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Paar Jack Harold
PaarJackHarold
former Tonight Show host (1957-62)
Jack
Harold
Paar
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1918
Canton, Ohio
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2004
Greenwich, Connecticut
"a long illness"
85
Parr
NYT has Harold as MN; others have Howard
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| 2003 | ABRA, GHG, MJ, TAP | 22.2% |
| 2004 | ABRA, ADWC, MJ, SS, TAP | 22.2% |
| Scored 4.1563 points | ||
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| 2006 | CSI, NFG | 6.7% |
| 2007 | NFG | 3.2% |
| 2008 | NFG | 3.1% |
| Scored 5.2000 solo points | ||

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| 2002 | RAVN | 9.1% |
| 2003 | RAVN | 5.6% |
| 2007 | ABRA | 3.2% |
| 2008 | CSI, JCM, TWOS | 9.4% |
| Scored 4.6250 points | ||
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| 2007 | DFFC, DTH, JCM, OIE, PCD, SPIT | 19.4% |
| Scored 10.0781 points | ||
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| 2007 | LMLD | 3.2% |
| 2008 | OIE | 3.1% |
| 2009 | LMLD | 3.3% |
| Scored 10.0000 points | ||
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| 1979 | HA, HFS, MS, VM, YJ | 38.5% |
| 1980 | BB, BD, DH, DR, DW, EB, EK, GP, HA, HP, JH, JW, MM, RR, VA | 93.8% |
| Scored 4.0000 points | ||

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born on 5-1-1918 in Canton, Ohio expired 1-27-2004 in Greenwich, Connecticut age 85 cause: "a long illness"
AKS: Parr | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Finnish president (1946-56) Juho Kusti Paasikivi negotiated the 1920 Russian peace treaty establishing Finland's independence born on 11-27-1870 in Tampore, Finland expired 12-14-1956 in Helsinki, Finland age 86 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| film director Georg Wilhelm Pabst directed Die Büchse der Pandora ("Pandora's Box"; 1929) born on 8-25-1885 in Raudnitz, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary expired 5-29-1967 in Vienna, Austria age 81 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| picante sauce creator David E. Pace born on 2-22-1914 expired 12-27-1993 age 79 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
expired 10-9-1958 in Castel Gandolfo, Italy age 82 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| classical composer Johann Pachelbel known for his Canon in D born on 9-1-1653 in Nuremburg, Germany expired 3-3-1706 in Nuremburg, Germany age 52 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| HP co-founder (1938) David Packard born on 9-7-1912 in Pueblo, Colorado expired 3-26-1996 in San Francisco, California age 83 cause: pneumonia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| radio manufacturer Leon S. Packard co-founder of Packard-Bell in 1945 expired ??-??-19?? age ?? | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| prospector & cannibal Alfred G. Packer in 1873 five visitors to his cabin checked in, but didn't check out born on 11-21-1842 in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania expired 4-24-1907 in Denver, Colorado age 64 cause: indigestion? | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Aussie media baron Kerry Francis Bullmore Packer born on 12-17-1937 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia expired 12-26-2005 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia age 68 cause: kidney failure; heart failure; cancer | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| concert pianist Jan Ignace Paderewski Polish premier (1919); president of the exiled Polish parliament (1939-41) born on 11-18-1860 in Kurilovka, Poland expired 6-21-1941 in New York, New York age 80 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Broadway producer Edward V. Padula won Tony for stage production of Bye Bye Birdie born on 1-24-1916 in Newark, New Jersey expired 11-1-2001 in Southampton, New York age 85 cause: heart attack | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| virtuoso violinist Niccolò Paganini best remembered these days as the composer of a theme whos variations were rhapsodized by Rachmaninoff (some scholarship suggests that the theme was actually composed by Pleyel) born on 10-27-1782 in Genoa, Italy expired 5-27-1840 in Nice, France age 57 cause: "phthisis of the larynx" | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
former MGM actress Anita Page one of the few remaining actresses who appeared in silent movies as an adult
expired 9-6-2008 in Los Angeles, California age 98
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expired 12-11-2008 in Los Angeles, California age 85 cause: pneumonia; coma; heart attack
AKS: Betty May Paige | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| South Dakota death row inmate Elijah G. Page born on 12-11-1981 in Texas expired 7-11-2007 in Sioux Falls, South Dakota age 25 cause: executed; lethal injection
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| philanthropist George C. Page founded Mission Pak (1917); creator of the LaBrea Tar Pits Museum (1977) born on 6-28-1901 in Fremont, Nebraska expired 11-28-2000 in Carpenteria, California age 99 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| former WNET-tv producer George Henson Page created/hosted the Nature series on PBS (1982-1998) born on 3-31-1935 in Hartwell, Georgia expired 6-28-2006 in Equinunk, Pennsylvania age 71 cause: cancer | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| former heavyweight boxer Gregory Edward Page born on 10-25-1958 in Louisville, Kentucky expired 4-27-2009 in Louisville, Kentucky age 50
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| actress LaWanda Page played Esther Anderson on Sanford & Son tv series born on 10-19-1920 in Cleveland, Ohio expired 9-14-2002 in Inglewood, California age 81 cause: complications from diabetes | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Holocaust survivor Leopold "Paul" Page convinced author Thomas Keneally to write a book about Oscar Schindler (1982); convinced Steven Spielberg to make a movie based upon the book (1993); he was number 173 on The List
expired 3-9-2001 in Los Angeles, California age 87 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| jazz trumpeter Oran Thaddeus "Hot Lips" Page born on 1-27-1908 in Dallas, Texas expired 11-5-1954 in New York, New York age 46 cause: heart attack | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| playwright & film director Marcel Pagnol wrote & directed Marius (play: 1929; movie: 1931), Fanny (1931) & César (1936) trilogy; wrote & directed Manon des Sources (1953) born on 2-25-1895 in Aubagne, France (Marseilles suburb) expired 4-18-1974 in Paris, France age 79 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Alireza Pahlavi was the youngest son of the former Shah of Iran born on 4-28-1966 in Tehran, Iran expired 1-4-2011 in Boston, Massachusetts age 44 cause: suicide; gunshot to head; depression AKS: Ali-reza Ali Reza | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ex-Shah's daughter Leila Pahlavi born on 3-27-1970 in Tehran, Iran expired 6-10-2001 in London, England age 31 cause: quinalbarbitone overdose; cocain; anorexia; bulemia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ex-Shah of Iran (1941-79) Mohammed Riza Pahlavi son of Riza Pahlavi; husband of Farah; father of Riza born on 10-26-1919 in Tehran, Persia expired 7-27-1980 in Cairo, Egypt age 60 cause: circulatory collapse; liver & lymphatic cancer
AKS: Reza | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Iranian Shah (1925-41) Riza Pahlavi changed name of country from Persia to Iran; father of Mohammed Riza with second wife Taj Malek; forced to abdicate by British
