Famous Pratt Institute Alumni
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People on this list must have gone to Pratt Institute and be of some renown.
List of famous alumni from Pratt Institute, with photos when available. Prominent graduates from Pratt Institute include celebrities, politicians, business people, athletes and more. This list of distinguished Pratt Institute alumni is loosely ordered by relevance, so the most recognizable celebrities who attended Pratt Institute are at the top of the list. This directory is not just composed of graduates of this school, as some of the famous people on this list didn't necessarily earn a degree from Pratt Institute.
List features graduates like Robert Redford, Rob Zombie and more!
This list answers the questions “Which famous people went to Pratt Institute?” and “Which celebrities are Pratt Institute alumni?”- Robert Redford is an internationally acclaimed actor, director, and producer. Born as Charles Robert Redford Jr. in 1936 in Santa Monica, California, Redford's early life was steeped in sports and arts, both of which played a significant role in shaping his career. Despite facing academic struggles, he found solace in painting, sketching, and sports, which eventually led him to the University of Colorado on a baseball scholarship. However, his journey took a dramatic turn when he lost his scholarship due to excessive alcohol consumption, leading to his drop out and a subsequent journey to Europe and then New York, where he studied art and acting. Redford's acting career kicked off in the late 1950s with television roles and Broadway appearances, but it wasn't until the 1960s that he rose to prominence. His breakthrough role came in 1967 with Barefoot in the Park, opposite Jane Fonda, followed by Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid in 1969, which catapulted him to stardom. Redford's cinematic genius is not confined to acting alone; he proved his mettle as a director with his debut film, Ordinary People, which won him an Academy Award for Best Director in 1980. Beyond his on-screen endeavors, Redford's commitment to independent cinema is remarkable. In 1981, he established the Sundance Institute, a non-profit organization dedicated to the discovery and development of independent filmmakers and theater artists. The institute's annual Sundance Film Festival has become a pivotal event in showcasing independent films from around the globe. Whether as an actor, director, or advocate for independent cinema, Robert Redford's contributions have undeniably shaped and enriched the landscape of American and global cinema.
- Age: 87
- Birthplace: USA, California, Santa Monica
The 50+ Best Robert Redford MoviesSee all
- 1Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid776 Votes
- 2The Sting748 Votes
- 3Three Days of the Condor610 Votes
- Harvey Forbes Fierstein ( FIRE-steen; born June 6, 1954) is an American actor, playwright, and voice actor. Fierstein has won the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play for his own play Torch Song Trilogy (about a gay drag-performer and his quest for true love and family) and the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical for playing Edna Turnblad in Hairspray. He also wrote the book for the musical La Cage aux Folles, for which he won the Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical, and wrote the book for the Tony Award-winning Kinky Boots. He was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame in 2007.
- Age: 70
- Birthplace: Brooklyn, New York, USA
- Terrence Howard, an American actor and singer, is known for his mesmerizing performances and soulful melodies. Born on March 11, 1969, in Chicago, Illinois, Howard's journey to stardom was anything but easy. Raised in a family fraught with struggles, he found solace in performance arts and decided to pursue it as a career, eventually graduating from the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York, with a degree in Chemical Engineering. Howard's acting prowess came to the fore with his breakthrough role in the Oscar-winning film Crash (2004). His portrayal of a television director dealing with racism resonated with audiences worldwide and established him as a versatile actor. However, it was his performance in Hustle & Flow (2005) that turned the spotlight firmly onto him. As a pimp-turned-rapper, Howard delivered a powerful performance that earned him an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor. He further showcased his acting range in films like Iron Man (2008), where he played the character James Rhodes, and the critically acclaimed television series Empire (2015-2020), in which he portrayed music mogul Lucious Lyon. In addition to his acting career, Howard has made significant strides in the music industry. An accomplished musician, he released his debut album, Shine Through It, in 2008, where he showcased his guitar-playing skills and soulful voice. Despite juggling multiple careers, Howard has also made time for philanthropic endeavors, focusing on causes related to education and children's welfare.
- Age: 55
- Birthplace: Chicago, Illinois, USA
- Martin Landau, a celebrated American actor born on June 20, 1928 in Brooklyn, New York, began his career working as a cartoonist for the New York Daily News before venturing into theater. His exceptional acting prowess was first noticed in the 1950s on Broadway where he honed his craft. By the end of the decade, he'd made his way to Hollywood and quickly became a renowned character actor. Landau's proficiency in playing diverse characters was a significant factor that contributed to his long-standing film and television career. Landau's breakout role came in 1959 when he was cast in Alfred Hitchcock's renowned thriller, North by Northwest. This role laid the foundation for his subsequent successes in both film and television. He is perhaps most recognized for his role in the acclaimed television series Mission: Impossible, which aired from 1966 to 1969, where he played master of disguise Rollin Hand. The role earned him several Emmy nominations and a Golden Globe award, demonstrating his unwavering dedication to the art of acting. His most significant achievement, however, would come later in his career. In 1994, he won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his portrayal of Bela Lugosi in Tim Burton's biopic Ed Wood. This critically acclaimed performance showcased Landau's ability to encapsulate real-life characters with depth and sensitivity. Throughout his career, Landau appeared in over 200 film and television productions, leaving an indelible mark on the entertainment industry. He passed away on July 15, 2017, leaving behind a rich legacy of outstanding performances.
- Age: Dec. at 89 (1928-2017)
- Birthplace: Brooklyn, New York, USA
- Djuna Barnes (, June 12, 1892 – June 18, 1982) was an American artist, illustrator, journalist, and writer best known for her novel Nightwood (1936), a cult classic of lesbian fiction and an important work of modernist literature.In 1913, Barnes began her career as a freelance journalist and illustrator for the Brooklyn Daily Eagle. By early 1914, Barnes was a highly sought feature reporter, interviewer, and illustrator whose work appeared in the city's leading newspapers and periodicals. Later, Barnes' talent and connections with prominent Greenwich Village bohemians afforded her the opportunity to publish her prose, poems, illustrations, and one-act plays in both avant-garde literary journals and popular magazines, and publish an illustrated volume of poetry, The Book of Repulsive Women (1915).In 1921, a lucrative commission with McCall's took Barnes to Paris, where she lived for the next 10 years. In this period she published A Book (1923), a collection of poetry, plays, and short stories, which was later reissued, with the addition of three stories, as A Night Among the Horses (1929), Ladies Almanack (1928), and Ryder (1928).During the 1930s, Barnes spent time in England, Paris, New York, and North Africa. It was during this restless time that she wrote and published Nightwood. In October 1939, after nearly two decades living mostly in Europe, Barnes returned to New York. She published her last major work, the verse play The Antiphon, in 1958, and she died in her apartment at Patchin Place, Greenwich Village in June 1982.
- Age: Dec. at 90 (1892-1982)
- Birthplace: USA, New York, Storm King Mountain
- Rob Zombie, born Robert Bartleh Cummings, is an iconic figure who has left a significant mark on the entertainment industry. With a multi-faceted career spanning over four decades, he has made his name as a successful musician, filmmaker, and voice actor. Born in Haverhill, Massachusetts, in 1965, Zombie's fascination with horror films and theatrics from an early age set the foundation for his future career. As a musician, Zombie first gained recognition as the founding member of the band White Zombie in the mid-1980s. His unique style combined elements of heavy metal, punk rock, and industrial music, with lyrics often inspired by horror films and occult themes. Over time, the band gained a cult following and their album La Sexorcisto: Devil Music Volume One went multi-platinum in 1992. After the band's dissolution in 1998, Zombie embarked on a solo career that further solidified his status in the music world. His debut solo album, Hellbilly Deluxe, was a commercial success and is often credited with bringing industrial metal into the mainstream. Zombie's love of horror didn't stop at his music. He expanded his creative pursuits into filmmaking, directing a number of well-received horror films. His directorial debut, House of 1000 Corpses, released in 2003, introduced audiences to his distinctive blend of horror and dark humor. This was followed by several other successful films like The Devil's Rejects and the reimagined Halloween series, establishing him as a prominent figure in the genre. Beyond music and film, Zombie has also lent his distinct voice to numerous animated projects, further demonstrating his versatility and commitment to the arts.
- Age: 60
- Birthplace: Haverhill, Massachusetts, USA
The Best Rob Zombie Songs of All TimeSee all- 1Dragula324 Votes
- 2Living Dead Girl303 Votes
- 3Superbeast219 Votes
- John Conant Flansburgh (born May 6, 1960) is an American musician. He is half of the long-standing Brooklyn, New York-based alternative rock duo They Might Be Giants, for which he writes, sings, and plays rhythm guitar. Commonly referred to by the nickname Flans or Flansy, he is married to musician Robin Goldwasser, with whom he occasionally performs.
- Age: 64
- Birthplace: Lincoln, USA, Massachusetts
- Gertrude Käsebier (May 18, 1852 – October 12, 1934) was an American photographer. She was known for her images of motherhood, her portraits of Native Americans, and her promotion of photography as a career for women.
