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John Glenn was an Officer of United States Marines with the rank of Major before chosen to become part of the Mercury 7 program.

He was awarded five Distinguished Flying Crosses. Made record setting Coast to Coast flights in the late 1950s.

He named his spacecraft (capsule) Friendship 7 and it is on display at the Smithsonian Institute Air and Space museum, directly underneath Chuck Yeager's "Glamerous Glennis" Bell X-1.

Dimebag Darrell was born on 20 August 1966 in Dallas, Texas, USA. He was an actor and composer, known for Triple Frontier (2019), The Big Short (2015) and Lethal Weapon (2016). He died on 8 December 2004 in Columbus, Ohio, USA.

Frederick 'Dennis' Greene was born on 11 January 1949 in New York City, New York, USA. He was an actor, known for Greased Lightning (1977), Sha Na Na (1977) and Festival Express (2003). He died on 5 September 2015 in Columbus, Ohio, USA.

Kathleen M. Shea was born on 7 September 1945 in Columbus, Ohio, USA. She was a producer and actress, known for Heat (1995), The Cannonball Run (1981) and The Last of the Mohicans (1992). She died on 4 August 2017 in Columbus, Ohio, USA.

Identical twin sisters, Beverly Crane and Betty Mae Crane were born in west north-western capital city of Salt Lake City, Utah, on Wednesday, April 11th, 1917. Beverly is credited to be in 17 films (all 15 of identical twin-sister, Betty Mae Crane, was in & two more). In order: 001: Doctor's Orders (1930). 002: Dollar Dizzy (1930). 003: Teacher's Pet (1930). 004: Bigger and Better (1930). 005: Looser Than Loose (1930). 006: School's Out (1930). 007: Another Fine Mess (1930). 008: High C's (1930). 009: Blood and Thunder (1931). 010: Love Business (1930). 011: Love Fever (1931). 012: The Beast of the City (1932). 013: Moulin Rouge (1934). 014: Girl O' My Dreams (1934). 015: All Girl Revue (1940). [last with twin sister, Betty Mae Crane]. PS: In 16 & 17, Betty Mae Crane is not in with Beverly Crane. 016: Blonde Dynamite (1950). 017: Emergency Wedding (1950).

Before he became "The Poet of the Piano", classically-trained Cavallaro had enjoyed a modestly successful earlier career as a soloist in society dance bands led by Al Kavelin, Abe Lyman and Enric Madriguera (at the time he was simply billed as 'Carmen'). In 1939, he fronted his own orchestra which made its debut at the Statler Hotel in St. Louis. This eventually blossomed into a 14-piece organisation which featured the future musical comedy and night club entertainer Larry Douglas on vocals and was built around Carmen's flashy piano solos (notable, especially, for the scintillating speed of his octave playing). There were, unusually, no trombones. The band generally consisted of three trumpets, four saxes, a four to five-piece string section (featuring a viola and/or cello) and a rhythm section comprising drums, bass and guitar. Carmen's theme song was "My Sentimental Heart". With its lush sound and Cavallaro's distinctive style of showmanship, the band reached the peak of its popularity in the mid-40s, especially with aficionados of sweet 'society-style' dance music. It worked the hotel and club circuits, headlining at top venues like New York's Paramount Theatre, the Waldorf-Astoria, the Coconut Grove in Los Angeles, the Mark Hopkins in San Francisco and Frank Dailey's Meadowbrook. Cavallaro made prolific recordings for the Decca label and broadcast live on the Sheaffer Parade which was aired nationwide every Sunday afternoon. He also appeared as himself in several motion pictures including Hollywood Canteen (1944) and Diamond Horseshoe (1945). A massive popular hit was his recording of the piano soundtrack for The Eddy Duchin Story (1956) a year before joining ASCAP. In the 1950s, Cavallaro relinquished the orchestra and began leading smaller combos. He continued to turn out numerous best-selling records ("Cavallaro Plays Ellington", "For Latin Lovers", "Stairway to the Stars", etc.) as well as pursuing a solo career in night clubs and on radio. His own song compositions have included "While the Nightwind Sings", "Wanda" and "Masquerade Waltz". Among his other best-selling hits were popular versions of Chopin's "Polonaise", "Warsaw Concerto, "Hungarian Rhapsody No. 12", "Fascination", "Zing Went the Strings of My Heart", "I Didn't Know What Time it Was" and "Just One of Those Things".

Robert Behling was born on 11 February 1941 in Ohio, USA. He was an actor, known for The Enforcer (1976), Cujo (1983) and An Eye for an Eye (1981). He died on 14 June 2011 in Columbus, Ohio, USA.

