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April 8-April 14

Stuart Sutcliffe (Beatle bassist) -- Dead. Aneurysm. Died April 10, 1962. Born June 23, 1940. Played with the Beatles from 1960 until his untimely death in 1962.  Wikipedia  twitter  FindAGrave

March 4-March 10

Nelson Eddy (actor/singer) -- Dead. Stroke (while performing). Died March 6, 1967. Born June 29, 1901. Sang in many light operas (Naughty Marietta) and was frequently paired with Jeanette MacDonald.  Home Page  Wikipedia  twitter  IMDb  FindAGrave

Jeanette MacDonald (actress/singer) -- Dead. Heart attack. Died January 14, 1965. Born June 18, 1903. Sang in many light operas (Naughty Marietta) and was frequently paired with Jeanette MacDonald.  Home Page  Wikipedia  twitter  IMDb  FindAGrave

Richard M. Sherman (songwriter) -- Alive. Born June 12, 1928. With his brother Robert, he wrote iconic music for Disney ("It's a Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow") and the score for Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.  Home Page  Wikipedia  twitter  IBDB  IMDb

February 12-February 18

Joan Blondell (actress) -- Dead. Leukemia. Died December 25, 1979. Born August 30, 1906. In many movies in the '30s, like The Public Enemy, and starred in the '60s TV show Here Comes the Brides, an ex-wife of Michael Todd.  Wikipedia  twitter  IBDB  IMDb  FindAGrave

Mike Todd (producer) -- Dead. Small plane crash. Died March 22, 1958. Born June 6, 1909. Developed the Todd-AO sound sustem and produced Around the World in 80 Days, married to Joan Blondell, and for the last year of his life, Elizabeth Taylor.  Wikipedia  IMDb  Obituary  FindAGrave

February 5-February 11

Roger Boisjoly (engineer/ethics lecturer) -- Dead. Cancer Died January 6, 2012. Born April 25, 1938. A Morton Thiokol engineer who argued against launching the Challenger in January 1986 as he believed the O-rings would fail due to the cold. He was overruled. Despite the fact he was right, NASA made it hard for him to work in the industry after he resigned form Morton Thiokol (now ATK Space Systems). Received the AAAS Scientific Freedom and Responsibility Award in 1988.  Wikipedia  twitter  IMDb  Obituary

King George VI (king) -- Dead. Cornary thrombosis/cancer. Died February 1, 2012. Born December 14, 1895. King of England after his brother Edward abdicated, married to one Elizabeth, father of Elizabeth II.  Wikipedia  Obituary  FindAGrave

Allan J. McDonald (aerospace executive) -- Alive. Born circa 1937. The Morton Thiokol (now ATK Space Systems) executive who refused to sign off on launching the Chllanger due to O-ring concerns, he was overruled by higher-ups and NASA. Later wrote Truth, Lies and O-Rings.  Home Page

John von Neumann (genius) -- Dead. Cancer. Died February 8, 1957. Born December 28, 1903. Leading scholar in many areas, including mathematics, physics, game theory and computer theory.  Home Page  Wikipedia  twitter  Obituary  FindAGrave

January 29-February 4

Mason Wiley (writer) -- Dead. AIDS Died October 7, 1994. Born circa 1955. Co-writer of Inside Oscar, one of the writers of The Official Preppy Handbook.  Obituary

January 15-January 21

Mary Ellen Avery (physician) -- Dead. Died December 4, 2011. Born May 6, 1927. Developed a treatment for respiratory distress syndrome which saved many premature babies, first pediatrician to lead the American Association for the Advancement of Science, died same day as Marion Dougherty.  Home Page  Wikipedia  Obituary  FindAGrave

January 8-January 14

Richard Gautier (actor/cartoon voice) -- Alive. Born October 31, 1931. TV actor in the '60s (especially Hymie, the robot in Get Smart, many cartoon voices in the '80s (especially Sepentor in G. I. Joe), ex-husband of Barbara Stuart.  Home Page  Wikipedia  IMDb

Curly Howard (stooge) -- Dead. Cerebral hemmorhage/strokes. Died January 18, 1952. Born October 22, 1903. The manic member of The Three Stooges, youngest brother of Moe and Shemp, shaved his head when he was told he didn't look funny enough.  Home Page  Wikipedia  twitter  IMDb  FindAGrave

Shemp Howard (stooge) -- Dead. Heart attack. Died November 23, 1955. Born March 17, 1895. While originally in a vaudeville act with his brother Moe and Larry Fine, he wound up doing other movies and his youngest brother Curly joined the stooge act, which Shemp rejoined after Curly's death.  Home Page  Wikipedia  twitter  IMDb  FindAGrave

