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Dr. Johannes Andreas Grib Fibiger his discovery of the Spiroptera carcinoma earned him the 1926 Nobel medicine prizeborn on 4-23-1867 in Silkeborg, Denmark expired 1-30-1928 in Copenhagen, Denmark age 60 cause: cardiac failure; colon cancer | |||||||||||||||||||||
| author Forrest E. Fickling creator of Honey West detective series (1957) born on 4-16-1925 expired 4-3-1998 in Los Angeles, California age 72 cause: brain tumor | |||||||||||||||||||||
| first tv weatherman Jim Fidler Museum of Television and radio gives him credit as having done first tv weather forecast in 1940 for an experimental station in Cincinnati expired ??-??-19?? age ?? | |||||||||||||||||||||
former Detroit Tigers pitcher (1976-80) Mark Steven Fidrych liked to "talk" to the ball before throwing it — no word on whether the ball "talked back"born on 8-14-1954 in Worcester, Massachusetts expired 4-13-2009 in Northborough, Massachusetts age 54 cause: suffocated; clothes caught in truck drive shaft
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| Boston Pops conductor Arthur Fiedler born on 12-17-1894 in Boston, Massachusetts expired 7-9-1979 in Brookline, Massachusetts age 84
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| actor John Donald Fiedler played Juror No.2 in Twelve Angry Men (1957), Hengist in original Star Trek episode Wolf in the Fold (December 1967) & voiced Piglet in the Disney Winnie the Pooh cartoons born on 2-3-1925 in Platteville, Wisconsin expired 6-25-2005 in Engelwood, New Jersey age 80 cause: cancer
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| Douglas Lars Fieger brother of Geoffrey; was the lead singer of The Knack — their big hit was My Sharona (1979) born on 8-20-1952 in Detroit, Michigan expired 2-14-2010 in Woodland Hills, California age 57 cause: lung, brain & other cancers
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| actress Betty Field born on 2-18-1918 in Boston, Massachusetts expired 9-13-1973 in Hyannis, Massachusetts age 55 cause: cerebral hemorrhage | |||||||||||||||||||||
actress Margaret Field mother of actress Sally Field
expired 11-6-2011 in Malibu, California age 89 cause: cancer | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Chicago retailer Marshall Field coined phrase "Right or Wrong, the customer is always right." born on 8-18-1834 in Conway, Massachusetts expired 1-16-1906 in New York, New York age 71 | |||||||||||||||||||||
actress Sylvia Field
expired 7-31-1998 in Fallbrook, California age 97 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| actress Virginia Margaret Cynthia St. John Field born on 11-14-1917 in London, England expired 1-2-1992 age 74 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Alfred W. Fielding the co-inventor of Bubble Wrap born on 8-31-1917 expired 7-7-1994 in Kirkland, Washington age 76 | |||||||||||||||||||||
movie composer Jerry Fielding blacklisted in the 1950s
expired 2-17-1980 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada age 57 cause: heart attack | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Beverly Hills psychiatrist Dr. Lewis I. Fielding Daniel Ellsberg's analyst whose office was broken into by Watergate "plumbers" on September 3, 1971 born on 10-2-1909 in New York, New York expired 9-9-1994 in Santa Cruz, California age 84
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| lyricist Dorothy Fields co-wrote I'm in the mood for Love for the movie Every Night at Eight (1935) born on 7-15-1905 in Allenhurst, New Jersey expired 3-28-1974 in New York, New York age 68 cause: heart attack | |||||||||||||||||||||
actress/comedienne Gracie Fields
expired 9-27-1979 in Capri, Italy age 81 cause: pneumonia | |||||||||||||||||||||
| big band leader Shep Fields developed the Rippling Rythm sound (1936); featured in The Big Broadcast of 1938 born on 9-2-1910 in New York, New York expired 2-23-1981 in Los Angeles, California age 70 cause: heat attack | |||||||||||||||||||||
| comic/comedy writer Sidney Fields appeared on the Abbott and Costello tv show as their landlord born on 2-5-1898 expired 9-28-1975 in Las Vegas, Nevada age 77 cause: lung cancer | |||||||||||||||||||||
nightclub comedienne Totie Fields lost leg to phlebitis (1976)
expired 8-2-1978 in Las Vegas, Nevada age 48 cause: heart failure | |||||||||||||||||||||
