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NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Aaliyah
Singer
16-Jan-1979 25-Aug-2001 R&B singer, died in plane crash
Douglas Adams
Author
11-Mar-1952 11-May-2001 Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Stuart Adamson
Musician
11-Apr-1958 16-Dec-2001 Guitarist for The Skids and Big Country
Larry Adler
Musician
10-Feb-1914 6-Aug-2001 Mouth organ virtuoso
Mortimer J. Adler
Philosopher
28-Dec-1902 28-Jun-2001 How to Read a Book
Jorge Amado
Novelist
10-Aug-1912 6-Aug-2001 Dona Flor and her Two Husbands
A. R. Ammons
Poet
18-Feb-1926 25-Feb-2001 Sphere
Poul Anderson
Author
25-Nov-1926 31-Jul-2001 Tau Zero
Frank Annunzio
Politician
12-Jan-1915 8-Apr-2001 Congressman from Illinois, 1965-93
Earl Anthony
Bowling
27-Apr-1938 14-Aug-2001 Professional bowler
Lewis Arquette
Actor
14-Dec-1935 10-Feb-2001 Arquette patriarch
Mary Kay Ash
Business
12-May-1918 22-Nov-2001 Cosmetics mogul
Chet Atkins
Guitarist
20-Jun-1924 30-Jun-2001 Prominent country picker
Mohammed Atta
Terrorist
1-Sep-1968 11-Sep-2001 Mastermind behind the 9-11 attacks
Jean-Pierre Aumont
Actor
5-Jan-1911 30-Jan-2001 La Machine Infernale
Bonny Lee Bakley
Victim
7-Jun-1956 4-May-2001 Baretta's wife, got whacked
Christiaan Barnard
Doctor
8-Nov-1922 2-Sep-2001 Performed the first heart transplant
Nikolay G. Basov
Physicist
14-Dec-1922 1-Jul-2001 Invention of the maser and laser
Abraham D. Beame
Politician
20-Mar-1906 10-Feb-2001 Mayor of New York City, 1974-77
Irving Bernstein
Historian
15-Nov-1916 25-Sep-2001 Labor historian
Barend Biesheuvel
Head of State
5-Apr-1920 29-Apr-2001 Prime Minister of the Netherlands, 1971-73
Julie Bishop
Actor
30-Aug-1914 30-Aug-2001 Northern Pursuit
Budd Boetticher
Film Director
29-Jul-1916 29-Nov-2001 Seven Men From Now
Edward Boland
Politician
1-Oct-1911 4-Nov-2001 Congressman from Massachusetts, 1953-89
Lou Boudreau
Baseball
17-Jul-1917 10-Aug-2001 MLB Shortstop, Hall of Famer
Roy Boulting
Film Director
21-Nov-1913 5-Nov-2001 There's a Girl in My Soup
Don Bradman
Cricket
27-Aug-1908 25-Feb-2001 Greatest batsman of all time
Foster Brooks
Comic
11-May-1912 20-Dec-2001 Dean Martin Celebrity Roasts
L. Dean Brown
Diplomat
21-Aug-1920 2-May-2001 US Ambassador to Jordan, 1970-73
Les Brown
Musician
14-Mar-1912 4-Jan-2001 Les Brown and his Band of Renown
Philip W. Buchen
Government
17-Feb-1916 21-May-2001 White House Counsel, 1974-77
Sandy Bull
Guitarist
1941 11-Apr-2001 Fantasias for Guitar and Banjo
Corinne Calvet
Actor
30-Apr-1925 23-Jun-2001 Sailor Beware
Roy D. Chapin, Jr.
