Curated playlist
2021 deaths
- Yasuo ŌtsukaA realistic skeleton in Magic Boy made audiences laugh, and it changed Yasuo Ōtsuka's view of animation.
- Colin PowellOn the 5th of February 2003, Colin Powell addressed the United Nations Security Council. He told the council: "there can be no doubt that Saddam Hussein has biological weapons and the capability to rapidly produce more, many more." The…
- Prince Philip, Duke of EdinburghPrince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, was born on a dining room table. The date was the 10th of June 1921, and the place was Mon Repos, a villa on the Greek island of Corfu. Before he turned two, he was carried out of Greece in a fruit box. He…
- Phil SpectorPhil Spector's first number one song came from his father's gravestone.
- Michael Collins (astronaut)Michael Collins orbited the Moon thirty times and never set foot on it.
- Gerd MüllerGerd Müller scored 68 goals in 62 games for West Germany. He averaged more than one goal per game for eight years.
- David Seyfort RueggL. S. Cousins called Buddhist scholar David Seyfort Ruegg "certainly the leading scholar today" on one doctrine.
- Maureen CleaveMaureen Cleave heard John Lennon say the Beatles were "more popular than Jesus now."
- Kentaro MiuraKentaro Miura made his first manga at ten and handed it out to classmates. It grew into Berserk, a dark fantasy series.
- Bernie MadoffBernie Madoff told his own sons in December 2008 that the fund he ran was "just one big lie." Bernard Lawrence Madoff was an American financier, born in 1938, who had once served as chairman of the Nasdaq stock exchange. He admitted to…
- Rodney AlcalaRodney Alcala walked onto the set of the television game show The Dating Game in 1978, and host Jim Lange introduced him as a successful photographer. Lange promised that between takes he might be found skydiving or motorcycling. The…
- Desmond TutuDesmond Tutu, the South African Anglican archbishop who spent decades confronting apartheid, asked to be laid to rest in a plain pine coffin. It was the cheapest one available, chosen to avoid any ostentatious display. He died of cancer on…
- John MaddenJohn Madden never flew on a plane after 1979. The football coach turned TV voice crossed the country by bus.
- DMXDMX was the first artist to open five straight studio albums at number one on the Billboard 200.
- Rob InglisRob Inglis spent six intense weeks in 1990 voicing The Lord of the Rings.
- Stephen B. OatesStephen B. Oates asked what it costs a person to fight for equality in America.