- Age: Dec. at 82 (1852-1934)
- Birthplace: Fort Des Moines Provisional Army Officer Training School, Des Moines, Iowa
Tony Schwartz
Anthony Schwartz (August 19, 1923 – June 15, 2008) was an American sound archivist, sound designer, pioneering media theorist, and advertising creator. Known as the "wizard of sound," he is perhaps best known for his role in creating the controversial Daisy television ad for the 1964 Lyndon Johnson campaign.- Age: Dec. at 84 (1923-2008)
- Birthplace: Manhattan, New York City, New York
- Norman David Levinson (April 20, 1900 – October 25, 1972) known professionally as Norman Norell, was an American fashion designer famed for his elegant gowns, suits, and tailored silhouettes. His designs for the Traina-Norell and Norell fashion houses became famous for their detailing, simple, timeless designs, and tailored construction. By the mid-twentieth century Norell dominated the American fashion industry and in 1968 he became the first American fashion designer to launch his own brand of perfume. Born in Noblesville, Indiana, Norell arrived in New York City in 1919, studied fashion illustration and fashion design at Parsons School of Design and Pratt Institute, and began his career designing costumes for silent-film stars. Before partnering with Anthony Traina to form the Train-Norell fashion house in 1941, Norell spent twelve years with Hattie Carnegie as a designer for her custom-order house. In the 1960s Norell became the sole owner of his own fashion house on Seventh Avenue in Manhattan. Norell amassed numerous private clients, including Hollywood stars and entertainers, wealthy socialites, and the wives of politicians and industrialists. On occasion, Norell created fashion designs for Hollywood films. Norell considered his greatest contribution to fashion was the inclusion of simple, no-neckline dresses. Norell was the first recipient of the American Fashion Critics' Award, later known as the Coty Award, the first designer inducted into the fashion industry critics' Hall of Fame, and a recipient of an International Fashion Award from the United Kingdom's Sunday Times. He is also among the first American fashion designers to be honored with a bronze plaque along New York City’s Seventh Avenue. Norell was a founder of the Council of Fashion Designers of America and a member of the Parsons School of Design's board of trustees, as well as a critic and teacher in the fashion design department at Parsons and a mentor to younger designers. The Pratt Institute awarded Norell an honorary fine arts degree. Norell continued to design fashions until his death in New York City in 1972.
- Age: Dec. at 72 (1900-1972)
- Birthplace: Noblesville, Indiana
- Keith Michael (born Keith Michael Rizza on January 14, 1972) is an American fashion designer based in New York City. Michael participated in the third season of American reality show Project Runway.
- Age: 53
- Pete Hamill was a writer and actor who was known for writing "The Yellow Handkerchief," "Flesh and Blood," and "Snow in August."
- Age: Dec. at 85 (1935-2020)
- Birthplace: Brooklyn, New York, USA
- Jules Ralph Feiffer (born January 26, 1929) is an American cartoonist and author, who was considered the most widely read satirist in the country. He won the Pulitzer Prize in 1986 as America's leading editorial cartoonist, and in 2004 he was inducted into the Comic Book Hall of Fame. He wrote the animated short Munro, which won an Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film in 1961. The Library of Congress has recognized his "remarkable legacy", from 1946 to the present, as a cartoonist, playwright, screenwriter, adult and children's book author, illustrator, and art instructor.When Feiffer was 17 (in the mid-1940s) he became assistant to cartoonist Will Eisner. There he helped Eisner write and illustrate his comic strips, including The Spirit. He then became a staff cartoonist at The Village Voice beginning in 1956, where he produced the weekly comic strip titled Feiffer until 1997. His cartoons became nationally syndicated in 1959 and then appeared regularly in publications including the Los Angeles Times, the London Observer, The New Yorker, Playboy, Esquire, and The Nation. In 1997 he created the first op-ed page comic strip for the New York Times, which ran monthly until 2000. He has written more than 35 books, plays and screenplays. His first of many collections of satirical cartoons, Sick, Sick, Sick, was published in 1958, and his first novel, Harry, the Rat With Women, in 1963. He wrote The Great Comic Book Heroes in 1965: the first history of the comic-book superheroes of the late 1930s and early 1940s and a tribute to their creators. In 1979 Feiffer created his first graphic novel, Tantrum. By 1993 he began writing and illustrating books aimed at young readers, with several of them winning awards. Feiffer began writing for the theater and film in 1961, with plays including Little Murders (1967), Feiffer's People (1969), and Knock Knock (1976). He wrote the screenplay for Carnal Knowledge (1971), directed by Mike Nichols, and Popeye (1980), directed by Robert Altman. Besides writing, he is currently an instructor with the MFA program at Stony Brook Southampton.
- Age: 96
- Birthplace: New York City, USA, New York
Kent Williams
Kent Robert Williams (born 1962) is an American painter and graphic novel artist. Williams, a draftsman and painter, has realized his work through various other artistic channels as well; that of the illustrated word and the graphic novel (including The Fountain with filmmaker Darren Aronofsky), printmaking, photography, design, architecture, and film. A selection of his works on paper, Kent Williams: Drawings & Monotypes, was published in 1991, and Koan: Paintings by Jon J Muth & Kent Williams, was published in 2001. His monograph, Kent Williams, Amalgam: Paintings & Drawings, 1992-2007, with text by Edward Lucie-Smith and Julia Morton, is the most comprehensive collection of Williams' work to date.- Age: 63
- Birthplace: New Bern, North Carolina
Bill Ward
William Hess Ward (March 6, 1919 – November 17, 1998), was an American cartoonist notable as a good girl artist and creator of the risqué comics character Torchy.- Age: Dec. at 79 (1919-1998)
- Jeremy Scott (born August 8, 1975) is an American fashion designer. He is the creative director of the fashion house Moschino and the sole owner of his namesake label. Since launching his brand in Paris in 1997, Scott has built a reputation as "pop culture’s most irreverent designer", and "fashion's last rebel".Known for his designs of clothes, accessories and footwear for Adidas and Moschino, Scott has consistently worked with various celebrities such as Björk, Madonna, Katy Perry, CL and 2NE1, Nicki Minaj, Beyoncé, Lady Gaga, Ariana Grande, Kanye West, Miley Cyrus, Demi Lovato, Selena Gomez, Justin Bieber, ASAP Rocky, M.I.A., Rita Ora, Cardi B, and Grimes As an early proponent of blending high fashion with street style, he creates designs often incorporating pop-culture icons.
- Age: 49
- Birthplace: Kansas City, Missouri, USA
- Pamela Colman Smith (16 February 1878 – 18 September 1951), also nicknamed Pixie, was a British artist, illustrator, writer and occultist. She is best known for illustrating the Rider-Waite tarot deck of divinatory tarot cards (also called the Rider-Waite-Smith or Waite-Smith deck) for Arthur Edward Waite.
- Age: Dec. at 73 (1878-1951)
- Birthplace: Pimlico, London, United Kingdom
Félix González-Torres
ArtistFélix González-Torres (November 26, 1957 – January 9, 1996) was a Cuban-born American visual artist. González-Torres's openly gay sexual orientation is often seen as influential in his work as an artist. González-Torres was known for his minimal installations and sculptures in which he used materials such as strings of lightbulbs, clocks, stacks of paper, or packaged hard candies. In 1987, he joined Group Material, a New York-based group of artists whose intention was to work collaboratively, adhering to principles of cultural activism and community education. González-Torres's 1992 piece "Untitled" (Portrait of Marcel Brient) sold for $4.6 million at Phillips de Pury & Company in 2010, a record for the artist at auction.- Age: Dec. at 38 (1957-1996)
- Birthplace: Guáimaro, Cuba
- Jeff Morrow was an American actor who appeared in "The Robe," "The Twilight Zone," and "The Giant Claw."
- Age: Dec. at 86 (1907-1993)
- Birthplace: New York, New York, USA
- Kathleen McEnery Cunningham (1885, Brooklyn - 1971, Rochester) was an American painter.
- Age: Dec. at 86 (1885-1971)
- Birthplace: New York City, New York
Jacob Lawrence (September 7, 1917 – June 9, 2000) was an African-American painter known for his portrayal of African-American life. As well as a painter, storyteller, and interpreter, he was an educator. Lawrence referred to his style as "dynamic cubism", though by his own account the primary influence was not so much French art as the shapes and colors of Harlem. He brought the African-American experience to life using blacks and browns juxtaposed with vivid colors. He also taught and spent 16 years as a professor at the University of Washington.Lawrence is among the best-known 20th-century African-American painters. He was 25 years old when he gained national recognition with his 60-panel Migration Series, painted on cardboard. The series depicted the Great Migration of African-Americans from the rural South to the urban North. A part of this series was featured in a 1941 issue of Fortune. The collection is now held by two museums: the odd-numbered paintings are on exhibit in the Phillips Collection in Washington, D.C., and the even-numbered are on display at MOMA in New York. Lawrence's works are in the permanent collections of numerous museums, including the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum, the Phillips Collection, Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Brooklyn Museum, Reynolda House Museum of American Art, and the Museum of Northwest Art. He is widely known for his modernist illustrations of everyday life as well as epic narratives of African American history and historical figures.- Age: Dec. at 82 (1917-2000)
- Birthplace: Atlantic City, New Jersey
- Jack Kirby (born Jacob Kurtzberg (); August 28, 1917 – February 6, 1994) was an American comic book artist, writer and editor, widely regarded as one of the medium's major innovators and one of its most prolific and influential creators. He grew up in New York City, and learned to draw cartoon figures by tracing characters from comic strips and editorial cartoons. He entered the nascent comics industry in the 1930s, drawing various comics features under different pen names, including Jack Curtiss, before ultimately settling on Jack Kirby. In 1940, he and writer-editor Joe Simon created the highly successful superhero character Captain America for Timely Comics, predecessor of Marvel Comics. During the 1940s Kirby regularly teamed with Simon, creating numerous characters for that company and for National Comics Publications, later to become DC Comics. After serving in the European Theater in World War II, Kirby produced work for DC Comics, Harvey Comics, Hillman Periodicals and other publishers. At Crestwood Publications, he and Simon created the genre of romance comics and later founded their own short-lived comic company, Mainline Publications. Kirby was involved in Timely's 1950s iteration, Atlas Comics, which in the next decade became Marvel. There, in the 1960s under writer-editor Stan Lee, Kirby created many of the company's major characters, including the Fantastic Four, the X-Men and the Hulk. The Lee–Kirby titles garnered high sales and critical acclaim, but in 1970, feeling he had been treated unfairly, largely in the realm of authorship credit and creators' rights, Kirby left the company for rival DC. At DC, Kirby created his Fourth World saga which spanned several comics titles. While these series proved commercially unsuccessful and were canceled, the Fourth World's New Gods have continued as a significant part of the DC Universe. Kirby returned to Marvel briefly in the mid-to-late 1970s, then ventured into television animation and independent comics. In his later years, Kirby, who has been called "the William Blake of comics", began receiving great recognition in the mainstream press for his career accomplishments, and in 1987 he was one of the three inaugural inductees of the Will Eisner Comic Book Hall of Fame. In 2017, Kirby was posthumously named a Disney Legend with Lee for their co-creations not only in the field of publishing, but also because those creations formed the basis for The Walt Disney Company's financially and critically successful media franchise, the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Kirby was married to Rosalind Goldstein in 1942. They had four children and remained married until his death from heart failure in 1994, at the age of 76. The Jack Kirby Awards and Jack Kirby Hall of Fame were named in his honor, and he is known as "The King" among comics fans for his many influential contributions to the medium.
