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Samuel Taylor 2000 Deaths

Samuel TaylorAge: 87 playwright and screenwriter who co-wrote the scripts for Vertigo and Sabrina. Died: Blue Hill, Maine, May 26, 2000Toyoichi TanakaR - ZBill Thomas

Samuel Block 2000 Deaths

Samuel BlockAge: 60 1960s civil rights activist who fought for voting rights for blacks in the Mississippi Delta. He was repeatedly beaten and jailed for his efforts. Died: Los Angeles, April…

Samuel Milton Jones Biography

Samuel Milton Jonesinventor, manufacturer, reformerBorn: 8/3/1846Birthplace: Carnarvonshire, Wales Jones began working in the oil fields of Ohio and Pennsylvania when he was only 10 years old…

Samuel Alito, 2005 News

federal judge, was nominated as a U.S. Supreme Court Justice by President Bush in October. Bush selected Alito four days after Harriet Miers withdrew her nomination. If confirmed, Alito…

Samuel Bowers 2006 Deaths

Samuel BowersAge: 82 leader of the notoriously violent Mississippi White Knights division of the Ku Klux Klan. After the 1964 murders of civil rights workers Andrew Goodman, Michael H.…

Samuel Waksal, 2002 News

founder of ImClone, a biotech company, pleaded guilty to six charges, including securities fraud, conspiracy, and perjury in October. The counts stem from two federal indictments that…

Samuel Dash 2004 Deaths

Samuel DashAge: 79 attorney who as chief counsel for the Senate Select Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities investigated the Watergate break-in and the White House's secret audiotape…

Samuel Johnson 2004 Deaths

Samuel JohnsonAge: 76 businessman who presided over S. C. Johnson, the floor-wax company that also produces Raid bug sprays and OFF insect repellent. Died: Racine, Wis., May 22, 2004Mildred…

SMITH, Samuel, Congress, PA

SMITH Samuel , a Representative from Pennsylvania; birth date unknown; associate judge of Erie County, Pa., 1803-1805, when he resigned; elected as a Republican to the Ninth Congress to fill the…

Samuel L. Jackson Biography

Samuel L. Jackson actorBorn: 12/21/1948Birthplace: Washington, D.C.   Film actor best known for his role as a Bible-thumping hit man in Pulp Fiction (1994). Although he had already appeared in…