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- James Richard "Rick" Perry (born March 4, 1950) is an American politician who is the 14th and current United States Secretary of Energy, serving in the Cabinet of Donald Trump. Prior to becoming Secretary of Energy, Perry served as the 47th Governor of Texas from December 2000 to January 2015. Perry was elected Lieutenant Governor of Texas in 1998 and assumed the governorship in December 2000 when Governor George W. Bush resigned to become president. Perry is the longest-serving governor in Texas history. Perry was elected governor of Texas three times and is the fourth governor of Texas (after Allan Shivers, Price Daniel and John Connally) to have served three or more terms. At the time he left office, Perry had held office longer than every other then-current U.S. governor except Terry Branstad of Iowa. Perry ran unsuccessfully for the Republican nomination for president in 2012 and 2016. President Donald Trump nominated Perry as Secretary of Energy. On March 2, 2017, Perry was confirmed by the United States Senate in a 62–37 vote.
- Age: 74
- Birthplace: Texas, USA, Paint Creek
- Johnathan Paul Manziel (born December 6, 1992), also known as "Johnny Football" is an American football quarterback for the FCF Zappers of Fan Controlled Football (FCF). He played two seasons with the Cleveland Browns of the National Football League (NFL) and was also a member of the Canadian Football League's (CFL) Hamilton Tiger-Cats and Montreal Alouettes in 2018 and the Alliance of American Football's (AAF) Memphis Express in 2019.
- Age: 32
- Birthplace: Tyler, Texas
- Sammy James Davis, Jr. (born April 8, 1980) is a former American football cornerback. He is a businessman and owner of the Austin Capitals, an American Basketball Association franchise. He was drafted by the San Diego Chargers 30th overall in the 2003 NFL Draft. He played college football at Texas A&M. Davis also played for the San Francisco 49ers and Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
- Age: 44
- Birthplace: Humble, Texas
- Rip Torn, born Elmore Rual Torn Jr., was an esteemed actor who left an indelible mark on both the silver screen and the stage. Born in Temple, Texas, on February 6, 1931, Torn hailed from a family steeped in the performing arts. His mother, Thelma Mary Torn, was a prolific actress while his father, Elmore Rual Torn Sr., was an agriculturalist with a keen interest in drama. Torn's theatrical journey began at the University of Texas, where he studied acting before moving to New York to attend the prestigious Actors Studio. This formative period sparked Torn's lifelong commitment to "Method Acting." He made his film debut in the 1956 movie Baby Doll. However, his breakthrough came in 1965 with his riveting performance in The Cincinnati Kid, sharing the screen with legendary Steve McQueen. Later, his portrayal of Marsh Turner in Cross Creek (1983) earned him an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor. Over time, Torn transitioned to television, where he garnered critical acclaim for his roles. Notably, his character Arthur on The Larry Sanders Show won him an Emmy in 1996. Despite facing personal challenges and controversies, Torn remained committed to his craft until his retirement. His unforgettable performances across various genres attested to his versatility and dedication. Rip Torn passed away on July 9, 2019, leaving behind a legacy filled with memorable characters, each reflecting a piece of his vibrant spirit.
- Age: Dec. at 88 (1931-2019)
- Birthplace: Temple, Texas, USA
- Multiple Grammy-winning Lyle Lovett established a reputation as one of the contemporary country music scene's most distinctive singer-songwriters before becoming a Robert Altman regular, appearing in the likes of "The Player" (1992), "Short Cuts" (1993) and "Cookie's Fortune" (1999). Born in Houston, TX in 1957, Lovett first began performing at various local clubs while studying Journalism and German at Texas A&M University and got the chance to showcase his talents on a bigger scale when he played a beach singer in TV movie "Bill: On His Own" (1983). A year later he contributed to Nanci Griffith's Once in a Very Blue Moon LP and in 1986 released his self-titled debut through MCA/Curb Records. Fusing pop, jazz, folk and blues with the sounds of country music, 1988's Pontiac cracked the Billboard 200 and was followed by 1989's Grammy-winning Lyle Lovett and His Large Band. Lovett made his proper acting debut playing Detective Delongpre in meta black comedy "The Player" (1992), the first of several Robert Altman films he would star in throughout the decade. After playing baker Andy Bitkower in the auteur's interweaving Los Angeles drama "Short Cuts" (1993), Lovett was briefly propelled to the front pages of the tabloids when he married box office favorite Julia Roberts. The pair both appeared in Altman's much-maligned fashion satire "Pret-a-Porter" (1994) but just a year later announced their divorce. By this point Lovett had released a further two gold-selling albums, guested as Lenny on hit sitcom "Mad About You" (NBC, 1992-99) and become a soundtrack regular, contributing to the likes of "Always" (1989), "The Firm" (1993) and "Toy Story" (1995). Lovett then played the uncle of an abused girl and research scientist in TV movies "Bastard Out of Carolina" (1996) and "Breast Men" (1997) respectively, picked up the fourth Grammy of his career for 1996's "The Road to Ensanada" and appeared as The Road Person in gonzo cult classic "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas" (1998). After showing up as Sheriff Carl Tippett in subversive romantic comedy "The Opposite of Sex" (1998) Lovett reunited with Robert Altman to play voyeur Manny Hood in crime caper "Cookie's Fortune" (1999) and compose the soundtrack to his ensemble drama "Dr. T & The Women" (2000). Roles in teen comedy "The New Guy" (2002) and Chekhov short story collection "Three Days of Rain" (2002) then followed, as did his first US Top 20 album, 2007's It's Not Big It's Large. Lovett then played himself in musical biopic spoof "Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story" (2007), a bartender in Southern dramedy "The Open Road" (2008) and a high-spirited neighbor in festive family film "Angels Sing" (2013), released his tenth studio effort, 2009's Natural Forces, and enjoyed a ten-episode stint as Monte P. Flagman, the lawyer of an immigrant smuggler in acclaimed Scandi noir adaptation "The Bridge" (FX, 2013-14).
- Age: 67
- Birthplace: Klein, Texas, USA
- Clifton Randolph Pennington (born June 15, 1984) is an American former professional baseball infielder and current baseball coach at Texas A&M. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Oakland Athletics, Arizona Diamondbacks, Toronto Blue Jays, Los Angeles Angels, and Cincinnati Reds.
- Age: 40
- Birthplace: Corpus Christi, Texas
- Steven Ray Swanson (born December 3, 1960 in Syracuse, New York) is an American Engineer and a retired NASA astronaut. He is married and has three children. He has received numerous awards and honors. These include the NASA Exceptional Achievement Medal and the JSC Certificate of Accommodation and many others. Prior to becoming a NASA astronaut, Swanson worked for GTE in Phoenix, Arizona, as a software engineer. Swanson has flown two shuttle flights, STS-117 and STS-119. He has logged over 4,700 hours in space and completed four spacewalks totaling 26 hours and 14 minutes. Swanson has also served in other roles at NASA, such as a CAPCOM for both International Space Station and Space Shuttle missions.
- Age: 64
- Birthplace: Syracuse, New York
- Thomas Boone Pickens Jr. (born May 22, 1928) is an American capitalist. Pickens chairs the hedge fund BP Capital Management. He was a very well-known takeover operator and corporate raider during the 1980s. As of November 2016, Pickens has a net worth of $500 million.
- Age: 96
- Birthplace: Holdenville, Oklahoma, USA
- Jason René Castro (born March 25, 1987) is an American acoustic/folk-pop singer and songwriter. He was the fourth place finalist on season seven of American Idol. After Idol, he signed a recording contract with Atlantic Records, and his self-titled debut album was released on April 13, 2010.
