Notable Alumni of Ohio Wesleyan University [Sorted List]

1. Daniel Webster Comstock

1840-1917 (aged 77)

writer lawyer judge politician

Daniel Webster Comstock was an American lawyer, jurist, and Civil War veteran who briefly served as a U.S. representative from Indiana in 1917.

2. Edwin Erle Sparks

1860-1924 (aged 64)

Edwin Erle Sparks was the eighth president of the Pennsylvania State University, serving from 1908 until 1920. The Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of Philosophy is a position at Pennsylvania State University named after him.

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3. John W. McCormick

1831-1917 (aged 86)

politician

John Watts McCormick was an American politician who served one term as a U.S. Representative from Ohio from 1883 to 1885,

4. Marjorie Millace Whiteman

1898-1986 (aged 88)

diplomat art collector jurist

Marjorie Millace Whiteman was an American legal scholar and author known for her fifteen-volume Digest of International Law, also referred to as the "Whiteman Digest". She served in the United States Department of State for over forty years and was inducted into the Ohio Women's Hall of Fame in 1979.

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5. Grant E. Mouser, Jr

1895-1943 (aged 48)

lawyer politician

Grant Earl Mouser Jr. was a U.S. representative from Ohio for two terms from 1929 to 1933.

6. William R. Warnock

1838-1918 (aged 80)

lawyer judge politician

William Robert Warnock was an American lawyer, politician, and veteran of the Civil War who served two terms as a U.S. Representative from Ohio from 1901 to 1905.

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7. Elizabeth Boynton Harbert

1843-1925 (aged 82)

suffragist philanthropist novelist writer lecturer

Elizabeth Morrison Harbert was a 19th-century American author, lecturer, reformer and philanthropist from Indiana. She was the first women to design a woman's plank and secure its adoption by a major political party in a U.S. state.

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8. Driss Sekkat

Driss Sekkat is Moroccan American television producer.

9. Hü King Eng

1865-1919 (aged 54)

physician

Hü King Eng was a physician, and the second ethnic Chinese woman to attend university in the United States, after King You Mé. Her medical career is well-documented, as she was treated as a celebrity by American media, due to the lack of even American women studying medicine at the time.

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10. John F. McKinney

1827-1903 (aged 76)

lawyer politician

John Franklin McKinney was an American lawyer and politician who served two non-consecutive terms as a U.S. Representative from Ohio from 1863 to 1865 and again from 1871 to 1873.

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11. George Carleton Lacy

1888-1951 (aged 63)

priest

George Carleton Lacy was an American Methodist missionary and the last Methodist bishop in mainland China.

12. William Crittenden Mooney

1855-1918 (aged 63)

politician banker

William Crittenden Mooney was a U.S. representative from Ohio. His parents were Colonel Samuel L. Mooney, a major figure in the development of Monroe County, and Martha Kirkpatrick.

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13. Hugh L. Nichols

1865-1942 (aged 77)

lawyer judge politician

Hugh Llewellyn Nichols was an American politician who served as the 32nd lieutenant governor of Ohio from 1911 to 1913 and as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Ohio from 1913 to 1920.

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14. Leon C. Marshall

1879-1966 (aged 87)

economist

Leon Carroll Marshall was an American economist, Professor of Political Economy and fourth dean of the Booth School of Business from 1909 to 1924, Professor at the Law School of the Johns Hopkins University, and Professor at the American University. He is known for his works on our economic organization, business administration, curriculum-making in the social studies and the divorce...

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15. Charles Caldwell McCabe

1836-1906 (aged 70)

presbyter theologian

Charles Cardwell McCabe, also known as "Bishop" C. C. McCabe and Chaplain C. C. McCabe, was an American who distinguished himself as a Methodist pastor, an Army chaplain during the American Civil War, a Church executive chiefly in the field of fundraising, as chancellor of American University, and as a bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church (M.E.), elected in 1896....

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16. Francis John McConnell

1871-1953 (aged 82)

autobiographer author priest biographer

Francis John McConnell was an American social reformer and a bishop in the Methodist Episcopal Church, elected in 1912.

17. Madison Miner Walden

1836-1891 (aged 55)

lawyer politician

Madison Miner Walden was a Civil War officer, teacher, publisher, farmer, the Lieutenant Governor of Iowa, and a one-term Republican U.S. Representative from Iowa's 4th congressional district, then located in southeastern Iowa.