expired 7-26-1944 in Johannesburg, Union of South Africa age 69 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| baseball great Leroy Robert "Satchell" Paige born on 7-7-1906 in Mobile, Alabama expired 6-8-1982 in Kansas City, Missouri age 75 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| American revolutionary Thomas Paine wrote Common Sense (January 1776) born on 1-29-1737 in Thetford, England expired 1-8-1809 in New York, New York age 72 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| NASA administrator Thomas Otten Paine born on 11-9-1921 in Berkeley, California expired 5-4-1992 age 70 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| World War I veteran John Painter born on 9-20-1888 expired 3-1-2001 in Hermitage Springs, Tennessee age 112 cause: heart attack | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| physicist Dr. George Edward Pake co-founder (1970)/first director (1970-78) of the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC); it gave us the GUI (Graphical computer User Interface), mouse, laser printer, ethernet born on 4-1-1924 in Jeffersonville, Ohio expired 3-4-2004 in Tucson, Arizona age 79 cause: heart failure; multiple system failure | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| movie director Alan Jay Pakula directed Sophie's Choice, All The President's Men (1976) and Klute born on 4-2-1928 in New York, New York expired 11-19-1998 in Plainview, New York age 70 cause: severe cranial trauma | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| movie producer/director George Pal Jr. made "epics" like When World's Collide (1951), War of the Worlds (1953), The Time Machine (1960) & Atlantis, the Lost Continent (1961) born on 2-1-1908 in Cegled, Austria-Hungary expired 5-2-1980 in Beverly Hills, California age 72 cause: heart attack | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
George Emil Palade shared the 1974 Nobel prize in medicineborn on 11-19-1912 in Iaşi, Moldavia, Roumania, Austria-Hungary expired 10-8-2008 in Del Mar, California age 95 cause: complications from Parkinson's disease
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actor Jack Palance won Best Supporting Actor oscar for playing Curly Washburn in City Slickers; Holly's dad
expired 11-10-2006 in Montecito, California age 87
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| 16th-century writing master Giambattista Palatino calligrapher & wood engraver born on --1515 in Rossano, Calabria, Italy expired ??-??-1575 in Naples, Italy age 60 AKS: Giavanbattista | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| socialite Barbara Cushing "Babe" Paley wife of William S. Paley born on 7-5-1915 in Boston, Massachusetts expired 7-6-1978 in New York, New York age 63 cause: cancer | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
acclaimed short story author Grace Paley taught at Columbia, Syracuse University & Sarah Lawrence College
expired 8-22-2007 in Thatford, Vermont age 84 cause: breast cancer | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Congress Cigar Co. founder Samuel Paley father of William S. Paley expired 3-31-1963 in Palm Beach, Florida age 87 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
long time CBS chairman William Samuel Paley spent $400,000 to buy a controlling interest in a failing radio network (September 1928) and made a going concern of it; commissioned the creation of the Museum of Broadcasting (now the Museum of Television and Radio) in 1974born on 9-28-1901 in Chicago, Illinois expired 10-26-1990 in New York, New York age 89
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| recreational ski advocate Roland Palmedo founded company that built first ski lift (1940 in Stowe, Vermont) born on 4-5-1895 expired 3-15-1977 in Williamstown, Massachusetts age 81 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Buffalo Springfield bass player Bruce Palmer born on 9-9-1946 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada expired 10-1-2004 in Belleville, Ontario, Canada age 58 cause: heart attack | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| newspaper publisher Charles M. Palmer a co-founder of the Associated Press expired 12-10-1949 in Saranac Lake, New York age 93 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| former Children's Television Workshop program creator Edward Leon Palmer co-created Sesame Street, The Electric Company, 3-2-1 Contact and Ghostwriter; had PhD. in Education from Michigan State born on 1-20-1933 in John Day, Oregon expired 8-1-1999 in Ithaca, New York age 66 cause: complications from prostate cancer | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| explorer, ship designer Nathaniel Brown Palmer captain of the sloop Hero; first person to recognize Antarctica as a "continent"; discoverer of Penninsula/Land named for him (1820) & South Orkney Islands born on 8-8-1799 in Stonington, Connecticut expired 6-21-1877 in San Francisco, California age 77 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| silent movie actress Patricia Palmer alleged to have made a deathbed confession to the murder of William Desmond Taylor born on 9-14-1894 in Colorado Springs, Colorado expired 10-21-1964 in Hollywood, California age 70 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
singer Robert Alan Palmer had pop hits with Addicted to Love (1986) & Simply Irresistible (1988; great music video)
expired 9-26-2003 in Paris, France age 54 cause: heart attack | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| director Bruce W. Paltrow father of Gwyneth by Blythe Danner born on 11-26-1943 in New York, New York expired 10-2-2002 in Rome, Italy age 58 cause: heart failure; pneumonia; throat cancer
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| master sculptor Vincenzo "Vincent" Palumbo spend decades working on the National Cathedral born on 9-10-1936 in Molfetta, Italy expired 12-21-2000 in Washington, District of Columbia age 64 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
expired 1-7-1655 in Rome, Italy age 80 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
choreographer Hermes Pan
expired 9-19-1990 age 78 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| movie writer/director/producer Norman Panama worked or collaborated with Melvin Frank on The Road To Utopia (1946; co-writer), Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House (1948; writer & co-producer), White Christmas (1954; writer), The Court Jester (1956; director) & The Maltese Bippy (1969; co-writer/ born on 4-21-1914 in Chicago, Illinois expired 1-13-2003 in Los Angeles, California age 88 cause: complications from Parkinson's disease | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| jazz critic Hugues Panassié founded the Hot Club de France (1932) born on --1912 in southern France expired 12-8-1974 in Montauban, France age 62 cause: heart attack | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| aviator Clyde Edward Pangborn made first non-stop trans-Pacific flight (1931) born on 10-28-1894 in Bridgeport, Washington expired 3-29-1958 in New York, New York age 63 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| sour-faced comedic character actor Franklin Pangborn on-screen nemesis of W.C. Fields and other comedians born on 1-23-1893 in Newark, New Jersey expired 7-20-1958 in Santa Monica, California age 59 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Serbian army general Zivota Panic one-time chief of staff, loyal to Milosevic born on 11-3-1933 expired 11-19-2003 in Gornja Cmisava, Serbia age 70 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| British dim-bulb prototype for the American welfare queen Estelle Sylvia Pankhurst loudmouthed opponent of marriage/proponent of unwed motherhood (had her own bastard at age 45) born on 5-5-1882 in Manchester, England expired 9-27-1960 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia age 78 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| particle physicist Wolfgang Kurt Hermann Panofsky major force behind construction of the Stanford linear particle accelerator born on 4-24-1919 in Berlin. Germany expired 9-24-2007 in Los Altos, California age 88 cause: heart attack | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
theater chain owner Alexander Pantages framed for rape at behest of Joe Kennedy
