Jean Porporato, originally named Giovanni Giacomo Bernardo Porporato (3 November 1879 – ?), was an Italian-born French automobile racing driver and mechanic from Turin who later lived much of his life Lyon, Rhône. He is mentioned in automobile press articles from 28 January 1906, where he is listed as a mechanic of the racing driver Paul Bablot on the occasion of the endurance record in a Berliet 16 to 22 horsepower (12 to 16 kW) car on the route from Salon to Arles. Paul Bablot (1873–1932), the Berliet agent at Marseille, was the named driver for the Berliet marque in competition from 1904 (Mont Ventoux race, France) until 1906 with the Targa Florio and the Tourist Trophy, and one more time in 1908 with a victory in the Boulevard Michelet Hillclimb of Marseille. Porporato, as fine-tuner and driver, drove Berliet cars in competition from 1907 until 1911. In the 1907 season he raced in the Targa Florio race, from which he retired. In the 1908 season he reached fourth place in the Targa Florio and competed in the Targa Bologna, achieving his only victory in the Berliet. In 1911 he appeared in the Coup de Voiturettes. In this race he came fifth in the 1913 season and ninth in the 1914 season. Porporato also competed in the Indianapolis 500 of 1915 and 1920, on both occasions failing to finish. In 1923 and 1924, he drove La Buire cars, notably at the French Grand Prix in Lyon in 1924. In his last, and most important, race, the 1925 24 Hours of Le Mans, he retired.


Kent Ronald Hance (born November 14, 1942) is the former Chancellor of the Texas Tech University System. In his role, he oversaw Texas Tech University, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center and Angelo State University in San Angelo, Texas. He is also a lobbyist and lawyer who was a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives from West Texas, having served from 1979 to 1985. After his congressional service, he switched to the Republican Party and in 1990 made an unsuccessful primary race for governor of Texas. In 2006, Hance was chosen as the third chancellor to succeed David Smith as the chancellor of the Texas Tech University System in Lubbock. He is taking a leave of absence from his Austin law firm Hance Scarborough, LLP but continues to sit on profit and nonprofit boards and commissions while at the helm of Texas Tech. The Lubbock Avalanche-Journal quoted Texas Tech board chairman Rick Francis: The regents believed Hance could further the goals that we had for our chancellor, in terms of energizing our alumni, and those legislators in both Austin and Washington, D.C., and provide the vision that we need for the future.


Anne Charlotte McClain (born June 7, 1979) is a NASA astronaut from the class of 2013. Anne McClain is a Major in the U.S. Army. Her hometown is Spokane, Washington. Since she was a very young child she had always wanted to be an astronaut She is a graduate of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, N.Y. (BS Mechanical Engineering 2002); the University of Bath (MS Aerospace Engineering 2004) and the University of Bristol (MS International Security 2005), both in the United Kingdom while on a Marshall Scholarship. McClain qualified as an OH-58 Kiowa Warrior scout/attack helicopter pilot and flew 216 combat missions during 15 months in Iraq. McClain graduated from the U.S. Naval Test Pilot School at Naval Air Station Patuxent River in June 2013 at the same time she was selected as a NASA astronaut. Following selection in the NASA Astronaut Group 21 in 2013, she became the youngest NASA astronaut.Group 21 astronauts completed training in July 2015 and are available for future missions.McClain has said that she would jump at the chance of going to Mars.


Vonn Cummings Sumner (born 1976 in Palo Alto, California) is an internationally exhibited American painter. He received his Bachelor of Arts, in 1998 and Master of Fine Arts, Painting in 2000, both from the University of California, Davis, where he studied with, among others, the celebrated American painter and educator Wayne Thiebaud. Sumner's work has been the subject of two solo Museum exhibitions the first having been at the Riverside Art Museum in Riverside, California in 2008 and then at the Phillips Museum of Art at Franklin and Marshall College in Lancaster, Pennsylvania in 2011. He is known for his metaphorical figurative paintings, often with a muted color palette. The arts writer John Seed, writing in the Huffington Post in 2013 described Sumner's work this way: [Sumner's]\"paintings that form a kind of personal Commedia dell'Arte, whose main actor has a tragic, muted air. Sumner is wise enough to know how to engage you in his theater and also smart enough to stand back and let you react on your own terms. The paintings are generous, funny and just a bit opaque... Echoes of Bay Area painting, flavors gleaned from Morandi, Guston and Magritte and a hint of Buster Keaton come together in his recent works through the filter of a sly, discerning intelligence.\" Sumner is represented by the Merry Karnowsky Gallery in Los Angeles.


Joel Bernstein is a photographer, guitarist, and record producer based in Oakland, California. His photographs have appeared as the album covers to, among others, After the Gold Rush, 4 Way Street, Rita Coolidge, Wind on the Water, Running on Empty, CSN, Bob Dylan at Budokan, Rust Never Sleeps, Shadows and Light, and Hard Promises. His photographs have been published in Time, The New York Times, and Rolling Stone, among other publications, and there have been retrospective exhibits of his work in New York City, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and London.As a guitarist, he is most noted for support work to his friends David Crosby and Graham Nash, both individually and on their Crosby & Nash records. He has acted as co-producer and archivist with Nash for Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, and is responsible with Nash for the compilation and production of the box sets Voyage for Crosby, Reflections for Nash, Carry On for Stephen Stills, and CSNY 1974 for the band's tour of that year.


James Tahhan, (born October 26, 1988), better known as Chef James, is a Venezuelan chef, television personality, restaurateur, and author. He is best recognized for being the official chef of Telemundo, and being a co-presentor of its morning show Un Nuevo Dia, a position that has earned James two Emmy Awards. Despite his young age, James is considered a leading figure in the culinary world, renowned for his unique cooking-style that combines his vast knowledge of contemporary Latin American cuisine with his Syrian-Armenian heritage. In 2014, together with his friend, television personality Raúl González, Chef James opened his first restaurant, Sabores - by Chef James  to critical acclaim by food columnists and critics. It has subsequently been named one of the best restaurants in Miami. In 2016, Chef James released his best-selling cookbook, The Homemade Chef: Ordinary Ingredients for Extraordinary Food, where he focuses on simple, high-quality ingredients from different parts of the world and blends them with Latin flavors to create extraordinary food in countless recipes. His goal was to create a cookbook that not only provides readers with delicious recipes, but also to gets them closer to the kitchen so that they can enjoy a healthy lifestyle through the art of home cooking. In that same year, his debut cookbook become the best-selling release both regionally and internationally on Amazon.com, the most valuable retailer in the United States. His success has made him immensely popular on social media, even to the point where he has become a social media phenomenon with millions of followers across his accounts.


Émiland Marie Gauthey (3 December 1732 in Chalon-sur-Saône – 14 July 1806 in Paris) was a French mathematician, civil engineer and architect. As an engineer for the États de Bourgogne (English: States of Burgundy), he was the creator of a great deal of the region's civil infrastructure, such as the Canal du Centre between Digoin and Chalon-sur-Saône (1784 – 1793), bridges including those at Navilly (1782 – 1790) and Gueugnon (1784 – 1787), and buildings such as the Eglise Saint-Pierre-et-Saint-Paul (\"Church of St Peter and St Paul\") at Givry (Saône-et-Loire) (1772 – 1791) and the theatre at Chalon-sur-Saône. Gauthey became Chief Engineer of the États de Bourgogne in 1782, on the death of his predecessor and close collaborator, Thomas Dumorey. After the French Revolution, he held several important posts in the Haute administration des Ponts-et Chaussées (\"High Commission for Bridges and [High]ways\") in Paris. He was awarded the Légion d'honneur in 1804 on its creation by Napoleon Bonaparte. From 1805 until his death, he was the highest-ranked engineer in France.


Andreas Pavel (born in 1945) is a German-Brazilian inventor who is credited as the first person to invent and patent the portable personal stereo cassette player, better known after the idea was commercialized by Sony as the Walkman. Born in Aachen, Germany, Pavel went to São Paulo when he was 6 years old, brought by his father who went to work for the Matarazzo industries. It was in Brazil, in 1972, that he invented his device, the stereobelt. He lived in a modern house in Morumbi, and was acquainted to some important personalities of the time, as the journalist Vladimir Herzog and the poet Augusto de Campos Over the next few years he tried to interest companies like Grundig, Philips, and Yamaha in manufacturing it. In 1977, Pavel filed a patent in Italy on the device, followed by patents in the United States, Germany, United Kingdom, and Japan. He moved to Milan aged 30 years. In 1979, Sony began selling the popular Walkman, and in 1980 started legal talks with Pavel regarding a royalty fee. In 1986 Sony finally agreed to pay royalties to Pavel, but only for sales in Germany, and only for a few models, and refused to acknowledge him as the inventor of the device. In 1989, Andreas Pavel started new proceedings, this time going through the law courts in the UK. Seven years later, the case was dismissed and Pavel was left with $3.6 million of debt for his court costs. Then in 2001, Pavel threatened Sony with legal suits in every country in which he had patented his invention. The corporation agreed to resume talks with Pavel and a settlement was finally reached in 2003. The exact settlement fee is a closely guarded secret, but European press accounts said that Pavel received a cash settlement for damages in excess of $10,000,000 and is now also receiving royalties on some Walkman sales. The settlement also includes a clause which will prevent Pavel from bringing future lawsuits. The settlement grants Pavel the recognition from Sony that he was the original inventor of the Walkman; this apparently could only be achieved after the death of Akio Morita, the founder of Sony and previously-recognised creator of the personal stereo. Pavel reportedly had considered asking manufacturers of MP3 music players for royalties, including Apple (for their popular iPod player). However, in December 2005 he said he did not intend to do so, not wishing to spend further time fighting lawsuits. He is now developing what he calls a \"dreamkit\", a \"hand-held, multimedia, sense-extension device\".


