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Marjorie Courtenay-Latimer 2004 Deaths

Marjorie Courtenay-LatimerAge: 97 South African naturalist who in 1938 discovered a coelacanth, a species of fish believed to have been extinct for 70 million years. Died: East London, South…

Gail Goodrich Biography

Gail GoodrichBorn: April 23, 1943Basketball G starred at UCLA and won two national championships in 1964 and 1965 under legendary coach John Wooden's tutelage; won the NBA championship with…

Biographies: Archaeologists

ArchaeologistsPeople in the NewsRecent ObituariesBiographies by CategoryBelzoni, Giovanni Battista, Italian adventurer and antiquities dealer Bent, James Theodore, English explorer and…

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Marian Wright EdelmanJohn EdwardsJohn EhrlichmanMamie Geneva Doud EisenhowerEleanor of AquitaineJoycelyn Jones EldersDaniel EllsbergOlaudah EquianoMarch Fong EuDonald EvansMedgar EversMyrlie…

Coca-Cola 600

Coca-Cola 600 Held over 400 laps on 1.5-mile oval at Lowe's Motor Speedway in Concord, N.C. Previously known as World 600 (1960-85). It has been Coca-Cola 600 since 1986 (in 2002, sponsors…

Robert Gore Biography

Robert Gore Born: 1937 Birthplace: Salt Lake City, Utah ePTFE—Gore invented a new form of polytetrafluoroethylene (ePTFE) widely known by the…

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…

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…

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…