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Edward Arnold (1890-1956) —
also known as Gunther Edward Arnold Schneider —
of Encino, Los Angeles, Los Angeles
County, Calif.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., February
18, 1890.
Son of Carl Schneider and Elizabeth (Ohse) Schneider.
Republican. Actor;
appeared in more than 150 movies,
most during 1932-56; president,
Screen Actors Guild, 1940-42; candidate for Presidential Elector for
California, 1944.
German
ancestry. Member, Screen
Actors Guild.
Died, from a cerebral
hemorrhage, in Encino, Los Angeles, Los Angeles
County, Calif., April 26,
1956 (age 66 years, 68
days).
Interment at San
Fernando Mission Cemetery, San Fernando, Calif.
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Carlos Alan Autry (b. 1952) —
also known as Alan Autry; Carlos Brown —
of Fresno, Fresno
County, Calif.
Born in Shreveport, Caddo
Parish, La., July 31,
1952.
Son of Carl Autry and Verna (Brown) Autry.
Republican. Played pro
football for the Green Bay Packers in 1975-76; television and
movie actor;
mayor
of Fresno, Calif., 2001-09; radio news talk
show host.
Still living as of 2011.
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Roger Ward Babson (1875-1967) —
also known as Roger W. Babson; "The Seer of Wellesley
Hills" —
of Wellesley Hills, Wellesley, Norfolk
County, Mass.
Born in Gloucester, Essex
County, Mass., July 6,
1875.
Son of Nathaniel Babson (1850-1927) and Ellen (Stearns) Babson
(1850-1929).
Statistician;
economist;
Prohibition candidate for President
of the United States, 1940.
Congregationalist.
Member, American
Economic Association.
Author
of many books on business and religion; famed for predicting the 1929
stock market crash; founder
of Babson Institute (now Babson College), in Wellesley, Mass.; Webber
College (now Webber International University), in Babson Park, Fla.,
and Utopia College (now defunct), in Eureka, Kan.
Died in Mountain Lake, Polk
County, Fla., March 5,
1967 (age 91 years, 242
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Edward James Begley, Jr. (b. 1949) —
also known as Ed Begley, Jr. —
of Ojai, Ventura
County, Calif.
Born in Los Angeles, Los Angeles
County, Calif., September
16, 1949.
Son of Ed Begley (1901-1970; actor) and Allene Jeanne Sanders.
Democrat. Actor;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from California, 1988.
Still living as of 2009.
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Heywood Campbell Broun (1888-1939) —
also known as Heywood Broun —
of New York; Stamford, Fairfield
County, Conn.
Born in Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y., December
7, 1888.
Son of Heywood Cox Broun and Henriette (Brose) Broun.
Socialist. Candidate for U.S.
Representative from New York 17th District, 1930.
Catholic.
Member, American Civil
Liberties Union.
Sportswriter;
columnist
for New York newspapers;
founder of
the American Newspaper Guild in 1933 and its first president;
expelled from Socialist Party in 1933.
Died, of pneumonia,
in the Harkness Pavilion of the Columbia-Presbyterian Medical
Center, Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., December
18, 1939 (age 51 years, 11
days).
Interment at Gate
of Heaven Cemetery, Hawthorne, N.Y.
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William Frank Buckley, Jr. (1925-2008) —
also known as William F. Buckley, Jr. —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.; Stamford, Fairfield
County, Conn.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., November
24, 1925.
Son of William Frank Buckley, Sr. (1881-1958) and Aloise (Steiner)
Buckley.
Conservative. Served in the U.S. Army during World War II; candidate
for mayor
of New York City, N.Y., 1965.
Catholic.
Irish
and Swiss
ancestry. Member, Skull and
Bones.
Leader of the conservative movement; founder and editor of
National Review magazine;
author
and lecturer; host of television
news show "Firing Line"; recipient of the Presidential
Medal of Freedom on November 18, 1991.
Died, probably of diabetes
and emphysema,
in Stamford, Fairfield
County, Conn., February
27, 2008 (age 82 years, 95
days).
Cremated.
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Relatives: Son
of William Frank Buckley, Sr. (1881-1958) and Aloise (Steiner)
Buckley; brother of James
Lane Buckley and Patricia Lee Buckley (who married Leo
Brent Bozell); married 1950 to
Patricia Alden Austin Taylor (1926-2007). See Buckley
family of New York and Connecticut. |
| | | Cross-reference: Frederic
R. Coudert, Jr. |
| | | See also Wikipedia
article — NNDB
dossier — Internet Movie Database
profile — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
| | | Books by William F. Buckley, Jr.: Getting
It Right (2003) — God
and Man at Yale : The Superstitions of 'Academic Freedom'
(1951) — Spytime
: The Undoing of James Jesus Angleton (2000) — Nearer,
My God : An Autobiography of Faith (1997) — The
Lexicon : A Cornucopia of Wonderful Words for the Inquisitive Word
Lover (1998) — Airborne
: A Sentimental Journey (1984) — In
Search of Anti-Semitism (1992) — Brothers
No More (1995) — Up
From Liberalism (1959) — The
Committee and its critics : a calm review of the House Committee on
Un-American Activities (1962) — Elvis
in the Morning (2001) — Execution
eve, and other contemporary ballads (1975) — Four
reforms : a guide for the seventies (1973) — Gratitude
: reflections on what we owe to our country (1990) —
Nuremberg
: the reckoning (2002) — Overdrive
: a personal documentary (1983) — United
Nations Journal : A Delegate's Odyssey (1974) — The
unmaking of a mayor (1966) — Ronald
Reagan: An American Hero (2001) |
| | | Fiction by William F. Buckley, Jr.: Stained
Glass : A Blackford Oakes Novel (1978) — Marco
Polo, If You Can : A Blackford Oakes Mystery (1981) —
Saving
the Queen : A Blackford Oakes Mystery (1976) — See
You Later, Alligator : A Blackford Oakes Mystery
(1985) — Tucker's
Last Stand : A Blackford Oakes Mystery (1991) — Mongoose,
R.I.P. : A Blackford Oakes Mystery (1990) — A
Very Private Plot : A Blackford Oakes Mystery (1994) —
High
Jinx : A Blackford Oakes Mystery (1986) — Who's
on First : A Blackford Oakes Mystery (1980) — The
Redhunter : a novel based on the life of Senator Joe McCarthy
(1999) |
| | | Books about William F. Buckley, Jr.:
John B. Judis, William
F. Buckley, Jr.: Patron Saint of the
Conservatives |
| | | Critical books about William F. Buckley,
Jr.: David Miller, Chairman
Bill: A Biography of William F. Buckley, Jr. |
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Smedley Darlington Butler (1881-1940) —
also known as Smedley Butler; "The Fighting
Quaker"; "Old Gimlet Eye" —
of Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa.
Born in West Chester, Chester
County, Pa., July 30,
1881.
Son of Thomas
Stalker Butler and Maud Mary (Darlington) Butler.
