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| last Aztec emperor Cuauhtemoc born on --1495 in Tenochtitlan, Mexico expired 2-26-1525 in Itzancanal, Mexico age 29 cause: executed; hanged by Cortez | ||||||||||||||
| former director of the Serbian Academy of Sciences Institute of Balkan Studies Dr. Vaso Čubrilović part of the Black Hand groups of assassins that killed Archduke Ferdinand; he threw a bomb that landed outside of the vehicle carrying the Archduke & Duchess; later in the day Princip succeeded; he spent only four years in prison & was released after the war born on 1-13-1897 in Besanska Gradiška, Bosnia-Herzegovina expired ??-??-1990 age 93
AKS: Vaso Cubrilovic | ||||||||||||||
| band leader Xavier Cugat Abbe Lane and Charo were two of his "singers"; Abbe was also an ex-wife born on 1-1-1900 in Barcelona, Spain expired 10-27-1990 age 90
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| director George Dewey Cukor remade Gaslight (1944); won Best Director oscar for My Fair Lady (1964) born on 7-7-1899 in New York, New York expired 1-24-1983 age 83
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| pioneering Disney animator Shamus Culhane worked on Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937); also worked on Max Fleischer's Gulliver's Travels (1939) born on 11-12-1908 in Ware, Massachusetts expired 2-2-1996 in New York, New York age 87 | ||||||||||||||
| game show host William Lawrence "Bill" Cullen hosted the original Price Is Right show born on 2-18-1920 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania expired 7-7-1990 age 70 cause: complications from lung cancer
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Smurf creator Pierre Culliford
expired 12-24-1992 age 64 | ||||||||||||||
| Emmett Joseph Culligan founder of Culligan Zeolite Company (1936-65) born on 3-5-1893 in Yankton, South Dakota expired 6-3-1970 in San Bernardino, California age 77 | ||||||||||||||
| Sir Michael Culme-Seymour born on 4-26-1909 expired 10-13-1999 age 90 | ||||||||||||||
| music critic John Culshaw produced the first stereo Ring cycle recordings for Decca expired 4-27-1980 in London, England age 55 | ||||||||||||||
| Midwest burger joint co-founder Ruth M. Culver with husband, son & daughter-in-law founded Culver's, purveyors of Butterburgers (July 18, 1984 in Sauk City, WI) born on 7-22-1924 expired 10-2-2008 in Prairie du Sac, Wisconsin age 84 | ||||||||||||||
| Tampa Bay Buccaneers owner Hugh F. Culverhouse born on 2-20-1919 expired 8-25-1994 age 75 | ||||||||||||||
actress Adelaide Hawley Cumming first tv Betty Crocker (1949-64); wife of Mark Hawley
expired 12-21-1998 in Bremerton, Washington age 93 | ||||||||||||||
| chicken fryer A. Lee Cummings nephew of Col. Sanders; got his start with his uncle's first Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurant; later founded Lee's Famous Recipe fried chicken chain born on 8-19-1922 expired 9-13-2002 in Memphis, Tennessee age 80 cause: heart attack | ||||||||||||||
| Clarence R. "Clare" Cummings Jr. aka Milky the Clown born on 2-4-1912 in Chicago, Illinois expired 10-31-1994 age 82 cause: congestive heart failure | ||||||||||||||
actress Constance Cummings won 1979 Tony award as Best Actress in Wings
expired 11-23-2005 in Cote, Oxfordshire, England age 95
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| movie producer Jack Cummings born on 2-10-1900 in New Brunswick, Canada expired 4-28-1989 in Los Angeles, California age 89 | ||||||||||||||
| actor Robert Orville "Bob" Cummings born on 6-9-1908 in Joplin, Missouri expired 12-2-1990 age 82 | ||||||||||||||
| Chicago-area madame Anna Sage Cumpanas famed "Woman in Red" who led John Dillinger into a police trap in 1934; deported to Romania in 1936 expired 4-25-1947 in Timisoara, Romania age 58 cause: liver failure | ||||||||||||||
| serial killer Andrew Phillip Cunanen killed Gianni Versace born on 8-31-1969 in San Diego, California expired 7-23-1997 in Miami Beach, Florida age 27 cause: suicide | ||||||||||||||
