- John Smith
John Smith (October 27 1831 - March 5 1909) was a Scottish-born Ontario businessman and political figure. He represented Peel in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1893 to 1908 as a Liberal member. He was born in Inverness in 1831, the son of Andrew Smith, and came to Peel County, Upper Canada with his family in 1832. He was educated in Chinguacousy Township. Smith was an auctioneer and served on the town council for Brampton. - Jason Pierce
Jason Pierce, also known as J. Spaceman or Spaceman, is an English musician from Rugby, Warwickshire. He was formerly the joint leader – with Peter Kember – of the influential 1980s psychedelic band Spacemen 3, and is now the leader and sole permanent member of the band Spiritualized. In between his work with Spiritualized, Pierce has been active with a network of free jazz players and improvisers, … - Ryan White
Ryan Wayne White was a young man with AIDS from Kokomo, Indiana. In the 1980s, he drew national and worldwide attention due to his infection. White became infected with HIV from a blood product known as Factor VIII, as part of his treatment for hemophilia given to him on a regular basis. He was diagnosed with AIDS (as transmitted by casual contact) on December 17, 1984, by a doctor performing a partial lung removal. - David Martin
David Thomas Martin was a Republican politician from western Nebraska who served three terms in the United States House of Representatives from 1961 to 1974. Martin was born in Kearney, Nebraska and graduated from Dartmouth College in 1929 before entering the lumber business. He was a member of the Nebraska Republican Committee and Republican National Committee in the 1950s; in 1954, he was an unsuccessful primary candidate for United States Senate. - William Russell
William Russell (12 April 1884, The Bronx, New York - 18 February 1929, Beverly Hills, California) was an American silent film actor. His birth name was William Lerche. William worked briefly with the American Mutoscope and Biograph Company before switching to the Thanhouser Company. In 1917, William married actress Charlotte Burton; however, they became divorced in 1921 and he married another actress, Helen Ferguson. - Karen Ann Quinlan
Karen Ann Quinlan (March 29 1954 - June 11 1985) was an important figure in the history of the right to die debate in United States. When she was 21, Quinlan fell unconscious after coming home from a party, and lapsed into a persistent vegetative state. After she was kept alive on a ventilator for several months without improvement, her parents requested the hospital to discontinue active care and allow her to die. - Nicole Dehuff
Nicole Renee DeHuff (January 6, 1975 in Antlers, Oklahoma - February 16, 2005 in Los Angeles) was an American actress. DeHuff earned a bachelor's degree in drama from Carnegie Mellon University. She was married to director Ari Palitz, also from Carnegie Mellon. In "Meet the Parents", Ben Stiller's character accidentally breaks her nose during a volleyball game. She had a regular role in the 2002 TV series "The Court" and appeared in "CSI: Miami", … - Bill Bradley
William Joseph Bradley (February 13, 1878 - March 11, 1954) was a third baseman in Major League Baseball. He was born in Cleveland, Ohio. Bill Bradley was recognized as one of the best third basemen in baseball prior to 1950, along with Jimmy Collins and Pie Traynor. He led American League third basemen in fielding four times, setting a league record of seven putouts in one game in both 1901 and 1909. - Robert Moore
Robert Moore (born August 7, 1927 in Detroit, Michigan, died of pneumonia May 10, 1984 in New York City) was an American stage, film and television director. He is best known for his direction of the ground-breaking "The Boys in the Band", his Broadway productions (which garnered him five Tony Award nominations), and his collaborations - three plays and three films - with Neil Simon. - Thomas White
Thomas White (7 August 1830 - April 21 1888) was a Canadian journalist and politician. He was born in Montreal, Lower Canada in 1830, the son of Thomas White, a leather merchant who came to Canada from Ireland in 1826. White worked at a number of jobs before entering the printing trade with the Queen's Printer in Toronto around 1850. He moved to Quebec City in 1851 when that office moved there. In 1852, he assisted Stewart Derbishire in editing the "Canada Gazette". - Maurice Hilleman
