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Pneumonia
Pneumonia is an inflammatory illness of the lung. Frequently, it is described as lung parenchyma/alveolar inflammation and abnormal alveolar filling with fluid (consolidation and exudation).
The alveoli are microscopic air-filled sacs in the lungs responsible for absorbing oxygen. Pneumonia can...
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Akio Morita
Akio Morita (盛田昭夫 Morita Akio, January 26, 1921 in Tokoname, Aichi, Japan – October 3, 1999 in Tokyo) was a co-founder of Sony Corporation with his friend Masaru Ibuka (April 11, 1908 - December 19, 1997).
Morita's family was involved in sake, miso...
Date of birth:
- Jan 26, 1921
Date of death:
- Oct 3, 1999 (age 78 years)
Aron Nimzowitsch
Aron Nimzowitsch (Latvian: Ārons Ņimcovičs; born Aron Niemzowitsch and also known as Aaron Nimzovich) (7 November 1886 – 16 March 1935) was a Latvian-born Danish unofficial chess grandmaster and a very influential chess writer. He was the foremost...
Date of birth:
- Nov 7, 1886
Date of death:
- Mar 16, 1935 (age 48 years)
Al Capone
Alphonse Gabriel "Al" Capone (January 17, 1899 – January 25, 1947) was an American gangster who led a crime syndicate dedicated to smuggling and bootlegging of liquor and other illegal activities during the Prohibition Era of the 1920s and 1930s....
Date of birth:
- Jan 17, 1899
Date of death:
- Jan 25, 1947 (age 48 years)
Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklin (1706 – 1790) was an inventor, publisher. scientist, and statesman, who is known as one of the Founding Fathers of the United States of America. He was a major figure in the Enlightenment, known as a printer, satirist,...
Date of birth:
- Jan 17, 1706
Date of death:
- Apr 17, 1790 (age 84 years)
Benjamin Harrison
Benjamin Harrison (August 20, 1833 – March 13, 1901) was the 23rd President of the United States, serving one term from 1889 to 1893. Harrison was born in North Bend, Ohio, and moved to Indianapolis, Indiana at the age of 21, where he became a...
Date of birth:
- Aug 20, 1833
Date of death:
- Mar 13, 1901 (age 67 years)
Clement Attlee
Clement Richard Attlee, 1st Earl Attlee, KG, OM, CH, PC, FRS (3 January 1883 – 8 October 1967) was a British Labour politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1945 to 1951, and as Leader of the Labour Party from 1935 to 1955....
Date of birth:
- Jan 3, 1883
Date of death:
- Oct 8, 1967 (age 84 years)
Carl Sagan
Carl Edward Sagan (November 9, 1934 – December 20, 1996) was an American astronomer, astrochemist, author, and highly successful popularizer of astronomy, astrophysics and other natural sciences. He pioneered exobiology and promoted the Search for...
Date of birth:
- Nov 9, 1934
Date of death:
- Dec 20, 1996 (age 62 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)
Dylan Thomas
Dylan Marlais Thomas (27 October 1914 – 9 November 1953) was a Welsh poet and writer who wrote exclusively in English. In addition to poetry, he wrote short stories and scripts for film and radio, which he often performed himself. His public...
Date of birth:
- Oct 27, 1914
Date of death:
- Nov 9, 1953 (age 39 years)
Dan DeCarlo
Daniel S. DeCarlo (December 12, 1919 - December 19, 2001) was an American cartoonist best known as the artist who developed the look of Archie Comics in the late 1950s and early 1960s, modernizing the characters to their contemporary appearance and...
Date of birth:
- Dec 12, 1919
Date of death:
- Dec 19, 2001 (age 82 years)
Friedrich Nietzsche
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (October 15, 1844 – August 25, 1900) (German pronunciation: [ˈfʁiːdʁɪç ˈvɪlhəlm ˈniːtʃə]) was a 19th- century German philosopher and classical philologist. He wrote critical texts on religion, morality, contemporary...
