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| actress Heidi Bertha Auguste Kabel an actress at the "Ohnsorg-Theater" from 1932 to 1998; widow of Hans Mahler born on 8-27-1914 in Hamburg, Germany expired 6-15-2010 age 95
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| Congo leader Laurent Kabila ousted Mobutu in 1997 born on 11-27-1939 in Jedotville, Katanga Province, Belgian Congo expired 1-16-2001 in Kinshasa, Congo age 61 cause: shot by bodyguard during coup attempt
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Dorothy Andrews Kabis Treasurer of the United States (1969-71)
expired 7-3-1971 in Sheffield, Massachusetts age 54 cause: heart attack | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
former Hungarian commie Janos Kadar
expired 7-6-1989 in Budapest, Hungary age 77 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| World War II army lawyer Charles L. Kades supervised the writing of the postwar Japanese constitution in February 1946 born on 3-12-1906 expired 6-18-1996 in Greenfield, Massachusetts age 90 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| president of Chechnya Akhmad Abdulkhanmidovich Kadyrov born on 8-23-1950 in Karaganda, Kazakhstan, USSR expired 5-9-2004 in Grozny, Chechnya, Russia age 53 cause: bomb blast (asssassination) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| film critic Pauline Kael born on 6-19-1919 in Petaluma, California expired 9-3-2001 in Great Barrington, Massachusetts age 82 cause: complications from Parkinson's disease | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| musician Bert Kaempfert had 1960s hit with Swinging Safari born on 10-16-1923 in Hamburg, Germany expired 6-21-1980 in Majorca, Spain age 56 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| disturbing Czech author Franz Kafka wrote Metamorphosis born on 7-2-1883 in Prague, Bohemia expired 6-3-1924 in Kierling, Austria age 40 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Stalin's director of collectivization Lazar Moiseevich Kaganovich born on 11-22-1893 in Kabany, Russia expired 7-25-1991 in Moscow, Russia, USSR age 97 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| swimmer, surfer "Duke" Paoa Kahanamoku won Olympic gold at 1912 & 1920 games; popularized surfing as a sport born on 8-24-1890 in Honolulu, Hawaii expired 1-22-1968 in Honolulu, Hawaii age 77 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences president Benjamin Bertram Kahane RKO Pictures president (1932-36); Columbia Pictures vice president (1936-60) expired 9-18-1960 in Hollywood, California age 68 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Jewish Defense League co-founder Meir David Kahaneborn on 8-1-1932 in New York, New York expired 11-5-1990 age 58 cause: assassinated | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| dedicated communist Madelena Carmen Frida Kahlo Calderon twice married to Diego Rivera; had affair with Leon Trotsky born on 7-6-1904 in Coyoacan, Mexico expired 7-15-1954 in Mexico City, Mexico age 50 cause: suicide; pneumonia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| industrial plant architect & designer Albert Kahn designed Ford's Willow Run aircraft plant born on 3-21-1869 in Rhaunen, Germany expired 12-8-1942 in Detroit, Michigan age 73 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| inventor Albert R. Kahn co-founded a radio set repair business called Radio Engineers in South Bend, Indiana (1927); he set up a microphone/loudspeaker system for Knute Rockne that his client called his "electric voice" (1930) — inspired, they changed the company name to Electro-Voice; they also invented the noise-cancelling microphone (1940), the stereo magnetic phonograph cartridge (1957) and received an oscar for a low-noise hypercardiod "shotgun" microphone (1963; the EV-642) born on 7-9-1906 in LaSalle, Illinois expired 6-15-2005 in Cassopolis, Michigan age 98 cause: pneumonia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| lyricist Gus Kahn co-wrote Mammy, Carolina in the Morning and My Blue Heaven born on 11-6-1886 in Koblenz, Germany expired 10-8-1941 in Beverly Hills, California age 54 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| TelePrompTer inventor Irving B. Kahn born on 9-30-1917 in New York, New York expired 1-22-1994 age 76 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| actress Madeline Gail Kahn appeared in Bonnie and Clyde, Blazing Saddles (as Lili von Shtüpp, the "Tuetonic Titwillow"), Young Frankenstein (ends the movie as the "monster's" bride) and What's Up, Doc? born on 9-29-1942 in Boston, Massachusetts expired 12-3-1999 in New York, New York age 57 cause: ovarian cancer | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| inventor Myron Kahn invented polarized light panels born on 12-30-1916 in New York, New York expired 11-19-2002 in Santa Monica, California age 85 cause: heart failure | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| industrialist Henry John Kaiser born on 5-9-1882 in Canajuharie, New York expired 8-24-1967 in Honolulu, Hawaii age 85 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
 
Hawaiian King (1874-1891) David Laamea Kalakauaborn on 11-16-1836 in Honolulu, Hawaii expired 1-20-1891 in San Francisco, California age 54 cause: uremia; Bright's disease | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
bit actor & WWWF pro wrassler Charles "Charlie" Kalani his tag team partner: Mr. Fuji
expired 8-22-2000 in Lake Forest, California age 70 cause: heart attack | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| movie director Mikhail Kalatozighvili directed The Red Tent (1971) born on 12-28-1903 in Tiflis, Georgia (now Tbilisi) expired 3-27-1973 in Moscow, Russia, USSR age 69 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
former NBC news correspondent Floyd Kalber worked as a local news anchor in Chicago for WMAQ & WLS
expired 5-13-2004 in Burr Ridge, Illinois age 79 cause: emphysema | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
27-year Soviet Union president Mikhail Ivanovich Kalinin
expired 6-3-1946 in Moscow, Russia, USSR age 70 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| former CBS news correspondent Peter Kalischer born on 12-25-1914 expired 7-5-1991 age 76 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| television writer Lucille Kallen wrote for many early tv shows of the late 1940s and early 1950s, including Your Show of Shows born on 5-28-1922 in Los Angeles, California expired 1-18-1999 in Ardsley, New York age 76 cause: cancer | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| IHOP co-founder Albert Kallisa born on 11-7-1914 expired 12-20-1992 in New Leipzig, North Dakota age 78 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| lyricist Bert Kalmar collaborated with Harry Ruby; wrote Who's Sorry Now (1923) born on 2-16-1884 in New York, New York expired 9-18-1947 in Los Angeles, California age 63 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Great Lakes sailor Allen George Kalmon Second Cook aboard the Edmund Fitzgerald born on 2-7-1932 expired 11-10-1975 in Eastern Lake Superior, Canada age 43 cause: drowned when ship foundered | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Technicolor developer Herbert Thomas Kalmus born on 11-9-1881 in Chelsea, Massachusetts expired 7-11-1963 age 81 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
meddlesom wife of Technicolor developer Natalie M Kalmus Herbert made her a "consultant" to his movie clients to get her out his hair & life (he divorced her in the 1930s); a major pain in everyone's behind
expired 11-15-1965 in Boston, Massachusetts age 87 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| radio & tv newscaster Hans Von Kaltenborn born on 7-9-1878 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin expired 6-14-1965 in New York, New York age 86 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Ernst Kaltenbrunner head of Nazi "security services"; controlled the Gestapo and concentration camps born on --1902 expired 10-16-1946 in Nuremburg, Germany age 44 cause: hanged | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
one-time Honolulu police department officer (1946-62) Kam Fong Chun appeared in Gidget Goes Hawaiian; played detective Chin Ho Kelly on Hawaii Five-O tv series (1968-78)
expired 10-18-2002 in Honolulu, Hawaii age 84 cause: lung cancer | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Japanese geezer Kamato Hongo born on 9-16-1887 in Isen, Kagoshima, Kyushu, Japan expired 10-31-2003 in Kagoshima, Kyushu, Japan age 116 cause: pneumonia
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Hawaiian King (1810-1819) Kamehameha I united the island chain in 1795
expired 5-8-1819 in Kailua, Kingdom of Hawaii age 65 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Hawaiian King (1819-1824) Kamehameha II son of Kamehameha I born on --1797 in Kingdom of Hawaii expired 7-14-1824 in London, England age 27 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Hawaiian King (1824-1854) Kamehameha III established independence from the United States, Britain & France (1842-43); son of Kamehameha II born on 3-7-1813 in Keauhou, Kingdom of Hawaii expired 12-15-1854 in Honolulu, Kingdom of Hawaii age 41 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hawaiian King (1854-1863) Kamehameha IV son of Kamehameha III
expired 11-30-1863 in Honolulu, Kingdom of Hawaii age 29 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Hawaiian King (1863-1872) Kamehameha V born on 12-11-1830 in Honolulu, Kingdom of Hawaii expired 12-11-1872 in Honolulu, Kingdom of Hawaii age 42 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| character actor Stanley M. Kamel played crackpot warp propulsion "expert" Kosinski on Star Trek: TNG episode Where No One Has Gone Before & Adrian Monk's psychiatrist Dr. Charles Kroger on Monk cable comedy born on 1-1-1943 in New Brunswick, New Jersey expired 4-8-2008 in Hollywood Hills, California age 65 cause: heart attack AKS: Stanlie Stan Lee Camel | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Martin David Kamen co-discoverer of the carbon-14 isotope (1940) born on 8-27-1913 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada expired 8-31-2002 in Montecito, California age 89 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Hollywood composer Michael Kamen wrote scores for the Lethal Weapon & Die Hard film series, as well as Polyester (1981), Brazil (1985), License to Kill (1989), Mr. Holland's Opus & X-Men (2000) born on 4-15-1948 in New York, New York expired 11-18-2003 in London, England age 55 cause: heart attack; multiple sclerosis | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| satirist Milt Kamen born on 3-5-1921 in Hurleyville, New York expired 2-24-1977 in Beverly Hills, California age 55 cause: heart attack | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Gnutella pioneer Gene H. Kan helped write Unix version of Gnutella peer-to-peer file sharing program born on 9-6-1976 expired 6-29-2002 in San Jose, California age 25 cause: suicide; gunshot to head | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| screenwriter Aben Kandel wrote screenplays for Knute Rockne, All American and I Was a Teenage Werewolf born on 8-15-1897 expired 1-28-1993 age 95 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| punk rock bassist Arthur Kane played with the New York Dolls in the 1970s; thought he had the flu — learned that he was dying of cancer just hours before it happened born on 2-3-1949 in New York, New York expired 7-13-2004 in Los Angeles, California age 55 cause: leukemia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| former (Jewish) Notre Dame University student Ben Kane as a freshman played on Knute Rockne's last (freshman) football team (1930) born on 4-15-1910 in Illinois expired 12-7-2007 in Buffalo Grove, Illinois age 97 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
comic book artist Gilbert Kane known for drawing the Green Lantern
expired 1-31-2000 in Miami, Florida age 73 cause: lymphoma | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
1920s & 30s singer Helen Kane sang "I wanna be loved by you ... Boop-
expired 9-26-1966 in New York, New York age 62 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| noted factualist Joseph Nathan Kane author of Famous First Facts: A Record of First Happenings, Discoveries and Inventions in the Unted States (1933) born on 1-23-1899 in New York, New York expired 9-22-2002 in West Palm Beach, Florida age 103
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| comic artist Robert "Bob" Kane co-created Batman (1938) born on 10-25-1915 expired 11-3-1998 in Los Angeles, California age 83 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| stage and screen writer Garson Kanin wrote Born Yesterday, Adam's Rib, Pat and Mike and many others; husband of actress Ruth Gordon born on 11-24-1912 in Rochester, New York expired 3-13-1999 in New York, New York age 86 cause: heart failure | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| playwright/screenwriter/director Michael Kanin born on 2-1-1910 expired 3-12-1993 age 83 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| murder victim Megan Nicole Kanka namesake of law requiring public lists of sex offenders (Megan's Law) born on 12-7-1986 expired 7-30-1994 in Hamiton Township, New Jersey age 7 cause: murdered; strangled | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| vice president of India Kirshnan Kant born on 2-28-1927 in Punjab, India expired 7-27-2002 in New Delhi, India age 75 cause: heart attack | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Gilberton Publications founder/editor Albert Lewis Kanter created the Classics Illustrated comic books (1941-62); father of Hal Kanter born on 11-13-1896 in Russia expired 3-17-1973 in New York, New York age 76 cause: heart attack | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| author MacKinlay Kantor wrote Andersonville (1955); it won 1956 Pulitzer prize; another novel was adapted as the screenplay for The Best Years of Our Lives (1946) born on 2-4-1904 in Webster City, Iowa expired 10-11-1977 in Sarasota, Florida age 73 cause: heart ailment | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
1975 Nobel economics laureate Dr. Leonid Vitaliyevich Kantorovich shared prize with Tjalling Koopmansborn on 1-19-1912 in Saint Petersburg, Russia expired 4-7-1986 in Russia, USSR age 74 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Wayne State University cardiac surgeon & teacher Dr. Adrian Kantrowitz performed the first human heart transplant in the U.A. born on 10-4-1918 in New York, New York expired 11-14-2008 in Ann Arbor, michigan age 90 cause: complications from heart failure | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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1978 Nobel physics co-laurate Pyotr Leonidovich Kapitsa discovered superfluidity in Helium II born on 7-8-1894 in Kronstadt, Russia expired 4-8-1984 in Moscow, Russia, USSR age 89 AKS: b.6/26/1894 old calendar style | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| contract bridge authority Edgar Kaplan partnered with Norman Kay born on 4-18-1925 in New York, New York expired 9-7-1997 in New York, New York age 72 cause: cancer | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Lena Kaplan founder of Hadassah in 1912 expired 5-3-1958 in New York, New York age 73 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Stanley H. Kaplan founded the test preparation firm that bears his name (1938) born on 5-24-1919 in New York, New York expired 8-23-2009 in New York, New York age 90 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Jack Kapp founder of the U.S. branch of Decca Records expired 3-25-1949 in New York, New York age 47 cause: cerebral hemorrhage | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| conductor Richard Paul Kapp founded the Philharmonia Virtuosi; his uncle Jack Kapp founded the U.S. branch of Decca Records born on 10-9-1936 in Chicago, Illinois expired 6-4-2006 in Danbury, Connecticut age 69 cause: cancer | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nazi war criminal SS Colonel Herbert Kappler responsible for the Ardeatine Massacre outside Rome (3/24/1944) expired 2-9-1978 in Soltau, Germany age 70 cause: stomach cancer | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| rock musician Muhtar Cem Karaca born on 4-5-1945 expired 2-8-2004 in Istanbul, Turkey age 58 cause: heart failure | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| conductor Herbert von Karajan born on 4-5-1908 in Salzburg, Austria expired 7-16-1989 in Anif, Austria age 81
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| former Look Magazine photographer (1960-72) James H. Karales born on 7-15-1930 in Canton, Ohio expired 4-1-2002 in Croton-on-Hudson, New York age 71 cause: cancer | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| former Greek P.M. (1955-63) & president (1980-85, 90-94) Konstantinos Karamanlis born on 3-8-1907 in Kioupkioi, Macedonia, Turkish-occupied Greece (now Prote) expired 4-23-1998 in Athens, Greece age 91 cause: kidney & heart complications; respiratory infection AKS: Constantine Konstantine | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| burger seller Carl Nicholas Karcher founder of Carl's Jr. restaurant chain (1950) born on 1-16-1917 in Upper Sandusky, Ohio expired 1-11-2008 in Fullerton, California age 90 cause: pneumonia; Parkinson's disease | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| O.J. attorney Robert George Kardashian born on 2-22-1944 in Los Angeles, California expired 9-30-2003 in Encino, California age 59 cause: cancer of the esophagus | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Armenian Apostolic Church head Catholicos Karekin I
expired 6-29-1999 in Echmiazin, Armenia age 66 cause: throat cancer | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
author Erik Axel Karlfeldt recipient of the 1931 Nobel prize in literature; he refused the 1918 prize but didn't get the chance to refuse this one — he died before the award recipients were announced (now they pick someone else if you die before award announcement day)
expired 4-8-1931 age 66 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| movie/tv composer Fred Karlin won an oscar & an Emmy born on 7-6-1936 in Chicago, Illinois expired 3-26-2004 in Culver City, California age 67 cause: cancer | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Leonard Karlin co-creator of the George Polk Award for journalists (1949) born on 6-20-1922 expired 11-14-2003 in New York, New York age 81 cause: brain tumor | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
English actor Boris Karloff noted for his portrayal of the Monster in Frankenstein, Bride of Frankenstein and Son of Frankenstein (1939); played Dr. Gustav Nieman in The House of Frankenstein (1944); originated role of Jonathan Brewster in original Broadway production of Arsenic and Old Lace; narrated tv cartoon How the
Grinch Stole Christmas
expired 2-2-1969 in Midhurst, Sussex, England age 81 cause: pneumonia; emphysema; arthritis | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| former Afghan commie leader Babrak Karmal Soviet puppet born on 1-6-1929 in Kabul, Afghanistan expired 12-1-1996 in Moscow, Russia age 67
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| auto maker Wilhelm Karmann Jr. built the VW Karmann-Ghia (1955-80), co-designed by Luigi Segre born on 12-4-1914 in Osnabrück, Germany expired 10-25-1998 in Osnabrück, Hannover, Germany age 83 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| character actor Roscoe Karns born on 9-7-1891 in San Bernardino, California expired 2-6-1970 in Los Angeles, California age 78 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| actor Todd Karns played Harry Bailey in Its a Wonderful Life (1946); son of Roscoe born on 1-15-1921 in Hollywood, California expired 2-5-2000 in Ajijic, Jalisco, Mexico age 79 cause: cancer | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
