Famous University Of Virginia Alumni
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List of famous alumni from University of Virginia, with photos when available. Prominent graduates from University of Virginia include celebrities, politicians, business people, athletes and more. This list of distinguished University of Virginia alumni is loosely ordered by relevance, so the most recognizable celebrities who attended University of Virginia 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 University of Virginia.
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This list answers the questions “Which famous people went to University of Virginia?” and “Which celebrities are University of Virginia alumni?”- Tina Fey, born as Elizabeth Stamatina Fey on May 18, 1970, in Upper Darby, Pennsylvania, is an acclaimed American actress, comedian, writer, and producer. She attended the University of Virginia where she studied playwriting and acting and graduated in 1992. Fey's early professional journey began at The Second City, a renowned improvisational theater troupe based in Chicago, where she honed her comedic skills. Later, she joined the writing team of Saturday Night Live (SNL) in 1997 and became the first female head writer in 1999. Fey's tenure at SNL was instrumental in shaping her career. It was during this period that she created the character of Sarah Palin during the 2008 Presidential Election which garnered national attention. In 2004, Fey expanded her portfolio by writing and co-starring in the comedy film Mean Girls. The film was a box office success and has since become a pop-culture phenomenon. In 2006, Fey left SNL to develop the television series 30 Rock for NBC, a satirical sitcom based on her experiences at SNL. Serving as the show's creator, writer, and lead actress, Fey received critical acclaim and numerous awards, including multiple Emmys, Golden Globes, and Screen Actors Guild Awards. Fey also co-created the Netflix comedy series Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, further solidifying her position as a prominent figure in the television industry.
- Age: 54
- Birthplace: Upper Darby, Pennsylvania, USA
The Best Tina Fey MoviesSee all
- 1Mean Girls6 Votes
- 2Mean Girls71 Votes
- 3Baby Mama61 Votes
- Robert F. Kennedy, widely known as Bobby Kennedy or RFK, was an influential figure in American politics during the mid-20th century. Born in Brookline, Massachusetts, on November 20, 1925, he was the seventh of nine children in the illustrious Kennedy family, which included his elder brother, John F. Kennedy, who would later become the 35th President of the United States. Robert Kennedy's early education took place at several private schools across Massachusetts and Connecticut, before he obtained his bachelor's degree in political science from Harvard University in 1948, and later a law degree from the University of Virginia Law School in 1951. Kennedy's career in public service was marked by his unyielding commitment to social justice and civil rights. He began his journey in politics serving on the Senate Subcommittee on Investigations, under Senator Joseph McCarthy. However, he left after disagreeing with McCarthy's controversial methods. Kennedy then became the Chief Counsel for the Senate Labor Rackets Committee, where he gained national attention for his aggressive questioning of Teamsters Union leader Jimmy Hoffa. His political ascent continued when he was appointed as the Attorney General during his brother's presidency in 1961. In this role, he fought organized crime and was instrumental in advocating for civil rights legislation. After the tragic assassination of his brother, John F. Kennedy, in 1963, Robert Kennedy's political path led him to the U.S. Senate, representing New York. His tenure as a senator was marked by his advocacy for economic justice, education reform, and peace. His presidential aspirations were cut short when he too fell victim to an assassin's bullet in June 1968, leaving behind a legacy of passionate public service. Despite his untimely death, Robert F. Kennedy's work continues to inspire generations and his words resonate in the hearts of many, serving as an enduring symbol of American idealism and hope.
- Age: Dec. at 42 (1925-1968)
- Birthplace: USA, Massachusetts, Brookline
- Born in Arlington, Virginia in 1957, Katherine Anne Couric, better known as Katie Couric, has carved out a remarkable career in the world of broadcast journalism. The youngest of four children, she inherited her love for news and reporting from her public relations executive father. Couric graduated with a degree in American Studies from the University of Virginia in 1979, demonstrating early on her keen interest in understanding the fabric of American society. Her professional journey kicked off at ABC News Bureau before she landed a role as an assignment editor for CNN. However, it was her stint at NBC's Today show that catapulted Couric into the national spotlight. She co-hosted the popular morning news program from 1991 until 2006, earning the reputation as one of America's most beloved television personalities. Her trademark blend of accessible charm and incisive interviewing skills won her several awards, including multiple Emmys and a Peabody. In 2006, Couric moved to CBS, making history as the first woman to anchor a major network evening news program solo when she took over CBS Evening News. After five years, she transitioned to ABC News, where she served as a special correspondent. Couric has also showcased her talent through her syndicated talk show, Katie, and several high-profile interviews with influential figures. As a prolific author, her books offer a further glimpse into her insights and experiences. Outside her professional life, Couric is a tireless advocate for cancer research, a cause close to her heart following the loss of her husband to colon cancer.
- Age: 68
- Birthplace: Arlington, Virginia, USA
- Edward Moore "Ted" Kennedy (February 22, 1932 – August 25, 2009) was an American politician who served as a U.S. Senator from Massachusetts for almost 47 years, from 1962 until his death in 2009. A member of the Democratic Party and the Kennedy political family, he was the second most senior member of the Senate when he died and is the third-longest-continuously-serving senator in United States history. Kennedy was a brother of President John F. Kennedy and U.S. Attorney General and U.S. Senator Robert F. Kennedy—both victims of assassination—and was the father of Congressman Patrick J. Kennedy. Ted Kennedy was 30 years old when he first entered the Senate following a November 1962 special election in Massachusetts to fill the vacant seat previously held by his brother John, who had taken office as the president. He was elected to a full six-year term in 1964 and was later re-elected seven more times. The Chappaquiddick incident in 1969 resulted in the death of his automobile passenger, Mary Jo Kopechne, as well as physical injuries and mental anguish to Kennedy. He pleaded guilty to a charge of leaving the scene of an accident and later received a two-month suspended sentence. The incident and its aftermath hindered his chances of ever becoming president. His only attempt, in the 1980 election, resulted in a Democratic primary campaign loss to the incumbent president, Jimmy Carter. Kennedy was known for his oratorical skills. His 1968 eulogy for his brother Robert and his 1980 rallying cry for modern American liberalism were among his best-known speeches. He became recognized as "The Lion of the Senate" through his long tenure and influence. Kennedy and his staff wrote more than 300 bills that were enacted into law. Unabashedly liberal, Kennedy championed an interventionist government that emphasized economic and social justice, but he was also known for working with Republicans to find compromises. Kennedy played a major role in passing many laws, including the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965, the National Cancer Act of 1971, the COBRA health insurance provision, the Comprehensive Anti-Apartheid Act of 1986, the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, the Ryan White AIDS Care Act, the Civil Rights Act of 1991, the Mental Health Parity Act, the S-CHIP children's health program, the No Child Left Behind Act, and the Edward M. Kennedy Serve America Act. During the 2000s, he led several unsuccessful immigration reform efforts. Over the course of his Senate career, Kennedy made efforts to enact universal health care, which he called the "cause of my life." By the later years of his life, Kennedy had come to be viewed as a major figure and spokesman for American progressivism. In 2008, Kennedy suffered a seizure and was diagnosed with a malignant brain tumor, which limited his appearances in the Senate. He died of the cancer at age 77 on August 25, 2009, at the Kennedy Compound in Hyannis Port, Massachusetts. He is buried at Arlington National Cemetery, near the graves of his assassinated brothers.
- Age: Dec. at 77 (1932-2009)
- Birthplace: Boston, USA, Massachusetts
- Leslie Bibb, born in North Dakota and raised in Virginia, is an acclaimed American actress and model. Her career hit the spotlight when she won a nationwide modeling search conducted by The Oprah Winfrey Show and the Elite Agency at the tender age of 16. This achievement led her to sign a contract with the New York-based Elite Model Management, propelling her into a successful modeling career gracing the covers of famous fashion magazines. However, her aspirations were not confined to modeling alone. She began exploring her acting potential, taking up roles in a variety of well-received television shows. Bibb transitioned seamlessly from modeling to acting, making her first notable appearance on the small screen in the late 1990s. She gained prominence for her role as Brooke McQueen on the WB Network dramedy series Popular, which aired from 1999 to 2001. The show earned her a Teen Choice Award nomination and paved the way for her to take on more challenging roles in both television and film. She made appearances in recurring roles on shows such as ER and Line of Fire. Moving on to the big screen, Bibb proved her versatility by starring in a wide array of films spanning comedy, horror, and drama genres. Notably, her performance in Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby garnered significant attention. She further cemented her position in Hollywood with roles in blockbuster movies like Iron Man and Iron Man 2. Beyond acting, Bibb has also shown her prowess behind the camera, co-producing the film Miss Nobody, in which she played the lead role.
- Age: 50
- Birthplace: USA, Bismarck, North Dakota
- Edgar Allan Poe, born on January 19, 1809, in Boston, Massachusetts, is one of the most celebrated American authors, best known for his contributions to the genres of mystery and the macabre. Orphaned at a young age, Poe was taken under the wing of John Allan, a wealthy tobacco exporter in Richmond, Virginia. His early life was marked by financial instability and educational discontinuity. Despite these hardships, he developed a passion for writing and published his first book, Tamerlane and Other Poems, at the tender age of 18. Poe's literary career took many twists and turns. After a brief attempt to secure a military career, he shifted his focus entirely to writing. He worked as an editor and critic for several magazines, often courting controversy with his acerbic reviews. It was in these roles that Poe began to make his mark, developing a new style of short story writing and laying the foundation for detective fiction. His most famous works, including "The Raven," "The Tell-Tale Heart," and "The Fall of the House of Usher," are still widely read and studied, showcasing his unique blend of horror, suspense, and psychological insight. Poe's personal life was as tumultuous as his professional one, beset by bouts of depression, alcoholism, and financial troubles. He married his cousin, Virginia Clemm, who was just 13 at the time. Her death from tuberculosis in 1847 plunged Poe into deep grief, which significantly influenced his later work. The circumstances of Poe's own death in 1849 remain shrouded in mystery, adding another layer of intrigue to his already enigmatic persona. Edgar Allan Poe's legacy endures as a master of the macabre, a pioneer of detective fiction, and a profound poet, leaving an indelible impact on American literature.
- Age: Dec. at 40 (1809-1849)
- Birthplace: Boston, Massachusetts
The Best Edgar Allan Poe StoriesSee all- 1The Tell-Tale Heart102 Votes
- 2The Cask of Amontillado90 Votes
- 3The Masque of the Red Death84 Votes
- Michael Jones (born June 13, 1962) is an American professional wrestler and actor, known for his time in the World Wrestling Federation as Virgil, Ted DiBiase's personal assistant, and in World Championship Wrestling under the ring names Vincent, Shane and Curly Bill.
- Age: 62
- Birthplace: Nashville, Tennessee, USA
- Reichen Kuhl, (born Richard Allen Lehmkuhl; December 26, 1973) is a lawyer, an American businessman, reality show winner, former model, and former occasional actor. A former United States Air Force officer with the rank of captain, he is best known for winning season four of the reality game show The Amazing Race with his then-partner Chip Arndt, and for his much publicized 2006 relationship with pop singer Lance Bass.
- Age: 51
- Birthplace: USA, Cincinnati, Ohio
- Amanda Swisten is an actress who appeared in "Two and a Half Men," "The Girl Next Door," and "Joey."