expired 2-17-1936 in Los Angeles, California age 68 cause: heart failure | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| former UNICEF head (1955-87) Helenkka Tradeusa Adamowski Pantaleoni born on 11-22-1906 in Brookline, Massachusetts expired 1-5-1987 in New York, New York age 80 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| professional bicyclist Marco Pantani winner of the 1998 Tour de France (last winner before Lance Armstrong;s streak) born on 1-13-1970 in Cesena, Italy expired 2-14-2004 in Rimini, Italy age 34 cause: heart attack; cocaine overdose | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| composer Sir Andrzej Panufnik born on 9-24-1914 in Warsaw, Poland expired 10-27-1991 in Twickenham, England age 77 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| sculptor Sir Eduardo Luigi Paolozzi born on 3-7-1924 in Edinburgh, Scotland expired 4-22-2005 in London, England age 81
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| Greek military dictator (1967-73) George Papadopoulos born on 5-5-1919 in Eleochorian, Greece expired 6-27-1999 in Athens, Greece age 80 cause: heart attack; cancer | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| former Greek Premier Andreas George Papandreou born on 2-5-1919 in Chios, Greece expired 6-22-1996 in Athens, Greece age 77 cause: heart attack | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Nazi war criminal Maurice Arthur Jean Papon as second-in-command of the Bordeaux area police in Vichy government sent hundreds of Jews to their deaths in concentration camps (1942-44) ... "I was just following directives"; only did 3 years of his ten year sentenceborn on 9-3-1910 in Gretz-Armainvilliers, Seine-et-Marne, France expired 2-17-2007 in in a clinic east of Paris age 96 cause: congestive heart failure
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producer Joseph Papp
expired 10-31-1991 in New York, New York age 70 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
former CBS reporter (1967-87) Icarus Nestor "Ike" Pappas was broadcasting live in the basement of the Dallas Police Department when Jack Ruby pushed passed him and shot Lee Harvey Oswald (Nov. 1963)
expired 8-31-2008 in Arlington, Virginia age 75 cause: heart failure; heart disease | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| former Xavier High School (NYC) football coach & athletic director Leo E. Paquin as a Fordham football player was member of the Seven Blocks of Granite line (class of '37) born on 12-12-1913 expired 4-22-1982 age 68 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| orchestra conductor Paul Paray lead Detroit Symphony (1952-63) born on 5-24-1886 in Treport, Normandy, France expired 10-10-1979 in Monte Carlo, Monaco age 93 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| hapless teenager Steven Earl Parent blundered into the Helter Skelter murders at Sharon Tate's home on Cielo Drive born on 2-12-1951 in California expired 8-9-1969 in Los Angeles, California age 18 cause: murdered; shot 4 times, stabbed once | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| jazz clarinetist Anthony "Tony" Parenti his music had a mellow New Orleans-style to it born on 8-6-1900 in New Orleans, Louisiana expired 4-17-1972 in New York, New York age 71 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
expired 3-25-1455 in Rome, Italy age 57 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| character actor Sydney Woodrow Parfrey born on 10-5-1922 in New York, New York expired 7-29-1984 in Los Angeles, California age 61 cause: heart attack | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
mystery/historical novelist Edith Pargeter author of Brother Cadfael mysteries
expired 10-14-1995 in Horsehay, Shropshire, England age 82 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| jazz bassist Charles Valdez "Truck" Parham born on 1-25-1911 in Chicago, Illinois expired 6-5-2002 in Chicago, Illinois age 91 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Shuttle STS-35 & 67 astronaut Ronald Anthony "Ron" Parise born on 5-24-1951 in Warren, Ohio expired 5-9-2008 in Silver Spring, Maryland age 56 cause: brain tumor; brain cancer | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| interior designer Dorothy May Kinnicutt "Sister" Parish Mrs. Henry Parish II born on 7-15-1910 in Morristown, New Jersey expired 9-8-1994 in Dark Harbor, Maine age 84 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| lyricist Michael Parish co-wrote Stardust and Volare born on 7-10-1900 in Lithuania expired 3-31-1993 in New York, New York age 92 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| former Air Chief Marshall Keith Park lead Air Group 11 during the Battle of Britain born on 6-15-1892 in Thames, New Zealand expired 2-6-1975 in Auckland, New Zealand age 82 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
former bodybuilder Reginald Park Jr. a 3-time Mr. Universe; "inspired" Arnold to become the muscle-bound oaf that he is today
expired 11-22-2007 in Joburg, South Africa age 79 cause: metastatic melanoma | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| South Korean president (1961-79) Park Chung-hee born on 9-30-1917 in Sosan Gun, Taegu Region, Korea expired 10-26-1979 in Seoul, South Korea age 62 cause: shot to death
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| gallery director Hiram Haney Parke co-founder of the Parke-Bernet galleries (1937) expired 4-1-1959 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania age 85 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| stage actor William Parke original Mr. Witherspoon in stage production of Arsenic and Old Lace expired 7-28-1941 in New York, New York age 68 cause: heart attack | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| violent criminal Bonnie Parker killed 12 people with Clyde Barrow born on 10-1-1910 in Rowena, Texas expired 5-23-1934 in Gibsland, Louisiana age 23 cause: hail of machine gun file | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
cartoonist Brant Julian Parker co-creator of The Wizard of Id comic strip (1964); also did the Crock strip; received the 1984 Reuben Awardborn on 8-26-1920 in Los Angeles, California expired 4-15-2007 in Lynchburg, Virginia age 86 cause: complications from Alzheimer's disease; complications from stroke | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| actress Cecilia Parker born on 4-26-1905 in Fort William, Ontario, Canada expired 7-25-1993 in Ventura, California age 88 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chan Richardson Parker last wife of Charlie Parker
expired 9-9-1999 in Estampes, France age 74 cause: cancer | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
"progressive" jazz alto-saxophonist Charles Christopher "Charlie" Parker
expired 3-12-1955 in New York, New York age 34 cause: heart attack | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Doris June Snyder Parker 3rd & last "legal" wife of Charlie Parker (1948-50) born on 8-16-1922 in Rock Island, Illinois expired 1-17-2000 in New York, New York age 77 cause: respiratory failure | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Algonquin Round Table wit Dorothy Rothschild Parker writer for the New Yorker magazine born on 8-22-1893 in West Bend, New Jersey expired 6-7-1967 in New York, New York age 73 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indiana supergeezer Edna Parker had been the (Guinness-recognized) oldest person in the world
expired 11-26-2008 in Shelbyville, Indiana age 115
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| pool hustler "Fast" Edward R. "Eddie" Parker an inspiration for The Hustler (1959) born on 6-2-1931 in Springfield, Missouri expired 2-2-2001 in South Padre Island, Texas age 69 cause: heart attack | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| tv Davy Crockett actor Fess Elisha Parker Jr. played small plane pilot Crotty in Them! (1954) born on 8-16-1924 in Fort Worth, Texas expired 3-18-2010 in Santa Ynez, California age 85
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actress Jean Parker appeared in Flying Deuces
expired 11-30-2005 in Woodland Hills, California age 90 cause: complications from stroke | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| comedian Lew Parker played Marlo Thomas' father on That Girl tv series born on 10-29-1907 in New York, New York expired 10-27-1972 in New York, New York age 64 cause: cancer | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| inventor Louis W. Parker born on 1-1-1906 in Budapest, Austria-Hungary expired 6-21-1993 age 87 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
