Paul Newman
Paul Leonard Newman (January 26, 1925–September 26, 2008) was an Academy Award–winning and seven-time Academy Award–nominated American actor, film director, entrepreneur, humanitarian and auto racing enthusiast. Newman was a co-founder of Newman's Own, a food company from which Newman donated all post-tax profits and royalties to charity. As of October 2008, these donations had exceeded US $250 million.
Richard Widmark
Richard Widmark (December 26, 1914 – March 24, 2008) was an American actor of films, stage, radio and television.
Charlton Heston
(born John Charles Carter; October 4, 1923 – April 5, 2008) was an American actor of film, theater, television and was president of the National Rifle Association from 1998 to 2003.
Sydney Pollack
(July 1, 1934 – May 26, 2008) was an American film director, producer and actor.
Sir Edmund Percival Hillary
(20 July 1919 – 11 January 2008) was a New Zealand mountaineer and explorer. On 29 May 1953 at the age of 33, he and Sherpa mountaineer Tenzing Norgay became the first climbers known to have reached the summit of Mount Everest. They were part of the ninth British expedition to Everest, led by John Hunt.
Tony Snow
(June 1, 1955–July 12, 2008) was an American political commentator, television news anchor, syndicated columnist, radio host, and the third White House Press Secretary under President George W. Bush.
Jesse Helms
(October 18, 1921 – July 4, 2008) was a five-term Republican United States Senator from North Carolina who served as chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee from 1995 to 2001.
Tim Russert
(May 7, 1950–June 13, 2008) was an American television journalist and lawyer who appeared for more than 16 years as the longest-serving moderator of NBC's Meet the Press. He was a Senior Vice President at NBC News, Washington bureau chief and also hosted the eponymous CNBC/MSNBC weekend interview program Tim Russert. He was a frequent correspondent and guest on NBC's The Today Show and Hardball.
Jim Mckay
(September 24, 1921–June 7, 2008) was an American television sports journalist.
Bobby Fisher
(March 9, 1943 – January 17, 2008) was an American-born chess Grandmaster, and the eleventh World Chess Champion.
Estell Getty
(July 25, 1923 – July 22, 2008), better known by her stage name Estelle Getty, was an American actress, who appeared in film, theatre and television.
Harvey Korman
(February 15, 1927 – May 29, 2008) was an American comedic actor who performed in television and movie productions beginning in 1960.
George Carlin
(May 12, 1937 – June 22, 2008) was an American stand-up comedian. He was also an actor and author, and won four Grammy Awards for his comedy albums.
Estell Reiner
(June 5, 1914 – October 25, 2008), described by The New York Times as "matriarch of one of the leading families in American comedy", was an actress who was the wife of Carl Reiner and the mother of Rob Reiner.
Bettie Page
(April 22, 1923 – December 11, 2008) was an American model who became famous in the 1950s for her fetish modeling and pin-up photos. She was also one of the earliest Playmates of the Month for Playboy magazine.
Dr. Judah FolkMan
(February 24, 1933 – 14 January 2008) was an American medical scientist best known for his research on angiogenesis and vasculogenesis, processes where tumors generate tiny blood vessels to nourish themselves. His work founded a branch of cancer research called 'anti-angiogenesis therapy'.
Michael E. DeBakey
(September 7, 1908 – July 11, 2008) was a world-renowned American heart surgeon, innovator, medical educator, and international medical statesman.
Anthony Minghella
CBE (January 6, 1954 — March 18, 2008) was an Academy Award-winning English film director, playwright and screenwriter. He was Chairman of the Board of Governors at the British Film Institute between 2003 and 2007.
Arthur C. Clarke
CBE (16 December 1917–19 March 2008) was a British science fiction author, inventor, and futurist, most famous for the novel 2001: A Space Odyssey, written in collaboration with director Stanley Kubrick, a collaboration which also produced the film of the same name; and as a host and commentator in the British television series Mysterious World.
Michael Crichton
(October 23, 1942 – November 4, 2008) was an American author, producer and director, best known for his work in the science fiction, medical fiction, and thriller genres. His books have sold over 150 million copies worldwide.
