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.
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.
Joseph Massie (economist)
Joseph Massie( died 1784) was an 18th- century political economist who wrote about 15 pamphlets dealing with economic and financial questions.
Although he was probably less important than writers such as James Denham- Steuart or Josiah Tucker, he contributed to the birth of political economy before Adam Smith.
Like most of the political economists writing in the 18th century( and in opposition to those writing in the 17th century), he was not engaged in economic activity.
He was indeed a writer and antiquarian, owning more than 1,500 economic treatises, extending from 1557 to 1763.
He used this collection, together with contemporary trade statistics, to write some 15 pamphlets on various questions such as urbanism, commerce, finances( and especially the problem of the public debt during the Seven Years' War.)
Josiah T. Newcomb
Josiah Turner Newcomb( June 19, 1868 – January 3, 1944) was an American lawyer and politician from New York.
W. Augustus Barratt
W. Augustus Barratt( 1873- 1947) was a Scottish- born, later American, songwriter and musician.
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".
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.
May Nilsson
May Nilsson,( 5 May 1921 – 7 November 2009) was a Swedish alpine skier, born in Åre.
She won a bronze medal during the 1939 world championships in Zakopane at the women's slalom event.
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.
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.

Question: Who was born later, May Nilsson or Josiah T. Newcomb?
Answer: May Nilsson