- George Murphy
George Lloyd Murphy was an American dancer, actor, and politician. He was born in New Haven, Connecticut of Irish Catholic extraction, and attended Yale University. He worked as a tool maker for the Ford Motor Company, as a miner, a real estate agent, and a night club dancer. In 1927 he appeared on Broadway, partnering with his wife Julie Johnson as a dance act. When Johnson decided to retire from show business in 1935, Murphy moved the family to Hollywood, … - Susan Sontag
Susan Sontag was an American essayist, novelist, intellectual, filmmaker, and activist. - Klaus Barbie
Klaus Barbie, the Butcher of Lyon (October 25, 1913 - September 25, 1991) was a German soldier and Gestapo member. - Ben Pimlott
Professor Ben Pimlott (4 July, 1945 - April 10, 2004) was a leading historian of the post-war period in Britain. He made a substantial contribution to the literary genre of political biography. Educated at Rokeby school, in Wimbledon, south-west London, Marlborough College and Worcester College, Oxford, where he took a degree in Philosophy, Politics and Economics and a BPhil in politics. Bill Clinton was a contemporary of his there. - Leo Burmester
Leo Burmester was an American actor who often played police officers, such as in the TV series True Blue and rural types on TV and in films, but on stage performed as Osric in "Hamlet" (Kevin Kline in title role) for the New York Shakespeare Festival, as well as in such Broadway hits as "Big River", and as the heartless innkeeper, Thenardier, in the original Broadway cast of "Les Misérables". Burmester worked for director John Sayles several times, … - Robert Hoffman
Robert K. Hoffman (died August 19, 2006) was an American businessperson and philanthropist, most notable for co-founding the influential humor magazine "National Lampoon", later the cornerstone of a film and publishing franchise. Born in Dallas, Texas, Hoffman graduated from the St. Mark's School of Texas in 1965. - Craig L. Thomas
Craig Lyle Thomas was an American politician who served over twelve years as a Republican United States Senator from Wyoming. In the Senate, Thomas was considered an expert on agriculture and rural development. He had served in key positions in several state agencies, including a long tenure as Vice President of the Wyoming Farm Bureau from 1965 to 1974. Thomas resided in Casper for twenty-eight years. - Richard Smalley
Richard Errett Smalley was the "Gene and Norman Hackerman Professor of Chemistry" and a Professor of Physics and Astronomy at Rice University, in Houston, Texas. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1996 for the discovery of a new form of carbon, buckminsterfullerene ("buckyballs") (with Robert Curl, also a professor of chemistry at Rice, and Harold Kroto, a professor at the University of Sussex). - David Pearce
:"This article is about Professor David Pearce, UK economist. For other people with this name, see David Pearce." Professor David Pearce OBE was an Emeritus Professor at the Department of Economics in the University College London. He specialised in, and was a pioneer of, Environmental Economics, having published over fifty books and over 300 academic articles on the subject including his 'Blueprint for a Green Economy' series. - William Hutt
William Ian DeWitt Hutt, CC, O.Ont, MM, BA, DFA, D.Litt (May 2, 1920 - June 27, 2007) was a Canadian actor of stage and film. Hutt was born in Toronto, Ontario, the second of three children. Hutt served five years as a medic during World War II, receiving the Military Medal for "bravery in the field". After the war, he received his BA in 1948 from Trinity College of the University of Toronto, … - Charles Bukowski
Henry Charles Bukowski was an influential Los Angeles poet and novelist. Bukowski's writing was heavily influenced by the geography and atmosphere of his home city of Los Angeles. He is often mentioned as an influence by contemporary authors, and his style is frequently imitated. A prolific author, Bukowski wrote thousands of poems, hundreds of short-stories, and six novels, eventually having more than fifty books in print. - Steve Goodman
Steve Goodman was a Grammy Award-winning folk music singer and songwriter from Chicago, United States. - Wesley Willis
Wesley Willis (May 31, 1963 - August 21, 2003) was a musician and artist from Chicago. A diagnosed schizophrenic, he gained a sizable cult following in the 1990s after releasing several hundred songs of unique but simple music, with emphasis on his humorous stream-of-consciousness lyrics. Most of his exposure came as an internet phenomenon during the early days of peer-to-peer file sharing (via Napster). - Bob Matsui
Robert Takeo Matsui was an American politician from the state of California. Matsui was a member of the Democratic Party and served 13 terms (although elected to 14) in the U.S. House of Representatives as the congressman for California's 5th congressional district. - Carl Barks