- Age: 46
- Birthplace: New York, New York, USA
- Paul Bowles was an American actor and writer who appeared in "Night Waltz: The Music of Paul Bowles," "Let It Come Down: the Life of Paul Bowles," and "Paul Bowles: The Complete Outsider."
- Age: Dec. at 88 (1910-1999)
- Birthplace: Queens, New York, USA
- Laura Anne Ingraham (born June 19, 1963) is an American conservative television host. Ingraham formerly hosted the nationally syndicated radio show The Laura Ingraham Show for nearly two decades, is the editor-in-chief of LifeZette, and beginning in October 2017, has been the host of The Ingraham Angle on Fox News Channel.Ingraham worked as a speechwriter in the Reagan administration in the late 1980s. Afterwards she earned a J.D. degree and Ingraham went on to work as a judicial clerk in the Second Circuit Court of Appeals in New York and then for United States Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. She also worked for the law firm Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom in New York City. Ingraham began her media career in the mid-1990s.
- Age: 61
- Birthplace: Glastonbury, Connecticut, USA
- Robert Francis Kennedy Jr. (born January 17, 1954) is an American activist, environmental attorney, and author. He is the son and namesake of Robert F. Kennedy and nephew of the late President John F. Kennedy. Kennedy serves as president of the board of Waterkeeper Alliance, a non-profit environmental group that he helped found in 1999. From 1986 until 2017, Kennedy served as senior attorney for the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), a non-profit environmental organization. He served from 1984 until 2017 as board member and chief prosecuting attorney for Hudson Riverkeeper.For over thirty years, Kennedy has been an adjunct professor of Environmental Law at Pace University School of Law. Until August 2017, he also held the post as supervising attorney and co-director of Pace Law School's Environmental Litigation Clinic, which he founded in 1987. He is currently professor emeritus at Pace.Kennedy co-hosts Ring of Fire, a nationally syndicated American radio program, and has written or edited ten books, including two New York Times bestsellers and three children's books.
- Age: 71
- Birthplace: Washington, D.C., USA
- Major Walter Reed, M.D., U.S. Army (September 13, 1851 – November 22, 1902), was a U.S. Army physician who in 1901 led the team that confirmed the theory of the Cuban doctor Carlos Finlay that yellow fever is transmitted by a particular mosquito species, rather than by direct contact. This insight gave impetus to the new fields of epidemiology and biomedicine, and most immediately allowed the resumption and completion of work on the Panama Canal (1904–1914) by the United States. Reed followed work started by Carlos Finlay and directed by George Miller Sternberg, who has been called the "first U.S. bacteriologist".
- Age: Dec. at 51 (1851-1902)
- Birthplace: USA, Virginia
- Georgia Totto O'Keeffe (November 15, 1887 – March 6, 1986) was an American artist. She was best known for her paintings of enlarged flowers, New York skyscrapers, and New Mexico landscapes. O'Keeffe has been recognized as the "Mother of American modernism".In 1905, O'Keeffe began her serious formal art training at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and then the Art Students League of New York, but she felt constrained by her lessons that focused on recreating or copying what was in nature. In 1908, unable to fund further education, she worked for two years as a commercial illustrator, and then taught in Virginia, Texas, and South Carolina between 1911 and 1918. During that time, she studied art during the summers between 1912 and 1914 and was introduced to the principles and philosophies of Arthur Wesley Dow, who created works of art based upon personal style, design, and interpretation of subjects, rather than trying to copy or represent them. This caused a major change in the way she felt about and approached art, as seen in the beginning stages of her watercolors from her studies at the University of Virginia and more dramatically in the charcoal drawings that she produced in 1915 that led to total abstraction. Alfred Stieglitz, an art dealer and photographer, held an exhibit of her works in 1917. Over the next couple of years, she taught and continued her studies at the Teachers College, Columbia University in 1914 and 1915. She moved to New York in 1918 at Stieglitz's request and began working seriously as an artist. They developed a professional relationship and a personal relationship that led to their marriage in 1924. O'Keeffe created many forms of abstract art, including close-ups of flowers, such as the Red Canna paintings, that many found to represent female genitalia, although O'Keeffe consistently denied that intention. The reputation of the portrayal of women's sexuality was also fueled by explicit and sensuous photographs that Stieglitz had taken and exhibited of O'Keeffe. O'Keeffe and Stieglitz lived together in New York until 1929, when O'Keeffe began spending part of the year in the Southwest, which served as inspiration for her paintings of New Mexico landscapes and images of animal skulls, such as Cow's Skull: Red, White, and Blue and Ram's Head White Hollyhock and Little Hills. After Stieglitz's death, she lived permanently in New Mexico at Georgia O'Keeffe Home and Studio in Abiquiú, until the last years of her life when she lived in Santa Fe. In 2014, O'Keeffe's 1932 painting Jimson Weed sold for $44,405,000, more than three times the previous world auction record for any female artist. After her death, the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum was established in Santa Fe.
- Age: Dec. at 98 (1887-1986)
- Birthplace: USA, Wisconsin, Sun Prairie
- Michael LeMoyne Kennedy (February 27, 1958 – December 31, 1997) was an American lawyer and activist. He was the sixth of eleven children to Robert F. Kennedy and Ethel Skakel.
- Age: Dec. at 39 (1958-1997)
- Birthplace: Washington, D.C.
- Ann A. Kiessling is an American reproductive biologist and one of the leaders in human parthenogenic stem cell research at The Bedford Research Foundation. She was an Associate Professor in teaching hospitals of Harvard Medical School (Brigham and Women's Hospital, Faulkner Hospital, New England Deaconess, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center) from 1985 until 2012.
- Age: 82
- Leland Devon Melvin (born February 15, 1964 in Lynchburg, Virginia) is an American engineer and a retired NASA astronaut. He served on board the Space Shuttle Atlantis as a mission specialist on STS-122, and as mission specialist 1 on STS-129. Melvin was named the NASA Associate Administrator for Education in October 2010.
- Age: 60
- Birthplace: Lynchburg, Virginia, USA
- John Bassett Moore (December 3, 1860 – November 12, 1947) was an American lawyer and authority on international law. Moore was a State Department official, a professor at Columbia University, and a judge of the Permanent Court of International Justice from 1921 to 1938, the first American judge to sit on that judicial body.
- Age: Dec. at 86 (1860-1947)
- Birthplace: Smyrna, Delaware
- Tiki Barber was born Atiim Kiambu Hakeem-Ah Barber on April 7th, 1975 in Blacksburg, VA. His father, a former World Football League star, divorced Barber's mother in 1979. Tiki experienced ravaging seizures as a child, which discouraged him from playing any contact sports for fear of exacerbating his delicate medical condition. Still, Tiki would go on to play baseball, basketball, and football in high school, and following his 4.0 grade point average at Cave Spring High School, quickly found himself playing college football alongside his identical twin brother Ronde at the University of Virginia. Tiki and his brother were roommates at the University of Virginia, and shared playing time on the football field. Ronde was the team's star cornerback, and Tiki found himself quickly moving to being the team's lead running back after his freshman year. He set a University of Virginia record of 1,397 yards with 265 carries, which earned him the attention of NFL scouts. Barber was then selected by the New York Giants in the second round of the 1997 NFL Draft. His brother Ronde would follow suit in the third. Barber's rookie season found him playing primarily on punt returns, giving him three touchdowns on the year. But after years of hard work and proving himself as a viable option on the receiving end of the football, Barber entered training camp as the starting running back in 2000 - a career year which also saw him breaking the Giants franchise record with 2,089 all-purpose yards. And although a broken arm saw his breakout year fall short of making a Super Bowl appearance, he was well regarded as the team's most valuable player, leading him to six-year, $25.2 million contract. After a rough 2001 season, Barber emerged as one of the league's dominant running backs in 2002, leading the Giants back into the playoffs and making his case for a Pro Bowl start, which he would finally receive in 2004. Years of successive accomplishments on the field would engender his name both in the hearts of New York fans and national pundits. However, it was his 2005 season that drew the attention of Sports Illustrated, as he landed their prestigious NFL Player of the Year award. His tremendous play continued into the 2006 season, which saw him rushing for 1,662 yards with five touchdowns. At a game with the Washington Redskins, Barber broke the Giants' franchise single game rushing record with 234 yards and three touchdowns in one game, securing a playoff berth for the team, while also earning Barber the all-time NFL record for single-game yards by a player over 30. His final game was the 2007 NFL Pro Bowl, after which he retired. With football now behind him, Barber looked forward to a new career as a broadcaster. The very next year, the New York Giants defeated the New England Patriots to win Super Bowl XLII. Barber's presence as a broadcast journalist was met with hostility by his former teammates, following a series of statements in which he criticized Giants' quarterback Eli Manning for being a weak leader. Although Barber attempted to create the same success in his broadcasting career as he had as an athlete, he quickly saw his stock dwindling, and alleged rumors around his finances led some to speculate that his announced 2011 comeback to the NFL was financially motivated. But despite announcing his availability in July of 2011, no NFL team showed any interest in signing the one-time prolific running back.
- Age: 49
- Birthplace: Blacksburg, Virginia, USA
- Alexander Britton "Brit" Hume (born June 22, 1943) is an American conservative television commentator and political commentator. Hume had a 23-year career with ABC News, where he contributed to World News Tonight with Peter Jennings, Nightline, and This Week. He served as ABC's chief White House correspondent from 1989 to 1996. He then spent 12 years as the Washington, D.C., managing editor of the Fox News Channel and the anchor of Special Report with Brit Hume. After retiring as the anchor of Special Report in 2008, he became a senior political analyst for Fox News and a regular panelist on Fox News Sunday. In September 2016, he was named the interim anchor of On the Record, after the abrupt resignation of the show's longtime host, Greta Van Susteren, and served in that capacity through the 2016 elections.
- Age: 81
- Birthplace: Washington, D.C., USA
- Louis Stanton Auchincloss (; September 27, 1917 – January 26, 2010) was an American lawyer, novelist, historian, and essayist. He is best known as a novelist who parlayed his experiences into books exploring the experiences and psychology of American polite society and old money. His dry, ironic works of fiction continue the tradition of Henry James and Edith Wharton. He wrote his novels initially under the name Andrew Lee, the name of an ancestor who cursed any descendant who drank or smoked.
- Age: Dec. at 92 (1917-2010)
- Birthplace: Lawrence, New York
- Gregory Hammond "Greg" Olsen (born April 20, 1945) is an American entrepreneur, engineer and scientist who, in October 2005, became the third private citizen to make a self-funded trip to the International Space Station with the company Space Adventures. Olsen was the co-founder and chairman of Sensors Unlimited Inc., a company developing optoelectronic devices such as sensitive near-infrared (NIR) and shortwave-infrared (SWIR) cameras. One of Sensors Unlimited's major customers is NASA. Currently, Olsen is President of GHO Ventures, LLC, in Princeton, New Jersey, where he manages his angel investments, South African winery, Montana ranch, and performs numerous speaking engagements to encourage children – especially minority and female children – to consider careers in science or engineering. He also is a physics professor at Rider University.
