Curated category
2006 deaths
- Joanna DennyJoanna Denny carried a remarkable piece of Tudor history in her own family name. A descendant of Sir Anthony Denny, one of Henry VIII's most trusted…
- Joan Turville-PetreJoan Elizabeth Turville-Petre entered the world on the 10th of May 1911. Her parents were Sam Blomfield and Kate Barton from Colchester in Essex.
- James BrownJames Brown was supposed to be named Joseph James Brown. A clerk reversed his first and middle names on his birth certificate, and the mistake stuck.
- Christopher John DewhurstSir Christopher John Dewhurst entered the world on the 2nd of July 1920 in England. He grew up during a time when medical care for women and children was…
- Milton FriedmanMilton Friedman died on the 16th of November 2006, and his last column ran in The Wall Street Journal the very next day.
- Hilda Ellis DavidsonHilda Ellis Davidson was born in Bebington, Cheshire, on the 1st of October 1914, and by the time she died in January 2006, she had spent more than six…
- Caspar WeinbergerCaspar Weinberger spent six years and ten months as Secretary of Defense under Ronald Reagan, longer than anyone except Robert McNamara and, more recently…
- Lamar HuntLamar Hunt coined one of the most famous phrases in American sports almost by accident. In a letter dated the 25th of July 1966, to NFL commissioner Pete…
- Billy PrestonBilly Preston was the only artist to receive a co-performer credit on a Beatles recording after the band began recording as independent artists.
- Elliot ForbesElliot Forbes entered the world on the 20th of August 1917, into a family that defined Boston's cultural elite. His father Edward Forbes directed Harvard's…
- Slobodan MiloševićSlobodan Milošević was born in Požarevac on the 20th of August 1941, four months after Axis forces had overrun the Kingdom of Yugoslavia.
- Red AuerbachRed Auerbach lit a cigar on the bench while the game was still being played. It was his signal to the opposing team, to the crowd, to anyone watching: this…
- Alexander ZinovievAlexander Zinoviev was born on the 29th of October 1922 in Pakhtino, a village within the Kostroma Governorate. His family belonged to the state peasants…