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Jane Austen was born on December 16th, 1775, to the local rector, Rev. George Austen (1731-1805), and Cassandra Leigh (1739-1827). She was the seventh of eight children. She had one older sister, Cassandra. In 1783 she went to Southampton to be taught by a relative, Mrs. Cawley, but was brought home due to a local outbreak of disease. Two years later she attended the Abbey Boarding School in Reading, reportedly wanting to follow her sister Cassandra, until 1786.

Jane was mostly educated at home, where she learned how to play the piano, draw and write creatively. She read frequently and later came to enjoy social events such as parties, dances and balls. She disliked the busy life of towns and preferred the country life, where she took to taking long walks.

In 1801 Jane, her parents and sister moved to Bath, a year after her father's retirement, and the family frequented the coast. While on one of those coastal holidays she met a young man, but the resulting romantic involvement ended tragically when he died. It is believed by many astute Austen fans that her novel, "Persuasion", was inspired by this incident.

Following her father's passing in January of 1805--which left his widow and daughters with financial problems--the family moved several times until finally settling into a small house, in Chawton, Hampshire, owned by her brother Edward, which is reminiscent of "Sense and Sensibility". It was in this house that she wrote most of her works.

In March of 1817 her health began to decline and she was forced to abandon her work on "Sanditon", which she never completed. It turned out that she had Addisons disease. In April she wrote out her will and then on May 24th moved with Cassandra to Winchester, to be near her physician. It was in Winchester she died, in the arms of her sister, on Friday, 18 July 1817, at the age of only 41. She was buried the 24th of July at Winchester Cathedral. Jane never married.

During her formative years, Jane wrote plays and poems. At 14 she wrote her first novel, "Love and Freindship [sic]" and other juvenilia. Her first (unsuccessful) submission to a publisher, however, was in 1797 titled "First Impressions" (later "Pride and Prejudice"). In 1803 "Susan" (later "Northanger Abbey") was actually sold to a publisher for a mere £10 but was not published until 14 years later, posthumously. Her first accepted work was in 1811 titled "Sense and Sensibility", which was published anonymously as were all books published during her lifetime. She revised "First Impressions" and published it entitled "Pride and Prejudice" in 1813. "Mansfield Park" was published in 1814, followed by "Emma" in 1816, the same year she completed "Persuasion" and began "Sanditon", which was ultimately left unfinished. Both "Persuasion" and "Northanger Abbey" were published in 1818, after her death.

Dorinda Stevens was born on 16 August 1932 in Southampton, Hampshire, England, UK. She was an actress, known for The Avengers (1961), Night Train to Paris (1964) and Jack the Ripper (1959). She was married to Michael Boultbee. She died on 25 October 2012 in Winchester, Hampshire, England, UK.

Lord Rank, known professionally as J. Arthur Rank was the millionaire flour miller and devout Methodist who got into films to spread the gospel. When some early films that he was involved with didn't get an exceptionally good circulation he realized that control of cinemas was the key to success. He quickly established the Odeon chain of cinemas, started by Oscar Deutsch. Odeon's publicists liked to claim that the name of the cinemas was derived from his motto, "Oscar Deutsch Entertains Our Nation", but it had been used for cinemas in France and Italy in the 1920s, and the word is Ancient Greek. The word "Nickelodeon" was coined in 1888 and was widely used to describe small cinemas in the United States starting from 1905. With builder Charles Boot he bought the grounds of an old Victorian house (Heatherden Hall) in Hertfordshire and turned it into Pinewood Studios. A long-term collaborator of Rank was 'Lady Yule' the wife of a Jute merchant. She helped him with the building and running of Pinewood studios. After Alexander Korda ran into financial difficulties in the late 30's Rank also bought Denham Studios. One of the best things about movie-making for Rank was the freedom given to people like The Archers (Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger), David Lean, Carol Reed, etc. that allowed them to make some of the most successful and spectacular movies ever made in Britain. An over-ambitious attempt to expand into America brought him to near bankruptcy in the 1940s which in turn led to the sale of Denham and Pinewood Studios and a severe restriction on the ambitions of the Rank empire. Today the Rank name is best known (outside the UK) for the Rank Cintel, the standard device used for the transfer of film image to videotape.

Tarn Bassett was born on 16 March 1929 in Ootacamund, India. She was an actress, known for The Black Arrow (1951), Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1956) and Driveway (1967). She was married to Robert Stephens. She died on 25 December 2014 in Winchester, Hampshire, England, UK.

