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May 4 -- May 10

Randy Pausch (educator/geek) -- Alive. Born October 23, 1960. Creator of the Alice project, a temporary "Imagineer," who gave a great, widely-distributed lecture about living with pancreatic cancer; co-writer of the best-selling The Last Lecture.  

Patrick Swayze (actor) -- Alive. Born August 18, 1952. Dirty Dancing, Ghost, has pancreatic cancer.  IBDB  IMDb

January 20 -- January 26

Slim Whitman (country singer) -- Not dead yet. Born January 20, 1924. Guitarist and yodler known for "Indian Love Call", discovered by Colonel Tom Parker    IMDb

January 13 -- January 19

Elvira (TV fixture) -- Alive. Born September 17, 1951. Horror movie, wrestling, Halloween and commercial host, real name: Casandra Peterson.    IMDb

Nehemiah Persoff (actor/artist/teacher) -- Alive. Born August 2, 1919. Extremely active TV bit-part actor for over thirty years (appeared on at least 146 different TV shows), he played Fivel's father's voice in the American Tail movies, and was the cab driver in the famous "I could have been a contender" scene in On the Waterfront.    IBDB  IMDb

December 30 -- January 5

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

Dwight Eisenhower (president/general) -- Dead. Congestive heart failure. Died March 28, 1969. Born October 14, 1890. Helped lead the American army in WWII, later served as US president in the '50s.    IMDb  FindAGrave

Brian Jones (guitarist/singer) -- Dead. Drowning. Died July 3, 1969. Born February 28, 1942. A founder of the Rolling Stones but was out of the band before his death.    IMDb  FindAGrave

Anthony Minghella (director) -- Alive. Born January 6, 1954. Truly, Madly, Deeply, The English Patient, Cold Mountain.    IBDB  IMDb

Harriet Walter (actress) -- Alive. Born September 24, 1950. Theater actress, playing varied roles in Atonement and Sense and Sensibility.    IMDb

Charlie Watts (drummer) -- Alive. Born June 2, 1941. The early-gray-haired drummer for the Rolling Stones, he's recovered from throat cancer.    IMDb

Ron Wood (guitarist) -- Alive. Born June 1, 1947. A member of Faces before joining the Rolling Stones in 1975.    IMDb

December 23 -- December 29

Ernest Gallo (businessman) -- Dead. Strokes. Died March 6, 2007. Born March 18, 1909. Started making wine with his brother Julio, became the biggest winemaker in the U. S.    Obituary  FindAGrave

Joseph Gallo (businessman) -- Dead. Strokes. Died February 17, 2007. Born September 11, 1919. Started making wine with his older brothers, but later founded Joseph Farms cheeses after a protracted legal battle with his brothers.  

Julio Gallo (businessman) -- Dead. Jeep accident. Died May 2, 1993. Born March 21, 1910. Started making wine with his brother Ernest became the biggest winemaker in the U. S.  Obituary  FindAGrave

December 16 -- December 22

Nat King Cole (singer) -- Dead. Lung cancer. Died February 15, 1965. Born March 17, 1919. Mellow voiced singer of songs like "Unforgettable" (later remixed by his daughter Natalie), first black entertainer to have a primetime, network show (on NBC).    IBDB  IMDb  FindAGrave

Natalie Cole (singer) -- Alive. Born February 6, 1950. De-Lovely, performed "This Will Be (An Everlasting Love)".    IBDB  IMDb

Lawrence Ferlinghetti (poet, publisher, painter) -- Alive. Born March 24, 1919. Famous Beat Generation poet, still active, earned a doctorate in poetry from the Sorbonne, published Allen Ginsberg.    IMDb

Herbert Hoover (President, mining engineer) -- Dead. Intestinal cancer. Died October 20, 1964. Born August 10, 1874. Lived in Australia and England while a mining engineer, he was President during the beginning of the Depression, he later helped raise funds for war relief in Europe.    IMDb  FindAGrave

