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David Mirkin
David Mirkin (born September 18, 1955) is an American feature film and television director, writer and producer. Mirkin grew up in Philadelphia and intended to become an electrical engineer, but abandoned this career path in favor of studying film at Loyola Marymount University. After graduating, he became a stand-up comedian, and then moved into television writing. He wrote for the sitcoms "Three's Company", "It's Garry Shandling's Show" and "The Larry Sanders Show" and served as showrunner on the series "Newhart". After an unsuccessful attempt to remake the British series "The Young Ones", Mirkin created "Get a Life" in 1990. The series starred comedian Chris Elliott and ran for two seasons, despite a lack of support from many Fox network executives, who disliked the show's dark and surreal humor. He moved on to create the sketch show "The Edge" starring his then-partner, actress Julie Brown.
David Dobkin (director)
David Dobkin (born June 23, 1969) is an American film director, producer and former screenwriter. He is best known for directing the films "Clay Pigeons", "Shanghai Knights", "Wedding Crashers", and "The Judge".
David M. Maurice
David Myer Maurice (3 April 1922 in London – 20 July 2002 in Manhattan) was a British ophthalmologist, noted for his contributions to the development of the specular microscope used for examination of the cornea.
David Mirkin
Mirkin wanted to produce a surreal, "Monty Python"-esque, single-camera comedy series. He had a development deal with "Newhart"s producers MTM Enterprises and persuaded them to buy the rights to produce a pilot for an American adaptation of the British sitcom "The Young Ones". The pilot was entitled "Oh No, Not Them!", and featured Nigel Planer from the original series, as well as Jackie Earle Haley and Robert Bundy. Mirkin had wanted to cast comedian Chris Elliott in the pilot, but was prevented by Fox, which wanted Elliott for another show. "Oh No, Not Them!", in Mirkin's words, "tested through the floor" because it was too "surreal" and "sarcastic" and was not picked up. Mirkin and Elliott decided to develop a show together, along with Adam Resnick. In 1990, they created the sitcom "Get a Life", which was conceived as a dark, surreal, psychotic version of the cartoon "Dennis the Menace". The show stars Elliott as Chris Peterson, a 30-year-old newspaper delivery boy who still lives with his parents, and who is increasingly losing his grip on reality. Fox was lukewarm about the idea, but Mirkin convinced them to order a pilot by understating how dark the show would be. The network executives disliked the pilot after seeing an initial run-through, but Mirkin felt that this was because they "didn't get" the show and opted not to change it. The executives enjoyed the finished pilot and it was aired. However, throughout the show's run, the network's initially negative attitude prevailed. According to Mirkin, many of the executives struggled to understand it and objected to the darkness and surrealism of the show's humor, which included the frequent death of Elliott's character, and regularly threatened to shut down production. After its first season, on the insistence of the network, Chris moves out of his parents' garage, attempts to get additional jobs to his paper route, and attempts to get a girlfriend. However, Mirkin and Elliott refused to "[compromise on] the essential goofiness of the show".
David P. Levin
David P. Levin (born August 5, 1958) is an American producer, director, writer and editor. In the early days of MTV, he produced Rockumentaries on Madonna and Michael Jackson, and later went on to help create and develop the "Uncensored" brand for MTV. Later on he created, produced and directed TV Land Confidential for TV Land, and recently produced and directed "When Pop Culture Saved America", Which "Entertainment Weekly" cited as one of the 10 specials to watch on the tenth anniversary of the 9/11 Terrorist Attacks. He is the founder of BrainStorm Inc., a video production company with a focus on television projects.
David Mirkin
Ortved—using interviews with writers Bob Kushell and Brent Forrester and Mirkin's assistant Charleen Easton—describes Mirkin as an "outsider" on the show, with the writing staff, at least initially, divided with respect to Mirkin's comedy and leadership style. Forrester described the latter as "a little bit dictatorial". Mirkin conducted the show's writing sessions in one room, rather than splitting the writers into two groups, as later showrunners would do, and often worked late into the night. Some praised Mirkin's leadership, including Appel, who felt that "the shows were great under him." Others criticised him, including Kushell, who clashed with Mirkin over the episode "A Star is Burns", a crossover with "The Critic". In 2004, Mirkin stated that he "really wasn't at all intimidat[ed] to join [the show's writing] crew", because he "had worked with and written with" many of his fellow writers previously and concluded that, "[I took] this show in a direction that is more personal to me. I did that, had a great time doing that, and everyone was very receptive to that." Mirkin's era and style of humor are popular amongst the show's fans.
David Wright (British musician)
David Wright (born 24 October 1953 in Kent, UK), is the keyboard player and composer who founded the new-age music label AD Music in 1989. He is also co-founder of the New Age electronic rock band Code Indigo and of the new-age music duo Callisto.
