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December 27, 1943 – September 17, 2019 · Washington, District of Columbia
Cokie Roberts — Mary Martha Corinne Morrison Claiborne Boggs Roberts — American journalist and author, one of NPR’s “Founding Mothers,” and a defining political voice on public radio and ABC News, died in Washington, D.C…
July 19, 1937 – September 17, 2014 · Nashville, Tennessee
George Hamilton IV — George Hege Hamilton IV — American country musician nicknamed the International Ambassador of Country Music, died in Nashville, Tennessee, on September 17, 2014. He was seventy-seven. Born July 19, 1…
May 6, 1924 – September 17, 2006 · New York, New York
Patricia Kennedy Lawford, sister of President John F. Kennedy and a link between the Kennedy political machine and mid-century Hollywood, died in Manhattan on September 17, 2006. She was eighty-two. Born Patricia Helen K…
January 25, 1921 – September 17, 2005 · Miami, Florida
Alfred Reed, American composer and conductor whose concert-band scores became core repertoire for school and university ensembles across the country, died in Miami, Florida, on September 17, 2005. He was eighty-four. Bor…
July 18, 1913 – September 17, 1997 · Rancho Mirage, California
Red Skelton — Richard Bernard Skelton — American comedian whose clown characters and weekly television variety show made mid-century living rooms a circus without cruelty, died in Rancho Mirage, California, on September …
November 9, 1918 – September 17, 1996 · Berlin, Delaware
Spiro Theodore Agnew, thirty-ninth vice president of the United States and the second vice president to resign the office, died in Berlin, Germany, on September 17, 1996, while on a trip abroad. He was seventy-seven. Bor…
August 31, 1914 – September 17, 1984 · Los Angeles, California
Richard Basehart — John Richard Basehart — American stage and screen actor whose baritone voice and craggy intensity carried roles from film noir to Federico Fellini and television’s Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, died…
October 29, 1899 – September 17, 1972 · Palm Springs, California
Akim Tamiroff, Armenian-American character actor and one of Hollywood’s Golden Age specialists in accented menace and comic gravity, died in Palm Springs, California, on September 17, 1972. He was seventy-two. Born Octob…
June 5, 1887 – September 17, 1948 · New York, New York
Ruth Fulton Benedict, American anthropologist whose Patterns of Culture taught generations to see societies as patterned wholes rather than exotic curiosities, died in New York City on September 17, 1948. She was sixty-o…
January 1, 1799 – September 17, 1858 · St. Louis, Missouri
Dred Scott, whose freedom suit reached the United States Supreme Court and whose name became shorthand for a decision that deepened the nation’s fracture over slavery, died of tuberculosis in St. Louis, Missouri, on Sept…
August 18, 1936 – September 16, 2025 · Sundance, Utah
Robert Redford — Charles Robert Redford Jr. — actor, director, producer, and founder of the Sundance Institute that reshaped American independent film, died at his home in Sundance, Utah, on September 16, 2025. He was ei…
March 12, 1928 – September 16, 2016 · Montauk, New York
Edward Albee, American playwright of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and three-time Pulitzer winner, died at his home in Montauk, New York, on September 16, 2016. He was eighty-eight. Adopted into a wealthy Larchmont hou…
November 9, 1936 – September 16, 2009 · Danbury, Connecticut
Mary Travers, contralto of the folk trio Peter, Paul and Mary and a Greenwich Village voice of the 1960s folk revival, died of complications from leukemia treatment in Danbury, Connecticut, on September 16, 2009. She was…
May 12, 1940 – September 16, 2008 · Los Angeles, California
Norman Whitfield, Motown songwriter and producer who helped invent psychedelic soul and co-wrote hits that still own radio decades later, died in Los Angeles County, California, on September 16, 2008. He was sixty-eight.…
July 17, 1920 – September 16, 2005 · New York, New York
Gordon Gould, American physicist who coined the word “laser,” filled early notebooks with optical amplifier ideas, and spent three decades fighting the Patent Office and manufacturers to claim credit and royalties, died …
March 30, 1919 – September 16, 1996 · Boston, Massachusetts
McGeorge Bundy, national security advisor to Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson and later president of the Ford Foundation, died in Boston, Massachusetts, on September 16, 1996. He was seventy-seven. Boston…
February 25, 1910 – September 16, 1992 · Bernardsville, New Jersey
Millicent Fenwick, New Jersey congresswoman, Vogue editor, pipe-smoking Republican reformer, and later U.S. ambassador to the U.N. food agencies in Rome, died in Bernardsville, New Jersey, on September 16, 1992. She was …
January 30, 1935 – September 16, 1984 · Bolinas, California
Richard Brautigan, American novelist and poet whose Trout Fishing in America made counterculture prose feel like a pocket surrealist postcard, died by suicide at his home in Bolinas, California; investigators later fixed…
December 2, 1923 – September 16, 1977 · Paris, undefined
Maria Callas, New York–born Greek-American soprano and the defining dramatic voice of mid-century opera, died of a heart attack in Paris on September 16, 1977. She was fifty-three. Manhattan childhood, Greek conservatory…
July 31, 1886 – September 16, 1965 · Santa Monica, California
Fred Quimby — Frederick Clinton Quimby — Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer animation producer and the executive name most tightly tied to the Tom and Jerry shorts that won seven Academy Awards, died in Santa Monica, California, on Sep…