1930s Ma Barker gang member Alvin Karpis spent 25 years in Alcatraz
expired 8-26-1979 in Torremolinos, Spain age 71 cause: sleeping pill overdose | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Paul Karrer shared the 1937 Nobel prize in chemistry born on 4-21-1889 in Moscow, Russia expired 6-18-1971 in Zürich, Switzerland age 82 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| photographer Yousuf Karsh born on 12-23-1908 in Mardin, Armenia, Turkey expired 7-14-2002 in Boston, Massachusetts age 93 cause: following surgery | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
World War II Polish Underground operative Jan Karski covertly observed the Warsaw ghetto & Izbica death camp (1942); reported same to Eden & Roosevelt
expired 7-13-2000 in Georgetown, Virginia age 86 cause: heart & kidney ailments | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bakongo tribal leader Joseph Kasavubu first president of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (1960-65) born on --1910 in Tshela, Belgian Congo expired 3-24-1969 in Boma, Lower Congo age 58 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Casio Computer Co. founder Tadao Kashio
expired 3-4-1993 age 75 AKS: Cascio | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Columbia University Adrain Professor Emeritus Dr. Edward Kasner taught at Columbia from 1910 to 1949; used his nephew's new "word" as the name for the value 10 raised to the one- born on --1878 in New York, New York expired 1-7-1955 in New York, New York age 76 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Alfred Kastler received the 1966 Nobel prize in physics born on 5-3-1902 in Guebwiller, Alsace-Lorraine, Germany expired 1-7-1984 in Bandol, France age 81 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Dr. Erich Kästner the last of Kaiser Bill's "huns" born on 3-10-1900 in Germany expired 1-2-2008 in Hanover, Germany age 107 AKS: Kastner | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| author Erich Kästner under the name "Berthod Bürger" wrote Das Doppeltelottchen ("The Parent Trap") born on 2-23-1899 in Dresden, Saxony, Germany expired 7-29-1974 in München, Germany age 75 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| jurist Dr. Erich Kästner the last of Kaiser Bill's "huns" born on 3-10-1900 in Hannover, Lower Saxony, German Empire expired 1-1-2008 in Hanover, Lower Saxony, Germany age 107
AKS: Kastner | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
character actor Kurt Kasznar as a World War II motion picture photographer he filmed the ruins of Hiroshima & Nagasaki
expired 8-6-1979 in Santa Monica, California age 65 cause: cancer | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| concert pianist Julius Katchen born on 8-15-1926 in Long Branch, New Jersey expired 4-29-1969 in Paris, France age 42 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| royal consort Katherine of Aragon daughter of Isabella (Queen of Castile) and Ferdinand V (King of Aragon); first wife of Henry VIII; mother of Mary I born on 12-16-1485 in Alcala de Henares, Spain expired 1-7-1536 in Kimbolton, England age 50 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Dr. Robert Katscher wrote When Day Ii Done (1926) born on 5-20-1894 expired 2-23-1942 in Hollywood, California age 47 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| character actor Andrew C. "Andreas" Katsulas had recurring role of Romulan captain Tomalak on Star Trek: The Next Generation; played Ambassador G'Kar on Babylon V space opera; was the one-armed man in The Fugitive (1993) born on 5-18-1946 in Saint Louis, Missouri expired 2-13-2006 in Los Angeles, California age 59 cause: lung cancer | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| toymaker Arthur Katz founded company that makes Corgi diecast miniature automobiles born on --1908 in Johannesburg, South Africa expired 6-25-1999 in London, England age 91 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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biophysicist Dr. Sir Bernard Katz shared the 1970 Nobel prize in medicine born on 3-26-1911 in Leipzig, Germany expired 4-20-2003 in London, England age 92 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| computer data compression whiz Phillip W. Katz created PKZip & PKUnzip file compression/decompression utilities (1986) born on 11-3-1962 expired 3-31-2000 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin age 37 cause: actue pancreatic bleeding; acute alcoholism | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| tv producer Leonard Katzman involved in the production of Dallas, Gunsmoke, The Wild, Wild West and Hawaii Five-O born on 9-2-1927 expired 9-5-1996 in Malibu, California age 69 cause: heart attack | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| lawyer Frederick G. Katzmann prosecuted Sacco & Vanzetti for murder expired 10-15-1953 in Boston, Massachusetts age 78 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| former Kansas City Royals owner Ewing Marion Kauffman born on 9-21-1916 in Garden City, Missouri expired 8-1-1993 age 76 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
actor/comedian Andrew Geoffrey "Andy" Kaufman subject of movie Man on the Moon (1999); like to "wrestle" women (including Playboy Playmate Susan Smith in February 1982 pictorial)
expired 5-16-1984 in Los Angeles, California age 35 cause: lung cancer
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| Broadway producer, director and playwright George Simon Kaufman created the word widget born on 11-16-1889 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania expired 6-2-1961 in New York, New York age 71 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| judge Irving Robert Kaufman born on 6-24-1910 in New York, New York expired 2-1-1992 age 81 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| screenwriter Millard Kaufman wrote screenplay for Bad Day at Blackrock (1955) & Raintree County; co-created Mr. Magoo in his screenplay for the cartoon Ragtime Bear (1949; partially modeled after his uncle) born on 3-12-1917 in Baltimore, Maryland expired 3-14-2009 in Los Angeles, California age 92 cause: heart failure; open-heart surgery | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| disc jockey Murray "The K" Kaufman born on 2-14-1922 in New York, New York expired 2-21-1982 age 60 cause: cancer | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
bit part actor Gilbert Francis Lani Kauhi played Detective Kono Kalakaua on Hawaii Five-O tv series (1968-72)
expired 5-3-2004 in Hilo, Hawaii age 66 cause: complications from diabetes
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| UCLA geophysics prof. Dr. William M. Kaula pioneer in satellite mapping technologies born on 5-19-1926 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia expired 4-11-2000 in Los Angeles, California age 73 cause: cancer | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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writer Yasunari Kawabata was the 1968 Nobel literature laureate born on 6-14-1899 in Osaka, Japan expired 4-16-1972 in Zushi, Japan age 72 cause: suicide; methane | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Connie Kay second percussionist with the Modern Jazz Quaret (1955-94)
expired 11-30-1994 age 67 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| bandleader Herbie Kay first husband of Dorothy Lamour (divorced in 1939) expired 5-11-1944 in Dallas, Texas age 40 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| composer-arranger Hershey Kay did an orchestral reconstruction of Gottschalk's Grand Tarantelle for Piano and Orchestra born on 11-17-1919 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania expired 12-2-1981 in Danbury, Connecticut age 62 cause: heart failure | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| former Merrill Lynch account executive (1949-87) Norman Kay noted contract bridge player; former partner of Edgar Kaplan;voted top U.S. player (1957-77) born on 8-11-1927 expired 1-17-2002 in Narbeth, Pennsylvania age 74 cause: acute pulmonary embolism | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| African-American classical composer & arranger Ulysses Simpson Kay born on 1-7-1917 in Tucson, Arizona expired 5-20-1995 in Teaneck, New Jersey age 78 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
comedic actor Danny Kaye
expired 3-3-1987 age 74
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| lyricist Jules Leonard "Buddy" Kaye co-wrote 'Til the End of Time & the I Dream of Jeanie tv show theme born on 1-3-1918 in New York, New York expired 11-21-2002 in Rancho Mirage, California age 84 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
comic, singer, actor Stubby Kaye played: gambler Nicely-Nicely Johnson in stage and screen version of Guys and Dolls; Marryin' Sam in Li'l Abner; a strolling minstrel in Cat Ballou and Marvin Acme in Who Framed Roger Rabbit
expired 12-14-1997 in Rancho Mirage, California age 79 cause: lung cancer | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| screenwriter (& Danny's widow) Sylvia Fine Kaye born on 8-29-1913 in New York, New York expired 10-28-1991 age 78 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
film director Elia Kazan directed Gentleman's Agreement (1947; Best Director oscar) & On The Waterfront (1954; Best Director oscar)
expired 9-28-2003 in New York, New York age 94
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| Greek author & government minister Nikos Kazantzakis wrote Zorba the Greek (1946) born on 12-2-1883 in Iraklion, Greece expired 10-26-1957 in Freiburg, Germany age 73 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nasser's widow Taheya Kazem expired 3-25-1990 age 66 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| waitress/"scorned woman" Sahel Kazemi had been the mistress of Steve McNair — who just was in no hurry to divorce his wife; killed him while he slept (in their Nashville love nest), then put the gun to her temple ... expired 7-4-2009 in Nashville, Tennessee age 20 cause: suicide; gunshot to temple | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Russian ballerina Mathilde Kchessinska held the title "Prima Ballerina Absoluta"; mistress of Nicholas II prior to his becoming Czar expired 12-7-1971 in Paris, France age 99 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
R&B singer Ernie K-Doe had 1961 hit with Mother-
expired 7-5-2001 in New Orleans, Louisiana age 65 cause: cirrhosis | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| genocidal Khmer Rouge general (1975-79) Ke Pauk led purges that slaughtered 1.7 million people; granted "amnesty" when he defected to the current government born on 1-22-1929 expired 2-15-2002 in Anlong Veng, Cambodia age 73 cause: liver disease | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| character actor/director Stacy Keach Sr. born on 5-29-1914 in Chicago, Illinois expired 2-13-2003 in Burbank, California age 88 cause: congestive heart failure | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| New Jersey senator (1928-34) Hamilton Fish Kean expired 12-27-1941 in New York, New York age 79 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| surrogate motherhood lawyer Noel Keane at center of 1986 Baby M legal battle with Mary Beth Whitehead expired 1-26-1997 in Dearborn, Michigan age 58 cause: melanoma | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| actor Joseph Kearns played the next door neighbor (Mr. Wilson) on tv's Dennis the Menace (1959-62) born on 2-12-1907 in Salt Lake City, Utah expired 2-17-1962 in Los Angeles, California age 55 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| engineer, inventor, litigator Robert William Kearns invented the intermittant windshield wiper (1967); spent most of his life after that suing automakers for patent infringement born on 3-10-1927 in Gary, Indiana expired 2-9-2005 in Gaithersburg, Maryland age 77 cause: cancer; Alzheimer's disease | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Ramparts magazine founder (1962) Edward M. Keating the magazine started as liberal Catholic publication intent upon exposing hypocrisy in the church; after Warren Hinckle took over editing the magazine (1964) it started taking on the federal government; Ramparts ceased publication in 1975; he ran for congress in 1967, losing to Shirley Temple Black born on 4-17-1925 expired 4-2-2003 in Palo Alto, California age 77 cause: pneumonia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| character actor Lawrence "Larry" Keating next door neighbor on Burns and Allen tv show born on 6-13-1896 in Saint Paul, Minnesota expired 8-26-1963 in Hollywood, California age 67 cause: leukemia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| silent film comedian Joseph Francis "Buster" Keaton appeared briefly in Its a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World born on 10-4-1895 in Piqua, Kansas expired 2-1-1966 in Woodland Hills, California age 70 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| poet John Keats born on 10-31-1795 in London, England expired 2-23-1821 in Rome, Italy age 25 cause: consumption | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Superior Oil Co. founder William H. "Bill" Keck his philhanthropic foundation donated the money to construct the Keck Telescope in Hawaii born on 4-27-1880 expired 8-20-1964 in Los Angeles, California age 84 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
actress Lila Kédrova won 1964 Best Supporting Actress oscar & 1983 Tony for her portrayal of Madame Hortense in the movie & stage productions of Zorba the Greek
expired 2-16-2000 in Sault Saint Marie, Ontario, Canada age 81 cause: congestive heart failure; Alzheimer's disease AKS: Kedrova | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| cookie baker Godfrey Keebler co-founded the Keebler- born on 2-17-1822 in Wurtemberg, Germany expired 9-9-1893 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania age 71 cause: "an illness of almost two years" | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| last of his profession Aubrey E. Keel last living Associated Press telegrapher --- transmitted stories by morse code; displaced by the invention of the electromechanical teletype machine born on 7-3-1901 expired 6-25-1999 in Kansas City, Missouri age 97 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
singer/actor Howard Keel played Clayton Farlow, Ellie Ewing's 2nd husband on Dallas
expired 11-7-2004 in Palm Desert, California age 85 cause: colon cancer | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| dancer Ethel Hilda "Ruby" Keeler married to Al Jolson for a while; noted tap dancer; appeared in many Busby Berkeley movies of the 1930s; played Peggy Sawyer in 42nd Street (1933); appeared on Broadway in the 1971 revival of No, No, Nanette born on 8-25-1909 in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada expired 2-28-1993 in Palm Springs, California age 83 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| crackpot criminologist Leonarde Keeler developer of the polygraph, the so-called (and wildly inaccurately named) "lie-detector" expired 9-20-1949 in Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin age 45 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
character actor Geoffrey Keen played Defense Minister Frederick Gray in all of the James Bond movies from The Spy Who Loved Me (1977) through The Living Daylights (1987)
expired 11-3-2005 in Watford, Hertfordshire, England age 89 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Ohio State U astronomer Philip C. Keenan did work on the spectral classification of stars born on 3-31-1908 in Bellvue, Pennsylvania expired 4-20-2000 in Columbus, Ohio age 92 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Captain Kangaroo actor (1955-81) Robert James "Bob" Keeshan started tv career on the Howdie Doodie Show as Clarabell the Clown born on 6-27-1927 in Lynbrook, New York expired 1-23-2004 in Windsor, Vermont age 76 cause: heart problems
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| former Tennessee senator (1949-63) Carey Estes Kefauver ran grandstanding 1950s witch hunts against "pornography" because it could corrupt the purity of essence of juveniles (his premise was based upon the erotic asphyxiation death of a Florida Boy Scout who was tied up in a manner similar to a pose found in a random Bettie Page bondage photo — a picture the kid had never seen) born on 7-26-1903 in Madisonville, Tennessee expired 8-10-1963 in Bethesda, Maryland age 60 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bath, Michigan farmer & school board treasurer Andrew Philip Kehoe murdered wife, blew up occupied school building, then himself (taking several others with him); final death toll: 45; "Criminals are made, not born"born on 2-1-1872 in near Tecumseh, Michigan expired 5-18-1927 in Bath, Michigan age 55 cause: suicide; dynamite explosion | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
murder victim Ellen Agnes Price Kehoe wife of school bombing "fiend"
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| Ethyl gasoline inventor Robert A. Kehoe improved engine performance by adding tetra-ethyl lead to mix born on 11-18-1893 expired 11-24-1992 age 99 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| golfer Herman W. Keiser won 1946 Masters Golf Tournament born on 10-7-1914 in Springfield, Missouri expired 12-24-2003 in Copley, Ohio age 89 cause: complications from Alzheimer's disease | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| first Mali president (1960-68) Modibo Keita deposed in coup born on 6-4-1915 in Bamaka, French Sudan expired 5-1-1977 in Bamako, Mali age 61 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| German General & Hitler advisor Wilhelm Keitel war criminal born on 9-22-1882 in Helmscherode, Germany expired 10-16-1946 in Nuremburg, Germany age 64 cause: hanged | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
character actor Robert Brian Keith Sr. father of Brian Keith (by second wife); his by-
expired 12-22-1966 in Los Angeles, California age 70 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
actor Robert Brian Keith Jr. of Family Affair, Hardcastle & McCormick and The Brian Keith Show
expired 6-23-1997 in Malibu, California age 75 cause: suicide; gunshot; suffering from terminal cancer | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Finnish president Urho Kaleva Kekkonen born on 8-3-1900 in Pielavesi, Finland expired 8-31-1986 age 86
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| long-time Detroit Tigers baseball broadcaster (1959-95) George Clyde Kell played for them in the late 1940s thru 50s; inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame born on 8-23-1922 in Swifton, Arkansas expired 3-24-2009 in Swifton, Arkansas age 86
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| kindly character actor Cecil Kellaway born on 8-22-1893 in Cape Town, South Africa expired 2-28-1973 in Hollywood, California age 79 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
