- Doris Troy
Doris Troy was an R&B singer, known to her many fans as "Mama Soul." She was born Doris Payne in The Bronx, the daughter of a Barbadian Pentecostal minister. Her parents disapproved of "subversive" forms of music like rhythm & blues, so she cut her teeth singing in her father's choir. She was working as an usherette at the Apollo where she was discovered by the 'Godfather of Soul', James Brown. Troy worked with Solomon Burke, The Drifters, Cissy Houston, … - Walter Brennan
Walter Brennan was a three-time Academy Award winning American actor. He is remembered as one of the premier character actors in motion picture history. - Bobby Helms
Bobby Helms was an American singer who enjoyed his peak success in 1957. - Johnny Carson
John William "Johnny" Carson (October 23, 1925 - January 23,2005) was an American actor, comedian and writer best known for his iconic status as the host of "The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson". - Richard Popkin
Richard H. Popkin (December 27, 1923-April 14, 2005) was one of the most influential historians of philosophy of the second half of the twentieth century. His 1960 work "The History of Scepticism from Erasmus to Descartes" introduced many historians to a previously unrecognised influence on Western thought in the seventeenth century, the Pyrrhonian Scepticism of Sextus Empiricus. - Pat Nixon
Thelma Catherine (Pat) Ryan Nixon (March 16, 1912 - June 22, 1993) was the wife of former President Richard Nixon and the First Lady of the United States of America from 1969 to 1974. She was commonly known as Pat Nixon. - Dean Martin
Dean Martin (born Dino Paul Crocetti, June 7, 1917 - December 25, 1995) was an Italian American singer, film actor, and comedian. He was one of the most famous music artists in the 1950s and 1960s. His hit singles included songs such as "Memories Are Made Of This", "That's Amore", "Everybody Loves Somebody", "Mambo Italiano", "Sway", "Volare", and "The Beast and the Harlot". Martin received a gold record in 2004 for his fastest-selling album ever, … - Dick York
Dick York (September 4, 1928 - February 20, 1992) was an American actor in radio, Broadway stage, and television. Born Richard Allen York in Fort Wayne, Indiana, York grew up in Chicago, where a Catholic nun first recognized his vocal promise. He began his career at age 15 as the star of the CBS radio program "That Brewster Boy". He also appeared in hundreds of other radio shows and instructional films before heading to New York City, … - David K. Wyatt
David K. Wyatt (September 21 1937 - November 15 2006) was a highly acclaimed American historian, working on Southeast Asian topics, especially Thailand. His book "Thailand. A Short History" has become the authority on Thai history in the English language. Born in Fitchburg, Massachusetts in 1937, he grew up in Iowa. Wyatt studied philosophy at Harvard University, where he received a bachelor's degree in 1959. - Spike Jones
Lindley Armstrong "Spike" Jones was a popular musician and bandleader specializing in performing satirical arrangements of popular songs. Ballads and classical works receiving the Jones treatment would be punctuated with gunshots, whistles, cowbells, and ridiculous vocals. Through the 1940s and early 1950s, the band toured the USA and Canada under the title, "The Musical Depreciation Revue." - Vincent Price
Vincent Leonard Price Jr. (May 27, 1911 - October 25, 1993) was an American film actor. He is well remembered for his distinctive voice and serio-comic attitude in a series of distinctive horror films, his tall 6' 4" (1.93 m) stature and polished urbane manner made him something of an American counterpart to the older Boris Karloff. - Richard Arlen
Richard Arlen was an American actor. Born Cornelius Richard Van Mattimore in Charlottesville, Virginia, he served in the Royal Canadian Air Force during World War I. At war's end, he went to Los Angeles where he found work as an unskilled laborer. By a stroke of pure luck, he was given an opportunity to act, appearing at first in silent films before making the transition to talkies. - Robert Mitchum
Robert Charles Durman Mitchum (August 6, 1917 - July 1, 1997) was an American film actor and singer. Mitchum is largely remembered for his starring roles in several major works of the "film noir" style, and is considered a forerunner of the anti-heroes prevalent in film during the 1950s and '60s. - Gene Tierney
Gene Tierney (November 19, 1920 - November 6, 1991) was an American Film and Stage actress. Acclaimed as one of the most beautiful women of the 20th century, she is probably best-remembered for her performance in the title role of "Laura" (1944) and her Academy Award-nominated performance for Best Actress in "Leave Her to Heaven" (1945). - Freddie Bartholomew
