Deaths

Heinrich Mack, historiador alemán (n.

Heinrich Mack, historiador alemán (n. 1867).

Volin

Volin — born Vsevolod Eichenbaum — spent his life being exiled from places that should've welcomed him. Russia exiled him. The Bolsheviks imprisoned him after he sided with the anarchists in Ukraine. Even fellow radicals found him inconvenient. He spent his final years in Paris writing 'The Unknown Revolution,' his account of what actually happened in Ukraine between 1917 and 1921. He finished it. He died in 1945, the year it could finally matter.

Arnold Ræstad, norwegischer Historiker und Politiker

Jack Thayer, superviviente del Titanic (n.

Jack Thayer, superviviente del Titanic (n. 1894).

1946

Charles O. Andrews, US-amerikanischer Politiker

1947

Clifford W. Ashley, US-amerikanischer Maler und Autor

1949

Frank Morgan

Frank Morgan played five separate characters in 'The Wizard of Oz' — the Wizard, the doorman, the cabbie, the guard, and Professor Marvel. The coat they dressed him in for Professor Marvel was pulled from a secondhand rack at a studio costume house. Someone later noticed the label stitched inside: L. Frank Baum, the author who'd written the original book. The studio tracked down Baum's widow. She confirmed it. Morgan kept the coat. He left behind the most accidentally perfect prop in Hollywood history.

1949

Theodor Zöckler, deutscher evangelischer Pfarrer

1951

Pamela Colman Smith, artista y escritora británica (n.

Pamela Colman Smith, artista y escritora británica (n. 1878).

1951

Constant Huret, coureur cycliste français (° 26 janvier 1870).

1951

Gelett Burgess

He wrote exactly one poem about a purple cow — four lines, a throwaway joke — and spent the rest of his long life wishing people would forget it. They didn't. Gelett Burgess died in 1951, having also coined the word 'blurb' in 1907 as a gag for a trade show. Two accidental inventions. One man desperate to be taken seriously. He left behind a language that still uses his word every time a book gets published.

1952

Frances Alda

Frances Alda was born Frances Jane Davis in Christchurch, New Zealand — and became one of the Metropolitan Opera's defining sopranos of the early 20th century. She was famously outspoken, once publicly arguing with Met director Giulio Gatti-Casazza, whom she later married. The marriage lasted sixteen years. The arguments, reportedly, never stopped. She left behind recordings made when microphone technology could barely contain a voice that size.

1953

Erdet Wenxiu, Nebenfrau des letzten Kaisers von China Puyi

1953

Charles de Tornaco

Charles de Tornaco was practicing for the Italian Grand Prix at Monza when his Ferrari left the road. He was 26. The 1953 Formula One season was already brutal — multiple drivers died that year alone. De Tornaco had only made his Grand Prix debut months earlier, finishing races on sheer nerve and a borrowed seat. He left behind a single season's worth of results and a family name still known in Belgian motorsport.

1954

Armando Reverón, pintor venezolano (n.

Armando Reverón, pintor venezolano (n. 1889).

1954

Johannes Drost

Johannes Drost competed for the Netherlands in swimming at an era when Olympic training meant doing it alongside a regular job and hoping the timing worked out. He represented Dutch aquatic sport in the early twentieth century, when the infrastructure around elite swimming was minimal and the margins between competitors came down to natural ability and stubbornness. He left behind a name in Dutch sports records — the kind that surfaces when someone starts counting how many Olympians a small country quietly produced.

1954

Johannes Drost, nadador neerlandés (n.

Johannes Drost, nadador neerlandés (n. 1880).

1955

Tyko Sallinen, pintor finlandés (n.

Tyko Sallinen, pintor finlandés (n. 1879).

1956

Adélard Godbout

Adélard Godbout served as Quebec's Premier twice — and in his second term, from 1939 to 1944, he gave Quebec women the right to vote. The Catholic Church lobbied hard against it. Bishops sent letters. Godbout did it anyway. He lost the next election to Maurice Duplessis and never held power again. He left behind the vote, the rural electrification of Quebec, and the question of what else he might've done with more time.

1958

Olaf Gulbransson

Olaf Gulbransson's caricatures in the German satirical magazine Simplicissimus were so sharp that his drawings of Kaiser Wilhelm II caused diplomatic complaints before World War One. A Norwegian working in Munich, he used minimal lines to devastating effect — the fewer strokes, the crueler the likeness. He kept drawing into his eighties. He left behind an archive of powerful faces made ridiculous by a man who understood that the simplest line is often the most lethal one.

1959

Bob Doll, baloncestista estadounidense (n.

Bob Doll, baloncestista estadounidense (n. 1919).

1959

Benjamin Péret

Benjamin Péret got expelled from Brazil for radical activity, fought in the Spanish Civil War on the anarchist side, fled Nazi-occupied France to Mexico, and returned to Paris after the liberation. He was also one of Surrealism's most committed poets — André Breton called him the movement's purest voice. He had a specific, theatrical hatred of priests and wrote an entire essay about it. He died in 1959 leaving behind poems, pamphlets, and a spectacularly combative life.

1960

Walther Kranz, filósofo alemán (n.

Walther Kranz, filósofo alemán (n. 1884).

1961

Dag Hammarskjöld

His plane went down in Northern Rhodesia on September 18, 1961, and for decades the cause wasn't settled. Dag Hammarskjöld was flying to negotiate a ceasefire in Katanga when the DC-6 crashed near Ndola, killing all 16 on board. Witness accounts, declassified documents, and UN investigations have repeatedly suggested the crash wasn't accidental. He'd already won the Nobel Peace Prize — awarded posthumously, the only time that's happened for the Peace prize. He left behind a United Nations that had, for one brief stretch, been run by someone willing to make powerful states genuinely uncomfortable.

1962

Therese Neumann

From 1926 until her death, Therese Neumann reportedly ate nothing — nothing — except a single daily communion wafer. Doctors observed her for two weeks in 1927 and couldn't explain it. She also displayed stigmata every Friday, bleeding from wounds corresponding to the crucifixion. The Catholic Church never formally declared her a saint. She died in Konnersreuth in 1962, leaving behind decades of medical records that still don't have a clean answer.

1962

Ahmad ibn Yahya, rey yemení (n.

Ahmad ibn Yahya, rey yemení (n. 1891).

1963

Zacarías de Vizcarra, obispo español (n.

Zacarías de Vizcarra, obispo español (n. 1879).

Clive Bell, crítico británico (n.

