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art critic  Aline Bernstein Saarinen   widow of Eero born on 3-25-1914 in New York, New York expired 7-13-1972 in New York, New York   age 58   cause: brain tumor

architect  Eero Saarinen   son of Eliel; designer of St. Louis' Gateway Arch expired 9-1-1961 in Ann Arbor, Michigan   age 51   cause: brain tumor

architect & city planner  Eliel Saarinen expired 7-1-1950 in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan   age 76

diplomat  Carlos Saavedra Lamas   for his work helping to end the Chaco War between Bolivia & Paraguay received the 1936 Nobel peace prize born on 11-1-1878 in Buenos Aires, Argentina expired 5-5-1959 in Buenos Aires, Argentina   age 80

former NFL coach  Louis Henry Saban   may have been a second cousin of Nick Saban born on 10-13-1921 in Brookfield, Illinois expired 3-29-2009 in North Myrtle Beach, South Carolina   age 87    Contest Selectors 2008 OIE 3.1%

author, screenwriter & tv producer  Robert "Bob" Sabaroff   wrote short story "Ding Dong Ghoul" for the June 1960 issue of Playboy; did three screenplays for the Star Trek tv series — Immunity Syndrome (original series; 1968), Conspiracy and Home Soil (Next Generation; 1988); co-created Then Came Bronson tv series (1969) born on 7-9-1935 expired 9-19-2007 in Woodland Hills, California   age 72   cause: leukemia

Paul Sabatier   shared the 1912 Nobel chemistry prize born on 1-5-1854 in Carcassone, France expired 8-14-1941 in Toulouse, France   age 87

author  Rafael Sabatini   wrote Captain Blood, Scaramouche and The Sea Hawk expired 2-13-1950 in Aldenbogen, Switzerland   age 75

science fiction author  Fred Thomas Saberhagen   wrote the Berserker series & a number of vampire novels from Dracula's perspective (1967-2005) born on 5-18-1930 in Chicago, Illinois expired 6-29-2007 in Albuquerque, New Mexico   age 77   cause: prostate cancer

skier  Vladimir "Spider" Sabich   shot to death by Claudine Longet born on --1945 expired 3-21-1976 in Aspen, Colorado   age 31   cause: bullet wounds

polio doctor  Albert Bruce Sabin   developed oral version of polio vaccine born on 8-26-1906 in Bialystock, Russia expired 3-3-1993 in Washington, District of Columbia   age 86

actor  Sabu   played Mowgli in The Jungle Book (1942) ¤ real name: Sabu Dastagin  born on 1-22-1924 in Mysore, India expired 12-2-1963 in Chatsworth, California   age 39   cause: heart attack

Japanese historian  Saburo Ienaga   fought the government bureaucracy's attempts to suppress information about wartime atrocities born on 9-3-1913 in Aichi Prefecture, Japan expired 12-1-2002 in Tokyo, Japan   age 89

Lehmi-Shoshone Indian guide and interpreter for 1804 Lewis and Clark Expedition  Sacagawea   wife of Toussaint Charbonneau; mother of Jean Baptiste Charbonneau; sister of Cheif Cameahwait; her image appears on thenew U.S. $1 coin ¤ aka: Tsakakawia ("Bird Woman"), Sacajawea ("Boat Launcher") and Boinaiv ("Grass Maiden")  born on --1787 in Lembi, Idaho expired 12-22-1812 in Dakota Territory   age 25   cause: fever

Nicaraguan president (5/27/1947-8/15/1947)  Benjamin Lacayo Sacasa born on --1884 expired 5-5-1959   age 75

Nicaraguan president (1/1/1939-6/9/1936)  Juan Bautista Sacasa born on --1874 expired 4-17-1946 in Los Angeles, California   age 71

political terrorist  Nicola Sacco   executed for murder committed during a robbery born on 4-22-1891 in Apulia, Italy expired 8-23-1927 in Charlestown, Massachusetts   age 36   cause: executed; electric chair

lurid novelist  Leopold von Sacher-Masoch   his novel descriptions earned him the eponym Masochist; half of the ever popular team of S&M born on 1-27-1836 in Lemberg, Austria-Hungary (now Lviv, Ukraine) expired 3-8-1895 in Lindheim, Germany   age 59

Leonie Nelly Sachs   shared the 1966 Nobel prize in literature born on 12-10-1891 in Berlin, Germany expired 5-12-1970 in Stockholm, Stockholm län, Sweden   age 78   cause: cancer

screenwriter/tv producer  William B. Sackheim   produced tv Gidget & Flying Nun series; co-wrote the screenplay for First Blood, the first Rambo movie born on 10-31-1919 expired 12-8-2004 in Beverly Hills, California   age 84   cause: "a degenerative brain disease"

game designer  Sidney Sackson   gave us Acquire, Focus, Venture, Sleuth, Metropolis, ... born on 2-4-1920 expired 11-6-2002   age 82

Dowager  Empress Sadako   widow of Emperor Yoshihito; mother of Emperor Hirohito born on 6-25-1884 expired 5-17-1951 in Tokyo, Japan   age 66

Egyptian president  Mohammed Anwar al-Sadat   shared 1978 Nobel Peace prize born on 12-25-1918 in Mit Abul-Kum, Minufiya Province, Egypt expired 10-6-1981 in Cairo, Egypt   age 62   cause: assassinated; a hail of machine gun bullets & hand grenades    Contest Selectors 1979 DW, HA, JH, RR, YJ 38.5% 1980 BD, DH, DW, EB, EK, JW 37.5%

the original "Sadist"  Donatien Alphonse Francoise de Sade   his life's behavior is the basis of the eponymous terms "Sadist" and "Sadism" --- he put the "S" in "S&M" (sadomasochism) born on 6-2-1740 in Paris, France expired 12-2-1814 in Charenton, France   age 74

musicologist  Stanley John Sadie   was editor of the sixth edition of the New Grove Dictionary of Music born on 10-30-1030 in London, England expired 3-21-2005 in Cossington, Somerset, England   age 76   cause: ALS

Army Special Forces Sgt.  Barry Sadler   co-wrote The Ballad of the Green Berets (1966) born on 11-1-1940 in Carlsbad, New Mexico expired 9-8-1989 in Murfreesboro, Tennessee   age 48   cause: coma; shot in head

cellist  Milos Sádlo   took last name of mentor ¤ born: Milos Zátvrzský  born on 4-13-1912 in Prague, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary expired 10-14-2003   age 91 AKS: Sadlo

CBS European broadcasting director (1930-37)  César Saerchinger born on 10-23-1884 in Aix-la-Chapelle, France expired 10-10-1971 in Washington, District of Columbia   age 86

anesthesiologist Dr.  Peter Safar   "the father of CPR" born on 4-12-1924 in Vienna, Austria expired 8-3-2003 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania   age 79   cause: cancer

structural engineer  Herbert Seymour Saffir   co-developer of Hurricane Intensity Scale (1969); at age 17 was a crew member aboard the ill-fated Morro Castle cruise ship born on 3-29-1917 in New York, New York expired 11-21-2007 in Miami, Florida   age 90   cause: heart attack; complications following surgery    Contest Selectors 2004 NFG 5.6% 2005 NFG, RR 8.7% 2006 NFG, RR 6.7% 2007 NFG 3.2%    Scored 6.0000 solo points AKS: Safir

New York Times columnist (1973-2009)  William Lewis Safire   former Nixon speech writer; coined phrase "nattering nabobs of negativism" for Spiro Agnew ¤ born: W.L. Safir  born on 12-17-1929 in New York, New York expired 9-27-2009 in Rockville, Maryland   age 79   cause: pancreatic cancer

billionaire  Edmond Jacob Safra born on 8-6-1932 in Beirut, Lebanon expired 12-3-1999 in Monte Carlo, Monaco   age 67   cause: asphyxiation/smoke inhalation in fire

movie director  Boris Sagal   husband of Marge Champion; father of Katey Sagal born on 10-18-1923 in Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine, USSR expired 5-22-1981 in Portland, Oregon   age 57   cause: head & shoulder injuries sustained from helicopter blade

butt-headed astronomer  Carl Sagan   author of Contact (book and movie) born on 11-9-1934 in New York, New York expired 12-20-1996 in Seattle, Washington   age 62   cause: pneumonia and myelodysplasia

author  Françoise Sagan   wrote Bonjour, Tristesse (1953) ¤ real name: Françoise Quoirez nickname: Kiki  born on 6-21-1935 in Cajarc, Lot, Midi-Pyrénées, France expired 9-24-2004 in Honfleur, Normandy, France   age 69   cause: blood clot in lung; heart & lung failure AKS: Francoise

April 18, 1906 San Francisco earthquake survivor  Nancy Mary Sage   was so severely injured she was not expected to live for very long born on 2-19-1905 in San Francisco, California expired 4-15-2010 in Littleton, Colorado   age 105   cause: intestinal virus; Parkinson's disease

cartoonist  Forrest C. "Bud" Sagendorf   drew Popeye comic strip for 46 years born on 3-22-1915 expired 9-22-1994   age 79

Old Farmer's Almanac owner & publisher  Robb Sagendorph   also published Yankee magazine born on 11-20-1900 expired 7-4-1970 in Peterborough, New Hampshire   age 69

Robert Christopher Sager   bisexual bodybuilder/"fitness model"/personal trainer/gay-porn performer ¤ nom-de-whackoff: Brett Mycles  born on 12-2-1977 in Houston, Texas expired 2-25-2007 in Las Vegas, Nevada   age 29   cause: heart failure

poultry breeder  Henry Saglio   "father of the poultry industry" born on 8-9-1911 in Glastonbury, Connecticut expired 12-13-2003 in Glastonbury, Connecticut   age 92   cause: cardiac arrest

Muppet/puppet-builder (1962-78)  Donald G. Sahlin born on 6-19-1928 expired 2-20-1978 in New York, New York   age 49   cause: heart attack

musician  Douglas Wayne Sahm   co-founder of the Sir Douglas Quintet and The Texas Tornadoes; had hits with She's A Mover (1965) and Mendocino (1966) born on 11-6-1941 in San Antonio, Texas expired 11-18-1999 in Taos, New Mexico   age 58

former PLO bigwig  Edward W. Said   wrote Orientalism (1978) born on 11-1-1935 in Jerusalem, Palestine expired 9-25-2003 in New York, New York   age 67   cause: leukemia    Contest Selectors 2000 ANG 14% 2001 ANG 12½% 2002 ANG 9.1% 2003 ANG 5.6%    Scored 8.3000 solo points

former St. Louis Cardinals owner (1947-53)  Frederick Michael Saigh Jr.   forced to sell team (to Anheuser-Busch in 1953) before going to prison for income tax evasion born on 6-27-1905 in Springfield, Illinois expired 12-29-1999 in Chesterfield, Missouri   age 94

Manhattan Beach (CA) Parks & Recreation employee  Charles "Charlie" Saikley   ran the Manhattan Beach Open for four decades ¤ nickname: "the Grandfather of beach volleyball"  born on 10-21-1935 expired 6-17-2005 in Manhattan Beach, California   age 69   cause: multiple myeloma

Sir  Robert James Sainsbury   grocer & arts patron born on 10-24-1906 in London, England expired 4-2-2000 in London, England   age 93

women's baseball league star  Helen Candaele St. Aubin ¤ née: Callaghan  born on 3-13-1929 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada expired 12-8-1992   age 63   cause: breast cancer

Seventh U.S. president  Arthur St. Clair   seventh president of the Continental Congress under the Articles of Confederation (2/2/1787-1/21/1788) born on 3-23-1734 in Thurso, Caithness, Scotland expired 8-31-1818 in Youngstown, Pennsylvania   age 84   cause: injuries from a fall from a cart

1950s and 1960s stripper  Lillian "Lily" St. Cyr   known for her "bubble baths"; an early direct mail marketer of "racy" ladies undergarments ¤ born: Willis Marie Van Schaack  born on 6-3-1917 in Minneapolis, Minnesota expired 1-29-1999 in Hollywood, California   age 80   cause: heart failure AKS: Lili

actor  Raymond St. Jacques ¤ born: Charles Arthur Johnson  born on 3-1-1930 in Hartford, Connecticut expired 8-27-1990 in Los Angeles, California   age 60

actor  Howard St. John   played General Bullmoose in broadway & movie productions of L'il Abner born on 10-9-1905 in Chicago, Illinois expired 3-13-1974 in New York, New York   age 68

1960s pop singer  Richard "Dick" Saint John   half of the singing duo "Dick & Dee Dee"; their biggest hit was The Mountain's High (1961; peaked at #2 on Billboard charts) ¤ born: Richard Gosting  born on 12-2-1941 expired 12-27-2003 in Pacific Palisades, California   age 62   cause: injuries suffered in fall from ladder

newspaperman  Robert William St. John   blacklisted in Red Channels during McCarthy communist witch hunts born on 3-9-1902 in Oak Park, Illinois expired 2-6-2003 in Waldorf, Maryland   age 100   cause: leukemia

former Canadian prime minister (1948-57)  Louis Stephen St. Laurent born on 2-1-1882 in Compton, Quebec, Canada expired 7-25-1973 in Quebec City, Quebec, Canada   age 91

Marie-René-Auguste-Aléxis Saint-Léger   received the 1960 Nobel literature prize ¤ pen name: Saint-John Perse  born on 5-31-1887 in St.Léger des Feuilles Island, Guadeloupe, French Antilles expired 9-20-1975 in Presqu'ile-de-Giens, France   age 88 AKS: Rene Alexis Leger

Canadian fur trapper  Alexis St. Martin   subject of pioneering studies of human digestion by Dr. William Beaumont expired 6-24-1880 in Saint Thomas de Joliette, Quebec, Canada   age 86   cause: alcoholism

great French composer  Charles-Camille Saint-Saëns   wrote Carnival of the Animals, Danse Macabre and the great Organ Symphony (Symphony No.3) born on 10-9-1835 in Paris, France expired 12-16-1921 in Algiers, Algeria   age 86

poet  Edna St. Vincent Millay   won Pulitzer Prize expired 10-19-1950 in Austerlitz, New York   age 58

character actor  Szoke Szakall Sakall ¤ nickname: "Cuddles"  expired 2-12-1955 in Hollywood, California   age 67

Japanese minisub pilot  Kazuo Sakamaki   part of the Pearl Harbor attack; U.S. P.O.W. #1 of World War II expired 11-29-1999   age 81

singer  Kyu Sakamoto   had schlocky 1960s pop hit Sukiyaki expired 8-12-1985 in Tokyo, Japan   age 43   cause: plane crash

wrestler/actor  Harold Sakata   played manservant Oddjob in Goldfinger; handy with a paint brush born on 7-1-1920 expired 7-29-1982 in Honolulu, Hawaii   age 62   cause: cancer

Soviet physicist  Andrei Dmitrievich Sakharov   winner of the 1975 Nobel Peace prize born on 5-21-1921 in Moscow, Russia, USSR expired 12-14-1989 in Moscow, Russia, USSR   age 68   cause: heart attack

Maylasian King  Yang di-Pertuan Agong Salahuddin Abdul Aziz Shah   former Sultan of Selangor born on 3-8-1926 in Istana Bandar Temasya, Kualalangat, Malaysia expired 11-21-2001 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia   age 75

physicist  Abdus Salam   his work on electroweak theory earned him a share of the 1979 Nobel prize in physics born on 1-29-1926 in Santokdas, Sahiwal, Punjab, British India expired 11-21-1996 in Oxford, Oxfordshire, England   age 70

six-time Lebanese prime minister  Saeb Salam born on 1-17-1905 expired 1-21-2000 in Beirut, Lebanon   age 95

Portugese dictator (1932-68)  António de Oliveira Salazar born on 4-28-1889 in Vimieiro, Beira Alta Province, Portugal expired 7-27-1970 in Lisbon, Portugal   age 81   cause: strokes

Texas death row inmate  Luis Cervantes Salazar ¤ #999285  born on 8-31-1970 expired 3-11-2009 in Huntsville, Texas   age 38   cause: executed; lethal injection    Contest Selectors 2009 ADWC, DFFC, DTM, RAVN, SBAP 16.7%    Scored 8.8563 points

slimy Texas death row inmate  Robert Madrid Salazar Jr.   sentenced to die for beating to death his girlfriend's 2 year old girl (Adriana Gomez) that he liked to shower with (she didn't share the same enthusiasm for showering with him, started crying, and got pummeled to a pulp for resisting) ¤ number 999303  born on 10-24-1978 expired 3-22-2006 in Huntsville, Texas   age 27   cause: executed; lethal injection    Contest Selectors 2006 ADWC, BOD, DTM, OIE, PCD, QKU, SPIT, TWOS 26.7%    Scored 9.8195 points

mobster  Anthony "Fat Tony" Salerno born on 8-15-1911 expired 7-27-1992   age 80

slapstick comedian  Soupy Sales   started his tv career with a daily pie-fest at WXYZ-TV in Detroit; a "close personal friend" of White Fang, Black Tooth, Pookie & Hippie ¤ born: Milton Supman original nickname: "Soupbone"  born on 1-8-1926 in Franklinton, North Carolina expired 10-22-2009 in The Bronx, New York, New York   age 83   cause: cancer    Contest Selectors 2004 MJ 5.6% 2005 TMD 4.3% 2006 CSI, DTH, RR, 4GUE 13.3% 2007 BONY, PUD, RR, 4GUE 12.9% 2008 CSI, GAS, 4GUE 9.4% 2009 GAS, KLS 6.7%    Scored 5.4500 points AKS: Soupee Soupie Sails Sayles

financier/developer  Nicolas Miklos Salgo   was the builder of the Watergate Complex in Washington, D.C. born on 8-17-1914 in Budapest, Austria-Hungary expired 2-26-2005 in Bal Harbour, Florida   age 90

Viennese court composer  Antonio Salieri   a rival of Mozart born on 8-19-1750 in Legnano, Verona, Italy expired 5-7-1825 in Vienna, Lower Austria, Austria-Hungary   age 74

former El Salvadoran president (1944)  Osmin Aguirre Salinas   retired army general expired 7-12-1977 in San Salvador, El Salvador   age 85   cause: murdered

author  Jerome David Salinger   wrote Catcher in the Rye (1951) born on 1-1-1919 in Manhattan, New York, New York expired 1-27-2010 in Cornish, New Hampshire   age 91    Contest Selectors 1980 EB 6.3% 2001 DTM 12½% 2002 DTM, MORB 18.2% 2003 DTM, MJ, OGGI 16.7% 2004 ABRA, ADWC, DTM, MJ 22.2% 2005 ADWC, BYE, DTM, TMD, WORM 21.7% 2006 ADWC, BYE, DTM 10.0% 2007 ABRA, ADWC, AUDC, BYE, DGW, DTM, GOHI, KLS 25.8% 2008 ADWC, ANG, BYE, DGW, DTM, GOHI, KLS, PCD, SBAP, SPIT 31.3% 2009 ANG, BYE, DGW, KLS, SBAP 23.3% 2010 ANG, DGW, DTM, GAS, GREB, KLS 25.9%    Scored 3.4781 points AKS: JD J D J.D. J. D.

former JFK press secretary  Pierre Emil George Salinger   briefly served as a senator from California (appointed to fill out the term of a deceased senator from 8-4-1964 thru 12-31-1964); worked as an ABC News correspondent (1978-93); got nutty and paranoid in his old age born on 6-14-1925 in San Francisco, California expired 10-16-2004 in Le Thor, Cavaillon, Provence, France   age 79   cause: heart attack; aphasia

former New York Times reporter & editor  Harrison Evans Salisbury born on 11-14-1908 in Minneapolis, Minnesota expired 7-5-1993 in Providence, Rhode Island   age 84

Dr.  Jonas Edward Salk   developed Polio vaccine born on 10-28-1914 in New York, New York expired 6-23-1995 in La Jolla, California   age 80

child psychologist & Jonas' brother  Lee Salk born on 12-27-1926 in New York, New York expired 5-2-1992 in New York, New York   age 65

film producer  Alexander Salkind   co-produced Superman movies with son Ilya born on 6-2-1921 in Danzig, Germany (now Gdansk, Poland) expired 3-8-1997 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine, Île-de-France, France   age 75

Civil War soldier  John B. Salling   last Confederate soldier to die expired 3-16-1959 in Kingsport, Tennessee   age 112

actor  Albert Salmi born on 3-11-1928 in New York, New York expired 4-23-1990 in Spokane, Washington   age 62

Victory at Sea producer and co-author  Henry Salomon expired 2-1-1958 in New York, New York   age 40

Tonga Islands  Queen Salote Tupou III   on the throne 1918-65; succeeded by son expired 12-15-1965 in Epsom, New Zealand   age 65   cause: cancer

Cambodian farmer  Saloth Roeung   older sister of Pol Pot — she was a concubine to former King Monivong — this put her in a position to have her younger brother shipped off to Paris to get an education born on ??-??-1916 in Prek Sbov, Cambodia expired 2-11-2005 in Kampong Thorn Province, Cambodia   age 89

Cornell University astrophysicist  Edwin Ernest Salpeter   co-creator of the Salpeter-Bethe equation that explains how fusion converts Helium into Carbon within stars (1951) born on 12-3-1924 in Vienna, Austria expired 11-25-2008 in Ithaca, New York   age 83   cause: leukemia

blacklisted screenwriter (1951)  Waldo Salt   wrote screenplay for Midnight Cowboy (1969); co-wrote Serpico screenplay (1973); father of actress Jennifer Salt born on 10-18-1914 in Chicago, Illinois expired 3-7-1987 in Los Angeles, California   age 72

writer  Felix Salten   author of Bambi expired 10-8-1946 in Zürich, Switzerland   age 75

conductor & writer  Lionel Salter born on 9-8-1914 expired 3-1-2000   age 85

appliance maker  Lewis L. Salton born on 10-6-1911 in Krakow, Poland expired 5-5-1999 in New Fairfield, Connecticut   age 87

former Massachusetts governor (1939-44) & senator (1945-66)  Leverett Saltonstall born on 9-1-1892 in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts expired 6-17-1979 in Dover, Massachusetts   age 86   cause: heart failure

movie producer  Harry Saltzman   co-produced early James Bond movies with Albert R. Broccoli born on 10-27-1915 in New Brunswick, Canada expired 9-27-1994 in Paris, France   age 78   cause: heart attack

blithering fool & seventh head of the International Olympic Committee (1980-2001)  Juan Antonio Samaranch i Torelló   smarmy apologist for Francisco Franco; commercialized the crap out of the Olympic movement & ignored doping ¤ title: Marqués de Samaranch  born on 7-17-1920 in Barcelona, Spain expired 4-21-2010 in Barcelona, Spain   age 89   cause: heart failure    Contest Selectors 2000 RR 14% 2003 TAP 5.6% 2004 TAP 5.6% 2006 XXX 3.3% 2007 RPRM 3.2% 2008 DFFC, JCM, NFG, QKU, RPRM, RR, WEP, XXX 25.0% 2009 DFFC, JCM, NFG, QKU, RPRM, RR, WEP, XXX 26.7% 2010 JCM, NFG, QKU, RPRM, RR, WEP, XXX 25.9%    Scored 3.6391 points AKS: Joan Antoni

Mongolian president (1954-72)  Zhamsarangiin Sambu expired 5-20-1972 in Ulan Bator, Mongolia   age 76

terrorist  Jamal Atayah Zid Abu Samhadana   co-founder of the Popular Resistance Committee, a group formed by the "best and brightest" Gaza jihadists; had been the Palestinian Authority's Interior Ministry General Supervisor born on --1963 in al-Maghazi refugee camp, Gaza expired 6-8-2006 in Rafal, Gaza   age 43   cause: assassinated; IDF bombs    Contest Selectors 2005 RAVN 4.3% 2006 RAVN 3.3%    Scored 10.7000 solo points AKS: Samadhana

painter  Atlanta Constance Sample born on 10-11-1910 expired 3-??-1994 in Asbury Park, New Jesey   age 83

Hee-Haw actor  Alvin "Junior" Samples Jr. born on 4-10-1926 in Cumming, Forsythe County, Georgia expired 11-13-1983 in Cumming, Forsythe County, Georgia   age 57   cause: heart attack    Contest Selectors 1979 JW 7.7% 1980 DR, JW 12.5%

painter  Atlanta Constance Sampson born on 9-9-1896 expired 5-18-1995   age 98

character actor  Will Sampson Jr.   played Chief Bramden in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975) born on 9-27-1933 in Okmulgee, Oklahoma expired 5-27-1987 in Houston, Texas   age 53   cause: kidney failure 43 days after heart/lung transplant; scleroderma BEFORE you send us an E-mail telling us that we have the date of death wrong, read on. The Thursday June 4, 1987 New York Times ran Will's obit; it said he had died on "Wednesday," so many references have assumed that it was the Wednesday before the obit ran (June 3rd) and listed that as his date of death. The AP Dateline at the top of the article/wire copy is "June 2", placing the date of death on the Wednesday before Tuesday June 2nd --- Wednesday May 27, 1987.