- Age: 79
- Birthplace: New York City, New York
- Gary Lawrence Francione (born May 1954) is an American legal scholar. He is the Distinguished Professor of Law and Nicholas deB. Katzenbach Scholar of Law & Philosophy at Rutgers School of Law–Newark.Francione is known for his work on animal rights theory, and in 1989, was the first academic to teach it in an American law school. His work has focused on three issues: the property status of animals, the differences between animal rights and animal welfare, and a theory of animal rights based on sentience alone, rather than on any other cognitive characteristics.He is a pioneer of the abolitionist theory of animal rights, arguing that animal welfare regulation is theoretically and practically unsound, serving only to prolong the status of animals as property by making the public feel comfortable about using them. He argues that non-human animals require only one right, the right not to be regarded as property, and that veganism—the rejection of the use of animals as mere resources—is the moral baseline of the animal rights movement. He rejects all forms of violence, arguing that the animal rights movement is the logical progression of the peace movement, seeking to take it one step further by ending conflict between human and non-human animals, and by treating animals as ends in themselves.Francione is the author or co-author of several books about animal rights, including Animals, Property, and the Law (1995), Rain Without Thunder: The Ideology of the Animal Rights Movement (1996), Animals as Persons (2008), and The Animal Rights Debate: Abolition or Regulation? (2010, with Robert Garner). He has also written papers on copyright, patent law, and law and science.
- Age: 70
- Frederic Wood "Fred" Barnes (born February 1, 1943) is an American political commentator. He was the executive editor of the defunct news publication The Weekly Standard and regularly appears on the Fox News Channel program Special Report with Bret Baier. He was previously co-host of The Beltway Boys with Mort Kondracke, which previously aired on the Fox News Channel. The ''Forbes Media Guide Five Hundred, 1994 states: Barnes remains a prolific writer on presidential and many other political topics as well.
- Age: 81
- Marshall Clement "Mark" Sanford Jr. (born May 28, 1960) is an American politician of the Republican Party who served as a U.S. Representative for South Carolina's 1st congressional district from 1995 to 2001. Sanford was then elected Governor of South Carolina from 2003 until 2011. He ran again for the U.S. House and served from 2013 to 2019. He was defeated in the 2018 Republican primary. He is currently a teaching fellow at the University of Chicago Institute of Politics.First elected to Congress in 1994, Sanford forewent re-election in 2000 and later ran successfully for Governor of South Carolina in 2002, defeating Democratic incumbent Jim Hodges. He was re-elected governor in 2006. As governor, Sanford had a contentious relationship with the South Carolina legislators. Sanford unsuccessfully and unpopularly attempted to reject $700 million in stimulus funds for South Carolina from the 2009 Recovery Act. The South Carolina Supreme Court ruled that only the legislature, not the governor, had the authority to accept or decline the stimulus funds. Sanford was identified as an ally of Ron Paul during their time in the House together.In June 2009, after an unexplained disappearance that made national headlines, Sanford publicly revealed that he had engaged in an affair with María Belén Chapur. While the scandal led to censure by the South Carolina General Assembly and to his resignation as chair of the Republican Governors Association, Sanford did complete his second term as governor.
- Age: 64
- Birthplace: Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA
- Alan George "A. G." Lafley (born June 13, 1947) is an American businessman who led consumer goods maker Procter & Gamble (P&G) for two separate stints, from 2000 to 2010 and again from 2013 to 2015, during which he served as chairman, president and CEO. In 2015, he stepped down as CEO to become executive chairman of P&G, eventually retiring in June 2016.As CEO, Lafley was called "one of the most lauded CEOs in history" and is credited with revitalizing P&G under the mantra “Consumer is Boss,” with a focus on billion dollar brands like Crest, Tide, and Pampers. But he also brought in several new brands, like Swiffer and Febreze, by merging P&G’s internal resources with outside “open” innovation, referred to as Connect + Develop.Prior to rejoining P&G in 2013, Lafley consulted on business and innovation strategy, advising on CEO succession and executive leadership development, and coaching experienced, new, and potential CEOs.
- Age: 77
- Birthplace: Keene, New Hampshire
- Boyd Calvin Tinsley (born May 16, 1964) is an American violinist and mandolinist who is best known for having been a member of the Dave Matthews Band. Within the band, Tinsley has collaborated in writing songs, harmonizing, and singing backing vocals.
- Age: 60
- Birthplace: USA, Virginia, Charlottesville
- Francis Sellers Collins (born April 14, 1950) is an American physician-geneticist who discovered the genes associated with a number of diseases and led the Human Genome Project. He is director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Bethesda, Maryland, United States. Before being appointed director of the NIH, Collins led the Human Genome Project and other genomics research initiatives as director of the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI), one of the 27 institutes and centers at NIH. Before joining NHGRI, he earned a reputation as a gene hunter at the University of Michigan. He has been elected to the Institute of Medicine and the National Academy of Sciences, and has received the Presidential Medal of Freedom and the National Medal of Science. Collins also has written a number of books on science, medicine, and religion, including the New York Times bestseller, The Language of God: A Scientist Presents Evidence for Belief. After leaving the directorship of NHGRI and before becoming director of the NIH, he founded and served as president of The BioLogos Foundation, which promotes discourse on the relationship between science and religion and advocates the perspective that belief in Christianity can be reconciled with acceptance of evolution and science, especially through the advancement of evolutionary creation. In 2009, Pope Benedict XVI appointed Collins to the Pontifical Academy of Sciences.
- Age: 74
- Birthplace: Virginia, USA
- Stanley "Stan" Winston (April 7, 1946 – June 15, 2008) was an American television and film special make-up effects creator. He was best known for his work in the Terminator series, the first three Jurassic Park films, Aliens, the first two Predator films, Inspector Gadget, Iron Man and Edward Scissorhands. He won four Academy Awards for his work. Winston, a frequent collaborator with director James Cameron, owned several effects studios, including Stan Winston Digital. The established areas of expertise for Winston were in makeup, puppets and practical effects, but he had recently expanded his studio to encompass digital effects as well.
- Age: Dec. at 62 (1946-2008)
- Birthplace: USA, Virginia, Richmond
- Jamael Orondé "Rondé" Barber (born April 7, 1975) is a former American football defensive back and current sports broadcaster. Barber spent his entire 16-year professional career playing for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers of the National Football League (NFL). He is the identical twin brother of Tiki Barber, a former running back for the New York Giants. Barber grew up in Roanoke, Virginia and played college football for the University of Virginia. In the 1997 NFL Draft, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers selected Ronde Barber in the third round as the 66th overall pick. Over the course of his career, Barber was selected to five Pro Bowls, accumulated three first team All-Pro selections, two second team All-Pro selections, and was selected to the National Football League 2000s All-Decade Team. Additionally, he led all NFL players in interceptions in 2001, is the Buccaneers all-time interceptions leader, and is one of the two members of the 40/20 club (40+ interceptions, 20+ quarterback sacks) alongside Charles Woodson. After the 2002 season, Barber won Super Bowl XXXVII against the Oakland Raiders. He also holds the record for most consecutive starts by a defensive back. Barber was inducted into the Virginia Sports Hall of Fame in 2014.
- Age: 49
- Birthplace: Blacksburg, Virginia, USA
- John L. Kelley (December 6, 1916, Kansas – November 26, 1999, Berkeley, California) was an American mathematician at University of California, Berkeley who worked in general topology and functional analysis. Kelley's 1955 text, General Topology, which eventually appeared in three editions and several translations, is a classic and widely cited graduate level introduction to topology. An appendix sets out a new approach to axiomatic set theory, now called Morse–Kelley set theory, that builds on Von Neumann–Bernays–Gödel set theory. After earning B.A. (1936) and M.A. (1937) degrees from the University of California, Los Angeles, he went to the University of Virginia, where he obtained his Ph.D. in 1940. Gordon Whyburn, a student of Robert Lee Moore, supervised his thesis, entitled A Study of Hyperspaces. He taught at the University of Notre Dame until the outbreak of World War II. From 1942 to 1945, he did mathematics (mainly exterior ballistics, including ballistics for the atomic bomb) for the war effort at the Aberdeen Proving Grounds, where his work unit included his future Berkeley colleagues Anthony Morse and Charles Morrey. After teaching at the University of Chicago, 1946–47, Kelley spent the rest of his career at Berkeley, from which he retired in 1985. He chaired the Mathematics Department at Berkeley 1957-60 and 1975-80. He held visiting appointments at Cambridge University and the Indian Institute of Technology in Kanpur, India. An Indian Mathematician, Vashishtha Narayan Singh was among those mentored by Kelley. In 1950, Kelley was one of 29 tenured Berkeley faculty (3 of whom were members of the Mathematics Department) dismissed for refusing to sign a McCarthy-era loyalty oath mandated by the UC Board of Regents. He then taught at Tulane University and the University of Kansas. He returned to Berkeley in 1953, after the California Supreme Court declared the oath unconstitutional and directed UC Berkeley to rehire the dismissed academics. He was later an outspoken opponent of the Vietnam War. Kelley's interest in teaching extended well beyond the higher reaches of mathematics. In 1960, he took a leave of absence to serve as the National Teacher on NBC's Continental Classroom television program. He was an active member of the School Mathematics Study Group (SMSG) which played an important role in designing and promulgating the "new math" of that era. In 1964, he led his department to introduce a new major called Mathematics for Teachers, and later taught one of its core courses. These endeavors culminated in the text Kelley and Richert (1970). In 1977-78, he was a member of the U.S. Commission on Mathematical Instruction. His doctoral students include Vashishtha Narayan Singh, James Michael Gardner Fell, J. M. G. Fell, Isaac Namioka, and Reese Prosser.
- Age: Dec. at 82 (1916-1999)
- Birthplace: Kansas
Mortimer Caplin
Theatrical producer, LawyerMortimer Maxwell Caplin (July 11, 1916 – July 15, 2019) was an American lawyer and educator, and the founding member of Caplin & Drysdale, Chartered.- Age: 108
- Birthplace: New York City, New York
- Although Hollywood attempted to embrace him as a disposable teen heartthrob, Benjamin McKenzie chose to follow the path of a serious actor instead, and his intense persona set him apart from his flashier peers. Born Sept. 12, 1978 in Austin, TX, Benjamin McKenzie Schenkkan was the son of Mary France Victory and Pieter Meade Schenkkan. Artistry ran in his family; his mother was a poet, his uncle was a Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright and his paternal grandparents were both theater actors. After playing football at Austin High School, he studied foreign affairs and economics at the University of Virginia, where his interest in acting began. Appearing in several theatrical productions, including "Zoo Story" and Shakespeare's "Measure for Measure," McKenzie's passion gelled, and after graduation he moved to New York City to pursue the stage. He appeared off-Broadway in "Life is a Dream" at the SoHo Rep and in multiple productions at the Williamstown Theatre Festival, including "Street Scene" and "The Blue Bird." Soon Los Angeles beckoned, and McKenzie headed West to try his luck on the TV audition circuit. Ironically, an unsuccessful audition for a UPN sitcom put McKenzie on the radar of the casting agents who would change his life. "The O.C." ( FOX , 2003-07) was already a highly buzzed-about project, a glossy teen drama with the distinction of being the brainchild of the youngest creator of a TV show in history, the wunderkind Josh Schwartz. McKenzie's electrifying audition convinced producers to take the enormous gamble of resting a brand-new television show on the shoulders of an unknown, and the hype machine kicked into overdrive with the actor's brooding mug soon becoming inescapable. Happily, the show delivered on all fronts, becoming watercooler television that minted each of its lead actors as instant celebrities. McKenzie then took a supporting role in the Southern family drama "Junebug" (2005). He jumped at the chance to work with his idol, Al Pacino, in the real-time thriller "88 Minutes" (2007) and tackled the ultra-demanding "live on stage, on film" solo piece "Johnny Got His Gun" (2008). McKenzie continued to make choices based on the work rather than on prestige, playing a rookie cop on the sprawling, challenging LAPD drama "Southland" (NBC, 2009; TNT, 2010-13). After "Southland" came to a close in 2013, McKenzie co-starred in post-apocalyptic drama "Goodbye World" (2013) and romantic comedy "Some Kind of Beautiful" (2014) before returning to television as future police commissioner James Gordon in the Batman origin story "Gotham" (Fox 2014-2019). At the start of the show's second season, McKenzie appeared in the gossip columns when it was revealed that he had begun a relationship with his co-star Morena Baccarin, who announced that she was expecting the couple's first child in September 2015. The couple were married in 2017 and had a second child in 2021. McKenzie went on to star alongside Aaron Eckhart and Courtney Eaton in "Line of Duty" (2019).
