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Lloyd Bridges 1998 Deaths

Lloyd BridgesAge: 85actor The ruggedly handsome Bridges, whose career spanned over five decades, first gained wide recognition as Mike Nelson, a former Navy frogman on the television series…

Robert Komer 2000 Deaths

Robert KomerAge: 78 diplomat and intelligence officer who served as President Johnson's “chief of pacification” in Vietnam. Pacification, a controversial propaganda campaign, sought to wrest…

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…

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-…

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…