deaf and blind lecturer Helen Adams Keller play & movie The Miracle Worked based upon her early experiences with Anne Sullivanborn on 6-27-1880 in Tuscumbia, Alabama expired 6-1-1968 in Westport, Connecticut age 87 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Joseph Adreon "Jack" Keller last head of Mergenthaler Linotype Co. (1958-63); it then became Eltra Corp. which he headed until 1980 born on 10-3-1918 in Baltimore, Maryland expired 12-10-2002 in Vero Beach, Florida age 84 cause: complications from stroke | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| kid with head cold Mary Ann Kellerman mom gave her a Tylenol for the cold; she became one of the victims of the 1982 Chicago-area poisoned Tylenol murder spree expired 9-29-1982 in Elk Grove Village, Illinois age 12 cause: murdered; cyanide-laced Tylenol | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| former Secret Service agent Roy Kellerman was riding in the front passenger seat of the limousine in which JFK was assassinated born on 3-14-1915 expired 3-??-1984 in Saint Petersburg, Florida age 68 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| food industry executive Estel Wood "Ed" Kelley worked for Standard Brands, General Foods, Heublein, Gulf & Western and Fairmont Foods; involved in the introduction of Tang, Grey Poupon, Cool Whip, Klondike Bars, A1 Steak Sauce & Smirnoff Vodka; at time of death headed the Steak n Shake chain born on 3-24-19171917 in Sharpsville, Indiana expired 7-4-2003 in Indianapolis, Indiana age 86 cause: prostate cancer | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Star Trek actor Jackson DeForest Kelley played Dr. Leonard McCoy on original Star Trek tv series born on 1-20-1920 in Atlanta, Georgia expired 6-11-1999 in Woodland Hills, California age 79 cause: stomach cancer & emphysema AKS: Kelly | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
two-time Olympic marathon runner John Adelbert "Johnny" Kelley won the 1935 & 1945 Boston marathon
expired 10-6-2004 in Cape Cod, Massachusetts age 97
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Yale end (1934-36) Lawrence M. "Larry" Kelley winner of the Heisman Trophy (1936)born on 5-30-1915 in Conneaut, Ohio expired 6-27-2000 in Hightstown, New Jersey age 85 cause: suicide; self-inflicted gunshot wound | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| used car dealer Sidney H. Kelley joined Kelley Kar Company (1918); began publishing the Kelley Blue Book car price guide in 1926 born on 12-16-1908 expired 12-5-2001 in Norco, California age 92 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| photographer Thomas "Tom" Kelley Sr. took famous "red velvet" photos of Marilyn Monroe (one of them became Playboy's first centerfold) born on 12-12-1914 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania expired 1-8-1984 in Los Angeles, California age 69 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| presidential mother Virginia Kelley expired 1-6-1994 age 70 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Coolidge Secretary of State (1925-29) Frank Billings Kellogg had been a U.S. Senator (1917-23); co-originator of the Briand-Kellogg Pact; 1929 Nobel peace prize winner born on 12-22-1856 in Potsdam, New York expired 12-21-1937 in Saint Paul, Minnesota age 80 cause: pneumonia; stroke | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Dr. John Harvey Kellogg Battle Creek Sanitarium head and food business founder; invented corn flakes, the electric blanket and many other strange things; satirized in movie The Road to Wellville born on 2-26-1852 in Tyrone, New York expired 12-14-1943 in Battle Creek, Michigan age 91 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| writer Marjorie Kellopp author of Tell Me That you Love Me, Junie Moon (1968) born on 7-17-1922 in Santa Barbara, California expired 12-19-2005 in Santa Barbara, California age 83 cause: complications from Alzheimer's disease | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| auto designer Thomas William Kellogg member of Raymond Loewy's team that designed the Avanti automobile for Studebaker (1961) born on 3-31-1932 in Monrovia, California expired 8-14-2003 in Newport Beach, California age 71 cause: complications from broken ribs; congestive heart failure; lung disorders | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| cereal firm co-founder Will Keith Kellogg brother of Dr. John Harvey Kellogg; created the W.K. Kellogg Foundation born on 4-7-1860 in Battle Creek, Michigan expired 10-6-1951 in Battle Creek, Michigan age 91 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| lawyer Joseph Wilson Kellum part of Bryant & Milam's defense "dream team" at their trial for the murder of Emmett Till born on 9-7-1911 expired 7-18-1996 in Tutwiler, Mississippi age 84 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| stunt man Alvin Anthony "Shipwreck" Kelly known for flagpole sitting in the 1920s born on 5-13-1883 expired 10-11-1952 in New York, New York age 68 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| actor Brian Kelly son of a former Michigan Governor & Supreme Court Justice (Harry F. Kelly); played ranger Porter Ricks on the Flipper tv series (1964-68); was left partial paralyzed by motorcycle explosion (1969); was an executive producer of Blade Runner (1982) born on 2-14-1931 in Detroit, Michigan expired 2-12-2005 in Voorhees, New Jersey age 73 cause: pneumonia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| character actor Briget Veronica "Patsy" Kelly won Tony for 1971 revival of No No Nanette born on 1-12-1910 in New York, New York expired 9-24-1981 in Woodland Hills, California age 71 cause: cancer | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| landscape architect Bruce R. Kelly designed New York Central Park's Strawberry Fields memorial born on 12-8-1948 expired 1-21-1993 age 44 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nixon and Ford FBI director (1973-78) Clarence Marion Kelly born on 10-24-1911 in Kansas City, Missouri expired 8-5-1997 in Kansas City, Missouri age 85 cause: emphysema | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| former Chicago mayor (1933-47) Edward Joseph Kelly built up the Cook County political machine expired 10-20-1950 in Chicago, Illinois age 74 cause: heart attack | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| circus clown Emmett Kelly created the "Weary Willie" character born on 12-9-1898 in Sedan, Kansas expired 3-28-1979 in Sarasota, Florida age 80 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| actor/dancer/director Eugene Curran "Gene" Kelly liked dancin' & Singin' In The Rain born on 8-23-1912 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania expired 2-2-1996 in Beverly Hills, California age 83
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| Green Beret Colonel Francis John Kelly led Vietnam Special Forces (1966-67); model for John Wayne's character in the movie The Green Berets born on 2-18-1919 expired 12-26-1997 in Aurora, Colorado age 78 cause: complications from Alzheimer's disease | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| noted hoofer Frederic N. Kelly brother of Gene born on 6-29-1916 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania expired 3-15-2000 in Tucson, Arizona age 83 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
mobster George "Machine Gun" Kelly supplied guns for St. Valentine's Day massacre; died doing life in Leavenworth for a 1933 kidnapping
expired 7-18-1954 in Leavenworth, Kansas age 59 cause: heart attack | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| former Michigan governor (1943-47) Harry F. Kelly also on the Michigan Supreme Court (1953-71) born on 4-19-1895 expired 2-8-1971 in West Palm Beach, Florida age 75 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| sick kid Hunter Kelly son of Jim Kelly born on 2-14-1997 expired 8-5-2005 in Buffalo, New York age 8 cause: Krabbe's disease (leukodystrophy)
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| Maverick actor Jack Kelly born on 9-16-1927 in Astoria, New York expired 11-7-1992 age 65 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Philadelphia contractor John Brendan Kelly Sr. 1920 & 1924 Olympic sculling champion; father of Princess Grace (Kelly) Grimaldi born on 10-4-1890 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania expired 6-20-1960 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania age 69 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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amateur rower & sports official John Brendan Kelly Jr. brother of Grace Kelly; won 1947 Sullivan Award; died shortly after being named head of U.S. Olympic Committee born on 5-24-1922 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania expired 3-2-1985 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania age 62 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| World War I Marine sergeant John Joseph Kelly two-time Medal of Honor recipient expired 11-18-1957 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida age 57 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| quizmaster Joseph William "Joe" Kelly hosted the Quiz Kids radio and tv broadcasts expired 5-26-1959 in Chicago, Illinois age 57 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Margaret Kelly founder of the Bluebell Girls topless chorus line troupe (1932) — one of the last companies to do the traditional cancan, featured at the Lido on the Champs- born on 6-24-1910 in Dublin, Ireland expired 9-11-2004 in Paris, France age 94 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
19th century London prostitute Mary Jane Kelly fifth victim of Jack the Ripper
expired 11-9-1888 in London, England age 25 cause: murdered; throat slit; body horribly mutilated | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Aboriginal "kidnap" victim (1931) Molly Kelly her escape & return home was inspiration for the movie Rabbit-
expired 1-13-2004 in Jigalong, West Australia, Australia age 86 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| broadway & film actress Nancy Kelly born on 3-25-1921 in Lowell, Massachusetts expired 1-15-1995 age 73 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| German Green Party founder Petra Karin Kelly born on 11-29-1947 in Gunzberg, Bavaria, Germany expired 9-28-1992 in Bonn, Germany age 44 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Babe Ruth kiddie "mascot" (1921-31) Raymond A. Kelly Sr. sat with Ruth in dugout born on 5-12-1918 expired 11-11-2001 in Valley Cottage, New York age 83 cause: heart attack | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| disgraced former Florida congressman (1975-80) Richard Kelly got his butt ensnared in the Abscam bribery sting born on 7-31-1924 in Atlanta, Georgia expired 8-21-2005 in Stevensville, Montana age 81 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| former Grumman Aircraft Corp. engineer Thomas J. Kelly "father of the lunar module" (Lunary Excursion Module) born on 6-14-1929 in New York, New York expired 3-23-2002 in Cutchogue, New York age 72 cause: respiratory failure; pulmonary fibrosis | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
cartoonist Walter Crawford Kelly Jr. created the Pogo comic strip (1948); noted for the observation (by way of Pogo) "We have met the enemy and he is us."; recipient of the 1951 Reuben Awardborn on 8-25-1913 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania expired 10-18-1973 in Woodland Hills, California age 60 cause: complications from diabetes | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| temp agency founder (1946) William R. Kelly born on 11-21-1905 expired 1-3-1998 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida age 92 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
All-American Girls Professional Baseball League player Dorothy Mary Kemensher played 1st base for the Rockford Peaches (1943-51 & 1953)
expired 5-17-2010 in Palm Desert, California age 84 cause: complications from stroke | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| former Dartmouth president Dr. John George Kemeny BASIC computer language co-developer born on 5-31-1926 in Budapest, Hungary expired 12-26-1992 age 66 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
actor Edward Kemmer played Commander Buzz Corry on Space Patrol (1950-55); appeared on the Edge of Night soap opera
expired 11-9-2004 in New York, New York age 83 cause: complications from stroke AKS: Ed | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| jock/politician Jack French Kemp Jr. played as a quarterback in the NFL (1957-69); was G.H.W. Bush's Housing & Urban Development secretary (1989-93); was Bob Dole's V-P running mate (1996) born on 7-13-1935 in Los Angeles, California expired 5-2-2009 in Bethesda, Maryland age 73 cause: cancer | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| orchestra conductor Rudolf Kempe born on 7-14-1910 in Niederpoyritz, Germany expired 5-11-1976 in Zürich, Switzerland age 65 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| insurance executive James Scott Kemper Sr. founded Lumbermen's Mutual Casualty Company (1912); company name later changed to Kemper born on 11-18-1886 in Van Wert, Ohio expired 11-17-1981 in Chicago, Illinois age 94 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| insurance executive James Scott Kemper Jr. son of company founder born on 4-8-1914 in Chicago, Illinois expired 7-2-2002 in Golf, Illinois age 88 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| pianist Wilhelm Walter Friedrich Kempff born on 11-25-1895 in Juterbog, Germany expired 5-23-1991 in Positano, Italy age 95 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
actress Rachel Kempson mother of Vanessa and Lynn
expired 5-23-2003 in Millbrook, New York age 92 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Edward Calvin Kendall recipient of the Lasker Award & shared the 1950 Nobel prize in medicine for discoveries relating to hormones of the adrenal cortex born on 3-8-1886 in South Norwalk, Connecticut expired 5-4-1972 in Princeton, New Jersey age 86 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| RMS Empress of Ireland captain Henry George Kendall one of the 357 survivors of the sinking born on --1874 expired 11-29-1965 in London, England age 91 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Kendall Oil Co. founder Henry P. Kendall expired 11-3-1959 in Sharon, Massachusetts age 83 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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physicist Henry Way Kendall shared the 1990 Nobel physics prize (with Richard E. Taylor and Jerome I. Friedman) for confirmation of the existence of the quark, the whimsically-named particle theorized in the early 1960s by Drs. Murray Gel-Mann and George Zweig (the word "quark" was borrowed from a phrase in James Joyce's Finnegan's Wake
— "three quarks for Muster Mark") born on 12-9-1926 in Boston, Massachusetts expired 2-15-1999 in Wakulla Springs State Park, Florida age 72 cause: drowned; heart attack while scuba diving | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| songwriter James Kendis co-wrote I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles born on --1883 in Saint Paul, Minnesota expired 11-15-1946 in New York, New York age 63 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sir John Cowdery Kendrew shared the 1962 Nobel Prize in chemistry born on 3-24-1917 in Oxford, Oxfordshire, England expired 8-23-1997 in Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England age 80 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ex-CBS correspondent Alexander Kendrick born on 7-6-1910 expired 5-17-1991 age 80 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Philadelphia mayor (1924-28) W. Freeland Kendrick in 1920, as Shrine "imperial potentate," originated the Shriner's Hospitals for Crippled Children expired 3-20-1953 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania age 78 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| former Temptations singer Eddie Kendricks born on 12-17-1940 in Union Springs, Alabama expired 10-5-1992 age 51 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| movie screenwriter & director Burt Kennedy directed Support Your Local Sheriff (1969) & Support Your Local Gunfighter (1971) born on 9-3-1922 in Muskegon, Michigan expired 2-15-2001 in Sherman Oaks, California age 78 cause: cancer | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| JFK Jr.'s wife Carolyn Bessette Kennedy sister of twins Lauren & Lisa Ann born on 1-7-1966 in Greenwich, Connecticut expired 7-16-1999 in Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts age 33 cause: plane crash at sea | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nixon Treasury secretary (1969-71) David Matthew Kennedy born on 7-21-1905 in Randolph, Utah expired 5-1-1996 in Salt Lake City, Utah age 90
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| movie comedian Edgar Kennedy an original member of the Keystone Kops; played the lemonade vendor in Duck Soup born on 4-26-1890 in Montery, California expired 11-9-1948 in San Fernando, California age 58 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Massachusetts Senator (1963-2009) Edward Moore "Teddy" Kennedy Sr. left Mary Jo Kopechne to drown off Chappaquiddick island after driving off a bridge born on 2-22-1932 in Brookline, Massachusetts expired 8-25-2009 in Hyannis Port, Massachusetts age 77 cause: brain cancer
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| actor John Arthur Kennedy born on 2-17-1914 in Worcester, Massachusetts expired 1-5-1990 age 75 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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PT-109 commander John Fitzgerald Kennedy Sr. philandering former Massachusetts Rep. and Senator; 35th President from 1961 to his death in Dallas; established goal of landing men on the moon before the end of the 1960s; started the military buildup in Vietnam; assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald born on 5-29-1917 in Brookline, Massachusetts expired 11-22-1963 in Dallas, Texas age 46 cause: gunshot to head | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
famous offspring John Fitzgerald Kennedy Jr. wife & sister-in-law also killed in crash
expired 7-16-1999 in Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts age 38 cause: plane crash at sea | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| politician, bootlegger, inside trader, diplomat Joseph Patrick Kennedy Sr. family patriarch; husband of Rose; father of Joe Jr., John F., Robert F., Edward Kennedy and Rosemary born on 9-6-1888 in Boston, Massachusetts expired 11-18-1969 in Hyannis Port, Massachusetts age 81 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| WWII pilot Joseph Patrick Kennedy Jr. born on 4-19-1915 in Chicago, Illinois expired 8-12-1944 in Suffolk, England age 29 cause: plane crash | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| physicist Joseph W. Kennedy co-discovered of Plutonium born on 5-30-1916 expired 5-5-1957 in Saint Louis, Missouri age 40 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| inept skiier Michael L. Kennedy son of RFK; accused of boinking the babysitter born on 2-27-1957 expired 12-31-1997 age 40 cause: skiied into a tree | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| evangelist Minnie "Ma" Kennedy mother of Aimee Semple McPherson expired 11-23-1947 in Hermosa Beach, California age 78 cause: heart attack | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| JFK's infant son Patrick Bouvier Kennedy born on 8-7-1963 in Falmouth, Massachusetts expired 8-9-1963 in Boston, Massachusetts age 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| politician Robert Francis Kennedy New York senator; former U.S. Attorney General; 1968 presidential candidate; assassinated by Sirhan Sirhan born on 11-20-1925 in Brookline, Massachusetts expired 6-6-1968 in Los Angeles, California age 42 cause: gunshots to head | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| family matriarch Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy daughter of John F. Fitzgerald; wife of Joe; mother of Joe Jr., John F., Robert F., Edward Kennedy and Rosemary born on 7-22-1890 in Boston, Massachusetts expired 1-22-1995 age 104
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younger sibling of JFK Rose Marie Kennedy victim of a botched lobotomy (1941); inspired the family to found the Special Olympics
expired 1-7-2005 in Fort Atkinson, Wisconsin age 86 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| obscure actor/tv movie host Willard Andrew "Bill" Kennedy set fire to Ingrid Bergman in Joan of Arc; announcer on tv Superman series -- "Faster than a speeding bullet, more powerful than a locomotive, able to leap tall buildings in a single bound..." (replacing the radio announcer Jackson Beck) born on 6-27-1908 in Cleveland Heights, Ohio expired 1-27-1997 in Palm Beach, Florida age 88
