Deaths

Jacques Orteig, alpiniste français (° 9 février 1834).

Ferdinand Bonaventura Kinsky von Wchinitz und Tettau, böhmischer Adliger

Mathilde Bonaparte, princesse française (° 27 mai 1820).

James Longstreet

James Longstreet was Robert E. Lee's most trusted corps commander — and one of the most controversial figures of the Civil War. He fought at Gettysburg, Chickamauga, and the Wilderness. After the war, he committed the unforgivable sin in Southern eyes: he became a Republican and supported Reconstruction. Former allies spent decades blaming him for the loss at Gettysburg.

1907

Otto Benndorf, deutscher Archäologe

1913

Julius Euting, deutscher Bibliothekar

1913

Léon Teisserenc de Bort

Leon Teisserenc de Bort discovered the stratosphere. Using unmanned balloons launched from his private observatory near Paris, he showed that the atmosphere has distinct layers — with temperature stopping its decline at about 11 kilometers up. He published his findings in 1902. The boundary he identified is now called the tropopause.

1914

Fidel García Berlanga, abogado y político español (n.

Fidel García Berlanga, abogado y político español (n. 1859).

1915

Carl Goldmark

Carl Goldmark was a Hungarian-born composer best known for his opera The Queen of Sheba, which premiered in 1875 and was performed across Europe for decades. His lush, romantic style bridged the gap between Wagner and the Hungarian nationalist composers who followed.

1915

Karl Friedrich Richard Wagner, deutscher Kommunalpolitiker

1916

Félix Sardá y Salvany, religioso y escritor español (n.

Félix Sardá y Salvany, religioso y escritor español (n. 1841).

Léon Flameng

Leon Flameng won gold in the 100-kilometer track cycling event at the first modern Olympics in Athens in 1896. During the race, his opponent's bike broke down. Flameng stopped and waited for him to get a replacement before continuing — and still won by eleven laps. He died in 1917.

Edward Burnett Tylor

Edward Burnett Tylor is called the founder of cultural anthropology. His 1871 book Primitive Culture defined the concept of culture in academic terms and proposed that human societies evolve through stages. His framework was later challenged but never fully replaced.

Edward Burnett Tylor, antropólogo británico (n.

Edward Burnett Tylor, antropólogo británico (n. 1832).

Heinrich von Abel, deutscher Jurist und Politiker

1919

تركي الأول بن عبد العزيز آل سعود، أكبر أنجال الملك عبد العزيز آل سعود.

1920

Paul Adam

Paul Adam was a French novelist associated with the Symbolist and Naturalist movements. He wrote over fifty books and was one of the first writers convicted under France's obscenity laws for his novel Chair molle in 1885. He died in Paris on January 2, 1920.

1921

Theobald von Bethmann Hollweg, deutscher Verwaltungsbeamter und Politiker

1921

Doud Eisenhower

Doud Dwight Eisenhower was the first son of Dwight and Mamie Eisenhower. He died of scarlet fever on January 2, 1921, at age three. The loss devastated both parents. Eisenhower later wrote that it was the greatest disappointment of his life, and biographers have traced its influence on his emotional reserve throughout his military and political career.

1921

Franz Defregger, österreichischer Maler

1922

Gastón Eugène Marie Bonnier, botánico francés (n.

Gastón Eugène Marie Bonnier, botánico francés (n. 1853).

1923

Hedwig Blesi, Schweizer Erzieherin und Mundartschriftstellerin

1924

Hermann Junge, deutscher Gewerkschafter und Politiker

1924

Sabine Baring-Gould

Sabine Baring-Gould wrote the hymn "Onward, Christian Soldiers" in a single evening and spent the rest of his life producing novels, folklore collections, and hagiographies. He wrote over 1,200 publications in total. He was also squire of an estate in Devon, where he lived for forty-three years and fathered fifteen children.

1927

Ajad Ha’am (70), ensayista judío antisionista ruso-ucraniano (n.

Ajad Ha’am (70), ensayista judío antisionista ruso-ucraniano (n. 1856), expatriado en la Palestina árabe.

1928

Loïe Fuller, US-amerikanische Tänzerin und Schauspielerin

1930

Therese Malten, deutsche Opernsängerin

1932

Paul Pau, französischer General

1936

Sir Francis Newdegate

Sir Francis Newdegate served as Governor of Tasmania from 1917 to 1920. He was a British colonial administrator whose career took him across multiple postings in the Empire. His time in Tasmania was marked by the aftermath of World War I and the challenges of governing a small, remote colony.

1936

Harry B. Smith, US-amerikanischer Lyriker und Librettist

1936

Philipp Jakob Manz, deutscher Industriearchitekt

1937

André d’Erlanger, französischer Automobilrennfahrer

1938

Emil Göttisheim, Schweizer Jurist und Politiker

1939

Roman Dmowski

Roman Dmowski was one of the chief architects of Polish independence. He represented Poland at the Paris Peace Conference in 1919 and argued for the borders that shaped the new Polish state. His nationalist vision for Poland was controversial — it excluded minorities — but his role in restoring Polish statehood was undeniable.

1940

Albert Richter, deutscher Radrennfahrer

1941

Josef Strzygowski, österreichischer Kunsthistoriker

1941

Mischa Levitzki

Mischa Levitzki was a Russian-American pianist who became one of the most admired keyboard virtuosos of the 1920s and 1930s. His recording of his own composition, Valse in A major, was a bestseller. He died in 1941 at just forty-two.

1942

Franziska Steinitz, deutsche Romanistin und Übersetzerin, Holocaustopfer

1943

Max Augustin, österreichischer Lehrer und Politiker

1944

Jenny Stucke, türkische Person, erste Studentin und Ausländerin an der Universität zu Köln, Opfer der Shoa

1945

Admiral Sir Bertram Ramsay

Admiral Sir Bertram Ramsay planned the naval operations for the Dunkirk evacuation, the D-Day landings, and the invasion of Sicily. He was killed in a plane crash on January 2, 1945, while flying to a meeting with Montgomery. He's considered one of the most important naval commanders of World War II.

1946

Eduard Kado, deutscher Maler, Zeichner, Bildhauer und Kunstgewerbler

1946

Joe Darling

Joe Darling captained Australia's cricket team during the early 1900s and led them in three Ashes series against England. He was a hard-hitting left-handed batsman and one of the first players to challenge the cricket establishment on players' pay and conditions.

1948

Vicente Huidobro

Vicente Huidobro was a Chilean poet who co-founded the Creationism movement — the idea that a poem creates its own reality rather than imitating nature. He wrote in both Spanish and French and fought in the Spanish Civil War. He died in 1948.

1948

Augustin Chaboseau, historiador y publicista francés (n.

Augustin Chaboseau, historiador y publicista francés (n. 1868).

1948

Vicente Huidobro, poeta chileno (n.

Vicente Huidobro, poeta chileno (n. 1893).

1950

Emil Jannings, acteur allemand (° 23 juillet 1884).

