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| Academy Award winning costume designer Dorothy Jeakins won first costume design oscar in 1949 for Joan of Arc; won two more for Samson and Delilah ('49) and Night of the Iguana ('64) born on 1-11-1914 in San Diego, California expired 11-21-1995 in Santa Barbara, California age 81 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| political activist Rev. Gérard Jean-Juste a liberation theologist born on --1947 in Cavaillon, Haiti expired 5-27-2009 in Miami, Florida age 62 cause: stroke
AKS: Gerard | |||||||||||||||||||||
| movie/tv set designer John Daniel Jefferies Sr. worked on Guess Who's Coming to Dinner? (1967), Cat Ballou & Funny Girl; also worked on the sets of the original Star Trek series' Enterprise; brother of Matt Jeffries born on 2-8-1936 expired 3-25-2010 in Sherman Oaks, California age 74 cause: complications from lung cancer AKS: Jeffries | |||||||||||||||||||||
| original Star Trek tv series art director Walter Matthews Jefferies designed original Starship Enterprise (gave it number NCC-1701); designed the cloud city Stratos of Ardana for episode The Cloudminders (Feb. 1969) born on 8-12-1921 in Virginia expired 7-21-2003 age 82 cause: heart attack; cancer AKS: Jeffries | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Concord Jazz Festival & record label founder Carl E. Jefferson born on 12-10-1919 expired 3-29-1995 age 75 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| jazz vocalist Eddie Jefferson born on 8-3-1918 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania expired 5-9-1979 in Detroit, Michigan age 60 cause: shot to death | |||||||||||||||||||||
 
American Revolutionary Thomas Jefferson author of The Declaration of Independence; Adams' Vice President (1797-1801); 3rd U.S. president; dispatched Lewis and Clark to explore the recently purchased Louisiana Territory (1803); designed Monticelloborn on 4-13-1743 in Albemarle County, Virginia expired 7-4-1826 in Albemarle County, Virginia age 83 | |||||||||||||||||||||
feminist & union activist Mildred "Millie" Jeffrey arranged for her daughter Sharon & a few of her SDS friends to do a retreat at an AFL-CIO camp near Port Huron, MI in June 1962 — after a week of black-fly bliss the kids came back wearing T-Shirts reading "I Spent A Week In Port Huron & All I Got Was A Lousy Statement"
expired 3-24-2004 in Detroit, Michigan age 93 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| character actor Lionel Charles Jeffries played Grandpa Potts in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968) & Professor Cavor in First Men In The Moon (1964) born on 6-10-1926 in London, England expired 2-19-2010 in Poole, Dorset, England age 83 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Zoe Jeffries 81st British victim of Mad Cow disease born on 11-15-1985 in Wigan, England expired 10-29-2000 in Wigan, England age 14 cause: variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease | |||||||||||||||||||||
| polygamist sect leader Rulon Timpson Jeffs rumored to have from 19 to 75 wives born on 12-6-1909 in Salt Lake City, Utah expired 9-8-2002 in Saint George, Utah age 92 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| electrical engineer Frederick Jelinek while at IBM applied statistical methods to become a pioneer in computer voice recognition born on 11-18-1932 in Kladno, Czechoslovakia expired 9-14-2010 in Baltimore, Maryland age 77 cause: heart attack | |||||||||||||||||||||
| opera nut George Jellinek former music director of WQXR-FM (1968-84); a frequent panelist on the Texaco Opera Quiz (during Met Opera intermissions) born on 12-22-1919 in Budapest, Hungary expired 1-16-2010 in Sleepy Hollow, New York age 90 AKS: Jelinek Jellinec Jellineck | |||||||||||||||||||||
| former Union Army soldier Melvin Jellison barred President Lincoln from his army camp for not knowing the password expired 9-10-1947 in Clifton, Maine age 100 | |||||||||||||||||||||
Show Boat character actress Aunt Jemima played Queenie in 1929 movie and on Broadway in original Ziegfeld production; NOT associated with the pancake spokesperson
expired 1-3-1950 in New York, New York age 53 cause: diabetes | |||||||||||||||||||||
| former union organizer Clinton E. Jencks as head of Local 890 of the Amalgamated Bayard District Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers led the 1950/51 strike against the Empire Zinc Mine for equal pay for hispanic workers & better working condictions; the strike became the subject of the U.S.' only blacklisted move: Salt of the Earth (1953); in that movie he played a character (Frank Barnes) that was based upon himself born on 3-1-1918 in Colorado Springs, Colorado expired 12-14-2005 in San Diego, California age 87 | |||||||||||||||||||||
comedian/actor Richard Jeni star of UPN network's Playpus Man (1995) & cable special A Big Steaming Pile of Me (2005)
expired 3-10-2007 in Los Angeles, California age 49 cause: suicide; gunshot to head; psychotic paranoia; severe clinical depression | |||||||||||||||||||||
| character actor Allen Jenkins born on 4-9-1900 expired 7-20-1974 in Santa Monica, California age 74 cause: complications from lung surgery | |||||||||||||||||||||
rich biddy "soprano" Florence Foster Jenkins sold out Carnegie Hall warbling opera songs (later released by RCA as album The Glory ??? of the Human Voice)born on --1868 in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania expired 11-26-1944 in New York, New York age 76 | |||||||||||||||||||||
prolific author William Fitzgerald Jenkins winner of a Hugo Award; wrote The Time Tunnel
