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Early Simons

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M. Juliana (Simon) Lerg was born on February 2, 1794 in Waghäusel, BW Germany, and died at age 49 years old on November 9, 1843 in Waghäusel, BW. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember M. Juliana (Simon) Lerg.
Elizabeth (Simon) Kamocsar was born on September 28, 1805 in Hungary, and died at age 173 years old in 1978 in East Chicago, Lake County, Indiana United States. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Elizabeth (Simon) Kamocsar.
John Gottlieb Simon of Australia was born in 1817, and died at age 48 years old in 1865.
Fred Simon of Doncaster Australia was born in 1817, and died at age 81 years old in 1898 in Doncaster.
Edward Daniel Simon of Melbourne West Australia was born in 1820, and died at age 71 years old in 1891 in Melbourne West.
Conrad Simon
Conrad is the son of Andrew Simon and Annna Maria Glabb. He came over from Germany with his parents, brothers and sisters and first came to New York, then through Illinois, before finally settling in the St. Kilian, Wisconsin area. He first met and married a wonderful lady Catherine Muehr . Together they had 8 children. She died in childbirth. He then married a lovely woman Catherine Steffen . Together they had 13 children. Sadly, Conrad did not live to see any of his children married, and left his youngest one at the age of 3 years. Father of Clara , Frank , Herman , John , Mathilda , Ida , Anna (Sr. Luciana), Linus, Elizabeth (Sr. Theodora), Thekla Eisenbacher, Barbara Hochhaus-Fellenz , Kilian and Andrew, Mary Mathilda, Francisca, Catherine, and Benno who are believed to be buried in St. Kilian, Wisconsin, but their tombstones have not been found.
John Simon of Australia was born in 1829, and died at age 26 years old in 1855.
Annie Simon of Carlton Australia was born in 1831, and died at age 62 years old in 1893 in Carlton.
Arthur Charles Simon of B Marsh Australia was born in 1833, and died at age 91 years old in 1924 in B Marsh.
Adam Simon of Australia was born in 1834, and died at age 24 years old in 1858.
Reinhold Simon of Leongatha Australia was born in 1835, and died at age 67 years old in 1902 in Leongatha.
Lewis Simon of Melbourne East Australia was born in 1837, and died at age 79 years old in 1916 in Melbourne East.