Freddie Bartholomew (March 28, 1924 - January 23, 1992) was a British child actor, popular in 1930s Hollywood films. Born Frederick Llewellyn March in Dublin, Bartholomew was abandoned by his parents while a baby, and was raised in London by his aunt, whose name he took. While visiting the United States, Bartholomew was reportedly seen by film producer David O. Selznick who was soon to film Charles Dickens' "David Copperfield" (1935). - Herb Edelman
Herbert Edelman (5 November 1933, Brooklyn, New York - 21 July 1996, Woodland Hills, California) was an American actor. He was twice-nominated for an Emmy for his work on TV. - Michael Rennie
Michael Rennie (25 August1909-10 June1971) was an English film, television and stage actor best known for his starring role as the benevolent space visitor Klaatu in the 1951 classic science fiction film "The Day the Earth Stood Still". - Willie Sutton
William "Willie" Sutton (June 30, 1901 - November 2, 1980) was a prolific U.S. bank robber. For his talent at executing robberies in disguises, he gained two nicknames, "Willie the Actor" and "Slick Willie." When not disguised, Sutton was an immaculate dresser. - Bill Fraser
William Simpson "Bill" Fraser (b. 5 June 1908, Perth, Scotland - d. 9 September 1987) was a Scottish comedic and straight character actor on the British screen for many years. Bill Fraser was educated at Strathallan School and afterwards began his career in a bank but moved onto an acting career. Before World War II he ran the Connaught Theatre in Worthing. He was called up where he served in a Royal Air Force Special Liaison Unit, reaching the rank of Flight Lieutenant. - Frank Gorshin
Frank Gorshin (April 5, 1933 -) was an American actor and comedian from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. He was best known as an impressionist, with many notable guest appearances on the "Ed Sullivan Show" and on "The Tonight Show" with host Steve Allen. His most famous role was The Riddler in the "Batman" live action television series. - Del Close
Del Close, along with Keith Johnstone and Viola Spolin, is considered one of the premier influences on modern improvisational theater. An actor, improviser, writer, and teacher, Close had a prolific career, appearing in a number of films and television shows. He was a co-author of the book "Truth in Comedy" along with partner Charna Halpern, … - Norman Rockwell
Norman Percevel Rockwell (February 3, 1894 - November 8, 1978) was a 20th century American painter. His works enjoy a broad popular appeal in the United States, where Rockwell is most famous for the cover illustrations of everyday life scenarios he created for "The Saturday Evening Post" magazine over more than four decades. - Boris Karloff
Boris Karloff (born William Henry Pratt) (London, November 23, 1887 - February 2, 1969) was an English actor, who immigrated to Canada in the 1910s, best known for his roles in horror films and the creation of Frankenstein's monster in 1931's "Frankenstein". His popularity following "Frankenstein" in the early 1930s was such that for a brief time he was billed simply as "Karloff" or, on some movie posters, "Karloff the Uncanny". - T. S. Eliot
Thomas Stearns Eliot, OM (September 26 1888 – January 4 1965), was a poet, dramatist and literary critic. He received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1948. He wrote the poems "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock", "The Waste Land", "The Hollow Men", "Ash Wednesday", and "Four Quartets"; the plays "Murder in the Cathedral" and "The Cocktail Party"; and the essay "Tradition and the Individual Talent". - Allan Sherman
Allan Sherman, November 30, 1924 – November 20, 1973, was an American musician, parodist, satirist, and television producer. - Guy Madison
Guy Madison was an American film and television actor. - Arthur Godfrey
Arthur Morton Godfrey (August 31 1903 - March 16 1983) was an American radio and television broadcaster and entertainer. Arthur Godfrey was born in New York City in 1903. His mother, Kathryn Morton Godfrey, was from a well-to-do New York family which disapproved of her marriage to an older Englishman, Arthur Hanbury Godfrey. His father was a sportswriter and considered an expert on surrey and hackney horses, but the advent of the automobile devastated the family's finances. - Nan Kempner
Nan Kempner (July 24 1930 - July 3 2005) was a New York City socialite, famous for dominating society events, shopping, charity work and fashion. An only child from a wealthy San Francisco family, Nan Field Schlessinger attended Connecticut College and met Thomas 'Tommy' Kempner in the early 1950's. They married soon after and had three children. After living in London for a short time the Kempners moved to New York City, … - Robert A. Heinlein
