Deaths

Willi Trinne, deutscher Lokalpolitiker

Josef Klein, deutscher Motorradrennfahrer

Amleto Cicognani, prélat italien, secrétaire d'État et doyen du Collège des cardinaux (° 24 février 1883).

Charles Greeley Abbot, astronome américain (° 31 mai 1872).

1974

Luis Almarcha Hernández, político y clérigo español (n.

Luis Almarcha Hernández, político y clérigo español (n. 1885).

1975

Hound Dog Taylor, US-amerikanischer Sänger, Pianist und Gitarrist

1977

Annemarie von Jakimow-Kruse, deutsche Malerin

1977

Benny de Weille, deutscher Klarinettist, Komponist, Arrangeur und Orchesterleiter

Don Ellis

Don Ellis dropped dead of a heart attack at 44, one year after doctors told him to stop playing. He didn't. The man who bolted a four-valve quarter-tone trumpet to his face and taught his band to swing in 19/4 time had already survived one heart attack in 1975. Kept touring anyway. His final album, "Music from Other Galaxies and Planets," came out months before he died — all those impossible time signatures and screaming high notes produced by a man whose heart was literally giving out. He left behind a catalog proving you could make experimental big band music that still made people move. The trumpet killed him, but he never played it safe.

María del Río, actriz argentina (n.

María del Río, actriz argentina (n. 1917).

Joseph Kardinal Frings, deutscher Geistlicher

Walter Vesper, deutscher Politiker

Ada Kramm

Ada Kramm died at 82 after six decades on Norwegian stages, but she started as a secretary who couldn't stop watching rehearsals. The theater director caught her mouthing every line from the wings. He put her onstage the next week. She became Norway's most-cast actress in the 1930s and '40s, playing 247 roles at Oslo's National Theatre alone. Critics said she could make a grocery list sound like Shakespeare. Her last performance came three months before her death—still word-perfect at 82, still refusing understudies.

Mehmet Shehu, albanischer Politiker

Børge Ralov, dänischer Balletttänzer und Choreograph

Edwin Erich Dwinger, deutscher Schriftsteller

Antiochos Evangelatos

Antiochos Evangelatos spent 40 years teaching at the Athens Conservatory, but hardly anyone outside Greece heard his symphonies. He wrote eight of them. His students became Greece's musical establishment — conductors, composers, theorists — while he stayed in the classroom. He'd studied in Berlin and Paris between the wars, came home during the Nazi occupation, and never left again. When he died, the conservatory closed for three days. His manuscripts sat in the library, carefully catalogued, rarely performed. Greece remembers him as the teacher who shaped a generation. The rest of the world never got the introduction.

Philipp Jarnach, compositeur allemand (° 26 juillet 1892).

Efrem Flaks, chanteur soviétique (° 15 janvier 1909).

Leonid Kogan, violinista soviético (n.

Leonid Kogan, violinista soviético (n. 1924).

Homer S. Ferguson

Homer Ferguson went to Washington as a prosecutor, not a politician. The Michigan judge who'd taken down Detroit's corrupt mayor in 1940 spent 12 Senate years hunting government waste with the tenacity of a man who'd once grilled mobsters. He questioned everyone: union bosses, war profiteers, even Truman's cronies. Republicans loved him. Voters didn't — he lost his seat in 1954 to a young Democrat who promised less investigation, more legislation. Eisenhower made him a judge anyway. Ferguson kept asking hard questions until his final ruling in 1971, eleven years before his death. He never got the graft he was looking for in Washington. But he never stopped searching.

1983

Hashikawa Bunzō, japanischer Historiker und Politikwissenschaftler

1983

Hal Pereira, US-amerikanischer Filmausstatter

1984

Sonja Ferlov, sculptrice danoise (° 1er novembre 1911).

1985

Otto Erich Strasser, Schweizer Geistlicher und Hochschullehrer

1986

Guillermo Cano Isaza

The editor who wouldn't print the cartel's threats kept publishing their names instead. Guillermo Cano ran El Espectador through Colombia's darkest years, exposing Pablo Escobar's empire when most newspapers went silent. Two hitmen on a motorcycle found him leaving work in Bogotá. He was 61. His last editorial had called for extraditing drug lords to the US — it ran the day after his murder. The paper kept printing. UNESCO now names its World Press Freedom Prize after him, but in Colombia, 143 more journalists would die before Escobar fell. Cano's son took over the editor's desk.

1986

Giulio Ramponi, italienischer Automobilrennfahrer

1987

Bernardus Johannes Alfrink

The son of a blacksmith became the cardinal who pushed Vatican II further than almost anyone else dared. Alfrink fought for bishops' independence from Rome, championed birth control discussions when the Pope wanted silence, and told Dutch Catholics in 1968 they could follow their own conscience on contraception — a direct challenge to *Humanae Vitae* just months after its release. Rome forced his resignation at 69. But he'd already transformed the Dutch Church into the most progressive in Catholicism, a experiment that terrified conservatives and inspired reformers worldwide. The price: empty pews within a generation.

1987

Horst Käsler, deutscher Handballspieler und -trainer sowie Professor für Sportdidaktik

1987

Marguerite Yourcenar

She wrote *Memoirs of Hadrian* in her forties after carrying the Roman emperor's voice in her head for two decades — abandoned it twice, picked it back up when a line came to her on a ship. First woman elected to the Académie française in its 346-year history. She chose that moment to announce she was translating Virginia Woolf instead of writing the acceptance speech they expected. Lived her last years on Mount Desert Island, Maine, in a house without electricity, translating ancient Greek poetry between bouts of heart failure. The woman who gave Hadrian his interior life died speaking French to nurses who couldn't understand her.

1991

Aida Mitsuo, japanischer Dichter und Kalligraph

1991

Joseph Roberts « Joey » Smallwood, homme politique canadien (° 24 décembre 1900).

1992

Dana Andrews

Dana Andrews spent his first Hollywood years pumping gas at a Van Nuys station, auditioning between fill-ups. Then came *Laura* in 1944 — he played the detective who falls for a dead woman's portrait — and overnight he was the brooding leading man every studio wanted. He made 70 films, but typecasting trapped him. By the '60s, roles dried up and alcoholism nearly killed his career. He got sober, rebuilt, and spent his final decades warning other actors about the industry's demons. His face — that sharp, wounded intensity — defined film noir, but the man behind it fought harder battles off-screen than any his characters faced.