- Age: Dec. at 76 (1917-1994)
- Birthplace: New York, New York, USA
- Paul Rand (born Peretz Rosenbaum; August 15, 1914 – November 26, 1996) was an American art director and graphic designer, best known for his corporate logo designs, including the logos for IBM, UPS, Enron, Morningstar, Inc., Westinghouse, ABC, and NeXT. He was one of the first American commercial artists to embrace and practice the Swiss Style of graphic design. Rand was a professor emeritus of graphic design at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut where he taught from 1956 to 1969, and from 1974 to 1985. He was inducted into the New York Art Directors Club Hall of Fame in 1972.
- Age: Dec. at 82 (1914-1996)
- Birthplace: New York City, New York
- Juan Muñoz (17 June 1953 – 28 August 2001) was a Spanish sculptor, working primarily in paper maché, resin and bronze. He was also interested in the auditory arts and created compositions for the radio. He was a self-described "storyteller". In 2000, Muñoz was awarded Spain's major Premio Nacional de Bellas Artes in recognition of his work; he died shortly after, in 2001.
- Age: Dec. at 48 (1953-2001)
- Birthplace: Madrid, Spain
- Betsey Johnson is an American fashion designer best known for her feminine and whimsical designs. Many of her designs are considered "over the top" and embellished. She also is known for doing a cartwheel at the end of her fashion shows.
- Age: 82
- Birthplace: Wethersfield, Connecticut, USA
- One half of the most celebrated animation-producing duos in history, William Hanna and Joseph Barbera's company, Hanna-Barbera Productions, created some of the best-loved animated television programming of the 20th century and beyond, including "The Huckleberry Hound Show" (syndicated, 1958-1961), "The Yogi Bear Show" (syndicated, 1961-62), "The Flintstones" (ABC, 1960-66), "The Jetsons" (ABC, 1962-63), "Jonny Quest" (ABC, 1964-65), "Super Friends" (ABC, 1973-1986) and "The Smurfs" (NBC, 1981-89). With Hanna, Barbera began his career with the Oscar-winning Tom and Jerry animated shorts for MGM. When the company shuttered its animation division, the duo launched their own company, striking pay dirt almost immediately with "Huckleberry Hound" and "The Flintstones," their first primetime series. Hanna-Barbera's cartoons, driven largely by bright, simple artwork, clever writing, and memorable characters, led the television animation field until the 1980s, when financial difficulties resulted in their sale to a variety of companies. They rebounded in the 1990s as part of Turner Broadcasting's Cartoon Network, for which they oversaw such cutting-edge cartoons as "The Powerpuff Girls" (1998-2005) before Hanna's death in 2001. Joseph Barbera's vast output of animated fare over the course of his six-decade career contained so many beloved characters and shows that his position as one of the dominant forces in American animation was assured for eternity.
- Age: Dec. at 95 (1911-2006)
- Birthplace: New York, New York, USA
- George Segal (November 26, 1924 – June 9, 2000) was an American painter and sculptor associated with the Pop Art movement. He was presented with the United States National Medal of Arts in 1999.
- Age: Dec. at 75 (1924-2000)
- Birthplace: New York City, New York
- Pen-Ek Ratanaruang (Thai: เป็นเอก รัตนเรือง; RTGS: Pen-ek Rattanarueang; born 8 March 1962, Bangkok, Thailand) is a Thai film director and screenwriter. He is best known for his arthouse work, Last Life in the Universe, and is considered to be one of Thai cinema's leading "new wave" auteurs, alongside Wisit Sasanatieng and Apichatpong Weerasethakul. He goes by the nickname Tom and is sometimes credited as Tom Pannet.
- Age: 62
- Birthplace: Bangkok, Thailand
- John Carl Schoenherr (July 5, 1935 – April 8, 2010) was an American illustrator. He won the 1988 Caldecott Medal for U.S. children's book illustration, recognizing Owl Moon by Jane Yolen, a father-and-daughter story where only Schoenherr's drawings reveal the child's gender. He was posthumously inducted by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame in 2015.
- Age: Dec. at 74 (1935-2010)
- Birthplace: Manhattan, New York City, New York
- Daniel Clowes is an American writer, producer, and actor who is best known for writing "Ghost World" and "Wilson." Clowes was nominated for an Academy Award in 2002 for the first project.
- Age: 63
- Birthplace: Chicago, Illinois, USA
- Kim Deitch (born May 21, 1944 in Los Angeles) is an American cartoonist who was an important figure in the underground comix movement of the 1960s, remaining active in the decades that followed with a variety of books and comics, sometimes using the pseudonym Fowlton Means. Much of Kim Deitch's work deals with the animation industry and characters from the world of cartoons. His best-known character is a mysterious cat named Waldo, who appears variously as a famous cartoon character of the 1930s, as an actual character in the "reality" of the strips, as the hallucination of a hopeless alcoholic surnamed Mishkin (a victim of the Boulevard of Broken Dreams), as the demonic reincarnation of Judas Iscariot; and who, occasionally, is claimed to have overcome Deitch and written the comics himself. Waldo's appearance is reminiscent of such black cat characters as Felix the Cat, Julius the Cat, and Krazy Kat. The son of illustrator and animator Gene Deitch, Kim Deitch has sometimes worked with his brothers Simon Deitch and Seth Deitch.
- Age: 81
- Robert Mapplethorpe (; November 4, 1946 – March 9, 1989) was an American photographer, known for his sensitive yet blunt treatment of controversial subject-matter in the black and white medium of photography. His work featured an array of subjects, including celebrity portraits, male and female nudes, self-portraits and still-life images of flowers. His most controversial work is that of the BDSM subculture in the late 1960s and early 1970s of New York City. The homoeroticism of this work fuelled a national debate over the public funding of controversial artwork.
- Age: Dec. at 42 (1946-1989)
- Birthplace: Floral Park, New York
Diane Noomin
CartoonistDiane Noomin (born 1947 in Brooklyn, New York) is an American comics artist associated with the underground comics movement. She is best known for her character DiDi Glitz, who addresses transgressive social issues such as feminism, female masturbation, body image, and miscarriages.Noomin is the editor of the anthology series Twisted Sisters, and published comix stories in many underground titles, including Wimmen's Comix, Young Lust, Arcade, and Weirdo. She has also done theatrical work, creating a stage adaptation of DiDi Glitz.- Age: 78
- Birthplace: New York City, New York
- Alan Mruvka (born 1958 in Bronx, New York) is an American entertainment and media entrepreneur, film producer and screenwriter. He created and co-founded Movietime Channel, which later became E! Entertainment television. He is the Founder, President and CEO of 'The Alan Mruvka Company', and is a New Jersey real estate developer.
- Age: 67
- Birthplace: New York City, New York
- Lawrence D. Lieber (; born October 26, 1931) is an American comic book artist and writer best known as co-creator of the Marvel Comics superheroes Iron Man, Thor, and Ant-Man; for his long stint both writing and drawing the Marvel Western Rawhide Kid; and for illustrating the newspaper comic strip The Amazing Spider-Man from 1986 to September 2018. From 1974 to 1975, he was editor of Atlas/Seaboard Comics. Lieber is the younger brother of Marvel Comics' writer, editor, and publisher Stan Lee.
- Age: 93
- Birthplace: New York City, New York
- Laura Joffe Numeroff (born July 14, 1953) is an American author and illustrator of children's books who is best known as the author of If You Give a Mouse a Cookie..
- Age: 71
- Birthplace: New York City, New York
- Edward Daniel Cartier (August 1, 1914 – December 25, 2008), known professionally as Edd Cartier, was an American pulp magazine illustrator who specialized in science fiction and fantasy art. Born in North Bergen, New Jersey, Cartier studied at Pratt Institute. Following his 1936 graduation from Pratt, his artwork was published in Street and Smith publications, including The Shadow, to which he contributed many interior illustrations, and the John W. Campbell, Jr.-edited magazines Astounding Science Fiction, Doc Savage Magazine and Unknown. His work later appeared in other magazines, including Planet Stories, Fantastic Adventures and other pulps.
- Age: Dec. at 94 (1914-2008)
- Birthplace: North Bergen, New Jersey
- Herbert James Sanborn, Jr. (born November 14, 1945 in Washington, D.C.) is an American sculptor. He is best known for creating the encrypted Kryptos sculpture at CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia.
- Age: 80
- Birthplace: Washington, D.C.
