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former "spook"  George Russell Wackenhut Sr.   co-founded a small detective agency (1954) that expanded into security guard services & private prisons & all sorts of other stuff; retired in 2002 born on 9-3-1919 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania expired 12-31-2004 in Vero Beach, Florida   age 85   cause: heart failure

Hall of Fame pitcher  George Edward "Rube" Waddell   played 1897, 1899-01 born on 10-13-1876 in Bradford, Pennsylvania expired 4-1-1914 in San Antonio, Texas   age 37

Detroit homeless shelter operator  Charleszetta "Mother" Waddles   founder of Mother Waddles Perpetual Help Mission (1957) born on 10-7-1912 in Saint Louis, Missouri expired 7-12-2001 in Detroit, Michigan   age 88

actress  Ernestine Wade   played Sapphire Stevens on television Amos 'n' Andy series born on 8-7-1906 in Jackson, Mississippi expired 4-15-1983 in Los Angeles, California   age 76

retired Dallas County (Texas) District Attorney (1951-87)  Henry Menasco Wade   prosecuted Jack Ruby for the murder of Lee Harvey Oswald; defendant in the Roe v. Wade abortion case (decision announced January 21, 1973); companion case to Doe v. Bolton; prosecuted Randal Dale Adams for murder born on 11-11-1914 in Rockwall, Texas expired 3-1-2001 in Dallas, Texas   age 86   cause: Parkinson's disease    Contest Selectors 2000 RR 14% 2001 RR 12½%    Scored 6.4000 solo points

Robert Pershing Wadlow   purported to have been the tallest human to have ever lived at 8 feet 11.1 inches born on 2-22-1918 in Alton, Illinois expired 7-15-1940 in Manistee, Michigan   age 22   cause: infection

novelist  Walter Herman Wager   wrote 58 Minutes which became Die Hard 2, Telefon (1957) & Viper Three (1971; became Twilight's Last Gleaming 1977) ¤ pseudonyms: Walter Harman, John Tiger  born on 9-4-1924 in New York, New York expired 7-11-2004 in New York, New York   age 79   cause: complications from brain cancer

reference work publisher  Adam Willis Wagnalls   co-founded Funk and Wagnalls (1890) born on 9-24-1843 in Lithopolis, Ohio expired 9-3-1924 in Northport, New York   age 80

World War I military veteran  Albert F. "Jud" Wagner   had been the oldest living Marine born on 9-5-1899 expired 1-20-2007 in Smith Center, Kansas   age 107

former Boston Red Sox pitcher  Charles Thomas "Broadway" Wagner born on 12-3-1912 in Reading, Pennsylvania expired 8-30-2006 in Reading, Pennsylvania   age 93   cause: heart attack    Contest Selectors 2006 OIE 3.3%    Did Not Score - insufficient category citations (one to be exact)

music muckety-muck  Cosima Liszt Wagner   daughter of Franz Liszt; wife of Richard; mother of Siegfried; co-founder of the Bayreuth Festival born on 12-25-1837 in Bellagio, Austria expired 4-1-1930 in Bayreuth, Germany   age 92

well-know "professional wrestler"  George Raymond Wagner   an M.D. & psychiatrist before moving to the ring ¤ aka: "Gorgeous George"  born on 3-24-1915 in Seward, Nebraska expired 12-26-1963 in Los Angeles, California   age 48   cause: heart attack; cancer

soap opera actress  Helen Wagner   had played Nancy Hughes on As The World Turns since 1956; she spoke the first lines of dialog of the series & was performing (live) when Walter Cronkite broke into the network feed with the bulletin announcing that president Kennedy had been shot (1963) ¤ Mrs. Robert Willey  born on 9-3-1918 in Lubbock, Texas expired 5-1-2010   age 91    Contest Selectors 2007 RIE 3.2% 2008 RIE 3.1% 2009 RIE 3.3% 2010 RIE 3.7%    Scored 5.9000 solo points

Pittsburgh shortstop (1900-17)  John Peter "Honus" Wagner   his baseball card is the most expensive on the collectors market born on 2-24-1874 in Mansfield, Pennsylvania expired 12-5-1955 in Carnegie, Pennsylvania   age 81

former New York senator (1926-49)  Robert Ferdinand Wagner Sr.   sponsored the National Labor Relations Act born on 6-18-1877 in Hesse-Nasseau, Germany expired 5-4-1953 in New York, New York   age 75

former NYC mayor (1954-65)  Robert Ferdinand Wagner Jr. born on 4-20-1910 in New York, New York expired 2-12-1991   age 80

chorale founder  Roger Frances Wagner born on 1-16-1914 in Le Puy, France expired 9-17-1992   age 78

Siegfried Helferich Wagner   son of Cosima of Richard; grandson of Franz Liszt; father of Wieland and Wolfgang by Winifred; dad wrote him an Idyll first performed Christmas morning 1869 born on 1-6-1869 in Stiebschen, Switzerland expired 8-4-1930 in Bayreuth, Germany   age 61

lawyer, public notary  Walter Wagner   a casual acquaintence of Göbbels; was summoned to the bunker to perform a wedding (Adolf & Eva's) in the early hours of April 29, 1945 expired 5-2-1945 in Berlin, Germany   age 37   cause: shot in head

Bayreuth Festival co-director (1951-66)  Wieland Adolf Gottfried Wagner   son of Siegfried & Winifred; brother of Wolfgang; Bayreuth set designer born on 1-5-1917 in Bayreuth, Bavaria, Germany expired 10-16-1966 in München, Bavaria, Germany   age 49

opera composer  Wilhelm Richard Wagner   husband of Cosima; father of Siegfried; wrote the 4-opera "ring cycle" Das Ring der Niebelungen; co-founded the Bayreuth Festival born on 5-22-1813 in Leipzig, Saxony, Germany expired 2-13-1883 in Venice, Italy   age 69

Siegfried's widow  Winifred Wagner   head of Bayreuth Festival (1930-44); liked Hitler even more than Leni Riefenstahl ¤ born: Winifred Williams  expired 3-5-1980 in Uberlingen, Germany   age 82

Bayreuth Festival director (1966-2008)  Wolfgang Manfred Martin Wagner   had been co-director of the festival with brother Wieland (1951-66); son of Siegfried & Winifred; grandson of Richard & Cosima; great-grandson of Franz Liszt born on 8-30-1919 in Bayreuth, Bavaria, Germany expired 3-21-2010 in Bayreuth, Bavaria, Germany   age 90    Contest Selectors 2008 WEP 3.1% 2009 WEP 3.3% 2010 WEP 3.7%    Scored 6.0000 solo points

Dr.  Julius Wagner-Jauregg   recipient of the 1927 Nobel prize in medicine born on 3-7-1857 in Wels, Austria expired 9-27-1940 in Vienna, Austria   age 83

Grand Ol Opre star  Porter Wayne Wagoner   one-time singing partner of Dolly Parton born on 8-12-1927 in West Plains, Missouri (near) expired 10-28-2007 in Nashville, Tennessee   age 80   cause: lung cancer    Contest Selectors 2006 HH 3.3% 2007 PUD 3.2%    Scored 7.0000 solo points AKS: Waggoner

former Indonesian president (1999-2002)  Abdurrahman Wahid ¤ aka: "Gus Dur"  born on 8-4-1940 in Denanyar, Jomgang, East Java, Dutch East Indies expired 12-30-2009 in Jakarta, Indonesia   age 69   cause: circulatory & respiratory failure; renal failure    Contest Selectors 2003 MB 5.6% 2009 RR 3.3%    Scored 8.1000 solo points 2010 RR

General  Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright   led U.S. & Philippine forces on Bataan & Corregidor after MacArthur left (1942); survivor of Bataan Death March; winner of the Congressional Medal of Honor born on 8-23-1883 in Walla Walla, Washington expired 9-2-1953 in San Antonio, Texas   age 70

long-distance runner  Grete Waitz   primarily a marathoner: won the Silver medal in the 1984 Olympics and won 9 New York City marathons (from 1978 thru 1988) ¤ née: Andersen  born on 10-1-1953 in Oslo, Norway expired 4-19-2011 in Oslo, Norway   age 57   cause: cancer    Contest Selectors 2006 LMLD 3.3% 2007 AUDC, DTM, LMLD 9.7% 2008 DTM, LMLD 6.3% 2009 LMLD 3.3% 2010 DTM, LMLD 7.4% AKS: Greta

World War II French resistance fighter  Nancy Grace Augusta Wake   had been a Hearst reporter prior to the start of the war; recipient of numerous awards for heroism ¤ widow of Henri Edmond Fiocca (1939-43) & John Forward (1957-97) Gestapo nickname: "the White Mouse"  born on 8-30-1912 in Wellington, New Zealand expired 8-7-2011 in Richmond, London, England   age 98   cause: infection

noted baker  Ruth G. Wakefield   created the tollhouse chocolate chip cookie born on --1905 expired ??-??-1977 in Plymouth, Massachusetts   age 72

1952 Nobel medicine laureate Dr.  Selman Abraham Waksman   one of the discoverers of streptomycin (he took all of the credit, however); coined term "antibiotic" (1941) born on 7-22-1888 in Novaya Priluka, Ukraine, Russia expired 8-16-1973 in Hyannis, Massachusetts   age 85   cause: cerebral hemorrhage

blind church organist  Helmut Walcha   known for his definitive recordings of Bach organ works born on 10-27-1907 in Leipzig, Saxony, Germany expired 8-11-1991 in Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany   age 83    Contest Selectors 1979 RR 7.7% 1980 RR 6.3%

heavyweight boxer "Jersey"  Joe Walcott   champ 1951-52; lost title to Marciano ¤ real name: Arnold Raymond Cream  born on 1-31-1914 in Merchantville, New Jersey expired 2-25-1994 in Camden, New Jersey   age 80

biochemist  George Wald   shared the 1967 Nobel prize in physiology for discoveries concerning the pysiological & chemical visual process in the eye born on 11-18-1906 in Manhattan, New York, New York expired 4-12-1997 in Cambridge, Massachusetts   age 90

screenwriter  Malvin Daniel Wald   co-wrote The Naked City (1948; took name from a photo collection by Weegee) born on 8-8-1917 in Brooklyn, New York, New York expired 3-6-2008 in Sherman Oaks, California   age 90 AKS: Marvin Melvin

former Nazi & Austrian president  Kurt Josef Waldheim   was a decorated Storm Trooper; fourth United Nations Secretary-General (1972-81) born on 12-21-1918 in Sankt Andrä-Wördern, Lower Austria, Austria-Hungary expired 6-14-2007 in Vienna, Austria   age 88   cause: heart failure; infection    Contest Selectors 1980 BB 6.3% 2000 RR 14% 2001 RR 12½% 2002 RAVN 9.1% 2003 RAVN, TAP 11.1% 2004 EOD, TAP 11.1% 2005 SLIM, SPIT 8.7% 2006 MOT, SPIT 6.7% 2007 GREB, MOT, SBAP, SPIT, WEP, 4GUE 19.4%    Scored 3.7781 points 2009 GREB

cartoonist & onetime Max Fleischer animator  Myron Waldman   drew Happy the Humbug comic strip (1946-49) born on 4-23-1908 in Brooklyn, New York, New York expired 2-4-2006 in Bethpage, New York   age 97   cause: congestive heart failure

jazz pianist  Malcolm Earl Waldron   composed Soul Eyes born on 8-16-1925 in New York, New York expired 12-2-2002 in Brussels, Belgium   age 77   cause: complications from cancer

Polish labor leader  Anna Walentynowicz   her August 7, 1980 firing as a crane operator in Gdansk's Lenin shipyard sparked a strike, which spawned a labor movement (the Solidarity union), which brought down the Polish Communist regime born on 8-13-1929 in Rঋwne, Poland (now Rivne, Ukraine) expired 4-10-2010 in Smolensk, Russia   age 80   cause: plane crash

drugstore chain founder (1916)  Charles Rudolph Walgreen Sr. born on 10-9-1873 in Knox City, Illinois expired 12-11-1939 in Chicago, Illinois   age 66

former drugstore chain president (1939-63)  Charles Rudolph Walgreen Jr. born on 3-4-1906 in Chicago, Illinois expired 2-11-2007 in Northfield, Illinois   age 100    Contest Selectors 2002 MORB 9.1% 2003 COCO, JL 11.1% 2006 DTM 3.3% 2007 DTM 3.2%    Scored 5.0000 solo points

gospel singer  Albertina Walker   founder/leader of The Caravans gospel singing group ¤ Mrs. Reco Brooks  born on 8-28-1929 in Chicago, Illinoia expired 10-8-2010 in Chicago, Illinois   age 81   cause: respiratory failure; emphysema

R&B vocalist  Clarence "Tex" Walker   sang with the original Drifters and the Coasters born on 1-24-1946 in Winston-Salem, North Carolina expired 8-8-2007 in Woodstock, Oxfordshire, England   age 61   cause: heart attack

golfer  Cyril Walker   won 1924 U.S. Open (beating Bobby Jones); died penniless expired 8-6-1948 in Hackensack, New Jersey   age 56

Shuttle STS-51--A, 30 53 & 69 astronaut  David Mathieson Walker born on 5-20-1944 in Columbus, Georgia expired 4-23-2001 in Houston, Texas   age 56   cause: cancer

nudist & inventor  Edward Craven Walker   created the Astro Lamp (1963) --- it was later rechristened the Lava Lamp born on 7-4-1918 in Singapore, Malaysia expired 8-15-2000 in Ringwood, England   age 82   cause: cancer

Southern Methodist University halfback  Ewell Doak Walker Jr.   winner of the Heisman Trophy (1948) born on 1-1-1927 in Dallas, Texas expired 9-27-1998 in Steamboat Springs, Colorado   age 71   cause: complications from skiing accident    Contest Selectors 2000 ANG

movie director  Hal Walker   directed The Road to Utopia (1946) & The Road to Bali (1952); associate director on The Road to Zanzibar (1941) & The Road to Morroco (1942) born on 3-20-1896 in Ottumwa, Iowa expired 7-3-1972   age 76

Harold W. "Hal" Walker   former CBS & ABC news correspondent born on 7-2-1933 in South Carolina expired 11-25-2003 in Reston, Virginia   age 70   cause: prostate cancer

distiller  Hiram Walker born on 7-4-1816 in East Boston, Massachusetts expired 1-12-1899 in Detroit, Michigan   age 82

dapper politician  James John Joseph "Jimmy" Walker   mayor of New York City (1926-32); wrote Sidewalks of New York; played by Bob Hope in the movie Beau James (1957) ¤ nickname: "Beau James"  born on 6-19-1881 in New York, New York expired 11-18-1946 in New York, New York   age 65

sax player & band leader (the All Stars)  "Junior" Walker   had 1960s hit Shotgun ¤ real name: Autry DeWalt Jr.  born on 6-14-1942 in Blythesville, Arkansas expired 11-23-1995 in Battle Creek, Michigan   age 53

Congressional Medal of Honor recipient (1865) Dr.  Mary Edwards Walker   first woman physician in U.S. born on 11-26-1832 in Oswego, New York expired 2-21-1919 in Oswego, New York   age 86

actress  Nancy Walker   Bounty paper towel shill ¤ real name: Anna Myrtle Swoyer  born on 5-10-1921 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania expired 3-25-1992 in Studio City, California   age 70

movie actor  Robert Walker   (first) ex-husband of Jennifer Jones born on 10-13-1918 in Salt Lake City, Utah expired 8-28-1951 in Hollywood, California   age 32

Polk Treasury secretary (1845-49)  Robert James Walker   helped create the Interior Department (1849) born on 7-23-1801 in Northumberland, Pennsylvania expired 11-11-1869 in Washington, District of Columbia   age 68

Southern Harmony and Musical Companion pubisher (1835)  William Walker   set the words of Amazing Grace to a folk melody ("Harmony Grove") born on --1809 expired ??-??-1875 in Spartanburg, South Carolina   age 66

pro golfer  Arthur J. Wall Sr.   winner of the 1957 Masters tournament born on 11-25-1923 expired 10-31-2001 in Scranton, Pennsylvania   age 77   cause: respiratory failure

carpenter  Forrest A. Wall   model for Andrew Wyeth's "Man from Maine" born on 3-31-1896 in Togus, Maine expired 3-7-1980 in Togus, Maine   age 83

chemist Dr.  Monroe Eliot Wall   co-discoverer of anti-cancer tumor drugs Taxol (paclitaxel) & camptothecin born on 7-25-1916 in Newark, New Jersey expired 7-6-2002 in Chapel Hill, North Carolina   age 85   cause: heart & kidney failure

physician  Alfred Russell Wallace   independently proposed a theory of evolution in 1858 born on 1-8-1823 in Usk, England expired 11-7-1913 in Broadstone, England   age 90

gangsta rapper  Christopher G. Wallace ¤ known in the "hood" as "Notorious B.I.G." (now known as "Notorious D.E.A.D.") aka: "Biggie Smalls"  born on 5-21-1972 in New York, New York expired 3-9-1997 in Los Angeles, California   age 24   cause: shot to death

former Alabama 1st lady  Cornelia Ellis Snively Wallace   George's second wife (1971-78) born on 1-28-1939 in Alba, Alabama expired 1-8-2009 in Sebring, Florida   age 69   cause: cancer    Contest Selectors 1979 HA 7.7%

former Alabama governor (1962-65, 1970-73, 1974-77, 1982-87)  George Corley Wallace Jr.   husband of Lurleen and Cornelia; ran as independent for president in 1968 (with LeMay); shot by Arthur Bremer while campaigning at a Maryland shopping center (5/15/1972) born on 8-25-1919 in Clio, Alabama expired 9-13-1998 in Montgomery, Alabama   age 79   cause: respiratory & cardiac arrest    Contest Selectors 1979 HA, HP, JH, JW, MM, VM 46.2% 1980 EK, JH, MM 18.8%

actor  George D. Wallace   in his long career had three main sci-fi roles: Commando Cody in Radar Men From the Moon serial (1952), the Bosun on Forbidden Planet (1956) & Admiral Simons on the Star Trek: Next Generation episode Man of the People (October 1992) born on 6-8-1917 in New York, New York expired 7-22-2005 in Los Angeles, California   age 88   cause: complications from fall

SSAN 117-14-1664 Rec# 001a10121838 State=23 LRZ=49738 (Grayling) lived in Grayling in summers; E.L. in winters DyODth fm 3/10/86 LSJ pg 2B - full paid obit & news obit retired MSU zoology professor Dr.  George J. Wallace PhD.   as campus ornithologist conducted studies of DDT in the environment in the later 1950s that became a significant part of Rachel Carson's book The Silent Spring (1962) born on 12-9-1906 in Waterbury, Vermont expired 3-8-1986 in East Lansing, Michigan   age 79

FDR 3rd term vice president (1941-45)  Henry Agard Wallace   Truman Commerce Secretary (1945-46); ran for president in 1948 on the Progressive Party banner born on 10-7-1888 in Adair County, Iowa expired 11-18-1965 in Danbury, Connecticut   age 77

author  Irving Wallace ¤ real name: Irving Wallechinsky  born on 3-19-1916 in Chicago, Illinois expired 6-29-1990 in Los Angeles, California   age 74

Ben Hur author (1880)  Lewis Wallace   was a Union Army general in the Civil War born on 4-10-1827 in Brookville, Indiana expired 2-15-1905 in Crawfordsville, Indiana   age 77

Reader's Digest co-founder (1921) and editor (1921-65)  Lila Bell Acheson Wallace born on 12-25-1889 in Virden, Manitoba, Canada expired 5-8-1984 in Mount Kisco, New York   age 94

Alabama governor (1967-68)  Lurleen Burns Wallace   first wife of George C. Wallace born on 9-19-1926 in Tuscaloosa, Alabama expired 5-7-1968 in Montgomery, Alabama   age 41   cause: cancer

Peter Jon Wallace   son of newsman Mike expired 8-31-1962 in Corinth, Greece   age 19   cause: murdered

former lumberjack  Ray L. Wallace   prankster: responsible for many of the 1950s & 1960s Bigfoot "sightings" born on 4-21-1918 expired 11-26-2002 in Centralia, Washington   age 84   cause: heart failure

Micro Soft's ninth employee (1978)  Robert C. "Bob" Wallace   left in 1983 to form Quicksoft which marketed his shareware word processing program PC-Write; in 1960s worked on the Fress (file retrieval and editng system) hypertext editing system under Ted Nelson & Andries van Dam born on 5-29-1949 in Washington, District of Columbia expired 9-20-2002 in San Rafael, California   age 53

1920s blues singer  Sippie Wallace ¤ real name: Beulah Thomas nickname: "The Texas Nightingale"  born on 11-1-1898 in Houston, Texas expired 11-1-1986 in Detroit, Michigan   age 88    Contest Selectors 1980 DH 6.3%

Reader's Digest co-founder (1921)  William Roy Dewitt Wallace born on 11-12-1889 in Saint Paul, Minnesota expired 3-30-1981 in Mount Kisco, New York   age 91   cause: pneumonia

Otto Wallach   1910 Nobel chemistry prize winner born on 3-27-1847 in Königsberg, East Prussia, Germany expired 2-26-1931 in Göttingen, Germany   age 83

Swedish banker  Marcus Wallenberg born on 10-5-1899 in Stockholm, Sweden expired 9-13-1982 in Stockholm, Sweden   age 82

Swedish diplomat  Raoul Gustav Wallenberg   saved over 20,000 Hungarian Jews during World War II; arrested by Soviet Army, carted back to Russia & thrown into Lubyanka prison born on 8-4-1912 in Stockholm, Sweden expired 7-17-1947 in Moscow, Russia, USSR   age 34   cause: heart attack (or shot by KGB)

aerialist  Angel Elizabeth Wallenda ¤ born: Elizabeth Pintye  born on 3-20-1968 expired 5-3-1996 in Sayre, Pennsylvania   age 28   cause: cancer

aerialist & matriarch of the clan  Helen Kreis Wallenda   Karl's widow; last member of original troupe - she had the top spot on the pyramid born on 12-11-1910 in Germany expired 5-9-1996 in Sarasota, Florida   age 85

aerialist & patriarch of the clan  Karl Wallenda   leader of the "Flying Wallendas" high wire act; ultimately, in Dead Pool circles, they became known as the "Falling Wallendas" born on 1-21-1905 in Magdeburg, Germany expired 3-22-1978 in San Juan, Commonwealth of Puerto Rico   age 73   cause: 100 foot fall

tv writer  Ernest Ferrin Wallengren   wrote for The Waltons, Touched By An Angel, Baywatch, Little House on the Prairie, Falcon Crest, Knight Rider & others born on 12-15-1952 in Heber City, Utah expired 5-27-2003 in Calabasas, California   age 50   cause: ALS

conductor  Alfred Franz Wallenstein born on 10-7-1898 in Chicago, Illinois expired 2-10-1983 in New York, New York   age 84    Contest Selectors 1980 GP 6.3%

Lt.General  Calvin A.H. Waller   was deputy commander of U.S. forces in the Persian Gulf war born on 12-17-1937 expired 5-9-1996   age 58

bluegrass guitarist  Charles O. "Charlie" Waller born on 1-19-1935 in Joinerville, Texas expired 8-18-2004 in Gordonsville, Virginia   age 69   cause: heart attack

Frederick Waller   invented the Cinerama 3-D process; patented the first water skis born on 3-10-1886 in New York, New York expired 5-18-1954 in Huntington, New York   age 68

Gordon Trueman Riviere Waller   half of the 1960s singing duo Peter and Gordon born on 6-4-1945 in Braemar, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, UK expired 7-16-2009 in Connecticut   age 64   cause: cardiac arrest

author  Leslie Elson Waller   wrote The Banker (1963) & Dog Day Afternoon born on 4-1-1923 in Chicago, Illinois expired 3-29-2007 in Rochester, New York   age 83

jazz pianist  Thomas Wright "Fats" Waller   wrote Ain't Misbehavin' and Honeysuckle Rose born on 5-21-1904 in New York, New York expired 12-15-1943 in Kansas City, Missouri   age 39

actress  Deborah Walley   played Gidget in Gidget Goes Hawaiian (1961) born on 8-13-1943 in Bridgeport, Connecticut expired 5-10-2001 in Sedona, Arizona   age 57   cause: esophageal cancer

movie producer  Hal Brent Wallis   produced The Maltese Falcon (1941) and Casablanca (1942) born on 9-14-1899 in Chicago, Illinois expired 10-5-1986 in Rancho Mirage, California   age 87

ocean navigator  Samuel Wallis   discoverer of Easter Island and Tahiti during a round-the-world voyage (1766-68) born on 4-23-1728 in Fentonwoon, England expired 1-21-1795 in London, England   age 66

playwright  John Douglas Wallop III   wrote play The Year The Yankees Lost The Pennant (1954) that was the basis of the Broadway musical Damn Yankees! (1955) & 1958 movie born on 3-8-1920 in Washington, District of Columbia expired 4-1-1985 in Georgetown, Maryland   age 65

child crime victim  Adam Walsh   in July of 1981 was kidnapped in Hollywood, Florida; in August his severed head was found in nearby Vero Beach; son of John Walsh born on 11-14-1974 expired 7-27-1981 in Hollywood, Florida   age 6   cause: murdered

cartoonist & songwriter  J. Brandon Walsh   created the Little Annie Rooney comic strip expired 1-13-1955 in New York, New York   age 72

movie actor  J. T. Walsh ¤ real name: James Patrick Walsh  born on 9-28-1943 in San Francisco, California expired 2-27-1998 in La Mesa, California   age 54   cause: heart attack

character actress  Kathleen "Kay" Walsh   twice married: to David Lean (1940-49) & Elliot Jaques born on 8-27-1911 in London, England expired 4-16-2005 in London, England   age 93

