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People Whose Last Names Start With V
Roger Vadim (director) -- Dead. Cancer. Died February 11, 2000. Born January 26, 1928. Famous for And God Created Woman, ex-husband of Bridgitte Bardot and Jane Fonda. IMDb FindAGrave
Sigrid Valdis (actress) -- Dead. Lung cancer. Died October 14, 2007. Born September 21, 1935. Hilda on Hogan's Heroes, married to Bob Crane. IMDb Obituary FindAGrave
Michael Vale (commercial baker) -- Dead. Diabetes. Died December 24, 2005. Born June 28, 1922. Stage actor best-known for the "Time to Make the Doughnuts" slogan in Dunkin Donuts ads. IBDB IMDb
Jack Valenti
(former MPAA chief) -- Dead. Stroke. Died April 26, 2007.
Born September 5, 1921. Political advisor, helped develop film ratings, novelist, and speaker at many Oscar ceremonies.
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Karen Valentine (actress) -- Alive. Born May 25, 1947. Room 222 and many made-for-TV movies. IMDb
Rudy Vallee (singer/actor) -- Dead. Died July 3, 1986. Born July 28, 1901. IMDb FindAGrave
Frankie Valli
(singer) -- Alive.
Born May 3, 1937. Had a life beyond the Four Seasons, lots of early '60s music, especially
"Big Girls Don't Cry."
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Raf Vallone (actor) -- Dead. Died October 31, 2002. Born February 17, 1916. Italian actor in many movies including El Cid and Godfather III. IMDb FindAGrave
Vampira
(TV icon) -- Dead. Cardiac arrest. Died January 10, 2008.
Born December 21, 1921. Obscure actress wanna-be who turned a Halloween costume into a brief TV career as a movie host, real name: Maila Syrjaniemi,
died on the same day as Christopher Bowman.
Make memorial contributions to: Much Love Animal Rescue.
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Bobby Van (actor, dancer) -- Dead. Cancer. Died July 31, 1980. Born December 6, 1930. Kiss Me Kate. IMDb FindAGrave
James Van Allen
(teacher/astronomer) -- Dead. Died August 9, 2006.
Born September 7, 1914. Developed instruments to record conditions in space; discovered the Van Allen radiation belt.
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Hendrikje van Andel-Schipper
(oldest person on Earth) -- Dead. Died August 30, 2005.
Born June 29, 1890. Oldest, well-documented person in 2004-2005, Dutch soccer fan, ate herring.
Wernher von Braun
(physicist) -- Dead. Cancer. Died June 15, 1977.
Born March 23, 1912. Father of Modern Rocketry.
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Abigail Van Buren
(advice columnist) -- Dead. Died January 16, 2013.
Born July 4, 1918. "Dear Abby..." (column now written by her
daughter Jeanne) but her real name was Pauline Friedman Phillips
and she was the twin sister of Ann
Landers, died same day as Andre Cassagnes.
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Lee Van Cleef (actor) -- Dead. Heart attack. Died December 14, 1989. Born January 9, 1925. Tough-guy actor, died on the same day as Andrei Sakharov and Jock Mahoney. IMDb FindAGrave
Charles Van Doren
(author) --
Born February 12, 1926. Wrote A History of Knowledge, long-time editor for Encyclopeadia Britannica, he first became famous as part of the quiz show scandals of the late '50s.
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Mamie Van Doren (actress) -- Born February 6, 1931. Teacher's Pet, B movie actress. IMDb
Dick Van Dyke
(actor) -- Alive.
Born December 13, 1925. The Dick Van Dyke Show
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Jerry Van Dyke (comic sidekick) -- Alive. Born July 27, 1932. IMDb
Jo Van Fleet (actress) -- Dead. Died June 10, 1996. Born December 30, 1919. IMDb
Theo van Gogh
(director) -- Dead. Murdered by terrorists. Died November 2, 2004.
Born July 23, 1957. Dutch filmmaker who made a controversial film about abuse of Islamic women and received death threats for it, great grandnephew of Vincent van Gogh.
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Dick Van Patten
(actor) -- Dead. Complications of diabetes.
Died June 23, 2015
Born December 9, 1928. Eight is Enough, a bunch of Mel
Brooks movies, brother of Joyce Van Patten, half-brother of
Timothy Van Patten.
