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actor Bruce Cabot played Jack Driscoll, First Officer of The Venture & Fay Wray's human love interest in King Kong (1931); played Burt Saxby in Diamonds Are Forever (1971)
expired 5-3-1972 in Woodland Hills, California age 68 cause: lung cancer | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
product designer Petra Cabot her most famous design: the Skotch Kooler (1952)
expired 10-13-2006 in Woodstock, New York age 99 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| rotund actor Sebastian Cabot played the crime solving musicologist Mr. French on Family Affair tv series born on 7-6-1918 in London, England expired 8-23-1977 in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada age 59 cause: stroke | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Brazilian poet João Cabral de Melo Neto born on 1-9-1920 in Recife, Brazil expired 10-9-1999 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil age 79 cause: "a long illness" | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
songwriter Carlos Cachaça popularized the samba; founded the Mangueira Samba School and Recreation Society in 1928; wrote Dawn, Clothide and I Don't Want to Love Anyone
expired 8-16-1999 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil age 97 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Tornadoes founder Alan Caddy had hit with Telstar (1962) born on 2-2-1940 in London, England expired 8-16-2000 in London, England age 60 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| retired University of Florida professor of medicine & physiology Dr. James Robert Cade a nephrologist who led the team that developed Gatorade (1965) born on 9-26-1927 in San Antonio, Texas expired 11-27-2007 in Gainesville, Florida age 80 cause: kidney failure | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| artist Paul Cadmus born on 12-17-1904 expired 12-12-1999 in Weston, Connecticut age 94 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Pulitzer-prize winning San Francisco Chronicle columnist Herbert Eugene Caen coined term "beatnik" as a pun on "sputnik" in an April 2nd, 1958 column born on 4-3-1916 in Sacramento, California expired 2-1-1997 in San Francisco, California age 80 cause: lung cancer | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| lyricist Irving Caesar wrote words to Tea for Two & Swanee; collaborated with George Gershwin, Oscar Levant and Victor Herbert born on 7-4-1895 in New York, New York expired 12-17-1996 in New York, New York age 101 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Roman dictator (49 to 44 BC) Julius Caesar reformed the Roman Calendar: the month of Quintilis was renamed Julius (July) by the Senate in 46 BC; member of the first ruling Triumvirate with Crassus and Pompey; assassinated by a group led by Brutus on the Ides of March --- "Et tu, Brute?"; adoptive "father" of Augustus (a ploy used regularly by the Roman monarchy to pass down the name, which eventually became a title in and of itself --- "Kaiser", "Czar" being examples) born on 7-12-100 BC in Rome, Italy expired 3-15-44 BC in Rome, Italy age 56 cause: stabbed to death | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| hapless auto company executive Eugene Anthony Cafiero headed Chrysler in early 1970s when it was about to crash and burn (replaced by Iacocca); then went on to be president of the DeLorean Motor Company (another crash and burn scenario) born on 6-13-1926 in New York, New York expired 12-8-2003 in Naples, Florida age 77 cause: pancreatic cancer | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| avante-gard "composer" John Milton Cage Jr. born on 9-5-1912 in Los Angeles, California expired 8-12-1992 age 79 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| actor James Francis Cagney Jr. won Best Actor oscar for playing George M. Cohan in Yankee Doodle Dandy born on 7-17-1899 in New York, New York expired 3-30-1986 age 86
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| IRA commander Joseph "Joe" Cahill an honory Sinn Fein vice president born on 5-19-1920 in Belfast, Northern Ireland expired 7-23-2004 in Belfast, Northern Ireland age 84 cause: aesbestosis | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| first Miss America Margaret Gorman Cahill Washington D.C. teenager; won title on the beach when contest was known as the Inter-City Beauty Contest born on 8-18-1905 in Washington, District of Columbia expired 10-15-1995 in Washington, District of Columbia age 90 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
lyricist Sammy Cahn nominated 23 times for Best Song oscar; won 4 times for: Three Coins in the Fountain (1954; music by Jule Styne; movie: Three Coins in the Fountain); All The Way (1957; music by Jimmy Van Heusen; movie: The Joker is Wild); High Hopes (1959;
music by Jimmy Van Heusen; movie: Hole In the Head); and Call Me Irresponsible (1963; music by Jimmy Van Heusen; movie: Papa's Delicate Condition)
expired 1-15-1993 in Los Angeles, California age 79 cause: heart failure | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| former newspaperman D. Jamison Cain coined the term ZIP Code to describe the post office's Zonal Improvement Plan (1963) born on 1-1-1926 in Sumter, South Carolina expired 4-12-2010 in Arlington, Virginia age 84 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
newspaperman & author James Mallahan Cain wrote The Postman Always Rings Twice (1934), Double Indemnity (1936) & Mildred Pierce (1941)
expired 10-27-1977 in University Park, Maryland age 85 cause: heart attack | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| former Detroit Tiger pitcher Robert Max "Bob" Cain walked Eddie Gaedel (3'7" pinch-hitter) on 4 straight pitches in an August 19, 1951 double-header with the St.Louis Browns born on 10-16-1924 in Longford, Kansas expired 4-7-1997 in Cleveland, Ohio age 72 cause: cancer | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
actor Howard Caine played Gestapo Major Hochstedder on Hogan's Heroes (1967-71)
expired 12-28-1993 in North Hollywood, California age 67 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Andrea Doria ship captain Piero Calamai zigged when he should have zagged July 25, 1956 off Nantucket expired 4-9-1972 in Genoa, Italy age 75 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| artist Randolph Caldecott noted illustrator of children's books; namesake of Medal awarded annually since 1938 born on 3-22-1846 in Chester, CHeshire, England expired 2-12-1886 in Saint Augustine, Florida age 39 AKS: Randolf Caldecot | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| NASA astronaut Fernando "Frank" Caldeiro never made it into space born on 6-12-1958 in Buenos Aires, Argentina expired 10-3-2009 in Galveston, Texas age 51 cause: brain cancer | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| artist Alexander Calder inventor of the moving scupture "mobile" and outdoor "stabile" born on 7-22-1898 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania expired 11-11-1976 in New York, New York age 78 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Louisa James Calder widow of sculptor Alexander Calder born on 2-19-1905 expired 8-6-1996 age 91 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| former Venezuelan president Rafael Antonio Caldera born on --1916 in Yaracuy State, Venezuela expired 12-24-2009 in Caracas, Venezuela age 93 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dr. Mary Steichen Calderone promoter of human sexualityborn on 7-1-1904 in New York, New York expired 10-24-1998 in Longwood, Pennsylvania age 94 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| playwright Erskine Preston Caldwell wrote Tobacco Road (1932) & God's Little Acre (1933) born on 12-17-1903 in Moreland, Georgia expired 4-11-1987 in Paradise Valley, Arizona age 83
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| attorney James Hamilton Caldwell Jr. a member of the team that prosecuted J.W. Milam & Roy Bryant for the murder of Emmett Till in 1955 born on --1898 expired ??-??-1962 age 64 cause: drowned | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
author Janet Miriam Taylor Holland Caldwell wrote Testimony of Two Men (1968) & Captains and the Kings (1972)
expired 8-30-1985 in Greenwich, Connecticut age 84
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| opera orchestra conductor Sarah Caldwell born on 3-6-1924 in Maryville, Missouri expired 3-23-2006 in Portland, Maine age 82 cause: heart failure
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| Swingin' Medallion singer/saxophonist Steve Caldwell performed on band's big hit Double Shot (of my baby's love) born on 11-22-1947 expired 1-28-2002 in Atlanta, Georgia age 54 cause: pancreatic cancer | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| singer Toy T. Caldwell Jr. with the Marshall Tucker band born on 11-13-1947 expired 2-25-1993 age 45 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
actor Louis Calhern played Ambassador Trentino in Duck Soup (1933)
expired 5-12-1956 in Nara, Japan age 60 cause: heart attack | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Monroe Secretary of War (1817-25), J.Q. Adams vice president (1825-29) and Jackson vice president (1829-32) John Caldwell Calhoun born on 3-18-1782 in Calhoun Mills, South Carolina expired 3-31-1850 in Washington, District of Columbia age 68 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
cowboy actor Rory Calhoun starred in The Texan tv series (1598-60); a friend of A.C. Lyles and DeForest Kelley
expired 4-28-1999 in Burbank, California age 76 cause: emphysema & diabetes | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
"rotund former pro wrassler William "Bill" Calhoun
expired 12-7-1989 age 56 cause: complications from diabetes | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| former Pittsburgh mayor (1977-88) Richard S. Caliguiri born on 10-20-1931 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania expired 5-6-1988 age 56 AKS: Caliguri | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
third Roman Emperor Caligula son of Germanicus, nephew of Claudius, great nephew of Tiberius; the name Caligula means "little boot"; adopted as heir by Tiberius as a joke; an absolute monster ... killed his father, committed incest with his sisters, and more...; assassinated by disgusted senators and army officers
expired 1-24-41 in Rome, Italy age 28 cause: assassinated | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
writer Hortense Calisher
expired 1-13-2009 in Manhattan, New York, New York age 97 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Richard W. "Dick" Calkins started out as a cartoonist for The Detroit Free Press, then was a World War I aviator; afterwards he was an editorial cartoonist for the Chicago American (1919-29) until he co-created the Buck Rogers in the 25th Century daily comic strip (1929) based upon Philip Nowlan's character (1929-47); coined word Zap in strip (1929); wrote Red Ryder comics stories (1950s) born on --1895 in Grand Rapids, Michigan expired 5-12-1962 in Tucson, Arizona age 67 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
former British prime minister (1976-79) Leonard James Callaghan only person to have heald all four high state positions: Prime Minister, Chancellor of the Exchequer, Home Secretary and Foreign Secretary
expired 3-26-2005 in East Sussex, England age 92
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Alabama death row inmate James Harvey Callahan
expired 1-15-2009 in Atmore, Alabama age 62 cause: executed; lethal injection
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| kangaroo court judge William Washington Callahan presiding judge at third Scottsboro trial born on 6-30-1863 in Lawrence County, Alabama expired ??-??-19?? age ?? | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
soprano Maria Callas one-time mistress of Aristotle Onassis
expired 9-16-1977 in Paris, France age 53 cause: heart attack | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| golf equipment manufacturer Ely Reeves Callaway creator of the Big Bertha club (1991) born on 6-3-1919 in LaGrange, Georgia expired 7-5-2001 in Rancho Santa Fe, California age 82 cause: pancreatic cancer | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Flirtations member Michael L. Callen born on 4-11-1955 in Rising Sun, Indiana expired 12-27-1993 in New York, New York age 38 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| jazz bass player George S. "Red" Callender born on 3-6-1916 expired 3-8-1992 age 76 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| pie company namesake Marie A. Callender got started making pies; the pie shop grew into the Marie callender chain (1964) born on 3-26-1907 in Hopkins, Hennepin County, South Dakota expired 11-11-1995 in Laguna Hills, California age 88 cause: cancer | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| "reefer man" bandleader Cabell Calloway III born on 12-25-1907 in Rochester, New York expired 11-11-1994 age 86
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| tv actor Northern J. Calloway played David (proprietor of Mr. Hooper's store) on Sesame Street (1972-89) born on --1948 in New York, New York expired 1-9-1990 in North Tarrytown, New York age 41 cause: stomach cancer | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| journalist & author June Callwood born on 6-2-1924 in Belle River, Ontario, Canada expired 4-14-2007 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada age 82 cause: cancer
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| Guinness Book record geezer Jeanne Louise Calment van Gogh bought canvas at her father's shop in Arles in 1888 born on 2-21-1875 in Arles, France expired 8-4-1997 in Arles, France age 122 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| roller-derby "bad girl" Ann Theresa Calvello skated from the 1940s to the early 2000s born on 8-1-1929 in Newport, Rhode Island expired 3-13-2006 in San Bruno, California age 76 cause: liver cancer | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
actress Corinne Calvet
expired 6-23-2001 in Los Angeles, California age 76 cause: cerebral hemorrhage | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
theologian John Calvin
expired 5-27-1564 in Geneva, Switzerland age 54 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dr. Melvin Calvin was the 1961 Nobel chemistry laureateborn on 4-8-1911 in Saint Paul, Minnesota expired 1-8-1997 in Berkeley, California age 85 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| comedian Godfrey MacArthur Cambridge spent early years in Sydney, Nova Scotia; played Detective Gravedigger Jones in Cotton Comes to Harlem (1970); on set playing Idi Amin in Victory at Entebbe when stricken; replaced by Julius Harris born on 2-26-1933 in New York, New York expired 11-29-1976 in Burbank, California age 43 cause: heart attack | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| America's Black Holocaust Museum founder (1988) James Cameron on August 6, 1930 participated in a robbery that eventually led to murder; the next day was hauled out of the Marion Indiana jail and dragged to the county courthouse square where his co-horts had already been lynched; wasn't lynched but did do 4 years in prison for his participation in the inital robbery; he eventually was cleared of involvement in the murder & was pardoned born on 2-23-1914 in La Crosse, Wisconsin expired 6-11-2006 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin age 92 cause: complications from lymphoma
AKS: LaCrosse La Cross LaCross | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| former CBC news anchorman W. Earl Cameron hosted The National (1959-66); succeeded by Stanley Burke; his stiff delivery was parodied on SCTV by Eugene Levy's character Earl Camembert born on 6-12-1915 in Moose Jaw, Saskachewan, Canada expired 1-13-2005 in Barrie, Ontario, Canada age 89 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
computing pioneer David Caminer helped to develop the L.E.O. computer (Lyons Electronic Office) for the J. Lyons & COmpany tea shops to do inventory control, payroll, etc. — the world's first business computer (1951)
expired 6-19-2008 in London, England age 92 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| former baseball 3rd baseman Kenneth Gene Caminiti a drug & steroid abuser born on 4-21-1963 in Hanford, California expired 10-10-2004 in New York, New York age 41 cause: drug overdose
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folk singer/song writer & comedic character actor Hamilton Camp Sr. appeared on two tv shows that were cancelled by the network during their first showing (Turn-On; 1969 & Co-Ed Fever; 1979); provided the voice for a bunch of Smurfs; appeared in Heaven Can Wait (1978), S.O.B. (1981) & Eating Raoul (1982)
expired 10-2-2005 in Hancock Park, California age 70 cause: heart attack; injuries suffered in fall | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| character actor Frank Campanella born on 3-12-1919 in New York, New York expired 12-30-2006 in San Fernando Valley, California age 87 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| former Dodger player Roy Campanella born on 11-19-1921 in Homestead, Pennsylvania expired 6-26-1993 age 71 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| former L.A. Dodger executive Al Campanis born on 11-2-1916 expired 6-21-1998 in Fullerton, California age 81 cause: coronary artery disease | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| (probably) last surviving ANZAC Gallipoli veteran Alec William Campbell also an accomplished sailor born on 2-26-1899 in Launceston, Australia expired 5-16-2002 in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia age 103 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| former Standard Oil New York (Esso)/Exxon chemical engineer Donald Lewis Campbell co-developer of the process of fluid catalytic cracking of large hydrocarbon molecules (1942); shared patents with Homer Z. Martin, Eger V. Murphree & Charles W. Tyson born on 8-5-1904 in Clinton, Iowa expired 9-14-2002 in Brick, New Jersey age 98 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| former Detroit Tigers general manager James A. "Jim" Campbell born on 2-5-1924 expired 10-31-1995 age 71 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Consumers Power Co president James H. Campbell had the Big Rock Point nuclear plant built near Charlevoix (1963) born on 10-18-1910 in Jackson, Michigan expired 1-24-1972 in Jackson, Michigan age 61 cause: heart attack | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
blues singer/guitarist James Milton Campbell
expired 8-4-2005 in Memphis, Tennessee age 70 cause: complications from stroke | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| sci-fi magazine editor (1938-his death) John Wood Campbell Jr. started as editor at Astounding Stories of Super Science; change the magazine's name to Astounding Science Fiction, then, in the 1960s, changed the name again to Analog Science Fiction and Fact; his short story Who Goes There? was the basis for The Thing From Another World (1951) born on 6-8-1910 in Newark, New Jersey expired 7-11-1971 in Mountainside, New Jersey age 61 cause: heart aliment | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| novelist & tv writer Robert Wright Campbell popularized term "La-La Land" for southern California in book In La-La Land We Trust (1986); won 1987 Edgar Allan Poe Award for Junkyard Dog born on 6-9-1927 expired 9-21-2000 in Carmel, California age 73 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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French novelist Albert Camus won 1957 Nobel Prize for literature born on 11-7-1913 in Mondovi, Algeria expired 1-4-1960 in Villeneuve-la-Guyard, France age 46 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| director Marcel Camus directed Orfeu Negro (Black Orpheus; 1959); won 1960 oscar for Best Foreign Language film born on 4-21-1912 in Chappes, France expired 1-13-1982 in Paris, Île-de-France, France age 69 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Tejano singer Laura Canales born on 8-19-1954 in Kingsville, Texas expired 4-16-2005 in Corpus Christi, Texas age 50 cause: pneumonia; gallbladder surgery | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| General Wilhelm Canaris leader of 1944 plot to assassinate Hitler born on 1-1-1887 in Aplerbeck, Germany expired 4-9-1944 in Flossenberg, Germany age 57 cause: hanged | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| self-important blowhard Vincent Canby past drama & movie "critic" for the New York Times born on 7-27-1924 in Chicago, Illinois expired 10-15-2000 in New York, New York age 76 cause: cancer | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| writer Helen Churchill Candee survived the Titanic sinking expired 8-23-1949 in New York Harbor, Maine age 90 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| former Tonight Show band trumpeter (1972-92) Secondo "Conti" Candoli brother of Pete Candoli born on 7-12-1927 in Mishawaka, Indiana expired 12-14-2001 in Palm Desert, California age 74 cause: cancer AKS: Conte | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| jazz trumpeter Walter Joseph "Pete" Candoli brother of Conti Candoli born on 6-28-1923 in Mishawaka, Indiana expired 1-11-2008 in Studio City, California age 84 cause: prostate cancer AKS: Conte | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
rotund actor John Candy former SCTV funnymanborn on 10-31-1950 expired 3-4-1994 age 43 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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author Elias Canetti 1981 Nobel laureate in literature born on 7-25-1905 in Rustschuck, Bulgaria expired 8-14-1994 in Zürich, Switzerland age 89 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| retired UofM athletic director (1968-88) Donald B. Canham had been the UofM track coach from 1948 to 1968 born on 4-27-1918 in Oak Park, Illinois expired 5-3-2005 in Ann Arbor, Michigan age 87 cause: ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysm AKS: Don | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
cartoonist Milton Arthur Paul Caniff created Dickie Dare (1933), Terry & the Pirates (drew it 1934-46) & Steve Canyon (1946-87); two-time Reuben Award winner (1946 & 1971)born on 2-28-1907 in Hillsboro, Ohio expired 5-3-1988 in New York, New York age 81 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Texas death row inmate Rogelio Reyes Cannady murdered his former cellmate (duh, did he think nobody would connect him with the crime, what with the two of them being locked into the same small area???)
