| kid actor Lee William Aaker played Rusty on Rin Tin Tin tv series born on 9-25-1943 in Inglewood, California | ||||
| "actress" Angela Aames born on 2-27-1956 in Pierre, South Dakota expired 11-27-1988 in West Hills, California age 32 cause: heart disease | ||||
actor Willie Aames
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| Comcast Cable co-founder (1963) Daniel Aaron born on 1-27-1926 in Giessen, Germany expired 2-20-2003 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania age 77 cause: complications from Parkinson's disease | ||||
baseball great Henry Louis "Hank" Aaron broke Babe Ruth's all-time home run record (1974); an Atlanta, GA Krispy Kreme franchiseeborn on 2-5-1934 in Mobile, Alabama | ||||
| tin-horn Nigerian dictator Sani Abacha died during an orgy with a bunch of prostitutes born on 9-20-1943 in Kano State, Nigeria expired 6-8-1998 in Abuja, Nigeria age 54 cause: heart attack; Viagra overdose | ||||
| orchestra conductor Claudio Abbado born on 6-26-1933 in Milan, Lombardy, Italy | ||||
new PLO chairman Mahmoud Abbas succeeded Arafat in the post
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terrorists Muhammad Zaiden Abbas Palestine Liberation Front founder; responsible for the Achille Lauro hijacking (1985)
expired 3-9-2004 in Iraq age 55 cause: heart failure | ||||
| original Mickey Mouse Club Mouseketeer Nancy Abbate appeared on series as Nancy born on 6-19-1942 in Los Angeles, California | ||||
| farmer Richard Huntington Abbey one of the 18 grand jurors that indicted Milam & Bryant for the murder of Emmet Till (9/6/1955) born on 8-12-1891 expired 3-??-1986 in Webb, Mississippi age 94 | ||||
| Broadway producer George Francis Abbott born on 6-25-1887 in Forestville, New York expired 1-31-1995 age 107 | ||||
| violent repeat felon Jack Henry Abbott Norman Mailer got him out of jail once (big mistake); his correspondence with Mailer was published in book form as In The Belly of the Beast born on 1-21-1944 in Oscoda, Michigan expired 2-10-2002 in Alden, New York age 58 cause: suicide; hanged | ||||
 
inspirational one-handed baseball pitcher James A. "Jim" Abbott born without a right hand; won 1987 Sullivan Award; 1988 Olympic gold medalistborn on 9-19-1967 in Flint, Michigan | ||||
| actor John Abbott born on 6-5-1905 in London, England expired 5-24-1996 in Los Angeles, California age 90 | ||||
| movie special visual effects specialist Lenwood Ballard Abbott won oscar for Doctor Doolittle (1967) born on 6-13-1908 in Pasadena, California expired 9-28-1985 in Los Angeles, California age 77 | ||||
theatrical/tv producer Michael Abbott staged the original (off-Broadway) production of Stalag 17 (1951)
expired 1-24-2008 in Manhattan, New York, New York age 81 cause: complications from cancer | ||||
| magician Percy Abbott world famous magic equipment manufacturer in Colon Michigan born on 5-3-1886 expired 8-26-1960 in Colon, Michigan age 74 | ||||
| actor Philip Abbott co-starred in The F.B.I. tv series born on 3-20-1924 in Lincoln, Nebraska expired 2-23-1998 in Tarzana, California age 73 cause: cancer | ||||
| Chicago Defender founder (1905) Robert Sengstacke Abbott also founded the Michigan Chronicle in Detroit born on 11-24-1868 in Frederica, Saint Simon's Island, Georgia expired 2-29-1940 in Chicago, Illinois age 71 cause: Bright's Disease | ||||
former "The Canadian Press" sports editor Scott Abbott co-inventor of the Trivial Pursuit game (12-15-1979)born on ??-??-19?? | ||||
| comedic straight man William Alexander "Bud" Abbott teamed with Lou Costello born on 10-2-1898 in Asbury Park, New Jersey expired 4-24-1974 in Woodland Hills, California age 75 cause: cancer | ||||
| Saudi prince Faisal ibn Musad Abdel Aziz assassinated his uncle King Faisal born on 4-4-1944 in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia expired 6-18-1975 in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia age 31 cause: executed | ||||
blind cleric Sheik Omar Abdel-Rahman terrorist; involved in the assassination of Sadat (1981) & World Trade Center bombing (1993); doing life in the Ferderal "super-max" penitentiaryborn on 5-3-1938 in Daqahliya Province, Egypt | ||||
| dancer Paula Julie Abdul born on 6-19-1962 in Los Angeles, California | ||||
| Ruslan Abdulgani organized the 1955 Bandung Conference of non-aligned nations born on 11-24-1914 in Surabaya, Dutch East Indies expired 6-28-2005 in Jakarta, Indonesia age 90 cause: complications from stroke | ||||
basketball player & actor Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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Texas death row inmate Jalil Abdul-Kabir currently awaiting a death warrant
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| Saudi Arabian King Abdullah bin Abdul-Aziz al-Saud installed in 2005 born on 8-1-1924 in Riyadh, Arabia | ||||
| Kuwait ruler (1950-65) Abdullah al-Salin al-Sabah lead "country" to independence from Britain in 1961 born on --1895 expired ??-??-1965 age 70 | ||||
| model/actress Iman Abdulmajid did January 1986 Playboy pictorial born on 7-25-1955 in Mogadishu, Somalia | ||||
de-nutted nut-job Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab tried to blow up a Detroit-bound Northwest jet Christmas Day 2009 — instead only blew his nuts off ... yes this is the the underware bomber guy! He had explosives (PETN) in his B.V.D.'s («insert super-diarrhea joke here»)
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| Archbishop of Canterbury (1162-70) Thomas à Becket had "problems" with King Henry II; got martyred for his efforts born on 12-21-1118 in London, England expired 12-29-1170 in Canterbury, Kent, England age 52 | ||||
| BCCI founder (1972) Agha Hasan Abedi acronym = Bank of Credit and Commerce International; acronym came to mean Bank of Crooks and Criminals Indicted; bank collapsed in 1991 born on 5-14-1922 in Luckow, India expired 8-5-1995 in Karachi, Pakistan age 73 cause: cardiac arrest | ||||
| actor Alfred Abel played John Fredersen in Metropolis (1926) born on 3-12-1879 in Leipzig, Saxony, Germany expired 12-12-1937 in Berlin, Germany age 58 | ||||
| United Steelworkers Union co-founder & head (1965-77) Iorwith Wilbur Abel born on 8-11-1908 in Magnolia, Ohio expired 8-10-1987 in Malvern, Ohio age 78 | ||||
| computer animation pioneer Robert "Bob" Abel provided visual effects for TRON (1982) born on 3-10-1937 in Cleveland, Ohio expired 9-23-2001 in Los Angeles, California age 64 cause: complications from heart attack | ||||
| Soviet spymaster Colonel Rudolf Ivanovich Abel exchanged for U-2 pilot Francis Gary Powers born on --1902 in Saint Petersburg, Russia expired 11-15-1971 in Moscow, Russia, USSR age 68 cause: lung cancer | ||||
former Detroit Red Wings broadcaster Sidney Gerald Abel
expired 2-7-2000 in Farmington Hills, Michigan age 81 | ||||
statuesque model/"actress" Siv Marta "Sivi" Aberg Swedish delegate to/3rd runner up in the 1964 Miss Universe contest; Chuck Barris' "assistant" on The Gong Show; the apex of her acting career was to coo "Take it off. Take it all off." in shaving cream commercials
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| Rev. Ralph David Abernathy born on 3-11-1926 in Linden, Alabama expired 4-17-1990 age 64 | ||||
| former American Motors Company president & CEO (1962-67) Roy Abernethy born on 9-29-1906 in Wet Monterey, Pennsylvania expired 2-28-1977 in Tequestra, Florida age 70 | ||||
| World War I veteran Raymond Abescat born on 9-10-1891 in Paris, Île-de-France, France expired 8-25-2001 in Rueil-Malmaison, France age 109 | ||||
| South Dakota senator (1973-78) James George Abourezk born on 2-21-1931 in Rosebud Sioux Indian Reservation, South Dakota | ||||
| inventor Robert Henry Abplanalp co-owner of Precision Valve Corporation; his improved/cheap aerosol valve (1949) led to the ubiquitous spray cans we use/throw away today; Nixon friend/contributor born on 4-4-1922 in New York, New York expired 8-30-2003 in Bronxville, New York age 81 cause: cancer | ||||
| actor Fahrid Murray Abraham won Best Actor oscar for playing Mozart rival Antonio Salieri in Amadeus (1984) born on 10-24-1939 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania | ||||
| movie spoof writer/director Jim Abrahams did Airplane spoofs with Zucker brothers (D&J) born on 5-10-1944 in Shorewood, Wisconsin | ||||
convicted felon Jack A. Abramoff a crooked lobbyist & corrupter of easily-corrupted hack politicians; scheduled for release from the pen on 12/4/2010
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| architect Max Abramovitz designed Philharmonic Hall in Lincoln Center (later renamed Avery Fisher Hall) born on 5-23-1908 in Chicago, Illinois expired 9-12-2004 in Pound Ridge, New York age 96 | ||||
| Emerson Radio co-founder Banjamin Abrams expired 6-23-1967 in White Plains, New York age 74 | ||||
| Color Me Badd singer Bryan Abrams born on 11-16-1969 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma | ||||
| former Army Chief of Staff (1972-74) General Creighton Williams Abrams commanded U.S. forces in Vietnam 1968-72; oversaw withdrawal of forces born on 9-14-1914 in Springfield, Massachusetts expired 9-4-1974 in Washington, District of Columbia age 59 cause: complications from lung cancer surgery | ||||
| typeface & logotype designer George Abrams did logos for B. Altman, Godiva Chocolates and Ballantine Beer; typefaces include: Abrams Venetian, Augereau & Caslon; brother of Harry Abrams born on 9-3-1919 in New York, New York expired 6-7-2001 in Manhasset, New York age 81 | ||||
| tv/movie producer/director Jeffrey Jacob Abrams gave us Lost tv show & the new Star Trek movie (2009) born on 6-27-1966 in New York, New York | ||||
| aerial photo pioneer Dr. Talbert Abrams born on 8-17-1895 in Tekonsha, Michigan expired 9-25-1990 age 95 | ||||
2003 Nobel physics co-laureate Alexei Alexeyevich Abrikosovborn on 6-25-1928 in Moscow, Russia, USSR | ||||
actress Victoria Abril best known for playing Marina Osorio in ¡Átame! (1990)
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death row inmate Mumia Abu-Jamal
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| loud-mouthed former New York Rep. (1971-77) Bella Savitsky Abzug born on 7-24-1920 in New York, New York expired 3-31-1998 in New York, New York age 77 cause: complications from heart surgery | ||||
| radio Easy Aces co-host (1928-45) Goodman Ace husband of Jane born on 1-15-1899 in Kansas City, Missouri expired 3-25-1982 in New York, New York age 83 | ||||
radio Easy Aces co-host (1928-45) Jane Ace a master of malapropisms; wife of Goodman
expired 11-11-1974 in New York, New York age 74 | ||||
| malevolent dentist David Johnson Acer infected numerous patients with the AIDS virus prior to his own death born on 11-11-1949 in Cleveland, Ohio expired 9-3-1990 in West Palm Beach, Florida age 40 cause: AIDS | ||||
| chef/restauranteur Grant Achatz receiving radiation treatments for Stage 4 squamous cell carcinoma of the mouth born on ??-??-1947 in Michigan | ||||
novelist Albert Chinualumogu Achebe
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| Truman Secretary of State (1949-53) Dean Gooderham Acheson born on 4-11-1893 in Middletown, Connecticut expired 10-12-1971 in Sandy Spring, Maryland age 78 cause: heart attack | ||||
| silent film actress Jean Acker Rudolph Valentino's first wife born on 10-23-1893 in Trenton, New Jersey expired 8-16-1978 in Los Angeles, California age 85 | ||||
| Kathy Acker bisexual former stripper into performance art & radical feminist rhetoric born on 4-18-1947 in Manhattan, New York, New York expired 11-30-1997 in Tijuana, Mexico age 50 cause: medical quackery; breast cancer | ||||
| actress Sharon Acker born on 4-2-1935 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada | ||||
| sci-fi publicist Forrest James Ackerman first to abbreviate "science fiction" as "sci-fi" (1954); launched Famous Monsters of Filmland magazine (1958); created the Vampirella character (1958); awarded an honorary Hugo Award born on 11-24-1916 in Hollywood, California expired 12-4-2008 in Los Feliz, California age 92 cause: heart failure | ||||
| tv producer (I Love Lucy, Gunsmoke, Leave It To Beaver) Harry S. Ackerman born on 11-17-1912 in Albany, New York expired 2-3-1991 age 78 | ||||
| actor Joss Ackland plays great villains born on 2-29-1928 in London, England | ||||
| Shuttle STS-51-F astronaut Loren Wilber Acton born on 3-7-1936 in Lewistown, Montana | ||||
| Olympic high jumper Amy Acuff appeared on cover/nekid in September 2004 Playboy born on 7-14-1975 in Port Arthur, Texas | ||||
| country music legend Roy Claxton Acuff his band was called The Smokey Mountain Boys born on 9-15-1903 in Maynardville, Tennessee expired 11-23-1992 age 89 | ||||
dwarf commercial skate boarder Jason Bryant Acuña appeared in the Jackass movie as one of the jackasses
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| character actress Jean Adair featured in Arsenic and Old Lace born on 6-13-1873 in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada expired 5-11-1953 in New York, New York age 80 | ||||
oil/gas rig firefighter Paul Neal "Red" Adairborn on 6-18-1915 in Houston, Texas expired 8-7-2004 in Houston, Texas age 89 cause: "natural causes" | ||||
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photographer Ansel Easton Adams born on 2-20-1902 in San Francisco, California expired 4-22-1984 in Monterey, California age 82 | ||||
| Ohio death row inmate Benny L. Adams born on ??-??-1957 | ||||
Mercury Records co-founder Berle Adams co-founded label with Irving Green, Ray Greenberg & Art Talmadge
expired 8-25-2009 in Los Angeles, California age 92 | ||||
| Carter Transportation secretary (1977-79) Brockman Adams also senator from Washington (1987-93) who resigned amid allegations of sexual misconduct born on 1-13-1927 in Atlanta, Georgia expired 9-10-2004 in Stevensville, Maryland age 77 cause: Parkinson's disease | ||||
actress Brooke Adams
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| singer Bryan Guy Adams born on 11-5-1959 in Kingston, Ontario, Canada | ||||
| New York Journal-American sports writer Caswell Adams credited with coining the term "Ivy League" expired 12-9-1957 in Manhasset, New York age 50 | ||||
| actress Catlin Adams born on 10-11-1950 in Los Angeles, California | ||||
casting agent/character actress Cecily April Adams daughter of Don Adams; played Quark's mother Ishka (Moogie) on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine; has lung & spinal cancer
expired 3-3-2004 in Los Angeles, California age 46 cause: lung cancer | ||||
Get Smart comic actor Don Adams played Maxwell Smart on Get Smart; the voice of Tennessee Tuxedo
expired 9-25-2005 in Beverly Hills, California age 82 cause: lung infection; osteolymphoma | ||||
born on 3-11-1952 in Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England expired 5-11-2001 in Santa Barbara, California age 49 cause: heart attack | ||||
actress & comedienne Edith "Edie" Adams widow of Ernie Kovacs; played Daisy Mae in Broadway musical production of Li'l Abner (1956; received a Tony Award); appeared in May 1957 Playboy pictorial "Li'l Abner's Girls"; pitched Muriel Cigars on tv (1950s & 60s)
expired 10-15-2008 in Los Angeles, California age 81 cause: pneumonia; cancer | ||||
 Associated Press photographer Edward Thomas "Eddie" Adams I won the Pulitzer Prize in breaking news photography for his photograph of South Vietnamese National Police Force commander Nguyen Ngoc Loan executing VC terrorist Nguyen Van Lem on the streets of Saigon during the 1968 Tet Offensive born on 6-12-1933 in New Kensington, Pennsylvania expired 9-18-2004 in New York, New York age 71 cause: ALS | ||||
| New York Hearld-Tribune columnist Franklin Pierce Adams member of the Algonquin Round Table; panelist on Information Please radio show born on 11-15-1881 in Chicago, Illinois expired 3-23-1960 in New York, New York age 78 | ||||
Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams Jr.born on 10-6-1948 in West Belfast, Northern Ireland | ||||
 
glamour photographer Hal Adams shot a number of early Playboy centerfolds & coversexpired 12-??-2006 age 92 | ||||
| Harriet Stratemeyer Adams daughter of Edward Stratemeyer (the original Carolyn Keene) born on 12-11-1892 in Newark, New Jersey expired 3-27-1982 age 89 | ||||
Borscht-belt comic Joey Adams husband of gossip columnist Cindy (Heller) Adams
expired 12-2-1999 in New York, New York age 88 cause: heart failure | ||||
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American revolutionary John Adams negotiated Treaty of Paris (1793) that ended the American Revolution; 1st U.S. Vice President (under Washington; 1789-1797); 2nd U.S. president (1797-1801); father of John Quincy Adams born on 10-30-1735 in Braintree, Massachusetts expired 7-4-1826 in Quincy, Massachusetts age 90 | ||||
| composer John Coolidge Adams wrote the opera Nixon in China born on 2-15-1947 in Worcester, Massachusetts | ||||
| formerArmy general counsel John Gibbon Adams had repeated clashes with the alcoholic sociopathic junior jackass from Wisconsin born on 3-23-1912 in Ashland, Kentucky expired 6-26-2003 in Dallas, Texas age 91 | ||||
| politician John Michael Geoffrey Manningham "Tom" Adams prime minister of Barbados (1976-85) born on 9-24-1931 in Barbados expired 3-12-1985 in Bridgetown, Barbados age 53 cause: heart attack | ||||
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6th U.S. president (1825-29) John Quincy Adams son of John Adams born on 7-11-1767 in Braintree, Massachusetts expired 2-23-1848 in Washington, District of Columbia age 80 | ||||
| actor Jonathan Adams was the narrator in the original The Rocky Horror Picture Show London stage play (1973) & Dr. E.V. Scott in The Rocky Horror Picture Show movie (1975) born on 2-14-1931 in Northampton, England expired 6-13-2005 in London, England age 74 | ||||
actress Julie Adams played Kay Lawrence in The Creature From the Black Lagoon (1954) & had a recurring role as Eve Simpson on Murder, She Wrote tv series
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| sports team owner Kenneth Stanley "Bud" Adams Jr. founded Ada Resources; owns the Houston Oilers/Tennesse Titans NFL franchise born on 1-3-1923 in Bartlesville, Oklahoma | ||||
World War II sergeant Lucien Adams Medal of Honor recipientborn on 10-26-1922 in Port Arthur, Texas expired 3-31-2003 in San Antonio, Texas age 80 | ||||
| actress Mary Kay Adams played India Spaulding on The Guiding Light, Grilka on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and Na'Toth #2 on Babylon 5 born on 9-12-1962 in Middletown, New Jersey | ||||
| character/voice actor Mason Adams played Charlie Hume on Lou Grant; delivered the tagline "With a name like Smucker's, it has to be good" in their commercials born on 2-26-1919 in New York, New York expired 4-26-2005 in New York, New York age 86 | ||||
actress Maud Adams did October 1981 Playboy pictorial
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Broadway actress Maude Adams portrayed Peter Pan in the original 1905 production
expired 7-17-1953 in Tannersville, New York age 80 | ||||
| Thin Blue Line documentary subject Randall Dale Adams convicted of murder; exonerated by efforts of movie maker & tv reporters born on ??-??-1949 in Ohio | ||||
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Playboy June 1995 Playmate of Month Rhonda Adams born on 11-27-1971 in Columbus, Georgia | ||||
| author Richard George Adams wrote an ode to wabbits Watership Down (1972) born on 5-9-1920 in Newburn, Berkshire, England | ||||
| anthropologist Robert McCormick Adams Jr. Secretary Emeritus of the Smithsonian Institution born on 7-23-1926 in Chicago, Illinois | ||||
| poet Sarah Fuller Flower Adams wrote lyrics for hymn Nearer, My God, To Thee based upon Genesis 28: 10-22 (1840; first published 1841); music later arranged by Lowell Mason born on 2-22-1805 in Harlow, Essex, England expired 8-14-1848 in Saint Martin-in-the-Fields, Middlesex, England age 43 cause: tuberculosis | ||||
 
cartoonist Scott Raymond Adams creator of the Dilbert strip (1988); was the 1997 Reuben Award winnerborn on 6-8-1957 in Catskill, New York | ||||
| lyricist Stanley Adams wrote Rollin' Down the River (to music by Fats Waller; 1930) born on 8-14-1907 expired 1-27-1994 age 86 | ||||
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Playboy November 1992 Playmate of Month Stephanie Adams descended from two presidents (J & JQ Adams); claims to be a lesbian born on 7-24-1970 in Orange, New Jersey | ||||
| movie producer Tony Adams produced Victor/Victoria, 10 & the Pink Panther movies born on 2-15-1953 in Dublin, Ireland expired 10-22-2005 in New York, New York age 52 cause: stroke | ||||
former Spice Girls singer Victoria Caroline Adams
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| economist Walter Adams former Michigan State University president (1969); professor (1947-93) born on 8-27-1922 in Vienna, Austria expired 9-8-1998 in East Lansing, Michigan age 76 cause: pancreatic cancer | ||||
| animated movie director Andrew Adamson director of Shrek (2001) born on 12-1-1966 in Aukland, New Zealand | ||||
| Born Free co-author George Adamson born on --1906 in Dholpur, India expired 8-20-1989 in Kora, Kenya age 82 | ||||
| Shuttle STS-28 & 43 astronaut James Craig "Jim" Adamson born on 3-3-1946 in Warsaw, New York | ||||
| Born Free co-author (1960) Joy Adamson born on 1-20-1910 in Troppau, Austria-Hungary (now Opaua, Czechoslovakia) expired 1-3-1980 in Shaba, Kenya age 69 cause: mauled by lion | ||||
| former Milwaukee Braves first baseman Joseph W. "Joe" Adcock born on 10-30-1927 expired 5-3-1999 in Coushatta, Louisiana age 71 cause: Alzheimer's disease | ||||
| Lucille J. Adcock last known survivor of the July 4, 1918 Columbia Steamboat sinking — Mississippi River near Peoria born on 6-27-1900 expired 8-13-2006 in Pekin, Illinois age 106 | ||||
| cartoonist Charles Addams gave us Gomez, Morticia, Uncle Fester, Pugsley, Wednesday, Thing, Cousin Itt and Lurch born on 1-7-1912 expired 9-29-1988 age 76 cause: heart attack | ||||
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social reformer Laura Jane Addams co-founded Hull House; shared the 1931 Nobel Peace Prize born on 9-6-1860 in Cedarville, Illinois expired 5-21-1935 in Chicago, Illinois age 74 cause: cancer | ||||
| jazz saxophonist Julian Edwin "Cannonball" Adderley brother of Nat; his original nickname was "Cannibal" (because of his prodigious appetite) ... it eventually was corrupted into "Cannonball" born on 9-15-1928 in Tampa, Florida expired 8-8-1975 in Gary, Indiana age 46 cause: complications from stroke | ||||
| jazz cornetist & composer Nathaniel C. Adderley brother of Cannonball born on 11-25-1931 in Tampa, Florida expired 1-2-2000 in Lakeland, Florida age 68 cause: complications from diabetes | ||||
| composer Richard Addinsell wrote Warsaw Concerto (1941) born on 1-13-1904 in Oxford, England expired 11-15-1977 in London, England age 73 | ||||
| cartoonist Donald Gordon Addis drew editorial for the "Evening Independent" & "St. Petersburg Times"; creator of the "Bent Offerings" strip (1988-1997); contributed cartoons to Playboy magazine (1959-99) — created their "Symbolic Sex" feature born on 9-13-1935 in Hollywood, California expired 11-29-2009 in Saint Petersburg, Florida age 74 cause: lung cancer | ||||
| music composer John Addison won an oscar for the musical score of Tom Jones (1963) and an Emmy for the theme to Murder, She Wrote born on 3-16-1920 in West Cobham, England expired 12-7-1998 in Bennington, Vermont age 78 cause: stroke | ||||
