Curated category
2005 deaths
- Johnny CarsonJohnny Carson stepped in front of a camera for the last time as host of The Tonight Show on the 22nd of May 1992, and three decades of American nights ended.
- Pope John Paul IIPope John Paul II was born Karol Józef Wojtyła on the 18th of May 1920, in the small Polish town of Wadowice. By the time he died on the 2nd of April 2005…
- Saul BellowSaul Bellow was born Solomon Bellows on the 10th of June, 1915, in Lachine, Quebec, to parents who had fled Saint Petersburg two years earlier, carrying with…
- Hunter S. ThompsonHunter S. Thompson once wrote a line he repeated for the rest of his life. "I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've…
- Charles David KeelingCharles David Keeling stood on the slopes of Mauna Loa in Hawaii, two miles above sea level, and began counting molecules. The year was 1958.
- Gopal GodseGopal Vinayak Godse worked at a transportation company in the years leading up to 1948. Before that employment, he served in the British Army during the…
- Arthur MillerArthur Miller died on the evening of the 10th of February 2005 - the fifty-sixth anniversary of the Broadway debut of Death of a Salesman.
- Yin ShunYin Shun was born on the 5th of April 1906 in a village in Zhejiang Province, China, and he would live for nearly a century, dying on the 4th of June 2005.
- Stanley SadieStanley John Sadie spent the better part of three decades turning a nine-volume reference work into a twenty-volume monument that reshaped how the world…
- Al AronowitzAl Aronowitz was the man in the room when two of the most consequential musical forces of the twentieth century first met each other.
- Shelby FooteShelby Dade Foote Jr. was born on the 17th of November 1916 in Greenville, Mississippi. His father worked for Armour and Company, moving the family from…
- George F. KennanGeorge Frost Kennan sent a telegram from Moscow on the 22nd of February, 1946, that would reshape American foreign policy for the rest of the twentieth…
- George MikanGeorge Mikan stood six feet ten inches tall, weighed 245 pounds, and wore thick round spectacles , and he single-handedly forced professional basketball to…
- Karl SteinbuchKarl Steinbuch was born on the 15th of June 1917 in Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt. He studied physics at the University of Stuttgart during a time when Germany was…
- Byron PreissByron Preiss was buried with a secret that nine people are still trying to find. In 1982, he published a puzzle book called The Secret, hiding twelve…
- Lucien LaurentLucien Laurent scored the most historically significant goal in the history of football, and almost nobody at the time understood what they had just…