Robert Findlay (1859–1951) was a Canadian architect. He was born in Inverness, Scotland, and moved to Montreal in 1885. He won the competition for the first Sun Life Building, and was the architect for the project, which he began in 1890. The Sun Life company left this building for its current location in 1913. Findlay cultivated an extensive practice, working in later years with his son, Frank. He designed several mansions in the Golden Square Mile and a number of other large private houses in Westmount, including Westmount City Hall. Among his private clients he included four of the Molson family; Robert Wilson Reford; F.E. Meredith; Charles Meredith; J.K.L. Ross; Sir Edward Beatty; Charles Francis Smithers; A.A. Bronfman and Sir Mortimer Davis. Many of the Golden Square Mile homes he designed were later purchased by McGill University, including the Sir Mortimer Davis House (now Purvis Hall). He also designed the Calvary Congregational Church in Westmount (1911), located at the intersection of Greene Street and Dorchester Boulevard; demolished in 1961. He was also responsible for Mull Hall (1916), (later known as Stewart Hall) on Lakeshore Rd, and for the Hallward House (1925) on Mountain Street, later known as Martlet House, but not to be confused with the Martlet House on Peel Street, built by David Spence in 1928. \n* Sir Mortimer Davis House (1900) \n* Harold Stearns House (1904) \n* William A. Molson House (1905) \n* George Sumner House (1906) \n* Charlotte R. Harrisson House (1912) \n* Herbert Molson House (1912) \n* Charles Wesley MacLean House (1916) \n* Harrieth Frothingham House (1916) \n* Westmount City Hall (1922) \n* Alice Graham House (1925) \n* Joseph-Aldéric Raymond House (1929) \n* Abe Bronfman House (1931)


Major-General Dr Walter Robert Dornberger (6 September 1895 – 27 June 1980) was a German Army artillery officer whose career spanned World Wars I and II. He was a leader of Nazi Germany's V-2 rocket program and other projects at the Peenemünde Army Research Center. Dornberger was born in Gießen and enlisted in 1914. In October 1918, as an artillery lieutenant Dornberger was captured by US Marines and spent two years in a French prisoner-of-war camp (mostly in solitary confinement because of repeated escape attempts). In the late 1920s, Dornberger completed an engineering course with distinction at the Berlin Technical Institute, and in the Spring of 1930, Dornberger graduated after five years with an MS degree in mechanical engineering from the Technische Hochschule Charlottenburg in Berlin. In 1935, Dornberger received an honorary doctorate, which Col. Karl Emil Becker arranged as Dean of the new Faculty of Military Technology at the TH Berlin.


Dashenko Adriano Ricardo  (born March 1, 1990) is a Dutch professional baseball catcher, who is currently a free agent. He was signed as an undrafted free agent by the Baltimore Orioles in 2007. With the Orioles, he pitched in the Dominican Summer League in 2007, Gulf Coast League in 2008, South Atlantic League in 2009, Appalachian League in 2009–2010 and New York–Penn League in 2010. He was released by the Orioles and signed as a minor league free agent with the San Francisco Giants in 2011. He played for the Arizona League Giants in 2011 and the Salem-Keizer Volcanoes in 2012. The Giants released him in February, 2013. He signed a minor league contract with the Los Angeles Dodgers on March 17, 2013. He bounced around the Dodgers system, appearing in 26 games for Class-A Great Lakes, 9 for AA Chattanooga and 2 for AAA Albuquerque. He was released by the Dodgers in March 2014. As a member of the Netherlands national baseball team he played in the 2009 Baseball World Cup , 2013 World Baseball Classic , 2014 France International Baseball Tournament , 2014 European Baseball Championship , 2015 World Port Tournament , 2015 WBSC Premier12 , 2016 Haarlem Baseball Week , 2016 France International Baseball Tournament , and the 2016 European Baseball Championship.


Grant Catalino is an American lacrosse player from Webster, New York. He is an attackman for the Long Island Lizards of Major League Lacrosse. He played college lacrosse for the University of Maryland Terrapins. Catalino grew up in Webster, a suburb of Rochester, where he was a team captain for the Webster Schroeder High School Warriors for two years. In his senior year, the Democrat and Chronicle made him the first-ever All-Greater Rochester Player of the Year for boys' lacrosse. At Maryland, where he majored in personal finance, he was a three-time All-American. He finished his college career with 119 goals (good for seventh all-time at Maryland) and 66 assists for 185 points (good for tenth all-time). He was drafted 21st overall by the Denver Outlaws in the 2011 MLL Collegiate Draft, but he was quickly traded to his hometown Rochester Rattlers. He made his pro debut for the Rattlers after the Terrapins' season ended in the NCAA championship game. In his second professional game, he tied an MLL record by scoring nine goals in one game, a Rattlers loss to the Hamilton Nationals. He was drafted in the sixth round of the 2011 NLL Entry Draft by his hometown Rochester Knighthawks. Catalino is now retired from pro lacrosse and coaches at the Aquinas institute for the boys varsity team. Catalino led the team to the sectional finals in 2015 where his Aquinas team lost to the upstate New York powerhouse Penn Yan mustangs.


Thomas Böttger (born 1957 in Neustrelitz, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern) is a German composer and pianist. From 1975 to 1980 he studied composition and piano at the Berlin College of Music \"Hanns Eisler\". From 1980 to 1981 he studied with Tadeusz Baird at the Fryderyk Chopin Music Academy in Warsaw. From 1981 to 1983 he was a master's student of Ruth Zechlin at the Academy of the Arts, Berlin. In 1983 his composition Rilke-Lieder was first performed at the Warsaw Autumn. Since 1986 he lives in Hamburg and he currently works for the North German Broadcasting. Between 1999 and 2001 he created more than 200 programs about piano music. As a pianist he performed in many European countries (e.g. Kuhmo Chamber Music Festival in Finland, Assisi-Festival in Italy and Kodály-Festival in Hungary). His work includes commissioned compositions by the Berlin State Opera, the broadcasting corporation of the GDR and the Palace of the Republic. He worked together with Miklós Perényi, the Wooden Art Duo, the Ensemble Integrales, John-Edward Kelly, the Ensemble Sortisatio and Michael Massong. He wrote a book about Tamás Vásáry in 2005. In 2008 he served as a jury member at the Richter International Piano Competition in Moscow.


Chester Greenwood (December 4, 1858 – July 5, 1937), of Farmington, Maine, invented the earmuff in 1873, at the age of 15. He reportedly came up with the idea while ice skating and he asked his grandmother to sew tufts of fur between loops of wire. His patent was for improved ear protectors. He manufactured these ear protectors, providing jobs for people in the Farmington area for nearly 60 years. Greenwood also patented a tea kettle, a variation of the steel-toothed rake, an advertising matchbox, and a machine used to produce wooden spools for wire and thread. He invented, but did not patent, an umbrella holder for mail carriers. The total number of patents Greenwood held seems to be contested: Some claim only a handful, while others claim over 100.  The memory of the latter helps boost Greenwood's historical legacy. In addition to being an inventor, Greenwood was the owner of a bicycle business and a business involving an improved heating system. He also introduced of one of the first telephone systems in Farmington. He was an accomplished machinist, an active member of the community, a business developer, a member of the Unitarian Church and a family man. His wife, Isabel (née Whittier), was a supporter of woman suffrage. He and Isabel were parents of four children.


Bogdan Bogdanović (20 August 1922 − 18 June 2010) was a Serbian architect, urbanist and essayist. He taught architecture at the University of Belgrade Faculty of Architecture, where he also served as dean. Bogdanović wrote numerous articles about urbanism, especially about its mythic and symbolic aspects, some of which appeared in international journals such as El País, Svenska Dagbladet, Die Zeit, and others. He was also involved in politics, as a partisan in World War II, later as mayor of Belgrade. When Slobodan Milošević rose to power and nationalism gained ground in Yugoslavia, Bogdanović became a dissident. Bogdanović is best known for designing monuments and memorials commemorating victims and resistance fighters of World War II built all over Yugoslavia from the early 1950s to 1980s. In particular, the monumental concrete sculpture titled Stone Flower near the site of Jasenovac concentration camp gained international attention.


Adeline King Robinson (22 March 1865 – 18 December 1943) was an American female tennis player who was active during the 1880s and 1890s. She was born in New York, the daughter of stockbroker Beverly Robinson and Eliza Gracie King. She was educated at private schools in New York City and in France. Robinson mainly played at the Staten Island Cricket and Baseball Club and in New York tournaments. In September 1887 she won the doubles event at the New York Lawn Tennis Club open tournament with Miss Clark. In October she won the singles title at the Hastings-on-Hudson tournament after defeating Ellen Roosevelt in the final. Robinson competed in the women's singles event at the 1888 National Championships, played in June at the Philadelphia Cricket Club. She defeated Augusta Roberts in the first round in straight sets and won her second round match against Ellen Roosevelt before losing in the semifinal to eventual champion Bertha Townsend after failing to convert a matchpoint. She was described by tennis champion Henry Slocum in 1889 as \"the most skillful exponent of lawn tennis to be found among the women of America.\". After rheumatism cut short her tennis career Robinson took up golf and played for the Richmond County Country Club. She was the defending champion at the 1898 Harbor Hill Golf Club tournament and competed at the W.M.G.A. tournament in 1900. In the late 1890s she began giving dancing lessons to children which she continued to do until about 1939.


Louis Lortie, OC, CQ (born 27 April 1959) is a French-Canadian pianist. He currently lives in Berlin. An international soloist, with over 30 recordings on the Chandos Records label, Lortie is particularly known for his interpretation of Ravel, Chopin and Beethoven. Born in Montreal, Louis Lortie made his debut with the Montreal Symphony Orchestra at the age of thirteen and the Toronto Symphony Orchestra three years later. Soon after he performed an historic tour of the People’s Republic of China and Japan. He won First Prize in the Ferruccio Busoni International Piano Competition in 1984. In the same year, he won the fourth place prize at the Leeds Competition. He was named an Officer of the Order of Canada, and was made a Knight of the National Order of Quebec as well as receiving an honorary doctorate from Université Laval. He teaches at Italy’s renowned Accademia Pianistica Internazionale at Imola. Since 2016, he is a \"Master in residence\" at the Queen Elisabeth Music Chapel (Waterloo, Belgium).


Željko Pavlović (born 2 March 1971) is a retired Croatian football goalkeeper. Pavlović started his professional career in 1989 at the club FK Željezničar from Bosnia and Herzegovina and transferred after three seasons to Croatian club Dinamo Zagreb, where he spent one season as understudy to Dražen Ladić and made three domestic league appearances before leaving the club for their city rivals NK Zagreb in the summer of 1994. He spent two seasons with Zagreb as the club's first-choice goalkeeper and then he moved abroad by signing with Austrian club FC Linz for the 1996-97 season. He subsequently continued to play for LASK Linz after FC Linz merged with the club in the summer of 1997. Pavlović made his debut for the Croatian national team playing as the team's substitute goalkeeper in the second half of their friendly match against Israel on 26 March 1996 in Varaždin. He subsequently had to wait for more than three years to win his second international cap for the team, playing all 90 minutes in a friendly match against France on 13 November 1999 at the Stade de France. In 2000, he made three appearances for Croatia in international friendlies before he went on to play the only competitive international match in his career, playing all 90 minutes against Scotland in the Croatian national team's second qualifying match for the 2002 World Cup on 11 October 2000 in Zagreb. He made his last appearance for the Croatian national team in their friendly match against Greece on 25 April 2001 in Varaždin. Pavlović won a total of seven international caps for Croatia. At club level, Pavlović played for LASK Linz until the end of the 2000-01 season and then he left the club for RSC Anderlecht from Belgium. However, he never managed to establish himself as the first-choice goalkeeper in the Anderlecht team in both of the two seasons he spent there and returned to Austria by signing with Wüstenrot Salzburg in July 2003. He spent only one half-season with Salzburg and went on to play for FC Kärnten until the end of the 2003-04 season. In July 2004, Pavlović signed with Wacker Tirol and has been the club's first-choice goalkeeper ever since, making a total of 57 Bundesliga appearances until the end of the 2005-06 season.


