Famous University Of Massachusetts Amherst Alumni
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People on this list must have gone to University of Massachusetts Amherst and be of some renown.
- Richard Gere, born on August 31, 1949, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, is a prominent figure in the world of Hollywood. He is best known for his roles in major films such as 'An Officer and a Gentleman,' 'Pretty Woman,' and 'Chicago.' His acting career spans several decades, with numerous accolades and awards to his name. Gere's portfolio reflects his versatility as an actor, demonstrating his ability to excel in a variety of genres ranging from romantic comedies to serious dramas. Gere's journey to stardom began when he received a gymnastics scholarship to the University of Massachusetts. However, his passion for performing arts led him to drop out and pursue a career in theatre. He made his stage debut in the Seattle Repertory Theatre before moving to New York City, where he landed key roles in productions such as 'Grease' and 'Bent.' His breakthrough came in 1980 when he starred in the film 'American Gigolo,' which paved the way for his successful Hollywood career. Beyond his acting career, Gere is also recognized worldwide for his humanitarian efforts. He is a co-founder of the Tibet House and a longtime supporter of the Dalai Lama. His advocacy work extends to global human rights and AIDS research. Additionally, he has produced several documentaries highlighting political injustices around the world.
- Age: 75
- Birthplace: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
- Michael Blakey may refer to: Michael Blakey (anthropologist) (born 1953), professor at the College of William & Mary Michael Robert Blakey (born 1975), business angel, venture capitalist
- Age: 65
- Birthplace: England, London
- Bill Cosby, born William Henry Cosby Jr. on July 12, 1937, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, grew to become a dominant figure in American entertainment throughout the latter half of the 20th century. Known primarily for his work in comedy and acting, Cosby's career spanned over five decades, during which he achieved significant milestones that have left an indelible mark on the industry. He attended Temple University in the late 1950s but dropped out to pursue his career in stand-up comedy, only to return later in life to earn his degree. Cosby's early success began in the 1960s with I Spy, a television series that made him the first African American to co-star in a dramatic series. This achievement was followed by a string of successes. However, it was The Cosby Show, which premiered in 1984, that solidified Cosby's status as a household name. The sitcom, which portrayed a close-knit and prosperous African American family, broke racial stereotypes and topped the Nielsen ratings for an impressive five years. Despite his professional accomplishments, Cosby's personal life has been marked by controversy. In the mid-2010s, numerous sexual assault allegations were levied against him, leading to a highly publicized trial. In 2018, he was convicted and sentenced to prison.
- Age: 87
- Birthplace: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
- Bridget Moynahan, a name that resonates in the Hollywood corridors, is an accomplished actress and model. Born Kathryn Bridget Moynahan on September 21, 1971, in Binghamton, New York, she was brought up in Longmeadow, Massachusetts. Bridget's early life was marked by her interest in modelling, which led her to grace the covers of prestigious magazines like Vogue and Elle before she transitioned into acting. Moynahan first caught the public's attention with her role in the popular television series Sex and the City, where she played Natasha, Mr. Big's wife. However, it was her role as Assistant District Attorney Erin Reagan in the police drama Blue Bloods that cemented her status as an accomplished actress. Her filmography spans across multiple genres, including thriller films like Unknown and romantic comedies like Coyote Ugly. Besides her acting career, Moynahan is known for her philanthropic work. She is actively involved in charities such as Jumpstart, which works towards early education in low-income communities, showing her commitment to social causes. As an author, she co-wrote The Blue Bloods Cookbook, bringing her love for food to the printed page. Despite the glitz and glamour of her profession, Moynahan manages to keep her personal life relatively private. She is the mother of one son from her previous relationship with football star Tom Brady.
- Age: 54
- Birthplace: USA, Binghamton, New York
- Catherine Grace "Cady" Coleman (born December 14, 1960) is an American chemist, a former United States Air Force officer, and a retired NASA astronaut. She is a veteran of two Space Shuttle missions, and departed the International Space Station on May 23, 2011, as a crew member of Expedition 27 after logging 159 days in space.
