- Silvio Berlusconi
(born September 29, 1936) is an Italian politician, entrepreneur, and media proprietor. He is the leader of the Forza Italia political movement, a centre-right party he founded in 1993 in Rome. Berlusconi has twice held office as prime minister of Italy, most recently from 2001 to 2006. Berlusconi is the founder and main shareholder of Fininvest, among the ten largest Italian privately-owned companies, operating in media and finance including three national TV channels. - Jim Marshall
Jim Marshall (born December 30, 1937 Danville, Kentucky) played college football at Ohio State University. He left school before his senior year, and played for the Saskatchewan Roughriders of the Canadian Football League. He was then drafted in the 4th round of the 1960 NFL draft by the Cleveland Browns. Marshall played the 1960 season with the Browns. He played from 1961 to 1979 with the Minnesota Vikings. - Brotha Lynch Hung
Brotha Lynch Hung (born Kevin Mann) is a Horrorcore/Gangsta Rap artist from Sacramento, California. He is known for lyrics featuring highly explicit themes, including murder, gang violence, and cannibalism. Lynch collaborated with Master P in his 1993 debut album, "24 Deep", which featured stories of the struggles involved with being affiliated with a local street gang in Sacramento's "Garden Blocc". - George Joseph
George Joseph, founder of Mercury Insurance Group of Los Angeles, was born in West Virginia in 1921. The son of a West Virginia restaurateur of Lebanese origin, he served as a B-17 navigator in World War II, serving in some 50 missions, and then attended Harvard. After earning a degree in Physics and Mathematics from Harvard in 3 years (on the GI Bill) in 1949, he began selling life insurance in Los Angeles, CA. By day, he worked for Occidental Life, … - Frances Newton
Frances Elaine Newton was an African-American woman who was executed by lethal injection in the state of Texas for the April 7, 1987 murder of her husband, Adrian, 23, her son, Alton, 7, and daughter, Farrah, 21 months. All three victims were shot with a .25 caliber pistol which belonged to a man Newton was alleged to have been seeing. The prosecution suggested that the motive for the killings was to collect the US $100,000 life insurance policy. - Elizur Wright
Elizur Wright (12 February 1804 - 22 November1885) was an American mathematician and abolitionist. He is sometimes described as the "father of life insurance" for his pioneering work on actuarial tables. - Belle Gunness
Belle Sorenson Gunness (born Brynhild Paulsdatter Størseth, November 22, 1859 in Selbu, Norway- probably died 1931 Los Angeles), was one of America's most profligate known female serial killers. At 6 ft (1.8 m) tall and over 200 lb (90 kg), she was a powerful Norwegian-American woman. She may have killed both of her husbands and all of her children (on different occasions), but she is known to have killed most of her suitors, boyfriends, … - Michael Malloy
Michael Malloy (1873-February 22, 1933) was an Irish vagrant from County Donegal who lived in New York City, during the early twentieth century. Although he was a former firefighter, he is solely known for his constitution. Many attempts were made to murder him. - Ruth Snyder
Ruth Brown Snyder (1895 - January 12, 1928) was an American murderer. She was executed for the murder of her husband, Albert. She was executed by electric chair (by "state electrician" Robert G. Elliott) at Sing Sing Prison on January 12, 1928, along with Judd Gray, her lover and co-conspirator. In 1925, Snyder began an affair with Gray, a corset salesman. She began to plan the murder of her husband, enlisting the help of her new lover. - Michael Nouri
Michael Nouri (born December 9, 1945) is an American television and film actor. He is known for his role as Nick Hurley, the boyfriend of Alex Owens (Jennifer Beals) in the 1983 movie blockbuster "Flashdance". Recently, he had a recurring role in "The O.C." as Dr. Neil Roberts, the father of Summer Roberts (Rachel Bilson). Nouri was born in Washington, D.C. to Gloria (Montgomery) and Edward Nouri, of Lebanese descent. - Ritu Nanda
Ritu Kapoor-Nanda, currently the Chief Executive Officer of Escolife, is a prominent Indian entrepreneur associated chiefly with the life insurance business. She has more than 55,000 clients, and is the recipient of the "Brand Ambassador" and the "Best Insurance Advisor" of the Decade awards from the Life Insurance Corporation of India, the largest life insurance company of India. - John Greenway
John Robert Greenway (born February 15, 1946) is a British politician and Conservative Member of Parliament for Ryedale. John Greenway was born in Northwich, Cheshire and was educated locally at the Sir John Deane's Grammar School and The College of Law, London. He joined Midland Bank in 1964 before joining the Metropolitan Police Service in 1965, after his Hendon Police College training he worked in the West End of London, … - Benjamin Gompertz
Benjamin Gompertz (March 5, 1779 - July 14, 1865, London, England), was a self educated mathematician, denied admission to university because he was Jewish. Nevertheless he was made Fellow of the Royal Society in 1819. Gompertz is today mostly known for his Gompertz's law of mortality, a demographic model published in 1825. The model can be written in this way: :<math>N'(t) = r N(t) log left(frac {KN(t)} ight), … - Tom Fink
