Frank JohnstonAge: 67 former Notre Dame football player and longtime CFL assistant coach; a lineman for the undefeated 1949 Irish team; Johnston was an assistant coach with the British…
Yevgeny SvetlanovAge: 73 Russian conductor, composer, and pianist who led Russia's State Symphony Orchestra for 35 years. He was known for his interpretations of Russian compositions,…
Gerry StuddsAge: 69 former 12-term Democratic Representative from Massachusetts who was the first openly gay member of Congress. He was censured in 1983 for earlier having had an affair with…
Joe Strummer (John Mellor)Age: 50 singer and songwriter of the Clash, one of the most influential punk bands of all time. The band spoke out on many social issues. It's recordings include…
Su Shueh-linAge: 104 distinguished Chinese writer who published more than 50 works, including essay collections, poetry, novels, and literary criticism, in her 70-year career. Her ardent…
by Robert Burns To Miss FerrierThe Poet's Reply To The Threat...Written By Somebody On The Window Of an Inn at Stirling, on seeing the Royal Palace in ruin. Here Stuarts once in…
Alfredo StroessnerAge: 93 authoritarian president and dictator of Paraguay who assumed power in a coup in 1954 and remained president until 1989, when he was overthrown in a military coup and…
Mary Elizabeth MastrantonioactressBorn: 11/17/1958Birthplace: Oak Park, Illinois Stage and film actress Mastrantonio delivered a strong performance opposite Al Pacino in Scarface (1983) and followed…
Sherry StringfieldactressBorn: 6/24/1967Birthplace: Colorado Springs, Colorado A television regular since 1989, Stringfield has held roles on the soap opera The Guiding Light (1989–92), NYPD…
(Encyclopedia) nonjurors [Lat.,=not swearing], those English and Scottish clergymen who refused to break their oath of allegiance to James II and take the oath to William III after the Glorious…
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