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Norwegian  King Haakon VII   first ruler of independent Norway (1905-57) born on 8-3-1872 in Charlottenlund, Denmark expired 9-21-1957 in Oslo, Norway   age 85

ballet master  Paul Haakon born on 9-8-1911 expired 8-16-1992   age 80

pianist/musicologist/conductor  Karl Haas   with family fled Nazi Germany (1936); creator/host of Adventures in Good Music (1959-2003) born on 12-6-1913 in Speyer-am-Rhein, Germany expired 2-6-2005 in Royal Oak, Michigan   age 91   cause: "natural causes"

Levi Strauss heir  Peter Edgar Haas Sr.   with brother Walter A. Haas Jr. took over management of the company — he was president 1970-1981 born on 12-20-1918 in San Francisco, California expired 12-3-2005 in San Francisco, California   age 86

University of Oslo economist  Trygve Magnus Haavelmo   was Nobel laureate in economics for 1989 born on 12-13-1911 in Skedsmo, Norway expired 7-26-1999 in Norway   age 87

pediatrician Dr.  George Habash   the hard-line Marxist co-founder of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (1966) born on 8-2-1925 in Lydda, British Mandate Palestine (now Lod, Israel) expired 1-26-2008 in Amman, Jordan   age 82   cause: heart attack; cancer; strokes    Contest Selectors 1980 DW 6.3% AKS: Georges

chemist  Fritz Haber   his synthesis of ammonia got his the 1918 Nobel prize in chemistry born on 12-9-1868 in Breslau, Silesia, Prussia expired 1-29-1934 in Basel, Switzerland   age 65

ambassador  Philip Charles Habib born on 2-25-1920 in New York, New York expired 5-25-1992 in Puligny-Montrachet, France   age 72

former Kimball International head  Arnold Francis Habig born on 5-2-1907 in Jasper, Indiana expired 3-29-1999 in Jasper, Indiana   age 91

Rwandan president (1973-94)  Juvénal Habyarimana born on 8-3-1937 in Gasiza, Ruanda-Urundi expired 4-6-1994 in Kigali, Rwanda   age 56   cause: plane crash AKS: Juvenal

playwright  Albert Hackett   co-wrote The Diary of Anne Frank with wife Frances Goodrich; awarded 1955 Pulitzer Prize for play adaptation born on 2-16-1900 in New York, New York expired 3-16-1995 in New York, New York   age 95

actress  Joan Hackett born on 3-1-1934 in New York, New York expired 10-9-1983 in Encino, California   age 49

comedian  Leonard "Buddy" Hackett   movie appearances include The Music Man (1962), It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963) & The Love Bug (1968); to see a proper tribute, view a 1998 episode of the defunct tv series Late Line that had lumiaries such as Henry Kissinger mistakenly eulogizing Buddy ¤ born: Leonard Hacker  born on 8-31-1924 in New York, New York expired 6-30-2003 in Malibu, California   age 78   cause: "chest cold"    Contest Selectors 1979 RR 7.7% 1980 DR 6.3% 2000 SPAM 14% 2002 CMH, JEDS, RAVN 27.3% 2003 JEDS, RAVN, TAP 16.7%    Scored 5.3250 points

cornetist  Robert Leo "Bobby" Hackett born on 1-31-1915 in Providence, Rhode Island expired 6-7-1976 in West Chatham, Massachusetts   age 61   cause: heart attack

military critic  David Haskell Hackworth born on 11-11-1930 in Venice, California expired 5-4-2005 in Tijuana, Mexico   age 74   cause: bladder cancer

Dr.  Wadi Haddad   a pediatrician; co-founder of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (1966); linked to numerous airplane hijackings expired 3-28-1978 in Algiers, Algeria   age 49   cause: cancer

former baseball pitcher  Harvey Haddix born on 9-18-1925 in Medway, Ohio expired 1-8-1994   age 68

Graham Guilford Haddock Jr.   designed the World War II landing craft (LST) born on 3-9-1917 expired 2-6-2002   age 84   cause: cancer

Academy Award winning movie composer  Manos Hadjidakis   wrote Never On Sunday born on 10-23-1925 in Xanthi, Greece expired 6-15-1994 in Athens, Greece   age 68

bit-part actress  Loretta B. King Hadler   played Janet Lawton in Ed Wood's Bridge of the Monster (1955) — she was played in the 1994 movie Ed Wood by Juliet Landau born on 8-20-1917 in Phoenix, Arizona expired 9-10-2007 in Century City, California   age 90

biologist/zoologist  Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel   coined terms ecology (1869) & phylum born on 2-16-1834 in Potsdam, Prussia expired 8-9-1919   age 85

former advertising executive  Horace Hagedorn   co-founded the Stern's Miracle-Gro company with nursery owner Otto Stern (1950); his wife Peggy came up with the company name born on 3-18-1915 in New York, New York expired 1-31-2005 in Sands Point, New York   age 89   cause: pulmonary fibrosis

former Big Band trombonist & music arranger  Earle H. Hagen   composed "Harlem Nocture" (1939); also wrote the theme songs for numerous tv series, including The Andy Griffith Show, The Dick Van Dyke Show, I Spy, That Girl, Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C., The Mod Squad & The Danny Thomas Show/Make Room For Daddy (a big band arrangement of "Londonderry Air") born on 7-9-1919 in Chicago, Illinois expired 5-26-2008 in Rancho Mirage, California   age 88 AKS: Earl Hagan

actress  Jean Hagen   was the Mommy on Make Room for Daddy tv series (1953-55) ¤ born: Jaen Shirley ver Hagen  born on 8-3-1923 in Chicago, Illinois expired 8-26-1977 in Woodland Hills, California   age 54   cause: throat cancer

character actor  Kevin Hagen   played Doc Baker on Little House on the Prairie tv series born on 4-3-1928 in Chicago, Illinois expired 7-9-2005 in Grant's Pass, ORegon   age 77   cause: esophageal cancer

acting teacher  Uta Thyra Hagen   blacklisted during the 1950s; won Tony Awards for roles in The Country Girl (1951) & Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf (1962) born on 6-12-1919 in Göttingen, Germany expired 1-14-2004 in New York, New York   age 84

flamboyant 1920s golf champion  Walter Charles Hagen   won 5 PGA titles & 4 British Opens born on 12-21-1892 in Rochester, New York expired 10-5-1969 in Traverse City, Michigan   age 76

runner  Günder Hägg Sr.   set world record in the mile of 4 minutes 1.4 seconds July 17, 1945 (broken by 2 seconds by Bannister in 1954) born on 12-31-1918 in Albacken, Sweden expired 11-27-2004 in Malmo, Skåne, Sweden   age 85 AKS: Gunder Hagg

writer Sir  Henry Rider Haggard   wrote She and King Solomon's Mines born on 6-22-1856 in Bradenham, England expired 5-14-1925 in London, England   age 68

former Texas Instruments head  Patrick Eugene Haggerty born on 3-17-1914 in Harvey, North Dakota expired 10-1-1980 in Dallas, Texas   age 66

actor/composer  Albert Hague   won Tony for music in Redhead (1958 musical murder mystery); scored music for animated How the Grinch Stole Christmas (1966); played Professor Benjamin Shorofsky in Fame movie (1980) & tv series (1982-87) ¤ born: Albert Marcuse  born on 10-13-1920 in Berlin, Germany expired 11-12-2001 in Marina del Rey, California   age 81   cause: cancer

1904 Olympic sprint winner  Archie Hahn   Virginia University track coach 1929-1951 born on --1880 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin expired 1-21-1955 in Charlottesville, Virginia   age 74

educator Dr.  Kurt Mathias Robert Martin Hahn   created the Outward Bound program (1941) born on 6-5-1886 in Berlin, Germany expired 12-14-1974   age 88

chemist  Otto Hahn   won 1944 Nobel prize in chemistry for the discovery of nuclear fission born on 3-8-1879 in Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany expired 7-28-1968 in Göttingen, Germany   age 89

Mormon apostle  David Bruce Haight born on 9-2-1906 in Oakley, Idaho expired 7-31-2004 in Salt Lake City, Utah   age 97

author  Arthur Hailey   wrote Hotel (1965), Airport (1968) & The Moneychangers (1975) born on 4-5-1920 in Luton, Bedfordshire, England expired 11-24-2004 in Lyford Cay, New Providence Island, Bahamas   age 84   cause: stroke AKS: Haley Halee Halie Haliegh Haylie Haylee

big band singer  Connie Haines   she is survived by her 109 year old mother ¤ born: Yvonne Marie Antoinette JaMais ex-Mrs. Robert DeHaven  born on 1-20-1921 in Savannah, Georgia expired 9-25-2008 in Clearwater, Florida   age 87   cause: myasthenia gravis

Broadway/tv actor  Larry Haines   played Stu Bergman for most of the run of the Search for Tomorrow tv soap opera (1951-86) ¤ real name: A. Lawrence Hecht  born on 8-3-1918 in Mount Vernon, New York expired 7-17-2008 in Delray Beach, Florida   age

former L.A. Laker forward  Harold "Happy" Hairston born on 5-31-1942 in Winston-Salem, North Carolina expired 5-1-2001 in Los Angeles, California   age 58   cause: pneumonia; prostate cancer

musician, comedian & actor  Jester J. Hairston   conducted the choir for the sound track of Lost Horizon (1936) born on 7-9-1901 in Belews Creek, North Carolina expired 1-18-2000 in Los Angeles, California   age 98

Titanic survivor  Edith E. Haisman ¤ born: Edith E. Brown  born on 10-27-1896 in Worcester, South Africa expired 1-20-1997 in Southampton, England   age 100

businessman  Albert Hakim   involved in the Iran-contra weapons deals born on 7-16-1936 in Beirut, Lebanon expired 4-25-2003 in Inchon, South Korea   age 66   cause: heart attack

former Pan Am executive  Najeeb E. Halaby   father of Dowager Queen Noor born on 11-19-1915 in Dallas, Texas expired 7-2-2003 in McLean, Virginia   age 87

Chicago Bears co-founder, president (1920-64), coach (1920-67)  George Stanley Halas ¤ aka: "Papa Bear"  born on 2-2-1895 in Chicago, Illinois expired 10-31-1983 in Chicago, Illinois   age 88    Contest Selectors 1979 HA 7.7% 1980 DH, HA, RR 18.8%

former New York Times reporter (1960-67)  David Halberstam   won Pulitzer Prize (1964); wrote The Best and The Brightest (1973) born on 4-10-1934 in New York, New York expired 4-23-2007 in Menlo Park, California   age 73   cause: internal injuries; car crash

"wildcat" oilman  Michel Thomas Halbouty   got his start lugging ice water at Spindletop born on 6-21-1909 in Beaumont, Texas expired 11-6-2004 in Houston, Texas   age 95

White House chief of staff (under Nixon); Watergate conspirator  Harry Robins "Bob" Haldeman   spent 1977-1978 in jail for his role in the coverup born on 10-27-1926 in Los Angeles, California expired 11-12-1993 in Santa Barbara, California   age 67

German Army Chief of Staff during WWII  Franz Halder   sent to concentration camp for his role in the plot to kill Hitler in 1944 expired 4-2-1972 in Aschau, Germany   age 87

character actor  Alan J. Hale Sr.   played Little John in The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938) and Captain Bullwinkle in Tugboat Annie Sails Again (1940) ¤ real name: Rufus Alan McKahan  born on 2-10-1892 in Washington, District of Columbia expired 1-22-1950 in Hollywood, California   age 57   cause: pneumonia

actor  Alan J. Hale Jr.   played Jonas Grumby (The Skipper) on Gilligan's Island ¤ born: Alan Hale McKahan  born on 3-8-1921 in Los Angeles, California expired 1-2-1990 in Los Angeles, California   age 68   cause: cancer of thymus; liver disease    Contest Selectors 1979 DO 7.7%

geezer  Fred Harold Hale Sr. born on 12-1-1890 in New Sharon, Maine expired 11-19-2004 in Jamesville, New York   age 113   cause: pneumonia    Contest Selectors 2004 KLS, PCD, RIE 16.7%    Scored 1.8250 points

astronomer Dr.  George Ellery Hale   director of the Palomar observatories (1920s & 30s); directed construction of the 200 inch telescope atop Mount Wilson that he co-designed born on 6-29-1868 in Chicago, Illinois expired 2-21-1938 in Pasadena, California   age 69

British writer/illustrator  Kathleen Hale   wrote Orlando, he Marmalade Cat born on 5-24-1898 in Lanarkshire, Scotland expired 1-26-2000 in Bristol, England   age 101

B-movie "singing cowboy"  Monty Hale   with Gene Autry & others co-founded the Gene Autry Western Heritage Museum ¤ born: Buren Ely  born on 6-8-1919 in San Angelo, Texas expired 3-29-2009 in Studio City, California   age 89

nut-job polygamist  Robert Allen Hale   a convicted rapist/pervert (boinked a bunch of pre-pubescent girls) ¤ aka: "Papa Pilgrim"  born on 4-17-1941 expired 5-24-2008 in Anchorage, Alaska   age 67   cause: cirrhosis, diabetes    Contest Selectors 2007 DFFC 3.2% 2008 DFFC 3.1%    Did Not Score - insufficient category citations (one to be exact) AKS: Alan

author  Alexander Murray Palmer Haley   wrote Roots and an Autobiography of Malcolm X; also conducted interviews for Playboy magazine born on 8-11-1921 in Ithaca, New York expired 2-10-1992 in Seattle, Washington   age 70    Contest Selectors 1979 JH 7.7%

the Wizard of Oz's Tin Woodsman  John Joseph "Jack" Haley Sr. born on 8-8-1899 in Boston, Massachusetts expired 6-6-1979 in Los Angeles, California   age 79   cause: complications from heart attack    Contest Selectors 1979 DO  7.7%    Scored 5 solo points

movie writer/producer  John Joseph "Jack Haley Jr.   married to Liza Minnelli (1974-79); directed The Love Machine (1971) born on 10-25-1933 in Los Angeles, California expired 4-21-2001 in Santa Monica, California   age 67   cause: respiratory failure

rocker  William John Clifton "Bill" Haley Jr.   best known for his biggest hit Rock Around the Clock (1954), recorded with The Comets born on 7-6-1925 in Highland Park, Michigan expired 2-9-1981 in Harlingen, Texas   age 55

Robert Half   co-founder of temporary CPA staffing firm (1948) born on 11-11-1918 expired 8-31-2001 in Lantana, Florida   age 82   cause: complications from stroke

mathematician & astronomer  Asaph Hall   was a professor of mathematics at the US Naval Observatory (1863-1891) & professor of astronomy at Harvard (1896-1901); discovered the two moons of Mars, subsequently named Phobos & Deimos (1877) born on 10-15-1829 in Goshen, Connecticut expired 11-22-1907 in Annapolis, Maryland   age 78

urban terrorist  Camilla Christine Hall   member of the SLA ¤ SLA name: "Gabi"  born on 3-24-1946 expired ??-??-19??   age ??

GE inventor  Chester I. Hall   invented the electric phonograph turntable, pop-up toaster and automobile engine thermostat expired 12-7-1953 in Boston, Massachusetts   age 65

motion picture cinematographer  Conrad L. Hall   won three oscars for Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969), American Beauty (1999) & Road to Perdition (2002); son of James Norman Hall; formerly married to Katharine Ross (1969-75) born on 6-21-1926 in Papeete, Tahiti, French Polynesia expired 1-4-2003 in Santa Monica, California   age 76   cause: complications from bladder cancer

aircraft engineer  Donald Albert Hall   designed the Spirit of St. Louis aircraft in 1927 born on 12-7-1898 expired 5-2-1968 in San Diego, California   age 69

Sir  Douglas Basil Hall   was the last Governor of Britain's Somaliland Protectorate (1959-60) born on 2-1-1909 expired 4-8-2004 in Derbyshire, England   age 95

renowned archaeometrician Dr.  Edward Thomas "Teddy" Hall   debunked Piltdown Man (the hoax stiff dug up in a Piltdown Common gravel pit in 1912); performed analysis on the Shroud of Turin born on 5-10-1924 in London, England expired 8-11-2001 in Oxford, Oxfordshire, England   age 77

four-time Communist Party presidential candidate  Gus Hall   Secretary-General of the U.S. Communist Party (1959-2000) ¤ born: Arvo Kusta Halberg  born on 10-8-1910 in Iron, Minnesota expired 10-13-2000 in New York, New York   age 90    Contest Selectors 2000 ANG 14%    Scored 6.0000 solo points

actor  Henry "Huntz" Hall   played Sach Jones in Bowery Boys films ¤ born: Henry Hall  born on 8-15-1920 in New York, New York expired 1-30-1999 in Los Angeles, California   age 78   cause: cardiac disease

retired GE research chemist Dr.  Howard Tracy Hall   a principal figure in the creation of artificial diamonds (February 1955) born on 10-20-1919 in Ogden, Utah expired 7-25-2008 in Provo, Utah   age 88   cause: Alzheimer's disease; diabetes

author  James Norman Hall   co-wrote Mutiny on the Bounty, Men Against the Sea, Pitcairn's Island and Forbidden Paradise (The Hurricane) born on 4-22-1887 in Colfax, Iowa expired 7-5-1951 in Pepeete, Tahiti, French Polynesia   age 64   cause: heart attack

actor  Jon Hall   played Terangi in The Hurricane (1937) opposite Dorothy Lamour ¤ born: Charles Hall Locher  born on 2-23-1913 in Fresno, California expired 12-13-1979 in North Hollywood, California   age 66   cause: suicide; self-influcted gunshot wounds; cancer

actress  Juanita Hall   originated role of Bloody Mary in Broadway production of South Pacific born on 11-6-1901 in Newport, New Jersey expired 2-28-1968 in Keyport, New York   age 66

7-foot 2-inch actor  Kevin Peter Hall born on 5-9-1955 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania expired 4-10-1991 in Hollywood, California   age 35   cause: AIDS

radio announcer  Robert Hall   played The Green Hornet on radio (1944-47) born on 10-16-1924 expired 9-25-1967 in New Rochelle, New York   age 42

early movie actor  Thurston Hall   played character Red Rider in 1918 silent movie (not to be confused with the Red Ryder character born on 5-10-1882 in Boston, Massachusetts expired 2-20-1958 in Beverly Hills, California   age 75   cause: heart attack

World War I pilot  Weston Bert Hall   co-founder of the Lafayette Escadrille expired 12-6-1948 in Fremont, Ohio   age 62

exporter  William S. Hall   co-founded the Baker Street Irregulars (1934) born on 11-30-1889 expired 9-29-1971 in New York, New York   age 81

busy entrepreneur  Erle Palmer Halliburton Sr.   founded the New Method Oil Well Cementing Company (1919); also founded an airline & made aluminum luggage (Zero Halliburton) born on --1892 in Tennessee expired 10-13-1957 in Los Angeles, California   age 65   cause: complications from surgery AKS: Haliburton Halleburton Haleburton Hallaburton Halaburton Halliberton Haliberton Halleberton Haleberton Hallaberton Halaberton

motion picture guide author  Leslie Halliwell born on --1929 expired 1-21-1989   age 59

actor  Billy Halop   played Tommy, leader of the Dead End Kids on Broadway & in movies born on 2-11-1920 in New York, New York expired 11-6-1976 in Hollywood, California   age 56   cause: heart attack

actress  Florence Halop   sister of Billy; played baliff Florence Kleiner on Night Court (1985-86) born on 1-23-1923 in New York, New York expired 7-15-1986 in Los Angeles, California   age 63   cause: cancer

the original Playboy Bunny (1960-63)  Bonnie Jo Halpin   was the "door bunny" when the first Playboy Club opened in Chicago (2-29-1960 ... "leap" year day) born on 4-15-1938 in Chicago, Illinois expired 3-31-2004 in West Hollywood, California   age 65   cause: accidental Vicodin overdose; complications from hit-and-run accident

Admiral  William Frederick "Bull" Halsey Jr.   U.S. Third Fleet commander during WWII born on 10-30-1882 in Elizabeth, New Jersey expired 8-16-1959 in Fisher's Island, New York   age 76

fashion designer  Roy Halston ¤ real name: Roy Halston Frowick  born on 4-23-1932 in Des Moines, Iowa expired 3-26-1990 in San Francisco, California   age 57

former Senate chaplain (1981-94)  Richard Halverson born on 2-4-1916 in Pingree, North Dakota expired 11-28-1995 in Arlington, Virginia   age 79

country singer  Stuart Hamblen born on 10-20-1908 in Texas expired 3-8-1989   age 80

former New Yorker writer  Philip Hamburger born on 7-2-1914 in Wheeling, West Virginia expired 4-23-2004 in New York, New York   age 89   cause: cardiac arrest

Washington University embryologist  Viktor Hamburger born on 7-9-1900 in Landeshut, Germany expired 6-12-2001 in Saint Louis, Missouri   age 100

child actor  Russell Craig "Rusty" Hamer   played the son on Make Room for Daddy born on 2-15-1947 in Tenafly, New Jersey expired 1-17-1990 in DeRidder, Louisiana   age 42

Washington's Treasury secretary (1789-97)  Alexander Hamilton   died after duel with Aaron Burr born on 1-11-1757 in Nevis, West Indies expired 7-12-1804 in New York, New York   age 47   cause: bullet wounds from duel

character actor  Bernard "Bernie" Hamilton   brother of jazz drummer Chico Hamilton; played Captain Dobey on Starsky and Hutch tv cop drama (1975-9) born on 6-12-1928 in Los Angeles, California expired 12-30-2008 in Los Angeles, California   age 80   cause: cardiac arrest

actress  Carrie Hamilton   daughter of Carol Burnett & Joe Hamilton born on 12-5-1963 expired 1-19-2002 in Los Angeles, California   age 38   cause: lung cancer    Contest Selectors 2002 TMTX 9.1%    Scored 11.2000 solo points

race car driver  Charles Robert "Bobby" Hamilton Sr. born on 5-29-1957 in Nashville, Tennessee expired 1-7-2007 in Mount Juliet, Tennessee   age 49   cause: head & neck cancer    Contest Selectors 2007 LMLD, RAVN 6.5%    Scored 8.8500 points

