Mark Haines
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Born on April 19, 1946.
Mark Haines was the former host of the CNBC shows Squawk Box and Squawk on the Street (airs from 9-11 a.m. ET).[1] Co-host Erin Burnett moved on to CNN, with May 6, 2011 being her last show with Haines. Squawk on the Street was expanded from one hour to two on July 19, 2007, when then co-anchor Liz Claman of the highly popular Morning Call abruptly left to co-anchor Fox Business on the Fox Business Network alongside co-anchor David Asman. Haines also presented a financial segment prior to the market open each day on MSNBC’s Morning Joe.
Died on May 24, 2011 (aged 65).
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Born on December 15, 1947 in Harrow, London, England, UK.
Michele Fawdon was an actress best known for TV roles in Matlock Police, A Country Practice and the film Cathy’s Child. She won two AFIs including Best Actress for Cathy’s Child in 1979 and Best Actress for a Telefeature for The Fish are Safe in 1987. She was nominated in 1985 for Best Actress for Unfinished Business. She also performed in many theatre roles including the original Australian cast of Jesus Christ Superstar.
Died on May 23, 2011 due to cancer. She was 63.
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Born on March 11, 1938.
Joseph Brooks as an American screenwriter, director, producer, and composer. He composed the hit song “You Light Up My Life” for the film of the same name that he also wrote, directed, and produced.In the 1960s Brooks was a composer of advertising jingles, including highly successful ones for Pepsi, “You’ve Got a Lot to Live”, and Maxwell House, “Good to the Last Drop Feeling”. In October 1977 “You Light Up My Life” reached #1 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 popularity charts where it held the top position for 10 consecutive weeks, which was then the longest run at #1 in the chart’s history. With sales of over four million copies in the United States alone, the song ultimately became the biggest hit of the 1970s. It also hit #1 Adult Contemporary and was even a Top 10 “Country” single. The passionate ballad also earned Brooks a Grammy Award for Song of the Year as well as an Academy Award for Best Original Song, a Golden Globe Award and an American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers Award. The song was Debby Boone’s first solo hit record and only Top 40 Pop hit.
Brooks died on May 22, 2011, that Brooks was found dead by a friend of an apparent suicide. He was 73 years old. His body was found in his Upper East Side apartment with a plastic dry cleaning bag around his head and a towel around his neck.
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Born on August 20, 1930 in Buffalo, New York.
Bill Rechin was an American cartoonist who created the comic strips Out of Bounds and Crock. He received the National Cartoonists Society’s Newspaper Panel Cartoon Award for 1992 for his work on Out of Bounds. He was president of the NCS for part of 1988.
Rechin died of esophageal cancer on May 21, 2011.
Comments OffBill Hunter
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Born on February 27, 1940 in Ballarat, Victoria, Australia.
Hunter was an Australian actor of film, stage and television. He appeared in more than 60 films and won two Australian Film Institute Awards. Some of his most notable movie roles include Newsfront (1978), Gallipoli (1981), Scales of Justice (1983), Strictly Ballroom (1992), Muriel’s Wedding (1994), The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert (1994) and Australia (2008). In 2007, he reprised the role of Bob in the Australian touring stage production of Priscilla. He also provided the voice of the dentist in Finding Nemo (2003) and the voice of Bubo in Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga’Hoole (2010). He portrayed United Nations Secretary General Spencer Chartwell in the American science fiction series Space: Above and Beyond. His last film role was in The Cup.
Bill Hunter died on May 21, 2011 due to cancer. He was 71 years old.
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Born on November 15, 1952 in Columbus, Ohio, Randall Mario Poffo better known by his ring name ” Macho Man” Randy Savage.
Randy Savage was an American professional wrestler, hip-hop artist and actor, best known for his time with the World Wrestling Federation (WWF) and World Championship Wrestling (WCW). He also had a short run with Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA). Savage held twenty championships during his professional wrestling career and is a ten-time world champion: a two-time WWF Champion, four-time WCW World Heavyweight Champion, three-time ICW World Heavyweight Champion and one-time USWA Unified World Heavyweight Champion. Also a one-time WWF Intercontinental Champion, WWE has named Savage the greatest champion of all time and credited him for bringing “a higher level of credibility to the title through his amazing in-ring performances.” Aside from championships, Savage was the 1987 WWF King of the Ring and the 1995 WCW World War 3 winner.