Gregory Burgess is an Australian architect based in Melbourne, Victoria. Burgess is especially notable for his buildings for indigenous communities in Australia, and for his participatory design approach which has produced some remarkable and unique buildings. He graduated from the Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning at the University of Melbourne in 1970. He has led a practice called the Gregory Burgess Architects for 32 years. Gregory Burgess received the RAIA Gold Medal in 2004, the Australian architecture profession's highest accolade. He has received over 40 professional and community awards including the AIA Sir Zelman Cowen Award and Victorian Architecture Medal. His work has been exhibited at major galleries in London, Amsterdam, Tokyo, Edinburgh and all Australian cities. Eminent international journal Architectural Review claimed that: \"[Burgess is among a select group of architects on the global stage who] ... tend the flame of hope and carry the lamp of truth in a world that seems increasingly to have no values other than profit and the market in its grossest form\".


Leona Baumgartner (August 18, 1902 – January 15, 1991) was an American physician. She was the first woman to serve as Commissioner of New York City’s Department of Health (1954–1962). She was a strong advocate of health education and a pioneer in promoting health services among New York’s immigrant and poverty-stricken population. Leona Baumgartner was born in 1902 to Olga and William Baumgartner. She earned her B.A in Bacteriology and M.A in Immunology at the University of Kansas where her father was a professor of zoology. She was a member of the Kansas Alpha chapter of Pi Beta Phi She was the 1933-34 winner of the Pi Beta Phi Graduate Fellowship Moving onto Yale University, Baumgartner received her Ph.D. in Public Health in 1934 and received her M.D. the same year. From 1934–1936, she interned in Pediatrics at New York City Hospital. It was during this time, in depression-era New York, that Baumgartner began making home visits in the city’s poorest areas. In 1937, She joined New York’s Department of Health as a medical instructor in Child and School Hygiene. In 1939, Baumgartner was promoted to district health officer, where she managed a number of health services including school health programs, parenting classes and clinics on venereal disease. In 1954, Baumgartner was appointed Commissioner of Health of New York City. In addition to revising the city’s health code, she also implemented routine inspections of the city’s many restaurant kitchens, slaughterhouses and day-care facilities. She was instrumental in garnering funding for public health research and a premature childcare facility. Following in the work of Sara Josephine Baker, Baumgartner sought to increase public knowledge of health issues through a series of radio and television broadcasts. On October 28, 1956, she assisted Dr. Harold Fuerst in the inoculation of the then 21 year old Elvis Presley, an event witnessed by the entire world press with bureaus in New York City, carried live on all three networks and which resulted in the exponential increase in the polio immunization of all Americans from 0.6%, the prevailing rate on the previous day, to 80% by April 1957. As the years went buy, maternal and child health remained a constant concern throughout her career and informed her decision to promote family planning practices and birth control. In 1962, she was appointed by President John F. Kennedy to head the Office of Technical Cooperation and Research at the United States Agency for International Development. Under the Johnson administration she fought to overturn policies that prevented the inclusion of birth control in the agency’s health programs. She is credited with convincing President Lyndon B. Johnson to reverse policy on funding for international programs that provided birth control. In 1965, Baumgartner accepted a position as a visiting professor at Harvard Medical School. She remained at this post until her retirement in 1972. During the same years, she also served as Executive Director of the Medical Care and Education Foundation. Throughout her career, Baumgartner was dedicated to health education as the cornerstone to the creation of a healthy community, beginning with her work as district health officer in planning classes and clinics. Baumgartner was also an early advocate of the vaccine developed by Jonas Salk as a method of immunization against polio and the fluoridation of water as a bulwark against dental disease. Baumgartner was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1969. She was awarded the Public Welfare Medal from the National Academy of Sciences in 1977. Her other awards include the Sedgwick Medal, the Albert Lasker Public Service Award, the Elizabeth Blackwell Award, and the Samuel J. Crumbine Award. In 1942, Baumgartner married Nathaniel Elias, a chemical engineer. The marriage lasted until Elias’ death in 1964; in 1970, Baumgartner married Dr. Alexander Langmuir who survived her death in 1991 from polycythemia by two years.


Irving Ray Timlin (December 15, 1880 – October 18, 1955) was an American architect. He spent his entire career with the Southwestern Bell Telephone Company, where he was chief architect during the company's rapid expansion in the first half of the twentieth century. From the 1910s to the 1940s, Timlin designed or co-designed 140 buildings for the company in cities across the midwestern and southwestern United States. Timlin joined the Bell Telephone Company of Missouri in 1904 as a draftsman in Kansas City. In 1907 he was made assistant equipment engineer, then architect in 1911. Timlin moved to St. Louis, headquarters of Bell Telephone's Southwestern System, in 1917. He retired in 1945. Timlin was architect or associate architect of several skyscrapers, many of which are still in use. These include \n*  Oak Tower, Kansas City, Missouri; \n*  Three SBC Plaza (308 S. Akard St.), Dallas, Texas; \n*  Southwestern Bell Building, St. Louis, Missouri; and \n*  Southwestern Bell Building (105 Auditorium Cir.), San Antonio, Texas.


Lily Tomlin (born Mary Jean Tomlin; September 1, 1939) is an American actress, comedian, writer, singer and producer. Tomlin began her career as a stand-up comedian, and performing Off-Broadway during the 1960s. Her breakout role was performing as a cast member on the variety show Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In from 1970 until 1973. She currently stars on the Netflix series Grace and Frankie as Frankie Bergstein. Her performance as Frankie garnered her nominations for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series in 2015 and 2016. In 1974 Tomlin was cast by Robert Altman in her first film; her performance as Linnea Reese in Nashville won her several awards and nominations for the Golden Globe and Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress In 1977, her performance as Margo Sperling in The Late Show won her the Best Actress Award at the Berlin International Film Festival and nominations for the Golden Globe and BAFTA Award for Best Lead Actress. Her other notable films include 9 to 5 (1980), All of Me (1984), Flirting with Disaster (1996), Tea with Mussolini (1999), I Heart Huckabees (2004), and Grandma (2015). Her signature role was written by her wife (then partner), Jane Wagner, in a show titled The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe which opened on Broadway in 1985 and won Tomlin the Tony Award for Best Lead Actress in a Play. She is also known as the voice of Ms. Frizzle on the children's series The Magic School Bus. She won her first Emmy Awards in 1974 for writing and producing her own television special, Lily. Tomlin won a Grammy Award for her 1972 comedy album This Is a Recording. In 2014 she was given Kennedy Center Honors and in 2016 she will receive the Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award.


Bernd Karbacher (born 3 April 1968) is a professional German tennis player. His highest ATP singles ranking is World No. 22, which he reached on 17 April 1995. His career-high doubles ranking was World No. 163, achieved on 6 June 1994. During his career he won two singles titles, Cologne in 1992 and the Swedish Open in Båstad in 1994. He twice reached the quarterfinals of a Grand Slam tournament. He did so in 1994 at the US Open after defeating Ivan Lendl and at the French Open in 1996 after a win against Goran Ivanišević. He also reached the semifinals of the 1993 Hamburg Masters and reached the finals of Indianapolis in 1995 after defeating Pete Sampras. At the 1998 US Open, Karbacher, then ranked World No. 155, upset Australian Open champion and fourth seed Petr Korda in the first round in four sets. He retired from professional tennis in 2000. Since 2007 he is the president of the German players organization \"Tennis Germany\".


Holly Rene Holm-Kirkpatrick (born Holly Rene Holm; October 17, 1981) is an American mixed martial artist who competes in the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) bantamweight division. She is the former UFC Women's Bantamweight Champion. Holm is also a former professional boxer and kickboxer. She was a multiple-time world champion in boxing, defending her titles 18 times in three weight classes, and was a two-time Ring magazine fighter of the year (2005, 2006). Holm's most notable win in mixed martial arts (MMA) occurred at UFC 193, in front of a record-breaking crowd for a UFC event (56,214 people) in Melbourne, when she captured the bantamweight title and gave Ronda Rousey her first and only loss in the sport. The fight is considered one of the biggest upsets in the history of sports. Holm is the first person to win championships in both boxing and mixed martial arts. As of July 28, 2016, she is ranked the #4 female bantamweight contender by the Ultimate Fighting Championship, and the #2 fighter by Sherdog. She is also ranked the #3 pound-for-pound female fighter by Sherdog, while Fight Matrix lists her as #7. UFC fighter and teammate Jon Jones has called her the greatest female athlete in the history of combat sports. Outside of MMA, she appears in the 2016 feature film Fight Valley.


Charles Frederick \"Skip\" Stephenson (April 18, 1940 – May 18, 1992) was an American actor and comedian. He was born in Omaha, Nebraska, and graduated in 1958 from Holy Name High School. After attending a year at University of Omaha, Stephenson took a job as a DJ in Alliance, Nebraska. In the 1970s he moved to Los Angeles, where he performed stand-up comedy at the L.A. Cabaret Comedy Club in Encino and the legendary Comedy Store. His big break came in 1979 as the co-host of NBC's Real People. Wearing bright crew-necked sweaters, he was known for his quirky comments and playful flirtings with co-host Sarah Purcell. Alongside this success came appearances on The Love Boat, Hart to Hart, Match Game, Hollywood Squares, Password Plus, The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, The Dinah Shore Show and The Merv Griffin Show. He released a comedy album, The Real Comedy of Skip Stephenson on Laff Records. His career declined after the cancellation of Real People. He dabbled in country music in 1982. In 1991, he starred in the video Skip Stephenson Live at the Comedy Store. Was the last star to play the head to head match on Match Game's last episode in 1982. Stephenson died of a heart attack at his home in 1992 exactly one month after his 52nd birthday.


Aleksandr Fyodorovich Poleshchuk (born October 30, 1953) is a Russian cosmonaut. Born in Cheremkhovo, Irkutsk region, he graduated from the Moscow Aviation Institute in 1977 with a mechanical engineering diploma. He then joined RSC Energia as a test engineer, where he was occupied with perfecting repair and assembly techniques performed during space flights. He has extensive experience in test work under simulated weightlessness conditions. In February 1989 he was selected as a test cosmonaut candidate (1989 Cosmonaut Candidates Class, Group 14, Civil Specialists). From September 1989 to January 1991 he underwent the complete course of general space training and was qualified as a test cosmonaut, and then till March 1992 he undertook advanced training for the Soyuz-TM transport vehicle and Mir station flight. In 1992 he was selected as the backup flight engineer of the Soyuz TM-15 joint Russian-French mission, and consequently nominated as the flight engineer of the prime crew of Soyuz TM-16. In space from January 24 to July 22, 1993, he participated in a 179-day space flight with Gennady Manakov. During the flight he performed two EVAs totaling 9 hours and 58 minutes. Also testing of the androgynous peripheral docking subassembly of the Kristall module was performed. October 1994 to March 1995 he trained as back-up flight engineer for the Soyuz TM-21 transport vehicle and Mir Station 18th primary expedition flights. Poleshchuk is married and has one daughter.