1992

Günther Anders

He fled the Nazis with nothing but manuscripts. Hannah Arendt was his first wife — they met in Heidegger's seminars, before either became famous. But Anders spent decades unknown, writing in borrowed apartments, warning that humanity's technology had outpaced its moral imagination. His masterwork, *The Obsolescence of Man*, argued we'd become primitive compared to our own machines. He corresponded with the Hiroshima pilot, trying to make him understand what he'd done. Wrote that we can't feel what we can cause anymore — the gap between finger on button and city erased. Philosophy departments ignored him for forty years. He died in Vienna at ninety, just as the internet proved him right about everything.

1992

Gustav Opočenský, tschechoslowakischer Schauspieler

1994

Jean-Jacques von Allmen, Schweizer evangelischer Geistlicher und Hochschullehrer

1995

Olivette Thibault, actrice québécoise (° 13 novembre 1914).

1995

Jörg König, deutscher Politiker

1996

Armando Luis Gallop, US-amerikanischer DJ und Musikproduzent

1996

Magda Rose-Weingardt, deutsche Malerin

1997

Ana Orantes, víctima de Violencia de género (n.

Ana Orantes, víctima de Violencia de género (n. 1937).

1997

Karl Kainberger, footballeur autrichien (° 1er décembre 1912).

1997

Reginald Victor Jones, physicien britannique (° 29 septembre 1911).

1998

Allan D'Arcangelo

Allan D'Arcangelo painted highways the way most Americans experienced them — not as places but as speed, signs, and endless asphalt disappearing into vanishing points. He drove cross-country in 1963, came back to his studio, and started making canvases that looked like windshield views: billboards, road markers, white lines pulling your eye forward. Pop Art, sure, but lonelier than Warhol's soup cans. His paintings captured something specific about postwar America — that feeling of moving fast through landscape that barely registers, where the journey itself becomes a kind of forgetting. He died at 67, leaving behind images that still look exactly like every interstate exit you've ever blown past without stopping.

C. Vann Woodward

A sharecropper's son from Arkansas became the historian who dismantled the South's most cherished lie. C. Vann Woodward proved segregation wasn't ancient tradition—it was invented around 1890, a deliberate choice by white politicians who'd briefly worked alongside Black ones during Reconstruction. His 1955 book *The Strange Career of Jim Crow* so reshaped the civil rights movement that Martin Luther King Jr. called it "the historical Bible of the movement." Woodward spent six decades forcing Americans to see their past without the comfortable myths. He was 91, still teaching seminars at Yale, still asking questions nobody wanted to answer.

Chela Ruiz, actriz argentina (n.

Chela Ruiz, actriz argentina (n. 1921).

Rex Allen

Rex Allen spent his last decades narrating nature documentaries for Disney, that warm Arizona drawl explaining wolf packs and migration patterns to millions of kids who had no idea he'd been a singing cowboy star. Born dirt-poor in Willcox, he'd worked as a rodeo rider before Hollywood made him "The Arizona Cowboy" in 1950, cranking out 19 B-westerns in four years. His horse KoKo got second billing. But the movies died fast, and Allen pivoted hard — became the voice of Wonderful World of Disney for 30 years. He narrated Charlotte's Web, The Incredible Journey, every nature special. A whole generation never saw him on screen. They just heard him explain how salmon spawn.

Roger Frison-Roche, guide de haute montagne et écrivain français (° 10 février 1906).

Paolo Dezza, prélat italien (° 13 décembre 1901).

Grover Washington

Grover Washington Jr. collapsed during a taping of *The Saturday Early Show* on CBS — playing his sax for four songs, joking with the hosts, then suddenly quiet backstage. He was 56. The man who made "Mister Magic" and "Winelight" into soul-jazz standards had just finished promoting his latest album. Paramedics worked on him for thirty minutes. He'd bridged the gap between jazz purists and R&B radio so completely that both sides claimed him. His 1981 collaboration with Bill Withers, "Just the Two of Us," went platinum. But he never stopped playing the clubs where he started, showing up at small Philly venues between arena tours. Four decades of breath work, gone mid-sentence.

2000s 167

Walter Felicetti-Liebenfels, österreichischer Kunsthistoriker

Gérard Blain, acteur et cinéaste français (° 23 octobre 1930).

Harold Rhodes, US-amerikanischer Instrumentenbauer

Joan Maxwell, kanadische Sängerin und Musikpädagogin

Doğan Seyfi Atlı, türkischer Fußballspieler

Frédéric de Pasquale, acteur français (° 28 mars 1931).

Martha Mödl, soprano alemana (n.

Martha Mödl, soprano alemana (n. 1912)

Jeanne Mandello, deutsche Fotografin

2002

James Hazeldine

James Hazeldine died at 55 from a brain hemorrhage, mid-sentence during a phone call with his agent. He'd just finished filming "London's Burning" — the show where he played Mike Bayleaf Wilson for thirteen years, a firefighter who became Britain's most recognizable working-class TV hero. Before that, he was Trevor Chaplin in "Soldier Soldier," and before that, dozens of stage roles nobody photographed. His son, the actor Tom Hazeldine, was 22. The BBC aired tributes for weeks. But Hazeldine never wanted fame — he turned down theater awards three times, told interviewers acting was "just a job," and spent his money on a cottage in Suffolk where nobody knew his name.

2002

Evandro Lins e Silva, jornalista, escritor e político brasileiro (n.

Evandro Lins e Silva, jornalista, escritor e político brasileiro (n. 1912).

2002

K. W. Devanayagam

Devanayagam spent forty years in Sri Lankan politics without ever raising his voice in Parliament—colleagues called it his "courtroom whisper," learned from decades defending clients in Jaffna's colonial courts. He became Justice Minister at 68, the oldest appointment in Bandaranaike's cabinet, and immediately began translating British-era statutes into Tamil and Sinhala so ordinary citizens could actually read the laws that governed them. The translation project took eleven years. When he died at 92, his desk still held drafts of the Penal Code's final chapters, red pen marks where he'd caught English legal terms that had no equivalent in either language—words for "reasonable doubt" and "due process" he'd spent half a century trying to explain to juries who'd never heard them. He left behind 847 translated statutes and a legal system still arguing over whether his Tamil phrasing meant the same thing as his Sinhala.

Ed Devereaux, acteur et réalisateur australien (° 27 août 1925).

Walter Spiel, österreichischer Psychiater und Neurologe

Alan Tilvern

Alan Tilvern spent 85 years perfecting the art of being everyone but himself. Born in London's East End, he voiced Darth Vader in the first Star Wars radio drama—before James Earl Jones made the role immortal—and played villains across six decades of British television. But his real gift was disappearing: character actors live in the margins of fame, recognized by face but never by name. He worked until his final year, a journeyman who understood that great acting isn't about being remembered. It's about making everyone else unforgettable.

