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People Whose Last Names Start With N
N!xau (bushman/actor) -- Dead. Died July 5, 2003. Born March 17, 1944. The unlikely star of The Gods Must Be Crazy, died on the same day as Herbie Mann. IMDb
Jim Nabors
(singer/actor) -- Alive.
Born June 12, 1933. Still performing, has a second-hand liver, best-known as Gomer Pyle.
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Jack Nance
(actor) -- Dead. Murdered. Died December 30, 1996.
Born December 21, 1943. Rubbed out..
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Alan Napier (actor) -- Dead. Died August 8, 1988. Born January 7, 1903. Alfred on Batman. IMDb
John Nash
(mathematician) --
Born June 13, 1928. Game theorist who won the Nobel Prize for Mathematics in 1994; he also suffered from schizophrenia for many years, which served as the basis for A Beautiful Mind.
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Ilie Nastase (athlete) -- Alive. Born July 19, 1946. Earlier report to the contrary was the first known error on this page. See Vitas Gerulaitis
Terry Nation (writer) -- Dead. Died March 9, 1997. Born August 8, 1930. Wrote many Dalek episodes of Dr. Who and most of Blake 7. IMDb
Mildred Natwick (actress) -- Dead. Old age. Died October 25, 1994. Born June 19, 1908. IMDb
Patricia Neal (actress) -- Alive. Born January 20, 1926. The Day the Earth Stood Still, ex-wife of Roald Dahl. IMDb
Roy Neal (TV journalist) -- Dead. After heart surgery. Died August 15, 2003. Born circa 1921. NASA correspondent. Obituary IMDb
Alice Neel
(artist) -- Dead. Died October 13, 1984.
Born January 28, 1900. Bohemian artist who painted (and lived!) large...
Liam Neeson (actor) -- Alive. Born June 7, 1952. Brilliant as Oskar in Schindler's List, he was also great in Kinsey and The Bounty, was married to Natasha Richardson for nearly 15 years. IBDB IMDb
A. S. Neill (headmaster/writer) -- Dead. Died September 23, 1973. Born October 17, 1883. Started an early progressive school, Summerhill.
Noel Neill (actress) -- Alive. Born November 25, 1920. Lois Lane in the '50s version of Superman. IMDb
Barry Nelson (actor) -- Dead. Died April 7, 2007. Born April 16, 1920. Stuart Ullman in The Shining, Airport, died on the same day as Johnny Hart. IBDB IMDb FindAGrave
David Nelson (former actor) -- Alive. Born October 24, 1936. IMDb
Gene Nelson (actor/dancer) -- Dead. Cancer. Died September 16, 1996. Born March 24, 1920. Will Parker in Oklahoma!. IMDb
Harriet Hilliard Nelson (actress) -- Dead. Congestive heart failure. Died October 2, 1994. Born July 18, 1909. IMDb
Ozzie Nelson (actor) -- Dead. Died June 3, 1975. Born March 20, 1906. IMDb
Ricky Nelson (singer) -- Dead. Plane crash. Died December 31, 1985. Born May 8, 1940. Father of Tracy Nelson and the Nelsons (twin singers). IMDb
Ruth Nelson (actress) -- Dead. Old age. Died September 12, 1992. Born August 2, 1905. Leonard's mother in Awakenings. IMDb
Willie Nelson (singer) -- Alive. Born April 30, 1933. "You Were Always On My Mind," still organizing FarmAid. IMDb
Michael Nesmith
(producer, singer) -- Alive.
Born December 30, 1942. Former Monkee.
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Benjamin Netanyahu (politician) -- Alive. Born October 21, 1949. May be politically dead - former prime minister of Israel, former NBC political commentator.
Lois Nettleton (actress) -- Dead. Lung cancer. Died January 18, 2008. Born August 6, 1927. Busy TV and Broadway actress who starred in a classic Twilight Zone episode "The Midnight Sun." IBDB IMDb Obituary
Louise Nevelson (sculptor) -- Dead. Brain tumor. Died April 17, 1988. Born September 23, 1899.
