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Aldous Huxley
Aldous Leonard Huxley (26 July 1894 – 22 November 1963) was an English writer and one of the most prominent members of the famous Huxley family. He spent the later part of his life in the United States, living in Los Angeles from 1937 until his...
Date of birth:
- Jul 26, 1894
Date of death:
- Nov 22, 1963 (age 69 years)
Damon Runyon
Damon Runyon (October 4, 1880 – December 10, 1946) was a newspaperman and writer.
He was best known for his short stories celebrating the world of Broadway in New York City that grew out of the Prohibition era. To New Yorkers of his generation, a ...
Date of birth:
- Oct 4, 1880
Date of death:
- Dec 10, 1946 (age 66 years)
Ed Sullivan
Edward Vincent "Ed" Sullivan (September 28, 1901 – October 13, 1974) was an American entertainment writer and television host, best known as the presenter of a TV variety show called The Ed Sullivan Show that was popular in the 1950s and 1960s.
A...
Date of birth:
- Sep 28, 1901
Date of death:
- Oct 13, 1974 (age 73 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...
Date of birth:
- Feb 25, 1943
Date of death:
- Nov 29, 2001 (age 58 years)
Giacomo Puccini
Giacomo Antonio Domenico Michele Secondo Maria Puccini (22 December 1858 – 29 November 1924) was an Italian composer whose operas, including La bohème, Tosca, Madama Butterfly and Turandot, are among the most frequently performed in the standard...
Date of birth:
- Dec 22, 1858
Date of death:
- Nov 29, 1924 (age 65 years)
Graham Chapman
Graham Arthur Chapman (8 January 1941 – 4 October 1989) was a British comedian, actor, writer, physician and one of the six members of the Monty Python comedy troupe. He was also the lead actor in their two narrative films, playing King Arthur in...
Date of birth:
- Jan 8, 1941
Date of death:
- Oct 4, 1989 (age 48 years)
Humphrey Bogart
Humphrey DeForest Bogart (December 25, 1899 – January 14, 1957) was an American actor.
After trying various jobs, Bogart began acting in 1921 and became a regular in Broadway productions in the 1920s and 1930s. When the stock market crash of 1929...
Date of birth:
- Dec 25, 1899
Date of death:
- Jan 14, 1957 (age 57 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 Citizen Kane (1941), The Magnificent Ambersons (1942), Journey...
Date of birth:
- May 15, 1905
Date of death:
- Feb 6, 1994 (age 88 years)
Michael Crichton
John Michael Crichton (pronounced /ˈkraɪtən/) (October 23, 1942 – November 4, 2008) was an American author, producer, director, screenwriter, and medical school graduate, best known for his work in the science fiction, medical fiction, and thriller...
Date of birth:
- Oct 23, 1942
Date of death:
- Nov 4, 2008 (age 66 years)
Ulysses S. Grant
Ulysses S. Grant (born Hiram Ulysses Grant) (April 27, 1822 – July 23, 1885) was general-in-chief of the Union Army from 1864 to 1869 during the American Civil War and the 18th President of the United States from 1869 to 1877.
The son of an...
Date of birth:
- Apr 27, 1822
Date of death:
- Jul 23, 1885 (age 63 years)
Wilma Rudolph
Wilma Glodean Rudolph (June 23, 1940 – November 12, 1994) was an American athlete, and in the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome,she became the first American woman to win three gold medals in track and field during a single Olympic Games, despite running...
Date of birth:
- Jun 23, 1940
Date of death:
- Nov 12, 1994 (age 54 years)
Robert Oppenheimer
J. Robert Oppenheimer (April 22, 1904 – February 18, 1967) was an American theoretical physicist and professor of physics at the University of California, Berkeley. He is best known for his role as the scientific director of the Manhattan Project,...
Date of birth:
- Apr 22, 1904
Date of death:
- Feb 18, 1967 (age 62 years)
John Thaw
John Edward Thaw CBE (3 January 1942 – 21 February 2002) was an English actor, who made his television début in the military police drama Redcap (1964–1966), and subsequently appeared in a range of television, stage and cinema roles, his most...
Date of birth:
- Jan 3, 1942
Date of death:
- Feb 21, 2002 (age 60 years)
Anthony Quinn
Anthony Quinn (April 21, 1915 – June 3, 2001) was a 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 Federico...
