Deaths

Camilo Cienfuegos, revolucionario cubano (n.

Camilo Cienfuegos, revolucionario cubano (n. 1932).

Alfred Büchi, Schweizer Ingenieur und Erfinder

Ventura García-Calderón, escritor, diplomático y estudioso peruano (n.

Ventura García-Calderón, escritor, diplomático y estudioso peruano (n. 1886).

Juan José Domenchina, escritor y crítico español perteneciente a la Generación del 27 (n.

Juan José Domenchina, escritor y crítico español perteneciente a la Generación del 27 (n. 1898).

Ford W. Harris, US-amerikanischer Ingenieur und Patentanwalt

Hermann Muckermann, deutscher Biologe und Geistlicher

Otto Froitzheim, tenista alemán (n.

Otto Froitzheim, tenista alemán (n. 1894).

Enrico Mattei

Enrico Mattei rebuilt Italy's energy industry after World War II, then refused to let American oil companies control it. He made deals with the Soviet Union and Middle Eastern states. His plane exploded in 1962. Investigators called it an accident. His wife said it was murder. They reopened the case in 1997 and found a bomb. Nobody was ever charged.

Rudolf Anderson

Rudolf Anderson was flying a U-2 spy plane over Cuba on October 27, 1962, when a Soviet missile crew shot him down. He was the only person killed in combat during the Cuban Missile Crisis. Kennedy's advisors wanted to bomb the missile sites in retaliation. Kennedy waited. The Soviets withdrew. Anderson's death nearly started World War III.

1963

Karl Polak, deutscher Jurist und Politiker

1964

Rudolph Maté (Rudolf Mayer dit), réalisateur polonais (° 21 janvier 1898).

1964

Vicente T. Mendoza, mexikanischer Musikwissenschaftler und Folkloreforscher

1964

Willi Bredel, deutscher Schriftsteller

1967

Theodor Steltzer, deutscher Politiker

1967

Marta Brunet, escritora chilena (n.

Marta Brunet, escritora chilena (n. 1897).

1968

Lise Meitner

Lise Meitner calculated nuclear fission while walking in the snow on Christmas Eve 1938. Her nephew did the math on scraps of paper. She'd fled Nazi Germany five months earlier, leaving her lab behind. Her partner published without crediting her. He got the Nobel Prize. She got nothing.

1968

Mateo Múgica, clérigo español, obispo de Vitoria (n.

Mateo Múgica, clérigo español, obispo de Vitoria (n. 1870).

1968

Mary Lura Sherrill, química estadounidense (n.

Mary Lura Sherrill, química estadounidense (n. 1888).

1972

Katherine Oppenheimer, biologiste et botaniste germano-étatsunienne (° 8 août 1910).

1972

Esther Nunes Bibas, escritora brasileira (n.

Esther Nunes Bibas, escritora brasileira (n. 1888).

1973

Otilio Ulate Blanco, político costarricense, presidente entre 1949 y 1953 (n.

Otilio Ulate Blanco, político costarricense, presidente entre 1949 y 1953 (n. 1891).

1973

Gordon Hoare, futbolista británico (n.

Gordon Hoare, futbolista británico (n. 1884).

André Granet, architecte français (° 6 mai 1881).

Jordán Bruno Genta, escritor católico argentino (n.

Jordán Bruno Genta, escritor católico argentino (n. 1909).

Rudolf Dassler, deutscher Unternehmer

C. P. Ramanujam

C. P. Ramanujam solved problems in algebraic geometry and number theory that his mentor said were impossible. He suffered from depression and schizophrenia, checking himself into psychiatric hospitals between breakthroughs. He burned his final manuscript before killing himself at 36. His colleagues reconstructed some of it from memory. The rest is gone.

ناصر بن سعود بن عبد العزيز آل سعود، أحد أبناء الملك سعود.

Juan Peregrino Anselmo, uruguayischer Fußballspieler

Rex Stout

Rex Stout created Nero Wolfe, the detective who weighed a seventh of a ton and refused to leave his brownstone. Stout wrote 33 novels and 39 novellas about him over forty years. Wolfe solved murders from his chair. Stout wrote until he was eighty-eight. Neither of them stopped working.

Rolf Nesch, deutsch-norwegischer Maler und Grafiker

Oliver Nelson, US-amerikanischer Musiker

1976

Deryck Cooke

Deryck Cooke spent 13 years reconstructing Mahler's unfinished Tenth Symphony from 44 pages of sketches. Mahler's widow opposed the project. Cooke finished it anyway in 1964. Orchestras now perform his version worldwide. He turned fragments into 75 minutes of music Mahler never completed.