- Age: 63
- Birthplace: Charleston, South Carolina
- Natalie Cole, born on February 6, 1950, was a renowned American singer-songwriter and actress. The daughter of two of the most celebrated figures in American music history, vocalist Nat King Cole and former Duke Ellington Orchestra singer Maria Hawkins Ellington, she carved out her unique place in the entertainment world with an illustrious career spanning over four decades. Her journey in the music industry was marked by a fusion of genres, including R&B, pop, and jazz, which contributed significantly to her legacy as a multifaceted artist. Cole's music career took off in the mid-1970s with her debut album Inseparable, which earned her two Grammy Awards. Over the subsequent years, she released numerous successful albums, including Unpredictable and Thankful, both of which were certified platinum. However, it was her 1991 album Unforgettable... with Love, featuring virtual duets with her late father, that became her biggest hit, selling over seven million copies in the United States alone and winning her three Grammy awards. Despite her thriving career, Cole's life was not without adversity. She battled drug addiction for many years, and her health issues later included Hepatitis C and kidney disease, culminating in a kidney transplant in 2009. Despite these challenges, she continued to perform and record new music until her untimely death in 2015. Natalie Cole's enduring influence on the music industry is evident in her extensive discography, numerous awards, and the admiration of countless fans worldwide.
- Age: 74
- Birthplace: Los Angeles, USA, California
Rob Corddry
Television director, Comedian, Television producerInitially recognized for his work as a smart-aleck reporter on a fictional news program, comedic actor Rob Corddry went on to impress audiences in a variety of roles, both on television and in feature films. After making his television debut with several guest spots on the improv comedy series "Upright Citizens Brigade" (Comedy Central, 1998-2000), the Massachusetts native grabbed considerable attention as a smarmy, inept correspondent on the Emmy-winning satirical news program "The Daily Show" (Comedy Central, 1996- ) under the guidance of Jon Stewart. During his four-year tenure on the popular "news" program, Corddry made forays into feature films in such vehicles as the Will Ferrell collegiate comedy "Old School" (2003) before briefly venturing out on his own as the star of the short-lived, Seth McFarlane-produced sitcom "The Winner" (Fox, 2007). Corddry had better success on the big screen, where he expanded his repertoire to include diverse roles in projects ranging from the Ben Stiller romantic comedy remake "The Heartbreak Kid" (2007) to playing Press Secretary Ari Fleischer in Oliver Stone's presidential biopic "W." (2008). As a writer, director and star, he launched the medical spoof "Childrens Hospital" (Adult Swim, 2010-16) even as he continued taking on more prominent acting roles in mainstream features like the raucous comic fantasy "Hot Tub Time Machine" (2010). Continually expanding his unique brand of comedy, Corddry enjoyed a prolific and varied career in film and television.- Age: 53
- Birthplace: Weymouth, Massachusetts, USA
- Maura Murray disappeared the evening of February 9, 2004, after crashing her car on Route 112 in Haverhill, New Hampshire. A nursing student at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, Murray left campus earlier that afternoon after packing her car and emailing her professors and work supervisor that she was taking a week off due to a family emergency. No family emergency existed. Due to her preparations and a lack of evidence of foul play, police investigators initially suggested she may have wanted to disappear and treated her case as a missing persons investigation, but her family and friends have maintained she was abducted. Over ten years after her disappearance, there is no suspect and her whereabouts remain unknown. New Hampshire authorities continue to handle Murray's disappearance as a missing persons case.
- Age: 42
- Birthplace: Hanson, Plymouth County, Massachusetts
- Tina Liebling (born 1953) is a Minnesota attorney and politician who is a member of the Minnesota House of Representatives. A member of the Minnesota Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party (DFL), she represents District 26A, which consists entirely of the city of Rochester in Olmsted County, which is in the southeastern part of the state. She was a candidate for the Governor of Minnesota in 2018, but withdrew from the race in mid-March.
- Age: 71
- Birthplace: Minneapolis, Minnesota
- John Francis "Jack" Welch Jr. (born November 19, 1935) is an American business executive, author, and chemical engineer. He was chairman and CEO of General Electric between 1981 and 2001. During his tenure at GE, the company's value rose 4,000%. In 2006, Welch's net worth was estimated at $720 million. When he retired from GE he received a severance payment of $417 million, the largest such payment in history.
