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Mexican film star Manolo Fábregas
expired 2-4-1996 age 75 | |||||||||||||||||||||
 
Catholic Church leader (1591) Giovani Antonio Facchinetti elected 231st Pope of the Roman Catholic Church October 29, 1591; was Pope for only 62 days following his election
expired 12-30-1591 in Rome, Italy age 72 | |||||||||||||||||||||
Philadelphia tv anchor John Thomas Ralph Augustine James Facenda Sr. original NFL Films narratorborn on 8-8-1913 in Portsmouth, Virgina expired 9-26-1984 in Darby, Pennsylvania age 71 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Davis Factor Sr. born on 2-2-1902 expired 8-31-1991 age 89 | |||||||||||||||||||||
Hollywood makeup artist Francis "Max" Factor Sr.
expired 8-30-1938 in Beverly Hills, California age 61 | |||||||||||||||||||||
Hollywood makeup artist Francis "Max" Factor Jr.
expired 6-7-1996 in West Los Angeles, California age 91 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| screenwriter & World War II correspondent Annalee Whitmore Fadiman co-wrote Thunder Out of China (1944); widow of Clifton Fadiman born on 5-27-1916 in Price, Utah expired 2-5-2002 in Captiva, Florida age 85 cause: suicide; breast cancer; Parkinson's disease | |||||||||||||||||||||
radio & tv show host Clifton Paul Fadiman hosted Information Please on radio (1938-48) and tv (1952)
expired 6-20-1999 in Sanibel Island, Florida age 95 cause: pancreatic cancer | |||||||||||||||||||||
| former kid actor Stanley Fafara played Hubert "Whitey" Whitney on Leave It To Beaver sitcom; descended into drug abuse as an adult born on 9-20-1950 expired 9-20-2003 in Portland, Oregon age 53 cause: complications following surgery; Hepatitis C AKS: Farfara | |||||||||||||||||||||
| engineer & spacecraft designer Maxime Allan Faget designed the one-man Mercury capsules; also worked on the Gemini, Apollo & Space Shuttle programs born on 8-26-1921 in Stann Creek, British Honduras expired 10-9-2004 in Clear Lake, Texas age 83 cause: bladder cancer | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Saudi King Fahd ibn Abdul-Aziz al-Saud reigned from 1982 to 2005, mostly as a figurhead following 1995 stroke; took a fancy to a futuristic Star Trek city in the clouds — had the series' art director redesign his Boeing 707 in a similar fashion born on --1923 in Riyadh, Arabia expired 8-1-2005 in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia age 82 cause: heart failure; diabetes; arthritis; strokes
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| folk guitarist John Aloysius "Jeff" Fahey born on 2-28-1939 in Takoma Park, Maryland expired 2-22-2001 in Salem, Oregon age 61 cause: kidney failure; coma following sextuple bypass heart surgery | |||||||||||||||||||||
| physicist Gabriel Daniel Fahrenheit invented the mercury thermometer and the Fahrenheit temperature scale in 1714 born on 5-14-1686 in Danzig, Germany (now Gdansk, Poland) expired 9-16-1736 in The Hague, The Netherlands age 50 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| songwriter Sammy Fain born on 6-17-1902 in New York, New York expired 12-6-1989 age 87 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Teddy Roosevelt 2nd term vice president (1905-09) Charles Warren Fairbanks born on 5-11-1852 in Unionville Center, Ohio expired 6-4-1918 in Indianapolis, Indiana age 66 | |||||||||||||||||||||
movie actor Douglas Elton Fairbanks Sr. played silent screen Zorro; co-founder of United Artists studio; gave out annual college football trophy (prior to creation of the Heisman Trophy)
expired 12-12-1939 in Santa Monica, California age 56 cause: heart attack | |||||||||||||||||||||
| actor Douglas Elton Fairbanks Jr. first husband of Joan Crawford (1929-33) born on 12-9-1909 in New York, New York expired 5-7-2000 in New York, New York age 90
