- William Donald Kelley
William Donald Kelley, DDS, MS (November 1, 1925 — January 30, 2005), was an orthodontist and one of the most significant figures in the history of alternative cancer treatments. He developed the Kelley cancer therapy, which was based around large doses of pancreatic enzymes, coffee enemas and a juice diet. Dr. Kelley claimed that he cured himself of pancreatic cancer using this method. Kelley was the author of several books, including a self-help book, … - Richard Crenna
Richard Donald Crenna was an American actor. He had a long career in films, appearing in such movies as "The Sand Pebbles", "Wait Until Dark", "Body Heat", "First Blood" (and its following Rambo sequels), "Hot Shots! Part Deux" and "The Flamingo Kid". - Monty Hall
Maurice "Monty Hall" Halperin, O.C., B.Sc., LL.D (born on August 25, 1921 in Winnipeg, Manitoba) is a Canadian-born actor, singer and sportscaster, best known as the host of the long-running television game show "Let's Make a Deal" - 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. - 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. - George Ludwig Zuelzer
George Ludwig Zuelzer (German spelling- Georg Ludwig Zülzer was a German physician who was a native of Berlin. He practiced medicine in Berlin until 1934, when he emigrated to New York City. His son, Wolf William Zuelzer (1909-1987) was a noted American hematologist and pediatrician. Zülzer is remembered for his work with diabetes mellitus. He had some success using pancreatic extracts on diabetic dogs, … - Ruggero Oddi
Ruggero Oddi born (July 20, 1864 - March 22, 1913) was an Italian physiologist and anatomist who was a native of Perugia. He studied medicine at Perugia, Bologna and Florence, and in 1894 was appointed head of the Physiology Institute at the University of Genoa. In 1900 he was relieved of his position at Genoa because of narcotics usage and fiscal improprieties. Later, he sought employment as a doctor with the Belgian colonial medical service, … - Paul Neil Milne Johnstone
Paul Neil Milne Johnstone (c. 1952 -April 2004) was a British poet and schoolmate of science-fiction author Douglas Adams. His student writings were described as pretentious by some of his peers, and Adams made him the butt of a joke in the earliest versions of "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy". Johnstone attended Brentwood School, Essex, with Adams, and the two received awards for English in the same year. - Wilson Teixeira Beraldo
Wilson Teixeira Beraldo (b. 1917, Silvanópolis, state of Minas Gerais, Brazil; d. July 28, 1998, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais) was a Brazilian physician and physiologist, a co-discoverer of bradykinin. Beraldo graduated in medicine in 1942, having studied at the Federal University of Minas Gerais. He was also associate professor of physiology of the Faculty of Medicine of the University of São Paulo, … - Carl Gussenbauer
Carl Gussenbauer was an Austrian surgeon who was a native of Obervellach. He received his medical doctorate from the University of Vienna in 1867, and was later a professor in Lüttich, Prague and Vienna. After graduation he was an assistant to Theodor Billroth in Vienna, and in 1894 returned to Vienna and succeeded Billroth as director of the second surgical university clinic. Gussenbauer was a pioneer concerning modern pancreatic surgery. - Richard McKenna
Richard Crenna was born into a modest-income family. His mother managed a small hotel in downtown Los Angeles where Richard and his family resided. When he finished high school he enrolled at the University of Southern California and majored in Theater Arts. He first appeared on network radio while still a teenager as Ougy Pringle in "A Date with Judy" (1946). When that show was canceled he was cast in the role of Walter Denton on "Our Miss Brooks" and stayed in the part when the show... - Anna Magnani
Anna Magnani (March 7, 1908 - September 26, 1973) was an Academy Award-winning Italian actress, with stage experience. - 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). - Joan Crawford
Joan Crawford (March 23 1905 - May 10 1977), was an acclaimed, iconic, Academy Award-winning American actress, arguably one of the greatest from the Golden Age of Hollywood from the 1920s through 1940s. The American Film Institute named Crawford among the Greatest Female Stars of All Time, ranking her at number ten. Starting as a dancer, she was signed to a motion picture contract by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios in 1925 and played in small parts. - 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). - Jack Benny
Jack Benny (February 14 1894 in Chicago, Illinois - December 26 1974 in Beverly Hills, California), born Benjamin Kubelsky, was an American comedian, vaudeville performer, and radio, television, and film actor. He was one of the biggest stars in classic American radio and was also a major television personality. Benny was renowned for his flawless comic timing and (especially) his ability to get laughs with either a pregnant pause or a single expression, … - Peggy Ann Garner
Peggy Ann Garner (February 3, 1932 - October 16, 1984) was an American cinema and theater actress. Born in Canton, Ohio, Garner's mother pushed her into the limelight, and entered her in talent quests while Garner was still a child. By 1938 she had made her first film appearance and over the next few years appeared in several more films including the young Jane in "Jane Eyre" (1944). - 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. - 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. - Betty Carter
