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Cardiovascular disease
Cardiovascular disease or cardiovascular diseases is the class of diseases that involve the heart or blood vessels (arteries and veins). While the term technically refers to any disease that affects the cardiovascular system (as used in MeSH), it is usually used to refer to those related to...
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Ayn Rand
Ayn Rand (pronounced /ˈaɪn ˈrænd/; born Alisa Zinov'yevna Rosenbaum; February 2 [O.S. January 20] 1905 – March 6, 1982), was a Russian-American novelist, philosopher, playwright, and screenwriter. She is known for her two best-selling novels and for...
Date of birth:
- Feb 2, 1905
Date of death:
- Mar 6, 1982 (age 77 years)
Abner Doubleday
Abner Doubleday (June 26, 1819 – January 26, 1893) was a career United States Army officer and Union general in the American Civil War. He fired the first shot in defense of Fort Sumter, the opening battle of the war, and had a pivotal role in the...
Date of birth:
- Jun 26, 1819
Date of death:
- Jan 26, 1893 (age 73 years)
Arthur Miller
Arthur Asher Miller (October 17, 1915 – February 10, 2005) was an American playwright and essayist. He was a prominent figure in American theatre, writing dramas that include awards-winning plays such as All My Sons, Death of a Salesman, and The...
Date of birth:
- Oct 17, 1915
Date of death:
- Feb 10, 2005 (age 89 years)
Augusto Pinochet
Augusto José Ramón Pinochet Ugarte (25 November 1915 – 10 December 2006) was a Chilean army general and later head of state as president. He was the Commander-in-Chief of the Chilean army from 1973 to 1998, president of the Government Junta of Chile...
Date of birth:
- Nov 25, 1915
Date of death:
- Dec 10, 2006 (age 91 years)
Boris Yeltsin
Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin (Russian: Борис Николаевич Ельцин (help·info); Russian pronunciation: [bɐˈɾʲis nʲɪkɐˈɫaɪvʲɪtɕ ˈjelʲtsɨn]) (1 February 1931 –23 April 2007) was the first President of the Russian Federation, serving from 1991 to 1999....
Date of birth:
- Feb 1, 1931
Date of death:
- Apr 23, 2007 (age 76 years)
Cecil B. DeMille
Cecil Blount DeMille (August 12, 1881–January 21, 1959) was a legendary American film director and Academy Award-winning film producer in both silent and sound films. He was renowned for the flamboyance and showmanship of his movies. Among some of...
Date of birth:
- Aug 12, 1881
Date of death:
- Jan 21, 1959 (age 77 years)
Chiang Kai-shek
Chiang Kai-shek (traditional Chinese: 蔣中正 / 蔣介石; simplified Chinese: 蒋中正 / 蒋介石; pinyin: Jiǎng Jièshí; but see names below) (31 October 1887 – 5 April 1975) was a political and military leader of 20th century China. He was an influential member of...
Date of birth:
- Oct 31, 1887
Date of death:
- Apr 5, 1975 (age 87 years)
Chuck Jones
Charles Martin "Chuck" Jones (September 21, 1912 – February 22, 2002) was an American animator, cartoon artist, screenwriter, producer, and director of animated films, most memorably of Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies shorts for the Warner Bros....
Date of birth:
- Sep 21, 1912
Date of death:
- Feb 22, 2002 (age 89 years)
The Amazing Criswell
Jeron Criswell King (August 18, 1907 – October 4, 1982) born Jeron Criswell Konig, and known by his stage-name The Amazing Criswell (pronounced [ˈkɹɪzwɛl]), was an American psychic who was famous for his wildly inaccurate predictions. In person, he...
Date of birth:
- Aug 18, 1907
Date of death:
- Oct 4, 1982 (age 75 years)
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Dwight David "Ike" Eisenhower (pronounced /ˈaɪzənhaʊər/; October 14, 1890 – March 28, 1969) was a five-star general in the United States Army and the 34th President of the United States, from 1953 until 1961. During the Second World War, he served...
Date of birth:
- Oct 14, 1890
Date of death:
- Mar 28, 1969 (age 78 years)
Eve Arden
Eve Arden (April 30, 1908 – November 12, 1990) was an American actress. Her almost 60-year career crossed most media frontiers with supporting and leading roles, but she is perhaps best remembered for playing the sardonic but engaging high school...
Date of birth:
- Apr 30, 1908
Date of death:
- Nov 12, 1990 (age 82 years)
George Dantzig
George Bernard Dantzig (November 8, 1914 – May 13, 2005) was an American mathematician, and the Professor Emeritus of Transportation Sciences and Professor of Operations Research and of Computer Science at Stanford.
