- Dana Reeve
Dana Reeve (March 17 1961 - March 6 2006) was an American actress, singer, and activist for disability causes. She was also the wife of actor Christopher Reeve. - George Harrison
George Harrison, MBE (25 February 1943 – 29 November 2001) was an Academy Award and Grammy Award-winning English rock guitarist, singer, songwriter, author and sitarist best known as the lead guitarist of The Beatles. Following the band's demise, Harrison had a successful career as a solo artist and later as part of the Traveling Wilburys super group where he was known as both Nelson Wilbury and Spike Wilbury. - Peter Boyle
Peter Lawrence Boyle (October 18, 1935 - December 12, 2006) was an Emmy Award-winning American actor who is perhaps best known for his role as Frank Barone on the sitcom "Everybody Loves Raymond". He is also well known for his roles in the 1974 film, "Young Frankenstein" and "Taxi Driver" in 1976. He won praise for both comedic and dramatic roles following his breakthrough performance in the 1970 film "Joe". - Preston Martin
Dr. Preston Martin (born December 4 1923 - died May 30 2007) was an American banker and public official best known as the Vice Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board between 1982 and 1986. - Don Herbert
Donald Jeffry Herbert (born Donald Herbert Kemske; July 10 1917 - June 12 2007), better known as "Mr. Wizard", was the host of two popular television shows about science aimed at children. - Molly Ivins
Mary Tyler "Molly" Ivins (August 30 1944 - January 31 2007) was an American newspaper columnist, political commentator, and best-selling author from Austin, Texas. - Ann Landers
Esther "Eppie" Pauline Friedman Lederer, better known as Ann Landers (July 4, 1918 - June 22, 2002), was best known for writing the famous syndicated advice column "Ann Landers." For some 45 years, it was a regular feature in many newspapers across North America. In it, people wrote the columnist for advice and she answered. Lederer's writing style was direct, but often witty and sometimes acerbic. - Gordon Parks
Gordon Roger Alexander Buchannan Parks (November 30, 1912 - March 7, 2006) was a groundbreaking African-American photographer, musician, poet, novelist, journalist, activist and film director. He is best remembered for his photo essays for "Life" magazine and as the director of the 1971 film "Shaft". - Brian Hall
Brian Hall (November 20, 1937 in Brighton - September 17, 1997 in Worthing, West Sussex) was an English actor perhaps best known for his role in the British sitcom "Fawlty Towers" where he played the hotel chef Terry. He also played leading roles in police drama "Softly, Softly" (1966), crime drama "McVicar" (1980), and sitcom "You Must Be The Husband" (1987). He played several guest-starring roles including "The Professionals", … - John Martin
John Martin was a Canadian broadcaster, credited with "almost single-handedly" creating music television in Canada. - John Martin
John Martin, was an oceanographer Born in Old Lyme, Connecticut, he is best known for his research on the role of iron as a phytoplankton micronutrient, and its significance for so-called "High-Nutrient, Low Chlorophyll" regions of the oceans. He is also known for advocating the use of iron fertilization to enhance oceanic primary production to act as a sink for fossil fuel carbon dioxide. John Martin died from prostate cancer at the age of 58. - Liz Claiborne
Anne Elisabeth Jane "Liz" Claiborne (March 31 1929 - June 26 2007) was a Belgian-born American fashion designer and entrepreneur. Claiborne is best known for founding Liz Claiborne Inc. which in 1986 became the first company founded by a woman to make the Fortune 500. - Oliver
William Oliver Swofford (February 22, 1945-February 12, 2000), known as Oliver, was an American pop singer. Born in North Wilkesboro, North Carolina, he began singing as an undergraduate at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in the early 1960s. He was a member of two music groups: The Virginians and, later, The Good Earth. - Hubert Humphrey
Hubert Horatio Humphrey, Jr. was the thirty-eighth Vice President of the United States, serving under President Lyndon Johnson. Humphrey twice served as a United States Senator from Minnesota, and served as Democratic Majority Whip. He was a founder of the Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party and Americans for Democratic Action. He also served as mayor of Minneapolis, Minnesota, 1945–1949. - Anna Moffo
The American soprano Anna Moffo (born on June 27, 1932 - March 9, 2006) was an opera soprano primarily active in the 1960s. During her heyday, Moffo was much admired for the purity of her voice and her great physical beauty. Moffo was born in Wayne, Pennsylvania. After graduating from Radnor High School, she was offered the opportunity to go to Hollywood to make films, but turned that down because of her intention to become a nun. - John Foster Dulles
