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Swedish dynamite inventor (1866) Alfred Bernhard Nobel funded prize foundation that gives out annual awardsborn on 10-21-1833 in Stockholm, Sweden expired 12-10-1896 in San Remo, Italy age 63 cause: cerebral hemorrhage | |||||||||||
| aviator General Umberto Nobile second to fly over the North Pole (5/12/1926, 3 days after Byrd) with Amundsen & Lincoln Ellsworth in the dirigible Norge; a second trip (5/25/1928) in the dirigible Italia was a disaster - it crashed, and the resulting rescue effort was the subject of the book The Red Tent (1967; written by Nobile) & movie (1971) born on 1-21-1885 in Lauro, Italy expired 7-29-1978 in Rome, Italy age 93 | |||||||||||
ex-slave Clem Noble
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| Life Savers candy mogul Edward John Noble with partner bought all rights to candy formula & name for $2,900 (1913); bought NBC's blue network when the FCC forced them to divest, renamed it ABC; FDR Commerce undersecretary (1939-40) born on --1882 in Gouverneur, New York expired 12-28-1958 in Greenwich, Connecticut age 76 | |||||||||||
| animation layout artist & designer Maurice J. Noble worked at Disney & Warner Brothers born on 5-1-1910 in Spooner, Minnesota expired 5-18-2001 in La Crescenta, California age 91 | |||||||||||
| bandleader Ray Noble born on 12-17-1903 in Brighton, Sussex, England expired 4-3-1978 in London, England age 74 cause: cancer | |||||||||||
| physicist Walter Noddack co-discovered (with his wife) the elements Rhenium and Masurium expired 12-7-1960 in Bamberg, Germany age 67 | |||||||||||
graphic artist Martin "Marty" Nodell co-created the Green Lantern comic book character (1941); first to draw Poppin' Fresh (the Pillsbury Doughboy)
expired 12-9-2006 in Muskego, Wisconsin age 91
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| master Bourbon distiller Frederick Booker Noe II grandson of James Beauregard "Jim" Beam (1892-1944); grandson of company founder Johannes Jacob Boehm born on 12-7-1929 expired 2-24-2004 in Bardstown, Kentucky age 74 cause: "an extended illness" | |||||||||||
United Kingdom member of parliament Philip John Noel-Baker received the 1959 Nobel peace prize
expired 10-8-1982 in London, England age 92 | |||||||||||
| political operative Franklyn Curran "Lyn" Nofziger born on 6-8-1924 in Bakersfield, California expired 3-27-2006 in Falls Church, Virginia age 81 cause: cancer AKS: Noffziger Nofzinger Noffzinger | |||||||||||
| sculptor & architect Isamu Noguchi born on 11-17-1904 in Los Angeles, California expired 12-30-1988 in New York, New York age 84 | |||||||||||
| not-so-rugged individualist David Fraser Nolan a co-founder of the Libertarian Party (1971) born on 11-23-1943 in Washington, District of Columbia expired 11-21-2010 in Tucson, Arizona age 66 cause: heart attack | |||||||||||
| actress Jeanette Nolan widow of John McIntire born on 12-30-1911 in Los Angeles, California expired 6-5-1998 in Los Angeles, California age 86 cause: complications from stroke | |||||||||||
| actor Lloyd Bendict Nolan born on 8-11-1902 in San Francisco, California expired 9-27-1985 in Los Angeles, California age 83 cause: lung cancer
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| postal worker Leonardo J. Nole model for the Rockefeller Center Skating Rink statue Prometheus born on 4-1-1906 expired 2-22-1998 in Sacramento, California age 91 | |||||||||||
| sled dog musher Edgar P. Nollner had 10th leg (Whiskey Point to Galena) of the emergency Diphtheria Serum delivery trek in Alaska, January 27-Feb 2 1925, along the Iditarod Trail from Nenana to Nome; last surviving musher born on 11-11-1904 in Old Village, Alaska expired 1-15-1999 in Galena, Alaska age 94 | |||||||||||
Yashuhito Chichibu No Maya brother of Hirohito
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| aircraft navigator Frederick J. Noonan disappeared along with Amelia Earhart during around-the-world flight born on --1893 expired 7-2-1937 in Gardner Island, Phoenix Island group, Western Pacific Ocean age 44 cause: plane crash / drowned / starvation??? | |||||||||||
| movie actor & producer Thomas Patrick "Tommy" Noonan born on 4-29-1921 expired 4-24-1968 in Hollywood, California age 46 | |||||||||||