flamboyant dentist "Painless" Parker built up Pacific coast chain of dental offices using show girls, circuses and whatever other distractions he could think of
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| Doctor Ralph R. Parker co-discovered vaccine for Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever expired 9-4-1949 in Hamilton, Montana age 61 cause: heart attack | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| detective novel author Robert Brown Parker created the private detective Spencer who appeared in 40 books born on 9-17-1932 in Springfield, Massachusetts expired 1-18-2010 in Cambridge, Massachusetts age 77 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hole-in-the-Wall outlaw Robert Leroy Parker partners in crime with The Sundance Kid
expired ??-??-1909 in San Vincente, Bolivia age 43 cause: shoot-out | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
model/actress Suzy Parker
expired 5-3-2003 in Montecito, California age 69 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
(not really a) Colonel Thomas Andrew "Tom" Parker Elvis Presley's manager
expired 1-21-1997 in Las Vegas, Nevada age 87 cause: complications from stroke
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| Los Angeles police chief (1951-66) William H. Parker the "exploits" of his department were the inspiration for the movie L.A. Confidential (1997) born on --1902 in Lead, South Dakota expired 7-16-1966 in Los Angeles, California age 64 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Cylce World founder/publisher (1962) Joseph Conrad Parkhurst born on 10-20-1926 in Jonesboro, Arkansas expired 12-12-2000 in Costa Mesa, California age 74 cause: pulmonary blood clot; lung cancer | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Allen H. Parkinson Sleep-Eze developer (1948; originally called Persomnia); founded the Movieland Wax Museum (1962) born on 1-26-1919 in Rexburg, Idaho expired 8-19-2002 in Warwick, Rhode Island age 83 cause: cancer | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| paleontologist & physician Dr. James Parkinson wrote Essay on the Shaking Palsy (1817) describing the disease that would be named after him; also, wrote first published paper on Appendicitis (1812) born on 4-11-1755 in Hoxton Square, Shoreditch, London, England expired 12-21-1824 in London, England age 69 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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expired 6-21-2010 in Puako, South Kohala, Island of Hawaii, Hawaii age 68 cause: drown; heart failure AKS: Alison | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
long time Miss America Pageant host (1955-79) Bert Parks introduced song There She Is, Miss America in 1955 (his first year as host); played the father of Herb Tarlek on WKRP in Cincinnati
expired 2-2-1992 in La Jolla, California age 77 cause: lung cancer
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| former Life Magazine photographer (1948-72) Gordon Roger Alexander Buchanan Parks Sr. directed Shaft (1971) & Shaft's Big Score (1972); co-founded Essence Magazine born on 11-30-1912 in Fort Scott, Kansas expired 3-7-2006 in New York, New York age 93 cause: cancer
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| filmmaker Gordon Roger Alexander Buchanan Parks Jr. directed SuperFly (1972) born on 12-7-1934 in Minneapolis, Minnesota expired 4-3-1979 in Nairobi, Kenya age 44 cause: plane crash | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| barber Raymond A. Parks husband of Rosa Parks born on 2-12-1903 in Alabama expired 8-??-1977 in Detroit, Michigan age 74 cause: cancer | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
seamstress & civil rights pioneer Rosa Louise McCauley Parks on December 1st, 1955 refused to yield her bus seat to a white passenger, prompting her arrest, followed by a bus system boycottborn on 2-4-1913 in Tuskegee, Alabama expired 10-24-2005 in Detroit, Michigan age 92 cause: hypertension; dementia
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| movie actor Samuel Klausman Lawrence "Larry" Parks screwed his own acting career by admitting to congress past membership in the Communist Party (1951); husband of Betty Garrett born on 12-13-1914 in Olathe, Kansas expired 4-13-1975 in Studio City, California age 60 cause: heart attack | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| hot-rodder Wallace Gordon "Wally" Parks co-founded Hot Rod magazine (1947) & founded the National Hot Rod Association (1951) born on 1-23-1913 in Goltry, Oklahoma expired 9-28-2007 in Burbank, California age 94 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| presidential wife Park Yook Young Soo expired 8-15-1974 in Seoul, South Korea age 48 cause: assassinated | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| former Dallas Cowboys cheerleader Michelle Leigh Parma appeared on Road Rules - Europe (1996); was involved in the August 4, 1998 internet hoax where a "virgin" (Michelle) was to lose her cherry "live" via webcast born on 1-14-1975 in Fairfax, Virginia expired 10-19-2002 in Willis, Montgomery County, Texas (just south of) age 27 cause: car crash | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
convicted pedophile Kenneth Eugene Parnell 1972 kidnapper of Stephen Stayner; busted January 2003 for trying to "buy" a young maleborn on 9-26-1931 in Amarillo, Texas expired 1-21-2008 in Vacaville, California age 72 cause: cancer | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| purported Polish geezer Paweł Parniak mom was supposedly born in 1875 (causing the gerontology police to suspect his birthdate) born on 2-27-1890 in Ukraine, Austria-Hungary expired 3-27-2006 in Wolibórz, Poland age 116 AKS: Pawel | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Catherine Parr Henry VIII sixth (and last) wife born on --1520 expired 9-5-1548 age 28 cause: during childbirth | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| geezer Mary L. Parr at time of death was oldest person in U.S. & second oldest in world born on 2-1-1889 in Mishawaka, Indiana expired 10-29-2002 in Saint Petersburg, Florida age 113 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Ysmael L. Parra in 1942 one of eleven "Sleepy Lagoon" (Zoot Suit) murder trial defendants (convictions overturned in 1944)
expired 2-23-2001 in Richmond, Virginia age 82 cause: Alzheimer's disease | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
actress Julie Parrish winner of the Miss Cinerama beauty contest; played Miss Piper in original series Star Trek episode The Menagerie, Part I
expired 10-1-2003 in Tarzana, California age 62 cause: ovarian cancer AKS: Parish | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| actor, director, Academy Award-winning film editor Robert Parrish acted in City Lights and All Quiet on the Western Front; won Oscar for Body and Soul (1947) born on 1-4-1916 in Columbus, Georgia expired 12-4-1995 in Southampton, New York age 79 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Ara's grandaughter Christa M. Parseghian born on 4-12-1991 expired 10-23-2001 in Tucson, Arizona age 10 cause: Niemann-Pick Type C disease
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| sick kid Marcia Kristan Parseghian grand-daughter of Ara born on 11-21-1988 expired 8-6-2005 in Tucson, Arizona age 16 cause: complications from Niemann-Pick Type C disease
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| anarchist Albert R. Parsons husband of Lucy; convicted in a Chicago "kangaroo court" of the May 4th, 1886 Haymarket Square bombing; received post-mortum "pardon" by the governor for the lack of a fair trial born on 6-24-1848 in Montgomery, Alabama expired 11-11-1887 in Chicago, Illinois age 39 cause: hanged | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| former NASCAR driver Benjamin S. "Benny" Parsons born on 7-12-1941 in North Wilkesboro, Wilkes County, North Carolina (near) expired 1-16-2007 in Charlotte, North Carolina age 65 cause: lung cancer
