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Stewart Adams (age 95) - A chemist for the British firm Boots, Adams was an integral part of the team that developed the formula for Ibuprofen and patented the drug (also known as Advil and Motrin in the USA, and Nuprin in Europe) in 1961. Since being made available over the counter, his discovery has become one of the most widely-used NSAIDs. Adams died January 30, 2019. |
Zhores Alferov (age 66) - Alferov shared the 2000 Nobel Prize in physics for his work in the field of electronics, specifically semiconductors. After his academic career, Alferov became a politician, serving in the lower house of the Russian parliament or Dhuma. Alferov passed away on
March 1, 2019.
Nikki Araguz (Loyd) (age 44) - Araguz was a LGBTQ activist and promoter of marriage equality. She became prominent when her second husband, a Texas sheriff's deputy, was killed in action in 2010. She became embroiled in a legal battle over survivor's benefits, mainly because she was transgender. Araguz finally won her court battle in 2015. She died
November 7, 2019.
| Joe Armstrong (age 68) - Armstrong, British by birth, studied physics in college before turning to computer programming; where he specialized in distributed systems. While working for Ericsson Labs, Armstrong was a member of the three-man team that developed the programming language Erlang. Armstrong died April 19, 2019. |
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Patricia Bath (age 76) - Bath, an ophthalmologist, was the first African-American woman physician to receive a patent for a treatment. In 1988, she patented a device known as the Laserphaco probe, a laser treatment for cataracts. Bath went on to register four additional patents. She died
May 30, 2019.
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Lawrence Bittaker (age 79) - Bittaker and Roy Norris were convicted in 1981 of serial rape, kidnapping, and murder for a series of crimes committed in 1979. The two were known in the press as the Tool Box Killers. Bittaker was on death row in San Quentin when he died on December 13, 2019.
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| Boo (age 12) - A Pomeranian owned by a Facebook employee, Boo became an internet sensation in 2010 after pop singer Kesha stumbled on his Facebook page and claimed him as her "boyfriend." Such is the power of having more twitter followers than sense. Boo "wrote" two books, including Boo: The Life of the World's Cutest Dog. He died in his sleep January 18, 2019. |
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Scotty Bowers (age 96) - For more than forty years, George "Scotty" Bowers was Hollywood's most (in)famous pimp. A poorly-kept secret, Bowers' career was ultimately chronicled in his tell-all memoir, Full Service, in which he named more than a few famous names including such stars as Rock Hudson and Bette Davis. Bowers passed away October 13, 2019. |
Harry "Taco" Bowman (age 69) - Bowman was, at one time, president of the Outlaws Motorcycle Club. During his tenure, the club had some 50 chapters in 30 U.S. cities and four foreign countries. Bowman was indicted on RICO charges in 1999, and died in prison while serving two consencutive life sentences for murder. Bowman died
March 3, 2019.
Sydney Brenner (age 92) - Brenner, a South African biologist, was part of a three-man group taht shared the 2002 Nobel Prize in Medicine or Physiology. His work on unraveling the genetic code while at Cambridge University was the basis for the award. Brenner passed away
April 5, 2019.
Wallace Smith Broekker (age 87) - Broekker was a professor at Columbia and Arizona State Universities and a scientist for Lamont-Doherty. A geophysicist by training, Broekker published 400-plus journal articles and ten books on subjects as varied as oceanography, geochronology, and isotope geology. He is often credited with popularizing the term "global warming." Broekker died
February 18, 2019.
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Darwin Bromley (age 68) - The Chicago native was both an attorney and the founder of the board game company Mayfair Games (Empire Builder). The company specialized in distributing German games such as "The Settlers of Catan" in the US. Bromley died January 2, 2019, after an extended illness. |
Lessie Brown (age 114) - At the time of her death, Brown was the oldest person in the United States at 114 years, 108 days. She died in Cleveland, Ohio, where she lived with her daughter, on January 8, 2019.
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Francesco Cali (age 51) - "Franky Boy" Cali is believed to have assumed leadership of the Gambino crime family, New York City's Sicilian mafia. Cali ascended to the position from that of a street lieutenant after marrying the niece of family boss John Gambino. Cali was shot in an apparent assassination on
March 13, 2019.
Leah Chase (age 96) - Sometimes known as The Queen of Creole Cooking, Chase married her husband Edgar "Dooky" Chase in 1946 and began cooking in the family restaurant. By 2006, she had collected a long list of cooking awards for the restaurant she named after her husband, not just for the food but for the collections of African-American art and the part the restaurant played in the Civil Rights Movement. Chase died
June 1, 2019.
