2005

Alan Voorhees
Alan Manners Voorhees (December 17, 1922 – December 18, 2005) was an transportation engineer and urban planner who designed many large public works in the United States. Voorhees was born in Highland Park, New Jersey.
http://wn.com/Alan_Voorhees

Alexis Lemaire
Alexis Claude Lemaire (born 1980) is a French computer scientist, does mental calculation and holds world records for mentally calculating the integer 13th root of a 100-digit number and of a 200-digit number. He is a doctoral student in artificial intelligence at the University of Reims.
http://wn.com/Alexis_Lemaire

Alfred Reed
Alfred Reed (January 25, 1921 – September 17, 2005) was one of America's most prolific and frequently performed composers, with more than two hundred published works for concert band, wind ensemble, orchestra, chorus, and chamber ensemble to his name. He also traveled extensively as a guest conductor, performing in North America, Latin America, Europe and Asia.
http://wn.com/Alfred_Reed

Ali Al-Haidri
http://wn.com/Ali_Al-Haidri

Amrish Puri
Amrish Lal Puri (, , lang-ur|; June 22, 1932 - January 12, 2005) was an iconic theater and film actor from India, who was a key player in the Indian theater movement that picked up steam in the 1960s. He worked with notable playwrights of the time, such as Satyadev Dubey and Girish Karnad. However, he is primarily remembered for essaying some iconic negative roles in Hindi cinema. His is most remembered for his role as Mogambo in the Hindi film Mr India (1987). Also, as Mola Ram in the Hollywood film Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984), he crossed over to international cinema as well.
http://wn.com/Amrish_Puri

Andrew Stimpson
Andrew Stimpson (born 1980 in Largs, Scotland) is a former glamour model, who was once cover boy and centrefold of Euroboy magazine. He tested negative for HIV fourteen months after three initial tests returned a positive result. While there have been anecdotal reports from Africa of people fighting off the virus, Stimpson's case was the first to have been medically documented and tested.
http://wn.com/Andrew_Stimpson

Anita Kulcsár
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http://wn.com/Anita_Kulcsár

Anne Bancroft
http://wn.com/Anne_Bancroft

Arthur K. Cebrowski
Vice Admiral (ret.) Arthur K. Cebrowski (August 13, 1942 – November 12, 2005) was a retired United States Navy admiral who served from October 2001 to January 2005 as Director of the Office of Force Transformation in the U.S. Department of Defense. In this position, he was responsible for serving as an advocate, focal point, and catalyst for the transformation of the United States military.
http://wn.com/Arthur_K_Cebrowski

Arthur Miller
Arthur Asher Miller (October 17, 1915 – February 10, 2005) was an American playwright and essayist. He was a prominent figure in American theatre, writing dramas that include award-winning plays such as All My Sons, Death of a Salesman, and The Crucible.
http://wn.com/Arthur_Miller

Askar Akayev
http://wn.com/Askar_Akayev

Ba Jin
Li Yaotang (, November 25, 1904 – October 17, 2005), courtesy name Feigan (), is considered to be one of the most important and widely-read Chinese writers of the 20th century. He wrote under the pen name of Ba Jin (), also Pa Chin, allegedly taking his pseudonym from Russian anarchists Bakunin and Kropotkin. Ba Jin started composing his first works in the late 1920s.
http://wn.com/Ba_Jin

Barry Marshall
Barry James Marshall, AC, FRS, FAA (born 30 September 1951) is an Australian physician, Nobel Prize laureate in Physiology or Medicine, and Professor of Clinical Microbiology at the University of Western Australia. Marshall is well-known for proving that the bacterium Helicobacter pylori is the cause of most peptic ulcers, reversing decades of medical doctrine which held that ulcers were caused by stress, spicy foods, and too much acid.
http://wn.com/Barry_Marshall

Bill Andersen
http://wn.com/Bill_Andersen

Birgit Nilsson
Birgit Nilsson (May 17, 1918 – December 25, 2005) was a celebrated Swedish dramatic soprano who specialized in operatic and symphonic works. Her voice was noted for its overwhelming force, bountiful reserves of power and the gleaming brilliance and clarity in the upper register.
http://wn.com/Birgit_Nilsson