- Age: 88
- Birthplace: Peabody, Massachusetts
- Julius Erving, fondly known as Dr. J, is a legend in the world of professional basketball. Born on February 22, 1950, in Roosevelt, New York, Erving's journey to stardom began at the University of Massachusetts where he played two seasons before joining the American Basketball Association (ABA). His performances were extraordinary, leading him to be regarded as one of the most talented players in the league. He was instrumental in the merger of ABA with the National Basketball Association (NBA), a move that significantly transformed the sport. Erving's career took off during his tenure with the Philadelphia 76ers, where he demonstrated exceptional skills and dominance on the court. He was known for his scoring prowess, agility, and above-the-rim play, which included his signature dunking style. These characteristics endeared him to fans and made him a household name. His contributions were recognized with numerous awards, including four Most Valuable Player (MVP) awards, and he was selected to the All-NBA First Team five times. In 1983, he led the 76ers to win the NBA Championship, cementing his legacy as one of the greatest players in the history of the sport. Beyond his remarkable career in basketball, Julius Erving also made significant strides off the court. He has been involved in various philanthropic activities, setting up the Julius Erving Foundation which provides scholarships to underprivileged students. He has also ventured into business, owning a Coca-Cola bottling plant in Philadelphia, and serving on the board of several notable companies. Despite retiring from professional basketball, Erving's influence continues to resonate, inspiring future generations of players and fans alike.
- Age: 74
- Birthplace: USA, Roosevelt, New York
- Marcus Dion Camby (born March 22, 1974) is a American retired professional basketball player who played 17 seasons in the National Basketball Association. He was named Defensive Player of the Year during the 2006–07 NBA season, leading the league in blocked shots per game. Camby is also a four-time member of the NBA All-Defensive Team and is 12th on the NBA's all-time career blocks list.
- Age: 50
- Birthplace: Hartford, Connecticut
- Jill Carroll (born October 6, 1977) is an American former journalist (now working as a firefighter) who was kidnapped and ultimately released in Iraq. Carroll was a reporter for the Christian Science Monitor at the time of her kidnapping. After finishing a fellowship at Harvard University's Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy she returned to work for the Monitor. After her release, Carroll wrote a series of articles on her recollection of her experiences in Iraq.
- Age: 47
- Birthplace: Detroit, Michigan
Gail Collins (born November 25, 1945) is an American journalist, op-ed columnist and author, most recognized for her work with the New York Times. Joining the Times in 1995 as a member of the editorial board, from 2001 to 2007 she served as the paper's Editorial Page Editor – the first woman to attain that position.Collins writes a semi-weekly op-ed column for the Times from her liberal perspective, published Thursdays and Saturdays. In 2014 she co-authored a blog with conservative journalist David Brooks entitled "The Conversation," at NYTimes.com, featuring bi-partisan political commentary.- Age: 78
- Birthplace: Cincinnati, Ohio
- John Francis "Jack" Smith Jr. (born April 6, 1938) is the non-executive chairman of the board of directors of Delta Air Lines. Smith has been a member of Delta's board of directors since 2000. From 1996 to 2003, Smith was chairman of the board of directors of General Motors, and was that company's CEO from 1992 to 2000. Smith was born in Worcester, Massachusetts. He joined General Motors as a payroll auditor in 1961, moving to its financial group in New York City in 1966. He went on to hold positions ranging from director of international planning to president of GM Canada, president of GM Europe and head of international operations. As CEO of GM, he undertook one of its most sweeping reorganizations, overturning a cumbersome and inefficient structure created in the 1920s by Alfred P. Sloan and left virtually unchanged since then. Starting with purchasing in 1992 and ending with engineering in 2003, he brought together separate overlapping functions related to the various divisions that formed the company, while also expanding operations into Asia. In this transformation, which included terminating the Oldsmobile brand, over 90% of core management positions were eliminated, corporate decision-making became faster and easier, production efficiencies and quality improved by spreading the lean manufacturing Toyota Production System from NUMMI, and, above all, the bottom line went from near-bankruptcy losses to decent profits. After he relinquished the CEO position in 2000 to his personally selected successor, Rick Wagoner, he continued on as Chairman to see his plan fully executed. Along with his chairmanship of Delta, Smith is currently a director of several other entities, including Procter & Gamble and The Nature Conservancy. Smith is a trustee of Boston University. He graduated from Saint John's High School in Shrewsbury, Massachusetts and later received his Bachelor of Business Administration from the University of Massachusetts Amherst in 1960 and his Master of Business Administration from Boston University in 1965. While at the University of Massachusetts Amherst he was initiated into the Kappa Sigma Fraternity.
