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Willie Tasby Jr. (January 8, 1933 – April 3, 2022 [1]) was an American outfielder in Major League Baseball (MLB) who appeared in 583 games as a member of the Baltimore Orioles (1958–1960), Boston Red Sox (1960), Washington Senators (1961–1962) and Cleveland Indians (1962–1963).
William Joseph "Wild Bill" Donovan (1883–1959), US Army Major General, commanded the 165th Infantry Regiment (federalized designation of the 69th New York Infantry, the "Fighting Irish") during World War I, and was Chief of the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) during World War II; also awarded the Distinguished Service Cross, Distinguished Service Medal, and National Security Medal, making ...
The following is a list of notable deaths in September 2018.. Entries for each day are listed alphabetically by surname. A typical entry lists information in the following sequence:
Jul. 7—ALBANY — Of the 16 million Americans who served in World War II, about 300,000 remain with us, and their numbers are dwindling by about 300 each day. Millions more have served in the U ...
Rosetta LeNoire (born Rosetta Olive Burton; August 8, 1911 – March 17, 2002) was an American stage, film, and television actress.She was known to contemporary audiences for her work in television.
Carl Henry Winslow (November 14, 1931 – October 31, 2020) was an American fire chief and United States Army Reserves staff sergeant. He was the fire chief in Yarmouth, Maine , for seventeen years. The town's former fire station is now named for him.
The CEA Winslow Award is named after him Charles-Edward Amory Winslow (February 4, 1877 – January 8, 1957) was an American bacteriologist and public health expert who was, according to the Encyclopedia of Public Health , [ 1 ] "a seminal figure in public health, not only in his own country, the United States, but in the wider Western world."
Ola Elizabeth Winslow (January 5, 1885 in Grant City, Missouri – September 27, 1977 in Damariscotta, Maine) [1] was an American historian, biographer, and educator. She won a Pulitzer Prize in 1941 for her biography of Jonathan Edwards , an 18th-century American theologian whose basic writings she edited for Signet Classics .