- Age: 46
- Birthplace: Austin, Texas, USA
- George Felix Allen (born March 8, 1952) is an American politician. A member of the Republican Party, he served as the 67th Governor of Virginia from 1994 to 1998 and as a United States Senator from Virginia from 2001 to 2007. The son of National Football League head coach George Allen, he served in the Virginia House of Delegates from 1983 to 1991, resigning after he won a special election for Virginia's 7th congressional district in November 1991. After his district was eliminated during redistricting, he declined to run for a full term in 1992, instead running for Governor of Virginia in the 1993 election. He defeated Democratic Attorney General of Virginia Mary Sue Terry by 58.3% against 40.9%. Barred by term limits from seeking reelection to a second term in 1997, he worked in the private sector until the 2000 election in which he ran for the United States Senate, defeating two-term Democratic incumbent Chuck Robb. Allen ran for reelection in the 2006 election, but after a close and controversial race, he was defeated by Democratic former U.S. Secretary of the Navy Jim Webb. When Webb decided to retire, Allen ran for his old seat again in the 2012 election but was defeated again, this time by Democratic former Governor Tim Kaine. Allen now serves on the Reagan Ranch Board of Governors of Young America's Foundation, where he is a Reagan Ranch Presidential Scholar.
- Age: 72
- Birthplace: USA, Whittier, California
- John William Warner KBE (born February 18, 1927) is an American attorney and former politician who served as the United States Secretary of the Navy from 1972 to 1974 and a five-term Republican U.S. Senator from Virginia from 1979 to 2009. He currently works for the law firm of Hogan Lovells, where he had previously worked before joining the United States Department of Defense as the Under Secretary of the Navy during the presidency of Richard Nixon in 1969. Warner was the sixth husband of actress Elizabeth Taylor, whom he married before being elected to the Senate. He is a veteran of the Second World War and Korean War, and was one of five World War II veterans serving in the Senate at the time of his retirement. He did not seek reelection in 2008.
- Age: 97
- Birthplace: Washington, D.C., USA
- Schuyler Fisk worked on a variety of projects during her entertainment career. Fisk started her entertainment career by acting in comedies like "Daddy's Dyin'... Who's Got the Will?" (1990) starring Judge Reinhold, "Hard Promises" (1992) starring Sissy Spacek and "Trading Mom" (1994) with Sissy Spacek. She also appeared in "The Baby-Sitter's Club" (1995) starring Schuyler Fisk. She worked in series television while getting her start in acting, including a part on "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit" (NBC, 1999-). She continued to act in productions like the crime picture "Skeletons in the Closet" (2000) with Treat Williams, the comedy "Snow Day" (2000) with Chris Elliott and the comedy "Orange County" (2002) with Colin Hanks. She also appeared in the Donald Sutherland drama "American Gun" (2006). She also worked in television during these years, including a part on "One Tree Hill" (2003-2012). Fisk's music was also featured in the Christina Ricci dramatic adaptation "Penelope" (2008), the dramatic adaptation "Dear John" (2010) with Channing Tatum and the Joel McHale comedy "A Merry Friggin' Christmas" (2014). In addition to her music, Fisk also appeared on-screen in "I'm Reed Fish" (2007) with Alexis Bledel and the drama "Restless" (2011) with Henry Hopper. Fisk most recently acted in "The Best of Me" (2014). Fisk's husband was Chapman Bullock.
- Age: 42
- Birthplace: Los Angeles, California, USA
- Matthew Maxwell Taylor "Max" Kennedy (born January 11, 1965) is an American lawyer and author. A member of the Kennedy family, he is the ninth child of Robert F. Kennedy and Ethel Skakel Kennedy.
- Age: 60
- Birthplace: New York City, New York
- David Cloud Berman (born David Craig Berman; January 4, 1967 – August 7, 2019) was an American musician, singer, poet and cartoonist best known for his work with indie-rock band the Silver Jews. Although the band primarily existed as a recording project for most of its existence, the Silver Jews toured regularly from 2005 until 2009. In January 2009, Berman announced his retirement from music in hopes of finding a meaningful way of undoing the damage that his estranged father Richard Berman (a lobbyist and public relations executive for the alcohol and tobacco industries, among others) had brought upon society.In addition to the six full-length albums that Berman wrote and recorded with the Silver Jews, he released two books: Actual Air (1999) and The Portable February (2009). In early 2019, Berman returned to music under the new band name Purple Mountains, releasing a self-titled debut album in July 2019. On August 7, 2019, Berman was found dead in an apartment in Brooklyn, New York. His death was ruled a suicide.
- Age: 58
- Birthplace: Williamsburg, Virginia
Ronald Bailey
Science writerRonald Bailey (born November 23, 1953) is an American libertarian science writer. He has written or edited several books on economics, ecology, and biotechnology.- Age: 71
- Stephen Joseph Malkmus (born May 30, 1966) is an American musician best known as the primary songwriter and lead singer and guitarist of the indie rock band Pavement. He currently performs with Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks.
- Age: 58
- Birthplace: USA, California, Santa Monica
- Melissa Sagemiller (born June 1, 1974) is an American television and film actress. She is known for her performances in films Get Over It (2001), Soul Survivors (2001), Sorority Boys (2002), The Clearing (2004), The Guardian (2006) and Mr. Woodcock (2007). Sagemiller also starred in television dramas Sleeper Cell (2005–06), and Raising the Bar (2008–09), and from 2010 to 2011 had the recurring role as A.D.A. Gillian Hardwicke in the Law & Order: Special Victims Unit.
- Age: 50
- Birthplace: Washington, D.C., USA
- Janet Akyüz Mattei (January 2, 1943 – March 22, 2004) was a Turkish-American astronomer who was the director of the American Association of Variable Star Observers (AAVSO) from 1973 to 2004.
- Age: Dec. at 61 (1943-2004)
- Birthplace: Bodrum, Turkey
- Vern Yip (born June 27, 1968, in Hong Kong) is an American interior designer based in Atlanta, Georgia. He periodically appeared on TLC's Trading Spaces through its fourth season, and was known for frequently including silk, candles and flowers in the rooms he designed. He is one of the panel of judges on HGTV's Design Star. Yip hosted four seasons of HGTV's show Deserving Design. Yip hosted an HGTV special called Urban Oasis, in which he designed a Chicago loft in the Trump International Hotel.
- Age: 56
- Birthplace: Hong Kong
- Joseph Taylor Robinson (August 26, 1872 – July 14, 1937), also known as Joe T. Robinson, was an American politician from Arkansas. A member of the Democratic Party, he served as the 23rd Governor of Arkansas and as the Majority Leader of the United States Senate. He was also the Democratic vice presidential nominee in the 1928 presidential election. After studying law at the University of Virginia, Robinson returned to Arkansas, winning election to the Arkansas General Assembly. He won election to the United States House of Representatives, serving from 1903 to 1913. He won election as Governor of Arkansas in 1912, but resigned from that position in 1913 to take a seat in the Senate. In the Senate, Robinson established himself as a progressive and strong supporter of President Woodrow Wilson. Robinson served as the chairman of the 1920 Democratic National Convention and won election as the Senate Minority Leader in 1923. He sought the Democratic presidential nomination in the 1924 election and was nominated as the Democratic vice presidential nominee in 1928. The Democratic ticket of Al Smith and Robinson lost in a landslide to the Republican ticket of Herbert Hoover and Charles Curtis. The Democrats took control of the Senate after the 1932 Senate elections and elected Robinson as Senate Majority Leader. He passed Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal programs through the Senate, alienating some of his colleagues with his autocratic style. In the midst of debate over the Judicial Procedures Reform Bill of 1937, Robinson died of heart failure.
- Age: Dec. at 64 (1872-1937)
- Birthplace: Lonoke, Arkansas, USA
- Alecko Eskandarian (born July 9, 1982) is a retired American soccer player. He is a former assistant coach for New York Cosmos and head coach for their reserve team, New York Cosmos B.
- Age: 42
- Birthplace: Montvale, New Jersey
- Charles Spittal Robb (born June 26, 1939) is an American politician and former officer in the United States Marine Corps. He served as the 64th Governor of Virginia from 1982 to 1986, and as a United States senator from 1989 until 2001. In 2004, he co-chaired the Iraq Intelligence Commission.
- Age: 85
- Birthplace: Phoenix, Arizona, USA
- Adam Nelson (born July 7, 1975) is an American shot putter and Olympic gold medalist. Nelson competed in three consecutive Olympic Games in 2000, 2004 and 2008. In addition to his gold medal at the 2004 Olympics, Nelson won a silver medal at the 2000 Olympics.
- Age: 49
- Birthplace: Atlanta, Georgia
Thomas B. Evans, Jr.
LawyerThomas Beverley Evans Jr. (born November 5, 1931) is an American lawyer and politician from Wilmington, in New Castle County, Delaware. He is a member of the Republican Party, who served three terms as U.S. Representative from Delaware.- Age: 93
- Birthplace: Nashville, Tennessee, USA
Peter Traub
Peter Traub (born 1974 in South Africa) is an American composer of electronic and acoustic music and sound installations. His work often focuses on the use of technology to mediate physical and virtual spaces.- Age: 51
- Birthplace: Johannesburg, South Africa
Faryar Shirzad
Faryar Shirzad (in Persian: فریار شیرزاد); born 1965 in London formerly served on the staff of the National Security Council at the White House from March 2003 through August 2006, first as a special assistant to the President for International Economic Affairs, and then as deputy assistant to the President and deputy national security advisor for International Economic Affairs. In those roles, Shirzad was responsible for advising the President, the National Security Advisor and the Director of the National Economic Council on all international economic policy matters, including trade, investment, finance, development, energy and environment. He also served as the President’s personal representative to the G-8 (the “G8 Sherpa”), and led the preparations for the President’s participation in other international economic summits, such as the U.S.-E.U. Summit, the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation Forum and the Summit of the Americas. Prior to his time at the White House, Shirzad was assistant secretary for Import Administration at the U.S. Department of Commerce, where he administered the U.S. trade remedy laws, and was responsible for negotiating agreements in a number industry sectors around the globe. Prior to that, he was the trade policy coordinator on the Bush-Cheney Transition Team. He began his career in public service as international trade counsel on the majority staff of the U.S. Senate Committee on Finance under Chairman William V. Roth (R-DE). He previously practiced law in Washington, DC at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom and Robins, Kaplan, Miller & Ciresi, where he advised clients on international trade and regulatory matters. In his role at the White House, he was President Bush’s representative to the G-8 ("G-8 Sherpa"). Previous positions held by Faryar include Assistant Secretary for Import Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce; International Trade Counsel, U.S. Senate Finance Committee; and Associate Attorney at the International Trade Group at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom. Born to Iranian parents in London, Faryar has a Bachelor of Science degree in Finance from the University of Maryland; a Master of Public Policy from the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University; and a law degree from the University of Virginia School of Law. Shirzad joined Goldman, Sachs & Co. in August 2006 and is a Managing Director, and Global Head of Government Affairs. Shirzad recently received the Ellis Island Medal of Honor. In 2013, Shirzad was a signatory to an amicus curiae brief submitted to the Supreme Court in support of same-sex marriage during the Hollingsworth v. Perry case.- Age: 60
- Birthplace: London, United Kingdom
- Heidi Ann (Burge) Horton (born November 11, 1971) is a former American professional women's basketball player. She is the twin sister of Heather (Burge) Quella.
