- Paul Simon
Paul Martin Simon was an American politician from Illinois. He served in the United States House of Representatives from 1975 to 1985 and United States Senate from 1985 to 1997. He was a member of the Democratic Party. He was an unsuccessful candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1988. During the campaign, he briefly captured the national attention and was considered a major candidate. - Will Eisner
William Erwin Eisner (March 6 1917 - January 3 2005) was an acclaimed American comics writer, artist and entrepreneur. - Bobby Darin
Bobby Darin (born Walden Robert Cassotto) was one of the most popular American big band performers and rock and roll teen idols of the late 1950s. He is widely respected for being a multi-talented, versatile performer who conquered many music genres, including folk, country, pop, and jazz. He was also an award-winning actor, songwriter and music business entrepreneur. - John Vernon
John Vernon (February 24, 1932 - February 1, 2005) was a Canadian actor. He made a career in Hollywood after achieving initial television stardom in Canada. - Bob Denver
Robert Osbourne "Bob" Denver was an American comedic actor best known for his role as Willy "Gilligan" Gilligan on the television series "Gilligan's Island". Earlier, Denver had played beatnik Maynard G. Krebs on the (1959-1963) TV series "The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis", a characterization that was similar to Gilligan in many ways. - Jesica Santillan
Jesica Santillan (December 26, 1985 - February 22, 2003) was an illegal immigrant from Mexico who entered the United States to obtain medical treatment, but died after an organ transplant operation in which she received the heart and lungs of a patient whose blood type did not match hers. Doctors at the Duke University Medical Center failed to check the compatibility before surgery began. - Daniel Patrick Moynihan
Daniel Patrick “Pat” Moynihan was a United States Senator, Ambassador, and eminent sociologist. He was first elected to the United States Senate for New York in 1976, and was re-elected with the Democratic Party three times (in 1982, 1988, and 1994). He declined to run for re-election in 2000. Prior to his years in the Senate, Moynihan was a member of four successive presidential administrations, beginning with the administration of John F. Kennedy, … - Olivia Goldsmith
Olivia Goldsmith (1949 - January 15, 2004) was an American author, best known for her first novel "The First Wives Club" (1992), which was adapted into the movie The First Wives Club (1996). She was born Randy Goldfield in Dumont, New Jersey, but changed her name to Justine Goldfield and later to Justine Rendal. - June Carter Cash
Valerie June Carter Cash (June 23, 1929 - May 15, 2003) was a singer, songwriter, actress and comedian and was a member of the Carter Family, and the second wife of singer Johnny Cash. She played the guitar, banjo, and autoharp. - Ralph Schoenstein
Ralph Schoenstein (1933 - August 24, 2006) was an American writer and humorist. He was a frequent commentator to NPR's "All Things Considered. Schoenstein grew up in Manhattan, and graduated from Columbia University. He began writing after a brief stint in the army, and became the author of over 18 novels and non-fiction works. His 1960 memoir "The Block", tells of his growing up on New York's Upper West Side. - Harry Blackmun
Harry Andrew Blackmun (November 12, 1908 - March 4, 1999) was an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1970 to 1994. He is best known as the author of the majority opinion in the 1973 "Roe v. Wade" decision, overturning laws restricting abortion in the United States and declaring abortion a constitutional right. - Jerry Clower
Howard Gerald "Jerry" Clower (b. September 28 1926, Liberty, Mississippi - d. August 24 1998) was a popular country comedian best known for his stories of the rural South. Clower began a stint in the Navy immediately after graduating high school, then studied agriculture at Mississippi State University, where he played college football and was a member of Phi Kappa Tau Fraternity. After finishing school, Clower worked as a county agent and later as a seed salesman. - Stella Obasanjo
Stella Obasanjo (14 November 1945 - 23 October 2005) was the First Lady of Nigeria from 1999 until her death. She was the wife of Nigerian president Olusegun Obasanjo and the daughter of Christopher Abebe, a former UAC Nigeria Chairman. She hailed from Irruepken in Esan West local government area in Edo State, Nigeria. She was an Esan woman by ethnic origin and she was not the First Lady in 1976 when Obasanjo was military head of state. - Rodney Dangerfield
Rodney Dangerfield, born Jacob Cohen, was an American comedian and actor, best known for the catchphrase "I don't get no respect" and his monologues on that theme. - Vivian Liberto
Vivian Liberto was the first wife of country singer Johnny Cash. Liberto met Johnny Cash in 1950 at a roller skating rink in San Antonio, Texas three weeks before the Air Force deployed him to Germany. At the time, she was still a senior at Providence High School, an all-girl Catholic school in San Antonio. During Cash's military tour overseas, the couple wrote each other over 10,000 pages of love letters. On July 3, 1954, Cash was discharged from the Air Force. - Laura Betti
Laura Betti (May 1, 1927 - July 31, 2004) was an Italian actress. Born Laura Trombetti in Bologna, this blonde and flamboyant actress started her career as jazz singer. Betti made her film debut in Federico Fellini's "La dolce vita". In 1963 she became a close friend of the poet and movie director Pier Paolo Pasolini, for whom she made a documentary after his death. Under Pasolini's direction she proved a wonderful talent, … - Gerry Mulligan
Gerald Joseph "Gerry" Mulligan was an American jazz saxophonist, composer and arranger, known primarily for his unusually cool baritone saxophone sound and style; his writing and arranging for Claude Thornhill, Miles Davis, Stan Kenton, and others; and, his own pianoless quartet of the early 1950s. - Clifford Geertz
Clifford James Geertz was an American anthropologist and served until his death as professor emeritus at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, New Jersey. - Santo Trafficante Jr.
