Edward Richard Alston was born on December 1, 1845, in Lesmahagow, Lanarkshire, Scotland.

He was a Scottish zoologist who, due to his delicate health in his youth, primarily educated himself at home. He made significant contributions to the Zoologist and various Scottish magazines, eventually becoming a recognized authority on mammals and birds. His notable papers in the Proceedings of the Zoological Society (1874–80) focused on rodents, particularly American squirrels (1878 and 1879). Additionally, he wrote the Mammalia section in Salvin and Godman's Biologia Centrali-Americana, which was incomplete at the time of his death. In 1880, he was elected Zoological Secretary of the Linnean Society, a position he held until his death from acute phthisis. In 1874, he provided substantial assistance to Prof. T. Bell in the second edition of British Quadrupeds. All of Alston's papers are esteemed for their value, conciseness, and clarity.

He died on March 7, 1881, in Middlesex, England.

Samuel Prentiss Baldwin was born on October 26, 1868, in Cleveland, Ohio.

He was an American ornithologist, naturalist, and lawyer. He obtained his degrees from Dartmouth College (A.B., 1892, A.M., 1894, D.Sc., 1932) and Western Reserve University (LL.B., 1895). After being admitted to the Ohio Bar, Baldwin practiced law until illness forced his retirement in 1902. He then ventured into business, eventually becoming chairman of The Williamson Co. and president of The New Amsterdam Co. In 1914, he established and supervised the Baldwin Bird Research Laboratory at Hillcrest, his Gates Mills estate, to research live wild birds. He also played a role in the organization of the Cleveland Museum of Natural History. From 1914 to 1919, Baldwin pioneered a method of bird banding, which was later adopted by the U.S. Biological Survey, enabling scientists to study the migratory habits of individual American birds. Additionally, Baldwin developed the wrenograph and the potentiometer to study the house wren's temperature, demonstrating that it was a cold-blooded animal. One of Baldwin's most significant contributions was the study of the body temperature of birds and confirming their reptilian ancestry. He was a biology research associate at Western Reserve University and a trustee of the Cleveland Museum of Natural History.

In 1896, he married Lillian Converse Hanna (1852–1948). He died on December 31, 1938, in Cleveland, Ohio.

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.

Frederick Storrs Baker was born on June 3, 1890, in Bridgeport, Connecticut.

He was an American silviculturist and educator. His parents, who were enthusiastic amateur botanists, introduced him to trees, flowers, and the outdoors at a very young age. After graduating from high school in 1908, he attended a summer course in Milford, Pennsylvania, run by the Yale University Forestry School. In 1912, he graduated from Colorado College with a degree in Forest Engineering. He spent the next fourteen years (1912-1926) studying aspen and other tree species in Pike, Uinta Mountains, and Manti National Forests, Utah, for the U.S. Forest Service. From 1927 to 1947, he taught and researched forestry at the University of California, Berkeley. His research greatly contributed to the knowledge of the growth and reproduction of California tree species, their ecological relationships, and their requirements for light and moisture. He also served as the second Dean of the School of Forestry, University of California, Berkeley from 1947 until his retirement in 1956. He contributed frequent articles to the Journal of Forestry and published one of the most successful textbooks on silviculture, "The Theory and Practice of Silviculture" (1934, 1950).

In 1918, he married Kalla Mae Hodge (1897–1968). He died on January 1, 1965, in Alameda, California.

Frank Collins Baker was born on December 14, 1867, in Warren, Rhode Island. 

He was an American malacologist and ecologist. He developed an interest in seashells during his childhood, when his seafaring grandfather brought them for him to play with. After attending a small business college and spending a year at Brown University, he received a Jessup Scholarship to the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia in 1889, where he studied under Henry Pilsbry and participated in an expedition to Mexico. Following several years of work at Ward's Natural Science Establishment in Rochester, New York, Baker became a curator at the Chicago Academy of Science from 1894 to 1915. During his time there, he authored the two-volume "Mollusca of the Chicago Area" (1898, 1902) and a monograph on the Lymnaeidae (1911). A shift in the research environment at the Chicago Academy prompted Baker to join the newly established New York College of Forestry at Syracuse University for three years. During this period, he completed his extensive study of Oneida Lake. In 1918, Baker accepted a curatorship at the University of Illinois Museum of Natural History in Urbana. Here, he completed his "Life of the Pleistocene or Glacial Period" (1920), the two-volume "Mollusca of Wisconsin" (1928), "Fieldbook of Illinois Land Snails" (1939), and a monograph on the Planorbidae, which was published posthumously in 1945.

In 1892, he married Lillian M. Staley. He died on May 7, 1942, in Champaign, Illinois.

Arthur Benoni Baker was born on July 28, 1858, in Otisco, New York.

He was an American zoologist. As a young man, he worked at Ward's Natural Science Establishment in Rochester, New York. In 1910, soon after the establishment of the National Zoo in Washington, he entered its service, and, except for six months in 1915 when he oversaw the Boston Zoological Garden, he remained there until his death. Mr. Baker specialized in mammalogy but had a vast knowledge of birds and reptiles. He served as an assistant director of the National Zoological Park. In 1899, he went on a collecting expedition to Puerto Rico and contributed to the report on the natural history specimens collected for the Smithsonian Institution Annual Report, 1899. He wrote "A Notable Success in the Breeding of Black Bears" (1904) and was an important factor in the development of the National Zoological Park. In 1909, he made a special trip to Nairobi, Kenya, and brought home a collection of animals presented to the Zoo. Mr. Baker was a member of the Cosmos Club and the Society of Mammalogists. In 1912, he published the book "Further Notes on the Breeding of the American Black Bear in Captivity" (1912).

In 1888, he married Dr. May Davis (1865–1955). He died of pneumonia on February 8, 1930, in Washington, D.C.

Composer, singer and pianist Charly Bailly was born in Macon, France, and wrote supposedly his first song at age eight. He is known for such early songs as “Le vagabonde de rêve” (1949), Menace de Mort” (1950) and “La femme orchidée” (1952), and for his soundtrack for the 1950 crime film “Le furet” (the ferret). His career took off when he teamed up with André Varel, whom he had met in North Africa during World War II; calling themselves “Varel et Bailly” they created songs for such famous singers as Maurice Chevalier and Edith Piaf. The two became co-directors of “Les Chanteurs de Paris,” a group of 7 young graduates of the Université de Paris, and before that, members of “Les petits chanteurs de Paris.” Varel was the lyricist and Bailly the composer and pianist. In 1956/1957 they made their American debut with great success, performing for four weeks in the Empire Room of the Waldorf Astoria in New York City and making guest appearances on The Ed Sullivan Show and The Garry Moore Show. During their 1959 North American tour they were booked for 65 concerts in 13 weeks, many at college campuses. They began a schedule of American tours during the winter, French tours during the spring, and summers spent at a chateau in Chartres with other musicians, artists and friends, some from Montreal and Vancouver. During his lifetime, Bailly wrote or co-wrote over a hundred songs.