| Great Lakes sailor Ransom Edward Cundy Watchman aboard the Edmund Fitzgerald born on 4-16-1922 expired 11-10-1975 in Eastern Lake Superior, Canada age 53 cause: drowned when ship foundered | ||||||||||||||
| cinematographer Richard Earl Cunha was director of photography for Death Valley Days series; directed some really schlocky 1958 movies: She Demons, Giant from the Unknown, Missle to the Moon & Frankenstein's Daughter born on 3-4-1921 in Honolulu, Hawaiian Territory expired 9-18-2005 in Oceanside, California age 84 cause: heart failure | ||||||||||||||
| accordionist & folk singer Agnes "Sis" Cunningham with husband co-founded the folk song journal Broadside (1962) born on 2-19-1909 in Watonga, Oklahoma expired 6-27-2004 in New Paltz, New York age 95 | ||||||||||||||
 
former long-distance runner Glenn Clarence Cunningham won 1933 Sullivan Awardborn on 8-4-1909 in Atlanta, Kansas expired 3-10-1988 age 78 | ||||||||||||||
| Celtic fiddler John James "Johnny" Cunningham born on 8-27-1957 in Portobello, Scotland expired 12-15-2003 in New York, New York age 46 cause: heart attack | ||||||||||||||
| dancer/choreographer Mercier Philip "Merce" Cunningham born on 4-16-1919 in Centralia, Washington expired 7-26-2009 in New York, New York age 90
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| former St. Louis Cardinals infielder Raymond Lee "Ray" Cunningham played from 9/16/1931 to 6/18/1932 born on 1-17-1905 in Mesquite, Texas expired 7-30-2005 in Pearland, Texas age 100
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chemist Marie Curie co-discoverer of Polonium and Radium; shared 1903 Nobel Physics prize won 1911 Nobel Chemistry prize; mother of Irène & Ève
expired 7-4-1934 in Sallanches, Upper Savoy, France age 66 cause: pernicious anemia; long term radiation exposure | ||||||||||||||
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chemist Pierre Curie co-discovered Radium; shared 1903 Nobel Physics prize; father of Irène & Ève born on 5-15-1859 in Paris, Île-de-France, France expired 4-19-1906 in Paris, Île-de-France, France age 46 cause: street accident | ||||||||||||||
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physicist Irène Curie-Joliot daughter of Pierre and Marie Curie; shared the 1935 Nobel Prize in chemistry with her husband for discovering artificial radioactivity born on 9-12-1897 in Paris, Île-de-France, France expired 3-17-1956 in Paris, Île-de-France, France age 58 cause: leukemia AKS: Irene | ||||||||||||||
| Miss America 1949 Jacque Mercer Curran last Miss America to have been born outside of a hospital expired ??-??-1982 age ?? | ||||||||||||||
| Scottish stage and screen actor Finlay Currie appeared in Great Expectations, Ben Hur and Around the World in 80 Days born on 1-20-1878 in Edinburgh, Scotland expired 5-9-1968 in Gerrard's Cross, England age 90 | ||||||||||||||
| FDR aide Lauchlin Bernard Currie born on 10-8-1902 in Bogatá, Columbia expired 12-23-1993 age 91 | ||||||||||||||
Texas death row inmate Alva Curry in 1991 murdered convenience store employee
expired 1-28-2003 in Huntsville, Texas age 33 cause: executed; lethal injection
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| figure skater John Anthony Curry born on 9-9-1949 in Birmingham, West Midlands, England expired 5-15-1994 age 44 | ||||||||||||||
| former Hanna-Barbera music director Hoyt S. Curtin wrote themes for Quickdraw McGraw, Huckleberry Hound, Yogi Bear, Johnny Quest, The Flintstones, The Jetsons, Josie and the Pussycats & Scooby-Doo born on 9-9-1922 in Downey, California expired 12-3-2000 in Westlake Village, California age 78 cause: "a lengthy illness" | ||||||||||||||
| former Nebraska Rep. (1939-54) & Senator (1955-78) Carl Thomas Curtis born on 3-15-1905 expired 1-24-2000 in Lincoln, Nebraska age 94 | ||||||||||||||
| Hoover vice president (1929-33) Charles Brent Curtis born on 1-25-1860 in Topeka, Kansas expired 2-8-1936 in Washington, District of Columbia age 76 | ||||||||||||||
