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Matt Suhey

1958 – 2026 · American football fullback; later investor / commodities (Chicago Board of Trade); water and heavy-equipment business interests

“Lead blocker. Loyal friend. Super Bowl XX champion.”

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Film/TV

Christy Knowings

1980 – 2026 · American actress, comedian, singer/musician, dancer, model, writer

“All That scene-stealer whose Brenda Stone and Whateverrr energy still makes 90s kids laugh.”

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Alphonso Smith

1985 – 2026 · American football cornerback (NFL); college football star (Wake Forest); later high school coach; Wake Forest sideline reporter; marketing director

“Wake Forest ballhawk who set the ACC interceptions record and never stopped smiling.”

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Arthur Marshall

1969 – 2026 · American football wide receiver (NFL); kick and punt returner; later real-estate / contracting businessman; community coach

“Undrafted Georgia star who threw an 81-yard NFL touchdown and never forgot Hephzibah.”

🕯 58 · ✍️ 5 · 📷 1

Literature

Edward Field

1924 – 2026 · Poet; novelist; memoirist; anthologist; poetry reader/teacher; documentary narration writer; WWII navigator

“Village poet who stood up, friend, for a century.”

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David Z

1948 – 2026 · Record producer; audio engineer; songwriter; guitarist; drum-machine / studio innovator

“Architect of the Minneapolis Sound; Funkytown snare to Kiss and She Drives Me Crazy.”

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Mark Volman

1947 – 2025 · Musician; vocalist; guitarist; songwriter; music-business professor

“Happy Together harmonies, Flo & Eddie mischief, and teaching the next roomful of musicians.”

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Chuck Norris

1940 – 2026 · Martial artist; actor; screenwriter; author; fitness spokesperson; philanthropist

“Martial arts champion, Walker, Texas Ranger, and internet legend who kicked open American action cinema.”

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Chita Rivera

1933 – 2024 · Actress, dancer, and singer; Broadway musical theatre star

“Broadway's electric dancer: Anita, Velma, Spider Woman, forever.”

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Joe Morgan (manager)

1930 – 2026 · Baseball manager, coach, scout, and former MLB infielder/outfielder (Walpole Joe / Red Sox manager; not the Hall of Fame second baseman)

“Walpole Joe of Morgan Magic: the snowplow skipper who made Fenway believe again.”

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Eric Dane

1972 – 2026 · Actor

“McSteamy who became an ALS advocate, fighting with humor, heart, and love for his daughters.”

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Science

Don Wilhelms

1930 – 2026 · USGS planetary and lunar geologist; Apollo astronaut geology trainer; lunar geologic mapper; author; Mariner 9 television experiment co-investigator (geology team)

“Lunar mapper who taught Apollo crews to read the Moon.”

🕯 63 · ✍️ 8 · 📷 4

Dash Crofts

1938 – 2026 · Singer-songwriter; musician (vocals, guitar, mandolin, drums, piano)

“Seals & Crofts harmony and mandolin; Summer Breeze still softens the room.”

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Andy Williams (The Butcher)

1977 – 2026 · Musician (rhythm guitar); professional wrestler

“Founding ETID guitarist and AEW's The Butcher; Buffalo metal and tag-team brotherhood to the end.”

🕯 40 · ✍️ 8 · 📷 5

Jay Maisel

1931 – 2026 · Photographer, teacher, author; commercial and editorial photographer; workshop mentor

“He taught generations to look: light, color, gesture.”

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Science

David Baltimore

1938 – 2025 · Molecular biologist, virologist, immunologist, university administrator, science-policy leader, mentor

“Nobel virologist who proved RNA can make DNA and remade biology.”

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Bill Dundee

1943 – 2026 · Professional wrestler; author; booker/promoter; occasional manager; circus trapeze artist (youth); talk radio / public-access guest; podcast host

“Memphis Superstar. Circus flyer turned territory legend. Forever Lawler's greatest rival and partner.”

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Latimore

1939 – 2026 · Blues and R&B singer; songwriter; pianist; session musician

“Blues Hall of Famer whose baritone made Let's Straighten It Out a forever conversation.”

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Dory Funk Jr.

1941 – 2026 · Professional wrestler; trainer; promoter; booker; PWF chairman (All Japan); school owner (Funking Conservatory)

“Never quit: NWA world champion, Hall of Famer, and Ocala's master teacher.”

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Jon Cypher

1932 – 2026 · Actor; singer (opera in four languages); limerick author; marriage and family counselor; Disclosure Project / peace-in-space advocate

“From Cinderella's prince to Hill Street's chief: singer, actor, good journey.”

🕯 97 · ✍️ 10 · 📷 2

Academia

Shirley Strum Kenny

1934 – 2026 · English scholar (Restoration and eighteenth-century British drama); university president; academic administrator

“Gave Stony Brook a heart and a beautiful campus.”

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Politics

Kay Granger

1943 – 2026 · U.S. Representative (TX-12, 1997-2025); Mayor of Fort Worth (1991-1995); teacher; insurance businesswoman; House Appropriations Chair (2023-2024)

“Fort Worth's first woman mayor who rose to Appropriations chair, serving Texas with grit and care.”

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Literature

John Crowley

1942 – 2026 · Novelist (fantasy, SF, historical fiction); short-story writer; essayist; documentary screenwriter; Yale creative writing lecturer; co-founder Straight Ahead Pictures

“Fantasy novelist of Little, Big who blurred dream and history into living story.”

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Jules Feiffer

1929 – 2025 · Cartoonist, satirist, playwright, screenwriter, novelist, graphic novelist, children's book author and illustrator, art instructor

“Pulitzer and Oscar satirist who drew America's neuroses for decades.”

