Ashington
Ashington is a town and civil parish in Northumberland, England, with a population of 27,864 at the 2011 Census. It was once a centre of the coal mining industry. The town is 15 miles north of Newcastle upon Tyne, west of the A189 and bordered to the south by the River Wansbeck.
People died in Ashington (First 49 people) - Page 24
Alice Marriott
American entrepreneur
Salvadora Debayle
Anastasio Somoza García's wife
Lillian Somoza de Sevilla Sacasa
Anastasio Somoza García's daughter
Dudley Seers
British economist
John Bell Blish
American inventor
James Pinckney Henderson
Former Governor of Texas
Arthur C. Cope
Chemist
Charles Ritcheson
American historian
Charles D. Palmer
Ethel L. Payne
American journalist
Beatrice Schenk de Regniers
American writer
John Dingell Sr.
American Politician
Marcus Raskin
American critic
Shirley Povich
American columnist
Joseph Wilson Ervin
Member of the United States House of Representatives
John Willis Menard
Poet
William Bowie
American engineer
Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton
Alexander Hamilton's wife
Charles H. Percy
Former United States Senator
Herman Hollerith
German-American statistician
Rowland Evans
American journalist
Harlan F. Stone
Former Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
Laura Ernst
Screenwriter
Shirley Horn
American jazz pianist
Larry L. King
American playwright
Jacob Hart Ela
American Politician
Timothy J. Russert
American journalist
Vantile Whitfield
Alvey A. Adee
Official
Harris Wofford
Former United States Senator
Rex Nettleford
Jamaican scholar
Harriet Ann Jacobs
American writer
Patricia Roberts Harris
Former United States Secretary of Health and Human Services
Lucien Carr
Walter Bedell Smith
Former United States Director of Central Intelligence
Edward Bennett Williams
Attorney
Mattie Stepanek
American poet
Frank Knox
American Politician
Caroline Harrison
Musical artist
Gottfried Haberler
American-Austrian economist
May Miller
American poet
Euphemia Haynes
American mathematics educator
Charles Francis Adams Jr.
American author
Robert S. Brookings
American businessman
Samuel Schoenbaum
Biographer
Andrew Goodpaster
Lloyd Cutler
Former White House Counsel
