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| 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
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| 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 Awardborn 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 speakingborn 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
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country singer Charles Allan "Charlie" Rich had hit with Behind Closed Doors (1973)
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
expired 6-8-1376 in London, England age 45 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
English king (1189-1199) Richard I son of Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitane
expired 4-6-1199 in Chaluz, France age 41 cause: gangrene | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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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 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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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
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
expired 2-25-2009 in London, England age 65 cause: breast cancer
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| 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 medicineborn 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)
expired 9-13-2006 in Austin, Texas age 73 cause: esophageal cancer
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| 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/ 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 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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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)
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 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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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 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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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)
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
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)
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
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| 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
expired 1-30-2003 in Huntsville, Texas age 33 cause: executed; lethal injection
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| 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
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
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)
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
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
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- 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
expired 5-13-2010 in Sun City Center, FLorida age 107 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
698 pound rapper Christopher L. Rios
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
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| 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)
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
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- 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
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 1998born 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
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| 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
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
expired 8-13-2007 in West Orange, New Jersey age 89 cause: pneumonia
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