Dead People Server
People Whose Last Names Start With Z
Darryl F. Zanuck (movie mogul) -- Dead. Pneumonia. Died December 22, 1979. Born September 5, 1902. IMDb FindAGrave
Frank Zappa
(musician) -- Dead. Prostate cancer. Died December 4, 1993.
Born December 21, 1940. Father of a brood of non-commercial music (Shut Up and Play Yer Guitar) and a number of interestingly-named children.
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Michael Zaslow (actor) -- Dead. ALS (Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis - "Lou Gehrig's Disease"). Died December 6, 1998. Born November 1, 1942. Soap star who was acting until just a few weeks before his death. IMDb
Roger Zelazny (author) -- Dead. Cancer. Died June 14, 1995. Born May 13, 1937. The Great Book of Amber. AwardWeb
Lena Zavaroni
(singer) -- Dead. Pneumonia. Died November 1, 1999.
Born November 4, 1963. Popular child singer (
"Ma, He's Makin' Eyes at Me"
) in the mid-70s, suffered from anorexia and depression for over 20 years.
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Warren Zevon
(singer/songwriter) -- Dead. Lung cancer. Died September 7, 2003.
Born January 24, 1946.
"Werewolves of London"
, diagnosed with inoperable cancer in late 2002, but outlived his doctor's prediction by about six months and produced one last album The Wind.
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Zhao Ziyang
(Chinese leader) -- Dead. Died January 17, 2005.
Born October 17, 1919. A Chinese leader who tried to bring democratic reforms, outsted from power during the Tiananmen Square crackdown in 1989,
died on the same day as Virginia Mayo
Howard Zieff (director) -- Dead. Parkinson's disease. Died February 22, 2009. Born October 21, 1927. Director of Private Benjamin and classic commercials like the "Spicy meatball" ad for Alka-Seltzer. IMDb Obituary FindAGrave
Efrem Zimbalist, Jr. (actor) -- Alive. Born November 30, 1918. The FBI, father of Stephanie Zimbalist, son of violinist Efrem Zimbalist. IMDb
Paul Edwin Zimmer (writer) -- Dead. Heart attack (at a science fiction convention party). Died October 17, 1997. Born circa 1943. Brother of Marion Zimmer Bradley
Joseph James Zimmerman (inventor) -- Dead. Died April 2, 2004. Born circa 1912. Invented the first electronic telephone answering machine in 1948. FindAGrave
Paul Zindel
(playwright/YA author) -- Dead. Cancer. Died March 27, 2003.
Born May 16, 1936. Wrote the play The Effects of
Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds and best-selling
YA novel My Darling, My Hamburger.
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Fred Zinnemann (director) -- Dead. Heart attack. Died March 14, 1997. Born April 29, 1907. Deservedly won the Oscar for the brilliant A Man for All Seasons. IMDb