Marvin Hamlisch, film composer*
Helen Gurley Brown, editor-in-chief of Cosmopolitan magazine*
Victor Poor, engineer -- essential to the Internet*
Tony Scott, director
Phyllis Diller, actress-comedienne
Scott McKenzie, songwriter "If you're going to San Francisco"
Stephen Van Buren-- NFL Hall of Fame*
Neil Armstrong, first man on the Moon
General Tomas Sedlacek -- Czechoslovak warrior of WWII, fought on both Eastern and Western fronts*
Hal David, songwriter
Sun Myung Moon, leader of the Unification Church*
Michael Duncan Clark, actor
Joe South, songwriter "Games People Play"
John Christopher Stevens, American diplomat, killed in anti-American violence in Libya*
Andy Williams, singer
Chris Economaki, racing announcer*
Bob Hobsbawm, English historian
Barry Commoner, ecologist
Arthur Sulzberger, publisher of the New York Times
Antisa Khvichava, claimed to have lived 132 years (likely preposterous)*, unrecognized
Alex Karras, American football star and actor*
Jonathan Lewis, actor and suspected criminal
former US Senator Arlen Spector*
former US Senator and Democratic nominee for President in 1972, George McGovern
Stan Ovshinsky, machinist, expert on amorphous materials
Russell Means, American First Peoples activist
Jacques Barzun, French intellectual historian*
Gabrielle Roth, dancer
Elliott Carter, American classical composer and centenarian*
Lee McPhail, baseball executive, Hall of Fame*
Ajmal Kasab, convicted terrorist in the Mumbai horror, executed*
Jan Trefuka, Czech writer and dissident, signer of Charter '77*
Larry Hagman, actor*
Marvin Miller, former head of the baseball players' union*
Joseph Edward Murray, physician, first to successfully do a kidney transplant*
Dave Brubeck, jazz pianist
Oscar Niemeyer, Brazilian architect, largely created its capital Brasilia
Ravi Shankar, introduced the sitar to Western audiences
Galina Vizhnevskaya, Russian opera singer*
Norman Joseph Woodland, entrepreneur
US Senator Daniel Inouye
Judge Robert Bork, jurist*
Jack Klugman, actor*
Charles Durning, actor*
General H. Norman Schwartzkopf, leader of the highly successful liberation of Kuwait
Parri Page, pop singer*
Gerda Lerner, historian
Aaeon Reddit, co-founder of Reddit
Conrad Bain, actor
Abigail Van Buren, "Dear Abby"
Earl Weaver, baseball manager; Stan "the Man" Musial, baseball great*
Taihō Kōki, Ukrainian-born sumo wrestler*
Sally Starr, Philadelphia kids' show hostess
Patty Andrews, last of the Andrews Sisters*
Ed Koch, former mayor of New York City
Essie Mae Washington-Williams, long-hidden BLACK daughter of eventual US Senator Strom Thurmond*
Paul Tanner, last surviving member of the Glenn Miller Orchestra*
Frank Braun, American inventor of small appliances*
George Aratani, founder of the Kenwood and Mikasa firms*.
Wolfgang Sawallisch, German conductor*.
Van Cliburn, concert pianist*
Bonnie Franklin, actress*
Marie-Claire Alain, French organist*
Hugo Chávez, Venezuelan soldier, demagogue, and dictator*
Ieng Sary, Khmer Rouge leader and criminal against humanity* (Roast in Hell!)