Yang Zi (born 19 June 1984, in Beijing, China) is a table tennis player representing Singapore. Yang Zi began his table tennis in 2004 when he first participated in the ITTF Pro Tour. He has represented Singapore in many major events such as 15th Asian Games, 18th Commonwealth Games and 23rd SEA Games. He is currently Singapore's second-ranked male table tennis player. In 2005, he won 2 Pro Tour Men's Singles U21 titles and won the Pro Tour Grand Finals Men's Singles U21 title. He also won the silver medal in the Beijing Invitational. Later he also managed to clinch 3 gold medals in the 2005 Southeast Asian Games and 2 golds in the 2006 Commonwealth Games. During the world's second largest sports event, 15th Asian Games, Yang Zi, together with partner Li Jiawei, won the bronze medal for the mixed doubles event. The pair made up of Yang and Gao Ning has also won many medals in the ITTF Pro Tour Events. At the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games, Yang Zi made it to the 4th round losing to Zoran Primorac of Croatia by a score of 4-2, however managing to defeat Marcos Freitas(POR) and Chuang Chih-yuan(TPE) in the 2nd and 3rd rounds respectively. At the 2012 Summer Olympics, he lost to Paul Drinkhall in the second round, but he fared much better in the team event, where Singapore reached the quarterfinals, where they lost to the eventual gold medalists, China. At the 2014 Commonwealth Games, he and Jian Zhan won the bronze medal in the men's doubles, defeating Drinkhall and Liam Pitchford of England in the bronze medal match. The Singapore team Yang was a member of also won the gold medal in the team event.


Aisling Daly (born 24 December 1987) is an Irish female professional mixed martial artist who competes in the UFC women's strawweight division. A professional MMA competitor since 2007, Daly has mostly fought in the United Kingdom. Daly is well known for her participation in the reality TV series \"The Ultimate Fighter: A Champion Will Be Crowned\", season 20. The 12 episodes featured a single elimination tournament that was used to determine two finalists to compete for the first ever UFC woman's straw weight belt. Daly was eliminated in the quarterfinals, and as a result of her showing was offered and accepted a fight on the undercard of the championship fight, which she won. Daly has competed in several divisions, including strawweight and flyweight. Daly has trained throughout her career at Straight Blast Gym of Ireland, under head coach John Kavanagh. She holds a black belt in BJJ.


Larry C. Napper (born November 27, 1947) served as the United States Ambassador to Latvia from 1995 to 1998 and as the U.S. Ambassador to Kazakhstan from 2001 to 2004. Napper was born in San Antonio, Texas. After graduating from Texas A&M University in 1969 with a bachelor's degree in History, he served in the United States army from 1969-72. Following his honorable discharge from the Army at the rank of Captain, Napper attended the University of Virginia from 1972–74, earning a master's degree in Government and Foreign Affairs. Napper entered the United States Foreign Service in August 1974. After a year of Russian language training, Napper was assigned to the United States Embassy in Moscow, where he served as Vice Consul from 1975-77. He then served as a Political Officer at the U.S. embassy in Gaborone, Botswana from 1977-79. Following a year of advanced training in Soviet and East European Affairs at Stanford University, Napper joined the Department's Office of Soviet Union Affairs where he served until 1983. In 1983-84, Napper received an American Political Science Association Congressional Fellowship in the office of Representative Lee H. Hamilton. In 1984, Napper returned to Embassy Moscow for a two-year assignment as Chief of the Foreign Affairs Unit of the Political Section. From 1986-88 he served as Deputy Director of the Department's Office of southern African Affairs. After six months of Romanian language training, Napper became Chargé d'affaires and later Deputy Chief of Mission of the U.S. Embassy in Bucharest, Romania from 1989-91. He received the Department's Distinguished Honor Award for leadership of the Embassy during the December 1989 overthrow of the Ceausescu dictatorship. From August 1991 to July 1994, Napper served as Director of the Department's Office of Soviet Union Affairs, reorganizing it as the Office of Independent States and Commonwealth Affairs following the collapse of the Soviet Union. During his tenure, the United States established diplomatic relations with each of the fifteen independent states that emerged from the Soviet Union, opening embassies in each of their capitals. Napper received the Presidential Meritorious Service Award in 1994, as well as other State Department individual and group awards. Mr. Napper served as the U.S. Ambassador to Latvia from July 1995 until July 1998. From July 1998 to June 2001, Mr. Napper was Coordinator for United States Assistance to Central and Eastern Europe, administering an assistance budget of more than $600 million. Following his retirement from the foreign service, Napper took a position as senior lecturer at the George Bush School of Government and Public Service at Texas A&M University.


Joan Roca i Fontané (1964, Girona, Catalonia, Spain) is a chef of the restaurant El Celler de Can Roca (in 2013, it was named the best restaurant in the world by the magazine Restaurant, after having been ranked second in 2011 and 2012. In 2014, it was named second best restaurant in the world. In 2015, it was once again named the best restaurant in the world by the magazine Restaurant). He studied in Escola d'Hosteleria de Girona, where later he became a teacher. He worked with his grandparents and parents in their family business, a restaurant of traditional Catalan cuisine. Today Joan is the chef of his own restaurant, together with his two brothers. Josep (sommelier), and Jordi (pastry chef). He is elaborating traditional cuisine together with avant-garde techniques, which implies research of both modern techniques and traditional recipes.Some of the techniques he uses are Sous-vide, \"Perfume-cooking\" and Distillation.


Murthel \"The Predator\" Groenhart (born October 10, 1986) is a Dutch-Surinamese super middleweight kickboxer fighting out of Amsterdam, Netherlands for Mike's Gym, where he is trained by Mike Passenier. He is the 2008 K-1 Italy Oktagan champion and K-1 World MAX 2012 World Championship Tournament Champion currently fighting within the It's Showtime organization. As of 2 November 2015, he is ranked the #6 welterweight in the world by GLORY. Originally from Suriname, Murthel began his kickboxing career fighting on small shows in the Netherlands. He made his SLAMM debut in 2006, losing both of his fights with the organization, including a decision loss to Leroy Kaestner at B-Klass level. In 2008, Murthel was invited by the K-1 organization to take part in an eight-man tournament, which had originally been intended for heavyweights but was changed later for fighters around the 75 kg bracket. Murthel won the competition in spectacular fashion, dispatching all three of his opponents by stoppage on the night to take the title in Milan. The performance at the K-1 tournament led to Murthel being invited to take part in a fight within the It's Showtime organization – the Netherlands biggest kickboxing organization. He lost his debut to It's Showtime Reality winner Sem Braan but impressed enough to be invited back for further matches. Although an impressive fighter with a good knockout ratio, Murthel has had up and down performances within the organization, winning fights against the likes of Yassin Boudrouz and Joep Beerenpoot by knockout, but losing to Vladimir Moravcik and being knocked out by Ali Cenik, fights he should have been expected to do better in. Murthel has also fought and lost to top class fighters such as Cosmo Alexandre and Nieky Holzken – with the loss against Holzken after an extension round, being slightly unfortunate for some who felt Murthel deserved more. Despite some inconsistent performances, Murthel won the vacant E.M.T.A. European title at the start of 2010, defeating Amir Zeyada in an impressive showing. He ventured up to the 79 kg division to face Marc de Bonte at Glory 2: Brussels on October 6, 2012 in Brussels, Belgium and scored another come-from-behind victory as he knocked his opponent out with a knee strike in the second round. He went on to win the K-1 World MAX 2012 World Championship Tournament Final in Athens, Greece on December 15, 2012, stopping Yasuhiro Kido and Mike Zambidis before knocking out his stable-mate Artur Kyshenko in the final. He faced Robin van Roosmalen at Glory 7: Milan in Milan, Italy on April 20, 2013, losing a unanimous decision after getting dropped in round one. Groenhart lost to Davit Kiria via unanimous decision at Glory 10: Los Angeles - Middleweight World Championship Tournament in Ontario, California, United States on September 28, 2013. He joined the Blackzilians camp in preparation for the fight. He was expected to fight Shemsi Beqiri on the Glory 14: Zagreb undercard in Zagreb, Croatia on March 8, 2014 but Beqiri withdrew due to an injury was replaced by Teo Mikelić. Mikelić dropped him with a right cross early in round one but Groenhart climbed off the canvas and went to work, opening a cut on the Croatian that prompted a doctor's stoppage after the first round. Replacing his stablemate Artur Kyshenko who conceded that he would be unable to make the contracted weight of -71 kg/156 lb, Groenhart stepped in to face Dzhabar Askerov at Legend 3: Pour Homme in Milan, Italy on April 5, 2014. He was fortunate not to be counted by referee Atsushi Onari in the early goings after succumbing to knockdown courtesy of a left hook by Askerov, but he soon made quick work of the Russian, dropping him with a right hook before putting him away with a left hook inside the opening round.


David Adolph Korn (born September 1, 1930) is a former American diplomat, former United States Ambassador to Togo, author, and foreign service officer. He was appointed to his ambassadorship position on October 16, 1986, and left that post on April 4, 1988. David Korn was born in Wichita Falls, Texas. He attended Joplin Junior College and the University of Missouri. He holds degrees from the Institut d'Etudes Politiques in Paris, France, 1953–1956, and the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, 1957. Korn is fluent in French, Hebrew, and Arabic. He served in the United States Army from 1951 to 1953. Korn joined the Foreign Service in September 1957 after serving briefly as a desk officer for North Africa at the International Administration, the predecessor of USAID. Later that year he was assigned as political officer to the U.S. Embassy in Paris, France. He returned to Washington D.C. in 1959 to serve in the State Department's Executive Secretariat. From 1961 to 1963, Korn was political officer at the U.S. Embassy in Beirut, Lebanon. From there, in 1963 to 1964, he took Arabic language training at the American consulate in Tangier, Morocco; and from 1964 to 1965, he served as Chargé d'Affaires and political officer at the U.S. Embassy in Nouakchott, Mauritania. He then returned as desk officer for Arabian peninsula affairs from 1965 to 1967. Korn was then assigned to the U.S. Embassy in Tel Aviv, Israel, in 1967, where he took Hebrew language training before serving as political officer from 1968 to 1969 and chief of the political section from January 1970 to August 1971. Then from 1971 to 1972, he took mid-career training at Princeton University and then returned to the Department as Office Director for northern Arab affairs from 1972 to 1975. Korn was appointed American consul general in Calcutta, India, from 1975 to 1977. He served as a member of the policy planning staff in 1978; became officer director for Arab-Israeli affairs from 1978 to 1981; and was assigned to the Bureau of African Affairs, from 1981 to 1982. From 1982 to 1985, Korn was Chargé d'Affaires and ad interim at the U.S. Embassy in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, and in 1985–1986 was a fellow at Chatham House in London, England. His father was Thomas Adolph Korn and his mother was Iris Dobson. David Korn was divorced from Susan K. Palmer in 1981 and is married to Roberta Cohen, currently a non-resident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution.


