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Gene Tapia. Eugene "Gene" H. Tapia (March 16, 1925 – April 12, 2005) was an American race car driver from Mobile, Alabama. [1] He competed in four NASCAR Grand National Series races, [1] but he is best known for racing in the #327 supermodified. He was nicknamed the "King of the Supermodifieds."
Eugènie Herlaar, 84, Dutch news presenter (NOS Journaal). [18] Lemnouar Merouche , 92, Algerian historian. [19] Dean Roberts, 49, New Zealand musician and composer. [20] (death announced on this date) Gena Rowlands, 94, American actress (A Woman Under the Influence, Gloria, The Notebook), four-time Emmy winner, complications from Alzheimer's ...
Sidney Clarke Phillips, Jr. (September 2, 1924 – September 26, 2015) was a United States Marine, family practice physician, and author from Mobile, Alabama. He provided source material and interviews for the making of Ken Burns ' PBS documentary film The War and the HBO miniseries The Pacific.
Spouse. Robert Joseph Miller. Children. 1. Dot Moore (May 15, 1914 – May 23, 2007) was an American television (TV) personality of 46 years from Mobile, Alabama. Her broadcasting career included four talk shows, trips to the Eastern and Western coasts of the United States, and dozens of conversations with TV and motion picture stars. [2]
Michael Knight, university professor and author. William March, author and World War I veteran. William P. McGivern, author. Albert Murray, Author. John Travis Nixon, newspaper publisher in Monroe and Crowley, Louisiana; formerly worked as a journalist in Mobile; died in Mobile in 1909 [ 2] Michelle Richmond, author.
Frederick Palmer Whiddon (March 2, 1930 - May 1, 2002) was the founder and long-time president of the University of South Alabama, the first four-year state-supported university in Mobile, Alabama . Whiddon was born in Newville, Alabama. He was a graduate of Birmingham-Southern College ( B.A., 1952) and Emory University ( Ph.D., 1963).
Timothy Meaher (1812 – 3 March 1892) was an American slave trader, son of an Irish immigrant father and an Anglo-Irish American mother. He was raised in rural Whitefield, Maine. In his 20s, he moved to Mobile, Alabama where he became a wealthy human trafficker, businessman and landowner. [ 1][ 2] He built and owned the slave-ship Clotilda [ 1 ...
Launched on 15 April 1986, [1] the Racing Post is a daily national print and digital publisher specializing in the British horse racing industry and horse racing, greyhound racing and sports betting. The paper was founded by UAE (United Arab Emirates) Prime Minister and Sheikh of Dubai Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum , a racehorse owner, and edited by Graham Rock, who was replaced by ...