Abraham Jacob Hollandersky
Abe "The Newsboy" Hollandersky (December 3, 1888 – November 1, 1966) became the second American boxer to win the Panamanian Heavyweight Title when he defeated Californian Jack Ortega in nine rounds in Panama City on May 30, 1913. American congressmen, Naval personnel, and canal workers were among the crowd of nearly two thousand who watched Hollandersky gain victory over an opponent who outweighed him by over thirty-five pounds. The "New York Times" announced Hollandersky's best known win the following morning.
Tomoji Abe
In November 1971, Abe was diagnosed with cancer of the esophagus and hospitalised. He died on 23 April 1973, leaving an unfinished novel, "Hoshū", which he had been dictating in his last year of life and which was published posthumously.Abe was a prolific translator of English and American literature. He is known as the translator of the "Sherlock Holmes" series (1960). He also translated other foreign works from English; for example the Polish Nobel Prize–winning author Władysław Reymont'’s "Peasants" (2nd Vol) (1939) and "Valmiki Ramayana" (1966).