Maurice Ralph Hilleman, (August 30 1919 - April 11 2005), was an American microbiologist who specialized in vaccinology and developed more than three dozen vaccines, more than any other scientist. Of the fourteen vaccines routinely recommended, he developed eight: those for measles, mumps, hepatitis A, hepatitis B, chickenpox, meningitis, pneumonia and Haemophilus influenzae bacteria. He also played a role in the discovery of the cold-producing adenoviruses, … - Phil Brown
Philip Mortimer Brown (April 30 1916 - February 9 2006) was an American actor. Brown was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts. After majoring in dramatics at Stanford University, Brown played some of his earliest stage roles as part of New York's Group Theater. When it folded, he and other Group Theatre veterans headed to Hollywood, where Brown worked in motion pictures and helped found the fabled Actors' Laboratory. - Charles King
Charles King (1889 in New York City - 1941 in London, England) was a vaudeville and Broadway actor who also starred in several movies. During his casual movie career, he made history by starring as the leading actor in the hit MGM movie, Broadway Melody of 1929. This was known to be the first ever musical ever made. King died in 1941 from pneumonia. - Louis Washkansky
Louis Washkansky (1913 - 21 December 1967) was the recipient of the world's first human heart transplant. Washkansky was a Lithuanian Jew, who migrated with his family to South Africa in 1922, aged nine, and became a grocer in Cape Town. Washkansky saw active service in World War II in East and North Africa and Italy. After the war, he married his wife Ann. Washkansky was an avid sportsman. He took part in soccer, swimming, and weightlifting. - Fred Allen
Fred Allen (born John Florence Sullivan on May 31 1894 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, died March 17 1956 in New York City) was an American comedian whose absurdist, pointed radio show (1934–1949) made him one of the most popular and forward-looking humorists in the so-called classic era of American radio. His best-remembered gag may be his long-running mock feud with friend and fellow comedian Jack Benny. - Frederick Griffith
Frederick Griffith (1879 - 1941) was a British medical officer. In 1928, in what is today known as Griffith's experiment, he discovered a transforming principle, which is today known as DNA. Griffith was trying to make a vaccine to prevent pneumonia infections in the epidemics after World War I by using two strains of the "Streptococcus pneumoniae" bacterium. - Adrian Rogers
Adrian Pierce Rogers, Th.D., was an American pastor, author, and a three-term president of the Southern Baptist Convention (1979-1980 and 1986-1988). Supporters have described him as the apostle Paul of Southern Baptists. Rogers was born in West Palm Beach, Florida, and decided to enter into the Christian ministry at the age of nineteen. Rogers was ordained by Northwood Baptist Church in West Palm Beach. - Bernard Edwards
Bernard Edwards was born in Greenville, North Carolina, was a bass player and record producer, both as a member of Chic and on his own. He died of pneumonia while touring in Japan. - Mike Daly
Mike Daly is a Producer/Songwriter/ Multi-Instrumentalis who grew up in Roselle Park, NJ. Mike attended Berklee College of Music in Boston, graduating in 1994. Soon after, he joined the band Swales, and recorded one album, "What's His Name?" for Bar/ None Records. Mike has forged a bomming career for himself after coming on the radar as the Whiskeytown resident multi-instrumentalist / co-writer. - Ed Case
Edward Espenett "Ed" Case (born September 27, 1952) is a Democratic politician. He represented Hawaii's 2nd congressional district in the United States House of Representatives. He was first elected in 2002 in a special election to fill the seat of Patsy T. Mink, who died of pneumonia. In 2006 Case chose not to run for another term in the House of Representatives so he could challenge Senator Daniel Akaka in the Democratic primary for Akaka's U.S. Senate seat. - Franklin Cover