Dantzig is known for his...
Date of birth:
- Nov 8, 1914
Date of death:
- May 13, 2005 (age 90 years)
Gene Roddenberry
Eugene Wesley "Gene" Roddenberry (August 19, 1921 – October 24, 1991) was an American screenwriter, producer and futurist. He created the American science-fiction series Star Trek, an accomplishment for which he was sometimes referred to as the ...
Date of birth:
- Aug 19, 1921
Date of death:
- Oct 24, 1991 (age 70 years)
Isaac Stern
Isaac Stern (Ukrainian: Стерн Ісаак; July 21, 1920 – September 22, 2001) was a Ukrainian-born violin master and virtuoso. He was renowned for his recordings and for discovering new musical talent.
Isaac Stern was born into a Jewish family in...
Date of birth:
- Jul 21, 1920
Date of death:
- Sep 22, 2001 (age 81 years)
James Brown
James Joseph Brown (May 3, 1933 – December 25, 2006), originally James Joseph Brown, Jr., also known as "The Godfather of Soul", was an American entertainer. He is recognized as one of the most influential figures in 20th century popular music and...
Date of birth:
- May 3, 1933
Date of death:
- Dec 25, 2006 (age 73 years)
Johannes Rau
Johannes Rau (16 January 1931 – 27 January 2006) was a German politician of the SPD. He was President of Germany from 1 July 1999, until 30 June 2004, and Prime Minister of North Rhine-Westphalia from 1978 to 1998.
Rau was born in the Barmen part of...
Date of birth:
- Jan 16, 1931
Date of death:
- Jan 27, 2006 (age 75 years)
Jerry Falwell
Jerry Lamon Falwell, Sr. (August 11, 1933 – May 15, 2007) was an American evangelical Christian pastor, televangelist, and a conservative commentator. He was the founding pastor of the Thomas Road Baptist Church, a megachurch in Lynchburg, Virginia....
Date of birth:
- Aug 11, 1933
Date of death:
- May 15, 2007 (age 73 years)
Kurt Waldheim
Kurt Josef Waldheim (21 December 1918 – 14 June 2007) was an Austrian diplomat and politician. Waldheim was Secretary-General of the United Nations from 1972 to 1981, and President of Austria from 1986 to 1992. While running for President in Austria...
Date of birth:
- Dec 21, 1918
Date of death:
- Jun 14, 2007 (age 88 years)
Lucille Ball
Lucille Désirée Ball (6 August 1911 – 26 April 1989) was an American comedienne, film, television, stage and radio actress, model, film and television executive, and star of the sitcoms I Love Lucy, The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour, The Lucy Show and Here...
Date of birth:
- Aug 6, 1911
Date of death:
- Apr 26, 1989 (age 77 years)
Milton Friedman
Milton Friedman (July 31, 1912 – November 16, 2006) was an American economist, statistician, and public intellectual, and a recipient of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics. He is best known among scholars for his theoretical and empirical...
Date of birth:
- Jul 31, 1912
Date of death:
- Nov 16, 2006 (age 94 years)
Martin Van Buren
Martin Van Buren (pronounced /væn ˈbjʊərɨn/ or /væn ˈbjɜrɨn/; December 5, 1782 – July 24, 1862) was the eighth President of the United States from 1837 to 1841. Before his presidency, he served as the eighth Vice President (1833–1837) and the 10th...
Date of birth:
- Dec 5, 1782
Date of death:
- Jul 24, 1862 (age 79 years)
Marlon Brando
Marlon Brando, Jr. (April 3, 1924 – July 1, 2004) was an American actor whose body of work spanned over half a century. He was named the fourth Greatest Male Star of All Time by the American Film Institute, and part of Time magazine's Time 100: The...
Date of birth:
- Apr 3, 1924
Date of death:
- Jul 1, 2004 (age 80 years)
Norman Hackerman
Norman Hackerman (March 2, 1912 – June 16, 2007) was an American chemist, internationally known as an expert in metal corrosion, and a former president of both the University of Texas at Austin (1967 – 1970) and Rice University (1970 – 1985).
Born...
Date of birth:
- Mar 2, 1912
Date of death:
- Jun 16, 2007 (age 95 years)
Peggy Lee
Peggy Lee (born Norma Deloris Egstrom May 26, 1920 – January 21, 2002) was an award-winning American jazz and popular music singer, songwriter, composer and actress.
Lee had Norwegian and Swedish ancestry. Lee was born in Jamestown, North Dakota,...