Republican. Major general in U.S. Marine Corps; received a Medal
of Honor for the capture of Veracruz, Mexico, 1914; received
another for the capture of Fort Riviere, Haiti, 1915; Philadelphia police
commissioner, 1924-25; arrested
and court-martialed
in 1931 over his unauthorized
disclosure
of an incident unflattering to Italian dictator Italian Benito
Mussolini; retired from the service rather than apologize to
Mussolini; candidate in primary for U.S.
Senator from Pennsylvania, 1932.
Quaker.
Died in Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., June 21,
1940 (age 58 years, 327
days).
Interment at Oaklands
Cemetery, West Chester, Pa.
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Asa Griggs Candler (1851-1929) —
also known as Asa G. Candler —
of Atlanta, Fulton
County, Ga.
Born in Villa Rica, Carroll
County, Ga., December
30, 1851.
Son of Samuel
Charles Candler and Martha Bernetta (Beall) Candler (1819-1897).
Druggist;
founder of the Coca-Cola beverage
company; mayor of
Atlanta, Ga., 1917-19.
Died in Atlanta, Fulton
County, Ga., March 12,
1929 (age 77 years, 72
days).
Interment at Westview
Cemetery, Atlanta, Ga.
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James Fenimore Cooper (1789-1851) —
also known as Jane Morgan —
of Cooperstown, Otsego
County, N.Y.
Born in Burlington, Burlington
County, N.J., September
15, 1789.
Son of William
Cooper.
Novelist;
U.S. Consul in Lyon, 1826-28.
Died September
14, 1851 (age 61 years, 364
days).
Interment at Christ
Churchyard, Cooperstown, N.Y.; statue at Cooper
Garden, Cooperstown, N.Y.
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Clarence Seward Darrow (1857-1938) —
also known as Clarence S. Darrow —
of Chicago, Cook
County, Ill.
Born in Kinsman, Trumbull
County, Ohio, April 18,
1857.
Son of Amirus Darrow and Emily (Eddy) Darrow.
Democrat. Lawyer;
candidate for U.S.
Representative from Illinois, 1896; member of Illinois
state house of representatives 17th District, 1903-05; delegate
to Democratic National Convention from Illinois, 1904,
1924.
Member, American Civil
Liberties Union.
Defense attorney for, among many others, Patrick Eugene Prendergast,
who murdered Chicago mayor Carter
H. Harrison. In 1911, he was charged
with bribing
jurors in a California case; tried and
acquitted; a second trial
resulted in a hung jury. Famously cross-examined William
Jennings Bryan during the 1925 "Scopes Monkey Trial.".
Died in Chicago, Cook
County, Ill., March 13,
1938 (age 80 years, 329
days).
Cremated;
ashes scattered.
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Walter Elias Disney (1901-1966) —
also known as Walt Disney; "Uncle
Walt" —
of Los Angeles, Los Angeles
County, Calif.
Born in Chicago, Cook
County, Ill., December
5, 1901.
Son of Elias Disney (1859-1941) and Flora (Call) Disney (1868-1938).
Republican. Candidate for Presidential Elector for California, 1944.
Irish
ancestry.
Producer
or director
of several hundred films
from 1922 until the 1960s; creator and first voice of Mickey Mouse;
founder of Disney entertainment company and of Disneyland, the
world's first
theme park; recipient of the Presidential
Medal of Freedom on September 14, 1964. In honor of his
invention of the multiplane camera, he is an inductee to the National
Inventors Hall of
Fame.
Died, of lung
cancer, in Los Angeles, Los Angeles
County, Calif., December
15, 1966 (age 65 years, 10
days).
Cremated;
ashes interred at Forest
Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale, Calif.; statue erected 1993 at Disneyland,
Anaheim, Calif.
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Relatives:
Married, July 13,
1925, to Lillian Marie Bounds (1899-1997). |
| | | Cross-reference: George
J. Mitchell |
| | | See also Wikipedia
article — NNDB
dossier — Internet Movie Database
profile — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
| | | Books about Walt Disney: Richard
Schickel, The
Disney Version: The Life, Times, Art and Commerce of Walt
Disney — Leonard Mosley, Disney's
World: A Biography — Katherine Greene & Richard
Greene, The
Man Behind the Magic: The Story of Walt Disney — Bob
Thomas, Walt
Disney: An American Original — Jean-Pierre Isbouts, Discovering
Walt: The Magical Life of Walt Disney (for young
readers) |
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John Francis Dodge (1864-1920) —
also known as John F. Dodge —
of Detroit, Wayne
County, Mich.
Born in Niles, Berrien
County, Mich., October
25, 1864.
Son of Daniel Rugg Dodge and Maria Duval (Casto) Dodge.
Republican. Early automobile
manufacturer; made parts for Oldsmobile and Ford in the early
20th century; co-founder of Dodge Brothers Motor Car
Company in 1914, manufacturer of Dodge cars and trucks; the Dodge
operation became part of Chrysler Corporation in 1928; delegate to
Republican National Convention from Michigan, 1916.
Died in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., January
14, 1920 (age 55 years, 81
days).
Entombed at Woodlawn
Cemetery, Detroit, Mich.
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Relatives: Son
of Daniel Rugg Dodge and Maria Duval (Casto) Dodge; married, September
22, 1892, to Ivy Hawkins (died 1901); married, December
9, 1903, to Isabelle Smith (divorced 1907); married, December
10, 1907, to Matilda
Rausch; uncle of Horace
Elgin Dodge, Jr.. See Biddle-Read-Shippen-MacArthur
family of Pennsylvania. |
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James Buchanan Duke (1856-1925) —
also known as James B. Duke; "Buck";
"Tobacco King" —
of Somerville, Somerset
County, N.J.
Born near Durham, Durham
County, N.C., December
23, 1856.
Son of Washington Duke (1820-1905).
Republican. Organizer and president, American Tobacco
Company, which monopolized the tobacco
industry until it was broken up in 1911; organizer of electric
power companies; delegate to Republican National Convention from
New Jersey, 1904.
Left a large trust fund which supported Duke University.
Died, of bronchial
pneumonia, in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., October
10, 1925 (age 68 years, 291
days).
Entombed at Duke
University Chapel, Durham, N.C.
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George Eastman (1854-1932) —
of Rochester, Monroe
County, N.Y.
Born in Waterville, Oneida
County, N.Y., July 12,
1854.
Son of George Washington Eastman (1815-1862) and Maria (Kilbourn)
Eastman (1821-1907).
Republican. Inventor;
founder, Eastman Kodak Company; philanthropist; alternate delegate to
Republican National Convention from New York, 1928.
English
ancestry.
Died from a self-inflicted
gunshot,
in Rochester, Monroe
County, N.Y., March 14,
1932 (age 77 years, 246
days). His suicide
note was just six words: "My work is done. Why wait?".
Interment at Kodak
Park, Rochester, N.Y.
