Passed Made Present
Teacher posting an obituary from the past, daily
www.passedmadepresent.org
- "Setouchi was already an established novelist before she shaved her head and became a nun at age 51." #JakuchoSetouchi 1922-2021 Born on this day apnews.com/article/ente...
- "The children had only the vaguest idea of what she did for a living, since she didn’t talk about her job much." #EthelJohnson 1935-2018 Born on this day www.nytimes.com/2019/11/25/s...
- "Lise established a small resistance network in Poitiers and sought out suitable landing strips and drop zones, where she could receive parachuted containers of weapons..." #LiseVillameur 1905-2004 Born on this day www.theguardian.com/news/2004/ju...
- "Blacque... adopted 11 children and was the spokesman for the county of Los Angeles Adoption Service. In 1989, Blacque was asked by President George H.W. Bush to become the national spokesperson for adoption." #TaureanBlacque 1940-2022 Born on this day chicago.suntimes.com/obituaries/2...
- "... a phenomenally versatile German chemist and physicist who founded two major scientific disciplines..." #ManfredEigen 1927-2019 Born on this day www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2...
- "In 1976, Vanguard also introduced the first indexed fund for individual investors... it was initially ridiculed as "un-American" but now the Vanguard 500 Index Fund is one of the industry's largest." #JohnBogle 1929-2019 Born on this day www.reuters.com/article/busi...
- "[Her father's] family – more than 40 people – perished during the Holocaust. In 1948, when he discovered how they had been killed, he took his own life." #RuthPrawerJhabvala 1927-2013 Born on this day www.theguardian.com/books/2013/a...
- "Magnetic resonance has revolutionized medicine, giving a clear look inside the vulnerable human body without cutting it open..." #PaulLauterbur 1929-2007 Born on this day www.nytimes.com/2007/03/28/o...
- "During this period of her daughter's illness, Tammy nursed her back to health, but she had run up large debts... It was the need to raise extra money which prompted her... becoming a professional singer." #TammyWynette 1942-1998 Born on this day www.independent.co.uk/news/obituar...
- "She legitimized opposition to overdevelopment and the destruction of neighborhoods." #JaneJacobs 1916-2006 Born on this day www.amny.com/news/jane-ja...
- "A longtime obituary writer, Sheeler championed war veterans and their families... His 12,000-word article 'Final Salute' won the 2006 Pulitzer Prize." #JimSheeler 1969-2021 Born on this day www.denverpost.com/2021/09/21/j...
- "Such relaxed advice, given in the easy, practical, reassuring way that he had with parents, was light-years from the stern dictums of earlier standard works..." #BenjaminSpock 1903-1998 Born on this day www.nytimes.com/1998/03/17/u...
- "Cross was in fact then the only West Indian on the squadron, where his comrades gave him the fond nickname 'The Black Hornet.'" #UlricCross 1917-2013 Born on this day www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituar...
- "... a groundbreaking cellist who expanded a realm of possibilities for his instrument in avant-garde jazz and classical music..." #AbdulWadud 1947-2022 Born on this day www.npr.org/2022/08/12/1...
- "At a concert with the salsa group the Fania All Stars at Yankee Stadium in New York in the Seventies, he played a duet... that drove the massive crowd into such frenzy that the concert had to be abandoned." #RayBarretto 1929-2006 Born on this day www.the-independent.com/news/obituar...
- "She placed thoroughly normal school students in everyday settings and then threw in a dramatic surprise – sometimes supernatural, sometimes realistic – which would reveal how different people behave..." #LoisDuncan 1934-2016 Born on this day www.theguardian.com/books/2016/j...
- "'I was drawing on the Arabic tradition of storytelling one-upmanship,” he said. “When I was a kid, men would gather in my parents’ living room... I couldn’t understand the language, but I was fascinated.'" #CaseyKasem 1932-2014 Born on this day www.nytimes.com/2014/06/16/b...
- "One of the 20th Century's most prolific architects, he has designed municipal buildings, hotels, schools and other structures across North America, Asia and Europe." #IMPei 1917-2019 www.bbc.com/news/world-4...
- "... argued late into the night against the launch." #RogerBoisjoly 1938-2012 Born on this day www.latimes.com/local/obitua...
- "In 1983, he helped avert a potential nuclear confrontation..." #LeonardPerroots 1933-2017 Born on this day wapo.st/3RupQfQ
- "She later served as the U.S. ambassador to Ghana and Czechoslovakia and as the State Department’s chief of protocol." #ShirleyTemple 1928-2014 Born on this day www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...
- "'Wichita Lineman' went to No 1 in the US and also broke him in Britain where it reached the Top 10... The song collected a Grammy and became much requested by US soldiers fighting in Vietnam." #GlenCampbell 1936-2017 Born on this day www.bbc.com/news/enterta...
- "... he created or built market niches for products like Odor-Eaters foot care products, Vagisil feminine care products and Just for Men instant hair coloring." #IvanCombe 1911-2000 Born on this day www.nytimes.com/2000/01/17/b...
- "He championed Italian food... with a focus on simple recipes passed down through families, which cemented his trademark phrase,” MOF MOF” – minimum of fuss, maximum of flavour." Antonio Carluccio 1937-2017 Born on this day www.independent.co.uk/news/obituar...
- "... who as a young woman turned a gift of less than a dollar into 12 jars of marmalade... and went on to become one of Ghana's leading entrepreneurs and a prominent exponent of the role of women in economic development..." #EstherOcloo 1919-2002 Born on this day www.nytimes.com/2002/03/10/w...
