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Hawaiian crooner Don Ho he's forever blowing "tiny bubbles"
expired 4-14-2007 in Honolulu, Hawaii age 76 cause: heart attack
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| 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
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
expired 9-9-2006 in Shelton, Connecticut age 109
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| 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
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- 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 physiologyborn on 2-5-1914 in Banbury, Oxfordshire, England expired 12-20-1998 in Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England age 84 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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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
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| 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 restaurantborn 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 articleborn 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
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 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
home economist Mable Hoffman wrote the best-selling book "Crockery Cookery" (1975) about slowcookers
expired 2-9-2010 in Del Mar, California age 88 cause: pneumonia; seizures; Alzheimer's disease | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 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
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| 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 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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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
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| 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)
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
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)
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)
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
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 |
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| 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 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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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
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
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| character actor Stanley Holloway born on 10-1-1890 in London, England expired 1-30-1982 in Littlehampton, Sussex, England age 91
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| 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
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| 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 2-12-1995 age 98 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Burglar Alarm inventor (1858) Edwin Thomas Holmes president of the Holmes Electric Protective Company expired 2-11-1920 in New York, New York age 70 cause: pneumonia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| orthopedic surgeon Dr. Hamilton E. Holmes Sr. plaintiff in Holmes v. Danner seeking admission to the University of Georgia; the judge ordered his admission in January 1961, making him the first black male admitted to that institution born on 7-8-1941 expired 10-26-1995 in Atlanta, Georgia age 54 cause: complications following heart bypass surgery | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
porn star John Curtis Holmes the Boogie Nights (1997) character Dirk Diggler was loosely based upon his exploits; subject of March 1998 Playboy article; had an unresolved involved in the Wonderland Murders (1981)
expired 3-13-1988 in Sepulveda, California age 43 cause: cardiac arrest; encephalitis; colon cancer; AIDS
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| pacifist John Haynes Holmes a co-founder of the NAACP & ACLU born on 11-9-1879 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania expired 4-3-1964 in New York, New York age 84 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| underground comic artist Rand Holmes drew Harold Hedd born on 2-22-1942 in Truro, Nova Scotia, Canada expired 3-15-2002 in Nanaimo, British Columbia, Canada age 60 cause: complications from Hodgkin's lymphoma | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| composer Gustav Theodore Holst wrote musical suite The Planets born on 9-21-1874 in Cheltenham, England expired 5-25-1934 age 59 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Benjamin Holt invented crawler track (1904); his company later merged with Best Tractor and became Caterpillar Corp born on --1849 expired 12-5-1920 in Stockton, California age 71 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| western movie actor Charles John "Tim" Holt III played George Amberson in The Magnificent Ambersons (1942) & prospector Bob Curtin in The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948) born on 2-5-1918 in Beverly Hills, California expired 2-15-1973 in Shawnee, Oklahoma age 55 cause: cancer | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