| butt of late night comedian jokes Lois Crouch Matheny Addy Strom Thurmond's baby sitter; retired teacher born on 10-24-1892 expired 12-3-2001 in Saluda, South Carolina age 109 | ||||
musician King Sunny Ade
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Playboy July 1994 Playmate of Month Traci Adell also did August 1995 pictorial; hit up by O.J. for date just hours before Nicole & Ron were killed -- she turned him down (good call)
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former People magazine writer Suzanne Adelson in the May 10, 1982 issue, in a story on the end of the Barney Miller tv series, mistakenly "killed-off" Abe Vigodaborn on ??-??-1955 | ||||
| former West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer born on 1-5-1876 in Köln, Germany expired 4-19-1967 in Rhondorf, Germany age 91 | ||||
| actress Isabelle Yasmine Adjani born on 6-27-1955 in Gennevilliers, Hauts-de-Seine, France | ||||
| Cedric Donald Adkins co-inventor of process that produces frozen concentrated orange juice (1946) born on 9-7-1913 in Winter Haven, Florida expired 6-3-2000 in Winter Haven, Florida age 86 | ||||
| cult rockabilly singer Hasil Adkins born on 4-29-1937 in Boone County, West Virginia expired 4-26-2005 in Madison, West Virginia age 67 | ||||
| country singer Tracy Darrell "Trace" Adkins born on 1-13-1962 in Springhill, Louisiana | ||||
pro wrassler Chris B. Adkisson member of the family wrasslin' dynasty
expired 9-12-1991 age 21 cause: suicide | ||||
pro wrassler David Adkisson member of the family wrasslin' dynasty
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pro wrassler Jack B. "Fritz" Adkisson patriarch of the family wrasslin' dynasty
expired 9-10-1997 in Lake Dallas, Texas age 68 cause: brain & lung cancer | ||||
pro wrassler Kerry G. Adkisson member of the family wrasslin' dynasty
expired 2-18-1993 age 33 cause: suicide | ||||
pro wrassler Mike Adkisson member of the family wrasslin' dynasty
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public key encryption researcher Leonard Max Adleman he's the A in RSA encryption; 2002 A.M. Turing Award co-recipientborn on 12-31-1945 in California | ||||
WXYZ-TV film editor & accomplished pie-thrower Clyde Adler a regular on the Soupy Sales show "Lunch with Soupy", chucking pies, doing the puppetteering (White Fang, Black Tooth, Pookie, Hippie) & voicing various behind-the-door characters that always seem to have shown up on Soupy's doorstep loaded with pies & ready to flingborn on 1-24-1926 in Oak Park, Illinois expired 9-4-1993 in Petoskey, Michigan age 67 | ||||
| harmonica virtuoso Hilliard Gerald "Jerry" Adler brother of Larry Adler; was heard on the soundtracks of High Noon (1952), Shane (1953) & Mary Poppins (1964) born on 10-30-1918 in Baltimore, Maryland expired 3-13-2010 in Ellenton, Florida age 91 cause: prostate cancer | ||||
| harmonica soloist Lawrence Cecil "Larry" Adler hounded out of U.S. during 1940s/50s Red Scare hysteria born on 2-10-1914 in Baltimore, Maryland expired 8-6-2001 in London, England age 87 | ||||
| music/movie producer Lou Adler produced Brewster McCloud (1970); executive producer of The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975) born on 12-13-1933 in Chicago, Illinois | ||||
actor Luther Adler second husband of Sylvia Sidney
expired 12-8-1984 in Kutztown, Pennsylvania age 81 | ||||
| former Sears, Roebuck & Co. president Max Adler donated the Adler Planetarium in Chicago (1930) born on 5-12-1866 in Elgin, Illinois expired 11-4-1952 in Beverly Hills, California age 86 | ||||
| author/philosopher Mortimer Jerome Adler former Encyclopedia Britannica editor; complier of Great Books of the Western World born on 12-28-1902 in New York, New York expired 6-28-2001 in San Mateo, California age 98 | ||||
| Broadway composer Richard Adler born on 8-3-1921 in New York, New York | ||||
| Zenith Radio/TV engineer Robert Adler came up with the second remote control device for tvs — the Space Command — that used ultrasonic sound generated by small metal bars stuck by hammers in the device to change channels, etc (in a pinch loose change & car keys could also do the trick) born on 12-4-1913 in Vienna, Austria-Hungary expired 2-15-2007 in Boise, Idaho age 93 cause: heart failure | ||||
| acting teacher Stella Adler born on 2-10-1902 in New York, New York expired 12-21-1992 age 91 | ||||
NYC mobster Joe Adonis
expired 11-26-1971 in Ancona, Italy age 69 cause: heart failure | ||||
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Dr. Edgar Douglas Adrian shared the 1932 Nobel prize in medicine for discoveries regarding the functions of neurons born on 11-30-1889 in London, England expired 8-8-1977 in Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England age 87 | ||||
actor Benjamin Geza Affleck brother of Casey; dumped by Jennifer Lopez; currently married to Jennifer Garner
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| actor Lauren Casey Affleck appeared in Drowning Mona (2000) born on 8-12-1975 in Falmouth, Massachusetts | ||||
professional wrassler William Richard Afflis
expired 11-10-1991 in Indian Rocks Beach, Florida age 62 cause: internal hemorrhaging from ruptured blood vessel in esophagus | ||||
widower Begum Aga Kahn III
expired 7-1-2000 in Le Cannet, Alpes-Maritimes, France age 94 | ||||
former League of Nations president (1937) Aga Khan III
expired 7-11-1957 in Versoix, Switzerland age 79 | ||||
| actor John G. Agar briefly married to Shirley Temple born on 1-31-1921 in Chicago, Illinois expired 4-7-2002 in Burbank, California age 81 cause: emphysema | ||||
| Assyrian-American football great Alexander Arrasi Agase an All-American guard & linebacker for Illinois (1942) & Purdue (1943); coached at Northwestern (1964-72), replacing Ara Parseghian when he left for Notre Dame & Purdue (1973-76); also was athletic director at Eastern Michigan (1977-81) and a volunteer assistant for Bo Schembechler at Michigan; elected to the College Football Hall of Fame born on 3-27-1922 in Chicago, Illinois expired 5-3-2007 in Tarpon Springs, Florida age 85 | ||||
| tennis player Andre Kirk Agassi ex-hubby of Brooke Shields born on 4-29-1970 in Las Vegas, Nevada | ||||
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attempted papal assassin Mehmet Ali Agca a member of the Turkish ultra-nationalist group "The Grey Wolves"; claimed that he was in the plot along with Sergei Antonov (Bulgarian Airline representative in Rome), Zhelyo Vasilev (Bulgarian Embassy secretary of military attaché in Rome) & Todor Aivazov (Bulgarian embassy accountant); in 2000, at the behest of John Paul II, he was pardoned from prison then shipped to Turkey to do time for the murder of a Turkish journalist; on January 12, 2006 was released from prison into the custody of the Turkish military for a period of mandatory
"service"; on January 20th was back in prison — the judge had miscalculated his release date big-time (had given Agca credit for time served for assassination attempt on Pope); finally released from prison in early January 2010 born on 1-9-1958 in Boztepe, Malatya, Türkiye | ||||
| novelist, poet, critic, film writer James Rufus Agee born on 11-27-1909 in Knoxville, Tennessee expired 5-17-1955 in New York, New York age 45 | ||||
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former CIA agent Philip Burnett Franklin Agee a critic of U.S. foreign policy; wrote books, one of which "named names" of agency operatives (1975) born on 7-19-1935 expired 1-7-2008 in Havana, Cuba age 72 cause: ulcer surgery | ||||
| tunesmith Milton Ager co-wrote Ain't She Sweet (1927) & Happy Days Are Here Again for movie Chasing Rainbows (1929) born on 10-6-1893 in Chicago, Illinois expired 5-6-1979 in Inglewood, California age 85 | ||||
| history professor Hashemi Aghajari no longer under sentences of death/flogging/exile in Iran for blesphemy born on ??-??-19?? | ||||
| industrialist Giovanni "Gianni" Agnelli chairman of FIAT (Fabbrica Italiana di Automobili Torino; 1960-present); grandson of company founder born on 3-12-1921 in Turin, Italy expired 1-24-2003 in Turin, Italy age 81 cause: complications from prostate cancer | ||||
| former second lady Elinor Isabel Judefind "Judy" Agnew widow of Spiro born on 4-23-1921 in Baltimore, Maryland | ||||
| retired Western Electric installer John "Jack" Agnew was with a group of the 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborn Division, that was known as the "Filthy Thirteen"; it is said that this group was the basis for the "Dirty Dozen" born on 1-2-1922 in Belfast, Northern Ireland expired 4-8-2010 in Abington, Pennsylvania age 88 | ||||
| Nixon Vice President (1969-72) Spiro Theodore Agnew resigned in disgrace; made a number of speeches using the phrases "nattering nabobs of negativism" (written for him by William Safire) & "pusillanimous pussyfooters" and "vicars of vacillation" (written for him by Pat Buchanan) born on 11-9-1918 in Baltimore, Maryland expired 9-17-1996 in Berlin, Maryland age 77 cause: acute leukemia | ||||
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2003 Nobel chemistry co-laureate Peter Courtland Agre born on 1-30-1949 in Northfield, Minnesota | ||||
| tv talking head Martin Zama Agronsky born on 1-12-1915 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania expired 7-25-1999 in Washington, District of Columbia age 84 cause: congestive heart failure | ||||
| pop singer Christina Marie Aguilera born on 12-18-1980 in New York, New York | ||||
| Equadorian president (1979-81) Jaime Roldoó Aguilera born on 11-5-1940 in Guayaquil, Ecuador expired 5-24-1981 in Guachanama, Ecuador age 40 cause: plane crash | ||||
| Philippine General Emilio Aguinaldo leader of revolt against Spain in 1894; first Philippine president in 1899 born on 3-22-1869 in Cavite, The Philippines expired 2-6-1964 in Manila, The Philippines age 94 | ||||
| former Detroit Tigers pitcher Henry J. "Hank" Aguirre born on 1-31-1931 expired 9-5-1994 age 63 | ||||
actress Jennifer Ann "Jenny Agutter
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| World War II Dutch Nazi Anton Christiaan "Tonny" Ahlers believed to be the person that turned in to the Nazis the Jewish families being hidden at 263 Prinsengracht Street born on 12-29-1917 in Amsterdam, The Netherlands expired 8-4-2000 age 82 | ||||
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Playboy July 1958 Playmate of Month Linné Nanette Ahlstrand born on 7-1-1936 in Chicago, Illinois expired 1-18-1967 in Pasadena, California age 30 cause: cancer | ||||
| Harrisburg 7 terrorist Eqbal Ahmad born on --1932 in Bihar State, India expired 5-11-1999 in Islamabad, Pakistan age 67 cause: heart failure; colon cancer surgery | ||||
nut-job Iranian president (2005-present) Mahmoud Ahmadinejad quoted as having said "We did not have a revolution in order to have democracy."; the running-dog lacky of the nutty mullah's; several former U.S. Embassy hostages claim that he was one of their captors; the CIA sez he's just a look-alike of one of their captors; now into Holocaust denial as political theoryborn on 10-28-1956 in Garmsar, Iran | ||||
| ex-warlord Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed transitional president of Somalia (ie. current target of opportunity for all factions) born on 12-15-1934 in Gaalkacyo, Mudug Region, Somalia | ||||
| Sultan Sultan Hassan Ahmed one of Saddam's military commanders — involved in the Kurdish genocide born on ??-??-19?? | ||||
character actor Philip Ahn played Master Kan on Kung Fu tv series (1972-75)
expired 2-28-1978 in Los Angeles, California age 72 cause: complications from lung surgery | ||||
Yitzhak "Ike" Ahronovitch was the captain of the Exodus 1947 vessel that attempted to transport Jewish refugees from Europe to Palestine
expired 12-23-2009 in Hadera, Israel age 86 | ||||
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former president of Finland (1994-2000) Martti Oiva Kalevi Ahtisaari received the 2008 Nobel Peace prize born on 6-23-1937 in Viipuri, Finland (now Vyburg, Russia) | ||||
| actor Daniel Louis "Danny" Aiello Jr. born on 6-20-1933 in The Bronx, New York, New York | ||||
| poet Conrad Aiken won 1930 Pulitzer Prize for poetry born on 8-5-1889 in Savannah, Georgia expired 8-7-1973 in Savannah, Georgia age 84 cause: heart attack | ||||
| Harvard professor (1939-61) Dr. Howard Hathaway Aiken built Mark I computer (1944) born on 3-8-1900 in Hoboken, New Jersey expired 3-14-1973 in Saint Louis, Missouri age 73 | ||||
| former Dallas quarterback Troy Kenneth Aikman born on 11-21-1966 in West Covina, California | ||||
| choreographer Alvin Ailey born on 1-5-1931 in Rogers, Texas expired 12-1-1989 age 58 | ||||
| Nepalese Queen Aishwarya Rajya Laxmi Devi Rana mother of assassin/ born on 11-7-1949 in Lazimpath, Nepal expired 6-1-2001 in Katmandu, Nepal age 51 cause: shot to death by Crown Prince Dipendra | ||||
Margaret Ann Aitcheson Tipper Gore's mother
expired 10-15-2001 in Alexandria, Virginia age 77 | ||||
| comedian & actor Franklin Ajaye born on 5-13-1949 in Brooklyn, New York, New York | ||||
| Hawaiian Senator (1990-present) Daniel Kahikina Akaka born on 9-11-1924 in Honolulu, Hawaiian Territory | ||||
former U.S. Army Sgt. Hasan Karim Akbar on the night before the attack on Iraq fragged some soldiers; convicted/sentenced to death in 2005
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U.C. Berkeley economist George Arthur Akerlof shared the 2001 Nobel prize in economics born on 6-17-1940 in New Haven, Connecticut | ||||
| Shuttle STS-41, 49, 61 & 79 astronaut Thomas Dale Akers born on 5-20-1951 in Saint Louis, Missouri | ||||
Hong Kong governor (1985-7) Sir David Akers-Jones
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| Taliban "defense minister" Mullah Obaidullah Akhund was number three in the organization until he got his ass arrested in March 2007 — send him off to Club Gitmo born on ??-??-19?? | ||||
| siesmologist Dr. Keiiti Aki developed the concept of the "seismic moment" to describe the magnitude of an earthquake (1960s) born on 3-3-1930 in Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan expired 5-17-2005 in Réunion Island, Indian Ocean age 75 cause: brain hemorrhage; fall | ||||
| Japanese Emperor Akihito 125th Japanese Emperor (1989-present); son of Emperor Hirohito & Empress Nagako born on 12-23-1933 in Tokyo, Japan | ||||
| Miss America 1986 Susan Diane Akin born on ??-??-19?? in Meridian, Lauderdale County, Mississippi | ||||
| actor Claude Akins born on 5-25-1918 in Nelson, Georgia expired 1-27-1994 in Altadena, California age 75 | ||||
| Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Zoë Akins wrote play How To Marry a Millionaire born on 10-30-1886 in Humansville, Missouri expired 10-29-1958 in Los Angeles, California age 71 | ||||
| horror movie producer Moustapha Akkad produced the Halloween movies born on 7-1-1930 in Aleppo, Syria expired 11-11-2005 in Amman, Jordan age 75 cause: terrorist bombing | ||||
actor Marc Alaimo has played many (7) Star Trek characters, most notably Gul Dukat on Deep Space Nine
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actress Natasha Alam appears in the True Blood cable tv vampire opus
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convicted murderer Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin SNCC chairman (1967-70)
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| former Iraqi politician Abdulghani Abdul-Ghafour al-Ani a former official of the Baath party; sentenced to death born on ??-??-19?? | ||||
"actress" Jessica Marie Alba star of Dark Angel tv series; did the limp-porn Into the Blue (2005); a publicity photo from that movie wound up as Playboy's March 2006 cover; rates about a "67" on the J-Lo Scaleborn on 4-28-1981 in Pomona, California | ||||
| Yemeni al-Qaeda operative Jamal Ahmed Muhammad Ali al-Badawi under death sentence for bombing the U.S.S. Cole; escaped from prison 2/4/2006 born on ??-??-1969 in Yemen | ||||
| Saddam stooge/co-defendant Awad Ahmed al-Bandar al-S'adun former chief judge of the Iraqi Revolutionary Court born on 1-2-1945 in Sa'dun, Iraq expired 1-15-2007 in Baghdad, Iraq age 62 cause: executed; hanged | ||||
Catholic Church leader (1700-1721) Giovanni Francesco Albani elected 244th Pope of the Roman Catholic Church November 23, 1700
expired 3-19-1721 in Rome, Italy age 71 | ||||
international terrorist Sabry Khalil al-Banna various sources say he suffered from bone cancer, heart disease, diabetes & alcoholism
expired 8-16-2002 in Baghdad, Iraq age 65 cause: "multiple unexplained gunshot wounds to the head" | ||||
| wrassler "Captain" Louis Vincent Albano also "managed" in the WWF born on 7-29-1933 in Mount Vernon, New York expired 10-14-2009 in Carmel, New York age 76 | ||||
| playwright Edward Franklin Albee won Tony award for Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1963); won 3 Pulitzer prizes for A Delicate Balance (1967), Seascape (1975) and Three Tall Women (1991) born on 3-12-1928 in Washington, District of Columbia | ||||
| singer Anna Maria Alberghetti born on 5-15-1936 in Pesaro, Italy | ||||
| original Mickey Mouse Club Mouseketeer Sharyn Eileen Alberoni appeared on series as Sherry in its second season (1956-57) born on 12-4-1946 | ||||
Prince Albert husband of British Queen Victoria I; no, she didn't keep him "in a can"; father of Edward VII
expired 12-14-1861 in Windsor, England age 42 cause: typhoid fever | ||||
Belgian King Albert II son of King Leopold III; has reigned 1993 to the present
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| retired House Speaker (1971-76) Carl Bert Albert grew up in the hamlet of Bug Tussle (near McAlester) born on 5-10-1908 in McAlester, Oklahoma expired 2-4-2000 in McAlester, Oklahoma age 91 | ||||
| actor Edward Laurence Albert played lead role in Butterflies are Free movie & Zayra in the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode A Man Alone (1993) born on 2-20-1951 expired 9-22-2006 in Malibu, California age 55 cause: lung cancer | ||||
Arnold Ziffel's pal actor Edward "Eddie" Albert Sr. celebrity spokesperson for Hoyt-Clagwell lawn tractors
expired 5-26-2005 in Pacific Palisades, California age 99 cause: pneumonia; Alzheimer's disease | ||||
| former college/pro quarterback Frankie Albert noted for his success with the T-formation born on 1-27-1920 in Chicago, Illinois expired 9-4-2002 in Palo Alto, California age 82 cause: complications from Alzheimer's disease | ||||
| toy designer Judith F. Albert redesigned the Cabbage Patch Kids dolls for mass production by Coleco born on 9-30-1938 expired 7-20-1998 in Mill Neck, New York age 59 cause: breast cancer | ||||
kinky cross-dressing sportscaster Marv Albert
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Stewart Edward "Stew" Albert a co-founder of the Yippie Partyborn on 12-4-1939 in Brooklyn, New York, New York expired 1-30-2006 in Portland, Oregon age 66 cause: liver cancer | ||||
Four Aces singer & group co-founder Al Alberts the group sang two Academy Award-winning songs: Three Coins in the Fountain (1954; from the movie of the same title) & Love is a Many Splendored Thing (1955; also from the movie of the same name)
expired 11-27-2009 in Arcadia, Florida age 87 cause: complications from kidney failure | ||||
| movie & tv actor Frank Albertson played RT-42 in Just Imagine (1930) born on 2-2-1909 in Fergus Falls, Minnesota expired 2-29-1964 in Santa Monica, California age 55 | ||||
| actor Jack Albertson co-starred on Chico and the Man tv series; Best Supporting actor recipient for The Subject Was Roses (1968); in 1964 won a Tony for playing the same role in the stage production born on 6-16-1910 in Malden, Massachusetts expired 11-25-1981 in Hollywood Hills, California age 74 cause: cancer | ||||
| Kathryn McCurry Albertson widow of grocery store chain founder born on 8-27-1908 in Boise, Idaho expired 4-30-2002 age 93 | ||||
Detroit Free Press sports writer Mitchell David Albom wrote book about his dying college mentor — Tuesdays With Morrie (1997)born on 5-23-1958 in Passaic, New Jersey | ||||
novelist Martha Albrand wrote After Midnight (1948; made into movie) & Desperate Moment (1953)
expired 6-24-1981 in New York, New York age 66 | ||||
| plutocrat Karl Hans Albrecht with brother co-founded the Albrecht-Discount (Aldi) food market chain (1961) born on 2-20-1920 in Essen, Germany | ||||
| jackass retailer Theodor Paul Albrecht owned the U.S. Aldi stores (founded chain with brother Karl) + Trader Jacks born on 3-28-1922 in Essen, Germany expired 7-23-2010 in Essen, Germany age 88 | ||||
| Clinton Secretary of State (1997-2001) Madeleine Korbel Albright born on 5-15-1937 in Prague, Czechoslovakia | ||||
Our Gang child actor Wally Albright
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rock groupie Cynthia Albritton known for making molds of celebrity schlongs
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actress Louise Allbritton appeared as Harriett Putnam in The Egg and I (1947) & Edna Philby in Sitting Pretty (1948)
expired 2-16-1979 in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico age 58 cause: cancer | ||||
| former Army Air Corps captain Charles Donald "Don" Albury co-pilot of Bockscar, the plane that nuked Nagasaki; he also piloted The Great Artiste, one of the observation planes, when Hiroshima was nuked born on 10-12-1920 in Miami, Florida expired 5-23-2009 in Orlando, Florida age 88 cause: congestive heart failure | ||||
photographer/serial killer Rodney James Alcala has been in custody since 1979; once appeared on a 1978 episode of The Dating Game — he won the date but the woman was creeped-out and didn't go out with him; convicted of murdering 12-year-old Robin Samsoe (1979) with DNA evidence suggesting that he murdered Georgia Wixted (age 27), legal secretary Charlotte Lamb (age 32), computer programmer Jill Parenteau (age 21) & Jill Barcomb (age 18); also suspected of some murders in New York City while he lived there (1968-71 & 1977)
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| Egyptian geezer Youssef Mohamed Attia al-Chadhli one-time carpenter who never saw a doctor expired 2-1-2003 in Damietta, Egypt age 122 | ||||
engineer Al Alcorn programmed Atari's original Pong game (1972)born on ??-??-19?? | ||||
| illustrator John E. Alcorn born on 2-10-1935 expired 1-15-1992 age 56 | ||||
| author Louisa May Alcott wrote Little Women and Little Men born on 11-29-1832 in Germantown, Pennsylvania expired 3-6-1888 age 55 | ||||
actor Alan Alda Hawkeye Pierce on M*A*S*H tv series
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Kurt Alder 1950 Nobel chemistry laureate (shared award with his former teacher Otto Diels) born on 7-10-1902 in Königshütte, Upper Silesia, Germany expired 6-20-1958 in Köln, Germany age 55 | ||||
| oldest U.S. Olympian Frederick P. Alderman won gold medal in 1928 games 1,600 meter relays born on 6-24-1905 in Lansing, Michigan expired 9-15-1998 in Social Circle, Georgia age 93 | ||||
inventor Samuel W. Alderson founded Alderson Research Labs to build human simulacra — anthropomorphic test devices (dummies) for use in testing ejection seats (1952); built first automobile crash test dummy (1960; remember Vince & Larry in auto safety commercials of the 70s & 80s)born on 10-21-1914 in Cleveland, Ohio expired 2-11-2005 in Marina del Rey, California age 90 cause: pneumonia; myelofibrosis | ||||
| Waco, Texas pharmacist Charles Courtice Alderton created the Dr Pepper soft drink (1885) born on 6-21-1857 in Brooklyn, New York, New York expired 5-29-1941 in Waco, Texas age 83 | ||||