misanthropic vaudeville and movie comedian W. C. Fields films include The Big Broadcast of 1938, You Can't Cheat an Honest Man (1939), My Little Chickadee (1940), The Bank Dick (1940) & Never Give a Sucker and Even Break (1941); reputed to have asked that his gravestone bear the epitath "On the whole, I'd rather be in
Philadelphia"; skilled pool player and juggler; in the final 14 years of his life lived with mistress Carlotta Monti
expired 12-25-1946 in Pasadena, California age 66 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| first post-war (WWII) prime minister of Czechoslovakia Zdenek Fierlinger engineered Communist coup that took over the country born on --1891 in Olmöutz, Moravia (now Olomouc) expired 5-2-1976 in Prague, Czechoslovakia age | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Harvard organic chemistry preofessor Dr. Louis Frederick Fieser his research led to the development of vitamin K and napalm jellied gasoline born on 4-7-1899 in Columbus, Ohio expired 7-25-1977 in Cambridge, Massachusetts age 78 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| French cyclist Laurent Fignon won the Tour de France (1983 & 84) and the Giro d'Italia (1989) born on 8-12-1960 in Paris, Île-de-France, France expired 8-31-2010 in Paris, Île-de-France, France age 50 cause: cancer of the digestive system
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| Ohio death row inmate James J. Filiaggi convicted of murdering his wife born on 5-15-1965 expired 4-24-2007 in Lucasville, Ohio age 41 cause: executed; lethal injection
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Zachery Taylor's Vice President (1849-50); 13th U.S. president (1850-53) Millard Fillmore member of the Whig party; dispatched Commodore Perry to Japan in 1852 to open up trade between the countriesborn on 1-7-1800 in Summerhill, New York expired 3-8-1874 in Buffalo, New York age 74 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Argentine writer Juan Filloy born on 8-1-1894 in Córdoba, Argentina expired 7-15-2000 in San Jerónimo, Argentina age 105 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| actor Peter Finch (posthumously) awarded best actor oscar for playing Howard Beal in Network (1976) born on 9-28-1916 in London, England expired 1-14-1977 in Los Angeles, California age 60 cause: heart attack | |||||||||||||||||||||
| frizzy-haired Stooge Larry Fine one of the original Three Stooges comedy team members (but not an original Stooge; see Ted Healy) born on 10-5-1902 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania expired 1-24-1975 in Woodland Hills, California age 73 cause: stroke | |||||||||||||||||||||
| comics writer William "Bill" Finger co-creator of Batman: came up with name Bruce Wayne for the caped crusader born on 2-8-1914 in New York, New York expired 1-18-1974 in Manhattan, New York, New York age 59 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| eponymous mail order company co-founder Manny Fingerhut born on 11-20-1914 expired 2-23-1995 age 80 | |||||||||||||||||||||
publisher & inventor Alejandro Finisterre invented table football (aka: foosball) in 1937; exiled from Spain by Francisco Franco; while living in South America played foosball with Che Guevara
expired 2-9-2007 in Zamora, Spain age 87 AKS: latin for the end of the earth | |||||||||||||||||||||
| screenwriter Fred F. Finlehoffe co-wrote Meet Me In St. Louis (1944; with Irving Brecher) & The Egg and I (1947, with Chester Erskine) born on 2-16-1910 in Springfield, Masachusetts expired 10-5-1977 in Springtown, Pennsylvania age 67 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| New Orleans Saints general manager James E. "Jim" Finks born on 8-31-1927 expired 5-8-1994 age 66 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| former baseball owner Charles Oscar Finley born on 2-22-1918 in Ensley, Alabama expired 2-19-1996 in Chicago, Illinois age 77 cause: heart disease
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World War II veteran John William Finn received the Medal of Honor for his actions at Pearl Harborborn on 7-23-1909 in Los Angeles, California expired 5-27-2010 in Chula Vista, California age 100
| cinematographer Gerald Perry Finnerman was the director of photography on the original Star Trek tv series born on 12-17-1931 in Los Angeles, California expired 4-6-2011 in Los Angeles, California age 79 |
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| mathematician Ross Lee Finney III son of the composer; joined George B. Thomas Jr. in making revisions to "Calculus and Analytical Geometry" born on 5-31-1933 in Springfield, Massachusetts expired 8-3-2000 in Watsonville, Carmel Valley, California age 67 cause: cancer | |||||||||||||||||||||
