Born August 22

Fenn hid a chest filled with gold and jewels and provided clues to its location.

He commanded the last mission to the Skylab Orbital Workshop.

Blackman was best known for playing Bond girl Pussy Galore in “Goldfinger.”

The Emmy-winning actress played the colorful and spunky Rhoda Morgenstern.

Influential keyboardist Edwin Birdsong was sampled by De La Soul and Daft Punk.

Dr. Denton A. Cooley, the surgeon who performed the world’s first artificial heart implant, died Friday, Nov. 18, 2016. He was 96. Cooley was a pioneer in open heart surgery, …

The former country singer-songwriter had two No. 1 hits in the late ’80s and early ’90s with “Are You Ever Gonna Love Me” and “You Really Had Me Going.”

Chef Benoît Violier, whose acclaimed Le Restaurant de l’Hotel de Ville in Lausanne, Switzerland, was ranked recently atop a list of the world’s best high-end dining establishments, was found dead …

Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf, the U.S. Army four-star general who led coalition forces to victory during 1991’s Persian Gulf conflict, was known as “Stormin’ Norman” but he also was thoughtful …

His classics included “Farenheit 451” and “The Martian Chronicles.”