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character actor  Meinhardt Frank Raabe   played the Munchkin Coroner in The Wizard of Oz (1939); originated the role of processed meat huckster "Little Oscar" (1936); has a B.S. in accounting from U-Wisconsin & an MBA ¤ Raabe — rhymes with "Hobby"  born on 9-2-1915 in Watertown, Jefferson County, Wisconsin (nearby) expired 4-9-2010 in Orange Park, Florida   age 94   cause: heart attack    Contest Selectors 2000 RR 14% 2001 RR 12½% 2002 JAC, RR 18.2% 2003 ABRA, PCD, RR 16.7% 2004 PCD, RR 11.1% 2005 PCD, RR 8.7% 2006 DTM, KLS, LMLD, MOT, PCD, TFM 20.0% 2007 ABRA, AUDC, DTM, KLS, MOT, OIE, PCD, RPRM, RR, TFM 32.3% 2008 DTM, KLS, MORB, OIE, PCD, RPRM, RR, SPAM, TFM 28.1% 2009 DTM, KLS, MORB, PCD, RPRM, RR, TFM 23.3% 2010 ADWC, DTM, KLS, MORB, PCD, RPRM, RR 25.9%    Scored 3.1391 points

actor  Francisco "Paco" Rabal Valera   played Máximo Espejo in Tie Me Up, Tie Me Down (1990) born on 3-8-1925 in Águilas, Murcia, Spain expired 8-29-2001 in Bordeaux, France   age 75

Bahai leader  Ruhiyyih Rabbani   widow of Shoghi Effendi ¤ born: Mary Sutherland Maxwell  born on 8-8-1910 in New York, New York expired 1-19-2000 in Haifa, Israel   age 89

Bahai leader (1921-57)  Shoghi Effendi Rabbani   his great-grandfather founded the religion expired 11-4-1957 in London, England   age ??   cause: Asian flu

country-pop singer  Edward Thomas "Eddie" Rabbit born on 11-27-1941 in New York, New York expired 5-7-1998 in Nashville, Tennessee   age 56   cause: lung cancer

publicist  Wilmer T. "Bill" Rabe   Unicorn hunter, Stone-Skipper & Banisher of Words born on 9-12-1921 expired 4-4-1992 in Sault Saint Marie, Michigan   age 70

physicist  Isidor Isaac Rabi   the 1944 Nobel physics laureate born on 7-29-1898 in Rymanów, Galicia, Austria-Hungary expired 1-11-1988 in New York, New York   age 89

peace advocate  Leah Rabin   widow of Yitzhak ¤ born: Leah Schlossberg  born on 4-28-1928 in Konigsberg, Germany (now Kaliningrad, Russia) expired 11-12-2000 in Tel Aviv, Israel   age 72   cause: cancer

violinist  Michael Rabin born on 5-2-1936 in New York, New York expired 1-19-1972 in New York, New York   age 35

Israeli political leader  Yitzhak Rabin   shared 1994 Nobel Peace prize born on 3-1-1922 in Jerusalem, Palestine expired 11-4-1995 in Tel Aviv, Israel   age 73   cause: assassinated

elder sprinter  Philip Rabinowitz   according to the Guinness Book held the record for the 100+ crowd in the 100m dash — 30.86s born on 2-16-1904 in Lithuania expired 2-29-2008 in Cape Town, South Africa   age 104   cause: complications from stroke    Contest Selectors 2006 DTM 3.3% 2007 DTM 3.2% 2008 DTM 3.1%    Scored 4.6000 solo points

Sergei's widow  Natalie Rachmaninoff expired 1-17-1951 in New York, New York   age 70

concert pianist, conductor, last of the Romantic period composers  Sergei Vassilyevich Rachmaninoff   a pupil of Tchaikovsky; wrote numerous orchestral works including Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini born on 4-1-1873 in Oneg, Russia expired 3-28-1943 in Beverly Hills, California   age 69

Decca records co-founder  Milton R. Rackmil born on 2-12-1906 expired 4-2-1992   age 86

former RCA Records executive  Norman Racusin   instrumental in the development of the 8-Track Tape born on 4-27-1920 in Johnsonburg, Pennsylvania expired 4-29-2002 in Carlsbad, New Mexico   age 82   cause: stroke

former Red Sox relief pitcher  Richard Raymond "Dick" Radatz Sr.   a 1959 MSU graduate born on 4-2-1937 in Detroit, Michigan expired 3-16-2005 in South Easton, Massachusetts   age 67   cause: head injuries; fall down flight of stairs; heart attack

Negro league baseball player  Alexander "Alec" Radcliffe   younger brother of Ted Radcliffe; was one of the best third-basemen to play in the league born on 6-26-1905 in Mobile, Alabama expired 7-18-1983 in Chicago, Illinois   age 78    Contest Selectors 2006 TBC

Negro league baseball player  Theodore Roosevelt "Ted" Radcliffe   given nickname by Damon Runyon for catching the first game of a doubleheader (in 1932 Negro League World Series), then pitching the second game ¤ nickname: "Double Duty"  born on 7-7-1902 in Mobile, Alabama expired 8-11-2005 in Chicago, Illinois   age 103   cause: cancer    Contest Selectors 2003 DTM, JL, PCD 16.7% 2004 DTM, PCD 11.1% 2005 DTM, PCD, TMD 13.0%    Scored 2.8250 points

movie director  Alphonse Marie "Fons" Rademaker   won the Academy Award — Best Foreign Language Film — for De Aanslag (1986; The Assault) born on 9-5-1920 in Roosendaal, The Netherlands expired 2-22-2007 in Amsterdam, The Netherlands   age 86   cause: emphysema

al-Qaeda terrorist  Abu Hamza Radia   succeeded Abu Faraj al-Libbi as the #3 thug in the terrorist organization expired 12-1-2005 in Asori, Pakistan   age ??   cause: assassinated; stinger missile strike from CIA Predator drone

SNL comedienne/actress  Gilda Radner   wife of Gene Wilder born on 6-28-1946 in Detroit, Michigan expired 5-20-1989 in Los Angeles, California   age 42   cause: ovarian cancer

former Air Force reservist  Milo John Radulovich   in 1953, while studying meteorology at the University of Michigan, was given the bum's rush out of the reserves for refusing to denounce his father & sister during the McCarthy witch hunts; Ed Murrow got wind of it and named names (McCarthy's); Milo retired from the weather service after working for many years at the National Weather Service office in Lansing, Michigan (exiled to a frozen gulag ... and that's the summers!) born on 10-28-1926 in Detroit, Michigan expired 11-19-2007 in Vallejo, California   age 81   cause: complications from stroke    Contest Selectors 2007 DGW 3.2%    Scored 6.9000 solo points

Sir  Leon K. Radzinowicz   an academic criminologist at the University of Cambridge (1946-59) ¤ born: Rabinowicz  born on 8-15-1906 in Łódź, Poland expired 12-29-1999 in Haverford, Pennsylvania   age 93

tv producer  Anthony Stanislas Radziwill   son of Lee & Prince Stanislas ¤ title: Prince  born on 8-4-1959 in Lausanne, Switzerland expired 7-10-1999 in New York, New York   age 39   cause: cancer

Prince  Stanislas Radziwill   ex-husband of Lee Bouvier (1959-74) expired 6-27-1976 in London, England   age 62   cause: heart attack

Nazi navy commander  Erich Raeder   convicted of war crimes at Nuremburg born on 4-24-1876 in Wandsbek, Germany expired 6-27-1976 in Kiel, Germany   age 100

retired Army Special Forces Colonel  Edson Duncan Raff   while head of 77th Special Forces Group at Ft. Bragg outfitted his men with green berets (1954) born on 11-15-1907 in New York, New York expired 3-11-2003 in Garnett, Kansas   age 95

character actor  "Chips" Rafferty ¤ real name: John Goffage  expired 5-27-1971 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia   age 62   cause: heart attack

character actress  Frances Rafferty   played Ruth Henshaw on December Bride (1954-61) & Nancy on Pete and Gladys (1961-62) born on 6-16-1922 in Sioux City, Iowa expired 4-18-2004 in Paso Robles, California   age 81

Great Lakes sailor  Charles Robert Rafferty   First Cook (Steward) aboard the Edmund Fitzgerald expired 11-10-1975 in Eastern Lake Superior, Canada   age 62   cause: drowned when ship foundered

retired notary & loser in life's lottery  André-François Raffray   in 1965 started paying Jean Calment $500 per month for the right to inherit her apartment in Arles expired 12-25-1995 in Arles, France   age 77

Emmy-award winning tv director  Alan Rafkin born on 7-23-1928 in New York, New York expired 8-6-2001 in Los Angeles, California   age 73   cause: heart disease

actor  George Raft ¤ born: George Ranft  born on 9-26-1895 in New York, New York expired 11-24-1980 in Hollywood, California   age 85   cause: leukemia    Contest Selectors 1979 DO, HA, JW 23.1% 1980 DO 6.3%    Scored 3.5000 solo points

Hair co-author/lyricist & star  Jerome Bernard Ragni born on 9-11-1942 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania expired 7-10-1991 in New York, New York   age 48   cause: cancer

founding president of Bangladesh Sheik  Mujibur Rahman   never met Sirajul Islam or David Letterman; assassinated during military coup born on 3-17-1920 in Tongipara, East Bengal, India expired 8-15-1975 in Dacca, Bangladesh   age 55   cause: assassinated

actor  Raimu   played César Olivier in Marcel Pagnol's original productions of Marius (play: 1929; movie: 1931), Fanny (1931) & César (1936) ¤ real name: Jules Muraire  born on 12-18-1883 in Toulon, Val, France expired 9-20-1946 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France   age 62

Playboy September 1954 Playmate of Month  Jackie Rainbow   listed in the Social Security Death Index as "J RAINBOW" born on 6-3-1933 expired 6-15-1988   age 55

author/screen writer  Norman Reilly Raine   created Tugboat Annie in stories for the Saturday Evening Post; wrote screenplay for 1933 movie with Marie Dressler; won 1937 oscar for The Life of Émile Zola screenplay born on 6-23-1895 in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania expired 7-19-1971 in Woodland Hills, California   age 76

former Neshoba County (Mississippi) sheriff (1963-67)  Lawrence Andrew Rainey Sr.   acquitted of involvement in the 1964 murders of civil rights workers Chaney, Goodman & Schwerner born on 3-2-1923 expired 11-8-2002 in Meridian, Mississippi   age 79   cause: throat & tongue cancer

actor  Claude Rains   appeared in Lawrence of Arabia and Captain Louie Renault in Casablanca ("Round up the usual suspects.") born on 11-9-1889 in London, England expired 5-30-1967 in Sandwich, New Hampshire   age 77   cause: intesinal hemorrhage

Leo James Rainwater   shared the 1975 Nobel prize in physics born on 12-9-1917 in Council, Idaho expired 5-31-1986 in Yonkers, New York   age 68

character actor  Carl William "Bill" Raisch   best-known for playing Fred Johnson (the one-armed man) on The Fugitive (1963-67); lost part of arm during World War II born on 4-5-1905 in North Bergen, New Jersey expired 7-31-1984 in Santa Monica, California   age 79   cause: lung cancer

Broadway/stage actor/singer  John Emmet Raitt   originated the role of Billy Bigelow in Carousel (1945) & Sig Sorokin in Pajama Game (1954); father of singer Bonnie Raitt born on 1-20-1917 in Santa Ana, California expired 2-20-2005 in Pacific Palisades, California   age 88   cause: complications from pneumonia    Contest Selectors 2002 MORB 9.1% AKS: Jon Rait Raight R8

first governor-general of India  Chakravarti Rajagopalachari expired 12-26-1972 in Madras, India   age 94

Iranian president  Mohammed Ali Rajai born on --1933 in Quazin, Persia expired 8-30-1981 in Tehran, Iran   age 47   cause: bomb blast

Baghwan  Shree Rajneesh ¤ born: Chandra Mohan Jain  born on 12-11-1931 in Kuthwara, Madhya Predesh, India expired 1-19-1990 in Poona, India   age 58   cause: heart disease

Stalinist Hungarian communist leader (1945-56)  Matyas Rakosi expired 2-5-1971 in Gorki, Russia, USSR   age 78

movie music composer  David Raksin   wrote scores for Laura (1944) & Earth vs. the Flying Saucers (1956) born on 8-4-1912 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania expired 8-9-2004 in Van Nuys, California   age 92   cause: heart failure    Contest Selectors 2000 RR 14% 2001 RR 12½% 2002 RR 9.1% 2003 RR 5.6% 2004 RR 5.6%    Scored 5.8000 solo points

tv music composer/arranger  Donald E. Ralke   worked on 77 Sunset Strip, Happy Days and Laverne and Shirley; wrote Kookie - Lend Me Your Comb born on 7-13-1920 expired 1-26-2000 in Santa Rosa, California   age 80

actress  Esther Ralston born on 9-17-1902 in Bar Harbor, Maine expired 1-14-1994 in Ventura, California   age 91

former Ice Capades skater  Vera Hruba Ralston   became an actress (sort of) ¤ born: Vera Helena Hruba  born on 6-21-1923 in Prague, Czechoslovakia expired 2-9-2003 in Santa Barbara, California   age 79   cause: cancer

Siamese King  Rama IV   reigned 1851-68; hired Anna Leonowens as English teacher for his son (1862) ¤ prior to ascension known as: Crown Prince Monghut  born on 10-18-1804 expired 10-18-1868   age 64

Siamese King  Rama V   reigned 1868-1910; was taught English by Anna Leonowens (1862-67) ¤ prior to ascension known as: Crown Prince Chulalongkorn  born on 9-20-1853 in Bangkok, Siam expired 10-23-1910 in Bangkok, Siam   age 57

longtime Saddam Hussein crony  Taha Yassin Ramadan   had been the Vice President of Iraq (1991-2003) ¤ real name: Taha Yassin al-Jezrawi  born on --1938 in Mosul, Iraq expired 3-20-2007 in Baghdad, Iraq   age 68   cause: executed; hanged    Contest Selectors 2005 ANG 4.3% 2006 TWOS 3.3%

Vedic astrologer  Bangalore Venkata Raman born on 8-8-1912 expired 12-20-1998 in Bangalore, India   age 86   cause: heart attack

1930 Nobel physics laureate Sir  Chandrasekhara Venkatataman Roman   work led to invention of the laser spectrometer born on 11-7-1888 in Tiruchinapalli, Tamil Nadu, British India expired 11-21-1970 in Bangalore, India   age 82   cause: heart attack AKS: Trichinopoly Madras

author  Erich Maria Remarque   wrote All Quiet on the Western Front (1929) expired 9-25-1970 in Locarno, Switzerland   age 72

character actress  Marjorie Rambeau   played Tugboat Annie in Tugboat Annie Sails Again (1940; Ronald Reagan played Eddie Kent in the movie) born on 7-15-1889 in San Francisco, California expired 7-6-1970 in Palm Springs, California   age 80

gospel singer/songwriter  Joyce Reba "Dottie" Rambo ¤ née: Lutrell  born on 3-2-1934 in Madisonville, Kentucky expired 5-11-2008 in Mount Vernon, Missouri (nearby)   age 74   cause: tour bus accident

Dallas leading man  Norman J. "Dack" Rambo   First Blood, Part HIV??? born on 11-13-1941 in DeLano, California expired 3-21-1994 in DeLano, California   age 53   cause: AIDS

actress & fashion designer  Natacha Rambova   second wife of Rudolf Valentino expired 6-5-1966 in Pasadena, California   age 69

Israeli Space Agency Shuttle STS-107 astronaut  Ilan Ramon   one of the pilots that took out Osirak, Iraqi nuclear reactor in 1981 born on 6-20-1954 in Tel Aviv, Israel expired 2-1-2003 in over north-central Texas   age 48   cause: disintegration of Shuttle Columbia during re-entry

French actor  Harold Ramond   named in Lupe Velez's suicide note as the father of the unborn child she carried ¤ real name: Harald Maresch aka: Harald Ramond  born on 6-9-1916 in Vienna, Lower Austria, Austria-Hungary expired 12-7-1986 in West Hollywood, California   age 70

rock musician  Dee Dee Ramone ¤ real name: Douglas Glenn Colvin  born on 9-18-1952 in Fort Lee, Virginia expired 6-5-2002 in Los Angeles, California   age 49   cause: heroin overdose    Contest Selectors 1979 SB 7.7%

rocker  Joey Ramone   provided the musical background for Rock and Roll High School (1979) ¤ real name: Jeffrey Ross Hyman  born on 5-19-1951 in New York, New York expired 4-15-2001 in New York, New York   age 49   cause: lymphoma    Contest Selectors 1979 SB 7.7%

punk rock guitarist  Johnny Ramone ¤ real name: John Cummings  born on 10-8-1948 in Long Island, New York expired 9-15-2004 in Los Angeles, California   age 55   cause: complications from prostate cancer    Contest Selectors 1979 SB 7.7%

Dr.  Santiago Ramón y Cajal   shared the 1906 Nobel prize in medicine for his work on the structure of the nervous system born on 5-1-1852 in Petilla, Aragon, Spain expired 10-18-1934 in Madrid, Spain   age 82 AKS: Ramon

flautist  Jean-Pierre Rampal born on 1-7-1922 in Marseille, France expired 5-20-2000 in Paris, France   age 78   cause: heart attack

Jean-Pierre's pop  Joseph Rampal expired 1-11-1983   age 87

two-time Olympic medalist  Godfrey Lionel Rampling   as part of the British 4x400m relay team won silver medal in L.A. (1932) & gold medal in Berlin (1936); he was the last living gold medalist from the 1936 games; father of actress Charlotte Rampling born on 5-14-1909 in Blackheath, London, England expired 6-20-2009 in Bushey, Hertfordshire, England   age 100

chemist Sir  William Ramsay   his discovery of the Noble gases earned him the 1904 Nobel prize in chemistry born on 10-2-1852 in Glasgow, Scotland expired 7-23-1916 in Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, England   age 63 AKS: Ramsey

actress  Anne Ramsey   had title role in Throw Momma From The Train (playing Momma, NOT the Train); wife of Logan ¤ born: Anne Mobley  born on 9-1-1929 in Omaha, Nebraska expired 8-11-1988 in Los Angeles, California   age 58   cause: throat cancer

Enid, Mississippi farmer  Augustus "Gus" Ramsey   one of the jurors in the "trial" of J.W. Milam & Roy Bryant for the murder of Emmett Till born on --1907 expired ??-??-1962   age 55

World War I military veteran  Howard Verne Ramsey born on 4-2-1898 in Rico, Colorado expired 2-22-2007 in Portland, Oregon   age 108

murdered tot  JonBenét Patricia Ramsey   the case is still unsolved born on 8-6-1990 in Atlanta, Georgia expired 12-25-1996 in Bolder, Colorado   age 6   cause: murdered; asphyxia (garroted); craniocerebral trauma AKS: JonBenet Jon Benet Bené

character actor  Logan Ramsey Jr.   widower of Anne; played proconsel Claudius Marcus in original Star Trek series episode Bread and Circuses (1968); his father (Sr.; stationed on Ford Island) sounded the alarm at Pearl Harbor at start of attack & sent radio message "Air Raid Pearl Harbor! This Is No Drill!" born on 3-21-1921 in Long Beach, California expired 6-26-2000 in Los Angeles, California   age 79

1977 Miss West Virginia  Patricia Ann "Patsy" Ramsey   mother of murdered child (JonBenét) ¤ née: Paugh  born on 12-29-1956 in Parkersburg, West Virginia expired 6-24-2006 in Roswell, Georgia   age 49   cause: brain cancer; ovarian cancer    Contest Selectors 2004 KLS 5.6% 2005 KLS 4.3% 2006 ANG, CSI, LMLD, RR, TBC 16.7%    Scored 7.7563 points

Indian youth  Ramu   was known as the "wolf boy" expired 2-20-1985 in Lucknow, India   age 10

author  Ayn Rand ¤ born: Alissa Rosenbaum  born on 2-2-1905 in Saint Petersberg, Russia expired 3-6-1982 in New York, New York   age 77    Contest Selectors 1980 BD, EB 12.5%

inventor  James Henry Rand   co-founder of Sperry Rand Corp. born on 11-18-1886 in North Tonawanda, New York expired 6-3-1968 in Freeport, Bahamas   age 81

graphic designer  Paul Rand   designed the ABC, IBM, UPS and Westinghouse logotypes born on 8-15-1914 in New York, New York expired 11-22-1996 in Norwalk, Connecticut   age 68   cause: multiple myeloma

celebrated ecdysiast  Sally Rand   famous for her Fan Dance; given stage name by C.B. DeMille ¤ real name: Harriet Helen Gould Beck  born on 1-2-1904 in Elkton, Missouri expired 8-31-1979 in Glendora, California   age 75   cause: congestive heart failure    Contest Selectors 1979 DO  7.7%    Scored 5 solo points

printing firm co-founder (1856)  William H. Rand Sr.   started printing maps in 1872 born on 5-2-1828 in Quincy, Massachusetts expired 6-20-1915 in New Canaan, Connecticut   age 87