Clive Bell, crítico británico (n. 1881).

Sean O'Casey

Sean O'Casey grew up in the Dublin slums and taught himself to read at fourteen — his eyesight was so poor as a child that schooling was nearly impossible. He worked as a laborer until his mid-forties, writing plays at night. His 1924 masterpiece Juno and the Paycock premiered at the Abbey Theatre and ran to standing ovations. He died in Torquay, England in 1964 having spent his last decades in self-imposed exile from Ireland after years of feuding with its cultural establishment. What he left: three plays that still fill theatres a century later.

Clive Bell

Clive Bell coined the phrase 'significant form' in 1914 — an attempt to explain why some art moves us and some doesn't. It frustrated philosophers and delighted painters. He was at the center of the Bloomsbury Group, married to Vanessa Bell, and conducting a long affair with Mary Hutchinson, all somehow without much apparent scandal. His art criticism gave Post-Impressionism its foothold in Britain. He left behind 'Art,' a slim book that's been irritating and inspiring readers in equal measure ever since.

Seán O'Casey

Seán O'Casey wrote The Shadow of a Gunman, Juno and the Paycock, and The Plough and the Stars in quick succession in the early 1920s — three plays that together constitute one of the most sustained achievements in modern drama. The Abbey Theatre audience rioted during The Plough and the Stars in 1926. O'Casey considered the riot a kind of review. He lived another 38 years in English exile, writing prolifically, fighting with everyone, and never returning to Ireland.

Marguerite Mareuse, französische Automobilrennfahrerin

1965

Regina Pacini, soprano portuguesa, esposa del presidente argentino Torcuato T. de Alvear (n.

Regina Pacini, soprano portuguesa, esposa del presidente argentino Torcuato T. de Alvear (n. 1871).

1966

José de Jesús del Valle y Navarro, obispo mexicano (n.

José de Jesús del Valle y Navarro, obispo mexicano (n. 1888).

1966

Will Shade, US-amerikanischer Blues-Musiker

1966

Karl Adler, deutscher Gynäkologe

1967

Arkady Ostrovsky, compositor ruso (n.

Arkady Ostrovsky, compositor ruso (n. 1914).

1967

John Cockcroft

In 1932, John Cockcroft and Ernest Walton built a particle accelerator from scratch — using equipment that cost less than a decent used car — and became the first people to artificially split the atom. Cockcroft later ran Britain's atomic weapons program and helped establish the safety standards that shaped nuclear power globally. He died in 1967, the morning after attending a dinner at Cambridge. He'd been master of Churchill College for nine years. The accelerator still exists.

1967

Alejandro Ogloblin, zoólogo argentino (n.

Alejandro Ogloblin, zoólogo argentino (n. 1891).

Franchot Tone

Franchot Tone was nominated for an Oscar for Mutiny on the Bounty in 1935, playing alongside Clark Gable and Charles Laughton — and lost to Victor McLaglen. He'd been considered one of Hollywood's most promising actors. But he's perhaps remembered now equally for his tumultuous marriage to Joan Crawford, which ended after two years and reportedly left both of them worse off. He left behind 90 films and one of Old Hollywood's most instructive cautionary romances.

León Felipe, poeta español (n.

León Felipe, poeta español (n. 1884).

Chris Bouchillon, US-amerikanischer Country- und Bluesmusiker

Virgilio Felice Levratto, italienischer Fußballspieler und -trainer

Francis McDonald, actor estadounidense (n.

Francis McDonald, actor estadounidense (n. 1891).

1969

Rudolf Wagner-Régeny, deutscher Komponist

1969

Félix López, dominikanischer Songwriter

1970

Hendrix Dies at 27: Guitar's Greatest Innovator Lost

Jimi Hendrix died in London on September 18, 1970, 27 years old, from asphyxiation after taking a sleeping pill in a girlfriend's apartment. He'd been awake for three days. He died the same year Janis Joplin and Jim Morrison died, all three at 27, all three of drug-related causes, which created the '27 Club' mythology. He'd been playing guitar for eight years. In those eight years he'd changed what the electric guitar could do, using feedback and distortion and the whammy bar as compositional tools rather than accidents. He learned by listening to records at 78 rpm because that was the speed at which the machine ran. He didn't read music. He recorded 'Purple Haze,' 'All Along the Watchtower,' and 'The Wind Cries Mary' within his first year of fame. He had four more years after that.

1970

Karl Fitzkow, deutscher Schriftsteller, Denkmalschützer und Heimatforscher

1970

José Pedro Cea, futbolista uruguayo (n.

José Pedro Cea, futbolista uruguayo (n. 1900).

1971

Walther Binner, deutscher Schwimmer

1972

Fritz Glarner, Schweizer Maler

1973

Mary Wigman, deutsche Tänzerin, Choreografin und Tanzpädagogin

1973

Adam Adrio, deutscher Musikwissenschaftler

1973

Antonio Barbosa Heldt, maestro y político mexicano (n.

Antonio Barbosa Heldt, maestro y político mexicano (n. 1908).

1974

Flora Sanhueza, anarquista chilena (n.

Flora Sanhueza, anarquista chilena (n. 1911).

1974

Amanat Ali Khan

Amanat Ali Khan's voice carried the classical khyal tradition into Pakistan's early radio broadcasts, reaching audiences who'd never set foot in a concert hall. He trained under masters of the Patiala gharana — a lineage stretching back generations — and passed it to his sons, who kept performing after him. He died in 1974 at 52. His son Asad Amanat Ali Khan carried the name forward. The family became the tradition.

Felix Weil, mecenas e intelectual germano-argentino (n.

Felix Weil, mecenas e intelectual germano-argentino (n. 1898).

Luis Concha Córdoba, cardenal colombiano (n.

Luis Concha Córdoba, cardenal colombiano (n. 1891).

Fairfield Porter

He reviewed art for 'The Nation' while also painting — a combination that made both critics and painters suspicious. Fairfield Porter spent decades defending representational painting when abstraction dominated, not out of nostalgia but out of a genuine argument that what you could see still mattered. He painted his family, his house, the Maine light. He died in 1975 at 68. His canvases are now in the Metropolitan, the Smithsonian, and the Whitney — the institutions that once ignored him.

شوكت شامزر علي، سياسي بنغالي.