Charles Socarides
Charles W. Socarides (January 24, 1922 - December 25, 2005), was an American psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, physician, educator, and author. Socarides was born in Brockton, Massachusetts. Socarides focused much of his career on the study of homosexuality, which he believed can be altered. He helped found the National Association for Research and Therapy of Homosexuality (NARTH) in 1992 and worked extensively with the organization until his death. He did not consider the underlying desires of homosexuality immoral, stating that "Once my patients have achieved an insight into these dynamics - and realized there is no moral fault involved in their longtime and mysterious need - they have moved rather quickly on the road to recovery" [http://www.nytimes.com/1995/12/24/us/an-analyst-a-father-battles-homosexuality.html?scp=7&sq;=charles%20socarides&st;=cse]
http://wn.com/Charles_Socarides

China Daily
The China Daily () is an English-language daily newspaper published in the People's Republic of China.
http://wn.com/China_Daily

Chris LeDoux
Chris Lee LeDoux (October 2, 1948–March 9, 2005) was an American country music singer-songwriter, bronze sculptor and rodeo champion.
http://wn.com/Chris_LeDoux

Chris Whitley
Christopher Becker Whitley (August 31, 1960 – November 20, 2005) was an American blues singer-songwriter and guitarist.
http://wn.com/Chris_Whitley

Dahlia Ravikovitch
Dahlia Ravikovitch (, (1936-2005) was an Israeli poet and peace activist.
http://wn.com/Dahlia_Ravikovitch

Danny Dietz
Gunner's Mate 2nd Class Danny Dietz (January 26, 1980 - June 28, 2005) of Littleton, Colorado was a U.S. Navy SEAL who was posthumously awarded the United States' 2nd highest citation for valor, the Navy Cross, on 13 September 2006.
http://wn.com/Danny_Dietz

David Lange
Officeholder
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Deaths in 2005
The following is a list of notable deaths in 2005. Names are listed under the date of death and not the date it was announced. Names under each date are listed in alphabetical order by family name.
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Devan Nair
http://wn.com/Devan_Nair

Don Adams
http://wn.com/Don_Adams

Ed McBain
http://wn.com/Ed_McBain

Eddie Albert
:For his son, See Edward Albert.
http://wn.com/Eddie_Albert

Eddie Guerrero
http://wn.com/Eddie_Guerrero

Edward Heath
http://wn.com/Edward_Heath

Elizabeth II
Elizabeth II (Elizabeth Alexandra Mary, born 21 April 1926) is the reigning queen and head of state of 16 independent sovereign states known as the Commonwealth realms: the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Jamaica, Barbados, the Bahamas, Grenada, Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands, Tuvalu, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Belize, Antigua and Barbuda, and Saint Kitts and Nevis. In addition, as Head of the Commonwealth, she is the figurehead of the 54-member Commonwealth of Nations and, as the British monarch, she is the Supreme Governor of the Church of England.
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Erik Balling
http://wn.com/Erik_Balling

Eugene J. Martin
Eugene James Martin (b. Washington, D.C., July 24, 1938 - d. Lafayette, Louisiana, January 1, 2005)
http://wn.com/Eugene_J_Martin

Evan Hunter
Evan Hunter (October 15, 1926 - July 6, 2005) was an American author and screenwriter. Born Salvatore Albert Lombino, he legally adopted the name Evan Hunter in 1952. While successful and well-known as Evan Hunter, he was even better known as Ed McBain, a name he used for most of his crime fiction, beginning in 1956.
http://wn.com/Evan_Hunter

Ezer Weizman
(), born 15 June 1924, died 24 April 2005) was the seventh President of Israel, first elected in 1993 and re-elected in 1998. Before the presidency, Weizman was commander of the Israeli Air Force and Minister of Defense.
http://wn.com/Ezer_Weizman

Fahd of Saudi Arabia
King Fahd bin Abdul Aziz Al Saud, Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques, (16 March 1921 – 1 August 2005) was the King of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Head of the House of Saud as well as Prime Minister. One of forty-five sons of Saudi founder Ibn Saud, and the fourth of his five sons who have ruled the Kingdom (Saud, Faisal, Khalid, Fahd, and Abdullah), Fahd ascended to the throne on the death of his half-brother, King Khalid, on 13 June 1982.
http://wn.com/Fahd_of_Saudi_Arabia

Fei Junlong
Colonel Fei Junlong () (born 1965) is a Chinese military pilot and an astronaut. He flew on the second manned spaceflight of the Shenzhou program.
http://wn.com/Fei_Junlong

Ferruccio Valcareggi
Ferruccio Valcareggi (12 February 1919 – 2 November 2005) was an Italian football player and coach.
http://wn.com/Ferruccio_Valcareggi

