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Gloria Steinem

1934 – 2026 · Journalist, Writer, Reporter

“The journalist who gave a movement its words, and spent sixty years on the road repeating them.”

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Jaye P. Morgan

1931 – 2026 · Singer, Film actor, Television actor

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Louise Lasser

1939 – 2026 · Actor, Screenwriter, Stage actor

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Randolph Mantooth

1945 – 2026 · Actor, Television actor, Film actor

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Gene Shalit

1926 – 2026 · Literary critic, Film critic, Journalist

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Wally Funk

1939 – 2026 · Aircraft pilot, Inspector, Flight instructor

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Shelley Fabares

1944 – 2026 · Actor, Singer, Film actor

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Wendell Berry

1934 – 2026 · Poet, Novelist, Writer

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Tay Keith

1996 – 2026 · Record producer, Songwriter

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Oliver Tree

1993 – 2026 · Singer, Songwriter, Record producer

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Victor Willis

1951 – 2026 · Singer, Songwriter, Actor

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James Burrows

1940 – 2026 · Television director, Screenwriter, Television producer

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Lindsey Graham

1955 – 2026 · Politician, Air force officer, Judge advocate

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Cassandra Wilson

1955 – 2026 · Jazz singer; songwriter; producer; guitarist

“Smoky contralto that widened jazz with blues, folk, and Mississippi roots.”

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Hayden Panettiere

1989 – 2026 · Film actor, Television actor, Voice actor

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Clive Davis

1932 – 2026 · Record producer, Music executive, Businessperson

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Peabo Bryson

1951 – 2026 · Singer, Singer-songwriter, Composer

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Dolly Parton

1946 – 2026 · Singer-songwriter; musician; actress; philanthropist; businesswoman

“Queen of Country whose songs, sparkle, and Imagination Library lifted millions.”

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Michael Jackson

1958 – 2009 · Singer and dancer

“The King of Pop.”

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Prince

1958 – 2016 · Musician

“Dearly beloved, we are gathered here today to get through this thing called life.”

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Martin Luther King Jr.

1929 – 1968 · Baptist minister and civil rights leader

“The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.”

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Albert Einstein

1879 – 1955 · Theoretical physicist

“Imagination is more important than knowledge.”

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Michael Wright

1956 – 2026 · Actor (film and television); producer credits noted on IMDb

“Pure artist whose Eddie King still sings in every room.”

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Slava Veder

1926 – 2026 · Photojournalist; Associated Press staff photographer; earlier sports writer and news editor

“Pulitzer photographer whose Burst of Joy froze a nation's homecoming.”

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William G. Anderson

1927 – 2026 · Osteopathic physician and surgeon; Albany Movement founder/president; first African American AOA president (1994-1995); educator; author

“Albany Movement leader and first Black AOA president who healed patients and challenged a segregated nation.”

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Martha Rivers Ingram

1935 – 2026 · Businesswoman; chairman and CEO of Ingram Industries (from 1995); arts philanthropist; civic leader; author

“Nashville's First Lady of the Arts who built halls, saved a symphony, and led a billion-dollar company.”

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Andrea Eastman

1940 – 2026 · Casting director (Paramount head of casting); talent agent/manager; ICM SVP; animal advocate and sanctuary founder

“Godfather casting pioneer and ICM trailblazer who spent her later years rescuing horses and dogs.”

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Rudolph A. Marcus

1923 – 2026 · Theoretical chemist, university professor, mentor; Marcus theory of electron transfer; co-developer of RRKM unimolecular reaction-rate theory

“Nobel chemist who explained how electrons jump between molecules.”

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Violet Hensley

1916 – 2026 · Luthier (fiddle maker/repairer); old-time fiddler; folk performer; teacher of fiddle making and playing

“Ozarks Whittlin' Fiddler who carved 73 fiddles and debuted at the Opry at 99.”

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Harold P. Freeman

1933 – 2026 · Surgical oncologist; health equity advocate; pioneer of patient navigation; ACS president (1988-89); President's Cancer Panel chair; NCI disparities center founding director

“Father of patient navigation who proved poverty, not destiny, decides who survives cancer.”

