Notable people who died on May 14 include: Pope Theodore I, Zhu Hongzhao, Pope John XII (born 927), Walcher, William Marshal.

Notable Deaths on May 14

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May 14 has seen 113 notable figures pass away throughout recorded history — from 649 – 2026. Below are the most significant names who died on this date.

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Notable Deaths 113 people 649 – 2026

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Conway is perhaps best known as a regular cast member (1975–1978) on the TV comedy-variety series The Carol Burnett Show where he portrayed his recurrent iconic characters Mister Tudball and the Oldest Man

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He received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1999 and was inducted into the Television Hall of Fame in 2002.

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Thomas Daniel "Tim" Conway was an American actor, comedian, writer, and director

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Over his career he received numerous accolades, including five Primetime Emmy Awards and a Golden Globe Award

Pope Theodore I

Pope Theodore I was the bishop of Rome from 24 November 642 to his death on 14 May 649. His pontificate was dominated by the struggle with Monothelitism.

649

Zhu Hongzhao

Chinese general and governor

Zhu Hongzhao was a general of the Chinese Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms Period Later Tang state. He was a close associate of its second emperor. Li Siyuan and became particularly powerful during the short reign of Li…

934

Pope John XII (born 927)

Pope John XII, born Octavian, was the bishop of Rome and ruler of the Papal States from 16 December 955 to his death in 964. He was related to the counts of Tusculum, a powerful Roman family which had dominated papal…

964

Walcher

Bishop of Durham

Walcher was the bishop of Durham from 1071, a Lotharingian and the first Prince-bishop. He was the first non-Englishman to hold that see and an appointee of William the Conqueror following the Harrying of the North. He…

1080

William Marshal

1st Earl of Pembroke, English soldier and politician (born 1147)

William Marshal, 1st Earl of Pembroke, also called William the Marshal, was an Anglo-Norman soldier and statesman during High Medieval England who served five English kings—Henry II and his son and co-ruler Young Henry,…

1219

Tahmasp I

Shah of Persia (born 1514)

Tahmasp I was the second shah of Safavid Iran from 1524 until his death in 1576. He was the eldest son of Shah Ismail I and his principal consort, the Mawsillu princess Tajlu Khanum.

1576

Magnus II

Duke of Saxe-Lauenburg (born 1543)

Magnus II of Saxe-Lauenburg was the eldest surviving son of Duke Francis I of Saxe-Lauenburg and Sybille of Saxe-Freiberg, daughter of Duke Henry IV the Pious. In 1571 Magnus II ascended the throne after his father…

1603

Charles III

Duke of Lorraine (born 1543)

Charles III, known as the Great, was Duke of Lorraine from 1545 until his death.

1608

Henry IV of France (born 1553)

Henry IV, also known by the epithets Good King Henry or Henry the Great, was King of Navarre from 1572 and King of France from 1589 to 1610. He was the first monarch of France from the House of Bourbon, a cadet branch…

1610

Louis XIII of France (born 1601)

Louis XIII was King of France from 1610 until his death in 1643 and King of Navarre from 1610 to 1620, when the crown of Navarre was merged with the French crown.

1643

Friedrich Spanheim

Swiss theologian and academic (born 1600)

Friedrich Spanheim the Elder was a Calvinistic theology professor at the University of Leiden.

1649

Georges de Scudéry

French author, poet, and playwright (born 1601)

Georges de Scudéry, the elder brother of Madeleine de Scudéry, was a French novelist, dramatist and poet.

1667

Antoine Furetière

French scholar, lexicographer, and author (born 1619)

Antoine Furetière was a French scholar, writer, and lexicographer, known best for his satirical novel Le Roman bourgeois, and also his famous Dictionnaire universel. The Académie Française charged him with lexicographic…

1688

Pierre-Claude Nivelle de La Chaussée

French playwright and producer (born 1692)

Pierre-Claude Nivelle de La Chaussée was a French dramatist who blurred the lines between comedy and tragedy with his comédie larmoyante.

1754

Thomas Simpson

English mathematician and academic (born 1710)

Thomas Simpson FRS was a British mathematician and inventor known for the eponymous Simpson's rule to approximate definite integrals. The attribution, as often in mathematics, can be debated: this rule had been found…

1761

Fanny Hensel

German pianist and composer (born 1805)

Fanny Cäcilie Hensel née Mendelssohn was a German composer and pianist of the early Romantic era, also known as Fanny Mendelssohn Bartholdy. Her compositions number over 450, and include a string quartet, a piano trio,…

1847

Ludwig Bechstein

German author (born 1801)

Ludwig Bechstein was a German writer and collector of folk fairy tales.

