We cannot find any historically significant people with the first name Rosalind.

We cannot find any historically significant people with the first name Millicent.

Otto Frank is the father of the famous Anne Frank of the heartbreaking diary, and the only one of the four Franks who survived the Holocaust. German-born, Otto Frank had served in the German army in World War I; he and his wife were raising their two young daughters in Germany. In the mid-thirties, as Nazism’s persecution of Jews was on the rise, Otto decided to take his little family to Amsterdam; there he opened a small business with the ownership in the name of non-Jewish associates. He also attempted on more than one occasion to obtain visas so he and his family could emigrate out of the country, preferably to the United States. We all know how that turned out. After two years in hiding with his family and assorted others to whom they extended their generosity, the Franks and the others in hiding were betrayed, taken prisoner and ultimately sent to Auschwitz. After the war, Otto Frank returned to Amsterdam and collected the diary from the ransacked hiding place. He spent the rest of his life overseeing its publication (with some controversial bits of editing), seeing to the production of stage plays and movies, and establishing the Anne Frank Foundation. He married a fellow Holocaust survivor, had more children and lived to the ripe old age of 90, but surely a large part of Otto Frank had already died in 1945.

Jimi Hendrix was one of the most important and influential popular musicians of the twentieth century, who crammed a great deal of living into his (almost) 28 years. Skyrocketing to fame after appearing at the 1967 Monterey Pop Festival, we went on to headline at Woodstock in 1969 and the Isle of Wight Festival in 1970. He is credited with popularizing the use of the wah-wah pedal and stereophonic effects in recordings, as well as highly amplified feedback. He received numerous music awards, was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame posthumously, and was named by Rolling Stone as “the greatest guitarist of all time”. Jimi Hendrix died a drug-related death in London; he is buried in Seattle.

Charles Darwin is the biologist who essentially founded the science of evolution with the publication of his exhaustive and controversial tomes, The Origin of Species, in 1859, and in 1871, The Descent of Man. Published to vitriolic attack for their seeming denial of the existence of an Almighty Creator, the works stir controversy even today, over a century and a half later. Charles Darwin undertook a five year voyage on HMS Beagle, and his observations and collections of species led him to the theorization of all life forms having been descended from common ancestors (including apes), and that natural selection decided which would live and which would die out. Not a popular dish to put before the Victorian public of his time, as he suspected and was to find out. No matter that we are still debating his “theories” this much later – all things being equal, and with no disrespect to Mr. Darwin, he and the redoubtable Mrs. D. contributed to the species by ten of their own – no small contribution!

Charles Darwin is the biologist who essentially founded the science of evolution with the publication of his exhaustive and controversial tomes, The Origin of Species, in 1859, and in 1871, The Descent of Man. Published to vitriolic attack for their seeming denial of the existence of an Almighty Creator, the works stir controversy even today, over a century and a half later. Charles Darwin undertook a five year voyage on HMS Beagle, and his observations and collections of species led him to the theorization of all life forms having been descended from common ancestors (including apes), and that natural selection decided which would live and which would die out. Not a popular dish to put before the Victorian public of his time, as he suspected and was to find out. No matter that we are still debating his “theories” this much later – all things being equal, and with no disrespect to Mr. Darwin, he and the redoubtable Mrs. D. contributed to the species by ten of their own – no small contribution!

Tyrone Power was a highly popular American movie star, particularly through the 1940s and 1950s, with an impeccable pedigree in English theater on his father’s side. His dashing good looks made him a natural for the type of swashbuckling role he played in such romantic movies as The Mark of Zorro and Captain from Castile, although he always strived for more serious roles on the stage, both in America and England. Ironically, probably his best known role had him cast against type as the cheating womanizer accused of murder in 1957’s in Witness for the Prosecution. Tyrone Power served with distinction in the Marine Corps during World War II. Married three times, he sired two daughters and a son who was born after his death. Tyrone Power died of a heart attack at the tragically young age of 44.

We cannot find any historically significant people with the first name Jasper.

Geronimo Goyaale was born to an Apache tribe in what is now New Mexico, which was then claimed by Mexico. In 1858, a band of Sonoran Mexican soldiers attacked his home while he was away, killing his mother, wife and three children. After this, needless to say, Geronimo began a lifelong revenge on Mexicans. In 1906, Geronimo put out his autobiography, detailing the story of his years of fighting, imprisonment and latter day celebrity as a “Wild West” performer and protege of President Theodore Roosevelt, thereby passing into the realm of legend. The very name “Geronimo” conjures up visions of the ultimate warrior who will fight against all odds to vanquish the enemy. Paratroopers and schoolchildren alike invoke his name when embarking upon the most dangerous of feats. His dictated autobiography may perhaps soft-soap his animosity toward white settlers (he hoped that President Roosevelt, to whom he dedicated it, would allow him and others to return to their native Oklahoma), but no matter – legend he became and legend he remains.

Claudette Colbert was an American leading lady and a Broadway and film actress, especially during the “Golden Years” of Hollywood. She won the Academy Award for Best Actress in her saucy role as a runaway bride in 1934’s It Happened One Night, opposite Clark Gable, in which she shockingly lifted her skirts to entice a driver to stop for her. This was, by the way, the same film in which Clark Gable disrobed to show – gasp – he was not wearing an undershirt! Ah, such were the times… At any rate, Ms. Colbert enjoyed a long and happy career and life, appearing in such successes as 1944’s Since You Went Away and 1947’s The Egg and I. At a time when leading ladies were true “ladies”, Claudette Colbert personified the genre.