Bob Newhart (low-key actor, ex-accountant) -- Alive. Born September 5, 1929. Only seems to be dead... IMDb
Anthony Newley (singer, actor, composer) -- Dead. Renal cell cancer. Died April 14, 1999. Born September 24, 1931. Wrote "The Candyman" an ex-husband of Joan Collins. IMDb
Edwin Newman (journalist/writer) -- Alive. Born January 25, 1919. Early NBC newscaster, speaks strictly.... IMDb
Laraine Newman (comic) -- Alive. Born March 2, 1952. SNL alum. IMDb
Paul Newman
(philanthropist/actor/race car driver) -- Dead. Lung cancer. Died September 26, 2008.
Born January 26, 1925. Versatile actor married to Joanne Woodward.
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Phyllis Newman
(actress) -- Alive.
Born March 19, 1933. Broadway actress who was great on the '60s panel shows like To Tell the Truth, returned to bit parts in films since the '90s, married to Adolph Green from 1960 until his death in 2002.
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Julie Newmar
(actress) -- Alive.
Born August 16, 1933. mmmMMMRow! The first Catwoman on TV's Batman.
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Robert Newmyer (producer) -- Dead. Heart attack. Died December 12, 2005. Born circa 1956. Produced award-winning movies like Sex, Lies and Videotape and Training Day and Lost Boys of the Sudan. Make memorial contributions to: the Bobby Newmyer Memorial Fund (used to further his work with Sudanese refugees), c/o Outlaw Productions, 3599 Beverly Glen Terr, Sherman Oaks, CA 91423. IMDb
Tommy Newsom
(saxophonist/arranger) -- Dead. Died April 28, 2007.
Born February 25, 1929. The subdued substitute bandleader during the Carson years of The Tonight Show, dubbed Mr. Excitement by Johnny Carson,
died on the same day as Dabbs Greer.
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Helmut Newton
(photographer) -- Dead. Car accident. Died January 23, 2004.
Born October 31, 1920. "Erotic" and Vogue photographer,
died on the same day as Bob Keeshan.
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Haing S. Ngor (doctor/actor) -- Dead. Random Act of Senseless Violence. Murdered. Died February 25, 1996. Born March 22, 1940. Though he'd never acted before professionally, he co-starred in The Killing Fields and won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor. IMDb
Denise Nicholas
(actress) -- Alive.
Born July 12, 1944. Room 222, In the Heat of the Night.
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Fayard Nicholas
(dancer/choreographer) -- Dead. Stroke/pneumonia. Died January 24, 2006.
Born October 20, 1914. Great dancer, one of
the Nicholas Brothers,
died on the same day as Chris Penn.
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Harold Nicholas
(dancer) -- Dead. Heart failure. Died July 3, 2000.
Born March 27, 1921. Great dancer, one of
the Nicholas Brothers, married to Dorothy Dandridge.
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Nichelle Nichols
(actress) -- Alive.
Born December 28, 1933. Uhura in Star Trek, served as a recruiter for NASA in the '80s.
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Leslie Nielsen (actor) -- Alive. Born February 11, 1926. Formerly a serious actor until he exclaimed "Stop calling me Shirley!" on Airplane. IMDb
Birgit Nilsson
(opera singer) -- Dead. Died December 25, 2005.
Born May 17, 1918. Known for many soprano roles, particularly Isolde.
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Harry Nilsson
(singer/songwriter) -- Dead. Heart failure. Died January 15, 1994.
Born June 15, 1941. Sang
"Everybody's Talkin'"
for Midnight Cowboy, wrote the music for the movie Popeye.
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Leonard Nimoy (director/actor) -- Alive. Born March 26, 1931. I Am Not Spock. IMDb
Anais Nin
(author) -- Dead. Ovarian cancer. Died January 14, 1977.
Born February 21, 1903. Wrote Henry and June.
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David Niven
(elegant actor) -- Dead. ALS. Died July 29, 1983.
Born March 1, 1910. Phileas Fogg in Around the World in eghty Days, made a memorable ad-lib about a steaker's shortcomings in the 1974 Oscar telecast,
died on the same day as Raymond Massey.
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Larry Niven (writer) -- Alive. Born April 29, 1938. Ringworld. IMDb
Marni Nixon (singing voice) -- Alive. Born February 22, 1929. Her singing replaced the voices of Audrey Hepburn, Natalie Wood and Deborah Kerr in musicals. IMDb
Pat Nixon
(political spouse) -- Dead. Cancer. Died June 22, 1993.