jazz musician & songwriter David Holt as a child actor played Sidney Sawyer in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1938) & Pete Merrick (Liz Taylor's brother) in Courage of Lassie (1946), as well as being the body double (in a chimp suit) for Cheeta in Tarzan the Fearless (1933); co-wrote The Christmas Blues (featured in L.A. Confidential)
expired 11-15-2003 in San Juan Capistrano, California age 76 cause: congestive heart failure | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Australian prime minister (1/1966-12/1967) Harold Holt expired 12-17-1967 in Cheviot Beach, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia age 59 cause: drowned | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
artist & professional designer Gerald Holtom designed the peace symbol, first used Easter weekend 1958 in the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament's Aldermaston Marchexpired ??-??-19?? age ?? | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| baseball Hall-of-Fame sportswriter Jerome Holtzman worked for a bunch of Chicago newspapers: the Times, it's successor the Sun-Times & the Chicago Tribune; came up with the "save" statistic (1959; adopted by major league baseball in 1969) born on 7-12-1926 in Chicago, Illinois expired 7-19-2008 in Evanston, Illinois age 82 cause: stroke | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
pop performer Johann Hölzel had hit with Rock Me Amadeus (1986)
expired 2-6-1998 in Puerta Plata, Dominican Republic age 40 cause: head injuries suffered in traffic accident AKS: Holzel | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| former New York Nicks coach William "Red" Holzman born on 8-10-1920 in New York, New York expired 11-13-1998 in Long Island, New York age 78 cause: complications from leukemia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| last Queen of Afghanistan Homairah Begum Shah wife of Mohammad Zahir Shah expired 6-26-2002 in Rome, Italy age 84 cause: heart attack | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| former British Prime Minister Sir Alec Douglas Home born on 7-2-1903 in London, England expired 10-9-1995 in Coldstream, Berwickshire, England age 92
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| popular music composer Benjamin Homer worked as an arranger for Les Brown's Band of Renown; co-wrote Sentimental Journey (with Brown & Green) expired 2-17-1975 in Los Angeles, California age 57 cause: heart attack | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Japanese war criminal Lt. General Masaharu Homma ordered the Bataan Death March born on --1888 expired 4-3-1946 in Los Banos, Philippines age 58 cause: executed; firing squad | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Canadian kiddie show host Robert "Bob" Homme played the Friendly Giant on CBC tv (1958-85) born on --1919 in Stoughton, Wisconsin expired 5-2-2000 in Grafton, Ontario, Canada age 81 cause: prostate cancer | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| character actor Oscar Homolka born on 8-12-1903 in Vienna, Lower Austria, Austria-Hungary expired 1-27-1978 in Sussex, England age 74 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Godzilla director Ishirô Honda also directed The Mysterians (1959) born on 5-7-1911 in Yamagata, Japan expired 2-27-1993 in Tokyo, Japan age 81 cause: respiratory failure AKS: Ishiro | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| auto company founder Soichiro Honda born on 11-17-1906 in Iwata Gun, Japan expired 8-5-1991 age 84 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Eric Honecker former chairman of the East German Communist Party born on 8-25-1912 in Wiebelskirchen, Germany expired 5-29-1994 in Santiago, Chile age 81 cause: liver cancer | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| French avant-garde composer Arthur Honegger born on 3-10-1892 in Le Havre, France expired 11-27-1955 in Paris, France age 63 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Wang Hongwen a member of China's "Gang of Four" cultural terrorists born on --1933 expired 8-3-1992 in Beijing, China age 59 cause: liver cancer | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| chemist Dr. Richard Edward Honig identified the vapor pressures of numerous chemical elements born on 6-4-1917 in Göttingen, Germany expired 7-31-2001 in Haverford, Pennsylvania age 84 cause: cancer | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Our Gang child actress Darla Jean Hood born on 11-8-1931 in Leedey, Oklahoma expired 6-13-1979 in Canoga Park, California age 47 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
blues guitarist John Lee Hooker
expired 6-21-2001 in Los Altos, California age 83
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| inept Union Army general Joseph Hooker completely misinterpreted the old adage "an army travels on its stomach"; his command had almost as many women under men as it had men under arms; his name became synonymous with camp-followers (prostitutes) born on 11-12-1814 in Hadley, Massachusetts expired 10-31-1879 age 64 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| real life cop Thomas Warren Hooker model for character T.J. Hooker on tv born on 9-16-1934 expired 4-19-1993 in Littlerock, California age 58 cause: arson fire | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Florida farmer Fred William Hooper also owned racehorses --- "Hoop Jr." won 1945 Kentucky Derby born on 10-6-1897 in Georgia expired 8-4-2000 in Ocala, Florida age 102 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Michigan state senator Warren Green Hooper born on 5-2-1904 in Los Angeles, California expired 1-11-1945 in Springport, Michigan (near) age 40 cause: shot to death, left in his burning car | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
