In remembrance
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Thanatos — 6 years ago(August 26, 2019 12:25 AM)
Samantha Smith-13-peace activist/goodwill ambassador between The US and the Soviet Union during the cold war. At age 10 she wrote a letter to Yuri Andropov and was invited to visit. She became very famous in the Soviet Union after she traveled there. Had a monument built to her, a commemorative stamp, asteroid named after her, Per Nørgård composed a concerto in her memory, a diamond, a cultivator of tulips and dahlias and a ship all named after her. She also started peacemaking with Japan. Traveling back home after visiting Japan and Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone her plane crashed. She gave a voice for children of the world.
“Maybe it’s because I have traveled a lot and maybe it’s because I’ve met so many wonderful people who look a little different from the way I look – maybe their skin, or their eyes, or their language is not like mine – but I can picture them becoming my best friends.”
Friedrich Nietzsche-55
Paul Muni-71-The Story of Louis Pasteur, Scarface, The Life of Emile Zola, The Good Earth
Alfred Kinsey-62-professor of entomology and zoology, sexologist
Truman Capote-59-novelist/screenwriter/playwright-In Cold Blood, Breakfast at Tiffany's
Ted Kennedy-77-US senator for 47 years, brother of JFK
Niven Busch-88-novelist/screenwriter-The Postman Always Rings Twice, Duel in the Sun, Belle Starr, The Furies
Neil Armstrong-82-first person to walk on the moon
Carl Barks-99-cartoonist/painter-writer and authoer of first Donald Duck stories, creator of Scrooge McDuck
Aaliyah-22-singer/actress-Queen of the Damned
John McCain-81-US senator/war hero-Silver Star, Bronze Star Medal, Purple Heart, Legion of Merit, Distinguished Flying Cross
Philippe Léotard-60-La Balance, French Connection II
Hans van Tongeren-27-Spetters-played a character who committed suicide, was just given a role in an upcoming movie where character commits suicide. A few days later he committed suicide.
Marvin Kaplan-89-character actor
Henri Becquerel-55-discovered radioactivity
Jack Nitzsche-63-musician/composer-Performance, The Exorcist, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Cruising, An Officer and a Gentlemen, Starman, co-wrote "Up Where We Belong"
William W. Seay-19-Vietnam War hero, Medal of Honor, Purple Heart-in one 9 hour ambush he killed one sniper, shot two enemies, while under fire retrieved 2 grenades and threw them back at the enemy killing many, while being severely wounded stood up and killed 3 more of the enemy using his left hand. As a result of this he was killed by another sniper. All at the age of 19.
Archibald "Moonlight" Graham-baseball player/doctor-made famous in the novel "Shoeless Joe" and the movie "Field of Dreams". Every year he would get eye glasses and give free checkups and glasses to the miner's children.
Louise Clarke-62-member of the dance troupe Pan's People from Tops of the Pops
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NZer — 6 years ago(August 26, 2019 12:50 AM)
Neil Armstrong knew how to fly airplane before he got a driver’s license
There are no really good pictures of Neil Armstrong on the moon
He was more concerned about landing on the moon rather than walking on it
When Armstrong surveyed the surface of the Moon, he carried a bag worth $1.8 million.
Neil Armstrong and his fellow Apollo 11 astronauts had to spend three weeks in Quarantine.