- Age: 37
- Birthplace: Dallas, Texas, USA
- Dahr Jamail (born 1968) is an American journalist who was one of the few unembedded journalists to report extensively from Iraq during the 2003 invasion of Iraq. He spent eight months in Iraq, between 2003 and 2005, and presented his stories on his website, entitled "Dahr Jamail's MidEast Dispatches." Jamail has been a reporter for Truthout and has also written for Al Jazeera. He has been a frequent guest on Democracy Now!, and is the recipient of the 2008 Martha Gellhorn Prize for Journalism. In 2018, the Izzy Award of the Park Center for Independent Media was awarded to Jamail, and shared by investigative reporters Lee Fang, Sharon Lerner, and author Todd Miller.
- Age: 57
- Birthplace: Texas
- Martellus Demond Bennett (born March 10, 1987) is a former American football tight end and children's author. The Dallas Cowboys drafted him in the second round of the 2008 NFL Draft after playing college football at Texas A&M. Bennett also played in the NFL for the New York Giants, Chicago Bears, Green Bay Packers and New England Patriots. He won Super Bowl LI with the Patriots over the Atlanta Falcons. He is the younger brother of New England Patriots defensive end Michael Bennett.
- Age: 37
- Birthplace: Alief, Houston, Texas, USA
- George Phydias Mitchell (May 21, 1919 – July 26, 2013) was an American businessman, real estate developer and philanthropist from Texas credited with pioneering the economic extraction of shale gas.According to The Economist, "few businesspeople have done as much to change the world as George Mitchell." The rise [in shale gas] has been helped along by a variety of factors ... But the biggest difference was down to the efforts of one man: George Mitchell, ... who saw the potential for improving a known technology, fracking, to get at the gas. Big oil and gas companies were interested in shale gas but could not make the breakthrough in fracking to get the gas to flow. Mr Mitchell spent ten years and $6m to crack the problem (surely the best-spent development money in the history of gas). Everyone, he said, told him he was just wasting his time and money.
- Age: Dec. at 94 (1919-2013)
- Birthplace: Galveston, Texas
- Ilan Mitchell-Smith (born June 29, 1969) is an American academic and former actor best known as a co-star of the film Weird Science (1985).
- Age: 55
- Birthplace: New York, New York, USA
- Neal A Boortz Jr. (born April 6, 1945) is an American author, former attorney, and former conservative radio host. His nationally syndicated talk show, The Neal Boortz Show, which ended in 2013, was carried throughout the United States. It was ranked seventh in overall listeners, with more than 4.25 million per week. The content of the show included politics, current events, social issues, and topics of interest, which Boortz discussed with callers, correspondents, and guests. Boortz touched on many controversial topics. Boortz's first involvement with radio was in the 1960s, while he was a student at Texas A&M University, working as a local on-air personality at WTAW. After moving to Georgia, he became an avid listener of Atlanta's first talk radio station. Boortz became a regular caller to the morning talk show. When the show's host died, it created a job opening, which Boortz actively pursued. He was initially hired on a two-week "trial run", and later offered the permanent position. Boortz attended night law school, earning a law degree in 1977. For some years he worked as both an attorney and as a talk show host. He eventually closed his law practice to concentrate on his work in radio. Boortz has received many industry accolades. He was named as one of the "25 Most Important Radio Talk Show Hosts in America" by Talkers magazine, and one of "Georgia's 100 Most Influential People" by Georgia Trend. In 2009, Boortz was inducted into the Radio Hall of Fame. Boortz's first book was The Commencement Speech You Need To Hear in 1997, followed by The Terrible Truth About Liberals, in 1998. In 2005, he co-wrote The FairTax Book with Congressman John Linder, proposing to implement a variant of a national retail sales tax in lieu of other federal taxes. Boortz's involvement with the FairTax is covered in the documentary film An Inconvenient Tax.
- Age: 79
- Birthplace: Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, USA
- Lieutenant General Andrew Davis Bruce (September 14, 1894 – July 28, 1969) was an American academic and soldier who served as the third president of the University of Houston. He retired from the United States Army in 1954 as a lieutenant general after seeing action in both World War I and World War II and founding Fort Hood, Texas. Three countries, France, the Philippines, and the United States, awarded him service medals, including the Distinguished Service Cross, the U.S. Army's second highest military decoration. Bruce is interred in Arlington National Cemetery.
- Age: Dec. at 74 (1894-1969)
- Birthplace: St. Louis, Missouri, USA
- Patricia Elizabeth Gras (born August 12, 1960) is an American journalist, television anchor, reporter and producer.
- Age: 64
- Birthplace: Houston, Texas, USA
- William Arthur Pailes (Colonel, USAF) (born June 26, 1952) was a USAF astronaut in the Manned Spaceflight Engineer Program during the mid-1980s. He served as a Payload Specialist on STS-51-J Atlantis (October 3–7, 1985).
- Age: 72
- Birthplace: Hackensack, New Jersey
- Michael John Montgomery (born February 27, 1947) is a retired American basketball coach. He is best known for his 18-year tenure at Stanford (1986–2004), where he led the program to 12 NCAA Tournaments, including a Final Four appearance in 1998. Montgomery previously served as head coach at the Montana (1978–1986). Following his time at Stanford, he coached the Golden State Warriors of the National Basketball Association (NBA) for two seasons (2004–2006) before ending his career at the University of California (2008–2014). He announced his retirement from coaching following the 2013–14 season.Over his 32-year collegiate coaching career, Montgomery made 16 NCAA Tournaments, captured 6 conference championships, and amassed nearly 700 victories. He also led Stanford to the NIT championship in 1991.
- Age: 77
- Birthplace: Long Beach, California
- Stephen Michael Largent (born September 28, 1954) is an American former football player, enshrined in the Pro Football Hall of Fame, and a former Republican politician, having served in the U.S. House of Representatives for Oklahoma, from 1994 until 2002. Prior to his political career, Largent was a wide receiver for the Seattle Seahawks in the National Football League for his entire 14-season professional football career. He held several all-time receiving records when he retired.
- Age: 70
- Birthplace: Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA
- Michael Edward Fossum (born December 19, 1957 in Sioux Falls, South Dakota) is a former American astronaut and the Chief Operating Officer of Texas A&M University at Galveston. He flew into space on board the NASA Space Shuttle missions STS-121 and STS-124 and served as a mission specialist of Expedition 28 and commander of Expedition 29 aboard the International Space Station.
- Age: 67
- Birthplace: Sioux Falls, South Dakota
- Henry Roberto Cuellar (; born September 19, 1955) is the U.S Representative for Texas's 28th congressional district, a position he has held since 2005. He is a member of the Democratic Party. The district extends from the Rio Grande to the suburbs of San Antonio.
- Age: 69
- Birthplace: Laredo, Texas, USA
- Acie Law IV (born January 25, 1985) is an American former professional basketball player. In his four seasons at Texas A&M University, Law scored 1,653 points and was credited with 540 assists. Nicknamed "Captain Clutch" for his ability to take over the game late, Law is well known among Texas A&M Aggie basketball fans for "The Shot," his buzzer-beating 3-pointer to beat the arch-rival Texas Longhorns at Reed Arena on March 1, 2006, as well as for his play in the Aggies' 69–66 upset win against Kansas on February 3, 2007. Due to his contributions to Texas A&M, the Texas A&M athletic department hung Law's No. 1 jersey on the rafters in Reed Arena. He became the first Aggie in any sport to have the honor.After his time at Texas A&M, Law was selected by the Atlanta Hawks in the first round of the 2007 NBA draft. He spent time with several National Basketball Association (NBA) teams between 2007 and 2010. Following his NBA period, he had a very successful career in Europe between 2011 and 2014, winning the EuroLeague twice in 2012 and 2013 with Olympiacos.