expired 5-19-2010 in Huntsville, Texas age 37 cause: executed; lethal injection
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| former Nevada senator (1959-82) Howard Walter Cannon born on 1-26-1912 in Saint George, Utah expired 3-5-2002 in Las Vegas, Nevada age 90 cause: congestive heart failure | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Trotskyite jailed for violating Smith Act James P. Cannon co-founder of U.S. Communist Party (1919); expelled (1928); co-founder of Socialist Workers Party (1938) born on 2-11-1890 in Rosedale, Kansas expired 8-21-1974 in Los Angeles, California age 84 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
 
Playboy October 1961 Playmate of Month Jean M. Cannon
expired 11-17-2005 in Pembroke Pines, Florida age 64 cause: cancer | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| actor John Donovan Cannon played Peter B. Clifford on the McCloud tv show born on 4-24-1922 in Salmon, Idaho expired 5-20-2005 in Hudson, New York age 83 AKS: JD J. D. J.D. Canon | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Grand Ole Opry star Sarah Ophelia Cannon
expired 3-4-1996 in Nashville, Tennessee age 83 cause: stroke | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| McDonald's chairman James Richard Cantalupo born on 11-14-1943 in Oak Park, Illinois expired 4-19-2004 in Orlando, California age 60 cause: heart attack | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
comic actor Cantinflas played the manservant PAssapartoutin Around the World in 80 Days
expired 4-20-1993 age 81 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Broadway producer Arthur Cantor produced A Thousand Clowns (1962) born on 3-12-1920 in Boston, Massachusetts expired 4-8-2001 in New York, New York age 81 cause: heart attack | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
vaudeville comedian Eddie Cantor early in career worked mostly in black-face; a co-
expired 10-10-1964 in Hollywood, California age 72 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
English King (1016-1035) Canute son of Danish king Sweyn Forkbeard; first of the Danish kings of England
expired 11-12-1035 in Shaftesbury, Dorset, England age 40 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| early movie cowboy & stuntman Enos Edward "Yakima" Canutt second unit director for the chariot race scene in Ben Hur (1959); awarded special oscar in 1966 for creating the profession of stuntman born on 11-29-1895 in Colfax, Washington expired 5-24-1986 in Los Angeles, California age 90 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| rabid red-bating idealogue Canwell F. Canwell as a one-term Washington state rep. (1947-48) needlessly ruined numerous lives and reputations born on 1-11-1907 expired 4-1-2002 in Spokane, Washington age 95 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| former Indian Senator (1945-62) Homer Earl Capehart in 1927 founded Capehart Automatic Phonograph Company of America (later merged with Farnsworth Television and Radio); in 1932 founded Packard Manufacturing Corp. to make phonograph records born on 6-6-1897 in Algiers, Indiana expired 9-3-1979 in Indianapolis, Indiana age 82 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| author/playwright Karel Capek wrote 1920 play R.U.R. ("Rossum's Universal Robots") that introduced the term robot (his brother Joseph actually coined the term) born on 1-9-1890 in Malé Svatonovice, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary expired 12-24-1938 in Prague, Czechoslovakia age 48 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
son of Scarface Albert Francis "Sonny" Capone was a Miami restauranteur for many years; copped a plea to misdemeanor shoplifting (1965)
expired 7-8-2004 in Cool, El Dorado County, California age 89
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Chicago mobster Alphonse Capone
expired 1-25-1947 in Miami Beach, Florida age 48 cause: heart failure; paresis; syphilis | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Chicago gangster Ralph Capone Al's brother born on 1-12-1894 expired 11-22-1974 in Hurley, Wisconsin age 80 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
author Truman Streckfus Capote wrote In Cold Blood and Breakfast at Tiffany's
expired 8-25-1984 in Los Angeles, California age 59 cause: multiple drug intoxications; liver disease; phlebitis
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| super-geezer Maria Esther de Capovilla had been identified by the Guinness Book as the worlds ("documented") oldest person born on 9-14-1889 in Guayaquill, Ecuador expired 8-27-2006 in Guayaquill, Ecuador age 116 cause: pneumonia
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cartoonist Al Capp created/drew the L'il Abner strip (1934-77); received the 1947 Reuben Award
expired 11-5-1979 in South Hampton, New Hampshire age 70 cause: emphysema | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Catholic Church leader (1831-1846) Bartolomeo Alberto Cappellari elected 255th Pope of the Roman Catholic Church 1831
expired 6-9-1846 in Rome, Italy age 80 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| director Frank Capra directed It Happened One Night (1934;oscar), Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936;oscar), Lost Horizon (1937), You Can't Take it With You (1938;oscar), Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939), Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) & Its A Wonderful Life
(1946) born on 5-18-1897 in Palermo, Sicily, Italy expired 9-3-1991 age 94
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| actress Capucine born on 1-6-1923 in Toulon, France expired 3-17-1990 age 67 cause: suicide; jump from 8th floor window | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Italian movie actress Flora Carabella widow of Marcello Mastroianni born on 2-15-1926 in Rome, Italy expired 4-19-1999 in Rome, Italy age 73 cause: bone cancer | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Catholic Church leader (1555-1559) Giovanni Pietro Caraffa elected 224th Pope of the Roman Catholic Church May 23, 1555
expired 8-18-1559 in Rome, Italy age 83 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| troubled fashion model Gia Marie Carangi born on 1-29-1960 expired 11-18-1986 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania age 26 cause: AIDS | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 5-time U.S. billiards champion James "Jimmy" Caras won in 1936, 1938, 1939, 1949 & 1967 born on 12-17-1908 in Scranton, Pennsylvania expired 12-3-2002 in Jacksonville, Florida age 93 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| former ASPCA president (1991-99) Roger A. Caras born on 5-24-1928 in Methuen, Massachusetts expired 2-18-2001 in Towson, Maryland age 72 cause: complications from heart attack | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Cubs announce Harry Caray
expired 2-18-1998 in Rancho Mirage, California age 78 cause: cardiac arrest | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Cardinal John Joseph Carberry born on 7-31-1904 in New York, New York expired 6-17-1998 in Kirkwood, Missouri age 93 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| film preservationist James G. Card founded the Department of Film at the George Eastman House of Photography (1948); co-founder of the Telluride Film Festival (1974) born on 10-25-1915 in Shaker Heights, Ohio expired 1-16-2000 in Syracuse, New York age 84 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| former Mexican president (1934-40) Gen. Lázaro Cárdenas nationalized Mexican oil industry (forming PEMEX) born on 5-21-1895 in Jiquilpan, Michoacan, Mexico expired 10-19-1970 in Mexico City, Mexico age 75 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
cinematographer & director Jack Cardiff received honorary oscar for photographing many movies, including The Red Shoes (1948), The African Queen (1951), Fanny (1961) & Conan the Destroyer (1984); directed Smell-O-Vision opus Scent of
Mystery (1960)
expired 4-22-2009 in Ely, England age 94
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| Dr. José Miró Cardona Castro's first Premier for 3 months in 1959; broke with Castro in 1961 & defected to U.S. expired 8-10-1974 in San Juan, Commonwealth of Puerto Rico age 71 cause: heart attack | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| former newspaper editor William Joseph "Bill" Cardoso went independent, wirting for a variety of publications; it was on one of his assignments that he met Hunter S. Thompson; he later coined a term when he described Thompson's writing style as "gonzo"; author of "The Maltese Sangweech and other Heroes" born on 9-24-1937 in Boston, Massachusetts expired 2-26-2006 in Kelseyville, California age 68 cause: heart failure; pneumonia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| World War II Brazilian Field Marshall Waldemar Levy Cardozo born on 12-4-1900 in Rio de Janiero, Brazil expired 5-13-2009 in Rio de Janiero, Brazil age 108
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author Giosuè Alessandro Guiseppe Carducci was the 1906 Nobel prize winner for literature born on 7-27-1835 in Val di Castello, Italy expired 2-16-1907 in Bologna, Italy age 71 AKS: Giosue | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Michelle Carew Rod's daughter expired 4-16-1996 age 18 cause: cardiac failure; acute non-lymphocytic leukemia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| actor Edward Macdonald Carey born on 3-15-1913 in Sioux City, Iowa expired 3-21-1994 age 81 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| "cheap" child Ernestine Gilbreth Carey co-wrote Cheaper By The Dozen about growing up in a brood of 12 (1948) born on 4-4-1908 expired 11-4-2006 in Fresno, California age 98
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character actor Harry Carey Sr.
expired 9-21-1947 in Brentwood, California age 69 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hall-of-Fame Pittsburg outfielder Max Carey held record for stolen bases for many years
expired 5-30-1976 in Miami Beach, Florida age 85 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
actor Philip Carey appeared on One Life to Live as Asa Buchanan
expired 2-6-2009 in New York, New York age 83 cause: lung cancer
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character actor Ron Carey played Officer Levitt on the Barney Miller sitcom
expired 1-16-2007 in Los Angeles, California age 71 cause: stroke | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| former UPS driver Ronald Robert Carey got himself elected as president of the teamsters union, then turned into Sgt. Schultz (saw nothing, heard nothing when aides ran amok); had his re-election bid overturned by the Feds born on 3-22-1936 in Manhattan, New York, New York expired 12-11-2008 in Queens, New York, New York age 72 cause: lung cancer | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| country singer Henson Cargill had 1968 hit with Skip a Rope born on 2-5-1941 in Oklahoma, City, Oklahoma expired 3-24-2007 in Oklahoma, City, Oklahoma age 66 cause: complications from surgery | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| character actor Leo Antonio Carillo played Pancho, the Cisco Kid's sidekick born on 8-6-1881 in Los Angeles, California expired 9-10-1961 in Santa Monica, California age 81 cause: cancer | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
noted 1960s Egyptian belly dancer Tahia Carioca married 14 times
expired 9-20-1999 in Cairo, Egypt age 79 cause: heart attack | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ad agency slogan writer Bogart Carlaw wrote Umm, Umm, Good for Campbells Soup & Lucky Strike Green has gone to war born on 3-28-1904 in Minneapolis, Minnesota expired 2-12-1979 in Mount Kisco, New York age 74 cause: pneumonia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
pianist & big band leader Frankie Carle co-wrote Sunrise Serenade
expired 3-7-2001 in Mesa, Arizona age 97 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| St. Louis "Gashouse Gang" pitcher James Otto "Tex" Carleton born on 9-18-1906 in Comanche, Texas expired 1-11-1977 in Fort Worth, Texas age 70 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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comedian George Denis Carlin the Supreme Court said he couldn't speak 7 dirty words on the radio or tv born on 5-12-1937 in New York, New York expired 6-22-2008 in Santa Monica, California age 71 cause: heart failure
AKS: Dennis | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| radio announcer Phillips Carlin original host of radio version of Queen for a Day born on 6-30-1894 expired 8-27-1971 in New York, New York age 77 cause: heart attack | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| game show producer Steven Roy Carlin executive producer of the $64,000 Question, $64,000 Challenge & the syndicated $128,000 Question (1976-78); developed Rootie Kazootie kiddie show (1950-54); wrote comic strip Happy the Humbug born on 2-27-1919 in New York, New York expired 2-4-2003 in New York, New York age 83 cause: pneumonia; complications from Alzheimer's disease | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| actor Thomas A. Carlin born on 12-10-1928 in Chicago, Illinois expired 5-6-1991 in New Rochelle, New York age 62 cause: heart failure | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| physicist Chester Floyd Carlson inventor of xerography back when the company he worked for was known as Haloid Corporation born on 2-8-1906 in Seattle, Washington expired 9-19-1968 in New York, New York age 62 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| TGIFriday founder Curtis LeRoy Carlson created the Gold Bond Stamp Co. (1938) born on 7-9-1914 in Minneapolis, Minnesota expired 2-19-1999 in Minnetonka, Minnesota age 84 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| actor Richard Carlson protagonist in Earth vs. the Flying Saucers (1956) and The Magnetic Monster born on 4-29-1912 in Albert Lea, Minnesota expired 11-25-1977 in Encino, California age 65 cause: complications from cerebral hemorrhage | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| lawyer Caleb Sidney Carlton part of Bryant & Milam's defense "dream team" at their trial for the murder of Emmett Till; past president of the Mississippi Bar Association (1962-63) born on 11-26-1915 in New Albany, Mississippi expired 6-??-1966 age 50 AKS: C Sidney Sydney Carleton Carltun | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| character actor Robert Richard Carlyle played Rezin Bowie in The Iron Mistress (1952) & Lt. Karl Jaeger in the original Star Trek series episode The Squire of Gothos (1967) born on 3-20-1914 in Saint Catherines, Ontario, Canada expired 11-15-2009 in Sherman Oaks, California age 95 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| "9-foot" 500 pound circus giant Eddie Carmel born on --1936 in Tel Aviv, Palestine expired 7-30-1972 in New York, New York age 36 cause: glandular disease | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| character actor Roger Charles Carmel voice of Smokey the Bear on tv; played Harcourt Fenton "Harry" Mudd on Star Trek born on 9-27-1932 in New York, New York expired 11-10-1986 in Hollywood, California age 54 cause: hypertrophic cardiomyopathy | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| song writer Hoagland Howard "Hoagy" Carmichael wrote Stardust (1927; with Michael Parish) & Georgia On My Mind (1930) born on 11-22-1899 in Bloomington, Indiana expired 12-27-1981 in Rancho Mirage, California age 82 cause: heart attack
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| original & best Lord Peter Wimsey actor Ian Gillett Carmichael also portrayed Bertie Wooster born on 6-18-1920 in Kensington-upon-Hull, Yorkshire, England expired 2-5-2010 in Esk Valley, North Yorkshire, England age 89 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Missouri governor (1993-2000) Melvin Eugene Carnahan died while campaigning for U.S. senate born on 2-11-1934 in Birch Tree, Missouri expired 10-16-2000 in Barnhart, Missouri age 66 cause: plane crash | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| French film director Marcel Albert Carné made Les Enfants du Paradis and Le Jour Se Leve born on 8-18-1909 in Paris, France expired 10-31-1996 in Clamart, France age 87 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| teacher of public speaking Dale Carnegie wrote How to Win Friends and Influence People (1936) born on 11-24-1888 in Maryville, Missouri expired 11-1-1955 in New York, New York age 66 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| heavyweight boxer (held title 1933-34), wrestler, circus performer Primo Carnera appeared in Mighty Joe Young (1949) and Hercules Unchained born on 10-25-1906 in Sequals, Italy (near Venice) expired 6-29-1967 in Sequals, Italy age 60 cause: cirrhosis of the liver | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Arthur William Matthew Carney played Ed Norton on The Honeymooners; has won 3 Emmys & an oscar (1974) for Harry and Tonto born on 11-4-1918 in Mount Vernon, New York expired 11-9-2003 in Chester, Connecticut age 85
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WOR radio kiddie show host (1928-47) Don Carney an apocryphal story has Don, thinking the microphone was dead at the end of a program, saying "that ought to told the little bastards" (it never happened - just another urban legend); ended career as a radio disc jocket at WKAT (Miami)
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| actor Morris Carnovsky born on 9-5-1897 in Saint Louis, Missouri expired 9-1-1992 age 94 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Enola Gay tail gunner & photographer George R. "Bob" Caron photographed the mushroom cloud rising after they nuked Hiroshima born on 10-31-1919 expired 6-3-1995 in Denver, Colorado age 75 cause: pneumonia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Broadway actress Constance Carpenter born on 4-19-1904 in Bath, Somerset, England expired 12-26-1992 in New York, New York age 88 cause: stroke | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| retired Lake Casitas (CA) ranger George J. Carpenter as a rookie MI Dept. of Public Safety officer participated in early relief efforts at the Bath, Michigan, Consolidated School bombing site born on 3-11-1906 expired 9-30-2002 in Oakview, California age 96 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
anorexic singer Karen Anne Carpenter
expired 2-4-1983 in Downey, California age 32 cause: complications from anorexia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
agent & movie producer Allan Carr produced Grease (1978) and Broadway & movie versions of La Cage aux Folles; agent for Ann-Margret, Peter Sellers, Marvin Hamlisch, Tony Curtis, Dyan Cannon, Joan Rivers; credited with "discovering" Mark Hamill, Michelle Pfeiffer and Steve Guttenberg; one of the creators of the original Playboy Penthouse Television series; produced the 1989 Academy Awards telecast, featuring "Snow White" singing Proud Mary with Rob Lowe (Disney sued)
expired 6-29-1999 in Beverly Hills, California age 62 cause: liver cancer | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Montgomery, Alabama parent Arlam Carr Sr. with wife successfully sued on behalf of son to have the Montgomery Public Schools desegregated born on 10-14-1909 expired 7-13-2005 in Montgomery, Alabama age 95 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Kiss drummer Eric Carr
expired 11-24-1991 in New York, New York age 41 cause: cancer | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| soul singer James Carr born on 6-13-1942 in Clarksdale, Mississippi expired 1-7-2001 in Memphis, Tennessee age 58 cause: cancer | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
civil rights defender Johnnie Rebecca Daniels Carr widow of Arlam Carr Sr.; with husband successfully sued the Montgomery, Alabama Public Schools on behalf of their son to force their desegregation (1964); first met Rosa Louise McCauley in the 1920s at Miss White's Industrial School for Girls; worked with her again starting in the 1930s at the local NAACP chapter; had
been the (second) president of the Montgomery Improvement Association until her death (this is the group that was founded to organize & manage the 1955/56 bus boycott; she took over from the founder in 1967)born on 1-26-1911 in Alabama expired 2-22-2008 in Montgomery, Alabama age 97 cause: complications from stroke
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| former Tennessee secretary of state (1941-44 & 45-77) Joseph Cordell Carr defendant in Baker v. Carr Supreme Court case (1962; one man-one vote case) born on 6-20-1907 in Cookeville, Tennessee expired 10-??-1981 in Nashville, Tennessee age 74 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Beat Generation "muse" Lucien Carr while a student at Columbia University knew Ginsberg & Burroughs and Kerouac as well as Neal Cassady; convicted of the 8-14-1944 Boy Scout knife murder of 33 year old David Kammerer but later pardoned (claiming self defense against Kammerer's violent homosexual attack); his post-slammer day job: an editor for the UPI born on 3-1-1925 in Saint Louis, Missouri expired 1-28-2005 in Washington, District of Columbia age 79 cause: bone cancer | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| actor Paul Carr played Lt. Lee Kelso in the second Star Trek pilot: Where No Man Has Gone Before (1966) born on 2-1-1934 in New Orleans, Louisiana expired 2-17-2006 in Valley Village, California age 72 cause: lung cancer | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Kung Fu actor David Carradine was the son of John Carradine; changed his name in the 1950s
expired 6-3-2009 in Bangkok, Thailand age 72 cause: auto-erotic asphyxiation; whacking-off in the closet
AKS: Caradine | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
actor John Carradine played Dracula in House of Frankenstein (1944); father of David & Keith
expired 11-27-1988 age 82
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1912 Nobel medicine laureate Alexis Carrel a staunch advocate of eugenics, proposing the use of gas chambers to rid humanity of "inferior stock" (a big hit with the up and coming Nazi elite); part of the collaborationist Vichy government born on 6-28-1873 in Sainte-Foy-les-Lyon, France expired 11-5-1944 in Paris, France age 71 cause: heart failure | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
entertainer Rudi Carrell got into serous trouble when he did a parody of Ayatollah Khomeini
expired 7-7-2006 in Bremen, Germany age 71 cause: lung cancer
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| movie production designer Edward Carrere shared oscar for Camelot (1967) born on 10-13-1906 in Mexico expired 12-19-1984 in Mission Viejo, California age | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| retired doctor Charles James Carrico a first- born on 4-13-1935 expired 7-25-2002 in Greenbank, Whidbey Island, Washington age 67 cause: colon cancer | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| inventor Willis Haviland Carrier credited with inventing air conditioning (1906) born on 11-26-1876 in Angola, New York expired 10-7-1950 in New York, New York age 73 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
former Lawson Products salesman Louis Leon Carrol read a story about Pat Nixon that said that her kid's would like a dog — he sent them one just after Labor Day 1952
expired 4-3-2006 in Highland Park, Illinois age 83 AKS: Lewis Carol | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| businessman/politician/revolutionary Charles Carroll of Carrollton at on time had been the richest man in "the colonies"; was the last living signer of the Declaration of Independence born on 9-19-1737 in Annapolis, Province of Maryland expired 11-14-1832 in Baltimore, Maryland age 95 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
