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Nate Fleming 2001 Deaths

Nate FlemingAge: 20 redshirt freshman guard on the Oklahoma State basketball team, who was killed when a team charter plane crashed in a field 40 miles east of Denver while returning home…

Howard Finster 2001 Deaths

Howard FinsterAge: 84 Baptist preacher and prolific folk artist known as much for his outsized personality as for his sculpture made out of trash. He won wide recognition for his Paradise…

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…

Hugh Downs

Hugh DownsTV personalityBorn: 2/14/1921Birthplace: Akron, Ohio Radio announcer who became a popular TV personality when he joined Jack Paar's The Tonight Show (1957–62). An erudite man who…

Hugh Downs Biography

Hugh DownsTV personalityBorn: 2/14/1921Birthplace: Akron, Ohio Radio announcer who became a popular TV personality when he joined Jack Paar's The Tonight Show (1957–62). An erudite man who…

R. K. Narayan Biography

R. K. NarayanRasipuram Krishnaswamy NarayanwriterBorn: 10/10/1906Birthplace: Madras, India prolific Indian writer whose exquisitely crafted novels provided witty and perceptive observations…

Buck Buchanan

Buck BuchananBorn: Sept. 10, 1940Football played both ways in college at Grambling; first player chosen in the first AFL draft by the Dallas Texans who later became the KC Chiefs; missed one…

Jimmy Johnson

Jimmy JohnsonBorn: July 16, 1943Football All-SWC defensive lineman on Arkansas' 1964 national championship team; coached Miami-FL to national title in 1987; college record of 81-34-3 in 10…

Bill Parcells

Bill ParcellsBorn: Aug. 22, 1941Football coached NY Giants to 2 Super Bowl titles (1987,91); retired after 1990 season then returned in 1993 as coach of New England; took hapless Pats from 2-…