1976

Herbert Pfeiffer, deutscher General

1977

Paul Bernays

Paul Bernays collaborated with David Hilbert for years on the foundations of mathematics, doing much of the technical work behind *Grundlagen der Mathematik* while Hilbert got most of the credit. He was dismissed from his Göttingen professorship in 1933 under Nazi race laws and rebuilt his career in Zurich from scratch. His own contribution — the Bernays-Gödel set theory — gave mathematicians a cleaner way to handle collections too large for standard set theory. He worked into his late 80s. He left behind the formal scaffolding that modern mathematical logic still stands on.

1977

Rosette Anday, ungarische Opernsängerin (Mezzosopran)

1978

Rudolf Nebel, deutscher Raketenkonstrukteur

1978

Konrad Kaletsch, empresario alemán (n.

Konrad Kaletsch, empresario alemán (n. 1898).

1979

André Zeller, général français (° 1er janvier 1898).

1979

José Pascual Vila, químico español (n.

José Pascual Vila, químico español (n. 1895).

1979

Gloria Guzmán, actriz argentina (n.

Gloria Guzmán, actriz argentina (n. 1900).

Dick Stabile, saxofonista estadounidense (n.

Dick Stabile, saxofonista estadounidense (n. 1909).

Katherine Anne Porter

Katherine Anne Porter spent 20 years writing 'Ship of Fools,' her only novel — a book she'd promised her publisher in 1942 and didn't deliver until 1962. It became an immediate bestseller and then a film. But she'd already written some of the finest short fiction in American literature, including 'Pale Horse, Pale Rider,' drawn from her near-death experience during the 1918 flu pandemic. She was 90 when she died. She left behind stories so precisely constructed they've never gone out of print.

Hugo Irurzún, guerrillero argentino; torturado (n.

Hugo Irurzún, guerrillero argentino; torturado (n. 1946).

Jo Herbst, deutscher Schauspieler und Kabarettist

1981

Humberto Cozzo, escultor brasileño (n.

Humberto Cozzo, escultor brasileño (n. 1900).

1981

Alfredo Moreno Uribe, ingeniero español (n.

Alfredo Moreno Uribe, ingeniero español (n. 1902).

1982

Pei Wenzhong, paleontólogo y arqueólogo chino (n.

Pei Wenzhong, paleontólogo y arqueólogo chino (n. 1904).

Horst Teichmann, deutscher Physiker und Hochschullehrer

Miguel Kast, economista y político chileno (n.

Miguel Kast, economista y político chileno (n. 1948).

José Pérez Ocaña, pintor y anarquista español (n.

José Pérez Ocaña, pintor y anarquista español (n. 1947).

Madschid Arslan, libanesischer Drusenführer

María Esther Podestá, actriz argentina (n.

María Esther Podestá, actriz argentina (n. 1896).

1984

Riccardo Lombardi, ingeniero y político italiano (n.

Riccardo Lombardi, ingeniero y político italiano (n. 1901).

1985

Gerald Holtom, diseñador y artista británico (n.

Gerald Holtom, diseñador y artista británico (n. 1914).

1985

Monroe Beardsley, filósofo estadounidense (n.

Monroe Beardsley, filósofo estadounidense (n. 1915).

1985

Don Otten, baloncestista estadounidense (n.

Don Otten, baloncestista estadounidense (n. 1921).

1986

Pat Phoenix

She played Elsie Tanner on Coronation Street for 20 years — the loud, warm, slightly chaotic neighbor who became one of British television's first genuine working-class female icons. Pat Phoenix left the show in 1983, and when she died of lung cancer in 1986, her funeral drew thousands to the streets of Manchester. She'd been engaged to actor Anthony Booth for just a few days before she died. She left behind 20 years of tape, a character that redefined what a soap opera lead could look like, and a city that genuinely grieved.

1987

Américo Tomás

He was overthrown in a coup at age 79, which is a sentence that doesn't get less strange on re-reading. Américo Tomás had served as Portugal's president since 1958 — a figurehead for the Salazar dictatorship — and was removed during the Carnation Revolution of 1974, a nearly bloodless military uprising. He went into exile in Brazil. When he returned years later, he faced no trial. He died at 92, in Lisbon, the city he'd once helped keep under authoritarian rule.

1987

Golbery do Couto e Silva, militar y geopolítico brasileño (n.

Golbery do Couto e Silva, militar y geopolítico brasileño (n. 1911).

1988

Arnulfo Treviño Garza, médico y militar mexicano (n.

Arnulfo Treviño Garza, médico y militar mexicano (n. 1912).

1988

Camilla Ravera, política italiana (n.

Camilla Ravera, política italiana (n. 1889).

1988

Alan Watt

Alan Watt helped shape Australia's post-WWII foreign policy from the inside — serving as a senior diplomat during the years when Australia was deciding what kind of international presence it wanted to be. As Ambassador to Japan in the 1950s, he worked in a country still rebuilding from destruction, helping normalize a relationship that had been defined by war. Born in 1901, he later wrote extensively about Australian diplomacy. He left behind memoirs that remain primary sources for historians of the period.

1989

Rudolf Krämer-Badoni, deutscher Schriftsteller

Ed Sadowski, baloncestista y entrenador estadounidense (n.

Ed Sadowski, baloncestista y entrenador estadounidense (n. 1917).

Luis Papic Ramos, político chileno (n.

Luis Papic Ramos, político chileno (n. 1919).

Richard Eric Holttum, botánico británico (n.

Richard Eric Holttum, botánico británico (n. 1895).

Claude Loyola Allgén, schwedischer Komponist und Bratschist

1991

سعيد جريس العيسى، شاعر وإذاعي فلسطيني.

Lona Andre, actriz estadounidense (n.

Lona Andre, actriz estadounidense (n. 1915).

Mohammad Hidayatullah

He was acting President of India for 35 days in 1969 — not because anything went wrong, but because the sitting president died and the election took time. Mohammad Hidayatullah served as Chief Justice before becoming Vice President, one of the few Indians to hold all three constitutional offices. He was also the first Chief Justice to have studied at Oxford and earned a bar qualification in London before independence. He left behind a legal memoir and a record for institutional range that nobody else in Indian constitutional history has matched.

Earl Van Dyke, US-amerikanischer Multi-Instrumentalist

Harald Koch, deutscher Politiker, Landesminister, MdB

David Bodian, US-amerikanischer Mediziner

Margarita de Dinamarca, aristócrata danesa (n.

Margarita de Dinamarca, aristócrata danesa (n. 1895).