Date of birth:
- Oct 15, 1844
Date of death:
- Aug 25, 1900 (age 55 years)
Francis Bacon
Francis Bacon,1st Viscount St Alban KC (22 January 1561 – 9 April 1626), son of Nicholas Bacon by his second wife Anne (Cooke) Bacon, was an English philosopher, statesman, scientist, lawyer, jurist, and author. He served both as Attorney General...
Date of birth:
- Jan 22, 1561
Date of death:
- Apr 9, 1626 (age 65 years)
George Washington
George Washington (February 22, 1732 [O.S. February 11, 1731] – December 14, 1799) was the commander of the Continental Army in the American Revolutionary War (1775–1783) and served as the first President of the United States of America (1789–1797)....
Date of birth:
- Feb 22, 1732
Date of death:
- Dec 14, 1799 (age 67 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)
Hermann Ebbinghaus
Hermann Ebbinghaus (January 24, 1850 — February 26, 1909) was a German psychologist who pioneered the experimental study of memory, and is known for his discovery of the forgetting curve and the spacing effect. He was also the first person to...
Date of birth:
- Jan 24, 1850
Date of death:
- Feb 26, 1909 (age 59 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)
Joseph Cotten
Joseph Cheshire Cotten (May 15, 1905 – February 6, 1994) was an American actor of stage and film. He is best remembered for his association with Orson Welles, which led to appearances in Journey into Fear, which Cotten wrote, Citizen Kane, The Third...
Date of birth:
- May 15, 1905
Date of death:
- Feb 6, 1994 (age 88 years)
Jim Henson
James Maury "Jim" Henson (September 24, 1936 – May 16, 1990), was one of the most widely known puppeteers in American history. He was the creator of The Muppets. He was the leading force behind their long run in the television series Sesame Street...
Date of birth:
- Sep 24, 1936
Date of death:
- May 16, 1990 (age 53 years)
Kon Ichikawa
Kon Ichikawa (市川 崑, Ichikawa Kon, November 20, 1915 – February 13, 2008) was a Japanese film director.
In the 1930s Ichikawa attended a technical school in Osaka. Upon graduation, in 1933, he found a job with a local rental film studio, J.O. Studio,...
Date of birth:
- Nov 20, 1915
Date of death:
- Feb 13, 2008 (age 92 years)
Max Weber
Maximilian Carl Emil Weber (German pronunciation: [maks ˈveːbɐ]) (21 April 1864–14 June 1920) was a German lawyer, politician, historian, sociologist and political economist, who profoundly influenced social theory and the remit of sociology itself....
Date of birth:
- Apr 21, 1864
Date of death:
- Jun 14, 1920 (age 56 years)
Miles Davis
Miles Davis III (May 26, 1926 – September 28, 1991) was an American jazz trumpeter, bandleader, and composer.
Widely considered one of the most influential jazz musicians of the 20th century, Miles Davis was, with his musical groups, at the...
Date of birth:
- May 26, 1926
Date of death:
- Sep 28, 1991 (age 65 years)
Paul Cézanne
Paul Cézanne (French pronunciation: [pɔl seˈzan]; 19 January 1839 – 22 October 1906) was a French artist and Post-Impressionist painter whose work laid the foundations of the transition from the 19th century conception of artistic endeavour to a new...
Date of birth:
- Jan 19, 1839
Date of death:
- Oct 22, 1906 (age 67 years)
Ronald Reagan
Ronald Wilson Reagan (February 6, 1911 – June 5, 2004) was the 40th President of the United States (1981–1989) and the 33rd Governor of California (1967–1975).
Born in Tampico, Illinois, Reagan moved to Los Angeles, California in the 1930s. He began...
Date of birth:
- Feb 6, 1911
Date of death:
- Jun 5, 2004 (age 93 years)
René Descartes
René Descartes (French pronunciation: [ʁəne dekaʁt]), (31 March 1596 – 11 February 1650), also known as Renatus Cartesius (Latinized form), was a French philosopher, mathematician, physicist, and writer who spent most of his adult life in the Dutch...
Date of birth:
- Mar 31, 1596
Date of death:
- Feb 11, 1650 (age 53 years)
Raymond Chandler
Raymond Thornton Chandler (July 23, 1888 – March 26, 1959) was an Anglo-American novelist and screenwriter who had an immense stylistic influence upon the modern private detective story, especially in the style of the writing and the attitudes now...
