- Gaby Rado
Gaby Rado (17 January 1955, Budapest-30 March 2003, Sulaymaniyah) was a British television journalist who died in Iraq during the 2003 invasion. Rado was born in Budapest, Hungary but emigrated with his family to Britain at the age of eight. He studied at King's College School, Wimbledon, London and Christ's College, Cambridge and began work in journalism at a local newspaper. He then joined BBC News as a radio reporter, …
- Robert Morgan
Robert K. Morgan (July 31 1918 - May 15 2004) was a United States Air Force colonel and pilot, from Asheville, North Carolina, and the commander of the B-17 Flying Fortress "Memphis Belle" during World War II. Morgan attended the Wharton School of Finance at the University of Pennsylvania and entered the Army Air Corps in 1940. He won his pilot wings and was commissioned a second lieutenant December 12, 1941, then after advanced training at Walla Walla, Washington, …
- Arthur Naftalin
Arthur Naftalin (June 28, 1917 - May 16, 2005) was an American political scientist and politician. A member of the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party DFL, he served as mayor of Minneapolis, Minnesota from 3 July, 1961 to 6 July, 1969. He was the city's only Jewish mayor. Naftalin was born in Fargo, North Dakota, one of four children of Sandel and Tillie Naftalin. He was married to Frances Healy Naftalin; among their children is Mark Naftalin, a musician.
- Michael Bartosh
Michael Bartosh was president and CTO of 4am Media, Inc, an Apple Authorized Trainer, certified member of the Apple Consultants Network, published author and former systems engineer for Apple Computer. His main focus and expertise was directory services and integration, and was considered by members of the Macintosh support and development community to be one of the foremost experts on the subject, …
- Laura Sadler
Laura Ruth Sadler (25 December 1980 - 19 June 2003) was an English actress best known for her role as nurse Sandy Harper in the BBC One hospital drama series "Holby City". She was born in Ascot, Berkshire, and took up television acting as a young girl. She was spotted as a future talent at the age of 6 by Dustin Hoffman, who had seen her in a play. After the play had finished Dustin asked to meet the young actress.
- Frits Philips
Frederik ("Frits") Jacques Philips (Eindhoven, the Netherlands, 16 April 1905 - Eindhoven, 5 December 2005) was the fourth chairman of the board of directors of Dutch electronics company Philips.
- Henry Jones
Henry Burk Jones was an American actor of stage, film and television. Jones was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to Helen Burk and John Francis Xavier Jones. Jones is remembered for his role as the handyman, Leroy Jessup, in the movie the Bad Seed despite having appeared in over 180 movies and television shows. He appeared in "Vertigo" in 1958 and on several episodes of "Alfred Hitchcock Presents".
- John Balance
John Balance (first name also spelled "Jhon" and "Jhonn"; born Geff Rushton/Geoffrey Laurence Burton; February 16, 1962 – November 13, 2004), born in Mansfield, England, was the founder of the experimental music group Coil, along with intimate partner Peter Christopherson. He was responsible for vocals, lyrics, chants, synthetics and various esoteric sound-making instruments and devices. Outside of Coil he collaborated with Nurse With Wound, Death In June, …
- Seth Fisher
Seth Fisher (July 22, 1972 - January 30, 2006) was an American comic book artist and penciller. Fisher possessed a unique and instantly recognizable drawing style. He first gained attention for his work on DC Comics' "Green Lantern: Willworld", and was nominated for an Eisner Award for "Best Penciller/Inker" for "Flash: Time Flies" and "Vertigo Pop! Tokyo".
- Hilton Ruiz
Hilton Ruiz was a Puerto Rican-American jazz pianist in the Afro-Cuban jazz mold, but was also a talented bebop player. Ruiz began playing piano at the age of eight, and gigged with Freddie Hubbard and Joe Newman when he was young. Later, he was Roland Kirk's main pianist from 1974 to 1977, featuring on such records as "The Case of the 3 Sided Dream in Audio Color" and "The Return of the 5000 Lb. Man".
- Reverdy Johnson
Reverdy Johnson (May 21, 1796 - February 10, 1876) was a statesman and jurist from Maryland. Born in Annapolis, Johnson was the son of a distinguished Maryland lawyer and politician, John Johnson (1770 - 1824). He graduated from St. John's College in 1812 and then studied law. He was admitted to the bar in 1815, and then moved to Baltimore, where he became a legal colleague of Luther Martin, William Pinkney and Roger B. Taney.
- Alberto Olmedo
Alberto Olmedo was an Argentine comedian and actor. Olmedo was born in Barrio Pichincha, Rosario, Santa Fe Province. In his teens, he was a gifted gymnast and an aspiring actor, who tried his luck with several amateur theater companies and enjoyed some local success. He was a confessed fan of a local soccer team, Rosario Central, which he mentioned in acts through his career. Olmedo moved to Buenos Aires in 1954.