Vitas Gerulaitis

He warned people for years: carbon monoxide is silent. Then, in September 1994, Vitas Gerulaitis died in his sleep from a faulty pool heater's fumes at a friend's Long Island estate. He was 40. The man who'd beaten Jimmy Connors at the 1977 US Open and traded quips on every talk show in America didn't get a dramatic exit. Just a stopped heater and an unlocked door. He left behind a game that dazzled crowds — and a safety warning every homeowner still needs to hear.

Vitas Gerulaitis, joueur de tennis professionnel (° 26 juillet 1954).

Jean-Jacques (Jean Guillaume dit), acteur franco-belge (° 5 août 1923).

Franco Moschino, diseñador de moda italiano (n.

Franco Moschino, diseñador de moda italiano (n. 1950).

Erwin Waldschütz, österreichischer Philosoph

Salvador Ananía, odontólogo y político argentino (n.

Salvador Ananía, odontólogo y político argentino (n. 1915).

Oleh Tverdokhlib

Oleh Tverdokhlib was 25 years old, a Ukrainian hurdler still in the middle of a career, when he died in 1995. Born in 1969, he'd competed through the collapse of the Soviet Union, the birth of an independent Ukraine, the chaos of rebuilding sport from scratch. He didn't get to see where any of it landed. He left behind a generation of Ukrainian athletics trying to find its footing.

Donald Davie, poeta y crítico literario británico (n.

Donald Davie, poeta y crítico literario británico (n. 1922).

Henriqueta Brieba, atriz brasileira (n.

Henriqueta Brieba, atriz brasileira (n. 1901).

Henri Caffarel, sacerdote francés (n.

Henri Caffarel, sacerdote francés (n. 1903).

Bai Yang, actriz china (n.

Bai Yang, actriz china (n. 1920).

Ulrich Beiger, deutscher Schauspieler und Regisseur

Kimmo Nevonmaa, compositeur finlandais (° 10 mai 1960).

Annabella, actriz francesa (n.

Annabella, actriz francesa (n. 1907).

Fernand Deligny, pédagogue, écrivain et réalisateur français (° 7 novembre 1913).

1997

Jean-François Chabrun, poète, résistant, journaliste, écrivain et critique d'art français (° 22 juin 1920).

1997

Jimmy Witherspoon

He learned to sing from Kansas City blues musicians while working as a merchant seaman in his teens, which is an education unavailable in any conservatory. Jimmy Witherspoon recorded 'Ain't Nobody's Business' in 1949 and it became one of the defining blues records of the postwar era. He spent the 1950s in commercial exile and came back stronger in the 1960s, outlasting the trends that had buried him. He left behind a voice that sounded like it had earned every note.

1997

Jaume Elías, futbolista español (n.

Jaume Elías, futbolista español (n. 1919).

Poch, músico español, de la banda Derribos Arias (n.

Poch, músico español, de la banda Derribos Arias (n. 1956).

Kurt Hager, deutscher Politiker, Mitglied des Zentralkomitees und des Politbüros des ZK der SED, gilt als Chefideolog…

Kurt Hager, deutscher Politiker, Mitglied des Zentralkomitees und des Politbüros des ZK der SED, gilt als Chefideologe der SED

Charlie Foxx

Charlie Foxx sang and played guitar alongside his sister Inez, and their 1963 track 'Mockingbird' — trading lines back and forth, Charlie answering Inez, Inez answering Charlie — became one of the most imitated call-and-response dynamics in pop music. Carly Simon and James Taylor covered it in 1974 and had a bigger hit with it. Charlie died in 1998 at 58. He left behind an original that every cover version quietly admits it can't quite match.

Vadim Rogovine, historien et sociologue soviétique puis russe (° 10 mai 1937).

Joseph Randle Bailey, herpétologiste américain (° 17 septembre 1913).

Gérard Landry, actor francés (n.

Gérard Landry, actor francés (n. 1912).

Léo Amberg, cycliste sur route suisse (° 23 mars 1912).

Dieter Diekmann, deutscher Kommunalpolitiker

Leo Valiani, periodista y político italiano (n.

Leo Valiani, periodista y político italiano (n. 1909).

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2000

Gilbert Carpentier, producteur d'émissions de variété français (° 20 mars 1920).

2001

Jean-Pierre Rambal, acteur français (° 13 septembre 1931).

2001

Ingeborg Sommer, deutsche Journalistin

2001

Ernie Coombs

He wasn't Canadian by birth — Ernie Coombs grew up in Portland, Maine, before crossing the border to work with Fred Rogers. He stayed. For over 30 years as Mr. Dressup, he entertained Canadian children with his Tickle Trunk full of costumes, never once condescending to his audience. He became a Canadian citizen, earned the Order of Canada, and when he died in 2001, flags on Parliament Hill flew at half-mast. An American who came for a job and left behind a generation's warmest childhood memory.

Margita Stefanović

Margita Stefanović played keyboards in Ekatarina Velika — the Belgrade band that became one of the most important acts in Yugoslav rock. They formed in a country that would collapse violently around them. Their music — atmospheric, melancholy, searching — became the soundtrack for a generation watching that collapse happen in real time. Stefanović died in 2002. The band had already dissolved, the country had already broken apart, and their records had already become something people held onto.

Hazel Brooks, US-amerikanische Schauspielerin

Herbert Schmidt, deutscher Ruderer

Siobhán Vernon, irische Mathematikerin

Bob Hayes

At the 1964 Tokyo Olympics, Bob Hayes ran the anchor leg of the 4x100 relay and made up a two-meter deficit to win gold — still called one of the greatest relay legs ever run. Then the NFL said he was too slow to play receiver. Dallas Cowboys coaches disagreed. He caught 71 touchdowns and forced defenses to invent zone coverage just to slow him down. He died in 2002 at 59, his health ravaged by years of hard living. He left behind a position that didn't exist before he ran it.

Mauro Ramos

Mauro Ramos lifted the 1958 World Cup trophy as Brazil's captain — that detail gets buried under Pelé's name every time. He was the defensive anchor, the organizer, while the 17-year-old kid got all the headlines. Ramos played 38 games for Brazil over a decade and later managed at club level. He left behind a winner's medal from the tournament that made Brazil's identity, and a captaincy most history books forgot to mention.

Léon Cuffaut, militaire français (° 20 janvier 1911).

Bob Mitchell

Bob Mitchell represented Southampton Itchen for Labour from 1971 to 1983, the kind of working-class constituency that defined postwar British politics. He worked the docks era, the union era, the Thatcher era — watching his political world reshape itself around him. He lost his seat in the 1983 election that nearly destroyed Labour as a national party. He left behind decades of quiet constituency work most history books don't bother recording.

