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| restauranteur & ballonist Hiroaki "Rocky" Aoki founded Benihana steak house chain (1963) born on 10-9-1938 in Tokyo, Japan expired 7-10-2008 in Manhattan, New York, New York age 69 cause: pneumonia; cancer; diabetes; cirrhosis of the liver; hepatitis C
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| Chinese Honolulu Police Department detective (1898-1932) Chang Apana carried a bullwhip instead of a gun; basis for the Charlie Chan fictional character born on --1871 in Hawaii expired 12-??-1933 age 68 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| fomer DC Comics illustrator James N. Aparo drew Batman, the Green Arrow & other characters born on 8-24-1932 expired 7-19-2005 in Southington, Connecticut age 72 cause: cancer | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Drech-O-Rama movie director Stephen C. Apostolof made what probably is the worst movie of all time (even worse than Plan Nine...) — starring Criswell and scripted by Ed Wood (see, you just knew he had to have a hand in it somehow) born on 2-25-1928 in Borgas, Bulgaria expired 8-14-2005 in Mesa, Arizona age 77 AKS: Apostoloff | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Sir Edward Victor Appleton his work in the physics of the upper atmosphere earned him the 1947 Nobel prize in physicsborn on 9-6-1892 in Bradford, West Yorkshire, England expired 4-21-1965 in Edinburgh, Scotland age 72 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
wacko UFO cult leader Marshall Herff Applewhite snuffed himself and 38 other members of the Heaven's Gate cult to become ET-
expired 3-26-1997 in Rancho Santa Fe, California age 65 cause: suicide | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
former Philippine President (2/1986-6/30/1992) Maria Corazoń Sumulong-Cojuangco Aquino
expired 8-1-2009 in Manila, The Philippines age 76 cause: heart failure; colon cancer
AKS: Corazon | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
 
PLO chairman (1969-2004) Yasser Arafat shared 1994 Nobel Peace prize
expired 11-11-2004 in Clamart, France age 75 cause: stroke; disseminated intravascular coagulation; thrombocytopenia; kidney failure; liver failure; cirrhosis of liver
AKS: Yaser Yasir Yassir | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| rapacious former United Way executive (1970-92) William J. Aramony served 6 years of a 7 year sentence for fraud Ᾱ he used organization $$$ to live large (including gifts t his teenage mistress Lari Villasor) born on 7-27-1927 in Jewett City, Connecticut expired 11-11-2011 in Alexandria, Virginia age 84 cause: bone cancer; prostate cancer | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| former Guatemalan dictator/presidente (1970-74) Carlos Manuel Arana Osorio born on 7-17-1918 in Barberena, Guatemala expired 12-6-2003 in Guatemala City, Guatemala age 85 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
silent film comedy actress Minta Durfee Arbuckle co-founded the Keystone Film Company with Fatty; divorced Fatty after his 1925 acquittal on murder charges
expired 9-9-1975 in Woodland Hills, California age 85 cause: heart ailment | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
tubby silent film funnyman Roscoe Conkling Arbuckle actor, writer, director, got Buster Keaton started in the movie biz; with wife co-founded Keystone Film Co. (think Keystone Kops); on receiving end of first custard pie thrown in the movies; tried 3 times for the "murder" of Virginia Rappe & acquitted --- this incident was the basis for the movie The Wild Party with Raquel
Welch playing Virginia and James Coco playing Roscoe; hounded out of the business by the Hearst Newspaper chain
expired 6-29-1933 in New York, New York age 46 cause: heart attack | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
photographer Diane Arbus learned photography from her then-husband Allan Arbus
expired 7-26-1971 in Manhattan, New York, New York age 48 cause: suicide; barbituate overdose & slashed wrists | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| jockey Edward George "Eddie" Arcaro 5-time Kentucky Derby winner (1945 aboard "Hoop Jr."); won two Triple Crowns, aboard Whirlaway (1941) and Citation (1948), for Calument Farms born on 2-14-1916 in Cincinnati, Ohio expired 11-14-1997 in Miami, Florida age 81 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| professional golfer George William Archer winner of the 1969 Masters Golf Tournament born on 10-1-1939 in San Francisco, California expired 9-25-2005 in Incline Village, Nevada age 65 cause: Burkitt's lymphoma | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
radio and movie actor John Archer first husband of Marjorie Lord (1941-55); father of Anne Archer; announcer on The Shadow who intoned "Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men? The Shadow Knows."; also appeared on The FBI in Peace and War; appeared in Destination Moon, Rock Around the Clock and Blue Hawaii