J. Edgar Hoover ("well dressed" FBI honcho) -- Dead. Died May 2, 1972. Born January 1, 1895. In charge of the FBI for way too long, spied on many American citizens for no good reason, fought against civil rights in the government.    IMDb  FindAGrave

Carl Jung (psychoanalyst) -- Dead. . Died June 6, 1961. Born July 26, 1875. Developed theories of the collective unconscious and archetypes, influenced by Freud wrote Man and His Symbols.    IMDb  FindAGrave

Dorothy Kilgallen (writer) -- Dead. Overdose. Died November 8, 1965. Born July 3, 1913. Journalist who covered many sensation trials, longtime panelist on What's My Line.    IMDb  FindAGrave

Chico Marx (comic) -- Dead. Heart disease. Died October 21, 1961. Born March 22, 1887. The piano-playing Marx brother who performed with an Italian accent, avid card-player.    IBDB  IMDb  FindAGrave

Harpo Marx (comic) -- Dead. Heart disease. Died September 28, 1964. Born November 23, 1888. The harp-playing Marx brother who almost never spoke on camera, member of the Algonquin Round Table.    IBDB  IMDb  FindAGrave

Zeppo Marx (comic) -- Dead. Cancer. Died November 30, 1979. Born February 25, 1901. The Marx Brothers straight man who retired early and went to invent medical devices, his second wife Barbara later married Frank Sinatra.    IBDB  IMDb  FindAGrave

Eleanor Roosevelt (First Lady/humanitarian) -- Dead. Died November 7, 1962. Born October 11, 1884. Was famously "her husband's legs," traveling for FDR during his long presidency, helped to draft the constitution for the UN, helped arrange for Marian Anderson to sing at the Lincoln Memorial after the Daughters of the American Revolution barred her concert, famously said "No one can make you feel inferior without your consent".    IMDb  FindAGrave

Patricia Routledge (actress) -- Alive. Born February 17, 1929. Keeping up Appearences, Hetty Wainthropp Investigates, won a Tony in 1968.    IBDB  IMDb

Clive Swift (actor) -- Alive. Born February 9, 1936. Many TV parts including Keeping Up Appearences.    IMDb

Denzel Washington (actor) -- Alive. Born December 28, 1954. Terrifically talented actor, brilliant in Glory, Malcolm X, Training Day, and American Gangster, quiet philanthropist.    IBDB  IMDb

Malcolm X (activist) -- Dead. Assassination. Died February 21, 1965. Born May 19, 1925. Black Muslim leader who called for racial segregation, but renounced segregation after making his pilgrimage to Mecca, shot by three men while giving a speech (his wife and daughters were in the audience).    IMDb

December 9 -- December 15

Oscar Hammerstein, II (lyricist) -- Dead. Stomach cancer. Died August 23, 1960. Born July 12, 1895. Wrote the words for songs in Show Boat, South Pacific, and The Sound of Music ("Edelweiss" was the last song her wrote before his death).    IBDB  IMDb  FindAGrave

Zora Neale Hurston (writer) -- Dead. Stroke. Died January 28, 1960. Born January 7, 1891. Author best-known for Their Eyes Were Watching God, her work vanished until she was rediscovered by writers like Alice Walker in the '70s.    IBDB  IMDb  FindAGrave

Alice Walker (writer) -- Alive. Born February 9, 1944. The Color Purple.    IBDB  IMDb

December 2 -- December 8

Ed Ames (actor/singer) -- Alive. Born July 9, 1927. '60s pop singer ("They Called the Wind Mariah"), Mingo on Daniel Boone, an expert tomahawk thrower, he once hit a "potentially sensitive" spot on a target in the shape of a man on The Tonight Show.    IBDB  IMDb

Patsy Cline (singer) -- Dead. Plane crash. Died March 5, 1963. Born September 8, 1932. Country singer, Jessica Lange played her in a biopic, good friend of Loretta Lynn, may be most-famous work may be the posthumous release, "Sweet Dreams".    IMDb  FindAGrave

