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total wacko Oom the Omnipotent mystic cult founder; reaffirmed P.T. Barnum's adage about the frequency-of-birth of "special" citizens
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| Dutch astronomer Jan Hendrik Oort eponymous comet "cloud" describer born on 4-28-1900 in Franeker, Friesland Province, The Netherlands expired 11-5-1992 age 92 | |||||||||||
| actor David Opatoshu born on 1-30-1918 in New York, New York expired 4-29-1996 in Los Angeles, California age 78 | |||||||||||
| Righteous Gentile Irene Gut Opdyke agreed to serve as a Nazi officer's mistress in order to save Jews from death camps born on 5-5-1918 in Poland expired 5-17-2003 in Yorba Linda, California age 85 cause: complications from fall | |||||||||||
public dipstick Robert Opel streaked the 1974 oscar ceremony — became the "butt" of a lot of bad jokes; was an avant-garde "performance artist" & freelance photographer for The Advocate (back when it was a newspaper; before it became a magazine); killed during a robbery in his "art gallery"born on 10-23-1939 expired 7-7-1979 in San Francisco, Cailfornia age 39 cause: murdered; shot in head AKS: Opell Opal Oppel Opul Opull | |||||||||||
18th Asante King (1970-99) Otumfuo Nana Opoku Ware II
expired 2-26-1999 in Kumasi, Ghana age 89 | |||||||||||
| South African diamond hoarder Sir Ernest Oppenheimer founded Anglo-American Corp.; took control of De Beers Consolidated Mines Ltd. born on 5-22-1880 in Friedberg, Hesse, Germany expired 11-25-1957 in Johannesburg, South Africa age 77 | |||||||||||
| former diamond magnate Harry Oppenheimer son of company founder Ernest born on 10-28-1908 in Kimberley, South Africa expired 8-19-2000 in Johannesburg, South Africa age 91
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physicist Julius Robert Oppenheimer led Manhattan Project's Los Alamos Lab during World War II
expired 2-18-1967 in Princeton, New Jersey age 62 | |||||||||||
| crystaline carbon mogul Louis Oppenheimer brother of Ernest expired 1-19-1956 in Gerrard's Cross, England age 85 | |||||||||||
SLA murder victim Myrna Lee Opsahl
expired 4-21-1975 in Carmichael, California age 42 cause: exsanguination; shotgun blast wounds | |||||||||||
balladeer Faustino Oramas one of the last members of the original "Buena Vista Social Club"
expired 3-27-2007 in Holguin, Cuba age 95 cause: liver cancer | |||||||||||
| actor Jerome Bernard "Jerry" Orbach an original cast member of a number of plays: El GalloThe Fantasticks (1960), Billy Flynn in Chicago & Julian Marsh in 42nd Street born on 10-20-1935 in New York, New York expired 12-28-2004 in New York, New York age 69 cause: prostate cancer | |||||||||||
| rock singer Roy Orbison born on 4-23-1936 in Vernon, Texas expired 12-6-1988 in Hendersonville, Tennessee age 52 | |||||||||||
mine union terrorist Harry Orchard assassinated Idaho governor Frank Steineberg (1905) + dozens of other "enemies" on behalf of the Western Federation of Miners
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| corrupt Spanish financier Juan Albert March Ordinas financially back Francisco Franco's coup; got incredibly rich because of it expired 3-10-1962 in Madrid, Spain age 81 | |||||||||||
movie writer/character actor Wyott Ordung penned "screenplay" to Robot Monster (1953)
expired 8-28-2005 in Los Angeles California age 83 | |||||||||||
| composer Carl Orff his best known work is Carmina Burana born on 7-10-1895 in München, Germany expired 3-29-1982 in München, Germany age 86
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| illustrator Joseph "Joe" Oriolo first illustrated Caspar the Friendly Ghost born on 2-21-1913 in Union City, New Jersey expired 12-25-1985 in Hackensack, New Jersey age 72 | |||||||||||
conductor Eugene Ormandy lead the Philadelphia ORchestra from 1938 to 1985
expired 3-12-1985 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania age 85 cause: pneumonia
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| Hollywood Ten screen writer Samuel Ornitz born on 11-15-1890 in New York, New York expired 3-11-1957 in Los Angeles, California age 66 | |||||||||||