Dith Pran
(September 27, 1942 – March 30, 2008) was a Cambodian photojournalist best known as a refugee and Cambodian Genocide survivor and was the subject of the Academy Award-winning film The Killing Fields.
William F Buckley Jr
(November 24, 1925 – February 27, 2008) was an American author and conservative commentator. He founded the political magazine National Review in 1955, hosted 1429 episodes of the television show Firing Line from 1966 until 1999, and was a nationally syndicated newspaper columnist. His writing style was famed for its erudition, wit, and use of uncommon words.
Studs Terkel
(16 May 1912 – 31 October 2008) was an American author, historian, actor, and broadcaster. He received the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction in 1985, and is best remembered for his oral histories of common Americans, and for hosting a long-running radio show in Chicago.
Oliver Johnston
(October 31, 1912 – April 14, 2008) was an American motion picture animator. He was one of Disney's "Nine Old Men", and the last living member. His work was recognized with the National Medal of Arts in 2005.
Mark Felt
(August 17, 1913–December 18, 2008)was an agent of the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation, who retired in 1973 as the Bureau's Associate Director. After thirty years of denying his involvement with reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, Felt revealed himself on May 31, 2005 to be the Watergate scandal whistleblower called "Deep Throat."
Bo Diddley
(December 30, 1928 – June 2, 2008, born Ellas Otha Bates), was an original and influential American rock & roll singer, guitarist, and songwriter. He was known as "The Originator" because of his key role in the transition from blues music to rock & roll, influencing a host of legendary acts including Buddy Holly, Jimi Hendrix and Eric Clapton. He introduced more insistent, driving rhythms and a hard-edged guitar sound on a wide-ranging catalog of songs.
Leroi Moore
(September 7, 1961 – August 19, 2008) was an American saxophonist best known as a founding member of Dave Matthews Band. Moore also co-wrote many of the band's songs, notably "Too Much" and "Stay (Wasting Time)"
Bernie Mac
(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 joined comedians Steve Harvey, Cedric the Entertainer, and D.L. Hughley as The Original Kings of Comedy.
Roy Schieder
(November 10, 1932 – February 10, 2008)) was an American actor. He is best known for his role as police chief Martin Brody in Jaws, his role as Joe Gideon in All That Jazz, and as detective Sonny Grosso in The French Connection.
Isaac Hayes
(August 20, 1942 – August 10, 2008)was an American Academy Award-winning singer-songwriter, actor and musician. Hayes was one of the main creative forces behind southern soul music label Stax Records, where he served as both an in-house songwriter and producer with partner David Porter during the mid-1960s. Hayes & Porter were named to the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2005. In 1992, in recognition of his humanitarian work, he was crowned an honorary king of Ghana's Ada district. Hayes also acted in motion pictures and television; from 1997 to 2006, he provided the voice for the character "Chef" on the Comedy Central animated TV series South Park.
Brad Renfro
(July 25, 1982 – January 15, 2008) was an American actor. He made his movie debut in 1994 in the title role of The Client. He acted in 21 movies, several short films, and one television episode during his career. Much of his later career was marred by a pattern of substance abuse. He died January 15, 2008 from an overdose of heroin.
Heath Ledger
(4 April 1979 – 22 January 2008) was an Academy Award-nominated Australian television and film actor. He died at the age of 28, "from an accidental overdose of prescription medications." A few months before his death, Ledger had finished filming his penultimate performance as the Joker in The Dark Knight.At the time of his death, on 22 January 2008, he had completed about half of his work performing the role of Tony in Terry Gilliam's forthcoming film The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus.
Randy Pausch
(October 23, 1960 – July 25, 2008) was an American professor of computer science, human-computer interaction and design at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He gave his "The Last Lecture" speech on September 18, 2007 at Carnegie Mellon. Pausch conceived the lecture after he learned that his previously known pancreatic cancer was terminal. The talk was modeled after an ongoing series of lectures where top academics are asked to think deeply about what matters to them, and then give a hypothetical "final talk", with a topic such as "what wisdom would you try to impart to the world if you knew it was your last chance?" The talk was later released as a book called The Last Lecture, which became a New York Times best-seller.
