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George (Birdie) Tebbetts Biography

George (Birdie) TebbettsAge: 86 a lifelong "baseball guy" who played catcher for Detroit and Boston, managed Cincinnati and Milwaukee and did both in Cleveland; batted .270 lifetime and…

George Robertson, 1999 News

53, British defense secretary, was tapped to replace Javier Solana as NATO's secretary general. Solana, whose term expired in October, left the NATO post to become the European Union's…

George Porter 2002 Deaths

George PorterAge: 81 British scientist who shared the 1967 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Manfred Eigen and Ronald George Wreyford Norrish for their studies of “extremely fast chemical…

George Miller 2003 Deaths

George MillerAge: 61 stand-up comedian who appeared on Late Night with David Letterman 56 times, more than any other comic. Died: Los Angeles, March 5, 2003Doug MichelsM - QPaul Monash…

George Ryan, 2003 News

Republican governor of Illinois, commuted the sentences of 167 inmates on death row, calling capital punishment fundamentally flawed. He announced the move in January, two days before…

George Fenneman 1997 Deaths

George Fenneman television personality Fenneman was the unflappable straight man to Groucho Marx on television's You Bet Your Life. His other television credits include Anybody Can Play and…

George Axelrod 2003 Deaths

George AxelrodAge: 81 screenwriter whose saucy scripts, including The Seven Year Itch, Breakfast at Tiffany's, and The Manchurian Candidate, satirized the morals of the 1950s and '60s. Died:…

George Tenet, 2003 News

director of the CIA, came under fire for his agency's handling of intelligence concerning Iraq as well as the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. A Congressional report released in June revealed that…

George Herbert Walker Bush

George Herbert Walker BushBorn: 6/12/1924Birthplace: Milton, Mass. George Herbert Walker Bush was born June 12, 1924, in Milton, Mass., to Prescott and Dorothy Bush. The family later moved to…