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726

Itzamnaaj K'awiil

Itzamnaaj K'awiil died, ending a turbulent reign that saw the city of Dos Pilas collapse under the weight of relentless warfare with Tikal. His passing signaled the final disintegration of the Petexbatún kingdom, as the remaining elite abandoned the site and left its grand plazas to be reclaimed by the jungle.

741

Charles Martel

Charles Martel stopped the Umayyad invasion at Tours in 732. The battle lasted seven days. He held the line. Islam didn't spread into Western Europe. He never called himself king — just Mayor of the Palace. His grandson was Charlemagne. He hammered enemies so hard they called him Martel. The Hammer. He died in bed, which was rare.

842

Abo

Abo was a Japanese prince who became a Buddhist monk at 22, renouncing his claim to the throne. He lived in a monastery for 28 years. Imperial families rarely let princes leave. Buddhism offered an exit. He took it.

1023

Ferdinand I of Portugal

Ferdinand I of Portugal signed a treaty with Castile, broke it, signed another with England, broke that one too. He spent 18 years as king making alliances he couldn't keep. He died at 38 of plague. Portugal spent the next century cleaning up his diplomatic disasters. Some rulers are remembered for what they built. Others for what they left broken.

1383

Fernando I of Portugal

Fernando I of Portugal died without a male heir after making three different succession agreements in 12 years. His daughter married the King of Castile. Portugal's nobles revolted rather than accept Spanish rule. His death started a two-year war and a new dynasty. Indecision has consequences.

1436

Paul von Blankenfelde, deutscher Patrizier, Bürgermeister von Berlin

1462

Louis de Beauvau, militaire français (° 30 octobre 1409).

1463

James Berkeley, 1.

James Berkeley, 1. Baron Berkeley englischer Adeliger

1492

Simon von der Borch, Bischof von Reval

1493

James Douglas

James Douglas became the 1st Earl of Morton through marriage, not inheritance. He died in 1493 after accumulating land across southern Scotland. His descendants held the earldom for five more centuries. The 21st Earl lives in Scotland today — the title survived 531 years.

1500s 5

1563

Diego de Siloé, spanischer Baumeister und Bildhauer

1565

Jean Grolier de Servières

Jean Grolier de Servières collected 3,000 books and had them bound in leather with gold tooling and his motto: "Io. Grolierii et Amicorum." For Grolier and his friends. He never kept his books locked away. He lent them freely. His bindings became so famous that "Grolier binding" is still a term in rare book collecting. He's been dead 458 years and bookbinders still copy his style.

1567

Florimond Robertet de Fresne, secrétaire d'État français (° 1531).

1571

Johann von Glauburg, Frankfurter Patrizier und Bürgermeister

1583

Ludwig VI., Pfalzgraf von Simmern und Kurfürst von der Pfalz

1600s 17

1600

Georg Friedrich I., Graf zu Hohenlohe-Waldenburg

1604

Domingo Báñez

Domingo Báñez taught theology at Salamanca and defended the Spanish Inquisition's methods in writing. He debated free will and divine grace for decades, arguing that God predestines souls without eliminating human choice. He died in 1604. His students included the founders of international law.

1613

Mathurin Régnier, escritor francés (n.

Mathurin Régnier, escritor francés (n. 1575).

1613

Pomponio Nenna

Pomponio Nenna composed madrigals so chromatic that theorists still debate how they were performed. He worked in Naples and Gesualdo's court. He was murdered in 1613, possibly over a love affair. His music pushed Renaissance harmony to its breaking point decades before anyone else tried.

1624

Aelius Everhardus Vorstius, niederländischer Mediziner und Botaniker

1625

Kikkawa Hiroie

Kikkawa Hiroie fought for Tokugawa at Sekigahara despite his family's allegiance to the losing side. His betrayal saved his domain but earned him lifelong suspicion. He spent 25 years rebuilding trust. He died at 64, still explaining his choice.

1626

Kikkawa Hiroie

Kikkawa Hiroie commanded armies for Toyotomi Hideyoshi, then betrayed him at Sekigahara by refusing to fight. His treachery helped Tokugawa Ieyasu win and unify Japan. His family kept their lands for 250 years. Betrayal paid better than loyalty.

1657

Johann Benedikt Carpzov I., deutscher Theologe

1657

Cassiano dal Pozzo, italienischer Gelehrter und Mäzen

1665

César de Vendôme, grand amiral français (° 7 juin 1594).

1670

Friedrich Buchmann, Schweizer Bürgermeister

1674

Gerbrand van den Eeckhout

Gerbrand van den Eeckhout studied under Rembrandt and stayed friends with him for 40 years. He painted biblical scenes in Rembrandt's style, signed his own name, and sold them for less. After Rembrandt died broke, van den Eeckhout kept painting the same way. Three centuries later, museums still argue about which paintings are whose.

1676

Giovanni Battista Langetti, italienischer Maler

1681

Benedetto Ferrari, italienischer Komponist, Kapellmeister und Theorbist

1683

Philips Angel van Middelburg, niederländischer Stillleben-Maler

1684

Carlo Lurago, italienischer Architekt und Baumeister

1685

Daniel Symonis, deutscher Schriftsteller und Geistlicher

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1702

Guy Aldonce de Durfort, duc de Lorges, Marschall von Frankreich

1708

Hermann Witsius

Hermann Witsius wrote a 1,000-page treatise reconciling federal theology with covenant theology in 1677. He taught at Utrecht and Leiden for 30 years. His books were read across Protestant Europe for a century. Theologians don't get remembered unless they solve impossible problems.

1725

Alessandro Scarlatti, compositor italiano (n.

Alessandro Scarlatti, compositor italiano (n. 1660).

1729

Anna Maria Ehrenstrahl, schwedische Malerin

1737

Rinaldo d’Este, Herzog von Modena und Reggio, Kardinal

1744

Leopold Anton von Firmian, Fürstbischof von Salzburg

1748

Johannes Ferdinand Oesterhoff, deutscher Geistlicher

1751

William IV

William IV of Orange died at 40 from a throat infection, leaving a three-year-old son. His widow became regent. The Dutch Republic had been without a stadtholder for 22 years before his appointment. He ruled for seven. The office mattered more than the man.

1755

Elisha Williams

Elisha Williams served as rector of Yale from 1726 to 1739, then resigned after a dispute over curriculum. He became a military chaplain and lawyer instead. He argued for religious liberty in pamphlets that influenced the First Amendment. College presidents rarely change constitutions after they leave.

1756

Johann Friedrich Christoph Buff, deutscher evangelischer Geistlicher

1761

Ludwig Georg Simpert, Markgraf von Baden-Baden

1762

Johann Henrich von Seelen, deutscher Theologe und Pädagoge

1762

Carl Aigen, österreichischer Maler

1763

Frans van Mieris der Jüngere, niederländischer Genre- und Bildnismaler und Radierer

1764

Marc-Pierre de Voyer de Paulmy d'Argenson, estadista francês (n.

Marc-Pierre de Voyer de Paulmy d'Argenson, estadista francês (n. 1696).

1764

Jean-Marie Leclair, compositeur français (° 10 mai 1697).

1767

Luise Dorothea von Sachsen-Meiningen, Herzogin von Sachsen-Gotha-Altenburg

1772

Franciszek Salezy Potocki, polnischer Magnat, Woiwode der Woiwodschaft Kiew

1781

Johann August Nahl der Ältere, deutscher Bildhauer und Stuckateur

1783

Gerhard Friedrich Müller, deutscher Historiker und Sibirien-Forscher

1788

Karl Gottlob Clausnitzer, deutscher Theologe

1791

Teresa Herrera, filántropa española (n.

