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| Detroit Mafia capo Anthony Joseph "Tony Jack" Giacalone reputed to have had Jimmy Hoffa wacked at the Machus Red Fox restaurant born on 1-19-1919 in Detroit, Michigan expired 2-23-2001 in Detroit, Michigan age 82 cause: heart & kidney failure | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
 
Angelo Bartlett Giamatti the last "great" Baseball Commissioner (April 1, 1989 to September 1, 1989)born on 4-4-1938 in Boston, Massachusetts expired 9-1-1989 in Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts age 51 cause: heart attack | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bank of America founder Amadeo Peter Giannini born on 5-6-1870 in San Jose, California expired 6-3-1949 in San Francisco, California age 79 cause: heart attack | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dr. William Francis Giauque 1949 Nobel prize winner in chemistryborn on 5-12-1895 in Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada expired 3-28-1982 in Berkeley, California age 86 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bee Gee Andy Gibb born on 3-5-1958 in Douglas, Isle of Man, England expired 3-10-1988 age 30 cause: cardiac viral infection
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| Bee Gees bass & keyboardist Maurice Gibb Robin's twin brother born on 12-22-1949 in Douglas, Isle of Man, England expired 1-12-2003 in Miami, Florida age 53 cause: heart attack; twisted bowel (ischemic enteropathy)
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MGM art department head (1924-56) Austin Cedric Gibbons won 11 Academy Awards; sketched out the design that George Stanley used to make the original "Oscar" statuettes for the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Science (of which he was a co-born on 3-23-1893 in New York, New York expired 7-26-1960 in Hollywood, California age 67 cause: "a long illness" | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| historian Edward Gibbons wrote The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (1776-1788) born on 5-8-1737 in Putney, England expired 1-16-1794 in London, England age 56 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| natural food proponent Euell Gibbons wrote Stalking the Wild Asparagus (1962) born on 9-8-1910 in Clarksville, Texas expired 12-29-1975 in Beavertown, Pennsylvania age 65 cause: bleeding ulcer | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| composer Albert A. "Andy" Gibson co-wrote The Huckle-buck (with lyricist Roy Alfred) expired 2-10-1961 in Cincinnati, Ohio age 47 cause: heart attack AKS: hucklebuck | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| orchestra conductor Sir Alexander Drummond Gibson born on 2-11-1926 in Motherwell, Lanarkshire, Scotland expired 1-14-1995 age 68 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| tennis player Althea Gibson winner of 1957 Wimbledon & 1958 U.S. Open singles title born on 8-25-1927 in Silver, South Carolina expired 9-28-2003 in East Orange, New Jersey age 76 cause: respiratory failure
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| illustrator Charles Dana Gibson creator of the Gibson Girl expired 12-23-1944 in New York, New York age 77 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| songwriter/singer Donald Eugene Gibson wrote I Can't Stop Loving You, Sweet Dreams & Oh Lonesome Me born on 4-3-1928 in Shelby, North Carolina expired 11-17-2003 in Nashville, Tennessee age 75 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| early cowboy movie star Edmund Richard "Hoot" Gibson born on 8-6-1892 in Tememah, Nebraska expired 8-23-1962 in Woodland Hills, California age 70 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
comedian/character actor Henry Gibson given his stage name by friend Jon Voight, with whom he had a short-lived comedy routine; appeared on Laugh-In; on F Troupe as Wrongo Starr, in Nashville (1975) as Haven Hamilton & on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine as Nilva in the episode Profit and Lace (1998)
expired 9-14-2009 in Malibu, California age 73 cause: cancer | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| "Gibson Girl" model Irene Langhorne Gibson made famous by illustrations of her (by her husband) in the early 1900s expired 4-20-1956 in Greenwood, Virginia age 83 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Negro League ballplayer Joshua "Josh" Gibson born on 12-21-1911 in Buena Vista, Georgia expired 1-20-1947 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania age 35 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Alabama geezer Susie Elizabeth Gibson
expired 2-16-2006 in Tuscumbia, Alabama age 115 cause: heart failure