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| inventor, aerial photo pioneer Sherman Mills Fairchild founded the Fairchild Camera and Equipment Co.; started Fairchild Semiconductor (1957) born on 4-7-1896 in Oneonta, New York expired 3-28-1971 in New York, New York age 74 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| British aviation pioneer Sir Richard Fairey founded Fairey Aviation; produced first plane to fly more than 1000 miles-per-hour (the Fairey Delta II) expired 9-30-1956 in London, England age 69 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Saudi Arabian King Faisal deposed brother; ruled 1964-75 born on 4-9-1905 in Riyadh, Arabia expired 3-25-1975 in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia age 69 cause: assassinated | |||||||||||||||||||||
| conductor & arranger Percy Faith born on 4-7-1908 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada expired 2-9-1976 in Los Angeles, California age 67 cause: cancer | |||||||||||||||||||||
| cartoonist Leon Harrison "Lee" Falk created The Phantom (1936) and Mandrake the Magician (1934) born on 4-28-1911 in Saint Louis, Missouri expired 3-13-1999 in New York, New York age 87 cause: congestive heart failure | |||||||||||||||||||||
| actor Peter Michael Falk known for playing detective Columbo on tv & Professor Fate's henchman Max in The Great Race (1965) born on 9-16-1927 in New York, New York expired 6-23-2011 in Beverly Hills, California age 83 cause: Alzheimer's disease
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model/actress Eugenia Lincoln "Jinx" Falkenburg the first Miss Rheingold (1951)
expired 8-27-2003 in Manhasset, New York age 84 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Harding Secretary of Interior (1921-23) Albert Bacon Fall did time (1930-32) for taking a $100,000 bribe in the Teapot Dome scandal born on 11-26-1861 in Frankfort, Kentucky expired 11-30-1944 in El Paso, Texas age 83 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| composer Manuel de Falla Y Mateu wrote The Three Cornered Hat (1919) born on 11-23-1876 in Cadiz, Spain expired 11-14-1946 in Alta Gracia, Argentina age 70 | |||||||||||||||||||||
journalist Oriana Fallaci spent years pissing-off people; most recently p.o.'d the mulluhsborn on 7-29-1929 in Florence, Tuscany, Italy expired 9-15-2006 in Florence, Tuscany, Italy age 77 cause: breast cancer; lung cancer
AKS: Orianna Ariana Arianna Airyanna Aireanna Airieanna Falaci Fallachi Falachi Folaci Follaci Folachi Follachi Filaci Fillaci Filachi Fillachi Fulaci Fullaci Fulachi Fullachi | |||||||||||||||||||||
| industrialist Walter Addison Fallon former Kodak CEO (1972-83) born on 6-7-1918 in Schenectady, New York expired 7-24-2002 in Irondequoit, New York age 84 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Jerry Falls foreman of the jury in the "trial" of J.W. Milam & Roy Bryant for the murder of Emmett Till born on 6-27-1905 expired 3-??-1979 in Webb, Mississippi age 73 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| syndicated sports columnist Joseph Francis "Joe" Falls spent 46 years in Detroit — at the Detroit Times (1956-60), Detroit Free Press (1960-78) & Detroit News (1978-2003); in the Baseball Hall of Fame born on 5-2-1928 in New York, New York expired 8-11-2004 in Clarkston, Michigan age 76 cause: heart failure; diabetes
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sleazy tv bible thumper Jerry L. Falwell Sr. a co-founder of the Moron Minority, another loudly-yapping special interest groupborn on 8-11-1933 in Lynchburg, Virginia expired 5-15-2007 in Lynchburg, Virginia age 73 cause: cardiac arrhythmia; heart failure
AKS: Fallwell Fallwel Falwel | |||||||||||||||||||||
| former Arizona senator (1965-76) Paul Joseph Fannin born on 1-29-1907 in Ashland, Kentucky expired 1-13-2002 in Phoenix, Arizona age 94 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| composer/ethnomusicologist David Fanshawe composer of the African Sanctus born on 4-19-1942 in Devon, England expired 7-5-2010 in Swindon, England age 68 cause: complications from stroke
