Flashcards: Accidental deaths from falls

Lawrence Edwin Siemering (November 24, 1910 – July 27, 2009) was an American football player and coach.

Raeburn Van Buren (January 12, 1891 – December 29, 1987) was an American magazine and comic strip illustrator best known for his work on the syndicated Abbie an' Slats.

Richard Cassilly (December 14, 1927 – January 30, 1998) was an American operatic tenor who had a major international opera career between 1954-90.

Roman Lee Hruska (August 16, 1904 – April 25, 1999) was a Republican U.

Cuthbert Grant (1793 – July 15, 1854) was a prominent Métis leader of the early 19th century.

Michael Charles Phillips (March 24, 1956 – April 25, 2015) was an American basketball player.

Ron Casey (November 27, 1952 – February 16, 2014) was an American politician who served in the Missouri House of Representatives from 2004 until 2012.

Andor Földes (later Andor Foldes; 21 December 1913 –9 February 1992) was an internationally renowned Hungarian pianist born in Budapest, who later took American citizenship.

Robert Knight Morgan (July 31, 1918 – May 15, 2004) was a colonel and a Command Pilot in the United States Air Force from Asheville, North Carolina.

James Augustus "Jim" or "Catfish" Hunter (April 8, 1946 – September 9, 1999) was a professional baseball player in Major League Baseball (MLB).

Johnnie Bryan Hunt, Sr.

Alessandro Serenelli (2 June 1882 - 6 May 1970) was an Italian, who in 1902 attempted to seduce an eleven-year-old girl named Maria Goretti.

Russell Gleason (February 6, 1907 – December 26, 1945) was an American actor who began his career at the very beginning of the talking film era.

Peter Steiner, known as Peter "Cool Man" Steiner (January 22, 1917 – November 12, 2007) was a Swiss man who became famous during the 1990s as a music-making advertising character called "Cool Man".

Robert "Bob" Marshall Sr.

Eugene List (July 6, 1918 – March 1, 1985) was an American concert pianist and teacher.

Father Yod or YaHoWha, born James Edward Baker (July 4, 1922 – August 25, 1975) was the American owner of one of the country's first health food restaurants, on the Sunset Strip in Los Angeles.

Gus R. Douglass (February 22, 1927 – March 19, 2015) was an American politician and member of the Democratic Party, who served as Agriculture Commissioner of West Virginia for 44 years.

Judith "Judy" Jacobs (January 13, 1939 – September 13, 2016) was the presiding officer of the Nassau County legislature.

Lillian Leitzel (January 2, 1892, Breslau, Germany (present-day Wrocław, Poland) – February 15, 1931, Copenhagen, Denmark) was an acrobat and strongwoman for the Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Circus.

Jessica Laura Cory Gilbert known as "Jessie" Gilbert (30 January 1987 – 26 July 2006) was a British chess player.

Ann Mara (June 18, 1929 – February 1, 2015) was an American businesswoman, socialite, philanthropist, the wife and later widow of Wellington Mara, and the matriarch of the Mara family, which includes New York Giants CEO John Mara, and her granddaughters, actresses Rooney Mara and Kate Mara.

Maurits William Albert van Nierop (11 May 1983 – 24 September 2008) was a Dutch international cricketer.

Neva Louise Patterson (February 10, 1920 – December 14, 2010) was an American actress.

Muriel Helen Duckworth née Ball, CM, ONS (October 31, 1908 – August 22, 2009) was a Canadian pacifist, feminist and social and community activist.

Rolf Bae (9 January 1975 – 1 August 2008) was a Norwegian Arctic adventurer and mountaineer.

Paula Fickes Hawkins (January 24, 1927 – December 4, 2009) was an American politician from Florida.

Charles Caruana CBE (9 October 1932, Gibraltar – 1 October 2010, Gibraltar) was a Gibraltarian Roman Catholic bishop of Maltese descent.

Marie-Françoise Audollent (22 May 1943 – 30 March 2008) was a French actress.

Patience Lovell Wright (1725 – March 23, 1786) was the first recognized American-born sculptor.

Diane Disney Miller (December 18, 1933 – November 19, 2013) was the oldest and only biological child of Walt Disney and his wife Lillian Bounds Disney.

John Harvie (1742 – February 6, 1807) was an American lawyer and builder from Virginia.

Morris Hiram "Red" Badgro (December 1, 1902 – July 13, 1998) was an American multi-sport athlete, best known as a professional American football end in the National Football League (NFL) for the New York Yankees, New York Giants, and the Brooklyn Dodgers.

Taylor Terrell (July 22, 1991 – July 21, 2016) was an American news anchor for 41NBC News at Daybreak and 41Today at WMGT-TV in Macon, Georgia.