Tom Fink (born 1928) is a "semi-retired" Republican politician in Alaska. He was Mayor of Anchorage from 1987-1994. - Lorenzo de Tonti
Lorenzo de Tonti (c. 1602 - c. 1684) was a governor of Gaeta, Italy and a Neapolitan banker. He invented the tontine, a form of life insurance. Around 1650, he and his wife, Isabelle di Lietto, gave birth to their first son, the future explorer Henri de Tonti. Shortly afterwards, Tonti was involved in a revolt against a Spanish viceroy in Naples and had to seek political asylum in France. In Paris, the family gave birth to their second son, Alphonse de Tonti, … - Stella Nickell
Stella Maudine Nickell (nee Stephenson, born in August, 1943) is a Seattle-area woman who was sentenced to 99 years in prison for killing her husband in June 1986 by lacing his Excedrin capsules with cyanide after buying him life insurance policies amounting to $176,000. She had put three other poisoned bottles back in the store to make it look like the work of a serial killer, killing another woman, 40-year-old Sue Snow, in the process. - Jack Gilbert Graham
John "Jack" Gilbert Graham (January 23, 1932 - January 11, 1957) was a mass murderer who killed 44 people by planting a dynamite bomb in his mother's suitcase that was subsequently loaded aboard United Airlines Flight 629. Flight 629 was utilizing a Douglas DC-6B airliner that took off from Denver, Colorado's Stapleton Airport, bound for Portland, Oregon, on the evening of November 1, 1955. Its pilot was Lee Hall, a World War II veteran. - Ronald Clark O'Bryan
Ronald Clark O'Bryan (October 19, 1944 – March 31, 1984) was a murderer from Pasadena, Texas who killed his son Timothy on Halloween, 1974 with cyanide-laced candy, ("Giant-sized" Pixy Stix), in order to claim $20,000 in life insurance. He had also distributed poisoned candy to other children (none of whom ate it) in an attempt to cover up his crime. O'Bryan had recently taken out a $40,000 life insurance policy on his children, Timothy and Elizabeth. - Frank Redington
Frank Mitchell Redington was a noted British actuary. He was born in Leeds and attended Liverpool Institute for Boys, and Cambridge University. He joined the staff of the Prudential life insurance company in 1928 and became its Chief Actuary in 1951, continuing in that capacity until his retirement in 1968. He was the Chairman of the Life Offices’ Association from 1956-1957 and president of the Institute of Actuaries 1958-1960. - Alphonse de Tonty
Pierre Alphonse de Tonty, or Alphonse de Tonty, Baron de Paludy (c. 1659 - 10 November 1727) was an officer who served under the French explorer Cadillac and helped establish the first European settlement at Detroit, Michigan, Fort Pontchartrain du Detroit on the Detroit River in 1701. Several months later, both Cadillac and Tonty brought their wives to the fort, making them the first European women to travel so deep into the new territory. - Auburn Calloway
Auburn Calloway was the hijacker of FedEx Flight 705, now serving a determinate life sentence at the federal prison in Atwater, California. Calloway had graduated from Stanford University and served as a US Navy flier, where he became an expert in martial arts. After leaving the military, he worked as a Federal Express flight engineer. However, he was emotionally unstable and worried about his financial situation. - Rosaire Bertrand
Rosaire Bertrand (born October 25, 1936 in Saint-Fabien-de-Panet, Quebec) is a Quebec politician and insurance broker. He is the current Member of National Assembly of Quebec for the provincial riding of Charlevoix and represents the Parti Quebecois. Bertrand worked for 33 years in the insurance business as a chartered life underwriter, a certifed insurance and life insurance broker and was the president of two insurance firms from 1976 to 1997. - Richard Spears
Richard Spears was a convicted criminal and naturopath who is alleged to have placed a bomb aboard National Airlines Flight 967, an aircraft which disappeared over the Gulf of Mexico on November 16, 1959, killing 42 persons. Investigators learned that one William Taylor, an ex-con whom Spears had befriended in prison, had boarded Flight 967 using a ticket made out to "Dr. - Timothy O'Bryan
Timothy O'Bryan (c.1966 - October 31, 1974) was the 8-year old son of Ronald Clark O'Bryan (The Candy Man). He was murdered with cyanide-laced Halloween candy in a scheme to collect on a $40,000 life insurance policy. - Thomas Doty
Thomas Doty became the first saboteur of a commercial jet airliner when he caused the crash of Continental Airlines Flight 11 from Chicago to Kansas City on May 22, 1962. He brought dynamite on board the Boeing 707 aircraft, and exploded it from inside the right rear lavatory while the plane was above Unionville, Missouri during its descent towards Kansas City. All 37 passengers and 8 crew members died in the crash. - Glennon Engleman
Dr. Glennon Engleman (c.1928-1999) was a dentist who moonlighted as a hitman, concocting and carrying out several murder for profit homicides over a thirty year basis. His victims were shot, bludgeoned with a sledgehammer and once he blew up a victim while she sat in her car. In one case Engleman killed out an entire family so that the widow could claim the millions in life insurance she had taken out on her husband, … - Si Suriyawongse
