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NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Phil Agee
Spy
19-Jul-1935 7-Jan-2008 Inside the Company: CIA Diary
Roland Arnall
Business
1939 17-Mar-2008 Ameriquest billionaire
Eddy Arnold
Country Musician
15-May-1918 8-May-2008 The Tennessee Plowboy
Nathaniel Bar-Jonah
Criminal
15-Feb-1957 13-Apr-2008 Cannibal child killer, sentenced to 130 years
Buzzie Bavasi
Baseball
12-Dec-1914 1-May-2008 MLB General Manager
Jeremy Beadle
TV Personality
12-Apr-1948 30-Jan-2008 You've Been Framed
Albert H. Bowker
Educator
8-Sep-1919 20-Jan-2008 Chancellor of UC Berkeley, 1971-80
Robert F. Brachtenbach
Judge
28-Jan-1931 2-May-2008 Justice, WA Supreme Court, 1972-94
Christian Brando
Relative
11-May-1958 26-Jan-2008 Son of Marlon Brando
William F. Buckley
Columnist
24-Nov-1925 27-Feb-2008 National Review
Earl Butz
Government
3-Jul-1909 2-Feb-2008 Ford's disgraced Secretary of Agriculture
Charles L. Caccia
Politician
29-Apr-1930 4-May-2008 Former Canadian MP, Davenport
Aimé Césaire
Poet
25-Jun-1913 17-Apr-2008 Return to My Native Land
Arthur C. Clarke
Novelist
16-Dec-1917 19-Mar-2008 2001: A Space Odyssey
Hugo Claus
Author
5-Apr-1929 19-Mar-2008 The Sorrow of Belgium
Hazel Court
Actor
10-Feb-1926 15-Apr-2008 Horror Queen
John Patrick Crecine
Educator
22-Aug-1939 28-Apr-2008 President of Georgia Tech, 1987-94
Richard Darman
Government
10-May-1943 25-Jan-2008 Carlyle Group member, former OMB Director
Jules Dassin
Film Director
18-Dec-1911 31-Mar-2008 Topkapi
Bill Dickinson
Politician
5-Jun-1925 31-Mar-2008 Congressman from Alabama, 1965-92
Klaus Dinger
Drummer
24-Mar-1946 20-Mar-2008 Neu!, La Dusseldorf
Ivan Dixon
Actor
6-Apr-1931 16-Mar-2008 Sgt. Kinchloe on Hogan's Heroes
Jim Dooley
Football
8-Feb-1930 8-Jan-2008 Chicago Bears Head Coach, 1968-71
Lee S. Dreyfus
Politician
20-Jun-1926 2-Jan-2008 Governor of Wisconsin, 1979-83
Gwyneth Dunwoody
Politician
12-Dec-1930 17-Apr-2008 British MP, Crewe and Nantwich
Richard J. Durrell
Publisher
c. 1925 7-Mar-2008 First publisher, People magazine
Robert Fagles
Translator
11-Sep-1933 26-Mar-2008 Translator of Greek literature
Bobby Fischer
Chess Player
9-Mar-1943 18-Jan-2008 Loony chess grandmaster
Evan Griffith Galbraith
Business
2-Jul-1928 21-Jan-2008 US Ambassador to France, 1981-85
Tony Gillespie
Diplomat
22-Mar-1935 7-Mar-2008 US Ambassador to Chile, 1988-91
Robert F. Goheen
Educator
15-Aug-1919 31-Mar-2008 President of Princeton University, 1957-72
David Groh
Actor
21-May-1939 12-Feb-2008 Joe Gerard on Rhoda
Gary Gygax
Inventor
27-Jul-1938 4-Mar-2008 Responsible for Dungeons & Dragons
George Habash
Activist
2-Aug-1926 26-Jan-2008 Founder of the PFLP
John Harvey-Jones
Business
16-Apr-1924 9-Jan-2008 Chairman of ICI, 1982-87
Charlton Heston
Actor
4-Oct-1923 5-Apr-2008 The Ten Commandments
Edmund Hillary
Explorer
20-Jul-1919 11-Jan-2008 First to summit Mt. Everest
Patrick Hillery
Head of State
2-May-1923 12-Apr-2008 President of Ireland, 1976-90
Gordon Hinckley
Religion
23-Jun-1910 27-Jan-2008 President of the Mormon Church, 1995-2008
Albert Hofmann
Chemist
11-Jan-1906 29-Apr-2008 Discovered LSD
Mike Holovak
Football
19-Sep-1919 27-Jan-2008 NFL Head Coach, General Manager
William G. Hyland
Government
18-Jan-1929 25-Mar-2008 Editor of Foreign Affairs, 1984-93
Robert Jastrow
Astronomer
7-Sep-1925 8-Feb-2008 Red Giants and White Dwarfs
Joseph M. Juran
Scientist
24-Dec-1904 28-Feb-2008 The Pareto Principle
Stanley Kamel
Actor
1-Jan-1943 8-Apr-2008 Dr. Kroger on Monk
Carl Karcher
Business
16-Jan-1917 11-Jan-2008 Founder of Carl's Jr.