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| playwright William Gibson wrote The Miracle Worker for tv (1957), then as a Broadway play (1959) & Two for the See Saw (1958) born on 11-13-1914 in New York, New York expired 11-25-2008 in Stockbridge, Massachusetts age 94 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| radio/tv/screen writer Nelson Roosevelt Gidding wrote radio & tv scripts for Sergeant Preston of the Yukon; wrote screenplays for I Want To Live (1958), The Andromeda Strain (1971) & Hindenburg (1975) born on 9-15-1919 in New York, New York expired 5-1-2004 in Santa Monica, California age 84 cause: congestive heart failure AKS: Giddings | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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André Paul Guillaume Gide the 1947 Nobel literature laureate born on 11-22-1869 in Paris, France expired 2-19-1951 in Paris, France age 81 cause: pneumonia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
litigant Clarence Earl Gideon plaintiff in landmark Supreme Court decision affording indigent defendants the right to appointed council in criminal cases (Gideon v. Wainwright; 1963); his case before the court was argued by Abe Fortas
expired 1-18-1972 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida age 61 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Prince Gideon leader of Cornelius Bros. & Sister Rose pop group
expired 11-7-1991 in Dania, Florida age 43 cause: heart attack | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| businessman Gerald S. Gidwitz co-founder of the Helene Curtis cosmetics company born on 7-17-1906 in Memphis, Tennessee expired 7-11-2006 in Chicago, Illinois age 99 cause: congestive heart failure | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| actor Sir Arthur John Gielgud won 1982 Best Supporting actor oscar for Arthur born on 4-14-1904 in London, England expired 5-21-2000 in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, England age 96
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| Edward Gierek former Polish Communist Party leader (1970-80) born on 1-6-1913 in Porabka, Poland expired 7-29-2001 in Cieszyn, Poland age 88 cause: lung infection related to work as coal miner | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
quiet hero Hermine "Miep" Gies participated in the concealment of Anne Frank and her family from the Nazis; she retrieved Anne's diary after the raid, returning it to Anne's father after the war
expired 1-11-2010 in The Netherlands age 100 cause: heart attack; complications from a fall
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| Dutch resistance member Jan Gies helped hide Anne Frank and family born on 10-18-1905 expired 1-26-1993 age 87 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| classical pianist Walter Wilhelm Gieseking made one of the first stereo tape-recorded performances in Berlin during WWII born on 11-5-1895 in Lyon, Rhône, Rhône-Alps, France expired 10-26-1956 in London, England age 60 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
former Genovese crime family Don Vincent "the Chin" Gigante tried to avoid prosecution by walking around in pajamas & a bathrob, muttering incoherently
expired 12-19-2005 in Springfield, Missouri age 77 cause: heart disease | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| toy maker Alfred Carlton Gilbert Sr. founder of the company that bore his name (it started as the Mysto Magic Company in 1909); invented the Erector Set (1913); Olympic athlete that at one time held the world pole vault record born on 2-15-1884 in Salem, Oregon expired 1-24-1961 in Boston, Massachusetts age 76 AKS: A. C. Gilbert Company | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| comic actor Billie Gilbert his funny sneeze got him the gig of voicing Sneezy in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs born on 9-12-1894 in Louisville, Kentucky expired 9-23-1971 in Hollywood, California age 77 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| song writer Ray Gilbert won 1947 Best Song oscar for Zip- born on 9-5-1912 in Hartford, Connecticut expired 3-3-1976 in Los Angeles, California age 63 cause: complications from heart surgery | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| spousal mercy killer Roswell W. Gilbert born on 7-21-1909 expired 9-3-1994 age 85 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| actress Ruth Gilbert had title role in the 1931 production of Alice in Wonderland expired 10-12-1993 age 71 cause: cancer | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Tony Gilbert expired 7-24-1982 age 21 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| operetta composer William Schwenck Gilbert half of the team Gilbert and Sullivan born on 11-18-1836 in London, England expired 5-29-1911 age 74 