Tenneco CEO  Michael Walsh born on 7-8-1942 expired 5-6-1994   age 51

movie director  Raoul Walsh ¤ born: Albert Edward Walsh  born on 3-11-1887 in New York, New York expired 12-31-1980 in Simi Valley, California   age 93   cause: heart attack

Montana senator (1913-33)  Thomas James Walsh   uncovered the Teapot Dome scandal (1923) born on 6-12-1859 in Two Rivers, Wisconsin expired 3-2-1933 in Wilson, North Carolina   age 73

director  William "Bill" Walsh   original director of the Mickey Mouse Club tv show; also directed The Absent-Minded Professor (1961) & Son of Flubber (1963) born on 9-30-1913 in New York, New York expired 1-27-1975 in Los Angeles, California   age 61   cause: cardiac arrest

college & pro football coach  William Ernest "Bill" Walsh   coached the San Francisco 49ers to three Super Bowl championships (1979-88) born on 11-30-1931 in Fremont, California expired 7-30-2007   age 75   cause: leukemia    Contest Selectors 2007 GOHI, MOT, OIE, QKU, RAVN 16.1%    Scored 5.1563 points

University of Maine hockey coach  William Sean Walsh   started his coaching career under Ron Mason at MSU born on 6-21-1955 in White Plains, New York expired 9-24-2001 in Bangor, Maine   age 46   cause: pneumonia; renal cell carcinoma

character actor and longtime Starfleet Academy groundskeeper  Ray Walston   won 1955 Tony for Damn Yankees!; played Uncle Martin (the Martian) on My Favorite Martian tv series (1963-66); played Boothby on Star Trek: Next Generation & Voyager born on 12-2-1914 in New Orleans, Louisiana expired 1-1-2001 in Beverly Hills, California   age 86   cause: lupus    Contest Selectors 2001 NFG 12½%    Scored 6.4000 solo points

conductor  Bruno Walter   protege of Mahler born on 9-15-1876 in Berlin, Germany expired 2-17-1962 in Beverly Hills, California   age 85

handwriting expert  Herbert J. Walter   linked the Lindbergh ransom note to Bruno Hauptman expired 7-16-1958 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada   age 78

architect  Thomas Ustick Walter   designed the U.S. Capitol Building's legislative wings and Dome born on 9-4-1804 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania expired 10-30-1887 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania   age 83

retired Herman Miller office furniture executive  Glenn Maurice Walters   developed the cubical concept for offices (1967) born on 5-13-1924 expired 4-18-2010 in Grand Rapids, Michigan   age 85

truck driver  Larry Walters   known for attaching 45 weather balloons to a lawn chair in 1982; wearing a parachute and carrying a CB radio, pellet gun and water bottle ballast he rocketed to 16,000 feet, amazing airline pilots and pissing-off the FAA; after shooting out several balloons (then dropping the gun) he gently floated to a soft landing in some power lines; was ineligible to win a Darwin Award: he survived the stunt born on 4-19-1949 in Los Angeles County, California expired 10-6-1993 in Angeles National Forest, California   age 44   cause: suicide; gunshot to heart

NYC Latin Quarter owner (1942-67)  Lou Walters   father of ABC News person Barbara expired 8-15-1977 in Miami, Florida   age 81   cause: heart attack

former Deputy Director of the CIA General  Vernon Anthony Walters   also U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. (1985-89) born on 1-3-1917 in New York, New York expired 2-11-2002 in West Palm Beach, Florida   age 85

physicist  Ernest Thomas Sinton Walton   shared the 1951 Nobel prize in physics born on 10-6-1903 in Dungarvan, County Waterford, Ireland expired 6-25-1995 in Belfast, Northern Ireland   age 91

Walmart co-founder  Helen Robson Walton   mother of Alice, Jim, John & S.R. born on 12-13-1919 in Claremore, Oklahoma expired 4-19-2007 in Bentonville, Arkansas   age 87    Contest Selectors 2007 DGW, KLS 6.5%    Scored 5.0500 points

author, trout fisherman  Izaak Walton   wrote a biography of John Donne & The Compleat Angler (1676) born on 8-9-1593 in Staffordshire, England expired 12-15-1683 in Winchester, England   age 90

Walmart billionaire  John Thomas Walton   was a Special Forces medic in Vietnam, earning the Silver Star born on 10-8-1946 expired 6-27-2005 in Jackson Hole, Wyoming   age 58   cause: ultra-light plane crash

Great Lakes sailor  Ralph Grant Walton   Oiler aboard the Edmund Fitzgerald born on 7-22-1917 expired 11-10-1975 in Eastern Lake Superior, Canada   age 58   cause: drowned when ship foundered

WalMart co-founder  Samuel Moore Walton born on 3-29-1918 in Kingfisher, Oklahoma expired 4-5-1992 in Little Rock, Arkansas   age 74

composer Sir  William Turner Walton born on 3-29-1902 in Oldham, England expired 3-8-1983 in Ischia, Italy   age 80

Marilyn Ardith Waltz   Playboy February 1954 Playmate of Month (under assumed name) and April 1954 & April 1955 Playmate of Month (under real name); Playboy had listed her Date/Place Of Birth as 4/7/1926 in Chicago; DOB used from her obituary & SSDI ¤ married name: Marilyn Ardith Jordan Mrs. Breck Jordan aka: Margaret Scott  born on 11-5-1931 in Waukesha, Wisconsin expired 12-23-2006 in Medford, Oregon   age 75

actor, director  Sam Wanamaker born on 6-14-1919 in Chicago, Illinois expired 12-18-1993   age 74

orchestra conductor  Günter Wand born on 1-7-1912 in Elberfeld, Germany expired 2-14-2002 in Ulmiz, Switzerland   age 90

legendary pool hustler  Rudolf Walter Wanderone ¤ aka: "Minnesota Fats"  born on 1-19-1900 in New York, New York expired 1-18-1996 in Nashville, Tennessee   age 95   cause: congestive heart failure    Contest Selectors 1980 BD 6.3%

magnetic computer core inventor  An Wang   founded Wang Laboratories (1951) born on 2-7-1920 in Shanghai, China expired 3-2-1990 in Boston, Massachusetts   age 70

movie producer  Walter Wanger   one-time husband of Joan Bennett ¤ real name: Walter Feuchtwanger  born on 7-11-1894 in San Francisco, California expired 11-18-1968 in New York, New York   age 74   cause: heart attack

troubled tv journalist  Suzanne M. Wangler   worked here in Lansing as a weekend news anchor for WILX tv in 1990, then went on to anchor/report for a number of Detroit-area stations; after her divorce she found herself charged with shoplifting $600 worth of groceries, a DUI conviction, lost custody of her kids and charges of embezzlement of an ex-boyfriend/client's money ($149,000 worth; she had been licensed to sell annuities); in September 2007 she was back in Lansing, this time slumming for the low-rent WLAJ tv news department as their weeknight news anchor (at least, until she was charged in the embezzlement — she resigned 2/14/08 "for personal reasons"); WXYZ tv in Detroit aired a story about her arrest on Friday 2/22, she went to the Royal Oak cop shop on Saturday to blow her required blood alcohol test, then went back to her home and hanged herself in the basement (all of the utilities had been turned off, the indoor temperature was 32° & the house was about to be foreclosed) ¤ née: Pagella aka: "Suzanne Page"  born on 4-4-1964 in Beaver, Pennsylvania expired 2-23-2008 in Royal Oak, Michigan   age 43   cause: suicide; hanged AKS: The day after she resigned we were treated to a newscast anchored by Bill Albin — hey there, dude ... bet you never thought you'd be working as a tabloid tv cameraman/reporter! Sure beats being a computer hacker, army grunt or security guard.

radical Maoist  Wang Li   architect of China's "Cultural Revolution" debacle; eventually Mao turned on him expired 10-21-1996 in Beijing, China   age 75   cause: stomach cancer

rotary combustion engine inventor  Felix Heinrich Wankel born on 8-13-1902 in Lahr,Swabia, Germany expired 10-9-1988 in Lindau, Germany   age 86

journalista  Jude T. Wanniski   coined the term "supply-side economics" (1974) born on 6-17-1936 in Pottsville, Pennsylvania expired 8-30-2005 in Morristown, New Jersey   age 69   cause: heart attack

Dr.  Otto Heinrich Warburg   was the 1931 Nobel medicine laureate born on 10-8-1883 in Freiburg, Baden, Germany expired 8-1-1970 in Berlin, Germany   age 86

mail order merchandising company founder (1872)  Aaron Montgomery Ward born on 2-17-1844 in Chatham, New Jersey expired 12-8-1913 in Chicago, Illinois   age 69   cause: pulmonary edema

cartoonist  Bill Ward   worked on Captain America comic book & Cracked magazine born on 3-6-1919 expired 11-17-1998   age 79

Rocky & Bullwinkle producer  Jay Troplong Ward ¤ born: J Troplong Ward  born on 9-21-1920 in San Francisco, California expired 10-12-1989 in Los Angeles, California   age 69

World War II Marine  Philip Ward   part of the first Marine patrol that reached the summit of Mt. Suribachi and hoisted an American flag; a second, large flag was taken up & it's raising was shot by AP photographer Joe Rosenthal born on 3-10-1926 in Linnsburg, Indiana expired 12-28-2005 in McAllen, Texas   age 79

former race car driver  Rodger Ward Sr.   won 1959 & 1962 Indianapolis 500 born on 1-10-1921 in Beloit, Wisconsin expired 7-5-2004 in Anaheim, California   age 83

church organist  Samuel Augustus Ward   in 1882 wrote church hymn O Mother Dear Jerusalem (aka Materna) inspired by a day with his family at Coney Island; it was eventually paired with the poem America the Beautiful born on 12-28-1847 in Newark, New Jersey expired 9-28-1903 in Newark, New Jersey   age 55

actor  Jack Warden   played both Fuchs Brothers (Roy & Luke) in Used Cars (1980) & athletic trainer Max Corkle in the remake of Here Comes Mr. Jordan (Heaven Can Wait) ¤ born: John H. Lebzelter  born on 9-18-1920 in Newark, New Jersey expired 7-19-2006 in New York, New York   age 85    Contest Selectors 2005 BYE 4.3% 2006 BYE 3.3%    Scored 6.5000 solo points

character actress  Herta Ware   first wife of Will Geer; played Jean-Luc Picard's grandmother on Star Trek: The Next Generation born on 6-9-1917 in Wilmington, Delaware expired 8-15-2005 in Topanga, California   age 88

egghead barrister  Lancelot Lionel Ware   co-founded Mensa (1946); the group's original name: "the High IQ Club") born on 6-5-1915 in Mitcham, Surrey, England expired 8-15-2000 in Surrey, England   age 85

philathropist  Harry P. Wareham   coined term Community Chest (1919) for use with public fund drives expired 6-11-1951 in Westport, Connecticut   age 68

bass-baritone singer  William C. Warfield   known for portraying Porgy; had been married to Leontyne Price (1952-72) born on 1-22-1920 in West Helena, Arkansas expired 8-25-2002 in Chicago, Illinois   age 82   cause: complications from a broken neck

pop culture artist  Andy Warhol   shot by wacko Valerie Solanis (6/3/1968); notable quote: "In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." ¤ born: Andrew Warhola  born on 8-6-1928 in Forest City, Pennsylvania expired 2-22-1987 in New York, New York   age 58   cause: complications from gall bladder surgery    Contest Selectors 1979 DW, JH 15.4% 1980 DW 6.3%

bandleader & blender inventor  Fred Malcolm Waring born on 6-9-1900 in Tyrone, Pennsylvania expired 7-29-1984 in State College, Pennsylvania   age 84

former world-class pole vaulter  Cornelius Anthony Warmerdam   first to clear 15 feet (April 1940); won 1942 Sullivan Award born on 6-22-1915 in San Joaquin Valley, California expired 11-13-2001 in Fresno, California   age 86   cause: Alzheimer's disease

acting ship's captain  William F. Warms   placed in command of the Morro Castle hours before fire began expired 5-14-1953 in New York, New York   age 66

movie pioneer  Albert Warner   co-founded the Warner Brothers studio (1923) with Harry, Jack & Samuel ¤ born: Albert Eichelbaum  born on 7-23-1883 expired 11-26-1967 in Miami Beach, Florida   age 84

industrialist  Arthur Pratt Warner   co-inventor of the automobile speedometer in 1904; co-founder of Warner Instruments (1912; it later became Stewart-Warner Co.) born on 4-18-1870 in Jacksonville, Florida expired 3-22-1957 in Beloit, Wisconsin   age 86

industrialist  Charles Henry Warner   co-inventor of the automobile speedometer in 1904; co-founder of Warner Instruments (1912; it later became Stewart-Warner Co.) born on 3-13-1872 in Wisconsin expired 1-6-1944 in San Marino, California   age 71

former City College forward  Edward L. Warner Sr.   member of only team to win both the NCAA & NIT championships in same year (1950); later convicted in point shaving scandal born on 7-5-1929 expired 9-7-2002 in New York, New York   age 73

college football coach  Glenn Scobey "Pop" Warner born on 4-5-1871 in Springville, New York expired 9-7-1954 in Palo Alto, California   age 83

movie pioneer  Harry Morris Warner   co-founded the Warner Brothers studio (1923) with Albert, Jack & Samuel ¤ born: Harry Morris Eichelbaum  born on 12-12-1881 in Krasnosielc, Poland, Russian Empire expired 7-25-1958 in Hollywood, California   age 76

character actor  Henry Byron Charles Stewart Warner ¤ born: Henry Byron Charles Stewart Warner-Lickford  born on 10-26-1875 in St. John's Wood, London, England expired 12-21-1958 in Hollywood, California   age 83

movie pioneer  Jack L. Warner   co-founded the Warner Brothers studio (1923) with Albert, Harry & Samuel ¤ born: Jack L. Eichelbaum  born on 8-2-1892 in London, Ontario, Canada expired 9-9-1978 in Los Angeles, California   age 86   cause: heart inflamation

movie pioneer  Samuel Louis Warner   co-founded the Warner Brothers studio (1923) with Albert, Harry & Jack; was married to actress Lina Basquette; acknowledged as the "Father of Talking Pictures" --- he convinced his siblings to go into a partnership with Western Electric, forming the Vitaphone Company --- the result was The Jazz Singer with Al Jolson; Sam died the night before the movie's premiere ¤ born: Samuel Louis Eichelbaum  born on 8-10-1887 in Baltimore, Maryland expired 10-5-1927   age 40

Liberty Records founder (1955)  Simon Waronker   featured artists like Julie London, Martin Denny, Eddie Cochran, Gene McDaniels, Buddy Knox, The Rivingtons & Alvin and the Chipmunks (NOTE: the Chipmunks were named after Liberty president Alvin Bennett, Waronker and chief engineer Theodore Keep) born on 3-4-1915 in Los Angeles, California expired 6-7-2005 in Beverly Hills, California   age 90

inventor  David Ronald de Mey Warren   inventor of the "black box" flight data recorder (the Aeronautical Reasearch Laboratories Flight Memory Unit; 1956) born on 3-20-1925 in Groote Eylandt, Australia expired 7-19-2010 in Melbourne, Australia   age 85

former Chief Justice (1953-69)  Earl Warren   California governor (1942-53); led court that issued the Brown vs. Topeka Board of Education & Miranda rulings; headed Commission that investigated the assassinatin of JFK born on 3-19-1891 in Los Angeles, California expired 7-9-1974 in Washington, District of Columbia   age 83   cause: congestive heart failure

musical composer  Harry Warren   partnered with Al Dubin on numerous Busby Berkeley musicals; also wrote songs for Cinderfella (1961); won iscars for Lullaby of Broadway (1935), You'll Never Know (1940) & On the Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe (1946) ¤ born: Salvatore Guaragna  born on 12-24-1893 in New York, New York expired 9-22-1981 in Los Angeles, California   age 83

former U.S. Poet Laureate (1986-87)  Robert Penn Warren   wrote All The King's Men (1946) born on 4-24-1905 in Guthrie, Kentucky expired 9-15-1989 in Stratton, Vermont   age 84    Contest Selectors 1980 GP 6.3%

architect  Whitney Warren   designed Grand Central Terminal in New York City born on 1-29-1864 in New York, New York expired 1-24-1943 in New York, New York   age 78

Dow Corning chemist Dr.  Earl L. Warrick   a claimant for co-inventor of Silly Putty born on 9-23-1911 in Butler, Pennsylvania expired 11-15-2002 in Loma Linda, California   age 91

Harley E. Warrick   painted barns with Mail Pouch Tobacco advertising born on 10-5-1924 in Belmont County, Ohio expired 11-24-2000 in Wheeling, West Virginia   age 76   cause: abdominal aneurism

character actress  Ruth Warrick   played Emily Monroe Norton Kane, first wife of Charles Foster Kane in Citizen Kane (1941), Sally, the mother in Song of the South (1946) & Phoebe English Tyler Wallingford on All My Children soap opera (1970-2005) born on 6-29-1916 in Saint Joseph, Missouri expired 1-15-2005 in New York, New York   age 88   cause: complications from pneumonia    Contest Selectors 2004 RR 5.6% 2005 NFG, RR 8.7%    Scored 4.9500 points

academician  Eugene C. Warriner   was president of Central Michigan College )1918-39) born on --1866 in Earlville, Dixon County, Illinois expired 7-20-1945 in Petoskey, Michigan   age 78

Dr.  Myron A. Warriner   created a scandal in 1935 by killing a "hopelessly wounded" patient in North Brookfield, Massachusetts (paging Dr. Kevorkian) expired 12-18-1943 in Bridgeport, Connecticut   age 87

scientist  Booker Taliaferro Washington born on 4-5-1856 in Franklin City, Virginia expired 11-14-1915 in Tuskegee, Alabama   age 59

blues singer  Dinah Washington   sang with the Lionel Hampton Band (1943-49); wife of Detroit Lions player Dick Lane ¤ born: Ruth Jones  born on 8-29-1924 in Tuscaloosa, Alabama expired 12-14-1963 in Detroit, Michigan   age 39   cause: overdose of sleeping pills and alcohol

oscar-winning songwriter  Edward "Ned" Washington   wrote When You Wish Upon a Star for Pinocchio (1940) & the theme for High Noon (1952) born on 8-15-1901 in Scranton, Pennsylvania expired 12-20-1976 in Los Angeles, California   age 75   cause: heart ailment

Revolutionary War Commanding General (1775-83)  George Washington   first U.S. president under Constitution of 1789 (May 1, 1789-97); namesake of Washington, District of Columbia and the state born on 2-22-1732 in Westmoreland, Virginia expired 12-14-1799 in Mount Vernon, Virginia   age 67   cause: infected epiglottis

jazz saxophonist  Grover Washington Jr. born on 12-12-1943 in Buffalo, New York expired 12-17-1999 in New York, New York   age 56   cause: heart attack

former Chicago mayor  Harold Washington born on 4-15-1922 in Chicago, Illinois expired 11-25-1987 in Chicago, Illinois   age 65   cause: heart attack

UCLA (1937-39) & L.A. Rams football player  Kenneth "Kenny" Washington born on 8-31-1918 expired 6-24-1971 in Los Angeles, California   age 52   cause: polyarteritis

actor  Lamont Washington   starred in original Broadway cast of Hair born on 7-4-1943 expired 8-25-1968 in New York, New York   age 25

1920s & 30s Black athlete  Ora Mae Washington   won ATA women's singles title (1924); played basketball with Philadelphia Hustle women's barnstorming team; inducted into Black Athletes Hall of Fame (1976) ¤ born: Ora Belle Washington  born on 1-16-1899 in Caroline County, Virginia expired 5-28-1971   age 72

violent crimimal  Raymond Lee Washington   founder of the L.A. protection racket gang the Crips born on 8-14-1953 in Texas expired 8-9-1979 in Los Angeles, California   age 26   cause: shotgun blast to gut

NRA president (1994-95)  Thomas L. Washington born on 7-15-1937 expired 12-5-1995   age 58

former Washington D.C. mayor (apointed & elected)  Walter Edward Washington born on 4-15-1919 in Dawson, Georgia expired 10-27-2003 in Washington, District of Columbia   age 84

S.African businessman  Louis Washkansky   first heart transplant recipient December 3, 1967 (performed by Dr. Christiaan Barnard) born on --1913 in Lithuania expired 12-21-1967 in Capetown, South Africa   age 54   cause: double pneumonia; failure of transplanted heart

former prosepector  Frank Hinman Waskey   Alaska's first territorial representative in congress (1906-7) born on 4-20-1875 in Lake City, Minnesota expired 1-25-1964 in Oakville, Washington   age 88

filmmaker & tv documentarian  Albert Wasserman   won a Best Documentary Short Subject oscar for First Steps (1947); worked as a 60 Minutes producer (1976-86) born on 2-9-1921 in New York, New York expired 3-31-2005 in New York, New York   age 84   cause: lung cancer

playwright  Dale Wasserman   wrote novel Man of La Mancha (1965) which was based upon his earlier tv drama I, Don Quixote (1959); also wrote the stage version of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - it bombed when produced born on 11-2-1914 in Rhinelander, Wisconsin expired 12-21-2008 in Paradise Valley, Arizona   age 94   cause: congestive heart failure

former MCA president (1946-95)  Lewis Robert Wasserman born on 3-15-1913 in Cleveland, Ohio expired 6-3-2002 in Beverly Hills, California   age 89   cause: complications from stroke

plywright  Wendy Wasserstein   wrote The Heidi Chronicles (1989) born on 10-18-1950 in Brooklyn, New York, New York expired 1-30-2006 in New York, New York   age 55   cause: lymphoma    Contest Selectors 2006 DTM, LMLD, QKU, TBC 13.3%    Scored 7.3125 points

radio actor  Willard Waterman   played Throckmorton P. Gildersleeve born on 8-14-1914 in Madison, Wisconsin expired 2-2-1996 in Burlingame, California   age 81   cause: bone marrow disease

jazz sax & clarinetist  Benny Waters born on 1-23-1902 in Brighton, Maryland expired 8-11-1998   age 96

desperado  David Roland Waters   one of the gang that murdered/dismembered Madalyn Murray O'Hair born on --1947 in Peoria, Illinois expired 1-27-2003 in Butler, North Carolina   age 55   cause: lung cancer; hepatitis

actress and blues & gospel singer  Ethel Waters born on 10-3-1896 in Chester, Pennsylvania expired 9-1-1977 in Chatsworth, California   age 80   cause: kidney & heart failure

former MSU football coach  Franklin D. "Muddy" Waters II born on 1-30-1923 in Wallingford, Connecticut expired 9-20-2006 in Saginaw, Michigan   age 83   cause: congestive heart failure

blues artist  "Muddy" Waters ¤ real name: McKinley Morganfield  born on 4-4-1915 in Rolling Fork, Mississippi expired 4-30-1983 in Chicago, Illinois   age 68

W.Carolina football coach  Robert Lee "Bob" Waters born on 6-22-1938 in Millen, Georgia expired 5-29-1989 in Callowhee, North Carolina   age 50   cause: ALS

assassination plotter  Georges Watin   novel & movie Day of the Jackal based upon his involvement in the attempt to assassinate French President Charles de Gaulle on 8-22-62 expired 2-19-1994 in Asuncion, Paraguay   age 71   cause: heart attack

former Utah senator (1947-58)  Arthur V. Watkins   chairman of committee that censured Joe McCarthy for "contemptuous, contumacious, denunciatory, unworthy, inexcusable and reprehensible" conduct born on 12-18-1886 in Midway, Utah expired 9-1-1973 in Orem, Utah   age 86

former IBM executive  Arthur Kittredge Watson   son of Thomas J. Sr. born on 4-23-1919 in Summit, New Jersey expired 7-26-1974 in Norwalk, Connecticut   age 55

(mainly) child actor  Bobs Watson   played Pee Wee in Boys Town (1938) & Hitler in short subject The Devil With Hitler (1942) born on 11-16-1930 in Los Angeles, California expired 6-27-1999 in Laguna Beach, California   age 68   cause: prostate cancer

"expendable" character actor  Bruce E. Watson   was the nephew of Gene Lockhart and cousin of June Lockhart; played crewman Green in original Star Trek epsiode The Man Trap (1966; first episode to air) — he "died" even though he wasn't wearing a red shirt born on 7-27-1940 expired 6-11-2009 in Albuquerque, New Mexico   age 68   cause: suicide; gunshot; mental illness

kid actor-turned-news photographer  Delmar Watson   appeared in four Our Gang shorts (1930s), as boy with slingshot in You Can't Cheat An Honest Man (1939) & A Christmas Carol (1938; as snowballer in gang) born on 7-1-1926 in Los Angeles, California expired 10-26-2008 in Glendale, California   age 82   cause: prostate cancer

dedicated herbivore  Donald Watson   founder of the Vegan Society (he coined the term "vegan") born on 9-2-1910 in Mexborough, South Yorkshire, England expired 11-16-2005 in Keswick, England   age 95

blues musician  Johnny "Guitar" Watson born on 2-3-1935 in Houston, Texas expired 5-17-1996 in Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan   age 61   cause: myocardial infarction

Ziegfeld Follies girl  Marion Wilson Watson   one of the "Ladies in Black" that visited Rudolph Valentino's grave on the anniversary of his death ¤ born: Marion Benda  expired 11-30-1951 in Hollywood, California   age 45

Bell assistant  Thomas Augustus Watson   received first telephone call on March 10, 1876 born on 1-18-1854 in Salem, Massachusetts expired 12-13-1934 in Pass-Grille Key, Florida   age 80   cause: heart disease

IBM founder  Thomas John Watson Sr.   renamed the successor of Hollerith's tabulating machine company born on 2-17-1874 in Campbell, New York expired 6-19-1956 in New York, New York   age 82

former IBM chairman  Thomas John Watson Jr.   son of its founder born on 1-8-1914 in Dayton, Ohio expired 12-31-1993 in Greenwich, Connecticut   age 79