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Herbert Alexander Simon
Herbert Alexander Simon was born to German born to electrical engineer, inventor, and patent attorney Arthur Simon (1881-1948), and pianist Edna Marguerite Merkel (1888-1969). Herbert received the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences (1978) and the Turing Award in computer science in 1975. He is considered a pioneer in artificial intelligence and information technology.
Bessie's parents were LueFred and Savanna Simon. She worked as a self-employed seamstress. She had four brothers, Fred, Maurice, Bert, and Nat.
Earnest L Simon of Hardin County, TX was born circa 1950. Earnest Simon was married to Debra A. (Barrett) Simon on August 7, 1997 in Hardin County, TX. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Earnest L. Simon.
Armella (Simon) Palmer
Armella (Simon) Palmer of Clinton Twp, Macomb County, Michigan USA was born on February 11, 1902 in Emmett, St. Clair County. Armella Palmer was married to John Palmer, and died at age 77 years old on June 6, 1979 in Clinton Township, Macomb County.
Marguerite Euphemia (Simon) Istre
Marguerite Euphemia (Simon) Istre was born on January 3, 1863. Marguerite Istre was in a relationship with Thomas Istre, and has a child Mary Euscide (Istre) Andersen. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Marguerite Euphemia (Simon) Istre.
Alison Catherine (Berns Stern) Simon was born on May 26, 1954 in Newton Centre, Middlesex County, Massachusetts United States. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Alison Catherine Simon.
Evelyn Simon of Huntington, Huntington County, Indiana was born on December 23, 1911, and died at age 75 years old in May 1987.
Conrad Simon
Conrad is the son of Andrew Simon and Annna Maria Glabb. He came over from Germany with his parents, brothers and sisters and first came to New York, then through Illinois, before finally settling in the St. Kilian, Wisconsin area. He first met and married a wonderful lady Catherine Muehr . Together they had 8 children. She died in childbirth. He then married a lovely woman Catherine Steffen . Together they had 13 children. Sadly, Conrad did not live to see any of his children married, and left his youngest one at the age of 3 years. Father of Clara , Frank , Herman , John , Mathilda , Ida , Anna (Sr. Luciana), Linus, Elizabeth (Sr. Theodora), Thekla Eisenbacher, Barbara Hochhaus-Fellenz , Kilian and Andrew, Mary Mathilda, Francisca, Catherine, and Benno who are believed to be buried in St. Kilian, Wisconsin, but their tombstones have not been found.
Jessica L (Altes) Simon of Miami, Oklahoma United States was born on January 19, 1991. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Jessica (Altes) Simon.
Mary Beth (Simon) Streep was born on December 9, 1954 in New York City, New York County, New York United States. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Mary Beth Streep.
Nancy Elizabeth Simon was born on December 25, 1962 in Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California United States. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Nancy Elizabeth Simon.
Rachel Anna (Simon) Korine was born on April 4, 1986 in Nashville, Davidson County, Tennessee United States. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Rachel Anna Korine.
Grace Shirley Simon Rock of 2658 Kendrick Cir, in San Jose, California United States was born on July 13, 1941 at Boston General Hospital 2169 Inman Way, San Jose CA, 95122 - 2658 Kendrick Circle, San Jose CA, 95121, in Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts.
Neil Simon
By Charles Isherwood Aug. 26, 2018 Neil Simon, the playwright whose name was synonymous with Broadway comedy and commercial success in the theater for decades, and who helped redefine popular American humor with an emphasis on the frictions of urban living and the agonizing conflicts of family intimacy, died on Sunday in Manhattan. He was 91. His death, at New York-Presbyterian Hospital, was announced by his publicist, Bill Evans. The cause was complications of pneumonia. Early in his career, Mr. Simon wrote for television greats, including Phil Silvers and Sid Caesar. Later he wrote for the movies, too. But it was as a playwright that he earned his lasting fame, with a long series of expertly tooled laugh machines that kept his name on Broadway marquees virtually nonstop throughout the late 1960s and ’70s. Beginning with the breakthrough hits “Barefoot in the Park” (1963) and “The Odd Couple” (1965) and continuing with popular successes like “Plaza Suite” (1968), “The Prisoner of Second Avenue” (1971) and “The Sunshine Boys” (1974), Mr. Simon ruled Broadway when Broadway was still worth ruling. From 1965 to 1980, his plays and musicals racked up more than 9,000 performances, a record not even remotely touched by any other playwright of the era. In 1966 alone, he had four Broadway shows running simultaneously. He also owned a Broadway theater for a spell in the 1960s, the Eugene O’Neill, and in 1983 had a different Broadway theater named after him, a rare accolade for a living playwright. For all their popularity with audiences, Mr. Simon’s great successes in the first years of his fame rarely earned wide critical acclaim, and Broadway revivals of “The Odd Couple” in 2005 and “Barefoot in the Park” in 2006 did little to change the