- Diane Pretty
Diane Pretty (November 15, 1958 - May 11, 2002) was a British woman from Luton, Bedfordshire, who became the focus of a debate about assisted dying in Britain during the early part of the 21st Century. Diane Pretty was diagnosed with Motor Neurone Disease, and when this disease became advanced such that she was unable to move or communicate easily, she wished to end her life, with assistance from her husband. - Eddie Adams
Eddie Adams was an American photographer noted for portraits of celebrities and politicians and as a photojournalist having covered 13 wars. It was while covering the Vietnam War for the Associated Press that he took his best-known photograph - the picture of police chief General Nguyen Ngoc Loan executing a Vietcong prisoner, Nguyen Van Lem, on a Saigon street, on February 1, 1968, during the opening stages of the Tet Offensive. - Jacob K. Javits
Jacob Koppel "Jack" Javits (May 18, 1904 - March 7, 1986) was a liberal Republican New York politician originally allied with Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller, fellow U.S. Senators Irving Ives and Kenneth Keating, and Mayor John V. Lindsay. Javits graduated from New York University and its law school in Manhattan. He was admitted to the bar in 1927. During World War II, he was a lieutenant colonel in the United States Army. - Neil Cherry
Neil Cherry (29 September 1946 - 24 May 2003) was a New Zealand environmental scientist. Cherry specialised most recently in the effects of electromagnetic radiation on human health, following his earlier work in meteorology and wind energy. He was also a Councillor on the Canterbury Regional Council, and was awarded the New Zealand Order of Merit in 2002 for his outstanding service to environmental science, local government and the community. - Lou Gehrig
Henry Louis ("Lou") Gehrig, born Ludwig Heinrich Gehrig, was an American baseball player in the first half of the twentieth century. He set several Major League and American League records and was voted the greatest first baseman of all time by the Baseball Writers' Association. His record for most career grand slam home runs (23) still stands today. - Derek Bailey
Derek Bailey was an English avant-garde guitarist and leading figure in the free improvisation movement. - Craig Cline
Craig Cline (1951-2006) served as an editorial director of Seybold Publications, conference director of the Seybold Seminars and vice president of content development for the Seminars. He began with Seybold in the mid 1980s when the Seminars were the major conference for the growing electronic publishing industry. - Richard Morgan
Richard Morgan (b. Hobart, Tasmania, 12 August 1958, d. 23 December 2006) was an Australian actor. He was most famous for playing the long-running role of Terry Sullivan in soap opera "The Sullivans". Morgan started his acting career appearing in guest roles in Crawford Productions series "Homicide" (in 1975) and "Solo One" (1976). After roles in the feature films "The Devil's Playground" and "Break of Day" (both 1976), … - Otis Chandler
Otis Chandler (November 23 1927-February 27 2006) was best known as the publisher of the "Los Angeles Times" between 1960 and 1980. His family had owned the newspaper since Harrison Gray Otis founded the company in 1882. He was the son of Norman Chandler, his predecessor as publisher, and Dorothy Buffum Chandler, a patron of the arts and a Regent of the University of California. After attending his parents' alma mater, Stanford University, … - Payao Poontarat
Payao Poontarat (October 18 1957 - August 13 2006) was a Thai boxer who, at the age of 18, won the bronze medal in the men's Light flyweight (48 kg) category at the 1976 Summer Olympics, the first Olympic medal ever won by a Thai sportsman. He later turned professional, and became WBC world champion. On 5 July 1984 he lost the title to Jiro Watanabe, and then the rematch on 29 November the same year. - Stephen Heywood
Stephen Heywood (April 13 1969 - November 26 2006) was diagnosed with ALS in 1998, aged 29. Stephen Heywood was a catalyst in the ALS research field, driving scientists and leaders to find effective treatments for ALS patients. He is survived by his wife, Wendy (Stacy) Heywood and son, Alexander Stephen Heywood; two brothers, James Heywood, d'Arbeloff founding director of ALS Therapy Development Institute, and Benjamin Heywood, … - Hans Vonk
Hans Vonk (June 18, 1942 - August 29, 2004) was a Dutch conductor, born in Amsterdam, the son of Franciscus Cornelis Vonk and Wilhemina Vonk. His father was a violinist in the Concertgebouw Orchestra, and died when Vonk was age 3. Vonk studied music at the Amsterdam Conservatory and law at Amsterdam University. During this time, he made a living from gigs as a jazz pianist. He later studied conducting with Hermann Scherchen and Franco Ferrara. - Dennis Day
Dennis Day, born Owen Patrick Eugene McNulty, was an Irish-American singer and radio and television personality. Day was born and raised in New York City, the son of Irish immigrants. His father was a stationary engineer. Day graduated from St. Patrick's Cathedral High School, and attended Manhattan College, where he sang in the glee club. Day appeared for the first time on Jack Benny's radio show on October 8, 1939, taking the place of another famed tenor, … - Pro Hart
