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Disappeared, body never recovered, presumed dead Rolls Gracie: Brazil 1982 Martial artist, practitioner of Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu: hang glider: Mauá, São Paulo, Brazil Bill Graham: United States 1991 Rock concert promoter Bell 206: Vallejo, California: Flew into power lines Richard E. Gray: United States 1982 Aviator, test pilot Cessna T-37 Tweet
John Wiley, 60, South African cricketer and politician, Minister of Environmental Affairs and Tourism, suicide. [ 130 ] Richard Wilson , 66, American science fiction writer.
Richard Wiley (born November 19, 1944) is an American novelist and short story writer whose first novel, Soldiers in Hiding won the 1987 PEN/Faulkner Award for ...
Richard Roundtree, who played the iconic lead character in the 1971 movie Shaft and its sequels, has died at the age of 81. The actor passed away on Tuesday “after a brief battle with pancreatic ...
Rogers on the wing of a Lockheed floatplane belonging to famed aviation pioneer Wiley Post, hours before their fatal crash on August 15, 1935. Will Rogers became an advocate for the aviation industry after noticing advancements in Europe and befriending Charles Lindbergh, the most famous American aviator of the era. During his 1926 European ...
A decorated Vietnam War pilot, Dick Rutan died Friday evening at a hospital in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, with Burt and other loved ones by his s Dick Rutan, who set an aviation milestone when he ...
Richard Perry has died at the age of 82. The legendary music producer died on Dec. 24 at a Los Angeles hospital from cardiac arrest, his longtime friend Daphna Kastner told the Associated Press .
Wiley Hardeman Post (November 22, 1898 – August 15, 1935) was an American aviator during the interwar period and the first pilot to fly solo around the world. Known for his work in high-altitude flying, he helped develop one of the first pressure suits and discovered the jet stream .