Journals Of Life. Online memorials. Virtual memory books of people who died on (02/24/2006

Octavia Estelle Butler (June 22, 1947 – February 24, 2006) was an American science fiction writer, one of the best-known among the few African-American women in the field.

Erich Wolf Segal

06/16/1937 - 01/17/2010

Erich Wolf Segal (June 16, 1937 – January 17, 2010) was an American author, screenwriter, and educator. He was best-known for writing the novel Love Story (1970), a best-seller, and writing the motion picture of the same name, which was a ma...
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Jean Reinhardt

01/23/1910 - 05/16/1953

Jean "Django" Reinhardt (23 January 1910 – 16 May 1953) was a pioneering virtuoso jazz guitarist and composer

Earl Kenneth Hines

12/28/1903 - 04/22/1983

Earl Kenneth Hines, universally known as Earl "Fatha" Hines, (December 28, 1903 – April 22, 1983) was "one of a small number of pianists whose playing shaped the history of jazz

Steve McQueen (Terrence Steven McQueen)

03/24/1930 - 11/07/1980

Terrence Steven "Steve" McQueen (March 24, 1930 – November 7, 1980) was a popular American movie actor. He was nicknamed "The King of Cool."His "anti-hero" persona, which he developed at the height of the Vietna...
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Roy Bean

//1825 - 03/16/1903

Phantly Roy Bean, Jr. (1825 – March 16, 1903) was an eccentric U.S. saloon-keeper and Justice of the Peace in Val Verde County, Texas, who called himself "The Law West of the Pecos". According to legend, Judge Roy Bean held court i...
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Lori Martin

04/18/1947 - 04/04/2010

Lori Martin (born April 18, 1947, Glendale, California — died April 4, 2010, Oakhurst, California) was an American actress

Buck Owens (Alvis Edgar Owens)

08/12/1929 - 03/25/2006

Alvis Edgar Owens, Jr. (August 12, 1929 – March 25, 2006), better known as Buck Owens, was an American singer and guitarist who had 21 No. 1 hits on the Billboard country music charts with his band,...
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John Lee Hooker

08/22/1917 - 06/21/2001

John Lee Hooker (August 22, 1917 – June 21, 2001) was an American blues singer-songwriter and guitarist, born near Clarksdale, Mississippi. Hooker began his life as the son of a sharecropper, William Hooker, and rose to prominence performing...
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William Shepherd Morrison

08/10/1893 - 02/03/1961

William Shepherd Morrison, 1st Viscount Dunrossil, GCMG, MC, KStJ, PC, QC (10 August 1893 – 3 February 1961), the 14th Governor-General of Australia, was born in Scotland and educated at George Watson's College and the University of Edin...
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Al Wilson

06/19/1939 - 04/21/2008

Al Wilson (June 19, 1939 – April 21, 2008) was an American soul singer best known for the million-selling #1 hit, "Show and Tell". He is also remembered for his Northern soul anthem, ...
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Harry Truman

05/08/1884 - 12/26/1972

Harry S. Truman (May 8, 1884 – December 26, 1972) was the 33rd President of the United States (1945–1953). As President Franklin D. Roosevelt's third vice-president and the 34th Vice President of the United States, he succeede...
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Reggie White (Reginald Howard White)

12/19/1961 - 12/26/2004

Reginald Howard "Reggie" White (December 19, 1961 – December 26, 2004), nicknamed "The Minister of Defense" because of his faith, was a professional American football player who playeddefensive end...
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Marylin Monroe

06/01/1926 - 08/05/1962

Marilyn Monroe died in 1962, but interest in her life and her story continues in popular culture and in feminist studies. Marilyn Monroe, born Norma Jean Mortensen, was born in 1926, starred in many popular films, married Arthur Miller and Joe DiM...
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Henry Valentine Miller

12/26/1891 - 06/07/1980

Henry Valentine Miller (December 26, 1891 – June 7, 1980) was an American novelist and painter. He was known for breaking with existing literary forms and developing a new sort of 'novel' that is a mixture of novel, autobiography, so...
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