- Tip O'Neill
Thomas Phillip "Tip" O'Neill, Jr. (December 9, 1912 – January 5, 1994) was an American politician. O'Neill was an outspoken liberal Democrat and influential member of the U.S. Congress, serving in the House of Representatives for 34 years and representing two congressional districts of Massachusetts. He was the Speaker of the House from 1977 until his retirement in 1987, making him the second longest-serving Speaker in U.S. history after Sam Rayburn. - Harold Wilson
James Harold Wilson, Baron Wilson of Rievaulx, KG, OBE, FRS, PC (11 March 1916 - 24 May 1995) was one of the most prominent British politicians of the 20th century. He emerged as Prime Minister after more General Elections than any other 20th century Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, with majorities of 4 in 1964, 98 in 1966 and 5 in October 1974, and with enough seats to form a minority government with Ulster Unionist Party support in February 1974. - Rod Roddy
Robert Ray "Rod" Roddy (September 28, 1937 - October 27, 2003) was an American radio and television announcer, best known as the announcer for the popular game show "The Price is Right" from 1986 until his death. - Robert Reed
Robert Reed was an American stage and television actor. Born in Highland Park, Illinois, and christened John Robert Rietz, Jr., Reed spent much of his childhood in Oklahoma and later studied Shakespeare in college, where he was a member of Beta Theta Pi fraternity. - Vince Lombardi
Vincent Thomas Lombardi (June 11, 1913 - September 3, 1970) was one of the most successful head coaches in the history of American football. He was the driving force of the Green Bay Packers from 1959 to 1967, leading them in the capture of five NFL championships during his 9 year tenure. Following a one-year retirement from coaching in 1968, he returned as head coach of the Washington Redskins for the 1969 season. He owns a 9-1 record in the post-season. - Mstislav Rostropovich
Mstislav Leopoldovich Rostropovich KBE, (March 27 1927 - April 27 2007), known to close friends as “Slava”, was a cellist and conductor. He was married to the soprano Galina Vishnevskaya. He was one of the greatest cellists of the twentieth century. - Adrian Rogers
Adrian Pierce Rogers, Th.D., was an American pastor, author, and a three-term president of the Southern Baptist Convention (1979-1980 and 1986-1988). Supporters have described him as the apostle Paul of Southern Baptists. Rogers was born in West Palm Beach, Florida, and decided to enter into the Christian ministry at the age of nineteen. Rogers was ordained by Northwood Baptist Church in West Palm Beach. - Howard Keel
Howard Keel, born Harold Clifford Keel (April 13, 1919 - November 7, 2004) was an American actor who starred in many of the classic film musicals of the 1950s. - Charlie Bell
Charles Hamilton Bell AO was an Australian business executive. He served as president of the American-based fast-food chain McDonald's from December 2002, and additionally as chief executive officer from April to November of 2004. Bell was the first non-American to hold that position. Charlie grew up in Sydney, Australia, and attended Marcellin College Randwick. Bell began his career at McDonald's at the age of 15, working at the Kingsford restaurant in Sydney. - Les Bartley
Les Bartley was a renowned lacrosse coach. He led the Buffalo Bandits to all 3 of their championships in the Major Indoor Lacrosse League (MILL), and won 4 more championships with the Toronto Rock in the National Lacrosse League (NLL). - Lillian Board
Lillian Barbara Board MBE (December 13, 1948 - December 26, 1970) was an athlete from Great Britain, who won the silver medal in the 400 metres at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City, and two gold medals at the 1969 European Championships in Athletics in Athens, Greece. One of the finest athletes of her generation, her career was cut short when she developed the colorectal cancer in 1970 that rapidly killed her. - Sam Mills
Samuel Davis Mills, Jr. (June 3, 1959 - April 18, 2005) was an American football linebacker who played twelve seasons in the National Football League for the New Orleans Saints and Carolina Panthers. Sam Mills was born in Neptune, New Jersey and attended high school in Long Branch, New Jersey. Mills was a standout football player at Long Branch High School, which honors him to this day by hanging his high school jersey and his NFL jersey in the school gym. - Carolyn Jones
Carolyn Jones was an American actress, she is best remembered for playing the role of Morticia Addams in the classic TV Series "The Addams Family". Carolyn Sue Jones was born in Amarillo, Texas, she was named after actress Carole Lombard, and after moving to California, joined the Pasadena Playhouse in 1947, learning her craft and acting under the stage name Carolyn Jones. She secured a contract with Paramount Studios and made her first film in 1952. - Ed Karst
