Who Died Today 2021
(AP) June Daugherty, the former Washington and Washington State women’s basketball coach who led the Huskies to seven NCAA Tournaments died. She was 64. Washington State said Daugherty died Monday at her Boise, Idaho, home.A basketball fixture in the Northwest…
Bob Moses (Robert Parris Moses), a civil rights activist who was shot at and endured beatings and jail while leading Black voter registration drives in the American South during the 1960s and later helped improve minority education in math, dies.…
Judith Keating was a lawyer and constitutional expert who spent several decades as a senior civil servant in New Brunswick, including as a legal adviser to the premier. She was also the first woman to be the deputy minister of…
Travis, the pro wrestler Paul Orndorff, son, announced his father’s death on social media on Monday, July 12, 2021. He wrote, “It is with great sadness that I announce the passing of my father, Paul Parlette Orndorff Jr. He is…
Van Heflin, the first Black quarterback to consistently start for Vanderbilt, died Friday after suffering a heart attack. Vanderbilt athletic director Candice Lee made the announced Heflin’s death on Twitter. “Van was Vanderbilt’s first Black quarterback to start, breaking the…
Patrick John became the first Prime Minister of Dominica on 3 November 1978 when the country was granted independence from Britain. Patrick Roland John was born on 7 January 1938 and 6 July 2021. Prior is coming premier, then prime minister Patrick John…
Robert Downey Sr., the accomplished countercultural filmmaker, actor, and father of superstar Robert Downey Jr., has died. He was 85.Downey Jr. wrote on Instagram that his father died late Tuesday in his sleep at home in New York. He had…