His father had died before he was born. At the age of three he was sent to his grandmother, with whom he grew up until he was ten. Newton then returned to his mother. He attended school in nearby Grantham. From 1665 he studied at Trinity College, Cambridge. Among other things, he was taught there by the theologian, philologist and mathematician Isaac Barrow. In January 1665, Newton received his baccalaureate (high school diploma). An outbreak of bubonic plague led to the college's closure. Newton returned to his parents' home in Woolsthorpe. During this time he worked on infinitesimal calculus, the nature of light and gravity. It was not until 1667 that he resumed his studies at Cambridge. He dealt with the works of Johannes Kepler, Galileo Galilei and Robert Boyle. Newton's development of infinitesimal calculus (fluxion calculus) was groundbreaking in mathematics, as previously one could only deal with fixed quantities such as numbers. Newton's development opened up the possibility of expressing time-varying quantities such as physical forces or speeds in numbers.

Independently of Newton, the philosopher, mathematician and researcher Gottfried Wilhelm Freiherr von Leibniz developed a solution to this mathematical problem around the same time through his differential and integral calculus. Its naming as infinitesimal calculus ultimately prevailed. In 1669, Newton improved the telescope into a reflecting telescope by using inwardly curved lenses to concentrate light. In the same year he became a professor at Cambridge; He thus succeeded his teacher Barrow. In 1671 he demonstrated his invention to the London Royal Society. Newton presented his first scientific publication on the discovery of the nature of light to the Royal Society in 1672. In the same year he became a member. He was able to prove experimentally that white light consists of a mixture of colored light components. In doing so, he contradicted the previously common view that colored light was complex and white light was simple. Newton explained light as consisting of corpuscles. His scientific work "Optics" was not published until 1704.

In 1687, Newton published his three famous laws of motion in the book "Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica". The beginnings of this theory lay in the time of the plague, which led to the interruption of his studies and his stay in his parents' house. In this book, also known as "Principia", he also laid down Newton's law of gravitation: Every piece of matter has a so-called heavy mass, the cause of its attraction. - The force of gravity between two bodies is proportional to the product of their masses. - The change in gravity is inversely proportional to the square of their distance. An anecdote tells that Isaac Newton discovered the law of gravity when an apple fell on his head. Newton is said to have concluded from this that gravity also acts on the moon and that the moon's orbit must consist of two balancing forces - one is the centripetal force, which pulls the bodies to the center of the orbit, and the other is the centrifugal force, which is drawn by the moon Center strives away.

In the three "Principia" books, Newton dealt, in addition to the laws of motion, with planetary orbits, liquids and gases, the refutation of a vortex theory and the dependence of gravity on mass. From 1689 to 1690 Newton was elected MP for Cambridge University. In 1693 he suffered a severe nervous breakdown, which prevented him from further research. He then dealt with alchemy and religious questions. In 1696 he was appointed Mint Warden, supervisor of the royal mint. Three years later he was promoted to mint master, today comparable to finance minister. In 1700 Newton left Cambridge and moved to London. In 1703 he became president of the Royal Society there. In 1705 he became the first scientist to be knighted by the Royal Society. In 1713 and 1726, the three-volume work "Principia" was published for the second and third times, respectively.

Sir Isaac Newton died on March 31, 1727 in London.

Stefan Gryff was born on 5 May 1938 in Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland. He was an actor, known for The Saint (1997), Proof of Life (2000) and Julia (1977). He was married to Amanda Archer and Vivienne Lincoln. He died on 3 June 2017 in Winchester, Hampshire, England, UK.

Simon Dee was born on 28 July 1935 in Manchester, England, UK. He was an actor, known for The Italian Job (1969), Doctor in Trouble (1970) and Dee Time (1967). He was married to Judith Wilson, Sarah Terry and Berry 'Bunny' Cooper. He died on 29 August 2009 in Winchester, Hampshire, England, UK.

Ray Weaver was born on 21 March 1917 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. He was an actor, known for How to Steal the World (1968), Burke's Law (1963) and Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955). He died on 19 December 2001 in Winchester, Douglas, Oregon, USA.

Lesser Samuels was born on 26 July 1894 in Allegheny, Pennsylvania, USA. He was a writer and producer, known for Ace in the Hole (1951), No Way Out (1950) and The Silver Chalice (1954). He died on 22 December 1980 in Winchester, Massachusetts, USA.

