- Milton A. Wolf
Milton Albert Wolf (May 29, 1924 - May 19, 2005) was an American real estate developer from Cleveland, Ohio. He was a Jewish community leader, a Democratic Party contributor, and served as U.S. Ambassador to Austria from 1977 to 1980. He was an alumnus of both Ohio State University and Case Western Reserve University and an honorary trustee. President Jimmy Carter named him as Ambassador to Austria in 1977. - Robert J. Harris
Robert J. (Bob) Harris (October 5, 1930 - July 9, 2005) was a lawyer, professor, and mayor from the U.S. state of Michigan. Harris was born in Boston, Massachusetts. He was educated at Wesleyan University, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. He was then a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University and went on to Yale Law School, where he was a member of the Law Review and Order of the Coif. He served in the U.S. Army during the Korean conflict. - J.J. Pickle
James Jarrell Pickle (October 11, 1913 - June 18, 2005) also known as J.J. 'Jake' Pickle, was a United States Representative from the 10th congressional district of Texas from 1963 to 1995. Pickle was born in Roscoe, Texas. He acquired his nickname Jake from a mischievous character he portrayed in a family play when he was four years old. Pickle was an Eagle Scout and recipient of the Distinguished Eagle Scout Award from the Boy Scouts of America. - George Archer
George William Archer was an American golfer who won twelve events on the PGA Tour, including one major championship. Archer was born in San Francisco, California. He grew to 6 feet 5½ inches (1.97 m) tall, and as a boy he dreamed of a basketball career, but he took up golf at high school after working as a caddy at his local club. He turned professional in 1964 and claimed the first of 12 victories on the PGA Tour at the Lucky International Open the following year. - Salvador Laurel
Salvador "Doy" Hidalgo Laurel, was Vice President of the Philippines from 1986 to 1992 under Corazon Aquino. Before that, he briefly served as Aquino's first (and only) Prime Minister from February 25 to March 25 of 1986. Laurel is the fifth son of President José P. Laurel, president of the second Philippine Republic. - Thommie Walsh
Thommie Walsh (born March 15 1950 - died June 16, 2007) was a Tony Award-winning American dancer, choreographer, and director. - John Hartford
John Cowan Hartford (December 30 1937- June 4 2001) was an American folk, country and bluegrass composer and musician known for his mastery of the fiddle and banjo, as well as for his witty lyrics, unique vocal style, and extensive knowledge of Mississippi River lore. Hartford performed with a variety of ensembles throughout his career, and is perhaps best known for his solo performances where he would interchange the guitar, banjo, and fiddle from song to song. - James Cameron
James Cameron (February 23, 1914 in La Crosse, Wisconsin - June 11, 2006 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin) was a civil rights activist. He founded America's Black Holocaust Museum in Milwaukee. James Cameron was founder of America's Black Holocaust Museum and America's only living survivor of a lynching until he died. In August, 1930 when Cameron was 16 years old, he was falsely accused of participating in the murder of a young white man in Marion, Indiana. - Bob O'Connor
Robert E. O'Connor, Jr. (December 9 1944 - September 1 2006) was the Mayor of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania from January 3 2006 until his death. - Polly Umrigar
Pahlan Ratanji "Polly" Umrigar (28 March 1926 - 7 November 2006) was an Indian cricketer. He played first-class cricket for Bombay, and Test cricket in the Indian cricket team, mainly as a middle-order batsman but also bowling occasional medium pace and off spin. He captained the Indian team in eight Test matches from 1955 to 1958. When he retired in 1962, he had played in more Tests (59), scored more Test runs (3,631), and recorded more Test centuries (12), … - Wellington Mara
Wellington Timothy Mara (August 14 1916 - October 25, 2005) was the co-owner of the NFL's New York Giants from 1959 until his death and one of the most influential and important figures in the history of the National Football League. He was the younger son of Tim Mara, who founded the Giants in 1925. Wellington Mara was an alumnus of the Jesuit schools, Loyola School and Fordham University in New York City. - Steve Reeves
Stephen L. Reeves (January 21, 1926 - May 1, 2000), was an American bodybuilder, actor, and author. - Victoria Spark
Victoria Spark (born Vicki Lyn Sparks December 2, 1950 - August 1, 2006) was an American actress. Before entering the acting profession Victoria Spark served as an airline flight attendant. She gained valuable technical knowledge during this time and would use it as a technical advisor on many movies. Victoria Spark's final movie was The Flight that Fought Back, a 2005 movie for which she received a writing credit. - Anthony Asquith
The Honourable Anthony Asquith was a respected English film director. Born in London, he was the son of Herbert Henry Asquith, the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom during World War I, and Margot Asquith. Within his family he was known as 'Puffin'. His first successful film was "Pygmalion" (1938) based on the George Bernard Shaw play. It featured Leslie Howard and Wendy Hiller. His later films included "The Winslow Boy" (1948), … - Bob Ross