Teresa Herrera, filántropa española (n. 1712).

1791

Jacob Vernes, Schweizer evangelischer Geistlicher

1792

Guillaume Le Gentil

Guillaume Le Gentil sailed to India in 1760 to observe Venus crossing the sun, a once-in-a-century event. War delayed him. He missed it. He waited eight years for the next transit. Clouds blocked his view. He sailed home after 11 years. His relatives had declared him dead and divided his estate. He spent years in court recovering his property, the astronomer who traveled for a decade to see nothing.

1798

Joseph Sulkowski, militaire français (° 18 janvier 1773).

1800s 42

1802

Sophie Arnould, actrice et cantatrice française (° 13 février 1740).

1802

Samuel Arnold, britischer Komponist und Organist

1807

Elias Dayton, US-amerikanischer Politiker

1812

Joel Barlow, nordamerikanischer Dichter, Staatsmann und politischer Schriftsteller

1818

Joachim Heinrich Campe, pédagogue allemand (° 29 juin 1746).

1826

Leopold Leonhard von Thun und Hohenstein, Bischof von Passau

1828

Karl Mack von Leiberich, österreichischer General

1833

Sigismund Friedrich Hermbstädt, deutscher Apotheker, Chemiker, technischer Schriftsteller und Technologe

1835

Wilhelm Gustav Friedrich Bentinck, deutscher Reichsgraf

1839

George Campbell, 6º Duque de Argyll, aristocrata britânico (n.

George Campbell, 6º Duque de Argyll, aristocrata britânico (n. 1768).

1847

Henriette Herz, deutsche Schriftstellerin

1847

Sahle Selassie, Meridazmatch und Negus von Schoa

1847

Sahle Selassie

Sahle Selassie ruled Shewa, a kingdom in southern Ethiopia, for 44 years. He expanded its borders, built alliances, modernized his army. His grandson became Emperor Menelik II, who united Ethiopia and defeated Italy at Adwa. Sahle Selassie never ruled all of Ethiopia, but his descendants did. He built the foundation. They got the empire.

1848

Wilhelm Meyer, Schweizer Offizier und Bühnen- und Architekturmaler

1849

Gottlob König, deutscher Forstwissenschaftler

1853

Juan Antonio Lavalleja

Juan Antonio Lavalleja led thirty-three men across the Uruguay River in 1825 to liberate his country from Brazil. The invasion force was so small they're still called the Treinta y Tres Orientales — the Thirty-Three Easterners. Within a year, Uruguay declared independence. He became president, then watched his new nation dissolve into civil war. He died in 1853, having seen his country free but never stable.

1854

Jeremias Gotthelf, escritor suizo (n.

Jeremias Gotthelf, escritor suizo (n. 1797).

1856

Bernhard Brand von Lindau, preußischer Jurist

1859

Louis Spohr

Louis Spohr invented the violin chinrest in 1820 and the orchestral rehearsal letter in 1820. He was a virtuoso violinist who conducted with a baton when everyone else used a violin bow. He wrote 10 symphonies and 18 violin concertos. The chinrest outlasted all of them.

1863

Johann Friedrich Böhmer, deutscher Historiker

1865

Matthias Johannes Franciscus Aulike, preußischer Beamter und Politiker

1869

Michael Sars, naturaliste et un prêtre norvégien (° 30 août 1805).

1871

Roderick Murchison, géologue britannique (° 19 février 1792).

1880

Salvatore Morelli, jurista, escritor, periodista y feminista italiano (n.

Salvatore Morelli, jurista, escritor, periodista y feminista italiano (n. 1824)

1882

János Arany, ungarischer Dichter

1882

Bernard-Augustin de Cabannes, aristocrate et héraldiste français.

1882

Ion Andreescu, rumänischer Maler

1883

George Coulthard

George Coulthard played Australian rules football and first-class cricket at the same time. He was one of the best all-around athletes in colonial Victoria. He died in 1883 at 27. Newspapers called it consumption. He left behind statistics in two sports nobody else could match.

1883

Thomas Mayne Reid

Thomas Mayne Reid fought in the Mexican-American War, got shot at Chapultepec, then wrote 75 adventure novels. He was Irish but set his books in America, Africa, and India. Boys in Victorian England learned about the frontier from a man who'd actually been there. He died broke in London.

1885

Lewis Majendie

Lewis Majendie served as a British Member of Parliament for thirty years without ever giving a major speech. He voted reliably with his party. He attended sessions. He represented Midhurst, a constituency with fewer than 300 voters. He died in office at 50.

1886

Pierre Rossier, photographe suisse (° 16 juillet 1829).

1886

Albert Wigand, botaniste allemand (° 21 avril 1821).

1886

Adolf Lüderitz, commerçant allemand (° 16 juillet 1834).

1886

Ernest Desjardins, géographe et historien français (° 30 septembre 1823).

1887

Juan José Baz, abogado y político mexicano (n.

Juan José Baz, abogado y político mexicano (n. 1820).

1889

Timofei Sawwitsch Morosow, russischer Unternehmer und Mäzen

1889

Olivier Métra, französischer Komponist und Dirigent

1891

Ernst von Fleischl-Marxow

Ernst von Fleischl-Marxow was a brilliant physiologist at the University of Vienna who damaged his thumb in a dissection accident in 1870, developed a nerve tumor, and spent the rest of his life in agonizing pain. The surgeries to remove the tumor left him in worse pain than before. He worked through it — discovering the galvanometer technique for measuring nerve impulses, publishing important research on vision and electrophysiology — and became addicted first to morphine and then to the cocaine that his friend Sigmund Freud prescribed as a cure. He died in 1891 at 44.

1893

Duleep Singh, letzter Maharadscha des Reichs der Sikh

1894

Philipp Bertkau, zoologiste allemand (° 11 janvier 1849).

1895

Richard Godeffroy, österreichischer Chemiker

1895

Oliver Ames, US-amerikanischer Politiker

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1900

John Sherman, US-amerikanischer Politiker

1900

Anders Monsen Askevold, norwegischer Landschafts- und Tiermaler

1902

Walter Hauser, Schweizer Politiker

1902

Herman Adolfovich Trautschold

Herman Trautschold mapped the geology of central Russia for 40 years. He discovered Jurassic fossils near Moscow that proved the region was once underwater. He taught at the Imperial Moscow Technical School. He died in 1902. His fossil collection is still at Moscow State University.

1904

Karl Josef Bayer, chimiste autrichien (° 4 mars 1847).

1906

Paul Cezanne

Paul Cézanne's father wanted him to be a lawyer. He painted anyway, failed the École des Beaux-Arts entrance exam twice, and sold almost nothing for 30 years. Dealers called his work unfinished. He died in 1906 after painting in a thunderstorm. Three years later, his work was selling for fortunes.

1909

Jules Godart, chanteur lyrique belge, surnommé « Le Grand Blond » ou « Le Doré » (° 2 décembre 1877).

1910

Paul Brandt, Schweizer evangelischer Geistlicher, Redakteur, Gewerkschafter und Politiker

1911

Gustav von Oertzen, deutscher Kolonialbeamter

1914

Konishiki Yasokichi I

Konishiki Yasokichi I became Yokozuna in 1896, when sumo wrestlers still competed outdoors in dirt rings. He held the rank for just three years before retiring due to injury. He lived another 18 years, watching the sport modernize around him. By the time he died in 1914, sumo had indoor arenas and national tournaments. He belonged to an older world.