Date of birth:
- Apr 21, 1915
Date of death:
- Jun 3, 2001 (age 86 years)
Philip Larkin
Philip Arthur Larkin, CH, CBE, FRSL (9 August 1922 – 2 December 1985) is widely regarded as one of the greatest English poets of the latter half of the twentieth century. His first book of poetry, The North Ship, was published in 1945, followed by...
Date of birth:
- Aug 9, 1922
Date of death:
- Dec 2, 1985 (age 63 years)
Richard Barthelmess
Richard "Dick" Semler Barthelmess (May 9, 1895 – August 17, 1963) was an Oscar-nominated silent film star.
The son of an actress, Barthelmess began acting in college, doing amateur productions. Convinced by a family friend, actress Alla Nazimova, to...
Date of birth:
- May 9, 1895
Date of death:
- Aug 17, 1963 (age 68 years)
Edward VIII of the United Kingdom
Edward VIII (Edward Albert Christian George Andrew Patrick David; later The Duke of Windsor; 23 June 1894 – 28 May 1972) was King of the United Kingdom and the British dominions, and Emperor of India from 20 January 1936 until his abdication on 11...
Date of birth:
- Jun 23, 1894
Date of death:
- May 28, 1972 (age 77 years)
David Lean
Sir David Lean CBE (25 March 1908 – 16 April 1991) was an English filmmaker, producer, screenwriter and editor, best remembered for big-screen epics such as Lawrence of Arabia, The Bridge on the River Kwai, Doctor Zhivago, Ryan's Daughter, and A...
Date of birth:
- Mar 25, 1908
Date of death:
- Apr 16, 1991 (age 83 years)
John Gotti
John Joseph Gotti, Jr. (October 27, 1940 – June 10, 2002) was the boss of the Gambino crime family after the murder of the previous boss Paul Castellano. John Gotti was the most powerful crime boss during his era. He became widely known for his...
Date of birth:
- Oct 27, 1940
Date of death:
- Jun 10, 2002 (age 61 years)
Edward Frederic Benson
Edward Frederic Benson (24 July 1867 – 29 February 1940) was an English novelist, biographer, memoirist and short story writer, known professionally as E.F. Benson. His friends called him Fred.
E.F. Benson was born at Wellington College in Berkshire...
Date of birth:
- Jul 24, 1867
Date of death:
- Feb 29, 1940 (age 72 years)
Marguerite Duras
Marguerite Donnadieu, better known as Marguerite Duras (French pronunciation: [maʀɡəʁit dyˈʁas]) (4 April 1914 – 3 March 1996) was a French writer and film director.
She was born at Gia-Dinh, near Saigon, French Indochina (now Vietnam), after her...
Date of birth:
- Apr 4, 1914
Date of death:
- Mar 3, 1996 (age 81 years)
Anne Ramsey
Anne Ramsey (September 1, 1929 - August 11, 1988) was an American actress who is probably most famous for her roles as Mama Fratelli in Richard Donner's The Goonies, and as Mrs. Lift, the mother of Danny DeVito's character in Throw Momma from the...
Date of birth:
- Sep 1, 1929
Date of death:
- Aug 11, 1988 (age 58 years)
Carl Perkins
Carl Lee Perkins (April 9, 1932 – January 19, 1998) was an American rockabilly musician who recorded most notably at Sun Records Studio in Memphis, Tennessee beginning during 1954. His best known song is "Blue Suede Shoes."
According to Charlie...
Date of birth:
- Apr 9, 1932
Date of death:
- Jan 19, 1998 (age 65 years)
John Everett Millais
Sir John Everett Millais, 1st Baronet, PRA (8 June 1829 – 13 August 1896) was an English painter and illustrator and one of the founders of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood.
Millais (pronounced Mih-lay) was born in Southampton, England in 1829, of a...
Date of birth:
- Jun 8, 1829
Date of death:
- Aug 13, 1896 (age 67 years)
Fischer Black
Fischer Sheffey Black (January 11, 1938 – August 30, 1995) was an American economist, best known as one of the authors of the famous Black-Scholes equation.
Black graduated from Harvard College in 1959 and received a Ph.D. in applied mathematics...
