Friedrich Robert Donath (March 18, 1905 - June 9, 1958), better known by his stage name Robert Donat, was a distinguished Academy Award-winning English film and stage actor of English, Polish and German descent. He was born in Withington, Manchester. Donat made his first stage appearance in 1921 and his film debut in 1932 in "Men of Tomorrow". His first great screen success came with "The Private Life of Henry VIII" (playing Thomas Culpepper), …

Thomas Nelson, Jr. (December 26, 1738-January 4, 1789), was an American planter, soldier, and statesman from Yorktown, Virginia. He represented Virginia in the Continental Congress and was its Governor in 1781. He is regarded as one of the U.S. Founding Fathers since he signed the Declaration of Independence as a member of the Virginia delegation. Thomas, Jr. was actually the grandson of Thomas Nelson, an immigrant from Scotland who was an early pioneer at Yorktown.

James Neil Hamilton (9 September, 1899-24 September, 1984) was an American actor famous for his role as Commissioner Gordon on the "Batman" TV series of the 1960s. As an only child, he was born in Lynn, Massachusetts and raised in a devoutly Roman Catholic household. His show business career began when he secured a job as a shirt model in magazine ads. After this he became interested in acting and joined several stock companies.

Ronald Alfred Goodwin was a British composer and conductor best known for his film scores.

Soraya Serajeddini (1960-2006), was a Kurdish-Iranian human rights activist. She was born in Tehran to a respected family of Naqshbandi Sufis. Her family fled Iran in 1980 and sought refuge in Sulaimaniya and Baghdad for two years, and then moved to the United States in 1982. She attended San Francisco State University and Northeastern University, and received her BS degree in Electrical Engineering in 1987.

David Dacko was the first President of the Central African Republic (CAR), from August 14, 1960 to January 1, 1966, and the third president of the CAR from September 21, 1979 to September 1, 1981. Even after being removed from power twice by coups d'état, Dacko continued to be a very active politician and presidential candidate with a loyal group of supporters. Dacko was thus an important political figure in CAR politics for a period of over half a century.

; (17 January 1900 -29 June 1935) was the pen-name of a novelist in the early Showa period Japan. His real name was Hasegawa Kaitarō. He wrote under 3 different pen names, each with a unique personality, and caused a sensation with the sheer brilliance of his fiction, non-fiction and translations.

Martin Van Buren (December 5 1782 - July 24 1862), nicknamed "Old Kinderhook", was the eighth President of the United States from 1837 to 1841. Before his presidency he served as the eighth Vice President (1833-1837) and the 10th Secretary of State under Andrew Jackson. He was a key organizer of the Democratic Party, a dominant figure in the Second Party System, and the first president who was not of English, Irish, Welsh, or Scottish descent.

Charlotte Ninon Coleman (April 3, 1968 - November 14, 2001) was an English actress. She was born in London. Her mother was the actress Ann Beach, and her father was the TV producer Francis Coleman. Her younger sister is the actress Lisa Coleman, who has appeared in "Casualty" as Jude. She went to the Anna Scher Theatre school in Islington, North London, because she said she was "too cool" to go to the Brownies. Early TV roles in "A Choice of Evils" (BBC, …

Neil Francis Hawkins (1903-1950) was a leading British fascist, both before and after the Second World War. Hawkins joined the British Fascisti around the time of its inception and became a leading figure in that movement, being seen by many of the male members as a preferable leader to Rotha Lintorn-Orman. He split the organisation in 1932 after a quarrel with Lintorn-Orman and took the bulk of the membership with him into Oswald Mosley's British Union of Fascists, …

Abdallah al-Ghalib Billah (1517-1574, reigned 1557-1574) was the second sultan of the Saadi Dynasty. He came to power to the throne as the legal heir of Mohammed ash-Sheikh. From his first wife this first Saadian sultan, Mohammed ash-Sheikh had had three sons, but the two oldest had died (in 1550 and in 1551). Abdallah, the third, was 40 years old when he became sultan and receceived the name al-Ghalib Billah.

Ryan Davies. Both children were played by adults, the former appearing dressed in school uniform. "Will" was the silent type, though each week, Nigel Wyn would address him as "Will" and "Will" would say, "Don't call Will on your father". (The joke being that "call on" is a direct translation from the Welsh "Paid a galw Will ar dy dad!".) In 1975, the duo split (the official reason being Ronnie's ill-health), …

Ernest Nathan Morial (known as Dutch) (October 9, 1929 - December 24, 1989) was a U.S. political figure and a leading civil rights advocate. He was the first black mayor of New Orleans, having served from 1978 to 1986. He was the father of former New Orleans Mayor Marc Morial.

Johnny Paycheck (May 31, 1938 - February 18, 2003) was a country music singer. He is most famous for recording the David Allan Coe song "Take This Job and Shove It". Born Donald Eugene Lytle in Greenfield, Ohio, he began playing guitar by age six and made his first record at age 15. After a time served in the United States Navy (which included a court-martial for assault), he began performing under the name Donny Young.

Gilbert Charles Harding (born in Hereford, 5 June 1907, died in London, 16 November 1960) was a well-known journalist and radio and television personality. His many careers included schoolmaster, journalist, police officer, disc jockey, interviewer and television presenter. He also appeared in several films, sometimes in character parts but usually as himself.

George Pirie (1799-1870) was a Canadian newspaper publisher. He emigrated to Canada from Aberdeen, Scotland. His father, also George Pirie, was a prominent Aberdeen merchant and ship owner. His mother was Katherine (Catherine) Mitchell Pirie, a daughter of the Rev. Thomas Mitchell, of the parish of Tarves, Aberdeenshire. He was educated in Scotland and in London, where he was apprenticed to his relative, Sir John Pirie, at one time the Lord Mayor of London. Mr.

Ahmad Nadeem Qasmi (Urdu: احمد ندیم قاسمی was a legendary Urdu language Pakistani poet, journalist, literary critic, dramatist and short story author. With some 50 books of poetry, fiction, criticism, journalism and art to his credit, Qasmi was a major figure in contemporary Urdu literature. His poetry stood out among his contemporaries' work for its unflinching humanism, …

Saneeya Hussain was a Pakistani journalist and environmentalist. She married a Brazilian man in 1998 and died in Brazil in 2005. Saneeya began her career at MNJ Pakisan working for Javed Jabbar as a copywriter in 1978. In the mid-eighties, Saneeya edited The Star Weekend magazine. The paper was a platform for dissenting views. Banned columnists had to keep changing their names to continue writing, …