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Clinton Eastwood, Jr. (b. 1930) —
also known as Clint Eastwood —
of Pebble Beach, Monterey
County, Calif.; Carmel-by-the-Sea, Monterey
County, Calif.
Born in St. Mary's Hospital,
San
Francisco, Calif., May 31,
1930.
Son of Clinton Eastwood, Sr. and Margaret Ruth (Runner) Eastwood.
Republican. Movie
actor, producer,
director;
restaurant
and hotel
owner; delegate to Republican National Convention from California, 1972;
mayor, Carmel-by-the-Sea, California, 1986-88.
Scottish,
Irish,
Dutch,
and English
ancestry.
Still living as of 2009.
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Chad Everett (b. 1936) —
also known as Raymond Lee Cramton —
Born in South Bend, St. Joseph
County, Ind., June 11,
1936.
Son of Harry Clyde Cramton and Virdeen Ruth (Hopper) Cramton.
Republican. Actor;
speaker, Republican National Convention, 1972.
Still living as of 2009.
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Glenn Ford (1916-2006) —
also known as Gwyllyn Samuel Newton Ford —
Born in Quebec City, Quebec,
May 1,
1916.
Son of Newton Ford and Hannah Ford.
Republican. Naturalized U.S. citizen; served in the U.S. Marine Corps
during World War II; film and television actor
in dozens of roles; speaker, Republican National Convention, 1972.
Welsh
and English
ancestry.
Died in Beverly Hills, Los Angeles
County, Calif., August
30, 2006 (age 90 years, 121
days).
Interment at Woodlawn
Cemetery, Santa Monica, Calif.
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Relatives: Son
of Newton Ford and Hannah Ford; married, October
23, 1943, to Eleanor Powell (divorced 1959); married, March 27,
1966, to Kathryn Hays (divorced 1969); married, September
10, 1977, to Cynthia Hayward (divorced 1984); married, March 5,
1993, to Jeanne Baus (divorced 1994). |
| | | See also Wikipedia
article — NNDB
dossier — Internet Movie Database
profile — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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Henry Ford (1863-1947) —
of Dearborn, Wayne
County, Mich.
Born in Greenfield Township (now part of Detroit), Wayne
County, Mich., July 30,
1863.
Son of William Ford (1826-1905) and Mary (Litogot) Ford
(c.1839-1876).
Engineer;
inventor;
founder, Ford Motor
Company, 1903; candidate for Republican nomination for President,
1916;
Democratic candidate for U.S.
Senator from Michigan, 1918.
Episcopalian.
Scotch-Irish
and Belgian
ancestry. Member, Freemasons;
Scottish
Rite Masons; Sigma
Alpha Epsilon.
Publisher, in 1919-27, of the Dearborn Independent newspaper,
which promoted anti-Semitic
ideas through articles such as "The International Jew: The World's
Problem," which were reprinted as pamphlets and books. In 1927, a libel
lawsuit against Ford over these writings led him to shut down
the paper and publicly recant
its contents.
Died, from a stroke, in
Dearborn, Wayne
County, Mich., April 7,
1947 (age 83 years, 251
days).
Interment at Ford
Cemetery, Detroit, Mich.
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Relatives: Son
of William Ford (1826-1905) and Mary (Litogot) Ford (c.1839-1876);
married, April 11,
1888, to Clara Jane Bryant (1866-1950); uncle of Clarence
M. Ford. |
| | | Cross-reference: James
Couzens — Herman
Bernstein — Alfred
J. Murphy — Martin
C. Ansorge |
| | | Personal motto:
"Efficiency." |
| | | See also Wikipedia
article — NNDB
dossier — Internet Movie Database
profile |
| | | Books about Henry Ford: Douglas
Brinkley, Wheels
for the World : Henry Ford, His Company, and a Century of Progress,
1903-2003 — William A. Levinson, Henry
Ford's Lean Vision — Pat McCarthy, Henry
Ford : Building Cars for Everyone (for young
readers) — David Weitzman, Model
T : How Henry Ford Built a Legend (for young
readers) |
| | | Critical books about Henry Ford: Max
Wallace, The
American Axis : Henry Ford, Charles Lindbergh, and the Rise of the
Third Reich — Neil Baldwin, Henry
Ford and the Jews : The Mass Production of Hate |
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Al Franken (b. 1951) —
also known as Alan Stuart Franken; "Stuart
Smalley" —
of Minneapolis, Hennepin
County, Minn.
Born in New York City (unknown
county), N.Y., May 21,
1951.
Son of Joseph P. Franken and Phoebe (Kunst) Franken.
Comedian;
author;
U.S.
Senator from Minnesota, 2009-.
Jewish.
Still living as of 2009.
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Betty Friedan (1921-2006) —
also known as Bettye Naomi Goldstein —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Peoria, Peoria
County, Ill., February
4, 1921.
Daughter of Harry Goldstein and Miriam (Horowitz) Goldstein.
Democrat. University
professor; delegate to Democratic National Convention from New
York, 1984.
Female.
Jewish
and Russian
ancestry. Member, National
Organization for Women; Phi
Beta Kappa.
Elected to National Women's Hall of
Fame.
Died, of heart
failure, in Washington,
D.C., February
4, 2006 (age 85 years, 0
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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John Kenneth Galbraith (1908-2006) —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.; Cambridge, Middlesex
County, Mass.
Born in Iona Station, Ontario,
October
15, 1908.
Son of William Archibald 'Archie' Galbraith and Catherine (Kendall)
Galbraith.
Democrat. Naturalized U.S. citizen; economist;
university
professor; U.S. Ambassador to India, 1961-63; delegate to Democratic National Convention from
Massachusetts, 1972.
Scottish
ancestry. Member, Americans
for Democratic Action; American
Economic Association; American
Academy of Arts and Sciences; American
Philosophical Society.
Received the Medal
of Freedom in 1946, and again in 2000.
Died, of pneumonia,
in Mt. Auburn Hospital,
Cambridge, Middlesex
County, Mass., April 29,
2006 (age 97 years, 196
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Bernard Hugo Goetz (b. 1947) —
also known as Bernard H. Goetz; Bernhard Goetz;
"Subway Vigilante" —
of New York City (unknown
county), N.Y.
Born in Queens, Queens
County, N.Y., November
7, 1947.
Fusion candidate for mayor
of New York City, N.Y., 2001.
German
and Jewish
ancestry.
On December 22, 1984, he shot
and wounded four young men who were about to rob him, and
subsequently fled
to New England, until he turned
himself in at Concord, N.H.; arraigned
on attempted
murder, assault,
and weapons
charges;
convicted
only for carrying an
unlicensed gun; sentenced
to one year in jail;
served eight months.
Still living as of 2009.
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Billy Graham (b. 1918) —
also known as William Franklin Graham, Jr.; "America's
Pastor" —
Born near Charlotte, Mecklenburg
County, N.C., November
7, 1918.