| retired Lansing State Journal sports editor (1923-62) George S. Alderton in 1926 was first to use nickname "Spartans" in reference to Michigan Agricultural College sports teams (suggested to him by baseball team catcher Perry J. Fremont) born on 9-21-1897 expired 2-19-1993 in Traverse City, Michigan age 95 cause: myocardial failure | ||||
Catholic Church leader (1592-1605) Ippolito Aldobrandini elected 232nd Pope of the Roman Catholic Church January 30, 1592
expired 3-5-1605 in Rome, Italy age 68 | ||||
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former Saddam Hussein cronie Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri still at large, allegedly directing the bombings rumor has it that he has died of leukemia some time before the end of 2005 born on 7-1-1942 in Tikrit, Iraq | ||||
| movie director Robert Aldrich made Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962), Hush ... Hush, Sween Charlotte (1964), The Dirty Dozen (1967) & The Longest Yard (1974); a cousin of Nelson Rockefeller born on 8-9-1918 in Cranston, Rhode Island expired 12-5-1983 in Los Angeles, California age 64 cause: kidney failure | ||||
| retired Air Force Colonel Edwin Eugene Aldrin Sr. a founder of the Air Force Institute of Technology; father of astronaut born on 4-12-1896 expired 12-28-1974 in San Francisco, California age 78 | ||||
Apollo 11 astronaut Edwin Eugene "Buzz" Aldrin Jr. second man on the moon, July 20, 1969; had his given name legal changed to "Buzz" in 1982
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poet Vincente Pio Marcelino Cirilo Aleixandre y Merlo won 1977 Nobel prize in literature born on 4-26-1898 in Seville, Spain expired 12-14-1984 in Madrid, Spain age 86 | ||||
| former Yukos vice president Vasily Georgievich Aleksanyan born on 12-15-1972 | ||||
| former Nicaraguan president (1/10/1997-1/10/2002) Arnoldo Alemánn Lacayo born on 1-23-1946 | ||||
| Brazilian vice president José Alencar Gomes da Silva born on 10-17-1931 in Muriaé, Minas Gerais, Brazil | ||||
Odysseus Alepoudhelis was the 1979 Nobel literature laureate
expired 3-18-1996 in Athens, Greece age | ||||
| character actor Frank Aletter was once marrried to Lee Meriwether; played the husband on the Cara Williams Show (1964-5) born on 1-14-1925 in Queens, New York, New York expired 5-13-2009 in Tarzana, California age 83 cause: cancer | ||||
May 2008 Playboy Playmate of Month Amanda Jane "AJ" Alexander
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| founding Stooges bass guitarist David Michael "Dave" Alexander fired from the band after showing up for a gig too drunk to perform born on 6-3-1947 in Whitmore Lake, Michigan expired 2-10-1975 in Ann Arbor, Michigan age 27 cause: pulmonary edema; pancreatitis; alcoholism | ||||
| circus aerialist Fay Alexander one of the few people to perform a triple somersault (and live) born on --1924 in Seattle, Washington expired 7-16-1999 in Sarasota, Florida age 75 cause: lung cancer | ||||
| baseball pitcher Grover Cleveland "Pete" Alexander born on 2-26-1887 in Elba, Nebraska expired 11-4-1950 in Saint Paul, Minnesota age 63 | ||||
| bank clerk & part-time jazz band leader Jack Alexander said to have inspired 1911 Irving Berlin song Alexander's Ragtime Band expired 7-1-1958 in Hewlett, New York age 74 | ||||
actress Jane Alexander
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actor Jason Alexander
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| actress Khandi Alexander has appeared on News Radio & CSI: Miami born on 9-4-1957 in New York, New York | ||||
singer/actor Peter Alexander
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| journalist Shana Alexander daughter of song writer Milton Ager (subject of 1927 song Ain't She Sweet); did commentary on 60 Minutes opposite James J. Kilpatrick (1975-79) born on 10-6-1925 in New York, New York expired 6-23-2005 in Hermosa Beach, California age 79 cause: cancer | ||||
one-time Kelsey Grammer fiance Tammi Alexander got over dumping him in time to do April 1996 Playboy pictorial
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| Macedonian conquerer Alexander the Great founded Alexandria, Egypt born on 9-20-356 BC expired 6-13-323 BC age 32 | ||||
| radio broadcasting pioneer Ernst Frederick Werner Alexanderson under Reginald Fessenden's direction built first high frequency alternator, making possible the first voice broadcast (12/24/1906); became chief engineer of RCA when it was created (1923); holder of 322 patents; invented first home television (1927) born on 1-25-1878 in Uppsala, Uppsala län, Sweden expired 5-14-1975 in Schenectady, New York age 97 | ||||
| United States Lines fleet commodore Leroy John Alexanderson last captain of the S.S. United States passenger liner (1955-60) born on 6-27-1910 in New York, New York expired 2-29-2004 in Hampton, Virginia age 93 | ||||
| exiled Yugoslav Queen Alexandra widow of Peter II born on 3-25-1921 in Athens, Greece expired 1-30-1993 in East Sussex, England age 71 | ||||
| Grand Duchess Zenia Alexandrovna eldest sister of Czar Nicholas II expired 4-20-1960 in London, England age 85 | ||||
| Vasily Alexiev former Soviet Olympic power lifter born on 1-7-1942 in Pokrov, Russia | ||||
model Kim Marie Alexis
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songwriter, pianist, singer Johnny Alf wrote "delicately swinging music" that is considered a precursor to the bossa nova
expired 3-4-2010 in Santo André, Brazil age 80 cause: prostate cancer | ||||
| Prince Saud al-Faisal current Saudi Arabian foreign minister born on ??-??-1940 in Taif, Saudi Arabia | ||||
| Saudi sheik/village idiot Mohammed al-Fassi in 1978 cheesed-off his Beverly Hills Sunset Blvd neighbors by painting the mansion & statuary garish colors expired 12-24-2002 in Cairo, Egypt age 50 cause: infected hernia | ||||
| Harrads department store owner Muhammad Abdel Moneim al-Fayed still-grieving father of Dodi born on 1-27-1929 in Alexandria, Egypt | ||||
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physicist Zhores Ivanovich Alderov shared the 2000 Nobel physics prize born on 3-15-1930 in Vitebsk, Byelorussian SSR, USSR | ||||
| former Argentine president (1983-89) Raúl Ricardo Alfonsín Foulkes born on 3-12-1927 in Chascomús, Argentina expired 3-31-2009 in Buenos Aires, Argentina age 82 cause: lung cancer | ||||
British Army Major Kenneth Joseph Alford used his pseudonym to write military marches, the most famous of which is Colonel Bogey (1914)
expired 5-15-1945 in Redgate, Surrey, England age 64 | ||||
| actor W. Lamar Alford born on 10-11-1944 expired 3-29-1991 age 46 | ||||
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English King (871-899) Alfred the Great last son of Ethelwulf to ascend to the throne born on --849 expired 10-28-899 in Wantage, Berkshire, England age 50 | ||||
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plasma physicist Hannes Olof Gösta Alfvén shared the 1970 Nobel physics laureate for his work in magneto hydrodynamics born on 5-30-1908 in Norrköoping, Sweden expired 4-2-1995 in Djursholm, Sweden age 86 | ||||
| Swedish composer Hugo Alfven born on 5-1-1872 in Stockholm, Sweden expired 5-8-1960 in Faluns, Sweden age 88 | ||||
novelist Nelson Algren wrote A Walk on the Wild Side & The Man with the Golden Arm (1949)
expired 5-9-1981 in Sag Harbor, New York age 72 cause: heart attack | ||||
| Shiite poobah Abdul-Aziz al-Hakim leader of SIIC born on --1950 in Najaf, Iraq expired 8-26-2009 in Tehran, Iran age 59 cause: lung cancer | ||||
former army officer Mahmood Faizi Mohammed al-Hazaa sentenced to hang
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| dubious "pollster" Delair D. Ali has degrees in "Recreation" (BS in 1983 & MA in 1991); president/owner of Olney, MD "polling" firm Research 2000; sued in July 2010 for fudging the numbers by Daily Kos born on ??-??-1965 | ||||
| Washington, D.C. restauranteur Mahaboob Ben Ali founded Ben's Chili Bowl Diner (1958) on U Street, NW born on 6-13-1927 in San Juan, Trinidad expired 10-7-2009 in Washington, District of Columbia age 82 cause: congestive heart failure | ||||
| Somalian president (1991-present) Ali Mahdi Mohamed born on ??-??-1940 in Mogadishu, Somalia | ||||
ex-boxer Muhammad Ali
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Jordanian Queen Alia 3rd wife of Hussein
expired 2-9-1977 in Tafileh, Jordan age 28 cause: helicopter crash | ||||
Princess Alice last grandchild of Queen Victoria; daughter of Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany & Princess Helene of Waldeck-
expired 1-3-1981 in London, England age 97 | ||||
| poet Dante Alighieri wrote The Divine Comedy (1307-21) born on 5-27-1265 in Florence, Tuscany, Italy expired 9-14-1321 in Ravenna, Italy age 56 | ||||
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community organizer Saul David Alinsky wrote Rules for Radicals (1971) born on 1-30-1909 in Chicago, Illinois expired 6-12-1972 in Carmel, California age 63 cause: heart attack | ||||
| former San Francisco mayor Joseph Lawrence Alioto born on 2-12-1916 in San Francisco, California expired 1-29-1998 in San Francisco, California age 81 cause: pneumonia; prostate cancer | ||||
Joan Alison co-wrote unproduced 1938 play Everybody Comes to Rick's; it became the 1942 movie Casablanca
expired 3-30-1992 in Greenwich Village, Manhattan, New York, New York age 90 | ||||
| Supreme Court associate justice (2006-present) Samuel Anthony Alito Jr. replaced Sandra Day O'Connor on the court born on 4-1-1950 in Trenton, New Jersey | ||||
Texas death row inmate Franklin DeWayne Alix Sr.
expired 3-30-2010 in Huntsville, Texas age 34 cause: executed; lethal injection | ||||
| former Soviet Secret Police general Heydar Alirza Aliyev took advantage of military mutiny & booted previous president; president of Azerbaijan (1993-2003) born on 5-10-1923 in Nakhichevan, Azerbaijan expired 12-12-2003 in Cleveland, Ohio age 80 cause: congestive heart failure | ||||
| Azerbaijani president Ilham Heydaroglu Aliyev born on 12-24-1961 in Baku, Azerbaijan, USSR | ||||
head of state/ruler Sheik Isa bin Salman al-Khalifa
expired 3-6-1999 in Manama, Bahrain age 65 | ||||
| Bahrain King Hamad ibn Isa al-Khalifah born on 12-28-1949 | ||||
| Chechen Republic president Ali Alkhanov born on 1-20-1957 in Kazakhstan | ||||
| Baghdad mathematics professor Muhammad ibn Musa abu Abdullah al-Khowarizmi al-Madjusial-Qutrubulli wrote several mathematics textbooks; introduced Hindu numerals to the arab world (0, 1, 2, etc.); his name is an eponym for a carefully described procedure/ born on --780 in Khorezm (now Urgench, Uzbekistan) expired ??-??-850 age 70 | ||||
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Playboy March 1980 Playmate of Month Henriette Allais also did April 1982 Playboy pictorial born on 7-22-1954 in Jacksonville, Florida | ||||
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economist Maurice Félix Charles Allais recipient of the 1988 Nobel Prize in economics born on 5-31-1911 in Paris, Île-de-France, France expired 10-10-2010 in Saint-Cloud, France age 99 | ||||
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Playboy September 1996 Playmate of Month Jennifer Lynn Allan born on 5-14-1974 in Las Vegas, Nevada | ||||
| movie producer and radio actor William Alland played the newsreel reporter trying to find out the meaning of Rosebud in Citizen Kane; produced It Came From Outer Space, This Island Earth (1955) and Creature From the Black Lagoon born on 3-4-1916 in Delmare, Delaware expired 11-10-1997 in Long Beach, California age 81 cause: heart disease | ||||
| interim Iraqi prime minister Iyad Allawi born on ??-??-1945 in Baghdad, Iraq | ||||
| director Alfred Lewis Allen directed The Uninvited (1944) & Suddenly (1954) born on 12-25-1905 in Oakergates, Shropshire, England expired 5-3-2000 in Santa Monica, California age 94 | ||||
| Shuttle STS-46, 62 & 75 astronaut Andrew Michael "Andy" Allen born on 8-4-1955 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania | ||||
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Playboy August 1992 Playmate of Month Ashley Allen born on 2-7-1968 in San Antonio, Texas | ||||
| racing cyclist Bryan Allen pilot of the first human- born on 10-13-1952 in Visalia, California | ||||
comedian Byron Allen
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| California death row inmate Clarence Ray Allen born on 1-16-1930 in Blair, Oklahoma expired 1-17-2006 in San Quentin, California age 76 cause: executed; lethal injection | ||||
actor/director Corey Allen played Buzz in Rebel Without a Cause; helped cast the series regulars of Star Trek: The Next Generation as well as directing the series pilot ("Encounter at Farpoint"; 1987) and episodes "Home Soil" (1988), "Final Mission" (1990), "The Game" (1991) & "Journey's End" (1994); also directed a number of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episodes: "Captive Pursuit" (1993), "The Circle", "Paradise" & "The Maquis: Part 2" (all 1994)
expired 6-27-2010 in Hollywood, California age 75 cause: complications from Parkinson's disease | ||||
| former Holy Cross football coach Dan Allen born on 12-7-1955 expired 5-16-2004 in Westboro, Massachusetts age 48 cause: multiple chemical sensitivity | ||||
familiar voice Dayton Allen provided the voice of Deputy Dawg, Heckle and Jeckle, as well as being Mr. Bungle on Winky Dink and You & mayor Phineas T. Bluster on Howdy Doodie
expired 11-11-2004 in Hendersonville, North Carolina age 85 cause: stroke | ||||
dancer/actress Deborah Kaye "Debbie" Allen
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| N.J. state senator Diane B. Allen born on 3-8-1948 in Newark, New Jersey | ||||
| Oak Ridge Boys singer Duane David Allen born on 4-29-1943 in Taylortown, Texas | ||||
| former University of Kansas basketball coach (1908-09 & 1920-56) Forrest Claire "Phog" Allen a practicing osteopath; helped make basketsball an Olympic sport (1936) born on 11-18-1885 in Jamesport, Missouri expired 9-16-1974 in Lawrence, Kansas age 88 | ||||
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computer scientist Frances Elizabeth "Fran" Allen received the 2006 A.M. Turing award born on 8-4-1932 in Peru, New York | ||||
| "Great White Hunter" Frank Maurice "Bunny" Allen born on 4-17-1906 in Berkshire, England expired 1-2-2002 in Lamu Island, Kenya age 95 cause: "natural causes" | ||||
comedian and early What's My Line panelist Fred Allen
expired 3-17-1956 in New York, New York age 61 cause: heart attack | ||||
| football coach George Herbert Allen born on 4-29-1922 in Grosse Pointe, Michigan expired 12-31-1990 age 72 | ||||
radio, tv, movie comedienne Grace Ethel Cecile Rosalie Allen wife & comedy partner of George Burns
expired 8-27-1964 in Hollywood, California age 58 | ||||
"doting" father Heywood "Woody" Allen oscar-winning director — Annie Hall (1977); previously married to Harlen Rosen and Louise Lasser; currently married to Soon-Yi, one of Mia Farrow's adopted brood
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| Motown drummer Howard Richard "Pistol" Allen worked for AC Delco before joining Motown born on 8-12-1932 in Memphis, Tennessee expired 6-30-2002 in Detroit, Michigan age 69 cause: cancer | ||||
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Playboy December 1987 Playmate of Month & 1988 Playmate of the Year India Allen born on 6-1-1965 in Portsmouth, Virginia | ||||
| disaster movie producer Irwin Allen Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea and Towering Inferno; also produced the Lost in Space tv series born on 6-12-1916 in New York, New York expired 11-2-1991 age 75 | ||||
| former Atlanta mayor (1962-70) Ivan Earnest Allen Jr. born on 3-15-1911 in Atlanta, Georgia expired 7-2-2003 in Atlanta, Georgia age 92 | ||||
playwright Jacqueline "Jay" Allen wrote screenplays for Marnie (1964), The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1969; also wrote play), Cabaret (1972) ∓ Funny Lady (1975); widow of Lewis M. Allen
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| Jay Presson Allen adapted the novel The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie for the stage (1966) & screen (1969); she did the screen adaptations of Marnie & Cabaret (1972) born on 3-3-1922 in Fort Worth, Texas expired 5-1-2006 in Manhattan, New York, New York age 84 cause: stroke | ||||
| actress Joan Allen born on 8-20-1956 in Rochelle, Illinois | ||||
| Shuttle STS-5 & 51-A astronaut Dr. Joseph Percival Allen born on 6-27-1937 in Crawfordsville, Indiana | ||||
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actress Karen Jane Allen movie love interest: Boone's Katie in Animal House, Indy's Marion Ravenwood in Raiders of the Lost Ark & Frank Cross' Jenny in Scrooged (1988) born on 10-5-1951 in Carrollton, Illinois | ||||
actress Krista Allen played the busty elevator brunette in Liar Liar (1997), lifeguard Jenna Avid on Baywatch Hawaii (1999-2001) & Emmanuelle in 8 flicksborn on 4-5-1972 in Ventura, California | ||||
| Broadway producer Lewis M. Allen produced Annie (1977-83), I'm Not Rapaport (1986) & Master Class (1996) — all three shows won Tony Awards born on 6-27-1922 in Berryville, Virginia expired 12-8-2003 in New York, New York age 81 cause: pancreatic cancer | ||||
USC tailback Marcus LeMarr Allen winner of the Heisman Trophy (1981)born on 3-26-1960 in San Diego, California | ||||
comedian Marty Allen
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baseball announcer Mel Allen
expired 6-16-1996 in Greenwich, Connecticut age 83 | ||||
| actress Nancy Anne Allen was Robocop's original partner on the mean streets of Detroit born on 6-24-1950 in New York, New York | ||||
Microsoft co-founder Paul Gardner Allen with Bill Gates hacked Q-DOS into PC/MS-DOS; suffered a recurrence of non-Hodgkins lymphoma (November 2009)born on 1-21-1953 in Seattle, Washington | ||||
| singer Peter Woolnough Allen born on 2-10-1944 in Tenterfield, Australia expired 6-18-1992 age 48 | ||||
South Carolina death row inmate Quincy Jovan Allen execution stayed until at least March 16, 2010
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| theater historian Ralph G. Allen wrote a revue based upon old vaudeville sketches; at a leacture he read from the script & a producer (Harry Rigby) approached him and they eventually came up with "Sugar Babies" born on 1-7-1934 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania expired 9-9-2004 in New York, New York age 70 cause: heart ailment; diabetes | ||||
| singing cowboy actor Rex Elvie Allen Sr. narrated some 1940s and 1950s Disney nature films born on 12-31-1921 in Willcox, Arizona expired 12-17-1999 in Tucson, Arizona age 77 cause: run over by car | ||||
| song writer Robert Allen co-wrote Chances Are & Home for the Holidays born on 2-5-1927 in Troy, New York expired 10-1-2000 in Quogue, New York age 73 cause: colon cancer | ||||
| political columnist Robert Sharon Allen co-founder of Washington Merry-Go-Round column (1932) born on 7-14-1900 in Latonia, Kentucky expired 2-23-1981 in Georgetown, Maryland age 80 cause: suicide; self-inflicted gunshot wound; cancer | ||||
English beat group member Rod Allen a co-founder of The Fortunes
expired 1-10-2008 in Covenrty, England age 63 cause: liver cancer | ||||
| Georgia geezer Rosa Allen born on 5-17-1886 expired 1-26-2001 in College Park, Georgia age 114 | ||||
yodeling radio cowgirl Rosalie Allen
expired 9-23-2003 in Palmdale, California age 79 cause: heart failure; diabetes | ||||
nudie-movie "actress" Rusty Allen played Pamela Walker in Daughter of the Sun; also appeared in Girl Happy & The Sexperts
expired 11-1-2004 in Las Vegas, Nevada age 60 | ||||
| Guinness Book tallest woman Sandra Elaine "Sandy" Allen surgery halted her growth at 7 feet 7¼ inches born on 6-18-1955 in Chicago, Illinois expired 8-13-2008 in Shelbyville, Indiana age 53 cause: blood infection; kidney failure; diabetes | ||||
| "child" bride Soon-Yi Previn Allen adopted daughter of Mia Farrow; wife of Woody Allen born on 10-8-1970 in South Korean | ||||
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original Tonight Show host Stephen Valentine Patrick William "Steve" Allen Sr. born on 12-26-1921 in New York, New York expired 10-30-2000 in Encino, California age 78 cause: heart attack; hemopericardium | ||||
Home Improvement comedian Tim Allen busted at the Kalamazoo airport carrying 1.4 pounds of cocaine (10-2-1978); turned state's evidence & got off light
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| Oklahoma death row inmate Wanda Jean Allen born on 8-17-1959 expired 1-11-2001 in McAlester, Oklahoma age 41 cause: executed; lethal injection | ||||
| dentist & former Chilean Marxist president Dr. Salvador Allende Gossens overthrown in CIA-aided coup born on 7-26-1908 in Valparaiso, Chile expired 9-11-1973 in Santiago, Chile age 65 cause: suicide | ||||
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| al-Qaeda muckety muck Abu Laith al-Libi supposedly the number 3 or 4 man in the terrorist network born on --1967 in Libya expired 1-28-2008 in Mir Ali, North Waziristan, Pakistan age 41 cause: Predator drone missile | ||||
| World War I veteran Henry William Allingham had briefly been the oldest man in the world born on 6-6-1896 in London, England expired 7-18-2009 in Ovingdean, West Sussex, England age 113 | ||||
| NASCAR driver Clifford L. Allison born on 10-20-1964 expired 8-6-1992 in Brooklyn, Michigan age 27 cause: race car crash | ||||
| race car driver David Carl "Davey" Allison born on 2-25-1961 expired 7-13-1993 age 32 | ||||
| Kukla's friend Frances Allison born on 11-20-1924 in La Porte City, Iowa expired 6-13-1989 age 81 | ||||
| rock musician Jerry Ivan Allison was one of Buddy Holly's Crickets (drummer) born on 8-31-1939 in Hillsboro, Texas | ||||
| blues guitar player Luther Allison born on 8-18-1939 expired 8-12-1997 in Madison, Wisconsin age 57 cause: lung cancer & brain tumors | ||||
| oldest Delaware geezer Mary M. Allison born on 8-15-1886 in Sussex County, Delaware expired 12-4-2000 in New Castle, Delaware age 114 | ||||
| race car driver Robert Arthur "Bobby" Allison father of Davey born on 12-3-1937 in Hueytown, Alabama | ||||
| former Washington Senators/Minnesota Twins outfielder (1958-70) William Robert "Bobby" Allison 1959 Rookie of the Year born on 7-11-1934 in Raytown, Missouri expired 4-9-1995 in Rio Verde, Arizona age 60 cause: ataxia | ||||
| character actress Elvia Allman was the original "voice" of Clarabelle the Cow in commercials; played Cora Dithers on the Blondie tv series, the Librarian in Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961) & busybody Elverna Bradshaw on The Beverly Hillbillies born on 9-19-1904 in Enochville, North Carolina expired 3-6-1992 in Santa Monica, California age 87 cause: pneumonia | ||||
| rock musician Gregory Lenoir "Gregg" Allman born on 12-8-1947 in Nashville, Texas | ||||
| singing voice of Mr. Ed Sheldon Allman co-wrote tv themes for George of the Jungle cartoon & Let's Make a Deal game show born on 6-8-1924 in Chicago, Illinois expired 1-22-2002 in Culver City, California age 77 cause: heart failure | ||||
Israeli military/political leader Yigal Allon
expired 2-29-1980 in Afula, Israel age 61 cause: heart attack | ||||
ambulance/newsvan chaser Gloria Rachel Allred mother of tv personality Lisa Bloom
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| tv/movie sound editor Wayne Allwine was the third person to voice Mickey Mouse (1976-2007; following Walt & James Macdonald) born on 2-7-1947 in Glendale, California expired 5-18-2009 in Los Angeles, California age 62 cause: complications from diabetes | ||||
