Curated playlist
2006 deaths
- Joanna DennyJoanna Denny died in 2006, shortly before her book on Anne Boleyn was published. She never saw it reach readers.
- Joan Turville-PetreJoan Turville-Petre, an English philologist, was married on the 7th of January 1943 with no guests in attendance. Two friends did stand beside the couple as witnesses: J. R. R. Tolkien and his wife Edith. The groom, Gabriel Turville-Petre,…
- James BrownJames Brown pointed out band members' wrong notes with hand signals.
- Christopher John DewhurstChristopher John Dewhurst chaired the first international symposium on gender identity in 1969.
- Milton FriedmanMilton Friedman argued the Federal Reserve let the money supply shrink by one-third between 1929 and 1933.
- Hilda Ellis DavidsonHilda Ellis Davidson used burial mounds to study Norse beliefs, which was almost heretical in 1943.
- Caspar WeinbergerBudget cutter Caspar Weinberger became "Cap the Ladle" once he ran the Pentagon.
- Lamar HuntLamar Hunt first called the Super Bowl by that name as a joke. He wrote that the name "obviously can be improved upon."
- Richard KuklinskiRichard Kuklinski, born in 1935 and later known as the Iceman, lived in the New Jersey suburb of Dumont with his wife and children. His wife Barbara described him as a wholesale distributor who employed an accountant. Neighbors saw a…
- Billy PrestonBilly Preston got his name on a Beatles single. The 1969 "Get Back" was credited to "The Beatles with Billy Preston."
- Elliot ForbesElliot Forbes, known to those around him as "El", was an American conductor and musicologist who lived from the 20th of August 1917 to the 9th of January 2006. Late in life, he made a habit of turning up at undergraduate performances.…
- John MoneyJohn Money was a New Zealand American psychologist and sexologist whose name is attached to a phrase he never coined. Many writers credit him with the term gender identity. He did not invent it. What he did invent, and what he advised for…
- Slobodan MiloševićSlobodan Milošević died in a prison cell in The Hague while still on trial for war crimes.
- Red AuerbachBoston restaurants once banned cigar smoking for everyone except Red Auerbach.
- Alexander ZinovievSoviet writer Alexander Zinoviev was expelled from his country, then returned by choice 21 years later.
- Syd BarrettSyd Barrett walked into Abbey Road Studios on the 5th of June 1975, and the men inside did not know him. He had shaved off his hair and even his eyebrows, and he was overweight. He was 29. The musicians were Pink Floyd, the band he had…