Stanley Wilson Williams (September 14, 1936 – February 20, 2021) was an American baseball pitcher who played 14 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB). Nicknamed "Big Daddy" and the "Big Hurt", he stood 6 feet 5 inches (1.96 m) tall and weighed 230 pounds (100 kg) during an active career...
Peter Ostroushko (August 12, 1953 – February 24, 2021) was an American violinist and mandolinist. He performed regularly on the radio program A Prairie Home Companion and with a variety of bands and orchestras in Minneapolis–Saint Paul and nationally. He won a regional Emmy Award for the soundtrack he composed...
Margaret Maron (née Brown; August 25, 1938 – February 23, 2021) was an American writer, the author of award-winning mystery novels. Maron was the author of numerous short stories and more than 20 mystery novels to date. One series of novels features Sigrid Harald, a loner lieutenant in the NYPD...
Arthur Anthony Anderson (October 9, 1936 – February 25, 2021) was a former professional American football offensive tackle in the National Football League. He is one of the few tackles to prevent Pro Football Hall of Fame inductee Deacon Jones from accomplishing any sacks in a game (1961 season). His...
Lawrence Monsanto Ferlinghetti (March 24, 1919 – February 22, 2021) was an American poet, painter, social activist, and co-founder of City Lights Booksellers & Publishers. The author of poetry, translations, fiction, theatre, art criticism, and film narration, Ferlinghetti was best known for his second collection of poems, A Coney Island...
Thomas Vinciguerra (October 8, 1963 – February 22, 2021) was an American journalist, editor, and author. A founding editor of The Week magazine, he published about popular culture and other subjects in the New York Times, as well as in The Wall Street Journal, The New Yorker and GQ. From...
Douglas Wilkerson (March 27, 1947 – February 21, 2021) was an American professional football player who was a guard in the National Football League (NFL) for the Houston Oilers (now the Tennessee Titans) and San Diego Chargers (now Los Angeles Chargers). Named to the Pro Bowl three times, he was...
Judy Irola (November 23, 1943 – February 21, 2021) was an American cinematographer, film producer, and director. The third woman accepted into the American Society of Cinematographers, she was a head of the cinematography department at USC School of Cinematic Arts for 15 years and held the Conrad Hall Chair...
Olga Katherine Torkelsen Hurley (March 30, 1921 – February 21, 2021) was the Secretary to Alaska Territorial Governor Ernest Gruening from 1944 until his departure from office in 1953. She was Chief Clerk to the Alaska Constitutional Convention in 1955–56 and the secretary to the State Senate for five terms....
Arthur Edwin "Art" Cook (March 19, 1928 – February 21, 2021) was an American sport shooter and Olympic champion. He won a gold medal in the 50 metre rifle prone event at the 1948 Summer Olympics in London. Cook was born in Washington, DC. He attended the University of Maryland,...
Douglas Turner Ward (May 5, 1930 – February 20, 2021) was an American playwright, actor, director, and theatrical producer. He was noted for being a founder and artistic director of the Negro Ensemble Company (NEC). He was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play in...
Alcide Moodie "Cid" LaNoue (November 2, 1934 – February 20, 2021) was a lieutenant general in the United States Army. He was Surgeon General of the United States Army from September 1992 to September 1996. He attended The Medical Field Service School and the United States Army Command and General...
Naomi Rosenblum, PhD, (American, January 26, 1925 – February 19, 2021) is the author "of two landmark histories of photography, A World History of Photography (1984) and A History of Women Photographers (1994), and dozens of seminal articles and essays". "A World History of Photography, first published by Abbeyville Press...
Donald Carl Wintersheimer (April 21, 1931 – February 18, 2021) was a Justice of the Kentucky Supreme Court from 1983 to 2006. Wintersheimer was born April 21, 1931 in Covington, Kentucky, the son of Carl and Marie Kohl Wintersheimer. He was raised in Bellevue, Kentucky, and attended Villa Madonna College,...
Gene Summers, born David Eugene Summers (January 3, 1939 – February 17, 2021), was an American rockabilly singer-songwriter and guitarist. His most famous recordings include the late 50s "School of Rock 'n Roll", "Straight Skirt", "Nervous", "Gotta Lotta That", "Twixteen", "Alabama Shake", "Fancy Dan" and his biggest-selling single "Big Blue...