Sir  Robert Watson-Watt   inventor of the first "practical" radar system born on 4-13-1892 in Brechlin, Angusshire, Scotland expired 12-5-1973 in Inverness, Scotland   age 81

Zen Buddhist hippie icon  Alan Wilson Watts   in his youth he was inspired by the Dr. Fu Manchu detective stories born on 1-6-1915 in Chislehurst, Kent, England expired 11-16-1973 in Mill Valley, California   age 58   cause: heart failure

confessed serial killer  Coral Eugene Watts   admitted to having killed Jeanne Clyne (10/31/1979), Linda Tilley (9/5/1981), Elizabeth Montgomery (9/13/1981), Susan Wolf (9/12/1981), Phyllis Tamm (1/4/1982), Margaret Fossi (1/17/1982), Alice Martell (1/29/1982), Edna Semander (2/7/1982), Emily LaQua (3/20/1982), Edith Ledet (3/27/1982), Yolanda Gracia (4/15/1982), Carrie Jefferson (4/16/1982), Suzanne Searles (4/21/1982) & Michelle Maday (5/23/1982); also admitted trying to kill Julia Sanchez (1/17/1982), Patty Johnson (1/30/1982), Glenda Kirby (3/27/1982), Lori Lister (5/23/1982) & Melinda Aguilar (5/23/1982); convicted of the murder of Helen Dutcher in Michigan — sentenced to life without parole for that murder as well as the 1974 stabbing death of Western Michigan University student Gloria Steele (age 19; stabbed 30 times) born on 11-7-1953 in Fort Hood, Texas expired 9-21-2007 in Jackson, Michigan   age 53   cause: prostate cancer

mystery writer  Hillary Waugh born on 6-22-1920 in New Haven, Connecticut expired 12-8-2008 in Torrington, Connecticut   age 88

inventor  Elmer H. Wavering   with Bill Lear built the first commercial car radio (called the Motorola by Paul Galvin); developed first car alternator; later became president of Motorola born on 4-22-1907 in Quincy, Illinois expired 11-20-1998 in Naples, Florida   age 91

character actor  Albert Samuel Waxman   had title role in Canadian tv series King of Kensington (1975); played Lt. Bart Samuels in Cagney and Lacey tv cop series (1982-88) born on 3-2-1935 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada expired 1-17-2001 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada   age 65   cause: heart failure during heart surgery

movie composer  Franz Waxman born on 12-24-1906 in Köonigsbutte, Silezia, Germany (now Chorzow, Poland) expired 2-24-1967 in Los Angeles, California   age 60   cause: cancer

horticulturalist Dr.  Sidney Waxman   using the cones from "witches's brooms" on evergreens developed numerous dwarf pine varieties ("Sand Castle," "Sea Urchin," "Blue Shag") born on 11-13-1923 in Providence, Rhode Island expired 2-10-2005 in Storrs, Connecticut   age 81   cause: transitional cell carcinoma

former Sierra Club president (1961-64 & 1967-69) Dr.  Edgar A. Wayburn born on 9-17-1906 in Macon, Georgia expired 3-5-2010 in San Francisco, California   age 103    Contest Selectors 2001 ANG 12½% 2003 COCO 5.6% 2009 GOHI 3.3%

character actress  Kellie Suzanne Waymire   appeared on Star Trek: Voyager (as Lanya in the episode Muse), Star Trek: Enterprise (as Elizabeth Cutler) and Six Feet Under born on 7-27-1967 in Columbus, Ohio expired 11-13-2003 in Venice, California   age 36   cause: cardiac arrhythmia; mitral valve prolapse

songwriter  Bernie Wayne   wrote Blue Velvet and There She Is, Miss America (1954) born on 3-6-1919 expired 4-18-1993 in Marina del Rey, California   age 74

busty Tonight Show "Tea-Time Movie" lady  Carol Wayne   sister of Nina Wayne; did February 1984 Playboy pictorial; last person to see her alive: Edward Durston --- people saw Ed & Carol having a fight; he says she went for a walk down by the beach to "cool off" (she was afraid of the water); she turns up floating in the bay three days later, but he checked out of the hotel three days earlier... hmmm, the alibi appears to be weak born on 9-6-1942 in Chicago, Illinois expired 1-10-1985 in Manzanillo, Mexico   age 42   cause: "drowned" (an assisted non-suicide?)

actor  David Wayne ¤ born: Wayne David McKeeken  born on 1-30-1914 in Traverse City, Michigan expired 2-10-1995 in Santa Monica, California   age 81

actor  John Wayne Sr.   irradiated during production of The Conquerer (1956); directed The Alamo (1960) ¤ born: Marion Robert Morrison nickname: "The Duke"  born on 5-26-1907 in Winterset, Iowa expired 6-12-1979 in Los Angeles, California   age 72   cause: stomach & lung cancer    Contest Selectors 1979 DW, HA, HFS, HP, MS, SB, VM, YJ 61.5%    Scored 3 points

Canadian comedian  Johnny Wayne   of Wayne and Shuster born on 5-28-1918 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada expired 7-18-1990 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada   age 72

movie producer  Michael Wayne   son of the Duke ¤ born: Michael Anthony Morrison  born on 11-23-1934 in Los Angeles, California expired 4-2-2003 in Burbank, California   age 68   cause: heart failure; complications from lupus

1919 Chicago White Sox player  George Davis "Buck" Weaver   despite claims of innocence, banned for life from baseball for "involvement" in Black Sox scandal born on 8-18-1890 in Stowe, Pennsylvania expired 1-31-1956   age 65   cause: heart attack

Jackson Weaver   one of Smokey the Bear's voices born on 9-3-1920 expired 10-20-1992   age 72

roofing contractor  Sylvester Laflin Weaver Sr.   father of Doodles & Pat; grandfather of Sigourney expired 9-12-1958 in Los Angeles, California   age 80

former NBC honcho  Sylvester Laflin "Pat" Weaver Jr.   son of Sylvester Sr.; father of Sigourney; created the Today, Tonight and Tomorrow shows for the network born on 12-21-1908 in Los Angeles, California expired 3-15-2002 in Santa Barbara, California   age 93   cause: pneumonia

actor  William Dennis Weaver   played deputy Chester Goode on Gunsmoke (1955-64), Tom Wedloe on Gentle Ben (1966-68) & Sam McCloud on McCloud (1970-77) born on 6-4-1924 in Joplin, Missouri expired 2-24-2006 in Ridgway, Colorado   age 81   cause: complications from cancer

comedian & actor  Winstead Sheffield "Doodles" Weaver   played Salty Sam in Kitten with a Whip (1965); brother of Pat; uncle of Sigourney born on 5-11-1911 in Los Angeles, California expired 1-17-1983 in Los Angeles, California   age 71   cause: suicide

Dr. Acer victim  Barbara Webb ¤ aka: "Patient B"  born on 3-3-1926 expired 12-17-1993 in Stuart, Florida   age 68   cause: AIDS

debonaire actor  Clifton Webb   played columnist Waldo Lydecker in Laura (1944) and Mr. Belvedere in three movies ¤ real name: Webb Parmalee Hollenbeck  born on 11-11-1889 in Indianapolis, Indiana expired 10-13-1966 in Beverly Hills, California   age 76

hotel & casino owner  Del Webb   built Sun City, Arizona born on 5-17-1899 in Fresno, California expired 7-4-1974 in Rochester, Minnesota   age 75   cause: complications after surgery for lung cancer

aeronatuical engineer  Everette L. Webb   co-designer of the Boeing 747 born on 9-5-1921 expired 7-2-2002 in Seattle, Washington   age 80   cause: heart failure

discredited journalist  Gary S. Webb   in 1996 while working at the San Jose Mercury newspaper dreamed up a series of articles that claimed that the CIA was involved in the spread of crack cocaine in Los Angeles through Nicaraguan drug dealers born on 8-31-1955 expired 12-9-2004 in Carmichael, California   age 49   cause: suicide; self-inflicted gunshot wound

stiff actor  Jack Webb   was married to Julie London 1947-53 born on 4-2-1920 in Santa Monica, California expired 12-23-1982   age 62   cause: heart attack    Contest Selectors 1980 DR 6.3%

NASA administrator (1961-68)  James Edwin Webb born on 10-7-1906 in Granville City, North Carolina expired 3-27-1992 in Washington, District of Columbia   age 85

screenwriter  James R. Webb   received 1963 oscar for How The West Was Won; also wrote Cape Fear born on 10-4-1909 in Denver, California expired 9-27-1974 in Los Angeles, California   age 64

industrialist  Jervis Bennett Webb   builder of conveyor equipment for mass production businesses (like the auto industry) expired 12-21-1952 in Birmingham, Michigan   age 61

actor  Richard Webb   played Captain Midnight on tv born on 9-9-1915 in Bloomington, Indiana expired 6-10-1993 in Van Nuys, California   age 77   cause: suicide

Cannon Ball Express railroad fireman  Simon Taylor "Sim" Webb   jumped from train just before it plowed into a stalled freight in 1900 (engineer Casey Jones went down with the locomotive) expired 7-13-1957 in Memphis, Tennessee   age 83

actor  Robert Webber born on 10-14-1924 in Santa Ana, California expired 4-19-1989 in Malibu, California   age 64

physicist Dr.  Joseph Weber   did pioneering work in Lasers & gravitational wave detection born on 5-17-1919 in Paterson, New Jersey expired 9-30-2000 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania   age 81   cause: complications from treatment for non-Hodgkins lymphoma

pro bowler  Richard Anthony "Dick" Weber   father of bowler Pete Weber born on 12-23-1929 in Indianapolis, Indiana expired 2-13-2005 in Florissant, Missouri   age 75 AKS: Webber

actor  Benjamin Webster   husband of Dame May Whitty expired 2-26-1947 in Hollywood, California   age 82   cause: complications following an operation

orator, Massachusetts senator (1826-50), Fillmore Secretary of State (1850-52)  Daniel Webster born on 1-18-1782 in Salisbury, New Hampshire expired 10-24-1852 in Marshfield, Massachusetts   age 70

two-time All-American football player  George Webster   lost a Supreme Court case to have his disability pension increased born on 11-25-1945 in Anderson, South Carolina expired 4-19-2007 in Houston, Texas   age 61   cause: heart failure    Contest Selectors 2000 ANG 14% 2001 ANG 12½% 2003 ANG 5.6% 2004 ANG 5.6% 2005 ANG 4.3% 2006 ANG 3.3%

boogie-woogie pianist & singer  Katie Webster ¤ aka: "Swamp Boogie Queen" born: Kathryn Jewel Thorne  born on 1-11-1936 in Houston, Texas expired 9-5-1999 in League City, Texas   age 63   cause: heart failure

former Steelers hall-of-fame center (1974-88)  Michael L. "Mike" Webster   suffered too many blows to the head born on 3-18-1952 in Tomahawk, Wisconsin expired 9-24-2002 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania   age 50   cause: heart attack

tv documentary maker  Nicholas Webster   also directed Santa Claus Conquers the Martians (1964) born on 7-24-1912 expired 8-12-2006 in Santa Monica, California   age 94

Baja Marimba Band founder  Julius Wechter   composed Spanish Flea (Dating Game theme song) while with the Tijuana Brass born on 5-10-1935 in Los Angeles, California expired 2-1-1999 in Los Angeles, California   age 63   cause: lung cancer AKS: Wechtner

ALS victim  Charles William "Charlie" Wedemeyer   youngest brother of Herman born on 2-19-1946 in Honolulu, Oahu, Hawaiian Territory expired 6-3-2010 in San Jose, California   age 64   cause: pneumonia; ALS    Contest Selectors 2000 ANG 14% 2001 ANG 12½% 2002 ANG, JAC 18.2% 2003 ANG, PCD 11.1% 2004 ANG, PCD 11.1% 2005 ANG, PCD 8.7% 2006 ANG, PCD 6.7% 2007 ANG, PCD 6.5% 2008 PCD, SPIT 6.3% 2009 GOHI, PCD 6.7% 2010 DTM, PCD 7.4%    Scored 7.3500 points

Hawaii 5-0 actor  Herman John Wedemeyer   played Duke Lukela; oldest brother of Charlie Wedemeyer born on 5-20-1924 in Hilo, Hawaii expired 1-25-1999 in Honolulu, Hawaii   age 74   cause: heart attack

Met Opera baritone  Robert Weede   appeared in Broadway musicals including The Most Happy Fellow ¤ real name: Robert Wiedefeld  born on 2-22-1903 in Baltimore, Maryland expired 7-9-1972 in Walnut Creek, California   age 69

Eisenhower Commerce Secretary (1953-58)  Sinclair Weeks born on 6-15-1893 in West Newton, Masachusetts expired 2-7-1972 in Concord, Massachuestts   age 78

Scottsboro Boys defendant  Charlie Weems born on --1911 in Chattanooga, Tennessee expired ??-??-19??   age ??

bandleader  Wilfred Theodore "Ted" Weems expired 5-6-1963 in Tulsa, Oklahoma   age 62

geologist & explorer  Alfred Lothar Wegener   expert on Greenland; proposed a now-accepted continental drift theory (1910) born on 11-1-1880 in Berlin, Germany expired 11-??-1930 in 119 miles east of Kamarujuk, Greenland   age 50   cause: hypothermia

former E.R. Squibb president  Lowell Palmer Weicker Sr.   father of former senator born on 10-14-1903 expired 11-25-1978 in New York, New York   age 75

IFBB president  Benjamin Weider   IFBB co-founder born on 2-1-1923 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada expired 10-17-2008 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada   age 85

novelist and playwright  Jerome Weidman   wrote book I Can Get It For You Wholesale (1937); co-author of Pulitzer prize-winning Broadway musical Fiorello born on 4-14-1913 in New York, New York expired 10-6-1998 in New York, New York   age 85

Helene Weigel   widow of Bertold Brecht born on 5-12-1900 in Vienna, Lower Austria, Austria-Hungary expired 5-6-1971 in Berlin, Germany   age 70

Colorado clothier  Jack Arnold Weil   started Rockmount Ranch Wear (1946); creator of the "Western Shirt" born on 3-28-1901 in Evansville, Indiana expired 8-13-2008 in Denver, Colorado   age 107    Contest Selectors 2007 RIE 3.2% 2008 RIE 3.1%    Scored 4.3000 solo points

Marjorie C. Weil   devised method to mass-produce Melba Toast born on 2-5-1900 expired 4-18-1990   age 90

composer  Kurt Weill   wrote The Three-Penny Opera and Lost in the Stars; composed Mack the Knife on the spur of the moment to give his wife, Lotte Lenya, something to sing at a show born on 3-2-1900 in Dessau, Germany expired 4-3-1950 in New York, New York   age 50   cause: heart attack

stamp collector/dealer  Raymond H. Weill born on 9-29-1913 in Saint Louis, Missouri expired 4-21-2003 in New Orleans, Louisiana   age 89   cause: heart failure

U.S. Air FOrce civilian engineer  Albert Lee Weimorts   designed the GBU-28 "bunker buster" bomb for the first Gulf War; designed the 21,000 pound M.O.A.B. bomb (Massive Ordinance Air Burst) bomb for the second Gulf war (aka: "Mother of All Bombs") born on 3-6-1938 in DeFuniak Springs, Florida expired 12-21-2005 in Fort Walton Beach, Florida   age 67   cause: brain cancer

Nixon/Ford H.E.W. Secretary (1973-5) & Reagan Defense Secretary (1981-7)  Caspar Willard Weinberger Sr. born on 8-18-1917 in San Francisco, California expired 3-28-2006 in Bangor, Maine   age 88   cause: pneumonia    Contest Selectors 2004 LMLD 5.6% 2005 TBC, TMD 8.7% 2006 OIE 3.3%    Scored 6.2000 solo points

Chicago Seven defense attorney  Leonard Irving Weinglass born on 8-27-1933 in Belleville, New Jersey expired 3-23-2011 in The Bronx, New York, New York   age 77   cause: pancreatic cancer AKS: Weinglas Wienglass Wienglas Wineglass Wineglas

sculptor  Adolph A. Weinman   designed the 1916 dime and half-dollar coins expired 8-8-1952 in Port Chester, New York   age 81   cause: heart attack

character/voice actor  Leonard "Lennie" Weinrib   gave voice to H.R. Pufnstuf (as well as being the head writer for the show) born on 4-29-1935 in The Bronx, New York, New York expired 6-28-2006 in Santiago, Chile   age 71   cause: stroke

tv & movie producer  Henry T. Weinstein born on 7-12-1924 in New York, New York expired 9-17-2000 in Boca Raton, Florida   age 76

urologist Dr.  Jack Weinstock   co-wrote How To Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (1961); got a Pulitzer Prize for it expired 5-23-1969 in New York, New York   age 62

Robert S. "Bob" Weinstock   founder of the Prestige jazz record label (1949) born on 10-2-1928 in New York, New York expired 1-14-2006 in Boca Raton, Florida   age 77   cause: complications from diabetes

tv director  Don Weis   husband of actress Rebecca Welles; directed The Ghost in the Invisible Bikini (1966) born on 5-13-1922 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin expired 7-26-2000 in Santa Fe, New Mexico   age 78

former DC Comics editor  Mortimer Weisinger   co-founder of The Time Traveller sci-fi fan magazine (1932; with Julius Schwartz & Forrest J. Ackerman) born on 4-25-1915 expired 5-7-1978 in Great Neck, New York   age

Great Lakes sailor  David Elliot Weiss   (deck) Cadet aboard the Edmund Fitzgerald born on 11-13-1953 expired 11-10-1975 in Eastern Lake Superior, Canada   age 21   cause: drowned when ship foundered

songwriter  George David Weiss   co-wrote a whole bunch of well-known songs, including: "Wheel of Fortune" (1952) & "Lullaby of Birdland" (both 1952), "Can't Help Falling in Love" & "The Lion Sleeps Tonight" (both 1961) and "What A Wonderful World" (1967) born on 4-9-1923 in Manhattan, New York, New York expired 8-23-2010 in Oldwick, New Jersey   age 89

poet  Theodore Russell Weiss born on 12-15-1916 in Reading, Pennsylvania expired 4-15-2003 in Princeton, New Jersey   age 86

New York Representative (1976-87)  Theodore A. "Ted" Weiss born on 9-17-1927 in Budapest, Hungary expired 9-14-1992 in New York, New York   age 64

Olympic swimmer  John "Johnny" Weissmuller   most famous Tarzan actor; portrayed Jungle Jim; once married to Lupe Velez ¤ born: Johann Weissmüller  born on 6-2-1904 in Freidorf, Banat, Roumaina expired 1-20-1984 in Acapulco, Mexico   age 79    Contest Selectors 1980 DO, DR, EB, GP, HA, JW, RR 43.8% AKS: Weismuller

actor  Dwight Weist born on 1-16-1910 in Palo Alto, California expired 7-16-1991 in Block Island, Rhode Island   age 81   cause: heart attack

former MIT professor  Joseph Weizenbaum   wrote the controversial "Eliza" interactive computer program (1966) born on 1-8-1923 in Berlin, Germany expired 3-5-2008 in Gröben, Germany   age 85   cause: complications from stomach cancer

former Israeli president  Ezar Weizman   nephew of Israel's first president ¤ born: Ezer Weizmann  born on 6-15-1924 in Tel Aviv, Palestine expired 4-24-2005 in Caesarea, Israel   age 80   cause: pneumonia

organic chemist & first president of Israel  Chaim Weizmann   discovered how to synthesize acetone during World War I expired 11-9-1952 in Rehovoth, Israel   age 77

actress/bikini designer  Marie Therese "Tessa" Welborn   designed the bikini that Ursula Andress was poured into for Dr. No ¤ born: Marie Therese Prendergast  born on 10-17-1928 in Jamaica expired 7-??-2001 in London, England   age 72

cabaret singer  Elisabeth Welch   appeared in Broadway show Runnin' Wild (1923) where she sanng "Singing Charleston" to accompany the new dance born on 2-27-1904 in New York, New York expired 7-15-2003 in London, England   age 99

Harry Foster Welch   provided the voice of Popeye the Sailor (1929-66) born on 11-27-1893 expired 8-16-1973 in Blowing Rock, North Carolina   age 79

attorney  Joseph Nye Welch   during the Army-McCarthy witch-hunts confronted the senator publicly with the plea "... have you no decency?" McCarthy, obviously, had none; appeared in Anatomy of a Murder as the trial judge born on 10-22-1890 in Pringhar, Iowa expired 10-6-1960 in Hyannis, Massachusetts   age 69

1880s & 1890s 300 game winner pitcher  Michael Welch ¤ nickname: "Smiling Mickey"  expired 7-30-1941 in Nashua, New Hampshire   age 82

CIA Greece station chief  Richard S. Welch expired 12-23-1975 in Athens, Greece   age 46   cause: shot to death

Robert Henry Winborne Welch Jr.   founded the John Birch Society (12-1-1958) born on 12-1-1899 in Chavan County, North Carolina expired 1-6-1985 in Winchester, Massachusetts   age 85   cause: complications from stroke

Fern V. Welk   widow of Lawrence born on 8-26-1903 in Saint Anthony, North Dakota expired 2-13-2002 in Santa Monica, California   age 98

bubbly band leader  Lawrence Welk born on 3-11-1903 in Strasburg, North Dakota expired 5-17-1992 in Santa Monica, California   age 89   cause: pneumonia    Contest Selectors 1979 DW, RR 15.4% 1980 DW, EB, JH, MM 25.0%

virologist  Thomas Huckle Weller   shared the 1954 Nobel prize in medicine for his research work on the polio virus born on 6-15-1915 in Ann Arbor, Michigan expired 8-23-2008 in Needham, Massachusetts   age 93    Contest Selectors 2007 RR 3.2%

actress  Gwen Welles   did November 1972 & May 1975 Playboy pictorials; wife of Harris Yulin born on 3-4-1951 in Chatanooga, Tennessee expired 10-13-1993   age 42   cause: cancer

writer/actor/producer/director/magician/glutton/wino  Orson Welles   co-founder of the Mercury Theater Company — it did the infamous Halloween-eve 1938 radio broadcast of War of the Worlds; co-wrote, directed Citizen Kane (1941) and The Magnificent Ambersons (1942); later, Orson was in San Antonio, Texas --- a man drove up and asked him directions --- it was H.G. Wells, author War of the Worlds; played The Shadow on the radio; once married to Rita Hayworth; ate 18 hotdogs in one sitting at Pink's ¤ born: George Orson Welles nickname: Mahatma Kane Jeeves (given to him by W.C. Fields)  born on 5-6-1915 in Kenosha, Wisconsin expired 10-10-1985 in Hollywood, California   age 70   cause: heart attack    Contest Selectors 1979 MS, YJ 15.4% 1980 DW, EB, HA, HP, MM 31.3% AKS: Wells

Titanic survivor  Mary C. Wellman born on 7-27-1895 in Mount Vernon, New York expired 11-23-1975 in Topsfield, Massachusetts   age 80

movie director  William Augustus Wellman   directed High and Mighty (1954) born on 2-29-1896 in Brookline, Massachusetts expired 12-9-1975 in Los Angeles, California   age 79   cause: leukemia

screenwriter  George Wells   won oscar for script of Designing Woman (1957) born on 11-3-1909 in New York, New York expired 11-29-2000 in Newport Beach, California   age 91

aviatrix & journalist  Helen Fay Gillis Wells born on 10-15-1908 in Minneapolis, Minnesota expired 12-2-2002 in Fairfax, Virginia   age 94

Wells Fargo co-founder (1852)  Henry Wells born on 12-12-1805 in Thetford, Vermont expired 12-10-1878 in Glasgow, Scotland   age 72

science fiction author  Herbert George Wells   wrote The Time Machine (1895), The Island of Doctor Moreau, Things to Come, The Invisible Man (1897), First Men in the Moon and War of the Worlds (1898); advocate of "Free Love"; in his story The World Set Free (1914) he coined the term "atomic bomb"; the plot of 1980s movie Time After Time has H.G. Wells pursuing Jack the Ripper forward in time to San Francisco born on 9-21-1866 in Bromley, England expired 8-13-1946 in London, England   age 79

blues harmonica player  Junior Wells ¤ born: Amos Blackmore  born on 12-9-1934 in West Memphis, Arkansas expired 1-15-1998 in Chicago, Illinois   age 63   cause: coma following heart attack

Motown singer  Mary Wells born on 5-13-1943 in Detroit, Michigan expired 7-26-1992 in Los Angeles, California   age 49

soap opera actress  Mary K. Wells born on 12-1-1920 in Omaha, Nebraska expired 8-14-2000 in New York, New York   age 79   cause: colon infection

lyricist & composer  Robert Wells   wrote lyrics for The Christmas Song (to music by Mel Torme) born on 10-15-1922 expired 9-23-1998 in Santa Monica, California   age 75   cause: cancer

frequently-beaned Negro League baseball player  William James Wells   invented the batting helmet born on 8-10-1906 in Austin, Texas expired 1-22-1989 in Austin, Texas   age 82

former Carleton College political science professor (1969-90)  Paul David Wellstone   senator from Minnesota (1991-2002) born on 7-21-1944 in Washington, District of Columbia expired 10-25-2002 in Eveleth, Minnesota   age 58   cause: plane crash

rock keyboardist  Vince Welnick   last keyboard player for the Grateful Dead (1990-95; succeeding Brent Mydland) born on 2-21-1951 in Phoenix, Arizona expired 6-2-2006 in Santa Rosa, California   age 55   cause: suicide; slit own throat with knife

writer  Eudora Welty   awarded 1973 Pulitzer prize; gave name to E-mail program born on 4-13-1909 in Jackson, Mississippi expired 7-23-2001 in Jackson, Mississippi   age 92

