Memorials in Cook County
Cook County: 171 memorial pages
of people who were born or died here, or were laid to rest here
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Ronald Coase
12/29/1910 – 09/02/2013
102 years
British economist and Nobel laureate
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Karen Black
née Karen Blanche Ziegler
07/01/1939 – 08/08/2013
74 years
American actress, screenwriter, singer, and songwriter
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Dennis Farina
02/29/1944 – 07/22/2013
69 years
American actor
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Robert Fogel
07/01/1926 – 06/11/2013
86 years
American economist and historian
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Ray Manzarek
02/12/1939 – 05/20/2013
74 years
American keyboardist
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Maria Tallchief
01/24/1925 – 04/11/2013
88 years
American ballerina
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Roger Ebert
06/18/1942 – 04/04/2013
70 years
American film critic and author
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Michael O’Hare
05/06/1952 – 09/28/2012
60 years
American actor
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Michael Clarke Duncan
12/10/1957 – 09/03/2012
54 years
American actor
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Kathryn Joosten
née Kathryn Rausch
12/20/1939 – 06/02/2012
72 years
American actress
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Eugene Polley
11/29/1915 – 05/20/2012
96 years
Engineer, inventor of remote control, 1915-2012
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Lynn Margulis
03/05/1938 – 11/22/2011
73 years
American evolutionary biologist
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David Honeyboy Edwards
06/28/1915 – 08/29/2011
96 years
American blues guitarist and singer
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Betty Ford
04/08/1918 – 07/08/2011
93 years
First Lady of the United States from 1974 to 1977
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Theodore Roszak
11/15/1933 – 07/05/2011
77 years
American social historian, social critic, writer
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Gil Scott-Heron
04/01/1949 – 05/27/2011
62 years
American soul and jazz poet, musician, and author
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Loleatta Holloway
11/05/1946 – 03/21/2011
64 years
American singer
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Kenneth Mars
04/04/1935 – 02/12/2011
75 years
American actor
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Tom Bosley
10/01/1927 – 10/19/2010
83 years
American actor
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Abbey Lincoln
née Anna Marie Wooldridge
08/06/1930 – 08/14/2010
80 years
American singer
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Karl Malden
03/22/1912 – 07/01/2009
97 years
American actor
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Koko Taylor
née Cora Ann Walton
09/28/1928 – 06/03/2009
80 years
American Chicago blues musician
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Vivian Maier
02/01/1926 – 04/21/2009
83 years
French-American photographer
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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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