1977

Umberto Vittori, italienischer Ruderer

1977

Peg Leg Sam, US-amerikanischer Bluesmusiker

1977

James M. Cain

James M. Cain wrote The Postman Always Rings Twice in three weeks. It sold three million copies, got banned in Boston. He wrote Double Indemnity as a serial. Both became classic film noirs. He worked as a screenwriter in Hollywood, hated it, moved back East. He married his fourth wife when he was seventy-three. She was his dead wife's best friend.

1979

Wolf von Kahlden, deutscher Brigadegeneral

John Hasbrouck Van Vleck

John Hasbrouck Van Vleck figured out the math behind magnetism in materials nobody understood yet. His equations explained why some atoms attract and others don't. He won the Nobel Prize in 1977 for work he'd published in 1932. He was 78. He'd spent 45 years teaching at Harvard. His students called him "Van."

Steve Peregrin Took, baterista y cantautor británico (n.

Steve Peregrin Took, baterista y cantautor británico (n. 1949).

Steve Peregrin Took

Steve Peregrin Took got kicked out of T. Rex for being too wild. Marc Bolan thought he was too wild. Took played bongos and sang backing vocals on their psychedelic albums, then Bolan wanted a cleaner sound. Took formed his own bands, none successful. He choked on a cocktail cherry at a party. He was 31. Bolan died in a car crash three years earlier.

Judy LaMarsh

Judy LaMarsh was the first woman in Canadian cabinet to hold a major portfolio. She created the Canada Pension Plan. She helped establish the Royal Commission on the Status of Women. She smoked cigars, swore in meetings, and wrote in her memoirs that Pierre Trudeau once told her she was "too aggressive." She replied that he was too arrogant. She died at 55.

1981

Nico Dostal, österreichischer Komponist

1982

Miguel Ydígoras Fuentes

Miguel Ydígoras Fuentes gave the CIA a base in Guatemala to train Cuban exiles. He was president, and in 1960 Eisenhower needed somewhere secret. Ydígoras agreed. The Bay of Pigs invasion launched from there and failed. Guatemalans found out about the base. Ydígoras was overthrown in 1963. He died in exile in El Salvador nineteen years later.

1985

Paul Edwin Roth, deutscher Schauspieler

1986

Sherman A. Adams, US-amerikanischer Politiker

1986

Alfred Au, deutscher Fußballspieler

1987

Jean Hélion (Jean Bichier dit), peintre français (° 21 avril 1904).

1988

Curt Herzstark, científico austriaco (n.

Curt Herzstark, científico austriaco (n. 1902).

1988

Charles Hawtry

Charles Hawtrey appeared in 23 Carry On films — more than any other actor except two. He played the same character in every one: nervous, effeminate, glasses slipping down his nose. He was written out of the series after demanding more money. He spent his last decade alone in a seaside bungalow, drinking.

1989

Heinz Meynhardt, deutscher Verhaltensforscher, Tierfilmer und Sachbuchautor

Helmut Maandi

Helmut Maandi was Estonia's first Minister of Agriculture after independence from the Soviet Union. He'd been deported to Siberia in 1941, returned in 1956, then helped rebuild Estonian farming after fifty years of collectivization. He died four months after Estonia became independent again. He was 84.

Jacques Demy

Jacques Demy directed The Umbrellas of Cherbourg with every line of dialogue sung. No spoken words at all. Catherine Deneuve was nineteen. The film won the Palme d'Or. He made seven more musicals. He died of AIDS complications in 1990. His wife Agnès Varda made a documentary about him three years later. She included footage of him dying.

Princess Sophie von Hohenberg

Princess Sophie von Hohenberg was 13 when her parents were assassinated in Sarajevo. She watched her mother wipe blood off her father's face before the second shot. She lived 76 more years. She married, had children, survived World War II. She never gave interviews about that day.

Elliott Roosevelt

Elliott Roosevelt was FDR's son and flew combat reconnaissance in World War II. He was in the room at Yalta. Married five times, including to Faye Emerson on live television. Wrote 20 mystery novels starring his mother Eleanor as an amateur detective solving murders in the White House. She died in 1962. He kept writing her for 28 more years.

Sofía de Hohenberg, aristócrata austriaca (n.

Sofía de Hohenberg, aristócrata austriaca (n. 1901).

Xavier Cugat

Xavier Cugat brought Latin music to America by making it safe for white audiences. He led the house band at the Waldorf-Astoria for 16 years. He married five times, always to younger singers. Abbe Lane. Charo. He painted terrible art and sold it for thousands. He died in 1990 at 90. The bandleader who turned rumba into wallpaper.