expired 12-5-1999 in Los Angeles, California age 84 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Hollywood gossip columnist Armand A. "Army" Archerd had a column in Daily Variety for decades born on 1-13-1922 in The Bronx, New York, New York expired 9-8-2009 in Los Angeles, California age 87 cause: mesothelioma
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actress Eve Arden had title role in radio & tv Our Miss Brooks series
expired 11-12-1990 age 87 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Creole button accordionist Alphonse "Bois Sec" Ardoin for many years performed with fiddler Canray Fontenot born on 11-16-1915 in Duralde, Louisiana expired 5-16-2007 in Eunice, Louisiana age 91 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| oscar-winning director (Dirty Dancing, Sister Act) Emile Ardolino born on 5-9-1943 in Maspeth, New York expired 11-20-1993 in Bel Air, California age 50 cause: AIDS | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Iraqi politician Abdel-Rahman Muhammad Aref was the country's president (1963-68) until ousted in a Baath Party insitgated coup born on --1916 in Baghdad, Iraq expired 8-24-2007 in Amman, Jordan age 91 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Claudine Louise Mudd Arehart grand- born on 6-9-1917 expired 3-11-2002 in La Plata, Maryland age 84 cause: complications from stroke | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
pro wrassler George J. Arena
expired 7-16-1992 age 84 cause: bone cancer | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| speed/drag racer Arthur E. Arfons built the "Green Monster," a jet powered 17,000 horsepower car that he used to set world speed records at Bonneville in the 1960s born on 2-3-1926 in Akron, Ohio expired 12-3-2007 in Akron, Ohio age 81 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
new-age art historian Joseph Anthony Arguelles was big on the Mayan calendar; was an inspiration for the August 16, 1987 Harmonic Convergence event
expired 3-23-2011 in Australian bush age 72 cause: peritonitis AKS: Jose | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nicaraguan president (May 1st-26th, 1947) Leonardo Argüello expired 12-15-1947 in Mexico City, Mexico age 74 cause: heart attack; chronic diabetes AKS: Arguello | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| three-time former Panamanian president (1940-41; 1949-51; 1968) Arnuldo Arias Madrid always exited the office via coup born on 8-15-1901 in Columbia expired 8-10-1988 in Miami, Florida age 86 cause: heart attack | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Tibetologist Michael Vaillancourt Aris husband of Burmese dissident Aung San Suu Kyi born on 3-27-1946 in Havana, Cuba expired 3-27-1999 in Oxford, Oxfordshire, England age 53 cause: prostate cancer | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Carnival Cruise Lines founder (1972) Ted Arison
expired 10-1-1999 in Tel Aviv, Israel age 75 cause: heart attack; throat cancer | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bolshoi soprano Irina Konstantinova Arkhipova born on 12-2-1925 in Moscow, Russia, USSR expired 2-11-2010 in Moscow, Russia age 84 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| American International Pictures co-founder (1954) Samuel Zachary Arkoff born on 6-12-1918 in Fort Dodge, Iowa expired 9-16-2001 in Burbank, California age 83 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Marquis François-Laurent d'Arlandes accompanied friend Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozière on first untethered balloon ride (1783); stoked the burner that kept them aloft expired ??-??-17?? age ?? AKS: Francois | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
ABC honcho Roone Pickney Arledge II headed their sports division (1968-86) & news division (1977-2002); won 37 Emmies (1st as producer of Shari Lewis' puppet show) & 4 Peabody Awardsborn on 7-8-1931 in Forest Hills, New York expired 12-5-2002 in New York, New York age 71 cause: complications from cancer
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composer Harold Arlen wrote Over the Rainbow (with E.Y. Harburg)
expired 4-23-1986 in New York, New York age 81 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
film actor Richard Arlen starred in 1927 Academy Award-winning Wings
expired 3-28-1976 in North Hollywood, California age 77 cause: emphysema | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
dignified actor George Arliss played title roles in Disraeli (1921 & 1929) and Voltaire (1933)
