1725) John Humphrey Noyes

John Humphrey Noyes (1811 – 1886). American preacher, radical religious philosopher, and utopian socialist. He founded utopian communities at Putney, Vermont, Oneida, New York, and Wallingford, Connecticut, and is credited with coining the term "complex marriage".

- "Endowed with a ruddy, freckled complexion and a bright red shock of hair, John Humphrey Noyes early gave signs of a passionate nature to match... He was further hampered by the conviction that his red hair and freckles rendered him physically repulsive." https://www.thehistoryreader.com/historical-figures/polly-hayes-noyes/ 

- "Born September 3, 1811, in Brattleboro, Vermont, Noyes was the fourth of nine children, a boy with bright red hair and freckles." https://www.mentalfloss.com/history/charles-guiteau-oneida-community

1724) Ann Gotlib

Ann Gotlib (1971 – disappeared in 1983). Soviet Jewish immigrant to the United States who disappeared at the age of 12 from the premises of a Louisville, Kentucky mall. The case to find her abductor was covered heavily by the Louisville news media and stretched for the next twenty-five years until a person of interest was eventually identified.

Ann was last seen on June 1, 1983, between 5:30 and 6:00 PM. She was visiting Bashford Manor Mall, across the street from the apartment complex where she lived with her family. Her bike was later found outside the Bacon's Department Store at the mall.

Due to the startling way in which Gotlib had vanished in broad daylight without any trace, it was a key case that led the United States Congress to create the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children in 1984 to coordinate departments involved in missing-persons cases. The center credits the Gotlib case with increasing national awareness of missing and abducted children and revolutionizing how missing-child cases are handled. One new technique that came out of the investigation was the use of billboards and other tactics to generate widespread awareness of a missing person, which was considered futile according to conventional wisdom at the time.

- "At the time that Ann disappeared, she was 12 years old and was described as having red hair and gray eyes." https://www.lmpd.gov/305/Ann-Gotlib

1723) Austin "Red" Robbins

Austin "Red" Robbins (1944 –  2009). American basketball player.

Robbins, a 6'8" power forward/center from Leesburg, Florida, starred at the University of Tennessee in the 1960s and then played professionally for the American Basketball Association's New Orleans Buccaneers (1967–1970), Utah Stars (1970–1972), San Diego Conquistadors (1972–1973; 1973–1974), Kentucky Colonels (1973; 1974–1975), and Virginia Squires (1975–1976).

- "Robbins was nicknamed for his red hair and perceived fiery personality, and grabbed over 6,000 rebounds in his career." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Robbins

1722) Helen Brach

Helen Marie Brach (née Voorhees; 1911 – disappeared 1977). American multimillionaire widow whose wealth had come from marrying into the E. J. Brach & Sons Candy Company fortune; she endowed the Helen V. Brach Foundation to promote animal welfare in 1974. Brach disappeared on February 17, 1977, and in May 1984 she was declared legally dead, as of the date of her disappearance. An investigation into the case uncovered serious criminal activity associated with Chicago horse stable owners, including Silas Jayne and Richard Bailey. More than a decade later Bailey was charged with, but not convicted of, conspiring to murder Brach; he eventually received a sentence of 30 years after being convicted of defrauding her.

- "Frank took his fortune and retired with his third wife, Helen Brach, a red-haired Appalachian hat-check girl he'd met at a Miami Beach country club." https://drloihjournal.blogspot.com/2022/11/disappearance-of-candy-lady-helen-brach-unwrapped.html

- "The red-haired beauty was already divorced by age twenty-one, blaming herself for the failure of her marriage to a philandering playboy." https://troytaylorbooks.blogspot.com/2014/02/the-disappearance-of-helen-brach.html

1721) Salvatore "Silvio" Laboroi

 Salvatore "Silvio" Laboroi (1930 - 1945). Italian volunteer in the Xª Flottiglia MAS.

He was born in Aosta Valley. In 1944, he run away from home to join the Xª Flottiglia MAS of the Repubblica Sociale Italiana, but because of his young age he was not enlisted. In December 1944, near the city of Trnovo (today in Slovenia), the Xª Flottiglia MAS fought against the Yugoslavian troops led by Josip Broz Tito, which wanted to take Gorizia away from Italy. 

With the help of a steward, Silvio hid among the crates of biscuits in a supply convoy, thus also reaching Trnovo. Once discovered, the commander decided to let him stay, but he was kept away from the line of fire and assigned to the battalion kitchen. He, however, decided to return to the line of fire. When the commander was wounded, Silvio defended him and was wounded himself. He died three months later.

- "Capelli rossi, come la passione della Patria che lo animò e lo sostenne, occhi intelligenti, intensi e candidi come la sua anima d’adolescente, il suo viso era pieno di lentiggini e quelle erano le uniche macchie che aveva. [Red hair, like the passion for his country that inspired and sustained him, intelligent eyes, intense and candid like his adolescent soul, his face was full of freckles and those were the only blemishes he had.]" https://sullebarricate.wordpress.com/2025/12/23/laboroi-silvio-a-quattordici-anni-caduto-per-lonore-ditalia/

- "Capelli rossicci, viso di lentiggini, occhi intelligenti e intensi. [Reddish hair, freckled face, intelligent and intense eyes]." https://www.italia-rsi.it/cadutiperlarsi/cadutiperlarsi.htm

1720) James Vibert

James Vibert (1872 – 1942). Swiss sculptor and educator. He is known as one of the precursors of the Symbolism movement in Switzerland.

Vibert was educated as an ironworker in Lyon and moved to Paris in 1891, where he joined the atelier of Rodin and where he associated himself with French Symbolism.

After his return to Switzerland he was commissioned for the monumental Three Confederates completed for the Federal Palace of Switzerland in 1914, and was nominated professor of the Geneva University of Art and Design (formerly École des Beaux-Arts de Genève) at Geneva. His former students included Pierre Le Faguays.

Portrait by Ferdinand Hodler, 1915

Portrait by Ferdinand Hodler, 1907

1719) Peter August Böckstiegel

Peter August Böckstiegel (1889 - 1951). German painter, graphic artist and sculptor, in the Expressionistic style.

My Mother and I

Self-portrait

Self-portrait

Self-portrait