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soprano Edith Piaf
expired 10-11-1963 in Paris, Île-de-France, France age 47 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| psychologist/educator Jean Piaget born on 8-9-1896 in Neuchâtel, Switzerland expired 9-16-1980 in Geneva, Switzerland age 84
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| "prickly" film director Maurice Pialat born on 8-21-1925 in Cunlhat, Puy-de-Dôme, Auvergne, France expired 1-11-2003 in Paris, France age 77 cause: kidney failure | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
 
aeronautical engineer Frank Nicholas Piasecki founder of Piasecki Aircraft Corp.; flew the second successful helicopter in the U.S.. the PV-2; holder of the first helicopter pilots license; built the first viable tandem-rotor helicopter (aka: the Flying Banana; 1945) — it led to the development of the Chinook cargo helicopter (or, as we called them in 'nam, the "shit-hook"); created the Holi-Stat, a 343 foot long Frankenstein monstrosity made from a helium blimp and four surplus Sikorsky helicopters; ironically, in 1986 it crashed at Lakehurst Naval Air Station with one fatality (the pilot)born on 10-24-1919 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania expired 2-11-2008 in Havertown, Pennsylvania age 88 cause: complications from strokes | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| cellist Gregor Piatigorsky born on 4-17-1903 in Yekaterinoslav, Russia expired 8-6-1976 in Los Angeles, California age 73 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Argentinian composer Astor Piazzolla wrote for the Bandonion born on 3-11-1921 in Mar del Plata, Argentina expired 7-5-1992 in Buenos Aires, Argentina age 71 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| mathematician Charles Emil Picard secretary to the French Academy of Sciences (1917-41) born on 7-24-1856 in Paris, France expired 12-11-1941 in Paris, France age 85 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
controversial artist Pablo Ruiz y Picasso awarded 1962 Lenin Peace Prize
expired 4-8-1973 in Mougins, France age 91 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| scientist & inventor Auguste Piccard set world altitude record in balloon (1932); co-inventor of the bathyscaphe; set world deep-dive record in 1954 in it; twin brother of Jean-Felix born on 1-28-1884 in Basel, Switzerland expired 3-1-1962 in Lausanne, Switzerland age 78 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| chemist & balloonist Jean-Felix Piccard made first successful ascent into stratosphere; twin brother of Auguste born on 1-28-1884 in Basel, Switzerland expired 1-28-1963 in Minneapolis, Minnesota age 78 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Chicago Bears halfback Brian Louis Piccolo subject of made-for-tv movie Brian's Song born on 10-24-1943 in Pittsfield, Massachusetts expired 6-16-1970 in Chicago, Illinois age 26 cause: cancer | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
 
Catholic Church leader (1458-1464) Enea Silvio de' Piccolomini elected 211th Pope of the Roman Catholic Church August 19, 1458
expired 8-14-1464 in Ancona, Italy age 58 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Catholic Church leader (1503) Francesco Todeschini Piccolomini elected 216th Pope of the Roman Catholic Church September 22, 1503; lasted 26 days as Pope
expired 10-18-1503 in Rome, Italy age 64 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Character actor Paul Picerni portrayed FBI agent Lee Hobson opposite Robert Stack's Eliot Ness on The Untouchables (1960-63) & Scott Andrews in House of Wax (1953); during World War II had been a bombardier aboard one of the B-24s that attacked Bridge 277 on the River Kwai
expired 1-13-2011 in Llano, California age 88 cause: heart attack | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| movie actor & director Irving Pichel "discovered" Natalie Wood born on 6-24-1891 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania expired 7-13-1954 in La Cañada, California age 63 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
actor "Slim" Pickens played Colonel "King" Kong in Dr. Strangelove & Hollis E. "Holly" Wood in 1941
expired 12-8-1983 in Modesto, California age 64 cause: brain tumor | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
folk-rock singer/guitarist Nigel Pickering a founding member of the group Spanky and Our Gang
