Thursday, January 21, 2021

Those We Lost In the Trump Era -- Outside of Sports and Show Business

In memoriam, those we lost between Donald Trump's stolen election and the end of his term. This is for the remaining figures, who were not chiefly involved with either sports or show business.

Literature
Sam Shepard, November 5, 1943 - July 27, 2017.
Len Wein, June 12, 1948 - September 10, 2017.
Richard Wilbur, March 1, 1921 - October 14, 2017.
Peter Mayle, June 14, 1939 - January 18, 2018.
Ursula K. Le Guin, October 21, 1929 - January 22, 2018.
Tom Wolfe, March 2, 1930 - May 14, 2018.
Philip Roth, March 19, 1933 - May 22, 2018.
Harlan Ellison, May 27, 1934 - June 28, 2018.
V.S. Naipaul, August 17, 1932 - August 11, 2018.
Neil Simon, July 4, 1927 - August 26, 2018.
Stan Lee, December 28, 1922 - November 12, 2018.
Amos Oz, May 4, 1939 - December 28, 2018.
Vonda N. McIntyre, August 28, 1948 - April 1, 2019.
Herman Wouk, May 27, 1915 - May 17, 2019.
Toni Morrison, February 18, 1931 - August 5, 2019. 
D.C. Fontana, March 25, 1939 - December 2, 2019.
Elizabeth Wurtzel, July 31, 1967 - January 7, 2020.
Mary Higgins Clark, December 24, 1927 - January 31, 2020.
Clive Cussler, July 15, 1931 - February 24, 2020.
Terrence McNally, November 3, 1938 - March 24, 2020.
Michael McClure, October 20, 1932 - May 4, 2020.
Larry Kramer, June 25, 1935 - May 27, 2020.
Dennis O'Neil, May 3, 1939 - June 11, 2020.
Winston Groom, March 23, 1943 - September 16, 2020.
Terry Goodkind, January 11, 1948 - September 17, 2020.
Diane di Prima, August 6, 1934 - October 25, 2020.
Ben Bova, November 8, 1932 - November 29, 2020.
Alison Lurie, September 3, 1926 - December 3, 2020.
John le Carré, October 19, 1931 - December 12, 2020.

Journalism
Gwen Ifill, September 29, 1955 - November 14, 2016.
Nat Hentoff, June 10, 1925 - January 7, 2017.
Hugh Hefner, April 9, 1926 - September 27, 2017.
Anthony Bourdain, June 25, 1956 - June 8, 2018.
Jamal Khashoggi, October 13, 1958 - October 2, 2018.
William Goldman, August 12, 1931 - November 16, 2018.
Harry Leslie Smith, February 25, 1923 - November 28, 2018.
Neil Sheehan, October 27, 1936 - January 7, 2021.

Astronauts
John Glenn, July 18, 1921 - December 8, 2016.
Gene Cernan, March 14, 1934 - January 16, 2017.
John Young, September 24, 1930 - January 5, 2018.
Alan Bean, March 15, 1932 - May 26, 1932.
Alfred Worden, February 7, 1932 - March 18, 2020.

Public Service -- American
Zbigniew Brzezinski, National Security Adviser, March 28, 1928 - May 26, 2017.
John B. Anderson, Illinois Congressman, February 15, 1922 - December 3, 2017.
Stansfield Turner, CIA Director, December 1, 1923 - January 18, 2018.
Barbara Bush, First Lady, June 8, 1925 - April 17, 2018.
John McCain, Arizona Senator, August 29, 1936 - August 25, 2018.
George H.W. Bush, President, June 12, 1924 - November 30, 2018.
Paul Volcker, Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, September 5, 1927 - December 8, 2019.
John Lewis, Georgia Congressman and civil rights leader, February 21, 1940 - July 17, 2020.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg, U.S. Supreme Court Justice, March 15, 1933 - September 18, 2020.
David Dinkins, New York Mayor, July 10, 1927 - November 23, 2020.
Paul Sarbanes, Maryland Senator Maryland, February 3, 1933 - December 6, 2020.
William F. Winter, Mississippi GovernorFebruary 21, 1923 - December 18, 2020.
Bruce Boynton, civil rights activist, June 19, 1937 - November 23, 2020.

Public Service -- Other Countries
Martin McGuinness, Northern Irish Deputy First Minister, May 23, 1950 - March 21, 2017.
Helmut Kohl, German Chancellor, April 3, 1930 - June 16, 2017.
Winnie Mandela, South African First Lady, September 26, 1936 - April 2, 2018.
Kofi Annan, Ghanian Secretary-General of the United Nations, April 8, 1938 - August 18, 2018.
Wim Kok, Dutch Prime Minister, September 29, 1938 - October 20, 2018.
Paddy Ashdown, British diplomat, February 27, 1941 - December 22, 2018.
Jean, Grand Duke of Luxembourg, January 5, 1921 - April 23, 2019.
Bob Hawke, Australian Prime Minister, December 9, 1929 - May 16, 2019.
Jacques Chirac, French President, November 29, 1932 - September 26, 2019.
Javier Pérez de Cuéllar, Peruvian Secretary-General of the United Nations, January 19, 1920 - March 4, 2020.
Betty Williams, Northern Irish diplomat, May 22, 1943 - March 17, 2020.
John Hume, Northern Irish diplomat, January 18, 1937 - August 3, 2020.
John Turner, Canadian Prime Minister, June 7, 1929 - September 19, 2020.
Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, French President, February 2, 1926 - December 2, 2020.

Science
Stephen Hawking, January 8, 1942 - March 14, 2018.
Katherine Johnson, August 26, 1918 - February 24, 2020.
Freeman Dyson, December 15, 1923 - February 28, 2020.

Fashion
Kate Spade, December 24, 1962 - June 5, 2018.
Lee Radziwill, March 3, 1933 - February 15, 2019.
Gloria Vanderbilt, February 20, 1924 - June 17, 2019.
Pierre Cardin, July 2, 1922 - December 29, 2020.

Architecture
I.M. Pei, April 26, 1917 - May 16, 2019.
César Pelli, October 12, 1926 - July 19, 2019.

Other
Mike Ilitch, founder of Little Caesars Pizza, July 20, 1929 - February 10, 2017.
Joachim Rønneberg, World War II hero, August 30, 1919 - October 21, 2018.
Paul Allen, computer executive, January 21, 1953 - October 15, 2018.
Lee Iacocca, automotive executive, October 15, 1924 - July 2, 2019.
Sumner Redstone, media executive, May 23, 1923 - August 11, 2020.
Chuck Yeager, 1st pilot to break sound barrier, February 13, 1923 - December 7, 2020.

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