Ryoichi Nakagawa (1913–1998) was a Japanese aircraft/automotive engineer. He graduated from Tokyo Imperial University in 1936 and joined Nakajima Aircraft Company in the same year.He improved Nakajima Sakae engine for Mitsubishi A6M Zero, Nakajima Ki-43 and other planes. He was the chief designer of Nakajima Homare engine for Nakajima Ki-84, Nakajima C6N, Kawanishi N1K and others.After the World War II, Nakajima Aircraft Company was disbanded and was banned to produce aircraft by the GHQ. They were divided into twelve companies.Two of them were Fuji Heavy Industries (Subaru) and Fuji Precision Industries (Prince Motors).Nakagawa was appointed the senior engineering manager of Prince and led all the Prince engineers.He supervised all the Prince vehicles projects including Skyline, Gloria, R380, S390P-1 Royal limousine and others.After the merger of Prince and Nissan in August 1966, he was promoted to the senior executive director of Nissan in 1969.Later he became the chairman of the Society of Automotive Engineers of Japan, Inc. (JSAE). He was also elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1990. He died on July 30, 1998.


Gala Gonzalez (born March 16, 1986 in A Coruña, Galicia, Spain) is a Spanish model, socialite, blogger, fashion designer and DJ. She is considered as the first Spanish fashion blogger.She is the niece of Spanish designer Adolfo Domínguez. She became popular for her fashion blog and her influence in the industry due to her style and photographs. She began her blog in 2007 following the success of her fotolog. She currently lives in London, UK since 2003 where she studied her BA in fashion at University of the Arts London. Gala has worked as the creative director of Linea U by Adolfo Domínguez since 2007. During September 2009, Gala released her first own collection Music Collection for Spanish label Adolfo Dominguez. In June 2010 she was cast for Loewe's campaign Leather Icons alongside Louis Simonon, Peaches Geldof, Tricia Ronane, and Ben Cobb. She also has starred modelling in international campaigns such as H&M, Mango, Corello and she is currently the face of Guerreiro and AG in Brasil. Gonzalez has appeared in over 20 international publications such as Vogue, Elle, Marie Claire and also collaborates with Spanish Vogue who in 2009 branded her as their national it girl. In March 2012 Gala was announced as the new face of Veet in Spain.


Martin Christopher Sayer (born June 20, 1987) is a Hong Kong tennis player. He is 1.85m and weighs 89 kg. Sayer is and has been a member of the Hong Kong Davis Cup team, compiling a 15-3 record in Davis Cup action since 2005. Sayer studied and received his BSc and MBA from Radford University, Virginia and competed in NCAA competitions during the 2005-09 period. In the 2008-09 Season, Sayer reached 100 wins in singles on February 8, 2009 and he won the NCAA Men's Division I Big South Conference Player of the Year Award for three consecutive years, from 2006 to 2008. From the Davis Cup official website, Sayer and Brian Hung are the most successful doubles team in the Davis Cup of Hong Kong. They competed in a 4-1 win-loss result. On March 8, 2009, Sayer played against Cecil Mamiit of the Philippines in the Davis Cup Asia/Oceania Group II first round. Mamiit won the match 6-4 4-6 3-6 6-7 7-9, the 58 games making it the longest match in the history of the Hong Kong Davis Cup team. Martin Sayer was member of the \"dream team\" at Radford University


Carlo Maria Abate (born 10 July 1932, in Turin), is an Italian former auto racing driver. He was one of the best Ferrari 250 GTO specialists. Abate preferred to be addressed as \"Carlo Mario Abate\"  instead of his christened name. Abate raced mostly for the private Italian team Scuderia Serenissima of Count Giovanni Volpi, but also for Scuderia Centro Sud, Scuderia Ferrari and the Porsche factory team. In 1959 he won the Mille Miglia with G. Balzarini. In 1962 he tried participating in Formula One races, entering the 1962 Naples Grand Prix in a Porsche, finishing 4th. After crashing his Lotus 18/21 at his next race at Reims-Gueux, he withdrew his entry to his first World Championship event, the 1962 French Grand Prix. He returned to the track for the 1962 Mediterranean Grand Prix, where he came 3rd. The following year, he drove a Scuderia Centro Sud Cooper to 5th place in the 1963 Imola Grand Prix, and came 3rd at Syracuse. After withdrawing his entry to the 1963 Italian Grand Prix, he retired from the sport at the end of the year, his greatest year, culminating with a win at the Targa Florio in a factory Porsche with Jo Bonnier. Abate later became the director of a private clinic.


Rey Francisco Quiñones (born November 11, 1963 in Río Piedras) is a Puerto Rican baseball infielder who had a short career in Major League Baseball, primarily as a shortstop. He played for the Boston Red Sox, the Seattle Mariners, and the Pittsburgh Pirates from 1986 to 1989. Boston traded him (along with Mike Brown and Mike Trujillo) to the Mariners for Spike Owen and Dave Henderson. The Mariners traded him to the Pirates (along with Bill Wilkinson) in exchange for Mike Dunne, Mike Walker, and Mark Merchant. The Pirates released him after a few months. He had an outstanding arm, but lacked consistency. He was the subject of controversy when he left the Mariners without permission to attend the funeral of a relative in Puerto Rico. Quiñones also once missed a game because he was busy playing Nintendo in the clubhouse. Quinones received a World Series ring from the 1996 New York Yankees, after holding an administrative position with the team. The ring was later sold at auction. He played 451 games and hit for a .245 average, with 29 home runs and 159 RBIs.


Alvah A. Keller (April 11, 1920 in Alexander, New York – November 19, 1961 in Phoenix, Arizona) was an American racecar driver. Keller participated in the NASCAR Strictly Stock/Grand National series from 1949 to 1956 with 29 career starts. He won two races during the 1954 season and was the first driver in the history of NASCAR's top division to have won a race in a foreign-built car. Keller won 1954 Grand National road-race at the Linden Airport in New Jersey, driving a Jaguar owned by big band leader Paul Whiteman. In 1954 Keller began a transition to Championship Cars. He drove in the AAA and USAC Champ Car series, racing in the 1954-1959 and 1961 seasons with 32 starts, including the Indianapolis 500 six times. He was involved in the crash that killed Bill Vukovich in 1955. He finished in the top ten 13 times, with a best finish of 2nd two times (Atlanta in 1956, and Milwaukee in 1961). His best Indy 500 finish was 5th in 1961. Keller died as a result of injuries sustained in a fiery Champ Car crash at the Arizona State Fairgrounds track.


Ben O'Brien (born November 4, 1984) is an American comedian and filmmaker based out of Baltimore, Maryland. He is a member of the Wham City arts collective and founding member of Wham City Comedy. He has directed videos for Adult Swim and Merge Records. He is the co-creator of the web series Showbeast (2006–2013) and he manages and performs with Wham City Comedy (2010–present). The website Brightest Young Things posted this about Wham City Comedy \"...you should make a point to see them, as they’re super funny and doing DIY comedy like few others.\" Most prominently he co-created along with Alan Resnick and Robby Rackleff, multiple shorts for Adult Swim, including Live Forever as You Are Now with Alan Resnick, Unedited Footage of a Bear, and most recently This House Has People In It. Which aired on Adult Swim the week of March 14, 2016.


James Walker FRS, (14 September 1781 – 8 October 1862) was an influential Scottish civil engineer. Born in Falkirk, he was apprenticed to his uncle Ralph Walker. Around 1800 they worked on the design and construction of London's West India and East India Docks. Later, he worked on the Surrey Commercial Docks from about 1810 onwards, remaining as engineer to the Surrey Commercial Dock Company until his death in 1862. In 1821 Walker built his first lighthouse, the West Usk Lighthouse, near Newport, South Wales. He went on to build another 21 lighthouses. Walker was the senior partner of the consulting engineering firm of Messrs. Walker and Burges (of Limehouse), Burges having first became his pupil in 1811 and risen to partner in 1829. In 1832 their offices moved to 44 Parliament Street, Westminster (which lies at southern end of Whitehall) and then to 23 George Street. In 1853 he promoted James Cooper, one of his assistants, to the partnership with the firm then being known as Messrs. Walker, Burges & Cooper. Walker succeeded his associate Thomas Telford as President of the Institution of Civil Engineers, serving from 1834 to 1845. He was also chief engineer of Trinity House, hence his considerable involvement with coastal engineering and lighthouses. He was conferred with Honorary Membership of the Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders in Scotland in 1857. He is buried beneath a humble gravestone in St Johns churchyard in Edinburgh against a retaining wall on one of the southern terraces.


The Patton Brothers, Jimmy Elliott (born 20 August 1931), and Brian Elliott (born 4 September 1934), are the two older brothers of Barry and Paul Elliott, The Chuckle Brothers. They began their career as a double act in 1954. They have starred in many pantomimes in their careers and have not missed a performance in fifty-two years. Jimmy Elliott started his pantomime career straight out of school in 1946, and was joined by Brian in 1956 for Aladdin at the New Wimbledon Theatre, London. Both Jimmy and Brian have made appearances in ChuckleVision with their younger brothers. Jimmy is known as No Slacking due to the catchphrase that he constantly has to relay to the Chuckle Brothers. For three months, all four brothers appeared together as the Chuckle Brothers on hit quiz/game show 3-2-1 with Ted Rogers on 17 April 1982 (Season 4, Episode 13), and also on New Faces. Afterwards, Jimmy and Brian returned to being the Patton Brothers.


Norman Aengus Maclaren (born 6 May 1948) is a Scottish Highlands-based television and film producer , fashion photographer, scriptwriter, artist, and environmentalist (and Highland gardener). Maclaren was born and raised in Scotland and is the son of David and Lady Edith Maclaren and grandson of Edith Abney-Hastings, 12th Countess of Loudoun. Maclaren has been involved in photography, editing and/or art direction for many British publications, such as Harpers & Queen, Deluxe  and Boulevard. Maclaren's fashion photography was acquired by the British Council, (together with other works by Cecil Beaton,Terence Donovan, Helmut Newton, et al.) for a round the world touring exhibition titled 'Look At Me'. He has collaborated with Punk Design Team Rocking Russian by contributing photography, directing pop promos and designing record sleeves. Since Channel 4 began he has produced many arts, lifestyle, investigative documentaries and youth programmes, most notably the ground breaking gardening series Dig, the Working Title co-production Get a Grip on Sex, and the invention of Video Diaries .