voice actor Eddie Carroll uncle of Erika Eleniak; voiced Jiminy Cricket following the death of Cliff Edwards; did a one-man show about Jack Benny
expired 4-8-2010 in Woodland Hills, California age 76 cause: brain tumor | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| junkie, punk musician, poet James Dennis "Jim" Carroll wrote The Basketball Diaries (1978) born on 8-1-1950 in Manhattan, New York, New York expired 9-11-2009 in Manhattan, New York, New York age 60 cause: heart attack | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
comedienne Jean Carroll was a very popular performer in the 1940s & 1950s; widow of Buddy Howe
expired 1-1-2010 in White Plains, New York age 98 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| be-bop vocalist Joe Carroll born on 11-25-1915 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania expired 2-1-1981 in New York, New York age 65 cause: heart attack | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| actor John Carroll played lead in several Zorro movies born on 7-17-1906 in New Orleans, Louisiana expired 4-24-1979 in Hollywood, California age 72 cause: complications from leukemia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| actor Leo G. Carroll tv's Cosmo Topper; Alexander Waverly on The Man from UNCLE born on 10-18-1892 in Weedon, England expired 10-16-1972 in Hollywood, California age 79 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
author Lewis Carroll wrote Alice In Wonderland (1865), it's sequel Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There (1971) and The Jabberwocky; the original editions were illustrated by John Tenniel
expired 1-14-1898 in Guildford, Surrey, England age 65 cause: pneumonia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Munchkin fiddler Mickey Carroll he told Dorothy to "Follow the Yellow Brick Road" to Oz
expired 5-7-2009 in Crestwood, Missouri age 89
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| I Love Lucy writer Robert Gordon "Bob" Carroll Jr. born on 8-12-1918 in McKeesport, Pennsylvania expired 1-27-2007 in Los Angeles, California age 88 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| farmer/poet Hayden Carruth won the 1996 National Book Award for Poetry for his collection of works titled Scambled Eggs and Whiskey born on 8-3-1921 in Waterbury, Connecticut expired 9-29-2008 in Munnsville, New York age 87 cause: complications from strokes | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
tv director & game show creator William H. "Bill" Carruthers started in Detroit as director of WXYZ-born on 9-22-1930 in Detroit, Michigan expired 3-2-2003 in Burbank, California age 72 cause: landed on the Big Whammy; complications from stroke | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Johnny's dad Homer Carson born on 10-4-1899 expired 4-10-1983 age 83 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
former NBC Tonight Show host (1962-92) John William "Johnny" Carson hosted Earn Your Vacation (1954) & Who Do You Trust (1957-62) game shows; diagnosed with emphysema (2002)
expired 1-23-2005 in Los Angeles, California age 79 cause: respiratory arrest; emphysema
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| former Pittsburgh Steelers coach (1972-77) Leon H. "Bud" Carson constructed their "Steel Curtain" defense born on 4-28-1930 in Freeport, Pennsylvania expired 12-7-2005 in Sarasota, Florida age 75 cause: emphysema | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| biologist and author Rachel Louise Carson wrote The Silent Spring about the effects of DDT on the environment (1962) born on 5-27-1907 in Springdale, Pennsylvania expired 4-14-1964 in Silver Spring, Maryland age 56 cause: cancer | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Johnny's son Richard Wolcott Carson expired 6-21-1991 age 39 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| failed 1970 Nixon Supreme Court nominee George Harold Carswell born on 12-22-1919 in Irwinton, Georgia expired 7-31-1992 age 72 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Carter Family singer Anita Carter sister of June & Helen
expired 7-29-1999 in Goodlettsville, Tennessee age 66 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| jazz saxophonist Bennett Lester "Benny" Carter won 1963 Grammy for his arrangement of Busted for Ray Charles; wrote Cow Cow Boogie (1942; a hit for the Freddie Slack band & singer Ella Mae Morse); wrote bosa nova hit Only Trust Your Heart born on 8-8-1907 in New York, New York expired 7-12-2003 in Los Angeles, California age 95
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| presidential mom Bessie Lillian Gordy Carter born on 8-15-1898 in Richmond, Georgia expired 10-30-1983 age 85
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| jazz vocalist Betty Carter born on 3-8-1929 expired 9-26-1998 in New York, New York age 69 cause: pancreatic cancer | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| presidential brother Billy Carter born on 3-29-1937 in Plains, Georgia expired 9-25-1988 age 51 cause: cancer
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Designing Women actress Dixie Virginia Carter played julia Sugarbaker on Designing Women sitcom (1986-93)
expired 4-10-2010 in Beverly Hills, California age 70 cause: complications from endometrial cancer | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| theater organist Gaylord Beach Carter noted for scoring & accompanying silent movies on the giant Wurlitzer born on 8-3-1905 in Weisbaden, Germany expired 11-20-2000 in Long Beach, California age 95 cause: complications from strokes | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Carter Family singer Helen Carter sister of Anita & June born on 9-12-1927 in Maces Springs, Virginia expired 6-2-1998 in Nashville, Tennessee age 70 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Egyptologist Howard Carter co-discoverer of the tomb of King Tutankhamen in the Valley of Kings (1922) born on 5-9-1873 in Swaffham, Norfolk, England expired 3-2-1939 in London, England age 65 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
one-time chain gang laborer James Carter as an inmate at the Mississippi State Penitentary lead a group of prisoners in singing the work song Po' Lazarus for Alan Lomax (1959); the recording was included in the soundtrack of the movie O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000); the soundtrack CD went platinum & was named the Grammy Album of the Year
expired 11-26-2003 in Oak Park, Illinois age 77 cause: stroke | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| singer Jeanette Carter last surviving member of the Carter Family singers born on 7-2-1923 expired 1-22-2006 in Kingsport, Tennessee age 82 cause: complications from Parkinson's disease AKS: Janette | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Miniature Golf originator John Garnet Carter created Lookout Mountain tourist trap ROCK CITY born on 2-9-1883 in Sweetwater, Tennessee expired 7-21-1954 in Chattanooga, Tennessee age 71 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Shuttle STS-33 astronaut Manley Lanier "Sonny" Carter Jr. born on 8-15-1947 in Macon, Georgia expired 4-5-1991 age 43 cause: commercial plane crash | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| country music singer/guitarist Mother Maybelle Carter expired 10-23-1978 in Nashville, Tennessee age 69
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the singing fat lady Nell Carter starred on Gimme a Break! tv sitcom
expired 1-23-2003 in Beverly Hills, California age 54 cause: complications for diabetes | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Mississippi Delta Democrat-Times editor William Hodding Carter Jr. won 1945 Pulitzer Prize for editorial writing; father of Carter administration P.R. flack born on 2-3-1907 in Hammond, Louisiana expired 4-4-1972 in Greenville, Mississippi age 65 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Wiley Nash "John" Carthan father of Mamie Till; grandfather of murder victim Emmett Till born on 3-23-1902 in Mississippi expired 1-??-1969 in Argo, Illinois age 66 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| pulp sci-fi & horror artist Edward Daniel "Edd" Cartier was a World War II veteran who was wounded in the Battle of the Bulge; illustrated stories by L. Ron Hubbard, Isaac Asimov, Theodore Sturgeon & Robert Heinlein; worked on The Shadow (1936-41 & 1946-48); worked on such pulp publications as
Unknown, Astounding Science Fiction, Wild West Weekly, Movie Action & Detective Story Magazine born on 8-1-1914 in North Bergen, Hudson County, New Jersey expired 12-25-2008 in Ramsey, New Jersey age 94 cause: Parkinson's disease | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
photographer & sometime actor Henri Cartier-Bresson had bit parts in friend's movies — played Le Cuisinier in La Règle du Jeu (The Rules of the Game; 1939)born on 8-22-1908 in Chanteloup. Seine-et-Marne, France expired 8-2-2004 in l'Ile-sur-La Sorgue, Provence, France age 95
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| romance novelist Dame Barbara Hamilton Cartland born on 7-9-1901 in Warwickshire, England expired 5-21-2000 in Hatfield, Hertfordshire, England age 98 cause: "a short illness"
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| actress Katrin Cartlidge born on 5-15-1961 in London, England expired 9-7-2002 in London, England age 41 cause: complications from pneumonia; septicaemia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
character actress Lynn Cartwright played Venus Girl in The Queen of Outer Space (1958); appeared in A League of Their Own as the elder Dottie Hinson (1992)
expired 1-2-2004 in Los Angeles, California age 75 cause: complications for senile dementia; hip fracture AKS: Cartright | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| character actor Anthony L. Caruso played Bela Oxmyx on original Star Trek series episode A Piece of the Action born on 4-7-1916 in Frankfort, Indiana expired 4-4-2003 in Brentwood, California age 86 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Texas death row inmate Alexander Caruthers badly flunked the DNA test that would have proven his innocence
expired 1-29-2001 in Huntsville, Texas age 52 cause: executed; lethal injection
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| scientist George Washington Carver born on 1-5-1864 in Diamond, Missouri expired 1-5-1943 in Tuskegee, Alabama age 79 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Atlantic City Steel Pier performer (1924-42) Sonora Webster Carver first to ride diving horses; lost her sight in 1931 but continued to perform; her 1961 autobiography, A Girl and Five Brave Horses, inspired 1991 movie Wild Hearts Can't Be Broken; her sister, Arnette Webster French also performed in the diving horse show; a third performer/friend (Josephine K. DeAngelis) died two days before her born on 2-2-1904 expired 9-21-2003 in Pleasantville, New Jersey age 99 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
actor Christopher Cary played King Richard in The Sword and the Sorcerer (1982) & Merlin the magician on The Time Tunnel (1966)
expired 4-1-2000 in Hollywood, California age 69 cause: cancer | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| French pianist Gaby L'Hôte Casadesus widow of Robert born on 8-9-1901 in Marseilles, France expired 11-12-1999 in Paris, France age 98 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Jean Casadesus son of Robert & Gaby born on 7-7-1927 in Paris, France expired 1-20-1972 in Renfrew, Ontario, Canada age 44 cause: auto crash | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| French pianist Robert Marcel Casadesus husband of Gaby born on 4-7-1899 in Paris, France expired 9-19-1972 in Paris, France age 73 cause: pancreatic cancer | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| cellist Pablo Pau Carlos Salvador Casals born on 12-29-1876 in Vendrell, Spain expired 10-22-1973 in Rio Piedras, Commonwealth of Puerto Rico age 96
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| epidemiologist Dr. Jordi Casals-Ariet discovered the hemorrhagic fever Lassa virus (1969; almost died from it) born on 5-15-1911 in Viladrau, Girona, Spain expired 2-10-2004 in New York, New York age 92 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Chicago Hilton bellhop Simone "Sam" Cascio alleged to be the world's oldest born on 6-24-1897 expired 8-29-1993 age 96 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Senator Clifford Philip Case born on 4-16-1904 in Franklin Park, New Jersey expired 3-5-1982 age 77 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| inventor Theodore W. Case co-developer of Thalofide infrared photo-electric cell & Movietone sound- born on 12-12-1888 in Auburn, New York expired 5-13-1944 in Auburn, New York age 55 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| child actress Adriana Caselotti provided the singing and talking voice of Snow White in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) born on 5-16-1916 in Bridgeport, Connecticut expired 1-19-1997 in Los Angeles, California age 80 cause: cancer | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| lyricist A. Kenneth Casey co-wrote Sweet Georgia Brown (December, 1925) born on 1-10-1899 expired 8-10-1965 in Newburgh, New York age 66 cause: heart ailment | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1887 Philadelphia baseball pitcher Daniel M. Casey claimed to be the inspiration for Ernest Thayer's poem Casey at the Bat (1888) born on 10-2-1863 expired 2-8-1943 in Washington, District of Columbia age 80 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| former Boston city censor John M. Casey as first head of the Boston Licensing Bureau (1904-1932) gave meaning to the phrase "banned in Boston" expired 10-22-1959 in Boston, Massachusetts age 97 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| former Pennsylvania governor (1987-94) Robert Patrick Casey born on 1-9-1932 in New York, New York expired 5-30-2000 in Scranton, Pennsylvania age 68 cause: severe infection; amyloidosis; prostate cancer | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| CIA Director (1981-87) William Joseph Casey born on 3-13-1913 in Elmhurst, New York expired 5-6-1987 in Glen Cove, New York age 74 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Herman Frank Cash purported to have been involved in a notorious church bombing that killed four girls (1963) born on 7-25-1918 expired 2-7-1994 in Pinson, Alabama age 75 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| MSU English prof. James W. "Jim" Cash with partner co-wrote Legal Eagles (1986), Top Gun (1986), Dick Tracey (1990) and Flintsones in Viva Rock Vegas (2000) born on 1-17-1941 in Boyne City, Michigan expired 3-24-2000 in East Lansing, Michigan age 59 cause: "intestinal ailment" | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
country singer John R. "Johnny" Cash
expired 9-12-2003 in Nashville, Tennessee age 71 cause: respiratory failure; pneumonia; autonomic neuropathy; complications from diabetes
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| Detroit Tigers first baseman (1960-74) Norman Dalton Cash born on 11-10-1934 in Justiceburg, Texas expired 10-11-1986 in Charlevoix, Michigan age 51 cause: heart attack | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| actress Rosalind Cash played Lisa in Omega Man and rastafarian Planet 10 Black Lectroid John Emdall in The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension (1984) born on 12-31-1938 in Atlantic City, New Jersey expired 10-31-1995 in Los Angeles, California age 56 cause: cancer | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Valerie June Carter Cash daughter of Mother Maybelle; sister of Anita & Helen; co-wrote Ring of Fire born on 6-23-1929 in Maces Spring, Virginia expired 5-15-2003 in Nashville, Tennessee age 73 cause: complications from heart valve surgery | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| former Playboy centerfold photographer (1957-96) Mario Casilli born on 1-22-1931 expired 4-25-2002 in Altadena, California age 71 cause: "a long illness" | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| quantum mechanics theorist Dr. Hendrik Brugt Gerhard Casimir postulated the Casimir Effect (1948) born on 7-15-1901 in The Hague, The Netherlands expired 5-4-2000 in Heeze, The Netherlands age 90 AKS: Casmir | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Stefano Casiraghi husband of Princess Caroline of Monaco born on 9-8-1960 in Italy expired 10-3-1990 age 30 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| engraver, type designer William Caslon I born on --1693 in Cradley, Worcestershire, England expired 1-23-1766 in Bethnel Green, England age 72 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Cardinal Giuseppe Casoria born on 10-1-1908 expired 2-8-2001 age 92 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| novelist Vera Caspary wrote Laura (1942) born on 11-13-1899 in Chicago, Illinois expired 6-13-1987 in New York, New York age 87 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| broadway actress and game show panelist Mary Margaret "Peggy" Cass won 1956 Tony for playing Agnes Gooch in Auntie Mame; on To Tell The Truth (1964-67) born on 5-21-1925 in Boston, Massachusetts expired 3-8-1999 in New York, New York age 74 cause: heart failure | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
wild & crazy guy Neal Cassady heavily into sex, drugs, alcohol, more sex, more drugs, more alcohol, ... (once shagged Allen Ginsberg); hung out/went on road trips with the likes of Kerouac & Kesey, becoming the basis for a number of characters in their writings; once helped Wavy Gravy kidnap Tiny Tim (must have made sense at the time)
expired 2-4-1968 in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico age 43 cause: coma; hypothermia; drug interaction (alcohol & seconal) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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actor & director John Cassavetes husband of Gena Rowlands born on 12-9-1929 in New York, New York expired 2-3-1989 in Los Angeles, California age 59 cause: heart attack | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
actor Jean-Pierre Cassel portrayed Pierre Dubois in Those Magnificent Men In Their Flying Machines (1965)
expired 4-19-2007 in Paris, France age 74 cause: "lung illness" | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| tv & movie actor John "Jack" Cassidy father of David Cassidy born on 3-5-1927 in New York, New York expired 12-12-1976 in Los Angeles, California age 49 cause: cigarette-ignited penthouse fire | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| retired teacher Paul Henry Cassidy was the first of the "ghost artists" to draw Superman (1930s); he is the one who added the "S" to Superman's cape born on 6-11-1910 in Cherry Valley, Illinois expired 5-15-2005 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin age 94 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| tall actor Ted Cassidy Lurch on tv Addams Family; Ruk on original Star Trek series; co-wrote screenplay for The Harrad Experiment movie (1973) born on 7-31-1932 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania expired 1-16-1979 in Los Angeles, California age 46 cause: complications following open heart surgery | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| CNN anchor Thomas Cassidy expired 5-26-1991 age 41 cause: AIDS | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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1968 Nobel Peace Prize winner René Samuel Cassin helped draft the Universal Declaration of Human Rights; UNESCO founder born on 10-5-1887 in Bayonne, Basses-Pyrénées, France expired 2-20-1976 in Paris, France age 88 AKS: Rene | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Oleg's brother Igor Casini the red-
expired 1-4-2002 in New York, New York age 86 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| fashion designer Count Oleg Loiewski Cassini first husband of Gene Tierney born on 4-11-1913 in Paris, France expired 3-17-2006 in Manhasset, Long Island, New York age 92
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| co-conspirator in assassination Caius Cassius Longinus known as "The Last of the Romans" among his contemporaries; led conspiracy to kill Julius Caesar expired ??-??-44 BC in Philippi, Greece age ?? cause: suicide | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sydney Cassyd in 1946 had idea for & organized meeting that created the Television Academy, the group that awards the Emmys; Academy president in 1950 born on 12-28-1908 in Teaneck, New Jersey expired 2-4-2000 in Los Angeles, California age 91 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Catholic Church leader (1590) Giambattista Castagn elected 229th Pope of the Roman Catholic Church September 15, 1590; lasted 12 days as Pope
expired 9-27-1590 in Rome, Italy age 69 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| writer Carlos Casteaneda born on 12-25-1923 in Cajamarca, Peru expired 4-27-1998 in Los Angeles, California age 74 cause: metabolic encephalopathy; liver cancer/failure | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Carlos Castaneda publisher emeritus of El Nuevo Herald born on 2-8-1932 in Havana, Cuba expired 10-10-2002 in Lisbon, Portugal age 70 cause: leukemia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| actor Richard Castellano born on 9-4-1933 in New York, New York expired 12-10-1988 age 55 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| composer Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco born on 4-3-1895 in Florence, Tuscany, Italy expired 3-15-1968 in Hollywood, California age 72 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
geezer Maria Irma Casteur
expired 11-11-1997 age 110 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Catholic Church leader (1829-1830) Francesco Xaverio Castiglione elected 254th Pope of the Roman Catholic Church March 31, 1829
expired 12-1-1830 age 69 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
former British M.P. & cabinet minister Barbara Anne Castle
expired 5-3-2002 in Buckinghamshire, England age 91 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ballroom dancer Irene Foote Castle born on 4-7-1893 in New Rochelle, New York expired 1-25-1969 in Eureka Springs, Arkansas age 75 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| actress Peggy Castle born on 12-22-1927 in Appalachia, Virginia expired 8-10-1973 in Hollywood, California age 45 cause: cirrhosis of the liver | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
horror movie producer & director William Castle produced The Tingler (1959), Mr. Sardonicus (1961) & Rosemary's Baby (1968)
expired 5-31-1977 in Los Angeles, California age 63 cause: heart attack | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| convertible sofa inventor Bernard Castro born on 8-11-1904 expired 8-24-1991 age 87 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
company co-founder Theresa Castro of convertible furniture fame
expired 3-3-2002 in Manhasset, New York age 85 cause: heart ailment; diabetes | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| character actor John Edward Cater had numerous roles in British films (I, Claudius, The Abominable Dr. Phibes) born on 1-17-1932 expired 3-21-2009 age 77 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| former Lawrence Welk Show musical director George Cates wrote the post-ABC syndicated show's theme (Champagne Time) born on 10-19-1911 in New York, New York expired 5-12-2002 in Santa Monica, California age 90 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