- Roger Cook (born Rajie Cook, 1930) is an American graphic designer, photographer and artist. He was president of Cook and Shanosky Associates, a graphic design firm he founded in 1967. The firm produced all forms of corporate communications including: Corporate Identity, Advertising, Signage, Annual Reports and Brochures. His graphic design and photography have been used by IBM, Container Corporation of America, Montgomery Ward, Bristol Myers Squibb, Black & Decker, Volvo, Subaru, AT&T, New York Times, Bell Atlantic, BASF, Lenox, and a number of other major international corporations. He received the Presidential Award for Design Excellence from president Ronald Reagan and Elizabeth Dole on January 30, 1984 in the Indian Treaty Room of the Old Executive Office Building in Washington, DC. Juries under the auspices of the National Endowments chose the thirteen winners of the Federal Design Achievement Awards for the Arts. In 2003, Symbols Signs a project designed by his firm for the US Department of Transportation was accepted by the Acquisitions Committee to the collections of Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, and The Smithsonian Institution. Cook is a graduate of the Pratt Institute and in 1997 was selected as Alumni of the year, and has also served on the Pratt Advisory Board. He has been a member of the American Institute of Graphic Arts.
- Age: 95
- Birthplace: New Jersey
- Stefan Sagmeister (born August 6, 1962 in Bregenz, Austria) is a New York-based graphic designer, storyteller, and typographer. Sagmeister co-founded a design firm called Sagmeister & Walsh Inc. with Jessica Walsh in New York City. He has designed album covers for Lou Reed, OK Go, The Rolling Stones, David Byrne, Jay Z, Aerosmith and Pat Metheny.
- Age: 62
- Birthplace: Bregenz, Austria
- Thomas Anthony "Tomie" dePaola (born September 15, 1934) is an American writer and illustrator who has created more than 260 children's books such as Strega Nona. He received the Children's Literature Legacy Award for his lifetime contribution to American children's literature in 2011.Though not as well known as for illustrations of children's books, DePaola has also produced significant works of fine art, several of which in locations that are accessible for viewing. These works include the simple, yet very elegant, series of fourteen Stations of the Cross and a depiction of St. Benedict holding the "Rule for Monasteries" with a monastery in the background that reside in the Abbey Church of Our Lady of Glastonbury in Hingham, Massachusetts. He also painted a set of frescoes in the refectory (monks' dining room) of the same abbey, normally open only to the congregation after the abbey's conventual Sunday masses during cool or inclement weather. (This coffee hour takes place in the arbor across the parking lot from the church, the refectory thus remaining closed to visitors, when weather permits.)
- Age: 90
- Birthplace: Meriden, Connecticut
- Lloyd Espenschied (27 April 1889 – June 1, 1986) was an American electrical engineer who invented the modern coaxial cable with Herman Andrew Affel.
- Age: Dec. at 97 (1889-1986)
- Birthplace: St. Louis, Missouri
- Robert Wilson (born October 4, 1941) is an American experimental theater stage director and playwright who has been described by the media as "[America]'s – or even the world's – foremost vanguard 'theater artist'". Over the course of his wide-ranging career, he has also worked as a choreographer, performer, painter, sculptor, video artist, and sound and lighting designer. He is best known for his collaborations with Philip Glass on Einstein on the Beach, and with numerous other artists, including Heiner Müller, William S. Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, Lou Reed, Tom Waits, David Byrne, Laurie Anderson, Gavin Bryars, Rufus Wainwright, Marina Abramović, Willem Dafoe, Isabelle Huppert, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Darryl Pinckney, Richard Gallo, and Lady Gaga. In 1991 Wilson established The Watermill Center, "a laboratory for performance" on the East End of Long Island, New York. He has received more commissions for new works in Europe than in the United States since the late 20th century, regularly working with opera and theatre companies, as well as cultural festivals.
- Age: 83
- Birthplace: Texas, USA, Waco
Pat Steir
ArtistPat Steir (born 1940) is an American painter and printmaker. Her early work was loosely associated with conceptual art and minimalism, however, she is best known for her abstract dripped, splashed and poured "Waterfall" paintings, which she started in the 1980s, and for her later site-specific wall drawings. Steir has had retrospectives and exhibitions all over the world, including the Tate Gallery in London, and shows at the Brooklyn Museum and the New Museum of Contemporary Art that traveled throughout Europe. She has won numerous awards for her work, and is thoroughly represented in major museum collections in the United States and abroad, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Modern Art in New York City and the Tate Gallery. She is a founding board member of Printed Matter bookshop in New York City, and of the landmark feminist journal, Heresies, first published in 1977. Steir has also taught art at Parsons School of Design, Princeton University and Hunter College. She has lived and worked primarily in New York City as an adult. She lives in Greenwich Village.As of September, 2016, Steir is represented by Lévy Gorvy in New York and London.- Age: 84
- Birthplace: Newark, New Jersey
Max Weber
ArtistMax Weber (April 18, 1881 – October 4, 1961) was a Jewish-American painter and one of the first American Cubist painters who, in later life, turned to more figurative Jewish themes in his art. He is best known today for Chinese Restaurant (1915), in the collection of the Whitney Museum of American Art, "the finest canvas of his Cubist phase," in the words of art historian Avis Berman.- Age: Dec. at 80 (1881-1961)
- Birthplace: Białystok, Poland
- Bill Lignante (born March 20, 1925 - February 27, 2018) was an American artist notable for his varied career as a comic book illustrator, comic strip artist, animator and television courtroom sketch artist. Born in Brooklyn, New York, Lignante was in the Navy and studied art at Pratt Institute. He first drew The Phantom when he completed a strip left unfinished after the death of Wilson McCoy in 1961. He then drew the Sunday strip from August, 1961 to May 1962. He did The Phantom comic book (interior art) for Gold Key Comics, from issue 1-18; continuing the book for King Comics, through issue 28 and he also contributed to Charlton Comics, when they published Phantom issues 30-74 (although Jim Aparo did most art, as Lignante was in courtrooms by then). He had a 16-year career as an animator for Hanna-Barbera.
- Age: 99
- Birthplace: New York City, New York
- Rob Sheridan (born October 11, 1979) is an American graphic designer, Art director, photographer, and comic book author best known for his extensive work with the band Nine Inch Nails.
- Age: 45
- Ellsworth Kelly (May 31, 1923 – December 27, 2015) was an American painter, sculptor, and printmaker associated with hard-edge painting, Color Field painting and minimalism. His works demonstrate unassuming techniques emphasizing line, color and form, similar to the work of John McLaughlin and Kenneth Noland. Kelly often employed bright colors. He lived and worked in Spencertown, New York.
- Age: 101
- Birthplace: Newburgh, New York
- Sarah Louise "Sadie" Delany (September 19, 1889 – January 25, 1999) was an American educator and civil rights pioneer who was the subject, along with her younger sister, Elizabeth "Bessie" Delany, of the New York Times bestselling oral history biography, Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years, by journalist Amy Hill Hearth. Sadie was the first African-American permitted to teach domestic science at the high-school level in the New York public schools, and became famous, with the publication of the book, at the age of 103.
- Age: Dec. at 109 (1889-1999)
- Birthplace: Virginia
Martin Nodell
ArtistMartin Nodell (November 15, 1915 – December 9, 2006) was an American cartoonist and commercial artist, best known as the creator of the Golden Age superhero Green Lantern. Some of his work appeared under the pen name "Mart Dellon".- Age: Dec. at 91 (1915-2006)
- Birthplace: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Peter Zumthor is a Swiss architect and winner of the 2009 Pritzker Prize and 2013 RIBA Royal Gold Medal.
- Age: 81
- Birthplace: Basel, Switzerland
- Myron Waldman (April 23, 1908 – February 4, 2006) was an American animator, best known for his work at Fleischer Studios. Waldman was born in Brooklyn, New York on April 23, 1908. He was a graduate of the Pratt Institute, where he majored in Art. He started his first career work in 1930 at Fleischer Studio. At Fleischer he worked on Betty Boop, Raggedy Ann, Gulliver's Travels, the animated adaptations of Superman, and Popeye. He was head animator on two Academy Award-nominated shorts, Educated Fish (1937) and Hunky and Spunky (1939). Waldman made the transition when Fleischer Studios was foreclosed on by Paramount Pictures and reorganized as Famous Studios in 1942. At Famous he worked mostly on the Casper the Friendly Ghost series. In 1958 he left Famous to become an animation director at Hal Seeger Productions where he worked on the revival of the Out of the Inkwell series, as well as Milton the Monster, until his retirement in 1968. Outside of animation, Waldman partnered with writer Steve Carlin in 1940 to produce the Happy the Humbug comic strip. He also created one of the first graphic novels, the wordless novel Eve: A Pictorial Love Story (1943).In 1986 Waldman received the Motion Picture Screen Cartoonists Award, and in 1997 was given the Winsor McCay Award for his lifetime work in the field of animation. Waldman died of congestive heart failure on February 4, 2006, at the age of 97 in Bethpage, New York. He was a younger brother of a writer, editor and publisher Milton Waldman (1895–1976), who was a friend of J. R. R. Tolkien.
- Age: Dec. at 97 (1908-2006)
- Birthplace: New York City, New York
Louis Delsarte
ArtistLouis J. Delsarte (born September 1, 1944 in Brooklyn, New York) is an African-American artist known for what has sometimes been called his "illusionistic" style. He is a painter, muralist, printmaker, and illustrator. When Delsarte was growing up, he was surrounded by music including jazz, opera, musicals, and the blues. From this experience, as well as from his knowledge of African history and culture, he has drawn much of the inspiration for his art. Delsarte is now a professor of Fine Arts at Morehouse College in Atlanta, Georgia where he resides. For the past 13 years his work has been exhibited around the United States.- Age: 80
- Birthplace: New York City, New York
- Roger Sanchez (born June 1, 1967) is a Dominican-American house music DJ, remixer and producer. He won a Grammy Award for his remix of "Hella Good" by No Doubt in 2003, and is best known for his song "Another Chance", which was an international hit in 2001. He is a four time DJ Awards winner for "Best House DJ" in 1999, 2002, 2004 and 2007 and has received twelve nominations in total. He won the first International Dance Music Award for Best Podcast in 2007 and has received 8 IDMA nominations for Best American DJ (2003–2010).
