- Michael Osterholm
Michael Osterholm Ph.D, MPH is a distinguished professor in the University of Minnesota School of Public Health, director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy (CIDRAP), and associate director of the Department of Homeland Security's National Center for Food Protection and Defense (NCFPD). Dr. Osterholm has served in many other public health capacities and is active in raising awareness of a potential influenza pandemic. - Rino Rappuoli
Rino Rappuoli, PhD, is known globally for his work in vaccines and immunology. He co-founded the field of cellular microbiology, a discipline combining cell biology and microbiology, and pioneered the genomic approach to vaccine development known as reverse vaccinology. Dr. Rappuoli led Chiron Corporation's development of adjuvanted influenza vaccines, … - Thomas Francis Jr.
Dr. Thomas Francis, Jr. was an American physician, virologist, and epidemiologist. Francis was the first person to isolate influenza virus in America, and in 1940 showed that there are other strains of influenza, and took part in the development of influenza vaccines. As director of the University of Michigan Poliomyelitis Vaccine Evaluation Center, he conducted the epidemiology studies prior to the release of Jonas Salk's polio vaccine. - Robert Cathcart
Robert F. Cathcart III (1932 - present) is a Los Altos, California-based physician and leading proponent of orthomolecular medicine, specifically megavitamin dosing of vitamin C. A prominent figure in alternative medicine, Cathcart pioneered the concept of dosing vitamin C to bowel tolerance to maximize vitamin C levels without intravenous administration. He has reported clinical successes using massive vitamin C in treating influenza, hepatitis, mononucleosis, … - Gordon Ada
Gordon Leslie Ada (b. December 6 1922) is an Australian microbiologist best known for his long leadership of the John Curtin School of Medical Research at the Australian National University where Peter Doherty and Rolf Zinkernagel performed their Nobel winning research in his laboratory. Gordon Ada was born in 1922 in Sydney. He studied at the University of Sydney, graducating BSc in 1943, an MSc in 1946. - Hugh Kenner
Hugh Kenner (January 7, 1923 - November 24, 2003), was a Canadian literary scholar, critic and professor. Kenner was born in Peterborough, Ontario on January 7, 1923; his father taught classics. Kenner attributed his interest in literature to his poor hearing, caused by a bout of influenza during his childhood. Attending the University of Toronto, Kenner studied under Marshall McLuhan, who wrote the introduction to Kenner's first book "Paradox in Chesterton". - Gary Collins
Gary Collins (born April 30 1938) is an American film and television actor. Collins was born in Venice, California. He is known for his roles in the 1970 film "Airport", in the 1966 television series "The Iron Horse", and for starring in the 1972 television series "The Sixth Sense" as parapsychologist Dr. Michael Rhodes. Later in his career, Collins hosted a few television talk shows, including "Hour Magazine" & "The Home Show". - Patrick Nolan
Patrick J. Nolan (March 17 1881 - January 11 1941) was mayor of Ottawa from 1934 to 1935. He was born in Ottawa on St. Patrick's Day in 1881, the son of poor Irish parents. He worked as a clerk in a drug store, studied to become a pharmacist and opened his own drug store. He owned several movie theatres in the city. He was first elected to city council in 1922. He died of influenza in 1941, aged 59. - Heber J. Grant
Heber Jeddy Grant (November 22, 1856 - May 14, 1945) was the seventh President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church; see also Mormonism). He was ordained an apostle on October 16, 1882, on the same day as George Teasdale. Grant served as Church President from 1918 to his death in 1945, which makes him the longest-serving President during the twentieth century. - Richard Schope
Richard Schope was the discoverer of the Orthomyxoviridae family of viruses. He first isolated influenzavirus A from pigs in 1931. References Shimizu K. (Oct 1997). "History of influenza epidemics and discovery of influenza virus". Nippon Rinsho. 55 (10): 2505-201. PMID 9360364 - John Fothergill