| tv producer William Allyn produced Peyton Place in the 1960s born on 1-27-1927 in New York, New York expired 1-3-1999 age 71 cause: heart disease | ||||
actress June Allyson ended up skilling adult diapers on tv (Depends)
expired 7-8-2006 in Ojai, California age 88 cause: pulmonary-respiratory failure; acute bronchitis | ||||
Saddam cousin Ali Hassan Abd al-Majid al-Tikriti ordered poison gas attacks on Kurds, (1988) killing over 180,000; was Governor of Kuwait during Iraq's 7 month occupation
expired 1-25-2010 in Baghdad, Iraq age 68 cause: hanged | ||||
| Emir of Dubai Sheik Maktoum bin Rashid al-Maktoum he was big in horse racing circles born on --1943 in Shindagha, Dubai expired 1-4-2006 in Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia age 62 cause: heart attack | ||||
international terrorist Abu Ubaida al-Masri purported to have masterminded the London subway bombings; originally thought to have been killed in a Predator drone missle strike
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| convicted terrorist Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed al-Megrahi said to have put the bomb aboard Pan Am flight 103 that blew up over Lockerbie, Scotland on 12/21/1988; claims he's innocent; dying of metastacized prostate cancer — was released into the wild to die born on 4-1-1952 in Tripoli, Libya | ||||
| conductor Antonio de Almeida born on 1-20-1928 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France expired 2-18-1997 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania age 69 cause: liver & lung cancer | ||||
| jazz & classical guitarist Laurindo Almeida born on 9-2-1917 in São Paulo, Brazil expired 7-26-1995 age 77 | ||||
film writer/director Pedro Almodóvar directed ¡Átame! (Tie Me Up, Tie Me Down; 1990); wrote/directed Hable con ella (Talk to Her; 2002; earning him the Best Original Screenplay oscar)
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PLO terrorist Majid Youssef al-Molqi murderer of Leon Klinghoffer born on ??-??-19?? | ||||
Oklahoma City bombing victim Baylee Almonborn on 4-18-1994 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma expired 4-19-1995 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma age 1 cause: severe head trauma | ||||
| Hezbollah's frequent flier Sheik Abbas al-Musawi he's now going to party with God born on --1952 in al-Nabi,Lebanon expired 2-16-1992 in Lebanon age 39 cause: assassinated; air strike on his location | ||||
| United Arab Emirates founder & president Sheik Zayed bin Sultan al-Nahayan owner of BCCI — the Bank of International Credit and Commerce (aka: Bank of Crooks and Criminals) born on --circa 1918 in Abu Dhabi town, Kingdom of Abu Dhabi expired 11-2-2004 in Abu Ahabi, United Arab Emirates age 89 cause: renal failure; diabetes | ||||
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Yemeni al-Qaeda operative Abd al-Rahim al-Nachiri born on ??-??-19?? in Saudi Arabia | ||||
| former Sudanese strongman (1969-85) Gaafar Mohammed al-Nimeiry in by coup/out by coup born on 1-1-1930 in Omdurman, Sudan expired 5-30-2009 in Sudan age 79 | ||||
former senior Baath party official 'Aziz Saleh Hassan al-Nu'man former governor of Karbala & An Najar; had been Minister of Agriculture and Agra Reform (1976-87); sentenced to be hanged
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actress Maria Conchita Alonso
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| obscure actor Ed Alonzo also does magic; played Max on some episodes of Saved By The Bell born on ??-??-19?? | ||||
| economist & poet Dr. Mana Saeed al-Otaiba born on 5-15-1946 in Abu Dhabi | ||||
high-end L.A. real estate agent Sharona Alperin inspired 1979 The Knack hit My Sharona while dating bandleader Doug Fieger
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| Tijuana Brass bandleader Herbert Alpert co-founded A&M Records born on 3-31-1935 in Los Angeles, California | ||||
| author & film critic Hollis Alpert was the fiction editor at The New Yorker (1950-56); co-author of Playboy's The History of Sex in Cinema series (starting in 1965); co-founder of the National Society of Film Critics (1966) born on 9-24-1916 in Herkimer, New York expired 11-18-2007 in Naples, Florida age 91 cause: pneumonia; respiratory failure | ||||
| retired General Electric physicist Ralph Alsher Alpher as an astrophysics grad student provided the mathematical basis for the "Big Bang" theory in the late 1940s (his doctoral degree defense even had press coverage); ignored for decades, the Nobel committee forgot to include him when they handed out an award for the "discovery" born on 2-3-1921 in Washington, District of Columbia expired 8-12-2007 in Austin, Texas age 86 cause: physical decline due to broken hip | ||||
| saxophonist & Ska pioneer Rolando Alphonso played with the Skatalites born on 1-12-1931 expired 11-20-1998 in Los Angeles, California age 67 cause: brain hemorrhage | ||||
| Sheik Saqr bin Mohammed al-Qassimi was the Emir of Ras Al-Khaimah (one of the United Arab Emirates; 1948-2010) & the world's oldest monarch born on 4-9-1918 in Ras Al Khamah, Saudi Arabian penninsula, Ottoman Empire expired 10-26-2010 in Dubai, United Arab Emirates age 90 | ||||
| Emir of Kuwait (1977-2006) Sheik Jaber al-Ahmad al-Sabah suffered cerebral hemorrhage Sept. 2001 born on 6-29-1926 expired 1-15-2006 in Kuwait City, Kuwait age 79 | ||||
| Sheikh Saad al-Abdullah al-Salim al-Sabah briefly served as Emir of Kuwait (January 15th through 24th, 2006) born on --1930 in Kuwait, British Mandate Arabia expired 5-13-2008 in Kuwait City, Kuwait age 78 cause: colonic exsanguination | ||||
| first Emir of Kuwait Sheik Sabah al-Salem al-Sabah expired 12-31-1977 age 62 cause: heart attack | ||||
| Iraqi Shia militia leader Muqtada al-Sadr born on 8-12-1973 in Kazimayn, Iraq | ||||
wacko former Iraqi Information Minister Mohammed Saeed al-Sahhaf gave bizarre interviews that would have made Göbbels proud
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| Shuttle STS-51-G astronaut Sultan Salman Abdel-aziz al-Saud born on 6-27-1956 in Saudi Arabia | ||||
| Sheik Abdel Hamid al-Sayeh head of Palestine National Council (1984-93) expired 1-8-2001 in Amman, Jordan age 100 | ||||
| Queen Zein al-Sharaf bint Jamal Ali mother of Jordanian King Hussein born on 4-2-1916 expired 4-26-1994 age 78 | ||||
| political columnist Joseph Wright Alsop Jr. born on 10-11-1910 in Avon, Connecticut expired 8-28-1989 in Washington, District of Columbia age 78 | ||||
| author Mary O'Hara Alsop wrote My Friend Flicka (1941) & its sequel Thunderhead (1943) born on 7-10-1895 in Cape May Point, New Jersey expired 10-15-1980 in Chevy Chase, Maryland age 85 | ||||
| syndicated columnist Stewart Johonnot Oliver Alsop brother of Joseph born on 5-17-1914 in Avon, Connecticut expired 5-26-1974 in Bethesda, Maryland age 60 cause: leukemia | ||||
| former North Carolina death row inmate Charlie Mason Alston Jr. in January 2002 the N.C governor commuted his sentence to life without parole born on ??-??-19?? | ||||
 
model/actress Carol Ann Alt 1982 Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue cover model; did December 2008 Playboy pictorialborn on 12-1-1960 in Long Island, New York | ||||
| Iraqi human rights criminal Sultan Hashim Ahmed al-Tay ran Saddam's campaign against the Kurds; sentenced to death born on ??-??-1944 in Mosul, Iraq | ||||
architect Alexandre Altberg
expired 8-15-2009 in Marília, Brazil age 101 | ||||
| Qatar ruler Sheik Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani born on 1-28-1950 in Doha, Qatar | ||||
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Playboy August 2000 Playmate of Month Summer Danielle Altice born on 12-23-1979 in Fountain Valley, California | ||||
Catholic Church leader (1670-1676) Emilio Altieri elected 240th Pope of the Roman Catholic Church April 29, 1670
expired 7-22-1676 in Rome, Italy age 86 | ||||
| comedian Jeffrey Altman had 1970s tv series with Pink Lady born on 8-13-1951 in Syracuse, New York | ||||
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movie director Robert Bernard Altman made M*A*S*H (1970), Gosford Park (2001) & A Prairie Home Companion (2006); had a heart transplant around 1995 born on 2-20-1925 in Kansas City, Missouri expired 11-20-2006 in Los Angeles, California age 81 cause: complications from cancer | ||||
| Shuttle STS-90 & 106 astronaut Scott Douglas Altman born on 8-15-1959 in Lincoln, Illinois | ||||
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molecular biologist Sidney Altman shared the 1989 Nobel chemistry prize born on 5-7-1939 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada | ||||
| former Assistant Sec. of Labor (1934) Arthur J. Altmeyer chief architect of the Social Security Ponzi scheme; first Social Security commissioner born on 5-8-1891 expired 10-16-1972 in Madison, Wisconsin age 81 | ||||
| cinematographer John Alton born on 10-5-1901 in Sopron, Hungary expired 6-2-1996 in Santa Monica, California age 94 | ||||
| artist & illustrator Franz Altschuler drew for the early editions of Playboy ... Hefner couldn't pay him that much so he got stock instead born on 10-2-1923 in Mannheim, Germany expired 12-12-2009 in Chicago, Illinois age 86 cause: lung cancer | ||||
former Iraqi Ba'ath Party official Ghazi Hammud al-Ubaydi
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Hawaiian singer Irmgard Keali'iwahinealohanohokahaopuamana Farden Aluli
expired 10-4-2001 in Honolulu, Hawaii age 89 | ||||
| actress Carmen Álvarez played Moonbeam McSwine in Broadway musical production of Li'l Abner (1957) & in the movie (1959); widow of Chad Dee Block born on ??-??-19?? in Hollywood, California | ||||
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1968 Nobel physicist laureate Luis Walter Alvarez father of the dinosaur death-by-asteroid guy born on 6-13-1911 in San Francisco, California expired 9-1-1988 in Berkeley, California age 77 | ||||
| UC-Berkeley geologist Walter Alvarez advanced the theory of death-by-asteroid for the dinosaurs 65 million years ago (something about the K-T boundary layer clay being chock-full of iridium); son of Luis born on 10-3-1940 in Berkeley, California | ||||
| interim Iraqi president/target Ghazi Mashal Ajil al-Yawer born on 3-11-1958 in Mosul, Iraq | ||||
terrorist Mustafa Abu al-Yazid a co-founder of al-Qaeda (1988); said to have been it's finance chief & #3 in charge
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| international playboy Prince Aly Khan son of Aga Khan III and Begum Aga Khan; Pakistani ambassador to U.N. 1958 to 1960; married to Rita Hayworth (1949-53) born on 6-13-1911 in Turin, Italy expired 5-11-1960 in Suresnes, France age 48 cause: car crash | ||||
actor Kirk Alyn original movie Superman in the 1940s
expired 3-14-1999 in Woodlands, Texas age 88 | ||||
| former football player Lyle Martin Alzado years of steroid & human growth hormone abuse took their toll born on 4-3-1949 in New York, New York expired 5-14-1992 in Portland, Oregon age 43 cause: pneumonia; brain lymphoma (cancer) | ||||
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Hamas poobah Mahmound Khalid al-Zahar was one of it's founding members born on ??-??-1945 in Gaza City, British Mandate Palestine | ||||
alcoholic rapist & al-Qaeda terrorist/murderer Abu Musab al-Zarqawi a leader of the wave of murder in Iraq at time of death
expired 6-7-2006 in Hibhib, Diyala Province, Iraq age 39 cause: "precision munitions"; two 500 pound laser-guided bombs | ||||
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renegade pediatrician Dr. Ayman al-Zawahiri a co-founder of Islamic Jihad; involved in assassination of Sadat; Number 2 in al-Qaeda terrorist organization born on 6-19-1951 in Egypt | ||||
| Mosul, Iraq "businessman" Nawaf al-Zeidane winner of the U.S. State Department's $30,000,000 Uday/Qusay lotto; prominent target of Saddam's fedayeen goons born on ??-??-19?? | ||||
| physician & psychiatrist Dr. Alois Alzheimer first person to describe the disease that now bears his name born on 6-14-1864 in Markbreit, Bavaria, Germany expired 12-19-1915 in Breslau, Germany age 51 cause: rheumatic heart disease; cardiac failure | ||||
| novelist Jorge Amado wrote Gabriela, Clove and Cinnamon (1958) & Dona Flor e Seus Dois Maridos (Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands; 1966) born on 8-10-1912 in Ferradas, Bahia, Brazil expired 8-6-2001 in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil age 88 cause: heart & lung failure | ||||
| one-armed head of the Nazi Press Chamber Max Amann first business manager of the Nazi Party expired 3-1-1957 in München, Germany age 65 | ||||
| former Afghan King Amanullah ruled 1919-29; led Afghanistan to independence from Britain born on 6-1-1892 in Pagham, Afghanistan expired 4-25-1960 in Zürich, Switzerland age 67 | ||||
| artificial intelligence pioneer Dr. Saul Amarel born on 2-16-1928 in Salonika, Greece expired 12-18-2002 in Princeton, New Jersey age 74 cause: complications from cancer | ||||
| new super-geezer claimant Miriam Amash born on ??-??-1888 in Jisr az-Zarka, Ottoman Palestine (now Israel) | ||||
| tv writer/producer/director Rodney Amateau involved in a number of classic series, including: The Bob Cummings Show, The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis, Mr. Ed, My Mother the Car & Gilligan's Island (directed pilot) born on 12-20-1923 in New York, New York expired 6-29-2003 in Los Angeles, California age 79 cause: cerebral hemorrhage | ||||
Arizona death row inmate Jose Jacobo Amaya-Ruiz
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British suspense writer Eric Ambler wrote screenplays for A Night to Remember (1958) and Topkapi (1964)
expired 10-22-1998 in London, England age 89 | ||||
| print/tv model Eileen "Terry" Ambrose mother of Ronna Romney & Terry Rakolta born on 7-1-1925 in Ann Arbor, Michigan expired 2-17-2004 in Jupiter, Florida age 78 cause: heart failure | ||||
| University of Illinois, Urbana anthropologist Dr. Stanley H. Ambrose postulated the Toba Catastrophe Theory — abrupt climate changes caused by the eruption of the Sumatran super- born on ??-??-1955 | ||||
| historian Stephen Edward Ambrose author of D-Day June 6, 1944: The Climactic Battle of World War II (1994) & Band of Brothers (1992) born on 1-10-1936 in Decatur, Illinois expired 10-13-2002 in Bay Saint Louis, Mississippi age 66 cause: lung cancer | ||||
| computing pioneer Gene Myron Amdahl known for instruction lookahead and task pipelining; for a while had his own line of mainframe computers born on 11-16-1922 in Flandreau, South Dakota | ||||
Wisconsin fullback Alan Dante Ameche winner of the Heisman Trophy (1954)
expired 8-8-1988 in Houston, Texas age 55 | ||||
actor Don Ameche falsely remembered as the inventor of the telephone
expired 12-6-1993 age 85 | ||||
| Spanish film director Alejandro Amenábar won 2005 Best Foreign Language Film oscar for Mar adentro (The Sea Inside) born on 3-31-1972 in Santiago de Chile, Chile | ||||
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cartoonist William "Bill" Amend draws the Foxtrot comic strip; was the 2006 Reuben Award winner born on 9-20-1962 in Northampton, Massachusetts | ||||
| turncoat spy Aldrich Hazen Ames born on 6-16-1941 in River Falls, Wisconsin | ||||
| singer/actor Ed Ames born on 7-9-1927 | ||||
singer/actor Ed Ames
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actor Leon Ames
expired 10-12-1993 age 91 | ||||
| Savile Row couturier Sir Edwin Hardy Amies designed for the Queen born on 7-17-1909 in Maida Vale, England expired 3-5-2003 in Langford, Gloucestershire, England age 93 | ||||
cannibalistic former Ugandan dictator-for-life (1971-9) Idi Amin Dada Oumee overthrew Milton Obote (1971); ordered the execution of Dora Bloch; the Saudi Royal family harbored this slugborn on 1-1-1923 in Kuboko, British Uganda expired 8-16-2003 in Jiddah, Saudi Arabia age 80 cause: kidney failure; hypertension | ||||
Israel Amir first commander of the Israeli Air Force
expired 11-1-2002 in Tel Aviv, Israel age 99 | ||||
| Yigal Amir Rabin assassin born on 5-23-1970 in Herzliya, Israel | ||||
| author Kingsley William Amis born on 4-16-1922 in London, England expired 10-22-1995 age 73 | ||||
| adulterous actress Suzi Amis got caught "taking direction" from James Cameron during the production of Titanic (1997) born on 1-5-1962 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma | ||||
Dr. Huda Salih Mahdi Ammash one of Saddam's lethal cronies
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| jazz saxophonist Eugene "Jug" Ammons born on 4-14-1925 expired 8-6-1974 in Chicago, Illinois age 49 cause: pneumonia | ||||
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Playboy August 1989 Playmate of Month Gianna Amore born on 4-5-1968 in Warwick, Rhode Island | ||||
| animal rights facist Cleveland Amory the only good animal is a properly-cooked animal born on 9-2-1917 in Nahant, Massachusetts expired 10-14-1998 in New York, New York age 81 | ||||
insurance company executive Joh Beverly Amos in 1955, with brothers Bill & Paul, founded AFLAC (American Family Life Assurance Company of Columbus, Georgia)born on 6-5-1924 in Enterprise, Alabama expired 8-13-1990 in Columbus, Georgia age 66 cause: lung cancer | ||||
| actor John Amos Jr. born on 12-27-1941 in Newark, New Jersey | ||||
| pianist/singer/songwriter Myra Ellen "Tori" Amos born on 8-22-1963 in Newton, North Carolina | ||||
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retired insurance executive Paul Shelby Amos I in 1955, with brothers Bill & John, founded AFLAC (American Family Life Assurance Company of Columbus, Georgia) born on ??-??-19?? | ||||
| "famous" cookie maker Wally Amos Jr. born on 7-1-1936 in Tallahassee, Florida | ||||
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insurance company executive William Lafayette "Bill" Amoa in 1955, with brothers Paul & John, founded AFLAC (American Family Life Assurance Company of Columbus, Georgia) born on 2-8-1920 expired 1-18-1997 in Columbus, Georgia age 76 | ||||
| electrodynamics pioneer Andre Marie Ampere has unit of electrical current flow named after him born on 1-22-1755 in Lyon, Rhône, Rhône-Alps, France expired 6-10-1836 in Marseilles, France age 81 | ||||
| comedian Morey Amsterdam played Buddy Sorrell on the Dick Van Dyke Show born on 12-14-1908 in San Francisco, California expired 10-28-1996 in Los Angeles, California age 87 cause: heart attack | ||||
| Right Livelihood Award co-winner (1991) Murlidhar Devidas "Baba" Amte born on 12-24-1914 in Hinganghat, Wardha District, Maharashtra State, British India expired 2-12-2008 in Warora, Chandrapur District, Maharashtra State, India age 93 cause: leukemia | ||||
| Norwegian explorer Roald Engelbregt Amundsen first to reach the South Pole (12/14/1911; 5 weeks ahead of Scott); died during search for Nobile (1928) born on 7-16-1872 in Vedsten, Norway expired 6-18-1928 in Barents Sea, near Charles XII Island, Norway age 55 cause: plane crash | ||||
model, entertainer, cytologist Nedra F. Harrison Anargyros original model for the "Dragon Lady" in Terry & the Pirates comic strip (1939)born on 12-3-1915 in New York, New York expired 9-20-2004 age 88 | ||||
| orchestra conductor Karel Ancerl born on 4-11-1908 in Tucapy, Czechoslovakia expired 7-3-1973 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada age 65 | ||||
| tv programming executive Garth Ancier responsible for "killing" Michigan J. Frog (2005) born on 9-3-1957 in Perth Amboy, New Jersey | ||||
| concert pianist Geza Anda his recording of the Mozart Piano Concerto No.21 was used as the incidental music for Elvira Madigan (1967) born on 11-19-1921 in Budapest, Hungary expired 6-13-1976 in Zürich, Switzerland age 54 cause: internal hemorrhaging; cancer of esophagus | ||||
navy gunboat executive officer Arthur F. Anders took command of the Panay following December 12, 1937 Japanese attack on the vessel in China's Yangtze River; father of astronaut William Anders
expired 8-27-2000 in Rancho Bernardo, California age 96 | ||||
"actress" Avalon Anders best known as Swedish Bikini Team member "Uma Thorensen"
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| Apollo 8 astronaut William Alison Anders son of Arthur F. Anders born on 10-17-1933 in Hong Kong | ||||
| child actress Brigitte Andersen star of Savannah Smiles (1982) born on 7-11-1975 in Malibu, California expired 5-18-1997 in California age 21 cause: drug/alcohol overdose | ||||
| author Hans Christian Andersen wrote The Red Shoes, Thumbelina and The Little Mermaid born on 4-2-1805 in Odense, Fyn, Denmark expired 8-4-1875 in Copenhagen, Denmark age 70 | ||||
cabaret singer Lale Andersen first to record Lili Marleen (1938)
expired 8-29-1972 in Vienna, Austria age 67 | ||||
| advertising artist Alexander Anderson Jr. nephew of Paul Terry; created the Crusader Rabbit cartoon character & co-produced the show for NBC (1949); created the characters Rocket J. Squirrel, Bullwinkle J. Moose & Dudley Doright in 1948 born on 9-5-1920 in Berkeley, California expired 10-22-2010 in Carmel, California age 90 cause: complications from Parkinson's disease | ||||
| former cartoon shill vocalizer Arthur Anderson provided the voice of Lucky the Leprechaun in Lucky Charms commercials (1963-92); was a radio actor on "Let's Pretend" born on 8-29-1922 in Prince's Bay, Staten Island, New York | ||||
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1936 Nobel physics laureate Carl David Anderson Jr. discoverer of the positron (1932) born on 9-3-1905 in New York, New York expired 1-11-1991 in San Marino, California age 85 | ||||
| horse race caller Charles "Chic" Anderson born on 12-17-1931 in Evansville, Indiana expired 3-24-1979 in Commack, New York age 47 cause: heart attack | ||||
| Shuttle STS-117 & 120 astronaut Clayton Conrad Anderson born on 2-23-1959 in Omaha, Nebraska | ||||
| Truman Agriculture secretary (1945-48) Clinton P. Anderson also New Mexico senator (1948-72) born on 10-23-1895 in Centerville, South Dakota expired 11-11-1975 in Albuquerque, New Mexico age 80 cause: stroke | ||||
Civil War Union veteran widow Daisy Anderson widow of former slave
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| actor & Jack Benny "valet" Eddie "Rochester" Anderson born on 9-18-1905 in Oakland, California expired 2-28-1977 in Woodland Hills, California age 71 cause: heart failure | ||||
| bacteriologist Ephraim Saul "Andy" Anderson predicted that the overuse & misuse of antibiotics would lead to resistant strains of the bacterial they were supposed to kill (1968) born on 10-28-1911 in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Northumbria, England expired 3-14-2006 in London, England age 94 | ||||
| long time ABC announcer Ernest E. "Ernie" Anderson was "Ghoulardi" on tv in Cleveland born on 11-12-1923 expired 2-6-1997 in Los Angeles, California age 73 | ||||
| former MSU basketball coach (1954-65) Forrest "Forddy" Anderson born on 3-17-1919 expired 10-25-1999 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma age 80 cause: pneumonia | ||||
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former Cincinnati Reds (1970-78) and Detroit Tigers (1979-95) manager George Lee "Sparky" Anderson first manager to win a World Series in both leagues born on 2-22-1934 in Bridgewater, South Dakota expired 11-4-2010 in Thousand Oaks, California age 76 cause: complications related to dementia | ||||
pioneering movie actor Gilbert M. Anderson debuted in Edison's The Great Train Robbery (1903); co-founded Chicago's Essanay Film Co. (1897)
expired 1-20-1971 in Hollywood, California age 88 | ||||
| X-Files actress Gillian Leigh Anderson born on 8-9-1968 in Chicago, Illinois | ||||