Betty Carter (May 16, 1929 - September 26, 1998) was an American jazz singer who was renowned for her improvisational technique and idiosyncratic vocal style. Carter expanded the role of the vocalist in jazz, to a full, improvising member of the band. Although her voice was not as admired by the public as such vocalists as Sarah Vaughan or Ella Fitzgerald, many consider her to have exercised mastery of the human voice previously unheard in jazz. - Mickey Spillane
Frank Morrison Spillane, better known as Mickey Spillane, was an American author of crime novels. He was known for the series of novels featuring his signature detective character, Mike Hammer, among other works. More than 225 million copies of his books have sold around the globe. By 1980, Spillane was responsible for seven of the top 15 all-time bestselling fiction titles in America. Born in Brooklyn, New York and raised in Elizabeth, New Jersey, … - Magnús Magnússon
Magnús Magnússon KBE (October 12 1929 - January 7 2007) was a television presenter, journalist, translator and writer of Icelandic birth. He lived in Scotland for nearly all his life, although he never took British citizenship. He came to fame as presenter of the BBC television quiz programme "Mastermind", which he hosted for 25 years. - Gareth Hunt
Alan Leonard Hunt (7 February 1942 - 14 March 2007) was an English actor, known as Gareth Hunt, best remembered for playing the footman Frederick Norton in "Upstairs, Downstairs" and Mike Gambit in "The New Avengers". - Bill Hicks
William Melvin "Bill" Hicks, (December 16, 1961 - February 26, 1994), was a controversial American stand-up comedian, satirist and social critic. Comedian Richard Pryor figured largely as an inspiration and stand-up idol for Hicks, as did Woody Allen who also served strongly as a very early influence for a pre-teen Hicks. Hicks characterized his own performances as "Chomsky with dick jokes" - 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. - Syd Barrett
Roger Keith "Syd" Barrett was an English singer, songwriter, guitarist, and artist. He is best remembered as a founding member of Pink Floyd. He was active as a rock musician for about ten years before going into seclusion, from which he never publicly emerged for 35 years, until his death in 2006. - Dennis Potter
Dennis Christopher George Potter (17 May 1935-7 June 1994) was a controversial English dramatist, best known for "The Singing Detective". His widely acclaimed television dramas mixed fantasy and reality, the personal and the social. He was particularly fond of using themes and images from popular culture. Potter was born in the Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire. His father was a coal miner in this rural mining area between Gloucester and Wales. - Frank Herbert
Frank Patrick Herbert (October 8, 1920 - February 11, 1986) was a critically acclaimed and commercially successful American science fiction author. He is best known for the novel "Dune" and its five sequels. The "Dune" saga, set in the distant future and taking place over millennia, dealt with themes such as human survival and evolution, ecology, and the intersection of religion, politics, and power, … - Alan Bates
Sir Alan Arthur Bates CBE (February 17, 1934 – December 27, 2003) was an English actor. - Arif Mardin
Arif Mardin was a renowned Turkish-American music producer, who worked with a wide range of artists, across many different styles and genres of music. Arif Mardin was born in İstanbul into a renowned family that brought up statesmen, diplomats and leaders in the civic, military and business sectors of the Ottoman Empire and the Turkish Republic. His father was co-owner in a petroleum gas station chain. - Morton Feldman
Morton Feldman was an American composer, born in New York City. A key figure in modern music, Feldman's compositions went through several phases. He was a pioneer of aleatoric music and indeterminate music, and in requiring improvisation. His compositions are characterized by their quietness, slowness, and often by their extreme length, especially in his later music. - Donna Reed
Donna Reed (January 27, 1921 - January 14, 1986) was an Academy Award-winning American actress. - Sir Rex Carey Harrison
Sir Reginald Carey "Rex" Harrison (5 March 1908 - 2 June 1990) was an Academy Award- and Tony Award-winning English theatre and film actor. - 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). - 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. - Vince Edwards
Vince Edwards (July 9, 1928- March 11, 1996) was an American actor, director, and singer. - 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. - Oona O'Neill
Oona Chaplin was the daughter of Nobel and Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Eugene O'Neill and his second wife, writer Agnes Boulton, and the fourth wife of actor Charlie Chaplin. Oona - the Irish form of her mother's name, Agnes - was born while her parents were living in Bermuda, and during a period of heavy drinking by Eugene O'Neill. She was two years old when her father left the family to pursue a relationship with actress Carlotta Monterey who became his third wife. - Fernando Lamas
Fernando Alvaro Lamas (born January 9, 1915 in Buenos Aires, Argentina – died October 8, 1982 in Los Angeles, California) was an Argentine actor and director, and the father of actor Lorenzo Lamas. - Miki Dora
Miki Dora (1936-2002) "'An Autobiography of a Legend Mickey Chapin Dora, Miklos S. Dora III, Miki Dora, MSD III. The names are many, and so are the facets of the man they call "Da Cat"'." Mickey Dora is surfing's Black Knight, the consummate antihero of the Malibu era. Born in Budapest, Hungary to Miklos and Ramona Dora (who soon divorced), his stepfather, the great surfer Gard Chapin, …
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