Allison Cheek (age 92) - The Australian-born Cheek married an American and moved to the U.S. in the 1950s. Active in the lay ministry of her Episcopal Church, she entered seminary in the 1960s. After a period as a lay minister, she was ordained in 1974, becoming the first woman to celebrate the Eucharist in the Episcopal Church. Cheek died
September 1, 2019.
Nick Clifford (age 98) - Clifford was the last living member of the team that carved the four presidential heads on Mount Rushmore. He was one of 400 workers who helped sculptor Gutzon Borglum dynamite the heads of Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, and Theodore Roosevelt from a granite mountain in the Black Hills. Clifford died
November 23, 2019.
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Richard E. Cole (age 103) - Dick Cole sat in the right-hand seat of Jimmy Doolittle's B-25B bomber in a 1942 bombing raid on the Japanese cities of Tokyo and Honshu, the first such attack on Japanese home territory. Cole was a career Air Force officer and the last surviving member of Doolittle's raiders. He died April 9, 2019. |
Juan Corona (age 85) - The Mexican-born Corona was convicted of twenty-five counts of murder for a killing spree that took place in northern California. Authorities believe that the true number of his victims will never be known. All known victims were migrant farm workers, killed and buried in Sutter County. Corona was sentenced to life in prison, where he died
March 4, 2019.
Francis S. Currey (age 94) - Currey received the Medal of Honor for his courageous actions at the Battle of the Bulge during WW2. He also received a Bronze Star, a Silver Star, and three Purple Hearts for his service. Currey was featured on a U. S. postage stamp release sheet and a GI Joe figure was created in his likeness. He died
October 8, 2019.
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Alphonse D'Arco (age 86) - A one-time lieutenant in New York's Lucchese crime family, D'Arco turned government witness in 1991 while acting as the family boss. After testifying in more than ten trials, D'Arco disappeared into the Witness Protection Program. His death from kidney disease was announced on
March 28, 2019.
Dakshayani (age 88?) - Known to the people of India as "The Elephant Granny," Dakshayani was believed to be 88 years old, making her the world's oldest elephant in captivity. For many years, she had participated in religious rites and processions at Chengalloor Mahadeva Temple in India's southern state of Kerala. She died
February 5, 2019.
Ram Dass (age 88) - Born Richard Alpert in Massachusetts, he was a Harvard professor and associate of Timothy Leary when he underwent a spiritual "awakening" in 1967, converted to Hinduism, and returned to America as Ram Dass. He became a yogi and leader in the American Ashram movement. He died December 22, 2019.
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Sandeep Dhaliwal (age 42) - Dhaliwal had been a Harris County, Texas, deputy sheriff for 10 years when he was ambushed and shot during a traffic stop in suburban Houston. He was the first Sikh member of the department, wearing the beard and turban required by his religion while in uniform. He was killed
September 27, 2019. The alleged killer was captured within hours.
Duke (age 13) - By birth a Great Pyrenees, Duke Nelson was elected mayor of the town of Cormorant Village, Minnesota, four times beginning in 2014 when he ran as a write-in candidate. In his most recent election, 2016, Duke received all but one vote. That one went to another dog, Lassie, Duke crossed the rainbow bridge
February 21, 2019.
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Manfred Eigen (age 91) - The German biophysical chemist was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1967. Along with his two co-recipients, Eigen received the award for studies on the kinetics of extremely fast-running chemical reactions with relaxation methods. Eigen died on
February 6, 2019.
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Louis Eppolito (age 71) - Eppolito was both an New York City policeman (eventually a detective) and the son of a "made" Gambino crime family mobster. With partner Steve Caracappa, Epplolito worked on behalf of the mob bosses, a side gig that ultimately found him convicted of multiple homicides, extortion, and racketeering, among other crimes. Eppolito died in prison on November 3, 2019. |
Austin Eubanks (age 37) - Eubanks survived the Columbine High School massacre in 1999 although he was shot in one hand and a knee and witnessed the murder of his best friend. He became addicted to the pain pills prescribed for his injuries, and took 12 years to become sober. After his recovery, he became a motivational speaker and counselor to addicted teens and young adults. Eubanks was found dead at his home on
May 18, 2019.
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Bernard Fisher (age 100) - Fisher practiced medicine in the Pittsburgh area for six decades, including many years of research on breast cancer. He was instrumental in the modern use of radiation and chemotherapy with lumpectomy instead of radical mastectomy, and also researched the used of tamoxifen in treatment of the cancer. He died
October 16, 2019.