1915

Peter Joseph Früh, deutscher Bierbrauer und Brauereibesitzer

1915

Enrico Canfari, italienischer Fußballspieler und -funktionär

1915

Alfred Staats, deutscher Turner

1916

Arnold Woldemar von Frege-Weltzien, deutscher Rittergutsbesitzer und Politiker

1916

Herbert Kilpin, englischer Fußballspieler und -trainer

1917

Charles Pardey Lukis

Charles Pardey Lukis transformed colonial public health by founding the Indian Journal of Medical Research, providing the first formal platform for systematic tropical disease study in South Asia. As Director-General of the Indian Medical Service, he institutionalized medical research across the subcontinent, ensuring that clinical data drove government policy rather than mere administrative guesswork.

1917

Bob Fitzsimmons

Bob Fitzsimmons won world titles at middleweight, light heavyweight, and heavyweight—the first boxer to win three. He was born in England, raised in New Zealand, and fought bareknuckle in Australia before moving to America. He knocked out Gentleman Jim Corbett in 1897 with a punch to the solar plexus. They named it the "Fitzsimmons shift."

1918

Myrtle Gonzalez

Myrtle Gonzalez starred in 78 silent films before dying of influenza at 27 during the 1918 pandemic. She was one of Hollywood's first Latina leading ladies. She'd married twice and divorced once. Most of her films are lost. The pandemic didn't care about stardom.

1918

Oreste Mazzia, italienischer Fußballspieler und Mediziner

1921

Linda Malnati, sindicalista, sufragista y escritora italiana (n.

Linda Malnati, sindicalista, sufragista y escritora italiana (n. 1855).

1922

Roberto Wernicke, médico, bacteriólogo, educador e investigador argentino (n.

Roberto Wernicke, médico, bacteriólogo, educador e investigador argentino (n. 1852).

1922

Lyman Abbott, pastor estadounidense (n.

Lyman Abbott, pastor estadounidense (n. 1835).

1923

Victor Maurel, barítono francés (n.

Victor Maurel, barítono francés (n. 1848).

1927

Borisav Stanković

Borisav Stanković wrote about life in southern Serbia, about arranged marriages and dying traditions and women trapped by custom. His novel "Impure Blood" was published in 1910 and banned by the church for immorality. He spent 17 years writing it. He died in 1927, convinced his work would be forgotten. It's now required reading in Serbian schools. The church lost.

1927

Borisav Stanković, serbischer Schriftsteller

1928

Andrew Fisher

Andrew Fisher led Australia three separate times as Prime Minister, but he's remembered for one promise: in 1914, he pledged to support Britain "to our last man and last shilling." Australia had 4.9 million people. By war's end, 416,000 had enlisted. Fisher himself resigned in 1915, exhausted. He retired to London, where he died broke in 1928. The last shilling went exactly where he'd promised.

1930

Mathieu Dreyfus, elsässischer Industrieller

1933

Adli Yakan Pascha, ägyptischer Politiker

1934

Pretty Boy Floyd

Pretty Boy Floyd robbed banks across the Midwest during the Depression and supposedly destroyed mortgage records so farms couldn't be foreclosed. The FBI shot him in an Ohio cornfield in 1934. He was 30. Woody Guthrie wrote a song calling him a Robin Hood. The banks remembered differently.

1935

Edward Carson

Edward Carson destroyed Oscar Wilde in court in 1895. They'd been classmates at Trinity College Dublin. Carson cross-examined Wilde for three days about his relationships with young men. Wilde's libel case collapsed. Criminal charges followed. Wilde got two years hard labor. Carson became the leader of Ulster Unionism, fighting against Irish Home Rule. He never spoke about the trial again. Wilde died in exile.

1935

Komitas

Komitas collected 3,000 Armenian folk songs, transcribing them before they disappeared. He was a priest and composer. He was arrested in 1915 during the Armenian genocide, saw mass executions, and never recovered. He spent his last 20 years in psychiatric hospitals in Paris, silent. His transcriptions preserved the music of a culture nearly destroyed.

1935

Joseph De Luca, italienisch-amerikanischer Musiker

1935

Ettore Marchiafava

Ettore Marchiafava discovered that malaria was caused by a parasite, not bad air. He identified three species of Plasmodium in human blood and proved mosquitoes transmitted them. He published in 1885. Nobody believed him until Ronald Ross confirmed it thirteen years later. Ross got the Nobel Prize.

1936

Eberhard Encke, deutscher Bildhauer

1937

Frank Damrosch, deutsch-amerikanischer Dirigent und Musikerzieher

1937

Nakahara Chūya, japanischer Lyriker

1938

Robert Mond, chimiste, industriel et archéologue britannique (° 9 septembre 1867).

1939

Jean Douarinou, französischer Automobilrennfahrer

1941

Jean-Pierre Timbaud, syndicaliste français (° 20 septembre 1904).

1941

Louis Marcoussis, pintor y grabador polaco (n.

Louis Marcoussis, pintor y grabador polaco (n. 1878).

1941

Guy Môquet

Guy Môquet was 17 when the Nazis executed him as a hostage in 1941. He'd been arrested for distributing Communist leaflets in Paris. He wrote a letter to his family minutes before the firing squad: "I am going to die with my 27 comrades." Vichy France handed him over. He's buried in Ivry-sur-Seine.

1942

Clara de Vries (26), trompetista y líder neerlandesa de bandas de jazz (n.

Clara de Vries (26), trompetista y líder neerlandesa de bandas de jazz (n. 1915), asesinada por los alemanes en el campo de concentración de Auschwitz (en Polonia).

1943

Josef Venantius von Wöss, österreichischer Kirchenmusiker, Komponist und Verlagsredakteur

1943

Bertrand de Faucigny-Lucinge, französischer Adeliger und Automobilrennfahrer

1943

Albert Wiegel, deutscher Glaskünstler

1945

Paul Goerens, deutscher Professor und Metallurg

1946

Phillips Lee Goldsborough, US-amerikanischer Politiker

1946

Homer Ledbetter, US-amerikanischer American-Football-Spieler

1946

Henry Bergman, acteur américain (° 23 février 1868).

1947

Antoine Richard, historien, professeur, militant communiste et syndicaliste français (° 25 mai 1890).

1948

Ernst von Aster, deutscher Philosoph und Philosophiehistoriker

1950

Isabel Maddison, britische Mathematikerin

1951

Ida Beer-Walbrunn, deutsche Malerin

1952

Ernst Rüdin

Ernst Rüdin designed Nazi Germany's forced sterilization program that affected 400,000 people. He was a Swiss psychiatrist who believed schizophrenia was purely genetic. After the war he lived quietly in Munich until 1952. He never stood trial. Psychiatry didn't formally condemn his work until 2010.

1953

Albert Meyer, Schweizer Politiker

1953

Helen Buchholtz, luxemburgische Komponistin

1954

George McManus, autor de historietas estadounidense (n.

George McManus, autor de historietas estadounidense (n. 1884).

1954

Harrison Henry Atwood, US-amerikanischer Politiker

1954

Edward McKnight Kauffer, US-amerikanischer Grafiker

1954

Jibanananda Das

Jibanananda Das wrote poetry in Bengali that nobody bought while he was alive. He taught English in Calcutta and died after being hit by a tram in 1954. His family published his manuscripts afterward. He's now called the greatest Bengali poet after Tagore. The tram didn't stop.

1954

Oswald de Andrade, poeta, ensayista y dramaturgo brasileño (n.

Oswald de Andrade, poeta, ensayista y dramaturgo brasileño (n. 1890).