John Foster Dulles (February 25, 1888 - May 24, 1959) served as U.S. Secretary of State under President Dwight D. Eisenhower from 1953 to 1959. He was a significant figure in the early Cold War era, advocating an aggressive stance against communism around the world. He advocated support of the French in their war against the Viet Minh in Indochina and famously refused to shake the hand of Zhou Enlai at the Geneva Conference in 1954. - 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, … - James Baldwin
James Arthur Baldwin was an American novelist, short story writer, playwright, poet, and essayist, best known for his novel "Go Tell It on the Mountain". Most of Baldwin's work deals with racial and sexual issues in the mid-20th century United States. - Laurence Olivier
Laurence Kerr Olivier, Baron Olivier, OM (22 May 1907 - 11 July 1989) was an Academy Award, Golden Globe, BAFTA and four-time Emmy winning English actor, director, and producer. Olivier's Academy acknowledgments are considerable—fourteen Oscar nominations, with two wins for Best Actor and Best Picture for the 1948 film "Hamlet", and two honorary awards including a statuette and certificate. He was also awarded five Emmy awards from the nine nominations he received. - Ann Miller
Ann Miller was an American dancer, singer and actress, who was christened Johnnie Lucille Collier. Born in Chireno, Texas (some sources cite Houston, where she was raised), her father insisted on the name Johnnie because he had wanted a boy, but she was often called Annie. She took up dancing to exercise her legs to help her rickets. She was considered a child dance prodigy. - John Gunther
John Gunther was an American journalist and author whose success came primarily in the 1940s and 1950s with a series of popular sociopolitical works known as the "Inside" books. He is best known today for the memoir "Death Be Not Proud" about the death of his teenage son, Johnny Gunther, from a brain tumor. - Nina Simone
Eunice Kathleen Waymon, better known as Nina Simone, was an American singer, songwriter, pianist, and civil rights activist. Although she disliked being categorized, Simone is generally classified as a jazz musician. Her work covers an eclectic variety of musical styles, such as jazz, soul, folk, R&B, gospel, and even pop music. Her vocal style is characterized by passion, breathiness, and tremolo. Simone recorded over 40 live and studio albums, … - Paul Mitchell
Paul Mitchell (born Cyril Thomson Mitchell on January 27, 1936 in Scotland) was a famous hairdresser and founder of the hair care product company known as John Paul Mitchell Systems. Mitchell enrolled in beauty school at age sixteen, and after completing his five year apprenticeship began working at various hair salons, following in his mothers footsteps. He won multiple hairstyling competitions and then joined Vidal Sassoon in the 1960s, … - Garry Betty
Charles Garrett "Garry" Betty (4 March [[1957] - 2 January 2007) was President and CEO of EarthLink, a large American Internet service provider, from 1996 until his death. Betty was born in Huntsville, Alabama and grew up in Columbus, Georgia. He attended the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, Georgia where he received a bachelor's degree in chemical engineering in 1979. - David Wright
David John Murray Wright (1920-1994) was an author and "an acclaimed South African-born poet - Oriana Fallaci
Oriana Fallaci (June 29 1929 - September 15 2006) was an Italian journalist, author, and political interviewer. A former partisan during World War II, she died in her native Florence, Italy, at age 77. She was called "our most celebrated female writer" by Ferruccio De Bortoli, former director of the newspaper "Corriere della Sera". - Jim Valvano
James Thomas Anthony Valvano, nicknamed Jimmy V, was an American college basketball coach. While the head coach at North Carolina State University, he won the 1983 NCAA National Championship. Valvano is remembered for running up and down the court after winning the 1983 NCAA championship, seemingly in disbelief and looking for someone to hug. - Tommy Douglas
Thomas Clement Douglas, PC, CC, SOM, MA, LL.D (hc) (October 20, 1904 - February 24, 1986) was a Scottish-born Baptist minister who became a prominent Canadian social democratic politician. As leader of the Saskatchewan Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (CCF) from 1942 and the seventh Premier of Saskatchewan from 1944 to 1961, he led the first socialist government in North America and introduced universal public medicare to Canada. - Michael Powell