Date of birth:
- Jul 23, 1888
Date of death:
- Mar 26, 1959 (age 70 years)
Robert E. Lee
Robert Edward Lee (January 19, 1807 – October 12, 1870) was a career United States Army officer, an engineer, and among the most celebrated generals in American history. Lee was the son of Major General Henry Lee III "Light Horse Harry" (1756–1818),...
Date of birth:
- Jan 19, 1807
Date of death:
- Oct 12, 1870 (age 63 years)
Robert Askin
Sir Robert William Askin, GCMG (4 April 1907 – 9 September 1981) was the first Premier of New South Wales from the Liberal Party of Australia 1965 to 1975. He was born Robin William Askin, but he always disliked his first name and he changed it by...
Date of birth:
- Apr 4, 1907
Date of death:
- Sep 9, 1981 (age 74 years)
Samuel Mudd
Samuel Alexander Mudd I, M.D. (December 20, 1833 – January 10, 1883) was a Maryland physician implicated and imprisoned for aiding and conspiring with John Wilkes Booth in the assassination of President of the United States Abraham Lincoln.
Born in...
Date of birth:
- Dec 20, 1833
Date of death:
- Jan 10, 1883 (age 49 years)
Stonewall Jackson
Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall" Jackson (January 21, 1824 – May 10, 1863) was a Confederate general during the American Civil War, and probably the most well-known Confederate commander after General Robert E. Lee. His military career includes the...
Date of birth:
- Jan 21, 1824
Date of death:
- May 10, 1863 (age 39 years)
William Henry Harrison
William Henry Harrison (February 9, 1773 – April 4, 1841) was the ninth President of the United States, an American military officer and politician, and the first president to die in office. The oldest president elected until Ronald Reagan in 1980,...
Date of birth:
- Feb 9, 1773
Date of death:
- Apr 4, 1841 (age 68 years)
William Lyon Mackenzie King
William Lyon Mackenzie King, PC, OM, CMG (December 17, 1874 – July 22, 1950) was a Canadian lawyer, economist, university professor, consultant, civil servant, journalist, teacher, and politician. He served as the tenth Prime Minister of Canada from...
Date of birth:
- Dec 17, 1874
Date of death:
- Jul 22, 1950 (age 75 years)
Zhang Xueliang
Zhang Xueliang or Chang Hsüeh-liang (simplified Chinese: 张学良; traditional Chinese: 張學良; pinyin: Zhāng Xuéliáng; Wade-Giles: Chang Hsüeh-liang; English occasionally: Peter Hsueh Liang Chang) (3 June 1901 (according to other accounts in 1898 or 1900)...
Date of birth:
- 1901
Date of death:
- 2001 (age 100 years)
Harriet Tubman
Harriet Tubman (born Araminta Ross; c. 1822 – March 10, 1913) was an African-American abolitionist, humanitarian, and Union spy during the American Civil War. After escaping from slavery, into which she was born, she made thirteen missions to rescue...
Date of birth:
- 1822
Date of death:
- Mar 10, 1913 (age 91 years)
Alfred Kinsey
Alfred Charles Kinsey (June 23, 1894 – August 25, 1956) was an American biologist and professor of entomology and zoology, who in 1947 founded the Institute for Research in Sex, Gender and Reproduction at Indiana University, now called the Kinsey...
Date of birth:
- Jun 23, 1894
Date of death:
- Aug 25, 1956 (age 62 years)
Howard K. Smith
Howard Kingsbury Smith (May 12, 1914 – February 15, 2002) was an American journalist, radio reporter, television anchorman, political commentator, and film star. He was one of the original Edward R. Murrow boys.
Smith was born in Ferriday in...
Date of birth:
- May 12, 1914
Date of death:
- Feb 15, 2002 (age 87 years)
James Garfield
James Abram Garfield (November 19, 1831 – September 19, 1881) was the 20th President of the United States. His death, two months after being shot and six months after his inauguration, made his tenure, at 199 days, the second shortest (after William...