John Fothergill (March 8, 1712 - December 26, 1780), English physician, was born of a Quaker family at Carr End in Yorkshire. He took the degree of M.D. at Edinburgh in 1736, and after visiting continental Europe in 1740, settled in London, where he gained an extensive practice. In the epidemics of influenza in 1775 and 1776 he is said to have had sixty patients daily. In his leisure he made a study of conchology and botany; and at Upton, near Stratford, … - Frank Skinner
Frank Skinner, (born Christopher Graham Collins on 28 January, 1957) is a British writer and comedian, best known for the hit football song "Three Lions" with David Baddiel and The Lightning Seeds as well as presenting, alongside Baddiel, the hit comedy show Fantasy Football League. - Mel Brieseman
Mel Brieseman is a New Zealand public health official, surgeon, obstetrician and former missionary to India. Brieseman was born in Stratford, New Zealand, and after completing his primary and secondary schooling in Taranaki left for Otago University to study medicine. There he met his wife, who was secretary to a professor of microbiology, and after marrying and graduating returned with her to Taranaki, taking up a house surgeon job in New Plymouth. - Beatrice Straight
Beatrice Whitney Straight (August 2 1914 - April 7 2001) was an Academy Award and Tony Award-winning American theatre, film, and television actress. Born in Old Westbury, New York, she was the daughter of investment banker Willard Dickerman Straight and Dorothy Payne Whitney. - Briton Hadden
Briton Hadden (February 18, 1898 - February 27, 1929) was the co-founder of Time Magazine with his Yale classmate Henry Luce. Hadden got his start in newspaper writing at the Hotchkiss Record, a newspaper at the Hotchkiss prep school. At Yale, Hadden was elected to the staff of the Yale Daily News and later served as the paper's chairman twice (1917-1918 and 1919-1920). Luce was the News' managing editor both times. - Alexander MacKendrick
Alexander Mackendrick (September 8 1912 - December 22 1993) was a Scottish-American film director. - Whitney Straight
Air Commodore Whitney Willard Straight CBE, MC, DFC (November 6, 1912 - April 5, 1979) was a Grand Prix motor racing driver, aviator, businessman, and a member of the prominent Whitney family of the United States. Born in New York, Whitney Straight was the son of Willard Dickerman Straight and heiress Dorothy Payne Whitney. - Bill Blair
William Ellsworth Blair (born September 17, 1863 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania - died February 22, 1890 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) was a Major League Baseball player. A left-handed pitcher who batted from the left side, Blair had a listed playing weight of 172 pounds. In an eight-year career as a professional, Blair spent one season in the major leagues. He started four games for the Philadelphia Athletics of the American Association in 1888, winning one and losing three. - Ruby Lindsay
Ruby Lindsay was an Australian illustrator and painter, sister of Norman Lindsay and Percy Lindsay. Lindsay was born in Creswick, Victoria and lived in Melbourne from the age of 16 with her brother Percy while studying at the National Gallery of Victoria School. Lindsay drew occasionally for The Bulletin and illustrated William Moore's "Studio Sketches" (1906) and designed posters. On 30 September 1909 she married Will Dyson. - E. Roland Harriman
E. Roland Harriman (born Edward Roland Noel Harriman on December 24 1895 in New York City - died on February 16 1978 in Arden, New York) was a financier and philanthropist. For those who were very close to him, his nickname was "Bunny". He was the youngest of five surviving children of Mary Williamson Averell and Edward Henry Harriman, a financier and executive of the Union Pacific Railroad and the Southern Pacific Railroad. - Walter Parr
Walter Robinson Parr was a preacher at St. Paul Congregational Church in Chicago, Illinois, where he befriended Elias Disney. Disney named his fourth son, Walter Elias Disney, after Parr. Son of Alexander and Matilda (Richards) Parr was born in Liverpool, England on May 3, 1871. He graduated from Beloit Academy in 1891. Then from Beloit College in 1895 and the Chicago Theological Seminary in 1898. He was ordained to the Congregational ministry in Clifton, Illinois, … - Sarah Purcell