Oklahoma death row inmate  Corey Duane Hamilton born on 1-1-1969 expired 1-9-2007 in McAlester, Oklahoma   age 38   cause: executed; lethal injection    Contest Selectors 2007 DFFC, JCM, OIE, PCD, RAVN, SPIT 19.4%    Scored 8.7781 points

classical author  Edith Hamilton   organizer of Bryn Mawr School, its headmistress from 1906 to 1922; wrote a definitive book on greek mythology born on 8-12-1867 in Dresden, Saxony, Germany expired 5-31-1963 in Washington, District of Columbia   age 95

character actor  John Rummel Hamilton   remembered for playing Daily Planet editor Perry White on originaltv Superman series (1952-7) born on 1-16-1886 in Shippensburg, Pennsylvania expired 10-15-1958 in Glendale, California   age 72   cause: heart attack

tv producer  Joseph Henry Michael "Joe" Hamilton Jr.   ex-husband of Carol Burnett born on 1-6-1929 in Los Angeles, California expired 6-9-1991 in Brentwood, California   age 62

actress  Lois Hamilton   best known for displaying her breasts (before they started to sag) to the likes of John Candy (in Summer Rental; 1985) ¤ born: Lois I. Aurino «or» Areno  born on 10-14-1943 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania expired 12-23-1999 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil   age 56   cause: suicide; pills, plastic bag over head

character actress  Margaret Brainard Hamilton   played Oz's wicked witches (East & West) born on 9-12-1902 in Cleveland, Ohio expired 5-17-1985 in Salisbury, Connecticut   age 82    Contest Selectors 1980 DO, DR 12.5%

Hannibal Hamlin   Vice President in Lincoln's first term during the Civil War born on 8-27-1809 in Paris Hill, Maine expired 7-4-1891 in Bangor, Maine   age 81

cartoonist  Vincent Hamlin   created Alley Oop strip (1933) born on 5-10-1900 in Iowa expired 6-14-1993   age 93

Swedish diplomat  Dag Hjalmar Agne Carl Hammarskjöld   second U.N. Secretary General (1953-61); posthumously awarded the Nobel peace prize born on 7-29-1905 in Jonköping, Sweden expired 9-18-1961 in Ndola, Rhodesia   age 56   cause: plane crash

Dr.  Armand Hammer   chairman of Occidental Petroleum (1957-90); ran a Russian pencil factor when he was a "friend" of Lenin born on 5-21-1898 in New York, New York expired 12-10-1990   age 92    Contest Selectors 1979 DW, RR 15.4% 1980 RR 6.3%

Armand's widow  Frances B. Hammer born on 4-4-1902 expired 12-16-1989   age 87

Broadway librettist & producer  Oscar Hammerstein II   won Pulitzer Prize in 1950 born on 7-12-1895 in New York, New York expired 8-23-1960 in Doylestown, Pennsylvania   age 65

Broadway producer/director  William Hammerstein   son of Oscar born on 10-26-1918 expired 3-9-2001 in Washington, Connecticut   age 82

detective novel author  Samuel Dashiell Hammett   wrote The Maltese Falcon; creator of Sam Spade & Nick Charles (The Thin Man) born on 5-27-1894 in Saint Mary's County, Maryland expired 1-10-1961 in New York, New York   age 66 AKS: Hammet Hamett Hamet

filmmaker  Alexander Hammid   co-produced To Be Alive! & To Fly with Francis Thompson ¤ born: Alexandr Hackenschmied  born on 12-17-1907 in Linz, Austria-Hungary expired 7-26-2004 in New York, New York   age 96

mathematician & Bell Labs researcher  Richard Wesley Hamming   came up with Parity (Hamming) Codes & the Hamming Window digital filters; 1968 A.M. Turing Award winner born on 2-11-1915 in Chicago, Illinois expired 1-7-1998 in Monterey, California   age 82   cause: heart attack

former bush pilot  Jay Sterner Hammond   during his tenure as governor of Alaska (1975-82) the Alaska Pipeline was constructed; he lead the creation of the Alaska Permanent Fund born on 7-21-1922 in Troy, New York expired 8-2-2005 in Lake Clark, Alaska   age 83

electric organ inventor  Laurens Hammond born on 1-11-1895 in Evanston, Illinois expired 7-1-1973 in Cornwall, Connecticut   age 78

Harvard classics scholar/professor  Mason Hammond   author of The Augustan Principate (1933), The Menaechmi of Plautus (1933) & The Antonine Monarchy (1959) born on 2-14-1903 in Boston, Massachusetts expired 10-13-2002 in Cambridge, Massachusetts   age 99

sick kid  Michael Hammond   afflicted with epidermolysis bullosa; required 2 cans of Crisco daily, applied to his skin, to ease the pain of the disease expired 2-14-1981 in Gainesville, Florida   age 10   cause: cardiac arrest

ancient Babylonian ruler  King Hammurabi   started the Tower of Babel; proclaimed a Code of Law born on ??-??-1792 BC expired ??-??-1750 BC in Babylon   age 42

con man  David Hampton   in 1983 ran con pretending to be Sidney Poitier's son — it was the inspiration for the play & movie Six Degrees of Separation ¤ aka: "David Hampton-Montilio"  born on --1964 in Buffalo, New York expired 6-??-2003 in New York, New York   age 39   cause: AIDS

vibraphone artist  Lionel Leo Hampton born on 4-20-1908 in Louisville, Kentucky expired 8-31-2002 in New York, New York   age 94   cause: heart failure    Contest Selectors 2000 ANG, BOD 29% 2001 ANG, BOD 25% 2002 ANG, BOD, JAC 27.3%    Scored 3.7250 points

radio d.j.  Hunter D. Hancock   an early rhythm-and-blues & rock 'n' rock platter spinner (1943-66); in 1962 convicted of failing to pay income taxes on the payola he received born on 4-21-1916 in Uvalde, Texas expired 8-4-2004 in Claremont, California   age 88

forgotten U.S. president  John Hancock   fifth president of the Continental Congress under the Articles of Association (5/24/1775-7/4/1776); first signatory to the Declaration of Independence & first president of the Continental Congress under the Declaration of Independence (7/4/1776-10/30/1777); fifth president of the Continental Congress under the Articles of Confederation (11/23/1785-6/5/1786); 9-time Massachusetts governor (1780-1793) born on 1-12-1737 in Braintree, Massachusetts expired 10-8-1793 in Quincy, Massachusetts   age 56

rotund actor  John Hancock born on 3-4-1941 expired 10-13-1992   age 51   cause: heart attack

cartoonist  Malcolm C. Hancock born on 5-20-1936 expired 2-16-1993   age 56

U.S. Court of Appeals judge (1924-51)  Billings Learned Hand   Harold Russell's understudy during World War II born on 1-27-1872 in Albany, New York expired 8-18-1961 in New York, New York   age 89

actor/comedian  Stanley Myron Handelman born on 11-21-1929 in Brooklyn, New York, New York expired 8-5-2007 in Panorama City, California   age 77   cause: heart attack

cartoonist  John Bernard "Bud" Handelsman   his work appeared in The New Yorker (1961-2006), Playboy & Punch ¤ born: Bernard Handelsman adopted first name "John"  born on 2-5-1922 in The Bronx, New York, New York expired 6-20-2007 in Southampton, New York   age 85   cause: lung cancer

Mattel co-founder (1942)  Ruth Handler   Barbie Doll creator; named doll after her daughter ¤ née: Mosko Mrs. Elliot Handler  born on 11-4-1916 in Denver, Colorado expired 4-27-2002 in Century City, California   age 85   cause: complications from colon cancer surgery

Nathan's widow  Ida Greenwald Handwerker   co-founded famous Coney Island stand at Surf & Stillwell Avenues (1916) born on 9-25-1897 expired 12-24-1976 in Miami Beach, Florida   age 79

Nathan's Hot Dog impresario  Nathan Handwerker   co-founded famous Coney Island stand at Surf & Stillwell Avenues (1916) born on 6-14-1892 expired 3-1-1974 in Sarasota, Florida   age 83   cause: heart attack

Olympic athlete  Henry Jamison Handy born on 3-6-1886 expired 11-14-1983   age 97

jazz trumpeter & composer  William Christopher Handy   wrote the St. Louis Blues born on 11-16-1873 in Florence, Alabama expired 3-28-1958 in New York, New York   age 84

caracter actress  Anne Haney   played Rishon Uxbridge in Star Trek: The Next Generation episode The Survivors (1989) born on 3-4-1934 in Memphis, Tennessee expired 5-26-2001 in Studio City, California   age 67   cause: congestive heart failure

Mary Ella Hanford   Libby Dole's mom ¤ née: Cathey  born on 5-22-1901 in Statesville, North Carolina expired 1-14-2004 in Salisbury, North Carolina   age 102    Contest Selectors 2003 JL 5.6%

South African apartheid fighter  Martin Thembisile "Chris" Hani   member of the South African Communist Party; murdered by South African "Security" Forces in jail (Janusz Waluś & Clive Derby-Lewis) born on 6-28-1942 in Cofimvaba, Transkei, South Africa expired 4-10-1993   age 50   cause: murdered

Texas death row inmate  Terry Lee Hankins ¤ #999415  born on 10-10-1974 expired 6-2-2009 in Huntsville, Texas   age 34   cause: executed; lethal injection    Contest Selectors 2009 ADWC 3.3%    Scored 11.6000 solo points

jazz pianist  Roland Pembroke Hanna born on 2-10-1932 in Detroit, Michigan expired 11-13-2002 in Hackensack, New Jersey   age 70   cause: viral infection of the heart

animator  William Denby Hanna   partner of Joseph Barbera born on 7-14-1910 in Melrose, New Mexico expired 3-21-2001 in North Hollywood, California   age 90    Contest Selectors 2001 RR 12½%    Scored 6.0000 solo points

ex-Michigan State University president (1941-69)  John Alfred Hannah   first chairman of U.S. Commission on Civil Rights; ex-director of the Agency for International Development born on 10-9-1902 in Grand Rapids, Michigan expired 2-23-1991 in Kalamazoo, Michigan   age 88    Contest Selectors 1979 HA, RR 15.4% 1980 DW, RR, VA 18.8%

former ABA/NBA coach  Alex Hannum born on 7-19-1923 in Los Angeles, California expired 1-18-2002 in San Diego, California   age 78

dramatist  Lorraine Vivian Hansberry   wrote Raisin in the Sun (1959) born on 5-19-1930 in Chicago, Illinois expired 1-12-1965 in New York, New York   age 34   cause: cancer

pogo stick inventor (1919)  George B. Hansburg born on 10-24-1888 expired 12-3-1975 in Miami, Florida   age 87

pro wrassler  Eric Hansen ¤ aka: "Eric the Red"  expired 11-9-1978   age 34   cause: hit by automobile

cruciverbalist  Frances Mable Hansen   her 83rd & last puzzle for the New York Times appeared in the Christmas 2004 edition of their Sunday magazine ¤ née: Tucker  born on 6-21-1919 in Arlington, New Jersey expired 7-9-2004 in Perth Amboy, New Jersey   age 85   cause: complications from stroke

swing arm lamp designer  George W. Hansen   his design was introduced in the 1940s born on 5-13-1909 in Cambridge, Massachusetts expired 12-4-2001 in New York, New York   age 92

Dr.  Gerhard Henrik Armauer Hansen   discoverer of the bacillus that causes leprosy (1873) born on 7-29-1841 in Bergen, Norway expired 2-12-1912 in Florø, Norway   age 70 AKS: Hanson

electrical engineer  Siegfried Hansen   his efforts to improve the vacuum tube left to the development of the hard space suit now used in NASA space missions born on 3-29-1912 in San Francisco, California expired 6-28-2002 in Los Angeles, California   age 90

conductor & composer  Howard Hanson born on 10-28-1896 in Wahoo, Nebraska expired 2-26-1981 in Rochester, New York   age 84    Contest Selectors 1980 GP 6.3%

British plutocrat  James Edward Hanson ¤ title: Lord Hanson  born on 1-20-1922 in Huddersfield, Yorkshire, England expired 11-1-2004 in Newbury, Berkshire, England   age 82   cause: prostate cancer

First U.S. president  John Hanson   first president of the Continental Congress under the Articles of Confederation (11/5/1781-11/3/1782); declared the first Thanksgiving Holiday to be the fourth Thursday in November (1782) born on 4-13-1715 in Mulberry Grove, near Port Tobacco, Maryland expired 11-22-1783 in Oxon Hill, Maryland   age 68

businessman  John K. Hanson   with wife co-founded Modernistic Industries of Iowa (later renamed Winnebago) & Manufacturer's Bank and Trust (both in Forest City, Winnebago County, Iowa) born on 6-22-1913 expired 6-27-1996 in Forest City, Iowa   age 83

Winnebago co-founder  Luise Adelheid Hanson   with husband also co-founded the Manufacturers Bank and Trust in Forest City, Iowa ¤ née: Voss  born on 6-7-1913 in Grundy County, Iowa expired 10-19-2003 in Stuart, Florida   age 90

former Army Air Corps Tech/Sgt  Robert J. Hanson   was the last surviving crew member of the Memphis Belle bomber (he was the radio operator) born on 5-25-1920 in Walla Walla, Washington expired 10-1-2005 in Albuquerque, New Mexico   age 85   cause: congestive heart failure

Count  Maximillian Eugene of Habsburg   brother of Charles Francis Joseph (last Austro-Hungarian Emperor) expired 1-17-1952 in Nice, France   age 56   cause: heart attack

Wizard of Oz lyricist  Edgar Yipsel "Yip" Harburg   wrote Over the Rainbow (1939); also co-wrote April in Paris (from Walk a Little Faster), Brother Can You Spare a Dime (from the review Americana) & Its Only a Paper Moon (1933; from The Great Magoo); co-wrote score to Cabin in the Sky (1940) born on 4-8-1896 in New York, New York expired 3-5-1981 in Los Angeles, California   age 84   cause: head-on car crash on Sunset Boulevard    Contest Selectors 1980 RR 6.3%

old U.S. Civil War veteran  James A. Hard   next-to-last survivor of the Union Army expired 3-11-1953 in Rochester, New York   age 111

Automat co-founder  Frank Hardart Sr.   opened first U.S. automat in Philadelphia (1902); last one closed in NYC (1991) born on --1850 in Bavaria, Germany expired 12-10-1918 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania   age 68

English King (1040-1042)  Hardecanute   son of Canute; last of the Danish kings of England ¤ Old English spelling: Harthacnut  born on --1018 expired 6-8-1042 in Lambeth, England   age 24

restauranteur  Wilber Hardee   opened the first Hardee's burger palace in his home town of Greenville, North Carolina (1960); lost his shares in the business in a poker game born on 8-15-1918 in Martin County, North Carolina expired 6-20-2008 in Greenville, Pitt County, North Carolina   age 89 AKS: Wilbur Hardie

Sir  Arthur Harden   shared the 1929 Nobel prize in chemistry born on 10-12-1865 in Manchester, Lancashire, England expired 6-17-1940 in Bourne End, Buckinghamshire, England   age 74

former Cleveland pitcher (1928-47)  Melvin Leroy Harder   also served as Indian's pitching coach (1948-63) born on 10-15-1909 in Beemer, Nebraska expired 10-20-2002 in Chardon, Ohio   age 93

blind avant-garde composer  Louis Thomas Hardin   lost sight at age 16 from blasting cap accident ¤ aka: "Moondog"  born on 5-26-1916 in Maryville, Kansas expired 9-8-1999 in Münster, Germany   age 83   cause: heart failure

songwriter  Tim Hardin   wrote If I Were a Carpenter born on 12-23-1941 in Eugene, Oregon expired 12-29-1980 in Hollywood, California   age 39

former Braniff president/CEO (1965-80)  Lawrence L. Harding born on 7-15-1920 in Perkins, Oklahoma expired 1-16-2002 in Mustique, Saint Vincent, West Indies   age 81   cause: pancreatic cancer

feckless Ohio politician  Warren Gamaliel Harding   29th U.S. president (1921-23); Teapot Dome scandal happened during his presidency born on 11-2-1865 in Corsica, Ohio expired 8-2-1923 in San Francisco, California   age 57   cause: "apoplexy"; heart attack; ptomaine

retired land surveyor  Warren J. Harding   a pioneering rock climber: first to scale Yosemite's El Capitan (1958) ¤ nickname: "Batso"  born on 6-18-1924 in Oakland, California expired 2-27-2002 in Happy Valley, Shasta County, California   age 77   cause: liver failure

British actor Sir  Cedric Webster Hardwicke   played Dr. Ludwig Frankenstein in The Ghost of Frankenstein (1942) and the pharaoh Seti in The Ten Commandments (1956) born on 2-19-1893 in Lye, England expired 8-6-1964 in New York, New York   age 71

former Georgia Tech graduate student and amateur photographer  Arnold E. Hardy   won the 1947 Pulitzer Prize in photography for his December 7, 1946 picture of a woman falling 11 stories from Atlanta's blazing Winecoff Hotel (119 died, but she didn't); he was the first to win in that category as an amateur; he went on to found an X-ray equipment business born on 2-2-1922 expired 12-5-2007 in Atlanta, Georgia   age 85   cause: complications following hip surgery

retired University of Hawaii entomologist Dr.  D. Elmo Hardy   had over 50 species of flies named after him born on 9-3-1914 in Lehi, Utah expired 10-17-2002 in Honolulu, Hawaii   age 88

U. Mississippi cardiac surgeon Dr.  James D. Hardy   performed first heart transplant (a chimpanzee heart) into a human - the recipient died after 90 minutes (1964) born on 5-14-1918 in Newala, Alabama expired 2-19-2003 in Jackson, Mississippi   age 84   cause: pneumonia; heart failure

World War I-era veteran  Moses Hardy   had been the oldest living man in the U.S. & second oldest in the world; oldest known combat veteran ever born on 1-6-1893 in Aberdeen, Mississippi expired 12-7-2006 in Aberdeen, Mississippi   age 113    Contest Selectors 2006 KLS 3.3%    Scored 3.7000 solo points

comedian  Oliver Norvell Hardy Jr.   partnered with Stan Laurel; he's the fat one born on 1-18-1892 in Harlem, Georgia expired 8-7-1957 in North Hollywood, California   age 65

second head of Mossad (1952-63)  Isser Harel   conducted the kidnapping of Adolf Eichman from Argentina (1960) ¤ born: Isser Halperin  born on --1912 in Vitebsk, Russia expired 2-18-2003 in Petah Tiqwah, Israel   age 91

Yossi Harel   commander of the Exodus 1947 project that attempted to bring concentration camp survivors to Palestine; on July 18, 1947 the ship was violently turned away from Haifa (3 killed & hundreds injured) with the passengers taken by the British to a former Nazi SS camp near Hamburg; it was a public relations disaster for the British and lead the fledgling UN to create the State of Israel the following May; the book Exodus (1958) was inspired by the events ¤ born: Yossef Hamburger  born on 1-4-1918 in Jerusalem, Ottoman Palestine expired 4-26-2008 in Tel Aviv, Israel   age 90   cause: heart attack

Indiana University biochemistry professor Dr.  Rolla N. Harger   inventor of the Drunkometer (1931) born on 1-14-1890 in Decatur County, Kansas expired 8-8-1983 in Indianapolis, Indiana   age 93

Christian Crusade evangelist  Billy James Hargis Sr.   staunch anti-communist rabble rouser born on 8-3-1925 in Texarkana, Texas expired 11-27-2004 in Tulsa, Oklahoma   age 79   cause: Alzheimer's disease

muscle-man and actor  Miklos "Mickey" Hargitay   winner of the 1955 Mr. America/Olympia/Universe titles; one-time husband of Jayne Mansfield; father of Mariska born on 1-6-1926 in Budapest, Hungary expired 9-14-2006 in Los Angeles, California   age 80   cause: multiple myeloma    Contest Selectors 2006 TBC 3.3%    Scored 7.0000 solo points

author & tv writer  Edward Thomas Marion Lawton Hargrove Jr.   wrote See Here, Private Hargrove born on 10-13-1919 in Mount Olive, North Carolina expired 8-23-2003 in Long Beach, California   age 83   cause: complications from pneumonia

artist  Keith Haring born on 5-4-1958 in Kutztown, Pennsylvania expired 2-16-1990 in New York, New York   age 31   cause: AIDS

frequent Lebanese premier  Rafik Baha al-din Hariri   headed government from 1992 to 1998, again 2000 to 2004; complained of Syrian interference in country born on 11-1-1944 in Şaydā, Lebanon (Sidon) expired 2-14-2005 in Beirut, Lebanon   age 60   cause: car bomb AKS: Sayda Sidon

physicist  William Draper Harkins   in 1915 advanced the theory that hydrogen fusion into helium liberates energy, the basis of the H-bomb born on 12-28-1873 in Titusville, Pennsylvania expired 3-7-1951 in Chicago, Illinois   age 77

former Supreme Court justice (1955-71)  John Marshall Harlan Jr. born on 5-20-1899 in Chicago, Illinois expired 12-29-1971 in Washington, District of Columbia   age 72   cause: cancer

movie actress  Jean Harlow   star of Hell's Angels (1930), Platinum Blond & Dinner at Eight (1933) ¤ real name: Harlean Carpenter  born on 3-3-1911 in Kansas City, Missouri expired 6-7-1937 in Los Angeles, California   age 26   cause: cerebral edema; uremic poisoning; acute nephritis

cop-turned-rocker  David Harman   leader of the band Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich ¤ aka: "Dave Dee"  born on 12-17-1943 in Salisbury, Wiltshire, England expired 1-9-2009 in Alderley Edge, Cheshire, England   age 65   cause: prostate cancer

cartoonist  Fred Harman Sr.   created the Red Ryder comic strip character (drew strip 1938-62) born on 2-9-1902 in Saint Joseph, Missouri expired 1-2-1982 in Phoenix, Arizona   age 79   cause: complications from stroke AKS: Harmon

tv clown  Larry Harmon   second person to portray Bozo the Clown; eventually bought up all rights to the character ¤ born: Lawrence Weiss  born on 1-2-1925 in Toledo, Ohio expired 7-3-2008 in Los Angeles, California   age 83   cause: congestive heart failure

Heisman Trophy winner  Thomas Dudley "Tom" Harmon   University of Michigan halfback (1938-40); father of actor Mark Harmon ¤ nickname: "Old 98"  born on 9-28-1919 in Rensselaer, Indiana expired 3-15-1990 in Los Angeles, California   age 70

retired confectioner  Dorothy B. Harmsen   co-founded the Jolly Rancher Candy company (1949) born on 9-3-1914 in Minneapolis, Minnesota expired 8-29-2006 in Denver, Colorado   age 91   cause: heart attack

Jolly Rancher Candy Co. co-founder (1949)  William D. "Bill" Harmsen Sr. born on 6-20-1912 in Saint Paul, Minnesota expired 4-10-2002 in Wheat Ridge, Colorado   age 89   cause: prostate cancer

actress  Virginia Harned   created the role of Trilby in Svengali in 1895 expired 4-29-1946 in New York, New York   age 74

English King (1035-1040)  Harold I Harefoot   bastard son of Canute born on --1016 expired 3-17-1040 in London, England   age 23

English King (January 6-October 14, 1066)  Harold II   son of Godwin, Earl of Wessex; last Saxon king of England born on --1020 in East Anglia, England expired 10-14-1066 in Hastings, Sussex, England   age 46   cause: battle wounds

professional golfer  Chandler Harper   won 1950 PGA Championship; mentor to Curtis Strange born on 3-10-1914 in Portsmouth, Virginia expired 11-8-2004 in Portsmouth, Virginia   age 90   cause: complications from pneumonia

commercial advertising actress  Ethel Ernestine Harper   portrayed Aunt Jemima in late 1950s born on 9-17-1903 expired 3-31-1979 in Morristown, New Jersey   age 75   cause: heart attack

Texas prison escapee  Larry James Harper born on 9-10-1963 expired 1-22-2001 in Woodland Park, Colorado   age 37   cause: suicide; gunshot to heart    Contest Selectors 2001 TEX 12½%    Scored 11.3000 solo points

casino owner & classic car collector  William Fisk Harrah   briefly married to Bobbie Gentry born on 9-2-1911 in South Pasadena, California expired 6-30-1978 in Rochester, Minnesota   age 66   cause: aortal aneurism

lowlife  Charles Voyde Harrelson   gambler; convicted of murdering a Federal Judge (a contract hit); after escaping from another prison got sent to the Federal Supermax; indicentally, was the father of actor Woody Harrelson born on 7-23-1938 in Lovelady, Texas expired 3-15-2007 in Florence, Colorado   age 68

Nazi mountaineer/geographer  Heinrich Harrer   was a member of the Austrian Sturmabteilung (SA) starting in 1934; promoted to the SS after Austria joined the Third Reich (1938); husband of Lotte Wegener (daughter of geophysicist Alfred Wegener); captured while mountaineering in India during World War II, escaped into Tibet & met the Dali Lama; wrote a book about the adventure "Sieben Jahre in Tibet" (1953; "Seven Years in Tibet") born on 7-6-1912 in Hüttenberg, Carinthia, Austria expired 1-7-2006 in Freisach, Carinthia, Austria   age 93    Contest Selectors 2006 WEP 3.3%    Scored 5.7000 solo points

München journalist  Karl Harrer   co-founded German Workers Party (DAP --- Deutsche Arbeiter Partei) predecessor of the Nazi Party expired ??-??-19??   age ??

