Great Farini

Great Farini

male
The Great Farini was born William Hunt. He invented the cinema flip-up seat and was the first white man to cross the Kalahari Desert and survive....
John Vanderlyn

John Vanderlyn

male, deceased (1852)
John Vanderlyn (October 18, 1776 - September 23, 1852) was a U.S. neoclassicist painter, was born at Kingston, New York. He was employed by a...
Judy Lamarsh

Judy Lamarsh

female, deceased (1980)
Julia Verlyn (Judy) LaMarsh, PC, OC (December 20, 1924 - October 27, 1980) was a Canadian politician, author and broadcaster. Of French and English...
Charles Ellet Jr.

Charles Ellet Jr.

male, deceased (1862)
Charles Ellet, Jr. was a civil engineer and a colonel during the American Civil War, mortally wounded at the Battle of Memphis. Ellet was born in...

Thomas Vincent Welch

male, deceased (1903)
Thomas Vincent Welch (October 1 1850 - October 20 1903) was a New York State Assemblyman and served as the first Superintendent of the New York...
Helen Dewitt

Helen Dewitt

female, 52 years old
Helen DeWitt (born 1957 in Takoma Park, Maryland, a suburb of Washington, D.C.) is a novelist. DeWitt grew up primarily in South America (Mexico,...

Vince Kerrio

male, 85 years old
Vince George Kerrio (born February 5, 1924 in Niagara Falls, Ontario) is a former politician in Ontario, Canada. He served in the Legislative...
Al Coppola

Al Coppola

male
Al Coppola is a former state senator and politician in New York. A resident of Buffalo, New York, Coppola is a long time political figure in the...
Jane Bryant Quinn

Jane Bryant Quinn

female, 68 years old
Jane Bryant Quinn is an American journalist. Born in Niagara Falls, New York, she graduated magna cum laude from Middlebury College in Vermont. She...
Stephen Peer

Stephen Peer

male, deceased (1887)
Stephen Peer (1840-1887) was a tightrope walker who, though completed the feat successfully many times, fell to his death while walking a tightrope...