IN MEMORIAM 2023
~ January thru July ~
Webmaster's Note: Only individuals who appeared on this site when alive are included on this page.
Lise Nørgaard, Danish journalist, novelist, and screenwriter | |
Walter Cunningham, American astronaut | |
Fay Weldon, English writer, The Life and Loves of a She-Devil | |
Michael Snow, Canadian painter, sculptor, and filmmaker, Wavelength | |
Naomi Replansky, American poet, The Dangerous World | |
Bernard Kalb, American journalist and commentator | |
K. Alex Müller, Swiss Nobel Prize-winning physicist | |
Carole Cook, American actress, The Incredible Mr. Limpet, Sixteen Candles | |
Lloyd Morrisett, American psychologist, co-founder of the Children's Television Workshop | |
Gina Lollobrigida, Italian actress, Beat the Devil, Buona Sera, Mrs. Campbell | |
Lucile Randon (aka Sister André), French supercentenarian, world's oldest validated person at time of death | |
Balkrishna Doshi, Indian architect | |
Lubomír Štrougal, Czechoslovakian prime minister (1970–1988) | |
Burt Bacharach, American songwriter, "Alfie", "Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head", and pianist | |
Carlos Saura, Spanish motion picture director, Carmen, Tango | |
Paul Berg, American Nobel Prize-winning biochemist | |
David Oreck, American businessman, founded the Oreck vacuum cleaner company | |
Michel Deville, French motion picture director and screenwriter, Death in a French Garden | |
James Abourezk, American politician, South Dakota representative (1971–1973), and senator (1973–1979) | |
Walter Mirisch, American motion picture producer, Hawaii, In the Heat of the Night | |
Gordon Pinsent, Canadian actor, The Rowdyman, Away from Her | |
Betty Boothroyd, English politician, first female speaker of the House of Commons (1992–2000) | |
Pat McCormick, American Olympic gold medal-winning diver | |
Bert I. Gordon, American motion picture director and screenwriter, Village of the Giants, Empire of the Ants | |
Bud Grant, American basketball player, football player, and football coach | |
John Jakes, American writer, the North and South Civil War trilogy | |
Ignacio López Tarso, Mexican actor, Macario | |
Jorge Edwards, Chilean writer, Persona non grata, literary critic, and diplomat | |
Virginia Zeani, Romanian-born American opera singer | |
Gordon Moore, American businessman, co-founded the Intel Corporation | |
Mark Russell, American political satirist | |
Bill Butler, American cinematographer, Jaws, Grease | |
Benjamin Ferencz, Romanian-born American lawyer, prosecutor in the Nuremberg trials of Nazi war criminals | |
Al Jaffee, American cartoonist, regular contributor to Mad magazine | |
Mary Quant, English fashion designer | |
Ahmad Jamal, American jazz pianist, composer, and bandleader | |
Charles Stanley, American televangelist | |
Ken Potts, American World War II veteran, survivor of the Pearl Harbor attack on the USS Arizona | |
Harry Belafonte, American singer, "The Banana Boat Song", actor, Carmen Jones, and activist | |
Dick Groat, American basketball and baseball player | |
Newton Minow, American government official, FCC Chairman, called television a "vast wasteland" | |
Menahem Pressler, German-born Israeli/American pianist, co-founded the Beaux Arts Trio | |
Don January, American golfer | |
Kenneth Anger, American experimental filmmaker, Scorpio Rising, and writer, Hollywood Babylon | |
Ed Ames, American pop singer and actor, TV's Daniel Boone | |
Bill Lee, American jazz musician and composer | |
George Maharis, American actor, TV's Route 66 | |
Amitai Etzioni, German-born Israeli/American sociologist | |
Roger Craig, American baseball player, coach, and manager | |
Pat Cooper, American comedian and actor, Analyze This | |
Françoise Gilot, French/American painter and memoirist, Life with Picasso | |
Noreen Nash, American actress, The Southerner, Giant | |
Pat Robertson, American evangelist and television host, The 700 Club | |
Alain Touraine, French sociologist | |
John Romita, Sr., American comic book artist, co-creator of Wolverine and The Punisher | |
Daniel Ellsberg, American military analyst and researcher, leaked the Pentagon Papers | |
Max Morath, American ragtime pianist | |
Harry Markowitz, American Nobel Prize-winning economist | |
Sheldon Harnick, American lyricist, Broadway's Fiorello!, Fiddler on the Roof | |
John Goodenough, American Nobel Prize-winning solid-state physicist | |
Carmen Sevilla, Spanish actress, Vengeance, King of Kings, and singer | |
Sue Johanson, Canadian sex educator and television personality, Talk Sex with Sue Johanson | |
Lowell Weicker, American politician, Connecticut representative (1969–1971), senator (1971–1989), and governor (1991–1995) | |
Evelyn Witkin, American geneticist | |
Milan Kundera, Czechoslovakian-born French writer, The Unbearable Lightness of Being | |
Harry Frankfurt, American philosopher, author of On Bullshit | |
Tony Bennett, American pop singer, "Rags to Riches", "I Left My Heart in San Francisco" | |
Inga Swenson, American actress, The Miracle Worker, TV's Benson | |
Bo Goldman, American screenwriter, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Melvin and Howard | |
Johnny Lujack, American football player | |
Martin Walser, German writer, A Gushing Fountain |