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15th U.S. president (1857-61) James McGill Buchanan failed to head off the Civil War; sent troops to capture John Brownborn on 4-23-1791 in Mercersburg, Pennsylvania expired 6-1-1868 in Lancaster, Pennsylvania age 77 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| AFL lineman Junius "Buck" Buchanan born on 9-10-1940 in Birmingham, Alabama expired 7-16-1992 age 51 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
grade Z tv movie director Larry Buchanan made Mars Needs Women (1967) & Zontar, the Thing from Venus (a 1966 remake of It Conquered the World)
expired 12-2-2004 in Tucson, Airzona age 81 cause: complications from collapsed lung | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| World War I military veteran Russell A. Buchanan born on 1-24-1900 in Cambridge, Massachusetts expired 12-6-2006 in Cambridge, Massachusetts age 106 cause: pneumonia; heart attack; stroke | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
actor William Edgar Buchanan dentist, head of Oral Surgery at Eugene Oregon Hospital (1929-1937); Petticoat Junction's Uncle Joe (1963-70)
expired 4-4-1979 in Palm Desert, California age 76 cause: complications following brain surgery
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U.S.S. Pueblo commander Lloyd Marvin Bucher captain of ship seized in international waters by North Korean torpedo boat on 1-23-1968 during Vietnam War; held prisoner for 11 months (tortured severly), then threatened with a general courts-
expired 1-28-2004 in Poway, California age 74 cause: complications from injuries sustained during 1968 torture
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| author Lothar-Günther Buchheim wrote Das Boot (1973) born on 2-6-1918 in Weimar, Germany expired 2-22-2007 in Stamberg, Bavaria, Germany age 89 cause: heart failure AKS: Guenther | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| actor Horst Buchholz played Chico in The Magnificent Seven (1960), Marius in Fanny (1961) & Otto Piffl in One, Two, Three (1961) born on 12-4-1933 in Berlin, Germany expired 3-3-2003 in Berlin, Germany age 69 cause: complications from a broken thighbone | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| movie writer and producer Sidney Buchman wrote screenplays for Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939) & Here Comes Mr. Jordan (1941); in 1953 got one year in the slammer for Contempt of Congress; Congress never got their due for Contempt of the Constitution born on 3-27-1902 in Duluth, Minnesota expired 8-23-1975 in Cannes, France age 73 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
1907 Nobel prize winner in chemistry Eduard Buchner discoverer non-cellular fermentationborn on 5-20-1860 in München, Bavaria, Germany expired 8-12-1917 in München, Bavaria, Germany age 57 cause: combat wounds | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
former Washington D.C.-based newspaper columnist Arthur Buchwald currently thumbing nose at death from the comfort of a Cape Code cottage; eventually death will always win; the phrase "bomb them back to the stone age" is attributed to a June 1967 column of hisborn on 10-20-1925 in Mount Vernon, New York expired 1-17-2007 in Washington, District of Columbia age 81 cause: kidney failure
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| wild animal hunter Frank Buck he "brought 'em back alive" born on 3-17-1884 in Gainesville, Texas expired 3-25-1950 in Houston, Texas age 66 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Baseball Hall of Fame radio announcer John Francis "Jack" Buck did play-by-play for the St. Louis Cardinals (1954-2001) born on 8-21-1924 in Holyoke, Massachusetts expired 6-18-2002 in Saint Louis, Missouri age 77 cause: lung cancer
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| movie producer Jules Buck born on 7-30-1917 in Saint Louis, Missouri expired 7-19-2001 in Paris, Île-de-France, France age 83 cause: complications from Alzheimer's disease | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
1938 Nobel & 1931 Pulitzer prize-winning author Pearl Comfort Sydenstricker Buck wrote The Good Earth (1931)
expired 3-6-1973 in Danby, Vermont age 80 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 10,000 Maniacs guitarist Robert N. Buck born on 8-1-1958 expired 12-19-2000 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania age 42 cause: multiple organ failure; liver failure | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| former preschool worker Peggy McMartin Buckey victim of psycho-quackery & criminally-inept police work (1983) born on 11-18-1926 expired 12-15-2000 in Torrance, California age 74 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| last Doughboy (surviving World War I U.S. Army military veteran) Frank Woodruff Buckles born on 2-1-1901 in Bethany, Harrison County, Missouri, United State of America expired 2-27-2011 in Charles Town, West Virginia age 110