Michael Latham Powell (September 30 1905 - February 19 1990) was a British film director, renowned for his partnership with Emeric Pressburger which produced a series of classic British films. Powell was born in Bekesbourne, Kent, and educated at The King's School, Canterbury and then at Dulwich College. - Gene Autry
Orvon Gene Autry (September 29 1907 - October 2 1998) was an American performer who gained fame as The Singing Cowboy on the radio, in movies and on television. - Solomon King
Solomon King (born Allen Levy, 1932, Lexington, Kentucky - died 21 January 2005), was a 1960s and 1970s popular music singer. King was originally a backing singer, who was the first white singer to tour with blues legend Billie Holiday, as well working with Elvis Presley's backing group The Jordanaires. He first started singing professionally in 1952. His first pseudonym, Randy Leeds, was uninspired and his records such as "I'm Gonna Live Til I Die" did not sell. - Neville Chamberlain
Arthur Neville Chamberlain (18 March 1869 - 9 November 1940), known as Neville Chamberlain, was a British Conservative politician and Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1937 to 1940. Chamberlain's legacy is marked by his policy of appeasement towards Nazi Germany regarding the concession of Czechoslovakia to Adolf Hitler, marked by the Munich Agreement in 1938. In the same year he also gave up the Irish Free State Royal Navy ports. - Charlie Norwood
Charles Whitlow Norwood, Jr. was an American politician and dentist, serving as a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from 1995 until his death. At the time of his death, Norwood was the Representative of the 10th District of Georgia - David Lean
Sir David Lean KBE (March 25, 1908 - April 16, 1991) was an English film director and producer, best remembered for big-screen epics such as "Lawrence of Arabia", "The Bridge on the River Kwai", and "Doctor Zhivago". He was voted 9th best director of all time in the BFI "Directors Top Directors" poll 2002. - Cicely Saunders
Dame Cicely Mary Saunders, OM, DBE (June 22 1918 in Barnet, Hertfordshire, England - July 14 2005 at St Christopher's Hospice, South London, England) was a prominent English nurse, physician and writer, involved with many international universities. She is best known for her role in the birth of the hospice movement, emphasizing the importance of palliative care in modern medicine. She was an Anglican by religious conviction. - R. W. Apple Jr.
Raymond Walter Apple, Jr. (November 20 1934 - October 4 2006), known to all as "Johnny", but bylined as R.W. Apple, was an associate editor at "The New York Times", where he wrote on a variety of subjects, most notably politics, travel, and food. Born in Akron, Ohio, Apple graduated from Western Reserve Academy, a private, coeducational boarding school in the small town of Hudson, Ohio, where he first practiced journalism at the school's newspaper, … - Brian Piccolo
Louis Brian Piccolo (October 31, 1943 - June 16, 1970) was a professional football player for the Chicago Bears for four seasons. He died from embryonal cell carcinoma, which was found as a large tumor in his chest cavity. He was the subject of the 1971 TV movie "Brian's Song". Piccolo was portrayed in the original film by James Caan and by Sean Maher in the 2001 remake. - Roger Needham
Roger Michael Needham CBE FREng FRS (9 February, 1935 - 1 March, 2003) was a British computer scientist. Needham began his undergraduate studies at the University of Cambridge in 1953, graduating with a B.A. in 1956 in mathematics and philosophy. His Ph.D. thesis was on applications of digital computers to the automatic classification and retrieval of documents. He worked on a variety of key computing projects in security, operating systems, … - Roger Maris
Roger Eugene Maris (September 10 1934 - December 14 1985) was an American right fielder in Major League Baseball who is primarily remembered for breaking Babe Ruth's 34-year-old single-season home run record in 1961 on the last day of the season. 37 years later, in the 1998 season, Mark McGwire broke his major league record by hitting 70. Maris remains the American League record holder as of the 2006 season. - Golda Meir
Golda Meir (born Golda Mabovitz on 3 May 1898, died December 8, 1978, also known as Golda Myerson from 1917-1956), was one of the founders of the State of Israel. Meir served as the Minister of Labour, Foreign Minister, and then as the fourth Prime Minister of Israel from March 17, 1969, to June 3, 1974. As the BBC put it, Golda Meir was the "Iron Lady" of Israeli politics years before the epithet was coined for Margaret Thatcher.
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