Jay Wesley Neill (1965 - 2002)

In 1983, Neill joined the United States Army. He met Robert Grady Johnson in February 1984 at a bar and became romantically involved. Neill was discharged in the summer of 1984 after disclosing that he was homosexual and quickly began having financial difficulties.  Neill and Johnson shared an apartment in Lawton, Oklahoma and a joint […]

Jay Youngblood (1955 - 1985)

Jay Youngblood American professional wrestler better known by his ring name Jay Youngblood. He wrestled in the National Wrestling Alliance‘s Jim Crockett Promotions in a tag team with Ricky Steamboat. In addition, he wrestled with Florida Championship Wrestling and the American Wrestling Association. Romero started wrestling in 1975 in Amarillo under a mask and calling […]

Jayne Mansfield (1933 - 1967)

Jayne Mansfield In Biloxi, Mississippi, for an engagement at the Gus Stevens Supper Club, Mansfield stayed at the Cabana Courtyard Apartments near the club. After an evening appearance on June 28, 1967, Mansfield, her lover Sam Brody, their driver, Ronnie Harrison, with three of her children – Miklós, Zoltán and Mariska – set out in […]

Jayne Meadows (1919 - 2015)

Jayne Meadows was born Jane Meadows Cotter in 1919 in Wuchang, one of three sections of Wuhan in the Hubei Province (where the Cotter family was relocated after a bomb fell on their home in Wu Chang [clarification needed]; the other two sections are Hanyang and Hankou), the daughter of American Episcopal missionary parents, the […]

Jean Acker (1893 - 1978)

Jean Acker was born Harriet “Hattie” Ackers on October 23, 1893 in Trenton, New Jersey. Her father was Joseph Ackers, said to be of Cherokee descent. Her mother Margaret (unconfirmed) was Irish. In the 1900 census, Hattie is with Joseph and her grandparents, but no wife of Joseph is listed. In fact, he is reported […]

Jean Adair (1873 - 1953)

Actress. Born Violet McNaughton in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, she worked in touring stock companies before making her theatre stage debut in September 1910 in the show “Mother”. Much of her subsequent career was on the stage and she is probably best known for originating the role of the sweet tempered serial killer ‘Aunt Martha’ in […]

Jean Anouilh (1910 - 1987)

Playwright.

Jean Anthelme Brillat Savarin (1755 - 1826)

Lawyer, he was an amateur of french cooking and wrote “La Physiologie du gožt.”

Jean Arp (1887 - 1966)

Artist, Poet. Born in Strasbourg, France, he began his career as a poet, before he developed a succesful work on sculpture and painting (but never abandoing writing poetry). He was a founding member of the Dada movement, becoming one of the most respected abstract artists of his time. In 1950, he executed a relief for […]

Jean Arp (1887 - 1966)

Artist, Poet. Born in Strasbourg, France, he began his career as a poet, before he developed a succesful work on sculpture and painting (but never abandoing writing poetry). He was a founding member of the Dada movement, becoming one of the most respected abstract artists of his time. In 1950, he executed a relief for […]

Jean Arthur (1900 - 1991)

Actress. She appeared in nearly 100 films from the silent era of the 1920s to her final film, the 1953 classic “Shane”, in which she starred with Allan Ladd and Van Heflin. Until her start in talkies, she kept her hair brunette, but shortly after the era of sound came to movies, she began bleaching […]

Jean Bailey (1970 - 1970)

Famous mezzo soprano singer. (bio by: Kieran Smith)

Jean Bartik (1924 - 2011)

In 1945, the Army was recruiting math majors for the war effort; her faculty adviser noticed a job advertisement for an Army project in Philadelphia and suggested Bartik apply. She was hired by the University of Pennsylvania to work for Army Ordnance at Aberdeen Proving Ground to calculate ballistics trajectories by hand as a human […]

Jean Bethke Elshtain (1941 - 2013)

Elshtain was born on January 6, 1941 in Windsor, Colorado and grew up in Timnath, Colorado. She was from a Lutheran background. She received an AB Colorado State University and masters degrees in history from the University of Wisconsin–Madison and the University of Colorado. She received her Ph.D. from Brandeis University in Massachusetts in 1973, […]

Jean Byron (1925 - 2006)

Actress. Best remembered as ‘Natalie Lane,’ mother of Patty Duke on the 1960s series, “The Patty Duke Show.” Before acting, she worked briefly as a singer and entertainer on a local area radio show. She made a handful of films, but her career mainly consisted of numerous guest-starring roles on television. In 1963 she began […]

Jean Carmet (1920 - 1994)

Jean Carmet (25 April 1920 – 20 April 1994) was a French actor. Jean Carmet began working on stage and then in film in the early 1940s becoming a very popular comedic actor in his native country. He is best known internationally for his role as a French colonist in the 1976 film, La Victoire en […]

