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| fashion designer Emilio Marchese di Barsento Pucci born on 11-20-1914 in Naples, Italy expired 11-30-1992 in Florence, Italy age 78 | |||||||||||||||||
| former Illinois rep. (1959-72) Roman Conrad Pucinski also served as a Chicago alderman (1973-91) born on 5-13-1919 in Buffalo, New York expired 9-25-2002 in Chicago, Illinois age 83 cause: pneumonia | |||||||||||||||||
| Hall of Fame baseball player Kirby Puckett born on 3-14-1960 in Chicago, Illinois expired 3-6-2006 in Phoenix, Arizona age 45 cause: stroke | |||||||||||||||||
percussionist & bandleader Ernest Anthony "Tito" Puente
expired 5-31-2000 in New York, New York age 77 cause: heart failure | |||||||||||||||||
Pu Jie younger brother of Pu Yi, last emperor of China
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| publisher Joseph Pulitzer Sr. established eponymous journalism prizes (1917) born on 4-10-1847 in Mako, Hungary expired 10-29-1911 in Charleston, South Carolina age 64 | |||||||||||||||||
| publisher Joseph Pulitzer Jr. born on 3-21-1885 in New York, New York expired 3-30-1955 in Saint Louis, Missouri age 70 | |||||||||||||||||
| publisher Joseph Pulitzer III born on 5-13-1913 expired 5-26-1993 age 80 | |||||||||||||||||
| highly decorated Marine Corps commander Lt.General Lewis Burwell "Chesty" Puller born on 6-26-1898 in West Point, Virginia expired 10-11-1971 in Hampton, Virginia age 73 | |||||||||||||||||
gravel-voiced nightclub comedian Bernard Shaw Pully originated role of Big Jule in Guys and Dolls
expired 1-6-1972 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania age 61 cause: heart attack | |||||||||||||||||
obscure anti-pope Earl P. "Lucian" Pulvermacher elected pontiff of the Montana-based "true Catholica Church" in 1998
expired 11-30-2009 in Springdale, Washington age 91
AKS: Lucien Pulvemacher | |||||||||||||||||
| jazz guitarist Joseph J. "Joe" Puma born on 8-13-1927 expired 5-15-2000 in New York, New York age 72 cause: cancer | |||||||||||||||||
| hyperrealist illustrator Donald Ivan Punchatz studied under Burne Hogarth; did the film poster for the first Star Wars movie (1977); drew the cover art for Asmiov's "Foundation" trilogy and Harlan Ellison's "Dangerous Visions" anthology; also did work for National Geographic, National Lampoon, Rolling Stone, Esquire & Playboy born on 9-8-1936 in Hillside, New Jersey expired 10-22-2009 in Arlington, Texas age 73 cause: cardiac arrest | |||||||||||||||||
| physician Bernard Punsley as a child played Dead End Kid Milty (the fat kid) born on 7-11-1923 in New York, New York expired 1-20-2004 in Torrance, California age 80 cause: cancer AKS: Punsley | |||||||||||||||||
Edward Mills Purcell shared the 1952 Nobel prize in physics for the discovery of nuclear magnetic resonance (1946)born on 8-30-1912 in Taylorville, Illinois expired 3-7-1997 in Cambridge, Massachusetts age 84 cause: respiratory failure | |||||||||||||||||
| character actor Edmund Anthony Cutlar Purdom his main claim to fame was for dumping wife Anita Phillips for actress Linda Christian (1962; it lasted barely a year) born on 12-19-1924 in Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire, England expired 1-1-2009 in Rome, Italy age 84 | |||||||||||||||||
| automobile writer Kenneth W. Purdy contributing editor for Playboy Magazine; his father wrote "On Wisconsin" born on 4-28-1913 in Chicago, Illinois expired 6-7-1972 in Wilton, Connecticut age 59 cause: suicide; gunshot to head | |||||||||||||||||
| Bollywood character actor Amrish Puri played great villains including Mola Ram in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984); also appeared in Gandhi as Khan (1982) born on 6-22-1932 in India expired 1-12-2005 in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India age 72 cause: brain hemorrhage; malaria | |||||||||||||||||
horror-punk band co-founder Erick Lee Purkhiser co-founder/front man for The Cramps
expired 2-4-2009 in Glendale, California age 60 cause: heart condition | |||||||||||||||||