Son of William Franklin Graham (1888-1962) and Morrow (Coffey) Graham
(1892-1981).
Minister;
famed evangelist; speaker, Republican National Convention, 1980 ;
speaker, Democratic National Convention, 1988.
Baptist.
Still living as of 2009.
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Bret Harte (1836-1902) —
also known as Francis Brett Hart —
of London, England.
Born in Albany, Albany
County, N.Y., August
25, 1836.
Son of Henry Hart and Elizabeth (Ostrander) Hart.
Writer;
editor;
U.S. Consul in Crefeld, 1878-80; Glasgow, 1880-85.
English
and Dutch
ancestry.
Died in Camberley, England,
May 2,
1902 (age 65 years, 250
days).
Interment at St.
Peter's Churchyard, Frimley, Surrey, England.
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Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864) —
also known as Nathaniel Hathorne —
of Concord, Middlesex
County, Mass.
Born in Salem, Essex
County, Mass., July 4,
1804.
Son of Nathaniel Hathorne.
Famed novelist
and short story writer; U.S. Surveyor of Customs,
1846-49; U.S. Consul in Liverpool, 1853-57.
English
ancestry.
Died in Plymouth, Grafton
County, N.H., May 19,
1864 (age 59 years, 320
days).
Interment at Sleepy
Hollow Cemetery, Concord, Mass.; statue at Hawthorne
Boulevard, Salem, Mass.
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William Randolph Hearst (1863-1951) —
also known as "The Chief" —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.; Beverly Hills, Los Angeles
County, Calif.
Born in San
Francisco, Calif., April 29,
1863.
Son of George
Hearst and Phoebe (Apperson) Hearst.
Democratic candidate for Presidential Elector for New York, 1896;
U.S.
Representative from New York 11th District, 1903-07; candidate
for Democratic nomination for President, 1904;
candidate for mayor
of New York City, N.Y., 1905 (Municipal Ownership), 1909;
Democratic candidate for Governor of
New York, 1906; Independence League candidate for Lieutenant
Governor of New York, 1910.
Newspaper
publishing magnate; movie
producer in 1951-21; the film
Citizen Kane is based on his life.
Died in Beverly Hills, Los Angeles
County, Calif., August
14, 1951 (age 88 years, 107
days).
Entombed in mausoleum at Cypress
Lawn Memorial Park, Colma, Calif.
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Robert Welch Herrick (1868-1938) —
also known as Robert Herrick —
Born in Cambridge, Middlesex
County, Mass., April 21,
1868.
Son of William Augustus Herrick.
Novelist;
university
professor; secretary
of the U.S. Virgin Islands, 1935-38; Governor of
U.S. Virgin Islands, 1935.
Died, from a heart
attack, in Charlotte Amalie, St. Thomas, Virgin
Islands, December
23, 1938 (age 70 years, 246
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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William Dean Howells (1837-1920) —
of Ohio; Cambridge, Middlesex
County, Mass.; Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass.; New York, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Martins Ferry, Belmont
County, Ohio, March 1,
1837.
Son of William Cooper Howells and Mary (Dean) Howells.
U.S. Consul in Rome, 1861; Venice, 1861-65; author;
editor, Atlantic Monthly magazine,
1872-81.
Died, of pneumonia,
in New York, New York
County, N.Y., May 11,
1920 (age 83 years, 71
days).
Interment at Cambridge
Cemetery, Cambridge, Mass.
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Samuel Insull (1859-1938) —
of Chicago, Cook
County, Ill.; Kenilworth, Cook
County, Ill.; near Libertyville, Lake
County, Ill.
Born in London, England,
November
11, 1859.
Son of Samuel Insull and Emma (Short) Insull.
Republican. Associate of Thomas Edison and executive of electric
utilities; one of the founders of the company that became General
Electric; also had major holdings in railroads;
alternate delegate to Republican National Convention from Illinois,
1904;
when his utility holding company collapsed, wiping out the
stockholders, he fled
the country; indicted
in 1932 on fraud and
embezzlement
charges;
ultimately extradited
from Turkey in 1934; tried in
Chicago and found not guilty.
Congregationalist.
Member, Union
League.
Died from a heart
attack, in the Place de la Concorde station
on the Paris Métro subway system, Paris, France,
July
16, 1938 (age 78 years, 247
days).
Interment at Putney
Vale Cemetery, London, England.
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Washington Irving (1783-1859) —
of New York.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., April 3,
1783.
U.S. Minister to Spain, 1842-46.
essayist;
historian;
author
of The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and other stories; elected to
the Hall
of Fame for Great Americans in 1900.
Died in Tarrytown, Westchester
County, N.Y., November
28, 1859 (age 76 years, 239
days).
Interment at Sleepy
Hollow Cemetery, Sleepy Hollow, N.Y.
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Casey Kasem (b. 1932) —
also known as Kemal Amin Kazem —
of Beverly Hills, Los Angeles
County, Calif.
Born in Detroit, Wayne
County, Mich., April 27,
1932.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during the Korean conflict; radio disc
jockey; actor;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from California, 1988.
Druze.
Lebanese
and Palestinian
ancestry.
Still living as of 2009.
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Garrison Keillor (b. 1942) —
also known as Gary Edward Keillor —
of St. Paul, Ramsey
County, Minn.
Born in Anoka, Anoka
County, Minn., August 7,
1942.
Son of John Philip Keillor and Grace Ruth (Denham) Keillor.
Democrat. Writer; radio show
host; comedian;
speaker, Democratic National Convention, 1988 ;
inducted into the Radio Hall of
Fame in 1994.
Scottish
ancestry.
Still living as of 2009.
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Francis Scott Key (1779-1843) —
of District of Columbia.
Born in Carroll
County, Md., August 1,
1779.
Son of John Ross Key (1754-1821) and Ann (Charlton) Key.
Lawyer;
U.S.
Attorney for the District of Columbia, 1833-41.
During the war of 1812, while on a mission to obtain the release of a
prisoner from British forces, witnessed the bombardment of Fort
McHenry from the deck of the British ship Surprise; that
night, September 13-14, 1814, he wrote a poem "The Spangled Banner".
The poem was published soon afterward, rapidly gained popularity, and
became the lyrics to the U.S. national anthem.
Died, from pleurisy, in
Baltimore,
Md., January
11, 1843 (age 63 years, 163
days).
Originally entombed at Old
St. Paul's Cemetery, Baltimore, Md.; later interred in 1866 at Mt.
Olivet Cemetery, Frederick, Md.; memorial monument at Golden
Gate Park, San Francisco, Calif.
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Coretta Scott King (1927-2006) —
also known as Coretta Scott —
of Montgomery, Montgomery
County, Ala.
Born in Heiberger, Perry
County, Ala., April 27,
1927.
Daughter of Obediah Scott (1899-1998) and Bernice (McMurray) Scott
(1904-1996).