tv producer Joseph Cates cast Art Carney as Ed Norton on The Honeymooners; co-created The $64,000 Question; brother of Gil; father of Phoebe
expired 10-10-1998 in New York, New York age 74 cause: complications from leukemia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| character actress Madelyn Cates had memorable scene in The Producers (1968); "I'm not a madame; I'm a concierge!" born on 3-8-1925 in New York, New York expired 7-14-1993 in Los Angeles, California age 68 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| author Willa Sibert Cather born on 12-7-1873 in Winchester, Virginia expired 4-24-1947 in New York, New York age 73 cause: cerebral hemorrhage | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Russian monarch (1762-96) Catherine II
expired 11-17-1796 age 67 cause: crushed by horse? | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Civil War historian & author Charles Bruce Catton born on 10-9-1899 in Petoskey, Michigan expired 8-28-1978 in Frankfort, Michigan age 78 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| actress Beatrice Joan Caulfield born on 6-1-1922 in West Orange, New Jersey expired 6-18-1991 age 69 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| oilman George Peck Caulkins Jr. a co-developer of the Vail Ski Resort born on 3-25-1921 in Grosse Pointe, Michigan expired 3-24-2005 in Denver, Colorado age 83 cause: "a long illness" | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| dental supply businessman Horace James "Harry" Caulkins co-founded Detroit's Pewabic Pottery studio (1903-69) born on 7-12-1850 in Oshawa, Ontario, Canada expired ??-??-1923 age 73 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| big band pianist Carmen Cavallaro born on 5-6-1913 in New York, New York expired 10-12-1989 age 76 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| former Detroit mayor (1961-68) Jerome Patrick Cavanagh born on 6-16-1928 in Detroit, Michigan expired 11-27-1979 in Lexington, Kentucky age 51 cause: heart attack | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| NYC police detective Thomas J. Cavanagh he cleared an innocent man of murder charges and convicted the real perpetrators --- the case became the basis for the Kojak pilot (The Marcus Nelson Murders) born on 10-6-1913 expired 8-2-1996 in Margate, Florida age 82 cause: lung disease | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Fordham football coach (1927-32) Francis W. "Frank" Cavanaugh his team's linemen earned the nickname Seven Blocks of Granite (1929 & 30)
expired 8-29-1933 in New York, New York age 57 cause: heart attack | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
pulp fiction writer Hugh Barnett Cave Sex! Horror! Babes! his works had it all; as a child his mother had been a neighbor of Rudyard Kiplingborn on 7-11-1910 in Chester, England expired 6-27-2004 in Vero Beach, Florida age 93 cause: complications from diabetes | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| World War I nurse Edith Louisa Cavell helped trapped Allied soldiers escape from Belgium; captured by Germans born on 12-4-1865 in Swardeston, England expired 10-12-1915 in Brussels, Belgium age 49 cause: executed | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| "psychic" Edgar Cayce lost his marbles in the Bermuda Triangle born on 3-18-1877 in Hopkinsville, Kentucky expired 1-3-1945 in Virginia Beach, Virginia age 67 cause: failure of his psychic powers (he didn't see it coming) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| actor John Cazale played Fredo Corleone in The Godfather I & II (1972/74) and Sal in Dog Day Afternoon (1975); at the time of his death his fianceé was Meryl Streep born on 8-12-1935 in Boston, Massachusetts expired 3-12-1978 in New York, New York age 42 cause: bone cancer | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| former Roumanian Secret Police thug Lt. General Ilie Andruta Ceauseşcu brother of Nicolae; did 5 of 15 years in prison expired 12-14-2000 in Bucharest, Roumania age 76 cause: cancer AKS: Ceausescu | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| President of Romania (1974-89) Nicolae Ceauseşcu born on 1-26-1918 in Scornicesti-Olt, Roumania expired 12-25-1989 in Bucharest, Roumania age 71 cause: firing squad AKS: Ceausescu | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nicu Ceauseşcu playboy son of tyrant Nicolae born on 9-1-1951 expired 9-26-1996 in Vienna, Austria age 45 cause: cirrhosis of the liver AKS: Ceausescu | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
writer Lord Edgar Algernon Robert Gascoyne Cecil helped in the founding of the League of Nations; stayed with it from beginning to end; winner of the 1937 Nobel prize in peace
expired 11-24-1958 in Tunbridge Wells, Kent, England age 94 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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writer Don Camilo José Cela y Trulock 1989 Nobel literature laureate born on 5-11-1916 in Iria Flavia, La Coruña Province, Spain expired 1-17-2002 in Madrid, Spain age 85 cause: heart failure AKS: Jose | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Kennedy/Johnson H.E.W. Secretary (1962-65) Anthony J. Celebrezze born on 9-4-1910 expired 10-29-1998 in Cleveland, Ohio age 88 cause: cancer | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| retired New York Rep. (1923-72) Emanuel Celler born on 5-6-1888 in Brooklyn, New York expired 1-15-1981 in New York, New York age 92
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| astronomer Anders Celsius invented the centigrade temperature scale in 1742 born on 11-27-1701 in Uppsala, Uppsala län, Sweden expired 4-25-1744 in Uppsala, Uppsala län, Sweden age 42 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| publisher, founder of Random House Bennett Alfred Cerf regular panelist on What's My Line; first husband of Sylvia Sidney (1935-36) born on 5-25-1892 in New York, New York expired 8-27-1971 in New York, New York age 79 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Chicago mayor (1931-33) Anton Joseph Cermak assassinated with bullet meant for FDR born on 5-9-1873 in Prague, Bohemia expired 3-6-1933 in Miami, Florida age 59 cause: bullet wound | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| former Czech Interior Minister jailed by Nazis Dr. Josef Cerny born on 2-28-1885 in Nepolisy, Bohemia expired 12-7-1971 in New York, New York age 86 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| author Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra wrote Don Quixote (1605) born on 9-29-1547 in Alcala de Henares, Spain expired 4-23-1616 in Madrid, Spain age 68 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| former Yucatán State governor Víctor Cervera Pacheco served from 1984 to 1988, then again from 1995 until 2001 born on 4-23-1936 in Mérida, Yucatán State, Mexico expired 8-18-2004 in Mérida, Yucatán State, Mexico age 68 cause: heart attack AKS: Victor | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| pioneering aviator & airplane builder Clyde Vernon Cessna born on 12-5-1879 in Hawthorne, Iowa expired 11-20-1954 age 74 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
former French prime minister (1969-72) Jacques-Pierre-Michel Chaban-Delmas former mayor of Bordeaux (1947-95)
expired 11-10-2000 in Paris, France age 85 cause: heart attack | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| stock broker Florence May Chadwick first woman to swim the English Channel both ways; broke Gertrude Ederle's record born on 11-9-1917 in San Diego, California expired 3-15-1995 in San Diego, California age 77 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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physicist Sir James Chadwick won 1935 Nobel Prize in physics for discovery of the neutron (1932) born on 10-20-1891 in Manchester, England expired 7-24-1974 in Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England age 82 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Rhode Island senator (1977-99) John Hubbard Chaffee Nixon Navy secretary (1969-72); blocked the court martial of Lloyd Bucher born on 10-22-1922 in Providence, Rhode Island expired 10-24-1999 in Bethesda, Maryland age 77 cause: heart failure | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| former pro tennis player Nancy Chaffee divorced from Ralph Kiner; married to Jack Whitaker born on 3-6-1929 in Ventura, California expired 8-11-2002 in Coronado, California age 73 cause: complications from cancer | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Apollo 1 astronaut Roger Bruce Chaffee died on launching pad during a systems test born on 2-15-1935 in Grand Rapids, Michigan expired 1-27-1967 in Cape Canaveral, Florida age 31 cause: flash fire in capsule | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
modern artist Marc Chagall
expired 3-28-1985 in Vence, France age 97
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| former president of International Ladies Garment Workers Union Sol Chick Chaikin born on 1-9-1918 in New York, New York expired 4-1-1991 age 73 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Dr. Ernst Boris Chain shared the 1945 Nobel prize in medicine for the isolation of penicillin (1939) born on 6-19-1906 in Berlin, Germany expired 8-12-1979 in Castlebar, County Mayo, Ireland age 73 cause: heart failure | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| actor Feodor Ivanovitch Chaliapin Jr. born on --1907 in Moscow, Russia expired 9-17-1992 in Rome, Italy age 85 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| fantasy/sci-fi author Jack Laurence Chalker born on 12-17-1944 in Baltimore, Maryland expired 2-11-2005 in Baltimore, Maryland age 60 cause: kidney, lung, heart failure AKS: Laurance Laurunce Lawrence Lawrance Lawrunce Lorence Lorance Lorunce | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| one-time French Air Force General Maurice Challe lead unsuccessful 1961 Algerian coup against Charles De Gaulle expired 1-18-1979 in Paris, France age 73 cause: cancer | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sir Joseph Austen Chamberlain a half-brother of Neville; part-originator of the Locarno Pact; shared the 1925 Nobel peace prize born on 10-16-1863 in Birmingham, Warwickshire, England expired 3-17-1937 in London, England age 73 cause: apoplexy | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Texas death row inmate Karl Eugene Chamberlain
expired 6-11-2008 in Huntsville, Texas age 37 cause: executed; lethal injection
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| cluelessly naïve British prime minister Neville Arthur Chamberlain got suckered by Hitler in München; "Peace in our time!" born on 3-18-1869 in Edgbaston, England expired 11-9-1940 in Odiham, England age 71 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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1959 Nobel physics co-laureate Owen Chamberlain co-discoverer of the antiproton (1955) born on 7-10-1920 in San Francisco, California expired 2-28-2006 in Berkeley, California age 85 cause: complications from Parkinson's disease | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
former NBA star Wilton Norman Chamberlain the hardwood satyr (over 20,000 served)
expired 10-12-1999 in Bel Air, California age 63 cause: congestive heart failure | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| pilot Clarence D. Chamberlin flew first trans- born on 11-11-1893 in Denison, Iowa expired 10-30-1976 in Shelton, Connecticut age 82 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| confessed Communist spy David Jay Whittaker Chambers testified against Alger Hiss born on 4-1-1901 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania expired 7-9-1961 in Westminster, Maryland age 60 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| World War II dental technician John Chambers after the war he created facial prosthetic devices for disfigured veterans; starting as a makeup man in 1953 he went on to create Mr. Spock's ears for the original Star Trek tv series (1965) & the simian masks for Planet of the Apes (1968; awarded an honorary oscar for his work in
1969) born on 9-12-1922 in Chicago, Illinois expired 8-25-2001 in Woodland Hills, California age 78 cause: complications from diabetes | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| country singer Lester J. Chambers born on 7-8-1926 expired 8-30-1992 age 66 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
porn actress Marilyn Chambers as a 17-year old the portrayed the "mother" of the Ivory Snow baby in ads; star of Behind the Green Door (1972); did April 1974 Playboy pictorial; was living in a trailer at the time of death (found by daughter)
expired 4-12-2009 in Santa Clarita, Los Angeles County, California age 56 cause: ruptured cerebral berry aneurysm; hypertrophic heart disease | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
dumb-ass truck driver Robert Edward Chambliss killer of four girls in the basement of a church that he bombed (1963); convicted of the crime in 1977
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French composer Cecile Chaminade
expired 4-18-1944 in Monte Carlo, Monaco age 86 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| retired General & Nicaraguan president (1/1/1917-1/1/1921 & 3/14/1926-11/11/1926) Emiliano Chamorro Vargas born on --1871 expired 2-26-1966 in Managua, Nicaragua age 95 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| newspaper owner/editor Pedro Joaquín Chamorro published La Prensa, the Managua Nicaragua daily newspaper expired 12-8-1952 in Managua, Nicaragua age ?? | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| newspaper owner/editor Pedro Joaquín Chamorro Cardenal published La Prensa, the Managua Nicaragua daily newspaper; vocal Somoza opponent; husband of Violeta expired 1-10-1978 in Managua, Nicaragua age 53 cause: shot to death | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Great Lakes sailor Oliver J. "Buck" Champeau Third Assistant Engineer aboard the Edmund Fitzgerald born on 9-4-1934 expired 11-10-1975 in Eastern Lake Superior, Canada age 41 cause: drowned when ship foundered | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| choreographer Gower Champion original director of Broadway show 42nd Street (died the night before opened); once married to Marge born on 6-22-1919 in Geneva, Illinois expired 8-25-1980 in New York, New York age 61 cause: Waldenström's macroglobulinemia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Georgia geezer Jesse Champion born on 8-15-1887 expired 1-13-2000 age 112
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| Chicago Cubs first baseman Frank Leroy Chance final leg of the famous double-play combination of Tinker-to-Evers-to-Chance (1906-1910) born on 9-9-1877 in Fresno, California expired 9-14-1924 age 47 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| retired NBC newsman John William Chancellor born on 7-14-1927 in Chicago, Illinois expired 7-12-1996 in Princeton, New Jersey age 68 cause: stomach cancer
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former Kentucky governor Albert Benjamin "Happy" Chandler Baseball Commissioner April 24, 1945 to July 15, 1951 born on 7-14-1898 in Corydon, Kentucky expired 6-15-1991 age 92 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| character actor Chick Chandler his big role: Soldier of Fortune (1950) born on 1-18-1905 in Kingston, New York expired 9-30-1988 in Laguna Beach, Florida age 83 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
publishing heiress & arts patron Dorothy Mae Chandler The Music Center of Los Angeles County's main auditorium is named for her — the Dorothy Chandler Pavillion
expired 7-6-1997 in Hollywood, California age 96 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Times-Mirror Co. chairman Harry Chandler publisher of the L.A. Times; in 1923 he paid John Roche $21,000 to build a big sign on Mount Lee promoting a housing development — it read HOLLYWOODLAND expired 9-23-1944 in Los Angeles, California age 80 cause: heart attack | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
actor Jeff Chandler
expired 6-17-1961 in Culver City, California age 42 cause: blood poisoning following spinal surgery | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| former Los Angeles Times publisher (1945-60) Norman Chandler husband of Dorothy; father of Otis born on 9-14-1899 in Los Angeles, California expired 10-20-1973 in Los Angeles, California age 74 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| former Los Angeles Times publisher (1960-80) Otis P. Chandler son of Norman & Dorothy born on 11-23-1927 in Los Angeles, California expired 2-27-2006 in Ojai, California age 78 cause: Lewy Body disease | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| detective story author Raymond Thorton Chandler co-wrote screenplay of Double Indemnity (1944) born on 7-23-1888 in Chicago, Illinois expired 3-26-1959 in La Jolla, California age 70 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| former Yankees pitcher Spurgeon "Spud" Chandler born on 9-12-1907 in Commerce, Georgia expired 1-9-1990 in Saint Petersburg, Florida age 82 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Nobel prize winning astro-physicist Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar nephew of physics laureate C.V. Raman born on 10-19-1910 in Lahore, British India expired 8-21-1995 in Chicago, Illinois age 84 AKS: Subramanyan | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| coutouier & perfumier Gabrielle Bonheur "Coco" Chanel born on 8-19-1883 in Issoire, Auvergne, France expired 1-10-1971 in Paris, France age 87 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| David Webb Chaney led Chemstrand team that developed the artificial grass known as Astroturf born on 12-19-1915 expired 7-4-2004 in Raleigh, North Carolina age 88 cause: cerebral hemorrhage | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| retired bakery worker/domestic worker Fannie Lee Chaney mother of murdered civil rights worker James Chaney; in 2005 was able to testify at the trial of Edgar Ray Killen born on 9-4-1921 in Mississippi expired 5-22-2007 in Willingboro, New Jersey age 85 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1964 CORE Freedom Summer campaigner James Earl Chaney murdered by Klan thugs along with Andrew Goodman & Michael Schwerner born on 5-30-1943 in Meridian, Mississippi expired 6-21-1964 in Neshoba County, Mississippi age 21 cause: murdered; shot | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
silent film star Lon Chaney Sr. his most memorable roles were as Quasimodo in The Hunchback of Notre-Dame (1923) and The Phantom in The Phantom of the Opera (1925)
expired 8-26-1930 age 47 cause: bronchial cancer | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
horror movie actor Lon Chaney Jr. played Lawrence Talbot (the Wolf Man) in The Wolf Man (1941) and Abbott and Costello Meet in Frankenstein (1948); played the Monster in Ghost of Frankenstein (1942)
expired 7-12-1973 in San Clemente, California age 67 cause: beriberi & liver failure | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
1920s Our Gang child actor Norman Chaney
expired 5-30-1936 age 18 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| journalist Iris Shun-Ru Chang chronicler of the Rape of Nanking (1937) — read the book to get a sense of how justified the nuking of Hiroshima & Nagasaki were born on 3-28-1968 in Princeton, New Jersey expired 11-9-2004 in Los Gatos, California age 36 cause: suicide; gunshot wound | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Chinese army general Chang Kuo-hua led takeover of Tibet (October 1950); stayed on as brutal overlord for 15 years expired 2-21-1972 in Chengtu, Szechwan Province, China age 58 cause: heart attack | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| last Chinese Communist Party founder (7/1/1921) Chang Kuo-tao split with Mao in 1938 born on 11-26-1897 in Jiang Xi, Province expired 12-3-1979 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada age 82 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| movie special effects master Chang Wah Ming worked on The Time Machine (1960) but got shafted on the oscar it won (they screwed up the credits so that the other effects guys got the award); co-founder (with Gene Warren Sr. & Tim Barr) of Projects Unlimited (1956) — built original models of Star Trek props: phaser, tricorder & communicator born on 8-2-1917 in Honolulu, Hawaiian Territory expired 12-22-2003 in Carmel Valley, California age 86 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
former Manchurian warlord Chang Hsueh-liang was military governor of Manchuria (1928-31); once kidnapped Chiang Kai-shek (December 1936)
expired 10-14-2001 in Honolulu, Hawaii age 103 cause: pneumonia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Johns Hopkins professor Dr. Alphonse Chapanis 1940s ergonomics pioneer; developer of the touch tone telephone keypad born on 3-17-1917 in Meriden, Connecticut expired 10-4-2002 in Baltimore, Maryland age 85 cause: complications following knee surgery | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| singer/songwriter Harry Foster Chapin had hits with Taxi (1972) & Cat's in the Cradle born on 12-7-1942 in New York, New York expired 7-16-1981 in Jericho, New York age 38 cause: rear-ended by semi on Long Island Expressway | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| businessman Roy Dikeman Chapin Sr. co-founder of the Hudson Motor Car Co. (1900); Hoover Commerce Secretary (1932-33) born on 2-23-1880 in Lansing, Michigan expired 2-16-1936 in Detroit, Michigan age 55 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| former American Motors Company head (1967-77) Roy Dikeman Chapin Jr. bought Jeep from Kaiser Industries (1970) born on 9-21-1915 in Detroit, Michigan expired 8-5-2001 in Nantucket, Massachusetts age 85 cause: heart failure | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| legendary silent screen actor Sir Charles Spencer "Charlie" Chaplin played The Little Tramp; co-founder of United Artists studio; wrote, directed & played Hynkel (Fuhrer of Ptomania) in The Great Dictator (1940) born on 4-16-1889 in London, England expired 12-25-1977 in Corsier-sur-Vevey, Switzerland age 88 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
19th century London prostitute Annie Chapman second victim of Jack the Ripper
expired 9-11-1888 in London, England age 46 cause: murdered; throat slit; body mutilated | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
retired real estate salesman Benjamin F. Chapman Jr. in 1954 all 6' 5" of him was The Creature From The Black Lagoon (at least, above water; below water it was Ricou Browning)born on 10-29-1928 in Oakland, California expired 2-21-2008 in Honolulu, Hawaii age 79 cause: congestive heart failure | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Monty Python member Graham Chapman born on 1-8-1941 in Leicester, England expired 10-4-1989 age 48 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
planter of trees John Chapman
expired 3-9-1845 in Allen County, Indiana age 70 cause: pneumonia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| former Marine Commandant (1968-72) General Leonard F. Chapman Jr. born on 11-3-1913 in Key West, Florida expired 1-6-2000 in Fairfax, Virginia age 86 cause: cancer | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| actress Marguerite Chapman born on 3-9-1918 in Chatham, New York expired 8-30-1999 in Burbank, California age 81 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| medieval literature scholar Tobert Lundquist Chapman editor of the fifth edition of Roget's Thesaurus (1992) born on 12-28-1920 in Huntington, West Virginia expired 2-2-2002 in Morristown, New Jersey age 81 cause: leukemia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Philadelphia-area auto dealer Roy V. Chapman owner of 2004 Kentucky Derby/Preakness winner Smarty Jones born on 5-4-1926 expired 2-17-2006 in Doylestown, Pennsylvania age 79 cause: emphysema