- Age: 86
- Bonnie Michelle Dumanis (born December 16, 1951) was the District Attorney of San Diego County, California. She held the office 2003 to 2017. Dumanis is a Republican, though the office she held was officially nonpartisan. She was the first openly gay or lesbian DA in the country. She was the first woman and the first Jewish District Attorney in San Diego.
- Age: 72
- Birthplace: Brockton, Massachusetts
- Jeffrey or Jeff Taylor may refer to: Jeffery Taylor (born 1989), Swedish basketball player; son of basketball player Jeff Taylor Jeff Taylor (footballer) (1930–2010), British footballer Jeff Taylor (basketball) (born 1960), American basketball player Scott Garland (wrestler) (born 1973), American professional wrestler with a ring name of Jeff Taylor Jeffrey A. Taylor, former United States Attorney Jeff Taylor (entrepreneur), American internet entrepreneur, founder of Monster.com Jeff Taylor (journalist), 1992 Pulitzer Prize winner Jeff Taylor (ice hockey), American ice hockey player in 2014–15 Pittsburgh Penguins season
- Ken Ober (July 3, 1957 – November 15, 2009) was an American game show host, comedian, and actor.
- Age: Dec. at 52 (1957-2009)
- Birthplace: Brookline, Massachusetts, USA
- Manoj Gandhi joined Synopsys with the company's merger with Viewlogic in December 1997. In his current position, Mr. Gandhi and his organization are responsible for Synopsys' verification solutions, including simulation, testbench automation, hybrid formal verification, and system level design. Mr. Gandhi has over 15 years of HDL simulation and verification experience having begun his EDA career at Gateway Design Automation in 1986. He has a B.S. in Computer Science and Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, and an M.S. in Computer Science from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
- Dana John Gould (born August 24, 1964) is an American stand-up comedian, actor, writer and voice artist who has been featured on HBO, Showtime, and Comedy Central.
- Age: 60
- Birthplace: USA, Massachusetts, Hopedale
- Dana Mohler-Faria is a former president of Bridgewater State University and a member of the Massachusetts Board of Elementary and Secondary Education. He was formerly the Special Advisor for Education to Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick prior to the creation of a cabinet-level Secretary of Education in 2008.
Marc Forgione
ChefMarc Forgione is one of the Iron Chefs competing on Food Network's Iron Chef America and owner of restaurant Marc Forgione in New York City. He was born on December 16, 1978, and raised in Bellerose, New York. Chef Forgione competed on and won season three of The Next Iron Chef in 2010.- Age: 45
- Birthplace: Bellerose, New York, USA
- Yusef Abdul Lateef (born William Emanuel Huddleston; October 9, 1920 – December 23, 2013) was an American jazz multi-instrumentalist, composer, and prominent figure among the Ahmadiyya Community in America. Although Lateef's main instruments were the tenor saxophone and flute, he also played oboe and bassoon, both rare in jazz, and also used a number of non-western instruments such as the bamboo flute, shanai, shofar, xun, arghul and koto. He is known for having been an innovator in the blending of jazz with "Eastern" music. Peter Keepnews, in his New York Times obituary of Lateef, wrote that the musician "played world music before world music had a name".Lateef wrote and published a number of books including two novellas entitled A Night in the Garden of Love and Another Avenue, the short story collections Spheres and Rain Shapes, also his autobiography, The Gentle Giant, written in collaboration with Herb Boyd. Along with his record label YAL Records, Lateef owned Fana Music, a music publishing company. Lateef published his own work through Fana, which includes Yusef Lateef's Flute Book of the Blues and many of his own orchestral compositions.
