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This is a list of lists of deaths of notable people, organized by year. New deaths articles are added to their respective month (e.g., Deaths in February 2025 ) and then linked below. 2025
Upon her death, the lobby of the Ambassador Theatre, home of the current revival of Chicago, installed an "In Memoriam" poster of her in costume as Roxie Hart from the 1996 opening cast. [citation needed] Following her death, students of Reinking's Broadway Theatre Project produced a documentary in her honor called The Joy is in the Work. [38]
Juan Ponce de León (1460–1521), first European to explore Florida (1513); founded the first European settlement in Puerto Rico (1508) Alonso del Castillo Maldonado (died c. 1540), explorer and one of the four last survivors of the Narváez expedition. Gaspar de Portolà (c. 1717–aft. 1784), explorer, founder of Monterey, California
Calderón de la Barca, a key figure in the theatre of the Spanish Golden Age. Spanish Golden Age theatre refers to theatre in Spain roughly between 1590 and 1681. [1] Spain emerged as a European power after it was unified by the marriage of Ferdinand II of Aragon and Isabella I of Castile in 1469 and then claimed for Christianity at the Siege of Granada in 1492. [2]
Pope John Paul II was the subject of three premature obituaries.. A prematurely reported obituary is an obituary of someone who was still alive at the time of publication. . Examples include that of inventor and philanthropist Alfred Nobel, whose premature obituary condemning him as a "merchant of death" for creating military explosives may have prompted him to create the Nobel Prize; [1 ...
Who's Who in the Theatre is a British reference work, first published in 1912 with sixteen new editions from then until its last issue in 1981. The book was a successor to The Green Room Book , of which four editions were published between 1906 and 1909.
D'Amico conceived of the project and brought it to fruition. The theater section was under the direction of Luigi Squarzina; he also did the film section. D'Amico's father worked on the drama theatre section, while his brother Mario worked on the music section. Gabriele Baldini and later Gian Luigi Rondi were responsible for the cinema section.
Australian Dictionary of Biography. Vol. 1. Canberra: National Centre of Biography, Australian National University. ISBN 978-0-522-84459-7. ISSN 1833-7538. OCLC 70677943. "Jack" Stearns Gray (Edith Stearns) - Author of "Up: A True Story of Aviation." OCLC 3183388 Early aviation barnstormer, with boyfriend and later husband George A. Gray.