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Shirelles singer Doris Kenner-Jackson first hit: I Met Him on a Sunday (aka Da Do Ron Ron); sang lead on Dedicated to the One I Love
expired 2-4-2000 in Sacramento, California age 58 cause: breast cancer | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| National Lampoon co-founder Douglas C. Kenney played Stork in Animal House (which he also co-wrote) born on 12-10-1947 in Chagrin Falls, Ohio expired 8-27-1980 in Kauai, Hawaii age 32 cause: suicide; fall from 30 foot cliff; depression | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| movie "mogul" Daniel Q. Kennis was the executive producer of movies like I Spit On Your Corpse (1974), Naughty Stewardesses (1975) & Alienator (1989) born on 6-7-1919 expired 5-17-2006 in Palo Alto, California age 86 cause: cancer | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Ink Spots vocalist Herbert C. Kenny born on 6-12-1914 expired 7-11-1992 age 78 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1930s and 40s Ink Spots singer William "Bill" Kenny replaced the deceased Slim Greene expired 3-23-1978 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada age 55 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| inventor and radio manufacturer Arthur Atwater Kent made the Atwater Kent brand of radios born on 12-3-1873 in Burlington, Vermont expired 3-4-1949 in Bel Air, California age 75 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| artist Rockwell Kent received 1967 Lenin Peace prize (an oxymoron if ever we've seen) born on 6-21-1882 in Tarrytown Heights, New York expired 3-13-1971 in Plattsburgh, New York age 88 cause: complications from stroke | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| big band leader Stanley Newcomb Kenton known for his "wheezing" orchestral sound born on 2-19-1912 in Wichita, Kansas expired 8-25-1979 in Hollywood, California age 67 cause: complications from stroke | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Kenyan politician Jomo Kenyatta first president of Kenya (1964-78)
expired 8-22-1978 in Mombasa, Kenya age 86 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| New York congressman (1937-67) Eugene James Keogh came up with a popular retirement savings plan born on 8-30-1907 in New York, New York expired 5-26-1989 age 81 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| lawyer Alexander Fyordorovich Kerensky a leader in the Russian Revolution in 1917, becoming the head of the provisional government July through November in that year; overthrown by the Bolsheviks, precipitating civil war born on 4-22-1881 in Simbirsk, Russia (now Ulyanovsk, Russia) expired 6-11-1970 in New York, New York age 89 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| movie and stage musical song writer Jerome Kern wrote Old Man River as part of the musical Show Boat born on 1-27-1885 in New York, New York expired 11-11-1945 in New York, New York age 60 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| corrupt former Illinois governor (1961-68) Otto Kerner Jr. headed presidential commission examining the 1967 riots born on 8-15-1908 in Chicago, Illinois expired 5-9-1976 in Chicago, Illinois age 67 cause: cancer | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| "beat generation" author Jean-Louis "Jack" Kerouac born on 3-12-1922 in Lowell, Massachusetts expired 10-21-1969 in Saint Petersburg, Florida age 47 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| labor economist Clark Kerr former president of the University of California system (1958-67) born on 5-17-1911 in Stony Creek, Pennsylvania expired 12-1-2003 in El Cerrito, California age 92 cause: complications from fall | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
actress Deborah Kerr appeared in From Here to Eternity (1953) & The King and I (1956)
expired 10-16-2007 in Suffolk, England age 86 cause: Parkinson's disease
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author Jean Kerr widow of Walter; wrote Please Don't Eat the Daisies (1957)
expired 1-5-2003 in White Plains, New York age 80 cause: pneumonia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| steroid guru Dr. Robert B. Kerr born on 3-16-1935 in Cincinnati, Ohio expired 1-3-2001 in San Gabriel, California age 65 cause: heart attack; diabetes | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| New York Times drama critic Walter Francis Kerr born on 7-8-1913 in Evanston, Illinois expired 10-9-1996 in Dobbs Ferry, New York age 83 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| former Pennsylvania Railroad frieght traffic division chief clerk William T. Kerr founder/president of American Flag Day Association (1898-1950); campaigned to make Flag Day a national holiday expired 6-30-1953 in Yeadon, Pennsylvania age 84 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Broadway actor Frederick Lawrence "Larry" Kert born on 12-5-1930 in Los Angeles, California expired 6-5-1991 age 60 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| conductor Istvan Kertesz born on 8-28-1929 in Budapest, Hungary expired 4-17-1973 in Herzlin, Israel age 43 cause: drowned | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| author Ken Elton Kesey wrote One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1962) born on 9-17-1935 in La Junta, Colorado expired 11-10-2001 in Eugene, Oregon age 66 cause: heart failure; complications following liver cancer surgery; diabetes | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| jazz guitarist/songwriter Barney Kessel born on 10-17-1923 in Muskogee, Oklahoma expired 5-6-2004 in San Diego, California age 80 cause: brain cancer
AKS: Kessell | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| playwright Joseph Otto Kesselring wrote Arsenic and Old Lace born on 6-21-1902 expired 11-5-1967 in Kingston, New York age 65 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Dennis the Menace creator (1952) Henry King "Hank" Ketcham recipient of the 1952 Reuben Award born on 3-14-1920 in Seattle, Washington expired 6-1-2001 in Pebble Beach, California age 81 cause: heart disease; cancer | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| actor Lawrence "Larry" Ketchum born on 12-3-1945 expired 5-30-1995 age 49 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
schmaltzy British composer Albert Ketelby wrote In a Monastery Garden
expired 11-26-1959 in Isle of Wight, England age 84 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| GM research director, engineer and inventor Charles Franklin Kettering co-founded the Sloan-Kettering Cancer Research Institute born on 8-29-1876 in Loudonville, Ohio expired 11-25-1958 in Dayton, Ohio age 82 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
former professional baseball player Dorothy B. "Dottie" Key was the North American Women's speed skating champion (1939); member of the All-
expired 5-8-2003 in Rockford, Illinois age 80 cause: cancer | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
born on 8-1-1779 in Carroll County, Maryland expired 1-11-1843 in Baltimore, Maryland age 63 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
cartoonist Ted Key created the Hazel comic strip & the Mr. Peabody and Sherman characters for the Rocky & Bullwinkle Show
expired 5-3-2008 in Tredyffrin Township. Pennsylvania age 95 cause: bladder cancer; stroke
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| actress Evelyn Louise Keyes played Scarlett's younger sister Suellen O'Hara in Gone With the Wind (1939); was married to Berton Bainbridge (1938-40), Charles Vidor (1943-45), John Huston (1946-50) & Artie Shaw (1957-85) born on 11-20-1916 in Port Arthur, Texas expired 7-4-2008 in Montecito, California age 91 cause: uterine cancer
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NICAP head Marine Major Donald Edward Keyhoe wrote Flying Saucers are Real (1950) and Flying Saucers From Outer Space (1953), which "suggested" the movie Earth vs. the Flying Saucers (1956)born on 6-20-1897 in Ottumwa, Iowa expired 11-29-1988 in New Market, Virginia age 91 cause: cardiac arrest; pneumonia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| tax and (over)spend economist Lord John Maynard Keynes proponent of governmental deficit spending schemes; colleague and opponent of Friedrich von Hayek born on 6-5-1883 in Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England expired 4-21-1946 in Sussex, England age 62 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| former University of Minnesota public health scientist Dr. Ancel Benjamin Keys a nephew of Lon Chaney Sr.; as a child his parents moved to San Francisco just in time for the great 1906 earthquake; considered a "gifted child" he was included in the Stanford University study conducted by Lewis Terman; during World War II created a combat ration — the K-Ration (named for him); as a researcher discoverd the relationship between saturated fats and heart disease born on 1-26-1904 in Colorado Springs, Colorado expired 11-20-2004 in Minneapolis, Minnesota age 100 cause: complications from strokes | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Russian composer Aram Ilych Khachaturian wrote Sabre Dance part of the Gayne ballet (1942) born on 6-6-1903 in Tiflis, Georgia (now Tbilisi), Russia expired 5-1-1978 in Moscow, Russia, USSR age 74 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Vietnamese Emperor Khai Dinh ruled (1916-25); father of Bao Dai (by Tu Cung)
expired 11-6-1925 in Hue, Vietnam age 40 cause: tuberculosis | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Saudi Arabian King Khaled reigned 1975-82 born on --1913 in Riyadh, Arabia expired 6-13-1982 in Taif, Saudi Arabia age 69 cause: heart attack
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| former Sudanese Prime Minister (7/1956-11/1958) Abdullah Khalil ousted in coup d'état led by Gen. Ibraham Abboud born on --1892 expired 8-23-1970 in Khartoum, Sudan age 78 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| sadistic hanging-judge Ayatollah Sadeq Givi Khalkhali as Khomeini's hand-picked "Chief Justice"/ born on 7-27-1926 in Givi, Azerbaijan expired 11-26-2003 in Tehran, Iran age 77 cause: acute hypotrophic epididymal infarction AKS: Sadegh Sadek | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Botswanan president (1966-80) Seretse Khama born on 7-1-1921 in Serowe, Bechuanaland (British Protectorate) expired 7-13-1980 age 59 cause: pancreatic cancer | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| actress Persis Khambatta former Miss India; Lt. Ilya in Star Trek: the Motion Picture born on 10-2-1950 in Bombay, India expired 8-18-1998 in Bombay, India age 47 cause: heart attack | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Feroze Khan oldest living Olympic gold medalist — at the 1928 Amsterdam games won gold in field hockey; father of Pakistani Air Force Chief Farooq Feroze Khan born on 9-9-1904 in Basti Danishmandan, Jullundar, Punjab State, India expired 4-20-2005 in Karachi, Pakistan age 100
AKS: Feroz | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| former Pakistani military ruler (1967-71) Mohammad Yahya Khan succeeded Mohammad Ayub Khan; succeeded by Zulfikar Ali Bhutto born on 2-4-1917 in Chakwal, India (now Pakistan) expired 8-8-1980 in Rawalpindi, Pakistan age 63 cause: complications from stroke & heart attack | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| sitar master Ustad Vilayat Hussain Khan born on --1928 in Gouripur, India (now in Bangladesh) expired 3-13-2004 in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India age 76 cause: lung cancer | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| physicist Yuli Borisovich Khariton "father" of the Soviet A-bomb (1949), using stolen designs supplied by Klaus Fuchs born on 2-27-1904 in Saint Petersburg, Russia expired 12-19-1996 in Arzamas-16, Sarov, Russia age 92 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chechen mercenary commander Omar Ibn-ul Khattab
expired 3-19-2004 age 34 cause: poisoned letter | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Palestininan operative Col. Tayser Khattab expired 9-1-2001 age 52 cause: exploding automobile | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
ukulele playing, falsetto-voiced singer Herbert Butros Khaury got married on the Tonight Show (12/17/1969); no longer tiptoeing Through the Tulips (his big 1968 hit)
expired 11-30-1996 in Minneapolis, Minnesota age 74 cause: cardiac arrest
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| mentally ill first wife of Pol Pot Khieu Ponnary dumped for a younger trophy mass murderess when she became too unstable for her genocidal husband expired 7-1-2003 in Pailin, Cambodia age 83 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Ayatollah Ruhollah Musavi Khomeini
expired 6-4-1989 in Tehran, Iran age 89
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| first Independent Lebanon president Sheik Bechara el Khoury expired 1-11-1964 in Beirut, Lebanon age 73 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| mediocre composer but superior ass-kiss Tikhor Nikolayevich Khrennikov the "official" Soviet state "antagonist" of the likes of Shostakovich & Prokofiev born on 6-10-1913 in Yelets, Litetsk Province, Russia expired 8-14-2007 in Moscow, Russia age 94 cause: acute hypotrophic epididymal infarction AKS: Khrennikof Khrenikov Khrenikof Krenikov Krenikof Nicolaevich | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Soyuz 5 cosmonaut Yevgeni Vassilyevich Khrunov born on 9-10-1933 in Prudy, Russia, USSR expired 5-23-2000 in Moscow, Russia age 66 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Communist Party first secretary and Soviet premier (1953-64) Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev he "resigned" his position in 1964 & went into "retirement"; famous quote: "we will bury you"; liked to bang his shoe on the podium at the U.N. born on 4-17-1894 in Kalinovka, Ukraine expired 9-11-1971 in Moscow, Russia, USSR age 77 cause: heart attack
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| Remington Shaver fan Victor Kermit Kiam II he liked them so much he bought the company! born on 12-7-1926 in New Orleans, Louisiana expired 5-27-2001 in Stamford, Connecticut age 74 cause: heart condition | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| actor Guy Bridges Kibbee played Captain January opposite Shirley Temple born on 3-6-1882 in El Paso, Texas expired 5-24-1956 in East Islip, New York age 74 cause: Parkinson's disease | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| choreographer Michael Kidd winner of 5 Tony Awards for choreography: Finian's Rainbow Guys and Dolls, Destry Rides Again, L'il Abner & Can Can born on 8-12-1915 in Brooklyn, New York, New York expired 12-23-2007 in Los Angeles, California age 92 cause: cancer | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| former Catholic priest (1954-74) William Xavier Kienzle author of The Rosary Murders (1979) & Death Wears a Red Hat born on 9-11-1928 in Detroit, Michigan expired 12-28-2001 in West Bloomfield, Michigan age 73 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| retired Engelhard Industries chemist Carl Donald Kieth co-inventor of the 3-way catalytic converter used in most of the world's automobiles born on 5-29-1920 in Stewart Creek, West Virginia expired 11-9-2008 in New Bern, North Carolina age 88 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| NBC newsman Douglas Kiker born on 1-7-1930 in Griffin, Georgia expired 8-14-1991 age 61 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Malaysian anti-colonial fighter (against the British in late 19th century) Mat Kilau expired 8-16-1970 in Palau Tawar, Malaysia age 122 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| actor Percy Kilbride Pa Kettle in The Egg and I (1947) and numerous Ma and Pa Kettle films born on 7-16-1888 in San Francisco, California expired 12-11-1964 in Los Angeles, California age 76 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Jack St. Clair Kilby invented the Germanium Integrated Circuit (microchip) while working for Texas Instruments (1958); he shared the 2000 Nobel physics prize for it born on 11-8-1923 in Jefferson City, Missouri expired 6-20-2005 in Dallas, Texas age 81 cause: non-Hodgkins lymphoma | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| personal computing pioneer Gary Kildall created Control Program/Monitor (CP/M) PC operating system (1973); founder of (Intergalactic) Digital Research (1974; DR- born on 5-19-1942 in Seattle, Washington expired 7-11-1994 in Monterey, California age 52 cause: head injuries suffered in biker brawl | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Broadway and film actor Richard Kiley original Don Quixote in Man of La Mancha; no expense was spared to make him the narrator of Jurassic Park's movie- born on 3-31-1922 in Chicago, Illinois expired 3-5-1999 in Middletown, New York age 76 cause: blood disorder | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| tv personality Dorothy Mae Kilgallen wife of Dick Kollmer born on 7-3-1913 in Chicago, Illinois expired 11-8-1965 in New York, New York age 52 cause: fatal mix of booze & pills | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| James Kilgallen born on 7-11-1888 expired 12-2-1982 age 94 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| songwriter/singer/character actor Wyatt Merle Kilgore performed on tour with Elvis in the mid-1950s; wrote Johnny Reb (1959) & Wolverton Mountain (1962); co-wrote Ring of File (1963); at time fo death was undergoing "experimental" treatments for his cancer born on 8-9-1934 in Chickasaw, Oklahoma expired 2-6-2005 in Mexico age 70 cause: congestive heart failure; lung cancer | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Frederick Gridley Kilgour founded the Ohio College Library Center (OCLC) in 1967 (name changed to Online Computer Library Center in 1981) born on 1-6-1914 in Springfield, Massachusetts expired 7-31-2006 in Chapel Hill, North Carolina age 92 cause: cerebral hemorrhage | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Chicago television pioneer Fred Kilian creator of Super Circus & The Mary Hartline Show born on 1-4-1911 expired 4-25-1994 age 83 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| syndicated Chicago Tribune columnist Michael Kilian son of Chicago tv personality Fred Kilian; wrote the Dick Tracy comic strip (1993-2005; drawn by Dick Locher); wrote about a New York Dead Pools contest (1985) born on 7-16-1939 in Toledo, Ohio expired 10-26-2005 in Chicago, Illinois age 66 cause: liver failure | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| character actor Victor Kilian played the Fernwood Flasher on Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman tv series born on 3-6-1891 in Jersey City, New Jersey expired 3-11-1979 in Hollywood, California age 88 cause: beaten to death during robbery | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Ohio Art executive (1955-78) William Casley Killgallon acquired rights to the DoodleMaster Magic Screen; renamed it the Etch-A-Sketch born on 1-9-1913 in McKeesport, Pennsylvania expired 6-8-2000 in Charlottesville, Virginia age 87 cause: heart attack; stroke | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| labor lawyer Leo V. Killion co-wrote (with Ted McMichael & Jack Owens) the Hut Sut Song (1941), a spoof of Swedish folk songs, that was recorded by Dinah Shore & the Andrews Sisters born on 5-1-1908 in Towner, North Dakota expired 10-24-2000 in Mill Valley, California age 92 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| journalist & poet Alfred Joyce Kilmer wrote "Trees" (1913) born on 12-6-1886 in New Brunswick, New Jersey expired 7-30-1918 in Seringes, France age 31 cause: combat casualty; sniper fire | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| character actor Lincoln Kilpatrick played Father Paul, the priest, in Soylent Green (1973) born on 2-12-1932 in Saint Louis, Missouri expired 5-18-2004 in Los Angeles, California age 72 cause: complications from lung cancer | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