- Age: 40
- Birthplace: Dallas, Texas
- Edward Shane Lechler (; born August 7, 1976) is a former American football punter who played 18 seasons in the National Football League (NFL). He played college football at Texas A&M, and was drafted by the Oakland Raiders in the fifth round of the 2000 NFL Draft. Lechler was named an All-Pro nine times during his career, and made seven Pro Bowls. He led the league in punting average five times and is the NFL's all-time leader in career punting average.
- Age: 48
- Birthplace: East Bernard, Texas
- Charles Wright Mills (1916–1962) was an American sociologist, and a professor of sociology at Columbia University from 1946 until his death in 1962. Mills was published widely in popular and intellectual journals, and is remembered for several books such as The Power Elite, which introduced that term and describes the relationships and class alliances among the US political, military, and economic elites; White Collar: The American Middle Classes, on the American middle class; and The Sociological Imagination, which presents a model of analysis for the interdependence of subjective experiences within a person's biography, the general social structure, and historical development. Mills was concerned with the responsibilities of intellectuals in post–World War II society, and he advocated public and political engagement over disinterested observation. Mills's biographer, Daniel Geary, writes that Mills's writings had a "particularly significant impact on New Left social movements of the 1960s era." Indeed, it was Mills who popularized the term New Left in the US in a 1960 open letter, "Letter to the New Left".
- Age: Dec. at 45 (1916-1962)
- Birthplace: Waco, Texas
- Ray joined Venrock in 1988 and after nearly 20 years and over 40 investments, his passion for building companies continues. His venture capital career has its roots at Yankee Atomic Electric as a nuclear engineer, at Sun Microsystems and with two failed startups. An engineer at heart with a keen insight into product markets, Ray loves to tinker with technology. In addition to venture capital, he serves on the Board of Trustees of the Texas AM Foundation, where he chairs the investment committee. Ray also serves on the Visiting Committee of the MIT Nuclear Science and Engineering Department. Ray currently serves on the board of Check Point Software and the boards of current investments: a la Mobile, Inc., Imaginova Corp., Imperva, Inc., Jadoo Power Systems, PGP Corporation, RedSeal Systems, Transonic Combustion, Inc., Vernier Networks, and Vontu, Inc. Ray’s previous investments include: Check Point Software Technologies (NASDAQ: CHKP), Digex, Inc. (IPO/Acquired by Intermedia Communications, Inc.), DoubleClick, Inc. (NASDAQ: DLCK/Acquired by Google), Fogdog Sports, Inc. (Acquired by GSI Commerce, Inc), Haystack Labs (Acquired by Trusted Information Systems/Network Associates), P-Cube, Inc. (Acquired by Cisco), Pedestal Software (Acquired by Altiris ALTS), Qpass, Inc. (Acquired by Amdocs), Spyglass (IPO/Acquired by OpenTV, Inc), UCA/Softbank, USInternetworking, Inc. (IPO/Acquired by ATT), and WholeSecurity (Acquired by Symantec).
- Birthplace: Fort Worth, Texas
- Louis Buller Gohmert Jr. (; born August 18, 1953) is an American attorney and former judge who currently serves as the U.S. Representative from Texas' 1st congressional district, in office since 2005, a member of the Republican Party, Gohmert is part of the Tea Party movement. In January 2015, he unsuccessfully challenged John Boehner for the position of Speaker of the House of Representatives.
- Age: 71
- Birthplace: Pittsburg, Texas, USA
- Thomas Jeb Hensarling (born May 29, 1957) is an American politician who served as the member of the United States House of Representatives from Texas's 5th congressional district from 2003 to 2019. A member of the Republican Party, Hensarling chaired the House Financial Services Committee from 2013 to 2019, and chaired the House Republican Conference from 2011 to 2013. A leading opponent of regulating the financial industry, Hensarling has close ties to Wall Street, having received campaign donations from every major Wall Street bank as well as various payday lenders.On October 31, 2017, Hensarling announced that he would retire from Congress at the end of his current term, and would not seek re-election in 2018.In 2019, Jeb Hensarling revealed he was joining UBS Group AG as executive vice chairman for the Americas region.
- Age: 67
- Birthplace: Stephenville, Texas, USA
Don McLeroy
DentistJohn Donald "Don" McLeroy (born June 3, 1946) is a dentist in Bryan, Texas, and a Republican former member of the Texas State Board of Education (SBOE). The SBOE establishes policy for the state public school system. Dr. McLeroy, who represented SBOE District 9 (Bryan and College Station), served on the board from 1998 until 2011. McLeroy was appointed in 2007 as SBOE chairman by Governor Rick Perry. The term ended in February 2009.- Age: 78
- Robert Charles Ferguson (born December 17, 1979) is a former American football wide receiver who played in the National Football League. He was drafted by the Green Bay Packers in the second round of the 2001 NFL Draft. He played college football at Texas A&M. Ferguson was also a member of the Minnesota Vikings, Atlanta Falcons and Omaha Nighthawks.
- Age: 45
- Birthplace: Houston, Texas
- Robert "Rocky" Eugene Bernard, Jr. (born April 19, 1979) is a former American football defensive tackle who was drafted by the Seattle Seahawks in the fifth round of the 2002 NFL Draft. He played college football at Texas A&M.
- Age: 45
- Birthplace: Baytown, Texas
- Johnny Ray Jolly Jr. (born February 21, 1983) is a former American football defensive Tackle who played for the Green Bay Packers. He was drafted in the sixth round (183rd overall) of the 2006 NFL Draft out of Texas A&M University.
- Age: 41
- Birthplace: Houston, Texas
George P. "Bud" Peterson
Professor, EngineerGeorge P. "Bud" Peterson (born September 1, 1952) is the 11th president of the Georgia Institute of Technology. Peterson is a graduate of Kansas State University, where he earned B.S. degrees in Mechanical Engineering and Mathematics and an M.S. in Engineering, and Texas A&M University, where he earned a Ph.D in Mechanical Engineering. On January 7, 2019, Dr. Peterson announced his upcoming retirement from Georgia Tech, effective summer of 2019. Prior to his position at Georgia Tech, he served as the chancellor of the University of Colorado at Boulder, the provost of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and associate vice-chancellor and executive associate dean of Engineering of Texas A&M University.Peterson was named as the sole finalist for the position of president of Georgia Tech on February 2, 2009, and was accepted on February 25, 2009. He succeeded G. Wayne Clough and Gary Schuster (interim) when he took the position on April 1, 2009. He was officially installed as president at a September 3, 2009, investiture ceremony. Peterson shares his first name and middle initial with Georgia Tech's famous fictional student, George P. Burdell. On October 17, 2009 Dr. Peterson accepted the north end-zone goalposts from students and fans on his lawn after the No. 19 Yellow Jackets upset the fourth-ranked Hokies in Bobby Dodd Stadium at Historic Grant Field. This was the first time Georgia Tech beat a top 5 team at Grant Field (The Jackets beat No. 3 Miami on the road in 2005) since the 1962 Alabama game.Peterson has presided during a time of great momentum at Georgia Tech. By 2016, freshman applications had tripled since his arrival, resulting in the best-qualified and one of the most diverse freshman classes in Georgia Tech history for eight consecutive fall semesters. Enrollment has increased by 23 percent. Under Peterson’s leadership, the Institute has expanded collaborations and strategic partnerships with organizations such as Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta, Emory University, and the CDC, as well as with business, industry, and government. Georgia Tech and Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta have established a Pediatric Technology Center, located in the new Engineered Biosystems Building. The building has more than 200,000 square feet of multidisciplinary research space and is expected to drive innovation in the areas of biomedical science and human health. Under Peterson, Georgia Tech has created innovation neighborhoods around the campus. The most notable one is Tech Square, which has become home to innovation centers for numerous Fortune 500 companies. In 2015-16, companies including Anthem, The Home Depot, Coca-Cola Enterprises, Delta Air Lines, Emerson, Southern Company, NCR, and Worldpay opened innovation centers in or near Tech Square, joining AT&T Mobility and Panasonic, among others. These innovation centers provide an opportunity for large companies to interact with the talent, expertise, and technologies at Georgia Tech, including students, faculty, and staff researchers, as well as startups. A project under development in Tech Square is Coda, a collaborative building with John Portman & Associates in which Georgia Tech will be the anchor tenant. The 750,000-square-foot facility will house Tech’s high-performance computing center, which is expected to draw even more expertise and enterprise to Tech’s mixed-use community of innovation and education. The project is scheduled for completion by early 2019.- Age: 72
