Chris von der Ahe
Christian Friedrich (or Frederick) Wilhelm von der Ahe (October 7, 1851 – June 5, 1913) was a German-American entrepreneur, best known as the owner of the St. Louis Brown Stockings of the American Association, now known as the St. Louis Cardinals.
Von der Ahe arrived in New York City but quickly moved to St. Louis, where he worked as a clerk in a grocery store.
Later, he bought out the store owner and expanded business by establishing a saloon in the back of the store.
Von der Ahe noticed that a number of his patrons visited the saloon after baseball games, so in 1882, he bought the bankrupt and scandal-ridden St. Louis Brown Stockings baseball franchise for $1,800 and joined the American Association baseball league.
He named the team the Browns and hired future Chicago White Sox owner Charles Comiskey to play first base and eventually manage the team.
Von der Ahe took a very active role in the team, even though he knew almost nothing about baseball.
Other than player/manager/owner Albert Spalding,
Von der Ahe was the first baseball owner with a significant public persona, the predecessor of Bill Veeck, Charlie Finley and George Steinbrenner in this regard.
With his thick German accent ("I am der poss bresident of der Prowns!") bushy mustache and showmanship, he was as much of a story as his players.
The Browns dominated the American Association, winning four straight league championships starting in 1885, and the baseball, beer, and other investments made von der Ahe wealthy.
He made $500,000 off the baseball team alone.
He set the ticket price at 25 cents, hoping fans would spend money on beer.
As a result, the Browns led the league in attendance and soon had to expand his ballpark.
The term "fan" (from fanatic) is sometimes attributed to von der Ahe.
In 1885, von der Ahe erected a larger-than-life statue outside of Sportsman's Park, not of any of his star players, but of himself.
A sportswriter from Denver mockingly dubbed the statue "Von der Ahe discovers Illinois."
Although eccentric, von der Ahe made a number of innovations, including operating a farm club called the St. Louis Whites.
Also, tradition holds that von der Ahe was the first to sell hot dogs at the ballpark, although some historians dispute this.
Von der Ahe billed himself as the "Millionaire Sportsman".
In 1887, after a poor showing in the World Series, the ill-tempered von der Ahe threatened to withhold his players' share of the earnings.
In 1891, he was also majority owner of the Cincinnati Kelly's Killers which played for part of one season in the American Association.
In 1892 the team joined the National League after the American Association folded.
By this time, Comiskey had lost patience with von der Ahe and left for the Cincinnati Reds.
Without Comiskey, the Browns quickly became a last-place team.
Legal problems plagued von der Ahe's ownership, especially in the later years.
In an effort to recoup his losses, in 1892 he moved to a larger ballpark, which he surrounded with an amusement park, complete with beer garden, a horse track in the outfield, a "shoot-the-shoots" water flume ride, and an artificial lake (used for ice skating in winter).
The league, which prohibited gambling on its grounds, disapproved of the race track; so did von der Ahe's outfielders.
The press called the facility "Coney Island West" and nicknamed von der Ahe "Von der Ha Ha."
With losses still piling up, von der Ahe resorted to selling off his best players, mostly to Brooklyn.
In 1898, part of the ballpark burned down during an April game with Chicago; his second wife divorced him; and his bondsman kidnapped him for not paying his debts.
In a highly publicized trial connected with the fire, von der Ahe lost his baseball team.
The Browns changed hands twice and changed their name twice, first to the Perfectos (1899) and then to the Cardinals (1900).
The American League team known as the St. Louis Browns from 1902 to 1953 had no connection to von der Ahe's team aside from the name, which was designed to invoke the memory of the 1885–1889 era.
Von der Ahe soon lost his other wealth as well and was reduced to tending bar in a small saloon.
Comiskey frequently sent von der Ahe money to help make ends meet.
In April 1908, the St. Louis Cardinals and St. Louis Browns played each other in a benefit game for him.
The club raised $4,300.
He died of cirrhosis of the liver in 1913.
He was buried in Bellefontaine Cemetery in St. Louis, with the statue that once stood in front of Sportsman's Park adorning his grave.
In 2015 Von der Ahe was named to the Pre-Integration Committee ballot for the National Baseball Hall of Fame.
Jakob von der Lippe
Jakob von der Lippe( 28 July 1872 – 1953) was a Norwegian admiral.
He was born in Fjell.
He was a grandson of bishop Jacob von der Lippe and a son of dean Johan Nordahl Brun von der Lippe( 1838 – 1915).
Through his uncle Conrad Fredrik von der Lippe he was a first cousin once removed of Frits von der Lippe, Just Lippe and Jens von der Lippe.
He had the same father, and was thus a half- brother, of Anton Barth von der Lippe.
On 13 October 1916 von der Lippe was made the first regular director of the Royal Norwegian Navy Air Service, after the service was permanently organized and sorted under the Royal Norwegian Navy's shooting and signals school, which von der Lippe was the head of.