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18. John W. Shenk

1875-1959 (aged 84)

judge

John Wesley Shenk was a city attorney in Los Angeles, California, a Superior Court judge and a member of the California Supreme Court.

19. John Wesley Hoyt

1831-1912 (aged 81)

politician editor journalist pedagogue businessperson

John Wesley Hoyt was an American politician and educator. Hoyt was the third Governor of Wyoming Territory.

20. Walter Ellsworth Brehm

1892-1971 (aged 79)

laborer dentist politician

Walter Ellsworth Brehm was a U.S. representative from Ohio.

21. Max Urick

head coach American football player

Max Franklin Urick was American football coach and college athletics administrator. He served as the head football coach at Wabash College in Crawfordsville, Indiana for four seasons, from 1967 until 1970, compiling a record of 11–22–2. Urick was the athletic director at Iowa State University from 1983 to 1993 at Kansas State University from 1993 until his retirement in 2001....

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22. Pindar Van Arman

artist

Pindar Van Arman is an American artist and roboticist based in Washington, D.C. His art focuses on designing painting robots that explore the differences between human and computational creativity. Since his first system in 2005, he has built multiple artificially creative robots, including CrowdPainter, bitPaintr, and CloudPainter. His robotic systems typically paint with a brush on stretched canvas and have...

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23. Cheryl Heller

designer

Cheryl Heller is an American business strategist and designer. She founded the first Master of Fine Arts program in Design for Social Innovation at the School of Visual Arts, is the President of the design lab "CommonWise", and is the recipient of the AIGA Medal for her contributions to the field of design. As a Rockefeller Bellagio Fellow, Heller is...

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24. George S. Howard

1903-1995 (aged 92)

bandleader conductor bandmaster

Colonel George Sallade Howard was commander and conductor of The United States Air Force Band between 1947 and 1963.

25. Rachel Littler Bodley

1831-1888 (aged 57)

university teacher teacher botanical collector curator botanist

Rachel Littler Bodley was an American professor, botanist, and university leader. She was best known for her term as Dean of the Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania (1874–1888). She helped found the American Chemical Society in New York City.

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26. John R. Park

1833-1900 (aged 67)

teacher

John Rockey Park was a prominent educator in the Territory and State of Utah in the late 19th century, and in many ways was the intellectual father of the University of Utah.

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27. Edward Junge Hickox

1878-1966 (aged 88)

basketball coach basketball player

Edward Junge Hickox was an American basketball coach and administrator. Born in Cleveland, Ohio, he coached the basketball team of Springfield College from 1926 to 1941, coached the American International College basketball team from 1944 to 1947, was a chairman of the National Basketball Rules Committee from 1945 to 1948, served on the board of directors of the Basketball Hall...

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28. James W. Huffman

1894-1980 (aged 86)

politician

James Wylie Huffman was an American lawyer and Democratic Party politician from Ohio. He represented Ohio in the United States Senate from 1945 until 1946.

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29. Howard Sloane

1950-. (aged 76)

lawyer

Howard G. Sloane (born December, 1950) is an American lawyer, executive, and philanthropist currently serving as chairman and CEO of The Heckscher Foundation for Children.

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30. George Meader

1907-1994 (aged 87)

lawyer politician

George Meader, was a Republican politician from the US state of Michigan.

31. Washington Gardner

1845-1928 (aged 83)

university teacher lawyer politician

Washington Gardner was a lawyer, minister, politician and Civil War veteran from the U.S. state of Michigan.

32. Samuel G. Cosgrove

1847-1909 (aged 62)

politician

Samuel Goodlove Cosgrove was an American politician who served as the sixth governor of Washington from January to March 1909. He was a U.S. Civil War veteran and a Republican.

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33. Kenyon Farrow

1974-. (aged 52)

LGBTQ rights activist teacher writer non-fiction writer journalist

Kenyon Farrow is an American writer, activist, director, and educator focused on progressive racial and economic justice issues related to the LGBTQ community. He served as the executive director of Queers for Economic Justice, policy institute fellow with National LGBTQ Task Force, U.S. & Global Health Policy Director of Treatment Action Group, public education and communications coordinator for the New...