David Nalin
David R. Nalin (born April 21, 1941) is an American physiologist, and Pollin Prize for Pediatric Research and Prince Mahidol Award, a.k.a. Mahidol Medal winner. Nalin had the key insight that oral rehydration therapy (ORT) would work if the volume of solution patients drank matched the volume of their fluid losses, and that this would drastically reduce or completely replace the only current treatment for cholera, intravenous therapy. Nalin led the trials that first demonstrated ORT works, both in cholera patients, and more significantly, also in other dehydrating diarrhea illnesses. Nalin's discoveries have been estimated to have saved over 50 million lives worldwide.
David Dubinsky
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Arcane Device
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Dave Atkins (actor)
David James "Dave" Atkins (11 October 1940 – 23 April 2008) was an English actor mostly known for portraying Sharkey in "Britannia Hospital", Moving Man No.1 in Clive Barker's "Hellraiser" in 1987, and pub landlord Les in "Men Behaving Badly".
Mohammad Daud Miraki
Daud Miraki was born on January 23, 1967 in Kabul, Afghanistan. He belongs to the Sulaimankhail tribe of Maidan Wardak province. Daud Miraki was only 5 years old when his father, General Ghulam Sediq Miraki, was appointed the Intelligence Chief of south and south-western Afghanistan, stationed in Kandahar. He along with his family moved back to Kabul, where they stayed for few years. Escaping the soviet occupation in 1982, Daud and his family took refugee in Peshawar, Pakistan. Afterward he moved to Germany in 1983 where he stayed for a year. In 1984, Daud along with his family moved to Chicago, United States.
David Mirkin
Mirkin was the executive producer and showrunner for the animated sitcom "The Simpsons", during its fifth and sixth seasons (1993–1995). Following the end of the show's fourth season, most of the original staff members left the show; only Bill Oakley, Josh Weinstein, Conan O'Brien and Dan McGrath remained, and O'Brien soon left to replace David Letterman as host of "Late Night". Executive producers James L. Brooks and Richard Sakai hired Mirkin following his exit from "The Edge". He had been asked to join the show's writing team when it started in 1989, but decided instead to work on "Get a Life". He was a fan of "The Simpsons" before being hired for the show, and started work in . Due to the show's long production cycle, season five did not air until the following September. Mirkin was the program's first solo showrunner. Due to the high staff departure at the end of season four, Mirkin "pretty much had to build [the] show from the ground up again", and noted that this "was exciting but also a big challenge". He hired several new writers, including Richard Appel, David X. Cohen, Jennifer Crittenden, Greg Daniels, Bob Kushell, Jace Richdale and Mike Scully.
David Dallin
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David Thulin
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David Birkin
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David Minkin
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David A. Shirley
David Arthur Shirley (born March 30, 1934) is an American chemist, best known as the fourth director of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory from 1980 to 1989, and for spearheading the funding and creation of the Advanced Light Source.
Morris Mirkin
Mirkin was born to a Jewish family in Sioux City, Iowa, the son of immigrants from Russia. Mirkin served in the U.S. Air Force during World War II. In 1958, he opened the first Budget Rent-a-Car office at Wilshire and Robertson boulevards in Los Angeles. In 1960, he was joined by Jules Lederer and they incorporated the company as Budget Rent-a-Car Corporation. In 1968, they sold Budget to Transamerica Corporation.
David Weinstein (musician)
David Weinstein (born 1954 in Chicago) is an American musician and composer. He has been cited as avant garde and postmodern by "The New York Times". He has performed his compositions in musical groups such as Impossible Music (with Nicolas Collins), and in collaboration with visual artists.
David Miln Smith
David Miln Smith (born October 17, 1938) is a speaker and adventure athlete. He was the first man to swim from Africa to Europe across the Strait of Gibraltar, which he did twice, first in 1966, and again in 1967. He made a name for himself in the 1960s and 1970s with a series of extreme and international multi-sports events, such as "Everyman's Olympics" and the "Peace Pentathlon." The latter got him on the cover of "Sports Illustrated" in 1970, where he was dubbed "Super Hippie." Throughout the next few decades, he wrote books on yoga and health, and was the recurrent guest adventurer on television shows such as Johnny Carson's "Tonight Show." Johnny Carson said, “He travels around the world doing all the things you want to do.” The Today Show called him "the King of the Risk Takers".
David Rudkin
James David Rudkin (born 29 June 1936) is an English playwright of Northern Irish descent.
David Arkin (American football)
David Arkin (born October 7, 1987) is an American football offensive guard who is currently a free agent. He played college football at Missouri State University. He has been a member of the Dallas Cowboys, Miami Dolphins, Seattle Seahawks, Indianapolis Colts and Los Angeles Rams.