Filiberto Ojeda Ríos
http://wn.com/Filiberto_Ojeda_Ríos

Fred Korematsu
http://wn.com/Fred_Korematsu

Frère Roger
http://wn.com/Frère_Roger

George Best
http://wn.com/George_Best

George Dantzig
George Bernard Dantzig (November 8, 1914 – May 13, 2005) was an American mathematician, and the Professor Emeritus of Transportation Sciences and Professor of Operations Research and of Computer Science at Stanford.
http://wn.com/George_Dantzig

George F. Kennan
http://wn.com/George_F_Kennan

George Galloway
George Galloway (born 16 August 1954) is a British politician, author, and broadcaster who was a Member of Parliament (MP) from 1987 to 2010. He was formerly an MP for the Labour Party, first for Glasgow Hillhead, and later for Glasgow Kelvin, before his expulsion from the party in October 2003, the same year that he came to public attention for his opposition to the American and British invasion of Iraq. He subsequently became a founding member of the left wing Respect Party, and through them represented Bethnal Green and Bow in the 2005 parliament. In the 2010 election, Galloway unsuccessfully contested the parliamentary seat of Poplar and Limehouse.
http://wn.com/George_Galloway

George W. Bush
George Walker Bush (; born July 6, 1946, in New Haven, Connecticut) was the 43rd President of the United States, serving from 2001 to 2009, and the 46th Governor of Texas, serving from 1995 to 2000.
http://wn.com/George_W_Bush

Gerda Boyesen
Gerda Boyesen (born May 18, 1922 in Bergen, Norway, dead December 29, 2005 in London) is the founder of Biodynamic Psychology, a branch of Body Psychotherapy.
http://wn.com/Gerda_Boyesen

Giuliana Sgrena
Giuliana Sgrena (born December 20, 1948) is an Italian journalist who works for the Italian communist newspaper Il Manifesto and the German weekly Die Zeit. While working in Iraq, she was kidnapped by insurgents on 4 February 2005. After her release on March 4, 2005, Sgrena and the two Italian intelligence officers who had helped secure her release came under fire from U.S. forces while on their way to Baghdad International Airport. Nicola Calipari, a Major General in the Italian military intelligence service was killed, and Sgrena and one other officer were wounded in the incident. The event caused an international outcry.
http://wn.com/Giuliana_Sgrena

Gnassingbé Eyadéma
http://wn.com/Gnassingbé_Eyadéma

Guy Davenport
http://wn.com/Guy_Davenport

Harald V of Norway
http://wn.com/Harald_V_of_Norway

Harold Pinter
http://wn.com/Harold_Pinter

Hong Kong
Hong Kong () is one of two special administrative regions (SARs) of the People's Republic of China (PRC), the other being Macau. Situated on China's south coast and enclosed by the Pearl River Delta and South China Sea, it is renowned for its expansive skyline and deep natural harbour. With a land mass of and a population of seven million people, Hong Kong is one of the most densely populated areas in the world. Hong Kong's population is 95 percent ethnic Chinese and 5 percent from other groups. Hong Kong's Han Chinese majority originate mainly from the cities of Guangzhou and Taishan in the neighbouring Guangdong province.
http://wn.com/Hong_Kong

Hosni Mubarak
http://wn.com/Hosni_Mubarak

Hunter S. Thompson
http://wn.com/Hunter_S_Thompson

Islam Karimov
http://wn.com/Islam_Karimov

Ismail Merchant
http://wn.com/Ismail_Merchant

Jack Hirshleifer
Jack Hirshleifer (August 26, 1925 – July 26, 2005) was an American economist and long-time professor at the University of California, Los Angeles.
http://wn.com/Jack_Hirshleifer

Jaime Sin
http://wn.com/Jaime_Sin

James Callaghan
http://wn.com/James_Callaghan

James Doohan
James Montgomery "Jimmy" Doohan (March 3, 1920 – July 20, 2005) was an Irish-Canadian character and voice actor best known for his role as Montgomery "Scotty" Scott in the television and film series Star Trek. Doohan's characterization of the Scottish Chief Engineer of the Starship Enterprise was one of the most recognizable elements in the Star Trek franchise, for which he also made several contributions . Many of the characterizations, mannerisms, and expressions that he established for Scotty and other Star Trek characters have become entrenched in popular culture.
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James Stockdale
Vice Admiral James Bond Stockdale (December 23, 1923 – July 5, 2005) was one of the most highly decorated officers in the history of the United States Navy.
http://wn.com/James_Stockdale

