Julio Elías Musimessi (1923 - 1996)

Soccer Player (goalkeeper).  Played for the popular Boca Juniors soccer team (155 times), and won the 1954 Championship.  Also member of the Argentine National Soccer Team that assisted to the 1958 World Cup (Sweden).  Also kwown as “El Guardavalla Cantor” (The Singer Goalkeeper) for his performances in radio. (bio by: 380W)

Phil Woosnam (1932 - 2013)

Professional Football (Soccer) Figure. Born Phillip Abraham Woosnam, he is considered as the father of United States professional soccer and the first commissioner of the original North American Soccer League. He played as striker for Manchester City, Sutton United, Leyton Orient, West Ham United, Aston Villa and the Atlanta Chiefs, and also played internationally  for […]

Ernest C. Quigley (1970 - 1970)

Major League Umpire, Basketball Referee, Member of the Basketball Hall of Fame. He graduated from the University of Kansas and from 1903 to 1912 was coach and then Atheletic Director at Saint Mary’s College in Kansas. During his 40-year career, he officiated at over 14,000 games to include four NCAA tournaments, three Rose Bowls and […]

Wallace “Wah Wah” Jones (1970 - 1970)

US Olympic Gold Medalist, Professional Basketball Player. He was a member of the 1948 US Basketball Gold Medal Squad. Born Wallace Clayton Jones, he attended Harlan High School in Kentucky and played collegiate basketball and football at the University of Kentucky. While with the Wildcats, Jones had the distinction of playing for two legendary coaches. […]

Murray Wier (1970 - 1970)

Professional Basketball Player.   Born Murray Neal Wier, he played the guard position for both the Tri-Cities Blackhawks and the Waterloo Hawks from 1948 to 1951.   He was a stellar four year starter at the University of Iowa where he was the NCAA Division I scoring leader and a consensus first team All-American in […]

Frederick Rankin Taylor (1970 - 1970)

Professional Baseball Player, College Basketball Coach. After serving in the United States Army Air Force from 1943 to 1946, he played basketball at Ohio State University. He was the starting forward on the 1950 Big Ten Championship Team. He played professional baseball from 1950 to 1952 with the Washington Senators. In 1958, he came back […]

Homer Stonebraker (1970 - 1970)

Hoosier basketball legend. He was once considered to be the best basketball player in the United States.  Family links:  Spouse:  Jeanette E Stonebraker (1905 – 1993)* *Calculated relationship

Tony Jaros (1970 - 1970)

Original member of the Minneapolis Lakers in 1947.  Played on three championship teams with the Lakers: 1947-48 in the National Basketball League; 1948-49 in the Basketball Association of America; 1949-50 in the National Basketball Association. (bio by: Stew Thornley)  Family links:  Parents:  Joseph Jaros (1868 – 1938)  Teckla Daleki Jaros (1888 – 1964)  Spouse:  Matie […]

Henry Hayden Lannigan (1970 - 1970)

Basketball Coach. Member of the College Basketball Hall of Fame. Known during his time as “the life and spirit of University of Virginia Athletics,” During his early years he excelled in track and field, defeated the Swedish fencing champion, and held for several year the world shot-put record. “Pop” Lannigan came to the University of […]

Harry David “Moose” Miller (1970 - 1970)

Professional Basketball Player. He had only one season in the Pros but was a part of Basketball history. On November 1, 1946, he played for the Toronto Huskies in the first ever National Basketball Association (NBA) game, at Maple Leaf Gardens against the New York Knicks. In that one season as a center with the […]

John H. “Jack” Hartman (1970 - 1970)

College Basketball Coach. The men’s basketball coach at Kansas State University from 1970 to 1986,  he retired as the career leader in wins at KSU with a record of 295 wins and 169 losses. His teams won three Big 8 titles and had nine postseason appearances. He played football and basketball at Oklahoma A&M (now […]

Ward “Piggy” Lambert (1970 - 1970)

Basketball Pioneer, Coach. Purdue University basketball coaching great 1916-17 and 1918-1946. Considered the father of the “big man” and the “fast break” tactics, he compiled a 228-105 Big Ten record, winning titles in 1922, ’30, ’32, ’34, ’38 and ’40, and sharing them in 1921, ’26,’28, ’35 and ’36. He left basketball in 1955, and […]

James W. Cunningham (1970 - 1970)

Professional Basketball Player. A native of Buffalo, New York, he played in the National Basketball Association for the Boston Celtics from 1959 to 1960, and the Baltimore Bullets from 1961 to 1964. A star foootball player and a graduate of the Canisius High School in Buffalo, and Fordham University, he was awarded the 1958 Haggerty […]

Bailey Robertson (1970 - 1970)

Indiana basketball star and basketball alumnus of the tradition-rich Indianapolis Crispus Attucks High School. Known affectionately as “Flap,” he set many scoring records at Indiana Central College (currently known as The University of Indianapolis). His younger brother and protege, Oscar (“The Big O),” became a 2-time Indiana high school state champion, 1956 Indiana “Mr. Basketball,” […]

Moses Eugene Malone (1970 - 1970)

Professional Basketball Player. Moses Malone was Hall of Fame basketball player who starred in both the American Basketball Association and the National Basketball Association. A three-time NBA MVP and one of the NBA’s 50 greatest players, Malone was the most successful prep-to-pro player of his era, going straight from Petersburg High to a 21-year career […]