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34. D. Leigh Colvin

1880-1959 (aged 79)

politician

David Leigh Colvin was an American politician and member of the Prohibition Party and the Law Preservation Party.

35. Daniel H. Reynolds

1832-1902 (aged 70)

lawyer politician

Daniel Harris Reynolds was a Confederate States Army brigadier general during the American Civil War. He was born at Centerburg, Ohio, but moved to Iowa, Tennessee, and finally to Arkansas before the Civil War. He was a lawyer in Arkansas before the war. After the war, Reynolds resumed his practice of law and was a member of the Arkansas Senate...

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36. Elizabeth A. Phelps

university teacher neuroscientist psychologist

Elizabeth Anya Phelps is the Pershing Square Professor of Human Neuroscience at Harvard University in the Department of Psychology. She is a known for her research on uncovering how the human brain processes emotion and its influence on learning, memory and decision making. She was the recipient of the Social and Affective Neuroscience Society Distinguished Scholar Award, the George Miller...

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37. Willa Beatrice Player

1909-2003 (aged 94)

educator

Willa Beatrice Player was an American educator, college administrator, college president, civil rights activist, and federal appointee. Player was the first African-American woman to become president of a four-year, fully accredited liberal arts college when she took the position at Bennett College in Greensboro, North Carolina.

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38. John Marshall Hamilton

1847-1905 (aged 58)

lawyer politician

John Marshall Hamilton was the 18th Governor of Illinois, serving from 1883 to 1885. Born in Union County, Ohio, Hamilton became interested in politics at a young age, joining the Wide Awakes when he was thirteen and the Union Army four years later. After graduating from Ohio Wesleyan University he studied law and was admitted to the bar. A notable...

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39. Keith Rucker

1968-. (aged 58)

American football player

Keith Rucker V is an American former professional football player who was a defensive tackle in the National Football League (NFL). He played for the Phoenix Cardinals (1992–1993), the Cincinnati Bengals (1994–1995), Philadelphia Eagles (1996), the Washington Redskins (1996–1997), and the Kansas City Chiefs (1997). He finished his playing career with the San Antonio Matadors of the Spring Football League....

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40. Cyrus Locher

1878-1929 (aged 51)

university teacher lawyer politician

Cyrus Locher was a Democratic politician from Ohio. He served in the U.S. Senate in 1928.

41. Wilbur P. Thirkield

1854-1936 (aged 82)

Catholic priest

Wilbur Patterson Thirkield was a Methodist bishop and educator born in Franklin, Ohio. He served as president of Howard University. He was the son of Eden Burrows Thirkield, a prominent merchant of that town. The Thirkield family had long been involved with the Methodist Church. James E. Thirkield, Wilbur's grandfather, had moved from Pennsylvania into the Miami River Valley in...

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42. James E. Robinson

1868-1932 (aged 64)

lawyer judge

James Edgar Robinson was an American lawyer who served as an Associate Justice of the Ohio Supreme Court from 1919 to 1932. He was the maternal grandfather of First Lady Barbara Bush and matrilineal great-grandfather of George W. Bush.

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43. Shirin R. Tahir-Kheli

2003-2005 (aged 2)

diplomat political scientist

Shirin R. Tahir-Kheli is an American political scientist who also served in the Department of State. In 2006, she was appointed as the first Ambassador for women's empowerment by the United States Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice as well as Senior Advisor to the Secretary of State on United Nations Reform. She was sworn in as the First American Muslim...

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44. Ram Samudrala

1972-. (aged 54)

biologist bioinformatician

Ram Samudrala is a professor of computational biology and bioinformatics at the University at Buffalo, United States. He researches protein folding, structure, function, interaction, design, and evolution.

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45. Jai Chabria

political adviser

Jai Chabria is an American political strategist who has served as a strategist and advisor for politicians such as former United States senator JD Vance and former Governor of Ohio John Kasich. He is currently a partner at MAD Global Strategy.

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46. Barry Clemens

1943-. (aged 83)

basketball player

John Barry Clemens is an American former professional basketball player. The 6' 6" Clemens attended Xenia High School and Ohio Wesleyan University before being drafted by the NBA's New York Knicks in the 1965 NBA draft, and he went on to have a productive 11-year career with five teams: the Knicks, the Chicago Bulls, the Seattle SuperSonics, the Cleveland Cavaliers,...