- Age: 57
- Birthplace: New York City, New York
Jim Hodges
ArtistJim Hodges (born October 16, 1957) is a New York-based installation artist. He is known for his mixed-media sculptures and collages that involve delicate artificial flowers, mirrors, chains as spiderwebs, and cut-up jeans.- Age: 68
- Birthplace: Spokane, Washington
Marcus McLaurin
CartoonistMarcus McLaurin is an American comic-book writer and editor known for developing and editing the influential Marvel Comics series Marvels.- Birthplace: Springfield, Massachusetts
David Ascalon
David Ascalon (Hebrew: דוד אשקלון; born March 8, 1945) is an Israeli contemporary sculptor and stained glass artist, and co-founder of Ascalon Studios.- Age: 79
- Birthplace: Tel Aviv, Israel
Audrey Kawasaki
Audrey Kawasaki (born March 31, 1982 in Los Angeles, California) is a Los Angeles-based painter, known for her distinctive, erotically charged portrayals of young, adolescent women. Her works are oil paintings painted directly onto wood panels, and her style has been described as a fusion of Art Nouveau and Japanese manga, with primary influences like Gustav Klimt and Alphonse Mucha, saying “The merging of realistically molded faces and bodies against the contrast of flat lines and patterns is so stimulating to me.”Kawasaki studied fine art painting for two years at the Pratt Institute in New York City, but left after two years without completing her degree. She has reported that several of her professors suggested that she should stay away from her particular style of painting nudes. She cites the emphasis in the New York art scene on conceptual art, an approach at odds with her figurative, illustrative style, as among the reasons she left. As of 2006, Kawasaki was considered a rising star in the Los Angeles art scene. In 2005, Kawasaki designed the cover art for Alice Smith's For Lovers, Dreamers & Me. In 2011, singer Christina Perri was tattooed with Kawasaki's painting, "My Dishonest Heart", by Kat Von D on an episode of LA Ink. Kawasaki has also been featured in several art magazines including Hi-Fructose and Juxtapoz, and has started developing more commercial products such as phone skins and mint boxes.- Age: 42
- Birthplace: Los Angeles, California
- An outstanding artist as a child, playwright Donald Margulies won a partial scholarship to the prestigious Pratt Institute in his native Brooklyn and then transferred to SUNY Purchase. There, under the wing of critic and professor Julius Novick, he decided he would be a playwright, and though the road was long and hard (he spent several years toiling as a graphics designer), he finally made an impression when "Sight Unseen" (1991), his meditation on art, fame, money and lost love, earned an OBIE and became a finalist for the 1992 Pulitzer Prize. It marked his first association with South Coast Rep, the Costa Mesa, California theater that also commissioned the subsequent two-character "Collected Stories" (1996), its tale of rivalry between an established writer and an up-and-coming one recalling "All About Eve" and garnering Pulitzer consideration as well. His only foray to Broadway (to date) has been "What's Wrong with This Picture?" (1994), a cliched, autobiographical look at 1950s Brooklyn originally produced 10 years before at the Manhattan Theatre Company. He faired better with "The Model Apartment" (1996), a play confronting the Holocaust, which garnered him a second OBIE.
- Age: 70
- Birthplace: New York City, New York
- Sam Barry is the author of the humor-inspiration book How to Play the Harmonica: and Other Life Lessons and co-author of Write That Book Now! The Tough Love You Need To Get Published Now. He writes a monthly column for BookPage called "The Author Enablers" with his wife, author Kathi Kamen Goldmark, offering down-to-earth advice, reality checks, and encouragement to aspiring authors. The Author Enablers also have a blog. Sam works for HarperOne, a division of HarperCollins. He is also a musician and music teacher who plays in and around San Francisco in the band Los Train Wreck and tours with the all-author rock band the Rock Bottom Remainders. Sam is a regular performer on the national radio show West Coast Live. Sam is the father of two children, Daniel and Laura.
- Age: 68
- Birthplace: Armonk, New York
- William Henry Jackson Griffith (born January 20, 1944) is an American cartoonist who signs his work Bill Griffith and Griffy. He is best known for his surreal daily comic strip Zippy. The catchphrase "Are we having fun yet?" is credited to Griffith.
- Age: 81
- Birthplace: New York City, USA, New York
Milton Resnick
ArtistMilton Resnick (1917-2004) was an American artist noted for abstract paintings that coupled scale with density of incident. It was not uncommon for some of the largest paintings to weigh in excess three hundred pounds, almost all of it pigment. He had a long and varied career, lasting about sixty-five years. He produced at least eight hundred canvases and eight thousand works on paper and board.He also wrote poetry on a nearly daily basis for the last thirty years of his life. He was an inveterate reader, riveting speaker and gifted teller of tales, capable of conversing with college audiences in sessions that might last three hours. During his lifetime he was represented by the following galleries: Poindexter Gallery, Howard Wise Gallery, Max Hutchinson, and Robert Miller. Paintings held in public collections include: New Bride, 1963 Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C., Mound, 1961 National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., Saturn, 1976 National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Elephant, 1977 Milton Resnick and Pat Passlof Foundation, New York, Earth, 1976 Museum of Modern Art, NYC, Wedding, 1962 The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Pink Fire, 1971 National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, and Untitled, 1982 Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, along with many pictures of comparable quality in smaller collections — public and private — make for some, an effective case for Resnick as an exponent of the sublime. His remaining estate is held in trust by the Milton Resnick and Pat Passlof Foundation. Beginning in 2017, the centenary of his birth, the Foundation plans to open his former residence and studio, at 87 Eldridge Street in Manhattan as a public exhibition space to showcase his work, that of his wife Pat Passlof, and other Abstract Expressionist painters. Milton Resnick's estate is represented by Cheim & Read, New York.- Age: Dec. at 87 (1917-2004)
- Birthplace: Russia
- Bernard "Hap" Kliban (January 1, 1935 – August 12, 1990) was an American cartoonist.
- Age: Dec. at 55 (1935-1990)
- Birthplace: Norwalk, Connecticut
William Van Alen
ArchitectWilliam Van Alen was an American architect, best known as the architect in charge of designing New York City's Chrysler Building.- Age: Dec. at 70 (1883-1954)
- Birthplace: New York City, New York
Lyman Kipp
ArtistLyman Emmet Kipp, Jr. (December 24, 1929 - March 30, 2014) was a sculptor and painter who created pieces that are composed of strong vertical and horizontal objects and were often painted in bold primary colors recalling arrangements by De Stijl Constructivists. Kipp is an important figure in the development of the Primary Structure style which came to prominence in the mid-1960s. Kipp's early work in the 1950s focused on geometric, plaster reliefs and cast bronzes (see No. 1 - 1959 or Directional I). He moved on to large, geometric, welded pieces composed of post and beam elements emphasizing the vertical during the 1960s (see Andy's Cart Blanche, Muscoot or Hudson Bay). Finding it difficult to transport large, heavy, welded pieces, he turned to angled sections and sheets of steel and aluminum that could be bolted together on site. Typically the pieces were painted with bright colors and the thin edges were often defined with bright, complementary colors (see Long Distance,Chicksaw or Kobi). In the late 1970s, Kipp's steel sheets began to move into the air on thin legs (see Lockport 1977, Salute to Knowledge or Yoakum Jack). Kipp was a founding member of ConStruct, the artist-owned gallery that promoted and organized large-scale sculpture exhibitions throughout the United States. Other founding members include Mark di Suvero, Kenneth Snelson, John Raymond Henry and Charles Ginnever. Kipp's health deteriorated and he died peacefully on March 30, 2014. His last known works were in 2011.- Age: 96
- Birthplace: Dobbs Ferry, New York
- Arnold Stark Lobel (May 22, 1933 – December 4, 1987) was an American author of children's books, including the Frog and Toad series and Mouse Soup. He both wrote and illustrated those picture books, as well as Fables, for which he won the 1981 Caldecott Medal recognizing the year's best-illustrated U.S. picture book. Lobel also illustrated the works of other writers, including Sam the Minuteman by Nathaniel Benchley, published in 1969.
- Age: Dec. at 54 (1933-1987)
- Birthplace: Los Angeles, California
Kurt Schaffenberger
ArtistKurt Schaffenberger (December 15, 1920 – January 24, 2002) was an American comics artist. He was best known for his work on Captain Marvel and the Marvel Family during both the Golden Age and Bronze Age of comics, as well as his work on the title Superman's Girl Friend, Lois Lane during the 1950s and 1960s.- Age: Dec. at 81 (1920-2002)
- Birthplace: Thuringian Forest, Germany
John Peterson
Novelist, WriterJohn Lawrence Peterson (February 10, 1924 – November 2002) was an American author of children's books. He is best known as the creator of The Littles, which began as a series of books in 1967, later adapted into an animated cartoon series by DiC Entertainment. Peterson was also the author of The Secret Hide-Out, a popular Scholastic Books title in the 1960s and 1970s.- Age: Dec. at 78 (1924-2002)
- Birthplace: Bradford, Pennsylvania
- Tarpé Mills (25 February 1918 – 12 December 1988) was the pseudonym of comic book creator June Mills, one of the first major female comics artists. She is best known for her action comic strip, Miss Fury, featuring the first female action hero created by a woman.
