1924 on St. John's Wood Road, opposite Lords Cricket Ground.

From 1924 to 1935, Wood lived in the loft of a carriage house that he turned into his personal studio at " 5 Turner Alley " ( the studio had no address until Wood made one up himself ).

Frank Searle, managing director of Daimler Hire and its subsidiaries moved with his deputy Humphery Wood into the new national carrier Imperial Airways at its formation on 1 April 1924.

* 5 February 1924 – 24 January 1925: Wood Rat

After Stanford died, Wood assumed his mentor's vacant role as University of Cambridge Professor of Music in 1924.

As a backbencher, Wood successfully introduced the Summer Time Bill of 1924.

When Baldwin succeeded Law in 1924, Wood was appointed Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Health, as junior minister to Neville Chamberlain.

The Bournville Friends Meeting House is located on Linden Road, and features a bust of George Cadbury by Francis Wood, installed in 1924.

* George Wood ( baseball ) ( 1858 – 1924 ), left fielder in Major League Baseball for 13 seasons from 1880-1892

* Jack Wood ( 1924 – 2007 ), TV writer and director

* 1924 Charles Wood

Hagg Farm, which lies to the north of the village, was bought in 1924 for £ 8, 500 by the Wood family who had been the tenants for over 300 years.

James Wayne Wood ( 1924 – 1990 ) was an American astronaut in the X-20 Dyna-Soar program.

It is a " maypole dance " from the suite My Native Heath, written in 1924 by the Yorkshire composer Arthur Wood, and named after Barwick-in-Elmet.

* James W. Wood ( 1924 – 1990 ), U. S. Air Force colonel and senior test pilot on the Dyna-Soar program

Harry Blanshard Wood, VC, MM ( 21 June 1882 – 15 August 1924 ) was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.

Nicknamed the Wood, they were formed in 1924 and play at Robertson Park, having moved from Thorn Park in nearby Tannochside in 1957 when the giant Caterpillar Tractor Company acquired the land to build a new factory at the time. They currently compete in the West Region of the Scottish Junior Football Association, they wear all red strips ( uniforms ) with a change strip of all blue, although their original colours were white shirts, black shorts and white socks.

It was written by Yorkshire composer Arthur Wood in 1924, as a " maypole dance " in his suite My native heath.

* Adder ( Farthing Wood ), a character from The Animals of Farthing Wood

Though Charlton was a candidate to go in goal to replace Wood ( in the days before substitutes, and certainly before goalkeeping substitutes ), it was teammate Jackie Blanchflower who ended up between the posts.

The leading figures of the second generation of historical dance research include Shirley Wynne and her Baroque Dance Ensemble which was founded at Ohio State University in the early 1970s and Wendy Hilton ( 1931 – 2002 ), a student of Belinda Quirey who supplemented the work of Melusine Wood with her own research into original sources.

* The Haunted World of Edward D. Wood, Jr. ( 1996 ), documentary film directed by Brett Thompson

The five major planets are associated with and even named after the elements: Jupiter 木星 is Wood ( 木 ), Mars 火星 is Fire ( 火 ), Saturn 土星 is Earth ( 土 ), Venus 金星 is Metal ( 金 ), and Mercury 水星 is Water ( 水 ).

Kaye starred in several movies with actress Virginia Mayo in the 1940s, and is well known for his roles in films such as The Secret Life of Walter Mitty ( 1947 ), The Inspector General ( 1949 ), On the Riviera ( 1951 ) co-starring Gene Tierney, Knock on Wood ( 1954 ), White Christmas ( 1954, in a role originally intended for Fred Astaire, then Donald O ' Connor ), The Court Jester ( 1956 ), and Merry Andrew ( 1958 ).

According to Fuller, as quoted in Wood biography Nightmare of Ecstasy ( 1992 ), she first met Ed Wood when she attended a casting call with a friend for a movie he was supposed to direct called Behind Locked Doors: it has also been stated that they met in a restaurant.

In March 2008, scenes showing Tanya Branning ( Jo Joyner ) and boyfriend, Sean Slater ( Rob Kazinsky ), burying Tanya's husband Max ( Jake Wood ) alive, attracted many complaints.

ELO's debut concert took place on 15 April 1972 at The Fox & Hounds Pub in Croydon, U. K. with a line-up of Wood, Lynne, Bevan, Bill Hunt ( horns, keyboards ), Wilfred Gibson ( violin ), Hugh McDowell ( cello ), Mike Edwards, Andy Craig ( cello ) and Richard Tandy on bass.