American League president (1931-58)  Will Harridge   his legacy: banning midgets from the game born on 10-16-1886 in Chicago, Illinois expired 4-9-1971 in Evanston, Illinois   age 84

Marie Norton Harriman   second wife of W. Averell (1930-70) born on 4-10-1903 in New York, New York expired 9-26-1970 in Georgetown, Maryland   age 67   cause: heart attack

socialite  Pamela Digby Harriman   widow of W. Averell born on 3-20-1920 in Farnsborough, England expired 2-5-1997 in Paris, France   age 76   cause: cerebral hemorrhage

William Averell Harriman born on 11-15-1891 in New York, New York expired 7-26-1986 in Yorktown Heights, New York   age    Contest Selectors 1979 MM, RR 15.4% 1980 DH, HP, MM, RR 25.0%

actress  Anna Short Harrington   portrayed Aunt Jemima (1935-55) born on --1897 in near Cheraw, South Carolina expired ??-??-1935 in Syracuse, New York   age 58   cause: complications from diabetes

vaudeville musicician/comedian  Daniel Patrick "Pat" Harrington Sr. expired 9-2-1965 in New York, New York   age 64

socialist author  Edward Michael Harrington born on 2-24-1928 in Saint Louis, Missouri expired 7-31-1989   age 61   cause: cancer

retired U.S. Army Sgt. Major  William Harrington III   one of the last buffalo soldiers born on 6-??-1894 in Anniston, Alabama expired 4-??-1994   age 99

original Shirelles singer  Addie Harris born on 7-12-1941 expired 11-??-1982   age 41

actress  Cassandra Harris   wife of Pierce Brosnan ¤ born: Sandra Colleen Waites  born on 12-15-1952 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia expired 12-28-1991 in Los Angeles, California   age 39   cause: ovarian cancer

Texas death row inmate  Danny Harris expired 7-30-1993   age 32

NBC correspondent  Don Harris   murdered after visiting People's Temple cult headquarters in Jonestown, Guyana born on 9-8-1936 in Montgomery County, Georgia expired 11-18-1978 in Port Kaituma, Guyana   age 42   cause: bullet wounds

original Ms. Magazine publisher  Elizabeth Forsling Harris born on 1-8-1922 in Greeneville, Tennessee expired 7-14-1999 in New York, New York   age 77   cause: complications from emphysema

famed pro wrassler  Houston Harris   famous for the "Coco butt" head slam ¤ aka: "Bobo Brazil"  born on 7-10-1924 in Little Rock, Arkansas expired 1-20-1998 in Saint Joseph, Michigan   age 74   cause: heart failure

Atlanta Constitution editor (1890-1900)  Joel Chandler Harris   created Uncle Remus and the tales immortalized in Song of the South born on 12-9-1848 in Eatonton, Georgia expired 7-3-1908 in Atlanta, Georgia   age 59

science fiction writer  John Beynon Harris   wrote Day of the Trifids & The Midwich Cuckoos (movie title Village of the Damned, remade as Children of the Damned) ¤ wrote under the pseudonym John Wyndham  expired 3-11-1969 in London, England   age 65

character actor  Jonathan Harris   played Dr. Zachary Smith on the Lost in Space tv series ("... the pain, the pain ...") ¤ born: Jonathan Charasuchin  born on 11-6-1919 in New York, New York expired 11-3-2002 in Encino, California   age 87   cause: cardiac blood clot    Contest Selectors 2000 SPAM 14% 2001 ROTS 12½% 2002 JAC 9.1%    Scored 6.3000 solo points

character actor  Julius W. Harris   replaced Godfrey Cambridge as Idi Amin in Victory at Entebbe (1970); played Tee Hee in Live and Let Die (1973) and Inspector Daniels in The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (1974) born on 8-17-1923 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania expired 10-17-2004 in Woodland Hills, California   age 81   cause: heart failure

educator & author  Mark Harris   retired from teaching English at Arizona State University (1980-2001); wrote Bang the Drum Slowly (novel: 1956; screenplay) ¤ born: Mark Harris Finkelstein  born on 11-19-1922 in Mount Vernon, New York expired 5-30-2007 in Santa Barbara, California   age    cause: complications from Alzheimer's disease

silent screen sctress  Mildred Harris   first wife of Charlie Chaplin (divorced in 1922) born on 11-29-1901 in Cheyenne, Wyoming expired 7-20-1944 in Los Angeles, California   age 42

Carter HUD secretary (1977-79)  Patricia Roberts Harris   Ambassador to Luxembourg (1965-67) born on 5-31-1924 in Mattoon, Illinois expired 3-23-1985 in Washington, District of Columbia   age 60

bandleader  Phil Harris   married to Alice Faye born on 6-24-1904 in Linton, Indiana expired 8-11-1995   age 91    Contest Selectors 1979 HFS 7.7%

Rock-n-Roll Hall of Fame gospel & soul singer  Rebert Harris   former Soul Stirrers lead singer; when he left (1950) he was replaced by Sam Cooke born on 3-23-1916 in Trinity, Texas expired 9-3-2000 in Chicago, Illinois   age 84

actor  Richard St. John Harris   warbled MacArthur Park (1967); played Professor Albus Dumbledore in two Harry Potter movies born on 10-1-1930 in Limerick, Ireland expired 10-25-2002 in London, England   age 72   cause: lymphatic cancer; Hodgkin's disease

comedian & actor  Robin Harris born on 8-30-1953 in Chicago, Illinois expired 3-18-1990 in Chicago, Illinois   age 36

composer  Roy Harris born on 2-12-1898 in Lincoln County, Oklahoma expired 10-1-1979 in Santa Monica, California   age 81   cause: stroke

Broadway producer  Sam Henry Harris   once partnered with George M. Cohan; produced Ice Bound (1923), Of Thee I Sing (1932) and You Can't Take It With You (1937), all winners of the Pulitzer prize born on 2-3-1872 in New York, New York expired 7-3-1941 in New York, New York   age 69

"voice of the Apollo"  Vivian Harris   long-time performer at Harlem's Apollo Theater; one of the first to dance the Charleston (1923) born on 12-23-1902 in New York, New York expired 2-18-2000 in Englewood, New Jersey   age 97

jazz trombonist  Walter Slide Harris expired 8-8-1976 in Washington, District of Columbia   age 73

23rd U.S. president (1889-93)  Benjamin Harrison   won electoral college but lost popular vote in 1888 election born on 8-20-1833 in North Bend, Ohio expired 3-13-1901 in Indianapolis, Indiana   age 67

former Beatle  George Harrison born on 2-25-1943 in Liverpool, England expired 11-29-2001 in Hollywood Hills, California   age 58   cause: cancer    Contest Selectors 2000 BOD, TEX 29% 2001 BOD 12½%    Scored 9.2000 solo points

composer  Lou Harison born on 5-14-1917 in Portland, Oregon expired 2-2-2003 in Lafayette, Indiana   age 85   cause: heart attack in a Dennys restaurant

actor  Reginald Carey "Rex" Harrison   played Professor Henry Higgins in My Fair Lady born on 3-5-1908 in Huyton, England expired 6-2-1990   age 82    Contest Selectors 1980 BB 6.3%

R&B singer  Wilbert H. Harrison   recorded Kansas City in 1959 born on 1-5-1929 expired 10-26-1994   age 65

9th U.S. president (March 3rd thru April 4th, 1841)  William Henry Harrison   the ultimate pompous windbag - delivered his inaugural address outdoors, in a cold rain, for more than an hour, until he was so chilled that he caught pneumonia born on 2-9-1773 in Charles City, Virginia expired 4-4-1841 in Washington, District of Columbia   age 68   cause: pneumonia

auto engineer  Ray Harroun   winner of the first Indianapolis 500 race (1911) born on 1-12-1879 in Spartansburg, Pennsylvania expired 1-19-1968 in Anderson, Indiana   age 89 AKS: Haroun

1994 Nobel economics co-laureate  John Charles. Harsanyi   expert in "Game Theory" born on 5-29-1920 in Budapest, Hungary expired 8-9-2000 in Berkeley, California   age 80   cause: heart attack; Alzheimer's disease

drag racing pioneer  Cloyce Roller "Joe" Hart   first to charge admission to a drag race (1950 @ Orange County Airport) ¤ nickname: "Pappy"  born on 4-29-1911 in Findlay, Ohio expired 6-25-2004 in Placentia, California   age 93   cause: complications from stroke AKS: CJ C J C.J. C. J.

1940s magazine cover model  Dorothy Hart   had female lead (Ruth Morrison) in noir classic The Naked City (1948) & Jane in Tarzan's Savage Fury (1952) born on 4-4-1922 in Cleveland, Ohio expired 7-11-2004 in Arden, North Carolina   age 82   cause: complications from Alzheimer's disease

Titanic survivor  Eva Hart born on 1-31-1905 in Ilford, Essex, England expired 2-14-1996 in London, England   age 91

obscure tv actor  John L. Hart   replaced Clayton Moore as The Lone Ranger for 54 episodes (1950-53); was also Narbo on Rawhide (1959-65) born on 12-13-1917 in Los Angeles, California expired 9-20-2009 in Rosarito Beach, Mexico   age 91   cause: complications from dementia

cartoonist  John Lewis "Johnny" Hart   created the B.C. strip (1958); was co-creator of The Wizard of Id strip (1964); received the Reuben Award from the National Cartoonist Society for being the Outstanding Cartoonist of the Year (1968) born on 2-18-1931 in Endicott, New York expired 4-7-2007 in Nineveh, New York   age 76   cause: stroke

actress/game show panelist  Kitty Carlisle Hart   widow of Moss Hart ¤ born: Catherine Conn  born on 9-3-1910 in New Orleans, Louisiana expired 4-17-2007 in New York, New York   age 96   cause: heart failure; pneumonia    Contest Selectors 2000 KLS 14% 2001 KLS, ROTS 25% 2002 MORB 9.1% 2003 JEDS, KLS, KOHD, OGGI, PCD 27.8% 2004 ADWC, ANG, KLS, PCD 22.2% 2005 ADWC, ANG, KLS, NFG, PCD, QKU 26.1% 2006 ADWC, ANG, KLS, NFG, QKU 16.7% 2007 ADWC, ANG, BOD, DTH, KLS, NFG, QKU, RIE 25.8%    Scored 2.9195 points AKS: Katherine

Notre Dame end (1946-49)  Leon Joseph Hart Sr.   winner of the Heisman Trophy (1949) born on 11-2-1928 in Turtle Creek, Pennsylvania expired 9-24-2002 in South Bend, Indiana   age 73   cause: complications from duodenal ulcer; prostate cancer

lyricist  Lorenz Hart   collaborator with Richard Rodgers born on 5-2-1895 in New York, New York expired 11-22-1943 in New York, New York   age 48

playwright  Moss Hart ¤ real name: Robert Arnold Conrad  born on 10-24-1904 in New York, New York expired 12-20-1961 in Palm Springs, California   age 57

WWF wrassler  Owen James Hart   brother of wrassler Bret Hart ¤ aka: "The Blue Blazer"  born on 5-7-1965 in Calgary, Alberta, Canada expired 5-23-1999 in Kansas City, Missouri   age 34   cause: fell 50 feet to ring, hit head against turnbuckel

Michigan senator (1958-76)  Philip Aloysius Hart born on 7-10-1912 in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania expired 12-26-1976 in Washington, District of Columbia   age 64   cause: cancer

government agent  Richard A. Hart   brother of Al Capone ¤ born: James Capone  expired 9-30-1952 in Homer, Nebraska   age 60

former wrassler  Stu Hart   patriarch of family of wrasslers; father of Bret Hart born on 5-3-1915 in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada expired 10-16-2003 in Calgary, Alberta, Canada   age 88   cause: pneumonia; diabetes    Contest Selectors 2003 MB 5.6%    Scored 6.2000 solo points

moralistic silent screen cowboy actor  William Surrey Hart   played Massala in the 1907 Ben Hur; co-founded United Artists studio; career went on skids after slipping out of a paternity suit; his estate was turned into a park in Los Aangeles born on 12-6-1864 in Newburgh, New York expired 6-23-1946 in Newhall, California   age 81

retired jockey  William John "Bill" Hartack   a five-time winner of the Kentucky Derby born on 12-9-1932 in Ebensburg, Pennsylvania expired 11-26-2007 in Freer, Webb County, Texas   age 74   cause: heart disease

western author  Francis Brett Harte   wrote The Outcasts of Poker Flat ¤ pen name: Bret Harte  born on 8-25-1836 in Albany, New York expired 5-2-1902 in London, England   age 65   cause: cancer

Nazi Elite Guard commander  Wilhelm Hartenstein expired 2-13-1944 in Russian front   age ??   cause: bullet wounds

A&P founder  George Huntington Hartford Sr.   founded the Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company in 1869 born on 9-5-1833 in Augusta, Maine expired 8-29-1917 in Spring Lake, New Jersey   age 83

one-time A&P heir  George Huntington Hartford II   grandson/nephew of the A&P founders; blew most of his wealth on bad artsie-fartsie drech born on 4-18-1911 in New York, New York expired 5-19-2008 in Lyford Cay, Nassau, Bahamas   age 97

licensed riverboat pilot  John Hartford   singer, songwriter, banjo player; wrote Gentle On My Mind ¤ born: John Harford  born on 12-30-1937 in New York, New York expired 6-4-2001 in Nashville, Tennessee   age 63   cause: cancer

former Indiana senator (1959-77)  Rupert Vance Hartke   briefly an anti-war presidential candidate (1972) born on 5-31-1919 in Stendal, Indiana expired 7-27-2003 in Fairfax, Virginia   age 84   cause: heart failure

New Jersey representative (1929-48)  Fred Allen Hartley Jr.   co-author of the Taft-Hartley Act (1946) born on 2-22-1902 in Harrison, New Jersey expired 5-11-1969 in Linwood, New Jersey   age 67

comics illustrator  Henry Al Hartley   drew Archie (1966-93); son of U.S. representative born on 10-25-1921 in Kearny, New Jersey expired 5-27-2003 in Fort Myers, Florida   age 81   cause: complications following heart surgery

Haldan Keffer Hartline   shared the 1967 Nobel prize in medicine born on 12-22-1903 in Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania expired 3-17-1983 in Fallston, Maryland   age 79

former U.N. high commissioner for refugees (1978-85)  Poul Hartling   former prime minister of Denmark (1973-75) born on 8-14-1914 in Copenhagen, Denmark expired 4-30-2000 in Copenhagen, Denmark   age 85

Brynn Hartman   troubled spouse of comedian Phil; killed self after killing Phil ¤ born: Vicki Joe Omdahl  born on 4-11-1958 expired 5-28-1998 in Encino, California   age 40   cause: suicide

sandpit worker  Daniel Hartman   found the jawbone of Heidelberg Man expired 3-1-1952 in Heidelberg, Germany   age 97

character actor  Paul Hartman born on 3-1-1904 expired 10-2-1973 in Los Angeles, California   age 69   cause: heart attack

comedian  Phil Hartman born on 9-24-1948 in Brantford, Ontario, Canada expired 5-28-1998 in Encino, California   age 49   cause: murdered by wife in his sleep

writer/producer  Edmund L. Hartmann   wrote screenplays to The Paleface (1948), Sorrowful Jones (1949), Fancy Pants (1950), The Lemon Drop Kid (1951) & The Caddy (1951); created My Three Sons tv series for Fred MacMuray born on 9-24-1911 in Saint Louis, Missouri expired 11-28-2003 in Santa Fe, New Mexico   age 92

actor  William Hartnell   first to play Doctor Who (1963-66) born on 1-8-1908 in London, England expired 4-24-1975 in London, England   age 67

Hall-of-Fame Chicago Cubs catcher (1922-40)  Charles Leo "Gabby" Hartnett born on 12-20-1900 in Woonsocket, Rhode Island expired 12-20-1972 in Park Ridge, Illinois   age 72   cause: cirrhosis of the liver

former Atlanta mayor (1937-40 & 1941-61)  William B. Hartsfield   the Atlanta airport is named for him born on 3-1-1890 in Atlanta, Georgia expired 2-22-1971 in Atlanta, Georgia   age 80

philosopher & theologian  Charles Hartshorne born on 6-5-1897 in Kittanning, Pennsylvania expired 10-10-2000 in Austin, Texas   age 103

comic book publisher  Alfred Harvey   published Richie Rich, Baby Huey and Little Audrey comics born on 10-6-1913 expired 7-4-1994   age 80

runway fashion model-turned-bounty hunter  Domino Harvey   wild daughter of Laurence Harvey; subject of a 2005 movie; was out on bail facing serious drug charges born on 8-7-1969 in London, England expired 6-27-2005 in West Hollywood, California   age 35   cause: drowned in bathtub; Fentanyl overdose

Centron Productions commercial filmmaker  Harvey "Herk" Harvey   on a break from his regular job directed Carnival of Souls (1962) born on 6-3-1924 in Colorado expired 4-3-1996 in Lawrence, Kansas   age 71   cause: pancreatic cancer

actor  Laurence Harvey   he was the Manchurian Candidate (1962) ¤ real name: Larushke Mischa Skikne  born on 10-1-1928 in Janiskis, Lithuania expired 11-25-1973 in London, England   age 45   cause: cancer AKS: Lawrence

radio commentator  Paul Harvey Sr. ¤ full name: Paul Harvey Aurandt  born on 9-4-1918 in Tulsa, Oklahoma expired 2-28-2009 in Phoenix, Arizona   age 90    Contest Selectors 1980 GP 6.3% 2000 RR, TEX 29% 2002 JAC, MORB, RR, TMTX 36.4% 2003 OGGI, TAP, TMTX 16.7% 2004 ABRA, ADWC, RR, TAP 22.2% 2005 ADWC, BOD, MOT, SPIT, TMD 21.7% 2006 ADWC, BOD, MOT 10.0% 2007 ADWC, BOD, GOHI, GREB, JCM, SBAP, TFM 22.6% 2008 ADWC, ANG, BOD, GOHI, GREB, JCM, OED, QKU, SBAP, TFM 31.3% 2009 BOD, GREB, JCM, KLS, OED, SBAP, TFM 23.3%    Scored 3.5391 points

Pharoahs guitarist  Rick G. Harvey   performed on Wooly Bully, Lil' Red Riding Hood born on 11-16-1949 expired 4-5-1993   age 43

German oldster  Rosalia Hasenkampf born on 10-1-1889 expired 7-10-2002   age 112

one-term Colorado Senator (1973-78)  Floyd K. Haskell   husband of NPR reporter Nina Totenberg born on 2-7-1916 expired 8-25-1998 in Washington, District of Columbia   age 82   cause: pneumonia

