Celebrities from La Jolla
La Jolla: 18 memorial pages
of people who were born or died here, or were laid to rest here
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Vernor Vinge
10/02/1944 – 03/20/2024
79 years
American mathematician, computer scientist, and science fiction writer
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Flossie Wong-Staal
08/27/1947 – 07/08/2020
72 years
American virologist
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Ronald Graham
10/31/1935 – 07/06/2020
84 years
American mathematician
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Walter Munk
10/19/1917 – 02/08/2019
101 years
American oceanographer
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Gerald M. Edelman
07/01/1929 – 05/17/2014
84 years
American biologist
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J. J. Cale
12/05/1938 – 07/26/2013
74 years
American musician
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Sally Ride
05/26/1951 – 07/23/2012
61 years
American astronaut and physicist
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Renato Dulbecco
02/22/1914 – 02/19/2012
97 years
Italian-born American virologist
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Cliff Robertson
09/09/1923 – 09/10/2011
88 years
American actor
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Geoffrey Burbidge
09/24/1925 – 01/26/2010
84 years
British astronomer
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Clive W. J. Granger
09/04/1934 – 05/27/2009
74 years
British economist
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Walter Schirra
03/12/1923 – 05/03/2007
84 years
American astronaut
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Ted Schroeder
07/20/1921 – 05/26/2006
84 years
US tennis player
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Francis Crick
06/08/1916 – 07/28/2004
88 years
British molecular biologist, biophysicist, neuroscientist; co-discoverer of the structure of DNA
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Mercedes McCambridge
03/16/1916 – 03/02/2004
87 years
American actress
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Gregory Peck
04/05/1916 – 06/12/2003
87 years
American actor
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Niki de Saint Phalle
10/29/1930 – 05/21/2002
71 years
plastician, painter and sculptor
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Jonas Salk
10/28/1914 – 06/23/1995
80 years
Jewish-American inventor of polio vaccine