As other car companies moved from steam to gasoline power, the Stanley Steamer became the most popular steam powered car. As the internal combustion engine designs improved, however, steam and electric cars lost much of their popularity. Finally, the numbers of cars sold went down to less than 600 a year in 1918. That year the Stanley brothers sold the company to Prescott Warren, a Chicago businessman. both brothers retired. A few months later, while he was driving home from a trip to Maine, his car ran off the road. He was driving a new 1918 Model 735 Stanley Steamer. He died in the accident, July 21, 1918. He was 69 years old. His brother Freelan lived to be 91 years old.
Yehezkel Braun
Yehezkel Braun (; January 18, 1922 – August 27, 2014) was an German-born Israeli composer. Braun was Professor Emeritus at Tel Aviv University.
Braun was born in Breslau, Germany (now Wroclaw, Poland). He moved to Mandate Palestine when he was two. Braun studied at the Israel Academy of Music. He received a Master's degree in Classical Studies from Tel Aviv University. In 2001, Braun was awarded the Israel Prize for music.
Braun died in Tel Aviv on August 27, 2014. He was 92.
Peret
Pedro Pubill Calaf 24 March 1935 – 27 August 2014), better known as Peret, was a Spanish gypsy singer, guitarist and composer of Catalan rumba. He was born in Mataró, Catalonia.
Peret was known for his 1971 single, "Borriquito" (Ariola Records). Peret represented Spain at the Eurovision Song Contest in 1974 and performed during the closing ceremony at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain. In 2001, Peret recorded and released "Rey De La Rumba" ("King of the Rumba").
Peret died in Barcelona, Spain from lung cancer, aged 79.
List of things named after Ronald Reagan
This is a list of things named for former President of the United States Ronald Reagan.
The "Ronald Reagan Legacy Project" is an organization founded by Americans for Tax Reform president Grover Norquist. It seeks to name at least one notable public landmark in each U.S. state and all 3067 counties after the 40th president.
Ronald Reagan Federal Building and Courthouse (Pennsylvania)
The Ronald Reagan Federal Building and Courthouse is a federal building and courthouse named after Ronald Reagan. It is located at 228 Walnut Street in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. It is twelve-stories tall. The building was built in 1966. It is owned by the General Services Administration. It was officially renamed on March 9, 2004.
Mount Clay
Mount Clay is a peak located in Thompson and Meserve's Purchase in Coos County in the Presidential Range of the White Mountains of New Hampshire. It is a rise about long and a few hundred feet tall, with summit elevation of . It lies on the ridge joining the summits of Mount Washington, about to the south-southeast, with that of Mount Jefferson, about north.
Sandy Wilson
Alexander Galbraith "Sandy" Wilson (19 May 1924 – 27 August 2014) was an English composer and lyricist. He was best known for his musical "The Boy Friend" (1953).
Wilson was born in Sale, Cheshire. He studied at the Harrow School and Oriel College, Oxford.
Most of his work for the stage was material for revues, such as Hermione Gingold's "Slings and Arrows", Laurier Lister's "Oranges and Lemons", and "See You Later".
Wilson died in London, England, aged 90.
Mardi Gras (album)
Mardi Gras is the seventh and final studio album by Creedence Clearwater Revival. The album was released on April 11, 1972.
Jan Groth
Jan Leonard Groth (25 February 1946 – 27 August 2014) was a Norwegian musician. He was active from the early 1970s onwards. He was a member of the progressive rock band Aunt Mary, where he was lead singer and keyboardist. He later moved on to Christian rock, where he most notably sang rock versions of many preacher singer's songs. He was also a member of the band Just 4 Fun. At the 1991 Eurovision Song Contest, Just 4 Fun represented Norway and played the song "Mrs. Thompson".
Groth was born in Greåker. He grew up in a Pentecostal family.
Groth died after a year long battle with cancer on 27 August 2014. He was 68.
