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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

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

Wieland Adolf Gottfried Wagner   son of Siegfried & Winifred; brother of Wolfgang; Bayreuth set designer born on 1-5-1917 in Bayreuth, Germany expired 10-16-1966 in München, 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

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

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

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

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

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

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 ¤ 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 --1848 expired ??-??-1903   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

industrialist  A. P. Warner   co-inventor of the automobile speedometer in 1904; co-founder of Warner Instruments (1912; it later became Stewart-Warner Co.) expired 3-22-1957 in Beloit, Wisconsin   age 87

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

industrialist  Charles H. Warner   co-inventor of the automobile speedometer in 1904; co-founder of Warner Instruments (1912; it later became Stewart-Warner Co.) 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 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  expired 7-25-1958 in Hollywood, California   age 76

character actor  Henry Byron Charles Stewart Warner expired 12-21-1958 in Hollywood, California   age 82

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

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 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   president of Central Michigan College 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 (calling 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 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) expired ??-??-1971   age ??

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: transplanted heart failed

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   age 81

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

W.Carolina football coach  Bob Waters expired 5-29-1989   age 50

desperado  David Roland Waters   one of the gang that murdered/dismembered Madalyn Murray O'Hair born on --1947 in Peoria, Illinois expired 1-31-2003 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

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 A. Watson   received first telephone call March 10, 1876 born on --1854 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 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 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

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