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Dimitrion Yordanidis (born c. 1878) was a Greek runner, who, according to Guinness World Records, completed the 26-mile marathon course from Marathon, Greece to Athens on October 10, 1976 in 7 hrs 33 mins at age 98.Guinness World Records Guinness World Records considers him to be the oldest man to complete a marathon, and he is frequently referred to as such in media reports.
Yordanidis is unknown to the Association of Road Racing Statisticians who maintains a list of single age records and currently lists Fauja Singh and Jenny Wood-Allen as the oldest male and female marathon record holders in the 90+ age group. Fauja Singh finished the Toronto Marathon 2003 in 5 hrs 40 mins at age 92 and Jenny Wood-Allen walked the London Marathon 2002 course in 11 hrs 34 mins at age 90.
Yordanidis is also absent from the records list maintained by the World Masters Athletics organization, which ratifies and registers five-year age-group records. The WMA list for marathon finishers contains no entries for the 95+ age group and above.
Veteran marathon runner Werner Sonntag took part in the 1976 Marathon-Athens race and reports in his weekly column that the German Spiridon sports magazine claimed at the time that Yordanidis cut the course by using a car.
Frederick Parkhurst Dodd (born 11 March 1861; died after 1917) was an Australian entomologist. He was known as the Butterfly man of Kuranda.
Born in Victoria, Dodd worked in a bank in Townsville for ten years before taking up entomology full-time. A number of species are named after him and his collection of insects was of importance. He undertook collecting expeditions in New Guinea as well as Australia.
The Taeniopterygidae genus Doddsia is named for him.
Dodd's daughters Elizabeth and Katharine continued the entomological tradition.
Nawab Sayyid Mansur Ali Khan (29 October 1830-4 November 1884) was Nawab of Bengal until his abdication in 1880, whereupon he renounced his titles and position as Nawab of Bengal. Bengal had been already occupied by the British for the last 150 years, so he was nothing more than a puppet of the British.
Horace J. Hawkins was a British socialist.
Hawkins was secretary of the Stratford (later Central West Ham) branch of the Social Democratic Federation from 1900 to 1903 and a speaker for that party. He proved to be important in the formation of the Socialist Party of Great Britain, being expelled, along with Jack Fitzgerald, at the Burnley conference of the SDF in April 1904, and serving on the SPGB Provisional Committee of May 1904. He was also on the first Executive Committee and was an outdoor speaker for the SPGB. Hawkins was expelled on 4 February 1905 for his personal harassment of Alexander Anderson.
By 1910 Hawkins was in Australia and active as a De Leonist.Letter in The Socialist, October 1910 He is last known of a year later as a member of the IWW Club in Sydney.
A. J. Schneidau was a French cricketer of the late 19th–early 20th century who was a member of his country's silver-medal-winning cricket team at the 1900 Summer Olympics, the only time that cricket has featured in the Olympics.
Schneidau opened the batting for France in the only match against Great Britain, scoring 8 in the first innings, and 1 in the second.
Arthur Ernest Barrington Birkett (25 October 1875 in Exeter, Devon – 1 April 1941 in Hammersmith, London) was a member of the gold medal winning Great Britain cricket team at the 1900 Summer Olympics.
Richard Philip "Dick" King (1813-1871) was an English trader and colonist at Port Natal, a British trading station in the region now known as KwaZulu-Natal. He is best known for a historic horseback ride in 1842, where he completed a journey of 960 km / 600 miles in 10 days, in order to request help for the besieged British garrison at Port Natal (now the Old Fort, Durban). __NOTOC__
Maria Bray was a 19th century American maritime heroine of an incident during the first days of winter in late 1864.
Bray was married to Alexander Bray, the lighthouse keeper at Thacher Island Light, off Rockport on Massachusetts' Cape Ann. From December 21 to December 24, 1864, she and her twelve-year-old nephew tended the lights of the station, while her husband was stranded on the mainland, where he had taken an ill co-worker. The Bray family was reunited on Christmas Day.
The United States Coast Guard named a coastal buoy tender in her honor.
Johann Stumpf of the Charlottenburg Technical College in Berlin is best known for popularising the uniflow steam engine, in the years around 1909, and his name has always been associated with it. The basic uniflow principle had been invented many years before.
Miguel Boaventura Lucena (died October 22, 1912), known as José Maria or José Maria de Santo Agostinho, was a Brazilian mystic from the state of Santa Catarina, probably the western part of the state. Little is known about his early life.
In 1911, he began preaching against the Brazilian state. When his rebel forces went up against the Brazilian state military and police at Banhado Grande on 1912-10-22, José Maria was killed, but the battle resulted in a victory for his followers, who declared a "holy war" (now called the Contestado War) and believed that he would be resurrected.