Madagascan valiha virtuoso  Benjamin Sylvestre Randafison born on --1928 expired 7-12-2003 in Antanaraarivo, Madagascar   age 75

tv writer  Bob Randall ¤ born: STanley B. Goldstein  born on 8-20-1937 in New York, New York expired 2-11-1995 in New Milford, Connecticut   age 57   cause: AIDS

long-time glaucoma sufferer  Robert C. Randall   won legal right to smoke marijuana for medical relief of condition (1975) born on 1-23-1948 expired 6-2-2001 in Sarasota, Florida   age 53   cause: complications from AIDS

actress  Sue Randall   played teacher Miss Landers on Leave It To Beaver (1958-62) ¤ real name: Marion Burnside Randall  born on 10-8-1935 expired 10-26-1984 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania   age 49   cause: cancer

actor  Tony Randall   tv Odd Couple's Felix Unger ¤ born: Leonard Rosenberg  born on 2-26-1920 in Tulsa, Oklahoma expired 5-17-2004 in New York, New York   age 84   cause: pneumonia    Contest Selectors 2001 NFG 12½% 2002 MORB 9.1% 2003 ABRA 5.6% 2004 NFG, SS 11.1%    Scored 5.3500 points

former Sea & Ski president (1961-69)  William B. Randall   made suntan lotion for pasty-white middle age beach visitors born on 1-8-1920 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania expired 11-2-2001 in Carlsbad, California   age 81

songwriter  Teddy Randazzo Sr. ¤ born: Alessandro Randazzo  born on 5-20-1937 in New York, New York expired 11-21-2003 in Orlando, Florida   age 66   cause: heart attack

"Yakety" saxophonist  Homer Louis "Boots" Randolph III   co-author of the song — one of Benny Hill's favorite ditties; one of the backup musicians on Roy Orbison's "Pretty Woman" born on 6-3-1927 in Paducah, Kentucky expired 7-3-2007 in Nashville, Tennessee   age 80   cause: disconnection from respirator; brain death; subdural hematoma; cerebral hemorrhage

West Virginia rep. (1933-47) & senator (1958-85)  Jennings Randolph   wrote 26th Amendment to U.S. Constitution (18 year-old vote) born on 3-8-1902 in Salem, West Virginia expired 5-8-1998 in Saint Louis, Missouri   age 96

blacklisted Tony Award-winning stage/screen/tv character actor  John Randolph   a former boardmember of the Screen Actors Guild, Actor's Equity & AFTRA ¤ born: Emmanuel Hirsch Cohen renamed: Mortimer Lippman (by stepfather) changed name in 1940  born on 6-1-1915 in New York, New York expired 2-24-2004 in Hollywood, California   age 88   cause: pneumonia

forgotten U.S. president  Peyton Randolph   first & third president of the Continental Congress under the Articles of Association (9/5/1774-10/21/1774 & 5/10/1775-5/23/1775) born on 9--1721 in Williamsburg, Virginia expired 10-22-1775 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania   age 54

movie producer Lord  Joseph Arthur Rank   his movies always started with the picture of a guy banging a large gong born on 12-23-1888 in Hull, Yorkshire, England expired 3-29-1972 in Winchester, England   age 83

Eisenhower Solicitor General  James Lee Rankin   Chief Council for the Warren Commission born on 7-8-1907 in Nebraska expired 6-26-1996 in Santa Cruz, California   age 88   cause: complications from strokes

pacifist  Jeanette Rankin   first women in congress (appointed & elected — 1917-1918 & 1941-42); voted against U.S. entry into World War I and World War II born on 6-11-1880 in Missoula, Montana expired 5-18-1973 in Carmel, California   age 92

Mississippi Representative (1921-53)  John Elliott Rankin   crusader for white supremacy; co-authored bills that created the TVA and the GI Bill of Rights born on 3-29-1882 in Mississippi expired 11-26-1960 in Tupelo, Mississippi   age 78

former (East) Indian prime minister (1991-6)  Pamulaparthi Venkata Narasimha Rao born on 6-28-1921 in Vangara village, Karimnagar Region, Andhra Pradesh, India expired 12-23-2004 in New Delhi, India   age 83   cause: cardiac arrest

movie producer & MGM vice president  Harry Rapf expired 2-6-1949 in Hollywood, California   age 68   cause: heart attack

Dartmouth professor & screenwriter  Maurice Harry Rapf   co-founder of the Writer's Guild of America; co-wrote live action segments of Song of the South (1946); blacklisted in 1947 born on 5-19-1914 in New York, New York expired 4-15-2003 in Hanover, New Hampshire   age 88   cause: pneumonia

next-to-last Ziegfeld Girl  Dorothy Deborah "Dolly" Raphaelson   widow of Samson Raphaelson ¤ née: Wegman  born on 11-27-1904 in Manhattan, New York, New York expired 11-7-2005 in New York, New York   age 100   cause: complications from heart ailment

playwright  Samson Raphaelson   wrote The Jazz Singer (1925); did screenplay for Heavan Can Wait born on 3-30-1896 in New York, New York expired 7-16-1983 in New York, New York   age 87

urban planner Dr.  Chester Rapkin   coined the designation "SoHo" for the Manhattan district south of Houston Street (1962) born on 2-18-1918 in New York, New York expired 1-28-2001 in New Brunswick, New Jersey   age 82   cause: pneumonia

composer  Joseph "Joe" Raposo born on 2-8-1937 in Fall River, Massachusetts expired 2-5-1989 in Bronxville, New York   age 51

writer, producer, director  Philip Rapp   created The Bickersons, Baby Snooks (for Fanny Brice); wrote & directed tv's Topper series born on 3-26-1907 expired 1-23-1996   age 88

actor  David Rappaport born on 11-23-1951 in London, England expired 5-1-1990 in Laurel Canyon, San Fernando Valley, California   age 38   cause: suicide; gunshot to chest

party girl and "actress"  Virginia Rappe   her death after a booze-soaked party resulted in 3 murder trials for Roscoe Arbuckle ¤ born: Virginia Rapp  born on --1895 in New York, New York expired 9-9-1921 in San Francisco, California   age 25   cause: peritonitis

director  Irving Rapper   directed Now Voyager (1942) born on 1-18-1898 in London, England expired 12-20-1999 in Woodland Hills, California   age 101

former Negro Leagues baseball team owner  Ted Rasberry   once owned the Kansas City Monrchs & Detroit Stars expired 4-17-2001 in Kentwood, Michigan   age 89   cause: pneumonia; complications from heart attack & stroke; colitis AKS: Raspberry

human-computer interface expert  Jef Raskin   was the 31st employee hired by Apple Computer (1978); started the Macintosh Computer project (1979), naming it after his favorite fruit (but spelling it differently because there was already an audio component company named McIntosh); left Apple in 1982 after conflicting with Steven Jobs over the project (the computer was introduced during the 1984 Super Bowl in a now-classic commercial); originated the idea of "drag and drop" born on 3-9-1943 in New York, New York expired 2-26-2005 in Pacifica, California   age 61   cause: pancreatic cancer

early General Motors investor  John Jakob Raskob   had the Empire State Building built born on 3-12-1879 in Lockport, New York expired 10-14-1950 in Centreville, Maryland   age 71   cause: heart attack

retired printer  Reginald Rasley   survived the December 6, 1917 Halifax explosion (debris from the Mont-Blanc came crashing down on the house he was occupying) born on 8-17-1909 in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada expired 4-22-2007 in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada   age 97

the original "mad monk"  Grigori Efimovich Rasputin   "advisor" to the last Romanov Czar Nicholas II born on 1-23-1871 in Tobolsk, Russia expired 12-31-1916 in Saint Petersburg, Russia   age 45   cause: poisoned, shot, drowned

meat packing house co-founder  John W. Rath expired 12-22-1951 in Waterloo, Iowa   age 79

actor  Basil Rathbone   noted for his portrayal of Sherlock Holmes; played Baron Wolf von Frankenstein, the Son of Frankenstein (1939) born on 6-13-1892 in Johannesburg, South Africa expired 7-21-1967 in New York, New York   age 75

Mary Jane Rathbun   baked marijuana-laced brownies for AIDs and chemotherapy patients ¤ aka: Brownie Mary  born on 12-22-1923 expired 4-10-1999 in San Francisco, California   age 75

Catholic Church leader (1922-1939)  Achille Ratti   elected 260th Pope of the Roman Catholic Church ¤ Pope Pius XI  born on 5-31-1857 in Desio, Italy expired 2-10-1939   age 81

Johannes Rau   former president of Germany (1999-2004) born on 1-16-1931 in Wuppertal-Barmen, Northrhine-Westphalia, Germany expired 1-27-2006 in Berlin, Germany   age 75   cause: heart ailment

Hitler's niece & "close personal friend"  Angela Maria "Geli" Raubal born on 6-4-1908 in Linz, Germany expired 9-18-1931 in München, Germany   age 23   cause: suicide; gunshot to heart AKS: Raulbel

activist/lawyer  Joseph L. Rauh born on 1-3-1911 expired 9-3-1992   age 81

Scopes trial judge  John Tate Raulston born on 9-22-1868 in Marion County, Tennessee expired 7-11-1956 in South Pittsburg, Tennessee   age 87

Soviet space pioneer  Boris Rauschenbach   helped to photograph the dark side of the Moon born on 1-18-1915 in Saint Petersburg, Russia expired 3-27-2001 in Moscow, Russia   age 86 AKS: Raushenbach

pop artist  Robert Rauschenberg ¤ born: Milton Ernst Rauschenberg  born on 10-22-1925 in Port Arthur, Texas expired 5-12-2008 in Captiva, Florida   age 82   cause: heart failure

packaging magnate Dr.  Gad Rausing PhD.   co-inventor (1952)/manufacurer of the Tetra Pak milk/beverage container born on 5-12-1922 in Stockholm, Sweden expired 1-28-2000 in Montreux, Switzerland   age 77

composer  Maurice-Joseph Ravel   wrote Bolero, a monumental contribution to mindless sexual rutting (just ask Bo) born on 3-7-1875 in Ciboure, France expired 12-28-1937 in Paris, France   age 62

familiar voice  Thurl Arthur Ravenscroft   second to give voice to Kellogg's spokestoon Tony the Tiger; sang song You're a Mean One, Mr. Grinch in How the Grinch Stole Christmas; voice of Kirby in The Brave Little Toaster (1987) born on 2-6-1914 in Norfolk, Nebraska expired 5-22-2005 in Fullerton, California   age 91   cause: prostate cancer    Contest Selectors 2002 RR 9.1% 2004 RR 5.6% 2005 RR, TBC 8.7%    Scored 4.6500 points

novelist  Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings   won 1939 Pulitzer Prize for The Yearling born on 8-8-1896 in Washington, District of Columbia expired 12-14-1953 in Saint Augustine, Florida   age 57   cause: cerebral hemorrhage

stage actress  Eugenia R. Rawls ¤ Mrs. Donald Seawell  born on 9-11-1913 in Macon, Georgia expired 11-8-2000 in Denver, Colorado   age 87

singer  Louis Allen Rawls Sr. born on 12-1-1933 in Chicago, Illinois expired 1-6-2006 in Los Angeles, California   age 72   cause: lung & brain cancer    Contest Selectors 2004 SS 5.6% 2006 ADWC, CSI, LMLD, QKU, RAVN, RR, TBC 23.3%    Scored 5.3391 points

mystery writer & magician  Clayton Rawson ¤ stage name: "The Great Merlini"  born on 8-15-1906 in Elyria, Ohio expired 3-1-1971 in Mamaroneck, New York   age 64

actor  Aldo Ray ¤ born: Aldo DaRe  born on 9-25-1926 in Pen Argyl, Pennsylvania expired 3-28-1991 in Martinez, California   age 64

former Washington governor (1977-81)  Dixy Lee Ray   ex-Atomic Energy Commission chairman born on 9-3-1914 in Tacoma, Washington expired 1-2-1994 in Fox Island, Washington   age 79

Saint Louis Globe-Democrat editor  E. Lansing Ray   co-sponsored the Spirit of Saint Louis flight of Lindbergh (1927) expired 8-30-1955 in Rye Beach, New Hampshire   age 71

actor/dancer  Gene Anthony Ray   played Leroy in Fame movie (1980) born on 5-24-1962 in New York, New York expired 11-14-2003 in New York, New York   age 41   cause: complications from stroke; HIV

confessed killer  James Earl Ray   assassin of Martin Luther King Jr. born on 3-10-1928 in Alton, Illinois expired 4-23-1998 in Nashville, Tennessee   age 70   cause: liver & kidney failure    Contest Selectors 1979 VM 7.7%

singer  Johnnie Ray ¤ full name: John Alvin Ray  born on 1-10-1927 in Dallas, Texas expired 2-24-1990 in Los Angeles, California   age 63

mentally ill celebrity stalker  Margaret Mary Ray   convicted of breaking into David Letterman's home & stealing his car; later stalked astronaut Story Musgrave expired 10-5-1998 in Hotchkiss, Colorado   age 46   cause: suicide; knelt in front of oncoming train

super-geezer  Mary Josephine Ray   the second-oldest person in the world ¤ née: Arsenault  born on 5-17-1895 in Prince Edward Island, Canada expired 3-7-2010 in Westmoreland, New Hampshire   age 114    Contest Selectors 2010 DFFC 3.7%    Scored 3.6000 solo points

director  Nicholas Ray   made Knock on Any Door (1949), Flying Leathernecks, Johnny Guitar (1954) & Rebel Without a Cause (1955) born on 8-7-1911 in Galesville, Wisconsin expired 6-16-1979 in New York, New York   age 67   cause: lung cancer

teenage hemophiliac/AIDS victim  Richard "Ricky" Ray born on 1-28-1977 expired 12-13-1992   age 15   cause: complications from AIDS

hemophiliac AIDS victim  Robert D. Ray   brother of Ricky and Randy born on 1-27-1978 expired 10-20-2000 in Saint Petersburg, Florida   age 22   cause: complications from hemophilia & AIDS    Contest Selectors 2000 BOD 14%    Scored 12.8000 solo points

(east) Indian filmmaker  Satyajit Ray born on 5-2-1921 in Calcutta, India expired 4-23-1992 in Calcutta, India   age 70

former Play Your Hunch, Tic Tac Dough & Match Game host  Eugene Rayburn   Steve Allen's announcer Tonight Show ¤ born: Eugene Rubessa  born on 12-22-1917 in Chicago, Illinois expired 11-29-1999 in Beverly, Massachusetts   age 81   cause: congestive heart failure

former House Speaker (1940-47, 1949-53, 1955-61)  Samuel Taliaferro Rayburn born on 1-6-1882 in Roane County, Texas expired 11-16-1961 in Bonham, Texas   age 79   cause: cancer

comic actress/condom user  Martha Raye ¤ born: Margaret Teresa Yvonne Reed  born on 8-27-1916 in Butte, Montana expired 10-19-1994 in Los Angeles, California   age 78

cartoonist  Alexander Gillespie Raymond   created the Flash Gordon and Jungle Jim characters/comic strips; 1949 Reuben Award winner born on 10-2-1909 in New Rochelle, New York expired 9-6-1956 in Westport, Connecticut   age 46   cause: parachuting accident

actor  Gene Raymond   widower of Jeannette MacDonald ¤ real name: Raymond Guion  born on 8-13-1908 in New York, New York expired 5-3-1998 in Los Angeles, California   age 89   cause: pneumonia

character actor  Guy Raymond   played the bartender in original Star Trek tv series episode The Trouble With Tribbles ¤ born: Raymond Guyer  born on 7-1-1911 in New York, New York expired 1-26-1997 in Santa Monica, California   age 85

New-York Daily Times co-founder  Henry Jarvis Raymond   first editor of the newspaper (first edition September 18, 1851); a co-founder of the Republican Party born on 1-24-1820 in Lima, New York expired 6-1-1869 in New York, New York   age 49   cause: "an attack of apoplexy"

comic artist  James C. Raymond   brother of Alex Raymond; drew the Blondie strip after the death of it's creator born on 2-25-1917 in Riverside, California expired 10-14-1981 in Boynton Beach, Florida   age 64

character actor and more  Sid Raymond   was the cartoon voice of Baby Huey, Katnip & Heckle and Jeckle ¤ born: Raymond Silverstein  born on 1-21-1909 in Manhattan, New York, New York expired 12-1-2006 in Aventura, Florida   age 97   cause: complications fom stroke

lyricist  Andy Razaf   wrote words to Honeysuckle Rose, Ain't Misbehavin' and Stompin' at the Savoy ¤ born: Andreamentania Paul Razafkeriefo  born on 12-16-1895 in Washington, District of Columbia expired 2-3-1973 in North Hollywood, California   age 77

Serbian war criminal  Zeljko Raznatovic   leader of a private army of soccer thugs & former prison inmates that served as Slobodan Milosevic's storm troopers (looks like the $5,000,000 NATO bounty on his ass did the trick) ¤ aka: "Arkan"  born on 4-17-1951 in Brezice, Slovenia expired 1-15-2000 in Belgrade, Bosnia   age 48   cause: assassinated; shot in head

sporting goods maker  George A. Reach   in 1910 invented the cork-center baseball expired 12-7-1954 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania   age 86

Columbia U. English professor  Allen Walker Read   researched the origins of common words & phrases (like "O.K.", "Dixie", "blizzard" & "podunk"); wrote Lexical Evidence of Epigraphy in Western North America: A Glossarial Study of the Low Element in the English Vocabulary (1935) born on 6-2-1906 in Winnebago, Minnesota expired 10-16-2002 in New York, New York   age 96

corrupt Detroit mayor (1937-39)  Richard W. Reading   sent to slammer for shielding local rackets expired 12-9-1952 in Brighton, Michigan   age 70

presidential daughter  Maureen Elizabeth Reagan   daughter of Jane Wyman ¤ Mrs. Dennis C. Revell  born on 1-4-1941 in Los Angeles, California expired 8-8-2001 in Granite Bay, California   age 60   cause: brain cancer; melanoma

actor and 40th U.S. president (1981-89)  Ronald Wilson Reagan Sr.   played George Gipp in the movie Knute Rockne, All American and George Custer in Santa Fe Trail; wounded by John Hinckley ¤ aka: "Dutch" and "The Gipper"  born on 2-6-1911 in Tampico, Illinois expired 6-5-2004 in Bel Air, California   age 93   cause: pneumonia; Alzheimer's disease    Contest Selectors 1979 HFS 7.7% 1980 DW, EK, HP, VA 25.0% 2000 BOD, KLS, IVY, RR, TEX 71% 2001 BOD, DTM, KLS, RR, TEX 62½% 2002 BOD, CMH, DTM, JAC, JEDS, JL, MORB, RAVN, TMTX 81.8% 2003 DTM, GHG, JEDS, KLS, KOHD, MB, PCD, RAVN, RR, TMTX 55.6% 2004 ABRA, ADWC, BOD, DTM, EOD, GHG, KLS, LMLD, PCD, RAVN, RIE, RR, TAP 72.2%    Scored 3.2006 points

automotive engineer  Louis Réard   created a swimsuit "smaller than an Atome" — he called it the Bikini (debuted on July 5, 1946) born on --1897 in France expired 9-16-1984 in Lausanne, Switzerland   age 87   cause: complications following surgery AKS: Reard

60 Minutes newsman  Harry Reasoner born on 4-17-1923 in Dakota City, Iowa expired 8-6-1991 in Norwalk, Connecticut   age 68    Contest Selectors 1979 JW, SB 15.4%

radio engineer  Grote Reber   following up on Karl Jansky's work built backyard antenna to map the sky (1937); his mother Harriet was Edwin Hubble's 7th grade teacher born on 12-22-1911 in Wheaton, Illinois expired 12-20-2002 in Ouse, Tasmania, Australia   age 90

Nixon friend  Charles Gregory "Bebe" Rebozo born on 11-17-1912 in Tampa, Florida expired 5-8-1998 in Miami, Florida   age 85

entrepreneur  Jheri Redding   hair dresser that started Jheri Redding Products, Redken, Jhirmack and Nexxus ¤ born: Robert William Redding  born on 3-2-1907 in Rantoul, Illinois expired 3-15-1998 in Santa Barbara, California   age 91

Jimi Hendrix Experience bassist  Noel Redding ¤ born: David Redding  born on 12-25-1945 in Folkestone, Kent, England expired 5-11-2003 in Clonakilty, Eire   age 57

soul singer  Otis Redding   had posthumous hit with (Sittin' on the) Dock of the Bay (1968) born on 9-9-1941 in Dawson, Georgia expired 12-10-1967 in Lake Monona, Wisconsin (near Madison)   age 36   cause: plane crash

popcorn king  Orville Clarence Redenbacher   with partner Charlie Bowman developed America's favorite popcorn hybrid ¤ born: Sam Henry  born on 7-16-1907 in Brazil, Indiana expired 9-19-1995 in Coronado, California   age 88   cause: drowned; heart attack in whirlpool bath AKS: Reddenbacher Redenbacker Reddenbacker

Nazi war criminal  Walter Reder born on 2-4-1915 in Freiwaldau, Austria-Hungary expired 4-26-1991 in Vienna, Austria   age 76

columnist  Virginia Redfern born on 12-19-1914 expired 2-11-1981   age 66

actor  William Redfield   played Harding in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975) born on 1-26-1927 in New York, New York expired 8-17-1976 in New York, New York   age 49   cause: respiratory infection; leukemia

actor  Corin William Redgrave   brother of Lynn & Vanessa; politically a rabid Trotskyite, medically an enfeebled cancer/heart disease sufferer born on 7-16-1939 in London, England expired 4-4-2010 in London, England   age 70    Contest Selectors 2006 KLS 3.3%

actress  Lynn Rachel Redgrave   daughter of Sir Michael and Rachel Kempson born on 3-8-1943 in London, England expired 5-2-2010 in Kent, Connecticut   age 67   cause: breast cancer    Contest Selectors 2004 LMLD, SS 11.1% 2005 SPAM 4.3%

bisexual actor Sir  Michael Scudamore Redgrave   father of Vanessa and Lynn born on 3-20-1908 in Bristol, Avon, England expired 3-21-1985 in Denham, England   age 77

