- John von Neumann
John von Neumann (born Margittai Neumann János Lajos on December 28, 1903 in Budapest, Austria-Hungary; died February 8, 1957 in Washington D.C., United States) was a Austria-Hungary-born American mathematician who made contributions to quantum physics, functional analysis, set theory, topology, economics, computer science, numerical analysis, hydrodynamics (of explosions), … - Brede Arkless
Brede Arkless, nee Boyle (10 August 1939 - 18 March 2006), was a leading female climber and mountaineer, and was actively involved in the all-women's climbing movement. She was born in Manchester, United Kingdom, of Dublin parents. In 1964 she married fellow mountaineer Geoff Arkless, and together they started a mountain school in Wales. She made several all-women trips to the greater ranges, whilst still being able to rear eight children. - Richard Dean
Richard Dean (born "Richard Cowen" in Bethesda, Maryland — (1956 - December 27, 2006) at Beth Israel Medical Center in New York) was an athlete, model and photographer. He also co-hosted a television makeover show, "Cover Shot", on the American cable TV network TLC. Dean attended Winston Churchill High School in Potomac, Maryland and the Lawrenceville School in Princeton, New Jersey. He attended the University of Delaware on a football scholarship and, … - Ken Kennedy
American computer scientist Ken Kennedy (August 12,1945 - February 7,2007) was a professor at Rice University, and the founding chairman of Rice's Computer Science Department. Kennedy directed the construction of several substantial software systems for programming parallel computers, including an automatic vectorizer for Fortran 77, an integrated scientific programming environment, compilers for Fortran 90 and High Performance Fortran, … - Winthrop Rockefeller
Winthrop A. Rockefeller (May 1, 1912 - February 22, 1973), was a politician and philanthropist who served as the first Republican Governor of Arkansas since Reconstruction. He was a third-generation member of the renowned Rockefeller family. - Marcello Mastroianni
Marcello Vincenzo Domenico Mastroianni (September 28, 1924 - December 19, 1996) was an Academy Award nominated Italian film actor. Born in Fontana Liri, a small village in the Apennines, Mastroianni grew up in Turin and Rome. During World War II he was interned in a Nazi prison, but he escaped and hid in Venice. In 1945 he started working for a film company and began taking acting lessons. His film debut was in "I Miserabili" (1947). - Harvey Martin
Harvey Banks Martin (born November 16, 1950 in Dallas, Texas; died December 24, 2001) was a defensive end for the Dallas Cowboys from 1973 until 1983. He started playing football in high school, only because he overheard his father tell his mother that he was ashamed that his son didn't play like his friends' kids. He eventually starred at South Oak Cliff High School and East Texas State University before being drafted in the third round of the 1973 NFL draft. - Juliet Prowse
Juliet Prowse (September 25, 1936 - September 14, 1996) was a British-American dancer and actress who was born in Bombay, India, to South African parents. Prowse began studying dance at the age of four. In her early twenties she was dancing at a club in Paris when she was spotted by a talent agent and eventually signed to play the part of Claudine in the 1960 Walter Lang film, Can-Can. - Cholly Atkins
Charles "Cholly" Atkins (September 13 1913 - April 19 2003) was an African American dancer and vaudeville performer, who later became noted as the house choreographer for the various artists on the Motown label. A native of Pratt City, Alabama, Atkins first found fame as one-half of a top vaudeville tap dancing act with partner Charles "Honi" Coles. After working as a freelance choreographer for The Miracles, … - M. Scott Peck
Morgan Scott Peck was an American psychiatrist and best-selling author. He earned his bachelor's degree from Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, did premedical studies at Columbia University in New York City, and received his medical degree from Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio. He served in the U.S. Army and rose to the rank of lieutenant colonel. - Henry Mancini
Henry Mancini (April 16, 1924 - June 14, 1994), was an Academy Award winning American composer, conductor and arranger. He is remembered particularly for being a composer of film and television scores. Mancini also won a record number of Grammy awards, including a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 1995. His best-known work is the jazz-idiom theme to "The Pink Panther" film series. - Elizabeth Bates
Elizabeth Bates (July 26, 1947 - December 13, 2003) was professor of cognitive science at the University of California, San Diego. Bates was a founding member of the UCSD department of Cognitive Science, the first such department in the United States. She was also the director of the UCSD Center of Research in Language and the co-director of the SDSU/UCSD Joint Doctoral Program in Language and Communication Disorders. - Albert Schatz
