10/21/1921 - 07/22/2008
Victor Almon McKusick (October 21, 1921 – July 22, 2008), internist and medical geneticist, was University Professor of Medical Genetics and Professor of Medicine at the Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, MD, USA. He was the original author...
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Fred Astaire (Frederick Austerlitz)
05/10/1899 - 06/22/1987
Fred Astaire (May 10, 1899 – June 22, 1987), born Frederick Austerlitz, was an American film and Broadway stage dancer, choreographer, singer and actor. His stage and subsequent film career spanned a total of 76 years, during which he m...
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11/12/1917 - 06/16/2008
Jo Elizabeth Stafford (November 12, 1917 – July 16, 2008) was an American singer of traditional pop music and jazz standards whose career ran from the late 1930s to the early 1960s. Stafford was greatl...
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Chick Hearn (Francis Dale Hearn)
11/27/1916 - 08/05/2002
Francis Dayle "Chick" Hearn was an American sportscaster. Known primarily as the long-time play-by-play announcer for the Los Angeles Lakers of the National Basketball Association, the legendary Hearn is remembered for his rapid fi...
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10/07/1917 - 07/08/2006
June Allyson (October 7, 1917 – July 8, 2006) was an American film and television actress, popular in the 1940s and 1950s. She was a major MGM contract star. Allyson won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress for her performance in Too Youn...
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03/04/1756 - 07/08/1823
Sir Henry Raeburn (4 March 1756 – 8 July 1823) was a Scottish portrait painter, the first significant Scottish portraitist since the Act of Union 1707 to remain based in Scotland.
02/07/1942 - 03/14/2007
Alan Leonard Hunt (7 February 1942 – 14 March 2007) was an English actor, known as Gareth Hunt, best remembered for playing the footman Frederick Norton in Upstairs, Downstairs and Mike Gambit in The New Avengers.
Bill Janklow (William John Janklow)
09/13/1939 - 01/12/2012
William John "Bill" Janklow (September 13, 1939 – January 12, 2012) served as the 25th Attorney General of South Dakota, before being elected as South Dakota's 27th and 30th Governor, as well as to the United States House...
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12/14/1923 - 05/27/2011
Janet Brown (14 December 1923 – 27 May 2011) was a Scottish actress, comedienne, and impressionist who gained considerable fame in the 1970s and 1980s for her impersonations of Margaret Thatcher.
08/26/1875 - 02/11/1940
John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir PC GCMG GCVO CH (26 August 1875 – 11 February 1940) was a Scottish novelist, historian and Unionist politician who served as Governor General of Canada, the 15th since Canadian Confederation.
10/31/1950 - 03/04/1994
John Franklin Candy (October 31, 1950 – March 4, 1994) was a Canadian actor and comedian. He rose to fame as a member of the Toronto, Ontario branch of The Second City, its related Second City Television series, and in his role in comedy fil...
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03/06/1923 - 06/15/1968
John Leslie "Wes" Montgomery (March 6, 1923 – June 15, 1968) was an American jazz guitarist. He is widely considered one of the major jazz guitarists. DigitalDreamDoor named Montgomery the greatest jazz gui...
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Eddie Rabbit (Edward Thomas Rabbitt)
11/27/1941 - 05/07/2011
Eddie Rabbitt (November 27, 1941 - May 7, 1998) started as a songwriter in the late 1960s, springboarding to a recording career after composing hits such as "Kentucky Rain" for Elvis Presley in 1970 and "Pure Love" for Ron...
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08/31/1916 - 07/23/2010
Daniel Louis Schorr (August 31, 1916 – July 23, 2010) was an American journalist who covered world news for more than 60 years. He was most recently a Senior News Analyst for National Public Radio(NPR). Schorr won th...
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