Islamo-facist  Imam Samudra   convicted of bombing a Bali nightclub (10/12/2002) ¤ born: Abdul Aziz  born on 1-14-1970 in Serang-Banten, West Java, Indonesia expired 11-8-2008 in Nusakambangan Island, Central Java, Indonesia   age 38   cause: executed; firing squad    Contest Selectors 2004 PCD 5.6%

MIT economist  Paul Anthony Samuelson   was the 1970 Nobel economics laureate born on 5-15-1915 in Gary, Indiana expired 12-13-2009 in Belmont, Massachusetts   age 94    Contest Selectors 2006 WEP 3.3% 2007 RR, WEP 6.5% 2008 RR, WEP 6.3% 2009 WEP 3.3%    Scored 5.6000 solo points

World War II veteran  Frank Sanacho   last of the Meskwaki tribe's code talkers expired 8-21-2004 in Tama, Iowa   age 86

poet  Carl August Sandburg   biographer of Abraham Lincoln; winner of three Pulitzer prizes for poetry (1918, 1940 & 1951) born on 1-6-1878 in Galesburg, Illinois expired 7-22-1967 in Flat Rock, North Carolina   age 89

character actor  Darrell Sandeen   played a KKK goon in Blazing Saddles (1974) & rogue cop Buzz Meeks (the one decomposing under Susan Loeffert's mother's porch) in L.A. Confidential (1997) born on 7-13-1930 in Chicago, Illinois expired 1-22-2009 in Los Angeles, California   age 78   cause: cerebral hemorrhage; fall

former Brown & Williamson chairman and Stalag 13 guard  Thomas Sandefur Jr.   testified before congress that he didn't believe nicotine was addictive; he saw nothing, heard nothing, knew nothing expired 7-9-1996 in Louisville, Kentucky   age 56

classical violinist  George Edmund Sandell   invented the Gee-Bee Sponge (1947) born on 8-12-1912 in Malmo, Sweden expired 8-26-2000 in Santa Monica, California   age 88

Claudia E. Sanders   widow of Harland born on 9-7-1902 expired 12-31-1996   age 94

schlock movie director  Denis Sanders   made Invasion of the Bee Girls (1973) born on 1-21-1929 in New York, New York expired 12-10-1987 in San Diego, California   age 58   cause: heart attack

Academy Award-winning actor  George Sanders   specialized in playing the debonair cad; wife #2: Zsa Zsa Gabor; wife #4: Magda Gabor born on 7-3-1906 in Saint Petersburg, Russia expired 4-25-1972 in Castelldefells, Spain   age 65   cause: suicide; Nembutal overdose

Kentucky-fried Colonel  Harland David Sanders Sr.   he did chicken right born on 9-9-1890 in Henryville, Indiana expired 12-16-1980 in Shelbyville, Kentucky   age 90   cause: acute leukemia    Contest Selectors 1979 DO, HA, JW, MS, SB, VM 46.2% 1980 BD, DO, DR, EB, JH, RR 37.5%    Scored 1.0000 points

U.S. District judge  Harold Barefoot Sanders Jr. born on 2-5-1925 in Dallas, Texas expired 9-21-2008 in Dallas, Texas   age 83   cause: complications from infection    Contest Selectors 2008 GREB 3.1%    Scored 6.7000 solo points

soap opera actor  Reginald Byron Sanders   model for Dali's The Crucifixion (1954) born on 9-24-1925 in Charlotte, North Carolina expired 11-12-2001 in New York, New York   age 76

former NAACP lawyer  Jawn Ardin Sandifer   in 1950 successfully argued before the U.S. Supreme Court for plaintiff in Henderson v. United States case that struck down "separate-but-equal" accomodations aboard interstate trains (8-0 decision) born on 6-6-1914 in Greensboro, North Carolina expired 9-1-2006 in Sarasota, Florida   age 92

Central American revolutionary  Augusto César Sandino   namesake of Nicaraguan political party (Sandinista) ¤ born: Augusto Nicolás Caldrón Sandino  born on 5-18-1895 in Niquinohomo, Masaya, Nicaragua expired 2-21-1934 in Managua, Nicaragua   age 38   cause: assassinated

rock group leader  Mark J. Sandman   singer and slide bass player with Boston band named Morphine born on 9-24-1952 expired 7-3-1999 in Palestrina, Italy   age 46   cause: heart attack

classical piansit  Györgi Sándor   a student of Bartók & Kodály born on 9-21-1912 in Budapest, Austria-Hungary expired 12-9-2005 in New York, New York   age 93   cause: heart failure AKS: Gyorgi Gyorgy Sandor

early strongman & body builder  Eugene Sandow   a ststue of him is the Mr. Olympia trophy ¤ born: Friederick Wilhelm Mueller  born on 4-10-1867 in Königsburg, East Prussia expired 10-16-1925 in London, England   age 58

movie musical producer & director  Mark Rex Sandrich   directed Holiday Inn (1942) expired 3-5-1945 in Hollywood, California   age 44

actress  Diana Sands   noted for appearing in 1960 stage production of A Raisin in the Sun opposite Sidney Poitier born on 8-22-1934 in New York, New York expired 9-21-1973 in New York, New York   age 39   cause: cancer

I.R.A. hunger striker  Robert Sands expired 5-5-1981 in Belfast, Northern Ireland   age 27

actress  Isabel Sanford   played George's wife Louis "Weezie" Jefferson on The Jeffersons born on 8-29-1917 in New York, New York expired 7-9-2004 in Los Angeles, California   age 86

American Birth Control League founder (1921)  Margaret Higgins Sanger   co-founder of the Brooklyn Maternity Center (forerunner of Planned Parenthood Assoc.); believer in eugenics & prevention of breeding amongst the "lesser" races; divorced William Sanger (1921); widow of J. Noah Slee born on 9-14-1883 in Corning, New York expired 9-6-1966 in Tucson, Arizona   age 82   cause: arteriosclerosis

movie director  Sang-Ok Shin   kidnapped by agents of Kim Jong-Il to make movies for the beloved leader (1978); escaped in 1986; made the 3 Ninjas series (using the pseudonym "Simon Sheen") born on 10-11-1926 in Chungjin, Korea expired 4-11-2006 in Seoul, South Korea   age 79   cause: complications from liver transplant

unrepentant war criminal  Foday Sankoh   his "rebel group" of drunken/drugged-out teenage thugs hacked the limbs from men, women & children during Sierra Leone's civil war born on 10-17-1937 expired 7-29-2003 in Freetown, Sierra Leone   age 65   cause: complications from stroke

actress  Hope Sansberry born on 6-19-1894 in Virginia expired 12-14-1990 in Laguna Hills, California   age 96

serial Mexican General/President/Despot  Antonio López de Santa Anna   ran country 1833-36, March-July 1839, 1841-45 & 1854-55; led the attack on the Alamo born on 2-21-1794 in Jalapa, Veracruz, Mexico expired 6-21-1876 in Mexico City, Mexico   age 82

latin musician  Ramón "Mongo" Santamaria   had 1963 instrumental hit Watermelon Man born on 4-7-1922 in Havana, Cuba expired 2-1-2003 in Miami, Florida   age 85   cause: complications from stroke AKS: Ramon

philosopher  George Santayana   wrote The Last Puritan expired 9-26-1952 in Rome, Italy   age 88   cause: stomach cancer

former steel mill worker  Joseph F. Santoni   responding to a Post-Gazette contest gave the Pittsburgh Pirates NFL team a new name — the Steelers born on 12-22-1920 expired 10-10-2003 in Charleroi, Pennsylvania   age 82   cause: complications from heart surgery

former Columbian president (1938-42)  Eduardo Santos   publisher of El Tiempo newspaper expired 3-27-1974 in Bogotá, Columbia   age 86

jazz composer  Moacir J. Santos Sr. born on 4-8-1924 in Flores do Pajeú, Pernambuco State, Brazil expired 8-6-2006 in Pasadena, California   age 82   cause: complications from stroke

Harlem Globetrotters co-founder & owner  Abraham "Abe" Saperstein   also founded and owned the Washington Generals, the team that traveled with the Globetrotters and always got beat by them born on 7-4-1902 expired 3-15-1966 in Chicago, Illinois   age 63

Holocaust survivor  Estelle Sapir   put the screws to Swiss banks for not relinquishing (or even acknowledging) deposits by Jews prior to and during World War II expired 4-13-1999 in New York, New York   age 73   cause: cardiac arrest

Soyuz 15 cosmonaut  Gennady Vasilyevich Sarafanov   commanded the failed mission to the Salyut 3 space station (8/26-28/1974) born on 1-1-1942 in Sinekiye, Russia, USSR expired 9-29-2005   age 63

José de Sousa Saramago   was the 1998 Nobel literature laureate born on 11-16-1922 in Azinhaga, Ribatejo Province, Portugal expired 6-18-2010 in Lanzarote, Canary Islands   age 87 AKS: Jose

golf legend  Gene Sarazen   invented the sand wedge; first to win all four major professional golf tournaments (U.S. & British Opens, the Masters and the P.G.A. Championship) ¤ born: Eugenio Saraceni  born on 2-27-1902 in Harrison, New York expired 5-13-1999 in Naples, Florida   age 97   cause: pneumonia

Broadway bistro founder/owner  Vincent Sardi Sr.   a post-show watering hole in New York City born on 12-23-1885 expired 11-19-1969 in Saranac Lake, New York   age 83

retired Broadway restauranteur  Vincent Sardi Jr. born on 7-23-1915 in Manhattan, New York, New York expired 1-4-2007 in Berlin, Vermont   age 91   cause: complications from urinary tract infection

dramatist  Jean Victorien Sardou   wrote the play Fédora for Sarah Bernhardt (1882) born on 9-5-1831 in Paris, France expired 11-8-1908 in Paris, France   age 77

the other Darin Stevens actor  Dick Sargent   sprinkled with fairy dust by Endora? ¤ born: Richard Cox  born on 4-13-1933 in Carmel, California expired 7-8-1994 in Los Angeles, California   age 64   cause: prostate cancer

pay tv pioneer  Horace William "Bill" Sargent Jr. born on 4-17-1927 in Caddo, Oklahoma expired 10-19-2003 in Caddo, Oklahoma   age 76   cause: heart attack

Akkedian Dynasty founder  King Sargon of Agade   first Semitic King of Mesopotamia born on --2334 BC in Saffron, Mesopotamia expired ??-??-2279 BC   age 55

ruthless self-agrandizing RCA persident  David Sarnoff   as a Marconi Wireless Telegraph Co. radio-telegraph operator was involved in the Titanic rescue effort; father of Robert; played fast and loose with the truth born on 2-27-1891 in Uzlian, Minsk Province, Russia expired 12-12-1971 in New York, New York   age 80   cause: complications from Mastoid infection

former RCA president  Robert W. Sarnoff   son of David born on 7-2-1918 in New York, New York expired 2-22-1997 in New York, New York   age 78   cause: cancer

playwright & Nigerian anti-government activist  Ken Saro-Wiwa born on 10-10-1941 in Bori, Nigeria expired 11-10-1995 in Port Harcourt, Nigeria   age 54

writer  William Saroyan born on 8-31-1908 in Fresno, California expired 5-18-1981 in Fresno, California   age 72   cause: cancer    Contest Selectors 1980 GP 6.3%

lawyer & author  Nathalie Sarraute ¤ born: Matasha Tcherniak  born on 7-18-1900 in Ivanovo-Voznessensk, Russia expired 10-19-1999 in Paris, France   age 99

Sainted Catholic Church leader (1903-1914)  Giuseppe Melchiorre Sarto   elected 258th Pope of the Roman Catholic Church August 4, 1903 ¤ Pope Pius X  born on 6-2-1835 in Riese, Treviso, Venice Territory, Italy expired 8-20-1914 in Rome, Italy   age 79

existentialist philosopher  Jean-Paul-Charles-Aymard Sartre   declined the 1964 Nobel prize in literature born on 6-21-1905 in Paris, France expired 4-15-1980 in Paris, France   age 74   cause: edema of the lungs    Contest Selectors 1980 GP 6.3%    Scored 4.6000 solo points

Yakup Satar   the last World War I veteran of the Ottoman army born on 3-11-1898 in The Crimea, Ukraine, Russian Empire expired 4-2-2008 in Eskişehir, Türkiye   age 110    Contest Selectors 2008 WEP 3.1%    Scored 4.0000 solo points

Swami Satchidananda   "opened" the Woodstock music festival; founded Yogaville, Virginia ¤ given name: Ramaswamy  born on 12-22-1914 in Chettipalayamm, India expired 8-19-2002 in Madras, India   age 87

1974 Nobel peace prize recipient  Eisaku Sato born on 3-27-1901 in Tabuse, Yamaguch Prefecture, Japan expired 6-3-1975 in Tokyo, Japan   age 74

Saudi Arabia founder (1927) & first King  Ibn Saud   sired over 140 children ¤ full name: Abdul-Aziz Ibn Abdur-Rahman al-Faisal Al Saud  born on --1880 in Riyadh, Nejd Province, Arabia expired 11-9-1953 in Bahrain   age 73   cause: heart disease

Saudi Arabian  King Saud   ruled 1953-64; deposed by brother Faisal for inept administration of oil revenues born on 1-15-1902 in Kuwait expired 2-23-1969 in Athens, Greece   age 67

Prince  Saad bin Abdel-Aziz bin Abdel-Rahman Al Saud   son of the founder of Saudi Arabia expired 7-23-1993   age 70

television producer  Robert Saudek   created Omnibus tv series (1952-61), hosted by Alistair Cooke; on a commission from William Paley established the Museum of Broadcasting (now the Museum of Television and Radio) in 1974 born on 4-11-1911 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania expired 3-13-1997 in Baltimore, Maryland   age 85

Dame  Cicely Mary Strode Saunders   founder of the modern hospice movement; recipient of the Templeton Foundation Prize (1981) born on 6-22-1918 in Barnet, Hertfordshire, England expired 7-14-2005 in London, England   age 87   cause: cancer

John P. Saunders   took over writing the Mary Worth comic strip from his father (1979) born on 9-9-1924 expired 11-15-2003 in Toledo, Ohio   age 79   cause: complications from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

Grateful Dead keyboardist  Merl Saunders Sr.   wrote the theme song for the 1980s Twilight Zone revival ¤ born: Merl Saunders Washington  born on 2-14-1934 in San Mateo, California expired 10-24-2008 in San Francisco, California   age 74   cause: infections; complications from stroke

acrobat & movie stunt man  Russell Maurice Saunders born on 5-21-1919 in near Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada expired 6-1-2001 in Los Angeles, California   age 82

sociologist & demographer  Alfred Sauvy   in the article "Trois Mondes, Une Planète" of the August 14, 1952 edition of L'Observatuer coined the phrase "Third World" ("Ce Tiers-Monde, ignoré, exploité, méprisé comme le Tiers-État" — "That Third World, ignored, exploited, scorned, like the Third Estate") born on 10-31-1898 in Villeneuve-de-la-Raho, France expired 10-30-1990 in Paris, France   age 91

Kojak actor  Aristoteles "Telly" Savalas   "Who loves ya, baby?"; played Ernst Stavro Blofeld in James Bond movie On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969) born on 1-21-1923 in Garden City, New York expired 1-23-1994 in Universal City, California   age 70   cause: cancer

Angolan rebel leader  Jonas Malheiro Savimbi   founded the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (Portugese acronym: UNITA) in 1966 born on 8-3-1934 in Munhango, Bie Province Angola expired 2-22-2002 in Moxico Province, Angola   age 67   cause: "a hail of bullets"    Contest Selectors 2000 IVY 14%

1960s campus protester  Mario E. Savio   "leader" of sit-ins at U.C. Berkely in 1964 born on 12-8-1942 expired 11-6-1996 in Sebastopol, California   age 53   cause: heart failure

tv news anchor  Jessica Beth Savitch born on 2-2-1948 in Kennett Square, Pennsylvania expired 10-24-1983 in New Hope, Pennsylvania   age 35   cause: got drunk(/stoned), drove into canal & drowned inside the car

soviet WWII fighter ace  Yevgeny Savitsky expired 4-6-1980   age ??

AIDS-ravaged Philadelphia pederast  Eddie Savitz expired 3-27-1993   age 51

Burmese general  Saw Maung   a brutal and erratic dictator born on 5-12-1928 in Mandalay, Burma expired 7-24-1997 in Yangon, Burma   age 69   cause: heart attack

Goldwyn Studios sound department head  Gordon E. Sawyer   a special oscar award category is named in his honor born on 8-27-1905 in Santa Barbara, California expired 5-15-1980 in Santa Barbara, California   age 74   cause: heart attack; stroke

physicist  Ralph A. Sawyer   directed A-bomb tests at Bikini Atoll, Marshall Islands (1946; Operation Crossroads); inadvertantly provided the inspiration for the name of a new form of scanty bathing attire born on 1-5-1895 in Atkinson, New Hampshire expired 12-6-1978 in Ann Arbor, Michigan   age 83

instrument inventor  Adolphe Antoine-Joseph Sax   invented the Saxophone in 1842 born on 11-6-1814 in Dinant, Belgium expired 2-4-1894 in Paris, France   age 79

magazine cartoonist  Charles David Saxon   received the 1980 Reuben Award born on 11-13-1920 in Brooklyn, New York, New York expired 12-6-1988 in New Canaan, Connecticut   age 68

1930s opera soprano  Bidú Sayão ¤ born: Balduina de Oliveira Sayão  born on 5-11-1902 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil expired 3-12-1999 in Rockport, Maine   age 96

crime novel author  Dorothy Leigh Sayers expired 12-17-1957 in Witham, England   age 64

sailor  Nicholas Salvatore "Nick" Scadone   won the gold medal a the 2008 para-Olympics in Beijing born on 3-4-1966 in Santa Ana, California expired 1-2-2009 in Fountain Valley, California   age 42   cause: respiratory failure; ALS

cartoonist  Al Scaduto   succeeded Jimmy Hatlo as the artist of the They'll Do It Every Time strip born on 12-7-1928 in The Bronx, New York, New York expired 12-7-2007 in Sleepy Hollow, New York   age 79

Philip Scaffidi   Niagra University basketball player born on 4-3-1956 expired 3-23-1980 in Buffalo, New York   age 23   cause: cancer    Contest Selectors 1980 JW 6.3%    Scored 9.7000 solo points

actress  Gia Scala   played "mute" resistance fighter Anna in Guns of Navarone (1961) ¤ real name: Giovanna Sgoglio  born on 3-3-1934 in Liverpool, England expired 4-30-1972 in Hollywood Hills, California   age 38   cause: suicide; alcohol/drug overdose

political prisoner  Junius Irving Scales   only American sent to prison for being a member of the American Communist Party (1940 Smith Act); spent 15 months in the Federal slammer (1961-62); JFK commuted his sentence born on 3-26-1920 in Greensboro, North Carolina expired 8-5-2002 in New York, New York   age 82   cause: heart failure; stroke

food importer  Louis J. Scaramelli   co-founded Fairleigh Dickinson University (1941) expired 2-1-1957 in Rutherford, New Jersey   age 79

mobster  Gregory Scarpa Sr. born on 5-8-1928 expired 6-8-1994   age 66

screenwriter  Furio Scarpelli   co-wrote The Organizer, Casanova 70, Il Postino (The Postman) & Il Buono, Il Bruto, Il Cattiro (The Good, The Bad, The Ugly) expired 4-28-2010 in Rome, Italy   age 90   cause: heart problems

author  Richard McClure Scarry born on 6-5-1919 in Boston, Massachusetts expired 4-30-1994 in Gstaad, Switzerland   age 74

photographer  Francesco Scavullo born on 1-10-1921 in New York, New York expired 1-6-2004 in New York, New York   age 82   cause: heart failure AKS: Francisco

sports broadcaster  Richard "Dick" Schaap   credited with calling New York City "Fun City" born on 9-27-1934 in New York, New York expired 12-21-2001   age 67   cause: complications following hip replacement surgery    Contest Selectors 2002 JEDS

German banker  Hjalmar Horace Greeley Schacht   early Hitler supporter & economic advisor born on 1-22-1877 in Tingleff, Germany expired 6-4-1970 in München, Germany   age 93

retired L.A. school superintendent  Norman Schachter   was an NFL referee (1954-76), working the first Super Bowl, the first Monday Night football game & the Ice Bowl in Green Bay (12/31/1967) born on 4-30-1914 in New York, New York expired 10-2-2004 in San Pedro, California   age 90

movie & tv producer and director  George Louis Schaefer born on 12-16-1920 expired 9-10-1997 in Los Angeles, California   age 76