- Age: 53
- Birthplace: Harbor City, California
- William Perry Moore IV (November 4, 1971 – February 17, 2011), widely known as Perry Moore, was an American author, screenwriter, and film director. He was an executive producer of The Chronicles of Narnia film series and the author of Hero, an award-winning novel about a gay teenage superhero.
- Age: Dec. at 39 (1971-2011)
- Birthplace: Richmond, Virginia
- Michael Guest could refer to: Michael E. Guest (born 1957), American diplomat Michael Guest (politician) (born 1970), American attorney and politician
- Age: 68
- Birthplace: South Carolina, USA
- Steven S. Reinemund (born (1948-04-06)April 6, 1948) is an American business man who was chairman and CEO of PepsiCo between 2001 and 2006 and dean of the Schools of Business at Wake Forest University between 2008 and 2014. Reinemund spent 22 years working for PepsiCo in various capacities. During his CEO tenure at PepsiCo, revenues grew by $9 billion, net income rose 70%, earnings per share were up 80% and PepsiCo's market cap exceeded $100 billion. He led the acquisitions of several other food and beverage companies including Quaker Oats, Naked Juice, Izze and Stacy's Chips.
- Age: 76
- Birthplace: New York City, New York
- Karl Gordon Henize, Ph.D. (; 17 October 1926 – 5 October 1993) was an American astronomer, space scientist, NASA astronaut, and professor at Northwestern University. He was stationed at several observatories around the world, including McCormick Observatory, Lamont-Hussey Observatory (South Africa), Mount Wilson Observatory, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory and Mount Stromlo Observatory (Australia). He was a member of the astronaut support crew for Apollo 15 and Skylab 2, 3, and 4. As a mission specialist on the Spacelab-2 mission (STS-51-F), he flew on Space Shuttle Challenger in July/August 1985. He was awarded the NASA Exceptional Scientific Achievement Medal in 1974. He died in 1993, during a Mount Everest expedition while testing equipment for NASA.
- Age: Dec. at 66 (1926-1993)
- Birthplace: Cincinnati, Ohio
- Larry Joseph Sabato (; born August 7, 1952) is an American political scientist and political analyst. He is the Robert Kent Gooch Professor of Politics at the University of Virginia, where he is also the founder and director of the Center for Politics, which works to promote civic engagement and participation. The Center for Politics is also responsible for the publication of Sabato's Crystal Ball, an online newsletter and website that provides free political analysis and electoral projections.
- Age: 72
- Birthplace: Virginia
- Edmund Melson Clarke, Jr. (born July 27, 1945) is an American retired computer scientist and academic noted for developing model checking, a method for formally verifying hardware and software designs. He is the FORE Systems Professor of Computer Science Emeritus at Carnegie Mellon University. Clarke, along with E. Allen Emerson and Joseph Sifakis, is a recipient of the 2007 Association for Computing Machinery A.M. Turing Award.
- Age: 79
William Lyne Wilson
Politician, Soldier, LawyerWilliam Lyne Wilson (May 3, 1843 – October 17, 1900) was an American politician and lawyer from West Virginia. A Bourbon Democrat, Wilson was elected to the United States Congress in 1882 and served six terms of office, ending in 1895. Following his departure from the House of Representatives, Wilson was appointed Postmaster General of the United States by President Grover Cleveland, remaining in that cabinet-level position until 1897. After leaving government service Wilson was named President of Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Virginia.- Age: Dec. at 57 (1843-1900)
- Birthplace: Charles Town, West Virginia, USA
- Claude Augustus Swanson (March 31, 1862 – July 7, 1939) was an American lawyer and Democratic politician from Virginia. He served as U.S. Representative (1893-1906), Governor of Virginia (1906-1910), and U.S. Senator from Virginia (1910-1933), before becoming U.S. Secretary of the Navy under President Franklin D. Roosevelt from 1933 until his death. Swanson and fellow U.S. Senator Thomas Staples Martin led a Democratic political machine in Virginia for decades in the late 19th and early 20th century, which later became known as the Byrd Organization for Swanson's successor as U.S. Senator, Harry Flood Byrd.
- Age: Dec. at 77 (1862-1939)
- Birthplace: Swansonville, Virginia, Virginia, USA
J. Hillis Miller, Sr.
ProfessorJ. Hillis Miller Sr. (August 29, 1899 – November 14, 1953) was an American university professor, education administrator and university president. Miller was a native of Virginia, and earned bachelor's, master's and doctorate degrees before embarking on an academic career. He served as a psychology professor at the College of William & Mary and Bucknell University, the president of Keuka College, a senior administrator with the New York Department of Education, and the president of the University of Florida.- Age: Dec. at 54 (1899-1953)
- Birthplace: Front Royal, Virginia
- John Thomas Lupton (1862–1933) was an American lawyer, industrialist and philanthropist who along with Benjamin Thomas and Joseph Whitehead, obtained exclusive rights from Asa Candler to bottle and sell Coca-Cola.
- Age: Dec. at 71 (1862-1933)
- Birthplace: Virginia
- Age: 47
- Birthplace: USA, Virginia
- Patrick Graham Forrester (born March 31, 1957) is a retired United States Army officer and a NASA astronaut. At the time of his retirement from the U.S. Army, Forrester had achieved the rank of colonel. He is married and has two children. Forrester has flown on three Space Shuttle missions, STS-105, STS-117 and STS-128. He is the current Chief of the Astronaut Office, having assumed the role from Chris Cassidy in June 2017.
- Age: 67
- Birthplace: El Paso, Texas
- Birch Evans Bayh III (; born December 26, 1955) is an American lawyer, lobbyist, and politician of the Democratic Party who served as the junior United States Senator from Indiana from 1999 to 2011 and the 46th Governor of Indiana from 1989 to 1997. Bayh was first elected to public office as the Secretary of State of Indiana in 1986. He held the position for two years before being elected Governor. He left his office after completing two terms and briefly took a job lecturing at Indiana University Bloomington. He was elected to Congress as a Senator in 1998 and reelected in 2004. On February 15, 2010, Bayh unexpectedly announced he would not seek reelection to the Senate in 2010. After leaving the Senate, he was replaced by his predecessor, Dan Coats, and became a partner with the law and lobbying firm McGuireWoods in the firm's Washington, D.C. office, and also became a senior adviser with Apollo Global Management. He was a part-time contributor for Fox News from March 2011 to July 2016. In June 2011 he became a messaging adviser for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. On October 27, 2011, it was announced that Berry Plastics Corp. had appointed Bayh to its board of directors.Following the withdrawal of 2016 Democratic primary winner Baron Hill, Bayh announced that he would be running to take back his old Senate seat from retiring Republican incumbent Dan Coats. He was defeated by Todd Young in the general election by a 10-point margin (52% to 42%).Bayh is the grandson of basketball coach Birch Evans Bayh, Sr.
- Age: 69
- Birthplace: Shirkieville, Indiana, USA
James Lawrence Orr
LawyerJames Lawrence Orr (May 12, 1822 – May 5, 1873) was an American diplomat and politician who served as the 22nd Speaker of the United States House of Representatives from 1857 to 1859. He also served as the 73rd Governor of South Carolina from 1865 to 1868 after a term in the Confederate States Senate.- Age: Dec. at 50 (1822-1873)
- Birthplace: South Carolina, USA
- Robert Swan Mueller III (; born August 7, 1944) is an American lawyer and government official who served as the sixth Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) from 2001 to 2013. A graduate of Princeton University and New York University, Mueller served as a Marine Corps officer during the Vietnam War, receiving a Bronze Star for heroism and a Purple Heart. He subsequently attended the University of Virginia School of Law. Mueller is a registered Republican in Washington, D.C., and was appointed and reappointed to Senate-confirmed positions by presidents George H. W. Bush, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, and Barack Obama.Mueller has served both in government and private practice. He was an assistant United States attorney, a United States attorney, United States assistant attorney general for the Criminal Division, a homicide prosecutor in Washington, D.C., acting United States deputy attorney general, partner at D.C. law firm WilmerHale and director of the FBI. On May 17, 2017, Mueller was appointed by Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein as special counsel overseeing an investigation into allegations of Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election and related matters. He submitted his report to Attorney General William Barr on March 22, 2019. On April 18, the Department of Justice released it. On May 29, he resigned his post and the Office of the Special Counsel was closed.
- Age: 80
- Birthplace: New York City, New York, USA
- Alexander Hugh Holmes Stuart (April 2, 1807 – February 13, 1891) was a prominent Virginia lawyer and American political figure associated with several political parties. Stuart served in both houses of the Virginia General Assembly (1836-1838, 1857-1861 and 1874-1877), as a U.S. Congressman (1841-1843), and as the Secretary of the Interior (1850 - 1853). Despite opposing Virginia's secession and holding no office after finishing his term in the Virginia Senate during the American Civil War, after the war he was denied a seat in Congress. Stuart led the Committee of Nine which attempted to ameliorate Congressional Reconstruction, and also served as rector of the University of Virginia.
- Age: Dec. at 83 (1807-1891)
- Birthplace: Virginia, USA
Steve Shannon
LawyerStephen Charles "Steve" Shannon (born April 5, 1971) is a Circuit Court Judge in the 19th Judicial Circuit of Virginia. From 2004 to 2009, Shannon represented Virginia's 35th District in the Virginia House of Delegates. He was the 2009 Democratic nominee for Attorney General of Virginia. He was defeated by his opponent, Republican Ken Cuccinelli.- Age: 53
- Birthplace: Berkeley, California
- Douglas Friend Gansler (born October 30, 1962) is an American attorney and politician who served as the 45th Attorney General of Maryland. Gansler previously served as the State's Attorney for Montgomery County, Maryland from 1999 to 2007. He won nomination in the state Democratic primary election for Attorney General and defeated Republican candidate Scott Rolle in the 2006 general election, taking 61% of the vote. He was re-elected unopposed in the 2010 election. Gansler lost the Democratic Primary race for Governor of Maryland on June 24, 2014 to Anthony G. Brown.