Jeanette Schmid
Jeanette Schmid (6 November 1924 - 9 March 2005) was a professional transsexual whistler.
http://wn.com/Jeanette_Schmid

Jerry Juhl
http://wn.com/Jerry_Juhl

Joe Ranft
http://wn.com/Joe_Ranft

John Fowles
http://wn.com/John_Fowles

John H. Johnson
http://wn.com/John_H_Johnson

John L. Hall
http://wn.com/John_L_Hall

John Mills
Sir John Mills, CBE (22 February 1908 – 23 April 2005) was an English actor, who made more than 120 films in a career spanning seven decades.
http://wn.com/John_Mills

John Sichel
actor
http://wn.com/John_Sichel

John Spencer (actor)
http://wn.com/John_Spencer_(actor)

John Vernon
John Keith Vernon (February 24, 1932February 1, 2005) was a Canadian actor. He made a career in Hollywood after achieving initial television stardom in Canada.
http://wn.com/John_Vernon

John Ziman
http://wn.com/John_Ziman

Johnnie Cochran
Johnnie L. Cochran, Jr. (October 2, 1937 March 29, 2005) was an American lawyer best known for his leadership role in the defense and criminal acquittal of O. J. Simpson for the alleged murder of his former wife Nicole Simpson and her friend Ronald Goldman.
http://wn.com/Johnnie_Cochran

Johnny Carson
http://wn.com/Johnny_Carson

José Azcona del Hoyo
http://wn.com/José_Azcona_del_Hoyo

Junichiro Koizumi
is a Japanese politician who served as Prime Minister of Japan from 2001 to 2006. He retired from politics when his term in parliament ended.
http://wn.com/Junichiro_Koizumi

Justiniano Montano
Justiniano Solis Montano, Sr. (September 5, 1905 - March 31, 2005) was a Filipino politician who was elected for one term to the Philippine Senate and for multiple terms as a member of the House of Representatives.
http://wn.com/Justiniano_Montano

K. R. Narayanan
Kocheril Raman Narayanan () (Travancore 27 October 1920 — New Delhi 9 November 2005), also known as K. R. Narayanan, was the tenth President of India. He was the first Dalit, and the first Malayali, to have been President.
http://wn.com/K_R_Narayanan

Lloyd Cutler
Lloyd Norton Cutler (November 10, 1917–May 8, 2005) was an American attorney who served as White House Counsel during the Democratic administrations of Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton.
http://wn.com/Lloyd_Cutler

Long John Baldry
http://wn.com/Long_John_Baldry

Luc Ferrari
Luc Ferrari, French composer born on February 5, 1929 in Paris - deceased on August 22, 2005 in Arezzo in Italy.
http://wn.com/Luc_Ferrari

Lucia dos Santos
http://wn.com/Lucia_dos_Santos

Luther Vandross
http://wn.com/Luther_Vandross

Lyn Collins
Lyn Collins (12 June 1948 – 13 March 2005) (real name: Gloria Lavern Collins) was an African American soul singer best known for working with James Brown in the 1970s. Contrary to some reports, she is not related to Bootsy Collins, nor Catfish Collins.
http://wn.com/Lyn_Collins

Mahmoud Abbas
http://wn.com/Mahmoud_Abbas

Maria Schell
Maria Margarethe Anna Schell (15 January 1926, Vienna - 26 April 2005, Preitenegg, Carinthia) was an Austrian/Swiss actress, who won the Volpi Cup for Best Actress at the Venice Film Festival in 1956 for ''Gervaise.
http://wn.com/Maria_Schell

Matthew Axelson
http://wn.com/Matthew_Axelson

Maurice Rabb, Jr.
Maurice F. Rabb, Jr. (August 7, 1932-June 6, 2005) was an African-American ophthalmologist. He is widely known for his pioneering work in cornea and retinal vascular diseases.
http://wn.com/Maurice_Rabb_Jr

Max Schmeling
http://wn.com/Max_Schmeling

Mayerthorpe Incident
http://wn.com/Mayerthorpe_Incident

Merle Kilgore
http://wn.com/Merle_Kilgore

Michael E. Brown
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Michael P. Murphy
Michael Patrick Murphy (May 7, 1976 – June 28, 2005) was a United States Navy SEAL posthumously awarded the United States military's highest decoration, the Medal of Honor, for his actions in 2005 during the War in Afghanistan. He was the first person to be awarded the medal for actions in Afghanistan; and the first member of the U.S. Navy to receive the award since the Vietnam War.
http://wn.com/Michael_P_Murphy

