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Nye as a senior at Sidwell Friends School in 1973. Nye was born November 27, 1955, [7] [8] in Washington, D.C., to Jacqueline Jenkins (1921–2000), who was a codebreaker during World War II, and Edwin Darby "Ned" Nye (1917–1997), who also served in World War II and worked as a contractor building an airstrip on Wake Island. [9]
He began early to contribute humorous sketches to the newspapers, using the pen name of "Bill Nye" after a character in a famous poem by Bret Harte popularly known as "The Heathen Chinee". He was connected with various western journals, and afterward settled in New York City. [2] The Boomerang was founded while Nye was the postmaster of Laramie ...
Bill Nye (William Sanford Nye, born 1955), American science educator, comedian, television host and mechanical engineer; Will Nye, American television actor in Murder, She Wrote 1988–1991; William Foster Nye (1824–1910), businessman who founded Nye Lubricants in 1844; William B. Nye, former member of the 107th and 108th Ohio General ...
Harry Horse (2007), English author, illustrator, cartoonist and musician, stabbed himself 47 times in a murder-suicide [589] Silvio Horta (2020), American screenwriter and television producer, gunshot [590] Robert E. Howard (1936), American author known for his character Conan the Barbarian, gunshot to the head [591]
"The Bill Nye Film" came about when two filmmakers/huge fans started a Kickstarter (And really anyone who was dazzled by "Bill Nye the Science Guy" in your elementary and middle school years).
Herbert died on June 12, 2007, of multiple myeloma at his home in Bell Canyon, California. [4] In Herbert's obituary, Bill Nye wrote, "If any of you reading now have been surprised and happy to learn a few things about science watching Bill Nye the Science Guy, keep in mind, it all started with Don Herbert."
Bill Byrge, best known for playing Ernest's neighbor Bobby in several of the Ernest comedy films, died on Thursday. Byrge’s cousin, Sharon Chapman, shared news of his death in a Facebook post ...
On 8 January 1992, Headline News almost became the victim of a death hoax. A man phoned HLN claiming to be President George H. W. Bush's physician, alleging that Bush had died following an incident in Tokyo where he vomited and lost consciousness; however, before anchorman Don Harrison was about to report the news, executive producer Roger Bahre, who was off-camera, immediately yelled "No!