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8ee22d2b0ea7d083f9f52dbe5458c182 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/John-Shore | Sir John Shore | Sir John Shore
Lord Cornwallis and his successor Sir John Shore (governor-general 1793–98) were eager to comply, but Cornwallis nevertheless found himself involved in the third Mysore war (1790–92) with Tippu Sultan, who possessed his father’s ability without his judgment. The cause was a combination of Tippu Sultan’s ... |
9bd992abd6e653b7b2c3f02b29634766 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/John-Siferwas | John Siferwas | John Siferwas
The style of John Siferwas, another painter active during this period, is similar, but his page decoration is usually more lavish; he produced a series of beautiful bird studies reminiscent of Lombard work. It should be noted, however, that this sort of realistic observation had long been a…
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cec8f4cc0ae863ea4ee0fabc83e204ac | https://www.britannica.com/biography/John-Sigismund | John Sigismund | John Sigismund
John Sigismund, German Johann Sigismund, (born Nov. 8, 1572—died Jan. 2, 1620), elector of Brandenburg from 1608, who united his domain with that of Prussia.
His marriage in 1594 to Anna, the daughter of Albert Frederick of Prussia, made him heir to the title of that duchy, and he became duke of Prussi... |
2f7802dadb9b64251e9590cb904f858e | https://www.britannica.com/biography/John-Singleton | John Singleton | John Singleton
John Singleton, in full John Daniel Singleton, (born January 6, 1968, Los Angeles, California, U.S.—died April 29, 2019, Los Angeles), American film director and screenwriter whose films often examined urban and racial tensions. He was best known for his directorial debut, Boyz n the Hood (1991).
Single... |
f7e3ae975c235cdb2a69947b05502fa2 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/John-Smith-wrestler | John Smith | John Smith
John Smith, (born Aug. 9, 1965, Del City, Okla., U.S.), American freestyle wrestler who won six consecutive world championships (1987–92) and won two Olympic gold medals in the featherweight class.
Smith, whose three brothers were all accomplished wrestlers, competed at Oklahoma State University, winning th... |
077269c04354f1be7880aa6356c1868b | https://www.britannica.com/biography/John-Spencer-Bassett | John Spencer Bassett | John Spencer Bassett
John Spencer Bassett, (born Sept. 10, 1867, Tarboro, N.C., American—died Jan. 27, 1928, Washington, D.C.), American historian and founder of the South Atlantic Quarterly, influential in the development of historiography in the American South.
A graduate of Trinity College (now Duke University), D... |
6f8d261370809bfd2a7f1940264c3df0 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/John-Stanley-Plaskett | John Stanley Plaskett | John Stanley Plaskett
John Stanley Plaskett, (born Nov. 17, 1865, Woodstock, Ont., Canada—died Oct. 17, 1941, Victoria, B.C.), Canadian astronomer remembered for his expert design of instruments and his extensive spectroscopic observations.
Plaskett, a skilled mechanic and photographer, graduated from the University ... |
adb2132c17bb3068edcccc4eb972dad6 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/John-Strachan | John Strachan | John Strachan
John Strachan, (born April 12, 1778, Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire, Scot.—died Nov. 1, 1867, Toronto), educator and clergyman who, as the first Anglican bishop of Toronto, was responsible for organizing the church in Canada as a self-governing denomination within the Anglican community.
Strachan emigrated fro... |
1567de8fe3c75c76cd4e8fde900f98cf | https://www.britannica.com/biography/John-Sturges | John Sturges | John Sturges
John Sturges, in full John Eliot Sturges, (born January 3, 1910, Oak Park, Illinois, U.S.—died August 18, 1992, San Luis Obispo, California), American director best known for taut war movies and westerns. His films include such classics as Bad Day at Black Rock (1955), The Magnificent Seven (1960), and Th... |
f13324f56b2d5b777ba7dabdbf644afb | https://www.britannica.com/biography/John-Suckling | Sir John Suckling | Sir John Suckling
Sir John Suckling, (born February 1609, Whitton, Middlesex, England—died 1642, Paris, France), English Cavalier poet, dramatist, and courtier, best known for his lyrics.
He was educated at Cambridge and inherited his father’s considerable estates at the age of 18. He entered Gray’s Inn in 1627 and wa... |
5bd102f538242fa5a857524652072430 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/John-Talbot-1st-earl-of-Shrewsbury | John Talbot, 1st earl of Shrewsbury | John Talbot, 1st earl of Shrewsbury
John Talbot, 1st earl of Shrewsbury, (born c. 1384—died July 17, 1453, Castillon, Fr.), the chief English military commander against the French during the final phase of the Hundred Years’ War (1337–1453).
The son of Richard, 4th Baron Talbot, he served in campaigns in Wales betwee... |
430b2c3576ee663311cf84b362a43268 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/John-Tate | John Tate | John Tate
John Tate, in full John Torrence Tate, (born March 13, 1925, Minneapolis, Minnesota, U.S.), American mathematician awarded the 2010 Abel Prize “for his vast and lasting impact on the theory of numbers.”
Tate received an undergraduate degree in 1946 from Harvard University and a doctorate in 1950 from Princet... |
2cb354b576edc2550444c09ef2d5b99b | https://www.britannica.com/biography/John-Taylor-British-writer | John Taylor | John Taylor
John Taylor, (born Aug. 24, 1580, Gloucester, Gloucestershire, Eng.—died December 1653, London), minor English poet, pamphleteer, and journalist who called himself “the Water Poet.”
