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Eugene Allen
1919 - 2010
Eugene Allen was a distinguished butler for the White House who served under eight presidents, including Harry S. Truman, John F. Kennedy and Ronald Reagan.
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(1919-2010)
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Sparky Anderson
Coach / 1934 - 2010
Sparky Anderson was the manager of baseball’s Cincinnati Reds and Detroit Tigers, winning three World Series championships.
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(1934-2010)
Coach
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Vernon J. Baker
Military Leader / 1919 - 2010
Vernon Baker was a highly decorated soldier and the only living black WWII veteran to earn the Congressional Medal of Honor.
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(1919-2010)
Military Leader
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Glen Bell
1923 - 2010
Glen Bell is the American entrepreneur responsible for the bringing Mexican food into the fast food world with Taco Bell.
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(1923-2010)
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Barbara Billingsley
Television Actress / 1915 - 2010
From 1957 to 1963, actress Barbara Billingsley played the perfect apron-wearing, cookie-baking housewife June Cleaver on TV's Leave it to Beaver.
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(1915-2010)
Television Actress
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George Blanda
Football Player / 1927 - 2010
U.S. football player George Blanda played quarterback and kicker for 26 total seasons. He played for the Chicago Bears, Houston Oilers and the Oakland Raiders.
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(1927-2010)
Football Player
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Tom Bosley
Film Actor, Theater Actor, Television Actor / 1927 - 2010
Tom Bosley was an award-winning American actor best known for playing Howard Cunningham in the 1970s hit TV sitcom Happy Days.
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(1927-2010)
Film Actor, Theater Actor, Television Actor
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Solomon Burke
Singer, Preacher / 1940 - 2010
Solomon Burke was an African-American soul singer who released a number of hits in the 1960s, including "Cry to Me" and "Got to Get You off My Mind."
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(1940-2010)
Singer, Preacher
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Robert C. Byrd
U.S. Representative / 1917 - 2010
Robert C. Byrd is best known as the longest-serving senator and longest-serving member in the history of the United States Congress.
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(1917-2010)
U.S. Representative
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Dixie Carter
Television Actress / 1939 - 2010
Dixie Carter was an actress who most TV viewers remember from the hit series Designing Women.
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(1939-2010)
Television Actress
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Lucille Clifton
Educator, Poet / 1936 - 2010
Lucille Clifton is a poet whose works generally examine family life, racism and gender issues.
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(1936-2010)
Educator, Poet
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Gary Coleman
Television Actor, Reality Television Star / 1968 - 2010
Diminutive television star Gary Coleman made "What'choo talkin' 'bout, Willis?" a household catch-phrase in the 1980s.
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(1968-2010)
Television Actor, Reality Television Star
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Tony Curtis
Film Actor / 1925 - 2010
From Some Like It Hot to Spartacus, Tony Curtis was the reigning Hollywood heartthrob of the 1950s. He's also known as actress Jamie Lee Curtis's dad.
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(1925-2010)
Film Actor
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Dino De Laurentiis
Producer / 1919 - 2010
Dino De Laurentiis was a film producer who over his 60-year career produced more than 600 films, from King Kong to Serpico to Flash Gordon.
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(1919-2010)
Producer
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Jimmy Dean
Entrepreneur, Singer / 1928 - 2010
Jimmy Dean was a Grammy-Award winning country musician, a co-star in several films and TV shows, and owner of a hog-butchering company that he sold to Sara Lee.
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(1928-2010)
Entrepreneur, Singer
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Blake Edwards
Director, Screenwriter / 1922 - 2010
Blake Edwards was an American film director, producer and screenwriter who was perhaps best known for The Pink Panther and its sequels.
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(1922-2010)
Director, Screenwriter
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Elizabeth Edwards
Lawyer / 1949 - 2010
Lawyer Elizabeth Edwards supported her husband John Edwards' presidential campaigns even when he admitted to infidelity. She died of breast cancer in 2010.
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(1949-2010)
Lawyer
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Jaime Escalante
Educator / 1930 - 2010
Jaime Escalante became famous for his work with troubled, "unteachable" high school math students. His story was told in the 1988 film Stand and Deliver.
