11/14/1908 - 05/02/1957
Joseph Raymond McCarthy was an American politician who served as a Republican U.S. Senator from the state of Wisconsin from 1947 until his death in 1957. Beginning in 1950, McCarthy became the most visible public face of a period in which Co...
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06/13/1918 - 09/06/2007
Percy Rodriguez (June 13, 1918 – September 6, 2007) was a Canadian actor who appeared in many television shows and films from the 1950s to the 1980s. The serenely handsome, distinguished-looking actor also became notable for helping to break...
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08/12/1935 - 03/12/1978
John Holland Cazale (August 12, 1935 – March 12, 1978), was an American film and theater actor. During his six-year film career he appeared in five films, each of which was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture: The Godfather, The...
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05/25/1929 - 07/02/2007
Beverly Sills (May 25, 1929 – July 2, 2007) was an American operatic soprano whose peak career was between the 1950s and 1970s.
12/11/1922 - 01/10/2008
Maila Nurmi (December 11, 1922 – January 10, 2008) was a Finnish-American actress who created the campy 1950s character Vampira. She portrayed Vampira as TV's first horror host and in the...
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Pete Postlethwaite (Peter William Postlethwaite)
02/07/1946 - 01/02/2011
Peter William "Pete" Postlethwaite (7 February 1946 – 2 January 2011), was an English stage, film and television actor. Postlethwaite's first success came with the film Distant Voices, Still Lives in 1988. He played a myst...
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07/09/1936 - 06/14/2002
June Millicent Jordan (July 9, 1936 - June 14, 2002) was a Caribbean American poet, novelist, journalist, biographer, dramatist, teacher, and committed activist. In her three decade career Jordan made her mark as one of the fiercest and most compa...
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05/02/1925 - 04/11/2007
Roscoe Lee Browne (May 2, 1925 – April 11, 2007) was an American actor and director, known for his rich voice and dignified bearing.
Molly Ivins (Mary Tyler Ivins)
08/30/1944 - 01/31/2007
Mary Tyler "Molly" Ivins (August 30, 1944 – January 31, 2007) was an American newspaper columnist, populist, political commentator, humorist and author.
04/23/1775 - 12/19/1851
Joseph Mallord William Turner (23 April 1775–19 December 1851) was an English Romantic landscape painter, watercolourist and printmaker. Turner was considered a controversial figure in his day, but is now regarded as the artist who ele...
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12/04/1738 - 09/09/1815
John Singleton Copley (1738 – 1815) was an American painter, born presumably in Boston, Massachusetts, and a son of Richard and Mary Singleton Copley, both Irish. He is famous for his portrait paintings of impor...
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06/22/1909 - 05/21/2006
Katherine Mary Dunham (June 22, 1909 – May 21, 2006) was an American dancer, choreographer, songwriter, author, educator, and activist .Dunham had one of the most successful dance careers in American and European theater of the 20th century...
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Billy Cowsill (William Cowsill)
01/09/1948 - 02/18/2006
William "Bill" Cowsill, Jr., also known as Billy, (January 9, 1948 – February 18, 2006) was an American singer best known as lead singer and guitarist of The Cowsills who had three top 10 singles in the late 1960s.