- Dick Cheney
Richard Bruce "Dick" Cheney (born January 30, 1941), is the forty-sixth and current Vice President of the United States, and President of the Senate selected by President George W. Bush. Previously, he served as White House Chief of Staff, member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Wyoming, and Secretary of Defense. In the private sector, he was the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Halliburton Energy Services. - John Smith
John Smith QC (13 September 1938 - 12 May 1994) was a Scottish politician who served as leader of the Labour Party from July 1992 until his sudden death from a heart attack on 12 May 1994. - Richard Pryor
Richard Franklin Lennox Thomas Pryor III (December 1, 1940 - December 10, 2005) was an American comedian, actor, and writer. Pryor was a storyteller known for unflinching examinations of racism and customs in modern life, and was well-known for his frequent use of colorful language, vulgarities, as well as such racial epithets as "nigga", "honky," "cracker" and "motherfucker." He reached a broad audience with his trenchant observations, … - Kenneth Lay
Kenneth Lee "Ken" Lay (April 15, 1942 - July 5, 2006) was an American businessman, best known for his role in the widely-reported corruption scandal that led to the downfall of Enron Corporation. Lay and Enron became synonymous with corporate abuse and accounting fraud when the scandal broke in 2001. Lay was the CEO and chairman of Enron from 1986 until his resignation on January 23, 2002, except for a few months in 2001 when he was chairman and Jeffrey Skilling was CEO. - Paul Young
Paul Young was a singer and percussionist who worked with several successful bands, including Sad Café and Mike + The Mechanics. He was affectionately nicknamed "Youngy" by his Mechanics bandmates Mike Rutherford and Paul Carrack (likely to avoid confusion with Carrack and the solo blue-eyed soul singer Paul Young, whose voice was similar to the late Young's). Paul Young was born in Benchill, Manchester, England. He died from a heart attack on July 15, 2000. - Jesse Malin
Jesse Malin (born January 26, 1968 in Whitestone, Queens, New York, USA) is a rock musician. He has played for various bands during their career such as Heart Attack and most notably D Generation. He is currently a solo recording artist. - Jimmy Johnson
Jimmy Johnson is an American comic strip cartoonist who writes "Arlo and Janis". He is an alumnus of Auburn University. As of 2006, despite the damage caused by Hurricane Katrina, he still owns a home in Pass Christian, Mississippi. On April 3, 2006, he suffered a mild heart attack. - Barry Sears
Barry Sears is a biochemist and nutrition scientist. He is most popular for creating and promoting the Zone diet, a diet aimed at achieving stable blood sugar levels and hormonal balance. The diet, Sears has stated in several of his books, was born of his desire to avoid dying of a heart attack, a fate that all other men in his family had been victims of. In more recent years, … - Warren G. Harding
Warren Gamaliel Harding (November 2, 1865 - August 2, 1923) was an American politician and the twenty-ninth President of the United States, from 1921 to 1923, when he became the sixth president to die in office. A Republican from Ohio, Harding was an influential newspaper publisher with a commanding presence and a flair for public speaking. He served in the Ohio Senate (1899-1903) and later as lieutenant governor of Ohio (1903-1905) and as a U.S. Senator (1915-1921). - Mike Davis
Michael Davis was an American professional wrestler best known as DJ of the tag team Rock 'n' Roll RPMs with Tommy Lane which lasted several years. The RPM's were one of the most well-known heel tag teams throughout the southern United States in promotions such as World Class. The Rock 'n' Roll RPMs were glorified for their finishing move "the Spandex Splits". The move was later outlawed due to extensive neck injuries. - Big Pun
Christopher Lee Rios (November 9 1971-February 7 2000), better known as Big Punisher or Big Pun, was a New York rapper of Puerto Rican descent who emerged from the underground rap scene in The Bronx in the late 1990s. He first appeared on albums from The Beatnuts on the track "Off the Books" and Fat Joe on Fat Joe's second album "J.O.E. (Jealous Ones Envy)", on the track "Watch Out", prior to signing to Loud Records as a solo artist. - James Anderson
James Anderson was an American supporting actor. He was best known as Bob Ewell, the distraught, mean-spirited father of the "alleged rape victim" in "To Kill a Mockingbird". He died of a heart attack in 1969. - Barbara Lee
Barbara Lee was a member of girl group the Chiffons. She was born on 16 May, 1947 in New York, and died, one day short of her 45th birthday, of a heart attack on 15 May, 1992. - Chris Taylor
Chris Taylor was an American freestyle wrestler who competed at 1972 Munich Olympics. At 412 pounds (187 kg) he was the heaviest Olympian ever. (This was well before weight limits were imposed on the highest level of amateur wrestling.) The 6 ft 5 in (196 cm) Taylor, wrestled for Dowagiac High School in Dowagiac, Michigan, Iowa State University (winning the NCAA heavyweight championship in 1972 by defeating Greg Wojciechowski), … - Cass Elliot
