Back to WA-WD Home
Browse by Category
 Actors and Actresses
|
 Musical Performers
|
 Other Performers
|
 Political Figures
|
 Athletes & Sports Figures
|
 All Other Categories
|
Alphabetical Quick List
N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
Search
Extras & Daily Features
Today's Birthdays
|
 Recent Deaths
|
 New Listings
|
 Living Oscar Winners
|
|
Oldest Living Major Leaguers
|
|
Alive in Baseball Hall of Fame
|
|
Dead Playboy Playmates
|
|
Dead U.S. Astronauts
|
|
Mouseketeers, Alive and Dead
|
This is a hassle-free site -- no popups, no sound, no user IDs, no spyware, and no huge graphics. Enjoy.
O. J. Simpson
Alive
Born: 7/9/1947 in San Francisco, California, USAAge: 75
Full name: Orenthal James Simpson
Nickname: The Juice
Noted For: NFL football player and actor. Running back, member of the Buffalo Bills (1969-77) and San Francisco 49ers (1978-79). Won the Heisman Trophy (1968, USC); five-time Pro Bowl player; won four NFL rushing titles; enshrined in the football Hall of Fame (1985). Acted in Hertz TV commercials, The Towering Inferno (1974); "Roots" (1977); The Naked Gun (1988). Acquited in the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson (his ex-wife) and Ronald Goldman (1995), but ordered to pay a $33.5 million judgment in a civil wrongful death lawsuit (1997). Convicted of armed robbery and kidnapping in another case; imprisoned (2008-17).
Quotation: "I will pursue as my primary goal in life the killer or killers who slaughtered Nicole and Mr. Goldman. They are out there somewhere."
