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Lauren Bacall (actress) -- Alive. Born September 16, 1924. Juliette was right!!, Designing Woman, wrote Lauren Bacall, by herself, married to Humphrey Bogart and, later, to Jason Robards.    IMDb

Jim Backus (actor) -- Dead. Pneumonia. Died July 3, 1989. Born February 25, 1913. Gilligan's, voice of Mr. Magoo.    IMDb

John Backus (compiler developer) -- Dead. Died March 17, 2007. Born December 3, 1924. Developed the FORTRAN programming language while working for IBM.  

Jim Baen (publisher) -- Dead. Stroke. Died June 28, 2006. Born October 22, 1943. Founder of Baen Books, promoter of electronic publishing.    Obituary

Max Baer, Jr. (actor) -- Alive. Born December 4, 1937. The original Jethro.  IMDb

Joan Baez (singer/anti-war activist) -- Alive. Born January 9, 1941. The Best of Joan Baez.    IMDb

Ross Bagdasarian (Alvin and the Chipmunks creator) -- Dead. Died January 16, 1972. Born January 27, 1919.    IMDb

David Bailey (actor) -- Dead. Drowning. Died November 25, 2004. Born October 27, 1933. Soap actor who played various incarnations of Russ Matthews on Another World and was playing the ruthless Alistair Crane on Passions when he died. Make memorial contributions to: St. Jude Children's Research Hospital.    IMDb

Pearl Bailey (actress/singer) -- Dead. Died August 17, 1990. Born March 29, 1918. Carmen Jones.    IMDb

Barbara Bain (actress) -- Alive. Born September 13, 1931. Mission Impossible and Space: 1999, ex-wife of Martin Landau.  IMDb

Conrad Bain (actor) -- Alive. Born February 4, 1923. Diff'rent Strokes.  IMDb

Scott Baio (actor) -- Not dead yet. Born September 22, 1961.  IMDb

Ginger Baker (rock 'n' roller) -- Alive. Born August 19, 1939. Falling off the Roof

Joe Don Baker (actor) -- Alive. Born February 12, 1936. Walking Tall.  IMDb

Kathy Baker (actress) -- Alive. Born June 8, 1950. Picket Fences and Edward Scissorhands.  IMDb

Kenny Baker (actor) -- Alive. Born August 24, 1934. Made R2D2 run.  IMDb

Tom Baker (Who? actor) -- Alive. Born January 20, 1934. Probably best-known in America as the fourth Dr. Who, the one with the long scarf and big hair. Also played Rasputin in Nicholas and Alexandra.  IMDb

Scott Bakula (leaper) -- Alive. Born October 9, 1954. The Captain on Enterprise, Quantum Leap.  IMDb

Bob Balaban (director/actor) -- Alive. Born August 16, 1945. The student in Midnight Cowboy, the translator in Close Encounters of the Third Kind, a producer/writer of Gosford Park.  IMDb

George Balanchine (choreographer) -- Dead. Died April 30, 1983. Born January 22, 1904. Balanchine Library.    IMDb

James Baldwin (writer) -- Dead. Cancer. Died November 30, 1987. Born August 2, 1924. Many books, including Go Tell it on the Mountain.    IMDb

Ina Balin (actress/humanitarian) -- Dead. Pulmonary hypertension. Died June 20, 1990. Born November 12, 1937. Actress with many bit parts in movies and on TV, she helped to rescue children from Viet Nam and adopted three of them after the war (The Children of An Lac).  IBDB  IMDb  FindAGrave

Harvey R. Ball (graphic designer) -- Dead. Died April 12, 2001. Born July 10, 1921. Invented the ubiquitous smiley face in 1963 doing some work for an insurance company, made $45 from it.    

Lucille Ball (comic, savvy producer) -- Dead. Died April 26, 1989. Born August 6, 1911. One of the first producers to insist on having her show tape recorded, once married to Desi Arnaz, later married to Gary Morton.    IMDb

Betty Ballantine (publisher) -- Alive. Born circa 1919. The Secret Oceans, won the SFWA President's Award in 2002.   AwardWeb

Bill Ballantine (clown) -- Dead. Old age. Died May 14, 1999. Born circa 1911. Revived Clown College for the Ringling Brothers Circus in 1969.

Carl Ballantine (actor) -- Alive. Born September 27, 1922. McHale's Navy and lots of bits parts on TV.  IMDb

Ian Ballantine (publisher) -- Dead. Heart attack. Died March 9, 1995. Born February 15, 1916. An inventor of the paperback book   AwardWeb

J. G. Ballard (author) -- Alive. Born November 15, 1930. A User's Guide to the Millennium.    IMDb   AwardWeb

Kaye Ballard (actress) -- Alive. Born November 20, 1926.    IMDb

Martin Balsam (actor) -- Dead. Died February 13, 1996. Born November 4, 1919.  IMDb

Anne Bancroft (actress) -- Dead. Uterine cancer. Died June 6, 2005. Born September 17, 1931. Married to Mel Brooks, played Mrs. Robinson in The Graduate, won an Oscar for playing Annie Sullivan in The Miracle Worker, died on the same day as Dana Elcar.  IBDB  IMDb  FindAGrave

Frank Bank (actor) -- Alive. Born April 12, 1942. Lumpy on Leave It to Beaver

Ian Bannen (actor) -- Dead. Car crash. Died November 3, 1999. Born June 29, 1928. Charming as the mastermind of the plot, Jackie O'Shea, in Waking Ned Devine.  IMDb

Samuel Barber (composer) -- Dead. Cancer. Died January 23, 1981. Born March 9, 1910. "Adagio for Strings" , longtime companion of Gian Carlo Menotti.    IMDb

John Banner (actor) -- Dead. Died January 28, 1973. Born January 28, 1910. He knew nothing!.  IMDb

Joseph Barbera (cartoon creator) -- Dead. Died December 18, 2006. Born March 24, 1911. Creator of popular cartoons such as Quick Draw McGraw and Top Cat partner of William Hanna.    IMDb

Adrienne Barbeau (actress) -- Alive. Born June 11, 1945. Maude, Carnivale, had twins when she was 51.    IBDB  IMDb

Brigitte Bardot (animal activist/actress) -- Alive. Born September 28, 1934. And God Created Woman, once married to Roger Vadim.    IMDb

Marshall Barer (lyricist) -- Dead. Cancer. Died August 25, 1998. Born circa 1923. Wrote the words for the musical Once Upon a Mattress and wrote the Mighty Mouse theme song "Here I Come to Save the Day!"

Bob Barker (game show host) -- Alive. Born December 12, 1923. Hosting The Price is Right.  IMDb

Carl Barks (cartoonist) -- Dead. Leukemia. Died August 25, 2000. Born March 27, 1901. Drew Donald Duck and Scrooge McDuck.  IMDb

Dr. Christiaan Barnard (surgeon) -- Dead. Asthma attack. Died September 2, 2001. Born November 8, 1922. Performed the first heart transplant, South Africa 1967.    Obituary

Lisa Barnett (writer) -- Dead. Brain cancer. Died May 2, 2006. Born circa 1955. Armor of Light, died on the same day as Louis Rukeyser.  