| author Walter Braden "Jack" Finney wrote The Body Snatchers born on 10-2-1911 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin expired 11-14-1995 in Greenbrae, California age 84 | |||||||||||||||||||||
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Dr. Niels Ryberg Finsen won the 1903 Nobel prize in medicine for his use of light therapy in the treatment of disease born on 12-15-1860 in Tórshavn, Faroe Islands expired 9-24-1904 in Copenhagen, Denmark age 43 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| big band leader Ted Fio Rito had hits with Toot Toot Tootsie and Laugh Clown Laugh; his big band had Betty Grable, Lucille Ball and June Haver as vocalists & David Rose as pianist born on 12-20-1900 in Newark, New Jersey expired 7-22-1971 in Scottsdale, Arizona age 70 cause: heart attack | |||||||||||||||||||||
| tire maker Harvey Samuel Firestone Sr. Firestone Tire and Rubber Company founder born on 12-20-1868 in Columbiana, Ohio expired 2-7-1938 in Miami Beach, Florida age 69 cause: coronary thrombosis | |||||||||||||||||||||
| tire maker Harvey Samuel Firestone Jr. son of company founder born on 4-20-1898 in Chicago, Illinois expired 6-1-1973 in Akron, Ohio age 75 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Harvey Samuel Firestone III grandson of company founder expired 5-5-1960 in Havana, Cuba age 30 cause: accident | |||||||||||||||||||||
| NZ anthropologist Sir Raymond William Firth wrote Tikopia (1972) born on 3-25-1901 in Auckland, New Zealand expired 2-22-2002 age 100 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| cinematographer Erling Gunnar Fischer lensed The Seventh Seal (1957) & Wild Strawberries (1957) born on 11-18-1910 in Ljungby, Sweden expired 6-11-2011 in Stockholm, Stockholms län, Sweden age 100 | |||||||||||||||||||||
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Dr. Ernst Otto Fischer shared the 1973 Nobel chemistry prize for work in organometalic chemistry born on 11-10-1918 in Solln, Bavaria, Germany expired 7-29-2007 in München, Bavaria, Germany age 88
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1930 Nobel chemistry laureate Hans Fischer discoverer of hematin born on 7-27-1881 in Höchst, Germany expired 3-31-1945 in München, Bavaria, Germany age 63 | |||||||||||||||||||||
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Hermann Emil Fischer second recipient of the Nobel prize in chemistry (1902) born on 10-9-1852 in Euskirchen, Prussia, Germany expired 7-15-1919 in Berlin, Germany age 66 cause: suicide; depression (lost 2 sons in the war) | |||||||||||||||||||||
erratic chess champion Robert James "Bobby" Fischer arrested in Japan (7-13-2004) on outstanding warrant (played exhibition match in Yugoslavia in 1992, allegedly violating "international sanctions"); refused extradition to U.S., gained Icelandic citizenship & moved there
expired 1-17-2008 in Reykjavik, Iceland age 64 cause: kidney failure
AKS: Fisher | |||||||||||||||||||||
| retired urologist Dr. George Winthrop Fish friend of Frederick Faust - his model for Dr. Kildare born on 4-4-1895 expired 2-22-1977 in East Hampton, New York age 81 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Grant Secretary of State (1869-77) Hamilton Fish I New York governor (1849-51), U.S. rep. (1843-45) & senator (1851-57) born on 8-3-1808 in New York, New York expired 9-6-1893 in Garrison, New York age 85 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| New York representative (1909-11) Hamilton Fish II born on 4-17-1849 in Albany, New York expired 1-15-1936 age 86 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| FDR opponent, ex-Rep. (1920-44) Hamilton Fish III born on 12-7-1888 in Garrison, New York expired 1-18-1991 in Cold Spring, New York age 102 cause: heart failure | |||||||||||||||||||||
| ex-New York congressman (1969-94) Hamilton Fish IV beat (pre-Watergate) G. Gordon Liddy in 1968 Republican primary born on 6-3-1926 in Washington, District of Columbia expired 7-24-1996 in Washington, District of Columbia age 70 cause: cancer | |||||||||||||||||||||