- Age: Dec. at 93 (1920-2013)
- Birthplace: Tennessee, Chattanooga, USA
- Born on December 17, 1953, in Hornell, New York, Bill Pullman is a renowned actor celebrated for his versatility and charm. He spent his formative years in a nurturing environment, the son of a physician and a nurse. His early education was at Hornell High School, after which he attended the State University of New York at Delhi and later, the University of Massachusetts Amherst. It was here that Pullman discovered his passion for acting, paving the way for a prosperous career in Hollywood. Pullman's entry to the world of show business was through theater. He taught drama at Montana State University, however, it was his role in the film Ruthless People (1986) that marked his breakthrough into film. Following this, Pullman starred in a string of successful films, including Spaceballs (1987), While You Were Sleeping (1995), and Independence Day (1996), proving his ability to perform across genres, from comedy to science fiction. Despite his success in film, Pullman never strayed far from his roots in theater. He received a Drama Desk Award nomination for his performance in Edward Albee's The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia? (2002). In addition to acting, Pullman has made notable contributions to the industry as a director and producer. A testament to his talent and dedication, Bill Pullman's career spans decades and continues to leave an indelible mark on the entertainment industry.
- Age: 70
- Birthplace: Hornell, New York, USA
- Yann Ulrich Stéphane Lasme (born December 17, 1982) is a Gabonese professional basketball player. He played college basketball at the University of Massachusetts (UMass), with the UMass Minutemen, and he was selected by the Golden State Warriors in the second round, 46th overall, in the 2007 NBA draft. He earned an All-EuroLeague Second Team selection in 2014 and won the EuroLeague Best Defender award in 2013.
- Age: 41
- Birthplace: Bendje Department, Port-Gentil, Gabon
- Fardeen Khan (born 8 March 1974) is an Indian film actor. He is the recipient of a Filmfare Award (1999) and is the son of the late actor, director, and film producer Feroz Khan.After graduating in business management from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Khan returned to India to pursue his career in films and trained in acting at the Kishore Namit Kapoor Acting Institute. He made his acting debut in 1998 with a leading role in the romance Prem Aggan, which garnered him the Filmfare Best Debut Award. Khan rose to prominence with starring roles in the acclaimed thriller Jungle (2000), the crime comedy Love Ke Liye Kuch Bhi Karega (2001), the drama Om Jai Jagadish (2002), the supernatural horror Bhoot (2003), the romance Janasheen (2003), and the comedies No Entry (2005), Heyy Babyy (2007), and All the Best: Fun Begins (2009). He earned critical recognition for his performances in the 2001 thriller Pyaar Tune Kya Kiya, the 2004 drama Dev, the 2004 romantic thriller Fida, and the 2005 crime thriller Ek Khiladi Ek Haseena. In addition to acting in films, he has participated in concert tours and stage shows. In May 2001, Khan was arrested for attempting to buy cocaine.
- Age: 50
- Birthplace: India, Mumbai
- Russell Alan Hulse (born November 28, 1950) is an American physicist and winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics, shared with his thesis advisor Joseph Hooton Taylor Jr., "for the discovery of a new type of pulsar, a discovery that has opened up new possibilities for the study of gravitation". He was a specialist in the pulsar studies and gravitational waves.
- Age: 73
- Birthplace: New York City, New York
- Paul Edward Theroux (born April 10, 1941) is an American travel writer and novelist, whose best-known work is The Great Railway Bazaar (1975). He has published numerous works of fiction, some of which were adapted as feature films. He was awarded the 1981 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for his novel The Mosquito Coast, which was adapted for the 1986 movie of the same name. He is the father of British authors and documentary filmmakers Marcel Theroux and Louis Theroux, the brother of authors Alexander Theroux and Peter Theroux, and uncle of the American actor and screenwriter Justin Theroux.
- Age: 83
- Birthplace: Medford, Massachusetts
- John Michael Hayes (11 May 1919 – 19 November 2008) was an American screenwriter, who scripted four of Alfred Hitchcock's films in the 1950s.