Charles Edward "Ed" Karst (ca. 1931 - July 17, 1992) was an attorney and politician remembered for his controversial tenure as the mayor (1969-1973) of Alexandria, the seat of Rapides Parish and the largest city in central Louisiana. In 1991, Karst launched a bizarre "No Party" gubernatorial campaign in which he threatened if elected to fire the members of the Louisiana Supreme Court or, if defeated, as he was, to kill the justices, who had upheld his disbarment. - Mike Botts
Michael Botts was the drummer of 1970s soft rock band Bread and a studio musician. Born in Oakland, California, Botts grew up in nearby Antioch before moving to Sacramento. While in college, he began playing with a band called The Travellers Three and working as a studio musician. Eventually, the group disbanded, but not before recording some songs with producer David Gates. While working with Bill Medley, Botts was invited to join Gates's band, Bread, for its second album. - Webster Anderson
Webster Anderson was a United States Army soldier and a recipient of America's highest military decoration—the Medal of Honor—for his actions in the Vietnam War. Anderson joined the Army from his birth city of Winnsboro, South Carolina, and by October 15 1967 was serving as a Staff Sergeant in Battery A, 2nd Battalion, 320th Field Artillery Regiment, 101st Airborne Infantry Division (Airmobile). - Rudy Perpich
Rudolph "Rudy" George Perpich, Sr. (June 27, 1928 - September 21, 1995) was an American dentist and politician. A member of the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party, he served as the 34th and 36th governor of Minnesota from December 29, 1976 to January 4, 1979, and from January 3, 1983 to January 7, 1991. This was the longest tenure among the state's governors. He was also the state's only Roman Catholic governor and the only one to serve non-consecutive terms. - Brenda Howard
Brenda Howard (December 24, 1946 - June 28, 2005) was a bisexual rights activist and sex-positive feminist, who was an important figure in the modern LGBT rights movement. - Al Casey
Albert Aloysius Casey (September 15, 1915 - September 11, 2005) known professional as Al Casey, was an African American swing guitarist who played with Fats Waller on some of his famous recordings. Casey composed the well known tune "Buck Jumpin" which was recorded by Waller. Casey was born in Louisville, Kentucky to Joseph and Maggie B. Johnson Casey. He joined Thomas Fats Waller's band in the early 1930's, … - Brad McGann
Brad McGann MNZM (22 February, 1964-2 May, 2007), was a New Zealand film director and screenwriter. McGann was born in New Zealand in 1964. He completed a Bachelor of Commerce degree at the University of Otago and in 1988 completed a one-year post-graduate course at the Swinburne School of Film and Television (now a part of the Victorian College of the Arts) in Melbourne. - Joel Siegel
Joel Siegel was an American film critic for the ABC morning news show "Good Morning America" for over 25 years. Born to a Jewish family and raised in Los Angeles, California, he graduated "cum laude" from UCLA. During college, he worked to register black voters in Georgia, and he spoke frequently of having met Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. - Audrey Hepburn
Audrey Hepburn was an Academy Award-winning Anglo-Dutch actress of film and theatre, Broadway stage performer, ballerina, fashion model, and humanitarian. Raised under Nazi rule in Arnhem, Netherlands during World War II, Hepburn trained extensively to become a ballerina, before deciding to pursue acting. She first gained notice for her starring role in the Broadway production of "Gigi" (1951). She was then cast in "Roman Holiday" (1953) as Princess Ann, … - Jack Lemmon
John Uhler Lemmon III (February 8, 1925 - June 27, 2001), better known as Jack Lemmon, was a two-time Academy Award-winning American actor. - Doris Allen
Doris Allen served in the California Assembly from 1982 to 1995 and as Speaker of that body from June 5 to September 14, 1995, before being recalled from office by irate constituents. Born in Kansas City, Missouri, Allen was a Republican, but when Republicans gained a one-vote majority in 1995, threatening longtime Democratic Speaker Willie Brown's hold on power, Brown convinced Allen and another Republican, Brian Setencich, to vote with the Democrats. - Milton Berle
Milton Berle (July 12, 1908 - March 27, 2002) was an Emmy-winning American comedian who was born Milton Berlinger. As the manic host of NBC's "Texaco Star Theater" (1948-1955), he was the first major star of television. He became known as Uncle Miltie to millions during TV's golden age. - Sorrell Booke