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Betye Saar

1926 – 2026 · Assemblage artist; collage and installation artist; printmaker; early costume/jewelry designer; educator (UCLA, Otis); visual storyteller of race, gender, memory, spirit

“Assemblage pioneer who armed Aunt Jemima and remade racist kitsch into Black feminist power.”

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Connie Francis

1937 – 2025 · Singer; musician; actress; author

“First woman to top the Hot 100; Who's Sorry Now to Pretty Little Baby; voice, resilience, 200 million records.”

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Jesse Jackson

1941 – 2026 · Baptist minister; civil rights activist; LGBTQ advocate; politician; 1984/1988 Dem. presidential candidate; Rainbow PUSH founder; D.C. shadow senator; CNN host

“Civil rights leader who told America: I am somebody. Keep hope alive.”

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John Lewis

1940 – 2020 · Civil rights leader; SNCC chair (1963-66); Atlanta City Council; U.S. Rep. for Georgia's 5th district (1987-2020); author

“Apostle of nonviolence who made good trouble for justice.”

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James T. Laney

1927 – 2026 · Methodist minister; Candler dean (1969-77); Emory president (1977-93); U.S. Ambassador to South Korea (1993-96); Korea peace advocate

“Led Emory's quantum jump and sought peace on the Korean peninsula.”

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Sally Kirkland

1941 – 2025 · Actress; producer; acting teacher; health activist; ordained minister (MSIA); painter

“Oscar-nominated force of nature who turned grit, glamour and Anna into lasting indie legend.”

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Benjamin Alire Sáenz

1954 – 2026 · Poet; novelist; short-story writer; YA and children's author; painter; UTEP creative writing professor; former Catholic priest; radio co-host

“Border poet who made lonely boys feel seen, and made El Paso a universe of love.”

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David Fair

1952 – 2026 · Musician; Half Japanese co-founder; librarian; visual artist; children's author; occasional filmmaker

“He lived a beautiful life of love, kindness, and creativity.”

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Marty Nadler

1945 – 2026 · Television writer-producer; stand-up comedian; film/TV cameo actor; studio audience warm-up comic

“Comic's comic who wrote the laughs and shared the stage.”

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Larry Christenson

1953 – 2026 · MLB pitcher (Phillies 1973-1983); later institutional investment executive; Phillies alumnus and charity supporter

“LC: smile on, teammates kept close.”

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Anna Louizos

1957 – 2026 · Scenic designer; art director; costume designer (selected); founder of Broadway Design Exchange

“She built our homes on Broadway stages.”

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Kippy Brown

1955 – 2026 · American football QB; college and NFL coach (RB, WR, OC, interim HC, XFL HC); Super Bowl XLVIII Seahawks WR coach

“Great man, great mentor: Memphis pioneer QB and Seahawks Super Bowl XLVIII WR coach.”

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Laura Claridge

b. 1952 · Biographer; author; literary scholar; former tenured English professor, U.S. Naval Academy; cultural critic

“Biographer who restored complexity to Rockwell, Post, Lempicka, and Blanche Knopf.”

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James Lew

1952 – 2026 · Martial artist; stuntman; stunt coordinator; actor; fight choreographer; occasional writer-director

“Emmy-winning stunt artist who made Hollywood's heroes look fearless.”

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Brian Dyson

1935 – 2026 · Business executive; soft-drink leader; first CEO of Coca-Cola Enterprises; former Vice Chairman and COO of The Coca-Cola Company; author; athlete

“Coca-Cola leader who launched Diet Coke, weathered New Coke, and taught the world work is rubber, the rest is glass.”

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Nina Shipman

1938 – 2026 · Film and television actress; educational-television host; author of an actors' commercial handbook

“Fox starlet, Western guest star, Nell Shipman's granddaughter. Screen craft across three decades.”

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Bill Schmidt

1947 – 2026 · Olympic javelin thrower; Gatorade sports marketing VP; 1984 LA Olympics sports VP; Oakley CEO; Pegasus founder; UT adjunct; author

“From Southview coal camp to Munich bronze and Be Like Mike: the last U.S. men's Olympic javelin medalist.”

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Kenneth Treister (FAIA)

1930 – 2026 · Architect, sculptor, photographer, author, lecturer, architectural historian

“Miami architect and sculptor of the Holocaust Memorial's Sculpture of Love and Anguish.”

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