Frederick Haigh Bair, Jr., was born on June 27, 1915, in New York City, New York.

He served as 2nd Lt., US Marine Corps during and after World War II, partly in the Army of Occupation in Japan. He was later a city planner in Auburndale, Florida. Bair was the author of several books, e.g. "Mobile home parks and comprehensive community planning" (1960), "Planning maps for small cities; how to make and maintain them" (1967), "Planning cities; selected writings on principles and practice" (1970) and "Mobile Homes and the General Housing Supply" (1970).

He died on February 14, 2005, in Winter Haven, Polk County, Florida.

Spencer Fullerton Baird was born on February 3, 1823, in Reading, Pennsylvania.

He was an American naturalist, ornithologist, ichthyologist, herpetologist, and museum curator. In 1840, he graduated from Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania where he also became a professor of natural history in 1845. In 1850, he became the first curator at the Smithsonian Institution and the Permanent Secretary for the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He created a museum program for the Smithsonian, focused on the natural history of the United States. Eventually, he became its Assistant Secretary and in 1856, he received his Ph.D. in physical science from Dickinson College. In 1872, he became the manager of the United States National Museum. In 1878, he became the second Secretary of the Smithsonian and in 1880, he was elected a member of the American Antiquarian Society. He published "Birds" (1858), "Mammals of North America" (1859), and "History of North American Birds" (1875 to 1884).

There are two birds named after him - Baird's sparrow, a migratory bird native to Canada, Mexico, and the United States, and a medium-sized shorebird known as Baird's sandpiper. Baird Auditorium in the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History is also named in his honour.

He died on August 19, 1887, in Woods Hole, Massachusetts.

Theodore Christian Baiz, M.D., M.Sc., F.A.C.S., was born on April 13, 1933, in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania.
 
He was a renowned San Francisco Bay Area neurological surgeon. He attended medical school at Saint Louis University, graduating in 1958 and serving his internship at the University of California, San Francisco, where he met his wife, Mary Ann. He then attended the neurosurgery program at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. In 1964, Dr. Baiz earned a Master of Science at McGill University in Montreal. After a fellowship in Scotland, he returned to San Francisco and built a practice that covered several major hospitals on the San Francisco Peninsula. He also served as an associate clinical professor of neurological surgery at the University of California, San Francisco. Dr. Baiz primarily practiced at the Mills-Peninsula Hospitals and Health Center located in Burlingame, California.
 
He died on July 31, 2008, in Burlingame, San Mateo, California.
 

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.