Albert Schatz (2 February, 1920 - 17 January, 2005) was a scientist who was eventually named the co-discoverer of streptomycin, an antibiotic remedy used to treat tuberculosis and a number of other diseases. Schatz managed to isolate two strains of Actinobacteria, which could effectively cease the growth of several penicillin-resistant bacteria, on October 19 1943 in the course of his graduate work at Cook College in Rutgers University. - Steve James
Steve James was an American actor. He starred mostly in low-budget action films such as the "American Ninja" series, "The Delta Force" (1986), "The Exterminator" (1980), and "Enter the Game of Death" (1978). James also starred as Kung Fu Joe in the 1988 comedy/spoof "I'm Gonna Git You Sucka". His uncle was James Wall, who played Mr. Baxter on "Captain Kangaroo". James was born and raised in New York City. - Richard Rorty
Richard McKay Rorty was an American philosopher. Rorty's long and diverse career saw him working in Philosophy, Humanities, and Literature departments. His complex intellectual background gave him a comprehensive and nuanced understanding of the analytical tradition he would later famously reject. - Anna Magnani
Anna Magnani (March 7, 1908 - September 26, 1973) was an Academy Award-winning Italian actress, with stage experience. - Ralph Ellison
Ralph Ellison (March 1, 1913 - April 16, 1994) was a scholar and writer. He was born Ralph Waldo Ellison in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, named by his father after Ralph Waldo Emerson. Ellison was best known for his novel "Invisible Man" (ISBN 0-679-60139-2), which won the National Book Award in 1953. He also wrote "Shadow and Act" (1964), a collection of political, social and critical essays, and "Going to the Territory" (1986). - Jerry Juhl
Jerry Juhl was a television and movie writer best known for his work with Jim Henson's Muppets. He was born in St. Paul, Minnesota. He was originally recruited by Henson as a puppeteer and writer on "Sam and Friends", but focused increasingly on writing as other puppeteers, such as Frank Oz, joined the Henson stable. Juhl was a writer on "The Muppet Show" (and head writer from the second season on), "Fraggle Rock", and "The Jim Henson Hour", … - Guy vander Jagt
Guy Adrian Vander Jagt was a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Michigan. Vander Jagt (pronounced "van-der-jack") was born in Cadillac, Michigan to Marie and Harry Vander Jagt, a Dutch immigrant. Harry was a rancher, and as a youth, Guy worked on the family's 120-acre farm near Cadillac. His talent for public speaking emerged as he began preaching at the Tustin Presbyterian Church while still a student at Cadillac High School. - Yon Hyong-Muk
Yon Hyong-muk, also spelt as Yong Hyong-muk (born November 3, 1931; died October 23, 2005) was a longserving politician in North Korea and at the height of his career the most powerful person in that country outside the Kim family. He was premier of North Korea from 1989 until 1992. He was born in Kyongwon County and had a strong revolutionary background in his family. Although details about his early childhood are not well-known, … - Pavel Dostál
Pavel Dostál was a Minister of Culture in the Czech Republic, known for his dynamic personality and his advocacy of social justice. Born in Olomouc, North Moravia in 1943, Dostal took an early interest in theatre. In 1966, he put aside his technician trade in order to become the artistic director of the Experimental Theatre in Olomouc. For the next few years, he was active as a theatre producer, and a writer of plays, TV scripts, and magazine columns. - Philip Yordan
Philip Yordan (April 1, 1914 - March 24, 2003) was a popular and talented screenwriter of the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s. He was also known as a highly regarded script doctor, called in to rewrite and repair flawed screenplays. Born to Polish immigrants, he earned a bachelor's degree at the University of Illinois and a law degree at Chicago-Kent College of Law. Some of his films include "The Chase" (1946), "Whistle Stop" (1946), "House of Strangers" (1949), … - Michael Landon
Michael Landon (October 31, 1936 - July 1, 1991) was an American actor, writer, director, and producer, who starred in three popular NBC TV series that spanned three decades. He is widely known for his roles as Little Joe Cartwright in "Bonanza" (1959-1973), Charles Ingalls in "Little House on the Prairie" (1974-1982), and Jonathan Smith in "Highway to Heaven" (1984-1989). - Jacques Derrida
Jacques Derrida (July 15, 1930 - October 8, 2004) was an Algerian-born French philosopher, known as the founder of deconstruction. His voluminous work had a profound impact upon continental philosophy, French philosophy, and literary theory. - Billy Carter
William Alton "Billy" Carter (March 29, 1937 - September 25, 1988) was the younger brother of United States President Jimmy Carter, born in Plains, Georgia. For a time, Carter attended Emory University in Atlanta but did not complete a degree. Carter served four years in the United States Marine Corps then returned to Plains to work for his older brother in the family business of growing peanuts. In 1955, he married Sybil Spires, a young lady from Plains. - René Magritte
