Johansen also performed as Buster Poindexter, who had a 1987 hit with “Hot, Hot, Hot.”
Born January 9
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She was a Holocaust survivor who competed in her first Olympics at 31 years old.
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His “Inter-Dimensional Music” is a classic of New Age and ambient music.
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“All Star” is one of the band’s biggest hits of its era.
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He pitched a shutout to win game 7 of the 1962 World Series.
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Graves founded the magazine in 1970, and this year it celebrates its 50th year with millions of readers.
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Starkweather’s bosses didn’t want him to work on the visionary technology.
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Joseph Segel was the founder of the TV shopping channel QVC. Inspired by watching the Home Shopping Network, Segel created a competitor with a different technique, skipping the hard sell …
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Her 19 novels brought the South to life for a generation of readers.
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Judith Krantz was a bestselling romance novelist whose wildly popular books sent their heroines on opulent shopping sprees between sessions of steamy sex.