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2025 deaths
- David LynchDavid Lynch was born on the 20th of January 1946 at St. Patrick's Hospital in Missoula, Montana, the son of a USDA research scientist and an English-language…
- Jim LovellJim Lovell flew to the Moon twice and never set foot on it. That distinction alone would make him one of the most unusual figures in the history of human…
- William R. LucasWilliam Ray Lucas was born in Newbern, Tennessee on the 1st of March 1922. He graduated from Memphis State College with a degree in chemistry in 1943.
- Brian WilsonBrian Douglas Wilson was born on the 20th of June, 1942, in Inglewood, California, and by the age of two he could reproduce a melody after hearing only a few…
- Paul TagliabuePaul Tagliabue was born on the 24th of November, 1940, in Jersey City, New Jersey, the third of four sons. He died on the 9th of November, 2025, at his home…
- Sofia GubaidulinaSofia Gubaidulina was born on the 24th of October 1931 in Chistopol, a small town in the Tatar Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic.
- Tom StoppardTom Stoppard was born Tomáš Sträussler in Zlín, Czechoslovakia, on the 3rd of July 1937, and he died on the 29th of November 2025, at his home in Dorset…
- Richard AppignanesiRichard Appignanesi picked up a Mexican cartoonist's book about Karl Marx in 1976. He turned it into Marx for Beginners, an English translation that read…
- Jim ShooterJim Shooter was born on the 27th of September 1951, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He grew up with parents Ken and Eleanor Shooter who were of Polish descent.
- Charley RosenCharley Rosen grew up in The Bronx with a body built for basketball and a mind built for argument. By the time he died in Kingston, New York, on the 13th of…