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Respiratory failure
The term respiratory failure, in medicine, is used to describe inadequate gas exchange by the respiratory system, with the result that arterial oxygen and/or carbon dioxide levels cannot be maintained within their normal ranges. A drop in blood oxygenation is known as hypoxemia; a rise in arterial...
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Arthur C. Clarke
Sri Lankabhimanya Sir Arthur Charles Clarke, CBE, FRAS (16 December 1917 – 19 March 2008) was a British science fiction author, inventor, and futurist, most famous for the novel 2001: A Space Odyssey, written in collaboration with director Stanley...
Date of birth:
- Dec 16, 1917
Date of death:
- Mar 19, 2008 (age 90 years)
James Buchanan
James Buchanan, Jr. (April 23, 1791 – June 1, 1868) was the 15th President of the United States from 1857–1861 and the last to be born in the 18th century. To date he is the only President from the state of Pennsylvania and the only president to...
Date of birth:
- Apr 23, 1791
Date of death:
- Jun 1, 1868 (age 77 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)
Miles Davis
Miles Dewey Davis III (May 26, 1926 – September 28, 1991) was an American trumpeter, bandleader and composer.
Widely considered one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century, Miles Davis was, with his musical groups, at the forefront of...
Date of birth:
- May 26, 1926
Date of death:
- Sep 28, 1991 (age 65 years)
Tupac Shakur
Tupac Amaru Shakur (June 16, 1971 – September 13, 1996), known by his stage names 2Pac (or simply Pac) and Makaveli, was an American rapper. He has sold 75 million albums to date and is one of the best-selling music artists in the world. In addition...
Date of birth:
- Jun 16, 1971
Date of death:
- Sep 13, 1996 (age 25 years)
Augusto Boal
Augusto Boal (March 16, 1931 - May 2, 2009) was a Brazilian theatre director, writer and politician. He was the founder of Theatre of the Oppressed, a theatrical form originally used in radical popular education movements. Boal served one term as a...
Date of birth:
- Mar 16, 1931
Date of death:
- May 2, 2009 (age 78 years)
Aaron Copland
Aaron Copland (November 14, 1900 – December 2, 1990) was an American nationalist composerof concert and film music, as well as an accomplished pianist. Instrumental in forging a distinctly American style of composition, he was widely known as "the...
Date of birth:
- Nov 14, 1900
Date of death:
- Dec 2, 1990 (age 90 years)
Sam Phillips
Samuel Cornelius Phillips (5 January 1923 – 30 July 2003), better known as Sam Phillips, was an American record producer who played an important role in the emergence of rock and roll as the major form of popular music in the 1950s. He was a...
Date of birth:
- Jan 5, 1923
Date of death:
- Jul 30, 2003 (age 80 years)
Luis A. Ferré
Luis Alberto Ferré Aguayo (February 17, 1904 – October 21, 2003) was a Puerto Rican engineer, industrialist, politician, philanthropist, and a patron of the arts. He was the third Governor of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico from 1969 to 1973, and...
Date of birth:
- Feb 17, 1904
Date of death:
- Oct 21, 2003 (age 99 years)
Dean Martin
Dean Martin (June 7, 1917 – December 25, 1995) was an Italian-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)
Robert Young
Robert George Young (February 22, 1907 – July 21, 1998) was an American actor, best known for his leading roles of Jim Anderson, the father of Father Knows Best (NBC and then CBS) and physician Marcus Welby in Marcus Welby, M.D. (ABC).
Born in...
Date of birth:
- Feb 22, 1907
Date of death:
- Jul 21, 1998 (age 91 years)
Suharto
Suharto (help·info) (8 June 1921 – 27 January 2008) was the second President of Indonesia, holding the office from 1967 to 1998.
Suharto was born in a small village near Yogyakarta, during the era of Dutch colonial control. His Javanese peasant...
Date of birth:
- Jun 8, 1921
Date of death:
- Jan 27, 2008 (age 86 years)
Althea Gibson
Althea Gibson (August 25, 1927 – September 28, 2003) was a former World No. 1 American sportswoman who became the first African-American woman to be a competitor on the world tennis tour and the first to win a Grand Slam title in 1956. She is...