Cass Elliot, born Ellen Naomi Cohen, was a noted American singer, best remembered as Mama Cass of the pop quartet The Mamas & the Papas. After the group broke up, she had a successful solo career, releasing nine albums. Elliot was found dead in her hotel room in London from an apparent heart attack after two sold-out performances at the Palladium. - John Morgan
John Morgan (September 21, 1930 - November 15, 2004) was a British-born Canadian comedian. Born in Aberdare, Wales, United Kingdom, Morgan played numerous characters on the CBC sketch comedy television series "Royal Canadian Air Farce" from 1993 to 2001 and its predecessor on CBC Radio, including perpetually disgusted Scotsman Jock McBile, socialite Amy De La Pompa, and monosyllabic Mike from Canmore, … - Jim Cantalupo
James Richard Cantalupo was an American executive, serving as chairman and chief executive officer of McDonald's Corporation until his sudden death by heart attack at the age of 60. Born in Oak Park, Illinois, Cantalupo earned a degree in accounting from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he was admitted to the Zeta Psi fraternity. He became a certified public accountant and worked for Arthur Young for eight years before joining McDonald's. - Grant McLennan
Grant William McLennan (12 February, 1958 - 6 May, 2006) was an Australian singer-songwriter with the independent band The Go-Betweens, which he co-founded with Robert Forster in Brisbane, Australia in 1977. In a career spanning almost thirty years, his work with The Go-Betweens (1977-89, and resuming 2000-06) is complemented by several solo releases and side-project collaborations with other performers. - John Gregory Dunne
John Gregory Dunne (25 May 1932 - 30 December 2003) was an American novelist, screenwriter and literary critic. He was born in Hartford, Connecticut, and was a younger brother of author Dominick Dunne. He suffered from a severe stutter and took up writing to express himself. Eventually he learned to speak normally by observing others. He graduated from Princeton University in 1954 and worked as a journalist for "Time" magazine. - Peter Finch
Peter Finch was an English-born Australian actor. Born Frederick George Peter Ingle-Finch in London, he lived as a child in France and India, and finally in Australia, his parents' native country. There he grew up in Sydney. After finishing school, he worked in several badly paid jobs until he tried acting. He began in 1935 playing theatre roles, and also working in radio. In 1938, he appeared in his first film, "Dad and Dave Come to Town". - Ralph Wiley
Ralph Wiley was a sports journalist, writing for various publications, such as "Sports Illustrated" and espn.com's Page 2 section. Born in Memphis, Tennessee, Wiley attended Knoxville College from 1972-75, eventually landing his first professional journalism job at the "Knoxville-Kayana Spectrum". Upon graduation, Wiley earned a position at the "Oakland Tribune", … - David Jackson
David Jackson (15 July 1934 - 25 July 2005) was a British actor best known for his role as Olag Gan in Blake's 7's first two seasons and as Detective Constable Braithwaite in Z Cars from 1972-1978. His other credits include "The Saint", "The Avengers", "The Sweeney", "Space: 1999", "Minder", "Only Fools and Horses", "Wyatt's Watchdogs," "Edge of Darkness", "Coronation Street" and "Lovejoy". - Jean Mayer
Jean Mayer (February 19, 1920 - January 1, 1993) was a renowned French-American nutritionist and the tenth president of Tufts University from 1976 to 1992. During his lifetime, Mayer was known as a leading expert and activist on hunger issues. Mayer was the son of French physiologists Jeanne Eugenie Mayer and Andre Mayer, one of the founding members of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization. - John Nash
John Henry Nash (1906 - Pudsey 7 April 1977) was an English cricket administrator. John Nash was Secretary of Yorkshire County Cricket Club from 1931 until his retirement in 1971, when he was succeeded by Joe Lister. He became one of the most respected figures in cricket, making a host of friends throughout the world. - Steve Walsh
Steve Walsh (born 1959 - died 1988) was a disc jockey. He died in a car crash in Ibiza, Spain. Walsh began his radio career at the first Soul music Pirate radio station, Radio Invicta. From there he moved on to JFM, where his unique radio style first began to shine through. He then decided that if he was to further his career he would have to be completely legit. An opportunity came up at the new Independent Local Radio station, County Sound in Guildford. - John Hamilton
John Hamilton (January 16, 1886 - October 15, 1958) was an American actor, who appeared in many movies and television programs. He is probably best remembered for his role as the blustery newspaper editor Perry White on the 1950s television program "Adventures of Superman". - Simpleton
Simpleton (born Christopher Harrison, Saint Andrew Parish, Jamaica, 1971) was a Jamaican reggae DJ whose claim to fame was the 1992 hit single,"Coca Cola Bottle Shape." Simpleton released three reggae albums in the mid-1990's. After being virtually idle from the Jamaican music scene, Simpleton died from a heart attack on November 7, 2004 in Kingston, Jamaica. - William Castle