Iditarod race founder (1973)  Joe Redington born on 2-1-1917 in Chisholm Trail, Oklahoma expired 6-24-1999 in Knik, Alaska   age 82   cause: cancer of the esophagus

jazz saxophonist  Walter Dewey Redman born on 5-17-1931 in Fort Worth, Texas expired 9-2-2006 in Brooklyn, New York, New York   age 75   cause: liver failure

actor  Alan Reed   voice of Fred Flintsone ¤ born: Teddy Bergman  born on 8-20-1907 in New York, New York expired 6-14-1977 in Los Angeles, California   age 69

trial lawyer  Barry C. Reed   wrote The Verdict born on 1-28-1927 in Alameda, California expired 7-19-2002 in Norwood, Massachusetts   age 75

movie director Sir  Carol Reed   won Best Director Academy Award for Oliver! (1968); directed The Third Man (1949) expired 4-25-1976 in London, England   age 69   cause: heart attack

actress  Donna Reed   George Bailey's wife in Its A Wonderful Life ¤ born: Donna Belle Mullenger  born on 1-27-1921 in Denison, Iowa expired 1-14-1986 in Beverly Hills, California   age 64

blues singer/guitarist/harmonica player  James Mathis "Jimmy" Reed   composed Bright Lights, Big City & Big Boss Man ¤ born: Matcher J. Reed  born on 9-6-1925 in Dunleith, Mississippi expired 8-29-1976 in Oakland, California   age 50   cause: respiratory failure

Cramp Shipbuilding president  James Reed Sr.   also built the Golden Gate Bridge expired 7-23-1941 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania   age 59

country singer/actor  Jerry Reed   played Cledus Snow in the Smokey and the Bandit movies; had musical hits with "Eastbound and Down", "When You're Hot, You're Hot" & "The Bird" ¤ born: Jerry Reed Hubbard  born on 3-20-1937 in Atlanta, Georgia expired 9-1-2008   age 71   cause: emphysema    Contest Selectors 1979 HFS 7.7%

journalist  John Silas Reed   wrote Ten Days That Shook the World (1919); co-wrote The Left Wing Manifesto, co-founding the U.S. Communist Party (1919) born on 10-22-1887 in Portland, Oregon expired 10-19-1920 in Moscow, Russia   age

tap dance pioneer  Leonard Reed   co-originator of the Shim Sham Shimmy format born on 1-7-1907 in Lightning Creek, Oklahoma Territory expired 4-5-2004 in Covina, California   age 97   cause: congestive heart failure

litigant  Mary Maxine "Sally" Reed   initiated lawsuit that resulted in a 1971 Supreme Court ruling (9-0) that voided laws giving arbitrary preference to men over women ¤ adopted as: Mary Kelso  born on --1909 in Nebraska expired 9-26-2002 in Boise, Idaho   age 93

Brady Bunch actor  Robert Reed ¤ born: John Robert Rietz  born on 10-19-1932 in Skokie, Illinois expired 5-12-1992 in Los Angeles, California   age 59   cause: colon cancer; AIDS

actor & legendary drunk  Robert Oliver Reed   played Bill Sikes in Oliver (1968) born on 2-13-1938 in Wimbledon, London, England expired 5-2-1999 in Valetta, Malta   age 61   cause: heart attack while carousing

actress  Alaina Reed-Amini   widow of Kevin Peter Hall; played Olivia on Sesame Street (1976-88) & Rose Holloway on 227 (1985-90) ¤ born: Bernice Ruth Reed former: Alaina Reed-Hall  born on 11-10-1946 in Springfield, Ohio expired 12-17-2009 in Santa Monica, California   age 63   cause: breast cancer

first professional World Dart-throwing champion (1978)  Leighton Rees born on 1-17-1940 in Mountain Ash, Wales expired 6-8-2003 in Pontypridd, Wales   age 63   cause: cardiac arrest

poker champion  David Edward "Chip" Reese born on 3-28-1951 in Centerville, Ohio expired 12-4-2007 in Las Vegas, Nevada   age 56

Brooklyn Dodgers Hall of Fame shortstop  Harold Henry "Pee Wee" Reese   Team Captain of the "Boys of Summer" ¤ nickname: "The Little Colonel"  born on 7-23-1918 in Ekron, Kentucky expired 8-14-1999 in Louisville, Kentucky   age 81   cause: lung cancer

California Angels baseball coach  James H. "Jimmie" Reese born on 10-1-1901 expired 7-13-1994   age 92

paralyzed actor  Christopher Reeve   played Superman in four movies born on 9-25-1952 in New York, New York expired 10-10-2004 in Bedford, New York   age 52   cause: cardiac arrest; system infection; bed sores    Contest Selectors 2003 KOHD 5.6% 2004 SS 5.6%    Scored 9.8000 solo points AKS: Reeves

Dana Reeve   widow of Christopher ¤ née: Morosini  born on 2-19-1961 in Scarsdale, New York expired 3-6-2006 in New York, New York   age 45   cause: lung cancer    Contest Selectors 2006 BONY, LMLD, RAVN, SPIT, TBC 16.7%    Scored 8.1563 points

electronics inventor Dr.  Alec Harley Reeves   invented PCM (Pulse-Code-Modulation) in 1938, permitting multiplexing of many signals on a single wire or radio frequency born on --1902 in Redhill, Surrey, England expired 10-13-1971 in London, England   age 69   cause: cancer

Cowgirl Hall-of-Fame member  Connie Reeves ¤ full name: Constance Douglas Reeves  born on 9-26-1901 in Eagle Pass, Texas expired 8-17-2003 in San Antonio, Texas   age 101   cause: cardiac arrest; broken neck from fall off horse

one-time Rams football team principal owner  Daniel F. Reeves   bought team in 1941; moved team from Cleveland to Los Angeles in 1946; hired Kenny Washington & Woody Strode to play on that team born on 6-30-1912 in New York, New York expired 4-15-1971 in New York, New York   age 58   cause: Hodgkin's lymphoma

country singer  Franklin Delano Reeves born on 7-14-1933 in Sparta, North Carolina expired 1-1-2007 in Centerville, Tennessee   age 73   cause: emphysema AKS: Del

actor  George Reeves   played "twin" Brent Tarleton in Gone With The Wind; played Superman on tv in early 1950s; death occurred under suspicious circumstances; subject of 2006 movie Hollywoodland ¤ born: George Keefer Brewer renamed: George Bessolo when mother remarried  born on 1-5-1914 in Ashland, Kentucky expired 6-16-1959 in Beverly Hills, California   age 45   cause: suicide; gunshot to head AKS: Bessalo

Grand Old Opry star  Jim Reeves expired 7-31-1964 in Nashville, Tennessee   age 39

1940s & 50s bodybuilder & actor  Stephen Lester "Steve" Reeves   former Mr. America (1947), Mr. World, Mr. Universe; played Hercules in several Italian movies (1957 & 1959); also did Ed Wood's Jail Bait (1954) born on 1-21-1926 in Glasgow, Montana expired 5-1-2000 in Escondido, California   age 74   cause: complications from lymphoma    Contest Selectors 2000 SPAM 14%    Scored 7.6000 solo points

one-time Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith head  Donald Thomas Regan   Reagan Treasury Secretary (1981-1985); later was his Chief of Staff born on 12-21-1918 in Cambridge, Massachusetts expired 6-10-2003 in Williamsburg, Virginia   age 84   cause: cancer

songwriter  Noel Regney   co-wrote Do You Hear What I Hear? (1962; with wife Gloria Shayne); translated song Dominique into English (1963) born on 8-19-1922 in Strasbourg, France expired 11-24-2002 in Danbury, Connecticut   age 80   cause: Pick's disease

Supreme Court justice  William Hubbs Rehnquist   was an associate justice (1972-86), then elevated to chief (1986-2005); presided over the impeachment trial of Bubba born on 10-1-1924 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin expired 9-3-2005 in Arlington, Virginia   age 80   cause: complications from anaplastic thyroid cancer    Contest Selectors 1980 JH 6.3% 2005 ANG, BYE, CSI, HH, QKU, RAVN, RR, SLIM, SPIT, TBC, TMD, WORM 52.2%    Scored 4.5012 points

Bohemian seaman  Stephan Rehorek   on April 20, 1912 took best(/only) picture of iceberg that the Titanic collide with ¤ Stepán Rehorek  born on --1888 in Bohemia, Austria-Hungary expired ??-??-1935   age 47

Dr.  Tadeus Reichstein   shared the 1950 Nobel prize in medicine born on 7-20-1897 in Wloclawek, Poland expired 8-1-1996 in Basel, Switzerland   age 99

actress  Beryl Reid born on 6-17-1920 in Hereford, England expired 10-13-1996 in Wraysbury, England   age 76   cause: pneumonia

former advertising executive  David William Reid   lead team that created Elsie the Cow (1938), her "mate Elmer (1940; as in "Elmer's Glue") and other bovine trademarks for Borden Dairy; also worked on the Paul Masson "We'll sell no wine before its time" campaign born on 6-24-1917 in Detroit, Michigan expired 12-13-2003 in San Rafael, California   age 86   cause: "old age"

actress  Frances Reid   widow of Philip Bourneuf; appeared in Stage Door (1932); played Alice Horton on Days of Our Lives (1965-2007) born on 12-9-1914 in Wichita Falls, Texas expired 2-3-2010 in Beverly Hills, California   age 95    Contest Selectors 2004 RIE 5.6% 2005 RIE 4.3% 2006 OIE, RIE 6.7% 2007 DTH, LMLD, RIE 9.7% 2008 LMLD, RIE 6.3% 2009 LMLD, RIE 6.7% 2010 OIE, RIE 7.4%    Scored 4.2500 points

Whitelaw Reid   former chairman of the New York Herald Tribune (1955-8) born on 7-26-1913 in Purchase, New York expired 4-18-2009 in White Plains, New York   age 95   cause: complications from lung & heart failure    Contest Selectors 2007 KLS 3.2% 2008 KLS 3.1% 2009 KLS 3.3%    Scored 5.5000 solo points

longtime NBC staff announcer (1952-2005)  Howard Reig   was announcer for the NBC Nightly News (1983-2007) & Meet the Press born on 5-31-1921 in New York, New York expired 11-10-2008 in Venice, Florida   age 87

actor & game show panelist  Charles Nelson Reilly   won a Tony Award for playing Bud Frump in the original production of How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying (1962) born on 1-13-1931 in The Bronx, New York, New York expired 5-25-2007 in Los Angeles, California   age 76   cause: complications from pneumonia    Contest Selectors 2004 RIE 5.6% 2005 RIE 4.3% 2006 DTH, GGG, RIE, 4GUE 13.3% 2007 RIE, 4GUE 6.5%    Scored 6.1500 points AKS: Reily Riely

actor  Hugh Reilly   played Timmy's father (Paul Martin) on Lassie (1958-64) opposite June Lockhart (Ruth Martin) born on 10-30-1915 in Newark, New Jersey expired 7-17-1998 in Burbank, California   age 82   cause: emphysema

British "Ace of Spies"  Sidney George Reilly   worked to overthrow the Bolseviks in Russia ¤ born: Sigmund Rosenblum  born on --1874 in Odessa, Russia expired 11-??-1925 in Moscow, Russia, USSR   age 51   cause: executed

medical malpractice victim  David Reimer   subject of John/Joan Case; after a botched circumcision the quacks gave him female hormones; he was raised as a girl (named "Brenda"); had identical twin brother Brian (d.2002) born on 8-22-1965 in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada expired 5-4-2004 in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada   age 38   cause: suicide; gunshot to head

former Allstate Insurance pitchman  Edwin Warren Reimers   did a bit of acting — played Admiral Fitzpatrick in original Star Trek episode The Trouble With Tribbles (1968) .. "You're in good hands with Tribbles" born on 10-26-1912 in Moline, Illinois expired 8-16-2009 in Saratoga Springs, New York   age 96

former Honduran president (1994-98)  Carlos Roberto Reina Idiáquez   a one-time political prisoner born on 3-13-1926 in Comayaguela, Honduras expired 8-19-2003 in Tegucigalpa, Honduras   age 77   cause: suicide; pancreatic problems; gallbladder problems

Meathead's mom  Estelle Reiner   wife of Carl; appeared in a number of movies — her most memorable appearance being in When Harry Met Sally where she delivered the line "I'll have what she's having."; was the model for the Laura Petrie character on the Dick Van Dyke Show (created by her husband) ¤ née: Lebost  born on 6-5-1914 in The Bronx, New York, New York expired 10-28-2008 in Beverly Hills, California   age 94

orchestra conductor  Fritz Reiner born on 12-19-1888 expired 11-15-1963 in New York, New York   age 74

Mary M. "Lynn" Reiner   one of the victims of the 1982 Chicago-area poisoned Tylenol murder spree born on 4-15-1955 expired 9-30-1982 in Winfield, Illinois   age 27   cause: murdered; cyanide-laced Tylenol

physicist  Frederick Reines   shared the 1995 Nobel physics prize for his discovery of the neutrino (1955) born on 3-16-1918 in Paterson, New Jersey expired 8-26-1998 in Orange, California   age 80

legendary jazz artist  Django Reinhardt   founding member of the Hot Club Quintet with Stephane Grappelli ¤ born: Jean Baptiste Reinhardt  born on 1-23-1910 in Belgium expired 5-16-1953 in Fontainebleau, France   age 43

movie director  Max Reinhardt   made A Midsummer Night's Dream (1935) born on 9-9-1873 in Baden, Austria expired 10-30-1943 in New York, New York   age 70

pianist  Nadia Reisenberg   sister of Clara Rockmore born on 7-14-1904 in Vilna, Lithuania (now Vilnius) expired 6-10-1983 in New York, New York   age 78

early movie director  Charles Reisner   made Chasing Rainbows (1929), the movie that introduced the song Happy Days Are Here Again born on 3-14-1887 in Minneapolis, Minnesota expired 9-24-1962 in La Jolla, California   age 75

"Free Cinema" movement director  Karel Reisz   made Morgan (1966), Isadora (1968), The Gambler (1974), Who'll Stop the Rain (1978), The French Lieutenant's Woman (1981) & Sweet Dreams (1985) born on 7-21-1926 in Ostrava, Czechoslovakia expired 11-25-2002 in London, England   age 76   cause: blood disorder

author/illustrator  Seymour Victory Reit   created Caspar the Friendly Ghost (1940; first illustrated by Joe Oriolo); also wrote for Archie & Little Lulu comics and MAD Magazine born on 11-11-1918 in New York, New York expired 11-21-2001 in New York, New York   age 83

BBC founder Lord  John Charles Walsham Reith   BBC Director-General (1927-38) born on 7-20-1889 in Stonehaven, Scotland expired 6-16-1971 in Edinburgh, Scotland   age 81

Stanislaw Wladyslaw Rejment   was the 1924 Nobel literature prize winner ¤ pen name: Wladyslaw Stanislaw Reymont  born on 5-6-1867 in Kobielo Wielkie, Poland expired 12-5-1925 in Warsaw, Poland   age 58

actress  Lee Remick born on 12-14-1935 in Quincy, Massachusetts expired 7-2-1991   age 55

character actor  Bert Remsen born on 2-25-1925 in Glen Cove, New York expired 4-22-1999 in San Fernando Valley, California   age 74   cause: natural causes

actor  Duncan Renaldo   tv's Cisco Kid (1950-56); did 18 months in Federal prison for perjury ¤ born: Renault Renaldo Duncan  born on 4-23-1904 in Spain expired 9-3-1980 in Goleta, California   age 76   cause: lung cancer

Sorbonne University professor  Louis Renault   shared the 1907 Nobel peace prize born on 5-21-1943 in Autun Saône-et-Loire, France expired 2-8-1918 in Barbizon, France   age 74

automobile pioneer  Louis Renault expired 10-24-1944 in Paris, France   age 63

former kid actor turned adult junkie  Bradley Barron Renfro   was into it all: booze, marijuana, cocaine, heroine, methadone, ...; once busted for trying to steal a boat — he was too stupid (or smashed) to remember to untie it before trying to pull away from the dock born on 7-25-1982 in Knoxville, Tennessee expired 1-15-2008 in Los Angeles, California   age 25   cause: heroin overdose

super-geezer  Maggie Mae Renfro   had been the 3rd-oldest U.S. citizen ¤ née: Thorton  born on 11-14-1895 in Athens, Claiborne Parrish, Louisiana expired 1-22-2010 in Minden, Webster Parish, Louisiana   age 114    Contest Selectors 2010 DFFC 3.7% Did Not Score - insufficient category citations (only two: the AP & the alt.obituaries usenet news group)

actor  Michael Rennie   played the alien visitor Klaatu in The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951) born on 8-25-1907 in Bradford, Yorkshire, England expired 6-10-1971 in Harrogate, Yorkshire, England   age 63

cinematographer  Claude Renoir   son of Pierre Jr.; worked on a number of James Bond films born on 12-4-1914 in Paris, France expired 9-5-1993 in Troyes, France   age 78

movie screenwriter & director  Jean Renoir   son of Pierre; brother of Pierre Jr.; made Le Grande Illusion (1937), La Bête humaine (1938; The Human Beast) & La Règle du Jeu (The Rules of the Game; 1939) born on 9-15-1894 in Paris, France expired 2-12-1979 in Beverly Hills, California   age 84   cause: heart attack

impressionist artist  Pierre-Auguste Renoir Sr.   father of Jean & Pierre Jr. born on 2-25-1841 in Limoges, France expired 12-3-1919 in Cagnes-sur-Mer, France   age 78

actor  Pierre-Auguste Renoir Jr.   son of noted painter; brother of Jean; father of Claude born on 3-21-1885 in Paris, France expired 3-11-1952 in Paris, France   age 66   cause: complications following kidney operation

cinematographer  Jay Gayne Rescher   shot Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982) & A Bunny's Tale (1985) born on 12-19-1924 expired 2-29-2008 in Gig Harbor, Washington   age 83

Shuttle STS-41--D & 51--L astronaut  Judith Arlene Resnik born on 4-5-1949 in Akron, Ohio expired 1-28-1986 in Cape Canaveral, Florida   age 36   cause: Shuttle Challenger explosion

composer  Ottorino Respighi   wrote The Pines of Rome and the arrangement Ancient Dances and Airs born on 7-9-1879 in Bologna, Italy expired 4-18-1935 in Rome, Italy   age 55

New York Times columnist (1974-87)  James Barrett Reston born on 11-3-1909 in Clyde Bank, Scotland expired 12-6-1995 in Washington, District of Columbia   age 86

former child actor  Thomas Noel "Tommy" Rettig   played Jeff Miller, Lassie's 1st tv owner; was in River of No Return with Marilyn Monroe & The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T born on 12-10-1941 in New York, New York expired 2-15-1996 in Marina del Rey, California   age 54   cause: heart attack

widow  Marguerite Reuter   list member of the family that founded the international news agency (her husband Oliver, the 4th Baron de Reuter, was the grandson of Paul Julius Reuter); the title (and family name) died with her - she had no children ¤ née: Uehlinger title: Baroness de Reuter  born on 7-14-1912 in Nuenkirch, Switzerland expired 1-25-2009 in Beausoleil, France   age 96

Paul Julius Reuter   founded news agency bearing his name (October 1858) ¤ born: Israel Beer Josaphat  born on 7-21-1816 in Kassel, Germany expired 2-25-1899 in Nice, France   age 82

labor organizer  Victor George Reuther   brother of Walter born on 2-17-1916 in Wheeling, West Virginia expired 6-3-2004 in Washington, District of Columbia   age 92   cause: pneumonia; renal failure    Contest Selectors 1979 DW 7.7% 1980 DW, RR 12.5%

United Auto Workers union leader (1946-70)  Walter Philip Reuther born on 9-1-1907 in Wheeling, West Virginia expired 5-9-1970 in Pellston, Michigan   age 62   cause: plane crash

playboy  Lance Reventlow   son of Woolworth heir Barbara Hutton; was married to Jill St.John (1960-63) & former Mouseketeer Cheryl Holdridge (1964-his death) born on 2-24-1936 in London, England expired 7-24-1972 in Aspen, Colorado   age 36   cause: plane crash

actress  Anne Revere born on 6-25-1903 in New York, New York expired 12-18-1990 in Locust Valley, New York   age 87

silversmith  Paul Revere   American revolutionary; famed for his "midnight ride" from Boston to Lexington Massachusetts April 18, 1775 - "The Redcoats are coming..." born on 1-1-1735 in Boston, Massachusetts expired 5-10-1818 in Boston, Massachusetts   age 83

silent movie actress  Dorothy Revier   original model for the Columbia Pictures logo ¤ born: Doris Velegra  born on 4-18-1904 in San Francisco, California expired 11-19-1993 in Hollywood, California   age 89

Revlon co-founder (1932)  Charles Haskell Revson   president (1932-62), chairman (1962-75) born on 10-11-1906 in Manchester, New Hampshire expired 8-24-1975 in New York, New York   age 68

Revlon co-founder (1932)  Joseph Revson   corporate treasurer (1932-56) born on 6-6-1905 in Boston, Massachusetts expired 12-19-1971 in New York, New York   age 66   cause: heart attack

auto racer  Peter Revson   finished second in 1971 Indianapolis 500; nephew of Charles born on 2-27-1939 in New York, New York expired 3-22-1974 in Johannesburg, South Africa   age 35   cause: auto crash

actress  Rosaura Revueltas   starred in the only blacklisted U.S. film - Salt of the Earth (1953) ¤ married name: Rosaura Bodenstedt  born on --1909 in Ciudad Lerdo, Durango State, Mexico expired 4-30-1996 in Cuernavaca, Mexico   age 86   cause: lung cancer

Albanian geezer  Hava Rexha born on 8-22-1880 in Shushice, Albania expired 11-9-2003 in Shushice, Albania   age 123

instrumentalist/bandleader  Alvino Rey   changed name in 1929 ¤ born: Alvin McBurney "father of the steel guitar"  born on 7-1-1908 in Oakland, California expired 2-25-2004 in Sandy, Utah   age 95

actor  Fernando Rey ¤ real name: Fernando Casado Arambillet  born on 9-20-1917 in La Coruna, Spain expired 3-9-1994 in Madrid, Spain   age 76