1860

Gideon Brecher

Austrian physician and author (born 1797)

Gideon Brecher, also known by the pen name Gedaliah ben Eliezer (Hebrew: גדליה בן אליעזר, was an Austrian writer and physician. He was a central figure in the Moravian Haskalah.

1873

Ōkubo Toshimichi

Japanese samurai and politician (born 1830)

Ōkubo Toshimichi was a Japanese statesman and samurai of the Satsuma Domain. Regarded as one of the main founders of modern Japan, he was one of the "Three Great Nobles" who led the Meiji Restoration in 1868, alongside…

1878

Mary Seacole

Jamaican-English nurse and author (born 1805)

Mary Jane Seacole was a Jamaican nurse and businesswoman. She was famous for her nursing work during the Crimean War and for publishing the first autobiography written by a woman of African descent in Britain.

1881

Volney Howard

American lawyer, jurist, and politician (born 1809)

Volney Erskine Howard was an American lawyer, statesman, and jurist.

1889

Ernst Kummer

German mathematician and academic (born 1810)

Ernst Eduard Kummer was a German mathematician. Skilled in applied mathematics, Kummer trained German army officers in ballistics; afterwards, he taught for 10 years in a gymnasium, the German equivalent of high school,…

1893

Carl Schurz

German-American general, journalist, and politician, 13th United States Secretary of the Interior (born 1829)

Carl Christian Schurz was a German-American revolutionary and an American statesman, journalist, and reformer. He migrated to the United States after the German revolutions of 1848–1849 and became a prominent member of…

1906

Frederik VIII of Denmark (born 1843)

Frederik VIII was King of Denmark from 29 January 1906 until his death in 1912.

1912

August Strindberg

Swedish playwright, novelist, poet, essayist (born 1849)

Johan August Strindberg was a Swedish playwright, novelist, poet, essayist, and painter. A prolific writer who often drew directly on his personal experience, Strindberg wrote more than 60 plays and more than 30 works…

1912

James Gordon Bennett

Jr., American journalist and publisher (born 1841)

James Gordon Bennett Jr. was an American publisher. He was the publisher of the New York Herald, founded by his father, James Gordon Bennett Sr. (1795–1872), who emigrated from Scotland. He was generally known as Gordon…

1918

Henry J. Heinz

American businessman, founded the H. J. Heinz Company (born 1844)

Henry John Heinz was an American entrepreneur who co-founded the H. J. Heinz Company of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He was involved in the passage of the 1906 Pure Food and Drug Act. Many of his descendants are known for…

1919

N. G. Chandavarkar

Indian jurist and politician (born 1855)

Sir Narayan Ganesh Chandavarkar was an early Indian National Congress politician and Hindu reformer. He was true " serve western colonial empire".

1923

Charles de Freycinet

French engineer and politician, 43rd Prime Minister of France (born 1828)

Charles Louis de Saulces de Freycinet was a French statesman who served four times as Prime Minister during the Third Republic. He also served an important term as Minister of War (1888–1893). He belonged to the…

1923

David Belasco

American director, producer, and playwright (born 1853)

David Belasco was an American theatrical producer, impresario, director, and playwright. He was the first writer to adapt the short story Madame Butterfly for the stage. He launched the theatrical career of many actors,…

1931

Lou Criger

American baseball player and manager (born 1872)

Louis Criger was an American professional baseball catcher. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) from 1896 to 1912 for the Cleveland Spiders, St. Louis Perfectos / Cardinals, Boston Americans / Red Sox, St. Louis…

1934

Magnus Hirschfeld

German physician and sexologist (born 1868)

Magnus Hirschfeld was a German physician, sexologist, and LGBTQ advocate whose German citizenship was revoked in 1933 by the Nazi government.

1935

Edmund Allenby

1st Viscount Allenby, English field marshal and diplomat, British High Commissioner in Egypt (born 1861)

Field Marshal Edmund Henry Hynman Allenby, 1st Viscount Allenby, was a senior British Army officer and imperial governor. He fought in the Second Boer War and in the First World War, in which he led the British Empire's…

1936

Emma Goldman

Lithuanian author and activist (born 1869)

Emma Goldman was a Russian-born anarchist revolutionary, political activist, and writer. She played a pivotal role in the development of anarchist political philosophy in North America and Europe in the first half of…

1940

Menno ter Braak

Dutch author (born 1902)

Menno ter Braak was a Dutch modernist writer, critic, essayist, and journalist.