Jean Carson (1923 - 2005)

Actress. Best known for her roles as ‘Daphne’ in “Hello Doll,” and ‘Naomi’ on television’s The Andy Griffith Show. She also appeared on the Twilight Zone episode “A Most Unusual Camera.” Other appearances include Gomer Pyle USMC, Perry Mason, and The Untouchables. (bio by: Zoneboy) Cause of death: Stroke

Jean Cayrol (1911 - 2005)

Jean Cayrol (French: [kɛʁɔl]; 6 June 1911 – 10 February 2005) was a French poet, publisher, and member of the Académie Goncourt born in Bordeaux. He is perhaps best known for writing the narration in Alain Resnais’s 1955 documentary film, Night and Fog. He was a major contributor to the subversive, philosophical French publication Tel […]

Jean Chevrier (1915 - 1975)

Actor. Most remembered in films such as: “Escape from Saigon,” “The Long Teeth,” “Amazons of Rome” and “The Affairs of Messalina.” He was married to actress Marie Bell. (bio by: MC)

Jean Cocteau (1889 - 1963)

Poet, painter, writer, and director. Jean Cocteau was born on July 5, 1889, in Maisons-Laffitte, France, a village 12 miles outside Paris, to Georges and Eugénie (née) Lecomte Cocteau. He and his two older siblings were brought up in comfortable household in Paris, where they were introduced to the arts by their parents. Their father, […]

Jean Coutu (1925 - 1999)

Canadian man of theatre, cinema and television. It is with the theatre, that at the age at 17 he began his career, with the company founded by of Father Émile Legault, the “Compagnions de Saint-Laurent.” Although his stage career was very promising, it is really in 1954 with the character of the “Survenant” in the […]

Jean d’Yd (1880 - 1964)

Actor. He alternated between supporting and leading roles in films such as: “The Passion of Joan of Arc,” “The Room Upstairs,” “The Eternal Return” and “Martin Roumagnac” with Marlene Dietrich (bio by: MC)

Jean Darling (1922 - 2015)

Jean Darling Child star of the Our Gang comedies who went on to perform as an adult in Broadway musicals and radio shows The popularity of the long-running Our Gang series of comedy shorts (1922-44), created by the producer Hal Roach, which followed the adventures of a group of poor urban children, made unlikely film […]

Jean Dasté (1904 - 1994)

Actor. Primarily a stage performer, he made occasional but distinguished appearances in the French cinema. Daste is best remembered for his work with director Jean Vigo, who gave him the lead roles in his films “Zero for Conduct” (1933) and “L’Atalante” (1934). His other screen credits include “Boudu Saved from Drowning” (1932), “The Crime of […]

Jean De Briac (1891 - 1970)

Actor. French-born character player of Hollywood films. His most notable roles were in silent films, as The Knifer in Clara Bow’s “Parisian Love” (1925) and as the Stage Director in Greta Garbo’s “The Divine Woman” (1928). After talkies arrived De Briac was typed as a French waiter or maitre d’, even in movies with Parisian […]

Jean de Brunhoff (1899 - 1937)

French Author, Illustrator. He is best remembered for creating the Babar the Elephant books, about an orphaned baby elephant, that was first appeared in 1931 and became an instant success. Born the youngest of four children, his father was a publisher. He attended Protestant schools, including the prestigious Ecole Alsacienne. During the latter part of […]

Jean Del Val (1891 - 1975)

Actor. A veteran Frence performer for more then five decades, he appeared in over 100 films. He began his career in the silent film era making his big screen debut in “Fortunes of Fifi” (1917), followed by “Hearts Desire” (1917). Some of his most memorable movies included “Sea Legs” (1930), “The Flying Deuces” (1939), “The […]

Jean Despujols (1886 - 1965)

French Painter. His greatest body of work is held in toto at the Meadows Museum of Art at Centenary College in Shreveport, Louisiana. These works depict French Indochina before the destruction of World War II and the wars that followed it. He fled to the United States to escape the Nazi occupation of France, and […]

Jean Duceppe (1923 - 1990)

Actor. A native of Montreal, Duceppe began acting at the age of 17. In 1953 he moved from stage to television when he appeared on the highly popular “La Famille Plouffe” and would later be seen on other television series such as “Rue de l’anse,” “Rue des Pignons,” and “Terre humaine.” Over his career he […]

Jean Engstrom (1920 - 1997)

Jean Engstrom was born Flora Jean Bovie,  in Michigan on July 25, 1920, the eldest of two children  born to Clarence Augustus Bovie (1892-1928), an artist  and commercial illustrator,  and Nona Iola Cochrun (1895-1976) After her father’s death due to a cerebral hemorrhage in 1928, 1930 census records show that she and her mother and […]