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47. William G. Batchelder

1942-2022 (aged 80)

lawyer judge politician

William G. Batchelder III was an American politician who was the 101st Speaker of the Ohio House of Representatives, serving from 2011 to 2014. He also represented the 69th District of the Ohio House of Representatives from 2007 to 2014, and served in the House from 1969 to 1998 previously. He was a Republican.

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48. Otho F. Strahl

1831-1864 (aged 33)

lawyer army officer

Brigadier-General Otho French Strahl was a senior officer of the Confederate States Army who commanded infantry in the Western Theater of the American Civil War. Prior to the war, he was a lawyer in Dyersburg, Tennessee. Strahl was one of a small number of Confederate generals born in the North.

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49. George Washington Steele

1839-1922 (aged 83)

lawyer politician

George Washington Steele was an American lawyer, soldier, and politician who twice served as a representative for Indiana, from 1881 to 1889 and again from 1895 to 1903. Steele was also the first governor of Oklahoma Territory and was instrumental in developing the state's public education system and its two largest universities.

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50. Clarence Dill

1884-1978 (aged 94)

teacher lawyer politician

Clarence Cleveland Dill was an American politician from the state of Washington. A Democrat, he was elected to two terms each in both houses of Congress.

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51. William Hung

1982-. (aged 44)

singer actor poker player

William Hung, was a Chinese historian and sinologist who taught for many years at Yenching University, Peking, which was China's leading Christian university, and at Harvard University. He is known for bringing modern standards of scholarship to the study of Chinese classical writings, for editing the Harvard-Yenching Index Series, and for his biography of Du Fu, Tu Fu: China's Greatest...

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52. George Conrades

businessperson

George Conrades is the former chairman of the board and former chief executive officer of Akamai Technologies. Prior to Akamai, Conrades was CEO of BBN Technologies. Before joining BBN he spent 31 years at IBM, running its U.S. and Asia-Pacific businesses and heading two manufacturing and development groups. Conrades is an executive advisor to Akamai Technologies and on the board...

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53. Arthur Sherwood Flemming

1905-1996 (aged 91)

academic administrator politician

Arthur Sherwood Flemming was an American government official. He served as the United States Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare from 1958 until 1961 under President Dwight D. Eisenhower's administration. Flemming was an important force in the shaping of Social Security policy for more than four decades. He also served as president of the University of Oregon, Ohio Wesleyan University,...

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54. John M. Pattison

1847-1906 (aged 59)

lawyer politician

John M. Pattison was an American Democratic politician from Ohio. Pattison was for five months the 43rd governor of Ohio, serving for a shorter period than any other person elected to the office before his death.

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55. Frank W. Gunsaulus

1856-1921 (aged 65)

pastor educator writer

Frank Wakeley Gunsaulus was a noted preacher, educator, pastor, author and humanitarian. Famous for his "Million Dollar Sermon" which led Philip Danforth Armour to donate money to found Armour Institute of Technology where Gunsaulus served as president for its first 27 years. Gunsaulus lived in Chicago for 34 years where he was pastor of Plymouth Church (1887–99) and Central Church...

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56. Pete Lee

1947-. (aged 79)

lawyer politician

Sanford Edmund Lee is an American politician. He served in the Colorado Senate from the 11th district as a member of the Democratic Party. Prior to his tenure in the state senate he served in the Colorado House of Representatives from the 18th district.

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57. Edwin Grant Conklin

1863-1952 (aged 89)

university teacher biologist zoologist marine biologist botanist

Edwin Grant Conklin was an American biologist and zoologist.

58. Anuvab Pal

1976-. (aged 50)

novelist playwright screenwriter

Anuvab Pal is an Indian stand up comedian, screenwriter, playwright and novelist. He is occasionally featured as a rotating co-host on season 4 of the podcast The Bugle.

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59. Orra E. Monnette

1873-1936 (aged 63)

lawyer banker

Orra Eugene Monnette was an attorney, author and banker. Monnette was also the founder of the Bank of America, Los Angeles

60. Gregor Collins

1976-. (aged 50)

writer

Gregor Collins is an American author, speaker, producer and former actor, most known for writing The Accidental Caregiver, a memoir about the three years he spent with Maria Altmann.