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(1930-2010)
Educator
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Bob Feller
Baseball Player / 1918 - 2010
Bob Feller was the first 20th-century pitcher to pitch three no-hit games, and his record of 348 season strikeouts stood for 19 years.
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(1918-2010)
Baseball Player
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Eddie Fisher
Singer / 1928 - 2010
Singer Eddie Fisher topped the charts in the 1950s and made headlines when he left wife Debbie Reynolds to become Elizabeth Taylor's fourth husband.
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(1928-2010)
Singer
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John Forsythe
Film Actor, Theater Actor, Television Actor / 1918 - 2010
John Forsythe was a theater, film and TV actor. He won Golden Globes for playing Blake Carrington in Aaron Spelling’s long-running prime-time drama Dynasty.
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(1918-2010)
Film Actor, Theater Actor, Television Actor
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Peter Graves
Actor, Television Personality / 1926 - 2010
Peter Graves was an enormously successful film and TV actor. He is known for his role in Airplane! and for hosting A&E's signature series Biography.
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(1926-2010)
Actor, Television Personality
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Bob Guccione
Entrepreneur / 1930 - 2010
Bob Guccione was a publisher of a variety of magazines, most notably the men's magazine Penthouse.
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(1930-2010)
Entrepreneur
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Alexander Haig
General, Diplomat, Government Official / 1924 - 2010
Alexander Haig was White House chief-of-staff under Richard Nixon, commander of NATO, and US Secretary of State under Ronald Reagan.
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(1924-2010)
General, Diplomat, Government Official
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Corey Haim
Actor / 1971 - 2010
Corey Haim was a Canadian actor who was a teen hearthrob in the 1980s (often paired with Corey Feldman). He battled addiction and died of an overdose in 2010.
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(1971-2010)
Actor
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Dorothy Height
Civil Rights Activist, Women's Rights Activist / 1912 - 2010
Dorothy Height was a civil rights and women's rights activist focused primarily on improving the circumstances of and opportunities for African-American women.
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(1912-2010)
Civil Rights Activist, Women's Rights Activist
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Benjamin Hooks
Civil Rights Activist, Lawyer / 1925 - 2010
Benjamin Hooks became a minister and public defender during the civil rights movement. He would later become the executive director of the NAACP.
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(1925-2010)
Civil Rights Activist, Lawyer
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Dennis Hopper
Film Actor, Television Actor, Director / 1936 - 2010
Actor/director Dennis Hopper came to fame with 1969's Easy Rider. Later films like Blue Velvet and River's Edge cemented his legend.
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(1936-2010)
Film Actor, Television Actor, Director
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Lena Horne
Civil Rights Activist, Actress, Dancer, Pin-up, Singer / 1917 - 2010
Actress and singer Lena Horne was one of the most popular performers of her time, known for films such as The Wiz and her trademark song, "Stormy Weather."
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(1917-2010)
Civil Rights Activist, Actress, Dancer, Pin-up, Singer
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Lech Kaczynski
World Leader / 1949 - 2010
Lech Kaczynski was a politician who served as president of Poland until his sudden death in a plane crash in 2010.
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(1949-2010)
World Leader
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Jack Levine
Painter / 1915 - 2010
American artist Jack Levine is best remembered for his American Social Realist paintings, including "Gangster Funeral," which satirized corruption in the modern world.
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(1915-2010)
Painter
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Art Linkletter
Radio Personality, Television Personality, Author / 1912 - 2010
Art Linkletter was a family-friendly radio and television personality who incorporated ordinary people into his broadcasts with comic results.
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(1912-2010)
Radio Personality, Television Personality, Author
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Benoit Mandelbrot
Mathematician, Academic Author / 1924 - 2010
Benoit Mandelbrot was known as the father of the fractals, a concept he popularized in The Fractal Geometry of Nature in 1982.
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(1924-2010)
Mathematician, Academic Author
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Wilma Mankiller
Women's Rights Activist, Political Leader / 1945 - 2010
Wilma Mankiller worked for several years as a leading advocate for the Cherokee people, and became the first woman to serve as their principal chief in 1985.
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(1945-2010)
Women's Rights Activist, Political Leader
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Philip Markoff
Murderer, Thief / 1986 - 2010
Philip Markoff answered a Craigslist ad for massage services, met a masseuse/former call girl, and killed her, becoming known as the "Craigslist killer."