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| former Army Air Corps Sgt. Edward K. Buckley radar operator aboard the Bockscar (B-29 that nuked Nagasaaki) born on 8-16-1913 in Lisbon, Ohio expired 6-??-1981 age 67 cause: throat cancer | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Vietnam War army nurse (1969-70) Lynda Van Devanter Buckley served a the 71st Evacuation Hospital (Pleiku); her autobiography, Home Before Morning (1983), inspired the China Beach tv series born on 5-27-1947 in Arlington, Virginia expired 11-15-2002 in Hearndon, Virginia age 55 cause: system collagen vascular disease AKS: Linda | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Michael Buckley had been the boyfriend of Lisa Shoemaker & another victim of Dr. Acer
expired 2-9-1994 in Port Saint Lucie, Florida age 31 cause: AIDS | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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conservative talker William Frank Buckley Jr. founded National Review born on 11-24-1925 in New York, New York expired 2-27-2008 in Stamford, Connecticut age 82 cause: emphysema; diabetes
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| Colonel Maurice James Buckmaster head of the World War II British Special Operations Executive F Section born on 1-11-1902 expired 4-17-1992 age 90 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| jazz keyboardist Milt Buckner born on 7-10-1915 in Saint Louis, Missouri expired 7-27-1977 in Chicago, Illinois age 62 cause: acute congestive heart failure | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Baroness Moura Budberg mistress of Maxim Gorky and H.G. Wells expired 11-1-1974 in London, England age 82 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| old-time Cossak/Bolshevik cavalry officer Marshall Semyon Mikhailovich Budenny put down White Russian resistance to Lenin's Communist coup born on 4-25-1883 expired 10-27-1973 in Moscow, Russia, USSR age 90 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| longtime communist Louis Francis Budenz one-time editor of the U.S. Daily Worker & member of U.S. Communist Party Central Committee; denounced party in 1945, spent years denouncing everyone as one of Joe McCarthy's "mystery witnesses" born on 7-17-1891 in Indianapolis, Indiana expired 4-27-1972 in Newport, Rhode Island age 80 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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tennis great John Donald Budge won 1937 Sullivan Award; won tennis' Grand Slam in 1938 born on 6-13-1915 in Oakland, California expired 1-26-2000 in Scranton, Pennsylvania age 84 cause: cardiac arrest; complications from December 14, 1999 auto accident
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| physicist Gersh Itskovich Budker born on 5-1-1918 expired 7-4-1977 in Akademgorodok, Siberia, Russia, USSR age 59 cause: heart attack | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| automotive designer Gordon M. Buehrig designed the Cord 810 (1935) born on 6-18-1904 in Mason City, Illinois expired 1-22-1990 in Grosse Pointe, Michigan age 86 cause: heart failure | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| physician Manuel Artime Buesa leader of the 4/17/1961 Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba by "Exile Brigade 250" expired 11-17-1977 in Miami, Florida age 45 cause: liver & pancreatic cancer | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
retired teacher Thelma Kaualulehuaoaiku Sproat Bugbee became a songwriter; was one of the last native speakers of the Hawaiian language
expired 7-26-2004 in Honolulu, Hawaii age 93 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| auto company founder David Dunbar Buick born on 9-17-1854 in Arbroath, Scotland expired 3-5-1929 in Detroit, Michigan age 74 cause: colon cancer | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sorbonne professor Ferdinand Édouard Buisson his pacifism earned him a share of the 1927 Nobel peace prize born on 12-20-1841 in Paris, Île-de-France, France expired 2-16-1932 in Thieuloy-Saint-Antone, France age 90 cause: heart disease AKS: Edouard | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| conductor Igor Buketoff born on 5-29-1915 in Hartford, Connecticut expired 9-7-2001 in New York, New York age 86 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| street poet, novelist, screenwriter (Barfly) Henry Charles Bukowski Jr. born on 8-16-1920 in Andermach, Germany expired 3-9-1994 age 73 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| former Soviet premier (1955-58) Nikolai Aleksandrovich Bulganin born on 6-11-1895 in Nizhni-Novgorod, Russia (now Gorky) expired 2-24-1975 in Moscow, Russia, USSR age 79 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| artillery deisgner Gerald Vincent Bull lead researcher on the High Altitude Research Project; at time of death building a supergun for Iraq born on 3-9-1928 in North Bay, Ontario, Canada expired 3-22-1990 in Brussels, Belgium age 62 cause: assassinated | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| geophysicist Sir Edward Bullard pioneered theory of Pangea supercontinent born on 9-21-1907 in Norwich, England expired 4-3-1980 in La Jolla, California age 72 cause: cancer | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Texas political hack Robert D. "Bob" Bullock born on 7-10-1929 in Hillsboro, Texas expired 6-18-1999 in Austin, Texas age 69 cause: congestive heart failure | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
