Curated category
2015 deaths
- Moses MaloneMoses Eugene Malone Sr. grew up in Petersburg, Virginia as an only child, raised almost entirely by his mother Mary, who had left school after the fifth…
- Norm DruckerNorm Drucker was born on the 4th of July, 1920, in New York City, and died on the 6th of February, 2015. In the span of those 94 years, he became one of the…
- Sean PriceSean Price, born Sean Duval Price on the 17th of March 1972, spent decades building a name in underground hip-hop. Then, one Saturday morning in 2015, his…
- Eldar RyazanovEldar Ryazanov was born on the 18th of November 1927, in Samara, to a diplomat father and a Jewish mother, in a country that would spend the next several…
- Monty OumMonyreak "Monty" Oum was born on the 22nd of June 1981, and by the time he died on the 1st of February 2015, he had remade what amateur animation on the…
- Akiyuki NosakaAkiyuki Nosaka was born in Kamakura, Kanagawa, and would go on to become a novelist, journalist, singer, lyricist, and member of Japan's House of Councillors.
- Walter BurkertWalter Burkert was born on the 2nd of February 1931 in Neuendettelsau, Germany, and over the course of a long career he changed how the modern world thinks…
- E. L. DoctorowEdgar Lawrence Doctorow was born on the 6th of January 1931 in the Bronx, named after Edgar Allan Poe by parents who ran a small music shop and dreamed in…
- Dolph SchayesAdolph Schayes practiced so relentlessly at New York University that his coach, Howard Cann, once said, "He was in the gym practicing every spare minute.
- Andy White (drummer)Andy White was a Scottish session drummer who spent a single afternoon in EMI Studios on the 11th of September 1962 and ended up on one of the most…
- Yitzhak NavonYitzhak Rachamim Navon entered the world on the 9th of April 1921 within the walls of Jerusalem. His family lived under the British Mandate for Palestine…
- Martin GilbertMartin Gilbert was born on the 25th of October 1936, the son of a north London jeweller whose family name had once been Goldberg.
- Earl LloydEarl Francis Lloyd stepped onto a basketball court on the night of the 31st of October 1950, and changed American sports history.