Voja Mirić
Vojislav "Voja" Mirić (; born 7 April 1933) is a Serbian television and film actor most noted for his role as Ahmed Nurudin in the 1974 Yugoslav movie "Dervis i smrt" (literally "Dervish and Death" but more popularly known as "Death and the Dervish").
Dave Mirra
David Michael Mirra (April 4, 1974 – February 4, 2016) was an American BMX rider who later competed in rallycross racing. Mirra held the record for most X Games medals in BMX Freestyle, and medalled in every X Games from when they started in 1995 up to 2009. As a BMX rider, he was known primarily as a vert ramp and park rider. He had also competed for several years with the Subaru Rally Team USA as a rallycross driver. He rode and was sponsored by Haro Bikes from the mid 1990s until starting his own bike company. Mirra was a member of the team which won the 2014 Race Across America four-person male (under 50) category. Mirra committed suicide on February 4, 2016. He was inducted into the BMX Hall of Fame on June 11, 2016.
David Mirkin
Mirkin was attached to direct "Sports Widow" in 2004, a comedy starring Reese Witherspoon as a disregarded housewife who seeks to become an expert in American football in order to regain her husband's attention; the project has never been completed. Mirkin is a fan of the musician James Taylor; Taylor guest starred in "Deep Space Homer" and Mirkin directed the music videos for his songs "Enough to Be on Your Way" and "Sea Cruise". , Mirkin will write, direct and co-produce a biopic of businessman Richard Branson, based on his memoir "Losing My Virginity".
Chad Mirkin
Mirkin was born November 23, 1963, in Phoenix, Arizona. He received his B.S. degree from Dickinson College in 1986 and his PhD from Penn State University in 1989. He was an NSF postdoctoral research fellow at Massachusetts Institute of Technology where he worked with Professor Mark S. Wrighton on microelectrode devices for electrocatalysis. He became a professor at Northwestern University in 1991.
David Cryer
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David Stirling
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David Phiri
David Phiri, or 'DARP', as he was affectionately known, was born in Zimbabwe, on 22 May 1937, to Abel Masewera Phiri and Elizabeth Sibanda. Abel Masewera Phiri had decided to leave Kapela village near Chadiza, Northern Rhodesia, in what is now known as the Eastern Province of Zambia, to find work in the mines of Northern Rhodesia. Abel Masewera Phiri had the firm belief that the traditional village life of the African was going to end and turned down a Chewa chiefdom to enter the 'new world'. He left Kapela village on foot with two companions and headed South eventually ending up in a mine town called Kwekwe, where he found work at the Globe and Phoenix Mine. Abel Phiri married a local of the Shona people, Elizabeth Sibanda, and David was born in the Globe and Phoenix mine compound, the only child of this marriage.
David Moritz Michael
David Moritz Michael (October 21, 1751 – February 26, 1827) was a composer. 
David Moritz Michael was born in Kühmhausen in 1751 and was educated in Germany. He became a member of the Moravian Church when he was thirty years old. He taught in the Moravian school at Niesky and, in 1795, he emigrated to Pennsylvania. Moritz Michael's official church position was as a worker with the young men of the Moravian congregations in Nazareth and Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, and his contributions to the musical life of the Moravian settlements in Pennsylvania was great. While in Bethlehem, Michael led the Bethlehem "collegium musicum". He most notably conducted a performance of Haydn's "Creation" that some scholars believe may have been the first performance of the work in America. In addition to his wind ensemble works—the most famous of which, "Die Wasserfahrt (The Water Journey)", is currently available in a number of recordings—and fourteen "Parthien", he wrote a number of anthems and arias for church services. Moritz Michael returned to Germany in 1815 and died in Neuwied, Germany, on February 26, 1827.
David J. Darling
David Darling (born 29 July 1953 in Glossop, Derbyshire) is an English astronomer, freelance science writer, and musician. Darling has published numerous popular science works, including "Life Everywhere: The Maverick Science of Astrobiology" in 2001 and "The Universal Book of Mathematics" in 2004. He maintains the online "Internet Encyclopedia of Science".
