On March 2, 2017 on my Facebook Page I said Goodnight, Mrs. Calabash, Wherever you are. That was what Jimmy Durante used as his radio signoff over the years. The next night I decided to say goodnight to some other random person who intrigued me, and since then I have repeated that almost every night. I am not sure when I decided to limit it to dead people. It was near the beginning.
Edward Abbey
Margaret Abbott
Zequinha de Abreu
Babe
Adams
Grover Cleveland Alexander
May Alix
Mel Allen
Robert Altman
John Murray Anderson
Ivie Anderson
John Murray Anderson
Arletty
Jean Arthur
Moe Asch
Estelle Axton
Nat Ayer
Dwight Babcock
Ilomay Bailey
Bearcat Baker
Belle Baker
Chet Baker
Steve Barker
Alben Barkley
Pancho Barnes
Frédéric-Auguste Bartholdi
Saul Bass
Birch Bayh
Lincoln Beachey
Peter Beard
Bix Beiderbecke
Cool Papa Bell
Chief Bender
Walter Benjamin
E.C. Bentley
Bunny Berigan
Emile Berliner
Wallace Berman
Art Bernstein
Jan Berry
Billy Bevan
Ambrose Bierce
Barney Bigard
Isabella Bird
Billy Bitzer
Alice Guy Blache
RD Blackmore
Eubie Blake
James W. Blake
Enid Blyton
Bocko the Dog
Clay Boland
Buddy Bolden
George Boldt
Joe Boles
Carrie Jacobs Bond
Issy Bonn
Benjamin Bonneville
Ruthanna Boris
Lyman Bostock 9/6/17
Connee Boswell
James Boswell
Sunny Jim Bottomley
Brooks Bowman
Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Martin Branner
Richard Brautigan
Dr. Lorna M. Breen
Roger Breshnahan
Jack Brickhouse
Nell Brinkley
John Brisker
Katherine Brocklebank
Steve Brodie 9/3/17
Irving Brodsky
Anne Bronte
Louise Brooks
Walter R. Brooks
Shelton Brooks
Fredric Brown
Steve Brown
Jack Brownlow
Jack Bruce
Lenny Bruce
Nigel Bruce
Pieter Bruegel the Elder
Arthur Bryant
Louise Bryant
Garland Buckeye
Luis Bunuel
Smoky Burgess
Billie Burke
Joe Burke
Ernie Burnett
Fanny Burney
Edgar Rice Burroughs
John K Butler
Smedley Butler
Paul Cain
Mrs. Calabash March 2, 2017
Eleanor Cameron
Robert Capa
Timothy Carey
Thumbs Carllile
Frank Capra
Hoagy Carmichael
Fausto Carmona
Jean Carmen
Marcel Carne
Harry Carney
Barbara Carroll
Ham Carson
Rachel Carson
Alexander Cartwright
Buddy Catlett
Peg La Centra
Henry Chadwick
Richard Chambers
John Chambless
Raymond Chandler
Charley Chase
Mary Boykin Chesnut
Shirley Chisholm
Stephen Crane
Judge Crater
Walter P Chrysler
Nestor Chylak
Colly Cibber
Irv Cisski
Charity Clarke
Tony Cloninger
Charles Coburn
Dorcas Cochran
Issac Leeser Cohen
Larry Cohen
Jan Cole
Buddy Collett
Floyd Collins
Wilkie Collins
Joyce Compton
Jimmy Colvard
Zez Confrey
Tony Conigliaro
Jocko Conlan
Reg Connolly
Edgar Connor
Joseph Conrad
Barbara Cook
Elisha Cook Jr
Nat King Cole
Calvin Coolidge
J Fred Coots
Charlotte Corday
Joseph Cornell
Bob Cowan
Malcom Cowley
Harry Cowley
Lucas Cranach the Elder
Wahoo Sam Crawford
Caresse Crosby
Harry Crosby
Beggie Cruiser
James Crumley
Ray Cummings
Babe Dahlgren
Leroy Daniels
Jane Darwell
Jim Davenport https://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/1968/B08090SFN1968.htm
Homer Davenport