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| Hearst newspaper chain Hollywood gossip columnist (1922-65) Louella Oettinger Parsons for years feuded with Hedda Hopper born on 8-6-1880 in Freeport, Illinois expired 12-9-1972 in Santa Monica, California age 92 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| anarchist Lucy Eldine Parsons husband Albert was hanged for the Haymarket Square bombing born on --1853 in Waco, Texas expired 3-7-1942 in Chicago, Illinois age 88 cause: burned to death in house fire | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| character actress Nancy A. Parsons played gym teacher Beulah Ballbricker in Porky's (1981) born on 1-17-1942 in Minnesota expired 1-5-2001 in La Crosse, Wisconsin age 58 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| World War II Army Capt. William Sterling "Deak" Parsons in charge of the weapon aboard the Enola Gay; later an General, in charge of the weapons at the Bikini Atoll test site born on 11-26-1901 in Chicago, Illinois expired 12-5-1953 in Bethesda, Maryland age 52 cause: heart attack | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| former sailor "Captain" James "Jim" Parsonson MacRae Knitting Mills employee that gave name to new company product — the Speedo swimsuit (1928) born on ??-??-19?? expired ??-??-19?? age ?? | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| avant-garde "composer" Harry Partch made up new musical scales and instruments born on 6-24-1901 in Oakland, California expired 9-2-1974 in San Diego, California age 73 cause: heart attack | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
cartoonist Virgil Franklin Partch drew for a number of magazines, including Colliers, Saturday Evening Post, Look, New Yorker, True, Esquire & Playboy; created character "Big George"
expired 8-10-1984 in Newhall, California age 67 cause: automobile accident on I-5 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| mathematician Blaise Pascal developed Pascal's Law born on 6-19-1623 in Clermon-Ferrand, France expired 8-19-1662 in Paris, France age 39 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| former American League umpire (1945-53) Arthur Passarella had an acting gig playing Sgt. Sekuvolich on The Streets of San Francisco tv series born on 12-23-1909 expired 10-12-1981 in Hemet, California age 71 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Frédéric Passy a co-founder of the Inter-Parliamentary Union; shared the first Nobel prize in peace (1901)born on 5-20-1822 in Paris, France expired 6-12-1912 in Paris, France age 84 AKS: Frederic | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Nobel literature prize-winning author Boris Leonidovich Pasternak wrote Doctor Zhivagoborn on 2-10-1890 in Moscow, Russia expired 5-30-1960 in Peredelkino, Russia, USSR age 70 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| film producer Joseph Vincent Pasternak born on 9-19-1901 in Szilagy-Smoloyn, Roumania expired 9-13-1991 age 89 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| chemist & bacteriologist Louis Pasteur devised method of killing bacteria in milk (Pasteurization); developed vaccine for rabies born on 12-27-1822 in Dole, France expired 9-28-1895 in Saint-Cloud, France age 72 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| former Rhode Island governor (1945-50) & senator (1950-76) John Orlando Pastore Sr. like to get his puss on the tube denouncing sex and violence born on 3-17-1907 in Providence, Rhode Island expired 7-15-2000 in North Kingstown, Rhode Island age 93 cause: kidney failure; Parkinson's disease | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| character actor Robert Joseph Pastorelli played Eldin Bernecky on Murphy Brown tv series & Gerry Fitzgerald on Cracker (1997; a U.S. ripoff of British series of same name) born on 6-21-1954 in New Brunswick, New Jersey expired 3-8-2004 in Los Angeles, California age 49 cause: acute cocaine-morphine (heroin) toxicity | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Dirta Pasztory Bela Bartok's widow expired 11-21-1982 age 80 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| character actor Michael Pataki appeared twice in the Star Trek franchise: in 1988 as Kamas in the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "Too Short a Season" & as Commander Korax in the original Star Trek series episode The Trouble With Tribbles (1968) — was the first to speak the Klingon language (later fleshed-out by Marc Okrand) — started the bar fight at the space station by suggesting to Scotty that "... the Enterprise should be hauled away AS garbage!" born on 1-16-1938 in Youngstown, Ohio expired 4-15-2010 in North Hollywood, California age 72 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| British World War I veteran Henry John "Harry" Patch was the last soldier who fought in the Battle of Passchendaele born on 6-17-1898 expired 7-25-2009 in Wells, Somerset, England age 111
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character actor Michael Pate
expired 9-1-2008 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia age 88 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| BBC Two Fat Ladies cooking show co-host Jennifer Paterson born on 4-3-1928 in London, England expired 8-10-1999 in London, England age 71 cause: lung cancer AKS: Patterson | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| French movie industry pioneer Charles Pathé born on 12-25-1863 in Chevry Cossigny, France expired 12-25-1957 in Monte Carlo, Monaco age 94 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
former Bolivian peasant Simon Iturri Patino one of the world's wealthiest men
expired 4-20-1947 in Buenos Aires, Argentina age 86 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| baseball clown Max Patkin born on 1-10-1920 in South Philadelphia, Pennsylvania expired 10-30-1999 in Paoli, Pennsylvania age 79 cause: aortic aneurysm | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| former congressman (1929-76) John Williams Wright Patman born on 8-6-1893 in Patman's Switch, Texas expired 3-7-1976 in Bethesda, Maryland age 82 cause: pneumonia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| silent movie director Stuart Paton directed first version of 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea expired 12-16-1944 in Los Angeles, California age 61 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| character actor Dennis Patrick born on 3-14-1918 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania expired 10-13-2002 in Los Angeles, California age 84 cause: smoke inhalation (apartment fire) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
writer John Patrick won Pulitzer Prize for adapting the book Teahouse of the August Mooninto a stage play (also wrote the movie screenplay); wrote screenplays for Three Coins in the Fountain (1956), The World of Suzi Wong, High Society and Love is a Many Splendored Thing
expired 11-7-1995 in Delray Beach, Florida age 90 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Detroit Lions play-by-play broadcaster Van Patrick owner of WKNR during the heyday of rock & roll radio born on 8-15-1916 expired 9-29-1974 in South Bend, Indiana age 58 cause: heart attack | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Soyuz 11 cosmonaut Viktor Ivanovich Patsayev died when the cabin depressurized during re-entry born on 6-19-1933 in Aktuybinsk, Kazakhstan, USSR expired 6-30-1971 in Dzherkazgan, USSR age 38 cause: hypoxia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| backup singer Edward Patten one of Gladys Knight's Pips (also her cousin) born on 8-2-1939 in Atlanta, Georgia expired 2-25-2005 in Livonia, Michigan age 65 cause: complications from stroke | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| actress Luana Patten played Ginny Favers, one of the children in Disney's Song of the South (1946) born on 7-6-1938 in Long Beach, California expired 5-1-1996 in Long Beach, California age 57 cause: respiratory failure AKS: Patton | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| jazz musician & character actor Moultrie Patten Sr. played Walt Kupfer on the Northern Exposure tv series (1993-95) born on 6-10-1919 in Detroit, Michigan expired 3-18-2009 in Beaverton, Oregon age 89 cause: pneumonia