1955

Mario Danieli, italienischer Unternehmer und Automobilrennfahrer

1956

Arthur Lowe, joueur de tennis britannique (° 29 janvier 1886).

1956

Hannah Mitchell

Hannah Mitchell wrote her autobiography in pencil because paper was expensive and she'd learned to save everything. She'd been a domestic servant at ten, married at twenty-one, and fought for women's suffrage while raising a son in a two-room flat. She called her book The Hard Way Up. It was published in 1968, twelve years after her death. Working-class women's voices weren't supposed to last that long.

1957

Bok de Korver, niederländischer Fußballspieler

1958

Hellmuth Helsig, deutscher Filmschauspieler

1959

Ruth Beutler, deutsche Zoologin

1959

Joseph Cahill

Joseph Cahill served as New South Wales Premier for 12 years and built the Sydney Opera House. He approved Jørn Utzon's design over 232 other entries, fought to fund it, and died four years before it opened. He never saw it finished. It's now on the currency.

1959

George Bouzianis

George Bouzianis studied in Munich, painted in expressionist style, and spent decades working in Greece when the art world had moved on to other movements. He died at 74. His paintings hang in Greek museums. He never cared what Paris thought.

1960

Wladimir Gribkow, sowjetischer Schauspieler, Synchronsprecher und Estradakünstler

1962

Paul Armagnac, französischer Automobilrennfahrer

1962

Alfred Filuzeau, homme d'affaires français (° 3 mai 1878).

1962

Samuel Feinberg, ukrainisch-russischer Pianist und Komponist

1963

Walter Davis, US-amerikanischer Blues-Pianist und -Sänger

1965

Muriel George

Muriel George sang in music halls, acted in British films for 40 years, and was a working performer until she was 80. She died at 82. She left behind dozens of films that play on afternoon TV. That's immortality of a sort.

1965

Earl Cooper, US-amerikanischer Automobilrennfahrer

1965

Paul Tillich, deutscher Theologe und Religionsphilosoph

1967

Henny Protzen-Kundmüller, deutsche Malerin

1969

Johann Conrad Weilenmann, Schweizer Wirtschaftsführer

1969

Tommy Edwards

Tommy Edwards recorded "It's All in the Game" twice—once in 1951, then again in 1958 with strings. The second version hit number one and sold three million copies. The melody was written by a U.S. Vice President in 1911. Edwards died broke at 47. The song still plays.

1969

Tommy Edwards, US-amerikanischer Sänger

1969

Ralph Staub, US-amerikanischer Produzent von Kurzfilmen

1969

Fritz Steinhoff, deutscher Politiker

1970

Aníbal Freire da Fonseca, jurista e jornalista brasileiro (n.

Aníbal Freire da Fonseca, jurista e jornalista brasileiro (n. 1884).

1970

Samson François, pianiste français (° 18 mai 1924).

1970

Pauline Donalda, kanadische Sängerin und Gesangslehrerin

1971

Håkon Ellingsen, norwegischer Ruderer

1972

James K. Baxter

James K. Baxter wrote poetry, converted to Catholicism, then founded a commune for drug addicts and outcasts in rural New Zealand. He lived there in poverty, wearing a blanket and growing his hair long. He died of a heart attack at 46. He'd published thirty books of poetry.

1973

Pablo Casals

Pablo Casals refused to perform in countries that recognized Franco's Spain. He was the greatest cellist alive and didn't play publicly for 12 years. He was 93 when he conducted at the UN and told them: "I am a man first, an artist second." The cello was just the tool.

1974

Georg Friedrich Ahrens, deutscher Politiker

1975

Arnold J. Toynbee, historiador británico (n.

Arnold J. Toynbee, historiador británico (n. 1889).

1975

Toni Kleefisch, deutscher Architekt

1976

Else Brökelschen, deutsche Politikerin

1978

Blanca Lagrotta, actriz argentina (n.

Blanca Lagrotta, actriz argentina (n. 1921).

1978

John Riley

John Riley published two poetry collections before being murdered in Leeds in 1978 at 40. The killer was never found. He worked as a laborer and wrote spare, precise poems about ordinary life. His complete works fit in one volume. Violence doesn't care about art.

1978

Georges-Henri Pingusson, architecte et urbaniste français (° 26 juillet 1894).

1979

Nadia Boulanger

Nadia Boulanger taught Aaron Copland, Philip Glass, Quincy Jones, and Astor Piazzolla. She was the first woman to conduct the Boston Symphony, the New York Philharmonic, and the Philadelphia Orchestra. She stopped composing after her sister died in 1918. She said her sister Lili was the real composer. She spent sixty years teaching instead.

1979

Duda Enginoev, militar soviético (n.

Duda Enginoev, militar soviético (n. 1919).

1979

Joan Chetwynd, britische Automobilrennfahrerin

1979

Mieko Kamiya

Mieko Kamiya spent three years in a tuberculosis sanatorium. She emerged as Japan's first female psychiatrist and wrote about suffering with uncommon clarity. Her book 'On the Meaning of Ikigai' explored why people endure. She died in 1979. The concept of ikigai is now taught worldwide, stripped of her medical precision.

1980

Sammy Angott, US-amerikanischer Leichtgewichts-Boxer

1981

Günter Stempel, deutscher Politiker

1981

David Cecil, 6.

David Cecil, 6. Marquess of Exeter, britischer Leichtathlet, Sportfunktionär und Politiker

1981

Edward Caton, US-amerikanischer Tänzer, Ballettlehrer und Choreograph

1981

George Ziegler, kanadischer Organist, Chorleiter, Dirigent, Komponist und Musikpädagoge

1982

Richard Hugo

Richard Hugo flew 35 bomber missions over Italy in World War II and came home to write poems about failing towns in Montana and Washington. He taught at the University of Montana for 16 years. His students included James Welch and Sandra Alcosser. He died at 58, leaving behind poems that made the Pacific Northwest lonely and beautiful.

1983

Erich Schmid, österreichischer Physiker

1984

Oscar Fritz Schuh, deutscher Theaterregisseur

1985

Stefano Satta Flores, acteur et dramaturge italien (° 14 janvier 1937).

1985

Ellen Widmann, Schweizer Schauspielerin

1985

Viorica Ursuleac

Viorica Ursuleac sang 1,500 performances at the Vienna State Opera and premiered four Richard Strauss operas. Strauss wrote Arabella's lead for her voice. She was Romanian, sang in German, and retired to Austria. Strauss died in 1949; she kept teaching until 1985. The student outlived the master by 36 years.

1985

Norbert Poehlke, deutscher Polizist und Serienmörder

1986

Albert Szent-Györgyi

Albert Szent-Györgyi isolated vitamin C from Hungarian paprika. He used 3 pounds of it. The Nobel Committee gave him the prize in 1937. During World War II, he joined the Hungarian resistance against the Nazis. After the war, the Soviets wanted him arrested. He escaped to America with fake papers. The paprika stayed famous.

1986

Thorgeir Stubø

Thorgeir Stubø played guitar in Norway's first jazz-rock fusion bands. He composed for theater and film. He taught at the Norwegian Academy of Music. He died in a car accident in 1986 at 43. His students went on to define Norwegian jazz for the next generation.

1986

Ye Jianying

Ye Jianying was one of Ten Marshals of the People's Republic and helped arrest the Gang of Four in 1976. He'd fought in the Long March and commanded armies for 50 years. He died in 1986 at 89. China's military still studies his tactics.

