07/10/1925 - 07/21/2011
Elwy McMurran Yost, CM (July 10, 1925 – July 21, 2011) was a television host, best-known for hosting CBC's weekday Passport to Adventure series from 1965-67, and TVOntario's weekday Magic Shadows, from 1974 until the mid-1980s, and S...
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07/20/1919 - 01/11/2008
Sir Edmund Percival Hillary, (20 July 1919 – 11 January 2008), was a New Zealand mountaineer, explorer and philanthropist.
12/11/1923 - 03/13/2009
Betsy Blair (December 11, 1923 – March 13, 2009) was an American actress of film and stage, long based in London.
Dom Deluise (Dominick Deluise)
08/01/1933 - 05/04/2009
Dominick "Dom" DeLuise (August 1, 1933 – May 4, 2009)[2] was an American actor, comedian, film director, television producer, chef, and author. He was the husband of actress Carol Arthur from 1965 until his death, and the father of...
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William Shakespeare (baptised 26 April 1564; died 23 April 1616) was an English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's nationa...
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02/21/1933 - 04/21/2003
Eunice Kathleen Waymon (February 21, 1933 – April 21, 2003), also known by her stage name Nina Simone, was an American singer, songwriter, pianist, arranger, and civil rights activist widely associated with jazz music.
Simone aspired to...
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09/30/1667 - 10/19/1745
Jonathan Swift (30 November 1667 – 19 October 1745) was an Anglo-Irish satirist, essayist, political pamphleteer (first for the Whigs, then for the Tories), poet and cleric who became Dean of St. Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin.
11/14/1908 - 05/02/1957
Joseph Raymond McCarthy was an American politician who served as a Republican U.S. Senator from the state of Wisconsin from 1947 until his death in 1957. Beginning in 1950, McCarthy became the most visible public face of a period in which Co...
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06/25/1924 - 04/09/2011
Sidney Lumet (June 25, 1924 – April 9, 2011) was an American director, producer and screenwriter with over 50 films to his name. He was nominated for the Academy Award as Best Director for 12 Angry Men (1957), Dog Day Afternoon (1975), Netwo...
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Denny Doherty (Dennis Gerrard Doherty)
11/29/1940 - 01/19/2007
Dennis Gerrard Stephen Doherty (November 29, 1940 – January 19, 2007) was a Canadian singer and songwriter. He was most widely known as a founding member of the 1960s musical group The Mamas & the Papas.
Larry Adler (Lawrence Cecil Adler)
02/14/1914 - 08/07/2001
Lawrence "Larry" Cecil Adler was an American musician, widely acknowledged as one of the world's most skilled harmonica players. During the later stage of his career he was known for his collaborations with p...
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11/30/1922 - 10/19/2010
Clement Graham Crowden (30 November 1922 – 19 October 2010) was a Scottish actor. He was best known for his many appearances in television comedy dramas and films, often playing eccentric 'offbeat' scientist, teac...
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01/07/1800 - 08/08/1874
Millard Fillmore (January 7, 1800 – March 8, 1874) was the 13th President of the United States (1850-1853) and the last member of the Whig Party to hold the office of president. As Zachary Taylor's Vice President, he assumed the presiden...
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10/05/1957 - 08/09/2008
Bernard Jeffrey McCullough (October 5, 1957 – August 9, 2008), better known by his stage name, Bernie Mac, was an American actor and comedian. Born and raised on the South Side of Chicago, Mac gained popularity as a stand-up comedian. He joi...
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09/01/1926 - 06/23/2011
Gene Colan, a Bronx-born artist and legend in the comic book industry, Thursday, June 23, 2011. He was 84.