AKS: Fanshaw | |||||||||||||||||||||
| novelist Ladislas Farago wrote Tora, Tora, Tora and co-wrote Patton: Ordeal and Triumph (1964) born on 9-21-1906 in Csurgo, Austria-Hungary expired 10-15-1980 in New York, New York age 74 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| former Milwaukee Journal photographer Edward R. Farber considered to be the inventor of the portable strobe flash for cameras (1939) born on 7-22-1914 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin expired 1-22-1982 in Delafield, Wisconsin age 67 cause: heart attack | |||||||||||||||||||||
| former N.Y. congressman (1957-70) Leonard Farbstein born on 10-12-1902 in New York, New York expired 11-9-1993 in New York, New York age 91 | |||||||||||||||||||||
Nation of Islam founder Wallace D. Fard opened first temple in Detroit in early 1930s; disappeared in 1934; later deified as "Allah"; his birthday was observed as "Saviours Day"
expired ??-??-19?? age ?? | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Wells Fargo co-founder (1852) William Fargo also founded American Express born on 5-20-1818 in Pompey, New York expired 8-3-1881 in Buffalo, New York age 63 | |||||||||||||||||||||
famed "evil" pro wrassler (1951-98) Edward George Farhat Sr. had ongoing feud with Bobo Brazil; his "lethal" hold was the Camel Clutch; uncle of Sabu, the Madman from Sudan
expired 1-18-2003 in Lansing, Michigan age 78 cause: heart failure | |||||||||||||||||||||
chemist Giovanni Maria Farina invented the perfumed spirit called Wischwasser (Eau de Cologne)
expired ??-??-1766 in Köln, Germany age 81 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| singer/musician Margharita Mimi Baez Fariña younger sister of Joan Baez born on 4-30-1945 in Palo Alto, California expired 7-18-2001 in Mill Valley, California age 56 cause: complications from lung cancer | |||||||||||||||||||||
former SNL comic Chris Farley lived hard, died youngborn on 2-15-1964 in Madison, Wisconsin expired 12-18-1997 in Chicago, Illinois age 33 cause: drug overdose | |||||||||||||||||||||
| jazz trumpet & fleugelhorn performer Art Farmer born on 8-21-1928 in Council Bluffs, Iowa expired 10-4-1999 in New York, New York age 71 cause: cardiac arrest | |||||||||||||||||||||
| stage and movie actress Frances Farmer born on 9-19-1914 in Seattle, Washington expired 8-1-1970 in Indianapolis, Indiana age 55 cause: cancer of the esophagus | |||||||||||||||||||||
| civil rights activist James Leonard Farmer Jr. co-founded CORE (1942); colleague of Martin Luther King, Whitney Young and Roy Wilkins born on 1-20-1920 in Marshall, Texas expired 7-9-1999 in Fredericksburg, Virginia age 79 cause: complications from diabetes | |||||||||||||||||||||
sci-fi/fantasy author Philip José Farmer authored Venus on the Half Shell under the psuedonym Kilgore Trout (1975); recipeint of 3 Hugo Awards: Most Promising New Talent 91953), Best Novella ("Riders of the Purple Wage"; 1968) & Best Novel ("To Your Scattered Bodies Go"; 1972)born on 1-26-1918 in North Terre Haute, Indiana expired 2-25-2009 in North Peoria, Illinois age 91 AKS: Jose | |||||||||||||||||||||
Catholic Church leader (1534-1549) Alessandro Farnese elected 221st Pope of the Roman Catholic Church October 12, 1534
expired 11-20-1549 in Rome, Italy age 81 cause: fever | |||||||||||||||||||||
Philo's widow Elma Gardner "Pem" Farnsworth worked with her husband to invent electronic television (1927) — all other attempted systems had been electro-mechanical in nature; wrote Distant Vision: Romance and Discovery on an Invisible Frontier (1990)born on 2-25-1908 in Jensen, Utah expired 4-27-2006 in Bountiful, Utah age 98