Ugo Tognazzi

Ugo Tognazzi made 150 films—comedies, dramas, everything. He was in 'La Cage aux Folles,' playing a gay cabaret owner in 1978 when that could end careers. It became a massive hit. He kept working. He died on set in 1990, filming in Rome. The actor who made Italian cinema looser, messier, and more human.

Princess Sophie of Hohenberg

Sophie of Hohenberg was six when her father Archduke Franz Ferdinand was assassinated in Sarajevo. The shooting started World War I. She lived through both world wars, the collapse of Austria-Hungary, and the Cold War. She died at 89, having watched the empire her father would've ruled disappear completely.

Rafael Banquells, actor cubano (n.

Rafael Banquells, actor cubano (n. 1917).

Ernst Wimmer, österreichischer Journalist und Marxist

George Barker

George Barker published 30 books of poetry and fathered 15 children with five women. He never married most of them. His poems sold poorly. He lived on grants and visiting professorships.

Marc Gignoux, französischer Automobilrennfahrer

Theodor Holterdorf, deutscher Komponist

Andrzej Panufnik, polnisch-britischer Komponist

Ivan Andreadis, tschechoslowakischer Tischtennisspieler

Jimmy Salcedo, cantante, pianista, humorista y presentador de televisión colombiano (n.

Jimmy Salcedo, cantante, pianista, humorista y presentador de televisión colombiano (n. 1944).

David Bohm

David Bohm was blacklisted during McCarthyism for refusing to testify about his former Communist Party membership. He'd worked on the Manhattan Project. Princeton fired him. He moved to Brazil, then Israel, then England. He developed an alternative interpretation of quantum mechanics. Einstein liked it. Most physicists ignored it. It's taken seriously now.

Allen R. Schindler

Allen Schindler was beaten to death in a public restroom in Japan by a fellow sailor because he was gay. He was 22. The murder happened in 1992, three years before "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" became policy. His mother testified before Congress. His death became evidence in the debate over gay service members. His killing changed military policy more than his service ever could have.

1993

Betty Söderberg, dänische Schauspielerin

1994

James Schwarzenbach, Schweizer Publizist und Politiker

1995

Francisco de Asís Sancho, jurista y foralista español (n.

Francisco de Asís Sancho, jurista y foralista español (n. 1921).

1995

Marta Colvin, escultora chilena (n.

Marta Colvin, escultora chilena (n. 1907).

1995

Leo Bardischewski, deutscher Schauspieler und Synchronsprecher

Morey Amsterdam, actor estadounidense (n.

Morey Amsterdam, actor estadounidense (n. 1908).

Arthur Tremblay

Arthur Tremblay helped create Quebec's modern education system in the 1960s, stripping the Catholic Church of its control over schools. He was appointed to the Senate at 60. He served 19 years.

Madame Soleil (Germaine Moritz Soleil dite), astrologue française (° 18 juillet 1913).

Morey Amsterdam

Morey Amsterdam wrote "Rum and Coca-Cola" in 1944. The Andrews Sisters recorded it. It sold seven million copies. He made almost nothing — the copyright was stolen. He spent 11 years on The Dick Van Dyke Show writing his own jokes as Buddy Sorrell. He'd pull index cards from his jacket with 1,000 one-liners ready. The cards outlasted the show.

Achim Gercke, deutscher Biologe

Helmut Hoyer Arndt, deutscher Wirtschaftswissenschaftler

Mahala Andrews

Mahala Andrews spent decades identifying ancient fish from fragments of spine. She could date a geological layer from a single vertebra, reading millions of years in bone ridges most people couldn't see. She died in 1997. Her reference collections still help paleontologists identify species from scraps smaller than a fingernail.

François-Henri de Virieu, journaliste, animateur et producteur de télévision français (° 18 décembre 1931).

1998

Reidar Kvammen, footballeur et entraîneur norvégien (° 23 juillet 1914).

1998

Winnie van Weerdenburg, nageuse néerlandaise (° 1er octobre 1946).

Vazgen Sargsian (Վազգեն Սարգսյան), homme politique et militaire arménien, Premier ministre en 1999 (° 5 mars 1959).

Charlotte Perriand

Charlotte Perriand designed the chairs in Le Corbusier's buildings. For decades, people thought Le Corbusier designed them. He took credit. She worked with him for ten years before leaving. Her furniture now sells for six figures.

Robert Mills

Robert Mills developed Yang-Mills theory in 1954, the foundation for the Standard Model of particle physics. He didn't win a Nobel Prize. His collaborator Chen-Ning Yang did. Mills was barely mentioned.