expired 2-5-1946 in London, England age 77 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Great Lakes sailor Michael Eugene Armagost Third Mate of the Edmund Fitzgerald born on 10-14-1938 expired 11-10-1975 in Eastern Lake Superior, Canada age 37 cause: drowned when ship foundered | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| tv writer Margaret Armen wrote for The Rifleman, The Big Valley, Lawman, Cannon & Star Trek — original series episodes The Gamesters of Triskelion (introduced Kirk to hot drill thral space babe;paid off in Quatloos), The Paradise Syndrome (Kirk marries hot Native American princess space babe) & The Cloud Minders (Spock meets hot intellectual space babe) born on 9-9-1921 in Washington, District of Columbia expired 11-10-2003 in Woodland Hills, California age 82 cause: heart failure | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| actor Pedro Gregorio Armendáriz Hastings got irradiated while shooting The Conquerer (156); played the Turkish station chief in From Russia With Love born on 5-9-1912 in Mexico City, Mexico expired 6-18-1963 in Los Angeles, California age 51 cause: suicide; gunshot; advanced neck cancer AKS: Armendariz | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| poet Richard Willard Armour born on 7-15-1906 in San Pedro, California expired 2-28-1989 age 82 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weather Girls singer Izora M. Rhodes Armstead with Martha Walsh had hit "It's Raining Men" (1983) born on 7-6-1942 expired 9-16-2004 in San Leandro, California age 62 cause: heart failure | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| jazz cornetist & bandleader Daniel Louis "Satchmo" Armstrong born on 8-4-1901 in New Orleans, Louisiana expired 7-6-1971 in New York, New York age 69 cause: heart attack | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| character actor Donald Robert Armstrong played Jerry Malone in Dumbbells in Ermine (1930), Broadway producer Carl Denham in King Kong (1933) and Son of Kong (1933); played nightclub owner Max O'Hara in Mighty Joe Young (1949) born on 11-20-1890 in Saginaw, Michigan expired 4-21-1973 in Santa Monica, California age 82 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Major Edwin Howard Armstrong inventor of the Audion radio receiving system (1913) & Frequency Modulation radio born on 12-18-1891 in New York, New York expired 2-1-1954 in New York, New York age 62 cause: suicide; plunge from apartment window | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Edwin's widow Esther Marion Armstrong met her husband while working as David Sarnoff's secretary; put the screws to the weasel corporations that had infringed her husband's patents
expired 8-8-1979 in Exeter, New Hampshire age 81 cause: "a short illness" AKS: Marian | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| adultering televangelist Garner Ted Armstrong estranged son of Herbert W. Armstrong born on 2-9-1930 in Portland, Oregon expired 9-15-2003 in Tyler, Texas age 73 cause: pneumonia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| composer Henry W. "Harry" Armstrong wrote music for Sweet Adeline expired 2-28-1951 in New York, New York age 71 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Herbert W. Armstrong founder of the Worldwide Church of God born on 7-31-1892 in Des Moines, Iowa expired 1-16-1986 in Pasadena, California age 93 cause: heart disease | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Enid, Mississippi farmer Howard N. Armstrong one of the jurors in the "trial" of J.W. Milam & Roy Bryant for the murder of Emmett Till born on 4-19-1919 expired 8-25-2003 in Enid, Mississippi age 84 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1932 Olympic gold track medalist Mary Carew Armstrong born on 9-18-1913 expired 7-12-2002 in Framingham, Massachusetts age 88 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| teacher & author William Howard Armstrong wrote children's novel Sounder (1970) born on 9-14-1914 in Collierstown, Virginia expired 4-11-1999 in Kent, Connecticut age 84 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
jazz fidler William Howard Taft Armstrong
expired 7-30-2003 in Boston, Massachusetts age 96 cause: compliations from heart attack | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Ameriquest Mortgage founder Roland E. Arnall once was the largest sub-prime lender; it "crashed and burned" and was picked up by Citigroup (2007) born on 3-29-1939 in Paris, Île-de-France, France expired 3-17-2008 in Los Angeles, California age 68 cause: cancer | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| big band, orchestra & movie arranger/composer Léo Arnaud on a commission from Felix Slatkin composed "The Change Suite" (1958); part of that piece, "Bugler's Dream," is the best-known — ABC & NBC have used it as their theme music for coverage of the Olympic games born on 7-24-1904 in Lyon, France expired 4-26-1981 in Los Angeles, California age 76 AKS: Leo | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Ba-Ba-Loo bandleader Desiderio Alberto Arnaz y De Acha III ex-husband of Lucille Ball; co-founder of Desilu Studios born on 3-2-1917 in Santiago de Cuba expired 12-2-1986 in Del Mar, California age 69
AKS: Arnez | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| role playing game pioneer David Lance "Dave" Arneson was co-creator of the Dungeons & Dragons game (1974) born on 10-1-1947 in Minnesota expired 4-7-2009 in Saint Paul, Minnesota age 61 cause: cancer | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
