Walter Misera (14 July 1906 – 27 September 1993) was a highly decorated Oberstleutnant in the Wehrmacht during World War II. He was also a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves. The Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross and its higher grade Oak Leaves was awarded to recognise extreme battlefield bravery or successful military leadership. He was also awarded the very rare Close Combat Clasp in Gold one of only 631 awards.

Marion Mitchell Morrison (born Marion Robert Morrison; May 26, 1907 – June 11, 1979), better known by his stage name John Wayne, was an American film actor, director and producer. An Academy Award-winner, Wayne was among the top box office draws for three decades, and was named the all-time top money-making star. An enduring American icon, he epitomized rugged masculinity and is famous for his demeanor, including his distinctive calm voice, walk, and height.

Wayne was born in Winterset, Iowa but his family relocated to the greater Los Angeles area when he was four years old. He found work at local film studios when he lost his football scholarship to USC as a result of a bodysurfing accident. Initially working for the Fox Film Corporation, he mostly appeared in small bit parts. His acting breakthrough came in 1939 with John Ford's Stagecoach, making him an instant star. Wayne would go on to star in 142 pictures, primarily typecast in Western films.

Among his best known films are The Quiet Man (1952), which follows him as an Irish-American boxer and his love affair with a fiery spinster played by Maureen O'Hara; The Searchers (1956), in which he plays a Civil War veteran who seeks out his abducted niece; Rio Bravo (1959), playing a Sheriff with Dean Martin; True Grit (1969), playing a humorous U.S. Marshal who sets out to avenge a man's death in the role that won Wayne an Academy Award; and The Shootist (1976), his final screen performance in which he plays an aging gunslinger battling cancer.

Marco Masini (born September 18, 1964) is an Italian singer-songwriter

Marco Masini was born on September 18, 1964, the Italian city of Florence. His mother, Anna Maria, sang and played piano, and was an elementary school teacher before she quit the profession to have a life at home with the family. His father, Giancarlo, worked as a representative of products for hairdressers. When Marco was three years old he received piano as a Christmas present: He put his hands on it and then how to play the songWhite Christmasjust to hear it. Taking the advice of his uncle, in March began to take music lessons and some years later, came to study large stars of European traditional music, Chopin and Mozart were beginning a solicitation to Marco Masini. Although he also loved pop music, classic rock and traditional music of Italy. When he was 11 years, he had the opportunity to touch the holy festival of the patron of a small town near Florence. He played many musical styles, from disco to Liscia to classical revival. During high school he created, along with friends, a music group called Errata Fixes. When he was 15, he played on a team called Sanger and participated in trials to play. However, there may he decided to leave the sport because he loved music.

Domenico Gaetano Maria Donizetti (Italian pronunciation: [doˈmeːniko ɡaeˈtaːno maˈɾia doniˈdzetti]; 29 November 1797 – 8 April 1848) was an Italian composer from Bergamo, Lombardy. His best-known works are the operas L'elisir d'amore (1832), Lucia di Lammermoor (1835), and Don Pasquale (1843), all in Italian, and the French operas La favorite and La fille du régiment (both from 1840). Along with Vincenzo Bellini and Gioachino Rossini, he was a leading composer of bel canto opera.

The youngest of three sons, Donizetti was born in 1797 in Bergamo's Borgo Canale quarter located just outside the city walls. His family was very poor with no tradition of music, his father being the caretaker of the town pawnshop. Nevertheless, Donizetti received some musical instruction from Simon Mayr, a German composer of internationally successful operas who had become maestro di cappella at Bergamo's principal church in 1802.

Salvatore Fisichella (born May 15, 1943 in Catania, Sicily) is an Italian operatic tenor, particularly known for his roles in bel canto operas, especially those of Rossini, Donizetti, and Bellini. He has been recognized for the ease and vocal brilliance of his singing, and for having sung more of the leading roles in Bellini's operas than any other 20th century tenor.

Ever since he was a child, friends and relatives would urge him to sing to them at family get-togethers. Eager to please and not at all shy, the young Fisichella would end these performances with his pièce de resistance, ‘O Sole Mio'.

At the age of ten, he was already interested in church music and expressed a desire to be schooled at the local seminary where he attended Middle School. The Superiors soon noticed his vocal talent and the ‘boy with the silver voice’, as he was known, soon began singing solos in church services and during small-scale musical productions for special occasions and festivals. It was a sad day for the young Fisichella when the musical director of his early school days, Padre Giosuè Chisari (who would go on to become the chief curator of the Bellini Museum), predicted that his scholar's rich, full voice would become that of a bass upon hearing him sing a specially adapted version of ‘Suoni la tromba’ whilst accompanying him at the piano. The young Salvatore at once burst into copious tears, sobbing that he would only ever become a tenor, never a bass.