Democrat. Speaker, Democratic National Convention, 1984,
1988.
Female.
African
ancestry.
Died in Playas de Rosarito, Baja
California, January
30, 2006 (age 78 years, 278
days).
Entombed at King
Center Grounds, Atlanta, Ga.
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Alice Lee Roosevelt Longworth (1884-1980) —
also known as Alice Roosevelt Longworth; Alice Lee
Roosevelt; "Princess Alice" —
of Washington,
D.C.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., February
12, 1884.
Daughter of Theodore
Roosevelt and Alice Hathaway (Lee) Roosevelt (1861-1884).
Republican. Delegate to Republican National Convention from Ohio, 1936,
1940;
newspaper
columnist.
Female.
Died, from pneumonia,
emphysema,
and cardiac
arrest, in Washington,
D.C., February
20, 1980 (age 96 years, 8
days).
Cremated;
ashes interred at Rock
Creek Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
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Relatives:
Second cousin four times removed of Nicholas
Roosevelt, Jr.; great-grandniece of James
I. Roosevelt; grandniece of Robert
Barnwell Roosevelt; daughter of Theodore
Roosevelt and Alice Hathaway (Lee) Roosevelt (1861-1884);
married, February
17, 1906, to Nicholas
Longworth; first cousin of Anna
Eleanor Roosevelt, Corinne
Robinson Alsop and William
Sheffield Cowles; half-sister of Theodore
Roosevelt, Jr.; first cousin once removed of James
Roosevelt, Elliott
Roosevelt and Franklin
Delano Roosevelt, Jr.. See Livingston-Seymour-Lee-Williams
family of New York. |
| | | See also Wikipedia
article — NNDB
dossier — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
| | | Books about Alice Roosevelt Longworth:
Carol Felsenthal, Princess
Alice: The Life and Times of Alice Roosevelt
Longworth |
| | | Image source: Time magazine, February
7, 1927 |
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Clare Boothe Luce (1903-1987) —
also known as Ann Clare Boothe —
of Greenwich, Fairfield
County, Conn.; Ridgefield, Fairfield
County, Conn.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., April 10,
1903.
Daughter of William Franklin Boothe (1862-1928) and Anna Clara Snyder
(1882-1938; killed in an automobile-train accident in Miami, Fla.).
Republican. Writer; journalist;
playwright;
U.S.
Representative from Connecticut 4th District, 1943-47; delegate
to Republican National Convention from Connecticut, 1944,
1948
(speaker),
1952;
U.S. Ambassador to Italy, 1953-56.
Female.
Catholic.
Received the Presidential
Medal of Freedom in 1983.
Died, from a brain
tumor, in Washington,
D.C., October
9, 1987 (age 84 years, 182
days).
Interment at Mepkin
Abbey, Moncks Corner, S.C.
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Relatives:
Daughter of William Franklin Boothe (1862-1928) and Anna Clara Snyder
(1882-1938; killed in an automobile-train accident in Miami, Fla.);
step-daughter of Albert
Elmer Austin; married, August
10, 1923, to George Tuttle Brokaw (1879-1935; divorced 1929);
married, November
23, 1935, to Henry Robinson Luce (1898-1967; founder and
publisher of Time, Life, and other magazines); mother
of Ann Clare Brokaw (1924-1944; killed in an automobile accident in
Palo Alto, Calif.). |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Wikipedia
article — NNDB
dossier — Internet Movie Database
profile — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
| | | Books about Clare Boothe Luce: Sylvia
Morris, Rage
for Fame : The Ascent of Clare Boothe Luce — Stephen
C. Shadegg, Clare
Boothe Luce: a biography — Joseph Lyons, Clare
Boothe Luce: Author and Diplomat (for young
readers) |
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Shirley MacLaine (b. 1934) —
also known as Shirley MacLean Beaty —
of Encino, Los Angeles, Los Angeles
County, Calif.
Born in Richmond,
Va., April 24,
1934.
Daughter of Owens Beaty and Kathryn Beaty.
Democrat. Actress;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from California, 1972.
Female.
English,
Irish,
and Scottish
ancestry.
Still living as of 2009.
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Norman Kingsley Mailer (1923-2007) —
also known as Norman Mailer —
of Brooklyn, Kings
County, N.Y.
Born in Long Branch, Monmouth
County, N.J., January
31, 1923.
Son of Isaac Barnett 'Barney' Mailer and Fanny (Schneider) Mailer.
Served in the U.S. Army during World War II; novelist,
essayist,
magazine
editor, Hollywood
screenwriter,
director,
and actor;
among the founders of the Village Voice newspaper
in New York City, 1954-55; arrested
and jailed in
1967 in connection with an antiwar
protest; candidate for mayor
of New York City, N.Y., 1969.
Jewish
ancestry.
Won the Pulitzer
Prize for nonfiction in 1969 and for fiction in 1980.
Died, from acute renal
failure, in Mount Sinai Hospital,
Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., November
10, 2007 (age 84 years, 283
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Horace Mann (1796-1859) —
of Massachusetts.
Born in Franklin, Norfolk
County, Mass., May 4,
1796.
Lawyer;
member of Massachusetts
state house of representatives; member of Massachusetts
state senate; U.S.
Representative from Massachusetts 8th District, 1848-53; Free
Soil candidate for Governor of
Massachusetts, 1852.
Leader in achieving major reforms of public schools; elected to the
Hall
of Fame for Great Americans in 1900.
Died in Yellow Springs, Greene
County, Ohio, August 2,
1859 (age 63 years, 90
days).
Interment at North
Burial Ground, Providence, R.I.
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William Henry Mauldin (1921-2003) —
also known as Bill Mauldin —
of New York.
Born in Mountain Park, Otero
County, N.M., October
29, 1921.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during World War II; Cartoonist,
starting in the Army during World War II; worked as an editorial
cartoonist for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and the Chicago Sun-Times
newspapers,
winning the Pulitzer
Prize for editorial cartooning in 1945 and 1959; appeared as an
actor
in two 1951 movies: Teresa and The Red Badge of
Courage; candidate for U.S.
Representative from New York 28th District, 1956.
Died, from complications of Alzheimer's
disease and pneumonia,
in a nursing
home at Newport Beach, Orange
County, Calif., January
22, 2003 (age 81 years, 85
days).
Interment at Arlington
National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
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Louis Burt Mayer (1884-1957) —
also known as Louis B. Mayer; Lazar Meir —
of Haverhill, Essex
County, Mass.; Santa Monica, Los Angeles
County, Calif.
Born in Dymer, Russia (now Ukraine),
July
12, 1884.
Son of Jacob Mayer and Sarah (Meltzer) Mayer.
Republican. Owned movie
theaters in New England; moved into the movie
production business starting in 1916; head of the
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) movie
studio, 1924-51; delegate to Republican National Convention from
California, 1928,
1932;
vice-chair
of California Republican Party, 1931-32; California
Republican state chair, 1932-33.