Milton Obote
http://wn.com/Milton_Obote

Mo Mowlam
http://wn.com/Mo_Mowlam

Moustapha Akkad
Moustapha Akkad (; July 1, 1930 – November 11, 2005) was a Syrian American film producer and director, best known for producing the series of Halloween films and directing Mohammad, Messenger of God and Lion of the Desert. He was killed along with his daughter Rima Akkad Monla in 2005 in Amman, Jordan by a suicide bomber.
http://wn.com/Moustapha_Akkad

Myron Floren
http://wn.com/Myron_Floren

Nariman Sadeq
http://wn.com/Nariman_Sadeq

Nguyen Tuong Van
http://wn.com/Nguyen_Tuong_Van

Nie Haisheng
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http://wn.com/Nie_Haisheng

Nipsey Russell
http://wn.com/Nipsey_Russell

Norman Bird
http://wn.com/Norman_Bird

Pal Losonczi
http://wn.com/Pal_Losonczi

Pat Morita
Noriyuki "Pat" Morita (June 28, 1932 – November 24, 2005) was a Japanese-American actor who was well-known for playing the role of Arnold on Happy Days and known as Mr. Miyagi in the Karate Kid movie series, in which he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor in 1984.
http://wn.com/Pat_Morita

Patrick Cranshaw
Joseph Patrick Cranshaw (June 17, 1919 — December 28, 2005) was an American film and television actor known for his distinctive look and deadpan humor. He is best known for one of his last roles, that of Joseph "Blue" Pulaski, a fraternity brother in the 2003 hit comedy Old School. Cranshaw also starred as Sheriff Bob in the Air Bud movies and he played the same role in Air Buddies the final time.
http://wn.com/Patrick_Cranshaw

Paul Bomani
http://wn.com/Paul_Bomani

Per Borten
http://wn.com/Per_Borten

Peter Jennings
http://wn.com/Peter_Jennings

Philip Johnson
Philip Cortelyou Johnson (July 8, 1906 — January 25, 2005) was an influential American architect. With his thick, round-framed glasses, Johnson was the most recognizable figure in American architecture for decades.
http://wn.com/Philip_Johnson

Pierre Daninos
Pierre Daninos (May 26, 1913, Paris - January 7, 2005) was a French writer and humorist.
http://wn.com/Pierre_Daninos

Pope Benedict XVI
Pope Benedict XVI (; ; ; born Joseph Alois Ratzinger on 16 April 1927) is the 265th and current Pope, by virtue of his office of Bishop of Rome, the head of the Catholic Church and Sovereign of the Vatican City State. He was elected on 19 April 2005 in a papal conclave, celebrated his Papal Inauguration Mass on 24 April 2005, and took possession of his cathedral, the Basilica of St. John Lateran, on 7 May 2005. A native of Bavaria, Pope Benedict XVI has both German and Vatican citizenship. He succeeded John Paul II.
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Pope John Paul II
http://wn.com/Pope_John_Paul_II

Rafik Hariri
http://wn.com/Rafik_Hariri

Rahimuddin Khan
General Rahimuddin Khan (Pashto, ; born 21 July 1926) is a retired Pakistan Army officer who was the fourth Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee, the de-jure Supreme Commander of the Pakistan Armed Forces, from 1984 to 1987. He was also the Martial Law Administrator and longest-serving Governor of Balochistan, the largest province of Pakistan, from 1978 to when he resigned in 1984. He also briefly served as Governor of Sindh with emergency powers in 1988, from which he too resigned.
http://wn.com/Rahimuddin_Khan

Ramanand Sagar
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http://wn.com/Ramanand_Sagar

Richard Burns
Richard Alexander Burns (January 17, 1971 – November 25, 2005) was an English rally driver. He was born in Reading, Berkshire. He was the 2001 World Rally Champion, having previously finished runner-up in the series in 1999 and 2000. He also helped Mitsubishi to the world manufacturers' title in 1998, and Peugeot in 2002. His co-driver from the 1991 to 2003 seasons was Robert Reid.
http://wn.com/Richard_Burns

Richard Pryor
http://wn.com/Richard_Pryor

Richard Smalley
http://wn.com/Richard_Smalley

Rinus Michels
Marinus ("Rinus") Jacobus Hendricus Michels (9 February 1928 – 3 March 2005) was a Dutch football player and coach. He played his entire career for the club Ajax Amsterdam, which he later coached, and was a member of the Netherlands national team both as a player and as manager.
http://wn.com/Rinus_Michels