Date of birth:
- Aug 25, 1927
Date of death:
- Sep 28, 2003 (age 76 years)
Claire Trevor
Claire Trevor (March 8, 1910 – April 8, 2000) was an American actress. She was nicknamed the "Queen of Film Noir" because of her many appearances in "bad girl” roles in film noir and other black-and-white thrillers. She appeared in over 60 films....
Date of birth:
- Mar 8, 1910
Date of death:
- Apr 8, 2000 (age 90 years)
Chiang Fang-liang
Faina Chiang Fang-liang (simplified Chinese: 蒋方良; traditional Chinese: 蔣方良; pinyin: Jiǎng Fāngliáng) (15 May 1916 – 15 December 2004) was the wife of President Chiang Ching-kuo and served as First Lady of the Republic of China on Taiwan from 1978 to...
Date of birth:
- May 15, 1916
Date of death:
- Dec 15, 2004 (age 88 years)
Philip Abelson
Philip Hauge Abelson (April 27, 1913 – August 1, 2004) was an American physicist, a scientific editor, and a science writer.
Abelson was born in 1913 in Tacoma, Washington. He attended Washington State University where he received degrees in...
Date of birth:
- Apr 27, 1913
Date of death:
- Aug 1, 2004 (age 91 years)
HM
Henry Gustav Molaison (February 26, 1926 – December 2, 2008), better known as HM or H.M., was a memory-impaired patient who was widely studied from the late 1950s until his death. His case played a very important role in the development of theories...
Date of birth:
- Feb 26, 1926
Date of death:
- Dec 2, 2008 (age 82 years)
Chucho Ramos
Jesús Manuel (Chucho) Ramos García (April 12, 1918 - September 2, 1977) was an outfielder/first baseman in Major League Baseball who played briefly during the 1944 season. Listed at 5' 10.5", 167 lb., Ramos batted right-handed and threw left-handed....
Date of birth:
- Apr 12, 1918
Date of death:
- Sep 2, 1977 (age 59 years)
Diane Varsi
Diane Marie Antonia Varsi (February 23, 1938 – November 19, 1992) was an American film actress best known for her performances in Peyton Place – her film debut, and for which she was nominated for an Academy Award – and the cult film Wild in the...
Date of birth:
- Feb 23, 1938
Date of death:
- Nov 19, 1992 (age 54 years)
Dick Emery
Richard Gilbert "Dick" Emery (19 February 1915 – 2 January 1983) was an English comedian and actor , 'a light entertainment icon' who began on radio in the 1950s. After transition to television his popularity grew through the 1960s and 1970s. He was...
Date of birth:
- Feb 19, 1915
Date of death:
- Jan 2, 1983 (age 67 years)
Roy Walford
Roy Lee Walford, M. D. (June 29, 1924 San Diego, California, USA – April 27, 2004) was a pioneer in the field of life extension. He died at age 79 of respiratory failure as a complication of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (commonly known as Lou...
Date of birth:
- Jun 29, 1924
Date of death:
- Apr 27, 2004 (age 79 years)
Bülent Ecevit
Mustafa Bülent Ecevit (May 28, 1925, Istanbul – November 5, 2006, Ankara) was a Turkish politician, poet, writer and journalist, who was the leader of Republican People's Party (CHP), later of the Democratic Left Party (DSP) and four-time Prime...
Date of birth:
- May 28, 1925
Date of death:
- Nov 5, 2006 (age 81 years)
Frances Hyland
Frances Hyland, OC (April 25, 1927 - July 11, 2004) was a well-known Canadian theatre actress.
Hyland studied at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, making her professional debut in London as Stella in A Streetcar Named Desire, opposite John Gielgud....
Date of birth:
- Apr 25, 1927
Date of death:
- Jul 11, 2004 (age 77 years)
Suzanne Pleshette
Suzanne Pleshette (January 31, 1937 – January 19, 2008) was an American actress, on stage, screen and television.
After beginning her career in theatre, she began appearing in films in the early 1960s, such as Rome Adventure (1962) and Alfred...
Date of birth:
- Jan 31, 1937
Date of death:
- Jan 19, 2008 (age 71 years)
Mehmood
Mehmood Ali (Hindi: महमूद अली Urdu: محمود علی) (29 September 29, 1932 - July 23, 2004) popularly known simply as Mehmood (Hindi: महमूद Urdu: محمود ), was an Indian actor, director and producer best known for playing comic roles in Hindi films....
