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<html> <head> <title>Risk Factor: Polio</title> <meta name="googlebot" content="noodp"> <meta name="robots" content="noodp"><style type="text/css">  </style><script type="text/javascript" src="/sortable.js"></script> </head> <body bgcolor=#ffffff> <center> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr><td valign=top><table width=550 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0> <tr><td bgcolor=white><table width="100%" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" background="/nndb.gif"> <tr> <td rowspan="2" align="left" valign="top"><a href="http://www.nndb.com/"><img src="/title.gif" width="260" height="50" border=0 alt="NNDB"></a></td> <td><table width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="6"> <tr align="center"> <td width="25%" nowrap>This is a beta version of NNDB</td> </tr> </table></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right" valign="middle"> <form action="http://search.nndb.com/search/nndb.cgi" method="get"> <input type="hidden" name="nndb" value="1"></input> Search: <select name="omenu"> <option value="unspecified" selected>All Names</option> <option value="living">Living people</option> <option value="dead">Dead people</option> <option value="bands">Band Names</option> <option value="books">Book Titles</option> <option value="movies">Movie Titles</option> <option value="fulltext">Full Text</option> </select> for <input name="query" value="" size=24 maxlength=96> <input type=submit value="Search"> </form></td> </tr> </table>        </td></tr> <tr><td bgcolor=red height=2></td></tr> <tr bgcolor=F0F0F0><td bgcolor=F0F0F0 style="padding: 15px 15px 15px 15px;"><table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 width=100%><tr><td bgcolor=F0F0F0> Risk Factor: Polio LISTS <table border=1 class="sortable" id="sort_risk"> <tr><th>Name</th><th>Occupation</th><th>Birth</th><th>Death</th><th>Known for</th></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/377/000161891/">Joan Vollmer Adams</a></td> <td><center>Victim</center></td> <td align=right><tt>1924</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>6-Sep-1951</tt></td> <td>Common-law wife of William S. Burroughs</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/276/000205658/">Harold Adamson</a></td> <td><center>Songwriter</center></td> <td align=right><tt>10-Dec-1906</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>17-Aug-1980</tt></td> <td>Time on My Hands</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/887/000023818/">Alan Alda</a></td> <td><center>Actor</center></td> <td align=right><tt>28-Jan-1936</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Capt. Hawkeye Pierce on M*A*S*H</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/100/000118743/">Robin Askwith</a></td> <td><center>Actor</center></td> <td align=right><tt>12-Oct-1950</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Confessions of a Window Cleaner</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/180/000129790/">Charles E. Bennett</a></td> <td><center>Politician</center></td> <td align=right><tt>2-Dec-1910</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>6-Sep-2003</tt></td> <td>Congressman from Florida, 1949-93</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/509/000025434/">Steven Jesse Bernstein</a></td> <td><center>Poet</center></td> <td align=right><tt>4-Dec-1950</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>22-Oct-1991</tt></td> <td>Grunge poet and punk rocker</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/789/000029702/">Joh Bjelke-Petersen</a></td> <td><center>Politician</center></td> <td align=right><tt>13-Jan-1911</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>23-Apr-2005</tt></td> <td>Former Premier of Queensland, Australia</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/177/000118820/">Mari Blanchard</a></td> <td><center>Actor</center></td> <td align=right><tt>13-Apr-1927</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>10-May-1970</tt></td> <td>She-Devil</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/875/000022809/">Ben Bradlee</a></td> <td><center>Journalist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>26-Aug-1921</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Editor of The Washington Post, 1965-91</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/091/000042962/">Joe Bob Briggs</a></td> <td><center>Critic</center></td> <td align=right><tt>27-Jan-1953</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>B-movie film reviewer</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/229/000220566/">Philip W. Buchen</a></td> <td><center>Government</center></td> <td align=right><tt>17-Feb-1916</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>21-May-2001</tt></td> <td>White House Counsel, 1974-77</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/725/000023656/">Arthur C. Clarke</a></td> <td><center>Novelist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>16-Dec-1917</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>19-Mar-2008</tt></td> <td>2001: A Space Odyssey</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/687/000132291/">Stanley Cohen</a></td> <td><center>Scientist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>17-Nov-1922</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Nerve and skin cell growth factors</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/026/000122657/">Steve Cohen</a></td> <td><center>Politician</center></td> <td align=right><tt>24-May-1949</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Congressman, Tennessee 9th</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/751/000163262/">John