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| country singer Ernest Tubb born on 2-9-1914 in Crisp, Texas expired 9-6-1984 in Nashville, Tennessee age 70
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| 18th Liberian president (1944-71) William Vacanarat Shadrach Tubman his father came to the colony from Augusta, Georgia in 1834; succeeded by vice president William R. Tolbert born on 11-29-1895 in Harper, Maryland County, Liberia expired 7-23-1971 in London, England age 75 cause: prostate cancer | |||||||||||
| underwear inventor Marie Tucek received 1893 U.S. Patent (#494,397) for what we now know as a brassiere expired ??-??-19?? age ?? | |||||||||||
| historian & author Barbara Wertheim Tuchman won Pulitzer Prizes for The Guns of August (1962) & Stilwell and the American Experience in China (1971) born on 1-30-1912 in New York, New York expired 2-6-1989 in Greenwich, Connecticut age 77 | |||||||||||
| character actor Forrest Meredith Tucker star of The Crawling Eye (1958) & Sgt. Morgan O'Rourke on F Troop (1965-67) born on 2-12-1915 in Plainfield, Indiana expired 10-25-1986 in Woodland Hills, California age 71 cause: throat cancer | |||||||||||
| tv/movie writer/producer Larry Tucker co-developed The Monkees tv series (1966); wrote I Love You, Alice B. Toklas (1968) & Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice (1969) born on 6-23-1933 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania expired 4-1-2001 in Los Angeles, California age 67 cause: complications from cancer & multiple sclerosis | |||||||||||
| ABC/ born on 5-26-1938 expired 3-2-1991 age 52 | |||||||||||
one-time Lenny Bruce writer Phillip Jay Tucker also an el-stinko movie director; his cinematic opus: Robot Monster (1953)born on 5-22-1927 in Kansas expired 11-30-1985 in Los Angeles, California age 58 | |||||||||||
| automobile designer Preston Thomas Tucker co-designer of the 1946 rear-engine Tucker Torpedo; subject of movie expired 12-26-1956 in Ypsilanti, Michigan age 53 | |||||||||||
Met Opera tenor Richard Tucker
expired 1-8-1975 in Kalamazoo, Michigan age 60 cause: heart attack | |||||||||||
nightclub singer Sophie Tucker
expired 2-9-1966 in New York, New York age 77 | |||||||||||
 
Playboy November 1963 Playmate of Month Terre Tuckerborn on 10-9-1944 in Arizona expired 12-16-1990 age 46 cause: cervical cancer | |||||||||||
Vietnamese dowager Empress Tu Cung wife of Emperor Khai Dinh; mother of Bao Dai
expired ??-??-1980 in Hué, Vietnam age 91 | |||||||||||
| Croatian president Franjo Tudjman born on 5-14-1922 in Veliko Trgovisce, Croatia expired 12-10-1999 in Zagreb, Croatia age 77 cause: stomach cancer | |||||||||||
| "experimental" music composer David Eugene Tudor born on 1-20-1926 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania expired 8-13-1996 in Tomkins Cove, New York age 70
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author/illustrator Tasha Tudor
expired 6-18-2008 in Marlboro, Vermont age 92
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| actor Bowen Charleston "Sonny" Tufts III appeared in The Seven Year Itch born on 7-16-1911 in Boston, Massachusetts expired 6-4-1970 in Santa Monica, California age 58 | |||||||||||
| geologist & spelunker Bruce Randall "Randy" Tufts co-discoverer of Arizona's Kartchner Caverns (1974) born on 8-17-1948 in Tucson, Arizona expired 4-1-2002 in Tucson, Arizona age 53 cause: myelodysplastic syndrome | |||||||||||
| Princeton University statistician John Wilder Tukey coined acronym "bit" (binary digit; 1946) and term "software" (1958 American Mathematical Monthly article); co-invented the Fast Fourier Transform born on 6-16-1915 in New Bedford, Massachusetts expired 7-26-2000 in New Brunswick, New Jersey age 85 cause: heart attack | |||||||||||
| former Electric Prunes bassist Mark Tulin played on their big 1967 hit "I Had Too Much to Dream (Last Night)" born on 11-21-1948 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania expired 2-26-2011 in Avalon, Santa Catalina Island, California age 62 cause: heart attack | |||||||||||
| former Erie, Pennsylvania mayor Louis J. Tullio born on 5-17-1916 expired 4-17-1990 age 73 | |||||||||||
| Alice Tully Lincoln Center concert hall donor born on 10-11-1902 in Corning, New York expired 12-10-1993 in New York, New York age 91 | |||||||||||
| misogynistic snake-oil quack Francis Tumblety purported to be a candidate for Jack the Ripper born on --1833 in Dublin, Ireland expired ??-??-1903 in Saint Louis, Missouri age 70 | |||||||||||
| Ben Hur screenwriter (1959) Karl Tunberg born on 3-11-1909 in Spokane, Washington expired 4-4-1992 age 83 | |||||||||||