Sandy Baron (comic) -- Dead. Emphysema. Died January 21, 2001. Born May 5, 1937. Played Lenny onstage, narrated Broadway Danny Rose.  IMDb

Rona Barrett (entreprenuer/gossip) -- Alive. Born October 8, 1936. TV/magazine gossip columnist.    IMDb

Roger "Syd" Barrett (singer/songwriter) -- Dead. Complications of diabetes/cancer?. Died July 7, 2006. Born January 6, 1946. A founder of Pink Floyd, one of the creators of The Piper at the Gates of Dawn.    IMDb  FindAGrave

Barbara Barrie (actress/writer) -- Alive. Born May 23, 1931. Suddenly Susan's grandmother, Barney Miller's wife, recovered from colon cancer, wrote Second Act.  IMDb

Chuck Barris (Gong Show host) -- Alive. Born June 2, 1929.  IMDb

Bebe Barron (composer) -- Dead. Died April 20, 2008. Born June 16, 1926. Experimental muscian who wrote the electronic music for Forbidden Planet; collaborated with Louis even after they divorced.    IBDB  IMDb  Obituary

Louis Barron (composer) -- Dead. Died November 1, 1989. Born April 23, 1920. Experimental muscian who wrote the electronic music for Forbidden Planet; collaborated with Bebe even after they divorced.    IBDB  IMDb

Gene Barry (actor) -- Alive. Born June 14, 1921. Burke's Law.  IMDb

Jack Barry (game show host) -- Dead. Heart attack. Died May 4, 1984. Born March 20, 1918. Joker's Wild in the '70s, host of the infamous 21 in the '50s.  IMDb

Judith Barsi (actress) -- Dead. Murder. Died July 25, 1988. Born June 6, 1978. Voiced Ducky in The Land Before Time and Anne-Marie in All Dogs go to Heaven, did many commercials, murdered by her father (who also killed her mother then himself).  IMDb  FindAGrave

Lionel Bart (composer) -- Dead. Cancer. Died April 3, 1999. Born August 1, 1930. Oliver!.    IMDb

Paul Bartel (director/actor) -- Dead. Heart attack (days after learning he had liver cancer). Died May 13, 2000. Born August 6, 1938. Eating Raoul.  IMDb

Bonnie Bartlett (actress) -- Alive. Born June 20, 1929. Little House on the Prairie, St. Elsewhere, won an Emmy the same night as her husband, William Daniels.    IBDB  IMDb

Billy Barty (actor) -- Dead. Died December 23, 2000. Born October 25, 1924. Noodles in UHF, died on the same day as Victor Borge. Make memorial contributions to: Little People of America - Billy Barty Memorial Adoption Fund.    IMDb  FindAGrave

Mikhail Baryshnikov (dancer) -- Alive. Born January 27, 1948. The Turning Point.    IMDb

John Basedow (bodybuilder) -- Not dead yet. Born circa 1968. The "Fitness Made Simple" spokesman who didn't die in the tsunami.  

Richard Basehart (actor) -- Dead. Stroke. Died September 17, 1984. Born August 13, 1914.  IMDb

Count Basie (jazz great) -- Dead. Died April 26, 1984. Born August 21, 1904. April in Paris.  IMDb

Shirley Bassey (singer) -- Alive. Born January 8, 1937. Sang the theme song for several James Bond movies, including Goldfinger.  IMDb

Alan Bates (actor) -- Dead. Cancer. Died December 27, 2003. Born February 17, 1934. British actor (easy to confuse with his contemporary Oliver Reed) who starred in The Entertainer, King of Hearts Women in Love and the Gibson Hamlet, completed the mini-series Spartacus, which was broadcast posthumously.    IBDB  IMDb  Obituary  FindAGrave

Daisy Bates (civil rights leader) -- Dead. Old age. Died November 4, 1999. Born November 10, 1914. Little Rock resident who led desegregation efforts and helped the students who went to integrate the high school in 1957.

Kathy Bates (actress) -- Alive. Born June 28, 1948. Great and Oscar-winning as Annie in Misery, vivid in About Schmidt and Primary Colors, had a wonderful recurring role in Six Feet Under  IBDB  IMDb

Jon "Bowzer" Bauman (comic singer) -- Alive. Born September 14, 1947. Sha Na Na

Frances Bavier (actress) -- Dead. Died December 6, 1989. Born December 14, 1902. Aunt Bee on the Andy Griffith Show.  IMDb  FindAGrave

Anne Baxter (actress) -- Dead. Stroke. Died December 12, 1985. Born May 7, 1923. All About Eve.  IMDb  FindAGrave

Meredith Baxter (actress) -- Alive. Born June 21, 1947. Family, Family Ties and lots of made for TV movies, daughter of Whitney Blake, married to David Birney for 15 years.  IMDb

Orson Bean (actor) -- Alive. Born July 22, 1928. Probably best-heard as Bilbo Baggins in The Hobbit, married to Alley Mills, another '60s regular game show panelist, and, ironically, went to the same high school as fellow panelist Peggy Cass.  IMDb

Parley Baer (actor) -- Dead. Stroke complications. Died November 22, 2002. Born August 5, 1914. Bit player on many, many TV shows  IMDb

Ned Beatty (actor) -- Alive. Born July 6, 1937. Character actor in many movies like Network.  IMDb

Warren Beatty (actor) -- Alive. Born March 30, 1937. Brother of Shirley MacLaine, married to Annette Benning, made at least one great movie Reds.  IMDb

Hugh Beaumont (actor) -- Dead. Heart attack. Died May 14, 1982. Born February 16, 1909. Father on Leave It To Beaver.  IMDb

Jackson Beck (voice over actor) -- Dead. Old age. Died July 28, 2004. Born July 23, 1912. Performed Bluto in '40s and '50s Popeye cartoons, did "It's a bird, it's a plane, it's Superman!" for many Superman cartoons, died on the same day as Francis Crick and Eugene Roche.  IMDb

Samuel Beckett (playwright) -- Dead. Died December 22, 1989. Born April 13, 1906. Waiting for Godot.    IMDb  FindAGrave

Noah Beery, Jr. (actor) -- Dead. Died November 1, 1994. Born August 10, 1913.  IMDb

Menachem Begin (politician) -- Dead. Died March 9, 1992. Born August 16, 1913. Israeli Prime Minister, signed Camp David accord in 1978.

Joy Behar (comic) -- Alive. Born October 7, 1943. Still obsessing about death, one of the hosts of The View.  IMDb

Barbara Bel Geddes (actress) -- Dead. Lung cancer. Died August 8, 2005. Born October 31, 1922. The first Miss Ellie on Dallas, died on the same day as John Johnson.    IBDB  IMDb  Obituary

Harry Belafonte (singer/actor) -- Alive. Born March 1, 1927. Greatest Hits.  IMDb

Arthur Bell (dancer) -- Alive. Born circa 1927. First male black ballet dancer with the New York Ballet, he disappeared only to reappear as a homeless man in early 1998.

