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Michael Ritchie 2001 Deaths
Michael RitchieAge: 62 filmmaker who directed the films Downhill Racer, The Candidate, and The Bad News Bears. He also helmed the television movie The Positively True Adventures of the…Ernest Lehman 2005 Deaths
Ernest LehmanAge: 89 esteemed screenwriter who penned the classic films North by Northwest and Sweet Smell of Success. He adapted the plays Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and The Sound of…Nam June Paik 2006 Deaths
Nam June PaikAge: 73 artist, known as “the father of video art,” who created the video synthesizer, which can paint screens, produce images, and reverse images on a video monitor. In his…John Roberts 2001 Deaths
John RobertsAge: 56 music producer and entrepreneur who was a founder of 1969's monumental Woodstock Music and Art Fair. Roberts and his partners expected 50,000 people to attend the festival…Alistair Cooke 2004 Deaths
Alistair CookeAge: 95 British-born journalist and television and radio host whose commentary on American culture found a wide audience in both the U.S. and the UK. Cooke hosted the weekly BBC…Wilson Greatbatch
Wilson Greatbatch Born: 1919Birthplace: Buffalo, N.Y. Medical cardiac pacemaker—Greatbatch's was trained as an electrical engineer but his research combined engineering with medical…Dr. Harold Gores
Dr. Harold GoresBorn: Sept. 20, 1909Educator and first president of Education Facilities Laboratories in New York in 1964 hired Monsanto Co. to produce a synthetic turf that kids could play…Whitlow Wyatt Biography
Whitlow WyattAge: 91 hard-throwing right-hander who won 22 games in 1941 and helped the Brooklyn Dodgers win their first league title in 21 years; won 70 games for Dodgers from 1940-43; broke…C. Vann Woodward 1999 Deaths
C. Vann Woodward,Age: 91 Pulitzer Prize-winning storyteller and historian who chronicled the upheaval of the turbulent South, as well as its culture. In his books, Woodward, an expert on race…Tom Clancy Biography
Tom Clancy novelistBorn: 4/12/1947Birthplace: Baltimore, Maryland A former insurance salesman, he is known for his best-selling thrillers, including The Hunt for Red October (1984), Patriot…Trending
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