Ewald-Heinrich von Kleist-Schmenzin, last surviving member of the July 20 Plot againstSatan Incarnate the Antichrist Adolf Hitler *
Edgar Killen, KKK terrorist, owner of the plot on which three martyrs of the Civil Rights Movement were hidden*
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, German-born novelist*
Roger Ebert, film critc
Margaret Thatcher, former British Prime Minister*
Mildred Daniel Manning, last surviving "Angel Nurse" at Bataan*
Annette Funicello, child actress on the Mickey Mouse Club
Jonathan Winters, comedian*
Elizabeth Marie Tallchief, ballerina*
Sir Colin Davis, British conductor*
Carmel Kaine, Australian-born British violinist*
János Starker, Hungarian cellist*
former US Representative (D-PA) Robert Edgar*
Helen Gurley Brown, editor-in-chief of Cosmopolitan magazine*
Victor Poor, engineer -- essential to the Internet*
Tony Scott, director
Phyllis Diller, actress-comedienne
Scott McKenzie, songwriter "If you're going to San Francisco"
Stephen Van Buren-- NFL Hall of Fame*
Neil Armstrong, first man on the Moon
General Tomas Sedlacek -- Czechoslovak warrior of WWII, fought on both Eastern and Western fronts*
Hal David, songwriter
Sun Myung Moon, leader of the Unification Church*
Michael Duncan Clark, actor
Joe South, songwriter "Games People Play"
John Christopher Stevens, American diplomat, killed in anti-American violence in Libya*
Andy Williams, singer
Chris Economaki, racing announcer*
Bob Hobsbawm, English historian
Barry Commoner, ecologist
Arthur Sulzberger, publisher of the New York Times
Antisa Khvichava, claimed to have lived 132 years (likely preposterous)*, unrecognized
Alex Karras, American football star and actor*
Jonathan Lewis, actor and suspected criminal
former US Senator Arlen Spector*
former US Senator and Democratic nominee for President in 1972, George McGovern
Stan Ovshinsky, machinist, expert on amorphous materials
Russell Means, American First Peoples activist
Jacques Barzun, French intellectual historian*
Gabrielle Roth, dancer
Elliott Carter, American classical composer and centenarian*
Lee McPhail, baseball executive, Hall of Fame*
Ajmal Kasab, convicted terrorist in the Mumbai horror, executed*
Jan Trefuka, Czech writer and dissident, signer of Charter '77*
Larry Hagman, actor*
Marvin Miller, former head of the baseball players' union*
Joseph Edward Murray, physician, first to successfully do a kidney transplant*
Dave Brubeck, jazz pianist
Oscar Niemeyer, Brazilian architect, largely created its capital Brasilia
Ravi Shankar, introduced the sitar to Western audiences
Galina Vizhnevskaya, Russian opera singer*
Norman Joseph Woodland, entrepreneur
US Senator Daniel Inouye
Judge Robert Bork, jurist*
Jack Klugman, actor*
Charles Durning, actor*
General H. Norman Schwartzkopf, leader of the highly successful liberation of Kuwait
Parri Page, pop singer*
Gerda Lerner, historian
Aaeon Reddit, co-founder of Reddit
Conrad Bain, actor
Abigail Van Buren, "Dear Abby"
Earl Weaver, baseball manager; Stan "the Man" Musial, baseball great*
Taihō Kōki, Ukrainian-born sumo wrestler*
Sally Starr, Philadelphia kids' show hostess
Quote:my comment on her -- Back when every TV station seemed to have its locally-produced, unique programming most had some local character on some clubhouse program introduce some cartoons and some interesting guests. Then came the lengthened time for washday weepers and vapid talk shows. When independent channels began to proliferate such programming did not re-appear, but those channels filled with reruns. Too bad. The kids are missing something.
I was in the wrong market for Sally Starr, but I remember the general pattern. There might be a "Ranger Jim" on WJIM-TV in Lansing (get it?) or some 'cowboy', sea captain, or... whatever. That character let kids be kids.
Patty Andrews, last of the Andrews Sisters*
Ed Koch, former mayor of New York City
Essie Mae Washington-Williams, long-hidden BLACK daughter of eventual US Senator Strom Thurmond*
Paul Tanner, last surviving member of the Glenn Miller Orchestra*
Frank Braun, American inventor of small appliances*
George Aratani, founder of the Kenwood and Mikasa firms*.
Wolfgang Sawallisch, German conductor*.
Van Cliburn, concert pianist*
Bonnie Franklin, actress*
Marie-Claire Alain, French organist*
Hugo Chávez, Venezuelan soldier, demagogue, and dictator*
Ieng Sary, Khmer Rouge leader and criminal against humanity* (Roast in Hell!)
Ewald-Heinrich von Kleist-Schmenzin, last surviving member of the July 20 Plot against
Edgar Killen, KKK terrorist, owner of the plot on which three martyrs of the Civil Rights Movement were hidden*
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, German-born novelist*
Roger Ebert, film critc
Margaret Thatcher, former British Prime Minister*
Mildred Daniel Manning, last surviving "Angel Nurse" at Bataan*
Annette Funicello, child actress on the Mickey Mouse Club
Jonathan Winters, comedian*
Elizabeth Marie Tallchief, ballerina*
Sir Colin Davis, British conductor*
Carmel Kaine, Australian-born British violinist*
János Starker, Hungarian cellist*
former US Representative (D-PA) Robert Edgar*
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.