Philip BurkeAge: 65 New York sports public relations executive in the 1960s who was a publicist at Columbia University and Roosevelt Raceway, then the nation's leading harness racing track,…
Philip BuchenAge: 85 attorney who led a group that worked secretly in 1974, making plans for Vice President Gerald Ford's transition to the presidency if President Nixon were to resign. He…
Philip JohnsonAge: 98 well-known architect who introduced modern European glass-and-steel architecture to the United States. Johnson's designs, which evolved in style over time, include his…
(Encyclopedia) Steer, Philip Wilson, 1860–1942, English landscape painter. Steer worked largely in the tradition of French impressionist painting and was considered the greatest English landscape…
Philip MorrisonAge: 89 physicist who, as a member of the Manhattan Project, helped to assemble the first atom bomb—which was tested in July 1945, near Alamogordo, New Mexico—and the uranium…
(Encyclopedia) Philip the Bold, 1342–1404, duke of Burgundy (1363–1404); a younger son of King John II of France. He fought (1356) at Poitiers and shared his father's captivity in England. He was…
Philip Seymour HoffmanactorBorn: 1968Birthplace: Fairport, N.Y. Versatile character actor known for portraying complex, often dysfunctional characters. He earned his acting chops in theater…
(Encyclopedia) Gibbs, Sir Philip, 1877–1962, English journalist and author. As a result of his distinguished service in World War I as a front-line correspondent for the Daily Chronicle (London) he…
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