1920s 5-time 18.2 balkline billiard champion  Jacob F. "Jake" Schaefer Jr.   played in last championship held (1938) born on 10-18-1894 in Chicago, Illinois expired 11-10-1975 in Cleveland, Ohio   age 81

My Sister Sam actress  Rebecca Schaeffer born on 11-6-1967 in Portland, Oregon expired 7-18-1989 in West Hollywood, California   age 21   cause: murderd; shot

Gold Seal Co. founder (1942)  Harold Lyle Schafer   maker of Glass Wax and Mr. Bubble born on 2-1-1912 expired 12-2-2001 in Bismarck, North Dakota   age 89   cause: infection; congestive heart failure

Mr. Blooper  Kermit Schafer born on 3-24-1923 in New York, New York expired 3-8-1979 in South Miami, Florida   age 55   cause: heart attack AKS: Schaefer Schaeffer Shaefer Shaeffer Shafer Shaffer

actress  Natalie Schafer   played Eunice "Lovey" Wentworth Howell on Gilligan's Island; married to Louis Calhern 1934-42 born on 11-5-1900 in Red Bank, New Jersey expired 4-10-1991 in Los Angeles, California   age 90   cause: cancer

Nazi pædophile  Paul Schäfer (Schneider)   was a member of the Hitler Youth; founder of Colonia Digidad agricultural commune (used as a torture/detention center during Pinochet's regime); molested a whole bunch of young boys born on 12-2-1921 in Troisdorf, Germany expired 4-24-2010 in Santiago, Chile   age 88   cause: heart failure AKS: Schafer Schaefer

comics artist  Kurt Schaffenberger   drew Lois Lane comics in 1960s born on 12-15-1920 in Germany expired 1-24-2002 in Brick, New Jersey   age 81   cause: complications from diabetes

director  Franklin James Schaffner   directed Planet of the Apes (1968), Patton (1970; Best Director oscar) & The Boys From Brazil (1978) born on 5-3-1920 in Tokyo, Japan expired 7-2-1989 in Santa Monica, California   age 69

former CBS News correspondent  Robert Schakne born on 8-19-1926 expired 8-31-1989   age 63

retired University of Wisconsin - Madison food researcher Dr.  Edward Joseph Schantz Sr.   isolated the toxin in type-A Botulism (1946) while working for the U.S. Army at Fort Detrick, Maryland; developed a method of purifying & crystalizing the pure toxin; in 1979 brewed up a batch of 0.2 grams using hydrolyzed casein, yeast extract & glucose (a lethal dose for a human is 0.0000001 grams) ¤ "the Grandfather of Botox"  born on 8-27-1908 in Hartford, Wisconsin expired 4-28-2005 in Madison, Wisconsin   age 96   cause: congestive heart failure    Contest Selectors 2005 CSI 4.3%    Scored 5.4000 solo points

movie/tv composer  Walter Scharf   wrote scores for Mercy Island (1942), White Christmas (1954), Funny Girl (1968), Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (1972) & Ben (1973) born on 8-1-1910 in New York, New York expired 2-24-2003 in Brentwood, California   age 92

Prussian military leader  Gerhard Johann David von Scharnhorst   namesake of World War II battleship born on 11-12-1755 in Bordenau, Prussia expired 6-28-1813 in Prague, Prussia   age 57

Hollywood agent  Dory Schary   wrote story for screenplay of Boys Town (1938); replaced Louis B. Mayer as head of MGM (1951) ¤ born: Isidore Schary  born on 8-31-1905 in Newark, New Jersey expired 7-7-1980 in New York, New York   age 74

microbiologist  Albert Israel Schatz   as a 23 year old Rutgers graduate student did substantial development work on streptomyicin (1943); he had to sue to get his due credit (and royalties) after his professor, Selman Waksman, took all the credit (and a Nobel Prize) born on 2-2-1920 in Norwich, Connecticut expired 1-17-2005 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania   age 84   cause: pancreatic cancer

Miss America 1924  Ruth Malcomson Schaubel born on 4-16-1906 expired 5-25-1988 in Broomall, Pennsylvania   age 82

MASER & LASER pioneer Dr.  Arthur Leonard Schawlow   collaborated with Dr. Charles H. Townes on the microwave forerunner of the LASER; wrote research paper in 1957 that became the basis for the first physical LASER device, built in 1960 by Dr. Theodore Maiman; co-recipient of 1981 Nobel physics prize born on 5-5-1921 in Mount Vernon, New York expired 4-28-1999 in Palo Alto, California   age 77   cause: congestive heart failure; leukemia AKS: Shawlow

cut-rate car painter  Earl A. Scheib born on 2-28-1908 expired 2-27-1992 in Beverly Hills, California   age 83   cause: emphysema

actor  Roy Richard Scheider born on 11-10-1932 in Orange, New Jersey expired 2-10-2008 in Little Rock, Arkansas   age 75   cause: staph infection; multiple myeloma    Contest Selectors 2006 DFFC, SPIT 6.7% 2007 AUDC, SPIT 6.5% 2008 RAVN, SPIT    Scored 6.2500 points

former SONY America president  Harvey Lester Schein   championed the Betamax vcr format born on 9-15-1927 in The Bronx, New York, New York expired 5-14-2008   age 80   cause: lymphoma

actress  Maria Margarethe Anna Schell   sister of Maximilian Schell born on 1-15-1921 in Vienna, Austria expired 4-26-2005 in Preitenegg, Austria   age 84   cause: heart failure; pneumonia

former University of Michigan football coach (1969-89)  Glenn Edward "Bo" Schembechler Jr. born on 4-1-1929 in Barberton, Ohio expired 11-17-2006 in Southfield, Michigan   age 77   cause: heart failure    Contest Selectors 1979 JW 7.7%

litigant  Edward Lewis Schempp   with wife field suit to prevent the reading of the Bible in public schools; the case was combined with one from Madalyn Murray O'Hair; the Supreme Court voted 8-1 in their favor (6-17-1963) born on 2-29-1908 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania expired 11-8-2003 in Heyward, California   age 95

litigant  Sidney G. Schempp   with husband and a well-known atheist put a stop to bible readings in public schools (Abington Township v. Schempp) born on 3-1-1913 in Grant's Pass, Oregon expired 7-5-2004 in Castro Valley, California   age 91   cause: liver disease

movie producer  Joseph M. Schenck   co-founded 20th Century Company (1933) expired 10-22-1961 in Beverly Hills, California   age 82

Loew's Inc. co-founder  Nicholas M. Schenck   a founder of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc. born on 11-14-1881 expired 3-3-1969 in Miami Beach, California   age 87

former radio/tv sportscaster  Chris Schenkel   worked for CBS & ABC covering college & pro football and 8 Olympic games born on 8-21-1923 in Bippus, Wabash County, Indiana expired 9-11-2005 in Fort Wayne, Indiana   age 82   cause: complications from ulcer surgery; emphysema

former NBC White House correspondent  Ray Scherer born on 6-7-1919 in Fort Wayne, Indiana expired 7-1-2000 in Washington, District of Columbia   age 81   cause: cancer

R.P. Scherer Corp. founder (1933)  Robert Pauli Scherer   en engineer, he developed the rotary die method of making gelatin capsules used to contain medicine, vitamins and candies born on 10-10-1906 expired 7-27-1960 in Detroit, Michigan   age 53

former ABC tv programming executive  Edgar J. Scherick   executive producer of Take the Money and Run born on 10-10-1924 in New York, New York expired 12-2-2002 in Los Angeles, California   age 78   cause: complications from leukemia

Detroit Times founder and former publisher  James Schermerhorn expired 12-2-1941 in Detroit, Michigan   age 76

Three Dog Night bassist  Joseph "Joe" Schermie born on 2-12-1948 expired 3-25-2002 in Los Angeles, California   age 54

fashion designer  Elsa Schiaparelli born on 9-10-1890 in Rome, Italy expired 11-13-1973 in Paris, France   age 83   cause: stroke

movie actor  Vincent Andrew Schiavelli   Planet 10 Red Lectroid henchman John O'Connor in The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension (1984); also portrayed the computer-generated Minosian Arms Peddler in the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "Arsenal of Freedom" (1988) born on 11-11-1948 in New York, New York expired 12-26-2005 in Polizzi Generosa, Sicily, Italy   age 57   cause: lung cancer

persistently vegetative hospice resident  Theresa Marie "Terri" Schiavo   subject of all manner of legal wrangling over her feeding tube — take it out, put it in, take it out, put it in, .... ; poster girl for living wills ¤ née: Schindler  born on 12-3-1963 in Corning, Pennsylvania expired 3-31-2005 in Pinellas Park, Florida   age 41   cause: heart failure; kidney failure; dehydration    Contest Selectors 2003 PCD 5.6% 2004 PCD 5.6% 2005 KLS, MOT, PCD, RAVN 17.4%    Scored 8.7125 points AKS: Terry

Nicaraguan president (5/1/1963-8/3/1966)  René Schick Gutiérrez born on --1909 in Managua, Nicaragua expired 8-3-1966 in Managua, Nicaragua   age 57   cause: heart attack

musician and film director  David Schickele   co-created P.D.Q. Bach with his brother and friend Ernest Lloyd born on 3-20-1937 in Ames, Iowa expired 10-31-1999 in San Francisco, California   age 62   cause: brain cancer

advertising copy writer  Arthur D. Schiff   gave name to the Ginsu knives & came up with the phrase "but wait, there's more..." (1983) born on 5-1-1940 expired 8-24-2006 in Coral Springs, Florida   age 66   cause: lung cancer AKS: Shiff

Hollywood makeup artist  Robert J. "Bob" Schiffer born on 9-4-1916 in Seattle, Washington expired 4-26-2005 in Los Angeles, California   age 88   cause: complications from stroke

vaudeville producer  Frank Schiffman   co-founded Harlem's Apollo Theater (1934) with Leo Brecher born on 3-7-1893 expired 1-15-1974 in Miami Beach, Florida   age 80

actor  Joseph Schildkraut   played Otto Frank in The Diary of Anne Frank (1959); two-time winner of a Best Supporting Actor Academy Award born on 3-22-1896 in Vienna, Austria expired 1-21-1964 in New York, New York   age 67

German rocket engineer Dr.  Martin Schilling   worked on the V-2 ("Vergeltungswaffe 2" --- "Vengeance Weapon 2") under Wernher Von Braun at Peenemünde born on 10-1-1911 in Hörde, Germany expired 4-30-2000 in Burlington, Massachusetts   age 88   cause: heart failure

Oscar's widow  Emilie Schindler ¤ born: Emilie Belzl  born on 10-22-1907 in Alt-Moletein, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary expired 10-5-2001 in Strausberg, Germany   age 93   cause: complications from stroke    Contest Selectors 2000 RR 14% 2001 RR 12½%    Scored 5.7000 solo points

Oskar Schindler   philandering Nazi businessman; saved 1200 Jews from death camps; subject of movie Schindler's List; abandoned his long-suffering wife (1957) born on 4-28-1908 in Zwittau, Moravia, Austria-Hungary expired 10-9-1974 in Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany   age 66

conductor  Thomas Schippers   co-founder of the Spoleto Festival born on 3-9-1930 in Kalamazoo, Michigan expired 12-16-1977 in New York, New York   age 47   cause: lung cancer

Sigma 7, Gemini VI and Apollo 7 astronaut  Walter Marty "Wally" Schirra Jr. born on 3-12-1923 in Hackensack, New Jersey expired 5-3-2007 in La Jolla, California   age 84   cause: heart attack; cancer    Contest Selectors 2006 BYE 3.3% 2007 AUDC, BYE 6.5%    Scored 5.3500 points AKS: Shirra

inventor  Gilmore Tilmen Schjeldahl   made Echo I, the first (passive) communications satellite (a 100 foot aluminized mylar balloon), launched by NASA in August 1960 (it stayed up for 8 years) born on 6-1-1912 in Esmond, North Dakota expired 3-9-2002 in Lenox, Massachusetts   age 89

sculptor  Felix Schlag   won contest to design the obverse/reverse of the Jefferson nickel (1938), successor to the "Buffalo" nickel expired 3-9-1974 in Owosso, Michigan   age 82

historian  Arthur Meier Schlesinger Jr. born on 10-15-1917 in Columbus, Ohio expired 2-27-2007 in Manhattan, New York, New York   age 89   cause: heart attack    Contest Selectors 2005 QKU, TBC 8.7% 2006 QKU 3.3% 2007 QKU 3.2%    Scored 6.1000 solo points

movie director  John Richard Schlesinger   made Darling (1965), Midnight Cowboy (1969; Best Director oscar) & Marathon Man (1975) born on 2-16-1926 in London, England expired 7-25-2003 in Palm Springs, California   age 77   cause: complications from stroke

cartoon-producer extraordinary  Leon Schlesinger   made some of the greatest Warner Brothers cartoons expired 12-25-1949 in Los Angeles, California   age 65

estranged mom  Yolanda "Lundy" Schlessinger   last seen in early September 2002, her body was discovered December 16, 2002 in a bad state of decomposition; hadn't spoken with daughter in more than a decade ¤ née: Ceccovini  born on 1-12-1923 in Italy expired 9-1-2002 in Beverly Hills, California   age 79   cause: blunt force trauma; ball-peen hammer blows

Father  Johann Martin Schleyer   invented the Volapük language (1880) born on 7-18-1831 in Oberlauda, Germany expired 8-16-1912 in Konstanz, Germany   age 81 AKS: Volapuk

archaeologist  Heinrich Schliemann   located and did early excavation on the ruins of ancient city of Troy, at the site known as Hisarlik born on 1-6-1822 in Neubuchow, Germany expired 12-26-1890 in Naples, Italy   age 68

heavyweight boxing opponent of Joe Louis  Maximilian Adolf Otto Siegfried Schmeling   the Great White Aryan Hope born on 9-28-1905 in Klein-Luckow, Brandenburg, Germany expired 2-2-2005 in Hollenstedt, Germany   age 99    Contest Selectors 2000 RR 14% 2001 DTM, RR 25% 2002 DTM, JAC, JL, MORB, RR 45.5% 2003 ANG, COCO, DTM, JL, KOHD, PCD, RR 33.3% 2004 ANG, DTM, EOD, MJ, NFG, PCD, RR 38.9% 2005 ANG, DTM, NFG, PCD, RIE, RR, SLIM, SPIT, TBC 39.1%    Scored 2.6070 points AKS: Max Shmeling Schmielling Shmelling

orchestra conductor  Hans Schmidt-Isserstedt born on 5-5-1900 in Berlin, Germany expired 5-28-1973 in Hamburg, Germany   age 73

tv game show producer  Anne-Marie Schmitt   won 9 Emmys for producting various versions of the Pyramid tv game show; in her paid death notice described as "beloved companion" of Bob Stewart born on 9-6-1931 expired 4-26-2006 in California   age 74

Nazi financier  Herman Schmitz   part of the group that formed the I.G. Farben cartel in 1925 by merging BASF, Agfa, Hoechst, Weiler-ter-Meer & Griesheim-Elektron; helped Hitler come to power; was the chairman of it's board (1935-45); served one year ofa 4 year sentence after the war born on --1881 expired 10-8-1960 in Heidelburg, Germany   age 79

ultra-conservative one-term California congressman (1971-72)  John George Schmitz   1972 American Independent Party presidential candidate; father of Mary Kay LeTourneau born on 8-12-1930 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin expired 1-10-2001 in Washington, District of Columbia   age 70   cause: cancer

pianist  Artur Schnabel expired 8-15-1951 in Axenstein, Switzerland   age 69

actor  Stefan Schnabel   spent 17 years on Guiding Light soap opera; son of Artur born on 2-2-1912 in Berlin, Germany expired 3-11-1999 in Rogaro, Italy   age 87   cause: heart attack

last colonial governor of German East Africa  Heinrich Schnee expired 6-23-1949 in Berlin, Germany   age 78   cause: traffic accident

movie producer  Charles Hirsh Schneer   collaborated extensively with Ray Harryhausen on such fantasy/sci-fi flix as: It Came From Beneath The Sea (1955), Earth vs. the Flying Saucers (1956), 20 Million Miles to Earth (1957), Hellcats of the Navy (1957),The Seventh Voyage of Sinbad (1958), The Three Worlds of Gulliver (1960), Mysterious Island (1961), Jason and the Argonauts (1963), First Men in the Moon (1964), The Valley of Gwangi (1969) & Clash of the Titans (1981) born on 5-5-1920 in Norfolk, Virginia expired 1-21-2009 in Boca Raton, Florida   age 88   cause: complications from Alzheimer's disease AKS: Hersh Hursh Hirsch Shneer Schnear Shnear

Rabbi  Menachem Mendel Schneerson born on 4-18-1902 in Nikolayev, Russia expired 6-12-1994   age 92

midget/actress  Elly Annie Schneider   appeared in Freaks (1932) & as a Munchkin in The Wizard of Oz (1939) ¤ aka: "Tiny Earles" «or» "Tiny Doll"  born on 7-23-1914 in Stolpen, Germany expired 9-6-2004 in Sarasota, Florida   age 90   cause: heart failure

tv writer  Paul Schneider   wrote three scripts for Star Trek: Balance of Terror (1966), Squire of Gothos (1967) & The Terratin Incident (1973) born on 8-4-1923 in Passaic, New Jersey expired 10-13-2008 in Idyllwild, California   age 85

attorney  Ralph E. Schneider   Diners' Club co-founder & chairman expired 11-2-1964 in New York, New York   age 55

actress  Romy Schneider ¤ born: Rosemariie Albach-Retty  born on 9-23-1938 in Vienna, Austria expired 5-28-1982 in Paris, France   age 43

classical violinist  Wolfgang Schneiderhan born on 5-28-1915 in Vienna, Lower Austria, Austria-Hungary expired 5-18-2002 in Vienna, Austria   age 86

movie producer / director  Ernest Beaumont Schoedsack   co-produced Grass (1925), King Kong (1933; he was the airplane gunner that "Shot down" Kong), Son of Kong and Mighty Joe Young (1949) with Merian C. Cooper; directed The Last Days of Pompeii (1935) and Dr. Cyclops (1940) born on 6-8-1893 in Council Bluffs, Iowa expired 12-23-1979 in Los Angeles, California   age 86 AKS: Shoedsack Schoadsack Schoedsak Shodsak

U-Haul founder (1945)  Leonard Samuel Schoen born on 2-29-1916 in McGrath, Minnesota expired 10-4-1999 in Las Vegas, Nevada   age 83   cause: suicide; car crashed into utility pole

Shoneys co-founder  Alex "Shoney" Schoenbaum   opened his first restaurant in 1947; opened first Shoneys in 1953; thrice declared a football All-American (1936-38) born on 8-8-1915 expired 12-6-1996 in Sarasota, Florida   age 81   cause: complications from heart attack

composer  Arnold Schoenberg expired 7-13-1951 in Brentwood, California   age 76

pro wrassler  Robert Schoenberger ¤ aka: "Bobby Shane"  born on 8-25-1945 expired 2-20-1975   age 39   cause: airplane crash

former CBS correspondent (1945-63)  David Schoenbrun   with ABC News (1963-79) born on 3-15-1915 in New York, New York expired 5-23-1988 in New York, New York   age 73

illustrator  John Carl Schoenherr   recipient of the 1965 Hugo Award for Best Artist, 1972 Newberry Nedal & 1987 Caldecott Medal; illustrated the serialization of "Dune" in Analog magazine (1963 & 1965); also illustrated Anne McCaffrey's "Pern" stories born on 7-5-1935 in Queens, New York, New York expired 4-8-2010 in Stockton, New Jersey   age 74

Kwikset Lock Co. co-founder (1948)  Adolf Schoepe born on 1-1-1904 in Berkenroth, Germany expired 7-29-2001 in Fullerton, California   age 97   cause: stroke

foot care product manufacturer  William Howard Scholl   nephew of company founder born on 9-24-1920 in London, England expired 3-15-2002 in Douglas, Isle of Man, England   age 81   cause: pneumonia

foot pad mogul  William Mathias Scholl   founded Scholl Manufacturing, maker of Dr. Scholl's foot products born on 6-22-1882 expired 3-30-1968 in Chicago, Illinois   age 85

former New York Times music critic (1960-80)  Harold Charles Schonberg   won 1971 Pulitzer prize for criticism born on 11-29-1915 in New York, New York expired 7-26-2003 in New York, New York   age 87 AKS: Schonburg Schoenberg Schoenburg Shonberg Shonburg

naturalist and Federal Northwest Territory Indian agent  Henry Rowe Schoolcraft   friend of Longfellow; wrote The Myth of Hiawatha (1854); a Michigan county is named for him born on 3-28-1793 in Albany County, New York expired 12-10-1864 in Washington, District of Columbia   age 71

1924 US Sabre champion  Leon Monroe Schoonmaker   on four Olympic fencing teams expired 5-30-1950 in New York, New York   age 68   cause: coronary thrombosis

white trash former baseball club owner  Margaret "Marge" Schott   sold her interest in October 1999 ¤ née: Unnewehr  born on 8-18-1928 in Cincinnati, Ohio expired 3-2-2004 in Cincinnati, Ohio   age 75   cause: respiratory failure    Contest Selectors 2002 RAVN 9.1% 2004 MJ 5.6%    Scored 7.5000 solo points AKS: Schot Shott Shot

screenwriter  Leonard Schrader   brother of Paul; wrote Kiss of the Spider Woman (1985); co-wrote Mishima (1985) born on 11-30-1943 in Grand Rapids, Michigan expired 11-2-2006 in Los Angeles, California   age 62   cause: heart failure

astrophysicist Dr.  David Schramm   authority on the "Big Bang" born on 10-25-1945 expired 12-18-1997 in Denver, Colorado   age 52   cause: plane crash

former Dallas Cowboys general manager (1960-89)  Texas Earnest Schramm born on 6-2-1920 in San Gabriel, California expired 7-15-2003 in Dallas, Texas   age 83 AKS: Schram Shramm Shram

creepy actor  Max Schreck   played title role in Nosferatu (1922), the first screen vampire opus (and an all-too-obvious ripoff of Dracula; Bram Stoker's widow nailed the producers for copyright violation and had (almost) "all" prints of the movie destroyed) born on 6-11-1879 in Berlin, Germany expired 11-26-1936 in München, Bavaria, Germany   age 57   cause: heart attack AKS: Shreck Schrek Shrek

ceramicist & industrial designer  Viktor Sebring Schreckengost   created the art deco "Jazz Bowl" for Eleanor Roosevelt born on 6-26-1906 in Sebring, Ohio expired 1-26-2008 in Tallahassee, Florida   age 101 AKS: Victor Shrekengost

comedian & former Doritos pitchman  Avery Schreiber   played Captain Cornelius Butt in Galaxina (1980) born on 4-9-1935 in Chicago, Illinois expired 1-7-2002 in Los Angeles, California   age 66   cause: heart attack; complications from hip surgery

