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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 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
elder KKK goon James Ford Seale as a ignorant peckerwood Mississippi county sheriff's deputy kidnapped Charles Eddie Moore & Henry Hezekiah Dee and delivered them into the hands of their murderers; his partner in the crime, Charles Marcus Edwards, turned states evidence on his sorry ass; had been living in Roxie, Mississippi; convicted in Federal court June 2007 & sentenced to life imprisonmentborn on 6-25-1935 in Mississippi expired 8-2-2011 in Terre Haute, Indiana age 76
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| 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
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| 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 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
magazine cartoonist Ronald William Fordham Searle as a World War II prisoner of war worked on the infamous Siam-Burma railway; has drawn for Punch, The Sunday Express and other publications; recipient of the 1960 Reuben Award; he drew the animated opening credits, intermission & closing credits for Those Magnificent Men in their Flying Machines (1965)born on 3-3-1920 in Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England expired 12-30-2011 in Draguignan, Var, Provence, France age 91
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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)
expired 7-28-1979 in Beverly Hills, California age 68 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
winemaking matriarch Sylvia Sebastiani
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
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
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
expired 4-10-2001 in Guildford, Surrey, England age 79 cause: prostate cancer
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| 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
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| 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 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| silent film actress Miriam Seegar played Stella Nelson in Valley of the Ghosts; widow of director Tim Whelan born on 9-1-1907 in Greentown, Indiana expired 1-2-2011 in Pasadena, California age AKS: Seeger Segar | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 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) showsborn 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
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- 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
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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
expired 7-13-2003 in Havana, Cuba age 95 cause: kidney failure
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| 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 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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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)
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 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 20th CEntury Fox tv production executive William Edwin Self prooduced the pilot episode of The Twilight Zone ("Where is Everybody?"); a producer/co-producer of The Shootist movie as well as The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis, Daniel Boone, Peyton Place, Batman, Julia, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Room 222,
Lost In Space & M*A*S*H born on 6-21-1921 in Akron, Ohio expired 11-15-2010 in Los Angeles, California age 89 cause: heart attack | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 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
expired 7-23-1980 age 54 cause: heart attack
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| 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
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 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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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
expired 5-12-2008 in Warszawa, Poland age 98 cause: pneumonia
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| 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
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
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| 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 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Eduardo Delgado "Eddie" Serrato was a member of ? and the Mysterians band (drummer) born on 12-5-1945 expired 4-14-2011 in Detroit, Michigan age 65 cause: heart attack; renal failure; diabetes | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 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
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author Anya Seton
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
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
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Chipmunks creator David Seville provided the "voices" of Theodore, Simon and Alvin
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)
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
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| 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
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/ born on 7-31-1908 in Milton, Wisconsin expired 1-29-2005 in Renton, Washington age 96 cause: prostate cancer | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
character actor Glenn Shadix played interior designer Otho in Beetlejuice, The Mayor in The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993) & Senator Nado in the remake of Planet of the Apes (2001), as well as Typhon in several episodes of the Hercules: The Legendary Journeys syndicated tv series and was Seinfeld's landlord in
season 2 of the sitcom
expired 9-7-2010 in Birmingham, Alabama age 58 cause: head injuries; fell out of wheelchair AKS: Shadicks Shaducks Shaddix | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 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
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playwright William Shakespeare partner in the Globe Theater in London
expired 4-23-1616 in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, England age 52 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
rap "artist" Tupac Amaru Shakur
expired 9-13-1996 in Las Vegas, Nevada age 25 cause: gunshot wounds | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| former Joint Chiefs chairman (1993-97) John Malchase David Shalikashvilli born on 6-27-1936 in Warsaw, Poland expired 7-23-2011 in Tacoma, Washington age 75 cause: complications from 2004 stroke
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| 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
expired 2-8-1990 in Santa Clarita, California age 55 cause: suicide | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
poet Karl Jay Shapiro won 1945 Pulitzer prize
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
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former boxer Jack Sharkey
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
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| 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)
expired 12-30-2004 in Newbury Park, California age 94
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| 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 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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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
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| 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)
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
expired 5-2-1982 age 72 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
British Lord Hartley William Shawcross cheif British prosecutor at the Nuremberg war crimes trials
expired 7-10-2003 in Cowbeach, England age 101
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| 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!!!"
expired 4-17-1987 in La Jolla, California age 57 cause: heart attack | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| choreographer Michael Shawn expired 4-29-1990 in Manhattan, New York, New York age 45 cause: complications from AIDS | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 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
expired 11-29-1992 in Woodland Hills, California age 92 cause: lung cancer | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
third Israeli president (1963-73) Zalman Shazar
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)
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 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| blind jazz pianist George Albert Shearing wrote Lullaby of Birdland born on 8-13-1919 in Battersea, London, England expired 2-14-2011 in Manhattan, New York, New York age 91 cause: congestive heart failure | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 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 Williamsborn 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
expired 12-9-1979 in New York, New York age 84 cause: heart disease
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child actor Johnny Sheffield son of actor Reginald Sheffield; played a young Knute Rockne in Knute Rockne, All American (1940), Boy in 8 Tarzan films & Bomba in 12 movies
expired 10-15-2010 in Chula Vista, California age 79 cause: heart attack; fell out of tree | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 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
expired 4-14-2003 in Canoga Park, California age 97 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ill-fated sailor Christopher Barrows Sheldon his twin- 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
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 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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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 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Coptic Church pope (1971-2012) Shenouda III the 117th Pope of Alexandria died on the 8th day of Peremhat in the year 1728 of the Coptic (Alexandrian) calendar
expired 3-17-2012 in Cairo, Egypt age 88 cause: respiratory failure; liver failure; liver disease; diabetes | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 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
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 Yearborn 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
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| 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
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)
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 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Robert B. Sherman co-wrote Mary Poppins movie music with brother (1964); wrote "It's A SMall World After All" for the Disney exhibit at the 1964 WOrld's Fair in New York City born on 12-19-1925 in New York, New York expired 3-5-2012 in London, England age 86 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
movie/tv director Vincent Sherman directed Mr. Skeffington (1944)
expired 6-18-2006 in Woodland Hills, California age 99
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| 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 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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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
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
expired 7-16-2003 in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada age 68 cause: complications from breast cancer
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| 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
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actress Anne Shirley child actress under the name Dawn O'Day
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 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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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
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| 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 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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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
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
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
expired 8-11-2009 in Hyannis, Massachusetts age 88 cause: complications from strokes
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| Robert Sargent Shriver Jr. husband of Eunice; father of Maria; father-in-law of Conan the Republican; first head of the Peace Corps (1961-66); former ambassador to France (1968-70) born on 11-9-1915 in Westminster, Maryland expired 1-18-2011 in Bethesda, Maryland age 95 cause: Alzheimer's disease
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| 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 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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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
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| 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
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| 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 enforcer & 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- 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
expired 1-12-1960 in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia age 60 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
minister Fred Lee Shuttlesworth a co-founder of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference
expired 10-5-2011 in Birmingham, Alabama age
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