David Mirkin
Mirkin served as executive producer for the series, directed most of the episodes, wrote several of them, and oversaw the filming and production of them all, to ensure that they had the correct "tone". The show's production process was lengthy; Mirkin would rise at to film the show, write further episodes from until , and then repeat that the following day. Unlike most single-camera shows, which have around six days to film, Mirkin had to film each episode in two days. He enjoyed doing it, but described it as "not a healthy way to live". Due to the logistics of filming the show, especially its many sets and effects, Mirkin convinced Fox to not film it in front of a studio audience and use a laugh track instead. The show achieved steady ratings in its first season, finishing 92nd out of the listed in the Nielsen ratings. However, for its second season, it was moved from on Sunday to on Saturday and lost the bulk of its audience; it was canceled after that second season finished in 1992. In a 1999 piece about the show's DVD release, Tom Shales praised the show, concluding, "At its best, "Get a Life" achieved dizzying heights of surrealist farce. At its worst, it was at least amusingly idiotic existential slapstick. "Get a Life" is a television classic unlike any other. For one thing, most of the others are better. We're not talking "Playhouse 90" here, after all. But we are talking riotous nonsense, and that's not to be sneezed at. It's to be laughed at. Hard." A strong cult following subsequently developed, and Mirkin noted that although the show was canceled "ultimately we got the audience I was hoping for and they are super dedicated and passionate to this day."
David Mirkin
Mirkin started out as a stand-up comedian in 1982 and performed across the United States, including at The Comedy Store, where he became a regular, and at The Improv. The first joke he used in his routine was, "Is it just me or has everybody been coughing up blood lately?" Mirkin considers the joke to be "an insight into the way [he writes]". Stand-up comedy was the most profitable and easily accessible route Mirkin found into the comedy industry, but "it wasn't a lifestyle that [he] particularly coveted," especially due to the traveling required.
David Foster
David Walter Foster, OC, OBC (born November 1, 1949), is a Canadian musician, record producer, composer, songwriter, and arranger. He has been a producer for musicians including Chaka Khan, Alice Cooper, Christina Aguilera, Andrea Bocelli, Toni Braxton, Michael Bublé, Chicago, Natalie Cole, Celine Dion, Kenny G, Josh Groban, Brandy Norwood, Whitney Houston, Jennifer Lopez, Kenny Rogers, Seal, Rod Stewart, Jake Zyrus, Donna Summer, Olivia Newton-John, Madonna, Mary J. Blige, Michael Jackson, Peter Cetera, Cheryl Lynn and Barbra Streisand. Foster has won 16 Grammy Awards from 47 nominations. He was the chairman of Verve Records from 2012 to 2016.
David Wark
David Wark, (February 19, 1804 – August 20, 1905) Irish-born, was a prominent Canadian Senator who served nearly 38 years in office.
David Manners
David Joseph Manners (born Rauff de Ryther Duan Acklom, April 30, 1900 – December 23, 1998) was a Canadian-American actor who played John Harker in Todd Browning's 1931 horror classic "Dracula", which starred Bela Lugosi in the title role. The following year, Manners portrayed the archaeologist Frank Whemple in "The Mummy", another pre-Code thriller by Universal Pictures.
David Rabin
David Rabin (January 25, 1934 - October 26, 1984) was an endocrinology professor at Vanderbilt University where he researched the possibility of a male contraceptive. Born in Zastron, South Africa as the youngest of four children he was diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (Lou Gehrig's disease) in 1979. Despite his ailments he was able to continue his research with the aid of a computer
David Itkin
David Chester Itkin (born May 2, 1957) is an American conductor and composer. He served as music director and conductor of the Arkansas Symphony Orchestra from 1993 to 2010, and currently holds the title of conductor laureate of that orchestra. He is music director and conductor of the Abilene Philharmonic Orchestra and professor of music and director of orchestral studies at the University of North Texas College of Music. University of North Texas Symphony Orchestra.
David Ahern
David Ahern was born on 2 November 1947 in Sydney. As a young boy, he learned how to play the violin and taught himself composition and piano. At the age of 15 he decided that he undoubtedly wanted to become a composer, and within a year he had already composed over 50 pieces. Then he began studying with Nigel Butterley and, later,Richard Meale. Ahern approached Butterley for lessons, and they had a couple of sessions together before he began working under the direction of Meale.
Boris Mirkin-Getzevich
Boris Sergeyevich Mirkin-Getzevich (; January 1, 1892 – April 1, 1955), also known by his pen name, Boris Mirsky, was a Russian jurist. He had been a director of the Paris Institute of Comparative Law and a professor at the Institute of Higher International Studies.
David Millin
David Millin (11 June 1920 - 26 May 1999) was a South African film director, cinematographer and film producer. He has produced various Afrikaans and English films about his career. He has been a member of the American Society of Cinematographers since 1972, the first member of Africa belonging to the organization. In 1994 he was honored by M-Net for his lifetime contribution to the industry and in 1997 he was also honored by SASC / Kodak for his contribution. He was famous for his spectacular depictions, large (but precise) war scenes and his dry sense of humor.