Whoopi Goldberg (actress/comic) -- Alive. Born November 13, 1955. The Color Purple, won an Oscar for Ghost, Guinan on Star Trek: The Next Generation, one of the promoters of Comic Relief in the US, the current referree...errr...moderator of The View (and the main reason to watch the show!).    IBDB  IMDb

Ernie Kovacs (comic) -- Dead. Car accident. Died January 13, 1962. Born January 23, 1919. Brilliant comic who created one of the first weird shows on television, married to Edie Adams, ironically, one of his daughters died in a car accident about 20 years after he did.    IMDb  FindAGrave

Georgia O'Keeffe (artist) -- Dead. Died March 6, 1986. Born November 15, 1887. Landscape and floral painter who split her life between New York and New Mexico.    IMDb  Obituary  FindAGrave

Pablo Picasso (artist) -- Dead. Died April 8, 1973. Born October 25, 1881. Leading proponent of the Cubism style, he was a painter, printmaker and sculptor.    IBDB  IMDb  FindAGrave

Oprah Winfrey (talk show host/activist) -- Alive. Born January 29, 1954. Smart businesswoman who's built an empire, she started off as a newscaster, wonderful in The Color Purple.    IBDB  IMDb

November 26 -- December 1

Sir David Jason (actor) -- Alive. Born February 2, 1940. Only Fools and Horses, Danger Mouse, A Touch of Frost, Hogfather.    IMDb

David Warner (actor) -- Alive. Born July 29, 1941. Jack the Ripper in Time After Time, The Omen, played Hamlet for the Royal Shakespeare Company when he was 24.    IMDb

November 18 -- November 24

Gracie Allen (comic) -- Dead. Heart attack. Died August 27, 1964. Born July 26, 1895. Longtime comedy partner and wife of George Burns.    IMDb  FindAGrave

November 4 -- November 10

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

Roger Chaffee (astronaut) -- Dead. Apollo One fire. Died January 27, 1967. Born February 15, 1935. One of the few astronauts who never made it into space, died in the Apollo One pad fire.    IMDb  FindAGrave

Walt Disney (Movie maker/entrepreneur) -- Dead. Lung cancer. Died December 15, 1966. Born December 5, 1901. Cartoonist, animator, director and theme park developer, creator of Mickey Mouse.    IMDb  FindAGrave

William Frawley (actor) -- Dead. Heart attack. Died March 3, 1966. Born February 26, 1887. Fred in I Love Lucy.    IBDB  IMDb  FindAGrave

Gus Grissom (astronaut) -- Dead. Apollo One fire. Died January 27, 1967. Born April 3, 1926. An early Mercury astronaut, he was the first man to fly twice in space.    IMDb  FindAGrave

Gloria Henry (actress) -- Alive. Born April 2, 1923. Dennis' Mom in Dennis the Menace.  IMDb

Jim Henson (puppeteer) -- Dead. Bacterial pneumonia. Died May 16, 1990. Born September 24, 1936. Father of the Muppets, voice of Kermit and Ernie, Sammy Davis, Jr..    IBDB  IMDb  FindAGrave

Hedda Hopper (gossip columnist/actress) -- Dead. Pneumonia. Died February 1, 1966. Born May 2, 1885. Radio/newspaper gossiper who helped Joe McCarthy fight Hollywood "communists," mother of William Hopper, famous for her large hats and feud with Louella Parsons, Buster Keaton.  IBDB  IMDb  FindAGrave

Jackie Jackson (singer/songwriter) -- Alive. Born May 4, 1951. Oldest member of the Jackson 5.    IMDb

Janet Jackson (singer/dancer) -- Alive. Born May 16, 1966. Youngest Jackson, she broke out as a '70s TV actress before becoming a singer/dancer in the '80s.    IMDb

Jermaine Jackson (singer/songwriter) -- Alive. Born May 4, 1951. Member of the Jackson 5, produced The Jacksons: An American Dream, converted to Islam and lives in Dubai.    IMDb

La Toya Jackson (singer) -- Alive. Born May 29, 1956. The Jackson known for wearing hats.    IMDb

