Willem Brakman
Willem Pieter Jacobus Brakman( 1922 – 2008) was a Dutch writer who made his literary debut with the novel" Een winterreis" in 1961.
Brakman received the P. C. Hooft Award in 1980.
He was born on June 13th, 1922 in The Hague, Netherlands, and died on May 8th, 2008 in the same country.
Valentina Ponomaryova
Valentina Leonidovna Ponomaryova( born 18 September 1933) is a former Soviet cosmonaut, pilot and scientist.
Ponomaryova left the school for girls № 156 in Moscow with a gold medal in 1951.
She graduated from the Moscow Aviation Institute in 1957 and the Zhukovsky- Academy, Monino in 1967.
In December 1961, the selection of female cosmonauts was authorized by the Soviet Government, with the specific intention of ensuring the first woman in space was a Soviet citizen.
In February 1962 Ponomaryova was selected in a group of five female cosmonauts to be trained for a Vostok flight.
The group spent several months in intensive training, concluding with examinations in November 1962, after which the four remaining candidates were commissioned Junior Lieutenants in the Soviet Air Force.
Ponomaryova established herself as one of the leading candidates with Valentina Tereshkova and Irina Solovyova, and a joint mission profile was developed that would see two women launched into space, on solo Vostok flights on consecutive days.
The honour of being the first woman in space was to be given to Valentina Tereshkova who would launch first on Vostok 5 while Ponomaryova would follow her into orbit on Vostok 6.
However, Ponomaryova did not respond with standard Soviet cliches in interviews and her feminism made the Soviet leadership uneasy, and this led to the flight profile being altered in March 1963.
Vostok 5 would now carry a male, cosmonaut Valery Bykovsky, flying the joint mission with Tereshkova aboard Vostok 6 in June 1963.
Tereshkova's backup was Irina Solovyova, with Ponomaryova in a supporting' second back- up' role.
Despite this setback, Ponomaryova remained with the program until 1969.
She was at one stage slated to fly on a circumlunar Soyuz flight in 1965 before substantial delays in the Soyuz spacecraft led to the cancellation of this flight.
She was also to lead an all- female crew on a ten- day mission aboard Voskhod 5 but the program was cancelled before she had a chance to fly.
Ponomaryova retired in 1969 when it became clear that there were no plans for a female Soyuz flight.
Ponomaryova later worked in orbital mechanics at the Gagarin Training Center.
Following this, she was a research scientist at the Institute of Natural Historic Sciences.
She was awarded a Candidate of Technical Sciences degree in 1974.
She married fellow cosmonaut Yuri Ponomaryov in 1972 and the couple had two children before divorcing.
As with Valentina, Yuri did not get to fly into space although he did serve on the Soyuz 18 backup crew.
Rafael Grampá
Rafael Grampá is a Brazilian comic book artist and director.
Grampá created" Mesmo Delivery" and" 5", an independent comic, alongside Becky Cloonan, Fábio Moon, Gabriel Bá and Vasilis Lolos.
In 2008 it won the Eisner Award for Best Anthology.
Yuriy Abramochkin
Yuriy Vasilyevich Abramochkin( normally rendered in English as Yuriy or Yuri Abramochkin; 11 December 1936 – 5 April 2018) was a Soviet and Russian photographer and photojournalist.
Abramochkin started to work as a photojournalist at 21, in the office of" Mosstroy"( Main department of building and planning in Moscow) with the primary job of photographing plans.
He got a chance to try himself in photography in 1957 when he was offered the position of official photographer of the World Festival of Youth and Students in Moscow.
He also took photos of" Komsomolskiy Prospekt" for" Mosstroy" and those photos were published by" Soviet Weekly", the Soviet newspaper for capitalist countries.
Abramochkin worked for" Soviet Weekly" for forty years.
In 1961 he started to work as a photographer of the news agency Novosti.
Yuri Abramochkin is one of 15 Russian photojournalists included in the encyclopedia" Contemporary Photographers", published by St. James Press in 1995.
Abramochkin worked with Soviet and world leaders, politicians and celebrities, making among others the photos of Nikita Khrushchev, Leonid Brezhnev, Mikhail Gorbachev, Boris Yeltsin, Charles de Gaulle, Willy Brandt, Francois Mitterrand, Richard Nixon, Urho Kekkonen, Jacques Chirac, Bill Clinton, Yuri Gagarin, Ronald Reagan, Valentina Tereshkova and Elizabeth II.
Ming Luhulima
Ming Luhulima aka Lou Lima was a well known Netherlands based recording artist originally from the Maluku Islands which were part of the Dutch East Indies.