Santo Trafficante, Jr. (November 15, 1914 - March 17, 1987) was one of the last of the old-time Mafia bosses in the United States. He controlled organized criminal operations in Florida, which had previously been consolidated from several rival gangs by his father, Santo Trafficante, Sr. He was also reputedly the most powerful mafioso in Batista-era Cuba. Trafficante maintained links to the Bonanno family in New York, … - Diana Coupland
Diana Coupland (5 March 1932 - 10 November 2006) was an English actress best remembered for her role as "Jean Abbott" on "Bless This House", which she played from 1971 to 1976. - Hamza el Din
Hamza El Din (b. Toshka, Egypt, July 10, 1929; d. Berkeley, California, May 22, 2006), was a Nubian oud player, "tar" player, and vocalist. Born in the village of Toshka, near Wadi Halfa in southern Egypt, he is considered by some to have been the father of modern Nubian music. Originally trained to be an electrical engineer and after working in Cairo for the Egyptian national railroad, El Din changed direction and began to study music at the Cairo University, … - Marty Robbins
Marty Robbins was one of the most popular and successful American country and western singers of his era. For most of his nearly four decade career, Robbins was rarely far from the country music charts. Several of his songs also became pop hits. Robbins also made many starts in the NASCAR Winston Cup series. - Tony Jay
Tony Jay (February 2, 1933 - August 13, 2006) was an English/American actor. A former member of the Royal Shakespeare Company, he was known for his voice work in animation and computer games. Jay's distinctive baritone voice often landed him villainous roles. - Edward Bunker
Edward Bunker (Los Angeles, December 31, 1933 - July 19, 2005 in Burbank, California) was an American author of crime fiction, a screenwriter, and an actor. He wrote numerous books, some of which have been adapted into films. Bunker was a bright but troublesome child, who spent much of his childhood in different foster homes and institutions. He started on a criminal career at a very early age, and continued on this path throughout the years, … - Robert Ross
Robert Ross was the founder and leader of the Muscular Dystrophy Association in 1950. Ross served as CEO for 44 years until his death in 2006. The Muscular Dystrophy Association (MDA) is an organization which combats muscular dystrophy and diseases of the nervous system and muscular system in general by funding research, providing medical and community services, and educating health professionals and the general public. - Syd Thrift
Sydnor W. Thrift Jr. (February 25 1929 - September 18 2006) was an American scout and executive in Major League Baseball who served as the general manager of the Pittsburgh Pirates from 1985 to 1988, and the "de facto" general manager of the Baltimore Orioles from 1999 to 2002. During a 50-year career in professional baseball, he also spent time as a player, scout, or executive with the New York Yankees, Chicago Cubs, Oakland Athletics, and Kansas City Royals. - Ruth Handler
Ruth Handler (November 4, 1916 - April 27, 2002) was an American businesswoman, the president of the toy manufacturer Mattel, Inc., and is remembered primarily for her role in marketing the Barbie doll. Her husband, Elliott Handler, and her business partner, Harold "Matt" Matson, formed a small company to manufacture picture frames, calling it "Mattel" by combining their names ("Matt" + "El"liot). - Osa Massen
Osa Massen (born Aase Madsen on 13 January 1914, in Copenhagen, Denmark) was a movie actress who was often confused with actresses Ilona Massey and Ona Munson. She began her career as a newspaper photographer before becoming an actress. Massen appeared as Ralph Bellamy's unfaithful wife opposite blackmailer Joan Crawford in A Woman's Face (1941), and the two women traded physical blows. - Hans Gmür
Hans Gmür was a Swiss-German theatre author, director, composer and producer. He was born in Chur, Switzerland, and graduated from the University of Zürich. He died of complications of a back operation at Paraplegikerzentrum Nottwil in Nottwil, Switzerland. He leaves his wife, Erna, to whom he was married for 50 years. - Robert F. Colesberry