Date of birth:
- Jan 11, 1938
Date of death:
- Aug 30, 1995 (age 57 years)
Hugh Trevor-Roper, Baron Dacre of Glanton
Hugh Redwald Trevor-Roper, Baron Dacre of Glanton (15 January 1914 – 27 January 2003) was a British historian of Early Modern Britain and Nazi Germany.
He was born in Glanton, Northumberland, England, the son of a doctor, and educated at...
Date of birth:
- Jan 15, 1914
Date of death:
- Jan 27, 2003 (age 89 years)
Frederick III, German Emperor
Frederick III (German: Friedrich III., Deutscher Kaiser und König von Preußen; 18 October 1831 – 15 June 1888) was German Emperor and King of Prussia for 99 days in 1888 during the Year of the Three Emperors. Frederick William Nicholas Charles ...
Date of birth:
- Oct 18, 1831
Date of death:
- Jun 15, 1888 (age 56 years)
Yip Man
Yip Man (simplified Chinese: 叶问; traditional Chinese: 葉問; pinyin: yè wèn, Cantonese Jyutping: jip man; Ip Man; also known as 葉繼問 1 October 1893 - 2 December 1972) was the first martial arts master (Chinese: Sifu) to teach the Chinese martial art of...
Date of birth:
- Oct 1, 1893
Date of death:
- Dec 2, 1972 (age 79 years)
Hank Ballard
Hank Ballard (November 18, 1927 – March 2, 2003), born John Henry Kendricks, was a rhythm and blues singer, the lead vocalist of Hank Ballard and The Midnighters and one of the first proto-rock 'n' roll artists to emerge in the early 1950s. He...
Date of birth:
- Nov 18, 1927
Date of death:
- Mar 2, 2003 (age 75 years)
Jean Genet
Jean Genet (French pronunciation: [ʒɑ̃ ʒəˈnɛ]) (December 19, 1910(1910-12-19) – April 15, 1986) was a prominent and controversial French novelist, playwright, poet, essayist, and political activist. Early in his life he was a vagabond and petty...
Date of birth:
- Dec 19, 1910
Date of death:
- Apr 15, 1986 (age 75 years)
Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (Alfred Ernest Albert; 6 August 1844 – 30 July 1900) was the third Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha reigning between 1893 and 1900. He was also a member of the British Royal Family, the second son and fourth child...
Date of birth:
- Aug 6, 1844
Date of death:
- Jul 30, 1900 (age 56 years)
Stephen Leacock
Stephen Butler Leacock, FRSC (30 December 1869 – 28 March 1944) was a Canadian writer and economist.
Leacock was born in Swanmore, near Bishop's Waltham, Hampshire, England, and at the age of six moved to Canada with his family, which settled on a...
Date of birth:
- Dec 30, 1869
Date of death:
- Mar 28, 1944 (age 74 years)
Lana Turner
Lana Turner (February 8, 1921 – June 29, 1995) was an American actress.
Discovered and signed to a film contract by MGM at the age of sixteen, Turner first attracted attention in They Won't Forget (1937). She played featured roles, often as the...
Date of birth:
- Feb 8, 1921
Date of death:
- Jun 29, 1995 (age 74 years)
Bob Denver
Robert Osbourne "Bob" Denver (January 9, 1935 – September 2, 2005) was an American comedic actor best known for his role as Gilligan on the television series Gilligan's Island. Prior to Gilligan's Island, he played beatnik Maynard G. Krebs on the...
Date of birth:
- Jan 9, 1935
Date of death:
- Sep 2, 2005 (age 70 years)
Princess Augusta of Saxe-Gotha
Princess Augusta of Saxe-Gotha (30 November 1719 – 8 February 1772) was Princess of Wales between 1736 and 1751, and Dowager Princess of Wales thereafter. She was one of only three holders of the title who never became queen. Princess Augusta's...
Date of birth:
- Nov 30, 1719
Date of death:
- Feb 8, 1772 (age 52 years)
Barry Sheene
Barry Sheene MBE (September 11, 1950 – March 10, 2003) was a British former World Champion Grand Prix motorcycle road racer.
Sheene was born in London, England the second child of parents Frank (resident engineer at the Royal College of Surgeons)...
Date of birth:
- Sep 11, 1950
Date of death:
- Mar 10, 2003 (age 52 years)
Sammy Davis, Jr.
Samuel George "Sammy" Davis, Jr. (December 8, 1925 – May 16, 1990) was an American entertainer.