Somdet Chao Phraya Borom Maha Si Suriyawongse (personal name Chuang Bunnag) December 23 1808 - January 19 1883) was an important 19th century Thai figure and the regent during the early years of the reign of King Chulalongkorn. Of Persian descent, Si Suriyawongse was born the eldest son of Dis Bunnag (who also held the title Si Suriyawongse) and Tan Poo Ying Chan, Chuang was well educated. King Mongkut made him the Minister of the Interior (Kalahom), … - Eva Coo
Eva Coo was an American murderer, who was executed by electric chair at Sing Sing Prison on June 27, 1935. Coo was entrusted with the care of one of her employees, a slow-witted handiman named Henry Wright, after the death of Wright's mother. Coo embezzled Wright's inheritance and burned down his house for insurance money. After purchasing several life insurance policies on Wright, Coo then conspired to murder him with another of her employees, a woman named Martha Clift. - Judd Buchanan
J. Judd Buchanan, PC, OC, MBA, LL.D (born July 25, 1929) is a former Canadian politician and businessman. After a career in the life insurance industry working for London Life, Buchanan, born in Edmonton, Alberta, was elected to the Canadian House of Commons in the 1968 election as the Liberal Member of Parliament for London West. He served as a parliamentary secretary in the early 1970s, first to the Minister of Indian Affairs and Northern Development, … - Mun Charn Wong
Mun Charn Wong (born 1918, deceased 17 September 2002) was a Chinese American life insurance salesman, noted motivational speaker, and humanitarian. He was one of only twelve life insurance agents to be named as a "Legend" in the history of Transamerica Occidental Life Insurance Company. - William Hamilton Gibson
William Hamilton Gibson (October 5, 1850 - July 16, 1896) was an American illustrator, author and naturalist. Gibson was born in Sandy Hook, Connecticut. The financial failure and in 1868 the death of his father, a New York broker, put an end to his studies in the Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute and made it necessary for him to earn his own living. - Tom Uphill
Thomas Hubert Uphill (d. 1962) was a socialist politician in British Columbia, long time mayor of the town of Fernie and also represented the town in the British Columbia Legislative Assembly for forty years, most of them as the legislature's sole labour MLA. Uphill moved to Fernie in 1904 after having served in the Second Boer War and became a life insurance salesman. A supporter of the trade union movement he also served as secretary of the miner's union. - John Bucklin
John Carpenter Bucklin was the first mayor of Louisville. His father, a merchant and sailor, was a captain in the Navy during the Revolutionary War. John Bucklin served in the Rhode Island militia, owned several ships, and married Sarah Smith in 1803. The family moved to Louisville in 1819 or 1820, and in 1823 Bucklin became secretary of the second Life Insurance company in the state. He was became Louisville's first mayor in March 3 1828, … - Harold Patten
Harold Ambrose Patten was a Representative in the United States House of Representatives from Arizona. Patten was born in Huston, Colorado on October 6, 1907. In 1916, he moved to Tucson, Arizona. He graduated from the University of Arizona in 1930, and was a coach and teacher of physical education in Tucson High School in 1931 and 1932. He served as director of recreation for the city of Tucson and city schools from 1933 to 1939, … - Ashton J. Mouton
Ashton Joseph Mouton, Sr. (October 16, 1916 - January 31, 1988), was a businessman and politician who became, at thirty-one, the youngest mayor in the history of Lafayette, Louisiana. A Democrat, Mouton was elected mayor in 1948. He served two four-year terms and left office in 1956. In 1963, Mouton was an unsuccessful contender for lieutenant governor on an intraparty ticket with the winning gubernatorial candidate, John Julian McKeithen of tiny Columbia, … - Arthur Stilwell
Arthur Edward Stilwell (October 21 1859 - September 26 1928) was the founder of Kansas City Southern Railway. He served as the railroad's president from 1897 to 1900. He was also the founder of Port Arthur, Texas. Stilwell was born in Rochester, New York, in 1859. While working as a traveling salesman he courted and married Jennie A. Wood, and the couple moved to Kansas City, Missouri and then Chicago, Illinois, … - Carol Harnett
Carol Harnett is a clinical physiologist and vice president and national practice leader for The Hartford's Group Benefits Division. She is responsible for disability research, analytic and consultative services, and information dissemination regarding employers' health, absence and workplace productivity trends. Carol leads the Center for Ability, an information resource center for consultants, employers, employees and Hartford staff. - Kirstan
I'm a girl. - Kristen Hinkle
Well....Where do I start? About me....mmmmm. Well, I guess I would like to think that I'm a normal person but, then you would have to define normal. I like doing just about what everyone else likes doing. Having a good time, hanging out with friends. I'm always looking for something better but, don't always go with it. I enjoy music very much. I think it expresses what people are really thinking but won't act on all the time. - Brian Maloney
Brian has an impressive background in direct sales and corporate sales strategies. He was most recently Sales Vice President for the
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