1920s Our Gang child actor  George T. Wendelken   played Freckles born on 11-27-1916 expired 1-3-1998 in Toms River, New Jersey   age 81

Letterman announcer  Bill Wendell ¤ born: William Joseph Wenzel Jr.  born on 3-22-1924 in New York, New York expired 4-14-1999 in Boca Raton, Florida   age 75   cause: complications from cancer

actress  Annemarie Wendl-Kleinschmidt born on 12-26-1914 in Trostberg an der Alz, Upper Bavaria, Germany expired 9-3-2006 in München, Bavaria, Germany   age 91   cause: heart failure    Contest Selectors 2006 WEP 3.3%    Did Not Score - insufficient category citations (two to be exact) AKS: Wendel

actor's father  George Robert Wendt Sr. born on 1-8-1923 expired 6-15-1993   age 70

New York Time puzzle editor (1968-78)  Will C. Weng born on 2-25-1907 in Terre Haute, Indiana expired 5-2-1993 in New York, New York   age 86

former Tonka Toys executive (1961-77)  Russell L. Wenkstern   developed many of the company's favorite toy trucks born on 10-1-1912 in Garber, Iowa expired 1-18-2000 in Spring Park, Minnesota   age 87

songwriter  Percy Wenrich   wrote music for Put on Your Old Gray Bonnet, When You Wore a Tulip and Moonlight Bay expired 3-18-1952 in New York, New York   age 72

former oldest ex-major league baseball player  William Murray "Billy" Werber Sr.   in college he was Duke's first All-American (in basketball); was the last surviving team-mate of Babe Ruth; while playing for Cincinnati became the first baseball player to come to bat on television (at Ebbetts field on August 26, 1939) born on 6-20-1908 in Berwyn Heights, Maryland expired 1-22-2009 in Charlotte, North Carolina   age 100    Contest Selectors 2009 BYE, DTM, PCD 10.0%    Scored 3.1250 points

former New York Jets owner  David Abraham "Sonny" Werblin born on 3-17-1910 in New York, New York expired 11-21-1991 in New York, New York   age 81

Alfred Werner   Nobel chemistry prize winner in 1913 born on 12-12-1966 in Mülhausen, Alsace, Germany expired 11-15-1919 in Zürich, Switzerland   age 52

1910s-40s victrola/concert/radio singer  Reinald Werrenrath Sr.   NOT associated with Ding Dong School (but his son was) ¤ aka: "Edward Hamilton"  born on 8-7-1883 in Brooklyn, New York, New York expired 9-12-1953 in Plattsburgh, New York   age 70

former CBS reporter/writer/producer  Joseph "Joe" Wershba   was Ed Murrow's lead producer on the Milo Radulovich expose of McCarthy's smear tactics; later worked as a 60 Minutes producer; produced a special report - "Gideon's Trumpet" born on 8-19-1920 in Manhattan, New York, New York expired 5-14-2011 in New Hyde Park, Long Island, New York   age 90   cause: pneumonia    Contest Selectors 2007 DGW 3.2% 2008 CSI, DGW, RR 9.4% 2009 DGW, RR 6.7% 2010 CSI, DGW, RR 11.1%

Our Gang child actor  Harold Eugene Wertz Jr.   played "Bouncy", the fat kid predecessor to "Spanky," in three 1930s films born on 8-3-1927 in Denison, Texas expired 11-21-1999 in Los Angeles, California   age 72   cause: complications from stroke

child murder victim  Cynthia Diane Wesley   killed by KKK goons in church bombing born on 4-30-1949 in Birmingham, Alabama expired 9-15-1963 in Birmingham, Alabama   age 14   cause: murdered; bomb explosion

theoretical physicist Dr.  Julius Wess   with Dr. Bruno Zumino published a paper in 1973 that layed out the Theory of Supersymetry — it described two general classes of elemental particles (bosons & fermions) that were described as vibrating strings born on 12-5-1934 in Austria expired 8-8-2007 in Hamburg, Germany   age 72   cause: stroke

country singer  Dorothy Marie "Dottie" West ¤ born: Dorothy Marie Marsh  born on 10-11-1932 in McMinnville, Tennessee expired 9-4-1991 in Nashville, Tennessee   age 58

former burlesque stripper  Evelyn "Treasure Chest" West   appeared in A Night at the Follies (1956) ¤ born: Amy May Coomer Mrs. Al Charles  born on 1-21-1907 in Adair, Kentucky expired 11-11-2004 in Hollywood, Florida   age 97   cause: "natural causes"

horny actress  Mae West born on 8-17-1893 in New York, New York expired 11-22-1980 in Hollywood, California   age 87   cause: "natural causes"    Contest Selectors 1979 DO, DW, HA, MM, MS, SB, VM 53.8% 1980 BD, DO, DR, EB, JH, MM 37.5%    Scored 1.3000 points

author  Morris Langlo West   wrote Children of the Sun and Shoes of the Fisherman born on 4-26-1916 in Saint Kilda, Australia expired 10-2-1999 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia   age 83   cause: heart failure

author (& H.G. Wells' lover) Dame  Rebecca West ¤ born: Cecily Isolbel Fairfield Andrews  born on 12-25-1892 in County Kerry, Ireland expired 3-15-1983 in London, England   age 90

steel-guitarist  Wesley Webb "Speedy" West born on 1-25-1924 in Springfield, Missouri expired 11-15-2003 in Broken Arrow, Oklahoma   age 79

retired carillonneur  Wendell James Westcott   had performed on MSU's Beaumont Tower Carillon (1941-2007) born on 1-20-1911 in Jackson, Michigan expired 4-30-2010 in Lansing, Michigan   age 99

Titanic survivor  Barbara Joyce WestDainton born on 5-12-1911 in Bournemouth, Dorset, England expired 10-16-2007 in Cambourne, Cornwall, England   age 96    Contest Selectors 2000 RR 14% 2001 RR 12½% 2002 JAC, JL, RR 27.3% 2003 JL, PCD, RR 16.7% 2004 PCD, RR 11.1% 2005 KLS, PCD, RR, SLIM 17.4% 2006 KLS, PCD, RR 10.0% 2007 KLS, PCD, RR 9.7%    Scored 3.5250 points

character actor  James Westerfield   played a policeman in The Magnificent Ambersons (1942), pier boss Big Mac in On The Waterfront (1954) & Bug Tussle mayor Amos Wentworth Hogg on The Beverly Hillbillies (1967) born on 3-22-1913 in Nashville, Tennessee expired 9-20-1971 in Woodland Hills, California   age 58   cause: heart attack

David Westheimer   wrote My Sweet Charlie & Von Ryan's Express born on 4-11-1917 in Houston, Texas expired 11-8-2005 in Los Angeles, California   age 88   cause: heart failure

businessman  Irvin F. Westheimer   founded the Big Brothers organization (1903) born on 9-19-1879 in Newark, New Jersey expired 12-30-1980 in Cincinnati, Ohio   age 101

inventor & industrialist  George Westinghouse Jr.   Civil War veteran; invented the air brake (1868); bought Tesla's AC electric patents back when $1,000,000 was some serious money born on 10-6-1846 in Central Bridge, New York expired 3-12-1914 in New York, New York   age 67

mystery writer  Donald Edwin Edmund Westlake   recipient of 3 Edgar Awards: for Best novel — "God Save the Mark" (1968); for Best Short Story — "Too Many Crooks" (1990); and for Best Screenplay — "The Grifters" (1991; also received an Oscar nomination) born on 7-12-1933 in Brooklyn, New York, New York expired 12-31-2008 in Mexico   age 75   cause: heart attack

Hollywood makeup man  George Westmore   founded the first studio makeup department; father of makeup artists Bud, Ern, Frank, Monty, Perc & Wally Sr. born on 6-27-1879 in Isle of Wight, England expired 7-12-1931 in Hollywood, California   age 52

head Universal makeup man (1947-71)  George Hamilton Westmore   part of Hollywood makeup dynasty ¤ nickname: "Bud" or "Buddy"  born on 1-13-1918 in New Orleans, Louisiana expired 6-23-1973 in Sherman Oaks, California   age 55   cause: heart attack

Hollywood makeup artist  Percival Westmore born on 10-29-1904 expired 9-30-1970 in North Hollywood, California   age 65   cause: heart attack

Paramount makeup artist  Walter James Westmore Sr.   part of Hollywood makeup dynasty; father of Wally Jr. born on 2-13-1906 expired 7-3-1973 in Hollywood, California   age 67   cause: stroke

retired Army General  William Childs Westmoreland   commander of U.S. forces in Vietnam 1964-68; Army Chief of Staff 1968-72 born on 3-26-1914 in Saxon, South Carolina expired 7-18-2005 in Charleston, South Carolina   age 91    Contest Selectors 1980 GP 6.3% 2002 RAVN 9.1% 2003 MB, RAVN 11.1% 2004 EOD, LMLD 11.1% 2005 BOD, MOT 8.7%    Scored 4.6500 points

actor  Jack Weston ¤ real name: Morris Weinstein  born on 8-21-1925 in Cleveland, Ohio expired 5-3-1996 in New York, New York   age 71   cause: lymphoma

Kenneth William Weston   shared 2001 Best Sound oscar for Gladiator (2000) born on 5-30-1947 in Finsbury Park, England expired 9-13-2001 in London, England   age 54   cause: kidney cancer    Contest Selectors 2002 TMTX 2003 TMTX

photographer  Theodore Brett Weston born on 12-16-1911 expired 1-22-1993   age 81

record producer/executive  Gerald "Jerry" Wexler   an early partner of Ahmet Ertegun at Atlantic Records; coined term Rhythm and Blues (R&B) born on 1-10-1917 in Manhattan, New York, New York expired 8-15-2008 in Sarasota, Florida   age 91   cause: congestive heart failure    Contest Selectors 2008 DGW 3.1%    Scored 5.9000 solo points

Daryl Hannah's stepfather Dr.  Jerrold Wexler born on 6-27-1924 expired 11-??-1992   age 68

manic depressive screenwriter  Norman Wexler   wrote scripts for Serpico (1973, co-written with Waldo Salt), Saturday Night Fever (1977) and Mandingo born on 8-16-1926 in New Bedford, Massachusetts expired 8-23-1999 in Washington, District of Columbia   age 73   cause: heart attack

movie director  James Whale   openly homosexual in 1940s and 50s Hollywood; directed Frankenstein (1931) & Bride of Frankenstein (1935), Show Boat (1936) and The Invisible Man (1933); subject of the movie Gods and Monsters (1998) born on 7-22-1889 in Dudley, England expired 5-29-1957 in Pacific Palisades, California   age 67   cause: suicide; drowned in swimming pool

1930s swimming champion  Eleanor H. Holm Whalen   completed in 1928 & 1932 games; won backstroke gold in 1932; expelled from 1936 games by U.S. Olympic dictator Avery Brundage for "carousing" & breaking curfew; appeared in Tarzan's Revenge (1938) ¤ successively: Mrs. Art Jarrett, Billy Rose & Thomas Whalen  born on 12-6-1912 in New York, New York expired 1-31-2004 in Miami, Florida   age 91   cause: kidney failure

diplomat  Clifton Reginald Wharton Sr. born on 5-11-1899 expired 4-23-1990   age 90

author  Edith Newbold Wharton   wrote The House of Mirth (1905) & The Age of Innocence (1921; Pulitzer prize winner) ¤ maiden name: Jones  born on 1-24-1862 in New York, New York expired 8-11-1937 in Saint-Brice-sous-Forêt, France   age 75   cause: stroke

World War I doughboy  Dennis F. Whatley born on 11-19-1895 in Higbee, Colorado expired 8-31-2001 in Cypress Gardens, California   age 105

Brooklyn Dodger Hall-of-Fame outfielder 91909-26)  Zachary Davis Wheat born on 5-23-1888 in Hamilton, Missouri expired 3-11-1972 in Sedalia, Missouri   age 83   cause: heart attack

scientist & inventor Sir  Charles Wheatstone   invented the Concertina (1829) & the Wheatstone Bridge (1843; measures electrical resistance) born on 2-6-1802 in Gloucester, Gloucestershire, England expired 10-19-1875 in Paris, France   age 73

movie comedian  Albert Jerome Wheeler   teamed with Robert Woolsey in numerous films; appeared in Diplomaniacs (1933) born on 4-7-1895 expired 1-18-1968 in New York, New York   age 72

former Montana senator (1922-46)  Burton Kendall Wheeler   was prosecutor in the Teapot Dome scandal; isolationist prior to World War II born on 2-27-1882 in Hudson, Massachusetts expired 1-6-1975 in Washington, District of Columbia   age 92   cause: stroke

former Joint Chiefs of Staff chief (1964-70) General  Earle Gilmore Wheeler born on 1-13-1908 in Washington, District of Columbia expired 12-18-1975 in Frederick, Maryland   age 67

theoretical physicist  John Archibald Wheeler   coined the terms "wormhole" (1957) & "Black Hole" (1967) born on 7-9-1911 in Jacksonville, Florida expired 4-13-2008 in Highstown, New Jersey   age 96   cause: pneumonia    Contest Selectors 2008 OED 3.1%    Scored 5.4000 solo points

political scientist/writer  John Harvey Wheeler   co-author of Fail-Safe (1962; based upon his own 1950s article on the same subject) born on 10-17-1918 in Waco, Texas expired 9-6-2004 in Carpenteria, California   age 85   cause: cancer

Sir  John Hieron Wheeler born on 7-22-1905 expired 4-21-2005   age 99

oscar-winning art director  Lyle Wheeler   won five oscars for Gone With The Wind (1939), The Diary of Anne Frank (1959), The Robe and The King and I born on 2-12-1905 in Woburn, Massachusetts expired 1-10-1990 in Woodland Hills, California   age 84   cause: pneumonia

terrorist  Thero Wheeler   member of the SLA ¤ SLA name: "Bayo"  born on 1-28-1945 expired 3-2-2009 in San Francisco, California   age 64

Hayes vice president (1877-81)  William Alrnon Wheeler born on 6-30-1819 in Malone, New York expired 6-4-1887 in Malone, New York   age 67

George William Wheelwright III   co-founded Land Wheelwright Laboratories (1932); it changed it's name to Polaroid Corp. in 1937 born on 3-12-1903 in Ware, Massachusetts expired 2-27-2001 in Tiburon, California   age 97

astronomer  Fred Lawrence Whipple   originated theory that comets are "dirty snowballs" (ice with rock mixed in; 1950); during World War II came up with idea for radar-confusing chaff; devised a micrometeorite shield for spacecraft born on 11-5-1906 in Red Oak, Iowa expired 8-30-2004 in Cambridge, Massachusetts   age 97

Dr.  George Hoyt Whipple   shared the 1934 Nobel prize in medicine born on 8-28-1878 in Ashland, New Hampshire expired 2-1-1976 in Rochester, New York   age 97

tv character actor  Sampson E. Whipple   played naer-do-well son Terry Feester on Open All Night (1981) & time travel sphere inventor Dr. Ballard on Seven Days tv series born on 9-25-1960 in Venice, California expired 6-3-2002 in Los Angeles, California   age 41   cause: cancer

World War II Canadian military hero  William Denis Whitaker born on 2-27-1915 in Calgary, Alberta, Canada expired 5-30-2001 in Oakville, Ontario, Canada   age 86

mellow-voiced Arby's shill  Barry Eugene White   answered 17 questions for a February 1980 Playboy interview born on 9-12-1944 in Galveston, Texas expired 7-4-2003 in Los Angeles, California   age 58   cause: kidney failure; hypertension    Contest Selectors 2003 MB, RAVN 11.1%    Scored 7.9500 points

former Supreme Court justice (1962-93)  Byron Raymond White   played pro football with the Detroit Lions ¤ aka: "whizzer"  born on 6-8-1917 in Fort Collins, Colorado expired 4-15-2002 in Denver, Colorado   age 84   cause: complications from pneumonia    Contest Selectors 1980 JH 6.3% 2002 RAVN 9.1%    Scored 6.6000 solo points

Carl White   lead singer of the Rivingtons --- everyone's heard about The Bird expired 1-9-1980   age 48

Guinness Book record geezer  Carrie White born on 11-18-1874 expired 2-14-1991   age 116

actor  Charles White born on 8-29-1917 in Perth Amboy, New Jersey expired 6-25-2005 in Sarasota, Florida   age 87

former San Francisco police officer & supervisor  Daniel James White   assassinated San Francisco supervisor Harvey Milk & mayor George Moscone; his psychiatrist claimed that a diet of Twinkies made him do it born on 9-2-1946 expired 10-21-1985 in San Francisco, California   age 39   cause: suicide    Contest Selectors 1979 YJ 7.7%

actor  David White born on 4-4-1916 in Denver, Colorado expired 11-27-1990 in North Hollywood, California   age 74   cause: heart attack

light music composer  Edward George. White   composed "Puffin' Billy" (aka: the theme song of the Captain Kangaroo kids tv show; 1955-74) born on --1910 in London, England expired ??-??-1994   age 84

Gemini IV and Apollo 1 astronaut  Edward Higgins White II   died on launching pad during a systems test born on 11-14-1930 in San Antonio, Texas expired 1-27-1967 in Cape Canaveral, Florida   age 36   cause: flash fire in capsule

former Arkansas governor (1981-83)  Frank White   beat Bubba for the job ¤ born: Durward Frank Kyle  born on 6-4-1933 expired 5-21-2003 in Little Rock, Arkansas   age 69   cause: heart attack

master chef  Franklin L. White   claimed that a photograph taken of him in Chicago in 1900 was used as the model for Rastus, the Cream of Wheat chef (1901-25); buried in plot #310 of the Woodlawn Cemetery in Leslie, MI born on --1867 in Barbados expired 2-15-1938 in Leslie, Michigan   age 70

Broadway producer  George White   produced a series of "Scandals" shows in the 1920s and 30s born on 3-12-1892 in New York, New York expired 10-11-1968 in Hollywood, California   age 76

toymaker  Harrie Clinton White   introduced the kiddie kar expired 9-29-1954 in North Bennington, Vermont   age 78

actor  Jesse Marc White   original Maytag Repairman on tv; also appeared in Harvey, Its a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World and Death of a Salesman ¤ born: Jesse Marc Weidenfeld  born on 1-3-1919 in Buffalo, New York expired 1-8-1997 in Los Angeles, California   age 79

radio's Death Valley Days Lonesome Cowboy singer  John I. White born on 4-12-1902 expired 11-26-1992   age 90

Three Stooges producer  Jules J. White ¤ born: Jules Weiss  born on 9-17-1900 in Budapest, Austria-Hungary expired 4-30-1985 in Van Nuys, California   age 84

hard-luck humor comedian  Melvin "Slappy" White   was a former dance partner with Redd Foxx born on 9-20-1921 in Baltimore, Maryland expired 11-7-1995 in Brigantine, New Jersey   age 74   cause: heart attack

Patrick Victor Martindale White   received the 1973 Nobel prize in literature born on 5-28-1912 in London, England expired 9-30-1990 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia   age 78   cause: complications from asthma

cardiologist Dr.  Paul Dudley White born on 6-6-1886 in Boston, Massachusetts expired 12-1-1973 in Boston, Massachusetts   age 87   cause: complications from stroke

first CBS News chief  Paul W. White expired 7-9-1955 in San Diego, California   age 53

Perils of Pauline movie serial actress  Pearl Fay White born on 3-4-1889 in Green Ridge, Missouri expired 8-4-1938 in Paris, France   age 49

former NFL defensive end  Reginald Howard "Reggie" White   played for the Philadelphia Eagles, Green Bay Packers & Carolina Panthers ¤ aka: "the Minister of Defense"  born on 12-9-1961 in Chattanooga, Tennessee expired 12-26-2004 in Huntersville, North Carolina   age 43   cause: cardiac arrhythmia; sarcoidosis; sleep apnea

retired Air Force major general  Robert Michael White   set four records in the X-15 rocket plane: first to exceed Mach 4 (3/7/1961); first to exceed Mach 5 (6/23/1961); first to exceed Mach 6 (4,094mph; 11/9/1961); and first pilot to earn astronaut wings by flying into space (314,750 ft-59.6 miles on July 17, 1962) born on 7-6-1924 in New York, New York expired 3-17-2010 in Orlando, Florida   age 85

Miracles vocalist  Ronnie White   discovered Stevie Wonder born on 4-5-1939 in Detroit, Michigan expired 8-26-1995 in Detroit, Michigan   age 56   cause: leukemia

teenage AIDS victim  Ryan White born on 12-6-1971 in Kokomo, Indiana expired 4-8-1990 in Indianapolis, Indiana   age 18

architect  Stanford White   got caught having an affair with another man's wife & was fatally shot by the cuckolded husband born on 11-9-1853 in New York, New York expired 6-25-1906 in New York, New York   age 52   cause: bullet wounds

vaudeville/stage/movie actress, agent, producer  Thelma White   her most notorious role: Mae Colman the demon weed pusher in Reefer Madness (1936); her most notorious client: Robert Blake ¤ born: Thelma Wolpa  born on 12-4-1910 in Lincoln, Nebraska expired 1-11-2005 in Woodland Hills, California   age 94   cause: pneumonia

Billboard magazine editor in chief  Timothy White born on 1-25-1952 in Paterson, New Jersey expired 6-27-2002 in New York, New York   age 50   cause: heart attack

Emporia Gazette publisher & editor  William Allen White   won two Pulitzer Prizes (1922 & 1946) born on 2-10-1868 in Emporia, Kansas expired 1-29-1944 in Emporia, Kansas   age 75

Emporia Gazette publisher & editor  William Lindsay White   war correspondent; wrote They Were Expendable born on 6-17-1900 in Emporia, Kansas expired 7-26-1973 in Emporia, Kansas   age 73   cause: cancer

geosynchronous stiff  Clay Thomas "Tom" Whitehead   earned a B.S. in electrical engineering & PhD. in management (1967) from MIT; worked for the RAND Corporation; became the first head of the White House Office on Telecommunications Policy (1970-73), proposed opening up the parking slots to all competitors (busting the monopoly COMSAT had); became the founding president of the Hughes Communications division of Hughes Aircraft where he spearheaded the "Galaxy" satellite project (Galaxy I launeched in 1983); founder of what became SES Astra in Europe born on 11-13-1938 in Neodesha, Kansas expired 7-23-2008 in Georgetown, Maryland   age 69   cause: prostate cancer

AP war correspondent  Donald Ford Whitehead   won 2 Pulitzer prizes for international reporting (1951 & 53) born on 4-8-1908 in Inman, Virginia expired 1-12-1981 in Knoxville, Tennessee   age 72   cause: lung cancer

former Rhodesian prime minister (1957-62) Sir  Edgar Cuthbert Fremantle Whitehead born on 2-8-1905 in Berlin, Germany expired 9-22-1971 in Newbury, Berkshire, England   age 66

poet & teacher  James Tillotson Whitehead   author of Joiner (1971) born on 3-15-1936 in Saint Louis, Missouri expired 8-15-2003 in Fayetteville, Arkansas   age 67   cause: ruptured aortic aneurysm

Broadway producer  Robert Whitehead   cousin of Hume Cronyn born on 3-3-1916 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada expired 6-15-2002 in Pound Ridge, New York   age 86   cause: cancer

World War II naval Commander  Walter Edward Whitehead   former chairman of Schweppes USA Ltd. (1967-71) born on 5-20-1908 in Aldershot, England expired 4-16-1978 in Petersfield, England   age 69

bandleader  Paul "Pops" Whiteman ¤ aka: "The King of Jazz"  born on 3-28-1890 in Denver, Colorado expired 12-29-1967 in Doylestown, Pennsylvania   age 77

Motown songwriter & producer  Norman Jesse Whitfield born on 5-12-1940 in Harlem, New York, New York expired 9-16-2008 in Los Angeles, California   age 67   cause: complications from diabetes

singer  Margaret Eleanor Whiting   was married to a gay porn stud; know for singing "That Old Black Magic", "Moonlight in Vermont", "It Might As Well Be Spring", "Come Rain or Come Shine", "Far Away Places" & "Baby, Its Cold Outside" born on 7-22-1924 in Detroit, Michigan expired 1-10-2011 in Englewood, New Jersey   age 86

composer  Richard A. "Dick" Whiting   wrote music for Hooray for Hollywood (1937; lyrics by Johnny Mercer) born on 11-12-1891 in Peoria, Illinois expired 2-10-1938 in Beverly Hills, California   age 46   cause: heart disease

movie visual effects master  Albert J. Whitlock   received oscars for Earthquake and Hindenburg born on 9-15-1915 in London, England expired 10-26-1999 in Santa Barbara, California   age 84   cause: Parkinson's disease

New York Times obituary writer  Alden Whitman   a prince amongst men born on 10-27-1913 in New Albany, Nova Scotia, Canada expired 9-4-1990 in Monte Carlo, Monaco   age 76

former Marine sharpshooter  Charles J. Whitman Jr.   killed 18 from atop the University of Texas clock tower before being killed by police (the last victim died in 2001) born on 6-24-1941 expired 8-1-1966 in Austin, Texas   age 25   cause: shot to death

poet  Walter Whitman expired 3-27-1928 in Camden, New Jersey   age 68

actor  James Whitmore Sr.   played police Sgt. Ben Peterson in Them! (1954); former pitchman for Miracle-Gro plant suppositories & Meijer food/merchandise stores born on 10-1-1921 in White Plains, New York expired 2-6-2009 in Malibu, California   age 87   cause: lung cancer    Contest Selectors 2001 NFG 12½% 2002 CMH 9.1% 2003 DTM, OGGI 11.1% 2004 NFG 5.6% 2005 BYE, NFG 8.7% 2006 BYE, DTH, NFG, TFM 13.3% 2007 BYE, NFG, PUD, TFM 12.9% 2008 BYE, NFG, TFM 9.4% 2009 BYE, NFG, TFM 10.0%    Scored 4.4250 points

mogul  Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney   co-acquired Pan American Airways (1928); horse breeder (of Equipoise) born on 2-20-1899 in Roslyn, New York expired 12-13-1992 in Saratoga Springs, New York   age 93

mystery writer  Phyllis Ayame Whitney born on 9-9-1903 in Yokohama, Japan expired 2-8-2008 in Faber, Virginia   age 104   cause: pneumonia    Contest Selectors 2006 DTM 3.3% 2007 DTM, KLS 6.5% 2008 DTM, KLS, RPRM 9.4%    Scored 2.7250 points

