NEW! Smartphone App Directory
Recent Deaths
Daly was a head basketball coach who is probably best remembered for his consecutive NBA Championships (1989 and 1990) with the Detroit Pistons. He also coached the Dream Team to a gold medal at the 1992 Summer Olympics. Daly began his head-coaching career at the University of Pennsylvania in 1971, and quickly turned the program [...]
Lem was a Norwegian environmental activist, author and spokesperson for The Future In Our Hands, and anti-consumerism activist. Some of Lem’s work includes… - Signaler – compilation - Utenfor bymuren – short stories - Motlys – novel - Grenseovergang – novel - Bjørneboes menneskesyn i Frihetens øyeblikk – thesis - Den tause krigen - Det [...]
McKelvey was an American entrepreneur who is best known for founding Monster.com, which is the leading job recruitment site on the Internet. McKelvey had a knack for succeeding in business. His first company called Telephone Marketing Programs became the nation’s largest Yellow Pages advertising agency, handling almost a third of the American Yellow Pages advertising. [...]
Upshaw was a former football player, who played with the Oakland Raiders in the American Football League and the National Football League for 16 years. During his career he had the privilege of playing in three Super Bowls – 1967, 1976 and 1980. Upshaw was a member of the bargaining committee for the National Football [...]
Allen was popular pop singer from Australia, though she was born in England. She saw a quick rise to fame when record producer and songwriter Terry Britten (same guy who wrote What’s Love Got To Do With It for Tina Turner) discovered her. She had three singles from he debut album “Magic Rhythm”. The first [...]
Hazard was a Philadelphia, Pennsylvania musician who is probably best known for writing and recording the song “Girls Just Wanna Have Fun”. Cyndi Lauper went on to cover the song and made it a best seller. It only took Hazard 15 minutes to write the song “Girls Just Wanna Have Fun”, and surprisingly enough he [...]
Pausch died from pancreatic cancer at his home in Chesapeake, Virginia. They had recently moved to Chesapeake so that his wife and children would be near family after his passing.
Italian opera tenor. One of the greatest tenors in the world. His also one of “The Three Tenors”, with Placido Domingo and Jose Carreras.