Primarily a dancer and singer, Davis was a childhood vaudevillian, and became internationally famous for his performances on Broadway and Las Vegas, as a...
Date of birth:
- Dec 8, 1925
Date of death:
- May 16, 1990 (age 64 years)
Robert H. Goddard
Robert Hutchings Goddard (October 5, 1882 – August 10, 1945), U.S. professor of physics and scientist, was a pioneer of controlled, liquid-fueled rocketry. He launched the world's first liquid-fueled rocket on March 16, 1926. From 1930 to 1935, he...
Date of birth:
- Oct 5, 1882
Date of death:
- Aug 10, 1945 (age 62 years)
Andrew Bonar Law
Andrew Bonar Law PC (16 September 1858 – 30 October 1923), commonly known as Bonar Law, was a British Conservative Party statesman and Prime Minister. Born in the crown colony of New Brunswick, he is the only British Prime Minister to have been born...
Date of birth:
- Sep 16, 1858
Date of death:
- Oct 30, 1923 (age 65 years)
Chuck Biscuits
Chuck Biscuits, born Charles Montgomery on April 17, 1965, was the original drummer for the metal band Danzig. He was most recently a member of the punk rock band Social Distortion.
Biscuits is the brother of Ken "Dimwit" Montgomery, who also played...
Date of birth:
- Apr 17, 1965
Date of death:
- Oct 24, 2009 (age 44 years)
Big Bill Broonzy
Big Bill Broonzy (26 June 1898 – 14 August 1958) was a prolific American blues singer, songwriter and guitarist. His career began in the 1920s when he played Country blues to mostly black audiences. Through the ‘30s and ‘40s he successfully...
Date of birth:
- Jun 26, 1898
Date of death:
- Aug 14, 1958 (age 60 years)
Ed Wynn
Ed Wynn (November 9, 1886 – June 19, 1966) was a popular American comedian and actor noted for his Perfect Fool comedy character, his pioneering radio show of the 1930s, and his later career as a dramatic actor.
Born Isaiah Edwin Leopold in...
Date of birth:
- Nov 9, 1886
Date of death:
- Jun 19, 1966 (age 79 years)
Carl B. Stokes
Carl Burton Stokes (June 21, 1927–April 3, 1996) was an American politician of the Democratic party who served as the 51st mayor of Cleveland, Ohio. Elected on November 7, 1967, but took office on Jan 1, 1968, he was tied to be the first African...
Date of birth:
- Jun 21, 1927
Date of death:
- Apr 3, 1996 (age 68 years)
Larry Hovis
Larry Hovis (February 20, 1936 – September 9, 2003) was an American singer and actor best known for playing a fictional prisoner of war on the 1960s television sitcom Hogan's Heroes.
Hovis was born in Wapato, Washington and moved to Houston, Texas...
Date of birth:
- Feb 20, 1936
Date of death:
- Sep 9, 2003 (age 67 years)
Ann Richards
Dorothy Ann Willis Richards (September 1, 1933 – September 13, 2006) was an American politician from Texas. She first came to national attention as the state treasurer of Texas, when she delivered the keynote address at the 1988 Democratic National...
Date of birth:
- Sep 1, 1933
Date of death:
- Sep 13, 2006 (age 73 years)
Robert Kardashian
Robert George Kardashian (February 22, 1944 – September 30, 2003) was an American lawyer best known as one of the lawyers for, and friend of, O. J. Simpson.
After graduating from the University of Southern California, Kardashian earned a law degree...
Date of birth:
- Feb 22, 1944
Date of death:
- Sep 30, 2003 (age 59 years)
Angus Ogilvy
Sir Angus James Bruce Ogilvy, KCVO, PC (14 September 1928 – 26 December 2004) was a British businessman best known as the husband of Princess Alexandra of Kent, a first cousin of Queen Elizabeth II.
Sir Angus also is remembered for his role in a...
Date of birth:
- Sep 14, 1928
Date of death:
- Dec 26, 2004 (age 76 years)
Omer Simeon
Omer Victor Simeon (21 July 1902 - 17 September 1959) was an American jazz clarinetist. He also played soprano, alto, and baritone saxophone and bass clarinet.
Omer Simeon was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, the son of a cigar maker. His family...