| former Chinese Head of State (1966-75) Tung Pi-wu a founder of the Chinese Communist Party (1921) expired 4-2-1975 in Beijing, China age 89 | |||||||||||
| former heavyweight boxer James Joseph "Gene" Tunney world champion 1926-28; father of ex- born on 5-25-1898 in New York, New York expired 11-7-1978 in Greenwich, Connecticut age 80 cause: circulatory ailment | |||||||||||
| aircraft designer Alexei Andreyevich Tupolev son of Andrei; designed the Tu-144 Soviet SST (dubbed "Concordsky"); co-designer (copier) of the Soviet Space Shuttle knockoff Tu-2000: Buran born on 5-20-1925 expired 5-12-2001 in Moscow, Russia age 75 | |||||||||||
| Soviet airplane designer Andrei N. Tupolev born on 11-10-1888 in Pustomazovo, Tuer Province, Russia expired 12-23-1972 in Moscow, Russia, USSR age 84 | |||||||||||
| food container creator Earl Silas Tupper created Tupperwaretm (1946) born on 7-28-1907 in Berlin, New Hampshire expired 10-3-1983 in San José, Costa Rica age 76 | |||||||||||
black activist Kwame Ture coined phrases "Black Power" (1966) and "Burn, Baby, Burn"
expired 11-15-1998 in Conakry, Guinea age 57 cause: prostate cancer | |||||||||||
| pianist Rosalyn Tureck a specialist in the works of Bach born on 12-14-1914 in Chicago, Illinois expired 7-17-2003 in New York, New York age 88 AKS: Turek | |||||||||||
| pianist & composer Joaquin Turina y Perez expired 1-14-1949 in Madrid, Spain age 66 | |||||||||||
| mathematician Alan Mathison Turing postulated the basic principles of computing; namesake of the Association of Computing Machinery organization's main award for work in computing born on 6-23-1912 in London, England expired 6-7-1954 in Manchester, England age 41 cause: suicide; strychnine poisoning | |||||||||||
| physicist Dr. Anthony Leonid Turkevich his alpha scattering probe aboard Surveyor 5 determined that the moon was made of high- born on 7-23-1916 in New York, New York expired 9-7-2002 in Lexington, Virginia age 86 | |||||||||||
| pioneer airplane designer Wallace Rupert Turnbull co-inventor of the variable pitch propeller expired 11-26-1954 in Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada age 84 | |||||||||||
| Alabama vote rights leader Albert Turner helped lead the March 7, 1965 Selma- born on 2-29-1936 in outside Marion, Alabama expired 4-13-2000 in Selma, Alabama age 64 cause: heart failure during surgery | |||||||||||
| 1940s Chicago Bears center & linebacker Clyde D. "Bulldog" Turner New York Titans coach (1962) born on 3-10-1919 expired 10-30-1998 in Gatesville, Texas age 79 cause: lung cancer | |||||||||||
| AIDS activist Dan Turner born on 12-5-1947 expired 6-4-1990 age 42 | |||||||||||
former CNN bigwig Eddie Sims Turner helped launch the cable news operation
expired 3-30-2002 in Washington, District of Columbia age 66 cause: complications from liver cancer | |||||||||||
| former Raiders football player Eric R. Turner Sr. born on 9-20-1968 in Ventura, California expired 5-28-2000 in Thousand Oaks, California age 31 cause: stomach cancer | |||||||||||
early silent movie star Florence Turner
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| Dollar General Stores founder (1955) Hurley Calister Turner Sr. born on 5-28-1915 in Macon County, Tennessee expired 11-14-2000 in Scottsville, Kentucky age 85 | |||||||||||
| singer/songwriter Ike Wister Turner no truth to the urban legend that he died wearing a "wifebeater" born on 11-5-1931 in Clarksdale, Mississippi expired 12-12-2007 in San Marcos, California age 76 cause: respiratory failure; cocaine toxicity (overdose); hypertensive cardiovascular disease; pulmonary emphysema | |||||||||||
actress Lana Turner
expired 6-29-1995 in Los Angeles, California age 75 | |||||||||||
| Mork & Mindy creator Lloyd G. Turner born on 8-14-1924 in Winnemucca, Nevada expired 11-11-1992 age 68 cause: esophageal cancer | |||||||||||
| wood-eating mollusk expert Dr. Ruth Dixon Turner Harvard professor; world authority on toredos (shipworms) born on 12-7-1914 in Melrose, Massachsuetts expired 4-30-2000 in Waltham, Massachusetts age 85 | |||||||||||
| attorney Wilburn Fred Turner successfully defended Clarence Gideon in this second trial (1963) born on 4-17-1922 in Millville, Florida expired 11-24-2003 in Kings Point, Florida age 81 | |||||||||||
| Advanced Micro Devices co-founder (1969) Edwin James Turney left company in 1974 born on 3-26-1929 in Brooklyn, New York, New York expired 10-15-2008 in Cupertino, California age 79 cause: brain cancer | |||||||||||
