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Parkyakarkus. Harry Einstein (May 6, 1904 – November 24, 1958), known professionally as Harry Parke and other pseudonyms, most commonly Parkyakarkus, was an American comedian, writer, and character actor. A specialist in Greek dialect comedy, he became famous as the Greek chef Nick Parkyakarkus on the Eddie Cantor and Al Jolson radio programs ...
Harry E. deLeyer (September 21, 1927 – June 25, 2021) is most famous for rescuing an old plow horse from the slaughterhouse, and a few years later winning national shows with that same horse, which became the most famous horse in America in the 1950s. The horse, Snowman, was eventually inducted into United States Show Jumping Hall of Fame in ...
Guitar, vocals. Harry Peter " Happy " Traum (May 9, 1938 – July 17, 2024) was an American folk musician who started playing around Washington Square in the late 1950s. He became a stalwart of the Greenwich Village music scene of the 1960s and the Woodstock music community of the 1970s and 1980s.
Harry Chapin. Harry Forster Chapin (/ ˈtʃeɪpɪn / CHAY-pin; December 7, 1942 – July 16, 1981) was an American singer-songwriter, philanthropist, and hunger activist best known for his folk rock and pop rock songs. He achieved worldwide success in the 1970s. Chapin, a Grammy Award -winning artist and Grammy Hall of Fame inductee, has sold ...
Harry " The Hook " Aleman (January 19, 1939 – May 15, 2010) was a Chicago mobster who was one of the most feared enforcers for the Chicago Outfit during the 1970s. Aleman got the nickname "Hook" from his boxing career in high school. [1] He is also famous for being the only person in the United States ever to be acquitted of murder, then ...
Years active. 1966–1993. Harry Hyde (January 17, 1925 – May 13, 1996) was a leading crew chief in NASCAR stock car racing in the 1960s through the 1980s, winning 56 races and 88 pole positions. [ 1 ] He was the 1970 championship crew chief for Bobby Isaac. [ 1 ] He inspired the Harry Hogge character in the movie Days of Thunder.
Lieutenant Colonel Harry Herbert Crosby (April 18, 1919 – July 28, 2010) [1] was an American professor, author and B-17 Flying Fortress navigator. As an officer of the United States Army Air Forces in World War II, he flew 32 combat missions and was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross (with two oak leaf clusters), the Air Medal (with three oak leaf clusters), the Bronze Star, and the ...
H. R. Stoneback. Harry Robert Stoneback (July 14, 1941 - December 22, 2021 [1]) was an American academic, poet, and folk singer. A Hemingway, Durrell, and Faulkner scholar of international distinction, [2] Stoneback — who, as an itinerant musician in the early 1960s, collaborated with Jerry Jeff Walker (a period immortalized in Walker's 1970 ...