1940

Henri La Fontaine

Belgian lawyer and author, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1854)

Henri La Fontaine, was a Belgian international lawyer and president of the International Peace Bureau. He received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1913 because "he was the effective leader of the peace movement in Europe."

1943

Heber J. Grant

American religious leader, 7th President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (born 1856)

Heber Jeddy Grant was an American religious leader who served as the seventh president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Grant worked as a bookkeeper and a cashier, but was called to be an LDS apostle…

1945

Wolfgang Lüth

Latvian-German captain (born 1913)

Wolfgang Lüth was a German U-boat captain of World War II who was credited with the sinking of 46 merchant ships plus the French submarine Doris sunk during 15 war patrols, for a total tonnage of 225,204 gross register…

1945

Isis Pogson

English astronomer and meteorologist (born 1852)

Elizabeth Isis Pogson, was a British astronomer and meteorologist who was one of the first women to be elected as a fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society.

1945

Yasuo Kuniyoshi

American painter and photographer (born 1893)

Yasuo Kuniyoshi was a Japanese-American painter, photographer and printmaker.

1953

Heinz Guderian

Prussian-German general (born 1888)

Heinz Wilhelm Guderian was a German army general and military theorist. A pioneer and advocate of the "blitzkrieg" approach, he played a central role in the development of the panzer division concept and tank warfare…

1954

Joan Malleson

English physician (born 1889)

Joan Graeme Malleson was an English physician, specialist in contraception and prominent advocate of the legalisation of abortion.

1956

Marie Vassilieff

Russian-French painter (born 1884)

Mariya Ivanovna Vassilieva, gallicised and known in Western sources as Marie Vassilieff, was a Russian-born painter and set designer active in Paris.

1957

Sidney Bechet

American saxophonist, clarinet player, and composer (born 1897)

Sidney Joseph Bechet was an American jazz saxophonist, clarinetist, and composer. He was one of the first important soloists in jazz, and first recorded several months before trumpeter Louis Armstrong. His erratic…

1959

Infanta Maria Antonia of Portugal (born 1862)

Infanta Maria Antónia of Portugal was the seventh and last child of Miguel I of Portugal and Adelaide of Löwenstein.

1959

Lucrezia Bori

Spanish soprano and actress (born 1887)

Lucrezia Bori was a Spanish operatic singer, a lyric soprano and a fundraiser for the Metropolitan Opera.

1960

Florence Auer

American actress and screenwriter (born 1880)

Florence Auer was an American theater and motion picture actress whose career spanned more than five decades.

1962

Frances Perkins

American workers-rights advocate, U.S. Secretary of Labor (born 1880)

Frances Perkins was an American workers-rights advocate who served as the fourth United States secretary of labor from 1933 to 1945, the longest serving in that position. A member of the Democratic Party, Perkins was…

1965

Husband E. Kimmel

American admiral (born 1882)

Husband Edward Kimmel was a United States Navy four-star admiral who was the commander in chief of the United States Pacific Fleet (CINCPACFLT) during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. He was removed from that…

1968

Enid Bennett

Australian-American actress (born 1893)

Enid Eulalie Bennett was an Australian silent film actress, mostly active in American film.

1969

Frederick Lane

Australian swimmer (born 1888)

Frederick Claude Vivian Lane was an Australian swimmer who competed at the 1900 Summer Olympics.

1969

Billie Burke

American actress and singer (born 1884)

Mary William Ethelbert Appleton "Billie" Burke was an American character actress who was famous on Broadway and radio, and in silent and sound films. She is perhaps best known to modern audiences as Glinda the Good…

1970

Jean Gebser

German linguist, philosopher, and poet (born 1905)

Jean Gebser was a Swiss philosopher, linguist, and poet who described the structures of human consciousness.