Perhaps best remembered as TV's first Amahl in Gian Carlo Menotti's Amahl and the Night Visitors (1951), Chet Allen was also a member of the famous Columbus Boychoir (now the American Boychoir) during that period. Although he made a few other notable appearances over the years, most notably in the film Meet Me at the Fair (1953) with Dan Dailey and Scatman Crothers, and as one of Ezio Pinza's sons on his TV series, Bonino (1953) when his voice changed, so did his life, for the worse. Like many another former child star, he drifted from job to job and, in his case, in and out of psychiatric hospitals. When Menotti himself visited him in Columbus, about a year before his death, he found a bitterly unhappy young man for whom life had been a series of disappointments. "No one could have helped him enough," Menotti would later say. In 1984, at the age of 44, Chet Allen killed himself by taking five times the fatal dosage of the prescription anti-depressant he'd been taking.

Paul Warfield Tibbets Jr. was a career officer in the U.S. Army Air Corps and its successor the U.S. Air Force who rose to the rank of brigadier general. He is best known for commanding and piloting the B-29 Superfortress, Enola Gay when it dropped "Little Boy", the first atomic bomb used in warfare, on the Japanese city of Hiroshima during World War 2.

Barbara Ayers was born on 8 December 1934 in Detroit, Michigan, USA. She is known for City Slickers (1991), Dream On (1990) and Profiler (1996). She was married to Alphonso Wade Ayers. She died on 5 August 2022 in Columbus, Ohio, USA.

Alexa McAllister was born on 25 June 1984 in Galloway, Ohio, USA. She is known for The Bachelor (2002). She died on 16 February 2016 in Columbus, Ohio, USA.

Cindy McGee was born on 27 February 1964 in Ohio, USA. She died on 15 January 1984 in Columbus, Ohio, USA.

Anthony Sowell was born on 19 August 1959 in East Cleveland, Ohio, USA. He died on 8 February 2021 in Columbus, Ohio, USA.

Sheppard was a young doctor working with his family at Bay View Hospital near Cleveland when his wife was brutally murdered on 4 July 1954. Suspicion centered on him immediately, and he was convicted of his wife's murder in December 1954, despite his claims of innocence, his cooperation with authorities, and the lack of any physical evidence linking him to the crime. Sheppard obtained a reversal of his conviction in the federal courts, and on his release in 1964, he immediately married his penpal and sweetheart. Two years later, in 1966, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the reversal of his conviction in a landmark case, and Sheppard was tried again. This time, without the media hysteria surrounding the first trial, Sheppard was acquitted. He was unable to overcome the effects of his ten-year imprisonment, however, and died a broken man.

Pam Polifroni was born on 28 January 1929 in Glendale, California, USA. She was a casting director, known for Tron (1982), Santa Barbara (1984) and Supertrain (1979). She died on 21 November 2019 in Columbus, Ohio, USA.

Rico Chapa was born on 19 July 1940 in Robstown, Texas, USA. He was an actor, known for Mafia Man: Robstown Gangster (2012), Mexican American (2007) and The Calling (2002). He died on 9 September 2012 in Columbus, Ohio, USA.

David Rubinoff was born on 13 September 1897 in Grodno, Poland, Russian Empire [now Hrodna, Belarus]. He was an actor, known for Thanks a Million (1935), You Can't Have Everything (1937) and Rubinoff and His Violin (1939). He was married to Darlene Azar. He died on 6 October 1986 in Columbus, Ohio, USA.

Hugh Dillman was born on 8 February 1885 in Chesterville, Morrow County, Ohio, USA. He was an actor, known for An Amateur Widow (1919). He was married to Anna Dodge and Marjorie Rambeau. He died on 7 July 1956 in Columbus, Franklin County, Ohio, USA.

H.W. Hanemann was born on 8 August 1895 in New York City, New York, USA. He was a writer, known for Flying Down to Rio (1933), The House of a Thousand Candles (1936) and Rafter Romance (1933). He died on 2 September 1968 in Columbus, Ohio, USA.

Lawrence C. Windom was born on 5 October 1872 in Lancaster, Ohio, USA. He was a director and writer, known for Modern Marriage (1923), Modern Matrimony (1923) and The Very Idea (1920). He died on 14 November 1957 in Columbus, Franklin County, Ohio, USA.

Ethel Johnson was born on 14 May 1935 in Decatur, Georgia, USA. She was married to Leon Andrew Hairston Sr.. She died on 14 September 2018 in Columbus, Ohio, USA.

Ray Basham was born on 29 June 1963 in Ohio, USA. He was an actor and cinematographer, known for Hillbilly Bob Zombie (2009), Mountain Mafia (2012) and Abe's Tomb (2007). He died on 20 August 2019 in Columbus, Ohio, USA.

Ramona Grace Dougherty was born on 4 July 1928 in Springfield, Ohio, USA. Ramona Grace was married to Howard J. Dougherty and Jack Belli. Ramona Grace died on 21 September 2012 in Columbus, Ohio, USA.

Siobhan Reynolds died in 2011 in Columbus, Ohio, USA.

Anna Mae Florence was born on 17 August 1907 in Alabama. She died on 26 June 1987 in Columbus, Ohio, USA.