Delmer Daves
Bette Davis
Norbert Davis
Jane Darwell
Clarence Darrow
Richard Harding Davis
Dolly Dawn
Amanda Dawson
Eugene Debs
Hendrick van der Decken
Frances Dee
Daniel DeFoe
Volly De Faut
Ed Delahanty
Floyd Dell
Jini Dellaccio
Vina DelMar
François Delsarte
Charles Demuth
Lester Dent
Gaby DesLys
Charles Dickens
Steve Ditko
Ivan Doig
Virgil Doller
Wordsworth Donisthorpe
Abner Doubleday
Walter Donaldson
Ruth Donnelly
William O. Douglas
Cynthia Doyon
Jan Dudesek
Eleanor Dugan
Germaine Dulac
Robert Dudley (Wienie King)
Isadora Duncan
Tommy Duncan
Katherine Dunham
Jimmy Durante
Trent Junior Durkin
Charles Duryea
Jeanne Eagels
Ray Eames
Amelia Earhart
Luke Easter
Sidney Easton
Marion Eaton
John Eberson
Billy Eckstine\
Farciot Edouart
T.S. Eliot
Jean Erdman
AL Erlanger
Buck Evans March 9
Dixie Evans
Mary Ann Evans
Medgar Evers
Virgil Exner
Jan van Eyck
Tom Fadden
Juan Manuel Fangio
Richard Fariña
Mark Fidrych
Henry Fielding 9/5/17
Dorothy Fields
Leonor Fini
Charlie O Finley
Bobby Fischer
Bernice Fisher
Doris Fisher
Fred Fisher
Steve Fisher
Eleanor Flexner
Elizabeth Gurley Flynn
Leo F. Forbstein
Hank Fort
Sylvia Froos
Bobby Fuller
Loie Fuller
Maud Fulton
Jacques Futrelle
William Lloyd Garrison
Helen Gahagan
Eva Le Gallienne
Tod Galloway
Isabella Gardener
Judy Garland
Mrs. Gaskell
Lottie Gee
Eugene Genovese
Bart Giamatti
Stella Gibbons
Billy Gilbert
Haven Gillespie
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Lottie Gilson
Adele Girard
Louise Glaum
Lud Gluskin
Rumer Godden
Jean Goldkette
Oliver Goldsmith
Ernestina Gonzalez (librarian)
Al Goodhart
David Goodis
Steve Goodman
Lesley Gore
Stephen Jay Gould
Curt Gowdy
Gloria Grafton
Horace Greeley
Edith Green
William Friese-Greene
Fred Greenwell
Maria Grever
Zane Grey
DulleSarah Grimke
Corrine Griffith
Buzz Grisinger
Johannes Gutenberg
William McKendree Gwin
H Rider Haggard
Rose Hamlin
Dashiell Hammett
Granny Hamner
Fred Hampton
Learned Hand
Tommy Handley
James F. Hanley
Lil Hardin
Florence Harding
Oliver Norvell Hardy
Thomas Hardy
Lumsden Hare
Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
Marion Harris
Marguerite Harrison
Max Harrision
Marvel Harshman
Lorenz Hart
Jim Ray Hart
Gabby Hartnett
Ernie Harwell
Shinobu Hashimoto
Dorothea Haus
Dale Hawkins
Willis C. Hawley
Grace Hayes
Seamus Heaney
Neal Hefti
Morton Heilig
Joseph Heller
Babe Herman
Solly Hemus
David Henderson
Wanda Hendrix
Babe Herman
George Herriman
Dan Hicks
Alex Hill
Joe Hill
Ragnar Hyltén-Cavallius
Rose Hobart
Johnny Hodges
Abbie Hoffman
Sterling Holloway
Burton Holmes
John Holte
Robert Hope-Jones
Rogers Hornsby
Lester Horton
Darrell Bob Houston
Joyce Howard
Gordie Howe
Jay Hughes
John Hughes
Tillinghast L’Hommedieu Huston
Ina Ray Hutton
Christiaan Huygens
Victor Hugo
Cordell Hull
Herman Hupfeld
May Irwin
David Ishii
Molly Ivins
Sarah Jacobson
Glenn L Jackson
Sigmund Jakucki
Elmore James
Frankie “Half Pint” Jaxon
Hokum Jeebs
Bob Jenkins
Francis Jenkins
Ted Joans
Antonio Carlos Jobim