1973

Keith Relf

English singer-songwriter, harmonica player, and producer (born 1943)

William Keith Relf was an English musician, best known as the lead vocalist and harmonica player for rock band the Yardbirds. He then formed the band Renaissance with his sister Jane Relf, the Yardbirds ex-drummer Jim…

1976

Jean Rhys

Dominican-English novelist (born 1890)

Jean Rhys was a British Creole novelist who was born and grew up in the Caribbean island of Dominica. From the age of 16, she resided mainly in England, where she was sent for her education. She is best known for her…

1979

Hugh Griffith

Welsh actor (born 1912)

Hugh Emrys Griffith was a Welsh actor. Described by BFI Screenonline as a "wild-eyed, formidable character player", Griffith appeared in more than 100 theatre, film, and television productions in a career that spanned…

1980

Hugh Beaumont

American actor (born 1909)

Eugene Hugh Beaumont was an American actor. He was best known for his portrayal of Ward Cleaver on the television series Leave It to Beaver, originally broadcast from 1957 to 1963, and as private detective Michael…

1982

Roger J. Traynor

American academic and jurist, 23rd Chief Justice of California (born 1900)

Roger John Traynor was an American lawyer who served as Chief Justice of California from 1964 to 1970 and was an associate justice of the Supreme Court of California from 1940 to 1964. Traynor had served as a deputy…

1983

Miguel Alemán Valdés

Mexican politician, 46th President of Mexico (born 1900)

Miguel Alemán Valdés was a Mexican politician who served a full term as the President of Mexico from 1946 to 1952. He was the first civilian president after a string of revolutionary generals.

1983

Ted Hicks

Australian public servant and diplomat, Australian High Commissioner to New Zealand (born 1910)

Sir Edwin William "Ted" Hicks was a senior Australian public servant and diplomat. He was Secretary of the Department of Defence from 1956 to 1968.

1984

Walter Rauff

German SS officer (born 1906)

Hermann Julius Walther Rauff, also Walther Rauff was a mid-ranking SS commander in Nazi Germany. From January 1938, he was an aide of Reinhard Heydrich firstly in the Security Service, later in the Reich Security Main…

1984

Rita Hayworth

American actress and dancer (born 1918)

Rita Hayworth was an American actress, dancer, and pin-up girl. She achieved fame in the 1940s as one of the top stars of the Golden Age of Hollywood, and appeared in 61 films over 38 years. The press coined the term…

1987

Vitomil Zupan

Slovenian poet and playwright (born 1914)

Vitomil Zupan was a post-World War II modernist Slovene writer and Gonars concentration camp survivor. Because of his detailed descriptions of sex and violence, he was dubbed the Slovene Hemingway and was compared to…

1987

Willem Drees

Dutch politician and historian, Prime Minister of the Netherlands (1948–1958) (born 1886)

Willem Drees Sr. was a Dutch politician of the Social Democratic Workers' Party (SDAP) and later co-founder of the Labour Party (PvdA) and historian who served as Prime Minister of the Netherlands from 7 August 1948 to…

1988

Aladár Gerevich

Hungarian fencer (born 1910)

Aladár Gerevich was a Hungarian fencer, regarded as "the greatest Olympic swordsman ever". He won seven gold medals in sabre at six different Olympic Games.

1991

Jiang Qing

Chinese revolutionary, actress, and politician, member of the Gang of Four (born 1914)

Jiang Qing, born Li Yunhe, and briefly known by her stage name Lan Ping in the 1930s Shanghai, was a Chinese revolutionary, actress, and political figure. The fourth wife of Mao Zedong, she played a major role in the…

1991

Nie Rongzhen

Chinese general and politician, Mayor of Beijing (born 1899)

Nie Rongzhen was a Marshal of the People's Republic of China. He died as the last People's Liberation Army (PLA) marshal.

1992

William Randolph Hearst

Jr., American journalist and publisher (born 1908)

William Randolph Hearst Jr. was an American businessman, newspaper publisher and member of the wealthy Hearst family.

1993

Cihat Arman

Turkish footballer and manager (born 1915)

Cihat Arman was a Turkish football goalkeeper and manager. He represented Turkey at the 1936 Summer Olympics and the 1948 Summer Olympics. He was the coach of the Turkish national football team throughout 1949, and…

1994

W. Graham Claytor Jr.

American businessman, lieutenant, and politician, 15th United States Secretary of the Navy (born 1914)

William Graham Claytor Jr. was an American attorney, United States Navy officer, railroad executive, and administrator of railroad, transportation, and defense affairs for the United States government, working under the…

1994

Christian B. Anfinsen

American biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1916)

Christian Boehmer Anfinsen Jr. was an American biochemist. He shared the 1972 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Stanford Moore and William Howard Stein for work on ribonuclease, especially concerning the connection between…

1995

Harry Blackstone Jr.

American magician and author (born 1934)

Harry Bouton Blackstone Jr. was an American stage magician, author, and television performer. He is estimated to have pulled 80,000 rabbits from his sleeves and hats.

1997

Boris Parsadanian

Armenian-Estonian violinist and composer (born 1925)

Boris Khristoforovich Parsadanian was a Soviet Armenian and Estonian composer, violinist, and arts administrator.