1950

James Dooley

James Dooley served as the 21st Premier of New South Wales in 1921 and again in 1922, leading Australia's first Labor government in the state. Born in Ireland, he emigrated as a child and worked as a coal miner before entering politics. His time as premier was brief — less than a year total across both terms — but it broke ground for Labor's role in Australian governance.

1950

Theophrastos Sakellaridis

Theophrastos Sakellaridis composed operettas that defined Greek popular musical theater in the early twentieth century. His work O Vaflomastoras (The Wafflemaker) became one of the most performed Greek musical works of all time. He blended European operetta traditions with Greek folk melodies.

1951

Paul Münch, deutscher Lehrer und Pfälzer Mundartdichter

1951

William Campion

Sir William Campion served as the 21st Governor of Western Australia from 1924 to 1931. He was a decorated British Army officer who brought military discipline to the colonial governorship. His tenure coincided with the early years of the Great Depression in Australia.

1951

Edith New

Edith New was an English suffragette who was among the first women to chain herself to the railings at 10 Downing Street in 1908. She was arrested and imprisoned multiple times for her activism. Her militant approach to women's suffrage helped keep the cause in newspaper headlines.

1953

Guccio Gucci

Guccio Gucci worked as a bellhop at the Savoy Hotel in London. He watched wealthy guests carry fine luggage and thought he could do better. He went home to Florence and opened a leather goods shop in 1921. By the time he died on January 2, 1953, the Gucci name was already synonymous with Italian luxury. His grandchildren later tore the company apart in a family feud that ended in murder.

1954

Harald Abatz, deutscher Politiker

1954

James Pitcairn-Knowles, schottischer Maler, Grafiker und Bildhauer

1956

Eugen Papst, compositeur allemand (° 24 décembre 1886).

1957

Paul Peyerimhoff de Fontenelle, naturalista, botánico, entomólogo y zoólogo francés (n.

Paul Peyerimhoff de Fontenelle, naturalista, botánico, entomólogo y zoólogo francés (n. 1873).

1959

Chris van Abkoude

Chris van Abkoude was a Dutch-American children's book author who wrote popular adventure stories in the Netherlands before emigrating to the United States. His books were translated into multiple languages and enjoyed wide readership in the interwar period.

1960

Fausto Coppi, ciclista italiano (n.

Fausto Coppi, ciclista italiano (n. 1919).

1960

Paul Sauvé

Paul Sauve became Premier of Quebec in September 1959 and immediately signaled a break from the conservative Duplessis era. His catchphrase was "Desormais" — henceforth. He promised modernization and reform. Then he died of a heart attack one hundred days into his premiership. Many historians consider his death a catalyst for the Quiet Revolution that followed.

1960

Fausto Coppi

Fausto Coppi won the Tour de France twice and the Giro d'Italia five times. He and rival Gino Bartali split postwar Italy into two camps — Coppi fans and Bartali fans — with the intensity of a political divide. Coppi died of malaria on January 2, 1960, at forty. Italian cycling has never produced his equal.

1961

Daniel Chanis Pinzón, panamaischer Mediziner und Politiker

1962

Faris al-Churi, syrischer Politiker

1962

Kurt Seligmann, schweizerisch-US-amerikanischer surrealistischer Maler, Graphiker und Schriftsteller

1963

Dick Powell

Dick Powell started as a baby-faced crooner in 1930s musicals and reinvented himself as a tough-guy actor in noir films like Murder, My Sweet. He later became one of television's first major producer-directors. He died of cancer in 1963 — likely caused by radiation exposure during a film shoot near a nuclear test site in Nevada.

1963

Jack Carson

Jack Carson was a Canadian-born actor who appeared in over 100 Hollywood films, specializing in the fast-talking buddy roles that studio comedies needed. He starred alongside James Cagney, Doris Day, and Dennis Morgan. He died of stomach cancer in 1963.

1964

Pío Font y Quer, botánico, farmacéutico y químico español (n.

Pío Font y Quer, botánico, farmacéutico y químico español (n. 1888).

1964

Jutta Sika, österreichische Kunstgewerblerin

1965

Jenaro de Urrutia Olaran, pintor español (n.

Jenaro de Urrutia Olaran, pintor español (n. 1893).

1967

Marcello Bertinetti, italienischer Fechter, Fußballspieler und -trainer

1967

Ramón Zabalo, futbolista español (n.

Ramón Zabalo, futbolista español (n. 1910).

1968

Nikolai Stepulov

Nikolai Stepulov was an Estonian boxer who competed in the 1930s and represented Estonia in international bouts. He died in 1968.

1968

Edith Buemann, actriz cinematográfica danesa (n.

Edith Buemann, actriz cinematográfica danesa (n. 1879).

1968

Cuno Hoffmeister, deutscher Astronom und Geophysiker

1970

András Kuttik, ungarischer Fußballspieler und -trainer

1970

Piotr Rytel, polnischer Komponist, Musikpädagoge und -kritiker

1971

E. V. Knox

E. V. Knox — Edmund George Valpy Knox — edited Punch magazine during the 1930s and 1940s. He wrote light verse and satire in the tradition of British comic writing. He was the brother of theologian Ronald Knox and father of Penelope Fitzgerald, the novelist.

1971

Willard Maas

Willard Maas was an American poet and experimental filmmaker whose work with his wife Marie Menken helped establish the New York avant-garde film scene. Their apartment became a salon for artists including Andy Warhol and Jonas Mekas.

1971

Clemens Konermann, deutscher Geistlicher, Dekan von Werne

1973

Charles De Visscher, juriste belge (° 2 août 1884).

Mark Fax, US-amerikanischer Komponist und Musikpädagoge

Heinrich Glasmeyer, deutscher Politiker

Alex Willenberg, deutscher Gewerkschafter, Journalist und Politiker

Tex Ritter

Tex Ritter was a singing cowboy in 1930s and 1940s Western films and the father of actor John Ritter. He recorded "High Noon," the title song for the Gary Cooper film, and later served as president of the Country Music Association. He died on January 2, 1974.

Amanda Labarca, profesora, escritora, feminista, embajadora y política chilena (n.

Amanda Labarca, profesora, escritora, feminista, embajadora y política chilena (n. 1886).

Fritz Polcar, österreichischer Politiker

Walter Roos, deutscher General

Siraj Sikder

Siraj Sikder founded the Sarbahara Party and led a guerrilla uprising in newly independent Bangladesh. He was captured by security forces on January 1, 1975, and died in police custody the next day. The government said he was shot while trying to escape. Virtually no one believed them.

1976

Dan Kazuo, japanischer Schriftsteller

1977

René Belin, französischer Gewerkschafter und Politiker

1977

Erroll Garner

Erroll Garner taught himself piano and never learned to read music. He composed "Misty," one of the most recorded jazz standards in history, humming the melody while playing. His left hand kept time like a rhythm section while his right hand improvised behind the beat. He died on January 2, 1977.