Born March 16, 1912.
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Richard M. Nixon
(resigned president) -- Dead. Stroke. Died April 22, 1994.
Born January 9, 1913. Responsible for Watergate, but also helped open relations with China.
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Jeanette Nolan (actress) -- Dead. Stroke. Died June 5, 1998. Born December 30, 1911. Ended a very long career with a performance as Robert Redford's mother in The Horse Whisperer, married to John McIntire. IMDb
Lloyd Nolan (actor) -- Dead. Died September 27, 1985. Born August 11, 1902. Last movie: Hannah and Her Sisters, playing their father. IMDb
Nick Nolte (actor) -- Alive. Born February 8, 1941. Down and Out in Beverly Hills (not just a movie role anymore?). IMDb
Peter Noone
(singer) -- Alive.
Born November 5, 1947. Lead singer for Herman's Hermits.
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Tenzing Norgay
(mountaineer) -- Dead. Died May 9, 1986.
Born May 15, 1914. Led Sir Edmund Hillary up Mt. Everest in 1953, becoming the first men to make it to the top.
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Jay North (former kid actor) -- Alive. Born August 3, 1951. Dennis the Menace. IMDb
Sheree North (actress) -- Dead. Surgical complications. Died November 4, 2005. Born January 17, 1933. A glamour girl and comic actress in the '50s and '60s, she went on to play Kramer's mother in Seinfeld. IBDB IMDb FindAGrave
Robert Northshield (TV news producer) -- Dead. Died August 21, 2000. Born circa 1922. He created Sunday Morning and On the Road, won a du Pont - Columbia Award for an NBC documentary. IMDb
Andre Norton
(writer) -- Dead. Pneumonia. Died March 17, 2005.
Born February 17, 1912. Wrote many fantasy and young adult books (Witch World series), mentored hundreds of young writers.
Make memorial contributions to: Saint Jude Children's Hospital or Veterinary Services, c/o The Noah Fund, PO Box 10128, Murfreesboro, TN 37129.
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Graham Norton
(comic/gabfest host) -- Loud!
Born April 4, 1963. Wild man of British TV.
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Mary Norton
(writer) -- Dead. Died August 29, 1992.
Born December 10, 1903. Bonfires and Broomsticks (later filmed as
Bedknobs and Broomsticks) and The Borrowers.
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Kim Novak (actress) -- Alive. Born February 13, 1933. IMDb
Dr. Antonia Novello (former Surgeon General) -- Alive. Born August 23, 1944. First woman or Hispanic to be US Surgeon General, sister-in-law of Don Novello.
Don Novello (comic/writer) -- Alive. Born January 1, 1943. Father Guido Sarducci on SNL and creator of the Lazlo Letters and Citizen Lazlo books. IMDb
Robert Noyce
(engineer) -- Dead. Heart attack. Died June 3, 1990.
Born December 12, 1927. Invented the semiconductor, co-founder of Intel.
Trevor Nunn
(director) -- Alive.
Born January 14, 1940. Directed many Shakespearean plays (including Othello and Ian McKellen's King Lear, was married to Janet Suzman, currently married to Imogen Stubbs.
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Rudolf Nureyev (dancer) -- Dead. AIDS. Died January 6, 1993. Born March 17, 1938. A ballet genius and Soviet defector, died on the same day as Dizzy Gillespie. IMDb
Carrie Nye (actress) -- Dead. Lung cancer. Died July 14, 2006. Born October 14, 1936. Stage actress who occassionally made movies (Divorce His/Divorce Hers), was married to Dick Cavett for over 40 years. IBDB IMDb
Louis Nye (comic) -- Dead. Lung cancer. Died October 9, 2005. Born May 1, 1913. Played many con men in comedies, came up with the greeting "Hi, ho, Steverino!" for Steve Allen. IBDB IMDb Obituary
Laura Nyro (singer) -- Dead. Ovarian cancer. Died April 8, 1997. Born October 18, 1947.
Sven Nykvist (cinemetographer) -- Dead. Died September 20, 2006. Born December 3, 1922. Worked on many Bergman films, won Oscars for Cries and Whispers and Fanny and Alexander. IMDb Obituary