Celebrities from Akron
Akron: 10 memorial pages
of people who were born or died here, or were laid to rest here
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David Allan Coe
09/06/1939 – 04/29/2026
86 years
American country musician
Memorial
Susan George
née Susan Vance Akers
06/29/1934 – 02/14/2026
91 years
American and French political and social scientist, activist and writer
Memorial
Peter George
06/29/1929 – 07/28/2021
92 years
American weightlifter
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Shirley Fry
06/30/1927 – 07/13/2021
94 years
American tennis and badminton player
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James Ingram
02/16/1952 – 01/29/2019
66 years
American singer-songwriter and record producer
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Lola Albright
07/20/1924 – 03/23/2017
92 years
American actress and singer
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Nate Thurmond
07/25/1941 – 07/16/2016
74 years
American basketball player
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Jaroslav Pelikan
12/17/1923 – 05/13/2006
82 years
US historian of Christianity, Christian theology and medieval intellectual history at Yale
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Richard E. Smalley
06/06/1943 – 10/28/2005
62 years
American chemist
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Willard Van Orman Quine
06/25/1908 – 12/25/2000
92 years
American philosopher and logician