- Age: 62
- Birthplace: Summit, New Jersey, USA
John W. Stevenson
LawyerJohn White Stevenson (May 4, 1812 – August 10, 1886) was the 25th governor of Kentucky and represented the state in both houses of the U.S. Congress. The son of future Speaker of the House and U.S. diplomat Andrew Stevenson, John Stevenson graduated from the University of Virginia in 1832 and studied law under his cousin, future Congressman Willoughby Newton. After briefly practicing law in Mississippi, he relocated to Covington, Kentucky, and was elected county attorney. After serving in the Kentucky legislature, he was chosen as a delegate to the state's third constitutional convention in 1849 and was one of three commissioners charged with revising its code of laws, a task finished in 1854. A Democrat, he was elected to two consecutive terms in the U.S. House of Representatives where he supported several proposed compromises to avert the Civil War and blamed the Radical Republicans for their failure. After losing his reelection bid in 1861, Stevenson, a known Confederate sympathizer, stayed out of public life during the war and was consequently able to avoid being imprisoned, as many other Confederate sympathizers were. In 1867, just five days after John L. Helm and Stevenson were elected governor and lieutenant governor, respectively, Helm died and Stevenson became acting governor. Stevenson subsequently won a special election in 1868 to finish Helm's term. As governor, he opposed federal intervention in what he considered state matters but insisted that blacks' newly granted rights be observed and used the state militia to quell post-war violence in the state. Although a fiscal conservative, he advocated a new tax to benefit education and created the state bureau of education. In 1871, Stevenson defeated incumbent Thomas C. McCreery for his seat in the U.S. Senate after criticizing McCreery for allegedly supporting the appointment of Stephen G. Burbridge, who was hated by most Kentuckians, to a federal position. In the Senate, he opposed internal improvements and defended a constructionist view of the constitution, resisting efforts to expand the powers expressly granted in that document. Beginning in late 1873, Stephenson functioned as the first chairman (later called floor leader) of the Senate Democratic caucus. He did not seek reelection in 1877, returning to his law practice and accepting future Kentucky Governor William Goebel as a law partner. He chaired the 1880 Democratic National Convention and was elected president of the American Bar Association in 1884. He died in Covington on August 10, 1886, and was buried in Spring Grove Cemetery at Cincinnati, Ohio.- Age: Dec. at 74 (1812-1886)
- Birthplace: Richmond, Virginia, USA
- Thomas Milburn Davis III (born January 5, 1949) is a lobbyist and former Republican member of the United States House of Representatives who represented Virginia's 11th congressional district in Northern Virginia. Davis was considering a run for the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by five-term incumbent and fellow Republican John Warner in the 2008 election, but decided against it. He announced on January 30, 2008, that he would not seek reelection to an eighth term. Davis resigned from Congress on November 24, 2008.From 2008 to 2018, he was a director of federal government affairs at Deloitte. He is currently the rector (head of the Board of Visitors) of George Mason University and a trustee of its Krasnow Institute for Advanced Study. In January 2019, he began work as a partner in the law firm Holland and Knight.
- Age: 76
- Birthplace: Minot, North Dakota, USA
Rick Boucher
LawyerFrederick Carlyle Boucher (; born August 1, 1946) is an American politician who was the U.S. Representative for Virginia's 9th congressional district from 1983 to 2011. He is a member of the Democratic Party. He was defeated in the 2010 elections, while trying to be elected to a 15th term, when he was challenged by Morgan Griffith.- Age: 78
- Birthplace: Abingdon, Virginia, USA
- Ronald Harry Coase (; 29 December 1910 – 2 September 2013) was a British economist and author. He was the Clifton R. Musser Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago Law School, where he arrived in 1964 and remained for the rest of his life. He received the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1991.Coase, who believed economists should study real markets and not theoretical ones, established the case for the corporation as a means to pay the costs of operating a marketplace. Coase is best known for two articles in particular: "The Nature of the Firm" (1937), which introduces the concept of transaction costs to explain the nature and limits of firms; and "The Problem of Social Cost" (1960), which suggests that well-defined property rights could overcome the problems of externalities (see Coase theorem). Additionally, Coase's transaction costs approach is currently influential in modern organizational economics, where it was reintroduced by Oliver E. Williamson.
- Age: Dec. at 102 (1910-2013)
- Birthplace: Willesden, London, United Kingdom
- Kenneth Thomas Cuccinelli II ( KOO-chi-NEL-ee; born July 30, 1968) is an American politician and lawyer who served as the 46th attorney general of Virginia from 2010 until 2014, and currently works in the Trump administration as acting Director of the Citizenship and Immigration Services (CIS) office. He was in the Virginia Senate, representing the 37th District in Fairfax County from 2002 until he took office as attorney general in 2010. On May 18, 2013, Cuccinelli won the Republican Party's gubernatorial nomination at the state party convention. Cuccinelli was the Republican nominee for Governor of Virginia in the 2013 Virginia gubernatorial election, losing to the Democratic nominee, Terry McAuliffe, by 56,435 votes or 2.5% of the total votes cast.A self-described opponent of homosexuality, Cuccinelli in his position as Virginia Attorney General defended anti-sodomy laws and prohibitions on same-sex marriage. Cuccinelli rejects the scientific consensus on climate change, and in his position as Attorney General investigated climate scientists, who he argued were engaged in fraud. He filed lawsuits against the Obama administration’s Environmental Protection Agency. Characterized as an immigration hard-liner, Cuccinelli sought to prohibit undocumented immigrants from attending universities, repeal birthright citizenship, force employees to speak English in the workplace. As CIS Director, he implemented and defended policies that would reject applications for visas or permanent residency for immigrants considered likely to utilize publicly funded benefits programs.
- Age: 56
- Birthplace: Edison, New Jersey, USA
- James Wilson Rouse (April 26, 1914 – April 9, 1996), founder of The Rouse Company, was a pioneering American real estate developer, urban planner, civic activist, and later, free enterprise-based philanthropist.
- Age: Dec. at 81 (1914-1996)
- Birthplace: Easton, Maryland
- John Neely Kennedy (born November 21, 1951) is an American attorney and politician who has served as the junior United States Senator from Louisiana since 2017. A Democrat-turned Republican, he previously served as the Louisiana state treasurer from 2000 to 2017. Born in Centreville, Mississippi, Kennedy graduated from Vanderbilt University and the University of Virginia School of Law before attending Oxford University (Magdalen College) in Oxford, England. Kennedy was a member of the staff of Governor Buddy Roemer before unsuccessfully running for state attorney general in 1991. In 1999, he was elected state treasurer. He was an unsuccessful candidate for U.S. Senate in 2004 and 2008. In 2004, he and fellow Democrat Chris John could not retain the vacant seat for their party, as they placed third and second behind David Vitter, losing a Senate seat from Louisiana to the Republican Party the first time since Reconstruction era. Prior to the 2008 election, Kennedy had switched parties to Republican and faced the Democratic incumbent, Mary Landrieu, but failed to unseat hear. In 2016, when his party colleague Vitter retired, Kennedy was once again a candidate for U.S. Senate. He came in first place in the November nonpartisan blanket primary and subsequently went on to defeat Democrat Foster Campbell in a December runoff by a vote of 61 percent to 39 percent before being sworn in on January 3, 2017. On December 3, 2018, Kennedy announced that he would not run for governor in the nonpartisan blanket primary in 2019 against Democratic incumbent John Bel Edwards. For months earlier, he had been mentioned as a prospective gubernatorial candidate, but he said that he preferred to remain in the Senate.
- Age: 73
- Birthplace: Centreville, Mississippi, USA
- John Michael Luttig (born June 13, 1954) is an American lawyer and a former United States Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit.
- Age: 70
- Birthplace: Tyler, Texas, USA
- Alben William Barkley (; November 24, 1877 – April 30, 1956) was an American lawyer and politician from Kentucky who served in both houses of Congress and as the 35th vice president of the United States from 1949 to 1953. In 1905, he was elected county attorney for McCracken County, Kentucky. He was chosen County Judge/Executive in 1909 and U.S. representative from Kentucky's First District in 1912. As a Representative, he was a liberal Democrat, supporting President Woodrow Wilson's New Freedom domestic agenda and foreign policy. Endorsing Prohibition and denouncing parimutuel betting, Barkley narrowly lost the 1923 Democratic gubernatorial primary to fellow Representative J. Campbell Cantrill. In 1926, he unseated Republican Senator Richard P. Ernst. In the Senate, he supported the New Deal approach to addressing the Great Depression and was elected to succeed Senate Majority Leader Joseph T. Robinson upon Robinson's death in 1937. During his 1938 re-election bid, his opponent A. B. "Happy" Chandler accused him of using Works Progress Administration employees to campaign for him; Barkley claimed Chandler used state employees in the same way. Neither candidate was charged with any wrongdoing, but in 1939, Congress passed the Hatch Act, making it illegal for federal employees to campaign for political candidates. When World War II focused President Franklin D. Roosevelt's attention on foreign affairs, Barkley gained influence over the administration's domestic agenda. He resigned as floor leader after Roosevelt ignored his advice and vetoed the Revenue Act of 1943. The veto was overridden and the Democratic caucus supported and unanimously re-elected Barkley to the position of Majority Leader. Barkley had a good working relationship with Harry S. Truman, who ascended to the presidency after Roosevelt's death in 1945. With Truman's popularity waning entering the 1948 Democratic National Convention, Barkley gave a keynote address that energized the delegates. Truman selected him as his running mate for the upcoming election and the Democratic ticket scored an upset victory. Barkley took an active role in the Truman administration, acting as its primary spokesman, especially after the Korean War necessitated the majority of Truman's attention. When Truman announced that he would not seek re-election in 1952, Barkley began organizing a presidential campaign, but labor leaders refused to endorse his candidacy because of his age, and he withdrew from the race. He retired but was coaxed back into public life, defeating incumbent Republican Senator John Sherman Cooper in 1954. Barkley died of a heart attack while giving a speech at the Washington and Lee Mock Convention on April 30, 1956.
- Age: Dec. at 78 (1877-1956)
- Birthplace: Lowes, Kentucky, Kentucky, USA
- William Barton Rogers (December 7, 1804 – May 30, 1882) was an American geologist, physicist, and educator at the University of Virginia from 1835 to 1853. In 1861, Rogers founded the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). The university opened in 1865 after the American Civil War. Because of his affiliation with Virginia, Mount Rogers, the highest peak in the state, is named after him.
- Age: Dec. at 77 (1804-1882)
- Birthplace: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Philip Cary Plait (born September 30, 1964), also known as The Bad Astronomer, is an American astronomer, skeptic, writer and popular science blogger. Plait has worked as part of the Hubble Space Telescope team, images and spectra of astronomical objects, as well as engaging in public outreach advocacy for NASA missions. He has written two books, Bad Astronomy and Death from the Skies. He has also appeared in several science documentaries, including Phil Plait's Bad Universe and How the Universe Works on the Discovery Channel. From August 2008 through 2009, he served as president of the James Randi Educational Foundation. Additionally, he wrote and hosted episodes of Crash Course Astronomy, which aired its last episode in 2016.
- Age: 60
- Birthplace: Washington, D.C., USA
- Hilary Abner Herbert (March 12, 1834 – March 6, 1919) was Secretary of the Navy in the second administration of President Grover Cleveland. He also served as a member of the United States House of Representatives from Alabama.
- Age: Dec. at 84 (1834-1919)
- Birthplace: Laurens, South Carolina, USA
- Dr. Travis Stork is an actor who appeared in "The Bachelor," and "The Doctors."