Nard Jones
Ethel Johnson
Lonnie Johnson
Myra Johnson
Walter Johnson
Grace Johnston
Louis Jordan
Peggy Hopkins Joyce
Pauline Kael
Madeline Kahn
Natalie Kalmus
Max Kaminsky
Babe Kane
Buster Keaton
Harry Stephen Keeler
Ruby Keeler
Wee Willie Keeler
Keller Sisters and Lynch
Fran Kelley
Shipwreck Kelly
Red Kelly
Fanny Kemble
J Michael Kenyon
Charles Franklin Kettering
Stan King
Irene Kitchings
Hannes Kolehmainen
Alexandra Kollontai
Lud Kramer
Kris Kristofferson
Karl Krogstad
George Kuchar
Akira Kurosawa
Fighting Bob Lafolette
Eva Le Gallienne
Art Lacey
Evelyn Sibley Lampman
Charles Lane
Eddie Lang
Sidney Lanier
Honey Lantree
Nick LaRocca
Jonathan Latimer
Charlie La Vere
Vee Lawnhurst
Mary Elizabeth Lease
Jennie Lee
Bobby Leecan
Cora LaRedd
Ponce de Leon
Edmonia Lewis
Herschel Gordon Lewis
Texas Jim Lewis
Bella Lewitzky
Richard Lindner
Jake Lingle
Sonny Liston
Monia Liter
Dr. David Livingstone
Frank Loesser
Russell Long
Anita Loos
Federico GarcÃa Lorca
Peter Lorre
Joe Loughmiller
Bessie Love
Burroughs Lovingood
Juliette Gordon Low
Raymond Lowey
Roberto Primero Luis
Harry Lundeberg
Angus MacAskill
June MacCloy
Mary McCarthy
Willie McCovey
Carson Mccullers
Skip McDaniel
Barbara McNair
Marion Mack
Josephine Sarah Magner
Warren Magnuson
Louis-Camille Maillard
Eugene T Maleska
Man Mountain Dean
Fate Marable
Pete Maravich
Frances Marion
Mae Marsh
Mickey Martin
Christy Mathewson
June Mathis
Jonathan Dixon Maxwell
Virginia Mayo
Tom McCall
Gene McCarthy
Horace McCoy
Sam McDaniel
Deacon McGuire
George McKelvey
Red McKenzie
Dave McKenna
Nina Mae Mckinney
Charles McNary
Lee MacPhail
Aimee Semple McPherson
Carmen McRae
Taylor Mead
Audrey Meadows
Catherine de’ Medici
Ducky Joe Medwick
Joe Meek
Raquel Meller
William Cameron Menzies
Richard Merkin
Fred Merkle
Methuselah
Dale Messick
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Sheila Michaels
Toshiro Mifune
Inez Milholland
John Stuart Mill
Miller, Bauer and Franzel
Marilyn Miller
Max Miller
Ned Miller
Roger Miller
Florence Mills
Memphis Minnie
Margaret Mitchell
Thomas Mitchell
Kenji Mizoguchi
Annabelle Moore
Colleen Moore
Eva Moore
Tim Moore
Lee Morse
Peg Moreland
Wayne Morse
Jelly Roll Morton
Grandma Moses
Mother Joseph
Constance Baker Motley
Lucretia Mott
John Muir
Dody Muller
Van Lingle Mungo
Clarence Muse
Frederick Nebel
Evelyn Nesbit
Fayard Nicholas
Alberta Nichols
Dudley Nichols
Lady Nijo
Walter Nicks
Frank Norris
Ivor Novello
Paavo Nurmi
Sven Nykvist
Willis O’Brien
Lefty O’Doul
Nuala O’Faolain
John O’Hara
Kate Richards O’ Hare 8/27/20
Phil Ochs
Anny Ondra
George Olsen
Nance O’Neil
Jim O’Steen
Wayne Overholser
Alan J. Pakula
Bee Palmer
Joel Palmer
Margaret Pardee
Charlie Parker
Stephen Parr
Joe Pass
Max Patkin
Michael Pate
Margaret Petherbridge
Miss Patricola
Ruby Payne-Scott
Phil Ochs
Ransom Eli Olds
Charley Paddock
Eddie Peabody
Francis Perkins
Maxwell Perkins
Bernice Petkere
Alphonse Picou
Nova Pilbeam
Maceo Pinkard
Wally Pipp
Eugene Pitt
Albert A Pope
