Famous People Born 1918 Part 2: ""Pretend that every single person you meet has a sign around his or her neck that says 'Make Me Feel Important.' Not only will you succeed in business, you will succeed in life."

Science

It was a good year for Nobel Prize winners.  (There were two Peace Prize winners in yesterday's post.)

Header	Died	Comments
Richard Feynman	1988	Nobel Prize Physics
Julian Schwinger	1994	"Indeed, relativistic quantum mechanics - the union of the complementarity  principle of Bohr with the relativity principle of Einstein - is quantum field theory. " *
Gertrude Elion	1999	Nobel Prize Medicine - Leukemia, Herpes Drug Pioneer
Franco Modigliani	2003	Nobel Prize Economics
Frederick Sanger	2013	Nobel Prize Chemistry 1958 and 1980
Katherine G. Johnson	**	NASA Mathematician portrayed in "Hidden Figures"
Jens C. Skou	**	Nobel Prize Chemistry

*From Schwinger's Nobel lecture in 1965

**As I write this, Katherine G. Johnson and Jens C. Skou appear to be still alive.  Johnson's 100th birthday will be next August 26,  Skou's will be next October 8

Here's some video that shows why Feynman was such a popular physicist.

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[UPDATE Jan 6, 2017:  Barbara Carlson points out in the comments that this video doesn't download.  I've checked and I have the right embed code, so don't know why it's not working.  Here's the link:

https://www.ted.com/talks/richard_feynman?utm_campaign=tedspread--b&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=tedcomshare  ]


Business

	Died	Comments
Sam Walton	1992	Founder of Walmart and Sam's Club
Mary Kay Ash	2001	Founder of Mary Kay Cosmetics

The headline quote comes from Mary Kay Ash.  I think it's a great way to view the world.  I've recommended that we all treat everyone we meet or see on the street as if they were actual or future Nobel Prize winners or US presidents.  (The presidency will regain its luster post eventually.)  Here suggestion is more direct.  But it's only good advice if it's genuine and not a sales strategy.

Read the link above that tells the rosy story of Mary Kay Ash.  But then also read this story that argues Mary Kay's company doesn't do its women salesforce nearly as much good as officially claimed.


Film

	Died	Comments
William Holden	1981	Academy & Emmy Award Winning Actor
Rita Hayworth	1987	Dancer, Pinup, Actor
Art Carney	2003	Academy Award Winning Actor - Honeymooners Actor
Ingmar Bergman	2007	Academy Award Winning Swedish Director

Below is a short homage of sorts to Ingmar Bergman, De Düve.  I can't resist.  I remember first seeing this in a theater and slowly figuring out what was going on.






Sports

	Died	Comments
Bob Feller	2010	Cleveland Pitcher, Hall of Famer
Leroy Walker	2012	First Black To Lead US Olympic Committee, Coach US Olympic Team

Religion

	Died	Comments
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi	2008	Transcendental Meditation Guru To Beatles and world
Oral Roberts	2009	Pentacostal Televangelist, Founder Oral Roberts University
Billy Graham	*[2018]	"The Pope Of Protestant America" Religious Advisor to Presidents

*As I write this, Billy Graham is still alive. [UPDATED Feb 23, 2018:  Billy Graham passed away February 21, 2018.]



A Few Others

These don't fit into neat categories.

	Died	Comments
Frank M. Johnson	1999	White Alabama Judge Who Ruled Against Segregation
Ann Landers	2002	Esther Pauline Friedman Lederer - Advice Columnist
Jack Paar	2004	Investor and Host Of The Late Night Show
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn	2008	Nobel Prize in Literature, Expelled from Soviet Union
Abigail Van Buren	2013	Pauline Ester Friedman Phillips, and Twin Sister of Ann Landers

Here's Jack Paar interviewen Judy Garland:



As I mentioned in Famous People Born In 2018 Part I, all these folks, had they grown up in the same neighborhood, would have been in the same class at school.

In case you haven't figured it out, in each category, people are listed in the order that they died.