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Alan Pakula 1998 Deaths
Alan PakulaAge: 70 The critically acclaimed producer and director of psychologically charged dramas such as Sophie's Choice, To Kill a Mockingbird and The Pelican Brief. Pakula was killed in…The Devil's Dictionary: X
by Ambrose Bierce WYX X in our alphabet being a needless letter has an added invincibility to the attacks of the spelling reformers, and like them, will doubtless last as long as the…Georges Simenon
Name at birth: Georges Joseph Christian SimenonBelgian writer Georges Simenon published hundreds of novels during a career that lasted more than six decades, his most famous books being mystery…Law & Order: Criminal Intent
NBCSunday 9:00–10:00 p.m.Cast:Vincent D'Onofrio, Kathryn Erbe, Courtney B. Vance, Jamey Sheridan The third installment in Dick Wolf's Law & Order franchise maintains the fully developed…Doug Henning
Doug Henning was a Canadian magician who rekindled audience interest in magic acts with his success on Broadway and TV in the 1970s. Henning began performing magic when he was a teenager, and kept on…Ruth Dyk 2000 Deaths
Ruth DykAge: 99 activist who for decades championed women's rights. In her long career, Dyk worked as a psychiatric social worker with delinquent girls, wrote books on psychology, and studied…E. H. Gombrich 2001 Deaths
E. H. GombrichAge: 92 Vienna-born polymath who wrote about subjects ranging from classical music to psychology to white ants. But he's best known for his children's book, The Story of Art,…Eugene O’Neill
Eugene Gladstone O'Neill was one of the most acclaimed playwrights of the 20th century. A four-time Pulitzer Prize winner, he is also the only American dramatist to date to win the Nobel Prize for…Pawel Pawlikowski
Director Pawel Pawilkowski won an Oscar in 2015 for his foreign language film Ida, and was nominated again for Cold War, his 2018 love story. Polish-born but based in England, Pawilkowski got his…Tom Watson
Tom Watson won eight major tournaments in the 1970s and early 1980s, becoming a chief rival to Jack Nicklaus and one of the greatest golfers of that era. Watson graduated from Stanford University in…Trending
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