- Chris Ledoux
Chris LeDoux (October 2 1948 - March 9 2005) was an American country music singer-songwriter, bronze sculptor and rodeo champion. During his career LeDoux recorded 36 albums (many of them self-released) which have sold more than six million units in the United States as of January 2007. He was awarded one platinum and two gold album certifications from the RIAA, and was nominated for a Grammy Award and the Academy of Country Music Music Pioneer Award. - Ozzie Nelson
Oswald George "Ozzie" Nelson (March 20, 1906 - June 3, 1975) was an American entertainer who originated and starred in "The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet" radio and television series with his wife and two sons. The second son of Swedish parents, he was born in Jersey City, New Jersey and raised in the affluent suburb of Ridgefield Park, where the street of the high school he attended is now named after him. - Dave Thomas
Rex David "Dave" Thomas (July 2, 1932 - January 8, 2002) was an American businessman and philanthropist. Thomas was the founder and chief executive officer of Wendy's Old Fashioned Hamburgers, a fast-food restaurant chain specializing in hamburgers. He is also known for appearing in more than 800 commercial advertisements for the chain from 1989 to 2002-more than any other person in television history. - Joe Profaci
Giuseppe "Joe" Profaci (October 2, 1897-June 7, 1962) was a New York Mafia boss who was the founder and head of the Profaci crime family (known today as the Colombo crime family) for over three decades. Joseph Profaci was born in Villabate in the province of Palermo, Sicily. He immigrated to the United States and was naturalized as a citizen on September 27, 1927, in Brooklyn, New York. Joseph Profaci was known for his racketeering in and around Brooklyn. - Anthony Eden
Robert Anthony Eden, 1st Earl of Avon, KG, MC, PC (12 June 1897 - 14 January 1977) was a British politician who was Foreign Secretary for three periods between 1935 and 1955, including World War II and Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1955 to 1957. He is mainly remembered for his role in the Suez Crisis of 1956, which was politically disastrous from a British perspective. He is generally ranked among the least successful British Prime Ministers of the 20th century. - Lee Mallory
Lee Mallory (January 10, 1945 - March 21, 2005) was a singer, songwriter and guitarist who was part of such projects as The Millennium and Sagittarius. His most successful single was a cover of the Phil Ochs/Bob Gibson song "That's The Way It's Going To Be". The song, produced by Curt Boettcher, reached #86 on the charts and was a surprise hit in Seattle. A C.D. by the same name was released in 2002, with many songs and demos Mallory had recorded during the 60s. - August Wilson
August Wilson was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American playwright. Wilson's singular achievement and literary legacy is a cycle of ten plays—two of which won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama—dubbed "The Pittsburgh Cycle". Each is set in a different decade, depicting the comedy and tragedy of the African-American experience in the 20th century. "This cycle," notes the theater critic Christopher Rawson, "is unprecedented in American theater for its concept, size, and cohesion." - James Hilton
James Hilton (September 9, 1900 - December 20, 1954) was a Oscar-winning novelist, and author of several best-sellers including Lost Horizon (which popularised the mythical Shangri La) and Goodbye Mr Chips. - Ken Kesey
Kenneth Elton Kesey (September 17, 1935 - November 10, 2001) was an American author, best known for his novel, "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest", and as a counter-cultural figure who, some consider, was a link between the "beat generation" of the 1950s and the "hippies" of the 1960s. "I was too young to be a beatnik, and too old to be a hippie," Kesey said in a 1999 interview with Robert K. Elder. - Liddy Holloway
Liddy Holloway (March 27, 1947-December 29, 2004) was an actress born in Wellington, New Zealand. The daughter of a cabinet minister, Holloway originally worked as a journalist. She switched to acting and had a long career in the theater. She also acted in Australia in the early 1980s, with acting roles in feature films "Squizzy Taylor" and "The Clinic". - David Kossoff
David Kossoff (November 24, 1919 - March 23, 2005) was a British actor. Following the death of his son Paul, a rock musician, he became an anti-drug campaigner. In 1971 he was also actively involved in the Nationwide Festival of Light protesting against the commercial exploitation of sex and violence, and advocating the teaching of Christ as the key to re-establishing moral stability in Britain. Kossoff was born in London to Russian-Jewish immigrant parents, … - Ted Hughes
Edward James Hughes OM (17 August 1930 - 28 October 1998) was an English poet and children's writer, known as Ted Hughes. Critics routinely rank him as one of the best poets of his generation. Hughes was British Poet Laureate from 1984 until his death. Ted Hughes was married from 1956-63 to the American poet Sylvia Plath, who committed suicide in 1963 at the age of 30. His part in the relationship became controversial, … - Allen Ginsberg