Samuel Austin (died 1834), was an English water-colour painter. Austin was a native of Liverpool. He commenced life as a banker's clerk, but eventually gave up a good position in order to devote himself entirely to the art in which he had excelled as an amateur, and of which he was enthusiastically fond. He exhibited water-colour drawings at the Society of British Artists from 1824 to 1826, and from 1827 at the annual exhibitions of the Society of Painters in Water-Colours, of which body he was elected an associate in the last-named year. He painted landscapes, and occasionally rustic figures: but his best works were coast scenes, introducing boats and figures, some of which were from sketches in the Netherlands, France, and on the Rhine. An example of his work, Shakespeare's Cliff, Dover, with Luggers on the Beach, is in the South Kensington Museum. A View of Dort has been engraved after him by William Miller. He died at Liverpool in July 1834.


Clement Hall Sinnickson (September 16, 1834 – July 24, 1919), was an American Republican Party politician, who served in the United States House of Representatives, where he represented New Jersey's 1st congressional district from 1875 to 1879. He is the grandnephew of Thomas Sinnickson, who was also a former Representative from New Jersey. Born in Salem, New Jersey, he attended private schools, and the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, before graduating from Union College, New York, in 1855. While at Union he became a member of Theta Delta Chi. After his collegiate career, he studied law, and was admitted to the bar in 1858, commencing the practice of law in Salem. During the Civil War Sinnickson served as Captain in the Union Army. He was elected as a Republican to the Forty-fourth and Forty-fifth United States Congresses, serving in office from March 4, 1875 to March 3, 1879. After his stint in Washington, he resumed the practice of law in Salem. He also served as a delegate to the 1880 Republican National Convention, and he was appointed judge of the Court of Common Pleas in 1896 and reappointed in 1901 and 1906. Sinnickson died in Salem, New Jersey on July 24, 1919 and was interred at St. John's Episcopal Cemetery.


Benny Urquidez (born June 20, 1952) is a half Spanish-half Mexican, American kickboxer, martial arts choreographer and actor. Nicknamed The Jet, Urquidez was a non-contact karate competitor who later pioneered full-contact fighting in the U.S. He made the transition from point to full-contact karate in 1974 – the year of its inception in the U.S. – frequently fighting in bouts where the rules were ambiguous and contrasts in styles were dramatic. Urquidez is also known for once holding the rare achievement of six World Titles in five different weight divisions, and Urquidez remained largely undefeated in his 27-year career. His only loss came in a Muay Thai which was shrouded in controversy, as Urquidez had only agreed to a no-decision exhibition, a clause which was ignored when the fight had ended. Between 1974 and 1993, he amassed a documented professional record of 49–1–1 (win-loss-draw) with 35 knockouts and two controversial no-contests, although he is also supposed to have an additional record of 10–0–1 (10 KOs) in undocumented pro fights, making a total of 59–1–2–2 (45 KOs). However, sources vary with Ratings listing Urquidez as 63–0–1, (57 knockouts) and on his own official webpage, Urquidez lists his fight record as 200–0, and says he was 63–0, with 57 knockouts in title defenses. Also, he claims to have been undefeated in the \"Adult Black Belt Division\" prior to entering full-contact karate. Black Belt magazine voted Urquidez \"Competitor of the Year\" in 1978.


John Roy Brock (October 16, 1896 – October 27, 1951) was an American professional baseball player. He played parts of two seasons, 1917 and 1918, in Major League Baseball, primarily as a catcher. Listed at 5 ft 6 1⁄2 in (1.69 m), 165 lb, Brock batted and threw right-handed. He was born in Hamilton, Illinois. After playing minor league baseball in 1916, Brock entered the majors in 1917 with the St. Louis Cardinals, appearing for them in seven games while hitting a .400 average (6-for-15). Back in 1918, he hit .212 in 27 games as the third-string catcher behind Mike González and Frank Snyder. In a two-season career, Brock batted .254 (17-for-67) with three doubles and seven stolen bases, driving in six runs while scoring 13 times. Brock played 13 minor league seasons between 1916 and 1930, most prominently for the Atlanta Crackers (1923–28), compiling a .256 average in 1310 games. He also managed in the Piedmont and Cotton States leagues in his last baseball season. Brock died in Clayton, Missouri, at the age of 55.


Ron Magill is an American wildlife expert and photographer; he is the communications director of the Miami-Dade Zoological Park and Gardens, and makes regular television appearances across local South Florida networks. Magill has won three Emmy Awards for his work on the nature documentary programs; Dreams of Alaska, The Amazon & Beyond, and Dreams of the Rain Forest. Magill was born in New York City, New York, but moved to Perrine, Florida at the age of 12, where he later attended Miami Palmetto High School and obtained an associate's degree at the University of Florida. His first job was working at the Miami Serpentarium, which no longer exists. In 1980, he became a zookeeper at Miami MetroZoo and gradually became lead zookeeper, senior zookeeper and then assistant curator. Today, Magill remains at the renamed Miami-Dade Zoological Park and Gardens, as its communications director and makes regular appearances on television shows such as Good Morning America, Sábado Gigante, Late Show with David Letterman, and The Today Show. He has a regular segment on the ESPN Radio's The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz, where listeners can call in and ask him questions. He has also appeared on several documentaries for the Discovery Channel and the History Channel, and, during the 1980s, handled all the animals used on the Miami Vice television series. In 2006, Magill received the Wildlife Ambassador Award in recognition of his efforts on wildlife preservation. Magill was also director for the Cheetah Conservation Program. Magill is also a Nikon Ambassador see


Jan Lucanus is an American comic book writer, filmmaker, martial artist, musical artist, and entrepreneur. He is the founder and CEO of the transmedia company Creative Impulse Entertainment, Inc., co-creator/co-writer of the mixed martial arts comic books series, JFH: Justice For Hire, is an award-winning filmmaker, an international martial arts champion in both the full contact sport of San Shou and the sport of Tai Chi Push Hands, and is a rapper/singer/songwriter. Lucanus also consults on business, production, and creative strategies for companies and individuals across comics, film, television, music, and games. He is a graduate of the New York University Maurice Kanbar Institute for Film & Television, Tisch School of the Arts, holding a degree in Film Production. As a transmedia artist, Lucanus has been called a \"martial arts comic book prodigy\" and an \"entertainment renaissance man\" for his work combining comic books, film, animation, and music, most notably for the JFH: Justice For Hire entertainment property. Comic book legend Neal Adams was quoted on interview with iFanboy stating, \"Understand we've got new people doing new things – Jan is an example of that... There's a new interrelationship between the forms that's beginning to develop from comic books to motion comics to film and television. Those of us who are aware of it are going to be involved in making entertainment from beginning to end\".


Zheng Minzhi is a female former table tennis player from China. In 1965 and 1971 she won several medals in singles, doubles, and team events in the World Table Tennis Championships. She later became a table tennis referee and coach. Zheng Minzhi started playing table tennis when she was 12. After being selected for a sports school at 14, she later attended a national sports institute. In 1965, she and her partner Lin Huiqing won the World Table Tennis Championships in Women's Doubles in Yugoslavia. Competition was banned for four years during the Cultural Revolution, and while training was banned, Zheng practised on her own in secret. She and Lin returned to the 1971 World Table Tennis Championships in Japan, again winning the Women's Doubles. Following her successes at the World Table Tennis Championships, Zheng participated in ping-pong diplomacy, visiting the United States in 1972. She met her husband, a specialist in shogi, at a Shanghai sports school. They have a son.


James Bryant Conant (March 26, 1893 – February 11, 1978) was an American chemist, a transformative President of Harvard University, and the first U.S. Ambassador to West Germany. Conant obtained a PhD in Chemistry from Harvard in 1916. During World War I he served in the U.S. Army, working on the development of poison gases. He became an assistant professor of chemistry at Harvard in 1919, and the Sheldon Emery Professor of Organic Chemistry in 1929. He researched the physical structures of natural products, particularly chlorophyll, and he was one of the first to explore the sometimes complex relationship between chemical equilibrium and the reaction rate of chemical processes. He studied the biochemistry of oxyhemoglobin providing insight into the disease methemoglobinemia, helped to explain the structure of chlorophyll, and contributed important insights that underlie modern theories of acid-base chemistry. In 1933, Conant became the President of Harvard University with a reformist agenda that involved dispensing with a number of customs, including class rankings and the requirement for Latin classes. He abolished athletic scholarships, and instituted an \"up or out\" policy, under which scholars who were not promoted were terminated. His egalitarian vision of education required a diversified student body, and he promoted the adoption of the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) and co-educational classes. During his presidency, women were admitted to Harvard Medical School and Harvard Law School for the first time. Conant was appointed to the National Defense Research Committee (NDRC) in 1940, becoming its chairman in 1941. In this capacity, he oversaw vital wartime research projects, including the development of synthetic rubber, and the Manhattan Project, which developed the first atomic bombs. On July 16, 1945, he was among the dignitaries present at the Alamogordo Bombing and Gunnery Range for the Trinity nuclear test, the first detonation of an atomic bomb, and was part of the Interim Committee that advised President Harry S. Truman to use atomic bombs on Japan. After the war, he served on the Joint Research and Development Board (JRDC) that was established to coordinate burgeoning defense research, and on the influential General Advisory Committee (GAC) of the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC). In his later years at Harvard, Conant taught undergraduate courses on the history and philosophy of science, and wrote books explaining the scientific method to laymen. In 1953 he retired as President of Harvard and became the United States High Commissioner for Germany, overseeing the restoration of German sovereignty after World War II, and then was Ambassador to West Germany until 1957. On returning to the United States, he criticized the education system in works such as The American High School Today (1959), Slums and Suburbs (1961) and The Education of American Teachers (1963). Between 1965 and 1969, Conant, suffering from a heart condition, worked on his autobiography, My Several Lives (1970). He became increasingly infirm, suffered a series of strokes in 1977, and died in a nursing home the following year.