Date of birth:
- Sep 29, 1932
Date of death:
- Jul 23, 2004 (age 71 years)
James H. McClure
James Howe McClure (October 9, 1939, Johannesburg, South Africa - June 17, 2006, Oxford, England) was a British author and journalist best known for his Kramer and Zondi mysteries set in South Africa.
James McClure was born and raised in South...
Date of birth:
- Oct 9, 1939
Date of death:
- Jun 17, 2006 (age 66 years)
Rena Vlahopoulou
Rena Vlahopoulou (Ρένα Βλαχοπούλου) (1923 - July 29, 2004) was a famous Greek actress and singer. She starred in theatre, musical and Greek cinema productions, including The Gambler and The Countess of Corfu.
Vlahopoulou was born on the island of...
Date of birth:
- 1923
Date of death:
- Jul 29, 2004 (age 81 years)
Frank Cremeans
Frank A. Cremeans (April 5, 1943 – January 2, 2003) was an Ohio small-businessman who represented Ohio in the United States House of Representatives as a Republican. He served one term in Congress, from 1995 to 1997.
Cremeans was born in Cheshire,...
Date of birth:
- Apr 5, 1943
Date of death:
- Jan 2, 2003 (age 59 years)
Ismael Rodríguez
Ismael Rodríguez (October 19, 1917 – August 7, 2004) was an acclaimed Mexican film director.
He directed many major stars, including Pedro Infante, Dolores del Río, María Félix, and even Toshiro Mifune, the favorite actor of Japanese director Akira...
Date of birth:
- Oct 19, 1917
Date of death:
- Aug 7, 2004 (age 86 years)
Will Geer
Will Geer (March 9, 1902 – April 22, 1978) was an American actor and social activist. His original name was William Aughe Ghere. He is remembered for his portrayal of Grandpa Zebulon Tyler Walton in the 1970s TV series, The Waltons.
Geer was born in...
Date of birth:
- Mar 9, 1902
Date of death:
- Apr 22, 1978 (age 76 years)
Jon Hinson
Jon Clifton Hinson (March 16, 1942 – July 21, 1995) was a politician from the state of Mississippi.
Hinson was born in Tylertown, Mississippi, and he graduated from the University of Mississippi in Oxford. Hinson was an aide to Representatives...
Date of birth:
- Mar 16, 1942
Date of death:
- Jul 21, 1995 (age 53 years)
William Pierson
William Pierson (July 17, 1926 – August 27, 2004) was an American television, motion picture and stage actor, best known for his raspy voice and his role as Marko the Mailman in the film Stalag 17.
Pierson, who was born and raised in Brooklyn, New...
Date of birth:
- Jul 17, 1926
Date of death:
- Aug 27, 2004 (age 78 years)
Evelyn Laye
Evelyn Laye OBE (10 July 1900 – 17 February 1996) was an English theatre actress.
Born as Elsie Evelyn Lay in Bloomsbury, London, England, Laye made her first stage appearance in August 1915 at the Theatre Royal, Brighton as Nang-Ping in Mr. Wu, and...
Date of birth:
- Jul 10, 1900
Date of death:
- Feb 17, 1996 (age 95 years)
Johnny Warren
John Norman Warren, MBE, OAM (17 May 1943 – 6 November 2004) was an Australian football (soccer) player, coach, administrator, writer and broadcaster. He was known as Captain Socceroo for his passionate work to promote the game in Australia. The...
Date of birth:
- May 17, 1943
Date of death:
- Nov 6, 2004 (age 61 years)
Federico Mompou
Federico Mompou i Dencausse (Barcelona, 16 April 1893 – 30 June 1987) was a Spanish Catalan composer and pianist. He is best known for his solo piano music and his songs.
Mompou was born in Barcelona to the lawyer Frederic Mompou and his wife...
Date of birth:
- Apr 16, 1893
Date of death:
- Jun 30, 1987 (age 94 years)
June Haver
June Haver (June 10, 1926 – July 4, 2005), was an American film actress, who was born in Rock Island, Illinois as Beverly Jane Stovenour. "June" was her nickname and her surname became "Haver" when her mother divorced and remarried. She is most well...
Date of birth:
- Jun 10, 1926
Date of death:
- Jul 4, 2005 (age 79 years)
Rudolph Bing
Sir Rudolf Bing (January 9, 1902 - September 2, 1997) was an Austrian-born opera impresario. Bing was General Manager of the Metropolitan Opera in New York from 1950 to 1972. He was knighted in 1971 by Queen Elizabeth II.