David Scott Milton
David Scott Milton (born September 15, 1934) is an American author, playwright, screenwriter, and actor. His plays are known for their theatricality, wild humor, and poetic realism, while his novels and films are darker and more naturalistic. As a novelist, he has been compared to Graham Greene, John Steinbeck, and Nelson Algren. Ben Gazzara’s performance in Milton’s play, "Duet", received a Tony nomination. Another play, "Skin", won the Neil Simon Playwrights Award. His theater piece, "Murderers Are My Life", was nominated as best one-man show by the Valley Theater League of Los Angeles. His second novel, "Paradise Road", was given the "Mark Twain Journal" award "for significant contribution to American literature."
David Dinkins
David Norman Dinkins (born July 10, 1927) is an American politician, lawyer, and author who served as the 106th Mayor of New York City, from 1990 to 1993. He was the first and, to date, the only African American to hold that office.
Aleksandr Misharin (screenwriter)
Aleksandr Nikolaevich Misharin () also known in English as Alexander Misharin (born 6 April 1939 — died 13 April 2008) was a Soviet - Russian screenwriter, playwright, novelist, actor and senior editor of Russian periodicals. An Honored Artist of the Russian Federation (2000), he was a close friend of Andrei Tarkovsky with whom he wrote several screenplays, including Tarkovsky's celebrated masterpiece "Mirror".
David Nelson (Presbyterian)
David Nelson (September 24, 1793 - October 17, 1844) was a Tennessee-native and former War of 1812 medical surgeon, Presbyterian minister, and anti-slavery advocate who was the first president of Marion College, the first institution of higher learning chartered by the state of Missouri. Two other co-founders of this school included William Muldrow and Dr. David Clark.
David Malin
David Frederick Malin (born 28 March 1941) is a British-Australian astronomer and photographer. He is principally known for his spectacular colour images of astronomical objects. A galaxy is named after him, Malin 1, which he discovered in 1986 and which is the largest spiral galaxy so far discovered.
Timeline of magic
1956 - David Copperfield is born on September 16, as David Seth Kotkin.
David Rubin (author)
David George Rubin (March 27, 1924 - February 2, 2008) was an American novelist and translator. He is most well known for his translations of the Indian novelist and essayist Munshi Premchand and the Indian poet and novelist Suryakant Tripathi 'Nirala'.
Ed Mirvish
Mirvish lost his father at the age of 15. He dropped out of school to manage the store, becoming the sole support of his mother, his younger brother, Robert (who became a successful novelist and short-story writer) and sister, Lorraine. The grocery business did not do well, and Mirvish closed shop to reopen as a dry-cleaner, in partnership with his childhood friend, Yale Simpson. The shop was known as "Simpson's". When the well-known downtown Toronto department store "Simpson's" attempted to force him to change the name of his business, Mirvish pointed to Simpson and said, "Here's my Mr. Simpson. Where's yours?" The dry-cleaning business did no better than the grocery, however, and Mirvish soon abandoned it to take a regular job working as a produce manager and buyer for Toronto grocery store entrepreneur Leon Weinstein. Now financially stable, Mirvish bought a Ford Model T and began to court a radio singer from Hamilton, Ontario, Anne Macklin, whom he married in 1941. In 1945, their son, David, was born.
David Soren (animator)
David Soren (born April 19, 1973) is a Canadian director, writer, voice actor, and storyboard artist at DreamWorks Animation. His most notable work are TV specials based on the "Madagascar" film franchise, "Merry Madagascar", and "Madly Madagascar". He directed the 2013 animated feature film "Turbo", which is based on his own original concept, as well as the 2017 animated film "" based on Dav Pilkey's "Captain Underpants" book series.
David Warbeck
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David Chackler
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Zinaida Mirkina
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Micko Larkin
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David Garrick (singer)
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David Fromkin
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David Sorkin
David Sorkin is the Lucy G. Moses professor of Jewish history at Yale University. Sorkin specializes in the intersection of Jewish and European history. and has published several prominent books.
David Moscow
David Raphael Moscow (born November 14, 1974) is an American film and stage actor, writer, director, producer and activist. He is best known for his role as the young Josh Baskin in the 1988 film "Big."
David Wilkinson (ambiguity expert)
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David Arkin
He was born David George Arkin in Los Angeles, California.
David Miller (American musician)
David Miller (March 17, 1883, Ohio River, OhioNovember 1, 1953) was an American country musician. He is one of the earliest musicians to be associated with country music recording.
Chad Mirkin
Chad Alexander Mirkin (born November 23, 1963) is an American chemist. He is the George B. Rathmann professor of chemistry, professor of medicine, professor of materials science and engineering, professor of biomedical engineering, and professor of chemical and biological engineering, and director of the International Institute for Nanotechnology and Center for Nanofabrication and Molecular Self-Assembly at Northwestern University.
