- Thuy Trang
Thuy Trang was a Vietnamese American actress. - Ernie Kovacs
Ernest Edward Kovacs was a creative and innovative entertainer in the early days of television. His on-air antics would influence later TV shows such as "Laugh-In", "the Uncle Floyd Show", "Saturday Night Live" and TV hosts like David Letterman. Born in Trenton, New Jersey, the Hungarian-American Kovacs became a pioneer of television comedy as a distinct medium. Earlier television comedians had mainly continued the comedy styles of vaudeville, … - David Halberstam
David Halberstam was an American Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author known for his early work on the Vietnam War, his work on politics, history, business, media, American culture, and his later sports journalism. - Pete Conrad
Charles "Pete" Conrad, Jr. (June 2, 1930 - July 8, 1999), was an American astronaut and the third man to walk on the moon. He served on Gemini 5 and 11, Apollo 12, and Skylab 2 missions, and may have been scheduled for the Apollo 20 mission, which was cancelled. - Joe Ranft
Joseph Henry "Joe" Ranft was a magician, animation storyboard artist, and voice actor who worked for Pixar and Disney. - Dallas Cook
Ryan Dallas Cook (June 5, 1982 - October 19, 2005), better known as Dallas Cook to his fans, was one of the two trombone players in third-wave ska band Suburban Legends until his death. Dallas attended Huntington Beach High School from 1996-2000 where he was an active member of the high school marching band, of which he attributed his love of music and performing. - Bob Clark
Benjamin "Bob" Clark (August 5 1939 - April 4 2007) was an American actor, director, screenwriter and producer best known for directing and writing the script with Jean Shepherd to the 1983 holiday film "A Christmas Story". His earliest success was the 1982 hit film "Porky's" and he also wrote and directed its sequel "Porky's II: The Next Day". - Steve Susskind
Steve Susskind (October 31942 - January 212005 in Springfield, Massachusetts) was an actor who appeared in numerous small parts in both sitcoms, such as "Frasier, Scrubs", and "NewsRadio". Susskind also performed as a voice actor in both numerous films, such as "Friday the 13th Part 3", "Star Trek V: The Final Frontier", "Monsters, … - James Dean
James Byron Dean (February 8, 1931 - September 30, 1955) was an American film actor. Dean's status as a cultural icon is best embodied in the title of his most celebrated film, "Rebel Without a Cause", in which he starred as troubled high school rebel Jim Stark. The other two roles that defined his star power were as the awkward loner Cal Trask in "East of Eden", and as the surly, racist farmer Jett Rink in "Giant". - Fred Moore
Fred Moore (born September 7, 1911 in Los Angeles, California, USA; died November 23, 1952 in Burbank, California, USA in a road accident), was an American character animator for Walt Disney Productions, best known for being the resident specialist of the animation of Mickey Mouse. Moore is most notable for re-designing the character in 1938 for his landmark role as The Sorcerer's Apprentice in "Fantasia", a look which remain's Mickey's official look to this day. - Steve Howe
Steven Roy Howe (March 10 1958 - April 28 2006) was an American left-handed relief pitcher in Major League Baseball who spent most of his career with the Los Angeles Dodgers and New York Yankees. Born in Pontiac, Michigan, Howe was a two-time All-Big Ten selection at the University of Michigan. He made his Major League debut at the age of 22 in 1980 and would eventually become the National League Rookie of the Year that year, … - Sam Kinison
Samuel "Sam" Burl Kinison (December 8 1953 - April 10 1992) was an American stand-up comedian and actor. Kinison was famous for his extremely raunchy humor and amazingly wild, colorful outfits. A former revival-style preacher, his standup routines were most often characterized by intense, angry ranting and punctuated by his trademark scream. - Jill Banner
Jill Banner (November 8, 1946 - August 7, 1982) was an American film actress, possibly best recalled for her role as Virginia, the "spider baby" in the 1964 cult horror-comedy film "Spider Baby". She also had roles as James Coburn's flower child friend in "The President's Analyst" (1967), and a couple of hippie girls in Jack Webb's television series, "Dragnet". - Rick Griffin
Richard Alden Griffin (June 18, 1944 - August 18, 1991) was an American artist and one of the leading designers of psychedelic posters in the 1960s. He was also a contributor to the underground comix movement whose work appeared regularly in Zap Comix. Griffin was closely identified with the Grateful Dead, having designed some of their best known posters and record jackets. He was also known for his work within the surfing subculture, … - Alan Crosland
Alan Crosland (born August 10, 1894; died July 16, 1936) was an American actor and film director. Born in New York City, New York to a well-to-do family, Alan Crosland attended from Dartmouth College. After graduation he took a job as a writer with the "New York Globe" magazine. Interested in the theatre, he began acting on stage, appearing in several ptroductions with Shakespearian actress Annie Russell (1864-1936). - Wolfgang Reitherman