Sorrell Booke was a Jewish American actor who performed on stage, screen and television. He is best known for his role as the heavyset, corrupt politician "Boss" Jefferson Davis Hogg in the television show "The Dukes of Hazzard". Born in Buffalo, New York, and fluent in five languages including Japanese, Sorrell Booke attended Columbia and Yale Universities and served in the Korean War as a counterintelligence officer. - Jerry Goldsmith
Jerrald King "Jerry" Goldsmith was a famous and prolific American film score composer from Los Angeles, California. Goldsmith was nominated for eighteen Academy Awards (winning one, for "The Omen"), and also won five Emmy Awards. - Babe Zaharias
Mildred Ella "Babe" Didrikson Zaharias (June 26, 1911 - September 27, 1956) was an American athlete considered to be perhaps the greatest all-around female athlete of all time. She achieved outstanding success in golf, basketball and track and field. - Liu Binyan
Liu Binyan was a Chinese author and journalist, as well as a political dissident. Liu Binyan, whose family hails from Shandong province, was born in 1925, on the fifteenth of the first month of the lunar calendar, in the city of Changchun, Jilin Province. He grew up in Harbin in Heilongjiang province, where he went to school until the ninth grade, after which he had to withdraw for lack of tuition money. - Dante Fascell
Dante Bruno Fascell was an American politician from the state of Florida. - Hans-Jorgen Holman
Hans-Jørgen Holman (also Hans-Jorgen Guttormsen Holman) was a Norwegian-American musicologist and educationalist. Holman spent the larger part of his life teaching and researching at Andrews University, Berrien Springs, Michigan—specializing in Medieval and Renaissance music. - Gerard Murphy
Gerard J. Murphy M.R.I.A was a prolific Irish mathematician. His textbooks are internationally acclaimed, and translated into different languages. He died from cancer in October 2006, at the age of 57. - Eve Arden
Eve Arden was an Academy Award-nominated and Emmy-winning American actress, who established a lengthy career as a supporting and character actor but was best remembered for playing a sardonically engaging high school teacher in the radio and television classic "Our Miss Brooks". - Cleavon Little
Cleavon Jake Little was an American film and theatre actor, best known for his lead role as Bart in the 1974 Mel Brooks comedy "Blazing Saddles" and as the irreverent Dr. Jerry Noland in the early seventies series "Temperatures Rising". Little was born in Chickasha, Oklahoma. He grew up in California and attended college at San Diego State University. - Elizabeth Montgomery
Elizabeth Victoria Montgomery (April 15 1933 - May 18 1995) was an American film and television actress. Montgomery had a career that spanned several decades in film and television. She is best remembered for her famous roles as Samantha Stephens in "Bewitched", as Ellen Harrod in "A Case of Rape" and as Lizzie Borden in The Legend of Lizzie Borden. - Jack Albertson
Jonathen George "Jack" Albertson was an Academy Award, Emmy Award and Tony Award-winning American actor (dating back to Vaudeville), comedian, dancer, singer, and musician, and he performed on stage, radio, movies, and television. - Arthur Conley
Arthur Lee Conley was an American soul singer, best known for the 1967 hit, "Sweet Soul Music". It shot to the number two spot on both the pop and R&B charts, earning Conley the number eleven male artist ranking for 1967. The song paid homage to other soul singers like Lou Rawls, Wilson Pickett and James Brown. - Edward Bronfman
Edward Maurice Bronfman (November 1, 1927 - April 4, 2005) was a Canadian businessman, philanthropist, and member of the Bronfman family. Born in Montreal, Quebec, the son of Allan Bronfman and the nephew of Samuel Bronfman, founder of Seagram, he founded (with his brother, Peter Bronfman) Edper Enterprises (now called Brookfield Asset Management), a conglomerate company which once had an estimated CAD $100 billion in assets under management. - William Woo
William Franklin Woo was the first Chinese American to become editor of a major U.S. daily newspaper. Woo was born in Shanghai to Kyatang Woo and American Elizabeth Hart, who met in the early '30s as graduate students at the University of Missouri School of Journalism. His parents divorced after World War II, and Woo and his mother moved to the United States in 1946 and settled in Kansas City, Missouri with her adoptive father. - Willem van de Sande Bakhuyzen
Willem van de Sande Bakhuyzen (Arnhem, November 13, 1957 - Amsterdam, September 27, 2005) was a Dutch film director. He made his acting debut in the 1986 Academy Award-winning movie "The Assault". His directing debut came in 1990, with the television series "12 steden, 13 ongelukken". He directed 16 movies in his career, many of which received international praise. His movies won 21 awards and were nominated for an additional 11 awards.
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