Rafael Alberti, spanischer Lyriker

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2000

Lida Baarova (Ludmila Babková dite), actrice tchèque (° 7 septembre 1914).

2000

Walter Berry

Walter Berry defined the mid-century operatic stage with his definitive portrayals of Mozart’s Figaro and Papageno. His death in 2000 silenced one of the most versatile bass-baritones of the Vienna State Opera, an artist whose nuanced vocal characterizations helped establish the modern standard for interpreting the works of Strauss and Wagner.

2001

Sophie Tatischeff, monteuse et réalisatrice française (° 23 octobre 1946).

2001

Pradeep Kumar

Pradeep Kumar acted in over 200 Hindi films but never learned to speak Hindi fluently. He was Bengali. His voice was dubbed in almost every film. Audiences knew his face, not his voice. He directed three films late in his career. In those, he finally spoke for himself.

2002

Tom Dowd

Tom Dowd engineered 'Respect,' 'Layla,' and 'Tusk.' He recorded Aretha Franklin, Cream, and the Allman Brothers. He invented the eight-track recorder. He worked on over 1,000 albums. He started as a physicist on the Manhattan Project at 18, then switched to music. He died in 2002. Every song you love from the '60s and '70s has his fingerprints on it.

2002

André de Toth, réalisateur américain (° 15 mai 1912).

2002

Valve Pormeister

Valve Pormeister designed over 100 buildings in Soviet Estonia, including Tallinn's airport and the Estonian National Library. She worked under Soviet rules: concrete, functionalism, no ornamentation. After independence, critics called her buildings ugly. She said they were honest. They're still standing.

Stephanie Tyrell

Stephanie Tyrell wrote songs for Patti LaBelle and The Pointer Sisters in the 1980s. Her tracks charted, but never hit number one. She produced for 30 years, working behind the scenes while the singers became famous. She left behind dozens of recordings with her name in small print.

Walter Washington, US-amerikanischer Politiker

Rod Roddy

Rod Roddy announced The Price Is Right in 23 different colored blazers. Bright purple. Electric blue. Sequined gold. He had over 200 of them custom-made. He took over from Johnny Olson in 1986 and yelled "Come on down!" for 17 years. He kept working through colon cancer, wore the blazers until two months before he died. They retired his microphone.

John William Atkinson, US-amerikanischer Psychologe

Lester Lanin

Lester Lanin played at every presidential inauguration from Eisenhower to Clinton — nine in a row. His society orchestra performed at Truman Capote's Black and White Ball, the wedding of Prince Charles and Lady Diana, and countless debutante balls. He worked until he was 95, still conducting in white tie and tails.

Serginho

Serginho played for São Caetano and AC Milan, winning the Champions League in 2003. He died of a heart attack during a match in Brazil at 30. The game was abandoned.

Claude Helffer, französischer Pianist

Martin Flörchinger, deutscher Schauspieler

Zdenko Runjić

Zdenko Runjić wrote over 2,000 songs, mostly for Croatian pop singers in the 1970s and 80s. He composed fast, sometimes three songs a day. He'd write the melody in the morning, arrange it by afternoon, record it by evening. He died of a heart attack at his piano. The song was unfinished.

Pierre Béarn, homme de lettres français (° 15 juin 1902).

George Swindin, footballeur anglais (° 4 décembre 1914).

Herasto Reyes, periodista, escritor y activista político panameño (n.

Herasto Reyes, periodista, escritor y activista político panameño (n. 1952).

Georges Guingouin, résistant français (° 2 f��vrier 1913).

Jerry Cooke

Jerry Cooke photographed the Korean War for Life magazine, then spent fifty years shooting everything else: civil rights, Vietnam, the Beatles' first U.S. tour. His Korea photos won awards. His Beatles photos sold magazines. But he kept the Korea negatives in a separate box, labeled 'Don't Look.'

Franz Lanz, deutscher Brigadegeneral

Georges Le Baill, homme politique français (° 18 août 1939).

Joe Niekro

Joe Niekro threw a knuckleball that moved so slowly hitters would swing twice. He won 221 games, played for six teams, and was ejected in 1987 when an emery board fell out of his pocket during a mound inspection. He claimed he used it to file his nails. He was suspended 10 games. He died of a brain aneurysm at 61. His brother Phil won 318 games throwing the same pitch.

Reko Lundán

Reko Lundán wrote about technology for Finnish newspapers for 20 years. He was 37 when he died of a heart attack in 2006. He'd covered the rise of Nokia, the internet boom, and the shift to mobile. He left behind thousands of articles explaining technology to people who didn't understand it.

