Curated category
2024 deaths
- Jimmy CarterJimmy Carter was born on the 1st of October 1924, in the Wise Sanitarium in Plains, Georgia, where his mother worked as a registered nurse.
- Jerry WestJerry West died in Los Angeles on the 12th of June, 2024, at the age of 86. That same night, before game 3 of the NBA Finals between the Celtics and the…
- Vernor VingeVernor Steffen Vinge spent decades asking one question that made both scientists and storytellers uncomfortable: what happens when machines become smarter…
- Raymond L. GarthoffRaymond Leonard Garthoff spent nearly eight decades inside the machinery of American foreign policy, trying to understand what the Soviet Union actually…
- Johnny GentleJohnny Gentle was a Liverpool singer who spent a few days in May 1960 touring Scotland with an unknown backing group called the Silver Beetles.
- John Boardman (art historian)John Boardman was born in Ilford, Essex, on the 20th of August 1927, and he spent the next ninety-six years becoming one of the most prolific scholars…
- Janet NelsonJanet Nelson died on the 14th of October 2024, at the age of 82, after years living with Alzheimer's disease. She was known to friends and colleagues by a…
- Daniel KahnemanDaniel Kahneman was born on the 5th of March, 1934, in Tel Aviv, while it was still the British Mandate of Palestine. He would go on to win the Nobel…
- Yoshitaka MurayamaYoshitaka Murayama died on the 6th of February 2024, just weeks before the game he had spent years building finally reached players. He was 55 years old.
- Jan AssmannJan Assmann spent decades working through one of the most charged questions in the study of religion: whether the birth of monotheism was not a triumph of…
- Richard V. AllenRichard Vincent Allen was born on the first day of 1936 in Collingswood, New Jersey, and died on the 16th of November 2024 in a Denver hospital at the age of…
- William AndersWilliam Anders took what many consider the most consequential photograph in human history, and he did it almost by accident.
- Dikembe MutomboDikembe Mutombo Mpolondo Mukamba Jean-Jacques Wamutombo arrived in Washington, D.C. in 1987 speaking almost no English. He had grown up in Kinshasa, attended…
- Alexei NavalnyAlexei Navalny boarded a flight from Tomsk to Moscow on the 20th of August 2020 having consumed, by his spokeswoman's account, nothing that morning but a cup…
- Mário ZagalloMário Zagallo was standing on the pitch at the Maracanã Stadium as a young soldier in 1950, watching Uruguay defeat Brazil in one of the most painful moments…
- Salvatore SchillaciSalvatore Schillaci was born on the 1st of December 1964 in Palermo, Italy. He grew up in a poor family within that Sicilian city.
- Edward Jay EpsteinEdward Jay Epstein died in his Manhattan apartment on the 9th of January 2024, at 88 years old, from COVID-19. He had spent more than half a century making…
- Thomas P. StaffordThomas Stafford was born on the 17th of September 1930, in Weatherford, Oklahoma, a small town that would later name an airport and a museum after him.
- Franz BeckenbauerFranz Beckenbauer lifted the World Cup trophy as a captain in 1974, then lifted it again as a manager in 1990. Only two other men in football history…