| S.E. Asia expert Wesley L. Fishel adviser to S. Vietnamese president Ngo Dinh Diem; advocate of American military involvment in the Vietnam war born on 9-8-1919 in Cleveland, Ohio expired 4-14-1977 in East Lansing, Michigan age 57 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Fisher Body co-founder Albert Fisher uncle of the Fisher Brothers born on 1-2-1864 in Norwalk, Ohio expired 3-15-1942 in Detroit, Michigan age 78 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| auto body builder Alfred J. Fisher one of the Fisher Brothers born on 12-7-1892 in Norwalk, Ohio expired 10-9-1963 in Detroit, Michigan age 70 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| vaudeville monologist Art Fisher in 1914 gave the Marx Brothers their nicknames: Adolph: "Harpo" - after the instrument he played; Herbert: "Zeppo" - after animal act Zippo the chimp; Julius: "Groucho" - after his disposition; Leonard: "Chico" - after the slang for a lady-killer; Milton: "Gummo" - after the gumshoes he wore expired ??-??-19?? age ?? | |||||||||||||||||||||
| electronics industry pioneer Avery Robert Fisher paid to have acoustics of a NYC concert hall redone; it now bears his name born on 3-4-1906 in New York, New York expired 2-26-1994 in New Milford, New York age 87
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| Prest-O-Lite founder Carl G. Fisher built Indianapolis Motor Speedway (1909); held first Indy 500 (Memorial Day, 1911); created Miami Beach, Florida out of a mangrove swamp in Biscayne Bay born on 1-12-1874 in Greensburg, Indiana expired 7-15-1939 in Miami Beach, Florida age 65 cause: gastric hemorrhage | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Fisher Body co-founder Charles T. Fisher Sr. born on 2-16-1880 in Sandusky, Ohio expired 8-8-1963 in Detroit, Michigan age 83 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| engineer Denys Fisher inventor of the Spirograph (1962) expired 9-17-2002 in Leeds, Yorkshire, England age 84 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| songwriter Doris Fisher co-wrote You Always Hurt the One You Love (1944) & co-wrote Tutti Frutti (1938; with Slim Gaillard) born on 5-2-1915 in New York, New York expired 1-15-2003 age 87 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| auto body builder Edward F. Fisher last of the seven Fisher Brothers born on 2-23-1891 in Norwalk, Ohio expired 1-17-1972 in Detroit, Michigan age 80 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| singer Edwin Jack "Eddie" Fisher once married to Debbie Reynolds, Elizabeth Taylor & Connie Stevens; Carrie and Joely's dad born on 8-10-1928 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania expired 9-22-2010 in Berkeley, California age 82 cause: complications from hip surgery
AKS: Fischer | |||||||||||||||||||||
| blacksmith & Fisher Body co-founder Frederic John Fisher born on 1-2-1878 in Sandusky, Ohio expired 7-14-1941 in Detroit, Michigan age 63 cause: pneumonia | |||||||||||||||||||||
| actress Gail Fisher played Mannix's secretary Peggy Fair (1968-75) born on 8-18-1935 in Orange, New Jersey expired 12-2-2000 in Culver City, California age 65 cause: kidney failure | |||||||||||||||||||||
| cartoonist Hammond Edward "Ham" Fisher created Joe Palooka comic strip in 1930 born on 9-24-1900 in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania expired 9-7-1955 in New York, New York age 54 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| auto body builder Howard A. Fisher one of the Fisher Brothers born on 3-10-1902 in Norwalk, Ohio expired 3-31-1942 in Detroit, Michigan age 40 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| real estate mogul Larry Fisher last of the New York real estate brothers born on 6-6-1907 in Brooklyn, New York, New York expired 2-4-2001 in Palm Beach, Florida age 93 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| auto body builder Lawrence Peter Fisher one of the Fisher Brothers born on 10-19-1888 in Norwalk, Ohio expired 9-3-1961 in Detroit, Michigan age 72 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| businessman Max Martin Fisher Mary's adoptive father born on 7-15-1908 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania expired 3-3-2005 in Franklin, Michigan age 96
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| treasure hunter Melvin A. Fisher discovered the wreck (and treasure of) the Spanish galleon Nuestra Señora de Atocha (sank in 1622) born on 8-21-1922 expired 12-19-1998 in Key West, Florida age 76 cause: cancer | |||||||||||||||||||||
| former Playboy associate editor Murray Fisher edited the Playboy Interviews (1962-74); also started the Sex and the Cinema feature; left the magazine to edit Roots (1974) born on 8-8-1932 in China expired 5-31-2002 in Santa Monica, California age 69 cause: Alzheimer's disease; strokes | |||||||||||||||||||||