born on 3-6-1923 in Pforzheim, Germany expired 8-8-2009 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida age 86 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| familiar character actor Kim Chan played Mr. Kim in The Fifth Element born on 12-28-1917 in Canton Province, China (now Guangdong Province) expired 10-5-2008 in Brooklyn, New York, New York age 91 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
former South Korean president (1998-2003) Kim Dae-jung was the 2000 Nobel peace prize recipientborn on 12-3-1925 in Hacuido, Cholla Province, Korea expired 8-18-2009 in Seoul, South Korea age 83 cause: heart failure; pneumonia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| former S.Korean C.I.A. head Kim Jae-Kyu assassinated Park Chung Hee born on 3-6-1926 expired 5-24-1980 age 54 cause: executed
AKS: Jai | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| retired mail carrier Narvin Kimball the last founding member of the New Orleans Preservation Hall Jazz Band (1961) — he played banjo and did vocals born on 3-2-1909 in New Orleans, Louisiana expired 3-17-2006 in Charleston, South Carolina age 97 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Mormon elder Spencer Woolley Kimball born on 3-28-1895 in Salt Lake City, Utah expired 11-5-1985 age 90
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| Disney animator Ward Kimball created Jiminy Cricket born on 3-4-1914 in Minneapolis, Minnesota expired 7-8-2002 in Arcadia, California age 88
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| paper company president (1872-1928) John Alfred Kimberly co-founded Kimberly-Clark & Company with Charles Clark, Havilah Babcock & Franklyn C. Shattuck (1872); introduced Kleenex in 1920 born on 1--1838 in Troy, New York expired 1-22-1928 in Redlands, California age 90 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| scientific equipment maker Kimble Glass Co. founder Evan Ewan Kimble his company makes test tubes, beakers, flasks, etc. expired 3-15-1956 in Ventnor, New Jersey age 87 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| author Emily Kimbrough born on 10-23-1899 in Muncie, Indiana expired 2-11-1989 in New York, New York age 89 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| North Korean dictator (1948-94) Kim Il Sung started the Korean War born on 4-15-1912 in Mangyongdae, Korea expired 7-9-1994 in Pyongyang, North Korea age 82
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| Rear Admiral Husband Edward Kimmel commander of U.S. Pacific Fleet at time of Pearl Harbor attack born on 2-26-1882 in Henderson, Kentucky expired 5-14-1968 in Groton, Connecticut age 86 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hawaiian geezer Ito Kono Kinase
expired 1-24-2003 in Kaneohe, Hawaii age 113 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Korean War ace & test pilot Iven Carl Kincheloe Jr. on 9/7/1956 piloted the Bell X-2 to 126,200 feet, becoming the first "spaceman"; gave name to former Michigan Air Force base born on 7-2-1928 in Detroit, Michigan expired 7-26-1958 in Rosamond Dry Lake, California age 30 cause: plane crash | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Texas death row inmate Kevin Christopher Kincy
expired 3-29-2006 in Huntsville, Texas age 38 cause: executed; lethal injection
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| harpsichord performer/instructor Silvia Kind born on 8-15-1907 in Chur, Switzerland expired 5-30-2002 in Port Angeles, Washington age 94 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
standup comedian Alan King was Abbot of the New York Friar's Club, attending all of their "roasts"
expired 5-9-2004 in New York, New York age 76 cause: lung cancer | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Alberta Christine Williams King wife of Martin Luther Sr.; mother of Martin Luther Jr. born on 9-13-1903 expired 6-30-1974 in Atlanta, Georgia age 70 cause: shot to death | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| civil rights movement pioneer Alfred Daniel Williams King brother of Martin Luther King Jr. born on 7-3-1930 expired 7-21-1969 in Atlanta, Georgia age 39 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Florida death row inmate Amos L. King
expired 2-26-2003 in Starke, Florida age 48 cause: executed; lethal injection
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| MLK's widow Coretta Scott King born on 4-27-1927 in Marion, Alabama expired 1-30-2006 in Rosarito Beach, Mexico age 78 cause: ovarian cancer; heart attack; stroke
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blues guitarist Earl King
expired 4-17-2003 in New Orleans, Louisiana age 69 cause: complications from diabetes | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
song writer Frank Anthony "Pee Wee" King co-wrote The Tennessee Waltz (1948)
expired 3-7-2000 in Louisville, Kentucky age 86 cause: heart attack | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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cartoonist Frank Oscar King created the Gasoline Alley comic strip; was the 1958 Reuben Award winner as best cartoonist of the year born on 4-9-1883 in Cashton, Wisconsin expired 6-24-1969 in Winter Park, Florida age 86 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| movie director Henry King one of the 36 founders of AMPAS; directed Stella Dallas (1925), State Fair (1933), Seventh Heaven (1937), The Song of Bernadette (1943), Captain from Castile (1947), Twelve O'Clock High (1949), Love is a Many Splendored Thing (1955) & Carousel (1956) born on 1-24-1886 in Christiansburg, Virginia expired 6-29-1982 in Toluca Lake, California age 96 cause: heart attack | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| former Hewlett-Packard microwave technician Howard King discovered Santa Cruz Mountains Big Basin redwood stand (1958); designed/built many of the trails in the park born on 6-1-1906 in Otisco, New York expired 6-29-2003 in Boulder Creek, California age 97 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| actress Mabel King played Evillene, the Wicked Witch of the West in the stage (1975) & movie (1978) production of The Wiz; also played Mrs. Thomas (mama) on What's Happening tv series (1976-79) born on 12-25-1932 in Charleston, South Carolina expired 11-9-1999 in Woodland Hills, California age 66 cause: complications from diabetes | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Rev. Martin Luther King Sr. born on 12-19-1899 in Stockbridge, Georgia expired 11-11-1984 in Atlanta, Georgia age 84
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Nobel Peace Prize-winning civil rights advocate Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. assassinated by James Earl Ray born on 1-15-1929 in Atlanta, Georgia expired 4-4-1968 in Memphis, Tennessee age 39 cause: gunshot wounds | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| riverboat captain Richard King founded King Ranch (1853) born on 7-10-1824 in Orange County, New York expired 4-14-1885 in Corpus Christi, Texas age 60 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| tv syndication executive Roger M. King took over father's Charles' company (King World) in 1964, running it with brother Michael; syndicated Oprah, Dr. Phil, Wheel of Fortune & Jeopardy! as well as creator of Inside Edition; in 2007 merged company into CBS & became it's head of distribution born on 8-22-1944 in New Jersey expired 12-8-2007 in Boca Raton, Florida age 63 cause: stroke | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| biologist Dr. Thomas J. King devised microsurgical techniques of transplanting cell nuclei (1952) born on 6-4-1921 expired 10-25-2000 in Baltimore, Maryland age 79 cause: cancer | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| "Waltz King" Wayne King born on 2-16-1901 in Savanna, Illinois expired 5-16-1985 in Phoenix, Arizona age 84
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| Pierce vice president (1853) William Rufus de Vane King took oath of office in Cuba while searching for a cure for his tuberculosis born on 4-7-1786 in Sampson County, North Carolina expired 4-18-1853 in Cahaba, Alabama age 67 cause: tuberculosis | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| motivational speaker Yolanda Denise King daughter of Martin Luther King II & Coretta Scott King born on 11-17-1955 in Montgomery, Alabama expired 5-15-2007 in Santa Monica, California age 51 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
author Sidney Kingsley wrote Dead End (1935)
expired 3-20-1995 in Oakland, New Jersey age 88 cause: stroke | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| comedian Samuel Burl Kinison born on 12-8-1953 in Yakima, Washington expired 4-10-1992 in Needles, California age 38 cause: car crash | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
geezer Kin Narita at time of death one of world's oldest twins
expired 1-23-2000 in Nagoya, Japan age 107 cause: heart failure | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Scottish geezer Agnes Kinnear born on 11-5-1891 in Glasgow, Scotland expired 6-2-2001 in Monifieth, Angus, Scotland age 109 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| oscar-winning Disney animator John "Jack" Kinney born on 3-29-1909 expired 2-9-1992 age 82 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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University of Iowa halfback & quarterback (1937-39) Nile Clarke Kinnick Jr. winner of the Heisman Trophy (1939); in World War II was a U.S. Navy pilot born on 7-9-1918 in Omaha, Nebraska expired 6-2-1943 in Gulf of Paria (off Venezuela) age 24 cause: plane crash | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Japanese film director Keisuke Kinoshita born on 12-5-1912 in Hamamatsu, Shizuoka, Japan expired 12-30-1998 in Tokyo, Japan age 86 cause: stroke AKS: Keisuku | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| attorney Arthur Kinoy worked on the Chicago Seven trial & appeals with William Kuntsler & Leonard Weinglass born on 9-29-1920 in New York, New York expired 9-19-2003 in Montclair, New Jersey age 82 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| entomologist Dr. Alfred Charles Kinsey zoology professor at Indiana University; author of Sexual Behavior in the Human Male and Sexual Behavior in the Human Female born on 6-23-1894 in Hoboken, New Jersey expired 8-25-1956 in Bloomington, Indiana age 62 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| blues guitarist Lester "Big Daddy" Kinsey born on 3-18-1927 expired 4-3-2001 in Gary, Indiana age 74 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
actor Klaus Kinski father of model/actress Nastassja
expired 11-23-1991 in Lagunitas, California age 65 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Casablanca actor Leonid Kinsky played Sascha, the bartender born on 4-18-1903 in Saint Petersburg, Russia expired 9-8-1998 in Fountain Hills, California age 95 cause: complications from stroke | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| former tv network executive Robert E. Kintner born on 9-12-1909 in Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania expired 12-20-1980 in Washington, District of Columbia age 71 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| former University of Michigan football coach Harry Kipke lead team from 1929 to 1937; responsible for the Wolverine's distinctive helmet design born on 3-26-1899 expired 9-14-1972 in Port Huron, Michigan age 73 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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author Joseph Rudyard Kipling wrote The Jungle Book, Captains Courageous, The Man Who Would Be King, Rikki-Tikki-Tavi, Gunga Din and Wee Willie Winkie; recipient of the 1907 Nobel Prize in literature born on 12-30-1865 in Bombay, British India expired 1-18-1936 in Burwash, Sussex, England age 70 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Wagnerian basso profundo Alexander Kipnis born on 2-1-1891 in Schitomir, Ukraine expired 5-14-1978 in Westport, Connecticut age 87 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| harpsichord virtuoso Igor Kipnis son of Alexander Kipnis born on 9-27-1930 in Berlin, Germany expired 1-23-2002 in Fairfield County, Connecticut age 71 cause: cancer | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| "revolutionary" Hungarian general Béla Kalman Király was under death sentence by Stalin when the Hungarian prime minister tried to reform the government; he was released from prison and put in charge of the armed forces ... just before the Russian tanks rolled in; fled the country, became a U.S. citizen (1965), but returned and joined the government once the commies were gone born on 4-14-1912 in Kaposvár, Hungary expired 7-4-2009 in Budapest, Hungary age 97 AKS: Bela Kiraly | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
dobro/guitar/banjo player Beecher Pete Kirby performed with the Smokey Mountain Boys band (1936-1992)
expired 10-17-2002 in Nashville, Tennessee age 90 cause: cancer | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| actor Bruno Giovanni Quidaciolu Kirby Jr. born on 4-28-1949 in New York, New York expired 8-14-2006 in Los Angeles, California age 57 cause: complications from leukemia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
radio & tv announcer Durward Kirby side-kick of Gary Moore; namesake of the Curwood Derby
expired 3-15-2000 in Fort Myers, Florida age 87 cause: congestive heart failure | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| comedian & impressionist George Kirby born on 6-8-1923 in Chicago, Illinois expired 9-30-1995 in Las Vegas, Nevada age 72
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comic book artist Jack Kirby co-creator of the Silver Surfer & Captain America characters
expired 2-6-1994 in Thousand Oaks, California age 76 cause: heart failure | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| actress Johanna D. Kirby born on 1-26-1973 expired 12-29-1992 age 19 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ski resort owner Everett Kircher owned Boyne Mountain (Michigan), Big Sky (Montana), Crystal Mountain (Washington) & Cypress Mountain (British Columbia) ski resorts born on 7-15-1916 in Saint Louis, Missouri expired 1-16-2002 in Petoskey, Michigan age 85 cause: complications from kidney dialysis | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Super Circus ringmaster Claude Kirchner born on 2-11-1916 expired 3-8-1993 in Hawthorne, New York age 77 cause: lymphoma | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| former Austrian president (1974-86) Rudolf Kirchschläger born on 3-28-1915 in Niederkappel, Upper Austria, Austria-Hungary expired 3-30-2000 in Vienna, Austria age 85 cause: heart attack | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| vaudeville comic Joseph "Joe" Kirk played Mr. Bacciagalupe on the Abbott and Costello tv show born on 10-1-1903 expired 4-16-1975 in Hollywood, California age 71 cause: cancer | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
actress Phyllis Kirk was stalked by Vincent Price in House of Wax (1953) and engaged in snappy banter opposite Peter Lawford on the Thin Man tv series
expired 10-19-2006 in Woodland Hills, California age 77 cause: post cerebral aneurysm | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| conservative author Russell Amos Kirk born on 10-19-1918 in Plymouth, Michigan expired 4-29-1994 in Mecosta, Michigan age 75 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| special education pioneer Samuel A. Kirk born on 9-1-1904 expired 7-21-1996 in Tucson, Arizona age 91 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| civil rights pioneer Irene Morgan Kirkalde in July of 1944 she refused to surrender her seat on a Greyhound Bus to a white couple; the bus driver had her arrested — in addition to being charged with violating Virginia's segregation laws she was charged with resisting arrest (a kick to a cop's nads!); she plead guilty to the reisting charge & paid a $100 fine but rplead innocent to the segregation charge and refused to pay the $10 fine when convicted; the case worked it's way up to the U.S. Supreme Court (Irene Morgan v. Commonwealth of Virginia 328 U.S. 373 (1946)) where Thurgood Marshall argued her case; the thrust of his argument was that the local segregation laws violated the interstate commerce clauses of the Constitution when applied to modes of transportation that cross state lines; by a 6-1 vote the justices agreed, voiding the application of the local laws (and starting the process of unraveling the precedent set in Plessy v. Ferguson); the first "Freedom Ride" was conducted in 1947 to test whether the ruling would be observed (numerous arrests later it was proven to be universally ignored in the South); it took another 16 years for the Feds to get serious about enforcing the ruling born on 4-9-1917 in Baltimore, Maryland expired 8-10-2007 in Gloucester, Virigina age 90 cause: Alzheimer's disease | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| former AFL-CIO president (1979-95) Joseph Lane Kirkland born on 3-12-1922 in Camden, South Carolina expired 8-14-1999 in Washington, District of Columbia age 77 cause: lung cancer | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| one-time college professor Jeane Duane Jordan Kirkpatrick was Reagan's first U.N. envoy (1981-85) born on 11-19-1926 in Duncan, Oklahoma expired 12-7-2006 in Bethesda, Maryland age 80 cause: heart disease | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| novelist/actor/playwright James Kirkwood Jr. wrote P.S. Your Cat is Dead (1972); co-wrote A Chorus Line (1974) for which he shared a 1975 Tony & 1976 Pulitzer born on 8-22-1925 in Hollywood, California expired 4-21-1989 in New York, New York age 63 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| H. William "Bill" Kirschner Sr. invented the first commercially practical fiberglass ski; founded the K2 Corporation born on 5-16-1918 in Seattle, Washington expired 4-22-2006 in Seattle, Washington age 87 cause: pneumonia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| New York City ballet impresario Lincoln Edward Kirstein born on 5-4-1907 in Rochester, New York expired 1-5-1996 in New York, New York age 88 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Met Opera lyric soprano Dorothy Kirsten born on 7-6-1910 in Montclair, New Jersey expired 11-18-1992 in Los Angeles, California age 82 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| archaeologist Sir Archibald Laurence Patrick Kirwan did planning and arranged financing for the 1953 Mount Everest Expedition born on --1907 in Cregg, County Galway, Ireland expired 4-16-1999 in London, England age 91 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| University of Michigan statistician/polster Leslie Kish co-founder of the Institute for Social Research (1947) born on 7-27-1910 in Poprad, Slovakia, Austria-Hungary expired 10-7-2000 in Ann Arbor, Michigan age 90 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| pharmacist Max Kiss developed Ex-Lax in 1906; he's been on the run ever since expired 6-22-1967 in Atlantic Beach, New York age 84 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
calypso musician "Lord" Kitchener got nickname in 1944 from calyspo artist Growling Tiger
expired 2-11-2000 in Port of Spain, Barbados age 77 cause: severe infection; organ failure; blood disorder | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Texas death row inmate William Joseph Kitchens born on 4-27-1963 expired 5-9-2000 in Huntsville, Texas age 37 cause: executed; lethal injection | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
actress/singer Eartha Mae Kitt