Kevin Charles "Pro" Hart, MBE (May 30 1928 – March 28, 2006), born in Broken Hill, New South Wales, was considered the father of the Australian Outback painting movement and his works are widely admired for capturing the true spirit of the outback. He was nicknamed "Professor" (hence "Pro") during his younger days, when he was known as an inventor. Hart worked in the Broken Hill mines as a young man and, although he began painting at the age of seven, … - Scott Freeman
Scott John Freeman (June 9, 1954 - July 23, 2004) was an American economist. He received his undergraduate degree from the University of Wisconsin and earned his Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota in 1983. Between undergraduate and graduate school he worked for the Peace Corps in Africa. Scott Freeman started his professional academic career at Boston College and was subsequently affiliated with the University of Western Ontario, the University of California, … - David Niven
David Niven was an Academy Award-winning British actor. - Peter Crill
Sir Peter Leslie Crill KBE (February 1, 1925 – October 3, 2005) was Bailiff of Jersey from 1986 to 1995. As a young man, he was one of the few people who successfully escaped from German-occupied Jersey during the Second World War. He later followed a legal career, and entered politics, being elected to the States of Jersey. He gave up politics to become a Crown Officer, rising to become Deputy Bailiff and then succeeded Sir Frank Ereaut as Bailiff of Jersey in 1986. - Joe McGuff
Joseph T. McGuff was an American journalist, author, and newspaper editor. Born in Tulsa, Oklahoma, he attended Marquette University and served briefly in the United States Army before being discharged due to asthma. After first working for the "Tulsa World", he joined the staff of "The Kansas City Star" in 1948. He became sports editor in 1966 and was named editor of the "Star" in 1986. After the Kansas City Athletics departed for Oakland, … - Jack B. Sowards
Jack B. Sowards (March 181929-July 82007) was an American screenwriter best known to genre fans for the story and screenplay of the 1982 Star Trek installment, "Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan". A native of Texarkana, Arkansas, Jack B. Sowards, had numerous writing credits which extended from episodes of "The Bold Ones: The Lawyers" in 1969 to "B. L. Stryker" in 1990. - Leonard Cheshire
Group Captain Geoffrey Leonard Cheshire, Baron Cheshire, VC, OM, DSO and Two Bars, DFC (7 September 1917 – 31 July 1992) was a British RAF pilot during the Second World War who received the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces. After the war he became a charity worker, … - Matt Hazeltine
Matthew Emory Hazeltine, Jr. is a former American football linebacker who played fourteen seasons in the National Football League with the San Francisco 49ers. Hazeltine was a 1951 graduate of Tamalpais High School in Mill Valley, California, and was a star player there and at the University of California, Berkeley. He was elected to the College Football Hall of Fame in 1989. While with the 40ers, Hazeltine was selected for the Pro Bowl twice, in 1963 and 1965. - Catfish Hunter
James Augustus "Catfish" Hunter, son of Abbott and Millie Hunter, was a prolific Major League Baseball right-handed starting pitcher between 1965 and 1979. Hunter died in Hertford, North Carolina -- more specifically Bear Swamp, in Perquimans County, NC, where he was born. He had been suffering from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (also known as Lou Gehrig's Disease) at the time. He was 53 years old. - Bruce Edwards
Bruce Edwards (November 16, 1954 - April 8, 2004) was a long-time caddie for Hall of Fame golfer Tom Watson. Edwards began caddying for Watson in 1973 and worked with him until 1989. Edwards left to assist Greg Norman but returned to Watson's side in 1992 and stayed until 2003. That year, he was diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (commonly known as Lou Gehrig's disease) but continued to caddie for Watson until the strain became too much. - Harry Browne
Harry Browne was an American libertarian writer, politician, and free-market investment analyst. He was a U.S. Presidential candidate for the Libertarian Party in 1996 and 2000. - Hans Keller
Hans Keller (1919-1985) was an Austrian-born British musician and writer who made significant contributions to musicology and music criticism, and invented the method of 'Wordless Functional Analysis' (in which a work is analysed in musical sound alone, without any words being heard or read). Keller was born into a well-to-do and culturally well-connected Jewish family in Vienna, and as a boy was taught by the same Oskar Adler who had, decades earlier, … - Norman Kay
Norman Kay was a British composer. Kay is most famous for his work on "Doctor Who". He provided incidental music for the very first serial, "An Unearthly Child", and went on to contribute music for "The Keys of Marinus" and "The Sensorites", two other stories of the programme's first season (starring William Hartnell). - Thomas Hetherington