F. Collins</a></td> <td><center>Politician</center></td> <td align=right><tt>20-Jul-1919</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>23-Nov-1995</tt></td> <td>Mayor of Boston, 1960-68</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/080/000024008/">Judy Collins</a></td> <td><center>Singer/Songwriter</center></td> <td align=right><tt>1-May-1939</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Folk singer</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/036/000173514/">Charles Coody</a></td> <td><center>Golf</center></td> <td align=right><tt>13-Jul-1937</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Winner, 1971 Masters Tournament</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/866/000022800/">Francis Ford Coppola</a></td> <td><center>Film Director</center></td> <td align=right><tt>7-Apr-1939</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>The Godfather</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/825/000023756/">Bill Cullen</a></td> <td><center>Game Show Host</center></td> <td align=right><tt>18-Feb-1920</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>7-Jul-1990</tt></td> <td>Host of The Price is Right</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/133/000168626/">Justin Dart, Jr.</a></td> <td><center>Activist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>29-Aug-1930</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>22-Jun-2002</tt></td> <td>Father of the Americans with Disabilities Act</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/654/000067453/">Marion Davies</a></td> <td><center>Actor</center></td> <td align=right><tt>3-Jan-1897</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>22-Sep-1961</tt></td> <td>When Knighthood Was in Flower</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/958/000166460/">Pete Dawkins</a></td> <td><center>Football</center></td> <td align=right><tt>8-Mar-1938</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Winner, 1958 Heisman Trophy</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/439/000141016/">Jay Dickey</a></td> <td><center>Politician</center></td> <td align=right><tt>14-Dec-1939</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Congressman from Arkansas, 1993-2001</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/077/000023008/">Donovan</a></td> <td><center>Singer/Songwriter</center></td> <td align=right><tt>10-May-1946</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Mad about saffron</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/787/000055622/">William O. Douglas</a></td> <td><center>Judge</center></td> <td align=right><tt>16-Oct-1898</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>19-Jan-1980</tt></td> <td>US Supreme Court Justice, 1939-75</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/767/000179230/">Avery Cardinal Dulles</a></td> <td><center>Religion</center></td> <td align=right><tt>24-Aug-1918</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>12-Dec-2008</tt></td> <td>Fordham Professor, Roman Catholic Cardinal</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/344/000166843/">Allen B. DuMont</a></td> <td><center>Inventor</center></td> <td align=right><tt>29-Jan-1901</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>14-Nov-1965</tt></td> <td>TV picture tube and TV network</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/507/000024435/">Ian Dury</a></td> <td><center>Musician</center></td> <td align=right><tt>12-May-1942</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>27-Mar-2000</tt></td> <td>Ian Dury and the Blockheads</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/757/000118403/">John Porter East</a></td> <td><center>Politician</center></td> <td align=right><tt>5-May-1931</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>29-Jun-1986</tt></td> <td>US Senator, committed suicide</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/667/000024595/">Mia Farrow</a></td> <td><center>Actor</center></td> <td align=right><tt>9-Feb-1945</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Rosemary's Baby</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/485/000043356/">Mel Ferrer</a></td> <td><center>Actor</center></td> <td align=right><tt>25-Aug-1917</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>2-Jun-2008</tt></td> <td>War and Peace</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/465/000167961/">Arthur S. Flemming</a></td> <td><center>Government</center></td> <td align=right><tt>12-Jun-1905</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>7-Sep-1996</tt></td> <td>HEW Secretary, 1958-61</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/240/000343208/">John Folinsbee</a></td> <td><center>Painter</center></td> <td align=right><tt>14-Mar-1892</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>10-May-1972</tt></td> <td>Impressionist painter</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/815/000206197/">Pierre Fournier</a></td> <td><center>Cellist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>24-Jun-1906</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>8-Jan-1986</tt></td> <td>French cello virtuoso</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/224/000085966/">Matthew Fox</a></td> <td><center>Religion</center></td> <td align=right><tt>21-Dec-1940</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Creation Spirituality</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/201/000025126/">Joseph Goebbels</a></td> <td><center>Government</center></td> <td align=right><tt>29-Oct-1897</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>1-May-1945</tt></td> <td>Reich Minister of