Irwin Allen Ginsberg (June 3, 1926 - April 5 1997) was an American poet. Ginsberg is best known for "Howl" (1956), a long poem about the self-destruction of his friends of the Beat Generation and what he saw as the destructive forces of materialism and conformity in United States at the time. - Fu Biao
Fu Biao (September 27, 1963 - August 30, 2005) was a famous Chinese actor. - Stew Albert
Steward Edward Albert was a co-founder of the Yippies, an anti-Vietnam War political activist, and an important figure in the New Left movement of the 1960's. Born in the Sheepshead Bay section of Brooklyn, NY to a New York City employee, he had a relatively conventional political life in his youth, though he was among those who protested the execution of Caryl Chessman. He graduated from Pace University and worked for a while for the City of New York welfare department. - Moana Pozzi
Moana Pozzi, often called simply Moana, complete name was Anna Moana Rosa Pozzi (27 April 1961 - 15 September 1994) was an Italian pornographic actress. She was sometimes credited in the early films as Linda Heveret. She was 1.78 m tall and her breasts were a natural size 5 (no surgery). - Anthony Quayle
Sir John Anthony Quayle, CBE (7 September 1913 - 20 October 1989) was an English actor and director. He was born in Ainsdale, Southport in Lancashire and trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London. After appearing in music hall, he joined the Old Vic in 1932. During the Second World War he was an Army Officer and made one of the area commanders of the auxiliary units. - Ronald Binge
Ronald Binge (15 July, 1910, Derby - 6 September, 1979, Ringwood, Hampshire) was a British composer and arranger of light music. - Sinan Erdem
Sinan Erdem was a former Turkish volleyball player and long-standing head of the Turkish National Olympic Committee. He was born on May 9, 1927 in Manisa, Turkey. After finishing the high school in Galatasaray Lisesi, he was educated in Law at İstanbul University. Sinan started to play volleyball and tennis already in 1943. He became a professional player in 1949, and transferred in 1951 to the volleyball team of Galatasaray SK. - Babrak Karmal
Babrak Karmal (January 6, 1929 - December 3, 1996) was the third President of Afghanistan (1979 - 1986) during the period of the communist Democratic Republic of Afghanistan. He is best known of the Marxist leadership. Having been restored to power with Soviet support, he was unable to consolidate his power and, in 1986, he was replaced by Dr. Mohammad Najibullah. He left Afghanistan for Moscow, but returned to Kabul in 1989. He died in Moscow. - Régine Crespin
Régine Crespin was a French operatic soprano, later a mezzo-soprano, who excelled in both the French and German repertoire. - John Coltrane
John William Coltrane, nicknamed Trane, was an American jazz saxophonist and composer. Although recordings of his work from as early as 1946 exist, Coltrane's recording career did not begin in earnest until 1955. From 1957 onward he recorded and produced dozens of albums, many of them not released until years after his death. - Carlos Castaneda
Carlos Castaneda was a Peruvian-born American author. He wrote a series of books that purport to describe his training in traditional Mesoamerican shamanism, which he referred to as a form of sorcery. The books and Castaneda, who rarely spoke in public about his work, have been controversial for many years. Supporters claim the books are either true or at least valuable works of philosophy and descriptions of practices which enable an increased awareness. - Erich Honecker
Erich Honecker was an East German Communist politician who led the German Democratic Republic (East Germany) from 1971 until 1989. After German re-unification, he first fled to the Soviet Union but was extradited by the new Russian government to Germany, where he was imprisoned and tried for high treason and crimes allegedly committed during the Cold War. However, as he was dying of cancer, he was released from prison. He died in exile in Chile about a year and a half later. - Dominic Agostino
Dominic Agostino (October 14, 1959 - March 24, 2004) was a Canadian politician, who represented the riding of Hamilton East for the Liberal Party in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario. Born in Sicily, Italy, Agostino was raised in Hamilton, Ontario and attended Mohawk College in that city. He worked as rehabilitation counsellor with the Ontario March of Dimes, and was a special assistant to Ontario Minister of Culture Lily Munro from 1985 to 1987. - Stewart Albert
Stewart Albert, or Stew (December 4, 1939 - January 30, 2006), was a member of the Youth International Party in the 1970s and co-author of "The Sixties Papers" anthology with his wife, Judy Gumbo Albert. He was born in Brooklyn, N.Y. and graduated from Pace University majoring in politics and philosophy. Albert was named as an unindicted conspirator in the Chicago Seven trial. In 1970, he ran for sheriff of Alameda County, … - Joan Finney
Joan Finney, Democratic Party U.S. politician, served as Governor of Kansas from 1991 to 1995. She was born Joan Marie McInroy in 1925 in Topeka, Kansas, and graduated from high school in Manhattan, Kansas in 1942. In 1957, she married Spencer Finney, Jr. and had three children, Sally Finney, Dick Finney, and Mary Holladay. In 1978, she graduated from Washburn University with a degree in economic history. - Sid Patterson