Great Lakes sailor  Russell George Haskell   Second Assistant Engineer aboard the Edmund Fitzgerald expired 11-10-1975 in Eastern Lake Superior, Canada   age 40   cause: drowned when ship foundered

shipyard chief  Charles Haskill   president of Great Lakes Engineering Works in River Rouge, Michigan (1940-61); headed the construction of the Edmund Fitzgerald steamship (1957-58) born on 6-11-1904 in Paris, France expired 7-16-1998 in Farmington Hills, Michigan   age 94   cause: heart failure

film director  Byron Haskin   directed Treasure Island (1950) & War of the Worlds (1953) born on 4-22-1899 in Portland, Oregon expired 4-16-1984 in Montecito, California   age 84 AKS: Haskins

former Texas Western (now UTEP) basketball coach (1961-99)  Donald Lee Haskins   his 1966 team won the NCAA basketball tournament born on 3-14-1930 in Enid, Oklahoma expired 9-7-2008 in El Paso, Texas   age 78

writer  Eric Hass   4-time Socialist Labor Party presidential candidate, in 1952, 1956, 1960 (got 46,478) & 1964 born on 3-4-1905 in Lincoln, Nebraska expired 10-2-1980 in Santa Rosa, California   age 75   cause: heart attack

Moroccan  King Hassan II   son of Mohammed V; reigned from 1961-99 ¤ full name: Moulay Hassan ben Mohammed Alaoui  born on 7-9-1929 in Morocco expired 7-23-1999 in Rabat, Morocco   age 70   cause: heart attack

Odd Hassell   shared 1969 Nobel prize in chemistry born on 5-17-1897 in Kristiania, Norway (now Oslo) expired 5-11-1981 in Oslo, Norway   age 83

Hasbro C.E.O.  Steven David Hassenfeld born on 1-19-1942 in Providence, Rhode Island expired 6-18-1989 in New York, New York   age 47

actress  Signe Eleanora Cecilia Hasso ¤ born: Signe Eleanora Cecilia Larsson  born on 8-15-1910 in Stockholm, Sweden expired 6-8-2002 in Los Angeles, California   age 91

Dr.  Thomas Hastings   wrote music for hymn Rock of Ages (1776; lyrics by Augustus Toplady) born on --1784 in Washington, Connecticut expired ??-??-1832 in New York, New York   age 48

New Yorker staff writer  Eric Stowe Hatch   wrote My Man Godfrey born on 10-31-1901 expired 7-4-1973 in Torrington, Connecticut   age 71

former University of Michigan president (1951-67)  Harlan Henthorne Hatcher born on 9-9-1898 in Ironton, Ohio expired 2-25-1998 in Ann Arbor, Michigan   age 99

actor  Hurd Hatfield   played title role in The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945) born on 12-7-1918 in New York, New York expired 12-25-1998 in Monktown, Ireland   age 80

Righteous Brothers singer  Robert Lee "Bobby" Hatfield born on 8-10-1940 in Beaver Dam, Wisconsin expired 11-5-2003 in Kalamazoo, Michigan   age 63   cause: heart attack resulting from acute cocaine intoxication; heart disease

blues singer  Donny Hathaway born on 10-1-1945 in Saint Louis, Missouri expired 1-13-1979 in New York, New York   age 33   cause: plunge from 15th floor window of Essex House (suicide?)

movie director  Henry Hathaway ¤ born: Henri Leopold de Fiennes  born on 3-13-1898 in Sacramento, California expired 2-11-1985 in Los Angeles, California   age 86   cause: complications from heart attack

Dame of Sark  Sibyl Hathaway   ruled the Channel island (1927-74) expired 7-14-1974 in London, England   age 90

sports cartoonist  James Cecil Hatlo   created the They'll Do It Every Time strip (1929; succeeded by Al Scaduto) as well as the characters of Henry Tremblechin & Little Iodine (succeeded by Bob Dunn) born on 9-1-1898 in Providence, Rhode Island expired 12-1-1963 in Carmel, California   age 65

movie actor  Raymond William Hatton   appeared in The Squaw Man (1912) & In Cold Blood (1967) born on 7-7-1887 in Red Oak, Iowa expired 10-21-1971 in Palmdale, California   age 84   cause: heart attack

craggy-faced horror actor  Rondo Hatton   played "The Creeper" (Hal Moffet) in The Pearl of Death (1944), House of Horrors and The Brute Man (1946); he suffered from acromegaly born on 4-22-1894 in Hagerstown, Maryland expired 2-2-1946 in Beverly Hills, California   age 51   cause: heart attack

Robert Keith "Bob" Hattoy   former Clinton political operative born on 11-1-1951 in Providence, Rhode Island expired 3-4-2007 in Davis, California   age 55   cause: cardiac arrest; complications from AIDS

1991 Dearborn, MI H.S. grad  Michael Hauben   coined term Netizen in 1992 article ¤ ICQ# 7203512  born on 5-1-1973 in Boston, Massachusetts expired 6-27-2001 in New York, New York   age 28   cause: injuries sustained when hit by taxicab

former Hunterdon County (New Jersey) prosecutor  Anthony M. Hauck Jr.   co-prosecuted Bruno Hauptman for kidnapping Charles Lindbergh III born on 7-24-1901 in Jersey City, New Jersey expired 9-14-1972 in Flemington, New Jersey   age 71   cause: heart attack

Republic of Ireland politician  Charles James Haughey   was 6th Taoiseach (Prime Minister) of Ireland born on 9-16-1925 in Castlebar, County Mayo, Ireland expired 6-13-2006 in Kinsealy, County Dublin, Irelan   age 80   cause: prostate cancer    Contest Selectors 2005 DTM 4.3% 2006 DTM 3.3%    Scored 7.000 solo points

singer/actress  Aaliyah Dana Haughton born on 1-16-1979 in New York, New York expired 8-25-2001 in Marsh Harbour, Abaco Island, Bahamas   age 22   cause: plane crash

explorer  Knut Magne Haugland   last living member of the Kon Tiki crew (the radio operator; 1947) born on 9-23-1917 in Rjukan, Telemark, Norway expired 12-25-2009 in Oslo, Norway   age 92    Contest Selectors 2009 ADWC 3.3%    Scored 5.8000 solo points

NYC philanthropist  Enid Annenberg Haupt   last surviving child of Triangle Publications founder Moses Annenberg; sister of Walter Annenberg born on 5-13-1906 in Chicago, Illinois expired 10-25-2005 in Greenwich, Connecticut   age 99

engineer  Herman Haupt   invented the compressed air drill; chief of military railroad construction for the Union Army born on 3-26-1817 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania expired 12-14-1905 in Jersey City, New Jersey   age 88

Anna Hauptmann   widow of Bruno ¤ née: Schöffler  born on 11-19-1898 in Germany expired 10-10-1994 in Lancaster, Pennsylvania   age 95 AKS: Hauptman Schoeffler

carpenter  Bruno Richard Hauptmann   convicted of the kidnapping and murder of the Lindbergh baby (March 1, 1932) born on 11-26-1899 in Kamenz, Germany expired 4-3-1936 in Trenton, New Jersey   age 36   cause: executed; electrocution AKS: Hauptman

Gerhart Johann Robert Hauptmann   received the 1912 Nobel prize in literature born on 11-15-1862 in Bad Obersalzbrunn, Silesia expired 6-6-1946 in Agnetendorf, Germany   age 83 AKS: Gerhard

pianist  Hephzibah Menuhin Hauser   Yehudi's sister born on 5-20-1920 in San Francisco, California expired 1-1-1981 in London, England   age 60 AKS: Hepzibah

Nazi politician  Karl Ernst Haushofer   originated the term "Lebenstraum" born on 8-27-1869 in München, Germany expired 3-10-1946 in Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany   age 76   cause: suicide

movie producer Sir  Anthony James Havelock-Allan   producer of Brief Encounter (1945), Romeo and Juliet (1968) & Ryan's Daughter (1970); executive producer & screenwriter of Great Expectations (1946) born on 2-28-1904 in Darlington, Durham, England expired 1-11-2003 in London, England   age 98   cause: heart failure

Charleston, Mississippi carpenter  Willie D. Havens   was the alternate juror in the "trial" of J.W. Milam & Roy Bryant for the murder of Emmett Till born on --1904 expired ??-??-1998   age 94

singer/actress  June Haver   widow of Fred MacMurray ¤ born: June Stovenour nickname: "The Pocket Grable"  born on 6-10-1926 in Rock Island, Illinois expired 7-4-2005 in Los Angeles, California   age 79   cause: respiratory failure

The Almanac Singers, circa 1942. From left: Woody Guthrie, Millard Lampell, Bess Lomax, Pete Seeger, Arthur Stern & Sis Cunningham folklorist  Bess Brown Lomax Hawes   daughter of John Lomax & sister of Alan Lomax; a founding member of the Almanac Singers (1941; with Woody Guthrie & Pete Seeger); with Jacqueline Steiner wrote "The Ballad of the MTA"; was the first director of the Folk and Traditional Arts program at the National Endowement for the Humanities (1977-96) born on 1-21-1921 in Austin, Texas expired 11-27-2009 in Portland, Oregon   age 88   cause: complications from stroke

tv writer/producer  John Stanley Hawkesworth   set designer for The Third Man (1949); produced Upstairs, Downstairs (1971-5) & The Flame Trees of Thika born on 12-7-1920 in London, England expired 9-30-2003 in Leicester, England   age 82

Judge  A. E. Hawkins   presided over first Scottsboro trial (1932) expired ??-??-19??   age ??

former California congressman (1963-91)  Augustus Freeman Hawkins born on 8-31-1907 in Shreveport, Caddo Parrish, Louisiana expired 11-10-2007 in Bethesda, Maryland   age 100    Contest Selectors 2006 CSI, RR 6.7% 2007 RR 3.2%    Scored 5.0000 solo points

jazz tenor saxophonist  Coleman Hawkins born on 11-21-1904 in Saint Louis, Missouri expired 5-19-1969 in New York, New York   age 64

philosopher  David Hawkins   served as Manhattan Project historian born on 2-28-1913 in El Paso, Texas expired 2-24-2002 in Boulder, Colorado   age 88

Grand Ole Opry star  Harold Franklin "Hawkshaw" Hawkins   died aboard same plane with Patsy Cline & Cowboy Copas born on 12-22-1921 in Huntingdon, West Virginia expired 3-5-1963 in Camden, Tennessee   age 41   cause: plane crash

actor  Jack Hawkins   played a British commando sent (along with William Holden) to blow up the Bridge on the River Kwai born on 9-14-1910 in London, England expired 7-18-1973 in London, England   age 62   cause: hemorrhage after surgery

tenor sax R&B musician "Screamin'"  Jay Hawkins   had hit with Constipation Blues (note cause of death); appeared in Mystery Train movie (1989) ¤ full name: Jalacy J. Hawkins  born on 7-18-1929 in Cleveland, Ohio expired 2-12-2000 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France   age 70   cause: hemorrhage after bowel obstruction surgery; multiple organ failure

one term Florida senator (1981-87)  Paula Hawkins ¤ née: Fíckes  born on 1-24-1927 in Salt Lake City, Utah expired 12-4-2009 in Orlando, Florida   age 82   cause: complications from fall; stroke

Texas death row inmate  Samuel Hawkins expired 2-21-1995 in Huntsville, Texas   age 51   cause: executed; lethal injection

aircraft designer & former Lockheed executive  Willis M. Hawkins Sr.   principal designer of the C-130 "Hercules" transport aircraft born on 12-1-1913 in Kansas City, Missouri expired 9-28-2004 in Woodland Hills, California   age 90

Hollywood producer/director  Howard Winchester Hawks   produced The Thing from Another World (1951); directed Come and Get It (1936) & Hatari! (1962) born on 5-30-1896 in Goshen, Indiana expired 12-26-1977 in Palm Springs, California   age 81   cause: complications from concussion

British oldster  Gladys Hawley born on 12-18-1891 in Norfolk, England expired 4-28-2004 in Brookholme, Chesterfield, Derbyshire, England   age 112

Rep.  Willis C. Hawley   in congress from 1906-1932; co-author of the 1930 Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act expired 7-24-1941 in Salem, Oregon   age 77

art director & director  Edward S. "Ted" Haworth   oscar for Sayonara, directed Marty, Some Like It Hot, The Longest Day born on 9-26-1917 in Cleveland, Ohio expired 2-18-1993 in Provo, Utah   age 75

former Holland, MI High School shop teacher  Gerrard Wendell Haworth   founded Modern Products Inc. (1948); it eventually became the office furniture company Haworth Inc. born on 10-9-1911 in Alliance, Nebraska expired 10-25-2006 in Holland, Michigan   age 95

Walter Norman Haworth   shared the 1937 Nobel prize in chemistry born on 3-19-1883 in Chorley, Lancashire, England expired 3-19-1950 in Birmingham, Warwickshire, England   age 67 AKS: Hayworth

actor  Nigel Barnard Hawthorne   played title role in The Madness of King George (1994) born on 4-5-1929 in Coventry, Warwickshire, England expired 12-26-2001 in Baldock, Hertfordshire, England   age 72   cause: heart attack; pancreatic cancer

"actress"  Alexandra Hay   did February 1974 Playboy pictorial born on 7-24-1944 in Los Angeles, California expired 10-11-1993 in Los Angeles, California   age 49

radio reporter & director  George Dewey Hay   originated the Grand Ole Opry in 1924 from WSM in Nashville born on 11-9-1895 in Attica, Indiana expired 5-9-1968 in Virginia Beach, Virginia   age 72

social reform advocate  Henry "Harry" Hay Jr.   formed the Mattachine Society (1949) born on 4-7-1912 in Worthing, Scotland expired 10-24-2002 in San Francisco, California   age 90   cause: lung cancer

Saudi Arabian  Princess Haya bint Sa'ad al-Sudairi   one of the wives of the founder of Saudi Arabia born on --1913 expired 4-18-2003 in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia   age 90

former California senator & San Francisco State semantics prof.  Samuel Ichiye Hayakawa born on 7-18-1906 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada expired 2-27-1992 in San Francisco, California   age 85    Contest Selectors 1980 EB 6.3%

actor  Sessue Kintaro Hayakawa   played the sadistic Japanese prisoner-of-war camp commandant in Bridge on the River Kwai born on 6-10-1886 in Naaura, Honshu, Japan expired 11-23-1973 in Tokyo, Japan   age 87   cause: cerebral thrombosis; pneumonia

long-serving Arizona Senator (1927-68)  Carl Trumbull Hayden   also a U.S. House Representative (1912-26) born on 10-2-1877 in Hayden's Ferry (now Tempe), Arizona Territory expired 1-25-1972 in Mesa, Arizona   age 94

actor  Sterling Relyea Walter Hayden   played mad SAC general Jack D. Ripper in Dr. Stangelove (1963), staunch defender of our precious bodily fluids and purity of essence born on 3-26-1916 in Montclair, New Jersey expired 5-23-1986 in Sausalito, California   age 70    Contest Selectors 1979 MS 7.7%

classical composer  Franz Josef Haydn born on 3-31-1732 in Rohrau, Austria expired 5-31-1809 in Vienna, Austria   age 77 AKS: Joseph Jozsef Joszef Hayden Hiden

Gaulic geezer  Germaine Haye born on 10-10-1888 expired 4-18-2002 in Montaigne-au-Perche, France   age 113

actress  Allison Hayes   played Nancy Fowler Archer in Attack of the 50 Foot Woman (1958) ¤ born: Mary Jane Haynes  born on 3-6-1930 in Charleston, West Virginia expired 2-27-1977 in La Jolla, California   age 46   cause: blood poisoning; kidney & heart failure; calcium supplement overdose

grizzled sidekick  George Francis "Gabby" Hayes   appeared with Hopalong Cassidy and Gene Autry born on 5-7-1885 in Wellsville, New York expired 2-9-1969 in Burbank, California   age 83

underwater acoustics pioneer  Harvey C. Hayes   a developer of SONAR expired 7-9-1968 in Peterborough, New Hampshire   age 89

actress  Helen Hayes   won supporting actress oscar for playing Ada Quonset in Airport (1970); wife of Charles MacArthur; mother of Mary MacArthur; adoptive mother of James MacArthur born on 10-10-1900 in Washington, District of Columbia expired 3-17-1993   age 92    Contest Selectors 1979 DO, DW, HP, VM 30.8% 1980 DO, DW, EB, VA 25.0%

Pima Indian & World War II Marine  Ira Hayes   on of the six marines who raised the flag on Mount Suribachi born on 1-12-1923 in Sacaton, Arizona expired 1-24-1955 in Bapchule, Arizona   age 32   cause: hypothermia; drunk in a ditch

singer/songwriter/musician  Isaac Lee Hayes Jr.   wrote the Theme from Shaft (1971) born on 8-20-1942 in Covington, Tennessee expired 8-10-2008 in East Memphis, Tennessee   age 65   cause: stroke

actor  Peter Lind Hayes   played the plumber Zabladowski in The Five Thousand Fingers of Dr. T; married to Mary Healy ¤ born: Joseph Conrad Lind  born on 6-25-1915 in San Francisco, California expired 4-21-1998 in Las Vegas, Nevada   age 82   cause: "vascular problems"

ex-athlete  Robert Lee "Bob" Hayes Sr.   won gold medal in 1964 Olympics (100m sprint); played for the Dallas Cowboys; busted for selling narcotics (1979) born on 12-20-1942 in Jacksonville, Florida expired 9-18-2002 in Jacksonville, Florida   age 59   cause: kidney failure; prostate cancer    Contest Selectors 2002 JL 9.1%    Scored 9.1000 solo points

19th U.S. president (1877-81)  Rutherford Birchard Hayes   won election by one vote in the Electoral College; ended Civil War Reconstruction born on 10-4-1822 in Delaware, Ohio expired 1-17-1893 in Fremont, Ohio   age 70

volatile/fulmanating Ohio State football coach (1959-79)  Wayne Woodrow "Woody" Hayes   got himself fired for, while coaching in the 12/29/1978 Gator Bowl game, grabbing Clemson player Charlie Bauman by the facemask and punching him in the face through it born on 2-14-1913 in Clifton, Ohio expired 3-12-1987 in Upper Arlington, Ohio   age 74    Contest Selectors 1979 DO, DW, HA, HFS, HP, SB 46.2% 1980 BB 6.3%

Delos Records founder (1973)  Amelia Da Costa Haywood ¤ née: Stone  born on 7-15-1919 in Gainesville, Florida expired 3-19-2007 in Santa Monica, California   age 87   cause: cancer

1940s big band singer  Richard "Dick" Haymes born on 9-13-1918 in Buenos Aires, Argentina expired 3-28-1980 in Los Angeles, California   age 61   cause: lung cancer    Contest Selectors 1980 DO 6.3%    Scored 5.9000 solo points

comedian  Henry Doyle Haynes   better known as Homer in the Homer and Jethro country music comedy team born on 7-27-1920 in Knoxville, Tennessee expired 8-7-1971 in Hammond, Indiana   age 51   cause: heart attack

musician & actor  "Tiger" Haynes   original "Tin Man" in "The Wiz" born on 12-13-1914 in Fredriksted, St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands expired 2-15-1994 in New York, New York   age 79   cause: cardiac arrest

nationally syndicated Louisville Courier-Journal political cartoonist  Hugh Smith Haynie born on 2-6-1927 in Reedville, Virginia expired 11-26-1999 in Louisville, Kentucky   age 72   cause: lung cancer

failed Nixon Supreme Court nominee  Clement Furman Haynsworth Jr. born on 10-30-1912 in Greenville, South Carolina expired 11-22-1989   age 77

lawyer and ACLU general counsel  Arthur Garfield Hays   a defense lawyer for Sacco & Vanzetti, the Scottsboro Boys and on the Scopes "Monkey" Trial expired 12-14-1954 in New York, New York   age 73   cause: heart failure

bass folk singer  Lee Hays   a co-founder of The Weavers (gave group its name); co-wrote If I Had a Hammer born on 3-14-1914 in Little Rock, Arkansas expired 8-26-1981 in Tarrytown, New York   age 67   cause: heart attack AKS: Hayes

long-lived progeria sufferer  Mickey Hays born on 6-30-1972 expired 6-30-1992   age 20 AKS: Hayes

ex-Ohio congressman (1949-76)  Wayne Levere Hays   got caught with a secretary that couldn't type or file born on 5-13-1911 in Bannock, Ohio expired 2-13-1989 in Wheeling, West Virginia   age 77    Contest Selectors 1979 DO, HFS, HP 23.1%

anal-retentive MPAA (toady) "czar" of U.S. film morals  William Harrison Hays   censored from 1922 to 1924, then went on to be Postmaster General under Warren Harding born on 11-5-1879 in Sullivan, Indiana expired 3-7-1954 in Sullivan, Indiana   age 74

tv writer  Christopher Robert "Chris" Hayward   writing partner of Allan Burns; co-developer of The Munsters; co-created Dudley DoRight; a writer on Get Smart (1965-70) & He & She; with Danny Arnold co-wrote much of the Barney Miller scripts born on 6-19-1925 in Bayonne, New Jersey expired 11-20-2006 in Beverly Hills, California   age 81   cause: cancer

film producer and agent  Leland Hayward   produced films in the 1920s; was agent for Clark Gable, Fred Astaire, Ernest Hemingway and Edna Ferber; became Broadway producer in 1944 born on 9-13-1902 in Nebraska City, Nebraska expired 3-18-1971 in Yorktown Heights, New York   age 68   cause: complications from stroke

actress  Susan Hayward   won an Academy Award for playing Barbara Graham in I Want to Live (1958); had 1955 suicide attempt ¤ real name: Edythe Marrener  born on 6-30-1917 in New York, New York expired 3-14-1975 in Beverly Hills, California   age 57   cause: brain cancer

former baseball catcher (1926-45)  Raymond Hayworth Sr.   played on Detroit Tigers team with Ty Cobb (1926) born on 1-29-1904 expired 9-25-2002 in Salisbury, North Carolina   age 98    Contest Selectors 2002 JL 9.1%    Scored 5.2000 solo points

actress  Rita Hayworth   once married to Orson Welles and prince Aly Khan; mother of Rebecca Welles & Princess Yasmine Khan ¤ born: Margarita Carmen Cansino  born on 10-17-1918 in New York, New York expired 5-14-1987 in New York, New York   age 68   cause: complications from Alzheimer's disease    Contest Selectors 1979 JW 7.7% 1980 JW 6.3%

rock band performer/songwriter  Robert Hazard   wrote Girls Just Want To Have Fun ¤ real name: Robert D. Rimato  born on 8-21-1948 expired 8-5-2008 in Boston, Massachuetts   age 59   cause: surgery complications for pancreatic cancer

songwriter/singer  Barton Lee Hazlewood   composer of These Boots Are Made For Walking (1963) & Some Velvet Mornin'; sang duets with Nancy Sinatra: Jackson (1967) & Some Velvet Morning (1968) born on 7-9-1929 in Mannford, Oklahoma expired 8-4-2007 in Henderson, Nevada   age 78   cause: renal cancer    Contest Selectors 2007 WEP 3.2%    Scored 7.2000 solo points AKS: Hazelwood

movie costume designer  Edith Head   8-time costume design oscar winner, for: The Heiress (1949), Samson and Delilah (1949), All About Eve (1950), A Place in the Sun (1951), Roman Holiday (1953), Sabrina (1954) & The Sting (1973) ¤ Mrs. Ward Inhen  born on 10-28-1899 in San Bernardino, California expired 10-24-1981 in Hollywood, California   age 81   cause: myelobibrosis myeloid

former insurance executive  Richard Harold "Dick" Headlee   ran for governor of Michigan (1982) born on 5-16-1930 in Fort Dodge, Iowa expired 11-9-2004 in Cedar Hills, Utah   age 74

designer/inventor  Edward Early Headrick   as head of research & development for Wham-O made the frisbee more aerodynamic & enhanced flight stability --- the "professional" model (1965); he founded the International Frisbee Association (1967) and created frisbee golf in the early 1970s; he was cremated and his ashes molded into limited edition memorial dics that were distributed to family & friends; made the prophetic quote "We used to say that Frisbee is really a religion --- Frisbyterians, we'd call ourselves. When we die, we don't do to purgatory. We just land up on the roof and lay there." (was this guy a Ferengi?!) born on 6-28-1924 in South Pasadena, California expired 8-11-2002 in La Selva Beach, California   age 78   cause: stroke

movie/tv western villain  Myron Daniel Healey born on 6-8-1923 in Petaluma, California expired 12-21-2005 in Burbank, California   age 82   cause: respiratory failure AKS: Healy

blind jazz & blues/rock guitarist/vocalist  Norman Jeffrey Healey   had performed with the group Angel Eyes born on 3-25-1966 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada expired 3-2-2008 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada   age 41   cause: retinoblastoma    Contest Selectors 2008 LMLD, RAVN 6.3%    Scored 9.6500 points

portly actor  David Healy born on 5-15-1932 expired 10-25-1995 in London, England   age 64   cause: heart ailment

vaudevillian  Ted Healy   in 1923 formed a comedy act called "Ted Healy and his Stooges" with Moe Howard, Shemp Howard and Ken Lackey acting as his foiles; Moe and Shemp later went out on their own, adding Larry Fine and calling themselves The Three Stooges born on 10-1-1896 in Houston, Texas expired 9-12-1937   age 40

