Chris Commons
" For the Scottish international footballer see Kris Commons" Christopher John' Chris' Commons( born 9 December 1950) is a retired long jumper from Australia, who represented his country in the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal.
Commons won silver medals in the 1974 and 1978 Commonwealth Games during his career.
A four- time national champion in the men's long jump( 1973 – 1976), he held the Australian Residential Long Jump Record of 8.08 metres.
He won the Pacific Conference Games in 1977 and was second in the event in 1973.
Commons was ranked sixth in the world by the magazine Track& Field News in 1975.
He received the Athlete of the Year award from the Athletics International organisation for the 1974- 5 season.
As a young athlete, Commons was the Australian Junior Champion( under 19 years of age) in the triple jump for three consecutive years( 1967- 9).
His brothers, Don Commons( triple jump) and David Commons, were also notable athletes.
Theodred II (Bishop of Elmham)
Theodred II was a medieval Bishop of Elmham.
The date of Theodred's consecration unknown, but the date of his death was sometime between 995 and 997.
Jacob Broughton Nelson
Jacob Broughton Nelson( born July 1898, date of death unknown) has been proclaimed the founder of Phi Kappa secondary school fraternity.
Track & Field News
Track & Field News is an American monthly sports magazine founded in 1948 by brothers Bert Nelson and Cordner Nelson, focused on the world of track and field.
The magazine provides coverage of athletics in the United States from the high school to national level as well as covering the sport on an international bases.
The magazine has given itself the motto of The Bible of the Sport.
E. Garry Hill is the magazine's editor and Sieg Lindstrom is the managing editor.
Janet Vitu is publisher and Ed Fox is publisher emeritus.
Each year, the magazine produces world and US rankings of top track & field athletes, selected by the magazine's editors along with an international team of experts.
Many of the standard abbreviations used throughout the sport, like WR=World Record; WJR=World Junior Record; AR=American Record, started as print saving abbreviations in the magazine.
"Track & Field News" discontinued paper and ink publication of the magazine and went to digital format only as of January 2018.
Michel Macquet
Michel Macquet( 3 April 1932 – 27 October 2002) was a French javelin thrower and handball player.
" Track& Field News" ranked him the world's best javelin thrower in 1961.
Bert Nelson (publisher)
Albert "Bert" Nelson (born November 17, 1921 in San Diego, California – January 9, 1994) was an American publisher and writer.
In 1948, after graduating from the University of California, Berkeley he was a co-founder of "Track and Field News," along with his brother Cordner.
The upstart magazine's first headquarters were Cordner's garage in San Bruno, California.
The magazine covers the sport of Track and Field and other aspects of the umbrella of Athletics.
The monthly magazine has declared itself to be "The Bible of the Sport."
Bert had run the 880 yard dash in high school and continued to the cross country team at Berkeley.
Returning from the Navy after World War II he first got his feet wet starting a small newspaper before the brothers began the magazine.
Bert became one of the top writers of the sport.
Starting in 1960 he established TAFNEWS Press, which went on to become the nation's leading track and field publisher.
The company has over 100 titles.
The first of those was the "Little Red Book.
" Within the sport, the book was as important as Chairman Mao's book, but this book provided conversions between the metric system that are used in the sport worldwide and the Imperial units that are still common in America.
The next book was the "Little Gold Book" which converted decathlon scores.
Nelson was inducted into the National Track and Field Hall of Fame in 1991.
Bill Smith (footballer, born 1897)
William Thomas Smith( born 9 April 1897, date of death unknown) was an English professional footballer.
Thomas Scott (diver)
Thomas Scott( 1907- date of death unknown) was an English diver.
Tim League
Tim League is an American entrepreneur and film producer based in Austin, Texas.
He is the founder of the Alamo Drafthouse Cinema chain and the founder of the film distribution company Drafthouse Films, where League has produced films including" The ABCs of Death"..
He is also the co-founder of genre film festival Fantastic Fest, the co-founder of entertainment merchandise entity Mondo, and the co-founder of film distribution and production company Neon.
Etan Boritzer
Etan Boritzer( born 1950) is an American writer of children ’s literature who is best known for his book" What is God?" first published in 1989.
His best selling" What is?" illustrated children's book series on character education and difficult subjects for children is a popular teaching guide for parents, teachers and child- life professionals.
Boritzer gained national critical acclaim after" What is God?" was published in 1989 although the book has caused controversy from religious fundamentalists for its universalist views.
The other current books in the" What is?" series include
What is Love?,
What is Death?,
What is Beautiful?,
What is Funny?,
What is Right?,
What is Peace?,
What is Money?,
What is Dreaming?,
What is a Friend?,
What is True?,
What is a Family?,
What is a Feeling?"
The series is now also translated into 15 languages.
Boritzer was first published in 1963 at the age of 13 when he wrote an essay in his English class at Wade Junior High School in the Bronx, New York on the assassination of John F. Kennedy.
His essay was included in a special anthology by New York City public school children compiled and published by the New York City Department of Education.
Boritzer now lives in Venice, California and maintains his publishing office there also.
He has helped numerous other authors to get published through" How to Get Your Book Published!" programs.
Boritzer is also a yoga teacher who teaches regular classes locally and guest- teaches nationally.
He is also recognized nationally as an erudite speaker on" The Teachings of the Buddha."

Question: When did the founder of magazine Track & Field News die?
Answer: January 9, 1994