Business
c. 1916 5-Aug-2001 Former CEO of American Motors
Imogene Coca
Actor
18-Nov-1908 2-Jun-2001 Your Show of Shows
Perry Como
Singer
18-May-1912 12-May-2001 It's Impossible
Frederick De Cordova
Film/TV Producer
27-Oct-1910 15-Sep-2001 Producer of The Tonight Show
Gregory Corso
Poet
26-Mar-1930 17-Jan-2001 Beat poet, Gasoline
Lawrence Coughlin
Politician
11-Apr-1929 30-Nov-2001 Congressman from Pennsylvania, 1969-93
Donald J. Cram
Chemist
22-Apr-1919 17-Jun-2001 Synthesis of molecules
Samuel H. Day
Activist
5-Oct-1926 26-Jan-2001 Antinuke crusader
Rosemary DeCamp
Actor
14-Nov-1910 20-Feb-2001 Yankee Doodle Dandy
Delia Derbyshire
Electronic Musician
5-May-1937 3-Jul-2001 Constructed the Doctor Who theme
Anthony Dexter
Actor
19-Jan-1913 27-Mar-2001 Valentino
Gordon R. Dickson
Novelist
1-Nov-1923 31-Jan-2001 Dorsai
Yvonne Dionne
Victim
28-May-1934 23-Jun-2001 Canadian quintuplets put on display
Teri Diver
Pornstar
6-Sep-1971 2-Jan-2001 What's Up, Tiger Pussy?
Troy Donahue
Actor
27-Jan-1936 2-Sep-2001 A Summer Place
Morton Downey, Jr.
Talk Show Host
9-Dec-1933 12-Mar-2001 Mort the Mouth
Daniel C. Drucker
Engineer
1918 25-Aug-2001 Drucker's stability postulate
Dale Earnhardt
Auto Racing
29-Apr-1951 18-Feb-2001 NASCAR driver died in Daytona 500 accident
Jim Ellis
Computer Programmer
c. 1956 28-Jun-2001 Usenet co-creator
Dale Evans
Country Musician
31-Oct-1912 7-Feb-2001 Singer and leading lady to Roy Rogers
Rowland Evans
Columnist
28-Apr-1921 23-Mar-2001 Evans and Novak
John Fahey
Guitarist
28-Feb-1939 22-Feb-2001 The Transfiguration of Blind Joe Death
Joan Finney
Politician
12-Feb-1925 28-Jul-2001 Governor of Kansas, 1991-95
Arlene Francis
Actor
20-Oct-1907 31-May-2001 What's My Line?
Kathleen Freeman
Actor
17-Feb-1919 23-Aug-2001 Gen. Burkhalter's sister
E. H. Gombrich
Historian
30-Mar-1909 3-Nov-2001 Art and Illusion
David Graf
Actor
16-Apr-1950 7-Apr-2001 Movie, TV and videogame work
Katharine Graham
Publisher
16-Jun-1917 17-Jul-2001 Washington Post publisher, 1966-79
Jane Greer
Actor
9-Sep-1924 24-Aug-2001 Out of the Past
Albert Hague
Composer
13-Oct-1920 12-Nov-2001 Redhead
Anne Haney
Actor
4-Mar-1934 26-May-2001 Mrs. Doubtfire
William Hanna
Cartoonist
14-Jul-1910 22-Mar-2001 Half of the Hanna-Barbera cartoon sweatshop
Marvin Harris
Anthropologist
18-Aug-1927 25-Oct-2001 Anthropological historian
George Harrison
Musician
25-Feb-1943 29-Nov-2001 Beatle
Nigel Hawthorne
Actor
5-Apr-1929 26-Dec-2001 The Madness of King George
Eileen Heckart
Actor
29-Mar-1919 31-Dec-2001 Butterflies Are Free
Herblock
Cartoonist
13-Oct-1909 7-Oct-2001 Editorial Cartoonist, The Washington Post
Christopher Hewett
Actor
5-Apr-1922 3-Aug-2001 Mr. Belvedere
William Hewlett
Business
20-May-1913 12-Jan-2001 Co-Founder of Hewlett-Packard
Billy Higgins
Jazz Musician
11-Oct-1936 3-May-2001 Leading free-jazz and bop drummer
John H. Holdridge
Diplomat
21-Aug-1924 12-Jul-2001 US Ambassador to Indonesia, 1983-86
John Lee Hooker
Musician
22-Aug-1917 21-Jun-2001 Prominent blues musician
Fred Hoyle
Astronomer
24-Jun-1915 20-Aug-2001 Opposed the Big Bang but named it
Ken Hughes
Film Director
19-Jan-1922 28-Apr-2001 Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
Arthur W. Hummel, Jr.
