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| UMW presidential challenger (of Tony Boyle) Joseph A. Yablonski born on --1910 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania expired 1-5-1970 in Clarksville, Pennsylvania age 59 cause: murdered | |||||||||||||||
| NKVD thug (1934-36) Genrikh Yagoda Menzhinski's assistant/successor; liked to fly paper airplanes during meetings; may have been nuts born on --1891 in Łódź, Poland expired ??-??-1938 age 47 cause: executed; shot | |||||||||||||||
| Dow chemical engineer Michael Yakubic invented Saran Wrap (original name: Eonite) expired 7-18-1996 age 85 | |||||||||||||||
| philanthropist Elihu Yale Yale University named for him; governor Fort Saint George, Madras, India (1687-92) born on 4-5-1649 in Boston, Massachusetts expired 7-8-1721 in England age 73 | |||||||||||||||
| lock developer/manufacturer Linus Yale born on 4-4-1821 in Salisbury, New York expired 12-25-1868 in New York, New York age 47 | |||||||||||||||
medical physicist Rosalyn Yalow shared the 1977 Nobel prize in medicine for her co-discovery of radioimmunoassay
expired 5-30-2011 in The Bronx, New York, New York age
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| two-time Nukie Award winner Tsutomu Yamaguchi was an engineer for Mitsubishi Heavy Industries during World War II; while in Hiroshima on a business trip got nuked; after a few days he was home to recuperate & got nuked again; one of the few known individuals to be on the receiving end of a double shot of "love" from the boys down Alamagordo way born on 3-16-1916 expired 1-4-2010 in Nagasaki, Japan age 93 cause: stomach cancer | |||||||||||||||
Pearl Harbor attack architect Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto
expired 4-18-1943 in Bougainville Island, Solomon Islands, Western Pacific age 59 cause: plane shot down | |||||||||||||||
architect Minoru Yamasaki designed the now-born on 12-1-1912 in Seattle, Washington expired 2-7-1986 in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan age 73 cause: cancer | |||||||||||||||
| Bandai Toy Co. founder Naoharu Yamashina behind the Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers and Tamagotchi virtual pet fads expired 10-28-1997 age 79 cause: respiratory failure | |||||||||||||||
| Alhoa & Hula Bowl founder Mackay U. Yanagisawa born on 9-25-1912 expired 5-30-2000 in Honolulu, Hawaii age 87 | |||||||||||||||
failed coup plotter Gennadi Ivanovich Yanayev a long-term party hack/apparatchik, had been Gorby's vice president; his half-assed attempt to stymie liberalization backfired and put the whole USSR in the dustbin of history (1991)born on 8-26-1937 in USSR expired 9-24-2010 in Moscow, Russia age 73
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| 1930s & 40s Boogie Woogie jazz musician James Edward "Jimmy" Yancey born on 2-20-1898 in Chicago, Illinois expired 9-17-1951 in Chicago, Illinois age 53 | |||||||||||||||
| Mr. Fatburger restaurant chain co-founder (1947) Lovie Yancey when partner Charles Simpson was bought out (1952) dropped the "Mr." from the burger palace's name born on 1-3-1912 in Texas expired 1-26-2008 in Los Angeles, California age 96 cause: pneumonia AKS: Lovey Yancie | |||||||||||||||
| former Chechen Republic of Ichkerin acting president (1996-97) Zelimkhan Abdulmuslimovich Yandarbiyev linked to al-Qaeda; wanted by the Russians for his involvement in the October 2002 Moscow theater hostage debacle (129 dead, mostly by police-introduced narcotic gas) born on 9-12-1952 in Kazakhstan expired 2-13-2004 in Doha, Qatar age 51 cause: car bomb blast AKS: Yanderbiyev | |||||||||||||||
| mechanical engineer Dr. An Tzu "Andy" Yang credited with modernizing the Theory of Screws, employed by personel departments across the nation when dealing with their "human resources" born on 10-5-1923 in Shanghai, China expired 11-21-2003 in Woodland, California age 80 cause: "a number of medical problems" | |||||||||||||||