The son of a surgeon, Taylor was sent to a grammar school but became, as he said, “mired in Latin accidence” and was apprent... |
903801f8aa477b25b61f635ec82b4efe | https://www.britannica.com/biography/John-Tiptoft-1st-Earl-of-Worcester | John Tiptoft, 1st earl of Worcester | John Tiptoft, 1st earl of Worcester
John Tiptoft, 1st earl of Worcester, Tiptoft also spelled Tibetot, (born c. 1427, Everton, Bedfordshire, Eng.—died Oct. 18, 1470, London), noted English Yorkist leader during the Wars of the Roses, known for his brutality and abuse of the law and called the “butcher of England.”
T... |
f016ca21de5e762e5d456b561d9336d6 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/John-Tower | John Tower | John Tower
…commission, headed by former senator John Tower of Texas (the Tower Commission), to investigate the matter. An independent counsel, Judge Lawrence Walsh, was also appointed, and the House and Senate began joint hearings to examine both the arms sales and the military assistance to the Contras. As a result o... |
a68bac4313eefb16cd72b726d55addc6 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/John-Turtle-Wood | John Turtle Wood | John Turtle Wood
J.T. Wood, working at Ephesus for the British Museum between 1863 and 1874, excavated the odeum and theatre. In May 1869 he struck a corner of the Artemiseum. His excavation exposed to view not only the scanty remains of the latest edifice (built after 350…
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3808e9511c8657c088a0caf76828ae54 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/John-Tzetzes | John Tzetzes | John Tzetzes
John Tzetzes, (born c. 1110—died after 1180), Byzantine didactic poet and scholar who preserved much valuable information from ancient Greek literature and scholarship, in which he was widely read.
Tzetzes was for a time secretary to a provincial governor, then earned a meagre living by teaching and writi... |
45a76d2f6ee3f25def43eeade7c7aa34 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/John-V-Palaeologus | John V Palaeologus | John V Palaeologus
John V Palaeologus, (born June 18, 1332, Didymoteichon, Byzantine Empire [modern Dhidhimótikhon, Greece]—died February 16, 1391, Constantinople, Byzantine Empire [now Istanbul, Turkey]), Byzantine emperor (1341–91) whose rule was marked by civil war and increased domination by the Ottoman Turks, des... |
4c67f7ca7d1c607f2ebd2dbf6e72127a | https://www.britannica.com/biography/John-Van-Vleck | John H. Van Vleck | John H. Van Vleck
John H. Van Vleck, in full John Hasbrouck Van Vleck, (born March 13, 1899, Middletown, Conn., U.S.—died Oct. 27, 1980, Cambridge, Mass.), American physicist and mathematician who shared the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1977 with Philip W. Anderson and Sir Nevill F. Mott. The prize honoured Van Vleck’s... |
ab7f3b1f1beee8255e346f117ca7bc22 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/John-Vanderlyn | John Vanderlyn | John Vanderlyn
John Vanderlyn, (born October 15, 1776, Kingston, New York, U.S.—died September 23, 1852, Kingston), U.S. painter and one of the first American artists to study in Paris. He was largely responsible for introducing the Neoclassical style to the United States.
As a young man Vanderlyn copied a Gilbert Stu... |
e9c1945b4f14a3916f3f31a170c3d2ba | https://www.britannica.com/biography/John-VI-king-of-Portugal | John VI | John VI
John VI, (born May 13, 1767, Lisbon, Portugal—died March 10, 1826, Lisbon), prince regent of Portugal from 1799 to 1816 and king from 1816 to 1826, whose reign saw the revolutionary struggle in France, the Napoleonic invasion of Portugal (during which he established his court in Brazil), and the implantation o... |
91860ec70f60be04b662cac61daf37a1 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/John-von-Neumann/World-War-II | World War II | World War II
In late 1943 von Neumann began work on the Manhattan Project at the invitation of J. Robert Oppenheimer. Von Neumann was an expert in the nonlinear physics of hydrodynamics and shock waves, an expertise that he had already applied to chemical explosives in the British war effort. At Los Alamos, New Mexico,... |
8230b84743fd01fbb51ef2f7a53a61ca | https://www.britannica.com/biography/John-W-Davis | John W. Davis | John W. Davis
John W. Davis, in full John William Davis, (born April 13, 1873, Clarksburg, W.Va., U.S.—died March 24, 1955, Charleston, S.C.), conservative Democratic politician who was his party’s unsuccessful candidate for the presidency of the United States in 1924.
Davis was admitted to the Virginia bar in 1895 bu... |
0db0e4a0b245f36935d3d5e7a9f7d8df | https://www.britannica.com/biography/John-Waller | John Waller | John Waller
…that of American medical historian John Waller, who laid out in several papers his reasons for believing that the dancing plague was a form of mass psychogenic disorder. Such outbreaks take place under circumstances of extreme stress and generally take form based on local fears. In the case of the…
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20c65e99d1f3abb0ea2af93e42278d80 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/John-Weaver | John Weaver | John Weaver
John Weaver, (baptized July 21, 1673, Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England—died September 24, 1760, Shrewsbury), dancer, ballet master, choreographer, and theorist known as the father of English pantomime.