1997

Marjory Stoneman Douglas

American journalist and environmentalist (born 1890)

Marjory Stoneman Douglas was an American journalist, author, women's suffrage advocate, and conservationist known for her staunch defense of the Everglades against efforts to drain it and reclaim land for development.…

1998

Frank Sinatra

American singer and actor (born 1915)

Francis Albert Sinatra was an American singer and actor. Nicknamed the "Chairman of the Board" and "Ol' Blue Eyes", he is regarded as one of the most influential entertainers of the 20th century.

1998

Keizō Obuchi

Japanese politician, 84th Prime Minister of Japan (born 1937)

Keizō Obuchi was a Japanese politician who served as prime minister of Japan from 1998 to 2000.

2000

Paul Bénichou

French writer, intellectual, critic, and literary historian (born 1908)

Paul Bénichou was a French/Algerian writer, intellectual, critic, and literary historian.

2001

Gil Langley

Australian cricketer, footballer, and politician (born 1919)

Gilbert Roche Andrews Langley was an Australian Test cricketer, champion Australian rules footballer and member of parliament, serving as Speaker of the South Australian House of Assembly from 1977 to 1979 for the Don…

2001

Dave DeBusschere

American basketball player and coach (born 1940)

David Albert DeBusschere was an American professional basketball player and coach, and professional baseball player. He played for the Chicago White Sox of MLB in 1962 and 1963 and in the NBA for the Detroit Pistons…

2003

Wendy Hiller

English actress (born 1912)

Dame Wendy Margaret Hiller was an English film and stage actress who enjoyed a varied acting career that spanned nearly 60 years. Writer Joel Hirschorn, in his 1984 compilation Rating the Movie Stars, described her as…

2003

Robert Stack

American actor and producer (born 1919)

Robert Stack was an American actor and television host. Known for his deep voice and commanding presence, he appeared in over 40 feature films. He starred in the ABC television series The Untouchables (1959–1963), for…

2003

Anna Lee

English-American actress (born 1913)

Anna Lee, MBE was an English and American actress, labelled by studios "The British Bombshell".

2004

Jimmy Martin

American musician (born 1927)

James Henry Martin was an American bluegrass singer and musician, known as the "King of Bluegrass".

2005

Lew Anderson

American actor and saxophonist (born 1922)

Lewis Burr Anderson was an American actor and musician. He is widely known by TV fans as the third and final actor to portray Clarabell the Clown on Howdy Doody between 1954 and 1960. He famously spoke Clarabell's only…

2006

Stanley Kunitz

American poet and translator (born 1905)

Stanley Jasspon Kunitz was an American poet. He was appointed Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress twice, first in 1974 and then again in 2000.

2006

Eva Norvind

Mexican actress, director, and producer (born 1944)

Eva Norvind was a Norwegian-born Mexican actress, writer, documentary producer, director, sex therapist, and dominatrix.

2006

Mary Scheier

American sculptor and educator (born 1908)

Mary Scheier was a noted American ceramicist, and the wife and artistic partner of Edwin Scheier.

2007

Ülo Jõgi

Estonian historian and author (born 1921)

Ülo Jõgi was an Estonian war historian who was active in the Estonian resistance against the Soviet occupation of Estonia.

2007

Frank J. Dodd

American businessman and politician, president of the New Jersey Senate (born 1938)

Frank J. "Pat" Dodd was an American businessman and Democratic Party politician who served as President of the New Jersey Senate from 1974 to 1975.

2010

Norman Hand

American football player (born 1972)

Norman Lamont Hand was an American professional football defensive tackle in the National Football League (NFL). He was selected in the fifth round of the 1995 NFL draft. He last played with the New York Giants in 2004.…

2010

Goh Keng Swee

Singaporean soldier and politician, 2nd Deputy Prime Minister of Singapore (born 1918)

Goh Keng Swee was a Singaporean statesman and economist who served as the second Deputy Prime Minister of Singapore between 1973 and 1985. Goh is widely recognised as one of the founding fathers of modern Singapore.

2010

Ernst Hinterberger

Austrian author and screenwriter (born 1931)

Ernst Hinterberger was an Austrian writer of novels, particularly detective novels, plays and successful sitcoms. His first TV scripts were unusual for their use of genuine Vienna dialect.

2012

Mario Trejo

Argentinian poet, playwright, and journalist (born 1926)

Mario Trejo was an Argentine poet, playwright, screenwriter, and journalist.