character actor William Michael Hootkins played fighter pilot Jek Porkins (Red Six) in Star Wars IV (1977)born on 7-5-1948 in Dallas, Texas expired 10-23-2005 in Pacific Palisades, California age 57 cause: pancreatic cancer | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| camerman Frank S. Hoover brought first motion picture studio to Hollywood expired 12-11-1946 in Hollywood, California age 71 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
 
31st U.S. president (1929-33) Herbert Clark Hoover Harding/Coolidge Secretary of Commerce 1921-1929born on 8-10-1874 in West Branch, Iowa expired 10-20-1964 in New York, New York age 90 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| long time FBI director (1924-72) John Edgar Hoover born on 1-1-1895 in Washington, District of Columbia expired 5-2-1972 in Washington, District of Columbia age 77 cause: hypertensive cardio-vascular disease | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| retired U.S. Air Force Colonel Travis Hoover bomber pilot in Jimmy Doolittle's April 1942 raid on Tokyo born on 9-21-1917 in Melrose, New Mexico expired 1-17-2004 in Webb City, Missouri age 86 cause: pneumonia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| MGM art department employee Frederick Hope as an assistant to Cedric Gibbons designed the base for the Motion Picture Academy's Oscar statuette (from 1928-45 it was made from Belgian black marble; afterwards from metal) born on 1-22-1900 in New Brighton, Pennsylvania expired 4-20-1937 in Hollywood, California age 37 cause: complications following appendectomy AKS: Frederick | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| London banker Henry Philip Hope around 1830 he purchased a 45 carat blue diamond that subsequently was named for him expired ??-??-1839 age ?? | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| James Hope grandfather of Bob expired 7-24-1943 in Hitchin, Hertfordshire, England age 99 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| former Weather Channel meteorologist John Raymond Hope born on 5-14-1919 in Stowell, Pennsylvania expired 6-13-2002 in Marietta, Georgia age 83 cause: complications following heart surgery | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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comedian Leslie Townes "Bob" Hope partnered with Bing Crosby in numerous Road to ... movies; sang (with Shirley Ross) Academy Award-winning songs Thanks For The Memory (1938; from The Big Broadcast of 1938) & Buttons and Bows (1948; from The Pale Face) born on 5-29-1903 in Eltham, England expired 7-27-2003 in Toluca Lake, California age 100 cause: complications from pneumonia
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| Texas death row inmate Bobby Ray Hopkins born on 2-23-1967 expired 2-12-2004 in Huntsville, Texas age 36 cause: executed; lethal injection
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| Douglas O. Hopkins former lead guitarist for the rock band the Gin Blossoms born on 4-11-1961 expired 12-3-1993 age 32 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins shared the 1929 Nobel prize in medicine for the "discovery of the grow stimulation vitamins" (1906) born on 6-20-1861 in Eastbourne, Sussex, England expired 5-16-1947 in Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England age 85 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| almost the last Civil War widow Maudie Celia Acklin Cantrell Hopkins married William A. Cantrell in 1934 (at age 19; widowed in 1937) born on 12-7-1914 in Baxter County, Arkansas expired 8-17-2008 in Helena, Arkansas age 93
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1930s movie star Miriam Hopkins
expired 10-9-1972 in New York, New York age 69 cause: heart attack | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| former Washington Senators pitcher (1927/29) Paul Henry Hopkins gave up Ruth's 59th homer (1927); currently oldest ex-major leager born on 9-25-1904 in Chester, Connecticut expired 1-2-2004 in Middletown, Connecticut age 99
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| Sam "Lightnin'" Hopkins born on 3-15-1912 in Centerville, Texas expired 1-30-1982 in Houston, Texas age 69 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Texas death row inmate George Anderson Hopper
expired 3-8-2005 in Huntsville, Texas age 49 cause: executed; lethal injection
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retired Navy Rear-Admiral Grace Brewster Murray Hopper created Flow-Matic computer language; co-inventor of the COBOL computer language (descended from Flow-Matic); discoverer of first computer "bug" --- a mothborn on 12-9-1906 in New York, New York expired 1-1-1992 in Arlington, Virginia age 85 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hollywood gossip columnist Hedda Hopper William's mother