| magician/actor Harry Laverne Anderson appeared on Cheers & Night Court born on 10-14-1952 in Newport, Rhode Island | ||||
| football great Heartly "Hunk" Anderson played for/succeeded Rockne at Notre Dame (1918-21/1931-34); line coach for the Chicago Bears (1942-45; under him their line got the nickname "Monsters of the Midway") expired 3-24-1928 in West Palm Springs, Florida age 79 cause: respiratory illness | ||||
| actor Herbert Anderson played the father (Henry Mitchell) on tv's Dennis the Menace (1959-63) born on 3-30-1917 in Oakland, California expired 6-11-1994 in Palm Springs, California age 77 | ||||
| Jethro Tull singer Ian Scott Anderson born on 8-10-1947 in Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland | ||||
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political columnist Jackson Northman "Jack" Anderson won 1972 Pulitzer for his column "Washington-Merry-Go-Round" born on 10-19-1922 in Long Beach, California expired 12-17-2005 in Bethesda, Maryland age 83 cause: complications from Parkinson's disease | ||||
| country singer James William "Bill" Anderson III born on 11-1-1937 in South Carolina | ||||
| actor John Anderson Kevin Uxbridge on Star Trek: The Next Generation born on 10-20-1922 in Clayton, Illinois expired 8-7-1992 in Sherman Oaks, California age 69 cause: heart attack | ||||
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former Illinois rep. (1961-80) John Bayard Anderson 1980 Independent Party presidential candidate born on 2-15-1922 in Rockford, Illinois | ||||
| country singer John David Anderson born on 12-13-1954 in Orlando, Florida | ||||
actress Dame Judith Anderson
expired 1-3-1991 age 93 | ||||
| rock singer Laura Phillips "Laurie" Anderson born on 6-5-1947 in Chicago, Illinois | ||||
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Playboy July 2002 Playmate of Month Lauren Anderson selected on Fox tv sweeps special born on 6-6-1980 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin | ||||
| composer & arranger Leroy Anderson wrote Sleigh Ride, Blue Tango (1952), The Syncopated Clock & The Typewriter born on 6-29-1908 in Cambridge, Massachusetts expired 5-18-1975 in Woodbury, Connecticut age 66 cause: lung cancer | ||||
| tv clown & bandleader Lewis Burr Anderson not the leader of a clown band ... he was the third person (after Bob Keeshan and Bobby Nicholson) to portray Clarabell on Howdy Doodie (1954-60) born on 5-7-1922 in Kirkman, Iowa expired 5-14-2006 in Hawthorne, New York age 84 cause: prostate cancer | ||||
country singer Liz Anderson
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actress Loni Anderson played "receptionist" Jennifer Marlow on WKRPborn on 8-5-1946 in Saint Paul, Minnesota | ||||
| rotund comedian Louie Perry Anderson born on 3-24-1953 in Minneapolis, Minnesota | ||||
| Four Step Brothers tap dancer Maceo E. Anderson born on 9-3-1909 in Charleston, South Carolina expired 7-4-2001 in Los Angeles, California age 90 | ||||
| singer Marian Anderson born on 2-27-1897 in South Philadelphia, Pennsylvania expired 4-8-1993 in Portland, Oregon age 96 | ||||
| actress Melissa Sue Anderson born on 9-26-1962 in Berkeley, California | ||||
| movie director Michael Joseph Anderson Sr. made The Dam Busters (1954), 1984 (1956), Around the World in Eighty Days, Logan's Run (1976) & The Martian Chronicles (1980 tv mini-series) born on 1-30-1920 in London, England | ||||
| Shuttle STS-89 & 107 astronaut Michael Phillip Anderson born on 12-25-1959 in Plattsburgh, New York expired 2-1-2003 in over north-central Texas age 43 cause: disintegration of Shuttle Columbia during re-entry | ||||
Texas death row inmate Newton Burton Anderson
expired 2-22-2007 in Huntsville, Texas age 30 cause: executed; lethal injection | ||||
born on 7-1-1967 in Ladysmith, British Columbia, Canada | ||||
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filmmaker Paul Thomas Anderson directed Boogie Nights (1997) born on 6-26-1970 in Studio City, California | ||||
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Bell Labs researcher Philip Warren Anderson shared the 1977 Nobel prize in physics born on 12-13-1923 in Indianapolis, Indiana | ||||
| blues guitarist/singer Pinkney "Pink" Anderson his first name was used as part of the name of a rock band (Pink Floyd) born on 2-12-1900 in Laurens, South Carolina expired 10-12-1974 in Spartanburg, South Carolina age 74 | ||||
| physicist & science fiction writer Poul William Anderson author of Tau Zero (1970) born on 11-25-1926 in Bristol, Pennsylvania expired 7-31-2001 in Orinda, California age 74 cause: prostate cancer | ||||
| tv actor Richard Dean Anderson played Angus MacGyver in the self-named series & Colonel/General Jack O'Neil on the Stargate: SG-1 syndicated series born on 1-23-1950 in Minneapolis, Minnesota | ||||
| Six Million Dollar Man actor Richard Norman Anderson born on 8-8-1926 in Long Branch, New Jersey | ||||
| former child actor Robert J. Anderson played the young George Bailey in It's A Wonderful Life (1946); also appeared on the Mickey Mouse Club's Spin and Marty serial born on 3-6-1933 in Hollywood, California expired 6-6-2008 in Palm Springs, California age 75 cause: melanoma | ||||
| oil wildcatter/philathropist Robert Orville Anderson created ARCO in 1966 (from the Atlantic & Richfield oil companies) — it later merged into British Petroleum (BP; 2000) born on 4-13-1917 in Chicago, Illinois expired 12-2-2007 in Roswell, New Mexico age 90 | ||||
playwright Robert Woodruff Anderson penned Tea and Sympathy & I Never Sang for My Father; wrote the screenplay for The Sand Pebbles (1966)
expired 2-9-2009 in Manhattan, New York, New York age 91 cause: complications from Alzheimer's disease | ||||
| California death row inmate Stephen Wayne Anderson born on 7-8-1953 expired 1-29-2002 in San Quentin, California age 48 cause: executed; lethal injection | ||||
| former 3-term Tennessee congressman (1967-73) William Robert Anderson commanded the Nautilus submarine on it's 1958 voyage beneath the north-polar ice cap born on 6-17-1921 in Bakerville, Tennessee expired 2-25-2007 in Leesburg, Virginia age 85 | ||||
| ABBA singer Göran Bror "Benny" Andersson born on 12-16-1946 in Stockholm, Stockholm län, Sweden | ||||
actor Keith Andes played tribal leader Akuta on original Star Trek series episode "The Apple" (October 1967)
expired 11-11-2005 in Santa Clarita Valley, California age 85 cause: suicide; asphyxiation; bladder cancer; kidney failure | ||||
| quick-food pioneer Momofuku Ando founder of Nissan Foods; came up with instant Ramen Noodles (1958) born on 3-5-1910 in Japanese-occupied Taiwan expired 1-5-2007 in Ikeda, Japan age 96 cause: heart failure | ||||
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Playboy March 1998 Playmate of Month Marliece Andrada "lifeguard" Skylar Bergman on Baywatch (1997) born on 8-22-1972 in Manteca, California | ||||
| graphical World Wide Web browser co-inventor (Mosaic; 1993) Marc L. Andreessen co-founded Netscape; spent a brief time with America Online (what a comedown) before moving on born on 7-9-1971 in New Lisbon, Wisconsin | ||||
Italian politician Giulio Andreotti seven-time minister president
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| actress Ursula Andress second wife of John Derek (he took pictures of her for June 1965, July 1966, November 1973 & April 1976 Playboy pictorials); played bikini- born on 3-19-1936 in Bern, Switzerland | ||||
| race car driver Mario Gabriel Andretti born on 2-28-1940 in Montono Trieste, Italy | ||||
| race car driver Michael Mario Andretti born on 10-5-1962 in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania | ||||
| virologist Christopher Andrewes expired 12-31-1988 age 92 | ||||
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Playboy April 2010 Playmate of Month Amy Leigh Andrews born on 9-19-1984 in Conyers, Georgia | ||||
| photographer Bert Andrews born on 6-2-1901 in Colorado Springs, Colorado expired 1-25-1993 age 63 | ||||
| actor Carver Dana Andrews born on 1-1-1909 in Collins, Mississippi expired 12-17-1992 age 83 | ||||
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singer/actress Julia Elizabeth "Julie" Andrews played Maria von Trapp in The Sound of Music and title role in Mary Poppins (1964); Mrs. Blake Edwards born on 10-1-1935 in Walton-on-Thames, England | ||||
| singer Laverne Andrews elder sister of Patti & Maxene born on 7-6-1915 in Minneapolis, Minnesota expired 5-8-1967 in Brentwood, California age 51 cause: cancer | ||||
singer Mark Andrews his first big hit - the Thong Song (2000)
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| singing sister Maxene Andrews born on 1-3-1918 in Minneapolis, Minnesota expired 10-21-1995 age 77 | ||||
| singer Patricia Marie "Patti" Andrews youngest of the Andrews Sisters singers born on 2-16-1918 in Minneapolis, Minnesota | ||||
| actor Tiger Andrews played Captain Adam Green on The Mod Squad & was the second Klingon seen on Star Trek — Kras (episode "Friday's Child"; 1967) born on 3-19-1920 in Brooklyn, New York, New York expired 1-27-2007 in Encino, California age 86 cause: heart attack | ||||
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1961 Nobel literature laureate Ivo Andric wrote The Bridge on the Drina (1945) born on 10-9-1892 in Dolac, Bosnia, Austria-Hungary expired 3-13-1975 in Belgrade, Yugoslavia age 83 cause: complication from stroke | ||||
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cartoonist Alfred J. Andriola drew the Kerry Drake strip (1943-83); got a Reuben Award for his efforts born on 5-24-1912 in New York, New York expired 3-29-1983 in New York, New York age 70 | ||||
| Soviet president Yuri Vladimirovich Andropov born on 6-15-1914 in Nagutskaia, Russia expired 2-9-1984 in Kuntsevo, Russia, USSR age 69 | ||||
| AARP co-founder (1958) Ethel Percy Andrus born on 9-21-1884 in San Francisco, California expired 7-13-1967 in Los Angeles, California age 82 | ||||
| former offense guard (football) Joseph Dominic Andruzzi played for a bunch of teams; has non-Hodgkin's lymphoma born on 8-23-1975 in Staten Island, New York, New York | ||||
| sick kid Jasmina Anema has cancer; got to visit the White House; big whooop born on ??-??-2003 | ||||
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biochemist Christian Boehmer Anfinsen II shared the 1972 Nobel prize in chemistry born on 3-26-1916 in Monessen, Pennsylvania expired 5-14-1995 in Randallstown, Maryland age 79 | ||||
| movie director Ang Lee directed Eat Drink Man Woman (1994) born on 10-23-1954 in P'ing-tung, Taiwan | ||||
Lame-O Las Vegas illusionist Criss Angel got caught boinking one of Hefner's discards; she dumped him after a while
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| WWI pilot, gold prospector, soldier-of-fortune James Crawford "Jimmy" Angel discovered South American waterfall that became known as Angel Falls in 1929 expired 12-8-1956 in Balboa, Panama age 57 | ||||
| actress Vanessa Angel born on 11-10-1966 in London, England | ||||
film actress Pier Angeli ex-wife of Vic Damone
expired 9-9-1971 in Beverly Hills, California age 39 cause: suicide; barbituate overdose | ||||
| music "producer" Rene Charles Angelil Sr. manager/husband of Celine Dion born on 1-16-1942 in Montréal, Québec, Canada | ||||
artist Carlton W. Angell sculpted Girl with a Cat for the Bath School Bombing Memorialborn on 10-13-1884 expired 5-??-1964 in Lomita, California age 79 | ||||
former Cheers writer/producer David Lawrence Angell was executive producer of Wings & Frasier sitcomsborn on 4-10-1946 in West Barrington, Rhode Island expired 9-11-2001 in New York, New York age 55 cause: aboard hijacked American Airlines flight 11 | ||||
| retired Stanford University electrical engineering professor James Browne Angell also served as the university's carillonneaur (1960-91) born on 12-25-1924 in Staten Island, New York, New York expired 2-13-2006 in San Francisco, California age 81 cause: complications from Parkinson's disease | ||||
| former New Yorker writer/editor Roger Angell born on 9-19-1920 in New York, New York | ||||
| vastly overrated poet Maya Angelou born on 4-4-1928 in Saint Louis, Missouri | ||||
publicity hound Angelyne appears on giant billboards around L.A.; received 2,533 votes in 2003 California replacement election — came in 29th behind Ahnold
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| cinematography optics innovator Pierre Angénieux won 1965 Scientific & Engineering Oscar for the 10- born on 7-14-1907 in Saint-Héand, Saint-Etienne, Loire, France expired 6-26-1998 age 90 | ||||
author & filmmaker Kenneth Anger gee ... wonder if he is any relation to Weekly World columnist Ed Anger? (inquiring minds could care less)
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| World War II Swedish diplomatic attaché (1944-45) Par Johan Valentin Anger worked with Raoul Wallenberg to save thousands of Hungarian Jews from Nazi death camps born on 12-7-1913 in Goteborg, Sweden expired 8-25-2002 in Stockholm, Sweden age 88 cause: stroke | ||||
| actor Philip Anglim had role of John Merrick in the off- born on 2-11-1953 in San Francisco, California | ||||
| former Vietnamese president (1992-97) Lê Ðúc Anh born on 12-1-1920 in Thùa Thiên, Huê Province, Annam | ||||
| screenwriter Edward Anhalt won oscars for Panic in the Streets (1950; with wife Edna) and Becket (1964) born on 3-28-1914 in New York, New York expired 9-3-2000 in Pacific Palisades, California age 86 cause: cancer | ||||
Tibetan "Warrier Nun" Ani Pachen fought against the Chinese invasion of Tibet (1950-60); captured & spent 21 years in prison under extreme duress
expired 2-2-2002 in Dharmsala, India age 68 cause: heart failure | ||||
| automobile designer Benjamin H. Anibal designed original Pontiac automobile (1926) for the Oakland Motor Company (it later became GM's Pontiac division) born on 12-2-1886 in Linden, Michigan expired 6-19-1977 in Royal Oak, Michigan age 90 | ||||
former Friends actress Jennifer Joanna Aniston divorced from Brad Pitt
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soap opera actor John Aniston father of Jennifer
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| singer Paul Albert Anka born on 7-30-1941 in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada | ||||
| Emmy award-winning set designer Kathleen Ankers did set design for original Sale of the Century game show, as well as all three Letterman tv shows; appeared as the foul- born on 10-22-1919 expired 10-1-2001 in Bethlehem, Connecticut age 81 | ||||
character actor Morris Ankrum played General Hanley in Earth vs. the Flying Saucers (1956), General Considine in The Giant Claw (1957) and a judge on the Perry Mason tv series
expired 9-2-1964 in Pasadena, California age 68 cause: trichinosis | ||||
movie director Kenneth Cooper Annakin directed Swiss Family Robinson (1960) & Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines (1965)born on 8-10-1914 in Beverley, Yorkshire, England expired 4-22-2009 in Beverly Hills, California age 94 cause: complications from heart attack & stroke | ||||
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blithering lifelong U.N. apparachik Kofi Atta Annan seventh U.N. secretary-general (1996-2006) — shared the 2001 Nobel Peace prize with the organization born on 4-8-1938 in Kamsai, Ghana | ||||
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English Queen Anne daughter of James II; sister of Mary II; last Stuart monarch of England (1702-1714) born on 2-6-1665 in London, England expired 8-1-1714 in Kensington, England age 49 | ||||
| royal consort Anne of Cleves fourth wife of Henry VIII born on --1515 expired ??-??-1557 age 42 | ||||
socialite Leonore Annenberg niece of Harry "Columbia Pictures" Cohn; widow of Walter Annenberg
expired 3-12-2009 in Rancho Mirage, California age 91 | ||||
| TV Guide billionaire Walter Hubert Annenberg born on 3-13-1908 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin expired 10-1-2002 in Wynnewood, Pennsylvania age 94 cause: complications from pneumonia | ||||
| 14-term Chicago congresmman (1965-92) Frank Annunzio born on 1-12-1915 in Chicago, Illinois expired 4-8-2001 in Lincolnwood, Illinois age 86 | ||||
| former WWF wrassler Rodney Anoia slammed Hulk Hogan under the ring name of Yokozuna; had a 240 egg-a-day habit born on 10-2-1966 in Samoa expired 10-23-2000 in Liverpool, England age 34 cause: heart attack | ||||
| dramatist Jean Marie Lucien Pierre Anouilh born on 6-23-1910 in Bordeaux, France expired 10-3-1987 in Lausanne, Switzerland age 77 | ||||
| actor Michael Ansara once married to Barbara Eden; played Klingon Kang on original series & Deep Space Nine Star Trek tv series born on 4-15-1922 in Syria | ||||
| entrepreneur Amir Ansari co-founded Prodea, Inc venture capital firm; donated $10,000,000 to fund the X Prize born on ??-??-1970 in Tehran, Iran | ||||
| entrepreneur Anousheh Ansari co-founded Prodea, Inc venture capital firm; donated $10,000,000 to fund the X Prize; in September 2006 was the 4th space tourist aboard Soyuz TMA-9 (September 18-29, 2006) born on 9-12-1966 in Mashhad, Iran | ||||
| Qwest co-founder Philip F. Anschutz born on 12-28-1939 in Russell, Kansas | ||||
| wild and crazy Aussie Rodney William Ansell his exploits were the basis for the Crocodile Dundee movie character born on --1955 expired 8-4-1999 in Urapunga Ranch, Northern Territory, Australia age 44 cause: shoot-out with police | ||||
| Pantera lead singer Phil Hansen Anselmo also singer for bands Down & Viking Crown born on 6-30-1968 in New Orleans, Louisiana | ||||
| mathematician & orchestral conductor Ernest Alexander Ansermet conductor with the Ballet Russe; founder & conductor of l'Orchestre de la Suisse Romande born on 11-11-1883 in Vevay, Switzerland expired 2-20-1969 age 85 | ||||
| midget shoe huckster William Edmond Ansley appeared as Buster Brown for 27 years born on 11-11-1888 expired 9-26-1972 in Gainesville, Texas age 83 | ||||
| author Jay Anson wrote The Amityville Horror born on 11-4-1921 expired 3-12-1980 in Palo Alto, California age 58 cause: complications following heart surgery | ||||
| actress Susan Anspach born on 11-23-1945 in New York, New York | ||||
| movie director David Anspaugh directed Hoosiers (1986) & Rudy (1993); ex-hubby of Roma Downey born on 9-24-1946 in Decatur, Indiana | ||||
| avant garde composer George Johan Carl Antheil co-inventor of Spread Spectrum radio technology born on 7-8-1900 in Trenton, New Jersey expired 2-12-1959 in New York, New York age 58 | ||||
| PBA Hall of Fam bowler Earl Roderick Anthony born on 4-27-1938 in Kent, Washington expired 8-14-2001 in New Berlin, Wisconsin age 63 cause: fall down flight of stairs | ||||
Mutual Network radio host John J. Anthony
expired 7-16-1970 in San Francisco, California age 67 cause: heart attack | ||||
actress Lysette Anthony did December 1988 Playboy pictorial
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bandleader Ray Anthony had 1950s hits with the Dragnet and Peter Gunn themes; once married to Mamie Van Doren
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| suffragette Susan Brownell Anthony model for failed U.S. dollar coin born on 2-15-1820 in Adams, Massachusetts expired 3-13-1906 in Rochester, New York age 86 | ||||
| jockey Christopher W. Antley won 1999 Kentucky Derby aboard Charismatic born on 1-6-1966 expired 12-1-2000 in Pasadena, California age 34 cause: drug overdose (Clobenzorax, methamphetamine ...) | ||||
| air-headed royal consort Marie Antoinette when told that the peasants of France were starving and had no bread to eat flippantly suggested "Let them eat cake!" born on 11-2-1755 in Vienna, Austria expired 10-16-1793 in Paris, Île-de-France, France age 37 cause: executed; guillotined | ||||
| singer/actress Susan Ellen Anton born on 10-12-1950 in Yucaipa, California | ||||
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Playboy June 1969 Playmate of Month Helena Antonaccio also did August 1997 pictorial born on 3-21-1949 in Morristown, New Jersey | ||||
Catholic Church leader (1769-1774) Giovanni Vincenzo Antonio-Ganganelli elected 251st Pope of the Roman Catholic Church 1769
expired 9-22-1774 in Rome, Italy age 68 | ||||
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director Michelangelo Antonioni made Blowup (1966) & Zabriskie Point (1970) born on 9-29-1912 in Ferrara, Italy expired 7-30-2007 in Rome, Italy age 94 | ||||
| Sergei Antonov one-time Balkan Airlines representative in Rome; accused of giving a weapon to Mehmet Ali Agca that was used in the attempt to kill Pope John Paul II, held in jail for four years, but acquitted at trial for lack of evidence (1986) expired 7-31-2007 in Sofia, Bulgaria age 59 | ||||
Roman leader Marc Antony rival of Octavius; defeated at the Battle of Actium (31 BC); committed suicide with his mistress (Cleopatra)
expired 8-30-30 BC in Alexandria, Egypt age 53 cause: suicide | ||||
| restauranteur & ballonist Hiroaki "Rocky" Aoki founded Benihana steak house chain (1963) born on 10-9-1938 in Tokyo, Japan expired 7-10-2008 in Manhattan, New York, New York age 69 cause: pneumonia; cancer; diabetes; cirrhosis of the liver; hepatitis C | ||||
| Lebanese warlord Michel Haim Aoun born on 2-19-1935 in Haret Hraik, Lebanon | ||||
| Chinese Honolulu Police Department detective (1898-1932) Chang Apana carried a bullwhip instead of a gun; basis for the Charlie Chan fictional character born on --1871 in Hawaii expired 12-??-1933 age 68 | ||||
| Hall of Fame baseball player Luis Ernesto Aparicio Montiel born on 4-29-1934 in Maracaibo, Venezuela | ||||
| fomer DC Comics illustrator James N. Aparo drew Batman, the Green Arrow & other characters born on 8-24-1932 expired 7-19-2005 in Southington, Connecticut age 72 cause: cancer | ||||
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movie director Judd Apatow made The 40-year-old Virgin (2005), Superbad & Knocked Up (2007) born on 12-6-1967 in Flushing, Queens, New York | ||||
| Drech-O-Rama movie director Stephen C. Apostolof made what probably is the worst movie of all time (even worse than Plan Nine...) — starring Criswell and scripted by Ed Wood (see, you just knew he had to have a hand in it somehow) born on 2-25-1928 in Borgas, Bulgaria expired 8-14-2005 in Mesa, Arizona age 77 | ||||
| movie documentary producer Lynn Appelle shared 2001 Documentary Short oscar for Thoth born on ??-??-1967 in New York, New York | ||||
singer Fiona Apple
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actress Christina Applegate born on 11-25-1971 in Los Angeles, California | ||||
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Sir Edward Victor Appleton his work in the physics of the upper atmosphere earned him the 1947 Nobel prize in physics born on 9-6-1892 in Bradford, West Yorkshire, England expired 4-21-1965 in Edinburgh, Scotland age 72 | ||||
wacko UFO cult leader Marshall Herff Applewhite snuffed himself and 38 other members of the Heaven's Gate cult to become ET-
expired 3-26-1997 in Rancho Santa Fe, California age 65 cause: suicide | ||||
| Shuttle STS-37, 59 & 79 astronaut Dr. Jerome J. "Jay" Apt born on 4-28-1949 in Springfield, Massachusetts | ||||
| movie director Michael Apted directed Coal Miner's Daughter (1980) & The World is Not Enough (1999) born on 2-10-1941 in Aylesburg, Buckinghamshire, England | ||||
former Philippine President (2/1986-6/30/1992) Maria Corazoń Sumulong-Cojuangco Aquino
expired 8-1-2009 in Manila, The Philippines age 76 cause: heart failure; colon cancer | ||||
conniving widow Suha Daoud al-Taweel Arafat still in the hunt for the missing billions?