Otto Graham

The first athlete ever featured on a Wheaties box—1947, before his greatest years—went 114-20-4 as a pro quarterback, a winning percentage (.810) nobody's touched since. Otto Graham took the Cleveland Browns to ten straight championship games in two leagues, won seven of them, and walked away at 33 when he could've kept going. He played defensive back too. Called plays without a headset. His coach said he was the best player he ever saw at any position. When Graham died, the sport had changed so much that modern fans barely knew him. But here's the thing: in terms of championships versus seasons played, he remains the most dominant QB in football history. Not close.

Ed Devereaux

Ed Devereaux spent his 30s playing villains on British TV, then moved to Australia and became the gentle father figure in *Skippy the Bush Kangaroo*—190 episodes of a park ranger who somehow never aged. But he'd started as a radio actor in wartime Sydney at 17, doing 40 voices a week for serials. After Skippy ended in 1970, he wrote screenplays and appeared in *The Sullivans*, Australia's longest-running drama. Three kids, two countries, one kangaroo co-star. He died in Hampstead at 78, having spent exactly half his life in each hemisphere—and never quite escaping that ranger uniform in reruns.

Erich Auer, österreichischer Schauspieler

Tom Wesselmann

Tom Wesselmann's mother wanted him to be a cartoonist. He tried. But in 1959, a teacher told him his assemblages—soda bottles, magazine clippings, painted mouths—were better than his drawings. So he went bigger. His "Great American Nude" series made him a Pop Art star by turning intimacy into billboard scale: 9-foot canvases of faceless women, real telephones mounted on walls, actual shower curtains. He collected cigarette packs, lipsticks, food labels—anything mass-produced and American. Critics called it sexist. He called it still life. After a stroke in 2004, he died at 73, leaving behind rooms full of everyday objects he'd turned monumental. His work now hangs in museums worldwide, proof that the mundane becomes art when you refuse to look away from it.

Dietrich Schwanitz, filólogo, catedrático y escritor alemán (n.

Dietrich Schwanitz, filólogo, catedrático y escritor alemán (n. 1940).

أغنيس ماري منصور، راهِبة كاثوليكية أَمريكية من أصل لُبناني.

Dick Heckstall-Smith, britischer Blues-, Rock- und Jazz-Saxophonist

Jacques Fouroux, joueur puis entraîneur de rugby français (° 24 juillet 1947).

Haljand Udam

Haljand Udam spent 40 years teaching Sanskrit at Tartu University, where students called him "the walking dictionary" — he could recite entire Vedic hymns from memory and correct their pronunciation in 12 Indian languages. Born in 1936, he survived Stalin's deportations as a child, learned his first Sanskrit words from smuggled textbooks, and built Estonia's only Oriental Studies department from a single office. When he died, the Indian embassy sent sandalwood and a handwritten note: "He taught our texts better than we did." His library of 8,000 books, many annotated in margins with corrections to published translations, became Estonia's largest collection of Asian manuscripts.

Marc Favreau

Marc Favreau spent 45 years as Sol the Clown, a character who twisted French into beautiful nonsense on stage and CBC television. He'd take a word like "catastrophe" and turn it into "cat-astro-fée" — disaster becomes fairy-cat — making children laugh while their parents caught the poetry underneath. Born in Montreal, he performed in 19 countries and published books that adults bought for themselves, not their kids. When he died at 76, Quebec flags dropped to half-mast. A clown. Getting a state honor. Because he'd done something Franco Zeffirelli once told him was impossible: made wordplay profound enough to translate across languages without losing its soul.

Jack Anderson

Jack Anderson died broke. The muckraker who brought down Nixon's inner circle with his "Washington Merry-Go-Round" column — syndicated to 1,000 papers at its peak — ended up selling his personal papers just to cover medical bills. He'd exposed ITT bribes, CIA assassination plots, congressional corruption. Won the Pulitzer in 1972 for revealing how the U.S. secretly backed Pakistan during the Bangladesh genocide. The Nixon White House literally plotted to kill him. But after Watergate, readers moved on. His sources dried up. By 2005, most Americans under 40 had never heard his name. The man who made paranoia respectable died forgotten by the scandal-numbed country he'd helped create.

2006

Albert Hetterle, deutscher Schauspieler, Regisseur und Theaterleiter

2006

Larry Sherry

Larry Sherry threw seven scoreless relief innings in the 1959 World Series — as a rookie. Two wins, two saves, MVP. The Dodgers had just moved to Los Angeles, playing in a converted football stadium, and nobody expected them to beat the White Sox. Sherry's knuckleball did. He pitched twelve more seasons but never matched those six October days. His brother Norm caught for him that week, the only brother battery in Series history. After baseball, Sherry managed in the minors and scouted. The 1959 trophy sat on his mantle for forty-seven years.

2006

Luis García-San Miguel, jurista español (n.

Luis García-San Miguel, jurista español (n. 1929).

2007

Karl-Emil Schade, deutscher Pfarrer und Bibelübersetzer

Henry Ashby Turner, US-amerikanischer Historiker

Turgun Alimatov, musicien ouzbek (° 20 janvier 1922).

Sammy Baugh

Sammy Baugh threw a football through a tire swing from 40 yards out as a kid in Texas, perfecting the spiral that would redefine the position. He arrived in Washington in 1937 when quarterbacks were blockers who occasionally tossed the ball, and left having completed 56% of his passes — a record that stood for decades. In one 1943 game, he threw four touchdown passes, intercepted four passes on defense, and averaged 48 yards per punt. He played both ways for 16 seasons, never wore a facemask, and retired having taught the NFL what a quarterback could be. The modern passing game started with a ranch kid and a tire.

Francisco Casavella, écrivain espagnol (° 15 octobre 1963).

Luis Félix López, escritor y político ecuatoriano (n.

Luis Félix López, escritor y político ecuatoriano (n. 1932).

Gregoire

Gregoire spent his first decades in a concrete cell at Brazzaville Zoo—no grass, no trees, just bars. Born in 1942, captured young, he'd never known forest canopy. When rescuers found him in 1997, he was skeletal, half-blind, alone. They brought him to a sanctuary in Tchimpounga. He touched soil for the first time at 55 years old. Stepped onto grass. Looked up at real trees. For eleven years he had what chimpanzees are supposed to have: space, others, sky. He died at 66, the oldest chimp ever documented. His early life bought humans decades of research. His late life taught them what they'd stolen.