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| Michael Chappelle expired 5-14-1982 age 28 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
well-traveled papoose Jean Baptiste Charbonneau son of Toussaint Charbonneau & Sacagawea; educated by William Clark as adolescent; toured Europe & lived in California as a "mountain man"; his image appears on the new U.S. $1 coin
expired 5-16-1866 in Danner, Oregon age 61 cause: pneumonia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| French General Charles Charet organized "taxicab army" that delivered reserves to the front, saving Paris in World War I expired 9-14-1950 in Dijon, France age 79 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| biochemist Dr. Erwin Chargaff did pioneering studies of DNA bases (adenine, cytosine, guanine & thymine) born on 8-11-1905 in Czernnowitz, Austria-Hungary expired 6-20-2002 in New York, New York age 96 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
dancer, actress Cyd Charisse
expired 6-17-2008 in Los Angeles, California age 86 cause: heart attack
AKS: Charrise Charrisse | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Holy Roman Emperor King Charlemagne monarch of the Franks expired 1-28-814 age 72 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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English King (1625-1649) Charles I son of James I; his reign came to an end with the loss of a civil war born on 11-19-1600 in Dunfermline, Scotland expired 1-30-1649 in London, England age 48 cause: beheaded in the Tower of London | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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English King (1660-1685) Charles II son of Charles I born on 5-29-1630 in London, England expired 2-6-1685 in London, England age 54 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| former heavyweight boxing champion (1949-51) Ezzard Charles born on 7-7-1921 in Lawrenceville, Georgia expired 5-28-1975 in Chicago, Illinois age 53 cause: ALS | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| former Dominica prime minister (1980-85) Mary Eugenia Charles invited Reagan to invade Grenada (1983) born on 5-15-1919 in Pointe Michel, Grenada expired 9-7-2005 in Martinique age 86 cause: complications from broken hip | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Dominica prime minister Pierre Charles born on 6-30-1954 in Grand Bay, Dominica, West Indies expired 1-6-2004 in Roseau, Dominica, West Indies age 49 cause: heart attack | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
musician Ray Charles 10-time Grammy winner
expired 6-10-2004 in Beverly Hills, California age 73 cause: complications from liver disease
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| actor Ian Charleson born on 8-11-1949 in Edinburgh, Scotland expired 1-5-1990 age 40 cause: AIDS | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| actor Ferdinand Charpin played Honoré Panisse in Pagnol's productions of Marius (play: 1929; movie: 1931), Fanny (1931) & César (1936) born on 6-1-1887 in Marseilles, France expired 11-6-1944 in Paris, France age 57 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| former safe cracker Henri Charrière convicted of murder (1931) & sentenced to Cayenne, French Guyana prison; after several escapes he was sent to Devil's Island; wrote Papillon (1969) born on 11-6-1906 in Ardeche, France expired 7-28-1973 in Madrid, Spain age 66 cause: throat cancer | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
mystery writer Leslie Charteris created the Saint
expired 4-14-1993 age 85 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
movie comedian and director Charley Chase
expired 6-20-1940 age 47 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| actress/author Ilka Chase played Mrs. Restes in Ocean's Eleven (1960) born on 4-8-1905 in New York, New York expired 2-15-1987 in Mexico City, Mexico age 72 cause: internal hemorrhage | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| dramatist Mary Coyle Chase wrote Harvey (1944); wrote movie screenplay (1950) born on 2-25-1907 in Denver, Colorado expired 10-20-1981 in Denver, Colorado age 74 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| whaler Essex First Mate Owen Chase his chronicle of the sinking of the Essex (11/20/1820) by a blue whale was the insipiration for Moby Dick (19851) born on --1796 in Nantucket Island, Massachusetts expired ??-??-1869 in Nantucket Island, Massachusetts age 73 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Republican Party co-founder & Lincoln Treasury Secretary Salmon Portland Chase also Supreme Court Chief Justice; he presided over the impeachment trial of Andrew Johnson in 1858; his portrait is on the $10,000 billborn on 1-13-1808 in Cornish, New Hampshire expired 5-7-1873 in New York, New York age 65 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Hollywood restauranteur David Chasen ex-vaudevillian born on 7-18-1898 in Odessa, Ukraine expired 6-16-1973 in Los Angeles, California age 74 cause: cancer | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
former restauranteur (1942-95) Maude K. Chasen widow of David
expired 12-8-2001 in Century City, California age 97 cause: pneumonia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Tallahatchie County, Mississippi District Attorney (1942-56) Gerald Chatham part of the team that prosecuted J.W. Milam & Roy Bryant for the murder of Emmett Till in 1955 born on 2-17-1906 expired 10-9-1956 in Sumner, Mississippi age 50 cause: heart attack | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| poet Geoffrey Chaucer wrote The Canterbury Tales born on 4-6-1339 expired 10-25-1400 age 61 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Indian author Nirad Chandra Chaudhuri born on 11-23-1897 in Kishorganj, India expired 8-1-1999 in Oxford, Oxfordshire, England age 101 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Henry Chauncey founder/first president of Educational Testing Service --- the SAT people born on 2-9-1905 in New York, New York expired 12-3-2002 in Shelburne, Vermont age 97 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| French army soldier Nicolas Chauvin excessively "devoted" to Napoleon and military life; name became eponymous with excessive advocacy of any position (chauvanist) born on ??-??-17?? expired ??-??-18?? age ?? | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Marc A. Chavannes the co-inventor of Bubble Wrap born on 3-2-1896 expired 4-6-1994 in Sarasota, Florida age 98 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| conductor/composer Carlos Chávez expired 8-2-1978 in Mexico City, Mexico age 79 cause: heart ailment | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| United Farm Workers organizer Cesar Estrada Chavez born on 3-31-1927 in Yuma, Arizona expired 4-23-1993 age 66 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Texas death row inmate Juan Rodriguez Chavez
expired 4-22-2003 in Huntsville, Texas age 34 cause: executed; lethal injection
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| quack M.D. Patrick Chavis his 1973 admission to the UC Davis' Medical School prompted Allan Bakke's affirmative action lawsuit born on 5-8-1952 expired 7-23-2002 in Hawthorne, California age 50 cause: shot to death during attempted carjacking | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| zydeco accordionist/bandleader Wilson Anthony "Boozoo" Chavis born on 10-24-1930 in Church Point, Louisiana expired 5-5-2001 in Austin, Texas age 70 cause: complications from heart attack & stroke | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| The Standard (Harare) editor & publisher Mark Gova Angus Chavunduka arrested & tortured by the Zimbabwean government born on 11-28-1965 in Salisbury, Rhodesia expired 11-11-2002 in Harare, Zimbabwe age 36 cause: complications from severe dehydration & torture | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Shuttle STS-87 & 107 astronaut Kalpana Chawla born on 7-1-1961 in Karnal, India expired 2-1-2003 in over north-central Texas age 41 cause: disintegration of Shuttle Columbia during re-entry | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| screenwriter Sidney "Paddy" Chayefsky wrote story & screenplays for Marty (1953), The Hospital (1971) & Network (1976) ... received 3 oscars for them born on 1-29-1923 in New York, New York expired 8-1-1981 in New York, New York age 58 cause: cancer AKS: Chaefsky | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| jazz trumpeter Adolphus Anthony "Doc" Cheatham born on 6-13-1905 in Nashville, Tennessee expired 6-2-1997 in Washington, District of Columbia age 91 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| jazz trombonist James R. "Jimmy" Cheatham for a number of years was a professor teaching at UC San Diego born on 6-18-1924 in Birmingham, Alabama expired 1-12-2007 in La Jolla, California age 82 cause: heart failure | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Georgia-Pacific Corp. founder (1927) Owen Robertson Cheatham expired 10-24-1970 in Eugene, Oregon age 67 cause: heart attack | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| former K.G.B. head (1982-88) Viktor Mikhailovich Chebrikov used spy Aldrich Ames to obtain lists of operatives in USSR & had them executed born on 4-27-1923 in Dnepropetrovsk, USSR expired 7-1-1999 in Moscow, Russia age 76 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| original Toronto Blue Jays radio announcer Tom Cheek called the play-by-play from 4/7/1977 to 6/3/2004 born on 6-13-1939 in Pensacola, Florida expired 10-9-2005 in Oldsmar, Florida age 66 cause: brain cancer
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| John Cheever born on 5-27-1912 in Quincy, Massachusetts expired 6-18-1982 age 70
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| Russian playwright Anton Pavlovich Chekhov Uncle Vanya author born on 1-17-1860 in Teganrog, Russia expired 7-15-1904 age 44 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Mao secretary (1937-40) Chen Boda Red Flag party journal editor (1958-70); disappeared 1970-81; tried & imprisioned (1981-88) for being part of Jiang Qing's clique born on --1904 in Hui'an, Fujian Province, China expired 9-20-1989 in Beijing, China age 85 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| PBS cook Joyce Chen born on 9-14-1917 expired 8-23-1994 age 76 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| aging Chinese official Chen Yun a rival of Deng Xiao Peng born on --1905 in Qingpu, China expired 4-10-1995 age 90 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| radio programming consultant Lester Eugene "Gene" Chanult with partner Bill Drake developed the "boss sound" of 1960s radio (he did marketing & syndication while Drake did the programming) born on 6-12-1919 in Eldorado, Oklahoma expired 2-23-2010 in Tarzana, California age 90 cause: non-Hodgkin's lymphoma | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| former Washington Senators pitcher Thomas E. "Tom" Cheney during 16 inning game set major league strikeout record (21) against Baltimore (9/12/1962) born on 10-14-1934 in Morgan, Georgia expired 11-1-2001 in Rome, Georgia age 67 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| zydeco accordionist Clifton Chenier born on 6-25-1925 in Opelousas, Louisiana expired 12-12-1987 in Lafayette, Louisiana age 62 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Flying Tigers commander Lt.General Claire Lee Chennault born on 9-6-1890 in Commerce, Texas expired 7-27-1958 in New Orleans, Louisiana age 67 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| murder victim Michael Chenoweth his July 1952 killing by Lt. Coleman Peterson & the subsequent trial was the basis for the book Anatomy of a Murder expired 7-??-1952 in Big Bay, Michigan age 48 cause: murder; shot to death | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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physicist Pavel Alekseyevich Cherenkov shared the 1958 Nobel prize in physics for discovering the now eponymously-named radition phenomenon born on 7-28-1904 in Nizhniaya Chigla, Voronezh Oblast, Russia expired 1-6-1990 in Moscow, Russia, USSR age 85 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| classical pianist Shura Cherkassky born on 10-11-1909 in Odessa, Russia expired 12-27-1995 age 86 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| mathematician Dr. Shiing-Shen Chern specialized in differential geometry born on 10-26-1911 in Jiaxing, China expired 12-3-2004 in Tianjin, China age 93 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Soviet Premier Konstantin Ustinovich Chernenko headed the USSR for 13 months (February 1984 to March 1985) born on 9-24-1911 in Bolshaya Tes, Yenisei River Valley, Siberia, Russia expired 3-10-1985 in Moscow, Russia, USSR age 73 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| child actress Virginia Cherrill played the blind flower girl in City Lights (1931) born on 4-12-1908 in Carthage, Illinois expired 11-14-1996 in Santa Barbara, California age 88 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| el-stinko vaudeville act member Addie Rose Alma Cherry with her sisters, part of the Cherry Sisters vaudeville act, judged by critics to be so bad that it was funny expired 10-26-1942 in Cedar Rapids, Iowa age 83 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| KKK goon Bobby Frank Cherry one of those responsible for the murder of four young girls; (finally) convicted in 2002 born on 6-20-1930 expired 11-18-2004 in Montgomery, Alabama age 74 cause: cancer | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| "Worst Act in Vaudeville" member Effie Cherry with her sisters performed behind a wire screen for protection from the shower of vegetables hurled their way expired 8-5-1944 in Cedar Rapids, Iowa age 65 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
convicted murderer Caryl Whittier Chessman
expired 5-2-1960 in San Quentin, California age 38 cause: executed; potassium cyanide | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| civil rights attorney J. L. Chestnut Jr. involved in many of the groundbreaking legal actions in Alabama to end segregation & the Jim Crow laws born on 12-16-1930 in Selma, Alabama expired 9-30-2008 in Birmingham, Alabama age 77 cause: kidney failure | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| singer/actor Leslie Cheung played an opera singer in Farewell, My Concubine (1993) born on 9-12-1956 in Hong Kong expired 4-1-2003 in Hong Kong, China age 46 cause: suicide; fall from 24th floor hotel balcony | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| entertainer Maurice Auguste Chevalier played Honoré Panisse in Fanny (1961); sang "Thank heaven, for little girls..." (Roman Polanski's personal anthem) born on 9-12-1888 in Paris, France expired 1-1-1972 in Paris, France age 83 cause: heart failure; kidney failure | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| auto company co-founder Arthur Chevrolet expired 4-16-1946 in Slidell, Louisiana age 61 cause: suicide; hanged | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
automobile designer & company co-founder Louis Joseph Chevroletborn on 12-25-1878 in La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland expired 6-6-1941 in Detroit, Michigan age 62 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chiang Mei-ling widow of the Generalisimo
expired 10-23-2003 in New York, New York age 105
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| Nationalist Chinese General Chiang Wego a son of Chiang Kai-shek born on 10-6-1916 expired 9-22-1997 age 80 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| former Taiwanese president (1978-88) Chiang Ching-Kuo son of Chiang Kai-shek; not the son of Mei-Ling Soong born on 3-18-1906 in Fenghua, Chekiang Province, China expired 1-13-1988 age 81
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| Chinese nationalist leader Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek married the sister- born on 10-31-1886 in Fenghua, Chekiang Province, China expired 4-5-1975 in Taipei, Taiwan age 88 cause: heart attack
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Catholic Church leader (1800-1823) Barnaba Chiaramonti elected 252nd Pope of the Roman Catholic Church March 14, 1800, in Venice
expired 8-20-1823 in Rome, Italy age 83 cause: complications from a broken leg & hip | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| next-to-last Italian World War I veteran Francesco Demenico Chiarello born on 11-5-1898 expired 6-27-2008 in Calabria, Italy age 109 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Chiat/Day ad agency co-founder (1968) Morton Jay Chiat created Apple's Orwellian 1984 ad that ran twice, once during Super Bowl XVIII (1-22-1984) & at once at signoff (1:00 am) on KMVT (Twin Falls, Idaho; 12-15-1983) born on 10-25-1931 in New York, New York expired 4-22-2002 in Marina del Rey, California age 70 cause: prostate cancer | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| former Castro ally Raúl Chibas born on 4-25-1916 in Santiago de Cuba expired 8-25-2002 in Miami, Florida age 86 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| World War II veteran Charles Chibitty last of the Comanche Code Talkers; saw service inthe European theater of operation born on 11-20-1921 in Medicine Park, Oklahoma expired 7-20-2005 in Tulsa, Oklahoma age 83 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| author & adventurer Sir Francis Chichester made 1966/67 round-the-world trip in ketch Gypsy Moth IV expired 8-26-1972 in Plymouth, England age 70 cause: pneumonia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Catholic Church leader (1655-1667) Fabio Chigi elected 238th Pope of the Roman Catholic Church April 7, 1655
expired 5-22-1667 in Rome, Italy age 68 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Russian serial killer Andrei Romanovich Chikatilo born on 10-16-1936 expired 2-14-1994 age 57 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
PBS' French Chef Julia Carolyn Child
expired 8-13-2004 in Montecito, California age 91 cause: kidney failure
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| actor Alvin Childress played Amos Jones on television Amos 'n' Andy tv series (1951-53) born on 9-10-1907 in Meridian, Mississippi expired 4-19-1986 in Inglewood, California age 78 cause: Parkinson's disease; diabetes | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Lisa Landry Childress daughter of Tom Landry born on 3-4-1958 expired 5-28-1995 age 37 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Florida Senator (1970-88) & governor (1991-98) Lawton Mainor Chiles Jr. born on 4-3-1930 in Lakeland, Florida expired 12-12-1998 in Tallahassee, Florida age 68 cause: heart attack | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| mercurial The Box Tops vocalist William Alexander Chilton his first hit was "The Letter" (1967) born on 12-28-1950 in Memphis, Tennessee expired 3-17-2010 in New Orleans, Louisiana age 59 cause: heart attack | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
V.P. record label co-founder (1993) Vincent G. Chin opened Randy's Records (1958), then Studio 17, then Randy's Record label; recorded reggae performers like Bob Marley, Peter Tosh & Gregory Isaacs
expired 2-2-2003 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida age 65 cause: complications from diabetes | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| reclusive super-geezer Kama Chinen had been the oldest person in the world born on 5-10-1895 in Okinawa, Japan expired 5-2-2010 in Nanjo, Okinawa, Japan age 114
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| former Rep. (1969-83) Shirley Anita St. Hill Chisholm first black woman elected to congress (1968) born on 11-30-1924 in New York, New York expired 1-1-2005 in Ormond Beach, Florida age 80 cause: complications from strokes | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Broadway/movie writer Jerome Chodorov co-author of the book of Wonderful Town; co-wrote My Sister Eileen born on 8-10-1911 in New York, New York expired 9-12-2004 in Nyack, New York age 93 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| former Stanford University physics professor Marvin Chodorow working with Edward Ginzton managed to increase the power of the Klystron Tube a million-fold born on 7-16-1913 in Buffalo, New York expired 10-17-2005 in Stanford, California age 92 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| former South Korean army general Choi Hong Hi founded Tae Kwon Do martial art (1955); Tae (to kick with foot) Kwon (to strike with fist) Do (art) born on 11-9-1918 in Myong Chun district, Korea expired 6-15-2002 in Pyongyang, North Korea age 83 cause: stomach cancer | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| former South Korean president (1979-80) Choi Kyu-hah succeeded the assassinated Park Chung-hee; overthrown by General Chun Doo-Hwan born on 7-16-1918 expired 10-22-2006 in Seoul, South Korea age 88 cause: heart failure | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| brain-dead flyweight boxer Choi Yo-sam plug pulled after he went into coma following successful title fight born on 3-1-1972 in Jeongeup, Jeollabukdo, Korea expired 1-2-2008 age 35 cause: cerebral hemorrhages; blows to the head
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| 1960s pro wrassler Edward "Moose" Cholak born on 3-17-1930 in Chicago, Illinois expired 10-31-2002 in Chicago, Illinois age 72 cause: complications from stroke | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| crime victim Marita Choquette a victim of serial killer Donald Miller born on 12-10-1950 expired 6-??-1978 age 27 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nixon political mentor Murry M. Chotiner born on 10-4-1909 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania expired 1-30-1974 in Washington, District of Columbia age 64 cause: pulmonary embolus; complications from auto accident | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| People's Republic of China premier (1949-76) Chou En-Lai born on 1-??-1898 in Hwaian, Kiangsu Province, China expired 1-8-1976 in Beijing, China age 78 cause: cancer | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Gerald Conrad "Jeff" Chouinard younger brother of Yvon Chouinard (Patagonia founder), whom he worked for back when it was still Chouinard Equipment Company; worked as a private investigator for Howard Hughes (1950-68) born on 9-23-1923 in Lisbon, Maine expired 6-19-2008 in Thousand Oaks, California age 84 cause: heart & kidney failure | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| optical scientist Henri Chretien developed the anamorphic lense used in widescreen processes like CinemaScope born on 2-1-1879 in Paris, France expired 2-6-1956 in Washington, District of Columbia age 77 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Norwegian theater builder Gerda Ring Christensen born on 5-11-1891 expired 1-12-1999 age 107 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| San Francisco ballet founder William Christensen born on 8-27-1902 expired 10-14-2001 age 99 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
former pro wrassler A. J. Christenson