Jewish.
Member, Freemasons;
Shriners.
Died, of leukemia
and a kidney
infection, in Los Angeles, Los Angeles
County, Calif., October
29, 1957 (age 73 years, 109
days).
Entombed in mausoleum at Home
of Peace Cemetery, Los Angeles, Calif.
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Relatives: Son
of Jacob Mayer and Sarah (Meltzer) Mayer; married, June 14,
1903, to Margaret Shenberg (divorced 1944) and Margaret
Shenberg (1883-1955); married, December
4, 1948, to Lorena L. Danker; father of Irene Gladys Mayer
(1907-1990; who married David
Oliver Selznick) and Edith 'Edie' Mayer (who married William
Goetz). See Mayer
family of California. |
| | | Cross-reference: Dore
Schary |
| | | See also Wikipedia
article — Internet Movie Database
profile |
| | | Books about Louis B. Mayer: Charles
Higham, Merchant
of Dreams: Louis B. Mayer, MGM, and the Secret
Hollywood — Gary Carey, All
the stars in heaven : Louis B. Mayer's MGM — Diana
Altman, Hollywood
East: Louis B. Mayer and the Origins of the Studio
System — Charles Higham, The
Merchant of Dreams: A Biography of Louis B. Mayer |
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William Worrall Mayo (1819-1911) —
of Rochester, Olmsted
County, Minn.
Born in Eccles, Lancashire (now Greater Manchester), England,
May
31, 1819.
Democrat. Physician;
founder of the medical practice and hospital
which became the Mayo Clinic; mayor
of Rochester, Minn., 1882-83; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from Minnesota, 1888
(member, Credentials
Committee).
Episcopalian.
English
ancestry.
Died March 6,
1911 (age 91 years, 279
days).
Interment at Oakwood
Cemetery, Rochester, Minn.
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Michael Moore (b. 1954) —
of Flint, Genesee
County, Mich.
Born in Flint, Genesee
County, Mich., April 23,
1954.
Elected to Davison school board at age 18; founder and publisher
of the Flint Voice alternative newspaper,
which later became the Michigan Voice; Citizens candidate for
Presidential Elector for Michigan, 1984;
editor, Mother Jones magazine;
directed
and appeared in Roger and Me and other movie
documentaries; host of the 1994-95 television
series "TV Nation".
Irish
ancestry.
Still living as of 2009.
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Samuel Finley Breese Morse (1791-1872) —
also known as Samuel F. B. Morse —
of New York.
Born in Charlestown, Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., April 27,
1791.
Son of Jedidiah Morse.
Artist;
inventor
of the telegraph;
candidate for mayor
of New York City, N.Y., 1841; candidate for U.S.
Representative from New York 12th District, 1854.
Died, of pneumonia,
in New York, New York
County, N.Y., April 2,
1872 (age 80 years, 341
days).
Interment at Green-Wood
Cemetery, Brooklyn, N.Y.
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Paul Leonard Newman (1925-2008) —
also known as Paul Newman; "King
Cool" —
of Westport, Fairfield
County, Conn.
Born in Shaker Heights, Cuyahoga
County, Ohio, January
26, 1925.
Son of Arthur Samuel Newman and Theresa (Fetzer) Newman.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; American actor
and film
director; delegate to Democratic National Convention from
Connecticut, 1968;
created the Newman's Own line of salad dressing
and other food
products, with all profits donated to charity.
Slovak
and Jewish
ancestry. Member, Phi
Kappa Tau.
Died, of lung
cancer, in Westport, Fairfield
County, Conn., September
26, 2008 (age 83 years, 244
days).
Cremated.
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Oliver Laurence North (b. 1943) —
also known as Oliver L. North; Ollie North —
of Virginia.
Born in San Antonio, Bexar
County, Tex., October
7, 1943.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Marine Corps during the Vietnam War;
central figure in the Iran-Contra scandal
of 1986; he was in charge of a secret (and illegal) government
operation to sell
weapons to Iran and provide the profits to the then-unrecognized
Nicaraguan "contras", who were fighting a civil war against the
"Sandinista" government there; convicted
in 1989 on federal charges of obstructing
Congress, destroying documents, and accepting an illegal
gratuity; an appeals court later overturned the guilty verdict;
candidate for U.S.
Senator from Virginia, 1994; host of a radio talk
show in 1995-2003, and is a television
commentator.
Member, National Rifle
Association.
Still living as of 2009.
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Presley Neville O'Bannon (1776-1850) —
also known as "The Hero of Deme" —
of Logan
County, Ky.
Born in Fauquier
County, Va., 1776.
During the war against the Barbary pirates, as lieutenant, he led a
detachment of U.S. Marines and assorted mercenaries to Deme, in North
Africa, in 1805, to rescue an American crew held captive by the Pasha
of Tripoli; the words "to the shores of Tripoli" in the Marine Hymn
commemorate these events; member of Kentucky state legislature.
Two warships were named for
him.
Died September
12, 1850 (age about 74
years).
Original interment in unknown location; reinterment in 1919 at Frankfort
Cemetery, Frankfort, Ky.
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Ransom Eli Olds (1864-1950) —
also known as Ransom E. Olds —
of Lansing, Ingham
County, Mich.
Born in Geneva, Ashtabula
County, Ohio, June 3,
1864.
Son of Pliny Fisk Olds and Sarah (Whipple) Olds.
Republican. Delegate to Republican National Convention from Michigan,
1908.
Baptist.
Member, Freemasons;
Knights
Templar; Shriners.
Founder in 1897 of Olds Motor
Vehicle Company, maker of the first
commercially successful American-made automobile.
Founder in 1905 of the REO Motor Car
Company. Later the Olds company became the Oldsmobile division of General
Motors, and Reo became part of truck
manufacturer Diamond Reo. Also owner of several hotels.
Died in Lansing, Ingham
County, Mich., August
26, 1950 (age 86 years, 84
days).
Entombed at Mt.
Hope Cemetery, Lansing, Mich.
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David Packard (1912-1996) —
of Palo Alto, Santa Clara
County, Calif.
Born in Pueblo, Pueblo
County, Colo., September
7, 1912.
Son of Sperry Sidney Packard and Ella Lorna (Graber) Packard.
Republican. Co-founder and chief executive, Hewlett-Packard
electronics and computer
company; U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense, 1969-71; director, Pacific
Gas &
Electric Co., Crocker-Citizens National Bank,
General Dynamics Corp., U.S. Steel Corp.,
Trans World Airways,
Standard Oil of
California, Caterpillar Tractor
Co.; delegate to Republican National Convention from California, 1972;
Presidential Elector for California, 1972;
philanthropist.
Member, Trilateral
Commission; Alpha
Delta Phi; Tau Beta
Pi; Sigma
Xi; Phi
Beta Kappa.
Died, in Stanford University Hospital,
Palo Alto, Santa Clara
County, Calif., March 26,
1996 (age 83 years, 201
days).