Dave Smith

Dave Smith pitched 13 years in the majors, mostly for Houston, saving 199 games with a sidearm slider that looked like it was coming from third base. He never threw hard — low 80s — but hitters couldn't square him up. In 1986 alone, he saved 33 games and made the All-Star team. After retiring, he coached high school ball in San Diego, teaching kids the mechanics he'd perfected: arm angle over velocity, deception over power. He died at 53 from a heart attack while jogging near his home. His students remember him demonstrating pickoff moves in the parking lot, still moving like a pitcher decades after his last save.

Héctor Malamud, actor argentino (n.

Héctor Malamud, actor argentino (n. 1943).

Freddy Breck

Freddy Breck spent his childhood in a displaced persons camp after World War II, then became Germany's answer to American country music—but with accordions and Alpine charm instead of steel guitars. He sold over 25 million records singing about mountains, love, and Heimat, that untranslatable German longing for home. His TV show ran for decades. He produced other artists. He wrote for newspapers. And he never stopped performing, right up until pancreatic cancer killed him at 66. The camp kid who sang his way into every German living room left behind 80 albums and a whole genre called Volksmusik that younger Germans mock but their parents still play at full volume.

Chris Henry

Chris Henry caught 21 touchdowns in four NFL seasons. On December 16, 2009, he jumped into the bed of his fiancée's pickup truck during a domestic argument in Charlotte, North Carolina. She drove away with him still in back. He fell out at 35 mph. He died the next morning at 26. The Bengals honored him with helmet decals for the rest of the season. His brain showed early-stage chronic traumatic encephalopathy — making him, at the time, the youngest known case of CTE documented by Boston University researchers. His death helped shift the NFL's attention toward both player safety and mental health.

Albert Ràfols-Casamada, pintor y escritor español (n.

Albert Ràfols-Casamada, pintor y escritor español (n. 1923).

Alaina Reed Hall

Alaina Reed Hall spent thirteen years on Sesame Street as Olivia, the neighborhood's warm-hearted proprietor—but kids didn't know she'd fought to make the role more than a token. She pushed writers to give Olivia a business, opinions, flaws. Later, on 227, she became Rose Holloway, the sharp-tongued upstairs neighbor who stole scenes with perfect timing. She died at 63 from breast cancer, leaving behind two shows that shaped how Black women appeared in family programming—not as saints or stereotypes, but as people with rent to pay and jokes to crack.

Jennifer Jones

Jennifer Jones won her Oscar at 25 for *The Song of Bernadette* — having never acted professionally before. She'd been a struggling radio actress named Phylis Isley when David O. Selznick spotted her screen test and rebuilt her completely: new name, new persona, new life. He became obsessed. Divorced his wife. Married Jones in 1949. She tried suicide twice during their marriage, once jumping from a building. But she kept working: *Duel in the Sun*, *Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing*, five Oscar nominations total. After Selznick died in 1965, she retreated from Hollywood entirely, lived quietly for 44 more years. That first role — the peasant girl who saw visions — she never escaped it.

Juan Romay, footballeur argentin (° ?

Juan Romay, footballeur argentin (° ? 1925).

Dan O'Bannon, réalisateur et scénariste américain (° 30 septembre 1946).

Michel Leblond, footballeur français (° 10 mai 1932).

Dan O'Bannon

Dan O'Bannon died broke. The man who wrote *Alien* — who invented the chestburster, who gave Ridley Scott the biomechanical nightmare that made $200 million — spent his final years battling Crohn's disease while Hollywood forgot him. He'd pitched the script in 1972. Seven years of rewrites and rejections before Fox bit. By then he'd added the android twist, the self-destruct countdown, the "In space no one can hear you scream" dread. His payment? One screenplay credit and residuals that dried up fast. He kept writing — *Return of the Living Dead*, *Total Recall* — but never matched that first monster. The irony killed him: he'd created cinema's most famous parasite while his own body slowly consumed itself from within.

Amine al-Hafez, homme d'État syrien (° 12 novembre 1921).

Óscar Almirón, argentinischer Ruderer

Eugenio Heiremans, empresario y dirigente gremial chileno (n.

Eugenio Heiremans, empresario y dirigente gremial chileno (n. 1923).

Ralph Coates

Ralph Coates died with a combover so legendary it had its own chant. Burnley fans sang about it. Tottenham fans sang about it. The thing would lift off his head mid-stride and flap like a wind sock. But the man underneath won a UEFA Cup, played a World Cup qualifier, and scored goals most remembered players never could. He survived a car crash that nearly ended his career at 24, came back, and kept running. His old clubs still play tribute videos. Not of the hair. Of everything else.

Walt Dropo

Walt Dropo stood 6'5" and weighed 220 pounds — massive for 1950s baseball, perfect for basketball. He picked baseball. Smart choice: his rookie year with the Red Sox, he hit .322 with 144 RBIs, third-best ever for a first-year player. Then his bat went cold. Really cold. He hit into four consecutive double plays in one game, still a record nobody wants. Got traded three times in five years. But here's the thing: he played 13 seasons anyway, refusing to quit when the magic left. Finished with 152 home runs and zero regrets about the sport he chose.

Captain Beefheart

Don Van Vliet spent his childhood catching and painting desert lizards in the Mojave, sold a sculpture to Aldous Huxley at thirteen, then turned himself into Captain Beefheart and recorded *Trout Mask Replica* in eight hours after forcing his band to rehearse the same impossible, anti-musical compositions for eight months straight in a house with no furniture. He made Frank Zappa look conventional. Retired from music in 1982 to paint full-time, sold canvases for six figures, refused every reunion offer. His last words to the world came twenty-eight years before he died, and they were sung through a saxophone that sounded like it was being murdered.

Celia von Bismarck, Schweizer Beraterin

François Baboulet, peintre paysagiste français (° 12 avril 1914).

Jacques Moulinier, homme politique français (° 18 avril 1938).

Nikos Papatakis, réalisateur, scénariste, producteur et directeur artistique français (° 5 juillet 1918).

Dick Gibson, piloto británico de automovilismo (n.

Dick Gibson, piloto británico de automovilismo (n. 1918).

Mijaíl Umansky, ajedrecista ruso (n.

Mijaíl Umansky, ajedrecista ruso (n. 1952).

María Jesús San Segundo, política española (n.

María Jesús San Segundo, política española (n. 1958).

Ronnie Smith, basketteur américain puis français (° 21 avril 1962).