He made multiple recordings during his career.
One of the artists he was closely associated with was Rudi Wairata.
Not only did Luhulima come from the same country as Wairata, he also recorded music in the same genre.
He was also a member of the Amboina Serenaders and the Mena Moeria Minstrels.
He also led the Krontjong Ensemble Pantja Warna.
Vasilis Genitsaridis
Vasilis Genitsaridis( born 16 February 1982) is a former professional footballer who played as a centre back and defensive midfielder for several clubs in Greece, including a stint with Apollon Kalamarias F.C. in the Alpha Ethniki.
Valentina Tereshkova
Valentina Vladimirovna Tereshkova( born 6 March 1937) is a member of the Russian State Duma, engineer, and former cosmonaut.
She is the first and youngest woman to have flown in space with a solo mission on the Vostok 6 on 16 June 1963.
She orbited the Earth 48 times, spent almost three days in space, and remains the only woman to have been on a solo space mission.
Before her selection for the Soviet space program, Tereshkova was a textile factory worker and an amateur skydiver.
She joined the Air Force as part of the Cosmonaut Corps and was commissioned as an officer after completing her training.
After the dissolution of the first group of female cosmonauts in 1969, Tereshkova remained in the space program as a cosmonaut instructor.
She later graduated from the Zhukovsky Air Force Engineering Academy and re-qualified for spaceflight but never went to space again.
She retired from the Air Force in 1997 having attained the rank of major general.
Tereshkova was a prominent member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, holding various political offices including being a member of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet from 1974 to 1989.
She remained politically active following the collapse of the Soviet Union but twice lost elections to the national State Duma in 1995 and 2003.
Tereshkova was later elected in 2008 to her regional parliament, the Yaroslavl Oblast Duma.
In 2011, she was elected to the national State Duma as a member of the United Russia party and re-elected in 2016.
George Kalovelonis
George Kalovelonis( Greek: Γεώργιος Καβοβελώνης; born 23 August 1959 in Athens) is a former tennis player from Greece, who represented his native country as a lucky loser at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul.
There he was defeated in the first round by fellow lucky loser Bong- Soo Kim from South Korea.
The right- hander reached his highest singles ATP- ranking on 23 June 1986, when he became World Number 208.
Kalovelonis represented Greece in Davis Cup matches from 1978 through 1992.
Kalovelonis is the coach of Anna Gerasimou and Vasilis Mazarakis.
María García (photographer)
María García is a Mexican photographer and photojournalist, whose work has been recognized with membership in the Salón de la Plástica Mexicana, and the Coatlicue Prize from the ComuArte, Mujeres en el Arte( Women in Art) organization.
She was born María del Carmen Sánchez Castañeda in Irapuato, Guanajuato in 1936, but when she was six months old, her family moved to Mexico City where she grew up.
As a child, she won a drawing contest with the Excélsior newspaper, and received a camera as a prize.
This was the beginning of her work as a photographer, documenting aspects of her life.
Her parents separated when she was still young, and she had to work as well as study to help her family's finances.
Her aunt owned a photography business, where one day she met photographer Héctor García Cobo.
She married him not long after, when she was only eighteen years old.
After five years of marriage, she began working with her husband as a darkroom assistant, developing rolls that Héctor had shot.
This prompted María to take her photography more seriously, balancing the raising of her children, the work with her husband and her own photography projects, starting in 1965.
María began working freelance with a number of newspapers and magazines in Mexico and also became known for her photographic portraits of women such as Mother Theresa, Valentina Tereshkova and Nancy Cárdenas.
In 1968, she collaborated with writer Elena Poniatowska, taking photos of the Olympics and students protests of that year.
María's first exhibition of her work was at the Casa del Lago( UNAM), and has since been featured in numerous individual and collective exhibitions in venues such as the Palacio de Bellas Artes, the Museo de Arte Moderno and the Salón de la Plástica Mexicana.
Her most noted artistic photos combine photography with graphic design, using light and the positioning of objects over others.
Along with her husband, María founded the María y Héctor García Foundation, located in Mexico City.
The location conserved a collection of over 1.5 million images taken by the two.
Godwin Davy
Godwin Davy( born 15 December 1979) is an Anguillan international footballer who plays as a goalkeeper.
He made his international debut in a World Cup qualifying match against El Salvador, resulting in a lopsided match, losing 12- 0 in February 2008, and also played in the 4 – 0 loss to the same country in the return match in March 2008.

Question: Are Valentina Tereshkova and Vasilis Genitsaridis from the same country?
Answer: no