Date of birth:
- May 26, 1920
Date of death:
- Jan 21, 2002 (age 81 years)
Robert A. Heinlein
Robert Anson Heinlein (July 7, 1907 – May 8, 1988) was an American science fiction writer. Often called "the dean of science fiction writers", he was one of the most popular, influential, and controversial authors of the genre. He set a high...
Date of birth:
- Jul 7, 1907
Date of death:
- May 8, 1988 (age 80 years)
Robert Jordan
Robert Jordan was the pen name of James Oliver Rigney, Jr. (October 17, 1948 – September 16, 2007), under which he was best known as the author of the bestselling The Wheel of Time fantasy series. He also wrote under the names Reagan O'Neal and...
Date of birth:
- Oct 17, 1948
Date of death:
- Sep 16, 2007 (age 58 years)
Stanisław Lem
Stanisław Lem (Polish pronunciation: [staˈɲiswav ˈlɛm] ( listen); 12 September 1921 – 27 March 2006) was a Polish science fiction, philosophical and satirical writer. Lem was named a Knight of the Order of the White Eagle . His books have been...
Date of birth:
- Sep 12, 1921
Date of death:
- Mar 27, 2006 (age 84 years)
Sam Peckinpah
David Samuel "Sam" Peckinpah (February 21, 1925 – December 28, 1984) was an American filmmaker and screenwriter who achieved his status following the release of his 1969 Western epic The Wild Bunch. He became one of the major filmmakers of the 1970s...
Date of birth:
- Feb 21, 1925
Date of death:
- Dec 28, 1984 (age 59 years)
Theodore Roosevelt
Theodore D. Roosevelt (October 27, 1858 – January 6, 1919; pronounced /ˈroʊzəvɛlt/) was the 26th President of the United States. He is well remembered for his energetic persona, his range of interests and achievements, his leadership of the...
Date of birth:
- Oct 27, 1858
Date of death:
- Jan 6, 1919 (age 60 years)
Ted Williams
Theodore Samuel "Ted" Williams (August 30, 1918–July 5, 2002) was a left fielder in Major League Baseball. He played 21 seasons with the Boston Red Sox, twice interrupted by military service as a Marine Corps pilot. Nicknamed The Kid, the Splendid...
Date of birth:
- Aug 30, 1918
Date of death:
- Jul 5, 2002 (age 83 years)
William Howard Taft
William Howard Taft (September 15, 1857 – March 8, 1930) was the 27th President of the United States and later the 10th Chief Justice of the United States.
Born in 1857 in Cincinnati, Ohio, into the powerful Taft family, Taft graduated from Yale...
Date of birth:
- Sep 15, 1857
Date of death:
- Mar 8, 1930 (age 72 years)
Wendell Willkie
Wendell Lewis Willkie (pronounced /ˈwɪlki/; February 18, 1892 – October 8, 1944) was a corporate lawyer in the United States and was the dark horse Republican Party nominee for the 1940 presidential election, where he crusaded against the...
Date of birth:
- Feb 18, 1892
Date of death:
- Oct 8, 1944 (age 52 years)
Booker T. Washington
Booker T. Washington (April 5, 1856, – November 14, 1915) was an American political leader, educator, orator and author. He was the dominant figure in the African American community in the United States from 1890 to 1915. Representing the last...
Date of birth:
- Apr 5, 1856
Date of death:
- Nov 14, 1915 (age 59 years)
Barbara Stanwyck
Barbara Stanwyck (July 16, 1907 – January 20, 1990) was an American actress, a star of film and television, known during her 60-year career as a consummate and versatile professional with a strong screen presence, and a favorite of directors such as...
Date of birth:
- Jul 16, 1907
Date of death:
- Jan 20, 1990 (age 82 years)
Mel Blanc
Melvin Jerome "Mel" Blanc (May 30, 1908 – July 10, 1989) was an American voice actor and comedian. Although he began his nearly six-decade-long career performing in radio commercials, Blanc is best remembered for his work with Warner Bros. during...
Date of birth:
- May 30, 1908
Date of death:
- Jul 10, 1989 (age 81 years)
Henry Fonda
Henry Jaynes Fonda (May 16, 1905 – August 12, 1982) was an American film and stage actor, best known for his roles as plain-speaking idealists. Fonda's subtle, naturalistic acting style preceded by many years the popularization of method acting....
Date of birth:
- May 16, 1905
Date of death:
- Aug 12, 1982 (age 77 years)
Ivor Novello
David Ivor Davies (15 January 1893 – 6 March 1951), better known as Ivor Novello, was a Welsh composer, singer and actor who became one of the most popular British entertainers of the early 20th century.