Keith M. Schroder   co-founded the now-defunct Bill Knapp's restaurant chain (1948) born on 4-14-1899 expired 5-9-1981 in Battle Creek, Michigan   age 82

1924 1924 Nobel physics co-laureate  Erwin Rudolf Josef Alexander Schrödinger   one of his proposed intellectual exercises was bad news for his pet feline born on 8-12-1887 in Vienna, Austria-Hungary expired 1-4-1961 in Vienna, Austria   age 73   cause: tuberculosis

long-ago amateur tennis champion  Frederick Rudolph "Ted" Schroeder   won the U.S. National Championship in 1942 & Wimbeldon singles title in 1949, as well as a number of doubles championships born on 7-20-1821 in Newark, New Jersey expired 5-26-2006 in La Jolla, California   age 84   cause: cancer

Frank Schubert   last civilian coastal lighthouse keeper at the Norton Point Light on Coney Island (1960-2003) born on 9-14-1915 in Staten Island, New York expired 12-11-2003 in New York, New York   age 88

chemist  Eugène Schueller   concocted a non-toxic hair dye that he called Auréole (1907); founded "Société Françoise de Teintures Inoffensives pour Cheveaux", which became L'Oréal (1909) born on 3-20-1881 in Paris, France expired 8-23-1957   age 76 AKS: Eugéne Eugene Scheuller

cinematographer and special visual effects wizard  Eugén Schüfftan   produced the Robot<=>Maria transformation effects in Metropolis (1926); received cinematography oscar for The Hustler (1961) born on --1886 in Breslau, Germany (now Wroclaw, Poland) expired 9-6-1977 in New York, New York   age 91 AKS: Eugene Schufftan Shufftan Schuftan Shuftan

movie producer  Benjamin Percival Schulberg   "discovered" Clara Bow, Gary Cooper and Claudette Colbert; father of Budd Schulberg expired 2-25-1957 in Key Biscayne, Florida   age 65

playwright/screenwriter  Budd Wilson Schulberg   wrote What Makes Sammy Run? (1941), On The Waterfront (1954) & A Face in the Crowd (1957) born on 3-27-1914 in New York, New York expired 8-5-2009 in Westhampton Beach, New York   age 95 AKS: Bud Shulberg Schulburg Shulburg

advertising executive  Jay William Schulberg   got Karl Malden to intone "Don't leave home without it." for the American Express Card; created the campaign that had celebrities with milk mustaches (1994); cousin of writer Budd Schulberg born on 7-17-1939 in New York, New York expired 1-12-2005 in Doylestown, Pennsylvania   age 65   cause: pancreatic cancer

restauranteur  Winston M. Schuler   inventor of the colon caulk known as Bar-Scheeze born on 4-29-1908 expired 5-13-1993 in Harbor Springs, Michigan   age 85

crusading physician Dr.  Morton Schulman   for a while was the coroner in Toronto (the series Wojeck was inspired by him); he later was in the Ontario provincial parliament expired 8-20-2000   age 75   cause: complications from Parkinson's disease

original Seattle SuperSonics owner (1966-83)  Samuel Schulman   sued by the NBA for signing Spencer Heywood "too-soon"; he won, opening up the NBA to high school players born on 4-10-1910 expired 6-12-2003 in Los Angeles, California   age 93

pioneering enthnobotanist Dr.  Richard Evans Schultes   leading authority on hallucinogenic plants (Leary & Thompson were bumbling amateurs compared with this guy) born on 1-12-1915 in Boston, Massachusetts expired 4-11-2001 in Boston, Massachusetts   age 86

Theodore William Schultz   shared the 1979 Nobel prize in Economics born on 4-30-1902 in Arlington, South Dakota expired 2-26-1998 in Evanston, Illinois   age 95

composer  Norbert Schultze   composed Lili Marleen (1938), based upon the obscure World War I poem The Song of a Young Sentry born on 11-26-1911 in Brunswick, Germany expired 10-14-2002 in Bad Tölz, Bavaria, Germany   age 90 AKS: Lilli Lily Lilly Marlene Marlain

college football's first roving center  Adolph George Schulz   coached at Kansas State, Michigan, Wisconsin and the University of Detroit ¤ nickname: Germany  expired 4-14-1951 in Detroit, Michigan   age 68

Peanuts cartoonist (1950-2000)  Charles Moore Schulz   twice the recipient of the Reuben Award (in 1955 & 1964) born on 11-26-1922 in Minneapolis, Minnesota expired 2-12-2000 in Santa Rosa, California   age 77   cause: heart attack; colon cancer    Contest Selectors 1979 JH 7.7% 2000 ANG, BOD, IVY, RR, TEX 71%    Scored 4.9563 points

food editor  Sylvia Z. Schur   through her company (Creative Food Services) developed Clamato, Cran-Apple juice & Metrecal ¤ née: Zipser  born on 6-27-1917 in Brooklyn, New York, New York expired 9-2-2009 in Chicago, Illinois   age 92   cause: respiratory failure

former Miss World (1956)  Hildegard "Petra" Susanna Schürmann   an actress and tv host; lost only child in 2001, then widowed in 2008 (widow of Dr. Gerhard Freund) born on 9-15-1933 in Mönchengladbach, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany expired 1-14-2010 in Starnberg, Bavaria, Germany   age 76    Contest Selectors 2009 WEP 3.3% AKS: Schurmann

former Austrian Chancellor (1934-38) Dr.  Kurt Schuschnigg   tried to prevent the German "Anschluss" (annexation) of Austria in March of 1938 expired 11-18-1977 in Mutters, Austria   age 79

auto race legend  George Schuster   won the 1908 13,341 mile "Great Race" --- Times Square, New York to Siberia to Paris auto race --- in 169 days driving a Thomas Flyer; finally received his $1,000 prize in 1968; the basis for the movie The Great Race born on 2-4-1873 expired 7-4-1972 in Springville, New York   age 99

Harold D. Schuster   directed Queer Cargo (1938) & My Friend Flicka (1943) born on 8-1-1902 in Cherokee, Iowa expired 7-19-1986 in Westlake Village, California   age 83

book publisher  Max Lincoln Schuster   Simon and Schuster co-founder (1924) born on 3-2-1897 in Kalusz, Austria expired 12-20-1970 in New York, New York   age 73

Ruby Schut   claimed to be the "Ruby Bates" that had accused the Scottsboro Boys of rape in 1931; recanted her claim at second trial ¤ Mrs. Elmer Schut  born on 3-4-1913 in Huntsville, Alabama expired 10-27-1976 in Yakima, Washington   age 63

drugstore co-founder (1932)  Bernard Joseph Schwab   with brothers Leon, Jack & Martin ran the famous Sunset Boulevard store born on 10-2-1908 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania expired 3-5-2003 in Los Angeles, California   age 94   cause: "natural causes"

drugstore co-founder  Jack Schwab born on 6-3-1906 expired 6-21-1989 in Van Nuys, California   age 83

legendary Hollywood pharmacy co-founder  Leon Schwab born on 4-23-1911 expired 12-30-1995 in Los Angeles, California   age 84

Florida death row inmate  Mark Dean Schwab   earned his place in this contest listing by raping/murdering 11 year old Junny Rios-Martinez Jr. born on 12-16-1968 expired 7-1-2008 in Starke, Florida   age 39   cause: executed; lethal injection    Contest Selectors 2008 OIE, SPIT 6.3%    Scored 9.8500 points

Martin Schwab   co-founder of famed Hollywood drug store born on 5-5-1893 expired 4-??-1969 in Long Beach, California   age 75

former congressman (1943-49)  Max Schwabe born on 12-6-1905 in Columbia, Boone County, Missouri expired 7-31-1983 in Columbia, Boone County, Missouri   age 77

sadistic Nazi labor camp commandant  Josef Schwammberger   he fled to Argentina after the war born on 2-14-1912 in Austria expired 12-2-2004 in Hohenasperg, Germany   age 92 AKS: Shwammberger Schwamberger Shwamberger Schwammburger Shwammburger Schwamburger Shwamburger

organist, musicologist & record store owner  William Joseph Schwann   created the monthly classical recording catalog that bears his name (1949) born on 5-13-1913 in Salem, Illinois expired 6-7-1998 in Burlington, Massachusetts   age 85

movie maker  Bernard Schwartz   produced Coal Miner's Daughter (1980) & Sweet Dreams (1985) born on 12-9-1917 in New York, New York expired 10-17-2003 in Los Angeles, California   age 85   cause: complications from stroke

former DC Comics editor (1956-86)  Julius Schwartz   presided over the revival of the franchise; literary agent for Ray Bradbury, H.P. Lovecraft, Leigh Brackett & Robert Bloch; co-founder of The Time Traveller sci-fi fan magazine (1932; with Mort Weisinger & Forrest J. Ackerman) born on 6-19-1915 in New York, New York expired 2-8-2004 in Mineola, New York   age 88   cause: pneumonia

inventor  Karl K. Schwartz   invented the juke box (1927), price computing mechanism of mechanical gasoline pumps and the phonograph record changer expired 7-12-1955 in Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin   age 70

Melvin Schwartz   shared the 1988 Nobel prize in physics born on 11-2-1932 in New York, New York expired 8-28-2006 in Twin Falls, Idaho   age 73   cause: complications from Parkinson's disease & hepatitis C

former Brandeis University sociology professor  Morris S. "Morrie" Schwartz   subject of 1997 book born on 12-20-1916 in New York, New York expired 11-4-1995 in Newton, Massachusetts   age 79   cause: ALS

Maj. Gen.  H. Norman Schwartzkopf Sr.   organized the New Jersey State Police; lead investigator of the Lindbergh baby kidnapping; father of Desert Storm commander born on --1895 expired 11-25-1958 in West Orange, New Jersey   age 63

Nazi Party treasurer  Franz Xaver Schwarz expired 12-14-1947 in Regensburg, Germany   age 72

toy store founder  Frederick August Otto Schwarz Sr. born on 10-18-1836 in Herford, Germany expired 5-17-1911 in New York, New York   age 74

opera soprano Dame  Olga Maria Elisabeth Frederike Schwarzkopf   had been a member of the Nazi Party during World War II born on 12-9-1915 in Jarotchin, Germany (now Jarocin, Poland) expired 8-2-2006 in Shruns, Switzerland   age 90    Contest Selectors 1979 HP 7.7% 2006 WEP 3.3%    Scored 6.0000 solo points AKS: Elizabeth

physicist/astronomer  Karl Schwarzschild   postulated the Schwarzschild Radius that established the event horizon boundary of a black hole born on 10-9-1873 in Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany expired 5-11-1916   age 42 rs = m × 1.48×10-27 (where r is in meters and m is in kilograms)

World War I U-20 submarine commander Kapitan-leutnant  Walther Schweiger   torpedoed the Lusitania May 7, 1915; later commanded U-88 expired 9-17-1917 in North Atlantic Ocean   age 32   cause: sunk by Q-boat Stoncrop

missionary Doctor  Albert Schweitzer   director of the hospital at Lambaréné, Gabon; noted organist; winner of the 1952 Nobel Peace Prize born on 1-14-1875 in Kaysersberg, Alsace, Germany expired 9-4-1965 in Lambaréné, Gabon   age 90

Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corp. co-founder (1930)  William T. Schwendler   Grumman's original chief engineer born on 4-1-1904 expired 1-14-1978 in Farmingdale, New York   age 73

Anne Schwerner   mother of slain civil rights worker Michael Goodman born on 5-1-1912 expired 11-29-1996 in Yellow Springs, Ohio   age 84

1964 CORE Freedom Summer campaigner  Michael Henry Schwerner   murdered by Klan thugs along with James Chaney & Andrew Goodman born on 11-6-1939 in New York, New York expired 6-21-1964 in Neshoba County, Mississippi   age 24   cause: murdered; shot

physicist  Julian Seymour Schwinger   his work in quantum electrodynamics earned him a share of the 1965 Nobel prize in physics born on 2-12-1918 in New York, New York expired 7-16-1994 in Los Angeles, California   age 76

mechanic, bike designer  Ignaz Schwinn   with Adolf Arnold founded the Arnold, Schwinn and Company (1895); bought out Arnold in 1908 born on 4-1-1860 in Hardheim, Baden, Germany expired ??-??-1948   age 88

Shuttle STS-41--C & 51--L astronaut  Francis Richard "Dick" Scobee born on 5-19-1939 in Cle Elum, Washington expired 1-28-1986 in Cape Canaveral, Florida   age 46   cause: Shuttle Challenger explosion

actor  David Paul Scofield   played Sir Thomas Moore in A Man for All Seasons (1966) — it earned him a Best Actor oscar born on 1-21-1922 in Hurstpierpoint, Sussex, England expired 3-19-2008 in Haywards Heath, Sussex, England   age 86   cause: leukemia

Jerry P. Scoggins   sang Flatt & Scruggs Ballad of Jed Clampett at the beginning of each tv episode & the movie (1993) born on 9-30-1911 in Mount Pleasant, Texas expired 12-7-2004 in Westlake Village, California   age 93

"evolutionary" Tennessee educator  John Thomas Scopes   defendant in famous "Monkey Trial" in Dayton, Tennessee; tried for teaching Evolution instead of Creationism in class & convicted July 21st, 1925, fined $100 born on 8-3-1900 in Paducah, Kentucky expired 10-21-1970 in Shreveport, Louisiana   age 70   cause: cancer

author  Thomas Nicholas Scortia   co-wrote The Glass Inferno (co-inspiration for 1974 movie) born on 8-29-1926 in Alton, Illinois expired 4-29-1986 in La Verne, California   age    cause: leukemia

jazz pianist  Bobby Scott born on 1-24-1937 in Mount Pleasant, New York expired 11-5-1990   age 53   cause: lung cancer

former actress  DebraLee Scott   played title character's younger sister Cathy Shumway on Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman tv series; had been engaged to a New York Port Authority cop who died in the 9/11 attacks; had been in an unexplained three-day coma just before her death born on 4-2-1953 in Elizabeth, New Jersey expired 4-5-2005 in Amelia Island, Florida   age 52

fugitive slave  Dred Scott   sued for freedom in 1846; case (Dred Scott v. Sanford) argued before Supreme Court in 1857; lost case born on --1795 in Southampton County, Virginia expired 9-17-1858 in Saint Louis, Missouri   age 63

former DuMont Network tv announcer (WABD/WNEW/WNYW)  Fred E. Scott Sr.   hosted the Uncle Fred Scott kiddie cartoon show + was communications office Rogers on Captain Video and his Video Rangers tv show (1949-55) born on 6-25-1920 in Dayton, Ohio expired 11-16-2008 in Ridge, New Jersey   age 88   cause: "a long illness"; cancer

oddball "religious" broadcaster  Gene Scott born on 8-14-1929 in Boise, Idaho expired 2-21-2005 in Los Angeles, California   age 75   cause: complications from stroke

actor  George Campbell Scott   played prosecutor Claude Dancer in Anatomy of a Murder (1959), General "Buck" Turgidson in Dr. Strangelove (1964), Patton (1970) and Justin Playfair in They Might Be Giants (1971) born on 10-18-1927 in Wise, Virginia expired 9-22-1999 in Westlake Village, California   age 71   cause: ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysm

Royal Air Force "battle cruiser" dirigible commander Major  George Herbert Scott C.B.E., A.F.C.   captain of the R.34 dirigible on its pioneering trans-Atlantic crossing from East Fortune, Scotland to Roosevelt Field, Mineola, New York (7/2-7/6/1919) born on --1888 in Catford, Kent, England expired 10-5-1930 in Allonne, Picardie, France   age 42   cause: crash of R.101

western movie actor  George Randolph Scott born on 1-23-1898 in Orange County, Virginia expired 3-2-1987 in Beverly Hills, California   age 89    Contest Selectors 1979 DO 7.7%

muscleman actor  Gordon Scott   played Tarzan and Hercules in the late 1950s & early 1960s; was married to Vera Miles (1954-9) ¤ real name: Gordon Merrill Werschkul  born on 8-3-1926 in Portland, Oregon expired 4-30-2007 in Baltimore, Maryland   age 80   cause: complications from heart surgery AKS: Werschkull

former Pennsylvania congressman (1947-52)  Hardie Scott born on 6-7-1907 in Cynwyd, Pennsylvania expired 11-2-1999   age 92

hi-fi equipment company president  Hermon Hosmer Scott   founded H.H. Scott, Inc. born on 3-28-1909 expired 4-13-1975 in Newton, Massachusetts   age 66

kvetching sports "critic"  Jack Scott   was Oberlin College athletic director (1972-74); helped Patty Hearst elude police (1974) born on 3-3-1942 expired 2-5-2000 in Eugene, Oregon   age 57   cause: throat cancer

actress  Margaretta Scott   played Roxana/Rowena in Things to Come (1936), Catherine of Aragon in the BBC mini-series Elizabeth R (1971) & Mrs. Pumphrey in All Creatures Great and Small born on 2-13-1912 in London, England expired 4-15-2005   age 93

actress  Martha Scott ¤ Mrs. Mel Powell  born on 9-22-1914 in Jamesport, Missouri expired 5-28-2003 in Van Nuys, California   age 88

actress  Martha Ellen Scott   originated the role of Emily in Our Town (1939); played Sue Ellen Ewing's mother on Dallas born on 9-22-1912 in Jamesport, Missouri expired 5-28-2003 in Van Nuys, California   age 90   cause: "natural causes"

newspaper photographer  Myron E. Scott   created the All-American Soap box Derby (1933) (first two years it was in Dayton; after that, in Akron); gave the Corvette sportscar its name (1952) born on 9-16-1907 in Camden, Ohio expired 10-4-1998 in Kettering, Ohio   age 91

conservationist Sir  Peter Markham Scott   son of Antarctic explorer; designed the World Wildlife Fund's panda logo (1961) born on 9-14-1909 in England expired 8-29-1989 in Bristol, England   age 79   cause: heart attack

bandleader  Raymond Scott   on Your Hit Parade ¤ born: Harry Warnow  born on 9-10-1909 in New York, New York expired 2-8-1994 in North Hills, California   age 85

Hollywood Ten movie producer and screen writer  Robert Adrian Scott born on 2-6-1912 in Arlington, New Jersey expired 12-25-1972 in Los Angeles, California   age 60

Antarctic explorer  Robert Falcon Scott   lost the race to the South Pole (came in 6th); made it there 1/18/1912, 5 weeks after Amundsen had arrive & left born on 6-6-1868 in London, England expired 3-27-1912 in Antarctica   age 43   cause: hypothermia; scurvey

World War II pilot  Robert Lee Scott Jr.   flew of the Flying Tigers & later the U.S. Army Air Corps; his memoir "God Is My Co-pilot" was a best selling book but mediocre movie born on 4-12-1908 in Macon, Georgia expired 2-27-2006 in Warner Robins, Georgia   age 97

AC/DC lead singer  Ronald Belford "Bon" Scott born on 7-9-1946 in Kirriemuir, Scotland expired 2-20-1980 in London, England   age 33   cause: acute alcohol poisoning

former CalTech professor  Ronald Fraser Scott   chief designer of the scoop that tested the moon's surface composition & strength from Surveyor 3 (1967) & Surveyor 7 (1968) born on 4-9-1929 in London, England expired 8-16-2005 in Altadena, California   age 76   cause: cancer

folk singer & writer  Thomas Jefferson "Tom" Scott born on 5-28-1912 expired 8-12-1961 in New York, New York   age 49

UPI Hollywood reporter  Vernon Scott III ¤ full name: Homer Vernon Scott III  born on 2-13-1923 in San Francisco, California expired 11-18-2002 in Los Angeles, California   age 79   cause: pancreatitis

former Northwest Airlines pilot  William A. "Scotty" Scott   pilot of Northwest flight 305 on Thanksgiving Eve (Nov.23) 1971 when plane was hijacked by D.B. Cooper; retired in 1980 born on 1-22-1920 expired 3-10-2001 in Green Valley, Arizona   age 81   cause: prostate cancer

tv writer  William John "Bill" Scott III   wrote for/co-produced the Rocky & Bullwinkle tv cartoon series (he also voiced Bullwinkle) born on 8-2-1920 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania expired 11-29-1985 in Tujunga, California   age 65   cause: heart attack; pnemonia

North Carolina senator (1958-58)  William Kerr Scott   also N.C. governor (1949-52) expired 4-6-1958 in Burlington, North Carolina   age 61

General  Winfield Scott   lead troops in Mexican War (1946-48); 1852 Whig candidate for president (lost to Franklin Pierce) ¤ nickname: "Old Fuss and Feathers"  born on 6-13-1786 in Petersburg, Virginia expired 5-29-1866 in West Point, New York   age 79

actor  Vito Scotti born on 1-26-1918 in San Francisco, California expired 6-5-1996 in Woodland Hills, California   age 78   cause: lung cancer

character/voice actor  Alexander Scourby   best known for narrating PBS documentaries born on 11-13-1913 in Brooklyn, New York, New York expired 2-23-1985 in Boston, Massachusetts   age 71

Parke, Davis & Company pharmacologist  Walter Scoville   developed scale for rating the "hotness" of peppers: bell pepper = 0 units; Jalapeno peppper = 5,000 units; pure capsaicin (active chemical in peppers) 16,000,000 units expired ??-??-19??   age ??

pianist/composer  Alexander Nicolaievitch Scriabin born on 1-10-1872 in Moscow, Russia expired 4-14-1915   age 43

physician Dr.  Belding Hibbard Scribner   developed the teflon shunt (later changed to silicon) that permitted repeated dialysis treatments; shared 2002 Albert Lasker Award born on 1-18-1921 in Chicago, Illinois expired 6-19-2003 in Seattle, Washington   age 82   cause: drowned

newspaper publisher  James Edmund Scripps   founded the Evening News Association (eventually became the Detroit News newspaper); served one term in the Michigan Senate (1902-3) born on 3-19-1835 in London, England expired 5-29-1906 in Detroit, Michigan   age 71

Detroit News publisher (1929-52)  William Edmund Scripps   son of the founder (James Edmund Scripps); founded WWJ radio and television born on 5-6-1882 expired 6-12-1952 in Detroit, Michigan   age 70

Nobel Prize-winning nuclear physicist  Glenn Theodore Seaborg   shared 1951 Nobel chemistry prize (with Edwin McMillan) for research in the trans-Uranium elements; discovered 10 elements, including Plutonium (1940), Merdecephalium (1997) and its heavy isotope Drechterium (1998); element 106 is named for him (Seaborgium) born on 4-19-1912 in Ishpeming, Michigan expired 2-25-1999 in Lafayette, California   age 86   cause: complications from stroke

singer  Danny Wayland Seals   other half of England Dan & John Ford Coley; younger brother of Jimmy Seals born on 2-8-1948 in McCarney, Texas expired 3-25-2009 in Nashville, Texas   age 61   cause: mantle cell lymphoma    Contest Selectors 2009 LMLD 3.3%    Scored 8.9000 solo points

attorney  John Norman Seaman   worked as a code breaker at Bletchley Park born on 2-19-1914 in Battle Creek, Michigan expired 9-9-2002 in Lansing, Michigan   age 88

schlocky movie director  Fred F. Sears   directed Rock Around the Clock (1956), Earth vs. the Flying Saucers (1956), Night the World Exploded (1957) & The Giant Claw (1957) born on 7-7-1913 in Boston, Massachusetts expired 11-30-1957 in Hollywood, California   age 44   cause: heart attack

