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Miles White 2000 Deaths

Miles WhiteAge: 85 Tony Award-winning stage, circus, and film costume designer who outfitted the cast of Oklahoma!, Carousel, and The Ziegfeld Follies. Died: New York City, February 17,…

Dick Weber 2005 Deaths

Dick WeberAge: 75 professional bowler who was one of the first—and best-known—stars of the sport. A three-time PBA Bowler of the Year, Weber won 30 Professional Bowlers Association titles in…

Leon (Red) Romo Biography

Leon (Red) RomoAge: 78 athletic trainer at the Naval Academy from 1956-97; guided midshipmen like Roger Staubach and David Robinson; played running back at LSU in the 1940s; assistant and…

Boas, Franz

(Encyclopedia) Boas, FranzBoas, Franzbōˈăz, –ăs [key], 1858–1942, German-American anthropologist, b. Minden, Germany, Ph.D. Univ. of Kiel, 1881. He joined an expedition to Baffin Island in 1883 and…

Buddy Rogers Biography

Buddy Rogers(Charles Rogers)Age: 94 dashing star of Wings (1927), the first film to win an Oscar. He was a versatile actor and musician who was also known for his 42-year marriage to “America…

Archbishop Iakovos 2005 Deaths

Archbishop IakovosAge: 93 primate of the Greek Orthodox Church in North and South America for 37 years who was the first Orthodox archbishop in more than 350 years to meet with a Roman…

Evan Hunter 2005 Deaths

Evan HunterAge: 78 writer who created the police procedural genre. Using the pseudonym Ed McBain, he wrote the gritty 87th Precinct series of novels, beginning with 1956's Cop Hater, which…

Dennis Weaver 2006 Deaths

Dennis WeaverAge: 81 actor who played Deputy Chester Goode on television's popular western Gunsmoke. He later starred in McCloud, playing a western deputy transferred to New York City. For…

Ian Dury 2000 Deaths

Ian DuryAge: 57 gravel-voiced musician whose band, the Blockheads, was at the fore of the punk movement. The band's simple yet humorous songs include “Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll”…

Bill Russell

Bill RussellBorn: Feb. 12, 1934Basketball C won titles in college (with San Francisco in 1995,56), Olympics (1956) and pros; 5-time NBA MVP (1958,61,62,63,65); led Boston to 11 titles from…