05-16-2016, 01:36 AM
Saul Zaentz, entertainment magnate*
Alicia Rhett, "India Wilkes" in Gone With the Wind*
Phil Everley, one of the Everley brothers
Amiri Baraka, originally LeRoi Jones, poet
Sir Run Run Shaw, Chinese movie magnate
Russell Johnson, actor "the Professor" from Gilliigan's Island
Claudio Abbado, Italian conductor*
Pete Seeger, folk singer
Maximilian Schell, Austrian actor*
Phillip Seymour Hoffman, actor
Vasiľ Biľak, Czechoslovak Commie, one of those who 'invited' an invasion by the Soviet Union*
Ralph Kiner, baseball star and TV announcer*
Shirley Temple, child star and diplomat
Sid Caesar, comedian*
Ralph Waite, actor
John Henson, puppetteer (like his father)
Bob Casale, guitarist
Maria Agatha Franziska Gobertina von Trapp, matriarch of the musical von Trapp family
Alice Herz-Sommer, then oldest-living survivor of the Holocaust. Pianist and music teacher.*
Harold Ramis, actor
Maurice Faure, French politician*
Frank Jobe, physician, known for "Tommy John surgery" that extends pitching careers
Autumn Radtke, Bitcoin figure
William Clay Ford, football executive
Porky Chedwick, Pittsburgh-area DJ, promoter of "race" music*
former Florida governor Reuben Askew*
Ray Still, oboist*
Tony Benn, British politician*
Fred Phelps, crusader against gay rights*
Lawrence Walsh, prosecutor in Iran-Contra Arms scandal
Robert Strauss, political operative and diplomat
Adolfo Suárez González, first democratically-elected prime minister in post-Franco Spain
Ralph Cookerly Wilson, last surviving owner of an AFL team*
Gina Pellón, Cuban-born French artist
Charles Humphrey Keating, Jr., convicted bank fraudster of the 1980s*
Mickey Rooney, actor*
Charles Sumner Jones, founder of the National Association of Black Journalists*
Mar Emmanuel III Delly, Iraqi Christian clergyman during the US invasion of Iraq*
Gabriel José de la Concordia García Márquez*, Colombian author
Conrado Eugenio Marrero Ramos, Cuban baseball player
Jesse Winchester, singer
Al Feldstein (Mad Magazine)
Efrem Zimbalist, Jr. actor*
Bob Hoskins, actor
Bill Dana (not the comedian) , test pilot*
Wojciech Jaruzelski. Polish general, imposed martial law, gave way to democracy in Poland*
Maya Angelou, poet*
Oscar Dystel, founder of Pocket Books*
Chester Nez, last of the original Navajo code talkers
Tony Gwynn, baseball star
Casey Kasem, rock music promoter*
Stephanie Louise Kwolek, inventor of Kevlar*
What's so important? It changes the nature of law enforcement. Bullet-proof vests make killing a cop and surviving the attempt much more difficult. l
Eli Wallach, actor
Alicia Rhett, "India Wilkes" in Gone With the Wind*
Phil Everley, one of the Everley brothers
Amiri Baraka, originally LeRoi Jones, poet
Sir Run Run Shaw, Chinese movie magnate
Russell Johnson, actor "the Professor" from Gilliigan's Island
Claudio Abbado, Italian conductor*
Pete Seeger, folk singer
Maximilian Schell, Austrian actor*
Phillip Seymour Hoffman, actor
Vasiľ Biľak, Czechoslovak Commie, one of those who 'invited' an invasion by the Soviet Union*
Ralph Kiner, baseball star and TV announcer*
Shirley Temple, child star and diplomat
Sid Caesar, comedian*
Ralph Waite, actor
John Henson, puppetteer (like his father)
Bob Casale, guitarist
Maria Agatha Franziska Gobertina von Trapp, matriarch of the musical von Trapp family
Alice Herz-Sommer, then oldest-living survivor of the Holocaust. Pianist and music teacher.*
Harold Ramis, actor
Maurice Faure, French politician*
Frank Jobe, physician, known for "Tommy John surgery" that extends pitching careers
Autumn Radtke, Bitcoin figure
William Clay Ford, football executive
Porky Chedwick, Pittsburgh-area DJ, promoter of "race" music*
former Florida governor Reuben Askew*
Ray Still, oboist*
Tony Benn, British politician*
Fred Phelps, crusader against gay rights*
Lawrence Walsh, prosecutor in Iran-Contra Arms scandal
Robert Strauss, political operative and diplomat
Adolfo Suárez González, first democratically-elected prime minister in post-Franco Spain
Ralph Cookerly Wilson, last surviving owner of an AFL team*
Gina Pellón, Cuban-born French artist
Charles Humphrey Keating, Jr., convicted bank fraudster of the 1980s*
Mickey Rooney, actor*
Charles Sumner Jones, founder of the National Association of Black Journalists*
Mar Emmanuel III Delly, Iraqi Christian clergyman during the US invasion of Iraq*
Gabriel José de la Concordia García Márquez*, Colombian author
Conrado Eugenio Marrero Ramos, Cuban baseball player
Jesse Winchester, singer
Al Feldstein (Mad Magazine)
Efrem Zimbalist, Jr. actor*
Bob Hoskins, actor
Bill Dana (not the comedian) , test pilot*
Wojciech Jaruzelski. Polish general, imposed martial law, gave way to democracy in Poland*
Maya Angelou, poet*
Oscar Dystel, founder of Pocket Books*
Chester Nez, last of the original Navajo code talkers
Tony Gwynn, baseball star
Casey Kasem, rock music promoter*
Stephanie Louise Kwolek, inventor of Kevlar*
What's so important? It changes the nature of law enforcement. Bullet-proof vests make killing a cop and surviving the attempt much more difficult. l
Eli Wallach, actor
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.