- Birthplace: Palo Alto, California
- Henry Gabriel Cisneros (born June 11, 1947) is an American politician and businessman. He served as the mayor of San Antonio, Texas, from 1981 to 1989, the second Latino mayor of a major American city and the city's first since 1842 (when Juan Seguín was forced out of office). A Democrat, Cisneros served as the 10th Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) in the administration of President Bill Clinton from 1993 to 1997. As HUD Secretary, Cisneros was credited with initiating the revitalization of many public housing developments and with formulating policies that contributed to achieving the nation's highest ever rate of home ownership. In his role as the President's chief representative to the cities, Cisneros personally worked in more than two hundred cities spread over all fifty states. Cisneros' decision to leave the HUD position and not serve a second term was overshadowed by controversy involving payments to his former mistress. Prior to his Cabinet position, Cisneros served four terms as the mayor of his hometown of San Antonio, from 1981 to 1989. As mayor, Cisneros worked to rebuild the city's economic base, recruited convention business, attracted high tech industries, increased the level of tourism, and worked to bring more jobs to San Antonio. Before his tenure as mayor, Cisneros was elected to three two-year terms on the city council, on which he served from 1975 to 1981. Throughout his career in politics and business, Cisneros has remained actively involved with housing development and urban revitalization. Cisneros is also an active advocate for the Latino community. He has and continues to serve on corporate boards, as well as chairing and serving on several non-profit boards to promote Latinos and the immigrant population. Cisneros has authored, edited, or collaborated on several books and is an in-demand public speaker. After public office, Cisneros served as President and COO for the Spanish-language network Univision from 1997 to 2000 before forming American City Vista to work the nation's leading homebuilders to create homes priced within the range of average families. That company evolved to become CityView where Cisneros is Chairman. He is a partner in the minority owned investment banking firm Siebert Cisneros Shank & Co.Cisneros co-chairs the Bipartisan Policy Center's Housing Commission and Immigration Task Force.
- Age: 77
- Birthplace: San Antonio, Texas, USA
- Patrick Williams Sr. (born October 24, 1972) is a former American football defensive tackle who played in the National Football League (NFL) for fourteen seasons. He played college football for Texas A&M University. He was signed by the Buffalo Bills as an undrafted free agent in 1997. Williams also played for the Minnesota Vikings, with whom he was a three-time Pro Bowl selection. Marneshia Williams daughter Montrel Williams son
- Age: 52
- Birthplace: Monroe, Louisiana
- Billy LaQuayne Yates (born April 15, 1980) is a former American football guard. He was signed by the Miami Dolphins as an undrafted free agent in 2003. He played college football at Texas A&M. Yates also played for the New England Patriots and Cleveland Browns. He earned a Super Bowl ring with the Patriots in Super Bowl XXXIX.
- Age: 44
- Birthplace: Fort Worth, Texas
- Thomas Chester Edwards (born November 24, 1951) is an American politician who was a United States Representative from Texas, representing a district based in Waco, from 1991 to 2011. Previously, he served in the Texas Senate from 1983 to 1990. He is a member of the Democratic Party. Edwards was on Barack Obama's vice presidential shortlist in 2008.
- Age: 73
- Birthplace: Corpus Christi, Texas, USA
Steven C. Hackett
EconomistSteven C. Hackett (born 1960) is an American economist, and Professor of Economics at Humboldt State University (HSU), known for his contributions to the fields of environmental and natural resources economics.- Age: 65
- Jimmie Don Aycock (born October 4, 1946) is a veterinarian, rancher, and businessman in Killeen, Texas, who is a Republican former member of the Texas House of Representatives. He was elected in District 54 on November 7, 2006. After five two-year terms, he did not seek re-election in 2016. In a 2006 general election with a turnout of only 14.14 percent, Aycock polled 16,314 votes (60.4 percent), to 9,802 (36.3 percent) for Democrat Edward J. Lindsay (born January 2, 1939), a retiree from Killeen, and 873 (3.2 percent) for the Libertarian Nicolaas Jan Kramer (born June 5, 1947), self-employed in [[Copperas Cove
- Age: 78
- Birthplace: Texas
- Danny Raymond Mason (January 6, 1938 – January 14, 2007) was a golf coach and physical education professor who was affiliated with Texas Tech University in Lubbock for more than three decades. Under Mason's leadership, the Tech team qualified for four NCAA tournaments. In 2002, Mason was inducted into the Texas Tech Athletic Hall of Honor and was awarded the title Associate Professor-Emeritus. Himself a kidney transplant recipient, Mason won five Texas Transplant Games golf tournaments and participated in the National Kidney Foundation golf tournament on three occasions.Mason was born in Monahans in Ward County, Texas, as one of five children of Charlie Everett and Trudie Mae Mason. Upon graduation from Monahans High School in 1957, he attended Odessa College in Odessa on a golf scholarship. In June 1958, he married Betty Ann Pickett (born 1939) and then transferred on a golf scholarship to Lamar University in Beaumont, Texas. He was a member of the 1960 NAIA championship team. In 1961, he received his Bachelor of Science degree in physical education, with a minor in biology, from Lamar University.Mason next took summer graduate courses at Stephen F. Austin State University in Nacogcoches, Texas, and accepted thereafter a teaching fellowship from Texas A&M University in College Station. He completed his master's degree in education and obtained a Texas guidance counselor's certificate in 1962. He coached and taught at Texas A&M for two years before moving on to Texas Tech. However, his Tech service was interrupted by a stint at the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville, Arkansas, where he obtained his doctorate in education and again coached golf.In 1969, he returned to Texas Tech, where he remained for thirty-one years in coaching and/or academic positions. He coached the golf team until 1979 and was an associate professor of physical education until his retirement in 2000. Mason's associations included Phi Delta Kappa educational fraternity, faculty sponsor for Phi Epsilon Kappa, and service on the National Golf Foundation Board of Educators and the National Kidney Foundation Board for Region II. He was the founder and director of the Junior Golf Academy for fifteen years and the Coaches Golf Academy through the Texas Tech Continuing Education Division at Junction.Mason was voted "Father of the Year" in 1968 at Springdale Baptist Church in Springdale, Arkansas, and again in 1978 at the Melonie Park Baptist Church, an Independent Baptist congregation in Lubbock. He served as a deacon in various Baptist churches for more than four decades. He was on the Mission Board at the Melonie Park Church. Services were held at his church. In addition to his wife, Mason was survived by three children, Rodney Mason of Lake Jackson, Michele Mason Henderson of Colby, Kansas, and Kent Mason and wife Stephanie of Lubbock; a sister, Lena Davis of Mesa, Arizona, and six grandchildren. He is interred at Resthaven Memorial Park off Frankford Avenue in Lubbock.
- Age: Dec. at 69 (1938-2007)
- Birthplace: Monahans, Texas
- Ty'ron "Ty" Markeith Warren (born February 6, 1981) is a former American football defensive tackle who played ten seasons in the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for Texas A&M University. He was drafted in the first round of the 2003 NFL Draft by the New England Patriots, and also played for the NFL's Denver Broncos.