Jean Dieuzaide, fotógrafo francés (n.

Jean Dieuzaide, fotógrafo francés (n. 1921).

Richard A. Howard, botánico estadounidense (n.

Richard A. Howard, botánico estadounidense (n. 1917).

Eugenio Marcano, investigador y naturalista dominicano (n.

Eugenio Marcano, investigador y naturalista dominicano (n. 1923).

Juan Palmero, abogado y político argentino (n.

Juan Palmero, abogado y político argentino (n. 1903).

Franz Josef Attems-Petzenstein, österreichischer Generalmajor

Emil Fackenheim

After surviving Nazi Germany and eventually landing at the University of Toronto, Emil Fackenheim spent decades as a relatively conventional Jewish philosopher — until the Six-Day War in 1967 changed something in him permanently. He formulated what he called the 614th Commandment: that Jews are forbidden to hand Hitler posthumous victories by abandoning Judaism. He wasn't speaking metaphorically. He eventually emigrated to Jerusalem in 1983 at age 67. He left behind The Jewish Return into History and a philosophical framework that refused to let atrocity have the last word.

Margret Knoop-Schellbach, deutsche Malerin

Russ Meyer

He taught himself filmmaking in the jungles of New Guinea during World War II as a military cameraman, shooting combat footage under fire. Russ Meyer came home and applied that same unflinching visual confidence to low-budget independent films that Hollywood wouldn't touch — and made more money per dollar spent than almost anyone in the industry. Beyond the Valley of the Dolls, written with Roger Ebert, grossed millions. He left behind 23 feature films, all self-financed, all self-distributed, and a business model that the studios spent years pretending they hadn't noticed.

Fernando Gallardo, actor y director chileno (n.

Fernando Gallardo, actor y director chileno (n. 1942).

Norman Cantor

Norman Cantor wrote Inventing the Middle Ages in 1991 and caused a minor scholarly riot — not by getting facts wrong, but by having the nerve to profile the historians themselves, exposing how their personal obsessions and political contexts shaped what they decided the medieval period meant. Academics were furious. General readers loved it. Born in Winnipeg in 1929, he spent his career making medieval history feel urgent and alive. He left behind over 20 books and the quietly radical idea that historians are as much a part of history as anyone they study.

Irene Miller, tschechische Widerstandskämpferin, Holocaustüberlebende

Jean-Pierre Médan, footballeur français (° 9 mai 1913).

Rafael Minor Franco, político mexicano (n.

Rafael Minor Franco, político mexicano (n. ¿?).

Rupert Riedl, zoólogo austríaco (n.

Rupert Riedl, zoólogo austríaco (n. 1925).

Joachim Raffert, deutscher Journalist und Politiker, MdB

Clint C. Wilson

For decades Clint C. Wilson drew editorial cartoons that ran in Black newspapers across America during one of the country's most turbulent stretches — the Depression, WWII, the early Civil Rights era. Born in 1914, he worked in an art form that required saying dangerous things with a pen and hoping the image landed before anyone could look away. He died in 2005. He left behind panels that made readers feel seen when almost nothing else did.

Michael Park

Michael Park sat in the co-driver's seat, not the driver's one — which means his entire job was reading pace notes aloud at 100-plus mph, trusting his driver completely, never touching the wheel. In 2005, on Rally GB's Wales round, a crash killed him while his driver Markko Märtin survived. Park had co-driven at the highest level for years. He left behind a sport that still hasn't fully reckoned with what it asks of the person in the left seat.

Manson Benedict, US-amerikanischer Chemiker und Kerntechniker

Bernard Perpète, animateur et comédien belge (° 13 septembre 1961).

Edward J. King

Edward King beat Ted Kennedy's candidate in the 1978 Democratic primary for Massachusetts governor — a result that stunned the state party. He was a fiscal conservative Democrat, anti-abortion, pro-death penalty, deeply uncomfortable in the coalition he nominally led. He served one term. Dukakis beat him in the next primary. He left behind proof that Massachusetts, even then, was more politically complicated than its reputation.

Heinz Trettner, deutscher Offizier, Generalinspekteur der Bundeswehr

Leo Navratil, österreichischer Psychiater

Nilton Mendes, footballeur brésilien (° 7 janvier 1976).

Aja, actrice et réalisatrice de films pornographiques américaine (° 14 juillet 1963).

François Tamba Ndembe, sculpteur congolais (° 28 septembre 1942).

Pepsi Tate

Tigertailz were one of the loudest Welsh glam metal bands of the late 1980s — a sentence that contains more history than it might appear to. Pepsi Tate held the band's low end through breakups, reunions, and the collapse of an entire genre, keeping them active long after the era that made them had ended. He died in 2007 at 41, still playing. He left behind a band that's still touring without him.

Lydia Veicht, patineuse artistique allemande (° ?

Lydia Veicht, patineuse artistique allemande (° ? 1922).

Benyamin Yosef Bria, prélat indonésien (° 7 août 1956).

Piotr Abrámov, piloto soviético (n.

Piotr Abrámov, piloto soviético (n. 1915).

Jacques Schotte, psychiatre et psychanalyste belge (° 26 juin 1928).

Florestano Vancini, réalisateur et scénariste italien (° 24 août 1926).

Mauricio Kagel

Mauricio Kagel once wrote a piece where the performers were instructed to walk onto the stage and do absolutely nothing for a set duration while the audience waited. He composed for unconventional objects, made films that interrogated what concerts were supposed to be, and spent decades in Cologne building a body of work that refused to behave. Born in Buenos Aires, shaped by post-war European avant-garde, he fit nowhere and influenced everywhere. He left behind music that still makes audiences genuinely unsure what they're allowed to do.

Fabiola Salazar, médica y política peruana (n.

Fabiola Salazar, médica y política peruana (n. 1966).

Humberto Solás, cineasta y productor cubano (n.

Humberto Solás, cineasta y productor cubano (n. 1941).

Robert Vogel, deutscher Unternehmer und Milliardär, Politiker, MdL

Ron Lancaster

Ron Lancaster threw 50,535 passing yards in the CFL — a record that stood for decades — while playing most of his career for the Saskatchewan Roughriders, a team in a city of 200,000 people that treated him like a civic institution. He was 5'9", small even by 1960s quarterback standards. Canadian football gave him a stage American football decided he was too short for. He left behind a league that still measures quarterbacks partly against what he did with it.