- Maurice Paprin
Maurice Paprin was a New York City real estate developer and social activist. Born in 1920, Paprin graduated from Townsend Harris High School in 1936 and City College in 1941. He gained an MA in history from the University of Wisconsin and taught briefly at New York University, but pressures arising from McCarthyism eased him out of academia. He began to work for his uncle's restaurant business and became acquainted with Democratic party officials in Queens.
- Mo Mowlam
Marjorie "Mo" Mowlam (18 September 1949 - 19 August 2005) was a British politician, Secretary of State for Northern Ireland and Labour Member of Parliament. Her time as Northern Ireland Secretary saw the signing of the historic Good Friday Peace Agreement in 1998.
- Divya Bharti
Divya Bharti, (born Divya Om Prakash Bharti, February 25, 1974 - April 5, 1993) was a popular Indian film actress in the early 1990s.
- George D. Wallace
George Dewey Wallace was an American stage and screen actor. Wallace co-starred with Mary Martin in the Broadway musical "Jennie" and was nominated for a New York Drama Critics' Circle Award for playing the male lead in "New Girl in Town" opposite Gwen Verdon. But today he may be best remembered for playing Commando Cody in the movie serial "Radar Men from the Moon".
- Charles Older
Charles "Chuck" Older (29 September 1917-17 June 2006) was a member of the American Volunteer Group "The Flying Tigers" and one of its Aces. In his distinguished military career, he served in both World War II and the Korean War. Older shot down 18 enemy planes and only two others bested his record. He earned a degree in political science before the war and later graduated from UCLA law school.
- Dessi España
Dessi España was an American performer with the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus. She died after a fall while performing aerial acrobatics using Chiffon Scarves without a net at the Xcel Energy Center in St. Paul, Minnesota. She was married with 2 young children. She was born into a Bulgarian family of circus performers and married Ivan España in 1992. Up until 1999 she held the world record for twirling hula hoops, spinning 97 at a time.
- Sandy Denny
Sandy Denny (6 January 1947 - 21 April 1978), born Alexandra Elene MacLean Denny, was an English singer and songwriter. She is best known for her involvement with the British folk rock movement, including two spells as a member of Fairport Convention, as well as her duet with Robert Plant on Led Zeppelin's 4th album in 1971 - the song "The Battle of Evermore".
- Dick Radatz
Richard Raymond "Dick" Radatz (April 2 1937 - March 16 2005), nicknamed "The Monster" or "Moose", was an American right-handed relief pitcher in Major League Baseball who had a scorching but shortlived period of dominance for for the Boston Red Sox (1962-66). Radatz also played for the Cleveland Indians (1966-67), Chicago Cubs (1967), Detroit Tigers (1969) and Montreal Expos (1969). He began his adult professional life as a school teacher.
- Raeburn van Buren
Raeburn van Buren (January 12, 1891-December 29, 1987) was an American magazine and comic strip illustrator best known for his work on the syndicated "Abbie an' Slats". Born in Pueblo, Colorado, van Buren began his career as an artist for the "Kansas City Star", moving to New York in 1913 where he illustrated for "Puck", "Life" and "The Saturday Evening Post".
- Garry Hoy
Garry Hoy (died 1993) was a lawyer for the law firm of Holden Day Wilson in Toronto. Managing partner Peter Lauwers described him as "one of the best and the brightest". Hoy became famous for an accident in 1993, where he threw himself through a glass wall on the 24th story of the Toronto-Dominion Centre in an attempt to prove that the glass was "unbreakable". He had apparently attempted this stunt many times in the past, having previously bounced off the glass, harmlessly.
- Owen Hart
Owen James Hart was a Canadian professional wrestler who was most known for his time in the World Wrestling Federation (WWF). Owen was born in Calgary, Alberta, the youngest of 12 children to wrestling promoter Stu Hart and Helen Hart. Owen was a dual citizen of Canada and the United States.
- Harald Bredesen
Harald Bredesen (August 18 1918 - December 29 2006) was an American Lutheran pastor who was influential in the early days of the American charismatic movement.
- Simon Hobart
Simon Hobart (born 1964, died October 23, 2005) was one of the most influential figures in British gay nightlife of his era. He was most famous for creating the hugely popular, long-running alternative nightclub Popstarz at London's Scala. He was also the owner and promoter of Soho venues Ghetto (with its world-famous Nag Nag Nag night) and Trash Palace.
- William Thompson
William Abednego Thompson (18 October 1811 - 23 August 1880) was an English bare-knuckle boxer. Born in Nottingham in 1811, Thompson was the last of 21 children, himself one of triplets named Abednego, Shadrach and Meshak, after the young men in the Book of Daniel who emerged from the fiery furnace of Babylon. Although he was born in the slums between Long Row and Parliament Street, the young Thompson developed well and was noted as having an ability with sports.
- Tony Meehan
Daniel Joseph Anthony 'Tony' Meehan, (March 2 1943 - November 28 2005), was one of the founder members of the British group The Shadows, along with Jet Harris, Hank B. Marvin and Bruce Welch. He played drums on all the early Cliff Richard and The Shadows hits and also played on the early hits the Shadows had as an instrumental group. Tony Meehan was born at New End Hospital, New End, Hampstead, North London, England.
