Giovanni Brusca
Giovanni Brusca( born 20 February 1957) is an Italian former member of the Sicilian Mafia.
He murdered the anti-Mafia prosecutor Giovanni Falcone in 1992, and once stated that he had committed between 100 and 200 murders.
He had been sentenced to life in prison" in absentia" for Mafia association and multiple murders.
Brusca was captured in 1996, and turned" pentito".
A pudgy, bearded and unkempt mafioso, Brusca was known in Mafia circles as"'u verru"( in Sicilian) or" il porco" or" il maiale"( in Italian;" the pigthe swine") or" lo scannacristianithe people- slayer"; in Italian dialects the word" Christians" often refers to" human beings").
Tommaso Buscetta, the Mafia turncoat who had cooperated with Falcone ’s investigations, remembered Giovanni Brusca as" a wild stallion but a great leader."
Giovanni Battista Marmi
Giovanni Battista Marmi( 1659 –1686) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period.
He initially apprenticed with Vincenzo Dandini, then Livio Mehus, then moved to Rome to become a pupil of the painter Ciro Ferri and Giovanni Maria Morandi.
Johann Philipp Krieger
Johann Philipp Krieger( also" KrigerKrügerKrugl", and" Giovanni Filippo Kriegher"; 25 February
1649 – 7 February 1725) was a German Baroque composer and organist.
He was the elder brother of Johann Krieger.
Steve Fireovid
Stephen John Fireovid( born June 6, 1957), is an American former professional baseball pitcher, who played in Major League Baseball( MLB) for the San Diego Padres, Philadelphia Phillies, Chicago White Sox, Seattle Mariners, and Texas Rangers, in all or part of six seasons, between and.
Never did Fireovid pitch in more than 10 games in any one MLB season.
He played college baseball at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, from to.
In 1977, he played collegiate summer baseball with the Falmouth Commodores of the Cape Cod Baseball League.
In, while pitching for the Montreal Expos ’ Triple- A affiliate Indianapolis Indians, Fireovid composed a journal of his experiences.
The journal was turned into a book," The 26th Man: One Minor League Pitcher's Pursuit of a Dream", in 1991.
The book was co-authored by Mark Winegardner.
Fireovid's career is also profiled with a chapter in the book" Journeymen: 24 Bittersweet Tales of Short Major League Sports Careers", by Kurt Dusterberg.
Fireovid was initially married to Patty, with whom he has three children( Joseph, Samuel, and Thomas).
Subsequently, he wed Michele and had two children( Adam and Rachel).
Pierre Trentin
In the semi -final of the 1,000 metres sprint at the Tokyo Olympic Games, Trentin and Giovanni Pettenella set an Olympic record for standing still- 21 minutes and 57 seconds.
David Ji
David Longfen Ji is an American businessman who co-founded Apex Digital, an electronics manufacturer.
In 2004, he was arrested in China following a dispute with Sichuan Changhong Electric, a supplier owned by the city of Mianyang and the province of Sichuan.
Changhong accused him of defrauding them through bad checks.
Ji was taken, according to an account by his lawyer, to the senior management and told, "I decide whether you live or die."
He has been held in China without charges.
Ji's case highlighted an "implicit racism" in dealings with American businessmen.
As a U.S. citizen he was not granted the same treatment by authorities as non-ethnically Chinese businessmen sharing the same nationality.
Giulio Orlandini
Giulio Orlandini( active early 17th century) was an Italian painter active in his native Parma.
He worked alongside Fortunato Gatti and Giovanni Maria Conti.
He painted in the presbytery of the church of Santa Maria del Quartiere, Parma.
Giacomo Antonio Perti
Giacomo Antonio Perti( 6 June 1661 – 10 April 1756) was an Italian composer of the Baroque era.
He was mainly active at Bologna, where he was" Maestro di Cappella" for sixty years.
He was the teacher of Giuseppe Torelli and Giovanni Battista Martini.
Gioacchino La Barbera
Gioacchino La Barbera( born November 1959 in Altofonte) is a member of the Mafia who became a pentito.
He was one of the key witnesses in the trial against the killers of Antimafia judge Giovanni Falcone.
La Barbera was born in Altofonte, in the province of Palermo.