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61. Dwight Weist

1910-1991 (aged 81)

actor

Dwight Weist, Jr. was an actor and announcer in the era of old-time radio.

62. Tates Locke

1937-2024 (aged 87)

basketball coach

Taylor "Tates" Locke was an American basketball coach. He was described by Rick Telander in the March 8, 1982, issue of Sports Illustrated as being "as high-strung, aggressive and gung-ho over college coaching as anyone has ever been." He died in Jacksonville, Florida, on May 15, 2024, at the age of 87.

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63. Joseph Poindexter

1869-1951 (aged 82)

lawyer judge

Joseph Boyd Poindexter was the eighth Territorial Governor of Hawaii, serving from 1934 to 1942.

64. Dave Hobson

1936-2024 (aged 88)

politician

David Lee Hobson was an American lawyer and politician of the Republican Party who served as a U.S. representative from the seventh congressional district of Ohio from 1991 to 2009.

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65. Alice M. Batchelder

1944-. (aged 82)

jurist judge

Alice M. Moore Batchelder is an American attorney and jurist. She is currently a senior United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. She served as chief judge from 2009 until 2014. She also was considered by President George W. Bush as a potential nominee for a United States Supreme Court seat that...

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66. Homer Rodeheaver

1880-1955 (aged 75)

writer songwriter

Homer Alvan Rodeheaver was an American evangelist, music director, music publisher, composer of gospel songs, and pioneer in the recording of sacred music.

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67. Dan Dickerson

1958-. (aged 68)

sports commentator

Daniel Hill Dickerson is an American sportscaster, best known for his current position as the lead radio play-by-play voice of Major League Baseball's Detroit Tigers on the Detroit Tigers Radio Network.

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68. Frank Stanton

1908-2006 (aged 98)

businessperson

Frank Nicholas Stanton was an American broadcasting executive who served as the president of CBS between 1946 and 1971 and then as vice chairman until 1973. He also served as the chairman of the Rand Corporation from 1961 until 1967.

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69. Amos Dolbear

1837-1910 (aged 73)

physicist inventor

Amos Emerson Dolbear was an American physicist and inventor. Dolbear researched electrical spark conversion into sound waves and electrical impulses. He was a professor at University of Kentucky in Lexington from 1868 until 1874. In 1874 he became the chair of the physics department at Tufts University in Medford, Massachusetts. He is known for his 1882 invention of a system...

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70. Myron Timothy Herrick

1854-1929 (aged 75)

diplomat lawyer politician

Myron Timothy Herrick was an American banker, diplomat and Republican politician from Ohio. He served as the 42nd governor of Ohio and United States Ambassador to France on two occasions.

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71. Jo Ann Emerson

1950-. (aged 76)

politician

Jo Ann Emerson is an American politician who was the U.S. representative for Missouri's 8th congressional district from 1996 to 2013. The district consists of Southeast and South Central Missouri and includes the Bootheel, the Lead Belt and the Ozarks. Emerson is a member of the Republican Party. On January 22, 2013, Emerson resigned her seat in Congress to become...

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72. James Oberg

1944-. (aged 82)

author engineer journalist

James Edward Oberg is an American space journalist and historian, regarded as an expert on the Russian and Chinese space programs. He had a 22-year career as a space engineer in NASA specializing in orbital rendezvous. Oberg is an author of ten books and more than a thousand articles on space flight. He has provided multiple explanations of UFO phenomena...

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73. Buck Rodgers

1938-. (aged 88)

baseball player

Robert Leroy "Buck" Rodgers is an American former professional baseball player, coach, and manager. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a catcher for the Los Angeles / California Angels for nine seasons during the 1960s. He later managed three major-league teams: the Milwaukee Brewers, Montreal Expos, and California Angels, compiling a managerial record of 784–774 (.503).

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74. Frank H. Murray

1953-. (aged 73)

businessperson

Frank Hardart Murray is an American business executive. He is founder, president and chief executive officer of InterTech Media. In the 1990s, Murray was the chairman and CEO of Goodman Manufacturing Company and engineered Goodman's purchase of Amana Corporation from Raytheon and initiated Amana's successful brand-revitalization campaign. Under Murray, Goodman moved up Forbes' list of 500 Biggest Private Companies from...

