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Fred Hooper 2000 Deaths

Fred HooperAge: 102 Florida horse owner and breeder who won the 1945 Kentucky Derby and Wood Memorial Stakes with Hoop Jr., the first thoroughbred he ever owned; bred more than 100 stakes…

Sir Fred Hoyle Biography

Sir Fred HoyleastrophysicistBorn: 6/24/1915Birthplace: Bingley, Yorkshire, England prominent astrophysicist who wrote extensively about cosmological theory, the belief that the universe is in…

Fred Taylor 2002 Deaths

Fred TaylorAge: 77 legendary Ohio State basketball coach, who led teams in the 1960s that included John Havlicek, Jerry Lucas and reserve Bobby Knight to three straight NCAA championship…

Fred LaRue 2004 Deaths

Fred LaRueAge: 75 aide to President Nixon who served 136 days in jail for his involvement in the Watergate scandal. He paid the burglars who broke into the Democratic National Committee…

Fred Whipple 2004 Deaths

Fred WhippleAge: 97 rocket scientist whose “dirty snowball theory” suggested that comets are made of ice and rock. He invented a thin shield of metal, called the Whipple shield, to protect…

Fred Ebb 2004 Deaths

Fred EbbAge: 76 lyricist who, with partner John Kander, penned some of Broadway's most memorable scores, including Cabaret, Woman of the Year, and Kiss of the Spider Woman, all of which…

Fred Korematsu 2005 Deaths

Fred KorematsuAge: 86 welder who was arrested in 1942 when he refused to go to an internment camp for Japanese Americans. The U.S. Supreme Court upheld his conviction in 1944. In 1983 a…

Golden Dawn, Hermetic Order of the

(Encyclopedia) Golden Dawn, Hermetic Order of the, occult-oriented fraternal organization established by the Freemasons in England (1888), led by S. L. MacGregor Mathers (1854–1917). The order's…

Roach, Hal

(Encyclopedia) Roach, Hal (Harold Eugene Roach, Sr.), 1892–1992, American move producer and director, b. Elmira, N.Y. He entered (1912) the motion-picture industry as an extra, and by 1914 had…