Who was born earliest, Joseph Williams or Minoru Niihara?
Joseph Williams (musician) Joseph Stanley Williams (born September 1, 1960) is an American rock singer and film score composer, best known for his work in the rock band Toto, who he fronted from 1986 to 1989, and again from 2010 to the present. He is the son of film composer John Williams and actress/singer Barbara Ruick and the grandson of jazz drummer Johnny Williams and actors Melville Ruick and Lurene Tuttle.
Umewaka Minoru I Umewaka Minoru I (初世 梅若 実 , Shosei Umewaka Minoru , July 7, 1828 – January 19, 1909) , also Umewaka Rokurō LII (五十二世梅若六郎 ) , was a Noh actor of late Edo and early Meiji period Japan. A prolific teacher of Noh in the Meiji period, he taught a variety of people including the painter Kōgyo, the writer Ezra Pound, and the scholar and art collector Ernest Fenollosa. His diary, published under the title "Umewaka Minoru Nikki", spans much of his life, and records in great detail his activities and the world of Noh in the Meiji period.