Albrecht Graf von Goertz, deutscher Designer

María Cánepa, actriz chilena de origen italiano (n.

María Cánepa, actriz chilena de origen italiano (n. 1921).

Jozsef Gregor

Jozsef Gregor sang 53 different operatic roles at the Hungarian State Opera over four decades. Bass singers typically specialize in 15 to 20 roles maximum. He performed 1,800 times on that same stage. When he retired, they named a rehearsal room after him. It's where new singers learn their first notes.

Marlin McKeever

Marlin McKeever played linebacker for the Rams and was also drafted by the Red Sox. He chose football. His twin brother, Mike, played beside him at USC and in the NFL. They were the first twins to play together in a Rose Bowl. Mike died of a heart attack at 46. Marlin followed 20 years later.

Brad Will

Brad Will was filming a protest in Oaxaca when someone shot him in the chest. His camera kept recording. You can watch the footage. He died on camera, still holding it.

Ghulam Ishaq Khan, político pakistaní, presidente entre 1988 y 1993 (n.

Ghulam Ishaq Khan, político pakistaní, presidente entre 1988 y 1993 (n. 1915).

Satyen Kappu

Satyen Kappu played character roles in over 300 Bollywood films and was never the lead. He was the loyal servant, the worried father, the comic sidekick. He worked steadily for 40 years. When he died, the film industry shut down for a day. They don't usually do that for supporting actors.

Moira Lister

Moira Lister was born in South Africa, raised in Britain, and became famous playing elegant society women on stage and screen. She appeared in 30 films and wrote a memoir called The Very Merry Moira. She married the Marquis de Casa Maury and spent her later years in Monte Carlo. She died at 84, still titled.

Henk Vredeling, homme politique néerlandais (° 20 novembre 1924)

Paul-Olivier « Paul-O.

Paul-Olivier « Paul-O. » Trépanier, homme politique québécois (° 4 octobre 1923).

Khun Sa, trafiquant de drogue birman (° 17 février 1934).

Martin Allgöwer, Schweizer Chirurg und Hochschullehrer

Grégoire Dubreuil, écrivain, critique littéraire et libraire français (° 1956).

Raffaele Rossi, cineasta e roteirista ítalo-brasileiro (n.

Raffaele Rossi, cineasta e roteirista ítalo-brasileiro (n. 1938).

José María Cuevas, empresario español (n.

José María Cuevas, empresario español (n. 1935).

Ezekiel Mphahlele, escritor sudafricano (n.

Ezekiel Mphahlele, escritor sudafricano (n. 1919).

Roy Stewart

Roy Stewart played Quarrel in Dr. No, the first James Bond film ever made. He was the Jamaican fisherman who helps Bond. He dies halfway through. Stewart did his own stunts, including being burned alive by a flamethrower tank. He worked in British film and TV for 40 years, mostly uncredited.

Frank Nagai

Frank Nagai was half-Japanese, half-French and became Japan's biggest crooner in the 1950s. He sang jazz standards in Japanese with a French accent. He sold 20 million records. After rock arrived, his career faded. He kept performing in small clubs until he was 76, still singing standards, still with the accent.

Ray Ellis

Ray Ellis arranged the theme song for Spider-Man in 1967. Everyone knows it. He also produced Barbra Streisand's first demos and arranged for Billie Holiday. He worked under 20 different pseudonyms because union rules limited how many credits one person could take on a single album. His real name appears on just a fraction of his work.

Chris Bryant

Chris Bryant wrote the screenplay for Don't Look Now, the 1973 thriller with the most famous sex scene in British cinema. It was his first produced script. He wrote a dozen more films but never matched that one. The sex scene still gets analyzed in film schools. His other work is mostly forgotten.

André Revuz, mathématicien français (° 15 mars 1914).

Heinz Krügel, deutscher Fußballtrainer

Pierre Doris, comédien français (° 29 octobre 1919).

Juan de Dios Carmona, abogado y político chileno (n.

Juan de Dios Carmona, abogado y político chileno (n. 1916).

Rudolf Anheuser, deutscher Basketball-Schiedsrichter

John David Carson

John David Carson was nominated for a Golden Globe at 22 for playing a disturbed teenager in The Beguiled. He acted opposite Clint Eastwood and Geraldine Page. Then he mostly disappeared, taking small TV roles. He died at 57 in a nursing home. His obituary mentioned the Golden Globe nomination first.

August Coppola

August Coppola was Nicolas Cage's father and Francis Ford Coppola's brother. He taught literature at San Francisco State for 30 years. He published academic papers on comparative literature while his brother made The Godfather and his son became a movie star. He left behind students, not films.