Date of birth:
- Nov 19, 1831
Date of death:
- Sep 19, 1881 (age 49 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)
Margaret Singer
Dr. Margaret Thaler Singer, (1921 - 2003) was a clinical psychologist and adjunct professor emeritus of psychology at the University of California, Berkeley, U.S.
Singer's main areas of research included schizophrenia, family therapy, brainwashing...
Date of birth:
- 1921
Date of death:
- Nov 23, 2003 (age 82 years)
Ava Gardner
Ava Lavinia Gardner (December 24, 1922 – January 25, 1990) was an American actress.
She was signed to a contract by MGM Studios in 1941 and appeared in supporting roles until she drew attention with her performance in The Killers (1946). She became...
Date of birth:
- Dec 24, 1922
Date of death:
- Jan 25, 1990 (age 67 years)
Leonard Bernstein
Leonard Bernstein (pronounced /ˈbɜrn.staɪn/, us dict: bûrn′·stīn; August 25, 1918 – October 14, 1990) was an American conductor, composer, author, music lecturer and pianist. He was among the first conductors born and educated in the United States...
Date of birth:
- Aug 25, 1918
Date of death:
- Oct 14, 1990 (age 72 years)
Anthony Quinn
Anthony Quinn (April 21, 1915 – June 3, 2001) was a Irish-Mexican-American actor, as well as a painter and writer. He starred in numerous critically acclaimed and commercially successful films, including Zorba the Greek, Lawrence of Arabia, and...
Date of birth:
- Apr 21, 1915
Date of death:
- Jun 3, 2001 (age 86 years)
Ryan White
Ryan Wayne White (December 6, 1971 – April 8, 1990) was an American teenager from Kokomo, Indiana who became a national poster child for HIV/AIDS in the United States after being expelled from school because of his infection. A hemophiliac, he...
Date of birth:
- Dec 6, 1971
Date of death:
- Apr 8, 1990 (age 18 years)
Billy Wilder
Billy Wilder (22 June 1906 – 27 March 2002) was an Austrian-American journalist, filmmaker, screenwriter and producer, whose career spanned more than 50 years and 60 films. He is regarded as one of the most brilliant and versatile filmmakers of...
Date of birth:
- Jun 22, 1906
Date of death:
- Mar 27, 2002 (age 95 years)
Charlton Heston
Heston was born John Charles Carter in No Man's Land, an unincorporated area between Evanston and Wilmette, Illinois, the son of Lilla (née Charlton) and Russell Whitford Carter, a mill operator. (However, the 1930 Census for Richfield,...
Date of birth:
- Oct 4, 1923
Date of death:
- Apr 5, 2008 (age 84 years)
Dudley Moore
Dudley Stuart John Moore, CBE (19 April 1935 – 27 March 2002) was an English actor, comedian, composer and musician.
Moore first came to prominence as one of the four writer-performers in Beyond the Fringe in the early 1960s and became famous as...
Date of birth:
- Apr 19, 1935
Date of death:
- Mar 27, 2002 (age 66 years)
William III of England
William III (14 November 1650 – 8 March 1702) was a sovereign Prince of Orange by birth. From 1672 he governed as Stadtholder William III of Orange over Holland, Zeeland, Utrecht, Guelders, and Overijssel of the Dutch Republic. From 1689 he reigned...
Date of birth:
- Nov 14, 1650
Date of death:
- Mar 8, 1702 (age 51 years)
Valerie Solanas
Valerie Jean Solanas (April 9, 1936 – April 25, 1988) was an American radical feminist writer, best known for her attempted murder of Andy Warhol in 1968. She wrote the SCUM Manifesto which encouraged male gendercide and the creation of an all...
Date of birth:
- Apr 9, 1936
Date of death:
- Apr 25, 1988 (age 52 years)
Victor Lustig
Victor Lustig (January 4, 1890 – March 11, 1947) was a con artist who undertook scams in various countries and became best known as "the man who sold the Eiffel Tower. Twice.".
Victor Lustig was born in Hostinne, Czech Republic, but soon headed to...
