Ferenc PuskasAge: 79 soccer player for Hungary and Spain from the 1940s through the 1960s. He was voted sixth best player of the 20th century by the International Federation for Football…
Alain ProstBorn: Feb. 24, 1955French auto racer 4-time Formula One world champion (1985-86,89,93); sat out 1992 then returned to win title in 1993; retired after '93 season as all-time F1…
Caroline KnappAge: 42 writer and columnist whose candid best-selling memoir Drinking: A Love Story recounted her 20-year battle with alcoholism. She died of lung cancer. Died: Cambridge, Mass…
John ProfumoAge: 91 British politician who was a Conservative member of Parliament and a diplomat before he became War Minister in 1960. He resigned three years later when his scandalous…
C.C. PyleBorn: 1882Promoter known as “Cash and Carry”; hyped Red Grange's pro football debut by arranging 1925 barnstorming tour with Chicago Bears; had Grange bolt NFL for new AFL in 1926 (…
Ward KimballAge: 88 animator who was one of Walt Disney's “nine old men,” a group of elite artists. He created Jiminy Cricket and was animation director on Fantasia, Dumbo, and Cinderella.…
Jeane KirkpatrickAge: 80 first woman to be the American ambassador to the United Nations, and influential member of the National Security Council during President Reagan's first term of…
Coretta Scott KingAge: 78 civil rights activist and the widow of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., who assumed her husband's campaign for racial equality and social justice after his…
