Harvey Pratt, Who Designed the Native American Veterans Memorial, Dies at 84
A self-taught artist, he also spent more than half a century creating forensic sketches and reconstructions for law-enforcement agencies.
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CreditLee Plumlee/Tulsa World Jim Hartung, Gymnast Who Helped Deliver U.S. Gold, Dies at 65
In an upset victory over China at the 1984 Olympics, he and five others became the only American men ever to win the gold medal in the gymnastics team competition.
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CreditDavid Madison/Getty Images John Cunningham, Character Actor and Broadway Stalwart, Dies at 93
He was a familiar face from Broadway productions of “Company,” “Titanic” and “Six Degrees of Separation” and from many movie and TV appearances.
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CreditABC Photo Archives/Disney General Entertainment Content, via Getty Images Frank Dunlop, 98, Dies; Director Who Gave Theater a Free-Spirited Spin
In 1970, he founded London’s Young Vic, an adventurous “people’s theater” (the Who took the stage at one point) before shaking up the Brooklyn Academy of Music.
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Renfrew Christie Dies at 76; Sabotaged Racist Regime’s Nuclear Program
He played a key role in ending apartheid South Africa’s secret weapons program in the 1980s by helping the African National Congress bomb critical facilities.
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CreditReuters Rebecca Kilgore, 76, Dies; Acclaimed Interpreter of American Songbook
An elegant jazz singer with adventurous taste, she counted among her fans the performer Michael Feinstein and the songwriter Dave Frishberg, who called her technique “flawless.”
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CreditBrian Foskett, via National Jazz Archive -- Heritage Images/Getty Images Jim McBride Dies at 78; Brought Honky-Tonk Back to Country Music
He was best known for his long-running collaboration with Alan Jackson and their signature hit, “Chattahoochee.”
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CreditRobert Johnson/The Tennessean, via USA Today Network/Imagn David Webb, Investor Who Took On Hong Kong Tycoons, Dies at 60
From his internet platform, he became a tenacious watchdog fighting financial regulators for minority shareholders and exposing shady business dealings.
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CreditBilly H.C. Kwok for The New York Times Claudette Colvin, Who Refused to Give Her Bus Seat to a White Woman, Dies at 86
Her defiance of Jim Crow laws in 1955 made her a star witness in a landmark segregation suit, but her act was overshadowed months later when Rosa Parks made history with a similar stand.
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More in Overlooked ›Overlooked No More: Pamela Colman Smith, Artist Behind a Famous Tarot Deck
She hand-painted around 80 illustrations for the Rider-Waite deck, which is still used around the world to predict destinies.
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Credit Overlooked No More: Inge Lehmann, Who Discovered the Earth’s Inner Core
She pointed to evidence that the Earth’s inner core was solid — not liquid, as scientists had believed — a discovery that was ahead of its time.
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CreditGEUS Overlooked No More: Dorothy Wise, the ‘Grandmother of Pool’ Who Defied the Odds
She elbowed her way into what had long been a man’s game and won the first women’s national championship in 1967 — and then repeated the feat four more years in a row.
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CreditUPI Overlooked No More: Sabina Spielrein, Visionary Lost Between Freud and Jung
She maintained a triangular correspondence with the two men, who overshadowed the significant contributions she made to the field of psychoanalysis.
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CreditVladimir Shpilrain, via International Association for Spielrein Studies Overlooked No More: Hannah Senesh, Poet and Paratrooper Who Defied the Nazis
Senesh fled Hungary just before World War II. But unlike most Jews who escaped the Nazis, she went back to fight. Today, she is regarded as a hero in Israel.
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Leonard D. Jacoby, 83, Dies; Brought Legal Services to the Masses
He and Steven Z. Meyers opened their first low-cost legal clinic in 1972. Within a decade, they had revolutionized the legal industry.
By Clay Risen
Scott Adams, Creator of the Satirical ‘Dilbert’ Comic Strip, Dies at 68
His chronicles of a corporate cubicle dweller was widely distributed until racist comments on his podcast led newspapers to cut their ties with him.
By Richard Sandomir
Elle Simone Scott, Chef and Cooking Show Stalwart, Dies at 49
She was the first Black cast member on the PBS show “America’s Test Kitchen,” and used her influence to help other female chefs of color.
By Korsha Wilson
David Mitchell, Who Led Fight on Drug Prices, Dies at 75
After receiving a diagnosis of terminal cancer, he used his experience in public relations to draw attention to the skyrocketing cost of medication.
By Clay Risen
Daniel Walker Howe, 88, Revisionist Historian of Jackson’s America, Dies
In a Pulitzer-winning book, he saw modern America’s origins not so much in one president’s policies as in the sweeping social and technological changes wrought in the years 1815-48.
By Alex Traub
Jirdes Winther Baxter, 101, Dies; Last Survivor of Epidemic in Alaska
An outbreak of diphtheria inspired a celebrated sled dog relay of nearly 700 miles to deliver lifesaving serum to the remote town of Nome.
By Jeré Longman
Richard Codey, a New Jersey Acting Governor Many Times Over, Dies at 79
He was the state’s longest-serving legislator, and as president of its Senate he was frequently called on to serve as a fill-in governor, being next in line of succession.
By Amanda Holpuch
Erich von Däniken, Who Claimed Aliens Visited Earth, Dies at 90
His 1968 book, “Chariots of the Gods,” sold hundreds of thousands of copies, but one critic called it a “warped parody of reasoning.”
By Mike Peed
Bob Weir, Guitarist and Founding Member of the Grateful Dead, Dies at 78
His songwriting and rhythm guitar playing helped shape the San Francisco band’s sound as it became an American institution.
By Ben Sisario and Mark Walker
Mohammed Harbi, Who Rewrote Algeria’s History, Dies at 92
He was an official in the revolutionary government, then, after the country won independence from France, was imprisoned and eventually wrote from exile.
By Adam Nossiter
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