Tony Hinkle (1898 - 1992)

Member, Indiana Basketball Hall of Fame, James Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame, the Helm Foundation Basketball Hall of Fame, and the National Association of Basketball Coaches Hall of Fame. Best known as head basketball coach at Butler University from 1927-1942 and again from 1946-70, where he compiled a 557-393 record, including many games in which […]

Earl Strom (1927 - 1994)

Hall of Fame Professional Basketball Referee. He was a professional basketball referee for 29 years, with service in both the National Basketball Association and the American Basketball Association, retiring in 1990 with over 2,400 games officiated. In addition, he participated in 29 NBA and ABA finals, 295 playoff, and 7 all-star games. He had a […]

Gary Lee Bradds (1942 - 1983)

Professional Basketball Player. The consensus college basketball Player of the Year at Ohio State University for the 1963 to 1964 season, he averaged 30.6 points a game that year. His professional basketball career lasted from 1965 to 1972 with the Baltimore Bullets of the National Basketball League, and the Oakland Oaks, the Washington Capitals, the […]

Johnny Downs (1913 - 1994)

Following his stint with Our Gang, Johnny Downs stayed with the short-subject series until 1927, appearing in twenty-four two-reelers in various roles. He honed his dancing and singing skills on the vaudeville stage, working prominently on Broadway until returning to Hollywood in 1934. Downs became a fixture of the “college musical” movie cycle of the […]

Melvyn Douglas (1901 - 1981)

Melvyn Douglas developed his acting skills in Shakespearean repertory while in his teens and with stock companies in Sioux City, Iowa, Evansville, Indiana, Madison, Wisconsin and Detroit, Michigan. He served in the United States Army in World War I. He established an outdoor theatre in Chicago. He had a long theatre, film and television career […]

Robert Donat (1905 - 1958)

Initially, around 1930 and 1931, Robert Donat was known as “screen test” Donat in the industry because of his many unsuccessful auditions for film producers.[6] MGM’s producer Irving Thalberg spotted him on the London stage in Precious Bane, and Donat was offered a part in the American studio’s Smilin’ Through (1932). He rejected this offer. […]

Wade Dominguez (1966 - 1998)

Wade Dominguez (May 10, 1966 – August 26, 1998) was an American actor, model, singer, and dancer best known for his role as Emilio Ramírez in Dangerous Minds. Wade Dominguez was born in Santa Clara County, California in 1966, and graduated from Live Oak High School, Morgan Hill. He moved to Los Angeles to pursue an acting […]

Jimmie Dodd (1910 - 1964)

Jimmie Dodd had some early film roles in The Three Mesquiteers series of westerns. Coincidentally, he performed in two unrelated series whose names were plays on “musketeers”. He made his first screen appearance in the 1940 William Holden film Those Were the Days! in a minor role. He also appeared in many theatrical films in […]

Alan Dinehart (1889 - 1944)

Alan Dinehart, (born October 3, 1889 in St. Paul, Minnesota – died July 17, 1944, in Hollywood, California), was an American actor, director, writer, and stage manager. He left school to appear on stage with a repertory company and had no screen experience when he signed a contract with Fox in May 1931. He became a […]

Anton Diffring (1916 - 1989)

Anton Diffring was born as Alfred Pollack in Koblenz. His father Solomon Pollack was a Jewish shop-owner who managed to avoid internment by the Nazi authorities and survived the war. His mother Bertha Diffring was Christian. He studied acting in Berlin and Vienna but there is conjecture about when he left Germany prior to World […]

Don Diamond (1921 - 2011)

Although he often played a Spaniard, Mexican or Native American, Don Diamond’s father, Benjamin Diamond, emigrated to the United States from Russia in 1906 with his parents. Benjamin Diamond served in the United States Army in World War II and then became a prosperous clothing merchant. Benjamin and Ruth Diamond had another son, Neal, three […]

Paul Fannin (1907 - 2002)

A conservative Republican, Paul Fannin was elected Governor of Arizona in 1958, defeating Attorney General Robert Morrison by nearly 30,000 votes. He was sworn into office on January 5, 1959. He was re-elected in 1960 and again in 1962. During his tenure, Fannin increased funding for the public school system by raising sales taxes, equalized property […]

Sam Ervin (1896 - 1985)

Sam Ervin was serving as an associate justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court when he was appointed in June 1954 by Governor William B. Umstead to fill the U.S. Senate seat of Clyde Hoey, who had died in office. He ran successfully for the seat in November 1954. Ervin made a deep impact on American […]

Allen Ellender (1890 - 1972)

Allen Ellender was appointed as the city attorney of Houma from 1913 to 1915, and then district attorney of Terrebonne Parish from 1915 to 1916. He was a sergeant in the United States Army Artillery Corps during World War I, serving from 1917 to 1918. Allen Ellender was a delegate to the Louisiana constitutional convention in […]

Thomas Eagleton (1929 - 2007)

In the Senate, Thomas Eagleton was active in matters dealing with foreign relations, intelligence, defense, education, health care, and the environment. He was instrumental to the Senate’s passage of the Clean Air Act and the Clean Water Act, and sponsored the amendment that halted the bombing in Cambodia and effectively ended American involvement in the […]