AKS: Moultree Moltrie Patton Pattun | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Newsday co-founder and publisher Alicia Patterson
expired 7-2-1963 in New York, New York age 56 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Edison research assistant Charles D. Patterson expired 10-19-1943 in Troy, New York age 77 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| actor/comedian Dick N. Patterson born on 4-11-1929 in Clear Lake, Iowa expired 9-20-1999 in Los Angeles, California age 70 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
actor Elmer Calvin "Hank" Patterson played Fred Ziffel on Green Acres; was the "father" of Arnold Ziffelborn on 10-9-1888 in Springville, Alabama expired 8-23-1975 in Woodland Hills, California age 86 cause: bronchial pneumonia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| former heavyweight boxer Floyd Patterson won a gold medal in the 1952 Olympics boxing as a middleweight born on 1-4-1935 in Waco, North Carolina expired 5-11-2006 in New Paltz, New York age 71 cause: prostate cancer; Alzheimer's disease | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| journalist/promoter Harry Thomas "Tom" Patterson founded the Stratford Festival in Ontario born on 6-11-1920 in Stratford, Ontario, Canada expired 2-20-2005 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada age 84 cause: pneumonia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Scottsboro Boys defendant Heywood Patterson subject of Patterson v Alabama Supreme Court ruling requiring adequate counsel for defendants born on --1913 in Elberton, Georgia expired 8-22-1952 in Jackson, Michigan age 39 cause: cancer | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| New York Daily News tabloid founder & publisher Joseph Medill Patterson born on 1-6-1879 in Chicago, Illinois expired 5-26-1946 in New York, New York age 67 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Communist & Marxist Louise Alone Thompson Patterson one-time secretary of Langston Hughes
expired 8-27-1999 in New York, New York age 97 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
former rodeo rider & hay farmer Roger Patterson (with Robert Gimlin) took only footage of Bigfoot (10-20-1967) in Six Rivers National Forestborn on 2-14-1933 expired 1-??-1972 in Yakima, Washington age 38 cause: cancer | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Albert Patton co-founded the Harlem Globetrotters born on 1-6-1910 expired 5-27-2000 in Los Angeles, California age 90 cause: stabbed to death during robbery | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
formidable World War II Third Army general George Smith Patton Jr. military historian; master strategist; rescued Bastogne (France) during Battle of the Bulge
expired 12-21-1945 in Heidelberg, Germany age 60 cause: injuries suffered in auto accident | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| child abductee Etan Patz declared legally dead 6/18/2001 born on 12-5-1972 in New York, New York expired 5-25-1979 in New York, New York age 6 cause: murdered | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Greek monarch (1947-64) King Paul I father of Spanish Queen Sofia born on 12-14-1901 in Athens, Greece expired 3-6-1964 in Tatoi, Greece age 62 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| suffragette Dr. Alice Paul co-founded the National Woman's Party (1913); a principle author of the defunct Equal Rights Amendment born on 1-11-1885 in Moorestown, New Jersey expired 7-9-1977 in Moorestown, New Jersey age 92 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
guitarist Les Paul once partnered with (and married to) Mary Ford
expired 8-13-2009 in White Plains, New York age 94 cause: pneumonia
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| plump actor Richard Paul born on 6-6-1940 in Los Angeles, California expired 12-25-1998 in Studio City, California age 58 cause: cancer | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
physicist Wolfgang Paul shared the 1989 Nobel prize in physicsborn on 8-10-1913 in Lorenzkirch, Saxony, Germany expired 12-7-1993 in Bonn, Germany age 90 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
1945 Nobel prize-winning physicist Wolfgang Ernst Friedrich Pauli helped formulate the basic laws of electronics, including the "exclusion" principleborn on 4-25-1900 in Vienna, Austria-Hungary expired 12-15-1958 in Zürich, Switzerland age 58 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Dr. Linus Carl Pauling double Nobel laureate: 1954 Chemistry &nsbp; 1962 Peaceborn on 2-28-1901 in Portland, Oregon expired 8-19-1994 in Big Sur, California age 93
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| Stalinist Soviet police agent Karl-Leonhard Paulov did time in an Estonian prison for his crimes against the people born on --1915 expired 2-??-2002 in Estonia age 77 cause: bladder cancer & liver disease | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| engineer/inventor Edward Arthur Pauls came up with the idea for the Nordic Track exercise equipment (1976) born on 8-28-1931 in Sheboygan, Wisconsin expired 10-9-2011 in Montrose, Colorado age 80 cause: complications from Alzheimer's disease | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| character actor Albert Paulsen played lots of villains born on 12-13-1929 in Guayaquil, Equador expired 4-25-2004 in Los Angeles, California age 74 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
comedian & Olive Oil Party Presidential candidate Pat Paulsen appeared on the Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour; subject of October 1968 Playboy "interview"born on 7-6-1927 in South Bend, Indiana expired 4-24-1997 in Tijuana, Mexico age 69 cause: cancer | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chun King (1947) & Jeno's Pizza (1967) purveyor Jeno Paulucci
expired 11-24-2011 in Duluth, Minnesota age 93 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Carnegie-Mellon computer science profeessor Randolph Frederick "Randy" Pausch author of Last Lecture book & video born on 10-23-1960 expired 7-25-2008 in Chesapeake, Virginia age 47 cause: pancreatic cancer
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born on 10-12-1935 in Modena, Emilia-Romagna, Italy expired 9-6-2007 in Modena, Emilia-Romagna, Italy age 71 cause: kidney failure; pancreatic cancer
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Serbian Orthodox Church spiritual leader Pavle His Holiness, the Archbishop of Peć, Metropolitan Belgrade and Karlovci, Serbian Patriarch Pavle (1991-2009)
expired 11-15-2009 in Belgrade, Serbia age 95 cause: cardiac arrest
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Dr. Ivan Petrovich Pavlov won the 1904 Nobel prize in physiology for his work on the physiology of digestion; the down side — a lab full of slobbering muttsborn on 9-14-1849 in Ryazan, Russia expired 2-27-1936 in Leningrad, RUssia, USSR age 86 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| coup plotter Valentin Sergeyevich Pavlov a former Soviet Prime Minister (Jan-Aug 1991); concocted the "State Emergency Committee" as a front to strip Gorbachev of power; the failed coup set off the collapse of the Soviet Union born on 9-26-1937 in Moscow, Russia, USSR expired 3-30-2003 in Moscow, Russia age 65 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| actress Katina Paxinou won 1943 Supporting Actress oscar for her performance in as Pilar For Whom the Bell Tolls born on 12-17-1900 in Piraeus, Greece expired 2-22-1973 in Athens, Greece age 72 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
country singer Johnny Paycheck "take this database & shove it"
expired 2-18-2003 in Nashville, Tennessee age 64 cause: respiratory failure; emphysema; asthma