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(1986-2010)
Murderer, Thief
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Rue McClanahan
Television Actress / 1934 - 2010
Actress Rue McClanahan is best-known for her role as self-absorbed bombshell Devereaux on the 1980's sitcom Golden Girls.
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(1934-2010)
Television Actress
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Malcolm McLaren
Artist, Fashion Designer, Musician / 1946 - 2010
Recording artist and fashion designer Malcolm McLaren came to fame as manager of the Sex Pistols. Later, he recorded several albums of his own material.
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(1946-2010)
Artist, Fashion Designer, Musician
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Alexander McQueen
Fashion Designer / 1969 - 2010
Alexander McQueen was a London-based, English fashion designer who was head designer of the Louis Vuitton Givenchy fashion line, before starting his own line.
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(1969-2010)
Fashion Designer
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Sugar Minott
Musician / 1956 - 2010
Jamaican reggae singer-songwriter Sugar Minott was best known for his hit, "Good Thing Going," a cover of Michael Jackson's "We've Got a Good Thing Going." Minott's version reached No. 4 on the British singles chart in 1981.
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(1956-2010)
Musician
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John Murtha
Anti-War Activist, U.S. Representative / 1932 - 2010
John Murtha was appointed to the U.S. House of Representatives in a special election to fill a vacancy caused by the death of GOP Rep. John P. Saylor.
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(1932-2010)
Anti-War Activist, U.S. Representative
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Patricia Neal
Film Actress, Theater Actress / 1926 - 2010
Patricia Neil was an American film and stage actress who is best known for her performances in The Day The Earth Stood Still and Breakfast at Tiffany's.
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(1926-2010)
Film Actress, Theater Actress
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Leslie Nielsen
Actor / 1926 - 2010
Leslie Neilsen was an actor known for his deadpan comic delivery in such films as Airplane! and The Naked Gun
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(1926-2010)
Actor
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Lynn Redgrave
Film Actress, Theater Actress, Television Actress / 1943 - 2010
Lynn Redgrave was an actress from the five generations of Redgrave actors known for her work on both stage and screen.
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(1943-2010)
Film Actress, Theater Actress, Television Actress
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Eric Rohmer
Director / 1920 - 2010
French film director Eric Rohmer was an editor of respected periodicals, including Cahiers du Cinéma, and the maker of films like My Night at Maud's.
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(1920-2010)
Director
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J.D. Salinger
Author / 1919 - 2010
With his landmark novel Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger was an influential 20th-century American writer.
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(1919-2010)
Author
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José Saramago
Journalist, Author / 1922 - 2010
José Saramago was a Portuguese novelist and man of letters who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1998.
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(1922-2010)
Journalist, Author
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Ted Sorensen
Lawyer, Writer / 1928 - 2010
Ted Sorensen was an American presidential adviser and speech writer, best known for his contributions to President John F. Kennedy's most famous speeches.
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(1928-2010)
Lawyer, Writer
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George Steinbrenner
Business Leader / 1930 - 2010
Owner of the New York Yankees from 1972 until his death, George Steinbrenner was one of the most
notorious team owners in baseball history.
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(1930-2010)
Business Leader
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Ted Stevens
U.S. Representative / 1923 - 2010
Ted Stevens was a U.S. senator from Alaska, and the longest-serving Republican senator in American history (1968-2009).
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(1923-2010)
U.S. Representative
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Joan Sutherland
Theater Actress, Singer / 1926 - 2010
Dame Joan Sutherland is an Australian operatic soprano internationally acclaimed for her coloratura roles.
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(1926-2010)
Theater Actress, Singer
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Charlie Wilson
Military Leader, U.S. Representative, Spy / 1933 - 2010
Former congressman Charlie Wilson helped fund Afghanistan's resistance to the Soviet Union. His story was told in the book and film Charlie Wilson's War.
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(1933-2010)
Military Leader, U.S. Representative, Spy
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Umaru Musa Yar'Adua
World Leader / 1951 - 2010
Umaru Musa Yar'Adua was the 13th president of Nigeria for 3 years before his death in 2010.
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(1951-2010)
World Leader