Valery Ilyich Rozhdestvensky (13 February 1939 – 31 August 2011) was a Soviet cosmonaut. Rozhdestvensky was born in Leningrad and graduated from the Higher Military Engineering School of Soviet Navy in Pushkin in engineering. From 1961 to 1965 he was commander of a deepsea diving unit in the Baltic Sea War Fleet. Rozhdestvensky was selected as a cosmonaut on 23 October 1965 and flew as Flight Engineer on Soyuz 23. After his space flight he continued to work with the space program at the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center. He retired on 24 June 1986 and worked with Metropolis Industries. He was married with one child. He died on 31 August 2011 at the age of 72. He was awarded: \n*  Hero of the Soviet Union \n*  Pilot-Cosmonaut of the USSR \n*  Order of Lenin \n*  Order for Service to the Homeland in the Armed Forces of the USSR 3rd class \n*  Medal \"For Merit in Space Exploration\"


Maneet Chauhan (born October 27, 1976 in Ludhiana, Punjab) is a US-based television personality. Previously the Executive Chef of several notable restaurants in Chicago and New York, she is featured as a judge on Chopped on the Food Network, has appeared on The Next Iron Chef, on The View on ABC, Iron Chef America, the Today show on NBC, and as a judge on the finale of Worst Cooks in America show on Food Network.Chef Maneet Chauhan was invited by President Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama for the Annual Easter Egg Roll Hunt 2014 to the White House. She is also an invited member of Indiaspora that hosted 100 influential Indian American leaders as part of its first Forum in September 2012. The three-day Forum events aimed to energize the community and provide a voice with which it articulated collective goals. Chef Chauhan, a Culinary Institute of America alumna, delivered the keynote for the associate degree commencement on the college's Hyde Park campus and also received a recognition of “Distinguished Service to the Foodservice and Hospitality Industry” as the Ambassador of the Culinary Institute of America.


Stanley Gardner (13 December 1890 in Sherbrooke – 17 August 1945 in Montreal) was a Canadian pianist and music educator. As a performer he was best known as one half of a piano duo with Rose Goldblatt with whom he performed in concerts throughout Canada and on Canadian radio from 1936-1945. He also gave solo recitals throughout his native country, and was one of the earliest musicians in Canada to concertize the works of Claude Debussy and Maurice Ravel. He was also a champion of works by living Canadian and American composers. In his youth, Gardner studied piano with Stratford Dawson in Montreal. In 1912 he went to Berlin to pursue further piano studies with Ferruccio Busoni and Egon Petri. After returning to Montreal, he opened his own private studio from which he taught for several decades. His most well known pupils were Samuel Dolin, Goldblatt, and Dorothy Morton.


Franklin B. Ware (1873–May 3, 1945) was an American architect, best known for serving as the state architect of New York from 1907 to 1912. He was born in New York City in 1873, and received a degree in architecture from Columbia University in 1894. He entered practice with his father and brother in 1900 under the name James E. Ware and Sons. From 1901 to 1905, he was on the New York City Board of Aldermen. From 1907 to 1912, he served as State architect of New York. His father died in 1918, and he continued in practice with his brother. In addition to designing the White Plains Armory while State architect, in private practice his partnership designed the Huntington Gymnasium at Colgate University; Baggs Park Museum and Grace Church at Utica, New York; United States Post Office at Ossining, New York; buildings at Marymount University, Tarrytown, New York; the Grant Avenue Presbyterian Church, Plainfield, New Jersey; and a number of private residences in New York and New Jersey. While in practice with his father, they designed City and Suburban Homes Company's First Avenue Estate Historic District, added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.


John Albert Kramer (August 1, 1921 – September 12, 2009) was an American tennis player of the 1940s and 1950s. A World No. 1 player for a number of years, and one of the most important people in the establishment of modern men's \"Open\"-era tennis, he was the leading promoter of professional tennis tours in the 1950s and 1960s. He was a relentless advocate for the establishment of Open Tennis between amateur and professional players. An International Tennis Federation (ITF) proposal to introduce Open tennis lost by five votes in 1960, but became a reality in 1968. In 1970, he created the Men's Grand Prix points system. In 1972, he helped found the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) with Donald Dell and Cliff Drysdale, and was the first Executive Director. He was unpaid at his request. In that role, he was the leader of an ATP boycott of Wimbledon in 1973, for the banning of Nikola Pilić from the tournament. Tall and slim, he was the first world-class player to play \"the Big Game\", a consistent serve-and-volley game, in which he came to the net behind all of his serves, including the second serve. He was particularly known for his powerful serve and forehand, as well as his ability to play \"percentage tennis\", which he learned from Cliff Roche, a retired railroad engineer, at the Los Angeles Tennis Club (LATC). This strategy maximized his efforts on certain points and in certain games during the course of a match to increase his chances of winning. The key was to hold serve at all costs, which was one of many things that made Kramer one of the greatest players of all time.


Fred Donald Bessent (March 13, 1931 – July 7, 1990) was a pitcher in Major League Baseball. He pitched from 1955 to 1958 with the Brooklyn/Los Angeles Dodgers. He was signed by the New York Yankees out of high school, and in his first professional season he pitched a no-hitter while going 22–7 in Class D. The following season, he moved up to the Class B Norfolk Tars and went 11–2 with a 2.04 earned run average. Bessent then developed a spinal condition and was unable to pitch in 1952. He underwent surgery and was subsequently drafted by the Dodgers. From 1953 to 1955, Bessent pitched for the St. Paul Saints of the American Association. He was called up to the majors in July 1955 and immediately pitched well. That season, he went 8–1 with a 2.70 ERA, mostly coming out of the bullpen. He also pitched 3 1⁄3 scoreless innings in the 1955 World Series, and the Dodgers won their first championship. Bessent pitched just as well in 1956, going 4–3 with nine saves and a 2.50 ERA. The Dodgers won another National League pennant but lost the World Series to the New York Yankees, despite Bessent's win in Game 2. He pitched the final seven innings of an 13–8 slugfest after both teams' starting pitchers were knocked out in the second inning. In 1957, he dropped off sharply, posting a 5.73 ERA in 44 innings. He began to develop arm problems shortly afterwards and played his final major league game in September 1958. He retired in 1962, after several unsuccessful seasons in the minors. Bessent returned to Jacksonville and became a sales representative. He died of alcohol poisoning in 1990.


Leffert L. Buck (1837–1909) was an American civil engineer and a pioneer in the use of steel arch bridge structures. Leffert graduated from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York, in 1868. Some of his projects include: \n* The Verrugas Viaduct on the Oroya Railroad in Peru (in the early 1870s) \n* The Whirlpool Rapids Bridge over the Niagara Gorge \n* The Williamsburg Bridge, one of New York City's most notable landmarks, with Henry Hornbostel. At 1,600 feet it was the longest bridge in the world when completed in 1903 and a key factor in opening Brooklyn up as a working-class neighborhood for Manhattan. The bridge is well known for its vast reach and massive symmetry. \n* The Pont De Rennes bridge (former Platt Street bridge) that spans the Genesee River in Rochester at the High Falls. \n* Engineered the Queensboro Bridge in New York City. Before earning his civil engineering degree from RPI, Buck fought for the Union Army in the American Civil War under General Slocum, participating in the battles at Antietam, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, Lookout Mountain, Missionary Ridge, Peachtree Creek, Resaca andRinggold Gap. A dormitory in the Quadrangle complex at Rensselaer is named after him.


George Kinsey (27 November 1866–1936) was a professional association football player, who was capped four times by the England national football team, and also won the FA Cup in 1893 with Wolverhampton Wanderers. Kinsey was born in Burton upon Trent, and began playing with his home town teams Burton Crusaders and Burton Swifts, before joining Birmingham St George's. In 1891 he moved to Wolverhampton Wanderers, where he played 73 times in The Football League, and took part in the 1893 FA Cup Final. He played for Aston Villa, Derby County and Notts County in The Football League between 1894 and 1897, before joining Bristol Eastville Rovers. He played in the Western League, Birmingham & District League and Southern League for Rovers, who were renamed Bristol Rovers at the end of his first year with the club, and he made five appearances in the latter competition. He returned to his home town to end his career, firstly re-joining Burton Swifts in 1900, and later moving on to Burton Early Closing. He died in the final quarter of 1936 at the age of 69.


Toivo Ilmari Hannikainen (19 October 1892, Jyväskylä – 25 July 1955, Kuhmoinen) was a Finnish composer. Hannikainen was the son of Pekka Juhani Hannikainen and the brother of Väinö Hannikainen, both of whom were composers and of Tauno Hannikainen who was a conductor. After studying at the University of Helsinki (1911–14), he became a pupil of Franz Schreker at the Musikakademie in Vienna, and continued his studies with Alexander Siloti in Saint Petersburg (1915–17) and with Alfred Cortot in Paris (1919). Returning to Finland, he taught piano at the Helsinki Conservatory and later gained a Professorship at the Sibelius Academy. Hannikainen steered Finnish classical music from late Romanticism towards Impressionism. In addition to his piano miniatures, which best illustrated this development, he composed one opera, one piano concerto, one piano quartet, lieder, and film scores (notably, Sången om den eldröda blomman, Sweden, 1934). Hannikainen drowned during a sailing trip in Kuhmoinen in 1955. Some musical colleagues, like Aarre Merikanto, considered his death a suicide. He is buried in the Hietaniemi Cemetery in Helsinki.


Shen Qiang (born May 11, 1990 in Jixi, Heilongjiang, People's Republic of China) is a Canadian table tennis player of Chinese origin. As of August 2010, Shen is ranked no. 366 in the world by the International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF). He is also right-handed, and uses the shakehand grip. Shen started his sporting career, when he became a member of the provincial table tennis team in Heilongjiang at the age of eleven. He set an early success by winning the 12-and-under division in the men's singles at the national table tennis championships, before he moved with his family to Ottawa, Canada in 2004. Despite his lack of English, Shen obtained a citizenship, studied at Glebe Collegiate Institute, and worked as a resident athlete for the National Table Tennis Centre, under his personal and head coach Marles Martins. Shen made his international debut at the 2007 Pan American Games in Rio de Janeiro, where he earned a bronze medal, along with his fellow table tennis players Pradeeban Peter-Paul and Pierre-Luc Hinse, in the men's team event. Shen qualified for the inaugural men's team event at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, by receiving a continental spot for the Americas from ITTF's Computer Team Ranking List. Shen and his teammates Pradeeban Peter-Paul and Wilson Zhang placed fourth in the preliminary pool round, against Germany, Croatia, and Singapore, receiving a total of three points and three straight losses.


