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Charles Crichton Biography
Charles CrichtonAge: 89 British film director of The Lavender Hill Mob, among other comedies of the '40s and '50s. Most recently, Crichton was nominated for an Oscar for the fa…Wilton Norman (Wilt) Chamberlain Biography
Wilton Norman (Wilt) ChamberlainAge: 63 one of the 20th century's most recognized athletes, Chamberlain was a dominant basketball center who is best remembered for scoring a re…Jennifer Paterson Biography
Jennifer PatersonAge: 71 plump TV chef who co-starred in the humorous, high-cholesterol British cooking series Two Fat Ladies. Along with co-host Clarissa Dickson Wright, Pater…Mark O'Brien Biography
Mark O'BrienAge: 49 author and poet. O'Brien, the subject of the Academy Award-winning documentary Breathing Lessons, wrote by typing with a stick in his mouth. He lived in a 6…Joshua Nkomo Biography
Joshua NkomoAge: 82 Father of Zimbabwe. Nkomo spent years fighting Britain and later white Rhodesia for independence. Despite Nkomo's leadership, his erstwhile ally Robert Muga…Julius Nyerere Biography
Julius NyerereAge: 77 symbol of the African independence movement who served as Tanzania's first president after leading the country to independence from Britain in 1961. After…Frank M. Johnson, Jr. Biography
Frank M. Johnson, Jr.Age: 80 uncompromising federal judge from Alabama whose rulings helped desegregate many of Montgomery's public facilities and cleared the way for Martin Lu…Clarence L. Harris Biography
Clarence L. HarrisAge: 94 lunch manager who in 1960 let four black students remain at Woolworth's whites-only counter. Harris did not serve the protesters, but his insistence t…Willie Morris Biography
Willie MorrisAge: 64 American writer and former Harper's magazine editor whose mellifluous prose captured the homey small-town rhythms and jarring racist quirks of his beloved …W. Arthur Garrity, Jr. Biography
W. Arthur Garrity, Jr.Age: 79 the federal judge who in 1974 triggered riots and “white flight” by ordering the desegregation, by student busing, of Boston schools.Died: Boston,…Trending
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