Celebrities from Essex County
Essex County: 15 memorial pages
of people who were born or died here, or were laid to rest here
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Freddy Cannon
née Frederick Anthony Picariello Jr.
12/04/1936 – 07/17/2026
89 years
American rock and roll singer
Memorial
Joanne Chory
03/19/1955 – 11/12/2024
69 years
American plant biologist and geneticist
Memorial
James McLane
09/13/1930 – 12/13/2020
90 years
American swimmer, Olympic gold medalist, former world record-holder
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Jack Welch
11/19/1935 – 03/01/2020
84 years
American executive: General Electric CEO
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Fernando José Corbató
07/01/1926 – 07/12/2019
93 years
American computer scientist
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Verna Bloom
08/07/1938 – 01/09/2019
80 years
American actress
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Gardner Dozois
07/23/1947 – 05/27/2018
70 years
American science fiction editor
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Warren Frost
06/05/1925 – 02/17/2017
91 years
American actor
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Whitney Smith
02/26/1940 – 11/17/2016
76 years
founder of vexillology, the study of flags
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Tammy Grimes
01/30/1934 – 10/30/2016
82 years
American actress and singer
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John Updike
03/18/1932 – 01/27/2009
76 years
American novelist, poet
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Maila Nurmi
née Maila Elizabeth Syrjäniemi
12/11/1922 – 01/10/2008
85 years
Finnish American actress
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Robert Goulet
11/26/1933 – 10/30/2007
73 years
Canadian-American singer and actor
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Brad Delp
06/12/1951 – 03/09/2007
55 years
American rock musician
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Frederick Herzberg
04/18/1923 – 01/19/2000
76 years
American psychologist