James B. \"Jim\" Burns (born September 21, 1945) is the Inspector General for the Illinois Secretary of State. He is also a retired American basketball player. A native of McLeansboro, Illinois, Burns was an All-State player who led McLeansboro High School to a fourth-place finish in the 1962 State Championship Tournament. He then played collegiately for Northwestern University, 1964–67, where he led the team in scoring all three seasons, was both All-American and Academic All-American in 1967, All-Big Ten and Academic All-Big Ten in 1966 & '67, and is still Northwestern's #12 all-time scorer, #3 in scoring average, #10 in both field goals and free throws made, and #6 in points in a game (40). He was inducted into the Northwestern Athletics Hall of Fame in 1992. He was selected by the Chicago Bulls in the 4th round (34th pick overall) of the 1967 NBA Draft. He played only three games with the Bulls during the 1967-68 season where he teamed with fellow McLeansboro native Jerry Sloan. Burns also played for the Dallas Chaparrals (1967–68) in the ABA for 33 games. Following his short professional basketball career, Burns returned to Northwestern, earning his law degree. While in private practice, he was also active in Democratic politics, running unsuccessfully for Lieutenant Governor of Illinois in 1990. In 1992, he was appointed the U.S. attorney for the Northern District of Illinois. His investigations of and prosecutions for political corruption gained him public recognition and popularity. It has also been claimed that those same things antagonized many powerful Democrats, so that his 1998 campaign for Governor was not strongly supported. Despite his popularity and the Republican's admission that he was the candidate they most feared, Burns finished a distant fourth of six candidates. In April 2000, Illinois Secretary of State Jesse White appointed Burns as his Inspector General, a position he still holds.


Marcus Warren Haber (born January 11, 1989) is a Canadian professional soccer player who most recently played as a striker for English club Crewe Alexandra. Haber began his career at local side Vancouver Selects, spending four years progressing with the youth team. In 2006, he joined FC Groningen of the Dutch Eredivisie on youth terms, and spent two years playing for the club's U19 side. Haber returned to Canada and signed for Vancouver Whitecaps in February 2009. After a season of regular first-team football, after which Haber was named Rookie of the Year in the USL First Division, he joined Football League Championship side West Bromwich Albion for an undisclosed fee in January 2010. Shortly after joining the club, he was loaned out for a month to Football League One side Exeter City. In April 2010, he rejoined Vancouver Whitecaps on loan to play first-team football. He returned to West Brom ahead of the 2010–11 season, but was loaned out for a third occasion, this time to Scottish Premier League team St Johnstone. Injury disrupted his time with the club, and his loan spell was ended prematurely in November 2010. In July 2011, Haber joined St Johnstone on a permanent basis, signing on a free transfer. After one year with the SPL side, he joined Stevenage on a two-year deal. Haber has also represented the Canada men's national soccer team at U16, U17, U20, U23, and senior level.


Sir Ralph Freeman (3 February 1911 – 24 August 1998) was an English civil engineer, responsible for the design of the Humber Suspension Bridge - the longest in the world until 1998. He was the son of Sir Ralph Freeman, designer of the Sydney Harbour Bridge. He was educated at Uppingham School, Rutland and Worcester College, Oxford. Sir Ralph worked on bridges in South Africa and Rhodesia, where he met his wife Joan Rose, before returning to England in 1939 and joining Freeman Fox & Partners, a firm of consulting engineers (called Douglas Fox & Partners before changing its name in 1938 in honour of Sir Ralph's father, a senior partner there). Freeman served in the Royal Engineers during the Second World War as a Captain in the Experimental Bridging Establishment in Christchurch, Hampshire, England. He was involved in the development of a propped military suspension bridge. Freeman served in the volunteer Engineer and Railway Staff Corps, providing engineering expertise to the army, and was gazetted at the rank of Major in that corps on 6 October 1953. He then returned to Freeman Fox & Partners, eventually retiring in 1979, having worked on a variety of large projects: the M2 and M5 motorways, the Forth Road Bridge, the Severn Bridge, both Bosporus bridges, and the harbour tunnel and mass transit rail systems in Hong Kong. He served as president of the Institution of Civil Engineers in 1966-7. The pinnacle of his career was the Humber suspension bridge which, when it opened in 1981, was the longest single-span suspension bridge in the world, 1410m between its two 155m-high pylons. His son, Anthony (but known as Ralph), who also took up civil engineering, died in July 1998 after an accident on the Vasco da Gama bridge in Lisbon.


Olivier Beretta (born 23 November 1969) is a professional racing driver from Monaco who raced in Formula One in 1994 for the Larrousse team, partnering Érik Comas. He participated in 10 grands prix, debuting on 27 March 1994. He scored no championship points, and was replaced when his sponsorship money ran out. During 2003 and 2004, he tested for the Williams team. Born in Monte Carlo, Beretta has seen more success in sportscar racing, taking class wins at the 24 Heures du Mans with Viper GTS-Rs in 1999 (10th overall) and 2000 (7th overall), Corvettes in 2004 (C5-R, 6th overall), 2005 (C5-R, 5th overall) and 2006 (C6-R, 4th overall) and driving LMP900 class cars to 6th (2001), 4th (2002) and 3rd (2003) place class finishes. He made a single NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series start at Heartland Park Topeka in 1999 for Bobby Hamilton Racing, qualifying 10th and finishing 17th. For 2012, Beretta made the move from Corvette to Ferrari and started the season at the 2012 24 Hours of Daytona with Risi Competizione's Ferrari F458 Italia Grand Am. He competed in the FIA World Endurance Championship in a GTE-Pro class Ferrari F458 Italia for AF Corse.


Samuel George Morton (January 26, 1799 – May 15, 1851) was an American physician and natural scientist. Morton, reared a Quaker but became Episcopalian in midlife, was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1820. After earning an advanced degree from Edinburgh University in Scotland, he began practice in Philadelphia in 1824. He was one of the founders of the Pennsylvania Medical College in Philadelphia and served as its professor of anatomy from 1839 until his resignation 1843. He was elected a member of the American Antiquarian Society in 1844. Morton was a prolific writer of books on various subjects from 1823 to 1851. He wrote Geological Observations in 1828, and both Synopsis of the Organic Remains of the Cretaceous Group of the United States and Illustrations of Pulmonary Consumption in 1834. His first medical essay, on the user of cornine in intermittent fever, in 1825 was published in the Philadelphia Journal of the Medical and Physical Sciences. His bibliography includes Hybridity in Animals and Plants (1847), Additional Observation on Hybridity (1851), and An Illustrated System of Human Anatomy (1849).


John Chaney (January 12, 1790 – April 10, 1881) was a U.S. Representative from Ohio. Born in Washington County, Maryland, Chaney moved with his parents to Pennsylvania.He received a limited schooling.He moved to Ohio in 1810 and settled in Bloom Township, Fairfield County, Ohio.He engaged in agricultural pursuits.Chaney married Mary Ann LaFere of Bloom Township in 1816. He was in the Justice of the Peace in 1821, 1824, and 1827.Trustee of Bloom Township for twenty-three years.Major, colonel, and paymaster in the Ohio State Militia.He served as member of the State house of representatives 1828-1830. Chaney was elected associate judge of Fairfield County in 1831.Ohio Presidential elector in 1832 for Andrew Jackson.Chaney was elected as a Jacksonian to the Twenty-third and Twenty-fourth Congresses and as a Democrat to the Twenty-fifth Congress (March 4, 1833 – March 3, 1839).He returned to Ohio and settled in Canal Winchester, Franklin County.He was again a member of the State house of representatives in 1842 and served as speaker.He served as member of the village council.He served in the State senate in 1844 and 1845.He was again a member of the State house of representatives in 1855.He served as a delegate to the Ohio constitutional convention in 1851.He died at Canal Winchester, Ohio, April 10, 1881.He was interred in Union Grove Cemetery. John Chaney was the great-grandfather of The Phantom of the Opera actor Lon Chaney and the great-great-grandfather of The Wolf Man actor Lon Chaney, Jr.


Kenyon Jones (October 12, 1977 – August 18, 2005) was an American basketball player. He played four seasons in Greece's top league, HEBA A1. Jones, a 6'10 center from Beach High School in Savannah, Georgia, signed with coach Todd Bozeman at the University of California, Berkeley. Jones played three seasons for the Golden Bears, averaging 6.0 points and 3.0 rebounds per game as a junior in the 1997–98 season. Jones then transferred to the University of San Francisco for his senior season. There he averaged 16.5 points and was named West Coast Conference player of the year. After graduation, Jones played four seasons in the Greek top league, for Panionios B.C., Panathinaikos B.C. and Maroussi B.C., and for the Russian club BC Dynamo Moscow during the 2003-04 season. He also was part of the Macedonia national basketball team. Jones was invited to the Denver Nuggets summer league in 2005, but did not make the team. Jones died on August 18, 2005 in his home in Atlanta, Georgia. Eurobasket.com reported that he died of a heart attack.


Sania Mirza (born 15 November 1986) is an Indian professional tennis player who is currently ranked No. 1 in the women's doubles rankings. From 2003 until her retirement from singles in 2013, she was ranked by the Women's Tennis Association as India's No. 1 player, both in singles and doubles. Throughout her career, Mirza has established herself as the most successful female Indian tennis player ever and one of the highest-paid and high-profile athletes in the country. In her singles career, Mirza has notable wins over Svetlana Kuznetsova, Vera Zvonareva and Marion Bartoli; as well as former world No. 1s Martina Hingis, Dinara Safina, and Victoria Azarenka. She is the highest-ranked female player ever from India, peaking at world No. 27 in singles in mid-2007; however, a major wrist injury forced her to give up her singles career and focus on the doubles circuit, where she is currently ranked No. 1. She has achieved a number of firsts for women's tennis in her native country, including surpassing US$1 million in career earnings (now over $6 million), winning a singles Pro-level title, and winning six major titles (three each in women's doubles and in mixed doubles), as well as qualifying for (and eventually winning) the WTA Finals in 2014 alongside Cara Black, defending the title the following year partnering with Martina Hingis. In addition, she is the third Indian woman in the Open Era to feature and win a round at a Grand Slam tournament (going as far as the last 16). She has also won a total of 14 medals (including 6 Gold) at three major multi-sport events, namely the Asian Games, the Commonwealth Games and the Afro-Asian Games. Mirza was named one of the \"50 Heroes of Asia\" by Time in October 2005. In March 2010, The Economic Times named Mirza in the list of the \"33 women who made India proud\". She was appointed as the UN Women's Goodwill Ambassador for South Asia during the event held to mark the International Day To End Violence Against Women on 25 November 2013. She was named in Time magazine's 2016 list of the 100 most influential people in the world.


Kalinikos Kreanga (born March 8, 1972) is a Greek (formerly Romanian) table tennis player. Born as Călin Creangă, he chose to defect from Communist-ruled Romania at the age of 17 (with his father) while he was participating in the European Table Tennis Youth Championships in Luxembourg in 1989. Born in Bistriţa, Romania, Kreanga started to play table tennis at the age of 7. His first coach was Gheorghe Bozga, who would later discover Mihaela Steff. While in Luxembourg, he received an offer to play in Greece, so he decided to move there. Being a minor, he quickly acquired Greek citizenship, and changed his name to Kalinikos Kreanga. He has been one of the dominant European table tennis players since the beginning of the 1990s, and uses the shakehand style to hold the racket. His favorite attack weapons seem to be the topspin forehand loop and a strong backhand shot. His backhand topspin shot is one of the most devastating in the world with unique technique.