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Best Supporting Actress Nominees, 2013
The 85th Academy Award Best Supporting Actress Nominees Here are the nominees for actress in a supporting role. This is the third Oscar nomination for Sally Field. She won the…Black History Month Special Features: Famous People & Literature
Black History Month Special Features: Famous People & Literature Black History Month is observed every February in the United States. Read biographies of famous African Americans, such as…Brewer's: Temora
One of the principal poems of Ossian, in eight books, so called from the royal residence of the kings of Connaught. Cairbar had usurped the throne, having killed Cormac, a distant relative…James Robert Baker Biography
James Robert Bakernovelist wrote the satirical novels Fuel-Injected Dreams and Boy WonderBorn: 1947?Died: 1997Dr. Oscar Auerbach1997 DeathsLaVern BakerTiffany Roberts
Tiffany RobertsBorn: May 5, 1977Soccer M defensive specialist for U.S. women's soccer team; won olympic gold medal in 1996 and World Cup title in 1999; led North Carolina to NCAA…Anita DeFrantz
Anita DeFrantzBorn: Oct. 4, 1952Olympics attorney who became the International Olympic Committee's first female vice president in 1997; first woman to represent U.S. on IOC (elected in 1986…Cedric Dempsey
Cedric DempseyBorn: Apr. 14, 1932College sports succeeded Dick Schultz as NCAA executive director (title later changed to president) in 1993 and served until the end of 2002; former athletic…Rod Steiger 2002 Deaths
Rod SteigerAge: 77 versatile, compelling character actor who won a Best Actor Oscar for his role as a Southern sheriff in 1968's In the Heat of the Night. An actor who totally immersed…Conrad Hall 2003 Deaths
Conrad HallAge: 76 Academy Award–winning cinematographer known for his naturalistic style. He won Oscars for Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and American Beauty. His other credits include…Hans Bethe 2005 Deaths
Hans BetheAge: 98 physicist who was a leader in the development of the atom bomb for the U.S. government's Manhattan Project. During the 1980s and 1990s, Bethe championed the use of nuclear…