expired 5-5-2011 in Saint Augustine, Florida age 81 cause: liver cancer | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| electrical engineer Dr. William Hayward Pickering former director of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (1954-76); instrumental in the January 31, 1958 launch of Explorer I (the US's first satellite; it carried James Van Allen's geiger counter) born on 12-24-1910 in Wellington, New Zealand expired 3-15-2004 in La Cañada Flintridge, California age 93 cause: pneumonia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
singer Robert George Pickett had 1960s novelty hit with Monster Mash
expired 4-25-2007 in Los Angeles, California age 69 cause: leukemia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| "wicked" soul singer Wilson Pickett had hits with Mustang Sally & In the Midnight Hour born on 3-18-1941 in Prattville, Alabama expired 1-19-2006 in Reston, Virginia age 64 cause: heart attack | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
silent film actress Lottie Pickford sister of Mary
expired 12-9-1936 in Los Angeles, California age 41 cause: heart attack | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
actress Mary Pickford co-founder of United Artists studio
expired 5-29-1979 in Santa Monica, California age 86 cause: stroke
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| former Texas rep. (1963-94) James Jarrell "Jake" Pickle one of the weasels that started stripping boomers of their Social Security retirment benefits born on 10-11-1913 in Roscoe, Texas expired 6-18-2005 in Austin, Texas age 91 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
brief record holder Eva Pickles Guinness (erroneously) declared her Britain's oldest woman following the death of Eva Morris
expired 11-28-2000 in Fordingbridge, Hampshire, England age 109 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Yiddish actress Molly Picon born on 6-1-1898 in New York, New York expired 4-5-1992 in Lancaster, Pennsylvania age 93 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| actor Walter Pidgeon Professor Morbius (conjurer of the Id Monster) in Forbidden Planet (1956) & Admiral Harriman Nelson in Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea born on 9-23-1898 in Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada expired 9-25-1984 in Santa Monica, California age 86
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| jazz pianist Billie Goodson Pierce 1960s Preservation Hall jazz band co-leader (with husband De De) expired 10-10-1974 in New Orleans, Louisiana age 67 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| investment brokerage co-founder Edward Allen Pierce last survivor of group that founded Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Beane (later Beane replaced by Smith) born on 8-31-1874 in Orrington, Maine expired 12-16-1974 in New York, New York age 100 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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14th U.S. president (1853-57) Franklin Pierce born on 11-23-1804 in Hillsboro, New Hampshire expired 10-8-1869 in Concord, New Hampshire age 64 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| electrical engineer Dr. John Robinson Pierce headed the Bell Labs teams that invented the transistor (he gave it it's name) & the first communications satellite, Echo I born on 3-27-1910 in Des Moines, Iowa expired 4-2-2002 in Sunnyvale, California age 92 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| jazz trumpeter Joseph de la Croix "De De" Pierce 1960s Preservation Hall jazz band co-leader (with wife Billie) born on 2-18-1904 expired 11-23-1973 in New Orleans, Louisiana age 69 cause: pneumonia; cancer of esophagus | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| former CBS News photographer Laurens Pierce photographed Arthur Bremer's May 1972 attempted assassination of George Wallace born on 11-19-1915 expired 8-26-1982 age 66 cause: heart attack | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| former Forham football player Nathaniel J. Pierce Seven Blocks of Granite guard (class of 1937) born on 1-19-1913 in Biddleford, Maine expired 7-28-1975 in Biddleford, Maine age 62 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| former Reagan H.U.D. secretary (1981-89) Samuel Riley Pierce Jr. born on 9-8-1922 in Glen Cove, New York expired 10-31-2000 in Washington, District