singer Toni Fisher had a hit with The Big Hurt (written by husband)
expired 2-12-1999 in Hyrum, Utah age 67 cause: heart attack | |||||||||||||||||||||
| auto body builder William Andrew Fisher one of the Fisher Brothers born on --1886 expired ??-??-1969 age 83 | |||||||||||||||||||||
actor Barry Fitzgerald Irish movie actor and stage star; brother of Arthur Shields
expired 1-4-1961 in Dublin, Ireland age 72 | |||||||||||||||||||||
 banker, brokerage partner Edmund W. Fitzgerald former president of Northwestern Mutual Life (1948-58); namesake of doomed ship born on 3-1-1895 expired 1-9-1986 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin age 90 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| poet & translator Edward FitzGerald first to translate the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyam (1859) born on 3-31-1809 in Bredfield, Suffolk, England expired 6-14-1883 in Merton, England age 74 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| singer Ella Fitzgerald born on 4-25-1917 in Newport News, Virginia expired 6-15-1996 in Beverly Hills, California age 79 cause: complications due to diabetes
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| author Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald wrote The Great Gatsby and This Side of Paradise born on 9-24-1896 in Saint Paul, Minnesota expired 12-22-1940 in Hollywood, California age 44 cause: heart attack | |||||||||||||||||||||
| former Irish prime minister Garret Michael Desmond Fitzgerald son of Demond FitzGerald; was the seventh Taoiseach of the Republic of Ireland (July 1981-February 1982; December 1982-March 1987) born on 2-9-1926 in Dublin, Ireland expired 5-19-2011 in Dublin, Ireland age 85 | |||||||||||||||||||||
actress Geraldine Mary Fitzgerald a cousin of author Nevil Shute; played Isabella Linton in Wuthering Heights (1939) & Ann King in Dark Victory (1939)
expired 7-17-2005 in New York, New York age 91 cause: respiratory infection; Alzheimer's disease
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| Boston-area Rep. & Boston mayor (1905-14) John F. "Honey" Fitzgerald maternal grandfather of JFK; namesake of Kennedy yacht "Honey Fitz" born on 2-11-1863 in Boston, Massachusetts expired 10-2-1950 in Boston, Massachusetts age 87 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Manson Family attorney Paul J. Fitzgerald defended Patricia Krenwinkel born on 8-21-1937 in Minneapolis, Minnesota expired 10-2-2001 in Beverly Hills, California age 64 cause: heart attack | |||||||||||||||||||||
| writer Louise Perkins Fitzhugh author/illustrator of Harriet the Spy (1964 born on 10-5-1928 in Memphis, Tennessee expired 11-19-1974 in New Milford, Connecticut age 46 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| ex-teamster president Frank Edward Fitzsimmons born on 4-7-1905 in Jeanette, Pennsylvania expired 5-6-1981 in San Diego, California age 76 cause: cancer
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| former NBA coach Lowell G. "Cotton" Fitzsimmons was 832-775 born on 10-7-1931 in Hannibal, Missouri expired 7-24-2004 in Phoenix, Arizona age 72 cause: lung cancer | |||||||||||||||||||||
actor Paul Fix played the doctor (Mark Piper) in the seedond pilot for the original Star Trek tv series (1964)
expired 10-14-1983 in Santa Monica, California age 81 cause: kidney failure | |||||||||||||||||||||
| duo pianist Robert Fizdale partnered with Arthur Gold (1944-82) born on 4-12-1920 in Chicago, Illinois expired 12-6-1995 in New York, New York age 75 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Standard Oil co-founder Henry Morrison Flagler Florida hotel and railroad tycoon; built original over-seas rail line that connected Miami to Key West born on 1-2-1839 in Hopewell, New York expired 5-20-1913 in West Palm Beach, Florida age 74 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| 1956 Indianapolis 500 winner George F. "Pat" Flaherty born on 1-6-1926 in Glendale, California expired 4-9-2002 in Oxnard, California age 76 cause: emphysema | |||||||||||||||||||||
| computer scientist Paul Andrew Flaherty while working for Digital Equipment Corp. pioneered the indexing of the then-young World Wide Web — he had the original idea for the Alta Vista search engine as a way to demonstrate the capabilities of the company's products (it went "live" December 15, 1995) born on 3-14-1964 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin expired 3-16-2006 in Belmont, California age 42 cause: heart attack | |||||||||||||||||||||