Playboy February 1971 Playmate of Month  Willy Rey   a rendering of her gatefold was used as the artwork on Playboy's original stock certificates (IPO: 11/3/1971) ¤ real name: Wilhelmina Rietveld  born on 8-25-1949 in Rotterdam, The Netherlands expired 8-13-1973 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada   age 23   cause: barbituate overdose AKS: Willi Willie Ray Rae Wilhemina Rietveldt Reitveld Reitveldt

author  Wallace Reyburn   wrote Flushed With Pride (1969); wrote the purely fictional Bust-Up - The Uplifting Tale of Otto Titzling and the Development of the Bra (1977) born on 7-13-1913 in Auckland, New Zealand expired 7-10-2001   age 87

former Riviera Beach, Florida police chief  Burton Leon Reynolds Sr.   father of actor born on 7-9-1906 in Aurelius, Michigan expired 4-20-2002 in Jupiter Beach, Florida   age 95   cause: heart failure

ABC News anchor (1978-83)  Frank Reynolds born on 11-29-1923 in East Chicago, Indiana expired 7-20-1983 in Washington, District of Columbia   age 59    Contest Selectors 1979 JH 7.7%

movie producer  J. Edward Reynolds   produced Plan 9 From Outer Space, as well as playing one of the film's gravediggers (1958) born on 5-24-1886 in Kansas expired 6-21-1963 in Los Angeles, California   age 77

banker  John J. Reynolds   developed the Master Card charge card for Citibank in 1967 born on 6-19-1923 expired 10-14-1993   age 70

actress  Marjorie Reynolds   Bing Crosby's love interest in Holiday Inn; Mrs. Peg Riley on The Life of Riley (1953-58) ¤ born: Marjorie Goodspeed  born on 8-12-1921 in Buhl, Idaho expired 2-1-1997 in Manhattan Beach, California   age 75   cause: congestive heart failure

patent infringer  Milton Reynolds   created the first mass-produced ball point pen by ripping-off the inventors & the company (Everhard) that held the U.S. rights to the invention born on 7-10-1892 expired 1-23-1976 in Mexico City, Mexico   age 83

folk balladeer  Nicholas Wells "Nick" Reynolds   partnered with Dave Guard & Bob Shane to form the Kingston Trio; left the group in 1967; had a hit with Tom Dooley (1958) born on 7-27-1933 in Coronado, California expired 9-24-2008 in San Diego, California   age 75   cause: removed from life support; acute respiratory disease

author  Quentin Reynolds born on 4-11-1902 in New York, New York expired 3-17-1965 in San Francisco, California   age 62   cause: cancer

Dr.  Walker Reynolds Jr.   invented surgical staples born on 3-30-1916 expired 5-17-2001 in Anniston, Alabama   age 85

R.J. Reynolds president  William Neal Reynolds   brother of firm founder Richard Joshua Reynolds Sr. expired 9-10-1951 in Winston-Salem, North Carolina   age 88

Catholic Church leader (1758-1769)  Carlo Della Torre Rezzonico   elected 249th Pope of the Roman Catholic Church July 6, 1758 ¤ Pope Clement XIII  born on 3-7-1693 in Venice, Italy expired 2-2-1769 in Rome, Italy   age 75

republic of Korea founder and president (1948-60)  Syngman Rhee ¤ aka: Lee Sung Man  expired 7-19-1965 in Honolulu, Hawaii   age 90

cartoon artist  Fred Rhoads   drew Sad Sack strip for 27 years born on 10-17-1921 in Shamokin, Pennsylvania expired 2-20-2000 in Greenwood, South Carolina   age 78

diamond plutocrat  Cecil John Rhodes   founded De Beers Consolidated Mines Ltd. (1881); helped precipitate the Boer War; founded the Rhodes Scholarships to Oxford born on 7-5-1853 in Hertfordshire, England expired 3-26-1902   age 48   cause: heart attack

piano teacher  Harold Burroughs Rhodes   invented electric piano (1940s) born on 12-28-1910 in San Fernando, California expired 12-17-2000 in Canoga Park, California   age 89   cause: complications from pneumonia

four-time Ohio governor (1963-71; 1975-83)  James Allen Rhodes   sent in the National Guard to quell rioting at Kent State University in 1970 born on 9-13-1909 in Coalton, Ohio expired 3-4-2001 in Columbus, Ohio   age 91   cause: heart failure; complications from infection

Arizona representative (1953-82)  John Jacob Rhodes II   helped convince Nixon to resign before being impeached born on 9-18-1916 in Council Grove, Kansas expired 8-23-2003 in Mesa, Arizona   age 86   cause: cancer

World War II/Korean War combat pilot  Raleigh Ernest "Dusty" Rhodes Sr.   shot down in Ovtober 1942 & spend three years in a Japanese POW camp; was the third leader of the Blue Angels flight team born on 6-26-1918 in Madera, California expired 11-26-2007 in San Jose, California   age 89   cause: lung cancer

actress  Madlyn Rhue   played Lt. Reid in Operation Petticoat (1959), secretary Schwartz in Its a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963) & Lt. Marla McGivers on original Star Trek tv series (1967); was married to Tony Young (1962-70) ¤ born: Madleine Roche  born on 10-3-1935 in Washington, District of Columbia expired 12-16-2003 in Woodland Hills, California   age 68   cause: pneumonia; multiple sclerosis AKS: Madalyn Madelain Rue Ruh Ruhe Rew

attorney  Charles Sylvanus Rhyne   argued the Baker et al. v. Carr et al. case before the Supreme Court (1962) that established one man-one vote criteria in elections & redistricting born on 6-23-1912 in Charlotte, North Carolina expired 7-27-2003 in McLean, Virginia   age 91   cause: drowned in swimming pool

1930s Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo ballerina  Tatiana Riabouchinska   Disney animators used her as model for the hippopotamus ballerinas in Fantasia (1940) born on 5-23-1916 in Moscow, Russia expired 8-24-2000 in Los Angeles, California   age 84   cause: heart failure

former Connecticut senator (1963-81)  Abraham Alexander Ribicoff   Connecticut governor (1956-61) and Kennedy HEW Secretary (1961-62) born on 4-9-1910 in New Britain, Connecticut expired 2-22-1998 in New York, New York   age 87   cause: heart failure; Alzheimer's disease

Groups Danone Sa founder  Antoine-Amédée-Paul Riboud   maker of (Dannon) Yogurt & Evian Water born on 12-25-1918 in Lyon, France expired 5-5-2002 in Paris, France   age 83 AKS: Amedee

Chicago mob boss  Paul Ricca   replaced Al Capone as head of the Chicago crime syndicate after Capone's incarceration ¤ born: Paul DeLucia  expired 10-11-1972 in Chicago, Illinois   age 74

author  Alice Hegan Rice   wrote Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch expired 2-10-1942 in Louisville, Kentucky   age 72

World War I-era songwriter  Gitz Rice   wrote music for Mademoiselle from Armentieres (to lyrics by Edward Rowland) expired 10-16-1947 in New York, New York   age 56

distance runner  Greg Rice   won 1940 Sullivan Award born on 1-3-1916 in Missoula, Montana expired 5-19-1991   age

sports journalist (1901-54)  Henry Grantland Rice   nicknamed the 1924 Notre Dame football backfield" the Four Horsemen" & their linemen 'the Seven Mules"; won 1943 oscar for Short Subject born on 11-1-1880 in Murfreesboro, Tennessee expired 7-13-1954 in New York, New York   age 73

2'10" infomercial huckster  John Rice   had "younger" twin brother Greg; also did real estate & motivational speaking born on 12-3-1951 in West Palm Beach, Florida expired 11-5-2005 in Palm Beach, Florida   age 53   cause: died during anesthesia prior to surgery for a broken leg

poet & painter  Stanley Travis Rice Jr.   husband of Anne Rice born on 11-7-1942 in Dallas, Texas expired 12-9-2002 in New Orleans, Louisiana   age 60   cause: brain cancer

jazz drummer  Bernard "Buddy" Rich born on 6-30-1917 in New York, New York expired 4-2-1987 in Los Angeles, California   age 69    Contest Selectors 1980 HA 6.3%

country singer  Charles Allan "Charlie" Rich   had hit with Behind Closed Doors (1973) ¤ nickname: "The Silver Fox"  born on 12-14-1932 in Forrest City, Arkansas expired 7-25-1995 in Hammond, Louisiana   age 62

guitarist  James Q. "Spider" Rich   co-wrote Yakety Sax born on 11-3-1923 expired 11-9-2003 in Murfreesboro, Tennessee   age 80

architect  Lorimer Rich   designed the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at Arlington National Cemetery born on 10-24-1891 expired 6-2-1978 in Rome, New York   age 86

Rich Products Corp. founder  Robert Edward Rich Sr.   inventor of the corny syrup/sugar/soy-based whipped topping (1945); former owner of the Buffalo Sabres hockey team born on 7-7-1913 in Buffalo, New York expired 2-15-2006 in Palm Beach, Florida   age 92

English  Prince Richard   son of Edward III; father of Richard II ¤ aka: "The Black Prince"  born on 6-15-1330 in Woodstock, England expired 6-8-1376 in London, England   age 45

English king (1189-1199)  Richard I   son of Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitane ¤ aka: "Richard the Lionhearted"  born on 9-8-1157 in Oxford, England expired 4-6-1199 in Chaluz, France   age 41   cause: gangrene

English king (1377-1399)  Richard II   son of The Black Prince; grandson of Edward III; forced to abdicate; last Plantagenet king born on 1-6-1367 in Bordeaux, France expired 2-14-1400 in Pontefract Castle, Leicestershire, England   age 33   cause: murdered

English king (1483-1485)  Richard III   brother of Edward IV; last king from House of York born on 10-2-1452 in Fotheringhay Castle, England expired 8-22-1485 in Bosworth Field, Leicestershire, England   age 32   cause: killed in battle by the Earl of Richmond

Montreal Canadiens hockey great  Joseph Henri Maurice Richard ¤ nickname: "The Rocket"  born on 8-4-1921 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada expired 5-27-2000 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada   age 78   cause: stomach cancer; Parkinson's disease

UK actress  Wendy Richard   played Shirley Brahms on Are you Being Served? & Pauline Fowler on The Eastenders ¤ born: Wendy Emerton  born on 7-20-1943 in Middlesbrough, Cleveland, England expired 2-25-2009 in London, England   age 65   cause: breast cancer    Contest Selectors 2009 ADWC, RAVN, TFM 10.0%    Scored 6.6250 points

character actress  Beah Richards   won an Emmy for guest shot on The Practice tv series born on 7-1-1920 in Vicksburg, Mississippi expired 9-14-2000 in Vicksburg, Mississippi   age 80

Dr.  Dickinson Woodruff Richards Jr.   shared the 1956 Nobel prize in medicine born on 10-30-1895 in Orange, New Jersey expired 2-23-1973 in Lakeville, Connecticut   age 77

former Texas governor (1991-5)  Dorothy Ann Richards   the Grim Reaper decided she was "done" & "stuck a fork in her" (instead of the usual sythe) ¤ née: Willis  born on 9-1-1933 in Lakeview, Texas expired 9-13-2006 in Austin, Texas   age 73   cause: esophageal cancer    Contest Selectors 2003 OGGI 5.6% 2006 BONY 3.3%    Scored 7.7000 solo points

auto dealer/radio station/sports team owner  George A. "Dick" Richards   his Goodwill Stations group owned WJR (Detroit), WGAR (Cleveland) & KMPC (Los Angeles); bought the Portsmouth (Ohio) Spartans (founded 1930) for $7,952.08 in 1934 & moved the franchise to Detroit, renaming them the Lions (later sold to the Fords in 1940); he scheduled/broadcast the first NFL Thanksgiving game (Lions vs. Packers on 11/29/1934) with announcers Graham McNamee & Don Wilson born on --1889 in Crete, Illinois expired 5-28-1951 in Detroit, Michigan   age 62   cause: heart ailment

childrens book author  Laura Elizabeth Richards   wrote Captain January; daughter of Julia Ward Howe expired 1-14-1943 in Gardiner, Maine   age 92

Theodore William Richards   1914 Nobel chemistry laureate born on 1-31-1868 in Germantown, Pennsylvania expired 4-2-1928 in Cambridge, Massachusetts   age 60

murder victim  Barbara Lee Richardson   girlfriend of David Lind; one of the fatalities of the Wonderland Murders (1981) born on 10-17-1958 expired 7-1-1981 in Los Angeles, California   age 22   cause: bludgeoned to death with lead pipe

short-lived Nixon Attorney General (1973)  Elliot Lee Richardson   refused to fire Special Prosecutor & was fired (during the Watergate "Saturday Night Massacre" 10/20/73); also served as Nixon HEW Secretary (1970-72) & Defense Secretary (1973) before being AG, then Ford Commerce Secretary (1974-76) born on 7-20-1920 in Boston, Massachusetts expired 12-31-1999 in Boston, Massachusetts   age 79   cause: cerebral hemorrhage

actor  Ian William Richardson born on 4-7-1934 in Edinburgh, Scotland expired 2-9-2007 in London, England   age 72

jazz flutist/saxophonist  Jerome Richardson born on 12-25-1920 in Oakland, California expired 6-23-2000 in Englewood, New Jersey   age 79

early rock radio disc jockey  Jiles Perry Richardson   had hit with Chantilly Lace (1958); killed in crash of Beechcraft Bonanza (registration N3794P, aka "Miss American Pie") with Buddy Holly and Richie Valens) ¤ aka: "The Big Bopper"  born on 10-24-1930 in Sabine Pass, Texas expired 2-3-1959 in Clear Lake, Iowa   age 28   cause: plane crash

movie art director  Lucinda Jane "Lucy" Richardson   was the art director on Elizabeth (1998), Chocolat (2000) & The Life and Death of Peter Sellers (2004); NOT the Lucy in Sky With Diamonds that her family had claimed born on --1957 in Weybridge, Surrey, England expired 6-1-2005   age 47   cause: breast cancer

actress  Natasha Richardson   wife of Liam Neeson; daughter of Tony Richardson and Vanessa Redgrave; granddaughter of Michael Redgrave & Rachel Kempson; suffered a catastrophic brain injury while skiing at Mont Tremblant, Quebec (mid-March, 2009) born on 5-11-1963 in London, England expired 3-18-2009 in Manhattan, New York, New York   age 45   cause: epidural hematoma

physicist  Owen Willans Richardson   1928 Nobel physics laureate for defining the motion of electrons born on 4-26-1879 in Dewsbury, Yorkshire, England expired 2-15-1959 in Alton, Hampshire, England   age 79 AKS: Willians Williams

actor Sir  Ralph David Richardson   appeared in Dragonslayer, Time Bandits, Dr. Zhivago, Exodus and Things to Come born on 12-19-1902 in Cheltenham, England expired 10-9-1983 in London, England   age 80

Tony Richardson   1963 Best Directing oscar-winning director (for Tom Jones); father of Natasha Richardson born on 6-5-1928 in Shipley, England expired 11-14-1991 in Los Angeles, California   age 63

lawyer  Donald Randall Richberg   co-author of the railway Labor Act and the National Industrial Recovery Act expired 11-27-1960 in Charlottesville, Virginia   age 79

Dr.  Charles Robert Richet   received the 1913 Nobel prize in medicine for his work on anaphylaxis born on 8-25-1850 in Paris, France expired 12-4-1935 in Paris, France   age 85

noted World War II aviatrix  Helen Richey expired 1-7-1947 in New York, New York   age 37

author  Mordecai Richler   wrote The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz (1959) born on 1-27-1931 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada expired 7-3-2001 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada   age 70   cause: complications from kidney cancer

dapper singer, dancer, actor  Harry Richman   appeared in Puttin' on the Ritz (1930) and The Playboy (1938; English title: Kicking the Moon Around) ¤ born: Harry Reichman  born on 8-10-1895 in Cincinnati, Ohio expired 11-3-1972 in Burbank, California   age 77

1960s civil rights demonstrator  David Leinail Richmond   a member of the Greensboro Four born on --1941 in Greensboro, North Carolina expired 12-7-1990 in Greensboro, North Carolina   age 49   cause: lung cancer

folk musician  John B. "Fritz" Richmond Jr.   master of the Jug & Washtub Bass; played with the Jim Kweskin Jug Band; suggested the band name for The Lovin' Spoonful born on 7-10-1939 in Newton, Massachusetts expired 11-20-2005 in Portland, Oregon   age 66   cause: lung cancer

one-time pro wrassler  Kenneth Richmond   won a bronze medal in real wrestling at the 1952 Helsinki Olympic games; was the 4th (and final) gong-striker seen at the beginning of the J. Arthur Rank Studios movies (the "gong" he "struck" was actually made of paper maché — he never made contact with the mallet lest the "gong" be destroyed in a single blow; the sound was dubbed in later) born on 7-10-1926 in London, England expired 8-3-2006 in Christchurch, England   age 80   cause: heart attack

stock car racer  Timothy L. Richmond born on 6-7-1955 expired 8-13-1989   age 34   cause: complications from AIDS

CalTech geophysicist Dr.  Charles Francis Richter   invented eponymous logarithmic earthquake scale (1935) born on 4-26-1900 in Hamilton, Ohio expired 9-30-1985 in Pasadena, California   age 85

conductor  Karl Richter born on 10-15-1926 in Plauen, Germany expired 2-17-1981 in München, Germany   age 54

TWA co-founder  Paul E. Richter   formerly head of TACA Airways expired 5-15-1949 in Berkeley, California   age 53   cause: cerebral hemorrhage

classical pianist  Svyatoslav Theofilovich Richter born on 3-20-1915 in Zhitomir, Russia expired 8-1-1997 in Moscow, Russia   age 82   cause: heart attack

World War I German air ace Baron  Manfred von Richtofen ¤ better known as: "The Red Baron"  born on 5-2-1892 in Breslau, Germany (now Wroclaw, Poland) expired 4-21-1918 in Somme sector, France   age 25   cause: shot down

World War I flying ace  Edward Vernon "Eddie" Rickenbacker   one-time owner of Eastern Airlines (1938-53) expired 7-23-1973 in Zürich, Switzerland   age 82

Brooklyn Dodgers manager & part owner (1942-50)  Branch Wesley Rickey   baseball coach at the University of Michigan (went to St.Louis in 1913); hired Jackie Robinson as first black major league player in modern era (1946) ¤ nickname: The "Mahatma"  born on 12-20-1881 in Stockdale, Ohio expired 12-9-1965 in Columbus, Missouri   age 83

Admiral  Hyman George Rickover   "father of the nuclear submarine" born on 1-27-1900 in Makov, Russia expired 7-8-1986 in Arlington, Virginia   age 86    Contest Selectors 1980 DH, DW 12.5%

comic book artist  Donato Rico II   wrote and/or illustrated The Claw, Captain America, Captain Marvel, the Human Torch & Daredevil born on 9-26-1912 in New York, New York expired 3-27-1985 in Hollywood, California   age 72   cause: cancer

Texas death row inmate  Granville Riddle ¤ aka: number 965  born on 6-17-1969 expired 1-30-2003 in Huntsville, Texas   age 33   cause: executed; lethal injection    Contest Selectors 2003 DTM, RR, TMTX 16.7%    Scored 9.8250 points

composer/arranger/conductor  Nelson Smock Riddle   wrote theme song for Route 66 tv series born on 6-1-1921 in Oradell, New Jersey expired 10-7-1985 in Los Angeles, California   age 64

racehorse owner  Samuel D. Riddle   owned Man o' War and War Admiral expired 1-8-1951 in Media, Pennsylvania   age 89

former Americal Division helicopter pilot  Ronald L. Ridenhour   reported the My Lai massacre (March 16, 1968) after leaving service (1969) born on 4-6-1946 in Oakland, California expired 5-10-1998 in Metairie, Louisiana   age 52   cause: heart attack

character actor  Robert Ridgely   played the game show host in Melvin and Howard (1980) and the hangman Boris in Blazing Saddles and Robin Hood: Men in Tights born on 12-24-1931 expired 2-8-1997 in Toluca Lake, California   age 65   cause: cancer

retired General  Matthew Ridgway born on 3-3-1895 in Fort Monroe, Virginia expired 7-26-1993 in Fox Chapel, Pennsylvania   age 98

Russian Orthodox Church patriarch (1990-2008)  Alexiy Ridiger ¤ Alexiy II  born on 2-23-1929 in Tallin, Estonia expired 12-5-2008 in Peredelkino, Russia   age 79   cause: heart failure AKS: Alexi Alexy Alexei Alexius Ruediger Rüdiger

botanist  Henry Nicholas Ridley   director of Singapore's Botanic Garden (1888); smuggled rubber tree seeds from South America, starting the Malaysian industry; discovered how to extract latex from the trees without injuring them expired 10-24-1956 in London, England   age 100

Spanish poet  Dionisio Ridruejo   co-founder of Falange Party in 1930s and Social Democratic Party; opponent of Francisco Franco expired 6-29-1975 in Madrid, Spain   age 62

