Sumner High School (St. Louis) alumni

The list Sumner High School (St. Louis) alumni includes Chuck Berry, Arthur Ashe, Dick Gregory, Grace Bumbry and Ethel Hedgeman Lyle. The list consists of 13 members.

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Sumner High School (St. Louis)

Public high school in the United States

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Chuck Berry

American musician

Overview: Charles Edward Anderson Berry (October 18, 1926 – March 18, 2017) was an American singer, songwriter and guitarist, and one of the pioneers of rock and roll music. Nicknamed the "Father of Rock and Roll" ...

Date of birth: 18 October 1926

Date of death: 18 March 2017

Age: 90 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Musician

Gender: Male

Height: 6' 2" (188 cm)

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Baptists from Missouri 21T

Guitarists from Missouri 74T

Rock and roll musicians 36T
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Arthur Ashe

American tennis player

Overview: Arthur Robert Ashe Jr. (July 10, 1943 – February 6, 1993) was an American professional tennis player who won three Grand Slam singles titles.

Date of birth: 20 July 1943

Date of death: 6 February 1993

Age: 49 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Tennis

Gender: Male

Height: 6' 2" (188 cm)

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20th-century memoirists 804T

Maggie L. Walker Governor's School for Government and International Studies alumni 12T

African-American male tennis players 31T
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Dick Gregory

American activist

Overview: Richard Claxton Gregory (October 12, 1932 – August 19, 2017) was an American comedian, civil rights and vegetarian activist. His writings were best sellers. Gregory became popular among the African-American ...

Date of birth: 12 October 1932

Date of death: 19 August 2017

Age: 84 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Comic

Gender: Male

Height: 5' 8" (173 cm)

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Colpix Records artists 19T

American male non-fiction writers 4,581T

20th-century American non-fiction writers 3,627T
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Grace Bumbry

American opera singer (1937–2023)

Overview: Grace Melzia Bumbry (born January 4, 1937 – died May 7, 2023) was an American opera singer, considered one of the leading mezzo-sopranos of her generation, as well as a major soprano earlier in her career ...

Date of birth: 4 January 1937

Date of death: 7 May 2023

Age: 86 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Singer

Gender: Female

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2023 deaths 2,569T

21st-century African-American women opera singers 23T

21st-century African-American women singers 590T
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Juan Farrow

American tennis player and coach

Overview: Juan Farrow is a prominent African-American tennis player and coach. He was launched in his tennis career by a neighbor in Lynchburg, Virginia, Dr. Robert Walter Johnson, who also mentored Arthur Ashe ...

Date of birth: 18 January 1958

Age: 66

Nationality: American

Occupation: Tennis

Gender: Male

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African-American male tennis players 31T

African-American tennis players 55T

Sportspeople from St. Louis, Missouri 835T
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Ethel Hedgeman Lyle

Founder of Alpha Kappa Alpha (1887–1950)

Overview: Ethel Hedgeman Lyle (born Ethel Hedgeman, February 10, 1887 - November 28, 1950) was a Founder of the Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority (ΑΚΑ) at Howard University in 1908. It was the first sorority founded by ...

Date of birth: 10 February 1887

Date of death: 28 November 1950

Age: 63 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Educator

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20th-century American women educators 307T

20th-century American educators 1,254T

American women educators 1,517T
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Alvin Cash

American actor and singer

Overview: Alvin Cash (born Alvin Welch; February 15, 1939 – November 21, 1999) was an American pop singer and actor.

Date of birth: 15 February 1939

Date of death: 21 November 1999

Age: 60 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Singer

Gender: Male

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20th-century male singers 5,297T

Singers from Missouri 210T

20th-century American male actors 8,672T
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Naomi Long Madgett

American poet and publisher (1923–2020)

Overview: Naomi Long Madgett (July 5, 1923 – November 4, 2020) was an American poet. Originally a teacher, she later found fame with her award-winning poems and was also the senior editor of Lotus Press, a publisher ...

Date of birth: 5 July 1923

Date of death: 4 November 2020

Age: 97 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Poet

Gender: Female

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2020 deaths 11,737T

East Orange High School alumni 19T

Writers from Norfolk, Virginia 34T
9.

John Hicks

American musician

Overview: John Josephus Hicks, Jr. (December 21, 1941 – May 10, 2006) was an American jazz pianist, composer, and arranger. He was leader for more than 30 recordings and played as a sideman on more than 300.

Date of birth: 12 December 1941

Date of death: 10 May 2006

Age: 64 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Composer

Gender: Male

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Burials at South-View Cemetery 37T

Mapleshade Records artists 34T

Reservoir Records artists 24T
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Victoria Clay Haley

American suffragist, clubwoman, bank executive, and fundraiser

Overview: Victoria Clay Haley (January 1, 1877 – after July 1926), later Victoria Clay Roland, was an American suffragist, clubwoman, bank executive, and fundraiser based in St. Louis, Missouri and later in Chicago ...

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Roscoe Robinson, Jr.

United States general

Overview: Roscoe Robinson Jr. (October 11, 1928 – July 22, 1993) was the first African American to become a four-star general in the United States Army. Born in St. Louis, Missouri, he attended St. Louis University ...

Date of birth: 11 October 1928

Date of death: 22 July 1993

Age: 64 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Military

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United States Army personnel of the Korean War 719T

United States Army personnel of the Vietnam War 871T

Military personnel from St. Louis 95T
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Jessie Housley Holliman

African-American artist and educator

Overview: Jessie Housley Holliman (May 27, 1905–August 10, 1984) was an African-American educator, muralist, printmaker, and commercial artist active in St. Louis, Missouri from 1929 until 1949.

Date of birth: 27 May 1905

Date of death: 10 August 1984

Age: 79 (age at death)

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Artists from St. Louis 127T

Harris–Stowe State University alumni 18T

1984 deaths 5,276T
13.

Harold Wells (American football)

American football player

Overview: Harold Wells (born November 26, 1938) is a former American football linebacker in the National Football League who played for the Philadelphia Eagles. He played college football for the Purdue Boilermakers ...

Date of birth: 26 November 1938

Age: 85

Height: 6' 2" (188 cm)

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