Born Rudolph Franz Joseph...
Date of birth:
- Jan 9, 1902
Date of death:
- Sep 2, 1997 (age 95 years)
Kiyoshi Itō
Kiyoshi Itō (伊藤 清, Itō Kiyoshi) (September 7, 1915 – 10 November 2008) was a Japanese mathematician whose work is now called Itō calculus. The basic concept of this calculus is the Itō integral, and the most basic among important results is Itō's...
Date of birth:
- Sep 7, 1915
Date of death:
- Nov 10, 2008 (age 93 years)
Sudharmono
Sudharmono (12 March 1927 – 25 January 2006) was Indonesia's fifth vice president, and was in office during the period 1988 - 1993.
Sudharmono was born on 12 March 1927 in Gresik, East Java. He lost both his parents in the space of six months when...
Date of birth:
- Mar 12, 1927
Date of death:
- Jan 25, 2006 (age 78 years)
Dick Weber
Dick Weber (December 23, 1929 - February 13, 2005) was a famous bowling professional and a founding member of the Professional Bowlers Association (PBA). Weber was known not only as a bowling superstar, but also as a bowling pioneer and one of the...
Date of birth:
- Dec 23, 1929
Date of death:
- Feb 13, 2005 (age 75 years)
Michael Cuccione
Michael James Cuccione (January 5, 1985 – January 13, 2001) was a Canadian actor, singer, dancer, author, and cancer research activist. He was born in Burnaby, British Columbia, and raised in neighbouring Coquitlam by his parents Domenic and Gloria...
Date of birth:
- Jan 5, 1985
Date of death:
- Jan 13, 2001 (age 16 years)
Eleanor Audley
Eleanor Audley (November 19, 1905, in New York City, New York – November 25, 1991 in North Hollywood, California) was an American actress who was a familiar radio and animation voice, in addition to her TV and film roles. For many, she provided...
Date of birth:
- Nov 19, 1905
Date of death:
- Nov 25, 1991 (age 86 years)
Paula Raymond
Paula Raymond (November 23, 1924 – December 31, 2003) was an American model and actress.
In 1950, she was put under contract by MGM, where she played opposite such leading men as Cary Grant and Dick Powell. Earlier in her career, Raymond acted in...
Date of birth:
- Nov 23, 1924
Date of death:
- Dec 31, 2003 (age 79 years)
Luana Patten
Luana Patten (July 6, 1938 – May 1, 1996) was an American actress.
Patten made her first film appearance in Joel Chandler Harris's Song of the South with Bobby Driscoll, and they both appeared in Song of the South's sister film So Dear to My Heart....
Date of birth:
- Jul 6, 1938
Date of death:
- May 1, 1996 (age 57 years)
Antônio de Castro Mayer
Antônio de Castro Mayer, STL (20 June 1904—25 April 1991) was a Brazilian prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. A Traditionalist Catholic and ally of Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre, he was Bishop of Campos from 1949 until his resignation in 1981.
In...
Date of birth:
- Jun 20, 1904
Date of death:
- Apr 25, 1991 (age 86 years)
Robert W. Funk
Robert W. Funk (July 18, 1926 – September 3, 2005), an American biblical scholar, was co-founder of the controversial Jesus Seminar and the nonprofit Westar Institute in Santa Rosa, California.
Funk, an academic, sought to promote research and...
Date of birth:
- Jul 18, 1926
Date of death:
- Sep 3, 2005 (age 79 years)
Herbert J. Sweet
Sergeant Major Herbert Joseph Sweet (October 8, 1919 – June 18, 1998) was the 4th Sergeant Major of the Marine Corps. He fought and was wounded in World War II and the Korean conflict.
Herbert Sweet was born on October 8, 1919 in Hartford,...
Date of birth:
- Oct 8, 1919
Date of death:
- Jun 18, 1998 (age 78 years)
Bob Thaves
Robert Thaves (October 5, 1924 – August 1, 2006) was the creator of the comic strip Frank and Ernest, which began in 1972.
Thaves' desire to become a cartoonist began in his childhood. He had no formal training; instead, he practised by studying and...
