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| Imperial Japanese Navy commander Mitsuo Fuchida led the attack on Pearl Harbor; radioed back the coded success message Tora, Tora, Tora; spent postwar period as a Christian missionary born on 12-3-1903 in Nago, Japan expired 5-30-1976 in Kashihara, Japan age 72 | |||||||||||
| commie spy physicist Emil Klaus Julius Fuchs provided Stalin with the designs to build an A-bomb born on 12-29-1911 in Russelsheim, Germany expired 1-28-1988 in Berlin, Germany age 76 | |||||||||||
| Antarctic explorer Sir Vivian Fuchs first person to make a surface crossing of the continent (1957-58) born on 2-11-1908 in Isle of Wight, England expired 11-11-1999 in Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England age 91 | |||||||||||
| Sir Vivian Ernest Fuchs born on 2-11-1908 in Freshwater, Isle of Wight, England expired 11-11-1999 in Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England age 91 | |||||||||||
noted Cuban fisherman Gregorio Fuentes captain of Hemingway's boat El Pilar; inspiration for title character in The Old Man and the Sea (1952)born on 7-11-1897 in Lanzarote, Canary Islands expired 1-13-2002 in Cojimar, Cuba age 104 cause: cancer | |||||||||||
| Japanese aviator Nobuo Fujita only pilot to bomb mainland U.S. during World War II; used a modular plane (delivered by submarine) to make two bombing runs (September 9 & 23) in the Brookings, Oregon area expired 9-30-1997 in Tokyo, Japan age 85 cause: lung cancer | |||||||||||
| University of Chicago meteorologist Dr. Tetsuya Theodore "Ted" Fujita first to describe downbursts & microbursts --- straight-line winds of up to 150 miles- born on 10-23-1920 in Kitakyushu City, Japan expired 11-19-1998 in Chicago, Illinois age 78 | |||||||||||
| movie director Kinji Fukasaku did a bunch of yakuza movies & co-directed Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970) born on 7-3-1930 in Mito, Japan expired 1-12-2003 in Tokyo, Japan age 72 cause: prostate cancer | |||||||||||
| former Japanese prime minister (1976-78) Takeo Fukuda born on 1-14-1905 expired 7-5-1995 in Tokyo, Japan age 90
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Kenichi Fukui shared the 1981 Nobel chemistry prizeborn on 10-4-1918 in Nara, Japan expired 1-9-1988 in Kyoto, Japan age 69 | |||||||||||
| former Arkansas senator (1945-74) James William Fulbright born on 4-9-1905 in Sumner, Missouri expired 2-9-1995 in Washington, District of Columbia age 89
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| brush company founder (1910) Alfred Carl Fuller born on 1-13-1885 in Berwick, Kings County, Nova Scotia, Canada expired 12-4-1973 in Hartford, Connecticut age 88 cause: bone marrow disease | |||||||||||
| singer Bobby Fuller had 1966 hit with I Fought The Law born on 10-22-1943 in Goose Creek, Texas expired 7-18-1966 in Los Angeles, California age 22 cause: gasoline ingestion | |||||||||||
| former AP president (1976-85) Edwin Keith Fuller born on 1-19-1923 in Arlington, Kansas expired 6-7-2002 in Chevy Chase, Maryland age 79 cause: Alzheimer's disease | |||||||||||
| old biddy Ida Fuller received first Social Security check, issued 1/31/1940, for $22.54 (she had contributed a total of $22 in payroll taxes & received more than $20,000); a classmate of Calvin Coolidge at Blade River Academy born on 9-6-1874 in Ludlow, Vermont expired 1-27-1975 in Brattleboro, Vermont age 100 | |||||||||||
| blues musician Jesse "Lone Cat" Fuller one-man-band musician playing the 12-string guitar, kazoo, harmonica, washboard & cymbal born on 3-12-1896 in Jonesboro, Georgia expired 1-28-1976 in Oakland, California age 79 | |||||||||||
bit-part actor Lance Fuller played Braack (Exeter's weasel assistant) in This Island Earth (1955); briefly married to Joi Lansing (1951-53)born on 12-6-1928 in Somerset, Kentucky expired 12-22-2001 in Los Angeles, California age 73 | |||||||||||
| former lawyer Millard Dean Fuller after law school co-founded big bux marketing firm with Morris Dees; with wife Linda (b.1941) co-founded Habitat for Humanity (1976); was booted out of it for harrassing the females born on 1-3-1935 in Lanett, Alabama expired 2-3-2009 in Americus, Georgia age 74 | |||||||||||