Robert F. Colesberry (1946 - February 9 , 2004) was an American film and television producer and first assistant director notable for his work as a producer on the Emmy Award winning miniseries "The Corner" and Peabody Award winning "The Wire" for HBO. Colesberry had a recurring cameo on "The Wire" as detective Ray Cole. Colesberry died from complicatons following cardiac surgery in 2004. - Eddie Charlton
Edward Francis ("Eddie") Charlton <small>AM</small> (31 October, 1929 - 7 November, 2004) was a top-class Australian snooker and billiards player. Charlton was born in Merewether, New South Wales, Australia and came from a sporting family. His brother Jim was also a professional snooker player but never joined the world ranks. Eddie himself was a senior grade footballer, a champion surfer, a good cricketer and boxer. - John Frankenheimer
John Michael Frankenheimer (February 19, 1930 - July 6, 2002) was an American film director. - Nick Skorich
Nicholas Leonard Skorich (June 26, 1921 in Bellaire, Ohio - October 2, 2004) was an American football player and coach. Skorich played guard at Bellaire High School and the University of Cincinnati before joining the Navy in 1943. After the end of World War II, he signed with the Pittsburgh Steelers, who had drafted him in 1943. He played three years for the Steelers. Skorich then went into coaching, first at the high school level, … - Curtis Pitts
Curtis Pitts of Stillmore, Georgia, was a designer of a series of popular aerobatic biplanes, known as the Pitts Special. Curtis grew up in Americus, Georgia and his first aiplane was a WACO F. The Smithsonian Institution's National Air and Space Museum in Washington, DC has called the plane Pitts created in 1943 "revolutionary because of its small size, light weight, short wingspan and extreme agility". Curtis Pitts died of complications from a heart valve replacement. - Robert R. Merhige Jr.
Robert R. Merhige Jr. (February 5, 1919-February 18, 2005), was a federal judge for the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia who is known for his rulings on desegregation in the 1970s. Born in New York City, Merhige attended High Point College in North Carolina and received his law degree from the T.C. Williams School of Law in 1942. He served in the Army Air Forces in World War II. On July 17, 1967, … - Eddie Bracken
Edward Vincent "Eddie" Bracken (February 7 1915 - November 14 2002) was an American actor. Born in Astoria, New York, he performed in vaudeville at the age of nine, and gained fame on Broadway in the musical "Too Many Girls" in a role he reprised in the film version in 1940. He had performed in a short film series called "The Kiddie Troupers" (one of many "Our Gang"-like series) prior to that, but this film was his big break. - Micheline Charest
Micheline Charest (1953 - April 14 2004) was a successful television producer and founder (and former co-chair) of the Cinar (now Cookie Jar Entertainment) television company. - Hy Averback
Hy Averback was an director, producer, actor, and production manager. He was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Averback co-produced the popular Sixties sitcom "F Troop" but is best known as the voice over the loudspeaker heard on the television series M*A*S*H. Film credits include directing Chamber of Horrors (1966) and Suppose They Gave A War and Nobody Came(1969). He died October 14, 1997 in Los Angeles, California after cardiac surgery. - Lou Thesz
Aloysius Martin Thesz (April 24 1916 - April 28 2002), better known as Lou Thesz, was a legendary professional wrestler and six time NWA World Heavyweight Champion. He is widely considered by his peers and experts alike to be one of the most influential people in the history of professional wrestling. Among his many accomplishments, he is credited with inventing popular professional wrestling moves such as the Lou Thesz press, … - Sheree North
Sheree North (January 17, 1932 - November 4, 2005), born Dawn Shirley Crang, was an actress and singer who appeared in numerous Broadway shows, Hollywood movies, and television. Born to Richard Crang and June Shoard in Los Angeles, California, her stepfather was Edward Bethel. She was known as "Dawn Bethel" until she changed her name to "Sheree North". She married at age 16, and had her first child, Dawn Bessire at the age of 17. In 1953, …
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