actor James Arness brother of Peter Graves; played the original Thing From Another World (1951)
expired 6-3-2011 in Brentwood, California age 88
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| American Revolutionary War traitor Benedict Arnold born on 1-14-1741 in Norwich, Connecticut expired 6-14-1801 in London, England age 60 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
saxophone player Buddy Arnold
expired 11-9-2003 in Los Angeles, California age 77 cause: complications from open-heart surgery | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
tv writer/producer Danny Arnold co-author of most of the Barney Miller scripts
expired 8-19-1995 in Los Angeles, California age 70 cause: heart failure | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| WWII commander of U.S. Army Air Forces General Henry Harley "Hap" Arnold born on 6-25-1886 in Gladwyne, Pennsylvania expired 1-15-1950 in Sonoma, California age 63 cause: coronary occlusion | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
movie/tv director Jack Arnold made It Came From Outer Space (1953), The Creature From the Black Lagoon (1954), Tarantula (1955), Revenge of the Creature (1955), The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957), High School Confidential (1958) & The Mouse That Roared (1959); wrote screenplays for Tarantula & The Monolith Monsters (1958; co-writer)
expired 3-17-1992 in Woodland Hills, California age 75 cause: arteriosclerosis | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Texas death row inmate Jemarr Carlos Arnold
expired 1-16-2002 in Huntsville, Texas age 43 cause: executed; lethal injection
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| Idaho business/private pilot Kenneth Arnold claimed to have seen a fast-moving saucer-shaped object on June 24, 1947... credited with coining term Flying Saucer born on 3-29-1915 in Subeka, Minnesota expired 1-??-1984 in Meridian, Idaho age 68 cause: cancer | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| film/orchestral composer Sir Malcolm Henry Arnold won an oscar for scoring The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) born on 10-21-1921 in Northampton, Northamptonshire, England expired 9-23-2006 in Norwich, Norfolk, England age 84 cause: chest infection; frontal lobe dementia
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country singer Robert Edward "Eddy" Arnold
expired 5-8-2008 in Cool Springs, Tennessee age 89
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Klas Pontus Arnoldson shared the 1908 Nobel peace prize born on 10-27-1844 in Göteborg, Sweden expired 2-20-1916 in Stockholm, Stockholms län, Sweden age 71 cause: heart attack | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| former Hefner executive assistant Roberta "Bobbie" Arnstein pressured by government to rat out druggies in bunnyland born on 5-2-1940 expired 1-12-1975 in Chicago, Illinois age 24 cause: suicide; barbituate overdose AKS: Arnsteen | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| jewelry store operator Julien Arpels son of Van Cleef & Arpels co-founder Leon Arpels; brother of Louis born on 12-29-1884 in Marseilles, France expired 4-8-1964 in New York, New York age 79 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| jewlery business co-founder Leon Arpels expired ??-??-19?? age ?? | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| jewelry store operator Louis Arpels son of Van Cleef & Arpels co-founder Leon Arpels; brother of Julien expired 3-20-1976 in Paris, Île-de-France, France age 89 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Joffrey Ballet Company co-founcer Gerald P. Arpino took over as artistic director after the death of Robert Joffrey born on 1-14-1923 in Staten Island, New York, New York expired 10-29-2008 in Chicago, Illinois age 85 cause: "a long illness" | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
humorist and Hollywood Square Cliff Arquette frequent visitor to Tonight Show in 1950's; father of Lewis; grandfather of actress Rosanna Arquette
expired 9-23-1974 in Burbank, California age 68 cause: heart attack | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| tv/movie character actor Lewis Arquette son of Cliff; father of Rosanna, Richmond, Patricia, Alexis & David born on 12-14-1935 in Chicago, Illinois expired 2-10-2001 in Los Angeles, California age 65 cause: congestive heart failure | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| classical pianist Claudio Arrau born on 2-6-1903 in Chillan, Chile expired 6-9-1991 age 88 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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chemist Svante August Arrhenius winner of the 1903 Nobel prize in chemistry born on 2-19-1859 in Vik, Uppsala län, Sweden expired 10-2-1927 in Stockholm, Sweden age 68 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
soul singer Joseph Arrington Jr. had a hit with "Skinny Legs" (1967)
