Michael Watson MBE (born 15 March 1965 in Hackney London) is a retired British boxer whose career ended prematurely as a result of near-fatal injury sustained in a WBO super-middleweight […]
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Lionel Kieseritzky
Lionel Adalbert Bagration Felix Kieseritzky (1 January 1806 [O.S. 20 December 1805] in Tartu – 18 May [O.S. 6 May] 1853 in Paris) was a Baltic German chess master famous […]
Catherine McAuley
The Venerable Mother Catherine Elizabeth McAuley (29 September 1778 – 11 November 1841) was an Irish nun who founded the Sisters of Mercy in 1831.The Order has always been associated […]
William B. Lenoir
William Benjamin Bill Lenoir (March 14 1939 – August 26 2010) was an American engineer and a former NASA astronaut.Lenoir was born on March 14 1939 in Miami Florida. He […]
Robert F. Overmyer
Robert Franklyn Overmyer (July 14 1936 – March 22 1996) was an American test pilot Colonel in the United States Marine Corps and NASA astronaut. He was born in Lorain […]
Vance D. Brand
Vance DeVoe Brand (born May 9 1931) is a former test pilot and NASA astronaut. He served as command module pilot during the first U.S.-Soviet joint space flight in 1975 […]
C. Gordon Fullerton
Charles Gordon Fullerton (October 11 1936 – August 21 2013) was a United States Air Force colonel a USAF and NASA astronaut and a research pilot at NASA’s Dryden Flight […]
Jack R. Lousma
Jack Robert Lousma (born February 29 1936) is a former NASA astronaut and politician. He was a member of the second manned crew on the Skylab space station in 1973. […]
Armistead Thomson Mason
Armistead Thomson Mason (August 4 1787 – February 6 1819) the son of Stevens Thomson Mason was a U.S. Senator from Virginia from 1816 to 1817. Mason was also the […]
Henry Stafford 1st Earl of Wiltshire
Henry Stafford 1st Earl of Wiltshire (c. 1479 – 6 April 1523) was an English nobleman.