John Houseman
John Houseman (born Jacques Haussmann; September 22, 1902October 31, 1988) was a Romanian-born British–American actor and movie producer. He was known for working with Orson Welles. Houseman was known for his role as Professor Charles Kingsfield in the movie "The Paper Chase" (1973).
Houseman died in Malibu, California from spinal cancer, aged 86.
Simon Featherstone
Simon Mark Featherstone (24 July 1958 – 27 August 2014) was a British diplomat. He served as the High Commissioner to Malaysia from October 2010 until May 2014. He served the United Kingdom on diplomatic missions in China, Belgium, Switzerland, Liechtenstein and Malaysia.
Featherstone was born in London. He was one of four brothers. He studied law at the University of Oxford and got an MA in 1980. He was married and had three children.
Featherstone died after a year long illness on 27 August 2014. He was 56.
Carl Van Vechten
Carl Van Vechten (June 17, 1880 – December 21, 1964) was an American writer and artistic photographer. He was known for taking pictures of many famous celebrities during the late 1930s and early 1940s. He was born in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
Vechten was married to actress Fania Marinoff from 1914 until his death in 1964. Vechten died in New York City, New York, aged 84.
Fania Marinoff
Fania Marinoff (; ) (March 20, 1890 – November 17, 1971) was an Russian-American actress.
Marinoff was born in Odessa, Russian Empire (now Ukraine). She married Carl Van Vechten in 1914. They had met two years earlier, and their marriage lasted over 50 years until Van Vechten's death.
She played supporting and lead roles in dozens of Broadway plays between 1903 and 1937, and eight U.S. silent movies between 1914 and 1917.
She died in 1971 in Englewood, New Jersey from pneumonia, aged 81.
Timothy Olyphant
Timothy David Olyphant (born May 20, 1968) is an American actor. He is best known for his television work as Sheriff Seth Bullock in "Deadwood" (2004–2006), and Deputy U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens in the series "Justified" (2010-2015). He has starred in the movies "Scream 2" (1997), "Go" (1999), "Gone in 60 Seconds" (2000), "" (2000), "Dreamcatcher" (2003), "The Girl Next Door" (2004), "Live Free or Die Hard/Die Hard 4.0" (2007), "Hitman" (2007), "A Perfect Getaway" (2009), "The Crazies" (2010), "I Am Number Four" (2011), and "Rango" (2011). Olyphant starred in the Netflix series "Santa Clarita Diet".
Vic Seixas
Elias Victor Seixas, Jr. (born August 30, 1923) is an American former tennis player.
Seixas was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He was raised Jewish. He studied at William Penn Charter School. After serving in World War II, he studied at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC)
In 1951, Seixas was ranked No. 4 in the world, two spots below Dick Savitt, while he was No. 1 in the U.S. ranking, one spot ahead of Savitt. In 1953, Seixas was ranked No. 3 in the world by Lance Tingay, and was also cited as being the World No. 1 in newspaper Reading Eagle the same year.
He is currently the oldest living male Grand Slam singles champion.
John Spencer-Churchill, 11th Duke of Marlborough
John George Vanderbilt Henry Spencer-Churchill, 11th Duke of Marlborough, DL, JP (13 April 1926 – 16 October 2014) was a British educator. He was the principal of a school in his birthplace of Blenheim Palace.
He was the son of Lt.-Col. John Spencer-Churchill, 10th Duke of Marlborough and his wife, Hon. Alexandra Mary Hilda Cadogan. He was also a relation of The Duke of Devonshire and a generational cousin of the war-time Conservative Prime Minister, Sir Winston Churchill.
He was also a distant relative of Diana, Princess of Wales as both belong to the Spencer family, and of the Vanderbilt family through his paternal grandmother, Consuelo Vanderbilt.
Spencer-Brown died in the morning of 16 October 2014 in Blenheim Palace, aged 88.
Tommy Hilfiger