AKS: Christensen | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| H.M.S. Bounty first mate Fletcher Christian led the mutiny against Captain Bligh April 26, 1789; arrived at Pitcairn Island January 23, 1790 (1,350 miles SE of Tahiti); sired first child to be born on Pitcairn island (son Thursday October Christian) born on 9-25-1764 in Moorland Close, Cumberland, England expired 10-3-1793 in Pitcairn Island age 29 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Gerda Christian one of Adolph Hitler's personal secretaries born on --1913 in Berlin, Germany expired 7-12-1997 in Düsseldorf, Germany age 83 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Rock Hudson's "companion" Marc Christian won millions from the estate for "intentional infliction of emotional distress"
expired 6-2-2009 in Burbank, California age 55 cause: "pulmonary problems"; heavy smoking | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
California geezer Mary Dorothy Christian
expired 4-20-2003 in San Pablo, California age 113 cause: pneumonia
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| LEGO founder (1932) Ole Kirk Christiansen made up company name from the Danish words "Leg" & "GOdt" (meaning "play well") born on --1891 expired ??-??-1958 age 67 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| British mystery writer Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Miller Christie created Jane Marple & Hercule Poirot; Mrs. Max Mallowan born on 9-15-1890 in Torquay, England expired 1-12-1976 in Wallingford, England age 85 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
actress Virginia Christine played Mrs. Olson in Folgers commercials
expired 7-24-1996 in Los Angeles, California age 76 cause: heart failure | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| character actor Eric Cuthbert Christmas born on 3-19-1916 in London, England expired 7-22-2000 in Camarillo, California age 84 cause: heart failure; prostate cancer | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| physician Dr. William Whitney Christmas aeronatical pioneer; third American to fly a plane, after the Wright brothers; built first plane with ailerons in 1908 expired 4-14-1960 in New York, New York age 94 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Christodoulos prelate of the Autocephalous Orthodox Church of Greece
expired 1-28-2008 in Athens, Greece age 69 cause: cancer of the liver, colon & peritoneum
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former San Francisco mayor (1956-64) George Christopher lured the Giants baseball team to S.F. after the 1957 season
expired 9-14-2000 in San Francisco, California age 93 cause: stroke | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| former CBS reporter Sam Chu Lin born on 3-3-1939 in Greenville, Mississippi expired 3-5-2006 in Burbank, California age 67 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Russian writer Lidiya Korneevna Chukovskaya first recipient of the Sakharov Prize (1990) born on 3-24-1907 expired 2-8-1996 age 88 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Ellery J. Chun created the original Aloha® Hawaiian shirt (1931) born on 4-17-1909 in Hawaii expired 5-16-2000 in Honolulu, Hawaii age 91 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| South Korean business leader Chung Ju Yung founded Hyundai Business Group born on 11-25-1915 in Tong Chon, Kangwǒn Province, Korea expired 3-21-2001 in Seoul, South Korea age 85 cause: pneumonia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| industrialist Chung Se-Yung co-founder of the Hyundai Motor Company (1967) born on 8-6-1928 in Kangwon Province, Korean (nor N.Korea) expired 5-21-2005 in Seoul, South Korea age 76 cause: pneumonia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| "intellectual" Zhang Chunqiao one of the "Gang of Four," instigators of China's disasterous Cultural Revolution born on --1917 in Juye County, Shandong Province, China expired 4-21-2005 in Shanghai, China age 88 cause: cancer | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
born on 2-22-1839 in Rochester, New York expired 4-11-1906 in New York, New York age 67 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| former Idaho senator (1957-80) Frank Forrester Church born on 7-25-1924 in Boise, Idaho expired 4-7-1984 in Bethesda, Maryland age
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| restauranteur George W. Church founded Church's Fried Chicken To Go (1952) in San Antonio born on --1887 in Texas expired ??-??-1956 age 69 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Great Lakes sailor Nolan Frank Church Porter aboard the Edmund Fitzgerald born on 7-13-1920 expired 11-10-1975 in Eastern Lake Superior, Canada age 55 cause: drowned when ship foundered | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| composer Frank Churchill wrote Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf expired 5-14-1942 age 40 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| disease victim Stephen Churchill first confirmed death in Britain from BSE-induced variant Creutzfeld- expired 5-21-1995 in Wiltshire, England age 19 cause: variant Creutzfeldt- | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
former British prime minister Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill World War II leader; husband of Clementine; 1953 Nobel Literature prize winner
expired 1-24-1965 in London, England age 90 cause: stroke | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Chinese Communist Party Army Chief Chu Teh won civil war against Nationalists (1949) born on --1886 in Ilung, Szechwan Province, China expired 7-6-1976 in Beijing, China age 90 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| umpire Nester Chylak 1999 Baseball Hall of Fame inductee born on 5-11-1922 in Olyphant, Pennsylvania expired 2-22-1982 age 59 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Catholic Church leader (1484-1492) Giovanni Battista Cibò elected 214th Pope of the Roman Catholic Church August 29, 1484
expired 7-25-1492 in Rome, Italy age 60 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Chicago White Sox pitcher Edward Victor "Eddie" Cicotte banned from baseball after the 1919 Black Sox scandal born on 6-19-1884 in Detroit, Michigan expired 5-5-1969 in Farmington, Michigan age 84 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1920s/30s operatic soprano Geneviève "Gina" Cigna born on 3-6-1900 in Paris, France expired 6-26-2001 in Milan, Italy age 101 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| African Mendi chief Joseph Cinque kidnapped and enslaved, he lead a rebellion aboard the Le Amistad in 1839; his trials were the subject of the 1997 movie Amistad; ironically, he later became a slave trader himself born on --1811 in Africa expired ??-??-1852 in Africa age 41 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Catholic Church leader (1550-1555) Giovanni Maria Ciocchi elected 222nd Pope of the Roman Catholic Church February 7, 1550
expired 3-23-1555 in Rome, Italy age 67 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| tv reporter Louis J. Cioffi covered the Korean War for CBS and the Vietman War for ABC born on 4-30-1926 expired 5-2-1998 in New York, New York age 72 cause: liver cancer | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| tobacco lawsuit plaintiff Antonio Cipollone husband of Rose Cipollone; in June 1988 awarded $100,000 in lawsuit against three tobacco companies; verdict overturned 1/5/1990 by appellate court born on 8-31-1923 expired 1-10-1990 in Toms River, New Jersey age 66 cause: pneumonia; heart failure | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Dover Publications founder Hayward Cirker born on 6-1-1917 expired 3-8-2000 in Roslyn, New York age 82 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
fashion designer Anne Elisabeth Jane "Liz" Claiborne
expired 6-26-2007 in Manhattan, New York, New York age 78 cause: complications from peritoneal mesothelioma | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| former New York Times food editor (1957-88) Craig Claiborne born on 9-4-1920 in Sunflower, Mississippi expired 1-22-2000 in New York, New York age 79 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| former college football coach Jerry David Claiborne born on 8-26-1928 in Hopkinsville, Kentucky expired 9-24-2000 in Nashville, Tennessee age 72 cause: heart attack | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Acme Packing Co. manager (1919-21) J. Emmett Clair Curly Lambeau's father convinced him to have the business sponsor an American Professional Football Association team; when he left town he sold the team to Curly; the team (named the "Green Bay Packers") later joined the NFL and went on to some success born on 6-16-1897 expired 4-9-2000 in Palos Heights, Illinois age 102 cause: pneumonia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
film director René Clair
expired 3-15-1981 in Neuilly, France age 82 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| folk singer William "Liam" Clancy last surviving member of the Irish folk group (Clancy Brothers) born on 9-2-1935 in Carrick-on-Suir, County Tipperary, Ireland expired 12-4-2009 in Cork, Ireland age 74 cause: pulmonary fibrosis | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| industrialist George Hubbard Clapp a founder of the Aluminum Company of America (ALCOA) expired 3-31-1949 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania age 90 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| artificial heart recipient Dentist Barney Bailey Clark born on 1-21-1921 in Provo, Utah expired 3-23-1982 in Salt Lake City, Utah age 61 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| movie director Benjamin "Bob" Clark gave the world Porky's (1982); co-wrote & directed A Christmas Story (1983) born on 8-5-1941 in New Orleans, Louisiana expired 4-4-2007 in Pacific Palisades, California age 65 cause: automobile crash | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| paper manufacturer Charles Benjamin Clark co-founder of Kimberly-Clark & Company (1872); Wisconsin rep. (1887-91) born on 8-24-1844 in Theresa, New York expired 9-10-1891 in Watertown, New York age 47 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
actor Dane Clark
expired 9-11-1998 in Santa Monica, California age 85 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Delecta "Dee" Clark Jr. recorded Raindrops in 1961 born on 11-7-1938 in Blytheville, Arkansas expired 12-7-1990 in Smyrna, Georgia age 52 cause: heart attack | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| frat band leader Douglas P. Clark leader of the Hot Nuts born on 6-18-1936 expired 9-16-2002 in Chapel Hill, North Carolina age 66 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
former Life magazine staff photographer Ed Clark took memorable photo of bandsmen Graham Jackson's accordion tribute to FDRborn on 7-3-1911 in Nashville, Tennessee expired 1-22-2000 in Sarasota, Florida age 88 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| actor Fred Clark born on 3-9-1914 in Lincoln, California expired 12-5-1968 in Santa Monica, California age 54 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| sports legend George "Potsy" Clark Michigan Agricultural College football coach (1920); Portsmouth (Ohio)/Detroit Lions coach (1931-37; 1940-42); Nebraska Athletic Director (1945-53) born on 3-20-1894 expired 11-8-1972 in La Jolla, California age 78 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Byrds co-founder Harold Eugene "Gene" Clark born on 11-17-1944 in Tipton, Missouri expired 5-24-1991 in Sherman Oaks, California age 46 cause: heart attack | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| former American Express head (1960-77) Howard Longstreth Clark Sr. born on 3-14-1916 in South Pasadena, California expired 2-2-2001 in Greenwich, Connecticut age 84 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| game show announcer Jack Clark expired 7-27-1988 age 62 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Texas death row inmate Jack Ward Clark rapist & murderer
expired 1-9-2001 in Huntsville, Texas age 37 cause: executed; lethal injection
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unrepentant former Dallas County (Alabama) Sheriff (1955-66) James Gardner Clark Jr. one of the doughy, good-ol'-boy racist peckerwood dopeheads that enforced the Jim Crow laws; along with Alabama State troopers was part of the March 7 1965 "Bloody Sunday" police riot against peaceful voting rights marchers, violently forcing them back across the Edmund Pettus Bridge, back to Selma where they had come from; in 1978 did 9 months in prison for marijuana smuggling; rot in hell, Jimboborn on 9-17-1922 in Elba, Alabama expired 6-4-2007 in Elba, Alabama age 84 cause: strokes; heart attacks; sheer spitefulness | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Shuttle STS-107 astronaut Laurel Blair Salton Clark born on 3-10-1961 in Ames, Iowa expired 2-1-2003 in over north-central Texas age 41 cause: disintegration of Shuttle Columbia during re-entry | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| former Detroit Lions head coach (1978-84) Monte Dale Clark born on 1-24-1937 in Filmore, California expired 9-16-2009 in Detroit, Michigan age 72 cause: bone marrow maglignancy; lung & liver disease AKS: Montie Monty | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Def Leppard guitarist Steve Clark born on 4-23-1960 in Sheffield, England expired 1-8-1991 age 30 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Truman Attorney General (1945-49) Tom Campbell Clark Supreme Court Associate Justice (1949-67); father of Ramsey born on 9-23-1899 in Dallas, Texas expired 6-13-1977 in New York, New York age 77 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| author Walter Van Tilburg Clark wrote The Ox-Bow Incident (1940) born on 8-3-1909 in East Orange, New Jersey expired 11-10-1971 in Reno, Nevada age 62 cause: cancer | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Louisiana Purchase co-explorer William Clark from 1804-1806 explored the region with Meriwether Lewis; Sacagawea was their guide born on 8-1-1770 in Caroline County, Virginia expired 9-1-1838 in Saint Louis, Missouri age 68 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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science fiction writer Sir Arthur Charles Clarke wrote 2001: A Space Odyssey book and screenplay for 1968 Kubrick movie; published a number of articles in Playboy born on 12-16-1917 in Minehead, Somerset, England expired 3-19-2008 in Colombo, Sri Lanka age 90 cause: cardio-respiratory attack; post-polio syndrome
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actress/teacher Caitlin Clarke mostly remembered as Valerian in Dragonslayer (1981)
expired 9-9-2004 in Sewickley, Pennsylvania age 52 cause: ovarian cancer AKS: Clark Kaitlin Caitlyn Kaitlyn Catherine Dragon Slayer Valerion Valerien Valeryon | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| sci-fi magazine publisher/editor Frederick S. Clarke founded Cinefantastique (1970) born on 11-20-1948 in Steubenville, Ohio expired 10-17-2000 in Adair County, Iowa age 51 cause: suicide; depression | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| classically trained saxophonist/oboist Jon Christopher Clarke played in the Loggins & Messina band born on 8-19-1950 in California expired 6-9-2005 in Ha'ena, Kaua'i, Hawaii age 54 cause: kidney cancer | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| historian Sir Kenneth MacKenzie Clarke born on 7-13-1903 in London, England expired 5-21-1983 in Hythe, Hampshire, England age 79
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| Kenneth Spearman "Kenny" Clarke original drummer in the Modern Jazz Quartet (1952-55) born on 1-19-1914 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania expired 1-25-1985 age 71 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
actress Mae Clarke got a grapefruit squished in her face by James Cagney in Public Enemy (1931)
expired 4-29-1992 age 81 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| author & BBC broadcaster Nicholas Campbell "Nick" Clarke has cancer born on 6-9-1948 in Godalming, Surrey, England expired 11-23-2006 age 58 cause: cancer
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| British screenwriter Thomas Ernest Bennett Clarke born on 6-7-1907 in Watford, England expired 2-11-1989 age 81 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
DD-movie actress Lana Jean Clarkson moviedom's legendary Barbarian Queen (two movies: 1985 & 1992); also appeared in Death Stalker and as Alpha Beta, Princess of the Moon, in Amazon Women on the Moon (1987; opposite Sybil Danning's own "talents")born on 4-5-1962 in Long Beach, California expired 2-3-2003 in Alhambra, California age 40 cause: Phil Spector's famed Wall of Bullets (gunshot to face) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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biologist Albert Claude shared the 1974 Nobel prize in medicine born on 8-23-1899 in Longlier, Belgium expired 5-22-1983 in Brussels, Belgium age 83 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| French inventor Georges Claude inventor of the neon light born on 9-24-1870 in Paris, France expired 5-23-1960 in Paris, France age 89 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
fourth Roman Emperor Claudius I nephew of Tiberius installed as Emperor by the Praetorian Guard after the assassination of Caligula; ruled the empire from 41 to 54; married his niece (Agrippina), adopted her son (Nero) as heir (over his natural son Brittanicus); poisoned by Agrippina; central figure in the books I, Claudius and Claudius the God by Robert Graves
expired 10-13-54 in Rome, Italy age 64 cause: muscarine poisoning; (poisoned mushrooms) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| novelist & screenwriter James Edmund DuMaresq Clavell wrote King Rat, Tai-Pan and Shogun, and screenplays for The Great Escape, To Sir With Love (1967; also directed) and the original version of The Fly (1958) born on 10-10-1924 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia expired 9-6-1994 in Vevay, Switzerland age 69 cause: cancer | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Cassius Marcellus Clay Sr. father of boxer Mohammed Ali born on 11-11-1912 expired 2-8-1990 age 77 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| orator, U.S. Rep. & Senator Henry Clay born on 4-12-1777 in Hanover County, Virginia expired 6-29-1852 in Washington, District of Columbia age 75 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Texas death row inmate Keith Bernard Clay
expired 3-20-2003 in Huntsville, Texas age 35 cause: executed; lethal injection
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| post WWII European commander General Lucius du Bignon Clay ordered the Berlin Airlift to counter the Russian blockade of the city born on 4-23-1897 in Marietta, Georgia expired 4-25-1978 in Chatham, Massachusetts age 80 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
ballad singer Sonji Clay-Glover first wife of Cassius Marcellus Clay Jr. (8/14/1964-1/1966); later married to Reynaldo Glover Sr. (mother of Jr.) - also ended in divorce
expired 10-11-2005 in Chicago, Illinois age 59 cause: heart attack | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Oklahoma death row inmate Robert William "Randy" Clayton born on 1-8-1961 expired 3-1-2001 in McAlester, Oklahoma age 40 cause: executed; lethal injection
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| Mormon pioneer William H. Clayton invented the odometer; said to have had 10 wives born on 7-17-1814 in Charock Moss, Lancastershire, England expired 12-4-1879 in Salt Lake City, Utah age 65 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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former Black Panther leader Leroy Eldridge Cleaver author of Soul on Ice (1968); no relation to Wally or the Beav born on 8-31-1935 in Wabbaseka, Arkansas expired 4-30-1998 in Pomona, California age 62 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
author, publisher & lecturer Samuel Langhorne Clemens
expired 4-21-1910 in Redding, Connecticut age 74 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| film director René Clément directed Is Paris Burning? (1966) born on 3-18-1913 in Bordeaux, France expired 3-17-1996 age 82 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Pittsburgh Pirates outfielder Roberto Clemente born on 8-18-1934 in Carolina, Commonwealth of Puerto Rico expired 12-31-1972 in San Juan, Commonwealth of Puerto Rico age 38 cause: plane crash | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| bluegrass fiddler Vassar Clements born on 4-25-1928 in Kinard, Florida expired 8-16-2005 in Goodlettsville, Tennessee age 77 cause: lung cancer; liver cancer; brain cancer AKS: Kenard South Carolina | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Woodrow Wilson Clements former chairman of Dr. Pepper
expired 10-3-2002 in Dallas, Texas age 88 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| former NY Met player Donn Alvin Clendenon Sr. was the MVP of the 1969 World Series born on 7-15-1935 in Neosho, Missouri expired 9-17-2005 in Sioux Falls, South Dakota age 70 cause: leukemia
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| last Ptolemeic ruler of Egypt Cleopatra VII mistress of two Roman rulers --- first Julius Caesar, then Marc Antony born on --69 BC in Alexandria, Egypt expired 11-30-30 BC in Alexandria, Egypt age 39 cause: suicide; asp bite | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Metropolitan Opera conductor (1922-71) Fausto Cleva born on 5-17-1902 in Trieste, Italy expired 8-6-1971 in Athens, Greece age 69 cause: heart attack | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Playboy April 1979 Playmate of Month Amanda A. "Missy" Cleveland her first Playboy appearance was in the January 1979 "Great Playmate Hunt" feature born on 12-25-1959 in Jackson, Mississippi expired 8-14-2001 in Yazoo City, Mississippi age 41 cause: adverse reaction to prescription medication | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| jazz trombonist James M. "Jimmy" Cleveland born on 5-3-1926 in Wartrace, Tennessee expired 8-23-2008 in Lynwood, California age 82 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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22nd (1885-89) and 24th (1893-97) U.S. president Stephen Grover Cleveland born on 3-18-1837 in Caldwell, New Jersey expired 6-24-1908 in Princeton, New Jersey age 71 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| former Secretary of Defense & oily BCCI dupe/flunky Clark McAdams Clifford born on 12-25-1906 in Fort Scott, Kansas expired 10-11-1998 in Bethesda, Maryland age 91 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| actor Montgomery Edward Clift born on 10-17-1920 in Omaha, Nebraska expired 7-23-1966 in New York, New York age 45 cause: coronary artery occlusion | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| movie director Edward F. Cline directed You Can't Cheat an Honest Man (1939), My Little Chickadee (1940), The Bank Dick (1940), Never Give a Sucker and Even Break (1941) & Hello, Sucker (1941) born on 11-7-1892 in Kenosha, Wisconsin expired 5-22-1961 in Hollywood, California age 68 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
country singer Patsy Cline first hit: Walkin' After Midnight (1957); aboard same plane as Cowboy Copas & Hawkshaw Hawkins
expired 3-5-1963 in Camden, Tennessee age 30 cause: plane crash | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Jefferson 2nd term vice president (1805-09) & Madison 1st term vice president (1809-12) George Clinton opposed adoption of U.S. Constitution; New York governor 1777-95 & 1801-04 born on 7-26-1739 in Little Britain, New York expired 4-20-1812 in Washington, District of Columbia age 72 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
actor Colin Clive played Dr. Henry Frankenstein in Frankenstein (1931) and Bride of Frankenstein (1935); noted for the exclamation "Its Alive!"