1978

Curt Wittenbecher, deutscher Maler, Zeichner und Graphiker

1980

Alexandra Illmer Forsythe, US-amerikanische Informatikerin

1980

Larry Williams, chanteur, pianiste et compositeur américain (° 10 mai 1935).

1980

Roland Lebrun, kanadischer Singer-Songwriter

1981

Rose Rey-Duzil, comédienne canadienne (° 28 décembre 1895).

1981

Cora Ratto de Sadosky, argentinische Mathematikerin, Hochschullehrerin und Menschenrechtsaktivistin

1982

David Záizar, cantante mexicano (n.

David Záizar, cantante mexicano (n. 1930).

1983

Alba Mujica, actriz argentina (n.

Alba Mujica, actriz argentina (n. 1916).

1983

Rudolf Petersen, deutscher Marineoffizier

Dick Emery

Dick Emery was an English comedian known for his sketch show The Dick Emery Show, which ran on the BBC for twenty years. His catchphrase — "Ooh, you are awful... but I like you!" — became part of British popular culture.

Sebastián Juan Arbó, escritor español (n.

Sebastián Juan Arbó, escritor español (n. 1902).

Roberto Porta, uruguayisch-italienischer Fußballspieler und -trainer

Klaus Mehnert, deutscher Publizist, Politologe und Hochschullehrer

1985

Jacques de Lacretelle, écrivain et académicien français (° 14 juillet 1888).

Una Merkel

Una Merkel was an American actress who appeared in over ninety films. She was famous for a physical fight scene with Marlene Dietrich in Destry Rides Again that audiences thought was real. She won a Tony Award late in her career for The Ponder Heart. She died in 1986.

Dick James

Dick James published the Beatles. He co-founded Northern Songs with John Lennon and Paul McCartney to hold their songwriting catalog. When he sold his shares to ATV without telling them, Lennon and McCartney lost control of their own music. That decision haunted the Beatles' legacy for decades and taught every songwriter who followed to read the fine print.

William Louis « Bill » Veeck, Jr., dirigeant de baseball américain (° 9 février 1914).

Bill Veeck

Bill Veeck owned the Cleveland Indians, St. Louis Browns, and Chicago White Sox. He signed Larry Doby — the first Black player in the American League — sent a 3-foot-7 pinch hitter to bat in a real game, and installed the first exploding scoreboard. He did more to make baseball entertaining than any owner before or since.

1987

Harekrushna Mahatab

Harekrushna Mahatab was a freedom fighter, journalist, and the first Chief Minister of Odisha after Indian independence. He also wrote extensively on Odia history and culture. His political career spanned both the independence movement and the first decades of the Indian republic. He died on January 2, 1987.

1987

Ramón Castroviejo, oftalmólogo español (n.

Ramón Castroviejo, oftalmólogo español (n. 1904).

1987

Jean de Gribaldy, ciclista y director deportivo francés (n.

Jean de Gribaldy, ciclista y director deportivo francés (n. 1922).

1988

Luise Glowinski-Taubert, deutsche Malerin

1988

Anna Gottburgsen, deutsche Blumen- und Landschaftsmalerin

1989

Safdar Hashmi

Safdar Hashmi was an Indian street theater activist who was beaten to death by political thugs while performing a play for factory workers in 1989. He was thirty-four. His murder galvanized India's cultural and political left. The Safdar Hashmi Memorial Trust (SAHMAT) continues his work.

1989

Edward « Eddie » Heywood, Jr., pianiste, compositeur et chef d’orchestre américain (° 4 décembre 1915).

Leonhard Merzin

Leonhard Merzin was an Estonian actor who appeared in numerous Soviet-era films. He was one of Estonia's most recognizable performers during the decades when the country was part of the USSR and its film industry served both Estonian and Soviet audiences.

Evangelos Averoff

Evangelos Averoff was a Greek politician who served as Minister of Foreign Affairs and Minister of Defense. He played a central role in Greek politics during the Cold War era and was a leading figure in the conservative New Democracy party.

Alan Hale Jr.

Alan Hale Jr. played the Skipper on Gilligan's Island for three seasons and spent the rest of his life being recognized for nothing else. He opened a restaurant called The Lobster Barrel and greeted customers in his captain's hat. He died on January 2, 1990.

Juan Urteaga Loidi, spanischer Organist, Chorleiter, Musikpädagoge und Komponist

1991

Noma Hiroshi, japanischer Schriftsteller

1991

Renato Rascel, actor y cantautor italiano (n.

Renato Rascel, actor y cantautor italiano (n. 1912).

1992

Hedwig Haß, deutsche Florettfechterin

1992

Ginette Leclerc (Geneviève Lucie Menut dite), actrice française (° 9 février 1912).

1993

Valerie Wellington, US-amerikanische Bluessängerin

1994

Dixy Lee Ray

Dixy Lee Ray was a marine biologist who became chair of the Atomic Energy Commission and then the 17th governor of Washington state. She was blunt, lived in a converted bus with her dogs, and infuriated both parties equally. She served one term and lost her reelection primary. She died on January 2, 1994.

1994

Lys Gauty (Alice Gauthier dite), chanteuse française (° 14 février 1900).

1994

Pierre-Paul Schweitzer

Pierre-Paul Schweitzer served as Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund from 1963 to 1973, steering the institution through the collapse of the Bretton Woods system. When Nixon took the dollar off the gold standard in 1971, Schweitzer had to rebuild the framework of international currency exchange. He died in 1994.

1995

Manuel Rivera Hernández, pintor español (n.

Manuel Rivera Hernández, pintor español (n. 1927).

1995

Siad Barre

Siad Barre ruled Somalia for 21 years through a military dictatorship backed first by the Soviet Union and then by the United States. His regime collapsed in 1991, plunging the country into clan warfare that continued for decades. He fled to Nigeria, where he died on January 2, 1995. Somalia still hadn't reconstituted a functioning central government.

1995

Nancy Kelly

Nancy Kelly won the Tony Award for Best Actress for The Bad Seed in 1955 and reprised the role in the film version. She had started as a child actress in the 1930s and worked across stage, film, and television for five decades.

Theodor Joedicke, deutscher Arzt, erster Inspekteur des Sanitäts- und Gesundheitswesens der Bundeswehr

Karl Rappan

Karl Rappan was an Austrian footballer and coach who invented the verrou ("bolt") defensive system — a precursor to catenaccio that transformed European football tactics. He coached the Swiss national team for twenty years and is credited with making Switzerland competitive against larger nations.

Karl Targownik

Karl Targownik was a Hungarian-born psychiatrist who practiced in the United States. His career spanned decades of development in psychiatric medicine, from the post-war era through the shift to pharmacological treatment.

Émile Fouchard, französischer Politiker und Résistant

Carlos Blasco de Imaz, político español (n.

Carlos Blasco de Imaz, político español (n. 1924).

1997

Randy California, US-amerikanischer Gitarrist

1997

Joan Corominas, filólogo español (n.