of Columbia age 78 cause: complications from stroke | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| country singer Webb Pierce born on 8-8-1921 in West Monroe, Louisiana expired 2-23-1991 in Nashville, Tennessee age 69 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| physicist/white supremecist Dr. William Luther Pierce wrote The Turner Diaries under pen name Andrew Macdonald (1978) born on 9-11-1933 in Atlanta, Georgia expired 7-23-2002 in Mill Point, West Virginia age 68 cause: cancer | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| former CBS News White House correspondent Robert Charles "Bob" Pierpoint born on 5-16-1925 in Redondo Beach, California expired 10-22-2011 in Santa Barbara, California age 86 cause: complications for surgery; broken hip | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| surviving World War I military veteran Antonio Pierro last surviving U.S. combat veteran of that war born on 2-15-1896 in Forenza, Italy expired 2-8-2007 in Salem, Massachusetts age 110 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Detroit tv travel host George Pierrot born on 1-11-1898 expired 2-16-1980 age 82
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| ex-football player Nick Pietrosante expired 2-6-1988 age 50 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Catholic Church leader (1691-1700) Antonio Pignatelli elected 243rd Pope of the Roman Catholic Church July 12, 1691
expired 9-27-1700 in Rome, Italy age 85 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Princess Conchita Sepulveda Pignatelli society columnist for Los Angeles, Examiner; her dad was namesake of L.A.'s Sepulveda Boulevard born on 5-2-1898 in Mexico City, Mexico expired 7-6-1972 in Los Angeles, California age 84 cause: heart attack | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
former NY Rangers hockey player Alfred George Pike member of their 1940 Stanley Cup-winning team (during the off-season worked in a mortuary)
expired 3-1-2009 in Calgary, Albert, Canada age 91
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| U.S. Army explorer Zebulon Montgomery Pike first set sight on his eponymous peak November 15, 1806 born on 2-5-1779 in Lamberton, New Jersey expired 4-27-1813 in York, Ontario, Canada age 34 cause: war wounds | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| exercise guru Joseph Hubertus Pilates born on --1880 in Mönchengladbach, Germany expired 10-??-1967 in New York, New York age 87 cause: complications from smoke inhalation | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| pioneering balloonist Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozière on November 21, 1783 became first person to ascend in an untethered balloon (built by the Montgolfièr brothers, Jacques Étienne and Joseph Michel); he was accompanied by his friend Marquis d'Arlandes for the 25 minute 5½ mile flight originating in Paris, ascending to over 3,000 feet born on 3-30-1754 in Metz, France expired 6-15-1785 in English Channel age 31 cause: balloon caught fire, exploded, crashed | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| lip-sync artist Robert W. Pilatus half of the Milli Vanilli duo born on 6-8-1964 in New York, New York expired 4-4-1998 in Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany age 33 cause: heart attack; (drug induced) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| tv writer/producer Michael Piller author of phrase "...resistance is futile..." (from Star Trek: The Next Generation episode Best of Both Worlds, Part I; 1990); co-creator of the Dead Zone tv series; co-creator of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine & Star Trek: Voyager tv series born on 5-30-1948 in Port Chester, New York expired 11-1-2005 in Los Angeles, California age 57 cause: head and neck cancer | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Pillsbury Mills director Alfred Fiske Pillsbury son of company co-founder expired 3-12-1950 in Minneapolis, Minnesota age 81 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| original "dough-boy" Charles Alfred Pillsbury invented improved method of wheat milling (1889); co-founded Pillsbury Mills born on 12-3-1842 in Warner, New Hampshire expired 9-17-1899 in Minneapolis, Minnesota age 56 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
calypso musician Lancelot Victor Edward Pinard help to introduce calypso music to the U.S.