Nazi filmmaker  Helene Bertha Amalie "Leni" Riefenstahl   producer/director of Triumph of the Will (1935) and Olympia (1936) born on 8-22-1902 in Berlin, Germany expired 9-8-2003 in Pöcking am Starnberger, Bavaria, Germany   age 101    Contest Selectors 2000 ANG, RR 14% 2001 ANG, DTM, RR 37½% 2002 ANG, DTM, JAC, JL, MORB, RR 54.5% 2003 ANG, COCO, DTM, JL, PCD, RR, TAP 38.9%    Scored 2.4391 points AKS: Reifenstahl

wrong-way runner  Roy M. Riegels born on 4-4-1908 expired 3-26-1993   age 84

pioneering "surfer girl"  Mary Kerwin Riehl   won the women's division of the 1939 Pacific Coast Surfing Championship born on 3-25-1912 in Hermosa Beach, California expired 3-16-2004 in Santa Maria, California   age 91   cause: complications from stroke

screenwriter & "script doctor"  Dean Franklin Riesner   wrote Coogan's Bluff (1968) & The Enforcer (1976); co-wrote Play Misty For Me & Dirty Harry (1971; with Harry Julian Fink & Rita M. Fink, "Harry's creators); first husband of Vampira (coined her name for a 1954 KABC-TV horror film hosting gig) ¤ as a child actor performed under pseudonym Dinky Dean  born on 11-3-1918 in New York, New York expired 8-18-2002 in Los Angeles, California   age 83

University of Cincinnati professor emeritus  George B. Rieveschl Jr.   was the inventor of the antihistamine Benadryl (beta-dimethylaminoethylbenzhydryl ether hydrochloride) born on 1-9-1916 in Arlington Heights, Ohio expired 9-27-2007 in Cincinnati, Ohio   age 91   cause: pneumonia AKS: Reiveschl

geezer  Harriet Azzie Riggins-McGee   of Albany, Georgia ¤ alternate surname spelling: McGhee  born on 3-14-1884 expired 11-6-2002 in Albany, Georgia   age 118

retired Tulsa police officer  Clinton E. Riggs   invented the "Yield" sign born on 7-15-1910 expired 5-22-1997 in Tulsa, Oklahoma   age 86

playwright  Lynn Riggs   wrote Green Grown the Lilacs, adapted by Rogers and Hammerstein as Oklahoma expired 6-30-1954 in New York, New York   age 54

movie director  Marlon T. Riggs born on 2-3-1957 in Fort Worth, Texas expired 4-5-1994 in Dallas, Texas   age 37   cause: AIDS

tennis player  Robert L. "Bobby" Riggs   lost famous "Battle of the Sexes" tennis match against Billie Jean King born on 2-25-1918 expired 10-25-1995   age 77

Cardinal  Egano Righi-Lambertini born on 2-22-1906 expired 10-4-2000   age

fantasy writer  James Oliver Rigney Jr.   wrote Wheel of Time series ¤ pen name: "Robert Jordan"  born on 10-17-1948 in Charleston, South Carolina expired 9-16-2007 in Charleston, South Carolina   age 58   cause: cardiomyopathy; other complications from primary amyloidosis

former N.Y./S.F. Giants manager (1956-60  William J. "Bill" Rigney Sr. born on 1-29-1918 in Alameda, California expired 2-20-2001 in Walnut Creek, California   age 83   cause: pneumonia; heart problems; lymphoma

Great Lakes sailor  Paul M. Riippa   Deckhand aboard the Edmund Fitzgerald expired 11-10-1975 in Eastern Lake Superior, Canada   age 22   cause: drowned when ship foundered

jazz trombonist  Adolphus "Snooks" Riley born on 7-29-1925 in Washington, District of Columbia expired 5-3-2002 in Washington, District of Columbia   age 77   cause: hypertension

Hoosier poet  James Whitcomb Riley   wrote poems Little Orphan Annie and The Raggedy Man born on 10-7-1849 in Greenfield, Indiana expired 7-22-1916 in Indianapolis, Indiana   age 66

former NASA spokesman  John E. Riley   commentator on the first moon landing born on 2-8-1925 in Trenton, Missouri expired 4-17-2003 in Laporte, Texas   age 78   cause: cancer

Knots Landing actor  Larry Riley born on 6-20-1953 in Memphis, Tennessee expired 6-6-1992 in Burbank, California   age 38   cause: AIDS

author  Robert Henry Rimmer   wrote 1966 soft-porn juvenile fantasy The Harrad Experiment; died day before his 60th wedding anniverary born on 3-14-1917 in Boston, Massachusetts expired 8-1-2001 in Quincy, Massachusetts   age 84

former kennel worker  Victoria Rimmer   first confirmed case of BSE-induced vCJD (diagnosed August 1993); went into permanent coma shortly thereafter born on --1977 expired 11-??-1997 in Connah's Quay, Clwyd, Wales   age 20   cause: complications from vCJD

Flight of the Bumble Bee composer  Nikolai Andreevich Rimsky-Korsakov born on 3-18-1844 in Tikhvin, Russia expired 6-21-1908 in Saint Petersburg, Russia   age 64

advertising executive  Hal Patrick Riney   created the "It's morning in America" ads for Reagan's 1984 re-election campaign, the Bartles & Jaymes wine cooler ads for Gallo and the Swedish Bikini Team ads for Old Milwaukee beer born on 7-17-1932 in Seattle, Washington expired 3-24-2008 in San Francisco, California   age 75   cause: cancer

Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus chairman  Edith Conway Ringling   widow of circus co-founder Charles Ringling expired 9-23-1953 in Sarasota, Florida   age 84

circus family member  Jean Fowler Ringling born on 12-2-1906 expired 1-3-1994   age 87

radio/tv/theater organist  Elizabeth "Rosa" Rio ¤ Mrs. Bill Yeoman  born on 6-2-1902 expired 5-13-2010 in Sun City Center, FLorida   age 107

698 pound rapper  Christopher L. Rios ¤ aka: Big Punisher  born on 11-10-1971 expired 2-7-2000   age 28

singer  Minnie Riperton born on 11-8-1947 in Chicago, Illinois expired 7-12-1979 in Los Angeles, California   age 31   cause: breast cancer    Contest Selectors 1979 JW  7.7%    Scored 9 solo points

former Baltimore Orioles manager  Calvin Edwin Ripken Sr.   father of Cal Jr. born on 12-17-1935 in Aberdeen, Maryland expired 3-25-1999 in Baltimore, Maryland   age 63   cause: lung cancer

romance novelist  Alexandra Ripley   penned "Gone With The Wind" sequel Scarlett (1991) ¤ née: Braid  born on 1-8-1934 in Charleston, South Carolina expired 1-10-2004 in Richmond, Virginia   age 67   cause: "natural causes"

cartoonist  Robert LeRoy Ripley   created the Believe It or Not cartoon strip expired 5-27-1949 in New York, New York   age 55   cause: heart attack

former Smithsonian director (1964-84)  S. Dillon Ripley   a biologist by training born on 9-20-1913 in New York, New York expired 3-12-2001 in Washington, District of Columbia   age 87

Chicago White Sox player (1917-20)  Charles "Swede" Risberg   one of eight accused of throwing the 1919 World Series (Black Sox scandal) born on 10-13-1894 expired 10-13-1975 in Red Bluff, California   age 81

children's book publisher  Ole C. Risom   vice president & art director for (Little) Golden Books (1952-72) born on 10-3-1919 in Copenhagen, Denmark expired 8-19-2000 in Manhasset, New York   age 80   cause: cancer

actor  Cyril Ritchard   noted for playing Captain Hook in stage & tv productions of Peter Pan; won 1954 Tony for role ¤ born: Cyril Trimnell-Ritchard  born on 12-1-1898 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia expired 12-18-1977 in Chicago, Illinois   age 79   cause: cardiac arrest

movie director  Michael Ritchie   directed Downhill Racer, The Candidate, Smile, The Bad News Bears, Semi-Tough, Fletch & The Golden Child (1986) born on 11-28-1938 in Waukesha, Wisconsin expired 4-16-2001 in New York, New York   age 62   cause: complications of prostate cancer

1950s blacklisted movie director  Martin Ritt   directed Hud (1963), The Great White Hope (1970), Norma Rae (1979) & Cross Creek (1983) born on 3-2-1914 in New York, New York expired 12-8-1990 in Santa Monica, California   age 76

Dorothy Alice Fay Southworth Ritter   Tex's widow; Jon's mother born on 4-4-1915 in Prescott, Arizona expired 11-5-2003 in Woodland Hills, California   age 88

actor  Johnathan Southworth Ritter   son of Tex & Dorothy Ritter; played Jack Tripper on Three's Company (1977-84) & Paul Hennessy on 8 Simple Rules ... tv sitcoms born on 9-17-1948 in Burbank, California expired 9-11-2003 in Burbank, California   age 54   cause: circulatory failure; dissection of the aorta

NYU finance professor  Lawrence Stanley Ritter   compiler/writer of the oral history The Glory of Their Times: The Story of the Early Days of Baseball Told by the Men Who pLayed It (1968) born on 5-23-1922 in New York, New York expired 2-15-2004 in New York, New York   age 81   cause: complications from strokes

pro wrassler  Sylvester Ritter ¤ aka: "Junkyard Dog"  born on 12-13-1952 in Wadesboro, North Carolina expired 6-1-1998 in I-20, Central Mississippi   age 45   cause: auto accident

character actress  Thelma Ritter born on 2-14-1905 in New York, New York expired 2-5-1969 in New York, New York   age 63   cause: heart attack

singing cowboy actor  Woodward Maurice "Tex" Ritter   father of Thomas & actor Jon Ritter; wrote (I've Got Spurs that) Jingle, Jangle, Jingle born on 1-12-1905 in Murvaul, Texas expired 1-2-1974 in Nashville, Tennessee   age 68   cause: heart attack

celebrity photographer  Herbert Ritts   shot a number of Playboy covers born on 8-13-1952 in Los Angeles, California expired 12-26-2002 in Los Angeles, California   age 50   cause: complications from pneumonia; AIDS

puppeteer  Mark Ritts   played Lester the Lab Rat on Beakman's World, a kid's science show that ran on the Learning Channel, then CBS, from 1992 to 1998 born on 6-16-1946 in West Chester, Pennsylvania expired 12-7-2009 in La Cañada Flintridge, California   age 63   cause: kidney cancer

hotel chain founder  César Ritz   his super-fancy hotel earned him the eponym ritzy born on 2-23-1848 in Niederwald, Switzerland expired 11-1-1918 in Lucerne, Switzerland   age 70

Hotelier  Charles Ritz   son of César; Nabisco licensed his name for a brand of crackers born on 8-1-1891 in Switzerland expired 7-11-1976 in Paris, France   age 84

retired cobbler  Joan Riudavets Moll   at time of death was World's oldest man born on 12-15-1889 in Es Migjoran Gran, Minorca, Spain expired 3-5-2004 in Es Migjoran Gran, Minorca, Spain   age 114   cause: old age    Contest Selectors 2003 KLS 5.6% 2004 KLS 5.6%    Scored 3.6000 solo points AKS: Rudavets Ruidavets

muralist  Diego Rivera   an ardent communist supporter expired 11-24-1957 in Mexico City, Mexico   age 70

former El Salvador president (1962-67)  Julio Rivera expired 7-29-1973 in San Jose Guayabal, El Salvador   age 52   cause: heart attack

"edgy" artist  Larry Rivers ¤ born: Yitzroch Loiza Grossberg  born on 8-17-1923 in New York, New York expired 8-14-2002 in Southampton, New York   age 78   cause: liver cancer

South Carolina Rep. (1941-70)  Lucius Mendel Rivers born on 9-28-1905 in Gumville, South Carolina expired 12-28-1970 in Birmingham, Alabama   age 65   cause: heart failure

former Philadelphia mayor  Frank Lazzaro Rizzo born on 10-23-1920 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania expired 7-16-1991 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania   age 70

Sinatra buddy  "Jilly" Rizzo born on 5-6-1917 expired 5-7-1992   age 75

Hall of Fame baseball player  Philip Francis Rizzuto   played for the Yankees ¤ born: Fiero Francis Rizzuto nickname: "Scooter"  born on 9-25-1917 in Brooklyn, New York, New York expired 8-13-2007 in West Orange, New Jersey   age 89   cause: pneumonia    Contest Selectors 2003 ABRA, KOHD, MJ 16.7% 2004 MJ 5.6% 2006 DFFC 3.3% 2007 DFFC, GOHI, PUD, SBAP 12.9%    Scored 3.9125 points 2010 ADWC

Little Rascals producer  Hal Roach   father of Maria; father-in-law of astronaut Scott Carpenter born on 1-14-1892 expired 11-2-1992   age 100   cause: pneumonia    Contest Selectors 1979 DO 7.7% 1980 DO, MM 12.5%

bebop/jazz drummer  Maxwell Lemuel Roach born on 1-10-1924 in New Land, North Carolina expired 8-15-2007 in Manhattan, New York, New York   age 83   cause: complications from Alzheimer's disease

actor  Adam Roarke   played CPO Garrison in original Star Trek pilot (1964) and Uncle Carl in The Beach Girls (1982) ¤ born: Richard Jordan Gerler  born on 8-8-1937 in New York, New York expired 4-27-1996 in Euless, Texas   age 58   cause: heart attack

actor  Jason Nelson Robards Jr.   won two Best Supporting Actor oscars for playing Ben Bradlee in All the President's Men (1976) & Dashiell Hammett in Julia (1977); also played Howard Hughes in Melvin and Howard (1980) title role in The Ballad of Cable Hogue (1970) born on 7-26-1922 in Chicago, Illinois expired 12-26-2000 in Bridgeport, Connecticut   age 78   cause: brain cancer    Contest Selectors 1980 VA 6.3% 2000 BOD 14%    Scored 7.2000 solo points 2005 TBC

old Titanic sinking survivor  Marjorie Newell Robb born on 2-12-1889 expired 6-11-1992   age 103

Miami Dolphins founder (1965)  Joseph "Joe" Robbie Jr. born on 7-7-1916 in Sisseton, South Dakota expired 1-7-1990 in Miami, Florida   age 73

author  Clarence Aaron "Tod" Robbins   wrote Spurs which was made into the movie Freaks (1932) expired 5-10-1949 in Saint Jean, Cap Ferrat, France   age 61

Institute for Defense Analysis mathematician Dr.  David Peter Robbins   derived formula for predicting numbers of alternating-sign matricies; at time of death was working on a formula to compute the area of a polygon given only the lengths of the sides born on 8-12-1942 in New York, New York expired 9-4-2003 in Princeton, New Jersey   age 61   cause: pancreatic cancer

pediatrician Dr.  Frederick Chapman Robbins   shared the 1954 Nobel prize in medicine for developing techniques to grow polio virus in a test tube born on 8-25-1916 in Auburn, Alabama expired 8-4-2003 in Cleveland, Ohio   age 86

author  Harold Robbins ¤ born: Francis Kane  born on 5-21-1916 in New York, New York expired 10-14-1997 in Palm Springs, California   age 81   cause: pulmonary arrest

Baskin-Robbins co-founder (1945)  Irvine Robbins born on 12-6-1917 in Winnepeg, Manitoba, Canada expired 5-5-2008 in Rancho Mirage, California   age 90

choreographer and director  Jerome Robbins   choreographed & directed The King and I, Peter Pan, West Side Story, Gypsy and Fiddler on the Roof ¤ born: Jerome Rabinowitz  born on 10-11-1918 in New York, New York expired 7-29-1998 in New York, New York   age 79   cause: stroke

country singer  Marty Robbins ¤ born: Martin David Robinson  born on 9-26-1925 in Glendale, Arizona expired 12-8-1982 in Nashville, Tennessee   age 57

newscaster  Pauline Frederick Robbins born on 2-13-1906 in Gallitzen, Pennsylvania expired 5-9-1990 in Lake Forest, Illinois   age 84

Scottsboro Boys defendant  Willie Roberson   at time of "attacks" suffering from acute syphilis & gonorrhea born on 7-4-1915 in Columbus, Georgia expired ??-??-19??   age ??   cause: asthma attack

Augusta National Golf Club co-founder  Clifford Roberts   Masters Golf Tournament chairman for 43 years born on 3-6-1894 expired 9-29-1977 in Augusta, Georgia   age 83

Texas death row inmate  Douglas Alan Roberts ¤ number 999218  born on 7-8-1962 expired 4-20-2005 in Huntsville, Texas   age 42   cause: executed; lethal injection    Contest Selectors 2005 DTM, PCD, QKU, RIE 13.0%    Scored 8.6125 points

Dallas, Texas boarding house operator  Earline Roberts   Lee Harvey Oswald's landlady in 1963 expired 1-9-1966 in Dallas, Texas   age 66   cause: heart attack

faith-healing preacher  Granville Richard James Oral Roberts Sr. born on 1-24-1918 in Ada, Oklahoma (nearby) expired 12-15-2009 in Newport Beach, California   age 91   cause: pneumonia; fall    Contest Selectors 1979 JH 7.7% 2000 BOD 14% 2001 BOD 12½% 2002 BOD, MORB 18.2% 2004 BOD 5.6% 2005 ADWC, BOD, SLIM 13.0% 2006 ADWC, BOD, DTH, MOT 13.3% 2007 ABRA, ADWC, BOD, DTH, MOT, PUD 19.4% 2008 ADWC, ANG, BOD, MORB, RPRM, SPIT 18.8% 2009 ADWC, ANG, BOD, MORB, RPRM, TFM 20.0%    Scored 3.4781 points

one-time Cochran, Georgia physician  Henry Edward Roberts   as founder/president of Micro Instrumentation and Telemetry Systems (MITS) designed the Altair 8800 Computer (1975) born on 9-13-1941 in Miami, Florida expired 4-1-2010 in Macon, Georgia   age 68   cause: pneumonia

O. L. Roberts   claimed to have been outlaw Billy the Kid ¤ nickname: Brushy Bill  expired 12-28-1950 in Hico, Texas   age 90

actor  Pernell Elven Roberts Jr.   played Adam Cartright on Bonanza and had title role in Trapper John: M.D. tv series born on 5-18-1928 in Waycross, Georgia expired 1-24-2010 in Malibu, California   age 81   cause: prostate cancer    Contest Selectors 2006 GGG 3.3%

Hall of Fame baseball player  Robin Evan Roberts   came here to MSU on a basketball scholarship but soon switch to playing baseball for John Kobs born on 9-30-1926 in Springfield, Illinois (outside) expired 5-6-2010 in Temple Terrace, Florida   age 83

character actor  Roy Roberts   played C&FW railroad president Norman Curtis on Petticoat Junction born on 3-19-1906 in Tampa, Florida expired 5-28-1975 in Los Angeles, California   age 69

1903 U of Mich football team student manager  Thomas Roberts Sr.   purchased a "Little Brown (water) Jug" for use by team which was abandoned by team after riot at that year's U of Minnesota game --- seven years later (1910) at the team's next meeting the jug became the "trophy" awarded to the winner of the game. born on 9-30-1882 expired 1-8-1966 in Laguna Beach, California   age 83

bit-part actress  Carmencita B. Johnson Robertson   appeared in som e Lttle Rascals shorts; worked as a stand-in for Lana Turner and did synchronized swimming in Esther William's MGM pool pix born on 3-31-1923 expired 9-26-2000 in Ventura, California   age 77   cause: car crash

child murder victim  Carole Rosamond Robertson   killed by KKK goons in church bombing born on 4-24-1949 in Birmingham, Alabama expired 9-15-1963 in Birmingham, Alabama   age 14   cause: bomb explosion

Merchant Marine officer & pulp fiction author  Morgan Andrew Robertson   in 1898 wrote The Wreck of the Titan ... or, Futility foreshadowing the wreck of the Titanic in 1912 born on 9-30-1861 in Oswego, New York expired 3-24-1915   age 53   cause: heart disease

Dr.  Patricia Hilliard Robertson   slated to be an ISS crew support astronaut born on 3-12-1963 in Indiana, Pennsylvania expired 5-24-2001 in Houston, Texas   age 38   cause: burns suffered in small plane crash

singer & actor  Paul Robeson   noted for playing title role in Othello and for singing Old Man River born on 4-9-1898 in Princeton, New Jersey expired 1-23-1976 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania   age 77   cause: complications from stroke

Prince Edward Island politician  Gary Robichaud   leader of the New Democrat Party born on 9-13-1962 in Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada expired 9-8-2005 in Summerside, Prince Edward Island, Canada   age 42   cause: cancer    Contest Selectors 2005 DTM 4.3%    Did  Not Score - insufficient category citations (zero to be exact)

cartographer  Arthur H. Robinson   came up with a projection that attempted to solve the "Greenland problem" — the Robinson projection — now used by the National Geographic Society & federal agencies born on 1-5-1915 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada expired 10-10-2004 in Madison, Wisconsin   age 89

Edward Gay "Eddie" Robinson Sr.   spent 55 years as coach of the Grambling football team (1941-1997), compiling a 408-165-15 record; second-winningest coach in college football born on 2-13-1919 in Jackson, Louisiana expired 4-3-2007 in Ruston, Louisiana   age 88   cause: complications from Alzheimer's disease    Contest Selectors 2005 PCD, RR 8.7% 2006 PCD, RR 6.7% 2007 PCD, RR 6.5%    Scored 4.9500 points

actor  Edward G. Robinson Sr.   played gangster Little Caesar (1930); his final film — Soylent Green (1973) ¤ born: Emanuel Goldenberg  born on 12-12-1893 in Bucharest, Roumania expired 1-26-1973 in Hollywood, California   age 77

problem offspring  Edward G. Robinson Jr. born on 3-19-1933 expired 2-26-1974 in West Hollywood, California   age 40

early tv actress  Giovanna Calistri "Joan" Robinson   appeared on The Edge of Night tv soap born on 11-28-1928 expired 1-5-2001 in Palm Springs, California   age 72   cause: heart attack

San Francisco Examiner photographer  Gregory Alan Robinson   murdered after visiting People's Temple cult headquarters in Jonestown, Guyana born on 10-21-1951 in Burbank, California expired 11-18-1978 in Port Kaituma, Guyana   age 27   cause: bullet wounds

Hawaiian Island matriarch  Helen Marion Matthew Robinson   head of family that privately owns the island of Niihau born on 8-2-1910 in Washington, District of Columbia expired 7-31-2002 in Makaweli, Kauai, Hawaii   age 91