Joan Corominas, filólogo español (n. 1905).

1997

Randy California

Randy California co-founded Spirit with his stepfather, drummer Ed Cassidy, when he was just seventeen. The band's 1968 track "Taurus" contained a guitar intro that Jimmy Page likely borrowed for "Stairway to Heaven." California drowned off the coast of Hawaii on January 2, 1997, saving his twelve-year-old son from a riptide. He was forty-five.

1998

Max Colpet, deutscher Lied-Texter

1998

Frank Muir

Frank Muir was a British comedy writer and television personality whose partnership with Denis Norden produced scripts for radio and TV throughout the 1950s and 1960s. He was a fixture on panel shows and was known for his wit, his bow tie, and his lisp. He died in 1998.

1998

Fred Naumetz, US-amerikanischer American-Football-Spieler

Sebastian Haffner

Sebastian Haffner — born Raimund Pretzel — was a German journalist who fled Nazi Germany in 1938 and spent the war writing for British newspapers. His posthumously published memoir, Defying Hitler, described how ordinary Germans accommodated the Nazi regime. It became a bestseller decades after his death.

Rolf Liebermann

Rolf Liebermann was a Swiss composer and opera administrator who ran the Hamburg State Opera and the Paris Opera. Under his leadership, both houses became centers of innovation in operatic staging and repertoire. He commissioned works from major contemporary composers.

Harvey Perrin, kanadischer Geiger, Bratschist, Chordirigent und Musikpädagoge

Karl-Heinz Bringer, deutscher Ingenieur und Raketentechniker, Mitentwickler der V2

Margot Cottens, actriz uruguaya (n.

Margot Cottens, actriz uruguaya (n. 1925).

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Elmo Zumwalt

Admiral Elmo Zumwalt Jr. served as the youngest Chief of Naval Operations in U.S. history. He desegregated the Navy, allowed beards, and pushed reforms that infuriated traditionalists and earned him loyalty from enlisted sailors. His son Elmo III served in Vietnam, where exposure to Agent Orange — authorized by his father — caused the cancer that killed him. Zumwalt Sr. carried that burden publicly until his own death in 2000.

Clemens Heselhaus, deutscher Germanist und Literaturwissenschaftler

Nat Adderley

Nat Adderley played cornet alongside his brother Cannonball in one of jazz's greatest partnerships. He wrote "Work Song" and "Jive Samba," both of which became jazz standards. He spent his career in his brother's shadow but was a distinctive voice in his own right. He died on January 2, 2000.

Patrick O'Brian

Patrick O'Brian wrote the Aubrey-Maturin series — twenty novels set during the Napoleonic Wars that are widely considered the finest historical fiction in the English language. His prose drew comparisons to Jane Austen. He wrote in a stone cottage in the south of France, producing a book nearly every year. He died on January 2, 2000.

Henri-René « Jimmy » Guieu, écrivain de science-fiction, essayiste ufologue et homme de radio français (° 19 mars 1926).

Jean-Paul Nolet, animateur de radio et de télévision canadien (° 24 août 1924).

Nat Adderley, músico de jazz estadounidense (n.

Nat Adderley, músico de jazz estadounidense (n. 1933).

María de las Mercedes de Borbón y Orleans, condesa de Barcelona y madre del rey Juan Carlos I (n.

María de las Mercedes de Borbón y Orleans, condesa de Barcelona y madre del rey Juan Carlos I (n. 1910).

Ana María Martínez Sagi, periodista y deportista española (n.

Ana María Martínez Sagi, periodista y deportista española (n. 1907).

Ramiro Better, cantante colombiano (n.

Ramiro Better, cantante colombiano (n. 1963).

William P. Rogers

William P. Rogers served as Eisenhower's Attorney General and then Nixon's Secretary of State. He negotiated the ceasefire in Vietnam but was largely sidelined by Henry Kissinger's back-channel diplomacy. He also chaired the commission that investigated the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster in 1986. He died on January 2, 2001.

Alison de Vere, directora de animación británica.

Alison de Vere, directora de animación británica. (n. 1927).

Teri Diver

Teri Diver was an American actress who appeared in several films in the late 1990s and early 2000s. She died in 2001 at age twenty-nine, her career still in its early stages.

William P. Rogers, American lieutenant, lawyer, and politician, 55th United States Secretary of State (born 1913)

2002

Armi Aavikko

Armi Aavikko won Miss Finland in 1977 and became one of the country's most recognizable faces. She later built a career as a singer and television personality. Her death in 2002 at age forty-three was front-page news across Finland.

2002

Armi Aavikko, cantante finlandesa (n.

Armi Aavikko, cantante finlandesa (n. 1958).

2003

Eric Jupp

Eric Jupp was a British-born pianist, composer, and arranger who emigrated to Australia and became one of the country's most prolific musical directors. He arranged music for film, television, and recordings across four decades.

2003

José María Mendiola Insausti, escritor español (n.

José María Mendiola Insausti, escritor español (n. 1929).

Lynn Cartwright

Lynn Cartwright was an American actress who appeared in films and television across three decades. She worked in the Hollywood system during the transition from the studio era to independent production.

Jess Collins

Jess Collins — known simply as Jess — was an American visual artist who created dense, layered paste-ups and paintings drawn from comic strips, alchemy, and Romantic poetry. He was the longtime partner of poet Robert Duncan and a key figure in the San Francisco Renaissance.

Francis Bayer, compositeur français (° 11 juillet 1938).

Larissa Matwejenko, sowjetische Schauspielerin und Synchronsprecherin

Mihai Ivăncescu, rumänischer Fußballspieler

Paul Hopkins, joueur de baseball américain (° 25 septembre 1904).

Lynn Cartwright, actrice américaine (° 27 février 1927).

John Grandy, homme politique britannique (° 8 février 1913).

André Persiani, musicien français (° 19 novembre 1927).

Maria Clara Lobregat, femme politique philippine (° 26 avril 1921).

Lucien Hérouard, footballeur français (° 30 juillet 1921).

Maclyn McCarty

Maclyn McCarty was part of the team at Rockefeller University that proved DNA carries genetic information in 1944 — one of the most important experiments in the history of biology. He worked with Oswald Avery and Colin MacLeod on the Avery-MacLeod-McCarty experiment. He died in 2005.

Edo Murtić

Edo Murtic was a Croatian painter and one of the founders of abstract art in the former Yugoslavia. His large-scale canvases, inspired by the Croatian coastline and Abstract Expressionism, hang in galleries across Europe. He died in 2005.

Ronald 'Bo' Ginn

Bo Ginn served as a U.S. Representative from Georgia for ten years. He was a conservative Democrat who represented a rural district and focused on agricultural and military affairs in Congress.

Frank Kelly Freas

Frank Kelly Freas was the most prolific science fiction illustrator in history. He won eleven Hugo Awards for Best Professional Artist and painted covers for Analog, Mad magazine, and NASA. His artwork defined how a generation pictured the future.