Sears Roebuck co-founder  Richard Warren Sears born on 12-7-1863 in Stewartville, Minnesota expired 9-28-1914 in Waukesha, Wisconsin   age 50

Eisenhower Interior secretary (1956-61)  Frederick Andrew Seaton born on 12-11-1909 in Washington, District of Columbia expired 1-16-1974 in Minneapolis, Minnesota   age 64

movie director  George Seaton   was radio's first Lone Ranger (2nd; 3rd); made Miracle on 34th Street (1947) & Airport (1970) ¤ born: George Stenius  born on 4-17-1911 in South Bend, Indiana expired 7-28-1979 in Beverly Hills, California   age 68

winemaking matriarch  Sylvia Sebastiani ¤ née: Scarafoni  born on 5-10-1916 in Cordelia, California expired 11-30-2003 in Sonoma, California   age 87

linguist/semiotics prof. Dr.  Thomas Albert Sebeok   debunker of ape-human speech theories born on 11-9-1920 in Budapest, Hungary expired 12-21-2001 in Bloomington, Indiana   age 81   cause: leukemia

actress  Jean Seberg born on 11-13-1938 in Marshalltown, Iowa expired 9-8-1979 in Paris, France   age 40   cause: acute alcohol poisoning

hair stylist  Jay Sebring ¤ born: Thomas John Kummer  born on 10-10-1933 in Alabama expired 8-9-1969 in Los Angeles, California   age 35   cause: exsanguination; stabbed 7 times, shot once

celebrity-hounding photographer  Tazio Secchiaroli   basis for Fellini's 1960 La Dolce Vita character Paparazzo ¤ aka: "Scum-sucking Leech"  born on --1925 in Rome, Italy expired 7-24-1998 in Rome, Italy   age 73   cause: heart attack

original BBC "Goon" Sir  Harry Secombe   appeared with Michael Bentine, Spike Milligan and Peter Sellers on the Goon Show ¤ aka: "Harry Seagoon"  born on 9-8-1921 in Swansea, Wales expired 4-10-2001 in Guildford, Surrey, England   age 79   cause: prostate cancer    Contest Selectors 2000 BOD 14% 2001 BOD, DTM, RR 37½%    Scored 5.2250 points

novelist  John H. Secondari   wrote book Coins in the Fountain, made into the movie Three Coins in the Fountain (1954) born on 11-1-1919 in Rome, Italy expired 2-8-1975 in New York, New York   age 55   cause: heart attack

Hollywood movie producer & director  Edward M. Sedgwick   "discovered" Tom Mix and Hoot Gibson expired 5-7-1953 in North Hollywood, California   age 60

Nazi bagman  Hans Sedlmayr   a friend of Josef Mengele; he worked for the Mengele family's agricultural machinery company; made regular trips to Brazil to pass money to him born on 1-18-1896 in Hornstein, Burgenland, Austria-Hungary expired 7-9-1984 in Salzburg, Austria   age 88    Contest Selectors 2007 RR 2008 RR 2009 RR 2010 RR AKS: Sedlmeier

Gemini astronaut  Elliot McKay See Jr.   originally scheduled to be the Gemini IX mission commander; killed on training mission with Charles Bassett born on 7-23-1927 in Dallas, Texas expired 2-28-1966 in Saint Louis, Missouri   age 38   cause: plane crash

retired Army corps of engineers General  Robert F. Seedlock   as a colonel lead construction of the Burma Road during World War II born on 2-6-1913 in Newark, New Jersey expired 5-5-2004 in Arlington, Virginia   age 91   cause: heart disease

musicologist  Charles L. Seeger   former head of UC Berkeley music department (1912-19); father of folk singer Pete born on 12-14-1886 expired 2-7-1979 in Bridgewater, Connecticut   age 92   cause: heart attack

tv producer/animator  Hal Seeger   creator of Milton the Monster (1965-66) and Batfink (1966-67) shows born on 5-16-1917 expired 3-13-2005 in Great Neck, New York   age 87

Ivan Fremont Seeley   survivor of the Bath School bombing (1927) born on 8-20-1915 in Bath, Michigan expired 1-31-2000 in Yavapai, Arizona   age 84

poet  Giorgos Stylianou Seferiadis   received the 1963 Nobel prize in leterature ¤ pen name: Giorgos Seferis  born on 3-13-1900 in Urla, Turkey expired 9-20-1971 in Athens, Greece   age 71

former Yale classics professor & author  Erich Wolf Segal   wrote Love Story born on 6-16-1937 in Brooklyn, New York, New York expired 1-17-2010 in London, England   age 72   cause: heart attack; Parkinson's disease

biochemist & embryologist  Sheldon Jerome Segal   led the team that developed the Norplant contraceptive device (1991) born on 3-15-1926 in Brooklyn, New York, New York expired 10-17-2009 in Woods Hole, Massachusetts   age 83   cause: congestive heart failure

actress  Vivienne Segal born on 4-19-1897 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania expired 12-29-1992 in Los Angeles, California   age 95

cartoonist  Elzie Crisler Segar   created the Thimble Theater (1919); in 1929 one of it's throw-away characters was a big hit — he stayed on and eventually took over the strip (Popeye the sailor) born on 12-8-1894 in Chester, Illinois expired 10-13-1938 in Santa Monica, California   age 43   cause: leukemia

attorney  Charles P. Seger   as a student at Yale was Garry Trudeau's model for Mike Doonesbury expired 11-14-2000 in Tulsa, Oklahoma   age 52

classical guitarist  Andres Segovia born on 2-18-1894 in Linares, Spain expired 6-2-1987 in Madrid, Spain   age 93    Contest Selectors 1980 DH, EB, GP 18.8%

1959 Nobel physics co-laureate  Emilio Gino Segrè   co-discoverer of the anti-proton (1955) born on 2-1-1905 in Tivoli, Rome, Italy expired 4-22-1989 in Lafayette, California   age 84 AKS: Segre

Carrozzeria Ghia owner/stylist  Luigi Segre   co-designed the VW Karmann-Ghia sportscar expired ??-??-1963   age 44

guitarist  Compay Segundo ¤ real name: Máximo Francisco Repilado Muñoz  born on 11-18-1907 in Siboney, Cuba expired 7-13-2003 in Havana, Cuba   age 95   cause: kidney failure    Contest Selectors 2003 JL 5.6%    Scored 5.5000 solo points AKS: Maximo Munoz

rubber industrialist  Frank A. Seiberling   founder of Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. & president (1898-21) born on 10-6-1859 in Western Star, Ohio expired 8-11-1955 in Akron, Ohio   age 95

developer  Peter Werner Seibert Sr.   built Vail Ski Resort born on 8-7-1924 in Sharon, Massachusetts expired 7-15-2002 in Edwards, Colorado   age 77   cause: cancer

Milwaukee mayor (1910-12)  Emil Seidel   Eugene Debs' vice presidential running mate in 1912 expired 6-24-1947 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin   age 82   cause: heart attack

Jaroslav Seifert   Nobel literature laureate for 1984 born on 9-23-1901 in Zizkov, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary expired 1-10-1986 in Prague, Czechoslovakia   age 84

Delaware judge  Collins Jacques Seitz   many elements of his 1951 ruling to end segregation of local schools were cited in the 1954 Brown v. Topeka Board of Education Supreme Court ruling born on 6-20-1914 expired 10-16-1998 in Wilmington, Delaware   age 84

solid-state physicist  Frederick Seitz   co-inventor of the Wigner-Seitz unit cell; doesn't believe that chloro-fluoro-carbons are depleting the ozone layer born on 7-4-1911 in San Francisco, California expired 3-2-2008 in Manhattan, New York, New York   age 96

Lucius Aelius Sejanus   Tiberius' chief of staff/head administrator of Roman Empire expired 10-18-31 in Rome, Italy   age ??   cause: executed

225th Ethiopian Emperor  Haile Selassie I   succeeded Menelik II as last emperor of the 3000-year old Ethiopian monarchy; "direct descendant" of Menelik I, son of Solomon & Sheeba (Makeda) ¤ born: Lij Tafari Makonnen  born on 7-23-1892 in Ejarsa Gora, Ethiopia expired 8-27-1975 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia   age 83   cause: prostate cancer

Prince  Sahle Selassie   son of Emperor Haile expired 4-23-1962 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia   age 31

journalist  George Henry Seldes born on 11-16-1890 in Alliance, New Jersey expired 7-2-1995 in Windsor, Vermont   age 104

libertarian economist  Arthur Seldon   the impetus behind Margaret Thatcher's privatization binge in Britain born on 5-29-1916 in London, England expired 10-11-2005 in Godden Green, Kent, England   age 89

Karolj Seles   Monica's father born on 2-3-1933 expired 5-14-1998 in Sarasota, Florida   age 65   cause: stomach cancer

pioneering U.S. military pilot  Thomas Etholen Selfridge   first fatality of a powered aircraft (his co-pilot, Orville Wright, was seriously injured); namesake of former Michigan Air Force base born on 2-8-1882 in San Francisco, California expired 9-17-1908 in Fort Meyer, Virginia   age 26   cause: plane crash

San Fernando Valley real estate developer  Robert D. Selleck   father of Tom born on 12-27-1921 in Lapeer, Michigan expired 3-21-2001 in Los Angeles, California   age 79   cause: complications during surgery

writer  Connie L. Sellers born on 3-1-1922 expired 2-2-1992   age 69

Hefner business partner  Eldon B. Sellers   co-founded Playboy Magazine with him; when Stag magazine threatened legal action over the proposed magazine name Stag Party Sellers' mother proposed the name Playboy as an alternative (she had worked for a business, Playboy Automotive) born on 9-21-1921 expired 12-9-2000 in Clarksville, Mississippi   age

actor/comedian  Peter Sellers   notable characters include: Dr. Strangelove, President Merkin Muffly and Group Captain Lionel Mandrake (in Dr. Stangelove), Inspector Clouseau (Pink Panther movies) and Tully Bascomb (Mouse That ... movies); one of the BBC's original Goons; appeared on cover of April 1964 Playboy ¤ born: Richard Henry Peter Sellers  born on 9-8-1925 in Portsmouth, Hampshire, England expired 7-23-1980   age 54   cause: heart attack    Contest Selectors 1979 JW, VM 15.4% 1980 EK, HP, JW 6.3%    Scored 4.6000 points

character actor  Milton Selzer   played Abe Werkfinder on the short-lived Famous Teddy Z sitcom (1989-90) born on 10-25-1918 in Lowell, Massachusetts expired 10-21-2006 in Oxnard, California   age 88   cause: pulmonary complications; stroke AKS: Seltzer

movie producer  David Oliver Selznick   founder of Selznick International Pictures; made Gone With The Wind (1939); second husband of Jennifer Jones born on 5-10-1902 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania expired 6-22-1965 in Hollywood, California   age 63   cause: acute coronary occlusion

New York filmmaker  Lewis J. Selznick   founded Selznick Pictures in New York; father of David ¤ born: Lewis Zeleznik  born on 5-2-1870 in Kiev, Ukraine, Russia expired 1-25-1933 in Los Angeles, California   age 62

actor's agent  Myron Selznick   brother of David born on 10-5-1898 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania expired 3-23-1944 in Santa Monica, California   age 45   cause: portal thrombosis

Nikolai Nikolaevic Semenov   shared the 1956 Nobel prize in chemistry born on 4-15-1896 in Saratov, Russia expired 9-25-1986 in Moscow, Russia, USSR   age 90 AKS: Nikolay Nikolaevich Semyonov

former KGB chief (1961-67)  Vladimir Yefimovich Semichastny born on --1924 expired 1-12-2001 in Moscow, Russia   age 76   cause: stroke

gynecologist & engineer Dr.  Kurt Karl Stephan Semm   founder of laparoscopic surgery born on 3-23-1927 in München, Germany expired 7-16-2003 in Tucson, Airzona   age 76   cause: complications from Parkinson's disease AKS: laproscopic

B.F. Goodrich polymer chemist  Waldo Lonsbury Semon   invented PVC (1928) & bubble gum born on 9-10-1898 in Demopolis, Alabama expired 5-26-1999 in Hudson, Ohio   age 100

former Catholic social worker  Irena Sendlerowa   during World War II was a member of Zegota, a secret underground organization dedicated to getting Jewish children to safety — as head of their Children's Division succeeded in getting 2,500 out of the Wasaw Ghetto before being arrested by the Gestapo (October 1943), tortured (legs & feet crushed) and scheduled for execution (the executioner was bribed and she was snuck out of prison & hid for the remainder of the war); subject of play "Life in a Jar" (she had written down the Jewish names of the children that she had rescued so that after the war the gnetile families with whom they were placed could reunited the children with their families — the name ledgers were hidden in buried jars); her story only came out susequent to the fall of communism in Poland because the anti-semitic Polish communist party considered her a facist for saving Jews during the war, so she received no recognition for her acts of heroism for a half-century; awarded the order of the White Eagle by the Polish senate & declared a Righteous Gentile by the state of Israel; had been nominated for the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize but lost in triple overtime to a fat-assed political hack ¤ née: Krzyzanowska aka: Sendler code name: Jolanta  born on 2-15-1910 in Otwock, Russian Empire expired 5-12-2008 in Warszawa, Poland   age 98   cause: pneumonia    Contest Selectors 2008 RR 3.1%    Scored 5.2000 solo points

poet  Léopold Sédar Senghor   first president of the Republic of Senegal (1960-80) born on 10-9-1906 in Joal, Senegal expired 12-20-2001 in Verson, Normandy, France   age 95   cause: cardiac failure

newspaperman  John Herman Henry Sengstacke   succeeded his uncle as publisher of the Chicago Defender (1940-97) born on 11-25-1912 in Savannah, Georgia expired 5-28-1997 in Chicago, Illinois   age 84

Brazilian auto racer  Ayrton Senna born on 3-21-1960 in São Paulo, Brazil expired 5-1-1994 in Imola, Italy   age 34

early movie comedy producer & director  Mack Sennett   made a bunch of Keystone Kops shorts ¤ born: Mikall Sinnott  born on 1-17-1880 in Richmond, Eastern Township, Quebec, Canada expired 11-5-1960 in Woodland Hills, California   age 80

Dr.  Fritz Sennheiser   founded the audio equipment company that bears his name (1945) born on 5-9-1912 in Berlin, German Empire expired 5-17-2010 in Wedemark, Germany   age 98

Mensa leader  Victor Serebriakoff born on 10-17-1912 expired 1-1-2000 in Blackheath, England   age 87

pianist  Rudolf Serkin born on 3-28-1903 in Eger, Bohemia expired 5-8-1991 in Guilford, Vermont   age 88    Contest Selectors 1980 GP 6.3%

television writer  Rod Serling   wrote Requiem for a Heavyweight (for which he received an Emmy & Peabody Award); created The Twilight Zone tv series (1959-64) born on 12-25-1924 in Syracuse, New York expired 6-28-1975 in Rochester, New York   age 50   cause: complications from open-heart surgery AKS: Sterling

Klondike ballad singer & poet  Robert W. Service   wrote The Shooting of Dan McGrew expired 9-11-1958 in Lancieux, France   age 84

former reporter  Clifton Farr "Cliff" Sessions   a former UPI reporter & bureau manager in Jackson, Mississippi (1957-64); he covered most of the major civil rights cases of that era; a personal friend of the Evers family; a co-founder of the National Journal (1969) born on 9-26-1931 in Bolton, Mississippi expired 12-24-2005 in Biloxi, Mississippi   age 74   cause: complications from Parkinson's disease

character actress  Almira Sessions   first film: The Sultan of Sulu (1909); last film: Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex But Were Afraid to Ask (1972) expired 8-3-1974 in Los Angeles, California   age 85

composer  Roger Huntington Sessions born on 12-28-1896 in Brooklyn, New York, New York expired 3-18-1985 in Princeton, New Jersey   age 88   cause: pneumonia; stroke    Contest Selectors 1980 GP 6.3%

author  Anya Seton ¤ born: Ann Seton  born on 1-23-1906 in New York, New York expired 11-8-1990 in Old Greenwich, Connecticut   age 84

Saint  Elizabeth Ann Bayley Seton   canonized in 1975; namesake of Seton Hall University born on 8-28-1774 in New York, New York expired 1-4-1821 in Emmitsburg, Maryland   age 46

author & explorer  Grace Gallatin Thompson Seton   co-founded the Campfire Girls in 1910; mother of Anya expired 3-19-1959 in Palm Beach, Florida   age 83

1933 Miss America  Marian R. Bergeron Setzer born on 5-3-1918 expired 10-22-2002 in Dayton, Ohio   age 84 AKS: Marion

dancer/actress  Pilar Seurat   played murder victim Sybo on original Star Trek series episode Wolf in the Fold (1966); mother of Dean Devlin ¤ born: Rita Hernandez  born on 7-25-1938 in Philippines expired 6-2-2001 in Los Angeles, California   age 62   cause: lung cancer

CBS newsman  Arnold Eric Sevareid   one of "Murrow's Boys" born on 11-26-1912 in Velva, North Dakota expired 7-9-1992 in Washington, District of Columbia   age 79    Contest Selectors 1979 DW, JH, MM, MS, RR, VM, YJ 53.8% 1980 DW, VA 12.5% AKS: Severeid Sevaried Severied

Chipmunks creator  David Seville   provided the "voices" of Theodore, Simon and Alvin ¤ real name: Ross S. Bagdasarian  born on 1-27-1919 in Fresno, California expired 1-16-1972 in Beverly Hills, California   age 52

author  Anna Sewell   wrote Black Beauty (1877) born on 3-30-1820 in Yarmouth, England expired 4-25-1878 in Norwich, Norfolk, England   age 58

1993 dual lung lobe transplant recipient  Stacy Sewell born on 4-1-1971 expired 4-1-1995   age 24

1967 Pulitzer Prize-winning poet  Anne Harvey Sexton   the focus of her work: anguish; breakdown; death; our kind of writer born on 11-9-1928 in Newton, Massachusetts expired 10-4-1974 in Weston, Massachusetts   age 45   cause: suicide; carbon monoxide poisoning; idling car in closed garage

electronic publishing pioneer  John W. Seybold   founded ROCAPPI (Research on Computer Applications in the Printing and Publishing Industries) to develop techniques for the creation, editing, & formatting of electronic documents; first to use the phrase "what you see is what you get" in reference to electronic document creation (his inspiration was Flip Wilson's Geraldine character) — WYSIWYG;co-founder of the Seybold Report (1971); father of a bunch of computing experts: Jonathan, Andrew & Patricia born on 3-8-1916 expired 3-14-2004 in Haverford, Pennsylvania   age 88   cause: heart failure

Broadway/radio/tv/movie character actress  Anne Seymour   portrayed FDR's mother in the Broadway production of Sunrise at Campobello (1958); in her final performance she played Chisholm, Minnesota newspaper editor/publisher Veda Ponikvar in Field of Dreams (1989) ¤ born: Anne Eckert  born on 9-11-1909 in New York, New York expired 12-8-1988 in Los Angeles, California   age 79   cause: heart failure

royal consort of Henry VIII (1536-37)  Jane Seymour   wife number three; mother of Edward VI born on --1505 expired 10-24-1537 in Hampton Court, England   age 32   cause: septicemia; complications from childbirth

movie & tv actress  Jane Seymour ¤ real name: Jane Lair  expired 1-29-1956 in New York, New York   age 57

personal computer writer  Rogers James "Jim" Seymour   founding editor in chief of PC Computing magazine (1988) born on 5-17-1942 in Texas expired 10-8-2002 in Austin, Texas   age 60   cause: complications from gall bladder surgery

Samuel James Seymour   last living witness to the assassination of Abraham Lincoln expired 4-13-1956 in Baltimore, Maryland   age 96

Betty Shabazz   widow of Malcolm X ¤ born: Betty Sanders  born on 5-28-1936 in Detroit, Michigan expired 6-23-1997 in New York, New York   age 61   cause: infection following severe burns

Antarctic explorer  Ernest Shackleton   master of the H.M.S. Endurance and Quest; noted for his disasterous 1914-16 Antarctic expedition, recounted in the documentary South (1919) born on 2-15-1874 in Kilkeahous, County Kildare, Ireland expired 1-5-1922 in Grytviken, South Georgia   age 47   cause: heart attack

journalist  Willard F. "Bill" Shadel   was the editor of the NRA publication American Rifleman at the start of World War II; went to Europe where he met Edward R. Murrow and joined CBS Radio; he covered D-Day from aboard a Navy ship, standing next to "Wild Bill" Donovan; with Murrow were the fist reporters to reach the Buchenwald concentration camp (1945); he later joined ABC News where he was a co-anchor of the evening news; he was the moderator of the third Nixon/Kennedy presidential debate (1960) born on 7-31-1908 in Milton, Wisconsin expired 1-29-2005 in Renton, Washington   age 96   cause: prostate cancer

Michigan representative (1937-54)  Paul Werntz Shafer   NOT the Letterman Show band leader born on 4-27-1893 in Elkhart, Indiana expired 8-17-1954 in Washington, District of Columbia   age 61

playwright  Anthony Joshua Shaffer   brother of Peter Shaffer; wrote stage play Sleuth (1970) & screenplay for Frenzy (1972) born on 5-15-1926 in Liverpool, England expired 11-6-2001 in London, England   age 75   cause: heart attack

Mughul emperor of India (1628-58)  Shah Jahan   directed construction of the Taj Mahal born on 1-5-1592 in Lahore, India expired 1-22-1666 in Agra, India   age 74

World War II-era nurse  Edith Cullen Shain   on August 15, 1945 (VJ-Day) photographer Alfred Eisenstadt was in Times Square when victory over Japan was announced — he snapped the famous Life Magazine photo of a sailor kissing a woman (subsequently identified by Eisenstadt as Shain) born on 7-21-1918 in Tarrytown, New York expired 6-20-2010 in Los Angeles, California   age 91    Contest Selectors 2010 PCD 3.7%    Scored 5.9000 solo points

playwright  William Shakespeare   partner in the Globe Theater in London ¤ aka: "The Bard of Avon"  born on 4-23-1564 in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, England expired 4-23-1616 in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, England   age 52

rap "artist"  Tupac Amaru Shakur ¤ Caput Rukahs? born: Lesane Parish Crooks  born on 6-16-1971 in New York, New York expired 9-13-1996 in Las Vegas, Nevada   age 25   cause: gunshot wounds

teachers union bigwig  Albert Shanker   butt of several Woody Allen jokes born on 9-14-1928 in New York, New York expired 2-22-1997 in New York, New York   age 68   cause: bladder cancer