William Douglas-Home was born on 3 June 1912 in Edinburgh, Scotland, UK. He was a writer, known for What a Girl Wants (2003), The Reluctant Debutante (1958) and Now Barabbas (1949). He was married to Branch, Rachel, the Baroness Dacre. He died on 28 September 1992 in Winchester, England, UK.

Henry George Reginald Molyneux Herbert 7th Earl of Carnarvon was born on 19 January 1924 in Lancaster Gate, London, England, UK. He was married to Jean Wallop and Jean Margaret Wallop. He died on 11 September 2001 in Winchester, Hampshire, England, UK.

Richard Boyer was born on 16 March 1924. He was an actor, known for King Richard and the Crusaders (1954), The Dick Powell Theatre (1961) and The White Shadow (1978). He was married to Lola Kendrick. He died on 31 January 2005 in Canal Winchester, Ohio, USA.

Ronnie Bond was born on 4 May 1943 in Andover, Hampshire, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Confessions of a Driving Instructor (1976), Top of the Pops (1964) and Collaroshow (1979). He died on 13 November 1982 in Winchester, England, UK.

Taky Kimura was born on 12 March 1924 in Washington, USA. He died on 7 January 2021 in Winchester, California, USA.

Kemistry was born on 13 October 1963 in Birmingham, Warwickshire, England, UK. She died on 25 April 1999 in Winchester, Hampshire, England, UK.

Marjorie Gresley was born on 22 October 1909 in Doncaster, South Yorkshire, England, UK. She was an actress, known for The Bliss of Mrs. Blossom (1968), The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943) and The Happiest Days of Your Life (1947). She died on 3 April 1988 in Winchester, Hampshire, England, UK.

Robert Irving was born on 28 August 1913 in Winchester, England, UK. He was a composer, known for Floodtide (1949), Playhouse 90 (1956) and Live from Lincoln Center (1976). He died on 13 September 1991 in Winchester, England, UK.

Elizabeth Clark was born on 14 May 1875 in Hartlebury, Wychavon, Worcestershire, UK. She was a writer, known for Executive Suite (1976), Rainbow (1972) and Jackanory (1965). She died on 21 April 1972 in Winchester, Hampshire, UK.

Raymond Hitchcock was born on 9 February 1922 in Calcutta, West Bengal, India. He was a writer, known for Percy (1971), Thirty-Minute Theatre (1965) and It's Not the Size That Counts (1974). He died on 22 February 1992 in Winchester, Hampshire, England, UK.

Peter Dickinson was born on 16 December 1927 in Livingstone, Northern Rhodesia [now Zambia]. He was a writer, known for Mandog (1972), Marty (1968) and The Gift (1990). He was married to Robin McKinley and Mary Rose Barnard. He died on 16 December 2015 in Winchester, Hampshire, England, UK.

Debra Ewing was born on 24 February 1957 in Connecticut, USA. She died on 29 October 1983 in Winchester, Connecticut, USA.

Rex Williams was born in New York City in 1917, the son of Walter J. Williams, and is of Welsh descent. Rex began his career in New York acting on Broadway, and later moved out to Hollywood in the 1930s to pursue his dream of being on the Silver Screen.

In addition to being a film and stage actor, Rex was also a painter and sculptor, and lived in Santa Fe, New Mexico for over twenty years until his death at the age of 89.

Rex is survived by his five sons: Peter, Christopher, Patrick, Matthew, and Stephen.

Joseph Leisch Jr. was born on 28 January 1930 in Washington D.C. USA. He was an actor, known for Appointment with Destiny (1971), They've Killed President Lincoln! (1971) and Antietam Visit (1982). He was married to Louise Wilmer. He died on 25 October 2015 in Winchester, Virginia USA.

Lisa-Lisbeth Finney was born on 27 July 1966 in Fairfax, Virginia, USA. She was an actress, known for An American Affair (2008). She died on 8 March 2007 in Winchester, Virginia, USA.

Michael Blakstad was born on 18 April 1940 in Penang, Malaya. He was a producer and director, known for Whicker (1968), Whicker's Walkabout (1970) and The Bellcrest Story (1973). He was married to Tricia Wotherspoon. He died on 21 November 2023 in Winchester, Hampshire, England. UK.