Paul Leonard Newman (January 26, 1925–September 26, 2008) was an Academy Award–winning and seven-time Academy Award–nominated American actor, film director, entrepreneur, humanitarian and auto racing enthusiast. Newman was a co-founder of Newman's Own, a food company from which Newman donated all post-tax profits and royalties to charity. As of October 2008, these donations had exceeded US $250 million.
Richard Widmark
Richard Widmark (December 26, 1914 – March 24, 2008) was an American actor of films, stage, radio and television.
Charlton Heston
(born John Charles Carter; October 4, 1923 – April 5, 2008) was an American actor of film, theater, television and was president of the National Rifle Association from 1998 to 2003.
Sydney Pollack
(July 1, 1934 – May 26, 2008) was an American film director, producer and actor.
Sir Edmund Percival Hillary
(20 July 1919 – 11 January 2008) was a New Zealand mountaineer and explorer. On 29 May 1953 at the age of 33, he and Sherpa mountaineer Tenzing Norgay became the first climbers known to have reached the summit of Mount Everest. They were part of the ninth British expedition to Everest, led by John Hunt.
Tony Snow
(June 1, 1955–July 12, 2008) was an American political commentator, television news anchor, syndicated columnist, radio host, and the third White House Press Secretary under President George W. Bush.
Jesse Helms
(October 18, 1921 – July 4, 2008) was a five-term Republican United States Senator from North Carolina who served as chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee from 1995 to 2001.
Tim Russert
(May 7, 1950–June 13, 2008) was an American television journalist and lawyer who appeared for more than 16 years as the longest-serving moderator of NBC's Meet the Press. He was a Senior Vice President at NBC News, Washington bureau chief and also hosted the eponymous CNBC/MSNBC weekend interview program Tim Russert. He was a frequent correspondent and guest on NBC's The Today Show and Hardball.
Jim Mckay
(September 24, 1921–June 7, 2008) was an American television sports journalist.
Bobby Fisher
(March 9, 1943 – January 17, 2008) was an American-born chess Grandmaster, and the eleventh World Chess Champion.
Estell Getty
(July 25, 1923 – July 22, 2008), better known by her stage name Estelle Getty, was an American actress, who appeared in film, theatre and television.
Harvey Korman
(February 15, 1927 – May 29, 2008) was an American comedic actor who performed in television and movie productions beginning in 1960.
George Carlin
(May 12, 1937 – June 22, 2008) was an American stand-up comedian. He was also an actor and author, and won four Grammy Awards for his comedy albums.
Estell Reiner
(June 5, 1914 – October 25, 2008), described by The New York Times as "matriarch of one of the leading families in American comedy", was an actress who was the wife of Carl Reiner and the mother of Rob Reiner.
Bettie Page
(April 22, 1923 – December 11, 2008) was an American model who became famous in the 1950s for her fetish modeling and pin-up photos. She was also one of the earliest Playmates of the Month for Playboy magazine.
Dr. Judah FolkMan
(February 24, 1933 – 14 January 2008) was an American medical scientist best known for his research on angiogenesis and vasculogenesis, processes where tumors generate tiny blood vessels to nourish themselves. His work founded a branch of cancer research called 'anti-angiogenesis therapy'.
Michael E. DeBakey
(September 7, 1908 – July 11, 2008) was a world-renowned American heart surgeon, innovator, medical educator, and international medical statesman.
Anthony Minghella
CBE (January 6, 1954 — March 18, 2008) was an Academy Award-winning English film director, playwright and screenwriter. He was Chairman of the Board of Governors at the British Film Institute between 2003 and 2007.
Arthur C. Clarke
CBE (16 December 1917–19 March 2008) was a British science fiction author, inventor, and futurist, most famous for the novel 2001: A Space Odyssey, written in collaboration with director Stanley Kubrick, a collaboration which also produced the film of the same name; and as a host and commentator in the British television series Mysterious World.
Michael Crichton
(October 23, 1942 – November 4, 2008) was an American author, producer and director, best known for his work in the science fiction, medical fiction, and thriller genres. His books have sold over 150 million copies worldwide.