tv producer Dan Curtis produced The Winds of War miniseries; created the Dark Shadows vampire soap opera
expired 3-27-2006 in Los Angeles, California age 78 cause: brain cancer | ||||||||||||||
| character actor Keene Holbrook Curtis won a best supporting actor Tony for The Rothschilds (1970); best remembered as upstairs restaurant owner John Allen Hill on Cheers (1990-93) born on 2-15-1923 in Salt Lake City, Utah expired 10-13-2002 in Bountiful, Utah age 79 cause: complications from Alzheimer's disease | ||||||||||||||
actor Ken Curtis played Festus on tv Gunsmoke series
expired 4-28-1991 age 74 | ||||||||||||||
blues saxophonist King Curtis
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Academy Award-winning film director Michael Curtiz made Captain Blood (1935), Santa Fe Trail (1940), Casablanca (1943; oscar), Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942) & White Christmas (1954)
expired 4-10-1962 in Hollywood, California age 75 | ||||||||||||||
| nature author and early environmentalist James Oliver Curwood wrote The Bear; built a "castle" in his home town, where a festival is held each year born on 7-12-1878 in Owosso, Michigan expired 8-13-1927 in Owosso, Michigan age 49 cause: blood poisoning | ||||||||||||||
| pianist Sir Clifford Michael Curzon born on 5-18-1907 in London, England expired 9-2-1982 age 75 | ||||||||||||||
| actor Cyril Cusack born on 11-26-1910 in Durban, South Africa expired 10-7-1993 age 82 | ||||||||||||||
| former advertising agency rep. Richard John Cusack became an actor & playwright; father of actors John & Joan born on 8-29-1925 in New York, New York expired 6-2-2003 in Evanston, Illinois age 77 cause: pancreatic cancer | ||||||||||||||
| University of Michigan African-American Studies professor Harold Wright Cuse published the essay collection The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual born on 3-8-1916 in Petersburg, Virginia expired 3-26-2005 in Ann Arbor, Michigan age 89 cause: congestive heart failure | ||||||||||||||
| lawyer Alexander Cochrane Cushing developer of the Squaw Valley (California) ski resort; convinced the IOC to hold their 1960 Winter Games there born on 11-28-1913 in Manhattan, New York, New York expired 8-20-2006 in Newport, Rhode Island age 92 cause: pneumonia | ||||||||||||||
actor Peter Cushing Death Star commander Grand Moff Tarkin in Star Wars IVborn on 5-26-1913 in Kenley, Surrey, England expired 8-11-1994 in Canterbury, Kent, England age 81 cause: cancer | ||||||||||||||
| overconfident cavalry commander General George Armstrong Custer daring Civil War commander; Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse did him in at the Little Bighorn born on 12-5-1839 in New Rumley, Ohio expired 6-25-1876 age 36 | ||||||||||||||
| Leonard "Len" Cutler long-time HP & Agilent employee (1957-2006); helped develop solid state atomic clocks born on 1-10-1928 in Los Angeles, California expired 9-4-2006 in Big Basin Redwoods State Park, California age 78 cause: heart failure | ||||||||||||||
| Carter/Clinton White House counsel Lloyd Norton Cutler born on 11-10-1917 in New York, New York expired 5-8-2005 in Washington, District of Colubia age 87 cause: complications from broken hip | ||||||||||||||
former pro wrassler Stanislas Cyganiewicz
expired 9-23-1967 in Saint Joseph, Missouri age 88 | ||||||||||||||
former pro wrassler Wladek Cyganiewicz
expired 6-10-1968 age 76 | ||||||||||||||
| Persian conquerer Cyrus the Great founder of the Persian Empire in 550 BC; captured Babylon in 538 BC born on --600 BC in Media expired ??-??-529 BC in Asia age 70 | ||||||||||||||
author Shmuel Yosef Halevi Czaczkes shared the 1966 Nobel prize in literature
expired 2-17-1970 in Rehovot, Israel age 82 cause: heart attack | ||||||||||||||
| presidential assassin Leon F. Czolgosz born on --1873 in Detroit, Michigan expired 10-29-1901 in Ossining, New York age 28 cause: executed | ||||||||||||||
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