L.A. Lakers broadcaster  Francis Dayle "Chick" Hearn   coined phrases "slam dunk" & "air ball" born on 11-27-1916 in Buda, Illinois expired 8-5-2002 in Los Angeles, California   age 85   cause: complications from surgery; a fall

Catherine Wood Hearst   ex-wife of Randolph A. Hearst; mother of Patty ¤ née: Campbell  born on 7-5-1917 in Atlanta, Georgia expired 12-30-1998 in Los Angeles, California   age 81   cause: stroke    Contest Selectors 1979 JH 7.7%

publishing heir  David Whitmire Hearst   son of William Randolph Sr.; twin brother of Randolph A. born on 12-2-1915 in New York, New York expired 5-13-1986 in Los Angeles, California   age 70

publishing executive  George Randolph Hearst Sr.   eldest son of William Randolph Hearst Sr. born on 4-23-1904 expired 1-26-1972 in Loma Linda, California   age 67

William Randolph's widow  Millicent Veronica Willson Hearst born on 7-16-1882 in New York, New York expired 12-5-1974 in New York, New York   age 91

publishing heir  Randolph Apperson Hearst   youngest son of William Randolph Sr.; twin brother of David; father of Patricia born on 12-2-1915 in New York, New York expired 12-18-2000 in New York, New York   age 85   cause: stroke

newspaper publishing baron  William Randolph Hearst Sr.   put the "yellow" in Yellow Journalism; built San Simeon castle in California; had Marion Davies as a mistress; provided the model for Orson Welles' Citizen Kane born on 4-29-1863 in San Francisco, California expired 8-14-1951 in Beverly Hills, California   age 88   cause: cerebral hemorrhage

publishing heir  William Randolph Hearst Jr. born on 1-27-1908 in New York, New York expired 5-14-1993   age 85

former British Prime Minister (1970-74)  Edward Richard George "Ted" Heath born on 7-9-1916 in St. Peter's-in-Thanet, Broadstairs, Kent, England expired 7-17-2005 in Salisbury, Wiltshire, England   age 89    Contest Selectors 2003 KOHD 5.6% 2004 ANG, RAVN 11.1% 2005 SPIT 4.3%    Scored 6.1000 solo points

World War I selenium mustard gas inventor  Fred Harvey Heath expired 1-26-1952 in Gainesville, Florida   age 69

jazz bassist  Percy Heath   last surviving original member of the Modern Jazz Quartet born on 4-30-1923 in Wilmington, North Carolina expired 4-28-2005 in Southampton, New York   age 81   cause: bone cancer

biochemist Dr.  Norman George Heatley   with Florey developed method of extracting mass quantities of penicillin from mold cultures born on 1-10-1911 in Suffolk, England expired 1-5-2004 in Oxford, Oxfordshire, England   age 92

radio news commentator  Gabriel Heatter born on 9-17-1890 in New York, New York expired 3-30-1972 in Miami, Florida   age 81   cause: complications from stroke

former Louisiana congressman (1941-76)  Felix Edward Hébert born on 10-12-1901 in New Orleans, Louisiana expired 12-29-1979 in New Orleans, Louisiana   age 78   cause: heart failure

film writer & producer  Ben Hecht born on 2-28-1893 in New York, New York expired 4-18-1964 in New York, New York   age 71

songwriter  Donald "Donn" Hecht   co-wrote Patsy Cline's first hit Walkin' After Midnight (1957) born on 4-18-1930 expired 10-18-2002 in Miami Beach, Florida   age 72   cause: heart attack

actress  Anna Eileen Heckart   won a Tony, three Emmys & a Best Supporting Actress oscar for playing Mrs. Baker in Butterflies Are Free (1972) born on 3-29-1919 in Columbus, Ohio expired 12-31-2001 in Norwalk, Connecticut   age 82   cause: cancer

Windham Hill guitarist  Michael Hedges born on 12-31-1953 expired 12-1-1997 in Boonville, California   age 43   cause: car crash

beat generation painter  Wally B. Hedrick born on 7-21-1928 in Pasadena, California expired 12-17-2003 in Bodega, California   age 75   cause: congestive heart failure

actor  Emmet Evan Heflin Jr.   played the mad bomber in Airport (1970) born on 12-13-1910 in Walters, Oklahoma expired 7-23-1971 in Hollywood, California   age 60   cause: complications from heart attack

fogbound former Alabama senator (1979-96)  Howell Thomas Heflin born on 6-19-1921 in Poulan, Georgia expired 3-29-2005 in Sheffield, Alabama   age 83   cause: heart attack; intestinal blockage AKS: Hefflin Heflen Hefflen

Hugh's mom  Grace C. Hefner   wanted her son to be a Methodist missionary (at least he was good at the position); made a financial killing as an early investor in Playboy Magazine (helped pay for initial issue publication) born on 11-17-1895 expired 3-20-1997 in Scottsdale, Arizona   age 101

movie/tv music composer  Neal Paul Hefti   composed the Odd Couple & tv Batman theme & movie soundtrack for How to Murder Your Wife born on 10-29-1922 in Hastings, Nebraska expired 10-11-2008 in Toluca Lake, California   age 85   cause: heart attack AKS: Neil Neel Kneal

author  Thomas Oris Heggen Jr.   wrote novel Mr. Roberts & co-authored the Broadway adaptation born on 12-23-1919 in Fort Dodge, Iowa expired 5-19-1949 in New York, New York   age 29   cause: drowned in bathtub

character actor  Oliver Peters Heggie   portrayed the hermit in Bride of Frankenstein (1935) born on 9-17-1879 in Angaston, South Australia, Australia expired 2-7-1936 in Los Angeles, California   age 56   cause: pneumonia

1972 Olympic swimmer  Jerry A. Heidenreich   won 2 gold, 1 silver & 1 bronze medal born on 2-4-1950 expired 4-18-2002 in Paris, Texas   age 52   cause: suicide

classical violinist  Jascha Heifetz born on 2-2-1901 in Vilnius, Lithuania expired 12-10-1987 in Los Angeles, California   age 86    Contest Selectors 1979 HP 7.7% 1980 DH, RR 12.5%

economist  Robert Lewis Heilbroner   wrote The Worldly Philosophers (1953) born on 3-24-1919 in New York, New York expired 1-4-2005 in New York, New York   age 85   cause: brain stem stroke; Lewy body disease AKS: Hielbroner Heilbruner Hielbruner Heilbronner Hielbrunner

Detroit Tigers outfielder  Harry Edwin Heilmann   American League batting champion in 1923, 1925 & 1927 born on 8-3-1894 in San Francisco, California expired 7-9-1951 in Detroit, Michigan   age 56   cause: cancer

Nazi Waffen SS doctor  Aribert Ferdinand Heim   while one of the doctors at the Mauthausen concentration camp murdered dozens (possibly hundreds) of prisoners; subject of a world-wide manhunt to finally be brought to justice; eventually fled to Egypt, changed his name to Tarek Hussein Farid and converted to Islam born on 6-28-1914 in Radkersburg, Austria, Austro-Hungarian Empire expired 8-10-1992 in Cairo, Egypt   age 78   cause: rectal cancer 2009 CSI, TWOS

couturier  Jacques Heim   created brief swimsuit that he called "The Atome"; it failed to catch on like his competitor's suit born on 5-8-1899 in Paris, France expired 1-8-1967 in Paris, France   age 67

brewmaster to the world  Alfred Henry "Freddy" Heineken   had managed family brewery (1971-89) born on 11-4-1923 in Amsterdam, The Netherlands expired 1-3-2002 in Noordwijk, The Netherlands   age 78   cause: pneumonia

tv executive  George A. Heinemann   created Ding Dong School and Shari Lewis and Lambchop born on 12-9-1918 expired 8-21-1996 in Canaan, New York   age 77   cause: heart attack

German aviation pioneer  Ernst Heinrich Heinkel   produced the world's first rocket plane in 1939 born on 1-24-1888 in Grunbach, Germany expired 1-30-1958 in Stuttgart, Germany   age 70

science fiction author  Robert Anson Heinlein   wrote Starship Troopers & Stranger in a Strange Land born on 7-7-1907 in Butler, Missouri expired 5-8-1988 in Carmel, California   age 80    Contest Selectors 1980 GP 6.3%

writer's spouse/muse  Virginia D. Heinlein   gave husband idea for Stranger in a Strange Land born on 4-22-1916 expired 1-18-2003 in Atlantic Beach, Illinois   age 76   cause: complications from respiratory illness

Pennsylvania Senator (1976-91)  Henry John Heinz III born on 10-23-1938 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania expired 4-4-1991 in Merion, Pennsylvania   age 52

journalist, sportswrite, author  Wilfred Charles Heinz   co-wrote the novel M*A*S*H (published 1968 under pen name Richard Hooker) born on 1-11-1915 in Mount Vernon, New York expired 2-27-2008 in Barington, Vermont   age 93

Texas death row inmate  Earl Carl Heiselbetz Jr.   executed for the 1991 strangulation murders of Rena Whitten Rogers (age 22) and her 2 year old daughter Jacy born on 4-1-1951 expired 1-12-2000 in Huntsville, Texas   age 48   cause: executed; lethal injection    Contest Selectors 2000 TEX 14%    Scored 10.2000 solo points

nuclear physicist  Werner Karl Heisenberg   when his toy electron broke down he invented quantum mechanics so that he could fix it himself; with no degree of certainty we think he won a Nobel Prize for some theory born on 12-5-1901 in Würzburg, Germany expired 2-1-1976 in München, Bavaria, Germany   age 74

longtime innovative college football coach  John William Heisman   "invented" the center snap (on "Hike") & scoreboard, pushed for the legality of the forward pass; first athletic director of NYC's Downtown Athletic Club; DAC named their football award after him upon his death making it the Heisman Memorial Trophy ¤ born: Johann Wilheim Heismann  born on 10-25-1869 in Cleveland, Ohio expired 10-3-1936 in New York, New York   age 66   cause: bronchial pneumonia

cartoonist  John Held Jr.   noted for his 1920s "flapper girl" illustrations born on 1-10-1889 in Salt Lake City, Utah expired 3-2-1958 in Belmar, New Jersey   age 69

Dr.  Rudolph Hell   inventor of facsimile precursor, the "Hellschreiber" (1929) & technology found in scanners born on 12-19-1901 in Eggmuehl, Germany expired 3-14-2002 in Kiel, Germany   age 100

nuclear physicist Dr.  Robert Linton Hellens   while working for a Westinghouse division helped design the nuclear reactor for The Nautilus submarine born on 8-4-1925 in Fall River, Massachusetts expired 1-28-2008 in Boothbay Harbor, Maine   age 82   cause: Wegener's disease

author  Joseph Heller   wrote Catch-22 (1961); based Yossarian on a friend of his (another bombardier stationed in Corsica) born on 5-1-1923 in New York, New York expired 12-12-1999 in East Hampton, New York   age 76   cause: heart attack

Broadway & Hollywood producer  Mark Hellinger born on 3-21-1903 in New York, New York expired 12-21-1947 in Hollywood, California   age 44   cause: coronary thrombosis

author  Lillian Hellman   wrote Julia born on 6-20-1905 in New Orleans, Louisiana expired 6-30-1984 in Vineyard Haven, Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts   age 79    Contest Selectors 1979 VM 7.7% 1980 BD, VA 12.5%

mayonnaise magnate  Richard Hellman   merged his company with the Postum Company (1927) expired 2-2-1971 in Greenwich, Connecticut   age 94

German actress  Brigitte Helm   played the robot/Maria in Metropolis (1926) ¤ real name: Brigitte Eva Gisela Schittenhelm  born on 3-17-1906 in Berlin, Germany expired 6-11-1996 in Ascona, Switzerland   age 88

former U.S. Olympic Committee head (1985-91)  Robert Hanna Helmick   resigned after accusations of improprieties born on 3-5-1937 in Des Moines, Iowa expired 4-15-2003 in Des Moines, Iowa   age 66   cause: cardiac failure; stroke

singer  Bobby Helms   did Jingle Bell Rock born on 8-15-1933 in Bloomington, Indiana expired 6-19-1997 in Martinsville, Indiana   age 63   cause: emphysema; asthma

1960s hippie  Chester Leo "Chet" Helms   was a concert promoter — owner of the Avalon Ballroom; dubbed the "father of the Summer of Love"; founded the group Big Brother & the Holding Company which featured Janis Joplin as lead singer born on 8-2-1942 in Santa Maria, California expired 6-25-2005 in San Francisco, California   age 62   cause: complications from stroke

former North Carolina Senator (1973-2002)  Jesse Alexander Helms Jr. born on 10-18-1921 in Monroe, North Carolina expired 7-4-2008 in Raleigh, North Carolina   age 86   cause: heart failure; vascular dementia; prostate cancer    Contest Selectors 2000 ANG, BOD, IVY, TEX 57% 2001 BOD, NFG, TEX 37½% 2002 ANG, BOD, JAC, JEDS, RAVN, RR, TMTX 63.6% 2003 ANG, JEDS, MJ, PCD, TAP, TMTX 33.3% 2004 ABRA, ADWC, BOD, MJ, NFG, PCD, TAP 38.9% 2005 ADWC, ANG, BOD, BYE, NFG, PCD, RAVN, SPIT 34.8% 2006 ADWC, ANG, BOD, BYE, MOT, NFG, PCD, RAVN, TBC 30.0% 2007 ADWC, BOD, BYE, MOT, NFG, OIE, PCD, PUD, RPRM, RR 32.3% 2008 ADWC, BOD, BYE, MORB, NFG, OED, OIE, PCD, RPRM, RR, SBAP, XXX 37.5%    Scored 3.9012 points

corporate bigwig  John Hoy Helms   founded the Helms Athletic Foundation that annually recognizes amateur athletes expired 1-5-1957 in Palm Springs, California   age 67

CIA Deputy Director (1965-66) & director (1966-73)  Richard McGarrah Helms born on 3-30-1913 in Saint David's, Pennsylvania expired 10-23-2002 in Washington, District of Columbia   age 89   cause: multiple myeloma

parsimonious feeb  Harry Brakmann Helmsley   married to the Borg Queen born on 3-4-1909 in New York, New York expired 1-4-1997 in Scottsdale, Arizona   age 87   cause: pneumonia

1992's Queen of the Slammer  Leona Mindy Helmsley   known for the apocryphal quote "We don't pay taxes ... only the little people pay taxes!"; shortly thereafter, a brigade of flying monkeys from the IRS Fortress of Doom descended upon her tax filings, ulimately resulting in her incarceration (hubby Harry was ruled too feeble to face the "music"); served 18 months of 14 year sentence ¤ born: Lena Mindy Rosenthal changed name to Leona Roberts in 1930s ex-Mrs. Leo Panzirer ex-Mrs. Joe Lubin  born on 7-4-1920 in Marbletown, Ulster County, New York expired 8-20-2007 in Greenwich, Connecticut   age 87   cause: heart failure    Contest Selectors 2004 EOD 5.6% 2005 TMD 4.3% 2006 MOT, XXX 6.7% 2007 MOT, TFM 6.5%    Scored 5.0500 points

former Lebanese president (1964-70)  Charles Helou born on 12-5-1912 in Beirut, Lebanon expired 1-7-2001 in Zalka, Lebanon   age 88   cause: heart attack

former 3M Corp CEO  Harry Heltzer   invented Scotchlite reflective sheeting & other reflective road marking materials; got caught making illicite campaign contributions from a corporate slush fund born on 8-22-1911 in Cincinnati, Ohio expired 9-21-2005 in Lenoir, North Carolina   age 94

author  Ernest Miller Hemingway   won 1953 Pulitzer and 1954 Nobel prizes for his novel The Old Man and the Sea (1952) born on 7-21-1899 in Oak Park, Illinois expired 7-2-1961 in Ketchum, Idaho   age 61   cause: suicide; gunshot wound

Ernest's youngest son  Gregory H. Hemingway   former physician; had sex change operation born on 11-12-1931 in Kansas City, Missouri expired 10-1-2001 in Miami, Florida   age 64   cause: hypertension; heart disease

outdoorsman  John Hadley Nicanor "Jack" Hemingway   son of Ernest; father of Mariel, Margaux & Joan ("Muffet") ¤ nickname: "Bumby"  born on 10-10-1923 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada expired 12-1-2000 in New York, New York   age 77   cause: complications from heart surgery

model  Margaux Byra Hemingway   sister of Mariel; did May 1990 Playboy pictorial ¤ born: Margot  born on 2-19-1955 in Portland, Oregon expired 6-28-1996 in Santa Barbara, California   age 41   cause: suicide; phenobarbitol overdose

tv director  Dwight Arlington Hemion   won a bunch of Emmy awards (18) born on 3-14-1926 in New Haven, Connecticut expired 1-28-2008 in Rectortown, Virginia   age 81   cause: renal failure

Hawiian resort developer  Christopher B. Hemmeter Sr.   son of inventor George born on 10-8-1939 in Washington, District of Columbia expired 11-27-2003 in Brentwood, California   age 64   cause: liver cancer; Parkinson's disease

George Thiemeyer Hemmeter   invented the coin-operated newspaper vending machine (1947) & the self-balancing washing machine born on 3-21-1906 in Maryland expired 4-8-2000 in Honolulu, Hawaii   age 94

actor  David Hemmings   played Thomas in Blowup (1966), Dildano in Barbarella (1968) & Cassius in Gladiator (2000) born on 11-18-1941 in Guildford, Surrey, England expired 12-3-2003 in Romania   age 62   cause: heart attack

blues singer  Jessie Mae Hemphill born on 10-18-1933 in Senatobia, Mississippi expired 7-22-2006 in Memphis, Tennessee   age 72   cause: complications from infection

jazz saxophonist  Julius Hemphill born on 1-24-1938 in Atlantic City, New Jersey expired 4-2-1995   age 57

comedienne  Shirley Ann Hemphill   appeared on Whats Happening (1976-79) born on 7-1-1947 in Asheville, North Carolina expired 12-4-1999 in West Covina, California   age 52   cause: "natural causes"

Beach Blanket Bingo lyricist  Guy Bonson Hemric born on 6-30-1931 expired 1-10-1993   age 61

silent movie actor/director  Joseph Edward Henabery   played Abraham Lincoln in Birth of a Nation; directed the Babylonian orgy scenes in Intolerance born on 1-15-1887 in Omaha, Nebraska expired 2-18-1976 in Woodland Hills, California   age 89

Dr.  Philip Showalter Hench   shared the 1950 Nobel prize in medicine born on 2-28-1896 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania expired 3-30-1965 in Ocho Rios, Jamaica   age 69

1934 Nobel peace prize recipient  Arthur Henderson born on 9-13-1863 in Glasgow, Scotland expired 10-20-1935 in London, England   age

retired government lawyer  Elmer W. Henderson   as a result of a 1942 train ride he won a 1950 Supreme Court victory (8-0) against separate-but-equal accomodations aboard trains born on 6-8-1913 in Baltimore, Maryland expired 7-17-2001 in Washington, District of Columbia   age 88

jazz orchestra leader  James Fletcher Henderson born on 12-18-1897 in Cuthbert, Georgia expired 12-29-1952 in New York, New York   age 55

jazz saxophonist  Joe Henderson born on 4-24-1937 in Lima, Ohio expired 6-30-2001 in San Francisco, California   age 64   cause: heart failure; emphysema

