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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 | |||||||||||||||||||||
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 & acceptanceborn on 7-8-1926 in Zürich, Switzerland expired 8-24-2004 in Scottsdale, Arizona age 78 cause: complications from strokes
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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 | |||||||||||||||||||||
Richard Kuhn recipient of the 1938 Nobel Prize in chemistryborn 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 Kulp played Miss Jane Hathaway on The Beverly Hillbillies; sister of Robert Culp born on 8-28-1921 in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania expired 2-3-1991 in Palm Desert, California age 69 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| 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 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| 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
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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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