Michael Collins (1930–2021), NASA astronaut on Apollo 11 mission

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Paul Van Doren was an entrepreneur who co-founded Vans, the iconic skateboarding shoe company.Van Doren was working at a rubber company in Boston when he and his brother, James Van Doren, decided to go to Southern California and start a business together. Along with two friends, they opened the Van Doren Rubber Company, later shortened simply to Vans.

Gloria Henry (1923–2021), actress known for TV’s “Dennis the Menace”Black Rob (1969–2021), rapper known for “Whoa”Felix Silla (1927–2021), actor who played Cousin Itt on “The Addams Family”Lee MacMillan (1992–2021), social media influencer who shared her adventuresGerren Taylor (1990–2021), model and “Baldwin Hills” starLes McKeown (1955–2021), lead singer for the Bay City RollersShock G (1963–2021), frontman for Digital UndergroundJim Steinman (1947–2021), “Paradise by the Dashboard Light”

Manori Ravindran International EditorBritish actor and model Poppy Delevingne, Chad Michael Collins, Casper Van Dien and Jeff Fahey are set to star in thriller-suspense film “Assailant,” from MSR Media and written and directed by Tom Paton (“400 Bullets”).The pic turns on a couple going through marriage counseling who decide to head to the Caribbean on a “make or break” sailing holiday.

Del Crandall was al All-Star catcher for the Boston/Milwaukee Braves, and the last living player from the Boston Braves.Crandall made his MLB debut with the Boston Braves in 1949. He played two seasons for the team – interrupted by his military service during the Korean War – before the Braves moved to Milwaukee in 1953.

Apollo 11 astronaut Michael Collins, who piloted the ship from which Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin left to make their historic first steps on the moon in 1969, died Wednesday of cancer, his family said. He was 90.

Michael Collins, the astronaut who piloted the Apollo 11 spacecraft Columbia as Neil Armstrong and Col. Buzz Aldrin walked on the moon, died of cancer today. He was 90.

Arlene Pieper Stine became the first woman to officially finish a sanctioned marathon in 1959, when she ran the Pikes Peak Marathon.When Stine made history, she was running Arlene’s Health Studio, a women’s fitness center in Colorado Springs along with her husband. She decided to run the grueling Pikes Peak Marathon to promote the studio.

Mónica Marie Zorrilla Jack Amiel and Michael Begler, creators of ‘The Knick,”  have inked a three-year, overall deal with HBO.

The Knick creators, executive producers and showrunners Jack Amiel and Michael Begler are returning to the HBO fold with a rich three-year overall deal. Under the pact, said to be in the eight-figure range, the duo have been tapped as writers, executive producers and showrunners for Season 2 of HBO’s drama series Perry Mason starring Matthew Rhys.

Lil Yachty has confirmed the release date for his ‘Michigan Boat Boy’ mixtape with a new trailer – watch it below.Set to arrive on Friday (April 23), the new project will mark the rapper’s first new full-length since 2020’s ‘Lil Boat 3’, which received a deluxe edition later that same year.Yachty was born-and-raised in Atlanta, but he’s always had a special kinship with various figures from the Michigan scene – specifically in Detroit and Flint.