expired 3-12-2001 in Anaheim, California age 98 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| musicologist Marc Pincherle developed the catalog on Antonio Vivaldi's works born on 6-13-1888 in Constantine, Algeria expired 6-20-1974 in Paris, France age 86 cause: heart attack | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| tv writer/producer Irving Pincus creator/ born on 3-14-1914 in New York, New York expired 5-13-1984 in Santa Monica, California age 70 cause: cancer | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| tv writer/producer Norman Pincus co- born on 3-27-1906 in New York, New York expired 10-30-1978 in West Hollywood, California age 72 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| first Bahamian prime minister (1967-92) Sir Lynden Oscar Pindling born on 3-22-1930 in Nassau, Bahamas expired 8-26-2000 in Nassau, Bahamas age 70 cause: prostate cancer | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| character actor Phillip E. Pine portrayed psychotic megalomaniac Colonel Green in original Star Trek series episode The Savage Curtain born on 7-16-1920 in Hanford, California expired 12-22-2006 in Van Nuys, California age 86 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Columbian dictator (1953-57) General Gustavo Rojas Pinilla overthrew president Laureano Gómez to gain power; lost power when overthrown by Laureano Gómez born on 3-12-1900 in Tunja, Columbia expired 1-17-1975 in Bogotá, Columbia age 74 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
L.A. hotdog seller Paul L. Pink founded famed establishment (Pink's) at corner of Melrose & LaBrea (1939)born on 3-23-1908 in Minneapolis, Minnesota expired 2-29-1996 in Los Angeles, California age 87 cause: heart attack | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| awful movie writer/director/producer Sidney W. Pink associate producer of Bwana Devil (1952) & The Twonky (1953); co-wrote & produced Angry Red Planet (1959) & Man from O.R.G.Y. (1970); "discovered" Dustin Hoffman born on 3-6-1916 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania expired 10-12-2002 in Pompano Beach, Florida age 86 cause: "a long illness" | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| jazz composer Maceo Pinkard co-wrote Sweet Georgia Brown (December, 1925), theme of the Harlem Globetrotters; wrote music & lyrics to Broadway show Liza (1922) that introduced the Charleston dance born on 6-27-1897 in Bluefield, West Virginia expired 7-19-1962 in New York, New York age 65 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| classical composer/musician Daniel Pinkham played the organ & harpsichord; great grandson of Lydia Pinkham born on 6-5-1923 in Lynn, Massachusetts expired 12-9-2006 in Natick, Massachusetts age 83 cause: chronic lymphocytic leukemia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| vocalist Willie "Bill" Pinkney last member of the original Drifters group; he left the group in 1958, prior to their biggest hits; he also played in the Negro Baseball Leagues New York Blue Sox team as a pitcher (1940s & 1950s) born on 8-15-1925 in Dalzell, South Carolina expired 7-4-2007 in Daytona Beach, Florida age 81 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
former Chilean army General & junta leader Augusto José Ramón Pinochet Ugarte along with General Gustavo Guzmán, General César Mendoza and Admiral José Toribio Merino overthrew Salvadore Allende in September 1973; Chilean "president" (1973-90)born on 11-25-1915 in Valparaiso, Chile expired 12-9-2006 in Santiago, Chile age 91 cause: heart failure; complications from stroke
AKS: Jose Ramon | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ex-baseball player Vada Edward Pinson born on 8-8-1938 in Memphis, Tennessee expired 10-21-1995 in Oakland, California age 57 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
playwright Harold Pinter recipient of the 2005 Nobel Prize in literatureborn on 10-10-1930 in Hackney, London, England expired 12-24-2008 in London, England age 78 cause: esophageal cancer
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opera & Broadway musical singer Ezio Pinza
expired 5-9-1957 in Stamford, Connecticut age 64 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| aviation firm founder William Thomas Piper designer of the popular Piper "Cub" aircraft born on 1-8-1881 in Knapps Creek, New York expired 1-15-1970 in Lock Haven, Pennsylvania age 89 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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author Luigi Pirandello received the 1934 Nobel prize in literature born on 6-28-1867 in Girgenti, Sicily, Italy expired 12-10-1936 in Rome, Italy age 69 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Dominican priest Georges Charles Clement Ghislain Pire winner of the 1958 Nobel peace prize born on 2-10-1910 in Dinant, Belgium expired 1-30-1969 in Brussels, Belgium age 