- Age: 52
- Birthplace: Fort Collins, Colorado, USA
Howard W. Smith
Politician, LawyerHoward Worth Smith (February 2, 1883 – October 3, 1976) was an American politician. A Democratic U.S. Representative from Virginia, he was a leader of the powerful but informal conservative coalition.- Age: Dec. at 93 (1883-1976)
- Birthplace: Broad Run, Virginia, USA
- Peter Jeffrey Kelsay Wisoff (born August 16, 1958) is an American physicist and former NASA astronaut. Wisoff qualified as mission specialist and flew in four manned Space Shuttle missions, with his first launch in 1993 and his last in 2000.
- Age: 66
- Birthplace: Virginia
Richard L. T. Beale
Politician, LawyerRichard Lee Turberville Beale (May 22, 1819 – April 21, 1893) was a lawyer, three-term United States Congressman from the Commonwealth of Virginia, and a brigadier general in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War.- Age: Dec. at 73 (1819-1893)
- Birthplace: USA
William Ballard Preston
Politician, LawyerWilliam Ballard Preston (November 25, 1805 – November 16, 1862) was an American politician who served as a Confederate States Senator from Virginia from February 18, 1862, until his death in November. He previously served as the 19th United States Secretary of the Navy from 1849 to 1850. He is also the cousin of William Campbell Preston and William Preston.- Age: Dec. at 56 (1805-1862)
- Birthplace: Blacksburg, Virginia, USA
- Roger Philip Mason Jr. (born September 10, 1980) is an American retired professional basketball player who last played for the Miami Heat of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He is the former deputy executive director of the NBA Players Association. He is the former president and commissioner of Big3.
- Age: 44
- Birthplace: Washington, D.C.
Robert M. T. Hunter
Politician, LawyerRobert Mercer Taliaferro Hunter (April 21, 1809 – July 18, 1887) was a Virginia lawyer, politician and plantation owner. He was a U.S. Representative (1837–1843, 1845–1847), Speaker of the House (1839–1841), and U.S. Senator (1847–1861). During the American Civil War, Hunter became the Confederate States Secretary of State (1861–1862) and then a Confederate Senator (1862–1865) and critic of President Jefferson Davis. After the war, Hunter failed to win re-election to the U.S. Senate, but did serve as the Treasurer of Virginia (1874–80) before retiring to his farm. After fellow Democrat Grover Cleveland was elected President of the United States in 1884, Hunter became the customs collector for the port of Tappahannock until his death.- Age: Dec. at 78 (1809-1887)
- Birthplace: Loretto, Virginia, Virginia, USA
- Tom Regan (; November 28, 1938 – February 17, 2017) was an American philosopher who specialized in animal rights theory. He was professor emeritus of philosophy at North Carolina State University, where he had taught from 1967 until his retirement in 2001.Regan was the author of numerous books on the philosophy of animal rights, including The Case for Animal Rights (1983), one of a handful of studies that have significantly influenced the modern animal rights movement. In these, he argued that non-human animals are what he called the "subjects-of-a-life", just as humans are, and that, if we want to ascribe value to all human beings regardless of their ability to be rational agents, then to be consistent, we must similarly ascribe it to non-humans.From 1985, he served with his wife Nancy as co-founder and co-president of the Culture and Animals Foundation, a nonprofit organization "committed to fostering the growth of intellectual and artistic endeavors united by a positive concern for animals."The Vegan Society remembers him as "a stalwart vegan and activist."
- Age: 86
- Birthplace: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
- Kathryn Ryan Cordell Thornton (born August 17, 1952 in Montgomery, Alabama) is an American scientist and a former NASA astronaut with over 975 hours in space, including 21 hours of extravehicular activity. She was the associate dean for graduate programs at the University of Virginia School of Engineering and Applied Science, currently a professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering.
- Age: 72
- Birthplace: Montgomery, Alabama
- Matthew Rutledge Schaub (born June 25, 1981) is a retired American football quarterback. He played for the Atlanta Falcons, Oakland Raiders, Baltimore Ravens, and Houston Texans of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Virginia Cavaliers, and was drafted by the Falcons in the third round of the 2004 NFL Draft. He has also played for the Houston Texans, Oakland Raiders and Baltimore Ravens.
- Age: 43
- Birthplace: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
- Robert Ligon "Bob" McWhorter (June 4, 1891 – June 29, 1960) played football and baseball at the University of Georgia.
- Age: Dec. at 69 (1891-1960)
- Birthplace: Athens, Georgia
- Eric Munoz, M.D., MBA, FACS (October 14, 1947 – March 30, 2009) was an American Republican Party politician, who served in the New Jersey General Assembly from May 2001, where he represented the 21st legislative district, until his death on March 30, 2009. Munoz had served as the Deputy Conference Leader since 2006.
- Age: Dec. at 61 (1947-2009)
- Birthplace: New York City, New York, USA
- Thomas Carr Frank (born March 21, 1965) is an American political analyst, historian, and journalist. He co-founded and edited The Baffler magazine. Frank has written several books with great impact, most notably What's the Matter with Kansas? (2004) and Listen, Liberal (2016). From 2008 to 2010 he wrote "The Tilting Yard", a column in The Wall Street Journal. A historian of culture and ideas, Frank analyzes trends in American electoral politics and propaganda, advertising, popular culture, mainstream journalism, and economics. His topics include the rhetoric and impact of culture wars in American political life and the relationship between politics and culture in the United States.
- Age: 59
- Birthplace: Kansas City, Missouri, USA
- Earl Heath Miller Jr. (born October 22, 1982) is a former American football tight end who played professionally for the Pittsburgh Steelers of the National Football League (NFL) for 11 seasons from 2005 to 2015. Miller played college football for the University of Virginia, where he earned All-American honors and won the John Mackey Award. The Steelers selected him in the first round with the 30th overall pick of the 2005 NFL Draft.
- Age: 42
- Birthplace: USA, Virginia, Richlands
- Patrick Manning Kerney (born December 30, 1976) is a former American football defensive end who played in the National Football League (NFL) for eleven seasons. He played college football for the University of Virginia in Charlottesville and was selected by the Atlanta Falcons in the first round of the 1999 NFL Draft, the thirtieth overall pick.
- Age: 48
- Birthplace: Trenton, New Jersey
- Stan Humphries is Vice President of Data and Analytics at Zillow.com. Prior to joining Zillow, Stan spent five years at Expedia.com where he ran a team responsible for finding innovative ways to use data, building systems for personalization, pricing, forecasting, and fraud detection. Before Expedia, Stan served as a researcher and faculty member at the University of Virginia, and was previously with NASA where he negotiated international science agreements. Stan has also served in the United States Peace Corps, where he taught physics and chemistry classes in West Africa. Stan has a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science/Economics from Davidson College, a Masters of Science in Foreign Service from Georgetown University, and a Ph.D. in Government from the University of Virginia.
- Robert Augustus Toombs (July 2, 1810 – December 15, 1885) was an American lawyer, planter, and politician from Georgia who became one of the organizers of the Confederacy and served as its first Secretary of State. He served in Jefferson Davis' cabinet as well as in the Confederate States Army, but later became one of Davis' critics. He fled the United States after the Confederate defeat, returning in 1867 after his daughter's death. He regained political power in Georgia as Congressional Reconstruction ended. A lawyer by training, Toombs gained renown in the antebellum years as an orator in the U.S. House of Representatives, and later in the U.S. Senate. A slaveholder, he found common ground with fellow-Georgian Alexander H. Stephens and advocated states' rights and the extension of slavery to western territories. Toombs supported the Compromise of 1850, but later advocated secession. Toombs had emotive oratory and a strong physical presence, but his intemperate habits and volatile personality limited his career. In the newly formed Confederate Government, Toombs was appointed Secretary of State. He criticised the attack on Fort Sumter, which put him at odds with President Jefferson Davis (whose position he had coveted), and he quit the administration to join the Confederate States Army. He became a Brigadier-General, and was wounded at the Battle of Antietam. In 1863, Toombs resigned his commission in the Confederate Army to join the Georgia militia. He was subsequently denied higher promotion and resigned as he continued to feud with Davis. When the war ended, he fled to Cuba. He returned to Georgia in 1867, but refused to request a presidential pardon and was prohibited from holding political office until after the Reconstruction era ended.
- Age: Dec. at 75 (1810-1885)
- Birthplace: Washington, Georgia, USA
- William Terry (August 14, 1824 – September 5, 1888) was a nineteenth-century politician, lawyer, teacher, and soldier from Virginia and the last commander of the famed Stonewall Brigade during the American Civil War.
- Age: Dec. at 64 (1824-1888)
- Birthplace: Virginia, USA
- Jennifer Leigh McClellan (born December 28, 1972) is an American politician of the Democratic Party. She is currently a Virginia State Senator, representing the 9th district in Greater Richmond. She is also vice-chair of the Democratic Party of Virginia and a member of the Democratic National Committee. From 2006 to 2017 she was member of the Virginia House of Delegates, representing the 71st district.
- Age: 52
- Birthplace: Virginia
- Tanya Holland is an African-American professional chef, cookbook author, and owner of Brown Sugar Kitchen and B-Side BBQ in Oakland, California. Her first book, New Soul Cooking, was published by Stuart, Tabori & Chang in 2003. A second book, Brown Sugar Kitchen: New Style Down-Home Recipes from Sweet West Oakland with a foreword by Michael Chabon, was released in 2014 by Chronicle Books. Holland is a regular guest chef on NBC's Today Show and CBS's The Talk. She hosted the Food Network TV show "Melting Pot Soul Kitchen" from 2000-2003.
- Age: 59
- Birthplace: Hartford, Connecticut
- Debra Lynn Bowen (born October 27, 1955), a member of the Democratic Party, was the Secretary of State of California from 2007 to 2015. Previously, she was a member of the California State Legislature from 1992 to 2006. In March 2008, she was given the Profile in Courage Award by the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum.
- Age: 69
- Birthplace: Rockford, Illinois, USA
- Martin Linn Clardy (April 26, 1844 – July 5, 1914) was a nineteenth-century politician, lawyer and railroad executive from Missouri.
- Age: Dec. at 70 (1844-1914)
- Birthplace: Farmington, Missouri, USA
- Thomas Q. Jones is an American actor who appeared in "P-Valley," "Straight Outta Compton," and "A Violent Man."
- Age: 46
- Birthplace: Big Stone Gap, Virginia, USA
- Thomas Henry "Tom" Marshburn (born August 29, 1960) is an American physician and a NASA astronaut. He served as a Mission Specialist on STS-127. Marshburn was a member of the Soyuz TMA-07M crew which launched to ISS in December 2012 to join Expedition 34.
- Age: 64
- Birthplace: Statesville, North Carolina
- John Warner Backus (December 3, 1924 – March 17, 2007) was an American computer scientist. He directed the team that invented and implemented FORTRAN, the first widely used high-level programming language, and was the inventor of the Backus–Naur form (BNF), a widely used notation to define formal language syntax. He later did research into the function-level programming paradigm, presenting his findings in his influential 1977 Turing Award lecture "Can Programming Be Liberated from the von Neumann Style?" The IEEE awarded Backus the W. W. McDowell Award in 1967 for the development of FORTRAN. He received the National Medal of Science in 1975 and the 1977 ACM Turing Award "for profound, influential, and lasting contributions to the design of practical high-level programming systems, notably through his work on FORTRAN, and for publication of formal procedures for the specification of programming languages".He retired in 1991 and died at his home in Ashland, Oregon on March 17, 2007.