Jim Fowler (age 87) - Trained as a zoologist, Fowler eschewed academia in favor of life in front of a television camera. One of the original presenters in the renowned television show "Wild Kingdom," Fowler took over as host when Marlin Perkins retired in 1985. He received four Emmy awards for his work on the show. Fowler died
May 8, 2019.
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Stanton Friedman (84) - Trained as a nuclear physicist, Friedman worked for more than a decade in the field. In 1970 he left his career to become a full-time "ufologist," In that career, Friedman was the first civilian to inspect the Roswell, New Mexico, site; which he proclaimed a crash site of an extraterrestrial craft. He wrote several books on the topic of UFOs and frequently debated skeptics. Friedman died May 13, 2019. |
Robert Friend (age 99) - Friend was believed to be the oldest surviving member of the original Tuskegee Airmen, an African-American unit of the Army Air Corps during World War II. Friend remained in the Air Force and retired as a Lt. Colonel. He passed away
June 21, 2019.
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Owen Garriott (age 88) - After a brief stint in the U. S. Navy, Garriott became a professor at Stanford University. He was selected to be a scientist-astronaut in 1965 and flew two missions. His 1973 Skylab mission lasted a then-record 60 days, and his second was aboard Spacelab. His son, programmer and gamer Richard Garriott, was the first American "space tourist" in 2008. Garriott senior passed away
April 15, 2019.
Murray Gell-Mann (age 89) - Gell-Mann might well be the prototype for "Sheldon Cooper." He graduated from high school at 15 and had an M.I.T. PhD by age 25. He is credited with coining the name "quark" for a subatomic particle, a name he based on a line from
Finnegan's Wake. He won the 1969 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work in the classification of subatomic particles. Gell-Mann passed away
May 24, 2019.
Andrew Golden (age 35) - At age 11, Golden joined with 13-year-old Mitchell Johnson to massacre four students and a teacher at a middle school near Jonesboro, Arkansas, in 1984. Both were caught and imprisoned until their 21st birthdays. Golden, who had changed his name to Drew Grant, was killed in a traffic accident on
July 27, 2019.
Paul Greengard (age 93) - A professor of neuroscience at Rockefeller University, Greengard shared the 2000 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with two fellow scientists. The subject of their research was the molecular and cellular function of neurons. Greengard was also on the science advisory board of the Cure Alzheimer's Fund. Greengard passed away
April 13, 2019.
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Alfred Haynes (age 87) - Haynes was piloting a United Airlines DC-10 bound for Chicago when the tail-mounted engine disintegrated and rendered the controls useless. Despite the lack of attitude control, Haynes and his crew brought the plane to a crash landing, saving more than half the passengers. Haynes died
August 25, 2019.
Saoirse Kennedy Hill (age 22) - Hill was the granddaughter of the late Robert F. Kennedy and Ethel Kennedy and the daughter of Courtney Kennedy Hill. She was found unresponsive at the Kennedy family compound in Hyannisport, Mass., on
August 1, 2019, allegedly of a drug overdose. Hill was a journalism graduate of Boston College who wrote of her depression in that school's student newspaper.
Barbara Hillary (age 88) - Hillary's varied careers included stints as a nurse and a magazine publisher, but her chief claim to fame is as an adventurer. In her later years, she raised the necessary cash to fund not only a trip to the North Pole at age 75, but also an expedition to the South Pole at the ripe age of 79. She is the oldest person to have reached the South Pole and the only African-American woman to have reached both poles. She died
November 23, 2019.
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Edith Irby Jones (age 91) - In 1948, Jones was the first African-American woman to be accepted into the University of Arkansas Medical School, the first Black medical intern in Arkansas. Shw was later the first Black intern at the Baylor University medical school. Among her many other accomplishments were being the first female president of the National Medical Association and the founding of two international medical clinics that bear her name, in Haiti and Mexico. Jones died
July 15, 2019.
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John Keenan (age 99) - Keenan was the Chief of Detectives for New York City during the serial killings attributed to the "Son of Sam." Keenan was the officer to whom David Berkowitz confessed after killing six people at random during 1976 and 77. Keenan died
September 19, 2019.