Cyril Fletcher

Cyril Fletcher was a British comedian famous for his "Odd Odes" — comic verses he performed on radio and television for over sixty years. He was a fixture on the BBC show That's Life! and one of British comedy's most enduring minor treasures. He died in 2005.

Bernard Béreau, footballeur français (° 4 octobre 1940).

Arnold Denker, joueur d'échecs américain (° 20 février 1914).

Frank Kelly Freas, illustrateur de science-fiction américain (° 27 août 1922).

Claude Meillassoux, anthropologue français (° 26 décembre 1925).

Edo Murtić, peintre croate (° 4 mai 1921).

Charles Paul Wilp, photographe allemand (° 15 septembre 1932).

Arlette Gruss, femme de cirque française (° 17 novembre 1930).

Cecilia Muñoz-Palma

Cecilia Munoz-Palma was the first woman to serve as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines. She later presided over the Constitutional Commission that drafted the 1987 Philippine Constitution after the fall of Ferdinand Marcos. She died on January 2, 2006.

Toni Hilti, Liechtensteiner Unternehmer

Osa Massen

Osa Massen was a Danish-American actress who appeared in Hollywood films in the 1940s and 1950s. She starred in science fiction and crime films, including Rocketship X-M. She died in 2006.

Lidia Wysocka

Lidia Wysocka was a Polish actress and theater director who worked across film, television, and stage for over sixty years. She was a leading figure in Polish theater during both the Communist and post-Communist periods. She died in 2006.

Lidia Wysocka, atriz polonesa (n.

Lidia Wysocka, atriz polonesa (n. 1916).

Paek Nam-sun

Paek Nam-sun served as North Korea's Foreign Minister for nine years. He represented one of the world's most isolated regimes on the international stage. Before his diplomatic career, he served in the Korean People's Army. He died in 2007.

Sergio Jiménez, actor y director mexicano (n.

Sergio Jiménez, actor y director mexicano (n. 1937).

Elizabeth Fox-Genovese

Elizabeth Fox-Genovese was an American historian who specialized in women's history and the antebellum South. Her book Within the Plantation Household examined the lives of slaveholding and enslaved women. She later became a vocal critic of contemporary feminism and converted to Catholicism.

Garry Betty

Garry Betty served as president and CEO of EarthLink, one of the largest internet service providers in the early days of consumer internet. He led the company during the dial-up era and its transition to broadband. He died of cancer in 2007 at age forty-nine.

Paek Nam-sun, nordkoreanischer Diplomat und Politiker

Wiard Popkes, deutscher Theologe und Hochschullehrer

Teddy Kollek

Teddy Kollek served as mayor of Jerusalem for twenty-eight years, from 1965 to 1993. He governed through wars, intifadas, and the constant tensions of a divided city. He built cultural institutions, expanded parks, and tried to make Jerusalem livable for all its communities. He died in 2007.

Richard Newton

Richard Newton — A. Richard Newton — was an Australian-born computer scientist who became dean of engineering at UC Berkeley. His work on electronic design automation tools helped make modern semiconductor chip design possible. He died in 2007 at fifty-five.

David Perkins

David Perkins was an American geneticist who spent decades studying the genetics of Neurospora — a bread mold that became one of biology's most important model organisms. His work at Stanford helped establish the field of fungal genetics.

Dan Shaver

Dan Shaver was an American racecar driver who competed on short tracks across the southeastern United States. He was part of the grassroots racing community that feeds talent into NASCAR's national series.

Robert C. Solomon

Robert C. Solomon was an American philosopher who specialized in existentialism, the philosophy of emotions, and business ethics. He taught at the University of Texas at Austin for over thirty years and wrote numerous books that made continental philosophy accessible to American readers.

Don Massengale

Don Massengale won the 1966 Canadian Open and the 1967 Bing Crosby National Pro-Am on the PGA Tour. He competed consistently through the 1960s and 1970s on a tour dominated by Nicklaus and Palmer. He died in 2007 at sixty-nine.

Mauno Jokipii

Mauno Jokipii was a Finnish historian and author who specialized in the history of Finland's participation in World War II. His research on Finnish-German military cooperation during the Continuation War remains a standard reference.

A. Richard Newton

Duplicate entry for A. Richard Newton, the Australian-born computer scientist and UC Berkeley engineering dean whose work on electronic design automation helped enable modern chip design.

Günter Schubert, deutscher Schauspieler

O. G. Style, US-amerikanischer Rapper

Moon Kim, US-amerikanische Rock-’n’-Roll-Sängerin

Galyani Vadhana

Princess Galyani Vadhana was the elder sister of two Thai kings — Bhumibol Adulyadej and Ananda Mahidol. She devoted her life to education and cultural preservation, founding schools and supporting classical Thai arts. Her death on January 2, 2008, prompted a year of national mourning in Thailand.

Gerry Staley

Gerry Staley pitched in the major leagues for fifteen seasons, mostly for the Cardinals and White Sox. He was an All-Star three times and recorded the final out of the 1959 American League pennant clincher for Chicago. He died in 2008.

Martinus Tels

Martinus Tels was a Dutch physicist and chemical engineer who made contributions to the understanding of chemical reactions and material science at Delft University of Technology. He died in 2008.

Robert C. Schnitzer, actor y productor estadounidense (n.

Robert C. Schnitzer, actor y productor estadounidense (n. 1906).

Lee S. Dreyfus

Lee Sherman Dreyfus served as the 40th governor of Wisconsin, famous for his red vest and populist style. A former university president, he won the governorship as a Republican outsider in 1978. He served one term, then returned to academia. He died on January 2, 2008.

Julio Martínez Prádanos, periodista deportivo chileno (n.

Julio Martínez Prádanos, periodista deportivo chileno (n. 1923).

George MacDonald Fraser

George MacDonald Fraser wrote the Flashman novels — a series of historical adventures narrated by a cowardly, lecherous Victorian soldier who accidentally becomes a hero. The twelve books span the major conflicts of the nineteenth century. Fraser was also a screenwriter who penned three of the Three Musketeers films.

Inger Christensen

Inger Christensen was a Danish poet whose masterwork, Alphabet, uses the Fibonacci sequence as its structural principle. Each section grows mathematically while cataloging both the beautiful and the terrible things in the world. She was considered one of the greatest Scandinavian poets of the twentieth century.

Steven Gilborn, US-amerikanischer Schauspieler

Jett Travolta, fils de John Travolta et Kelly Preston acteurs et scientologues américains (° 13 avril 1992).

Maria de Jesus

Maria de Jesus was a Portuguese woman who lived to 115 years and 114 days, making her the oldest person in the world at the time of her death in 2009. She was born in 1893, the same year the Portuguese monarchy was still in power, and lived to see two world wars, a revolution, and the digital age.

David Gerber, produtor executivo de televisão estadunidense (n.

David Gerber, produtor executivo de televisão estadunidense (n. 1923).

Deborah Howell, jornalista estadunidense (n.