Martha Ruth Stewart Shelley (née Haworth; October 7, 1922 – February 17, 2021), better known as Martha Stewart, was an American actress. She was noted for playing Mildred Atkinson in In a Lonely Place (1950) alongside Humphrey Bogart. Stewart was married to singer-comedian Joe E. Lewis for two years;[8] the...
Henry B. "Hank" Heller (August 14, 1941 – February 17, 2021) was an American politician from the state of Maryland. A Democrat, he represented District 19 in central Montgomery County in the Maryland House of Delegates from 1987 until 2011. Heller attended Walter Johnson High School in Montgomery County and...
Rush Hudson Limbaugh III (/ˈlɪmbɔː/ LIM-baw; January 12, 1951 – February 17, 2021) was an American radio personality, conservative political commentator, author, and television show host. He was best known as the host of The Rush Limbaugh Show, which was nationally syndicated on AM and FM radio stations. Limbaugh became...
Francis Bernard Francois (January 21, 1934 – February 17, 2021) was an American engineer and lawyer who received recognition for his achievements in the field of engineering and policy leadership in regional government, surface transportation infrastructure and research. In 1999, he was elected to the National Academy of Engineering. Francois...
Edwin A. Fleishman (March 10, 1927 – February 17, 2021) was an American psychologist best known for his work in the field of industrial and organizational psychology. Among his notable achievements was a taxonomy for describing individual differences in perceptual-motor performance. The Fleishman Job Analysis Survey (F-JAS) that he developed...
Carmelo Domenic Licciardello (January 19, 1956 – February 16, 2021), known by his stage name Carman, was an American contemporary Christian music singer, rapper, dancer, songwriter, television host, life coach, and evangelist. In November 2011, Carman was the passenger in a car that was struck by a truck from oncoming...
Lewis Bernard Krausse Jr.[1] (April 25, 1943 – February 16, 2021) was an American professional baseball pitcher who played 12 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB). He played for the Kansas City / Oakland Athletics, Milwaukee Brewers, Boston Red Sox, St. Louis Cardinals, and Atlanta Braves from 1961 to 1974....
Arne Morris Sorenson (October 13, 1958 – February 15, 2021) was an American hotel executive who served as the president and chief executive officer of Marriott International from 2012 until his death in 2021. He was a graduate of Luther College in Iowa, and the University of Minnesota Law School....
Vincent Terrell Jackson (January 14, 1983 – February 15, 2021) was an American professional football player who played as a wide receiver for 12 seasons in the National Football League (NFL). He played college football at Northern Colorado, and was drafted by the San Diego Chargers in the second round...
Doris Bunte (July 2, 1933 – February 15, 2021) was a Massachusetts state representative and an administrator of the Boston Housing Authority. She was the first African-American woman to hold either position. She was born on July 2, 1933, in New York City and educated in the New York City...
Ari Gold (February 11, 1974 – February 14, 2021) was an American pop singer and songwriter. He was openly gay and regularly addressed both his being Jewish and gay and also starred in an autobiographical theater production Ari Gold – Untitled: The Making of a Gay Pop Star. Gold died...
David F. Nalle (March 19, 1959 – February 13, 2021) was an American political writer, game author and font designer. Nalle was active in the early history of the development of the internet. He was at one time Chairman of the Republican Liberty Caucus, a group that promotes libertarianism within...
Louis Clark (27 February 1947 – 13 February 2021) was an English music arranger and keyboard player. He trained at Leeds College of Music. He is best known for his work with Electric Light Orchestra and Hooked on Classics. Clark started out as a bass guitarist for Birmingham band The...
Roger Francis Griffin (23 August 1935 – 12 February 2021) was an astronomer and emeritus professor of Observational Astronomy at the University of Cambridge. His most notable works are in the area of spectrography of stars.[4] Griffin featured, along with Donald Lynden-Bell, Neville Woolf, and Wallace Sargent, in the 2015...
Milford Graves (August 20, 1941 – February 12, 2021) was an American jazz drummer, percussionist, Professor Emeritus of Music, researcher/inventor, visual artist/sculptor, gardener/herbalist, and martial artist. Graves was noteworthy for his early avant-garde contributions in the 1960s with Paul Bley, Albert Ayler, and the New York Art Quartet, and is...