expired 12-25-2008 in New York, New York age 81 cause: colon cancer
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| former Thai field marshall Thanom Kittikachorn was the country's prime minister for a number of years born on 8-11-1911 in Tak, Tak Province, Siam expired 6-16-2004 in Bangkok, Thailand age 92 cause: complications from aneurysm AKS: Kitikachorn Kittakachorn | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| geezer David Klaffer born on 8-6-1891 expired 6-22-2001 in Henderson, Kentucky age 109 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| businessman Jules J. Klapman former owner of Dad's Root Beer born on 5-4-1918 expired 10-9-2002 in Skokie, Illinois age 84 cause: cancer | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| electrical engineer Philip Julian Klass worked as an aviation journalist; coined the term avionics; a debunker of UFO stories; he is NOT the sci-fi author of the same name who publishes under the name "William Tenn" born on 11-18-1919 in Des Moines, Iowa expired 8-9-2005 in Cocoa, Florida age 85 cause: prostate cancer | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| nudie/bondage photographer Irving Klaw with sister Paula helped to "develop" Bettie Page's career; driven out of the business by congressional/Justice Department harassment born on 11-9-1907 in New York, New York expired 9-3-1966 in New York, New York age 58 cause: peritonitis; complications from appendicitis | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bettie Page photographer Paula Klaw with brother Irving ran Movie Star News selling glossies of actors/actresses & other models
expired 6-6-1996 age 91 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| King Ranch owner Robert Justus Kleberg Jr. son of Sr. & ranch founder's daughter Alice King Kleberg; owned Kentucky Derby winners Assault (1946; won triple Crown) & Middleground (1950; also won the Preakness) born on 5-29-1896 in Corpus Christi, Texas expired 10-13-1974 in Houston, Texas age 78 cause: stomach cancer | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| orchestra conductor Carlos Kleiber son of Erich Kleiber; buried in Konjšica, Zasavje region, Slovenia born on 7-3-1930 in Berlin, Germany expired 7-13-2004 in «unknown» age 74 cause: "a long illness" | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
fashion designer Anne Klein
expired 3-19-1974 in New York, New York age 50 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| obstetrician/gynecologist Dr. Marvin Adolph Klein the father of Barbi Benton born on 8-1-1922 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada expired 10-12-2009 in Carmichael, California age 87 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| jazz trumpeter Oscar Klein born on 1-5-1930 in Graz, Austria expired 12-12-2006 in Baden-Württemberg, Germany age 76 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Chicago Bulls founder (1965) Richard Oland "Dick" Klein owned team for six years born on 9-16-1920 expired 10-10-2000 in Greenville, South Carolina age 80 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| former Nixon Attorney General (1972-73) Richard Gordon Kleindienst convicted of a misdemeanor in the ITT scandal born on 8-5-1923 in Winslow, Arizona expired 2-3-2000 in Prescott, Arizona age 76 cause: lung cancer | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| venture capitalist Eugene Kleiner left Shockley Labs to co-found Fairchild Semiconductor (1957); launched Kleiner, Perkins, Caulfield & Byer (1972); they contributed to the startup of such firms as Tandem Computer, Genentech, Amazon.com, Sun Microsystems, Compaq Computer & America Online born on 5-12-1923 in Austria expired 11-20-2003 in Los Altos Hills, California age 80 cause: heart problems | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| screenwriter Harry Kleiner penned the screenplays for Carmen Jones (1954), Fantastic Voyage (1966) & Bullitt (1968) born on 9-10-1915 in Tiflis, Russian (now Tbilissi, Georgia) expired 10-17-2007 in Northbrook, Illinois age 92 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| documentary/public affairs tv producer Isaac I. Kleinerman produced the 1960 condensed version of Victory at Sea; co-produced CBS' The 20th Century series (with Burton Benjamin) born on 7-21-1916 in New York, New York expired 3-7-2004 in Bucerias, Mexico age 87 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| musician & stop motion animator "Sneaky" Peter E. Kleinow a steel guitarist; played with the Flying Burrito Brothers; his stop motion special effects photography was seen in The Terminator, Robocop II, Starship Troopers & The Empire Strikes Back, as well as the The Outer Limits and Gumby tv shows and the original Pillsbury Poppin' Fresh doughboy commercials born on 8-20-1934 in South Bend, Indiana expired 1-6-2007 in Petaluma, California age 72 cause: Alzheimer's disease | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| actor Friedrich Rudolf Klein-Rogge married to Thea von Harbou (1914-21); played the mad scientist Rotwang in Metropolis (1927) born on 11-24-1885 in Köln, Germany expired 5-30-1955 in Graz, Austria age 69 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| inventor Edward E. Kleinschmidt created the high speed teletype machine (1914), stock market ticker tape and automatic fishing reel; his company eventually became a subsidiary of Smith-Corona-Marchand born on 9-9-1875 in Bremen, Germany expired 8-9-1977 in Canaan, Connecticut age 101 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| sleep researcher Dr. Nathaniel Kleitman co-discoverer of REM sleep; wrote Sleep and Wakefulness (1939, revised 1963 & 1987); now researching Dirt Naps born on 4-26-1895 in Kishinev, Russia expired 8-13-1999 in Beverly Hills, California age 104 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| conductor Otto Klemperer fled Nazi Germany; father of Werner (Col. Klink) Klemperer born on 5-14-1885 in Breslau, Germany (now Wroclaw, Poland) expired 7-6-1973 in Zürich, Switzerland age 88 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| actor Werner Klemperer Hogan's Heroes commandant Col. Klink (1965-71) born on 3-22-1920 in Köln, Germany expired 12-6-2000 in New York, New York age 80 cause: throat cancer
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| former North Dakota congressman (1967-71) Thomas Savis "Tom" Kleppe served as Ford's Interior Secretary (October 1975 - January 1977) born on 7-1-1919 in Kintyre, North Dakota expired 3-2-2007 in Bethesda, Maryland age 87 cause: complications from Parkinson's & Alzheimer's diseases | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Austrian president (1992-2004) Thomas Klestil succeeded Kurt Waldheim in the position born on 11-4-1932 in Vienna, Austria expired 7-6-2004 in Vienna, Austria age 71 cause: heart failure; multiple organ failure | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| cartoonist Bernard "Hap" Kliban drew cats, cats & more cats born on 1-1-1935 in Norwalk, Connecticut expired 8-12-1990 age 55 cause: choked on hairball | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| math professor & author Morris Kline wrote Why Johnny Can't Add born on 5-1-1908 in New York, New York expired 6-10-1992 in New York, New York age 84 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| wheelchair-bound tourist Leon Klinghoffer was aboard the Achille Lauro cruise ship when it was hijacked in 1985 born on 9-24-1916 expired 10-8-1985 in Port Said, Egypt age 69 cause: murdered; shot; body dumped overboard | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| loudspeaker manufacturer Paul Wilbur Klipsch founded Klipsch and Associates in Hope, Arkansas (1946) born on 3-9-1904 in Elkhart, Indiana expired 5-5-2002 in Hope, Arkansas age 98 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| audio equipment engineer/deisgner Henry E. Kloss co-founder of Acoustic Research, co-founder of KLH, Kloss Video Corp. (Novatron projection systems), Cambridge Soundworks & Tivolia Audio born on 2-21-1929 in Altoona, Pennsylvania expired 1-31-2001 in Cambridge, Massachusetts age 71 cause: subdural hematoma | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
artist Balthasar Klossowski
expired 2-18-2001 in Rossinière, Switzerland age 92 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Shimson Klueger last surviving Jew of Oswiecim (Auschwitz), Poland expired 5-??-2000 age 72 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ex-baseball player Theodore Bernard "Ted" Kluszewski born on 9-10-1924 in Argo, Illinois expired 3-29-1988 in Chicago, Illinois age 63 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| animator Herbert D. Klynn co-created Gerald McBoing- born on 11-11-1917 expired 2-3-1999 in Tarzana, California age 81 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| aviation pioneer Roy Knabenshue flew first blimp in U.S.; general manager for the Wright Brothers expired 3-6-1960 in Los Angeles, California age 83 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Floral City Furniture Co. co-founder (1927) Edward M. Knabusch with his cousin co-invented the reclining lounge chair (the La-Z-Boy, patented in 1929) born on 1-7-1900 in Monroe, Michigan expired 2-25-1988 in Monroe, Michigan age 88 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| one-time yeast salesman Clinton B. "Bill" Knapp co-founded the now-defunct Bill Knapp's restaurant chain (1948) born on 3-13-1907 expired 10-15-1974 in Battle Creek, Michigan age 67 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| centenarian Sarah Clark Knauss born on 9-24-1880 in Hollywood, Pennsylvania expired 12-30-1999 in Allentown, Pennsylvania age 119 cause: "natural causes"
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| tv/movie writer Thomas Nigel Kneale scripted the original BBC productions of The Quatermass Experiment 1953; also did screenplay for First Men in the Moon (1964) born on 4-28-1922 in Barrow-in-Furness, Lancashire, England expired 10-29-2006 in London, England age 84 cause: complications from strokes | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| columnist & author Fletcher Knebel wrote Seven Days in May born on 10-1-1911 in Dayton, Ohio expired 2-26-1993 in Honolulu, Hawaii age 81 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| actress Hildegard Frieda Albertina Knef born on 12-28-1925 in Ulm, Würtemberg, Germany expired 2-1-2002 in Berlin, Germany age 76 cause: lung infection | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Baker College (Owosso) associate Dean of Education Toni M. Kneiding born on 11-5-1973 expired 9-7-2008 in Straits of Mackinac, Michigan age 34 cause: suicide; jumped from Mackinac Bridge | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| jazz trombonist James Minter "Jimmy" Knepper born on 11-22-1927 in Los Angeles, California expired 6-14-2003 in Triadelphia, West Virginia age 75 cause: Parkinson's disease | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Wham-O co-founder (1948) Richard P. Knerr born on 6-30-1925 in San Gabriel, California expired 1-14-2008 in Arcadia, California age 82 cause: stroke | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| former daredevil Robert Craig "Evel" Knievel Sr. born on 10-17-1938 in Butte, Montana expired 11-30-2007 in Clearwater, Florida age 69 cause: idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis; diabetes
AKS: Evil Kneivel Knieval Kneival | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| film historian & author Arthur Knight co-author of Playboy's The History of Sex in Cinema series (starting in 1965) born on 9-3-1916 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania expired 7-25-1991 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia age 74 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| science fiction writer/editor Damon Knight wrote short story To Serve Man (1950) which later became a popular episode of The Twilight Zone (1962); Kate Wilhelm was second wife born on 9-19-1922 in Baker, Oregon expired 4-15-2002 in Eugene, Oregon age 79 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
1940s & 50s singer Evelyn Knight retired from singing at age 36
expired 9-28-2007 in San Jose, California age 89 cause: lung cancer | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| character actor James Forrest "Fuzzy" Knight played Pvt. Fuzzy Knight on Captain Gallant of the Foreign Legion tv series (1955-7) born on 5-9-1901 in Fairmont, West Virginia expired 2-23-1976 in Hollywood, California age 74 cause: heart attack | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| newspaper publisher James L. Knight born on 7-21-1909 in Akron, Ohio expired 2-5-1991 age 81 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Ramtha-channeler's ex-husband Jeffrey Knight born on ??-??-19?? expired ??-??-19?? age ?? | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| neswapaper chain founder John Shively Knight I won 1968 Pulitzer prize for his column born on 10-26-1894 in Bluefield, West Virginia expired 6-16-1981 in Akron, Ohio age 86 cause: heart attack | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Army First Lt. John Shively Knight Jr. awarded the Bronze Star for his conduct in the December 1944 battle of the Ardennes bulge born on --1923 expired 3-29-1945 in Münster, Germany age 22 cause: ambushed during military operation | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| newspaper publishing heir John Shively Knight III born 5 days after his father's death born on 4-3-1945 in Columbus, Georgia expired 12-7-1975 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania age 30 cause: stabbed to death | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| trumpet player Pedro Knight Caraballo widower of Celia Cruz born on 9-30-1921 expired 2-3-2007 in Los Angeles, California age 85 cause: complications from strokes; diabetes
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| weasel county prosecutor Thomas E. Knight Jr. railroaded the Scottsboro Boys through three bogus sets of trials born on --1898 in Greensboro, Alabama expired 5-??-1937 age 39 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| former military X-15 test pilot William J. "Pete" Knight as a California state senator wrote the state's Defense of Marriage Act (2000) born on 11-18-1929 in Noblesville, Indiana expired 5-7-2004 in Duarte, California age 74 cause: acture myelogenous leukemia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| publisher Alfred Abraham Knopf born on 9-12-1892 in New York, New York expired 8-11-1984 in Purchase, New York age 91 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| book publisher Alfred A. Knopf Jr. left the firm his father founded to co-found Atheneum Publishers (1959) born on 6-17-1918 in White Plains, New York expired 2-14-2009 in New York, New York age 90 cause: complications from a fall | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| widow of publisher Alfred writer Helen Knopf born on 10-28-1902 expired 1-14-1995 age 92 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| playwright Frederick Major Paull Knott wrote Dial M for Murder (1952) & Wait Until Dark (1966) born on 8-28-1916 in Hankow, China expired 12-17-2002 in New York, New York age 86 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| berry farm co-founder Walter Knott started the operation with wife Cordelia (d.1974) born on 12-11-1889 in San Bernardino, California expired 12-3-1981 in Buena Park, California age 91 cause: Parkinson's disease | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
former pro wrassler Herbert Glen Knotts
expired 1-3-1970 age 55 cause: leukemia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| comedian Jesse Donald Knotts Deputy Barney Fife on Andy Griffith Show/ born on 7-21-1924 in Morgantown, West Virginia expired 2-24-2006 in Beverly Hills, California age 81 cause: pulmonary & respiratory complications; lung cancer
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| author John Knowles author of A Separate Peace (1960) born on 9-16-1926 in Fairmont, West Virginia expired 11-29-2001 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida age 75 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| actor Alexander Knox born on 1-16-1907 in Strathroy, Ontario, Canada expired 4-25-1995 in Berwick-Upon-Tweed, Northumberland, England age 88 cause: bone cancer | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| late-1970s to early-1980s fashion model Bitten Knudsen did February 1987 Playboy pictorial; a "best buddy" of (trainwreck) model Gia Carangi expired 3-22-2008 in Denmark age 50s cause: "died in her sleep" | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Doobie Brothers drummer Keith Knudsen born on 2-18-1948 in LeMars, Iowa expired 2-8-2005 in San Francisco, California age 56 cause: pneumonia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Morris Hans Knudsen co-founder of Morrison-Knudsen construction firm (1912) expired 11-15-1943 in San Diego, California age 80 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| auto executive Semon Emil "Bunkie" Knudsen born on 10-2-1912 in Buffalo, New York expired 7-6-1998 in Royal Oak, Michigan age 85 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Japanese film director Masaki Kobayashi born on 2-14-1916 expired 10-4-1996 in Tokyo, Japan age 80 cause: cardiac arrest | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Dr. Heinrich Hermann Robert Koch his investigations into tuberculosis earned him the 1905 Nobel prize in medicine; he discovered the anthrax bacillus (1877) and the tuberculosis bacillus (1882) born on 12-11-1843 in Clausthal, Upper Harz Mountains, Germany expired 5-27-1910 in Baden-Baden, Germany age 66 cause: heart attack | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Academy Award-winning screenwriter Howard Koch wrote War of the Worlds teleplay for Orson Welles; screenplays for Casablanca (with Epstein brothers), Sergeant York, The Best Years of Our Lives born on 12-2-1902 in New York, New York expired 8-17-1995 in Woodstock, New York age 92 cause: pneumonia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| movie producer Howard Winchel Koch executive producer of The Manchurian Candidate; won 1990 Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award born on 4-11-1916 in New York, New York expired 2-16-2001 in Los Angeles, California age 84 cause: complications from Alzheimer's disease | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Dr. Emil Theodor Kocher recipient of the 1909 Nobel prize in medicine for his work in physiology, pathology & surgery of the thyroid gland born on 8-25-1841 in Berne, Switzerland expired 7-27-1917 in Berne, Switzerland age 75 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Brownsville Station singer Michael "Cub" Koda wrote/performed Smokin' in the Boys' Room (1973) born on 10-1-1948 expired 7-1-2000 in Chelsea, Michigan age 51 cause: complications from kidney dialysis | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Hungarian composer and music educator Zoltán Kodály referenced in the movie Close Encounters of the Third Kind born on 12-16-1882 in Kecskemet, Austria-Hungary expired 3-6-1967 in Budapest, Hungary age 84 AKS: Zoltan Kodaly | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| actor Joshua Andrew Koenig son of Walter; played "Boner" on Growing Pains (1985-9) & Tumak in the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode Sanctuary (1993) born on 8-17-1968 in Los Angeles, California expired 2-16-2010 in Vancouver, BRitish Columbia, Canada age 41 cause: suicide | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| New York Yankees short stop Mark Koenig batted second in Murderers' Row born on 7-19-1904 in San Francisco, California expired 4-22-1993 in Willows, California age 88 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Arthur Koestler born on 9-5-1905 in Budapest, Austria-Hungary expired 2-13-1983 in London, England age 77 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| chamber & concert violinist Robert Koff co-founder of the Juilliard String Quartet (1946) with Robert Mann, Raphael Hillyer and Arthur Winograd born on 2-12-1919 in Los Angeles, California expired 2-22-2005 in Lexington, Massachusetts age 86 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| jazz flutist Morris "Moe" Koffman had 1957 instrumental hit "Swinging Shepherd Blues" born on 12-28-1928 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada expired 3-28-2001 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada age 72 cause: cancer AKS: Kofman Koffmann Kofman Kauffman Kaufman Kaufmann Kaufmann | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| former Mazda president (1970-77) Kohei Matsuda grandson of Toyo Kogyo (later Mazda) founder; owned the Hiroshima Carp baseball team (1970-2002) born on 1-28-1922 expired 7-10-2002 in Tokyo, Japan age 80 cause: stomach cancer | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Georges Jean Franz Köhler shared the 1984 Nobel prize in medicine born on 4-17-1946 in München, Bavaria, Germany expired 3-1-1995 in Freiburg in Breisgau, Germany age 44 AKS: Kohler | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| author Frederick Kohner in 1957 wrote Gidget (patterned after his daughter Kathy) born on 9-25-1905 expired 7-7-1986 age 80 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| former Michigan house member (1965-78) Peter Kok during World War II was a bombardier in the 488th Bomb Squad of the 340th Bomb Group; some of his World War II experiences were imcorporated into Catch-22 born on 10-24-1919 in Grand Rapids, Michigan expired 6-22-2003 in Grand Rapids, Michigan age 83 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| composer Jounas Kokkonen born on 11-13-1921 in Iisalmi, Finland expired 10-2-1996 in Jarvenpaa, Finland age 74 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