Deborah Howell, jornalista estadunidense (n. 1941).

Hannie Pollmann-Zaal, niederländische Diplomatin

Alexandru Ionitza, rumänischer Opernsänger

David R. Ross

David R. Ross was a Scottish historian and author who served as the convenor of the Society of William Wallace. He wrote extensively about Scottish independence and the Wars of Independence. He died in 2010, having spent his career keeping medieval Scottish history alive for modern readers.

Jan van Beek, jornalista neerlandês (n.

Jan van Beek, jornalista neerlandês (n. 1925).

Margot Stevenson, atriz estadunidense (n.

Margot Stevenson, atriz estadunidense (n. 1912).

Eliseu Resende, engenheiro civil e político brasileiro (n.

Eliseu Resende, engenheiro civil e político brasileiro (n. 1929).

Ernst Bruun Olsen, dänischer Schauspieler, Dramatiker, Hörspielautor und Regisseur

Manuel Riu Riu, catedrático, historiador y arqueólogo español (n.

Manuel Riu Riu, catedrático, historiador y arqueólogo español (n. 1929).

Émile Masson, ciclista belga (n.

Émile Masson, ciclista belga (n. 1915).

Anne Francis

Anne Francis starred in the science fiction classic Forbidden Planet in 1956 and the television series Honey West in 1965 — one of the first shows to feature a female private detective. She worked in Hollywood for over fifty years. She died on January 2, 2011.

Pete Postlethwaite

Pete Postlethwaite was an English actor Steven Spielberg called "the best actor in the world." He appeared in The Usual Suspects, In the Name of the Father, and Brassed Off. He died on January 2, 2011. He'd been quietly brilliant for so long that his death surprised people who assumed he'd always be there.

Szeto Wah

Szeto Wah was a Hong Kong politician and pro-democracy activist who helped lead the response to the Tiananmen Square massacre in 1989. He co-founded the Hong Kong Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movements of China. He spent decades pushing for democratic reform in Hong Kong.

Richard Winters

Richard Winters led Easy Company of the 101st Airborne through Normandy, the Battle of the Bulge, and into Hitler's Eagle's Nest. His wartime exploits became the basis for the HBO series Band of Brothers. He spent his post-war years farming in Pennsylvania, rarely speaking publicly about the war. He died quietly on January 2, 2011, at ninety-two. His men called him the best combat officer they'd ever seen.

Bali Ram Bhagat

Bali Ram Bhagat served as India's 16th Governor of Rajasthan and held multiple cabinet positions during his long career in the Indian National Congress. He was a freedom fighter during the independence movement and later served as Minister of External Affairs. He died on January 2, 2011.

Richard Davis Winters, militaire américain (° 21 janvier 1918).

Vivi Friedman

Vivi Friedman was a Finnish-American director and screenwriter who worked in independent film. She died in 2012 at age forty-four, leaving behind a small body of work in the independent cinema scene.

Abdelfattah Amor (عبد الفتاح عمر), juriste et universitaire tunisien (° 4 mars 1943).

Beatriz Bandeira, escritora brasileira (n.

Beatriz Bandeira, escritora brasileira (n. 1909).

Arend Voortman, economista e político neerlandês (n.

Arend Voortman, economista e político neerlandês (n. 1930).

Paulo Rodrigues da Silva

Paulo Rodrigues da Silva was a Brazilian footballer who died in 2012 at age twenty-six. He was one of many young Brazilian athletes whose careers ended in tragedy before reaching their potential.

William P. Carey

William Polk Carey built W. P. Carey & Co. into one of the largest net lease finance companies in the world. He donated over $100 million to education, including naming gifts to the Arizona State University business school and the Johns Hopkins University Carey Business School. He died on January 2, 2012.

Ian Bargh

Ian Bargh was a Scottish-Canadian pianist and composer who built a career in the Toronto jazz scene. He performed and recorded for decades, contributing to Canada's jazz community. He died in 2012.

Anatoly Kolesov, luchador ruso, medallista de oro olímpico (n.

Anatoly Kolesov, luchador ruso, medallista de oro olímpico (n. 1938).

Antonio Pérez Arnay, crítico de cine de las Islas Canarias (n.

Antonio Pérez Arnay, crítico de cine de las Islas Canarias (n. 1959).

Larry Reinhardt, guitarrista estadounidense de rock, de las bandas Captain Beyond, Iron Butterfly (n.

Larry Reinhardt, guitarrista estadounidense de rock, de las bandas Captain Beyond, Iron Butterfly (n. 1948).

Kristian Anderson, australischer Blogger und Videoeditor

Ian Bargh, britisch-kanadischer Jazzpianist

Ivan Calin, sowjetischer und moldawischer Politiker

Larry Reinhardt

Larry Reinhardt played guitar for Iron Butterfly during their post-"In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida" era and later co-founded Captain Beyond, a supergroup that blended progressive rock with heavy metal before the term existed. He died on January 2, 2012, at sixty-three. His playing influenced a generation of guitarists who never knew his name.

Gordon Hirabayashi

Gordon Hirabayashi challenged the U.S. government's internment of Japanese Americans during World War II all the way to the Supreme Court. He lost in 1943 but was vindicated in 1987 when his conviction was overturned. He spent his academic career at the University of Alberta. He died in 2012.

Yoshiro Hayashi

Yoshiro Hayashi was a Japanese professional golfer who competed on the Japan Golf Tour for decades. He was part of the generation that built Japanese golf into a major professional sport.

Silvana Gallardo

Silvana Gallardo was an American actress who appeared in films and television throughout the 1980s and 1990s. She worked steadily in the Hollywood system as a character actress. She died in 2012.

Merv Hunter

Merv Hunter was an Australian politician who served in the Tasmanian Parliament. He represented the Labor Party and held various positions in state government during his political career.

Susan Nolen-Hoeksema

Susan Nolen-Hoeksema was an American psychologist who researched depression and rumination. Her work on how repetitive negative thinking drives and sustains depression has influenced cognitive behavioral therapy worldwide. She died in 2013 at fifty-three.

Maulvi Nazir

Maulvi Nazir was a Pakistani militant leader in South Waziristan who fought against foreign fighters in the tribal areas while maintaining an ambiguous relationship with the Pakistani military. He was killed by a U.S. drone strike on January 2, 2013.

Ladislao Mazurkiewicz

Ladislao Mazurkiewicz was a Uruguayan goalkeeper considered one of the best in South American football history. He played in three World Cups and was named the best goalkeeper of the 1970 tournament. He died in 2013.

Gerda Lerner

Gerda Lerner fled Nazi Austria in 1939 and became one of the founders of women's history as an academic discipline in the United States. Her books The Creation of Patriarchy and The Creation of Feminist Consciousness reframed how historians understood gender and power. She died in 2013.

Géza Koroknay

Geza Koroknay was a Hungarian actor who appeared in dozens of films and television productions over a career spanning four decades. He worked primarily in Hungarian cinema during the Communist era and the transition to democracy that followed.