| computer industry executive Raymond John Noorda one-time boss at Novell (1983-95) born on 6-19-1926 in Ogden, Utah expired 10-9-2006 in Oren, Utah age 82 cause: Alzheimer's disease | |||||||||||
retired Indiana University professor of Tibetan language & culture Thubten Jigme Norbu eldest brother of the Dali Lama; recognized as the reincarnation of lama Takster Rinpoche; date of birth also described as the 16th day of the eighth month of the Water Dog year
expired 9-5-2008 in Bloomington, Indiana age 86 AKS: Jigme means "fear not" and Norbu means "jewel" | |||||||||||
remote sensing pioneer Dr. William Nordberg
expired 10-3-1976 in Greenbelt, Maryland age 46 cause: cancer | |||||||||||
| World War II bombsight inventor Carl Lukas Norden born on 4-23-1880 in Semarang, Dutch East Indies expired 6-14-1965 in Zürich, Switzerland age 85 | |||||||||||
| author Charles Bernard Nordhoff co-wrote Mutiny on the Bounty, Men Against the Sea, Pitcairn's Island and Forbidden Paradise (Hurricane) born on 2-1-1887 in London, England expired 4-11-1947 in Santa Barbara, California age 60 cause: heart attack | |||||||||||
| one-time Tougaloo Christian College student Memphis L. Norman participant in a lunch counter segregation protest (sit-it) that turned violent (he was punched, burned, shoved off his stool & repeatedly kicked in the face); after doing a stint in Vietnam went back to school, eventually earning a PhD; was retired from the Office of Management and Budget as a budget examiner for a number of Federal agencies (1971-99) born on 7-23-1942 in Monroeville, Alabama expired 1-4-2005 in Falls Church, Virginia age 62 cause: heart attack | |||||||||||
silent film comedienne Mabel Ethelreid Normand "The Female Chaplin"; credited with throwing the first custard pie in the movies (1913)
expired 2-23-1930 in Monrovia, California age 35 cause: tuberculosis | |||||||||||
| Cambodian King Norodom Suramarit father of Norodom Sihanouk; succeeded his son to throne in 1955 expired 4-3-1960 in Phnom Penh, Cambodia age 64 | |||||||||||
| former Detroit Red Wings owner Bruce Norris born on 2-19-1924 expired 12-31-1985 age 80 | |||||||||||
| last surviving Scottsboro Boys defendant Clarence Norris subject of Norris v. Alabama Supreme Court ruling barring exclusion of blacks from juries; received pardon from George Wallace (1976) born on 7-12-1912 in Warm Springs, Georgia expired 1-23-1989 in New York, New York age 76 cause: Alzheimer's disease | |||||||||||
| Time magazine editor Frank Norris created Smokey the Bear artwork for the forest fire campaign born on 3-3-1907 expired 8-8-1967 in Siasconset, Massachusetts age 60 | |||||||||||
| comics artist Paul L. Norris co-creator of Aquaman (1940; with writer Mort Weisinger); wrote/drew the Brick Bradford strip (1952-87) born on 4-26-1914 in Greenville, Ohio expired 11-5-2007 in Oceanside, California age 93 cause: complications from stroke | |||||||||||
| William Charles Norris a co-founder of the Control Data Corp. (1957) born on 7-14-1911 in Red Cloud, Nebraska expired 8-21-2006 in Bloomington, Minnesota age 95 cause: complications from Parkinson's disease | |||||||||||
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researcher Ronald George Wreyford Norrish shared the 1967 Nobel Chemistry prize born on 11-9-1897 in Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England expired 6-7-1978 in Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England age 80 | |||||||||||
| character actor Alan North co-starred as a detective on Police Squad born on 12-23-1920 in New York, New York expired 1-19-2000 in Port Jefferson, New York age 79 cause: kidney & lung cancer | |||||||||||
| film composer Alex North wrote the music for the movie Unchained (1955); it featured a song (with lyrics by Hy Zaret) that went on to have a life of its own — Unchained Melody born on 12-4-1910 in Chester, Pennsylvania expired 9-8-1991 in Los Angeles, California age 80 | |||||||||||
| circus owner John Ringling North circus president (1947-67) born on 8-14-1903 in Baraboo, Wisconsin expired 6-4-1985 in Brussels, Belgium age 81 | |||||||||||
actress Sheree North played Lou Grant's girlfriend Charlene Maguire on the Mary Tyler Moore Show & Kramer's mother Babs on Seinfeld
expired 11-4-2005 in Los Angeles, California age 72 cause: complications following surgery | |||||||||||
