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Louis, Joe

(Encyclopedia) Louis, Joe (Joseph Louis Barrow)Louis, Joel&oomacr;ˈĭs [key], 1914–81, American boxer, b. Lafayette, Ala. His father, a sharecropper, died when Louis was four years old, and in…

Louis Faurer 2001 Deaths

Louis FaurerAge: 84 photographer known for his raw, psychologically charged pictures of everyday people on city streets.Died: Manhattan, March 2, 2001Mimi FariñaA - FHoward Finster

Louis Weinstein 2000 Deaths

Louis WeinsteinAge: 92 pioneer in the study of infectious diseases who was one of the first physicians to warn of the dangers of overprescribing antibiotics. Died: Newton, Mass., March 16,…

Louis Néel 2000 Deaths

Louis NéelAge: 95 French physicist who won a Nobel Prize in physics in 1970 for “fundamental work and discoveries concerning antiferromagnetism and ferrimagnetism which have led to important…

Grayson Louis Kirk Biography

Grayson Louis KirkAge: 94 for many years president of Columbia University. Criticized for decision in 1968 to use police officers against students protesting Vietnam War. Died: Nov. 21, 1997.…

Louis Freeh, 2001 News

convicted Oklahoma City bomber, was executed by lethal injection in June for detonating a fertilizer bomb that destroyed the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in April 1995 and killed 149…

Louis Rukeyser 2006 Deaths

Louis RukeyserAge: 73 broadcaster who hosted PBS's Wall Street Week, one of the network's top-rated shows, from 1970–2002. Died: Greenwich, Conn., May 2, 2006Ibrahim RugovaR - ZJohnny Sain…

Louis Peterson 1998 Deaths

Louis PetersonAge: 76 helped pave the way for other black playwrights to break through on Broadway as author of “Take a Giant Step,” the highly praised 1950s Broadway play about a young…

Louis V. Ledoux: The Gift

The GiftLouis V. LedouxLet others give you wealth and love, And guard you while you live; I cannot set my gift above The gifts that others give.And yet the gift I give is good: In one man'…