People from United States

1,007 people remembered here.

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  Irene Butter

  1930 – 2026 · Public health scholar and Holocaust educator

  Holocaust survivor and public health scholar who taught generations never to be bystanders.

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  Tony Reno

  1974 – 2026 · College football coach

  Yale's second-winningest football coach, who led the Bulldogs to five Ivy League titles.

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  Ken Sleight

  1929 – 2026 · River guide

  The river guide who became Seldom Seen Smith, and never stopped fighting for Glen Canyon.

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  Myron S. Augsburger

  1929 – 2026 · Mennonite evangelist

  Evangelist, peacemaker and college president who carried an Anabaptist gospel of peace around the world.

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  Kristin Guiney

  1975 – 2026 · Justice

  Appellate justice and former Harris County judge remembered for fairness, Star Court work, and love of the law.

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  Curtis Flowers

  1970 – 2026 · Exonerated death row survivor and gospel singer

  Tried six times, imprisoned nearly 23 years, and finally free. His fight changed how America sees race and juries.

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  Rudolph "Rudy" Edwards

  † 2026 · restaurateur

  Founder of Rudy's Chicken, an Oak Cliff institution for generations of Dallas diners.

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  Tay Baker

  1927 – 2026 · College basketball player and coach

  Bearcat player, title-era assistant, and coach who bridged Cincinnati's greatest basketball years.

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  Anthony "Spucky" Spagnolo

  1942 – 2026 · New England organized crime figure

  Revere Patriarca figure who lived to see the New England Mafia fade.

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  Kathy Cornelius

  1932 – 2026 · Professional golfer

  1956 U.S. Women's Open champion and pioneering LPGA Tour winner.

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  Dennis Haskins

  1950 – 2026 · Actor

  Chattanooga actor who made Principal Belding America's favorite principal.

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  Rick Achberger

  † 2026 · Wrestling superfan and public personality

  Red hat, blue shirt, homemade signs. The fan who became part of the show.

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  George Liu (K. L. "George" Liu)

  † 2026 · newspaper manager and photographer

  Steady hand behind Seattle's Chinese Post and Northwest Asian Weekly.

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  Jim Ukrop

  1937 – 2026 · Grocery executive

  Ukrop's leader who built a Richmond grocery institution and gave the city his time.

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  Kerwin Peter Engelhart

  1929 – 2026 · High school basketball coach and athletic administrator

  Rochester's longtime coach and athletic director who put students first for sixty years.

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  Milan Panić

  1929 – 2026 · Businessman

  From Belgrade resistance and California labs to Yugoslavia's premiership, a builder who wagered everything on peace.

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  Leon Duray "Jigger" Sirois

  1935 – 2026 · Racing driver (midget

  Indy 500 hard-luck rookie whose waved-off 1969 pole run became racing folklore.

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  Joseph J. "Joe" Drake

  1924 – 2026 · WWII Army Ranger

  World War II Army Ranger, Congressional Gold Medal recipient, and lifelong Hawley postmaster.

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  Leon Sirois

  1935 – 2026 · Racing driver (midget

  Indy lore's hard-luck rookie whose waved-off pole day became the Jigger Award.

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  Dee Brock

  1930 – 2026 · Educator

  Founding director who integrated and reinvented the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders into America's Sweethearts.

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  Richard S. Reisberg

  1941 – 2026 · Television executive

  Television executive and mediator who loved finding common ground.

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  Bob Pettit

  1932 – 2026 · NBA basketball player

  NBA's first MVP, 1958 Hawks champion, and the first player to score 20,000 points.

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  Joshua Cassara

  † 2026 · Comic book artist (Marvel Stormbreaker

  Marvel Stormbreaker whose X-Force and Deadpool/Wolverine pages defined Krakoa.

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  James Becket

  1936 – 2026 · Writer

  American filmmaker and lawyer who helped expose Greek junta torture and told refugee and ecology stories on screen.

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  George N. Gillett Jr.

  1938 – 2026 · Businessman

  Vail moderniser and restless sports owner who kept coming home to the mountains.

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  Mike Beigel

  1947 – 2026 · Electronics engineer and inventor

  His name was little known, but millions have heard the sound he invented.

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  Mary Ellen Guest

  1955 – 2026 · Nonprofit executive and political organiser

  She made preserving Chicago's bungalows about the people who lived in them.

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  Jennifer Eckhart

  1990 – 2026 · Television producer

  Journalist and Reinvented host who turned pain into purpose for survivors

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  Jeff Scott

  1953 – 2026 · Television writer

  The Emmy winning writer whose scripts gave voice to a generation of baseball on television.

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  Richard Giragosian

  1965 – 2026 · Academic

  Armenian American analyst who built a Yerevan think tank and shaped Caucasus policy debate.

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  Judy Bainbridge

  1936 – 2026 · Historian

  Furman professor and Greenville historian who taught the city its own story.

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  Michael Walter McLain

  1941 – 2026 · Farmer

  Hudson farmer, builder and veteran who competed in horseshoes nationwide.

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  Franklin L. Carpenter Jr.

  1973 – 2026 · Lobsterman

  A lobsterman and carpenter remembered as a man of all trades who could fix anything.

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  Jeffery Lane Moen

  1960 – 2026 · Youth correctional officer and K-9 handler

  Retired CDCR youth correctional officer and K-9 handler devoted to family and his dogs.

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  Charles "Chick" Harrity

  † 2026 · Photojournalist

  AP and U.S. News photographer who framed Vietnam, protest and Nixon's farewell.

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  Teressa Vanatta

  † 2026 · Private citizen

  Remembered by her family and community in Saginaw, Michigan.

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  Ned Warwick

  1945 – 2026 · Journalist and TV news director

  A newsman who got the story, around the corner or across the border.

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  Asher Matathias

  1943 – 2026 · political science professor and Holocaust educator

  Woodmere Holocaust survivor and Singing Professor who taught Greek-Jewish memory for decades.

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  Iris Engstrand

  1935 – 2026 · Historian

  San Diego's preeminent historian who taught at USD for nearly five decades and opened California's Spanish past to the public.

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  Robert E. Dickinson

  1940 – 2026 · Climate scientist

  Pioneer who put vegetation and land surfaces into global climate models

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  Gaylyn Studlar

  † 2026 · Film scholar

  Feminist film scholar who remapped cinematic pleasure.

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  Frances May West Byers

  1915 – 2026 · Laundry manager

  Virginia's oldest authenticated resident, remembered for faith, family and a century of grace.

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  Andy Fish

  1965 – 2026 · Graphic novelist

  Worcester comics teacher and Blackwood artist who made pages, classrooms and kindness his craft.

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  Joe Morgan

  1930 – 2026 · Major League Baseball player

  Walpole Joe: the hometown skipper behind Morgan Magic.

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  Ruth Weisberg

  1956 – 2026 · Radio and television host

  The voice on the phone and the radio, for nearly fifty years.

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  Sara Castro-Klarén

  1940 – 2026 · Latin American literature and culture scholar

  Peruvian-born Latin Americanist who bound Johns Hopkins to the Andes with rigor and warmth.

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  Kenneth Treister

  1930 – 2026 · American architect

  Architect and sculptor of Miami Beach's Holocaust Memorial; FAIA and artist of Coconut Grove.

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  Frank Souza Pavao III

  1952 – 2026 · U.S. Air Force operating room technician

  Wahiawa veteran, hospital worker and Lions Club friend.

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