Bob Bell (clown) -- Dead. Old age. Died December 8, 1997. Born circa 1922. WGN's first Bozo

Mary Hayley Bell (writer/actress) -- Dead. Died December 1, 2005. Born January 22, 1911. Wrote Whistle Down the Wind (later adapted as a movie starring her daughter, Hayley), wife of Sir John Mills, mother of Juliet and Hayley.  IMDb  Obituary

Ralph Bellamy (actor) -- Dead. Died November 29, 1991. Born June 17, 1904. FDR in Sunrise at Campobello.  IMDb

Saul Bellow (writer) -- Dead. Died April 5, 2005. Born June 10, 1915. Many books and stories, including Humboldt's Gift, Mr. Sammler's Planet, fathered a child when he was 84, died on the same day as Dale Messick and Debralee Scott.  IMDb  FindAGrave

John Belushi (comedian) -- Dead. Stupidity (Drugs). Died March 5, 1982. Born January 24, 1949. SNL alum, Animal House, see also Chris Farley.  IMDb

Bob Bemer (Pioneering geek) -- Dead. Cancer. Died June 22, 2004. Born February 4, 1920. Helped to develop the ASCII character set, COBOL and the ESC sequence, died on the same day as Mattie Stepanek.  

Peter Benchley (writer) -- Dead. Pulmonary fibrosis. Died February 11, 2006. Born May 8, 1940. Wrote Jaws and has a short role as a TV reporter in the movie.    IMDb  Obituary

Dirk Benedict (actor) -- Alive. Born March 1, 1945. 20+ year survivor of prostate cancer Battlestar Gallactica.  IMDb

Gordon "Tex" Beneke (band leader/saxophonist) -- Dead. Died May 30, 2000. Born February 12, 1914. Led the Glenn Miller Orchestra for years after Miller's death, lead singer for "Chattanooga Choo Choo" .  IMDb

Peter Benenson (activist/lawyer) -- Dead. Died February 25, 2005. Born July 31, 1921. Founded Amnesty International in 1961.    Obituary

Brenda Benet (actress) -- Dead. Suicide. Died April 7, 1982. Born August 14, 1945. Days of Our Lives, married to Bill Bixby but divorced, their son died tragically in 1981.  IMDb

Richard Benjamin (director/actor) -- Alive. Born May 22, 1938. Acted in Goodbye Columbus, directed My Favorite Year, married to Paula Prentiss.  IMDb

Charlotte Benkner (the world's second oldest person for a few years) -- Dead. Died May 14, 2004. Born November 16, 1889. Midwest housewife, she lived with her sister, who was 15 years younger (but predeceased her older sister by four months), died on the same day as Anna Lee

Joan Bennett (singer) -- Dead. Heart attack. Died December 7, 1990. Born February 27, 1910. The venerable mistress of Collinwood in Dark Shadows.  IMDb

Michael Bennett (director/writer) -- Dead. AIDS. Died July 2, 1987. Born April 8, 1943. Broadway director of Follies, A Chorus Line, Dreamgirls, briefly married to Donna McKenchie.    IBDB  IMDb

Tony Bennett (singer/artist) -- Alive. Born August 3, 1926. His '90s come-back made him as popular with Gen-Xers as he'd been with their grandparents! All-Time Greatest Hits.  IMDb

Jack Benny (actor) -- Dead. Pancreatic cancer. Died December 26, 1974. Born February 14, 1894. Huge star on radio and in the early days of television, was supposed to have starred in The Sunshine Boys but died just before shooting began, married to frequent co-star Mary Livingstone, IRL very generous with his money.  IMDb

Mildred Wirt Benson (journalist/the first Carolyn Keene) -- Dead. Died May 28, 2002. Born July 10, 1905. While not strictly the creator of Nancy Drew, Benson wrote 50 of the early books, wrote newspaper columns for 58 years and was at work the day she died.

Lamont Bentley (actor) -- Dead. Car accident. Died January 18, 2005. Born October 25, 1973. Hakeem on Moesha, bit parts in a number of movies.  IMDb  Obituary

John Berardino (actor/baseball player) -- Dead. Cancer. Died May 19, 1996. Born May 1, 1917. Dr. Steve Hardy on General Hospital.  IMDb

Senator Lloyd Bentsen (politcian) -- Dead. Died May 23, 2006. Born February 11, 1921. Democratic senator from Texas, Dukakis' running mate in 1988, Treasury Secretary under Clinton.    IMDb

Berry Berenson (photographer/actress) -- Dead. Murdered by terrorists. Died September 11, 2001. Born April 14, 1948. Married to Anthony Perkins, Marisa Berenson's sister, died on the same day as Barbara Olson and David Angell and Alice Trillin.  IMDb

Marisa Berenson (actress/model) -- Alive. Born February 15, 1946. Barry Lyndon, her sister Berry was murdered in a WTC plane on 9/11  IMDb

Jan Berenstain (cartoonist) -- Alive. Born July 26, 1923. With her husband Stan, she wrote and illustrated over 200 Berenstain Bears books.    IMDb

Stan Berenstain (cartoonist) -- Dead. Died November 26, 2005. Born September 29, 1923. With his wife Jan, he wrote and illustrated over 200 Berenstain Bears books.    IMDb

Dave Berg (cartoonist) -- Dead. Cancer. Died May 16, 2002. Born June 12, 1920. Mad artist of "The Lighter Side," comic artist as well.    Obituary  FindAGrave

Candice Bergen (actress/photographer) -- Alive. Born May 9, 1946. Hosts a talk show on the Oxygen channel, played Murphy Brown, was married to Louis Malle.  IMDb

Edgar Bergen (ventriloquist) -- Dead. Kidney disease. Died September 30, 1978. Born February 16, 1903. Charlie McCarthy's puppet master, Candice Bergen's dad.  IMDb  FindAGrave

Jean Berger (composer/teacher) -- Dead. Brain tumor. Died May 28, 2002. Born September 27, 1909. Composer who fled the Nazis and settled in America, teaching at Middlebury and the University of Colorado (Boulder)  Obituary

Ingmar Bergman (director) -- Dead. Died July 30, 2007. Born July 14, 1918. Made many great movies, including Scenes from a Marriage, Persona, and Fanny and Alexander, nominated for a number of Oscars, died on the same day as Michelangelo Antonioni.    IMDb  Obituary

Ingrid Bergman (actress) -- Dead. Breast cancer. Died August 29, 1982. Born August 29, 1915. Casablanca.    IMDb

Mary Kay Bergman (cartoon voice) -- Dead. Suicide. Died November 11, 1999. Born June 5, 1961. Most of the female voices on South Park, aka Shannen Cassidy.  IMDb

Susan Bergman (writer/teacher) -- Dead. Brain cancer. Died January 1, 2006. Born circa 1957. Wrote Anonymity, about her closeted father who died of AIDS; older sister of Anne Heche, died on the same day as Bryan Harvey. .

