Celebrities from Suffolk County
Suffolk County: 55 memorial pages
of people who were born or died here, or were laid to rest here
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Marvin Minsky
08/09/1927 – 01/24/2016
88 years
American cognitive scientist
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Gunther Schuller
11/22/1925 – 06/21/2015
89 years
American composer and conductor
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Leonard Nimoy
03/26/1931 – 02/27/2015
83 years
American actor
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Ben Bradlee
08/26/1921 – 10/21/2014
93 years
executive editor of The Washington Post from 1968 to 1991
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Helen Johns
09/25/1914 – 07/23/2014
99 years
American swimmer, Olympic gold medalist, former world record-holder
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Richard Nelson Frye
01/10/1920 – 03/27/2014
94 years
American historian
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Chinua Achebe
11/16/1930 – 03/21/2013
82 years
Nigerian novelist, poet, professor, and critic
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Joseph Edward Murray
04/01/1919 – 11/26/2012
93 years
US surgeon
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Stephen Dunham
09/14/1964 – 09/14/2012
48 years
European-American actor
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Donna Summer
née LaDonna Adrian Gaines
12/31/1948 – 05/17/2012
63 years
American singer
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Charles Colson
10/16/1931 – 04/21/2012
80 years
American lawyer, politician, public servant and Christian advocate
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John McCarthy
09/04/1927 – 10/24/2011
84 years
American computer scientist and cognitive scientist
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Baruj Benacerraf
10/29/1920 – 08/02/2011
90 years
Venezuelan-American immunologist
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Jelena Georgijewna Bonner
02/15/1923 – 06/18/2011
88 years
human rights activist in the former Soviet Union; wife of dissident Andrei Sakharov
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Geraldine Ferraro
08/26/1935 – 03/26/2011
75 years
American politician
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Keith Edward Elam
07/17/1961 – 04/19/2010
48 years
American rapper
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Edward Kennedy
02/22/1932 – 08/25/2009
77 years
United States Senator from Massachusetts from 1962 to 2009
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George Russell
06/23/1923 – 07/27/2009
86 years
American pianist and composer
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Charlie Mariano
11/12/1923 – 06/16/2009
85 years
American jazz saxophonist
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Charles Sweeney
12/27/1919 – 07/16/2004
84 years
United States general
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Janet Akyüz Mattei
01/02/1943 – 03/22/2004
61 years
Turkish astronomer
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William Steig
11/14/1907 – 10/03/2003
95 years
American cartoonist, children's illustrator and writer
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Sadruddin Aga Khan
01/17/1933 – 05/12/2003
70 years
UN High Commissioner for Refugees
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Yousuf Karsh
12/23/1908 – 07/13/2002
93 years
Armenian-Canadian photographer
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