Memorials in Erie County (New York)
Erie County: 13 memorial pages
of people who were born or died here, or were laid to rest here
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Edith M. Flanigen
01/28/1929 – 01/06/2026
96 years
American chemist
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C. R. Rao
09/10/1920 – 08/22/2023
102 years
Indian-American mathematician
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Bob Lanier
09/10/1948 – 05/10/2022
73 years
American basketball player
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Leon Max Lederman
07/15/1922 – 10/03/2018
96 years
American mathematician and physicist
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Jim Hall
12/04/1930 – 12/10/2013
83 years
American jazz guitarist, composer
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Paul Kurtz
12/21/1925 – 10/20/2012
86 years
American professor of philosophy
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Charles Thomas Kowal
11/08/1940 – 11/28/2011
71 years
American astronomer
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Herbert A. Hauptman
02/14/1917 – 10/23/2011
94 years
American mathematician
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Wilson Greatbatch
09/06/1919 – 09/27/2011
92 years
American engineer and inventor
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Tim Russert
05/07/1950 – 06/13/2008
58 years
American journalist
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Shirley Chisholm
née Shirley Anita St. Hill
11/30/1924 – 01/01/2005
80 years
first black woman elected to the United States Congress
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Rick James
02/01/1948 – 08/06/2004
56 years
American singer, songwriter and record producer
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Nancy Marchand
06/19/1928 – 06/18/2000
71 years
American actress