Like his father, a dance teacher at Shrewsbury, Weaver began his career as a dance master in the town. In ... |
bee7b1e43f51d9d19d4f066292b2cf8c | https://www.britannica.com/biography/John-Wesley-Hardin | John Wesley Hardin | John Wesley Hardin
John Wesley Hardin, (born May 26, 1853, Bonham county, Texas, U.S.—died Aug. 19, 1895, El Paso, Texas), most notorious killer and quick-draw gunman of the Texas frontier. He killed at least 21 men in gun duels and ambushes in the period 1868–77.
Reaching adolescence as the defeated South entered th... |
09d82291c12065a54f77883fc704de6e | https://www.britannica.com/biography/John-Westlake | John Westlake | John Westlake
John Westlake, (born Feb. 4, 1828, Lostwithiel, Cornwall, Eng.—died April 14, 1913, London), English lawyer and social reformer who was influential in the field of law dealing with the resolution of problems between persons living in different legal jurisdictions (private international law, or conflict ... |
ee8b62cacaeaef8bba12381d3f193fa9 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/John-Wetton | John Wetton | John Wetton
… (King Crimson and ELP), and John Wetton (King Crimson, U.K., and Asia). Some of the experimental rock by such American and British artists as Laurie Anderson, David Bowie, Brian Eno, the Velvet Underground, and Frank Zappa is also often categorized as art rock.
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1d487893e07a2ec7238b3408392e14e8 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/John-Wheelock | John Wheelock | John Wheelock
…of a religious controversy, removed John Wheelock as college president in 1815. In response, the New Hampshire legislature passed an act amending the charter and establishing a board of overseers to replace the trustees. The trustees then sued William H. Woodward, college secretary and ally of Wheelock, ... |
20e0f594cd98eb06216b993476a9f187 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/John-Wildman | Sir John Wildman | Sir John Wildman
Sir John Wildman, (born c. 1621–23—died June 4, 1693), English agitator and Leveler associate who outlasted vicissitudes under three British kings and two protectors.
Wildman was of obscure ancestry. Educated at Cambridge, he first came into prominence in October 1647, when he helped to write the fir... |
12768d946066ac6e1e95eb39ac29f5cb | https://www.britannica.com/biography/John-Wilkes/The-Middlesex-elections | The Middlesex elections. | The Middlesex elections.
For the next four years Wilkes pursued a profligate career on the Continent, chiefly in Paris, vainly hoping that a change of ministry would bring in friends who would secure him relief and advancement. The ministries of Rockingham, Chatham, and Grafton all failed him, and in 1767 his disappoin... |
cd16ea13da89fc7f7f2a5fd6cd0d55bf | https://www.britannica.com/biography/John-Wilkins | John Wilkins | John Wilkins
…first important exponent in Bishop John Wilkins, whose Essay Towards a Real Character and a Philosophical Language was published in 1668. A plan of this sort was carried out by Peter Mark Roget with his Thesaurus, published in 1852 and many times reprinted and reedited. Although philosophically oriented, ... |
f28dd23ea9c247d64cb74ba3c581ae70 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/John-Wilkinson | John Wilkinson | John Wilkinson
John Wilkinson, (born 1728, Clifton, Cumberland, Eng.—died July 14, 1808, Bradley, Staffordshire), British industrialist known as “the great Staffordshire ironmaster” who found new applications for iron and who devised a boring machine essential to the success of James Watt’s steam engine.
At the age o... |
74b9f61cf33873fd59514090768977d4 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/John-William-Dawson | Sir John William Dawson | Sir John William Dawson
Sir John William Dawson, (born Oct. 30, 1820, Pictou, Nova Scotia [now in Canada]—died Nov. 20, 1899, Montreal, Que., Can.), Canadian geologist who made numerous contributions to paleobotany and extended the knowledge of Canadian geology.
During his term as superintendent of education for Nova... |
6d806b2b1095de40a1f584ef65b285b9 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/John-Williams-English-bishop | John Williams | John Williams
His lifelong conflict with John Williams, later bishop of Lincoln and archbishop of York, began when both sought advancement through the patronage of Charles’s favourite, the Duke of Buckingham. During Buckingham’s years of power, Laud was his chaplain and confidant, and he established a dominant voice in... |
0b071860da3edd6f26c0844129386124 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/John-Willis | John Willis | John Willis
…important inventors of shorthand systems: John Willis, who is considered to be the father of modern shorthand; Thomas Shelton, whose system was used by Samuel Pepys to write his famous diary; Jeremiah Rich, who popularized the art by publishing not only his system but also the Psalms and the New…
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2167d939dfa916d15d693c65fdef32de | https://www.britannica.com/biography/John-Wilmot-2nd-earl-of-Rochester | John Wilmot, 2nd earl of Rochester | John Wilmot, 2nd earl of Rochester
John Wilmot, 2nd earl of Rochester, (born April 1, 1647, Ditchley Manor House, Oxfordshire, Eng.—died July 26, 1680, Woodstock, Eng.), court wit and poet who helped establish English satiric poetry.
Wilmot succeeded his father to the earldom in 1658, and he received his M.A. at Oxfor... |
b3a5db1f71c997f4375487b71c4b6add | https://www.britannica.com/biography/John-Wilson-Croker | John Wilson Croker | John Wilson Croker
John Wilson Croker, (born Dec. 20, 1780, Galway, Ire.—died Aug. 10, 1857, Hampton, Middlesex, Eng.), British politician and writer noted for his critical severity as a reviewer and for his rigid Tory principles.