Carl Barks (March 27, 1901 - August 25, 2000) was a famous Disney Studio illustrator and comic book creator, who invented Duckburg and many of its inhabitants, such as Scrooge McDuck (1947), Gladstone Gander (1948), the Beagle Boys (1951), Gyro Gearloose (1952) and Magica De Spell (1961). The quality of his scripts and drawings earned him the nick names "The Duck Man" and "The Good Duck Artist". - Neal A. Maxwell
Neal Ash Maxwell (July 6, 1926-July 21, 2004) was an Apostle and a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from 1981 until his death. Maxwell was ordained an apostle by N. Eldon Tanner on July 23 1981, following the calling of Gordon B. Hinckley as a counselor in the First Presidency. He was sustained a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of the church on October 3, 1981. - Harriett Woods
Harriett Woods (June 2 1927 - February 8 2007) was an American politician and activist, a two-time Democratic nominee for the United States Senate from Missouri, and a former Lieutenant Governor of the state of Missouri. Born Ruth Harriett Friedman in Cleveland, Ohio, she received her BA degree in philosophy from the University of Michigan. She married Jim Woods on January 2 1953. - Igor Sergeyev
Igor Dmitriyevich Sergeyev was the Defense Minister of the Russian Federation from May 22 of 1997 until March 28 of 2001. He was the first and (at the time of his death) only Marshal of the Russian Federation. - Janet Frame
Janet Paterson Frame ONZ, CBE, (August 28, 1924 - January 29, 2004), a New Zealand author, wrote eleven novels, four collections of short stories, a book of poetry, a children's book, and a three-volume autobiography. Famous for both her prose and her life story - she escaped lobotomy as a falsely-diagnosed mental patient only by receiving a literary prize just in time - she became a very private person in later life. - Madge Sinclair
Madge Dorita Sinclair was an Emmy-winning Jamaican actress. Sinclair received an Emmy Award nomination for her role as Belle in the miniseries "Roots". She went on to a long-running stint in the 1980s as nurse Ernestine Shoop on the series "Trapper John, M.D." opposite Pernell Roberts. She received three Emmy nominations for her work on the show, … - Benjamin Thurman Hacker
Rear Admiral Benjamin Thurman Hacker (1935-2003) was a U.S. Navy officer, who became the first Naval Flight Officer (NFO) to achieve Flag rank. - Gene Krupa
Gene Krupa (January 15, 1909 - October 16, 1973) was a famous and influential American jazz and big band drummer, known for his highly energetic and flamboyant style. - Nuha Al-Radi
Nuha al-Radi (January 27, 1941, Baghdad - 2004) was an Iraqi diarist, ceramist and painter. She was born into a distinguished Iraqi family which included Mahmoud Shawkat, the last Prime Minister of the Ottoman Empire. In 1919, her father Mohammed Selim al-Radi was one of the first Iraqis to be educated in the USA when he studied agriculture in Texas. - Adam Curle
Adam Curle was a British academic and Quaker peace activist. His full name was Charles Thomas William Curle; he was known as "Adam" after the the town where he was born, L’Isle-Adam, north of Paris. After serving in the British army during World War II, Curle became an academic, working as a lecturer in social psychology at the University of Oxford and then, from 1952, as professor of education and psychology at the then University College of the South-West of England, … - John Ireland
John Benjamin Ireland was an Academy Award-nominated actor and sometime film director. Born in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, he was raised in New York City. He started out in minor stage roles on Broadway. A tall, lean former Canadian professional swimmer who once performed in a water carnival, he appeared on Broadway and toured in Shakespeare in the late 1930s and early 40s before entering film in the mid-40s. He made his screen debut as Pvt. - Howard Jackson
Howard E. Jackson (1951 - 7 March 2006) was a noted American kickboxer, point Karate fighter, and professional boxer. He was born in 1951 in Detroit, Michigan, the oldest of four children; two brothers died violent deaths, and his parents died early as well, leaving only Howard and his sister Corliss. He began studying Kung Fu in 1967, switching to Tang Soo Do soon after, and earning his black belt in 1970 from Hwang Kee. - Robin Bush
Pauline Robinson Bush (December 20, 1949 - in Compton, California-October 11, 1953 in Connecticut) was the second child of George H. W. Bush and Barbara Bush and the younger sister of George W. Bush. Named after her maternal grandmother and nicknamed Robin, she died of leukemia at the age of three. She was initially buried in Connecticut but was reburied in 2000 at the Texas A&M University site which is intended for her parents. - Julius Nyerere