Mamie Rearden

Mamie Rearden was an American super-centenarian who lived to 114 years. Born in 1898 in South Carolina, she lived through both world wars, the civil rights movement, and the election of the first Black president. She died in 2013.

Charles Chilton

Charles Chilton was an English radio producer who created Journey into Space for the BBC — the last radio program to attract a larger audience than television in Britain. He also wrote the script that became Oh, What a Lovely War! He worked at the BBC for over fifty years.

Ned Wertimer

Ned Wertimer was an American character actor best known for playing Ralph the Doorman on The Jeffersons. He appeared in the role for all eleven seasons of the show's run. He died in 2013 at eighty-nine.

Council Cargle

Council Cargle was an American actor who appeared in over two dozen films and television shows. He worked as a character actor in Hollywood for nearly five decades. He died in 2013.

Jim Boyd

Jim Boyd was an American actor who worked in film and television for several decades. He appeared in supporting roles across multiple productions. He died in 2013.

Jim Boyd, actor estadounidense (n.

Jim Boyd, actor estadounidense (n. 1933).

Ladislao Mazurkiewicz, futbolista uruguayo (n.

Ladislao Mazurkiewicz, futbolista uruguayo (n. 1945).

Teresa Torańska

Teresa Toranska was a Polish journalist whose book Oni — interviews with Stalinist-era officials in Poland — became one of the most important works of underground journalism in Cold War Eastern Europe. She published it clandestinely in 1985. The officials' candid admissions shocked readers across the Soviet bloc.

Stephen Resnick

Stephen Resnick was an American Marxist economist at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. His work with Richard Wolff on class analysis and anti-capitalist economics influenced a generation of heterodox economists. He died in 2013.

Dirk Sager, deutscher Journalist

Thomas Kurzhals, deutscher Komponist und Musiker

Yōko Mitsui

Yoko Mitsui was a Japanese poet whose work explored themes of femininity, nature, and mortality in the haiku and tanka traditions. She published multiple collections and was recognized as a significant voice in contemporary Japanese poetry. She died in 2014.

Arnold A. Saltzman

Arnold A. Saltzman was an American businessman and philanthropist who served in World War II and built a career in business and government service. He endowed the Saltzman War and Peace Studies program at Columbia University.

Yōko Mitsui, poetisa japonesa (n.

Yōko Mitsui, poetisa japonesa (n. 1936).

Harald Nugiseks

Harald Nugiseks was one of the last surviving Estonian recipients of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross, awarded for his service fighting on the Eastern Front during World War II. The award and his wartime service remained controversial in post-independence Estonia. He died in 2014 at ninety-two.

Terry Biddlecombe

Terry Biddlecombe was a champion jump jockey in Britain who won the National Hunt Championship three times in the 1960s. He was known for his fearless riding style and his hard-living personality off the course. He died in 2014.

Anne Dorte of Rosenborg

Anne Dorte of Rosenborg was a Danish noblewoman and member of the extended Danish royal family. She lived a relatively private life compared to the senior royals. She died in 2014.

Bernard Glasser

Bernard Glasser was an American film director and producer who worked in B-movies and genre films. He produced and directed dozens of features across adventure, war, and action genres. He died in 2014.

Elizabeth Jane Howard

Elizabeth Jane Howard was an English novelist whose Cazalet Chronicles — a five-novel saga of an English family from 1937 to 1947 — earned her a devoted readership. She was also once married to Kingsley Amis, an experience she later described as miserable. She died in 2014.

R. Crosby Kemper

R. Crosby Kemper Jr. was a Kansas City banker and philanthropist who led the UMB Financial Corporation for decades. He also served as chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City and donated heavily to education and the arts in Missouri.

Thomas Kurzhals

Thomas Kurzhals played keyboards for Karat and Stern-Combo Meissen, two of East Germany's biggest rock bands. In a country where the state controlled what musicians could record and perform, Kurzhals helped create music that pushed the boundaries of what was allowed. He died in 2014 at age sixty.

Michael J. Matthews

Michael J. Matthews served as the 34th Mayor of Atlantic City. He was convicted of corruption shortly after taking office, part of a long tradition of Atlantic City mayors who couldn't resist the temptations of a city built on gambling and backroom deals. He died in 2014.

Jay Traynor

Jay Traynor sang lead for The Mystics, the doo-wop group behind "Hushabye," before joining Jay and the Americans as their original frontman. He left the group in 1962, replaced by Jay Black, whose bigger voice drove the band to mainstream hits. Traynor spent the rest of his career in the nostalgia circuit. He died in 2014 at seventy.

Derek Minter

Derek Minter was an English motorcycle racer known as the "King of Brands" for his dominance at Brands Hatch circuit. He won over 200 races and was one of British motorcycle racing's biggest stars in the 1960s. He died in 2015.

Per-Olof Åstrand, schwedischer Physiologe und Sportwissenschaftler

Little Jimmy Dickens, cantante estadounidense (n.

Little Jimmy Dickens, cantante estadounidense (n. 1920).

Jean-François Obembé, sociologue, politologue, professeur, diplomate et homme politique congolais (° 2 juillet 1947).

Suzanne Lapointe, artiste québécoise (° 16 mai 1934).

Tihomir Novakov

Tihomir Novakov was a Serbian-American physicist who pioneered research on the climate effects of black carbon — soot particles from combustion that absorb sunlight. His work at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory helped establish the link between air pollution and global warming.

Gisela Mota Ocampo

Gisela Mota Ocampo was sworn in as mayor of Temixco, Mexico on January 1, 2016. She was assassinated the next day. Gunmen stormed her home in a targeted killing linked to drug cartels. She was thirty-three. Her murder exemplified the lethal risks facing local officials in Mexico's drug war.

Marcel Barbeau, peintre et sculpteur québécois (° 18 février 1925).

Michel Delpech (Jean Michel Bertrand Delpech dit), chanteur français (° 26 janvier 1946).

Serge Groussard, journaliste et écrivain français (° 18 janvier 1921).

Wilfried Wessel, deutscher Kommunalpolitiker

Frances Cress Welsing

Frances Cress Welsing was an American psychiatrist whose book The Isis Papers presented a theory of racism rooted in psychoanalysis. Her work was controversial and polarizing but influential in Black intellectual circles. She practiced psychiatry in Washington, D.C. for over forty years.

Ardhendu Bhushan Bardhan

Ardhendu Bhushan Bardhan was the general secretary of the Communist Party of India and one of the country's most prominent leftist politicians. He spent decades in the Indian communist movement, bridging the independence-era struggle with post-independence politics.

Nimr al-Nimr

Nimr al-Nimr was a Saudi Shia cleric executed by the Saudi government on January 2, 2016. His death triggered diplomatic crises across the Middle East. Iran's response included the storming of the Saudi embassy in Tehran. The execution deepened the Sunni-Shia divide in the region.

Viktor Tsarev (Виктор Григорьевич Царёв), footballeur russe (° 2 juin 1931).