| biochemist Ray W. Fuller co-discoverer of Prozac (with Dr. Brian Mulloy & Dr. David Wong) born on 12-16-1935 in Dongola, Illinois expired 8-11-1996 in Greenwood, Indiana age 60 cause: leukemia | |||||||||||
geodesic dome architect Richard Buckminster Fuller namesake of chemical compounds known as Buckminsterfullerenes (aka "Buckyballs")born on 7-12-1895 in Milton, Massachusetts expired 7-1-1983 in Los Angeles, California age 87
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| adventurer, inventor Robert Edison Fulton Jr. built a flying car (the "Airphibian") in 1947; his "Skyhook" aerial rescure system was seen in Thunderball; was present at the opening of King Tut's tomb born on 4-15-1909 in New York, New York expired 5-7-2004 in Newtown, Connecticut age 95 | |||||||||||
| last survivor of Bonnie & Clyde's gang Ralph Smith Fults born on 1-23-1911 in Anna, Texas expired 3-15-1993 in Dallas, Texas age 82 | |||||||||||
| reference work publisher Isaac Kauffman Funk co-founded Funk and Wagnalls (1890) born on 9-10-1839 in Clifton, Ohio expired 4-4-1912 in Montclair, New Jersey age 72 | |||||||||||
| Candid Cameraman Allen Funt born on 9-16-1914 in New York, New York expired 9-5-1999 in Pebble Beach, California age 84 cause: complications from 1993 stroke | |||||||||||
| Motown singer/songwriter/producer Harvey Fuqua born on 7-27-1929 in Lexington, Kentucky expired 7-6-2010 in Detroit, Michigan age 80 cause: heart attack | |||||||||||
politician/businessman John Brooks Fuqua raised by maternal grandparents after mother's death (he changed his surname to theirs); lead Fuqua Industries conglomerate from its founding until 1988
expired 4-12-2006 in Atlanta, Georgia age 87 cause: complications from bronchitis | |||||||||||
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pharmacologist Robert Francis Furchgott shared the 1998 Nobel prize in medicine for his work with the gas nitric oxide (not the same as nitrous oxide) born on 6-4-1916 in Charleston, South Carolina expired 5-19-2009 in Seattle, Washington age 92 | |||||||||||
| Utah Jazz pro basketball player Terry Furlow born on 10-18-1954 expired 5-23-1980 in Linndale, Ohio age 25 cause: freeway car crash (fell asleep at wheel?) | |||||||||||
| consumer advocate Elizabeth Mary "Betty" Furness born on 1-3-1916 in New York, New York expired 4-2-1994 age 78 | |||||||||||
| former Pittsburgh Steelers tackle (1972-80) Stephen R. "Steve" Furness coached at the college & pro levels born on 12-5-1950 expired 2-9-2000 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania age 49 cause: heart attack | |||||||||||
oscar-winning art director Anton Furst did visual design for Batman (based upon the art & set design of the movie Metropolis (1926)), Alien, Moonraker and Full Metal Jacket
expired 11-24-1991 in Los Angeles, California age 47 cause: suicide | |||||||||||
actor/playwright George Furth writer of "Company" (1970; 1971 Tony for Best Book-Musical); played railway agent Woodcock in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969), Charlie Flagler in Myra Breckinridge (1971) & Van Johnson in Blazing Saddles (1974)
expired 8-11-2008 in Santa Monica, California age 75 cause: lung infection | |||||||||||
| astrophysicist Harold P. Furth originator of the Tokamak Fusion Test Reactor (1983-97) born on 1-13-1930 in Vienna, Austria expired 2-21-2002 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania age 72 cause: heart ailment | |||||||||||
| Berlin Philharmonic conductor Wilhelm Furtwaengler led orchestra during most of Nazi era born on 1-25-1886 in Berlin, Germany expired 11-30-1954 in Baden-Baden, Germany age 68 | |||||||||||
writer Gertrud Anna Fussenegger grande dame of Austrian literature
expired 3-19-2009 in Linz, Upper Austria, Austria age 96
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| Soviet film actress Zoya Alexyevna Fyodorova had child (Viktoriya, conceived on VE Day) by then U.S. Captain & Naval attaché Jackson Tate during WWII; shipped to labor camp by Stalin for 8 years following child's birth born on 12-21-1912 in Saint Petersburg, Russia expired 12-13-1981 in Moscow, Russia, USSR age 68 cause: shot to death during robbery of apartment | |||||||||||
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