really bad author Edward George Bulwer-Lytton wrote The Last Days of Pompeii (1834); infamous for the opening sentence "It was a dark and stormy night"
expired 1-18-1873 in Torquay, England age 69 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| oceanographer (1937-79) Dean Franklin Bumpus as a Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution researcher had hundreds of thousands of bottles dumped into the Atlantic Ocean to track the currents born on 5-11-1912 in Newburyport, Massachusetts expired 3-14-2002 in Woods Hole, Massachusetts age 89 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| movie production designer Lloyd Henry Bumstead you saw his work in such movies as Vertigo (1958), To Kill A Mockingbird (1962), The Sting (1973), Slap Shot (1977), Mystic River, Unforgiven (1992), & Million Dollar Baby (2004) born on 3-17-1915 in Ontario, California expired 5-24-2006 in Pasadena, California age 91 cause: prostate cancer | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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1950 Nobel Peace Prize winner Dr. Ralph Johnson Bunche born on 8-7-1904 in Detroit, Michigan expired 12-9-1971 in New York, New York age 67 cause: kidney failure; diabetes; heart disease | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| JFK & LBJ National Security Adviser McGeorge Bundy no relation to Ted or Al; played key role in Bay of Pigs invasion, Cuban Missle Crisis and Vietnam Buildup - what a jackass born on 3-30-1919 in Boston, Massachusetts expired 9-16-1996 in Boston, Massachusetts age 77 cause: heart attack | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| serial murderer Theodore Robert "Ted" Bundy "...porn made me do it..." born on 11-24-1946 in Burlington, Vermont expired 1-24-1989 in Starke, Florida age 42 cause: executed; "Old Sparky" | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| LBJ Assistant Secretary of State (1964-69) William Putnam Bundy older brother of McGeorge born on 9-24-1917 in Washington, District of Columbia expired 10-6-2000 in Princeton, New Jersey age 83 cause: heart ailment | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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novelist Ivan Alekseyevich Bunin received the 1933 Nobel prize in literature born on 10-10-1870 in Voronezh, Russia expired 11-8-1953 in Paris, Île-de-France, France age 83 cause: heart attack | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| tv puppeteer Morey Bunin created the CBS kiddie show The Adventures of Lucky Pup in 1948; two characters on that show became so popular (inept magician Foodini & dumb assistant Pinhead) the show was eventually written around them and renamed Foodini the Great (puppets voiced by Bunin and Hope Shippee (Bunin's first wife), respectively) born on 4-15-1910 expired 2-26-1997 in Woodstock, New York age 86 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| "Siamese twin" Chang Bunker born on 5-11-1811 in Meklong, Thailand expired 1-17-1874 in Mount Airy, North Carolina age 62 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| U.S. ambassador to South Vietnam Elsworth Bunker born on 5-11-1894 in Yonkers, New York expired 9-27-1984 in Brattleboro, Vermont age 90
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| "Siamese twin" Eng Bunker born on 5-11-1811 in Meklong, Thailand expired 1-17-1874 in Mount Airy, North Carolina age 62 cause: "fright," two hours after Chang | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
caffeine-o-phile George Regan Bunn Bunn-O-Matic coffee maker inventor (1957)born on 8-5-1915 expired 12-7-2002 in Springfield, Illinois age 87 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Luis Buñuel Portolés directed Bell de Jour (1967) born on 2-22-1900 in Calanda, Teruel, Aragón, Spain expired 7-28-1983 in Mexico City, Mexico age 83 cause: cirrhosis of the liver AKS: Bunuel Portoles | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Catholic Church leader (1572-1585) Ugo Buoncampagni elected 227th Pope of the Roman Catholic Church May 13, 1572; reformed the Julian Calendar with edict in 1578 (giving us the Gregorian Calendar): made centennial years NOT leap years, except for centennial years divisible by 400 ("unofficial" rule has centennial years divisible by 4,000 still not leap years); Thursday October 4, 1582 was followed by Friday October 15, 1582; Britain converted to Gregorian Calendar in 1752, dropping 11 days from September of that year
expired 4-10-1585 in Rome, Italy age 83 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| auto upholsterer Angelo Buono Jr. half of L.A.'s Hillside Strangler serial murder team born on 10-5-1934 expired 9-21-2002 in Calipatria State Penitentiary, California age 67 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| character actor Victor Charles Buono Omnivore Rex; played tv Batman villain King Tut born on 2-3-1938 in San Diego, California expired 1-1-1982 in Apple Valley, California age 43 cause: heart attack
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retired Ford Motor Company executive Moyer MacClaren Bupp as a child actor played Charles Foster Kane Jr. in Citizen Kane (1941)