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75. Jeff Long

1960-. (aged 66)

baseball player

Jeffrey Paul Long is an American athletics director, most recently at the University of Kansas. He is the former Vice Chancellor and director of athletics at the University of Arkansas and joined the University in 2008 after holding the same position at the University of Pittsburgh. Long's career in administration includes positions at the University of Oklahoma, University of Michigan,...

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76. Horace Newton Allen

1858-1932 (aged 74)

diplomat missionary physician

Horace Newton Allen was an American diplomat, missionary and physician who was American ambassador to Korea from 1897 to 1905. Along with Robert Samuel Maclay, Allen was one of the first Western Protestant missionaries in Korea, arriving there on September 15, 1884.

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77. Byron Pitts

1960-. (aged 66)

journalist

Byron Pitts is an American journalist and author, working for ABC News as co-anchor for the network's late night news program, Nightline. Until March 2013, he served as a chief national correspondent for The CBS Evening News and contributed regularly to 60 Minutes.

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78. F. Sherwood Rowland

1927-2012 (aged 85)

author chemist environmental chemist university teacher

Frank Sherwood "Sherry" Rowland was an American Nobel laureate and a professor of chemistry at the University of California, Irvine. His research was on atmospheric chemistry and chemical kinetics. His best-known work was the discovery that chlorofluorocarbons contribute to ozone depletion.

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79. Joseph B. Foraker

1846-1917 (aged 71)

lawyer judge politician

Joseph Benson Foraker was an American politician of the Republican Party who served as the 37th governor of Ohio from 1886 to 1890 and as a United States senator from Ohio from 1897 until 1909.

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80. Mary Katherine Campbell

1905-1990 (aged 85)

model beauty pageant contestant

Mary Katherine Campbell was the only person to win the Miss America pageant twice and the second woman in history to win the title.

81. Masa Nakayama

1891-1976 (aged 85)

politician

Masa Nakayama was a Japanese politician and educator who was the first woman appointed to the Cabinet of Japan when she became Minister of Health and Welfare in 1960.

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82. Helen Kim

1899-1970 (aged 71)

politician writer journalist missionary poet

Helen Kim was a South Korean politician, educator, social activist, and feminist. Her art name was Wuwol (우월). Kim was the founder of the World Federation of Methodist and Uniting Church Women (WFMUCW), and the daily Korean newspaper, The Korea Times.

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83. William H. Gass

1924-2017 (aged 93)

military officer university teacher critic writer prose writer

William Howard Gass was an American novelist, short story writer, essayist, critic, and philosophy professor. He wrote three novels, three collections of short stories, a collection of novellas, and seven volumes of essays, three of which won National Book Critics Circle Award prizes and one of which, A Temple of Texts (2006), won the Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism....

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84. Benh Zeitlin

1982-. (aged 44)

composer film director film editor cinematographer animator

Benjamin Harold Zeitlin is an American filmmaker, best known for directing and co-writing the 2012 film Beasts of the Southern Wild, for which he received two Academy Award nominations.

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85. Kathryn Barger

politician

Kathryn Ann Barger-Leibrich is an American politician who is a member of the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors for the 5th District since 2016. A member of the Republican Party, Barger served as Chair of Los Angeles County from 2019–2020 and 2024–2025. She previously served as Chief Deputy Supervisor and Chief of Staff to her predecessor Mayor Michael D....

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86. Charles W. Fairbanks

1852-1918 (aged 66)

lawyer writer politician

Charles Warren Fairbanks was the 26th vice president of the United States under President Theodore Roosevelt serving from 1905 to 1909. A member of the Republican Party, Fairbanks was previously a senator from Indiana from 1897 to 1905.

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87. Ezra Vogel

1930-2020 (aged 90)

writer university teacher sinologist academic japanologist

Ezra Feivel Vogel was an American sociologist who wrote on modern Japan, China, and Korea. He was Henry Ford II Professor of the Social Sciences at Harvard University.