Sarah Purcell (born 8 October 1948 in Richmond, Indiana) is a well known talk show host, game show host and panelist and actress. She was co-host of "The Better Sex" (1977-1978), "Real People" (1979-1983), and "The Home Show" (1992-1994), and had guest appearances in several TV dramas. She also co-starred in the 1981 film "Terror Among Us" with Tracy Reed. She has appeared in a number of infomercials for health foods, … - Michel Sarrazin
Michel Sarrazin (5 September 1659 - 8 September 1734) was an early Canadian scientist and naturalist. He was the surgeon of the king of New France, and he arrived at New France in 1685. Sarrazin spent three years studying medicine. He was them introduced to botany by scientist Joseph Pitton de Tournefort. He then spent almost thirty years collecting and observing plants and minerals. He was the first person to collect and catalogue plant specimens systematically. - George Washington Hays
George Washington Hays (23 September 1863--15 September 1927) was the Democratic governor of the U.S. state of Arkansas. George Washington Hays was born in Camden, Arkansas. He attended public schools in Camden and worked as a farmer. Hays studied law at Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Virginia. Hays was probate and county judge for Ouachita County, Arkansas between 1900 and 1905. Hays served as a judge with the 13th Circuit Court from 1906 to 1913. - John Huxham
John Huxham was born 1672 close to Totnes, Devon. He was a provincial doctor and surgeon notable for his study of fevers. In 1750 Huxham published his Essay on Fevers and in 1755 received the Copley Medal for his contribution to medicine. He was educated at Newton Abbot grammar school, moving on to Exeter academy, the university of Leyden and finishing his M.D. at the university of Rheims. He returned to Totnes and started a medical practice soon after in Plymouth. - James Vernor
James Vernor, Sr. was an American pharmacist and druggist who invented Vernor's ginger ale in 1866. Vernor was born in Albany, New York and moved with his parents to Detroit, Michigan in his youth. While employed at Higby and Sterns' Drug Store in Detroit, Vernor began experimenting with ginger ale. With the emergence of the American Civil War in 1862, he enlisted and served with the 4th Michigan Cavalry until 1865, becoming a Second Lieutenant before being discharged. - Alexander McNair
Alexander McNair (May 5 1774 - March 18 1826) was an American frontiersman and politician. He was the first governor of Missouri from its entry as a state in 1820, until 1824. McNair was born in Pennsylvania where he lived for the first 30 years of his life. He went to school as a child, and attended one term at Philadelphia College (now the University of Pennsylvania) but went home when his father died. - Hoyt Corkins
Hoyt Corkins (born Glenwood, Alabama) is an American professional poker player, known for his softly-spoken voice and his aggressive style. He started playing at the age of 19 after receiving lessons from his father. He is usually known by his nickname "Cowboy" as he always wears a cowboy hat and boots to the table. However, he has been given other nicknames, including "Mr Move All-In" by Phil Hellmuth Jr. - Hugh James Rose
Hugh James Rose (June 9, 1795 - December 22, 1838) was an English churchman and theologian. He was born at Little Horsted in Sussex, and educated at Uckfield school and at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he graduated B.A. in 1817, but missed a fellowship. Taking holy orders, he was appointed to Buxted, Sussex, in 1819, and to the vicarage of Horsham in 1821. He had already attained some repute as a critic, which was enhanced when, after travelling in Germany, … - Alice Catherine Evans
Alice Catherine Evans (January 29, 1881-September 5, 1975) was an American microbiologist. She was born in a farm in Neath, Pennsylvania. In 1886 she survived Scarlet Fever, as did her brother Morgan. She attended the Susquehanna Collegiate Institute for a year, then became a teacher. After earning a B.S. in bacteriology from the Cornell University in 1909 and an M.S. University of Wisconsin the following year, she became a researcher at the US Department of Agriculture. - Joseph R. Garber