David Shepherd

David Shepherd umpired 92 Test matches, more than any other official when he retired. He stood at square leg with his hands behind his back, rocking slightly. Players loved him because he admitted mistakes. He once gave a batsman not out, then changed his decision after seeing the replay. Honesty made him trusted.

Taylor Mitchell

Taylor Mitchell was killed by coyotes while hiking in Nova Scotia in 2009. She was 19. It's the only recorded fatal coyote attack on an adult human in North America. She was a folk singer on her first tour. She left behind one album and a freak wildlife statistic.

Paul-Ernst Strähle, deutscher Unternehmer und Automobilrennfahrer

Joan Solà Cortassa, filólogo y lingüista español (n.

Joan Solà Cortassa, filólogo y lingüista español (n. 1940).

James Wall

James Wall worked as a talent manager in Hollywood for 60 years. He represented character actors, not stars. He got them work in westerns and TV shows. He acted occasionally himself — small roles, uncredited parts. He died at 93, having spent a lifetime getting other people jobs.

Néstor Kirchner

Néstor Kirchner became Argentina's president with 22% of the vote after his opponent dropped out. He renegotiated the country's debt, prosecuted junta leaders, and handed power to his wife. He died of a heart attack at 60 while planning another run. She served eight years. They governed Argentina for 12 years between them.

Denise Borino-Quinn

Denise Borino-Quinn had never acted before The Sopranos. She was a mafia wife in real life, married to a Gambino associate. She saw an open casting call for Italian-American women and showed up. They cast her as Ginny Sacrimoni. She appeared in 24 episodes. It was her only role.

Saqr ben Mohamed Al Qassimi, émir émirati (° 1918 ou 1920).

Pierre Boutet, ténor québécois (° 6 novembre 1925).

Fermo Camellini, cycliste sur route italo-français (° 7 décembre 1914).

Frédéric Darras, footballeur français (° 19 août 1966).

Jean Dupuy, joueur de rugby à XV français (° 25 mai 1934).

Luiz Mendes, jornalista e radialista brasileiro (n.

Luiz Mendes, jornalista e radialista brasileiro (n. 1924).

Robert Pritzker

Robert Pritzker co-founded the Marmon Group with his brother in 1953, building it into a conglomerate of manufacturing companies worth $7 billion. The Pritzker family also owns Hyatt Hotels. He died in 2011. He'd turned industrial parts into a fortune.

James Hillman

James Hillman studied with Carl Jung in Zurich, then spent fifty years arguing that psychology had it backwards. He said we aren't shaped by childhood trauma — we're born with a destiny we spend our lives trying to fulfill. He called it the "acorn theory." The idea never caught on in clinical practice. His books sold anyway. Therapists hated him. Readers didn't.

Giancarlo Vitali, italienischer Fußballspieler und -trainer

Janick Gilbert, militaire canadien (° 16 mai 1977).

Hans Werner Henze

Hans Werner Henze left Germany for Italy in 1953 because he was gay and communist—both dangerous in postwar West Germany. He composed 10 symphonies and 15 operas in exile, most with explicitly political themes. His Sixth Symphony is dedicated to the Vietnamese resistance. He never returned to live in Germany. He made his anger into music.

Regina Dourado

Regina Dourado acted in Brazilian telenovelas for 30 years, playing mothers, grandmothers, and maids. Telenovelas film six days a week, airing the next day. Actors memorize 30 pages of dialogue daily. She did that for three decades. When she died, TV Globo ran a tribute during prime time.

Angelo Maria Cicolani

Angelo Maria Cicolani was an engineer who designed bridges in central Italy, then became mayor of Fermo for eight years. He built a hospital and a highway interchange. He died of a heart attack at 60. The interchange is still called Cicolani. The hospital was renamed after someone else.

Terry Callier

Terry Callier recorded his first album in 1968, then quit music to drive a bus. His daughter needed support. He worked for the University of Chicago transit system for 15 years. DJs in London discovered his old records in the '90s. He was tracked down, brought back, and recorded five more albums. He was 67.

Paulette Isaïa, résistante française (° 26 novembre 1911).

Jacques Dupin, homme de lettres français (° 4 mars 1927).

Göran Stangertz

Göran Stangertz played the same police detective, Martin Beck, in nine Swedish films based on the novels by Sjöwall and Wahlöö. The books invented Nordic noir. The films came out between 1993 and 2018. He played Beck for 25 years, aging in real time with the character.