expired 6-26-1937 in Hollywood, California age 37 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
stop-motion animator Art Clokey co-creator of Gumby & Davey and Goliath
expired 1-8-2010 in Los Osos, California age 88 cause: bladder infection | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
former Weekly World News editor (1981-2000) Harold Edward "Eddie" Clontz Jr. author of the vitriolic Ed Anger "opinion" column; gave the world Bat Boy; wrote 1988 headline The King of Rock 'N' Roll Faked His Death and Is Living in Kalamazoo, Michigan born on 7-26-1947 in Charlotte, North Carolina expired 1-26-2004 in Salt Springs, Florida age 56 cause: liver & kidney failure; diabetes | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| singer Rosemary Clooney mother of Miguel Ferrer; aunt of George born on 5-23-1928 in Maysville, Kentucky expired 6-29-2002 in Beverly Hills, California age 74 cause: complications from lung cancer | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| soccer "legend" Brian Howard Clough was a successful player and coach born on 3-21-1935 in Middlesbrough, North Yorkshire, England expired 9-20-2004 in Derby, Derbyshire, England age 69 cause: stomach cancer | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| movie director Henri-Georges Clouzot made The Wages of Fear (1952) & Diabolique (1954) expired 1-12-1977 in Paris, France age 69 cause: heart attack | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| David Carr Clover Jr. wrote the Mickey Mouse March ("Who's the leader of the club that's made for you and me?") expired 9-30-1988 age 63 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Grand Ole Opry comic Jerry Clower born on 9-28-1926 in Liberty, Mississippi expired 8-24-1998 in Jackson, Mississippi age 71 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| theater producer/director/critic Harold Clurman born on 9-18-1901 in New York, New York expired 9-18-1980 in New York, New York age 79 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Rear Admiral Wat Tyler Cluverius survived the 1898 sinking of the U.S.S. Maine in Havana Harbor expired 10-28-1952 in New Haven, Connecticut age 77 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| tv & movie actor Andy Clyde born on 3-25-1892 in Blairgowrie, Scotland expired 5-18-1967 in Los Angeles, California age 75 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nirvana lead singer Kurt Cobain born on 2-20-1967 in Hoquiam, Washington expired 4-7-1994 in Seattle, Washington age 27 cause: suicide; shotgun wound to head | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1920s Our Gang child actor (1923-29) Joe Cobb born on 11-7-1917 in Shawnee, Oklahoma expired 5-21-2002 in Santa Ana, California age 84 cause: natural causes | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
actor Lee J. Cobb played ZOWIE head Lloyd Cramden in the Flint movies; originate role of Willy Loman in Death of a Salesman (1949)
expired 2-11-1976 in Woodland Hills, California age 64 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| baseball star Tyrus Raymond "Ty" Cobb born on 12-18-1886 in Narrows, Georgia expired 7-17-1961 in Atlanta, Georgia age 74 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
former pro wrassler William J. Cobb
expired 3-14-1989 age 62 cause: heart attack | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| New Yorker cartoonist Sam Cobean a friend of Charles Addams; six of his cartoons appeared poshumously in April 1954 Playboy born on --1913 expired 7-2-1951 in Watkins Glen, New York age 38 cause: car crash | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| actor Charles Douville Coburn born on 6-19-1877 in Savannah, Georgia expired 8-30-1961 in New York, New York age 84 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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actor James H. Coburn III played former ZOWIE agent Derek Flint in several movies; won Best Supporting Actor oscar for playing Glen Whitehouse in Affliction (1997); was the voice of Monsters, Inc. CEO Henry Waternoose (2001) born on 8-31-1928 in Laurel, Nebraska expired 11-18-2002 in Beverly Hills, California age 74 cause: heart attack
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| Imogene Fernandez y Coca born on 11-18-1908 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania expired 6-2-2001 in Westport, Connecticut age 92 cause: "natural causes"
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rock guitarist Eddie Cochran
expired 4-17-1960 in Chippenham, Wiltshire, England age 21 cause: brain injuries sustained in taxi crash | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| country singer/songwriter Garland Perry "Hank" Cochran wrote for Eddy Arnold, Patsy Cline, Merle Haggard, Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson, Elvis Presley, ... born on 8-2-1935 in Isola, Mississippi expired 7-15-2010 in Hendersonville, Tennessee age 74 cause: pancreatic cancer | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| housewife Grace Wallace Cochran botulism poisoning victim (husband died of same) born on 5-5-1907 expired 4-29-2002 in Chatham, New Jersey age 94 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
litigator Johnnie L. Cochran Jr. a member of O.J.'s "dream team"; "If the gloves don't fit, you must acquit!"born on 10-2-1937 in Shreveport, Louisiana expired 3-29-2005 in Los Angeles, California age 67 cause: brain tumor; brain cancer AKS: Johnny Cochrane | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Playboy December 1962 Playmate of Month & 1963 Playmate of the Year June Cochran a model for the Little Annie Fannie cartoon character that appeared in Playboy born on 2-20-1942 in Indianapolis, Indiana expired 5-21-2004 in Wisconsin age 62 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bank of New York vice-president Samuel Cochran Jr. sole fatality from 1971 Bon Vivant botulism incident (his wife nearly died, however) born on 1-11-1910 expired 6-30-1971 in Mount Kisco, New York age 61 cause: botulism poisoning | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| co-founder of Universal Pictures Philip D. Cochrane partnered with Carl Laemmle Sr. in founding IMP Corp. in 1906 (it became Universal Pictures in 1912) expired 8-8-1958 in New Rochelle, New York age 81 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Universal Pictures co-founder Robert H. Cochrane in 1906 loaned Carl Laemmle Sr. the money to found the studio; was vice president of studio until Laemmle left, then became president born on 12-27-1879 in Wheeling, West Virginia expired 5-31-1973 in New Rochelle, New York age 93 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| comic book illustrator David Emmett Cochrum created the X-Men characters Nightcrawler & Storm born on 11-12-1943 in Portland, Oregon expired 11-26-2006 in Belpon, South Carolina age 63 cause: complications from diabetes AKS: Cockrum Cochram Cockram | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| oldest Aussie Christina Cock born on 12-25-1887 expired 5-22-2002 in Blackburn, Victoria, Australia age 114 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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physicist Sir John Douglas Cockcroft shared the 1951 Nobel Prize for the transmutation of atomic nuclei by artificially accelerated atomic particles; also worked on the development of defensive radar born on 5-27-1897 in Todmorden, Langfield, West Yorkshire, England expired 9-18-1967 in Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England age 70 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
retired IBM research scientist John Cocke proponent of RISC processor design (Reduced Instruction Set Computing); awarded 1987 A.M. Turing Awardborn on 5-30-1925 in Charlotte, North Carolina expired 7-16-2002 in Valhalla, New York age 77 cause: "a long illness"; strokes | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| hovercraft inventor Sir Christopher Cockerell born on 6-4-1910 expired 6-1-1999 in Hythe, Hampshire, England age 88 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| rotund comedian James Emil Coco born on 3-21-1929 in New York, New York expired 2-25-1987 age 57 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Jean Cocteau French poet, playwright, novelist, essayist, critic, artist, movie & theatrical producer and director born on 7-5-1889 in Maisons-Lafitte, France expired 10-11-1963 in Milly-la-Foret, France age 74 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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IBM computer scientist Edgar Frank "Ted" Codd creator of the relational database model (1970); recipient of the 1981 A.M. Turing Award born on 8-23-1923 in Portland Bill, Dorset, England expired 4-18-2003 in Williams Island, Florida age 79 cause: heart failure | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| machinist & hot rod designer Boyd Leon Coddington host of the American Hot Rod cable tv series born on 8-28-1944 in Rupert, Idaho expired 2-27-2008 in Whittier, California age 63 cause: complications from surgery; diabetes | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| actor "Iron Eyes" Cody played the Indian Chief in the environmental movement ads born on 4-3-1904 in Oklahoma Territory expired 1-4-1999 in Los Angeles, California age 94 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Cardinal John Patrick Cody born on 12-24-1907 in Saint Louis, Missouri expired 4-25-1982 age 74 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| "Wild West" showman William Frederick "Buffalo Bill" Cody one-time partner with Pawnee Bill born on 2-26-1846 in Scout County, Iowa expired 1-10-1917 in Denver, Colorado age 70 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| tv producer Fred Coe co-creator of the Mr. Peepers tv series (1952-56); producer of the PBS miniseries The Adams Chronicles (1976) born on 12-23-1914 in Alligator, Mississippi expired 4-29-1979 in Los Angeles, California age 64 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| electrical engineer Merle Coffee worked at Hughes Aircraft Co.; as radio operator aboard the Spruce Goose sat behind Howard during it's only flight (11-2-1947) born on 3-22-1915 in Gassville, Arkansas expired 1-5-2005 in San Pedro, California age 89 cause: cancer | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| one of the last surviving World War I U.S. Army military veterans John Russell Coffey born on 9-1-1898 in Crawford County, Ohio expired 12-20-2007 in North Baltimore, Ohio age 109 AKS: Coffee | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| purported supergeezer Oberia Coffin the Guinness Book was unable to confirm her claim; they were also unable to refute her claim born on 12-1-1883 in Dalby Springs, Texas expired 10-18-2006 in Texarkana, Texas age 122 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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former Yale chaplain William Sloane Coffin Jr. big in peace activism circles born on 6-1-1924 in New York, New York expired 4-12-2006 in Strafford, Vermont age 81 cause: congestive heart failure
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| former U Colorado basketball player Melvin J. Coffman played on their final four team (1954-55) born on 5-9-1931 in Ponca City, Oklahoma expired 4-18-2005 in Reno, Nevada age 73 cause: throat cancer
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| David Joseph Cogan co-producer of A Raisin in the Sun on Broadway (1959) born on 7-24-1923 in Romania expired 2-7-2002 in New Bedford, New York age 78 cause: lung cancer | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| former Archbishop of Canterbury (1974-80) Rev. Frederick Donald Coggan born on 10-9-1909 in London, England expired 5-17-2000 age 90 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| actor, songwriter, producer George Michael Cohan wrote Its a Grand Old Flag and Over There born on 7-3-1878 in Providence, Rhode Island expired 11-5-1942 in New York, New York age 64 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| last Look Magazine sports editor (1944-65) Timothy H. Cohane as a publicist for Fordham University gave the Ram's linemen the name Seven Blocks of Granite (1929) born on 2-7-1912 expired 1-22-1989 in Nashua, New Hampshire age 76 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Broadway producer Alexander Henry Cohen brought the Tony Awards to television; produced Hellzapoppin' --- a 1967 version in Montreal starred Soupy Sales & a 1977 version with Jerry Lewis was a $2,000,000 flop born on 7-24-1920 in New York, New York expired 4-22-2000 in New York, New York age 79 cause: emphysema | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| San Francisco Oracle founder & publisher (1966-68) Allen I. Cohen lived & worked in the Haight- born on 4-23-1940 in New York, New York expired 4-29-2004 in Walnut Creek, California age 64 cause: liver cancer | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bessie Gabrilowich Cohen next- expired 2-21-1999 in Los Angeles, California age 107 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| movie producer/writer Herman Cohen produced I Was a Teenage Werewolf (1957) & I Was a Teenage Frankenstein (1957) born on 8-27-1927 in Detroit, Michigan expired 6-2-2002 in Los Angeles, California age 76 cause: throat cancer | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Broadway/movie actress and tv writer/producer Hildy Parks Parks widow of Broadway producer Alexander Cohen (her second husband, after Jackie Cooper); wrote the first Tony Awards telecasts; also wrote several Emmy broadcasts born on 3-12-1926 in Washington, District of COlumbia expired 10-7-2004 in Englewood, New Jersey age 78 cause: complications from stroke | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| chamber music violinist Isidore Cohen played with the Juilliard String Quartet (1958-68) & the Beaux Arts Trio (1968-92) born on 12-16-1922 in New York, New York expired 6-23-2005 in New York, New York age 82 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| California mobster Meyer Harris "Mickey" Cohen controlled the gambling rackets in California in the 1940s and 50s; L.A. Confidential starts with his arrest born on 9-4-1913 in New York, New York expired 7-29-1976 in Los Angeles, California age 62 cause: stomach cancer | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| dialect commedian Myron Aaron Cohen born on 7-1-1902 in Grodna, Poland (now Hrodna, Belarus) expired 3-10-1986 in Nyack, New York age 83 cause: heart attack
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| Paul Cohen founder of the Muscular Dystrophy Association of America born on 1-24-1917 expired 4-25-1968 in New York, New York age 51 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| mean, parsimonius studio head Harry Cohn co-founder of Columbia Pictures; subject of famous quote by Red Skelton born on 7-23-1891 in New York, New York expired 2-27-1958 in Phoenix, Arizona age 66 cause: coronary thrombosis | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Jack Cohn co-founder of Columbia Pictures, first studio to produce cartoons and newsreels expired 12-8-1956 in New York, New York age 67 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| pandering, syncophantic, slimy "lawyer" Roy Marcus Cohn Joe McCarthy's pet weasel/council; no punishment of Hell would be adequate for this slug born on 2-20-1927 in New York, New York expired 8-2-1986 age 59 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
actress Claudette Colbert
expired 7-30-1996 in Barbados age 92
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| former Chrysler Chairman Lester Lum "Tex" Colbert born on 6-13-1905 in Oakwood, Tennessee expired 9-15-1995 age 90 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
model, actress, Paramount executive & Today cohost Anita Colby
expired 3-27-1992 age 77 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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former CIA director (1973-75) William Egan Colby born on 1-4-1920 in Saint Paul, Minnesota expired 4-27-1996 in Wicomico River, Maryland age 76 cause: drowned | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| former GM president Edward N. Cole created the Corvair (1969); head of Checker Motors Corp. at his death born on 9-17-1909 in Berlin, Michigan (now Marne) expired 5-2-1977 in Vicksburg, Michigan age 67 cause: plane crash | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Christian Men's Network founder (1979) Edwin Louis Cole dubbed the "father of the Christian men's movement" born on 9-14-1922 in Dallas, Texas expired 8-27-2002 in Southlake, Texas age 79 cause: bone marrow cancer | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| jazz pianist Isaac "Ike" Cole brother of Nat & Freddy; uncle of Natalie born on 7-13-1927 in Chicago, Illinois expired 4-22-2001 in Sun Lakes, Arizona age 73 cause: cancer | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| cartoonist John Ralph "Jack" Cole created Plastic Man (1941); did monthly cartoons in early Playboy issues (1954-58) born on 12-14-1915 in New Castle, Pennsylvania expired 8-13-1958 in Woodstock, Illinois age 43 cause: suicide; gunshot to head; depression | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Hollywood Ten screen writer Lester Cole wrote screenplay for Born Free under pen name "Gerald L.C. Copley" born on 6-19-1904 in New York, New York expired 8-15-1985 in San Francisco, California age 81 cause: heart attack | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
singer Nathaniel Adams "Nat King" Cole father of Natalie; brother of Ike & Freddy
expired 2-15-1965 in Santa Monica, California age 45 cause: lung cancer | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| child radio actor Shirley Adrienne Bell Cole had been the radio voice of Little Orphan Annie (1930-40) born on 2-21-1920 in Chicago, Illinois expired 1-12-2010 in Bayfield, Colorado age 89 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| New York representative (1935-56) Sterling William Cole co-author of the Atomic Energy Act (1954) born on 8-18-1904 in Painted Post, New York expired 3-15-1987 in Washington, District of Columbia age 82 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| jazz drummer William R. "Cozy" Cole born on 10-17-1909 in East Orange, New Jersey expired 1-29-1981 in Columbus, Ohio age 71 cause: cancer | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
murderer Alton Coleman convicted in Illinois, Indiana & Ohio
expired 4-26-2002 in Lucasville, Ohio age 46 cause: executed; lethal injection | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| actress Charlotte Coleman played Scarlett in Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994) born on 4-3-1968 in London, England expired 11-14-2001 in London, England age 33 cause: severe asthma attack | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
composer Cy Coleman wrote Big Spender, Hey, Look Me Over, Witchcraft & the Playboy Theme (1960) as well as the music for the shows Sweet Charity and City of Angels
expired 11-18-2004 in New York, New York age 75 cause: heart failure | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| jazz singer Earl Coleman born on 8-12-1925 expired 7-12-1995 age 69 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