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Joyce Van Patten
(actress) -- Alive. Born March 9, 1934. Performed on hundreds of TV episodes for nearly 70 years,
sister of Dick Van Patten, half-sister of Timoty Van Patten.
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Timothy Van Patten
(actor) -- Alive. Born June 10, 1959. Directed 20 episodes of
The Sopranos, 18 episodes of Boardwalk Empire and
the first 2 episodes of
Game of Thrones, half-brother of Joyce Van Patten and Dick Van Patten.
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Don "Captain Beefheart" Van Vliet
(avant garde musician/artist) -- Dead. Multicple sclerosis. Died December 17, 2010. Born January 15, 1941.
Influential musician and longtime friend of Frank Zappa, probalby best-known for Trout Mask Replica.
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A. E. van Vogt (writer) -- Dead. Pneumonia/Alzheimer's. Died January 26, 2000. Born April 26, 1912. Slan and The World of Null-A. AwardWeb
Townes Van Zandt (singer/songwriter) -- Dead. Died January 1, 1997. Born March 7, 1944. FindAGrave
Danitra Vance (comic) -- Dead. Breast cancer. Died August 21, 1994. Born July 13, 1954. SNL alum. IMDb
Jack Vance
(writer) -- Dead. Died May 26, 2013. Born August 28, 1916. Wrote SF and mysteries and a charming autobiography.
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Paul Vance
(songwriter) -- Not dead yet. Born circa 1930. Co-wrote
"Itsy Bitsy Teeny Weeny Yellow Polka Dot Bikini,"
"Catch a Falling Star," sang in The Cuff Links.
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Vivian Vance (comic sidekick) -- Dead. Cancer. Died August 17, 1979. Born July 26, 1909. Lucy's sidekick Ethel in I Love Lucy. IMDb FindAGrave
Jean Vander Pyl
(cartoon voice) -- Dead. Lung cancer. Died April 10, 1999. Born circa 1920. Wilma in
The Flintstones and many others.
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Gloria Vanderbilt
(businesswoman/artist) -- Alive.
Born February 20, 1924. She's had both an interesting and tragic life, four husbands (including Sidney Lumet), mother of CNN reporter Anderson Cooper, jeans marketer.
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Luther Vandross
(smooth singer) -- Dead. [rumors] Died July 1, 2005.
Born April 20, 1951.
"Here and Now," lapsed into a coma following a stroke on April 16, 2003, recovered somewhat but died just over two years later.
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Jim Varney (actor) -- Dead. Lung cancer. Died February 10, 2000. Born June 15, 1949. Ernest, Jed in the Beverly Hillbillies remake and the voice of Slinky Dog in the Toy Story movies. IMDb FindAGrave
Dorothy Vaughan
(NACA "computer"/FORTRAN programmer) -- Dead.
Died November 10, 2008. Born Septmber 20, 1910. Worked for
National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics during WWII as a
"computer," became the first black manager and later a FORTRAN
programmer for NASA, portrayed in Hidden Figures, died
same day as Miriam Makeba.
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Frankie Vaughan (singer/actor) -- Dead. Heart ailment. Died September 17, 1999. Born February 3, 1928. "Kisses Sweeter Than Wine," co-starred in an old Marilyn Monroe flick Let's Make Love. IMDb Obituary
Norman Vaughan
(adventurer) -- Dead. Died December 23, 2005.
Born December 19, 1905. Went to the South Pole with Admiral Byrd, participated in many Iditarods in his 70s and 80s, climbed a mountain in Antarctica when he was 88.
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Robert Vaughn
(actor) -- Dead. Died November 11, 2016.
Born November 22, 1932. A Man from U.N.C.L.E., The
Towering Inferno, earned a Ph.D. in Communication Philosophy
in 1972 (his dissertation: "Only Victims: A Study of Show Business Blacklisting"), had a professional acting career that lasted nearly 60
years.
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Sarah Vaughan (singer) -- Dead. Lung cancer. Died April 3, 1990. Born March 27, 1924. Sarah Vaughn's Finest Hour. IMDb FindAGrave
Stevie Ray Vaughan (musician) -- Dead. Helicopter crash. Died August 27, 1990. Born October 3, 1954. Greatest Hits. IMDb FindAGrave
Vera-Ellen (actress) -- Dead. Cancer. Died August 30, 1981. Born February 16, 1926. IMDb FindAGrave
Jesse Ventura
(governor/actor/wrestler) -- Alive.
Born July 15, 1951. Minnesota's former governor can lick your governor!.