| piano prodigy Leo Ornstein born on 12-11-1892 in Krementchug, Russia expired 2-24-2002 in Green Bay, Wisconsin age 109 | |||||||||||
| child actress Heather Michele O'Rourke played Carol Anne Freeling in the Poltergeist movies; had the famous line "They're here." born on 12-27-1975 in San Diego, California expired 2-1-1988 in San Diego, California age 12 cause: cardiopulmonary arrest; intestinal stenosis; Chron's disease | |||||||||||
Cars bassist/vocalist Benjamin Orr
expired 10-3-2000 in Atlanta, Georgia age 53 cause: pancreatic cancer | |||||||||||
nutritionist Lord John Boyd Orr first director of the U.N. Food and Agricultural Organization; received the 1949 Nobel peace prize for his efforts combating famineborn on 9-23-1880 in Kilmaurs, Ayrshire, Scotland expired 6-25-1971 in Brechin Angus, Scotland age 90 | |||||||||||
| Jack Warner's son-in-law William T. Orr bit actor in 1930s; started/headed Warner Brothers tv production department (1955-63), producting such shows as Cheyenne, Colt 45, F-Troop, Hawaiian Eye, Lawman, Maverick, 77 Sunset Strip and Surfside Six born on 9-27-1917 expired 12-25-2002 in Los Angeles, California age 85 | |||||||||||
 
Catholic Church leader (1724-1730) Pietro Francesco Orsini elected 246th Pope of the Roman Catholic Church May 29, 1724
expired 2-23-1730 age 81 | |||||||||||
| prolific radio actor Santos Ortega played grandpa Hughes on As The World Turns radio drama; also originated the radio roles of Inspector Queen on Ellery Queen, Perry Mason & Nero Wolfe born on 6-30-1899 expired 4-10-1976 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida age 76 | |||||||||||
Texas death row inmate Ricardo Ortiz
expired 1-29-2009 in Huntsville, Texas age 46 cause: executed; lethal injection
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former HIT Entertainment executive Peter Charles Orton created the kiddie show Bob the Builder as well as distributed shows like Barneyborn on 6-17-1943 in Portsmouth, England expired 12-5-2007 in Wootten Bassett, Wiltshire, England age 64 cause: throat cancer | |||||||||||
author's well known pen name George Orwell fought against the fascists in the Spanish Civil War; wrote 1984 and Animal Farm
expired 1-21-1950 in London, England age 46 cause: tuberculosis | |||||||||||
| dixieland jazz trombonist Edward "Kid" Ory wrote Muskrat Ramble (1921) born on 12-25-1886 in LaPlace, Louisiana expired 1-23-1973 in Honolulu, Hawaii age 86 cause: pneumonia; heart failure | |||||||||||
| Michigan governor (1911-13) and longtime role model for Jerry Lee Lewis, Roman Polanski & Woody Allen Chase Salmon Osborn married his adoptive daughter Stellanova (age 55) on April 9, 1949 born on 6-22-1860 in Huntington County, Indiana expired 4-11-1949 in Poulon, Georgia age 89 cause: too much honeymoon | |||||||||||
| early PC designer Adam Osborne created the Osborne 1 in 1981 (a 24 pound "portable" unit) born on 3-6-1939 in Bangkok, Thailand expired 3-18-2003 in Kodiakanal, India age 64 cause: brain cancer | |||||||||||
| Guinness Book hiccup record holder (69 years) Charlie Osborne expired 5-1-1991 age 98 | |||||||||||
| stage actor Edward Francis Michael Patrick Joseph O'Shea husband of Virginia Mayo born on 3-17-1906 in Hartford, Connecticut expired 12-4-1973 in Dallas, Texas age 67 cause: heart attack | |||||||||||
| actress Tessie O'Shea born on 3-13-1913 in Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom expired 4-21-1995 in Leesburg, Florida age 82 | |||||||||||
| German Prince Karl Gustav Adolf Oskar last surviving son of Kaiser Wilhelm II; an organizer of the Steel Helmut League, a pre-Nazi super-nationalist group expired 1-27-1958 in München, Germany age 69 | |||||||||||
| Western Union public relations director George P. Oslin invented the singing telegram; the first recipient was Rudy Vallee born on 8-5-1899 expired 10-24-1996 age 97 | |||||||||||
Turkish "royal" Ertuğrul Osman V head of the Imperial House of Osman (prentender to the Sultancy of the Ottoman Empire); his wife, Zeynep Tarzi Hanim, was a neice of one of the lasts Kings of Afghanistan