born on 2-8-1968 in Zion, Illinois expired 5-28-2010 in Provo, Utah age 42 cause: removed fro life support; intercranial hemorrhage
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| poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge wrote The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Kublai Khan born on 10-21-1772 in Ottery Saint Mary, England expired 7-25-1834 in London, England age 61 AKS: Colleridge | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| tap dancer Charles L. "Honi" Coles born on 4-2-1911 expired 11-12-1992 age 81 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| movie producer Robert F. Colesberry associate producer of The King of Comedy (1983) & The Natural (1984); producer of Mississippi Burning (1988) & The Road to Wellville (1994) born on 3-7-1946 expired 2-9-2004 in New York, New York age 57 cause: complications from heart surgery | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Grant 1st term vice president (1869-73) Schuyler Colfax corruption scandal ended his career born on 3-23-1823 in New York, New York expired 1-13-1885 in Mankato, Minnesota age 61 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| actor John Colicos Star Trek's first Klingon, Kor, D'Har Master: Errand of Mercy (1966), Blood Oath (1994), Sword of Kahless (1995) and Once More Into the Breach (1998); also played Baltar on Battlestar Galactica born on 12-10-1928 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada expired 3-6-2000 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada age 71 cause: heart attack | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| CBS correspondent Charles Cummings Collingwood one of "Murrow's Boys" born on 6-4-1917 in Three Rivers, Michigan expired 10-3-1985 age 68
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| child murder victim Addie Mae Collins killed by KKK goons in church bombing born on 4-18-1949 in Birmingham, Alabama expired 9-15-1963 in Birmingham, Alabama age 14 cause: bomb explosion | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Lynyrd Skynyrd lead guitarist (1966-77) Allen Collins born on 7-19-1952 in Jacksonville, Florida expired 1-23-1990 in Jacksonville, Florida age 37 cause: respiratory failure; pneumonia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| self-described "electrical physicist" Arthur "Archie" Frederick Collins purported inventor of the wireless telephone (1899); co-founded the Collins Marine Wireless Telephone Co. (1903); indicted for using mails to sell worthless stock (1911), did time in Federal pen; in later years wrote simplistic technology books; died sometime after 1949 & before 1954 born on 6-8-1869 in South Bend, Indiana expired ??-??-19?? in Congers, New York age ?? | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Alabama Power Co. commercial manager Ashton B. Collins Sr. came up with idea for Reddy Kilowatt (introduced March 11, 1926)born on 9-14-1885 expired 12-??-1976 age 91 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Notre Dame football player Charles C. Collins left end; member of 1924 line nicknamed "The Seven Mules" that fronted "the Four Horsemen"; North Carolina football coach (1926-33) born on 8-27-1903 in Chicago, Illinois expired 4-14-1977 in Ridgewood, New Jersey age 73 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chrissie Collins with husband devised the MedicAlert bracelet; the MedicAlert foundation was founded in 1956
expired 1-8-2001 in Turlock, California age 94 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Malcolm X's half-sister Ella Mae Collins raised him after the death of their father and institutionalization of their mother
expired 8-3-1996 age 82 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| jazz guitarist John Elbert Collins worked with Art Tatum, Billie Holiday, Benny Carter, Errol Garner, Billy Taylor, Nat "King" Cole, Patti Page & Bobby Troup born on 9-20-1913 in Montgomery, Alabama expired 10-4-2001 in West Los Angeles, California age 88 cause: cancer | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| journalist/author John Lawrence Collins Jr. co-wrote Is Paris Burning? (1965) & O Jerusalem (1972) born on 9-14-1929 in Hartford, Connecticut expired 6-20-2005 in Fréjus, France age 75 cause: cerebral hemorrhage | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Levi "Too Tight" Collins purported to have been involved in the kidnapping/murder of Emmett Till born on 1-20-1923 expired 4-23-1993 in Drew, Mississippi age 70 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| celebrity hypnotist Patricia A. Collins born on 5-7-1935 expired 5-31-1997 in San Bernardino, California age 62 cause: stroke | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
exploitation-flick actress Roberta L. "Bobbie" Collins was Alcott in The Big Doll House (1971), Belle Tyson in Caged Heat (1974), Matilda the Hun in Death Race 2000 (1975) & Lana Logan in Hardbodies I & II
expired 8-16-2008 in Los Angeles, California age 63 cause: under dispute (awaiting ruling from the replay booth) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| New York Yankees "alternate" catcher Tharon Patrick Collins batted eighth in Murderers' Row born on 9-13-1896 in Sweet Springs, Missouri expired 5-20-1960 in Kansas City, Kansas age 63 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
author Carlo Collodi wrote Pinocchio (1880)
expired 10-26-1890 age 63 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| quiz show host Clayton "Bud" Collyer voiced the role of Superman on radio born on 6-18-1908 in New York, New York expired 9-8-1969 in Greenwich, Connecticut age 61
AKS: Collier | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| British actor Ronald Colman had lead role in Lost Horizon (1937) born on 2-9-1891 in Richmond, England expired 5-19-1958 in Santa Barbara, California age 67 AKS: Coleman | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Dr. Henry P. Colmore physician who identified botulism toxin in a can of Bon Vivant vichyssoise (1971) born on 10-23-1904 expired 11-13-1973 in Mount Kisco, New York age 69 cause: cerebral hemorrhage | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| musician/comedian Gerald "Jerry" Colonna frequent co-hort of Bob Hope born on 9-17-1905 in Boston, Massachusetts expired 11-21-1986 in Woodland Hills, California age 81
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Catholic Church leader (1417-1431) Oddone Colonna elected 207th Pope of the Roman Catholic Church November 11, 1417 by the Council of Constance, ending the Western Schism
expired 2-20-1432 in Rome, Italy age 63 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
jazz pianist Alice Coltrane widow of John Coltrane
expired 1-12-2007 in Los Angeles, California age 69 cause: respiratory failure | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| jazz saxophonist John William Coltrane born on 9-26-1926 in Hamlet, North Carolina expired 7-17-1967 in Huntington, New York age 40 cause: liver cancer | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
explorer Christopher Columbus convinced Castilian Queen Isabella to bankroll his westward search for Cathay (he found two continents instead)
expired 5-20-1506 in Spain age 55 cause: heart failure; Reiter's syndrome | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| formerly much-hear voice Vance DeBar "Pinto" Colvig Sr. provided the voice of Goofy and the sounds of Pluto; first to provide the voice of Bozo the Clown for a Capitol Records project (1946); later became the first to perform Bozo (1949 on KTTV-tv in L.A.) born on 9-11-1892 in Jacksonville, Oregon expired 10-3-1967 in Woodland Hills, California age 75 cause: lung cancer | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| zit creame developer (1949) Ivan DeBlois Combe created Clearasil; marketed Grecian Formula 16, Lanacane, Odor-Eaters & Vagisil born on 4-21-1911 in Fremont, Iowa expired 1-11-2000 in Greenwich, Connecticut age 88 cause: stroke | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
early women's bodybuilder Laura Combes the first AAU Ms. America (1980)born on 10-19-1953 in New York, New York expired 10-4-1989 in Odessa, Florida age 35 cause: alcohol poisoning AKS: Combs | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
New York Yankees center fielder (1924-35) Earle Bryan Combs batted first in Murderers' Row
expired 7-21-1976 in Richmond, Kentucky age 77 cause: "a long illness"
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game show host Ray Combs Family Feud host (1988-94)born on 4-3-1956 in Hamilton, Ohio expired 6-2-1996 in Los Angeles, California age 40 cause: suicide; hanged himself in a hospital suicide ward | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Broadway librettist Betty Comden with Adolph Green & Judy Holliday formed singing group "The Revues" (1939); collaborated with Green on shows such as On The Town, Bells are Ringing & Wonderful Town; penned screenplay for Singin' in the Rain (1952)
expired 11-23-2006 in New York, New York age 89 cause: heart failure
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| biologist Dr. Alexander Comfort author of The Joy of Sex (1972) born on 2-10-1920 in London, England expired 3-26-2000 in Banbury, Oxfordshire, England age 80 cause: complications from stroke | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
blacklisted actress Dorothy Comingore played Susan Alexander Kane (second, trophy wife, of Charles Foster Kane) in Citizen Kane (1941); never worked in films again after being blacklisted by McCarthy (1951)
expired 12-30-1971 in Stonington, Connecticut age 58 cause: "a long illness" | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Chicago White Stockings (Sox) team founder (1900) Charles Albert Comiskey notorious cheapskate; his 1919 team threw the World Series born on 8-15-1859 in Chicago, Illinois expired 10-26-1931 in Eagle River, Wisconsin age 72 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| orchestra conductor Sergiu Comissiona born on 6-16-1928 in Bucharest, Roumania expired 3-5-2005 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma age 76 cause: stroke | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| historian Henry Steele Commager born on 10-25-1902 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania expired 3-2-1998 in Amherst, Massachusetts age 95 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
comatizing crooner Perry Como
expired 5-12-2001 in Jupiter Inlet Colony, Florida age 88
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| shoemaker Léon Compère-Léandre survived the May 8, 1902 eruption of Mt. Pelée born on --1874 expired ??-??-1936 age 62 AKS: Leon Compere Leandre | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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physicist Arthur Holly Compton key figure in development of the A-bomb; 1927 Nobel co-laureate in physics (shared with Wilson) for development of the cloud chamber born on 9-10-1892 in Wooster, Ohio expired 3-15-1962 in Berkeley, California age 69 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| former New York representative (1965-84) Barber Benjamin Conable Jr. from 1986 through 1991 was president of the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (aka: the World Bank) born on 11-2-1922 in Warsaw, New York expired 11-30-2003 in Sarasota, Florida age 81 cause: complications from staph infection | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| jazz guitarist Albert Edwin "Eddie" Condon born on 11-16-1905 in Goodland, Indiana expired 8-4-1973 in New York, New York age 67 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Our Gang child actor John "Jackie" Condon appeared in 1922 silent shorts of the series born on 3-25-1918 in Los Angeles, California expired 10-13-1977 in Inglewood, California age 59 cause: cancer | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| author Richard Thomas Condon wrote Manchurian Candidate & Prizzi's Honor born on 3-18-1915 in New York, New York expired 4-9-1996 in Dallas, Texas age 81 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Catholic Church leader (1431-1447) Gabriello Condulmaro elected 208th Pope of the Roman Catholic Church March 4, 1431
expired 2-23-1447 in Rome, Italy age 58 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| advertising executive Fairfax Mastick Cone co-founded Foote, Cone & Belding (1942); came up with slogan "LSMFT - Lucky Strike Means Fine Tobacco" born on 2-21-1903 in San Francisco, California expired 6-20-1977 in Carmel, California age 74 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| philosopher Confucius born on 8-27-551 BC expired 11-21-479 BC age 72 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ex-baseball player Richard Anthony "Tony" Conigliaro born on 1-7-1945 in Revere, Massachusetts expired 2-24-1990 age 45 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| silent screen comic Chester Conklin appeared in the Keystone Kops series; had walrus mustache born on 1-11-1888 in Oskaloosa, Iowa expired 10-11-1971 in Van Nuys, California age 83 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Broadway actress Peggy Conklin born on 11-2-1902 in Dobbs Ferry, New York expired 3-18-2003 in Naples, Florida age 96 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| soul singer Arthur Conley his big hit: Sweet Soul Music (1967; co-written with Otis Redding) born on 1-4-1946 in McIntosh, Georgia expired 11-17-2003 in Ruurlo, The Netherlands age 57 cause: intestinal cancer | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Idanell "Nellie" Connally widow of former Texas governor; last surviving passenger in the limo in which JFK was assassinated (she was seated in the middle row, in front of Jackie, to the left of her husband)
expired 9-1-2006 in Austin, Texas age 87 AKS: Connelly | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| former Texas Governor (1963-69) & Nixon Treasury Secretary (1971-72) John Bowden Connally Jr. was in front seat of car with/hit by 1st bullet that struck JFK born on 2-27-1917 in Floresville, Texas expired 6-15-1993 in Houston, Texas age 76 cause: pulmonary fibrosis
AKS: Connelly | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Catherine Uhlmyer Connelly next-
expired 10-17-2002 in Wilton, Connecticut age 109 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| actor Christopher Connelly born on 9-8-1941 in Wichita, Kansas expired 12-7-1988 age 47 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| tv producer Joseph E. Connelly co-creator of Leave It To Beaver (1957-63) & The Munsters born on 8-22-1917 in New York, New York expired 2-13-2003 in Newport Beach, Florida age 85 cause: complications from stroke | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| raconteur & playwright Marcus Cook Connelly won a Pulitzer prize for 1929 play The Green Pastures; member of the Algonquin Round Table & its offshoot, the Thanatopsis Inside Straight Literary and Chowder Club born on 12-13-1890 in McKeesport, Pennsylvania expired 12-21-1980 in New York, New York age 90 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| trombone player/bandleader Ray Conniff born on 11-6-1916 in Attleboro, Massachusetts expired 10-12-2002 in Los Angeles, California age 85 cause: head trauma suffered in fall (a complication from April stroke) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| former college lineman/pro linebacker George Leo Connor first winner of the Outland Trophy born on 1-21-1925 in Chicago, Illinois expired 3-31-2003 in Evanston, Illinois age 78 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Johnson Commerce Secretary (1965-67) John T. "Jack" Connor born on 11-3-1914 expired 10-6-2000 in Boston, Massachusetts age 85 cause: blood cancer | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| segregationist Birmingham, Alabama police commissioner (1936-52; 1956-63) Theophilus Eugene "Bull" Connor used fire hoses & sicced dogs on civil rights demonstrators --- booted out in 1963 born on 7-11-1897 in Selma, Alabama expired 3-10-1973 in Birmingham, Alabama age 75 cause: stroke | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Rifleman actor Chuck Connors played gunfighter Swifty Morgan in Support your Local Gunfighter (1971) and assassin Tab Fielding in Soylent Green (1973) born on 4-10-1921 in New York, New York expired 11-8-1992 in Los Angeles, California age 71 cause: lung cancer
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| model agency head Harry Sales Conover coined term "Cover Girl" born on 8-29-1911 in Chicago, Illinois expired 7-21-1965 in New York, New York age 53 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Gemini V & XI,Apollo 12 and Skylab 2 astronaut Charles "Pete" Conrad Jr. third man to walk on the moon born on 6-2-1930 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania expired 7-8-1999 in Ojai, California age 69 cause: internal bleeding from motorcycle crash | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Westinghouse Electric engineer Dr. Frank Conrad invented the round-type home electric meter (1897); started KDKA radio in his garage
expired 12-11-1941 in Miami, Florida age 67 cause: complications from heart attack | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
author Joseph Conrad wrote Lord Jim, Nostromo and Heart of Darkness
expired 8-3-1924 age 66 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Hill Street Blues actor Michael Conrad "...lets be careful out there..." born on 10-16-1925 in New York, New York expired 11-21-1983 age 58 cause: cancer | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| William Conrad radio's Matt Dillon (Gunsmoke); Rocky & Bullwinkle's announcer; Cannon; Jake's fatman born on 9-27-1920 in Louisville, Kentucky expired 2-11-1994 age 73 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| actor Frank Foster "Hans" Conried II had title role in The Five Thousand Fingers of Dr. T; played Uncle Tanoose on Make Room for Daddy born on 4-1-1915 in Baltimore, Maryland expired 1-5-1982 in Burbank, California age 66 cause: heart attack | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| former Fordham Ram lineman John Patrick Conroy member of the Seven Blocks of Granite born on 12-28-1907 expired 10-31-2003 in Portland, Maine age 95 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| radio-tv journalist Robert Bernard "Bob" Considine born on 11-4-1906 in Washington, District of Columbia expired 9-25-1975 in New York, New York age 68 cause: complications from stroke | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| composer Marius Constant wrote the Twilight Zone Theme born on 2-7-1925 in Bucharest, Roumania expired 5-15-2004 in Paris, France age 79 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
actor Eddie Constantine
expired 2-24-1993 in Wiesbaden, Germany age 75 cause: heart attack | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Guinean "president"/dictator (1984-2008) Lansana Conté came to power in a coup born on --1934 in Moussayah, Loumbaya, Dubréka, Guinea expired 12-22-2008 in Conakry, Guinea age 74 cause: complications from diabetes; chain smoking; leukemia
AKS: Conte Conti Contay | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
stage and screen actor Richard Conte noted for playing gangsters like Don Barzini in The Godfather (1972)
expired 4-15-1975 in Los Angeles, California age 65 cause: heart attack; stroke | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