2012

Wayne Brown

American accountant and politician, 14th Mayor of Mesa (born 1936)

Wayne Brown was an American politician and accountant. Brown served for two, two-year terms as the Mayor of Mesa, Arizona from 1996 to 2000. He spearheaded the movement to building the Mesa Arts Center in downtown Mesa,…

2013

Arsen Chilingaryan

Armenian footballer and manager (born 1962)

Arsen Chilingaryan was a Soviet Armenian football defender.

2013

Asghar Ali Engineer

Indian author and activist (born 1939)

Asghar Ali Engineer was an academic, Indian reformist writer and social activist. Internationally known for his work on liberation theology in Islam, he led the Progressive Dawoodi Bohra movement. The focus of his work…

2013

Ray Guy

Canadian journalist (born 1939)

Ray Guy was a Canadian journalist and humourist, best known for his satirical newspaper and magazine columns.

2013

Jeffrey Kruger

English-American businessman (born 1931)

Jeffrey Sonny Kruger MBE was a British entertainment business executive who owned the Flamingo Club in Soho, London, established the independent record label Ember Records, and set up the music business conglomerate TKO.

2014

Emanuel Raymond Lewis

American librarian and author (born 1928)

Emanuel Raymond Lewis was the longest-serving and final House Librarian for the United States House of Representatives Library in the U.S. Capitol Building. He was appointed House Librarian in 1973, and served in this…

2014

Morvin Simon

New Zealand historian, composer, and conductor (born 1944)

Morvin Te Anatipa Simon was a New Zealand Māori composer, kapa haka leader, choirmaster and historian.

2014

B.B. King

American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (born 1925)

Riley B. King, known professionally as B. B. King, was an American blues guitarist, singer, songwriter, and record producer. He introduced a sophisticated style of soloing based on fluid string bending, shimmering…

2015

Micheál O'Brien

Irish footballer and hurler (born 1923)

Micheál O'Brien was an Irish Gaelic footballer and hurler who played at senior level for the Meath county team.

2015

Stanton J. Peale

American astrophysicist and academic (born 1937)

Stanton Jerrold Peale was an American astrophysicist, planetary scientist, and Professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara. His research interests include the geophysical and dynamical properties of planets…

2015

Franz Wright

Austrian-American poet and translator (born 1953)

Franz Wright was an American poet. He and his father James Wright are the only parent/child pair to have won the Pulitzer Prize in the same category.

2015

Darwyn Cooke

American comic book writer and artist (born 1962)

Darwyn Cooke was a Canadian comics artist, writer, cartoonist, and animator who worked on the comic books Catwoman, DC: The New Frontier, The Spirit and Richard Stark's Parker: The Hunter. His work has been honoured…

2016

Powers Boothe

American actor (born 1948)

Powers Allen Boothe was an American actor known for his commanding character actor roles on film and television. He received a Primetime Emmy Award and nominations for two Screen Actors Guild Awards.

2017

Tom Wolfe

American author (born 1931)

Thomas Kennerly Wolfe Jr. was an American author and journalist widely known for his association with New Journalism, a style of news writing and journalism developed in the 1960s and 1970s that incorporated literary…

2018

Grumpy Cat

American cat and internet meme celebrity (born 2012)

Tardar Sauce, nicknamed Grumpy Cat, was an American internet celebrity cat. She was known for her permanently "grumpy" facial appearance, which was caused by an underbite and feline dwarfism. She came to prominence when…

2019

Doyle Brunson

American poker player (born 1933)

Doyle Frank Brunson was an American poker player who played professionally for over 60 years. He was a two-time World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event champion, a Poker Hall of Fame inductee, and the author of several…

2023

Don Perlin

American comic book artist, writer, and editor (born 1929)

Donald David Perlin was an American comic book artist, writer, and editor. He is best known for Marvel Comics' Werewolf by Night, Moon Knight, The Defenders, and Ghost Rider. In the 1990s, he worked for Valiant Comics,…

2024

Netiporn Sanesangkhom

Thai political activist (born 1995)

Netiporn Sanesangkhom, better known as Bung (บุ้ง), was a Thai political activist focused on monarchy reform. She initially participated in protests with the People's Democratic Reform Committee (PDRC), a right-wing…

2024

Hans van Houwelingen

Dutch mathematician and professor emeritus of medical statistics (born 1945)

Johannes Cornelis "Hans" van Houwelingen was a Dutch mathematician and a professor of medical statistics at Leiden University.

2026

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