People from United States

1,000 people remembered here.

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  Gary Heffern

  1954 – 2026 · Punk rock singer

  The voice of San Diego punk who turned a hard childhood into songs of darkness and light.

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  Frank J. Dewane

  1950 – 2026 · Catholic bishop

  A Wisconsin farm boy turned Vatican diplomat who shepherded Southwest Florida's Catholics for 20 years under Justice, Peace, Joy.

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  Milton Windler

  1932 – 2026 · NASA flight director

  Maroon Flight director who helped send Apollo crews to the Moon and bring Apollo 13 home.

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  SoCal Crazy

  † 2026 · Professional wrestler and trainer

  Southern California indie staple who kept wrestling after a Stage 4 colon cancer diagnosis.

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  Kent Carter

  1939 – 2026 · Jazz double bassist

  Bass is beautiful. The quiet American in Paris who held up Steve Lacy's music for twenty years.

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  Jerry Golod

  1938 – 2026 · Television executive and producer (Tales from the Darkside

  Network executive turned producer who brought Creepshow's darkside to syndicated television.

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  Ray Caviano

  † 2026 · Music executive

  Disco promotion pioneer who built RFC Records and taught majors to listen to the booth.

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  Dottie Martin

  1937 – 2026 · Educator

  First Lady who planted wildflowers and fought for North Carolina's children.

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  Armando Vega

  1935 – 2026 · Olympic gymnast and collegiate men's gymnastics coach

  Olympic gymnast and LSU Hall of Fame coach who built champions from Penn State to Baton Rouge.

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  Gordon Johncock

  1936 – 2026 · IndyCar driver and two-time Indianapolis 500 winner

  Two-time Indy 500 winner who held off Rick Mears by 0.16 seconds in 1982.

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  Howard H. Stevenson

  1941 – 2026 · Harvard Business School professor

  Harvard's father of entrepreneurship, who taught that opportunity is pursued beyond the resources you control.

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  Bob Agee

  1938 – 2026 · Baptist minister

  OBU president who joined academic excellence with faithful Christian discipleship.

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  Andrea Burton

  † 2026 · Fire captain

  Fort Wayne fire captain and safety educator remembered for her warmth and dedication.

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  Roy Belliveau

  1930 – 2026 · Basketball player

  Seton Hall Pirate, EPBL champion and New Jersey teacher-coach who kept the game close to home.

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  Kenneth Lane

  1942 – 2026 · Theoretical particle physicist

  Physicist who helped chart the search for new particles at the world's great colliders.

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  Phil Spence

  1954 – 2026 · Basketball player and coach

  Raleigh's sixth man who helped NC State win 1974, then coached the Triangle.

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  Bruce Bergey

  1946 – 2026 · American football defensive end (UCLA

  UCLA and three-league defensive end who settled in Oregon after the Storm and Thunder years.

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  Presley Gerber

  1999 – 2026 · Fashion model

  Model, photographer, and advocate who met the camera with honesty.

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  Mike Burton

  1947 – 2026 · Olympic swimmer

  Iron Mike: three-time Olympic gold, distance freestyle legend.

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  William "Wink" Brown

  1958 – 2026 · Firefighter

  Tennessee fire chief and instructor who spent five decades building departments and firefighters.

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  Rose Friedman

  † 2026 · NPR culture editor

  An editor who preferred truth to buzz, and books to hot takes.

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  P. C. Vey

  1955 – 2026 · Cartoonist

  New Yorker cartoonist who found the absurd turn in everyday life.

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  Jack Dale

  1945 – 2026 · ice hockey player

  Minnesota hockey Olympian at Grenoble 1968, later a painter and devoted father.

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  William F. Eckman

  1930 – 2026 · Mayor of La Plata

  Once a mayor, always a mayor: he rebuilt La Plata with steady hands.

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  Tim Janus

  1976 – 2026 · Competitive eater (Eater X)

  Simsbury-born Eater X who made competitive eating theatrical, curious, and human.

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  Karl Finch

  1939 – 2026 · American football wide receiver

  Modesto Rams receiver, teacher and coach who mentored generations of Central Valley youth.

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  Joe Romm

  1960 – 2026 · Physicist

  Physicist and America's fiercest climate blogger, who fought for clean energy now, with facts, wit and urgency.

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  Ian King

  1969 – 2026 · Guitarist

  Boston hardcore guitarist with The F.U.'s; title examiner, reader, and father from Salem.

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  William "Bill" Harris

  † 2026 · Former Symbionese Liberation Army member

  SLA member in the 1974 Patty Hearst kidnapping who later rebuilt his life as a Bay Area investigator.

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  Miriam Gentry (identity unresolved)

  † 2026

  Held: Bellaire TX Legacy notice vs Emory MD identity unresolved.

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  Michael M. Cernea

  1931 – 2026 · Sociologist and anthropologist

  He made the World Bank put people first, and gave the displaced a voice in development.

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  David S. Greenwald

  1947 – 2026 · Clinical psychologist

  He spoke up, but it was always with humor.

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  Robert A. Kyle

  1928 – 2026 · Pathologist

  Mayo Clinic hematologist who named MGUS and mapped the natural history of myeloma.

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  Konrad Jarausch

  1941 – 2026 · Historian

  UNC German historian who built bridges across the Atlantic.

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  C.W. Morgan

  † 2026 · Actor

  The actor who played Hank Loomis, the father at the heart of Scream's secret.

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  Thomas W. Ventulett III

  1935 – 2026 · Architect

  Atlanta architect who cofounded TVS and shaped America's civic gathering places.

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  Lottchen "Lottie" Shivers

  1925 – 2026 · Social worker

  A Bolton Hill matriarch whose curiosity and care shaped one Baltimore neighborhood for seventy years.

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  Kitty Lunn

  1950 – 2026 · Ballet dancer

  She taught dancers to dance in the body they have, and made ballet larger for everyone.

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  John Niland

  1944 – 2026 · American football guard

  Six-time Pro Bowl guard who anchored the Cowboys line to their first Super Bowl.

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  Randal C. Picker

  † 2026 · Legal scholar

  Chicago law professor who brought game theory into law and championed free inquiry.

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  George W. Cave

  1929 – 2026 · CIA operations officer

  A Persian-speaking CIA officer who spent his life trying to understand Iran.

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  Kermit Davis Sr.

  1935 – 2026 · Basketball player and coach

  Babe McCarthy's first recruit, 1959 captain and Mississippi State coach for seven seasons.

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  Ann Bogan

  1941 – 2026 · Singer (Motown

  Motown lead who fronted the Andantes' rare Nightmare and carried the Marvelettes into their final Hitsville years.

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  Charles Gaines

  1942 – 2026 · Writer

  Writer of Pumping Iron, co-inventor of paintball, and a literary outdoorsman who cast curiosity into every water he fished.

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  Bill McGlaughlin

  1943 – 2026 · Classical music radio host

  He opened the door to classical music for millions, one warm and curious conversation at a time.

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  Peter Lassally

  1932 – 2026 · Television executive producer

  Holocaust survivor and the host whisperer who guided Johnny Carson, David Letterman and Craig Ferguson.

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  Mary Morello

  1923 – 2026 · High school teacher and free speech activist

  Teacher, free speech activist and lifelong champion of the oppressed. Forever with the Rebels of Light & Song.

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  Don Iwerks

  1929 – 2026 · Film technology engineer

  Disney Legend and Oscar-honoured inventor whose cameras and projectors let audiences step inside the story.

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