Interment at Alta
Mesa Memorial Park, Palo Alto, Calif.
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John Joseph Pershing (1860-1948) —
also known as John J. Pershing; "Black
Jack" —
of Washington,
D.C.
Born in Laclede, Linn
County, Mo., September
13, 1860.
Son of John F. Pershing and Anne E. (Thompson) Pershing.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Army during the Spanish-American War;
general in the U.S. Army during World War I; candidate for Republican
nomination for President, 1920;
his autobiography won the Pulitzer
Prize for history in 1932.
Member, Freemasons.
Died in Washington,
D.C., July 15,
1948 (age 87 years, 306
days).
Interment at Arlington
National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
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Joel Roberts Poinsett (1779-1851) —
of Travelers Rest, Greenville
County, S.C.; Charleston, Charleston District (now Charleston
County), S.C.
Born in Charleston, Charleston
County, S.C., March 2,
1779.
Democrat. U.S. Consul General in Buenos Aires, 1811-14; member of South
Carolina state house of representatives, 1816-20; U.S.
Representative from South Carolina 1st District, 1821-25; U.S.
Minister to Mexico, 1825-29; U.S.
Secretary of War, 1837-41.
Member, Freemasons.
Gave important help to Latin American independence movements. The
poinsettia flower, which he introduced to the U.S., was named for
him.
Died near Statesburg, Sumter
County, S.C., December
12, 1851 (age 72 years, 285
days).
Interment at Church
of Holy Cross Episcopal Cemetery, Statesburg, S.C.
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Christopher D'Olier Reeve (1952-2004) —
also known as Christopher Reeve —
Born in New York City (unknown
county), N.Y., September
25, 1952.
Son of Franklin D'Olier Reeve and Barbara Pitney (Lamb) Reeve.
Democrat. Actor;
paralyzed
in a horseback-riding accident in 1995; speaker, Democratic National Convention, 1996.
Died, from heart
failure while being treated for an infection,
in Northern Westchester Hospital,
Mt. Kisco, Westchester
County, N.Y., October
10, 2004 (age 52 years, 15
days).
Cremated;
ashes scattered.
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Carl Thomas Rowan (1925-2000) —
also known as Carl T. Rowan —
of Washington,
D.C.
Born in Ravenscroft, White
County, Tenn., August
11, 1925.
Served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; U.S. Ambassador to Finland, 1963-64.
African
ancestry. Member, Americans
for Democratic Action.
Widely syndicated newspaper
columnist,
author,
biographer,
television
and radio
commentator, founder of the Project Excellence scholarship program.
In 1988, he shot
and wounded an intruder in his backyard in Washington, D.C.; he
was arrested,
charged
with a weapons
violation, and tried;
the jury was unable to reach a verdict, and a mistrial was declared.
Died, of heart and
kidney
ailments and diabetes,
at the Washington Hospital
Center, Washington,
D.C., September
23, 2000 (age 75 years, 43
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Upton Beall Sinclair (1878-1968) —
also known as Upton Sinclair —
of California.
Born in Baltimore,
Md., September
20, 1878.
Novelist
and social crusader; author of
The Jungle, about the meat-packing industry in Chicago; arrested
in 1914 for picketing
in front of the Standard Oil Building in New York; Socialist
candidate for U.S.
Representative from California 10th District, 1920; Socialist
candidate for U.S.
Senator from California, 1922; candidate for Governor of
California, 1926 (Socialist), 1934 (Democratic); Socialist
candidate for Presidential Elector for California, 1928,
1932;
received the Pulitzer
Prize for fiction in 1943 for the novel
Dragon's Teeth.
Member, United
World Federalists; League
for Industrial Democracy; American Civil
Liberties Union.
Died in Bound Brook, Somerset
County, N.J., November
25, 1968 (age 90 years, 66
days).
Interment at Rock
Creek Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
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Benjamin McLaine Spock (1903-1998) —
also known as Benjamin Spock —
Born in New Haven, New Haven
County, Conn., May 2,
1903.
Son of Benjamin Ives Spock and Mildred Louise (Stoughton) Spock.
Won an Olympic
gold medal in rowing at the 1924 Paris games; physician;
served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; author of
influential book, Baby and Child Care; People's candidate for
President
of the United States, 1972; People's candidate for Vice
President of the United States, 1976.
Member, United
World Federalists.
Died in La Jolla, San Diego
County, Calif., March 15,
1998 (age 94 years, 317
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Gerald Norman Springer (b. 1944) —
also known as Jerry Springer; "Sultan of
Salaciousness" —
of Cincinnati, Hamilton
County, Ohio.
Born in London, England,
February
13, 1944.
Democrat. Resigned
from Cincinnati city council in 1974 after admitting he paid
a prostitute with a personal check, which was found in a police
raid on a massage parlor; won back his council seat in 1975 and went
on to become mayor; mayor
of Cincinnati, Ohio, 1977-78; candidate in primary for Governor of
Ohio, 1982; local television news
anchor; host of a raucus national television talk
show; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Ohio, 2004.
Jewish.
Member, Tau
Epsilon Phi.
Still living as of 2009.
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Amasa Leland Stanford (1824-1893) —
also known as Leland Stanford —
of San
Francisco, Calif.
Born in Watervliet, Albany
County, N.Y., March 9,
1824.
Son of Josiah Stanford and Elizabeth (Phillips) Stanford.
Republican. Lawyer; merchant;
builder and president, Central Pacific Railroad;
founder
of Stanford University; Governor of
California, 1862-63; defeated, 1859; U.S.
Senator from California, 1885-93; died in office 1893.
Member, Freemasons.
Died in Palo Alto, Santa Clara
County, Calif., June 21,
1893 (age 69 years, 104
days).
Entombed at Stanford
University, Palo Alto, Calif.
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Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815-1902) —
also known as Elizabeth Cady —
of Seneca Falls, Seneca
County, N.Y.; Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Johnstown, Fulton
County, N.Y., November
12, 1815.
Daughter of Daniel
Cady and Margaret Chinn (Livingston) Cady.
Candidate for U.S.
Representative from New York, 1868.
Female.
Died, of heart
failure, in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., October
26, 1902 (age 86 years, 348
days).
Interment at Woodlawn
Cemetery, Bronx, N.Y.
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James Maitland Stewart (1908-1997) —
also known as Jimmy Stewart —
Born in Indiana, Indiana
County, Pa., May 20,
1908.
Son of Alexander Maitland Stewart and Ruth (Jackson) Stewart.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Army Air Force in World War II; one of
America's most famous film
actors; speaker, Republican National Convention, 1972.
Scottish
ancestry. Member, Moose.
Recipient, Medal
of Freedom, 1985.
Died, from pulmonary
embolism and cardiac
arrest, in Beverly Hills, Los Angeles
County, Calif., July 2,
1997 (age 89 years, 43
days).
Interment at Forest
Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale, Calif.