Novello was born at Llwyn-yr-Eos (Grove of...
Date of birth:
- Jan 15, 1893
Date of death:
- Mar 6, 1951 (age 58 years)
María Félix
María Félix (April 8, 1914 – April 8, 2002) was a Mexican actress, one of the icons of the golden era of the Cinema of Mexico. She was commonly known, particularly in her later years, by the honorific La Doña.
She was born María de los Ángeles Félix...
Date of birth:
- Apr 8, 1914
Date of death:
- Apr 8, 2002 (age 88 years)
Gerhard Armauer Hansen
Gerhard Henrik Armauer Hansen (29 July 1841 – 12 February 1912) was a Norwegian physician, remembered for his identification of the bacterium Mycobacterium leprae in 1873 as the causative agent of leprosy.
Hansen was born in Bergen and studied...
Date of birth:
- Jul 29, 1841
Date of death:
- Feb 12, 1912 (age 70 years)
William Hartnell
William Henry Hartnell (8 January 1908 – 23 April 1975) was an English actor. During 1963-66, he was the first actor to play the lead role of the Doctor in the long-running science fiction television series Doctor Who.
Hartnell was born in St...
Date of birth:
- Jan 8, 1908
Date of death:
- Apr 23, 1975 (age 67 years)
Adlai Stevenson
Adlai Ewing Stevenson II (pronounced /ˈædleɪ/; February 5, 1900 – July 14, 1965) was an American politician, noted for his intellectual demeanor, eloquent oratory, and promotion of liberal causes in the Democratic Party. He served one term as...
Date of birth:
- Feb 5, 1900
Date of death:
- Jul 14, 1965 (age 65 years)
Joseph Bonanno
Giuseppe "Joe Bananas" Bonanno (January 18, 1905 – May 12, 2002) was a Sicilian-born American Mafioso who became the boss of the Bonanno crime family. He was nicknamed "Joe Bananas," a name he despised because it implied he was crazy.
Almost from...
Date of birth:
- Jan 18, 1905
Date of death:
- May 12, 2002 (age 97 years)
Gene Rayburn
Gene Rayburn (December 22, 1917 – November 29, 1999) was an American radio and television personality. Born Eugene Rubessa (pronounced /ruːˈbeɪʃə/) in Christopher, Illinois, he was an only child of Croatian immigrants and graduated from Lindblom...
Date of birth:
- Dec 22, 1917
Date of death:
- Nov 29, 1999 (age 81 years)
Baudouin of Belgium
Baudouin (French: Baudouin Albert Charles Léopold Axel Marie Gustave de Belgique or Dutch: Boudewijn Albert Karel Leopold Axel Marie Gustaaf van België) (7 September 1930 – 31 July 1993) reigned as King of the Belgians, following his father's...
Date of birth:
- Sep 7, 1930
Date of death:
- Jul 31, 1993 (age 62 years)
Chiang Ching-kuo
Chiang Ching-kuo (simplified Chinese: 蒋经国; traditional Chinese: 蔣經國; pinyin: Jiǎng Jīngguó; Wade-Giles: Chiang Ching-kuo; POJ: ChiúⁿKeng-kok; Shanghai/Ningbo dialect: [tɕiã.tɕiŋ.koʔ]) (April 27, 1910 – January 13, 1988), Kuomintang (KMT) politician...
Date of birth:
- Apr 27, 1910
Date of death:
- Jan 13, 1988 (age 77 years)
Joaquín Balaguer
Joaquín Antonio Balaguer Ricardo (September 1, 1906 – July 14, 2002) was the President of the Dominican Republic from 1960 to 1962, from 1966 to 1978, and again from 1986 to 1996.
Balaguer was born in Villa Bisonó (now part of Navarrete), in the...
Date of birth:
- Sep 1, 1906
Date of death:
- Jul 14, 2002 (age 95 years)
Walter Matthau
Walter John Matthau (October 1, 1920 – July 1, 2000) was an American actor best known for his role as Oscar Madison in The Odd Couple and his frequent collaborations with Odd Couple star Jack Lemmon, as well as his role as Coach Buttermaker in the...
Date of birth:
- Oct 1, 1920
Date of death:
- Jul 1, 2000 (age 79 years)
Benjamin Britten
Edward Benjamin Britten, Baron Britten, OM CH (22 November 1913 – 4 December 1976) was an English composer, conductor, violist and pianist.