- Age: Dec. at 73 (1915-1988)
- A quirky blonde actress capable of projecting a diamond hardness or intense fragility, Melora Walters has enjoyed her best screen roles (to date) in collaboration with writer-director Paul Thomas Anderson. The actress made her first screen appearance in "Dead Poets Society" (1989) and then segued to a recurring role as a pal of the title character on the ABC sitcom "Roseanne" in 1990. Several small roles followed in films ranging from big studio fare (e.g., "Beethoven" 1992) to low-budget indies (i.e., "Twenty Bucks" 1993) to the in-between ("Ed Wood" 1994). She had perhaps her widest exposure as the unlikely love interest of Chris Elliott in the disastrous "Cabin Boy" (1994). Anderson rescued her from these roles which did little to tap into her capabilities when he cast her as the floozy who hooks up with Samuel L. Jackson in "Hard Eight/Sydney" (1997). The writer-director subsequently created the roles of a porn star married to another adult film actor (Don Cheadle) in "Boogie Nights" (1997) and a high-strung drug abuser who finds romance with a cop in "Magnolia" (1999). The latter role especially allowed Walters to cut loose as she traversed a gamut of emotions. Her relationship with John C. Reilly formed the center of the film and she got to deliver the line that inspired the film, "Now that I've met you, would you object to never seeing me again?" Walters memorable work in the film was often cited for praise, even by those reviewers who had reservations about the film as a whole.
- Age: 64
- Birthplace: Dhahran, Saudi Arabia
Jan Groover
PhotographerJan Groover (April 24, 1943 – January 1, 2012) was an American photographer who spent the last part of her life in Montpon-Menesterol, France, with her husband, a painter and critic named Bruce Boice. Groover was born and grew up in Plainfield, New Jersey and died in 2012 at Montpon-Ménestérol.Groover studied painting and drawing at Pratt Institute. She received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in 1965 from Pratt Institute, and a Master of Arts in Education in 1970 from Ohio State University.Her first large-format camera was bought immediately after winning a 1978 grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. Groover was noted for her use of emerging color technologies. In 1979, Groover began to use platinum prints for portraits and to transform everyday items into formal still lifes. In 1987, critic Andy Grundberg noted in The New York Times, "In 1978 an exhibition of her dramatic still-life photographs of objects in her kitchen sink caused a sensation. When one appeared on the cover of Artforum magazine, it was a signal that photography had arrived in the art world - complete with a marketplace to support it."Groover also used early 20th century camera technology, such as the banquet camera, for elongated, horizontal presentations of otherwise pedestrian items. In a New York Times review of Groover's work exhibited at Janet Borden Inc., New York, in 1997, critic Roberta Miller called Groover’s work "beautiful and masterly in the extreme."Jan Groover’s work was the subject of a mid-career retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art in 1987, for which an accompanying catalogue was printed. Her work has also been the subject of one-person exhibitions at the Baltimore Museum of Art; Cleveland Museum of Art; the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; and the International Museum of Photography, George Eastman House, Rochester, New York. Groover was also the subject of a short film by photographer Tina Barney entitled (Jan Groover: Tilting at Space, 1994). Jan Groover is represented by New York gallery, Janet Borden Inc.- Age: Dec. at 68 (1943-2012)
- Birthplace: Plainfield, New Jersey
- Eva Hesse (January 11, 1936 – May 29, 1970) was a German-born American sculptor known for her pioneering work in materials such as latex, fiberglass, and plastics. She is one of the artists who ushered in the postminimal art movement in the 1960s.
- Age: Dec. at 34 (1936-1970)
- Birthplace: Hamburg, Germany
- Chauncey Milton "Chance" Vought (February 26, 1890 in Long Island, New York – July 25, 1930) was an American aviation pioneer and engineer, who was the co-founder of the Lewis and Vought Corporation with Birdseye Lewis. Born on Long Island, New York, he attended the Pratt Institute, New York University (where he joined Kappa Sigma), and the University of Pennsylvania. He died from sepsis. He was inducted into the National Aviation Hall of Fame in 1989.
- Age: Dec. at 40 (1890-1930)
- Birthplace: Long Island, New York
Kadir Nelson
Illustrator, Author, ArtistKadir Nelson is a Los Angeles-based, illustrator and author who is best known for his paintings often featured on the covers of The New Yorker magazine, and album covers for Michael Jackson and Drake. His work is focused on African-American culture and history. The New York Times describes his work as: "sumptuous, deeply affecting work. Nelson’s paintings are drenched in ambience, and often overt symbolism.- Age: 50
- Birthplace: Washington, D.C.
Simon Breines
Architect- Age: Dec. at 97 (1906-2003)
- Birthplace: New York City, New York
Echo Chernik
Echo Chernik is an American Art Nouveau artist. Her motif is an art nouveau/jugendstil influenced style, with elaborate decorative borders, women with flowing and entwining hair, sometimes accompanied by elaborate typography.- Age: 51
- Birthplace: Ellington, Connecticut
Roberto Parada
Roberto Parada may refer to: Roberto Parada (painter) (born 1969), freelance illustrator Roberto Parada (actor) (1909–1986), Chilean actor, theater director and teacher- Age: 56
- Leo Max Frank (April 17, 1884 – August 17, 1915) was an American factory superintendent who was convicted in 1913 of the murder of a 13-year-old employee, Mary Phagan, in Atlanta, Georgia. His trial, conviction, and appeals attracted national attention. His lynching two years later, in response to the commutation of his death sentence, became the focus of social, regional, political, and racial concerns, particularly regarding antisemitism. Today, the consensus of researchers on the subject holds that Frank was wrongly convicted. Born to a Jewish-American family in Texas, Frank was raised in New York and earned a degree in mechanical engineering from Cornell University before moving to Atlanta in 1908. Marrying in 1910, he involved himself with the city's Jewish community and was elected president of the Atlanta chapter of the B'nai B'rith, a Jewish fraternal organization, in 1912. Although antisemitism was not locally common, there were growing concerns regarding child labor at factories owned by members of the Jewish community. One of these children was Mary Phagan, who worked at the National Pencil Company where Frank was director. The girl was strangled on April 26, 1913, and found dead in the factory's cellar the next morning. Two notes, made to look as if she had written them, were found beside her body. Based on the mention of a "night witch", they implicated the night watchman, Newt Lee. Over the course of their investigations, the police arrested several men, including Lee, Frank, and Jim Conley, a janitor at the factory. On May 24, 1913, Frank was indicted on a charge of murder and the case opened at Fulton County Superior Court on July 28. The prosecution relied heavily on the testimony of Conley, who described himself as an accomplice to the murder, and who the defense at the trial argued was in fact the perpetrator of the murder. A guilty verdict was announced on August 25. Frank and his lawyers made a series of unsuccessful appeals; their final appeal to the Supreme Court of the United States failed in April 1915. Considering arguments from both sides as well as evidence not available at trial, Governor John M. Slaton commuted Frank's sentence from capital punishment to life imprisonment. The case attracted national press and many reporters deemed the conviction a travesty. Within Georgia, this outside criticism fueled antisemitism and hatred toward Frank. On August 16, 1915, he was kidnapped from prison by a group of armed men who were infuriated by the governor's decision, and lynched at Marietta, Mary Phagan's hometown, the next morning. The new governor vowed to punish the lynchers, who included prominent Marietta citizens, but nobody was charged. In 1986, Frank was posthumously pardoned by the Georgia State Board of Pardons and Paroles, although not officially absolved of the crime. Most researchers today agree that Conley was likely the murderer. The case inspired various media productions, including movies, plays, a TV miniseries, and books.
