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Andrei Tarkovsky
Andrei Arsenyevich Tarkovsky (Russian: Андрей Арсеньевич Тарковский) (April 4, 1932 - December 29, 1986) was a Russian filmmaker, writer, film editor, film theorist and opera director.
Tarkovsky's films include Andrei Rublev, Solaris, The Mirror,...
Date of birth:
- Apr 4, 1932
Date of death:
- Dec 29, 1986 (age 54 years)
Alan Jay Lerner
Alan Jay Lerner (vales verga was an American lyricist and librettist. In collaboration with Frederick Loewe, he created some of the world's most popular and enduring works of musical theatre for both the stage and on film. He won three Tony Awards...
Date of birth:
- Aug 31, 1918
Date of death:
- Jun 14, 1986 (age 67 years)
Boris Pasternak
Boris Leonidovich Pasternak (Russian: Бори́с Леони́дович Пастерна́к) (10 February 1890 – 30 May 1960) was a Nobel Prize-winning Russian poet and writer. In the West he is best known for his epic novel Doctor Zhivago, a tragedy whose events span the...
Date of birth:
- Feb 10, 1890
Date of death:
- May 30, 1960 (age 70 years)
Claude Monet
Claude Monet (French pronunciation: [klod mɔnɛ]) also known as Oscar Claude Monet or Claude Oscar Monet (14 November 1840 – 5 December 1926) was a founder of French impressionist painting, and the most consistent and prolific practitioner of the...
Date of birth:
- Nov 14, 1840
Date of death:
- Dec 5, 1926 (age 86 years)
Dmitri Shostakovich
Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich (Russian: Дмитрий Дмитриевич Шостакович (help·info); 25 September [O.S. September 12] 1906 – 9 August 1975) was a Russian composer of the Soviet period and one of the most celebrated composers of the 20th century....
Date of birth:
- Sep 25, 1906
Date of death:
- Aug 9, 1975 (age 68 years)
Desi Arnaz
Desi Arnaz (March 2, 1917 – December 2, 1986) was a Cuban-American musician, actor and television producer. He gained international renown for leading a Latino music band, the Desi Arnaz Orchestra. But arguably, he is best known for his role as...
Date of birth:
- Mar 2, 1917
Date of death:
- Dec 2, 1986 (age 69 years)
George Peppard
George Peppard, Jr. (October 1, 1928–May 8, 1994) was an American film and television actor.
He secured a major role early in his career when he starred alongside Audrey Hepburn in Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961), and he played the title role of the...
Date of birth:
- Oct 1, 1928
Date of death:
- May 8, 1994 (age 65 years)
George Harrison
George Harrison MBE (25 February 1943 – 29 November 2001) was an English rock guitarist, singer-songwriter and film producer who achieved international fame as lead guitarist in The Beatles. Often referred to as "the quiet Beatle", Harrison embraced...
Date of birth:
- Feb 25, 1943
Date of death:
- Nov 29, 2001 (age 58 years)
John Updike
John Hoyer Updike (March 18, 1932 – January 27, 2009) was an American novelist, poet, short story writer, art critic, and literary critic.
Updike's most famous work is his Rabbit series (the novels Rabbit, Run; Rabbit Redux; Rabbit Is Rich; Rabbit...
Date of birth:
- Mar 18, 1932
Date of death:
- Jan 27, 2009 (age 76 years)
James Blish
James Benjamin Blish (East Orange, New Jersey, May 23, 1921 – Henley-on-Thames, July 30, 1975) was an American author of fantasy and science fiction. Blish also wrote literary criticism of science fiction using the pen-name William Atheling Jr.
In...
Date of birth:
- May 23, 1921
Date of death:
- 1975 (age 53 years)
Jack Ruby
Jacob Rubenstein (April 25, 1911 – January 3, 1967), who legally changed his name to Jack Leon Ruby in 1947, was an American nightclub operator in Dallas, Texas. He was convicted on March 14, 1964, of the murder of Lee Harvey Oswald on November 24,...
Date of birth:
- Mar 25, 1911
Date of death:
- Jan 3, 1967 (age 55 years)
Morton Downey, Jr.
Morton Downey, Jr. (born Sean Morton Downey; December 9, 1933 - March 12, 2001) was an American singer, songwriter and later a television talk show host of the 1980s who pioneered the "trash TV" format.
Downey attended New York University. He was a...