MIT mathematics & computer science professor Dr.  Claude Elwood Shannon   his masters thesis spelled out the basics for today's digital communications networks; it contained the first known use of the term "bit"; while working at Bell Labs (1941-71) he wrote "A Mathematical Theory of Communication" (1948) born on 4-30-1916 in Petoskey, Michigan expired 2-24-2001 in Medford, Massachusetts   age 84   cause: complications from Alzheimer's disease

1961 rock hit Runaway singer  Del Shannon ¤ real name: Charles Westover  born on 12-30-1934 in Coopersville, Michigan expired 2-8-1990 in Santa Clarita, California   age 55   cause: suicide

poet  Karl Jay Shapiro   won 1945 Pulitzer prize ¤ born: Carl Jay Shapiro  born on 11-10-1913 in Baltimore, Maryland expired 5-14-2000 in New York, New York   age 86   cause: cancer

Harvard astronomer  Harlow Shapley   studied the Milky Way Galaxy born on 11-2-1885 expired 10-20-1972 in Boulder, Colorado   age 86

radio/tv announcer  Delbert E. Sharbutt   announcer on Your Hit Parade & Who Do You Trust?; first to tout Campbell's Soup by saying "Mmm, Mmm, Good"; wrote theme song for the Bob Cummings Show ("A Romantic Guy, I") born on 2-16-1912 in Cleburne, Texas expired 4-26-2002 in Palm Desert, California   age 90

Iranian Ayatollah  Haj Sayed Kazem Shariet-Madari   contended with Khomeini for power & lost — was under house arrest until he died born on --1905 in Tabriz, Persia expired 4-3-1986 in Tehran, Iran   age 80    Contest Selectors 1980 DW, EK, HA, MM, RR 31.3%

former boxer  Jack Sharkey ¤ born: Joseph Paul Zukauskas  born on 10-6-1902 in Binghamton, New York expired 8-17-1994   age 91

actor  Ray Sharkey born on 11-14-1952 in New York, New York expired 6-11-1993 in New York, New York   age 40

1890s heavyweight boxer  Thomas Joseph Sharkey ¤ nickname: "Sailor Tom"  expired 4-17-1953 in San Francisco, California   age 79

former Indian president (1992-97)  Shankar Dayal Sharma born on 8-19-1918 in Bhopal, Madhya Predesh, India expired 12-26-1999 in New Delhi, India   age 81

Ocoee (TN) daredevil  Jessie W. Sharp   thirteenth person to go over Niagara Falls as a stunt (June 5, 1990; in a plastic kayak); he didn't wear a helmet (would have obscurred his face for the publicity pictures) nor a life vest expired 6-5-1990 in Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada   age 28   cause: drowned

tool company co-founder  Walter Benona Sharp born on 12-12-1870 in Tipton County, Tennessee expired 11-28-1912   age 41

Zerna A. Sharp   created the Dick and Jane reading textbook concept born on 8-12-1889 in Hillisburg, Indiana expired 6-17-1981 in Frankfort, Indiana   age 91

Nerine E. Kidd Shatner   third wife of William Shatner born on 7-13-1959 expired 8-9-1999 in Hollywood Hills, California   age 40   cause: drowned after breaking neck falling into pool while drunk

tv writer  Alfred James Shaughnessy   was script editor & principal writer of the Upstairs, Downstairs series; father of actor Charles Shaughnessy born on 5-19-1916 in London, England expired 11-2-2005 in Plymouth, England   age 89

jazz trumpeter  Charles James "Charlie" Shavers born on 8-3-1917 in New York, New York expired 7-8-1971 in New York, New York   age 53

jazz clarinetist & bandleader  Artie Shaw   had 1938 hit with "Begin the Beguine"; his eight ex-wives include were: Margaret Allen, Jane Carns, Lana Turner (2/3-9/12/1940), Elizabeth Kern (daughter of Jerome), Ava Gardner (10/1945-10/1946), Kathleen Winsor (1946-48), Doris Dowling (1952-56) & Evelyn Keyes (1957-85) ¤ born: Arthur Jacob Arshawsky  born on 5-23-1910 in New York, New York expired 12-30-2004 in Newbury Park, California   age 94    Contest Selectors 2002 JAC 9.1% 2003 JEDS, PCD 11.1% 2004 BOD, MJ, PCD 16.7%    Scored 3.7250 points 2005 BOD, SLIM, SPIT, TBC, TMD, WORM

jazz bassist  Arvell James Shaw   played with Louis Armstrong's Orchestra and later with his septet born on 9-15-1923 in Saint Louis, Missouri expired 12-5-2002 in Roosevelt, New York   age 79   cause: heart attack

New Orleans businessman  Clay Lavergne Shaw   accused by District Attorney Garrison of plotting to assassinate JFK; acquitted in 1969 trial born on 3-17-1913 in Kentwood, Tangipahoa Parish, Louisiana expired 8-15-1974 in New Orleans, Louisiana   age 61   cause: cancer

playwright  George Bernard Shaw   received the 1925 Nobel Prize for Literature; wrote Pygmalion (basis for My Fair Lady), Saint Joan and Major Barbara born on 7-26-1856 in Dublin, Ireland expired 11-2-1950 in Ayot Saint Lawrence, Hertfordshire, England   age 94

author  Irwin Shaw born on 2-27-1913 in New York, New York expired 5-16-1984 in Davos, Switzerland   age 71    Contest Selectors 1980 BD 6.3%

Webb, Mississippi farmer  James A. Shaw Jr.   one of the jurors in the "trial" of J.W. Milam & Roy Bryant for the murder of Emmett Till born on --1924 expired ??-??-1979 in Mississippi   age 55

marginal actress  Janet Shaw   her big moment: as Molly Allen in Jezebel (1938); more indicative of her career: as the Vigin Goddess in Prehistoric Women (1950) ¤ born: Ellen Martha Clancy Stuart  born on 1-23-1919 in Beatrice, Nebraska expired 10-15-2001 in Beatrice, Nebraska   age 82   cause: complications from Alzheimer's disease

Harvard professor (1918-40) Dr.  Louis Agassiz Shaw   co-inventor of the Drinker Respirator, forerunner of the Iron Lung; an expert on "the bends" expired 8-27-1940 in Boston, Massachusetts   age 54

producer  Peter Shaw   husband of Angela Lansbury born on 1-24-1918 in Reading, England expired 1-29-2003 in Beverly Hills, California   age 84   cause: congestive heart failure

Emmy-winning tv writer  Robert J. Shaw   conceived the "Who Shot J.R." episode of Dallas born on 11-17-1917 in Wisconsin expired 3-30-1996 in West Hollywood, California   age 79   cause: heart failure

actor  Robert L. Shaw   appeared in A Man for All Seasons, The Sting, Jaws and From Russia With Love; widower of Mary Ure born on 8-9-1927 in Westhoughton, Lancaashire, England expired 8-28-1978 in Tourmakeady, Ireland   age 51   cause: heart attack

choral director  Robert Lawson Shaw born on 4-30-1916 in Red Bluff, California expired 1-25-1999 in New Haven, Connecticut   age 82   cause: stroke

Michigan State College president (1928-41)  Robert S. Shaw   replaced by his son-in-law born on --1871 in Wentworth, Ontario, Canada expired 2-7-1953 in East Lansing, Michigan   age 81

singer/actress  Wini Shaw   sang the Lullaby of Broadway in Gold Diggers of 1935 ¤ born: Winifred Lei Mumi  born on 2-25-1910 in San Francisco, California expired 5-2-1982   age 72

British Lord  Hartley William Shawcross   cheif British prosecutor at the Nuremberg war crimes trials ¤ title: Lord Shawcross of Friston  born on 2-2-1902 in Giessen, Germany expired 7-10-2003 in Cowbeach, England   age 101    Contest Selectors 2003 JL 5.6%    Scored 4.9000 solo points

1920s Yankees pitcher  Robert John "Bob" Shawkey   succeeded Miller Huggins as manager of the Yankees (for 1 season, 1930) born on 12-4-1890 in Segal, Pennsylvania expired 12-31-1980 in Syracuse, New York   age 90

actor  Dick Shawn   played Sylvester Marcus in Its a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963) and Lorenzo St. Dubois (LSD) in The Producers (1968) "That's Our Hitler!!!" ¤ born: Richard Schulefand  born on 12-1-1929 in Buffalo, New York expired 4-17-1987 in La Jolla, California   age 57   cause: heart attack

New Yorker editor (1952-87)  William Shawn   father of Wallace born on 8-31-1907 in Chicago, Illinois expired 12-8-1992 in New York, New York   age 85

actor  Robert Shayne ¤ born: Robert Shaen Dawe  born on 10-4-1900 in Yonkers, New York expired 11-29-1992 in Woodland Hills, California   age 92   cause: lung cancer

third Israeli president (1963-73)  Zalman Shazar ¤ born: Schneor Zalman Rubashov  born on 10-6-1889 in Mir, Russia expired 10-5-1974 in Jerusalem, Israel   age 84

Spahn Ranch ranch hand  Donald Jerome "Shorty" Shea   somehow pissed-off the Manson Family following the Helter Skelter Murders; body wasn't found until December of 1977 born on 9-18-1933 in Massachusetts expired 8-28-1969 in Spahn Ranch, California   age 35   cause: stabbed to death

1932 Olympic gold medal speedskater  John Amos "Jack" Shea born on 9-7-1910 in Lake Placid, New York expired 1-22-2002 in Saranac Lake, New York   age 91   cause: car hit by drunk driver

former Massachusetts state senator  John F. Shea   1906/08 Notre Dame graduate; wrote lyrics to the Notre Dame Victory March (to brother's music) born on --1885 expired 10-24-1965 in Holyoke, Massachusetts   age 80

Sing Sing prison chaplain Rev.  Michael J. Shea   also pastor of Ossining (New York) St. Augustine's Church; 1905 Notre Dame graduate; wrote music to the Notre Dame Victory March (to brother's lyrics) born on --1883 expired 8-19-1938 in Ossining, New York   age 55   cause: heart attack

Author  Robert Joseph Shea   a former associate editor at Playboy (1966-71); was co-author of Illuminatus! trilogy born on 2-14-1933 expired 3-10-1994   age 61   cause: colon cancer

lawyer  William Alfred Shea   namesake of New York Mets baseball stadium born on 6-21-1907 in New York, New York expired 10-2-1991 in New York, New York   age 84

movie sound recording pioneer  Douglas Shearer   won a dozen Academy Awards born on 11-17-1899 expired 1-5-1971 in Culver City, California   age 71

columnist  Lloyd Shearer   wrote Parade Magazine "Personality Parade" under pseudonym Walter Scott (1958-91) born on 12-20-1916 in New York, New York expired 5-24-2001 in Los Angeles, California   age 84   cause: heart attack; Parkinson's disease

ballerina  Moira Shearer   starred in The Red Shoes (1948) ¤ born: Moira Shearer King  born on 1-17-1926 in Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland expired 1-31-2006 in Oxford, Oxfordshire, England   age 80

actress  Norma Shearer   Mrs. Irving Thalberg born on 8-10-1900 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada expired 6-13-1983 in Woodland Hills, California   age 81

science fiction writer  Robert Sheckley   his short story Seventh Victim (published in "Galaxy" in 1953) was made into La Decima Vittima (The Tenth Victim; 1965); wrote the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine book "The Laertian Gamble" born on 7-16-1928 in Brooklyn, New York, New York expired 12-9-2005 in Poughkeepsie, New York   age 77   cause: complications from brain aneurysm

SeaWorld co-founder  Milton C. Shedd born on 9-26-1922 in El Paso, Texas expired 5-24-2002 in Newport Beach, California   age 79   cause: cancer

Playboy October 1958 co-Playmate of Month  Patricia Ann Sheehan   married Dennis Michael Crosby & had three kids by him; was the mother-in-law of Spice Williams born on 9-7-1931 in San Francisco, California expired 1-14-2006 in Beverly Hills, California   age 74   cause: heart attack; cancer

movie producer  Winfield R. Sheehan   a co-founder of Fox Film Corp. expired 7-25-1945 in Hollywood, California   age 61

teenage songwriter  Sharon K. Sheeley   girlfriend of Eddie Cochran; wrote Poor Little Fool (1958) born on 4-4-1940 in Los Angeles, California expired 5-17-2002 in Sherman Oaks, California   age 62   cause: complications following cerebral hemorrhage

Archbishop  Fulton John Sheen   as a youth was enrolled in school under mother's maiden name (Delia) Fulton; it stuck ¤ christened Peter John Sheen  born on 5-8-1895 in El Paso, Illinois expired 12-9-1979 in New York, New York   age 84   cause: heart disease    Contest Selectors 1979 HA  7.7%    Scored 4 solo points

Albanian prime minister (1954-81)  Mehmet Shehu born on 1-10-1913 expired 12-17-1981 in Tirana, Albania   age 68   cause: suicide; gunshot to head; nervous breakdown

outspoken/argumentative politician  Chandra Shekar   was a former prime minister of India (1990-91) born on 7-1-1927 in Ibrahimpatti Village, Bellia District, Uttar Pradesh State, British India expired 7-8-2007 in New Delhi, India   age 80   cause: cancer

actress  Addie Oakley Sheldon   divorced from composer Lindsay McPhail (1932); second husband was Fatty Arbuckle (his 3rd wife); worked as a volunteer nurse at the Motion Picture Home ¤ née: Dukes  born on 7-15-1905 in White Plains, Kentucky expired 4-14-2003 in Canoga Park, California   age 97

ill-fated sailor  Christopher Barrows Sheldon   his twin-masted sailing vessel, the Albatross, was sunk in a freak storm west of Key West (5-2-1961) - the story became the basis of the movie White Squall (1996) born on 10-12-1926 in New York, New York expired 10-5-2002 in Stamford, Connecticut   age 76   cause: pancreatic cancer

character actor  Gene Sheldon   played Hap Hazard in Lucky to Me (1939) & Bernardo in the Zorro tv series ¤ born: Eugene Hume  born on 2-1-1908 in Columbus, Ohio expired 5-1-1982 in Tarzana, California   age 74   cause: heart attack

author  Sidney Sheldon   received an oscar for Best Original Screenplay for The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer (1947); created The Patty Duke Show & I Dream of Jeannie born on 2-11-1917 in Chicago, Illinois expired 1-30-2007 in Rancho Mirage, California   age 89   cause: complications from pneumonia

author  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley   wife of Percy; wrote Frankenstein: A Modern Prometheus (1818) born on 8-30-1797 in London, England expired 2-1-1851 in Bournemouth, Dorsetshire, England   age 53

poet  Percy Bysshe Shelley   husband of Mary; wrote Prometheus Unbound (1820) born on 8-4-1792 in Field Place, England expired 7-8-1822 in Viareggio, Italy   age 29   cause: drowned

actor  Reid Shelton   played Daddy Warbucks in original Broadway cast of Annie born on 10-7-1924 in Salem, Oregon expired 6-8-1997 in Portland, Oregon   age 72   cause: strokes

former KKK Imperial Wizard  Robert Marvin Shelton   interviewed for August 1965 Playboy magazine born on 6-12-1929 in Tuscaloosa, Alabama expired 3-17-2003 in Tuscaloosa, Alabama   age 73   cause: heart attack

movie producer  Walter Shenson   made The Mouse That Roared (1959), A Hard Day's Night (1964) and Help (1959) born on 6-22-1919 in San Francisco, California expired 10-17-2000 in Woodland Hills, California   age 81   cause: complications from stroke

Freedom 7 and Apollo 14 astronaut  Alan Bartlett Shepard Jr.   first American in space; first golfer on the moon (sent a couple of balls into the next crater with a six iron) born on 11-18-1923 in East Derry, New Hampshire expired 7-21-1998 in Pebble Beach, California   age 74   cause: leukemia

entrepreneur  David Hammond Shepard   after his parents died became the ward of organ-maker Laurens Hammond; came up with first practical optical character recognition device (the Scandex) to read the numbers on a credit card — to that end he created the font still used on those cards (called Farrington B) born on 9-30-1923 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin expired 11-24-2007 in San Diego, California   age 84   cause: bronchiectasis

illustrator  Ernest Howard Shepard   did illustrations for Winnie the Pooh (1926) & The Wind in the Willows (1908); father of illustrator Mary born on 12-10-1879 in London, England expired 3-24-1976 in Lodsworth, England   age 96

illustrator  Mary Eleanor Jessie Shepard   illustrated Mary Poppins books (1933-88); daughter of E.H. Shepard ¤ Mrs. Mary Knox  born on 12-25-1909 expired 9-4-2000 in London, England   age 90

author & raconteur  Jean Parker Shepherd   co-wrote screenplay for A Christmas Story (1983), an adaptation of his 1966 story Red Ryder Nails the Cleveland Street Kid born on 7-21-1921 in Chicago, Indiana expired 10-16-1999 in Sanibel Island, Florida   age 78   cause: "natural causes"

inventor  John Adrian SHepherd-Barron   came up with the idea for the ATM; first withdrawl came from a Barclay's Bank branch in London (1967) born on 6-23-1925 in Shillong, Assam, India expired 5-15-2010 in Inverness, Inverness-shire, Scotland   age 84

film director, author, photographer  Gordon Sheppard   directed/co-produced the 1962 documentary short subject The Most about Hugh Hefner (Dudley Moore scored & performed the film's music) & the feature Eliza's Horoscope (1976); briefly married to the first Playboy Playmate of the Year born on 4-9-1937 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada expired 2-19-2006 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada   age 68   cause: prostate cancer

retired NY Yankees & Giants public address announcer  Robert Leo "Bob" Sheppard born on 10-12-1910 in Richmond Hill, Queens, New York expired 7-11-2010 in Baldwin, Long Island, New York   age 99    Contest Selectors 2006 LMLD 3.3% 2007 DFFC, LMLD 6.5% 2008 DFFC, LMLD 6.3% 2009 DFFC, LMLD, PCD 10.0% 2010 DFFC, DTM, LMLD, PCD, RIE 18.5%    Scored 2.7563 points

Dr.  Samuel H. Sheppard   1954 murder of his wife, subsequent trials and tribulations the basis of the tv show and movie The Fugitive born on 11-5-1923 in Fort Sheridan, Illinois expired 4-6-1970 in Columbus, Ohio   age 46   cause: suicide

Alfred Sheridan born on 10-28-1928 expired 1-17-1982   age 53

actress  Ann Sheridan ¤ born: Clara Lou Sheridan nickname: "the Oomph Girl"  born on 2-21-1915 in Denton, Texas expired 1-21-1967 in San Fernando Valley, California   age 51   cause: cancer

pioneering hepatologist Dr.  Sheila Sherlock   authority on liver disease; author of Diseases of the Liver and Biliary System born on 3-31-1918 in Folkestone, England expired 12-30-2001 in London, England   age 83

songwriter  Al Sherman   wrote you've Got To Be A Football Hero; father of songwriting pair Richard M. & Robert B. Sherman born on 9-7-1897 expired 9-15-1973 in Los Angeles, California   age 76

comedy writer & musical parodist  Allan Sherman   won 1963 Grammy for album featuring novelty song Hello Mudduh, Hello Fodduh about his childhood "travails" at Camp Grenada (to music of Ponchielli's Dance of the Hours); co-creator of the I've Got A Secret game show (1952) ¤ born: Allan Sherman Copelon  born on 11-30-1924 in Chicago, Illinois expired 11-20-1973 in Hollywood, California   age 48   cause: respiratory failure; emphysema; asthma; obesity

Taft vice president (1909-12)  James Schoolcraft Sherman born on 10-24-1855 in Utica, New York expired 10-30-1912 in Utica, New York   age 57

movie actor/director  Lowell Sherman   directed Morning Glory (1933) born on 10-11-1885 in San Francisco, California expired 12-28-1934 in Hollywood, California   age 49   cause: pneumonia

movie/tv director  Vincent Sherman   directed Mr. Skeffington (1944) ¤ born: Abraham Orovitz  born on 7-16-1906 in Vienna, Georgia expired 6-18-2006 in Woodland Hills, California   age 99    Contest Selectors 2006 NFG 3.3%    Scored 5.1000 solo points

BBC tv producer  Edward George "Ned" Sherrin   created That Was The Week That Was news satire program (1962-63) — it was hosted by David Frost born on 2-18-1931 in Low Ham, Somerset, England expired 10-1-2007 in London, England   age 76   cause: complications from throat cancer

Sir  Charles Scott Sherrington   shared the 1932 Nobel prize in medicine for discoveries regarding the functions of neurons born on 11-27-1857 in London, England expired 3-4-1952 in Eastbourne, Sussex, England   age 94   cause: heart failure

paint company co-founder (1873)  Henry Alden Sherwin born on 9-27-1842 in Baltimore, Vermont expired 6-26-1916 in Willoughby, Ohio   age 73

Universal Studios staff director  John Sherwood   directed Monolith Monsters (1957) expired 3-26-1959 in New York, New York   age 53

Playboy August 1963 Playmate of Month  Phyllis Sherwood   worked as a bunny for several years at the Miami club ¤ real name: Phyllis Sowicki Mrs. Merrill Spivak  born on 9-30-1937 in Niagara Falls, New York expired 4-16-2007 in Davie, Florida   age 69   cause: lung cancer

playwright  Robert Emmett Sherwood   adapted a MacKinley Kantor novel as The Best Years of Our Lives (1946) born on 4-4-1896 in New Rochelle, New York expired 11-14-1955 in New York, New York   age 59   cause: heart attack

singer  Roberta Sherwood   had hits with Up a Lazy River and You're Nobody 'Til Somebody Loves You; played Mrs. Livingston in The Courtship of Eddie's Father (1963) born on 7-1-1913 expired 7-5-1999 in Sherman Oaks, California   age 86   cause: Alzheimer's disease

opera singer & spy  Shi Pei Pu   was the inspriation for M. Butterfly (play-1988; film-1993); convicted of espionage in France (1986); his "lover", Bernard Boursicot, became a laughing stock expired 6-30-2009 in Paris, Île-de-France, France   age 70

former NY Rangers left wing  Alexandre Dmitri "Alex" Shibicky Sr.   member of the 1940 Stanley Cup-winning team; first player known to use a slap shot in an NHL game born on 5-19-1914 in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada expired 7-9-2005 in South Surrey, British Columbia, Canada   age 91   cause: congestive heart failure

actor  Arthur Shields   brother of Barry Fitzgerald born on 2-15-1896 expired 4-27-1970 in Santa Barbara, California   age 74

author/playwright  Carol Shields   won 1995 Pulitzer prize for The Stone Diaries ¤ née; Warner  born on 6-2-1935 in Oak Park, Illinois expired 7-16-2003 in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada   age 68   cause: complications from breast cancer    Contest Selectors 2003 JL, PCD 11.1%    Scored 6.9500 points

plant breeder  Oved Shifriss   while working at Burpee seeds developed numerous varieties of cucumbers, eggplants, muskmelon & watermelon; his big achievement was the "Big Boy" tomato (1949) born on 10-31-1914 in Ein Ganeem, Palestine expired 6-25-2004 in Bloomington, Indiana   age 89   cause: congestive heart failure

journalist  Randy Martin Shilts   author of "And the Band Played On" born on 8-8-1951 in Davenport, Iowa expired 2-14-1994 in Guerneville, California   age 42   cause: AIDS

former Hyde, England doctor  Harold Shipman   betweem 1975 and 1998 did-in more than 215 patients with morphine born on 1-14-1946 expired 1-13-2004 in Wakefield, England   age 57   cause: suicide; hanged

bit-part actress  Helen Shipman   second wife of Robert Keith; mother of Brian born on 2-5-1901 expired 4-??-1984 in Casleton, Virginia   age 83

perfume salesman  Barry Shipp   patented & marketed Jovan Musk born on 5-1-1937 in Paterson, New Jersey expired 9-6-1999 in Chicago, Illinois   age 62   cause: heart attack