- Age: Dec. at 89 (1919-2008)
- Birthplace: Worcester, Massachusetts
- Ronald Craig Arkin (born 1949) is an American roboticist and roboethicist, and a Regents' Professor in the School of Interactive Computing, College of Computing at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He is known for the motor schema technique in robot navigation and for his book Behavior-Based Robotics.
- Age: 75
- Birthplace: New York City, New York
- Betty Shabazz (born Betty Dean Sanders; May 28, 1934 – June 23, 1997), also known as Betty X, was an American educator and civil rights advocate. She was the wife of Malcolm X. Shabazz grew up in Detroit, Michigan, where her foster parents largely sheltered her from racism. She attended the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama, where she had her first encounters with racism. Unhappy with the situation in Alabama, she moved to New York City, where she became a nurse. It was there that she met Malcolm X and, in 1956, joined the Nation of Islam. The couple married in 1958. Along with her husband, Shabazz left the Nation of Islam in 1964. She witnessed his assassination the following year. Left with the responsibility of raising six daughters as a single mother, Shabazz pursued higher education, and went to work at Medgar Evers College in Brooklyn, New York. Following the 1995 arrest of her daughter Qubilah for allegedly conspiring to murder Louis Farrakhan, Shabazz took in her ten year old grandson Malcolm. In 1997, he set fire to her apartment. Shabazz suffered severe burns and died three weeks later as a result of her injuries.
- Age: Dec. at 63 (1934-1997)
- Birthplace: Georgia, Pinehurst, USA
- Age: 74
- William J. Monahan (born November 3, 1960) is an American screenwriter and novelist. His second produced screenplay was The Departed, a film that earned him a Writers Guild of America Award and Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay.
- Age: 64
- Birthplace: Dorchester, Boston, Massachusetts
- Inder Sidhu is Senior Vice President of Strategy Planning, Worldwide Operations at Cisco. He also coleads Ciscos Enterprise Business Council which is responsible for Ciscos enterprise business and Ciscos Emerging Countries Council which is responsible for driving business success in many of Ciscos fastest growing market regions around the world.
- Makanda Ken McIntyre (born Kenneth Arthur McIntyre; also known as Ken McIntyre) (September 7, 1931–June 13, 2001) was an American jazz musician and composer. In addition to his primary instrument, the alto saxophone, he played flute, bass clarinet, oboe, bassoon, double bass, drums, and piano.
- Age: Dec. at 69 (1931-2001)
- Birthplace: Boston, Massachusetts
- Marcel Cornelius Shipp (born August 8, 1978) is an American football running back and current coach. He played as a running back in the National Football League (NFL) from 2001 to 2008 for the Arizona Cardinals and Houston Texans. He was signed by the Arizona Cardinals as an undrafted free agent in 2001, and played with them through the 2007 season. He was signed for a short time by the Texans in 2008. He played college football at University of Massachusetts Amherst (UMass). Shipp was last the running backs coach for the New York Jets.
- Age: 46
- Birthplace: Paterson, New Jersey
- Unita Zelma Blackwell (March 18, 1933 – May 13, 2019) was an American civil rights activist who was the first African American woman to be elected mayor in the U.S. state of Mississippi. Blackwell was a project director for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and helped organize voter drives for African Americans across Mississippi. She was also a founder of the US China Peoples Friendship Association, a group dedicated to promoting cultural exchange between the United States and China. Barefootin', Blackwell's autobiography, published in 2006, charts her activism.
- Age: 91
- Birthplace: Lula, Mississippi
- Natasha Trethewey (born April 26, 1966) is an American poet who was appointed United States Poet Laureate in 2012 and again in 2014. She won the 2007 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry for her 2006 collection Native Guard, and she is a former Poet Laureate of Mississippi.She is the Board of Trustees Professor of English at Northwestern University and Robert W. Woodruff Professor of English and Creative Writing at Emory University, where she has taught since 2001.Trethewey was elected a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets in 2019, at which time Academy Chancellor David St. John said Trethewey “is one of our formal masters, a poet of exquisite delicacy and poise who is always unveiling the racial and historical inequities of our country and the ongoing personal expense of these injustices. Rarely has any poetic intersection of cultural and personal experience felt more inevitable, more painful, or profound.”
