1940s birth stubs

Woody_Peoples

Woodrow Peoples, Jr. (August 16, 1943 – October 12, 2010) was an American football offensive lineman. The undrafted Grambling State University standout was a two-time Pro Bowler with the San Francisco 49ers, and a member of the 1980 National Football Conference (NFC) champion Philadelphia Eagles during his 13-year National Football League (NFL) career.
Peoples was inducted into the American Football Association's Semi Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1989.

Karl_Kassulke

Karl Otto Kassulke (March 20, 1941 – October 27, 2008) was a professional American football player.
Kassulke graduated from Drake, where he starred as a safety. He played 10 seasons in the National Football League (NFL), all with the Minnesota Vikings. Kassulke started in Super Bowl IV, where he and teammate Earsell Mackbee missed a tackle on Otis Taylor on the final touchdown of the game, late in the third quarter. The next season, he was selected to the Pro Bowl.
On July 24, 1973, Kassulke suffered a motorcycle accident on the way to training camp that left him paralyzed from the waist down.After his playing career, Kassulke worked with Wings Outreach, a Christian Ministry to the disabled.Kassulke was immortalized in NFL lore by NFL Films' official highlight film for Super Bowl IV. Kansas City Chiefs coach Hank Stram, who was wired for sound by NFL Films executive producer Ed Sabol, noted the confusion in the Vikings' defense due to the Chiefs' shifting offense and quipped, "Kassulke was running around there like it was a Chinese fire drill".

Glen_Combs

Glen Courtney Combs (born October 30, 1946, in Hazard, Kentucky) is a retired American basketball player.
A 6'2" guard from Virginia Tech, Combs was nicknamed "The Kentucky Rifle" for his long-range shooting. He was drafted by the National Basketball Association's San Diego Rockets in 1968, although he never played for them, opting to spend his entire career in the rival American Basketball Association after being drafted by the Dallas Chaparrals in the 1968 ABA Draft. Combs was a member of the Dallas/Texas Chaparrals, the Utah Stars, the Memphis Tams, and the Virginia Squires, and he appeared in three league All-star games (1970, 1971, 1972). The Utah Stars won an ABA Championship in 1971 when Combs was as a member of the team. He led the league in three-point baskets made (103) in 1971–72. When he retired in 1975, he had scored 7,666 career points.
Combs played college basketball at Virginia Tech. As a junior, he led the 1966–67 team to the Elite Eight, with a scoring average of 21.3 points per game. As of 2019 he holds the school record for points in an NCAA tournament game when he put up 29 in the Sweet 16 game against Indiana. In his senior season, he averaged 20.9 points per game, ending his career with a 17.9 scoring average in three varsity seasons. He was elected to the Virginia Tech Sports Hall of Fame in 1987.

David_Nyhan

David Nyhan (December 23, 1940 – January 23, 2005), born Charles David Nyhan Jr., was a journalist and biographer, whose op-ed column ran in The Boston Globe newspaper for many years. He graduated from Harvard College where he played varsity football.His column was syndicated to more than 16 newspapers and magazines by Creators Syndicate, and after working for The Boston Globe for 32 years, he retired in 2001.
Boston-area professor and editor Bill Ketter remarked "For David Nyhan, giving voice to the voiceless was intuitive." He covered national politics and was a frequent source for commentary on presidential races and on the New Hampshire primary in particular.
In his last column, he wrote: "The thing I'll miss most is the chance to shine a little flashlight on a dark corner, where a wrong was done to a powerless peon, where a scarred politician maybe deserved a better fate, where the process went awry, or the mob needed to be calmed down and herded in another direction."
Nyhan died suddenly aged 64 on January 23, 2005, at his home in Brookline, suffering a heart attack after shoveling snow.

Isobel_Black

Isobel Anne Gatward (née Black; born 15 December 1942), known professionally as Isobel Black, is a British actress. She is the daughter of the screenwriter Ian Stuart Black.
Isobel Black attended Queen Elizabeth's Girls' Grammar School in Barnet, Hertfordshire. She is possibly best known for her parts in films such as The Kiss of the Vampire (1963), Twins of Evil (1971) (both horror films made by Hammer), The Magnificent Two (1967) with Morecambe and Wise, David Copperfield (1969), and 10 Rillington Place (1971).
She has also made many appearances on television, including Dixon of Dock Green, Elephant Boy, Danger Man, The Plane Makers, The Avengers, Adam Adamant Lives!, The Troubleshooters, The Spies, Mystery and Imagination, Department S, Ace of Wands, The Capone Investment and The Brief.
As Isobel Gatward, she was awarded the British Empire Medal in the 2017 New Year Honours for her services to the charitable sector, in particular her work for the Mayflower Theatre Trust in Southampton over the previous 30 years.

Iain_Mills

Iain Campbell Mills (21 April 1940 – 16 January 1997) was a Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom.
Mills was born in Scotland but grew up in Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) and was educated at the University of Cape Town in South Africa. He subsequently returned to Britain, where he worked as a Market Planning Executive for Dunlop, and helped design the tyres that Jackie Stewart won a World Drivers' Championship with. He married Gaynor Jeffries in 1971, and served as a councillor on Lichfield District Council from 1974 until 1976.
He entered the House of Commons at the 1979 general election as Member of Parliament (MP) for the constituency of Meriden. He was a parliamentary private secretary to Norman Tebbit.On 16 January 1997, Mills was found dead from alcohol poisoning at his Dolphin Square flat, aged 56. This caused the government of John Major to lose its parliamentary majority.

Conal_Gregory

Conal Robert Gregory (born 11 March 1947) was Conservative Party (UK) Member of Parliament for York from 1983 to 1992, when he lost the seat to Labour Party candidate Hugh Bayley.
He was educated at King's College School, Wimbledon and the University of Sheffield. He is a Master of Wine and has worked for many years in the wine trade. He is the author of a number of publications on the subject. He became a journalist writing for the Financial Times, Guardian and was made the personal Financial Editor of the Yorkshire Post, winning Regional Financial Journalist of the Year Award in 2016

Lauren_Chapin

Lauren Ann Chapin (born May 23, 1945) is an American former child actress who played the role of the youngest child "Kathy Anderson" (nicknamed "Kitten") in the television show Father Knows Best, between 1954 and 1960. She appeared in 196 episodes of the 203 in the series. Chapin was awarded five Junior Emmys for Best Child Actress. Two of her older brothers were also child stars, Billy and Michael Chapin.

Giovanni_Pettenella

Giovanni Pettenella (28 March 1943 – 19 February 2010) was an Italian track cyclist. At the 1964 Summer Olympics he won a gold medal in the sprint and a silver in the 1000 m time trial. In the semi-final of the 1,000 metres sprint Pettenella and Pierre Trentin set an Olympic record for standing still - 21 minutes and 57 seconds. After that he turned professional and competed until 1975. In 1968 he won a bronze medal in the sprint at the world championships.
He died in Milan, Italy, and is buried at the city's Monumental Cemetery.