Robert C. Turner
Robert Chapman Turner (1913 - July 26, 2005) was an American potter known for his functional pottery, sculptural vessels and inspired teaching.
http://wn.com/Robert_C_Turner

Robert Grubbs
http://wn.com/Robert_Grubbs

Robert Heilbroner
Robert L. Heilbroner (March 24, 1919 – January 4, 2005) was an American economist and historian of economic thought. The author of some twenty books, Heilbroner was best known for The Worldly Philosophers (1953), a survey of the lives and contributions of famous economists, notably Adam Smith, Karl Marx, and John Maynard Keynes.
http://wn.com/Robert_Heilbroner

Robert J. Aumann
http://wn.com/Robert_J_Aumann

Robert Jankel
http://wn.com/Robert_Jankel

Robert Sloman
:For the rugby league footballer of the 1920s for Great Britain, England, and Oldham, see Robert "Bob" Sloman
http://wn.com/Robert_Sloman

Robert Wise
Robert Earl Wise (September 10, 1914 – September 14, 2005) was an American sound effects editor, film editor, film producer and director. He won Academy Awards as Best Director for The Sound of Music (1965) and West Side Story (1961) as well as nominations as Best Film Editing for Citizen Kane (1941) and Best Picture for The Sand Pebbles (1966).
http://wn.com/Robert_Wise

Robin Cook
http://wn.com/Robin_Cook

Robin Warren
John Robin Warren AC (born 11 June 1937 in Adelaide) is an Australian pathologist, Nobel Laureate and researcher who is credited with the 1979 re-discovery of the bacterium Helicobacter pylori, together with Barry Marshall.
http://wn.com/Robin_Warren

Roger Brierley
Roger Brierley (2 June 1935 - 23 September 2005) was a British chartered accountant-cum-actor.
http://wn.com/Roger_Brierley

Ronald Golias
http://wn.com/Ronald_Golias

Ronnie Barker
http://wn.com/Ronnie_Barker

Rosa Parks
http://wn.com/Rosa_Parks

Roy J. Glauber
http://wn.com/Roy_J_Glauber

Ruth Hussey
Ruth Carol Hussey (October 30, 1911 – April 19, 2005) was an American actress best known for her Academy Award-nominated role as photographer Elizabeth Imbrie in The Philadelphia Story.
http://wn.com/Ruth_Hussey

Saddam Hussein
http://wn.com/Saddam_Hussein

Saul Bellow
http://wn.com/Saul_Bellow

Simon Wiesenthal
Simon Wiesenthal KBE (December 31, 1908September 20, 2005) was an Austrian-Jewish Holocaust survivor who became famous after World War II for his work as a Nazi hunter who pursued Nazi war criminals.
http://wn.com/Simon_Wiesenthal

Simone Simon
http://wn.com/Simone_Simon

Stanley Williams
Stanley Tookie Williams III (December 29, 1953 – December 13, 2005) was the co-founder of the Crips, a notorious American street gang which had its roots in South Central Los Angeles in 1971. In 1979 he was convicted of four murders committed in the course of robberies, and he remained in prison for the rest of his life. Later on in his life, he became an author of several books including anti-gang and violence literature and children's books. In December 2005, he was executed.
http://wn.com/Stanley_Williams

Steve Fossett
http://wn.com/Steve_Fossett

Taiwan
Taiwan, also known (especially in the past) as Formosa (from , "Beautiful Island"), is an island situated in East Asia in the Western Pacific Ocean and located off the southeastern coast of mainland China. It comprises most (99%) of the territory of the Republic of China (ROC) since the 1950s. The term "Taiwan" is also a common name to refer to the entire country of the Republic of China.
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Takanori Arisawa
(April 2, 1951 - November 26, 2005) was a Japanese composer and arranger from Tokyo. He wrote the background music for several notable anime, including the award-winning soundtrack of the Sailor Moon anime series.
http://wn.com/Takanori_Arisawa

Terri Schiavo
#REDIRECTTerri Schiavo case
http://wn.com/Terri_Schiavo

The Times Online
http://wn.com/The_Times_Online

Theodor W. Hänsch
http://wn.com/Theodor_W_Hänsch

Theun de Vries
Theunis Uilke (Theun) de Vries (April 26, 1907, Veenwouden, Friesland - January 21, 2005 Amsterdam) was a Dutch writer and poet. He died at the age of 97 after having suffered from several pneumonias.
http://wn.com/Theun_de_Vries

