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Irene Reid Biography

actress and singerDied: January 12, 2008 (Bronx, New York) Best Known as: former jazz singer in Count Basie's band A singer, actress, and bandleader who…

Paul (Tank) Younger 2001 Deaths

Paul (Tank) YoungerAge: 73 first athlete from a predominantly black college (Grambling) to play in the NFL; member of the Rams' renowned "Bull Elephant" backfield (Dan Towler, Dick Hoener)…

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

NBCMonday 9:00–10:00 p.m.; moved to Friday 10:00–11:00 p.m.Cast:Christopher Meloni, Mariska Hargitay, Dann Florek, Richard Belzer, Dean Winters, and Michelle Hurd The longest-running drama on…

Mario Lopez

Mario Lopez is a TV host and sometime actor who made a name for himself in the 1990s Saturday morning television series Saved By The Bell. Chipper, dimpled and ripped, Lopez re-emerged as a…

Bob Newhart

Name at birth: George Robert NewhartBob Newhart is a comedian whose deadpan delivery and understated wit made him a top stand-up act in the 1960s and a TV star in the 1970s and '80s. His first…

Danny Thomas

Name at birth: Muzyad YakhoobDanny Thomas starred in Make Room For Daddy, one of most popular TV family comedies of the 1950s. The show ran from 1953-64, but changed networks in 1957 and was titled…

Ray Bradbury

Name at birth: Raymond Douglas BradburyRay Bradbury wrote the 1953 science fiction classic Fahrenheit 451, a tale of a futuristic society where reading is outlawed and books are burned at the title…

Joey Bishop

Name at birth: Joseph Abraham GottliebFor a time in the early 1960s Joey Bishop was one of the hottest standup comedians in America. Bishop started as a vaudeville-style entertainer in Philadelphia,…

Paul Jarrico 1997 Deaths

Paul Jarricoscreenwriter Jarrico, a blacklisted screenwriter and producer, died in a car accident after a ceremony commemorating the 50th anniversary of the House Committee on Un-American…

Bobby Adams Biography

Bobby AdamsAge: 75 major league infielder who played with three teams between 1946–59; played on the Cincinnati Reds, Chicago White Sox and Chicago Cubs; started professional baseball career…