Richard Rudolf Klein, deutscher Komponist

Joãosinho Trinta, carnavalesco brasileiro (n.

Joãosinho Trinta, carnavalesco brasileiro (n. 1933).

Sérgio Britto, ator, diretor teatral e roteirista brasileiro (n.

Sérgio Britto, ator, diretor teatral e roteirista brasileiro (n. 1923).

Sérgio Borges, cantor português (n.

Sérgio Borges, cantor português (n. 1944).

Eva Ekvall

She was 28. The former Miss Venezuela published a memoir about breast cancer while undergoing treatment—photos of her bald, still radiant, defying every beauty pageant rule she'd once lived by. Eva Ekvall wrote *Fuera de Foco* in 2010, describing her diagnosis at 21 and the rage of watching cancer return after remission. She died just months after its release. Her book became Venezuela's bestseller that year. The images from her final months—gaunt, laughing, refusing to hide—reached further than her crown ever did. She'd spent years as a TV journalist after her pageant win. But it was writing about dying, not living perfectly, that made people remember her name.

Cesária Évora

She recorded her first album at 47, after decades singing for tips in Mindelo bars. Barefoot on stage—always—because that's how the poor of Cape Verde walked, and she never forgot. Her voice carried *morna* and *coladeira* from tiny islands most listeners couldn't find on a map straight to Carnegie Hall and the Grammys. The "Barefoot Diva" sold millions singing in Crioulo about longing and离别, making *sodade*—that untranslatable Portuguese ache—feel universal. She died of heart failure in São Vicente, the same island where she'd started, having put Cape Verdean music on the world map. Those bare feet had walked further than anyone imagined possible.

Kim Jong-il Dies: Power Passes to Third Generation

Kim Jong-il died in December 2011 on his private train, according to the North Korean government, which announced it two days later. He had ruled North Korea since 1994, when he succeeded his father Kim Il-sung. His regime presided over a famine in the mid-1990s that killed somewhere between 240,000 and 3.5 million people — the range reflects how little outsiders could verify. He accelerated the country's nuclear program, met with South Korean President Kim Dae-jung in 2000 in the only inter-Korean summit, and maintained a regime with no free press, no political opposition, and no legal emigration. Power passed to his son Kim Jong-un.

Cesária Évora, chanteuse capverdienne (° 27 août 1941).

Colin Spedding

Colin Spedding was born in December 1925 in Nottingham and became a leading agricultural biologist at the University of Reading, where he spent most of his career studying pasture ecology and grassland productivity. He chaired the UK Farm Animal Welfare Council from 1979 to 1994, during the period when Britain was developing its "Five Freedoms" framework for animal welfare — the foundation of modern standards in the field. He died in December 2012. The welfare framework his committee helped develop has been adopted by animal welfare bodies in over a hundred countries.

James Gower

James Gower died at 90, but his wildest move came at 48. In 1969, he left the priesthood to help start a college with no majors, no grades as punishments, and every student studying one thing: human ecology. The College of the Atlantic in Bar Harbor, Maine — built inside old mansions and a former girls' school — was so small its first class had 32 students. Gower taught there for decades, still wearing his clerical collar to some classes. The school now has 350 students and hasn't wavered from that single curriculum. He proved you could abandon traditional structure and still create something that lasts.

Jesse Hill Jr.

Jesse Hill Jr. spent his first job after college as an actuary calculating risk for an all-white insurance company that wouldn't hire him. So he joined Atlanta Life Insurance instead, eventually became CEO, and used the company's resources to quietly fund the civil rights movement — paying bail bonds, covering Martin Luther King Jr.'s expenses, bankrolling boycotts. After the movement, he stayed in Atlanta and pushed major corporations to hire Black executives, not through protest but through boardroom pressure. He served on 50 corporate boards. When he died, Fortune 500 companies sent condolences for a man most Americans had never heard of.

Daniel Inouye

The grenade rolled into his trench on April 21, 1945. Daniel Inouye threw two back, then charged the third machine gun nest with his Tommy gun — until a rifle grenade shattered his right arm. He kept firing. The arm hung by skin and threads. He pried the last grenade from his dead hand with his left and threw it. Survived. Sixty-seven years later, as a U.S. Senator, he still needed help buttoning his right sleeve. That empty sleeve cast the longest shadow in the Senate — nine terms, every Hawaii election since statehood. The Medal of Honor he finally received in 2000 came fifty-five years late, after the Army reviewed its records and admitted it had overlooked Asian Americans. He died in office, still working.

Laurier LaPierre

Laurier LaPierre hosted CBC's *This Hour Has Seven Days* in the 1960s — the most controversial show in Canadian television history. Network executives called him "too passionate." Politicians called him dangerous. When CBC cancelled the program in 1966, 3 million viewers protested. He taught history at McGill for decades, ran for Parliament (lost), and never stopped asking the questions that made powerful people uncomfortable. At 82, he'd outlived every executive who tried to silence him. But not the students who learned that polite wasn't the same as honest.

Dina Manfredini

Dina Manfredini spent 115 years watching the world speed up around her. Born when horses still ruled Chicago streets, she outlived the Wright Brothers' first flight by 109 years. At 115, she became the world's oldest person for just 85 days before her death. Her secret? She ate two eggs every morning and never missed Mass on Sunday. Her daughter was 87 when Dina died. The woman who remembered the Spanish flu pandemic of 1918 lived long enough to see the internet, smartphones, and a Black president. She died in an Iowa nursing home, outlasting everyone she'd ever met in her first 70 years of life.

Arnaldo Mesa

Arnaldo Mesa won Olympic silver at 27, losing a decision so controversial the referee was banned for life. The Cuban southpaw never turned pro — Castro's government forbade it — so he trained young fighters in Havana gyms instead, passing down the footwork that nearly made him champion. He died of a heart attack at 44, leaving behind students who still shadow-box the combinations he drilled into them. That stolen gold medal? The International Boxing Association finally awarded it to him. Twenty years too late.

Frank Pastore

Frank Pastore threw a 95-mph fastball for the Cincinnati Reds, then became the guy arguing creationism on drive-time LA radio. December 17, 2012, he told listeners he was about to ride his motorcycle home—said the most dangerous part wasn't the ride but the crazy drivers. Signed off at 5:10 PM. Hit by a car on the 210 Freeway thirty minutes later. Coma. Eight days. His last broadcast was about risk and God's timing.