Date of birth:
- Jul 21, 1902
Date of death:
- Sep 17, 1959 (age 57 years)
Bill Blass
William Ralph "Bill" Blass (June 22, 1922 – June 12, 2002) was an American fashion designer, born in Fort Wayne, Indiana. He is known for his tailoring and his innovative combinations of textures and patterns. He is the recipient of many fashion...
Date of birth:
- Jun 22, 1922
Date of death:
- Jun 12, 2002 (age 80 years)
Roger Miller
Roger Dean Miller (January 2, 1936 – October 25, 1992) was a Grammy and Tony Award winning American singer, songwriter, musician and actor, best known for his honky tonk-influenced novelty songs. His most recognized tunes included the chart-topping...
Date of birth:
- Jan 2, 1936
Date of death:
- Oct 25, 1992 (age 56 years)
Henri Charrière
Henri Charrière (November 16, 1906 - July 29, 1973) was a convicted murderer chiefly known as the author of Papillon, a memoir of his incarceration in a penal colony on French Guiana.
Charrière was a native of Ardèche, France. He had two older...
Date of birth:
- Nov 16, 1906
Date of death:
- Jul 29, 1973 (age 66 years)
John Held, Jr.
John Held Jr. (January 10, 1889 – March 2, 1958) was a United States illustrator, one of the most famous magazine illustrators of the 1920s. His cheerful art defined the flapper era so well that many people are familiar with it today.
Born in Salt...
Date of birth:
- Jan 10, 1889
Date of death:
- Mar 2, 1958 (age 69 years)
Michael Larson
Paul Michael Larson (May 10, 1949 – February 16, 1999) was a contestant on the American television game show Press Your Luck in June 1984. Larson's claim to fame was his winning $110,237 in cash and prizes, which he was able to do by memorizing the...
Date of birth:
- May 10, 1949
Date of death:
- Feb 16, 1999 (age 49 years)
Anna E. Roosevelt
Anna Eleanor Roosevelt Halsted (May 3, 1906 – December 1, 1975, also Anna Dall and Anna Boettiger in earlier marriages), was the daughter of the thirty-second President of the United States Franklin D. Roosevelt and the granddaughter of Elliott...
Date of birth:
- May 3, 1906
Date of death:
- Dec 1, 1975 (age 69 years)
Terry Sanford
James Terry Sanford (August 20, 1917 – April 18, 1998) was a United States politician and educator from North Carolina. A member of the Democratic Party, Sanford was the Governor of North Carolina (1961–1965), a two-time U.S. Presidential candidate...
Date of birth:
- Aug 20, 1917
Date of death:
- Apr 18, 1998 (age 80 years)
Frances Farmer
Frances Elena Farmer (September 19, 1913 – August 1, 1970) was an American actress of stage and screen. She is perhaps better known for sensationalized and fictional accounts of her life, and especially her involuntary commitment to a mental...
Date of birth:
- Sep 19, 1913
Date of death:
- Aug 1, 1970 (age 56 years)
Fernando Sor
Josep Ferran Sorts i Muntades (baptised 14 February 1778 – died 10 July 1839, Paris) was a Spanish guitarist and composer. He is best known for his guitar compositions, but he also composed music for opera and ballet, earning acclaim for his ballet...
Date of birth:
- Feb 14, 1778
Date of death:
- Jul 10, 1839 (age 61 years)
Henry Dudeney
Henry Ernest Dudeney (10 April 1857–23 April 1930) was an English author and mathematician who specialised in logic puzzles and mathematical games. He is known as one of the country's foremost creators of puzzles.
Dudeney was born in the village of...
Date of birth:
- Apr 10, 1857
Date of death:
- Apr 24, 1930 (age 73 years)
Blaise de Vigenère
Blaise de Vigenère (April 5, 1523 - 1596) was a French diplomat and cryptographer. The Vigenère cipher is so named due to the cipher being incorrectly attributed to him in the 19th century.
Vigenère (IPA: [viʒnɛːʁ]) was born in the village of Saint...
Date of birth:
- Apr 5, 1523
Date of death:
- 1596 (age 72 years)
Curt Flood
Curtis Charles Flood (January 18, 1938–January 20, 1997) was a Major League Baseball player who spent most of his career as a center fielder for the St. Louis Cardinals. A defensive standout, he led the National League in putouts four times and in...
Date of birth:
- Jan 18, 1938
Date of death:
- Jan 20, 1997 (age 59 years)
