IN MEMORIAM 2021
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Brian Urquhart, English diplomat, United Nations Under-Secretary-General (1971-1985) | |
Tommy Lasorda, American baseball player and manager | |
William Thornton, American astronaut | |
Peter Mark Richman, American actor, TV's Three's Company | |
Junior Mance, American jazz pianist | |
Sammy Nestico, American composer and arranger | |
Walter Bernstein, American screenwriter, The Front, Semi-Tough | |
Hal Holbrook, American actor, Mark Twain Tonight, Into the Wild | |
George Armstrong, Canadian hockey player | |
Sonny Fox, American children's television show host, Wonderama | |
Cloris Leachman, American Oscar-winning actress, The Last Picture Show, Young Frankenstein | |
Cicely Tyson, American actress, Sounder, The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman | |
Wayne Terwilliger, American baseball player, coach, and manager | |
Tony Trabert, American tennis player | |
Christopher Plummer, Canadian Oscar-winning actor, The Sound of Music, Beginners | |
George Shultz, American government official, Secretary of State (1982-1989) | |
Robert J. Lagomarsino, American politician, California representative (1975-1993) | |
J. Hillis Miller, American literary critic | |
Isadore Singer, American mathematician, co-developed the Atiyah-Singer index theorem | |
Lynn Stalmaster, American casting director | |
Carlos Saúl Menem, Argentinian president (1989-1999) | |
Bernard Lown, Lithuanian-born American cardiologist and Nobel Peace Prize recipient | |
Lawrence Ferlinghetti, American poet, A Coney Island of the Mind | |
Philippe Jaccottet, Swiss poet and translator | |
Toko Shinoda, Japanese painter and printmaker | |
Chris Barber, English jazz trombonist and bandleader | |
Norton Juster, American children's writer, The Phantom Tollbooth | |
Roger Mudd, American journalist and television correspondent | |
John Polkinghorne, English physicist and Anglican priest | |
Murray Walker, English motorsport commentator, known as the voice of Formula 1 | |
Bill Brock, American politician, Tennessee representative (1963-1971) and senator (1971-1977) | |
Bobby Brown, American baseball player and executive, American League president (1984-1994) | |
Beverly Cleary, American children's writer, the Henry Huggins and Ramona Quimby series | |
G. Gordon Liddy, American FBI agent, figure in the Watergate scandal | |
Isamu Akasaki, Japanese Nobel Prize-winning physicist | |
Gloria Henry, American actress, TV's Dennis the Menace | |
Jean Dupuy, French-born artist | |
Marshall Sahlins, American anthropologist | |
Charles H. Coolidge, American World War II Medal of Honor recipient | |
Hans Küng, Swiss theologian | |
John Naisbitt, American futurist, author of Megatrends | |
Ramsey Clark, American human rights lawyer and government official, Attorney General (1967-1969) | |
Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, Greek-born English royal, consort of Queen Elizabeth II | |
Walter Mondale, American vice president (1977-1981) and 1984 Democratic presidential nominee | |
Tempest Storm, American burlesque performer | |
Marc Ferro, French historian, author of The Use and Abuse of History | |
Wahiduddin Khan, Indian Islamic scholar and peace activist | |
Christa Ludwig, German opera singer | |
Michael Collins, American astronaut, command module pilot for the Apollo 11 moon mission | |
Helen Murray Free, American chemist, co-developed the dip-and-read diabetes test | |
José Manuel Caballero Bonald, Spanish poet and novelist | |
Norman Lloyd, American producer, director, and actor, Saboteur, TV's St. Elsewhere | |
Lester Wolff, American politician, New York representative (1965-1981) | |
Eric Carle, American children's writer and illustrator, The Very Hungry Caterpillar | |
Paulo Mendes da Rocha, Brazilian architect | |
Anna Halprin, American dancer and choreographer | |
John Warner, American government official, Secretary of the Navy (1972-1974), and politician, Virginia senator (1979-2009) | |
Rusty Warren, American comedienne and singer, "Bounce Your Boobies" | |
Poul Schlüter, Danish prime minister (1982-1993) | |
Gavin MacLeod, American actor, TV's The Mary Tyler Moore Show, The Love Boat | |
Raymond Donovan, American government official, Secretary of Labor (1981-1985) | |
Friederike Mayröcker, Austrian poet | |
John Patterson, American politician, Alabama governor (1959-1963) | |
Gottfried Böhm, German architect | |
John Gabriel, American actor, TV's Ryan's Hope | |
Kenneth Kaunda, Zambian president (1964-1991) | |
Joanne Linville, American actress, A Star Is Born, TV's Star Trek | |
Mike Gravel, American politician, Alaska senator (1969-1981) | |
Elizabeth "Betita" Martínez, American Chicana activist and feminist | |
Elliot Lawrence, American jazz pianist, composer, conductor, and bandleader | |