Jean Marsaudon, homme politique français (° 3 mai 1946).

Leo de Berardinis

He spent decades dismantling the boundary between theater and performance art, working in Naples and beyond with a ferocity that Italian critics struggled to categorize. Leo de Berardinis, born in 1940, collaborated for years with Perla Peragallo in productions that stripped theatrical convention to the point of discomfort — not as provocation but as necessity. He believed theater should cost something. His later solo work drew on Eduardo De Filippo and Neapolitan tradition, refracting it through something rawer. He died in 2008. He left behind a practice that influenced Italian experimental theater more than the mainstream ever acknowledged while he was alive.

Utz Jeggle, deutscher Volkskundler

Irving Kristol, publicista estadounidense (n.

Irving Kristol, publicista estadounidense (n. 1920).

Manuel H, fotógrafo colombiano (n.

Manuel H, fotógrafo colombiano (n. 1920).

Juan Emilio Salinas, futbolista peruano (n.

Juan Emilio Salinas, futbolista peruano (n. 1925).

Henk Tjon, dramaturgo surinamés (n.

Henk Tjon, dramaturgo surinamés (n. 1948).

Joe Holland, baloncestista estadounidense (n.

Joe Holland, baloncestista estadounidense (n. 1925).

Walter Womacka, deutscher Maler und Grafiker

Jill Johnston, US-amerikanische Autorin, Journalistin und LGBT-Aktivistin

Patrick Saint-Éloi, chanteur français, meneur du groupe Kassav' (° 20 octobre 1958).

Bobby Smith, futbolista británico (n.

Bobby Smith, futbolista británico (n. 1933).

Egon Klepsch, político alemán (n.

Egon Klepsch, político alemán (n. 1930).

James Bacon, acteur, journaliste et éditorialiste américain (° 12 mai 1914).

Franz Zodl, österreichischer Meisterkoch

محمد بسيوني، دبلوماسي مصري.

Kurt Sanderling, deutscher Dirigent

Jamey Rodemeyer

He was 14 years old. Jamey Rodemeyer had spent months posting videos online about being bullied for being gay, reaching out to other kids who felt the same way, building something fragile and brave on the internet in 2011. His videos got hundreds of thousands of views. The bullying didn't stop. He died by suicide in September 2011, and his story accelerated national conversations about anti-LGBT bullying in schools. Lady Gaga, whose music he'd loved, called for legislation in his name. He was in ninth grade.

Rosa Wunder, actriz peruana (n.

Rosa Wunder, actriz peruana (n. 1925).

Jorge Manicera, futbolista uruguayo (n.

Jorge Manicera, futbolista uruguayo (n. 1938).

Luís Góis, médico y músico portugués (n.

Luís Góis, médico y músico portugués (n. 1933).

Roberto Vallarino, músico y médico ecuatoriano (n.

Roberto Vallarino, músico y médico ecuatoriano (n. 1952).

Santiago Carrillo

He ran the Spanish Communist Party's underground operations during Franco's dictatorship for decades, survived, and then — in the 1970s — endorsed the democratic transition he'd once fought against violently. Santiago Carrillo's Eurocommunism repositioned the party as something democracies could tolerate, which his younger self would've found either pragmatic or treasonous depending on the year. He died at 97, having outlasted Franco, the party's relevance, and most people's patience for long political careers. He left behind a Spain that didn't need him anymore, which was the point.

Leo Goeke

Leo Goeke spent years performing opera before pivoting to musical theatre, which is a rarer move than it sounds — the two worlds demand different things from a voice and different things from an ego. He sang leading tenor roles at major American companies and then took that instrument into Broadway and regional theatre. He was 74 when he died. He left behind a career that refused to stay in one box, which is either artistic courage or a very good instinct for where the work actually was.

Haim Hefer

Haim Hefer wrote the words to hundreds of Israeli songs, including anthems that soldiers sang during wars he'd also fought in — as a member of the Palmach before Israeli statehood, he carried a rifle and a notebook. He later wrote sharp political satire that made politicians uncomfortable and audiences laugh. Born in Poland, he arrived in what would become Israel as a teenager. He left behind a songbook that is essentially a record of a country learning what it sounded like.

Jack Kralick

He threw a no-hitter for the Cleveland Indians in 1962 — one pitch away from a perfect game before he walked the only batter he faced all night. Jack Kralick got one out and one very specific asterisk. He pitched in the majors for eight seasons across four teams, but that August night in Cleveland, with 18,522 fans watching, was the one that stuck. He left behind a near-perfect game, which in baseball is sometimes more memorable than the real thing.

Steve Sabol

Steve Sabol's father Ed started NFL Films, but Steve was the one who turned it into something that rewired how Americans understood football — writing, directing, and narrating films that made a Sunday afternoon game feel like myth. He introduced slow-motion replays to football coverage, put microphones on coaches and players, and gave the sport a cinematic vocabulary it still uses. He died in 2012 from a brain tumor, having spent 50 years making a game look like exactly what its fans needed it to be.

Deputed Testamony

Deputed Testamony won the 1983 Preakness Stakes, which meant he'd beaten horses that would go on to define that era of American thoroughbred racing. He never ran in the Kentucky Derby — a decision his connections made, and debated for years afterward. He lived to 32, extraordinarily old for a racehorse, retired to a farm where he outlasted nearly every competitor he'd ever faced. Most of them are long gone. He kept going until 2012, which is its own kind of winning.

Hans Daiber, deutscher Journalist und Autor

Veliyam Bharghavan

Veliyam Bharghavan spent decades as one of Kerala's most prominent Communist politicians, serving in the state legislature and as a senior figure in the Communist Party of India (Marxist). He came from the grassroots organizing tradition that shaped Kerala's distinctive left-wing political culture — the same culture that produced unusually high literacy rates and public health outcomes. He was 84 when he died. He left behind a state that still argues about what he helped build.

Lindsay Cooper

Lindsay Cooper played bassoon in rock contexts at a time when the instrument had no business being there and made it sound like the most natural thing in the world. Henry Cow was experimental even by art-rock standards, and Cooper was one of its most distinctive voices — melodically strange, rhythmically unpredictable. She was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in the late 1980s and gradually lost the ability to play. She shifted to composing. She left behind a small, fierce catalog of music that didn't fit any category anyone had ready.