expired 2-1-1966 in Hollywood, California age 75 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| actor William DeWolf Hopper Jr. son of Hedda; played private detective Paul Drake on the Perry Mason tv series born on 1-26-1915 in New York, New York expired 3-6-1970 in Palm Springs, California age 55 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| classical conductor Jascha Horenstein born on 5-6-1898 in Kiev, Ukraine, Russia expired 4-2-1973 in London, England age 74 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Mitsubishi aeronatical engineer Jiro Horikoshi designed the Zero figher plane expired 1-11-1982 in Tokyo, Japan age 78 cause: pneumonia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| George Albert Hormel founded the Hormel Packing Co. born on 12-4-1860 in Buffalo, New York expired 6-5-1946 in Los Angeles, California age 85 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Hormel chairman Jay Catherwood Hormel originated SPAM expired 8-30-1954 in Austin, Minnesota age 61 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Horn & Hardart Baking Co. president Joseph V. "Joe" Horn Automat co-founder; opened first U.S. automat in Philadelphia (1902); last one closed in NYC (1991)born on --1861 expired 10-13-1941 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania age 80 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
jazz singer/pianist Shirley Horn
expired 10-20-2005 in Cheverly, Maryland age 71 cause: complications from diabetes; breast cancer | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
retired Maine thoracic surgeon Heister Richard Hornberger co-wrote the novel M*A*S*H (published 1968) after serving in a Mobile Army Surgical Hospital in Korea; the movie (1970) and tv show followed; character Benjamin Franklin "Hawkeye" Pierce was modeled after himself
expired 11-4-1997 in Portland, Maine age 73 cause: leukemia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Broadway & Hollywood producer Arthur Hornblow Jr. born on 3-15-1893 expired 7-17-1976 in New York, New York age 83 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| hockey Hall-of-Fame defenseman Reginald "Red" Horner played for the Toronto Maple Leafs (1928-40); was on their first Stanley Cup championship team (1932) born on 5-29-1909 in Lyndon, Ontario, Canada expired 4-27-2005 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada age 95 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Hall of Fame baseball player and manager Rogers Hornsby held National League batting record for many years born on 4-27-1896 in Winters, Texas expired 1-5-1963 in Chicago, Illinois age 66 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| biologist/geneticist Dr. Norman Harold Horowitz designed experiments that went aboard the Mariner & Viking Martian exploration spacecraft born on 3-19-1915 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania expired 6-1-2005 in Pasadena, California age 90 cause: congestive heart failure | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| piano virtuoso Vladimir Horowitz born on 10-1-1904 in Kiev, Ukraine, Russia expired 11-5-1989 in New York, New York age 85
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| bitchy music maven Wanda Giorgina Toscanini Horowitz widow of Vladimir; daughter of conductor Arturo Toscanini born on 12-5-1907 in Milan, Italy expired 8-21-1998 in New York, New York age 90 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| epidemiologist Dr. Dorothy Millicent Horstmann polio researcher in 1940s & 50s born on 7-2-1911 in Spokane, Washington expired 1-11-2001 in New Haven, Connecticut age 89 cause: complications from Alzheimer's disease | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| concert pianist Mieczyslaw Horszowski born on 6-23-1892 in Lemberg, Austria-Hungary (now Lviv, Ukraine) expired 5-22-1993 age 100 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| character actor Edward Everett Horton born on 3-18-1887 in New York, New York expired 9-29-1970 in Encino, California age 83 cause: cancer | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| judge James Edward Horton Jr. set aside guilty verdict in second Scottsboro trial (1933); lost re- born on 1-4-1878 in Tennessee expired 3-28-1973 in Athens, Georgia age 95 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| singer John Gale "Johnny" Horton had 1958 hit with The Battle of New Orleans born on 4-3-1925 in Los Angeles, California expired 11-5-1960 in Cameron, Texas age 35 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| hockey Hall of Fame NHL defenseman (1949-74) Miles Gilbert "Tim" Horton started Tim Horton's Donuts in Hamilton, Ontario (1964); later took on a partner to run stores born on 1-12-1930 in Cochrane, Ontario, Canada expired 2-14-1974 in Saint Catharines, Ontario, Canada age 44 cause: car crash | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Ohio State quarterback (1942-44) Leslie "Les" Horvath winner of the Heisman Trophy (1944); with L.A. Rams (1947-48); he went on to become a dentist born on 9-12-1921 in South Bend, Indiana expired 11-14-1995 in Glendale, California age 74 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| restaraunteur Nancy Packo Horvath co-owner of Tony Packo's hot dog emporium in Toledo (made famous by Klinger on M*A*S*H tv series) born on 5-16-1932 expired 4-23-2003 in Toledo, Ohio age 70 cause: cancer | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
tv kiddie show hostess Dr. Frances Rappaport Horwich the Dean of Ding Dong School (1952-67)