Barbara Stuart (actress) -- Dead. Died May 15, 2011. Born January 3, 1930. Semi-regular on TV shows for 50 years, from The Great Gildersleve (Bessie) to Gomer Pyle (Bunny) to Huff (Alice), ex-wife of Richard Gautier.  Wikipedia  IMDb  Obituary  FindAGrave

January 1-January 7

Oliver Hardy (comic) -- Dead. Cerebral thrombosis. Died August 7, 1957. Born January 18, 1892. The talkative half of Laurel and Hardy  Home Page  Wikipedia  twitter  IMDb  FindAGrave

Laura Ingalls Wilder (farmer/writer) -- Dead. Died February 10, 1957. Born February 7, 1867 . Started writing her "Little House" books after losing her money in the 1929 stock market crash.  Home Page  Wikipedia  twitter  IMDb  FindAGrave

December 25-December 31

James Hilton (writer) -- Dead. Liver cancer. Died December 20, 1954. Born September 9, 1900. Wrote Lost Horizon and Goodbye Mr. Chips, adapted the screenplay for Mrs. Miniver.  Wikipedia  twitter  IBDB  IMDb  FindAGrave

Arturo Toscanini (conductor) -- Dead. Died January 16, 1957. Born March 25, 1867. Longtime conductor of the NBC Symphony Orchestra, conducted the world premieres of Puccini's La Boheme and Barber's Adagio for Strings.  Home Page  Wikipedia  twitter  IMDb  Obituary  FindAGrave

December 11-December 17

Humphrey Bogart (actor) -- Dead. Esophageal cancer. Died January 14, 1957. Born December 25, 1899. Upper class kid who played crooks, detectives and won an Oscar for playing the captain of a small, leaky boat on a long tropical river (African Queen), married to Lauren Bacall for nearly 12 years.  Home Page  Wikipedia  twitter  IBDB  IMDb  Obituary  FindAGrave

Moss Hart (playwright/director) -- Dead. Heart failure. Died December 20, 1961. Born October 24, 1904. Co-wrote (with George S. Kaufman) the classics You Can't Take it With You and The Man Who Came to Dinner, directed the Broadway debuts of My Fair Lady and Camelot, married to Kitty Carlisle Hart.  Wikipedia  twitter  IBDB  IMDb  FindAGrave

Grandma Moses (artist) -- Dead. Died December 13, 1961. September 7, 1860. Farmer who took up painting rustic rural scenes in her late 70s, popularizing primative art.  Wikipedia  twitter  IMDb  Obituary  FindAGrave

Alan Turing (uber geek) -- Dead. Suicide (cyanide). Died June 7, 1954. Born June 23, 1912. Developed concepts like AI and neural nets and the basic machines later used to break the German's Enigma code during WWII, lost his security clearance for being gay.  Home Page  Home Page  Wikipedia  twitter  Obituary  FindAGrave

December 4-December 10

Dr. Ralph Bunche (political scientist, professor) -- Dead. Diabetes. Died December 10, 1971. Born August 7, 1904. Professor, writer and informal advisor to Presdident Truman, Bunche worked extensively for the United Nations and won the Nobel Peace Prize for helping to negotiate a peace in Palestine in 1949. In 1936, he wrote "And so class will some day supplant race in world affairs. Race war will then be merely a side-show to the gigantic class war which will be waged in the big tent we call the world."  Home Page  twitter  IMDb  Obituary  FindAGrave

Edgar Rice Burroughs (writer) -- Dead. Died March 19, 1950. Born September 1, 1875. Writer of Tarzan, Mars, Barsoom and other popular series.  Home Page  twitter  IMDb  Obituary  FindAGrave

Al Jolson (singer/actor) -- Dead. Heart attack (while playing cards). Died October 23, 1950. Born May 26, 1886. Vaudevillean who went on to star in the first all-talking, full-length movie The Jazz Singer, married for a few years to Ruby Keeler.  Home Page    IBDB  IMDb  Obituary  FindAGrave

Sinclair Lewis (writer) -- Dead. Alcoholism. Died January 10, 1951. Born February 7, 1885. Wrote Babbitt, Arrowsmith and Elmer Gantry; first American to win the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1930. Famously said "When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying the cross."  Home Page  Home Page  twitter  IBDB  IMDb  FindAGrave

Hattie McDaniel (actress) -- Dead. Breast cancer Died October 26, 1952. Born June 10, 1895. Popular in movies and on radio, she was the first black woman to win a Best Supporting Actress Oscar.  Home Page  twitter  IMDb  FindAGrave

Dorothy Thompson (journalist) -- Dead. CA Died January 30, 1960. Born July 9, 1893. The only female journalist to have been thrown out of Nazi Germany for her reporting, married for a few years to Sinclair Lewis. "When liberty is taken away by force it can be restored by force. When it is relinquished voluntarily by default it can never be recovered."  Home Page  twitter  IMDb