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PLO chairman (1969-2004) Yasser Arafat shared 1994 Nobel Peace prize
expired 11-11-2004 in Clamart, France age 75 cause: stroke; disseminated intravascular coagulation; thrombocytopenia; kidney failure; liver failure; cirrhosis of liver | ||||
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MAD Magazine cartoonist Sergio Aragonés Domenech recipient of the 1996 Reuben Award born on 9-6-1937 in Castellon, Spain | ||||
| former Guatemalan dictator/presidente (1970-74) Carlos Manuel Arana Osorio born on 7-17-1918 in Barberena, Guatemala expired 12-6-2003 in Guatemala City, Guatemala age 85 | ||||
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Werner Arber shared the 1978 Nobel prize in medicine born on 6-3-1929 in Gränichen, Canton of Aargau, Switzerland | ||||
silent film comedy actress Minta Durfee Arbuckle co-founded the Keystone Film Company with Fatty; divorced Fatty after his 1925 acquittal on murder charges
expired 9-9-1975 in Woodland Hills, California age 85 cause: heart ailment | ||||
tubby silent film funnyman Roscoe Conkling Arbuckle actor, writer, director, got Buster Keaton started in the movie biz; with wife co-founded Keystone Film Co. (think Keystone Kops); on receiving end of first custard pie thrown in the movies; tried 3 times for the "murder" of Virginia Rappe & acquitted --- this incident was the basis for the movie The Wild Party with Raquel Welch playing Virginia and James Coco playing Roscoe; hounded out of the business by
the Hearst Newspaper chain
expired 6-29-1933 in New York, New York age 46 cause: heart attack | ||||
| photographs & character actor Allan Arbus played recurring character Dr. Sidney Freedman on the M*A*S*H tv series; once married to Diane Arbus (1941-69) born on 2-15-1918 in New York, New York | ||||
photographer Diane Arbus learned photography from her then-husband Allan Arbus
expired 7-26-1971 in Manhattan, New York, New York age 48 cause: suicide; barbituate overdose & slashed wrists | ||||
| film director Denys Arcand won Best Foreign Language Film oscar for Les Invasions barbares (The Barbaraian Invasions; 2003) born on 6-25-1941 in Deschambault, Quebec, Canada | ||||
| jockey Edward George "Eddie" Arcaro 5-time Kentucky Derby winner (1945 aboard "Hoop Jr."); won two Triple Crowns, aboard Whirlaway (1941) and Citation (1948), for Calument Farms born on 2-14-1916 in Cincinnati, Ohio expired 11-14-1997 in Miami, Florida age 81 | ||||
| Shuttle STS-117 astronaut Lee Joseph Archambault born on 8-25-1960 in Oak Park, Illinois | ||||
| actress Anne Archer daughter of John Archer and Marjorie Lord born on 8-25-1947 in Los Angeles, California | ||||
| actress Beverly Archer played "Gunny" on Major Dad tv series born on 7-19-1948 | ||||
| professional golfer George William Archer winner of the 1969 Masters Golf Tournament born on 10-1-1939 in San Francisco, California expired 9-25-2005 in Incline Village, Nevada age 65 cause: Burkitt's lymphoma | ||||
radio and movie actor John Archer first husband of Marjorie Lord (1941-55); father of Anne Archer; announcer on The Shadow who intoned "Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men? The Shadow Knows."; also appeared on The FBI in Peace and War; appeared in Destination Moon, Rock Around the Clock and Blue Hawaii
expired 12-5-1999 in Los Angeles, California age 84 | ||||
| Hollywood gossip columnist Armand A. "Army" Archerd had a column in Daily Variety for decades born on 1-13-1922 in The Bronx, New York, New York expired 9-8-2009 in Los Angeles, California age 87 cause: mesothelioma | ||||
actress Eve Arden had title role in radio & tv Our Miss Brooks series
expired 11-12-1990 age 87 | ||||
| Creole button accordionist Alphonse "Bois Sec" Ardoin for many years performed with fiddler Canray Fontenot born on 11-16-1915 in Duralde, Louisiana expired 5-16-2007 in Eunice, Louisiana age 91 | ||||
| oscar-winning director (Dirty Dancing, Sister Act) Emile Ardolino born on 5-9-1943 in Maspeth, New York expired 11-20-1993 in Bel Air, California age 50 cause: AIDS | ||||
| Iraqi politician Abdel-Rahman Muhammad Aref was the country's president (1963-68) until ousted in a Baath Party insitgated coup born on --1916 in Baghdad, Iraq expired 8-24-2007 in Amman, Jordan age 91 | ||||
| Claudine Louise Mudd Arehart grand- born on 6-9-1917 expired 3-11-2002 in La Plata, Maryland age 84 cause: complications from stroke | ||||
pro wrassler George J. Arena
expired 7-16-1992 age 84 cause: bone cancer | ||||
| speed/drag racer Arthur E. Arfons built the "Green Monster," a jet powered 17,000 horsepower car that he used to set world speed records at Bonneville in the 1960s born on 2-3-1926 in Akron, Ohio expired 12-3-2007 in Akron, Ohio age 81 | ||||
| Nicaraguan president (May 1st-26th, 1947) Leonardo Argüello expired 12-15-1947 in Mexico City, Mexico age 74 cause: heart attack; chronic diabetes | ||||
| three-time former Panamanian president (1940-41; 1949-51; 1968) Arnuldo Arias Madrid always exited the office via coup born on 8-15-1901 in Columbia expired 8-10-1988 in Miami, Florida age 86 cause: heart attack | ||||
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former Costa Rican president (1986-90) Oscar Rafael de Jesús Arias Sánchez the 1987 Nobel peace prize recipient born on 9-13-1941 in Heredia, Costa Rica | ||||
| Nigerian Cardinal Francis Arinze born on 11-1-1932 in Eziowelle, Anambra State, Nigeria | ||||
| Tibetologist Michael Vaillancourt Aris husband of Burmese dissident Aung San Suu Kyi born on 3-27-1946 in Havana, Cuba expired 3-27-1999 in Oxford, Oxfordshire, England age 53 cause: prostate cancer | ||||
Carnival Cruise Lines founder (1972) Ted Arison
expired 10-1-1999 in Tel Aviv, Israel age 75 cause: heart attack; throat cancer | ||||
| on-and-off-and-on again Haitian president Jean-Bertrand Aristide resigned & fled 2/29/04; was back in power, then out, again born on 7-15-1953 in Port-Salut, Haiti | ||||
| Bolshoi soprano Irina Konstantinova Arkhipova born on 12-2-1925 in Moscow, Russia, USSR expired 2-11-2010 in Moscow, Russia age 84 | ||||
| actor Adam Arkin born on 8-19-1956 in Brooklyn, New York, New York | ||||
| actor Alan Wolf Arkin played Yossarian in Catch-22 (1970); father of Adam born on 3-26-1934 in New York, New York | ||||
| American International Pictures co-founder (1954) Samuel Zachary Arkoff born on 6-12-1918 in Fort Dodge, Iowa expired 9-16-2001 in Burbank, California age 83 | ||||
| Marquis François-Laurent d'Arlandes accompanied friend Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozière on first untethered balloon ride (1783); stoked the burner that kept them aloft expired ??-??-17?? age ?? | ||||
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ABC honcho Roone Pickney Arledge II headed their sports division (1968-86) & news division (1977-2002); won 37 Emmies (1st as producer of Shari Lewis' puppet show) & 4 Peabody Awards born on 7-8-1931 in Forest Hills, New York expired 12-5-2002 in New York, New York age 71 cause: complications from cancer | ||||
composer Harold Arlen wrote Over the Rainbow (with E.Y. Harburg)
expired 4-23-1986 in New York, New York age 81 | ||||
film actor Richard Arlen starred in 1927 Academy Award-winning Wings
expired 3-28-1976 in North Hollywood, California age 77 cause: emphysema | ||||
dignified actor George Arliss played title roles in Disraeli (1921 & 1929) and Voltaire (1933)
expired 2-5-1946 in London, England age 77 | ||||
| Great Lakes sailor Michael Eugene Armagost Third Mate of the Edmund Fitzgerald born on 10-14-1938 expired 11-10-1975 in Eastern Lake Superior, Canada age 37 cause: drowned when ship foundered | ||||
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fashion designer Giorgio Armani born on 7-11-1934 in Piacenza, Italy | ||||
| Ivonne Armant grand- born on 1-16-1974 in Mexico City, Mexico | ||||
former Texas death row inmate Edgar Armas-Tomayo
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| singer Joan Anita Barbara Armatrading born on 12-9-1950 in Basseterre, Saint Kitts, Saint Kitts and Nevis, West Indies | ||||
| tv writer Margaret Armen wrote for The Rifleman, The Big Valley, Lawman, Cannon & Star Trek — original series episodes The Gamesters of Triskelion (introduced Kirk to hot drill thral space babe;paid off in Quatloos), The Paradise Syndrome (Kirk marries hot Native American princess space babe) & The Cloud Minders (Spock meets hot intellectual space babe) born on 9-9-1921 in Washington, District of Columbia expired 11-10-2003 in Woodland Hills, California age 82 cause: heart failure | ||||
| actor Pedro Gregorio Armendáriz Hastings got irradiated while shooting The Conquerer (156); played the Turkish station chief in From Russia With Love born on 5-9-1912 in Mexico City, Mexico expired 6-18-1963 in Los Angeles, California age 51 cause: suicide; gunshot; advanced neck cancer | ||||
| U.S. House Republican leader Richard Keith "Dick" Armey born on 7-7-1940 in Cando, North Dakota | ||||
| former pro soccer player James Christopher "Jimmy" Armfield now a BBC radio pundit born on 9-21-1935 in Denton, Lancashire, England | ||||
former Acapulco H.E.A.T. "secret agent" Alison Armitage Playboy October 1990 Playmate of Month
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| poet Richard Willard Armour born on 7-15-1906 in San Pedro, California expired 2-28-1989 age 82 | ||||
| Weather Girls singer Izora M. Rhodes Armstead with Martha Walsh had hit "It's Raining Men" (1983) born on 7-6-1942 expired 9-16-2004 in San Leandro, California age 62 cause: heart failure | ||||
| jazz cornetist & bandleader Daniel Louis "Satchmo" Armstrong born on 8-4-1901 in New Orleans, Louisiana expired 7-6-1971 in New York, New York age 69 cause: heart attack | ||||
| character actor Donald Robert Armstrong played Jerry Malone in Dumbbells in Ermine (1930), Broadway producer Carl Denham in King Kong (1933) and Son of Kong (1933); played nightclub owner Max O'Hara in Mighty Joe Young (1949) born on 11-20-1890 in Saginaw, Michigan expired 4-21-1973 in Santa Monica, California age 82 | ||||
| Major Edwin Howard Armstrong inventor of the Audion radio receiving system (1913) & Frequency Modulation radio born on 12-18-1891 in New York, New York expired 2-1-1954 in New York, New York age 62 cause: suicide; plunge from apartment window | ||||
Edwin's widow Esther Marion Armstrong met her husband while working as David Sarnoff's secretary; put the screws to the weasel corporations that had infringed her husband's patents
expired 8-8-1979 in Exeter, New Hampshire age 81 cause: "a short illness" | ||||
| adultering televangelist Garner Ted Armstrong estranged son of Herbert W. Armstrong born on 2-9-1930 in Portland, Oregon expired 9-15-2003 in Tyler, Texas age 73 cause: pneumonia | ||||
| composer Henry W. "Harry" Armstrong wrote music for Sweet Adeline expired 2-28-1951 in New York, New York age 71 | ||||
| Herbert W. Armstrong founder of the Worldwide Church of God born on 7-31-1892 in Des Moines, Iowa expired 1-16-1986 in Pasadena, California age 93 cause: heart disease | ||||
| Enid, Mississippi farmer Howard N. Armstrong one of the jurors in the "trial" of J.W. Milam & Roy Bryant for the murder of Emmett Till born on 4-19-1919 expired 8-25-2003 in Enid, Mississippi age 84 | ||||
professional bicyclist Lance Edward Armstrong while spinning his wheels for the U.S. Postal Service team won the Tour de France six consecutive times (he won a seventh time for the Discovery Channel); testicular cancer survivor
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| 1932 Olympic gold track medalist Mary Carew Armstrong born on 9-18-1913 expired 7-12-2002 in Framingham, Massachusetts age 88 | ||||
Gemini VIII and Apollo 11 astronaut Neil Alden Armstrong first man on the moon, July 20, 1969; "That's one small step for man .... one giant leap for mankind"born on 8-5-1930 in Wapakoneta, Ohio | ||||
Playboy September 1986 Playmate of Month Rebekka Lynn Armstrong has tested positive for HIV (1989); recently got into bodybuilding
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| character actor Robert Golden Armstrong born on 4-7-1917 in Birmingham, Alabama | ||||
| teacher & author William Howard Armstrong wrote children's novel Sounder (1970) born on 9-14-1914 in Collierstown, Virginia expired 4-11-1999 in Kent, Connecticut age 84 | ||||
jazz fidler William Howard Taft Armstrong
expired 7-30-2003 in Boston, Massachusetts age 96 cause: compliations from heart attack | ||||
photographer Antony Charles Robert Armstrong-Jones ex-husband of Princess Margaret
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| Ameriquest Mortgage founder Roland E. Arnall once was the largest sub-prime lender; it "crashed and burned" and was picked up by Citigroup (2007) born on 3-29-1939 in Paris, Île-de-France, France expired 3-17-2008 in Los Angeles, California age 68 cause: cancer | ||||
| big band, orchestra & movie arranger/composer Léo Arnaud on a commission from Felix Slatkin composed "The Change Suite" (1958); part of that piece, "Bugler's Dream," is the best-known — ABC & NBC have used it as their theme music for coverage of the Olympic games born on 7-24-1904 in Lyon, France expired 4-26-1981 in Los Angeles, California age 76 | ||||
| Ba-Ba-Loo bandleader Desiderio Alberto Arnaz y De Acha III ex-husband of Lucille Ball; co-founder of Desilu Studios born on 3-2-1917 in Santiago de Cuba expired 12-2-1986 in Del Mar, California age 69 | ||||
famous tv offspring Desi Arnaz Jr. younger brother of Lucie
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actress Lucie Déesirée Arnaz daughter of Lucille Ball & Desi Arnaz
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| role playing game pioneer David Lance "Dave" Arneson was co-creator of the Dungeons & Dragons game (1974) born on 10-1-1947 in Minnesota expired 4-7-2009 in Saint Paul, Minnesota age 61 cause: cancer | ||||
actor James Arness brother of Peter Graves; played the original Thing From Outer Space
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Playboy January 1986 Playmate of Month Sherry Arnett her first appearance was in a September 1984 "Girls of the Big 10" pictorial
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actor William Emerson Arnett born on 5-4-1970 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada | ||||
| actress Alison Arngrim played Nellie Oleson on Little House on the Prairie (1974-81); sister of Stefan; daughter of Norma MacMillan born on 1-18-1962 in New York, New York | ||||
| child actor Stefan Arngrim Barry Lockwood on Land of the Giants; brother of Alison; son of Norma MacMillan born on 12-23-1955 | ||||
| American Revolutionary War traitor Benedict Arnold born on 1-14-1741 in Norwich, Connecticut expired 6-14-1801 in London, England age 60 | ||||
saxophone player Buddy Arnold
expired 11-9-2003 in Los Angeles, California age 77 cause: complications from open-heart surgery | ||||
tv writer/producer Danny Arnold co-author of most of the Barney Miller scripts
expired 8-19-1995 in Los Angeles, California age 70 cause: heart failure | ||||
photojournalist Eve Arnold
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| WWII commander of U.S. Army Air Forces General Henry Harley "Hap" Arnold born on 6-25-1886 in Gladwyne, Pennsylvania expired 1-15-1950 in Sonoma, California age 63 cause: coronary occlusion | ||||
movie/tv director Jack Arnold made It Came From Outer Space (1953), The Creature From the Black Lagoon (1954), Tarantula (1955), Revenge of the Creature (1955), The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957), High School Confidential (1958) & The Mouse That Roared (1959); wrote screenplays for Tarantula & The Monolith Monsters (1958; co-writer)
expired 3-17-1992 in Woodland Hills, California age 75 cause: arteriosclerosis | ||||
Texas death row inmate Jemarr Carlos Arnold
expired 1-16-2002 in Huntsville, Texas age 43 cause: executed; lethal injection | ||||
Playboy May 1954 Playmate of Month & March 1954 cover model Joanne Arnold appeared in Girl Gang (1954); her first Playboy appearance was in the March 1954 issue (Hartog Shirt story)
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| Idaho business/private pilot Kenneth Arnold claimed to have seen a fast-moving saucer-shaped object on June 24, 1947... credited with coining term Flying Saucer born on 3-29-1915 in Subeka, Minnesota expired 1-??-1984 in Meridian, Idaho age 68 cause: cancer | ||||
| film/orchestral composer Sir Malcolm Henry Arnold won an oscar for scoring The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) born on 10-21-1921 in Northampton, Northamptonshire, England expired 9-23-2006 in Norwich, Norfolk, England age 84 cause: chest infection; frontal lobe dementia | ||||
country singer Robert Edward "Eddy" Arnold
expired 5-8-2008 in Cool Springs, Tennessee age 89 | ||||
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actor Thomas Duane "Tom" Arnold born on 3-6-1959 in Ottumwa, Iowa | ||||
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Klas Pontus Arnoldson shared the 1908 Nobel peace prize born on 10-27-1844 in Göteborg, Sweden expired 2-20-1916 in Stockholm, Stockholms län, Sweden age 71 cause: heart attack | ||||
| former Hefner executive assistant Roberta "Bobbie" Arnstein pressured by government to rat out druggies in bunnyland born on 5-2-1940 expired 1-12-1975 in Chicago, Illinois age 24 cause: suicide; barbituate overdose | ||||
| jewelry store operator Julien Arpels son of Van Cleef & Arpels co-founder Leon Arpels; brother of Louis born on 12-29-1884 in Marseilles, France expired 4-8-1964 in New York, New York age 79 | ||||
| jewlery business co-founder Leon Arpels expired ??-??-19?? age ?? | ||||
| jewelry store operator Louis Arpels son of Van Cleef & Arpels co-founder Leon Arpels; brother of Julien expired 3-20-1976 in Paris, Île-de-France, France age 89 | ||||
| Joffrey Ballet Company co-founcer Gerald P. Arpino took over as artistic director after the death of Robert Joffrey born on 1-14-1923 in Staten Island, New York, New York expired 10-29-2008 in Chicago, Illinois age 85 cause: "a long illness" | ||||
transgender actor Alexis Arquette son/daughter of Lewis
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humorist and Hollywood Square Cliff Arquette frequent visitor to Tonight Show in 1950's; father of Lewis; grandfather of actress Rosanna Arquette
expired 9-23-1974 in Burbank, California age 68 cause: heart attack | ||||
| Friends actress Courtney Bass Cox Arquette married to nut-case long distance calling shill born on 6-15-1964 in Birmingham, Alabama | ||||
| weird goofball "actor" David Arquette Mr. Courtney Cox; son of Lewis born on 9-8-1971 in Winchester, Virginia | ||||
| tv/movie character actor Lewis Arquette son of Cliff; father of Rosanna, Richmond, Patricia, Alexis & David born on 12-14-1935 in Chicago, Illinois expired 2-10-2001 in Los Angeles, California age 65 cause: congestive heart failure | ||||
| actress Patricia T. Arquette played Kathy Wood in Ed Wood (1994); daughter of Lewis born on 4-8-1968 in Chicago, Illinois | ||||
| writer & bit-part actor Richmond Arquette son of Lewis born on 4-8-1963 | ||||
actress Rosanna Lauren Arquette daughter of Lewis; granddaughter of Charlie Weaver; did September 1990 Playboy pictorialborn on 8-10-1959 in New York, New York | ||||
| classical pianist Claudio Arrau born on 2-6-1903 in Chillan, Chile expired 6-9-1991 age 88 | ||||
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chemist Svante August Arrhenius winner of the 1903 Nobel prize in chemistry born on 2-19-1859 in Vik, Uppsala län, Sweden expired 10-2-1927 in Stockholm, Sweden age 68 | ||||
soul singer Joseph Arrington Jr. had a hit with "Skinny Legs" (1967)
expired 8-13-1982 age 49 cause: heart attack | ||||
| cartoonist Gustavo Montano Arriola briefly worked as an animator at MGM; created & drew the Gordo strip (1941) born on 7-23-1917 in Florence, Arizona expired 2-2-2008 in Carmel, California age 90 cause: complications from cancer & Parkinson's disease | ||||
| former Suriname prime minister (1977-80) & vice president (1987-90) Henck Alphonsus Eugène Arron led Dutch Guiana to independence from The Netherlands; overthrown twice in coups born on 4-25-1936 in Paramaribo, Dutch Guiana expired 12-4-2000 in Alpen aan de Rijn, The Netherlands age 64 cause: heart attack | ||||
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Kenneth Joseph Arrow shared the 1972 Nobel prize in economics born on 8-23-1921 in New York, New York | ||||
| immodest hottie Geysi Villa Nova Arruda expelled from her private college (Uniban) for wearing skimpy clothes and acting like she knew she was hot (the hussie!); we sense a Playboy pictorial in her future born on ??-??-1989 in Brazil | ||||
erotic tale author Emmanuelle Arsan wrote Emmanuelle (published 1959)
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Playboy June 1988 Playmate of Month Emily Arth for a while worked for Vince McMahon at WWF/WWE
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actress Beatrice Arthur played Maude Finlay on tv series
expired 4-25-2009 in Los Angeles, California age 86 cause: cancer | ||||
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21st U.S. president (1881-85) Chester Alan Arthur born on 10-5-1830 in Fairfield, Vermont expired 11-18-1886 in New York, New York age 56 | ||||
actress Jean Arthur
expired 6-19-1991 in Carmel, California age 90 | ||||
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Playboy January 1991 Playmate of Month Stacy Leigh Arthur was the 1990 Mrs. Ohio born on 6-4-1968 in Naperville, Illinois | ||||
litigious celebrity mother Virgie Mae Arthur gave birth to Vicki Lynn Hogan. setting in motion a pop-culture tidal wave of stupidity; we'll probably get sued for posting this entry