Supreme Court justice (1957-62)  Charles Evans Whittaker born on 2-22-1901 in Troy, Kansas expired 11-26-1973 in Kansas City, Missouri   age 72   cause: ruptured abdominal aneurism

former Mississippi congressman (1941-95)  Jamie Lloyd Whitten born on 4-18-1910 in Cascilla, Mississippi expired 9-9-1995 in Oxford, Mississippi   age 85

lawyer  John Wallace Whitten Jr.   brother of Jamie Whitten; part of Bryant & Milam's defense "dream team" at their trial for the murder of Emmett Till born on 2-26-1919 in Cascilla, Mississippi expired 2-18-2003 in Sumner, Mississippi   age 83   cause: Parkinson's disease

British engineer Sir  Frank Whittle   developed the British centrifugal-flow jet engine during World War II (patented in 1932; first prototype made in 1937); Ohain's axial flow design was eventually used by others born on 6-1-1907 in Coventry, Warwickshire, England expired 8-8-1996 in Columbia, Maryland   age 89   cause: lung cancer

actress Dame  May Whitty   started as an actress in 1881; played Miss Froy in The Lady Vanishes (1938); also in Mrs. Miniver (1942), Lassie Come Home (1943) and Gaslight (1944) ¤ born: May Webster  born on 6-19-1865 in Liverpool, England expired 5-29-1948 in Hollywood, California   age 82

movie & tv actor & director  Richard Baker Whorf   he is NOT a Klingon born on 6-4-1906 in Winthrop, Massachusetts expired 12-14-1966 in Santa Monica, California   age 60

award-winning pioneering aviatrix  Edna Gardner Whyte born on 11-3-1902 expired 2-15-1992   age 89

Big Boy restaurant chain founder & inventor of double-decker hamburgers  Robert C. "Bob" Wian born on 6-15-1914 expired 3-31-1992   age 77

chemist Dr.  Otto Wichterle   made first soft contact lenses (1961) using a toy Erector Set to process the HEMA material born on 10-27-1913 in Prostějov, Moravia, Austria-Hungary expired 8-18-1998 in Sdradisko, Czech Republic   age 84

physicist  Gian Carlo Wick born on 10-15-1909 expired 4-19-1992   age 82

hog farmer  Claude Raymond Wickard   was FDR's Agriculture Secretary (1940-45) just in time to fuck up the Commerce Clause born on 2-28-1893 in Carroll County, Indiana expired 4-29-1967 in Delphi, Indiana (nearby)   age 74   cause: mashed; blew stop sign & got clobbered by truck full of crushed stone

columnist  Thomas Grey "Tom" Wicker   was riding in the presidential motorcade when Kennedy was assassinated; was an editor at the New York Times born on 6-18-1926 in Hamlet, North Carolina expired 11-25-2011 in Rochester, Vermont   age 85   cause: heart attack

actress  Mary Wickes ¤ born: Mary Isabelle Wickenhauser  born on 6-13-1910 in Saint Louis, Missouri expired 10-22-1995 in Los Angeles, California   age 85   cause: renal failure; internal bleeding; sever hypotension; ischemic cardiomyopathy

Ohio death row inmate  William D. Wickline Jr. born on 3-15-1952 expired 3-30-2004 in Lucasville, Ohio   age 52   cause: executed; lethal injection    Contest Selectors 2004 PCD 5.6%    Did  Not Score - insufficient category citations (zero to be exact)

Greyhound Bus Lines founder  Carl Eric Wickman born on --1887 in Vamhus, Sweden expired 2-5-1954 in Daytona Beach, Florida   age 67

movie director  Bo Widerberg   directed 1967 remake of Elvira Madigan (original filmed in 1943) born on 6-8-1930 in Malmo, Skåne, Sweden expired 5-1-1997 in Malmo, Skåne, Sweden   age 66   cause: cancer

actor  Richard Widmark born on 12-26-1914 in Sunrise, Minnesota expired 3-24-2008 in Roxbury, Connecticut   age 93   cause: complications from fractured vertabra    Contest Selectors 2003 JEDS 5.6% 2004 ADWC 5.6% 2005 ADWC, QKU 8.7% 2006 ADWC, QKU, WEP 10.0% 2007 ADWC, PCD, QKU, WEP 12.9% 2008 ADWC, NFG, PCD, QKU, RPRM, WEP 18.8%    Scored 3.2781 points

Chi-Chi's diner  Dineen M. Wieczorek   on October 6th ate contaminated scallions born on 1-1-1952 expired 11-12-2003 in Cleveland, Ohio   age 53   cause: liver failure; Hepatitis A

botanist Dr.  George R. Wieland   discovered the Petrified Forest (cycads) in the Black Hills (South Dakota) expired 1-18-1953 in New Haven, Connecticut   age 87

chemist  Heinrich Otto Wieland   won the 1927 Nobel prize in chemistry for work on cholic acids & Lobelin born on 6-4-1877 in Pforzheim, Württemberg expired 8-5-1957 in Starnberg, Germany   age 80

lawyer  Lawrence Arthur Wien   real estate investment syndicator; Columbia University trustee (1966-72); chairman of the Committee for a Reasonable World Trade Center that placed 1968 New York Times ad questioning the safety of the yet-to-be-built twin towers born on 5-30-1905 in New York, New York expired 12-10-1988 in Westport, Connecticut   age 83   cause: prostate cancer

physicist  Wilhelm Carl Werner Otto Fritz Franz Wien   discovered laws governing the radiation of heat & that there was a positively-charged particle with a mass equal to 1 hydrogen atom (the proton); awarded the 1911 Nobel physics prize born on 1-13-1864 in Gaffken, East Prussia, Germany expired 8-30-1928 in Müchen, Bavaria, Germany   age 64

serologist Dr.  Alexander Solomon Wiener   co-discoverer of the Rh factor of blood born on 3-16-1907 in New York, New York expired 11-6-1976 in New York, New York   age 69   cause: leaukemia

former MIT mathematician  Norbert Wiener   coined term cybernetics (1948) born on 11-26-1894 in Columbia, Missouri expired 3-18-1964 in Stockholm, Sweden   age 69

mathematician  Norbert Wiener   coined term cybernetics ¤ nickname: "the father of automation"  expired 3-18-1964 in Stockholm, Sweden   age 69

Nazi hunter  Simon Wiesenthal ¤ born: Szymon Wiesenthal  born on 12-31-1908 in Buczacz, Galicia, Austria-Hungary (now Buchach, Ukraine) expired 9-20-2005 in Vienna, Austria   age 96    Contest Selectors 2002 JAC 9.1% 2003 DTM, JEDS, PCD 16.7% 2004 DTM, EOD, PCD 16.7% 2005 DTM, PCD, QKU, RIE, SPIT, TMD 26.1%    Scored 2.9781 points AKS: Weisenthal Wiesental Weisental

Playboy July 1982 Playmate of Month  Lynda Ann Wiesmeier born on 5-30-1963 in Washington, District of Columbia expired 12-1+-2012 in California   age 49   cause: cancer of brain stem AKS: Weismeier Wiesmeyer Wiesmyer

former U.N. ambassador (1968)  James Russel Wiggins   former editor of Ellsworth, Maine weekly newspaper & Washington Post (1961-68) born on 12-4-1904 in Luverne, Minnesota expired 11-19-2000 in Brooklin, Maine   age 95

autistic savant  Thomas Greene Wiggins   piano prodigy born a slave on a plantation near city of birth born on 5-25-1849 in Columbia, Georgia expired 6-13-1908 in Hoboken, New Jersey   age 59   cause: stroke

physicist & Manhattan Project co-inspirer  Eugene Wigner   was a 1963 Nobel physics co-laureate born on 11-17-1902 in Budapest, Austria-Hungary expired 1-1-1995 in Princeton, New Jersey   age 92

judge  Richard Orme Wilberforce ¤ title: Lord Wilberforce  born on 3-11-1907 expired 2-15-2003   age 95

Wilburn Brothers singer  Thurman Theodore "Teddy" Wilburn born on 11-30-1931 in Hardy, Arkansas expired 11-24-2003 in Nashville, Tennessee   age 71   cause: Parkinson's disease

Wilburn Brothers singer  Virgil Doyle Wilburn born on 7-7-1930 in Hardy, Arkansas expired 10-16-1984 in Nashville, Tennessee   age 54   cause: cancer

character actress  Collin Wilcox   portrayed Mayella Ewell in To Kill a Mockingbird (1962), the character that falsely accused Tom Robinson of having raped her ¤ Mrs. Scott Paxton  born on 2-4-1935 in Cincinnati, Ohio expired 10-14-2009 in Highlands, North Carolina   age 74   cause: brain cancer

actor  Frank Wilcox born on 3-13-1907 expired 3-6-1974 in Los Angeles, California   age 66

movie director  Fred McLeod Wilcox   directed Forbidden Planet (1956) born on 12-22-1907 in Tazewell, Virginia expired 9-24-1964 in Beverly Hills, California   age 56

wheelchair-bound Kansas prohibitionist & California land developer  Harvey Henderson Wilcox   had polio as a child; plotted out 120 acres in Beachwood Canyon (February 1874); his wife Daeida named their "ranch" Hollywood after a ranch owned by a person she met on the train out to California; the name got applied to the whole development (1887), then town; in 1923 L.A. Times publisher Harry Chandler paid advertising executive John Roche $21,000 to build a big sign on Mount Lee promoting the development — it read HOLLYWOODLAND ("LAND" was removed in 1947) born on --1832 in Lenawee County, Michigan expired ??-??-1891 in Hollywood, California   age 59

movie producer/director  Herbert Wilcox   his films won 4 Academy Awards; made Dawn (1928) & remade it as Nurse Edith Cavell (1939); husband of Dame Anna Neagle expired 5-15-1977 in London, England   age 84

piano virtuoso  Earl Wild born on 11-26-1915 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania expired 1-23-2010 in Palm Springs, California   age 94   cause: congestive heart disease

actor  Jack Wild   played the Artful Dodger in the movie musical Oliver! (1968); had lead role on H.R. Pufnstuf for a while until he hit the bottle born on 9-30-1952 in Royton, Lancashire, England expired 3-1-2006 in Tebworth, Bedfordshire, England   age 53   cause: oral cancer    Contest Selectors 2005 RAVN 4.3% 2006 RAVN 3.3%    Scored 9.7000 solo points

actor  Cornel Wilde born on 10-13-1915 in New York, New York expired 10-16-1989 in Los Angeles, California   age 74

Titanic Chief officer  Henry Tingle Wilde born on 9-21-1872 in Liverpool, England expired 4-15-1912 in North Atlantic Ocean   age 39   cause: drowned

author  Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde   wrote The Picture of Dorian Gray, The Canterville Ghost and The Importance of Being Earnest; coined term "dude" born on 10-16-1856 in Dublin, Ireland expired 11-30-1900 in Paris, France   age 46

art dealer & horse racer  Alex Nathan Wildenstein   dumped plastic surgery-addicted freakish-looking wife after she walked in on him boinking his mistress born on 8-5-1940 in Marseilles, France expired 2-18-2008 in Paris, Île-de-France, France   age 67   cause: cancer

secretive and controversial art collector & gallery owner  Daniel Wildenstein   grandson of gallery founder Nathan; son of Georges; father of Guy & Alec born on 9-11-1917 in Verrières-le-Buisson, France expired 10-23-2001 in Paris, France   age 84

composer  Alexander Lafayette Chew "Alec" Wilder born on 2-16-1907 in Rochester, New York expired 12-24-1980 in Gainesville, Florida   age 73   cause: lung cancer

director  Billy Samuel Wilder   director of The Lost Weekend (1945; oscar), Double Indemnity (1948; co-wrote script), Sunset Boulevard (1950) & The Apartment (1960; oscar) born on 6-22-1906 in Sucha, Galicia Province, Austria-Hungary expired 3-27-2002 in Beverly Hills, California   age 95   cause: pneumonia    Contest Selectors 2000 RR 14% 2001 DTM, RR 25% 2002 DTM, JAC, JL, RR 36.4%    Scored 3.3125 points

author  Laura Ingalls Wilder   author of Little House... children's books expired 2-10-1957 in Mansfield, Ohio   age 90

playwright & novelist  Thornton Niven Wilder   winner of three Pulitzer prizes for novel Bridge on San Luis Rey (1928) & plays Our Town (1938) and Skin of Our Teeth (1942); a friend of Texas Guinan born on 4-17-1897 in Madison, Wisconsin expired 12-7-1975 in Hamden, Connecticut   age 78   cause: heart attack

actor  Michael Wilding   once married to Elizabeth Taylor born on 7-23-1912 in Westcliff-on-Sea, Essex, England expired 7-7-1979 in Chichester, West Sussex, England   age 66   cause: injuries suffered in fall

former New Jersey Attorney General  David Theodore Wilentz   co-prosecuted Bruno Hauptman for kidnapping Charles Lindbergh III born on 12-21-1894 in Lithuania expired 7-6-1988 in Long Branch, New Jersey   age 93

Harvard biologist Dr.  Don C. Wiley born on 10-21-1944 in Akron, Ohio expired 11-16-2001 in Memphis, Tennessee   age 57   cause: drowned in Mississippi River after fall from bridge

consumer product scientist  James Marshall Wiley   developed Fantastik spray cleaner in the 1960s born on 3-29-1928 in Tulsa, Oklahoma expired 10-9-2003 in Tulsa, Oklahoma   age 75

concertina-squeezing polka king "Whoopee"  John Anthony Wilfahrt Jr. born on 5-11-1893 in New Ulm, Minnesota expired 6-15-1961 in Saint Paul, Minnesota   age 68   cause: heart attack AKS: Whoopie Wilfart Willfart Will Fart

cartoonist & blues authority  Francis Wilford-Smith   drew for Punch & Playboy (amongst others) ¤ born: Francis Smith aka: "Smilby"  born on 3-12-1927 in Rugby, Warwickshire, England expired 12-4-2009 in Ledbury, Hertfordshire, England   age 82

Great Lakes sailor  Blaine Howard Wilhelm   Oiler aboard the Edmund Fitzgerald born on 8-12-1923 expired 11-10-1975 in Eastern Lake Superior, Canada   age 52   cause: drowned when ship foundered

Hall of Fame relief pitcher  James Hoyt Wilhelm Sr. born on 7-26-1922 in Huntersville, North Carolina expired 8-23-2002 in Sarasota, Florida   age 80   cause: heart failure

German  Kaiser Friedrich Victor Albert Wilhelm II   strongly imperialistic ruler from 1888 to 1918; abdicated as part of Armistice deal born on 1-27-1859 in Berlin, Germany expired 6-4-1941 in Doorn, The Netherlands   age 82

Dutch  Queen Wilhelmina   ruled from 1898 to 1948 ¤ full name: Wilhelmina Helena Pauline Maria  expired 11-28-1962 in Het Loo, The Netherlands   age 82

early computer scientist  Maurice Vincent Wilkes   designer/builder of the EDSAC (Electronic Delay Storage Automatic Calculator) — the first "stored program" computer (1949); 1967 recipient of the A.M. Turing Award ¤ "The Father of British Computing" amateur radio call sign: G5VF SK  born on 6-26-1913 in Dudley, Worcestershire, England expired 11-29-2010 in Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England   age 97

Lynyrd Skynyrd bass guitarist  Leon R. Wilkeson born on 4-2-1952 expired 7-27-2001 in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida   age 49   cause: chronic liver & lung disease

1962 Nobel medicine co-laureate  Maurice Hugh Frederick Wilkins   slipped Watson & Crick the x-ray crystallgraphs they needed to prove that DNA was a double helical molecule (1958) born on 12-15-1916 in Pongaroa, New Zealand expired 10-5-2004 in London, England   age 87

former NAACP leader (1955-77)  Roy Wilkins born on 8-30-1901 in Saint Louis, Missouri expired 9-8-1981 in New York, New York   age 80   cause: uremia; heart problems

former University of Oklahoma football coach (1947-63)  Charles Burnham "Bud" Wilkinson born on 4-23-1916 in Minneapolis, Minnesota expired 2-9-1994   age 77    Contest Selectors 1980 HA 6.3%

Princeton physicist Dr.  David T. Wilkinson   Big Bang researcher born on 5-13-1935 in Hillsdale, Michigan expired 9-5-2002 in Princeton, New Jersey   age 67   cause: cancer

former L.A. housing official  Frank Wilkinson   jailed for refusing the demands of HUAC to testify — again, the Supreme Court went DUH (by a 5-4 vote) so he had to serve the time; made it his life mission to abolish the committee (his National Committee Against Repressive Legislation succeeded on January 14, 1975) born on 8-16-1914 in Charlevoix, Michigan expired 1-2-2006 in Los Angeles, California   age 91

Dr.  Geoffrey Wilkinson   shared the laureates for the 1973 Nobel chemistry prize born on 7-13-1921 in Springside, Yorkshire, England expired 9-26-1996   age 75

James Hardy Wilkinson   recipient of the 1970 A.M. Turing Award born on 9-27-1919 in Stroud, England expired 10-5-1986   age 67   cause: heart attack

former Kentucky governor (1987-91)  Wallace G. Wilkinson   dogged by allegations of corruption during his administration born on 12-12-1941 in Casey County, Kentucky expired 7-5-2002 in Lexington, Kentucky   age 60   cause: stroke; lymphoma

cartoonist  Frank H. Willard   created the Moon Mullins comic strip expired 1-12-1958 in Los Angeles, California   age 64

chemical engineer  Miles J. Willard   co-developed dehyrated potato flakes while working at the Department of Agriculture; came up with several snack foods: Tato Skins & O'Boises born on 6-10-1924 expired 11-26-2004 in Idaho Falls, Idaho   age 80   cause: Alzheimer's disease

Cardinal  Johannes Gerardus Maria Willebrands born on 9-4-1909 in Boven Karspel, The Netherlands expired 8-1-2006 in Denekamp, The Netherlands   age 96    Contest Selectors 2004 KLS 5.6% 2005 KLS 4.3% 2006 KLS 3.3%    Scored 5.4000 solo points

Norman conqueror and English king (1066-1087)  William I the Conquerer   bastard son of the Duke of Normandy (Robert I) and Arletta; defeated the army of Harold II at the Battle of Hastings (October 14, 1066); instituted the survey of England (1085-86) that produced the Domesday Book born on --1027 in Falaise, Normandy, France expired 9-9-1087 in Rouen, France   age 60   cause: riding accident

English king (1087-1100)  William II   son of William the Conquerer; brother of Henry I; nephew of Odo of Bayeux ¤ aka: William Rufus  born on --1056 expired 8-2-1100   age 44   cause: "hunting accident" (possibly arranged by his brother)

joint English monarch (1689-1702)  William III   ruled with Mary II (1689-1694) born on 11-4-1650 in The Hague, The Netherlands expired 3-8-1702 in London, England   age 51   cause: pneumonia

British king (1830-1837)  William IV   son of George III born on --1765 expired ??-??-1837   age 72

jazz drummer & composer  Anthony "Tony" Williams born on 12-12-1945 in Chicago, Illinois expired 2-23-1997 in Daly City, California   age 51   cause: heart attack    Contest Selectors 1980 DO 6.3%

Kit Carson actor  Bill Williams   husband of Barbara Hale; father of William Katt ¤ real name: Herman Katt  born on 5-15-1916 in New York, New York expired 9-12-1992 in Burbank, California   age 76   cause: brain tumor

CenturyTel chairman  Clarke M. Williams Sr.   his parents started rural Oak Ridge Telephone Company; later gave it to him; incorporated as Century Telephone and Electronics (1968) it changed name to Century Telephone Enterprises (1971) born on 2-6-1922 expired 6-5-2002 in Monroe, Louisiana   age 80   cause: kidney failure

jazz violinist  Claude Gabriel "fiddler" Williams born on 2-22-1908 in Muskogee, Oklahoma expired 4-25-2004 in Kansas City, Missouri   age 96   cause: pneumonia

Chicago White Sox pitcher  Claude Preston "Lefty" Williams   banned from baseball for his involvement in the 1919 World Series (Black Sox) scandal born on 3-9-1893 in Aurora, Maryland expired 11-4-1959 in Laguna Beach, California   age 66

Gemini astronaut  Clifton C. Williams   killed on training mission in T-38 born on 9-26-1932 in Mobile, Alabama expired 10-5-1967 in Tallahassee, Florida   age 35   cause: plane crash

weapons designer  David M. Williams   worked on the design of the M-1 carbine born on 11-13-1900 expired 1-8-1975 in Raleigh, North Carolina   age 74   cause: bronchial pneumonia

Drowning Pool lead singer  David Wayne Williams born on 2-29-1972 expired 8-14-2002 in Manassas, Virginia   age 30   cause: concentric left ventricular hypertrophy; cardiomyopathy

country music bandleader  "Doc" Williams ¤ born: Andrew John Smik Jr.  born on 6-26-1914 in Cleveland, Ohio expired 1-31-2011 in Wheeling, West Virginia   age 96

lawyer & Baltimore Orioles owner  Edward Bennett Williams born on 5-31-1920 in Hartford, Connecticut expired 8-13-1988 in Washington, District of Columbia   age 68

paint company co-founder (1873)  Edward Porter Williams born on 5-10-1843 in Cleveland, Ohio expired 5-4-1903 in Glenville, Ohio   age 59

historian  Eric Eustace Williams   prime minister of Trinidad and Tobago (1963-81) expired 3-29-1981 in Saint Anne, Trinidad   age 69

Scottsboro Boys defendant  Eugene Williams born on --1918 expired ??-??-19??   age ??

singer & dancer  Frances Williams   introduced the Charleston dance in Scandals (1920s); appeared in Cocoanuts (1925); introduced As Time Goes By in the Broadway play Everybody's Welcome (1931) ¤ born: Frances Jellinek  born on 11-3-1901 in Saint Paul, Minnesota expired 1-27-1959 in New York, New York   age 57   cause: cancer

stage actress  Frances Williams   appeared in Life Begins at 8:40 (1934), Big Lake, Martine, The Three Sisters, Cradle Song, Casey Jones and The Enchanted (1950) born on --1902 expired 1-27-1959   age 56

actress  Frances E. Williams   appeared on Frank's Place tv series born on 9-17-1905 expired 1-2-1995 in Los Angeles, California   age 89   cause: complications from stroke

illustrator  Garth Williams   did Charlotte's Web, Little House on the Prairie born on 4-16-1912 expired 5-8-1996   age 84

George Emlyn Williams born on 11-26-1905 in Mostyn, Wales expired 9-21-1987 in London, England   age 70

former Michigan governor (1949-61)  Gerhard Mennen Williams   an heir to the Mennen toiletries "fortune" ¤ nickname: "Soapy"  born on 2-23-1911 in Detroit, Michigan expired 2-2-1988   age 76    Contest Selectors 1979 RR 7.7%

actor  Guy Williams   tv Zorro; Prof. John Robinson on Lost In Space ¤ born: Armand Joseph Catelano  born on 1-14-1924 in New York, New York expired 4-29-1989 in Buenos Aires, Argentina   age 65   cause: brain aneurysm

former New Jersey senator (1959-70; 1971-82)  Harrison Arlington Williams Jr.   convicted of accepting bribes in the ABSCAM sting born on 12-10-1919 in Plainfield, New Jersey expired 11-17-2001 in Denville, New Jersey   age 81   cause: cancer

"hillbilly" singer  Hiram King "Hank" Williams Sr. born on 9-17-1923 in Mount Olive West, Alabama expired 1-1-1953 in Oak Hill, West Virginia   age 29   cause: heart attack

former Southern Christian Leadership Conference executive director  Hosea Williams   with John Lewis lead March 7, 1965 ("Bloody Sunday") voting rights march over Selma's Edmund Pettus bridge born on 1-5-1926 in Attapulgus, Georgia expired 11-16-2000 in Atlanta, Georgia   age 74   cause: cancer

British Lt.Colonel  James Howard Williams   commander of the World War II Burmese Elephant Corps; the ultimate celebrity death match ... Africa Corps vs. Elephant Corps, Rommel vs. Williams! expired 7-30-1958 in Cornwall, England   age 63

voice actress  Jean Hughes Williams   known for shrieking "Hey, Culligan Man" in countless commercials born on 12-9-1914 expired 4-5-1985 in Burbank, California   age 70   cause: cancer

blues singer  Joe Williams   performed with the Count Basie band ¤ born: Joseph Goreed  born on 12-12-1918 in Cordele, Georgia expired 3-29-1999 in Las Vegas, Nevada   age 80

common sense-challenged offspring  John Henry Williams   had his deceased father's head sawed off & put "on ice" born on 8-26-1968 expired 3-6-2004 in Los Angeles, California   age 35   cause: acute myelogenous leukemia    Contest Selectors 2004 LMLD, PCD 11.1%    Scored 10.2500 points

1950s Bank of America executive  Joseph P. Williams   created the BankAmericard credit card (it was renamed Visa in 1976) born on 2-12-1915 in Newark, New Jersey expired 11-8-2003 in Atlantis, Florida   age 88

game show announcer  Kenneth "Kenny" Williams   did a lot of the Heatter-Quigley game shows like Video Village (1960-62), Hollywood Squares (1966-81), Gambit (1972-81) & High Rollers (1974-80) born on --1913 expired 2-16-1984   age 70

