Kay Cottee (1954)
Kay Cottee is an Australian sailor, who was the first woman to perform a single-handed, non-stop and unassisted circumnavigation of the world. She performed this feat in 1988 in her 37 feet (11 m)…
Kay Cottee is an Australian sailor, who was the first woman to perform a single-handed, non-stop and unassisted circumnavigation of the world. She performed this feat in 1988 in her 37 feet (11 m)…
Edward Francis Bouchee was an American professional baseball first baseman. He appeared in Major League Baseball (MLB) for three National League (NL) ballclubs – the Philadelphia Phillies, Chicago…
Lorenz Oken was a German naturalist, botanist, biologist, and ornithologist. He became a professor of natural history at the University of Jena and from 1833 at the newly founded University of Zurich.
Henson Cargill was an American country music singer best known for the socially controversial 1968 country number-one hit “Skip a Rope”. His music career began in Oklahoma in clubs around Oklahoma…
Raja Ramanna was an Indian nuclear physicist. He was the director of India’s nuclear program in the late 1960s and early 1970s, which culminated in Smiling Buddha, India’s first successful nuclear…
Samuel Barclay Beckett was an Irish playwright, poet, novelist, and literary critic. Writing in both English and French, his literary and theatrical works feature bleak, impersonal, and tragicomic…
Lawrence Tanter is an American public address announcer best known for his work for the Los Angeles Lakers of the National Basketball Association. In addition, he was also the program director for…