expired 8-13-1982 age 49 cause: heart attack | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| cartoonist Gustavo Montano Arriola briefly worked as an animator at MGM; created & drew the Gordo strip (1941) born on 7-23-1917 in Florence, Arizona expired 2-2-2008 in Carmel, California age 90 cause: complications from cancer & Parkinson's disease | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| former Suriname prime minister (1977-80) & vice president (1987-90) Henck Alphonsus Eugène Arron led Dutch Guiana to independence from The Netherlands; overthrown twice in coups born on 4-25-1936 in Paramaribo, Dutch Guiana expired 12-4-2000 in Alpen aan de Rijn, The Netherlands age 64 cause: heart attack AKS: Hank Aaron | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
actress Beatrice Arthur played Maude Finlay on tv series
expired 4-25-2009 in Los Angeles, California age 86 cause: cancer
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21st U.S. president (1881-85) Chester Alan Arthurborn on 10-5-1830 in Fairfield, Vermont expired 11-18-1886 in New York, New York age 56 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
actress Jean Arthur
expired 6-19-1991 in Carmel, California age 90 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| oldster Arne Armas "Arska" Arvonen last surviving Finnish Civil War veteran (1918); worked on the fortifications of St. Petersburg, Russia born on 8-4-1897 in Helsinki, Finland expired 1-1-2009 in Järvenpää, Finland age 111
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cosmetics executive Mary Kay Ash
expired 11-22-2001 in Dallas, Texas age 83 cause: "natural causes" | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Hall-of-Fame Phillies center fielder (1948-59) Don Richard Ashburn more recently was a broadcaster for the Phillies; gave Marv Throneberry the nickname "Marvelous" born on 3-19-1927 in Tilden, Nebraska expired 9-9-1997 in New York, New York age 70 cause: heart attack | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| movie editor/director Hal Ashby edited In the Heat of the Night (1967 oscar); directed Harold and Maude (1971), Shampoo (1975), Coming Home (1978), Bound For Glory (1976) & Being There (1979) born on 9-2-1929 in Ogden, Utah expired 12-27-1988 in Malibu, California age 59 cause: cancer | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| jazz saxophonist Harold Ashby played with the Duke Ellington Band born on 3-27-1925 in Kansas City, Missouri expired 6-13-2003 in New York, New York age 78 cause: complications following heart attack | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
actress Dame Peggy Ashcroft
expired 6-14-1991 age 83 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| tennis great Arthur Robert Ashe Jr. born on 7-10-1943 in Richmond, Virginia expired 2-6-1993 age 49 cause: complications from AIDS
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| punk band guitarist Ronald Franklin Asheton Jr. with Iggy Pop a co-founder of The Stooges (his brother was the drummer) born on 7-17-1948 in Washington, District of Columbia expired 1-4-2009 in Ann Arbor, Michigan age 60 cause: heart attack? | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Emmett Littleton Ashford first black umpire in major league baseball (1966-70) born on 11-23-1914 in Los Angeles, California expired 3-1-1980 in Los Angeles, California age 66 cause: heart attack | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| singer/songwriter Nickolas Ashford sang with his wife (Valerie Simpson); wrote "Ain't No Mountain High Enough" & "Reach Out and Touch Somebody's Hand" (amongst others) born on 5-4-1941 in Fairfield, South Carolina expired 8-22-2011 in New York, New York age 70 cause: throat cancer | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| former talent agent Ted Ashley headed Warner Brothers movie studio (1969-80) born on 8-3-1922 in New York, New York expired 8-24-2002 in New York, New York age 80 cause: acute leukemia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| lyricist Howard Ashman wrote song lyrics for Little Shop of Horrors, The Little Mermaid, & Beauty and the Beast born on 5-3-1950 in Baltimore, Maryland expired 3-14-1991 in Los Angeles, California age 40 cause: AIDS | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| country singer Ernest Bert Ashworth born on 12-15-1928 in Huntsville, Alabama expired 3-2-2009 in Hartsville, Tennessee age 80 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
retired Navy Vice-Admiral Frederick Lincoln "Dick" Ashworth Sr. weapons specialist aboard Bockscar when it nuked Nagasakiborn on 1-24-1912 in Beverly, Massachusetts expired 12-3-2005 in Scottsdale, Arizona age 93 cause: complications from an aortic aneurysm | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| science fiction author Isaac Asimov born on 1-2-1920 in Petrovichi, USSR expired 4-6-1992 age 72 cause: heart & kidney ailments; complications from AIDS