Neil Armstrong died in a Cincinnati hospital two weeks after undergoing heart surgery in 2012, his family released a touching tribute addressing the astronaut’s millions of admirers around the globe. -
Thanatos — 6 years ago(July 24, 2019 10:50 PM)
Peter Sellers-54
Sherman Hemsley-74-The Jeffersons, Amen
Constance Bennett-60-Topper, Escape to Glory
Christine Chubbuck-29-news reporter-first person to commit suicide on live television
Archie Duncan-65-Sherlock Holmes, The Adventures of Robin Hood
Virginia Christine-76-Judgement at Nuremberg, Mrs. Olson the Folgers coffee lady
Brian Glover-63-Alien 3, The Company of Wolves
Maurice Denham-92-character actor
Chaney Kley-34-The Shield, Darkness Falls
Larry Hoppen-61-musician-Orleans
Jane White-88-Klute, Beloved
Chad Everett-75-Medical Center, Airplane 2
Dan Peek-60-musician-America
He that dies pays all debts -
Thanatos — 6 years ago(July 25, 2019 11:22 PM)
John Schlesinger-77-director/actor-Billy Liar, Marathon Man, Midnight Cowboy, Darling
Judith Barsi-10- Jaws: The Revenge, The Land Before Time, All Dogs Go to Heaven-killed by her father
Dora Maar-89-photographer/painter-model for and had a relationship with Pablo Picasso
Nan Grey-75-Dracula's Daughter, The Invisible Man Returns
Patti Deutsch-73-Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In, Match Game
Vincente Minnelli-83-director-Gigi, Meet Me in St. Louis, An American in Paris, Lust For Life-father of Liza Minnelli
Michael Cacoyannis-89-director-Zorba the Greek, Electra
Erik Brann-52-musician-Iron Butterfly
Charlie Rich-62-singer/songwriter-Behind Closed Doors, The Most Beautiful Girl
Bernadette Lafont-74-Les Mistons, Le beau Serge
Michael Johnson-72-singer/songwriter-Bluer Than Blue
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Thanatos — 6 years ago(June 30, 2019 10:14 PM)
Lillian Hellman-79-playwright/screenwriter-Watch on the Rhine, Toys in the Attic, Another Part of the Forest, The Children's Hour, The Little Foxes
Mary Livingstone-75-actress/comedian-married to Jack Benny
James Dewar-88-invented the Twinkie
Buddy Hackett-78-actor/comedian-The Music Man, It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
Bob Hastings-89-McHale's Navy, The Boatniks
Herbert Biberman-71-screenwriter/director-Salt of the Earth
King Donovan-69-character actor
George McFarland (Spanky)-64-Little Rascals
Gale Gordon-89-The Lucy Show, Our Miss Brooks
Harve Presnell-75-The Unsinkable Molly Brown, Fargo
Paul Mazursky-89-screenwriter/director-An Unmarried Woman, Harry and Tonto
Chet Atkins-77-singer/songwriter
Belzec Holocaust Memorial-extermination camp destroyed in 1943-We remember the almost 600,000 people who were murdered there and the 7 people who escaped
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Thanatos — 6 years ago(June 29, 2019 06:41 PM)
Katharine Hepburn-96
Lana Turner-74
Jayne Mansfield-34
Roscoe Arbuckle-46
Ronald Shiner-63-Aunt Clara, See How They Ran
Bob Crane-49-Hogan's Heroes
Tim Buckley-28-musician-father of Jeff Buckley who died at age 30
William Hickey-69-Prizzi's Honor, Christmas Vacation
Jim Kelly-67-Black Belt Jones, Hot Potato
Vittorio Gassman-77-La Grande Guerra, The Miracle
Rosemary Clooney-74-singer/actress-White Christmas
François Périer-82-Nights of Cabria, Z, Le Cercle Rouge
Lowell George-34-musician-Little Feat
Joel Siegel-63-film critic
Don S. Davis-65-Stargate SG-1, Twin Peaks
Liliane Montevecchi-85-King Creole, The Young Lions
George McCorkle-59-musician-Marshall Tucker Band
*Jeon Mi-seon-48-Memories of Murder, Love is a Crazy Thing
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Thanatos — 7 years ago(February 20, 2019 09:37 PM)
Gene Siskel-53-film critic
Sandra Dee-62-Gidget, A Summer Place
Max Schreck-56-Nosferatu
Rosemary DeCamp-90-3 Ghosts, Cheers for Miss Bishop
Dick York-30-Inherit the Wind, Bewitched
Halliwell Hobbes-84-Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, You Can't Take It With You
Hunter S. Thompson-67-journalist/author-Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Clarence Nash-80-voice actor-voice of Donald Duck
Anthony Asquith-65-director-Pygmalion, The Importance of Being Earnest
Robert Strauss-61-Stalag 17, The Seven Year Itch
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Thanatos — 7 years ago(February 19, 2019 10:42 PM)
Stanley Kramer-87-director-The Defiant Ones, Judgment at Nuremberg
Harper Lee-89-author-To Kill a Mockingbird
Paul Stewart-77-Citizen Kane, The Window
Adolfo Celi-63-actro/director-Thunderball, Von Ryan's Express
Bon Scott-33-ACDC
John Howard-81-Lost Horizon, The Philadelphia Story
Brenda Bruce-76-My Brother's Keeper
Janet Blair-85-My Sister Eileen
Grandpa Jones-84-singer/entertainer- Hee Haw
Kelly Groucutt-63-musician-ELO
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Thanatos — 7 years ago(February 17, 2019 12:38 AM)
Lila Kedrova-90-Zorba the Greek, Torn Curtain
Len Lesser-88-Seinfeld, Everybody Loves Raymond
Louise Allbritton-58-The Egg and I
Roger Bowen-63-MASH, What About Bob
Lesley Gore-singer/actress-It's My Party
Serge Merlin-86-Amelie, Tusk
He that dies pays all debts
