Robert Clive, 1st Baron Clive, KB, FRS (29 September 1725 – 22 November 1774), also known as Clive of India, was the first British Governor of the Bengal Presidency.Clive has been widely credited for laying the foundation of the British East India Company rule in Bengal. He began as a writer (the term used then in India for an office clerk) for the East India Company (EIC) in 1744 …

Robert Edward Stevenson (31 March 1905 – 30 April 1986) was an English film screenwriter, director and actor.. After directing a number of British films, including King Solomon's Mines (1937), he was contracted by David O. Selznick and moved to Hollywood, but was loaned to other studios, directing Jane Eyre (1943). He directed 19 films for The Walt Disney Company in the …

Robert Rick McCammon (born July 17, 1952) is an American novelist from Birmingham, Alabama.One of the influential names in the late 1970s–early 1990s American horror literature boom, by 1991 McCammon had three New York Times bestsellers (The Wolf's Hour, Stinger, and Swan Song) and around 5 million books in print. Since 2002 he’s written several books in a …

Captain Robert Laurence Nairac GC (31 August 1948 – 15 May 1977) was a British Army officer in the Grenadier Guards who was abducted from a pub in Dromintee, south County Armagh, during an undercover operation and killed by the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) on his fourth tour of duty in Northern Ireland as a Military Intelligence Liaison Officer.

Clive Barker (born 5 October 1952) is an English novelist, playwright, author, film director, and visual artist who came to prominence in the mid-1980s with a series of short stories, the Books of Blood, which established him as a leading horror writer.He has since written many novels and other works. His fiction has been adapted into films, notably the Hellraiser series, the first …

Clive Selsby Revill (born 18 April 1930) is a New Zealand actor, best known for his performances in musical theatre and the London stage. A veteran of the Royal Shakespeare Company, he has also starred in numerous films and television programmes, often in character parts. He is a two-time Tony Award nominee; Best Featured Actor in a Musical for Irma La Douce and Best Actor …

René-Robert Cavelier de La Salle est né à Rouen, province de Normandie, le 21 novembre 1643 [1], [2] et mort assassiné le 19 mars 1687 près de Navasota, au sud-ouest de la colonie française de Louisiane, dans l’actuel État américain du Texas.. Explorateur-voyageur, il a parcouru la région des Grands Lacs des États-Unis et du Canada actuels, puis le fleuve Mississippi, et a ainsi ...

Robert Cox Merton (born July 31, 1944) is an American economist, Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences laureate, and professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management, known for his pioneering contributions to continuous-time finance, especially the first continuous-time option pricing model, the Black–Scholes–Merton model.In 1993 Merton co-founded hedge fund Long …

Robert Anthony De Niro Jr. [nota 1] [1] (Nova Iorque, 17 de agosto de 1943) é um ator, produtor e cineasta ítalo-americano. [2] [3] Conhecido por suas parcerias com o cineasta Martin Scorsese, ele já recebeu diversos prêmios, incluindo dois Oscars, um Globo de Ouro, o Prêmio Cecil B. DeMille e um prêmio Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement.Em 2009, De Niro recebeu o …

John Robert Parker Ravenscroft OBE (30 August 1939 – 25 October 2004), known professionally as John Peel, was an English disc jockey (DJ) and radio presenter. He was the longest-serving of the original BBC Radio 1 DJs, broadcasting regularly from 1967 until his death in 2004.. Peel was one of the first broadcasters to play psychedelic rock and progressive rock records on British …