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Famous Birthdays

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Famous Deaths

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Feb 25th - Static Major, American singer (b. 1974)
Feb 26th - Buddy Miles, American drummer (Band of Gypsies; b. 1947)
Feb 26th - Dick Fletcher, Meteorologist (b.1942)
Feb 26th - Glory Mukwati, Zimbabwean politician
Feb 27th - Myron Cope, American sports broadcaster (b. 1929)
Feb 27th - William F. Buckley, Jr., American conservative author and commentator (b. 1925)
Feb 27th - Boyd Coddington, American automobile designer (b. 1944)
Feb 28th - Mike Smith, English musician (The Dave Clark Five) (b. 1943)
Mar 2nd - Jeff Healey, Canadian musician (b. 1966)
Mar 4th - Gary Gygax, Fantasy author and role-playing games creator. (b. 1938)
Mar 4th - Elena Nathanael, Greek film actress (b. 1941)
Mar 4th - Leonard Rosenman, American film, television and concert composer (b. 1924)
Mar 4th - Semka Sokolovic-Bertok, Yugoslavian-born Croatian actress (b. 1935)
Mar 4th - George Walter, former Prime Minister of Antigua and Barbuda (b. 1928)
Mar 5th - Joseph Weizenbaum, German-American professor of computer science (b.1923)
Mar 6th - Peter Poreku Cardinal Dery Cardinal Archbishop Emeritus of Tamale, Ghana
Mar 8th - Carol Barnes, former ITV news presenter (b. 1944)
Mar 10th - Richard Fran Biegenwald, an American serial killer (b. 1940)
Mar 12th - Lazare Ponticelli, the last "poilu", French foot soldier of World War One, dies at 110 (b. 1897)
Mar 12th - Jorge Guinzburg, Argentine journalist, producer, humorist, and TV, theater and radio host (b. 1949)
Mar 14th - Chiara Lubich, Italian Catholic activist and leader and foundress of the Focolare (b. 1920)
Mar 14th - Anthony Minghella, English Oscar winning film director (b. 1954)
Mar 15th - Vytautas Kernagis, Lithuanian singer, TV shows announcer (b. 1951)
Mar 15th - Mikey Dread,Jamaican singer (b. 1954)
Mar 16th - Bill Brown, Australian cricketer (b. 1912)
Mar 16th - Ola Brunkert, Swedish session drummer for ABBA (b. 1946)
Mar 16th - Gary Hart, American professional wrestling manager and wrestler (b. 1942)
Mar 16th - G. David Low, American astronaut (b. 1956)
Mar 16th - John Hewer, Actor famous for portraying Captain Birdseye in British commercials. (b. 1922)
Mar 17th - Roland Arnall, U.S. Ambassador to the Netherlands (b. 1939)
Mar 18th - Anthony Minghella, Film Director (b. 1954)
Mar 18th - Andrew Britton, Author (b. 1981)
Mar 19th - Sir Arthur C. Clarke, English science fiction author and inventor (b. 1917)
Mar 19th - Raghuvaran, Tamil, Telugu and Malayalam actor (b. 1948)
Mar 19th - Hugo Claus, Belgian writer (b. 1929)
Mar 20th - Eric Ashton, English rugby league footballer (b. 1935)
Mar 20th - Shoban Babu, Indian actor (b. 1937)
Mar 20th - Brian Wilde, English actor (b. 1921)
Mar 20th - Klaus Dinger, German Musician (b. 1946)
Mar 22nd - Cachao López, Cuban mambo musician (b. 1918)
Mar 24th - Chalmers "Spanky" Alford‎, American guitarist (b. 1955)
Mar 24th - Neil Aspinall, British record producer (b. 1941)
Mar 24th - Richard Widmark, American actor (b. 1914)
Mar 24th - Hal Riney, American advertising executive (b. 1932)
Mar 25th - Rafael Azcona, Spanish screenwriter (b. 1926)
Mar 25th - Ben Carnevale, American basketball coach (b. 1915)
Mar 26th - Heath Benedict, American Football Player (b. 1983)
Mar 26th - Robert Fagles, American translator and professor (b. 1933)
Mar 26th - Wally Phillips, American radio personality (b. 1925)