expired 11-1-2007 in Henderson, Nevada age 79 AKS: MacLaren | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| horticulturist Luther Burbank namesake of California city born on 3-7-1849 in Lancaster, Massachusetts expired 4-11-1926 in Santa Rosa, California age 77 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| physicist, astronomer, astrophysicist, cosmologist Geoffrey Ronald Burbidge (with Hoyle, Fowler & wife Margaret) was the co-discoverer of how elements are synthesized within stars (1957) born on 9-24-1925 in Chipping Norton, England expired 1-26-2010 in San Diego, California age 84 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| old peer Sir Herbert Dudley Burbidge born on 11-13-1904 expired 3-31-2001 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada age 98 AKS: Burbridge | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| former FCC chairman Dean Burch born on 12-20-1927 in Enid, Oklahoma expired 8-4-1991 age 63 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| etymologist Robert William Burchfield former editor of the Oxford English Dictionary (1971-84) born on 1-27-1923 in Wanganui, New Zealand expired 7-5-2004 in Abingdon, England age 81 cause: Parkinson's disease | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| former CBS correspondent Winston Burdett one of "Murrow's Boys" born on 12-12-1913 in Buffalo, New York expired 5-19-1993 in Rome, Italy age 79 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| former major league pitcher (1950-67) Selva Lewis Burdette Jr. born on 11-22-1926 in Nitro, West Virginia expired 2-6-2007 in Winter Garden, Florida age 80
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| author Eugene Leonard Burdick co-author of The Ugly American (1958) and Fail-Safe (1962) born on 12-12-1918 in Sheldon, Iowa expired 7-26-1965 in San Diego, California age 46 cause: heart attack; diabetes | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| North Dakota Senator Quentin Northrop Burdick born on 6-19-1908 in Munich, North Dakota expired 9-8-1992 age 84 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Reagan's first EPA administrator (1981-2) Anne Irene McGill Gorsuch Burford got into trouble with congress and had to bail born on 4-21-1942 in Casper, Wyoming expired 7-18-2004 in Aurora, Colorado age 62 cause: cancer | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| retired USC chemistry professor Dr. Anton Behme Burg expert on the element Boron's properties; during one experiment produced a byproduct molecule that later became known as Teflon when a duPont researcher discovered it born on 10-18-1904 in Dallas City, Illinois expired 11-19-2003 in Los Angeles, California age 99 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| retired Chief Justice Warren Earl Burger born on 9-17-1907 in Saint Paul, Minnesota expired 6-25-1995 age 87
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| Shaker Sister Mary Frances Burgess joined the United Society of Believers in Christ's Second Appearance in 1939; her death left only six remaining members of the sect born on 2-10-1920 expired 6-18-2001 in New Gloucester, Maine age 81 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| author Thornton Waldo Burgess wrote the Peter Rabbit stories born on 1-14-1874 in Sandwich, Massachusetts expired 6-5-1965 in Hampden, Massachusetts age 91 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| retired Admiral Arleigh Albert Burke born on 10-19-1901 in Boulder, Colorado expired 1-1-1996 age 94 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
actress Billie Burke played Glinda, the Good Witch of the North in The Wizard of Oz (1939); wife of Florenz Ziegfeld Jr.
expired 5-14-1970 in Los Angeles, California age 83 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Miss America 1940 Frances Marie Burke
expired 11-13-2005 age 84 AKS: Francis | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ex-baseball player Glenn Lawrence Burke born on 11-16-1952 in Oakland, California expired 5-30-1995 in San Leandro, California age 42 cause: AIDS | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| composer Joseph "Joe" Burke co-wrote Tip-Toe Through the Tulips for Gold Diggers of Broadway (1929) born on --1884 in Philadelphia, New York expired 12-17-1942 in New York, New York age 58 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| actor Paul R. Burke played detective Adam Flint on The Naked City tv police drama (1960-63) born on 7-21-1926 in New Orleans, Louisiana, United State of America expired 9-12-2009 in Palm Springs, California age 83 cause: leukemia; non-Hodgkin's lymphoma | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Trek Bicycle Corp. co-founder (1976) Richard Alexander Burke Jr. born on 6-4-1934 in Chicago, Illinois expired 3-10-2008 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin age 73 cause: complications from heart surgery | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
soul singer Solomon M. Burke
expired 10-10-2010 in Amsterdam, The Netherlands age 70 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
circus sideshow geek Clarence Melvin Burkhart pounded nails into his head