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inventor Philo Taylor Farnsworth Jr. inventor of electronic television (1927); husband of Pem
expired 3-11-1971 in Salt Lake City, Utah age 64 cause: cardiac arrest | |||||||||||||||||||||
| stunt man & actor Richard Farnsworth played Bill Miner/ born on 9-1-1920 in Los Angeles, California expired 10-6-2000 in Lincoln, New Mexico age 80 cause: suicide; self-inflicted gunshot; bone cancer | |||||||||||||||||||||
| silent move actor Dustin Farnum had title role in C.B. DeMille's first production of The Squaw Man (1914) born on 5-27-1874 in Hampton Beach, New Hampshire expired 7-3-1929 in New York, New York age 55 cause: kidney problems | |||||||||||||||||||||
| silent screen star William Farnum the highest-paid movie actor of the silent era; lost it all in the stock market crash of 1929; wound up playing character actors from then on born on 7-4-1876 in Boston, Massachusetts expired 6-5-1953 in Hollywood, California age 76 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| exiled Egyptian King Farouk I reigned 1936-52 when dethroned by Nasser & military born on 2-11-1920 in Cairo, Egypt expired 3-18-1965 in Rome, Italy age 45 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| LPGA golfer Heather Farr born on --1965 in Phoenix, Arizona expired 11-20-1993 in Phoenix, Arizona age 28 cause: breast cancer | |||||||||||||||||||||
| holder of over 250 patents Clair Loring Farrand inventor of the cone radio loudspeaker born on 10-22-1895 expired 1-7-1981 in Palm Springs, California age 85 cause: heart attack | |||||||||||||||||||||
1930s calypso musician Aldric Farrell
expired 1-22-2002 in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad age 84 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| actor Charles Farrell former Palm Springs (California) mayor; co-star of My Little Margie tv series born on 8-9-1901 in Onset Bay, Massachusetts expired 5-6-1990 age 88 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| operatic soprano Eileen Farrell born on 2-13-1920 in Willimanic, Connecticut expired 3-16-2002 in Park Ridge, New Jersey age 82 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| actress Glenda Farrell born on 6-30-1904 in Enid, Oklahoma expired 5-1-1971 in New York, New York age 66 cause: lung cancer | |||||||||||||||||||||
| writer James Thomas Farrell created the Studs Lonigan triolgy (1932-35) born on 2-27-1904 in Chicago, Illinois expired 8-22-1979 in New York, New York age 75 cause: heart attack | |||||||||||||||||||||
former L.A. County Marshall (1971-75) Timothy Farrell aspiring actor with parts in: Paris After Midnight (1951), Glen of Glenda (as the psychiatrist Dr. Alton; 1953), Jail Bait (as Vic Brady; 1954) & Girl Gang (1954)
expired 5-29-1989 in Santa Monica, California age 66 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| 1960's pop song writer Wes Farrell wrote Hang On Sloopy born on 12-21-1939 in New York, New York expired 2-29-1996 in Fisher Island, Florida age 56 cause: cancer | |||||||||||||||||||||
| inventor Victor Wallace Farris came up with the paper clip & paper milk carton expired 3-7-1985 in West Palm Beach, Florida age 75 cause: heart attack | |||||||||||||||||||||
out-of-it geezer Maud Davis Farris-Luse the Guinness Book recognized her as the world's ("documented") oldest person
expired 3-18-2002 in Coldwater, Michigan age 115 cause: pneumonia
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| film director, producer and script writer John Villiers Farrow husband of Maureen O'Sullivan, father of Mia Farrow born on 2-10-1906 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia expired 1-28-1963 in Beverly Hills, California age 56 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| filmmaker Rainer Werner Fassbinder born on 5-31-1946 in Bad Worishoften, Germany expired 6-10-1982 in München, Germany age 36 AKS: Fasbinder Fassbender | |||||||||||||||||||||