Milton "Mr. Television" Berle (comedian) -- Dead. Cancer. Died March 27, 2002. Born July 12, 1908. The first TV star, died on the same day as Dudley Moore and Billy Wilder.  IMDb

Irving Berlin (composer) -- Dead. Heart attack/Alzheimer's. Died September 22, 1989. Born May 11, 1888. Composer of over 1,500 songs (like "White Christmas" ), he never learned how to read music.    IBDB  IMDb  FindAGrave

Shelley Berman (comic/teacher) -- Alive. Born February 3, 1926. Nat David in Curb Your Enthusiasm, teaches writing at USC.    IBDB  IMDb

Jason Bernard (actor) -- Dead. Heart attack. Died October 16, 1996. Born May 17, 1938. The judge in Liar, Liar.  IMDb

Edward L. Bernds (Stooge director) -- Dead. Old age. Died May 20, 2000. Born July 12, 1905. Directed a bunch of the shorts and some of the full-length movies.  IMDb

Carl Bernstein (writer) -- Alive. Born February 14, 1944. One of the tenacious reporters who uncovered Watergate, co-author of All the Presidents Men and The Final Days, was married to Nora Ephron.  IMDb

Elmer Bernstein (composer) -- Dead. Died August 18, 2004. Born April 4, 1922. Oscar nominations for movies including To Kill a Mockingbird and Far from Heaven, won for Thoroughly Modern Millie.    IMDb

Leonard Bernstein (conductor/composer/musician) -- Dead. Heart attack/pulmonary failure. Died October 14, 1990. Born August 25, 1918. "Chichester Psalms" , West Side Story.  IMDb

Chuck Berry (performer/composer) -- Alive. Born October 18, 1926. Rocking on! - Chuck Berry.    IMDb

Fred Berry (comic) -- Dead. Died October 21, 2003. Born March 13, 1951. Rerun on Whats Happening, died on the same day as Elliott Smith.  IMDb

Jan Berry (singer) -- Dead. Died March 26, 2004. Born April 3, 1941. Part of the early '60s duo Jan and Dean who brought you "Little Old Lady from Pasadena" , died on the same day as Jan Sterling.    IMDb

Richard Berry (blues guy) -- Dead. Aneurysm. Died January 23, 1997. Born circa April 11, 1935. "Louie Louie" , one of the most performed compositions ever.

Pierre Berton (journalist/historian) -- Dead. Congestive heart failure. Died November 30, 2004. Born July 12, 1920. Klondike Fever, TV commentator.  IMDb

Bibi Besch (actress) -- Dead. Cancer. Died September 7, 1996. Born February 1, 1940. Dr. Marcus in Star Trek: Wrath of Khan, daughter of Gusti Huber, mother of Samantha Mathis.  IMDb

Ted Bessell (director/actor) -- Dead. Aortic aneurysm. Died October 6, 1996. Born March 20, 1935.  IMDb

James Best (actor) -- Alive. Born July 26, 1926. The Sheriff on The Dukes of Hazzard.  IMDb

Alfred Bester (writer/editor) -- Dead. Died September 30, 1987. Born December 18, 1913. Won the first Best Novel Hugo for The Demolished Man.   AwardWeb

Hans Bethe (physicist) -- Dead. Died March 6, 2005. Born July 2, 1906. Another German escapee from the Nazis who went to work for the Manhattan Project and spent most of his career studying stars at Cornell, died on the same day as Teresa Wright.    Obituary

Otto Bettman (archivist/writer) -- Dead. Died May 1, 1998. Born October 15, 1903. An academic who fled Nazi Germany with 2 trunks of photos and started the Bettmann archive in his New York apartment, wrote The Good Old Days - They Were Rotten!.    IMDb

Carl Betz (actor) -- Dead. Cancer. Died January 19, 1978. Born March 9, 1921. Lots of TV, especially as Alex on The Donna Reed Show.  IMDb

Richard Beymer (actor) -- Alive. Born February 20, 1938. West Side Story, Diary of Anne Frank.  IMDb

Benazir Bhutto (politician) -- Dead. Assassination. Died December 27, 2007. Born June 21, 1953. Western-educated, former prime minister of Pakistan forced out on corruption charges.    IMDb  Obituary  Obituary  FindAGrave

Mayim Bialik (actress) -- Not dead yet. Born December 12, 1975. TV's Blossom.  IMDb

Stephen Bicknell (writer/organ restorer) -- Dead. Died August 18, 2007. Born December 20, 1957. Restored pipe organs all over the UK, wrote The History of the English Organ.    Obituary

Lloyd Biggle (science fiction, mystery writer) -- Dead. Leukemia. Died September 12, 2002. Born April 17, 1923. "The Tunesmith," a founder of the Science Fiction Oral History Association and the first treasurer of the Science Fiction Writers of America. Make memorial contributions to: Arbor Hospice, or Leukemia and Lymphoma Society of White Plains

Richard Biggs (actor) -- Dead. Torn aorta (see John Ritter). Died May 22, 2004. Born March 18, 1960. Starred on Babylon 5 as Dr. Stephen Franklin, soaps, and on the TV show Tremors. Make memorial contributions to: Richard Biggs' Children College Fund.  IMDb

Bigotry (curse) -- Alive. Not quite dead yet, but it's definitely ailing in some civilized areas of the world.

Michael Billington (actor) -- Dead. Cancer. Died June 3, 2005. Born December 24, 1941. Paul Foster in UFO (died five days before his UFO co-star Ed Bishop), Barsov in The Spy Who Loved Me. Make memorial contributions to: Marie Curie Cancer Center.    IMDb  Obituary

Barbara Billingsley (Beaver's mom) -- Alive. Born December 22, 1922. An early TV icon (Leave It to Beaver), and a great bit part in Airplane!.  IMDb

Rudolph Bing (opera impresario) -- Dead. Died September 2, 1997. Born January 9, 1902. Former director of the Metropolitan Opera.  Obituary

David Birney (actor) -- Alive. Born April 23, 1939. Bridget Loves Bernie, married to Meredith Baxter for 15 years.  IMDb

Ed Bishop (actor) -- Dead. Hospital virus(?). Died June 8, 2005. Born June 11, 1932. Ed Straker in UFO (died five days after his UFO co-star Michael Billington), various voices on the animated version of Star Trek.    IBDB  IMDb  Obituary

Joey Bishop (comedian) -- Dead. Died October 17, 2007. Born February 3, 1918. Last surviving Rat Packer, had a late night talk show for two years that succumbed to The Tonight Show, died on the same day as Teresa Brewer.    IBDB  IMDb  Obituary  FindAGrave