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| oldster Arne Armas "Arska" Arvonen last surviving Finnish Civil War veteran (1918); worked on the fortifications of St. Petersburg, Russia born on 8-4-1897 in Helsinki, Finland expired 1-1-2009 in Järvenpää, Finland age 111 | ||||
former religious cult leader Shoko Asahara born with glaucoma; changed name in 1987 when he founded the cult (Aum Shinrikyo sect); now on Japans death row for the murders of 12 people & injury of thousands in a March 20, 1995 sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway system
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cosmetics executive Mary Kay Ash
expired 11-22-2001 in Dallas, Texas age 83 cause: "natural causes" | ||||
| Hall-of-Fame Phillies center fielder (1948-59) Don Richard Ashburn more recently was a broadcaster for the Phillies; gave Marv Throneberry the nickname "Marvelous" born on 3-19-1927 in Tilden, Nebraska expired 9-9-1997 in New York, New York age 70 cause: heart attack | ||||
| movie editor/director Hal Ashby edited In the Heat of the Night (1967 oscar); directed Harold and Maude (1971), Shampoo (1975), Coming Home (1978), Bound For Glory (1976) & Being There (1979) born on 9-2-1929 in Ogden, Utah expired 12-27-1988 in Malibu, California age 59 cause: cancer | ||||
| jazz saxophonist Harold Ashby played with the Duke Ellington Band born on 3-27-1925 in Kansas City, Missouri expired 6-13-2003 in New York, New York age 78 cause: complications following heart attack | ||||
| Shuttle STS-93 & 100 astronaut Jeffrey Shears Ashby born on 6-16-1954 in Dallas, Texas | ||||
actress Dame Peggy Ashcroft
expired 6-14-1991 age 83 | ||||
| tennis great Arthur Robert Ashe Jr. born on 7-10-1943 in Richmond, Virginia expired 2-6-1993 age 49 cause: complications from AIDS | ||||
former topless dancer Danielle "Dani" Ashe used to run Danni's Hard Drive internet porn site (the most downloaded woman on the 'net); sold site in 2004; appeared in the April 1996 Playboy "Woman of the Internet" pictorial; only person to appear on front page of the Wall Street Journal and Juggs magazine
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1952 Olympic steeplechase gold medalist Horace Ashenfelter won 1952 Sullivan Award born on 1-23-1923 in Phoenixville, Pennsylvania | ||||
| actress Jane Asher for a while was boffing/engaged to Paul McCartney (1963-68); played the family matriarch in Death At A Funeral (1997); no (purportedly) decorating cakes & running a cake shop born on 4-5-1946 in Willesden, London, England | ||||
| singer Peter Asher Jane Asher's older brother; partnered with Gordon in 1960s singing duo born on 6-22-1944 in Willesden, Middlesex, England | ||||
| tv director William Asher made How To Stuff a Wild Bikini (1965); produced Bewitched; ex-husband of Elizabeth Montgomery born on 8-8-1921 in New York, New York | ||||
| punk band guitarist Ronald Franklin Asheton Jr. with Iggy Pop a co-founder of The Stooges (his brother was the drummer) born on 7-17-1948 in Washington, District of Columbia expired 1-4-2009 in Ann Arbor, Michigan age 60 cause: heart attack? | ||||
| former Stooges drummer Scott Randolph Asheton born on 8-16-1949 in Washington, District of Columbia | ||||
| Emmett Littleton Ashford first black umpire in major league baseball (1966-70) born on 11-23-1914 in Los Angeles, California expired 3-1-1980 in Los Angeles, California age 66 cause: heart attack | ||||
| Vandella Rosalind Ashford born on 9-2-1943 | ||||
actress Elizabeth Ashley
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| former talent agent Ted Ashley headed Warner Brothers movie studio (1969-80) born on 8-3-1922 in New York, New York expired 8-24-2002 in New York, New York age 80 cause: acute leukemia | ||||
| lyricist Howard Ashman wrote song lyrics for Little Shop of Horrors, The Little Mermaid, & Beauty and the Beast born on 5-3-1950 in Baltimore, Maryland expired 3-14-1991 in Los Angeles, California age 40 cause: AIDS | ||||
| PLO public relations flack Hanan Ashrawi born on 10-8-1946 in Nablus, British Mandate Palestine | ||||
| WordPerfect Corp. co-founder Alan C. Ashton business started as Satellite Software International (1978); changed its name in 1982 born on ??-??-1962 in Salt Lake City, Utah | ||||
| actor John David Ashton played Sgt. Taggart in the Beverly Hills Cop movies born on 2-22-1948 in Springfield, Massachusetts | ||||
| country singer Ernest Bert Ashworth born on 12-15-1928 in Huntsville, Alabama expired 3-2-2009 in Hartsville, Tennessee age 80 | ||||
retired Navy Vice-Admiral Frederick Lincoln "Dick" Ashworth Sr. weapons specialist aboard Bockscar when it nuked Nagasakiborn on 1-24-1912 in Beverly, Massachusetts expired 12-3-2005 in Scottsdale, Arizona age 93 cause: complications from an aortic aneurysm | ||||
| science fiction author Isaac Asimov born on 1-2-1920 in Petrovichi, USSR expired 4-6-1992 age 72 cause: heart & kidney ailments; complications from AIDS | ||||
| author Eliot Tager Asinof wrote Eight Men Out about the 1919 Black Sox Scandal; found himself on Joe McCarthy's blacklist (for signing a petition!); once married to Jocelyn Brando (Marlon's sister) born on 7-13-1919 in Manhattan, New York, New York expired 6-10-2008 in Hudson, New York age 88 cause: complications from pneumonia | ||||
| former Florida governor Reuben O'Donovan Askew also a senator from the state born on 9-11-1928 in Muskogee, Oklahoma | ||||
character actor Leon Askin played General Burkhalter on Hogan's Heroes
expired 6-3-2005 in Vienna, Austria age 97 | ||||
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actor Edward Asner played Lou Grant on tv born on 11-15-1929 in Kansas City, Kansas | ||||
| accused World War II criminal Milivoj Asner supposedly committed crimes against humanity in the city of Poſega in 1941-42 born on 4-21-1913 in Darwar, Croatia, Austria-Hungary | ||||
| Japanese foreign minister Taro Aso born on 9-20-1940 in Iisuka, Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan | ||||
actor Fred Asparagus played Bobby in Berverly Hills Cop III and Joe "Mama" Besser in This is Spinal Tap (1984)
expired 6-29-1998 in Panorama City, California age 51 cause: heart attack | ||||
| CanWest media mogul Israel H. "Izzy" Asper born on 8-11-1932 in Minnedosa, Manitoba, Canada expired 10-7-2003 in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada age 71 | ||||
| former Clinton Defense Secretary Leslie "Les" Aspin Jr. born on 7-21-1938 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin expired 5-21-1995 age 56 | ||||
| Titanic survivor Edvin Rojj Felix Asplund brother of Lillian Asplund born on 3-19-1909 expired 3-1-1983 in Shrewsbury, Massachusetts age 73 | ||||
| Titanic survivor Lillian Gertrude Asplund made it into a lifeboat with mother & brother (three other brothers, Filip, Clarence & Carl Edgar, as well as the father, died in the sinking) born on 10-21-1906 in Alsema, Sweden expired 5-6-2006 in Shrewsbury, Massachusetts age 99 | ||||
| Titanic survivor Selma Augusta Emilia Johansson Asplund born on 10-10-1873 expired 4-15-1964 in Shrewsbury, Massachusetts age 90 | ||||
Syrian President (1970-2000) Hafez al Assad led 1971 coup that installed him as "president"
expired 6-10-2000 in Damascus, Syria age 69 cause: heart attack | ||||
| convicted computer hacker (1995), WikiLeaks founder & possible "rapist" Julian Paul Assange this guy is pissing-off a whole bunch of heavily armed people; arrested in England for having condom-free sex with some hot Swedish babes ... ooooh - assault with a rigid boner, that'll get some serious prison time (with cellmate Ben Dover?) born on 7-3-1971 in Townsville, Queensland, Australia | ||||
| actor Armand Anthony Assante Jr. born on 10-4-1949 in New York, New York | ||||
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former Dutch prime minister Tobias Michael Carel Asser shared the 1911 Nobel peace prize born on 4-28-1838 in Amsterdam, The Netherlands expired 7-29-1913 in The Hague, The Netherlands age 75 | ||||
| tubby Warhol film actress Pat Ast played Lydia (the hotel owner) in Andy Warhol's Heat (1972), Mrs. Venus in Foul Play (1978), the Horse Lady in Pursuit of D.B. Cooper (1981) & Edna in Reform School Girls (1986) born on 10-20-1941 in New York, New York expired 10-2-2001 in West Hollywood, California age 59 | ||||
January 2009 Playboy Playmate of Month Daria "Dasha" Astafieva is Playboy's 55th anniversary Playmateborn on 8-4-1985 in Ordzhonikidze, Ukraine, USSR | ||||
musical/comedy actress Adele Marie Astaire Fred's early dance partner
expired 1-25-1981 in Phoenix, Arizona age 82 cause: complications from stroke | ||||
dancer/actor Fred Astaire
expired 6-22-1987 age 88 | ||||
| actor John Allen Astin played Gomez on Addams Family tv series (1964-66); father of Rings actor Sean born on 3-30-1930 in Baltimore, Maryland | ||||
| actor Sean Patrick Astin biological son of Patty Duke & adoptive son of John Astin; played gardener Samwise Gamgee in The Lord of the Rings trilogy (2001- born on 2-25-1971 in Santa Monica, California | ||||
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mass spectograph inventor Francis William Aston won the 1922 Nobel prize in chemistry born on 9-1-1877 in Birmingham, England expired 11-20-1945 in Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England age 68 | ||||
| former soccer referee Kenneth George Aston originated the color- born on 1-9-1915 in Colchester, England expired 10-23-2001 in Ilford, England age 86 | ||||
| Titanic victim Colonel John Jacob Astor IV returning from a European honeymoon with his new (18 year-old) wife; went down with the ship born on 7-13-1864 in Rhinebeck, New York expired 4-15-1912 in North Atlantic Ocean age 47 cause: crushed to death/drowned | ||||
| Titanic "survivor" John Jacob Astor V son of John Jacob Astor IV; safe in mommy's womb when the ship went down born on 8-14-1912 expired 6-26-1992 in Miami Beach, Florida age 79 | ||||
| Titanic survivor Madeline Talmadge Force Astor married John Jacob Astor IV September 9, 1911 & was returning from their honeymoon in Europe when she became a widow; pregnant with his son at time of sinking; remarried and divorced several times afterwards born on 6-19-1893 expired 3-27-1940 in Palm Beach, Florida age 46 | ||||
actress Mary Astor
expired 9-25-1987 age 81 | ||||
| socialite Roberta Brooke Russell Kuser Marshall Astor subject of much wrangling between her son and grandson — was she being abused/exploited for the money? born on 3-30-1902 in Portsmouth, New Hampshire expired 8-13-2007 in Briarcliff, New York age 105 cause: pneumonia | ||||
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Miguel Ángel Asturias was the 1967 Nobel prize winner in literature born on 10-19-1899 in Guatemala City, Guatemala expired 6-9-1974 in Madrid, Spain age 74 | ||||
| Incan emperor (1532-33) Atahualpa captured and murdered by Pizarro born on --1500 in Quito, Equador expired 8-29-1533 in Cajamarca (Peru) age 33 cause: executed; garotted | ||||
| Maori queen Te Arikinui Dame Te Atairangikaaju seventh soverign (1966-2006) born on 7-??-1931 in Waahi Marae, New Zealand expired 8-15-2006 in Ngaruawahia, New Zealand age 75 cause: pneumonia; renal failure; diabetes | ||||
| electronic digital computer pioneer John Vincent Atanasoff born on 10-4-1903 in Hamilton, New York expired 6-15-1955 in New Market, Maryland age 51 | ||||
first president of the Republic of Turkey (1923-38) Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
expired 11-10-1938 in Ankara, Turkey age 57 cause: cirrhosis of the liver | ||||
| documentary photographer Jean-Eugène-August Atget born on 2-12-1857 in Libourne, France expired 8-4-1927 in Paris, Île-de-France, France age 70 | ||||
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English King (924-939) Athelstan son of Edward the Elder and Ecgwynn born on --895 expired 10-27-939 in Malmesbury, Wiltshire, England age 44 | ||||
actor William Atherton
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| country guitarist Chester Burton "Chet" Atkins also headed RCA Records (1957-76) born on 6-20-1924 in Luttrell, Tennessee expired 6-30-2001 in Nashville, Tennessee age 77 cause: cancer | ||||
dancer/choreographer Cholly Atkins once teamed with Honi Coles
expired 4-19-2003 in Las Vegas, Nevada age 89 | ||||
actor Christopher Atkins his career has gone downhill since The Blue Lagoon (1980)
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Australian swimmer & model Felicia Atkins was a Las Vegas showgirl as well as Playboy's April 1958 Playmate of Month born on ??-??-1931 | ||||
| cardiologist Dr. Robert Coleman Atkins known for his low carbohydrate / high protein diet born on 10-17-1930 in Columbus, Ohio expired 4-17-2003 in New York, New York age 72 cause: coma; head injuries suffered in slip and fall accident | ||||
unrepentant Manson family murderer Susan Denise Atkins did life in the big house for her participation in the Helter Skelter Murders (she stabbed Sharon Tate in the belly 16 times after Tate begged her to spare her unborn child); named her bastard child "Zezozose Zadfrack Glutz" (kid taken away and later adopted - lucky kid); had been up for parole a bunch of times but always denied
expired 9-24-2009 in Chowchilla, California age 61 cause: brain cancer | ||||
World War II British spymaster Vera Maria Atkins principal assistant to Col. Maurice Buckmaster of the World War IIBritish Special Operations Executive; received the French Legion of Honor & made a Commander of the British Empire; her exploits were Fleming's inspiration for Miss Moneypenny
expired 6-24-2000 in Hastings, Sussex, England age 92 | ||||
| former movie stuntman George William Atkinson as a child spent two years in a Japanese prison camp; founded the first video rental store, Video Station, in West Los Angeles (1977), purchasing 100 Beta & VHS tapes from the first home video company — Magnetic Video born on 6-2-1935 in Shanghai, China expired 3-3-2005 in Northridge, California age 69 cause: emphysema | ||||
| former Zombies guitarist Paul Atkinson more recently worked in the record industry doing A&R (Artists and Repertory) born on 3-19-1946 in Cuffley, England expired 4-1-2004 in Santa Monica, California age 58 cause: kidney disease | ||||
mail order body builder Charles Atlas
expired 12-24-1972 in Long Beach, California age 78 | ||||
| environmentalist Sir David Frederick Attenborough born on 5-8-1926 in London, England | ||||
| actor/director Lord Richard Samuel Attenborough directed A Bridge Too Far (1977); won Best Director oscar for Gandhi (1982) born on 8-29-1923 in Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England | ||||
former socialist prime minister of Great Britain (1945-51) Clement Richard Attlee replaced Churchill; nationalized basic industries
expired 10-8-1967 in London, England age 84 | ||||
| GOP national chairman Harvey Leroy "Lee" Atwater born on 2-27-1951 in Atlanta, Georgia expired 3-29-1991 age 40 cause: glioblastoma | ||||
| horror actor Lionel Alfred William Atwill did lots of horror films, Charlie Chan flix, etc. born on 3-1-1885 in Croydon, Surrey, England expired 4-22-1946 age 61 | ||||
dimwitted urban terrorist Angela DeAngelis Atwood abandoned husband to become member of the SLA
expired 5-24-1974 in Los Angeles, California age 25 cause: self-immolation; smoke inhalation & burned to death in house during shootout with police | ||||
| jilted husband Gary Atwood wife Angela dumped him so that she could be an urban terroist born on ??-??-19?? | ||||
| actor René Murat Auberjonois played Clayton Endicott III on Benson (1980-86) and Constable Odo on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (1992-99) tv series born on 6-1-1940 in New York, New York | ||||
former CBS-TV head James Thomas Aubrey Jr. his lifestyle was the basis for Jacqueline Susan's The Love Machine
expired 9-9-1994 age 72 | ||||
| actor Jacques Aubuchon played Chief Urulu on McHale's Navy born on 10-30-1924 in Fitchburg, Massachusetts expired 12-28-1991 age 67 | ||||
| Washington D.C. stockbroker Hugh D. Auchincloss husband of Janet; Jackie O's step- born on 8-28-1897 expired 11-20-1976 in Georgetown, Maryland age 79 | ||||
| Jackie O's mom Janet Lee Auchincloss born on 12-3-1907 expired 7-22-1989 age 81 | ||||
| lawyer/writer Louis Stanton Auchincloss born on 9-27-1917 in Lawrence, Long Island, New York expired 1-26-2010 in Manhattan, New York, New York age 92 cause: complications from stroke | ||||
| British poet and essayist Wystan Hugh Auden won 1948 Pulitzer prize born on 2-21-1907 in York, England expired 9-28-1973 in Vienna, Austria age 66 | ||||
| ornithologist John James Audubon wrote illustrated folios Birds of America (1827-38) born on 4-26-1785 in Les Cayes, Saint-Domingue (later Haiti) expired 1-27-1851 in Manhattan, New York, New York age 65 cause: senility; complications from stroke | ||||
character actor Mischa Auer
expired 3-5-1967 in Rome, Italy age 61 | ||||
| former Boston Celtics coach Arnold Jacob "Red" Auerbach born on 9-20-1917 in Brooklyn, New York, New York expired 10-28-2006 in Bethesda, Maryland age 89 cause: heart attack | ||||
actress Claudine Auger played Domino Derval in Thunderball (1965)
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| Der Spiegel founder (1947) & publisher Rudolf Augstein born on 11-5-1923 in Hannover, Prussia, Germany expired 11-7-2002 in Berlin, Germany age 79 cause: pneumonia | ||||
philosopher and theologian Saint Augustine of Hippo wrote The City of God (413-426)
expired 8-28-430 in Hippo, Numidia age 75 | ||||
| first Archbishop of Canterbury (601-605) Saint Augustine dispatched by Pope Gregory to Britain to re-found the church; converted Ethelbert to Christianity; Ethelbert gave him land at Canterbury to build his church expired 5-26-605 in Canterbury, Kent, England age 55 | ||||
temper-prone Ernest Augustus current spouse of Princess Caroline of Monaco
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first Roman Emperor Augustus Caesar month of August is named for him; became sole ruler of the empire after the Battle of Actium where he defeated Marc Antony; Livia was his wife and first Roman Empress
expired 8-19-14 in Nola, Italy age 76 | ||||
| "actress" Ewa Aulin had title role in soft-porn movie Candy (1968) born on 2-13-1950 in Landskrona, Skåne, Sweden | ||||
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Hebrew University mathematician Yisrael Robert John Aumann shared 2005 Nobel economics prize for development/use of game theory born on 6-8-1930 in Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany | ||||
actor Jean-Pierre Aumont
expired 1-30-2001 in Saint Tropez, France age 90 | ||||
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1991 Nobel prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi daughter of independence hero Gen. Aung San (assasinated in 1947); wife of Michael Aris; mother of Alexander and Kim; currently under house arrest, a political prisoner of the junta born on 6-19-1945 in Rangoon, Burma | ||||
| French composer George Auric member of Les Six born on 2-15-1899 in Lodeve, France expired 7-23-1983 in Paris, Île-de-France, France age 84 | ||||
| aviatrix Jacqueline Douet Auriol 1950s test pilot born on 11-5-1917 in Challans, France expired 2-12-2000 in Paris, Île-de-France, France age 82 | ||||
| retired Lt.General Jagjit Singh Aurora lead the Indian Army forces in their 1971 war with Pakistan — it fostered the creation of Bangladesh born on 2-13-1916 in Kalle Gujran, Jehlum District, Punjab State, India expired 5-3-2005 in New Delhi, India age 89 cause: heart attack | ||||
author Dominique Aury wrote the S&M opus The Story of O under the pen name Pauline Réage (1954)
expired 4-26-1998 in Paris, Île-de-France, France age 90 | ||||
| interior designer Frank P. Austin helped Hef select location of and decor for the L.A. Playboy Mansion born on 12-30-1936 in Montclair, New Jersey expired 11-20-2002 in Los Angeles, California age 65 cause: cancer | ||||
popular 1920s singer Gene Austin had hit with My Blue Heaven
expired 1-24-1972 in Palm Springs, California age 71 cause: lung cancer | ||||
original Hooters girl (1983) Lynne Austin Playboy July 1986 Playmate of Month; one of the radio "Sport Chix" on WBZZ-AMborn on 4-15-1961 in Plant City, Florida | ||||
swimsuit model Nicole Natalie Austin wife of rapper Ice-T; has big-time gluteus maximus; did March 2008 Playboy pictorial
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| singer Patti Austin born on 8-10-1948 in Harlem, Manhattan, New York, New York | ||||
illustrator Reid Stewart Austin was Playboy's assistant art director under Arthur Paul; lucky dog got to draw the lipstick Rabbit Head logo on Cynthia Maddox's tummy for the July 1964 coverborn on 3-11-1931 in New Jersey expired 9-14-2006 in Port Townsend, Washington age 75 | ||||
| former Michigan Secretary of State (1971-94) Richard H. Austin born on 5-6-1913 in Stouts Mountain, Alabama expired 4-20-2001 in Detroit, Michigan age 87 cause: heart attack; Alzheimer's disease | ||||
| actress Teresa "Teri" Austin born on 4-17-1959 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada | ||||
tennis pro Tracy Ann Austin
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| University of Pennsylvania researcher Dr. Robert Austrian developed the pneumonia vaccine (1976); received the 1978 Lasker Award born on 4-12-1916 in Baltimore, Maryland expired 3-25-2007 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania age 90 cause: stroke | ||||
| French movie actor Claude Luzarches Autant-Lara born on 8-5-1901 in Luzarches, France expired 2-5-2000 age 98 | ||||
| Frosty the Snowman singer & former California Angels owner Orvon Gene Autry born on 9-29-1907 in Tioga, Texas expired 10-2-1998 in Studio City, California age 91 cause: lymphoma | ||||