Date of birth:
- Dec 9, 1933
Date of death:
- Mar 12, 2001 (age 67 years)
Stephen Jay Gould
Stephen Jay Gould (September 10, 1941 – May 20, 2002) was an American paleontologist, evolutionary biologist, and historian of science. He was also one of the most influential and widely read writers of popular science of his generation. Gould spent...
Date of birth:
- Sep 10, 1941
Date of death:
- May 20, 2002 (age 60 years)
Thomas Samuel Kuhn
Thomas Samuel Kuhn (surname pronounced /ˈkuːn/; July 18, 1922 – June 17, 1996) was an American intellectual who wrote extensively on the history of science and developed several important notions in the sociology and philosophy of science.
Thomas...
Date of birth:
- Jul 18, 1922
Date of death:
- Jun 17, 1996 (age 73 years)
Walt Disney
Walter Elias "Walt" Disney (December 5, 1901 – December 15, 1966) was an American film producer, director, screenwriter, voice actor, animator, entrepreneur, entertainer, international icon and philanthropist. Disney is famous for his influence in...
Date of birth:
- Dec 5, 1901
Date of death:
- Dec 15, 1966 (age 65 years)
Cigarette
A cigarette (French "small cigar", from cigar + -ette) is a product consumed through smoking and manufactured out of cured and finely cut tobacco leaves and reconstituted tobacco, often combined with other additives, then rolled or stuffed into a...
Paul von Hindenburg
Paul Ludwig Hans Anton von Beneckendorff und von Hindenburg ( listen (help·info)), known universally as Paul von Hindenburg ( listen (help·info)) (2 October 1847 – 2 August 1934) was a German field marshal and statesman.
Hindenburg enjoyed a long if...
Date of birth:
- Oct 2, 1847
Date of death:
- Aug 2, 1934 (age 86 years)
Duke Ellington
Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington (April 29, 1899 – May 24, 1974) was an American composer, pianist, and big band leader.
Duke Ellington became one of the most influential artists in the history of recorded music, and is largely recognized as one of...
Date of birth:
- Apr 29, 1899
Date of death:
- May 24, 1974 (age 75 years)
Frank Whittle
Air Commodore Sir Frank Whittle, OM, KBE, CB, FRS, Hon FRAeS (1 June 1907 – 9 August 1996) was a British Royal Air Force (RAF) officer. Sharing credit with Germany's Dr. Hans von Ohain for independently inventing the jet engine, he is hailed as a...
Date of birth:
- Jun 1, 1907
Date of death:
- Aug 9, 1996 (age 89 years)
Buster Keaton
Joseph Frank "Buster" Keaton VI (October 4, 1895 – February 1, 1966) was an American comic actor and filmmaker. Best known for his silent films, his trademark was physical comedy with a consistently stoic, deadpan expression, earning him the...
Date of birth:
- Oct 4, 1895
Date of death:
- Feb 1, 1966 (age 70 years)
Gary Cooper
Frank James “Gary” Cooper (May 7, 1901 – May 13, 1961) was an American film actor. He was renowned for his quiet, understated acting style and his stoic, individualistic, emotionally restrained, but at times intense screen persona, which was...
Date of birth:
- May 7, 1901
Date of death:
- May 13, 1961 (age 60 years)
George VI of the United Kingdom
George VI (Albert Frederick Arthur George; 14 December 1895 – 6 February 1952) was King of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions from 11 December 1936 until his death. He was the last Emperor of India (until 1947), the last King of Ireland ...
Date of birth:
- Dec 14, 1895
Date of death:
- Feb 6, 1952 (age 56 years)
Jesse Owens
James Cleveland "Jesse" Owens (September 12, 1913 – March 31, 1980) was an American track and field athlete. He participated in the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, Germany, where he achieved international fame by winning four gold medals: one each...
Date of birth:
- Sep 12, 1913
Date of death:
- Mar 31, 1980 (age 66 years)
Mary of Teck
Mary of Teck (Victoria Mary Augusta Louise Olga Pauline Claudine Agnes; 26 May 1867 – 24 March 1953) was Queen of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions and Empress of India as the consort of King-Emperor George V. By birth, she was a princess...
Date of birth:
- May 26, 1867
Date of death:
- Mar 24, 1953 (age 85 years)
Joe DiMaggio
Joseph Paul "Joe" DiMaggio (November 25, 1914 – March 8, 1999), born Giuseppe Paolo DiMaggio, Jr., was an American baseball player for the New York Yankees. He was voted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1955. He was the middle of three brothers who...