| "Old Folks" sausage grinder Clara Bridges Purnell co-founded Purnell Sausage Co. in 1932 (with husband Fred B. Purnell Sr.) born on 10-22-1901 in Springfield, Tennessee expired 4-24-2004 in Simpsonville, Kentucky age 102 | |||||||||||||||||
silent movie actress Edna Purviance co-starred with Charlie Chaplin in The Tramp (1915)
expired 6-13-1958 in Woodland Hills, California age 63 | |||||||||||||||||
| former Chicago FBI office head Melvin Horace Purvis Jr. led teams that killed criminals John Dillinger and Pretty Boy Floyd in 1934 born on 10-24-1903 in Timmonsville, South Carolina expired 2-29-1960 in Florence, South Carolina age 56 cause: suicide; automatic weapon bullet; depression; ill health | |||||||||||||||||
| surviving World War I military veteran Ernest Charles Pusey started working for General Motors in 1926, retiring in 1958; he had drawn a pension from them for longer than he worked for them — waso the oldest U.S. Navy veteran born on 5-5-1895 in Washington, District of Columbia expired 11-19-2006 in Bradenton, Florida age 111
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| former Harvard president (1953-71) Dr. Nathan Marsh Pusey born on 4-4-1907 in Council Bluffs, Iowa expired 11-14-2001 in New York, New York age 94 | |||||||||||||||||
| armless/legless "entertainer" Frieda Katherine Pushnik worked for Ripley's Believe It or Not (1933-43), then Ringling Brother's Circus side show (1943-56) born on 2-10-1923 in Conemaugh, Pennsylvania expired 12-24-2000 in Costa Mesa, California age 77 cause: bladder cancer | |||||||||||||||||
| former McNairy County, Tennessee sheriff (1964-70) Buford Pusser exploits basis for the movie Walking Tall born on 12-12-1937 in Adamsville, Tennessee expired 8-21-1974 in Adamsville, Tennessee age 36 cause: auto accident | |||||||||||||||||
| author & book publisher George Palmer Putnam husband of Amelia Earhart expired 1-4-1950 in Trona, California age 63 cause: uremic poisoning | |||||||||||||||||
| Librarian of Congress (1899-1939) Herbert Putnam expired 8-15-1955 in Woods Hole, Massachusetts age 93 | |||||||||||||||||
| VFW co-founder James Carollton Putnam first national commander of the organization expired 10-11-1956 in Fayetteville, Arkansas age 88 | |||||||||||||||||
last Chinese Emperor Henry Pu-Yi last Emperor of China (Manchu Dynasty) from 1909 to 1911 (age 3-5); Japanese puppet emperor Kang Teh of Manchukuo 1935-45; subject of 1987 movie The Last Emperor; first wife, Wan Rong (married in 1923) died in 1946, an opium addict; married second wife, Li Shuxian, in 1962; fourth wife Li Yuqin abandoned after World War II; tortured during the Cultural Revolution
expired 10-17-1967 in Beijing, China age 61 cause: cancer | |||||||||||||||||
| writer Mario Puzo wrote The Godfather series; won two Academy Awards for his screenplays; his book Omerta was excerpted in the July 2000 Playboy magazine born on 10-15-1920 in New York, New York expired 7-2-1999 in Bay Shore, New York age 78 cause: heart failure | |||||||||||||||||
| actor Denver Pyle Uncle Jesse on the Dukes of Hazard born on 5-11-1920 in Bethune, Colorado expired 12-25-1997 in Burbank, California age 77 cause: lung cancer | |||||||||||||||||
| World War II correspondent Ernest Taylor "Ernie" Pyle won a 1944 Pulitzer Prize born on 8-3-1900 in Dana, Indiana expired 4-18-1945 in Ie Island, Ryukyu Archipeligo, Japan age 44 cause: machine gun fire | |||||||||||||||||
| abrasive tv talk show host Joseph "Joe" Pyne "why don't you go out and gargle with some razor blades"; forerunner of many worse shows to follow (Geraldo Rivera and Jerry Springer come to mind); he loved smokin' those "coffin nails" born on 12-22-1924 in Chester, Pennsylvania expired 3-23-1970 in Hollywood, California age 45 cause: lung cancer | |||||||||||||||||
| engineer & contractor Morris S. Pynoos invented the nail gun for Howard Hughes during construction of the Spruce Goose born on 8-22-1917 in New York, New York expired 7-5-2002 in Los Angeles, California age 84 cause: congestive heart failure | |||||||||||||||||
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