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William Manchester 2004 Deaths

William ManchesterAge: 82 writer whose biographies and histories meticulously detailed the lives of prominent political and military figures, including Gen. Douglas MacArthur and Winston…

1999 Deaths: G - L

Felix GalimirWilliam (Bill) GardinerW. Arthur Garrity, Jr.William (Pop) GatesGermain GliddenColby GoodwinRaisa GorbachevMeg GreenfieldCalvin GriffithErnest GrossJerzy GrotowskiHowie HaakHuntz…

Entertainment News from September 1999

6 Allen Funt, creator and host of Candid Camera, dies of complications of a 1993 stroke. He was 84. The show, a CBS hit from 1960 to 1966, was originally created by Funt as a radio show, moved…

Lawrence Lader 2006 Deaths

Lawrence LaderAge: 86 writer who became a steadfast abortion-rights activist while writing a biography of Margaret Sanger. Labeled the father of the abortion-rights movement by Betty Friedan…

Walt Rostow 2003 Deaths

Walt RostowAge: 86 hawkish economist and historian who, as an adviser to presidents Kennedy and Johnson, advocated U.S. aggressive involvement in the Vietnam War. He believed that the fall of…

Elisabeth Kübler-Ross 2004 Deaths

Elisabeth Kübler-RossAge: 78 pioneering psychiatrist whose research helped terminally ill patients come to terms with death. Her 1969 bestseller, On Death and Dying, encouraged public…

Brian Keith 1997 Deaths

Brian Keith television and film actor The gruff actor landed his first film role at age 3 and is best remembered for his role as Uncle Bill on television's Family Affair. He also starred in…

Henry W. Kendall Biography

Henry W. KendallAge: 72 Nobel-winning physicist who helped discover that protons and neutrons, formerly thought to be the basic building blocks of matter, are made up of quarks. Firmly…

The Cold Six Thousand

Author:James EllroyPublisher:Knopf Set between the assassinations of President Kennedy and his brother Robert, Ellroy's latest romp careens around the world, stopping in Las Vegas, Vietnam,…

Jack Kerouac Biography

Jack Kerouac(Jean Louis Kerouac)novelistBorn: 3/12/1922Birthplace: Lowell, Massachusetts Novelist and leader of the Beat generation. His books include On the Road (1957), considered the…