Broadway arranger/orchestrator  Luther Henderson Jr. born on 3-14-1919 in Kansas City, Missouri expired 7-29-2003 in New York, New York   age 84   cause: cancer

former Tonight Show band leader  Lyle Russell Cedric "Skitch" Henderson   first started working on the Tonight Show under Steve Allen; created the "Stump the Band" schtick; did some time for tax evasion born on 1-27-1918 in Birmingham, West Midlands, England expired 11-1-2005 in New Milford, Connecticut   age 87    Contest Selectors 2002 TMTX 9.1% 2003 TAP, TMTX 11.1% 2004 RIE, TAP 11.1% 2005 RIE, TBC 8.7%    Scored 5.0500 points

former actress  Marian Marsh Henderson   starred opposite John Barrymore as Trilby in Svengali (1931); widow of a co-founder of Palm Desert, California ¤ born: Violet Ethelred Krauth  born on 10-17-1913 in Trinidad, West Indies expired 11-9-2006 in Palm Desert, California   age 93

army Colonel  Oran K. Henderson   courts-martialed for covering-up the 1968 My Lai massacre (it happened his first day as commander of the Americal Division's 11th Infantry Brigade); he was acquitted of the charges born on 8-25-1920 in Indianapolis, Indiana expired 6-2-1998 in Lebanon, Pennsylvania   age 77   cause: pancreatic cancer

song composer  Ray Henderson   collaborated with Lew Brown & "Buddy" DeSylva on Sonny Boy (written as a joke for Al Jolson), Bye, Bye Blackbird and Button Up Your Overcoat born on 12-1-1896 in Buffalo, New York expired 12-31-1970 in Greenwich, Connecticut   age 74   cause: heart attack

Dr.  Robert Gregory Henderson   invented the Iron Lung (1933; design based upon the Drinker Respirator) born on 4-7-1902 in Clatt, Aberdeenshire, Scotland expired 5-10-2000   age 98

former Spinners singer  William "Billy" Henderson   booted out of the group he co-founded when he sued to get a look at the books born on 8-9-1939 in Detroit, Michigan expired 2-2-2007 in Daytona Beach, Florida   age 67   cause: complications from diabetes

last living Brown et al. v. Board of Education plaintiff  Zelma Cleota Henderson ¤ née: Hurst  born on 2-29-1920 in Colby, Kansas expired 5-20-2008 in Topeka, Kansas   age 88   cause: pancreatic cancer

victim of government malfeasance  Ernest Hendon   last surviving victim of the U.S. Public Heath Service's ill-conceived Tuskegee syphilis study (1932-72) that threw away the lives of 623 men without their full knowledge or consent for the attrocities that were perpetrated upon them born on 2-17-1907 in Roba, Alabama expired 1-16-2004 in Opelika, Alabama   age 96

Cleveland 1st term vice president (1885)  Thomas Andrews Hendricks born on 9-7-1819 in Zanesville, Ohio expired 11-25-1885 in Indianapolis, Indiana   age 66

film/tv actor  Benjamin Hendrickson   plays the part of Hal Munson on As the World Turns born on 9-26-1950 in Huntington, Long Island, New York expired 7-1-2006 in Huntington, Long Island, New York   age 55   cause: suicide; shotgun to head    Contest Selectors 2006 MOT 3.3%    Scored 9.5000 solo points

actress  Dixie Wanda Hendrix   briefly married to Audie Murphy (1949-50) born on 11-3-1928 in Jacksonville, Florida expired 2-1-1981 in Burbank, California   age 52   cause: double pneumonia

James A. Hendrix   father of Jimi born on 6-10-1919 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada expired 4-17-2002 in Seattle, Washington   age 82    Contest Selectors 2007 JCM

rock guitarist  James Marshall "Jimi" Hendrix born on 11-27-1942 in Seattle, Washington expired 9-18-1970 in London, England   age 27   cause: drowned in aspirated vomit; sleeping pill overdose

World War II Medal of Honor recipient  James Richard Hendrix born on 8-20-1925 in Lepanto, Arkansas expired 11-14-2002 in Davenport, Florida   age 77   cause: cancer

Norwegian ice skater  Sonja Henie   won Olympic figure skating gold medals at the 1928, 1932 & 1936 games born on 4-8-1912 in Kristiania, Norway expired 10-12-1969 in Oslo, Norway   age 57

Shuttle STS-51--F astronaut Dr.  Karl Gordon Henize born on 10-17-1926 in Cincinnati, Ohio expired 10-5-1994 in Mount Everest, Nepal   age 67   cause: high altitude pulmonary edema

Tennessee death row inmate  Steve M. Henley born on 11-25-1953 expired 2-4-2009 in Nashville, Tennessee   age 55   cause: executed; lethal injection    Contest Selectors 2009 ADWC 3.3%    Scored 9.5000 solo points

illusionist  Douglas James Henning born on 5-3-1947 in Fort Garry, Manitoba, Canada expired 2-7-2000 in Los Angeles, California   age 52   cause: liver cancer

tv producer  Paul W. Henning   executive producer of Love That Bob tv series; creator of The Beverly Hillbillies (1962), & Petticoat Junction (1963) tv series born on 9-16-1911 in Independence, Missouri (nearby farm) expired 3-25-2005 in Burbank, California   age 93

Casablanca actor  Paul Henreid ¤ born: Paul George Julius Hernreid Ritter von Wasel Waldingau  born on 1-10-1908 in Trieste, Austria-Hungary expired 3-29-1992   age 84

pretender to French throne (since 1926)  Henri VI   Count of Paris & Duke of France ¤ full name: Henri Robert Ferdinand Marie Louis-Philippe d'Orleans  born on 8-5-1908 in Castle of Nouvion-in-Thiérache, France expired 6-19-1999 in Chéisy, France   age 90   cause: prostate cancer

Thomas David "Tommy" Henrich   former Yankees baseball player (1937-50) born on 2-20-1913 in Massillon, Ohio expired 12-1-2009 in Dayton, Ohio   age 96   cause: complications from strokes    Contest Selectors 2009 ADWC 3.3%    Scored 5.4000 solo points AKS: Heinrich

Chilean Cardinal  Raúl Silva Henríquez born on 9-27-1907 expired 4-9-1999 in Santiago, Chile   age 91   cause: heart attack AKS: Raul Henriquez

English king (1100-35)  Henry I   youngest son of William the Conquerer; succeded brother William II under suspicious circumstances ¤ born: Henry Beauclerc  born on --1068 in Selby, England expired 12-1-1135 in Lyons-la-Forêt, Normandy   age 67   cause: food poisoning (bad lampreys)

English king (1154-1189)  Henry II   grandson of Henry I; son of Matilda and Geoffre IV of Anjou; husband of Eleanor of Aquitane; father of Richard I; first Plantagenet king of England ¤ born: Henry Plantagenet  born on 6-3-1133 in Le Mans, France expired 7-6-1189 in Chinon, France   age 56

English king (1216-1272)  Henry III   son of John born on 10-1-1207 in Winchester, England expired 11-16-1272 in Westminster, England   age 65

English king (1399-1413)  Henry IV   grandson of Edward III; first king from the House of Lancaster ¤ aka: Henry Bolingbroke  born on 4-3-1367 in Spilsby, England expired 3-20-1413 in London, England   age 45

English king (1413-1422)  Henry V   son of Henry IV born on 8-9-1387 in Monmouth, Wales expired 8-31-1422 in Bois de Vincennes, France   age 35

English king (1422-1461 and 1470-1471)  Henry VI   son of Henry V; founded Eton College (1440); last Lancaster king of England born on 12-6-1421 in Windsor, England expired 5-21-1471 in London, England   age 49   cause: imprisonment in Tower of London

English king (1485-1509)  Henry VII   head of the House of Lancaster; first Tudor king; father of Henry VIII; grandfather of Edward VI, Mary I and Elizabeth I ¤ aka: Henry Tudor, the Earl of Richmond  born on 1-28-1457 in Pembroke, Wales expired 4-21-1509 in Richmond, England   age 52

English king (1509-1547)  Henry VIII   son of Henry VI; father of Mary I (by first wife Katherine of Aragon), Elizabeth I (by second wife Anne Boleyn) and Edward VI (by third wife Jane Seymour); also married to Anne of Cleves (wife number four), Katherine Howard (wife number five) and Catherine Parr (wife number six) born on 6-28-1491 in Greenwich, England expired 1-28-1547 in Westminster, England   age 55

American revolutionary  Patrick Henry   famous quote: "Give me liberty or give me death!" born on 5-26-1736 in Studley, Virginia expired 6-6-1799 in Charlotte City, Virginia   age 63

former west-Michigan congressman  Paul Henry born on 7-9-1942 in Chicago, Illinois expired 7-31-1993 in Grand Rapids, Michigan   age 51   cause: brain cancer

character actor  Thomas Browne Henry   played Admiral Enright in Earth vs. the Flying Saucers born on 11-7-1907 expired 6-30-1980 in La Mesa, California   age 72

former Disney animator  Erwin William Henson   made first Chip and Dale-featured cartoon; animator on Song of the South (1947), the Bullwinkle Show, Underdog & Tennessee Tuxedo, animated the Trix rabbit commercials born on 7-20-1924 in Dallas, Texas expired 12-3-2002 in Dallas, Texas   age 78   cause: head injuries sustained when he stepped off a curb into the path of a truck

Muppeteer  James Maury "Jim" Henson born on 9-24-1936 in Greenville, Mississippi expired 5-16-1990   age 53   cause: severe pneumonia

actress  Audrey Edda Hepburn   Holly Golightly in Breakfast at Tiffany's ¤ norn: Edda Kathleen van Heemstra Hepburn-Rusten  born on 5-4-1924 in Brussels, Belgium expired 1-20-1993 in Tolochenaz, Switzerland   age 68   cause: colon cancer

actress  Katharine Houghton Hepburn   4-time Best Actress Academy Award winner (1933: Morning Glory; 1967: Guess Who's Coming to Dinner; 1968 The Lion in Winner & 1962 On Golden Pond); longtime lover of Spencer Tracy born on 5-12-1907 in Hartford, Connecticut expired 6-29-2003 in Old Saybrook, Connecticut   age 96   cause: pneumonia; Parkinson's disease    Contest Selectors 1979 DO, DW, HP, SB, VM 38.5% 1980 BB,DO, DW, EB, HP, VA 37.5% 2000 ANG, BOD, KLS, RR, TEX 71% 2001 ANG, BOD, DTM, KLS, NFG, ROTS, RR, TEX 100% 2002 ANG, BOD, CMH, DTM, JAC, JEDS, JL, MORB, TMTX 81.8% 2003 ANG, COCO, DTM, GHG, JEDS, JL, KLS, KOHD, MB, MJ, OGGI, PCD, RR, TAP, TMTX 83.3%    Scored 2.9002 points AKS: Katherine

tv's Mr. Wizard  Donald Jeffrey Herbert   did the show on NBC from 1951 to 1965, then on cable born on 7-10-1917 in Waconia, Minnesota expired 6-12-2007 in Bell Canyon, Ventura County, California   age 89   cause: multiple myeloma    Contest Selectors 1980 BB 6.3% 2001 NFG 12½% 2004 NFG 5.6% 2005 NFG 4.3% 2006 DFFC, NFG 6.7% 2007 DFFC, DGW, DTH, NFG 12.9%    Scored 3.9125 points

author  Frank Patrick Herbert   wrote the Dune book series (first in 1965), for which he won the 1965 Nebula & 1966 Hugo awards born on 10-8-1920 in Tacoma, Washington expired 2-11-1986 in Madison, Wisconsin   age 65   cause: cancer

playwright  Frederick Hugh Herbert   wrote The Moon is Blue born on 5-29-1897 in Vienna, Austria expired 5-17-1958 in Beverly Hills, California   age 60

archaeologist/Egyptologist  George Edward Stanhope Molyneux Herbert   co-discoverer of the tomb of King Tut (1922) ¤ title: 5th Earl of Canarvon  born on 6-26-1866 in Newbury, England expired 4-5-1923 in Cairo, Egypt   age 56   cause: the curse ???

befuddled screen comedian  Hugh Herbert   said "woo woo" a lot and fluttered his hands in the air born on 8-10-1885 in Binghampton, New York expired 3-12-1952 in Hollywood, California   age 66   cause: heart ailment

operetta composer  Victor Herbert   wrote Babes in Toyland (1903) born on 2-1-1859 in Dublin, Ireland expired 5-27-1924   age 65

radio announcer  Edward Joseph Herlihy   spokesman for Kraft Foods; narrated 1940s Universal newsreels in 1940s; appeared in several Woody Allen movies: Hannah and Her Sisters, Radio Days and Zelig (as, what else, the newsreel announcer); also in Scorsese's The King of Comedy and Pee-wee's Big Adventure born on 8-14-1909 in Boston, Massachusetts expired 1-30-1999 in New York, New York   age 89

novelist, playwright  James Leo Herlihy   wrote Midnight Cowboy (1965) born on 2-27-1927 in Detroit, Michigan expired 10-20-1993 in Los Angeles, California   age 66   cause: sleeping pill overdose

former CBS News correspondent (1944-87)  George Edward Herman   was moderator of Face the Nation from 1969 to 1983 born on 1-14-1920 in New York, New York expired 2-8-2005 in Washington, District of Columbia   age 85   cause: congestive heart failure

Thundering Herd bandleader  Woodrow Charles "Woody" Herman born on 5-16-1913 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin expired 10-29-1987   age 74   cause: cardiac arrest    Contest Selectors 1979 MS 7.7%

Texas death row inmate  Adolph Gil Hernandez ¤ aka: number 978  born on 9-1-1950 in Lubbock, Texas expired 2-8-2001 in Huntsville, Texas   age 50   cause: executed; lethal injection    Contest Selectors 2001 BOD, DTM, TEX 37½%    Scored 8.1250 points

choreographer  Amalia Hernández Navarro   founder of the Ballet Folklórico de México (1952) born on 9-19-1917 in Mexico City, Mexico expired 11-4-2000 in Mexico City, Mexico   age 83 AKS: Hernandez

former midwife  Cruz Hernández Rivas   a purported supergeezer (only documentation is a baptismal record) born on 5-3-1878 in San Sebastián, El Salvador expired 3-8-2007 in San Agustin, Usulutan Department, El Salvador   age 128    Contest Selectors 2007 RPRM 3.2%    Scored 2.2000 solo points AKS: Hernandez

The Ones founder & lead singer  Danny Hernandez   had top 10 hit with You Haven't Seen My Love (1969) born on 7-29-1947 expired 12-9-2000 in Pinellas Park, Florida   age 53   cause: heart failure

Texas death row inmate  Rodolfo "Rudy" Hernandez ¤ aka: number 807  born on 11-18-1949 expired 3-21-2002 in Huntsville, Texas   age 52   cause: executed; lethal injection    Contest Selectors 2000 TEX 14%

King Herod the Great   son of Herod Antipater; father of Herod Antipas; ruled Judea from 37 BC until his death; attempted a pre-emptive strike against the coming messiah by having newborns in Bethlehem killed born on --73 BC expired ??-??-4 BC in Jericho, Judea   age 69   cause: (Fournier's) gangrene of the genitalia; kidney disease

bartender  Carlos "Danny" Herrera   invented the Margarita cocktail (1947) born on --1901 in Mexico City, Mexico expired 5-11-1992 in San Diego, California   age 90

Douglas Eugene Herrick   inventor of the jackalope (1932) born on 7-8-1920 expired 1-6-2003 in Casper, Wyoming   age 82   cause: bone & lung cancer

former AMPAS executive secretary (1943-70)  Margaret Herrick   on her first day of work as Academy librarian (1931-43) she remarked that the famous statuette looked "like my uncle Oscar", giving it its nickname ¤ born: Margaret Buck  born on 9-27-1902 in Spokane, Washington expired 6-21-1976 in Woodland Hills, California   age 73

newspaper cartoonist  George Herriman   created Crazy Kat comic strip born on 8-22-1880 in New Orleans, Louisiana expired 4-26-1944 in Hollywood, California   age 63

heavier-than-air aviation pioneer  Augustus M. Herring   on October 11, 1898 his bi-plane glider made a 50 foot "powered" flight (using a compressed-air engine) at St. Joseph, Michigan; later he bettered his record to 73 feet expired ??-??-19??   age ??

All Things Great and Small author  James Herriot ¤ real name: James Alfred Wight  born on 10-3-1916 in Glasgow, Scotland expired 2-22-1995 in Thirsk, England   age 78

composer & conductor  Bernard Herrmann   wrote scores for Citizen Kane (1940), The Man Who Knew Too Much, North By Northwest, Journey to the Center of the Earth and Day the Earth Stood Still; won oscar for All That Money Can Buy; first husband of Lucille Fletcher born on 6-29-1911 in New York, New York expired 12-24-1975 in Los Angeles, California   age 64   cause: heart attack

writer  John Richard Hersey   wrote Hiroshima born on 6-17-1914 in Tianjin, China expired 3-23-1993 in Key West, Florida   age 78

microbiologist  Alfred Day Hershey   a 1930 (B.S.) & 1934 (Ph.D.) graduate of Michigan State College; shared the 1969 Nobel prize in medicine born on 12-4-1908 in Owosso, Michigan expired 5-22-1997 in Syosset, New York   age 88

Gen.  Lewis Blaine Hershey   head of the Selective Service System for way too many years (1936-70) born on 9-12-1893 in Steuben City, Indiana expired 5-20-1977 in Angola, Indiana   age 83

chocolate company founder (1903)  Milton Snavely Hershey   the real Willy Wonka born on 9-13-1857 in Derry Church, Pennsylvania (now Hershey, Pennsylvania) expired 10-13-1945 in Hershey, Pennsylvania   age 88

cartoonist, columnist & radio humorist  Harry Hershfield   created Abie the Agent strip (1914); appeared on 1940s radio series Can You Top This? ¤ born: Abe Kabible  born on 10-13-1885 in Cedar Rapids, Iowa expired 12-15-1974 in New York, New York   age 89

film actor  Jean Hersholt   namesake of AMPAS award for Humanitarianism born on 7-12-1886 in Copenhagen, Denmark expired 6-2-1956 in Beverly Hills, California   age 69   cause: cancer

Eisenhower Secretary of State (1959-61)  Christian Archibald Herter   Massachusetts governor (1952-56) born on 3-28-1895 in Paris, France expired 12-30-1966 in Washington, District of Columbia   age 71

physicist  Gustav Ludwig Hertz   shared the 1925 Nobel prize in physics born on 7-22-1887 in Hamburg, Germany expired 10-30-1975 in Berlin, Germany   age 88

very busy person  John Daniel Hertz   founded Yellow Cab Co. in 1915; founded Hertz Rent-A-Car System in 1924 born on --1879 in Austria expired 10-8-1961 in Los Angeles, California   age 82

South African prime minister (1924-39) General  James Barry Munnik Hertzog   opposed British domination of South Africa, fighting them in the Boer War; supported the Nazis against Britain in World War II born on 4-3-1866 in Wellington, Cape Colony expired 11-21-1942 in Pretoria, South Africa   age 76

motion picture actress  Irene Hervey   appeared in Destry Rides Again and Play Misty for Me (1971); mother of singer Jack Jones ¤ born: Irene Herwick  born on 7-11-1910 in Los Angeles, California expired 12-20-1998 in Los Angeles, California   age 88   cause: heart failure

researcher  Gerhard Herzberg   1971 Nobel chemistry laureate born on 12-25-1904 in Hamburg, Germany expired 3-3-1999 in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada   age 94

founder of modern Zionism (1897)  Theodor Herzl   prodded British government to issue the Balfour Declaration (1917) promising to establish a Jewish state in Palestine born on 5-2-1860 in Budapest, Austria-Hungary expired 7-3-1904 in Edlach, Austria   age 44

tv soap opera writer  John David Hess   originated Love Of Life (1951-80) born on 4-17-1918 in Chicago, Illinois expired 4-15-2004 in New Hope, Pennsylvania   age 85   cause: lung cancer

individualist  Karl Hess   inspired modern Libertarian movement; wrote 1969 Playboy article The Death of Politics (interviewed by them for July 1976 issue) born on 5-25-1923 in Washington, District of Columbia expired 4-22-1994 in Kearneyville, West Virginia   age 70

Amerada Hess owner  Leon Hess   also owned the New York Jets football team born on 3-14-1913 in Asbury Park, New Jersey expired 5-7-1999 in New York, New York   age 85   cause: blood disease

obstetrician Dr.  Orvan Walter Hess   developed the fetal heart monitor (1957); involved in first successful clinical use of penicillin (1942) born on 6-18-1906 in Margaretville, New York expired 9-6-2002 in New Haven, Connecticut   age 96

1936 Nobel physics laureate  Victor Franz Hess   discoverer of cosmic radiation born on 6-24-1883 in Waldenstein Castle, Steirmark, Austria-Hungary expired 12-17-1964 in Mount Vernon, New York   age 81 AKS: Francis

#2 Nazi  Walter Richard Rudolf Hess   coined phrase "Heil Hitler!"; spent World War II in a British prison; later spent the rest of his life in Spandau prison born on 4-26-1894 in Alexandria, Egypt expired 8-17-1987 in Berlin, Germany   age 93   cause: suicide    Contest Selectors 1979 DO, DW, HA, JW, RR 38.5% 1980 DO, DW, JW, RR 25.0%

Dr.  Walter Rudolf Hess   shared the 1949 Nobel prize in medicine born on 3-17-1881 in Frauenfeld, Switzerland expired 8-12-1973 in Locarno, Switzerland   age 92

novelist and poet  Hermann Hesse   wrote Die Steppenwolf (1927); won 1946 Nobel Prize (literature) born on 7-2-1877 in Calw, Württemberg, Germany expired 8-9-1962 in Montagnola, Switzerland   age 85   cause: cerebral hemorrhage

actor  Charlton Heston   debuted in Dark City (1950); played Col. George Taylor in Planet of the Apes (1969) & Detective Thorn in Soylent Green (1973); former president of the NRA ¤ born: John Charles Carter  born on 10-4-1923 in Evanston, Illinois expired 4-5-2008 in Beverly Hills, California   age 84   cause: Alzheimer's disease    Contest Selectors 2001 NFG 12½% 2002 TMTX 9.1% 2003 JEDS, TMTX 11.1% 2004 NFG, SS 11.1% 2005 BYE, HH, MOT, NFG, SLIM, WORM 26.1% 2006 BONY, BYE, DTH, GGG, HH, LMLD, NFG, RAVN, SSH 30.0% 2007 BYE, JCM, MOT, NFG, OIE, QKU, RAVN, RPRM, TFM, 4GUE 32.3% 2008 ANG, BYE, KLS, MORB, NFG, OIE, QKU, RPRM, SBAP, SPAM, 4GUE 34.4%    Scored 4.1024 points