expired 11-8-2001 in Sun City, Florida age 94 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| philosopher & computing pioneer Arthur Walter Burks worked on the team that built the Eniac; collaberator with John von Neumann; spent 4 decades teaching at the University of Michigan born on 10-13-1915 in Duluth, Minnesota expired 5-14-2008 in Ann Arbor, Michigan age 92 cause: complications from Alzheimer's disease | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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virologist Sir Frank Macfarlane Burnet shared the 1960 for the discovery of acquired immunological tolerance born on 9-3-1899 in Traralgon, Victoria, Australia expired 8-31-1985 in Port Fairy, Victoria, Australia age 85 cause: colorectal cancer | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Delta blues singer/guitarist Chester Arthur Burnett
expired 1-10-1976 in Chicago, Illinois age 65 cause: complications from kidney disease | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ad agency founder Leo Burnett born on 10-21-1891 in Saint Johns, Michigan expired 6-7-1971 in Lake Zurich, Illinois age 79 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| high school teacher Murray Burnett co-wrote 1938 unproduced play Everybody Comes to Rick's; it became the 1942 movie Casablanca; because he really liked the song, he specified in the plot that Rick & Ilsa's "song" was As Time Goes By born on 12-28-1910 in New York, New York expired 9-15-1997 in Manhattan, New York, New York age 86 cause: heart failure | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| actor & songwriter Lester Alvin "Smiley" Burnette Gene Autry's sidekick; played Charley Pratt, engineer of the C&FW railroad's Hooterville Cannonball on Petticoat Junction born on 3-18-1911 in Summum, Illinois expired 2-16-1967 in Encino, California age 55 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Eisenhower Surgeon General Dr. Leroy Edgar Burney first Federal official to identifiy smoking as a cause of lung cancer born on 12-31-1906 in Burney, Indiana expired 7-31-1998 in Park Ridge, Illinois age 91 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| securities firm founder Isaac Wolf Burnham II headed Drexel Burnham Lambert Inc. - later wrecked by junk bond trader Michael Milken born on 1-7-1909 in Baltimore, Maryland expired 6-24-2002 in Norfolk, Virginia age 93 cause: heart attack | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| economist Arthur Frank Burns former chairman of the Federal Reserve Board (1970-78) born on 4-27-1904 in Stanislau, Austria-Hungary expired 6-26-1987 in Baltimore, Maryland age 83
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centenarian actor/comedian George Burns husband of Gracie Allen
expired 3-9-1996 in Beverly Hills, California age 100
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| former Hawaiian governor (1963-74) John Anthony Burns born on 3-30-1909 in Fort Assinneboine, Montana expired 4-5-1975 in Kaiwi, Oahu, Hawaii age 66 cause: colon cancer | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| comedian Kenneth C. Burns better known as Jethro in the Homer and Jethro country music comedy team born on 3-10-1920 in Conasauga, Tennessee expired 2-4-1989 in Evanston, Illinois age 68 cause: prostate cancer | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Klansman & FBI informant Mitchell A. Burns tape recorded conversations with Thomas Blanton Jr. (1960s); testified against him & Bobby Frank Cherry at their trials for the murders of four girls in a 1963 church bombing born on 5-30-1927 expired 11-19-2002 in Birmingham, Alabama age 75 cause: heart attack | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| former NHL coach (1988-2004) Patrick Burns coached the Montreal Canadiens, Toronto Maple Leafs, Boston Bruins & New Jersey Devils; 3-time winner of the Jack Adams Trophy for coaching excellence born on 4-4-1952 in Saint Henri, Montreal, Quebec, Canada expired 11-19-2010 in Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada age 58 cause: lung cancer; liver cancer; colon cancer; puck cancer
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| comedy writer Stanley Burns won 1972 Emmy for writing on the Carol Burnett Show born on 9-4-1923 expired 11-5-2002 in San Fernando Valley, California age 79 cause: heart failure | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Civil War Army of the Potomac commander (1862) General Ambrose Everett Burnside known for his style of letting his hair grow down beside his ears ... that growth became known as "side-burns" born on 5-23-1824 in Liberty, Indiana expired 9-13-1881 in Bristor, Rhode Island age 57 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| former West Virginia rep. (1949-53 & 1955-57) Maurice Gwinn Burnside born on 8-23-1902 in near Columbia, South Carolina expired 2-12-1991 age 88 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| bluesman Robert Lee "Rural" Burnside born on 11-23-1926 in Oxford, Lafayette County, Mississippi expired 9-1-2005 in Memphis, Tennessee age 78 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| mail order seed merchant David Burpee head of W. Atlee Burpee Co. (1915-70); son of company founder born on 4-5-1893 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania expired 6-24-1980 in Doylestown, Pennsylvania age 87 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| seed company founder (1876) Washington Atlee Burpee born on 4-5-1858 in Sheffield, New Brunswick, Canada expired 11-26-1915 in Doylestown, Pennsylvania age 57 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| New York senator (1791-97) & Jefferson 1st term vice president (1801-05) Aaron Burr shot/fatally wounded Alexander Hamilton in July 11, 1804 duel at Weehawken on the Hudson (New Jersey); tried (and acquitted) of treason (1807) born on 2-6-1756 in Newark, New Jersey expired 9-14-1836 in Staten Island, New York age 80 cause: strokes | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| actor Raymond William Stacy Burr played Perry Mason and Ironsides on tv born on 5-21-1917 in New Westminster, British Columbia, Canada expired 9-12-1993 age 79