René François Ghislain Magritte was a Belgian surrealist artist. He became well known for a number of witty and amusing images - Bryce Dewitt
Bryce Seligman DeWitt (January 8,1923 - September 23, 2004) was a theoretical physicist best known for formulating canonical quantum gravity, one of the first approaches to quantizing general relativity; for formulating the Wheeler-deWitt equation for the wavefunction of the universe with John Archibald Wheeler; and for advancing the formulation of the Hugh Everett's many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics. - Robert E. Gross
Robert Ellsworth Gross was an American businessman involved in the field of aviation. His first venture, the Viking Flying Boat Company, failed with the loss of the aircraft market brought on by the Great Depression. Gross was born in Newton, Massachusetts. In 1932, a group of investors led by Robert and his brother Courtland bought the Lockheed Aircraft Company from the bankrupt Detroit Aircraft Corporation, renaming it the Lockheed Corporation. - Art Fleming
Art Fleming (May 1 1924 - April 25 1995) was the original host of the TV game show "Jeopardy!" - Etta Moten Barnett
Etta Moten Barnett, (November 5, 1901 - January 2, 2004) was an African American actress and singer (contralto). She was born in Weimar, Texas, the daughter of a Methodist minister. She married one of her high school teachers and had three daughters, but the marriage faltered. Etta Moten then attended Western University in Quindaro, Kansas and then completed her education at the University of Kansas, graduating with a Bachleors of Art in voice and drama, … - Cecil Day-Lewis
Cecil Day-Lewis (or Day Lewis) CBE (27 April 1904 - 22 May 1972) was a British poet, the British Poet Laureate from 1967 to 1972, and, under the pseudonym of Nicholas Blake, a mystery writer. - Webb Pierce
Webb Pierce (born August 8, 1921 - February 24, 1991) was an American country music singer. Born Webb Michael Pierce in West Monroe, Louisiana, he became a star performer on the Louisiana Hayride and one of country music's most popular honky tonk songsters. He was a regular performer on the Grand Ole Opry in Nashville, Tennessee. His biggest hit, 1953's "There Stands the Glass" is regarded as one of country's all-time classic "drinking songs". - Ruth Carter Stapleton
Ruth Carter Stapleton (August 7, 1929- September 26, 1983) was the sister of Jimmy Carter and was known in her own right as a Christian evangelist. She died of pancreatic cancer in 1983. Ruth was born August 7, 1929, in Plains, Georgia, the third of the four children in the family of James Earl Carter, Sr. and Lillian Gordy Carter. Besides the former president, Stapleton had an older sister, Gloria (1926-1990) and a younger brother, Billy, (1937-1988). - Brock Peters
Brock Peters (July 2, 1927 - August 23, 2005), born George Fisher in New York City, was an African American actor probably best known for the role in the 1962 film "To Kill a Mockingbird" of Tom Robinson, the black man unjustly convicted of raping a white girl. Born of African and West Indian parentage in New York City, Brock Peters set his sights on a show business career early on, at age ten. A product of NYC's famed Music and Arts High School, … - Russell Churney
Russell Churney was an English composer, pianist, arranger and musical director. He was also a member of the legendary comedy/cabaret group Fascinating Aïda. He was brother to Ooberman keyboardist and vocalist Sophia Churney. Born Lindsay Russell Churney in Liverpool, Churney was educated at Merchant Taylors' School in Great Crosby and Trinity College, Cambridge. He spent seven years working with the comedian Julian Clary, … - Mark Goodson
Mark Goodson (January 14, 1915 - December 18, 1992) was an accomplished American television producer who specialized in game shows. - Robert E. Webber
Robert E. Webber (1933 - 2007) was an American theologian known for his work on worship and the early church. He played a key role in the Convergence Movement, a move among evangelical and charismatic churches in the United States to blend charismatic worship with liturgies from the Book of Common Prayer and other liturgical sources. - Dick Cusack
Richard John "Dick" Cusack (August 29, 1925 - June 2, 2003) was an Irish-American actor and filmmaker. - Marian McCargo
Marian McCargo Bell was a former tennis champ who later found success in film and television. Born in Pittsburgh, McCargo attended Boston's West Hills College before winning the Wightman Cup. She defeated Mo Connelly at Forest Hills in 1950, then later won the State Senior Tennis Championship in doubles. In 1951, she married Richard Cantrell Moses, who later became an advertising executive in Los Angeles. They had four sons. - Seretse Khama
Sir Seretse Khama KBE (July 1 1921 - July 13 1980) was the first President of Botswana.
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