Cuban politico  Carlos Hevia   held Cuban presidency for three days in 1934 under Batista; tried to overthrow Fidel Castro in 1961 during Bay of Pigs fiasco born on --1900 expired 4-2-1964 in Lantana, Florida   age 64

actor  Christopher Hewett   played Roger DeBris in The Producers (1968) and Mr. Belvedere on tv born on 4-5-1921 in Worthing, Sussex, England expired 8-3-2001 in West Hollywood, California   age 80

CBS News producer  Donald Shepard Hewitt   created 60 Minutes news magazine program born on 12-14-1922 in Manhattan, New York, New York expired 8-19-2009 in Bridgehampton, New York   age 86   cause: pancreatic cancer    Contest Selectors 2006 DFFC 3.3% 2009 TBC 3.3%    Scored 6.4000 solo points

HP co-founder (1939)  William Redington Hewlett born on 5-20-1913 in Ann Arbor, Michigan expired 1-12-2001 in Portola Valley, California   age 87

Nazi war criminal Dr.  Werner Heyde   head of the Reich Society for Mental Institutions, responsible for the deaths of more than 100,000 mentally retarded individuals born on --1902 expired 2-13-1964 in Butzbach, Germany   age 61

Deputy Gestapo Chief  Reinhard Tristan Eugen Heydrich   he had a "final solution" born on 3-7-1904 in Halle, Germany expired 6-4-1942 in Prague, Czechoslovakia   age 38   cause: septicemia (from bullet/grenade wounds)

anthropologist & author  Thor Heyerdahl Jr. born on 10-6-1914 in Larvik, Norway expired 4-18-2002 in Colla Micheri, Italy   age 87   cause: brain cancer    Contest Selectors 1979 HA 7.7% 2001 NFG 12½% 2002 MORB 9.1%    Scored 6.3000 solo points

hack movie/tv director  Douglas Heyes   made Kitten With a Whip (1964) born on 5-22-1919 expired 2-8-1993 in Beverly Hills, California   age 73   cause: congestive heart failure AKS: Hayes

Dr.  Corneille Jean François Heymans   was the 1938 Nobel medicine laureate born on 3-28-1892 in Ghent, Belgium expired 7-18-1968 in Knokke, Belgium   age 76   cause: stroke AKS: Francois

Dr.  Jaroslav Heyrovský   1959 Nobel chemistry laureate born on 12-20-1890 in Prague, Austria-Hungary expired 3-27-1967 in Prague, Czechoslovakia   age 76 AKS: Heyrovsky

Paul Johann Ludwig Heyse   1910 Nobel laureate in literature born on 3-15-1830 in Berlin, Prussia expired 4-2-1914 in München, Bavaria, Germany   age 84   cause: pneumonia

movie & tv writer/producer  Louis M. Heyward   an executive at Barry/Enright Productions when Winky Dink and You was developed; producer of both Dr. Phibes movies (1971 & 72) born on 6-29-1920 expired 3-26-2002 in Los Angeles, California   age 81   cause: pneumonia

author  Eleanor Alice Burford Hibbert ¤ pen names: Victoria Holt, Philippa Carr, Jean Plaidy, Eleanor Burford, Ellalice Tate, Elbur Ford and Kathleen Kellow  born on 9-1-1906 in London, England expired 1-18-1993 in Eastern Mediterranean Sea (cruising)   age 86

singer  Albert George Hibbler born on 8-16-1915 in Tyro, Mississippi expired 4-24-2001 in Chicago, Illinois   age 85    Contest Selectors 2005 TBC

Disney nature film producer/narrator  Winston Hibler   made The Living Desert (1953), The Vanishing Prairie (1954) & The African Lion (1955); won best live action short oscar for Men Against the Arctic born on 10-8-1910 in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania expired 8-8-1976 in Burbank, California   age 65

former Iowa senator (1945-68)  Bourke Blakemore Hickenlooper   Iowa governor (1943-45); co-author of the Atomic Energy Act (1954) born on 7-21-1896 in Blockton, Iowa expired 9-4-1971 in Shelter Island, New York   age 75   cause: heart attack

Hall-of-Fame NFL player  Robert Eugene Hickerson   a guard for the Browns & Steelers born on 2-15-1935 in Trenton, Tennessee expired 10-20-2008 in Olmsted Falls, Ohio   age 73    Contest Selectors 2008 LMLD 3.1%    Scored 7.7000 solo points

former NFL coach  Howard Wayne "Red" Hickey   coached the San Francisco 49ers (1959-63), going 27-27-1; in a game against Buffalo in November 1960 he effectively employed his new offensive formation called the "shotgun" because it spread receivers all over the field born on 2-14-1917 in Hickeyville, Arkansas expired 3-30-2006 in Aptos, California   age 89

decrepit actor  William Hickey   played a dying mafia don in Prizzi's Honor and a dying string magnate in Mouse Hunt born on 9-19-1928 in New York, New York expired 6-29-1997 in New York, New York   age 68   cause: emphysema & bronchitis

western "entertainer" & poker player  James Butler "Wild Bill" Hickock   toured with Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show; shot in the back of the head by Jack McCall while playing poker in Saloon No.10 in Deadwood (made the mistake of having his back to the door); the cards he held, two pair (Aces and Eights), are now referred to as the "Dead Man's Hand" born on 5-27-1837 in Troy Grove, Illinois expired 8-2-1876 in Deadwood, Dakota Territory   age 39   cause: bullet to brain

Texas death row inmate  David Hicks   raped/murdered his grandmother (Ocolor Hesser, age 87) in April, 1988 born on 1-15-1962 expired 1-20-2000 in Huntsville, Texas   age 37   cause: executed; lethal injection    Contest Selectors 2000 TEX 14%    Scored 11.3000 solo points

John Richard Hicks   shared the 1972 Nobel prize in economics born on 4-8-1904 in Leamington Spa, Warwickshire, England expired 5-20-1989 in Blockley, Gloucestershire, England   age 85

actress  Maxine Elliott Hicks   as Susie May Squoggs slapped Mary Pickford in Poor Little Rich Girl (1917) born on 10-5-1904 in Denver, Colorado expired 1-10-2000 in San Clemente, California   age 95

actress  Joan Hickson born on 8-5-1906 in Kingsthorpe, Northampton, England expired 10-17-1998 in Colchester, Essex, England   age 92

radio antenna designer  Hidetsugu Yagi   an electrical engineering professor at Tohoku University; deisnged famed antenna with his assitant Shintaro Uda (1896-1976) born on 1-28-1886 in Osaka, Japan expired 1-19-1976 in Tokyo, Japan   age 89

Nazi Labor Service war criminal  Konstantin Hierl born on 2-24-1875 expired 9-23-1955 in Heidelberg, Germany   age 80

filmmaker  Colin Higgins   wrote Harold and Maude (1971), Foul Play (1978) and Nine to Five (1980) born on 7-28-1941 in Noumea, New Caledonia expired 8-4-1988 in Beverly Hills, California   age 47   cause: complications from AIDS

petroleum explorer  Patillo Higgins   discoverer of the Spindletop oil field born on 12-5-1863 in Sabine Pass, Texas expired 6-5-1955 in San Antonio, Texas   age 91

jazz drummer  Ronald William "Billy" Higgins Sr. ¤ nickname: "Smiling Billy"  born on 10-11-1936 in Los Angeles, California expired 5-3-2001 in Inglewood, California   age 64   cause: pneumonia; kidney & liver failure

Reggae performer  Joe Higgs   mentor to Jimmy Cliff & Bob Marley born on 6-3-1940 in Kingston, Jamaica expired 12-20-1999 in Los Angeles, California   age 59   cause: cancer

tv comedy writer  Nat Hiken   created Car 54, Where Are You? and the Phil Silvers Show (Sgt. Bilko) born on 6-23-1914 in Chicago, Illinois expired 12-7-1968 in Brentwood, California   age 54

former Disney animator  David Hilberman   worked at the studio (1936-42) until he led a strike against poor working conditions and pay — Uncle Walter paid him back a decade later when he labeled him a communist & got him blacklisted; co-founded the UPA (United Productions of America) animation studio and Tempo Productions (went el-foldo when commie charges were made) born on 12-18-1911 in Cleveland, Ohio expired 7-5-2007 in Palo Alto, California   age 95

retired University of Michigan prof.  Morton S. Hilbert   co-founded Earth Day born on 1-3-1917 expired 12-24-1998 in Bellevue, Washington   age 81

sainted Benedictine nun  Hildegard of Bingen born on --1098 in Bockelheim, Franconia expired 9-17-1179 in Rupertsberg, Franconia   age 81

cabaret chanteuse & actress  "the Incomparable" Hildegarde   she is NOT the liturgical nun from Bingen ¤ full name: Hildegarde Loretta Sell  born on 2-1-1906 in Adell, Wisconsin expired 7-29-2005 in New York, New York   age 99    Contest Selectors 1979 DO 7.7% 1980 DO 6.3% 2002 JL, RR 18.2% 2003 JL, RR 11.1% 2004 ABRA, RR 11.1% 2005 RR 4.3%    Scored 5.1000 solo points

whistle-blower  Edward Hilgemeier Jr.   as an alternative contestant on Dotto discovered a notebook with all of the answers for Marie Winn's questions in the dressing room (5-20-1958); the revelations caused congress & the FCC to take a second look at Herb Stempel's earlier charges of game show fraud born on 11-2-1933 expired 9-??-1975   age 41

bawdy British comedian  Alfred Hawthorn "Benny" Hill born on 1-21-1924 in Southampton, England expired 4-18-1992 in Teddington, Middlesex, England   age 68

Dr.  Archibald Vivian Hill   shared the 1922 Nobel prize in medicine born on 9-26-1886 in Bristol, England expired 6-3-1977 in Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England   age 90

character actor  Arthur Edward Spence Hill   played title role in Owen Marshall, Counselor at Law tv series (1971-74) born on 8-1-1922 in Melfort, Saskatchewan, Canada expired 10-22-2006 in Pacific Palisades, California   age 84   cause: Alzheimer's disease

Florida death row inmate  Clarence Edward Hill   first attempted execution had been stayed while he was on the gurney with the IV tube in his vein; the Supreme Court decided to hear his "civil rights" appeal — to wit: the method of execution used in Florida (and other jurisdictions), the sequential injection of sodium thiopental, pancuronium bromide, & potassium chloride, causes excrutiating pain, and hence is "cruel and unusual"; the appeal was successful — the court ruled that he may proceed with his challenge (6/12/2006); subsequently, all courts refused to hear the challenge itself — the stay ran out & so did he ¤ number 089718  born on 12-2-1957 expired 9-20-2006 in Starke, Florida   age 48   cause: executed; lethal injection    Contest Selectors 2006 BOD, KLS, OIE, PCD, SPIT, TWOS 20.0%    Scored 7.7781 points

ex-child actress  Dana Hill ¤ born: Dana Hill Goetz  born on 5-6-1964 in Los Angeles, California expired 7-15-1996 in Burbank, California   age 32   cause: stroke; diabetes

former social worker  Eunice Elizabeth "Betty" Hill   claimed that on the night of September 18, 1961 she and husband Barney were abducted by aliens (debunked by Carl Sagan, amongst others) ¤ née: Barrett  born on 6-18-1919 in Newton, Massachusetts expired 10-17-2004 in Portsmouth, New Hampshire   age 85   cause: lung cancer

movie director  George Roy Hill Jr.   won Best Director oscar for The Sting (1973); also directed Butch Cassidy ... (1969) and Slap Shot (1977) born on 12-20-1922 in Minneapolis, Minnesota expired 12-27-2002 in New York, New York   age 80   cause: complications from Parkinson's disease

movie writer/prducer  James Hill   fifth (& last) husband of Rita Hayworth (1958-61) born on 8-1-1916 in Jefferson, Indiana expired 1-11-2001 in Santa Monica, California   age 84   cause: complications from Alzheimer's disease

movie director  James H. Hill   made Born Free (1966) & The Man from O.R.G.Y. (1970); he was the real-life basis of the character Colin 'the forger' Blythe in The Great Escape (1963) born on 8-1-1919 in England expired 10-7-1994 in London, England   age 75

DuPont research chemist Dr.  Julian Werner Hill   discovered nylon in 1930 born on 9-4-1904 in Saint Louis, Missouri expired 1-28-1996 in Hockessin, Delaware   age 91

tv character actor & writer  Maurice J. "Maury" Hill   made several appearances on Space Patrol as Captain Hayward (1951-52) born on 3-1-1918 in Fort Wayne, Indiana expired 7-12-2007 in Los Angeles, California   age 89   cause: "heart complications"

organist, pianist & kindergarden teacher  Mildred Jane Hill   co-author of song "Good Morning to All," originally published in 1893 as part of the collection Song Stories of the Kindergarden; it was later reworked (without permission, by Robert H. Coleman) with new second verse and retitled "Happy Birthday to You" (1924); the sister's sued, won, with royalties now going to a trust born on 6-27-1859 in Louisville, Kentucky expired ??-??-1916 in Louisville, Kentucky   age 57

retired Dallas, Texas teacher  Norma Jean Hill   Kennedy assassination pictures "Lady in Red" raincoat; claimed a total of five shots fired born on 2-11-1931 in Oklahoma expired 11-7-2000 in Dallas, Texas   age 69   cause: complications from blood disease

retired auto racer  Norman Graham Hill   won 1966 Indianapolis 500 born on 2-15-1929 in London, England expired 11-29-1975 in Arkley golf course, Ellstree Airport, England   age 46   cause: plane crash

civil rights attorney  Oliver White Hill Sr.   graduated second in his class from Hoawrd University Law School (1933) behind Thurgood Marshall; argued the Davis v. Prince Edward County School Board case (1951; it was rolled into the Brown v. Board of Education suit before the Supreme Court) ¤ born: Oliver White  born on 5-1-1907 in Richmond, Virginia expired 8-5-2007 in Richmond, Virginia   age 100

Louisville Experimental Kindergarden school principal Dr.  Patty Smith Hill   sister of Mildred and Jessica; co-author of "Happy Birthday to You" born on 3-27-1868 in Anchorage, Kentucky expired 5-25-1946 in New York, New York   age 78

abortion doctor killer  Paul J. Hill born on 2-6-1954 expired 9-3-2003 in Starke, Florida   age 49   cause: executed; lethal injection    Contest Selectors 2000 ANG 14%

former race car driver  Philip Toll "Phil" Hill born on 4-20-1927 in Miami, Florida expired 8-28-2008   age 81   cause: complications from Parkinson's disease; multiple systems atrophy

former Texas Western basketball player  Tyrone Bobby Joe Hill   leader of team that won the 1966 NCAA national championship by beating a segregated Kentucky team born on 6-12-1943 in Highland Park, Michigan expired 12-8-2002 in El Paso, Texas   age 59   cause: heart attack

leggy mob bimbo  Virginia Hill   "companion" of Joe Adonis and Bugsy Siegel ¤ aka: "The Flamingo"  born on 8-26-1916 in Lipscomb, Alabama expired 3-24-1966 in Salzburg, Austria   age 49

William "Red" Hill Jr.   sixth person to go over Niagara Falls as a stunt (August 5, 1951); he built a collection of inner tubes lashed together with fishnet & rope expired 8-5-1951 in Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada   age 38   cause: drowned

beekeeper-turned-mountain climber Sir  Edmund Percival Hillary   first person to reach the summit of Mount Everest (1953); reached summit with aid of Sherpa guide born on 7-20-1919 in Tuakau, New Zealand expired 1-11-2008 in Auckland, New Zealand   age 88   cause: heart attack    Contest Selectors 1980 HA 6.3% 2000 KLS 14% 2001 KLS 12½% 2003 KLS 5.6% 2004 ABRA, KLS, LMLD 16.7% 2005 KLS, TBC 8.7% 2006 KLS, LMLD, WEP 10.0% 2007 ANG, AUDC, KLS, OIE 12.9% 2008 ANG, KLS, LMLD, WEP 12.5%    Scored 4.0125 points AKS: Hilary Hillery Hilery

Boy Scout Hand Book author  William Hillcourt born on 8-6-1900 in Aarhus, Denmark expired 11-9-1992 in Manlius, New York   age 92

Cliff's Notes founder (1958)  Clifton Keith Hillegass   his first opus: Shakespeare's Hamlet born on 4-18-1918 in Rising City, Nebraska expired 5-5-2001 in Lincoln, Nebraska   age 83   cause: complications from stroke

vaccinologist Dr.  Maurice Ralph Hilleman   developed vaccines for measles, mumps, chickenpox, rubella, hepatitis A & B, meningitis ... born on 8-30-1919 in Miles City, Montana expired 4-10-2005 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania   age 85   cause: cancer

Charles Joseph "Chuck" Hiller   first National League player to hit a grand slam home run in a World Series game (1962) born on 10-1-1934 in Johnsburg, Illinois expired 10-20-2004 in Saint Pete Beach, Florida   age 70   cause: leukemia

actress Dame  Wendy Margaret Hiller   originated the role of Eliza Doolittle in Pygmalion (1938); earned Best Supporting actress oscar for Separate Tables (1958) born on 8-15-1912 in Bramhall, Cheshire, England expired 5-14-2003 in Beaconsfield, England   age 90

1940 Rangers Stanley Cup left wing  Wilbert Carl "Dutch" Hiller born on 5-11-1915 in Berlin, Ontario, Canada (now Kitchener) expired 11-19-2005 in Glendale, California   age 90   cause: congestive heart failure

mystery writer  Anthony Grove "Tony" Hillerman   author of Skinwalkers (1986) born on 5-27-1925 in Sacred HEart, Oklahoma expired 10-26-2008 in Albuquerque, New Mexico   age 83   cause: pulmonary failure; circulatory disease; cancer

Mary Penelope Hillyard   owner of the Blarney Stone & castle expired 9-16-1975 in Cork, Ireland   age 65   cause: burned to death in fire started by cigarette

hotel chain founder  Conrad Nicholson Hilton Sr.   once married to Zsa Zsa; father of Nickie born on 12-25-1887 in San Antonio, New Mexico expired 1-3-1979 in Santa Monica, California   age 91   cause: pneumonia

TWA director & Hilton Hotel chain executive  Conrad Nicholson "Nicky" Hilton Jr.   first husband of Elizabeth Taylor (1950-51) expired 2-5-1969 in West Los Angeles, California   age 42   cause: heart attack

author  James Hilton   wrote novels Shangri-La (became Lost Horizon on screen) and Goodbye, Mr. Chips; wrote screenplays for Camille (1937) and Mrs. Minniver (1942) born on 9-9-1900 in Leigh, Lancashire, England expired 12-20-1954 in Long Beach, California   age 54

movie/tv animal trainer  Lester Hilton   the man behind the success of Mr. Ed born on 1-1-1906 expired 10-27-1976 in Burbank, California   age 70

Nazi Germany Gestapo Chief and Interior Minister  Heinrich Himmler   created and oversaw the concentration camps born on 10-7-1900 in München, Germany expired 5-23-1945 in Lueneberg, Germany   age 44   cause: suicide

Mormon prophet  Gordon Bitner Hinckley Sr. born on 6-23-1910 in Salt Lake City, Utah expired 1-27-2008 in Salt Lake City,Utah   age 97    Contest Selectors 2006 MOT, RR 6.7% 2007 DFFC, DTH, GREB, MOT, OIE 16.1% 2008 ANG, DFFC, GREB, LMLD, RPRM, RR, TFM 21.9%    Scored 2.8391 solo points AKS: Hinkley

composer  Paul Hindemith born on 11-16-1895 in Hanau, HEsse, Germany expired 12-28-1963 in Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany   age 68

WWI German General  Paul Ludwig Hans Anton von Beneckendorf und Hindenburg   president of Germany (1925-1934); appointed Hitler Chancellor in 1933 born on 10-2-1847 in Psen, Prussia expired 8-2-1934 in Neudeck, Germany   age 86 AKS: Hindenberg Hindunberg Hindunburg

1960s "Moors Murderer"  Myra Hindley   with boyfriend Ian Brady was convicted of her involvement with several gruesome sexual abuse/torture/murders ¤ number: 964055  born on 7-23-1942 in Crumpsall, Manchester, England expired 11-15-2002 in Bury Saint Edmunds, Suffolk, England   age 60   cause: heart attack; chest infection

character actor  Earl Hindman   played Tim Taylor's neighbor Wilson Wilson on Home Improvement tv series born on 10-20-1942 in Bisbee, Arizona expired 12-29-2003 in Stamford, Connecticut   age 61   cause: lung cancer

actress  Connie Hines   played Wilbur's wife Carol Post on Mr. Ed (1961-66); widow of Lee Savin born on 3-24-1931 in Dedham, Massachusetts expired 12-18-2009 in Beverly Hills, California   age 78   cause: complications from heart problems

cake mix mogul  Duncan Hines born on 3-26-1880 in Bowling Green, Kentucky expired 3-15-1959 in Bowling Green, Kentucky   age 78

Earl Kenneth "Fatha" Hines born on 12-28-1905 in Duquesne, Pennsylvania expired 4-22-1983 in Oakland, California   age 77    Contest Selectors 1980 DH, DR, MM 18.8%

tap dancer/actor  Gregory Oliver Hines born on 2-14-1946 in New York, New York expired 8-9-2003 in Los Angeles, California   age 57   cause: cancer

long time Met Opera bass (1946-87)  Jerome Hines ¤ born: Jerome Albert Link Heinze  born on 11-8-1921 in Hollywood, California expired 2-4-2003 in New York, New York   age 81

character actor  Martin Patterson Hingle   played Commissioner Gordon in four Batman movies born on 7-19-1924 in Denver, Colorado expired 1-3-2009 in Carolina Beach, North Carolina   age 84   cause: myelodysplasia

MasterCard creator  Karl H. Hinke born on 1-11-1906 expired 12-22-1990   age 84

purported drug dealer  Gary Allen Hinman   ran afoul of the Manson Family; murdered a month before the Helter Skelter Murders born on 12-24-1934 in Colorado expired 7-27-1969   age 34   cause: murdered

actor  Bill Hinnant   played Snoopy in the off-Broadway musical You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown (1967) born on 8-28-1935 in Chincoteague Island, Virginia expired 2-17-1978 in Dominican Republic   age 42   cause: drowned while swimming

