Gertrude Jeannette, Actor, Director and Cabdriver, Dies at 103
Believed to be the first woman to drive a taxi in New York City, she also overcame a speech impediment to work on Broadway, in film and on television.
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Photo CreditRosalie Riegle Jean Gump, Tireless Fighter for Social Justice, Dies at 90
Ms. Gump served four years in prison for disabling a missile silo, one of her many arrests as a political activist, all while raising 12 children.
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Photo CreditIan Boyden Sam Hamill, Poet, Publisher and War Protester, Dies at 74
Mr. Hamill, the founder of Copper Canyon Press, expressed his opposition to the Iraq war by collecting and publishing thousands of antiwar poems.
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Photo CreditGetty Images North America Sachio Kinugasa, Japanese Baseball’s Iron Man, Is Dead at 71
In 1987 he broke Lou Gehrig’s record for consecutive games played, only to see his testament to durability exceeded nine years later by Cal Ripken Jr.
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Photo CreditABC Photo Archives/ABC, via Getty Images Soon-Tek Oh, Actor Who Chafed at Asian Stereotypes, Dies at 85
He was among the founders of East West Players, a theater troupe that sought better roles for Asian-American actors and more representative stories.
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Photo CreditThe Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel Vel Phillips, Housing Rights Champion in the ′60s, Is Dead at 95
She broke racial and gender barriers on her way to spearheading open-housing legislation in Milwaukee and was a voice in Democratic national politics.
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Photo CreditSue Ogrocki/Reuters Dr. Samuel Epstein, 91, Cassandra of Cancer Prevention, Dies
He blamed greedy manufacturers, lax regulators, misguided researchers and complicit charitable groups for what he saw as a coming cancer epidemic.
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Photo CreditAlan Nahigian Bob Dorough, Jazzman With a Hit Kid-Music Series, Dies at 94
Mr. Dorough worked with Miles Davis and many others, but he’s best known for his songs for the educational cartoon series “Schoolhouse Rock!”
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Photo CreditRoz Kelly/Michael Ochs Archives, via Getty Images Remarkable People We Overlooked in Our Obituaries
The poet Sylvia Plath and the novelist Charlotte Brontë. Ida B. Wells, the anti-lynching activist. These extraordinary people — and so many others — did not have obituaries in The New York Times. Until now.