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| pioneering black female television news anchor Beverly Payne expired 11-12-1999 in San Francisco, California age 54 cause: cervical cancer | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| actor John Payne born on 5-23-1912 in Roanoke, Virginia expired 12-6-1989 in Malibu, California age 77 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| radio actress Virginia Payne played Ma Perkins (1933-60) born on 9-19-1908 expired 2-10-1977 in Cincinnati, Ohio age 68 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| New York Mets principal owner Joan Whitney Payson born on 2-5-1903 in New York, New York expired 10-4-1975 in New York, New York age 72 cause: complications from stroke | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
1940s/50s bombshell mis-fire Barbara Lee Payton a real sad case: liked wild sex & booze way too much; as her career skidded to a messy crash appeared in such low budget gems as Bride of the Gorilla (1951); briefly married to actor Franchot Tone (for all of 53 days in 1952); increasingly turned to drugs, later turning tricks in Hollywood for almost nothing
expired 5-8-1967 in San Diego, California age 39 cause: heart & liver failure | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Four Tops singer Lawrence Payton born on 3-2-1938 in Detroit, Michigan expired 6-20-1997 age 59 cause: liver cancer | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
hall-of-fame former Chicago Bears running back Walter Jerry Payton
expired 11-1-1999 in Barrington, Illinois age 45 cause: cancer of bile duct; liver disease (primary sclerosing cholangitis) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
author Octavio Paz Lozano won 1990 Nobel literature prizeborn on 3-31-1914 in Mexico City, Mexico expired 4-19-1998 in Mexico City, Mexico age 84 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Top A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O Pa - Pd Pe - Ph Pi - Pn Po - Pt Pu - Pz P Q R S T U V W X Y Z Main |
| Contest Selectors | ||
| 2007 | RR, WEP | 6.5% |
| Contest Selectors | ||
| 1979 | JH | 7.7% |
| 2002 | RAVN | 9.1% |
| 2003 | ABRA | 5.6% |
| 2004 | ADWC, RIE | 11.1% |
| 2005 | ADWC, BYE, RIE | 13.0% |
| 2006 | BYE, RIE, WEP | 10.0% |
| Scored 4.4250 points | ||
| Contest Selectors | ||
| 1979 | RR | 7.7% |
| 1980 | BD, RR, VA | 18.8% |
| Contest Selectors | ||
| 2002 | TMTX | 9.1% |
| Scored 9.2000 solo points | ||
| Contest Selectors | ||
| 2001 | BOD | 12½% |
| 2002 | BOD | 9.1% |
| 2004 | BOD | 5.6% |
| 2005 | BOD | 4.3% |
| Scored 6.9000 solo points | ||
| Contest Selectors | ||
| 2004 | RAVN | 5.6% |
| 2005 | RAVN | 4.3% |
| 2006 | DTM, PCD, RAVN | 10.0% |
| 2007 | DTH, DTM, NFG, PCD, RR | 16.1% |
| Scored 3.0563 points | ||
| Contest Selectors | ||
| 1979 | HP | 7.7% |
| Scored 6 solo points | ||
Parker Cecilia
ParkerCecilia
actress
Cecilia
Parker
4
26
1905
Fort William, Ontario, Canada
7
25
1993
Ventura, California
88
Parker Chan Richardson
ParkerChanRichardson
Chan
Richardson
Parker
born: Beverly Dolores Berg
last wife of Charlie Parker
1925
New York, New York
9
9
1999
Estampes, France
cancer
74
Parker Charles Christopher
ParkerCharlesChristopher
"progressive" jazz alto-saxophonist
Charles
Christopher "Charlie"
Parker
aka: "Yardbird" or "Bird"
8
29
1920
Kansas City, Kansas
3
12
1955
New York, New York
heart attack
34
Parker Doris June Snyder
ParkerDorisJuneSnyder
Doris
June Snyder
Parker
3rd & last "legal" wife of Charlie Parker (1948-50)
8
16
1922
Rock Island, Illinois
1
17
2000
New York, New York
respiratory failure
77
Parker Dorothy Rothschild
ParkerDorothyRothschild
Algonquin Round Table wit
Dorothy
Rothschild
Parker
writer for the New Yorker magazine
8
22
1893
West Bend, New Jersey
6
7
1967
New York, New York
73
Parker Edna
ParkerEdna
Indiana supergeezer
Edna
Parker
née: Scott
had been the (Guinness-recognized) oldest person in the world
4
20
1893
Morgan County, Indiana
11
26
2008
Shelbyville, Indiana
115
some sites give PlOBth as Shelbyville
3 obits: AP; LATimes; alt.obits
| Contest Selectors | ||
| 2007 | RPRM | 3.2% |
| 2008 | DFFC, PCD, RPRM, RR, WEP, 4GUE | 18.8% |
| Scored 1.0781 solo points | ||
| Contest Selectors | ||
| 2002 | JEDS | 9.1% |
| 2003 | JEDS, OGGI | 11.1% |
| 2008 | ADWC, JCM | 6.3% |
| Contest Selectors | ||
| 1979 | JW | 7.7% |


| Contest Selectors | ||
| 2004 | GHG | |
| Contest Selectors | ||
| 2004 | GHG | 5.6% |
| 2005 | GHG | 4.3% |
| 2006 | GHG | 3.3% |
| Scored 5.7000 solo points | ||
| Contest Selectors | ||
| 2000 | BOD, IVY, RR | 43% |
| 2001 | BOD, DTM, KLS, NFG, RR | 62½% |
| 2002 | BOD, DTM, JAC, MORB, RR | 45.5% |
| 2003 | DTM, JEDS, KLS, KOHD, OGGI, PCD, RR | 38.9% |
| 2004 | ABRA, BOD, DTM, EOD, KLS, NFG, PCD, RIE, RR | 50.0% |
| 2005 | ANG, BOD, DTM, KLS, MOT, NFG, PCD, QKU, RAVN, RIE, RR, SLIM | 52.2% |
| Scored 3.3012 points | ||
Parniak Pawel
ParniakPawel
purported Polish geezer
Paweł
Parniak
mom was supposedly born in 1875 (causing the gerontology police to suspect his birthdate)
2
27
1890
Ukraine, Austria-Hungary
3
27
2006
Wolibórz, Poland
116
Pawel
Parr Catherine
ParrCatherine
Catherine
Parr
Henry VIII sixth (and last) wife
1520
9
5
1548
during childbirth
28
Parr Mary L
ParrMaryL
geezer
Mary
L.
Parr
at time of death was oldest person in U.S. & second oldest in world
2
1
1889
Mishawaka, Indiana
10
29
2002
Saint Petersburg, Florida
113
Parra Ysmael L
ParraYsmaelL
Ysmael
L.
Parra
nickname: "Smiles"
in 1942 one of eleven "Sleepy Lagoon" (Zoot Suit) murder trial defendants (convictions overturned in 1944)
1
15
1919
Superior, Arizona
2
23
2001
Richmond, Virginia
Alzheimer's disease
82
Parrish Julie
ParrishJulie
actress
Julie
Parrish
real name: Ruby Joyce Wilbar
winner of the Miss Cinerama beauty contest; played Miss Piper in original series Star Trek episode The Menagerie, Part I
10
21
1940
Middlesboro, Kentucky
10
1
2003
Tarzana, California
ovarian cancer
62
Parish
spent her teens living in Tecumseh MI
Parrish Robert
ParrishRobert
actor, director, Academy Award-winning film editor
Robert
Parrish
acted in City Lights and All Quiet on the Western Front; won Oscar for Body and Soul (1947)
1
4
1916
Columbus, Georgia
12
4
1995
Southampton, New York
79
Parseghian Christa M
ParseghianChristaM
Ara's grandaughter
Christa
M.
Parseghian
4
12
1991
10
23
2001
Tucson, Arizona
Niemann-Pick Type C disease
10
| Contest Selectors | ||
| 2002 | JAC | |
| Contest Selectors | ||
| 2002 | JAC | 9.1% |
| 2003 | JL, PCD | 11.1% |
| 2004 | PCD | 5.6% |
| 2005 | ANG | 4.3% |
| Scored 13.4000 solo points | ||
| Contest Selectors | ||
| 2007 | ADWC, LMLD, OIE | 9.7% |
| Scored 6.6250 points | ||
Pasternak Boris Leonidovich
PasternakBorisLeonidovich
Nobel literature prize-winning author
Boris
Leonidovich
Pasternak
wrote Doctor Zhivago
2
10
1890
Moscow, Russia
5
30
1960
Peredelkino, Russia, USSR
70
DOB 2/22/1890 on Gregorian Calendar
Pasternak Joseph Vincent
PasternakJosephVincent
film producer
Joseph
Vincent
Pasternak
9
19
1901
Szilagy-Smoloyn, Roumania
9
13
1991
89
Pasteur Louis
PasteurLouis
chemist & bacteriologist
Louis
Pasteur
devised method of killing bacteria in milk (Pasteurization); developed vaccine for rabies
12
27
1822
Dole, France
9
28
1895
Saint-Cloud, France
72
Pastore John OrlandoI
PastoreJohnOrlandoI
former Rhode Island governor (1945-50) & senator (1950-76)
John
Orlando
Pastore
Sr.
like to get his puss on the tube denouncing sex and violence
3
17
1907
Providence, Rhode Island
7
15
2000
North Kingstown, Rhode Island
kidney failure; Parkinson's disease
93
Pastorelli Robert Joseph
PastorelliRobertJoseph
character actor
Robert
Joseph
Pastorelli
played Eldin Bernecky on Murphy Brown tv series & Gerry Fitzgerald on Cracker (1997; a U.S. ripoff of British series of same name)
6
21
1954
New Brunswick, New Jersey
3
8
2004
Los Angeles, California
acute cocaine-morphine (heroin) toxicity
49
Pasztory Dirta
PasztoryDirta
Dirta
Pasztory
Bela Bartok's widow
11
21
1982
80
Pataki Michael
PatakiMichael
character actor
Michael
Pataki
appeared twice in the Star Trek franchise: in 1988 as Kamas in the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "Too Short a Season" & as Commander Korax in the original Star Trek series episode The Trouble With Tribbles (1968) — was the first to speak the Klingon language (later fleshed-out by Marc Okrand) — started the bar fight at the space station by suggesting to Scotty that "... the Enterprise should be hauled away AS garbage!"