expired 9-23-2009 in Istanbul, Turkey age 97 cause: kidney failure AKS: Ertugrul | |||||||||||
| Philippines president (1944-46) Sergio Osmeña Nacionalista Party head (1907-33); advocate of Phillipine independence from U.S. expired 10-19-1961 in Manila, The Philippines age 83 | |||||||||||
| Osmond Family patriarch George Virl Osmond born on 10-13-1917 in Etna, Wyoming expired 11-6-2007 in Provo, Utah age 90 | |||||||||||
| Dr. Humphrey Fortescue Osmond while a psychiatrist at Weyburn Hospital in Saskatchewan gave Aldous Huxley a dose of mescaline (1953); coined term Psychedelic (1957) born on 7-1-1917 in Surrey, England expired 2-6-2004 in Appleton, Wisconsin age 86 cause: cardiac arrhythmia | |||||||||||
family matriarch Olive May Osmond mother of all those perky singers
expired 5-9-2004 in Provo, Utah age 79 cause: complications from stroke | |||||||||||
| former Columbian president (1946-50) Mariano Ospino Pé born on 11-24-1891 in Medellín, Columbia expired 4-14-1976 in Bogotá, Columbia age 84 | |||||||||||
| actress Margaret "Bibi" Osterwald born on 2-3-1918 in New Brunswick, New Jersey expired 1-2-2002 in Burbank, California age 83 | |||||||||||
| retired Yale vertebrate paleontologist (1961-91) John Harold Ostrom revived Thomas Henry Huxley's theory that birds were descended from dinosaurs & that dinosaurs may have been warm-blooded; an inspiration to Michael Crichton (Jurassic Park) born on 2-18-1928 in New York, New York expired 7-16-2005 in Litchfield, Connecticut age 77 cause: pneumonia; Alzheimer's disease | |||||||||||
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1909 Nobel laureate in chemistry Wilhelm Ostwald born on 9-2-1852 in Riga, Russia (now Latvia) expired 4-4-1932 in Leipzig, Germany (now Gdansk, Poland) age 79 | |||||||||||
| actress & Mia's mom Maureen O'Sullivan played LN-18 in Just Imagine (1930) & Jane in Tarzan and his Mate born on 5-17-1911 in Boyle, County Roscommon, Ireland expired 6-23-1998 in Scottsdale, Arizona age 87 | |||||||||||
accused presidential assassin Lee Harvey Oswald himself assassinated on national television by Jack Ruby in the basement of the Dallas Police Department; left behind young widow
expired 11-25-1963 in Dallas, Texas age 24 cause: multiple gunshot wounds | |||||||||||
| Marguerite Frances Oswald Claverie mother of Lee Harvey Oswald born on 7-19-1907 expired 1-17-1981 in Fort Worth, Texas age 73 | |||||||||||
author Henryk Adam Aleksander Pius Oszyk-Sienkiewicz wrote Quo Vadis (1896); 1905 Nobel literature laureate
expired 11-15-1916 in Vevay, Switzerland age 70 | |||||||||||
| pioneering aviatrix Katherine Stinson Otero fourth woman pilot (1912); first skywriter born on 2-14-1891 expired 7-8-1977 in Santa Fe, New Mexico age 86 | |||||||||||
| Nebraska death row inmate Harold Lamont "Willie" Otey expired 9-2-1994 age 43 cause: executed; electrocution | |||||||||||
| passenger elevator inventor (1857) Elisha Graves Otis born on 4-3-1811 in Halifax, Vermont expired 4-8-1861 in Yonkers, New York age 50 | |||||||||||
| former 1912 New York Highlanders baseball player Paul Franklin "Bill" Otis Sr. born on 12-24-1889 in Scituate, Massachusetts expired 12-15-1990 in Duluth, Minnesotta age 100 | |||||||||||
| hall of fame New York Giants outfielder (1926-47) Melvin Thomas Ott Detroit Tiger baseball broadcaster (before Ernie Harwell) born on 3-2-1909 in Gretna, Louisiana expired 11-21-1958 in New Orleans, Louisiana age 49 | |||||||||||
| history huckster Thomas Ray Ottenstein built the (now demolished) tower that overlooked the Gettysburg battlefield born on 12-7-1929 expired 8-2-2000 in Washington, District of Columbia age 70 cause: prostate cancer | |||||||||||
| Lawrence Ottinger founder of the U.S. Plywood Corp. expired 12-19-1954 in Scarsdale, New York age 71 | |||||||||||
Catholic Church leader (1689-1691) Pietro Ottoboni elected 242nd Pope of the Roman Catholic Church October 5, 1689
expired 2-1-1691 in Rome, Italy age 80 | |||||||||||
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