expired 7-22-2001 in Scottsdale, Arizona age 93 cause: congestive heart failure | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Rosewood massacre survivor Dorothy P. Goins Hosey born on 1-1-1919 in Rosewood, Florida expired 3-31-2005 in Tampa, Florida age 86 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bahai Faith founder Mirza Hoseyn religion founded in Iran (1892)
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| Little Rascals child actor Allen Clayton Hoskins aka: "Farina" born on 8-9-1920 expired 7-26-1980 age 59 cause: cancer | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
master illusionist Harry Houdini every year a seance is held in Detroit to try and contact his spirit in "the great beyond"; every year a television crew gets the same seance footage to run on the 11 o'clock news
expired 10-31-1926 in Detroit, Michigan age 52 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Harry's widow Wilhelmina Houdini expired 2-11-1943 in Needles, California age 67 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| engineer Eugene J. Houdry invented the catalytic cracking process for producing gasoline from heavier carbon compounds in oil born on 4-18-1892 in Domont, France expired 7-18-1962 in Upper Darby, Pennsylvania age 70 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| inventor John Joseph Houghtaling came up with the idea for the "Magic Fingers" vibrating bed (1958) born on 11-14-1916 in Kansas City, Missouri expired 6-17-2009 in Fort Pierce, Florida age 92 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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electrical engineer Sir Godfrey Newbold Hounsfield concurrent inventor of Computerized Axial Tomography scans (CAT scans) in 1960s; shared the 1979 Nobel physiology prize for that invention; the unit of brightness in CAT scan images is named for him born on 8-28-1919 in Newark-on-Trent, Nottinghamshire, England (near) expired 8-12-2004 in Kingston-upon-Thames, England age 84 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Ivory Coast president (1960-93) Félix Houphouët-Boigny born on 10-18-1905 in Yamoussouko, Côte d'Ivoire expired 12-7-1993 in Yamoussouko, Côte d'Ivoire age 88 AKS: Felix Houphouet | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
actor, producer, director John Houseman co-founder of the Mercury Theater Company
expired 10-31-1988 in Malibu, California age 86
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| rock guitarist Michael "Mickey" Houser born on 1-6-1962 in Boone, North Carolina expired 8-10-2002 age 40 cause: pancreatic cancer
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rock singer/guitarist Michael N. Houser with group Widespread Panic
expired 8-10-2002 in Athens, Georgia age 40 cause: pancreatic cancer | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Dr. Bernardo Alberto Houssay shared the 1947 Nobel prize in medicine born on 4-10-1887 in Buenos Aires, Argentina expired 9-21-1971 in Buenos Aires, Argentina age 84 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| former Iranian prime minister (1965-77) Amir Abbas Hoveido his secret trail before an Islamic Revolutionary Kangaroo Court/ born on 2-18-1919 in Tehran, Iran expired 4-7-1979 in Tehran, Iran age 60 cause: firing squad AKS: Hoveyda | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
composer Alan Vaness Hovhaness
expired 6-21-2000 in Seattle, Washington age 89 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| tv actor, writer, producer Larry Hovis played Sgt. Carter on Hogan's Heroes; a writer for Laugh- born on 2-20-1936 in Wapato, Washington expired 9-9-2003 in San Marcos, Texas age 67 cause: cancer | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
song composer Bart Howard wrote Fly Me To The Moon (1954)
expired 2-21-2004 in Carmel, New York age 88 cause: complications from stroke | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| former CIA employee/defector Edward Lee Howard he "fell down a flight of stairs"; pushed? expired 7-12-2002 in Zhukovka, Russia age 50 cause: broken neck | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| former N.Y. Yankees catcher (1955-67) Elston Eugene Howard born on 2-23-1929 in Saint Louis, Missouri expired 12-14-1980 in New York, New York age 51 cause: cardiac arrest; myocardinitis | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| songwriter Harlan Howard wrote Busted & I Fall to Pieces born on 9-8-1927 in Detroit, Michigan expired 3-3-2002 in Nashville, Tennessee age 74 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| former Stanford electrical engineering professor Henry Taylor Howard "the father of the satellite tv industry" (built his own receiver to downlink C-band signals in 1976) born on 4-5-1932 in Peoria, Illinois expired 11-13-2002 in San Andreas, California age 70 cause: plane crash | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Ziegfeld girl & 1930s Hollywood actress Jean Howard also noted for her photographs of movie celebrities; once married to agent Charles K. Feldman (1934-48)
expired 3-20-2000 in Beverly Hills, California age 89 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
memorable Stooge Jerome Lester "Curly" Howard bother of Moe and Shemp; replaced Shemp when he left the act
expired 1-18-1952 in Los Angeles, California age 48 cause: cerebral hemorrhage | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
