- Steve McQueen
Steve McQueen (March 24, 1930 - November 7, 1980) was an Academy Award-nominated American movie actor, nicknamed "The King of Cool". He was one of the biggest box-office draws of the 1960s and 1970s due to a popular "anti-hero" persona. McQueen was combative with directors and producers; regardless, he was able to command large salaries and was in high demand. - Paul Gleason
Paul Xavier Gleason was an American film and television actor. He was born in Jersey City, New Jersey and was raised in Miami. He attended North Miami High School and Florida State University where he played football. He was signed to a minor league baseball contract by the Cleveland Indians, but never made it into the big leagues. - Bob Miner
Bob Miner (1942-1994) co-founded Software Development Labs in August 1977 with Larry Ellison, and Ed Oates. Software Development Labs later became Oracle Corporation. If Larry Ellison was the brain behind Oracle, Bob Miner was its heart. Bob was a co-founder and a well-liked manager for over two decades. He grew up in an Assyrian family in Cicero, Illinois. He graduated in mathematics in 1963 from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. - Warren Zevon
Warren William Zevon (January 24, 1947 - September 7, 2003) was an American rock and roll musician and songwriter. He was noted for his offbeat, sardonic view of life which was reflected in his dark, sometimes humorous songs, which often incorporated political or historical themes. - Paul Rudolph
Paul Marvin Rudolph (October 23, 1918 in Elkton, Kentucky - August 8, 1997 in New York, New York) was an American architect and the dean of the Yale School of Architecture for six years, known for his cubist building designs and highly complex floor plans. His most famous work is the Yale Art and Architecture Building (A&A Building), a spatially complex Brutalist concrete structure. - Elmo R. Zumwalt Jr.
Elmo Russell Zumwalt, Jr. (November 29, 1920 - January 2, 2000) was an American naval leader and the youngest man to serve as Chief of Naval Operations. As an admiral and later the 19th Chief of Naval Operations in the U.S. Navy, Zumwalt played a major part in the Vietnam War. A highly decorated war veteran, Zumwalt reformed Naval personnel policies in an effort to improve enlisted life and ease racial tensions. After he retired from a 32-year Navy career, … - Mickie Most
Mickie Most, born Michael Peter Hayes , was a successful English record producer, notably with a string of Number One hit singles with his own RAK Records, and with acts such as The Animals, Herman's Hermits, Donovan, and Suzi Quatro. - Bob Bellear
Bob Bellear (1944 - March 15, 2005) was the first Indigenous Australian judge. Bellear was born in the far north-east of New South Wales, and grew up near the town of Mullumbimby. His grandfather was a Vanuatuan man who was blackbirded to Australia to work on a sugar plantation, and his grandmother was an Aboriginal Australian woman from Minjerribah (also known as Stradbroke Island) in Queensland. His other grandfather had been blackbirded from the Solomon Islands. - Michael G. Coney
Michael Greatrex Coney (September 28, 1932 - November 4, 2005) was a British science fiction writer who spent his last years in Canada. Born in Birmingham, England on September 28, 1932, he moved to Vancouver, British Columbia in 1972. He died at age 73 of mesothelioma, a cancer of the lungs, on November 4, 2005 at the Saanich Peninsula Hospital palliative care unit. - George Hunt
George Hunt (born February 27 1922 in Haydon Wick, Swindon) was a football Right Back. He left school at the age of 14 and began work in the Great Western Railway Works. Hunt originally played football as an amateur for local team Ferndale Athletic, but joined the Army on the outbreak of World War II. During the war he served in the Middle East and alongside the Desert Rats. - Jack Marks
Jack Marks (February 11 1927 - February 27 2007) was a Canadian police officer. He became a Toronto police officer in 1951 after military service and a career as an electrician. Marks was working a night shift on December 31 1956, when police forces across the city united to become one. He served as chief of the Metro Toronto Police from 1984 to 1989. Marks was at police headquarters again on January 1 2007, despite his illness, for the force's 50th anniversary. - Ann Ebsworth
Ann Marian Ebsworth DBE (19 May 1937 - April 2002) was a British barrister and judge. In 1992, she became the sixth female High Court judge, and the first to be assigned to the Queen's Bench Division. Ebsworth's father, Arthur Ebsworth, was an officer in the Royal Marines. She was educated at Notre Dame Convent in Worth and Portsmouth High School, and read history at the University of London. She was called to the Bar at Gray's Inn in 1962, where she was later a bencher. - Bruce Vento
Bruce Frank Vento, American politician, was a Democratic-Farmer-Labor member of the United States House of Representatives from 1977 until his death in 2000, in the 95th, 96th, 97th, 98th, 99th, 100th, 101st, 102nd, 103rd, 104th, 105th, and 106th congresses, representing the 4th District of Minnesota. Vento was born in Saint Paul, Minnesota, and was educated at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, where he received his BA in 1961.
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