| cross-eyed comedian Ben Turpin worked for Essanay & Keystone studios born on 9-17-1869 in New Orleans, Louisiana expired 7-1-1940 in Santa Barbara, California age 63 | |||||||||||
| jazz saxophonist Stanley W. Turrentine born on 4-5-1934 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania expired 9-12-2000 in New York, New York age 66 cause: complications from stroke | |||||||||||
comic book artist George Tuska worked on Captain America & Iron Man
expired 10-15-2009 in Manchester, New Jersey age 93 | |||||||||||
Egyptian boy King Tut-ankh-Amen his alleged-to-be cursed tomb was discovered in November 1922 by Howard Carter & Lord Canarvon
expired ??-??-1340 BC in Memphis, Egypt age 18 AKS: Tutankhamen | |||||||||||
| retired University of Waterloo mathematician William Thomas Tutte World War II Bletchley Park ENIGMA code breaker born on 5-14-1917 in Newmarket, Suffolk, England expired 5-2-2002 in Kitchener-Waterloo, Ontario, Canada age 84 cause: congestive heart failure; spleen cancer | |||||||||||
| renowned Hollywood makeup artist William Julian "Bill" Tuttle received an honorary oscar for work done on The 7 Faces of Dr. Lao; also created the makeup for the Morlocks for The Time Machine (1960), the prosthetics for The Twilight Zone episode "Eye of the Beholder" & the makeup for Peter Boyle's monster in Young Frankenstein (1974); his first wife was Donna Reed (1945-47) born on 4-13-1912 in Jacksonville, Florida expired 7-30-2007 in Pacific Palisades, California age 95 | |||||||||||
| WWII soldier George Tweed No Man is an Island book & movie based upon his experiences expired 1-16-1989 age 84 | |||||||||||
| 1930s movie actress Helen Jurgen Twelvetrees expired 2-13-1958 in Olmstead Air Force Base, Pennsylvania age 50 | |||||||||||
| General Nathan Farragut Twining Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (1957-60) born on 10-11-1897 in Monroe, Wisconsin expired 3-29-1982 in Lackland Air Force Base, Texas age 84 | |||||||||||
country singer Conway Twitty
expired 6-5-1993 in Springfield, Missouri age 59 | |||||||||||
| IRA co-founder Seamus Twomey expired 9-12-1989 age 70 | |||||||||||
singer/actress Beverly Tyler appeared in several movies with Mickey Rooney; was the daughter-in-law of Fibber McGee & Molly
expired 11-23-2005 in Reno, Nevada age 78 cause: pulmonary embolism | |||||||||||
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W.H. Harrison's Vice President (1841); 10th U.S. president (1841-1845) John Tyler born on 3-29-1790 in Charles City, Virginia expired 1-18-1862 in Richmond, Virginia age 71 | |||||||||||
actress Judy Tyler Princess Summerfall Winterspring on Howdy Doody kiddie show
expired 7-4-1957 in Billy the Kid, Wyoming age 23 cause: automobile crash | |||||||||||
| December 1941 Army Air Corps 1st Lieutenant/fighter pilot Kermit Arthur Tyler on Sunday morning December 7th got stuck pulling duty at the aircraft tracking center .... when the Opana radar operators saw a big blob of planes coming at Oahu from due north & called it in to him but he blew it off saying "Don't worry about it." (he didn't think they knew what they were doing); he retired from the Air Force (1961) and eventually went into real estate born on 4-21-1913 in Oelwein, Iowa expired 1-23-2010 in San Diego, California age 96 cause: pneumonia; strokes | |||||||||||
movie cowboy actor Tom Tyler
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| chemist William C. Tyler Corning Glass vice president (1943-54); co-inventor of Pyrex glass expired 11-2-1958 in Corning, New York age 72 | |||||||||||
Kenneth's widow Kathleen Jeanette Tynan
expired 1-10-1995 age 57 | |||||||||||
| drama critic Kenneth Peacock Tynan conducted several interviews for Playboy magazine; conceived of Oh, Calcutta born on 4-2-1927 in Birmingham, West Midlands, England expired 7-26-1980 in Santa Monica, California age 53 cause: pulmonary emphysema | |||||||||||
MC5 bandleader Rob Tyner had hit with Kick Out the Jams, Mo**er-Fu**ers (sanitized version used "Brothers and Sisters")
expired 9-18-1991 in Royal Oak, Michigan age 45 cause: heart attack | |||||||||||
| Henry R. Luce's first wife (1923-35) Lila Hotz Luce Tyng was introduced to Henry by one of his Yale classmates, Thornton Wilder born on 3-26-1899 in Chicago, Illinois expired 3-31-1999 in Gladstone, New Jersey age 100 | |||||||||||
| actress Margaret Maud Tyzack played Antonia (mother of Claudius) in the 1976 BBC miniseries born on 9-9-1931 in London, England expired 6-25-2011 in London, England age 79 cause: cancer | |||||||||||
| poet Tristan Tyzara founded Dadaism expired 12-24-1963 in Paris, France age 67 | |||||||||||
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