actor John Howard played Ronald Colman's brother in Lost Horizon (1937) and Kate Hepburn's fiance in The Philadelphia Story (1940)
expired 2-19-1995 in Santa Rosa, California age 81 cause: heart failure | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Catherine Howard briefly married to Henry VIII (wife number five) born on --1522 expired 2-13-1542 in London, England age 20 cause: beheaded in the Tower of London | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
actor Leslie Howard played Ashley Wilkes, object of Scarlett O'Hara's infatuation, in Gone With The Wind; on board plane shot down by the Luftwaffe over the English Channel
expired 6-1-1943 in English Channel age 53 cause: plane crash | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
original Stooge Moe Howard started Stooge act with Ted Healy and brother Shemp in 1923
expired 5-4-1975 in Hollywood, California age 78 cause: lung cancer | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| pulp fiction writer Robert Erwin Howard created Conan the Barbarian, Red Sonja & Kull the Conquerer born on 1-24-1906 in Peaster, Texas expired 6-11-1936 in Cross Plains, Texas age 30 cause: gunshot to head; suicide | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
original Stooge Shemp Howard left act to appear in other films; returned briefly after Curly died
expired 11-22-1955 in Los Angeles, California age 60 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| first female sports agent Colleen Joffa Howe member of U.S. Hockey Hall of Fame; wife of Gordie born on 2-17-1933 in Sandusky, Michigan expired 3-6-2009 in Commerce Township, Michigan age 76 cause: Pick's disease
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poet & abolitionist Julia Ward Howe wrote lyrics to The Battle Hymn of the Republic (1861, published in The Atlantic Monthly in February 1862), set to the tune John Brown's Body (based upon the melody to the hymn Say Brother,Will You Meet Us?); first proposed a Mothers Day holiday
expired 10-17-1910 in Boston, Massachusetts age 91 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| former baseball pitcher Steven Roy Howe repeatedly suspended for being a major league cokehead & alcoholic; the autopsy toxicology report stated that methamphetamine was in his system born on 3-10-1958 in Pontiac, Michigan expired 4-29-2006 in Coachella, California age 48 cause: truck roll-over accident AKS: He wasn't wearing a seatbelt; when the truck went into the median and started to roll, he was ejected, with the truck landing on top of him | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Albert S. Howell co-founder of Bell & Howell Camera Co. (1907); credited with taking the "flicker" out of movies born on 4-17-1879 in West Branch, Michigan expired 1-3-1951 in Chicago, Illinois age 71 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Kenner product inventor Ronald Howes Sr. came up with the Easy Bake Oven (1963) expired 2-16-2010 in Anderson Township, Ohio age 83 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Albanian Communist chairman Enver Hoxha apocryphally said to have shot a cabinet minister across the table after disagreeing with him at a meeting born on 10-16-1908 in Gjirokaster, Albania expired 4-11-1985 in Tirana, Albania age 76 cause: heart failure; diabetes
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| astronomer Sir Fred Hoyle although a "steady state" universe proponent he derisively coined term "Big Bang" born on 6-24-1915 in Bingley, Yorkshire, England expired 8-20-2001 in Bournemouth, Dorsetshire, England age 86 cause: complications from stroke
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| character actor Clegg Hoyt played the transporter chief Pitcairn in the first Star Trek pilot (1964) born on 12-10-1910 in Connecticut expired 10-6-1967 in Woodland Hills, California age 56 cause: stroke | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
actor John Hoyt played Dr. Boyce in original Star Trek series pilot
expired 9-15-1991 in Santa Cruz, California age 85 cause: lung cancer | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| former president of Guyana Hugh Desmond Hoyte born on 3-9-1929 in Georgetown, British Guiana expired 12-22-2002 in Georgetown, Guyana age 73 cause: heart failure | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Elias Hrawi former Lebanese president (1989-98) born on 9-4-1925 in Hawch al-Uman, Lebanon expired 7-7-2006 in Beirut, Lebanon age 80 cause: cancer | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
linguist Bedrich Hrozny deciphered the ancient Hitite language
expired 12-17-1952 in Prague, Czechoslovakia age 73 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
last Eastland disaster survivor Libby Klucina Hrubyborn on 1-4-1905 expired 11-15-2004 in Berwyn, Illinois age 99 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| former Nebraska rep. (1952-54) & senator (1954-76) Roman Lee Hruska during G. Harold Carswell's supreme court nomination hearing Hruska spoke of adding a little mediocrity to the bench born on 8-16-1904 in David City, Nebraska expired 4-25-1999 in Omaha, Nebraska age 94 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Prince Hsun father of China's last emperor expired 3-28-1951 in Beijing, China age ?? | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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