Whit Bissell (actor) -- Dead. Parkinson's. Died March 5, 1996. Born October 25, 1909. Got his start on Broadway, then became a very active character actor in the movies (I Was a Teenage Werewolf) and on TV (Time Tunnel) and.  IBDB  IMDb  FindAGrave

Bill Bixby (director/actor) -- Dead. Cancer. Died November 21, 1993. Born January 22, 1934. Married to Brenda Benet in the '70s, born on the same day as Graham Kerr.  IMDb

Jerome Bixby (screenwriter/writer) -- Dead. Following heart surgery. Died April 28, 1998. Born January 11, 1923. Wrote for the original Twilight Zone and Star Trek.    IMDb  Obituary

Shirley Temple Black (actress/stateswoman) -- Alive. Born April 23, 1928. Most famous child star, starred in movies like Little Miss Marker, first wife of John Agar, she went on to be an ambassador.  IMDb

Honor Blackman (actress) -- Alive. Born December 12, 1927. Preceded Mrs. Peel in The Avengers, had a memorably risque name in Goldfinger.  IMDb

Harry Blackstone, Jr. (magician) -- Dead. Pancreatic cancer. Died May 14, 1997. Born June 30, 1934.    IMDb

Amanda Blake (actress) -- Dead. AIDS/cancer. Died August 16, 1989. Born February 20, 1931. Miss Kitty on Gunsmoke.    IMDb  FindAGrave

Madge Blake (actress) -- Dead. Heart attack. Died February 19, 1969. Born May 31, 1899. Aunt Harriet on the Batman TV show, the gossip columnist in Singin' in the Rain, didn't become an actress until she was 50.  IMDb  FindAGrave

Robert Blake (actor) -- Alive. Born September 18, 1933. A kid in Our Gang shorts, later Baretta on TV, last wife shot, Blake arrested about a year later for her murder but was later acquitted (just like OJ).  IMDb

Whitney Blake (actress) -- Dead. Died September 28, 2002. Born February 20, 1925. Dorothy in Hazel, Meredith Baxter's mother.  IMDb

Ronee Blakley (actress) -- Alive. Born August 24, 1945. Memorable for a "break-down" performance in Nashville.  IMDb

Mel Blanc (voice) -- Th-th-th-that's all, folks! Heart disease. Died July 10, 1989. Born May 30, 1908. Bugs Bunny classics.  IMDb  FindAGrave

Bill Blass (designer) -- Dead. Throat cancer. Died June 12, 2002. Born June 22, 1922. Casually elegant clothes for men and women.  IMDb

Brenda Blethyn (actress) -- Alive. Born February 20, 1946. Secrets and Lies, Little Voice, Pride and Prejudice (2005 version).    IBDB  IMDb

James Blish (writer, critic) -- Dead. Cancer. Died July 30, 1975. Born November 23, 1921. Wrote the acclaimed A Case of Conscience, many, many reviews and the first set of Star Trek books.    IMDb

Robert Bloch (writer) -- Dead. Cancer. Died September 23, 1994. Born April 5, 1917. Author of Psycho and other speculative fiction, who originated the great quote "I have the heart of a little boy...in a jar on my desk..."    IMDb

Dan Blocker (actor) -- Dead. Died May 13, 1972. Born December 10, 1928.  IMDb

David Bloom (TV journalist) -- Dead. Pulmonary embolism. Died April 6, 2003. Born May 22, 1963. Today newscaster who died in Iraq of non-war-related causes.  IMDb

Peter Blos (psychoanalyst/writer) -- Dead. Died June 12, 1997. Born February 2, 1904. Wrote The Adolescent Passage

Roberts Blossom (poet/spooky actor) -- Alive. Born circa 1924. Yep, you'd remember him from Close Encounters and Resurrection.  IMDb

Larry Blyden (game show host/actor) -- Dead. Car accident. Died June 6, 1975. Born June 23, 1925. Once hosted two games shows at the same time in the early '70s: What's My Line and To Tell the Truth.  IBDB  IMDb  FindAGrave

Vaughn Bode (cartoonist extraordinaire) -- Dead. Accidental strangulation. Died July 18, 1975. Born July 22, 1941. Cartoonist for magazines like Galaxy and National Lampoon.  

Lloyd Bochner (actor) -- Dead. Died October 29, 2005. Born July 29, 1924. Starred in the famous Twilight Zone episode "To Serve Man," extremely busy TV actor, Cecil Colby in Dynasty.  IBDB  IMDb  Obituary

Dirk Bogarde (actor/writer) -- Dead. Heart attack. Died May 8, 1999. Born March 28, 1921. A Tale of Two Cities, Darling, and, believe it or not, a number of the British "Doctor" comedies.  IMDb

Elizabeth "Lizzie" Bolden (World's oldest woman 2005-2006) -- Dead. Died December 4, 2006. Born August 15, 1890.

Ray Bolger (dancer/actor) -- Dead. Died January 15, 1987. Born January 10, 1904. Scarecrow in The Wizard of Oz.  IMDb

Erma Bombeck (humorist) -- Dead. Kidney failure. Died April 22, 1996. Born February 21, 1927. Forever, Emma.  IMDb

Danny Bonaduce (child actor/radio personality) -- Alive. Born August 13, 1959. The Partridge Family.  IMDb

Tommy Bond (actor) -- Dead. Heart disease. Died September 24, 2005. Born September 16, 1926. Butch in the Our Gang shorts, Jimmy Olson in the Superman serials in the '40s.  IMDb  Obituary

Sonny Bono (politician/performer) -- Dead. Skiing accident. Died January 5, 1998. Born February 16, 1935. Part of a duo with Cher, then a Republican representative from California.  IMDb

Sorrell Booke (actor) -- Dead. Cancer. Died February 11, 1994. Born January 4, 1930. Lots of movies and The Dukes of Hazzard.  IMDb

Pat Boone (singer) -- Alive. Born June 1, 1934. Proved to have a sense of humor about himself when he donned biker garb to promote a CD where he covered some "heavy metal," neighbor of Ozzy Osbourne, Journey to the Center of the Earth.  IMDb

Richard Boone (actor) -- Dead. Throat cancer. Died January 10, 1981. Born June 18, 1917. Have Gun, Will Travel.  IMDb

Shirley Booth (actress) -- Dead. Old age. Died October 16, 1992. Born August 30, 1907. Come Back Little Sheba, TV's Hazel.  IMDb

Robert "Gypsy Boots" Bootzin (actor/gadfly) -- Dead. old age. Died August 8, 2004. Born August 19, 1914. A Steve Allen Show regular and organic food promoter, he wrote several books, The Gypsy in Me, died on the same day as Fay Wray.    IMDb

Victor Borge (pianist/comedian) -- Dead. Old age. Died December 23, 2000. Born January 3, 1909. Victor Borge in London, died on the same day as Billy Barty.  IMDb  FindAGrave

Ernest Borgnine (actor) -- Alive. Born January 24, 1917. TV's McHale's Navy, Marty, once married to Katy Jurado, and, very briefly, to Ethel Merman.  IMDb

Frank Borman (astronaut) -- Alive. Born March 14, 1928. Former Eastern Airlines president.