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| efficiency expert Frank Bunker Gilbreth Sr. Lillian's horny husband (he should have stopped at 12 instead of going for a baker's dozen) born on 7-7-1868 in Fairfield, Maine expired 6-14-1924 in Montclair, New Jersey age 55 cause: heart attack | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Frank Bunker Gilbreth Jr. co-wrote Cheaper By The Dozen (1948) born on 3-17-1911 in Plainfield, New Jersey expired 2-18-2001 in Charleston, South Carolina age 89 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| pioneering efficiency expert Lillian Evelyn Moller Gilbreth mother of 12 children; subject of the book Cheaper by the Dozen born on 5-24-1878 in Oakland, California expired 1-2-1972 in Phoenix, Arizona age 93 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| concert pianist Emil Grigoyevich Gilels born on 10-19-1916 in Odessa, Ukraine expired 10-14-1985 in Moscow, Russia, USSR age 68
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actor Jack Gilford
expired 6-4-1990 in New York, New York age 82
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| movie restoration expert David Gill partner of Kevin Brownlow; restored Gance's Napoleon born on 6-9-1928 in Papua, New Guinea expired 9-28-1997 in Huntington, Cambridgeshire, England age 69 cause: heart attack | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| prolific comic book writer Joe Gill worked for Timely Comics (later renamed Marvel) and then Charlton Comics; also did some work for DC Comics born on 7-13-1919 in Scranton, Pennsylvania expired 12-17-2006 in Ansonia, Connecticut age 87 cause: complications from fall from stool | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
WWII radio propagandist Mildred Elizabeth Gillars
expired 6-25-1988 in Columbus, Ohio age 87 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| jazz trumpeter John Birks "Dizzy" Gillespie born on 10-21-1917 in Cheraw, South Carolina expired 1-5-1993 in Englewood, New Jersey age 75
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| inventor/animator Edwin "Ted" Gillette inventor of the Syncro-Vox device/process; creator of the Clutch Cargo tv cartoon born on 8-11-1909 expired 9-30-2003 in Los Angeles, California age 94 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Saftey Razor inventor King Camp Gillette "Look sharp, feel sharp!" born on 1-5-1855 in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin expired 7-9-1932 in Los Angeles, California age 77 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| former Pittsburgh quarterback Joe W. Gilliam Jr. won two Super Bowls in 1970s born on 12-29-1950 expired 12-25-2000 in Nashville, Tennessee age 49 cause: cocaine overdose
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| prolific tv writer Jackson Clark Gillis wrote for Lassie, The Adventures of Superman, Perry Mason, Columbo, Wonder Woman, Zorro, Tarzan, The Man From U.N.C.L.E.,
Murder She Wrote, I Spy, The Adventures of Spin and Marty, The Hardy Boys, Racket Squad, Sugarfoot, The Fugitive, Lost In Space, Mission: Impossible, Mannix, Bonanza, Ironside, Hawaii
Five-O, Starsky and Hutch, Police Woman, ... born on 8-21-1916 in Kalama, Washington expired 8-19-2010 in Moscow, Idaho age 93 cause: pneumonia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
criminal Lester M. Gillis
expired 9-27-1934 age 32 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| former football coach Sidney Gillman coached the Rams (1955-59), Chargers (1960-69) & Oilers (1973-74) born on 10-26-1911 in Minneapolis, Minnesota expired 1-3-2003 in Century City, California age 91
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| radio/tv announcer Arthur Wells Gilmore born on 3-18-1912 in Tacoma, Washington expired 9-25-2010 in Irvine, California age 98 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
convicted murderer Gary Mark Gilmoreexpired 1-17-1977 in Point of Mountain, Utah age 36 cause: executed; firing squad | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| character actress Hermione Ferdinanda Gingold born on 12-9-1897 in London, England expired 5-24-1987 age 89 cause: pneumonia; cardiac problems
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| Esquire Magazine co-founder Arnold Gingrich born on 12-5-1903 in Grand Rapids, Michigan expired 7-9-1976 in Ridgewood, New Jersey age 72 cause: cancer | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Newt's mommie Kathleen A. "Kit" Gingrich born on 11-20-1925 in Enola, Pennsylvania expired 9-23-2003 in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania age 77 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
geezer Gin Kanie remaining half of world's oldest twins
