Curated category
2022 deaths
- James McDivittJames Alton McDivitt Jr. was born on the 10th of June 1929, in Chicago, Illinois. He grew up in Kalamazoo, Michigan, where he earned the rank of Tenderfoot…
- Jiang ZeminJiang Zemin stood before a group of student protesters in Shanghai in 1986 and recited the Gettysburg Address in English.
- William HurtWilliam McChord Hurt was born on the 20th of March 1950 in Washington, D.C., the son of a State Department official who would take the family to Lahore…
- Elizabeth IIElizabeth II reigned for 70 years and 214 days, the longest of any British monarch and the longest of any queen regnant in history.
- Mikhail GorbachevMikhail Gorbachev was born on the 2nd of March 1931 in Privolnoye, a village in the North Caucasus, into a peasant family so poor his parents had married as…
- Jerry Lee LewisJerry Lee Lewis walked into Sun Records in Memphis in November 1956 with nothing but nerve. Label owner Sam Phillips was out of town, so producer Jack…
- Bill RussellBill Russell won eleven NBA championships in thirteen seasons, a record in North American professional sports that no team has matched since.
- Jürgen GrabowskiJürgen Grabowski entered the world on the 7th of July 1944 in Wiesbaden, West Germany. He began his football journey with local clubs SV Biebrich 1919 and FV…
- Jean-Luc GodardJean-Luc Godard once said: "A film consists of a beginning, a middle and an end, though not necessarily in that order." That line, delivered with the offhand…
- Thích Nhất HạnhThich Nhat Hanh was born Nguyen Xuan Bao on the 11th of October 1926, in the ancient capital of Hue in central Vietnam. He died there too, on the 22nd of…
- Shinzo AbeShinzo Abe was shot while delivering a campaign speech in the city of Nara on the 8th of July 2022. He died that day, becoming the first assassinated former…
- Dave WolvertonJohn David Wolverton arrived in Springfield, Oregon on the 28th of May 1957. His family moved to a farm in Monroe when he was six years old.
- Rodney StarkRodney William Stark grew up in Jamestown, North Dakota, in a Lutheran family, attended journalism school, and spent several years as a newspaper reporter…
- Leonel SánchezLeonel Guillermo Sánchez Lineros entered the world on the 25th of April 1936 in Santiago, Chile. His father worked as a professional boxer and brought…
- Hilary MantelHilary Mantel stood at the podium at the Guildhall in London in 2009 and told the audience she was "happily flying through the air." She had just won the…
- John KortyJohn Korty is a name that rarely surfaces in lists of great American directors, yet Leonard Maltin described him as "a principled filmmaker who has worked…
- Gail HalvorsenGail Seymour Halvorsen was born in Salt Lake City on the 10th of October 1920. He grew up on small farms first in Rigby, Idaho, and then in Garland, Utah.
- PeléEdson Arantes do Nascimento was born on the 23rd of October 1940 in Três Corações, Minas Gerais, Brazil, and he died on the 29th of December 2022 at the age…
- Valeri PolyakovValeri Polyakov stepped out of a Soyuz capsule on the 22nd of March 1995 and, refusing the offered chair just a few feet away, walked there himself.
- Correlli BarnettCorrelli Barnett was born on the 28th of June 1927 in Norbury, in the County Borough of Croydon, into a Britain that still considered itself a great power.
- Joel WhitburnJoel Carver Whitburn was born on the 29th of November 1939 in Wauwatosa, Wisconsin, and by the time he died on the 14th of June 2022, he had done something…