- Age: 43
- Birthplace: Bryan, Texas
- Gene Rodman Wolfe (May 7, 1931 – April 14, 2019) was an American science fiction and fantasy writer. He was noted for his dense, allusive prose as well as the strong influence of his Catholic faith. He was a prolific short-story writer and novelist and won many science fiction and fantasy literary awards.Wolfe is best known for his Book of the New Sun series (four volumes, 1980–1983), the first part of his "Solar Cycle". In 1998, Locus magazine ranked it the third-best fantasy novel published before 1990 based on a poll of subscribers that considered it and several other series as single entries.
- Age: 93
- Birthplace: New York City, New York
- Mark DeWayne Moseley (born March 12, 1948) is a former professional American football placekicker in the National Football League (NFL) who played for the Philadelphia Eagles (1970), the Houston Oilers (1971–72), the Washington Redskins (1974–86), and the Cleveland Browns (1986). He won the Most Valuable Player Award during the strike-shortened 1982 season. He is one of the only special teams players to win the NFL MVP award.
- Age: 76
- Birthplace: Laneville, Texas
Forrest Mims
AuthorForrest M. Mims III is an American amateur scientist, magazine columnist, and author of the popular Getting Started in Electronics and Engineer's Mini-Notebook series of instructional books that was originally sold in Radio Shack electronics stores. Mims graduated from Texas A&M University in 1966 with a major in government and minors in English and history. He became a commissioned officer in the United States Air Force. Although he has no formal academic training in science, Mims has had a successful career as a science author, researcher, lecturer and syndicated columnist. His series of electronics books sold over 7 million copies and he is widely regarded as one of the world's most prolific citizen scientists. Mims does scientific studies in many fields using instruments he designs and makes and he has been published in a number of peer-reviewed journals, often with professional scientists as co-authors. Much of his research deals with ecology and environmental science. A simple instrument he developed to measure the ozone layer earned him a Rolex Award for Enterprise in 1993. In December 2008 Discover named Mims one of the "50 Best Brains in Science."Mims edited The Citizen Scientist — the journal of the Society for Amateur Scientists — from 2003 to 2010. He is also the Chairman of the Environmental Science Section of the Texas Academy of Science. He also teaches electronics and atmospheric science at the University of the Nations, an unaccredited Christian university in Hawaii. He is a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, the National Science Teachers Association and several scientific societies. Mims is an advocate for Intelligent Design and serves as a Fellow of the International Society for Complexity, Information and Design and the Discovery Institute. He is also a skeptic of global warming.- Age: 81
- Birthplace: Texas
- Damieon Dante Hall (born September 20, 1978) is a former American football return specialist and wide receiver who played nine seasons in the National Football League (NFL). He is nicknamed the "Human Joystick" and the "X-Factor". Hall was a fifth round draft pick out of Texas A&M University by the Kansas City Chiefs in the 2000 NFL Draft. Hall played for the Chiefs for six years before being traded to the St. Louis Rams on April 25, 2007 for the Rams' third and fifth-round pick in the 2007 NFL Draft. Hall was ranked the 10th greatest return specialist in NFL history on NFL Network's NFL Top 10 Return Aces.
- Age: 46
- Birthplace: Lufkin, Texas
- Sam Adams (born June 13, 1973) is a former professional football player who was a defensive tackle in the National Football League (NFL) for fourteen seasons. He played college football at Texas A&M University, and earned All-American honors. He was originally drafted by the Seattle Seahawks eighth overall in the 1994 NFL Draft, and he also played professionally for the Baltimore Ravens, Oakland Raiders, Buffalo Bills, Cincinnati Bengals and Denver Broncos of the NFL. Adams was a three-time Pro Bowl selection and a two-time All-Pro.
- Age: 51
- Birthplace: Houston, Texas
- Geoffrey Thomas Hangartner (born April 22, 1982) is a former American football offensive lineman for the Carolina Panthers of the National Football League (NFL). He was drafted by the Panthers in the fifth round of the 2005 NFL Draft. He played college football at Texas A&M. He played both the center and guard positions. Hangartner also played for the Buffalo Bills.
- Age: 42
- Birthplace: Houston, Texas
- Aaron Devone Glenn (born July 16, 1972) is a former football cornerback who played 15 seasons in the National Football League (NFL). He currently works as a defensive backs coach for the New Orleans Saints. He played college football for Texas A&M University. During his playing time, Glenn played for the New York Jets, Houston Texans, Dallas Cowboys, Jacksonville Jaguars and New Orleans Saints.
- Age: 52
- Birthplace: Humble, Texas
Jeff Wentworth
Politician, LawyerEarl Jeffrey Wentworth (born November 20, 1940), is a Republican former member of the Texas Senate from San Antonio. He represented District 25 in the upper legislative chamber from January 1997 to January 2013. In addition, from 1993 to 1997, he represented District 26, having been initially elected to the state senate in 1992 to succeed fellow Republican Cyndi Taylor Krier, when she became the county judge of Bexar County. District 25 included northern portions of Bexar County, all of Comal, Guadalupe, Hays, and Kendall counties, and a part of southern Travis County.From 1988 to 1993, Wentworth was a member of the Texas House of Representatives from District 123. He won a special election on May 7, 1988, called when the Republican Representative Kae T. Patrick of San Antonio resigned in his fourth term. In 2012, Wentworth was defeated in his bid for re-nomination. In the Republican primary runoff held on July 31, he lost to Tea Party candidate Donna Campbell, who amassed 45,292 votes (66.2 percent) to Wentworth's 23,168 (33.8 percent).- Age: 84
- Birthplace: Mercedes, Texas, USA
Mike Conaway
Accountant, PoliticianKenneth Michael Conaway (born June 11, 1948) is the U.S. Representative for Texas's 11th congressional district, serving since 2005. He is a member of the Republican Party. The district is located in West Texas and includes Midland, Odessa, San Angelo, Brownwood, and Granbury. Conaway led the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections (with assistance from Trey Gowdy and Tom Rooney) after the Intelligence Committee chair, Devin Nunes, recused himself.- Age: 76
- Birthplace: Borger, Texas, USA
- Jesse Frank Ford, known as Frank Ford (January 16, 1933 – February 2, 2011), was a Texas farmer and health-foods advocate who in 1960 founded Arrowhead Mills, the largest natural foods wholesaler in the United States. The company is based in his native Hereford, the seat of Deaf Smith County west of Amarillo in the Texas Panhandle. Arrowhead Mills removes impurities from corn and wheat and farms without pesticides.
- Age: Dec. at 78 (1933-2011)
- Birthplace: Hereford, Texas
- Jeffrey Boone Stutz (born November 4, 1982) was a former tight end and long snapper for Texas A&M University and long snapper in the National Football League. He was released by the Seattle Seahawks on December 11, 2007. Stutz is the son of Barbara and Paul Stutz of Arlington, Texas.
- Age: 42
- Birthplace: Fort Worth, Texas
Ron Edwards
American football playerRonald Harold "Ron" Edwards (born July 12, 1979 in Columbus, Ohio) is an American football Defensive Tackle who is currently a free agent. He started 35 consecutive regular season games at nose guard for Texas A&M University, where he recorded 121 tackles with 10 sacks and 23 stops for losses. He was drafted in the 3rd round of the 2001 NFL Draft by the Buffalo Bills. He went to Klein Forest High School in Houston, Texas.- Age: 45
- Birthplace: Columbus, Ohio
W. Roy Smythe
SurgeonW. Roy Smythe is the first Chief Medical Officer for AVIA, LLC., a health care innovation firm based in Chicago, Illinois co-founded by Ted Meisel, formerly President of Yahoo Search Marketing and CEO of Overture, and Eric Langshur, who was the founder of CarePages, and former CEO of Bombardier Aerospace. Formerly, he was Senior Vice President, Institute Development, and the Medical Director of Innovation for the Scott & White Healthcare System. He was also Professor of Surgery and Molecular Medicine with Tenure and served as Chairman of Surgery for the Scott & White Memorial Hospital and Health System and the Texas A&M Health Science Center College of Medicine from 2004-2012, where he held the Glen and Rita K. Roney Endowed Chair in Surgery. He was one of the first biomedical researchers to investigate the use of adenoviral based gene therapy for cancer. Smythe grew up in Belton, Texas where he was a National Merit Scholarship recipient and an all-state football and track athlete. He attended Baylor University on combined athletic and academic scholarships and lettered on the 1980 Southwest Conference champion football team coached by Grant Teaff.- Age: 64
- Frank Joseph Malina (October 2, 1912 – November 9, 1981) was an American aeronautical engineer and painter, especially known for becoming both a pioneer in the art world and the realm of scientific engineering.
