Edward Wyllys Andrews was born on March 25, 1856, in Chicago, Illinois, a son of Edmund Andrews (1824–1904), a doctor and pioneer in surgery and medical education.

He graduated from Northwestern University as valedictorian of his class of 1881. In 1883, he graduated from Chicago Medical College, which later became Northwestern University Medical School, and in that same year became one of the founders of the Chicago South-Side Medico-Social Society. He was a founder and organizer of both the American College of Surgeons and the National Board of Medical Examiners. He became a Fellow of the American Surgical Association, the Society of Clinical Surgery, the Chicago Surgical Society, and various other surgical societies, for several of which he served as president. He spent his career at what became Northwestern University Hospital but also had appointments at Michael Reese, Hospital Mercy Hospital, Cook County Hospital and St. Luke's Hospital. Andrews was a prolific writer on surgical topics, a member of the Chicago Literary Club, and an avid Shakespeare scholar, as well as a student of botany and geology.

In 1890, he married Alice Scranton Davis (1870–1945). He died on January 21, 1927, in Chicago, Cook County, Illinois.

Thomas Andrews was born on December 19, 1813, in Belfast, Ireland, the son of a Belfast linen merchant.

He was an Irish chemist, physicist, and professor. He attended the Belfast Academy and the Royal Belfast Academical Institution, where he studied mathematics. He continued his studies at the University of Glasgow (chemistry), Trinity College, Dublin (classics and science), and the University of Edinburgh (M.D., 1935). Andrews began a successful medical practice in his native Belfast in 1835, also giving instruction in chemistry at the Academical Institution. In 1845, he was appointed Vice-President of the newly established Queen's University of Belfast and its first Professor of Chemistry. He held these two offices until his retirement in 1879. An outstanding experimentalist, he was the first to show that ozone is another form of oxygen. In 1844, the Royal Society awarded him a Royal Medal for his research into gases. In 1867, became president of the British Association for the Advancement of Science.

In 1842, he married Jane Hardie Walker (1818–1899). He died on November 26, 1885, in Belfast, Ireland.

Louis Andriessen was born on June 6, 1939, in Utrecht, Netherlands.

He was a Dutch composer and pianist. He was born into a musical family of a prolific composer and organist, Hendrik Andriessen. He was educated at the Royal Conservatory of the Hague. In the early 1960s, he wrote for several magazines and newspapers alongside his composing work. In 1969, he co-founded the Studio voor Elektro-Instrumentale Muziek (an Amsterdam-based hub dedicated to technical innovation, experimental music, improvisation, and multi-media projects) and campaigned tirelessly to amplify contemporary music in the Netherlands and Amsterdam in particular. Andriessen’s major international breakthrough came in 1976 with the premiere of De Staat, which sets text from Plato’s The Republic. The composer described it as “a contribution to the debate about the relation of music to politics.” For the next forty-five years, Andriessen composed prolifically across many genres and forms, with notable works including De Materie (the mid-1980s), M is for Man, Music, Mozart (one of several collaborations with film-maker Peter Greenaway), the ‘grotesque stage work’ Theatre of the World (2013-15) and the Dante-inspired opera La Commedia, which won him the Grawemeyer Award for Music Composition in 2011. Andriessen’s other awards included honorary doctorates from the University of Amsterdam and Birmingham City University, the Matthijs Vermeulen Award in 1977 and 1992, and the 1993 Edison Award.

In 1996, following a four-decade relationship, he married the guitarist, Jeanette Yanikian. He died on July 1, 2021, in Weesp, Netherlands.

Anerca was a Canadian non-profit independent small-press poetry magazine edited and published by Kedrick James, Adeena Karasick and Wreford Miller. “Anerca” is the Inuit word for both breath and poetry. It was a "monthly" newsletter of poetry and poetics which subsisted primarily on a mailing list of 400 writers and institutions throughout North America and overseas. The first issue was published in May 1986 in Vancouver, British Columbia. Each issue was hand-bound, sewn, or stapled and sent out, often with a handwritten personalized note. In 1987-88, Kedrick James and Adeena Karasick moved to Montreal to spend a year as visiting students at McGill University. During that time, they published an issue of Anerca, which was professionally printed, saddle-stapled, neat and tidy. In the 1990s, the print became rarified. The name Anerca was changed to Anerca Com.p/ost to reflect this change for the final issue in 1990. The editors recognized that passing into a digital era would subsume them and break down the nutrient of poetic effulgence for new growth. The end of Anerca rang an inaudible bell, marking the end of the West Coast literary tradition. In 2016, Kedrick James sold all the Anerca archives to Simon Fraser University Library, Special Collections.

Donald Forbes Angus was born on March 28, 1869, in Montreal, Quebec, a son of a Scottish-Canadian banker, financier, and philanthropist, Richard Bladworth Angus.

He was a Chairman of Standard Life Assurance and President of Guardian Life Assurance. Among other offices held, he was a director of the Bank of Montreal, the Royal Trust Company and the British Columbia Sugar Refinery.

In 1894, he married Mary Ethel Henshaw. He died on January 26, 1943 in Montreal, Quebec.

Frances Ramsay Angus was born on September 3, 1872, in Montreal, Quebec.

She was a Canadian writer, poet, editor, and teacher. She graduated from McGill University (B.A.) and taught French at the School of Education of the University of Chicago. Angus published the books “Fundamentals of French: A Combination of the Direct and Grammar Methods" (1916), “As We Are” (1940), "Sky Ways" (1943) and "The Call of Life" (1957). In 1928, she edited "French Poetry; an anthology, 1100-1925." She also published many poems in the Dalhousie Review (Halifax), London Saturday Review and other journals.

She died on November 18, 1962, in Montreal, Quebec.