Diplomat
1-Jun-1920 6-Feb-2001 US Ambassador to China, 1981-85
Jackie "Butch" Jenkins
Actor
29-Aug-1937 14-Aug-2001 MGM child star
Elizabeth Jennings
Poet
18-Jul-1926 26-Oct-2001 Song for a Birth or a Death
Jaromil Jires
Film Director
10-Dec-1935 24-Oct-2001 Valerie and Her Week of Wonders
J. J. Johnson
Jazz Musician
22-Jan-1924 4-Feb-2001 Jazz trombonist
Burt Kennedy
Film Director
3-Sep-1922 15-Feb-2001 Support Your Local Sheriff
Ken Kesey
Novelist
17-Sep-1935 10-Nov-2001 One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Hank Ketcham
Cartoonist
14-Mar-1920 1-Jun-2001 Dennis the Menace
Victor Kiam
Business
7-Dec-1926 27-May-2001 Liked it so much, he bought the company
John Knowles
Novelist
16-Sep-1926 29-Nov-2001 A Separate Peace
Howard W. Koch
Film/TV Producer
11-Apr-1916 16-Feb-2001 The Manchurian Candidate
Stanley Kramer
Film Director
29-Sep-1913 19-Feb-2001 It's A Mad Mad Mad Mad World
Paul Landres
Film Director
21-Aug-1912 26-Dec-2001 B-Movie and television director
Denys Lasdun
Architect
8-Sep-1914 11-Jan-2001 British modernist architect
Friedrich Leibacher
Criminal
21-Jul-1944 28-Sep-2001 Killed 14 Swiss politicians on a rampage
Jack Lemmon
Actor
8-Feb-1925 27-Jun-2001 The Odd Couple
Chandra Levy
Victim
14-Apr-1977 1-May-2001 Gary Condit's dead intern
Daniel Lewin
Mathematician
14-May-1970 11-Sep-2001 Co-founder of Akamai, died in 9/11
John C. Lilly
Scientist
6-Jan-1915 30-Sep-2001 Human-dolphin communication
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Aviator
22-Jun-1906 7-Feb-2001 Wife of Charles Lindbergh
Jay Livingston
Composer
28-Mar-1915 17-Oct-2001 Que Sera Sera
Henry Lee Lucas
Criminal
23-Aug-1936 12-Mar-2001 Serial killer, served a life sentence in Texas
Robert Ludlum
Novelist
25-May-1927 12-Mar-2001 Holcroft Covenant
Peter Maas
Author
27-Jun-1929 23-Aug-2001 Serpico
Mike Mansfield
Politician
16-Mar-1903 5-Oct-2001 US Senator from Montana, 1953-77
Jacques Marin
Actor
9-Sep-1919 10-Jan-2001 Charade
Connie Marshall
Actor
28-Apr-1933 22-May-2001 Dragonwyck
William Masters
Scientist
27-Dec-1915 16-Feb-2001 Human Sexual Response
Eddie Mathews
Baseball
13-Oct-1931 18-Feb-2001 Hit 512 home runs
Whitman Mayo
Actor
15-Nov-1930 22-May-2001 Grady on Sanford and Son
Charles McClendon
Football
17-Oct-1923 6-Dec-2001 LSU Head Coach, 1962-79
Dorothy McGuire
Actor
14-Jun-1916 13-Sep-2001 A Summer Place
Gardner McKay
Actor
10-Jun-1932 21-Nov-2001 Adventures in Paradise
John McKay
Football
5-Jul-1923 10-Jun-2001 USC Trojans Head Coach, 1960-75
Timothy McVeigh
Terrorist
23-Apr-1968 11-Jun-2001 Oklahoma City Bomber
Dolores Michaels
Actor
30-Jan-1933 25-Sep-2001 Warlock
Jason Miller
Actor
22-Apr-1939 13-May-2001 The Exorcist
Joseph Moakley
Politician
27-Apr-1927 28-May-2001 Congressman from Massachusetts, 1973-2001
Pauline Moore
Actor
14-Jun-1914 7-Dec-2001 American character actress
Peggy Mount
Actor
2-May-1916 13-Nov-2001 George and the Dragon
R. K. Narayan
Author
10-Oct-1906 13-May-2001 Swami and Friends
Alex Nicol
Actor
20-Jan-1916 29-Jul-2001 The Man from Laramie
Virginia O'Brien
Actor