Johnny Laboriel

He started as a teenager in Los Rebeldes del Rock, helping ignite Mexico's rock 'n' roll boom in the late 1950s — singing in English at a time when most of his country barely understood a word of it. Johnny Laboriel spent over five decades performing, outlasting trends, genres, and generations of rivals. His son Abe Laboriel Jr. became Paul McCartney's drummer. The voice that launched Mexican rock raised the hands that keep Paul McCartney's beat.

Arthur Lamothe

He arrived in Quebec from France in 1953 and spent 60 years documenting Indigenous life in Canada with a camera and a conscience. Arthur Lamothe, born in the Landes region of France in 1928, made the Cree of northern Quebec the subjects of serious, sustained documentary attention at a time when Canadian broadcasting treated Indigenous people as backdrop. His Chronique des Indiens du Nord-Est du Québec ran to 13 films. He died in 2013. He left behind an archive of Indigenous voices on film, recorded before the communities that owned them had the platforms to record themselves.

Ken Norton

He broke Muhammad Ali's jaw in March 1973 — the first person to do it — and won a 12-round split decision that shocked boxing completely. Ken Norton, born in Jacksonville in 1943, had been a 7-to-1 underdog. Ali called him the toughest opponent he ever faced. Norton lost the rematch, and the third fight, but those three bouts defined a career. He later acted in films including Mandingo. He died in 2013. He left behind a boxing record that includes one of the sport's most startling upsets, and the specific dignity of a man who made Ali work for everything he got.

Marcel Reich-Ranicki

Marcel Reich-Ranicki survived the Warsaw Ghetto — escaping in 1943 — and became postwar Germany's most powerful literary critic, a man who could end a novelist's career with a single review. He called his memoir The Author of Himself. In 1998, he refused a major German television prize live on air, turning his rejection speech into a critique of how culture gets packaged for entertainment. Germany watched, stunned. He left behind a standard for what literary criticism is supposed to cost the person writing it.

Richard C. Sarafian

He directed Vanishing Point in 1971 — a film with almost no plot, just a man driving a white Dodge Challenger 3,000 miles across the American West for reasons he barely explains. Studios hated the concept. It became a cult landmark anyway. Richard Sarafian spent much of his later career acting in other people's films, including a role in Bugsy. But that one relentless, sun-bleached chase across the desert is what people still talk about. The director became the footnote to his own masterpiece.

Enrique Broglia, artista y escultor uruguayo (n.

Enrique Broglia, artista y escultor uruguayo (n. 1942).

Richard Kenneth Brummitt, botánico británico (n.

Richard Kenneth Brummitt, botánico británico (n. 1937).

Rafael Corkidi, cineasta mexicano (n.

Rafael Corkidi, cineasta mexicano (n. 1930).

Stanislas Dombeck, futbolista francés (n.

Stanislas Dombeck, futbolista francés (n. 1931).

Johannes van Dam, periodista culinario y escritor neerlandés (n.

Johannes van Dam, periodista culinario y escritor neerlandés (n. 1946).

Rafael del Estad, músico español (n.

Rafael del Estad, músico español (n. 1938).

Johnny Laboriel, músico mexicano de rock (n.

Johnny Laboriel, músico mexicano de rock (n. 1942).

Carlos Alberto Raffo, futbolista argentino (n.

Carlos Alberto Raffo, futbolista argentino (n. 1926).

Milan Marcetta

Milan Marcetta played parts of three NHL seasons in the 1960s — Seattle, San Francisco, Dallas — the kind of hockey career measured in bus rides and minor-league arenas more than Garden spotlights. Born in 1936 in Canora, Saskatchewan, he spent far more years in the WHL than the NHL. He died in 2014. He left behind the kind of hockey life that built the sport from the bottom up.

Hirofumi Uzawa

Hirofumi Uzawa turned down a tenured position at the University of Chicago — one of economics' most prestigious addresses — to return to Japan, because he believed Western growth theory was destroying the planet. He wasn't wrong about the destruction. His 'Uzawa-Lucas model' became foundational in growth economics, and his work on social common capital anticipated climate economics by decades. He spent his final years advocating for the commons over markets. The man who helped explain economic growth spent his life arguing we were growing the wrong things.

Kenny Wheeler

Kenny Wheeler spent most of his career being described as underrated, which is its own kind of recognition. Born in Toronto in 1930, he moved to London in the 1950s and became a fixture in British jazz and improvised music, working with Anthony Braxton, Bill Evans, and ECM Records across a career that resisted easy categorization. His compositions had a spaciousness that other trumpet players studied without quite replicating. He died in 2014 at 84, leaving behind recordings that sound like they were made in more time than actually exists.

Jan Berdyszak, polnischer Bildhauer, Maler, Installationskünstler, Kunsttheoretiker und -lehrer

Earl Ross

In 1974, driving a Chevrolet Malibu for Junior Johnson, Earl Ross became the first Canadian to win a Winston Cup race — Charlotte, 300 miles, beating some of the best oval drivers in America. He never won another Cup race. But that one afternoon in October 1974 put a Canadian on a trophy that had no business having one. He died in 2014 and left behind that single, stubborn, glorious win.

Thea Eymèsz, deutsche Filmeditorin

Freddy Ternero, futbolista, entrenador y alcalde peruano (n.

Freddy Ternero, futbolista, entrenador y alcalde peruano (n. 1962).

Mario Benjamín Menéndez

He surrendered a whole war. Mario Benjamín Menéndez was the Argentine commander in the Falklands when British forces closed in during June 1982 — and it was his signature on the document that ended 74 days of conflict and 649 Argentine lives. He'd been appointed military governor of the islands just weeks before. The defeat he handed back accelerated the collapse of Argentina's entire military dictatorship.

Eduardo Bonvallet

Eduardo Bonvallet played for Chile during the Pinochet era — a time when football and politics were impossible to separate, when the national stadium had been used as a detention center. He later became a television pundit in Chile, famously outspoken and willing to say things on camera that politer analysts wouldn't. In 2014 he suffered a devastating stroke during a live TV broadcast. He survived but never fully recovered, dying in 2015. He left behind a generation of Chilean fans who remembered exactly what he'd said, and exactly how he'd said it.

James R. Houck

He built a camera that could see the universe in infrared light — and launched it on a rocket. James Houck designed the Infrared Spectrograph aboard the Spitzer Space Telescope, an instrument that spent over 16 years reading the chemical fingerprints of galaxies billions of light-years away. Cornell professor, quiet builder of extraordinary machines. He left behind data sets astronomers are still mining today.

