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Jack Williamson 2006 Deaths

Jack WilliamsonAge: 98 writer of countless science fiction novels and short stories whose career spanned almost 80 years. His best-known novel was The Humanoids, a Puritan dystopia written in…

Arthur Winston 2006 Deaths

Arthur WinstonAge: 100 legendary Los Angeles transportation worker who missed only one day in a 72-year career, that being the day his wife died in 1988. The bus yard at which he worked was…

Julius Barnathan Biography

Julius Barnathantelevision executiveBorn: 1/22/1927Birthplace: New York City In his nearly 40-year career with ABC he held a number of important positions and was noted especially as director of…

Gabriel Byrne Biography

Gabriel Byrne actorBorn: 5/12/1950Birthplace: Dublin, Ireland Irish-born actor whose best known films include Miller's Crossing (1990), Little Women (1994), The Usual Suspects(1995), The Man in…

Cuba Gooding, Jr. Biography

Cuba Gooding, Jr. actorBorn: 1/2/1968Birthplace: Bronx, New York Talented actor who stole the show, and walked away with the Best Supporting Actor Oscar, as the temperamental but passionate…

Raymond Burr

Raymond Burr(William Stacey Burr)actorBorn: 5/21/1917Birthplace: New Westminster, British Columbia, Canada A heavy-set character actor, he gained fame playing mainly bad guys, as the murderer…

Sandra Dee Biography

Sandra Dee(Alexandria Zuck)actressBorn: 4/23/1942Birthplace: Bayonne, New Jersey Originally a model, the petite Sandra Dee moved onto TV commercials, then broke into teeny-bopper films of the…

Raymond Burr Biography

Raymond Burr(William Stacey Burr)actorBorn: 5/21/1917Birthplace: New Westminster, British Columbia, Canada A heavy-set character actor, he gained fame playing mainly bad guys, as the murderer…

Famous Firsts by Hispanic Americans

The first Hispanic-American politicians, baseball players, and more Government Member of U.S. Congress: Joseph Marion Hernández, 1822, delegate from the Florida territory. Sonia Sotomayor…

Olivia De Havilland Biography

Olivia De HavillandactressBorn: 7/1/1916Birthplace: Tokyo, Japan The sister of actress Joan Fontaine, she is probably best remembered as the long-suffering Melanie in Gone With the Wind (1939). She…