Journals Of Life. Online memorials. Virtual memory books of people who died on (03/28/1941

Adeline Virginia Woolf (25 January 1882 – 28 March 1941) was an English author, essayist, publisher, and writer of short stories, regarded as one of the foremost modernist literary figures of the twentieth century. During the interwar pe...
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Charles Bukowski

08/16/1920 - 03/09/1994

Henry Charles Bukowski (born Aug. 16, 1920, Andernach, Ger.—died March 9, 1994, San Pedro, Calif., U.S.) American author noted for his use of violent images and graphic language in poetry and fiction that depict survival in a corrupt, blight...
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Arthur Asher Miller

10/17/1915 - 02/10/2005

Arthur Asher Miller (October 17, 1915 – February 10, 2005) was an American playwright and essayist. He was a prominent figure in American theatre, writing dramas that include plays such as All My Sons (1947), Death of a Salesman (1949), The...
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Laurance Spelman Rockfeller

05/26/1910 - 07/11/2004

Laurance Spelman Rockefeller (May 26, 1910 – July 11, 2004) was a venture capitalist, financier, philanthropist, a major conservationist and a prominent third-generation member of the Rockefeller family. He...
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Nelly Arcan

03/05/1975 - 09/24/2009

Nelly Arcan (March 5, 1975 – September 24, 2009) was a Canadian novelist.She was hardly known at all in English Canada, but there has never been a figure like her in Canadian literature.

Jerome David Salinger

01/01/1919 - 01/27/2010

Jerome David Salinger (January 1, 1919 – January 27, 2010) was an American author, best known for his 1951 novel The Catcher in the Rye, as well as his reclusive nature. His last original published work was in 1965; he gave his last int...
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Roy Bean

//1825 - 03/16/1903

Phantly Roy Bean, Jr. (1825 – March 16, 1903) was an eccentric U.S. saloon-keeper and Justice of the Peace in Val Verde County, Texas, who called himself "The Law West of the Pecos". According to legend, Judge Roy Bean held court i...
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Benoit Mandelbrot

11/20/1924 - 10/14/2010

Benoît B. Mandelbrot (20 November 1924 – 14 October 2010) was French-American mathematician universally known as the father of fractals. Fractals have been employed to describe diverse behaviour in economics, finance, the stock ma...
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Bayard Taylor

01/11/1825 - 12/19/1878

Bayard Taylor (1825-1878), American poet, translator, and travel author wrote Eldorado, or, Adventures in the Path of Empire (1850).

June Millicent Jordan

07/09/1936 - 06/14/2002

June Millicent Jordan (July 9, 1936 - June 14, 2002) was a Caribbean American poet, novelist, journalist, biographer, dramatist, teacher, and committed activist. In her three decade career Jordan made her mark as one of the fiercest and most compa...
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Erich Wolf Segal

06/16/1937 - 01/17/2010

Erich Wolf Segal (June 16, 1937 – January 17, 2010) was an American author, screenwriter, and educator. He was best-known for writing the novel Love Story (1970), a best-seller, and writing the motion picture of the same name, which was a ma...
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John Emmett Raitt

01/19/1917 - 02/20/2005

John Emmett Raitt (January 29, 1917 – February 20, 2005) was an American actor and singer best known for his performances in musical theater.

William Riley Burnett

11/25/1899 - 04/25/1982

William Riley Burnett (November 25, 1899 - April 25, 1982), often credited as W. R. Burnett, was an American novelist and screenwriter. He is best known for the crime novel, Little Caesar, whose film adaptation is considered the first o...
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Eunice Kennedy Shriver

07/10/1921 - 08/11/2009

Eunice Kennedy Shriver, (July 10, 1921 – August 11, 2009) a member of the Kennedy family, sister to President John F. Kennedy and Senators Robert F. Kennedy and Edward Kennedy, was the founder in 1962...
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George Herbert

04/03/1593 - 03/01/1633

George Herbert (3 April 1593 – 1 March 1633) was a Welsh born English poet, orator and Anglican priest.

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