As per wiki, Max Stirner “was a German philosopher who is often seen as one of the forerunners of nihilism, existentialism, psychoanalytic theory, postmodernism and individualist anarchism.”
“The first person to successfully remove an ovarian tumor,” Ephraim McDowell got commemorated with everything from statues to postage stamps, sure as his “house, office, and apothecary in Danville are preserved as a museum and are designated a National Historic Landmark”, near the Ephraim McDowell Regional Medical Center.
Even before he was getting Oscar nominations, Anatole Litvak was making a real name for himself: directing Edward G Robinson in Confessions Of A Nazi Spy and directing Barbara Stanwyck in Sorry, Wrong Number and directing Tyrone Power in This Above All and directing Bette Davis in All This, And Heaven Too and so on.
Yeah, that’s cool, along with a number of other things in this thread (since I was here last) that I’ll, just, let, go.
Roger Rees was a Welsh-born actor, mostly noted for stage work, but also appeared in Cheers (Robin Colcord) and The West Wing (Sir John Marbury).
Well, then, I feel pretty good about mentioning [del]Quite Frankly[/del] Frank Quitely, who won an Eisner Award in ‘05, and again in ‘06, and again in ‘07, and after ‘08 did it again in ‘09. (Now, granted, on the one hand, a heck of a lot of that was on the strength of his work on ALL-STAR SUPERMAN; but on the other hand, it’s not like I can bring myself to say anything bad about ALL-STAR SUPERMAN.)
Ned Dennehy, Irish actor.
Still, in time he “became notorious for his exploitation of his tenants, with the word ‘Rachmanism’ entering the Oxford English Dictionary”.
Back in the day, Dick Kollmar and his wife Dorothy Kilgallen had their own show, and “Breakfast with Dorothy and Dick was broadcast locally throughout New York City and its suburbs, drawing an audience of 20 million listeners.”
I’m not counting his years on radio as Boston Blackie, because as far as I can tell he was credited as Richard Kollmar then; but then he landed a gig on TV, as the host of Guess What, and as far as I can tell he was credited as Dick Kollmar there.
American playwright Elmer Rice won the Pulitzer Prize in 1929.
And then Marc Connelly, of Algonquin Round Table fame, won it in 1930.
Nathaniel Lyon was the first Union general killed in the American Civil War, which is why Fort Lyon got said name during said war; and the guy is likewise commemorated by the Nathaniel Lyon Memorial State Park, and by the General Lyon Cemetery, sure as thanks from Congress came in for the “eminent and patriotic services of the late Brigadier General Nathaniel Lyon. The country to whose service he devoted his life will guard and preserve his fame as a part of its own glory. That the Thanks of Congress are hereby given to the brave officers who, under the command of the late general Lyon sustained the honor of the flag and achieved victory against overwhelming numbers at the battle of Springfield, Missouri.”
Heavyweight boxing champ Bruce Seldon famously lost the title to Mike Tyson during a pay-per-view fight that lasted a-minute-and-change (which gained an extra dose of notoriety by dint of Tupac Shakur getting shot on the way home from it).
What about everybody’s favorite Friend, Phoebe Buffay?
Y’know, the year after Lisa Kudrow got one of her Emmy nominations for that role, Mark Consuelos got one for his soap-opera work on All My Children.
(Routinely co-hosts Live! With Kelly with his wife, Kelly Ripa? Hosted Age Of Love for NBC, at that? Currently appearing on Riverdale, as Hiram Lodge?)
Florence Sabin Pioneered Her Way in Medical Science, Then Made Sure Other Women Could Do the Same is the headline of an article about “the first woman to hold a full professorship at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine” (and, for that matter, “the first woman to become a full professor at a medical college” period), as well as “the first woman elected to the National Academy of Sciences, and the first woman to head a department at the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research.”
Warren Zevon’s song, “Bill Lee”, is about Bill Lee (sorry; Bill ‘Spaceman’ Lee), who pitched in the World Series and wrote lots of books and did lots of drugs; when asked about mandatory drug testing, they say he replied that "I’ve tried just about all of them, but I wouldn’t want to make it mandatory.”
I see where Tad Devine is making a ton of headlines this morning.
Per wiki, Allan Nevins wrote for the New York Evening Post, and then “resigned from the Post to become literary editor of the New York Sun and about a year later gave up that position to become an editorial writer with the New York World.”
And then he won a couple of Pulitzer Prizes.
Emmitt Thomas led the AFL in interceptions, and then led the NFL in interceptions, the combination of which — along with, y’know, his Super Bowl rings — goes a long way to explaining why the guy made it into the Hall of Fame.
That brings to mind Emmitt Till, a person whose story is so bad I’m putting the link in a spoiler box. Click at your own risk: