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Stavros' third wife  Athina "Tina" Niarchos   former wife of Aristotle Onassis; sister of Eugenie
¤title: Marquess of Blandford 
expired 10-10-1974 in Paris, France   age 45   cause: clot induced heart attack «or» pulmonary edema
Stavros' on-and-off-and-on again wife  Eugenia Livanos Niarchos
born on --1926 in Chios, Greece
expired 5-4-1970 in Spetsopoula, Greece   age 44   cause: sleeping pill overdose
Greek shipping tycoon  Stavros Spyros Niarchos   was married to Eugenia, then Charlotte (Ford), then Eugenia again, then Tina
born on 7-3-1909 in Athens, Greece
expired 4-15-1996 in Zürich, Switzerland   age 86   cause: stroke
tap dancing brother  Fayard Antonio Nicholas   examples of his dancing may be seen in Down Argentine Way (1940) & Stormy Weather (1943)
born on 10-20-1914 in Mobile, Alabama
expired 1-24-2006 in Toluca Lake, California   age 91   cause: pneumonia; stroke
   Contest Selectors
2002JAC9.1%
2003PCD5.6%
2004PCD5.6%
2005PCD4.3%

tap dancing brother  Harold Lloyd Nicholas   once married to Dorothy Dandridge (1944-51); had a daughter by that union
born on 3-27-1919 in Winston-Salem, North Carolina
expired 7-3-2000 in New York, New York   age 81   cause: heart failure following surgery
geezer  Jassmine "Jessie" Nicholls   was oldest person in Great Britain
born on 1-25-1892
expired 10-30-2002 in Chichester, West Sussex, England   age 110
playwright  Anne Nichols   wrote Abie's Irish Rose (1922)
born on 11-26-1891 in Dales Mill, Georgia
expired 9-15-1966 in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey   age 74
actress  Barbara Nichols
¤real name: Barbara Nickeraeur 
born on 12-30-1929 in New York, New York
expired 10-5-1976 in Hollywood, California   age 46   cause: liver failure
screen writer  Dudley Nichols   co-founder and initial president of the Screen Writers Guild
born on 4-6-1895 in Wapakoneta, Ohio
expired 1-4-1960 in Hollywood, California   age 64   cause: cancer
writer & gay rights activist  John Richard "Jack" Nichols   a co-founder of the revival Mattachine Society (1961)
born on 3-16-1938 in Washington, District of Columbia
expired 5-2-2005 in Cocoa Beach, Florida   age 67   cause: complications from cancer
Texas death row inmate  Joseph Bennard Nichols
¤number 709 
born on 9-8-1961
expired 3-7-2007 in Huntsville, Texas   age 45   cause: executed; lethal injection
   Contest Selectors
2007ADWC, DFFC, DTH, DTM, JCM, OIE, PCD, QKU, RAVN, SPIT32.3%
   Scored 8.0049 points

Heaven's Gate cultist  Thomas Nichols   brother of Nichelle Nichols
born on 4-15-1938
expired 3-26-1997 in Rancho Santa Fe, California   age 58   cause: suicide
American International Pictures co-founder  James H. Nicholson
born on 9-14-1916
expired 12-10-1972   age 56   cause: brain tumor
poisoned spouse  Bruce Edward Nickell   wifey poisoned him with cyanide-laced Tylenol & tried to pass it off as part of the rash of Tylenol poisonings that were happening elsewhere in the country
born on 6-1-1934 in Winthrop, Washington
expired 6-5-1986 in King County, Washington   age 52   cause: poisoned; cyanide-laced Tylenol
automotive designer  Ned F. Nickles   created the ventiports (port holes) that were on the sides of Buicks
born on 6-2-1915
expired 10-12-1987 in Saint Clair Shores, Michigan   age 72
1960's Velvet Underground singer  Nico
¤born: Christa Päffgen 
born on 10-16-1938 in Köln, Germany
expired 7-18-1988 in Ibiza, Spain   age 49
explorer  Jean Nicolet   first European to come upon Lake Michigan (1634); explored the wilderness of Wisconsin and Michigan
born on --1598 in Cherbourg, France
expired 11-1-1642 in Sillery, Quebec, Canada   age 44
Dr.  Charles Jules Henri Nicolle   received the 1928 Nobel prize in medicine for his work on typhus
born on 9-21-1866 in Rouen, France
expired 2-28-1936 in Tunis, Tunisia   age 69
to next Ripper Victim: Annie Chapman 19th century London prostitute  Mary Ann "Polly" Nicols   first victim of Jack the Ripper
¤born: Mary Ann Walker 
born on 8-26-1845 in London, England
expired 9-8-1888 in London, England   age 43   cause: murdered; throat slit; body mutilated
French diplomat  Jean Nicot   while ambassador to Portugal he had a potent strain of tobacco named in his honor ("Nicotiana"); his name eponymously became the name of the active compound in tobacco (nicotine)
born on --1530 in Nimes, France
expired 5-5-1600 in Paris, France   age 70
Chinese Communist Field Marshall  Nie Rongzhen
born on 12-29-1899 in Jiangjin County, Sichuan Province, China
expired 5-14-1992 in Beijing, China   age 92
socialist theologian Rev.  Reinhold Niebuhr
born on 6-21-1892 in Wright City, Missouri
expired 6-1-1971 in Stockbridge, Massachusetts   age 78
major league knuckleball pitcher  Joseph Franklin "Joe" Niekro   brother of Phil
born on 11-7-1944 in Martins Ferry, Ohio
expired 10-27-2006 in Tampa, Florida   age 61   cause: brain aneurysm
radio/tv ratings king  Arthur Charles Nielsen Sr.   founded eponymous ratings company (1923)
born on 9-5-1897 in Chicago, Illinois
expired 6-1-1980 in Chicago, Illinois   age 82
   Contest Selectors
2003 DTM

tv viewing researcher  Arthur Charles Nielsen Jr.   son of the company founder
born on 4-8-1919 in Chicago, Illinois
expired 10-5-2011 in Winnetka, Illinois   age 92   cause: Parkinson's disease
   Contest Selectors
2007RIE3.2%
2008RIE3.1%
2009RIE3.3%
2010RIE3.7%

AKS: Neilsen Nielson
cover of the February 1996 issue of 'Playboy' magazine with Leslie Nielsen & several other women actor  Leslie William Nielsen   star of Forbidden Planet & Police Squad; a nephew of Jean Hersholt; did February 1996 Playboy spoof pictorial
born on 2-11-1926 in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada
expired 11-28-2010 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida   age 84   cause: pneumonia
   Contest Selectors
2005SPAM4.3%

Dr.  Jerri Lin Nielsen Fitzgerald   while stationed at the South Pole, during winter, developed breast cancer and had to treat herself
born on 3-1-1952 in Youngstown, Ohio
expired 6-23-2009 in Southwick, Massachusetts   age 57   cause: breast cancer
pioneering photographic inventor  Joseph Nicephore Niepce   produced first negative image on paper in 1816; produced first photographic image on metal in 1827, 12 years before the first Daguerreotype
born on 3-7-1765 in Chalon-sur-Saore, France
expired 4-5-1833 in Chalon-sur-Saore, France   age 68
businessman  Theodore David Nierenberg   with wife Martha founded Dansk International Designs, maker of cookware, flatware & dinnerware
born on 5-20-1923 in New York, New York
expired 7-31-2009 in Armonk, New York   age 86   cause: pancreatic cancer
former pro wrassler  Raymond E. Nieto
¤aka: "Chief War Eagle
born on 12-15-1907
expired 1-2-1989   age 81
philospher, poet  Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche   wrote This Spake Zarathustra (1891); advanced concepts of Man and Super-man; "God is Dead" (Nietzsche), "Nietzsche is Dead" (God)
born on 10-15-1844 in Rocken, Saxony
expired 8-25-1900 in Weimar, Germany   age 55
former South African apartheid government "Security" Lt. Colonel  Gideon J. Nieuwoudt   commanded the beatings & torture of Stephen Biko
born on --1951 in Adelaide, South Africa
expired 8-19-2005 in Port Elizabeth, South Africa   age 54   cause: cancer; (lung, liver, kidney, brain)
AKS: Neiuwoudt
1920s Ballets Russe choreographer and ballerina  Bronislava Nijinska   sister of Vaslav
born on 1-8-1891 in Minsk, Russia «or» Warsaw, Poland
expired 2-21-1972 in Pacific Palisades, California   age 81   cause: heart attack
ballet dancer  Vaslav Nijinski   career ended in 1919 with the onset of schizophrenia; brother of Bronislava
born on 2-28-1890 in Kiev, Ukraine, Russia
expired 4-8-1950 in London, England   age 60   cause: nephritis
Vostok 3 and Soyuz 9 cosmonaut  Adrian Grigoryevich Nikolayev   ex-husband of Valentina Tereshkova (1963-65)
born on 9-5-1929 in Shorsheliv, Chuvaskaya, Russia, USSR
expired 7-3-2004 in Cheboksary, Chuvash Autonomous Republic, Russia   age 74   cause: heart attack
singer-songwriter  Harry Edward Nilsson III   wrote Everybody's Talkin'
¤born: Harry Edward Nelson III 
born on 6-15-1941 in New York, New York
expired 1-15-1994   age 52
Wagnerian soprano  Märta Brigit Nilsson   sang the female lead in Dristan and Isodent
¤née: Svennsson 
born on 5-17-1918 in Västra Karups, Skåne, Sweden
expired 12-25-2005 in Västra Karups, Skåne, Sweden   age
AKS: Marta
World War II pacific fleet commander Admiral  Chester William Nimitz Sr.
born on 2-24-1885 in Fredericksburg, Texas
expired 2-20-1966 in San Francisco, California   age 80
   Contest Selectors
1980 RR

World War II submarine commander  Chester William Nimitz Jr.
born on 2-17-1915 in New York, New York
expired 1-2-2002 in Wellfleet, Massachusetts   age 86   cause: suicide; sleeping pill overdose
long-ago broadcaster  William Lorne "Bill" Nimmo Jr.   started at WLW-AM in 1947; was pitchman Bill the Bartender for Pabst Blue Ribbon Beer's Wednesday Night Fights; was Johnny Carson's first announcer on the ABC tv game show Who Do You Trust (1957); he left to host his own game show on CBS (For Love or Money; 1958) and recommended a guy as the show's replacement announcer — Ed McMahon
born on 6-18-1917 in Cincinnati, Ohio
expired 2-22-2011 in Milford, Ohio   age 93
sensual/erotic author  Anaïs Nin   wrote on surrealistic-feministic-subconscious topics: Delta of Venus (1977); appeared naked in a hammock in husband's movie reciting her poem Bells of Atlantis (from collection House of Incest)
¤born: Angela Anaïs Juana Antolina Rosa Edelmira Nin y Culmell 
born on 2-21-1903 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, Seine, France
expired 1-14-1977 in Los Angeles, California   age 73   cause: cardiac arrest; metastatic carcinoma
AKS: Anais
biochemist  Marshall Warren Nirenberg   shared the 1968 Nobel prize in medicine
born on 4-10-1927 in New York, New York
expired 1-15-2010 in New York, New York   age 82   cause: cancer
AKS: Nirnberg
gymnast  George Peter Nissen   developer of the modern trampoline (1934; with Larry Griswold, his coach)
born on 2-3-1914 in Blairstown, Iowa
expired 4-7-2010 in La Jolla, California   age 96   cause: complications from pneumonia
former Green Bay Packer linebacker (1958-72)  Raymond E. Nitschke
born on 12-29-1936 in Elmwood Park, Illinois
expired 3-8-1998 in Venice, Florida   age 61   cause: heart attack
Capone enforcer  Frank Nitti   started career as barber
¤born: Francesco Raffefe Nitte 
born on --1883
expired 3-19-1943 in Chicago, Illinois   age 49   cause: suicide; blew brains out
former Secretary of the Navy  Paul Henry Nitze   a cold war arms expert
born on 1-16-1907 in Amherst, Massachusetts
expired 10-19-2004 in Washington, District of Columbia   age 97   cause: pneumonia
   Contest Selectors
2003 JL5.6%

record producer & film composer  Bernard Alfred "Jack" Nitzsche   Phil Spector's arranger who orchestrated the "Wall of Sound"; once married to Buffy Saint-Marie
¤nickname: "Specs" 
born on 4-22-1937 in Chicago, Illinois
expired 8-25-2000 in Hollywood, California   age 63   cause: cardiac arrest; bronchial infection
actor  James David Graham Niven   played Sir James Bond in the spoof of Casino Royale (1967)
born on 3-1-1910 in Kirriemuir, Scotland
expired 7-29-1983 in Château D'Oex, Switzerland   age 73
Dallas-area resident  Orville T. Nix Sr.   took home movie of Kennedy assassination from opposite angle of Zapruder showing the grassy knoll
born on 11-28-1920
expired 10-3-1988 in Weatherford, Texas   age 67
Tricky Dick's dad  Francis Anthony Nixon
expired 9-4-1956 in Whittier, California   age 77
presidential mother  Hannah Milhous Nixon
born on 3-7-1885
expired 9-30-1967 in Whittier, California   age 82
Nixon leaving the White House after resigningto next U.S. president: Gerald Fordto previous U.S. president: Lyndon Johnson 37th U.S. president  Richard Milhous Nixon   president at time of first moon landing (1969); first bombed North Vietnam, then negotiated an end to the Vietnam war; established relations with Communist China; resigned from office (1974) in face of impeachment for his involvement in the coverup of the Watergate breakin (1972); "... I am not a crook ..."
¤nickname: "Tricky Dick" 
born on 1-9-1913 in Yorba Linda, California
expired 4-22-1994 in New York, New York   age 81
   Contest Selectors
1979 DO, HA, HFS, HP, JW, MM, SB, YJ61.5%
1980 DO, DR, EK, HA, JH, VA37.5%

former first lady  Thelma Catherine Patricia "Pat" Nixon
¤maiden name: Thelma C. P. Ryan 
born on 3-16-1912 in Ely, Nevada
expired 6-22-1993 in Park Ridge, New Jersey   age 81
   Contest Selectors
1979 HA, HFS, HP, JH, JW, MS, RR, VM, YJ69.2%
1980 DH, DW, HA, HP, JH, JW, MM, RR, VA56.3%

dictator  Saparmurat Atayevich Niyazov   transitioned from Communist Party head of Turkmenistan to President to President-for-Life; squandered his county's wealth on his cult of personality
born on 2-19-1940 in Ashkhabad, Turkmenistan, USSR
expired 12-19-2006 in Ashkhabad, Turkmenistan   age 66   cause: heart failure
lawyer  Louis Nizer
born on 2-6-1902 in London, England
expired 11-9-1994 in New York, New York   age 92
Zimbabwean nationalist & leader  Joshua Mqabuko Nyongolo Nkomo
¤called Umdala Wethu (our old man) 
born on 6-19-1917 in Semokwe Reserve, Matabeleland, Southern Rhodesia
expired 7-1-1999 in Harare, Zimbabwe   age 82   cause: prostate cancer
   Contest Selectors
1980 DH, EK, HA18.8%

ANC anti-apartheid activist Dr.  William Nkomo
expired 3-26-1972 in Pretoria, South Africa   age ??   cause: heart attack
Ghana prime minister (1957-60), president (1960-66)  Kwame Nkrumah   led the Gold Coast to independence as the Republic of Ghana; deposed in 1966
¤born: Francis Nwia 
born on 9-21-1909 in Nkroful, British Gold Coast
expired 4-27-1972 in Conakry, Guinea   age 62   cause: cancer

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