Passed Made Present

Obituary: Desmond Tutu - South Africa's rebellious priest Inspirational cleric and anti-apartheid campaigner who played a major role in the process of reconciliation in South Africa.

"His efforts saw him awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1984 in what was seen as a major snub by the international community to South Africa's white rulers."

#DesmondTutu
1931-2021
Born on this day

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Autherine Lucy Foster obituary On February 3, 1956, Autherine Lucy, aged 26, arrived for her first day as a student at the University of Alabama, an all-white bastion of the segregated south,

"... she returned to see a building previously named after a former Alabama governor and Ku Klux Klan leader renamed after her."

#AutherineLucy
1929-2022
Born on this day

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Alvin Toffler, futurologist guru, dies at 87 Alvin Toffler, the author of Future Shock and other works predicting social, economic and technological change, dies at 87.

"Toffler popularised terms such as 'information overload' and his works led world leaders and business moguls to seek his advice."

#AlvinToffler
1928-2016
Born on this day

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Frances T. Farenthold, Liberal Force in Texas and Beyond, Dies at 94 (Published 2021)

"For all her advantages, Ms. Farenthold had also known repeated, almost unfathomable loss."

#FrancesFarenthold
1926-2021
Born on this day

www.nytimes.com/2021/09/27/u...

George Robert Carruthers: Astronautical Engineer and Astronomer Astronautical engineer and astronomer George Robert Carruthers, a name well-known and dearly regarded in the space science community, and a good friend of the National Air and Space Museum, passed awa...

"... he developed and built a compact and powerful ultraviolet electronographic telescope, which became the first (and still the only) astronomical instrument sent to the Moon."

#GeorgeCarruthers
1939-2020
Born on this day

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Overlooked No More: Leticia Ramos Shahani, a Philippine Women’s Rights Pioneer (Published 2018)

"... she was instrumental in expanding the legal definition of rape, including the recognition of marital rape. She also fought for equal pay..."

#LeticiaRamosShahani
1929-2017
Born on this day

www.nytimes.com/2018/05/09/o...

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, U. of C. professor who developed concept of ‘flow,’ for when a person is lost in their work, dies Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi taught psychology at the University of Chicago for three decades and created the concept of the mental frame of mind known as flow, or a state of happiness when a person is …

"... created the concept of the mental frame of mind known as flow, or a state of happiness when a person is performing at optimum level."

#MihalyCsikszentmihalyi
1934-2021
Born on this day

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Bollywood singer Lata Mangeshkar, 'the Nightingale', given state funeral Lata Mangeshkar, one of India's best known cultural icons and a singer who defined music for generations of her countrymen, died on Sunday and was given a state funeral as politicians and personalities united in mourning.

"... one of India's best known cultural icons and a singer who defined music for generations..."

#LataMangeshkar
1929-2022
Born on this day

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Bibian Mentel, Champion Paralympic Snowboarder, Dies at 48 (Published 2021)

"... her athletic achievements, inspirational life story and poise and glamour made her the subject of fashion-magazine cover articles and television profiles."

#BibianMentel
1972-2021
Born on this day

www.nytimes.com/2021/04/01/s...

J. Robert Cade, the Inventor of Gatorade, Dies at 80 (Published 2007)

"... a football player who tried it and spat it out more than hinted that it tasted like bodily waste."

#RobertCade
1927-2007
Born on this day

www.nytimes.com/2007/11/28/b...

"... the record producer Chet Atkins remarked, 'Ol' Shel has probably got the worst voice of anyone alive, but he's also got the run of the Playboy mansion and I'm not knocking anybody with a deal like that.'"

#ShelSilverstein
1930-1999
Born on this day

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Astronaut John Young, Who Flew In Space 6 Times, Dies At 87 One of NASA's most accomplished astronauts died Friday. He flew in space six times, including a moon landing, and later headed the office that chose crews for space shuttle missions.

"When he retired from NASA in 2004, he'd been with the agency for 42 years — the longest serving astronaut."

#JohnYoung
1930-2018
Born on this day

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The Vibrant Life and Quiet Passing of Dottie Dodgion The pioneering female jazz drummer played with Charles Mingus, Benny Goodman, and many others—and still had a regular gig, at the age of ninety, until the pandemic struck.

“You’re never gonna swing if you’re the only one who thinks they have the correct time. . . . Listen to each other more. A lot more.”

#DottieDodgion
1929-2021
Born on this day

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The Laugher Junko Tabei was the first woman to climb Mount Everest, and the first woman to climb the tallest mountain on each continent. Her obituary in the Christian Science Monitor observes: The early climbi…

#JunkoTabei
1939-2016
Born on this day

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"For men and for women, she said, liberation comes from having an open mind and being able to express it clearly."

