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John Dudley Ball Jr. (July 8, 1911 – October 15, 1988) [1] was an American writer best known for mystery novels involving the African-American police detective Virgil Tibbs. Tibbs was introduced in the 1965 novel In the Heat of the Night , which won the Edgar Award for Best First Novel from the Mystery Writers of America and was made into an ...
John Ball (c. 1338 [1] – 15 July 1381) was an English priest who took a prominent part in the Peasants' Revolt of 1381. [2] Although he is often associated with John Wycliffe and the Lollard movement, Ball was actively preaching "articles contrary to the faith of the church" at least a decade before Wycliffe started attracting attention.
Pope John Paul II was the subject of three premature obituaries.. A prematurely reported obituary is an obituary of someone who was still alive at the time of publication. . Examples include that of inventor and philanthropist Alfred Nobel, whose premature obituary condemning him as a "merchant of death" for creating military explosives may have prompted him to create the Nobel Prize; [1 ...
John Ball (assemblyman) (1756–1838), American soldier and politician; John Thomas Ball (1815–1898), Irish barrister and politician, MP for Dublin University 1868–1875; John Ball (naturalist) (1818–1889), Irish naturalist and politician, MP for County Carlow 1857–1880; John Ball (pioneer) (1794–1884), American pioneer and state ...
John Thomas Ball (born May 10, 1990) is an American Christian musician and guitarist, who plays alternative rock, folk rock, indie folk and indie rock music. He has released three extended plays , Found Among the Broken (2010), John Ball (2013), and By Declaration & the Death (2016).
John Ball (October 1585 – 20 October 1640) was an English puritan divine. Life. He was born in Cassington, Oxfordshire. [1] After taking his BA degree from St Mary ...
John Ball (20 August 1818 – 21 October 1889) was an Irish politician, naturalist and Alpine traveller. Background and education. Ball was born in Dublin, the ...
Sir John Macleod Ball (born 19 May 1948) is a British mathematician and former Sedleian Professor of Natural Philosophy at the University of Oxford. He was the president of the International Mathematical Union from 2003 to 2006 and a Fellow of Queen's College, Oxford .