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George Kelling (age 88) - Trained in social welfare, Kelling served as a probation officer and child-care counselor before entering academia to teach in the criminology departments of such prestigious venues as Northeastern, Rutgers, and Harvard. In the early 1980s, Kelling, his wfe Caterine Coles, and fellow professor James Q. Wilson introduced the "broken windows" theory of policing, in which low-level crime is pursued as vigorously as serious crime. The theory is said to have revolutionized policing. Kelling died May 15, 2019. |
Ben Kinchlow (age 82) - Kinchlow, son of a Methodist minister, flirted briefly with Black Islam in the 1970s before returning to Christianity. He dove in full-force, becoming a minister/evangelist and a fixture on Christian radio, co-hosting
The 700 Club. Kinchlow died
July 18, 2019.
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John Kirby (age 79) - Kirby was trained as an attorney and held a position within the Civil Rights division of the U. S. Department of Justice in the 1960s just as the Civil Rights Act was enacted. In later life he became a corporate attorney, and is best known for having successfully defended Nintendo when they were sued over the rights to "Donkey Kong." The Nintendo character Kirby was named in his honor. He passed away October 2, 2019. |
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Eva (Mozes) Kor (age 85) - A Romanian Jew, Mozes and her twin sister survived the Auschwitz death camp as subjects in medical experiments carried out by Josef Mengele. Mozes emigrated to the US and, after marriage, settled in Indiana, where she founded a Holocaust remembrance museum and society. She died in Poland on July 4, 2019, while on an annual pilgrimage to the site of Auschwitz. |
| Christopher Kraft, Jr. (age 95) - In 1958, Kraft was asked to head a government program to put a man in space. He became the first flight director of NASA, a position he held until 1972 when he assumed the directorship of the Manned Space Center (now Johnson Space Center) in Houston. He remained in that position until 1982. Kraft passed away July 22, 2019. |
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George Laurer (age 94) - While working for IBM in the 1970s, Laurer developed the now-ubiquitous UPC , or Universal Product Code barcode. A grocery store group adopted his design in 1973, and the resrt is history. Laurer worked at IBM for more than 30 years, garnering 25 patents over his career. He died
December 5, 2019.
Jim Leavelle (age 99) - Leavelle had a long and distinguished career with the Dallas Police Department, however he will forever be remembered for an event that took place on November 24, 1963. Leavelle was one of the two officers handcuffed to alleged JFK assassin Lee Harvey Oswald when Oswald was shot and killed by Jack Ruby. Leavelle died
August 29, 2019.
James Le Mesurier (age 48) - Le Mesurier had a ten-year career in the British Army, retiring at age 29 as a first lieutenant after serving with U. N. Peacekeeping forces in the Balkans. He was co-founder of Syrian Civil Defence, commonly known as "The White Helmets," and director of the Mayday rescue Foundation. He was found dead from a fall near his home in Istanbul
November 11, 2019.
Alexei Leonov (age 85) - A Russian cosmonaut, Leonov holds the honor of being the first man to walk in space. On March 18, 1965, he spent twelve minutes outside, tethered to his Voshkod 2 capsule. Ten years later, Leonov commanded a Soyuz capsule that docked with an American Apollo capsule in orbit. Leonov died
October 11, 2019.
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Lil BUB (age 8) - Lil Bub was born the runt of her litter, but lived larger than life. She became one of the most well-known celebrity cats due to her strange appearance - she was born with a form of dwarfism that gave her short legs and a malformed jaw. Bub appeared in the documentary "Lil Bub and Friendz, and her celebrity led to other movie appearances and a "book." She died unexpectedly December 1, 2019. |
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Joseph Lombardo (age 90) - "Joey the Clown" Lombardo was allegedly consigliere of theItalian organized crime gang known as the Chicago Outfit. Lombardo was sentenced to 15 years in 1982 for racketeering and bribery in a case related to the Teamsters union. In 2006 he was a central figure in the "Family Secrets" trial, and was convicted of racketeering, bribery, and murder. He died in federal prison on October 19, 2019. |
| Rick Loomis (age 77) - Loomis created his first game, a play-by-mail game names Nuclear Destruction, back in the 1970s, while in the Army. He was one of the first, if not the first, gamers to utilize computers when he and his partner bought a computer in 1972 to manage the many ongoing games. His company, Flying Buffalo, sold or managed card and play-by-mail games. Loomis passed away from cancer on August 23, 2019. |
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Carrie Ann Lucas (age 47) - Lucas, an ordained minister and attorney, was an activist for the disabled. A high school and college athlete, Lucas was diagnosed with a muscular dystrophy, The mother of four completed theology and law degrees before becoming an nationally-known advocate for the disabled. Lucas died
February 22, 2019.
