Dutch singer and songwriter “Hans” Bouwens, better known by his stage name George Baker, was raised by his single mother and grandparents in Hoorn and Wormerveer, Netherlands. His father, an Italian soldier, Peppino Caruso, had been killed trying to escape from detention by the Germans when they occupied the Netherlands. He left school at the age of 14 and worked many jobs, including one at a lemonade factory. In 1961 he called himself “Body” and formed a band with some Wormerveer boys called “Body and the Wild Cats.” In 1968 he joined the band “Soul Invention,” formed the year before. A meteoric career began when he co-wrote the song “Little Green Bag.” After he adopted the pseudonym “George Baker”, the pop-rock band changed its name in 1969 to “George Baker and the Selection. They brought out their first album, also called “Little Green Bag,” in 1970; it sold one million copies globally. They added a female voice, and in 1975 recorded their fifth album; this contained the upbeat “Paloma Blanca,” which hit the number one spot and sold seven million copies as a single. Citing “too much pressure,” the group disbanded in 1978, and “George Baker devoted more of his energy to song writing. He spent some time in Spain in the early 80s. The new Selection formed in 1985 and lasted to 1989. Their two most successful songs continued to be covered by many artists. They were also used in commercials (for the German supermarket Lidl and for a Japanese whiskey) and as theme music and soundtracks for television series and films: “Little Green Bag” for Quentin Tarantino’s Reservoir Dogs (1992) and a remix of “Paloma Blanca” for Too Fat Too Furious (2005) and Kite Runner (2008). In addition to albums made with “Selection,” “George Baker” released a total of nine solo albums.

Hettie Gray Baker was born on July 12, 1881, in Hartford, Connecticut.

She was an American film editor and writer of motion picture titles and scenarios. She attended public high school in Hartford before taking a special course of study at Simmons College in Boston. She worked at the Hartford Public Library (1900–1903), where she began writing movie scenarios during her spare moments. She sold her first story, "Treasure Trove," to Vitagraph Studios for $20 (equivalent to $732 in 2023) and continued to write and sell freelance works for the next six years. In 1903, she became a private secretary for the School for Social Workers in Boston, where she worked until 1907. She was then hired as a librarian for the Hartford Bar Library, a small law library, becoming the first woman law librarian in the United States. In 1913, she was employed by Hobart Bosworth's film company as a story editor. Her work included scenario writing and scripting stories for a series of silent films based on the work of Jack London. "Burning Daylight" (1914), "The Valley of the Moon" (1914), and "The Chechako" (1914). In February 1914, she was one of the co-founders of the Photoplay Authors League – a precursor of the Screen Writers Guild – and during the first year of operation was elected vice president and a member of the board of control. In 1916, she went to work for Fox Film Corporation (later renamed Twentieth Century Fox) as a film editor. During her first year, she edited "A Daughter of the Gods," Hollywood's first film with a million-dollar budget, and, listed as H.G. Baker, may have been the first female editor to be acknowledged in a film's credits. She was the editor for "Queen of the Sea" (1918) starring Annette Kellerman, and "The Iron Horse" (1924), directed by John Ford. Hettie was a writer and editor for over 20 films but was rarely credited. By 1938, Hettie was a movie executive, serving as censor representative for Twentieth Century Fox. Being a cat-lover, later in her life, she wrote several books about cats.

She died on November 14, 1957, in Porter, Niagara, New York, and is buried in Cape Cod, Massachusetts.

Rhodes Semmes Baker was born on May 30, 1874, in Duck Hill, Montgomery County, Mississippi.

He was an American attorney. His family moved to Texas in 1884 and settled in San Angelo, where his father operated a hardware store and served as Commissioner of the General Land Office from 1895 to 1899. Baker, while working in his father's business, educated himself in hopes of becoming an attorney. Despite having no academic coursework, he was accepted to the University of Texas in Austin. Baker not only pursued legal studies but also edited several student publications. He graduated at the top of his class in 1896, moved to Dallas, and established a successful law practice. Baker was admitted to practice before the United States Supreme Court in April 1901 and successfully argued several cases. In his most famous one, Hopkins v. Baker, he convinced the justices of the legality of a Texas state law allowing married couples to file separate tax returns, thereby reducing their tax burden. He was a member of the American Bar Association, as well as the state and local bar associations, and served as President of the University of Texas Ex-Students Association.

