05-14-2016, 07:13 PM
Umaru Musa Yar'Adua -- former President of Nigeria*
Lena Horne -- American entertainer*
Frank Frazetta -- fantasy artist
Moshe Rosen, founder of Jews for Jesus*
Lieutenant John Finn, USN, oldest Medal of Honor recipient
Art Linkletter, early TV host
Gary Coleman, child TV star
Dennis Hopper, actor
John Wooden, college basketball coach
Rue McLanahan, actress
Manute Bol, retired Sudanese basketball player active in America and humanitarian*
Edith Shain, American nurse shown in one of the definitive post-WWII images of celebration
Senator Robert Byrd (D-WV)
Rodolfo Torre Cantú, Mexican politician -- assassinated*
Louis Moyroud, French-American inventor photo typesetting *
Two figures of the New York Yankees -- announcer Bob Sheppard and owner George Steinbrenner*
Sir Charles Mackerras, Australian-born conductor*
Daniel Schorr, journalist (I met him in Berkeley!)
Ralph Houk, baseball manager
Robert Butler, gerontologist
Jack Tatum, "bad boy" football player
Mitch Miller, musician
Bobby Hebb, one-hit wonder as a songwriter ("Sunny")
Robert Boyle, art director (including some Hitchcock masterpieces)*
Tony Judt, historian
Former US Senator Ted Stevens, air crash
Former, disgraced US Representative Dan Rostenkowski
Hannah Greeley Kaiser, mother of one of the posters
Bobby Thompson, baseball player
"Piper Bill", William Millin, bagpipe player on D-Day (depicted in The Longest Day)*
Peter Linz, motorcycle racer*
Corneille, originally Guillaume Cornelis van Beverloo, Dutch artist*
Jefferson A. Thomas, one of the Little Rock Nine*
Edwin Newman, TV journalist
Kenneth Franklin Weaver, science writer for National Geographic*
Gennady Yanayev, leader of the 1991 coup against Mikhail Gorbachev*
Gloria Rose, actress*
George Blanda, football star
Eddie Fisher, singer
Greg Giraldo, comedian
Tony Curtis, actor
Michael Sobran, Far Right intellectual*
Dorothy Sucher, advocate for a free press in a USSC case
Werner Winter, German linguist
Leona Gage, disgraced Miss USA pageant winnter of 1957
Joan Sutherland, Australian opera singer*
Solomon Burke, soul singer
Barbara Billingsley, a/k/a June Cleaver in "Leave it to Beaver"*
Benoît Mandelbrot, French mathematician who introduced the fractal*
Tom Bosley, actor*
Bob Guccione, pornographer (Penthouse Magazine)*
Mary Emma Allison, "Trick or Treat for UNICEF"*
Ted Sorenson, JFK aide
Sparky Anderson, baseball manager (Cincinnati Reds, Detroit Tigers)*
Michael Seifert, Nazi war criminal*
Antonio Cárdenas Guillén, Mexican drug cartel leader -- FBI Ten Most Wanted List.
Shirley Verrett, opera singer*
Henryk Mikołaj Górecki, Polish classical composer*
Baby Marie Osborne 11/05/1911-11/11/2010 (one of the first child stars in cinema)*
Chalmers Johnson, historian
Alex Anderson, creator of cartoon characters Rocky and Bullwinkle
Leslie Nielsen, actor
Jill Claiborne, actress
Dino di Laurentiis, movie producer
Walter Matthau, actor
Ron Santo, baseball player*
Don Meredith, football star and star football announcer
Elizabeth Edwards, wife of John Edwards, 2004 Democratic nominee for Vice President
Blake Edwards, movie director
Bob Feller, Hall of Fame baseball pitcher*
Steve Landesberg, actor*
Teena Marie, ethnic-bending singer
Geraldine Hoff Doyle, inspiration for "Rosie the Riveter"*
the Kodachrome process
Lena Horne -- American entertainer*
Frank Frazetta -- fantasy artist
Moshe Rosen, founder of Jews for Jesus*
Lieutenant John Finn, USN, oldest Medal of Honor recipient
Art Linkletter, early TV host
Gary Coleman, child TV star
Dennis Hopper, actor
John Wooden, college basketball coach
Rue McLanahan, actress
Manute Bol, retired Sudanese basketball player active in America and humanitarian*
Edith Shain, American nurse shown in one of the definitive post-WWII images of celebration
Senator Robert Byrd (D-WV)
Rodolfo Torre Cantú, Mexican politician -- assassinated*
Louis Moyroud, French-American inventor photo typesetting *
Two figures of the New York Yankees -- announcer Bob Sheppard and owner George Steinbrenner*
Sir Charles Mackerras, Australian-born conductor*
Daniel Schorr, journalist (I met him in Berkeley!)