58 cause: complications following surgery | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| tire maker Alberto Pirelli built the Norge dirigible for Nobile expired 10-19-1971 in Casciano, Italy age 89 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| industrialist Piero Pirelli manufactured tires & racy calendars expired 8-7-1956 in Milan, France age 75 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| commercial artist George V. Pisani drew Elsie the Cow for Borden Dairy born on 9-5-1912 in New Rochelle, New York expired 10-9-1999 in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan age 87 cause: cancer | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| composer Walter Hamor Piston awarded Pulitzer Prize in music 1948 & 1961 born on 1-20-1894 in Rockland, Maine expired 11-12-1976 in Belmont, Massachusetts age 82 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Edward John Piszek (with bread salesman John Paul) co-founded Mrs. Paul's Kitchens (1946) born on 10-24-1916 in Chicago, Illinois expired 3-27-2004 in Fort Washington, Pennsylvania age 87 cause: bone cancer | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| tv actor & director Noam Pitlik won a 1979 Emmy for directing episodes of Barney Miller born on 11-4-1932 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania expired 2-18-1999 in Los Angeles, California age 66 cause: lung cancer | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Titanic 3rd officer Herbert John Pitman born on 11-20-1877 in Sutton Montis, Somerset, England expired 12-7-1961 in Pitcomb, Somerset, England age 84 cause: subarachnoid hemorrhage | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| songwriter/singer Gene Francis Alan Pitney wrote Hello Mary Lou & Rubber Ball (1961); recorded Town Without Pity & Only Love Can Break a Heart born on 2-17-1940 in Hartford, Connecticut expired 4-5-2006 in Cardiff, Wales age 66 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hammer Films horror queen Ingrid Pitt appeared in Where Eagles Dare (1968); The Vampire Lovers as Marcilla (1970), Countess Dracula as Countess Elizabeth Nodosheen (1971), The Wicker Man as the Librarian (1973) as well as a number of episodes of Dr. Who as Dr. Solow and Queen Galleia (1972 & 1984)
expired 11-23-2010 in London, England age 73 cause: heart failure | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1960s Chicago Bears running back Elijah Eugene Pitts born on 2-3-1938 in Mayflower, Arkansas expired 7-10-1998 in Buffalo, New York age 60 cause: abdominal cancer | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
character actress Eliza Susan Pitts
expired 6-7-1963 in Hollywood, California age 63 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| brutal conquistador Francisco Pizarro founded Lima, Peru; destroyed the Incan Civilization born on ??-??-1470 in Trujilo, Spain expired 6-26-1541 in Lima, Peru age 70 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| frontier school marm/bimbo Etta «or» Ethel Place shacked-up with Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid; went with them to South America; recently an alternate history has been developed for her: born Ann Bassett in Brown's Park, Utah on 5/25/1878 she used Etta or Ethel Place as an alias (Pinkerton records initial have her as Ethel). After returning from South America she married Frank Wilis (1923) and died in Leeds, Utah in 1956. We'll see if we can gain further verification of this theory. born on --1878 expired ??-??-1909 in San Vincente, Bolivia age 31 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
author Belva Plain widow of Irving Plain; wrote numerous novels, such as Evergreen (1978) & The Golden Cup
expired 10-12-2010 in Short Hills, New Jersey age 95 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| insurance salesman Ralph Summers Plaisted lead a team to the North Pole on snowmobiles — became the first undisputed people to reach the pole over the ice (April 19, 1968) born on 9-30-1927 in Bruno, Minnesota expired 9-8-2008 in Wyoming, Minnesota age 80 cause: heart attack | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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quantum theory physicist Max Karl Ernst Ludwig Planck won the 1918 Nobel physics prize born on 4-23-1858 in Kiel, Germany expired 10-4-1947 in Göttingen, Germany age 89 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| troubled former child actress Dana Michelle Plato played Kimberly Drummond on Diff'rent Strokes (1978-84); did June 1989 Playboy pictorial; her son (Tyler Lambert) committed suicide in May of 2010 born on 11-1-1963 in Maywood, California expired 5-8-1999 in Moore, Oklahoma age 35 cause: multidrug intoxication; an intentional overdose of carisoprodol & hyrdrocodone/ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| actor Edward Platt was Control on Get Smart tv series born on 