Dith Pran
(September 27, 1942 – March 30, 2008) was a Cambodian photojournalist best known as a refugee and Cambodian Genocide survivor and was the subject of the Academy Award-winning film The Killing Fields.
William F Buckley Jr
(November 24, 1925 – February 27, 2008) was an American author and conservative commentator. He founded the political magazine National Review in 1955, hosted 1429 episodes of the television show Firing Line from 1966 until 1999, and was a nationally syndicated newspaper columnist. His writing style was famed for its erudition, wit, and use of uncommon words.
Studs Terkel
(16 May 1912 – 31 October 2008) was an American author, historian, actor, and broadcaster. He received the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction in 1985, and is best remembered for his oral histories of common Americans, and for hosting a long-running radio show in Chicago.
Oliver Johnston
(October 31, 1912 – April 14, 2008) was an American motion picture animator. He was one of Disney's "Nine Old Men", and the last living member. His work was recognized with the National Medal of Arts in 2005.
Mark Felt
(August 17, 1913–December 18, 2008)was an agent of the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation, who retired in 1973 as the Bureau's Associate Director. After thirty years of denying his involvement with reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, Felt revealed himself on May 31, 2005 to be the Watergate scandal whistleblower called "Deep Throat."
Bo Diddley
(December 30, 1928 – June 2, 2008, born Ellas Otha Bates), was an original and influential American rock & roll singer, guitarist, and songwriter. He was known as "The Originator" because of his key role in the transition from blues music to rock & roll, influencing a host of legendary acts including Buddy Holly, Jimi Hendrix and Eric Clapton. He introduced more insistent, driving rhythms and a hard-edged guitar sound on a wide-ranging catalog of songs.
Leroi Moore
(September 7, 1961 – August 19, 2008) was an American saxophonist best known as a founding member of Dave Matthews Band. Moore also co-wrote many of the band's songs, notably "Too Much" and "Stay (Wasting Time)"
Bernie Mac
(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 joined comedians Steve Harvey, Cedric the Entertainer, and D.L. Hughley as The Original Kings of Comedy.
Roy Schieder
(November 10, 1932 – February 10, 2008)) was an American actor. He is best known for his role as police chief Martin Brody in Jaws, his role as Joe Gideon in All That Jazz, and as detective Sonny Grosso in The French Connection.
Isaac Hayes
(August 20, 1942 – August 10, 2008)was an American Academy Award-winning singer-songwriter, actor and musician. Hayes was one of the main creative forces behind southern soul music label Stax Records, where he served as both an in-house songwriter and producer with partner David Porter during the mid-1960s. Hayes & Porter were named to the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2005. In 1992, in recognition of his humanitarian work, he was crowned an honorary king of Ghana's Ada district. Hayes also acted in motion pictures and television; from 1997 to 2006, he provided the voice for the character "Chef" on the Comedy Central animated TV series South Park.
Brad Renfro
(July 25, 1982 – January 15, 2008) was an American actor. He made his movie debut in 1994 in the title role of The Client. He acted in 21 movies, several short films, and one television episode during his career. Much of his later career was marred by a pattern of substance abuse. He died January 15, 2008 from an overdose of heroin.
Heath Ledger
(4 April 1979 – 22 January 2008) was an Academy Award-nominated Australian television and film actor. He died at the age of 28, "from an accidental overdose of prescription medications." A few months before his death, Ledger had finished filming his penultimate performance as the Joker in The Dark Knight.At the time of his death, on 22 January 2008, he had completed about half of his work performing the role of Tony in Terry Gilliam's forthcoming film The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus.
Randy Pausch
(October 23, 1960 – July 25, 2008) was an American professor of computer science, human-computer interaction and design at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He gave his "The Last Lecture" speech on September 18, 2007 at Carnegie Mellon. Pausch conceived the lecture after he learned that his previously known pancreatic cancer was terminal. The talk was modeled after an ongoing series of lectures where top academics are asked to think deeply about what matters to them, and then give a hypothetical "final talk", with a topic such as "what wisdom would you try to impart to the world if you knew it was your last chance?" The talk was later released as a book called The Last Lecture, which became a New York Times best-seller.
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