George Washington Bridge designer  Holton D. Robinson expired 5-7-1945 in New York, New York   age 82

first black major league player of modern era  Jack Roosevelt "Jackie" Robinson Sr.   played with the Brooklyn Dodgers born on 1-31-1919 in Cairo, Georgia expired 10-24-1972 in Stamford, Connecticut   age 53   cause: heart attack

troubled son of baseball star  Jack Roosevelt "Jackie" Robinson Jr. born on 11-9-1946 in Los Angeles, California expired 6-17-1971 in Norwalk, Connecticut   age 24   cause: car crash

Florida death row inmate  Johnny Robinson born on 7-25-1952 expired 2-4-2004 in Starke, Florida   age 51   cause: executed; lethal injection    Contest Selectors 2004 BOD, PCD 11.1%    Did  Not Score - insufficient category citations (zero to be exact)

1936 200m sprint Olympic silver medalist  Matthew Mack Robinson   older brother of Jackie born on 7-18-1914 in Cairo, Georgia expired 3-12-2000 in Pasadena, California   age 85

Matthew Thomas Robinson Jr.   first actor to play Gordon on Sesame Street (1969-71); also a writer on Sanford and Son, Eight is Enough & the Cosby Show; father of actress Holly Robinson Peete born on 1-1-1937 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania expired 8-5-2002 in Los Angeles, California   age 65   cause: complications from Parkinson's disease

former ABC news anchor  Max C. Robinson born on 5-1-1939 in Richmond, Virginia expired 12-20-1988   age 49   cause: AIDS

organic chemist Sir  Robert Robinson   winner of the 1947 Nobel Prize in chemistry born on 9-13-1886 in Rifford, Derbyshire, England expired 2-8-1975 in Great Missenden, England   age 88

Ruby Doris Smith Robinson   a co-founder of SNCC expired 10-7-1967 in Atlanta, Georgia   age 26

boxer  "Sugar" Ray Robinson ¤ born: Walker Smith  born on 5-3-1921 in Detroit, Michigan expired 4-12-1989 in Culver City, California   age 67   cause: heart disease; diabetes; Alzheimer's disease

famed vaudeville tap dancer and movie actor  William "Bill" Robinson   mostly remembered for tap dancing with Shirley Temple in a number of 1930s films ¤ nickname: "Bojangles"  expired 11-25-1949 in New York, New York   age 71   cause: heart ailment

former Detroit Pistons scout  William Joseph Robinson Sr.   was the first black coach of an NCAA division 1 basketball team (at Illinois State) born on 6-3-1911 in Wadesboro, North Carolina expired 4-28-2008 in Harper Woods, Michigan   age 96   cause: pneumonia; "a long illness"    Contest Selectors 2000 ANG 14% 2001 ANG 12½% 2005 ANG 4.3% 2006 ANG 3.3% 2007 ANG, PCD 6.5% 2008 ANG, PCD 6.3%    Scored 4.1500 points

Texas death row inmate  Larry Keith Robison   murdered five people born on 8-12-1957 expired 1-21-2000 in Huntsville, Texas   age 42   cause: executed; lethal injection    Contest Selectors 2000 TEX 14%    Scored 10.8000 solo points

film director  Mark Robson   directed Home of the Brave (1949), Champion (1949), Peyton Place (1957), Inn of the Sixth Happiness (1958), Von Ryan's Express (1965), Valley of the Dolls (1967) & Earthquake (1974) born on 4-12-1913 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada expired 6-20-1978 in London, England   age 64   cause: heart attack

Sir  Robert Wilson "Bobby" Robson   managed a soccer team born on 2-18-1933 in Sacriston, County Durham, England expired 7-31-2009 in County Durham, England   age 76   cause: lung cancer    Contest Selectors 2008 DFFC, LMLD, RAVN 9.4% 2009 DFFC, DTM, LMLD 10.0%    Scored 5.5250 points

French mathematician  Yves-André Rocard born on 5-22-1903 in Vannes, France expired 3-16-1992 in Paris, France   age 88 AKS: Andre

character actor  Eugene H. Roche   played Pinky Peterson on All in the Family & Luther Gillis on Magnum P.I. born on 9-22-1928 in Boston, Massachusetts expired 7-28-2004 in Encino, California   age 75   cause: heart attack AKS: Roash Roach

former General Motors CEO (1967-71)  James M. Roche born on 12-16-1906 in Elgin, Illinois expired 6-6-2004 in Belleair, Florida   age 97

advertising executive  John Doyle Roche Sr.   designed & built the HOLLYWOODLAND sign on Mount Lee for Harry Chandler (the "LAND" letters were torn down in 1947); helped raise the money used to restore the sign (1978) born on 1-14-1897 expired 11-17-1978 in Los Angeles, California   age 81   cause: heart attack

Be-Bopp/blues singer  Mary Elizabeth "Betty" Roche   sang with the Duke Ellington orchestra in the 1940s and 50s born on 1-9-1918 in Wilmington, Delaware expired 2-16-1999 in Pleasantville, New Jersey   age 81

teacher & filmmaker  Louis de Rochemont III   made Windjammer: The Voyage of the Christian Radich (1958) born on 12-14-1930 in New York, New York expired 7-11-2001 in Oslo, Norway   age 70   cause: complications from diabetes

sub-atomic physicist Dr.  George Dixon Rochester   co-discovered the K-meson (kaon) (1946/7) born on 2-4-1908 expired 12-26-2001 in Durham, England   age 93

actress  Blossom Rock   older sister of Jeanette MacDonald; played grandma Addams on the Addams Family tv series ¤ born: Edith Blossom MacDonald also acted under name: Marie Blake  born on 8-21-1896 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania expired 1-14-1978 in Woodland Hills, California   age 81

former Citicorp president  James Stillman Rockefeller Sr.   a grand-nephew of John D. Rockefeller; an old Olympian (1924 rowing gold medal) born on 6-8-1902 in New York, New York expired 8-10-2004 in Greenwich, Connecticut   age 102   cause: stroke    Contest Selectors 2002 MORB 9.1% 2003 COCO, JL, PCD 16.7% 2004 DTM, KLS, PCD 16.7%    Scored 2.9250 points

Standard Oil co-founder  John Davison Rockefeller Sr. born on 7-8-1839 in Richford, New York expired 5-23-1937 in Ormond Beach, Florida   age 97

rich person  John Davison Rockefeller Jr.   son of Standard Oil billionaire John D. Sr.; father of Nelson Rockefeller born on 1-29-1874 in Cleveland, Ohio expired 5-11-1960 in Tucson, Arizona   age 86

rich person  John Davison Rockefeller III   grandson of billionaire; brother of Nelson; father of J.D.R. IV born on 3-21-1906 in New York, New York expired 7-10-1978 in Mount Pleasant, New York   age 72   cause: car crash

businessman  Laurance Spelman Rockefeller   a grandson of John D. Rockefeller born on 5-26-1910 in New York, New York expired 7-11-2004 in New York, New York   age 94   cause: pulmonary fibrosis    Contest Selectors 2004 RR 5.6%    Scored 5.6000 solo points AKS: Lawrence

Mary French Rockefeller   wife of Laurance Rockefeller born on 5-1-1910 in New York, New York expired 4-17-1997 in New York, New York   age 86   cause: injuries from a fall

Mary Todhunter Clark Rockefeller   Nelson's first wife; dumped for "Happy" in 1961 ¤ nickname: Tod  born on 6-17-1907 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania expired 4-21-1999   age 91

Ford Vice President (1975-76)  Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller   "close personal friend" of Megan Marshack born on 7-8-1908 in Bar Harbor, Maine expired 1-26-1979 in New York, New York   age 70   cause: heart attack    Contest Selectors 1979 DO, DW, HA, HFS, YJ 38.5%    Scored 3 points

former Arkansas governor (1967-70)  Winthrop Rockefeller   succeeded Orval Faubus; grandson of billionaire born on 5-1-1912 in New York, New York expired 2-22-1973 in Palm Springs, California   age 60   cause: liver & pancreas cancer

Arkansas Lt. Governor  Winthrop Paul "Win" Rockefeller   son of a former Arkansas governor born on 9-17-1948 in New York, New York expired 7-16-2006 in Little Rock, Arkansas   age 57   cause: pneumonia; myeloproliferative disorder

former SNL comic  Charles Rocket   was the "Weekend Host" (1980-81) — got fired for using the "F" word on-air; played Jippeq in the season 5 Star Trek: Voyager episode The Disease (1999); appeared in Dumb & Dumber (1994) ¤ real name: Charles Claverie  born on 8-24-1949 in Bangor, Maine expired 10-7-2005 in Canterbury, Connecticut   age 56   cause: suicide; cut own throat with razor

premiere Theremin performer  Clara Rockmore   sister of Nadia Reisenberg; lover of Leon Theremin ¤ born: Clara Reisenberg  born on 3-9-1911 in Vilna, Lithuania (now Vilnius) expired 5-10-1998 in New York, New York   age 88

legendary University of Notre Dame football coach (1918-31)  Knute Kenneth Rockne   turned down head coaching position at Michigan Agricultural College (1917); delivered legendary halftime speech to his team (11-10-1928) born on 3-4-1886 in Voss, Norway expired 3-31-1931 in Bazaar, Kansas   age 45   cause: plane crash

American Nazi Party organizer (1958)  George Lincoln Rockwell born on 3-9-1918 in Bloomington, Illinois expired 8-25-1967 in Arlington, Virginia   age 49   cause: assassinated; two shots by sniper - 1 head, 1 thorax

Saturday Evening Post cover illustrator (1916-63)  Norman Rockwell born on 2-3-1894 in New York, New York expired 11-8-1978 in Stockbridge, Massachusetts   age 84

comic stripbook artist  Richard Waring "Dick" Rockwell   nephew of Norman; for 35 years was a ghost artist on the Steve Canyon strip born on 12-11-1920 in Mamaroneck, New York expired 4-18-2006 in Cortland Manor, New York   age 85

actor  Robert Rockwell   best known for playing biology teacher Philip Boynton on Our Miss Brooks tv series born on 10-15-1920 in Chicago, Illinois expired 1-25-2003 in Malibu, California   age 82   cause: cancer

industrialist  Willard F. Rockwell Jr. born on 3-3-1914 expired 9-24-1992   age 78

organic farmer  Jerome Irving Rodale   founded publishing company; died during taping of tv interview with Dick Cavett born on 8-16-1898 in New York, New York expired 6-7-1971 in New York, New York   age 72   cause: heart attack

biochemist  Martin Rodbell   a 1994 Nobel medicine laureate born on 12-1-1925 in Baltimore, Maryland expired 12-7-1998 in Chapel Hill, North Carolina   age 73   cause: multiple organ failure

Star Trek creator  Eugene Wesley Roddenberry Sr.   co-wrote screenplay for Pretty Maids All in a Row born on 8-19-1921 in El Paso, Texas expired 10-24-1991 in Los Angeles, California   age 70    Contest Selectors 2005 GHG

Gene Roddenberry's widow  Majel Barrett Roddenberry   played lots of characters on the Star Trek tv series & movies; played Lumpy's sister on Leave It To Beaver ¤ born: Majel Leigh Hudec  born on 2-23-1932 in Columbus, Ohio expired 12-18-2008 in Bel-Air, California   age 76   cause: leukemia    Contest Selectors 2003 JEDS 5.6%

The Price Is Right announcer  Robert Ray "Rod" Roddy   responded to the Grim Reaper's call to "Come on down!" born on 9-18-1937 in Fort Worth, Texas expired 10-27-2003 in Century City, California   age 66   cause: colon & breast cancer    Contest Selectors 2002 TMTX 9.1% 2003 TMTX 5.6%    Scored 8.4000 solo points

inventor & writer  Dorothy F. Rodgers   widow of Richard born on 5-4-1909 expired 8-17-1992 in New York, New York   age 83

composer  Richard C. Rodgers   worked with Oscar Hammerstein II and Lorenz Hart; wrote numerous Broadway musicals; wrote music for NBC series Victory At Sea born on 6-28-1902 in New York, New York expired 12-30-1979 in New York, New York   age 77    Contest Selectors 1980 BB, GP AKS: Rogers

former First Lady's father  Hugh E. Rodham born on 4-2-1911 expired 4-7-1993   age 82

construction worker  Simon "Sam" Rodia   built the famous Watts Towers of L.A. (1921-1954) ¤ born: Sabato Rodia  born on 4-15-1875 in Rivatolli, Italy expired 7-16-1965 in Martinez, California   age 90

former New Jersey congressman (1949-89)  Peter Wallace Rodino Jr.   chaired the House Judiciary Committee during the Watergate impeachment hearings born on 6-7-1909 in Newark, New Jersey expired 5-7-2005 in West Orange, New Jersey   age 95   cause: congestive heart failure    Contest Selectors 2000 BOD 14% 2001 BOD 12½% 2002 BOD, RR 18.2% 2003 RR 5.6% 2004 BOD, RR 11.1% 2005 BOD, RR 8.7%    Scored 4.2500 points

blind Spanish classical composer  Joaquín Rodrigo   lost eyesight at age 3 during a diphtheria epidemic; wrote Concierto de Aranjuez (1940) born on 11-22-1901 in Sagunto, Valencia, Spain expired 7-6-1999 in Madrid, Spain   age 97    Contest Selectors 1980 GP 6.3%

character actor  Percy Rodrigues   played Commodore Stone on original Star Trek series "Court Martial" (1967), narrated the original movie trailer for Jaws (1975), provided the voice of Ordic in Galaxina (1980) & voiced Loknar in Heavy Metal (1981) born on 6-13-1918 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada expired 9-6-2007 in Indio, California   age 89   cause: kidney failure AKS: Rodriguez

former Detroit Tigers third-baseman  Aurelio Ituarte Rodríguez Jr. born on 12-28-1947 in Cananea Sonora, Mexico expired 9-23-2000 in Detroit, Michigan   age 52   cause: run down by automobile AKS: Rodriguez

recaptured Texas prison escapee  Anthony Michael Rodriguez born on 10-29-1962 expired 8-14-2008 in Huntsville, Texas   age 45   cause: executed; lethal injection    Contest Selectors 2001 TEX 12½%

Susan Jane "Sue" Rodriguez   Canadian woman suing for an assisted suicide ¤ née: Shipley  born on 8-2-1950 in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada expired 2-12-1994 in Sidney, British Columbia, Canada   age 43   cause: ALS

Royal Shakespeare Company actor  Norman Rodway born on 2-7-1929 in Dublin, Ireland expired 3-13-2001 in Banbury, Oxfordshire, England   age 72   cause: strokes

conductor  Artur Rodzinski   has led the New York Philharmonic, Cleveland Orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic and Chicago Symphony expired 11-27-1958 in Boston, Massachusetts   age 64

"Boys of Summer" pitcher  Elwin Charles "Preacher" Roe   was an All-Star pitcher for the Brooklyn Dodgers; an accomplished spitballer born on 2-26-1916 in Ash Flat, Arkansas expired 11-9-2008 in West Plains, Missouri   age 92   cause: complications from colon surgery

Ohio death row inmate  John Glenn Roe born on 4-4-1962 expired 2-3-2004 in Lucasville, Ohio   age 41   cause: executed; lethal injection    Contest Selectors 2004 BOD, PCD 11.1%    Did  Not Score - insufficient category citations (one to be exact)

engineer  John Augustus Roebling   designed the Brooklyn Bridge; died at the start of construction, leaving it to his son Washington to finish born on 6-12-1806 in Mulhouse, France expired 7-22-1869 in New York, New York   age 63

Brooklyn Bridge builder  Washington Augustus Robling   Chief Engineer for construction of the Brooklyn Bridge (1869-83) born on 5-26-1837 in Saxonburg, Pennsylvania expired 7-21-1926 in Trenton, New Jersey   age 89

Sears Roebuck co-founder  Alvah Curtis Roebuck expired 6-18-1948 in Chicago, Illinois   age 84

actor  William Roerick   did Hamlet with Gielgud; played Henry Chamberlain on Guiding Light born on 12-17-1911 expired 11-30-1995   age 83

former Detroit shortstop (1930-39)  William George "Billy" Rogell   served on the Detroit City Council (1942-80) born on 1-24-1904 in Springfield, Illinois expired 8-9-2003 in Warren, Michigan   age 99   cause: pneumonia    Contest Selectors 2002 JL 9.1% 2003 ANG, COCO, JL 16.7%    Scored 3.2250 points

psychologist  Carl Ransom Rogers   pioneered encounter groups & "self-actualization"; wrote On Becoming a Person (1961) born on 1-8-1902 in Oak Park, Illinois expired 2-4-1987 in La Jolla, California   age 85    Contest Selectors 1980 EB 6.3%

actor & bandleader  Charles "Buddy" Rogers   husband of Mary Pickford; star of Wings (1927) born on 8-13-1904 in Olathe, Kansas expired 4-21-1999 in Rancho Mirage, California   age 94    Contest Selectors 1979 RR 7.7% 1980 RR 6.3%

political/media advisor  Edward A. Rogers   involved in arranging, producing and/or writing Nixon's "Checkers" speech born on 10-21-1920 in Cleveland, Ohio expired 3-13-2003 in Sarasota, Florida   age 82

actress  Elizabeth Rogers   a friend of Irwin Allen; played Lt. Palmer in original Star Trek series episodes The Doomsday Machine (11/1967) & The Way to Eden (2/1969) as well as the voice of The Companion in Metamorphosis (11/1967) ¤ born: Betty Jane Rogers  born on 5-18-1934 in Austin, Texas expired 11-6-2004   age 70   cause: complications from strokes; lung cancer

Presbyterian minister  Fred McFeely Rogers   WQED/PBS neighbor (1968-2001) born on 3-20-1928 in Latrobe, Pennsylvania expired 2-27-2003 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania   age 74   cause: stomach cancer

Morro Castle radio operator  George W. Rogers   sent SOS during September 8, 1934 ship fire expired 1-10-1958 in Trenton, New Jersey   age 61

actress  Ginger Rogers   made a number of movie musicals with Fred Astaire; won 1940 Best Actress oscar for Kitty Foyle ¤ born: Virginia Katherine McMath  born on 7-16-1911 in Independence, Missouri expired 4-25-1995 in Rancho Mirage, California   age 83    Contest Selectors 1979 YJ 7.7%

actress  Jean Rogers   played Dale Arden in 30's Flash Gordon serials ¤ born: Eleanor Lovegren  born on 3-25-1916 in Belmont, Massachusetts expired 2-25-1991 in Sherman Oaks, California   age 74   cause: complications from surgery

retired high school biology teacher  Lida Rogers   proposed an annual Tulip Time Festival for Holland MI (1927); first event held in 1929 expired 6-14-1963 in Holland, Michigan   age 85

Miss America 1938  Marilyn Meseke Rogers ¤ christened: Mary Ellen Spurrier  born on 10-7-1916 in Peru, Ohio expired 9-12-2001 in Mount Dora, Florida   age 84

cowboy star  Roy Rogers ¤ born: Leonard Franklin Sly  born on 11-5-1911 in Cincinnati, Ohio expired 7-6-1998 in Apple Valley, California   age 86    Contest Selectors 1979 DO, HA, JW, MS, YJ 38.5% 1980 DR, DW, HA, VA 25.0%

kid speakeasy runner  Thomas Russell Rogers   worked for a while as a Hollywood script doctor; later went to work for the Leo Burnett Co.; creator of Charlie the Tuna (1961) born on 4-29-1918 in Minneapolis, Minnesota expired 6-24-2005 in Charlottesville, Virginia   age 87   cause: drowned in swimming pool

former Texas congressman (1951-67)  Walter Edward Rogers born on 7-19-1908 in Texarkana, Texas expired 5-31-2001 in Naples, Florida   age 92   cause: heart attack

humorist  William Penn Adair "Will" Rogers   killed along with pilot Wiley Post born on 9-5-1879 in Oologah, Oklahoma expired 8-15-1935 in Point Barrow, Alaska   age 55   cause: plane crash

second Eisenhower Attorney General  William Pierce Rogers   also first Nixon Secretary of State born on 6-23-1913 in Norfolk, New York expired 1-2-2001 in Bethesda, Maryland   age 87   cause: congestive heart failure

physician & philologist  Peter Mark Roget   compiled the first thesaurus (1852) born on 1-17-1779 in London, England expired 9-12-1869 in West Malvern, Worcestershire, England   age 90

pedophilic Nazi thug  Ernst Rohm   leader of the Brownshirts, Storm Troopers from 1930-34 born on 11-28-1887 in München, Germany expired 7-2-1934 in München, Germany   age 46   cause: executed

film director  Eric Rohmer ¤ born: Jean-Marie Maurice Schérer «or» Maurice Henri Joseph Schérer  born on 3-21-1920 in Nancy, Meurthe-et-Moselle, Lorraine, France expired 1-11-2010 in Paris, Île-de-France, France   age 89    Contest Selectors 2004 GHG 5.6% 2005 GHG 4.3% 2006 GHG 3.3% 2008 DGW 3.1% 2009 DGW 3.3% 2010 DGW 3.7%    Scored 6.1000 solo points

writer  Sax Rohmer   authored more than 30 Dr. Fu Manchu detective novels ¤ real name: Arthur Sarsfield Ward  born on 2-15-1883 in London, England expired 6-1-1959 in London, England   age 76

actress  Roxie Roker   Helen Willis on The Jeffersons (1975-85); mother of Lenny Kravitz born on 8-28-1929 in Miami, Florida expired 12-4-1995 in Los Angeles, California   age 66

actor  Gilbert Roland born on 12-11-1905 in Juarez, Mexico expired 5-15-1994   age 88

biochemist Dr.  Ida Pauline Rolf   developed soft body tissue "manipulation" technique called "Rolfing" (1940) born on 5-19-1896 in Brooklyn, New York, New York expired 3-19-1979 in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania   age 82

actor  Guy Rolfe   had title role on Baron Sardonicus Mr. Sardonicus (1961); also played Andre Toulon in several Puppetmaster horror flicks born on 12-27-1911 in London, England expired 10-19-2003   age 91