After graduating from Trinity College, Dublin, and studying law at Lincoln’s Inn, Londo... |
b386deb951793ecc6f9191b6d5f6c56e | https://www.britannica.com/biography/John-Winthrop-American-mathematician | John Winthrop | John Winthrop
…the American mathematician and astronomer John Winthrop, following his experience of the “Boston” earthquake of 1755, that the ground shaking was due to a disturbance propagated like sound through the air.)
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6d19d7f1623213d944a82554a7ec8674 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/John-Withals | John Withals | John Withals
…appeared the first edition by John Withals of A Short Dictionary for Young Beginners, which gained greater circulation (to judge by the frequency of editions) than any other book of its kind. Many other lexicographers contributed to the development of dictionaries. Certain dictionaries were more ambitious... |
984f93d59d5f5bb21c23c94a21810379 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/John-Wolfe | John Wolfe | John Wolfe
…abortive revolt was led by John Wolfe, who maintained his right to print whatever he pleased. Wolfe was twice imprisoned, but he was finally bought off by admission to the Stationers’ Company. In 1584 to still the discontent, some of the rich patentees surrendered a number of copies to the…
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def137c82ecb6d08790e21746011e7b3 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/John-Woo | John Woo | John Woo
John Woo, Chinese Wu Yusen, (born May 1 or September 23, 1946?, Guangzhou, China), Chinese film director noted for action movies that combine copious stylized violence with lyrical melodramatic depictions of male bonding.
Woo was born in China, though the exact date of his birth is uncertain. In 1950 Woo and ... |
e18a07ec2aa118373b1c50a9145fb536 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/John-Wood-English-potter | John Wood | John Wood
…in partnership with his brother John (1746–97), but in 1787 John started his own pottery at Brownhills; 10 years later he was murdered by a rejected suitor for his daughter’s hand. Ralph Wood III (1781–1801) continued the firm after his father’s death.
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480afac78a286aa88c972d270579369b | https://www.britannica.com/biography/John-Wood-the-Younger | John Wood the Younger | John Wood the Younger
John Wood the Younger , (born Feb. 25, 1728, Bath, Somerset, Eng.—died June 18, 1782, Batheaston, Somerset), British architect whose work at Bath represents the culmination of the Palladian tradition initiated there by his father, John Wood the Elder. Bath is one of the most celebrated achieveme... |
09346fa2a88fb203f14c5e55124bcc13 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/John-Wooden | John Wooden | John Wooden
John Wooden, in full John Robert Wooden, byname Wizard of Westwood, (born October 14, 1910, Hall, Indiana, U.S.—died June 4, 2010, Los Angeles, California), American basketball coach who directed teams of the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) to 10 National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCA... |
ad43d1eab7d607d3ed8dcd5620169548 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/John-Woolman | John Woolman | John Woolman
John Woolman, (born October 19, 1720, Ancocas, New Jersey [U.S.]—died October 7, 1772, York, Yorkshire, England), British-American Quaker leader and abolitionist whose Journal is recognized as one of the classic records of the spiritual inner life.
Until he was 21 Woolman worked for his father, a Quaker ... |
b475ba63733dd46a6e9ded2f29844609 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/John-Wright-American-missionary | John Wright | John Wright
…site was settled (1726) by John Wright, a Quaker missionary to the Native Americans, who bought land and became a ferryman and judge. Known as Wright’s Ferry, the town was laid out in 1788 by Wright’s grandson, Samuel, and was named Columbia shortly thereafter. It was one of the places…
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1d334ff37ae44dba21b0f408cd831f1a | https://www.britannica.com/biography/John-Wright-English-conspirator | John Wright | John Wright
Winter, Thomas Percy, John Wright, and Guy Fawkes—were zealous Roman Catholics angered by James’s refusal to grant more religious toleration to Catholics. They apparently hoped that the confusion that would follow the murder of the king, his ministers, and the members of Parliament would provide an opportun... |
1744de14b58e94fcce51ba7a5ba31d73 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/John-Wyatt | John Wyatt | John Wyatt
John Wyatt, (born April 1700, Thickbroom?, Staffordshire, Eng.—died Nov. 29, 1766, Birmingham, Warwickshire), English mechanic who contributed to the development of power spinning.
Wyatt began his career as a carpenter in the village of Thickbroom, near Lichfield, but by 1730, with financial support from t... |
9121b32e67e3ddf9c88e37e58ff1c02f | https://www.britannica.com/biography/John-Wycliffe/Translation-of-the-Bible | Translation of the Bible | Translation of the Bible
From August 1380 until the summer of 1381, Wycliffe was in his rooms at Queen’s College, busy with his plans for a translation of the Bible and an order of Poor Preachers who would take Bible truth to the people. (His mind was too much shaped by Scholasticism, the medieval system of learning, t... |
80420ceb2baae605ce404049995936fd | https://www.britannica.com/biography/John-X | John X | John X
John X, (born, Tossignano, near Imola, Romagna [Italy]—died 929, Rome), pope from 914 to 928. He was archbishop of Ravenna (c. 905–914) when chosen to succeed Pope Lando about March 914.
John approved the severe rule of the newly founded Benedictine order of Cluny. To drive the Saracens (Muslim enemies) from s... |
396b33a01a010d788142d8f35d0d71bb | https://www.britannica.com/biography/John-XI | John XI | John XI
John XI, (born 910?, Rome [Italy]—died December 935/January 936, Rome), pope from 931 to late 935 or early 936.
