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physicist Pieter Zeeman shared the 1902 Nobel Physics prizeborn on 5-25-1865 in Zonnemaire, Schouwen Island, Zeeland, The Netherlands expired 10-9-1943 in Amsterdam, The Netherlands age 78 | ||||||||||||
| Carl Zeiss founded optical equipment company (1846) born on 9-11-1816 in Weimar, Germany expired 12-3-1888 in Jena, Germany age | ||||||||||||
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expired 10-15-2003 in Las Vegas, Nevada age 76 cause: congestive heart failure | ||||||||||||
| "New Wave" science fiction writer Roger Joseph Zelazny wrote Damnation Alley, Eye of Cat, Lord of Light, amongst others born on 5-13-1937 in Euclid, Ohio expired 6-14-1995 in Santa Fe, New Mexico age 58 cause: cancer | ||||||||||||
| paper company executive Harold Lionel Zellerbach Crown-Zellerbach president (1928-69); died while on a cruise born on 3-25-1894 in San Francisco, California expired 1-29-1978 in Honolulu, Hawaii age 83 | ||||||||||||
| World War I veteran William S. Zelnicker lost a lung to a Mustard Gas attack born on 10-2-1898 in Russia expired 10-11-2000 in Los Angeles, California age 102 | ||||||||||||
| Zeng Jinlian purported to have been tallest woman who ever lived at 8 feet 2 inches born on 6-26-1964 in China expired 1-13-1982 in Hunan, China age 17 | ||||||||||||
| jazz & big band trombonist Simon H. Zentner born on 6-13-1917 in New York, New York expired 2-6-2000 in Las Vegas, Nevada age 82 cause: leukemia | ||||||||||||
| German aeronaut Ferdinand Adolf August Heinrich von Zeppelin inventor of the rigid airship bearing his name; builder of the Graf Zeppelin; has a small city named for him (Zeppelinheim) just east of the Frankfurt-am-Main airport born on 7-8-1838 in Konstanz, Germany expired 3-8-1917 in Charlottenburg, Germany age 78 | ||||||||||||
| prohibition-era Detroit mob boss Joseph Zerilli born on 12-10-1897 in Terrsini, Sicily, Italy expired 10-30-1977 in Grosse Pointe, Michigan age 79 | ||||||||||||
| Front Range Community College geography instructor Becky Zerlentes an amateur Golden Gloves boxer; believed to be the first woman to die in a "sanctioned" bout (a 3rd round punch to the head by opponent Heather Schmitz) born on 7-8-1970 expired 4-3-2005 in Denver, Colorado age 34 cause: subdural hematoma; blunt force trauma to the head | ||||||||||||
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Frederik "Frits" Zernike was the 1953 Nobel physics laureate for coming up with the phase contrast microscope born on 7-16-1888 in Amsterdam, The Netherlands expired 3-10-1966 in Naarden, The Netherlands age 77 | ||||||||||||
| Swedish actress Mai Elisabeth Zetterling born on 5-24-1925 in Vasteras, Sweden expired 3-15-1994 age 68 | ||||||||||||
singer/actress Monica Zetterlund
expired 5-12-2005 in Stockholm, Sweden age 67 cause: smoke inhalation; scoliosis | ||||||||||||
| Excitable Boy Warren William Zevon rock singer and songwriter; occasionally substituted for Paul Shaffer on The Late Show with David Letterman born on 1-24-1947 in Chicago, Illinois expired 9-7-2003 in West Hollywood, California age 56 cause: mesothelioma
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| biochemist & nutritionist Zheng Ji born on 5-6-1900 in Nanxi, Sichuan Province, China expired 7-29-2010 age 110
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| World War II Soviet Army Marshall Georgi Konstantinovich Zhukov brilliant tactician; led Red Army into Berlin but dismissed by Stalin & again by Khrushchev born on 12-2-1896 in Strelkovka, Russia (Moscow suburb) expired 6-18-1974 in Moscow, Russia, USSR age 77 cause: heart attack | ||||||||||||
| brutal former Bulgarian Commie leader (1954-89) Todor Zhvikov gave orders to have exiled dissident Georgi Markov murdered born on 9-7-1911 in Pravets, Bulgaria expired 8-5-1998 in Sofia, Bulgaria age 86 cause: pneumonia | ||||||||||||
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