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23 hours ago · Samora Machel (53), a Mozambican politician, military commander, and revolutionary, was killed on 19 October 1986 [ 171 ] during a mysterious plane crash close to the Mozambican-South African border. Cam Lyman (54–55) was a multimillionaire dog breeder from Westwood, Massachusetts who disappeared in the summer of 1987.
23 hours ago · George Waldbott – physician, allergy and fluoride specialist. Hellmuth Walter – engineer who pioneered research into rocket engines and gas turbines [605] Kenneth Waltz – political scientist, outlined the theory of neorealism [606] Michael Christopher Wendl – biomedical engineer and Human Genome Project scientist.
23 hours ago · Anthony R. Dolan (B.A. 1970), 1978 Pulitzer Prize for investigative reporting [22] Charles Forelle (B.A. 2002), co-author of articles for which The Wall Street Journal won the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service in 2007 [23] John Lewis Gaddis, 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Biography, Cold War historian
23 hours ago · For other uses, see Richard Cheney (disambiguation). Richard Bruce Cheney (/ ˈtʃeɪni / CHAY-nee; [ a ] born January 30, 1941) is an American retired politician and businessman who served as the 46th vice president of the United States from 2001 to 2009 under President George W. Bush. He has been called the most powerful vice president in ...
23 hours ago · Plutarch. Plutarch (/ ˈpluːtɑːrk /; Greek: Πλούταρχος, Ploútarchos; Koinē Greek: [ˈplúːtarkʰos]; c. AD 46 – after AD 119) [1] was a Greek Middle Platonist philosopher, [2] historian, biographer, essayist, and priest at the Temple of Apollo in Delphi. He is known primarily for his Parallel Lives, a series of biographies of ...
23 hours ago · —Sinatra's daughter Nancy on the importance of his mother Dolly in his life and character. Francis Albert Sinatra [a] was born on December 12, 1915, in a tenement at 415 Monroe Street in Hoboken, New Jersey, [b] the only child of Italian immigrants Natalina "Dolly" Garaventa and Antonino Martino "Marty" Sinatra, who boxed under the name Marty O'Brien. [c] Sinatra weighed 13.5 pounds (6.1 kg) at birth and had to be delivered with the aid of forceps, which caused severe scarring to his left ...
23 hours ago · Dame Olivia Mary de Havilland DBE (/ dəˈhævɪlənd /; July 1, 1916 – July 26, 2020) was a British, American and French actress. The major works of her cinematic career spanned from 1935 to 1988. [ 1 ] She appeared in 49 feature films and was one of the leading actresses of her time. At the time of her death in 2020 at age 104, she was the ...
