Joseph Henry (December 17, 1797 – May 13, 1878) was an American scientist who served as the first Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, as well as a founding member of the National Institute for the Promotion of Science, a precursor of the Smithsonian Institution. During his lifetime, he was highly regarded. While building electromagnets, Henry discovered the electromagnetic phenomenon of self-inductance. He also discovered mutual inductance independently of Michael Faraday, though Faraday was the first to publish his results. The SI unit of inductance, the henry, is named in his honor. Henry's work on the electromagnetic relay was the basis of the electrical telegraph, invented by Samuel Morse and Charles Wheatstone separately.

Henry was born in Albany, New York to Scottish immigrants Ann Alexander Henry and William Henry. His parents were poor, and Henry's father died while he was still young. For the rest of his childhood, Henry lived with his grandmother in Galway, New York. He attended a school which would later be named the "Joseph Henry Elementary School" in his honor. After school, he worked at a general store, and at the age of thirteen became an apprentice watchmaker and silversmith. Joseph's first love was theater and he came close to becoming a professional actor. His interest in science was sparked at the age of sixteen by a book of lectures on scientific topics titled Popular Lectures on Experimental Philosophy. In 1819 he entered The Albany Academy, where he was given free tuition. He was so poor, even with free tuition, that he had to support himself with teaching and private tutoring positions. He intended to go into the field of medicine, but in 1824 he was appointed an assistant engineer for the survey of the State road being constructed between the Hudson River and Lake Erie. From then on, he was inspired to a career in either civil or mechanical engineering.

Joe Henry (born December 2, 1960) is a three-time Grammy-winningsinger-songwriter, guitarist, and record producer. Henry, "a modest-selling 'critic’s darling' with a reputation for pushing the envelope" writes "songs [that] don’t fit into an easily defined box", instead drawing influence from a wide array of music including folk, blues, jazz, rock, country, and alternative forms alike. He has released 12 full-length studio albums under his own name, and has produced dozens more records for others as well.

Joe Henry was born in Charlotte, North Carolina, grew up in the Detroit, Michigan area and graduated from the University of Michigan. He moved to Brooklyn, NY in 1985, where he began playing in small clubs and recording music, releasing his first album "Talk of Heaven" in 1986. The album earned him a recording contract with A&M, which subsequently released "Murder of Crows" in 1989 and "Shuffletown" in 1990.

"Shuffletown," produced by T-Bone Burnett, was the first to represent a shift in musical direction, and included a group of mostly acoustic players recorded live, directly to two-track master tape. His sound veered toward what was then emerging as "alt country". Henry’s next two records, "Short Man's Room" (1992) and "Kindness of the World" (1993), shared members of the country-rock band the Jayhawks. These two albums were specifically written with the Jayhawks as backing band, as Joe was sharing a tour with them during the same period. The murder ballad "King's Highway," from "Short Man's Room," has been covered by Joan Baez.

Johannes Hermann Zukertort (7 September 1842 – 20 June 1888) was a leading chess master of German-Polish-Jewish origin. He was one of the leading world players for most of the 1870s and 1880s, and lost to Wilhelm Steinitz in the World Chess Championship 1886, which is generally seen as the first World Chess Championship match, he was also beaten by Steinitz in 1872 in unofficial championship; both were best players in the world.

Zukertort filled his relatively short life with a wide range of other achievements as a soldier, musician, linguist, journalist and political activist.

Zukertort was born 7 September 1842 in Lublin, Congress Poland. He said that his mother was the Baroness Krzyżanowska (Krzyzanovska). His father was a Christian Protestant missionary of Jewish origin. The Christian mission among the Jewish population in Russian-occupied Poland was considered an illegal activity. Therefore, the Zukertort family emigrated to Prussia. In 1861, he enrolled at the University of Breslau (Wrocław) to study medicine; he later claimed that he completed his degree, but this has been disputed. In any case he met Adolf Anderssen while in Breslau (Wrocław) and fell in love with chess.

Joseph Henry Blackburne (10 December 1841 – 1 September 1924), nicknamed "The Black Death", dominated British chess during the latter part of the 19th century. He learned the game at the relatively late age of 18 but quickly became a strong player and went on to develop a professional chess career that spanned over 50 years. At one point he was the world's second most successful player, with a string of tournament victories behind him, but he really enjoyed popularising chess by giving simultaneous and blindfold displays around the country. Blackburne also published a collection of his own games, and was a chess correspondent for a leading journal until his death.

He was also noted for heavy drinking of Scotch whisky, especially during exhibition games, and this became the subject of many anecdotes. However he occasionally became violent when drunk, and his victims included other chess players.

Joseph Henry Blackburne was born in Manchester in December 1841. His father was a temperance reformer who travelled all over Britain and Ireland, taking his son with him. Ironically Joseph Blackburne became famous for his heavy drinking of whisky while playing chess.

Henry Watson Edmondson (25 November 1872 – 18 August 1946) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Perth in the Western Australian Football Association (WAFA). He also played first-class cricket for Western Australia.

Edmondson was already 29 when he started his WAFA career, in 1902. In his first season he was Perth's leading goal-kicker and he was the full-forward in their 1907 premiership team, which won the grand final on appeal. He kicked two goals on grand final day, the only multiple goal-kicker on either team, in what was his final league appearance.

He played most of his interstate cricket after retiring from football but participated in one first-class match in 1905/06, as a bowler.

In 1912/13, Edmond both played in and was manager of the Western Australia team which toured the country. On this occasion he was used as a top order batsman and scored two half centuries, the best of which was 68 against New South Wales. Against South Australia in Adelaide, Edmondson acted as his side's wicket-keeper in the second innings as usual gloveman Harold Evers was injured. In Sydmey, Edmondson got a pair against New South Wales but also got the biggest wicket of his career, that of Victor Trumper. He finished with career with 194 runs at 17.63 and four wickets at 56.50, from six first-class matches.