William Castle born William Schloss, was an American film director, producer, and actor. Born in New York City to a Jewish family, he spent most of his teenage years working on Broadway in a number of jobs ranging from set building to acting. This put him in a good stead to become a director, and he left for Hollywood at the age of 23, going on to direct his first film 6 years later. He also worked an as assistant to director Orson Welles, … - Harry Caray
Harry Caray (b. Harry Christopher Carabina, March 1, 1914, St. Louis, Missouri; d. February 18, 1998, Rancho Mirage, California) was a radio and TV broadcaster for four Major League Baseball teams, beginning with a long tenure doing the games of the St. Louis Cardinals and ending as the iconic announcer for the Chicago Cubs, both of the National League, … - Ted Demme
Ted Demme, born in New York, New York, was an American film director and producer. He grew up in Rockville Centre on Long Island, New York and attended South Side Senior High School. He was the nephew of movie producer and director Jonathan Demme. His career had modest beginnings - starting as a production assistant at MTV, he later created the cable network's seminal hip-hop show "Yo! MTV Raps" and directed other projects for them, … - Reggie Lewis
Reggie Lewis (November 21 1965 - July 27 1993) was a basketball player for the Boston Celtics from 1987-1993. He averaged 20.8 points per game in each of his last two seasons with the Celtics, and finished with a career average of 17.6 points per contest. His #35 jersey was retired by the Celtics as a memorial to him. Born in Baltimore, Lewis played his college ball in Boston at Northeastern University, … - Red Foley
Clyde Julian "Red" Foley was a country music singer. Foley was born in Blue Lick, Kentucky. He began playing the guitar and the harmonica as a young boy and at age seventeen he won first prize in a statewide talent show. Ultimately he signed with Decca Records in 1941. His hit songs include "Chattanooga Shoe Shine Boy", "Birmingham Bounce", "Old Shep", "Sugarfoot Rag", and "Tennessee Saturday Night". "Peace in the Valley", backed up by The Sunshine Boys, … - Pat Kelly
Harold Patrick (Pat) Kelly was a right fielder in Major League Baseball. From 1967 through 1981, Kelly played for the Minnesota Twins (1967-68), Kansas City Royals (1969-70), Chicago White Sox (1971-76), Baltimore Orioles (1977-79) and Cleveland Indians (1981). He batted and threw left handed. A native of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Kelly debuted with the Minnesota Twins in 1967. - Irving Thalberg
Irving Grant Thalberg was an American film producer during the early years of motion pictures. He was called "The Boy Wonder" for his youth and his extraordinary ability to select the right scripts, choose the right actors, gather the best production staff, and make very profitable films. Thalberg was born in Brooklyn, New York to German Jewish immigrant parents. He had a bad heart and was plagued with other ailments all his life. - Arthur Alexander
Arthur Alexander, born in Sheffield, Alabama, was perhaps one of the biggest stars to arise out of the American country-soul scene. Jason Ankeny, music critic for All Music Guide, said Alexander was a "country-soul pioneer" and though largely unknown, "his music is the stuff of genius, a poignant and deeply intimate body of work on par with the best of his contemporaries." Working with Spar Music in Florence, Alabama, … - David Ford
David Ford was a character actor known for playing John Hancock in the musical-turned-motion-picture 1776. He replaced Mark Allen in the role of Sam Evans, a widower and an artist and father of Maggie Evans (Kathryn Leigh Scott) on the ABC-TV serial Dark Shadows from 1966-1968. His other role on Dark Shadows was as Audre duPres, the father of Josette duPres in the 1795 storyline. - Magic Sam
Sam "Magic Sam" Maghett was a blues guitarist and singer. Magic Sam was born in Grenada, Mississippi. After moving to Chicago, Illinois in 1950, his brilliant guitar playing earned bookings at blues clubs in Chicago's West Side. He recorded for the Cobra label from 1957 to 1959, recording singles, including the noteworthy "All Your Love" and "Easy Baby," and gaining a following before being drafted into the Army. - Fred Zinnemann
Fred Zinnemann (April 29, 1907-March 14, 1997) was an Austrian-American film director. He won four Academy Awards and directed classic movies like "From Here to Eternity", "High Noon" and "A Man for All Seasons". - David Bruce
David Bruce was an American film actor. Born in Kankakee, Illinois he signed a movie contract with Warner Brothers in 1940. The Northwestern graduate appeared in many movies from the 1940s until 1955 when Bruce decided to give up acting. The 6' 1" actor appeared in over 60 movies including "Flying Tigers" (1942), "Christmas Holiday" (1944) and "Lady on a Train" (1945). He is the father of singer-songwriter Amanda McBroom, who wrote the song "The Rose", … - Bobby Hatfield
Robert Lee "Bobby" Hatfield (August 10, 1940 - November 5, 2003), was one half of the Righteous Brothers singing duo. Hatfield was born in Beaver Dam, Wisconsin, and moved with his family to Anaheim, California, when he was four. There, he played baseball and briefly considered going professional, but his passion for music led him to pursue music while attending high school.
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