Curated category
2009 deaths
- Michael JacksonThe boy from Gary who was never allowed to be one. Listen to the craft beneath the spectacle, the making of Thriller, and the era he still shapes.
- Richard PoirierRichard Poirier entered the world on Gloucester, Massachusetts, the 9th of September 1925. His academic journey began at Amherst College before he moved to…
- Chuck DalyChuck Daly was born on the 20th of July, 1930, in Kane, Pennsylvania, a small town in the Allegheny Mountains. He would go on to become one of the most…
- Allen KleinAllen Klein was the man who simultaneously managed the Beatles and the Rolling Stones, and he did it by weaponizing the fine print.
- Walter CronkiteWalter Cronkite took off his glasses, glanced at the clock, and told a watching nation that President Kennedy had died at 1 p.m.
- Claude Lévi-StraussClaude Lévi-Strauss died on the 30th of October 2009, at the age of 100, and for four days the world did not know. When French President Nicolas Sarkozy…
- Paul SamuelsonPaul Samuelson stood at a lectern in a University of Chicago classroom on the 2nd of January, 1932, and later said that was the exact moment he was born as…
- Al CerviAl Cervi earned the nickname "Digger" not for anything gentle, but for the way he dug into opponents on defense. Born on the 12th of February 1917 in…
- Heinz EdelmannHeinz Edelmann was born on the 20th of June 1934 in Ústí nad Labem, a city in Czechoslovakia known in German as Aussig, to a family with mixed German and…
- John Patrick DigginsJohn Patrick Diggins declared, near the end of his life, "I am left of right and right of left." That phrase captures something essential about a man who…
- Kaoru KurimotoKaoru Kurimoto was still in her twenties when she became the youngest person ever to win the Edogawa Rampo Prize. That happened in 1978, just one year after…
- Ray SolomonoffRay Solomonoff was born on the 25th of July 1926 in Cleveland, Ohio, and by the time he was 16 years old, he had already set himself an extraordinary task…
- Hans HolzerHans Holzer wrote more than 120 books. That alone is a staggering output for any author. But Holzer was not writing thrillers or cookbooks.
- Dave ArnesonDave Arneson was the co-creator of Dungeons and Dragons, and he spent two days watching monster movies, reading Conan books, and doodling on graph paper…
- I. J. GoodI. J. Good walked into Hut 8 at Bletchley Park on the 27th of May 1941, fresh from completing his doctorate at Cambridge, on the very day that Britain's…
- Sergey MikhalkovSergey Mikhalkov wrote the words that hundreds of millions of Soviet citizens heard every morning, every sporting event, every state occasion for decades.