Leon Mirsky
Mirsky was born in Russia on 19 December 1918 to a medical family, but his parents sent him to live with his aunt and uncle, a wool merchant in Germany, when he was eight. His uncle's family moved to Bradford, England in 1933, bringing Mirsky with them. He studied at Herne Bay High School and King's College, London, graduating in 1940. Because of the evacuation of London during the Blitz, students at King's College were moved to Bristol University, where Mirsky earned a master's degree. He took a short-term faculty position at Sheffield University in 1942, and then a similar position in Manchester; he returned to Sheffield in 1945, where (except for a term as visiting faculty at Bristol) he would stay for the rest of his career. He became a lecturer in 1947, earned a Ph.D. from Sheffield in 1949, became senior lecturer in 1958, reader in 1961, and was given a personal chair in 1971. He retired in September 1983, and died on 1 December 1983.
David Mitton
David Nelson Godfrey Mitton (13 July 1938 – 16 May 2008) was a British television producer, director and writer, and an experienced model-maker and author, best known for producing and directing the children's TV programmes "Thomas & Friends" and "Tugs". During the 1960s, he worked with Gerry and Sylvia Anderson as a special effects technician on series such as "Thunderbirds", "Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons", "Joe 90", "The Secret Service" and "UFO".
David Warbeck
Warbeck was born David Mitchell on 17 November 1941 in Christchurch, New Zealand. He was of Scottish descent. Warbeck attended school in Christchurch and Invercargill. After graduating, Warbeck began training to become an arts teacher. Through this, he became involved with local theater productions, and performed with a small touring company in New Zealand. While performing in local theatre, Warbeck was awarded a scholarship from the New Zealand Arts Council to attend the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London.
Killing of David Wilkie
David Wilkie was born on 9 July 1949. He was working in Treforest, Mid Glamorgan as a taxi driver, driving a Ford Cortina for City Centre Cars, based in Bute Street, Cardiff. He was regularly engaged in driving non-striking miners to work, as the bitter industrial dispute had made them targets for physical retaliation by those miners who were on strike. The Merthyr Tydfil area was said to be the strongest in support of the strike of any mining area in Britain; it is situated in South Wales, where a large percentage of Britain's remaining coalmines were situated. There had not been much mass picketing in South Wales during the conflict, as there had been in many parts of England, because there had been so few strikebreakers.
David Morley (musician)
David Morley (born 6 August 1965 in London, England) was a child actor, and most notably featured in Stanley Kubrick's "Barry Lyndon".
David Miles
David Kenneth Miles (born 1959) is a British economist. Born in Swansea, he has spent his working life in London, in teaching, business and the public sector. He is a Professor at Imperial College London, and was Chief UK Economist of Morgan Stanley bank from October 2004 to May 2009. He was appointed to the Bank of England's interest-rate-setting Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) from 1 June 2009 to June 2012 and again from June 2012 to 31 August 2015, before being replaced by Gertjan Vlieghe. According to the Bank of England, "As an economist he has focused on the interaction between financial markets and the wider economy."
David Simpson (artist)
David Simpson was born in Pasadena, California in 1928 to Frederick Simpson, an interior decorator and expert on 19th century fabrics and furniture and Mary Adeline White, a housewife. After Frederick died in 1936, Mary supported Simpson and his older brother, Robert, by working at the National Tuberculosis Association. In 1952, Simpson met art student Dolores Debus. The two were married the following year in Sierra Madre, California. Simpson has a stepson, Gregory Vose, born in 1949, and a daughter, Lisa Simpson, born in 1953.
David Mirkin
Mirkin was born and raised in Philadelphia and graduated from Northeast High School in 1973. His father was a computer engineer until his death in 1960. Mirkin's older brother Gary worked as a television engineer for the Philadelphia NBC affiliate, KYW-TV, now a CBS owned-and-operated station. Throughout his childhood, Mirkin had an interest in film, and explored both writing and filming. Mirkin has described himself as a "nerd" and was often in trouble as a child because he was "in another world". At high school, he felt the teaching was "too slow" and was allowed by his teachers to "skip class two to three days a week".
David Hoskin
David Craig Hoskin (born 16 October 1935) is a former New Zealand cricketer who played first-class cricket for Northern Districts from 1956 to 1965. He was President of New Zealand Cricket from 2000 to 2003.
David (David Ruffin album)
David is an album by former Temptations singer, David Ruffin, who died of a cocaine overdose in 1991. Although recorded during the late 1960s through the early 1970s, the album was not released until 2004, 13 years after Ruffin's death. The CD edition was out of print for several years, but was reissued by Hip-O Records in 2012; the 2012 edition is identical to the 2004 edition other than being packaged in a standard jewel case rather than a digipak. The album is also available for download through iTunes.