Thomas Schelling
Thomas Crombie Schelling (born 14 April 1921) is an American economist and professor of foreign affairs, national security, nuclear strategy, and arms control at the School of Public Policy at University of Maryland, College Park. He is also co-faculty at the New England Complex Systems Institute. He was awarded the 2005 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences (shared with Robert Aumann) for "having enhanced our understanding of conflict and cooperation through game-theory analysis."
http://wn.com/Thomas_Schelling

Thurl Ravenscroft
Thurl Arthur Ravenscroft (; February 6, 1914 – May 22, 2005) was an American voice actor and singer known for his deep, booming voice. For 53 years, he was best-known as the voice of Tony the Tiger in more than 500 television commercials for Kellogg's Frosted Flakes.
http://wn.com/Thurl_Ravenscroft

Tommy Vance
Tommy Vance (born Richard Anthony Crispian Francis Prew Hope-Weston, 11 July 1940 – 6 March 2005) was a British pop radio broadcaster, born in Eynsham, Oxfordshire. He was one of the few music broadcasters in the United Kingdom to champion hard rock and heavy metal in the early 1980s, providing the only national radio forum for both bands and fans. The Friday Rock Show that he hosted gave new bands airtime for their music and fans an opportunity to hear it. His radio show was a factor in the rise of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal. He used a personal tag-line of "TV on the radio".
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Tony Blair
Anthony Charles Lynton Blair (born 6 May 1953) is a former British Labour Party politician who served as the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 2 May 1997 to 27 June 2007. He was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Sedgefield from 1983 to 2007 and Leader of the Labour Party from 1994 to 2007; he resigned from all these positions in June 2007.
http://wn.com/Tony_Blair

Tony Meehan
Daniel Joseph Anthony "Tony" Meehan (2 March 1943 – 28 November 2005) was a founder member of the British group The Shadows with Jet Harris, Hank Marvin and Bruce Welch. He played drums on early Cliff Richard and The Shadows hits and on early Shadows instrumentals.
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Vincent Gigante
Vincent "The Chin" Gigante (March 29, 1928 – December 19, 2005) was a New York mobster in the American Mafia. Gigante started out as a boxer who fought 25 matches between 1944 and 1947. He then started working as a Mafia enforcer for the Genovese crime family. Gigante was one of five brothers: himself, Mario, Pasquale and Ralph all became mobsters in the Genovese family. Only one brother, Louis, stayed out of the crime family, instead becoming a priest. Gigante was the shooter in the failed assassination of Frank Costello. After sharing a prison cell with Boss Vito Genovese following his conviction for heroin trafficking, Gigante became a caporegime overseeing his own crew of Genovese soldiers, that operated out of Greenwich Village.
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Virginia Mayo
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	2005	2000		2010
World	6,453,628,000	6,070,581,000	383,047,000
Africa	887,964,000	795,671,000	92,293,000
Asia	3,917,508,000	3,679,737,000	237,771,000
Europe	724,722,000	727,986,000	3,264,000
Latin America	558,281,000	520,229,000	38,052,000
Northern America	332,156,000	315,915,000	16,241,000
Oceania	32,998,000	31,043,000	1,955,000

Matthew Harding
Matt Harding in Yoyogi Park, Tokyo, Japan on January 27, 2007.
Born	Matthew Harding (1976-09-27) September 27, 1976 (age 35)
Internet information
Web alias(es)	Matt
Web hosting service(s)	YouTube
Meme	Where the Hell is Matt?
Website
http://www.wherethehellismatt.com/

Persondata
Name	Harding, Matt
Alternative names
Short description
Date of birth	September 27, 1976
Place of birth
Date of death
Place of death

Elena Paparizou Έλενα Παπαρίζου
Elena Paparizou at the launch of Ivi Fruitea on 29 April 2010 at the Hard Rock Café in Athens.
Background information
Birth name	Eleni Paparizou (baptized name)
Also known as	Helena Paparizou, Eleni Georgiou Paparizou (Greek legal name)
Born	(1982-01-31) 31 January 1982 (age 30) Borås, Västergötland, Sweden
Origin	Stockholm, Sweden
Genres	Laïko, pop-folk, pop, dance
Occupations	Singer, songwriter, model, television personality
Instruments	Vocals
Years active	1999–present
Labels	Sony Music Greece, Bonnier Amigo,
Associated acts	Antique
Website	www.helenapaparizou.com