- Age: Dec. at 31 (1884-1915)
- Birthplace: Cuero, Texas
Joseph C. Szabo
PhotographerJózsef Szabó (born 1969) is a Hungarian Olympic swimmer. József Szabó or Joseph Szabo may also refer to: József Szabó (footballer, born 1896) (1896–1973), Hungarian football player József Szabó (footballer, born 1956) (born 1956), Hungarian football player Yozhef Sabo (born 1940), Soviet football player of Hungarian descent József Szabó de Szentmiklós (1822–1894), Hungarian geologist Joseph Szabo (photographer) (born 1944), American photographer Joseph Szabo (painter) (1925–2010), Hungarian painter Joseph C. Szabo, American railroad administrator- Age: 81
- Birthplace: Toledo, Ohio
Zoia Horn
Zoia Markovna Horn (née Polisar; March 14, 1918 – July 12, 2014), born in Ukraine, became in 1972 the first United States librarian to be jailed for refusing to share information as a matter of conscience. Horn, an outspoken member of the American Library Association's Intellectual Freedom Committee, worked at Bucknell University in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania in the early 1970s. Horn was jailed for nearly three weeks for contempt of court after refusing to testify for the prosecution in the 1972 conspiracy trial of the "Harrisburg Seven" anti-war activists.- Age: Dec. at 96 (1918-2014)
- Birthplace: Odessa, Ukraine
Joshua Davis
Joshua Davis (born June 13, 1971) is an American designer, technologist, author and artist in new media. He is best known as the creator of praystation.com, winner of the Prix Ars Electronica 2001 Golden Nica for "Net Vision / Net Excellence”. He was an early adopter of open-source software, offering the source code of the praystation.com composition and animation developments to the public. Davis had a role in designing the visualization of IBM’s Watson, the intelligent computer program capable of answering questions, for the quiz show Jeopardy.His work has been inducted into the Smithsonian's Cooper Hewitt Design Museum, National Design Triennial 2006 “Design Life Now”, and he has spoken at the TED and 99U conferences about his career in algorithmic image making and open-source software.- Age: 53
Robert Sabuda
Robert James Sabuda is a children's pop-up book artist and paper engineer. His recent books, such as those describing the stories of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz and Alice in Wonderland, have been well received and critically acclaimed.- Age: 59
- Birthplace: Wyandotte, Michigan
Alex Kotzky
Alex Kotzky (September 11, 1923 – September 26, 1996) was a cartoonist best known for his three decades of work on the comic strip Apartment 3-G, originally distributed by Publishers Syndicate.- Age: Dec. at 73 (1923-1996)
- Birthplace: New York City, New York
Lorenzo Homar
Lorenzo Homar (September 10, 1913 – February 16, 2004) was a Puerto Rican printmaker, painter, and calligrapher whose artwork stretches to three main workshops: Centro de Arte Puertorriqueño (CPA), DiVEDCO (División de Educación a la Comunidad), and the Taller de Artes Gráficas of the Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña (ICP). Homar was also the designer of the logo of the Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña (Institute of Puerto Rican Culture).- Age: Dec. at 90 (1913-2004)
- Birthplace: Puerta de Tierra, Puerto Rico, Puerto Rico
- Allen Funt worked in a variety of genres and built up a diverse and reputable career. Funt worked on a variety of projects during his early entertainment career, including "Candid Camera" (CBS, 1948-1956), "Candid Camera Looks at the Difference Between Men and Women" (NBC, 1983-84), "It's Only Human" (NBC, 1981-82), "Money Talks" (1972), "The Candid Camera Special" (NBC, 1981-82) and "What Do You Say to a Naked Lady?" (1970) starring Joie Addison. In the eighties, Funt devoted his time to various credits, such as "Candid Kids" (NBC, 1984-85), "Candid Camera: The First 40 Years" (CBS, 1986-87), "Buster Keaton: A Hard Act to Follow" (PBS, 1987-88) and "Candid Camera Christmas Special" (CBS, 1987-88). In the eighties and the nineties, Funt lent his talents to projects like "Candid Camera... Funt's Favorite Funnies" (CBS, 1989-1990), "Candid Camera... Getting Physical" (CBS, 1989-1990), "Candid Camera... Smile, You're on Vacation!" (CBS, 1989-1990), "The Candid Camera Comedy Shopping Spree" (CBS, 1989-1990) and "Candid Camera... Goes to the Doctor" (CBS, 1990-91). Funt last appeared in "Candid Camera... Really Silly Signs" (1991-92). Funt was married to Marilyn Funt and had five children. Allen Funt passed away in September 1999 at the age of 85.
- Age: Dec. at 84 (1914-1999)
- Birthplace: New York, New York, USA
Frank Bolle
Frank W. Bolle (born June 23, 1924) is an American comic-strip artist, comic-book artist and illustrator, best known as the longtime artist of the newspaper strips Winnie Winkle and The Heart of Juliet Jones; for stints on the comic books Tim Holt and Doctor Solar, Man of the Atom; and as an illustrator for the Boy Scouts of America magazine Boys' Life for 18 years. With an unknown writer, he co-created the masked, Old West comic-book heroine the Black Phantom. Bolle sometimes used the pen name FWB and, at least once, F. L. Blake.- Age: 100
- Birthplace: New York City, New York
William T. Williams
William T. Williams (born July 17, 1942, in Cross Creek, North Carolina, United States) is an American painter. He is Professor of Art at Brooklyn College, City University of New York, whose faculty he joined in 1971. Williams is a recipient of numerous awards including a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship, two National Endowment for the Arts Awards, and a Joan Mitchell Foundation Award. He is also a recipient of the Studio Museum in Harlem's Artist Award in 1992 and received The James Van Dee Zee Award from the Brandywine Workshop for lifetime achievement in the arts in 2005. He received the 2006 North Carolina Award for Fine Arts, the highest civilian honor the state can bestow. Williams is represented in numerous museum and corporate collections including the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller Empire State Plaza Art Collection, North Carolina Museum of Art, the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, the Menil Collection, Fogg Art Museum, the Studio Museum in Harlem, the Library of Congress, Yale University Art Gallery, Chase Manhattan Bank, AT&T, General Mills Corporation, UnitedHealth Group, Southwestern Bell Corporation and Prudential Financial Insurance Company of America. He has exhibited in over 100 museums and art centers in the United States, France, Germany, Russia, Venezuela, Nigeria, Ivory Coast, People's Republic of China and Japan.- Age: 82
Bill Gold
Graphic DesignerWilliam Gold (January 3, 1921 – May 20, 2018) was an American graphic designer best known for thousands of film poster designs.His first film poster was for Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942), and his final work was for J. Edgar (2011). During his 70-year career he worked with some of Hollywood's greatest filmmakers, including Laurence Olivier, Clint Eastwood, Alfred Hitchcock, Stanley Kubrick, Elia Kazan, Ridley Scott, and many more. Among his most famous film posters are those for Casablanca and A Clockwork Orange.- Age: 104
- Birthplace: New York City, New York
George Gately
George Gately Gallagher, better known as George Gately, was an American cartoonist, notable as the creator of the popular Heathcliff comic strip. Born in Queens Village, Queens, Gately came from a family of comics lovers. His father was an amateur doodler, and his elder brother John was also a cartoonist. He grew up and went to school in Bergenfield, New Jersey. Gately studied art at Pratt Institute. After graduating, he worked at an advertising agency for 11 years, but commercial art gave him little satisfaction. Seeing the success of his elder brother, George decided to enter the cartoon field. In 1957, he sold his first comic. He dropped his last name of Gallagher to avoid confusion with his brother.- Age: Dec. at 72 (1928-2001)
- Birthplace: Queens Village, New York City, New York
Ken Bald
Kenneth Bruce Bald (August 1, 1920 – March 17, 2019) was an American illustrator and comic book artist best known for the Dr. Kildare and Dark Shadows newspaper comic strips. Due to contractual obligations, he is credited as "K. Bruce" on the Dark Shadows strip.- Age: 104
- Birthplace: New York City, New York
Roxy Paine
ArtistRoxy Paine (born 1966, New York City) is an American painter and sculptor widely known for his installations that often convey elements of conflict between the natural word and the artificial plains man creates. He was educated at both the College of Santa Fe (now Santa Fe University of Art and Design) in New Mexico and the Pratt Institute in New York.Since 1990, Paine's works have been exhibited in major collections and galleries across the United States, Germany, Sweden, England, the Netherlands, and Israel. His most reviewed exhibitions include Replicants, Machines, Dendroids, and Dioramas. Paine is represented by Paul Kasmin Gallery in New York The Kavi Gupta Gallery of Chicago & Berlin, and by the Marianne Boesky Gallery in New York. Roxy Paine currently lives and works in Brooklyn and Treadwell, New York.- Age: 59
- Birthplace: New York City, New York
John Buscema
John Buscema (; Italian: [buʃˈʃɛːma]; born Giovanni Natale Buscema, December 11, 1927 – January 10, 2002) was an American comic book artist and one of the mainstays of Marvel Comics during its 1960s and 1970s ascendancy into an industry leader and its subsequent expansion to a major pop culture conglomerate. His younger brother Sal Buscema is also a comic book artist. Buscema is best known for his run on the series The Avengers and The Silver Surfer, and for over 200 stories featuring the sword and sorcery hero Conan the Barbarian. In addition, he pencilled at least one issue of nearly every major Marvel title, including long runs on two of the company's top magazines, Fantastic Four and Thor. He was inducted into the Will Eisner Comic Book Hall of Fame in 2002.- Age: Dec. at 74 (1927-2002)
- Birthplace: New York City, USA, New York
Joe Boudreau
Joe Boudreau is an American artist. Born in Vincennes, Indiana, Boudreau moved with his family to Baltimore, Maryland at the age of seven. It was in Baltimore that he spent most of his formative years and where he resolved to be an artist. In 1978 Boudreau was accepted into the Pratt Institute and received a BFA from the institution in 1981. He went on to study at the Maryland Institute College of Art. Boudreau's signature works show the influence of both the New York School, and Neo-expressionism. They are also defined by the recurring use of specific images. Boudreau has named some of these images as the "suit guy," an everyman, the "necklace," communicating tension, and the "black kidney" with the "fishhook," a contrasting and overlaying element. Other recurring images in his works are bright halo-like ellipses, and dogs.- Age: 64
- Birthplace: Vincennes, France
- David Levine (December 20, 1926 – December 29, 2009) was an American artist and illustrator best known for his caricatures in The New York Review of Books. Jules Feiffer has called him "the greatest caricaturist of the last half of the 20th Century".
- Age: Dec. at 83 (1926-2009)
- Birthplace: New York City, New York
Stephen Holland
ArtistStephen Holland (born 1941) is an American artist, known for his portraits of athletes and celebrities. Holland's most famous paintings have been of Muhammad Ali. Together they have released numerous limited edition prints, most of which are sold out. As a young painter, Holland could not afford to hire live models. The images he found in boxing magazines became his subjects. Holland attended the School of Industrial Art (now called the High School of Art and Design), which devoted half of each day to art studies. Later, he attended Pratt Institute, the Art Students League and the School of Visual Arts, all in New York City. In addition to being the official artist of the Los Angeles Kings, Holland is one of the twelve artists selected by the United States Olympic Committee to represent the 100th Anniversary of the Olympics. He completed eleven paintings for the Baltimore Ravens' Walk of Fame, commemorating their path of victory to Super Bowl XXXV. In 2008, his art commemorated the year-long celebration of the Los Angeles Dodgers' 50 years in Los Angeles.- Age: 84
- Birthplace: New York City, New York
David Mauro
- Age: 43
- Sylvia Plachy (born 24 May 1943) is a Hungarian/American photographer. Plachy's work has been featured in many New York city magazines and newspapers and she "was an influential staff photographer for the Village Voice."