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| former L.A. County Sheriff's deputy Roy J. "Rusty" Burrell baliff at trials of Caryl Chessman, Charles Manson & Patty Hearst; later acted as baliff on The People's Court tv series born on 11-17-1925 in Metropolis, Illinois expired 4-15-2002 in Rosemead, California age 76 cause: lung cancer | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| author Edgar Rice Burroughs created Tarzan; wrote The Land That Time Forgot and At The Earth's Core; just happened to be visiting Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, stayed on in Hawaii as a war correspondent born on 9-1-1875 in Chicago, Illinois expired 3-19-1950 in Encino, California age 74 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| machinist Louis "Lou" Burroughs co-founded Electro-Voice Inc. (1927) born on 7-29-1903 expired 1-??-1986 in Lake Havasu, Arizona age 82 AKS: Borroughs | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| inventor William Seward Burroughs received first U.S. patent for an adding machine (8/21/1888) born on 1-28-1855 in Auburn, New York expired 9-14-1898 in Citronelle, Alabama age 43 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bohemian writer William Seward Burroughs in 1951 he "accidentally" killed his wife while trying to shoot a glass off her head; wrote The Naked Lunch born on 2-5-1914 in Saint Louis, Missouri expired 8-2-1997 in Lawrence, Kansas age 83 cause: heart attack | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| humorist/author Abraham Solman "Abe" Burrows born on 12-18-1910 in New York, New York expired 5-17-1985 age 74 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Tornadoes bass guitarist Heinz Burt performed on 1962 hit Telstar born on 7-24-1942 in Hargin, Germany expired 4-7-2000 age 57 cause: complications from neuromuscular disease | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| character actor Norman Burton played Felix Leiter in Diamonds are Forever (1971) born on 12-5-1923 expired 11-29-2003 in on the California/Arizona border age 79 cause: car crash AKS: Normann | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
actor Richard Burton twice husband of Elizabeth Taylor
expired 8-5-1984 in Geneva, Switzerland age 58
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| coma victim Christine L. Busalacchi born on 3-20-1970 expired 3-7-1993 age 22 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| author Dr. Felice Leonardo Buscaglia born on 3-31-1925 in Los Angeles, California expired 6-12-1998 in Lake Tahoe, Nevada age 73 cause: heart attack | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| comic book artist John Buscema Sr. drew the Silver Surfer & Conan the Barbarian born on 12-11-1927 in New York, New York expired 1-10-2002 in Port Jefferson, New York age 74 cause: stomach cancer | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| beer baron August Anheuser "Gussie" Busch Jr. born on 3-28-1899 in Saint Louis, Missouri expired 9-29-1989 in Saint Louis County, Missouri age 90 cause: pneumonia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| silent film star Mae Busch born on 1-20-1897 in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia expired 4-19-1946 in Woodland Hills, California age 49 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| presidential mom Dorothy Walker Bush born on 7-1-1901 expired 11-19-1992 age 91 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| former Connecticut senator (1952-62) Prescott Sheldon Bush Sr. Dorothy's husband; father of former president George Bush & grandfather of Dubyuh born on 5-15-1895 in Columbus, Ohio expired 10-8-1972 in New York, New York age 77 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Prescott Sheldon Bush Jr. brother of George Herbert Walker Bush born on 8-10-1922 in Portland, Maine, United State of America expired 6-23-2010 in Hingham, Massachusetts age 87
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| Robin Bush daughter/sister of future presidents born on --1950 expired ??-??-1953 age 3 cause: leukemia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| founder of the National Defense Research Committee Vannevar Bush in a 1945 Atlantic Monthly article titled As We Think he described a device called a memex (sort of like a personal web server), a foreshadowing of hypertext/ born on 3-11-1890 in Everett, Massachusetts expired 6-28-1974 in Belmont, Massachusetts age 84 cause: pneumonia; complications from stroke | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| murder victim Wendy R. Bush last seen outside of MSU dormitory (Case Hall) born on --1957 in Saint Louis, Michigan expired 6-??-1979 in Michigan age 22 cause: murdered | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| silent screen actor Francis Xavier Bushman born on 1-10-1883 in Baltimore, Maryland expired 8-23-1966 in Pacific Palisades, California age 83 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Nancy cartoonist Ernest Paul "Ernie" Bushmiller Jr. received the 1976 Reuben Awardborn on 8-23-1905 in the Bronx, New York, New York expired 8-15-1982 in Stamford, Connecticut age 76 cause: heart attack; Parkinson's disease
