Totius (poet)
Jacob Daniël du Toit (21 February 1877 – 1 July 1953), better known by his pen name Totius, was an Afrikaner poet.
He was the son of Stephanus Jacobus du Toit and Elisabeth Jacoba Joubert.
Stefanus Du Toit
Stefanus Du Toit is a South African inventor and entrepreneur and a co-founder of Waterloo- based RapidMind, a company specializing in the development of software that automatically parallelizes serial code.
The technology behind Rapidmind was developed by Du Toit during his graduate research at the University of Waterloo.
As of 2008, RapidMind has raised$ 10 M in venture capital financing.
RapidMind was acquired by Intel in 2009.
In 2008 Du Toit was honored by being included in the MIT Technology Review's TR35 list.
Stephanus Jacobus du Toit
The Reverend Stephanus Jacobus du Toit (9 October 1847 – 29 May 1911) was a controversial South African nationalist, theologian, journalist and failed politician.
In his younger years Du Toit did much to promote the Afrikaans language as a symbol of Afrikaner nationalism.
Apart from the years 1882-8 when he was Superintendent of Education in the South African Republic, he lived in or near the town of Paarl in the Cape Colony.
Disillusionment with the Kruger regime led him, in later years, to moderate his views.
He was instrumental in initiating the translation of the Bible into Afrikaans and was a proponent of the Afrikaans language.
He died an outcast.
Pieter-Steph du Toit
Pieter Stephanus du Toit( born 20 August 1992) is a South African rugby union player.
Du Toit plays as a lock or a flanker for the South Africa national team and the in Super Rugby.
After winning the 2019 Rugby World Cup with South Africa, he was awarded the 2019 Men's World Rugby Player of the Year.
Flooi du Toit
Jacobus Francois "Flooi" du Toit (2 April 1869 – 10 July 1909) was a South African cricket player.
With just one match to his name, du Toit has the distinction of making a combined first-class and Test debut.
Along with G. Cripps, C.G. Fichardt and E.A. Halliwell, also combined debutants, du Toit was selected for the only Test match against a touring England side led by W.W. Read in 1891/92.
In a match won handsomely by the visitors (by an innings and 189 runs), du Toit scored 0 not out and 2 not out, took one wicket for 47 runs, the England captain's no less, and held one catch.
Du Toit was born in Jacobsdal in Orange Free State on 2 April 1869 and died in Lindley, in the same South African state, on 10 July 1909, aged 40.
His death went unrecorded in cricket circles and no obituary appeared for him in "Wisden" at the time.
Jared du Toit
Jared du Toit (born 22 May 1995) is a Canadian professional golfer.
Du Toit played college golf at the University of Idaho for two years before transferring to Arizona State University.
At the 2016 RBC Canadian Open, du Toit was one stroke behind the leader Brandt Snedeker after 54 holes.
This allowed him to play with Snedeker in the final pairing for the final round.
He finished T9 and was the top Canadian and top amateur in the event.
This was only his second professional event, the first being the SIGA Dakota Dunes Open on PGA Tour Canada.
Du Toit improved to 25th in the World Amateur Golf Ranking with his finish and was the top ranked Canadian male amateur golfer.
He entered his senior year at ASU in September 2016.
In May 2017, Du Toit announced his decision to turn pro.
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Charl du Toit
Charl du Toit( born 26 March 1993) is a South African Paralympic sprinter competing in the T37 class.
Du Toit has competed at two Summer Paralympic Games, London 2012 and Rio 2016.
At the 2016 Summer Olympics he won gold medals in the 100 metre and 400 metre races, the latter set a world record.
Daniel du Toit
Daniel Stefanus du Toit was a South African astronomer.
Daniel Stefanus du Toit was born in Springfontein, in the Free State, South Africa, on 15 December 1917, he was educated at the Sentraal High school Hoërskool Sentraal in Bloemfontein, after school he entered employment at the Boyden Observatory( Harvard College Observatory, Boyden station) at Maselspoort in 1936, and became the chief assistant to the director dr John S. Paraskevopoulos.
He discovered and co-discovered several comets, including 57P/ du Toit- Neujmin- Delporte, 66P/ du Toit, 79P/ du Toit- Hartley.
He worked at Boyden Observatory Maselspoort, Free State, South Africa( then administered by Harvard College Observatory, Boyden Station).
All comets were discovered whilst examining photographic plates taken by the Bache or Metcalf telescopes.
It was their job to check the photographic plates taken on behalf of Harlow Shapley, then Director at Harvard.
The exposures were generally 45 minutes on Cramer High Speed Blue plates, or later Kodak 103a, taken with the 10- inch Metcalf or 8- inch Bache telescopes.
It was during the examination of the exposure for image quality that Daniel du Toit discovered his comets.
Daniel du toit and his colleague Michiel Bester discovered several comets, with Michiel Bester ranked first with 6 comets discovered, and Daniel discovering 5 comets and dr J.S. Paraskevopoulos discovering 2 this gives the Boyden Observatory a total of 13 comets discovered.
Daniel du Toit, discovered his five comets between 1941 – 1945.
Curiously, three of Du Toit ’s five comets can still be observed today.
His first comet is 57P du Toit- Neujmin- Delporte, his second is 66 P du Toit, and his third is 79 P du Toit- Hartley.
The latter has been in the news recently due to the breakup of its nucleus.
In 2002 it was discovered that 57P/ du Toit – Neujmin – Delporte to have broken up into at least 19 fragment 57P/ du Toit – Neujmin – Delporte P/ 1941
O1 is the designation of a periodic comet.
Orbital period: 2,343 days
Discovered: 18 July 1941 Last perihelion: 22 May 2015 Next perihelion: 17 October 2021 Epoch: 25 July 2002 Discoverers: Grigory Neujmin, Daniel du Toit, Eugène Joseph Delporte 66P/ du Toit 14.71, P/ 1944
K1 Du Toit discovered this comet on a photograph obtained on 1944 May 16, 17.04.
Discovered: 16 May 1944
He estimated the magnitude as 10. 79P/ du Toit- Hartley or du Toit 2 is a periodic comet, now divided into two parts, in the Solar System with an orbital period of 5.06 years.
Discovered: 9 April 1945 a Jupiter family comet, expected back 2018 September 13, The dust trail complex of comet 79P/ du Toit- Hartley and meteor outbursts at Mars.
Uncertainties in the calculation of the orbit meant the comet was lost until rediscovered by Malcolm Hartley of the UK Schmidt Telescope Unit, Siding Spring, Australia in 1982, when it was found to have broken into two parts, probably in 1976.
Both parts had a brightness of magnitude 17.
Observed in 1987, it was missed in 1992 but rediscovered by astronomers at Los Molinos Observatory, Uruguay on 4 March 2003 at magnitude 17.
Discoverers: Daniel du Toit, Malcolm Hartley Discovered: on 9 April 1945 with a brightness of apparent magnitude 10.
The 1937 team consisted of Dr Paraskevopoulos, Bester, Du Toit, de Villiers and Steyn.
Daniel du
Toit left the observatory post war 1946, to pursue a career in the building industry but was forced into early career change by an accident, losing his leg in later years.
He died on 28 September 1981 at the age of 63 in Bloemfontein, South Africa.
Marie Du Toit
Marie Du Toit( or Marié Du Toit) is a South African film actress.
Wikus du Toit
Wikus du Toit( born 18 June 1972) is a South African actor, comedian, composer, and director.

Question: Where did Totius (Poet)'s father die?
Answer: Paarl