Rodney S. Quinn

Rodney Quinn flew 35 combat missions in World War II, then served as Maine's Secretary of State for 30 years. He oversaw elections and maintained state records. He died at 88. He'd gone from bombing runs to bureaucracy and stayed there.

Noel Davern

Noel Davern served as Ireland's Minister for Education, then Agriculture. He was a Fianna Fáil TD for 37 years. He died in 2013 at 67. He'd been a constituency politician, the kind who attends every funeral and fixes every pothole.

Vinko Coce

Vinko Coce sang Dalmatian folk songs for forty years, mostly about the sea and fishing villages. He recorded 15 albums. He never toured outside Croatia. He died of a heart attack at 59. His songs are still played on Croatian radio every summer, background music for tourists who don't know his name.

Luigi Magni

Luigi Magni directed 23 films set in 19th-century Rome, all about the Vatican, revolutionaries, and papal politics. He used the past to critique present-day Italy. His films were banned by the Church, protested by conservatives, and loved by audiences. He kept making them for 40 years.

Leonard Herzenberg

Leonard Herzenberg invented the fluorescence-activated cell sorter, which separates cells by tagging them with colored dyes and sorting them with lasers. It made modern immunology possible. You can isolate one cell type from millions in seconds. He built the first prototype in his Stanford lab in 1969. Every research hospital has one now.

Lou Reed

Lou Reed wrote 'Walk on the Wild Side' about people he knew from Andy Warhol's Factory — Holly Woodlawn, Candy Darling, Joe Dallesandro. It got on the radio in 1972 despite lyrics about oral sex that nobody at the BBC seems to have caught. He spent the rest of his career being difficult, brilliant, and frequently both simultaneously. Metal Machine Music, released in 1975, was an hour of guitar feedback. Rock critics hated it. He was still playing it live thirty years later. He died in October 2013 at 71, of liver disease.

Michael Wilkes

Michael Wilkes commanded British forces in the Falklands after the war ended. He spent three years as Lieutenant Governor of Jersey, the island that's closer to France than England but stayed British anyway. He was a major general who ended his career governing 45 square miles and 100,000 people.

Bob Kenney, basquetebolista estadunidense (n.

Bob Kenney, basquetebolista estadunidense (n. 1931).

Starke Taylor

Starke Taylor stormed Omaha Beach on D-Day, then came home to Dallas and sold insurance. He became mayor in 1983 at sixty-one. He served one term. He went back to business. He died in 2014, having spent seventy years doing everything but talking about the war. The beach was one day. Everything else was the life.

Shin Hae-chul

Shin Hae-chul died from complications after routine stomach surgery. He was 46. He'd been South Korea's most outspoken rock musician for two decades, banned from television multiple times for criticizing the government. He refused to compromise his lyrics. He called himself the Devil. His funeral drew 40,000 people. The hospital was later found negligent.

Daniel Boulanger

Daniel Boulanger wrote screenplays for François Truffaut, Jean-Luc Godard, and Philippe de Broca. He also acted in 100 films, usually playing criminals or working-class men. And he published poetry. He did all three simultaneously for 50 years. French critics couldn't decide which he did best.

Begoña Caamaño, periodista, feminista y escritora española en gallego (n.

Begoña Caamaño, periodista, feminista y escritora española en gallego (n. 1964).

Betsy Drake

Betsy Drake was married to Cary Grant for 13 years. She wrote the script for one of his films, then quit acting to become a therapist. She was on the Andrea Doria when it sank in 1956 and survived. She died at 92, having outlived Grant by 29 years.

Ranjit Roy Chaudhury

Ranjit Roy Chaudhury helped establish India's first clinical pharmacology department. He led the committee that created ethical guidelines for medical research in India after decades of unregulated drug trials. He was eighty-five. His guidelines became the foundation for protecting human subjects in a country of more than a billion people.

Ralph Richeson, US-amerikanischer Maler und Schauspieler

Ada Chaseliov, atriz brasileira (n.

Ada Chaseliov, atriz brasileira (n. 1952).

Ayerdhal

Ayerdhal wrote French science fiction for 25 years. He won the Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire three times, published 20 novels, and never got translated into English. He died at 56, unknown outside France.

Philip French

Philip French reviewed films for The Observer for 30 years. He championed Westerns when critics dismissed them, wrote books on Kurosawa and Altman. He died at 82, having watched movies for six decades.

Takahito

Prince Takahito was Emperor Hirohito's younger brother. He lived through World War II, the occupation, and Japan's transformation into an economic power. He died at 100, the oldest member of the imperial family in history.

Nelson Pinedo, fue un cantautor colombiano.