Britten was born in Lowestoft, Suffolk, the son of a dentist and a talented amateur musician. He showed...
Date of birth:
- Nov 22, 1913
Date of death:
- Dec 4, 1976 (age 63 years)
Ginger Rogers
Ginger Rogers (July 16, 1911 – April 25, 1995) was an American film and stage actress, dancer and singer.
During her long career, she made a total of 73 films, and is noted for her role as Fred Astaire's romantic interest and dancing partner in a...
Date of birth:
- Jul 16, 1911
Date of death:
- Apr 25, 1995 (age 83 years)
Georges Bizet
Georges Bizet (25 October 1838 – 3 June 1875) was a French composer and pianist of the Romantic era. He is best known for the opera Carmen.
Bizet was born at 26 rue de la Tour d'Auvergne in the 9th arrondissement of Paris in 1838. He was registered...
Date of birth:
- Oct 25, 1838
Date of death:
- Jun 3, 1875 (age 36 years)
Ed Gein
Edward Theodore "Ed" Gein (pronounced /ˈɡiːn/; August 27, 1906 – July 26, 1984) was an American murderer and grave robber. His crimes, which he committed around his hometown of Plainfield, Wisconsin, garnered widespread notoriety after authorities...
Date of birth:
- Aug 27, 1906
Date of death:
- Jul 26, 1984 (age 77 years)
Christopher Reeve
Christopher D'Olier Reeve (September 25, 1952 – October 10, 2004) was an American actor, film director, producer and screenwriter. He achieved stardom for his acting achievements, including his notable motion picture portrayal of the fictional...
Date of birth:
- Sep 25, 1952
Date of death:
- Oct 10, 2004 (age 52 years)
Ronnie Barker
Ronald William George Barker, OBE (25 September 1929 – 3 October 2005) was an English actor and comedian, best known for his roles as Norman Stanley Fletcher in the British comedy television series Porridge, as various characters in the British...
Date of birth:
- Sep 25, 1929
Date of death:
- Oct 3, 2005 (age 76 years)
Edward White Benson
Edward White Benson (14 July 1829 – 11 October 1896) was Archbishop of Canterbury from 1882 until his death.
Edward White Benson was born in Highgate, Birmingham, the son of a Birmingham chemical manufacturer. He was educated at King Edward's School...
Date of birth:
- Jul 14, 1829
Date of death:
- Oct 11, 1896 (age 67 years)
Mario Puzo
Mario Gianluigi Puzo (October 15, 1920 – July 2, 1999) was a two time Academy Award-winning Italian American author and screenwriter, known for his novels about the Mafia, especially The Godfather (1969), which he later co-adapted into a film with...
Date of birth:
- Oct 15, 1920
Date of death:
- Jul 2, 1999 (age 78 years)
Lionel Hampton
Lionel Leo Hampton (April 20, 1908 – August 31, 2002) was an American jazz vibraphonist, pianist, percussionist, bandleader and actor. Like Red Norvo, he was one of the first jazz vibraphone players. Hampton ranks among the great names in jazz...
Date of birth:
- Apr 20, 1908
Date of death:
- Aug 31, 2002 (age 94 years)
Peter Pears
Sir Peter Neville Luard Pears (pronounced /ˈpɪərz/ "peerz";Farnham, 22 June 1910 – Aldeburgh, 3 April 1986) was an English tenor and life-long partner of the composer Benjamin Britten.
He was educated at Lancing College and went on to study music at...
Date of birth:
- Jun 22, 1910
Date of death:
- Apr 3, 1986 (age 75 years)
Ansel Adams
Ansel Easton Adams (February 20, 1902 – April 22, 1984) was an American photographer and environmentalist, best known for his black-and-white photographs of the American West, especially in Yosemite National Park. One of his most famous photographs...
Date of birth:
- Feb 20, 1902
Date of death:
- Apr 22, 1984 (age 82 years)
Maurice Papon
Maurice Papon (September 3, 1910 – February 17, 2007) was a French civil servant, industrial leader and Gaullist politician, convicted for crimes against humanity for his participation in the deportation of over 1600 Jews during World War II when he...
Date of birth:
- Sep 3, 1910
Date of death:
- Feb 17, 2007 (age 96 years)
Garret Hobart
Garret Augustus Hobart (June 3, 1844 – November 21, 1899) was the 24th Vice President of the United States.
He was born in Long Branch, New Jersey, to Sophia Vanderveer and Addison Willard Hobart, a descendant in the eighth generation of English...
Date of birth:
- Jun 3, 1844
Date of death:
- Nov 21, 1899 (age 55 years)
