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James Conway 2006 Deaths

James ConwayAge: 78 entrepreneur who, with his brother William, founded Mister Softee, the ice cream company that sells frozen treats from trucks. They started the business in 1956 with one…

James Cameron 2006 Deaths

James CameronAge: 92 founder of America's Black Holocaust Museum, which opened in 1988. He had survived an attempted lynching in 1930, while two of his friends were killed. Died: Milwaukee,…

James Brown 2006 Deaths

James BrownAge: 73 legendary singer, songwriter, and dancer acclaimed as the “Godfather of Soul.” His musical career spanned more than 50 years, with his first hit single, “Please Please…

James Stockdale 2005 Deaths

James StockdaleAge: 81 U.S. Navy vice admiral who won the Medal of Honor in 1976. He was captured by the North Vietnamese in 1965 and imprisoned for more than seven years, enduring repeated…

James Doohan 2005 Deaths

James DoohanAge: 85 Canadian-born actor who played Scotty, the chief engineer of the USS Enterprise on Star Trek. Died: Redmond, Wash., July 20, 2005Vine DeloriaA - FPeter Drucker

James Frey, 2006 News

best-selling author, acknowledged in January that he had fabricated and embellished parts of his 2003 memoir, A Million Little Pieces, a story of personal redemption that has sold about 3.5…

James Hansen, 2006 News

director of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies, complained in January that White House appointees within the agency had attempted to control the information released by him and other…

James Parton 2001 Deaths

James PartonAge: 88 publisher who was a founder of American Heritage magazine. He also served as president of Encyclopedia Britannica Educational Corp.Died: Hanover, N.H., April 20,…

James Ellis 2001 Deaths

James EllisAge: 45 computer scientist who was a creator of Usenet, an international network of electronic discussion groups, and an expert on computer security. He died of non-Hodgkins…

James Warren Lee Biography

James Warren LeezoologistBorn: 1909Birthplace: New Orleans, La. After receiving a B.S. from Morehouse College in Atlanta, Georgia in 1931, New Orleans native James Warren Lee went on to earn…