18-Apr-1919 16-Jan-2001 The Big Store
Carroll O'Connor
Actor
2-Aug-1924 21-Jun-2001 Archie Bunker in All in the Family
Lani O'Grady
Actor
2-Oct-1954 25-Sep-2001 Mary Bradford on Eight Is Enough
John P. O'Neill
Government
6-Feb-1952 11-Sep-2001 Anti-Terrorism expert, died in 9/11
Michel Oksenberg
Scholar
12-Oct-1938 22-Feb-2001 Leading sinologist
Barbara Olson
TV Personality
27-Dec-1955 11-Sep-2001 Conservative TV pundit
Charley Pell
Football
17-Feb-1941 29-May-2001 Florida Head Coach, 1979-84
John Phillips
Musician
30-Aug-1935 18-Mar-2001 The Mamas and the Papas
J. H. Plumb
Historian
20-Aug-1911 21-Oct-2001 England in the Eighteenth Century
Nyree Dawn Porter
Actor
22-Jan-1936 10-Apr-2001 The Forsyte Saga
Wesley W. Posvar
Educator
14-Sep-1925 27-Jul-2001 Chancellor, University of Pittsburgh, 1967-91
Heinz C. Prechter
Business
19-Jan-1942 6-Jul-2001 The sunroof king
Josephine Premice
Actor
21-Jul-1926 13-Apr-2001 Calypso singer, Broadway actress
Fletcher Prouty
Military
24-Jan-1917 5-Jun-2001 USAF Intelligence Officer
Nathan M. Pusey
Educator
4-Apr-1907 14-Nov-2001 President of Harvard, 1953-71
Anthony Quinn
Actor
21-Apr-1915 3-Jun-2001 Zorba the Greek
Mohammad Rabbani
Head of State
1955 21-Apr-2001 Taliban leader, Prime Minister
Alan Rafkin
Film Director
23-Jul-1928 6-Aug-2001 The Ghost and Mr. Chicken
Joey Ramone
Singer
19-May-1951 15-Apr-2001 The Ramones
Robert C. Randall
Victim
23-Jan-1948 2-Jun-2001 First recipient of federal marijuana
Maureen Reagan
Relative
4-Jan-1941 8-Aug-2001 Daughter of Ronald Reagan and Jane Wyman
Rick Rescorla
Victim
27-May-1939 11-Sep-2001 Anticipated both WTC attacks, died in 9/11
James A. Rhodes
Politician
13-Sep-1909 4-Mar-2001 Twice Governor of Ohio
Mordecai Richler
Novelist
27-Jan-1931 3-Jul-2001 The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz
Michael Ritchie
Film Director
28-Nov-1938 16-Apr-2001 The Candidate
William P. Rogers
Government
23-Jun-1913 2-Jan-2001 US Secretary of State, 1969-73
Herbert Ross
Film Director
13-May-1927 9-Oct-2001 Steel Magnolias
R. J. Rushdoony
Religion
25-Apr-1916 8-Feb-2001 Institutes of Biblical Law
Dick Schaap
Journalist
27-Sep-1934 21-Dec-2001 Flashing Before My Eyes
John G. Schmitz
Politician
12-Aug-1930 10-Jan-2001 Congressman from California, 1970-73
Karl Schnabel
Pianist
6-Aug-1909 27-Aug-2001 Modern Technique of the Pedal
Chuck Schuldiner
Musician
13-May-1967 13-Dec-2001 Death metal pioneer
Harry Secombe
Actor
8-Sep-1921 11-Apr-2001 Neddie Seagoon on The Goon Show
Léopold Senghor
Head of State
9-Oct-1906 20-Dec-2001 President of Senegal, 1960-80
Vernon Sewell
Film Director
4-Jul-1903 21-Jun-2001 Director of British B movies
Anthony Shaffer
Screenwriter
15-May-1926 6-Nov-2001 The Wicker Man, Sleuth
Claude Shannon
Scientist
30-Apr-1916 24-Feb-2001 Pioneer in information theory
Peter Shore
Politician
20-May-1924 24-Sep-2001 Former MP, Stepney
Clifford G. Shull
Physicist
23-Sep-1915 31-Mar-2001 Neutron scattering
Herbert A. Simon
Economist
15-Jun-1916 9-Feb-2001 Administrative Behavior
Joan Sims
Actor
9-May-1930 28-Jun-2001 Carry On...