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88. Lucy Webb Hayes

1831-1889 (aged 58)

politician

Lucy Ware Hayes was the wife of President Rutherford B. Hayes and served as the 19th first lady of the United States from 1877 to 1881. Opposed to alcohol, she never served it in the White House, a move that was highly controversial. She died of a stroke aged 57 after her husband's presidency. She was also, while her husband...

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89. Wendie Malick

1950-. (aged 76)

model television actor voice actor actor film actor

Wendie Malick is an American actress and former fashion model, known for her roles in various television comedies. She starred as Judith Tupper Stone in the HBO sitcom Dream On and as Nina Van Horn in the NBC sitcom Just Shoot Me!, with the latter earning nominations for two Primetime Emmys and a Golden Globe Award.

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90. Robert Pine

1941-. (aged 85)

film actor television actor voice actor

Robert Pine is an American actor. He is best known as Sgt. Joseph Getraer on the television series CHiPs (1977–1983). Including CHiPs, Pine has appeared in over 400 episodes of various television shows.

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91. Norman Vincent Peale

1898-1993 (aged 95)

writer psychologist

Norman Vincent Peale was an American Protestant clergyman, and an author best known for popularizing the concept of positive thinking, especially through his best-selling book The Power of Positive Thinking (1952). He served as the pastor of Marble Collegiate Church, New York, from 1932, leading this Reformed Church in America congregation for more than a half century until his retirement...

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92. Trish Van Devere

1943-. (aged 83)

film actor actor television actor

Trish Van Devere is a retired American actress. She was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for the film One Is a Lonely Number (1972), and won a Genie Award for the film The Changeling (1980). She is the widow of actor George C. Scott, with whom she appeared in multiple films.

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93. Patricia Heaton

1958-. (aged 68)

television actor film producer actor film actor

Patricia Helen Heaton is an American actress. Heaton achieved her career breakthrough and global fame with her portrayal of Debra Barone in the CBS sitcom Everybody Loves Raymond (1996–2005). She began her career appearing in a recurring role in the ABC drama series Thirtysomething (1989–1991) and later appearing in the comedy films Memoirs of an Invisible Man and Beethoven (both...

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94. Clark Gregg

1962-. (aged 64)

film actor film director television actor actor director

Robert Clark Gregg Jr. is an American actor, director, and screenwriter. He portrayed Phil Coulson in films and television series set in the Marvel Cinematic Universe from 2008 to 2024, and voiced Coulson in an animated television series and video games.

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95. Mary Bigelow Ingham

1832-1923 (aged 91)

writer

Mary Bigelow Ingham was an American author, educator, and religious worker. Dedicated to teaching, missionary work, and temperance reform, she served as professor of French and belles-lettres in the Ohio Wesleyan College; presided over and addressed the first public meeting ever held in Cleveland conducted exclusively by religious women; co-founded the Western Reserve School of Design (later, Cleveland Institute of...

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96. Paul Gillmor

1939-2007 (aged 68)

military officer lawyer politician

Paul Eugene Gillmor was an American politician of the Republican Party who served as the U.S. representative from the 5th congressional district of Ohio from 1989 until his death in 2007.

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97. Michael van der Veen

1963-. (aged 63)

lawyer

Michael Thomas van der Veen is an American attorney who specializes in civil litigation and criminal defense. He represented then former president Donald Trump during his second impeachment trial in the United States Senate, which resulted in acquittal on February 13, 2021.

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98. Patricia Wettig

1951-. (aged 75)

actor television actor writer film actor stage actor

Patricia Anne Wettig is an American actress and playwright. She is best known for her role as Nancy Weston in the television series Thirtysomething (1987–1991), for which she received a Golden Globe Award and three Primetime Emmy Awards.

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99. Daniel Van Voorhis

1878-1956 (aged 78)

military personnel

Daniel Van Voorhis was a United States Army lieutenant general and was noteworthy for his assignments as commander of V Corps and the Caribbean Defense Command, as well as his efforts in creating the Army's modern armor branch.

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100. Melvin Van Peebles

1932-2021 (aged 89)

film editor recording artist film director film producer actor

Melvin Van Peebles was an American actor, filmmaker, writer, and composer. His feature film debut, The Story of a Three-Day Pass (1967), was based on his own French-language novel La Permission and was shot in France, as it was difficult for a black American director to get work at the time. The film won an award at the San Francisco...

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