Tom Bosley (actor) -- Not dead yet. Born October 1, 1927. Best-known as Mr. C in Happy Days.  IBDB  IMDb

Dorr Bothwell (painter) -- Dead. Old age. Died September 24, 2000. Born circa 1902.  

Susan Seddon Boulet (artist) -- Dead. Cancer. Died April 28, 1997. Born circa 1941.  

Julie Bovasso (actress/writer) -- Dead. Cancer. Died September 14, 1991. Born August 1, 1930. John Travolta's mother in Saturday Night Fever.  IMDb

Paul Bowles (writer) -- Dead. Heart attack. Died November 18, 1999. Born December 30, 1910. The Sheltering Sky.  IMDb

Christopher Bowman (skater/actor) -- Dead. Drug overdose/enlarged heart. Died January 10, 2008. Born March 30, 1967. Appeared in some '70s sitcoms, went on to be a skating champion, coach and commentator, died on the same day as Vampira.  IMDb  FindAGrave

Boxcar Willie (singer) -- Dead. Leukemia. Died April 12, 1999. Born September 1, 1931. Best of Boxcar Willie.  IMDb

Bruce Boxleitner (actor) -- Alive. Born May 12, 1950. Lots of TV, Sheridan in Babylon 5, married to Melissa Gilbert.  IMDb

Tommy Boyce (songwriter) -- Dead. Suicide (shooting). Died November 23, 1994. Born September 29, 1939. Wrote a bunch of Monkees song with his partner Bobby Hart, like "Take the Last Train to Clarksville" .  IMDb

Stephen Boyd (actor) -- Dead. Heart attack. Died June 2, 1977. Born July 4, 1928. Ben Hur's competitor.  IMDb

William Boyd (actor) -- Dead. Parkinson's disease, heart failure. Died September 12, 1972. Born June 5, 1898. Hopalong Cassidy.  IMDb

Charles Boyer (actor) -- Dead. Suicide. Died August 26, 1978. Born August 28, 1899.  IMDb

Peter Boyle (actor) -- Dead. Heart disease. Died December 12, 2006. Born October 18, 1935. The father on Everybody Loves Raymond, Boyle was particularly memorable in Young Frankenstein as The Monster.  IBDB  IMDb  FindAGrave

Eddie Bracken (actor) -- Dead. Surgery complications. Died November 14, 2002. Born February 7, 1915. Miracle of Morgan's Creek, active in stage productions until 2001.  IMDb

Peg Bracken (writer) -- Dead. Died October 20, 2007. Born February 25, 1918. The I Hate to Cook Book.    Obituary

Sir Malcolm Bradbury (writer/teacher) -- Dead. Heart trouble. Died November 27, 2000. Born September 7, 1932.  IMDb

Ray Bradbury (author/futurist) -- Alive. Born August 22, 1920. The Martian Chronicles and Farenheit 451, recovered well from a stroke in 1999 .  IMDb   AwardWeb

Ed Bradley (journalist) -- Dead. Leukemia. Died November 9, 2006. Born June 22, 1941. Longtime CBS correspondent, on 60 Minutes for 25 years.  IMDb

Marion Zimmer Bradley (writer) -- Dead. Heart attack. Died September 25, 1999. Born June 3, 1930. Created the Darkover series, sister of Paul Edwin Zimmer

Tom Bradley (mayor) -- Dead. Heart attack. Died September 29, 1998. Born December 29, 1917. First black mayor of LA.

Sonia Braga (actress) -- Alive. Born June 16, 1950. Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands and Kiss of the Spider Woman.  IMDb

Neville Brand (actor/decorated WW2 soldier) -- Dead. Emphysema. Died April 16, 1992. Born August 13, 1921.  IMDb

Jonathan Brandis (actor) -- Dead. suicide (hanging). Died November 12, 2003. Born April 13, 1976. The kid on Seaquest, appeared with Tobey Maguire in Ride with the Devil, died on the same day as Penny Singleton.  IMDb

Marlon Brando (actor) -- Dead. Died July 1, 2004. Born April 3, 1924. Played iconic characters including the Godfather and Stanley Kowalski, born on the same day as Doris Day.    IBDB  IMDb  FindAGrave

Laura Branigan (singer) -- Dead. Aneurysm. Died August 26, 2004. Born July 3, 1957. "Gloria" and "How Am I Supposed to Live Without You?" . Make memorial contributions to: American Cancer Society or Children Affected by AIDS Foundation.    IMDb  FindAGrave

Hugh "Lumpy" Brannum (actor, Mr. Green Jeans) -- Dead. Died April 19, 1987. Born January 5, 1910.  IMDb

Willy Brandt (politician) -- Dead. Died October 8, 1992. Born December 18, 1913. West German chancellor.

Richard Brautigan (counter-culture writer) -- Dead. Suicide (gunshot wound). Died September 14, 1984. Born January 30, 1935. Trout Fishing...and Other Novels....  

Rossano Brazzi (actor) -- Dead. Infection. Died December 24, 1994. Born September 18, 1919.  IMDb

Eileen Brennan (actress) -- Alive. Born September 3, 1935. The Sting, Private Benjamin, survived a terrible car accident in the early '80s.  IMDb

Walter Brennan (supporting actor) -- Dead. Died July 25, 1974. Born September 21, 1894. Played old men for 40 years, won three supporting actor Oscars.  IMDb

William J. Brennan (jurist) -- Dead. Old age. Died July 24, 1997. Born April 25, 1906. Served on the Supreme Court for 34 years.

Jeremy Brett (actor) -- Dead. Heart attack. Died September 12, 1995. Born November 3, 1933. Sherlock Holmes in '80s movies, also played Freddie in My Fair Lady.  IMDb

Teresa Brewer (singer) -- Dead. Neuromuscular disease. Died October 17, 2007. Born May 7, 1931. '50s pop star, sang "Music, Music, Music" , died on the same day as Joey Bishop.    IMDb  Obituary  FindAGrave

Lloyd Bridges (actor) -- Dead. Old age. Died March 10, 1998. Born January 15, 1913. Father of Jeff and Beau Bridges, star of one of the only TV show about scuba divers, Sea Hunt.  IMDb

Todd Bridges (actor) -- Alive. Born May 27, 1965. Different Strokes and many trips to jail...  IMDb

Charlie Brill (actor/comic) -- Born circa 1935. Capt. Lipschitz on Silk Stockings, Arne Davin on two Star Trek episodes, married to Mitzi McCall.  IMDb

Wilford Brimley (actor) -- Alive. Born September 27, 1934. Cocoon, born on the same day as Greg Morris. Who'd've thunk it?.  IMDb

David Brinkley (TV journalist) -- Dead. Complications of a fall. Died June 11, 2003. Born July 10, 1920. Longtime news anchor for NBC ( "Good night, Chet. " ), later a journalist and commentator for ABC, died on the same day as William Marshall.  IMDb