1986

Jane Dornacker

Jane Dornacker was reporting on traffic from a helicopter over the Hudson River when the engine failed. She was live on WNBC radio. Listeners heard her say "Hit the water, hit the water!" Then silence. The helicopter went down near the 79th Street Boat Basin. She was 39. Her pilot survived. The station kept broadcasting.

1987

Jerzy Chromik, polnischer Leichtathlet

1987

Lucienne Legrand, actrice française (° 5 mai 1900).

1987

Lino Ventura

Lino Ventura was a wrestler before a shoulder injury ended his career at 26. He became an actor by accident when a director needed someone who looked tough. He made 75 films without ever taking an acting lesson. French cinema made him a star for playing himself.

1988

Henry Melody Jackson Jr., US-amerikanischer Box-Sportler

1988

Cynthia Freeman

Cynthia Freeman didn't publish her first novel until she was 55. She wrote seven bestsellers in 13 years, all family sagas, all commercially successful. She died at 73. She proved you can start a writing career in late middle age and still make millions.

1989

Jacob Wetterling

Jacob Wetterling was eleven when a masked man abducted him at gunpoint while he rode his bike near his Minnesota home. His body was found 27 years later. His mother spent three decades advocating for missing children. The Jacob Wetterling Act requires states to maintain sex offender registries. He's still missing in the law that bears his name.

1989

Ewan MacColl

Ewan MacColl wrote "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face" for Peggy Seeger in 1957. Roberta Flack recorded it in 1972 and it became the biggest song of the year. He'd written hundreds of folk songs and banned non-folk instruments from his club. The pop version made him rich.

1989

Ramón Trías Fargas, catedrático y político español (n.

Ramón Trías Fargas, catedrático y político español (n. 1922).

1990

Werner Jarowinsky, deutscher Politiker

1990

Louis Althusser

Louis Althusser strangled his wife in 1980, was declared mentally unfit for trial, and spent his final years in psychiatric hospitals. He was one of the 20th century's most influential Marxist philosophers. His ideas shaped academic thought for decades. He killed the person closest to him. Both things are true.

1991

Ilse Schneider, deutsche Kunsterzieherin und Malerin

1991

Hachiro Kasuga

Hachiro Kasuga sold over 70 million records in Japan, making him one of the country's best-selling artists ever. He sang enka, traditional Japanese ballads. His career lasted 45 years. Enka singers rarely achieve mainstream success anymore. He was the last generation.

1992

Eric Ashby, britischer Botaniker

1992

Matthias Andresen, deutscher Politiker

1992

Red Barber

Red Barber refused to announce a game in 1945 when he learned a Black player might take the field. By 1947, he was calling Jackie Robinson's debut for the Brooklyn Dodgers. He didn't apologize for the change. He just did his job. Thirty years later, he was fired by the Yankees for criticizing low attendance on air. He told the truth twice.

1992

Carlo Bernari, italienischer Schriftsteller und Journalist

1992

Cleavon Little

Cleavon Little was the first Black actor to play a lead in a TV Western—in Temperatures Rising, not Blazing Saddles. He won a Tony before Mel Brooks cast him. He died of colon cancer at 53. Blazing Saddles is what everyone remembers, but Broadway came first.

1992

Pável Dubinda, militar soviético, Héroe de la Unión Soviética (n.

Pável Dubinda, militar soviético, Héroe de la Unión Soviética (n. 1914).

1993

Adolf-Henning Frucht, deutscher Arzt und Physiologe

1993

Otto Fischer, Schweizer Politiker

1993

Innes Ireland

Innes Ireland won the 1961 U.S. Grand Prix for Lotus, then was fired the next season to make room for Jim Clark. He was Scottish, drove with a broken jaw once, and wrote a column for Road & Track for 20 years. Formula 1 teams don't keep loyal drivers. They keep fast ones.

1993

Friedrich Dickel, deutscher Politiker

1994

Tilli Breidenbach, deutsche Schauspielerin

1995

Mary Wickes

Mary Wickes played nuns, nurses, and busybodies for 60 years. She was in White Christmas, The Man Who Came to Dinner, and Sister Act. She recorded her final role as a gargoyle in The Hunchback of Notre Dame three months before she died in 1995. She was 85 and still working.

1995

Kingsley Amis

Kingsley Amis drank a bottle of Scotch every day for decades. He wrote twenty novels, including Lucky Jim at twenty-nine. His son Martin became a famous novelist too. They had lunch every week for years, barely speaking. Kingsley died of complications from alcoholism. Martin wrote a memoir about him. It wasn't affectionate.

1995

Jeros (Juan Antonio Jiménez), cantante español (n.

Jeros (Juan Antonio Jiménez), cantante español (n. 1951).

1996

Evdokia Reshetnik

Evdokia Reshetnik studied Ukrainian wildlife for 50 years, documenting species across the Carpathian Mountains. She published 200 scientific papers. Most were in Ukrainian and never translated. Soviet-era scientists remain unknown outside their borders.

1997

Leonid Amalrik

Leonid Amalrik co-directed The Snow Queen in 1957, the Soviet animated film that inspired Hayao Miyazaki to become an animator. He worked at Soyuzmultfilm for 50 years. Disney animators studied his work during the Cold War. Animation crosses borders that politics can't.

1997

Hermann Höhn, deutscher evangelischer Pfarrer

1997

René Gervais, résistant français, compagnon de la Libération (° 22 août 1908).

1998

Ángel Picazo, actor español (n.

Ángel Picazo, actor español (n. 1917).

1998

Jean Rafa (Jean Raphaël Febbrari dit), chanteur, compositeur et fantaisiste québécois d’origine française (° 21 mai 1…

Jean Rafa (Jean Raphaël Febbrari dit), chanteur, compositeur et fantaisiste québécois d’origine française (° 21 mai 1910).

1998

Eric Ambler, escritor británico (n.

Eric Ambler, escritor británico (n. 1909).

1998

Eric Ambler

Eric Ambler invented the modern espionage thriller with The Mask of Dimitrios in 1939, replacing gentleman spies with engineers and journalists caught in political conspiracies. He wrote eight novels before World War II, served in the Army Film Unit, then wrote screenplays. He returned to novels in the '50s. Graham Greene called him Britain's best thriller writer — the template for everyone who came after.

1999

Amílcar Vasconcellos, político uruguayo (n.

Amílcar Vasconcellos, político uruguayo (n. 1915).

1999

Tibor Mamusich, ungarischer Ruderer

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2000

Rodney Anoai, luchador profesional estadounidense (n.

Rodney Anoai, luchador profesional estadounidense (n. 1966).

2001

Prof. Dr. Dkfm. Helmut Krackowizer

Helmut Krackowizer raced motorcycles, earned a doctorate in economics, and worked as a journalist in Austria. He competed in the Isle of Man TT in the 1950s. He was 79 when he died. Most people pick one career. He picked three and excelled at all of them.

2001

Albert Ducrocq, scientifique, journaliste et écrivain français (° 9 juillet 1921).

2001

Roger Coggio, comédien et réalisateur français (° 11 mars 1934).

2001

Cliff Adams, britischer Orchesterleiter, Sänger und Radiomoderator

2002

Geraldine of Albania

Geraldine of Albania was Queen for exactly one year before Mussolini invaded and her family fled. She spent 60 years in exile, mostly in South Africa and Spain. She returned to Albania in 2002 and died there three months later. Queens rarely get to go home.

2002

Geraldina of the Albanians

Geraldine Apponyi married King Zog of Albania in 1938 and was queen for one year before Mussolini invaded. She fled with her two-day-old son and never returned. She lived in exile for 63 years in Egypt, France, and Spain. Albania restored her citizenship in 2002. She died three weeks later.