Date of birth:
- Oct 5, 1924
Date of death:
- Aug 1, 2006 (age 81 years)
Aristides Leão
Aristides de Azevedo Pacheco Leão (August 3, 1914 – December 14, 1993, Rio de Janeiro) was one of the most noted Brazilian biologists and scientists, one of the founders of the Biophysics Institute of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro and the...
Date of birth:
- Aug 3, 1914
Date of death:
- Dec 14, 1993 (age 79 years)
John F. Seiberling
John Frederick Seiberling, Jr. (September 8, 1918 – August 2, 2008) was a United States Representative from Ohio. In 1974, he helped to establish what later became the Cuyahoga Valley National Park, and served on the House Judiciary Committee that...
Date of birth:
- Sep 8, 1918
Date of death:
- Aug 2, 2008 (age 89 years)
Madeline and Marion Fairbanks
Madeline (Madeleine) (15 November 1900 - 15 January 1989) and her twin sister Marion Fairbanks (15 November 1900 - 20 September 1973) were stage and motion picture actresses active in the silent era. The two sisters were seemingly inseparable....
Date of birth:
- Nov 15, 1900
Date of death:
- Jan 15, 1989 (age 88 years)
Barry Bingham, Jr.
George Barry Bingham, Jr. (September 23, 1933 – April 3, 2006 in Louisville, Kentucky) was an American newspaper publisher and television and radio executive. He was the last descendant of the Bingham family that controlled Louisville's daily...
Date of birth:
- Sep 23, 1933
Date of death:
- Apr 3, 2006 (age 72 years)
Francis Grevemberg
Francis Carroll Grevemberg (June 4, 1914 - November 24, 2008), was the superintendent of the Louisiana State Police from 1952 to 1955, best remembered for his fight against organized crime.
Grevemberg was born in Biloxi in Harrison County,...
Date of birth:
- Jun 4, 1914
Date of death:
- Nov 24, 2008 (age 94 years)
Patrick O'Neal
Patrick O'Neal (September 26, 1927 – September 9, 1994) was an American television, stage and film actor. He was also a successful New York restaurateur.
O'Neal was born in Ocala, Florida to Martha and Coke Wisdom O'Neal. He was a graduate of the...
Date of birth:
- Sep 26, 1927
Date of death:
- Sep 9, 1994 (age 67 years)
Julie Vega
Julie Pearl Apostol Postigo, better known as Julie Vega (May 21, 1968 – May 6, 1985), was a Filipina child actress and singer. She remains popular and well-loved in the Philippines, years after her sudden death at the age of 16 triggered a massive...
Date of birth:
- May 21, 1968
Date of death:
- May 6, 1985 (age 16 years)
Dick Martin
Thomas Richard "Dick" Martin (January 30, 1922 – May 24, 2008) was an American comedian and director, best known for his role as the cohost of the sketch comedy program Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In from 1968 to 1973.
Martin graduated from Michigan...
Date of birth:
- Jan 30, 1922
Date of death:
- May 24, 2008 (age 86 years)
Sig Shore
Sig Shore (May 13, 1919 – August 17, 2006) was an American film director and producer. His 1972 film Super Fly is considered one of the first "blaxploitation" films.
Shore was born in Harlem, New York and grew up in the Bronx. He attended George...
Date of birth:
- May 13, 1919
Date of death:
- Aug 17, 2006 (age 87 years)
Robert Lockwood Jr.
Robert Lockwood, Jr., also known as Robert Junior Lockwood, (March 27, 1915 – November 21, 2006) was an American blues guitarist who recorded for Chess Records among other Chicago labels in the 1950s and 1960s. He is best known as a longtime...
Date of birth:
- Mar 27, 1915
Date of death:
- Nov 21, 2006 (age 91 years)
Ella Mae Morse
Ella Mae Morse (September 12, 1924 – October 16, 1999), was an American popular singer. One of the most talented and overlooked vocalists of the 1940s, Morse blended jazz, country, pop, and R&B; at times she came remarkably close to what would be...
Date of birth:
- Sep 12, 1924
Date of death:
- Oct 16, 1999 (age 75 years)
Silvetti
Bebu Silvetti (27 March 1944 — 5 July 2003) was an Argentine pianist, composer, arranger and record producer best known for the 1977 instrumental disco hit "Spring Rain".
Bebu Silvetti was born in Quilmes and started his piano education at the age...
Date of birth:
- Mar 27, 1944
Date of death:
- Jul 5, 2003 (age 59 years)