| explorer & movie producer Robert Joseph Flaherty made first documentary Nanook of the North (1920-21); co-director of Byrd at the South Pole (1930); directed & shared oscar for The Titan: Story of Michelangelo (1950) born on 2-16-1884 in Iron Mountain, Michigan expired 7-23-1951 in Dummerston, Vermont age 67 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Father Edward Joseph Flanagan was moved to found Father Flanagan's Home for Boys after visiting the Starr Commonweath home for boys run by Floyd Starr (1917); institution later changed name to Boy's Town (1922; memorialized in 1938 film born on 7-13-1886 in Roscommon, Ireland expired 5-15-1948 in Berlin, Germany age 67 cause: heart attack | |||||||||||||||||||||
| jazz pianist Tommy Flanagan born on 3-16-1930 in Detroit, Michigan expired 11-16-2001 in New York, New York age 71 cause: complication from aneurysm | |||||||||||||||||||||
| actor Edward Paul Flanders born on 12-29-1934 in Minneapolis, Minnesota expired 2-22-1995 in Denny, California age 60 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| lyricist/humorist Michael Henry Flanders partnered with Donald Swann; performed reviews call At the Drop of a Hat (1956-67) born on 3-1-1922 in London, England expired 4-14-1975 in Bettws-y-Coed, Wales age 53 cause: cerebal aneurism | |||||||||||||||||||||
| bluegrass guitarist Lester Raymond Flatt of Flatt and Scruggs; had 1969 hit Foggy Mountain Breakdown born on 6-28-1914 in Overton County, Tennessee expired 5-10-1979 in Nashville, Tennessee age 64 cause: heart failure
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| character actor James Flavin appeared in King Kong (1931), Knute Rockne, All American (1940), The Grapes of Wrath (1940) & Mister Roberts (1955) born on 5-14-1906 in Portland, Maine expired 4-23-1976 in Los Angeles, California age 69 cause: ruptured aorta | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Titanic lookout Frederick Fleet spotted the berg too late to prevent collision; despondent over wife's death & impoverishment committed suicide two weeks after her death and eviction from her brother's home born on 10-15-1887 in Liverpool, England expired 1-10-1965 in Southampton, England age 77 cause: suicide; hanged | |||||||||||||||||||||
Fotomat founder Preston M. Fleetborn on 2-26-1934 expired 1-31-1995 age 60 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| nurse Ema Flegel was Hitler's nurse in the bunker (1945) born on 8-11-1911 in Kiel, Germany expired 2-16-2006 in Mölln, Germany age 94
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psychotic mobster Arthur Flegenheimer lived with his momma; had Legs Diamond rubbed out
expired 10-24-1935 in Newark, New Jersey age 35 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| animator Max Fleischer invented more than 20 motion picture production devices (including the Rotoscope in 1915); did first Popeye cartoons; created Betty Boop born on 7-19-1883 in Vienna, Austria expired 9-11-1972 in Los Angeles, California age 89 AKS: Fleisher | |||||||||||||||||||||
| movie director Richard O. Fleischer son of Max; earned his only oscar as producer of Design for Death (1946); directed 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954), Fantastic Voyage (1966), Tora, Tora, Tora (1970; co-director), Soylent Green (1973), Mandingo (1975), Conan the Destroyer (1984) & Red Sonja (1985) born on 12-8-1916 in New York, New York expired 3-25-2006 in Woodland Hills, California age 89 cause: upper respiratory infection
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Scottish bacteriologist Sir Alexander Fleming shared the 1945 Nobel prize in medicine for the discovery of penicillin (1928) born on 8-6-1881 in Lochfield, Ayrshire, Scotland expired 3-11-1955 in London, England age 73 cause: heart disease | |||||||||||||||||||||
original Jeopardy host Art Fleming
expired 4-25-1995 in Crystal River, Florida age 70 cause: pancreatic cancer | |||||||||||||||||||||
actor Eric Fleming star of tv western Rawhide
expired 9-28-1966 in Huallaga River, Tingo Maria, Peru age 41 cause: drowned | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Erin Marilyn Fleming Groucho's "companion" at the end of his life born on 8-13-1941 expired 4-15-2003 in Los Angeles, California age 61 | |||||||||||||||||||||
