Dorothee Metlitzki
Dorothee Metlitzki( or Devora Metlitsky; July 27, 1914 – April 14, 2001) was a German- born, later American, author and professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley and, for most of her career, at Yale University.
She was a specialist in medieval English literature and history, Arabic literature and language and of the author Herman Melville.
In addition she was a Zionist who played an important role in the foundation of the modern State of Israel.
Judah Even Shemuel
Judah Even Shemuel( Ukraine, 1886- Jerusalem, 1976) was a Ukrainian born, later Israeli, lexicographer, whose English- Hebrew dictionary was known as" The Kaufman Dictionary".
He is not to be confused with another Hebrew lexicographer, Jacob Knaani, who also had the German- Yiddish surname Kaufmann.
Jacob Knaani
Jacob Knaani( Kishenev, 1894- Jerusalem, 1978) was a Moldavian born, later Israeli, lexicographer.
He is not to be confused with another Hebrew lexicographer, Judah Even Shemuel, who also had the German- Yiddish surname Kaufmann, and whose English- Hebrew dictionary was known as the" Kaufmann Dictionary".
Edwin Richards (field hockey)
Edwin William Gruffydd Richards (sometimes referred to as Edward; 15 December 1879 – 10 December 1930) was a Welsh field hockey player from Abergavenny who competed in the 1908 Summer Olympics where he won the bronze medal as a member of the Wales team.
Richards was the son of Susanna Thomas and Edwin William Richards, an iron monger from Goytre.
His father died from Typhoid on the 3 September 1879; Edwin was born later that year on 15 December.
He died in Ipswich on 10 December 1930.
Sylvia Bernstein (screenwriter)
Sylvia Bernstein( sometimes credited as Sylvia Bernstein Seid or Sylvia Seid) was an American screenwriter and playwright active in Hollywood in the late 1920s.
Sylvia Hyman
Sylvia Hyman
( September 9, 1917 – December 23, 2012) was an American ceramic artist, art teacher and visual artist.
She was known for her lifelike ceramic pieces and sculptures which are included in the collections of museums worldwide.
Her trademark pieces, which were fashioned from stoneware or porcelain, often used the artist technique of trompe -l'œil( meaning" deceive the eye" or" fooling the eye" in French) to create the realism of art.
Much of Hyman's work featured everyday objects, such as paper, books, or food, realistically crafted from ceramic.
She was also the founder of the Tennessee Association of Craft Artists( TACA).
Hyman was born in Buffalo, New York, in 1917.
She received her bachelor's degree in art education in 1938 from the New York State Teachers College at Buffalo( now Buffalo State College).
Hyman later obtained a master's degree in art education from Peabody College for Teachers, now known as Peabody College of Vanderbilt University, in 1963 in Nashville, Tennessee.
Professionally, Hyman worked as a public school art teacher, as well as a faculty member of Peabody College.
In 1957, after working as a public school teacher for approximately fifteen years, Hyman received some ceramic equipment, which launched her artistic career as a ceramist.
Examples of her work are included in the collections of museums and art collections worldwide including the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the Museum of Decorative Arts in Prague, the Saga Prefectural Museum in Saga, Japan, the Tennessee State Museum in Nashville, and the Renwick Gallery in Washington D.C. Hyman received recognition for her work.
Her awards included a Lifetime Achievement Award in the Craft Arts from the National Museum of Women in the Arts of Washington, D.C. in 1993 and the Tennessee Governor ’s Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Arts, which she received in 1994.
A book of her artwork," The Intriguing Vision of Sylvia Hyman: Trompe l ’ Oeil Ceramic Artist", edited by Janet Mansfield, was published in 2012.
Sylvia Hyman died in Nashville, Tennessee, on December 23, 2012, at the age of 95.
A public memorial service for Hyman was to be held at The Temple Congregation Ohabai Sholom in Nashville on January 27, 2013.
Survivors included her second husband, Arthur Gunzberg, two children, Paul Maurice Hyman and writer Jackie Diamond Hyman and stepson Guy Gunzberg.
Executive Director Susan
Edwards of the Frist Center for the Visual Arts, where Hyman held a major exhibition called" Sylvia Hyman: Fictional Clay" in 2007, praised Hyman's legacy in an interview with" The Tennessean" following her death, telling the newspaper," There are few ceramists anywhere more revered than Nashville's own, Sylvia Hyman ...
In her long and productive career, encompassing abstraction and realism, Sylvia showed us the remarkable power of touch and the potential of clay.
Her exhibition at the Frist( in 2007) remains one of our most well- received locally."
The 2007 exhibition had marked her 90th birthday.
Alexander Fuks
Alexander Fuks( 30 May 1917 – 29 November 1978) was a German- born, later Israeli historian, archaeologist and papyrologist.
He worked with Victor Tcherikover and Menahem Stern on the standard edition of Jewish papyri.
He was a specialist in the study of Hellenistic Judaism.
Liew Kit Kong
Liew Kit Kong( born 6 January 1979) is a Malaysian footballer who last played as a striker for PKNS F.C..
He was also a former member of the Malaysian national team.
He won the favourite striker award for the 2007- 08 FAM Football Awards ahead of two other nominees Mohd Safee Mohd Sali and Mohd Zaquan Adha Abdul Radzak, despite playing for the second division of Malaysian league, the Malaysia Premier League.
In that season, he had become the top local goal scorer in the Premier League with 16 goals.
Kit Kong has represented the national side since 2002.
He was part of a Malaysia match against Brazil and played in the 2004 Tiger Cup where he score double against Indonesia during the semi final match which Malaysia eventually lost 5- 3.
2005 ISLAMIC Countries Olympics was Kit Kong's last appearance with the national side.
For 2008, he was called up by B. Sathianathan for the national team training session for a friendly match against Indonesia on 6 June 2008.
He, however, was not chosen for the friendly match.
Catherine I of Russia
Catherine I( born, later known as Marta Samuilovna Skavronskaya; –) was the second wife of Peter the Great and Empress of Russia from 1725 until her death.
W. Augustus Barratt
W. Augustus Barratt( 1873- 1947) was a Scottish- born, later American, songwriter and musician.

Question: Who was born later, Liew Kit Kong or Sylvia Hyman?