• Rebecca Schaeffer

    1967 - 1989

    Rebecca Schaeffer (1967 - 1989)

    Schaeffer was born in Eugene, Oregon, the only child of Danna (née Wilner), a writer and instructor at Portland Community College, and Dr. Benson Schaeffer, a child psychologist. She was raised in Portland where she attended Lincoln High School. She initially had aspirations to become a rabbi but began modeling during her junior year in […]

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  • Sal Mineo

    1939 - 1976

    Sal Mineo (1939 - 1976)

    Mineo was born in the Bronx, the son of coffin makers Josephine (née Alvisi) and Salvatore Mineo, Sr. He was of Sicilian descent; his father was born in Italy and his mother, of Italian origin, was born in the United States. His mother enrolled him in dancing and acting school at an early age. He […]

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  • Carl Switzer

    1927 - 1959

    Carl Switzer (1927 - 1959)

    Switzer was born in Paris, Illinois, the second son and last of the four children of George Frederick Switzer and his wife Gladys C. Shanks, both of German ancestry. He was named Carl after a member of the Switzer family and Dean after many relatives on his grandmother’s side. He and his brother, Harold, became […]

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  • Neil Bonnett

    1946 - 1994

    Neil Bonnett (1946 - 1994)

    Neil Bonnett A NASCAR driver who compiled 18 victories and 20 poles over his 18-year career. The Alabama native currently ranks 35th in all-time NASCAR Cup victories. He appeared in the 1983 film Stroker Ace and the 1990 film Days of Thunder. He was a color commentator in the years up until his death. Neil […]

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  • Fireball Roberts

    1929 - 1964

    Fireball Roberts (1929 - 1964)

    Fireball Roberts On May 24, 1964, at the World 600 in Charlotte, Roberts had qualified in the eleventh position and started in the middle of the pack. On lap seven, Ned Jarrett and Junior Johnson collided and spun out and Roberts crashed trying to avoid them. Roberts’ Ford slammed backward into the inside retaining wall, […]

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  • Dale Earnhardt

    1951 - 2001

    Dale Earnhardt (1951 - 2001)

    Dale Earnhardt Race Car Driver. Born in Kannapolis, North Carolina, to Ralph Lee and Martha Coleman Earnhardt, who was then one of the best short-track drivers in North Carolina. Known to the world as Dale, he would not be persuaded to give up his dream of racing, dropping out of school to race. In May […]

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  • Adam Petty

    1980 - 2000

    Adam Petty (1980 - 2000)

    Adam Petty On May 12, 2000, Petty was practicing for the Busch series Busch 200 race at the New Hampshire International Speedway in Loudon, New Hampshire. While entering turn three, Petty’s throttle stuck wide open, causing the car to hit the outside wall virtually head on. Petty was killed instantly due to a basilar skull […]

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  • Davey Allison

    1961 - 1993

    Davey Allison (1961 - 1993)

    Davey Allison Though 1992 had been a heartbreaking year for Davey Allison and the Robert Yates Racing team in more ways than one, they had to be encouraged by their run for the championship. But 1993 opened on a sour note with Allison finishing 28th at Daytona. That finish was followed by a 16th at […]

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  • Davey Moore

    1959 - 1970

    Davey Moore (1959 - 1970)

    Davey Moore One of Moore’s early wins was in June 1981 over Kevin Rooney, who would later train Mike Tyson. Moore entered the fight with a 6-0 record, while Rooney was 15-0. Moore won by a TKO in the seventh round of an eight round fight. After winning eight professional fights, five by knockout, the […]

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  • Davey Moore

    1933 - 1963

    Davey Moore (1933 - 1963)

    Davey Moore  Davey Moore, the 29-year-old coloured boxer who lost his featherweight championship on Thursday in the city where he won it, lost his life today in White Memorial Hospital, Los Angeles. Governor Brown of California renewed his pledge today to seek a referendum in the State Legislature to ban all boxing in California. In […]

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  • John Tate

    1955 - 1998

    John Tate (1955 - 1998)