Sid Patterson was a world champion amateur and professional track cyclist from Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. While a teenager, Patterson won every Victorian and Australian title between the distances of 1,000 metres and ten miles (16.1 km). He represented Australia in cycling at the 1948 Summer Olympics in London. In 1949 he won every Australian track championship in the sprint, time trial, 1 mile, and 5 mile (8.05 km) events. - Ron Milner
Ronald Milner was an African-American playwright. His play, "Checkmates", starring Paul Winfield and Denzel Washington ran on Broadway in 1988. Milner's works included "Who's Got His Own" (inspired by Billie Holiday's "God Bless the Child"), "What the Wine-Sellers Buy" (the first play by an African-American produced by Joseph Papp at the New York Shakespeare Festival at Lincoln Center), … - Margaret Hayes
Margaret Hayes was an American film and television actress Born in Baltimore, Maryland, she is perhaps best known for her role as Lois Judby Hammond in the film "Blackboard Jungle". She married actor Leif Erickson, but they divorced after a month. With her second husband, producer Herbert B. Swope, Jr., she had a daughter, Tracy Brooks Swope, who is also an actress. Margaret Hayes died in Miami Beach, Florida from liver cancer and hepatitis at he age of 61 - Gregory Hines
Gregory Hines was a Tony Award-winning American actor, singer, dancer, and choreographer. Born Gregory Oliver Hines in New York City, Hines and his older brother Maurice started dancing at an early age, studying with choreographer Henry LeTang. Together with their father the three were known as "The Hines Kids" and later as "The Hines Brothers" only to have the name change again in 1963 to "Hines, Hines and Dad". Hines appeared in such movies as "The Cotton Club", … - Marlon Brando
Marlon Brando, Jr. was a two-time Academy Award-winning American actor whose body of work spanned over half a century. He is widely regarded as perhaps the most influential actor of the 20th Century. Brando is perhaps best known for his roles in "A Streetcar Named Desire" and "On the Waterfront", both directed by Elia Kazan in the early 1950s, … - Walter Payton
Walter Jerry Payton was an American football running back for the Chicago Bears. Payton, a Pro Football Hall of Fame member, distinguished himself as one of the National Football League’s most productive and memorable players. He also set many rushing records during his professional and collegiate career. After a standout career at Jackson State University, The Bears drafted Payton with the fourth overall selection in the 1975 NFL Draft. - Tommy Newsom
Thomas Penn "Tommy" Newsom was a saxophone player in the NBC Orchestra on "The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson", an orchestra he later became assistant director of. Newsom was frequently the band's substitute director, whenever Doc Severinsen was away from the show or filling in for announcer Ed McMahon. Nicknamed "Mr. Excitement" as a sarcastic take on his low-keyed, often dull persona, Newsom was often a foil for Carson's humor. - Gerard Murphy
Gerard J. Murphy M.R.I.A was a prolific Irish mathematician. His textbooks are internationally acclaimed, and translated into different languages. He died from cancer in October 2006, at the age of 57. - Philip K. Paulson
Philip Kevin Paulson (1947-2006) was the lead plaintiff in a series of law suits to remove a Christian cross from a prominent summit in the city of San Diego. He spent seventeen years, starting with a pro se action against the city, then as lead plaintiff, in multiple successful federal court challenges to remove the 43 foot high cross from this government owned land, … - Alec Guinness
Sir Alec Guinness CH CBE (April 2, 1914 - August 5, 2000) was an Academy Award and Tony Award-winning English actor who became one of the most versatile and best-loved performers of his generation. - Sun Yat-Sen
Sun Yat-sen (November 12, 1866 - March 12, 1925) was a Chinese revolutionary and political leader often referred to as the "father of modern China." Sun played an instrumental role in the eventual overthrow of the Qing Dynasty in 1911. He was the first provisional president when the Republic of China (ROC) was founded in 1912. He later co-founded the Kuomintang (KMT) where he served as its first leader. Sun was a uniting figure in post-Imperial China, … - Mickey Mantle
Mickey Charles Mantle (October 20, 1931 - August 13, 1995) was an American baseball player who was inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1974. He played his entire 18-year major-league professional career for the New York Yankees, winning 3 American League MVP titles and playing for 16 All-Star teams. Mantle played on 12 pennant winners and 7 World Championship clubs. He still holds the records for most World Series home runs (18), RBIs (40), runs (42), … - Flip Wilson
Clerow "Flip" Wilson (December 8, 1933 - November 25, 1998) was an American comedian and actor. Born in 1933 in New Jersey, he was one of eighteen children in an impoverished household. After years of bouncing from foster homes to reform school, sixteen-year-old Wilson lied about his age and joined the air force. His outgoing personality and funny stories made him popular; he was even asked to tour military bases to cheer up other servicemen.
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