2002

Francisco Pino, poeta español (n.

Francisco Pino, poeta español (n. 1910).

2002

Willy Michaux, cycliste sur route belge (° 13 juillet 1913).

2002

Richard Helms

Richard Helms was the only CIA director ever convicted of lying to Congress. He'd told senators the CIA wasn't involved in Chile's 1973 coup. He was. He got a two-year suspended sentence and a $2,000 fine in 1977. He paid the fine with a check and framed the receipt. He died at 89.

2002

Geraldine of Albania

Geraldine of Albania was a countess from Hungary who became queen of a country that abolished the monarchy six months after her wedding. She was twenty-three. She fled with her two-day-old son in 1939, lived in exile for sixty years, and returned to Tirana in 2002. She died there five months later. She'd outlasted communism.

2003

Tony Renna

Tony Renna's car went airborne during a test at Indianapolis Motor Speedway and hit a catch fence pole at 220 mph. The impact was so severe that track officials changed safety protocols within weeks. He was twenty-two, testing for his second full season. The crash data helped save lives. His didn't make the count.

2003

Ron Collier, kanadischer Jazzposaunist, Komponist und Arrangeur

2003

Tony Renna, automobilista estadunidense (n.

Tony Renna, automobilista estadunidense (n. 1976).

2003

Karl Grünner, österreichischer Politiker

2004

Jean-François Leuba, Schweizer Nationalratspräsident

2004

Pedro Vilardebo, cycliste sur route espagnol (° 16 octobre 1953).

2004

Georg Auer, österreichischer Journalist

2005

Franky Gee, kubanischer Musiker

2005

Franky Gee

Franky Gee was born in Havana, fled to New York at six, joined the U.S. Army, and ended up stationed in Germany. There he became the frontman for Captain Jack, a Eurodance act that sold 10 million records with songs about military drills and partying. He died of a stroke at 43, still living in Germany. The kid who escaped Cuba became a German pop star.

2005

Fritz Köthe, deutscher Maler und Grafiker, Vertreter der Pop Art und des Fotorealismus

2005

Arman

Arman filled a gallery with 2,500 pounds of garbage in 1960 and called it art. He was born Armand Fernandez but dropped his last name after a printing error. He created sculptures from violins, cars, and gas masks embedded in concrete. Accumulation was his method. Destruction was his message.

2005

Tony Adams

Tony Adams produced over 1,000 episodes of General Hospital and won three Daytime Emmys. He started as a stage manager in Dublin and moved to Hollywood in the 1970s. Soap operas run five days a week for decades. He kept one running for 30 years.

2006

Hubertus Lehner, deutscher Maler

2006

Nelson de la Rosa, actor y humorista dominicano (n.

Nelson de la Rosa, actor y humorista dominicano (n. 1968)

2006

Arthur Hill

Arthur Hill won a Tony for Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? in 1963, then played the same role in the film. He was Canadian, trained in British theatre, and worked steadily in Hollywood for 40 years. He was never a star. He was always working. There's a difference.

2006

CHOI Kyu-hah, político y presidente sudcoreano (n.

CHOI Kyu-hah, político y presidente sudcoreano (n. 1919).

2006

Arnold Sundgaard, US-amerikanischer Schriftsteller und Librettist

2007

Sargon Boulus, poète irakien (° 1944).

2007

Ève Curie

Ève Curie never won a Nobel Prize. Her mother won two. Her father won one. Her sister won one. Ève wrote a biography of her mother that sold millions, became a war correspondent, lived to 102. She was the only one in her family who wasn't radioactive. She outlived them all by decades.

2008

براك المرزوق، رئيس ديوان المحاسبة الكويتي.

2008

Manfred Buhr, deutscher Philosoph

2008

Ernest Kombo, prélat congolais (° 27 mars 1941).

2009

Don Lane

Don Lane left America for Australia in 1965, became one of Australian TV's biggest stars, and hosted a talk show for 12 years. He died in 2009. Americans never heard of him. Australians grew up with him. Fame is local.

2009

Fritz Vogelgsang, deutscher Übersetzer, Essayist und Herausgeber

2009

Daan Bekker, boxeur sud-africain (° 9 février 1932).

2009

Soupy Sales

Soupy Sales got hit with pies over 20,000 times on television. He did it for 50 years. He made a career out of being the butt of the joke. Kids loved him. Critics dismissed him. He died at 83, still telling jokes. He never pretended to be anything but silly.

2009

Fritz Csoklich, österreichischer Journalist

2009

Maryanne Amacher, US-amerikanische Komponistin und Improvisatorin

2010

Arturo Tuzón, empresario y dirigente futbolístico español (n.

Arturo Tuzón, empresario y dirigente futbolístico español (n. 1928).

2010

René Villiger, Schweizer Künstler und Grafiker

2010

Wolfgang Saschowa, deutscher Pianist und Musikwissenschaftler

2010

Alí Chumacero, poeta, editor y académico mexicano (n.

Alí Chumacero, poeta, editor y académico mexicano (n. 1918).

2010

Eio Sakata

Eio Sakata won 64 major Go titles in his career. He was a child prodigy, turned professional at 13, and dominated Japanese Go for three decades. He played fast, aggressive games. He lost his later matches to younger players but kept playing into his eighties. He died in 2010 at 90. Go players still study his games.

2011

Antoñete (Antonio Chenel), torero español (n.

Antoñete (Antonio Chenel), torero español (n. 1932).

2011

Edmundo Ros, trinidadischer Orchesterleiter

2011

Sultan bin Abdulaziz

Sultan bin Abdulaziz owned a 747 with a throne room and gold fixtures. He served as Saudi defense minister for nearly fifty years, buying $60 billion in American weapons. He was crown prince for three years before becoming king. He ruled for three years before he died. The plane outlasted his reign.

2012

Gabrielle Roth

Gabrielle Roth called her dance practice "sweating your prayers." She taught that the body has five rhythms—flowing, staccato, chaos, lyrical, stillness—and that moving through them could heal trauma without words. She led workshops in prisons and psychiatric hospitals. Thousands learned to dance who'd never moved before. She called it a map back to yourself.

2012

Shubha Phutela

Shubha Phutela was 21 when she died in a car accident on the Mumbai-Pune expressway. She'd just finished filming her first major role in a Punjabi film. Her phone was recovered from the crash site with unanswered messages from her mother. She'd been driving herself to a shoot.

2012

Mike Morris

Mike Morris hosted a phone-in show on BBC Radio Oxford for twenty-three years. He took calls about potholes, planning disputes, and lost cats. He interviewed politicians and pensioners with the same attention. Over 5,000 episodes. He never went national. Local radio doesn't scale, but it lasts.

2012

Salvatore Merlino

Salvatore Merlino ran the Philadelphia mob while his predecessor sat in prison. He turned informant in 1999, testified against his own underboss, and entered witness protection. He died in hiding thirteen years later. The FBI didn't confirm his cooperation until after his death. Even his betrayal needed a bodyguard.

2012

Russell Means

Russell Means shot a rifle through the trading post ceiling at Wounded Knee in 1973. He and 200 Oglala Lakota held the town for 71 days against federal marshals and armored personnel carriers. Later he played Chingachgook in The Last of the Mohicans. He'd wanted Hollywood roles his whole life but refused them until directors stopped making Indians the villains.

2012

Russell Means, actor estadounidense (n.

Russell Means, actor estadounidense (n. 1939).