2-14-1916 in Staten Island, New York expired 3-19-1974 in Santa Monica, California age 58 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| actor Donald Pleasence played villain Ernst Stavro Blofeld in You Only Live Twice & Colin 'the forger' Blythe in The Great Escape born on 10-5-1919 in Worksop, England expired 2-2-1995 in Saint Paul de Vence, France age 75 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| crackpot eugenicist physician Walter Ashby Plecker named Virginia's first registrar of their "Bureau of Vital Statistics" (1912-46) — a vigorous enforcer of anti-miscegenation laws; so vigorous that he classified native Americans as "Black", Asian Americans as "Black", etc.; a co-founder of the Anglo-Saxon Clubs of America (1922); along with John Powell got the Virginia legislature to pass the Racial Integrity Act (1924), one of the biggest diaper loads of racist claptrap ever put to paper (eventually struck down in Loving et al v. Virginia, 1967) born on 4-2-1861 in Augusta County, Virginia expired 8-??-1947 in Richmond, Virginia age 86 cause: run over by a car (he always refused to look before he stepped into the street) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| actress Suzzane Pleshette best known for playing Emily Hartley on the Bob Newhart Show (1972-78); being treated for lung cancer (8/2006); widow of Tom Poston born on 1-31-1937 in Brooklyn Heights, New York, New York expired 1-19-2008 in Los Angeles, California age 70 cause: respiratory failure
AKS: Pleschette | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ruthless commie General Nicolae Plesita was head of the Roumanian Secret Police for Nicolae Ceausescu; employed Carlos the Jackal to assassinate people; violently put the "dictate" in dictatorship born on 4-16-1929 expired 9-28-2009 in Bucharest, Roumania age 80 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Albert Plesman a founder of KLM Royal Dutch Airlines born on --1889 expired 12-31-1953 in The Hague, The Netherlands age 64 cause: abdominal arterial hemorrhage | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 7/8 caucasian "colored" man Homer Adolph Plessy in 1892 convicted of violating Louisiana's railroad Separate Car Act for refusing to move to the "colored" car; in Plessy v. Ferguson (1896 #210) the Supreme Court ruled that separate- born on 3-17-1862 in New Orleans, Louisiana expired 3-1-1925 in New Orleans, Louisiana age 62 AKS: Adolf Plessey Plessie | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| concert pianist Ignaz Joseph Pleyel wrote numerous symphonies & sonatas; founded a piano factory (1797); alleged to have composed a familiar theme born on 6-1-1757 in Ruppertsthal, Austria expired 11-14-1831 in Paris, France age 74 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| author George Ames Plimpton did January 1975 Playboy pictorial attempting to photograph a playmate born on 3-18-1927 in New York, New York expired 9-25-2003 in New York, New York age 76 cause: heart attack | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| safe shipping crusader (1878) Samuel Plimsoll namesake of amidship load line on cargo vessels born on 2-10-1824 in Bristol, Avon, England expired 6-3-1898 in London, England age 74 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
historian Pliny the Elder sailed his ship into the harbor to "get a better view" of the Vesuvius eruption & got caught in a pyroclasic flow
expired 8-24-79 in Stabiae, Italy age 56 cause: asphyxiation | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| bacteriologist Dr. Harry Plotz discovered the typhus bacillus & a typhus vaccine expired 1-6-1947 in New York, New York age 55 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ill-fated auto driver Leslie Ann Pluhar gale force winds contributed to her 1987 blue Yugo's "jump" over the guard rail of the Mackinac Bridge to the Straits of Mackinac below (a 140 foot upside-down plunge to the water, then 100 feet more to the bottom of the channel); first driver to die in a plunge from the bridge expired 9-22-1989 in Straits of Mackinac, Michigan age 31 cause: drowned; blunt force trauma | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| World War II flier Desmond Lancelot Plunkett an organizer of the "Great Escape" from Stalag Luft III (3/24/1944) born on 2-21-1915 in India expired 2-14-2002 in Storrington, England age 86 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| duPont research chemist Dr. Roy Joseph Plunkett while working with freon discovered that a cylinder of it had polymerized into polytetrafluoroethylene resin (1938); he was able to duplicate the process, opening the way for the mass production of what was trade named Teflon born on 6-26-1910 in New Carlisle, Ohio expired 5-12-1994 in Corpus Christi, Texas age 83 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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