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| inventor David Bushnell during the Revolutionary War created The Turtle, and early submarine; moved to Georgia and became a professor under the name "David Bush" born on --1740 in West Saybrook, Connecticut expired ??-??-1826 in Georgia age 86 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| binocular seller David Pearsall Bushnell founded Bushnell Optical Corp.; a distant relative of the Revolutionary War submarine maker born on 3-31-1913 in Saint Paul, Minnesota expired 3-24-2005 in Laguna Beach, California age 91 cause: non-Hodgkins lymphoma | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
super-geezer Anitica Butariuborn on 6-17-1882 expired 11-21-1997 age 115 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| musher Susan Howlet Butcher four-time winner of the Iditarod (1986, 1987, 1988, 1990) born on 12-26-1954 in Boston, Massachusetts expired 8-5-2006 in Seattle, Washington age 51 cause: leukemia
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Adolf Friedrich Johann Butenandt shared the 1939 Nobel chemistry prize born on 3-24-1903 in Bremerhaven-Wesermünde, Germany expired 1-18-1955 in München, Bavaria, Germany age 51 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| tenor saxophonist Samuel Butera born on 8-17-1927 in New Orleans, Louisiana expired 6-3-2009 in Las Vegas, Nevada age 81 cause: pneumonia; Alzheimer's disease AKS: Sam Butera | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Mary Butina survivor of Christmas Eve 1913 panic stampede that killed 74 mostly women & children in Calumet Michigan's Italian Hall born on 2-26-1905 expired 12-??-1983 in Braddock, Pennsylvania age 78 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Charles Dawson "Daws" Butler voice of Yogi Bear, Huckleberry Hound, Quick Draw McGraw, Elroy Jetson, Captain Crunch, ... born on 11-16-1916 in Toledo, Ohio expired 5-18-1988 in Beverly Hills, California age 71 cause: heart attack; pneumonia; stroke | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| physicist Clifford Charles Butler co-discovered the K-meson (kaon) (1946/7) born on 5-20-1922 expired 6-30-1999 age 77 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| movie director David W. Butler directed futuristic Just Imagine (1930), The Littlest Rebel (1935), Captain January (1936), White Fang (1936), The Little Colonel (1936), Kentucky (1938) & The Road to Morocco (1942) & Camp Runamuck tv episodes (1965) born on 12-17-1894 in San Francisco, California expired 6-14-1979 in Arcadia, California age 84 cause: heart failure | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| radio pioneer Frank E. Butler co-inventor, with Lee DeForest, of the Audion tube expired 1-6-1948 in Toledo, Ohio age 70 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| San Diego Chargers general manager John Butler former G.M. of Buffalo Bills (1993-2000) born on 8-13-1946 in Chicago, Illinois expired 4-11-2003 in San Diego, California age 56 cause: lymphoma; lung cancer
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| Tenessee state senator John Washington Butler clerk of the Round Lick Association of Primitive Baptists; wrote anti-evolution law in early 1925 that was the basis for the "Monkey Trial" expired 9-24-1952 in Lafayette, Tennessee age 76 cause: complications from injuries sustained in fall | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
frustrated baby-changer Marion O'Brien Donovan Butler invented the disposable diaper (1946)born on 10-15-1917 in South Bend, Indiana expired 11-4-1998 in New York, New York age 81 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Columbia University president Nicholas Murray Butler was the losing Republican 1912 vice-presidential candidate; shared the 1931 Nobel peace prize born on 4-2-1862 in Elizabeth, New Jersey expired 12-7-1947 in New York, New York age 85 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| science fiction author Octavia Estelle Butler recipient of two Hugo Awards, two Nebula Awards & a 1995 MacArthur Foundation grant born on 6-22-1947 in Pasadena, California expired 2-24-2006 in Lake Forest Park, Washington age 58 cause: complications from fall; hypertension | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| former aerospace engineer Richard Girnt Butler founder of the Aryan Nations neo-Nazi sect born on 2-23-1918 in Bennett, Colorado expired 9-8-2004 in Hayden, Idaho age 86 cause: congestive heart failure