- "Fame came suddenly to Sirimavo Bandaranaike of Sri Lanka in 1960 when she was made the world's first female prime minister." #SirimavoBandaranaike 1916-2000 Born on this day www.economist.com/obituary/200...
- "In the 1960s he managed rock super group Cream and its guitarist Eric Clapton before signing brothers Barry, Maurice and Robin Gibb..." #RobertStigwood 1934-2016 Born on this day www.latimes.com/local/obitua...
- "They landed the helicopter in the line of fire between American troops and fleeing Vietnamese civilians and pointed their own guns at the U.S. soldiers to prevent more killings." #HughThompson 1943-2006 Born on this day www.nytimes.com/2006/01/06/w...
- "When he asked his students to pick a meeting place... most would settle on the clock at Grand Central station... Mr Schelling used this idea to help explain why nuclear weapons had not been used on the battlefield..." #ThomasSchelling 1921-2016 Born on this day www.economist.com/finance-and-...
- "In five years she had no fewer than 40 books published — eight in 1956 alone, published under five pen names — each around 70,000 words long." #IdaPollock 1908-2013 Born on this day www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituar...
- "He founded the Church of Satan in 1966, keeping a Nubian lion named Togare, as well as a stuffed werewolf, in the black Richmond District Victorian that served both as his devil-worshipping church and his home." #AntonLaVey 1930-1997 Born on this day www.sfgate.com/news/article...
- "Mr Halberstam's truth-telling about the Vietnam war caused such anguish to officialdom that President Kennedy tried to get him fired." #DavidHalberstam 1934-2007 Born on this day www.economist.com/obituary/200...
- "One of the most influential performers and political figures to emerge from black America, Mr. Robeson was under a cloud in his native land during the cold war as a political dissenter..." #PaulRobeson 1898-1976 Born on this day www.nytimes.com/1976/01/24/a...
- "Brel in full cry was a great sight. Face raised to the roof, he seemed about to take off from the stage, his long teeth tearing at the words as if they were the last moorings holding him down." #JacquesBrel 1929-1978 Born on this day www.theguardian.com/news/2013/oc...
- "... played a key role in furthering the appreciation of African - and specifically Nigerian - music, polyrhythms and spirituality in jazz and world music." #BabatundeOlatunji 1927-2003 Born on this day www.theguardian.com/news/2003/ap...
- "... she studied with two famous Akron musicians... Both told her parents she had the potential to become a concert pianist." #JudithResnik 1949-1986 Born on this day www.beaconjournal.com/story/news/l...
- "... trumpeter, composer, flugelhorn player, bandleader, singer and political activist..." #HughMasekela 1939-2018 Born on this day www.npr.org/sections/the...
- "Pops sometimes packed a pistol and knew how to shoot. He was once a biker and a licensed pilot with a plane of his own." Emmett Johns (1928-2018) Born on this day www.montrealgazette.com/news/article...
- "In 1990 Mariner nevertheless became the first woman to command a navy aviation unit." #RosemaryMariner 1953-2019 Born on this day www.thetimes.com/world/us-wor...
- "... surely did more good for Kenya than all the men together who found her principled politics so unsettling." #WangariMaathai 1940-2011 Born on this day www.economist.com/obituary/201...
- "At her funeral Father Martin Magill, a personal friend, recalled that she had tweeted him a photo of herself dressed up as a nun and with a bottle of cider in her hand: 'Need any help with mass tomorrow?'" #LyraMcKee (1990-2019) Born on this day www.irishtimes.com/life-and-sty...
- "Images of Naomi Sims on magazine covers in the late 1960s were unprecedented." #NaomiSims (1948-2009) Born on this day www.theguardian.com/theguardian/...
- "His best known song, Yéké Yéké... became the first African single to sell over a million copies - as well as being the first international dance floor hit to feature the kora, the ancient west African harp." #MoryKante (1950-2020) Born on this day www.theguardian.com/music/2020/m...
- "... a Japanese artist who worked in the ancient tradition of calligraphy, using ink that was centuries old to produce works that were regarded as gems of modern abstract expressionism..." #TokoShinoda (1913-2021) Born on this day wapo.st/4cdVxnh
- "Launching the careers of blues greats Howlin’ Wolf and Muddy Waters, and recording innumerable musical stars including Chuck Berry, Bo Diddley, John Lee Hooker and Etta James..." Phil Chess (1921-2016) Born on this day www.theguardian.com/music/2016/o...
- "Finally, shortly before Pearl Harbor, the American Consulate gave him a visa. He knew his parents were fated to be deported to a concentration camp. The visa applied only to him. Should he leave them behind?" #ViktorFrankl (1905-1997) Born on this day www.the-independent.com/news/people/...
- "For an insight into what fashion modelling in the US was like before Eileen Ford and her husband, Jerry, set up their revolutionary model agency, watch the 1944 film musical Cover Girl..." #EileenFord (1922-2014) Born on this day www.theguardian.com/fashion/2014...
- "... North Vietnamese forces captured her and five others during a 1971 battle for Highway 4. Newspapers wrote her obituary, prematurely it turned out." #KateWebb (1943-2007) Born on this day www.reuters.com/article/worl...
- "... demonised for his closeness to the dictator who slaughtered 300,000 of his countrymen, and for his own reputed involvement in some of Amin’s murkiest deeds." #BobAstles (1924-2012) Born on this day www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituar...
- "In his homeland he was lionised, and he made significant charitable donations which he never remotely attempted to publicise." #AyrtonSenna (1960-1994) Born on this day www.the-independent.com/news/people/...