2016

Lee Ho-chol, südkoreanischer Schriftsteller

2016

Robert W. Cone, US-amerikanischer General

2016

Michel Vaxès, homme politique français (° 14 novembre 1940).

2017

Afzal Ahsan Randhawa

He translated Chekhov into Punjabi and made it feel local. Afzal Ahsan Randhawa spent decades hauling world literature across language barriers, but his own plays cut closest — sharp, working-class, rooted in Punjab's soil. He wrote over 40 dramatic works. What he left was a body of Punjabi literature that proved the language could hold anything the world had to say.

2017

Egbert Möcklinghoff, deutscher Jurist und Politiker

2017

Surab Sotkilawa, georgischer Fußballer und Opernsänger

Marceline Loridan-Ivens, cinéaste française, témoin rescapée des camps de la mort, veuve de Joris Ivens (° 19 mars 1928).

Carmencita Lara, cantante peruana (n.

Carmencita Lara, cantante peruana (n. 1926).

Piotr Lachert, compositeur et pianiste belge d'origine polonaise (° 5 septembre 1938).

Robert Venturi, US-amerikanischer Architekt und Architekturtheoretiker

Jean Piat, acteur français, sociétaire honoraire de la Comédie Française (° 23 septembre 1924).

2019

Fernando Ricksen, futbolista neerlandés (n.

Fernando Ricksen, futbolista neerlandés (n. 1976).

2019

Werner Sindemann, deutscher Opernsänger

2019

Ernst Heitsch, deutscher klassischer Philologe

2020

Ruth Bader Ginsburg Dies: Champion of Gender Equality

Ruth Bader Ginsburg was rejected by every law firm she applied to after graduating first in her class from Columbia Law School in 1959. She was a woman, she was Jewish, and she was a mother — three strikes. She ended up teaching law instead. Her strategy for dismantling gender discrimination in the courts was deliberate: she selected cases involving men discriminated against by gender-based laws, calculating that male judges would find those easier to sympathize with. It worked. By the time she joined the Supreme Court in 1993, the legal architecture of sex discrimination had been fundamentally altered by her earlier work. She died in September 2020, six weeks before a presidential election.

2020

Marcel Trillat, journaliste de télévision publique, réalisateur de films documentaires et auteur français (° 4 avril …

Marcel Trillat, journaliste de télévision publique, réalisateur de films documentaires et auteur français (° 4 avril 1940).

2020

Joachim Kunert, deutscher Regisseur

Mario Camus, director y guionista cinematográfico español (n.

Mario Camus, director y guionista cinematográfico español (n. 1935).

Gudmund Restad, homme politique norvégien (° 19 décembre 1937)

Abdel Mottaleb al-Kazimi, haut fonctionnaire et homme politique koweïtien (° 24 octobre 1936).

Julos Beaucarne, conteur, poète, comédien, écrivain, sculpteur et chanteur belge en langues wallonne et française (° …

Julos Beaucarne, conteur, poète, comédien, écrivain, sculpteur et chanteur belge en langues wallonne et française (° 27 juin 1936).

José-Augusto França, historiador y crítico de arte portugués (n.

José-Augusto França, historiador y crítico de arte portugués (n. 1922).

Aquilino Duque, poeta y escritor español (n.

Aquilino Duque, poeta y escritor español (n. 1931).

Anna Chromý, pintora y escultora checa (n.

Anna Chromý, pintora y escultora checa (n. 1940).

Wilfried Dziallas, deutscher Schauspieler

Iris Davis, US-amerikanische Sprinterin

Jolidee Matongo

Jolidee Matongo became Mayor of Johannesburg in 2021 and died in a car accident 83 days later — one of the shortest mayoral tenures in the city's history. Born in 1975, he'd spent years in the ANC's local structures and was seen as a steady, capable hand at a moment when the city needed exactly that. The accident happened while he was traveling to a political event. He left behind a city still navigating the political turbulence that had brought him to office, and colleagues who'd barely had time to work with him.

Chris Anker Sørensen

He was 37, racing in the road cycling world championships in Belgium, when a car hit him during a training ride the day before the event. Chris Anker Sørensen had finished the brutal Paris-Roubaix three times and won a stage of the Critérium du Dauphiné. But he'd become nearly as known for his broadcasting voice as his racing legs. He left a sport that genuinely didn't know which loss to grieve first.

Nicolas Schindelholz, Schweizer Fußballspieler

Mustafa Dağıstanlı, lutteur turc (° 11 avril 1931)

Kjell Espmark, écrivain suédois (° 19 février 1930)

Vernon Hilton Heywood, biólogo británico (n.

Vernon Hilton Heywood, biólogo británico (n. 1927).

Nick Holonyak Jr, ingénieur américain (° 3 novembre 1928)

2023

Brereton C. Jones

Brereton Jones won the Kentucky governorship in 1991 partly on the strength of his horse farm credibility — he raised thoroughbreds in Woodford County, which in Kentucky is its own kind of political resume. Born in 1939, he pushed for significant education and tax reform during his term, taking on fights that previous governors had avoided. Kentucky governors can't serve consecutive terms, which gave him four years and no safety net. He left behind a reform record that his successors found easier to praise than to build on.

Nick Gravenites

He wrote 'Born in Chicago' — one of the founding texts of the white blues moment — but never chased the spotlight it could've bought him. Nick Gravenites grew up on Chicago's South Side, absorbed the blues from the source, and spent decades writing songs other people made famous, including work with Janis Joplin and Mike Bloomfield. He left behind a catalog that kept outliving the singers who recorded it.

Kesaria Abramidze

She built her following not with a studio or a label but a phone and a point of view. Kesaria Abramidze was 36 when she died — Georgian, sharp, funny, and far more comfortable being complicated on camera than most people are in private. She'd crossed between blogging, acting, and modeling with an ease that made each look effortless. She left behind an audience that had watched her become herself in real time.

Rolf Wolfshohl, ciclista alemán (n.

Rolf Wolfshohl, ciclista alemán (n. 1938).

Salvatore Schillaci

Salvatore Schillaci came from nowhere — a Palermo kid who'd barely played Serie A — and then scored six goals in the 1990 World Cup to win the Golden Boot. Italia '90 was his moment completely, his eyes wild in every close-up, the crowd in Olympic Stadium losing its mind for him. The tournament ended and he never quite found that height again; Juventus sold him within two years. But for one summer in Rome, Totò Schillaci was the most electric footballer on the planet. He died in 2024 at 59.

Christian-Marie Monnot, journaliste français de télévision (° 14 novembre 1945).