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| writer/satirist Samuel Butler author of The Way of All Flesh (posthumously; 1903) which contained the famous statement It is better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all & a collection of his writings Notebooks (published in 1912) born on 12-4-1835 in Langar, Nottinghamshire, England expired 6-18-1902 in London, England age 66 cause: consumption | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| jazz guitarist William "Billy" Butler born on 12-15-1924 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania expired 3-20-1991 age 66 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| actor Merritt Butrick played Jim Kirk's son David Marcus in two Star Trek movies born on 9-3-1959 in Gainesville, Florida expired 3-12-1989 in Los Angeles, California age 29 cause: brain cancer; AIDS AKS: Merrit Meritt Merit Buttrick | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Jack Butt inventor of automobile luggage rack expired ??-??-19?? age | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
actor Red Buttons was the act on stage when the NYPD raided (and closed) the last Minsky burlesque house; won 1957 Best Supporting Actor oscar for Sayonara; had novelty hit with The Ho Ho Song (not about Hostess cake rolls)
expired 7-13-2006 in Los Angeles, California age 87 cause: vascular disease
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| Gene Autry sidekick & close personal friend of Arnold Ziffel, actor Maxwell Emmett "Pat" Buttram played Eustace Haney on Green Acres born on 6-19-1915 in Addison, Alabama expired 1-8-1994 in Los Angeles, California age 78 cause: kidney failure | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| architect Alfred Mosher Butts inventor of Scrabble born on 4-13-1899 in Poughkeepsie, New York expired 4-4-1993 in Rhinebeck, New York age 93 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| seamstress Evelyn T. Butts early 1960's challenger to poll tax; won in Supreme Court born on 5-22-1924 expired 3-11-1993 age 68 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| former University of Gerogia football coach (1939-60) James Wallace "Wally Butts born on 2-7-1905 in Milledgeville, Georgia expired 12-17-1973 in Athens, Georgia age 68 cause: heart attack while jogging | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nixon Agriculture Secretary Earl Lauer Butz got sacked for telling "offensive" jokes born on 7-3-1909 in Albion, Indiana expired 2-2-2008 in Washington, District of Columbia age 98
AKS: Buttz Buts Butts | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| physicist & Vietnamese Prince Buu Hoi did cancer research; cousin of Bao Dai expired 1-28-1972 in Paris, Île-de-France, France age 55 cause: cancer | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| smokable cocaine expert Dr. Robert Byck did research on the chemical effects of THC, freebased coca paste & MSG on the human body born on 4-26-1933 in Newark, New Jersey expired 8-9-1999 in Boston, Massachusetts age 66 cause: stroke | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
barn painter Clark Byers traveled the countryside painting SEE ROCK CITY on the side of barns (1937-67)born on 1-25-1915 in Flat Rock, Alabama expired 2-17-2004 in Trenton, Georgia age 89 cause: complications following heart attack | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| actress Spring Byington born on 10-17-1893 in Colorado Springs, Colorado expired 9-7-1971 in Hollywood, California age 77 cause: cancer | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| jazz guitarist Charlie Byrd born on 9-16-1925 in Chuckatuck, Virginia expired 12-1-1999 in Annapolis, Maryland age 74 cause: cancer | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| jazz bassist Gene Herbert "Joe" Byrd performed with his brother Charlie born on 5-21-1933 in Chuckatuck, Suffolk County, Virginia expired 3-6-2012 in Edgewater, Maryland age 78 cause: car crash | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| aviator, polar explorer, Rear Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd first to fly over the North Pole (with Floyd Bennett) on 5/9/1926 born on 10-25-1888 in Winchester, Virginia expired 3-11-1957 in Boston, Massachusetts age 68 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
West Virginia senator (1959-2010) Robert Carlyle Byrd was proclaimed a KKK "Exalted Cyclops" (perhaps for his masterful manipulation of the wriggling one-eyed trouser trout)
expired 6-28-2010 in Fairfax, Virginia age 92
AKS: Bird Berd Burd | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| former U-D Mercy & Northwestern U college basketball coach Ricky A. Byrdsong born on 6-24-1956 expired 7-2-1999 in Skokie, Illinois age 43 cause: shot to death in drive-by shooting AKS: Birdsong | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Federal district judge William Matthew Byrne Jr. presided over the Pentagon Papers trial of Ellsberg & Russo born on 9-3-1930 in Los Angeles, California expired 1-12-2006 in Los Angeles, California age 75 cause: pulmonary fibrosis | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
actress Kathleen Elizabeth Byron starred in Black Narcissus as Sister Ruth (1947) & played Private Ryan's mother in Saving Private Ryan (1998)
expired 1-18-2009 age 88 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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