- Jack Buck
John Francis "Jack" Buck (August 21, 1924 - June 18, 2002), born in Holyoke, Massachusetts, was an American sportscaster, best known for his work announcing Major League Baseball games of the St. Louis Cardinals. Buck received the Ford C. Frick Award from the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1987, and is honored with a star on the St. Louis Walk of Fame. Buck was recognizable by his deep, gravelly voice, penchant for sardonic irony, and his distinctive play-by-play calls. - Eugene McCarthy
Eugene Joseph "Gene" McCarthy was an American politician and a long-time member of the United States Congress from Minnesota. He served in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1949 to 1959 and the U.S. Senate from 1959 to 1971. In the 1968 presidential election, McCarthy unsuccessfully sought the Democratic nomination for president of the United States to succeed incumbent Lyndon B. Johnson on an anti-Vietnam War platform. - Brock Adams
Brockman "Brock" Adams (January 13, 1927 - September 10, 2004) was an American politician and member of Congress. Adams was a Democrat from Washington and served as a U.S. Representative, Senator, and United States Secretary of Transportation before retiring in January 1993. Adams was born in Atlanta, Georgia, and attended the public schools in Portland, Oregon. - Gordon Cooper
Leroy Gordon "Gordo" Cooper, Jr. was an American astronaut. He was one of the original astronauts in Project Mercury, the first manned-space effort by the United States. - Jack Anderson
Jackson Northman Anderson (October 19, 1922 - December 17, 2005) was an American newspaper columnist and is considered one of the fathers of modern investigative journalism. Anderson won the 1972 Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting for his investigation on secret American policy decision-making between the United States and Pakistan during the Indo-Pakistan War of 1971. - Deng Xiaoping
Deng Xiaoping (August 22, 1904 - February 19, 1997) was a prominent Chinese politician and reformist, and the late leader of the Communist Party of China (CCP). Deng never held office as the head of state or the head of government, but served as the "de facto" leader of the People's Republic of China from the 1978 to the early 1990s. He pioneered "Socialism with Chinese characteristics" and Chinese economic reform, also known as the "socialist market economy", … - Melvin Schwartz
Melvin Schwartz was an American physicist. He shared the 1988 Nobel Prize in Physics with Leon M. Lederman and Jack Steinberger for their development of the neutrino beam method and their demonstration of the doublet structure of the leptons through the discovery of the muon neutrino. He grew up in New York City in the Great Depression and went to the Bronx High School of Science. His interest in physics began there at the age of 12. - Frances Shand Kydd
Frances Ruth Shand Kydd (20 January, 1936-3 June, 2004) was the mother of Diana, Princess of Wales. After two failed marriages and the deaths of two children, she devoted her later years to Roman Catholic charity work. Shand Kydd was born The Honourable Frances Ruth Burke-Roche in Park House, on the royal estate at Sandringham, Norfolk. Her father was Edmund Burke Roche, 4th Baron Fermoy, … - William Norris
William Charles Norris (July 14, 1911 near Red Cloud, Nebraska - August 21, 2006) was the pioneering CEO of Control Data Corporation, at one time one of the most powerful and respected computer companies in the world. He is famous for taking on IBM in a head-on fight and winning, as well as being a social activist who used Control Data's expansion in the late 1960s to bring jobs and training to inner-cities and disadvantaged communities. - James Ingo Freed
James Ingo Freed (June 23, 1930-December 15, 2005) was an American architect born in Essen, Germany during the Weimar Republic. His family, which was Jewish, fled to the United States when he was 9 to escape the regime of Nazi Germany. In 1953 Freed received an architectural degree from the Illinois Institute of Technology. He then worked in Chicago and New York, including work with Mies van der Rohe. - Kenneth More
Kenneth Gilbert More CBE (20 September 1914—12 July 1982) was an English cinema, television and theatre actor. He was born in Gerrards Cross, Buckinghamshire and educated at Victoria College in Jersey. The two roles for which he became best known were that of Second World War hero Douglas Bader in "Reach for the Sky" (1956) and that of Young Jolyon in the BBC's landmark 1967 dramatisation of "The Forsyte Saga". - Mo Udall
Morris King Udall (June 15, 1922 - December 12, 1998), better known as Mo, was an American politician who served as a U.S. Representative from Arizona from May 2, 1961 to May 4, 1991. A former professional basketball player with the old National Basketball League Denver Nuggets, noted for his liberal views, Mo Udall was a tall, Lincolnesque figure with a self-deprecating wit and easy manner. - Margaret Bourke-White
Margaret Bourke-White (June 14, 1904 - August 27, 1971) was an American photographer and photojournalist. - Owen Chamberlain
Owen Chamberlain was a prominent American physicist. He shared the Nobel Prize in Physics for 1959 with his collaborator Emilio Segrè for their discovery of the antiproton, a fundamental particle. Born in San Francisco, Chamberlain graduated from Germantown Friends School in Philadelphia in 1937. He studied physics at Dartmouth College (A.B. 1941), where he was a member of Theta Chi Fraternity, and at the University of California, Berkeley. - George Coulouris