- Age: Dec. at 69 (1912-1981)
- Birthplace: Brenham, Texas
- Raymond Clay Childress, Jr. (born October 20, 1962) is a former American football defensive tackle in the NFL for the Houston Oilers and Dallas Cowboys. He played college football at Texas A&M University.
- Age: 62
- Birthplace: Memphis, Tennessee
- Robert Earl Keen (born January 11, 1956) is an American singer-songwriter and entertainer. Debuting with 1984's No Kinda Dancer, the Houston native has recorded 18 full-length albums for both independent and major record labels. His songs have had cover versions recorded by several country, folk and Texas country music musicians, including George Strait, Joe Ely, Lyle Lovett, The Highwaymen, Nanci Griffith, and the Dixie Chicks. Although both his albums and live performances span many different styles, from folk, country, and bluegrass to rock, he is most commonly affiliated with the Americana genre. Keen has toured extensively both in the US and abroad throughout his career, and was inducted into the Texas Heritage Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2012 along with Lyle Lovett and the late Townes Van Zandt.
- Age: 69
- Birthplace: Texas, USA, Houston
- Robert Yale Lary Sr. (November 24, 1930 – May 11, 2017) was an American football player, businessman, and politician. He was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1979 and was also selected for the NFL 1950s All-Decade Team. He has also been inducted into the Texas A&M Athletic Hall of Fame, the Texas Sports Hall of Fame, and the Michigan Sports Hall of Fame. Lary played 11 seasons in the National Football League (NFL), all with the Detroit Lions, from 1952 to 1953 and from 1956 to 1964, missing the 1954 and 1955 seasons due to military service as an Army second lieutenant in Korea. He played at the safety, punter, and return specialist positions, appeared in nine Pro Bowl games, and was a first-team All-NFL player five times. He led the NFL in punting three times, and at the time of his retirement in 1964, his 44.3 yard punting average ranked second in NFL history, trailing only Sammy Baugh. He also totaled 50 NFL interceptions for 787 return yards, both of which ranked fifth in NFL history at the time of his retirement. A native of Fort Worth, Texas, Lary played college football at Texas A&M University from 1949 to 1951 and was selected as a first-team defensive back on the 1951 All-Southwest Conference football team. He also played baseball at Texas A&M, led his team to the 1951 College World Series, and set a Southwest Conference record for doubles.
- Age: 94
- Birthplace: Fort Worth, Texas
Joe Barton
PoliticianJoe Linus Barton (born September 15, 1949) is a Republican politician who represented Texas's 6th congressional district in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1985 to 2019. The district included Arlington, part of Fort Worth, and several small towns and rural areas south of the Dallas–Fort Worth Metroplex. He was also a member of the Tea Party Caucus. In 2014, Barton became the longest-serving member of the Texas congressional delegation.Barton describes himself as "a constant defender of conservative ideals and values". He advocates for deregulation of the electricity and natural gas industries, and serves as vice-chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committees. He denies that manmade carbon emissions have contributed to global warming, is a proponent of the use of fossil fuels, voted in favor of the May 2017 GOP plan to replace Obamacare, supports President Donald Trump's ban on immigration from certain predominantly Muslim nations, and supports the death penalty for persons caught spying. Barton led a successful effort to repeal the oil export ban in the House in 2017. His environmental record of defending industries against tighter pollution controls earned him the nickname "Smokey Joe."Barton came to national prominence after telling a citizen at a town hall meeting to "shut up." He came to national attention again when nude selfie photos of him – taken from video he had taken of himself masturbating, that he had shared with women – surfaced online in 2017, along with messages with sexual overtones that he had sent to a female constituent while he was married. In November 2017, Barton announced that he would not seek re-election in 2018.- Age: 75
- Birthplace: Waco, Texas, USA
- Gary Wayne Kubiak (born August 15, 1961) is an American football coach and former player who is currently assistant head coach and offensive advisor for the Minnesota Vikings of the National Football League (NFL). He served as head coach for the NFL's Houston Texans from 2006 to 2013 and of the Denver Broncos in 2015 and 2016 before stepping down from the position on January 1, 2017, citing health reasons. Earlier in his coaching career, he served as an assistant coach for the Broncos, Texas A&M University and San Francisco 49ers. He was also the offensive coordinator for the Baltimore Ravens in 2014. Kubiak played quarterback in college at Texas A&M. He was drafted in the eighth round of the 1983 NFL Draft as the 197th overall pick by the Broncos where he played from 1983 to 1991 as the backup to John Elway. Kubiak has participated in seven Super Bowls, losing three as a player with the Broncos, winning three as an assistant coach with the Broncos and the 49ers and winning Super Bowl 50 as the head coach of the Broncos.
- Age: 63
- Birthplace: Houston, Texas
Joe Skeen
Politician, SailorJoseph Richard "Joe" Skeen (June 30, 1927 – December 7, 2003) was an American politician who served as a congressman from southern New Mexico. A conservative Republican, he served for eleven terms in the United States House of Representatives between 1981 and 2003. Skeen was born in Roswell, New Mexico. During his teenage years, his family moved to Seattle. During the final year of World War II, Skeen entered the United States Navy. After returning home, he graduated from Texas A&M University in College Station, Texas. After several years of owning a ranch in Picacho, Skeen was elected to the New Mexico State Senate as a Republican in 1960. He unsuccessfully ran for lieutenant governor in 1970 on a ticket headed by future Senator Pete Domenici. Incumbent Republican Governor David F. Cargo was ineligible to run for the first four-year gubernatorial term in the history of the state. Cargo therefore ran unsuccessfully in the primary for the Senate seat retained by Democrat Joseph Montoya. Thereafter, Skeen lost two very close races for governor – in 1974 against Democrat Jerry Apodaca and in 1978 against Democrat Bruce King. In the former race, Apodaca led 164,172 (50 percent) to Skeen's 160,430 (49 percent). In 1978, King secured a second nonconsecutive term, 174,631 (51 percent) to Skeen's 170,848 (49 percent).- Age: Dec. at 76 (1927-2003)
- Birthplace: Roswell, New Mexico, USA
Robert Neyland
Coach, American football playerRobert Reese Neyland ( NEE-lənd), MBE, (February 17, 1892 – March 28, 1962) was an American football player and coach and officer in the United States Army, reaching the rank of brigadier general. He served three stints as the head football coach at the University of Tennessee (UT) from 1926 to 1934, 1936 to 1940, and 1946 to 1952. He is one of two college football coaches to have won national titles in two non-consecutive tenures at the same school, along with Frank Leahy of the University of Notre Dame. Neyland holds the record for most wins in Tennessee Volunteers history with 173 wins in 216 games, six undefeated seasons, nine undefeated regular seasons, seven conference championships, and four national championships. At UT, he reeled off undefeated streaks of 33, 28, 23, 19, and 14 games. Neyland is often referred to as one of the best, if not the best, defensive football coaches ever. Sports Illustrated named Neyland as the defensive coordinator of its all-century college football team in its "Best of the 20th Century" edition. 