Date of birth:
- Nov 25, 1914
Date of death:
- Mar 8, 1999 (age 84 years)
Anthony Burgess
John Burgess Wilson (pseudonym Anthony Burgess) (25 February 1917 – 22 November 1993) was an English author, poet, playwright, composer, linguist, translator and critic.
His dystopian satire A Clockwork Orange, is by far his most famous novel, and...
Date of birth:
- Feb 25, 1917
Date of death:
- Nov 22, 1993 (age 76 years)
Paul Newman
Paul Leonard Newman (January 26, 1925 — September 26, 2008) was an American actor, film director, entrepreneur, humanitarian, and auto racing enthusiast. He won numerous awards, including an Academy Award for his performance in the 1986 Martin...
Date of birth:
- Jan 26, 1925
Date of death:
- Sep 26, 2008 (age 83 years)
Ray Milland
Ray Milland (January 3, 1907 – March 10, 1986) was a Welsh-American actor and director. His screen career ran from 1929 to 1985, and he is best-remembered for his Academy Award-winning portrayal of an alcoholic writer in The Lost Weekend (1945)....
Date of birth:
- Jan 3, 1907
Date of death:
- Mar 10, 1986 (age 79 years)
Preston Tucker
Preston Thomas Tucker (September 21, 1903 – December 26, 1956) was an American automobile designer and entrepreneur.
He is most remembered for his 1948 Tucker Sedan (known as the "Tucker '48" and initially nicknamed the "Tucker Torpedo"), an...
Date of birth:
- Sep 21, 1903
Date of death:
- Dec 26, 1956 (age 53 years)
Jack Buck
John Francis "Jack" Buck (August 21, 1924–June 18, 2002) was an American sportscaster, best known for his work announcing Major League Baseball games of the St. Louis Cardinals. Buck received the Ford C. Frick Award from the Baseball Hall of Fame in...
Date of birth:
- Aug 21, 1924
Date of death:
- Jun 18, 2002 (age 77 years)
Yul Brynner
Yuliy "Yul" Borisovich Brynner (Russian: Юлий Борисович Бринер, Ûlij Borisovič Briner; July 11, 1920 – October 10, 1985) was a Russian-born actor of stage and film, best known for his portrayal of the Mongkut, king of Siam, in the Rodgers &...
Date of birth:
- Jul 11, 1920
Date of death:
- Oct 10, 1985 (age 65 years)
Georg Ritter von Trapp
Korvettenkapitän Georg Ludwig Ritter von Trapp (April 4, 1880 – May 30, 1947) headed the Austrian singing family portrayed in the heavily-fictionalized musical The Sound of Music. His exploits at sea in World War I earned him numerous decorations,...
Date of birth:
- Apr 4, 1880
Date of death:
- May 30, 1947 (age 67 years)
Rosemary Clooney
Rosemary Clooney (May 23, 1928 – June 29, 2002) was an American singer and actress. She came to prominence in the early 1950s with the novelty hit "Come On-a My House", which was followed by other pop numbers "Botch-a-Me (Ba-Ba-Baciami Piccina)" (a...
Date of birth:
- May 23, 1928
Date of death:
- Jun 29, 2002 (age 74 years)
Stephen Ambrose
Stephen Edward Ambrose (January 10, 1936 – October 13, 2002) was an American historian and biographer of U.S. Presidents Dwight D. Eisenhower and Richard Nixon. He was a long time professor of history at the University of New Orleans.
Ambrose was...
Date of birth:
- Jan 10, 1936
Date of death:
- Oct 13, 2002 (age 66 years)
Bobby Robson
Sir Robert William "Bobby" Robson CBE (18 February 1933 – 31 July 2009) was an English footballer and, after retirement, manager of seven European clubs and the England national team.
His professional playing career as an inside-forward spanned...
Date of birth:
- Feb 18, 1933
Date of death:
- Jul 31, 2009 (age 76 years)
Scatman Crothers
Benjamin Sherman "Scatman" Crothers (May 23, 1910 – November 22, 1986) was an American actor, singer, dancer and musician known for his work as Louie the Garbage Man on the TV show Chico and the Man, and as Dick Hallorann in The Shining in 1980. He...
