Sir Frederick Grant Banting was born on November 14, 1891, in Alliston, Ontario.

He was a Canadian pharmacologist, orthopedist, and field surgeon, educated at the University of Toronto. He began studying divinity but soon switched to medicine (M.B., 1916). In 1916, he joined the Canadian Army Medical Corps and served during the First World War in France. In 1918, he was wounded at the Battle of Cambrai, and in 1919, he was awarded the Military Cross for heroism under fire. He studied orthopedic medicine and was a Resident Surgeon at the Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto (1919-1920). From 1920 until 1921, he was a part-time teacher in orthopedics at the University of Western Ontario in London, Canada, in addition to his general practice. From 1921 until 1922, he was a Lecturer in Pharmacology at the University of Toronto. In 1922, he was awarded his M.D. degree, together with a gold medal. Earlier, however, Banting had become deeply interested in diabetes. Dr. Charles Best, then a medical student, was appointed as Banting’s assistant, and together, Banting and Best started the work which led to the discovery of insulin. In 1922, Banting was appointed Senior Demonstrator in Medicine at the University of Toronto, and in 1923, he was elected to the Banting and Best Chair of Medical Research. He was also appointed Honorary Consulting Physician to the Toronto General Hospital, the Hospital for Sick Children, and the Toronto Western Hospital. In the Banting and Best Institute, Banting dealt with the problems of silicosis, cancer, the mechanism of drowning, and how to counteract it. During the Second World War, he became greatly interested in problems connected with flying (such as blackouts). In addition to his medical degree, Banting also obtained the LL.D. degree (Queens, 1923) and the D.Sc. degree (Toronto). Before the award of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1923, which he shared with John Macleod, he received the Reeve Prize of the University of Toronto (1922). In 1923, the Canadian Parliament granted him a Life Annuity of $7,500. In 1928, Banting gave the Cameron Lecture in Edinburgh. He was a member of the British and American Physiological Societies and the American Pharmacological Society. He was knighted in 1934. As a keen painter, Banting once took part in a painting expedition above the Arctic Circle, sponsored by the Government. When the Second World War broke out, he served as a liaison officer between the British and North American medical services and was killed in an air disaster in Newfoundland.

In 1924, he married Marion Wilson Robertson (1896–1944) and they divorced in 1932. In 1939, he remarried Lady Henrietta Elizabeth Ball (1912–1976). He died on February 21, 1941, due to wounds and exposure following a plane crash at Musgrave Harbour Airport, Newfoundland and Labrador.

Henry Marriott Bannister was born on March 18, 1854, in London, England.

He was an English music editor and bibliographer who studied theology and was ordained as a priest in 1878. He published valuable editions of "Monumenti Vaticani di Paleografia Musicale Latina" (Leipzig, 1913), a catalogue of the music manuscripts in the Vatican Library, which included 141 plates. He co-edited volumes 47, 49, 53, and 54 of "Analecta Hymnica Medii Aevi" (1886–1922) and published some manuscripts of the Abbey of Coupar-Angus in Scotland, along with a brief description (Rome, 1910). For many years, he served as the librarian of the Bodleian Library at Oxford University.

He died on February 16, 1919, in Oxford, England.

In 1889, E. G. Banks worked as a metallurgist for the Waihi Gold Mining Company in New Zealand. He contributed reports to the Transactions of the Australasian Institute of Mining Engineers. From 1913 to 1927, he served as the company's superintendent. Afterward, he relocated to Siam (Thailand) and took on the role of a consulting mining engineer in Melbourne, Australia.

Joel Asaph Allen was born on July 19, 1838, in Springfield, Massachusetts.

He was an American zoologist, mammalogist, and ornithologist. He began studying and collecting specimens of natural history early in life. However, he had to sell his large collection to attend the Wilbraham & Monson Academy in 1861. The next year, he transferred to Harvard University, where he studied under Louis Agassiz (1807-1873) at Harvard's Museum of Comparative Zoology and became a staff member in 1871. Allen participated in the 1865-1866 Thayer Expedition to Brazil where he collected bird and mammal skins, geological specimens, fishes, reptiles, and other vertebrates. He also took part in several U.S. expeditions, collecting, surveying, and making scientific observations. At The American Museum of Natural History (AMNH), Allen increasingly focused on acquiring, researching, and writing, as well as editorial work. He cataloged thousands of specimens of birds and mammals in the museum's collections and provided editorial supervision for the Bulletin of the AMNH and the Memoirs of the AMNH. He was the first president of the American Ornithologists' Union for seven years from its formation in 1883 and was editor of the journal The Auk for 27 years. In 1871, he was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 1885, he was appointed as the first curator of birds and mammals at the American Museum of Natural History in New York, later becoming the first head of the museum's Department of Ornithology. He was also a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the American Philosophical Society.

In 1874, he married Mary Manning Cleveland (1846–1879) and, in 1886, he remarried Susan A. Taft (1843–). He died on August 29, 1921, in Cornwall, New York.