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| author Eliot Tager Asinof wrote Eight Men Out about the 1919 Black Sox Scandal; found himself on Joe McCarthy's blacklist (for signing a petition!); once married to Jocelyn Brando (Marlon's sister) born on 7-13-1919 in Manhattan, New York, New York expired 6-10-2008 in Hudson, New York age 88 cause: complications from pneumonia
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character actor Leon Askin played General Burkhalter on Hogan's Heroes
expired 6-3-2005 in Vienna, Austria age 97
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| accused World War II criminal Milivoj Asner supposedly committed crimes against humanity in the city of Poſega in 1941-42 born on 4-21-1913 in Darwar, Croatia, Austria-Hungary expired 6-14-2011 in Klagenfurt, Austria age 98 cause: dementia
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actor Fred Asparagus played Bobby in Berverly Hills Cop III and Joe "Mama" Besser in This is Spinal Tap (1984)
expired 6-29-1998 in Panorama City, California age 51 cause: heart attack | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| CanWest media mogul Israel H. "Izzy" Asper born on 8-11-1932 in Minnedosa, Manitoba, Canada expired 10-7-2003 in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada age 71 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| former Clinton Defense Secretary Leslie "Les" Aspin Jr. born on 7-21-1938 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin expired 5-21-1995 age 56 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Titanic survivor Edvin Rojj Felix Asplund brother of Lillian Asplund born on 3-19-1909 expired 3-1-1983 in Shrewsbury, Massachusetts age 73 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Titanic survivor Lillian Gertrude Asplund made it into a lifeboat with mother & brother (three other brothers, Filip, Clarence & Carl Edgar, as well as the father, died in the sinking) born on 10-21-1906 in Alsema, Sweden expired 5-6-2006 in Shrewsbury, Massachusetts age 99
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| Titanic survivor Selma Augusta Emilia Johansson Asplund born on 10-10-1873 expired 4-15-1964 in Shrewsbury, Massachusetts age 90 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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former Dutch prime minister Tobias Michael Carel Asser shared the 1911 Nobel peace prize born on 4-28-1838 in Amsterdam, The Netherlands expired 7-29-1913 in The Hague, The Netherlands age 75 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| tubby Warhol film actress Pat Ast played Lydia (the hotel owner) in Andy Warhol's Heat (1972), Mrs. Venus in Foul Play (1978), the Horse Lady in Pursuit of D.B. Cooper (1981) & Edna in Reform School Girls (1986) born on 10-20-1941 in New York, New York expired 10-2-2001 in West Hollywood, California age 59 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
musical/comedy actress Adele Marie Astaire Fred's early dance partner
expired 1-25-1981 in Phoenix, Arizona age 82 cause: complications from stroke | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
dancer/actor Fred Astaire
expired 6-22-1987 age 88
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mass spectograph inventor Francis William Aston won the 1922 Nobel prize in chemistry born on 9-1-1877 in Birmingham, England expired 11-20-1945 in Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England age 68 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| former soccer referee Kenneth George Aston originated the color- born on 1-9-1915 in Colchester, England expired 10-23-2001 in Ilford, England age 86 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Titanic victim Colonel John Jacob Astor IV returning from a European honeymoon with his new (18 year-old) wife; went down with the ship born on 7-13-1864 in Rhinebeck, New York expired 4-15-1912 in North Atlantic Ocean age 47 cause: crushed to death/drowned | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Titanic "survivor" John Jacob Astor V son of John Jacob Astor IV; safe in mommy's womb when the ship went down born on 8-14-1912 expired 6-26-1992 in Miami Beach, Florida age 79 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Titanic survivor Madeline Talmadge Force Astor married John Jacob Astor IV September 9, 1911 & was returning from their honeymoon in Europe when she became a widow; pregnant with his son at time of sinking; remarried and divorced several times afterwards born on 6-19-1893 expired 3-27-1940 in Palm Beach, Florida age 46 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
actress Mary Astor
expired 9-25-1987 age 81
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| socialite Roberta Brooke Russell Kuser Marshall Astor subject of much wrangling between her son and grandson — was she being abused/exploited for the money? born on 3-30-1902 in Portsmouth, New Hampshire expired 8-13-2007 in Briarcliff, New York age 105 cause: pneumonia