Richard Donner, American motion picture director, Superman, Lethal Weapon | |
Djivan Gasparyan, Armenian duduk player | |
Dilip Kumar, Indian actor and politician | |
Esther Béjarano, German Holocaust survivor, member of the Women's Orchestra of Auschwitz | |
Renée Simonot, French actress and dubbing artist | |
Edwin Edwards, American politician, Louisiana representative (1965-1972) and governor (1972-1980, 1984-1988, 1992-1996) | |
Patricia Wilde, Canadian-born American ballerina and ballet instructor | |
Jackie Mason, American comedian and actor, Caddyshack II, TV's The Simpsons | |
Henri Vernes, Belgian action and science-fiction writer, the Bob Morane series | |
Albert Bandura, Canadian-born American psychologist, originated social cognitive theory | |
Marcia Nasatir, American motion picture producer and film studio executive | |
Jane Withers, American actress, Bright Eyes, Giant | |
Bobby Bowden, American football coach | |
Pat Hitchcock, English-born American actress, Strangers on a Train, Psycho | |
Carolyn Shoemaker, American astronomer | |
Edmond Fischer, American Nobel Prize-winning biochemist | |
Ed Asner, American actor, Up, TV's The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Lou Grant | |
Michael Constantine, American actor, My Big Fat Greek Wedding, TV's Room 222 | |
Mikis Theodorakis, Greek composer, Mauthausen Trilogy, and political activist | |
Adlai Stevenson III, American politician, Illinois senator (1970-1981) | |
Don Maddox, American country musician | |
Antony Hewish, English Nobel Prize-winning radio astronomer | |
George Wein, American jazz impresario, founder of the Newport Jazz Festival | |
Jane Powell, American singer, dancer, and actress, Royal Wedding, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers | |
Alfonso Sastre, Spanish playwright, Death Squad | |
Kjell Askildsen, Norwegian writer, A Sudden Liberating Thought | |
Sue Thompson, American singer, "Sad Movies (Make Me Cry)", "Norman" | |
Frances "Sissy" Farenthold, American activist and politician | |
Carlisle Floyd, American opera composer, Susannah | |
Budge Patty, American tennis player | |
Eddie Robinson, American baseball player, coach, and manager | |
Luis de Pablo, Spanish composer | |
Ruthie Tompson, American animator | |
Dale Kildee, American politician, Michigan representative (1977-2013) | |
Betty Lynn, American actress, Cheaper by the Dozen, TV's The Andy Griffith Show | |
Val Bisoglio, American actor, Saturday Night Fever, TV’s Quincy, M.E. | |
Leslie Bricusse, English composer and lyricist, "Talk to the Animals", "Candy Man" | |
Bernard Haitink, Dutch conductor | |
Mort Sahl, Canadian-born American comedian and social satirist | |
Linwood Holton, American politician, Virginia governor (1970-1974) | |
Aaron T. Beck, American psychiatrist, developed cognitive behavior therapy | |
Neal Smith, American politician, Iowa representative (1959-1995) | |
Kirsi Kunnas, Finnish poet and children's writer | |
Etel Adnan, Lebanese-born American novelist, Sitt Marie Rose, poet, and painter | |
Clarissa Eden, English countess, spouse of Prime Minister Anthony Eden | |
Robert Bly, American poet, Iron John: A Book About Men | |
Chun Doo-hwan, South Korean president (1980-1988) | |
Noah Gordon, American writer, The Physician, The Last Jew | |
Stephen Sondheim, American composer and lyricist, West Side Story, A Little Night Music | |
Justo Gallego Martínez, Spanish visionary, created the Mejorada del Campo cathedral | |
Arlene Dahl, American actress, Three Little Words, Journey to the Center of the Earth | |
Alvin Lucier, American composer of experimental music and sound installations | |
Miroslav Zikmund, Czech travel writer | |
Bob Dole, American politician, Kansas senator (1969-96), and 1996 Republican presidential nominee | |
Jacques Tits, Belgium-born French mathematician | |
Kåre Willoch, Norwegian prime minister (1981-1986) | |
Barry Harris, American jazz pianist, composer, and arranger | |
Lina Wertmüller, Italian motion picture director and screenwriter, Swept Away, Seven Beauties | |
Cara Williams, American actress, The Defiant Ones, TV's Pete and Gladys | |
Sally Ann Howes, English/American singer and actress, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang | |
Thomas Kinsella, Irish poet, "Butcher's Dozen", and translator, "The Táin" | |
Grace Mirabella, American magazine editor, Vogue, and founder, Mirabella | |
Wayne Thiebaud, American painter and printmaker | |
Karolos Papoulias, Greek president (2005-2015) | |
Desmond Tutu, South African archbishop, anti-apartheid activist, and Nobel Peace Prize recipient | |
E. O. Wilson, American naturalist, pioneer of evolutionary biology | |
Sabine Weiss, Swiss-born French photographer | |
Betty White, American actress, TV's The Mary Tyler Moore Show, The Golden Girls |