Bob Ross was an American painter and television presenter. Born in Daytona Beach, Florida, he spent 20 years keeping medical records for the U.S. Air Force before becoming famous worldwide with his television program "The Joy of Painting". Ross has a son Steven from his first marriage to Linda. Steven occasionally appeared on "The Joy of Painting" and is a Bob Ross-certified instructor. Bob and Linda's marriage ended in divorce in 1981. - Paul Eddington
Paul Eddington, CBE (18 June 1927 – 4 November 1995) was an English actor best known for his appearances in popular television sitcoms of the 1970s and '80s. A Quaker, Eddington began acting with Entertainments National Service Association (ENSA) which was set up to entertain British troops during World War II, but was asked to leave when it became known that he was a pacifist and a conscientious objector. - Lynden David Hall
Lynden David Hall (May 7, 1974 - February 14, 2006) was a singer, songwriter, arranger, and producer. Born in Wandsworth, South London, he won the 'best newcomer' accolade at the 1998 MOBO (Music of Black Origin) Awards. In 1999, he was the first U.K. performer ever voted "Best Male Artist" by the readers of Britain's "Blues & Soul" magazine. His debut album, "Medicine For My Pain", as well as the singles "Do I Qualify" and "Sexy Cinderella", … - Brian Linehan
Brian Linehan (September 3, 1944 - June 4, 2004) was a Canadian television host who hailed from Hamilton, Ontario. Linehan was best known for his celebrity interviews. He rarely divulged his real age. Sometimes Linehan's year of birth would appear as 1943 or even 1944. Referred to as the "Charlie Rose of Canada." Brian's estranged Irish father, Les, worked at one of the local steel mills, Dofasco. - David Bale
David Bale (September 2, 1941 - December 30, 2003) was a pilot and entrepreneur, best known as an environmentalist, and animal rights activist. His son Christian Bale is an actor. He was born in South Africa and grew up in England, Egypt and the Channel Islands. In 1991, he moved with his two younger children, Christian and Louise, to Los Angeles where they could continue their careers in film and theater. - Jack Weston
Jack Weston was an American stage, film, and television actor. Weston usually played comic roles, in films such as "Cactus Flower" and "Please Don't Eat the Daisies", but also occasionally essayed heavier parts, such as the scheming crook and stalker who, along with Alan Arkin and Richard Crenna, attempts to terrorize and rob a blind Audrey Hepburn in the 1967 film "Wait Until Dark". - Wendy Wasserstein
Wendy Wasserstein was an award-winning American playwright and an Andrew Dickson White Professor-at-Large at Cornell University. She was the recipient of the Tony Award for Best Play and the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. - Roger Vadim
Roger Vadim, born Roger Vladimir Plemiannikov was a French journalist, author, actor, screenwriter, director, and producer who launched Brigitte Bardot's career in the film "And God Created Woman". The scene of Bardot dancing barefoot on a table remains one of the most erotic scenes in French cinema. - Joe Glazer
Joe Glazer (1918-September 19, 2006), closely associated with labor unions and often referred to as the "labor's troubadour," was a folk musician who recorded more than thirty albums over the course of his career. Born in New York City, Glazer was a graduate of Brooklyn College. He eventually moved to Akron, Ohio where he performed for the United Rubber Workers throughout his career, a union for which he served as education director from 1950 to 1962. - Junior Wells
"Junior Wells", born Amos Blakemore, was a blues vocalist and harmonica player based in Chicago who was famous for playing with Muddy Waters, Buddy Guy, Magic Sam, Lonnie Brooks, The Rolling Stones and Van Morrison. - Richard Harris
Sir Richard St. John Harris was an Irish actor, singer and songwriter. He was featured on stage and in many films, and was perhaps best known for the film role of King Arthur in "Camelot" (1967) and for the portrayal of Albus Dumbledore in "Harry Potter and the Sorcerers Stone" (2001) and "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets" (2002), his last film. He also played a British aristocrat and prisoner in "A Man Called Horse" (1970). - Andrew Raven
Andrew Owen Earle Raven (22 January 1959 - 5 October 2005), was a Scottish conservationist and an influential contributor to modern land policy in Scotland. The eldest son of a family of Oxbridge professors and bankers, he developed professional expertise in land management. He was a trustee of the John Muir Trust from 1989 to 1995, a time when the charity started to acquire land in the Scottish Highlands. In 1995 he became their Director of Land Management. - Louis Malle
Louis Malle (October 30 1932 - November 23 1995) was an Academy Award nominated French film director, working in both French and English. - Charles Lindbergh
Charles Augustus Lindbergh (4 February 1902 - 26 August 1974), known as "Lucky Lindy" and "The Lone Eagle," was an American pilot famous for the first solo, non-stop flight across the Atlantic, from Roosevelt Field, Long Island, NY to Paris in 1927 in the "Spirit of St. Louis." In the ensuing deluge of notoriety, Lindbergh became the world's best-known aviator. Charles Lindbergh is a recipient of the Medal of Honor. In the years prior to World War II, … - Henry Fok