Date of birth:
- Jan 4, 1890
Date of death:
- Mar 11, 1947 (age 57 years)
Edward Heath
Sir Edward Richard George Heath, KG, MBE (9 July 1916 – 17 July 2005), often known as Ted Heath, was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1970 to 1974 and leader of the Conservative Party from 1965 to 1975. Heath's accession marked a change in...
Date of birth:
- Jul 9, 1916
Date of death:
- Jul 17, 2005 (age 89 years)
Lorenz Hart
Lorenz "Larry" Hart (May 2, 1895 – November 22, 1943) was the lyricist half of the famed Broadway songwriting team Rodgers and Hart. Some of his more famous lyrics include, "Blue Moon", "Isn't It Romantic?", "Mountain Greenery", "The Lady Is a Tramp...
Date of birth:
- May 2, 1895
Date of death:
- Nov 22, 1943 (age 48 years)
Chester Nimitz
Fleet Admiral Chester William Nimitz, USN (24 February 1885 – 20 February 1966) was a five-star admiral in the United States Navy. He held the dual command of Commander in Chief, United States Pacific Fleet ("CinCPac" pronounced "sink-pack"), for U...
Date of birth:
- Feb 24, 1885
Date of death:
- Feb 20, 1966 (age 81 years)
Fats Waller
Fats Waller (May 21, 1904 - December 15, 1943) born Thomas Wright Waller was an American jazz pianist, organist, composer and comedic entertainer. He was the youngest of four children born to Adaline Locket Waller, wife of the Reverend Edward Martin...
Date of birth:
- May 21, 1904
Date of death:
- Dec 15, 1943 (age 39 years)
Anita O'Day
Anita O'Day (October 18, 1919 – November 23, 2006) was an American jazz singer. Jazz Critic Will Friedwald has said “When you think of the great jazz singers, I would think that Anita is the only white woman that belongs in the same breath as Ella...
Date of birth:
- Oct 18, 1919
Date of death:
- Nov 23, 2006 (age 87 years)
Lawrence Welk
Lawrence Welk (March 11, 1903 – May 17, 1992) was a musician, accordionist, bandleader, and television impresario, hosting The Lawrence Welk Show from 1955 to 1982. His style came to be known to his large number of radio, television, and live...
Date of birth:
- Mar 11, 1903
Date of death:
- May 17, 1992 (age 89 years)
Lola Montez
Eliza Rosanna Gilbert, Countess of Landsfeld (February 17, 1821 – January 17, 1861), better known by the stage name Lola Montez, was an Irish-born dancer and actress who became famous as a Spanish dancer, courtesan and mistress of King Ludwig I of...
Date of birth:
- Feb 17, 1821
Date of death:
- Jan 17, 1861 (age 39 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)
Roy Lichtenstein
Roy Lichtenstein (October 27, 1923 – September 29, 1997) was a prominent American pop artist, his work heavily influenced by both popular advertising and the comic book style. He himself described Pop art as, "not 'American' painting but actually...
Date of birth:
- Oct 27, 1923
Date of death:
- Sep 29, 1997 (age 73 years)
Rod Steiger
Rodney Stephen "Rod" Steiger (April 14, 1925 – July 9, 2002) was an American actor known for his performances in such films as In the Heat of the Night, Waterloo, The Pawnbroker, On the Waterfront, and Doctor Zhivago.
Steiger was born in Westhampton...
Date of birth:
- Apr 14, 1925
Date of death:
- Jul 9, 2002 (age 77 years)
Norma Shearer
Edith Norma Shearer (August 10, 1902 – June 12, 1983) was a Canadian-American actress. Shearer was one of the most popular actresses in the world from the mid-1920s until her retirement in 1942. Her early films cast her as the girl-next-door but...
Date of birth:
- Aug 10, 1902
Date of death:
- Jun 12, 1983 (age 80 years)
Simone de Beauvoir
Simone de Beauvoir (French pronunciation: [simɔn də boˈvwaʀ]) (January 9, 1908 – April 14, 1986) was a French writer, existentialist philosopher, feminist, and social theorist. She wrote novels, monographs on philosophy, politics, and social issues,...
Date of birth:
- Jan 9, 1908
Date of death:
- Apr 14, 1986 (age 78 years)