Major Sir Thomas Chalmers Hetherington, KCB, CBE, QC (18 September 1926 - 28 March 2007), better known as Sir Tony Hetherington, was a British barrister. He was Director of Public Prosecutions of England and Wales from 1977 to 1987, and was the first head of the Crown Prosecution Service for the year after it was founded in 1986. Hetherington was born in Dumfriesshire, Scotland. His father was a doctor. - John O'Leary
John O'Leary (1947-2 April 2005) served as mayor of Portland, Maine, and as U.S. ambassador to Chile under President Bill Clinton. - Roy Walford
Roy Lee Walford, M. D. was a pioneer in the field of life extension. He died at age 79 of respiratory failure as a complication of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (commonly known as Lou Gehrig’s Disease). He was a leading advocate of calorie restriction as a method of life extension and health improvement. - Charles Mingus
Charles Mingus, also known as Charlie Mingus, was an American jazz bassist, composer, bandleader, and occasional pianist. He was also known for his activism against racial injustice. Mingus is highly ranked among the composers and performers of jazz, and he recorded many highly regarded albums. Dozens of musicians passed through his bands and later went on to impressive careers. - Ed Sadowski
Edward Roman Sadowski (January 19, 1931 - November 6, 1993) was a catcher in Major League Baseball who played from 1960 through 1966 for the Boston Red Sox (1960), Los Angeles Angels (1961-63) and Atlanta Braves (1966). Sadowski batted and threw right handed. He debuted on April 20, 1960 and played his final game on October, 1966. He is the brother of Bob Sadowski and Ted Sadowski, and uncle of Jim Sadowski. - George Yardley
George Harry Yardley III (November 3, 1928 in Hollywood, California - August 12, 2004 in Newport Beach, California), best known as simply George Yardley, was an NBA Hall of Fame basketball player. He was the first player in history to score 2,000 points in one season, breaking the 1,932-point record held by fellow Hall of Famer George Mikan. - Konrad Spindler
Konrad Spindler was a world known professor at the institute of early history in Innsbruck, Austria. He became famous for first examining Ötzi the Iceman, the oldest known mummy, in Austria at a local morgue in 1991. Mr. Spindler was found dead in April 2005 at the age of 66 of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, a pre-existing chronic condition. The media have speculated that he was a victim of "Ötzi's curse". - Scott Brazil
Scott Brazil (born 12 May 1955, died 17 April 2006) was an Emmy and Golden Globe winning American television producer and director. - Kevin Hughes
Kevin Michael Hughes (15 December 1952 - 16 July 2006) was a Labour Party politician in the United Kingdom. He was Member of Parliament (MP) for Doncaster North from 1992 to 2005. He served as a government whip, and was previously a coal miner and official for the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM). - Ian Trethowan
Sir Ian Trethowan (October 20 1922 - December 12 1990) was Director-General of the BBC from October 1 1977 to July 31 1982, having previously been Managing Director of BBC Network Radio from 1970 to 1976. He had earlier been a presenter for Independent Television News in the late 1950s and early 1960s, before moving to the BBC around 1963. - Skipper Bowles
Hargrove "Skipper" Bowles, Jr. was an influential Democratic politician and businessman, based in Greensboro, North Carolina. Bowles was born in Monroe, North Carolina. In the early 1960s Bowles served as Governor Terry Sanford's Secretary of Conservation and Development, a post which would later become known as Secretary of Commerce. Afterwards, Bowles was elected to one term in the North Carolina House of Representatives and two terms in the North Carolina Senate. - Winthrop Jordan
Winthrop Donaldson Jordan (November 11, 1931 - February 23, 2007) was an American history professor and renowned writer of the racial history of the United States. Jordan was born in Worcester, Massachusetts. He was the son of Henry Donaldson Jordan, a professor of history at Clark University, and Lucretia Mott Churchill, a great-great-granddaughter of the abolitionists James and Lucretia Mott. He received his A.B. in social relations from Harvard University in 1953, … - Morrie Schwartz
Morrie Schwartz (December 20, 1916-November 4, 1995) was an American educator. He gained posthumous fame as the subject of the book "Tuesdays With Morrie", published in 1997. - Glyn Worsnip
Glyn Worsnip (2 September 1938 - 7 June 1996) was a British radio and television presenter. He was most famous for his appearances on "That's Life!" (where he was teamed with Kieran Prendiville from 1973 to 1978) and on "Nationwide". He developed the brain disease cerebellar ataxia in 1986. As a result, his speech became slurred and the BBC fired him in 1987 following complaints from listeners.
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