Daniel Clive "Dan" Wheldon

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12 years 5 months ago #1 by riada
Daniel Clive "Dan" Wheldon (22 June 1978 – 16 October 2011) was an English auto racing driver. He was the 2005 Indy Racing League IndyCar Series champion, and winner of the Indianapolis 500 in 2005 and 2011.

At the 2011 IZOD IndyCar Series season finale at Las Vegas Motor Speedway on 16 October 2011, Wheldon was involved in a 15-car accident during lap 11 of the race. The massive pile-up resulted in a red flag. Wheldon had to be extricated from his car and was airlifted to a local hospital with what were described as "serious injuries." He subsequently died of his injuries.

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Sue Mengers (September 2, 1932 – October 15, 2011) was a talent agent to many of the most important members of the New Hollywood generation of filmmakers and actors in the 1960s, 1970s and early 1980s.

Her first big client was actress Julie Harris, Mengers also represented Anthony Perkins, and such luminaries as Candice Bergen, Peter Bogdanovich, Michael Caine, Dyan Cannon, Cher, Joan Collins, Brian De Palma, Faye Dunaway, Bob Fosse, Gene Hackman, Sidney Lumet, Ali McGraw, Steve McQueen, Mike Nichols, Nick Nolte, Tatum O'Neal, Ryan O'Neal, Burt Reynolds, Cybill Shepherd, Barbra Streisand, Gore Vidal, and Tuesday Weld.

Mengers died on Saturday, October 15, 2011, from pneumonia at her home in Beverly Hills, California, aged 79.

Nor but in sleep findeth a cure for care.
Incertainty that once gave scope to dream
Of laughing enterprise and glory untold,
Is now a blackness that no stars redeem.

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