Giuseppe Sinopoli
Conductor
2-Nov-1946 20-Apr-2001 Principal Conductor, Philharmonia, 1984-94
Norman Sisisky
Politician
9-Jun-1927 29-Mar-2001 Congressman from Virginia, 1983-2001
Gerald B. H. Solomon
Politician
14-Aug-1930 26-Oct-2001 Congressman from New York, 1979-99
Ann Sothern
Actor
22-Jan-1909 15-Mar-2001 Private Secretary
Floyd Spence
Politician
9-Apr-1928 16-Aug-2001 Congressman from South Carolina, 1971-2001
Kim Stanley
Actor
11-Feb-1925 20-Aug-2001 Seance on a Wet Afternoon
Willie Stargell
Baseball
6-Mar-1940 9-Apr-2001 National League MVP 1979
Harold Stassen
Politician
13-Apr-1907 4-Mar-2001 Perennial presidential candidate
Anthony Steel
Actor
21-May-1920 21-Mar-2001 Where No Vultures Fly
Isaac Stern
Violinist
21-Jul-1920 22-Sep-2001 Violin virtuoso
Beatrice Straight
Actor
2-Aug-1914 7-Apr-2001 Network
William G. Stratton
Politician
26-Feb-1914 2-Mar-2001 Governor of Illinois, 1953-61
Brother Theodore
Comic
11-Nov-1906 5-Apr-2001 Stand-up Tragedist
Nguyen Van Thieu
Head of State
5-Apr-1923 29-Sep-2001 President of South Vietnam, 1967-75
Ralph Thomas
Film Director
10-Aug-1915 17-Mar-2001 Deadlier Than the Male
Meldrim Thomson, Jr.
Politician
8-Mar-1912 19-Apr-2001 Governor of New Hampshire, 1973-79
Linden Travers
Actor
27-May-1913 23-Oct-2001 No Orchids for Miss Blandish
Dorothy Tutin
Actor
8-Apr-1930 6-Aug-2001 Savage Messiah
Piero Umiliani
Composer
17-Jul-1926 14-Feb-2001 Mah Na Mah Na
Billy Vessels
Football
22-Mar-1931 17-Nov-2001 Winner, 1952 Heisman Trophy
Art Wall, Jr.
Golf
25-Nov-1923 31-Oct-2001 Winner, 1959 Masters Tournament
Deborah Walley
Actor
12-Aug-1943 10-May-2001 Gidget Goes Hawaiian
Ray Walston
Actor
2-Dec-1914 1-Jan-2001 My Favorite Martian
Jack Watling
Actor
13-Jan-1923 22-May-2001 We Dive at Dawn
Auberon Waugh
Columnist
17-Nov-1939 16-Jan-2001 Columnist for Private Eye
Al Waxman
Actor
2-Mar-1935 18-Jan-2001 Lt. Samuels on Cagney and Lacey
Eudora Welty
Author
13-Apr-1909 23-Jul-2001 The Optimist's Daughter
Mary Whitehouse
Activist
13-Jun-1910 23-Nov-2001 British anti-pornography crusader
Daniel Wildenstein
Business
11-Sep-1917 23-Oct-2001 Wildenstein & Company
Michael Williams
Actor
9-Jul-1935 11-Jan-2001 Educating Rita
Pete Williams
Politician
10-Dec-1919 17-Nov-2001 US Senator snagged in ABSCAM
Edward Winter
Actor
3-Jun-1937 8-Mar-2001 Col. Flagg on M*A*S*H
Victor Wong
Actor
31-Jul-1927 12-Sep-2001 Egg Shen
Leonard Woodcock
Labor Leader
15-Feb-1911 16-Jan-2001 5th UAW President, 1970-77
Robert F. Woodward
Diplomat
1-Oct-1908 18-May-2001 US Ambassador to Costa Rica, 1954-58
Ben G. Wright
Publisher
c. 1911 10-Apr-2001 Publisher, Field and Stream
Iannis Xenakis
Composer
9-May-1922 4-Feb-2001 Avant-garde composer
Chung Ju Yung
Business
25-Nov-1915 21-Mar-2001 Founder of Hyundai


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