- Norman Blacklock
Sir Norman James Blacklock KCVO OBE MB ChB MSc FRCS (5 February 1928 - 7 September 2006) was a surgeon in the Royal Navy and later a consultant in urology and professor of medicine at Manchester University. He served as Medical Officer to The Queen on her overseas tours for 17 years, from 1976 to 1993. He became known to the accompanying press corps as "the Queen's Witch Doctor", and the Duke of Edinburgh nicknamed him "Hemlock".
- Colin Watson
Colin Watson (1952-2006) was a British egg collector who stole the eggs of rare and wild birds from protected wildlife sites throughout Great Britain for over twenty years before his death. Despite six prior convictions and issued fines in thousands of pounds, he amassed the largest egg collection in the country before being confiscated by agents of the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds during a raid on his home in 1985 (which numbered over 2,000 eggs, …
- Harold von Braunhut
Harold Nathan Braunhut aka Harold von Braunhut (31 March 1926 - 28 November 2003) was an American mail-order marketer most famous as the creator and seller of Amazing Sea-Monkeys. He was also an inventor, and promoted extreme right-wing beliefs. Harold von Braunhut was born in Memphis, Tennessee on 31 March 1926. Von Braunhut grew up in New York City and resided there until the 1980s when he moved to Maryland.
- Norma Candal
Norma Candal born in Fajardo, Puerto Rico, was an actress and comedian who was best known for her role as "Petunia". Candal's family lived in the Fajardo Sugar Co. sugar plantation. Her father was the company's accountant. Candal participated in her first Christmas school play when she was 9 years old. She went to the "Colegio del Sagrado Corazon" (Sacred Heart Private School) in her hometown, where she obtained her primary and secondary education.
- George Bogle
George Bogle (1747 - 1781) - was a Scottish adventurer and diplomat, the first to establish diplomatic relations with Tibet and to attempt recognition by the Chinese Empire. His mission is still used today as a reference point in discussions between Tibet and China. George Bogle was the second son of a wealthy Glasgow merchant, George Bogle of Daldowie, one of the Tobacco Lords and Anne Sinclair, a gentlewoman. His father had extensive connections in the Scottish landed, …
- George Sharrock
George Sharrock (1910-2005) was Mayor of Anchorage from 1961-1964. He is sometimes known as "The Earthquake Mayor" for having been in office during the devastating Good Friday Earthquake of 1964, and for his work in the aftermath. George Sharrock was born May 2, 1910 in Muskingum County, Ohio. He came to Alaska in 1947 to work for Pacific Northern Airlines, which was later merged into Western Airlines. He served in the Anchorage Assembly from 1959 to 1961, …
- Ramo Nakajima
Ramo Nakajima was a respected Japanese cult novel writer, essayist, copywriter, and also appeared frequently on Japanese TV as an actor. He was born in Amagasaki City, Hyogo Prefecture. He received 8th place in his entrance exam to the illustrious Nada Junior High School, and continued on to the Osaka University of Arts, where he graduated from the school of broadcasting. He then worked for a publishing company for 5 years, …
- Humphrey Jennings
Humphrey Jennings, (August 19 1907 Walberswick, Suffolk - September 24 1950 Poros, Greece), was an English film-maker and one of the founders of the Mass Observation organization. Jennings was described by film maker Lindsay Anderson as: "the only real poet that British cinema has yet produced."
- Mario Danelo
Mario Danelo was an American college football placekicker.
- Gabriella Ferri
Gabriella Ferri (1942 - April 3, 2004) was an Italian singer born in Rome. Ferri's career began in a Milan nightclub in 1963. By 1965, she had successfully broke onto the Rome singing scene singing popular Roman songs. One of her biggest hits was "Sempre" ("Always"). During her career, she also performed Neapolitan and Latin American pieces. During the 1970s, she starred on several popular TV shows. By the 1990s, however, she had largely left the spotlight.
- George Basevi
Elias George Basevi FRS (1 April, 1794-16 October, 1845) was an English architect. He was a pupil of Sir John Soane. Buildings he designed include the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, Belgrave Square, London and stables at Bretton Hall. He died by falling off the tower of Ely Cathedral while attempting to survey it. Fellow of the Royal Society in 1843.
- Russ Swan
Russell Howard Swan (January 3, 1964 - April 26, 2006) was a Major League Baseball pitcher from 1989 to 1994 for the San Francisco Giants, Seattle Mariners, and Cleveland Indians. Swan was a southpaw relief pitcher usually used in the setup role, although occasionally would be called upon to be the closer during the 1991 and 1992 campaigns. On April 17, 2006, Swan was found unconscious after a fall in a stairwell in Lake Havasu City, Arizona.
- Gruffydd Ap Llywelyn Fawr
Gruffydd ap Llywelyn (c. 1200 - March 1, 1244) was the eldest, illegitimate son of Llywelyn the Great ("Llywelyn Fawr"). As a boy, Gruffydd was one of the hostages taken by King John as a pledge for his father's good faith. On his father's death in 1240 he would under Welsh law have been entitled to consideration as his father's successor.