| Frank Lucas (age 88) - Lucas is said to have revolutionized the heroin trade in NYC when he went around the "wholesalers" and began buying his product directly from the producers in southern Asia. Lucas was nailed by the DEA at least twice before turning state's evidence to have his sentence reduced. In all, he spent about twelve years in prison. His career was dramatized in the 2007 film American Gangster, in which he was portrayed by Denzel Washington. Lucas died May 30, 2019. |
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| Jack Lyon (age 101) - Lyon was captured by German forces after the RAF plane on which he was a navigator crash-landed. Along with 76 others, Lyons staged an escape from Stalag Luft III in 1944 by digging a tunnel; but the tunnel was discovered before he could escape. Seventy-three of the 76 escapees were recaptured and 50 were executed. The attempt was the subject of a 1963 film, The Great Escape. Lyons died in England March 8, 2019. |
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Rosemary (Bryant) Mariner (age 65) - Rosemary Conaster (née Merims) joined the U. S. Navy in 1973, one of eight women selected to be in the first class of women to fly for that service. She was one of six who completed their training in 1974, eventually becoming the first woman to fly an attack jet. She retired from the Navy in 1997 as a Captain, with more than 3500 hours of time in the pilot's seat. Mariner died
January 24, 2019, of ovarian cancer.
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Sallie McFague (age 86) - McFague was a liberal Christian theologian, often considered the archetypal "Christian feminist." She was best known for her same-sex marriage and her championing the concept of creation care and metaphor as a means of describing God. McFague died November 15, 2019. |
Lyra McKee (age 29) - A prominent journalist in Northern Ireland, McKee was killed by what is assumed to have been a stray bullet while covering a riot in Derry. Her death has been attributed to an attack by the "New IRA" on local police, near whose vehicle McKee was standing. McKee died in a local hospital on
April 18, 2019.
Brad McQuaid (age 51) - McQuaid was a long-tome contributor to the online video-gaming industry who is perhaps bast known as one of the major developers of the MMORPG EverQuest. He was also a chief architect of Vanguard: Saga of Heroes at the gaming company he founded, Sigil. McQuaid died
November 16, 2019.
Sean Milliken (age 29) - Milliken was featured in season 4 of the TLC reality show, "My 600-pound Life." Like others featured on the show, Milliken relocated to Houston for baryatric surgery in 2016, in hopes of losing more than 400 pounds. Milliken succumbed to an infection on
February 17, 2019.
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Kary Mullis (age 74) - Mullis led a large and varied life, including writing fiction and managing a bakery, before accepting a position with a biotechnology company where he put his multiple biomedicine and biochemistry degrees to work. In 1993, Mullis shared the Nobel Prize for Chemistry for the invention of the revolutionary Polymerase Chain reaction technique. Mullis died of pneumonia August 7, 2019. |
Walter Munk (age 104) - Born in Austria, Munk emigrated to the U. S. with his family in the 1930s. After a brief career in finance, he turned to science, earning degrees in physics and geophysics, eventually becoming a distinguished professor of oceanography at Scripps. During WW2, he was part of a team assisting in planning for the Normandy Invasion. Munk passed away
February 8, 2019.
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Tetsuo Nakamura (age 73) - Nakamura Nakamura, a medical doctor, headed Peace Japan Medical Services in Afghanistan, where he worked mainly on irrigation projects and in building hospitals and mosques. He spent more than thirty years in the country, which granted him honorary citizenship in 2019. Nakamura was assassinated by presumed Taliban insurgents on
December 4, 2019.
Masazo Nanako (age 113) - Before his death, Nanako (a native of Japan) was the oldest living man in the world. When he died on January 20, 2019, he was 113 years, 179 days old.
Arlen Ness (age 79) - Ness was an acclaimed designer of custom motorcycles and a member of the motorcycle hall of fame. His work included such designs as "Ness-Stalgia," inspired by the tailfins of a '57 Chevy, and a fanciful design with two engines. Ness died
March 22, 2019.
| Alfred K. Newman (age 94) - Newman served in the U. S. Marines during World War II as a "code talker." Along with other Navajo tribesmen, Newman transmitted spoken messages in his native language to confound the Japanese in the Pacific Theater. Newman died January 15, 2019, in New Mexico. |
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Robert Norris (age 90) - Norris was chosen to model for one of the most iconic figures of the 20th Century, the Marlboro Man, when a company came to his ranch to shoot a commercial. For more than a decade his image appeared in print ads for the brand, always with a white 10-gallon hat on his head and a Marlboro in his hand or between his lips. Oddly, he never smoked... Norris died
November 3, 2019.