Ohio death row inmate  Lewis Williams Jr.   hauled kicking and screaming to the execution expired 1-14-2004 in Lucasville, Ohio   age 45   cause: executed; lethal injection    Contest Selectors 2004 BOD, PCD 5.6%    Did  Not Score - insufficient category citations (one to be exact)

gospel singer  Marion Williams born on 8-29-1927 expired 7-2-1994   age 66

jazz pianist/composer  Mary Lou Williams ¤ born: Mary Elfrieda Scruggs  born on 5-8-1910 in Atlanta, Georgia expired 5-28-1981 in Durham, North Carolina   age 71   cause: cancer

actor  Michael Leonard Williams   played Duc d'Alencon in the BBC production of Elizabeth R (1971) & Brian in Educating Rita (1983); husband of Judi Dench born on 7-9-1935 in Manchester, England expired 1-11-2001 in Surrey, England   age 65   cause: lung cancer

saxophonist/bandleader  Paul Williams   had 1949 hit with The Huckle-buck born on 7-13-1915 in Lewisburg, Tennessee expired 9-14-2002 in New York, New York   age 87

model, singer, actress  Rachela Andrea Williams   did February 1992 Playboy pictorial born on 4-29-1967 in New York, New York expired 1-9-2001 in Los Angeles, California   age 33   cause: motorcycle accident

Texas death row inmate  Richard Head Williams ¤ aka: number 999251  born on 7-19-1969 expired 2-25-2003 in Huntsville, Texas   age 33   cause: executed; lethal injection    Contest Selectors 2003 DTM, RR, TMTX 16.7%    Scored 9.6250 points

Hall of Fame baseball player & manager  Richard Hirschfeld "Dick" Williams   managed the Boston Red Sox, Oakland A's & San Diego Padres born on 5-27-1929 in Saint Louis, Missouri expired 7-7-2011 in Las Vegas, Nevada   age 82   cause: brain aneurysm

tennis champion  Richard Norris Williams 2nd   survior of the Titanic sinking born on 6-2-1891 expired 6-2-1968 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania   age 77

black "revolutionary"  Robert F. Williams   spent years on-the-lam in Cuba, China and North Korea avoiding arrest on kidnapping charges born on 2-26-1925 in Monroe, North Carolina expired 10-15-1996 in Grand Rapids, Michigan   age 71   cause: Hodgkins disease

schmaltzy pianist  Roger Williams ¤ born: Louis Jacob Weertz  born on 10-2-1924 in Omaha, Nebraska expired 10-8-2011 in Los Angeles, California   age 87   cause: pancreatic cancer    Contest Selectors 2007 JCM 3.2% 2008 JCM 3.1% 2009 JCM 3.3% 2010 JCM 3.7%

the Mickey Mouse Club's "Big Mooseketeer"  Roy Williams   although he had never acted Walt Disney personally added him to the cast; he designed the mouse ears worn by everyone in the "club" born on 7-30-1907 in Coleville, Washington expired 11-7-1976   age 59

former Teamster's Union president (1981-83)  Roy Lee Williams born on 3-22-1915 in Ottumwa, Iowa expired 4-28-1989 in Leeton, Missouri   age 74

actor  Spencer Williams   played Andrew Hogg "Andy" Brown on television Amos 'n' Andy series born on 7-14-1893 in Vidalia, Louisiana expired 12-13-1969   age 76

self-described megalomaniac  Stanley Tookie Williams III   member of the L.A. protection racket gang the Crips; by his own admission he beat, robbed & shot the innocent born on 12-29-1953 in New Orleans, Louisiana expired 12-13-2005 in San Quentin, California   age 51   cause: executed; lethal injection

Playboy April 1965 Playmate of Month  Sue Williams   with Karla Conway was the shortest Playmate (4'11"); typecast as Peanut in How to Stuff a Wild Bikini (1965), Robot in Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine (1965), Sue in The Ghost inthe Invisible Bikini (1966) & the Farmer's Daughter in Fireball 500 (1966); Playboy had her date of birth as 5-13-1945 ¤ real name: Karen Susan Hamilton  born on 11-14-1945 in Glendale, California expired 9-2-1969 in Hollywood, California   age 23   cause: suicide

Hall-of-Fame baseball player  Theodore Samuel "Ted" Williams   last player to bat .400 for a season ¤ nickname: "The Splendid Splinter"  born on 8-30-1918 in San Diego, California expired 7-5-2002 in Crystal River, Florida   age 83   cause: heart attack; congestive heart failure; strokes    Contest Selectors 2002 JEDS, JL 18.2%    Scored 5.4500 points

author  Thomas Lanier "Tennessee" Williams born on 3-26-1911 in Columbus, Mississippi expired 2-25-1983 in New York, New York   age 71    Contest Selectors 1980 DR, EK 12.5%

retired steelworker  Wallace Ignatius "Bucky" Williams   played in the Negro Baseball Leagues in the 1930s for the Pittsburgh Crawfords & the Homestead Grays born on 12-15-1906 in Baltimore, Maryland expired 11-16-2009 in Penn Hills, Pennsylvania   age 102    Contest Selectors 2009 WEP 3.3%    Scored 4.8000 solo points

Walter Williams   claimed to have been a Civil War veteran born on 11-14-1854 expired 12-19-1959 in Houston, Texas   age 105

former Plasmatics singer  Wendy Orleans Williams   as part of a music video, she stood atop a school bus as it drove through a wall of televisions; played a gameshow contestant in a Gong Show parody in the movie Candy Goes to Hollywood (her "talent" involved ping pong balls); did October 1986 Playboy pictorial born on 5-28-1946 in Rochester, New York expired 4-6-1998 in Storrs, Connecticut   age 51   cause: suicide; cranial gunshot

death row inmate  Willie Ray Williams expired 1-31-1995 in Huntsville, Texas   age 38   cause: executed; lethal injection

Playboy film critic  Bruce S. Williamson born on 12-31-1926 in Cadillac, Michigan expired 10-6-1998 in New York, New York   age 71   cause: bladder cancer

pioneering undersea photographer  John Ernest Williamson   did special undersea movie photography for the 1916 production of 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea born on --1882 in Liverpool, England expired 7-15-1966 in Nassau, Bahamas   age 84

science fiction writer  John Steward "Jack" Williamson   his first story, published in 1928 in the Amazing Stories pulp magazine, was The Metal Man; The Ultimate Earth novella (2001) earned both Hugo & Nebula Awards born on 4-29-1908 in Bisbee, Arizona Territory expired 11-10-2006 in Portales, New Mexico   age 98

pianist, organist, composer  Malcolm Benjamin Graham Christopher Williamson   Master of the Queen's Music (1975-2003) born on 11-21-1931 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia expired 3-2-2003 in London, England   age 71

actor  Nicol Williamson   played Merlin in Excaliber (1981) & Sherlock Holmes in The Seven-per-cent Solution born on 9-14-1938 in Hamilton, Scotland expired 12-16-2011 in Amsterdam, Holland   age 73   cause: esophageal cancer

character actor  Noble Willingham   played C.D. Parker on Walker, Texas Ranger (1993-99) & Texas on Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "The Royale" (1989) born on 8-31-1931 in Mineola, Texas expired 1-17-2004 in Palm Springs, California   age 72

Playboy July 1970 Playmate of Month  Carol J. Willis born on 4-17-1949 in Bowie County, Texas expired 11-24-1971 in Laguna Beach, California   age 20   cause: automobile accident

1940 Republican candidate for president  Wendell L. Willkie expired 10-4-1944 in New York, New York   age 52

Morro Castle captain  Robert Renison Willmott   died about 8 hours before fatal fire started aboard ship expired 9-7-1934 in North Atlantic Ocean   age 58   cause: heart attack AKS: Wilmott Willmot Wilmot

character actor  Chill Theodore Wills   provided the voice for Francis, the Talking Mule born on 7-18-1902 in Seagoville, Texas expired 12-15-1978 in Encino, California   age 76   cause: cancer

one-time Watergate security guard  Frank Wills   on June 17, 1972 discovered breakin in progress at Democratic National Committee offices and called the cops born on 2-4-1948 expired 9-27-2000 in Augusta, Georgia   age 52   cause: brain tumor

Texas Playboys founder  James "Bob" Wills   worked as a barber until 1929; Country Music Hall-of-Famer; wrote San Antonio Rose born on 3-6-1905 expired 5-13-1975 in Fort Worth, Texas   age 70   cause: bronchial pneumonia

composer  Meredith Willson   wrote The Music Man (1958) born on 5-18-1902 in Mason City, Iowa expired 6-15-1984 in Santa Monica, California   age 82 AKS: Wilson

chemist  Richard Martin Willstätter   1915 Nobel laureate in chemistry for the invention of chromatography born on 8-13-1872 in Karlsruhe, Baden, Germany expired 8-3-1942 in Muroalto, Switzerland   age 69   cause: heart attack

auto firm founder (1907)  John North Willys born on 10-25-1873 in Canadaigua, New York expired 8-26-1935 in Riverdale-on-Hudson, New York   age 61   cause: cerebral embolism

Palm Beach socialite  Mollie Wilmot   Rose Kennedy's next door neighbor; best remembered for the Venezuelan freighter (the Mercedes) that went aground in her back yard (Thanksgiving 1984) ¤ born: Mollie Netcher formerly Mrs: Eddie Bragno, Albert Bostwick & Paul Wilmot  born on 5-9-1923 in Chicago, Illinois expired 9-17-2002 in New York, New York   age 79

Franklin D. Wilsey   was a ground crewman beneath the Hindenburg when it burned and crashed in Lakehurst, N.J. born on 2-8-1914 expired 7-4-2006 in Morehead City, North Carolina   age 92

singer  Allen Wilson   had 1974 hit with Show and Tell born on 6-19-1939 in Meridian, Mississippi expired 4-21-2008 in Fontana, California   age 68   cause: kidney failure; prostate cancer AKS: Al Wilson

playwright  August Wilson ¤ born: Frederick August Kittel  born on 4-27-1945 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania expired 10-2-2005 in Seattle, Washington   age 60   cause: liver cancer

Mississippi super-geezer  Bettie Antry Wilson ¤ née: Rutherford  born on 9-13-1890 in Benton County, Mississippi expired 2-13-2006 in New Albany, Mississippi   age 115   cause: congestive heart failure    Contest Selectors 2005 KLS, PCD, QKU, RIE, RR 21.7% 2006 KLS, PCD, RIE, RR 13.3%    Scored 1.3125 points

Beach Boys co-founder  Carl Dean Wilson born on 12-2-1946 in Hawthorne, California expired 2-6-1998 in Los Angeles, California   age 51   cause: lung cancer

Charles Wilson   part of British gang that committed the 1963 "Great" train robbery expired 4-23-1990 in Costa del Sol   age 58   cause: assassinated; shot to death by hit man

GE president (1940-42 & 1944-50)  Charles Edward Wilson born on 11-18-1886 in New York, New York expired 1-3-1972 in Scarsdale, New York   age 85

Eisenhower Defense Secretary (1953-57)  Charles Erwin Wilson   General Motors president (1941-53) born on 7-18-1890 in Minerva, Ohio expired 9-26-1961 in Norwood, Louisiana   age 71

realtor & motel executive  Charles Kemmons Wilson Jr.   opened first Holiday Inn motel (1952; named for fictional lodging in 1942 Bing Crosby movie) born on 1-5-1913 in Osceola, Arkansas expired 2-12-2003 in Memphis, Tennessee   age 90

former Texas representative (1973-97)  Charles Nesbitt "Charlie" Wilson   subject of 2007 movie; received a heart transplant in September 2007 born on 6-1-1933 in Trinity, Texas expired 2-10-2010 in Lufkin, Texas   age 76   cause: cardio-pulmonary arrest

physicist  Charles Thomson Rees Wilson   shared 1927 Nobel physics prize for invention of the cloud chamber born on 2-14-1869 in Glencourse, Midlothian, Scotland expired 11-15-1959 in Carlops, Pebblesshire, Scotland   age 90

comedian  Clerow "Flip" Wilson   his character Geraldine would say "what you see is what you get" born on 12-8-1933 in Jersey City, New Jersey expired 11-25-1998 in Malibu, California   age 64   cause: liver cancer

Beach Boys co-founder  Dennis Wilson   his body was buried at sea born on 12-4-1944 in Hawthorne, California expired 12-28-1983 in Marina del Rey, California   age 39   cause: drowned

BBC writer/producer  Donald Boyd Wilson   adapted The Forsyte Sagafor tv (1967) born on 9-1-1910 in Dunblane, Perthshire, Scotland expired 3-6-2002 in Gloucestershire, England   age 91

Jack Benny's announcer  Donald Harlow Wilson born on 9-1-1900 in Lincoln, Nebraska expired 4-25-1982 in Palm Springs, California   age 81    Contest Selectors 1979 RR 7.7%

pianist, actor  Dooley Wilson   piano player Sam at Rick's Cafe who sang As Time Goes By in Casablanca (1942) born on 4-3-1894 in Tyler, Texas expired 5-30-1953 in Los Angeles, California   age 59

presidential widow  Edith Bolling Wilson   accused of running the government after her husband had a debilitating stroke expired 12-28-1961 in Washington, District of Columbia   age 89

black actor  Frank H. Wilson   originated role of Porgy in 1927 play of same name expired 2-16-1956 in New York, New York   age 70

electrocardiography pioneer Dr.  Frank Norman Wilson   professor in the University of Michigan Medical School expired 9-11-1952 in Stockbridge, Michigan   age 61

former Detroit Lions coach  George Wilson   led team to their last NFL championship (1957) born on 2-3-1914 expired 11-23-1978 in Detroit, Michigan   age 64   cause: heart attack

publisher  Halsey William Wilson   founded the H.W. Wilson Co., publisher of Reader's Guide and other indicies expired 3-1-1954 in Croton Heights, New York   age 85

Helen Charis Wilson Weston   muse to her photographer husband (Edward Weston) born on 5-5-1914 in San Francisco, California expired 11-20-2009 in Santa Cruz, California   age 95    Contest Selectors 2009 DGW 3.3%    Scored 5.5000 solo points

Grant 2ndt term vice president (1873-75)  Henry Wilson born on 2-16-1812 in Farmington, New York expired 11-10-1875 in Washington, District of Columbia   age 63

British Civil Service head Sir  Horace Wilson   along with Neville Chamberlain thought he could appease Hitler at München expired 5-26-1972 in London, England   age 89

Hugh Robert Wilson   last U.S. Ambassador to Germany before the its entry into World War II expired 12-28-1946 in Bennington, Vermont   age 61

singer  Jackie Wilson   had hit with Higher and Higher ¤ real name: Jack Leroy Wilson  born on 6-9-1934 in Detroit, Michigan expired 1-21-1984   age 49   cause: heart attack    Contest Selectors 1979 JW 7.7% 1980 DR, JW, MM 18.8%

former British Prime Minister (1964-70 & 1974-76) Sir  James Harold Wilson born on 3-11-1916 in Huddersfield, England expired 5-24-1995 in London, England   age 79    Contest Selectors 1979 RR 7.7% 1980 DH 6.3%

former slave  James Walter Wilson ¤ nickname: "Uncle Jim"  expired 12-22-1945 in Vidalia, Georgia   age 120

author  John Anthony Burgess Wilson   wrote A Clockwork Orange ¤ pen name: "Anthony Burgess"  born on 2-25-1917 in Manchester, England expired 11-25-1993   age 76

pro wrassler  John M. "Jack" Wilson   worked under the names Kurt von Braun, Hans von Schupp, The Masked Marvel, The Mystery Man & Mr. Zero (in Japan) born on 6-17-1918 expired 3-13-2001 in Phoenix, Arizona   age 82

Xerox Corp. founder  Joseph C. Wilson   assumed control of family-owned Haloid Co. in 1946 & bought rights to Chester Carlson's xerography process born on 12-13-1909 expired 11-22-1971 in New York, New York   age 61

cajun chef  Justin E. Wilson born on 4-24-1914 in Roseland, Tangipahoa Parish, Louisiana expired 9-5-2001 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana   age 87

playwright  Lanford Eugene Wilson   author or "Hot l Baltimore" (1973), "Fifth of July" (1978) & "Talley's Folly" (1979) born on 4-13-1937 in Lebanon, Missouri expired 3-23-2011 in Wayne, New Jersey   age 73   cause: pneumonia

home run slugger  Lewis R. "Hack" Wilson expired 11-23-1948 in Baltimore, Maryland   age 48   cause: internal hemorrhaging from a fall

voice actor  Lionel Wilson   gave voice to Tom Terrific, Mighty Manfred (the Wonder Dog), Crabby Appleton, et. al ¤ born: Lionel Lazarus Salzer  born on 3-22-1924 in New York, New York expired 4-30-2003 in New York, New York   age 79   cause: pneumonia

helium-voiced "dumb blond" actress  Marie Katherine Elizabeth Wilson   played My Friend Irma on radio & tv born on 8-19-1916 in Anaheim, California expired 11-23-1972 in Hollywood Hills, California   age 56   cause: cancer

blacklisted screen writer  Michael Wilson   shared 1952 oscar for A Place in the Sun with Harry Brown; also wrote screenplays for Salt of the Earth (1954), Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) & Planet of the Apes (1968) born on 7-1-1914 in McAlester, Oklahoma expired 4-9-1978 in Beverly Hills, California   age 63   cause: heart attack

former Fabulous Coasters singer  Nathaniel "Buster" Wilson   parts of his dismembered body were dumped near Hoover Dam & in a ravine near Modesto California expired 4-??-1980 in Las Vegas, Nevada   age ??   cause: shot in head

actor, writer, director  Richard Wilson   co-founded Mercury Theater with Orson Welles born on 12-25-1915 in McKeesport, Pennsylvania expired 8-21-1991 in Santa Monica, California   age 75

character actor  Richard "Dick" Wilson   played Charmin pitchman Mr. Whipple (1964-90) — "Please don't squeeze the Charmin" born on 7-30-1916 in Preston, England expired 11-19-2007 in Woodland Hills, California   age 91    Contest Selectors 2003 COCO 5.6%

writer  Richard Lawson Wilson   won 1954 Pulitzer prize for national reporting born on 9-3-1905 in Galesburg, Illinois expired 1-18-1981 in Washington, District of Columbia   age 75   cause: mycosis fungoides

astrophysicist Sir  Robert Wilson   got the International Ultraviolet Explorer launched by NASA (1978) born on 4-16-1927 in County Durham, England expired 9-2-2002 in Chelmsford, England   age 75

author  Robert Anton Wilson   a former associate editor at Playboy (1966-71); wrote The Book of the Breast (1974), The Book of the Sub-Genius (1987), the Schrodinger's Cat trilogy & was co-author of Illuminatus! trilogy ¤ aka: "Pope Bob"  born on 1-18-1932 in Brooklyn, New York, New York expired 1-11-2007 in Capitola, California   age 74   cause: heart attack    Contest Selectors 2003 COCO 5.6% 2007 AUDC, RR 6.5%    Scored 6.3500 points

former Boston, Detroit & San Diego pitcher  Robert Earl Wilson   was in the starting rotation for the Tigers' 1968 World Series championship team ¤ born: Earl Lawrence Wilson  born on 10-2-1934 in Ponchatoula, Louisiana expired 4-23-2005 in Southfield, Michigan   age 70   cause: heart attack

Manhattan Project physicist Dr.  Robert Rathbun Wilson   developed the electromechanical method of separating uranium isotopes; designer & director of Fermilab born on 3-4-1914 in Frontier, Wyoming expired 1-16-2000 in Ithaca, New York   age 85

watercolor artist  Rowland Bragg Wilson   known for his wry cartoons that were published in Playboy (since 1967), The Saturday Evening Post, Esquire & The New Yorker born on 8-3-1930 in Dallas, Texas expired 6-28-2005 in Encinitas, California   age 74   cause: heart failure

writer  Sloan Wilson   author of The Man in the Grey Flannel Suit (1955) & A Summer Place (1958); wrote August 1972 article for Playboy (The Happiest Days) born on 5-8-1920 in Norwalk, Connecticut expired 5-25-2003 in Colonial Beach, Virginia   age 83   cause: complications from Alzheimer's disease

jazz pianist  Theodore "Teddy" Wilson born on 11-24-1912 in Austin, Texas expired 7-31-1986 in New Britain, Connecticut   age 73

actor  Theodore Roosevelt Wilson born on 12-10-1943 in New York, New York expired 7-21-1991 in Los Angeles, California   age 47

former American Greetings executive  Thomas Albert "Tom" Wilson Sr.   was also the Ziggy cartoonist (strip taken over by son) born on 8-1-1931 in Grant Town, West Virginia expired 9-16-2011 in Cincinnati, Ohio   age 80   cause: pneumonia

28th U.S. president  Thomas Woodrow Wilson   won 1919 Nobel Peace Prize for the Versailles Treaty; husband of Edith born on 12-28-1856 in Staunton, Virginia expired 2-3-1924 in Washington, District of Columbia   age 67

former Boeing chairman & CEO (1972-87)  Thornton A. Wilson born on 2-8-1921 in Sikeston, Missouri expired 4-10-1999 in Palm Springs, California   age 78

actor  Trey Wilson ¤ real name: Donald Yearnsley Wilson III  born on 1-21-1948 in Houston, Texas expired 1-16-1989 in New York, New York   age 40   cause: cerebral hemorrhage

Waldon O. Wilson   oscar-winning sound engineer born on 1-20-1907 expired 8-15-1986 in Fullerton, California   age 79

William Griffith Wilson   co-founded Alcoholics Anonymous (1935) born on 11-26-1895 in East Dorset, Vermont expired 1-24-1971 in Miami Beach, Florida   age 75   cause: pneumonia; cardiac disease

amateur distance runner  Fred Wilt   won 1950 Sullivan Award born on 12-14-1920 in Pendleton, Indiana expired 9-5-1994   age

advertising executive  Robert W. "Bob" Wilvers   gave us the immortal Alka-Seltzer jingle "Plop, plop, fizz, fizz. Oh, what a relief it is." born on 4-2-1932 expired 12-10-1997 in New Milford, Connecticut   age 65   cause: lung cancer

Gospel singing family patriarch  David Glenn "Pop" Winans born on 4-20-1934 expired 4-8-2009 in Nashville, Tennessee   age 74   cause: complications from strokes & heart attacks

gospel singer  Ronald Winans born on 7-1-1956 expired 6-17-2005 in Detroit, Michigan   age 48   cause: heart failure

tvwriter/Broadway playwright  Shimon Wincelberg   wrote the Time Tunnel pilot ("Rendezvous with Yesterday"; 1966); for the original Star Trek series wrote Dagger of the Mind (1966) & The Galileo Seven (1967) ¤ aka: S. Bar-David  born on 9-26-1924 in Kiel, Germany expired 9-29-2004 in Los Angeles, California   age 80 AKS: Simon

ventriloquist  Paul Winchell   known for his characters Jerry Mahoney and Nucklehead Smiff; inventor of an early artificial heart device (1963); more recently provided voices for Smurf character Gargamel & Disney cartoon Pooh character Tigger ¤ born: Paul Wilchin  born on 12-21-1922 in New York, New York expired 6-24-2005 in Moorpark, California   age 82

Winchell Doughnuts founder (1948)  Verne H. Winchell   sold out to Denny's (1968); took stock; became Denny's chairman (1970) born on 10-30-1915 in Bloomington, Indiana expired 11-26-2002 in Las Vegas, Nevada   age 87   cause: cardiac arrest

newspaper columnist  Walter Winchell   narrated The Untouchables tv series born on 4-7-1897 in New York, New York expired 2-20-1972 in Los Angeles, California   age 74   cause: prostate cancer

child actor  Robert Winckler ¤ stage name: Robert Winkler  born on 2-12-1927 in Chicago, Illinois expired 12-28-1989 in Woodland Hills, California   age 62

sex hormone researcher  Adolf Otto Reinhold Windaus   received the 1928 Nobel prize in chemistry born on 12-25-1876 in Berlin, Germany expired 6-9-1959 in Göttingen, Germany   age 82

Playboy October 1977 Playmate of Month  Kristine Winder    according to Wikipedia her posing name was a pseudonym it was said in the June 2011 issue that she had died "recently" (meaning any time from around her birthday and the date of printing, probably around early April) born on 10-15-1955 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada expired 10-15-2010+   age 55+   cause: breast cancer

big band musician  Kai Chresten Winding born on 5-18-1922 in Aarhus, Denmark expired 5-7-1983 in Yonkers, New York   age 60

Princess Alice Windsor   widow of the Duke of Gloucester; aunt of Elizabeth II ¤ full name: Alice Christabel Montagu Douglas Scott title: Duchess of Gloucester  born on 12-25-1901 in London, England expired 10-29-2004 in London, England   age 102    Contest Selectors 2000 ANG, KLS, RR 43% 2001 DTM, KLS, RR 37½% 2002 DTM, RR 18.2% 2003 COCO, CSI, DTM, JL, KLS, RR 33.3% 2004 CSI, DTM, KLS, RIE, RR 27.8%    Scored 2.4563 points

silent screen actress  Claire Windsor   had one of those squeaky voices that sounded really bad when talkies arrived ¤ born: Clara Viola Cronk  born on 4-14-1892 expired 10-24-1972 in Hollywood, California   age 80   cause: heart attack

ex-Princess  Diana Frances Spencer Windsor   crash injuries exacerbated by subsequent slow transport to hospital born on 7-1-1961 in Sandringham, Norfolk, England expired 8-31-1997 in Paris, France   age 36   cause: auto crash

the  Duchess of Windsor   widow of ex-King Edward VIII (married him in 1937) ¤ born: Bessiewallis Warfield; formerly: Wallace Warfield Spencer, then Wallace Warfield Simpson  born on 6-19-1896 in Blue Ridge Summit, Pennsylvania expired 4-24-1986 in Paris, France   age 89    Contest Selectors 1980 DR 6.3%

the  Duke of Windsor   son of George V; 11-month English King (1936); abdicated to marry Wallis Simpson; self-exiled to France ¤ title: King Edward VIII  born on 6-23-1894 in Richmond, England expired 5-28-1972 in Paris, France   age 77   cause: throat cancer

