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.
John Hartford
From the 1980s onwards, Hartford had Non-Hodgkin lymphoma. He died of the disease at Centennial Medical Center in Nashville, Tennessee on June 4, 2001 at age 63. He and Brandon Ray Kirk co-authored a biography of blind fiddler Ed Haley. Hartford's album "The Speed of the Old Longbow" is a collection of Haley's tunes. Hartford also provided narration for the Ken Burns' documentary series "Baseball" and "The Civil War".