- 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. - 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 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, … - 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. - Joseph Lamb
Joseph Francis Lamb was a noted American composer of ragtime music. Lamb was born in Montclair, New Jersey. He taught himself to play the piano, and was very taken with the early ragtime publications of Scott Joplin. In 1908 Lamb was purchasing the latest Joplin and James Scott sheet music in the New York City offices when he met his idol Joplin. Joplin was favorably impressed with Lamb's compositions, and recommended him to classical ragtime publisher John Stark. - 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, … - Michael Klein
Michael Klein was a Romanian footballer who played as a left back. He most prominently played for Bayer Uerdingen in the German Bundesliga championship. Klein made 90 appearances for the Romanian national team, scoring five times. He was selected to represent Romania at both the Euro 84 and 1990 FIFA World Cup tournaments. - Meyer Friedman
Dr. Meyer Friedman (13 July 1910-27 April 2001) developed with a colleague the theory that the "Type A" behavior of chronically angry and impatient people raises their risk of heart attacks. The cardiologist and researcher worked until his death at 90 as director of a medical institute that bears his name. Friedman, who often characterized himself as a "recovering Type A," and colleague Dr. - 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", … - 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 Graf
Paul David Graf (April 16, 1950 - April 7, 2001) was an American actor, best known for his role as Sgt. Eugene Tackleberry in the "Police Academy" series of films. He married Kathryn Graf in 1985. He died of a heart attack at a family wedding in Phoenix, Arizona on April 7, 2001, nine days before his 51st birthday. His father and great grandfather both also died of sudden heart attacks at the age of 51. He was survived by his wife of 17 years, … - Nigel Hawthorne
Sir Nigel Hawthorne, CBE (5 April, 1929 – 26 December, 2001) was a renowned English actor. He was born in Coventry, Warwickshire, England, although he grew up in South Africa, where he was educated by the Christian Brothers. He returned to the United Kingdom in the 1950s to pursue acting. In a long and varied career, which began with an advert for Mackeson stout and a bit part in "Dad's Army", … - J. T. Walsh
James Thomas Patrick Walsh was an American character actor known for his roles as "quietly sinister white-collar sleazeballs" (quote from Leonard Maltin) in numerous feature films and "everybody's favorite scumbag" from Playboy Magazine. - Karl Landsteiner
Karl Landsteiner (June 14 1868 - June 26 1943), was an Austrian biologist and physician. He is noted for his development in 1901 of the modern system of classification of blood groups from his identification of the presence of agglutinins in the blood, and in 1930 he received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. With Alexander S. Wiener, he identified the Rh factor in 1937. He was awarded a Lasker Award in 1946 posthumously. - 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. - James Jordan
James J. Jordan, Jr. was an American publicist and sloganeer. He is best known for his work at the BBDO advertising agency, coining such slogans as "Us Tareyton smokers would rather fight than switch!", "Wisk beats ring around the collar", and "Zest-fully clean!" A graduate of Amherst College, he would later serve on its board of trustees. He died of a heart attack while snorkeling in the Virgin Islands, aged 73. He was survived by his wife of 46 years, … - 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. - 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, … - 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. - David Burns
David Burns American Broadway theater and motion picture character actor and singer. Born on Mott Street in the Manhattan Chinatown of New York City. He made his Broadway debut in "Face the Music" in 1932, Cole Porter's "Nymph Errant" (1936) was his London debut, and he appeared in many comedies and musicals over an almost 50 year career. He won two Tony Awards for Best Featured Actor in a Musical, … - Edward D. Freis
Edward D. Freis was an American physician and researcher, who received the Albert Lasker Award for his studies of the treatment of hypertension. Born in Chicago, Illinois to Lithuanian immigrant parents, he had his eyes set on becoming an actor. After a few shows, however, he realized that acting was not for him, and he decided to be a doctor. Freis attended the University of Arizona and the Columbia University medical school. - 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. - 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". - Maynard Jackson
