Bernard Kirk
Bernard" Bernie" C. Kirk( c. 1900 – December 23, 1922) was an American football player who played for Notre Dame in 1919 and for Michigan from 1921 to 1922.
He was selected as an All- American at the end position in both 1921 and 1922.
In December 1922, shortly after being named an All- American and while at the height of his popularity, Kirk suffered a fractured skull in an automobile accident, and died several days later at a hospital in Ypsilanti, Michigan.
His funeral was attended by the Governor of Michigan and many other dignitaries, and was reported in newspapers across the United States.
Enrique María Repullés
Enrique María Repullés,( 30 October 1845 – 13 September 1922 in Madrid) was a Spanish architect.
He was a member of the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando along with Narciso Pascual Colomer and Ricardo Velázquez Bosco.
John P. Kirk
John Patrick Kirk (September 20, 1867, Ypsilanti, Michigan – August 22, 1952, Ypsilanti) was a Michigan politician in the early 1900s.
He was born on September 20, 1867, the son of Bernard Kirk (d. 1899) and Ann (Murphy) Kirk, immigrants from Ireland.
He married Mary Shaff on June 20, 1898.
Kirk graduated from the University of Michigan Law School in 1888 and became a lawyer, was Washtenaw County prosecuting attorney from 1897 to 1900.
He was commissioned as a major in the Army during the Spanish–American War; his name is inscribed on Ypsilanti's Spanish–American War Memorial, as the highest-ranking officer.
Kirk subsequently became a general.
He was a member of Michigan House of Representatives from Washtenaw County's 2nd district from 1903 to 1904, when he became an unsuccessful candidate for the United States House of Representatives for Michigan's 2nd congressional district in the 1904 general elections.
He was elected mayor of Ypsilanti in 1908, defeating George D. Lockwood, and served from 1908–1910.
He was nominated as the Democratic candidate for Lieutenant Governor of Michigan in 1916, but lost.
He was an unsuccessful candidate for circuit judge in Michigan 22nd Circuit in 1917.
He was a delegate from Michigan to the 1936 Democratic National Convention, at which Franklin Delano Roosevelt was renominated for President.
In his later career, Kirk was a bank president in Ypsilanti, where he died in 1952.
He is buried in St. John Cemetery in Ypsilanti.
John Kirk and his wife had 4 children.
His only son, Bernard Kirk, was an All-American football player who played for both Notre Dame University and the University of Michigan.
Elizabeth Mooney Kirk
Elizabeth Mooney Kirk( February 23, 1914 – June 29, 2004), known by many as" Betty", spent her entire life advancing adult literacy.
She worked with Frank Laubach using his" Each One Teach One" reading method.
She traveled and taught in India, Africa and the United States.
While working in Kenya, she provided the financial support for Barack Obama, Sr. to come to the United States to study.
Kirk co-authored many books with Dr. Frank Laubach and son Dr. Robert Laubach, which are still in use for teaching adults to read English.
In this role, her work included running a mission boarding school in India and for two years she was head of a project for the British Government in Kenya training teachers and adults to read in some of the tribal languages.
Kirk and her literacy associate Helen M. Roberts of Palo Alto often helped find sponsorships for promising Kenyan students to study in the United States.
An article by Michael Dobbs in The Washington Post states that Kirk provided most of the financial support during Obama Sr's early years in the United States, according to the Tom Mboya archives at Stanford University.
Kirk and Roberts are mentioned in Barack Obama's 1995 book, Dreams from My Father( pg 427 hardcover).
Roberts encouraged and supported his many college applications and correspondences, while Kirk provided college recommendation letters.
Kirk and Roberts raised the money necessary for Barack to travel to America.
Kirk's grandfather was Addison Clark who, with his brother, founded the Addran Male and Female Academy which became Texas Christian University.
She earned master's degrees from George Washington University and Syracuse University.
In 1960, she married Elmer LeValley Kirk.
They lived for a time in West Africa before moving to California.
Kirk taught school in the Oakland area for many years before retiring to central California.
Ricardo Zohn-Muldoon
Ricardo Zohn- Muldoon( born 1962, in Guadalajara, México) is a Mexican- American composer and chair of the composition department at Eastman School of Music.
His" Comala"( 2010, Bridge Records 9325) was a finalist for the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for Music and he was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1995, a Mozart Medal in 1994, and a Lillian Fairchild Award in 2011.
He was a student of George Crumb.
" Comala", a cantata based on Juan Rulfo's" Pedro Páramo", was premiered by The Furious Band at the Festival Música y Escena in México City.
Fernando Bustamante Huerta
Fernando Bustamante Huerta( January 17, 1940) is an accountant, businessman, consultant and Chilean socialist politician, had a close collaboration with Salvador Allende the presidents of Chile and Ricardo Lagos.
David Ji
David Longfen Ji is an American businessman who co-founded Apex Digital, an electronics manufacturer.
In 2004, he was arrested in China following a dispute with Sichuan Changhong Electric, a supplier owned by the city of Mianyang and the province of Sichuan.
Changhong accused him of defrauding them through bad checks.
Ji was taken, according to an account by his lawyer, to the senior management and told, "I decide whether you live or die."
He has been held in China without charges.
Ji's case highlighted an "implicit racism" in dealings with American businessmen.
As a U.S. citizen he was not granted the same treatment by authorities as non-ethnically Chinese businessmen sharing the same nationality.
Malcolm Kirk
Malcolm Kirk( 18 December 1936 – 23 August 1987) was an English professional wrestler who went by the ring name of" King Kong" Kirk as well as Kojak Kirk, Killer Kirk and" Mucky" Mal Kirk.
He started as a professional rugby league footballer before becoming a professional wrestler.
Kirk died of a heart attack on 23 August 1987 after collapsing in the ring during a tag team match at the Hippodrome in Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, England.
The wrestling event was run by Joint Promotions with the main event being a tag team match between Kirk and King Kendo( Bill Clarke) against Big Daddy( Shirley Crabtree) and Greg Valentine( Steve Crabtree) in front of 1,500 people.
Kirk's death and the aftermath contributed to the decline of professional wrestling in the United Kingdom.
John Inglis (moderator)
Very Rev. John Inglis DD( 1762–1834) was a Scottish minister of the Church of Scotland.
He served as minister of Greyfriars Kirk and was Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland in 1804.
Robert Lee (minister)
Rev Prof Robert Lee DD FRSE( 1804- 1868) was the first Professor of Biblical Criticism at the University of Edinburgh.
He was both minister of Old Greyfriars Kirk and a Dean of the Chapel Royal serving Queen Victoria.

Question: Are Bernard Kirk and Ricardo Zohn-Muldoon of the same nationality?
Answer: yes