Franklin Cover was an American actor most noted for starring on the sitcom "The Jeffersons". His character, Tom Willis, was half of one of the first interracial marriages to be seen on prime-time television. Cover was born in Cleveland, Ohio. His career started on the stage acting in "Henry IV, Part 1" and "Hamlet". He also appeared in "Forty Carats" with Julie Harris. - Makgatho Mandela
Makgatho Lewanika Mandela (June 26 1950-January 6 2005) was the son of former South African president and Nobel Prize winner Nelson Mandela and his first wife Evelyn Ntoko Mase. He was an attorney, widowed with four sons. He died of AIDS on 6 January, 2005 in Johannesburg. His second wife, Zondi Mandela, died on 13 July, 2003 at age 46. At first, her cause of death was given as pneumonia; after Makgatho's death, … - Nicholas Brothers
Fayard Antonio Nicholas was born October 20 1914 born in Mobile, Alabama. Harold Nicholas was born March 27, 1921 in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. The Nicholas Brothers grew up in Philadelphia, the sons of musicians who played in their own band at the old Standard Theater, their mother at the piano and father on drums. At the age of three, Fayard was always seated in the front row while his parents worked, and by the time he was ten, … - Bruce Paltrow
Television and film producer Bruce Paltrow was born in Brooklyn, New York and studied at Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana. In the late 1960s he began directing stage productions in New York City, where he met actress Blythe Danner, whom he married in 1970. He is probably best known as the producer of the television series "The White Shadow" and "St. Elsewhere". He also worked on the critically acclaimed "Homicide: Life on the Street". - Chris Wood
Christopher Gordon Blandford 'Chris' Wood (born June 24, 1944, in Harborne, Birmingham, Warwickshire - died July 12, 1983, at Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham, West Midlands) was a founding member of the English rock band Traffic along with Steve Winwood, Jim Capaldi, and Dave Mason. Wood primarily played flute and saxophone, occasionally contributing keyboards and vocals. Wood was also a co-writer for many of Traffic's songs. - Amar Singh
Ladhabhai Nakum Amar Singh (b. December 4 1910 in Rajkot, Gujarat - d. May 21, 1940 in Jamnagar, Gujarat) was an Indian Test cricketer. A right-arm fast-medium bowler and effective lower-order batsman, Amar Singh played in seven Tests for India before World War II. He took 28 wickets in these matches. Amar Singh played first-class cricket over a nine year period; in 92 first-class matches he took 508 wickets at the outstanding bowling average of 18.35. - Augusto dos Anjos
Augusto dos Anjos was a Brazilian poet born in Paraíba. He composed his first verses at the age of seven, but his first published book, "Homesickness", came out in 1900, and, in spite of being translated this way the actual title of the book was "Eu" which, in Portuguese, means "I". These early verses were influenced by Symbolism. He was also influenced by philosophers like Herbert Spencer and Ernst Haeckel in his earlier days. - Floyd Bennett
Floyd Bennett (25 October 1890 - 25 April 1928). American aviator who piloted Richard E. Byrd on his attempt to reach the North Pole in 1926. Bennett was born in Warrensburg, New York in 1890. He was an automobile mechanic before enlisting in the Navy in 1917. Bennett was warranted a Machinist and learned to fly. He served with Byrd on an aviation survey of Greenland in 1925, where Byrd came to respect Bennett's abilities as a pilot. - Geoffrey Beene
Geoffrey Beene was an American fashion designer. Beene was born in Haynesville, Louisiana. He studied medicine at Tulane University, but dropped out in 1946, after three years. He moved to New York in 1947 to attend the Traphagen School of Fashion. He then worked at a number of fashion houses, both in Paris and New York, including Harmay and Teal Traina. In 1963 he started his own company, Geoffrey Beene, Inc., with a showroom located on Seventh Avenue in Manhattan. - Bob Luman
