Sir (James) Stopford Lauder Brunton, 2nd Baronet, was born October 11, 1884 in London, England. He married Elizabeth Bonsall Porter in Montreal on April 30, 1915. He studied mining geology at McGill University, and was a member of the Canadian Geological Survey until 1914. He died July 25, 1943, in Middlesex, England.

George Jarvis Brush was born on December 15, 1831, in Brooklyn, New York.

He was a mineralogist, geologist, and educator. He studied chemistry, metallurgy and mineralogy at the Sheffield Scientific School, Yale University (1848-1852). From 1852 to 1855, Brush worked and studied at the University of Virginia and in Munich and Freiberg, Germany. He returned to Sheffield in 1855 to join the faculty as a professor of Metallurgy and later of Mineralogy. He was appointed the first curator of the Peabody Museum of Natural History's mineral collection. He was a member of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 1872, he became the first director of Sheffield, where he also supervised mineralogy. He also served as the president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 1881. He published extensively in the American Journal of Science and other journals. He also published a “Manual of Determinative Mineralogy “(1875). In 1904, Brush donated his collection of minerals, along with funds for their maintenance, to Sheffield. The mineral brushite was named in his honour.

In 1864, he married Harriet Silliman Trumbull (1835–1910). He died on February 6, 1912, in New Haven, Connecticut.

Jean-Baptiste Bruyère was a businessman who worked for Robertson Masson & Co. Bruyère was born in Chateauguay, Quebec on 30 October 1809. He studied at the Collège de Montréal and then chose to work in commerce. He worked for Robertson Masson & Co. for most of his career, and saw significant success. He married Rachel MacKenzie, with whom he had 5 children, including a son named Robert. He died following a ship accident in the port of Calais on 28 February 1859.

German conductor Wilhelm Brückner-Rüggeberg (Karl Aurel) was born into a family of performers, both actors and singers, in Stuttgart. Trained in Munich, he began his musical career in 1929 as an assistant (Hilfs-Solorepetitor) to conductor Hans Knappertsbusch at the Staatsoper there. In 1934 he succeeded Herbert Von Karajan as Kapellmeister in Ulm, but was arrested for having helped fellow musician, Felix Wolfes, a Jew, to emigrate to France and then the USA. He was forbidden to conduct for several years. In 1937 Wilhelm Furtwangler, conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, invited him to conduct a complete Beethoven cycle. In 1938 he was allowed to join the Hamburg Staatsoper and soon became “Erster Kapellmeister” (choir director). Beginning in 1940 he became director of the Lehrergesangsverein (Teachers’ Choir) in Hamburg; during his time there he conducted more than 700 concerts for schoolchildren. He started to teach conducting in 1943 but was mobilized in 1944. After the war, he was one of the founders of the Hochshule für Musik und Theater in Hamburg and later became a full professor there. By 1970 he had conducted more than 2,000 performances of the Staatsoper there. From 1956 and 1960, he made several recordings conducting Kurt Weill’s works including some with Lotte Lenya as a soloist. He was known particularly for his direction of pieces by Handel such as oratorios. He was often invited to be a guest conductor, many times in South America. He composed at least one song, Seemansliebe, a walz, which was signed with the pseudonym “Karl Aurel,” according to the Library of Congress Catalog of copyright entries, 3rd series (1962). He had five children with his wife mezzo-soprano Ludmilla Schirmer.

Charles Stone Bryan was born on January 15, 1942, in Columbia, South Carolina.

He is a retired American physician, researcher, author, medical historian, and Heyward Gibbes Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Internal Medicine at the University of South Carolina, Columbia. He received his higher education at Harvard College, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, and Vanderbilt University Medical Center. In 1974, he returned to Columbia as the first infectious diseases specialist in central South Carolina, where he practiced until his retirement forty-four years later (2018). In 1977, he became a charter faculty member at the USC School of Medicine, where he has served as Director of the Division of Infectious Diseases (1977-1993), Chair of the Department of Medicine (1992-2000), and Director of the Center for Bioethics and Medical Humanities (from 2000). Dr. Bryan's publications include 12 books and monographs, more than 160 articles in peer-reviewed journals, and more than 300 editorials. His writings mainly concern infectious diseases, medical history, medical biography, and various aspects of the humanities as applied to medicine, including the status of medicine as a profession and medical professionalism. As a noted medical historian, he is authority on the life of Dr. William Osler. He published five books related to Osler, e.g., “Osler: Inspirations from a Great Physician” (1997), and many articles in peer-reviewed journals. He is the editor of “Sir William Osler: An Encyclopedia” (2020), intended as a resource for twenty-first-century scholars seeking to re-evaluate Osler’s place in the history of medicine, science, and, more generally, the humanities. He is a recipient of the William Osler Medal of the American Association for the History of Medicine (1967), the Theodore E. Woodward Award of the American Clinical and Climatological Association (2002), the Lifetime Achievement Award of the American Osler Society (2010), and, from the American College of Physicians, the Laureate Award, the Nicholas E. Davies Memorial Scholar Award, and the Centennial Legacy Award. Dr. Bryan is a past president of numerous organizations, including the American Osler Society and is an inductee into the Society of St. Luke (2012) and the Order of the Palmetto (2013), the highest civilian honor in the state of South Carolina, for his lifelong achievements in medical research, infectious disease, and medical education in South Carolina. He is a Master of the American College of Physicians and a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh and the Royal College of Physicians of London.