Asita Hamidi, Schweizer Harfenistin und Komponistin

Peter B. Kenen, US-amerikanischer Ökonom

Pgeezy

Pgeezy made his name in Atlanta's underground scene with razor-sharp freestyles and a voice that cut through any beat. Born Patrick Green in 1976, he turned down college offers to chase music, sleeping in his car between studio sessions. His 2003 mixtape "Concrete Dreams" sold 50,000 copies out of car trunks. He never signed a major deal—refused to, actually, calling the industry "bloodsuckers in suits." His daughter performs under the name P.Gee now, using beats her father recorded but never released.

Dina Manfredini, supercentenaire italo-américaine, doyenne de l'humanité (° 4 avril 1897).

Charlie Adam

Charlie Adam collapsed during a charity match in Dundee. He was 50. The former Partick Thistle defender had hung up his boots years earlier but still turned out for amateur games, still loved the pitch. His son — also Charlie, also a footballer — was playing professionally in England when the call came. The younger Adam would go on to wear Scotland's colors in two World Cups, carrying both his name and the number his father never got to see him wear at that level. Sometimes a career ends. Sometimes it's inherited.

Richard Adams

Richard Adams spent 44 years fighting for a green card he never got. He and his Australian partner Tony Sullivan applied in 1975 — first same-sex couple to seek immigration recognition as spouses. The INS sent back their application with a handwritten note: "You have failed to establish that a bona fide marital relationship can exist between two faggots." They sued. They lost. They appealed for decades. Sullivan died in 1991, still waiting. Adams kept fighting, gave 600 speeches, testified before Congress twice. By the time the Defense of Marriage Act finally fell in 2013, he'd been gone a year. He died one election away from winning.

Tony Charlton

Tony Charlton called 11 Olympic Games for Australian television — more than any broadcaster in history. He started in radio at 16, lying about his age to get the job. By the 1956 Melbourne Olympics, he was the voice Australians trusted with their heroes. He worked into his 70s, refusing retirement because he said watching athletes achieve impossible things never got old. The kid who faked his credentials to break into broadcasting became the standard every Australian sports caller measured themselves against.

Janet Rowley

Janet Rowley spent her first research years squinting at chromosomes through a microscope in her dining room — three kids underfoot, tenure impossible for married women in the 1960s. She proved that cancer wasn't random: specific chromosomes swap pieces in specific ways, launching targeted treatments like Gleevec that turn death sentences into chronic conditions. She was 48 when she published her breakthrough, 76 when she won the National Medal of Science. The Philadelphia chromosome still carries the discovery she made at her kitchen table.

Tetsurō Kashibuchi

He played drums on over 3,000 sessions before anyone knew his name. Kashibuchi worked behind Japan's biggest pop acts for two decades — invisible, essential, the backbone of countless hits. Then in the 1990s he started writing. Suddenly his songs were everywhere: commercials, TV dramas, that melody you couldn't stop humming. He'd built two careers from the same seat behind the kit. Most session musicians stay session musicians. Kashibuchi proved you could be both the engine and the architect, as long as you showed up for 3,000 takes first.

Leland Smith, US-amerikanischer Komponist, Fagottist und Musikpädagoge

Geneviève Couteau, artiste peintre, dessinatrice, graveuse et décoratrice de théâtre française (° ?

Geneviève Couteau, artiste peintre, dessinatrice, graveuse et décoratrice de théâtre française (° ? 1924).

Conny van Rietschoten

He won the Whitbread Round the World Race twice — back to back, 1977 and 1981. The only skipper ever to do that. Van Rietschoten didn't come from sailing royalty. He made his money in shipping and scrap metal, built his own campaigns, picked crews nobody else wanted. His yacht Flyer sailed 27,000 nautical miles in the first race, beating Alan Bond's fancy corporate boat. Four years later, at 55, he did it again on Flyer II. After that? He stopped. Walked away at the top. Died in Rotterdam at 86, still the only double winner of the toughest race on water.

Kelly Clark

Kelly Clark spent 26 years prosecuting child abuse cases in Portland, Oregon — over 1,000 trials where she put predators behind bars. Then she switched sides. Not to defend abusers, but to sue the institutions that protected them. She won a $19.9 million settlement against the Boy Scouts in 2010, forcing them to release decades of hidden "perversion files" documenting 1,200 suspected abusers. The files showed scouts leadership knew and did nothing. Clark died of ovarian cancer at 56, three years after that case. She'd exposed what everyone suspected but nobody could prove: the cover-up was institutional policy.

Ricardo María Carles Gordó

Ricardo María Carles Gordó spent 26 years as Archbishop of Barcelona, overseeing a diocese of 4.4 million souls while Spain transformed from Franco's shadow into modern Europe. He consecrated Gaudí's Sagrada Família in 2010 — a moment 128 years after construction began. But his defining act came quietly in 1994 when he opened archdiocesan archives to researchers investigating Church complicity during the Civil War. No apologies, no excuses. Just the files. He retired in 2004, lived nine more years in relative silence. The files stayed open.

Richard Heffner

Richard Heffner spent 29 years asking questions nobody else would touch. His show *The Open Mind* ran longer than any interview program in American broadcasting history — 1956 to 2010 — because he refused the 60-second soundbite. Guests got half an hour to actually think out loud. He also chaired the film ratings board for two decades, deciding what millions of teenagers could watch. The man who interviewed Eleanor Roosevelt, Jonas Salk, and Malcolm X never once interrupted to check a clock. He left behind 4,000 hours of conversation that nobody bothered to rush.

Fred Bruemmer

Fred Bruemmer spent 50 years living with and photographing Arctic peoples—Inuit, Sami, Nenets—in conditions that routinely dropped below -40°F. He learned seven languages to understand their stories, not just capture their faces. His 3,000 published articles and 15 books documented cultures vanishing under climate change and modernization. But he never owned a home. Never married. He died alone in a Montreal apartment at 84, his life's work archived in museums while the Arctic communities he immortalized continued melting away. The irony wasn't lost on him: he'd preserved what he couldn't save.

Maurice Duverger, académico y jurista francés (n.

Maurice Duverger, académico y jurista francés (n. 1917).

Mohamed Bastaoui, acteur marocain (° ?

Mohamed Bastaoui, acteur marocain (° ? 1954).

Clarke Fraser, généticien américain (° 29 mars 1920).

Jean-Pierre Seguin, bibliothécaire et historien de l'art français (° 7 mars 1920).

Dieter Grau

At 101, Dieter Grau had outlived the Third Reich by 69 years. He fled Nazi Germany in 1936 with a physics degree and $47, landed in New York washing dishes, and spent the next seven decades designing precision instruments for American aerospace. His gravitational sensors flew on early satellites. His colleagues knew him as the engineer who never raised his voice, never mentioned the war, and kept a faded steamship ticket in his desk drawer. He died in California, 5,000 miles from Leipzig, having helped put machines in orbit around a planet that once wouldn't let him stay.