Morgan Britanny (actress) -- Alive. Born December 5, 1951. The former child star Suzanne Cupito (Gypsy), she is remembered for two striking performances as Vivien Leigh.  IMDb

Benjamin Britten (composer) -- Dead. Died December 4, 1976. Born November 22, 1913. Wrote "A Young Person's Guide to Orchestra" and Peter Grimes among many other works.      IBDB  IMDb  FindAGrave

Jim Broadbent (actor) -- Alive. Born May 24, 1949. Extremely versitile actor, the MC in Moulin Rouge!, John in Iris for which he won an Oscar, Dad in the Bridget Jones movies.    IMDb

Roy Brocksmith (character actor) -- Dead. Diabetes. Died December 16, 2001. Born September 15, 1945. School principal in Picket Fences.  IMDb

Tom Brokaw (journalist/news anchor/writer) -- Retired. Born February 6, 1940. NBC Nightly News anchor for 22 years, was in West Berlin when the wall fell and in South Africa when Mandela was released. He wrote a great book, The Grestest Generation.  IMDb

James Brolin (actor) -- Alive. Born July 18, 1940. Married to Barbra Streisand, ex-husband of Jan Smithers.  IMDb

Charles Bronson (tough actor) -- Dead. Pneumonia, Alzheimer's. Died August 30, 2003. Born November 3, 1921. Made four Death Wish movies, married to Jill Ireland until her death in 1990.  IMDb

Foster Brooks (comic) -- Dead. Heart attack. Died December 21, 2001. Born May 11, 1912. Professional lush on TV in the '60 and '70s, died on the same day as Dick Schaap.  IMDb

Gwendolyn Brooks (poet) -- Dead. Cancer. Died December 4, 2000. Born June 7, 1917. First black American to win a Pulitzer Prize.  

Louise Brooks (actress) -- Dead. Died August 8, 1985. Born November 14, 1906.  IMDb

Mel Brooks (comic, writer) -- Alive. Born June 28, 1926. (not in 40 BC) Married to Anne Bancroft.    IMDb

Rand Brooks (actor/businessman) -- Dead. Cancer. Died September 1, 2003. Born September 21, 1918. Played Charles Hamilton, Scarlett's first husband in Gone With the Wind, later started a major ambulance service in California.  IMDb

Dr. Joyce Brothers (writer/therapist) -- Alive. Born September 20, 1928. Popular talk show guest on psychology who got her start by winning a game show in the '50s.

Heywood Hale Broun (commentator, writer) -- Dead. Died September 5, 2001. Born March 10, 1918.  IMDb

David Brower (ecological activist) -- Dead. Cancer. Died November 5, 2000. Born July 1, 1912. Executive director of the Sierra Club for nearly 20 years.  

Blair Brown (actress) -- Alive. Born April 23, 1946. Starred in Days and Nights of Molly Dodd, Altered States.  IMDb

Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown (guitarist/singer) -- Dead. Lung cancer/heart disease. Died September 10, 2005. Born April 18, 1924. Cajun muscian and New Orleans fixture who died a few days after evacuating from hurricane Katrina.    IMDb

Danny Joe Brown (rocker) -- Dead. Complications of diabetes/stroke. Died March 10, 2005. Born 1951. Singer and a founding member of Molly Hatchet, died on the same day as Dave Allen. .

David Brown (producer) -- Alive. Born July 28, 1916. Produced movies like Jaws and The Player, married to Helen Gurley Brown.    IMDb

David Brown (Columbia (STS-107) astronaut) -- Dead. Shuttle break-up. Died February 1, 2003. Born April 16, 1956. Mission specialist on the Columbia.  

Edmund G. "Pat" Brown (politician) -- Dead. Heart attack. Died February 16, 1996. Born April 21, 1905. Former governor of California, and the father of Jerry Brown.

Helen Gurley Brown (writer/editor) -- Alive. Born February 18, 1922. Sex and the Single Girl, longtime editor of Cosmopolitan, married to producer David Brown.    IMDb

James "Godfather of Soul" Brown (soul singer) -- Dead. Pneumonia. Died December 25, 2006. Born May 3, 1933. Lots of run-ins with the law and rehab, toured with classics like "I Feel Good" until just before he died.    IMDb

Joe E. Brown (actor) -- Dead. Died July 6, 1973. Born July 28, 1892. Many movies, including It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World and Some Like It Hot, died on the same day as Otto Klemperer.  IMDb

Larry Brown (writer) -- Dead. Heart attack. Died November 24, 2004. Born July 7, 1951. Wrote Big Bad Love, won Southern Book Critics Circle Award, died on the same day as Arthur Hailey.  IMDb

Les Brown (bandleader/songwriter) -- Dead. Died January 4, 2001. Born March 14, 1912. Les Brown and His Band of Renown was the longest-touring band in show biz, and worked with Doris Day, Bob Hope and Dean Martin.    IMDb

Phil Brown (actor) -- Dead. Pneumonia. Died February 9, 2006. Born April 30, 1916. An actor blacklisted during the McCarthy era, George Lucas cast him as Uncle Owen in Star Wars, died on the same day as Freddy Laker.    IBDB  IMDb  Obituary

Rita Mae Brown (writer) -- Alive. Born November 28, 1944. An early out-of-the-closet writer (Rubyfruit Jungle).    IMDb

Roscoe Lee Browne (actor) -- Dead. Cancer. Died April 11, 2007. Born May 2, 1925. Saunders in Soap, narrator of the Babe movies, was a teacher and set a world record in track in the '50s, died on the same day as Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.  IBDB  IMDb

Dave Brubeck (jazz performer and composer) -- Alive. Born December 6, 1920. Wanted to be a rancher. Biography: It's About Time: The Dave Brubeck Story.    IMDb

Carol Bruce (actress) -- Dead. Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Died October 9, 2007. Born November 15, 1919. Stage actress, Moma on WKRP in Cincinnati.  IBDB  IMDb  Obituary  FindAGrave

Lenny Bruce (comic) -- Dead. Drug overdose. Died August 3, 1966. Born November 13, 1925. Ground-breaking comic who spent a few months in prison on an obscenity charge.    IBDB  IMDb  FindAGrave

John Brunner (author) -- Dead. Stroke. Died August 25, 1995. Born September 24, 1934. British science fiction writer who was stricken at the World Science Fiction Convention in Scotland and died the next day.   AwardWeb

Boudleaux Bryant (Songwriter) -- Dead. Died June 30, 1987. Born February 13, 1920. Wrote "All I Have to do Is Dream..." , co-writer with Felice of many standards, including "Rocky Top" .    IMDb

Felice Bryant (Songwriter) -- Dead. Cancer. Died April 22, 2003. Born August 7, 1925. Co-wrote many songs with Boudleaux, including "Wake Up, Little Susie"    IMDb

Yul Brynner (actor) -- Dead. Lung cancer. Died October 10, 1985. Born July 12, 1915. The King and I, died on the same day as Orson Welles.  IMDb

