John Jacob Astor (July 17, 1763 – March 29, 1848)

Astor was a German-American business magnate, merchant and investor
who was the first prominent member of the Astor family and the first multi-
millionaire in the United States. He was the creator of the first trust in
America.

Astor arrived in New York following the American Revolutionary War
and built a fur-trading empire that extended to the Great Lakes region
and Canada, and later expanded into the American West and Pacific
coast. He diversified into real estate and later became a famous patron 
of the arts.

Born in Harrah, Oklahoma, Dayle Lymoine "Dale" Robertson played the
role of Jim Hardie in the NBC-TV series, Tales of Wells Fargo (1957-1962),
and the owner of a railroad line in ABC’s The Iron Horse (1966-1968). He
worked as a professional boxer briefly before enrolling in Oklahoma Military
Academy in Claremore, Oklahoma. He also served in the military before his
professional acting career began. He was in a tank crew and in the combat 
engineers in North Africa during World War II and was wounded twice. 
twice.

     Ernest Borgnine (Ermes Effron Borgnino) (January 24, 1917 – July 8, 2012)

LOS ANGELES (AP) – Ernest Borgnine, the beefy screen star known for blustery,
often villainous roles, but who won the best-actor Oscar for playing against type
as a lovesick butcher in "Marty" in 1955, died Sunday. He was 95.

His longtime spokesman, Harry Flynn, told The Associated Press that Borgnine
died of renal failure at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center with his wife and children at
his side.

Borgnine, who endeared himself to a generation of Baby Boomers with the 1960s
TV comedy "McHale’s Navy," first attracted notice in the early 1950s in villain roles, notably as the vicious Fatso Judson, who beat Frank Sinatra to death in "From Here
to Eternity."