Virginia planter  John Rolfe   introduced tobacco cultivation to Virginia in 1612; husband of Pocahontas (1614-17) born on --1585 expired ??-??-1622 in Bermuda Hundred, Virginia   age 37

tv show creator  Sam H. Rolfe   created Have Gun, Will Travel & The Man from U.N.C.L.E. born on 2-18-1924 in New York, New York expired 7-10-1993 in Los Angeles, California   age 69   cause: heart attack

Romain Rolland   Nobel literature laureate for 1915 born on 1-29-1866 in Clamency, Nièvre, France expired 12-30-1944 in Vézelay, France   age 78   cause: tuberculosis

actress  Esther Rolle   played the mother on Good Times born on 11-8-1920 in Pompano Beach, Florida expired 11-17-1998 in Los Angeles, California   age 78   cause: complications from diabetes; kidney failure

actor  Howard Rollins born on 10-17-1950 in Baltimore, Maryland expired 12-8-1996 in New York, New York   age 46

luxury automobile pioneer  Charles Stewart Rolls   co-founded Rolls-Royce Ltd. in 1906 born on 8-27-1877 in Hendre, England expired 7-12-1910   age 32

World War II French resistance leader  Henri Rol-Tanguy ¤ born: Henri Tanguy  born on 6-12-1908 in Morlaix, Britanny, France expired 9-9-2002   age 94

restauranteur  Tony Roma   famous for their ribs born on 12-9-1923 expired 6-13-2003 in Hemet, California   age 79   cause: lung cancer

movie actress  Ruth Roman   with son Dickie survived sinking of the Andrea Doria liner (1956) ¤ born: Norma Roman  born on 12-23-1923 in Lynn, Massachusetts expired 9-9-1999 in Laguna Beach, California   age 75

Nicaraguan president (8/15/1947-5/6/1950)  Víctor Manuel Román y Reyes born on --1872 in Carazo, Nicaragua expired 5-6-1950 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania   age 77   cause: pneumonia; stomach cancer

Oklahoma death row inmate  John Joseph Romano born on 11-23-1958 expired 1-29-2002 in McAlester, Oklahoma   age 43   cause: executed; lethal injection    Contest Selectors 2002 BOD 9.1%    Scored 10.7000 solo points

daughter of last Czar  Anastasia Romanov   killed by Bolsheviks along with her parents and siblings; long rumored to have survived the massacre, the last pretender died in the 1990s born on 6-5-1901 in Saint Petersburg, Russia expired 7-16-1918 in Ekaterinburg, Russia   age 17   cause: executed

Czar Nicholas Romanov II   last Czar of Russia (1894-1917); killed by Bolsheviks along with his wife, children and doctor born on 5-18-1868 in Tsarskoe Selo, Russia expired 7-16-1918 in Ekaterinburg, Russia   age 50   cause: executed

exiled Russian Princess  Vera Constantinovna Romanov born on 4-11-1906 expired 1-11-2001 in Valley Cottage, New York   age 94

The Joy of Cooking author  Irma von Starkloff Rombauer born on 10-30-1877 in Saint Louis, Missouri expired 10-14-1962 in Saint Louis, Missouri   age 84

operetta composer  Sigmund Romberg   wrote The Student Prince and The Desert Song expired 11-9-1951 in New York, New York   age 64

geezer  Carmelita de Mara Romero   her 1909 marriage certificate claimed a 1890 birth date ¤ nickname: "Carmen"  born on 7-16-1890 in Yuma, Arizona Territory expired 1-17-2001   age 110

classical guitarist  Celedonio P. Romero   father of Pepe, Celin and Angel born on 4-2-1913 in Malaga, Spain expired 5-8-1996 in San Diego, California   age 83

actor  Cesar Romero born on 2-15-1907 in New York, New York expired 1-1-1994 in Santa Monica, California   age 86

leftist Salvadoran archbishop  Oscar Arnulfo Romero y Galdamez born on 8-15-1917 in Ciudad Barrios, El Salvador expired 3-24-1980 in San Salvador, El Salvador   age 62   cause: assassinated; bullet in head

World War II German Field Marshall  Erwin Johannes Eugin Rommel   head of the Afrika Corps; in charge of Normandy defenses; part of plot to kill Hitler 1944 ¤ nickname: "The Desert Fox"  born on 11-15-1891 in Heidenheim, Germany expired 10-15-1944 in Herrlingen, Germany   age 52   cause: executed; forced to take poison

George Wilcken Romney   former AMC president, Michigan governor, Nixon HUD secretary born on 7-8-1907 in Chihuahua, Mexico expired 7-26-1995 in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan   age 88    Contest Selectors 1980 DH, EB, EK 18.8%

George's widow  Lenore L. Romney   1968 Michigan senate candidate born on 11-9-1908 expired 7-7-1998 in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan   age 89

former Tulsa Central High School English & speech teacher  Isabelle E. Ronan   trained at Ypsilanti Normal School (now Eastern Michigan University); three of her students were Danny Dark, Tony Randall & Paul Harvey born on 11-14-1887 expired 5-??-1980 in Albuquerque, New Mexico   age 92

Catholic Church leader (1958-1963)  Angelo Guisseppe Roncalli   elected 262nd Pope of the Roman Catholic Church October 28, 1958 ¤ Pope John XXIII  born on 11-25-1881 in Sotto il Monte, Italy expired 6-3-1963 in Vatican City   age 81

rocker  Mick Ronson born on 5-26-1946 expired 4-30-1993   age 46

character actor  Pétur Rögnvaldsson Ronson   competed in the 1960 Olympic games; played Hans in Journey to the Center of the Earth (1959) born on 4-22-1934 in Iceland expired 1-16-2007 in Orange County, California   age 72 AKS: Peter Rognvaldsson

physicist  Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen   discovered X-rays in 1895; awarded first Nobel Prize for Physics in 1901 born on 3-27-1845 in Lennep, Lower Rhine, Germany expired 2-10-1923 in München, Bavaria, Germany   age 77   cause: carcinoma of the intestines AKS: Rontgen Roentgen Konrad

pro wrassler  Richard E. Rood ¤ aka: "Ravishing Rick Rude"  born on 12-7-1958 expired 4-20-1999 in Atlanta, Georgia   age 40   cause: heart attack

Pittsburgh Steelers founder & owner  Arthur Joseph Rooney Sr. born on 1-27-1901 in Coulterville, Pennsylvania expired 8-26-1988 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania   age 87    Contest Selectors 1979 MS 7.7% 1980 DH, EB 12.5%

original Mickey Mouse Club Mouseketeer  Timothy Hayes Rooney   brother of Mickey Jr.; son of Mickey Sr.; never actually appeared on series; got canned for vandalism in Disney paint department before series began filming born on 1-40-1947 in Birmingham, Alabama expired 9-23-2006 in Hemet, California   age 59   cause: dermatomyositis

engineering vice president of Willys-Overland  Delmar G. Roos   co-designer of the original World War II jeep expired 2-13-1960 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania   age 72

Apollo 14 astronaut  Stuart Allen "Stu" Roosa born on 8-16-1933 in Durango, Colorado expired 12-12-1994   age 61   cause: viral pneumonia; pancreatitis

Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt   widow of Teddy expired 9-30-1948 in Oyster Bay, New York   age 87

Eleanor Roosevelt   Mrs. FDR expired 11-7-1962 in New York, New York   age 78

Elliott Roosevelt born on 9-23-1910 in New York, New York expired 10-27-1990 in Scottsdale, Arizona   age 80

four-term president  Franklin Delano Roosevelt Sr.   New York governor (1929-33); led U.S. during most of WWII; a letter from Albert Einstein caused him to launch the Manhattan Project born on 1-30-1882 in Hyde Park, New York expired 4-12-1945 in Warm Springs, Georgia   age 63   cause: stroke

Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr. born on 8-17-1914 in Campobello Island, New Brunswick, Canada expired 8-17-1988 in Poughkeepsie, New York   age 74

James Roosevelt born on 12-23-1907 in New York, New York expired 8-13-1991 in Newport Beach, California   age 83

Teddy's grandson  Kermit Roosevelt   as CIA Middle East chief directed the 1953 coup that overthrew Iranian prime minister Mohammed Mossadegh & ensured the continuance in power of the Shah born on 2-16-1916 in Buenos Aires, Argentina expired 6-8-2000 in Cockeysville, Maryland   age 84

26th U.S. president  Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt Jr.   "big game" hunter; noted for his expression "Bully!"; led the charge up San Juan Hill; namesake of the childs toy the Teddy Bear, given to a small bear cub that he refused to shoot while on a hunting trip; awarded the 1906 Nobel Peace prize born on 10-27-1858 in Manhattan, New York, New York expired 1-6-1919 in Oyster Bay, New York   age 60   cause: arterial blood clot

Chicago Cubs pitcher (1926-41)  Charlie Root   in 1932 World Series threw pitch that Babe Ruth predicted would be a home run; had 201 career wins born on 3-17-1899 expired 11-5-1970 in Hollister, California   age 71

active public citizen  Elihu Root   was McKinley & Theodore Roosevelt's Secretary of War (1899-1904), Theodore Roosevelt's Secretary of State (1905-09) and a U.S. Senator (1909-15); founded the U.S. Army's war college; received the 1912 Nobel peace prize born on 2-15-1845 in Clinton, New York expired 2-7-1937 in New York, New York   age 91

Playboy December 1969 Playmate of Month  Gloria M. Root born on 5-28-1948 in Chicago, Illinois expired 1-8-2006 in San Francisco, California   age 57   cause: cancer

pollster  Burns W. "Bud" Roper   son of company founder born on 2-26-1925 in Creston, Iowa expired 1-20-2003 in Bourne, Massachusetts   age 77   cause: lung cancer

FDR Commerce Secretary (1933-38)  Daniel Calhoun Roper born on 4-1-1867 in Marlboro County, South Carolina expired 4-11-1943 in Washington, District of Columbia   age 76

pioneering polster  Elmo Burns Roper Jr. born on 7-31-1900 in Hebron, Nebraska expired 4-30-1971 in West Redding, Connecticut   age 70

attorney  Catherine Gertrude Roraback   represented Estelle Griswold & Dr. Charles Buxton in a court case concerning their New Haven birth control clinic; it became Griswold v. Connecticut born on 9-17-1920 in Brooklyn, New York, New York expired 10-17-2007 in Salisbury, Connecticut   age 87 AKS: Rorabeck

actor  Hayden Rorke   played Dr. Bellows on I Dream of Jeannie tv series born on 10-23-1910 in New York, New York expired 8-19-1987 in Toluca Lake, California   age 76

Texas death row inmate  Michael A. Rosales born on 1-11-1974 expired 4-15-2009 in Huntsville, Texas   age 35   cause: executed; lethal injection    Contest Selectors 2004 RIE 5.6%

florist Sir  Alec Rose   a solo circumnavigator of the globe aboard the 36' Lively Lady born on 7-13-1908 in Canterbury, Kent, England expired 1-12-1991   age 82

song writer, producer, impresario  Billy Rose   Mr. Fanny Brice & Eleanor Holm ¤ real name: William Samuel Rosenberg  born on 9-6-1899 in New York, New York expired 2-10-1966 in Montego Bay, Jamaica   age 66

pianist & composer  David Rose   first husband of Judy Garland (1941-45); wrote The Stripper born on 6-15-1910 in London, England expired 8-23-1990 in Burbank, California   age 80   cause: heart attack

CNN Entertainment reporter  Judd C. Rose   formerly with ABC born on 7-6-1954 in Chicago, Illinois expired 6-10-2000 in New York, New York   age 45   cause: brain cancer

puppeteer  Margo Rose   co-designed the Howdy Doody puppet with her husband Rufus Rose (1947) ¤ born: Margaret Skewis  born on 1-31-1903 in Inwood, Iowa expired 9-13-1997 in New London, Connecticut   age 94

Mauri Rose born on 5-26-1906 expired 12-31-1980   age 74

character actor  Norman Rose   played roles on the CBS Radio Mystery Theater; one of the voices of Juan Valdez in coffee commercials born on 6-23-1917 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania expired 11-12-2004 in Upper Nyack, New York   age 87   cause: pneumonia

tv/movie writer  Reginald Rose   wrote Twelve Angry Men tv script (1956) & movie screenplay (1957); wrote pilot for The Defenders tv series born on 12-10-1920 in New York, New York expired 4-19-2002 in Norwalk, Connecticut   age 81

puppeteer  Rufus C. Rose   the man who pulled the strings of Howdy Doody (1947-60); husband of Margo born on 3-24-1904 expired 5-29-1975 in New London, Connecticut   age 71

novelist/screenwriter  William Rose   his novel The Off Islanders was the basis for The Russians Are Coming, The Russians Are Coming (1966); wrote screenplays for Its A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World & Guess Who's Coming To Dinner (1967) born on --1918 in Jefferson City, Missouri expired 2-10-1987 in Jersey, Channel Islands, United Kingdom   age 68

actor "Big"  Albert Rosen   one of the bar flies on Cheers born on 5-9-1910 in Maryland expired 8-2-1990 in Hollywood, California   age 80   cause: cancer

comic book letterer  Joseph W. "Joe" Rosen   started his career at Harvey Comics born on 12-25-1920 expired 10-10-2009 in Rockville, Maryland   age 88

Nazi minister of the (occupied) Eastern Territories  Alfred Rosenberg   indicted, tried & executed as a war criminal born on 1-12-1893 in Reval, Estonia (now Tallin) expired 10-16-1946 in Nuremburg, Germany   age 53   cause: executed; hanged

chemist  Barnett Rosenberg   discovered that platinum-based compounds could arrest cancer growth (cisplatin & carboplatin) born on 11-16-1926 in New York, New York expired 8-8-2009 in Lansing, Michigan   age 82   cause: "a long illness:

Joan Rivers' husband  Edgar Rosenberg expired 8-14-1987   age 62   cause: suicide

purported Soviet atomic spy  Ethel Rosenberg   wife of Julius expired 6-19-1953 in Ossining, New York   age 37   cause: executed

movie producer  Frank P. Rosenberg   produced One-Eyed Jacks (1961) & Madigan (1968) born on 11-22-1913 in New York, New York expired 10-18-2002 in Thousand Oaks, California   age 88

Soviet atomic spy  Julius Rosenberg   husband of Ethel expired 6-19-1953 in Ossining, New York   age 35   cause: executed

movie director  Stuart Rosenberg   made Cool Hand Luke (1967) & The Amityville Horror (1979) born on 8-11-1927 in Brooklyn, New York, New York expired 3-15-2007 in Beverly Hills, California   age 79   cause: heart attack

master gastronaut  William "Bill" Rosenberg   pioneered the canteen truck (roach coach/maggot wagon); founded the Open Kettle (1948), later renamed Dunkin Donuts (1950) born on 6-10-1916 in Boston, Massachusetts expired 9-20-2002 in Mashpee, Cape Cod, Massachusetts   age 86   cause: bladder cancer

L.A. Rams owner  Carroll Rosenbloom   bought team from second owner; his widow inherited the team after his death expired 4-2-1972 in Golden Beach, Florida   age 72   cause: drowned

boxer/actor  "Slapsie" Maxie Rosenbloom   played punch-drunk pugs in the movies born on 9-6-1904 in New York, New York expired 3-6-1976 in South Pasadena, California   age 71   cause: pugilistica dementia; Paget's disease

airship pioneer  Charles E. Rosendahl   retired Navy Vice Admiral; survived Shenandoah crash (9/3/1925); commander of Lakehurst Naval Air Station the day the Hindenburg crashed (5/6/1937) born on 5-15-1892 in Chicago, Illinois expired 5-14-1977 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania   age 84

jazz drummer  Robert Marshall "Bobby" Marshall   was the band leader on the 1970s Dick Cavett tv show born on 4-23-1924 in Elgin, Illinois expired 2-27-2007 in Sarasota, Florida   age 82   cause: kidney failure

film/tv composer  Leonard Rosenman   won two Best Adapted Score Barry Lyndon (1975) & Bound For Glory (1976); also scored Fantastic Voyage (1966), Cross Creek (1983) & Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986) born on 9-7-1924 in Brooklyn, New York, New York expired 3-4-2008 in Woodland Hills, California   age 83   cause: heart attack; frontotemporal dementia

FDR speechwriter & confidant  Samuel I. Rosenman   one of several claiming to have coined phrase "New Deal" born on 2-13-1896 expired 6-24-1973 in New York, New York   age 77

Hollywood drama coach  Sophie Rosenstein   wife of Gig Young expired 11-10-1952 in Hollywood, California   age 45

former New York Times managing editor (1969-85  Abraham Michael "Abe" Rosenthal   won the 1960 Pulitzer Prize for international reporting born on 5-2-1922 in Sault Saint Marie, Ontario, Canada expired 5-10-2006 in Manhattan, New York, New York   age 84   cause: complications from stroke

playwright  Jack Morris Rosenthal   husband of Maureen Lipman; co-wrote Yentl screenplay (1983) born on 9-8-1931 in Manchester, England expired 5-29-2004 in London, England   age 72   cause: multiple myeloma    Contest Selectors 2004 RAVN 5.6%    Scored 8.3000 solo points

retired Associated Press & San Francisco Chronicle photographer  Joseph John "Joe" Rosenthal Sr.   took famous photo of Marines raising the U.S. flag atop Mt. Suribachi during World War II; won Pulitzer Prize for that photo born on 10-9-1911 in Washington, District of Columbia expired 8-20-2006 in Novato, California   age 94   cause: "natural causes"    Contest Selectors 2001 RR 12½% 2002 RR 9.1% 2003 RR 5.6% 2004 ANG, RR 11.1% 2005 ANG, RR 8.7% 2006 ANG, RR 6.7%    Scored 4.3500 points

former CIA spook  Heinrich August "Harry" Rositzke   headed Soviet covert operations unit born on 2-25-1911 in New York, New York expired 11-4-2002 in Warrenton, Virigina   age 91   cause: pneumonia

Catholic Church leader (1667-1669)  Giulio Rospigliosi   elected 239th Pope of the Roman Catholic Church June 20, 1667 ¤ Pope Clement IX  born on 1-28-1600 in Pistoja, Italy expired 12-9-1669 in Rome, Italy   age 69

vintage bodybuilder  Clarence "Clancy" Ross   was the 1945 amateur Mr. America, 1946 professional Mr. America, 1948 Mr. USA & 1953 Mr. World born on 10-26-1923 in Oakland, California expired 4-30-2008 in Concord, California   age 84

revolutionary symbol sewer  Elizabeth Griscom "Betsy" Ross   at the request of George Washington made the first U.S. flag (1775) born on 1-1-1752 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania expired 1-30-1836 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania   age 84

movie producer  Francis Joseph "Frank" Ross Jr. born on 8-12-1904 in Boston, Massachusetts expired 2-18-1990 in Los Angeles, California   age 85

New Yorker magazine co-founder & editor (1925-51)  Harold Wallace Ross   member of the Algonquin Round Table born on 11-6-1892 in Aspen, Colorado expired 12-6-1951 in Boston, Massachusetts   age 59

choreographer & director  Herbert Ross   did choreography for Carmen Jones (1954); directed Play It Again Sam (1972), Funny Lady (1975), The Sunshine Boys (1975), California Suite (1978) & Steel Magnolias (1989) born on 5-13-1927 in New York, New York expired 10-9-2001 in New York, New York   age 74   cause: heart failure

comedian  Joe E. Ross born on 3-15-1905 in New York, New York expired 7-13-1982 in Los Angeles, California   age 77

World War I veteran  John Campbell Ross   served with the First & Second Australian Imperial Force born on 3-11-1899 in Newtown, Victoria, Australia expired 6-3-2009 in Bendigo, Victoria, Australia   age 110    Contest Selectors 2009 DFFC 3.3%    Scored 4.0000 solo points

Canadian horse racer Commander  John K.L. Ross   owner of Sir Barton, only Canadian horse to win the Kentucky Derby expired 7-25-1951 in Jamaica   age 75

confessed serial killer  Michael Bruce Ross ¤ number 127404  born on 7-26-1959 in New York, New York expired 5-13-2005 in Somers, Connecticut   age 45   cause: executed; lethal injection    Contest Selectors 2005 BOD, PCD, RIE 13.0%    Scored 8.6250 points

Nellie Tayloe Ross   first woman U.S. governor (Wyoming, 1924-26), replacement candidate elected to position in 1924 when her candidate husband died just before the election; Director of U.S. Mint (1933-53) born on 11-29-1876 in Saint Joseph, Missouri expired 12-19-1977 in Washington, District of Columbia   age 101

former Edina, Minnesota millionaire  Percy Nathan Ross   gave his fortune away through his newspaper column, Thanks a Million (ran 3/83-9/99) born on 11-22-1916 in Laurium, Michigan expired 11-10-2001 in Minneapolis, Minnesota   age 84

former Leo Burnett Agency advertising executive  Robert Burnett   another person who claims involvement in the creation of Poppin' Fresh the Pillsbury Doughboy; in retirement wrote novels — The French Finish (1978) won the Edgar Allen Poe Award for best first mystery by a "new" writer expired 12-23-2003 in Hendersonville, North Carolina   age 85

Dr.  Ronald Ross   second recipient of the Nobel prize in medicine for his work on malaria (1902) born on 5-13-1857 in Almora, British India expired 9-16-1932 in London, England   age 75

actress  Shirley Ross   sang, with Bob Hope, 1938 Academy award-winning song Thanks for the Memories ¤ born: Bernice Gaunt  born on 1-7-1913 in Omaha, Nebraska expired 3-9-1975   age 62