Propaganda</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/385/000044253/">Charlie Haden</a></td> <td><center>Jazz Musician</center></td> <td align=right><tt>6-Aug-1937</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Jazz bassist</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/680/000171167/">John H. Hager</a></td> <td><center>Politician</center></td> <td align=right><tt>28-Aug-1936</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Lt. Governor of Virginia, 1998-2002</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/262/000024190/">Frida Kahlo</a></td> <td><center>Painter</center></td> <td align=right><tt>6-Jul-1907</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>13-Jul-1954</tt></td> <td>Unibrowed Mexican painter</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/734/000121371/">Phyllis Kirk</a></td> <td><center>Actor</center></td> <td align=right><tt>18-Sep-1927</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>19-Oct-2006</tt></td> <td>House of Wax</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/030/000027946/">Masatoshi Koshiba</a></td> <td><center>Physicist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>19-Sep-1926</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Detected cosmic neutrinos</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/680/000113341/">Dorothea Lange</a></td> <td><center>Photographer</center></td> <td align=right><tt>26-May-1895</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>11-Oct-1965</tt></td> <td>Depression-era photographer</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/426/000164931/">Frank Mars</a></td> <td><center>Business</center></td> <td align=right><tt>24-Sep-1883</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>8-Apr-1934</tt></td> <td>Invented Milky Way and Snickers bars</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/330/000278493/">Connie Marshall</a></td> <td><center>Actor</center></td> <td align=right><tt>28-Apr-1933</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>22-May-2001</tt></td> <td>Dragonwyck</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/281/000032185/">Mitch McConnell</a></td> <td><center>Politician</center></td> <td align=right><tt>20-Feb-1942</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>US Senator from Kentucky</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/387/000022321/">Robert McNamara</a></td> <td><center>Government</center></td> <td align=right><tt>9-Jun-1916</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>6-Jul-2009</tt></td> <td>US Secretary of Defense, 1961-68</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/034/000039914/">Michael McNulty</a></td> <td><center>Politician</center></td> <td align=right><tt>16-Sep-1947</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Congressman from New York, 1989-2009</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/027/000023955/">Don Meredith</a></td> <td><center>Football</center></td> <td align=right><tt>10-Apr-1938</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>5-Dec-2010</tt></td> <td>Dallas Cowboys, Monday Night Foorball</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/727/000205112/">Thomas Midgley</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>18-May-1889</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>2-Nov-1944</tt></td> <td>Ethyl gasoline, Freon</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/784/000031691/">Martin Milner</a></td> <td><center>Actor</center></td> <td align=right><tt>28-Dec-1931</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>LAPD officer Pete Malloy on Adam-12</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/503/000024431/">Joni Mitchell</a></td> <td><center>Singer/Songwriter</center></td> <td align=right><tt>7-Nov-1943</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Big Yellow Taxi</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/844/000134442/">Boyd K. Packer</a></td> <td><center>Religion</center></td> <td align=right><tt>10-Sep-1924</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Quorum of the Twelve Apostles</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/313/000028229/">Kerry Packer</a></td> <td><center>Business</center></td> <td align=right><tt>17-Dec-1937</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>26-Dec-2005</tt></td> <td>Richest man in Australia</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/480/000022414/">Carl Perkins</a></td> <td><center>Jazz Musician</center></td> <td align=right><tt>9-Apr-1932</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>19-Jan-1998</tt></td> <td>Blue Suede Shoes</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/684/000024612/">Itzhak Perlman</a></td> <td><center>Violinist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>31-Aug-1945</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Israeli violinist</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/481/000049334/">Peg Phillips</a></td> <td><center>Actor</center></td> <td align=right><tt>20-Sep-1918</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>7-Nov-2002</tt></td> <td>Ruth-Anne Miller on Northern Exposure</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/115/000024043/">Franklin D. Roosevelt</a></td> <td><center>Head of State</center></td> <td align=right><tt>30-Jan-1882</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>12-Apr-1945</tt></td> <td>US President during WWII</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/651/000203042/">John H. Rousselot</a></td> <td><center>Politician</center></td> <td align=right><tt>1-Nov-1927</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>11-May-2003</tt></td> <td>Congressman from California, 1961-63 & 