general view that his early work was most notable for its surefire conceits and snappy punch lines. In the introduction to one of his play collections, Mr. Simon quoted the critic Clive Barnes as once writing, “Neil Simon is destined to remain rich, successful and underrated.” But Mr. Simon gained a firmer purchase on critical respect in the 1980s with his darker-hued semi-autobiographical trilogy, “Brighton Beach Memoirs” (1983), “Biloxi Blues” (1985) and “Broadway Bound” (1986). These comedy-dramas were admired for the way they explored the tangle of love, anger and desperation that bound together — and drove apart — a Jewish working-class family, as viewed from the perspective of the youngest son, a restless wisecracker with an eye on showbiz fame. Mr. Simon’s military experience inspired “Biloxi Blues,” a 1985 play with Matthew Broderick and Alan Ruck. It was the second in the trilogy that included “Brighton Beach Memoirs” (1983), and “Broadway Bound” (1986). “The writer at last begins to examine himself honestly, without compromises,” Frank Rich wrote of “Biloxi Blues” in The New York Times, “and the result is his most persuasively serious effort to date — not to mention his funniest play since the golden age” of his first decade. In 1991, Mr. Simon won a Tony Award as well as the ultimate American playwriting award, the Pulitzer Prize, for “Lost in Yonkers,” another autobiographical comedy, this one about a fiercely withholding mother and her emotionally and intellectually underdeveloped daughter. It was also his last major success on Broadway. Mr. Simon and Woody Allen, who both worked in the 1950s writing for Mr. Caesar (along with Mel Brooks, Larry Gelbart and Carl Reiner, among others), were probably equally significant in shaping the currents of American comedy in the 1960s and ’70s, although their styles, their favored mediums and the critical reception of their work diverged mightily. Mr. Simon was the populist whose accessible, joke-packed plays about the anxieties of everyday characters could tickle funny bones in theaters across the country as well as in 1,200-seat Broadway houses. Mr. Allen was the darling of the urban art-house cinema and the critical classes who created comedy from the minutiae of his own angst. But together they helped make the comedy of urban neurosis — distinctly Jewish-inflected — as American as the homespun humor of “Leave It to Beaver.” Mr. Simon’s early plays, often centered on an antagonistic couple of one kind or another wielding cutting one-liners in a New York apartment, helped set the template for the explosion of sitcoms on network television in the 1970s. (The long-running television show based on his “Odd Couple” was one of the best, although a bum business deal meant that Mr. Simon earned little money from it.) A line can be drawn between the taut plot threads of Mr. Simon’s early comedies — a slob and a neatnik form an irascible all-male marriage in “The Odd Couple,” newlyweds bicker in a new apartment in “Barefoot in the Park,” a laid-off fellow has a meltdown in “The Prisoner of Second Avenue” — and the “nothing”-inspired, kvetching-character-based comedy of the seminal 1990s sitcom “Seinfeld.” Mr. Allen and Mr. Simon, who shared roots in the urban Jewish lower middle classes, were also united by the classic funnyman’s ability to inspire belly laughs by the millions in other people while managing to find the dark clouds hovering insistently over their own fates, however apparently successful they might seem. Mr. Simon once wrote of approaching Mr. Allen in a restaurant when both men were at the height of their success to offer congratulations on Mr. Allen’s “Manhattan.” How was he feeling? “Oh, all right,” Mr. Allen answered. Mr. Simon wrote, “When I saw his dour expression, I saw my own reflected agony.” This, when Mr. Simon himself had two hit shows on Broadway, another play ready for rehearsals and two movies set for production. Agony is at the root of comedy, and for Mr. Simon it was the agony of an unhappy Depression-era childhood that inspired much of his finest work. And it was the agony of living in Los Angeles that drove his determination to break free from the grind of cranking out jokes for Jerry Lewis on television and make his own name. As he wrote in his 1996 autobiography, “Rewrites” (the first of two volumes), the plush comforts of Hollywood living might extend your life span, but “the catch was when you eventually did die, it surely wouldn’t be from laughing.”
Diane Kay Simon of California was born on February 14, 1948, and died at age 57 years old on February 11, 2006.
Cody J Simon of Jefferson County, TX was born circa 1981. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Cody J. Simon.
Andrea C Simon of TX was born circa 1977. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Andrea C. (Bott) Simon.
George E Simon
George E Simon of Saint Joseph, Buchanan County, MO was born on October 7, 1913, and died at age 84 years old on March 13, 1998.
Julius M Simon of Deerfield, Lake County, IL was born on October 26, 1920, and died at age 90 years old on February 5, 2011.
Julius Joseph Simon of Houston, Harris County, TX was born on March 18, 1917, and died at age 81 years old on November 23, 1998. Julius Simon was buried at Houston National Cemetery Section J Site 2216 10410 Veterans Memorial Drive, in Houston.