Julius Kambarage Nyerere (April 13, 1922 - October 14, 1999) was the first President of Tanzania, and previously Tanganyika, from the country's founding in 1964 until his retirement in 1985. Born in Tanganyika to a local Zanaki chief called Nyerere Burito, Julius Nyerere was known by the Swahili name "Mwalimu" or 'teacher' because of his profession before becoming active in politics. - Winthrop Paul Rockefeller
Winthrop Paul Rockefeller was Republican lieutenant governor of the U.S. state of Arkansas from 1996 until his death. - Tay Garnett
Tay Garnett, was an American film director and writer. Born in Los Angeles, California, Garnett served as a naval aviator in WW I and entered films as a screenwriter in 1920. He was a gagwriter for Mack Sennett and Hal Roach, then joined Pathe and began to direct films in 1928. Among his films are "One Way Passage" (1932), "China Seas" (1935), "Eternally Yours" (1939), "Seven Sinners" (1940), "Cheers for Miss Bishop" (1941), … - Gerard O'Neill
Gerard Kitchen O'Neill (February 6 1927 - April 27 1992) was a U.S. physicist and space pioneer. Born in Brooklyn, he graduated from Swarthmore College in 1950, and received a doctorate in physics from Cornell University in 1954. He joined the faculty of Princeton University in 1954, with which he remained associated until his death. Dr. O'Neill's early research focused on high-energy particle physics; notably he invented the particle storage ring. - Leon Sullivan
Reverend Dr. Leon Howard Sullivan (October 16, 1922 - April 24, 2001) was a Baptist minister, a civil rights leader and social activist focusing on the creation of job training opportunities for African-Americans, a longtime General Motors Board Member, and an anti-Apartheid activist. Sullivan died on April 24, 2001, of leukemia at a Scottsdale, Arizona hospital. He was 78. - William A. Wellman
William Augustus Wellman was an American movie director. Wellman's father was a New England Brahmin of English-Welsh-Scottish and Irish descent. His mother, much beloved by the great director, was an Irish immigrant named Cecilia McCarthy. Before his career in films, Wellman served in World War I in the French Foreign Legion as an ambulance driver. He later served in the Lafayette Escadrille. Wellman was hired in 1927 to direct "Wings", … - Janusz Żurakowski
Janusz Żurakowski was a renowned Polish fighter and test pilot, who, at various times, lived and worked in Poland, the United Kingdom and Canada. - Barbara Frum
Barbara Frum, OC, BA, LL.D (September 8, 1937 - March 26, 1992) was one of Canada's most respected and influential journalists, a legendary interviewer for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Born Barbara Rosberg in Niagara Falls, New York, Frum grew up across the river in Niagara Falls, Ontario. She studied history at the University of Toronto. She married Toronto dentist Murray Frum (1957) who later became a real estate developer. - Andy Hug
Andy Hug (September 7, 1964 - August 24, 2000) was a renowned Kyokushin Karate and kickboxing fighter from Wohlen, Switzerland. He died at the age of 35 from Leukemia in Japan. He won the K-1 World Grand Prix Championship in 1996 and was runner up in 1997 and 1998. Hug is widely credited for helping K-1's popularity world-wide, and is one of the most respected and idolized figures in combat sports history. In Japan he was given the name "Blue-Eyed Samurai". - Rudy Autio
Rudy Autio (October 8 1926 - June 20, 2007) was an American sculptor, best known for his figurative ceramic vessels. Rudio Autio was born Arne Rudolf Autio to a family of Finnish immigrants in Butte, Montana. As a child, he first learned to draw by taking evening classes from Works Progress Administration artists working in Butte. He served in the Navy for two years during World War II. After the war ended, … - Kenneth Koch
Kenneth Koch was an American poet, playwright, and professor, active from the 1950s until his death at age 77. He was a prominent poet of the "New York School" of poetry, a loose group of poets including Frank O'Hara and John Ashbery that eschewed contemporary introspective poetry in favor of an exuberant, cosmopolitan style that drew major inspiration from travel, painting, and music. - Victor Mature
Victor Mature, an American film actor, was born in Louisville, Kentucky to a Tyrolean father, Marcellus George Mature, a cutler, and a Swiss-American mother, Clara Mature. He is often described as an early exemplar of the term "beefcake" due to his muscular physique and stolid onscreen manner. But unlike any of his contemporaries and his many successors, Mature always brought a sense of fragility, doubt and uncertainty to his characters. - Mala Powers
Mary Ellen "Mala" Powers (December 20 1931 - June 11 2007) was an American film actress. She was born in San Francisco, California. In 1940 her family moved to Los Angeles. Her father was an executive with United Press. In the summer of her relocation, Powers attended the Max Reinhardt Junior Workshop where she enjoyed her first role in a play before a live audience.
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