Time-Warner chairman  Steven J. Ross born on 9-19-1927 in New York, New York expired 12-20-1992 in Los Angeles, California   age 65

actor  Ted Ross   won a Tony Award for playing the Cowardly Lion in The Wiz ¤ real name: Theodore Ross Roberts  born on 6-30-1934 in Zanesville, Ohio expired 9-3-2002 in Dayton, Ohio   age 68   cause: complications from stroke

director  Roberto Rossellini   second husband of Ingrid Bergman (1950-57); father of Isabella Rossellini & her twin sister Isotta born on 5-8-1906 in Rome, Italy expired 6-3-1977 in Rome, Italy   age 71   cause: heart attack    Contest Selectors 1979 VM 7.7%

movie director  Robert Rossen   directed All the King's Men (1949) & The Hustler (1961) born on 3-16-1908 in New York, New York expired 2-18-1966   age 57

biophysicist Dr.  Harald Hermann Rossi   expert in radiation measurement --- microdosimetry born on 9-3-1917 expired 1-1-2000 in Upper Nyack, New York   age 82   cause: heart disease

writer  Judith Rossner   author of Looking for Mr. Goodbar, based upon the brtual 1973 murder of a teacher ¤ née: Perelman  born on 3-31-1935 in New York, New York expired 8-9-2005 in New York, New York   age 70   cause: leukemia; diabetes

U.S. Forest Service illustrator  Harry L. Rossoll   drew the Smokey The Bear cartoons for many years born on 9-20-1909 expired 2-25-1999 in Atlanta, Georgia   age 89

Yiddish humorist  Leo Calvin Rosten born on 4-11-1908 in Łódź, Poland expired 2-19-1997 in New York, New York   age 88

hawkish Johnson undersecretary of State  Walt Whitman Rostow   an architect of U.S. Southeast Asian war policy born on 10-7-1916 in New York, New York expired 2-13-2003 in Austin, Texas   age 86

Carpathia captain  Arthur Henry Rostron   rescued the 700+ survivors of the Titanic sinking in 1912 expired 11-4-1940 in Chippenham, Wiltshire, England   age 71

cellist/conductor  Mstislav Leopoldovich Rostropovich born on 3-27-1927 in Baku, Azerbaijan, USSR expired 4-27-2007 in Moscow, Russia   age 80   cause: intestinal cancer

flm composer  Nino Rota   scored The Godfather (1972) & The Godfather II (1979) born on 12-3-1911 in Milan, Italy expired 4-10-1979 in Rome, Italy   age 67   cause: blood clot

nuclear physicist Dr.  Joseph Rotblat   quit the Manhattan Project; founder of the Pugwash Conference (1957); shared 1995 Nobel Peace prize born on 11-4-1908 in Warsaw, Poland expired 8-31-2005 in London, England   age 96    Contest Selectors 2002 MORB 9.1% 2003 COCO 5.6% 2005 SLIM 4.3%    Scored 5.4000 solo points

former Green Bay Packers (1950-56) and Detroit Lions (1957-59) quarterback  Tobin Cornelius Rote Jr.   led Lions in their last NFL championship game (1957) born on 1-18-1928 in San Antonio, Texas expired 6-27-2000 in Saginaw, Michigan   age 72   cause: heart attack

former N.Y. Giants football player  William Kyle Rote Sr. born on 10-27-1928 in Bellevue, Texas expired 8-14-2002 in Baltimore, Maryland   age 73   cause: pneumonia following hernia surgery; emphysema

funny car painter/designer  Edward "Big Daddy" Roth   known for his "Rat Fink" cartoon creation born on 3-4-1932 in Beverly Hills, California expired 4-4-2001 in Manti, Utah   age 69   cause: heart attack

author  Henry Roth born on 2-8-1906 in Tysmenica, Austria expired 10-15-1995 in Albuquerque, New Mexico   age 89

character actor  Philip Roth   played the Doctor in Catch-22 (1970) & Woolsey in One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest (1975) born on --1928 in Kansas City, Missouri expired 7-15-2002 in Los Angeles, California   age 74   cause: colon cancer

former Delaware senator (1971-2000)  William Victor Roth Jr.   creator of popular Individual Retirement Account (1998) born on 7-22-1921 in Great Falls, Montana expired 12-13-2003 in Washington, District of Columbia   age 82   cause: heart failure

impressario  Samuel Lionel Rothafel   built the Roxy Theater in New York City ¤ nickname: "Roxy"  born on 7-9-1882 in Stillwater, Minnesota expired 1-13-1936 in New York, New York   age 53   cause: heart attack

Cornell mathematician  Oscar S. Rothaus   helped create the Hidden Markov Model born on 10-21-1927 expired 5-24-2003 in Ithaca, New York   age 75

Finnish geezer  Lempi Maria Sparfven "Maija" Rothovius born on 10-2-1887 expired 6-17-2000   age 112

financier Baron  Edmond de Rothschild born on 9-30-1926 in Paris, France expired 11-2-1997 in Geneva, Switzerland   age 71   cause: emphysema AKS: Rothchild

international banker Baron  Guy Édouard Alphonse Paul de Rothschild   kept having to rebuild the French branch of the family's banking empire (Nazis, Socialists, etc.) born on 5-21-1909 in Paris, Île-de-France, France expired 6-12-2007 in Paris, Île-de-France, France   age 98 AKS: Edouard

French social leader Baroness  Marie-Helene de Rothschild ¤ née: de Zuylen Van Nyere  born on 11-17-1927 in New York, New York expired 3-1-1996 in Paris, France   age 68   cause: cancer; "arthritic disease"

Meyer Amschel Rothschild   founded family financial empire born on 2-23-1743 in Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany expired 9-19-1812   age 69

sleazy gambler  Arnold Rothstein   masterminded & bankrolled the 1919 Black Sox scandal born on 1-24-1882 in New York, New York expired 11-6-1928 in New York, New York   age 46   cause: shot to death during card game by man he had accused of cheating

Broadway producer  Norman E. Rothstein born on 4-3-1936 expired 12-23-1999 in New York, New York   age 63   cause: pancreatic cancer

el-drecho director  William Rotsler   gave us The Agony of Love (1966) another "housewife moonlights as hooker" opus (see Belle de Jour; 1967) born on 7-3-1926 in Los Angeles, California expired 10-8-1997   age 71   cause: complications from radiation therapy

composer  Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle   wrote La Marseillaise (1792) born on 5-10-1760 in Lons-le-Saunier, France expired 6-20-1836 in Choisy le Roi, France   age 76

lawyer  Fuad Rouhani   first Secretary-General of OPEC (1959-64) born on 10-23-1907 in Tehran, Persia expired 1-30-2004 in London, England   age 96

Meet the Press co-creator  Martha Rountree   first moderator of program, starting on radio June 24, 1945 and moving to television in 1947 ¤ Mrs. Martha R. Presbrey  born on 10-23-1911 in Gainesville, Florida expired 8-23-1999 in Washington, District of Columbia   age 87   cause: complications from Alzheimer's disease

pathologist  Francis Peyton Rous   shared the 1966 Nobel prize in medicine for the discovery of tumor-inducing viruses born on 10-5-1879 in Baltimore, Maryland expired 2-16-1970 in New York, New York   age 90

wrassler & actor  André René Roussimoff ¤ aka: "Andre the Giant"  born on 5-19-1946 in Grenoble, France expired 1-27-1993 in Paris, France   age 46   cause: congestive heart failure AKS: Andre Rene Renae Rousimoff

former bodybuilder  Raymond Routledge   was the AAU Mr. America and Amateur Mr. Universe in 1961 born on 10-9-1931 expired 11-12-2008 in San Bernardino, California   age 77

actress  Aurania Rouverol   author of Andy Hardy radio & tv series expired 6-23-1955 in Palo Alto, California   age 69

diminutive bell boy  Johnny Roventini   noted for being a cigarette spokesman (since 1933); "Call for Philip Mor-rees" born on 8-15-1910 in New York, New York expired 11-30-1998 in Suffern, New York   age 88

gun toting gun opponent  Carl Thomas Rowan Sr.   also pened syndicated rants for newspapers born on 8-11-1925 in Ravenscraft, Tennessee expired 9-23-2000 in Washington, District of Columbia   age 75

Laugh-In comedian (1968-73)  Dan Rowan   half of Rowan and Martin comedy team born on 7-2-1922 in Beggs, Oklahoma expired 9-22-1987 in Englewood, Florida   age 65   cause: complications from diabetes

former Los Angeles County librarian  Dorothy Stine Pratt Rowe   ex-wife of Boris Karloff (1928-46) & mother of his only child, Sarah Jane Karloff; widow of Edgar Healey Rowe Jr. ¤ aka: "The Bride of Frankenstein"  born on 6-7-1900 in Charlotte, Michigan expired 10-??-1991 in Rancho Mirage, California   age 91

FBI informant  Gary Thomas Rowe Jr.   testified against three other Klansmen (Eugene Thomas, William Orville Eaton & Collie Leroy Wilkins Jr.) involved in the killing Viola Liuzzo (subsequent evidence suggested that he was the trigger man) ¤ in witness protection program as: Thomas Neal Moore  born on --1933 in Savannah, Georgia expired 5-25-1998 in Savannah, Georgia   age 65   cause: heart attack

Rowe Industries founder  William Henry Rowe   invented first automatic cigarette vending machine expired 7-22-1945 in Delmar, California   age 61

showman  Edward C.H. Rowland   wrote lyrics for Mademoiselle from Armentieres (to music by Gitz Rice) expired 3-12-1955 in Surrey, England   age 72

character actress  Patsy Rowlands   appeared in the Carry On ... comedy films born on 1-19-1934 in London, England expired 1-22-2005 in Hove, East Sussex, England   age 71   cause: breast cancer AKS: Rolands

jazz pianist  James G. "Jimmy" Rowles born on 8-19-1918 expired 5-28-1996   age 77

character actress  Mary Elizabeth "Polly" Rowles   played Inspector No.12 in a series of Hanes underwear commercials born on 1-10-1914 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania expired 10-7-2001 in Concord, New Hampshire   age 87

North Carolina death row inmate  Raymond Dayle Rowsey born on 4-11-1971 expired 1-6-2004 in Raleigh, North Carolina   age 32   cause: executed; lethal injection    Contest Selectors 2004 BOD, PCD 11.1%    Scored 10.5500 points AKS: Dale Dail

Philippine Republic first president  Manuel Acuna Roxas expired 4-15-1948 in Clark Field, Philippines   age 56   cause: heart attack

rock music authority  Lillian Roxon   wrote famous Rock Encyclopedia born on 2-1-1932 in Australia expired 8-9-1973 in New York, New York   age 41   cause: asthma attack

former New Hampshire state senator  Vesta M. Roy   for seven days served as governor (1982) born on 3-26-1925 expired 2-9-2002 in Kenmore, New York   age 76

retired Minute Maid vice president  Wallace R. Roy   biochemist who co-developed frozen orange juice concentrate and Coke's Fresca & Fanta flavors born on 6-11-1906 in Chicago, Illinois expired 6-16-2003 in Orlando, Florida   age 97

luxury automobile pioneer Sir  Frederick Henry Royce   co-founded Rolls-Royce Ltd. in 1906 born on 3-27-1863 in Peterborough, England expired 4-22-1933   age 70

songwriter  William Royce   wrote Irish Lullaby expired 5-20-1946 in Pontiac, Michigan   age 65

Chicago Tribune columnist  Michael "Mike" Royko Jr.   won Pulizer prize for commentary in 1972 born on 9-19-1932 in Chicago, Illinois expired 4-29-1997 in Chicago, Illinois   age 64   cause: aneurism

playwright  Edwin Milton Royle   wrote The Squaw Man which was adapted into the first big Hollywood movie (all 3 productions by Cecil B. DeMille) expired 2-16-1942 in New York, New York   age 79

Alvin Ray "Pete" Rozelle   third NFL Commissioner (1960-89) born on 3-1-1926 in Southgate, California expired 12-6-1996 in Rancho Santa Fe, California   age 70   cause: brain cancer

film composer  Miklos Rozsa born on 4-18-1907 in Budapest, Austria-Hungary expired 7-27-1995 in Los Angeles, California   age 88    Contest Selectors 1980 GP 6.3%

character actor  Christian Rub   provided the artist's likeness for and voice of Geppetto in Pinocchio (1940) born on 4-13-1887 in Austria expired 4-14-1956 in Germany   age 69

onetime Studio 54 co-owner  Steve Rubell   turned an old Manhattan tv studio at 254 West 54th Street into the Studio 54 nightclub; did 13 months in the Federal pen for tax evasion born on 12-6-1943 in New York, New York expired 7-25-1989 in New York, New York   age 45   cause: complications from AIDS

tv writer/director/producer  Aaron J. Ruben   produced the Andy Griffith Show (1960-65); created Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C born on 3-1-1914 in Chicago, Illinois expired 1-30-2010 in Beverly Hills, California   age 95   cause: pneumonia AKS: Rubin

Raymond Rubicam   Philadelphia ad agency co-founder (1923; Young & Rubicam) born on 6-16-1892 in New York, New York expired 5-8-1978 in Scottsdale, Arizona   age 85   cause: heart condition

Jewish Defense League leader  Irving D. Rubin born on 4-12-1945 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada expired 11-13-2002 in Los Angeles, California   age 57   cause: suicide; slashed neck with razor

Yippies co-founder  Jerry Rubin   on of the Chicago Seven born on 7-14-1938 in Cincinnati, Ohio expired 11-28-1994 in Los Angeles, California   age 56

pianist  Artur Rubinstein born on 1-28-1887 in Łódź, Poland expired 12-20-1982 in Geneva, Switzerland   age 95    Contest Selectors 1979 HFS, HP, RR, YJ 30.8% 1980 DH, GP, HP, JH, MM, RR, VA 43.8%

cosmetics maker  Helena Rubinstein expired 4-1-1965 in New York, New York   age 94

medical lab technician-turned-character actress  Zelda M. Rubinstein   played Tangina in Poltergeist I, II & III born on 5-28-1933 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania expired 1-27-2010 in Los Angeles, California   age 76   cause: multiple organ failure    Contest Selectors 2010 JCM, RAVN, WEP 11.1%    Scored 5.5250 points AKS: Rubenstein Rubinstine Rubenstine

playboy  Porfirio Rubirosa   had been married to Doris Duke and Barbara Hutton expired 7-5-1965 in Paris, France   age 56

songwriter  Harry Ruby   collaborated with lyricist Bert Kalmar; composed Hooray for Captain Spaulding for Cocoanuts born on 1-27-1895 in New York, New York expired 2-23-1974 in Woodland Hills, California   age 79

(left to right) Dallas police detective James Leavelle, Lee Harvey Oswald, Jack Ruby Photo ©Copyright 1963 Robert H. Jackson Dallas nightclub owner  Jack Ruby   killed Lee Harvey Oswald on national tv ¤ born: Jacob Rubenstein  born on 3-23-1911 in Chicago, Illinois expired 1-3-1967 in Dallas, Texas   age 55   cause: cancer

former CBS news correspondent  Hughes Day Rudd born on 9-14-1921 in Wichita, Kansas expired 10-13-1992 in Toulouse, France   age 71

MIT electrical engineering professor  Reinhold Rudenberg   inventor of the electron microscope expired 12-25-1961 in Boston, Massachusetts   age 67

astrologer & composer  Dane Rudhyar   "the father of karmic astrology" born on 3-23-1895 in Paris, France expired 9-13-1985   age 90    Contest Selectors 1980 GP 6.3%

tv personality  Edna Marie Rudisill   the Tonight Show fruitcake lady; aunt of Truman Capote who helped to raise him ¤ née: Faulk  born on 3-13-1911 in Monroeville, Alabama expired 11-3-2006 in Hudson, Florida   age 95    Contest Selectors 2005 NFG 4.3% 2006 NFG 3.3%    Scored 5.5000 solo points AKS: Rudisell

Margaret Fogarty Rudkin   founded Pepperidge Farms bakeries born on 9-14-1897 expired 6-1-1967 in New Haven, Connecticut   age 69

character actor  Herbert Rudley   played Herb Hubbard on The Mothers-in-Law tv sitcom (1967-69) born on 3-22-1911 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania expired 9-9-2006 in Los Angeles, California   age 95   cause: heart attack

Saturn rocket developer (under Wernher Von Braun)  Arthur Louis Hugo Rudolph born on 11-9-1906 in Stepfershausen, Meiningen, Germany expired 12-31-1995 in Hamburg, Germany   age 89

NBA referee  Marvin "Mendy" Rudolph born on 3-8-1926 expired 7-5-1979 in New York, New York   age 53   cause: heart attack

Krispy Kreme founder (1937)  Vernon Carter Rudolph Sr.   bought original donut recipe from "Joe LeBeau" (1933) born on 7-30-1915 in Marshall County, Kentucky expired 8-16-1973   age 58

sprinter  Wilma Glodean Rudolph   won 1961 Sullivan Award born on 6-23-1940 in Clarksville, Tennessee expired 11-12-1994 in Nashville, Tennessee   age 54

sleazebag beltway lawyer  Charles Frederick Carson Ruff   Clinton's legal pitbull during impeachment & Lewinski smear campaign born on 8-1-1939 in Cleveland, Ohio expired 11-19-2000 in Washington, District of Columbia   age 61   cause: heart attack

ex-Temptations lead singer  David Eli Ruffin born on 1-18-1941 in Meridian, Mississippi expired 6-1-1991 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania   age 50   cause: drug overdose

character actor & wine cooler shill  David Joseph Rufkahr   played Frank Bartles in tv commercials (opposite with "Ed Jaymes") born on 9-1-1934 expired 4-23-1996   age 61   cause: heart attack AKS: Rufkhar

former M.I.T. engineering professor  Arthur Claude Ruge   invented SR-4 electronic strain gauge (1938) born on 7-28-1905 in Tomah, Wisconsin expired 4-3-2000 in Lexington, Massachusetts   age 94

firearm company co-founder  William Batterman Ruger Sr.   co-founded Sturm, Ruger & Company (1949) born on 6-21-1916 in New York, New York expired 7-6-2002 in Prescott, Arizona   age 86

former Desilu/Paramaount special effects artist  Jim Rugg   worked on original Star Trek series (1966-69) born on 1-29-1919 in Lidgerwood, North Dakota expired 2-13-2004 in Vista, California   age 85   cause: Alzheimer's disease

composer of dissonant drech  Carl Ruggles   the least odious of his "works" was called Sun Treader born on 3-11-1876 in Marion, Massachusetts expired 10-24-1971 in Bennington, Vermont   age 95

character actor  Charles "Charlie" Ruggles born on 2-8-1886 in Los Angeles, California expired 12-23-1970 in Santa Monica, California   age 84   cause: cancer

movie actor/director  Wesley Ruggles   brother of Charlie; former Keystone Kop; won 1931 Best Director oscar for Cimarron born on 6-11-1889 in Los Angeles, California expired 1-8-1972 in Santa Monica, California   age 82   cause: stroke

Sir  John Archibald Ruggles-Brise born on 6-13-1908 in Finchingfield, Essex, England expired 2-20-2007 in Finchingfield, Essex, England   age 98

Kosovo president  Ibrahim Rugova   leader of the Democratic League of Kosovo born on 12-2-1944 in Cerrce, Kosovo expired 1-20-2006 in Pristina, Kosovo, Servia-Montenegro   age 61   cause: lung cancer    Contest Selectors 2006 RAVN, TBC 6.7%    Scored 7.6500 points

former Cincinnati pitching coach  Vernon Gerald Ruhle born on 1-25-1951 in Coleman, Michigan expired 1-20-2007 in Houston, Texas   age 55   cause: multiple myeloma    Contest Selectors 2007 OIE 3.2%    Scored 9.5000 solo points

former Mexican president (1952-58)  Adolfo Ruiz Cortines born on 12-30-1890 in Veracruz, Mexico expired 12-3-1973 in Mexico City, Mexico   age 82   cause: heart attack

cosmonaut  Nikolai Nikolaevich Rukavishnikov   flew aboard Soyuz 10, 16 & 33 born on 9-19-1932 in Tomsk, Siberia expired 10-19-2002   age 70   cause: heart attack

former PBS Wall Street Week host  Louis Richard Rukeyser   intemperate remarks got him booted off the air; cancer kept him off born on 1-30-1933 in New York, New York expired 5-2-2006 in Greenwich, Connecticut   age 73   cause: multiple myeloma; extreme "bear" life futures market    Contest Selectors 2005 BYE, RAVN 8.7% 2006 ANG, BYE, DFFC, DTM, RAVN 16.7%    Scored 5.3563 points AKS: Rukyser

ex-ABC network chief  Elton H. Rule born on 6-13-1917 expired 5-5-1990 in Beverly Hills, California   age 72   cause: cancer

lesbian writer/"role model"  Jane Vance Rule   penned Desert of the Heart (1961) that was made into the movie Desert Hearts (1986) born on 3-28-1931 in Plainfield, New Jersey expired 11-27-2007 in Galiano Island, British Columbia, Canada   age 76   cause: complications from liver cancer; arthritis

former actress  Janice Rule   appeared in Bell, Book and Candle (1958) & The Ambushers (1967); after retiring from acting became a psychoanalyst born on 8-15-1931 in Norwood, Ohio expired 10-17-2003 in New York, New York   age 72   cause: cerebral hemorrhage

character actor  Sig Ruman ¤ born: Siegfried Albon Rumann  born on 10-11-1884 in Hamburg, Germany expired 2-14-1967 in Julian, California   age 82   cause: cancer

economist  Beardsley Ruml   came up with the idea of withholding tax deductions from paychecks (1942); New York Federal Reserve Bank president (1941-47); R.H. Macy & Co. president (1945-49) expired 4-18-1960 in Danbury, Connecticut   age 65