Taras Protsyuk

Taras Protsyuk

male, deceased (2003)
Cameraman, Shawn Gibson, killing three journalists and wounding four, journalist, baghdad, bosnia and herzegovina…well remembered in Ukraine
Taras Protsyuk was a Ukrainian-born TV cameraman working for Reuters, who was killed during the US invasion of Iraq. Protsyuk was filming from a...
Jacob Wolfowitz

Jacob Wolfowitz

male, deceased (1981)
Warsaw, Poland, Jewish, World Bank Group, Claude E. Shannon Award, Shannon Award, myocardial infarction…very well read person
Jacob Wolfowitz, Ph.D. (March 19, 1910 - July 16, 1981) was a Polish-born American statistician and Shannon Award-winning information theorist. He...
Michael Konik

Michael Konik

male
American gambling writer, singer, improvisational theatre, jazz, New York University, author…well-known author and television gambling analyst
Michael Konik is an American author, television personality, jazz singer, improvisational comedian, blackjack player and poker player. Konik has a...
Richard Posner

Richard Posner

male, 70 years old
Harvard Law School alumni, Yale University alumni, Legal academic, The Problematics of Moral and Legal Theory, University of Chicago Law School, Legal writer
Richard Allen Posner (born January 11, 1939, in New York City) is currently a judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit....
John Cooper Clarke

John Cooper Clarke

male, 60 years old
Greater Manchester, poet, The Invisible Girl, From Salford, Music from Manchester, English…well overdue for a new product
John Cooper Clarke (born January 25, 1949) is an English performance poet from Salford, Greater Manchester. He is often referred to as a punk poet,...
Rod Roddy

Rod Roddy

male, deceased (2003)
From Fort Worth, Texas, game show, Colorectal cancer death, Robert Ray "Rod" Roddy, Robert Ray Roddy, Texas Christian University alumni…celebrity and they treated me well, n't doing well because I [had been] traveling
Robert Ray "Rod" Roddy (September 28, 1937 - October 27, 2003) was an American radio and television announcer, best known as the announcer for the...
Thomas Stone

Thomas Stone

male, deceased (1787)
signer of the U.S. Declaration of Independence, from Maryland, $2 bill, Signers of the U.S. Declaration of Independence, Habredeventure, Poynton Manor…tall, but well proportioned, uncommonly amiable, and well disposed
Thomas Stone (1743-October 5, 1787) was an American planter who signed the United States Declaration of Independence as a delegate for Maryland. He...
Natalie Clifford Barney

Natalie Clifford Barney

female, deceased (1972)
From France, polyamory, LGBT writer, from the United States, rive gauche, poet…The Well of Loneliness
Natalie Clifford Barney (31 October 1876 - 2 February 1972) was an American expatriate who lived, wrote, and hosted a literary salon in Paris. She...
Otto Jespersen

Otto Jespersen

male, deceased (1943)
Linguistics writer, Linguistics educator, Autobiographer, University of Copenhagen faculty, Alumni of the University of Oxford, teacher…well honed phrase
Jens Otto Harry Jespersen or Otto Jespersen (July 16, 1860-April 30, 1943) was a Danish linguist who specialized in the grammar of the English...
George Garrett

George Garrett

male, 80 years old
George Palmer Garrett, Jr, Princeton University alumni, Even the god must be baffled, Marble is not flesh and blood, I dream of our lost beginnings, lips tense with a frozen scream…into this being and, as well
George Palmer Garrett, Jr. (born June 11, 1929) is an American poet and novelist. He has been the poet laureate of Virginia since 2002. His novels...