David Tonkin
Dr David Oliver Tonkin AO (20 July 1929 – 2 October 2000) was the 38th Premier of South Australia, serving from 18 September 1979 to 10 November 1982. He was elected to the House of Assembly seat of Bragg at the 1970 election, serving until 1983. He became the leader of the South Australian Division of the Liberal Party of Australia in 1975, replacing Bruce Eastick. Initially leading the party to defeat at the 1977 election against the Don Dunstan Labor government, his party won the 1979 election against the Des Corcoran Labor government. Following the 1980 Norwood by-election the Tonkin government was reduced to a one-seat majority. His government's policy approach combined economic conservatism with social progressivism. The Tonkin Liberal government was defeated after one term at the 1982 election by Labor led by John Bannon.
Geoffrey Filkin, Baron Filkin
David Geoffrey Nigel Filkin, Baron Filkin (born 1 July 1944) is a British Labour politician.
D. S. Mirsky
D. S. Mirsky is the English pen-name of Dmitry Petrovich Svyatopolk-Mirsky (), often known as Prince Mirsky ( – c. 7 June 1939), a Russian political and literary historian who promoted the knowledge and translations of Russian literature in Britain and of English literature in the Soviet Union. He was born in Kharkov Governorate and died near Magadan.
David Hopkin
David Isaac Hopkin (born 21 August 1970) is a Scottish professional football player and coach, who is the manager of Bradford City.
David Simpkins (cricketer, born 1934)
David William Simpkins (born 29 May 1934) is a former English cricketer. Simpkins was a left-handed batsman who played primarily as a wicketkeeper. He was born at Derry Hill, Wiltshire.
David Michelinie
David Michelinie (; born May 6, 1948) is an American comic book writer best known for scripting Marvel Comics' "The Amazing Spider-Man" and "Iron Man" and the DC Comics feature Superman in "Action Comics". Among the characters he created or co-created are Venom, Carnage, Ant-Man Scott Lang and James Rhodes.
David Aitken (minister)
He was born on 17 August 1796 in or near Edinburgh. He was educated at the High School in Edinburgh then studied divinity at Edinburgh University. His main position as minister was at Minto in Roxburghshire from 1829 to 1866. His patron was the Earl of Minto. A letter of introduction from Thomas Carlyle aided in gaining this position.
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David Wilkins (orientalist)
David Wilkins (1685–1745), originally named Wilke or Wilkius, was a Prussian orientalist, born in Memel, who settled in England. His 1716 publication of the "Coptic New Testament" was the "editio princeps".
David Morrell
Morrell was born on the 24 April 1943 in Kitchener, Ontario, Canada. He decided to become a writer at the age of 17, after being inspired by the writing in the classic television series "Route 66". In 1966, Morrell received his B.A. in English from St. Jerome's University and moved to the United States to study with Hemingway scholar Philip Young at Pennsylvania State University, where he would eventually receive his M.A. and Ph.D. in American literature.
David L. Adams
David Lionel Adams (born January 3, 1975) is an American video game designer best known for his work on "Darksiders" and "Warhammer 40k Online".
David McDaniel
David Edward McDaniel (June 16, 1939 – November 1, 1977) was an American science fiction author, who also wrote spy fiction, including several novels based upon the television series "The Man from U.N.C.L.E.".
David P. Dobkin
Dobkin was born February 29, 1948, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He received a B.S. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1970 and then moved to Harvard University for his graduate studies, receiving a Ph.D. in applied mathematics in 1973 under the supervision of Roger W. Brockett.
David Mirkin
Mirkin intended to pursue a career in electrical engineering, which he saw as a more stable employment opportunity than writing or film making. He took a course at Philadelphia's Drexel University which offered six months of teaching followed by a six-month internship at the National Aeronautics Federal Experimental Center. Mirkin found the experience to be monotonous and unenjoyable and chose to abandon this career path. He decided that "making no money doing something I loved was going to be better than making a good living doing something I didn't", so took "an enormous chance on show business" and moved to Los Angeles. He attended film school at Loyola Marymount University, and graduated in 1978.
David T. Lykken
David Thoreson Lykken (June 18, 1928 – September 15, 2006) was a behavioral geneticist and Professor Emeritus of Psychology and Psychiatry at the University of Minnesota. He is best known for his work on twin studies and lie detection.
Chad Mirkin
Mirkin served on several editorial advisory boards, including ACS Nano, the Journal of the American Chemical Society and Angewandte Chemie. He is the founding editor of the nanotechnology journal Small, and he is an associate editor of the Journal of the American Chemical Society. Mirkin is a founder of multiple companies, including Nanosphere (acquired by Luminex), AuraSense, CDJ Technologies, TERA-print, and Exicure.
David Merrick
David Merrick (November 27, 1911 – April 25, 2000) was a prolific Tony Award-winning American theatrical producer.