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Academia

Konrad H. Jarausch

1941 – 2026 · German-American historian; Lurcy Professor Emeritus of European Civilization, UNC Chapel Hill; former co-director, Zentrum fur Zeithistorische Forschung (ZZF) Potsdam

“Transatlantic historian who taught Germans and Americans to face a shattered past and rebuild civil society.”

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Dave Marsh

1950 – 2026 · Music journalist; author; radio host; Rock and Roll Hall of Fame nominating committee member

“Detroit rock critic who wrote Springsteen into history and argued for justice as hard as he argued about records.”

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Frankie Miller

1930 – 2026 · Country singer-songwriter; later auto salesman; late-career recording artist

“Family man first: Texas voice of Blackland Farmer, Bronze Star veteran, friend to legends.”

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Monty Roberts

1935 – 2026 · Horse trainer; author; natural horsemanship pioneer (Join-Up / Equus); educator; live demonstrator

“Taught the world to listen to horses; Join-Up pioneer and friend of Queen Elizabeth II.”

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Will Murray

1953 – 2026 · Novelist; journalist; comic-book writer; pulp historian; literary executor (Lester Dent estate)

“Kept Doc Savage alive and co-created Squirrel Girl; pulp historian who bridged fan to pro.”

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Science

Mary Tsingou

1928 – 2026 · Physicist; mathematician; scientific computing pioneer; computer programmer

“Coded the experiment that launched nonlinear science; later given her name in FPUT.”

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Ben Jones

1941 – 2026 · Actor; U.S. Representative; writer/memoirist; businessman (Cooter's Place); musician (Cooter's Garage Band); political commentator

“Cooter of Hazzard County and Georgia congressman who kept the General Lee running for fans.”

🕯 85 · ✍️ 5 · 📷 2

O.J. Brigance

1969 – 2026 · Professional American and Canadian football linebacker and special-teams player; Ravens director / senior adviser of player development; ALS advocate; author

“Super Bowl Raven. Grey Cup Stallion. 19 years fighting ALS with grace.”

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Janie Bradford

1939 – 2026 · Songwriter; Motown receptionist then Jobete Music writer relations executive; HAL Awards founder/producer; scholarship fund executive director; Twinn Records co-founder

“Motown's early lyric voice; Money's couplet; HAL's family keeper.”

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Law

Jackie Glass

† 2026 · Judge (Nevada Eighth Judicial District Court); television court-show host; journalist/TV reporter-anchor; attorney; mediator, arbitrator, and private judge

“Tough, fair Clark County judge who sentenced O.J. Simpson and brought Swift Justice to daytime TV.”

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Writer

Robin Morgan

1941 – 2026 · Poet; writer; radical feminist activist; journalist; lecturer; former child actor; former editor-in-chief of Ms.; Women's Media Center co-founder and WMC Live host

“Poet and Sisterhood editor who made radical feminism audible, global, and impossible to ignore.”

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Film

Mark Rydell

1929 – 2026 · Film director; producer; actor

“Actor's director who drew Oscars from Fonda and Hepburn and whispered greatness into Midler.”

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Literature

Rachel Blau DuPlessis

1941 – 2026 · Poet; essayist; feminist critic; scholar of modernist and contemporary poetry; professor emerita

“Feminist poet-critic whose life poem Drafts remade the American long poem.”

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Gene Bertoncini

1937 – 2026 · Jazz guitarist; educator; studio musician; nylon-string specialist

“Nylon-string jazz poet whose architectural ear made standards glow with quiet fire.”

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Film

Vincent Pastore

1946 – 2026 · Actor; occasional reality-TV personality; radio/podcast host; sauce entrepreneur; rock-band frontman

“Bronx-born Big Pussy of The Sopranos: tough on screen, kind-hearted brother off it.”

🕯 76 · ✍️ 5 · 📷 4

Tommy John

1943 – 2026 · MLB pitcher; broadcaster; minor-league manager/coach; motivational speaker; suicide-prevention advocate

“The Bionic Man: 288 wins, 26 seasons, and the elbow surgery that gave pitchers second lives.”

🕯 90 · ✍️ 8 · 📷 5

Media

Bill Rasmussen

1932 – 2026 · Sports broadcaster; television executive; entrepreneur; co-founder and first president-CEO / early chairman of ESPN; author; Parkinson's advocate; public speaker

“ESPN's founder who turned a traffic-jam brainstorm into the world's first 24-hour sports network.”

🕯 70 · ✍️ 9 · 📷 5

Jerry Stovall

1941 – 2026 · College and NFL football player; college football coach; college athletics administrator; sports foundation executive

“LSU's Mr. Everything: Heisman runner-up, Hall of Famer, Pro Bowler, and Tiger coach of faith and class.”

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Don Nelson

1940 – 2026 · NBA player; NBA head coach; general manager; basketball innovator

“Five-time Celtics champ and Hall of Fame coach who invented Nellie Ball and remade the modern NBA.”

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Frank Beard

1949 – 2026 · Musician; drummer; songwriter (band credits); ranch owner

“Texas shuffle keeper of ZZ Top, the man with no beard, whose backbeat kept the little ol' band on top.”

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Politics

Nancy Landon Kassebaum Baker

1932 – 2026 · U.S. Senator; politician; radio-station executive; public servant

“Kansas senator who led HIPAA, broke barriers, and chose independence over party lines.”

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Film

Victor Miller

1940 – 2026 · Screenwriter, television writer (daytime drama), novelist, voiceover actor, teacher

“He wrote the original Friday the 13th, then spent decades making daytime drama and reclaiming his words.”

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