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| I. M. Pei (age 102) - The Chinese-born architect studied at U. Pennsylvania and M.I.T. before a long career dedicated to breaking out of the Beaux Arts style popular in the 1930s to 1950s. His "breakout" design was NCAR in Boulder, Colo., after which he worked extensively in museums and monuments, as well as Dallas City Hall and the Kennedy Library in Boston. Pei died May 15, 2019. |
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César Pelli (age 92) - Argentine-born architect César Pelli is renowned worldwide for his building designs. Included among his better-known works are the Petronas Towers in Malaysia, at one time the world's tallest buildings. He also designed the Cira Center, Salesforce Tower (San Francisco) and the north tower of Reagan National Airport. Pelli passed away on
July 19, 2019.
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William Powers, Jr. (age 72) - Powers was the 28th president of the University of Texas at Austin, serving from 2006 to his resignation in 2015. Before assuming the presidency, Powers was dean of the university's college of law. He served on the board of Enron Corp., and was chair of the committee that investigated corporate malfeasance. Powers died March 10, 2019. |
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Lee Radziwill (age 85) - Born Caroline Lee Bouvier, Radziwill was the younger sister of the late Jacqueline (Bouvier) Kennedy Onassis. After an abortive attempt to forge a career as an actress, she was briefly an interior decorator before "retiring" to the life of a socialite. Radziwill died
February 15, 2019.
Kevin Roche (age 96) - The Irish-born Roche joined the architecture firm founded by Eero Saarinen in 1950, and after the principal's death founded his own firm to finish the open projects. His firm designed such landmarks as Dulles International Airport and the CBS Building (NYC). Roche won the Pritzker Prize in 1982. He died
March 1, 2019.
Carl Ruiz (age 44) - Ruiz was a celebrity chef, a former competitor on cooking shows who became a judge. He had been a chef at various NYC-area restaurants, including a Cuban restaurant and an Italian deli. He made frequent appearances within the orbit of Guy Fieri, including serving as a judge on "Guy's Grocery Games." Ruiz died of a heart attack on
September 22, 2019.
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John R. Schreiffer (age 88) - Schreiffer was one of three physicists to share the 1972 Nobel Prize for work at the Unversity of Illinois on a quantum theory of superconduction. He was a professor of physics at the Universities of Pennsylvania, Florida, and Birmingham; and at UC Santa Barbara and Florida State. Schreiffer died
July 27, 2019.
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Winston Shelton (age 96) - Although few Americans know his name, almost all are familiar with this prolific inventor's work. While at General Electric, he patented the modern washing machine. After leaving GE, Shelton concentrated on food processing, developing the frying system used by KFC, among other products. Shelton passed away April 15, 2019. |
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Stanley Tigerman (age 88) - The famously outspoken Tigerman was a renowned architect who helped change the skyline of Chicago and taught architecture at UICC. His best-known American work is the Illinois Holocaust Museum in Skokie, Illlinois. Tigerman passed away
June 3, 2019.
Tyler Trent (age 20) - Trent was considered a "superfan" by the Purdue University (Indiana) football team, serving as an honorary captain. Trent was diagnosed with osteosarcoma at the age of 15. He succumbed to that disease January 1, 2019.
Trudy (est. 56) - Trudy, a western lowland gorilla, was thought to be the oldest of her species in captivity at the time of her death. She was one of the last gorillas captured in the wild. She died at the Little Rock, Arkansas, zoo on
July 24, 2019.
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Lotte van der Zee (age 19) - Van der Zee, a native of The Netherlands, was crowned Miss Teenage Universe in 2017. She was on a ski trip with her family when she fell ill and suffered a heart attack. Van der Zee died
March 7, 2019.
| Charles Van Doren (age 93) - Van Doren became famous as a contestant on the television quiz show "Twenty-One," winning a total of $129,000 dollars in a streak that lasted over three months in 1956-7. In 1959, however, Van Doren testified before Congress that he had been supplied the questions in advance. In later life, he was an editor for the Encyclopedia Britannica. Van Doren died on April 9, 2019. |
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Ed Westcott (age 97) - Westcott had a decades-long career as a photographer for the U. S. Army and later for the Atomic Energy Commission. He is best known for a stint ans the official photographer of the Manhattan Project in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, during World War II. Westcott died
March 29, 2019.
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