Martin S. Kimmel
Business
9-Apr-1916 15-Apr-2008 Founder of Kimco Realty
Tom Lantos
Politician
1-Feb-1928 11-Feb-2008 Congressman from California, 1981-2008
Joshua Lederberg
Biologist
23-May-1925 2-Feb-2008 Genetic properties of bacteria
Heath Ledger
Actor
4-Apr-1979 22-Jan-2008 Brokeback Mountain
Edward Lorenz
Scientist
23-May-1917 16-Apr-2008 Chaos theory
Donald C. MacDonald
Politician
7-Dec-1913 8-Mar-2008 Leader of Ontario CCF and NDP, 1953-70
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
Religion
12-Jan-1917 5-Feb-2008 Transcendental meditation guru
Abby Mann
Screenwriter
1-Dec-1927 25-Mar-2008 Judgment at Nuremberg
Steven R. McCracken
Business
1953 7-Feb-2008 CEO of Owens-Illinois, 2004-06
Evan Mecham
Politician
12-May-1924 22-Feb-2008 Governor of Arizona, 1987-88
Vicki van Meter
Aviator
13-Mar-1982 15-Mar-2008 Child cross-country aviator
Howard Metzenbaum
Politician
4-Jun-1917 12-Mar-2008 US Senator from Ohio, 1977-95
Anthony Minghella
Film Director
6-Jan-1954 18-Mar-2008 The English Patient
Robin Moore
Author
31-Oct-1925 21-Feb-2008 The Green Berets
Barry Morse
Actor
10-Jun-1918 2-Feb-2008 Lt. Gerard on The Fugitive
Imad Fayez Mugniyah
Terrorist
7-Dec-1962 12-Feb-2008 Hezbollah International terror wing
Lois Nettleton
Actor
6-Aug-1929 18-Jan-2008 Butterfly
David D. Newsom
Diplomat
6-Jan-1918 30-Mar-2008 US Ambassador to Philippines, 1977-78
Deborah Jeane Palfrey
Criminal
18-Mar-1956 1-May-2008 The DC Madam
Kenneth Parnell
Criminal
26-Sep-1932 21-Jan-2008 Kidnapped Steven Stayner
Suzanne Pleshette
Actor
31-Jan-1937 19-Jan-2008 The Birds
Johnny Podres
Baseball
30-Sep-1932 13-Jan-2008 1955 World Series MVP
Dith Pran
Journalist
27-Sep-1942 30-Mar-2008 Subject of The Killing Fields
Francis Pym
Politician
13-Feb-1922 6-Mar-2008 UK Foreign Secretary, 1982-83
Brad Renfro
Actor
25-Jul-1982 15-Jan-2008 The Client
Eugene C. Renzi
Military
c. 1935 9-Feb-2008 Army Maj. Gen., ManTech VP
Alain Robbe-Grillet
Novelist
18-Aug-1922 18-Feb-2008 Proponent of the nouveau roman
Eugene Sawyer
Politician
3-Sep-1934 19-Jan-2008 Mayor of Chicago, 1987-89
Roy Scheider
Actor
10-Nov-1932 10-Feb-2008 Jaws
Paul Scofield
Actor
21-Jan-1922 19-Mar-2008 A Man For All Seaons
Larry Smith
Football
12-Sep-1939 28-Jan-2008 Missouri Head Coach, 1994-2000
James LeVoy Sorenson
Business
30-Jul-1921 20-Jan-2008 Utah billionaire
Jock Stallard
Politician
5-Nov-1921 29-Mar-2008 British MP, St. Pancras North, 1970-83
Dave Stevens
Cartoonist
29-Jul-1955 10-Mar-2008 The Rocketeer
Suharto
Head of State
8-Jun-1921 27-Jan-2008 President of Indonesia, 1967-98
Porter E. Thompson
Business
1916 26-Feb-2008 President of Bechtel, 1975-83
Margaret Truman
Relative
17-Feb-1924 29-Jan-2008 Harry S. Truman's mystery novelist daughter
Stephen H. Weiss
Business
c. 1935 16-Apr-2008 Co-Founder, Weiss, Peck & Greer
Joseph Weizenbaum
Computer Programmer
8-Jan-1923 5-Mar-2008 ELIZA
Louie Welch
Politician
9-Dec-1918 27-Jan-2008 Mayor of Houston, 1964-73
John Archibald Wheeler
Physicist
9-Jul-1911 13-Apr-2008 The Mechanism of Nuclear Fission
Richard Widmark
Actor
26-Dec-1914 24-Mar-2008 Kiss of Death


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