Henry Fok Ying Tung was a Hong Kong businessman. He has ancestral roots in Nansha, Panyu, now part of Guangzhou, Guangdong). Originally named Fok Koon Tai (霍官泰), he was the vice-chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference of PRC since March 1993, and was possibly the most powerful Hongkonger in the politics of the People's Republic of China. - Neil Bogart
Neil Bogart was an American record executive. He is perhaps best known as the founder of Casablanca Records, with Peter Guber. He was born Neil E. Bogatz in Brooklyn, New York. He was a singer in the 1960s, using the name "Neil Scott", prior to running the Michigan offices of Cameo-Parkway Records. After Cameo-Parkway was shut down by the government for stock fraud in 1968, Bogart became an executive at Buddah Records. - Don Durant
Don Durant (November 20, 1932-March 15, 2005), American singer and actor. Born Donald Allison Durae in Long Beach, California, Durant's father was killed in a truck accident two months before; his mother remarried three times before her death in 1949. Durant himself was seriously injured a few weeks before his eleventh birthday, when his bicycle chain broke and he careened into the path of a cement truck. He was in a coma for three days, his right arm fractured, … - Dan Rowan
Daniel Hale (Dan) Rowan (July 22, 1922 - September 22, 1987) was an American comedian. He was featured in the television show "Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In", where he played straight man to Dick Martin. Born in the small town of Beggs, Oklahoma, Rowan toured with his parents in a carnival in a singing and dancing act. He was orphaned at age 11 and adopted in Denver, Colorado. After graduating from high school, he moved to Los Angeles, … - James O. Freedman
James Oliver Freedman (September 21, 1935 - March 21, 2006) was a career academic administrator. A graduate of Harvard College and Yale Law School, he would briefly serve as Dean of the University of Pennsylvania Law School; as the sixteenth president of the University of Iowa from 1982 to 1987; and as the fifteenth president of Dartmouth College, from 1987 to 1998. Freedman self-consciously tried to create at both Iowa and Dartmouth, … - Howard Rollins
Howard Ellsworth Rollins, Jr. (October 17, 1950-December 8, 1996) was an American actor. Born in Baltimore, Maryland, he studied theater at Towson State College. In the late 1960s he played the role of "Slick" in the Maryland Public Television Series "Our Street," the nation's first black soap opera. He got his start in acting in a production of "Of Mice and Men" directed by his friend Steve Yeager. - Joseph Coors
Joseph Coors, was the grandson of Adolph Coors and an heir to the Coors beer empire. Coors graduated from Cornell University in 1939 with a degree in chemical engineering, staying to earn a master's degree in 1940. His brother Adolph Coors III and cousin Dallas Morse Coors were his classmates, and all three were members of the Quill and Dagger society. Coors served one term as a regent of the University of Colorado, … - Adam Williams
Adam Williams (b. November 26, 1924 d. December 4, 2006) is an American film and television actor. Williams had a few notable roles including playing Larry, a car bomber, in "The Big Heat" (1953). In 1952, Williams played the lead role as Los Angeles woman killer in "Without Warning!". Other notable roles include the henchman who fell off Mount Rushmore in "North by Northwest" and the psychiatrist in "Fear Strikes Out". - Mohammad Reza Pahlavi
Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, Shah of Iran (October 26, 1919, Tehran – July 27, 1980, Cairo), styled His Imperial Majesty, and holding the imperial titles of Shahanshah ("King of Kings"), and Aryamehr ("Light of the Aryans"), was the monarch of Iran from September 16, 1941 until the Iranian Revolution on February 11, 1979. He was the second monarch of the Pahlavi dynasty and the last Shah of the Iranian monarchy. - Jeff Macnelly
Jeffrey Kenneth MacNelly was a three time Pulitzer Prize winning editorial cartoonist, the creator of the immensely popular comic strip, "Shoe", and an artist whose fine art paintings, prints and sculptures manage to convey both his superb draftsmanship and his unique view of the world in which he lived. Jeff’s talents generated both admiration and respect. In June 2000, Lawrence Van Gelder wrote in the NY Times, “Mr. - Joey Ramone
Joey Ramone (May 19 1951 – April 15 2001), born as Jeffry Ross Hyman, was a vocalist and songwriter best known for his work in the legendary punk rock group the Ramones. He and bandmate Johnny Ramone (né John Cummings) were the only two original members who stayed with the band until their retirement in 1996. Hyman stood at 6 ft. 6 in. (1.98 meters) tall, … - Harry James
Harry Haag James was a popular United States musician and band leader, and a well-known trumpet virtuoso. Harry James was born in Albany, Georgia, the son of a bandleader of a traveling circus. By age 10 he was taking trumpet lessons from his father. His father had him on a very strict practicing schedule every day. He was given one page to learn out of the Arban's book every day and could not do anything until he learned that page.
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