Mar 26th - Manuel Marulanda Velez aka Tirofijo, founder and lifelong leader of Colombian rebel group FARC-EP (b. 1930)
Mar 27th - Jean-Marie Balestre, French president of motor sport's FIA (b. 1921)
Mar 27th - George Pruteanu, Romanian literary critic and politician (b. 1947)
Mar 30th - Dith Pran, The Killing Fields Photographer (b. 1942)
Mar 30th - David Leslie, Touring Car Driver (b. 1953)
Mar 30th - Richard Lloyd, Racing Car Driver (b. 1945)
Mar 31st - Jules Dassin, American film director (b .1911)
Mar 31st - Bill Keightley, "Mr. Wildcat." University of Kentucky basketball equipment manger 1962-2008 (b .1926)
Apr 3rd - Hrvoje Ćustić, Croatian football player (b. 1983)
Apr 4th - Francis Tucker, South African Rally Driver (b. 1923)
Apr 5th - Charlton Heston, American Actor (b. 1923)
Apr 8th - Timothy Beaumont, Baron Beaumont of Whitley (b. 1928)
Apr 8th - John Button, Australian politician (b. 1933)
Apr 8th - Stanley Kamel, American actor (b. 1943)
Apr 11th - Merlin German, United States Marine
Apr 12th - Paddy Hillery, 6th President of Ireland, EEC Commissioner and Irish Minister (b. 1923)
Apr 12th - Cecilia Colledge, British ice skater and Olympian (b. 1920)
Apr 12th - Jerry Zucker, Israeli-born American businessman (b. 1949)
Apr 13th - John Wheeler, American physicist and educator (b. 1911)
Apr 14th - Tommy Holmes, American baseball player (b. 1918)
Apr 14th - Ollie Johnston, the last living member of Disney's Nine Old Men. (b. 1912)
Apr 14th - Miguel Galvan, Mexican actor/comedian. (b. 1957)
Apr 15th - Krister Stendahl, Swedish Lutheran theologian and bishop (b. 1921)
Apr 15th - Benoît Lamy, Belgian Movie Director (b. 1945)
Apr 16th - Edward Lorenz, American mathematician and meteorologist (b. 1917)
Apr 16th - Joseph Solman, American painter
Apr 17th - Aimé Césaire, French Martinican poet and politician (b. 1913)
Apr 17th - Danny Federici, organ player for E-Street Band (b. 1950)
Apr 19th - John Marzano, American baseball player (b. 1963)
Apr 19th - Germaine Tillion, French anthropologist, member of French Resistance (b. 1907)
Apr 19th - Alfonso López Trujillo, Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church (b. 1935)
Apr 20th - VL Mike, American Rapper (b. 1976)
Apr 20th - Monica Lovinescu, Romanian essayist, literary critic and journalist (b. 1923)
Apr 21st - Al Wilson, American singer (b. 1939)
Apr 22nd - Ed Chynoweth, Canadian ice hockey executive (b. 1941)
Apr 25th - Humphrey Lyttelton, Jazz musician and broadcaster, (b. 1921)
Apr 29th - Albert Hofmann, Swiss chemist, known as the first to synthesize LSD (b. 1906)
Apr 30th - John Cargher, Australian radio broadcaster (b. 1919)
May 1st - Anthony Mamo, Malta's first President (b. 1909)
May 1st - Deborah Jeane Palfrey, Washington, D.C. prostitution service owner (b. 1956)
May 2nd - Beverlee McKinsey, American actress (b. 1940)
May 3rd - Leopoldo Calvo Sotelo, Spanish former Primer Minister (b. 1926)
May 5th - Irv Robbins, Canadian-American entrepreneur (b. 1917)
May 8th - Eddy Arnold, Country music star (b. 1918)
May 8th - François Sterchele, Belgian football player (b. 1982)
May 9th - Jack Gibson, Australian rugby league footballer and coach (b. 1929)
May 9th - Nuala O'Faolain, Irish journalist (b. 1942)
May 10th - Leyla Gencer, Turkish soprano (b. 1928)
May 10th - Jessie Jacobs, Australian Actress (b. 1990)
May 11th - Dottie Rambo, American gospel singer (b. 1934)
May 11th - John Rutsey, Canadian drummer, formerly for Canadian progressive rock band Rush (b.1953)