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John Leonard Swigert, Jr. (1931-1982) —
also known as Jack Swigert —
of Colorado.
Born in Denver,
Colo., August
30, 1931.
Republican. Candidate in primary for U.S.
Senator from Colorado, 1978; elected U.S.
Representative from Colorado 1982, but died before taking office.
Astronaut
on Apollo 13 moon mission in April 1970, which was aborted when an
oxygen tank ruptured, but returned safely to earth. Received the Presidential
Medal of Freedom in 1970.
Died, of bone marrow
cancer, in Georgetown University Hospital,
Washington,
D.C., December
27, 1982 (age 51 years, 119
days).
Interment at Mt.
Olivet Cemetery, Wheat Ridge, Colo.
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Marlo Thomas (b. 1937) —
also known as Margaret Julia Thomas —
of Beverly Hills, Los Angeles
County, Calif.; Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Deerfield, Lenawee
County, Mich., November
21, 1937.
Daughter of Danny Thomas (1914-1991; entertainer)
and Rosa Maria (Cassaniti) Mantell Thomas (1914-2000).
Democrat. Actress
in television shows and movies; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from California, 1972.
Female.
Catholic.
Lebanese
and Italian
ancestry.
Still living as of 2009.
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Richard Trumka (b. 1949) —
of Nemacolin, Greene
County, Pa.
Born in Nemacolin, Greene
County, Pa., July 24,
1949.
Son of Frank Richard Trumka and Eola Elizabeth (Bertugli) Trumka.
Democrat. Lawyer; president,
United Mine Workers, 1982-95; secretary-treasurer,
AFL-CIO, 1995-2009; president,
AFL-CIO, 2009-; delegate to Democratic National Convention from
Pennsylvania, 1996,
2000.
Italian
and Polish
ancestry.
Still living as of 2010.
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Jesse Ventura (b. 1951) —
also known as James George Janos; "The Body";
"Governor Body" —
of Brooklyn Park, Hennepin
County, Minn.
Born in Minneapolis, Hennepin
County, Minn., July 15,
1951.
Served in the U.S. Navy during the Vietnam War; mayor
of Brooklyn Park, Minn., 1991-95; Governor of
Minnesota, 1999-2003.
Professional wrestler;
actor,
notably in film Predator.
Still living as of 2009.
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Eugene Luther Gore Vidal, Jr. (b. 1925) —
also known as Gore Vidal; Edgar Box; Cameron
Kay; Katherine Everard —
of Barrytown, Dutchess
County, N.Y.; Ravello, Italy.
Born, in the Cadet Hospital,
U.S. Military Academy, West Point, Orange
County, N.Y., October
3, 1925.
Son of Eugene Luther Vidal (1895-1969) and Nina
Gore Auchincloss (1903-1978).
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during World War II; alternate
delegate to Democratic National Convention from New York, 1960;
candidate for U.S.
Representative from New York, 1960; candidate in primary for U.S.
Senator from California, 1982.
Atheist.
novelist,
playwright,
essayist,
screenwriter,
appeared as an actor
in several films. Not actually related to Al
Gore, who he refers to as "Cousin Al".
Still living as of 2009.
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Henry M. Wade (1914-2001) —
also known as "The Chief" —
of Texas.
Born in Rockwall
County, Tex., November
11, 1914.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; lawyer; Dallas
County District Attorney, 1951-86; candidate for U.S.
Representative from Texas 5th District, 1956.
Member, Phi
Beta Kappa; Order of the
Coif.
As District Attorney, he prosecuted Jack Ruby in 1964 for the murder
of Lee Harvey Oswald, the assassin of President John
F. Kennedy. Also in his role as District Attorney, he was the
named defendant in the Supreme Court's landmark 1973 abortion
decision, Roe v. Wade. The Henry Wade Juvenile Center in Dallas is
named
for him.
Died, from complications of Parkinson's
disease, in Dallas, Dallas
County, Tex., March 1,
2001 (age 86 years, 110
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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John Wanamaker (1838-1922) —
of Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa.
Born in Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., July 11,
1838.
Son of Nelson Wanamaker and Elizabeth D. (Kochersperger) Wanamaker.
Republican. Merchant;
opened John Wanamaker & Company store in
1877 (forerunner of modern department
store); organizer and director, Merchants' Bank;
director, Philadelphia and Reading Railroad;
organizer (with others) and trustee, Presbyterian Hospital;
Presidential Elector for Pennsylvania, 1888,
1920;
U.S.
Postmaster General, 1889-93; delegate to Republican National
Convention from Pennsylvania, 1912,
1916.
Presbyterian.
Died in Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., December
12, 1922 (age 84 years, 154
days).
Interment at St.
James the Less Church Cemetery, Philadelphia, Pa.
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Relatives: Son
of Nelson Wanamaker and Elizabeth D. (Kochersperger) Wanamaker;
married to Mary B. Brown; father of Lewis
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John Greenleaf Whittier (1807-1892) —
of Massachusetts.
Born in Haverhill, Essex
County, Mass., December
17, 1807.
Poet;
member of Massachusetts
state house of representatives, 1835.
Quaker.
Elected to the Hall
of Fame for Great Americans in 1905.
Died in Hampton Falls, Rockingham
County, N.H., September
7, 1892 (age 84 years, 265
days).
Interment at Union
Cemetery, Amesbury, Mass.
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John North Willys (1873-1935) —
also known as John N. Willys —
of Toledo, Lucas
County, Ohio.
Born in Canandaigua, Ontario
County, N.Y., October
25, 1873.
Republican. President of automobile
manufacturing companies; delegate to Republican National
Convention from Ohio, 1916;
U.S. Ambassador to Poland, 1930-32.
Died in New York City (unknown
county), N.Y., August
26, 1935 (age 61 years, 305
days).
Interment at Kensico
Cemetery, Valhalla, N.Y.
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Brigham Young (1801-1877) —
of Salt Lake City, Salt Lake
County, Utah.
Born in Whitingham, Windham
County, Vt., June 1,
1801.
Leader of the Mormon Church 1841-1877; Governor of
Utah Territory, 1850-58.
Mormon.
Member, Freemasons.
Died, of peritonitis
and appendicitis,
in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake
County, Utah, August
29, 1877 (age 76 years, 89
days).
Interment at Mormon
Pioneer Memorial, Salt Lake City, Utah; statue at Temple
Square, Salt Lake City, Utah; statue at Heritage
Plaza, St. George, Utah.
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Richard Darryl Zanuck (b. 1934) —
also known as Richard D. Zanuck —
of Santa Monica, Los Angeles
County, Calif.
Born in Los Angeles, Los Angeles
County, Calif., December
13, 1934.
Son of Darryl F. Zanuck (1902-1979; Hollywood mogul) and Virginia Fox
(1902-1982; actress).
Republican. Movie
producer; delegate to Republican National Convention from
California, 1972.
Still living as of 2006.
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