#FrancoiseGiroud
1916-2003
Born on this day

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Muhal Richard Abrams, A Sweepingly Influential Jazz Artist, Has Died At Age 87 The brilliant, mostly self-taught pianist and composer created new pathways for musicians, both aesthetically and with his benchmark Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians.

"... the organization flew a banner of Great Black Music, but under that banner, a diversity of voices and perspectives was welcomed, and even insisted upon."

#MuhalRichardAbrams
1930-2017
Born on this day

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Yothu Yindi singer Mandawuy Yunupingu dies, aged 56 Mandawuy Yunupingu, the lead singer of the Australian indigenous rock band Yothu Yindi and one of the country’s most prominent Aborigines, has died at his home in the Northern Territory, aged 56.

"Yunupingu brought his local people, the Yolngu, and indigenous issues to the international stage with his musical career..."

#MandawuyYunupingu
1956-2013
Born on this day

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Former top UN refugee official Sadako Ogata dies at 92 TOKYO (AP) — Sadako Ogata, who led the U.N. refugee agency for a decade and became one of the first Japanese to hold a top job at an international organization, has died.

"A person with strong principles, she visited more than 40 countries as high commissioner, often clad in a bulletproof jacket and helmet..."

#SadakoOgata
1927-2019
Born on this day

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Elma Lewis, 82, Arts Educator And Mentor (Published 2004)

"She operated the Elma Lewis Playhouse in the Park, a summer theater where musicians played to capacity audiences in Franklin Park in Roxbury, after she had overseen an effort to rid the area of drug dealers and garbage."

#ElmaLewis
1921-2004
Born on this day

www.nytimes.com/2004/01/26/a...

"... a South African writer and activist who gave a voice to the ordinary, the marginalised and the vulnerable."

#LaurettaNgcobo
1931-2015
Born on this day

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Muriel Siebert, a Determined Trailblazer for Women on Wall Street, Dies at 84 (Published 2013)

"She donated millions of dollars from her brokerage and securities underwriting business to help other women get their start in business and finance."

#MurielSiebert
1928-2013
Born on this day

www.nytimes.com/2013/08/26/b...

"He was widely expected to be the first to go into space, but learned that Gagarin got the nod only three days before the blast-off."

#GhermanTitov
1935-2000
Born on this day

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Beloved Poet Mary Oliver, Who Believed Poetry 'Mustn't Be Fancy,' Dies At 83 Oliver wasn't always appreciated by critics, but she was still one of the country's most popular poets. In 2012, she told NPR, "Poetry, to be understood, must be clear."

"Tell me, what is it you plan to do
with your one wild and precious life?"

#MaryOliver
Born on this day
1935-2019

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Chaim Topol: Israeli star of stage and screen who made an iconic role his own The actor’s performance as Tevye in Fiddler on the Roof made him an international star in the early 1970s

"Topol served in the army in the Sinai campaign, in the Six Day War in 1967 (he left the cast of Fiddler at Her Majesty’s theatre, London, for that campaign)..."

#ChaimTopol
1935-2023
Born on this day

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Dennis Ritchie obituary As co-inventor of Unix and the programming language C, he had a key role in shaping today's computing environment

"Unix and C provided the infrastructure software and tools that created much of today's computing environment – from the internet to smartphones – and so have played a central part in shaping the modern world."

#DennisRitchie
1941-2011
Born on this day

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September 7th (Obituaries of three men who share a birthday.)   *** But it was in the fight on smallpox — perhaps the most lethal disease in history and one that killed an estimated 300 million people in th…

Remembering three men, each born on September 7th, who saved untold lives.

D.A. Henderson
Stanislav Petrov
Yuan Longping

passedmadepresent.org/september-7th/

Robert Pirsig obituary Author of the 1970s cult bestseller Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

"His teaching career at Montana State University was curtailed by his resistance to grading and his discovery of the hallucinogen peyote..."

#RobertPirsig
1928-2017
Born on this day

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Chilean poet and physicist Nicanor Parra dies at 103 The irreverent poet won the Premio Cervantes in 2011 and was proposed four times for the Nobel Prize.

"A mathematician and physicist as well as a poet..."

#NicanorParra
1914-2018
Born on this day

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Harold Livingston, risk-taking pilot and Hollywood screenwriter who helped Israel get on its feet, dies Years before writing "Star Trek: The Motion Picture," Harold Livingston flew jets and weapons to Israel.

"... Livingston’s heroics helped Israel fend off its attackers and gave birth to the Israeli Air Force."

#HaroldLivingston
1924-2022
Born on this day

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Pakistani pop icon Junaid Jamshed dies in plane crash Pakistani fashion designer Junaid Jamshed has died in a plane crash. He has a store in...

"Jamshed, 52, rivaled American movie stars Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt in his native country. He was a recording artist, television personality, fashion designer, occasional actor, singer-songwriter, preacher and televangelist."

#JunaidJamshed
1964-2016
Born on this day

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