Robert Anson Heinlein (July 7, 1907 - May 8, 1988) was one of the most popular, influential, and controversial authors of "hard" science fiction. He set a high standard for science and engineering plausibility, and helped to raise the genre's standards of literary quality. He was the first writer to break into mainstream general magazines such as "The Saturday Evening Post" in the late 1940s with unvarnished science fiction. - Paulette Goddard
Paulette Goddard (June 3, 1910 - April 23, 1990), an Oscar-nominated American film and theatre actress. A former child fashion model and in several Broadway productions as Ziegfeld Girl, she was a major star of the Paramount Studio in the 1940s. Her exceptional beauty and fame led to several marriages to notable men, including Charlie Chaplin, Burgess Meredith, and Erich Maria Remarque, although she never had any children. - Rory Calhoun
Rory Calhoun (born Francis Timothy McCown Durgin on August 8, 1922 - April 28, 1999) was born in Los Angeles, California. As an actor he starred in more than eighty motion pictures and a large number of television episodes. For his contribution to the motion picture industry, Calhoun has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 7007 Hollywood Blvd. and a second star at 1750 Vine Street for his work in television. - Len Murray
Lionel Murray, Baron Murray of Epping Forest, OBE PC, known as Len Murray (August 2, 1922 - May 20, 2004) was a British Labour politician and union leader. He was a Trades Union Congress (TUC) employee from 1947, and became assistant general secretary in 1969. He was made General Secretary (leader) of the Trades Union Congress in 1973, and led the group during the time of the Winter of Discontent, and of confrontations with Margaret Thatcher's government. - Ralph Story
Ralph Story, originally Ralph Bernard Snyder was an American television and radio personality. He was best remembered as the host of "The 64,000 Dollar Challenge", a spin off of the game show "The 64,000 Dollar Question", from 1956 until 1958. - Philo Farnsworth
Philo Taylor Farnsworth was an American inventor. He is best known for inventing the first completely electronic television. In particular, he was the first to make a working electronic image pickup device (video camera tube), and the first to demonstrate an all-electronic television system to the public. In his later life, Farnsworth also invented a small nuclear fusion device known as a fusor. - Robert Q. Lewis
Robert Q. Lewis was an American radio and television personality, game show host, and actor. He was born in New York City, and educated at the University of Michigan. - Esther Wong
Esther Wong was born August 13, 1917 in Shanghai, China, and emigrated to the U.S. in 1949. She was a punk rock and New Wave music promoter. She got started as the owner of "Madame Wong's" clubs, and when Polynesian bands weren't filling her restaurants, she decided to try booking rock bands in 1978. Notable bands that she showcased included a "Who's who" of rock music. They included The Knack, The Police, The Motels, The Go-Gos, Oingo Boingo, The Kempsters and The Ramones. - Arthur L. Benton
Arthur Lester Benton, Ph.D., (October 16, 1909 - December 27, 2006) was a neuropsychologist and Emeritus Professor of Neurology and Psychology at the University of Iowa. He received his A.B. from Oberlin College in 1931, his A.M. from Oberlin College in 1933 and his Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1935. He established a Neuropsychology Laboratory in the Neurology Department at the University of Iowa School of Medicine in the 1940s; the lab remains and now bears his name. - Lionel Giroux
Lionel Giroux (1928 - December 4, 1995) was a Canadian midget wrestler who is best known for his appearance at WrestleMania III for the World Wrestling Federation under the stage name Little Beaver. - William Hickey
William Edward Hickey (September 19, 1927 - June 29, 1997) was an American actor. He was known for his Oscar-nominated role as Don Corrado Prizzi in the John Huston 1985 film "Prizzi's Honor". Hickey was born in Brooklyn to Nora and Edward Hickey, who were of Irish descent. He had an older sister, Dorothy Finn. Hickey began acting in radio in 1938. Hickey enjoyed a long and successful career in film, television and theater. In addition to his work as an actor, … - Henry Corden
Henry Corden (January 6, 1920 - May 19, 2005) was an American actor and voice artist best-known for taking over the role of Fred Flintstone on "The Flintstones" after Alan Reed died in 1977. His debut as Fred's new voice was on the syndicated "Fred Flintstone and Friends" in 1977. (He also provided the singing voice for Reed in the 1966 theatrical film, "The Man Called Flintstone"). Corden gave his voice to a number of other Hanna-Barbara productions, …
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