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Miguel Ángel Asturias was the 1967 Nobel prize winner in literature born on 10-19-1899 in Guatemala City, Guatemala expired 6-9-1974 in Madrid, Spain age 74 AKS: Angel | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Incan emperor (1532-33) Atahualpa captured and murdered by Pizarro born on --1500 in Quito, Equador expired 8-29-1533 in Cajamarca (Peru) age 33 cause: executed; garotted | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Maori queen Te Arikinui Dame Te Atairangikaaju seventh soverign (1966-2006) born on 7-??-1931 in Waahi Marae, New Zealand expired 8-15-2006 in Ngaruawahia, New Zealand age 75 cause: pneumonia; renal failure; diabetes | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| electronic digital computer pioneer John Vincent Atanasoff born on 10-4-1903 in Hamilton, New York expired 6-15-1955 in New Market, Maryland age 51 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
first president of the Republic of Turkey (1923-38) Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
expired 11-10-1938 in Istanbul, Turkey age 57 cause: cirrhosis of the liver AKS: Ataturk Attaturk | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| documentary photographer Jean-Eugène-August Atget born on 2-12-1857 in Libourne, France expired 8-4-1927 in Paris, Île-de-France, France age 70 AKS: Eugene | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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English King (924-939) Athelstan son of Edward the Elder and Ecgwynn born on --895 expired 10-27-939 in Malmesbury, Wiltshire, England age 44 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| country guitarist Chester Burton "Chet" Atkins also headed RCA Records (1957-76) born on 6-20-1924 in Luttrell, Tennessee expired 6-30-2001 in Nashville, Tennessee age 77 cause: cancer
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dancer/choreographer Cholly Atkins once teamed with Honi Coles
expired 4-19-2003 in Las Vegas, Nevada age 89 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| cardiologist Dr. Robert Coleman Atkins known for his low carbohydrate / high protein diet born on 10-17-1930 in Columbus, Ohio expired 4-17-2003 in New York, New York age 72 cause: coma; head injuries suffered in slip and fall accident | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
 
unrepentant Manson family murderer Susan Denise Atkins did life in the big house for her participation in the Helter Skelter Murders (she stabbed Sharon Tate in the belly 16 times after Tate begged her to spare her unborn child); named her bastard child "Zezozose Zadfrack Glutz" (kid taken away and later adopted - lucky kid); had been up for parole a bunch of times but always denied
expired 9-24-2009 in Chowchilla, California age 61 cause: brain cancer
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World War II British spymaster Vera Maria Atkins principal assistant to Col. Maurice Buckmaster of the World War IIBritish Special Operations Executive; received the French Legion of Honor & made a Commander of the British Empire; her exploits were Fleming's inspiration for Miss Moneypenny
expired 6-24-2000 in Hastings, Sussex, England age 92 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| former movie stuntman George William Atkinson as a child spent two years in a Japanese prison camp; founded the first video rental store, Video Station, in West Los Angeles (1977), purchasing 100 Beta & VHS tapes from the first home video company — Magnetic Video born on 6-2-1935 in Shanghai, China expired 3-3-2005 in Northridge, California age 69 cause: emphysema | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| former Zombies guitarist Paul Atkinson more recently worked in the record industry doing A&R (Artists and Repertory) born on 3-19-1946 in Cuffley, England expired 4-1-2004 in Santa Monica, California age 58 cause: kidney disease | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
mail order body builder Charles Atlas
expired 12-24-1972 in Long Beach, California age 78 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
former socialist prime minister of Great Britain (1945-51) Clement Richard Attlee replaced Churchill; nationalized basic industries
expired 10-8-1967 in London, England age 84 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| GOP national chairman Harvey Leroy "Lee" Atwater born on 2-27-1951 in Atlanta, Georgia expired 3-29-1991 age 40 cause: glioblastoma | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| horror actor Lionel Alfred William Atwill did lots of horror films, Charlie Chan flix, etc. born on 3-1-1885 in Croydon, Surrey, England expired 4-22-1946 age 61 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
dimwitted urban terrorist Angela DeAngelis Atwood abandoned husband to become member of the SLA
expired 5-24-1974 in Los Angeles, California age 25 cause: self-immolation; smoke inhalation & burned to death in house during shootout with police | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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