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Neil Simon
By Charles Isherwood Aug. 26, 2018 Neil Simon, the playwright whose name was synonymous with Broadway comedy and commercial success in the theater for decades, and who helped redefine popular American humor with an emphasis on the frictions of urban living and the agonizing conflicts of family intimacy, died on Sunday in Manhattan. He was 91. His death, at New York-Presbyterian Hospital, was announced by his publicist, Bill Evans. The cause was complications of pneumonia. Early in his career, Mr. Simon wrote for television greats, including Phil Silvers and Sid Caesar. Later he wrote for the movies, too. But it was as a playwright that he earned his lasting fame, with a long series of expertly tooled laugh machines that kept his name on Broadway marquees virtually nonstop throughout the late 1960s and ’70s. Beginning with the breakthrough hits “Barefoot in the Park” (1963) and “The Odd Couple” (1965) and continuing with popular successes like “Plaza Suite” (1968), “The Prisoner of Second Avenue” (1971) and “The Sunshine Boys” (1974), Mr. Simon ruled Broadway when Broadway was still worth ruling. From 1965 to 1980, his plays and musicals racked up more than 9,000 performances, a record not even remotely touched by any other playwright of the era. In 1966 alone, he had four Broadway shows running simultaneously. He also owned a Broadway theater for a spell in the 1960s, the Eugene O’Neill, and in 1983 had a different Broadway theater named after him, a rare accolade for a living playwright. For all their popularity with audiences, Mr. Simon’s great successes in the first years of his fame rarely earned wide critical acclaim, and Broadway revivals of “The Odd Couple” in 2005 and “Barefoot in the Park” in 2006 did little to change the general view that his early work was most notable for its surefire conceits and snappy punch lines. In the introduction to one of his play collections, Mr. Simon quoted the critic Clive Barnes as once writing, “Neil Simon is destined to remain rich, successful and underrated.” But Mr. Simon gained a firmer purchase on critical respect in the 1980s with his darker-hued semi-autobiographical trilogy, “Brighton Beach Memoirs” (1983), “Biloxi Blues” (1985) and “Broadway Bound” (1986). These comedy-dramas were admired for the way they explored the tangle of love, anger and desperation that bound together — and drove apart — a Jewish working-class family, as viewed from the perspective of the youngest son, a restless wisecracker with an eye on showbiz fame. Mr. Simon’s military experience inspired “Biloxi Blues,” a 1985 play with Matthew Broderick and Alan Ruck. It was the second in the trilogy that included “Brighton Beach Memoirs” (1983), and “Broadway Bound” (1986). “The writer at last begins to examine himself honestly, without compromises,” Frank Rich wrote of “Biloxi Blues” in The New York Times, “and the result is his most persuasively serious effort to date — not to mention his funniest play since the golden age” of his first decade. In 1991, Mr. Simon won a Tony Award as well as the ultimate American playwriting award, the Pulitzer Prize, for “Lost in Yonkers,” another autobiographical comedy, this one about a fiercely withholding mother and her emotionally and intellectually underdeveloped daughter. It was also his last major success on Broadway. Mr. Simon and Woody Allen, who both worked in the 1950s writing for Mr. Caesar (along with Mel Brooks, Larry Gelbart and Carl Reiner, among others), were probably equally significant in shaping the currents of American comedy in the 1960s and ’70s, although their styles, their favored mediums and the critical reception of their work diverged mightily. Mr. Simon was the populist whose accessible, joke-packed plays about the anxieties of everyday characters could tickle funny bones in theaters across the country as well as in 1,200-seat Broadway houses. Mr. Allen was the darling of the urban art-house cinema and the critical classes who created comedy from the minutiae of his own angst. But together they helped make the comedy of urban neurosis — distinctly Jewish-inflected — as American as the homespun humor of “Leave It to Beaver.” Mr. Simon’s early plays, often centered on an antagonistic couple of one kind or another wielding cutting one-liners in a New York apartment, helped set the template for the explosion of sitcoms on network television in the 1970s. (The long-running television show based on his “Odd Couple” was one of the best, although a bum business deal meant that Mr. Simon earned little money from it.) A line can be drawn between the taut plot threads of Mr. Simon’s early comedies — a slob and a neatnik form an irascible all-male marriage in “The Odd Couple,” newlyweds bicker in a new apartment in “Barefoot in the Park,” a laid-off fellow has a meltdown in “The Prisoner of Second Avenue” — and the “nothing”-inspired, kvetching-character-based comedy of the seminal 1990s sitcom “Seinfeld.” Mr. Allen and Mr. Simon, who shared roots in the urban Jewish lower middle classes, were also united by the classic funnyman’s ability to inspire belly laughs by the millions in other people while managing to find the dark clouds hovering insistently over their own fates, however apparently successful they might seem. Mr. Simon once wrote of approaching Mr. Allen in a restaurant when both men were at the height of their success to offer congratulations on Mr. Allen’s “Manhattan.” How was he feeling? “Oh, all right,” Mr. Allen answered. Mr. Simon wrote, “When I saw his dour expression, I saw my own reflected agony.” This, when Mr. Simon himself had two hit shows on Broadway, another play ready for rehearsals and two movies set for production. Agony is at the root of comedy, and for Mr. Simon it was the agony of an unhappy Depression-era childhood that inspired much of his finest work. And it was the agony of living in Los Angeles that drove his determination to break free from the grind of cranking out jokes for Jerry Lewis on television and make his own name. As he wrote in his 1996 autobiography, “Rewrites” (the first of two volumes), the plush comforts of Hollywood living might extend your life span, but “the catch was when you eventually did die, it surely wouldn’t be from laughing.”
Armella (Simon) Palmer
Armella (Simon) Palmer of Clinton Twp, Macomb County, Michigan USA was born on February 11, 1902 in Emmett, St. Clair County. Armella Palmer was married to John Palmer, and died at age 77 years old on June 6, 1979 in Clinton Township, Macomb County.
I loved my father! I wish I had more time with him. I know he is watching down on me and his granddaughters!
Conrad Simon
Conrad is the son of Andrew Simon and Annna Maria Glabb. He came over from Germany with his parents, brothers and sisters and first came to New York, then through Illinois, before finally settling in the St. Kilian, Wisconsin area. He first met and married a wonderful lady Catherine Muehr . Together they had 8 children. She died in childbirth. He then married a lovely woman Catherine Steffen . Together they had 13 children. Sadly, Conrad did not live to see any of his children married, and left his youngest one at the age of 3 years. Father of Clara , Frank , Herman , John , Mathilda , Ida , Anna (Sr. Luciana), Linus, Elizabeth (Sr. Theodora), Thekla Eisenbacher, Barbara Hochhaus-Fellenz , Kilian and Andrew, Mary Mathilda, Francisca, Catherine, and Benno who are believed to be buried in St. Kilian, Wisconsin, but their tombstones have not been found.
Herman Simon
Herman Simon was born on August 23, 1881. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Herman Simon.
Catherine Mueller Simon
Catherine Mueller Simon was born on December 3, 1885. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Catherine Mueller Simon.
Frank Simon
Frank Simon was born on March 15, 1872. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Frank Simon.
John Simon
John Simon was born on November 23, 1868. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember John Simon.
Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Katherine L. (Simon) Linss.
Johnny Simon was born in Eudora, Chicot County, Arkansas United States. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Johnny Simon.
Hazel Rette Simon of Sharonville, Hamilton Co. County, Ohio USA was born on December 8, 1897, and died at age 83 years old on March 6, 1981. Hazel Simon was buried on March 9, 1981 at West Chester Cemetery in West Chester, Butler County.
Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Amelia Ottilia (Simon) Bartel.
Clara  Simon
Clara Simon was born on April 21, 1875. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Clara Simon.
Anna Simon
Anna Simon was born on August 13, 1862. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Anna Simon.
Barbara Simon
Barbara Simon was born on March 2, 1874. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Barbara Simon.
Theckla Simon
Theckla Simon was born on October 1, 1879. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Theckla Simon.
Grace Shirley Simon Rock of 2658 Kendrick Cir, in San Jose, California United States was born on July 13, 1941 at Boston General Hospital 2169 Inman Way, San Jose CA, 95122 - 2658 Kendrick Circle, San Jose CA, 95121, in Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts.
Alison Catherine (Berns Stern) Simon was born on May 26, 1954 in Newton Centre, Middlesex County, Massachusetts United States. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Alison Catherine Simon.
Jana L (Gasman) Simon was born on February 17, 1954. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Jana simon.
Jessica L (Altes) Simon of Miami, Oklahoma United States was born on January 19, 1991. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Jessica (Altes) Simon.