He was the son of Marozia (dominant lady of the Roman Crescentii family) perhaps by her reputed lover, Pope Sergius III. John was consecrated in February/March 931. He served his mother’s political... |
266cb2b30081e1c919da23c6818ea2bb | https://www.britannica.com/biography/John-XIII | John XIII | John XIII
John XIII, (born, Rome—died Sept. 6, 972, Rome), pope from 965 to 972.
He was bishop of Narni, Papal States, when chosen pope on Oct. 1, 965, by Emperor Otto I, and as pope he strongly supported Otto’s ecclesiastical and political policies. Although John was a pious and learned man, the Roman nobles opposed... |
01201ab4085502e2430d0700fb59160a | https://www.britannica.com/biography/John-XIX | John XIX | John XIX
John XIX, original name Romano, Latin Romanus, (died November/December 1032), pope from 1024 to 1032.
A member of the Tusculani family that followed the powerful Crescentii as rulers of Rome, he was a layman when he succeeded his brother Pope Benedict VIII in April/May 1024; he was accused of obtaining the of... |
745db0d8c9691a305bd114e3e47af9bc | https://www.britannica.com/biography/John-XV | John XV (or XVI) | John XV (or XVI)
John XV (or XVI), (died March 996, Rome), pope from 985 to 996, who carried out the first solemn canonization in history by papal decree.
His election, August 985, came during one of the darkest periods in papal history, shadowed by the murders of the popes Benedict VI and John XIV by the antipope Bon... |
c6409c1c8fc8e00f5c2470809471436d | https://www.britannica.com/biography/John-XVIII | John XVIII (or XIX) | John XVIII (or XIX)
John XVIII (or XIX), original name Fasano, (born, Rome—died June/July 1009, Rome), pope from 1003 to 1009.
Like his predecessor, Pope John XVII, his election was influenced by the Roman patrician John Crescentius III. More independent of the powerful Italian Crescentii family than John XVII, he eve... |
568674120795a268e418e021d49ad593 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/John-Zoffany | John Zoffany | John Zoffany
John Zoffany, also spelled Johann Zoffani, original name probably Johann Joseph Zauffely, also spelled Zauphaly, (born c. 1733, Frankfurt am Main [Germany]—died Nov. 11, 1810, Strand-on-the-Green, Middlesex, Eng.), German-born portrait painter who in late 18th-century England made his reputation with pa... |
72d4ab2d88be529556e2ff54dc90881e | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Johnny-Depp | Johnny Depp | Johnny Depp
Johnny Depp, in full John Christopher Depp II, (born June 9, 1963, Owensboro, Kentucky, U.S.), American actor and musician who was known for his eclectic and unconventional film choices. He achieved perhaps his greatest success as Capt. Jack Sparrow in the Pirates of the Caribbean series.
At age 16 Depp dr... |
9b05eb528a817c8d5632ae01310fb7b6 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Johnny-Hodges | Johnny Hodges | Johnny Hodges
Johnny Hodges, birth name Cornelius Hodges, bynames Jeep and Rabbit, (born July 25, 1906, Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.—died May 11, 1970, New York, New York), American jazz saxophonist who was a featured soloist in Duke Ellington’s orchestra. Renowned for the beauty of his tone and his mastery of ba... |
809dda505aca61fded57208082e769d9 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Johnny-Marr | Johnny Marr | Johnny Marr
…musicians, including former Smiths guitarist Johnny Marr for several years. Brock, who had once worked as an artists-and-repertoire (A&R) agent for Seattle label Sub Pop Records, founded his own label in 2005, and he devoted much of his energy to signing and promoting emerging artists.
…22, 1959, Mancheste... |
8eb65dd0bfc615f37c7a366781977602 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Johnson-T-U-Aguiyi-Ironsi | Johnson T. U. Aguiyi-Ironsi | Johnson T. U. Aguiyi-Ironsi
…of staff by Major General Johnson Aguiyi-Ironsi, the new leader. Northern officers staged a countercoup in July 1966, and Gowon emerged as the compromise head of the new government.
Johnson Aguiyi-Ironsi, but his plan to abolish the regions and impose a unitary government met with anti-Igbo... |
c103f76d92c9ec3c785bc91c9b4f7510 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Jon-Arason | Jón Arason | Jón Arason
Jón Arason, (born 1484, Eyjafjördur, Ice.—died Nov. 7, 1550, Skálholt), poet and last Roman Catholic bishop in Iceland, remembered as a national as well as a religious hero.
The son of poor parents, he rose quickly to eminence in the church and was consecrated bishop of Hólar, the northern diocese of Icela... |
d5bdd85a99cb183ed14a438bd0ec082f | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Jon-Corzine | Jon Corzine | Jon Corzine
…defeated the Democratic Party incumbent, Jon S. Corzine, by a comfortable margin. Although a Republican candidate in a staunchly Democratic state, Christie connected with a wide spectrum of voters, in part because he projected the image of a regular middle-class man who could be seen as more approachable t... |
f883cc6187ed809f3ff723bc418ab237 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Jon-Gruden | Jon Gruden | Jon Gruden
Jon Gruden, in full Jon David Gruden, (born August 17, 1963, Sandusky, Ohio, U.S.), American gridiron football coach and television broadcaster who led the Tampa Bay Buccaneers to a Super Bowl championship in 2003.