On May 20, 2011, Savage died in a single vehicle automobile accident while driving on a street in Seminole, Florida, a town on the Pinellas County side of the Tampa Bay area. He was 58 years old. It is suspected he may have had a heart attack, which led to his losing control of the vehicle and crashing into a tree.
Comments OffHarmon Killebrew
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Born on June 29, 1936 in Payette, Idaho.
Killebrew nicknamed “Killer” and “Hammerin’ Harmon”, was an American professional baseball first baseman, third baseman, and left fielder. During a 22-year baseball career in which he played for the Washington Senators, Minnesota Twins, and Kansas City Royals, he was second only to Babe Ruth in American League (AL) home runs and retired as the AL career leader in home runs by a right-handed batter (since broken by Alex Rodriguez).He was inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1984.
Harmon Killebrew died on May 17, 2011 due to esophageal cancer. He was 74 years old.
Edward Hardwicke
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Born on August 7th, 1932 in London, England.
Hardwicke was an English actor. Hardwicke played at the Bristol Old Vic, The Oxford Playhouse and the Nottingham Playhouse, before joining Laurence Olivier’s National Theatre in 1964. He performed regularly there for seven years. Hardwicke became familiar to television audiences in the 1970s drama series, Colditz, in which he played Pat Grant, a character based on the real-life war hero, Pat Reid. He then played Arthur in the sitcom My Old Man. In 1978, Hardwicke appeared as Bellcourt in the last filmed episode of The Sweeney called “Hearts and Minds”. David Burke suggested Hardwicke as his successor in the role of Doctor Watson in the Granada Television adaptations of the Sherlock Holmes stories in The Return of Sherlock Holmes series, alongside Jeremy Brett. Hardwicke played the role for eight years from 1986 to 1994 as a very calm and attentive Watson and became permanently associated with it, also playing it on the West End stage with Brett in The Secret of Sherlock Holmes in 1989. That same year, he also directed Going On by Charles Dennis at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. His other television appearances were numerous, and included Holocaust (1978), Oppenheimer (1980), Lovejoy (1992), The Ruth Rendell Mysteries (1997), David Copperfield (2000), Agatha Christie’s Poirot (2004), Fanny Hill (2007), Holby City,[5] Shameless (2010) as a World War II veteran, and Some Mothers Do ‘Ave ‘Em (1973).
Edward Hardwicke died on May 16, 2011 at a hospice in Chichester. He had reportedly been suffering from cancer.
Comments OffBarbara Stuart
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Born on January 3, 1935 in Paris, Illinois.
Stuart was an American actress. Stuart portrayed “Miss Bunny”, the girlfriend of Sergeant Vincent Carter, played by Frank Sutton, on three episodes of CBS’s Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C. In 1969, Stuart was cast as “Wilma Winslow” on CBS’s The Queen and I. In 1985, she was cast as Marianne Danzig, the wife of a Mafia godfather in the ABC’s crime drama Our Family Honor, both in the television movie and the short-lived series of the same name. Between 1959-61, she appeared in four episodes of the NBC crime drama The Lawless Years, starring James Gregory and Robert Karnes (”The Marie Walters Story”, “The Maxey Gorman Story”, “The Billy Boy ‘Rockabye’ Creel Story”, and “Ginny”). She also appeared as “Alice” in a recurring role on the CBS sitcom Pete and Gladys.
Barbara Stuart died on May 15, 2011 (aged 76).
Comments OffM-Bone
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M-Bone died on May 15, 2011 in Inglewood, California. He was a victim of a drive-by shooting.
M-Bone was a part the group Cali Swag District. The group is best known for the single “Teach Me How to Dougie“, which debuted at number 91 on the Billboard Hot 100. The song remained on the chart and climbed steadily during the weeks that followed, rising to number 28 by its thirteenth week. “Teach Me How to Dougie” reached number 1 on Billboard Heatseekers, holding the number 2 position for six consecutive weeks before claiming the number 1 position in its seventh week. The group is signed with Capitol Records‘ Checkmate Entertainment imprint.
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