David Armitage Bannerman was born on November 27, 1886, in Chichester, Sussex, England.

He was a British ornithologist and author. He was educated at Wellington College, Berkshire, and Pembroke College, Cambridge. In 1909, Bannerman travelled extensively in Africa, the West Indies, South America and the Atlantic Islands. Despite being rejected by the military on health grounds, he served as a stretcher-bearer with the Red Cross for four years in France during World War I and earned the Mons Star. Following the war, he worked part-time at the Natural History Museum until his retirement in 1951, having twice declined the directorship of the British Museum. He was also the chairman of the British Ornithologists' Club from 1932 to 1935, having previously edited their Bulletin from 1914 to 1915. He also held positions as Vice President of the British Ornithologists Union and the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds. From 1952 to 1979, he farmed in Dumfriesshire. He was the author of "The Birds of the British Isles" (in 12 volumes, illustrated by George E. Lodge, 1953-1963).

In 1911, he married Muriel Gertrude Morgan (1884–1945), and, in 1952, he remarried Winifred Mary Jane Holland. He died on April 6, 1979, in Pendleton, Lancashire, England.

Albert Walton Bannister was born in September 1851 in Oakland, Ontario.

He was an educator. He graduated from Victoria University, Ontario (B.A., 1878; M.A., 1886). He served as Principal of St. Francis College in Richmond, Quebec. In 1892, he moved to California, where he spent the rest of his life. He was a professor at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles.

In 1880, he married Jessie Victoria Young (1858–1936). He died on April 30, 1918, in La Verne, Los Angeles County, California.

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.

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.

Omer Barash was born in 1995 in Israel. He began his composition training at the Israel Arts and Science Academy (IASA) high school. After that, he graduated from the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance, where he was part of the Tedarim Program of Contemporary Music. He later pursued further studies at McGill University, where he also served as President of the McGill Association of Student Composers and earned his master’s degree. Subsequently, he obtained his postgraduate diploma in electroacoustic composition at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna and completed his Cursus de composition et d’informatique musicale at IRCAM, Paris. Currently, he is a doctoral fellow in Composition at Columbia University in the City of New York.

His music often delves into themes of betweenness and identity, exploring both their sonic and conceptual dimensions. Much of his work is inspired by his interpretations of Hebrew texts and traditions, as well as the auditory landscapes that surround him. This approach has led to projects that bridge ancient manuscripts and digital signal processing. Barash is also actively involved as a computer music designer. He has been honoured with numerous prizes and awards, including the 1st prize of the 28th Salvatore Martirano Award (2024), 1st prize of the Ensemble Écoute Composition Competition (2024), the “Achievement of the Year” award from ACUM (Israel’s Society of Authors, Composers and Publishers, 2024), 3rd prize of the SunRiver International Composition Contest (2021), the Svoboda Memorial Prize from McGill University (2020), the 1st prize of the Klon Award for emerging composers from the Israel Composers League (2019), and merit grants from the America-Israel Cultural Foundation (2018-2025), among others.

Under the stage name “Barbara,” Monique Senf became one of France’s most popular singers, always dressed in black, and best known for her melancholy songs. She had reason for melancholy: born in the 17th arrondissement of Paris, at the age of ten she and her family were forced to hide and flee from the German occupiers; her Alsatian father, a fur merchant, and her Moldavian mother, were both Jewish. After the war, they lived in Vesinet, just outside Paris, where she took vocal and piano lessons.

In 1946, she began studying at the Conservatoire Supérieur de Paris. Soon the family could no longer afford the rented piano, and she quit formal training to sing cabaret. Around this time her father abandoned the family. In 1950, Monique moved to Brussels where she had a cousin and continued to sing Piaf-style cabaret as “Barbara Brodi” (soon to become just “Barbara”), inspired by her grandmother, Varvara Brodsky. In Brussels, a group of artists befriended her; they congregated at an old house that they had converted into workshops and a concert hall, and there she could sing. Back in Paris in 1953, she began singing at L’Écluse and other small clubs during the 50s. In 1958, she recorded her first single for Pathé Marconi and in 1959, released her first LP in Brussels, “Barbara chante Georges Brassens,” which garnered a Grand Prix du Disque.

Her big chance came in 1961 when she opened for Brassens at the Bobino Music Hall in Montparnasse. That same year, her second album, “Barbara chante Jacques Brel” appeared. She started songwriting, one of the first women to perform her own creations; her career took off and she landed a major contract with Philips Records in 1964. The next year she won a prize from the Académie Charles Cros for the album “Barbara chante Barbara.” She toured throughout the late 60s, including with Serge Gainsbourg. In 1969, she announced that she was finished with singing and settled down in Percy-la-Marne, a village east of Paris, in 1973; she resumed singing and touring, however, and received another Grand Prix du Disque in 1982, this one for her contribution to French culture. She also acted in movies, television, and on stage, including “Franz,” directed by Jacques Brel, her long-time friend. She directed a musical, Lily Passion, with Gerard Depardieu. In the late 1980s, she was an activist in the fight against AIDS, handing out condoms at her concerts. French president François Mitterand decorated her with the Légion d’honneur in 1988. She is sometimes credited with helping post-war Franco-German reconciliation through her song “Göttingen,” which became popular in Germany; a street in that town was even named after her.

In 1996, though struggling with asthma, she managed to record a final album that sold over a million copies in just twelve hours. One melancholy song on that album, “L’Aigle noir” is thought to refer to childhood sexual abuse that her unfinished memoir mentions.

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