01/08/1926 - 07/05/2007
Kerwin Mathews (January 8, 1926 – July 5, 2007) was an American actor best known for playing the titular heroes in The 7th Voyage of Sinbad (1958), The Three Worlds of Gulliver (1960) and Jack the...
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11/14/1900 - 12/02/1990
Aaron Copland (November 14, 1900 – December 2, 1990) was an American classical composer, composition teacher, writer, and later in his career a conductor of his own and other American music. He was instrumental in forging a distinctly A...
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08/30/1748 - 12/29/1825
Jacques-Louis David (30 August 1748 – 29 December 1825) was a highly influential French painter in the Neoclassical style, considered to be the preeminent painter of the era. In the 1780s his cerebral brand of history painting marked a chang...
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04/01/1920 - 12/24/1997
Toshirō Mifune (April 1, 1920 – December 24, 1997) was a Japanese actor who appeared in almost 170 feature films. He is best known for his 16-film collaboration with filmmaker Akira Kurosawa, from 1948 to 1965,...
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11/24/1925 - 02/27/2008
William Frank Buckley, Jr. (November 24, 1925 – February 27, 2008) was an American conservative author and commentator. He founded the political magazine National Review in 1955, hosted 1,429 episodes...
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07/01/1902 - 07/27/1981
William Wyler (July 1, 1902 – July 27, 1981) was a leading American motion picture director, producer, and screenwriter.
Notable works included Ben-Hur (1959), The Best Years of Our Lives (1946), and Mrs. Miniver (1942), all of which won...
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01/17/1926 - 01/31/2006
Moira Shearer, Lady Kennedy (17 January 1926 – 31 January 2006), was an internationally famous Scottish ballet dancer and actress.
Boris Pickett (Robert George Pickett)
02/11/1938 - 04/25/2007
Robert George Pickett (February 11, 1938 – April 25, 2007) was an American singer who found fame under the name Bobby "Boris" Pickett.
02/01/1915 - 02/23/2000
Sir Stanley Matthews, (1 February 1915 – 23 February 2000) was an English footballer. Often regarded as one of the greatest players of the English game, he is the only player to have been knighted while still playing, as well as being...
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08/28/1947 - 06/25/2011
Actress Alice Playten, whose career spanned nearly five decades in some of Broadway and television's most recognizable productions, passed away June 25, 2011 from heart failure at Sloan Kettering Hospital. She was 63 years old.
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06/29/1936 - 05/17/2011
Killebrew was a Major League Baseball left fielder, first baseman, and thrid baseman. His 22-year long career saw him play for only three different teams: Washington Senators, Minnesota Twins and the Kansas City Royals.
Tony Snow (Robert Anthony Snow )
06/01/1955 - 07/12/2008
Robert Anthony "Tony" Snow (June 1, 1955 – July 12, 2008) was an American journalist, political commentator, television news anchor, syndicated columnist, radio host, musician, and the third White House Press Secretary under Presid...
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10/23/1949 - 07/09/2011
Michael Burston (23 October 1949 – 9 July 2011) commonly known by the stage name Würzel, was an English musician and formerly a guitarist in the British heavy metal band, Motörhead.
07/14/1862 - 02/06/1918
Gustav Klimt (July 14, 1862 – February 6, 1918) was an Austrian Symbolist painter and one of the most prominent members of the Vienna Secession movement. His major works include paintings, murals, sketches, and other art objects. Klimt...
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