112 of his victories came via shutout. In 1938 and 1939, Neyland's Vols set NCAA records when they shut out 17 straight opponents for 71 consecutive shutout quarters. His 1939 squad is the last NCAA team in history to hold every regular season opponent scoreless. Neyland was also an innovator. He is credited with being the first coach to utilize sideline telephones and game film to study opponents. His teams also were some of the first to wear lightweight pads and tearaway jerseys. Such measures increased his players' elusiveness and exemplify Neyland's "speed over strength" philosophy. Neyland is also famous for creating the seven "Game Maxims" of football that many coaches, on all levels, still use. Tennessee players recite the maxims before every game in the locker room as a team. Neyland Stadium at UT is not only named for The General, but was designed by him. His plans formed the basis for all expansions that brought the stadium to its modern size with an over 100,000 seat capacity. Neyland was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame as a coach in 1956. On November 12, 2010, a 9-foot (2.7 m), nearly 1,500-pound (680 kg) bronze statue of General Neyland was unveiled between gates 15A and 17 at Neyland Stadium. The statue, which was commissioned by artist Blair Buswell, is twice life-size. Since Neyland is portrayed in the kneeling position rather than standing, the statue is 9 feet (2.7 m) tall (a standing statue would have stood 12 feet (3.7 m) tall). The base is 57 by 87 inches (140 by 220 cm) and features Neyland's well-known seven Game Maxims engraved into the precast.- Age: Dec. at 70 (1892-1962)
- Birthplace: Greenville, Texas
Michael Bartosh
WriterMichael Bartosh (September 18, 1977 – June 11, 2006) was president and CTO of 4am Media, Inc, an Apple Certified Trainer, certified member of the Apple Consultants Network, published author and former systems engineer for Apple Computer. Previous to joining Apple full-time he had worked as an Apple campus rep (at Texas A&M) and had the opportunity to meet Steve Jobs after his 1999 MacWorld keynote. His main focus and expertise was directory services and integration, and was considered by members of the Macintosh support and development community to be one of the foremost experts on the subject, having literally "written the book." His most recent work includes Mac OS X Tiger Server Administration (published posthumously), Essential Mac OS X Panther Server Administration, articles published on O'Reilly network (Open Directory and Active Directory parts 1-4 and Panther and Active Directory ), as well as presentations and classes at many training centers/events, trade shows and conferences. He was also a regular contributor on several technical mailing lists related to Mac OS X and Mac OS X Server.- Age: Dec. at 28 (1977-2006)
- Birthplace: Cuero, Texas
- Edward Charles Knoblauch (; born July 7, 1968) is an American former professional baseball player. He played twelve seasons in Major League Baseball, from 1991 through 2002, for the Minnesota Twins, New York Yankees, and Kansas City Royals. He played mostly as a second baseman before moving to left field for his final two seasons.
- Age: 56
- Birthplace: Houston, Texas
Kenneth Hall
American football playerCharles Kenneth Hall (born December 13, 1935) nicknamed Sugar Land Express is a retired American football player. Playing for the Sugar Land High School Gators (Sugar Land, Texas) from 1950 to 1953, Hall established 17 national football records, several of which still stand.- Age: 89
- Birthplace: Madisonville, Texas
Michael Montgomery
American football playerMichael Lewis Montgomery, II (born August 18, 1983) is a former gridiron football defensive end. He was drafted by the Green Bay Packers in the sixth round of the 2005 NFL Draft. He played college football at Texas A&M. Montgomery was also a member of the Minnesota Vikings, Las Vegas Locomotives and Montreal Alouettes.- Age: 41
- Birthplace: Carthage, Texas
Bernard Adolph Schriever
General Bernard Adolph Schriever (September 14, 1910 – June 20, 2005), also known as Bennie Schriever, was a United States Air Force (USAF) general who played a major role in the USAF programs for space and ballistic missile research. Born in Bremen, Germany, Schriever immigrated to the United States as a boy, and became a naturalized US citizen in 1923. He graduated from Texas A&M in 1931, and was commissioned as a reserve second lieutenant in the U.S. Army. He transferred to the United States Army Air Corps and was awarded his wings and a commission as a reservist second lieutenant in 1933. In 1937, he was released from active duty at his own request, and became a pilot with Northwest Airlines, but he returned to the Air Corps with a regular commission in 1938. During World War II, Schriever received an Master of Arts in aeronautical engineering from Stanford University in June 1942, and was sent to the Southwest Pacific Area, where he flew combat missions as bomber pilot with the 19th Bombardment Group until it returned to the United States in 1943. He remained behind as chief of the maintenance and engineering division of the Fifth Air Force Service Command until the end of the war. After the war, Schriever returned joined the United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) headquarters at the Pentagon as chief of the Scientific Liaison Branch in the office of the Deputy Chief of Staff for Materiel. In 1954, Schriever became head of the Western Development Division (WDD), a special agency created to manage the intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) development effort. As such, he directed the development of the Atlas, Thor, Titan and Minuteman missiles. In 1959 he became commander of Air Research and Development Command (ARDC), and in 1961, of the Air Force Systems Command. He retired in 1966.- Age: Dec. at 94 (1910-2005)
- Birthplace: Bremen, Germany
Edwin Jackson Kyle
Edwin Jackson Kyle (July 22, 1876 – December 26, 1963) was the U.S. Ambassador to Guatemala from 1945—1948. He was also the first Texan to advocate agricultural teaching in state schools successfully. He is the namesake of Kyle Field, an American football stadium in College Station, TX, and his parents are the namesake of the suburban town of Kyle, Texas located fifteen miles south of Austin.- Age: Dec. at 87 (1876-1963)
- Birthplace: Kyle, Texas, USA
- Martha Madison (born Martha Anne Butterworth; July 27, 1977) is an American actress best known for her portrayal of Belle Black on the NBC soap opera Days of Our Lives.
- Age: 47
- Birthplace: Houston, Texas, USA
- Michael Darryl Goodson Jr. (born May 23, 1987) is a former American football running back. He played college football at Texas A&M. Goodson was drafted by the Carolina Panthers in the fourth round of the 2009 NFL Draft. He also played for the Oakland Raiders and the New York Jets.
- Age: 37
- Birthplace: Irvington, New Jersey
Stephen McGee
American football playerStephen Richard McGee (born September 27, 1985) is a former American football quarterback. He played college football for Texas A&M. McGee came into A&M as a highly regarded passing quarterback, though had to play in an option offense for three years under head coach Dennis Franchione. When Franchione left and Mike Sherman took over, McGee had the chance to thrive in a pro-style offense his senior season. He fell short, however, due to a recurring shoulder injury. He was drafted by the Dallas Cowboys in the 2009 NFL Draft in the fourth round with the 101st overall pick.- Age: 39
- Birthplace: Round Rock, Texas
- Jorvorskie Javion Lane (born February 4, 1987) is an American football fullback who is currently a free agent. He played tailback and fullback for the Texas A&M Aggies college football team. He played tailback during his freshman through junior seasons, and switched to fullback his senior season. He holds the school record for career rushing touchdowns (49). After his college career, he played one season for the West Texas Roughnecks of the Indoor Football League.
- Age: 37
- Birthplace: Lufkin, Texas
- Donald Lynn Muhlbach Jr. (born August 17, 1981) is an American football long snapper for the Detroit Lions of the National Football League (NFL). Muhlbach played college football for Texas A&M University. He was signed as an undrafted free agent in 2004 by the Baltimore Ravens and later signed with the Lions that same year, where he has played since.