George Coulouris was a prominent English film and stage actor. He was born in Salford, Lancashire, brought up both there and in Urmston, Manchester and educated at Manchester Grammar School. He was the son of a Greek immigrant father and English mother. He attended London's Central School of Speech and Drama, in the company of fellow students Laurence Olivier and Peggy Ashcroft. He died on April 25 1989, of heart failure following Parkinson's disease in London. - Whit Bissell
Whitner Nutting Bissell was an American character actor. Born in New York City, Bissell was trained in the Carolina Playmakers, a theatrical organization associated with the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He had a number of roles in Broadway theatre, including the Air Force show "Winged Victory", when he was a private. In a career that began in 1943 with the film "Holy Matrimony", … - Fernand Nault
Fernand Nault, O.C., C.Q. (December 27 1920 - December 26 2006) was a Canadian dancer and choreographer. He was born Fernand-Noël Boissonneault in Montreal. After he abandoned his original career choice to become a priest, he studied dance with Maurice Morenoff in Montreal and went on to study in New York City, London and Paris. In 1944, Nault was hired by the American Ballet Theater at an audition in Montreal. - Lawrence Patrick
Lawrence Patrick may well be considered the one of the fathers of the crash test dummy. Between 1960 and 1975, while a biomechanics professor at Detroit's Wayne State University, Patrick allowed himself to be subject to rocket sled rides, crushing blows to the head and body, and other forms of physical abuse in an effort to develop a body of data on how the human body responded in a vehicle accident. One of his students, Harold Mertz, went on to develop Hybrid III, … - George Roy Hill
George Roy Hill was an Academy Award winning American film director. Born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, he studied music at Yale University under notable composer Paul Hindemith, graduating in 1943. While there, he was a member of Scroll and Key Society. Hill served in the United States Marine Corps as a cargo pilot during World War II. After the war, he worked as a newspaper reporter in Texas, then attended Trinity College, … - Mary Jackson
Mary Jackson was an American actress. She is best known for the role of the lovelorn "Miss Emily Baldwin" in The Waltons and was the original choice to play "Alice Horton" in The Days of Our Lives. She in fact played the part in the unaired pilot although the role was subsequently taken by Frances Reid. She was born in Milford, Michigan and earned a bachelor's degree from West Michigan University in 1932. - Richard Stahl
Richard Stahl was an American actor who mostly appeared in film and TV comedies. Born in Detroit, he studied at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York. In the 50's he was appearing in Off-Broadway productions, where he met his wife to be Kathryn. In the 1960s, he relocated to San Francisco and became a member of an improvisational comedy group, The Committee. Some of Stahl's best known film credits include "Five Easy Pieces", "High Anxiety", … - Chester Himes
Chester Bomar Himes (July 29, 1909 - November 12, 1984) was a famous African American writer. His works include "If He Hollers Let Him Go" and a series of Harlem Detective novels. - Leonid Shamkovich
Leonid Aleksandrovich Shamkovich (Russian: Леони́д Алекса́ндрович Шамко́вич, June 1, 1923 - April 22, 2005) was a chess Grandmaster. He was born in a Jewish family in Rostov-on-Don in Russia. He became a Grandmaster in 1965 and won several tournaments, with his best victory coming at Sochi in 1967, where he tied for first place with Nikolai Krogius, Vladimir Simagin, Boris Spassky and Alexander Zaitsev. - Stefan Wolpe
Stefan Wolpe was a German-born composer. Wolpe was born in Berlin. He attended the Berlin Conservatory from the age of fourteen, attended the Berlin Hochschule für Musik 1920-1921. He studied composition under Franz Schreker and was also a pupil of Ferruccio Busoni. He also studied at the Bauhaus and met some of the dadaists, setting Kurt Schwitters' poem "Anna Blume" to music. The music Wolpe was writing between 1929 and 1933 was atonal, … - Jeffrey Hamm
Edward Jeffrey Hamm (15 September, 1915 - 4 May, 1992) was a leading British Fascist and supporter of Oswald Mosley. Born in Ebbw Vale, Wales, he came into contact with the British Union of Fascists during a family trip to London and joined the movement in 1935, when he relocated to London. Something of a minor player in the BUF due to his youth, he moved to the Falkland Islands in 1939 to work as a teacher. - Terry-Thomas
Terry-Thomas (July 14, 1911 - January 8, 1990) was a distinctive English comic actor. He was famous for his portrayal of disreputable members of the upper classes, especially cads, the trademark gap in his front teeth, cigarette holder, dressing gown, and such catch-phrases as "You're an absolute shower!" and "Good show!" - Joe Pasternak
Joseph Pasternak was a Hungarian-born American film director in Hollywood. Born in Szilágysomlyó, Austria-Hungary (now Şimleu Silvaniei, Romania), Pasternak was a successful film producer in Germany and Austria by the time he was twenty-eight years old. Following the rise of the Nazi party to power, the Jewish Pasternak emigrated to the United States in 1934 bringing with him a wealth of experience while still a very young man. - Herta Ware
