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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Janet Jagan
née Janet Rosalie Rosenberg
10/20/1920 – 03/28/2009
88 years
president of Guyana, prime minister of Guyana, nurse
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Kenneth Henry
01/07/1929 – 03/01/2009
80 years
US speed skater
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Howard Zieff
10/21/1927 – 02/22/2009
81 years
American film director
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Louie Bellson
07/06/1924 – 02/14/2009
84 years
American jazz drummer
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Michael Crichton
10/23/1942 – 11/04/2008
66 years
American author, screenwriter, film director
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Studs Terkel
05/16/1912 – 10/31/2008
96 years
American author, historian and broadcaster
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Bernie Mac
née Bernard Jeffrey McCullough
10/05/1957 – 08/09/2008
50 years
American actor
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Johnny Griffin
04/24/1928 – 07/25/2008
80 years
American musician
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Algis Budrys
01/09/1931 – 06/09/2008
77 years
Lithuanian-American author, editor, and critic
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Harvey Korman
02/15/1927 – 05/29/2008
81 years
American actor and comedian
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Charlton Heston
née John Charles Carter
10/04/1923 – 04/05/2008
84 years
American actor
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Gary Gygax
07/27/1938 – 03/04/2008
69 years
American game designer and author
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Margaret Truman Daniel
02/17/1924 – 01/29/2008
83 years
American author of murder mysteries; daughter of 33rd President of the United States Harry S. Truman
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Bobby Fischer
03/09/1943 – 01/17/2008
64 years
American chess player
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Sidney Coleman
03/07/1937 – 11/18/2007
70 years
American physicist
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Fred Saberhagen
05/18/1930 – 06/29/2007
77 years
American writer
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Frankie Laine
née Francesco Paolo LoVecchio
03/30/1913 – 02/06/2007
93 years
American pop singer, songwriter, and actor
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Willye White
12/31/1939 – 02/06/2007
67 years
American athlete – long jumper and sprinter
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Sidney Sheldon
née Sidney Schechtel
02/11/1917 – 01/30/2007
89 years
American writer
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Marcheline Bertrand
05/09/1950 – 01/27/2007
56 years
American actress and producer
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Darlene Conley
07/18/1934 – 01/14/2007
72 years
American actress
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Anita O’Day
née Anita Belle Colton
10/18/1919 – 11/23/2006
87 years
American jazz singer
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Annette Rogers
10/22/1913 – 11/08/2006
93 years
athletics competitor
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Alvin M. Weinberg
04/20/1915 – 10/18/2006
91 years
American nuclear physicist
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