2012

Wilson Whineray, neuseeländischer Rugbyspieler und Wirtschaftsmanager

2012

Carolyn Conwell

Carolyn Conwell acted in soap operas for 40 years, most notably on The Young and the Restless. She died at 82. She spent decades in a genre that employs thousands and gets no respect. She worked steadily for four decades. That's the dream.

2012

Betty Binns Fletcher

Betty Binns Fletcher argued her first case before the Ninth Circuit in 1956 wearing white gloves because that's what women lawyers did. She was appointed to that same court in 1979. She wrote over 1,500 opinions in thirty-three years. She worked until she was eighty-nine. The gloves didn't last past the sixties.

2013

James Robinson Risner

James Robinson Risner spent seven and a half years in North Vietnamese prisons, including three in solitary confinement. He was tortured thirty-two times. He organized resistance among POWs using a tap code. He retired as a brigadier general and wrote a memoir. He was shot down twice and came home once.

2013

André Le Gal, écrivain franco-breton de romans d'aventures (° 11 novembre 1946).

2013

Yanwari Kazama

Yanwari Kazama illustrated light novels and manga for fifteen years. She drew characters for romance series and fantasy worlds. She died at thirty-six. Her work continued appearing in publications for months after because production schedules run long. The drawings outlived the hand.

2013

William Harrison

William Harrison wrote the novel that became the film "Rollerball." He also wrote "Burton and Speke," about the race to find the source of the Nile. He taught creative writing at the University of Arkansas for 30 years. He died at 79. The movie made millions. The novel is out of print.

2013

Lajos Für

Lajos Für was Hungary's defense minister when the Berlin Wall fell. He oversaw the withdrawal of Soviet troops from Hungarian soil after 45 years. He was a historian who specialized in military history. He died at 82. He'd written 17 books.

2013

Marylou Dawes

Marylou Dawes taught piano at the University of British Columbia for forty years. She performed across Canada and trained hundreds of students. She recorded Chopin and Debussy. She gave her last recital at seventy-eight. Her students still teach in Vancouver. The sound keeps moving through other hands.

2013

Mark Small

Mark Small pitched three seasons in the majors, posting a 6.23 ERA in 47 appearances. He spent most of his career in the minors, never sticking. He made it to the majors, which is more than almost everyone who tries. He died at 46.

2014

Ashok Kumar

Ashok Kumar directed and shot films in Tamil and Telugu for 40 years, working steadily in regional cinema that rarely crossed to Bollywood. He made 30 films that played in South India and nowhere else. Most film industries are local.

2014

John Postgate

John Postgate discovered bacteria that could survive without oxygen and studied microbes that lived in extreme conditions. He wrote textbooks and mystery novels. He brewed his own beer and argued that bacteria were underappreciated. He founded the field of nitrogen fixation research. He spent ninety-two years proving that the smallest things matter most.

2014

John-Roger Hinkins

John-Roger Hinkins founded the Movement of Spiritual Inner Awareness in 1968 and claimed to channel a divine entity called the Mystical Traveler Consciousness. He attracted thousands of followers and built a multimedia empire. He died at 80. The organization still exists. The entity he channeled moved on to someone else.

2014

George Francis

George Francis fought in Korea, then played 145 matches for Wimbledon and Brentford in the 1950s. He spent his life in south London, soldier and footballer. He died at 80, having done two things most men only dream about.

2015

Arnold Klein

Arnold Klein was Michael Jackson's dermatologist. He treated Jackson's vitiligo for years, prescribed the drugs Jackson became addicted to. After Jackson died, Klein claimed he might be the biological father of Jackson's children. He died at 70, still talking.

2015

Murphy Anderson

Murphy Anderson inked and penciled DC Comics for 60 years, drawing Superman, Batman, and Hawkman across 10,000 pages. He never created a character of his own but perfected everyone else's. His Buck Rogers newspaper strip ran for 30 years. He died at 89, still drawing commissions. He drew 10,000 pages and owned none of them.

2015

Çetin Altan

Çetin Altan was imprisoned three times for his journalism. He wrote columns critical of Turkey's government for six decades, serving in parliament while still writing. He died at 88, never having stopped.

2015

Willem Aantjes

Willem Aantjes resigned from Dutch parliament in 1978 when journalists revealed he'd lied about his wartime record. He claimed he'd been in the resistance. He'd actually worked for the German occupation government. He was deputy prime minister when the story broke. He spent thirty years trying to rehabilitate his reputation. He never held office again.

2015

Joshua Wheeler

Joshua Wheeler was the first American killed in combat against ISIS, shot during a raid to free 70 hostages in Iraq. He was 39, a Delta Force operator with 11 deployments and 11 Bronze Stars. He wasn't supposed to be in the firefight — he went in when the mission went wrong. All 70 hostages survived. He saved everyone but himself.

2016

Sheri S. Tepper

Sheri S. Tepper wrote science fiction about ecological collapse and gender oppression, publishing her first novel at 54. She wrote 41 books in 30 years. She worked as a librarian and nonprofit administrator before becoming a writer. She said she waited until her children were grown to tell the truth.

2016

Steve Dillon

Steve Dillon drew Preacher, the comic about a preacher with the voice of God hunting down the Almighty. It ran for 66 issues, became a TV show, and defined 1990s comics. He died at 54 of a ruptured appendix, mid-career.

2017

George Young

George Young produced AC/DC's first seven albums. He was the older brother of Angus and Malcolm, the one who stayed behind the board. He shaped their sound before they became massive. He died at 70, having made his brothers superstars.

2017

Elsa Girardot, escrimeuse française (° 21 février 1973).

2017

رسول أرونقي كرماني، روائي وصحفي إيراني.

2017

Paul Weitz

Paul Weitz commanded Skylab 2 in 1973, spending 28 days in orbit. He flew the Space Shuttle ten years later. Two different spacecraft, two different eras. He was 85 when he died, having watched space travel transform.

2019

Gustav Gerneth, supercentenaire allemand, doyen masculin officiel de l'humanité du 20 janvier 2019 jusqu'à cette mort…

Gustav Gerneth, supercentenaire allemand, doyen masculin officiel de l'humanité du 20 janvier 2019 jusqu'à cette mort (° 15 octobre 1905).

2019

Hanni Lévy, deutsch-französische Holocaustüberlebende

2019

Ramon Zupko, US-amerikanischer Komponist

2019

Manfred Bruns, deutscher Jurist und LGBT-Aktivist

2020

Sara Jenkins, kanadische Schwimmerin

2020

William Blinn (William Frederick Blinn dit), scénariste et producteur américain à l'origine de la série américaine St…

William Blinn (William Frederick Blinn dit), scénariste et producteur américain à l'origine de la série américaine Starsky et Hutch en 1975 (° 21 juillet 1937).

2021

Wjatscheslaw Wedenin, sowjetischer Skilangläufer

2021

Álex Quiñónez, athlète de sprint équatorien (° 11 août 1989).

2021

موسى كمال، عالم هندسة كيميائية فلسطيني كندي.

2021

Peter Scolari

Peter Scolari played Tom Hanks' roommate on Bosom Buddies for two seasons, then spent forty years in supporting roles on television. He won an Emmy at 62 for Girls. He and Hanks stayed friends for four decades. He died of leukemia at 66, two years after his diagnosis.

2021

سمير صبيح، شاعر عراقي.

2022

Claude Chaigneau, peintre français (° 17 décembre 1937).

2022

Maurice Rich, australischer Leichtathlet

2022

Patrick Dell'Isola, acteur français (° 19 août 1962).