    John Tate Born in Marion, Arkansas. John lost in the finals of the 1975 National Golden Gloves to Emory Chapman. He lost in the quarterfinals the next year in a split decision to Michael Dokes. He would return to win against Dokes in the Olympic Trials by decision, and beat 1976 National AAU Champion Marvin […]

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  • Scott LeDoux

    1949 - 2011

    Scott LeDoux (1949 - 2011)

    Scott LeDoux Scott LeDoux, the boxer known as the Fighting Frenchman, a contender for the heavyweight title in the mid-1970s and early ’80s, died Thursday at his home in Coon Rapids, Minn. He was 62. The cause was Lou Gehrig’s disease, his wife, Carol, said. At 6 feet 1 inch and weighing about 225 pounds, […]

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  • Rocky Marciano

    1923 - 1969

    Rocky Marciano (1923 - 1969)

    Rocky Marciano Rocky Marciano was born Rocco Francis Marchegiano, on September 1, 1923, in Brockton, Massachusetts. During his career, Marciano held the heavyweight boxing title for four years in the 1950s, and he is the only boxing champion to ever retire undefeated. His father, Pierino, worked at a shoe factory. His mother’s name was Pasqualena, […]

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  • Nelson Larkin

    1970 - 2013

    Nelson Larkin (1970 - 2013)

    Nelson Larkin Nelson Augustus Larkin, age 70, passed away peacefully to be with the Lord.He is preceded in death by his mother, Ruth Hall Larkin and father, Lemuel Augustus Larkin.Nelson was born in Huntland, TN. He worked at Redstone Arsenal where he met his wife. They moved to Nashville, TN in 1972, where he began […]

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  • Mae West

    1893 - 1980

    Mae West (1893 - 1980)

    Mae West Legendary Entertainer, Actress. She made her theatrical debut at age 7 for an Elks-sponsored amateur talent contest on the stage of a local vaudeville theater; the award she received for her effort, a gold medal, set the tone for a lifetime of winning appearances. Soon she would achieve professional status performing roles as […]

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  • Jackie Robinson

    1919 - 1972

    Jackie Robinson (1919 - 1972)

    Jackie Robinson American baseball player who became the first African American to play in Major League Baseball (MLB) in the modern era. Robinson broke the baseball color line when the Brooklyn Dodgers started him at first base on April 15, 1947. As the first major league team to play a black man since the 1880s, […]

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  • Lou Gehrig

    1903 - 1941

    Lou Gehrig (1903 - 1941)

    Lou Gehrig Legendary Baseball Player. Despite his numerous baseball athletic records, he is best remembered for his farewell speech of July 4, 1939 in Yankee Stadium, in which he said goodbye to his fans. He was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1939, shortly after his retirement, and he was the first baseball […]

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  • Babe Ruth

    1895 - 1948

    Babe Ruth (1895 - 1948)

    Babe Ruth An American baseball outfielder and pitcher who played 22 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) from 1914 to 1935. Nicknamed “The Bambino” and” The Sultan of Swat”, he began his career as a stellar left-handed pitcher for the Boston Red Sox, but achieved his greatest fame as a slugging outfielder for the New York […]

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  • Jerry Falwell

    1933 - 2007

    Jerry Falwell (1933 - 2007)

    Jerry Falwell Religious leader, political activist and television evangelist Jerry Falwell was born on August 11, 1933, in Lynchburg, Virginia. Reverend Jerry Falwell was a leading force behind in the political rise of the religious right in the 1980s and the founder of the Moral Majority, a fundamentalist Christian political organization. Raised listening to the […]

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  • Saint Gianna Beretta Molla

    1922 - 1962

    Saint Gianna Beretta Molla (1922 - 1962)

    Gianna Beretta Molla was born in Magenta in Italy. She was the tenth of thirteen children in her family, only nine of whom survived to adulthood. When she was three, her family moved to Bergamo, and she grew up in the Lombardy region of Italy.  In 1942, Gianna began her study of medicine in Milan. […]