Gruden was raised around football: his father, Jim, was an assistant coach at Indiana Univers... |
3d2112c06ba397c2da5f09319603e69b | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Jon-Hamm | Jon Hamm | Jon Hamm
Jon Hamm, byname of Jonathan Daniel Hamm, (born March 10, 1971, St. Louis, Missouri, U.S.), American actor who was best known for his work as the mercurial and brilliant adman Don Draper on the television series Mad Men (2007–15). He also found success in film, often harnessing his magnetism to soften complic... |
f4bb312a1c315ccbe2bd9c7d1f638643 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Jon-Huntsman-Jr | Jon Huntsman, Jr. | Jon Huntsman, Jr.
Jon Huntsman, Jr., in full Jon Meade Huntsman, Jr., (born March 26, 1960, Palo Alto, California, U.S.), American politician who served as governor of Utah (2005–09) and as U.S. ambassador to China (2009–11) and to Russia (2017–19). He sought the Republican presidential nomination in 2012.
Huntsman wa... |
dbfc75349452b82ee45a22e02221a7c4 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Jon-Kyl | Jon Kyl | Jon Kyl
Jon Kyl, in full Jon Llewellyn Kyl, (born April 25, 1942, Oakland, Nebraska, U.S.), American politician who served as a Republican congressman from Arizona in the U.S. House of Representatives (1987–95) and in the U.S. Senate (1995–2013; 2018). He was Senate minority whip from 2007 to 2013.
Kyl earned bachelor... |
797cabc7531edf670b9b128144de3371 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Jon-Landau-American-record-producer-and-manager | Jon Landau | Jon Landau
…more albums followed, including the Jon Landau-produced Back in the U.S.A. (1970), before the band broke up in 1972. Louder and brasher than the other political bands of their era, the MC5 were extremely influential despite their limited popularity, and their sound can be heard in heavy metal, punk rock,…
…... |
18602fada190083a1b1fe1743f02bf5b | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Jon-Sigurdsson | Jón Sigurdsson | Jón Sigurdsson
Jón Sigurdsson, (born June 17, 1811, western Iceland—died Dec. 7, 1879, Copenhagen, Den.), Icelandic scholar and statesman who collected and edited many Old Norse sagas and documents. He was also the leader of the 19th-century struggle for Icelandic self-government under Denmark.
Sigurdsson was educate... |
75e02e2f218746e950d5fee0fd5fc34b | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Jonah-biblical-figure | Jonah | Jonah
…north over its neighbour, and Jonah’s prophecy that Jeroboam would extend Israel’s borders from the Dead Sea to the entrance to Hamath (Syria) was borne out. The well-to-do expressed their relief in lavish attentions to the institutions of worship and to their private mansions. But the strain of the prolonged…
T... |
eda0a1c2b063cd5d80b333c44734eb91 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Jonas-Aistis | Jonas Aistis | Jonas Aistis
Jonas Aistis, also called Jonas Kossu-aleksandravičius, or Jonas Kuosa-aleksandriškis, pseudonym of Jonas Aleksandravičius, (born July 7, 1904, Kampiškės, near Kaunas, Lithuania, Russian Empire—died June 13, 1973, Washington, D.C., U.S.), poet whose lyrics are considered among the best in Lithuanian liter... |
daf1b1fdc545d936732394811701f68a | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Jonas-Furrer | Jonas Furrer | Jonas Furrer
Jonas Furrer, (born March 3, 1805, Winterthur, Switz.—died July 25, 1861, Bad Ragaz), Swiss statesman, president of the Swiss Confederation four times.
A doctor of jurisprudence and lawyer of national renown, Furrer became, after 1839, leader of the Zürich liberals but only reluctantly aspired to politic... |
37728fa294961720dd3e86e64e11dec9 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Jonathan-Boucher | Jonathan Boucher | Jonathan Boucher
Jonathan Boucher, (born March 12, 1738, Cumberland [now Cumbria], England—died April 27, 1804, Epsom, Surrey), English clergyman who won fame as a loyalist in America.
In 1759 Boucher went to Virginia as a private tutor. After a visit to London in 1762 for his ordination, he became rector of Annapolis... |
7c193e476925d64619df6d397ee67319 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Jonathan-Dickinson | Jonathan Dickinson | Jonathan Dickinson
Jonathan Dickinson, (born April 22, 1688, Hatfield, Mass., U.S.—died Oct. 7, 1747, Elizabethtown, N.J.), prominent Presbyterian clergyman of the American colonial period and the first president of Princeton University.
Joining the newly founded Presbyterian body in the Middle Colonies in 1717, he s... |
6ba4cd0d655c490a1dba00325f4852ad | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Jonathan-Eybeschutz | Jonathan Eybeschütz | Jonathan Eybeschütz
Jonathan Eybeschütz, (born c. 1690, Kraków, Pol.—died 1764, Altona, Den.), rabbi and religious scholar noted for his bitter quarrel with Rabbi Jacob Emden, a dispute that split European Jewry and ended the effectiveness of rabbinic excommunication during Eybeschütz’s time.
