Curated playlist
2026 deaths
- Jack ScarisbrickHistorian Jack Scarisbrick argued that most English people did not want the Reformation.
- Robert DuvallRobert Duvall died at his farm in Middleburg, Virginia, on the 15th of February 2026, at the age of 95. His wife, Luciana Pedraza, announced his death in a public statement. He had worked for seven decades, and on screen he rarely seemed…
- Bob WeirBob Weir was sixteen on New Year's Eve 1963, far too young to be let into any club in Palo Alto. He and a friend wandered the back alleys anyway, hunting for a door that would open. What they found was the sound of a banjo. They followed…
- Afrika BambaataaAfrika Bambaataa turned a street gang into a global peace movement. He wanted hip-hop to draw angry kids out of gangs.
- Jaan PuhvelAt twelve, Jaan Puhvel fled Estonia with his family in April 1944.
- Jesse JacksonJesse Louis Jackson Sr. died on the 17th of February 2026, after a public life that ran across the pulpit, the picket line and the campaign trail. In November 1987, The New York Times told its readers that most analysts gave him little…
- Robert MuellerRobert Mueller was the sixth director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. The Senate confirmed him on the 2nd of August 2001, by a vote of 98-0. Not one senator opposed him. That kind of agreement was no accident of timing. Four…
- Gabor BorittGabor Boritt, a Hungarian-born American historian, reached New York with exactly one dollar in his pocket. He judged it the dirtiest city he had ever seen. He was a teenager, a refugee, and far from anyone who knew him. Behind him lay a…
- Catherine O'HaraCatherine O'Hara, the Canadian and American actress and comedian, became the first woman to win an individual Actor Awards trophy after her death. The prize honored her work on the Apple TV+ series The Studio, and the show's co-creator,…
- Betty BroderickBetty Broderick entered a house at 1041 Cypress Avenue in San Diego at 5:30 on the morning of the 5th of November 1989. It was two days before her 42nd birthday. Inside, her former husband, Daniel T. Broderick III, and his new wife, Linda,…
- Kermit GosnellKermit Gosnell's West Philadelphia clinic was raided on the 18th of February 2010, when investigators arrived at 3801 Lancaster Avenue with a search warrant. Gosnell was a doctor who had practiced in the city for decades. The agents were…
- Ted TurnerTed Turner, born Robert Edward Turner III, once ordered a recording of a military marching band playing the hymn "Nearer, My God, to Thee." He intended it for the final broadcast on Earth. Before his news channel ever went on the air,…
- Ali LarijaniOn the night between the 16th and the 17th of March 2026, an Israeli airstrike killed Ali Larijani, the secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council. His son Morteza died in the same strike, together with Alireza Bayat, the head…
- Graham E. FullerA 1985 CIA study by Graham E. Fuller was later cited in the Iran-Contra affair.
- El MenchoNemesio Rubén Oseguera Cervantes, known across Mexico as El Mencho, led the Jalisco New Generation Cartel, a criminal group based in the western state of Jalisco. At the time of his death he was the most wanted person in Mexico and among…