Dead People Server
People Whose Last Names Start With Z
Darryl F. Zanuck (movie mogul) -- Dead. Pneumonia. Died December 22, 1979. Born September 5, 1902. IMDb FindAGrave
Frank Zappa
(musician) -- Dead. Prostate cancer. Died December 4, 1993.
Born December 21, 1940. Father of a brood of non-commercial music (Shut Up and Play Yer Guitar) and a number of interestingly-named children.
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Michael Zaslow (actor) -- Dead. ALS (Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis - "Lou Gehrig's Disease"). Died December 6, 1998. Born November 1, 1942. Soap star who was acting until just a few weeks before his death. IMDb
Roger Zelazny (author) -- Dead. Cancer. Died June 14, 1995. Born May 13, 1937. The Great Book of Amber. AwardWeb
Lena Zavaroni
(singer) -- Dead. Pneumonia. Died November 1, 1999.
Born November 4, 1963. Popular child singer ("Ma, He's Makin' Eyes at Me") in the mid-70s, suffered from anorexia and depression for over 20 years.
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Warren Zevon
(singer/songwriter) -- Dead. Lung cancer. Died September 7, 2003.
Born January 24, 1946.
"Werewolves of London," diagnosed with inoperable cancer in late 2002, but outlived his doctor's prediction by about six months and produced one last album The Wind.
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Zhao Ziyang
(Chinese leader) -- Dead. Died January 17, 2005.
Born October 17, 1919. A Chinese leader who tried to bring democratic reforms, outsted from power during the Tiananmen Square crackdown in 1989,
died on the same day as Virginia Mayo
Howard Zieff (director) -- Dead. Parkinson's disease. Died February 22, 2009. Born October 21, 1927. Director of Private Benjamin and classic commercials like the "Spicy meatball" ad for Alka-Seltzer. IMDb Obituary FindAGrave
Efrem Zimbalist, Jr. (actor) -- Alive. Born November 30, 1918. The FBI, father of Stephanie Zimbalist, son of violinist Efrem Zimbalist. IMDb
Paul Edwin Zimmer (writer) -- Dead. Heart attack (at a science fiction convention party). Died October 17, 1997. Born circa 1943. Brother of Marion Zimmer Bradley
Joseph James Zimmerman (inventor) -- Dead. Died April 2, 2004. Born circa 1912. Invented the first electronic telephone answering machine in 1948. FindAGrave
Paul Zindel
(playwright/YA author) -- Dead. Cancer. Died March 27, 2003.
Born May 16, 1936. Wrote the play The Effects of
Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds and best-selling
YA novel My Darling, My Hamburger.
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Howard Zinn
(historian) -- Dead. Heart attack Died January 27, 2010. Born August 24, 1922.
Longtime anti-war activist, he wrote
Fred Zinnemann (director) -- Dead. Heart attack. Died March 14, 1997. Born April 29, 1907. Deservedly won the Oscar for the brilliant A Man for All Seasons. IMDb