As a rabbi in a number o... |
43b8fdad1d16996bb77c4f32b622a1fa | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Jonathan-Hickman | Jonathan Hickman | Jonathan Hickman
…Michael Bendis (Daredevil, The Avengers), Jonathan Hickman (Fantastic Four), and Ed Brubaker (Captain America), became well known for their mature and sometimes controversial takes on Marvel’s characters. The 2010s saw the emergence of another new wave of talent, with writer Matt Fraction and artist D... |
d352191d6205f01475df7e048f1151ab | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Jonathan-Ive | Jony Ive | Jony Ive
Jony Ive, in full Sir Jonathan Paul Ive, (born February 1967, London, England), British industrial designer who, while holding various posts at Apple Inc. (1992–2019), made design as integral to the appeal of a personal computer as its power and speed.
Ive studied art and design at Newcastle Polytechnic (now ... |
520c58ff596bbbfc168905bcb69d9785 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Jonathan-Odell | Jonathan Odell | Jonathan Odell
Jonathan Odell, (born Sept. 25, 1737, Newark, N.J., U.S.—died Nov. 25, 1818, Fredericton, N.B., Can.), Canadian writer whose works are among the few extant expressions of American Tory sentiment during the Revolutionary War.
Educated in New Jersey, he was a surgeon in the British army, resigning to bec... |
5b1c6687dca0f495dbe18a8f18d0141a | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Joni-Ernst | Joni Ernst | Joni Ernst
Joni Ernst, née Joni Kay Culver, (born July 1, 1970, Red Oak, Iowa, U.S.), American politician who was elected as a Republican to the U.S. Senate in 2014 and began her first term representing Iowa the following year. She was the first female combat veteran to serve in the Senate and the first woman to repre... |
ac9887b996fb1c3d29ab3e989f7d1e31 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Jons-Jacob-Berzelius/Atomism-and-nomenclature | Atomism and nomenclature | Atomism and nomenclature
The project of specifying substances had several important consequences. In order to establish and display the laws of stoichiometry, Berzelius invented and perfected more exacting standards and techniques of analysis. His generalization of the older acid/base chemistry led him to extend chemic... |
88f8153b5f648e3a967cf99101ac18ba | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Jons-Jacob-Berzelius/Organic-chemistry | Organic chemistry | Organic chemistry
Organic chemistry also posed problems in the discrimination between substances. Berzelius originally devoted his career to physiological chemistry, a field based upon the application of chemistry and physiology to substances derived from animals and plants. To that end, he mastered traditional extract... |
c657f05ca31cfe49eceb62d0e2b06e63 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Jordan-Spieth | Jordan Spieth | Jordan Spieth
Jordan Spieth, (born July 27, 1993, Dallas, Texas, U.S.), American professional golfer who, at age 21, won the 2015 Masters Tournament and the U.S. Open, two of golf’s most-prestigious events. He captured a third major title when he won the 2017 British Open.
Spieth began hitting a golf ball at age four ... |
9793254f120361ade178a9159b49e96a | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Jordi-Pujol-i-Soley | Jordí Pujol i Soley | Jordí Pujol i Soley
…and ’90s, the CiU and Jordí Pujol i Soley, the president of Catalonia from 1980 to 2003, supported the national government led by the Spanish Socialist Workers’ Party (PSOE), which in return agreed to generous tax transfers to the Catalonian government. However, in 1994, demanding that greater auto... |
36c0b511f79b9e95f9af25ef1aa0c637 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Jorg-Haider | Jörg Haider | Jörg Haider
Jörg Haider, (born Jan. 26, 1950, Bad Goisern, Austria—died Oct. 11, 2008, near Klagenfurt), controversial Austrian politician who served as leader of the far-right Freedom Party of Austria (1986–2000) and Alliance for the Future of Austria (2005–08) and as governor of the Bundesland (federal state) of Kär... |
a7094e8fbd6d0ada18a16e5560eae61f | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Jorge-Alessandri-Rodriguez | Jorge Alessandri Rodríguez | Jorge Alessandri Rodríguez
Ibáñez was succeeded (1958–64) by the son of Arturo Alessandri Palma, Jorge Alessandri Rodríguez, who won the support of the Conservative and Liberal parties. To satisfy popular demands without altering profoundly the structures of the country, he launched a public works program…
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7ed61003409dca5c57cdcd45590098e5 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Jorge-Barbosa | Jorge Barbosa | Jorge Barbosa
Jorge Barbosa, (born May 25, 1902, Praia, Santiago, Cape Verde Islands—died January 6, 1971, Cova da Piedade), African poet who expressed in Portuguese the cultural isolation and the tragic nature of life on the drought-stricken Cape Verdean islands. In delicately phrased verse that became a model for la... |
99a85900c84e884baa97ed10a83e744f | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Jorge-de-Lima | Jorge de Lima | Jorge de Lima
Jorge de Lima, (born April 23, 1895, União dos Palmares, Braz.—died Nov. 15, 1953, Rio de Janeiro), Brazilian poet and novelist who became one of the foremost representatives of regionalist poetry in Brazil in the 1920s.
Raised on a sugar plantation in northeastern Brazil, Lima practiced as a medical do... |
ba17093de2889bdfc582e03c9b61d8e2 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Jorge-Eliecer-Gaitan | Jorge Eliécer Gaitán | Jorge Eliécer Gaitán
Jorge Eliécer Gaitán, (born Jan. 26, 1902, Bogotá—died April 9, 1948, Bogotá), political leader who was considered a champion of the Colombian people and was revered as a martyr after his assassination.