2022

Rodney Graham, artiste contemporain canadien (° 16 janvier 1949).

2022

Marianna Rochal, réalisatrice soviétique, puis russe (° 23 janvier 1925).

2022

Leszek Engelking, poeta y escritor polaco (n.

Leszek Engelking, poeta y escritor polaco (n. 1955).

2022

Dietrich Mateschitz, multimillonario y empresario austríaco (n.

Dietrich Mateschitz, multimillonario y empresario austríaco (n. 1944).

2023

Mounira Chapoutot, universitaire et historienne tunisienne (° 27 avril 1942).

2023

Anita Summers, économiste américaine (° 9 septembre 1925).

2023

Raul Machado, footballeur international portugais (° 22 septembre 1937).

2023

Alfred Kleinermeilert, prélat catholique allemand (° 31 mars 1928).

2023

Reino Börjesson, footballeur international suédois (° 4 février 1929).

2023

Ida Applebroog, plasticienne américaine (° 11 novembre 1929).

2023

Johnny Allon, cantante, empresario y presentador de televisión argentino (n.

Johnny Allon, cantante, empresario y presentador de televisión argentino (n. 1941).

2023

Enrique Maluenda, locutor radial y presentador de televisión chileno (n.

Enrique Maluenda, locutor radial y presentador de televisión chileno (n. 1935).

2024

Annelie Ehrhardt, athlète de sprint est-allemande puis allemande (° 18 juin 1950).

2024

Grizzly 399

Grizzly 399 raised 18 cubs and became the most photographed bear in the world. She lived in Grand Teton National Park and walked alongside roads where tourists could see her. She was hit by a car at 28. Wildlife fame doesn't prevent wildlife deaths.

2024

Gustavo Gutiérrez

Gustavo Gutiérrez wrote A Theology of Liberation in 1971 while working in Lima's slums. He argued God favored the poor and the Church should too. The Vatican investigated him for Marxism. He kept writing. Liberation theology spread across Latin America, inspiring priests who organized peasants and some who joined guerrillas. He died in 2024 having moved the Church left.

2024

Lynda Obst

Lynda Obst produced Sleepless in Seattle, Contact, and Interstellar — three decades of Hollywood hits. She wrote a memoir about being a female producer when there were almost none. The industry changed around her. She kept producing until she couldn't.

2024

Fernando Valenzuela

Fernando Valenzuela threw a screwball that broke against physics and made Dodger Stadium shake. He won Rookie of the Year and the Cy Young in 1981. 'Fernandomania' brought millions of Mexican fans to baseball. He pitched a no-hitter at 29. When he died in 2024, Los Angeles mourned in two languages.

2024

Richard A. Cash

Richard A. Cash co-developed oral rehydration therapy in 1968 — mixing salt, sugar, and water in precise ratios to treat cholera. It's saved an estimated 70 million lives. The Lancet called it the most important medical advance of the 20th century. It costs pennies per dose.

2024

Deaths

Itzamnaaj K'awiil

Charles Martel

Abo

Gero von Magdeburg, Erzbischof von Magdeburg

Albuin, Bischof von Merseburg

Petrus Comestor, französischer Theologe

Renaud II de Forez, prélat français (° inconnue).

Gerhard IV., Graf von Geldern

Ferdinand I of Portugal

Fernando I of Portugal

Paul von Blankenfelde, deutscher Patrizier, Bürgermeister von Berlin

Louis de Beauvau, militaire français (° 30 octobre 1409).

James Berkeley, 1.

Simon von der Borch, Bischof von Reval

James Douglas

Diego de Siloé, spanischer Baumeister und Bildhauer

Jean Grolier de Servières

Florimond Robertet de Fresne, secrétaire d'État français (° 1531).

Johann von Glauburg, Frankfurter Patrizier und Bürgermeister

Ludwig VI., Pfalzgraf von Simmern und Kurfürst von der Pfalz

Georg Friedrich I., Graf zu Hohenlohe-Waldenburg

Domingo Báñez

Mathurin Régnier, escritor francés (n.

Pomponio Nenna

Aelius Everhardus Vorstius, niederländischer Mediziner und Botaniker

Kikkawa Hiroie

Kikkawa Hiroie

Johann Benedikt Carpzov I., deutscher Theologe

Cassiano dal Pozzo, italienischer Gelehrter und Mäzen

César de Vendôme, grand amiral français (° 7 juin 1594).

Friedrich Buchmann, Schweizer Bürgermeister

Gerbrand van den Eeckhout

Giovanni Battista Langetti, italienischer Maler

Benedetto Ferrari, italienischer Komponist, Kapellmeister und Theorbist

Philips Angel van Middelburg, niederländischer Stillleben-Maler

Carlo Lurago, italienischer Architekt und Baumeister

Daniel Symonis, deutscher Schriftsteller und Geistlicher

Guy Aldonce de Durfort, duc de Lorges, Marschall von Frankreich

Hermann Witsius

Alessandro Scarlatti, compositor italiano (n.

Anna Maria Ehrenstrahl, schwedische Malerin

Rinaldo d’Este, Herzog von Modena und Reggio, Kardinal

Leopold Anton von Firmian, Fürstbischof von Salzburg

Johannes Ferdinand Oesterhoff, deutscher Geistlicher

William IV

Elisha Williams

Johann Friedrich Christoph Buff, deutscher evangelischer Geistlicher

Ludwig Georg Simpert, Markgraf von Baden-Baden

Johann Henrich von Seelen, deutscher Theologe und Pädagoge

Carl Aigen, österreichischer Maler

Frans van Mieris der Jüngere, niederländischer Genre- und Bildnismaler und Radierer

Marc-Pierre de Voyer de Paulmy d'Argenson, estadista francês (n.

Jean-Marie Leclair, compositeur français (° 10 mai 1697).

Luise Dorothea von Sachsen-Meiningen, Herzogin von Sachsen-Gotha-Altenburg

Franciszek Salezy Potocki, polnischer Magnat, Woiwode der Woiwodschaft Kiew

Johann August Nahl der Ältere, deutscher Bildhauer und Stuckateur

Gerhard Friedrich Müller, deutscher Historiker und Sibirien-Forscher

Karl Gottlob Clausnitzer, deutscher Theologe

Teresa Herrera, filántropa española (n.

Jacob Vernes, Schweizer evangelischer Geistlicher

Guillaume Le Gentil

Joseph Sulkowski, militaire français (° 18 janvier 1773).

Sophie Arnould, actrice et cantatrice française (° 13 février 1740).

Samuel Arnold, britischer Komponist und Organist

Elias Dayton, US-amerikanischer Politiker

Joel Barlow, nordamerikanischer Dichter, Staatsmann und politischer Schriftsteller

Joachim Heinrich Campe, pédagogue allemand (° 29 juin 1746).

Leopold Leonhard von Thun und Hohenstein, Bischof von Passau

Karl Mack von Leiberich, österreichischer General

Sigismund Friedrich Hermbstädt, deutscher Apotheker, Chemiker, technischer Schriftsteller und Technologe

Wilhelm Gustav Friedrich Bentinck, deutscher Reichsgraf

George Campbell, 6º Duque de Argyll, aristocrata britânico (n.

Henriette Herz, deutsche Schriftstellerin

Sahle Selassie, Meridazmatch und Negus von Schoa

Sahle Selassie

Wilhelm Meyer, Schweizer Offizier und Bühnen- und Architekturmaler

Gottlob König, deutscher Forstwissenschaftler

Juan Antonio Lavalleja

Jeremias Gotthelf, escritor suizo (n.