Nelson Pinedo, fue un cantautor colombiano. (n. 1928).

Karl Heinz Oppel, deutscher Schauspieler

شعيب الأرناؤوط، عالم محدث محقق سوري.

2017

Jon Kalb, US-amerikanischer Geologe und Paläontologe

2017

Stefan Kiefer, deutscher Motorradrennfahrer und Teamchef

2017

Inkululeko Suntele, lesothischer Boxer

Mario Segale, empresario y promotor inmobiliario estadounidense (n.

Mario Segale, empresario y promotor inmobiliario estadounidense (n. 1934).

Ntozake Shange, dramaturge, poétesse et artiste de performance américaine (º 18 octobre 1948).

Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha

Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha bought Leicester City in 2010 when they were in the third tier of English football. He spent millions bringing them back. In 2016, they won the Premier League at 5,000-to-1 odds — the greatest underdog story in sports history. Two years later, his helicopter crashed outside the stadium after a match. He died at 60. He turned a miracle into a tragedy in two years.

Ingo Insterburg, deutscher Musik-Kabarettist

Jorge Fernando, diretor brasileiro (n.

Jorge Fernando, diretor brasileiro (n. 1955).

Vladímir Bukovski, disidente y escritor soviético (n.

Vladímir Bukovski, disidente y escritor soviético (n. 1942).

Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi

Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi detonated a suicide vest when U.S. forces cornered him in a tunnel. He killed two of his own children in the blast. He'd declared a caliphate that once controlled territory the size of Britain. It took five years to hunt him down. He left nothing but rubble.

John Conyers, US-amerikanischer Politiker

2020

Gao Fengwen (chinois : 高丰文), joueur de football international chinois devenu ensuite entraîneur (º 1er novembre 1939).

2020

Cornelius Weiss, deutscher Chemiker und Politiker

Bob Ferry, joueur et dirigeant américain de basket-ball (° 31 mai 1937).

Peter Zelinka, tschechoslowakischer Biathlet und Biathlontrainer

Ludovic Zanoni, rumänischer Radrennfahrer

Paul Smart, britischer Motorradrennfahrer

Bernd Nickel, deutscher Fußballspieler

Bettina Gaus, deutsche Journalistin

Sandy Carmichael, joueur écossais de rugby à XV (° 2 février 1944).

Jacek Niedźwiedzki, joueur de tennis polonais (° 7 juin 1951).

Wakefield Poole, danseur classique, chorégraphe et réalisateur américain (° 24 février 1936).

Li Keqiang Dies: China's Reformist Premier Dead at 68

Li Keqiang served as China's premier for a decade, overseeing the world's second-largest economy through its transition from export-driven manufacturing toward domestic consumption. His unexpected death at 68 removed one of the last voices within China's leadership associated with market-oriented economic reform and political pragmatism.

Viktor Mamatov, biathlète soviétique puis russe (° 21 juillet 1937).

Jeannine Leduc, femme politique belge (° 5 juin 1939).

Anne Heywood, actrice britannique (º 11 décembre 1931).

Drawu Rinchen Tsering, chef de Jyekundo, résistant et député tibétain (° 1930).

Julia Sandoval, actrice et chanteuse argentine (° 3 décembre 1928).

Senno Salzwedel, haltérophile est-allemand puis allemand (° 24 août 1959).

Ewald Walch, lugeur autrichien (° 18 août 1940).

Jean Pellissier, skieur-alpiniste italien (° 30 juillet 1972).

Claude Huriet, professeur agrégé de médecine et homme politique français (° 24 mai 1930).

Yaacov Terner, militaire et homme politique israélien (° 27 février 1935).

Edzard Reuter, homme d'affaires, mathématicien, physicien allemand (° 16 février 1928).

Jean-Pierre Paranteau, coureur cycliste français (° 5 août 1944).

Lily Li Li-li, actrice chinoise (° 14 juin 1956).

Paul Bailey, romancier et critique britannique (° 16 février 1937).

Shraga Bar, footballeur israélien (° 24 mars 1948).

Prunella Scales

Prunella Scales played Sybil Fawlty in just twelve episodes of "Fawlty Towers." Twelve. That was enough to define her for fifty years. She had a long career on stage and screen, played Queen Elizabeth II multiple times, and worked into her eighties despite dementia. But everyone wanted to talk about the shrewish wife in that hotel. Twelve episodes. She made them count.

José Manuel Ochotorena, footballeur espagnol (° 16 janvier 1961).

Odd Martinsen, fondeur norvégien (° 20 décembre 1942).

Mimmo Jodice, photographe italien (° 24 mars 1934).