Lady  Elizabeth Angela Marquerite Bowes-Lyon Windsor   widow of King George VI; sister of Princess Alice; mother of British Queen Elizabeth II; last Enpress of India ¤ aka: The Queen Mother  born on 8-4-1900 in Hertfordshire, England expired 3-30-2002 in Windsor, England   age 101    Contest Selectors 1979 DO, HFS 15.4% 1980 DO, DW 12.5% 2000 ANG, KLS, RR 43% 2001 ANG, DTM, KLS, NFG, ROTS, RR, TEX 87½% 2002 CMH, DTM, JAC, JEDS, JL, MORB, RAVN, RR, TMTX 81.8%    Scored 2.4098 points

Film Noir actress  Marie Windsor ¤ born: Emily Merie Bertelsen; Mrs. Jack Rodney Hupp  born on 12-11-1914 in Marysvale, Utah expired 12-10-2000 in Beverly Hills, California   age 85

troubled singer  Amy Jade Winehouse   it didn't help that she got involved with Pete Doherty; in June, 2008 was diagnosed with emphysema — doctors told her to knock off smoking the drugs (lest she drop dead); in 2009 had a ginormous set of plastic boobies installed ... boy, that convinced everyone that she got her act together! born on 9-14-1983 in Enfield, Middlesex, England expired 7-22-2011 in London, England   age 27   cause: alcohol poisoning    Contest Selectors 2008 ADWC, DFFC, DGW, JCM, MORB, OIE, QKU, RIE, RPRM, TFM 31.3% 2009 CSI, DGW, GAS, JCM, KLS, MoFa, MORB, QKU, RIE, RPRM, RR, TWOS, XXX 43.3% 2010 BOD, CSI, DGW, GAS, JCM, QKU, REPR, RPRM, TWOS 33.3%

actor  Paul Edward Winfield   played Reliant Captain Terrell in Star Trek II: The Wath of Khan & Dathon in Star Trek: Next Generation episode Darmok (1991) born on 5-22-1941 expired 3-7-2004 in Los Angeles, California   age 62   cause: heart attack; diabetes

1930s actress & pinup girl  Martha Virginia "Toby" Wing born on 7-14-1915 in Amelia Court House, Virginia expired 3-23-2001 in Matthews, Virigina   age 85

1932/36 Olympic swimming medalist  Lenore Kight Wingrad born on 9-26-1911 in Frostburg, Maryland expired 2-9-2000 in Cincinnati, Ohio   age 88

noted jockey  James "Jimmy" Winkfield   won 1901 & 1902 Kentucky Derby aboard "His Eminence" and "Alan-a-Dale" (came in second in 1903) ¤ nickname: "Wink"  born on 4-12-1880 in Chilesburg, Kentucky expired 3-23-1974 in Maisons-Laffitte, France   age 93

inventor  James Earl Winner Jr.   invented "The Club" automobile anti-theft device (1985) born on 7-12-1929 in Transfer, Pennsylvania expired 9-14-2010 in Highland, Clarion County, Pennsylvania (nearby)   age 81   cause: car crash

Sir  Francis Salwey William Winnington born on 6-24-1907 expired 4-26-2003   age 95

cellist/symphony conductor  Arthur Winograd   co-founder of the Juilliard String Quartet (1946) with Robert Mann, Raphael Hillyer and Robert Koff born on 4-22-1920 in New York, New York expired 4-22-2010 in Morristown, New Jersey   age 90   cause: complications from pneumonia

machinist union leader  William W. Winpisinger ¤ nickname: "Wimpy"  born on 12-10-1924 in Cleveland, Ohio expired 12-11-1997 in Ellicott City, Maryland   age 73   cause: cancer

author  Kathleen Winsor   wrote Forever Amber (1944); once married to Artie Shaw (1946-48) born on 10-16-1919 in Olivia, Minnesota expired 5-26-2003 in New York, New York   age 83 AKS: Windsor

retired L.A. Metropolitan Transit Authority bus maintenance attendant  Arthur Winston   the U.S. Labor Department believes that he set the record for continuous employment (1/24/1934 to 3/21/2006) born on 3-22-1906 in Oklahoma Territory expired 4-13-2006 in South Los Angeles, California   age 100   cause: congestive heart failure

jeweler  Harry Winston   donated the 44½ carat Hope Diamond to the Smithsonian Institution (1958) after having purchased it from the Evalyn Walsh McLean estate (1949) born on 3-1-1896 in New York, New York expired 12-8-1978 in New York, New York   age 82   cause: heart attack

Star Trek "super fan"  Joan M. Winston   an organizer of the first Star Trek Convention, January 1972, at the Statler Hilton hotel in New York City — they expected 500 to show, but got over 3,000; co-authored Star Trek Lives (1975; with Jacqueline Lichtenberg & Sondra Marshak) born on 6-19-1931 in Washington State expired 9-10-2008 in Manhattan, New York, New York   age 77   cause: Alzheimer's disease

movie visual effects whiz  Stanley Winston   won 4 oscars for: Aliens (1986), Terminator 2: Judgement Day (1991: Makeup and Visual Effects) & Jurassic Park (1993) born on 4-7-1946 in Arlington, Virginia expired 6-15-2008 in Malibu, California   age 62   cause: multiple myeloma

character actor  Edward D. Winter   best known for playing the nutty Army intelligence officer Colonel Flagg on M*A*S*H tv series born on 6-3-1937 in Ventura, California expired 3-8-2001 in Woodland Hills, California   age 63   cause: Parkinson's disease

lawyer  Elmer Louis Winter   with partner Aaron Scheinfeld (d.1970) started the Manpower Temp agency (1948) born on 3-6-1912 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin expired 10-29-2009 in Mequon, Wisconsin   age 97

pop-music conductor/arranger  Hugo Winterhalter born on 8-15-1909 expired 9-17-1973 in Greenwich, Connecticut   age 64   cause: cancer

surviving World War I military veteran  Charlotte Louise Winters   had been the oldest female veteran ¤ née: Berry  born on 11-10-1897 in Washington, District of Columbia expired 3-27-2007 in Boonsboro, Maryland   age 109

film editor  Ralph E. Winters   won Editing oscars for King Solomon's Mines (1950) & Ben Hur (1959) born on 6-17-1909 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada expired 2-26-2004 in Los Angeles, California   age 94

World War II veteran  Richard Davis "Dick" Winters   was commander of Company E, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne Division ("Easy Company"); immortalized in Band of Brothers born on 1-21-1918 in Lancaster, Pennsylvania expired 1-2-2011 in Campbelltown, Pennsylvania   age 92   cause: complications from Parkinson's disease    Contest Selectors 2010 OIE 3.7%

Charlie Chan tv actor  Roland Winters born on 11-22-1904 expired 10-22-1989   age 84

actress  Shelley Winters   received two Best Supporting Actress oscars: for playing Mrs. Van Dann in Diary of Anne Frank (1959) & Rye-Ann D'Arcy in A Patch of Blue (1965) ¤ born: Shirley Schrift  born on 8-18-1920 in Saint Louis, Missouri expired 1-14-2006 in Beverly Hills, California   age 85   cause: heart failure    Contest Selectors 1979 JH, MS 15.4% 2002 CMH 9.1% 2003 KOHD 5.6% 2005 WORM 4.3% 2006 ADWC, DFFC, DTH, GGG, LMLD, 4GUE 20.0%    Scored 4.0781 points

actress  Gloria Winters-Vernon   played Penny, Sky King's niece & was the first Babs Riley on the original version of The Life of Riley (1949-50) born on 11-28-1931 in Los Angeles, California expired 8-14-2010 in Vista, California   age 78   cause: complications from pneumonia

early auto manufacturer  Alexander Winton born on 6-20-1860 in Grangemouth, Scotland expired 6-21-1932 in Lakewood, Ohio   age 72

German Weimar Republic chancellor (1921-22)  Karl Joseph Wirth expired 1-3-1956 in Freiburg, Germany   age 76

businessman  Joseph Bitner Wirthlin   was also a member of the LDS Quorum of the 12 Apostles born on 6-11-1917 in Salt Lake City, Utah expired 12-1-2008 in Salt Lake City, Utah   age 91    Contest Selectors 2007 RPRM 3.2% 2008 RPRM 3.1%    Scored 5.9000 solo points

former Brigham Young University economist  Richard Bitner "Dick" Wirthlin   son of Mormon "apostle" Joseph L. Wirthlin; got into polling; helped the Gipper in his presidential run (1980) born on 3-15-1931 in Salt Lake City, Utah expired 3-16-2011 in Salt Lake City, Utah   age 80   cause: renal failure

businessman  William Wadsworth "Bill" Wirtz   former owner of the Chicago Black Hawks hockey team (1954-95) born on 10-5-1929 in Chicago, Illinois expired 9-26-2007 in Evanston, Illinois   age 77

JFK/Johnson Secretary of Labor (1962-69)  William Willard Wirtz born on 3-14-1912 in DeKalb, Illinois expired 4-24-2010 in Washington, District of Columbia   age 98    Contest Selectors 2009 LMLD 3.3% 2010 OIE 3.7%    Scored 5.2000 solo points AKS: Wertz

Henry Wirz   commander of Confederate prisoner of war camp in Andersonville, Georgia born on --1822 in Zürich, Switzerland expired 11-10-1865 in Washington, District of Columbia   age 43   cause: hanged

actor Sir  Norman Joseph Wisdom   played Chick Williams in The Night They Raided Minsky's (1968) ¤ born: Norman Wisden  born on 2-4-1915 in London, England expired 10-4-2010 in Ballasalla, Isle of Man, England   age 95   cause: complications from strokes; dementia    Contest Selectors 2006 SPIT 3.3% 2007 SPIT 3.2% 2008 ANG, SPIT 6.3% 2009 ANG 3.3% 2010 ANG, DTM 7.4%    Scored 4.2500 points

home saleswoman  Brownie Mae Wise   came up with the idea for Tupperware Parties ¤ née: Humphrey  born on 5-25-1913 in Buford, Georgia expired 12-24-1992 in Kissimmee, Florida   age 79

movie director  Robert Earl Wise Sr.   was film editor of Citizen Kane (1941) & The Magnificent Ambersons (1942); won directing oscars for West Side Story (1961) and The Sound of Music (1965); didn't win oscars for directing The Curse of the Cat People (1944), The Day The Earth Stood Still (1951), Run Silent, Run Deep (1958) or Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979) born on 9-10-1914 in Winchester, Indiana expired 9-14-2005 in Los Angeles, California   age 91   cause: heart failure    Contest Selectors 2003 COCO 5.6% 2004 RR 5.6%

musician  Robert Russell "Chubby" Wise   co-wrote Orange Blossom Special born on 10-2-1915 in Lake City, Florida expired 1-6-1996 in Bowie, Maryland   age 80

actor  Joseph Wiseman   played James Bond villain Dr. Julius No; uncredited voice of Ernst Stavro Blofeld in Thunderball (1965) born on 5-15-1918 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada expired 10-19-2009 in Manhattan, New York, New York   age 91   cause: complications from aneurysm    Contest Selectors 2007 WEP 3.2% 2008 WEP 3.1% 2009 WEP 3.3%    Scored 5.9000 solo points

exploitation movie producer/director  Doris Wishman   directed Deadly Weapons (1973) & Double Agent 73 (1974), amongst others born on 4-23-1920 in New York, New York expired 8-10-2002 in Miami, Florida   age 82   cause: complications from lymphoma

movie/tv sound editor  William H. "Bill" Wistrom   worked on To Catch a Thief, The Man Who Knew Too Much, The Ten Commandments, Funny Face, Vertigo, Hatari! (1962), Falcon Crest (1982-86) and the last four Star Trek tv series: The Next Generation (1987-92), Deep Space Nine (1993-95), Voyager (1995-2001) & Enterprise (2001-5) born on 12-20-1935 in Los Angeles, California expired 3-10-2010 in Valencia, California   age 74

civil rights photographer  Ernest C. Withers   in defiance of the judge's order, took the photograph of Moses Wright identifying Milam & Bryant as Emmett Till's kidnappers. born on 8-7-1922 in Memphis, Tennessee expired 10-15-2007 in Memphis, Tennessee   age 85

blues and jazz singer  Jimmy Witherspoon ¤ nickname: "spoon"  born on 1-13-1923 in Gurdon, Arkansas expired 9-18-1997 in Los Angeles, California   age 74

prolific movie/tv director  William Nuelson Witney   directed several Lone Ranger serials (1938/39) & the 1940 Adventures of Red Ryder serial ¤ aka: William Whitney  born on 5-15-1915 in Lawton, Oklahoma expired 3-17-2002 in Pioneer, California   age 86   cause: complications from stroke

chemist Dr.  George Wittig   shared 1979 Nobel chemistry prize born on 6-16-1897 in Berlin, Germany expired 8-26-1987 in Heidelberg, Germany   age 90

author  Pelham Grenville Wodehouse   created Jeeves and Bernie Wooster born on 10-15-1881 in Guildford, Surrey, England expired 2-14-1975 in Southampton, New York   age 93   cause: heart attack

former Detroit Lion  Alexander Wojciechowicz   Fordham All-American football player - center for the Seven Blocks of Granite born on 8-12-1915 in South River, New Jersey expired 7-13-1992 in South River, New Jersey   age 76

Polish Republic president (1922-26)  Stanislaw Wojciechowski expired 4-11-1953 in Warsaw, Poland   age 84

Catholic Church leader (1978-2005)  Karol Jozef Wojtyla   elected 265th Pope of the Roman Catholic Church in October 1978; victim of 1981 assassination attempt ¤ Pope John Paul II  born on 5-18-1920 in Wadowice, Poland expired 4-2-2005 in Vatican City   age 84   cause: heart failure; kidney failure; septic shock; Parkinson's disease    Contest Selectors 1979 DO, DW, HFS, HP, JH, RR, YJ 53.8% 1980 EK 6.3% 2000 BOD, IVY, TEX 43% 2001 BOD, DTM, NFG, RR, TEX 62½% 2002 ANG, BOD, CMH, DTM, JAC, JEDS, JL, MORB, RAVN, TMTX 90.9% 2003 DTM, GHG, JEDS, JL, KLS, KOHD, MB, OGGI, PCD, RAVN, RR, TAP, TMTX 72.2% 2004 ABRA, ADWC, BOD, CSI, DTM, EOD, GHG, KLS, LMLD, NFG, PCD, RAVN, RIE, RR, TAP 83.3% 2005 ADWC, BOD, BYE, CSI, DTM, GHG, KLS, MOT, NFG, PCD, RAVN, RIE, RR, SLIM, SPIT, TBC, TMD, WORM 78.3%    Scored 4.1000 points

Michigan rep. (1931-56)  Jesse Paine Wolcott   FDIC chairman (1958-64); descendant of Massachusetts Bay Colony governor William Bradford born on 3-3-1893 in Gardner, Massachusetts expired 1-28-1969 in Chevy Chase, Maryland   age 75

1968 Olympic marathon gold medalist  Demisse "Mamo" Wolde   spent most of the 1990s in prison for murder ¤ given name: Degaga  born on 6-12-1932 in Diri Jille, Ethiopia expired 5-26-2002 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia   age 69   cause: bronchitis; liver problems

actress  Gusti Wolf born on 4-11-1912 in Vienna, Lower Austria, Austria-Hungary expired 5-5-2007 in Vienna, Lower Austria, Austria   age 95    Contest Selectors 2006 WEP 3.3%

former East German spymaster  Markus Wolf   as head of the Stasi became the master of having agents use sex to gather intelligence; purported to have been a model for a le Carré book character born on 1-119-1923 in Hechingen, Germany expired 11-9-2006 in Berlin, Germany   age 83

Paula Wolf   Hitler's sister ¤ née: hitler  born on 1-21-1896 in Hafeld, Austria-Hungary expired 6-1-1960 in Berchtesgaden, Germany   age 64

Hitler opponent  Theodore Wolf   former editor-in-chief of Berliner Tageblatt expired 11-??-1943 in Berlin, Germany   age 75   cause: starvation & disease from incarceration in a concentration camp

comedian  Dennis A. Wolfberg born on 3-29-1946 expired 10-2-1994 in Culver City, California   age 48   cause: cancer

Bertram David Wolfe   co-wrote The Left Wing Manifesto, co-founding the U.S. Communist Party (1919); had falling-out with Stalin; ended up at Hoover Institute as a Reagan-ite ¤ pan name: Elbert Lovell  born on 1-19-1896 in New York, New York expired 2-21-1977 in San Jose, California   age 81   cause: burns suffered when bathrobe caught fire

American Communist Party co-founder (1919)  Ella Goldberg Wolfe   widow of Bertram born on 5-10-1896 in Kherson, Ukraine expired 1-8-2000 in Palo Alto, California   age 103

actor  Ian Wolfe   played Hirsch (mama Carlson's butler) on WKRP in Cincinnati; also played Septimus and Mr. Atoz on original series Star Trek episodes born on 11-4-1896 in Canton, Illinois expired 1-23-1992 in Los Angeles, California   age 95

urban terrorist  William "Willie" Wolfe   member of the SLA ¤ SLA name: "Kahjoh" (or "Cujo")  born on ??-??-1952 expired 5-24-1974 in Los Angeles, California   age 21   cause: self-immolation; burned to death in house during shootout with police

last of Eliot Ness' Untouchables  Albert Harris Wolff   collaborated on his memoirs (titled "The Untouchables") with Oscar Fraley born on 3-1-1903 in Chicago, Illinois expired 3-21-1998 in Mason, Ohio   age 95

novelist  Maritta Martin Wolff   wrote Whistle Stop (1941) born on 12-25-1918 in Grass Lake, Michigan expired 7-1-2002 in Los Angeles, California   age 83

musical comedy performer  Ignatius "Iggie" Wolfington   earned a battlefield commission during the Battle of the Bulge; played Marcellus Washburn in original Broadway production of The Music Man (1958) and Meyer Mishkin in 1941 (1979) born on 10-14-1919 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania expired 9-30-2004 in Studio City, California   age 84

"legendary" body board surfing master  Joseph Wolfson ¤ nickname: "Dr. 360"  born on 7-11-1949 in New York, New York expired 2-21-2000 in Los Angeles, California   age 50   cause: freeway crash; lung cancer (he had a history of suicide attempts)

Pilobolus Dance Theater co-founder  Abraham Jonathan Wolken   he named it after a fungus born on 7-12-1949 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania expired 6-13-2010 in Manhattan, New York, New York   age 60   cause: complications from stem cell transplant; myelofibrosis

East German Secret Police head (1953-57)  Ernst Friedrich Wollweber   an expert in sabotage & espionage expired 5-3-1967   age 68

advertising jingle writer  Sidney E. Woloshin   co-wrote "You deserve a break today" for McDonalds (1971; with Keith Reinhard) born on 6-27-1928 in Hartford, Connecticut expired 11-5-2000 in White Plains, New York   age 72   cause: pneumonia

movie/tv producer  David L. Wolper   co-produced Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971), Roots (1977) & The Thorn Birds (1983) ¤ the "L" doesn't stand for anything  born on 1-11-1928 in Manhattan, New York, New York expired 8-10-2010 in Beverly Hills, California   age 82   cause: congestive heart disease; Parkinson's disease

actress  Anna May Wong ¤ real name: Wong Liu Tsong  born on 1-3-1905 expired 2-3-1961 in Santa Monica, California   age 56   cause: heart attack

character actor  Victor Keung Wong born on 7-31-1927 in San Francisco, California expired 9-12-2001 in Locke, California   age 74

geezer  Arbelia Wood born on 4-6-1893 in Caledonia, Mississippi expired 3-11-2005 in pneumonia   age 119   cause: Clinton Township, Michigan    Contest Selectors 2005 RIE 4.3%    Scored 3.1000 solo points

Your Hit Parade radio show host  Barry Wood   also produced Kate Smith's tv series expired 7-19-1970 in Miami Beach, Florida   age 63

ceramicist  Beatrice Wood born on 3-3-1893 in San Francisco, California expired 3-12-1998 in Ojai, California   age 105

theme park designer  C. V. Wood Jr.   created Disneyland born on 12-17-1920 expired 3-14-1992   age 71

golfer  Craig Wood   won 1941 Masters and U.S. Open titles expired 5-7-1968 in Palm Beach, California   age 66

decorated World War II Marine  Edward Davis Wood Jr.   movie actor, producer, writer ... arguably the worst director in motion picture history; made Glen or Glenda (1953), Bride of the Monster, Plan 9 From Outer Space (1958) and Night of the Ghouls (1959); subject of the 1996 movie Ed Wood born on 10-10-1924 in Poughkeepsie, New York expired 12-10-1978 in North Hollywood, California   age 54   cause: heart failure

former Family Feud announcer  Eugene Edward Wood born on 10-20-1925 in Quincy, Massachusetts expired 5-21-2004 in Boston, Massachusetts   age 78   cause: cancer

speed reader  Evelyn Nielsen Wood   taught people to read really fast (1957) born on 1-8-1909 in Ogden, Utah expired 8-26-1995 in Tucson, Arizona   age 86

industrialist  Garfield Arthur Wood   developed hydraulic lift for dump trucks; famed speedboat racer; financed the Chris-Craft boat building company born on 12-4-1880 in Mapleton, Iowa expired 6-19-1971 in Miami, Florida   age 90   cause: "stomach ailment"

character actor  George Wood   played General Hammond in M*A*S*H movie & tv series; also appeared in Harold and Maude ¤ first name: George  born on 12-31-1919 in Forrest City, Arkansas expired 7-24-2000 in Macon, Georgia   age 80   cause: congestive heart failure AKS: G Wood G. Wood

American Gothic artist  Grant Wood expired 2-12-1942 in Iowa City, Iowa   age 49

songwriter  Guy B. Wood   wrote Shoo-Fly Pie and Apple Pan Dowdy & Rock-a-Bye Baby born on 7-24-1911 in Manchester, England expired 2-23-2001 in East Hampton, New York   age 89

stage & movie character actor  John Wood   earned numerous Tony nominations (won in 1976); played Dr. Stephen Falkyn in WarGames (1983) & Jeremy Talbot in Jumpin' Jack Flash (1986) born on 7-5-1930 in Derbyshire, England expired 8-6-2011 in Gloucestershire, England   age 81

Ed's widow  Kathleen O'Hara Wood   was the "art director" for Night of the Ghouls (1959) ¤ née: Everett  born on 5-27-1922 expired 6-26-2006 in Hollywood, California   age 84   cause: esophageal cancer

actress  Margaret "Peggy" Wood   played title role in 1950s I Remember Mama tv series born on 2-9-1892 in New York, New York expired 3-18-1978 in Stamford, Connecticut   age 86   cause: cerebral hemorrhage

high school basketball coach  Marvin C. Wood   coached the famous 1954 Indiana state championship game between Milan and Muncie Central that was the the basis for the movie Hoosiers (1986) born on 1-21-1928 in Morristown, Indiana expired 10-13-1999 in South Bend, Indiana   age 71   cause: lymphoma

actress  Natalie Wood   wife of Robert Wagner; played Susan Walker in Miracle on 34th Street (1947) & Carol Sanders in Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice (1969) ¤ born: Natasha Nikolaevna Gurdin  born on 7-20-1938 in San Francisco, California expired 11-28-1981 in Santa Catalina Island, California   age 43   cause: drowned

tennis Hall of Fame member  Sydney Burr Beardsley Wood Jr.   inducted into the Hall in 1964; winner of the 1931 Wimbledon men's singles championship - the final match (against friend Frank Shields) was uncontested due to Sheild's knee injury born on 11-1-1911 in Black Rock, Connecticut expired 1-10-2009 in Palm Beach, Florida   age 97

comic artist  Wallace "Wally" Wood   worked on The Spirit, MAD Magazine, Flash Gordon and Terry & the Pirates; created Sally Forth; helped create the TOPPS "Mars Attacks" trading cards born on 6-17-1927 in Menahga, Minnesota expired 10-31-1981 in New Haven, Connecticut   age 54   cause: suicide; gunshot to temple; kidney failure; multiple strokes

MAD Magazine artist (1957-2004)  George C. Woodbridge   with writer Tom Koch created 43-Man Squamish born on 10-3-1930 in New York, New York expired 1-20-2004 in New York, New York   age 73   cause: emphysema

Leonard Freel Woodcock   former UAW head (1970-77); former Ambassador to China (1979-81) born on 2-15-1911 in Providence, Rhode Island expired 1-16-2001 in Ann Arbor, Michigan   age 89   cause: pulmonary complications    Contest Selectors 2000 ANG 14%

legendary former UCLA basketball coach (1949-75)  John Robert Wooden   won 10 NCAA national championships born on 10-14-1910 in Hall, Indiana expired 6-4-2010 in Los Angeles, California   age 99    Contest Selectors 1979 HA 7.7% 2000 ANG 14% 2001 ANG 12½% 2002 DTM, JAC, MORB 27.3% 2003 COCO, DTM, KOHD, MJ 22.2% 2004 MJ 5.6% 2005 ADWC, ANG, QKU, SLIM 17.4% 2006 ADWC, ANG, DFFC, QKU 13.3% 2007 ADWC, BONY, DFFC, DTH, GOHI, OIE, PCD, QKU 25.8% 2008 ADWC, ANG, BOD, DFFC, DTM, GAS, GOHI, OIE, PCD, QKU, RPRM 34.4% 2009 ANG, BOD, DFFC, DTM, GAS, GOHI, QKU, RIE, RPRM 30.0% 2010 ANG, BOD, DFFC, DTM, GAS, OIE, PCD, QKU, RIE, RPRM 37.0%    Scored 2.6049 points