Richard C. Hottelet

He spent 72 days in a Gestapo cell in 1941 — the first American correspondent arrested by the Nazis. They released him in a prisoner swap, and Richard C. Hottelet went right back to reporting. He covered D-Day from a bomber over Normandy, the Nuremberg trials, the Berlin Airlift. Forty-one years at CBS News, most of it from the front lines of the Cold War. At 97, he'd outlived nearly everyone he'd reported on. His last interview was about courage under interrogation. He never broke.

Oleh Lysheha

He spent his twenties banned from publishing — the Soviet censors couldn't stomach his surrealism, his refusal to write propaganda verses about tractors and harvests. So Oleh Lysheha worked as a stoker in a boiler room and wrote anyway, poems that compared words to "sleds gliding over the skin of a lake." When Ukraine finally opened, translators discovered him. They found a voice that turned Ukrainian into music, that made metaphors out of silence and snow. His last collection came out months before he died. The boiler room poet had outlasted the empire that tried to silence him.

Lowell Steward

Lowell Steward flew 43 combat missions over Europe as a Tuskegee Airman, facing German fire in the sky and American racism on the ground. He was 22 when he earned his wings, forbidden from using base facilities for whites. After the war, he became a probation officer in Los Angeles for 35 years, working with gang members and at-risk youth. He rarely spoke about his service until the 2000s, when surviving Tuskegee Airmen received the Congressional Gold Medal. He died at 95, one of the last captains who proved courage had no color while America still pretended it did.

Ivan Vekić

Ivan Vekić spent his final years watching Croatia become the nation he'd helped build from scratch. As interior minister in the early 1990s, he commanded police forces during the Yugoslav wars while the country's borders were still being drawn in blood. Before politics, he'd been a military lawyer—the kind who knew which rules mattered and which ones bent in wartime. He died at 76, having lived long enough to see Croatia join the European Union that same year. The ministry he once ran now answers to Brussels bureaucrats, not battlefield commanders.

Fritz Rudolf Fries, deutscher Schriftsteller und Übersetzer

Vítor Manuel Trigueiros Crespo, militar português (n.

Vítor Manuel Trigueiros Crespo, militar português (n. 1932).

Joseph Roduit, chanoine suisse, abbé de l'abbaye territoriale de Saint-Maurice d'Agaune (° 17 décembre 1939).

Serge Devèze, footballeur puis entraîneur français (° 25 septembre 1956).

Michel Renard, homme politique français (° 24 septembre 1924).

Hal Brown

Hal Brown threw a no-hitter through seven innings in his major league debut — then gave up four hits in the eighth. That was 1951. He stuck around anyway, becoming one of baseball's most reliable journeymen pitchers across 12 seasons with six teams. Won 85 games, lost 92. Never an All-Star. But in Baltimore, he helped the 1960 Orioles finish second, their best showing in years. After his arm gave out, he managed in the minors for decades, teaching kids the same lesson his career proved: you don't need to be the best to belong.

Michael Wyschogrod

A boy who fled Berlin at eleven became the Orthodox Jew who told Christians they misunderstood Judaism — then spent fifty years explaining why God chose a people, not a set of beliefs. Wyschogrod argued the incarnation made theological sense once you grasped the Jewish body matters to God, that election runs through biology, not doctrine. He taught at Baruch College for decades while writing books nearly nobody read until Christian theologians discovered them in the 1990s. His central claim: Jews don't have a religion in the Christian sense. They have a family contract with the divine that never expires.

René Saorgin, organiste français (° 31 octobre 1928).

Osamu Hayaishi

Hayaishi discovered that oxygen could be incorporated directly into organic molecules — a finding so counterintuitive that reviewers initially rejected his papers. The enzymes he identified, oxygenases, turned out to control everything from aspirin's anti-inflammatory action to how jet lag scrambles circadian rhythms. He'd trained in wartime Japan, where lab equipment was so scarce he built his own glass apparatus by hand. Later founded Osaka's research institute that became a global hub for oxygen biochemistry. His widow donated his entire archive to Kyoto University: 65 years of lab notebooks, written in meticulous English and Japanese side by side.

Jean-Luc Vilmouth, sculpteur français (° 5 mars 1952).

2016

Benjamin A. Gilman

Benjamin Gilman never made it past the beaches on D-Day — a German machine gun saw to that, tearing through his unit at Omaha. He survived with a Purple Heart and shrapnel that would set off metal detectors for the next 72 years. Back home, he became a New York congressman who served 30 years and authored more legislation freeing hostages and fighting drugs than almost anyone in Congress. His signature law still bears his name: the Gilman Scholarship, which has sent 35,000 low-income students abroad since 2001. The kid who couldn't afford college himself made sure money would never stop someone from seeing the world.

2016

Gordon Hunt

Gordon Hunt spent decades in a booth most people never see, directing actors through cartoon takes and commercial reads. He shaped hundreds of animated voices, including his daughter Helen's early work. But his real legacy? Teaching actors that voice work isn't about funny sounds—it's about truth at high volume. He died at 87, leaving behind a generation of performers who learned that even a cartoon duck has to want something. His last credit: still coaching, still in the booth, still making actors do one more take until they nailed it.

2016

Henry Heimlich

The surgeon who saved millions never saw his maneuver work until he was 96. Heimlich demonstrated his abdominal thrust technique on a drowning dummy in 1974, watched it spread to every restaurant poster in America, then finally used it himself in 2016 when a woman choked on a hamburger at his retirement home. He died seven months later. But here's what the textbooks skip: he spent his final decades fighting the Red Cross over whether his technique worked for drowning victims too, burning professional bridges to prove he was right. The method that made him famous — five upward thrusts, sharp and fast — was born from watching his dog choke. His estate still argues about drowning.

2017

محمد حسن، مطرب ليبي.

2018

Penny Marshall, actriz y productora estadounidense (n.

Penny Marshall, actriz y productora estadounidense (n. 1943).

2018

Galt MacDermot, pianiste et compositeur d’origine québécoise (° 18 décembre 1928).

2018

Andrey Shcharbakow, futebolista bielorrusso (n.

Andrey Shcharbakow, futebolista bielorrusso (n. 1991).

