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Dean Bumpus 2002 Deaths

Dean BumpusAge: 89 oceanographer at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute who tossed tens of thousands of bottles into the Atlantic Ocean to analyze its currents. Each bottle contained a…

Dean Roper 2001 Deaths

Dean RoperAge: 62 Automobile Racing Club of America driver who died on the 17th lap of the Allen Crowe Memorial, 10 months after his son, Tony, was killed in a NASCAR truck series race; USAC…

Joel Dean 2004 Deaths

Joel DeanAge: 73 co-founder of the SoHo upscale food market Dean & DeLuca, now a 19-store chain. Died: Manhattan, May 24, 2004Marvin DavisA - FFrances Dee

Howard Dean, 2005 News

Vermont doctor and politician, was elected chairman of the Democratic National Party in February. In 2004, he was an early frontrunner in the crowded field of Democratic presidential…

John Vernon 2005 Deaths

John VernonAge: 72 Canadian actor who played Dean Wormer in the 1978 hit Animal House. Died: Los Angeles, Feb. 1, 2005Luther VandrossR - ZSimon Waronker

John Lotz 2001 Deaths

John LotzAge: 64 top assistant coach to Dean Smith at UNC from 1965-73 and head coach at Florida from 1973-80; named SEC coach of the year in 1977; ran UNC's community outreach program the…

Mathews, Shailer

(Encyclopedia) Mathews, Shailer, 1863–1941, American theologian, educator, and author, b. Portland, Maine, studied at Colby College, at Newton Theological Institution, and at the Univ. of Berlin.…

McBay, Shirley

(Encyclopedia) McBay, Shirley , 1935-2021, American mathematician and educator, b. Bainbridge, Ga.,as Shirley Ann Mathis, Paine College (B.S., 1954),…

John Mercer Langston Biography

John Mercer Langston U.S. public official, diplomat, educatorBorn: 12/14/1829Birthplace: Louisa County, Va.   Langston was the son of Ralph Quarles, a white plantation owner, and Jane Langston, a…

Franklin, John Hope

(Encyclopedia) Franklin, John Hope, 1915–2009, the dean of 20th-century African-American historians, b. Rentiesville, Okla., grad. Fisk Univ. (A.B., 1935), Harvard (M.A., 1936; Ph.D., 1941). Franklin…