He was a member of the First Presbyterian Church, where he taught Bible classes for thirty-seven years, and served as President of the Young Men's Christian Association. He acquired an impressive selection of paintings, including works by George Inness, Thomas Gainsborough, Joshua Reynolds, and George Romney, and served as President of the Dallas Art Association. Austin College awarded him an honorary Ph.D. in 1924. At the time of his death, he was a partner in the law firm of Thompson, Knight, Baker, and Harris, chairman of the board of the Dallas Building and Loan Association, and a member of the board of directors of Republic National Bank.

In 1899, he married Edna Miller Rembert (1878–1955). He died on February 6, 1940, in Dallas, Texas.

Walter Reginald Baker was born on May 25, 1852, in York, England.

He was a railwayman. He immigrated to Canada, where he worked for the Allan Steam Ship Company in Montreal from 1865 to 1872. In 1873, he became a local freight and passenger agent for the Canada Central Railway. He then worked as private secretary and Aide-de-Campe to the Earl of Dufferin, the Governor-General of Canada, from 1874 to 1878. Following this, he served as assistant secretary to the treasury board in Ottawa from 1878 to 1881. When the Canadian Pacific Railway Company (CPR) was established in 1881, Baker moved to Winnipeg as the assistant to CPR Western Divisional Superintendent Alpheus Beede Stickney. He held this position until he was appointed railway purchasing agent in 1881. From May 1882 to June 1883, he was an assistant to William Cornelius Van Horne. After that, he became the General Superintendent and Treasurer of the Manitoba and Northwestern Railway. By 1911, Baker was Secretary of the Canadian Pacific Railway, based in Montreal. He made efforts to establish the Canadian Senior Golf Association, and he was referred to as the “Father of Senior Golf” in Canada.

He was married three times. His first marriage was in 1875 to Jane Helen Cruice (1857-1875) of Ottawa. After her, he married Belle Drysdale Patton (?-1907), and his third marriage was in 1909 to Elsie Dickie of Vienna, Austria. He died on April 1, 1929, in Montreal, Quebec.

William A. Baker was born on March 1, 1847.

He was a dealer in Indian artefacts in Auburn, New York.

He died on April 6, 1895, in New York City, New York.

Alonzo W. Balch was born on September 16, 1837, in Hartford, Connecticut.

He was an American tea and coffee merchant and owned the company A.W. Balch & Co., which imported and dealt in foreign and domestic wines and liquors.

In 1865, he married Joanna B. Rohr (1840-1901). After the death of his wife and only son, David Clark (1867-1902), he committed suicide on December 21, 1903, in New York City, New York.

Reginald Ernest Balch was born on December 29, 1894, in Sevenoaks, Kent, England.

He was a Canadian scientist, author, and photographer who received his education at Bedford School and Kingswood School in England. Balch initially received a university scholarship but decided to become a farmer instead. In 1913, he left England and became a cowboy in Canada. With the outbreak of World War I, he enlisted and served for three years in France with the Canadian Field Artillery. After the war, his interest in forest biology led him to enroll in the Ontario Agricultural College, from which he graduated in 1923 with a B.Sc. in Agriculture degree. He worked as a fire ranger and also assisted an American forest entomologist before graduating from Syracuse University's New York State College of Forestry with a M.Sc. degree in 1928. In 1930, he was appointed Officer-in-Charge of the Dominion Entomological Laboratory, a federal government facility on the University of New Brunswick campus in Fredericton, New Brunswick. Balch's half-hour radio lectures for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's University of the Air series in the spring of 1965 were instrumental in introducing the word "ecology" to the public. Later, he served as the honorary president of the Conservation Council of New Brunswick, one of the first modern Canadian environmental groups established in 1969. He also travelled and photographed in Europe, particularly Ireland, and his photos illustrated a book of Alden Nowlan's poems, “Early Poems.” Balch published numerous scientific articles and books, including "The Ecological Viewpoint" (1956), "A Mind's Eye" (1985), and "Celebration of Nature" (1991). In 1961, he became the first Canadian to receive the Society of American Foresters Award of Achievement in Biological Research. He was awarded an honorary Doctor of Science degree by the University of New Brunswick in 1963 and also received the Silver Medal from the Royal Society of Arts.

In 1829, he married Martha Agnes (Rubidge) Bowman (1907–2000). He died on December 31, 1994, in Fredericton, New Brunswick.