| former Chinese president (1988-92) Yang Shang Kun behind the 1989 Tiananman Square massacre born on --1907 in Tongnan County, Sichuan Province, China expired 9-14-1998 in Beijing, China age 91 | |||||||||||||||
| polka king Frankie Yankovic born on 7-28-1915 expired 10-14-1998 in New Port Richey, Florida age 83 | |||||||||||||||
| original Lovin' Spoonful guitarist Zalman Yanovsky co-owner of Chez Piggy/Pan Chancho restaurant/bakery born on 12-19-1944 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada expired 12-15-2002 in Kingston, Ontario, Canada age 57 cause: heart attack | |||||||||||||||
| last surviving member of China's "Gang of Four" Yao Wenyuan propagana officer for the "Cultural Revolution" debacle born on ??-??-1931 in Zhuji County, Zhejiang Province, China expired 12-23-2005 in Shanghai, China age 74 cause: complications from diabetes
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| Nigerian president (2007-2010) Umaru Musa Yar'Adua he needs your help in transferring $50,000,000 from an offshore account ... born on 8-16-1951 in Katsina, Nigeria expired 5-5-2010 in Lagos, Nigeria age 58 cause: heart failure; kidney failure
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| former Texas senator (1957-71) Ralph Webster Yarborough born on 6-8-1903 in Chandler, Texas expired 1-27-1996 in Austin, Texas age 92 | |||||||||||||||
former N.O.W. president (1987-91) Mary Alexander "Molly" Yard
expired 9-21-2005 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania age 93
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| basketball Hall-of-Famer George Yardley played for the Fort Wayne/Detroit Pistons & the Syracuse Nationals (1953-60); first player in the NBA to score 2,000 points in a season (1957-58 season), breaking George Mikan's record of 1932 points (1950-51 season) born on 11-3-1928 in Hollywood, California expired 8-12-2004 in Newport Beach, California age 75 cause: ALS | |||||||||||||||
| singer & actor Bruce Yarnell born on 12-28-1938 in Los Angeles, California expired 11-20-1973 in Los Angeles County, California age 35 cause: plane crash | |||||||||||||||
| former dancer & mime Lorene Yarnell half of theShields & Yarnell comedy mime duo; performed as the robot Dot Matrix in Spaceballs (1987) born on 3-21-1944 in Inglewood, California expired 7-29-2010 in Sandefjord, Norway age 66 cause: brain aneurysm | |||||||||||||||
| retired dairy farmer Max B. Yasgur the Woodstock Music Festival was held on his farm born on 12-15-1919 in New York, New York expired 2-9-1973 in Marathon, Florida age 53 cause: heart attack | |||||||||||||||
| Sheik Ahmed Yassin founder of Hamas (12-14-1987) born on 12-18-1936 in Jorah «or» Jawarah «or» Majdel, Palestine (near Ashkelon) expired 3-22-2004 in Gaza City, Gaza Strip age 67 cause: assassinated; missile strike AKS: Ahmad Amed Amad Yassine Yassim | |||||||||||||||
| British tv personality Paula Yates mother of three kids (Fifi Trixibelle, Peaches & Pixie) by ex-husband Bob Geldof (1989-95) and one kid (Heavenly Hirrani Tiger Lily) by Michael Hutchence born on 4-24-1960 expired 9-16-2000 in London, England age 40 cause: heroin overdose | |||||||||||||||
| movie director Peter James Yates made Bullitt (1968), The Hot Rock (1972), Mother, Jugs & Speed (1976), The Deep (1977), Breaking Away (1979), Eyewitness (1981) & Krull (1983) born on 7-24-1929 in Aldershot, Hampshire, England expired 1-9-2011 in London, England age 81 cause: "a long illness" AKS: Juggs | |||||||||||||||
| former Illinois rep. (1949-62) Sidney Richard Yates born on 8-27-1909 in Chicago, Illinois expired 10-5-2000 in Washington, District of Columbia age 91 | |||||||||||||||
| Boston Red Sox majority owner Jean R. Yawkey widow of Thomas born on 1-24-1909 expired 2-26-1992 age 83 | |||||||||||||||
industrialist Thomas Austin Yawkey owned the Boston Red Sox (1933-76)
expired 7-10-1976 in Boston, Massachusetts age 73 cause: leukemia | |||||||||||||||
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