2019

Karin Balzer, deutsche Leichtathletin

Allen Dines

Allen Dines walked into Pennsylvania's House of Representatives in 1965 carrying a millworker's lunch pail—he'd spent twenty years in steel mills before deciding Bethlehem needed someone who understood shift work and broken machinery. He served four terms, then disappeared from headlines entirely. No farewell tour, no memoir. He went back to the union hall where he'd started, organizing benefits for widows whose husbands had breathed too much furnace dust. When he died at 99, the obituary listed his mill badge number before his legislative record. He knew which mattered more.

Pierre Buyoya, militar y político burundés, presidente de Burundi entre 1987-1993 y 1996-2003 (n.

Pierre Buyoya, militar y político burundés, presidente de Burundi entre 1987-1993 y 1996-2003 (n. 1949).

Hennadiy Kernes, empresario y político ucraniano (n.

Hennadiy Kernes, empresario y político ucraniano (n. 1959).

Peter Kneißl, deutscher Althistoriker

Jeremy Bulloch

Jeremy Bulloch spent 15 minutes total on screen as Boba Fett in *The Empire Strikes Back* and *Return of the Jedi*—never spoke a word of his own dialogue, never showed his face. His voice? Dubbed over. His "death" scene? Cut from the theatrical release. Yet that silent, armor-clad bounty hunter became the most merchandised *Star Wars* character of the 1980s after the main trio. Bulloch played 100+ other roles across five decades—doctors, sergeants, even a young Lord Mountbatten. But millions know only the helmet. He signed action figures until the end, always gracious about the character that erased him while making him unforgettable.

Per Svensson, schwedischer Ringer und Rechtsanwalt

Srđan Savić, jugoslawischer Leichtathlet

Jean Blaton, belgischer Automobilrennfahrer und Musiker

Karl Otwin Becker, deutscher Volkswirt und Mathematiker

Namat Abdullah, malaysischer Fußballspieler

Vicente Feliú, músico, cantante, guitarrista y cantautor cubano (n.

Vicente Feliú, músico, cantante, guitarrista y cantautor cubano (n. 1947).

José Pablo Feinmann, filósofo, historiador, periodista, escritor argentino (n.

José Pablo Feinmann, filósofo, historiador, periodista, escritor argentino (n. 1943).

Jean-Gabriel Cohn-Bendit (ou « Gaby Cohn-Bendit »), professeur et militant français (° 14 avril 1936).

Roland Jeanneret, Schweizer Journalist und Kommunikationsfachmann

Urmas Sisask, estnischer Komponist und Musiker

Marie-Luise Scherer, deutsche Schriftstellerin und Journalistin

Eero Tapio, finnischer Ringer

Mike Hodges, producteur, réalisateur et scénariste britannique de cinéma (° 29 juillet 1932).

Philippe Tillous-Borde, ingénieur et entrepreneur français (° 17 mai 1946).

Dieter Henrich, deutscher Philosoph

Elmar Kunauer, österreichischer Sprinter

Ronaldo Valdez

Ronaldo Valdez hung up his phone after a normal conversation with his daughter. Hours later, on December 17, his family found him in his Quezon City condo — a gunshot wound to the head, his licensed firearm nearby. He was 76. For five decades, he'd been Philippine television's steady hand: the father figure in countless dramas, the reliable presence in over 100 films. His son Janno followed him into acting. His daughter said he'd seemed fine that morning. But depression, investigators later revealed, had been quietly winding tighter. The Kapuso network went dark in tribute. His last role aired two months earlier.

Amp Fiddler, claviériste, auteur-compositeur-interprète et producteur de disques américain (° 17 mai 1958).

Marie-Andrée Cossette, artiste et universitaire canadienne (° 17 août 1946).

Janusz Filipiak, scientifique, informaticien, entrepreneur, professeur universitaire polonais (° 3 août 1952).

Christian Grobet, personnalité politique suisse (° 26 juillet 1941).

Otar Iosseliani, cinéaste géorgien puis français (° 2 février 1934).

Philippe Martin, économiste français (° 18 janvier 1966).

Eric Montross, basketteur américain (° 23 septembre 1971).

James McCaffrey

The voice actor who made Max Payne's noir monologues feel like poetry died from multiple myeloma at 65. McCaffrey never auditioned for the role — the game's writer heard him on a commercial and knew immediately. He spent 13 years voicing the character across three games, recording those famous slow-motion death scenes over and over until his throat was raw. But most people never saw his face. He played dozens of TV roles, recurring on *Rescue Me* and *Blue Bloods*, yet millions knew only his gravelly delivery of lines like "I don't know about angels, but it's fear that gives men wings." The man disappeared completely into the voice.

Regine Lutz, Schweizer Schauspielerin

Linda van Dyck, actrice néerlandaise (° 18 mai 1948).

Michel Rose, écrivain, essayiste et chanteur français (° 12 février 1948).

Norma Barzman, écrivaine et scénariste américaine (° 15 septembre 1920).

Marcel Marnat, musicologue, journaliste et producteur de radio français (° 6 juillet 1933).

Igor Kirillov

He specialized in investigating chemical weapons use in Syria — then got killed by a scooter bomb outside his Moscow apartment building. Kirillov headed Russia's Nuclear, Biological and Chemical Protection Troops, spending years accusing Ukraine and the West of preparing bioweapon attacks. Ukraine's security service called it a "special operation," claimed he'd used banned chemicals in Ukraine over 4,800 times. The explosive was hidden in an electric scooter parked near the entrance. His assistant died too. Britain had sanctioned him four months earlier for "deploying barbaric tactics against Ukrainians." The bomb detonated at 6 a.m.

Marisa Paredes

At 15, she was already onstage in Madrid. By her 30s, she'd become Pedro Almodóvar's muse — the face of *All About My Mother*, *The Flower of My Secret*, *High Heels*. But she never stayed in one director's world. She worked with Guillermo del Toro. With Roberto Benigni. With her own daughter, who followed her into acting. She played mothers who lied, women who grieved, characters who refused to be just one thing. Almodóvar called her "the best actress of her generation." Spain lost her at 78, but the films remain: evidence that great acting doesn't explain itself, it simply exists.

Rik Van Looy, belgischer Radrennfahrer

Jānis Timma, basketteur letton (° 2 juillet 1992).

William Labov, linguiste américain (° 4 décembre 1927).

Aigars Fadejevs, athlète de marches athlétiques letton (° 27 décembre 1975).

Michel del Castillo, écrivain français (° 2 août 1933).

Jacques-Louis Binet, médecin hématologue français (° 1er mai 1932).

Enric Bataller i Ruiz, homme politique espagnol (° 30 mai 1965).