- Age: 43
- Birthplace: Newark, Ohio
Alfred C. Haynes
PilotUnited Airlines Flight 232 was a regularly scheduled United Airlines flight from Denver to Chicago, continuing to Philadelphia. On July 19, 1989, the DC-10 (registered as N1819U) serving the flight crash-landed at Sioux City, Iowa, after suffering a catastrophic failure of its tail-mounted engine, which led to the loss of many flight controls. At the time, the aircraft was en route from Stapleton International Airport to O'Hare International Airport. Of the 296 passengers and crew on board, 111 died during the accident, while 185 people survived. The crash was the fifth-deadliest one involving the DC-10, behind Turkish Airlines Flight 981, American Airlines Flight 191, Air New Zealand Flight 901, and UTA Flight 772. Despite the deaths, the accident is considered a prime example of successful crew resource management because of the large number of survivors and the manner in which the flight crew handled the emergency and landed the airplane without conventional control.- Age: 93
- Birthplace: Dallas, Texas
- Dustin Dakota Long (born November 30, 1981) is a former American football quarterback for Texas A&M University and Sam Houston State University. He played briefly for the NFL's Dallas Cowboys. Long is the son of Kim and Mike Long of Groves, Texas. His father, Mike, played quarterback at Lamar University.
- Age: 43
- Birthplace: Beaumont, Texas
- Glenn Allen Hegar Jr. (born 25 November 1970), is an American attorney who serves as Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts. He was a Republican member of the Texas Senate representing the 18th District west of Houston. He succeeded fellow Republican Susan Combs as comptroller on January 2, 2015. He was elected Comptroller in the general election on November 4, 2014.
- Age: 54
- Birthplace: Houston, Texas, USA
- David Eric "Eric" Schansberg (born March 19, 1965) is a professor of economics at Indiana University Southeast, an author, and a two-time Libertarian candidate for Indiana's 9th Congressional District.
- Age: 59
- Birthplace: Louisville, Kentucky, USA
- Bruce Newton Lynn, I (March 25, 1925 – September 28, 2016), was an American businessman and banker who was a Republican member of the Louisiana House of Representatives from 1976 to 1988. He was a native and resident of the village of Gilliam (pronounced GIL LAM) in Caddo Parish, where three generations of his family have operated the J.W. Lynn cotton plantation.
- Age: 99
- Birthplace: Gilliam, Louisiana
- Darryl McDonald (born 17 June 1964) is a retired American Australian basketball player who last played for the Melbourne Tigers in the National Basketball League. Nicknamed "D-Mac," he attended Texas A&M University and formerly played with the now defunct NBL teams the North Melbourne Giants, Victoria Titans and Victoria Giants. McDonald has played in over 485 NBL games, and was a starting member of the teams which won the 1994, 2006, and 2008 NBL Championships, and has twice been named the NBL All-Star Game MVP. In 2011, he was the interim coach for the Melbourne Tigers, and he is currently the first basketball coach at Wesley College, Melbourne, and the head coach for the Hawthorn Magic Boys under 16s program. His team has reached the Grand Final of the Victorian Junior Basketball League 1.
- Age: 60
- Birthplace: Harlem, New York City, New York
Earl Dotson
American football playerEarl Christopher Dotson (born December 17, 1970) is a former American football offensive tackle in the National Football League (NFL). He was selected in the third round (81st overall) of the 1993 NFL Draft by the Green Bay Packers after playing college football for Texas A&M–Kingsville. He played for the Packers for 10 seasons. He started in Super Bowl XXXI and XXXII.- Age: 54
- Birthplace: Beaumont, Texas
- Ricardo Sánchez (born September 9, 1953) is a former lieutenant general in the United States Army. His career was most notable for his service as commander of Multi-National Force – Iraq and V Corps.
- Age: 71
- Birthplace: Rio Grande City, Texas
- Hyland DeAndre Jordan Jr. (born July 21, 1988) is an American professional basketball player for the Denver Nuggets of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played one season of college basketball for Texas A&M University before being selected by the Los Angeles Clippers in the second round of the 2008 NBA draft with the 35th overall pick. Jordan is a three-time All-NBA and two-time NBA All-Defensive Team member, and has twice led the league in rebounding. In 2017, he was named an NBA All-Star for the first time. Jordan currently holds the NBA record for best career field goal percentage at 67.4%.
- Age: 36
- Birthplace: Houston, Texas, USA
Also known as Earl Dibbles Jr, is an American country music singer and songwriter. He has released seven studio albums, one live album, and one EP. Smith attended Lake Highlands High School in Dallas, Texas, and graduated from Texas A&M with a bachelor's degree (his song "We Bleed Maroon" is about his time at A&M).
Read Smith's story: www.grangersmith.com
- Birthplace: Dallas, Texas
- Von B'Vsean Miller Jr. (born March 26, 1989) is an American football outside linebacker for the Buffalo Bills of the National Football League (NFL). Miller played college football at Texas A&M, where he earned consensus All-American honors and was awarded the Butkus Award as the most outstanding college linebacker in the nation. He was drafted by the Denver Broncos second overall in the 2011 NFL Draft. Considered a lock for the Hall of Fame, Miller is an eight-time Pro Bowl selection, receiving first-team All-Pro honors three times and second-team All-Pro honors four times. As of 2021, he has the most career sacks of any currently-active player, and the most career sacks in Denver Broncos history, at 110.5. At the conclusion of the 2015 NFL season, Miller was named Super Bowl MVP after the Broncos defeated the Carolina Panthers in Super Bowl 50. He has also appeared on season 22 of the American television show Dancing with the Stars.
- Age: 35
- Birthplace: Dallas, Texas
- Grant Connell (Pronounced: KAHN-nell) (born November 17, 1965) is a former professional tennis player from Canada, and has been a real estate agent for the past 14 years in Vancouver. He specializes in West Vancouver North Vancouver and Downtown properties real estate transactions. He is considered one of the world's top doubles player from the early to late -1990s, reaching the World No. 1 doubles ranking in November 1993. Connell won 22 career doubles titles during his eleven seasons on the ATP tour (1986 to 1997). He won his first four with fellow Canadian Glenn Michibata. Upon Michibata's retirement from the tour, Connell joined Patrick Galbraith. The Connell-Galbraith tandem won 12 titles together including the 1995 season ending Doubles Championship tournament. Connell's next main partner became Byron Black with whom he won 4 more titles. He also won a title each with Todd Martin and Scott Davis. He was a three-time Wimbledon doubles finalist, twice with Galbraith and once with Black. A left-hander, Connell best singles ranking was World No. 67, which he reached in June 1991. His best tour singles results were reaching the semi-finals of the 1991 Chicago, 1991 Singapore, and 1992 Auckland Grand Prix events. Connell's best grand slam singles results were reaching the third round of the 1991 Australian Open and 1994 Wimbledon. A solid grass-court player, Connell had Andre Agassi on the ropes in their first round encounter at Wimbledon in 1991. In that match, Connell served a gutsy second serve ace to win the third set tie-breaker and go up two sets to one. Agassi however won the final two sets 7-5, 6-3, to take the match. (The following year at Wimbledon saw Agassi win his first Grand Slam event.) As well, Connell reached 5 mixed semifinals at Wimbledon. The majority of those with his highly ranked partner Lindsay Davenport. Reporters have noted that neither one of them seemed too concerned about winning any title but had a lot of fun losing. Connell played Davis Cup for Canada on numerous occasions posting a career 15 and 6 win-loss record in doubles and an equally impressive 8 and 3 record in singles. He was a member of Canada's 1991 and 1992 Davis Cup teams winning all 3 needed matches in each of those wins to put Canada in to the World Group for its first 2x in canadian tennis history . Winner of the “Spirit of Sport” national award for the athlete who gives back the most to charity and their sport . Member of the Canadian Tennis Hall of Fame , Canadian Open Hall of Fame , BC Sports Hall of Fame , Texas A&M University Hall of Fame and B.C. Summer Swimming Hall of Fame
- Age: 59
- Birthplace: Regina, Canada