Sir  Cyril Norman Hinshelwood   shared the 1956 Nobel prize in chemistry born on 6-19-1897 in London, England expired 10-9-1967 in London, England   age 70

jazz bassist & photographer  Milton John Hinton ¤ nickname: "The Judge"  born on 6-23-1910 in Vicksburg, Mississippi expired 12-19-2000 in New York, New York   age 90

1950s jazz pianist  Jutta M. Hipp   gave up music to become a dressmaker (1958) born on 2-4-1925 expired 4-7-2003 in New York, New York   age 78

actress Dame  Thora Hird born on 5-28-1911 in Morecambe, Lancashire, England expired 3-15-2003 in London, England   age 91   cause: complications from stroke

burp-water purveyor (1913-60)  Charles E. Hires Jr.   son of company founder born on 4-27-1891 expired 3-19-1980 in Malvern, Pennsylvania   age 88

soft drink company founder  Charles Elmer Hires Sr.   invented his namesake root beer in 1876 born on 8-19-1851 in Elinsboro, Pennsylvania expired 8-1-1937 in Haverford, Pennsylvania   age 85

Japanese  Emperor Hirohito   124th Japanese Emperor (1926-1989); directed Japanese military to surrender after Hiroshima/Nagasaki nukings; son of Emperor Toshihito & Empress Sadako; husband of Empress Nagako; father of Emperor Akihito born on 4-29-1901 in Tokyo, Japan expired 1-6-1989 in Tokyo, Japan   age 87    Contest Selectors 1979 HA 7.7% 1980 DW, RR 12.5%

Hall of Fame football player  Elroy Leon "Crazylegs" Hirsch   Wisconsin athletic director (1969-87) born on 6-17-1923 in Wausau, Wisconsin expired 1-28-2004 in Madison, Wisconsin   age 80   cause: natural causes

electrical engineer  Julian D. Hirsch   did product reviews of Hi-Fi/Stero components for Stereo Review (1961-98) born on 5-15-1922 expired 11-24-2003 in New York, New York   age 81

New Yorker caricaturist/cartoonist  Albert Hirschfeld   briefly worked as art director for Selznick Pictures in New York born on 6-21-1903 in Saint Louis, Missouri expired 1-20-2003 in New York, New York   age 99   cause: heart failure    Contest Selectors 2002 JAC, JL 18.2% 2003 COCO, JL, PCD, TAP 22.2%    Scored 2.9215 points

Allan M. Hirsh   wrote Yale's song Boola-Boola expired 12-21-1951 in New York, New York   age 73

former British Major  Ivan Hirst   ran Volkswagon after World War II (1945-49) born on 3-4-1916 in Saddleworth, England expired 3-10-2000 in Marsden, Yorkshire, England   age 84

trumpeter  Alois Maxwell Hirt   had hits with Cotton Candy (1964) and Java (1963; won Grammy for it, too) born on 11-7-1922 in New Orleans, Louisiana expired 4-27-1999 in New Orleans, Louisiana   age 76   cause: liver failure

unrepentant Pumpkin Papers spy  Alger Hiss   General Secretary of U.N. founding conference in San Francisco (1945) born on 11-11-1904 in Baltimore, Maryland expired 11-15-1996 in New York, New York   age 92    Contest Selectors 1979 DW, JW, MS 23.1% 1980 DW, JW 12.5%

director Sir  Alfred Joseph Hitchcock   directed The Lady Vanishes, The Man Who Knew Too Much, Dial M for Murder (1954), Psycho (1960), Vertigo (1958), Marnie, North By Northwest and The Birds; awarded honorary oscar (1967) born on 8-13-1899 in London, England expired 4-29-1980 in Bel Air, California   age 80    Contest Selectors 1979 DO, DW, HA, HP, JH, JW, MM, MS, RR, SB, VM 84.6% 1980 DH, DH, DO, DR, DW, EB, GP, HP, JH, JW, MM, RR, VA 75.0s%    Scored 2.0000 points

Alfred's widow  Alma Hitchcock born on 8-14-1899 expired 7-6-1982   age 82    Contest Selectors 1980 RR 6.3%

musicologist & music historian  Hugh Wiley Hitchcock   was the co-editor of the New Grove Dictionary of American Music (1986; aka the "Ameri-Grove") born on 9-28-1923 in Detroit, Michigan expired 12-5-2007 in Manhattan, New York, New York   age 84   cause: prostate cancer

George Herbert Hitchings   shared the 1988 Nobel prize in medicine born on 4-18-1905 in Hoquiam, Washington expired 2-27-1998 in Chapel Hill, North Carolina   age 92

former WXYZ & CBS radio announcer  Robert "Bob" Hite Sr.   announcer on radio's Lone Ranger ("A fiery horse with the speed of light, a cloud of dust and a hearty Hi Yo Silver ... the Lone Ranger rides again!") and Green Hornet shows; sailing buddy of Walter Cronkite born on 2-9-1914 expired 2-18-2000 in West Palm Beach, Florida   age 86   cause: cancer

head Nazi  Adolf Hitler   World War II German "Fuhrer"; corpse alleged to have been buried by SMERSH agents in Magdaberg, Germany in 1945 along with corpse of Eva Braun ¤ born: Adolf Schickelgruber  born on 4-20-1889 in Braunau, Austria expired 4-30-1945 in Berlin, Germany   age 56   cause: suicide

Adolf's dotting daddy  Alois Hitler   changed his last name after Adolf was born ¤ born: Alois Schickelgruber  born on 6-7-1837 in Strones, Lower Austria expired 1-3-1903 in Leonding, Austria   age 65   cause: pulmonary hemorrhage

Klara Poelzl Hitler   Adolf's mommy born on 8-20-1860 in Spital, Austria expired 12-21-1908 in Linz-Urfahr, Austria   age 48   cause: cancer

lawyer/shyster/weasel/slug  William Hitz   prosecuted the Hollywood 10 for contempt of Congress (a cosmic oxymoron) born on 2-5-1909 expired 9-25-2001 in Gaithersburg, Maryland   age 92   cause: congestive heart failure

Ramon John "Ray" Hnatyshyn   24th Governor General of Canada (1990-95) born on 3-16-1934 in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada expired 12-18-2002 in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada   age 68   cause: complications from pancreatitis; cancer of bile duct

Hawaiian crooner  Don Ho   he's forever blowing "tiny bubbles" ¤ full name: Donald Tai Loy Ho  born on 8-13-1930 in Honolulu, Oahu, Hawaiian Territory expired 4-14-2007 in Honolulu, Hawaii   age 76   cause: heart attack    Contest Selectors 2005 SPAM 4.3% 2006 DFFC, KLS, RAVN, RIE, SPIT, 4GUE 20.0% 2007 ABRA, AUDC, KLS, RIE, RPRM, SPIT, 4GUE 22.6%    Scored 4.9391 points

McKinley 1st term vice president (1897-99)  Garret Augustus Hobart born on 6-3-1844 in Long Branch, New Jersey expired 11-21-1899 in Paterson, New Jersey   age 55

blacklisted movie actress  Rose Hobart ¤ born: Rose Kefer  born on 5-1-1906 in New York, New York expired 8-29-2000 in Woodland Hills, California   age 94

philosopher & author  Thomas Hobbes   wrote Leviathan (1651) born on 4-5-1588 in Westport, England expired 12-4-1679 in Hardwick Hall, England   age 91

persistent elector  Effie Louisa Hobby   had voted in every election since 1920 ¤ née: Hitt  born on 2-19-1897 in Wurtsboro, New York expired 9-9-2006 in Shelton, Connecticut   age 109    Contest Selectors 2006 CSI, RR 6.7%    Scored 2.8500 points

Eisenhower HEW secretary  Oveta Culp Hobby   first HEW secretary born on 1-19-1905 in Killeen, Texas expired 8-16-1995 in Houston, Texas   age 90

actress  Valerie Babette Louise Hobson   played Elizabeth, the bride of Dr. Frankenstein, in The Bride of Frankenstein; played Estella in David Lean's Great Expectations; married to John Profumo born on 4-14-1917 in Larne, Northern Ireland expired 11-13-1998 in London, England   age 81   cause: heart attack

North Vietnamese president  Ho Chi Minh ¤ real name: Nguyen Tat Thanh  born on 5-19-1890 in Kim Lien, Nghe-An Province, Annam (French Indochina) expired 9-2-1969 in Hanoi, North Vietnam   age 79

Dr.  George Hill Hodel   believed by son Steve to be the Black Dahlia Avenger (killer of Elizabeth Short) born on 10-10-1907 in California expired 5-16-1999 in San Francisco, California   age 91

jazz pianist  Art Hodes born on 11-14-1904 in Nikoliev, Russia expired 3-4-1993 in Park Forrest, Illinois   age 88

DuMont network Captain Video (1951-56)  Albert Hodge   replaced Richard Coogan in the role; also was the original radio Green Hornet (1939-41) born on 4-17-1912 in Ravenna, Ohio expired 3-19-1979 in New York, New York   age 66   cause: heart failure; chronic bronchitis; severe emphysema; alcoholism

Brooklyn Dodgers baseball star  Gilbert Raymond Hodges Sr.   went on to manage the New York Mets born on 4-4-1924 in Princeton, Indiana expired 4-2-1972 in West Palm Beach, Florida   age 47   cause: heart attack

alto saxophonist  John Cornelius "Johnny" Hodges   played with the Duke Ellington band born on 7-25-1906 in Cambridge, Massachusetts expired 5-11-1970 in New York, New York   age 63

New York/San Francisco Giants radio broadcaster (1948-70)  Russell Patrick Hodges   famous for exclaiming "... The Giants Win The Pennant! The Giants Win The Pennant! The Giants Win The Pennant! The Giants Win The Pennant!..." after Bobby Thompson's pennant-winning home run born on 6-18-1910 expired 4-19-1971 in Mill Valley, California   age 60   cause: heart attack

businessman  Wetmore Hodges   associate of Clarence Birdseye; organizer of General Foods Co. expired 4-2-1957 in Palo Alto, California   age 69

physiologist  Alan Lloyd Hodgkin   shared the 1963 Nobel prize in physiology born on 2-5-1914 in Banbury, Oxfordshire, England expired 12-20-1998 in Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England   age 84

Dr.  Dorothy Crawford Hodgkin   1964 Nobel laureate in chemistry born on 5-12-1910 in Cairo, Egypt expired 7-29-1994   age 84

marketing executive  Peter Calvert Leary Hodgson   had the bright idea to market some Dow Corning-invented goo as Silly Putty born on 8-15-1912 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada expired 8-6-1976 in Madison, Connecticut   age 63   cause: heart attack

Raymond W. Hoecker   inventor of the Universal Product Code (bar code) born on 8-15-1913 expired 10-29-1995   age 82

University of Indiana football coach  Terry Hoeppner born on 8-19-1947 in Fort Wayne, Indiana expired 6-19-2007 in Bloomington, Indiana   age 59   cause: brain cancer tumor    Contest Selectors 2007 QKU 3.2%    Scored 9.1000 solo points

The Lockhorns cartoonist  William "Bill" Hoest born on 2-7-1926 in Newark, New Jersey expired 11-7-1988 in New York, New York   age 62

New York Highlanders pitcher (1911-13 & 1915)  Chester Cornelius "Chet" Hoff   struck out Ty Cobb born on 5-8-1891 in Ossining, New York expired 9-17-1998 in Daytona Beach, Florida   age 107

author, illustrator, cartoonist  Syd Hoff   author of Danny and the Dinosaur (1958) born on 9-4-1912 in New York, New York expired 5-12-2004 in Miami Beach, Florida   age 91

former Teamster president (1957-71)  James Riddle Hoffa Sr.   ate his "last supper" at the Machus Red Fox restaurant born on 2-14-1913 in Brazil, Indiana expired 7-30-1975 in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan   age 62   cause: mob hit AKS: Jimmy

hipster poet  Mason Hoffenberg   co-wrote Candy (1958); profiled in November 1973 Playboy article born on 12-??-1922 in New York, New York expired 6-1-1986 in New York, New York   age 63   cause: lung cancer

philosopher  Eric Hoffer   spent a lifetime pondering the question "How many philosophers does it take to screw in a lightbulb?" born on 7-25-1902 in New York, New York expired 5-21-1983 in San Francisco, California   age 80

Yippie co-founder  Abbott H. "Abbie" Hoffman   one of the Chicago Seven ¤ aka: Spiro Igloo  born on 11-30-1936 in Worcester, Massachusetts expired 4-13-1989 in New Hope, Pennsylvania   age 52   cause: suicide

UCLA professor  Edward Joseph Hoffman   in 1974 co-invented of the PET Scanner (Positron Emission Tomography) born on 1-1-1942 in Saint Louis, Missouri expired 7-1-2004 in Los Angeles, California   age 62   cause: liver cancer

irate, no-nonsense Judge  Julius Jennings Hoffman   conducted the 1969-70 trial of the Chicago Seven born on 7-7-1895 in Chicago, Illinois expired 7-1-1983 in Chicago, Illinois   age 87

Coca-Cola bottler  Robert K. Hoffman   back in his college days was a co-founder & first managing editor of the now-defunct National Lampoon magazine (1969) born on 7-18-1947 in Dallas, Texas expired 8-20-2006 in Dallas, Texas   age 59   cause: leukemia

physicist  Frederic de Hoffmann expired 10-4-1989   age 65

official Nazi Party photographer & war criminal  Heinrich Hoffmann   now the Ansel Adams of Hell; in the early 1930s he introduced his photographic assistant to Hitler who liked her enough to make her his mistress; later he made an "honest" woman of her, marrying her in Berlin in the Springtime; they spent their honeymoon committing suicide & being immolated together in a bomb crater — Uncle Fester was so envious! born on 9-12-1885 in Fuerth, Germany expired 12-16-1957 in München, Germany   age 72

cartoonist and musical satirist  Gerald Hoffnung expired 9-28-1959 in London, England   age 34

Judge  Roy Mark Hofheinz   Astrodome promoter born on 4-10-1912 in Beaumont, Texas expired 11-21-1982 in Houston, Texas   age 70

Dr.  Albert Hofmann   first to synthesize LSD-25 (Lysergic Acid Di-ethylamide-25) (1938) & psilocybin (the active ingredient in Psilocybe Mexicana aka: "magic mushrooms"); took the first dose of LSD, got on his bike to go home & freaked-out ... taking the first "acid trip" (April 19, 1943 - now known as Bicycle Day); also served on the Nobel Prize committee born on 1-11-1906 in Baden, Switzerland expired 4-29-2008 in Burg, Switzerland   age 102   cause: heart attack    Contest Selectors 2003 COCO, JL 11.1% 2005 CSI, RR, SLIM, TMD 17.4% 2006 CSI, DTM, OIE, RR, SPIT 16.7% 2007 DTM, LMLD, RR, SPIT 12.9% 2008 ANG, DTM, MORB, OIE, RPRM, RR, SPIT 21.9%    Scored 2.3391 points AKS: Hoffmann Hoffman Hofman Don't Hassle the Hof, mann!

chemist  Fritz Hofmann   1909 developer of synthetic rubber; Nazis forced him to refuse the Nobel prize expired 10-31-1956   age 89

photojournalist  Renate Schmitz Hofmann   widow of Johann George Albert Hofmann born on --1930 expired 8-31-1992   age 62

historian and author  Richard Hofstadter   won 1955 & 1964 Pulitzer prizes born on 8-6-1916 in Buffalo, New York expired 10-24-1970 in New York, New York   age 54

1961 Nobel physics co-laureate  Robert Hofstadter   father of Douglas Hofstadter born on 2-5-1915 in New York, New York expired 11-17-1990 in Palo Alto, California   age 75   cause: heart failure

Donald Eugene Hogan   his marriage to Virgie Mae Tabers produced the greatest gold-digger of the late 20th century born on 7-12-1947 expired 9-19-2009 in Oakhurst, Texas   age 62   cause: lung cancer

golfer  William Benjamin Hogan born on 8-13-1912 in Dublin, Texas expired 7-25-1997 in Fort Worth, Texas   age 84    Contest Selectors 1979 HA 7.7%

cartoonist  Burne Hogarth   drew Tarzan comic strip (1937-50) born on 11-25-1911 in Chicago, Illinois expired 1-28-1996 in Paris, France   age 84

artist & engraver  William Hogarth   typeface designer born on 11-10-1697 in London, England expired 10-26-1764 in London, England   age 66

early helicopter designer  Kurt Heinrich Hohenemser   helped design the German army's first combat helicopter, the F1 282 Kolibri (1944) born on 1-3-1906 in Berlin, Germany expired 4-7-2001 in Saint Louis, Missouri   age 95

breakfast cereal inventor  John L. Holahan Jr.   a vice president of General Mills where he invented Lucky Charms (1963) born on 9-20-1916 in Annandale, Minnesota expired 8-23-2000 in Richfield, Minnesota   age 83   cause: car crash

original ENIAC programmer  Francis Elizabeth "Betty" Holberton   on committee that developed COBOL (1960) ¤ née:: Snyder  born on 3-7-1917 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania expired 12-8-2001 in Rockville, Maryland   age 84   cause: heart disease; stroke

geezer  Benjamin Harrison Holcomb born on 7-3-1889 in Robinson, Kansas expired 12-2-2000 in Carnegie, Oklahoma   age 111

actress  Fay Holden   played Andy Hardy's mom in the movies ¤ real name: Dorothy Hammerton Clyde  born on 9-26-1895 in Birmingham, West Midlands, England expired 6-23-1973 in Woodland Hills, California   age 79   cause: cancer

actress  Gloria Holden born on 9-5-1908 in London, England expired 3-22-1991 in Redlands, California   age 72   cause: heart attack

actor  William Holden    won Best Actor oscar for his performance in Stalag 17 (1953); played writer/gigolo Joe Gillis in Sunset Boulevard (1950) ¤ real name: William Franklin Beedle Jr.  born on 4-17-1918 in O'Fallon, Illinois expired 11-12-1981 in Santa Monica, California   age 63   cause: head injuries sustained in fail

original Mickey Mouse Club Mouseketeer  Cheryl Holdridge   appeared on series as Cheryl in its last three seasons (1956-59); played Wally Cleaver's girlfriend Julie Foster on the Leave It To Beaver sitcom; both husbands died: Lance Reventlow (1972; plane crash) & Manning J. Post (1995) ¤ born: Cheryl Lynn Phelps  born on 6-20-1944 in New Orleans, Louisiana expired 1-5-2009 in Santa Monica, California   age 64   cause: lung cancer

Soledad Seánez Holguín   true widow of Pancho Villa expired 7-6-1996 in Chihuahua, Mexico   age 100   cause: respiratory failure

blue singer  Billie Holiday   a narcotics addict at the end of her life ¤ real name: Eleanora Fagan McKay  born on 4-7-1915 in Baltimore, Maryland expired 7-17-1959 in New York, New York   age 44

Great Lakes sailor  George John Holl   Chief Engineer of the Edmund Fitzgerald expired 11-10-1975 in Eastern Lake Superior, Canada   age 60   cause: drowned when ship foundered

kid actor  Ezekiel Eugene Holland   played Huck Finn in the bioipic Adventures of Mark Twain (1944) & Joe Favers, Ginny Favers brother in Song of the South (1946) born on 9-9-1931 expired 5-20-1963   age 31

Glendora, Mississippi farmer  George Holland   one of the jurors in the "trial" of J.W. Milam & Roy Bryant for the murder of Emmett Till born on 5-4-1913 expired 6-??-1982 in Drew, Mississippi   age 69

jazz trumpeter & singer  Herbert Lee "Peanuts" Holland born on 2-9-1910 in Norfolk, Virginia expired 2-7-1979 in Stockholm, Sweden   age 68

1950 Polk Memorial award recipient  Don Hollenbeck   was lead newscaster in New York on CBS' flagship tv station; following Ed Murrow's exposes on Joe McCarthy caught hell (and a whole lot of slime) from McCarthy's evil minions, leading to health problems & eventually suicide born on 3-30-1905 in Lincoln, Nebraska expired 6-22-1954 in New York, New York   age 49   cause: suicide; methane asphyxiation (turned on all burners, unlit, of a gas stove); stomach ulcers

Census Bureau employee and tabulating machine inventor  Herman Hollerith   creator of the ubiquitous computer "punch card"; founded the Hollerith Tabulating Machine Co., which later merged with two other businesses and became IBM born on 2-29-1860 in Buffalo, New York expired 11-17-1929 in Washington, District of Columbia   age 89   cause: neither folded, spindled or mutilated

biochemist  Robert William Holley   shared the 1968 Nobel prize in medicine born on 1-28-1922 in Urbana, Illinois expired 2-11-1993 in Los Gatos, California   age 71

actress  Judy Holliday   noted for playing "dumb blondes" in plays & movies like Born Yesterday ¤ born: Judith Tuvim  born on 6-21-1922 in New York, New York expired 6-7-1965 in New York, New York   age 42

CNN correspondent  John Holliman born on 10-23-1948 expired 9-12-1998 in Snellville, Georgia   age 49   cause: car accident    Contest Selectors 1979 SB 7.7%

character actor  Stanley Holloway born on 10-1-1890 in London, England expired 1-30-1982 in Littlehampton, Sussex, England   age 91    Contest Selectors 1980 GP 6.3%

actor/cartoon voice  Sterling Price Holloway   voiced Winnie the Pooh in cartoons born on 1-4-1905 in Cedartown, Georgia expired 11-22-1992 in Los Angeles, California   age 87    Contest Selectors 1979 7.7%

early rock and roll bandleader  Charles Hardin "Buddy" Holly   led The Crickets; had hit with Peggy Sue (1957); died in crash of Beechcraft Bonanza (registration N3794P, aka "Miss American Pie") with The Big Bopper and Richie Valens born on 9-7-1936 in Lubbock, Texas expired 2-3-1959 in Clear Lake, Iowa   age 22   cause: plane crash

college basketball coach  Nat Holman   coach of only team to ever win the NIT and NCAA tournaments in the same year born on 10-18-1896 expired