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Charles Schulz 2000 Deaths

Charles SchulzAge: 77 American cartoonist who created the “Peanuts” comic strip. In a career that spanned nearly 50 years, Schulz drew more than 18,250 “Peanuts” comic strips, which expressed…

Ossie Davis 2005 Deaths

Ossie DavisAge: 87 actor, playwright, director, and civil rights leader who appeared in several Spike Lee films, including Do the Right Thing and Jungle Fever. He wrote the Broadway play…

Ruby Dee Biography

Ruby Dee(Ruby Ann Wallace)actressBorn: 10/27/1924Birthplace: Cleveland, Ohio Emmy Award-winning stage, film and television actress whose Broadway and Off-Broadway performances include A Raisin in…

Gun Shy

Director/Writer:Eric BlakeneyHollywood Pictures; R; 102 minutesRelease:2/00Cast:Liam Neeson, Oliver Platt, Jose Zuniga, Sandra Bullock In Gun Shy Liam Neeson plays an aging DEA agent who's…

Bille Burke

Bille Burke(Mary William Ethelbert Appleton)actressBorn: 8/7/1885Birthplace: Washington, D.C. The daughter of a singing clown in the Barnum & Bailey Circus, Burke began acting at a young age and…

Gina Lollobrigida Biography

Gina Lollobrigida (Luigina Lollobrigida, as fashion model used the name Diane Loris)model, actress Born: 7/4/1927Birthplace: Subiaco, Italy A former art student and magazine model, “La Lollo…

Bobby Darin Biography

Bobby Darin(Walden Robert Cassotto)singerBorn: 5/14/1936Birthplace: Singer who began as a teen idol with the rock 'n' roll hit “Splish Splash” (1958). Darin earned popularity with older…

Irving Berlin Biography

Irving Berlin(Israel Baline)songwriterBorn: 5/11/1888Birthplace: Temum, Russia Considered by many to be the greatest American songwriter ever, he wrote such popular favorites as “Alexander's Ragtime…

Bille Burke Biography

Bille Burke(Mary William Ethelbert Appleton)actressBorn: 8/7/1885Birthplace: Washington, D.C. The daughter of a singing clown in the Barnum & Bailey Circus, Burke began acting at a young age and…

Dyer, Sir Edward

(Encyclopedia) Dyer, Sir Edward, 1543?–1607, Elizabethan poet. A friend of Sidney and Spenser, he was celebrated in his day as an elegist. His best-known poem is “My Mind to Me a Kingdom Is.”