David Stern was the longest-tenured commissioner in the history of the National Basketball Association. He served in the job from 1984-2014. David Stern is credited with growing the NBA into a…
Name at birth: David Hackett SouterDavid Souter is the New Hampshire lawyer and judge who was named to the U.S. Supreme Court in 1990 by President George Bush. As a little-known judge from a small…
David Rockefeller was a billionaire whose powers as an international businessman outpaced those of his grandfather, John D. Rockefeller, one of the richest men iofearly 20th century America. David…
David Cassidy's starring role in the musical sitcom The Partridge Family made him one of the great teen heartthrobs of the 1970s. David Cassidy was born in New York City, the son of actor and…
David Walker was an African American abolitionist of the colonial United States who authored what's known as Walker's Appeal, a pamphlet published in 1829 that urged the immediate end to slavery,…
David Douglas was a botanist from Scotland who collected hundreds of plant specimens as he explored the Pacific Coast of North America between 1824 and 1834. In 1823 he was chosen as a plant…
David Thompson was an 18th century explorer who mapped more than 1.5 million square miles of Western Canada. Born into poverty, he was educated at a charity school and recruited as an indentured…
(Encyclopedia) Einhorn, DavidEinhorn, Davidīnˈhôrn [key], 1809–79, Jewish theological writer and leader of the Reform movement in Judaism in the United States. Born in Bavaria, he studied philosophy…
(Encyclopedia) Diamond, David, 1915–2005, American composer, b. Rochester, N.Y. Diamond was trained at the Cleveland Institute of Music and the Eastman School; he also studied with Roger Sessions in…
(Encyclopedia) Douglas, David, 1798–1834, Scottish botanist. He made several journeys in North America between 1823 and 1834 to study American plants and sent to Scotland more than 200 plants and…