Maynard Holbrook Jackson, Jr. was an American politician, a member of the Democratic Party, and the first African American mayor of Atlanta, Georgia. He served three terms, two consecutive terms from 1974 until 1982 and a third term from 1990 to 1994. His grandfather was civil rights leader John Wesley Dobbs. Jackson graduated from Morehouse College in 1956 when he was only eighteen. After attending Boston University law school for a short time, he held several jobs, … - Henry Lewis
Henry Jay Lewis was an African-American double-bassist and orchestral conductor. Originally from Los Angeles, California, Lewis attended The University of Southern California and at age sixteen, joined the Los Angeles Philharmonic, becoming the first black instrumentalist in a major symphony orchestra. After serving in the military, where he conducted the Seventh Army Symphony, Lewis was appointed Assistant Conductor of the Los Angeles Philharmonic under Zubin Mehta, … - P. V. Narasimha Rao
Pamulaparthi Venkata Narasimha Rao (28 June, 1921 - 23 December, 2004) was the twelth Prime Minister of the Republic of India and led one of the most important administrations in India's modern history overseeing a major economic transformation and several incidents affecting national security. Some Indians view him as the greatest prime minister India ever had. Rao, also called Father of Indian Economic Reforms, … - Carlo Gambino
Carlo Gambino (August 24,1902 - October 15,1976) was a Mafioso who was boss of the Gambino crime family. Gambino was known for being low-key and secretive. Unlike many modern mafiosi Gambino served relatively little time in prison. He lived to the age of of 74, when he died of a heart attack while sleeping in his home. - Stanley Milgram
Dr. Stanley Milgram was a social psychologist at Yale University, Harvard University and the City University of New York. While at Harvard, he conducted the small-world experiment (the source of the six degrees of separation concept), and while at Yale, he conducted the Milgram experiment on obedience to authority. He also introduced the concept of familiar strangers. Although considered one of the most important psychologists of the 20th century, … - 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. - 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. - 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. - 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, … - Lee Bowman
Lee Bowman was an American film and television actor. Born in Cincinnati, Ohio, Bowman began his film career playing a bit part in "Swing High, Swing Low" (1937). His many film appearances include "A Man to Remember" (1938), "Love Affair" (1939), "Third Finger, Left Hand" (1940), "Design for Scandal" (1941), "Buck Privates" (1941), Tonight and Every Night (1945), … - 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. - 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". - Jeremy Swan
Jeremy Swan (June 1 1922 - February 7 2005) was an Irish cardiologist from Sligo who co-invented the Swan-Ganz catheter (widely used in intensive care units). He was educated at Castleknock College and worked as a cardiologist in the Mayo Clinic, Rochester, and later moved to Cedars Sinai in Los Angeles. His description of the invention of the catheter is said to have derived from watching the wind playing with sails in Santa Monica. - Neil Campbell
Neil A. Campbell was an American scientist known best for his "Biology" textbook. First published in 1987, the text, which is co-authored by Jane B. Reece and is in its 7th edition, is now popular worldwide and is used in both high school courses and college classes. Besides educational content, the books also feature interviews with well known biologists such as John Maynard Smith, Stephen Jay Gould, Richard Dawkins and Patricia Churchland. - Carlo Urbani
Carlo Urbani was an Italian physician and the first to identify severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) as a new and dangerously contagious disease. His early warning to the World Health Organization (WHO) touched off a massive response that probably helped save the lives of millions of people around the world. In 2003, Urbani was called in to a Vietnamese hospital to look at patient Johnny Chen, … - 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), … - Herbert C. Brown
Herbert Charles Brown (May 22, 1912 - December 19, 2004) was a chemist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1979 (along with Georg Wittig) for his work with organoboranes. Brown was born Herbert Brovarnik in London to Ukrainian Jewish immigrants. He moved to the United States at a young age and was educated at the University of Chicago, earning a B.S. and Ph.D. in 1936 and 1938, respectively.
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