Bob Luman (Robert Glynn Luman, 15 April, 1937 - December 27, 1978) was an American country and rockabilly singer born in Blackjack, Texas, a church community south of Tyler in Smith County, Texas. The smooth baritone was best-known in non-country circles for his crossover hit, "Let's Think About Living," a novelty song that hit #7 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and #9 on the Billboard country chart in 1960. Luman was, however, well-known in the country music world. - Dave Alexander
David Michael Alexander (June 3 1947 - February 10 1975) was an American musician, and the original bassist for influential protopunk band The Stooges. After his family relocated to Ann Arbor from Whitmore Lake, Michigan he attended Pioneer High School in Ann Arbor, Michigan where he met the Asheton Brothers. "Zander" (as he was known) dropped out after 45 minutes on the first day of his Senior Year in 1965, to win a bet. - Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (August 15, 1875-September 1, 1912) was a black, English composer who achieved such success he was called "The Black Mahler." - Willie Smith
Willie Smith (died December 26, 1916), a native of Carnoustie, was a Scottish golfer. His brothers Alex and Macdonald were also famous golfers. While working as a professional at the Midlothian Country Club, near Chicago he won the fifth staging of the U.S. Open in 1899, which was played at the Baltimore Country Club, Roland Park Course. He won by a margin of eleven shots, which wasn't bettered until Tiger Woods won the 2000 championship by fifteen shots. - René Dubos
René Jules Dubos, was a French-American microbiologist, experimental pathologist, environmentalist, humanist, and Pulitzer Prize-winning author who exemplified qualities of the modern Renaissance person. He is credited as an author of a maxim "Think globally, act locally". He devoted most of his professional life to the empirical study of microbial diseases and to the analysis of the environmental and social factors that affect the welfare of humans. - Danny Flores
Daniel Flores (akas: Danny Flores; Chuck Rio) (July 11, 1929 - September 19, 2006) was the singer on his self-written song Tequila, an American Billboard number one hit in 1958 for The Champs. Flores was born to Mexican field workers in Santa Paula, California and died of pneumonia in Huntington Beach, California. - George Hunt
Captain George Hunt is credited as the founder of Huntsville, Ontario, Canada in the region of Muskoka. He was born in 1830 on the Isle of Corfu off the coast of Greece to British Army Officer Robert Hunt and his wife Margaret. In 1840, the Hunt family moved to Canada, settling in Montreal, Quebec. George Hunt also became an officer in the British Army. In 1853, George married Sarah Selkirk, daughter of William and Allison Selkirk of Montreal. - David Clarke
David Clarke (born 30 August, 1908, died 18 April, 2004) was an American Broadway and motion picture actor. A native of Chicago and graduate of Butler University, Clarke was most well known for his film noir roles as a character actor. He lived in Belmont, OH for several years until he sold his house and moved to Arlington, Virginia to be with his daughters. And he later on died in Virginia from pneumonia on April 18 2004. - William Poole
William Poole (July 1821 - March 8 1855), also known as Bill the Butcher, was a member of the New York City gang, the Bowery Boys, a bare-knuckle boxer, and a leader of the Know Nothing political movement. - Shigechiyo Izumi
Shigechiyo Izumi tall and weighed 42.6 kilograms (94 pounds), and lived through 71 Japanese Prime Ministers.As for diet, for most of his life Izumi has lived on vegetables from his farm - potatoes, sweet potatoes, beans, tomato, aubergine, cucumber, carrots, spinach and cabbage. As a young man Izumi was very fit. He was a local champion in sumo wrestling. But he did not have to train specially. - Kamato Hongo
Kamato Hongo Hongō Kamato, September 16, 1887 – October 31, 2003) was apparently the world's oldest recognized living person from March 2002 until her death. She lived in Kagoshima, on Japan's most southerly major island Kyūshū. She celebrated her possible 116th birthday the month before her death from pneumonia. Born on the small island of Tokunoshima, home of Shigechiyo Izumi, she later moved to Kagoshima on Kyūshū, …
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