John Mervyn Addison was born on March 16, 1920, in Chobham, England.

He was a British composer best known for his film scores. He studied at the Royal College of Music (1936-1939). In 1939, he served with the British XXX Corps in the 23rd Hussars during the World War II. In 1945, he returned to London to teach composition at the Royal College of Music. Addison is best known for his film scores. He won an Academy Award for Best Original Score and a Grammy Award in the Best Original Score from a Motion Picture or Television Show category for the music to the 1963 film Tom Jones. He also won a BAFTA Award for A Bridge Too Far (1977). His other film scores included A Taste of Honey (1961), Smashing Time (1967), The Honey Pot (1967), Sleuth (1972), Swashbuckler (1976) and the television series Centennial (1978). He composed the theme music for the television series Murder, She Wrote and won an Emmy for the 2-hour pilot episode in the Outstanding Achievement in Music Composition for a Series (dramatic underscore) category. In 1990, he retired to Bennington, Vermont, where he returned to writing music for chamber orchestra and symphony. His "Bassoon Concertina" was first performed by the Halle Orchestra in Manchester, England, in the summer of 1998. Addison's collection of correspondence, scores, and studio recordings was donated to the Film Music Archives at Brigham Young University in 1994.

He died on December 7, 1998, in Bennington, Vermont.

Richard P. Addrisi was one half of the American pop duo, the Addrisi Brothers. The brothers were born in Winthrop, Massachusetts, a suburb of Boston, to a couple from Europe known as the “Flying Addrisis,” an acrobatic trapeze act. Although they sometimes claimed to have been part of the act as youngsters, Dick has later said that his father was a businessman. It soon became apparent that the brothers had musical talents, and encouraged by comedian Lenny Bruce, who heard them perform, the family headed west in 1954, performing along the way for various fraternal organizations. Bruce helped them find an agent who lured them to Calfornia in 1956 with the possibility of an audition for mouseketeers on the Mickey Mouse Club RV show. That fell through, but the family stayed on and in 1957 Richard started going to the Hollywood Professional School. The next year they performed in Las Vegas and claimed to be the youngest act ever to work there. They recorded for Del-Phi Records, then Imperial Records and Warner Brothers Records. After it became clear they were not cut out for singing careers, they switched to song-writing and had a few hits among some 22 singles. Their greatest success was “Never My Love,” a gentle ballad written in 1967 for The Association; in 2011, this song was named the second most performed song ever, according to a tabulation by the performing rights organization BMI (Broadcast Music, Inc.) In the 1970s they composed music for television, including the theme for the television show “Nanny and the Professor.” The brothers’ careers as a duo ended in 1984 when Don died of pancreatic cancer. Dick later moved to Argentina.

Donald J. Addrisi was one half of the American pop duo, the Addrisi Brothers. The brothers were born in Winthrop, Massachusetts, a suburb of Boston, to a couple from Europe known as the “Flying Addrisis,” an acrobatic trapeze act. Although they sometimes claimed to have been part of the act as youngsters, Dick has later said that his father was a businessman. It soon became apparent that the brothers had musical talents, and encouraged by comedian Lenny Bruce, who heard them perform, the family headed west in 1954, performing along the way for various fraternal organizations. Bruce helped them find an agent who lured them to Calfornia in 1956 with the possibility of an audition for mouseketeers on the Mickey Mouse Club RV show. That fell through, but the family stayed on and in 1957 Richard started going to the Hollywood Professional School. The next year they performed in Las Vegas and claimed to be the youngest act ever to work there. They recorded for Del-Phi Records, then Imperial Records and Warner Brothers Records. After it became clear they were not cut out for singing careers, they switched to song-writing and had a few hits among some 22 singles. Their greatest success was “Never My Love,” a gentle ballad written in 1967 for The Association; in 2011, this song was named the second most performed song ever, according to a tabulation by the performing rights organization BMI (Broadcast Music, Inc.) In the 1970s they composed music for television, including the theme for the television show “Nanny and the Professor.” The brothers’ careers as a duo ended in 1984 when Don died of pancreatic cancer. Dick later moved to Argentina.

Adelaide is the capital city of South Australia, the state's largest city and the fifth-most populous city in Australia. Adelaide is the original land of the Indigenous Kaurna people and was established in 1836 as a British colony. The city is home to over one million people of all cultures, ethnicities and walks of life. It is a bustling multicultural city with many cultural events. With beautiful hills, white sandy beaches and enticing wine districts, Adelaide has the best of everything. It is regarded as wine and the food capital of Australia and has more restaurants per head than any other major Australian city. Adelaide is home to three of Australia’s best universities, three prestigious international institutions, three TAFE institutes offering 300 vocational courses across 51 campuses and over 600 private training organizations.

Mona Elaine Adilman was born on May 8, 1924, in Montreal, Quebec.

She was a Jewish-Canadian poet and editor. She received her B.A. from McGill University in 1945. Adilman was committed to social and environmental causes, warning Quebecers against the dangers of pesticides. She created and taught a course on Ecology and Literature at Concordia University and directed a Heritage Group called Save Montreal. She edited an anthology of writings from prison called “Spirits of the Age: Poets of Conscience” (1989). In 1951, Adilman married Dr. Morris Solomon (1922–2002), and they had one daughter, Shelley Solomon. Her daughter established the Mona Elaine Adilman Lectureship on the Environment in her mother's memory. A scholarship called the Mona Elaine Adilman Poetry Prize was established in 1992 in the Department of English at McGill University. The Association for Canadian Jewish Studies annually awards the Mona Elaine Adilman English Fiction and Poetry Award on a Jewish Theme as one of the J.I. Segal Awards. Adilman was the author of several collections of poems, e.g., "Cult of Concrete" (1977), "Piece Work" (1980) and "Candles in the Dark' (1990).

She died on October 5, 1991, in Montreal, Quebec.

Cyrus Adler was born on September 13, 1863, in Van Buren, Arkansas.

He was an American educator, Jewish religious leader, librarian, editor, and scholar. He studied at the University of Pennsylvania (1883) and Johns Hopkins University (Oriental studies), where he became a Fellow in Semitic languages (1885-1887). There, he received the first American Ph.D. in Semitics, became an instructor in Semitic languages and was promoted to Associate Professor in 1890. In 1877, Adler was appointed assistant curator of the section of Oriental antiquities in the U.S. National Museum. He was a librarian at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. (1892-1905). In 1895, he located Thomas Jefferson’s Bible and purchased it for the Smithsonian Institution from his great-granddaughter. He lectured on biblical archeology at the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York and was President of the American Jewish Historical Society. In 1900, he was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society. He founded the Jewish Welfare Board and served as President of Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning (1908-1940) and Chancellor of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America. Adler was also a founding member of the Oriental Club of Philadelphia. He edited the Jewish Encyclopedia, the American Jewish Yearbook (1899-1905), and the Jewish Quarterly Review (1910-1940). Adler contributed to the New International Encyclopedia, the Journal of the American Oriental Society, the Proceedings of the American Philological Association, the Andover Review, Hebraica, and the Johns Hopkins University Circular. He was a part of the committee that translated the Jewish Publication Society version of the Hebrew Bible published in 1917. At the end of World War I, he participated in the Paris Peace Conference in 1919.

In 1905, he married Racie Friedenwal (1872–1952). He died on April 7, 1940, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

American-Canadian artist, writer, and photographer.