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Michael Kelly 2003 Deaths

Michael KellyAge: 46 journalist and editor who was killed while covering the war in Iraq as an embedded reporter. He served as editor in chief of Atlantic Monthly magazine from 1999 to 2002…

Michael Jeter 2003 Deaths

Michael JeterAge: 50 actor who won a Tony Award for his performance as a dying clerk in Grand Hotel and an Emmy for his role as a scrawny football coach in Evening Shade. Died: Los Angeles,…

Michael Ritchie 2001 Deaths

Michael RitchieAge: 62 filmmaker who directed the films Downhill Racer, The Candidate, and The Bad News Bears. He also helmed the television movie The Positively True Adventures of the…

Brewer's: City of St. Michael

(The). Dumfries, of which city St. Michael is the patron saint. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894City of SaintsCity of Refuge A B C D E F G H I J K…

Brewer's: St. Michael's Chair

The projecting stone lantern of a tower erected on St. Michael's Mount, Cornwall. It is said that the rock received its name from a religious house built to commemorate the apparition of…

Michael J. Fox Biography

Michael J. FoxactorBorn: 6/9/1961Birthplace: Edmonton, Canada Emmy Award-winning television and film actor who played the conservative teenager of hippie parents on Family Ties (1982–89). His films…

Sir Michael Redgrave Biography

Sir Michael RedgraveactorBorn: 3/29/1908Birthplace: Bristol, England Son of silent-film actor Roy Redgrave, Michael Redgrave had a prodigious career in theater and film, including acting, directing,…

Sir Michael Tippett Biography

Sir Michael TippettcomposerBorn: 1/2/1905Birthplace: London, England A composer of operas, chamber and solo pieces, symphonies, and choral works, Tippett was influenced not only by the…

George Michael Cohan Biography

George Michael Cohansongwriter, producer, performerBorn: 7/3?/1878Birthplace: Providence, Rhode Island George M. Cohan is remembered for penning such rousing tunes as “Yankee Doodle Dandy,” “Give My…

Anthony Michael Hall Biography

Anthony Michael Hall (Michael Anthony Thomas Charles Hall)actor, singerBorn: 4/14/1968Birthplace: Boston Anthony Michael Hall first won accolades in National Lampoon's Vacation (1983), but is…