Wolfgang Reitherman (June 26, 1909 - May 22, 1985), also known and sometimes credited as Woolie Reitherman, was a famed Disney animator and one of Disney's Nine Old Men. Born in Munich, Germany, Reitherman's family moved to America when he was a child. After attending Pasadena Junior College and briefly working as a draftsman for Douglas Aircraft, Reitherman returned to school at the Chouinard Art Institute, graduating in 1933. - Clarence White
Clarence White (June 7, 1944 – July 14, 1973) was a guitar player for Nashville West, The Byrds, Muleskinner, and the Kentucky Colonels. His parents were French-Canadians from New Brunswick, Canada. The father, Eric White, Sr., played fiddle, guitar, banjo and harmonica, and his children, Roland, Eric Jr., Joanne and Clarence took up music at a young age. - Marcus Cassel
Marcus Ray Cassel (January 6, 1983 - November 17, 2006) was an American football player. Born in Long Beach, California, Cassel was a graduate of St. John Bosco High School in Bellflower. Cassel played as a cornerback for the UCLA Bruins from 2002 until 2005 after redshirting in 2001. He started all 12 games as a senior, helping the Bruins to a 10-2 record. Cassel received a degree in psychology from UCLA. Cassel, who was not picked in the NFL Draft, … - Thomas Gomez
Thomas Gomez (July 10, 1905 - June 18, 1971) was an Academy Award-nominated American actor. Born Sabino Tomas Gomez in New York, New York, Gomez began his acting career in theater during the 1920s and was a student of the actor Walter Hampden. He made his first film "Sherlock Holmes and the Voice of Terror" in 1942 and by the end of his career had appeared in sixty films. - Lucien Ballard
Lucien Ballard was an American cinematographer and director of photography. Born in Miami, Oklahoma, Ballard began working on films at Paramount Studios in 1929. He later joked in an interview that it was a three day party at the home of actress Clara Bow that convinced him "this is the business for me". He began his career loading trucks at Paramount, and became a camera assistant, often working for director Josef von Sternberg. - Lexie Bigham
Lexie Darnell Bigham, Jr. was an African-American film and television actor. Bigham appeared in numerous independent films and television series. His prominent roles came in the films "Se7en", "Boyz n the Hood", "South Central", "Dave", "Drop Zone", "Airheads", "Up Close and Personal", and "High School High". Bigham died in a car accident in Los Angeles on December 17, 1995, at the age of 27, … - Keith Godchaux
Keith Godchaux was a musician best known for his tenure in the rock group the Grateful Dead. Keith was born in Seattle, Washington and grew up in Concord, California. He met and married Donna Jean Godchaux in 1970. The couple introduced themselves at a Jerry Garcia concert in October 1971. At the time Keith had been appearing with Dave Mason (formerly of Traffic). He was also known to Betty Cantor-Jackson, a Grateful Dead sound engineer. - Belinda Lee
Belinda Lee (June 15, 1935 - March 12, 1961) was an English actress. Born in Budleigh Salterton, England, Lee was signed to a film contract in 1954 by the Rank Studios after being seen performing as a student of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. Often cast in demure roles in her early career, she was able to demonstrate her dramatic abilities, however she found more constant employment when she began to play "sexpot" roles. - John Burden
John Allen Burden (1862-1942) was a Seventh-day Adventist minister, administrator, and medical missionary instrumental in founding sanitariums, restaurants, and health food factories. At the age of 9, John attended Adventist meetings for the first time and was introduced to the writings of Ellen G. White, which left a life-long impression upon him. Five years later he was baptized, and at the age of 18 (1880) moved with his family to Oregon. - Kazimierz Deyna
Kazimierz Deyna was a Polish football player, one of the best marksmen in the history of Polish football. He began playing youth football in 1958 with the local Włókniarz Starogard Gdański Football Club. He briefly appeared in 1966 for ŁKS Łódź, however his career really got going when he moved to Legia Warszawa. In 1969 and 1970 his team won the Championship of Poland. - Jennifer Syme
Jennifer Maria Syme (December 7 1972 - April 2 2001) was an assistant for the film director David Lynch and worked for him 10 years. She was most famous for being the girlfriend of Keanu Reeves. They dated from 1990 until 2000. She was the daughter of Maria St John and lived in California for 18 years, soon after moving to LA to work for David Lynch - who she worked for 10 years. - Ernest Haller
Ernest Haller, also credited as Ernie B. Haller, (31 May 1896-21 October 1970), was an American cinematographer. Born in Los Angeles, California, Haller joined Biograph Studios as an actor in 1914, then began to freelance as a cinematographer. By 1920, he was a fully-fledged director of photography and worked on some 180 films. Among his notable films are "Captain Blood" (1935), "Dangerous" (1935), "Jezebel" (1938), … - Eric Campbell