Despite predictions from the music press that the band would fold without Wood, who had been the driving force behind the creation of ELO, Lynne stepped up to lead the band, with Bev Bevan remaining on drums, joined by Gibson, Richard Tandy ( now on the Moog synthesiser ), Mike de Albuquerque on bass and vocals and Mike Edwards and Colin Walker on cellos.

* Ramsay Wood ( born 1943 ), author of Kalila and Dimna: Fables of Friendship and Betrayal.

* Anthony à Wood, Athenae Oxonienses ( Bliss ), ii. 141, 594 ;

* The Haunted World of Edward D. Wood, Jr. ( 1996 ), documentary film directed by Brett Thompson

* Robin Wood, Howard Hawks ( New Edition ), ( Wayne State University Press, 2006 )

Absalom eventually rebelled against his father and was killed during the Battle of Ephraim Wood.

David's son Absalom rebels against his father, and they come to battle in the Wood of Ephraim.

O Group was headed by physicist Lowell Wood, a protégé and friend of Edward Teller, the " father of the hydrogen bomb ".

She wrote a biography of her father as Ethel M. Wood ;

Gerald Gardner, the " father of Wicca ", first introduced the Book of Shadows to people that he had initiated into the craft through his Bricket Wood coven in the 1950s.

The Chippendale family had long been the wood working trades and so he probably received his basic training from his father, though it is believed that he also was trained by Richard Wood in York, before he moved to London.

Longing for a relatively normal life, Jett succeeds in getting the production of Silverstone moved to the fictional Wilsted, North Carolina, thus providing jobs to townspeople while affording Jett the chance to live with his father, Sheriff Woodrick " Wood " Jackson, and his great-grandmother, Miz Coretta ( whom Jett calls Nana ).

Linda's father Randy Wood was president of Dot Records, and he liked Storm so much that he called to sign her before the end of the television show.

D ' Onofrio continued to play a wide variety of roles, including director Orson Welles in Tim Burton's Ed Wood, farmer Edgar and the evil " Bug " that possesses him from Men in Black, the father of a saint in Nancy Savoca's Household Saints, Yippie founder Abbie Hoffman in Steal This Movie, a time traveler from the distant future in Happy Accidents, and opposite Jennifer Lopez as serial killer Carl Stargher in The Cell.

After his education at the Bruce Academy, an apprenticeship to Nicholas Wood, the manager of Killingworth Colliery, and a period at the University of Edinburgh where he met George Parker Bidder, Robert went to work with his father on his railway projects, the first being the Stockton and Darlington Railway.

Clovis sided with Godegisel, who had offered him his pleasure of tribute ; Wood observes archly that Clovis ' wife, Clotilde, whose father had been killed by Gundobad, " was not likely to encourage good relations between the Franks and the Burgundians.

He was succeeded in his titles by his eldest son Charles, who was the father of E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax.

In Arizona, 12-year-old Mark Evans ( Elijah Wood ) is taken to the hospital by his father Jack ( David Morse ) to visit his dying mother, Janice.

They married on November 22, 1795 at the home of Dr. Stephen Wood, treasurer of the Northwest Territory, at North Bend ( her father was away in Cincinnati on business ).

His father Ian was senior partner of the stockbrokers Panmure Gordon, in which firm partnerships had long been held by Cameron's ancestors, including David's grandfather and great-grandfather, and was a Director of estate agent John D. Wood.

Wood has been described as the " father of both infrared and ultraviolet photography ".

Wood was born Svetlana Nikolaevna Zakharenko to Russian parents, but they grew up far from their homeland: her father lived in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, while her mother grew up in a Chinese province.

Beasley is married to the former Mary Wood Payne and is the father of four children: Mary Hunter, Sarah Catherine, David, Jr., and Samuel Ross.

Wood succeeded his father as 2nd Earl of Halifax in 1960.

His father was Henry Grey ( later Sir Henry Grey, first baronet of Howick ) and his mother was Hannah Grey ( née Wood ).

Spode worked alongside Wedgwood and with the celebrated potter Aaron Wood ( father of Enoch Wood ) under Whieldon's tuition, and was with Whieldon at the high point of production there.

His father was appointed to be minister of Wesley's Chapel in London, where Wood grew up, attending a local Wesleyan school.

While living with an uncle in Canada after his father died, Wood was conscripted into the Canadian Army at the outset of the War of 1812, but escaped across Lake Ontario and briefly served in the U. S. Army.