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| neo-romantic music composer Nikolai Yakovievich Miaskovsky studied with Glière, Liadoff, Witol & Rimsky-Korsakov at the St. Petersburg Conservatory; professor of theory at Moscow Conservatory born on 4-20-1881 in Novogeorgievsky, Poland, Russian Empire expired 8-9-1950 in Moscow, Russia, USSR age 69 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
D.C.-area tv sports yakker George Michael was the host of the Sports Machine clip show (1984-2007)
expired 11-24-2009 in Washington, District of Columbia age 70 cause: lymphocytic leukemia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
chemist & journalist Anthony Rowland Michaelis was the science correspondent for The Daily Telegraph; while interviewing Nobel Laureate Antony Hewish about a new type of "pulsing" star invented the word pulsar
expired 10-18-2007 in Heidelberg, Germany age 91 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| film noir actress Beverly Michaels played the Amazonian Felice Blackett in East Side, West Side (1949); widow of screen writer Russell Rouse; mother of film editor Christopher Rouse born on 12-28-1928 in New York, New York expired 6-??-2007 in Phoenix, Arizona age 78 cause: stroke | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| art/design studio operator Doug Michaels designed the "public art" piece Cadillac Ranch outside of Amarillo (1974) born on 6-29-1943 in Seattle, Washington expired 6-12-2003 in Eden, Australia age 59 cause: fall while climbing | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| classical pianist Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli born on 1-5-1920 in Brescia, Italy expired 6-12-1995 in Lugano, Switzerland age 75 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Renaissance artist Michelangelo
expired 2-18-1564 in Rome, Italy age 88 cause: a slow fever | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
   
Playboy December 1963 Playmate of Month & 1964 Playmate of the Year Donna Michelle became a photographer after posing for Playboy
expired 4-9-2004 in Ukiah, California age 58 cause: heart attack | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
physicist Albert Abrahama Michelson received the 1907 Nobel prize in physics for his work in precision optical instruments like the interferometer, his measurements of the speed of light and the measurement of the diameter of the star Betelgeuseborn on 12-19-1852 in Strelno, Prussia, Germany expired 5-9-1931 in Pasadena, California age 78 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
author James Albert Michener wrote Tales of the South Pacific, basis for Broadway play South Pacificborn on 2-3-1907 in New York, New York expired 10-16-1997 in Austin, Texas age 90 cause: renal failure
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| Ideal Toy and Novelty Company co-founder (1903) Morris Michtom inspired to create the first Teddy Bear (1902; initially called "Teddy's Bear") born on --1870 in Russia expired 8-21-1938 in New York, New York age 68 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Ideal Toy and Novelty Company co-founder (1903) Rose Michtom sewed the first Teddy Bear (1902) born on --1867 in Russia expired 8-27-1937 in New York, New York age 70 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| South Dakota Governor (1987-93) George Speaker Mickelson born on 1-31-1941 in Mobridge, South Dakota expired 4-19-1993 in Dubuque, Iowa age 52 cause: plane crash | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| first CBS tv News president (1949-61) Sigfried Mickelson hired Walter Cronkite & Fred Friendly; co-founder & first president of RTNDA (1948-49) born on 5-24-1913 expired 3-24-2000 in San Diego, California age 86 cause: complications from pneumonia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| dentist & pro golfer Emmett Cary Middlecoff born on 1-6-1921 in Halls, Tennessee expired 9-1-1998 in Memphis, Tennessee age 77 cause: congestive heart failure | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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forgotten U.S. president Henry Middleton second president of the Continental Congress under the Articles of Association (10/22/1774-5/10/1775) born on --1717 in The Oaks, near Charleston, South Carolina expired 6-13-1784 in Charleston, South Carolina age 67 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| former CBS News producer Leslie Grant Midgley born on 1-18-1915 in Salt Lake City, Utah expired 6-19-2002 in White Plains, New York age 87 cause: pneumonia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| chemist Thomas Midgley Jr. invented Ethyl gasoline additive; pioneer synthetic rubber researcher born on 5-18-1889 in Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania expired 11-2-1944 in Columbus, Ohio age 55 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Mie Ishiguro born on 6-2-1888 expired 8-14-2001 age 113 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| former East German Stasi head (1957-89) Erich Mielke born on 12-28-1907 in Berlin, Germany expired 5-21-2000 in Berlin, Germany age 92 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Third U.S. president Thomas Mifflin third president of the Continental Congress under the Articles of Confederation (11/3/1783-11/29/1784) born on 4-3-1744 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania expired 1-20-1800 in Lancaster, Pennsylvania age 55 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Japanese movie star Toshiro Mifune played the submarine commander in 1941; was in The Seven Samurai and Rashomon born on 4-1-1920 in Qingdao, China expired 12-24-1997 in Mitaka, Japan age 77 cause: organ failure | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| retired basketball center George Lawrence Mikan played college basketball for DePaul (1941-45); was with the NBL/BAA/NBA Minnesota Lakers as a player (1947-54) and coach (1957); was the first ABA Commissioner born on 6-18-1924 in Joliet, Illinois expired 6-1-2005 in Scottsdale, Arizona age 80 cause: kidney failure; diabetes
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| Stalin/Putin stooge Sergei Vladimirovich Mikhalkov co-wrote lyrics to Soviet/current Russian national anthem; persecuted musicians that Stalin didn't like; a real old-style commie ass-kiss born on 3-18-1913 in Moscow, Russian Empire expired 8-27-2009 in Moscow, Russian Empire age 96 cause: hypotrophic epididymal infarction | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Austrian politician Wilhelm Miklas Austrian President (1928 to 1938) who refused Anschulss with Hitler's Germany; later forced to resign expired 3-20-1956 in Vienna, Austria age 83 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| USSR president (1964-65) Anastas Ivanovich Mikoyan served under every Kremlin leader from Lenin to Brezhnev born on 11-25-1895 in Sanain, Russia expired 10-22-1978 in Moscow, Russia, USSR age 82 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| aircraft designer Artem Ivanovich Mikoyan co-designed the MiG Fighter aircraft with Mikhail Gurevich; younger brother of Anastas born on --1905 in Armenia expired 12-9-1970 in Moscow, Russia, USSR age 65 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
acquitted/admitted murderer John William Milam co-kidnapper & murderer of Emmett Tillborn on 2-10-1919 in Charleston, Mississippi expired 12-31-1980 in Jackson, Mississippi age 61 cause: spinal cancer AKS: J. W. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nazi Field Marshall Erhard Milch Lufthansa co-founder; close associate of Hitler and Göring; organized the Luftwaffe and headed the German World War II aeronautics industry; spent 1947-54 in prison for hypothermia experiments conducted on unwilling prisoners born on 3-30-1892 in Wilhelmshaven, Germany expired 1-25-1972 in Wuppertal, Germany age 79 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| U.S. Navy Captain Alfred Hart Miles co-author of Anchors Aweigh (1906) expired 10-6-1956 in Norfolk, Virginia age 72 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| drummer George "Buddy" Miles Jr. played with Jimi Hendrix, Ruby & the Romantics, the Delfonics and The Band of Gypsys; did the California Raisins commercials born on 9-5-1947 in North Omaha, Nebraska expired 2-26-2008 in Austin, Texas age 60 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| white supremacist Robert E Miles born on 1-28-1925 expired 8-16-1992 age 67 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
actor/director Lewis Milestone directed Ocean's Eleven (1960); won oscars for directing Two Arabian Knights (1928) & All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)
expired 9-25-1980 in Los Angeles, California age 84 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| oscar-winning film editor Arthur E. Milford born on 1-19-1902 expired 12-23-1991 age 89 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| character actor John Milford born on 9-7-1929 in Johnstown, New York expired 8-14-2000 in Santa Monica, California age 70 cause: melanoma | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| psychologist Dr. Stanley Milgram while at Harvard he came up with the "Six Degrees of Separation" theory (1967) of social separation (published in Psychology Today 2, pgs 60-67, 1967) born on 8-15-1933 in New York, New York expired 12-20-1984 in New York, New York age 51 cause: heart attack | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| French composer Darius Milhaud born on 9-4-1892 in Aix-en-Provence, France expired 6-22-1974 in Geneva, Switzerland age 81 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| French magician and movie producer/director Marie-Georges-Jean Míliès produced the first great science fiction special effects epic A Trip to the Moon (1902) born on 12-8-1861 in Paris, Île-de-France, France expired 1-21-1938 in Paris, Île-de-France, France age 76 AKS: George Milies Melies | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Russian politician Paul Nikolaivitch Miliukov head of the opposition in the Imperial Duma; Foreign Minister in Kerensky's Provisional Government in 1917 expired 3-31-1943 in Aix-les-Bains, France age 84 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
San Francisco supervisor (1977-78) Harvey Bernard Milk
expired 11-27-1978 in San Francisco, California age 48 cause: assassinated; shot to death | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
actor Raymond Alton Milland
expired 3-10-1986 in Torrance, California age 78 cause: lung cancer | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| bandleader Alton Glenn Miller apocryphly said to have died when his plane, flying at a lower altitude, was "bombed" by a returning higher-altitude RAF bomber that was dumping bombs not used in a raid born on 3-1-1904 in Clarinda, Iowa expired 12-15-1944 in English Channel age 40 cause: plane crash ("friendly fire")? | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
actress/dancer Ann Miller her father was a lawyer for Bonnie & Clyde and Baby Face Nelson
expired 1-22-2004 in Los Angeles, California age 80 cause: lung cancer | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Anne Sheafe Miller first person to be saved by penicillin:streptococcus infection following scarlet fever & miscarriage (March, 1942) born on 10-13-1908 expired 5-27-1999 in Salisbury, Connecticut age 90 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| United Mine Workers president (1972-79) Arnold Ray Miller born on 4-25-1923 in Leewood, West Virginia expired 7-16-1985 in Charleston, West Virginia age 62
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| playwright Arthur Miller wrote Death of a Salesman (1949) and The Crucible (1953); briefly married to Marilyn Monroe born on 10-17-1915 in New York, New York expired 2-10-2005 in Roxbury, Connecticut age 89 cause: congestive heart failure; pneumonia, cancer
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| jazz and blues singer Clarence "Big" Miller born on 12-18-1922 in Sioux City, Iowa expired 6-9-1992 in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada age 69 cause: heart attack | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| film & tv director David Miller born on 11-28-1909 in Paterson, New Jersey expired 4-14-1992 in Los Angeles, California age 82 cause: cancer | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| retired U.S. Bankruptcy Court Judge (1965-77) Don C. Miller 1923/24 Notre Dame "Four Horsemen" halfback born on 3-30-1902 in Defiance, Ohio expired 7-28-1979 in Cleveland, Ohio age 77 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Texas death row inmate Donald Anthony Miller
expired 2-27-2007 in Huntsville, Texas age 44 cause: executed; lethal injection
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comedian George W. Miller
expired 3-5-2003 in Los Angeles, California age 61 cause: complications from cerebral blood clot; leukemia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| money-monger George William Miller former chairman of the Federal Reserve (3/78-8/79); left that post to be Jimmy Carter's last treasury secretary (8/79-1/81) born on 3-9-1925 in Sapulpa, Oklahoma expired 3-17-2006 in Washington, District of Columbia age 81 cause: idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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author Henry Miller wrote Tropic of Cancer born on 12-26-1891 in New York, New York expired 6-7-1980 in Pacific Palisades, California age 88 cause: circulatory failure
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| furniture company namesake Herman Miller after loaning his son-in-law the money to purchase the Michigan Star Furniture Company in 1923 had the company named after him; never took an active role in running the operation expired ??-??-19?? in Zeeland, Michigan age ?? | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| psychiatrist James Grier Miller coined term "behavioral science" born on 7-17-1916 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania expired 11-7-2002 in La Jolla, California age 86 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| writer James Pinckney Miller Sr. wrote Days of Wine and Roses (1958) for Philco Theater tv series; adapted Helter Skelter for tv movie (1976) born on 12-18-1919 in San Antonio, Texas expired 11-1-2001 in Flemington, New Jersey age 81 cause: pneumonia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
playwright & actor Jason Miller portrayed Father Damien Karras in The Exorcist (1971); won 1973 Pulitzer Drama prize for That Championship Season; father of Jason Patric & Joshua Miller (with Sue Bernard)
expired 5-14-2001 in Scranton, Pennsylvania age 62 cause: heart failure | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Kent State University student Jeffrey Glenn Miller one of four students killed by Ohio National Guard troops during campus rioting; had just recently transfered to Kent State from Michigan Stateborn on --1949 in Plainview, Long Island, New York expired 5-4-1970 in Kent, Ohio age 21 cause: bullet to head | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
graphic artist John Howard Miller created the World War II "We Can Do It" poster (1942)born on 3-19-1918 expired 2-21-2004 in Evart, Michigan age 85 AKS: J Howard Miller 1918 2004 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| murder victim Joy Audrey Miller murdered during the killing spree known as the Wonderland Murders (1981) born on 5-14-1935 expired 7-1-1981 in Los Angeles, California age 46 cause: bludgeoned to death with lead pipe | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
used car dealer Lawrence Horne 'Larry H." Miller was the owner of the Utah (formerly New Orleans) Jazz NBA basketball team
expired 2-20-2009 in Salt Lake City, Utah age 64 cause: complications from Type II diabetes; calciphylaxis | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Mrs. Lillian D. Miller the "professional audience" born on 5-26-1897 expired 4-1-1990 age 92 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| younger sister of Ernest Hemingway Madelaine Hemingway Mainland Miller born on 11-28-1904 expired 1-15-1995 age 90 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
actor & narrator Marvin Miller the voice of Robby the Robot in Forbidden Planet; played Michael Anthony, the personal assistant to John Beresford Tipton on The Millionaire tv series (1955-60)
expired 2-8-1985 in Santa Monica, California age 71 cause: heart attack | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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1990 Nobel economics award winner Merton Howard Miller shared award with Markowitz & Sharpe born on 5-16-1923 in Boston, Massachusetts expired 6-3-2000 in Chicago, Illinois age 77 cause: lymphoma | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| sing-along tv host Mitchell William Miller born on 7-4-1911 in Rochester, Minnesota expired 7-31-2010 in Manhattan, New York, New York age 99
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| actress Patricia Ruth "Patsy" Miller played the dancer Esmeralda in 1923's Hunchback of Notre Dame born on 1-17-1904 in Saint Louis, Missouri expired 7-16-1995 in Palm Desert, California age 91 cause: heart failure | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| retired Campbell's Soup Co. research chemist (1950-91) Ralph A. Miller helped to develop Spaghetti- born on 2-12-1928 expired 6-9-2001 in Ormond Beach, Florida age 73 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| singer/songwriter Roger Dean Miller born on 1-2-1936 in Fort Worth, Texas expired 10-25-1992 age 56 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Motown songwriter & producer Ronald N. Miller with Orlando Murden wrote For Once In My Life born on 10-5-1932 in Chicago, Illinois expired 7-23-2007 in Santa Monica, California age 74 cause: cardiac arrest; emphysema; cancer | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| U.S. Circuit Judge William E. Miller in a 1959 Tennessee legislative redistricting case he issued a ruling requiring "one man, one vote" in legislative reapportionment, later upheald by the U.S. Supreme Court; presided over the 1962 conspiracy trial of Jimmy Hoffa expired 4-12-1976 in Cincinnati, Ohio age 69 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1964 Republican Vice Presidential candidate William Edward Miller Barry Goldwater was at the top of the ticket that year born on 3-22-1914 in Lockport, New York expired 6-24-1983 age 68 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ex-House doorman (1948-76) William Moxley "Fishbait" Miller born on 7-20-1909 in Pascagoula, Mississippi expired 9-12-1989 age 80 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| original BBC "Goon" Terence Alan "Spike" Milligan appeared with Michael Bentine, Peter Sellers and Harry Secombe on the Goon Show; knighted ("Sir Goon"???) born on 4-16-1918 in Ahmadnagar, India expired 2-27-2002 in Rye, Sussex, England age 83 cause: kidney failure
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1923 Nobel prize-winning physicist Robert Andrews Millikan isolated and measured the electron; cosmic ray researcher born on 3-22-1868 in Morrison, Illinois expired 12-19-1953 in San Marino, California age 85 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| singer Donald Mills one of the Mills Brothers born on 4-29-1915 in Piqua, Ohio expired 11-13-1999 in Los Angeles, California age 84 cause: pneumonia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| singer Harry Mills one of the Mills Brothers born on 8-19-1913 in Piqua, Ohio expired 6-28-1982 age 68 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| singer Herbert Mills one of the Mills Brothers born on 4-2-1912 in Piqua, Ohio expired 4-12-1989 age 77 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
distinguished actor Sir John Mills played Pip as a young man in Great Expectations (1946); awarded Best Supporting actor oscar for portraying Michael, the mute village idiot in Ryan's Daughter (1970)
expired 4-23-2005 in Denham, Buckinghamshire, England age 97 cause: chest infection
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| singer John Mills Sr. father of the Mills Brother (Donald, John Jr., Harry & Herbert) born on 2-11-1889 in Bellefonte, Pennsylvania expired 12-8-1967 in Bellefonte, Pennsylvania age 78 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| singer John Mills Jr. one of the Mills Brothers born on --1911 in Piqua, Ohio expired 1-??-1936 age 24 cause: tuberculosis | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Carolina Panthers assistant coach Sam Mills Jr. born on 6-3-1959 in Neptune, New Jersey expired 4-18-2005 in Charlotte, North Carolina age 45 cause: intestinal cancer
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| Proctor & Gamble chemical engineer Victor Mills lead team that developed the first mass-market disposable diapers — Pampers (1961); also created the process that forms/stacks potato "crisps", leading to Pringles born on 3-28-1897 in Milford, Nebraska expired 11-1-1997 in Tucson, Arizona age 100 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| falling-down-drunk former Arkansas congressman (1939-77) Wilbur Daigh Mills made a big splash in the D.C. Tidal Basin with stripper Fanny Fox (not his wife) born on 5-24-1909 in Kensett, Arkansas expired 5-2-1992 in Searcy, Arkansas age 82
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| author Alan Alexander Milne wrote Winnie the Pooh (1926) and The House at Pooh Corner (1928) born on 1-18-1882 in London, England expired 1-31-1956 in Hartfield, Sussex, England age 73 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Christopher Robin Milne son of A.A. Milne born on 8-21-1920 in London, England expired 4-22-1996 in London, England age 75 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
computer scientist Arthur John Robin Gorell Milner 1991 A.M. Turing Award winnerborn on 1-13-1934 in Plymouth, England expired 4-20-2010 in Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England age 76 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Mets & Pittsburgh outfielder John David Milner born on 12-28-1949 in Atlanta, Georgia expired 1-4-2000 in Atlanta, Georgia age 50 cause: cancer | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
former Bosnian Serb leader (1989-2000) Slobodan Milosevic an eager practitioner of "etničko čišćenje" ("ethnic cleansing"); indicted as a war criminal; was being tried in The Hague when he died
expired 3-11-2006 in Scheveningen, The Netherlands age 64 cause: cardiac arrest; hypertension; heart disease; acute hypotrophic epididymal infarction
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UC Berkeley Slavic languages professor Czeslaw Milosz won 1980 Nobel prize in literature born on 6-30-1911 in Szeteiniani, Lithuania, Russian Empire expired 8-14-2004 in Kraków, Poland age 93 cause: cardiovascular disease
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300 pound transvestite Harris Glenn Milstead appeared in John Waters' Pink Flamingos
expired 3-7-1988 in Los Angeles, California age 42 cause: suffocation; sleep apnea; obesity | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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immunologist César Milstein shared the 1984 Nobel prize in medicine born on 10-8-1927 in Bahia Blanca, Argentina expired 3-24-2002 in Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England age 74 AKS: Cesar Caesar | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Burlington Coat Factory co-founder (1972) Henrietta Milstein born on 6-9-1929 in Vienna, Austria expired 8-17-2001 in New York, New York age 72 cause: ovarian cancer | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| violinist Nathan Mironovich Milstein born on 12-31-1904 in Odessa, Russia expired 12-21-1992 in London, England age 87
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| early auto racer Tommy Milton winner of the Indianapolis 500 in 1921 & 1923 expired 7-10-1962 in Mount Clemens, Michigan age 68 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| supergeezer Yone Minagawa had been the world's oldest person since January 2007 born on 1-4-1893 in Fukuchi, Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan expired 8-13-2007 in Fukuchi, Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan age 114
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Hungarian Cardinal Jozsef Mindszenty after World War II he was arrested (accused of treason), tortured for months by Communist Party goons, tried in a kangaroo court and sentenced to life in prison; the army Major that released him in 1956 was shot when Russian tanks rolled into Budapest
expired 5-7-1975 in Vienna, Austria age 83 cause: heart failure following prostate surgery | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| actor Salvatore Minèo Jr. born on 1-10-1939 in New York, New York expired 2-12-1976 in Hollywood, California age 37 cause: stabbed to death | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| actress/dish soap shill Janice Miner played Madge the Manicurist in Palmolive dish liquid commercials born on 10-15-1917 in Boston, Massachusetts expired 2-15-2004 in Bethel, Connecticut age 86
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| educator Joshua Lewis Miner introduced the Outward Bound program to the U.S. (1961) born on 7-11-1920 in Plainfield, New Jersey expired 1-29-2002 in Andover, Massachusetts age 81 cause: prostate cancer | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| movie director Anthony Minghella directed The English Patient (1996; Best Director oscar) & Cold Mountain (2003) born on 1-6-1954 in Ryde, Isle of Wight, England expired 3-18-2008 in London, England age 54 cause: hemorrhage; complications from tonsil cancer surgery | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
illustrator Norman Mingo adapted an existing character image into the now-recognizable Alfred E. Neuman for Mad Magazine (1954)born on 1-20-1896 in Chicago, Illinois expired 5-8-1980 in White Plains, New York age 84 AKS: Alfred E. Newman | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| jazz bass player Charles Mingus born on 4-22-1922 in Nogales, Arizona expired 1-5-1979 in Cuernavaca, Mexico age 56 cause: heart attack; ALS
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| Hawaiian rep. (1965-1976; 1990-2002) Patsy Takemoto Mink born on 12-6-1927 in Paia, Maui, Hawaii expired 9-28-2002 in Honolulu, Hawaii age 74 cause: viral pneumonia; chickenpox | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
movie director Vincente Minnelli second husband of Judy Garland (1945-51); father of Liza Minnelli; directed Gigi (1958; Best Director oscar) & The Courtship of Eddie's Father (1963)
expired 7-25-1986 in Beverly Hills, California age 73 cause: Alzheimer's disease AKS: Vincent Minelli Minneli Mineli | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| writer Meade Minnigerode co-authored the lyrics for the Yale University Whiffenpoof Song born on 6-19-1887 expired 10-27-1967 in Essex, Connecticut age 80 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Guinness Book record holder Jon Brower Minnoch was world's heaviest person (at 629Kg) born on 9-29-1940 expired 9-10-1983 age 42 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Georg Richards Miot shared the 1934 Nobel prize in Medicine born on 12-2-1885 in Boston, Massachusetts expired 2-25-1950 in Brookline, Massachusetts age 64 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| burlesque chain opeator Abraham Bennett Minsky son of Louis Minsky born on 3-1-1881 in New York, New York expired 9-5-1949 in New York, New York age 68 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Gaiety Burlesque theater co-owner Harold Minsky son of Abraham Minsky born on 3-14-1915 in New York, New York expired 12-25-1977 in Las Vegas, Nevada age 62 cause: cancer | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| burlesque theater chain owner (with his brothers) Herbert Kay Minsky last theater closed in 1937 because of "civic disapproval" by New York City mayor Fiorello LaGuardia expired 12-21-1959 in New York, New York age 68 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| New Amsterdam governor (1626-31) Peter Minuit said to have purchased Manhattan Island for $24 worth of beads and trinkets (played in the movies by Groucho) born on --1580 in Wesel, German expired 6-??-1638 age 58 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| singer/actress Aurora Miranda da Cunha sister of Carmen; portrayed Estela Monteiro in Phantom Lady (1944; in that movie she sang "Chica-Chica-Boom-Boom") & "danced" with Donald Duck in The Three Caballeros (1944) born on 4-20-1915 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil expired 12-22-2005 age 90 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
"vegan" singer and dancer Carmen Miranda danced in movies with a pile of fruit on her head
expired 8-5-1955 in Beverly Hills, California age 41 cause: heart attack | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| day laborer/career criminal Ernesto Arturo Miranda subject of 1966 Supreme Court ruling that produced the so- born on 3-9-1941 in Mesa, Arizona expired 1-31-1976 in Phoenix, Arizona age 34 cause: knife wound | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
actress Soledad Redón Miranda played the lusty Countess Nadia Cadory in Vampyros Lesbos(1970)
expired 8-18-1970 in Lisbon, Portugal age 27 cause: car crash | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| movie producer Harold J. Mirisch co-founded the Mirisch Company - it did a number of Pink Panther movies born on 5-4-1907 in New York, New York expired 12-5-1968 in Beverly Hills, California age 60 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| movie producer Marvin Elliot Mirisch with brothers co-founder of the Mirisch Company born on 3-19-1918 in New York, New York expired 11-17-2002 in Los Angeles, California age 84 cause: heart attack | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Joan Miro born on 4-20-1893 in Barcelona, Spain expired 12-25-1983 in Palma de Majorca, Spain age 90 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| General Iskander Mirza first president of Pakistan (1956-58); deposed by Gen. Ayub Khan born on 11-13-1899 in Bombay, India expired 11-13-1969 in London, England age 70 cause: heart attack | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| undocumentable peasant supergeezer Shirali Mislimov claimed to be world's oldest person; the Guinness Book people couldn't find any documentation to back up the claim born on 5-19-1805 in Barzavu, Ukraine, USSR expired 9-1-1973 in Barzavu, Ukraine, USSR age 168 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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writer Frédéric Mistral shared the 1904 Nobel prize in literature with Echegaray born on 9-8-1830 in Maillane, Bouches-du-Rhône, France expired 3-25-1914 in Maillane, Bouches-du-Rhône, France age 83 AKS: Frederic | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chilean poet Gabriela Mistral won 1945 Nobel prize in Literature for Sonnets of Death
expired 1-10-1957 in Hempstead, Long Island, New York age 67 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| porno producer Artie Jay Mitchell with brother Jim founded the O'Farrell Theater in San Francisco (1969); co-produced Behind the Green Door (1972); shot to death by his brother born on 12-17-1945 in Lodi, California expired 2-27-1991 in Corte Madera, Marin County, California age 45 cause: shot to death | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| tenor saxophonist Billy Mitchell born on 11-3-1926 in Kansas City, Missouri expired 4-15-2001 in Rockville Centre, New York age 74 cause: lung cancer | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
actor Cameron Mitchell
expired 7-6-1994 age 75 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| actor Chuck Mitchell played title role in Porky's (1981) born on 11-28-1927 in Connecticut expired 6-22-1992 in Hollywood, California age 64 cause: cirrhosis of liver | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| original Boston Red Sox team pitcher Frederick Francis Mitchell also manages Chicago Cubs, leading them to National League pennant in 1918 born on 6-5-1878 in Cambridge, Massachusetts expired 10-13-1970 in Newton, Massachusetts age 92 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
beefcake bodybuilder Gordon Mitchell a member of Mae West's troupe of boy toys; did a bunch of grade-z sword and sandal movies like Giant of Metropolis (1961)
expired 9-20-2003 in Marina del Rey, California age 80 cause: heart attack | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| big band trombonist Grover C. Mitchell played in the Count Basie Orchestra; ended up leading it born on 3-17-1930 in Whatley, Alabama expired 8-6-2003 in New York, New York age 73 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
1950s singer Guy Mitchell
expired 7-1-1999 in Las Vegas, Nevada age 72 cause: complications following surgery | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
virulently racist Black Supremecist Hulon Mitchell Jr. ran the Nation of Yahweh "religion"; did 11 years in the federal pen for recketeering and homicide (you had to kill "whitey" & tithe one of the victim's bodyparts to gain entrance to the land of mammalian secretions and bee vomit)
expired 5-7-2007 in Opa-Locka, Florida age 71 cause: acute hypotrophic epididymal infarction; prostate cancer | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| actor James Mitchell played Palmer Cortlandt on the All My Children soap opera (1979-2009); also appeared on Broadway in Brigadoon (1947), Paint Your Wagon (1951), Carnival (1961) & Mack and Mabel (1971) born on 2-29-1920 in Sacramento, California expired 1-22-2010 in Los Angeles, California age 89 cause: pneumonia; chronic obstructive pulmonary disease | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| prono producer James Lowell "Jim" Mitchell with brother Artie founded the O'Farrell Theater in San Francisco (1969); co-produced Behind the Green Door (1972); convicted of voluntary manslaughter for shotting brother Artie to death (did 3 years of a 7 year sentence) born on 11-30-1943 in Stockton, California expired 7-12-2007 in Two Rock, Sonoma County, California (near) age 63 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Jimi Hendrix Experience drummer John "Mitch" Mitchell born on 7-9-1947 in Ealing, Middlesex, England expired 11-12-2008 in Portland, Oregon age 61 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nixon Attorney General (1969-72) John Newton Mitchell did time for his role in Watergate born on 9-15-1913 in Detroit, Michigan expired 11-9-1988 in Washington, District of Columbia age 75
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writer Margaret Munnerlyn Mitchell wrote Gone With The Wind (garnered 1936 Pulitzer prize)
expired 8-16-1949 in Atlanta, Georgia age 48 cause: injuries from being run over by automobile | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
loudmouthed Martha Mitchell estranged wife of former Attorney General John; leaked lots of juicy Watergate tidbits to press
expired 5-31-1976 in New York, New York age 56 cause: bronchial pneumonia; multiple myeloma | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| tabloid journalism victim Nellie Mitchell won $1,000,000 suing the Sun tabloid for their 1990 story, illustrated with a picture of her, about a 100 year old woman with a paper route being fired for being pregnant; the tabloid's excuse: "we thought she was dead" (insulating them from liability, they thought) born on 7-2-1895 expired 12-29-1998 in Mountain Home, Arkansas age 103 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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researcher Peter Dennis Mitchell recipient of the 1978 Nobel prize in chemistry born on 9-29-1920 in Mitcham, Surrey, England expired 4-10-1992 in Bodmin, Cornwall, England age 71 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| character actor Thomas Mitchell won Academy Award for his role in Stagecoach; played Scarlett O'Hara's father in Gone With The Wind; played Uncle Billy in Its a Wonderful Life born on 7-11-1892 in Elizabeth, New Jersey expired 12-17-1962 in Beverly Hills, California age 70 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| former General Foods research chemist (1941-76) William A. Mitchell invented a tapioca subsitute (1940s) & Pop Rocks (1956) born on 10-21-1911 in Raymond, Minnesota expired 7-26-2004 in Stockton, California age 92 cause: congestive heart failure | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| former Clovers singer William Joseph "Billy" Mitchell Jr. had hit with Love Potion No. 9 born on 1-30-1931 in Washington, District of Columbia expired 11-5-2002 in Washington, District of Columbia age 71 cause: strokes; colon cancer | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| lawyer Marvin Morris Mitchelson argued Douglas v. California (1963; gave indigent people the right to free counsel); pioneered the "palimony" lawsuit (on behalf of Michelle Triola Marvin); did two years in the Federal pen for tax fraud born on 5-7-1928 in Detroit, Michigan expired 9-18-2004 in Beverly Hills, California age 76 cause: malignant melanoma | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| character actor John N. Mitchum brother of Robert born on 9-6-1919 expired 11-27-2001 in Los Angeles, California age 82 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| actor Robert Charles Duran Mitchum movies include: River of No Return; The Enemy Below; Cape Fear; The Longest Day; Scrooged born on 8-6-1917 in Bridgeport, Connecticut expired 7-1-1997 in Santa Barbara, California age 79 cause: lung cancer & emphysema
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writer Jessica Mitford sister of Deborah, Diana (Mrs. Oswald Mosley), Nancy, Pamela and Unity; wrote "The American Way of Dying" (1963)
expired 7-23-1996 in Oakland, California age 78 cause: cancer | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| pollster Warren J. Mitofsky while working in CBS News' polling unit came up with the idea of the "exit poll" (first used in 1967) born on 9-17-1934 in The Bronx, New York, New York expired 9-1-2006 in Manhattan, New York, New York age 71 cause: aortic aneurysm | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| geezer Mitoyo Kawate briefly held "title" of world's oldest person (at least according to the drunks at Guinness) born on 5-15-1889 expired 11-11-2003 in Hiroshima, Japan age 114 cause: pneumonia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
former KGB archivist (1948-92) Vasili Nikitich Mitrokhin defected to British Intelligence with 6 trunks full of documents
expired 1-23-2004 in «undisclosed location», England age 81 AKS: Vasily Mitrokin | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| former French President François Maurice Marie Mitterand born on 10-26-1916 in Jarnac, France expired 1-8-1996 in Paris, France age 79 cause: prostate cancer | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| David Mitton a co-creator of the Thomas the Tank Engine kiddie tv series (1984) expired 5-16-2008 in London, England age 69 cause: heart attack | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
early movie cowboy Thomas Erwin "Tom" Mix
expired 10-12-1940 in Florence, Arizona age 60 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| surfer/board maker Wayne Kazunori Miyata maker of hand-crafted surfboards; one of the first surfers to be filmed performing a "tube ride" — his ride at Ohahu's Ala Moana beach appeared in The Endless Summer (1966) born on 2-17-1942 in Honolulu, Territory of Hawaii expired 3-20-2005 in Hermosa Beach, California age 63 cause: esophageal cancer | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| former Japanese prime minister (1991-93) Kiichi Miyazawa had been a longtime finance ministry aparachik that made "good"; had to resign as finance minister because of scandal but rebounded into the prime minister position; it was at a dinner with him that Bush the Elder barfed born on 10-8-1919 in Tokyo, Japan expired 6-28-2007 in Tokyo, Japan age 87 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Run-DMC dj Jason Mizell Sr.
expired 10-30-2002 in New York, New York age 37 cause: assassinated; shot in head | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
photographer Robert Henry "Bob" Mizer invented the "posing strap" (predecessor of the thong) to preserve the "modesty" of the beefcake that posed for his Athletic Model Guildborn on 3-27-1922 in Hailey, Idaho expired 5-12-1992 in Los Angeles, California age 70 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| master billiards player Stephen "Steve" Mizerak Jr. has appeared in movies & the early Miller Lite Beer commercials born on 10-12-1944 in Perth Amboy, New Jersey expired 5-29-2006 in Boca Raton, Florida age 61 cause: heart ailment; complications from gall bladder surgery; stroke | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| movie/tv composer Victor Mizzy started his career on the Major Bowes Amateur Hour; wrote theme songs for The Addams Family & Green Acres (also sang them) born on 1-9-1916 in Brooklyn, New York, New York expired 10-16-2009 in Bel Air, Los Angeles, California age 93 cause: heart failure | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| anto-aparthied organizer Wilton S. Mkwayi founded and lead the African National Congress' armed wing — Umkhonto We Sizwe (Spear of the Nation); spent 20 years in the Robben Island with Nelson Mandela born on 12-24-1923 in Middledrift, East Cape, South Africa expired 7-23-2004 in King Williams Town, South Africa age 80 cause: cancer AKS: Wilton Z | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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