World War I Medal of Honor winner Major  Samuel Woodfill expired 8-13-1951 in Vevay, Indiana   age 58

former Mackinac Island Grand Hotel owner  William Stewart Woodfill born on 8-19-1896 in Greensburg, Indiana expired 3-4-1984 in Scottsdale, Arizona   age 87    Contest Selectors 1980 RR 6.3%

dog trainer  Barbara Blackburn Woodhouse born on 5-9-1910 in Rathfarnham, Ireland expired 6-25-1988 in Buckinghamshire, England   age 78   cause: stroke

former Miami Dolphins quarterback  David Eugene Woodley   started the 1983 Super Bowl born on 10-25-1958 in Shreveport, Louisiana expired 5-3-2003 in Shreveport, Louisiana   age 44   cause: liver & kidney failure

tv writer  Ruth Cornell Woodman   created and wrote much of the Death Valley Days tv series for U.S. Borax born on 11-26-1894 expired 4-22-1970 in Santa Monica, California   age 75

auto broker  Horace Lynn Woodring   as a 19-year-old army PFC was Patton's driver when the general's Caddie limo hit a truck that had pulled out into its path (12-9-1945) born on 9-30-1926 in Morganfield, Kentucky expired 11-2-2003 in Detroit, Michigan   age 77   cause: heart failure

Oklahoma death row inmate  David Woodruff born on 11-19-1959 expired 1-31-2002   age 42   cause: executed; lethal injection    Contest Selectors 2002 BOD 9.1%    Did  Not Score - insufficient category citations (only 2 of the minimum 3 needed)

early Coca-Cola Company leader  Ernest Woodruff born on --1863 expired 6-5-1944 in Atlanta, Georgia   age 81

track and field star  John Youie Woodruff   at the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin won a gold medal in the 800 meter run; he was the last living member of the group of track athletes that embarrassed Hitler's Aryan athletes born on 7-5-1915 in Connellsville, Pennsylvania expired 10-30-2007 in Fountain Hills, California   age 92   cause: atrial fibrillation; chronic renal failure

former Coca-Cola president (1923-55)  Robert Winship Woodruff born on 12-6-1889 in Columbus, Georgia expired 3-7-1985 in Atlanta, Georgia   age 95   cause: lost his fizz & went flat

former Weather Underground "activist"  Rosemary Sarah Woodruff   Tim Leary's third wife born on 4-26-1935 in Saint Louis, Missouri expired 1-7-2002 in Aptos, California   age 66   cause: congestive heart failure

retired Green Beret Lt. Col.  Earl Dennison Woods   was Tiger's dad born on 3-5-1932 in Manhattan, Kansas expired 5-3-2006 in Cypress, California   age 74   cause: prostate cancer; diabetes; coronary disease    Contest Selectors 2001 TEX 12½% 2002 TMTX 9.1% 2006 DFFC 3.3%    Scored 7.6000 solo points

composer  Harry MacGregor Woods   co-wrote When the Red, Red Robbin Comes Bob, Bob Bobbin' Along (1926) & I'm Lookin' Over A Four Leaf Clover (1927; with Mort Dixon) born on 11-4-1896 in North Chelmsford, Massachusetts expired 1-13-1970 in Phoenix, Arizona   age 73

radio/cartoon voice actress  Ilene Woods   provided the voice of Cinderella (1950); widow of jazz drummer Ed Shaughnessy ¤ born: Jacquelyn Ruth Woods  born on 5-5-1929 in Portsmouth, New Hampshire expired 7-1-2010 in Canoga Park, California   age 81   cause: complications from Alzheimer's disease

Nuremburg War Crimes Tribunal hangman Master Sergeant  John C. Woods expired 7-17-1950 in Eniwetok Island   age 40   cause: accidental electrocution

Gallatin, Tennessee appliance store-turned record shop owner  Randolph Clay "Randy" Woods   founded Dot Records (1950) born on 3-30-1917 in Morrison, Tennessee expired 4-9-2011 in La Jolla, California   age 94   cause: complications from fall

Nixon secretary (1969-75)  Rose Mary Woods   acheived her 18½ minutes of fame when she "accidentally" erased critical sections of some tapes of her boss during Watergate born on 12-26-1917 in Sebring, Ohio expired 1-22-2005 in Alliance, Ohio   age 87

actor  Edward Albert Arthur Woodward   played Sergeant Howie in The Wicker Man (1973), the title character in Breaker Morant (1980) & Robert McCall (title role) in The Equalizer tv series (1985-9) born on 6-1-1930 in Croydon, Surrey, England expired 11-16-2009 in Truro, Cornwall, England   age 79   cause: pneumonia; circulatory disease

actor  Edward Albert Arthur Woodward   played Sergeant Howie in The Wicker Man (1973), the title character in Breaker Morant (1980) & Robert McCall (title role) in The Equalizer tv series (1985-9) born on 6-1-1930 in Croydon, Surrey, England expired 11-16-2009 in Truro, Cornwall, England   age 79   cause: pneumonia; circulatory disease

Academy Award-winning 1930s documentary producer  Horace L. Woods expired 4-20-1973 in San Francisco, California   age 68

Orator Francis Woodward   heir to the Jell-O fortune expired 1-22-1952 in Rochester, New Jersey   age 66   cause: suicide

Robert Burns Woodward   was the 1965 Nobel prize winner in chemistry born on 4-10-1917 in Boston, Massachusetts expired 7-8-1979 in Cambridge, Massachusetts   age 62

historian, biographer & novelist  William E. Woodward   created the word "debunk" to describe the discrediting of unfounded legends & myths expired 9-27-1950 in Augusta, Georgia   age 75

convenience store operator  Yvonne Woodward   sister of Malcolm X; retired Michigan Bell telephone operator ¤ née: Little  born on 8-11-1929 in Lansing, Michigan expired 7-21-2003 in Woodland Park, Michigan   age 73   cause: lung cancer

rock bassist  Douglas Allen Woody   played with the Allman Brothers Band and Gov't Mule born on 10-3-1955 in Nashville, Tennessee expired 8-25-2000 in New York, New York   age 44

physicist & businessman  Dean Everett Wooldridge   co-founded Ramo-Wooldridge Corp. (1953); merged with Thompson Products to become TRW (1958) born on 5-30-1913 in Chickasha, Oklahoma expired 9-20-2006 in Santa Barbara, California   age 93   cause: pneumonia

character actor, singer, songwriter  Shelby F. "Sheb" Wooley   played Ben Miller in High Noon (1952), Gabe Target in Giant (1956), Peter Nolan on the Rawhide tv series (1959-62) & Cletus in Hoosiers (1986); had novelty hit with Purple People Eater (1958); wrote the Hee-Haw theme song ¤ aka: "Ben Colder"  born on 4-10-1921 in Erick, Oklahoma expired 9-16-2003 in Nashville, Tennessee   age 82   cause: leukemia

author & critic  Adeline Virginia Stephen Woolf   wrote To The Lighthouse (1927) born on 1-25-1882 in London, England expired 3-28-1941 in Lewes, England   age 59   cause: suicide

sports agent  Bob Woolf expired 11-30-1993   age 65

jockey  Geroge Woolf   rode Seabiscuit to an upset win over War Admiral (1938) ¤ nickname: "The Iceman"  born on 5-31-1910 in Cardston, Alberta, Canada expired 1-4-1946 in Pasadena, California   age 35   cause: concussion; pitched off of "Please Me" AKS: Wolf

film producer Sir  John Woolf   made The African Queen (1951), Oliver! (1968), The Day of the Jackal, Richard III (1956), Moulin Rouge (1952) and Room at the Top (1959); his films won 13 oscars born on 3-15-1913 in Cricklewood, North London, England expired 6-28-1999 in London, England   age 86

writer  Leonard Sidney Woolf   "whipped" husband of Virginia expired 8-14-1969 in Rodmell, England   age 88

"Golden Era" comic book author, tv writer & novelist  William Woolfolk   he wrote for Captain Marvel ("Holey Moley"), Blackhawk & The Spirit comics, The Defenders tv series (story editor 1961-65) born on 6-25-1917 in New York, New York expired 7-20-2003 in Syracuse, New York   age 86   cause: congestive heart failure

musician  Eric Norman Woolfson   a co-founder of the Alan Parsons Project born on 3-18-1945 in Glasgow, Scotland expired 12-1-2009 in London, England   age 64   cause: cancer

author, playwright & critic  Alexander Humphries Woollcott   member of the Algonquin Round Table born on 1-19-1887 in Phalanx, New Jersey expired 1-23-1943 in New York, New York   age 56

archaeologist Sir  Charles Leonard Woolley   discovered the ancient city of Ur in Iraq expired 2-20-1960 in London, England   age 79

actor  Edgar Montillion "Monty" Woolley born on 8-17-1888 in New York, New York expired 5-6-1963 in Albany, New York   age 74   cause: kidney & heart failure

movie comedian  Robert Woolsey   teamed with Bert Wheeler in numerous films; appeared in Diplomaniacs (1933) born on 8-14-1888 in Oakland, California expired 10-31-1938 in Malibu, California   age 50   cause: kidney failure

Civil War drummer & bugle boy  Albert Woolson   last surviving member of the Union Army (out of 2,675,000 men) expired 8-2-1956 in Duluth, Minnesota   age 109

pioneering retailer  Charles Sumner Woolworth   partnered with his brother Frank and Edwin McBrier in their original 5-&10-cent store in Lockport New York in 1887 born on 8-1-1856 in Rodman, New York expired 1-7-1947 in Scranton, Pennsylvania   age 90

pioneering retailer  Frank W. Woolworth   partnered with his brother Charles and Edwin McBrier in their original 5-&10-cent store in Lockport New York in 1887 born on 4-13-1852 in Rodman, New York expired 4-8-1919 in Glen Cove, New York   age 66

Tennessee death row inmate  Philip Ray Workman ¤ number 95920  born on 6-1-1953 expired 5-9-2007 in Nashville, Tennessee   age 53   cause: executed; lethal injection    Contest Selectors 2001 TEX 12.5% 2006 TWOS 3.3%

actress  Irene Worth   3-time Tony winner (1965/76/91) ¤ born: Harriet Elizabeth Abrams  born on 6-23-1916 in Lincoln, Nebraska expired 3-10-2002 in New York, New York   age 85   cause: stroke

actress  Irene Worth ¤ born: Harriet Elizabeth Abrams  born on 6-23-1916 in Fairbury, Nebraska expired 3-10-2002 in New York, New York   age 85   cause: stroke

cinematographer  Lothrop B. Worth   photographed such epics as I Was a Teenage Frankenstein (1957), Jesse James Meets Frankenstein (1966) and Billy the Kid vs. Dracula (1967); was responsible for the 1950s 3-D movie craze: Bwana Devil (1952), House of Wax (1953) & Kiss Me Kate (1953) born on 7-11-1903 in Melrose, Massachusetts expired 3-17-2000 in Woodland Hills, California   age 96

movie writer/producer  Marvin Worth   made documentaries about Malcolm X (1972) and Lenny Bruce (1974), co-produced Malcolm X (1992) with Spike Lee and produced Where's Papa (1970) born on 6-6-1925 expired 4-22-1998 in Los Angeles, California   age 72   cause: lung cancer

bombastic character/B-movie actor  Nicholas Richard Worth   played Lonzak, Dr. Chaotica's chief henchman in two episodes of Star Trek: Voyager: "Bride of Chaotica" (1999) & "Shattered" (2001); also made several appearances on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine; NOT the PASCAL inventor born on 9-4-1937 in Saint Louis, Missouri expired 5-7-2007 in Van Nuys, California   age 69   cause: heart failure

songwriter  Stan Worth   co-wrote tv themes for George of the Jungle cartoon & Let's Make a Deal game show; also wrote themes for the Gambit & High Rollers game shows born on 3-29-1932 in Virginia expired 8-31-1980 in Santa Paula, California   age 48   cause: plane crash

retired teacher  Adella Martha Wotherspoon   last survivor of the General Slocum disaster (1904) ¤ born: Adele Martha Liebenow nickname: "Tiby"  born on 11-28-1903 in New York, New York expired 1-26-2004 in Berkeley Heights, New Jersey   age 100    Contest Selectors 2003 JL, RR 11.1% 2004 RR 5.6%    Scored 5.0000 solo points

1970s gay porn stud  Jack Wrangler   eventually got into "straight" porn (The Devil in Miss Jones II & Debbie Does Dallas 2); still later got into musical theater as a performer & producer; had been married to singer Margaret Whiting (1994-his death) ¤ real name: John Robert Stillman  born on 6-11-1946 in Los Angeles, California expired 4-7-2009 in New York, New York   age 62   cause: emphysema

actress  Bonita Granville Wrather   former owner of Lassie and the Spruce Goose born on 2-2-1923 in Chicago, Illinois expired 10-11-1988 in Santa Monica, California   age 65   cause: cancer

rockabilly guitarist  Frederick Lincoln "Link" Wray Jr.   leader of the Ray Men; invented the fuzz-toned "power-chord" (heard on 1958 instrumental hit "Rumble") born on 5-2-1929 in Dunn, North Carolina expired 11-5-2005 in Copenhagen, Denmark   age 76   cause: heart failure

original King Kong (1933) actress  Vina Fay Wray born on 9-15-1907 in Wrayland Ranch, Cardston, Alberta, Canada expired 8-8-2004 in New York, New York   age 96    Contest Selectors 2001 DTM, NFG 25% 2002 DTM, JAC, JL, MORB, RAVN 45.5% 2003 COCO, DTM, JEDS, JL, KOHD, MB, OGGI, PCD, RAVN 50.0% 2004 ABRA, ADWC, DTM, KLS, LMLD, NFG, PCD 38.9%    Scored 2.9391 points

explorer, soldier of fortune & author Major  Percival Christopher Wren   served with the French Foreign Legion; wrote Beau Geste expired 11-23-1941 in Amberley, Gloucestershire, England   age 56

Scottsboro Boys defendant  Andrew "Andy" Wright   buried in unmarked grave next to brother Leroy born on --1912 expired ??-??-19??   age ??

"gangsta" rapper  Eric "Eazy-E" Wright   an original "Niggas Wit' Attitude" born on 9-7-1969 in Los Angeles, California expired 3-26-1995   age 25   cause: AIDS

prairie school architect  Frank Lloyd Wright Sr. ¤ born: Frank Lincoln Wright  born on 6-8-1867 in Richland Center, Wisconsin expired 4-9-1959 in Phoenix, Arizona   age 91

architect  Frank Lloyd Wright Jr.   headed Paramount's set design department (1916-18) born on 3-31-1890 in Oak Park, Illinois expired 5-31-1978 in Santa Monica, California   age 88

tv writer/producer  Herbert J. Wright   husband of actress Elaine Giftos; writer of four Star Trek: The Next Generation episodes: The Last Outpost & The Battle (Ferengi episodes from 1987), Heart of Glory (the first great Next Gen Klingon episode from 1988) and Power Play (1992) ¤ The Father of the Ferengi  born on 11-9-1946 expired 8-24-2005 in Woodland Hills, California   age 58   cause: bone cancer

poet  James Arlington Wright   won 1972 Pulitzer prize born on 12-13-1927 in Martin's Ferry, Ohio expired 3-25-1980 in New York, New York   age 52

country singer  John Robert "Johnny" Wright Sr.   husband of Kitty Wells born on 5-13-1914 in Mount Juliet, Tennessee expired 9-27-2011 in Madison, Tennessee   age 97    Contest Selectors 2006 OIE 3.3% 2010 OIE 3.7% AKS: Johnnie

Scottsboro Boys defendant  Leroy "Roy" Wright   came home to find wife with another man; killed her & committed suicide born on --1918 in Chattanooga, Tennessee expired 8-??-1959 in Chattanooga, Tennessee   age 41   cause: suicide; gunshot to head

writer  Morris Marion Wright born on 1-6-1910 in Central City, Nebraska expired 4-25-1998 in Mill Valley, California   age 88

Mississippi sharecropper  Moses Wright   father of Simeon Wright; great-uncle of Emmett Till; testified at trial about Emmett's kidnapping ¤ nickname: "Preacher"  born on 4-8-1892 expired 8-??-1977 in Indian Head Park, Illinois   age 85

actress  Muriel Teresa Wright   received the Best Supporting actress oscar for playing Carol Beldon in Mrs. Miniver (1942); she also played Lou Gehrig's wife in Pride of the Yankees (1942) and Laura Roberts in Somewhere in Time (1980) born on 10-27-1918 in New York, New York expired 3-6-2005 in New Haven, Connecticut   age 86   cause: heart attack    Contest Selectors 2004 RIE 5.6% 2005 QKU 4.3%    Scored 6.4000 solo points AKS: Theresa Taresa Tareesa Right Write

widow  Olgivanna Lloyd Wright   head of the Taliesin Foundation (1959-85) ¤ born: Olga Ivanovna Lazovich  expired 3-1-1985 in Scottsdale, Arizona   age 85   cause: heart attack; pnemonia; influenza

pioneer aviator  Orville Wright    credited as having made the first airplane flight (12 seconds long) December 17, 1903 at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina born on 8-19-1871 in Dayton, Ohio expired 1-30-1948 in Dayton, Ohio   age 76

author  Richard Wright   wrote Native Son expired 11-28-1960 in Paris, France   age 52

musician  Richard William "Rick" Wright   was the founding keyboardist of Pink Floyd born on 7-28-1945 in Hatch End, Middlesex, England expired 9-15-2008 in England   age 65   cause: cancer

Calumet Baking Powder Co. president  Warren Wright   owned racehorse breeding farm Calumet Farms, home of Triple Crown winners Whirlaway & Citation expired 12-28-1950 in Miami Beach, Florida   age 75

aviation pioneer  Wilbur Wright born on 4-16-1867 in Millville, Indiana expired 5-30-1912 in Dayton, Ohio   age 45   cause: typhoid fever

Philip Knight "Phil" Wrigley   president of William Wrigley Chewing Gum Company 1925-1961; owned the Chicago Cubs baseball team from (1932-77) born on 12-5-1894 in Chicago, Illinois expired 4-12-1977 in Elkhorn, Wisconsin   age 82   cause: gastro-intestinal hemorrhage

William Wrigley Jr.   founded the William Wrigley Chewing Gum Company (1891); developed Catalina Island (California) into a resort (built the casino); purchased the Chicago Cubs baseball team from Albert Lasker (1925) born on 9-30-1861 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania expired 1-26-1932 in Phoenix, Arizona   age 70

chewing gum czar  William Wrigley III born on 1-21-1933 in Chicago, Illinois expired 3-8-1999 in Chicago, Illinois   age 66

serial killer  Aileen Carol "Lee" Wuornos (Pralle)   subject of 2003 movie ¤ born: Aileen Carol Pittman  born on 2-29-1956 in Rochester, Michigan expired 10-9-2002 in Starke, Florida   age 46   cause: executed; lethal injection    Contest Selectors 2000 ANG 14% AKS: Wornos Wornous

organ company founder  Rudolph Wurlitzer   built first electro-mechanical automated musical instrument, often found in carousels born on 1-31-1831 in Schoneck, Germany expired 1-14-1914 in Cincinnati, Ohio   age 82

discount electronics retailer  Samuel S. Wurtzel   in 1949 opened the Ward Company in Richmond, Virginia to sell tvs; by 1977 it had changed it's name to Circuit City born on 3-2-1907 expired 12-5-1985 in Mount Kisco, New York   age 78

tv executive  Robert J. Wussler   a former CBS tv network president; a co-founder of CNN born on 9-8-1936 in Newark, New Jersey expired 6-5-2010 in Westport, Connecticut   age 73

actor  Klausjürgen Wussow born on 4-30-1929 in Cammin, Pommerania, Germany expired 6-19-2007 in Rüdersdorf, Germany   age 78   cause: complications from dementia    Contest Selectors 2007 WEP 3.2%    Did Not Score - insufficient category citations (two to be exact) AKS: Klausjurgen

actress  Jane Waddington Wyatt   played the love interest Sondra in Lost Horizon (1937) & later Spock's mom Amanda ¤ Mrs. Edgar Ward  born on 8-13-1912 in Campgaw, New Jersey expired 10-20-2006 in Bel-Air, Los Angeles, California   age 94    Contest Selectors 2006 CSI 3.3%    Scored 5.6000 solo points

artist  Andrew Newell Wyeth   did lots of paintings of Helga Testorf born on 7-12-1917 in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania expired 1-15-2009 in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania   age 91    Contest Selectors 2005 TBC 4.3% 2006 LMLD 3.3% 2007 OIE 3.2% 2008 OIE, TFM 6.3% 2009 GOHI, TFM 6.7%    Scored 4.6500 points

former CBS broadcasting technician/executive (1939-85)  Gilbert P. Wyland   produced first Rose Parade telecast (1939); oversaw construction of CBS Television City (1953); head of technical operations for CBS' coverage of Squaw Valley Olympics (1960; garnered him an Emmy) born on 4-28-1915 expired 12-2-2002 in Valencia, California   age 87   cause: heart problems

composer  George Wyle   wrote music for The Ballad of Gilligan's Island (1964; lyrics by Sherwood Schwartz) ¤ real name: Bernard Weissman  born on 3-22-1916 in New York, New York expired 5-2-2003 in Tarzana, California   age 87   cause: leukemia AKS: Wylie

director  William Wyler   nephew of Carl Laemmle Sr.; directed Jezebel (1938), Wuthering Heights (1939), The Westerner (1940); Mrs. Miniver (1942; oscar), The Best Years of Our Lives (1946; oscar) & Ben Hur (1959; oscar) born on 7-1-1902 in Muhlhausen, Germany expired 7-26-1981 in Beverly Hills, California   age 79   cause: heart attack

author  Philip Gordon Wylie   co-wrote When Worlds Collide; coined term "momism" born on 5-12-1902 in Beverly, Massachusetts expired 10-25-1971 in Coral Gables, Florida   age 69   cause: heart ailment

character actress  Meg Wyllie   played The Keeper in the original Star Trek pilot The Cage, Matilda, one of Dan Fielding's elderly "dates" on Night Court (1984) & Aunt Lolly on Mad About You (1992) born on 2-15-1917 in Honolulu, Hawaii expired 1-1-2002 in Glendale, California   age 84   cause: heart failure AKS: Wylie

actress and ex-Mrs. Gipper  Jane Wyman   played the matriarch on Falcon Crest ¤ born: Sarah Jane Mayfield Fulks  born on 1-4-1917 in Saint Joseph, Missouri expired 9-10-2007 in Rancho Mirage, California   age 90    Contest Selectors 2001 NFG 12½% 2002 CMH 9.1% 2003 DTM, KOHD 11.1% 2004 NFG 5.6% 2005 NFG, QKU, RAVN, WORM 17.4% 2006 NFG, QKU, RAVN, TFM 13.3% 2007 ANG, DTH, NFG, PUD, RPRM, TFM 19.4%    Scored 3.5781 points

former CBS head (1980-86)  Thomas Hunt Wyman Sr. born on 11-30-1929 in Saint Louis, Missouri expired 1-8-2003 in Boston, Massachusetts   age 73   cause: complications from abdominal surgery for an infection

country singer  Tammy Wynette   had 1968 hit with Stand By Your Man ¤ born: Virginia Wynette Pugh  born on 5-5-1942 in Itawamba County, Mississippi expired 4-6-1998 in Nashville, Tennessee   age 55   cause: blood clot

Hall-of-Fame pitcher  Early Wynn   1959 Cy Young Award winner; won 300 games ¤ aka: "Gus"  born on 1-6-1920 in Hartford, Alabama expired 4-4-1999 in Venice, Florida   age 79   cause: heart attack; stroke    Contest Selectors 1980 HA 6.3%

comedian  Ed Wynn   father of Keenan ¤ real name: Isiah Edwin Leopold  born on 11-9-1886 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania expired 6-19-1966 in Beverly Hills, California   age 79

actor  Keenan Wynn   son of Ed; played Major Bat Guano in Dr. Strangelove (1963) ¤ real name: Francis Aloysius Wynn  born on 7-27-1916 in New York, New York expired 10-14-1986 in Brentwood, California   age 70

journalist  Arthur Wynne   invented the Crossword Puzzle (1913), spawning legions of cruciverbalists born on --1862 in Liverpool, England expired 1-14-1945 in Clearwater, Florida   age 82

actress  Dana Wynter   played Becky Driskoll in the original Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956) ¤ born: Dagmar Winter  born on 6-8-1931 in Berlin, Germany expired 5-5-2011 in Ojai, California   age 79   cause: congestive heart failure

advertising agency co-founder (1951)  Lois Helene Wyse   wrote the slogan "With a name like Smucker's it has to be good."; later in life became a children's author ¤ née: Wohlgemuth  born on 10-30-1926 in Cleveland, Ohio expired 7-6-2007 in Manhattan, New York, New York   age 80   cause: stomach cancer

Swiss Army chaplain  Johann David Wyss   father of Johann Rudolph; started the novel Swiss Family Robinson born on 3-4-1743 in Bern, Switzerland expired 1-11-1818 in Bern, Switzerland   age 74

University of Bern philosophy prof.  Johann Rudolph Wyss   son of Johann David; edited & published the novel Swiss Family Robinson; he wrote the words to the Swiss National Anthem born on 3-4-1782 in Bern, Switzerland expired 3-21-1830 in Bern, Switzerland   age 48 AKS: Rudolf

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