People from United States

1,003 people remembered here.

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  John M. Geddes

  1951 – 2026 · Newspaper editor

  The editor who kept The New York Times running through its shift to digital.

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  Daphne Jones

  † 2026 · Businesswoman

  She kept her mother's glorious recipe alive and believed in Milwaukee.

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  John Waldenville

  † 2026 · Law enforcement officer

  Oklahoma County sheriff's major who served 25 years and survived a 2011 shooting.

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  Mary Fell

  1947 – 2026 · Poet and professor of English

  Worcester poet of working lives and the Triangle Fire, and a beloved teacher.

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  Tom DeSimone

  1939 – 2026 · Film and television director

  Son, brother, uncle and artist. The cult director of Hell Night who was not afraid, but mostly curious.

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  Richard E. Holmes

  1944 – 2026 · Physician (emergency medicine)

  Mississippi State's first Black student, a quiet trailblazer who became a healer and never stopped loving his alma mater.

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  Morton Seaman

  1932 – 2026 · Furniture retailer

  Brooklyn furniture man who built Seaman's and co-founded Rooms To Go.

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  Cliff Hagan

  1931 – 2026 · Basketball player

  Kentucky legend, NBA champion and Basketball Hall of Famer.

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  Michael Cremo

  1948 – 2026 · Author

  Author of Forbidden Archeology who spent five decades bringing Vedic ideas about human origins into debate with modern science.

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  Jerry Gay

  † 2026 · Photojournalist

  He turned his camera to the quiet human moment, and the world saw it with him.

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  Sarah Hart

  1936 – 2026 · Teacher

  Steel Pier diving horse rider, teacher and free spirit who gave to everyone she met.

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  Sheana Davis

  1969 – 2026 · Chef

  Sonoma cheesemaker and chef who fed her whole community. All tides rise together.

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  Ken Bostic

  † 2026 · Television weather presenter and radio broadcaster

  A Rutherford County voice who brought the weather home to the Carolinas.

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  Kevin Morris

  † 2026 · Law enforcement officer

  A sheriff's agent, coach and man of faith who gave two careers to his community.

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  Pamela Atkinson

  1933 – 2026 · Nurse

  Utah's Mother Teresa, who carried socks, food and hope to her homeless friends for decades.

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  Rodney Muñoz

  1966 – 2026 · Television costume designer

  Emmy-winning costume designer who dressed Jimmy Kimmel for decades, with a tough exterior and a huge, generous heart.

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  Mike Ditka

  1939 – 2026 · American football player

  Iron Mike. Hall of Fame tight end and the coach who led the 1985 Bears to Super Bowl glory.

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  Niki Rapattoni

  † 2026 · Businesswoman

  Co-founder and CEO of Rapattoni Corporation, who helped bring real estate listings onto computer screens.

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  Betty McGuire

  1926 – 2026 · Actress

  Broadway trouper and Growing Pains grandmother who kept performing past 90.

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  Bob Brynildson

  1957 – 2026 · Retailer

  Owner of The Source Comics and Games in Saint Paul and a co-founder of Trident, Inc.

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  Ted Schneiderman

  1932 – 2026 · Judge

  An Akron judge who loved the Constitution and helped hundreds become citizens.

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  Monte Dutton

  1958 – 2026 · Sportswriter

  NASCAR's troubadour of the press box: a storyteller who wrote like he was chatting with you, then picked up his guitar.

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  Jim Knipfel

  1965 – 2026 · Journalist

  The Slackjaw columnist who wrote his way through blindness with wit, nerve and no complaints.

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  Jeanne Towar

  † 2026 · Newspaper publisher and columnist

  Michigan's first woman daily publisher, who loved the smudge of printer's ink and her community.

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  Patrick Anthony Conmy

  1934 – 2026 · Federal judge and politician

  Ninety two years of laughter, music, family, friends, and a life well lived.

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  Patricia Blevins

  1954 – 2026 · Politician

  From Elsmere's town council to the head of Delaware's Senate, she stood up for those too often unheard.

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  Joe R. Long

  1930 – 2026 · Lawyer

  He gave Texas students a chance and Austin a stage, then told everyone else it was their turn.

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  Warren Madden

  1939 – 2026 · University administrator

  Iowa State leader for fifty years who helped build the campus and the city of Ames around it.

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  Janice Dixon

  1956 – 2026 · Operatic soprano

  New York soprano who became Mannheim's Golden Voice, from Bess and the Marschallin to jazz.

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  Eva Marie Saint

  1924 – 2026 · Actress (film

  Oscar winner in her first film, Hitchcock's Eve Kendall, and a gracious star of screen and stage for seven decades.

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  Fred Claire

  1935 – 2026 · Baseball executive

  He built the 1988 champions and lived by Jackie Robinson's words: a life matters by its impact on other lives.

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  Gordon J. Davis

  1941 – 2026 · Lawyer

  He found New York's parks in ruins and left them reborn, then gave jazz its rightful home at Lincoln Center.

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  Bob Fontaine Jr.

  † 2026 · Baseball scout and front office executive

  The scout whose eye for talent built the Angels' 2002 World Series champions.

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  B. Alan Sugg

  1938 – 2026 · University administrator

  Helena's pole vaulter who led the University of Arkansas System for 21 years.

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  Duke Carlisle

  1941 – 2026 · College football quarterback and defensive back

  Texas QB who started the 1963 national title team and Cotton Bowl MVP.

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  Chris Kaag

  1976 – 2026 · Nonprofit founder

  Marine veteran who turned AMN into a mission: No Excuses. Just Move.

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  Phil Ponder

  † 2026 · Watercolor artist and former Nashville Metro Council member

  The artist who drew Nashville's skyline, brick by brick, for more than forty years.

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  Margaret Hamilton

  1936 – 2026 · Computer scientist and software engineer

  She wrote the code that helped land Apollo on the Moon and named software engineering.

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  Geraldine Forbes Isais

  † 2026 · Architect and architectural educator

  Architect and dean who opened doors for women and Hispanic students in architecture.

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  Judith Gische

  † 2026 · judge

  New York Appellate Division justice and matrimonial-law jurist who served more than thirty years on the bench.

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  John Murray "Hippie Jack" Stoddart Jr.

  1951 – 2026 · documentary photographer

  Photographer, festival founder and humanitarian of Tennessee's Cumberland Plateau.

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  Frank Fletcher

  1954 – 2026 · Professional boxer (middleweight)

  Philly middleweight warrior whose USBA title fights lit up 1980s network TV

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  Harriet Hancock

  1936 – 2026 · Activist

  Mother of SC Pride who built PFLAG, PALSS, and a home for LGBTQ South Carolinians.

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  Leon "Jigger" Sirois

  1935 – 2026 · Racing driver

  Indy hard-luck legend who turned a waved-off pole into grace, and later found his voice for kids who stutter.

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  Kyle Kennedy

  1984 – 2026 · Educator and disability rights advocate

  Educator, runner and mother who fought for fairer schools and for the dignity of disabled patients.

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  Michelle Denker Pearlman

  1970 – 2026 · Rabbi

  A rabbi who led with song and story and put people before program.

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  Carvin Jones

  1966 – 2026 · American blues guitarist

  Lufkin-born Phoenix bluesman, King of Strings; 37 countries, 330 shows a year, heart on stage and off.

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  Todd Gates Limehouse

  1965 – 2026 · Fleet manager

  A devoted father and grandfather who loved family, hunting and fishing.

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