Celebrities from Essex County
Essex County: 40 memorial pages
of people who were born or died here, or were laid to rest here
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Amiri Baraka
née Everett LeRoi Jones
10/07/1934 – 01/09/2014
79 years
African-American writer
Memorial
Paul Kurtz
12/21/1925 – 10/20/2012
86 years
American professor of philosophy
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Whitney Houston
08/09/1963 – 02/11/2012
48 years
American singer, actress, and film producer
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Elaine Stewart
née Elsy Steinberg
05/31/1930 – 06/27/2011
81 years
American actress, model
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Daniel Gray Quillen
06/27/1940 – 04/30/2011
70 years
American mathematician
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Harold Garfinkel
10/29/1917 – 04/21/2011
93 years
American sociologist
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Joe Morello
07/17/1928 – 03/12/2011
82 years
American jazz drummer
Memorial
Allen Klein
12/18/1931 – 07/04/2009
77 years
American businessman, music publisher
Memorial
Roy Scheider
11/10/1932 – 02/10/2008
75 years
American actor
Memorial
Joshua Lederberg
05/23/1925 – 02/02/2008
82 years
American molecular biologist
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Jack Warden
09/18/1920 – 07/19/2006
85 years
American actor
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Ted Schroeder
07/20/1921 – 05/26/2006
84 years
US tennis player
Memorial
Robert Sheckley
07/16/1928 – 12/09/2005
77 years
American writer
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Althea Gibson
08/25/1927 – 09/28/2003
76 years
American tennis player
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Eddie Bracken
02/07/1915 – 11/14/2002
87 years
American actor
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Allen Ginsberg
06/03/1926 – 04/05/1997
70 years
American poet and writer
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