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John Howard Northrop shared the 1946 Nobel chemistry prize born on 7-5-1891 in Yonkers, New York expired 5-27-1987 in Wickenberg, Arizona age 95 | |||||||||||
| aviation pioneer John Knudsen Northrop co-founded Lockheed Aircraft (1927) and Northrop Aircraft (1939); designed the Lockheed Vega & the Flying Wing born on 11-10-1895 in Newark, New Jersey expired 2-18-1981 in Glendale, California age 85 | |||||||||||
| retired Tigers outfielder James Thomas "Jim" Northrup born on 11-24-1939 in Breckenridge, Michigan expired 6-8-2011 in Grand Blanc, Michigan age 71 cause: seizure; Alzheimer's disease | |||||||||||
tv news producer Robert J. Northshield creator of the CBS News' Sunday Morning program (1979)
expired 8-21-2000 in Croton-on-Hudson, New York age 78 | |||||||||||
science fiction writer Andre Norton
expired 3-17-2005 in Murfreesboro, Tennessee age 93 cause: congestive heart failure | |||||||||||
jazz vibraphonist Kenneth "Red" Norvo
expired 4-6-1999 in Santa Monica, California age 91 | |||||||||||
| dentist Charles Whitlow Norwood Jr. served as a U.S. rep. from Georgia (1995-2007) born on 7-27-1941 in Valdosta, Georgia expired 2-13-2007 in Augusta, Georgia age 65 cause: complications from idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis; metastatic non-small cell lung cancer | |||||||||||
| actor, vaudevillian, lyricist Jack Norworth was a Ziegfeld Follies song-and-dance man; wrote the lyrics to "Take Me Out To the Ball Game" (music by Albert von Tilzer; 1908); didn't actually attend his first baseball game until 1940 born on 1-5-1879 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania expired 9-1-1959 in Laguna Beach, California age 80 cause: heart attack | |||||||||||
| Japanese Commie Sanzo Nosaka born on 3-30-1892 expired 11-13-1993 age 101 | |||||||||||
physician, astrologer & all-knowing seer Nostradamus on the night of his own death he predicted his own death for that night (AMAZING!)
expired 7-2-1566 in Salon, France age 62 cause: predestination | |||||||||||
| off-Broadway's Fantasticks producer Lore Note it ran from 5/3/1960- born on 6-9-1923 in New York, New York expired 7-8-2002 in New York, New York age 79 cause: cancer | |||||||||||
Chicago Sun-Times political columnist Robert David Sanders "Bob" Novak used to co-host a CNN gabfest; "outed" Valerie Plame as CIA "agent"born on 2-26-1931 in Joliet, Illinois expired 8-18-2009 in Washington, District of Columbia age 78 cause: brain cancer
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| 1920s silent screen "latin lover" Ramon Novarro the Rock Hudson of his era; cousin of Dolores Del Rio (an apocryphal account has the two teenagers that killed him using a "large silver dildo" as the weapon)
expired 10-28-1968 in Hollywood Hills, California age 69 cause: bludgeoned to death during robbery AKS: Navarro | |||||||||||
| Jay Novello born on 8-22-1904 in Chicago, Illinois expired 9-2-1982 in North Hollywood, California age 78 | |||||||||||
| former Czech Communist Party dictator (1953-68) Antonin Novotny born on 12-10-1904 in Letnany, Czechoslovakia expired 1-28-1975 age 70 cause: blood clot | |||||||||||
novella author Philip Francis Nowlan created engineer Anthony Rogers in Armageddon 2419 A.D. (August 1928) & The Airlords of Han (March 1929) for Amazing Stories; wrote stories for Buck Rogers daily comic strip
expired 2-1-1940 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania age 52 cause: stroke | |||||||||||
| Intel co-founder (1968) Robert Morton Noyce born on 12-12-1927 in Burlington, Iowa expired 6-3-1990 in Austin, Texas age 62 | |||||||||||
| former Washington Evening Star president Frank Brett Noyes co-founder of the Associated Press; its president (1900-38) born on 7-7-1863 in Washington, District of Columbia expired 12-1-1948 in Washington, District of Columbia age 85 | |||||||||||
| retired Paramount art director Albert Nozaki interred in Manzanar Camp during World War II; worked on When Worlds Collide (1951), The War of the Worlds (1953) & The Ten Commandments born on 1-1-1912 in Tokyo, Japan expired 11-16-2003 in Los Angeles, California age 91 cause: complications from pneumonia | |||||||||||
| Burundi president (1994) Cyprien Ntaryamira born on 3-6-1955 in Mageyo, Mubimbi, Bujumbura, Burundi expired 4-6-1994 in Kigali, Rwanda age 39 cause: plane crash | |||||||||||
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