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2024 deaths
- Jimmy CarterJames Earl Carter Jr. was born on the 1st of October 1924, in the small town of Plains, Georgia. He entered the world at the Wise Sanitarium where his mother…
- Jerry WestJerry Alan West was born on the 28th of May, 1938, into a poor household in Chelyan, West Virginia. He grew up as the fifth of six children to Cecil Sue West…
- Vernor VingeVernor Steffen Vinge published his first short story, "Apartness", in the June 1965 issue of the British magazine New Worlds. He had just received his B.S.
- Raymond L. GarthoffRaymond Leonard Garthoff received his bachelor of arts degree from Princeton University in 1948. He then earned a master of arts degree from Yale the…
- Johnny GentleJohn Askew was born on the 8th of December 1936 in Liverpool. He grew up in that same city before leaving school to apprentice as a carpenter.
- John Boardman (art historian)John Boardman arrived in the world on the 20th of August 1927 within the town of Ilford, Essex. His early years unfolded at Chigwell School between 1938 and…
- Janet NelsonJanet Muir entered the world on the 28th of March 1942 in Blackpool, Lancashire. Her father was William Wilson Muir and her mother Elizabeth Barnes Muir.
- Daniel KahnemanDaniel Kahneman was born in Tel Aviv on the 5th of March 1934 while his mother Rachel visited her family. His parents were Lithuanian Jews who had moved to…
- Yoshitaka MurayamaYoshitaka Murayama finished his computer programming studies at the University of Tokyo in the summer of 1992. He walked into Konami's newly opened Tokyo…
- Jan AssmannJohann Christoph Assmann, known as Jan, was born on the 7th of July 1938 in Germany. He studied Egyptology and classical archaeology across four cities…
- Richard V. AllenRichard Vincent Allen entered the world on the 1st of January 1936, in Collingswood, New Jersey. He was the son of Magdalen Buchman and Charles Carroll Allen.
- William AndersWilliam Alison Anders was born in Hong Kong on the 17th of October 1933. His father served as a United States Navy lieutenant during the Second Sino-Japanese…
- Dikembe MutomboDikembe Mutombo Mpolondo Mukamba Jean-Jacques Wamutombo arrived in the United States at age 21 with a specific goal. He intended to study medicine and return…
- Alexei NavalnyAlexei Anatolyevich Navalny was born on the 4th of June 1976 in Butyn, a rural locality within the Odintsovsky District of the Moscow Oblast.
- Mário ZagalloMário Jorge Lobo Zagallo entered the world on the 9th of August 1931 in Atalaia, a small town within the state of Alagoas.
- 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 entered the world on the 6th of December 1935 within the bustling streets of New York City. His early academic path led him to Cornell…
- Thomas P. StaffordThomas Patten Stafford was born on the 17th of September 1930, in Weatherford, Oklahoma. His father worked as a dentist and his mother had been a teacher…
- 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…