- Age: 58
- Birthplace: Gulfport, Mississippi
- Walker Connor (June 19, 1926 – February 28, 2017) was Distinguished Visiting Professor of Political Science at Middlebury College (Middlebury, Vermont, USA). Connor is best known for his work on nationalism, and is considered one of the founders of the interdisciplinary field of nationalism studies.Before the collapse of European communism that began in the late 1980s, nationalism was not a subject of significant academic study and was generally neglected, with the exception of some major contributions by authors such as Ernest Gellner, Benedict Anderson, and Anthony D. Smith. Connor’s work is another exception to this rule, and today he is regarded as “one of the scholars of nationalism and ethnic conflict who has contributed most towards establishing a conceptual grounding” for the study of nationalism.Widely cited for his insistence on the inherently ethnic character of nationalism, which he calls ethnonationalism to emphasize the point, Connor has long held that the most significant obstacle to advancing the study of nationalism is terminological imprecision. Particularly problematic, he contends, is the tendency to conflate the distinct concepts of state and nation, as well as the respective concepts of patriotism and nationalism which derive from them.Another significant theme in Connor's work is the passionate, nonrational character of nationalism. When trying to understand national sentiment, he argues, the key is not chronological or factual history, but sentient or felt history. National identity is based on the emotional psychology of perceived kinship ties – a sense of the nation as the fully extended family – and accordingly belongs to the realm of the subconscious and nonrational.Finally, Connor is also well known for his analysis of Marxist-Leninist treatments of nationalism, which he deals with at length in his book The National Question in Marxist-Leninist Theory and Strategy.
- Age: 98
- Jeffrey Corwin (born July 11, 1967) is an American biologist and wildlife conservationist, known for hosting Disney Channel's Going Wild with Jeff Corwin, The Jeff Corwin Experience on Animal Planet, and ABC's Ocean Treks with Jeff Corwin.
- Age: 57
- Birthplace: Norwell, Massachusetts, USA
- Patrick Smith (born 1972 in San Juan, Puerto Rico) is an installation artist, animator and filmmaker. He is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS). His formative years were spent as a storyboard artist for Walt Disney, and animation director for MTV's Daria and the Emmy-nominated Downtown. Smith spent five years in Singapore as a professor at the graduate film program for New York University Tisch School of the Arts, under artistic director/filmmaker Oliver Stone. Patrick is a fellow of the New York Foundation of the Arts and a curator for multiple international film and animation festivals. He lives and works in Montauk New York with his wife, Kaori Ishida and their daughter. The beginning of his animation career has been told by himself like this: In 1994, I was in college, and one night decided to animate something strange. I didn't know how to draw, let alone animate, so I just did something abstract. A friend of mine told me I should put an logo on it and send it to MTV. So I mailed a VHS of it to "MTV Networks" the address I got from the phone book. About two weeks later I got a call from a guy named Abbey, who said that they wanted to buy it. I remember the day he called, because it was the same day that I got my rejection letter from Cal Arts. I re-animated the same thing, a bit tighter. The spot won a BDA award (Broadcast Design Association) and a Jury Prize at the 1995 Holland Animation Festival. After I finished the ID, MTV offered me a job on Beavis and Butthead, which was my first ever studio job, and which brought me to New York City. His directorial debut was for the Emmy-nominated series Down-Town, continuing on to direct the popular animated series Daria. Since then he has directed a handful of short films which earned him much reputation at film festivals worldwide as well as numerous awards. Smith and his studio produced the animated series "Blank on Blank" for PBS digital studios an innovative animated show that visually illustrates rare audio interviews of famous artists, actors and musicians.