Date of birth:
- May 23, 1910
Date of death:
- Nov 22, 1986 (age 76 years)
Tex Avery
Frederick Bean "Fred/Tex" Avery (February 26, 1908 – August 26, 1980) was an American animator, cartoonist, voice actor and director, famous for producing animated cartoons during The Golden Age of Hollywood animation. He did his most significant...
Date of birth:
- Feb 26, 1908
Date of death:
- Aug 26, 1980 (age 72 years)
Fernandel
Fernand Joseph Désiré Contandin (8 May 1903 – 26 February 1971), better known as Fernandel, was a French actor and singer. Born in Marseille, France, and grown up in Piedmont, Italy, he was a comedy star who first gained popularity in French...
Date of birth:
- May 8, 1903
Date of death:
- Feb 26, 1971 (age 67 years)
Robert Mitchum
Robert Charles Durman Mitchum (August 6, 1917 – July 1, 1997) was an American film actor, author, composer and singer. Mitchum is largely remembered for his starring roles in several major works of the film noir style, and is considered a forerunner...
Date of birth:
- Aug 6, 1917
Date of death:
- Jul 1, 1997 (age 79 years)
Jacques Brel
Jacques Romain Georges Brel (French pronunciation: [ʒak bʀɛl] in French) (8 April 1929–9 October 1978) was a Belgian singer-songwriter. Brel composed and recorded his songs almost exclusively in French. The quality and style of his lyrics are highly...
Date of birth:
- Apr 8, 1929
Date of death:
- Oct 9, 1978 (age 49 years)
Sidney Bechet
Sidney Bechet (May 14, 1897 – May 14, 1959) was an American jazz saxophonist, clarinetist, and composer.
He was one of the first important soloists in jazz (beating cornetist and trumpeter Louis Armstrong to the recording studio by several months...
Date of birth:
- May 14, 1897
Date of death:
- May 14, 1959 (age 62 years)
Giles Gilbert Scott
Sir Giles Gilbert Scott, OM, FRIBA (9 November 1880 – 8 February 1960) was an English architect known for his work on such buildings as Liverpool Cathedral and Battersea Power Station.
He came from a family of architects. He was the son of George...
Date of birth:
- Nov 9, 1880
Date of death:
- Feb 8, 1960 (age 79 years)
Andy Kaufman
Andrew Geoffrey (Andy) Kaufman (January 17, 1949 – May 16, 1984) was an American entertainer, actor and performance artist. While often referred to as a comedian, Kaufman did not consider himself one. He disdained telling jokes and engaging in...
Date of birth:
- Jan 17, 1949
Date of death:
- May 16, 1984 (age 35 years)
Everett Dirksen
Everett McKinley Dirksen (January 4, 1896 – September 7, 1969) was a Republican U.S. Congressman and Senator from Pekin, Illinois. As Republican Senate leader he played a highly visible and key role in the politics of the 1960s, including helping to...
Date of birth:
- Jan 4, 1896
Date of death:
- Sep 7, 1969 (age 73 years)
Jessica Mitford
Jessica Lucy Freeman-Mitford (September 11, 1917 – July 22, 1996) was an English author, journalist and political campaigner, who was one of the Mitford sisters.
Mitford, the sixth of seven children, was the daughter of David Freeman-Mitford, 2nd...
Date of birth:
- Sep 11, 1917
Date of death:
- Jul 22, 1996 (age 78 years)
Neil Aspinall
Neil Aspinall (13 October 1941 – 24 March 2008) was a British music industry executive. A childhood friend of Paul McCartney and George Harrison, he went on to head The Beatles' company Apple Corps.
The Beatles employed Aspinall as their road...
Date of birth:
- Oct 13, 1941
Date of death:
- Mar 24, 2008 (age 66 years)
Harry Hay
Henry "Harry" Hay, Jr. (April 7, 1912 – October 24, 2002) was a teacher, labor advocate, and early leader in the American LGBT rights movement. Drawing on his background in the Communist Party USA, Hay co-founded the Mattachine Society, the first...
Date of birth:
- Apr 7, 1912
Date of death:
- Oct 24, 2002 (age 90 years)
Oriana Fallaci
Oriana Fallaci (29 June 1929 - 15 September 2006) was an Italian journalist, author, and political interviewer. A former partisan during World War II, she had a long and successful journalistic career.
She interviewed many internationally known...