Ice Follies co-founder (1936)  Eddie H. Shipstad   older brother of Roy born on 2-16-1907 expired 8-20-1998 in Los Angeles, California   age 91

Roy Shipstad   younger brother of Eddie born on 2-12-1910 expired 1-20-1975 in Palo Alto, California   age 64

Minnesota senator (1922-46)  Henrik Shipstead   one of only two senators to vote against the United Nations treaty born on 1-8-1881 in Burbank, Minnesota expired 6-26-1960 in Alexandria, Minnesota   age 79

CBS correspondent & historian  William Lawrence Shirer   one of "Murrow's Boys"; author of The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich; blacklisted by McCarthy for supporting the Hollywood Ten born on 2-23-1904 in Chicago, Illinois expired 12-28-1993 in Boston, Massachusetts   age 89    Contest Selectors 1980 GP 6.3%

actress  Anne Shirley   child actress under the name Dawn O'Day ¤ born: Dawn Evelyeen Paris  born on 4-17-1918 in New York, New York expired 7-6-1993 in Los Angeles, California   age 74

Japanese feminist  Shizue Kato born on 3-2-1897 in Tokyo, Japan expired 12-22-2001   age 104

astronomer  Iosif Samvilovitch Shklovski   wrote Intelligent Life in the Universe (1966) born on 7-1-1916 in Glukhov, Russia expired 3-6-1985 in Moscow, Russia, USSR   age 68

1956 Nobel physics co-laureate  William Bradford Shockley   co-discoverer of the semiconductor (transistor) born on 2-13-1910 in London, England expired 8-12-1989 in Palo Alto, California   age 79    Contest Selectors 1979 HP 7.7%

Floral City Furniture Co. co-founder (1927)  Edwin John Shoemaker   with his cousin co-invented the reclining lounge chair (La-Z-Boy) born on 1-2-1907 in Monroe, Michigan expired 3-15-1998 in Sun City, Arizona   age 90

U.S. Geological Survey geologist Dr.  Eugene Merle Shoemaker   prodigious finder of comets; namesake of the Shoemaker-Levy 9 comet born on 4-28-1928 in Los Angeles, California expired 7-18-1997 in Alice Springs, Australia   age 69   cause: injuries from car accident

jockey  William Lee "Willie" Shoemaker born on 8-19-1931 in Fabens, Texas expired 10-12-2003 in San Marino, California   age 72

determined World War II Japanese soldier  Shoichi Yokoi   held out in the jungles of Guam until January, 1972 before being captured and returned to face a hero's welcome born on 3-31-1915 in Saori, Aichi Prefecture, Japan expired 9-22-1997 in Tokyo, Japan   age 82

journalist  Christopher Latham Sholes   invented the typewriter (1868) born on 2-14-1819 in Mooresburg, Pennsylvania expired 2-17-1890 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin   age 71

Mikhail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov   was the 1965 recipient of the Nobel prize in literature born on 5-11-1905 in Kruzhlininis, Russia expired 1-21-1984 in Veshenskaya, Russia, USSR   age 78 AKS: "new style" dates: b.5/24/1905 d.2/21/1984

former paratrooper  Dan Shomron   had been Chief of Staff of the Israeli Defense Force (1987-91); commanded the commando raid to rescue hostages at the Entebbe (Uganda) airport -- July3/4, 1976 born on --1937 in a kibbutz, along the Jordan River, near the Sea of Galilee, British Mandate Palestine expired 2-26-2008 in Raanana, Israel   age 70   cause: complications from stroke

noted NYC restauranteur  Bernard "Toots" Shor   a favorite hangout of Jackie Gleason & other well-known drinkers born on 5-6-1903 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania expired 1-22-1977 in New York, New York   age 73   cause: colon cancer

singer & former Burt Reynolds consort  Frances Rose "Dinah" Shore   married to George Montgomery (1943-62) born on 3-1-1917 in Winchester, Tenneessee expired 2-24-1994 in Beverly Hills, California   age 76

aspiring movie actress  Elizabeth Short   liked to party (busted at age 19 for underage drinking); known for wearing sexy all-black outfits; victim of notoriously gruesome murder; subject of 2006 movie ¤ nickname: Beth better known as "The Black Dahlia"  born on 7-29-1924 in Hyde Park, Massachusetts expired 1-15-1947 in Los Angeles, California   age 22   cause: torso bisection

pianist/singer  Robert Waltrip "Bobby" Short born on 9-15-1924 in Danville, Illinois expired 3-21-2005 in New York, New York   age 80   cause: leukemia

Major General  Walter Campbell Short   U.S. Army commander who ignored or downplayed evidence of the impending Japanese attack on Hawaii expired 9-3-1949 in Dallas, Texas   age 69

World War II Navajo code talker  Dooley J. Shorty born on 6-8-1911 in Cornfields, Arizona expired 6-4-2000 in Albuquerque, New Mexico   age 88

composer  Dmitri Shostakovich   wrote numerous symphonies, a score for the Eisenstein film October (1927) and an opera based upon The Gadfly born on 9-25-1906 in Saint Petersburg, Russia expired 8-9-1975 in Kuntsevo, Russia, USSR   age 68   cause: heart ailment AKS: Dimitri

character actor  Max G. Showalter ¤ alternate stage name: Casey Adams  born on 6-2-1917 in Caldwell, Kansas expired 7-30-2000 in Middletown, Connecticut   age 83

attempted presidential assassin  John Flammang Shrank   in 1912 he attempted to kill Teddy Roosevelt in Milwaukee (only winged him); died in Central State Hospital for the Insane expired 9-15-1943 in Waupun, Wisconsin   age 67

British Army ordinance officer  Henry Shrapnel   inventor of projectile that would explode into numerous small (eponymously-named flesh-rending) pieces (around 1804) born on 6-3-1761 in Bradford-on-Avon, England expired 3-13-1842 in Southampton, England   age 80

entertainer  Herbert Arthur "Herb" Shriner   father of Wil and Kin born on 5-28-1918 in Toledo, Ohio expired 4-23-1970 in Delray Beach, Florida   age 51   cause: auto accident

JFK sister  Eunice Mary Shriver   Maria's mom; founded the Special Olympics in tribute to her sister ¤ née: Kennedy  born on 7-10-1921 in Brookline, Massachusetts expired 8-11-2009 in Hyannis, Massachusetts   age 88   cause: complications from strokes    Contest Selectors 2000 TEX 14% 2001 DTM, TEX 25% 2002 DTM, JL 18.2% 2003 MB, OGGI, RAVN 16.7% 2004 LMLD, RAVN, RIE 16.7% 2005 BYE, FA, PCD, RIE, TBC, TMD 26.1% 2006 BYE, DFFC, LMLD, PCD, RAVN, RIE, TFM 23.3% 2007 ANG, BYE, DFFC, DGW, DTM, LMLD, PCD, PUD, RIE, RPRM, TFM 35.5% 2008 BYE, CSI, DFFC, DGW, DTM, LMLD, PCD, RIE, RR, SBAP, TFM, 4GUE 37.5% 2009 ADWC, BOD, BYE, DFFC, DGW, DTM, LMLD, PCD, QKU, RIE, RR, SBAP, TFM 43.3%    Scored 3.7006 points

Jacob J. Shubert   Broadway theater chain co-founder (with John and Lee) born on 8-29-1879 expired 12-26-1963 in New York, New York   age 84

John Shubert   Broadway theater chain co-founder (with Jacob and Lee); died on train's dining car just north of Clearwater expired 11-17-1962 in Clearwater, Florida   age 53   cause: heart attack

Lee Shubert   Broadway theater chain co-founder (with Jacob and John) expired 12-25-1953 in New York, New York   age 78

former National Institute of Justice chemist  Lester Donald Shubin   was the co-developer of Kevlar bulletproof vest/body armor (1970s) born on 9-27-1925 expired 11-20-2009 in Fairfax, Virginia   age 84   cause: heart attack AKS: Schubin Shoebin Schoebin

personal computer hardware pioneer  Alan Field Shugart   credited with inventing the floppy disc while working at IBM (1967); a co-founder of hard drive maker Seagate (1979); promulgated the Small Computer Systems Interface (aka: SCSI) born on 9-27-1930 in Los Angeles, California expired 12-12-2006 in Monterey, California   age 76   cause: complications from heart surgery AKS: Sugart Schugart

submarine designer  Carleton Shugg born on 4-19-1899 expired 1-23-1992   age 92

airline executive  Martin R. Shugrue born on 8-31-1940 in Providence, Rhode Island expired 3-7-1999 in Houston, Texas   age 58   cause: stroke

former MIT professor  Clifford Glenwood Shull   shared 1994 Nobel physics prize for work on neutron scattering born on 9-23-1915 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania expired 3-31-2001 in Medford, Massachusetts   age 85

character actor  Richard B. Shull   played Detective Alexander Holmes on Holmes and Yo-Yo tv series (1976) born on 2-24-1929 expired 10-14-1999 in New York, New York   age 70   cause: heart attack

etymologist  David Shulman   tracked down the origins of thousands of words for the O.E.D. born on 11-12-1912 in New York, New York expired 10-30-2004 in New York, New York   age 91

architectural photographer  Julius Shulman born on 10-10-1910 in Brooklyn, New York, New York expired 7-15-2009 in Los Angeles, California   age 98    Contest Selectors 2009 DGW 3.3%    Scored 5.2000 solo points

Dobie Gillis creator  Max Shulman born on 3-14-1919 in Saint Paul, Minnesota expired 8-28-1988 in Los Angeles, California   age 69

UNC journalism professor  James H. "Jim" Shumaker   inspiration for Treetops Tattler-Tribune "editor" P. Martin Shoemaker character in Shoe cartoon strip born on 10-7-1923 in Winston-Salem, North Carolina expired 12-19-2000 in Chapel Hill, North Carolina   age 77   cause: cancer    Contest Selectors 2001 RR

Titanic survivor  Eleanor Ileen Johnson Shuman born on 9-23-1910 in Saint Charles, Illinois expired 3-7-1998 in Elgin, Illinois   age 87

songwriter/producer  Mort Shuman   co-creator of the musical review Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris born on 11-12-1936 in New York, New York expired 11-3-1991   age 54

former Army Air Corps bomber crewman Sgt.  Robert H. Shumard   assistant flight engineer on the Enola Gay born on 9-7-1920 in Detroit, Michigan expired 4-24-1967 in Allen Park, Michigan   age 46   cause: heart attack

violinist  Oscar Shumsky born on 3-23-1917 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania expired 7-24-2000 in Rye, New York   age 83

retired Stanford University surgeon Dr.  Norman Edward Shumway   performed the U.S.'s first successful heart transplant born on 2-9-1923 in Kalamazoo, Michigan expired 2-10-2006 in Palo Alto, California   age 83   cause: cancer

last Chief Censor of the MPAA (1954-69)  Geoffrey M. Shurlock   succeeded Joseph Breen as Production Code head & stayed until the ratings system was installed born on 8-10-1894 in Liverpool, England expired 4-26-1976 in Woodland Hills, California   age 81

football defensive coach  Leonard Frank "Fritz" Shurmur   nicknamed after grandfather's cocker spaniel born on 7-15-1932 in Wyandotte, Michigan expired 8-30-1999 in Suamico, Wisconsin   age 67   cause: liver cancer

taller half of legendary Canadian comic duo  Frank Shuster   cousin of Superman's co-creator; one-time father-in-law of Lorne Michaels born on 9-5-1916 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada expired 1-13-2002 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada   age 85   cause: pneumonia

Superman co-creator  Joseph "Joe" Shuster born on 7-10-1914 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada expired 7-30-1992 in Los Angeles, California   age 78 AKS: schuster

inventor & novelist  Nevil Shute   wrote On The Beach ¤ real name: Nevil Shute Norway  born on 1-17-1899 in London, England expired 1-12-1960 in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia   age 60

former Somali dictator (1969-91)  Mohammed Siad Barre born on --1912 in Lugh, Somalia expired 1-2-1995 in Lagos, Nigeria   age 83 AKS: Mohamed

Finlandia composer  John Julius Christian "Jean" Sibelius born on 12-8-1865 in Tavastehus, Finland expired 9-20-1957 in Helsinki, Finland   age 91

painter  Walter Richard Sickert   another alleged candidate for Jack the Ripper born on 5-31-1860 in München, Germany expired 1-22-1942 in Bathampton, Somerset, England   age 81

T&A movie director  Andrew "Andy" Sidaris   worked as a director for ABC Sports; choreographed the football game sequence in M*A*S*H (1970); his mostly direct-to-video boobfests are loaded with semi-naked former Playboy playmates; author of "Bullets Bombs and Babes" (a must-read for everyone that subscribes to Playboy for the articles) born on 2-20-1933 in Chicago, Illinois expired 3-7-2007 in Los Angeles, California   age 76   cause: throat cancer

advertising jingle composer  Eric Siday   wrote "Pepsi-Cola hits the spot..." jingle; wrote the Maxwell House Coffee bubbling percolator tune expired 9-25-1976 in New York, New York   age 71   cause: heart attack

Time Magazine contributing editor  Hugh Swanson Sidey born on 9-3-1927 in Greenfield, Iowa expired 11-21-2005 in Paris, France   age 78   cause: heart attack

telecommunications executive  John William Sidgmore   headed UUNet before it was merged with MFS (later acquired by Worldcom); became head of Worldcom after Bernie Ebbers was booted out (2002); lasted about a year (until the bankruptcy) born on 4-9-1951 in Suffern, New York expired 12-11-2003 in Potomac, Maryland   age 52   cause: Kidney failure

movie musical director  George Sidney   directed Annie Get Your Gun (1950), Show Boat (1951), Kiss Me Kate (1953), Anchors Aweigh, Pal Joey, Bye, Bye Birdie & Viva Las Vegas born on 10-4-1916 in Long Island City, New York expired 5-5-2002 in Las Vegas, Nevada   age 85   cause: complications from lymphoma

actress  Sylvia Sidney   played mama Carlson in pilot for WKRP In Cincinnati (replaced by Carol Bruce in series run); was married to Bennett Cerf, Luther Adler and Carlton Alsop; mother of Jacob "Jody" Adler (died 1987 of ALS) ¤ born: Sophia Kosow  born on 8-8-1910 in New York, New York expired 7-1-1999 in New York, New York   age 88   cause: throat cancer

Alabama serial killer  Daniel Lee Siebert   the pancreatic cancer got him before the lethal injection needle could born on 6-17-1954 expired 4-22-2008 in complications from pancreatic cancer   age 53   cause: Atmore, Alabama    Contest Selectors 2008 OIE, RAVN 6.3%    Scored 8.4500 points AKS: Seibert

Kai Manne Börje Siegbahn   shared the 1981 Nobel prize in physics; son of the 1924 physics laureate born on 4-20-1918 in Lund, Sweden expired 7-20-2007 in Angelholm, Sweden   age 89   cause: heart attack AKS: Borje

pioneering X-Ray spectroscopist  Karl Manne Georg Siegbahn   winner of the 1924 Nobel prize in physics; father of the 1981 physics co-laureate born on 12-3-1886 in Örebro, Sweden expired 9-26-1978 in Stockholm, Stockholm län, Sweden   age 91

Murder Inc. founding mobster  Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel   built the first big Vegas casino, the Flamingo, named for his mistress born on 2-28-1906 in New York, New York expired 6-20-1947 in Beverly Hills, California   age 41   cause: way too many bullet wounds, too little blood plasma

Dirty Harry director  Donald Siegel   also directed The Big Steal (1948) born on 10-16-1912 in Chicago, Illinois expired 4-20-1991 in Nipomo, California   age 78   cause: cancer

Superman co-creator (with Joe Shuster)  Jerome "Jerry" Siegel ¤ aka: "Joe Carter"  born on 10-17-1914 in Cleveland, Ohio expired 1-28-1996 in Los Angeles, California   age 81 AKS: seigel siegal segel

entertainment reporter  Joel E. Siegel   was the film critic for ABC's Good Moring America (1981-2007) born on 7-7-1943 in Los Angeles, California expired 6-29-2007 in Manhattan, New York, New York   age 63   cause: colon cancer    Contest Selectors 2002 JL 9.1% 2005 QKU 4.3% 2006 QKU 3.3% 2007 QKU, SBAP 6.5%    Scored 7.4500 points

better-off-dead 'net miscreant  Martha S. Siegel   with former husband was responsible for the first big UseNet spam bomb — ; the infamous "Green Card" shill (4/12/1994) born on 4-9-1948 in Englewood, New Jersey expired ??-??-2000   age 52 AKS: Canter & Siegel C&S

retired General Food home economist  Ruth Mirian Siems   credited as the main inventor of Stovetop Stuffing (1972; with Anthony C. Capossela Jr., John T. Halligan & Robert Wyss): patenet number 3,870,803 born on 2-20-1931 in Evansville, Indiana expired 11-13-2005 in Newburgh, Indiana   age 74   cause: heart attack AKS: Seims Seems Stove Top

former Nightline executive producer  Leroy Edward Sievers born on 6-16-1955 in Pasadena, Los Angeles County, California expired 8-15-2008 in Maryland   age 53   cause: lung & brain cancer; colon cancer    Contest Selectors 2007 DFFC 3.2% 2008 DFFC 3.1%    Scored 9.7000 solo points

Texas death row inmate  Michael Adam Sigala ¤ #999397  born on 12-11-1977 expired 3-2-2010 in Huntsville, Texas   age 32   cause: executed; lethal injection    Contest Selectors 2010 ADWC, BOD, DFFC, DTM, JCM, PCD, RAVN 25.9%    Scored 9.3391 points

tunesmith  Carl Sigman   wrote PEnnsylvania 6-5000 (with Jerry Gray), Ebb Tide and Enjoy Yourself born on 9-24-1909 in New York, New York expired 9-26-2000 in Manhasset, New York   age 91

actor  Sihung Lung   appeared in Eat Drink Man Woman (1994) ¤ born: Hsiung Lang  born on --1930 in China expired 5-2-2002 in Taipei, Taiwan   age 72   cause: liver failure

helicopter pioneer  Igor Ivanovich Sikorsky   built first practical helicopter, the VS-300 (1939) born on 5-25-1889 in Kiev, Ukraine, Russia expired 10-26-1972 in Easton, Connecticut   age 83   cause: heart attack

French social reformer  Etienne de Silhouette   known for his profile outlines ... known as silhouettes born on 7-5-1709 expired ??-??-1767   age 57

Kerr-McGee Cimarron plutonium plant worker  Karen G. Silkwood   critic of plant safety; subject of movie Silkwood (1983) born on 2-19-1946 expired 11-13-1974 in Crescent, Oklahoma   age 28   cause: automobile accident (murder?)