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Gwen Verdon
(actress/dancer) -- Dead. Died October 18, 2000.
Born January 13, 1925. Damn Yankees, Cocoon, married to Bob Fosse.
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died on the same day as Julie London.
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Jackie Vernon (comic) -- Dead. Died November 10, 1987. Born March 29, 1924.
John Vernon (actor) -- Dead. After heart surgery. Died February 1, 2005. Born February 24, 1932. Dean Wormer on Animal House, heard in many video games. IBDB IMDb
Gianni Versace (fashion designer) -- Dead. Murder. Died July 15, 1997. Born December 2, 1946. FindAGrave
Sid Vicious (punk musician/murderer) -- Dead. Drugs (heroin overdose). Died February 2, 1979. Born May 10, 1957. Murdered his equally drugged-out girlfriend, then died during her trial. IMDb
Gore Vidal
(writer) -- Dead. Pneumonia. Died July 31, 2012. Born October 3, 1925. Wrote as Edgar Box
after his controversial novel The City and the Pillar (a fairly tame novel on homosexuality) blacklisted him,
wrote other novels (Julian, Myra Breckenridge), plays (Visit to a Small Planet) and commentaries.
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Meredith Vieira (reporter) -- Alive. Born December 30, 1951. 60 Minutes and The View. IMDb
Abe Vigoda
(actor) -- Dead. [Rumor]
Old age. Died January 26, 2016.
Born February 24, 1921. Fish on Barney Miller, rumored as
dead for the first time by People Magazine in the early '80s.
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Herve Villechaize (actor) --Dead. Suicide. Died September 4, 1993. Born April 23, 1943. IMDb
Jan-Michael Vincent (actor) -- Breathing. Born July 15, 1944. Survived multiple car accidents, but may still be drinking.... IMDb
Bobby Vinton
(singer) -- Alive.
Born April 16, 1935. The only singer to ever have a top ten song with a Polish title (AKA "The Melody of Love"), one of many singers with a theater in Branson, MO.
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Joe Viterelli (mob actor) -- Dead. Died January 29, 2004. Born March 10, 1937. Jelly in the Analyze... movies, brought into movies by Sean Penn, died on the same day as Mary-Ellis Bunim IMDb
Lucy O'Donnell Vodden (Beatles inspiration) -- Dead. Lupus. Died September 22, 2009. Born circa 1963. Helped inspire John Lennon's most elliptical title "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds." IMDb Obituary
Nedra Volz (actress) -- Dead. Alzheimer's. Died January 20, 2003. Born June 18, 1908. Adelaide Brubaker on Diff'rent Strokes, died on the same day as Al Hirschfeld. IMDb
Diane Von Furstenberg
(fashion designer) -- Alive.
Born December 31, 1945. Women's designer first married to Egon Von Furstenberg, married to Barry Diller.
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Egon Von Furstenberg
(fashion designer) -- Dead. Cause is debatable (Cancer in some sources, AIDS in others). Died June 11, 2004.
Born December 29, 1946. Banker turned men's fashion designer, married to Diane Von Furstenberg from the late '60s to the ealry '80s.
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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.
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Max von Sydow
(tall actor) -- Alive.
Born April 10, 1929. Appeared in many Ingmar Bergman movies,
memorably played against Death in a chess game in The Seventh
Seal, nominated for an Oscar in his 80s, appeared in Game
of Thrones.
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Maria Von Trapp
(author/singer) -- Dead. Post-death rumor. Kidney disease. Died March 28, 1987.
Born January 26, 1905. Born on a train, wrote The Story of the
Trapp Family Singers, later adapted into The Sound of
Music, died same day as Patrick
Troughton. Her descendents still run a gorgeous lodge outside of
Stowe, Vermont.
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Harry Von Zell (sidekick) -- Dead. Died November 21, 1981. Born July 7, 1906. Second banana to George Burns and Gracie Allen. IMDb
Jon Voight (actor) -- Alive. Born December 29, 1938. Midnight Cowboy, portrayed FDR and Howard Cosell, father of Angelina Jolie. IMDb
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
(writer, teacher) -- Dead. Injuries from a fall. Died April 11, 2007.
Born November 11, 1922. Slaughterhouse Five, created Kilgore Trout but did not publish any books under that name (though Philip Jose Farmer did), married to Jill Krementz,
died on the same day as Roscoe Lee Browne.
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