Gaitán studied law at the National University of Colombia, Bogotá, and continued his studies i... |
119e5de7c36cff443e0f5786482e64b7 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Jose-Americo-de-Almeida | José Américo de Almeida | José Américo de Almeida
José Américo de Almeida, (born Jan. 10, 1887, Paraíba, Brazil—died March 10, 1980, Rio de Janeiro), novelist whose works marked the beginning of a major Brazilian generation of northeastern regional writers. Their fiction presents a largely socioeconomic interpretation of life in Brazil’s most... |
4e9e526d4a9582a8d92476453d524ed7 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Jose-Angel-Valente | José Ángel Valente | José Ángel Valente
José Ángel Valente, (born April 25, 1929, Orense, Galicia, Spain—died July 18, 2000, Geneva, Switz.), Spanish lyric poet and essayist who published translations and criticism in addition to more than 20 books of his own verse. The themes of his often philosophical poems are exile, death, and poverty... |
cde91eda10131e7af99cf519befe00ac | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Jose-Bento-Monteiro-Lobato | José Bento Monteiro Lobato | José Bento Monteiro Lobato
José Bento Monteiro Lobato, (born April 18, 1882, Taubaté, Brazil—died July 4, 1948, São Paulo), writer and publisher, forerunner of the Modernist movement in Brazilian literature.
Originally a lawyer and coffee planter in the interior of São Paulo state, Monteiro Lobato wrote an unpretentio... |
05ecc35bec37c172654dc358458a6448 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Jose-Calvo-Sotelo | José Calvo Sotelo | José Calvo Sotelo
…eclipsed there by the monarchist José Calvo Sotelo. He was an intended victim of the plot responsible for Calvo Sotelo’s murder (July 1936). Soon after the outbreak of the civil war, he went to Lisbon to set up a mission with Nicolás Franco for the purchase of arms for the…
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f817ff871b718ea3136f495cc9c46677 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Jose-Craveirinha | José Craveirinha | José Craveirinha
José Craveirinha, pseudonym of José G. Vetrinha, (born May 28, 1922, Lourenço Marques, Portuguese East Africa [now Maputo, Mozambique]—died February 6, 2003, South Africa), Mozambican journalist, story writer, and poet.
Craveirinha was the son of a Portuguese father and a black Mozambican mother. He w... |
2018d672baa3cf2afd50630b8c422377 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Jose-de-Acosta | José de Acosta | José de Acosta
José de Acosta, (born 1539, Medina del Campo, Spain—died February 15, 1600, Salamanca), Jesuit theologian and missionary to the New World known chiefly for his Historia natural y moral de las Indias (1590; Natural and Moral History of the Indies), the earliest survey of the New World and its relation to... |
d91ebe26c3040727dcabb7fc7608a06b | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Jose-de-Cadalso-y-Vazquez | José de Cadalso y Vázquez | José de Cadalso y Vázquez
José de Cadalso y Vázquez, Cadalso also spelled Cadahlso, (born Oct. 8, 1741, Cádiz, Spain—died Feb. 27, 1782, Gibraltar), Spanish writer famous for his Cartas marruecas (1793; “Moroccan Letters”), in which a Moorish traveler in Spain makes penetrating criticisms of Spanish life. Educated i... |
e719adc9ffc14480569cf2a835013e1e | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Jose-Emilio-Pacheco | José Emilio Pacheco | José Emilio Pacheco
José Emilio Pacheco, (born June 30, 1939, Mexico City, Mexico—died January 26, 2014, Mexico City), Mexican critic, novelist, short-story writer, translator, and poet. Early in his career he created verse that used surrealist and symbolic imagery to address such hot-topic issues as pollution, povert... |
ca7534dde92e2cc93e0a01f02415d1a2 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Jose-Guadalupe-Posada | José Guadalupe Posada | José Guadalupe Posada
José Guadalupe Posada, (born Feb. 2, 1851, Aguascalientes, Mex.—died Jan. 20, 1913, Mexico City), printmaker whose works, often expressionistic in content and style, were influential in the development of 20th-century graphic art.
As a child, Posada worked as a farm labourer and in a pottery fact... |
1b4c7e4873dd97778dba955619af9099 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Jose-Iturbi | José Iturbi | José Iturbi
José Iturbi, (born November 28, 1895, Valencia, Spain—died June 28, 1980, Hollywood, California, U.S.), Spanish-born pianist, conductor, and actor, known for his hectic concert schedule and for his roles (usually as himself) in several musical motion pictures.
Iturbi was a child prodigy at the piano. He be... |
029a61b7bfb31471d25ec156c93247c5 | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Jose-Lopez-Portillo | José López Portillo | José López Portillo
José López Portillo, in full José López Portillo y Pacheco, (born June 16, 1920, Mexico City, Mexico—died February 17, 2004, Mexico City), Mexican lawyer, economist, and writer, who was president of Mexico from 1976 to 1982.
López Portillo attended the National Autonomous University of Mexico and t... |
975f95ed21c76276f29545bfab62492f | https://www.britannica.com/biography/Jose-Maria-Cordoba | José María Córdoba | José María Córdoba
…one of Bolívar’s most-honoured generals, José María Córdoba, staged a revolt. It was crushed, but Bolívar was disheartened by the continued ingratitude of his former adherents. In the fall of 1829 Venezuela seceded from Gran Colombia.
…led by the daring Colombian José María Córdoba, and in a short t... |
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