Katherine Johnson (Katherine Coleman Goble Johnson), born on August 26, 1918, and died on February 24, 2020. She was an American mathematician whose calculations of orbital mechanics as a NASA employee were critical to the success of the first and the subsequent U.S. crewed spaceflights.…
Sy Sperling, the founder of Hair Club for Men, who coined the once-ubiquitous tagline, “I’m not only the Hair Club president, but I’m also a client,” died Wednesday, his family said. He was 78. Sperling passed away “after a lengthy…
The Blue Jays icon, Tony Fernandez, who spent 12 seasons with the Toronto Blue Jays and was a member of Toronto’s World Series-winning team in 1993, has died at age 57, according to various reports, including MLB’s official Spanish-language Twitter…
Martin Peters, World Cup winner and West Ham legend have died at age 76, his family has announced. Peters, who joined West Ham aged 15, spent 11 years with the club until he became Britain’s first £200,000 player in a…
George Laurer, the US engineer who helped develop the barcode, died at the age of 94. Barcodes, which made up of black stripes of varying thickness and a 12-digit number, help identify products and transformed the world of retail. Today,…
John Conyers, later in November 2017, in the wake of allegations that he had sexually harassed female staff members and secretly used taxpayer money to settle a harassment claim, the news media reported that Conyers intended to retire from Congress…
Valerie Harper was born August 22, 1939, died on August 30, 2019. She was an American actress. Happer began her career as a dancer on Broadway, making her debut in the musical Take Me Along in 1959. Valerie Harper best remembered for her role as Rhoda Morgenstern on The…
John Paul Stevens was an American lawyer and jurist who served as an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court from 1975 until his retirement in 2010. At the time of his retirement, he was the second-oldest-serving Justice in…
Edward Seaga the man who lead Jamaica politics from 1980 to 1989, and was also the leader of the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) from 1974 to 2005 when he retired from active politics, has died at 89 on his birth.…
Died on his 76th birthday, is Congressman Walter Jones Jr., of North Carolina, a congressman who so enthusiastically supported the 2003 invasion of Iraq is dead at 76. The congressman office confirmed the death in a statement. Recently, his office…
94-year-old George HW Bush, who as the 41st president shepherded the US through a turbulent period in global relations that included the breakup of the Soviet Union and the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait, has died. He was 94. A statement…
The Canadian-born actress Margot Kidder, famously known for her role as Lois Lane in the Superman series, died Sunday, May 13, 2018. She was 69 years-old. The report of her death came from a funeral home in Livingston, Montana, the…