expired 2-28-2001 in Nagoya, Japan age 108 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| psychologist Dr. Haim Ginott Today Show "resident psychologist"; author of Between Parent and Child born on 8-5-1922 in Tel Aviv, Palestine expired 11-4-1973 in New York, New York age 51 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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"beat generation" poet Allen Ginsberg born on 6-3-1926 in Newark, New Jersey expired 4-5-1997 in New York, New York age 70
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| video tape/recording inventor Charles P. Ginsburg employed by AMPEX Corp. born on 7-27-1920 expired 4-9-1992 age 71 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| tv actor/director Robert Withrop Ginty played Lt. T.J. Wiley on Baa Baa Black SHeep (1976-78), Thomas Craig Anderson on The Paper Chase tv series (1978-9) & appeared in Coming Home (1978) born on 11-14-1948 in Brooklyn, New York, New York expired 9-21-2009 in Los Angeles, California age 60 cause: cancer | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| dissident poet Aleksandr Ilich Ginzburg born on 11-21-1936 in Leningrad, Russia, USSR expired 7-19-2002 in Paris, France age 65
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controversial erotica publisher Ralph Ginzburg busted for sending Eros through the U.S. mails born on 10-28-1929 in New York, New York expired 7-6-2006 in The Bronx, New York, New York age 76 cause: multiple myeloma | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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2003 Nobel physics co-laureate Vitaly Lazarevich Ginzburg born on 10-4-1916 in Moscow, Russia expired 11-8-2009 in Moscow, Russia age 93 AKS: b.9/21/1916 old style calendar | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Charlton/DC comics artist & editor Richard Joseph "Dick" Giordano born on 7-20-1932 in Manhattan, New York, New York expired 3-27-2010 in Ormond Beach, Florida age 77 cause: leukemia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
former Bulgarian Queen Giovanna widow of Bulgarian King Boris III
expired 2-26-2000 age 92 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Notre Dame All-American football running back (1917-20) George Gipp portrayed in Knute Rockne, All American (1940) by Ronald Reagan
expired 12-14-1920 in South Bend, Indiana age 25 cause: pneumonia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| author Frederick Benjamin Gipson wrote Old Yeller born on 2-7-1908 in Mason, Texas expired 8-14-1973 in Mason, Texas age 65 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
L'Epress founding editor (1953) Françoise Giroud
expired 1-19-2003 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France age 86 cause: head injuries suffered in fall AKS: Francoise | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| silent film actress Dorothy Gish sister of Lillian born on 3-11-1898 in Massilon, Ohio expired 6-4-1968 in Rapallo, Italy age 70 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| silent film star Lillian Diana Gish born on 10-14-1893 in Springfield, Ohio expired 2-27-1993 age 99
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| jazz clarinetist/saxophonist/arranger/composer James Peter "Jimmy" Giuffre born on 4-26-1921 in Dallas, Texas expired 4-24-2008 in Pittsfield, Massachusetts age 86 cause: pneumonia; Parkinson's disease AKS: Joofrie Giufre Guiffre | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| symphony & opera orchestra conductor Carlo Maria Giulini born on 5-9-1914 in Barletta, Italy expired 6-14-2005 in Brescia, Italy age 91 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Luciana Giussani with sister Angela created Diabolik born on 4-19-1928 expired 3-31-2001 in Milan, Italy age 72 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| get-rich-quick pitchman Charles J. Givens Jr. sleazy slug born on 2-5-1941 in Decatur, Illinois expired 7-12-1998 in Orlando, Florida age 57 cause: prostate cancer | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Apollo astronaut Edward Galen Givens didn't live long enough to be assigned a flight born on 1-5-1930 in Quanah, Texas expired 6-6-1967 in Houston, Texas age 37 cause: automobile accident | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| former Greek Army General Phaidon Gizikis member of the military junta; followed Papadopolous as "president" (1973-74) born on 6-17-1917 in Arta, Greece expired 7-27-1999 age 82 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Karl Adolph Gjellerup shared the 1917 Nobel prize in literature
expired 10-11-1919 in Klotzsche, Germany age 62 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Jethro Tull bassist John Glascock born on 5-2-1951 in London, England expired 11-17-1979 age 28 cause: following heart surgery