Frans Eemil Sillanpää   the 1939 Nobel prize winner in literature born on 9-16-1888 in Ylä-Satakunta, Hämeenkyrö Parish, Finland expired 6-3-1964 in Helsinki, Finland   age 75 AKS: France Franz Emil Sillanpaa

award winning movie & tv writer  Sterling Dale Silliphant   wrote screenplays for In the Heat of the Night (1967; oscar), The Poseidan Adventure (1972; based upon Paul Gallico's book) & The Towering Inferno (1974; based upon the books The Tower and The Glass Inferno) born on 1-16-1918 in Detroit, Michigan expired 4-26-1996 in Bangkok, Thailand   age 78   cause: prostate cancer

retired operatic soprano  Beverly Sills   had served on the board of the Metropolitan Opera Company ¤ born: Belle Miriam Silverman nickname: "Bubbles"  born on 5-25-1929 in Brooklyn, New York, New York expired 7-2-2007 in Manhattan, New York, New York   age 78   cause: colon & lung cancer    Contest Selectors 2006 DFFC 3.3% 2007 DFFC 3.2%    Scored 7.2000 solo points

comedy impressario  Paul M. Sills   co-founder of the Second City Comedy Club in Chicago born on 11-18-1927 expired 6-2-2008 in Baileys Harbor, Wisconsin   age 80   cause: complications from pneumonia

actor  Trinidad Silva born on 1-30-1950 in Mission, Texas expired 7-31-1988   age 38   cause: highway accident

Drexel Institute of Technology student/faculty member  Bernard Silver   on October 7, 1952 shared the first patent for bar codes (#2,612,994) expired 8-28-1963 in North Hills, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania   age 38   cause: auto accident

politically active actor  Ronald Arthur Silver born on 7-2-1946 in Manhattan, New York, New York expired 3-15-2009 in New York, New York   age 62   cause: esophageal cancer

Mohawk Indian actor  Jay Silverheels   played Tonto on Lone Ranger tv show ¤ born: Harold Jay Smith  born on 6-26-1912 in Six Nations Indian Reservation, Ontario, Canada expired 3-5-1980 in Woodland Hills, California   age 67   cause: complications from pneumonia    Contest Selectors 1980 JW 6.3%    Scored 5.8000 solo points

comedian  Phil Silvers   best known as Sgt. Bilko on tv ¤ born: Philip Silversmith  born on 5-11-1911 in New York, New York expired 11-1-1985 in Los Angeles, California   age 74    Contest Selectors 1979 HFS 7.7% 1980 DR, HP 12.5%

cartoonist, poet, lyricist  Shelby Silverstein   started career as a Playboy cartoonist; wrote children's story A Light in the Attic; wrote lyrics for the Irish Rovers hit The Unicorn (1968) & Johnny Cash's hit A Boy Named Sue born on 9-25-1932 in Chicago, Illinois expired 5-8-1999 in Key West, Florida   age 66   cause: heart attack

horse trainer  John Martin Silvertand   trainer of Afleet Alex born on 7-16-1944 in England expired 1-7-2007 in West Palm Beach, Florida   age 62   cause: liver cancer    Contest Selectors 2007 DTM 3.2%    Scored 8.8000 solo points AKS: Silvertrand

actor  Alastair Sim   played Ebenezer Scrooge in Scrooge (British 1951; U.S. title A Christmas Carol) born on 10-9-1900 in Edinburgh, Scotland expired 8-19-1976 in London, England   age 75   cause: cancer

author  Georges Simenon born on 2-13-1903 in Liege, Belgium expired 9-4-1989 in Lausanne, Switzerland   age 86

Chorale conductor  Harry Moses Simeone Jr.   had popular hits with The Little Drummer Boy (1958) & Do You Hear What I Hear? (1962) born on 5-9-1911 in Newark, New Jersey expired 2-22-2005 in New York, New York   age 93

writer  Dawn Langley Simmons   adopted by Margaret Rutherford; had sex change operation (1968) ¤ born: Gordon Langley Hall  born on 10-16-1922 in Heathfield, Sussex, England expired 9-18-2000 in Charleston, South Carolina   age 77   cause: Parkinson's disease

actress  Jean Merilyn Simmons born on 1-31-1929 in London, England expired 1-22-2010 in Santa Monica, California   age 80   cause: lung cancer    Contest Selectors 2007 GOHI 3.2% 2008 GOHI 3.1% AKS: Jeanne Marilyn Simons

Great Lakes sailor  John David Simmons   Wheelsman aboard the Edmund Fitzgerald expired 11-10-1975 in Eastern Lake Superior, Canada   age 60   cause: drowned when ship foundered

actor  Richard W. Simmons   portrayed Sergeant Preston of the Yukon on tv (1955-58); preceeded by Brace Beemer on radio born on 8-19-1913 in Saint Paul, Minnesota expired 1-11-2003 in Oceanside, California   age 89   cause: complications from Alzheimer's disease

Shirley Satin Simmons   mother of diet freak Richard expired 3-7-1999 in New Orleans, Louisiana   age 87

old pro baseball player  Silas Joseph "Si" Simmons Sr.   prior to the existance of the Negroe Leagues played baseball for a number of teams including th Pittsburgh-area Homestead Grays & the Germantown Blue Ribbons (1912-1929) born on 10-14-1895 in Middleton, Delaware expired 10-29-2006 in Saint Petersburg, Florida   age 111

ignorant redneck peckerwood moron cracker  William Joseph Simmons   leader of the lynch mob (calling itself the "Knights of Mary Phagan") that kidnapped & killed Leo Frank; not wishing to lose the glow of murderous hate that their tiny little brains had embraced, he lead the mob to Stone Mountain where they rechristened themselves the Ku Klux Klan and made him the biggest Kluc of all (Imperial Wizard) expired 5-21-1945 in Atlanta, Georgia   age 60

longtime CBS announcer (1948-72)  Hal Simms born on 6-10-1919 expired 7-2-2002 in Brookline, Massachusetts   age 83

big band/jazz saxophonist  John Haley "Zoot" Simms born on 10-29-1925 in Inglewood, California expired 3-22-1985 in New York, New York   age 59   cause: cancer

former Filmways president  Al Simon   producer of Burns and Allen's tv series born on 11-10-1911 in New York, New York expired 5-19-2000 in Beverly Hills, California   age 88   cause: Alzheimer's disease

author  Claude-Eugène-Henri Simon   winner of the 1985 Nobel prize in literature — the committee cited "Les Georgiques" ("The Georgics"; 1981) born on 10-10-1913 in Antananarive, French Colonial Madagascar (now Tananarive) expired 7-6-2005 in Paris, France   age 91    Contest Selectors 2005 SLIM 4.3%    Scored 5.9000 solo points AKS: Eugene

comedy writer  Danny Simon   older brother of Neil; wrote for Your Show of Shows born on 12-18-1918 in New York, New York expired 7-26-2005 in Portland, Oregon   age 86   cause: complications from stroke

Carnegie Melon University researcher  Herbert Alexander Simon   a pioneer in the field of artificial intelligence — winner of the 1975 Turing Award (with Allen Newell); 1978 Nobel economics laureate born on 6-15-1916 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin expired 2-9-2001 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania   age 83   cause: complications from surgery; cancer

industrialist  Norton Winfred Simon   third husband of Jennifer Jones born on 2-5-1907 in Portland, Oregon expired 6-2-1993 in Los Angeles, California   age 86    Contest Selectors 1979 JW 7.7% 1980 RR 6.3%

former Illinois rep. (1975-84) & senator (1985-96)  Paul Martin Simon born on 11-29-1928 in Eugene, Oregon expired 12-9-2003 in Springfield, Illinois   age 75   cause: complications following heart surgery    Contest Selectors 2003 GHG 5.6%    Scored 7.5000 solo points

book publisher  Richard Leo Simon   Simon and Schuster co-founder (1924); father of singer Carly Simon born on 12--1900 expired 7-29-1960 in Stamford, Connecticut   age 59

actress  Simone Simon   played Diane the Hooker opposite Jimmy Stewart in Seventh Heaven (1937), Séverine Roubaud in La Bête humaine (1938; The Human Beast), Belle/Bella Dee in The Devil and Daniel Webster (1941), Irena Dubrovna in Cat People (1942) born on 4-23-1911 in Béthune, Pas-de-Calais, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France expired 2-22-2005 in Paris, France   age 93    Contest Selectors 2005 CSI 4.3%    Scored 5.7000 solo points

Nixon/Ford Treasury Secretary (1974-77)  William Edward Simon   first Energy Boob (Czar): price controls leading to shortages leading to gas lines leading to nothing worthwhile born on 11-27-1927 in Paterson, New Jersey expired 6-3-2000 in Santa Barbara, California   age 72   cause: complications from pulmonary fibrosis

jazz singer  Nina Simone ¤ born: Eunice Kathleen Waymon  born on 2-21-1933 in Tryon, North Carolina expired 4-21-2003 in Carry-le-Rouet, France   age 70

former Washington Post managing editor (1971-84)  Howard Simons   dubbed Woodward and Bernstein's source Deep Throat (1973) born on 6-3-1929 in Albany, New York expired 6-13-1989 in Jacksonville, Florida   age 60   cause: pancreatic cancer

frozen potato mogul  John Richard "Jack" Simplot   was a major stockholder in the defunct Micron Computer Co. born on 1-4-1909 in Dubuque, Iowa expired 5-25-2008 in Boise, Idaho   age 99    Contest Selectors 2000 RR 14% 2001 RR 12½% 2002 RR 9.1% 2003 COCO, RR 11.1% 2004 RR 5.6% 2005 PCD, RR 8.7% 2006 PCD, RR 6.7% 2007 PCD 3.2% 2008 DTM, PCD, RPRM, RR 12.5%    Scored 2.9125 points

Flashdance, Beverly Hills Cop, Top Gun producer  Donald C. Simpson born on 10-29-1943 in Seattle, Washington expired 1-19-1996 in Los Angeles, California   age 52   cause: chemical abuse

business executive  Ernest Aldrich Simpson   divorced by Wallace Warfield Simpson; she took up with somebody else expired 11-30-1958 in London, England   age 62

O.J.'s mom  Eunice Durden Simpson born on 10-23-1921 expired 11-9-2001 in San Francisco, California   age 80   cause: "natural causes"    Contest Selectors 2001 TEX 12½%    Scored 7.0000 solo points

former bank custodian  James "Jimmy" Lee Simpson   abandoned his family (1952) born on 1-28-1920 expired 6-??-1986 in San Francisco, California   age 66

murder victim  Nicole Brown Simpson   sliced and diced by O.J. born on 5-19-1959 in Frankfurt-am-Main, West Germany expired 6-12-1994 in Los Angeles, California   age 35   cause: stabbed to death

North Carolina death row inmate  Perrie Dyon Simpson born on 10-30-1962 in Greensboro, North Carolina expired 1-20-2006 in Raleigh, North Carolina   age 43   cause: executed; lethal injection    Contest Selectors 2006 BOD, OIE, PCD, SPIT 13.3%    Scored 8.5125 points

naval architect  Robert Coffin Simpson   designed submarines for Electric Boat Co. expired 8-19-1952 in Groton, Connecticut   age 73

Philadelphia Enquirer obituary writer  Gayle Ronan Sims born on 12-20-1947 expired 4-16-2009 in Pennsylvania   age 61   cause: multiple organ failure

Cardinal  Jaime Lachia Sin   former archbishop of Manila born on 8-31-1928 in New Washington, Aldan, Visayan Islands, The Philippines expired 6-21-2005 in Manila, The Philippines   age 76   cause: multiple organ failure

crooner  Francis Albert "Frank" Sinatra Sr.   once married to Ava Gardner and Mia Farrow ¤ nickname: "Old Blue Eyes"  born on 12-12-1915 in Hoboken, New Jersey expired 5-14-1998   age 82    Contest Selectors 1979 DW, HP, MM, MS, SB, YJ 46.2% 1980 BB, DW, JH, MM 25.0%

Frank's mom  Natalie "Dolly" Sinatra born on 12-25-1896 expired 1-6-1977 in Palm Springs, California   age 80

Sinclair Oil Co. founder  Harry Ford Sinclair   involved in the Teapot Dome scandal; later merged his company with Richfield Oil, becoming chairman of the company (it later merged with Atlantic Oil, becoming ARCO) born on 7-6-1876 in Wheeling, West Virginia expired 11-10-1956 in Pasadena, California   age 80

actress  Madge Sinclair   did voice of the Lion Queen in The Lion King ¤ born: Madge Walters  born on 4-28-1938 in Kingston, Jamaica expired 12-20-1995 in Los Angeles, California   age 57

tv actress  Mary Sinclair   one-time wife of George Abbott (1946-51) ¤ born: Ella Dolores Cook  born on 11-15-1922 in San Diego, California expired 11-5-2000 in Phoenix, Arizona   age 77

author  Upton Beall Sinclair   wrote The Jungle (1906); received 1943 Pulitzer prize for Dragon's Teeth ¤ had numerous other names: Clarke Fitch, Frederick Garrison, Arthur Stirling  born on 9-20-1878 in Baltimore, Maryland expired 11-25-1968 in Bound Brook, New Jersey   age 90

Yiddish storyteller  Isaac Bashevis Singer   won the 1978 Nobel Prize in literature ¤ born: Icek-Hersz Zynger  born on 7-14-1904 in Radzymin, Poland expired 7-24-1991 in Surfside, Florida   age 87   cause: complications from strokes    Contest Selectors 1979 HP, MM, VM 23.1% 1980 EB, MM 12.5%

author  Loren Adelson Singer Sr.   wrote The Parallax View (1970) born on 3-5-1923 in Buffalo, New York expired 12-19-2009 in Valhalla, New York   age 86

sociologist Dr.  Margaret Thaler Singer   she repeatly convinced herself that she was an expert on brainwashing, over and over again, with singleminded persistence day and night, week after week, year after year, without letup, until she relented and admitted that she was, in fact, an expert on brainwashing — just ask the Moonies, People's Temple cult and Branch Davidians born on 7-29-1921 in Denver, Colorado expired 11-23-2003 in Berkeley, California   age 82   cause: respiratory failure

former Indian prime minister (12/1989-11/1990)  Vishwanath Pratap Singh born on 6-25-1931 in Allahabad, India expired 11-27-2008 in New Delhi, India   age 77   cause: renal failure; blood cancer

jazz drummer  Arthur James "Zutty" Singleton born on 5-14-1898 in Bunkie, Louisiana expired 7-14-1975 in New York, New York   age 77   cause: complications from stroke

actress  Catherine Moylan Singleton   appeared in the Ziegfeld Follies and silent films born on 7-4-1904 in Dallas, Texas expired 9-9-1969 in Fort Worth, Texas   age 65

Arkansas death row inmate  Charles Laverne Singleton born on 3-29-1959 expired 1-6-2004 in Varner, Arkansas   age 44   cause: executed; lethal injection    Contest Selectors 2004 BOD, PCD 11.1%    Scored 9.3500 points

Teledyne Inc. co-founder & president (1960-86)  Henry Earl Singleton born on 11-27-1916 in Haslet, Texas expired 8-31-1999 in Los Angeles, California   age 82   cause: brain cancer

Florida death row inmate  Lawrence Singleton   in California did only 8 years for kidnapping, raping & hacking off the arms of a 15 year old hitchhiker; in Florida convicted of 1992 murder of Roxanne Hayes born on 7-28-1927 expired 12-28-2001 in Starke, Florida   age 74   cause: cancer

Lucille Powell Singleton born on 10-16-1893 expired 1-8-1992   age 98

actress  Penny Singleton   played Blondie in the movies (1938-50); provided voice of Jane Jetson; older sister of Barney McNulty ¤ born: Mariana Dorothy McNulty  born on 9-15-1908 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania expired 11-12-2003 in Sherman Oaks, California   age 95   cause: complications from stroke    Contest Selectors 2001 NFG 12½% 2003 COCO 5.6%    Scored 5.5000 solo points

Shelby Sumpter Singleton Jr.   bought the assets of the then-defunct Sun Records and relaunched the label (1968) born on 12-16-1931 in Waskom, Texas expired 10-7-2009 in Nashville, Tennessee   age 77   cause: brain cancer

minerologist/gemologist/lapidary/author  John Sinkankas   was rolling stones years before Mick born on 5-15-1915 in Paterson, New Jersey expired 5-17-2002 in San Diego, California   age 87

Georgia halfback  Frank Sinkwich   winner of the Heisman Trophy (1942) ¤ nickname: "Fireball Frankie"  born on 10-10-1920 in McKees Rock, Pennsylvania expired 10-22-1990 in Athens, Georgia   age 70

former City of Boston Licensing Division chief  Richard J. Sinnott   one of his duties: City Censor (1960-82; Boston's last) born on 5-5-1926 in Dorchester, Massachusetts expired 4-30-2003 in Hyde Park, Massachusetts   age 76   cause: heart attack

orchestra/opera conductor  Giuseppe Sinopoli born on 11-2-1946 in Venice, Italy expired 4-20-2001 in Berlin, Germany   age 54   cause: heart attack

film writer  Curt Siodmak   wrote novel Donovan's Brain (1943); wrote screenplay for The Wolf Man (1941) ¤ born: Kurt Siodmak  born on 8-10-1902 in Dresden, Saxony, Germany expired 9-2-2000 in Three Rivers, California   age 98

movie producer & director  Robert Siodmak   brother of Curt born on 8-8-1900 in Memphis, Tennessee expired 3-10-1973 in Locarno, Switzerland   age 72   cause: heart attack

retired banker  Frank E. Sipe   as a kid threw the first pitch in the first game of the first Little League World Series (6-6-1939), leading Lundy Lumber over Lycoming Dairy 23 to 8 born on 2-16-1928 expired 12-29-2002 in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania   age 74

geographer & Antarctic explorer  Paul Allman Siple   a member of Richard Byrd's 1928 Antarctic Expedition; coined the term wind chill in a 1939 dissertation born on 12-18-1908 in Montpelier, Ohio expired 11-25-1968 in Arlington, Virginia   age 59   cause: heart attack

Vietnam Marine veteran  William Oliver Sipple   deflected the aim of Sara Jane Moore when she tried to assassinate Gerald Ford (9/22/1975) born on 11-20-1941 in Detroit, Michigan expired 1-19-1989 in San Francisco, California   age 47

Admiral Corp. founder (1934)  Ross David Siragusa born on 6-12-1906 expired 3-30-1996 in Chicago, Illinois   age 89

U.S. District Judge  John Joseph Sirica   presided over much of the Watergate litigation 1973-75 born on 3-19-1909 in Waterbury, Connecticut expired 8-14-1992 in Washington, District of Columbia   age 82

Milton Sirotta   as a nine year old in 1920 gave a name to his uncle's big number born on 3-8-1911 expired 5-??-1981 in Mount Vernon, New York   age 70

Chicago Tribune film critic  Eugene Karl Siskel   partnered with Roger Ebert on tv born on 1-26-1946 in Chicago, Illinois expired 2-20-1999 in Evanston, Illinois   age 53   cause: complications from brain surgery; cancer

St. Louis Browns baseball star  George Harold Sisler Sr.   member of the Baseball Hall of Fame; played for U of Michigan coach Branch Rickey; earned B.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering born on 3-24-1893 in Nimisila, Ohio expired 3-26-1973 in Saint Louis, Missouri   age 80

songwriter and orchestra leader  Noble Sissle   founded the Negro Actors Guild born on 7-10-1889 expired 12-17-1975 in Tampa, Florida   age 86

Mandela mentor  Walter Max Ulyate Sisulu   with Mandela & Tambo the organizer of the African National Congress youth league born on 5-18-1912 in Engcobo, Transkei, British Protectorate, South Africa expired 5-5-2003 in Johannesburg, South Africa   age 90

Rhodesian nationalist Rev.  Ndabaningi Sithole born on 7-21-1920 in Nyamandhlovu, Matabeleland, Rhodesia expired 12-12-2000 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania   age 80   cause: pulmonary embolism

character actor  Emil Sitka   foil for the Three Stooges in 70 short subjects; was chosen to replace Larry Fine after he had a stroke, but never appeared due to disbanding of group after Moe's death born on 12-22-1914 in Johnstown, Pennsylvania expired 1-16-1998 in Camarillo, California   age 83   cause: complications from stroke

Sioux Indian chief  Sitting Bull   did in Custer at the Little Big Horn born on --1831 in Grand River, South Dakota Territory expired 12-15-1890 in Grand River, South Dakota Territory   age 59   cause: shot in head by tribal police offier

movie screenwriter/director  David Harald Vilgot Sjöman   directed Jag är nyfiken — en film i gult (1967; I Am Curious - Yellow) & Jag är nyfiken — en film i blått (1968; I Am Curious - Blue) born on 12-2-1924 in Stockholm, Stockholms län, Sweden expired 4-9-2006 in Stockholm, Stockholms län, Sweden   age 81   cause: complications from brain hemorrhage AKS: Sjoman

Safeway Stores founder  Marion B. Skaggs born on 4-5-1888 expired 5-8-1976 in Oakland, California   age 88

Great Lakes Carbon Corporation president  George Skakel Jr.   RFK's brother-in-law expired 9-23-1966 in Riggins, Idaho   age 44

Joan Patricia Skakel   sister-in-law of Ethel Kennedy expired 5-18-1967 in Greenwich, Connecticut   age 39

former Papua New Guinea prime minister (1997-99) Sir  William Jack Skate   resigned just ahead of the no-confidence vote; purported to be connected with the local criminal gangs born on 9-26-1953 in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea expired 1-3-2006 in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia   age 52   cause: stroke

U.S.' oldest person  Margaret S. Skeete born on 10-27-1878 expired 5-7-1994   age 115

Skelly Oil founder  William Grove Skelly expired 4-11-1957 in Tulsa, Oklahoma   age 78

comedian  Richard Bernard "Red" Skelton Sr.   played Clem Kadiddlehopper, Freddie the Freeloader, Cauliflower McPugg, cross-eyed seagulls Gertrude and Heathcliffe and the Mean Widdle Kid Harry Cohn was a mean S.O.B.; his funeral, on a cold, rainy March day was attended by over 2,000 "mourners"; Red was heard to say "It only proves what they always say --- give the public something they want to see and they'll come out for it." born on 7-18-1913 in Vincennes, Indiana expired 9-17-1997 in Rancho Mirage, California   age 84    Contest Selectors 1979 JW, SB 15.4% 1980 EB, HP, VA 18.8%

Richard Bernard Skelton Jr.   son of Red expired 5-10-1958 in Los Angeles, California   age 9   cause: leukemia

psychologist  Burrhus Frederic Skinner born on 3-20-1904 in Susquehanna, Pennsylvania expired 8-18-1990 in Cambridge, Massachusetts   age 86    Contest Selectors 1979 YJ 7.7%

actress  Cornelia Otis Skinner born on 5-30-1901 in Chicago, Illinois expired 7-9-1979 in New York, New York   age 78   cause: cerebral hemorrhage

stage & early movie actress  Alison Skipworth   started making movies in 1895 (retired in 1942) expired 7-5-1952 in New York, New York   age 88

Hollywood newspaper columnist  Sidney Skolsky   first to use the nickname oscar in print (following the 1934 awards ceremony); had bit parts in a number of movies (including Sunset Boulevard; co-wrote The Eddie Cantor Story (1953) born on 5-2-1905 in New York, New York expired 5-3-1983 in Los Angeles, California   age 77

former Nazi Elite Guard Colonel  Otto Skorzeny   rescued Mussolini from prison after Italian Facist Party collapsed (9/12/1943) expired 7-5-1975 in Madrid, Spain   age 67   cause: bronchial cancer

retired 20th Century Fox president (1942-69)  Spyros Panagiotes Skouras born on 3-28-1893 in Skourakhori, Greece expired 8-16-1971 in Mamaroneck, New York   age 78   cause: heart attack

former Kansas congressman (1963-78)  Joe Skubitz born on 5-6-1906 in Frontenac, Kansas expired 9-11-2000 in Wichita, Kansas   age 94

gameshow producer/director  Ira Skutch   worked for Goodson/Todman Productions (1957-83) born on 9-12-1921 in New York, New York expired 3-16-2010 in Silver Lake, California   age 88   cause: lymphoma

character actor  Benjamin Slack   played Mr. Ermin on The Wonder Years & K'Tal on the Star Trek: Next Generation episode Redemption, Part I (1991) born on 7-23-1937 in Baltimore, Maryland expired 12-13-2004 in Baltimore, Maryland   age 67

violinist & orchestra conductor  Felix Slatkin   father of current St. Louis Symphony Orchestra conductor Leonard Slatkin; commissioned Léo Arnaud to write "The Change Suite" (1958); co-founder of the Hollywood String Quartet born on 12-22-1915 in Saint Louis, Missouri expired 2-8-1963 in Los Angeles, California   age 47   cause: heart attack

Georgia governor (1913-15)  John Marshall Slaton   commuted death sentence of Mary Phagan's convicted killer Leo Frank on last day of office; this lead to the formation of the "modern" Ku Klux Klan born on 12-25-1866 expired 1-11-1955 in Atlanta, Georgia   age 88

actor  Richard X. Slattery born on 6-26-1925 in New York, New York expired 1-27-1997 in Woodland Hills, California   age 71

Hall of Fame baseball player  Enos Bradsher Slaughter born on 4-27-1916 in Roxboro, North Carolina expired 8-12-2002 in Durham, North Carolina   age 86   cause: complications from surgery; non-Hodgkins lymphoma    Contest Selectors 2000 ANG 14% 2001 ANG 12½%

physician & writer  Frank G. Slaughter Sr. born on 2-25-1908 in Washington, District of Columbia expired 5-17-