Portal:Biography/Did you know/12

... that child actress Nozomi Ōhashi (pictured), who sang the theme song for the 2008 film Ponyo, started acting when she was just three years old?
... that pioneering ecologist William Gardner Smith only became active in the field after the sudden death of his brother Robert, who had left an unfinished manuscript that William completed?
... that Florence Violet McKenzie, Australia's first female electrical engineer, taught Morse code to thousands of sailors free of charge?
... that Hieronim Ossoliński, a 16th-century Polish politician who helped to unite Poland and Lithuania, also wanted to establish a Protestant national church?
... that part of the financing for the first published work by Romanian communist activist Mihail Roller reportedly came from Baptists?
... that Amanda Clement was the first woman paid to umpire a baseball game?
... that John Knox's journals provide one of the most complete accounts of the British Army's campaigns in North America from 1757 to 1760?