Simon Death Records & Life Expectancy

The average age of a Simon family member is 73.0 years old according to our database of 26,221 people with the last name Simon that have a birth and death date listed.

Life Expectancy

73.0 years

Oldest Simons

These are the longest-lived members of the Simon family on AncientFaces.

Ida L Simon of Natchitoches, Natchitoches County, LA was born on April 4, 1891, and died at age 112 years old on June 27, 2003.
112 years
Emily Simon of Essex, Chittenden County, VT was born on December 4, 1894, and died at age 107 years old on April 15, 2002.
107 years
Alex Simon of Clarksdale, Coahoma County, Mississippi was born on March 10, 1877, and died at age 108 years old in March 1985.
107 years
Lula Simon of Bunkie, Avoyelles County, LA was born on July 2, 1891, and died at age 106 years old on July 15, 1997.
106 years
Mae Simon of Dover, Kent County, DE was born on October 24, 1895, and died at age 105 years old on February 11, 2001.
105 years
Miriam Simon of Miami, Miami-Dade County, FL was born on September 29, 1901, and died at age 106 years old on December 24, 2007.
106 years
Renee Simon of New York, New York County, NY was born on September 10, 1904, and died at age 105 years old on July 21, 2010.
105 years
Rose Simon of Brooklyn, Kings County, NY was born on November 30, 1903, and died at age 105 years old on June 23, 2009.
105 years
Angeline Simon of Mamou, Evangeline County, Louisiana was born on March 4, 1871, and died at age 105 years old in September 1976.
105 years
Anna Simon of San Diego, San Diego County, California was born on April 24, 1876, and died at age 104 years old in February 1981.
104 years
Esica Simon of Salem, Harrison County, West Virginia was born on June 26, 1878, and died at age 104 years old in March 1983.
104 years
Sally Simon of Hollis, Queens County, NY was born on April 27, 1893, and died at age 105 years old on July 23, 1998.
105 years
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