Born: December 20, 1921, Minneapolis, Minnesota
[Died] December 27, 2002. New York, New York. American film director, screenwriter, and actor. He studied music at Yale University, graduating in 1943. He began his acting career in Dublin, Ireland, before returning to the United States and appearing in off-Broadway productions. He wrote radio plays and then moved into television. He made his film debut with Period of Adjustment (1962). Two of his films, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) and The Sting (1973), in which he worked with Paul Newman and Robert Redford, were both in the top ten of all-time box office grosses. The Sting won Academy Awards for Best Picture and Best Director. His other directorial works include Slaughterhouse-Five (1972), The Great Waldo Pepper (1975), and The World According to Garp (1982). Hill
Hill, George William Born March 3, 1838 in New York, New York
[Died] April 16, 1914. West Nyack, New York. American mathematician and astronomer. He proposed an important theory about the influence of planets on the motion of the moon, and contributed to the development of celestial mechanics. After graduating from Rutgers University in 1859, he worked for the United States Nautical Almanac Bureau in 1861. In 1877, he was the first to analyze the motion of the moon at perigee using infinite determinants. He also developed a theory about the motion of Jupiter and Saturn. For his research on the motion of the moon, he was awarded the Gold Medal from the Royal Astronomical Society in 1887, the Damoiseau Prize from the French Academie des Sciences in 1898, and the Copley Medal from the Royal Society in 1909. He was elected a member of the American Academy of Sciences in 1874 and the Royal Society in 1902, and was president of the American Mathematical Society from 1894 to 1996. Many of his papers have been republished by the Carnegie Institution for Science as "The Collected Mathematical Works of George William Hill" (1905-07). Hill
Hill, James Jerome Born September 16, 1838 in Guelph, Ontario
Died: May 29, 1916. St. Paul, Minnesota. American businessman and railroad magnate. After moving to St. Paul, Minnesota in 1856, he became a leading capitalist in the Northwest. In 1878, he bought the St. Paul and Pacific Railroad, extending its tracks to Montana and Seattle. In 1890, he absorbed the Great Northern Railroad and became its president (1893-1907) and chairman (1907-12). He also acquired the Northern Pacific Railroad and the Burlington and Quincy Railroad of Chicago, becoming a railroad magnate who represented the trend toward monopolization in American industry in the late 19th century. In 1904, he expanded into banking and finance as president of the Northern Security Company, but the company was found guilty of violating the Sherman Antitrust Act. In 1912, he took control of the First National Bank and the Second National Bank of St. Paul. Hill
Hill, (John Edward) Christopher Born: February 6, 1912, York
[Died] 23 February 2003. British historian from Oxfordshire. Specialised in the 17th century revolution. Initially introduced Soviet historiography as a Marxist. Taking a class struggle standpoint, he published The English Revolution 1640 in 1940, which had a major impact on Japanese research into British history after World War II. In 1965 he became principal of Balliol College at his alma mater, Oxford University, and later joined the Open University. He is a prolific author, with works including Economic Problems of the Church (1956), The Century of Revolution (1961), and Intellectual Origins of the English Revolution (1965). Hill
Hill, Daniel Harvey Born July 12, 1821 in York, South Carolina, USA
Died: September 24, 1889. Charlotte, North Carolina, U.S. American soldier and educator. Graduated from the United States Military Academy in 1842. After participating in the Mexican-American War, he retired in 1849. He served as a professor of mathematics, civil engineering, and other subjects at Washington College, Davidson College, and the North Carolina Military College. During the American Civil War, he joined the Confederate Army as a commodore, and was promoted to lieutenant general in 1863. After the war, he served as president of the University of Arkansas (1877-1884) and superintendent of the Georgia Military College (1885-1889). Hill
Hill, Rowland, 1st Viscount Hill Born: August 11, 1772, Shropshire
[Died] December 10, 1842. Shropshire. British military officer. Brave general under Wellington's command. Fought in the Siege of Toulon (1793), Egypt, Ireland, Portugal, and Spain (1801-14). Created a baron in 1814. At Waterloo, he fought bravely as commander of one of Wellington's two corps, and was deputy commander of the French occupation forces from 1815 to 1818. Became a general in 1825, and commander-in-chief of the British Army after the formation of Wellington's cabinet in 1828. Resigned in 1842, created a viscount, and died the same year. Hill
Hill, David Octavius Born: 1802. Perth
[Died] May 17, 1870, Newington British photographer. He was also famous as a landscape painter, but in 1843, he was asked to paint a commemorative portrait of about 500 representatives who gathered at the founding convention of the Free Church of Scotland. He came up with the idea of taking photographs of each person's appearance as a preliminary sketch, and with the help of R. Adamson, he took the photographs using the calotype method. This was his opportunity to become a photographer, and the two of them left behind 1,500 photographs. Their subjects were wide-ranging, including people, customs, and landscapes in farming and fishing villages, as well as engineers, soldiers, and young girls. After Adamson's death, Hill returned to painting. Hill
Hill, Archibald Vivian Born: September 26, 1886, Bristol
[Died] June 3, 1977. British physiologist from Cambridge. In 1922, together with O. Mayerhof of Germany, he received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his research into the generation of heat in muscles. He first studied mathematics and then physiology at Cambridge University, and was professor of physiology at the University of Manchester from 1920 to 1923, professor of physiology at the University of London from 1923 to 1925, and professor of the Royal Society from 1926 to 1951. During World War II, he was also active in politics, serving on the War Cabinet's committees on defense and scientific issues. Hill
Hill, Ambrose Powell Born November 9, 1825 in Culpeper, Virginia
Died: April 2, 1865. Petersburg, Virginia. American Civil War soldier. Graduated from the United States Military Academy in 1847. Joined the Confederate Army as a colonel during the Civil War, and was later promoted to lieutenant general. He participated in many major battles, including the First and Second Battles of Bull Run, the Battle of Lee's Seventh Day, and the fierce battles of Fredericksburg and Gettysburg. The unit he commanded was praised as the "Fast Division," but he participated in the Battle of the Wilderness in May 1864, and was killed in action at the Battle of Petersburg the following April. Hill
Hill, Sir Rowland Born: December 3, 1795, Kidderminster, Worcestershire
[Died] August 27, 1879, London. An improver of the British postal system. He started out as an educator and invented the printing press and other devices. In 1837 he submitted a pamphlet discussing the postal system to the government. After the Postal Act was passed by the British Parliament in 1839, he became involved in postal administration and established the penny post, a low-cost, prepaid postal system using stamps. Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica Concise Encyclopedia About Encyclopaedia Britannica Concise Encyclopedia Information |