Marlon Jackson (entrepreuneur/singer) -- Alive. Born December 11, 1954. Member of the Jackson 5, later become a real estate agent, part owner of the Black Family Channel, the only Jackson sibling to stay married.  IMDb

Michael Jackson (singer/songwriter) -- Alive. Born August 29, 1958. Wildly eccentric performer, youngest member of the Jackson 5, one of the biggest performers of the '80s ("Thriller", "Billie Jean"), married briefly to Lisa Marie Presley, acquitted child molester.    IMDb

Tito Jackson (singer/guitarist) -- Alive. Born October 15, 1953. One of the Jackson 5.    IMDb

Buster Keaton (comic) -- Dead. Lung cancer. Died February 1, 1966. Born October 4, 1895. Silent movie star who'd grown up in vaudeville, last movie was A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum.    IMDb  FindAGrave

Vivien Leigh (actress) -- Dead. Tuberculosis. Died July 7, 1967. Born November 5, 1913. Stage and screen actress who won Oscars for Gone with the Wind and Streetcar Named Desire, second wife of Lawrence Olivier.    IBDB  IMDb  FindAGrave

Peter Lorre (actor) -- Dead. Stroke. Died March 23, 1964. Born June 26, 1904. Yet another Nazi escapee, appeared in M, The Maltese Falcon, and Casablanca, married for 11 years to Celia Lovsky.    IMDb  FindAGrave

Alan Osmond (singer) -- Alive. Born June 22, 1949. The leader of the Osmond Brothers, is one of nine children, he has eight sons (who sing as The Osmonds-the Second Generation), has multiple sclerosis.  IMDb

Donny Osmond (singer/actor) -- Alive. Born December 9, 1957. The second-youngest Osmond Brother, he co-hosted the Donny and Marie in the late '70s, starred in Joseph and the Amazing Technocolor Dreamcoat and played Gaston in Beauty and the Beast on Broadway, very popular in England, one of nine children, he has five sons and became a grandfather at 47 (to yet another boy).    IBDB  IMDb

Jay Osmond (singer) -- Alive. Born March 2, 1955. An Osmond Brother, is one of nine children, he has three sons.    IMDb

Jimmy Osmond (singer) -- Alive. Born April 16, 1963. The youngest Osmond Brother, he owns the Osmond Family Theater in Branson, he has two sons and two daughters.    IMDb

Marie Osmond (singer/actress) -- Alive. Born October 13, 1959. The sole Osmond sister, she co-hosted the Donny and Marie in the late '70s, performed in The King and I on Broadway, appeared on Dancing with the Stars, runs a dollmaking business, one of nine children, she has eight children.    IBDB  IMDb

Merrill Osmond (singer/writer) -- Alive. Born April 30, 1953. An Osmond Brother, he writes for television, he has six children.    IMDb

Wayne Osmond (singer) -- Alive. Born August 28, 1951. An Osmond Brother, he has five children.  IMDb

Louella Parsons (gossip writer) -- Dead. arteriosclerosis. Died December 9, 1972. Born August 6, 1881. Hollywood gossip columnist for the Hearst syndicate, famously feuded with her former protoge, Hedda Hopper.    IMDb  FindAGrave

Paul Rand (designer) -- Dead. Cancer. Died November 26, 1996. Born August 15, 1914. Designer who crafted ubiquitous logos for UPS, ABC, IBM and NeXT.  

Margaret Sanger (activist) -- Dead. . Died September 6, 1966. Born September 14, 1879. Sex education and birth control proponent, founder of the organization that later became Planned Parenthood.    IMDb  FindAGrave

Clifton Webb (actor) -- Dead. Heart attack. Died October 13, 1966. Born November 11, 1889. Movie and Broadway star, may be best-known for the Mr. Belvedere movies.  IBDB  IMDb  FindAGrave

Edward White (astronaut) -- Dead. Apollo One fire. Died January 27, 1967. Born November 14, 1930. A test pilot who flew on Gemini 4.    IMDb  FindAGrave

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