He was born in Mount Kisco, New York on February 28, 1931. He was married to Joan Devore from 1954 until they divorced in 1972, they had four children. He was married to Patti Kending from 1972 until they divorced in 1982 and remarried in 1985.
MacLeod died at his home in Palm Desert, California on May 29, 2021 at the age of 90.
Tony Bennett
Tony Bennett (born Anthony Dominick Benedetto, August 3, 1926) is an American singer who is best known for his song "I Left My Heart in San Francisco". He was born at St John’s Hospital in Long Island, New York.
He has been married three times and has four children.
He has many awards including a Grammy Award. Bennett is a Democrat and attended the 2012 Democratic National Convention in support of President Obama's re-election. In 2014, Bennett made an album with Lady Gaga titled "Cheek to Cheek".
In February 2021, Bennett said that he was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease in 2016.
Suzy Amis
Susan Elizabeth "Suzy" Amis (born January 5, 1962) is a former American movie, television actress, and model who is known for her role as Lizzy Calvert in "Titanic". and for being the wife of Academy Award winning director James Cameron since 2000; they have three children. She was born in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. She retired from acting in 1999.
Lance LeGault
Lance LeGault (William Lance Legault, May 2, 1935 – September 10, 2012) was an American movie, television, and voice actor. He was known for his many television roles, mostly in "The A-Team". He was born in Chicago, Illinois. He was married to Theresa LeGault from 1984 until his death in 2012. They had four children. He died on September 10, 2012 in his home in Los Angeles, California from unknown causes. He was 77 years old.
Robert Flemyng
Robert Flemyng (January 3, 1912 – May 22, 1995) was an English movie, stage, voice, radio and television actor who is known for his role as Professor Bernard Hichcock in "The Horrible Dr. Hichcock" (1962).
He was born in Liverpool, Lancashire, England. Flemyng was married and had one child. He died on May 22, 1995 in London, England from pneumonia, he was 83 years old.
Ryūkyū Islands
The , also known as the , are a chain of Japanese islands in a line between Kyushu and Taiwan. The native people of the Ryūkyū Islands are the Ryūkyūan people and its native languages are the endangered Ryukyuan languages.
In the islands, the dates from the middle 14th century. It entered into a tributary relationship with Imperial China.
In the early 17th century, the kingdom entered into a tributary relationship with Japan after the Satsuma Domain invaded.
In 1765, the islands were described by Hayashi Shihei in "Sangoku Tsūran Zusetsu".
The islands are at the eastern edge of the East China Sea and the western edge of the Pacific Ocean.
The Islands are separated into two geographical regions: the Northern Ryūkyū Islands, centered on Amami Island, and the Southern Ryūkyū Islands, centered on Okinawa Island. Sometimes the Southern Ryūkyū Islands are further divided into the Okinawa Islands and the Sakishima Islands.
The largest of the islands is Okinawa Island.
Karate was invented by the local people (mainly from Okinawa). The Japanese phrase "Karate-do" means "way of the empty hand").
Jason Segel
Jason Jordan Segel (born January 18, 1980) is an American movie, television, and voice actor who is known for his role as Marshall Eriksen in "How I Met Your Mother". He has also appeared in "The Muppets" (2011). He was born in Los Angeles, California. He was partners with actress Michelle Williams from 2012 through early 2013.
Gary (rapper)
Kang Hee-gun (; born February 24, 1978) is a South Korean rapper. He is better known by his stage name, Gary (). He is also a former cast member of the variety show "Running Man" and musician of hip-hop duo Leessang.
Leessang
Leessang (Hangul: 리쌍; stylized as LeeSsang) is a South Korean Hip-hop duo, composed of Kang Hee-gun ("Garie") and Gil Seong-joon ("Gil").
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Desi Arnaz
Desi Arnaz (Desiderio Alberto Arnaz y de Acha III, March 2, 1917 – December 2, 1986) was a Cuban-American movie, stage, television actor, television producer and director, writer, comedian, and musician. He is known for playing Ricky Ricardo in "I Love Lucy".
He was born in Santiago de Cuba, Cuba. He was married to Lucille Ball from 1940 until they divorced in 1960. They had a son named Desi Jr, and a daughter named Lucie. Then he was married to Edith Mack Hirsh from 1963 until her death in 1985. Arnaz died from lung cancer in Del Mar, California, on December 2, 1986. He was 69 years old.
Pig footed bandicoot
The pig footed bandicoot {"Chaeropus ecaudatus") is a small marsupial. The distribution range of species was later reduced to an inland desert region, where it was last recorded in the 1950s. It is now believed to be extinct.
The pig footed bandicoot has a body which around 23-26 centimetres and a tail 10-15 centimetres. The bandicoot has a pointed ears and large, slender limbs. It had a broad head and a slender snout. Its fur was coarse and straight. Its colour varied from a grizzled grey through fawn orange-brown.
The pig footed bandicoot is known to live in the western Victoria and New South Wales. It inhabited a fairly wide range of types: from grassy woodland and grassland plains to the spinifex country and parched flats of central Australia.
The pig footed bandicoot only eats plants.
George Pal
George Pal (György Pál Marczincsak, February 1, 1908 – May 2, 1980) was a Hungarian-American animator, movie director and producer who has helped the movie industry grow during the 50s and 60s. An award is named after him.
Pal was born in Cegléd, Kingdom of Hungary, Austro-Hungarian Empire, (now Hungary). He was educated at the Budapest Academy of Arts. He was married to Elizabeth Zsoka from 1930 until his death in 1980, they had two children. Pal died on May 2, 1980 in Los Angeles, California from a heart attack. He was 72 years old.
Don Cornelius
Donald Cortez "Don" Cornelius (September 27, 1936 – February 1, 2012) was an American television host and television producer. He was known for creating the music franchise series "Soul Train".
Cornelius was born in Chicago, Illinois. He was married to Delores Harrison until they divorced. He was later married to Viktoria Chapman from 2001 until they divorced. Cornelius committed suicide on February 1, 2012 in Sherman Oaks, California after shooting himself with a gun.
Shel Silverstein
Sheldon Allan "Shel" Silverstein (September 25, 1930 – May 10, 1999) was an American writer, poet, singer-songwriter, musician, composer, cartoonist, screenwriter, and a children's author who is mostly known for his children's book "The Giving Tree". He has won two Grammy Awards.
Although he’s most known for his children’s poetry, he also was good at many other things. In the 1950s, while he was serving in the U.S. armed forces, Silverstein drew cartoons for the Pacific Stars and Stripes, an American military newspaper. He started writing and drawing cartoons for Playboy magazine in 1952.
Shel Silverstein also wrote plays. It was Ursula Nordstrom, a book editor, who suggested that he should write for children.
Silverstein’s first book of poetry, "Don’t Bump the Glump! and Other Fantasies", was published in 1964. He’s most well-known for his books "A Light in the Attic", "The Giving Tree", and "Where the Sidewalk Ends". He has been compared to other writers, like A. A. Milne, Edward Lear, and Dr. Seuss. Shel Silverstein won multiple awards for his children’s poetry books. "Where the Sidewalk Ends" won the Michigan Young Readers’ Award in 1981, and Silverstein also won the George C. Stone Center for Children’s Books Award twice in 1984. Two books of poetry were published after Shel Silverstein’s death, "Runny Babbit" and "Every Thing on It".
Silverstein also had success writing songs. Some of his poetry was based off of songs he had written.