Television
Year	Title	Role	Notes
2001	National Song Selection	Herself (as Antique)	Contestant
2001	Eurovision Song Contest 2001	Herself (as Antique)	Greek entrant 3rd place
2005	National Song Selection	Herself	Selected performer
2005	Eurovision Song Contest 2005	Herself	Greek entrant 1st place
2005	Congratulations: 50 Years of the Eurovision Song Contest	Herself	Entrant 4th place
2006	Eurovision Song Contest 2006	Herself	Guest star
2006	MAD Secret Concerts	Herself	First of series Released on DVD
2007	Nikos Aliagas in Concert	Herself	Guest star
2008	So You Think You Can Dance	Herself	Guest star Season 1 finale
2008	Live in Concert: To Party Arhizei	Herself	Released on DVD
2009	MAD Secret Concerts Vol.II	Herself	First returning artist
2011	Dancing on Ice	Herself	Television debut Season 1 judge 12 episodes
2012	Let's Dance	Herself	Season 3 contestant 3 episodes Eliminated 2nd (9th place)

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Awards and achievements
Preceded by Thalassa with "Mia krifi evesthisia"	Greece in the Eurovision Song Contest (as Antique) 2001	Succeeded by Michalis Rakintzis with "S.A.G.A.P.O."
Preceded by Sakis Rouvas with "Shake It"	Greece in the Eurovision Song Contest 2005	Succeeded by Anna Vissi with "Everything"
Preceded by Ruslana with "Wild Dances"	Winner of the Eurovision Song Contest 2005	Succeeded by Lordi with "Hard Rock Hallelujah"

Persondata
Name	Paparizou, Elena
Alternative names	Παπαρίζου, Έλενα (Greek alphabet); Paparizou, Helena (Anglicization)
Short description	Greek pop singer; Eurovision winner
Date of birth	31 January 1982
Place of birth	Örgryte, Gothenburg, Sweden
Date of death
Place of death

Steve Jobs
Jobs holding a white iPhone 4 at Worldwide Developers Conference 2010
Born	Steven Paul Jobs (1955-02-24)February 24, 1955^[1]^[2] San Francisco, California, U.S.^[1]^[2]
Died	October 5, 2011(2011-10-05) (aged 56)^[2] Palo Alto, California, U.S.
Cause of death	Pancreatic cancer
Nationality	American
Ethnicity	Syrian, German^[3]
Alma mater	Reed College (dropped out)
Occupation	Co-founder, Chairman and CEO, Apple Inc. Co-founder and CEO, Pixar Co-founder and CEO, NeXT Inc.
Years active	1974–2011
Board member of	The Walt Disney Company^[4] Apple Inc.
Religion	Zen Buddhism
Spouse	Laurene Powell (1991–2011, his death)
Children	Lisa Brennan-Jobs Reed Erin Eve
Relatives	Mona Simpson (sister)
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Persondata
Name	Jobs, Steve
Alternative names	Jobs, Steven Paul
Short description	CEO and Co-Founder of Apple, Inc.
Date of birth	1955-02-24
Place of birth	San Francisco, California, United States
Date of death	2011-10-05
Place of death	Palo Alto, California, United States

Lady Gaga
Lady Gaga performing on The Monster Ball Tour in 2010
Background information
Birth name	Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta
Born	(1986-03-28) March 28, 1986 (age 26) New York, New York, U.S.
Genres	Pop, dance, electronic
Occupations	Singer-songwriter, performance artist, record producer, dancer, businesswoman, activist
Instruments	Vocals, piano, keyboards
Years active	2005–present
Labels	Def Jam, Cherrytree, Streamline, Kon Live, Interscope
Website	LadyGaga.com Lady Gaga's signature


Gaga has been influenced by a wide-range of artists as to which she has played homages to, including Madonna (left) and Bruce Springsteen. (Right)

	"Just Dance" (2008) noicon A 30-second sample of Lady Gaga's "Just Dance" featuring the chorus sung by Lady Gaga and Colby O'Donis in the range of B₃ to C♯, backed by a synth marching beat. The song became her first international hit single and sold 7.7 million copies worldwide.
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Persondata
Name	Germanotta, Stefani Joanne Angelina
Alternative names	Lady Gaga
Short description	American pop singer
Date of birth	March 28, 1986
Place of birth	New York City, New York, U.S.
Date of death
Place of death

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