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Saturday, September 9, 2006

Leni Riefenstahl (originally written on 9/9/2003)

I cannot, in good conscience, write a true tribute to a Nazi, which is where Leni Riefenstahl got her fame. Leni Riefenstahl was perhaps most famous for the Nazi propaganda film Triumph of the Will, regarded by some critics as the best propaganda film of all time. She had apparently had cancer,... Sign in to see full entry.

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Monday, September 4, 2006

Steve Irwin

Steve Irwin, 44, died as the result of a stingray-barb bite sustained while he was filming a documentary. Irwin's major claim to fame was that he was the Crocodile Hunter. All three of his programs - Crocodile Hunter, Crocodile Hunter Diaries (a program detailing his day-to-day life as the curator... Sign in to see full entry.

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Sunday, September 3, 2006

Bob Mathias

Bob Mathias, a former Olympic decathlete and California Congressman, died of cancer at age 75. The gold medal Mathias earned in London in 1948 was earned at Mathias' third competition. His first two decathlon competitions were events qualifying him to make it to London in the first place; he hadn't... Sign in to see full entry.

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Nelly Connally

Nelly Connally died at age 87, and the death was announced yesterday (September 2, 2006) by a family friend. She was 87. Her major claim to fame was that she was the last surviving passenger in President John Kennedy's car when JFK was assassinated. Her major memory of this incident was a surreal... Sign in to see full entry.

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Thursday, August 31, 2006

Glenn Ford

Glenn Ford was found dead by paramedics yesterday (August 30). He was 90. The cause of his death has apparently not been determined yet, as none has been listed on the various obituaries I've heard over broadcast media. Perhaps his most famous role was that of the teacher in the film The Blackboard... Sign in to see full entry.

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Wednesday, August 30, 2006

Joseph Stefano

Joseph Stefano, the man who wrote the screenplay to the Hitchcock thriller Psycho, died on August 25 at age 84. The cause of his death was not made public. He first gained wide recognition for his writing for The Ted Mack Family Hour. Then, 20th Century Fox hired him in 1960 to write movie scripts,... Sign in to see full entry.

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Monday, August 28, 2006

Maria Esther de Capovilla

Maria Esther de Capovilla's claim to fame was that she was the world's oldest living person at the time of her death. The AOL article I just read about her did not list a cause of death, but she was 116 years old when she died. She would have been 117 on September 14, 2006. Capovilla was born in... Sign in to see full entry.

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Friday, August 25, 2006

Maynard Ferguson

Maynard Ferguson died of kidney and liver failure on Wednesday, August 23, 2006 (yes, just two days ago, as of this writing). He was 78 years old. Ferguson was a noted jazz musician who came to prominence in the 1950s through an appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show. His parents were both educators,... Sign in to see full entry.

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Thursday, August 24, 2006

Bruce Gary

Bruce Gary, drummer for The Knack (a group most famous for the song My Sharona ) and a session musician for other artists, has died of lymphoma. He was 55. All the AOL obituary for Gary said was "lymphoma;" there are several forms of that type of cancer, but Gary's form of lymphoma was not... Sign in to see full entry.

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Wednesday, August 23, 2006

Eugenia Price

This is a rather old obituary - Eugenia Price died on May 28, 1996, just days before her 80th birthday - but I wanted to pay tribute to one of my favorite inspirational authors. Before Eugenia Price became a born-again Christian in the mid-1950s, she drifted around from career to career. She was... Sign in to see full entry.

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Originally published on Epinions.com, this is my tribute to Fr. Mychal Judge of the Fire Department of New York. I have since added tributes to others who have gone on before.

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