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Mérida
David Mirkin
Mirkin directed the feature film "Romy and Michele's High School Reunion" in 1997. The film stars Mira Sorvino and Lisa Kudrow as two friends determined to show their former high school tormentors at their 10-year reunion that they have led successful lives. Mirkin said of the film: "These are women characters we haven't seen before. There are so few female buddy movies, written funny for women. Women don't get to do odd, strange, self-involved roles like these." He knew Kudrow previously and felt she was "perfect" for the role, but did not expect Sorvino would take the part given her recent Academy Award win for "Mighty Aphrodite", but it "turn[ed] out that she'd had a horrible time in high school, so the story appealed to her". The film received critical praise, as did Mirkin's direction. James Berardinelli wrote that Mirkin "brings a lot of energy to the production, always keeping things moving", while Jack Matthews of "The Los Angeles Times" says Mirkin "knew exactly what he had here and composed it like frames in a comic strip, ordering cheerful snow-cone colors for everything from the girls' childlike outfits to the decor of a Laundromat".
David Mirfin
David Matthew Mirfin (born 18 April 1985) is an English Professional footballer who plays as a centre back for club Mansfield Town.
David Fromkin
David Fromkin was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on August 27, 1932. He died in New York City on June 11, 2017.
David Milman
David Pinhusovich Milman (; 15 January 1912, Chichelnik near Vinnytsia – 12 July 1982, Tel Aviv) was a Soviet and later Israeli mathematician specializing in functional analysis. He was one of the major figures of the Soviet school of functional analysis. In the 70s he emigrated to Israel and was on the faculty of Tel Aviv University.
David Irwin (explorer)
David Irwin (Sarcoxie, 1910 - Scotrun, 18 June 1970) was an American explorer who made the news in 1934 following a dog sled trek to the magnetic North Pole, encompassing 2,000 miles. His account was published as "Alone Across the Top of The World". Irwin later became a showman, presenting Eskimo culture at the World Fair.
David Menkin
David Menkin (born May 10, 1977) is a Norwegian-born American actor and voice actor.
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St Mirren
David Mirkin
In 1991, Mirkin wrote a pilot with Julie Brown entitled "The Julie Show", starring Brown, but NBC did not produce it. Several people at the network enjoyed it and commissioned "The Edge", a sketch comedy show also written by Mirkin and Brown, with Mirkin directing. NBC opted against production, but Fox ran it from 1992 to 1993. Mirkin had long wished to produce a sketch show, and designed "The Edge" to be "fast-paced" and "some skits overlap, end abruptly or are broken into segments", in order to maintain attention. "The Edge" was a ratings success and was supported by the network. Mirkin considered it "the first time I experienced the feeling of having a hit that I created. It just kept building and growing." The show's material often inflamed its targets, particularly producer Aaron Spelling. Spelling objected to a sketch mocking his series "Beverly Hills, 90210", another Fox show, and its lead actress Tori Spelling, who is his daughter. He demanded a public apology and that no further episodes contain the parody, threatening to sue. The show's production company TriStar Television refused, while Mirkin responded: "The thing about these parodies is they don't hurt a show. It's only cross-promotion. The viewers who like the show always come back the next week. What's upsetting to me is it shows absolutely that Mr. Spelling has no sense of humor." Mirkin left his role as executive producer of "The Edge" during its run. The "Pittsburgh Post-Gazette" reported that Mirkin had been "forced off the show", due to the negative reaction of Spelling and others, though in 2012, Mirkin stated that he left the series after refusing to accept a substantially reduced budget. The show's producers Sony failed to persuade him to stay but he returned to the series to produce its final "Best Of" compilation.
David Shannon Morse
David Shannon Morse (April 15, 1943 – November 2, 2007) was the cofounder of Amiga. In 1982, he left Tonka Toys (where he was Vice-President of Marketing) and became the Chief Executive Officer at Hi Toro, Inc., which he co-founded and which later that year morphed into Amiga, Inc. which he led through the development of the Lorraine Project (a codename inspired by David's wife Lorraine), ultimately, the Amiga 1000 computer. In the 1980s he was a software manager at Epyx, a video game developer and publisher and help to create the Atari Lynx, being credited with designing the graphics chip.
David Alfaro Siqueiros
David Alfaro Siqueiros (born José de Jesús Alfaro Siqueiros, December 29, 1896, in Chihuahua – January 6, 1974, in Cuernavaca, Morelos) was a Mexican social realist painter, better known for his large murals in fresco. Along with Diego Rivera and José Clemente Orozco, he established "Mexican Muralism." He was a Stalinist in support of the Soviet Union and a member of the Mexican Communist Party who led an unsuccessful attempt to assassinate Leon Trotsky in May 1940.