expired 6-8-1975 in Gloucester, Virginia age 79 | |||||||||||||||||||||
 
actress Claudia Jennings Playboy November 1969 Playmate of Month & 1970 Playmate of the Year; also did December 1974 & September 1979 Playboy pictorials
expired 10-3-1979 in Malibu, California age 29 cause: car crash; fell asleep at wheel of VW convertible | |||||||||||||||||||||
| movie sound man H. Gordon Jennings won five oscars for sound effects born on --1896 in Salt Lake City, Utah expired 1-11-1953 in Hollywood, California age 56 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| former ABC news anchor Peter Charles Jennings hosted the evening news show from 1965 to 1968, then again from 1983 until April 2005 born on 7-29-1938 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada expired 8-7-2005 in New York, New York age 67 cause: lung cancer | |||||||||||||||||||||
| country singer Waylon Arnold Jennings was originally scheduled to fly in the Miss American Pie with Richie Valens but gave up seat to the Big Bopper born on 6-15-1937 in Littlefield, Texas expired 2-13-2002 in Chandler, Arizona age 64 cause: complications from diabetes
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physicist Johannes Hans Daniel Jensen shared the 1963 Nobel prize in physicsborn on 6-25-1907 in Hamburg, Germany expired 2-11-1973 in Heidelberg, Germany age 65 | |||||||||||||||||||||
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Johannes Vilhelm Jensen 1944 Nobel literature laureate born on 1-20-1873 in Farsø Himmerland, North Jutland, Denmark expired 11-25-1950 in Copenhagen, Denmark age 77 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| sound reproduction pioneer Peter L. Jensen co-inventor of the loudspeaker; founder of Magnavox Corp. expired 10-25-1961 in Western Springs, Illinois age 75 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Character actor Roy Cameron Jenson played Yang leader Cloud William on original Star Trek series episode The Omega Glory (1968, State Security Chief Donovan in Soylent Green (1973) & Claude Mulvihill in Chinatown (1974) born on 2-9-1927 in Calgary, Alberta, Canada expired 4-24-2007 in Los Angeles, California age 80 cause: cancer AKS: Jensen | |||||||||||||||||||||
Enola Gay weapons test officer Morris Richard "Dick" Jeppson World War II B-29 crewman that was on the plane that nuked Hiroshima; he armed the bomb; in 2002 he sold, at auction, the arming plugs from the bomb ("Little Boy")born on 6-23-1922 in Logan, Utah expired 3-30-2010 in Las Vegas, Nevada age 87
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| World War II pinup model Adele Jergens named "Fairest of the Fair" at the 1939 New York World's Fair; danced as a Rockette; 1940s/50s film- born on 11-26-1917 in New York, New York expired 11-22-2002 in Camarillo, California age 84 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| soap company founder (1881) Andrew Jergens expired 1-11-1929 in Sarasota, Florida age 75 | |||||||||||||||||||||
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immunologist Niels Kaj Jerne shared the 1984 Nobel prize in medicine born on 12-3-1911 in London, England expired 10-7-1994 in Castillon-du-Gard, France age 82 | |||||||||||||||||||||
former Texas death row inmate Joseph Jernigan became the first cyber-digital mummy when his corpse was frozen, sliced, photographed & reassembled in a computer
expired 8-5-1993 in Huntsville, Texas age 39 cause: executed; lethal injection | |||||||||||||||||||||
| advocate for the blind Kenneth Jernigan born on 11-13-1926 in Detroit, Michigan expired 10-12-1998 in Baltimore, Maryland age 71 cause: lung cancer | |||||||||||||||||||||
| former slave Maria do Carmo Jeronimo born on 3-5-1871 in Carmo de Minas, Minas Gerais, Brazil expired 6-14-2000 in Itajuba, Minas Gerais, Brazil age 129 cause: strokes | |||||||||||||||||||||
vaudeville comedian George Albert Jessel played title role in original Broadway production of The Jazz Singer (1925)
expired 5-24-1981 in Los Angeles, California age 83 cause: heart attack
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| White Star Line ship nurse Violet Constance Jessop survived the sinking of the Titanic, Britannic & near- born on 2-10-1887 in Bahia Blanca, Argentina expired 5-5-1971 in Great Ashfield, West Suffolk, England age 84 cause: pneumonia; congestive heart failure | |||||||||||||||||||||
| character actor Michael Jeter born on 8-26-1952 in Lawrenceburg, Tennessee expired 3-29-2003 in Los Angeles, California age 50 cause: suffocation during epileptic seizure; hypertension; cardiovascular disease; AIDS
AKS: Jeeter Jetor Jeetor | |||||||||||||||||||||
| chorale founder Kenneth W. Jewell born on 8-20-1910 expired 1-24-1992 age 81 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| World War II submarine commander Norman Limbury Auchinleck Jewell as commander of the Seraph dumped the corpse of a bogus Royal Marine (one "William Martin") into the current off Spain; the body carried papers meant to mislead the Germans about the allies plans for the invasion of Sicily born on 10-24-1913 in The Seychelles expired 8-18-2004 in Richmond-upon-Thames, Surrey, England age 90 | |||||||||||||||||||||
former security guard Richard Allensworth Jewell had been considered a suspect in the 1996 Centennial Olympic Park bombing by the FBI but later exonerated (Eric Rudolph was the actual perp)
expired 8-29-2007 in Woodbury, Meriwether County, Georgia age 44 cause: kidney failure; neuropathy; diabetes | |||||||||||||||||||||
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