| author Howard Melvin Fast member of the American Communist Party (1944-57); did 3 months in Federal slammer for refusing to cooperate with HUAC; wrote Spartacus (1952); winner of 1953 Stalin Peace Prize; father in law of Erica Jong born on 11-11-1914 in New York, New York expired 3-12-2003 in Old Greenwich, Connecticut age 88
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| writer Julius Fast brother of Howard Fast; won the first Edgar (Allen Poe) Award for Watchful at Night (1946) born on 4-17-1919 in Manhattan, New York, New York expired 12-16-2008 in Kingston, New York age 89 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| tv producer Joseph Gilert Fates produced/hosted first regularly scheduled tv game show, The CBS Television Quiz, beginning on 7/2/1941; with Goodson-Todman helped to create Beat the Clock, To Tell the Truth, I've Got a Secret and What's My Line? born on 9-29-1914 in Newark, New Jersey expired 5-1-2000 in New York, New York age 85 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| mathematician Pierre Joseph Louis Fatou studied iterative & recursive processes; first to define what has now come to be known as the Mandelbrot set born on 2-28-1878 in Lorient, Morbihan, France expired 8-10-1929 in Pornichet, Loire-Atlantique, France age 51 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| former Arkansas governor (1955-67) Orval Eugene Faubus born on 1-7-1910 in Combs, Arkansas expired 12-14-1994 age 84 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| humorist, writer John Henry Faulk born on 8-21-1913 in Austin, Texas expired 4-9-1990 age 76 | |||||||||||||||||||||
Nobel-prize winning author William Cuthbert Faulkner won literature prize in 1949
expired 7-6-1962 in Oxford, Mississippi age 64 cause: heart attack; fall from horse | |||||||||||||||||||||
writer Frederick Schiller Faust created Dr. Kildare
expired 5-12-1944 in Santa Maria Infante, Italy age 51 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Mormon elder James Esdras Faust second counselor to LDS president Hinckley born on 7-31-1920 in Delta, Utah expired 8-10-2007 in Salt Lake City, Utah age 87
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| former Le Monde editor (1969-82) Jacques Jules Pierre Constant Fauvet born on 6-9-1914 in Paris, France expired 6-1-2002 in Paris, France age 87 cause: complications from fall | |||||||||||||||||||||
 
spacey actress Farrah Fawcett played Jill Monroe, one of the original Charlie's Angels (1976-77); played Mary Ann, one of Myra Breckinridge's sexual conquests (1970), Holly in Logan's Run (1976), Alex in Saturn 3 (1980) & Francine Hughes in The
Burning Bed (1984); once married to Lee Majors; lived with Ryan O'Neal; appeared on cover of December 1978 Playboy magazine (the pictorial was tame) & then December 1995 & July 1997 pictorials; later she did Playboy video "All of Me" (1997)
expired 6-25-2009 in Santa Monica, California age 62 cause: anal cancer
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| publisher Gordon Wesley Fawcett born on 9-1-1911 expired 1-16-1993 age 81 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| English soldier Guy Fawkes plotted to blow up Parliament & King James I on November 5, 1605, a day now celebrated as Guy Fawkes Day in Britain born on 4-13-1570 in York, England expired 1-31-1606 in London, England age 35 cause: executed | |||||||||||||||||||||
actress Alice Faye widow of Phil Harris
expired 5-9-1998 in Rancho Mirage, California age 86 cause: cancer | |||||||||||||||||||||
burlesque comedian & actor Joey Faye
expired 4-26-1997 in Englewood, New Jersey age 87 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| pro bowler Basil "Buzz" Fazio born on 2-7-1908 expired 2-15-1993 age 85 | |||||||||||||||||||||
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