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Sex Pistols electric bassist  Sid Vicious   died 13 hours after being released on bail after arrest for stabbing death of Go-Go dancer ¤ real name: John Simon Richie  born on 5-10-1957 in London, England expired 2-2-1979 in New York, New York   age 21   cause: heroin overdose    Contest Selectors 1979 DW, HFS, JW, MS, RR, VM, YJ 53.8%    Scored 8 points

Columbia University economist  William Spencer Vickrey   shared the 1996 Nobel prize in economics born on 6-21-1914 in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada expired 10-11-1996 in Harrison, New York   age 82

electric washing machine inventor  Alexander F. Victor   also invented non-flammable safety film for movies expired 3-29-1961 in Carmel, California   age 82

Teresa A. Victor   longtime assistant to Leonard Nimoy; had a number of minor roles in the early Star Trek movies, most notably as the Enterprise NCC-1701 computer voice that counted down the auto-destruct sequence that ended the voyages of the original starship (it would be replaced by Enterprises NCC-1701-A, -B, -C, and -D) born on --1943 in New York, New York expired 12-29-2005 in Santa Monica, California   age 62

British  Queen Victoria   grand-daughter of George III; daughter of William IV; wife of Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg und Gotha (her cousin); mother of Edward VII; longest reign of any British monarch (1837-1901); last monarch from the House of Hannover ¤ full name: Alexandrina Victoria Hanover  born on 5-24-1818 in London, England expired 1-22-1901 in Isle of Wight, England   age 82

movie director  Charles Vidor   made The Joker is Wild (1957) born on 7-27-1900 in Budapest, Austria-Hungary expired 6-4-1959 in Vienna, Austria   age 58   cause: heart attack

film maker  King Wallis Vidor   survived the great 1900 Hurricane; went on to be a top Hollywood director born on 2-8-1894 in Galveston, Texas expired 11-1-1982 in Paso Robles, California   age 88    Contest Selectors 1979 HP, MS 15.4% 1980 JH, RR 12.5%

Guinea-Bissau president  João Bernardo "Nino" Vieira born on 4-27-1939 in Bissau, Portugese Guinea expired 3-2-2009 in Bissau, Guinea-Bissua   age 69   cause: assassinated; shot to death AKS: Joao

mathematician  Leopold Vietoris born on 6-4-1891 expired 4-9-2002   age 110

Demetrius Vikélas   first head of the International Olympic Committee (1894-96) born on 2-15-1835 in Ermoupolis, Syros, Greece expired 7-20-1908 in Athens, Greece   age 73

Mexican bandito  Francisco "Poncho" Villa   fought against dictator Porfirio Diaz & on behalf of Francisco Madera ¤ born: Doroteo Arango  born on 6-5-1878 in Durango, Mexico expired 7-23-1923 in Parral, Mexico   age 45   cause: gunshot wounds

Luz Corral de Villa   widow of Pancho born on --1892 in Chihuahua, Mexico expired 7-6-1981 in Chihuahua, Mexico   age 89

composer  Heitor Villa-Lobos ¤ sometimes called "Hector"  expired 11-17-1959 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil   age 72

former Stanford University electrical engineering professor  Oswald Garrison Villard Jr.   developer of over-the-horizon radar (1959) born on 9-17-1916 in Dobbs Ferry, New York expired 1-7-2004 in Palo Alto, California   age 87   cause: pneumonia

actor  Thomas Louis Villard   played Prylar Bek in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode The Collaborator (1994) born on 11-19-1953 in Waipahua Ewa, Hawaii expired 11-14-1994 in Los Angeles, California   age 40   cause: pneumonia; AIDS

explorer  Orlando Villas-Boas   with his brothers explored the interior of Brazil's rain forest (1940s); they advocated protected the indiginous peoples from exploitation born on 1-12-1914 in Santa Cruz do Rio Pardo, Brazil expired 12-12-2002 in São Paulo, Brazil   age 88   cause: multiple organ failure; intestinal infection

diminutive actor  Hervé Jean-Pierre Villechaize   Tatoo on Fantasy Island ("look boss, da plane, da plane"); Nick Nack in The Man With The Golden Gun born on 4-23-1943 in Paris, France expired 9-4-1993 in North Hollywood, California   age 50   cause: suicide; gunshot to head    Contest Selectors 1980 EK 6.3% AKS: Herve

former Honduran president (1957-63) Dr.  Ramón Villeda Morales expired 10-8-1971 in New York, New York   age 62   cause: heart attack

Cardinal  Jean Villot   Vatican secretary of state born on 10-11-1905 in Saint-Amant-Tallende, France expired 3-9-1979 in Rome, Italy   age 73   cause: bronchial pneumonia    Contest Selectors 1979 JW  7.7%    Scored 5 solo points

sound archivist  G. Robert Vincent   created sound/voice library at Michigan State University born on 7-17-1898 expired 11-13-1985   age 87

oceanographer  Allyn Collins VIne   was an engineer at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute (1940-his death); was the inspiration for the name of the first deep submersible — the Alvin (Allyn Vine) born on 6-1-1914 in Garretsville, Ohio expired 1-4-1996 in Woods Hole, Massachusetts   age 81

former Georgia representative (1914-64)  Carl Vinson born on 11-18-1883 in Milledgeville, Georgia expired 6-1-1981 in Milledgeville, Georgia   age 97   cause: heart failure

Chief Justice (1946-58)  Frederick Moore Vinson   Truman Sec. of Treasury (1945-46) expired 9-8-1958 in Washington, District of Columbia   age 63

former Finland prime minister (1964-66)  Johannes Virolainen born on 1-31-1914 in Vyborg, Karelia, Finland expired 12-11-2000 in Lohja, Finland   age 86

Dr.  Artturi Ilmari Virtanen   winner of the 1945 Nobel prize in chemistry born on 1-15-1895 in Helsinki, Finland expired 11-11-1973 in Helsinki, Finland   age 78

biologist & photographer  Roman Vishniac born on 8-19-1897 in Saint Petersburg, Russia expired 1-22-1990 in New York, New York   age 92   cause: colon cancer

Playboy July 1974 Playmate of Month  Carol Ann Vitale   also did February 1997 pictorial born on 11-14-1946 in Elizabeth, New Jersey expired 7-23-2008 in Aventura, Florida   age 61   cause: complications from lupus, scleroderma & osteoporosis

character actor  Joe Vitarelli   played Jelly in Analyze This (1999) & Analyze That (2002) born on 3-10-1937 in New York, New York expired 1-29-2004 in Las Vegas, Nevada   age 66   cause: stomach hemorrhage during heart surgery AKS: Vitarelli

sculptor  Frank Vittor   taught at the Carnegie Institute of Technology; designed the Gettysburg Commemorative half dollar (1936); his nude sculpture "America Venus" got the 1935 Miss America "fired" born on 1-6-1888 in Mozzato, Italy expired 1-??-1968 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania   age

former Italian  King Victor Emmanuel III   husband of Queen Ioanna ¤ full name: Victor Emmanuel Ferdinand Marie Janvier  born on 11-11-1869 in Naples, Italy expired 12-28-1947 in Alexandria, Egypt   age 78   cause: pneumonia

classical composer  Antonio Lucio Vivaldi   wrote The Four Seasons ¤ aka: "The Red Priest"  born on 3-4-1675 in Venice, Italy expired 7-27-1741 in Vienna, Austria   age 66

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