Joseph R. Garber (August 14, 1943 - May 27 2005) was an American author, best known for his 1995 thriller "Vertical Run" and for the articles he wrote on technology for Forbes magazine. Garber was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, moving often as an army brat. He attended the University of Virginia, but quit to join the U.S. Army himself, eventually graduating from East Tennessee State University in 1968 with a philosophy degree. - Otto Voit
Otto Emil Voit was a United States Army soldier and a recipient of America's highest military decoration—the Medal of Honor—for his actions in the Battle of the Little Bighorn. Voit immigrated to the United States in 1862, and enlisted in the Union Army during the American Civil War. He was a "saddler" (saddle-maker) in Germany and with the U.S. Army. After the Civil War, Voit, in Company H of George Armstrong Custer's Seventh Cavalry, … - Don Craig Wiley
Don Craig Wiley, 1944-2001, American crystallographer. Wiley's achievements in the field of crystallography include the imaging of: * Class I and class II major histocompatibility complex proteins * The influenza hemagglutinin protein * hemagglutinin trimer * HLA-A2 Famous quote: "I'm sorry, but I just don't understand anything in biology unless I know what it looks like." Wiley owned a British racing green-coloured Aston Martin. - Crow Village Sam
Crow Village Sam (Phillips) 1893-1974 was Yup'ik Eskimo native who lived in the mid Kuskokwim River valley in Alaska. Crow Village Sam was born around 1893 in Crow Village, Alaska. Birth records in the area were not maintained until 1914, so that date is based on Crow Village Sam's recollection as told to archeologist Wendell H. Oswalt in 1963. - Mohammed Noor
Mohammed Noor (born February 26, 1978) is a football (soccer) player from Saudi Arabia. He plays for the club side Al-Ittihad and has been called the Saudi Patrick Viera. Noor played for Saudi Arabia in the 2002 World Cup, without any real success. He fared better in the FIFA Club World Championship 2005 in Japan for Al-Ittihad. While playing for the Saudi national team on June 14 2006, … - William C. Farr
William C. Farr (1841 - 1921) was the fifth mayor of Bayonne, New Jersey from 1891 to 1895. Born on March 13, 1844 in Gettenbach, near Frankfurt-am-Main, in Germany, Farr immigrated to the United States in 1861. After arriving in Baltimore, Farr moved to Bayonne, New Jersey in 1862. On May 31, 1863, he married Mary Dorethea Schmidt; they had five children together. After a time operating a canal boat, Farr became successful in business running a contracting firm in Bayonne. - James A. Reilly
James A. Reilly is a Canadian businessman and politician. He was the sixth and twelfth mayor of Calgary, Alberta. He was married to May Watts. Reilly was born in 1835 in Naperville, Quebec to immigrants from Ireland. In Quebec he became an architect and builder before going to Winnipeg, Manitoba in 1882 then to Calgary in 1883. In Calgary he became actively involved with the local community. - Friedrich Münzer
Friedrich Münzer was a German classical scholar noted for the development of prosopography, particularly for his demonstrations of how family relationships in ancient Rome connected to political struggles. He was born at Oppeln, Silesia into a Jewish merchant family, went to Leipzig University and then in 1887 to Berlin University, where he wrote his thesis "De Gente Valeria" under the supervision of Otto Hirschfeld. - August Klotz
August Klotz (1864-?) was a German schizophrenic outsider artist and one of the "schizophrenic masters" profiled by Hans Prinzhorn in his field-defining work "Artistry of the Mentally Ill". He was the son of a prosperous Swabian merchant, and worked in his father's business as a wine and champagne salesman for many years. Besides a case of gonorrhea, he was healthy until an attack of influenza in 1903, at which point he fell into a deep depression, … - Egbert Seymour
Egbert Seymour (1850 - 1921) was 6th the mayor of Bayonne, New Jersey from 1895 to 1904. Born December 15, 1850 in Walkill in upstate New York, Seymour came to Bayonne, New Jersey in the 1880s and became active in Democratic Party politics. He was elected Mayor in 1895, succeeding Republican William C. Farr, and served until 1904. He was one of the founders of the Bayonne Democratic Club. Seymour died on February 6, 1921 in his home of influenza at age 70.
|
| |