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| Elizabeth Glaser wife of Paul Michael; mother of Jacob born on 11-11-1947 in New York, New York expired 12-3-1994 in Santa Monica, California age 47 cause: complications from AIDS | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| folk singer Tom Glazer had pop hit with On Top of Spaghetti (1963) born on 9-2-1914 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania expired 2-21-2003 in Rochester, New York age 88 cause: complications from stroke | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| The Producers producer Sidney Glazier won Best Documentary Feature oscar for his production of The Eleanor Roosevelt Story (1965) born on 5-29-1916 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania expired 12-14-2002 in Bennington, Vermont age 86 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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comedian Herbert John "Jackie" Gleason original Chester A. Riley on The Life of Riley tv series (1949-50); Ralph Kramden on The Honeymooners born on 2-26-1916 in New York, New York expired 6-24-1987 age 71 cause: colon cancer
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| character actor James Gleason played the police Lt. in Aresenic and Old Lace born on 5-23-1886 in New York, New York expired 4-2-1959 in Woodland Hills, California age 72 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| bad/tough-guy character actor Paul Xavier Gleason a friend of Jack Kerouac; the two went to see Splendor in the Grass together (1961) — it convinced Gleason to become an actor; portrayed the corrupt private investigator Clarence Beeks in Trading Places (1983) & high school principal Richard Vernon in The Breakfast Club (1985) born on 5-4-1939 in Jersey City, New Jersey expired 5-27-2006 in Burbank, California age 67 cause: mesothelioma | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Chiago White Sox manager (1919-23) William J. "Kid" Gleason managed the infamous "Black Sox" team born on 10-26-1866 in Camden, New Jersey expired 1-2-1933 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania age 76 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| lawyer William R. Glendon argued the Pentagon Papers case before the Supreme Court on behalf of the Washington Post (won 6 to 3) born on 5-1-1919 in Medford, Massachusetts expired 12-25-2008 in White Plains, New York age 89 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| retired CBS Radio newscaster Joseph Christopher Glenn born on 3-23-1938 in New York, New York expired 10-17-2006 in Norwalk, Connecticut age 58 cause: heart attack; liver cancer | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| big band jazz trombonist & vibraphonist Tyree Glenn performed with Louis Armstrong's All-Stars (1964-71) born on 11-23-1912 in Corsicana, Texas expired 5-18-1974 in Englewood, New Jersey age 61 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| sports broadcaster Martin Irving "Marty" Glickman track athlete pulled from 1936 Berlin Olympic 400 meter relay team because he was Jewish born on 8-14-1917 in New York, New York expired 1-3-2001 in New York, New York age 83 cause: complications from heart bypass surgery | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Russian romantic composer Reinhold Moritzovich Glière wrote the ballet Red Poppy born on 1-11-1875 in Kiev, Ukraine, Russia expired 6-25-1956 in Moscow, Russia, USSR age 81 AKS: Gliere | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
archaeology professor Peter Vilhelm Glob co-discovered remains of Dilmun; wrote Mosefolket Fernalderens Mennesker bevart i 2000 År (The Bog People; 1965)born on --1911 expired 7-20-1985 age 84 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Florida death row inmate Robert Dewey Glock II
expired 1-11-2001 in Starke, Florida age 39 cause: executed; lethal injection
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actress Marie Glory
expired 1-24-2009 in Cannes, France age 103
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| country music harmonica player Lonnie Glosson born on 2-14-1908 in Judsonia, Arkansas expired 3-2-2001 age 93 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
one-time Met Opera soprano (1909-12) Alma Gluck first wife of Efrem Zimbalist Sr.; mother of Jr. & Marcia Davenport; had hit record (2-million seller) with "Carry Me Back to Old Virginny"
expired 10-27-1938 in New York, New York age 54 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| art gallery owner Lewis L. Glucksman was a former Lehman Brothers trader born on 12-22-1925 expired 7-5-2006 in Cobh, County Cork, Ireland age 80 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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