Anecy Rocha (26 October 1942 – 26 March 1977) was a Brazilian actress.

Frederick Herman Baden, Sr.

Elias George Basevi FRS (1 April 1794 – 16 October 1845) was an English architect who worked in both Neoclassical and Gothic Revival styles.

John Ellsworth Weis (1892–1962) was an American painter.

Charlotte Canda (February 3, 1828 – February 3, 1845), sometimes referred to simply as "Miss Canda", was a young debutante who died in a horse carriage accident on the way home from her seventeenth birthday party in New York City.

Ewing Young Mitchell (December 29, 1910 – September 3, 1988) was an American character actor of film and television best known for his role as Sheriff Mitch Hargrove in 26 episodes between 1956 and 1959 of the aviation adventure series with a western theme, Sky King.

James Edward Jordan (November 16, 1896 – April 1, 1988) was the American actor who played Fibber McGee in Fibber McGee and Molly and voiced the albatross Orville in Disney's The Rescuers (1977).

Peter James Levinson (1 July 1934 Atlantic City, New Jersey - 21 October 2008 Malibu) was an American music publicist and biographer, particularly of jazz musicians.

William Joseph Coyne (August 24, 1936 – November 3, 2013) was a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.

William Lewis Taylor (October 4, 1931 – June 28, 2010) was an American attorney and lobbyist who advocated on behalf of African Americans during the civil rights era and played a major role in drafting civil rights legislation.

William Herman Rulofson (September 27, 1826 – November 2, 1878) was a Canadian-American photographer, who along with his partner, H.

Giuseppe Mengoni (November 23, 1829, in Fontanelice – December 30, 1877) was an Italian architect.

"Rocket" Raymond LeRoy Ramsey (July 18, 1921 – August 25, 2009) was a professional American football player who played defensive back for the Chicago Cardinals (1950–1953).

Hilton Ruiz (May 29, 1952 – June 6, 2006) was an American jazz pianist in the Afro-Cuban jazz mold, but was also a talented bebop player.

Rodney Stephen "Rod" Hull (13 August 1935 – 17 March 1999) was an English comedian, best known as a popular entertainer on British television in the 1970s and 1980s.

Henry Ulke (January 29, 1821 – February 17, 1910) was an American photographer and portrait painter.

Robert Lynn "Bob" Welch (November 3, 1956 – June 9, 2014) was an American professional baseball starting pitcher.

Rose Perica Mofford (June 10, 1922 – September 15, 2016) was an American civil servant and politician.

Giorgio Anselmi (5 April 1723 – 30 March 1797) was an Italian painter.

Malachi Brendan Martin (Irish: Maolsheachlann Breandán Ó Máirtín; July 23, 1921 – July 27, 1999), occasionally writing under the pseudonym Michael Serafian, was an Irish Catholic priest and writer on the Catholic Church.

Maroun Bagdadi (Arabic: مارون بغدادي‎‎; January 21, 1950 – December 11, 1993) was a Lebanese film director known for his vivid portrayal of Lebanon's civil war.

Zeferino Nandayapa (born 26 August 1931, Copainalá – died 28 December 2010, Tlalnepantla) was a Mexican folk and classical marimba player.

Clara Claiborne Park (August 19, 1923 – July 3, 2010) was an American college English teacher and author who was best known for her writings about her experiences raising her autistic daughter, the artist Jessica Park.

Richard Berg (February 16, 1922 – September 1, 2009) was an American screenwriter as well as a film and television producer.

Donald Yetter Gardner (20 August 1913, Portland, Pennsylvania – 15 September 2004) wrote the classic Christmas song "All I Want For Christmas Is My Two Front Teeth.

Margaret Clark Formby (July 12, 1929–April 10, 2003) was the daughter of southwest Texas ranchers who founded the National Cowgirl Museum and Hall of Fame in the basement of the public library in Hereford in Deaf Smith County before she relocated the collection to Fort Worth.

Martin Ernest Dannenberg (5 November 1915 – 18 August 2010) was an American insurance executive.

Hjalmar "Hjallis" Johan Andersen (12 March 1923 – 27 March 2013) was a speed skater from Norway who won three gold medals at the 1952 Winter Olympic Games of Oslo, Norway.

Charles Alvin Lisanby (January 22, 1924 – August 23, 2013) was an American Production Designer who helped define scenic design in early color television.

Edward D. Glenn (October 1875 – December 6, 1911) was a shortstop in Major League Baseball.

Harry Luther Conn (April 28, 1867 – June 4, 1939) was a jurist in the U.

Paul Stojanovich (February 13, 1956 – March 15, 2003) was an American television producer whose notable creations include American Detective (1991–1993) and World's Wildest Police Videos (1998–2001).