José Barbara, pilote de rallye français (° 6 juin 1944).

Albert Brewer

Albert Brewer became governor of Alabama in 1968 after Lurleen Wallace died in office. He tried to reform Alabama's education system and move the state past its segregationist reputation. George Wallace challenged him in 1970 with a racially charged campaign and won. Brewer spent the rest of his career in law and public service.

John Berger

John Berger wrote Ways of Seeing, a book and television series that changed how a generation thought about visual art. His observation that "the relation between what we see and what we know is never settled" became one of the most quoted lines in art criticism. He won the Booker Prize and gave half the money to the Black Panthers. He died on January 2, 2017.

François Chérèque, syndicaliste français (° 1er juin 1956).

Jean Vuarnet

Jean Vuarnet won the Olympic gold medal in downhill skiing at the 1960 Squaw Valley Games — the first Olympic downhill won using the aerodynamic tuck position. He later lent his name to Vuarnet sunglasses, which became a status symbol in the 1980s. He died in 2017.

István Tatár, athlète de sprint hongrois (° 4 mars 1958).

2018

Thomas S. Monson

Thomas S. Monson led the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints as its 16th president from 2008 until his death on January 2, 2018. He'd served in church leadership since age 36, when he became one of the youngest apostles in modern LDS history. Under his tenure, the church lowered the missionary age and reached 16 million members worldwide.

2018

Guida Maria

Guida Maria was a Portuguese actress who worked in Portuguese film, television, and theater for over four decades. She was one of Portugal's most familiar screen presences. She died in 2018.

Daryl Dragon

Daryl Dragon — "The Captain" — was one half of Captain & Tennille, the husband-wife duo who scored a number-one hit with "Love Will Keep Us Together" in 1975. The song won the Grammy for Record of the Year. Dragon was a painfully shy musician who hid behind his captain's hat. He died in 2019.

Julia Grant

Julia Grant was a British transgender woman who appeared in the 1980 documentary A Change of Sex, one of the first British programs to follow a person through gender transition. She became a public advocate for transgender rights in Britain. She died in 2019.

Bob Einstein

He was known as Super Dave Osborne, a hapless stuntman who failed spectacularly and kept going. Bob Einstein — the brother of Albert Brooks, real name — had one of the most absurdist recurring characters in American comedy for three decades, a man whose every attempt at danger ended in catastrophe delivered with complete deadpan seriousness. He also played Marty Funkhouser on Curb Your Enthusiasm. He died of cancer in January 2019. Larry David's tribute: "There was no funnier man."

Gene Okerlund

Gene Okerlund was professional wrestling's most famous interviewer. His voice — earnest, dramatic, perpetually astonished — became the soundtrack for WWE's golden age. He interviewed Hulk Hogan, Andre the Giant, and Macho Man Randy Savage for over three decades. Fans knew him as "Mean Gene." He died on January 2, 2019.

Veronika Fitz, deutsche Volksschauspielerin

Élisabeth Rappeneau, réalisatrice et scénariste de cinéma et de télévision française (° 19 janvier 1940).

نجوى قاسم، مذيعة لبنانية.

Luis Fernando Orozco, fue un actor colombiano.

Luis Fernando Orozco, fue un actor colombiano. (n. 1943).

Burghard Deleroi, deutscher Fußballtorwart

Paul Westphal, US-amerikanischer Basketballspieler und -trainer

Brian Urquhart, diplomático y soldado británico (n.

Brian Urquhart, diplomático y soldado británico (n. 1919).

Cléber Eduardo Arado, futebolista brasileiro (n.

Cléber Eduardo Arado, futebolista brasileiro (n. 1972).

Saliu Adetunji, monarque nigérian (° 26 août 1928).

Juan Manuel Albendea, homme politique espagnol (° 8 juin 1937).

Ana Bejerano, cantante española, integrante del grupo Mocedades (n.

Ana Bejerano, cantante española, integrante del grupo Mocedades (n. 1961).

Wiktor Sanejew, sowjetischer Dreispringer

Richard Leakey, antropólogo, paleontólogo y político keniano (n.

Richard Leakey, antropólogo, paleontólogo y político keniano (n. 1944).

Jean-Guy Couture, évêque canadien (° 6 mai 1929).

Gianni Celati, écrivain et universitaire italien (° 10 janvier 1937).

Alain Acart, französischer Kanute

Ken Block, piloto de automovilismo estadounidense (n.

Ken Block, piloto de automovilismo estadounidense (n. 1967).

Jean Desvilles, réalisateur, producteur, scénariste et peintre français (° 13 mai 1931).

Nikolaos Chatzigiakoumis, griechischer Ruderer

Zvi Zamir, espion, homme politique et haut fonctionnaire israélien (° 3 mars 1925).

Rafael Valle, basketteur portoricain (° 1er mars 1938).

Carmen Valero, athlète de cross espagnole (° 4 octobre 1955).

Daniel Revenu, escrimeur français (° 5 décembre 1942).

Rizal Ramli, homme politique et économiste indonésien (° 10 décembre 1954).

Osvaldo Lara, athlète de sprint cubain (° 13 juillet 1955).

Attila Futaki, dessinateur de bandes dessinées hongrois (° 27 novembre 1984).

Alberto Festa, footballeur portugais (° 21 juillet 1939).

Saleh al-Arouri, militant palestinien et l'un des hauts dirigeants du Hamas (° 19 août 1966).

Sartaj Aziz, économiste pakistanais (° 7 février 1929).

Cristóbal Ortega, footballeur mexicain (° 25 juillet 1956).

Ralph Mann, athlète de sprint américain (° 16 juin 1949).

Werner Leimgruber, footballeur suisse (° 2 septembre 1934).

Ján Zachara, boxeur tchécoslovaque puis tchèque (° 27 août 1928).

Tidiane Diakité, essayiste et historien français (° 1944).

Bernie Constantin, musicien et animateur de radio suisse (° 18 juin 1947).

Jytte Abildstrøm, actrice et chanteuse danoise (° 25 mars 1934).

Ferdi Tayfur, chanteur, auteur-compositeur-interprète, poète, musicien, producteur, acteur et écrivain turc (° 15 nov…

Ferdi Tayfur, chanteur, auteur-compositeur-interprète, poète, musicien, producteur, acteur et écrivain turc (° 15 novembre 1945).

Francesc Antich

Francesc Antich served as President of the Balearic Islands from 1999 to 2003 and again from 2007 to 2011. He led the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party in the islands and focused on environmental protection and sustainable tourism. He died in 2025.

Ágnes Keleti

Agnes Keleti won ten Olympic medals in gymnastics — five of them gold — competing for Hungary in 1952 and 1956. She survived the Holocaust, fled Hungary during the 1956 revolution, and settled in Israel. She died on January 2, 2025, at the age of 103, the oldest living Olympic champion at the time of her death.

Thomas Schmögner, österreichischer Komponist und Organist