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  • Saint George Preca

    1880 - 1962

    Saint George Preca (1880 - 1962)

    Preca first came to the attention of the Ordinary Congregation of the Cardinals and Bishops of the Congregation for Causes of Saints, which examined the scientifically unexplainable healing of Charles Zammit Endrich in 1964. Zammit Endrich had suffered from a detached retina of the left eye. The healing was declared as miraculous, and was attributed […]

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  • Saint Bernadette Soubirous

    1844 - 1879

    Saint Bernadette Soubirous (1844 - 1879)

    Bernadette (the sobriquet by which she was universally known) was the daughter of François Soubirous (Francés Sobirós in Occitan) (1807–1871), a miller, and Louise (Loïsa Casteròt in Occitan) (1825–1866), a laundress. She was the eldest of nine children—Bernadette, Jean (born and died 1845), Toinette (1846–1892), Jean-Marie (1848–1851), Jean-Marie (1851–1919), Justin (1855–1865), Pierre (1859–1931), Jean (born […]

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  • Saint André Bessette

    1845 - 1937

    Saint André Bessette (1845 - 1937)

    He was born Alfred Bessette in Mont-Saint-Grégoire, Quebec, a small town situated 40 kilometres (25 mi) southeast of Montreal. Bessette was the eighth of 12 children (four of whom died in infancy). He was so frail when he was born that the curé baptized him “conditionally” the following day, completing an emergency ritual performed at […]

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  • Saint Alberto Hurtado

    1901 - 1952

    Saint Alberto Hurtado (1901 - 1952)

    Alberto Hurtado Cruchaga was born in Viña del Mar, Chile, on 22 January 1901; he was orphaned when he was four years old by the death of his father. His mother had to sell, at a loss, their modest property in order to pay the family’s debts. As a further consequence, Alberto and his brother […]

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  • Saint Mary MacKillop

    1842 - 1909

    Saint Mary MacKillop (1842 - 1909)

    Mary Helen MacKillop was born on 15 January 1842 in what is now the Melbourne suburb of Fitzroy, Victoria (at the time part of an area called Newtown in the then British colony of New South Wales) to Alexander MacKillop and Flora MacDonald. Although she continued to be known as “Mary”, when she was baptised […]

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  • Gene Anderson

    1939 - 1991

    Gene Anderson (1939 - 1991)

    Gene Anderson Anderson was born in Saint Paul, Minnesota and started wrestling in 1961 after being trained by Verne Gagne. In late 1965, he formed the Minnesota Wrecking Crew with fellow collegian Lars Anderson as his “brother”. They wrestled in the Florida territories and won some tag team titles together. Gene then reformed the tag […]

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  • Junkyard Dog

    1952 - 1998

    Junkyard Dog (1952 - 1998)

    Junkyard Dog Throughout the years, many men have made the transition from the football gridiron to the squared circle. Perhaps none, however, have ever done it with the panache of one Sylvester Ritter, a man better known to sports-entertainment fans as the Junkyard Dog. Before entering the ring, the near 300-pound Ritter was a standout […]

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  • Rick Rude

    1958 - 1999

    Rick Rude (1958 - 1999)

    Rick Rude former wrestling superstar – commentator and manager “Ravishing” Rick Rude (Richard Rood) has died at the age of 41. Reports say Rude died on Tuesday, April 20, 1999 but the details surrounding his death remain unknown at press time. Unconfirmed reports say that he may have had a heart attack. Known for his […]

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  • Jay Youngblood

    1955 - 1985

    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 […]

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  • Andre the Giant

    1946 - 1993

    Andre the Giant (1946 - 1993)

    Andre the Giant Professional wrestler and actor, born Andre Rene Roussimoff, on May 19, 1946, in Grenoble, France. Roussimoff suffered from acromegaly, or “giantism,” a endocrynological disorder that causes the body to secrete excessive amounts of growth hormones and produces continual growth, especially in the head, hands, and feet. He reportedly inherited the disease from […]

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