Celebrities from Cook County
Cook County: 170 memorial pages
of people who were born or died here, or were laid to rest here
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Nelsan Ellis
11/30/1977 – 07/08/2017
39 years
American actor
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John G. Avildsen
12/21/1935 – 06/16/2017
81 years
American film director
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Adolph Kiefer
06/27/1918 – 05/05/2017
98 years
American swimmer, Olympic gold medalist, businessman, chief executive officer
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Eugene Cernan
03/14/1934 – 01/16/2017
82 years
NASA astronaut, Naval aviator, aeronautical engineer, electrical engineer, fighter pilot, eleventh human to walk on the Moon (Apollo 10 and Apollo 17)
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William Christopher
10/20/1932 – 12/31/2016
84 years
American actor
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Charmian Carr
née Charmian Anne Farnon
12/27/1942 – 09/17/2016
73 years
American actress
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James Cronin
09/29/1931 – 08/25/2016
84 years
American physicist
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Garry Shandling
11/29/1949 – 03/24/2016
66 years
American comedian
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Hilary Putnam
07/31/1926 – 03/13/2016
89 years
American philosopher
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Haskell Wexler
02/06/1922 – 12/27/2015
93 years
American filmmaker
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Leo Kadanoff
01/14/1937 – 10/26/2015
78 years
American physicist
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Francis George
01/16/1937 – 04/17/2015
78 years
Catholic cardinal
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Robert Z’Dar
née Robert James Zdarsky
06/03/1950 – 03/30/2015
64 years
actor, film producer
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Edward Michael Egan
04/02/1932 – 03/05/2015
82 years
American Catholic cardinal
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Ernie Banks
01/31/1931 – 01/23/2015
83 years
American baseball player and coach
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Robin Williams
07/21/1951 – 08/11/2014
63 years
American actor and comedian
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Elaine Stritch
02/02/1925 – 07/17/2014
89 years
American actress and singer in film, television, and the theatre
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Carla Laemmle
10/20/1909 – 06/12/2014
104 years
American actress
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Gary Becker
12/02/1930 – 05/03/2014
83 years
American economist
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Frankie Knuckles
née Francis Warren Nicholls, Jr.
01/18/1955 – 03/31/2014
59 years
American DJ and record producer
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Harold Ramis
11/21/1944 – 02/24/2014
69 years
American actor, comedian, and filmmaker
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Dale Mortensen
02/02/1939 – 01/09/2014
74 years
American economist
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Janet Rowley
04/05/1925 – 12/17/2013
88 years
American human geneticist
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Frederik Pohl
11/26/1919 – 09/02/2013
93 years
American science fiction writer and editor
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