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John Deere Autonomous 8R Tractor
The John Deere Autonomous 8R Tractor is a driverless row-crop tractor that Deere & Company unveiled at CES 2022, combining the 8R tractor with GPS guidance and stereo cameras for autonomous tillage.
John Deere AutoTrac
John Deere AutoTrac is an assisted steering system that automatically steers tractors, sprayers, and combines along a guidance line using StarFire satellite positioning, launched in 2002.
John Dehner
John Dehner (John Dehner Forkum, 1915-1992), American character actor and baritone radio voice; Disney animator turned actor, radio's J.B. Kendall and Paladin, Pat Garrett in The Left Handed Gun.
John Delaney (Maryland politician)
John Delaney, also known as John Kevin Delaney, is an American businessman and former Democratic US representative for Maryland's 6th district, serving from 2013 to 2019.
John DeLorean
John Zachary DeLorean was an American automotive executive who created the Pontiac GTO at General Motors and founded the DeLorean Motor Company, maker of the DMC-12.
John Demjanjuk (Іван Миколайович Дем'янюк)
John Demjanjuk (Іван Миколайович Дем'янюк), Ukrainian-born Ohio autoworker and Nazi Trawniki guard; death sentence in Israel as Treblinka's "Ivan the Terrible" overturned 1993; convicted in Munich 2011 as Sobibor accessory to murder; died 2012 with appeal pending.
John Densmore
John Densmore, also known as John Paul Densmore, is an American drummer and author who co-founded the rock band The Doors in 1965 with Jim Morrison.
John Denver
John Denver (Henry John Deutschendorf Jr., 1943-1997), American folk-pop singer-songwriter and environmentalist; 1970s hitmaker of "Take Me Home, Country Roads," "Rocky Mountain High," "Annie's Song"; CMA Entertainer of the Year 1975; Colorado Music Hall of Fame inductee.
John Derek
John Derek (born Derek Harris, 1926–1998) was an American actor turned director and cinematographer, married to Ursula Andress, Linda Evans, and Bo Derek, whom he directed in Tarzan the Ape Man, Bolero, and Ghosts Can't Do It.
John Derian
John Derian (company founder, designer of decoupage) founded John Derian Company Inc. in 1989; his East Village, NYC studio makes decoupage glassware from 18th- and 19th-century prints, sold in three shops and through Target and Astier de Villatte collaborations.
John Devitt
John Thomas Devitt (1937-2023), Australian freestyle sprint swimmer; two Olympic golds (1956 relay, 1960 100m), 14 world records; his controversial 1960 win over Lance Larson spurred electronic timing.
John Dewey
John Dewey (1859–1952) was an American philosopher and psychologist, a cofounder of pragmatism and a leader of the progressive education movement, who founded the Laboratory Schools in Chicago.
John Diamond (journalist)
John Diamond (1953–2001), British Times columnist and broadcaster, husband of Nigella Lawson, known for his weekly Times cancer column, What the Papers Say 1997 award, and the book C: Because Cowards Get Cancer Too.
John Dick (cancer researcher)
John Dick is a Canadian cancer researcher at the Princess Margaret Cancer Centre in Toronto who showed in 1994 that leukemia is sustained by rare self-renewing stem cells.
John Dickinson
John Dickinson (1732–1808), the "Penman of the Revolution," was an American founder of Pennsylvania and Delaware who wrote Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania, drafted the Articles of Confederation, refused to sign the Declaration, and served as president of both states.
John Diefenbaker
John G. Diefenbaker (1895–1979), 'Dief the Chief,' Canada's 13th prime minister (1957–63): 208-seat 1958 landslide, 1960 Bill of Rights, Avro Arrow cancellation, Bomarc crisis, and 1967 leadership fight.
John Diehl
John Diehl (John Henry Diehl, born 1950, Cincinnati) is an American character actor with 150+ credits, known as Det. Larry Zito on Miami Vice, Maj. Kawalsky in Stargate (1994), G. Gordon Liddy in Nixon, Ben Gilroy on The Shield, and Fred Trump in Armageddon Time.
John Dies at the End
John Dies at the End is a comic horror novel by Jason Pargin (pen name David Wong) about Dave and John, a drug called Soy Sauce, and interdimensional threats; it began as a web serial and became a 2012 Don Coscarelli film and a five-book Macmillan series.
John Dies at the End (film)
John Dies at the End (2012/2013) is Don Coscarelli's horror-comedy adapting David Wong's novel about Dave and John, dropouts fighting an otherworldly invasion after taking the drug Soy Sauce; Magnet Releasing released it limitedly in January 2013 to mixed reviews.
John Dietz
John Dietz (John A. Dietz, 1870-1939), German-born American pistol shooter with the Manhattan Revolver Club; won Olympic team free pistol gold at London 1908 and Stockholm 1912; distinct from rower Jim Dietz.
John Diffley (molecular biologist)
John F.X. Diffley is a British-American molecular biologist who leads the Chromosome Replication Laboratory at the Francis Crick Institute in London, known for discovering the pre-replicative complex.
John DiFronzo
John "No Nose" DiFronzo (c. 1929–2018), also called Johnny Bananas, was the reputed boss of the Chicago Outfit from the mid-1990s until his death, never charged despite Spilotro-murder testimony in the 2007 Family Secrets trial.
John Digweed
John Digweed is a British DJ and producer from Hastings, known for progressive house, his partnership with Sasha, Renaissance: The Mix Collection, Northern Exposure, the Bedrock label with Nick Muir, and the Transitions radio show.
John Dillinger
John Dillinger (1903-1934), American Depression-era bank robber and head of the Dillinger gang; robbed 11 banks for over $300,000, escaped Crown Point jail with a wooden gun, and was shot by FBI agents outside Chicago's Biograph Theater on July 22, 1934.
John DiMaggio
John William DiMaggio, born 1968 in North Plainfield, New Jersey, is an American voice actor known for Bender in Futurama, Jake the Dog in Adventure Time, and Marcus Fenix in Gears of War; 2001 Annie Award winner.
John DiMaio
John DiMaio is an American Republican politician who has represented New Jersey's 23rd District in the General Assembly since 2009 and became the Assembly's minority leader in January 2022.
John Dimarco
John P. DiMarco is an American cardiologist and cardiac electrophysiologist at the University of Virginia, known for work on adenosine, ventricular tachycardia mechanisms, and implantable defibrillators.
John Ding‐E Young
John Ding-E Young (杨定一), born 1958, is a Taiwanese-born immunologist best known for purifying and characterizing perforin, the pore-forming protein killer lymphocytes use to destroy target cells.
John Dingell
John Dingell Jr. (1926–2019), Michigan Democrat, represented southeastern Michigan in the House 1955–2015; longest-serving member of either chamber of Congress, Energy and Commerce chairman, Medicare and Clean Air Act author.
John Dobrinsky
John R. Dobrinsky is an American animal physiologist and developmental biologist at the USDA's Beltsville research center who pioneered pig embryo cryopreservation, producing the first live pigs from vitrified embryos.