Alfred Eric Campbell (26 April1878, Dunoon - 20 December1917, Hollywood) was a Scottish silent film star, who was featured in eleven films starring Charlie Chaplin. He began his career as a stage actor in "fit-ups" (local theatres) in Scotland and Wales, playing in a number of melodramatic roles. It was in one such role that he was discovered by Fred Karno, the famous English impressario, who also discovered Charlie Chaplin and Stan Laurel. - Tu'Ipelehake
Sione ʻUluvalu Ngū Takeivūlai Tukuaho (7 October 1950 — 5 July 2006 (6 July in Tonga)) became the Tui Pelehake, an hereditary title in the kingdom of Tonga, after the death of his father in 1999. As his father was the brother of King Tāufaāhau Tupou IV, he had the right to carry the 'his royal highness' title as well. He had one younger brother and four sisters. - Richard Fariña
Richard George Fariña was an American writer and folksinger. He was a figure in both the counterculture scene of the early- to mid-sixties as well as the budding folk rock scene of the same era. - Trinidad Silva
Actor Trinidad Silva Jr. (30 January 1950 - 31 July 1988) played small supporting roles in a number of films of the 1980s. He is best remembered for playing troublesome Jesus Martinez on the television series Hill Street Blues. Silva was born in Mission, Texas. He died in a car accident involving a collision with a drunk driver in Whittier, California while filming the "Weird Al" Yankovic movie "UHF", which had to be significantly rewritten. - Darrell Russell
Darrell A. Russell (May 27, 1976 - December 15, 2005) was an American football defensive lineman for the Oakland Raiders and Washington Redskins of the NFL who died in a car crash near Los Angeles after being indefinitely banned from the NFL for repeated violations of the league's substance abuse policy. - Michael Hedges
Michael Hedges (December 31,1953 - December 2, 1997) was an American acoustic guitarist born in Enid, Oklahoma. - Melanie Lomax
Melanie E. Lomax, was a civil rights lawyer and former head of the Los Angeles Board of Police Commissioners. Lomax was the daughter of Lucius Lomax, an attorney, and Almena Davis Lomax, a civil rights activist and publisher of the Los Angeles Tribune. A native of Los Angeles, California, she graduated from the University of California, Berkeley, and Loyola Law School in Los Angeles. In the early 1960s, her mother took her to visit the segregated South, … - Tom Capone
Tom Capone Born Luiz Antonio Ferreira Gonçalves, Tom Capone was a Brazilian music producer and guitar player. Born in Brasilia, Brazil, he died in Los Angeles hours after leaving the 2004 Latin Grammy Awards show when his motorcycle collided with a car. He had been nominated for five Latin Grammy awards. - Rushton Moreve
John Russell Morgane, known as Rushton Moreve, was a bass player for the band Steppenwolf. b. ca. 1948, Los Angeles, California; d. July 1, 1981, Los Angeles, California, in a car accident. Moreve joined the band in 1967, having responded to a "Bass Player Wanted" notice posted at Wallich's Music City at Vine and Sunset. According to John Kay, "He played intuitively, a real melodic style rather than just a thump thump with the kick drum. - Lamont Bentley
Artimus Lamont Bentley was an American television and film actor. He is known for his role as Hakeem Campbell on "Moesha", and Crazy K in "Tales from the Hood". Bentley was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and moved to Los Angeles with his mother Loyce, who wished to ignite her career as a singer. Bentley was befriended by author and hotel magnate Christopher Spencer, who was his personal manager during his career on "Moesha". - Tim Layana
Timothy Joseph Layana (born March 2, 1964, in Inglewood, California - died June 26, 1999, in Bakersfield, California) was a Major League Baseball right-handed pitcher. He is an alumnus of Loyola Marymount University. Drafted by the New York Yankees in the 3rd round of the 1986 MLB amateur draft, Layana would make his Major League Baseball debut with the Cincinnati Reds on April 9, 1990, and appear in his final game on July 26, 1993. - Timothy Guy Phelps
Timothy Guy Phelps (December 20 1824 - June 11 1899) was the first president of the Southern Pacific Railroad from 1865 until 1868 when the railroad was purchased by members of The Big Four. Phelps saw the railroad build its first tracks south of San Francisco and became a prominent landowner in the area. - Jerry Edmonton
Jerry Edmonton (October 24 1946-November 28 1993) was the drummer for rock group Steppenwolf. He was born Jerry McCrohan in Oshawa, Ontario in 1946. Both he and his brother Dennis, also known as Mars Bonfire, changed their surnames to Edmonton during the 1960s, when they performed in a group called The Sparrows. John Kay and Goldie McJohn joined this group in Toronto in 1965 and, …
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