author Ian Lancaster Fleming created fictional British secret agent 007 several books were originally published in Playboy Magazine; wrote Chitty Chitty Bang Bangborn on 5-28-1908 in London, England expired 8-12-1964 in Canterbury, Kent, England age 56 cause: heart failure | |||||||||||||||||||||
| author Peter Fleming Ian's older brother born on 5-31-1907 in London, England expired 8-18-1971 in Black Mount, Argyllshire, Scotland age 64 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| film director Victor Fleming directed The Wizard of Oz and Gone With the Wind (1939; oscar) born on 2-23-1883 in Pasadena, California expired 1-6-1949 in Cottonwood, Alabama age 65 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| former ABC sportscaster William Norman "Bill" Flemming covered 11 Olympic games & the Spassky/Fischer chess showdown in Iceland (1972) born on 9-3-1926 in Chicago, Illinois expired 7-20-2007 in Petoskey, Michigan age 80 cause: prostate cancer AKS: Fleming | |||||||||||||||||||||
| second generation pipe organ builder Dirk Andries Flentrop son of company founder; headed firm 1940-1976 born on 1-5-1910 in Zaandam, The Netherlands expired 11-30-2003 in Santpoort-Zuid, The Netherlands age 93 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| former NBC tv art director Edwin Albert Flesh designed the big wheel for Wheel of Fortune as well as doing the set design for The $25,000 Pyramid, Press Your Luck & Jeopardy! born on 12-4-1931 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania expired 7-15-2011 in Mission Hills, California age 79 cause: congestive heart failure; chronic obstructive pulmonary disease AKS: Ed Flesh | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Bell Labs researcher Harvey Fletcher headed team that developed stereophonic sound (first demo in January 1934); father of former NASA Administrator born on 9-11-1884 expired 7-23-1981 in Provo, Utah age 96 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| former University of Utah president James Chipman Fletcher twice NASA Administrator (1971-77; 1986-89) born on 6-5-1919 in Millburn, New Jersey expired 12-22-1991 in Georgetown, Maryland age 72 cause: lung cancer | |||||||||||||||||||||
| radio dramatist Lucille Fletcher wrote Sorry, Wrong Number (1943) and The Hitchhiker; Bernard Herrmann was her first husband (1939-48); her second husband wrote the play that became Damn Yankees born on 3-28-1913 in New York, New York expired 8-31-2000 in Langhorne, Pennsylvania age 87 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Nazi industrialist and major Hitler supporter Friedrich Flick convicted as war criminal for using slave labor; did 3 years in prison (1947-50) born on 7-10-1883 in Ernsdorf, Westphalia, Germany expired 7-20-1972 in Lake Constance, Switzerland age 89 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| dancer, actor, author, etc. Denny Martin Flinn during his college days danced in San Francisco's North Beach "clubs" opposite such terpsichorian heavyweights as Carol Doda; co-wrote the screenplay for Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered County (1991) born on 12-21-1947 in San Francisco, California expired 8-24-2007 in Woodland Hills, California age 59 cause: complications from cancer | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Central Valley (California) AIDS Team caseworker Joyce A. "Rocky" Flint Jeffrey Dahmer's mother born on 2-7-1936 expired 11-27-2000 in Fresno, California age 64 cause: breast cancer | |||||||||||||||||||||
| character actor Jay C. Flippen born on 3-6-1898 in Little Rock, Arkansas expired 2-3-1971 in Hollywood, California age 72 cause: internal hemorrhaging | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Henry Ossian Flipper born a slave; first black graduate of West Point (1877) and first black officer in U.S. Army born on 3-21-1856 in Thomasville, Georgia expired 5-3-1940 age 84 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| St.Louis Cards baseball center fielder Curtis Charles "Curt" Flood attacked baseball's reserve clause in 1970 born on 1-18-1938 in Houston, Texas expired 1-20-1997 in Los Angeles, California age 59 cause: pneumonia | |||||||||||||||||||||
| former Pennsylvania rep. Daniel John Flood born on 11-26-1904 in Hazelton, Pennsylvania expired 5-28-1994 in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania age 89