Herta Ware (June 9, 1917 - August 15, 2005) was an American actress and political activist. Ware was born in Wilmington, Delaware to an actor father and musician mother. The granddaughter of socialists and labor union activists, Ware made her Broadway debut in "Let Freedom Ring", co-starring Will Geer, whom she later married. The couple appeared together in other New York plays as well, including "Bury the Dead" (1936), "Prelude" (1936), … - Edward Winter
Edward Dean Winter was an American actor. Born in Ventura, California, Winter is perhaps most well-known for his role as the Military Intelligence officer, Lieutenant Colonel/Colonel Flagg on the television series "M*A*S*H". Although Winter only appeared in six episodes as Flagg (seven if you count his first appearance as Capt. Halloran, who might have been Flagg under an alias) during the show's 11-year run, … - Maxi Herber
Maxi Herber was a German figure skater who became Olympic pair champion with Ernst Baier at the 1936 Winter Olympics. The duo revolutionized pair skating, becoming the first team to perform jumps side by side. Born in Munich, Herber was also an accomplished single skater, winning the German nationals three times, from 1933 to 1935. She skated for the Münchner EV (Munich EV) club. Herber and Baier married after their skating career ended in 1940. They had 3 children. - Michael Redgrave
Sir Michael Scudamore Redgrave CBE (March 20, 1908—March 21, 1985) was an English actor of great renown. Redgrave was born in Bristol, the son of the silent film actor Roy Redgrave and the actress Margaret Scudamore. He never knew his father, who left when Michael was only six months old, to pursue a career in Australia. His mother remarried Captain James Anderson, a wealthy tea planter, but he hated his step-father. - Harry Dalton
Harry I. Dalton (August 23 1928 - October 23 2005) was an American front-office executive in Major League Baseball. He served as general manager of three American League teams, the Baltimore Orioles (1966-71), California Angels (1972-77) and Milwaukee Brewers (1978-91), and was a principal architect of the Orioles' dynasty of 1966-74 as well as the only AL championship the Brewers ever won (1982). - Rudy Larusso
Rudolph "Rudy" A. LaRusso (born November 11, 1937, in Brooklyn, New York - died July 10, 2004, in Los Angeles, California) was an American 6' 7" 5-time National Basketball Association All-Star. He attended James Madison High School in Brooklyn. LaRusso, whose mother was Jewish, won All-City honors. He was taken by the Minneapolis Lakers (now the Los Angeles Lakers) in the 2nd round of the 1959 NBA Draft out of Dartmouth College, … - Howard Thomas Markey
Howard Thomas Markey was an American jurist who served as the first chief judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. He is often credited with establishing that court's renown and competence in intellectual property law. Markey was born in Chicago, Illinois to Thomas Joseph and Vera Marie (Dryden) Markey. He served in the U.S. Army Air Forces during World War II as a test pilot, flying P-38s and P-59 jets in extreme cold-weather. - Norman Panama
Norman Panama (21 April, 1914 - 13 January, 2003) was an American screenwriter and film director born in Chicago, Illinois. He collaborated with a former schoolfriend, Melvin Frank to form a writing partnership which endured for 3 decades. He also wrote gags for comedians such as Bob Hope and Groucho Marx. The most famous films he directed were "Li'l Abner" (1959), the Danny Kaye film "The Court Jester" (1956), … - James Counsilman
James Edward "Doc" Counsilman (born December 28, 1920 in Birmingham, Alabama - died January 4, 2004 in Bloomington, Indiana) was a swimming coach for Indiana University and the United States Olympic team. At Indiana, he coached the men's team to six consecutive NCAA Men's Swimming and Diving Championships from 1968 to 1973. At the 1964 and 1976 Summer Olympics, his swimmers won 21 of 24 gold medals. In 1979, he became the oldest person to swim the English Channel. - Li Yaotang
Li Yaotang (Styled Feigan;) (November 25, 1904 - October 17, 2005) is considered to be one of the most important and widely-read Chinese writers of the twentieth century. He wrote under the pen name of Ba Jin (also Pa Chin), taking his pseudonym from Russian anarchists Bakunin and Kropotkin. Ba Jin started composing his first works in the late 1920s. - Richard Edmund Lyng
Richard Edmund Lyng (June 29, 1918-February 1, 2003) was a U.S. administrator. A Republican, he served as the Secretary of Agriculture between 1986 and 1989. Lyng was born in San Francisco, California, and served in the U.S. Army during World War II. Fellow soldiers, impressed with Lyng's rich baritone voice, urged him to explore a music career after the war, which he did, scoring a series of regional hits with a do-wop quartet called the Ding-a-Lyngs. - Herman Goldstine
Herman Heine Goldstine (September 13, 1913 - June 16, 2004), mathematician, computer scientist and scientific administrator, was a one of the original developers of ENIAC, the first of the modern electronic digital computers. - Frank Annunzio
Frank Annunzio was an American politician from Chicago, Illinois. Annunzio, an Italian-American was born in Chicago, where he remained for his entire childhood and much of his adult life. He attended Crane Technical High School and DePaul University. He then had careers and high school teacher and labor leader of the United Steelworkers of America. Under governor Adlai Stevenson II, he served as the state's Secretary of Labor from 1949 to 1952.
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