In 1981, he was initiated in the Altofonte cosca and, in 1986, he became the regent of the Altofonte Mafia family after the arrest of Bernardo Brusca.
After the arrest of Mafia boss Totò Riina in January 1993, the remaining bosses, among them La Barbera, Giuseppe Graviano, Matteo Messina Denaro, Giovanni Brusca, Leoluca Bagarella, and Antonino Gioè, came together a few times( often in the Santa Flavia area in Bagheria, on an estate owned by the mafioso Leonardo Greco).
They decided on a strategy to force the Italian state to retreat.
That resulted in a series of bomb attacks in 1993 in the Via dei Georgofili in Florence, in Via Palestro in Milan and in the Piazza San Giovanni in Laterano, and Via San Teodoro in Rome, which left 10 people dead and 93 injured as well as damage to centres of cultural heritage such as the Uffizi Gallery.
On March 23, 1993, La Barbera, Antonino Gioè and Salvatore Bentivegna were arrested in Milan.
The police taped them while they were planning bomb attacks.
La Barbera started to collaborate with the authorities in November 1993.
La Barbera confessed his participation in the slaying of Antimafia judge Giovanni Falcone.
He followed Falcone's car as it sped toward Palermo, keeping in constant touch with Leoluca Bagarella, Antonino Gioè and Giovanni Brusca on the hillside near Capaci.
Brusca set off the explosion.
He also admitted to have been involved in the killing of Salvo Lima, the former mayor of Palermo.
His father Girolamo La Barbera( born in 1925) was murdered on June 10, 1994, because he defended the choice of his son to become a pentito.
The killing was staged as a suicide.
Among the killers were Michele Traina and Domenico Raccuglia.
The order came from Giovanni Brusca.
Traina and Raccuglia received life sentences for the killing in June 2005, while Brusca was sentenced to 13 years.
In October 1997, the pentito La Barbera was rearrested.
Although a key witness in several important trials under way, he had returned home and recommenced his criminal activities and avenge atrocities carried out on family members.
Giuseppe Farinella
Giuseppe Farinella( 24 December 1925, in San Mauro Castelverde – 5 September 2017, in Parma) was a Sicilian mafioso, boss of the San Mauro Castelverde family and a one- time member of the Sicilian Mafia Commission.
San Mauro Castelverde, a village on 1,000 meters above sea level in the Madonie mountain range in the province of Palermo, is the stronghold of the Farinella Mafia family that goes back to the 19th century.
It is often used as a hide out for fugitive mafiosi.
Giuseppe Farinella is the son of Mariano Farinella, already known as a criminal in the days of the Iron Prefect, Cesare Mori, appointed by Benito Mussolini to suppress the Mafia in the late 1920s.
For many years Giuseppe" Don Peppino" Farinella was the uncontested chieftain of the area.
He became the" capo mandamento" of Gangi- San Mauro Castelverde area, and his influence reached into the province of Messina.
He was a member of the Sicilian Mafia Commission since the late 1970s, according to the pentiti Salvatore Cancemi, Francesco Di Carlo and Giovanni Brusca.
He was close to the Corleonesi, and supported them during the Second Mafia War.
An old fashioned mafia boss, Don Peppino, did not allow his men to extort local shopkeepers, which was common among mafiosi from the countryside.
Revenues were not considered worthwhile compared to the money that could be extorted from companies that won public tenders in construction.
Moreover, not extorting local shopkeepers Mafia bosses increased their legitimacy among the locals.
Don Peppino did not want his men to extort a" pizzo" from the shopkeepers," according to a victim," because the latter, in contrast to entrepreneurs, did not carry out any speculative activity and the because he … thought that asking shopkeepers for a" tangente" seemed like begging for alms Farinella was arrested on March 21, 1992.
As member of the Commission he was held responsible for the killing of the two prominent anti-mafia judges Paolo Borsellino and Giovanni Falcone, receiving life sentences.
In January 1993, he was also sentenced to nine years in prison in the trial against the Mafia in Madonie area.
He was considered to be the Mafia boss of the area.
He died on 5 September 2017 in prison in Parma.

Question: Are Steve Fireovid and Giovanni Brusca of the same nationality?
Answer: no