1
16
1938
Youngstown, Ohio
4
15
2010
North Hollywood, California
72
Patch Henry John
PatchHenryJohn
British World War I veteran
Henry
John "Harry"
Patch
was the last soldier who fought in the Battle of Passchendaele
6
17
1898
7
25
2009
Wells, Somerset, England
111
3 obits: alt.obits; AP; CNN
| Contest Selectors | ||
| 2009 | DFFC | 3.3% |
| Scored 3.9000 solo points | ||
| Contest Selectors | ||
| 2001 | BOD | 12½% |
| 2002 | BOD | 9.1% |
| 2004 | BOD | 5.6% |
| 2005 | BOD | 4.3% |
| 2006 | BOD | 3.3% |
| 2007 | BOD | 3.2% |
| 2008 | BOD | 3.1% |
| 2009 | BOD | 3.3% |
| Did Not Score - insufficient category citations (one to be exact) | ||
Patterson Floyd
PattersonFloyd
former heavyweight boxer
Floyd
Patterson
won a gold medal in the 1952 Olympics boxing as a middleweight
1
4
1935
Waco, North Carolina
5
11
2006
New Paltz, New York
prostate cancer; Alzheimer's disease
71
Patterson Harry Thomas
PattersonHarryThomas
journalist/promoter
Harry
Thomas "Tom"
Patterson
founded the Stratford Festival in Ontario
6
11
1920
Stratford, Ontario, Canada
2
20
2005
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
pneumonia
84
Patterson Heywood
PattersonHeywood
Scottsboro Boys defendant
Heywood
Patterson
subject of Patterson v Alabama Supreme Court ruling requiring adequate counsel for defendants
1913
Elberton, Georgia
8
22
1952
Jackson, Michigan
cancer
39
Patterson Joseph Medill
PattersonJosephMedill
New York Daily News tabloid founder & publisher
Joseph
Medill
Patterson
1
6
1879
Chicago, Illinois
5
26
1946
New York, New York
67
Patterson Louise Alone Thompson
PattersonLouiseAloneThompson
Communist & Marxist
Louise
Alone Thompson
Patterson
born: Louise A. Thompson
Patton Albert
PattonAlbert
Albert
Patton
co-founded the Harlem Globetrotters
1
6
1910
5
27
2000
Los Angeles, California
stabbed to death during robbery
90
Patton George SmithII
PattonGeorgeSmithII
formidable World War II Third Army general
George
Smith
Patton
Jr.
nickname: "Old Blood and Guts"
military historian; master strategist; rescued Bastogne (France) during Battle of the Bulge
11
11
1885
San Gabriel, California
12
21
1945
Heidelberg, Germany
injuries suffered in auto accident
60
Patz Etan
PatzEtan
child abductee
Etan
Patz
declared legally dead 6/18/2001
12
5
1972
New York, New York
5
25
1979
New York, New York
murdered
6
Paul 1
PaulI
Greek monarch (1947-64)
King
Paul
I
father of Spanish Queen Sofia
12
14
1901
Athens, Greece
3
6
1964
Tatoi, Greece
62
Paul Alice
PaulAlice
suffragette Dr.
Alice
Paul
co-founded the National Woman's Party (1913); a principle author of the defunct Equal Rights Amendment
1
11
1885
Moorestown, New Jersey
7
9
1977
Moorestown, New Jersey
92
Paul Les
PaulLes
guitarist
Les
Paul
born: Lester William Polfus
once partnered with (and married to) Mary Ford
6
9
1915
Waukesha, Wisconsin
8
13
2009
White Plains, New York
pneumonia
94
| Contest Selectors | ||
| 2000 | TEX | 14% |
| 2001 | TEX | 12½% |
| 2002 | TMTX | 9.1% |
| 2003 | ANG, JEDS, KOHD, TMTX | 22.2% |
| 2005 | QKU | 4.3% |
| 2006 | ANG, DFFC, OIE | 10.0% |
| 2007 | AUDC, DFFC, DTH, GOHI, LMLD, MOT | 19.4% |
| 2008 | ANG, DFFC, GOHI, MORB, OIE, SPIT | 18.8% |
| 2009 | ADWC, ANG, MORB | 10.0% |
| Scored 3.7250 points | ||
Pauli Wolfgang Ernst Friedrich
PauliWolfgangErnstFriedrich
1945 Nobel prize-winning physicist
Wolfgang
Ernst Friedrich
Pauli
helped formulate the basic laws of electronics, including the "exclusion" principle
4
25
1900
Vienna, Austria-Hungary
12
15
1958
Zürich, Switzerland
58
Pauling Linus Carl
PaulingLinusCarl
Dr.
Linus
Carl
Pauling
double Nobel laureate: 1954 Chemistry &nsbp; 1962 Peace
2
28
1901
Portland, Oregon
8
19
1994
Big Sur, California
93

| Contest Selectors | ||
| 1979 | MS, YJ | 15.4% |
| 1980 | RR | 6.3% |
Paulucci Jeno
PaulucciJeno
Chun King (1947) & Jeno's Pizza (1967) purveyor
Jeno
Paulucci
born: Luigino Francesco Paolucci
7
7
1918
Aurora, Minnesota
11
24
2011
Duluth, Minnesota
93
wife Lois Mae (Trepanier) Paulucci b.7/9/1922 d.11/20/2011
Jeno lost the will to live & died 4 days later
Pausch Randolph Frederick
PauschRandolphFrederick
Carnegie-Mellon computer science profeessor
Randolph
Frederick "Randy"
Pausch
author of Last Lecture book & video
10
23
1960
7
25
2008
Chesapeake, Virginia
pancreatic cancer
47
| Contest Selectors | ||
| 2008 | QKU, WEP | 6.3% |
| Scored 9.0500 points | ||
| Contest Selectors | ||
| 2003 | RAVN | 5.6% |
| 2004 | ABRA, RAVN | 11.1% |
| 2005 | WORM | 4.3% |
| 2006 | DTH | 3.3% |
| 2007 | ABRA, GOHI, MOT, QKU, RAVN, RR, TFM, WEP | 25.8% |
| Scored 5.4195 points | ||
| Contest Selectors | ||
| 2008 | WEP | 3.1% |
| 2009 | DTM, WEP | 6.7% |
| Scored 4.2500 points | ||
Pavlov Valentin Sergeyevich
PavlovValentinSergeyevich
coup plotter
Valentin
Sergeyevich
Pavlov
a former Soviet Prime Minister (Jan-Aug 1991); concocted the "State Emergency Committee" as a front to strip Gorbachev of power; the failed coup set off the collapse of the Soviet Union
9
26
1937
Moscow, Russia, USSR
3
30
2003
Moscow, Russia
65
Paxinou Katina
PaxinouKatina
actress
Katina
Paxinou
won 1943 Supporting Actress oscar for her performance in as Pilar For Whom the Bell Tolls
12
17
1900
Piraeus, Greece
2
22
1973
Athens, Greece
72
Paycheck Johnny
PaycheckJohnny
country singer
Johnny
Paycheck
born: Donald Eugene Lytle
"take this database & shove it"
5
31
1938
Greenfield, Ohio
2
18
2003
Nashville, Tennessee
respiratory failure; emphysema; asthma
64
| Contest Selectors | ||
| 2002 | ANG | 9.1% |
| 2003 | ANG | 5.6% |
| Scored 8.6000 solo points | ||
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