Karl Popper
Del Porter
Edwin S Porter
Emily Post
Donald Pleasence
John Wesley Powell
Edwin Pratt
B Marcus Priteca
Edna Purviance
Jack Purvis
Snoozer Quinn
Ann Radcliffe
Double Duty Radcliffe
David Raksin
John Randolph of Roanoke
Joe Rantz
John Reed
Don Redman
Casper Reardon
Blanche Ring
Lawrence Ritter
Damon Runyon
Albert Pinkham Ryder
Earl Robinson
Simon Rodia
Emily Warren Roebling
Adrian Rollini
Elihu Root
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Leon Roppolo
Josephine Noyes Rotch
Bertrand Russell
Pee Wee Russell
Babe Russin
Margaret Rutherford
Albert Pinkham Ryder
Ruth St. Denis
Rafael Sabatini
Richard Sale
Zell Sanders
Bobby Sands
Margaret Sanger
John Monk Saunders
Bert Schneider
Olive Schreiner
Joe Schultz
John T. Scopes
Gene Sedric
Sybil Seely
Marie Severin
Frances Ford Seymour
Tot Seymour
Will Shade
Mary Shane
Lena Sharpe
Anna Shaw
Joseph Shaw
BF Shearer
Mary Shelley
Ella Sheppard
R.C. Sherriff
Takashi Shimura
Elmer Schoebel
Eli Shoucair
Frank Signorelli
Jay Silverheels
Doug Simpson
Arthur Singer Jr
Victor Sjostrom
Enos Slaughter
Bessie Smith
Charles Kingsford Smith
Harry Smith
Margaret Chase Smith
Pinetop Smith
Dean Snider
Fred Snodgrass
Chief Sockalexis
Tris Speaker
Harold Spina
Tom Stacks
Jess Stacy
Jo Stafford
Lionel Stander
Henry Morton Stanley
Gene Starbecker
Ladislas Starevich
Jigger Statz
David B. Steinman
Brian Sternberg
Kaye Stevens
Wallace Stevens
Max Stiener
Al St. John
Lili St. Cyr
Karl Heinz Stockausen
Lowe Stokes
Rose Pastor Stokes
IF Stone
Toni Stone
Sam Streeter
Louisa Strentzel
Albert Stubbins
Clyde Studdelfield
Preston Sturges
Snorri Sturluson
Jule Styne
Louis Sullivan
Charles Sumner
Stu Sutcliffe
Einar Swan
Blanche Sweet
Kay Swift
Roger Szmodis
Chas H W Talbot
Jacques Tati
Doris Tauber
Chuck Taylor
Glen Taylor
Tell Taylor
Birdie Tebbetts
Shirley Temple
Josephine Tey
Henry Thiele
Jean Toomer
Ernest Torrence
Georges de la Tour
Arthur Tracy
Merle Travis
Gene Trent
Carlo Tresca
Juan Trippe
Lamarr Trotti
Dizzy Trout
John R. Tunis
Willi Unsoeld
Joseph Urban
James Van Allen
Willard Van Dyke
Alberto Vargas
Amerigo Vespucci
Jean Vigo
Will Vinton
Amos Vogel
Bea Wain
George Walker
Henry Wallace
Oliver Wallace
Fats Waller
Earl Warren
Earle Warren
Hildegarde Watson
Isaac Watts 12/16/17
Mable Wayne
Lois Weber
Joseph Nye Welch
Casey Bill Weldon
Dick Wellstood
Oswald West
Bob West
Nathanael West
Donald Westlake
Perc Westmore
Helen Westley
Pearl White
Raoul Whitfield
Danny Whitten
Spiegle Willcox
Charles Williams
Charles Willeford
Joe Williams
Don Wilson
Lois Wilson
Bob West
Rogier van der Weyden
Bo Widerberg
Claire Whitaker
Hagar Wilde
Elwood Wiles
Lee Wiley
Dick Williams
Hank Williams
George Wildcat Wilson
Toby Wing
Margaret Winkler
Frank J. Winser
Anna May Wong
Charles Erskine Scott Wood
Smoky Joe Wood
Victoria Woodhull
Harry Woods
Elizabeth Woodville
Monty Woolley
Teresa Wright
Vincent Youmans
Art Young
Ericka Zastrow
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