physician & retired University of Utah professor Willem Johan Kolff invented the artificial kidney (dialysis machine) in 1943 and the membrane oxygenator
expired 2-11-2009 in Newtown Square, Pennsylvania age 97
AKS: Leyden The Netherlands | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Albanian Cardinal Mikel Koliqi born on 9-29-1902 in Shkodra, Albania, Austria-hungary expired 1-28-1997 age 94 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| former Jerusalem mayor (1965-93) Theodor Herzl "Teddy" Kollek named for the founder of modern Zionism born on 5-27-1911 in Nagyvaszony, Austria-Hungary expired 1-2-2007 in Jerusalem, Israel age 95 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| jazz tenor saxophonist Hans Koller born on 2-12-1921 in Vienna, Austria expired 12-22-2003 age 82 cause: pneumonia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| stage & radio actor Richard Tompkins Kollmer widower of Dorothy Kilgallen born on 12-31-1910 in Ridgewood, New Jersey expired 1-7-1971 in New York, New York age 60 cause: heart attack | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Voskhod 1 and Soyuz 1 cosmonaut cosmonaut Vladimir Mikhailovich Komarov definitely NOT a soft landing born on 3-16-1927 in Moscow, Russia, USSR expired 4-24-1967 in Orenburg, Russia, USSR age 40 cause: capsule parachute failure | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Susan Goodman komen her sister created a foundation named for her (1982) born on 10-31-1943 in Peoria, Illinois expired 8-??-1980 in Peoria, Illinois age 36 cause: breast cancer | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
former CIA infocrat Robert W. Komer chief of "Pacification" during the Vietnam War: trying to win their "hearts and minds"
expired 4-9-2000 in Arlington, Virginia age 78 cause: stroke | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| forner NFL quarterback William "Jeff" Komlo had played for the Lions (1979-81), Falcons (1982) & Buccaneers (1983); had absconded to Greece ahead of a bunch of warrants for his arrest (DUI, arson, ...) born on 7-30-1956 in Cheverly, Maryland expired 3-14-2009 in Athens, Greece age 52 cause: automobile accident | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
bodybuilder Marianna Komlos played Mrs. Cleavage (a WWE/F wrassler)born on 9-3-1969 in Kitimat, British Columbia, Canada expired 9-26-2004 in Prince George, British Columbia, Canada age 35 cause: medical quackery; breast cancer AKS: Marianne | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| orchestra conductor Kiril Petrovich Kondrashin born on 3-6-1914 in Moscow, Russia expired 3-7-1981 in Amsterdam, The Netherlands age 67 cause: heart attack | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Soviet military tactician Marshall Ivan Stepanovich Konev founded the Warsaw Pact military alliance born on 12-27-1897 in Ladeino, Russia expired 5-21-1973 in Moscow, Russia, USSR age 75 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Cardinal Franziskus König Archbishop Emeritus of Vienna born on 8-15-1905 in Rabenstein, Austria expired 3-13-2004 in Vienna, Austria age 98 cause: died in his sleep
AKS: Konig Koenig | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| former waiter & jewelry engraver Martin Konigsberg Woody Allen's father born on 12-25-1900 expired 1-8-2001 in New York, New York age 100 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Woody Allen's mother Nettie Konigsberg widow of Martin
expired 1-27-2002 in New York, New York age 95 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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1975 Nobel economics laureate Dr. Tjalling Charles Koopmans shared prize with Leonid Kantorovich; cousin of 1984 physics laureate Simon van der Meer born on 8-28-1910 in 's-Graveland, The Netherlands expired 2-26-1985 in New Haven, Connecticut age 74 cause: strokes | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| former Hungarian police officer Sandor Kopacsi a leader of the Hungarian revolt against Soviet rule in 1956; jailed "for life" but later pardoned born on 3-5-1922 in Miskolc, Hungary expired 3-2-2001 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada age 78 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| congressional staffer Mary Jo Kopechne abandoned by Teddy Kennedy to drown after car accident born on 7-26-1940 expired 7-19-1969 in Chappaquiddick Island, Masschusetts age 28 cause: drowned; trapped inside submerged car | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
former Pittsburgh Steelers color commentator Myron Sidney Kopelman in both the Pro Football Hall of Fame & National Radio Hall of Fame
expired 2-27-2008 in Mount Lebanon, Pennsylvania age 79 cause: respiratory illness; heart failure
AKS: Stanley | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Miss America 1943 Rosemary LaPlanche Koplan appeared in a number of RKO movies after her win born on 10-11-1923 in Los Angeles, California expired 5-6-1979 in Sherman Oaks, California age 55 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
photographer Alberto Korda took famous 1960 photo of Ché Guevara
expired 5-25-2001 in Paris, France age 72 cause: heart attack AKS: Diaz Gutierrez | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
film producer Sir Alexander Korda
expired 1-23-1956 in London, England age 62 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| movie art director Vincent Korda brother of Alexander & Zoltan; won 1941 oscar for Thief of Bagdad (1940) born on --1897 in Turkeve, Austria-Hungary expired 1-4-1979 in London, England age 81 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| film director Zoltan Korda filmed The Jungle Book (1942) born on 6-3-1895 in Turkeve, Austria-Hungary expired 10-13-1961 in Hollywood, California age 66 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| civil rights pioneer Fred Toyosaburo Korematsu refused Roosevelt's unconstitutional executive order (#9066) to be interned during World War II; convicted of a felony & lost all of the way to the Supreme Court (Korematsu v. United States, December 1944) based upon the patently false assertions of General John L. DeWitt; when the "evidence" was declassified the jig was up — a federal judge issued a summary finding against the government vacating the conviction &
finding that the government had suppressed the evidence that would have proven the assertions to be grossly bogus born on 1-30-1919 in Oakland, California expired 3-30-2005 in Larkspur, California age 86 cause: respiratory illness | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
religious cult leader David Koresh headed the Branch Davidians
expired 4-19-1993 in Waco, Texas age 33 cause: barbecued alive in fire caused by BATF tear gas canisters & tank | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
comedian Harvey Herschel Korman close personal friend of Lily von Schtupp
expired 5-29-2008 in Los Angeles, California age 81 cause: complications from ruptured abdonimal aortic aneurysm
AKS: Harvie Kormen Corman | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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biochemist Arthur Kornberg shared the 1959 Nobel prize in medicine for the discover y of the mechanisms in the biological synthesis of ribonucleaic acid and deoxyribonucleaic acid; father of the 2006 Chemistry laureate born on 3-3-1918 in Brooklyn, New York, New York expired 10-26-2007 in Palo Alto, California age 89 cause: respiratory failure | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| classical, opera and sound track composer Erich Wolfgang Korngold won two oscars born on 5-29-1897 in Brunn, Austria-Hungary (now Brno) expired 11-29-1957 in Hollywood, California age 60 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1920s Our Gang child actress Mary Kornman born on 12-28-1915 in Idaho Falls, Idaho expired 6-1-1973 in Glendale, California age 57 cause: cancer | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| storyteller Kosan Yanagiya declared a national treasure (1995) born on 1-2-1915 expired 5-16-2002 in Tokyo, Japan age 87 cause: heart failure | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| actress Sylva Koscina played Iole (Mrs. Hercules) in Hercules (1957) and Hercules Unchained (1959); did May 1967 Playboy pictorial born on 8-22-1933 in Zagreb, Croatia expired 12-26-1994 in Rome, Italy age 61 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Polish-born author Jerzy Nikodem Kosinski born on 6-14-1933 in Łódź, Poland expired 5-3-1991 age 57 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
composer Joseph Kosma wrote music for Autumn Leaves (lyrics by Jacques Prévert)
expired 8-7-1969 in La Roche-Guyon, France age 63 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Aaron Kosminski suspect in Whitechapel prostitute murders; purported to have been identified in a police lineup after one of the murders; spent last 28 yeas of his life in mental institutions expired ??-??-1919 in Leavesden Asylum, England age ?? cause: gangrene of the leg | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Cambodian Queen Mother Sisowath Kossamak daughter of King Monivong; mother of Sihanouk born on 10--1903 expired 4-27-1975 in Beijing, China age 71 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Dr. Ludwig Karl Martin Albrecht Kossel received the 1910 Nobel prize in medicine for his work in cell chemistry born on 9-16-1853 in Rostock, Germany expired 7-5-1927 in Heidelberg, Germany age 73 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ochestrator & conductor Irwin Kostal won Academy Awards for his work on West Side Story and The Sound of Music, did 1990 rescoring of Fantasia, and worked on Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and Charlotte's Web born on 10-1-1911 in Chicago, Illinois expired 11-23-1994 in Studio City, California age 83 cause: heart attack | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| orchestra conductor Andre Kostelanetz husband of Lily Pons born on 12-22-1901 in Saint Petersburg, Russia expired 1-13-1980 in Port-au-Prince, Haiti age 78 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
painter turned movie director Henry Koster directed Harvey (1950), Mr. Belvedere Rings the Bell (1951), The Robe (1953), Flower Drum Song (1960) & The Singing Nun (1965)
expired 9-21-1988 in Camarillo, California age 83 AKS: Kosterlitz | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| retired U.S. Army Brigadier (1-star) General Samuel William Koster Sr. as a (2-star) Major General commanded the 23rd Infantry Division (Americal) in Vietnam; he was in charge during the My Lai massacre (3/16/1968); although initially charged, the charges were later dropped but he lost a star, a medal & gained a letter of censure in his personel file born on 12-29-1919 in West Liberty, Iowa expired 1-23-2006 in Annapolis, Maryland age 86 cause: renal failure; renal cancer | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Soviet President Alexei Nikolaevich Kosygin born on 2-20-1904 in Saint Petersburg, Russia expired 12-18-1980 in Moscow, Russia, USSR age 76
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| former Skyway Luggage president Henry L. Kotkins born on 9-4-1911 expired 6-8-2002 in Portugal age 90 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| pianist Mischa Kottler expired 6-23-1994 age 95 AKS: Kotler | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| retired Boston Symphony conductor Serge Alexandrovich Koussevitzky born on 7-26-1901 in Vyshni Volocheck, Russia expired 6-4-1978 in Boston, Massachusetts age 76 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| John's Hopkins electrical engineering professor Dr. William Bennett Kouwenhoven devised non-surgical methods of restarting a stopped heart: external cardiac massage & the defibrillator born on 1-13-1886 in New York, New York expired 11-10-1975 in Baltimore, Maryland age 89 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| cigar-chomping tv comedian Ernie Kovacs husband of Edie Adams born on 1-23-1919 in Trenton, New Jersey expired 1-13-1962 in West Los Angeles, California age 42 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| cinematographer László Kovács close friend of Vilmos Zsigmond (the two escaped from Hungary with lots of documentary film of the Soviet suppresion of the citizenry); lensed: Easy Rider, Five Easy Pieces, Ghostbusters, The Last Picture Show, Paper Moon, New York, New York, Shampoo, What's Up, Doc?, Miss Congeniality, My Best Friend's Wedding, Legal Eagles, Shattered, Little Nikita, The Toy, Slither, The King of Marvin
Gardens, ... born on 5-14-1933 in Cece, Fejér County, Hungary expired 7-21-2007 in Beverly Hills, California age 74 AKS: Laszlo Kovacs | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| geographically-challenged tv/movie director Bernard Louis Kowalski made Krakatoa, East of Java (1969) & SSSSSSS (1973); directed the Mission: Impossible tv pilot born on 8-2-1929 in Brownsville, Texas expired 10-26-2007 in Los Angeles, California age 78 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
"Classic-era" pro wrassler (1947-77) (Wladek) Walter "Killer" Kowalski
expired 8-29-2008 in Malden, Massachusetts age 81 cause: complications from heart attack | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| geezer Ura Koyama born on 8-30-1890 in Japan expired 4-5-2005 in Iizuka City, Japan age 114 cause: pneumonia
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| Teledyne Inc. co-founder Dr. George Kozmetsky former Dean of the University of Texas Business School (1966-82) born on 10-5-1917 in Seattle, Washington expired 4-30-2003 in Austin, Texas age 85 cause: heart attack | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| writer & actor David Kozubei created the concept for the first Border's Book Store & founded David's Book Store (1970s), both in Ann Arbor, Michigan born on --1932 in London, England expired 8-26-2006 in Manhattan, New York, New York age 73 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| cheese peddler James Lewis Kraft founded Kraft Foods --- the cheesiest operation in the world born on 12-11-1874 in Stevensville, Ontario, Canada expired 2-16-1953 in Chicago, Illinois age 78 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| former Danish prime minister (1962-68 & 1971-72) Jens Otto Krag born on 9-15-1914 in Randers, Denmark expired 6-22-1978 in Fredrikshaven, Denmark age 63 cause: heart attack | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| hall of fame swimmer Viola Hartman Cady Krahn expired 6-1-2004 in Orange, California age 102 cause: complications from stroke | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| professional tennis player John Albert "Jack" Kramer twice won the U.S. singles championship (1947 & 47) and Wimbledon (1947); had a popular line of tennis rackets in the 1950s born on 8-1-1921 in Las Vegas, Nevada expired 9-12-2009 in Los Angeles, California age 88 cause: soft tissue cancer | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| former Iron Butterfly bass player Philip Taylor Kramer wrecked minivan & body found at bottom of 200 foot-deep ravine in May 1999 by hiker) born on 7-12-1952 expired 2-12-1995 in Malibu Canyon, California age 42 cause: auto accident | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| oscar-winning movie producer and director Stanley Earl Kramer produced and/or directed High Noon (1952), The Caine Mutiny (1954), Inherit the Wind (1960), Judgement at Nuremberg (1961), Its a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963) and Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967) born on 9-29-1913 in New York, New York expired 2-19-2001 in Woodland Hills, California age 87 cause: pneumonia; diabetes
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| "early music" expert Bernard Kranis New York Pro Musica Antiqua co-founder (1952) born on 12-28-1924 in New Brunswick, New Jersey expired 8-18-2000 in Great Barrington, Massachusetts age 75 cause: cancer | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| KGB cold warrior Rem Sergeivich Krasilnikov responsible for rounding up CIA spies that were given up by Aldrich Ames, Robert Hansen and others born on --1927 expired 3-??-2003 in Moscow, Russia age 76 AKS: Krassilnikov | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| lyric tenor Alfredo Kraus born on 9-24-1927 in Las Palmas, Canary Islands expired 9-8-1999 in Madrid, Spain age 71 cause: pancreatic cancer | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| retired Ohio State U professor Dr. John Daniel Kraus a pioneering radio astronomer born on 6-28-1910 in Ann Arbor, Michigan expired 7-18-2004 in Delaware, Ohio age 94 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| former Notre Dame athletic director Edward "Moose" Krause born on 2-2-1913 in Chicago, Illinois expired 12-11-1992 age 79 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| British gangster Charles David "Charlie" Kray older brother of Reggie & Ronnie born on --1926 in London, England expired 4-4-2000 in Isle of Wight, England age 73 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1960s London East End gangster Reginald "Reggie" Kray born on 10-24-1933 in London, England expired 10-1-2000 in Norwich, Norwalk, England age 66 cause: bladder cancer | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| gangster Ronald "Ronnie" Kray twin brother of Reggie born on 10-24-1933 in London, England expired 3-17-1995 in Slough, England age 61 cause: heart attack | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| former New York Times obituary writer (1966-2002) Albin Joseph Krebs born on 3-5-1929 in Pascagoula, Mississippi expired 5-31-2002 in Key West, Florida age 73 cause: cancer | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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biochemist Edwin Gerhard Krebs shared the 1992 Nobel prize in medicine born on 6-6-1918 in Lansing, Iowa expired 12-21-2009 in Seattle, Washington age 91 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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1953 Nobel medicine laureate Sir Hans Adolf Krebs discovered basic pathways by which food is converted into energy in the body (Urea & Citiric acid cycles; 1932 & 1938) born on 8-25-1900 in Hildesheim, Germany expired 11-22-1981 in Oxford, Oxfordshire, England age 81 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| air-crash lawyer Lee S. Kreindler born on 3-11-1924 expired 2-18-2003 in New York, New York age 78 cause: complications of a cerebral hemorrhage | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| former Austrian Chancellor Bruno Kreisky born on 1-22-1911 in Vienna, Lower Austria, Austria-Hungary expired 7-29-1990 in Vienna, Austria age 79 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| violinist & composer Fritz Kreisler born on 2-2-1875 in Vienna, Austria expired 1-29-1962 in New York, New York age 86 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Harvey Comics cartoonist Warren Kremer drew Richie Rich & Casper the Friendly Ghost born on 6-26-1921 in New York, New York expired 7-24-2003 in Glen Ridge, New Jersey age 82 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| blind lawyer Harold Eliot Krents his life was basis for Butterflies are Free play & movie; his autobiography was titled To Race the Wind (1972) born on 11-5-1944 in New York, New York expired 1-12-1987 in New York, New York age 42 cause: brain tumor | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Carter Commerce secretary (1977-79) Juanita Morris Kreps had been a Duke University economist