- Age: Dec. at 82 (1924-2007)
- Birthplace: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Hanan Daoud Mikhael Ashrawi (Arabic: حنان داوود مخايل عشراوي; born October 8, 1946) is a Palestinian leader, legislator, activist, and scholar who served as a member of the Leadership Committee and as an official spokesperson of the Palestinian delegation to the Middle East peace process, beginning with the Madrid Peace Conference of 1991. In 1996, Ashrawi was appointed as the Palestinian Authority Minister of Higher Education and Research. Prior to that, she was Dean of the Faculty of Arts at Birzeit University and head of its Legal Aid Committee since the mid-1970s. Ashrawi was elected to the Palestinian Legislative Council representing Jerusalem in 1996, and she was re-elected for the “Third Way” bloc ticket in 2006. Making history as the first woman to hold a seat in the highest executive body in Palestine, she was elected as member of the Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) in 2009 and in 2018. As a civil society activist, she founded the Independent Commission for Human Rights in 1994 and served as its Commissioner-General until 1995. In 1998, she also founded MIFTAH, the Palestinian Initiative for the Promotion of Global Dialogue and Democracy and continues to serve as head of its Board of Directors. In 1999, Ashrawi founded the National Coalition for Accountability and Integrity (AMAN). Ashrawi serves on the advisory and international boards of several global, regional and local organizations dealing with a variety of issues including human rights, women’s rights, policy formation, peacemaking, and nation-building. Ashrawi is the recipient of numerous awards from all over the world, including the distinguished French decoration, “d'Officier de l'Ordre National de la Légion d'Honneur” in 2016; the 2005 Mahatma Gandhi International Award for Peace and Reconciliation; the 2003 Sydney Peace Prize; the 2002 Olof Palme Prize; the 1999 International Women of Hope “Bread and Roses”; the Defender of Democracy Award – Parliamentarians for Global Action; the 50 Women of the Century; the 1996 Jane Addams International Women’s Leadership Award; the Pearl S. Buck Foundation Women’s Award; the 1994 Pio Manzu Gold Medal Peace Award; and the 1992 Marissa Bellisario International Peace Award. She is the author of several books, articles, poems and short stories on Palestinian politics, culture and literature. Her book This Side of Peace (Simon & Schuster, 1995) earned worldwide recognition. Ashrawi received both Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts degrees from the American University of Beirut and a Doctor of Philosophy degree in Medieval and Comparative Literature from the University of Virginia in the United States. Moreover, she is the recipient of eleven honorary doctorates from universities in the U.S., Canada, Europe, and the Arab world. She is married to Emile Ashrawi and has two daughters, Amal and Zeina.
- Age: 78
- Birthplace: Nablus
- Christopher Howard Long (born March 28, 1985) is a former American football defensive end. He is the son of Pro Football Hall of Fame member Howie Long and older brother of football player Kyle Long. He played college football at Virginia, where he was recognized as a unanimous All-American. He was selected by the St. Louis Rams as the second overall pick in the 2008 NFL Draft. Long also played for the New England Patriots and Philadelphia Eagles. In 2017, Long announced he would donate his entire season's salary to charity. He ended his career with back-to-back Super Bowl victories in the 2016 and 2017 seasons, winning Super Bowl LI with the Patriots and Super Bowl LII with the Eagles, and the Walter Payton NFL Man of the Year Award in 2018.
- Age: 39
- Birthplace: Santa Monica, California, USA
- William Marvin Bass III (born August 30, 1928) is an American forensic anthropologist, best known for his research on human osteology and human decomposition. He has also assisted federal, local, and non-U.S. authorities in the identification of human remains. He taught at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville, and though currently retired from teaching, still plays an active research role at the University of Tennessee Anthropological Research Facility, which he founded. The Facility is more popularly known as "The Body Farm", a name used by crime author Patricia Cornwell in a novel of the same name, which drew inspiration from Bass and his work. Bass has also described the body farm as "Death's Acre" – the title of the book on his life and career, co-written with journalist Jon Jefferson. Jefferson and Bass, under the pen name "Jefferson Bass", have also written several fictional works: Carved In Bone, Flesh and Bone, The Devil's Bones, Bones of Betrayal, The Bone Thief, The Bone Yard, The Inquisitor's Key, Cut To the Bone, and The Breaking Point. Bass is the third generation in his family to have an educational building named after him. The Dr. William M. Bass III Forensic Anthropology Building dedication ceremony was September 27, 2011, near the Body Farm.
- Age: 96
- Birthplace: Virginia
- Thomas Davis Rust (born July 21, 1941) is an American politician of the Republican Party. He is a former member of the Virginia House of Delegates, representing the 86th District from 2002 to 2016. Previously, he was mayor of Herndon, Virginia for 19 years (1976–84, 1990–2001).
- Age: 83
- Birthplace: Front Royal, Virginia, USA
- Sheila Jackson Lee (born January 12, 1950) is an American politician. She is currently the U.S. Representative for Texas's 18th congressional district, currently serving in her 13th term in the House, having served since 1995. The district includes most of central Houston. She is a member of the Democratic Party.
- Age: 75
- Birthplace: New York City, New York, USA
- Sheldon Whitehouse (born October 20, 1955) is an American lawyer and politician serving as the junior United States Senator from Rhode Island since 2007. He is a member of the Democratic Party and previously served as a United States Attorney from 1993 to 1998 and as the Attorney General of Rhode Island from 1999 to 2003.
- Age: 69
- Birthplace: New York City, New York, USA
Walter Stauffer McIlhenny
BusinesspersonWalter Stauffer McIlhenny (October 22, 1910 – June 22, 1985) served as president of McIlhenny Company, maker of Tabasco brand pepper sauce, from 1949 until his death in 1985. He also distinguished himself as a member of the U.S. Marine Corps Reserve — receiving the Navy Cross for his actions during the Battle of Guadalcanal and retiring as a brigadier general. He was a co-founder, trustee, and president emeritus of the Marine Military Academy in Harlingen, Texas.- Age: Dec. at 74 (1910-1985)
- Birthplace: Washington, D.C.
- Barry James Marshall (born 30 September 1951) is an Australian physician, Nobel Prize Laureate in Physiology or Medicine, and Professor of Clinical Microbiology at the University of Western Australia. Marshall and Robin Warren showed that the bacterium Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori) plays a major role in causing many peptic ulcers, challenging decades of medical doctrine holding that ulcers were caused primarily by stress, spicy foods, and too much acid. This discovery has allowed for a breakthrough in understanding a causative link between Helicobacter pylori infection and stomach cancer.
- Age: 73
- Birthplace: Kalgoorlie, Australia
- Howell Edmunds Jackson (April 8, 1832 – August 8, 1895) was an American attorney, politician, and jurist. He served as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, as a United States Senator from Tennessee and as a United States Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit and the United States Circuit Courts for the Sixth Circuit. Jackson was the first to bring a law school graduate with him to serve as his secretary-clerk on the Supreme Court; that secretary-clerk was James Clark McReynolds, who would later also became a Supreme Court Justice.
- Age: Dec. at 63 (1832-1895)
- Birthplace: Paris, Tennessee, USA
- James Stuart Gilmore III (born October 6, 1949) is an American politician, diplomat and former attorney who was the 68th Governor of Virginia from 1998 to 2002 and Chairman of the Republican National Committee in 2001. A native Virginian, Gilmore graduated as a Bachelor of Arts and a Juris Doctor from the University of Virginia, and then served in the U.S. Army as a counterintelligence agent. He was later elected to public office as a county prosecutor, as the Attorney General of Virginia, and as Governor of Virginia. Gilmore was a candidate for the Republican nomination for President of the United States in the 2008 and 2016 elections.In November 2018, Gilmore was nominated by President Donald Trump to serve as the U.S. Representative to United States Mission to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, a position which carries the rank of ambassador. His nomination was confirmed by a voice vote of the U.S. Senate on May 23, 2019. Gilmore was sworn in on June 25, 2019 and presented his credentials to OSCE Secretary General Thomas Greminger on July 2, 2019.
- Age: 75
- Birthplace: Richmond, Virginia, USA
- Tim Wu is an American lawyer, professor at Columbia Law School, and contributing opinion writer for The New York Times. He is best known for coining the phrase network neutrality in his 2003 paper Network Neutrality, Broadband Discrimination, and popularizing the concept thereafter. Wu has also made significant contributions to antitrust policy and wireless communications policy, most notably with his "Carterfone" proposal.Wu is a scholar of the media and technology industries, and his academic specialties include antitrust, copyright, and telecommunications law. Wu was named to The National Law Journal's "America's 100 Most Influential Lawyers" in 2013, as well as to the "Politico 50" in 2014 and 2015. Additionally, Wu was named one of Scientific American's 50 people of the year in 2006, and one of Harvard University's 100 most influential graduates by 02138 magazine in 2007. His book The Master Switch was named among the best books of 2010 by The New Yorker magazine, Fortune magazine, Publishers Weekly, and other publications. From 2011 to 2012, Wu served as a Senior Advisor to the Federal Trade Commission, and from 2015–2016 he was senior enforcement counsel at the New York Office of the Attorney General, where he launched a successful lawsuit against Time-Warner cable for falsely advertising their broadband speeds. In 2016 Wu joined the National Economic Council in the Obama White House to work on competition policy.
Willard Saulsbury, Jr.
LawyerWillard Saulsbury Jr. (April 17, 1861 – February 20, 1927) was an American lawyer and politician from Wilmington, in New Castle County, Delaware. He was a member of the Democratic Party who served as U.S. Senator from Delaware and President Pro Tempore of the U.S. Senate.- Age: Dec. at 65 (1861-1927)
- Birthplace: Georgetown, Delaware, USA
- For the Indian newspaper editor and British politician, see Stanley Reed.Stanley Forman Reed (December 31, 1884 – April 2, 1980) was a noted American attorney who served as United States Solicitor General from 1935 to 1938 and as an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court from 1938 to 1957. Born in Mason County, Kentucky, Reed established a legal practice in Maysville, Kentucky and won election to the Kentucky House of Representatives. He attended law school but did not graduate, making him the latest-serving Supreme Court Justice who did not graduate from law school. After serving in the United States Army during World War I, Reed emerged as a prominent corporate attorney and took positions with the Federal Farm Board and the Reconstruction Finance Corporation. He took office as Solicitor General in 1935, and defended the constitutionality of several New Deal policies. After the retirement of Associate Justice George Sutherland, President Franklin D. Roosevelt successfully nominated Reed to the Supreme Court. Reed served until his retirement in 1957, and was succeeded by Charles Evans Whittaker. Reed wrote the majority opinion in cases such as Smith v. Allwright, Gorin v. United States, and Adamson v. California. He authored dissenting opinions in cases such as Illinois ex rel. McCollum v. Board of Education.
- Age: Dec. at 95 (1884-1980)
- Birthplace: Kentucky, USA
- Virgil Hamlin Goode Jr. (born October 17, 1946) is an American politician who served as a member of the United States House of Representatives from 1997 to 2009. He was initially a Democrat, but became an independent in 2000 and switched to the Republican Party in 2002. He represented the 5th congressional district of Virginia. He lost his seat in the 2008 election to Democrat Tom Perriello.
- Age: 78
- Birthplace: Richmond, Virginia, USA