Date of birth:
- Jun 29, 1929
Date of death:
- Sep 15, 2006 (age 77 years)
Dashiell Hammett
Samuel Dashiell Hammett (pronounced [dəˈʃiːl]; May 27, 1894 – January 10, 1961) was an American author of hard-boiled detective novels and short stories. Among the enduring characters he created are Sam Spade (The Maltese Falcon), Nick and Nora...
Date of birth:
- May 27, 1894
Date of death:
- Jan 10, 1961 (age 66 years)
Franchot Tone
Franchot Tone (February 27, 1905 – September 18, 1968) was an American actor.
He was born Stanislaus Pascal Franchot Tone in Niagara Falls, New York, the youngest son of Dr. Frank Jerome Tone, the president of the Carborundum Company, and his wife,...
Date of birth:
- Feb 27, 1905
Date of death:
- Sep 18, 1968 (age 63 years)
Meyer Lansky
Meyer Lansky (born Meyer Suchomlanski) (July 4, 1902 – January 15, 1983; known as the "Mob's Accountant") was a Jewish-American organized crime figure who, along with his associate Charles "Lucky" Luciano, was instrumental in the development of the ...
Date of birth:
- Jul 4, 1902
Date of death:
- Jan 15, 1983 (age 80 years)
Angus Calder
Angus Lindsay Ritchie Calder (5 February 1942 – 5 June 2008) was a Scottish academician, writer, historian, educator and literary editor with a background in English literature, politics and cultural studies.
He read English literature at King's...
Date of birth:
- Feb 5, 1942
Date of death:
- Jun 5, 2008 (age 66 years)
Cantinflas
Fortino Mario Alfonso Moreno Reyes (August 12, 1911 – April 20, 1993) was a Mexican comedian and actor.
He earned wide popularity with his stage and film persona Cantinflas, usually portrayed as an impoverished campesino slumdweller of pelado origin...
Date of birth:
- Aug 12, 1911
Date of death:
- Apr 20, 1993 (age 81 years)
Dean Martin
Dean Martin (June 7, 1917 – December 25, 1995) was an American singer, film actor and comedian. He was one of the best known musical artists of the 1950s and 1960s. Martin's hit singles included "Memories Are Made of This", "That's Amore", ...
Date of birth:
- Jun 7, 1917
Date of death:
- Dec 25, 1995 (age 78 years)
John Junkin
John Francis Junkin (29 January 1930 - 7 March 2006) was an English radio, television and film performer and scriptwriter.
In 1960 Junkin joined Joan Littlewood's Stratford East Theatre Workshop, and played the lead in the original production of...
Date of birth:
- Jan 29, 1930
Date of death:
- Mar 7, 2006 (age 76 years)
Vincent Price
Vincent Leonard Price II (May 27, 1911 – October 25, 1993) was an American actor, well known for his distinctive voice and serio-comic attitude in a series of horror films made in the latter part of his career.
Price was born in St. Louis, Missouri,...
Date of birth:
- May 27, 1911
Date of death:
- Oct 25, 1993 (age 82 years)
Edward R. Murrow
Edward R. Murrow, KBE (born Egbert Roscoe Murrow; April 25, 1908 – April 27, 1965) was an American broadcast journalist. He first came to prominence with a series of radio news broadcasts during World War II, which were followed by millions of...
Date of birth:
- Apr 25, 1908
Date of death:
- Apr 27, 1965 (age 57 years)
Hugo Banzer
Hugo Banzer Suárez (May 10, 1926 – May 5, 2002) was a politician, military general, dictator and President of Bolivia. He held the Bolivian presidency twice: from August 22, 1971 to July 21, 1978, as a dictator; and then again from August 6, 1997 to...
Date of birth:
- May 10, 1926
Date of death:
- May 5, 2002 (age 76 years)
James Whitmore
James Whitmore (October 1, 1921 – February 6, 2009) was an American film actor.
Born as James Allen Whitmore, Jr. in White Plains, New York, to Florence Belle (née Crane) and James Allen Whitmore Sr., a park commission official, Whitmore attended...
Date of birth:
- Oct 1, 1921
Date of death:
- Feb 6, 2009 (age 87 years)
E. Nesbit
Edith Nesbit (married name Edith Bland; 15 August 1858 – 4 May 1924) was an English author and poet whose children's works were published under the name of E. Nesbit. She wrote or collaborated on over 60 books of fiction for children, several of...
Date of birth:
- Aug 15, 1858
Date of death:
- May 4, 1924 (age 65 years)
