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| Shuttle STS-39 & 52 astronaut Charles Lacy Veach born on 9-18-1944 in Chicago, Illinois expired 10-3-1995 in Houston, Texas age 51 cause: cancer | ||||||||||||
| former baseball team owner William Louis "Bill" Veeck the P.T. Barnum of baseball; once sent a midget to the plate as a pinch- born on 2-9-1914 in Chicago, Illinois expired 1-2-1986 in Chicago, Illinois age 71
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| violinist and conductor Sandor Vegh leader/founder of Vegh Quartet born on 5-17-1905 in Cluj-Napoca, Roumania expired 1-6-1997 in Freilassing, Germany age 91 | ||||||||||||
| actor Conrad Veidt expired 4-3-1943 in Hollywood, California age 50 | ||||||||||||
| tv writer Sandy Veith won court judgement to be credited as creator of the Northern Exposure series expired 1-4-2009 in Miami, Florida age 60 cause: kidney & liver problems | ||||||||||||
| on-again-off-again Equadorian president José María Velasco Ibarra 5-time occupant of the office (usually being ousted by the military before the end of his term): 1934, 1944-47, 1952-56, 1960-61 & 1968-72 expired 3-30-1979 in Quito, Equador age 86 cause: intestinal & pulmonary infection | ||||||||||||
| songwriter Consuelo Velázquez her biggest hit was with "Bésame Mucho" (1941) born on 8-29-1916 in Ciudad Guzmán, Mexico expired 1-22-2005 in Mexico City, Mexico age 88 cause: respiratory failure AKS: Velazquez | ||||||||||||
| Mexican labor union leader Fidel Velázquez Sánchez born on 5-12-1900 in San Pedro Azcapotzaltongo, Mexico (now Villa Nicólaus Romero) expired 6-21-1997 in Mexico City, Mexico age 97 | ||||||||||||
| World War I Prussian zeppelin ace Gerhardus Otto Fabricatatous Vel Chraugh in order to escape the post-war Silesian broccoli famine he shepherded over 100 refugees aboard his airship, undertaking a treacherous mid-winter flight from Moravia-to-Batavia-to-Lakehurst (New Jersey; his zeppelin's xenon-filled gas chambers nearly ignited while overflying the Mt. Etna volcano); the harrowing ordeal received minimal international attention, coming as it did only three days after the Tunguska, Siberia metropolitan area was leveled by a 100 kiloton mid-air comet explosion; he discover the "sticking" secret of wild burrs while on a hiking vacation in upper Michigan (1924) & went into business (financed by Henry Ford) to produce a fabric that exploited that characteristic & permitting the wood panels on the sides of Ford's station wagons to be easily swapped-out; the
eponymously-named discovery eventually became corrupted into the now universally known product called Velcro born on 11-30-1888 in Tihsllub, Aloparc, Germany expired 3-27-1943 in Wonemknulf, Hiawatha County, Michigan age 54 cause: asphyxiation; choked to death eating ham sandwich | ||||||||||||
diminutive (5') Mexican actress Lupe Velez played character Carmelita Lindsay on-screen; had a short (5-year) marriage to Johnny Weissmuller; pregnant at the time of her death, her suicide note wrecked the career of her paramour
expired 12-13-1944 in Beverly Hills, California age 36 cause: suicide; took 75 Seconal | ||||||||||||
| Emmanuel Velikovsky expired 11-18-1979 age 84
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| master surfboard maker Dale Warren Velzy helped popularize surfing in California following World War II; bankrolled the surf documentary Slippery When Wet (1958) born on 9-23-1927 in Oakland, California expired 5-26-2005 in Mission Viejo, California age 77 cause: lung cancer | ||||||||||||
actress Evelyn Venable voice of the The Blue Fairy who granted Geppetto's wish in Pinocchio (1940); third model for Columbia Picture's movie logoborn on 10-18-1913 in Cincinnati, Ohio expired 11-15-1993 in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho age 80 cause: cancer | ||||||||||||
| 8th Indian president (1987-92) Ramaswamy Venkataraman born on 12-4-1910 in Rajamadam, India expired 1-27-2009 in New Delhi, India age 98