expired 7-5-2010 in Durham, North Carolina age 89 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| former Kmart director of Public Relations (1970s) Harvey A. Kresge Jr. joined firm founded by his father's cousin in 1930s born on 12-27-1915 expired 4-26-2003 in Tequestra, Florida age 87 cause: pneumonia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| merchandiser Sebastian Spering Kresge founded S.S. Kresge Co. (later renamed Kmart Corp.) born on 7-31-1867 in Bald Mount, Pennsylvania expired 10-18-1966 in Mountainhome, Pennsylvania age 99 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Playboy January 1968 Playmate of Month & 1969 Playmate of Year Connie Kreski played Mercy Humppe in Can Hieronymus Merkin Ever Forget Mercy Humppe and Find True Happiness? (1969)born on 9-19-1946 in Wyandotte, Michigan expired 3-21-1995 in Beverly Hills, California age 48 cause: clogged carotid artery; high cholesterol | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| character actor Kurt Kreuger played lots of Nazis in the 1940s; his most notable role was in Sahara (1943) born on 7-23-1916 in Michenberg, Germany expired 7-12-2006 in Los Angeles, California age 89 cause: stroke AKS: Krueger Kruger | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 21 Club restauranteur (1938-85) H. Peter Kriendler took over as host following founding brother's death born on 7-8-1905 in New York, New York expired 12-21-2001 in New York, New York age 96 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| NYC 21 Club co-founder John Carl "Jack" Kriendler born on --1899 in New York, New York expired 8-13-1947 in New York, New York age 48 cause: heart attack | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| former United Artists head Arthur B. Krim born on 4-4-1910 expired 9-21-1994 age 84 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| conductor Josef Krips born on 4-8-1902 in Vienna, Austria expired 10-12-1974 in Geneva, Switzerland age 72 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nehru Defense minister (1956-62) Vengali Krishnan Krishna Menon he had assured Nehru that the Chinese Army wouldn't advance beyond Tibet; was sacked when the Chinese Army attacked northern India born on 5-3-1896 in Calicut, Kerula State, India expired 10-6-1974 in New Delhi, India age 77 cause: heart attack | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| NYC music venue founder Hillel "Hilly" Kristal founder of the CBGB & OMFUG Club in the Bowery (Country, Bluegrass, Blues and Other Music for Uplifting Gourmandizers) born on 9-23-1931 in Manhattan, New York, New York expired 8-28-2007 in Manhattan, New York, New York age 75 cause: complications from lung cancer | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| AIDS-stricken tv veterinarian Stephen M. "Steve" Kritsick born on 11-2-1951 expired 1-16-1994 age 42 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
burger mogul widow Joan Beverly Kroc
expired 10-12-2003 in Rancho Santa Fe, California age 75 cause: glioblastoma | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| McDonald's mogul Raymond Albert Kroc bought chain from founders in 1961 for $2,700,000 born on 10-5-1902 in Oak Park, Illinois expired 1-14-1984 in San Diego, California age 81 cause: heart failure; diabetes
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Dr. Schack August Steenberg Krogh received the 1920 Nobel prize in physiology for discoveries relating to the capillary motor regulary mechanism born on 11-15-1874 in Grenaa, Jutland, Denmark expired 9-13-1949 in Copenhagen, Denmark age 74 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Philadelphia Cardinal John Joseph Krol born on 10-26-1910 in Cleveland, Illinois expired 3-3-1996 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania age 85 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| violinist Boris Kroyt member of the Budapest String quartet for 37 years born on 6-10-1897 expired 11-15-1969 in New York, New York age 72 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Science Fiction aficionado Kenneth J. Krueger attended the first World Science Fiction Conference (1939); was chairman of the first San Diego Golden State Comic-Con (1970) — it morphed into the Comic-Con International exposition; died 2½ weeks after Comic Con co-founder Shel Dorf born on 10-7-1926 in Buffalo, New York expired 11-21-2009 in Lockport, New York age 83 cause: heart attack; pneumonia; a fall; renal failure | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| actor Otto Kruger a vice-president of the Motion Picture Home since 1955; grand nephew of Paul Kruger born on 9-6-1885 in Toledo, Ohio expired 9-6-1974 in Woodland Hills, California age 89 cause: stroke | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
"Oom" Paul Kruger president of South Africa's Transvaal Republic during Boer War (1883-1902)
expired 7-14-1904 in Clarens, Switzerland age 78 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| retired plumber Verlen Emmet Kruger took up canoe building & went on a number of expeditions; co-author of "One Incredible Journey" born on 6-30-1922 in Francesville, Indiana expired 8-2-2004 in Lansing, Michigan age 82 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| jazz drummer Gene Krupa born on 1-15-1909 in Chicago, Illinois expired 10-16-1973 in Yonkers, New York age 64 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| granddaughter of Krupp Co. founder Bertha Krupp von Bohien und Halbach namesake of World War I cannon "Big Bertha", not 1990s golf ball driver born on 3-29-1886 in Essen, Germany expired 9-21-1957 in Essen, Germany age 71 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bolshevik crone Nadezhda Konstantinovna Krupskaya wife of Lenin born on 2-26-1869 in Saint Petersburg, Russia expired 2-27-1939 in Moscow, Russia, USSR age 70 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| actor Jack Kruschen born on 3-20-1922 in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada expired 4-2-2002 age 80 cause: natural causes | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| former KGB head (1988-99) Vladimir Alexandrovich Kryuchkov part of the failed coup against Gorby (1999) born on 2-29-1924 in Tsaritsyn, Russia, USSR (now Volgograd) expired 11-23-2007 in Moscow, Russia age 83 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech conductor Rafael Kubelik
expired 8-11-1996 in Lucerne, Switzerland age 82 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
  
Playboy February 1958 Playmate of Month Cheryl Kubertexpired 4-25-1989 age ?? cause: suicide (speculative) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Mongol & Chinese ruler Kublai Khan grandson of Genghis Khan born on --1216 expired ??-??-1294 age 78 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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psychiatrist Elisabeth Kübler-Ross a leading death "expert" and hospice pioneer; author of On Death and Dying (1969); identified 5 phases in the dying process: denial, anger, barganing, depression & acceptance born on 7-8-1926 in Zürich, Switzerland expired 8-24-2004 in Scottsdale, Arizona age 78 cause: complications from strokes
AKS: Kubler | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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movie director Stanley Kubrick made 16 films (3 documentary shorts, first in the list, and 13 features): Day of the Flight (1951), Flying Padre (1951), The Seafarers (1953), Fear and Desire (1953), Killer's Kiss (1955), The Killing (1956), Paths of Glory (1957), Spartacus (1960), Lolita (1962), Dr. Strangelove (1964), 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968),
A Clockwork Orange (1971), Barry Lyndon (1975), The Shining (1980), Full Metal Jacket (1987) and Eyes Wide Shut (1999) born on 7-26-1928 in New York, New York expired 3-7-1999 in Hertfordshire, England age 70 cause: heart attack | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| baseball player Harvey Edward Kuenn born on 12-4-1930 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin expired 2-28-1988 in Peoria, Arizona age 57 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Kaiser Bill's last soldier Charles Kuentz fought on the Russian Front born on 2-18-1897 in Ranspach, Alsace, Germany expired 4-23-2005 in Colmar, Alsace-Lorraine, France age 108 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| litigious cancer-suffering smoker Charles Kueper expired 3-5-1993 age 51 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Amsterdam spice merchant Victor Kugler hid Anne Frank & family in his business at 263 Prinsengracht Street (1942-44); spent 8 months in prison, escaping during a bombing raid born on 6-5-1900 in Hohen Elbe, Austria-Hungary expired 12-13-1981 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada age 81 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| former Army Air Corps Master Sgt. John D. Kuharek flight engineer aboard Bockscar, the plane that nuked Nagasaki born on 4-3-1914 expired 4-24-2001 in Tampa, Florida age 87 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| evangelist and faith healer Kathryn Kuhlman born on 5-9-1907 in Concordia, Missouri expired 2-20-1976 in Tulsa, Oklahoma age 68 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Bowie Kent Kuhn former Baseball Commissioner (February 4, 1969 to Setpember 30, 1984) born on 10-28-1926 in Takoma Park, Maryland expired 3-15-2007 in Ponte Verde Beach, Florida age 80
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| Grey Panthers founder Margaret E "Maggie" Kuhn born on 8-3-1905 in Buffalo, New York expired 4-22-1995 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania age 89 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Richard Kuhn recipient of the 1938 Nobel Prize in chemistry born on 12-3-1900 in Vienna, Austria-Hungary expired 8-1-1967 in Heidelberg, Germany age 66 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
planetary scientist Gerard Peter Kuiper know for his trans-Neptunian Belt of objects
expired 12-23-1973 in Mexico City, Mexico age 68 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| painter Konrad Kujau got in trouble in 1983 for his forged "Hitler's Diaries" that he had sold to Stern born on 6-27-1938 in Löbau, Saxony expired 9-12-2000 in Stuttgart, Germany age 62 cause: stomach cancer | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Mafia hit man Richard Kuklinski he was about half as productive as Dr. Kevorkian
expired 3-5-2006 in Trenton, New Jersey age 70 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Mayan King (9/6/426-437) K'inich Yax K'uk Mo' founder of the Cópan dynasty
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| tv director Seymour "Buzz" Kulik directed Brian's Song (1971) born on 7-23-1922 in Kearney, New Jersey expired 1-13-1999 in Los Angeles, California age 76 cause: heart failure | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
actor & pro wrassler Henry Kulky played Otto Schmidlap on The Life of Riley tv series, Stroogo in The Five Thousand Fingers of Dr. T, Cuddles in A Star Is Born (1954) and Max Bronsky on the Hennesey tv series (1959)
expired 2-12-1965 in Oceandale, California age 53 cause: heart attack | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
actress Nancy Jane Kulp served in the WAVES in World War II; played Miss Jane Hathaway on The Beverly Hillbillies
expired 2-3-1991 in Palm Desert, California age 69 cause: cancer | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| NASCAR driver Alan Kulwicki born on 12-14-1954 in Greenfield, Wisconsin expired 3-31-1993 in Bristol, Tennessee age 38 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| aged Cardinal Ignatius Kung imprisoned by Chinese Communist government born on 8-2-1901 in Shanghai, China expired 3-12-2000 in Stamford, Connecticut age 98 cause: stomach cancer | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| mathematician Kunihiko Kodaira winner of 1954 Fields Medal; co-developer of Theory of Defromation of Complex Structures born on 3-16-1915 in Toykyo, Japan expired 7-26-1997 in Kofu, Japan age 82 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| former U.S. poet laureate (2000-2001) Stanely Jasspon Kunitz born on 7-29-1905 in Worcester, Massachusetts expired 5-14-2006 in New York, New York age 100 cause: pneumonia
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Texas death row inmate Troy Albert Kunkle
expired 1-25-2005 in Huntsville, Texas age 38 cause: executed; lethal injection
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| World War I soldier Franz Künstler had been the last surviving member of the Austro-Hungarian army born on 7-24-1900 in Soost, Kingdom of Hungary, Austro-Hungarian Empire expired 5-27-2008 in Niederstetten, Baden-Württemberg, Germany age 107 AKS: Kunstler Kuenstler | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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attorney William Moses Kunstler provided counsel for many radical 1960s and 70s groups, including the Chicago Seven born on 7-7-1919 in New York, New York expired 9-4-1995 in New York, New York age 76 cause: heart attack AKS: Kuntsler | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Cincinnati Pops orchestra conductor (1977-2009) Erich Kunzel Jr. born on 3-21-1935 in Manhattan, New York, New York expired 9-1-2009 in Bar Harbor, Maine age 74 cause: liver, colon & pancreatic cancer | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Chicago Sun-Times celebristy/gossip columnist (1943-2003) Irving Kupcinet briefly played pro football for Philadelphia Eagles born on 7-31-1912 in Chicago, Illinois expired 11-10-2003 in Chicago, Illinois age 91 cause: complications from pneumonia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| poet, singer, Fug Naphtali "Tuli" Kupferberg co-founder of the Fugs band; jumped off of the Manhattan Bridge & lived to tell of it born on 9-28-1923 in New York, New York expired 7-12-2010 in Manhattan, New York, New York age 86 cause: complications from stroke AKS: Naftali | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| CBS' "road warrior" Charles Bishop Kuralt turns out he had a second "family" out on the road; original host of CBS' Sunday Morning born on 9-10-1934 in Wilmington, North Carolina expired 7-4-1997 in New York, New York age 62 cause: heart failure; lupus | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Soviet nuclear weapons designer Igor Vasilyevich Kurchatov lead team that designed the Tsar Bomba (King of Bombs), detonated 10/30/1961 over Novaya Zemlya Island in the Artic Ocean (reputed to be 50 to 57 megatons)born on 1-8-1903 in Simskii Zavad, Russia expired 2-7-1960 in Moscow, Russia, USSR age 57 cause: cerebral blood clot | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| set decorator/designer Emile Kuri won two oscars for The Heiress (1949) and 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954); designed main street setting in Its a Wonderful Life born on 6-11-1907 in Cuernavaca, Mexico expired 10-10-2000 in Woodland Hills, California age 93 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| director Akira Kurosawa directed Ran, The Seven Samurai, Kagemusha and Rashomon born on 3-23-1910 in Tokyo, Japan expired 9-6-1998 in Tokyo, Japan age 88 cause: stroke | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| cartoonist & co-founder of MAD magazine Harvey Kurtzman co-created the Little Annie Fannie cartoon strip in Playboy born on 10-3-1924 in New York, New York expired 2-21-1993 in Mount Vernon, New York age 68 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Michael N. Kuryla Jr a survivor of the sinking of the U.S.S. Indianapolis (July 1945) born on 9-10-1925 in Chicago, Illinois expired 10-3-2009 in Bartlett, Illinois age 84 cause: cancer | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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physicist Dr. Polykarp Kusch 1955 Nobel physics laureate, shared with Willis Lamb, for determining the magnetic moment of the electron born on 1-26-1911 in Blankenburg, Germany expired 3-20-1993 in Dallas, Texas age 82 cause: complications from strokes
AKS: Polycarp | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
abusive Jay Leno agent Helen G. Kushnick
expired 8-28-1996 in New York, New York age 51 cause: cancer | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| character actor Kay E. Kuter played Newt Kiley on Green Acres born on 4-25-1925 in Los Angeles, California expired 11-12-2003 in Burbank, California age 78 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| lawyer Luis Kutner co-founded Amnesty International & originated concept of the "living will" born on 6-9-1909 in Chicago, Illinois expired 3-1-1993 in Chicago, Illinois age 83 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Wharton School economist Simon Smith Kuznets received the 1971 Nobel prize in Economics born on 4-30-1901 in Kharkov, Russia expired 7-8-1985 in Cambridge, Massachusetts age 84 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Soviet World War II Admiral Nikolai Garasimovich Kuznetsov in and out of favor with Stalin; purged from Central Committee (1956) born on --1902 in Arkhangelsk, Russia expired 12-8-1974 in Moscow, Russia, USSR age 72 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
anti-apartheid crusader Ellen Kuzwayo was a co-founder of the African National Congress Youth League
expired 4-19-2006 in Soweto, South Africa age 91 cause: complications from diabetes | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| race horse lover Henryk Richard de Kwiatkowski owner of Calumet Farms (1992-2003), bought at bankruptcy auction for $17,000,000 born on 2-22-1924 in Poznan, Poland expired 3-17-2003 in Lyford Cay, New Providence Island, Bahamas age 79 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Frances Shand Kydd mother of Princess Di
expired 6-3-2004 in Oban, Scotland age 68 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| former Greek Cypriot president (1977-85) Spyros Achilles Kyprianou born on 10-28-1932 in Limassol, Cypus expired 3-12-2002 in Nicosia, Cyprus age 69 cause: pelvic cancer | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| big band leader James King Kern "Kay" Kyser born on 6-18-1906 in Rocky Mount, North Carolina expired 7-23-1985 in Chapel Hill, North Carolina age 79 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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