On 14 February the following year von der Lippe was relieved of his position at the shooting and signals school and made full- time commander of the Royal Norwegian Navy Air Service.
He retained his command until 13 January 1930.
He reached the rank of rear admiral in 1930, and served as the Commanding Admiral of Norway from 1930 to August 1934.
He was also the Chief of the Admiral Staff from 1930 to 1933.
Benedict Swingate Calvert
Benedict Swingate Calvert( January 27, 1722 – January 9, 1788) was a planter, politician and a Loyalist in Maryland during the American Revolution.
He was the son of Charles Calvert, 5th Baron Baltimore, the third Proprietor Governor of Maryland( 1699 – 1751), and may have been the grandson of King George I of Great Britain.
His mother's identity is not known, though one source suggests Melusina von der Schulenburg, Countess of Walsingham, an illegitimate daughter of the King.
He was certainly a descendant of Charles II through Charlotte Lee, Countess of Lichfield, the daughter of Barbara Palmer, Duchess of Cleveland, one of the king's mistresses.
As he was illegitimate, he was not able to inherit his father's title or estates, which passed instead to his half brother Frederick Calvert, 6th Baron Baltimore( 1731 – 1771).
Benedict Calvert spent most of his life as a politician and planter in Maryland, though Frederick, by contrast, never visited the colony.
Calvert became wealthy through proprietarial patronage and became an important colonial official, but he would lose his offices and his political power, though not his land and wealth, during the American Revolution.
Melusine von der Schulenburg, Duchess of Kendal
Ehrengard Melusine von der Schulenburg, Duchess of Kendal, Duchess of Munster( 25 December 166710 May 1743) was a longtime mistress to King George I of Great Britain.
Christoph von der Schulenburg
Christoph von der Schulenburg (1513 – 9 September 1580) was a German nobleman.
As bishop of Ratzeburg he converted to Protestantism.
Fritz-Dietlof von der Schulenburg
Fritz-Dietlof Graf von der Schulenburg (5 September 1902 – 10 August 1944) was a German government official and a member of the German Resistance in the 20 July Plot against Adolf Hitler.
George I of Great Britain
George I (George Louis; ; 28 May 1660 – 11 June 1727) was King of Great Britain and Ireland from 1 August 1714 and ruler of the Duchy and Electorate of Brunswick-Lüneburg (Hanover) in the Holy Roman Empire from 23 January 1698 until his death in 1727.
He was the first British monarch of the House of Hanover.
Born in Hanover to its Elector Ernest Augustus and Electress Sophia, George inherited the titles and lands of the Duchy of Brunswick-Lüneburg from his father and uncles.
A succession of European wars expanded his German domains during his lifetime; he was ratified as prince-elector of Hanover in 1708.
After the deaths in 1714 of his mother and his second cousin Anne, Queen of Great Britain (r. 1702–1714), George ascended the British throne as Anne's closest living Protestant relative under the Act of Settlement 1701.
Jacobites attempted, but failed, to depose George and replace him with James Francis Edward Stuart, Anne's Catholic half-brother.
During George's reign, the powers of the monarchy diminished and Britain began a transition to the modern system of cabinet government led by a prime minister.
Towards the end of his reign, actual political power was held by Robert Walpole, now recognised as Britain's first "de facto" prime minister.
George died of a stroke on a trip to his native Hanover, where he was buried.
He is the most recent British monarch to be buried outside the United Kingdom.
Clara von der Schulenburg
Countess Clara von der Schulenburg( 1874 – 10 February 1951), was a female German tennis player who was active in the final years of the 19th century and the early 20th century.
During that period she was considered the best German female player.
Johann Matthias von der Schulenburg
Marshal Johann Matthias Reichsgraf von der Schulenburg (8 August 1661 – 14 March 1747) was a German aristocrat and general of Brandenburg-Prussian background who served in the Saxon and Venetian armies in the early 18th century and found a second career in retirement in Venice, as a grand collector and patron.
His sister was Melusine von der Schulenburg, Duchess of Kendal.
His father was .
Melusina von der Schulenburg, Countess of Walsingham
Petronilla Melusine von der Schulenburg, Countess of Walsingham (1 April 1693 – 16 September 1778) was the natural daughter of King George I of Great Britain and his longtime mistress, Melusine von der Schulenburg, Duchess of Kendal.
In 1722, Melusina was created Baroness Aldborough and Countess of Walsingham as a life peer.
After the death of her father in 1727, she lived mainly with her mother at Kendal House in Isleworth.
In Isleworth, Middlesex, on 5 September 1733 she married Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield, a leading Whig politician.
The couple had no children, but it is said that "family letters" suggest that Melusina may have been the mother, through an intimacy with Charles Calvert, 5th Baron Baltimore, of Benedict Swingate Calvert.
Calvert was born in England in around 1730-32, the illegitimate son of Charles Calvert, 5th Baron Baltimore.
His mother's identity is otherwise unknown.

Question: Why did Melusina Von Der Schulenburg, Countess Of Walsingham's father die?
Answer: stroke