- Age: 81
- Birthplace: Budapest, Hungary
- Betsy Reilly Lewin (born May 12, 1937) is an American illustrator from Clearfield, Pennsylvania. She studied illustration at Pratt Institute. After graduation, she began designing greeting cards. She began writing and illustrating stories for children's magazines and eventually children's books. She is married to children's book illustrator Ted Lewin and with him has co-written and illustrated several books about their travels to remote places, including Uganda in Gorilla Walk and Mongolia in Horse Song, as well as How to Babysit a Leopard: and Other True Stories from Our Travels Across Six Continents (Roaring Brook Press, 2015). She is arguably best known for the Caldecott Honor Book Click Clack Moo: Cows that Type.
- Age: 87
- Birthplace: Clearfield, Pennsylvania
- Theodore Peter Lewin (born May 6, 1935) simply known as a pen name Ted Lewin is an American illustrator and writer of children's books. Lewin and his wife Betsy Lewin drew on their travels to exotic places such as the Amazon River, Botswana, Egypt, Lapland, the Sahara Desert, and India when collaborating on their many books. Lewin has illustrated over 100 books for children and young adults in the past 20 years.
- Age: 89
- Birthplace: Buffalo, New York
- Beverly Pepper (born December 20, 1922) is an American sculptor known for her monumental works, site specific and land art. She remains independent from any particular art movement. She was married to the writer Curtis Bill Pepper for 65 years and has lived in Italy, primarily in Todi, since the 1950s.
- Age: 102
- Birthplace: New York City, New York
- Leonard Joseph Weisgard (December 13, 1916 – January 14, 2000) was an American writer and illustrator of more than 200 children's books. He is known best for his collaborations with writer Margaret Wise Brown.
- Age: Dec. at 83 (1916-2000)
- Birthplace: New Haven, Connecticut
- Jean Shin (born 1971) is an American artist living in Brooklyn, NY. She is known for creating elaborate sculptures and site-specific installations using accumulated cast-off materials.
- Age: 54
- Birthplace: Seoul, South Korea
- Harold Becker (born September 25, 1928) is an American film and television director, producer, and photographer from New York, associated with the New Hollywood movement and best known for his work in the thriller genre. His body of work includes films like The Onion Field, Taps, The Boost, Sea of Love, Malice, City Hall and Mercury Rising.
- Age: 96
- Birthplace: New York City, New York
Mort Meskin
Morton "Mort" Meskin (May 30, 1916 – March 29, 1995) was an American comic book artist best known for his work in the 1940s Golden Age of comic books, well into the late-1950s and 1960s Silver Age.- Age: Dec. at 78 (1916-1995)
- Birthplace: New York City, New York
- Eric Goldberg (born May 1, 1955) is an American animator, voice actor and film director known for his work at both Walt Disney Animation Studios and Warner Bros. Animation.
- Age: 69
- Birthplace: Levittown, Pennsylvania, USA
Alison Knowles
ArtistAlison Knowles (born 1933) is an American visual artist known for her installations, performances, soundworks, and publications. Knowles was a founding member of the Fluxus movement, the experimental avant-garde group formally founded in 1962. Criteria that have come to distinguish her work as an artist are the arena of performance, the indeterminacy of her event scores resulting in the deauthorization of the work, and the element of tactile participation. She graduated from Pratt Institute in New York with an honors degree in fine art. In May 2015, she was awarded an honorary doctorate degree by Pratt.In the 1960s, she was an active participant in New York City's downtown art scene, collaborating with influential artists such as John Cage and Marcel Duchamp. During this time she began producing event scores, or performances that rework the everyday into art. Knowles's inclusion of visual, aural, and tactile elements in her performances sets her art apart from the work of other Fluxus artists.- Age: 91
- Birthplace: New York City, New York
- Jevel Demikovski (March 27, 1922 – February 4, 2007), known professionally as Jules Olitski, was an American painter, printmaker, and sculptor.
- Age: Dec. at 84 (1922-2007)
- Birthplace: Shchors, Ukraine
Helen Sewell
Illustrator, WriterHelen Sewell (June 27, 1896 – February 24, 1957) was an American illustrator and writer of children's books. She was a runner-up for the 1955 Caldecott Medal as illustrator of The Thanksgiving Story by Alice Dalgliesh and she illustrated several novels that were runners-up for the Newbery Medal. Some of her papers were donated to the University of Minnesota.- Age: Dec. at 60 (1896-1957)
- Birthplace: Mare Island, California
- Agnes Lawrence Pelton (1881–1961) was a modernist painter who was born in Germany and moved to the United States as a child. She studied art in the United States and Europe. She made portraits of Pueblo Native Americans, desert landscapes and still lifes. Pelton's work evolved through at least three distinct themes: her early "Imaginative Paintings," art of the American Southwest people and landscape, and abstract art that reflected her spiritual beliefs.
- Age: Dec. at 80 (1881-1961)
- Birthplace: Stuttgart, Germany
- Anne Carroll Moore (July 12, 1871 – January 20, 1961) was an American educator, writer and advocate for children's library She was named Annie after an aunt, and officially changed her name to Anne in her fifties, to avoid confusion with Annie E. Moore, another woman who was also publishing material about juvenile libraries at that time. From 1906 to 1941 she headed children's library services for the New York Public Library system. Moore wrote Nicholas: A Manhattan Christmas Story, one of two runners-up for the 1925 Newbery Medal.
- Age: Dec. at 89 (1871-1961)
- Birthplace: Limerick, Maine
Dante Tomaselli
Film Score Composer, Film Producer, ScreenwriterDante Tomaselli (born October 29, 1969, in Paterson, New Jersey) is an Italian-American horror screenwriter, director, and score composer. In 2013 Fearnet named Tomaselli one of their "Favorite Underrated Horror Directors", as they found his work "unique and eccentric". Tomaselli is currently working on a remake of the 1976 film Alice, Sweet Alice, which was directed by his cousin Alfred Sole.- Age: 55
- Birthplace: Paterson, New Jersey
George Lois
Art Director, Designer, AuthorGeorge Lois (born June 26, 1931) is an American art director, designer, and author. Lois is perhaps best known for over 92 covers he designed for Esquire magazine from 1962 to 1972. In 2008, The Museum of Modern Art exhibited 32 of Lois's Esquire covers.- Age: 93
- Birthplace: New York City, USA, New York
- Anthony Goicolea (born 1971) is a New York-based fine art photographer, drafter, and installation artist, born in Atlanta, Georgia.
- Age: 54
- Birthplace: Atlanta, Georgia
- Gerald McDermott (January 31, 1941 – December 26, 2012) was an American filmmaker, creator of children's picture books, and an expert on mythology. His creative works typically combine bright colors and styles with ancient imagery. His picture books feature folktales and cultures from all around the world.
- Age: Dec. at 71 (1941-2012)
- Birthplace: Detroit, Michigan
Gwendolyn B. Bennett
WriterGwendolyn B. Bennett (July 8, 1902 – May 30, 1981) was an American artist, writer, and journalist who contributed to Opportunity: A Journal of Negro Life, which chronicled cultural advancements during the Harlem Renaissance. Though often overlooked, she herself made considerable accomplishments in poetry and prose. She is perhaps best known for her short story "Wedding Day", which was published in the first issue of Fire!! which highlighted the consequences of different racial groups not working together. Bennett was a dedicated and self-preserving woman, respectfully known for being a strong influencer of African-American women rights during the Harlem Renaissance. Throughout her dedication and perseverance, Bennett raised the bar when it came to women's literature, and education. One of her contributions to the Harlem Renaissance was her literary acclaimed short novel "Poets Evening"; it helped the understanding within the African-American communities, resulting in many African-Americans coming to terms with identifying and accepting themselves.- Age: Dec. at 78 (1902-1981)
- Birthplace: Giddings, Texas
Mary Quinn Sullivan
TeacherMary Quinn Sullivan (November 24, 1877 – December 5, 1939) was born Mary Josephine Quinn in Indianapolis, Indiana to Thomas F. Quinn and Anne E. Gleason Quinn; she was a pioneer modern art collector and one of the founding trustees of the Museum of Modern Art.- Age: Dec. at 62 (1877-1939)
- Birthplace: Indianapolis, Indiana
- Lyle Owerko is a filmmaker and photographer whose work has ranged from Sundance Channel to Time to MTV. His photos are collected by many business, entertainment and celebrity clients. They have been used in several films including Henry Singer's The Falling Man and The Omen (2006 film), as well as books such as Jonathan Safran Foer's Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close. His work is also included in the permanent archive of the Library of Congress in Washington DC. Owerko travels extensively around the world each year shooting assignments and personal work. He resides in New York City.
- Age: 57
- Birthplace: Calgary, Canada
Leonard Starr
CartoonistLeonard Starr (October 28, 1925 – June 30, 2015) was an American cartoonist, comic book artist, and advertising artist, best known for creating the newspaper comic strip On Stage and reviving Little Orphan Annie.- Age: 99
- Birthplace: New York City, New York
Rudolph A. Neubauer
Rudolph Neubauer was a passenger onboard American Airlines flight 383. He was killed in the crash on November 8,1965. ADDITIONAL INFORMATION PENDING....- Age: Dec. at 54 (1911-1965)
John Fischetti
CartoonistJohn R. Fischetti (September 27, 1916 – November 18, 1980) was an editorial cartoonist for the New York Herald Tribune and the Chicago Daily News. He received a Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning in 1969 and numerous awards from the National Cartoonists Society.- Age: Dec. at 64 (1916-1980)
- Birthplace: New York City, New York