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| World War I veteran Maurice Noël Floquet had been the oldest man in France born on 12-25-1894 expired 11-10-2006 in Montauroux, France age 111
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| long time Lawrence Welk orchestra accordionist Myron Floren born on 11-5-1919 in Webster, South Dakota expired 7-23-2005 in Rolling Hills Estates, California age 85 cause: cancer | |||||||||||||||||||||
saxophonist Daniel "Danny" Flores wrote/performed on/sang Tequila
expired 9-19-2006 in Huntington Beach, California age 77 cause: pneumonia | |||||||||||||||||||||
Sir Howard Walter Florey with Heatley discovered how to extract penicillin (shared 1945 Nobel medicine prize)
expired 2-21-1968 in Oxford, Oxfordshire, England age 69 cause: heart attack | |||||||||||||||||||||
| 1949 Miss Canada runner-up Joan Fry Flory as Joan Durell sang with big bands in 1950s born on 7-19-1929 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada expired 12-29-2000 in North Hollywood, California age 71 cause: Parkinson's disease | |||||||||||||||||||||
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researcher Paul John Flory 1974 Nobel prize winner in chemistry born on 6-19-1910 in Sterling, Illinois expired 9-9-1985 in Big Sur, Calfornia age 75 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| retired Fayette County (Texas) sheriff (1946-80) Thomas James "Jim" Flournoy a good-old-boy who looked the other way when it came to the local "chicken ranch"; punched-out tv reporter Marvin Zindler after the "ranch" was shut down born on 9-22-1902 expired 10-26-1982 in LaGrange, Texas age 80 cause: heart problems | |||||||||||||||||||||
| movie effects wizard A. D. Flowers won oscars for Tora, Tora, Tora (1970) & The Poseidon Adventure (1972) born on 2-12-1917 in Hillsboro, Texas expired 7-5-2001 in Fullerton, California age 84 cause: complications from pneumonia; emphysema | |||||||||||||||||||||
British Post Office electronics researcher Thomas Harold "Tommy" Flowers built the Colossus computer at Bletchley Park (1943) to break the Nazi High Command's Enigma cypher codesborn on 12-22-1905 in London, England expired 10-28-1998 in London, England age 92 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| ventriloquist Wayland Parrott Flowers Jr. his puppet was named "Madame" born on 11-26-1939 in Dawson, Georgia expired 10-11-1988 in Hollywood, California age 48 cause: AIDS | |||||||||||||||||||||
| violent gangster Charles Arthur "Pretty Boy" Floyd born on 2-3-1904 in Aikens, Oklahoma expired 10-22-1934 in East Liverpool, Ohio age 30 cause: multiple bullet wounds | |||||||||||||||||||||
Stanford University computer science professor Robert W. Floyd expert in computer program verification & parsing; received the 1978 A.M. Turing Awardborn on 6-8-1936 in New York, New York expired 9-25-2001 in Stanford, California age 65 cause: pneumonia | |||||||||||||||||||||
| World War II submarine commander Eugene Bennett Fluckey commanded the USS Barb; earned the Medal of Honor; retired a rear admiral born on 10-5-1913 in Washington, District of Columbia expired 6-28-2007 in Annapolis, Maryland age 93 cause: complications from Alzheimer's disease | |||||||||||||||||||||
| movie actor Errol Leslie Thomson Flynn played Robin Hood in The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938) and J.E.B. Stuart in Santa Fe Trail (1940); legendary in his appetites for booze, broads & brawling born on 6-20-1909 in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia expired 10-14-1959 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada age 50 cause: heart attack | |||||||||||||||||||||
| tv character actor Joseph Anthony "Joe" Flynn Captain Binghampton on McHale's Navy born on 11-8-1925 in Youngstown, Ohio expired 7-18-1974 in Hollywood, California age 48 cause: drowned in swimming pool | |||||||||||||||||||||
| writer Noriko Sawada Bridges Flynn 1st husband: Harry Bridges (his third); 2nd; husband: Ed Flynn born on 2-11-1923 in Gardena, California expired 2-7-2003 in Pescadero, California age 79 | |||||||||||||||||||||
futurist FM-2030 currently can be be found in Scottsdale, Arizona, floating in a thermos full of liquid nitrogen, with the expectation that the Alcor Life Extension Foundation will some day thaw him out & cure his cancer (but what about the freezer burn?)
expired 7-8-2000 in New York, New York age 69 cause: pancreatic cancer | |||||||||||||||||||||
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