1970-83</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/691/000046553/">Wilma Rudolph</a></td> <td><center>Track and Field</center></td> <td align=right><tt>23-Jun-1940</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>12-Nov-1994</tt></td> <td>Three track Olympic Gold Medals in 1960</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/197/000130804/">Gianni Russo</a></td> <td><center>Actor</center></td> <td align=right><tt>12-Dec-1943</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>The Godfather</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/680/000024608/">David Sanborn</a></td> <td><center>Musician</center></td> <td align=right><tt>30-Jul-1945</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Saxophone player</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/861/000102555/">James H. Scheuer</a></td> <td><center>Politician</center></td> <td align=right><tt>6-Feb-1920</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>30-Aug-2005</tt></td> <td>Congressman from New York, 1965-93</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/897/000031804/">Sir Walter Scott</a></td> <td><center>Author</center></td> <td align=right><tt>15-Aug-1771</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>21-Sep-1832</tt></td> <td>Ivanhoe</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/215/000113873/">Wilfrid Sheed</a></td> <td><center>Author</center></td> <td align=right><tt>27-Dec-1930</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>19-Jan-2011</tt></td> <td>Office Politics</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/978/000031885/">Dinah Shore</a></td> <td><center>Singer</center></td> <td align=right><tt>29-Feb-1916</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>24-Feb-1994</tt></td> <td>See the U-S-A in a Chev-ro-let</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/151/000023082/">Gene Simmons</a></td> <td><center>Bassist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>25-Aug-1949</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Blood-spouting KISS bassist</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/464/000040344/">Ike Skelton</a></td> <td><center>Politician</center></td> <td align=right><tt>20-Dec-1931</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Congressman from Missouri, 1977-2011</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/629/000026551/">Georgina Spelvin</a></td> <td><center>Pornstar</center></td> <td align=right><tt>3-Jan-1936</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Devil in Miss Jones</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/531/000023462/">Donald Sutherland</a></td> <td><center>Actor</center></td> <td align=right><tt>17-Jul-1935</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>The Dirty Dozen</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/229/000278392/">Phyllis Thaxter</a></td> <td><center>Actor</center></td> <td align=right><tt>20-Nov-1921</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>14-Aug-2012</tt></td> <td>The World of Henry Orient</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/263/000073044/">Emmett Till</a></td> <td><center>Victim</center></td> <td align=right><tt>25-Jul-1941</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>28-Aug-1955</tt></td> <td>Black boy, murdered brutally in Mississippi</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/444/000023375/">Desmond Tutu</a></td> <td><center>Religion</center></td> <td align=right><tt>7-Oct-1931</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Archbishop of Cape Town</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/417/000059240/">Fred Whipple</a></td> <td><center>Astronomer</center></td> <td align=right><tt>5-Nov-1906</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>30-Aug-2004</tt></td> <td>Comet Guy</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/190/000281344/">Dick Anthony Williams</a></td> <td><center>Actor</center></td> <td align=right><tt>9-Aug-1938</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>16-Feb-2012</tt></td> <td>What the Wine Sellers Buy</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/677/000098383/">Paul Winchell</a></td> <td><center>Actor</center></td> <td align=right><tt>21-Dec-1922</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>24-Jun-2005</tt></td> <td>Ventriloquist and inventor</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/694/000024622/">Neil Young</a></td> <td><center>Singer/Songwriter</center></td> <td align=right><tt>12-Nov-1945</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Harvest</td> </tr> </table> Do you know something we don't? <a href="http://commentary.nndb.com/submit/feedback/?id=73053" rel="nofollow">Submit a correction or make a comment about this profile</a> Copyright ©2012 Soylent Communications </td></tr></table> </td></tr> </table> </td> <td width=180 align="center" valign="top" style="padding: 0px 0px 8px 25px;"><div class="contentf"><center><a href="http://mapper.nndb.com/" class="fotmlink" style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; color: #dd0000;">NNDB MAPPER</a> <a style="color: #0000ff" href="http://mapper.nndb.com/maps/820/000000820/"><img src="http://mapper.nndb.com/t/820/820/s820.jpg" width=128> Debargeagram</a> Requires Flash 7+ and Javascript.</center></div> <div class="contentf"><center> <script type="text/javascript"> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script> </center></div> <div class="contentf"><center>BibliographiesNNDB has added thousands of bibliographies for people, organizations, schools, and general topics, listing more than 50,000 books and 120,000 other kinds of references. 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