Monday, February 12, 2007
Willye White, a two-time silver medalist in various Olympics and the first American woman to represent her country in five separate Olympic Games, has died at age 67, of pancreatic cancer, at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago, Illinois. In an SI for Women interview, she told the reporter... Sign in to see full entry.
Charles Walgreen, Jr.
Charles Walgreen Jr, the son of the founder of the Walgreens drugstore chain, has died at age 100. No cause of death was given. Although Walgreen got his start as a delivery boy in his father's company, it is not well-known that he was also a licensed sea captain, who sailed to Antarctica at age 89.... Sign in to see full entry.