prolific writer Michael Angelo Avallone Jr. creator of the Ed Noon detective series ("The Tall Dolores" (1953), ""Dead Game" (1954), ...); wrote under numerous pseudonyms; did the first Man From Uncle novelization (1965)born on 10-27-1924 in New York, New York expired 2-26-1999 in Los Angeles, California age 74 cause: heart failure | ||||
teen idol Frankie Avalon did a bunch of 1960s Beach pictures with Annette Funicello (as in Frankie & Annette)
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| former Klan member Ernest Henry Avants in 2003 convicted of murdering Ben Chester White in Natchez, Mississippi (1966) born on 1-23-1931 expired 6-15-2004 in Fort Worth, Texas age cause: complications from heart problems | ||||
| feminist screenwriter Barbara Hammer Avedon co-created Cagney & Lacey tv series born on 6-29-1930 expired 8-31-1994 age 64 | ||||
| photographer Richard Avedon born on 5-13-1923 in New York, New York expired 9-30-2004 in San Antonio, Texas age 81 cause: complications from cerebral hemorrhage | ||||
| businessman Joseph Louis Anne Avenol second secretary- born on --1879 in France expired 9-2-1952 in Duillier, Switzerland age 73 | ||||
| actor, tv producer/director Hyman J. Averback radio announcer for Bob Hope & Jack Paar; directed episodes of F Troop & M*A*S*H; directed I Love You, Alice B. Toklas (1968) born on 10-21-1920 in Minneapolis, Minnesota expired 10-14-1997 in Los Angeles, California age 76 cause: "complications" following surgery | ||||
| cartoonist Frederick Bean "Tex" Avery started at Warner Brothers in the 1930s, then went over to MGM, where he created, amongst others, the Droopy Dog character born on 2-26-1908 in Taylor, Texas expired 8-27-1980 age 71 | ||||
| actor James L. Avery Sr. played uncle Phil on Fresh Prince of Bel-Air sitcom born on 11-27-1948 in Atlantic City, New Jersey | ||||
| bacteriologist & medical researcher Dr. Oswald Theodore Avery with McCarty & Macleod published seminal 1944 research report in Experimental Medicine that identified DNA as the stuff that genes are made of born on 10-21-1877 in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada expired 2-20-1955 in Nashville, Tennessee age 77 cause: liver cancer | ||||
| Avery Dennison Corp label tycoon Ray Stanton Avery invented self-adhesive labels/ born on 1-13-1907 expired 12-12-1997 in Pasadena, California age 90 | ||||
tough-guy character actor Val Avery
expired 12-12-2009 in Greenwich Village, Manhattan, New York, New York age 85 | ||||
| former Kansas governor (1965-7) William Henry Avery born on 8-11-1911 in Wakefield, Clay County, Kansas (near) | ||||
| movie director John Gilbert Avildsen directed Save the Tiger (1973), Rocky (1976; Best Director oscar) & The Karate Kid born on 12-21-1935 in Oak Park, Illinois | ||||
| former Detroit-area auto dealer Warren Edward Avis Sr. founded the car rental business that bears his name (1946) — it started with two locations: Miami, FL & Ypsilanti, MI (Willow Run airport); he later sold the company (1954) born on 4-8-1915 in Onaway, Michigan expired 4-23-2007 in Ann Arbor, Michigan age 92 | ||||
| physicist Amedeo Avogadro coined term "molecule"; determined number of molecules in a "mole" of a substance, also known as Avogadro's Number (6.02544×1022 molecules/mole) born on 6-9-1776 in Turin, Italy expired 7-9-1856 in Turin, Italy age 80 | ||||
early computer systems analyst Henriette Regina Avram led the Library of Congress' development of the Marc (Machine readable cataloging) computer system that replaced 3-by-5 cards (1965-68)
expired 4-22-2006 in Miami, Forida age 86 cause: cancer | ||||
| children's story author Rev. Wilbert Vere Awdry created Thomas the Tank Engine for his kids (published 1946) born on 6-15-1911 in Romsey. Hampshire, England expired 3-21-1997 in Rodborough, Stroud, Gloucestershire, England age 85 | ||||
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Dr. Richard Axel shared 2004 Nobel Physiology Prize for discovering how people recognize & remember odors (1991) born on 7-2-1946 in New York, New York | ||||
| playwright George Axelrod wrote plays The Seven Year Itch (1953) & Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? (1955); movie screenplays include Bus Stop, Breakfast at Tiffany's (1959), The Manchurian Candidate (1962) & How To Murder Your Wife (1965) born on 6-9-1922 in New York, New York expired 6-21-2003 in Los Angeles, California age 81 cause: heart failure | ||||
neuroscientist Dr. Julius Axelrod shared the 1970 Nobel physiology award
expired 12-29-2004 in Rockville, Maryland age 92 | ||||
| ardent Nazi & Hitler Youth leader Artur Axmann claimed to be last person to see Hitler alive (big deal) born on 2-18-1913 in Hagen, Germany expired 10-24-1996 in Berlin, Germany age 83 | ||||
| ESPN commentator Pete Macrae Axthelm born on 8-27-1943 in New York, New York expired 2-2-1991 age 47 | ||||
Stax Records co-founder Estelle S. Axton the label began as Satellite Records in 1957
expired 2-24-2004 in Memphis, Tennessee age 85 cause: strokes | ||||
| country singer Hoyt Wayne Axton son of Mae Boren Axton; wrote Kingston Trio hit Greenback Dollar (1963) and Three Dog Night band hit Joy To The World (1971) born on 3-25-1938 in Duncan, Oklahoma expired 10-26-1999 in Victor, Montana age 61 cause: heart attack | ||||
| Hoyt's mom Mae Boren Axton co-wrote Heartbreak Hotel born on 9-14-1914 expired 4-9-1997 in Hendersonville, Tennessee age 82 | ||||
Miss America 1964 Donna Axum
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Miss America 1954 Evelyn Margaret Ay
expired 10-18-2008 in Malvern, Pennsylvania age 75 cause: colorectal cancer | ||||
| vibrophon artist Roy E. Ayres Jr. born on 9-10-1940 in Los Angeles, California | ||||
| 1960s radical Williams Charles Ayers born on 12-26-1944 in Glen Ellyn, Illinois | ||||
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comedian, screenwriter & actor Daniel Edward Aykroyd one of the Blues Brothers (with John Belushi); on Saturday Night Live (1975-79); played Dr. Detroit; married to Donna Dixon; with Pam Anderson appeared on cover of August 1993 Playboy as Beldar Conehead born on 7-1-1952 in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada | ||||
| tv actor/producer/comedy writer John Bansley Aylesworth creator of Front Page Challenge & co-creator of the Hee-Haw tv series born on 8-18-1928 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada expired 7-28-2010 in Rancho Mirage, California age 81 cause: complications from pneumonia | ||||
silent movie star Agnes Ayres was Rudolph Valentino's leading lady in The Sheik
expired 12-25-1940 in Hollywood, California age 42 cause: cerebral hemorrhage | ||||
| actor Lew Ayres played Dr. Kildare in the movies born on 12-28-1908 in Minneapolis, Minnesota expired 12-30-1996 in Los Angeles, California age 88 | ||||
| former Pakistani ruler (1958-69) Field Marshall Mohammad Ayub Khan deposed first president Iskander Mirza in 1958 born on 5-14-1907 in Rehanna, India expired 4-19-1974 in Islamabad, Pakistan age 66 cause: heart attack | ||||
| actor Henry Albert "Hank" Azaria ex-husband of Helen Hunt born on 4-25-1964 in Forest Hills, Queens, New York, New York | ||||
| Islamic cleric Maulana Masood Azhar born on 7-10-1968 in Bahawalpur, Punjab, Pakistan | ||||
| pro golfer Paul William Azinger born on 1-6-1960 in Holyoke, Massachusetts | ||||
former Iraqi deputy prime minister Tariq Aziz Saddam's mouthpiece to the world; now facing trial but may not live long enough — is purported to be dying of lung disease - recently had a stroke; sentenced to be hanged (October 2010)
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singer Charles Aznavour
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| actress Candice "Candy" Azzara born on 5-18-1949 in Brooklyn, New York, New York | ||||
| bomb-slinging Marxist Andreas Baader member of Germany's "Baader-Meinhof" gang of the late 1960s and early 1970s; died in prison born on 5-6-1947 expired 10-18-1977 in Stammheim, Germany age 30 cause: suicide | ||||
actress Lída Baarová her marriage to actor Gustav Fröhlich ran concurrent with being Nazi propaganda minister Göbbels' mistress; the marrriage/mistresshood came to an end when Gustav walked in on a tryst and complained to Adolf
expired 10-20-2000 in Salzburg, Austria age 90 | ||||
former pro wrassler Shohei Baba
expired 1-31-1999 age 61 cause: bowel cancer | ||||
| former carnival owner Howard W. "Kroger" Babb producer of the "sexual hygiene" movie Mom and Dad (1945); fought numerous battles with the Legion of Decency born on 12-30-1906 in Lees Creek, Ohio expired 1-28-1980 in Palm Springs, California age 73 | ||||
| writer Sanora Babb widow of cinematographer James Wong Howe; during the Great Depression wrote Whose Names Are Unknown about the dust bowl migrants — Steinbeck's Grapes of Wrath made it into print first and her publisher decided not to release the book (it eventually made it into print in 2004) born on 4-21-1907 in Oklahoma expired 12-31-2005 in West Hollywood, California age 98 | ||||
| Clinton Interior secretary Bruce Edward Babbitt born on 6-27-1938 in Flagstaff, Arizona | ||||
| Big Band singer Harry J. Babbitt a vocalist with Kay Kyser's band born on 11-2-1913 in Saint Louis, Missouri expired 4-9-2004 in Aliso Viejo, California age 90 | ||||
| composer Milton Byron Babbitt born on 5-10-1916 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania | ||||
| last Canadian World War I military veteran John Henry Foster "Jack" Babcock resides in Spokane, Washington born on 7-23-1900 in Holleford, Sount Frontenac, Ontario, Canada expired 2-18-2010 in Spokane, Washington age 109 | ||||
| Playboy "Men" columnist Asa Baber born on 6-19-1936 in Chicago, Illinois expired 6-16-2003 in Chicago, Illinois age 66 cause: ALS | ||||
| noted mountain guide Babu Chhiri Sherpa credited by Guinness Book as having spent the longest period of time at the summit of Everest without a breathing apparatus born on 6-22-1965 in Taksindu, Nepal expired 4-29-2001 in Mount Everest, Nepal age 35 cause: fell into crevasse | ||||
actress Lauren Bacall won Tonys for Applause (1970) and Woman of the Year (1981); was married to Humphrey Bogart; a cousin of Shimon Peres; her mentally-wobbly performance on the 2006 oscar telecast will likely boost her to near the top of most dead pool's popularity leaderboards
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actress Barbara Bach did June 1977 & January 1981 Playboy pictorials
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| musician and Classical composer Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach a son of Johann Sebastian Bach born on 3-8-1714 in Weimar, Germany expired 12-15-1788 in Hamburg, Germany age 74 | ||||
actress Catherine Bach Daisy Duke on The Dukes of Hazzard
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| musician and Classical composer Johann Christian Bach 11th son of Johann Sebastian Bach born on 9-3-1735 in Leipzig, Saxony, Germany expired 1-1-1782 in London, England age 46 | ||||
| last great Baroque-period composer Johann Sebastian Bach with his death the "Classical" period of musical composition began; wrote the Brandenberg Concerti and The Well Tempered Clavier; father of C.P.E. Bach, J.C. Bach, Wilhelm Friedeman Bach and 10 other kids born on 3-21-1685 in Eisenach, Germany expired 7-28-1750 age 65 | ||||
| Jonathan Livingston Seagull author Richard David Bach born on 6-23-1936 in Oak Park, Illinois, United State of America | ||||
| musician and Classical composer Wilhelm Friedeman Bach eldest son of Johann Sebastian Bach born on 11-22-1710 in Weimar, Germany expired 7-1-1784 in Berlin, Germany age 73 | ||||
| composer Burton Freeman Bacharach wrote music for What's New, Pussycat? (1965), Casino Royale (1967) and Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969); once married to Angie Dickinson (1966-80) & Carole Bayer Sager born on 5-12-1929 in Kansas City, Missouri, United State of America | ||||
| President of Chile Verónica Michelle Bachelet Jeria born on 9-29-1951 in Santiago, Chile | ||||
| actress Frances Amelia Bachelor second model for the Columbia Pictures logo (1936); paid $25 for her work born on 2-2-1908 in Springfield, Ohio expired 4-15-2002 in Santa Monica, California age 94 | ||||
| Manhattan Project physicist Dr. Robert Fox Bacher headed the Bomb Physics division (1944-45); later a member of the Atomic Energy Commission born on 8-31-1905 in Loudonville, Ohio expired 11-18-2004 in Montecito, California age 99 | ||||
| College Hall-of-Fame football coach Charles William "Charlie" Bachman Jr. coached at Northwestern (1919), Kansas State (1920-27), the University of Florida (1928-32) & Michigan State College (1933-42 & 1944-46); father of Turing Award-winning mechanical engineer born on 12-1-1892 expired 12-14-1985 in Port Charlotte, Florida age 93 cause: heart attack | ||||
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MSU graduate (B.S.-Mechanical engineering; 1948) Charles William Bachman III son of former MSU football coach Charles II (1933-46); A.M. Turing Award winner for his work in database technology born on 12-11-1924 in Manhattan, Kansas, United State of America | ||||
Playboy October 1991 Playmate of Month Cheryl Bachmanborn on 11-18-1969 in Jacksonville, Florida, United State of America | ||||
| Bachman-Turner Overdrive lead singer Randolph Charles "Randy" Bachman born on 9-27-1943 in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada | ||||
| SS Obergruppenführer Erich von dem Bach-Zelewsky brutally put down the August 1944 Warsaw uprising born on 3-3-1899 in Lauenberg, Pomerania expired 3-8-1972 in München, Germany age 73 | ||||
stunt woman/actress/wild animal trainer Susan Jane Backlinie played the swimmer eaten at the beginning of Jaws and "surprised" by the Japanese submarine in 1941; now a computer accountant
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character actress Henriette "Henny" Backus widow of Jim; played Cora Dithers (to Jim's J.C. Dithers) on the Blondie tv series (1962)
expired 12-9-2004 in Los Angeles, California age 93 cause: strokes | ||||
| actor James Gilmore "Jim" Backus played Thurston Howell III on Gilligan's Island; provided Quincy's voice for the Mr. Magoo cartoons born on 2-25-1913 in Cleveland, Ohio expired 7-3-1989 age 76 cause: pneumonia; Parkinson's disease | ||||
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mathematician John Warner Backus while working at IBM invented the FORTRAN computer programming language (1957); co-developed the Backus-Naur form; received the 1977 A.M. Turing Award born on 12-3-1924 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania expired 3-17-2007 in Ashland, Oregon age 82 | ||||
| stage & movie actress Olga Baclanova played cruel trapeze artist Cleopatra in Freaks (1932) born on 8-19-1899 in Moscow, Russia expired 9-6-1974 in Vevay, Switzerland age 75 | ||||
| author Francis Bacon born on 1-22-1561 in London, England expired 4-9-1626 in London, England age 65 cause: bronchitis | ||||
| pioneering bodybuilder Jules S. Bacon was the AAU Mr. America in 1943 born on 7-8-1917 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania expired 1-13-2007 in York, Pennsylvania age 84 | ||||
| actor Kevin Norwood Bacon is he less than six degrees of separation from his own demise? born on 7-8-1958 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania | ||||
| director Lloyd Bacon directed Moby Dick (1930), Gold Diggers of 1937 (1937), Knute Rockne, All American (1940) & The Fighting Sullivans (1944) born on 1-16-1890 in San Jose, California expired 11-15-1955 in Burbank, California age 65 cause: cerebral hemorrhage | ||||
ex-jockey Mary Bacon appeared in June 1973 Playboy "Women's Work" pictorial; a high school buddy of future playmate Cynthia Myers
expired 6-6-1991 in Fort Worth, Texas age 42 cause: suicide; cancer | ||||
| actor Michael Badalucco born on 12-20-1954 in Brooklyn, New York, New York | ||||
character actress Angela Baddeley played the cook Mrs. Bridges in Upstairs, Downstairs; sister of Hermione
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character actress Hermione Baddeley sister of Angela; played Mrs. Cratchit in Scrooge (1951), Eulalia Divine on Camp Runamuck tv series (1965-66) & Mrs. Naugatuck on Maude tv series (1974-77)
expired 8-19-1986 in Los Angeles, California age 78 | ||||
Sir Robert Stephenson Smith Baden-Powell founder of the Boy and Girl Scouts; his widow was chief guide of the World Association of Guides and Girl Scouts Lady
expired 1-8-1941 in Nyeri, Kenya age 83 | ||||
| Brazilian guitarist Roberto Baden Powell de Aquino Bossa Nova pioneer born on 8-6-1937 in Varre-e-Sai, Rio de Janeiro State, Brazil expired 9-26-2000 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil age 63 cause: pneumonia; multiple organ failure | ||||
| science fiction writer Hilary J. Bader wrote for Star Trek Next Generation & Voyager; wrote Star Trek: Borg video game (1996) born on 4-27-1952 in New York, New York expired 11-7-2002 in Duarte, California age 50 cause: breast cancer | ||||
| actor Karl Diedrich Bader played Jethro Bodine in the Beverly Hillbillies movie born on 12-24-1966 in Alexandria, Virginia | ||||
| movie director John MacDonald Badham made Saturday Night Fever (1977) & Wargames (1983) born on 8-25-1939 in Luton, Bedfordshire, England | ||||
| child actress Mary Badham played the young Scout Finch in To Kill a Mockingbird (1962); sister of movie director John Badham born on 10-7-1952 in Birmingham, Alabama, United State of America | ||||
singer Erykah Badu
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| Leo Hendrik Baekeland inventor of bakelite plastic born on 11-14-1863 in Saint Martens-Latem, Belgium expired 2-23-1944 in Beacon, New York age 80 | ||||
| boxer Maximilian Adelbert "Max" Baer Sr. father of "Jethro Bodine" born on 2-11-1909 in Omaha, Nebraska expired 11-21-1959 in Hollywood, California age 50 | ||||
| actor Maximilian Adelbert Baer Jr. typecast as Jethro Bodine on The Beverly Hillbillies born on 12-4-1937 in Oakland, California, United State of America | ||||
character actor Parley E. Baer played Marshall Dillon's deputy Chester Proudfoot on radio Gunsmoke (1952-61) & next door neighbor Darby on The Adventures of Ozzie & Harriet (1955-61), Mayberry Mayor Stoner on the Andy Griffith Show and the original Keebler Cookie Elf (Ernie) in tv commercialsborn on 8-5-1914 in Salt Lake City, Utah expired 11-22-2002 in Woodland Hills, California age 88 cause: complications from stroke | ||||
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folk singer Joan Chandos Baez inspired creation of Little Joanie Phoney cartoon character born on 1-9-1941 | ||||
| Italian Cardinal Corrado Bafile born on 7-4-1903 in L'Aquila, Italy expired 2-3-2005 in Rome, Italy age 101 cause: influenza | ||||
former pro wrassler Vince Bagala
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song writer/performer Ross Bagdasarian Sr. wrote the music for "Come On-A My House" (his cousin wrote the lyrics) and "Witch Doctor"; created Alvin and the Chipmunks; his final words: "Ooo Eee Ooo Ah Ah, Ting Tang, Walla Walla Bing Bang ..."
expired 1-16-1973 in Beverly Hills, California age 53 cause: heart attack | ||||
| retired Egyptian Air Force officer Abdel-Latif Baghdadi helped Gamal Abdel Nasser overthrow Egypt's last sovereign, King Farouk, in 1952 born on 9--1917 in Shawa, Mansoura Province, Egypt expired 1-8-1999 age 81 cause: liver cancer | ||||
| Shuttle STS-29 & 40 astronaut James Philip "Jim" Bagian born on 2-22-1952 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United State of America | ||||
Texas death row inmate Dennis Wayne Bagwell murdered 4 members of his own family while out on parole for a previous murder
expired 2-17-2005 in Huntsville, Texas age 41 cause: executed; lethal injection | ||||
"defrocked" Indian prince Shri Hanwant Singh Bahadur
expired 1-26-1952 in Rajasthan, India age 28 cause: plane crash | ||||
| Princeton neutrino astronomer John Norris Bahcall his research confirmed Hans Bethe's theories of how the sun works born on 12-30-1934 in Shreveport, Caddo Parrish, Louisiana expired 8-17-2005 in New York, New York age 70 cause: "a rare blood disorder" | ||||
| Iranian Ayatollah Mohammed Baheshti expired 6-28-1981 in Tehran, Iran age 52 cause: bomb blast | ||||
| Dr. Mohammed Javad Bahonar briefly prime minister of Iran (August 1981) expired 8-30-1981 in Tehran, Iran age 47 cause: injuries from bomb blast | ||||
| Stalin oil commissar Nikolai Konstantinovich Baibakov finally fired by Gorby (1985) born on --1911 in Sabunchi, Azerbaijan, Russian Empire expired 3-31-2008 in Moscow, Russia age 97 cause: pneumonia | ||||
| former movie stuntman & tv character actor Charles "Chuck" Bail wrote/ born on ??-??-19?? | ||||
| Sister Barbara Vernon Bailey created the Bunnykins watercolors (1934) born on 6-28-1910 in Woore, Shropshite, England expired 5-4-2003 in Haywards Heath, West Sussex, England age 92 | ||||
super-geezer Daisey Bailey
expired 3-7-2010 in Detroit, Michigan age 113 cause: complications from dementia | ||||
| "harmonica wizard" DeFord Bailey Sr. joined the WSM Barn Dance in 1925 & was the first, founding performer when it was given the name Grand Ole Opry (1927); despite being the show's first star he was bounced off the program in 1941 and spent the rest of his life shining shoes; is the only original show performer who has not been inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame born on 12-14-1899 in Bellwood, Tennessee expired 7-2-1982 in Nashville, Tennessee age 82 cause: kidney & heart failure; lung congestion | ||||
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litigator Francis Lee Bailey born on 6-10-1933 in Waltham, Massachusetts, United State of America | ||||
| L.A. Kings hockey scout Garnet Edward "Ace" Bailey b |