Edgar Buchanan (actor) -- Dead. Old age. Died April 4, 1979. Born March 20, 1903. Uncle Joe on Petticoat Junction.  IMDb

Horst Buchholz (actor) -- Dead. Pneumonia. Died March 3, 2003. Born December 4, 1933. The Magnificent Seven.  IMDb

Art Buchwald (columnist) -- Dead. Kidney failure. Died January 17, 2007. Born October 20, 1925. Suffered a severe stroke in June 2000, wrote thousands of columns and one novel - Stella in Heaven: Almost a Novel, survived over a year without needed kidney dialysis, left his hospice to go on vacation!    IMDb  Obituary  FindAGrave

Pearl S. Buck (writer) -- Dead. Cancer. Died March 6, 1973. Born June 26, 1892. The Good Earth.  IMDb

Robert Buck (rock guitarist/songwriter) -- Dead. Liver failure. Died December 19, 2000. Born August 1, 1958. Founding member of 10,000 Maniacs, he co-wrote "These Are the Days" . Make memorial contributions to: Rob Buck Memorial Scholarship Fund.  

Betty Buckley (actress) -- Alive. Born July 3, 1947. The stepmother in Eight Is Enough, later went to Broadway in Cats.  IBDB  IMDb

Jeff Buckley (musician) -- Dead. Drowned. Died May 29, 1997. Born November 17, 1966.    IMDb

William F. Buckley, Jr. (writer) -- Dead. Emphysema. Died February 27, 2008. Born November 24, 1925. Conservative commentator and publisher of the National Review, wrote God and Man at Yale just after his college graduation, died on the same day as Myron Cope.    IMDb  Obituary  FindAGrave

Buddy (movie) -- Dead. Cancer. Died February 10, 1998. Born circa 1988. Air Bud.  IMDb

Jimmy Buffett (performer) -- Not dead yet. Born December 25, 1946. "Wastin' Away in Margaritaville" .    IMDb

Kenneth Bulmer (writer) -- Dead. Died December 16, 2005. Born January 14, 1921. A writer with many pseudonums (including Alan Burt Akers and Dray Prescot) who wrote books in many different genres, died on the same day as John Spencer. .

Mary-Ellis Bunim (TV producer) -- Dead. Breast cancer. Died January 29, 2004. Born July 9, 1946. Created The Real World, the pre-cursor of the "reality" show trend, died on the same day as Joe Viterelli.    IMDb  Obituary

Victor Buono (actor) -- Dead. Died January 1, 1982. Born February 3, 1938. King Tut on the Batman series.  IMDb

Eric Burdon (rocker) -- Alive. Born May 5, 1940. Lead singer of The Animals and War

Warren Earl Burger (jurist) -- Dead. Heart failure. Died June 25, 1995. Born September 17, 1907.

Anthony Burgess (writer/civil servant) -- Dead. Died November 25, 1993. Born February 25, 1917. A Clockwork Orange.  IMDb

Billie Burke (a good witch) -- Dead. Old age. Died May 14, 1970. Born August 7, 1885. Glinda in The Wizard of Oz.  IMDb

Carol Burnett (actress) -- Alive. Born April 26, 1933. The Carol Burnett Show - one of the great comics of the late 20th century , adapted her memoir for the play Hollywood Arms with her daughter Carrie Hamilton.    IMDb

Murray Burnett (writer) -- Dead. Died September 23, 1997. Born circa 1911. Co-wrote an unproduced play (Everybody Goes to Rick's) that later became Casablanca.  IMDb

George Burns (comedian/actor) -- Dead. Old age. Died March 9, 1996. Born January 20, 1896. Performed professionally until he was 98, longtime comedy partner and husband of Gracie Allen, won an Academy Award for The Sunshine Boys.    IMDb  IBDB  FindAGrave

Jack Burns (comic, writer) -- Alive. Born November 15, 1933. Once teamed with George Carlin, he later teamed with Avery Schreiber, wrote The Muppet Show for a year.  IMDb

Steve Burns (kid show host) -- Not dead yet. Born October 9, 1973. The human on Blue's Clues.    IMDb

Raymond Burr (actor) -- Dead. Cancer. Died September 12, 1993. Born May 21, 1917. The only North American in the U.S. version of Godzilla, Perry Mason, Ironside, he toured Europe, then gave away most of his money after being diagnosed with terminal cancer  Obituary  IMDb

William S. Burroughs (author/head trip) -- Dead. Heart attack. Died August 2, 1997. Born February 5, 1914. Naked Lunch

Ellen Burstyn (actress) -- Alive. Born December 7, 1932. Resurrection and Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore.  IMDb

Richard Burton (actor) -- Dead. Brain hemorrhage. Died August 5, 1984. Born November 10, 1925. Married to Liz twice, father of Kate Burton.  IMDb

F. M. Busby (writer) -- Dead. Following abdominal surgery. Died February 17, 2005. Born March 11, 1921. Rissa Kerguelen, died on the same day as Daniel O'Herlihy  

Gary Busey (actor) -- Alive. Born June 29, 1944. Lucky-to-be-alive! Barely survived a motorcycle accident a few years back when he wasn't wearing a helmet!  IMDb

Barbara Bush (presidential mom/former first lady) -- Alive. Born June 8, 1925. A more interesting First Lady than most, must have to bite her tongue a lot when she hears about her sons' antics...    

George H. W. Bush (presidential dad/former president) -- Retired. Born June 12, 1924. Sounds a little more presidential than Duhbyuh these days...    

George W. Bush (our second unelected president (fraud in Florida) later unelected (fraud in Ohio) to a second term 2004 Ohio election analysis) -- Alive. Born July 6, 1946. The "leader" of the most incompetent administrations of modern time, he's just Duhbyuh to many of us, has inspired a huge number of bumper stickers, the man whose partisans killed our federal democracy.  

Laura Bush (first lady/literacy advocate) -- Alive. Born November 4, 1946. Reportedly came up with the one good idea from the second Bush presidency - the National Book Festival.  

Robert Bussard (physicist) -- Dead. Cancer. Died October 6, 2007. Born August 11, 1928. Inventor of the Bussard ramjet, a space drive powered by hydrogen fusion.    Obituary

Susan Butcher (sled dog racer/vet technician) -- Dead. leukemia/graft vs. host disease. Died August 5, 2006. Born December 26, 1954. Second woman to win the Iditarod in 1986; dominated the event in the '80s and early '90s.  .  

Daws Butler (voice) -- Dead. Heart attack. Died May 18, 1988. Born November 16, 1916. Voices for many Hanna Barbera cartoons.    IMDb

Octavia Butler (writer) -- Dead. Brain injury. Died February 24, 2006. Born June 22, 1947. Fine SF writer; the only person to win a Hugo, a Nebula and a McArthur Genius Grant, died on the same day as Don Knotts and Dennis Weaver. Make memorial contributions to: Octavia E. Butler Memorial Scholarship      IMDb