Ralph Houk, baseball manager
Robert Butler, gerontologist
Jack Tatum, "bad boy" football player
Quote:Comment by KaiserD2
I saw the most famous incident in Tatum's career in 1978. I was living near Boston and rooting for the Patriots. It was the most horrible thing I have ever seen on an athletic field. The camera actually zoomed in on the trainers treating Stingley, trying, and failing, to get a knee-jerk reflex out of him. I knew what that meant.
It has now become apparent that football by its nature inflicts lasting, very serious injuries on those who play it and dooms them in many cases to early dementia and/or death. Yet it's hard to imagine it losing popularity all the same. Parents will allow kids to play a few years just for fun, and the ones who show promise will never give up the chance for glory at surreptitious (that is, collegiate) or official professional teams. And they'll figure, it can't happen to me.
American football is a little like our gun obsession--it sets us apart.
Mitch Miller, musician
Bobby Hebb, one-hit wonder as a songwriter ("Sunny")
Robert Boyle, art director (including some Hitchcock masterpieces)*
Tony Judt, historian
Former US Senator Ted Stevens, air crash
Former, disgraced US Representative Dan Rostenkowski
Hannah Greeley Kaiser, mother of one of the posters
Bobby Thompson, baseball player
"Piper Bill", William Millin, bagpipe player on D-Day (depicted in The Longest Day)*
Peter Linz, motorcycle racer*
Corneille, originally Guillaume Cornelis van Beverloo, Dutch artist*
Jefferson A. Thomas, one of the Little Rock Nine*
Edwin Newman, TV journalist
Kenneth Franklin Weaver, science writer for National Geographic*
Gennady Yanayev, leader of the 1991 coup against Mikhail Gorbachev*
Gloria Rose, actress*
George Blanda, football star
Eddie Fisher, singer
Greg Giraldo, comedian
Tony Curtis, actor
Michael Sobran, Far Right intellectual*
Dorothy Sucher, advocate for a free press in a USSC case
Werner Winter, German linguist
Leona Gage, disgraced Miss USA pageant winnter of 1957
Joan Sutherland, Australian opera singer*
Solomon Burke, soul singer
Barbara Billingsley, a/k/a June Cleaver in "Leave it to Beaver"*
Benoît Mandelbrot, French mathematician who introduced the fractal*
Tom Bosley, actor*
Bob Guccione, pornographer (Penthouse Magazine)*
Mary Emma Allison, "Trick or Treat for UNICEF"*
Ted Sorenson, JFK aide
Sparky Anderson, baseball manager (Cincinnati Reds, Detroit Tigers)*
Michael Seifert, Nazi war criminal*
Antonio Cárdenas Guillén, Mexican drug cartel leader -- FBI Ten Most Wanted List.
Shirley Verrett, opera singer*
Henryk Mikołaj Górecki, Polish classical composer*
Baby Marie Osborne 11/05/1911-11/11/2010 (one of the first child stars in cinema)*
Chalmers Johnson, historian
Alex Anderson, creator of cartoon characters Rocky and Bullwinkle
Leslie Nielsen, actor
Jill Claiborne, actress
Dino di Laurentiis, movie producer
Walter Matthau, actor
Ron Santo, baseball player*
Don Meredith, football star and star football announcer
Elizabeth Edwards, wife of John Edwards, 2004 Democratic nominee for Vice President
Blake Edwards, movie director
Bob Feller, Hall of Fame baseball pitcher*
Steve Landesberg, actor*
Teena Marie, ethnic-bending singer
Geraldine Hoff Doyle, inspiration for "Rosie the Riveter"*
the Kodachrome process
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.