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| tenor saxophonist Charlie Ventura born on 12-2-1916 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania expired 1-17-1992 in Pleasantville, New Jersey age 75 | ||||||||||||
| jazz violinist Joseph "Joe" Venuti born on 9-16-1903 expired 8-14-1978 in Seattle, Washington age 84 | ||||||||||||
dancer/actress Vera-Ellen
expired 8-30-1981 in Los Angeles, California age 55 cause: cancer | ||||||||||||
geologist & mining engineer Rogier Diederik Marius Verbeek his investigations & reports on the August 1883 eruption of Krakatau volcano brought world-born on 4-7-1845 in Doorn, The Netherlands expired 4-9-1926 age 81 cause: stroke AKS: Deiderek Dederik Dederek Derek Verbeeck Verbeck | ||||||||||||
| Italian opera composer Giuseppe Fortunino Francesco Verdi wrote Aida born on 10-10-1813 in Le Roncole, Italy expired 1-27-1901 in Milan, Italy age 87 | ||||||||||||
| actress Gwyneth Evelyn "Gwen" Verdon played Lola in Broadway production of Damn Yankees (1955; "Whatever Lola wants, Lola gets..."); Mrs. Bob Fosse (1960-87) born on 1-16-1925 in Culver City, California expired 10-18-2000 in Woodstock, Vermont age 75 | ||||||||||||
| pioneering science fiction author Jules Verne wrote Journey to the Center of the Earth, Twenty-Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (1870), Mysterious Island and Around the World in Eighty Days (1873) born on 2-8-1828 in Nantes, France expired 3-24-1905 in Amiens, France age 77 | ||||||||||||
| comedian Jackie Vernon had comedy album A Man and his (pet) Watermelon; voice of Frosty the Snowman in 1969 animate holiday special born on 3-29-1924 in New York, New York expired 11-10-1987 in Hollywood, California age 63 cause: heart attack
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character actor John Vernon had the title role in the short 20-episode CBC crime drama Wojeck, centered around Toronto coroner Steve Wojeck, long before Quincy or CSI (1966); played Dean Vernon Wormer in Animal House; father of actress Kate
expired 2-1-2005 in Van Nuys, California age 72 cause: complications from heart surgery | ||||||||||||
druggist James Vernor Sr. in Union Army company that captured Jefferson Davis; created a well-born on 4-11-1843 in Albany, New York expired 10-29-1927 in Grosse Ile, Michigan age 84 cause: bronchial pneumonia; influenza | ||||||||||||
| explorer Giovannida Verrazano discovered mouth of Hudson River born on --1485 in Val di Greve, Italy expired 11-??-1528 in Puerto del Pico, Spain age 43 | ||||||||||||
| fashion designer Gianni Versace born on 12-2-1946 in Reggio di Calabria, Italy expired 7-15-1997 in Miami Beach, Florida age 50 cause: murdered; shot | ||||||||||||
| Met Opera tenor Richard L. Versalle born on 12-3-1932 expired 1-5-1996 age 63 | ||||||||||||
| assassinated South African prime minister (1958-66) Hendrick F. Verwoerd chief architect of apartheid born on 9-8-1901 in Amsterdam, The Netherlands expired 9-6-1966 in Capetown, South Africa age 64 cause: stabbed to death | ||||||||||||
crooked financier Robert Lee Vesco used illegal funds to gain control of companies; funneled loot to Watergate conspirators; fled to Costa Rica, then Cuba, to avoid prosecution; got his ass thrown in prison after he ripped-off both Donald Nixon & Raúl Castro (doing 13 years)
expired 11-23-2007 in Havana, Cuba age 71 cause: lung cancer
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Italian navigator & explorer Amerigo Vespucci discovered the mouth of the Rio de la Plate river; had several continents named after him
expired 2-22-1512 in Seville, Spain age 60 | ||||||||||||
former Oklahoma halfback Billy Vessels winner of the Heisman Trophy (1952)
expired 11-17-2001 in Coral Gables, Florida age 70 cause: congestive heart failure | ||||||||||||
| "Bubble Boy" David Joseph Vetter suffered from Severe Combine Immunodeficiency born on 9-21-1971 expired 2-22-1984 age 12 cause: Burkitt's lymphoma
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| harpsichordist & J.P. Rampal accompanist Robert Veyron-Lacroix born on 12-13-1922 expired 4-2-1991 age 68 | ||||||||||||
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