- Age: 55
- Birthplace: San Juan, Puerto Rico
- Richard Andrew Pitino (born September 18, 1952) is an American basketball coach for the Iona Gaels. He previously coached Panathinaikos of the Greek Basket League and the EuroLeague and has been the head coach of several teams in NCAA Division I and in the NBA, including Boston University (1978–1983), Providence College (1985–1987), the New York Knicks (1987–1989), the University of Kentucky (1989–1997), the Boston Celtics (1997–2001) and the University of Louisville (2001–2017). Pitino led Kentucky to an NCAA championship in 1996. He is the only coach to lead three different schools (Providence, Kentucky, and Louisville) to a Final Four. In 2013, he was elected to the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame.
- Age: 72
- Birthplace: New York, New York, USA
- Television star and USA Network's golden boy, Jeffrey Donovan - who The Los Angeles Times boasted had "charisma to burn" - was, in reality, a seasoned Shakespearean stage actor who ended up as one of the most promising action stars in years. Frequently alternating between stage and screen, it became obvious to TV programmers that Donovan had a penchant for wisecracking and intelligently wacky characters, particularly law enforcement types. He was also believably brutish when called for, which attracted both male and female viewers alike to shows like "Touching Evil" (USA Network, 2004) and "Burn Notice" (USA Network, 2007-13), as he effectively portrayed gun-wielding, troubled and unpredictable heroes in the vein of Bruce Willis and other multi-layered action stars before him. He transferred that quality over to the big screen, where he delivered strong turns in the thriller "Hindsight" (2008) and Clint Eastwood's acclaimed period drama, "Changeling" (2008). But it was his starring role as the blacklisted spy, Michael Westen, on "Burn Notice" that propelled the actor to stardom and earned him a place at the table as one of television's top leading men.
- Age: 56
- Birthplace: Amesbury, Massachusetts, USA
Andrea Chow
Journalist- William Raymond Manchester (April 1, 1922 – June 1, 2004) was an American author, biographer, and historian. He was the author of 18 books which have been translated into over 20 languages. He was awarded the National Humanities Medal and the Abraham Lincoln Literary Award.
- Age: Dec. at 82 (1922-2004)
- Birthplace: Attleboro, Massachusetts
- Jeremy Robert Cain (born March 24, 1980) is a former American football long snapper. He was signed by the Chicago Bears as an undrafted free agent in 2004. He played college football at Massachusetts. Cain was also a member of the Philadelphia Eagles, Tennessee Titans, Washington Redskins, Jacksonville Jaguars and Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
- Age: 44
- Birthplace: Boynton Beach, Florida
- Philip Courtney Laak (born September 8, 1972) is an Irish born American professional poker player and a poker commentator, now residing in Los Angeles, California. Laak holds a World Poker Tour (WPT) title, a World Series of Poker (WSOP) bracelet, and has appeared on numerous nationally aired television shows.
- Age: 52
- Birthplace: Republic of Ireland, Dublin
- Jane Hyatt Yolen (born February 11, 1939) is an American writer of fantasy, science fiction, and children's books. She is the author or editor of more than 350 books, of which the best known is The Devil's Arithmetic, a Holocaust novella. Her other works include the Nebula Award-winning short story Sister Emily's Lightship, the novelette Lost Girls, Owl Moon, The Emperor and the Kite, the Commander Toad series and How Do Dinosaurs Say Goodnight. She has collaborated on works with all three of her children, most extensively with Adam Stemple.Yolen gave the lecture for the 1989 Alice G. Smith Lecture, the inaugural year for the series. This lecture series is held at the University of South Florida School of Information "to honor the memory of its first director, Alice Gullen Smith, known for her work with youth and bibliotherapy." In 2012 she became the first woman to give the Andrew Lang lecture.
- Age: 85
- Birthplace: New York City, Manhattan, USA, New York
- Nancy Oliver (born February 8, 1955) is an American playwright and screenwriter who is best known for her work on the successful TV series Six Feet Under. Oliver was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay in 2008 for her debut screenplay, Lars and the Real Girl.
- Age: 69
- Birthplace: Framingham, Massachusetts
- Jonathan Douglas Quick (born January 21, 1986) is an American professional ice hockey goaltender for the Los Angeles Kings of the National Hockey League (NHL). Quick was selected in the third round, 72nd overall, by Los Angeles at the 2005 NHL Entry Draft. Quick is a two-time Vezina Trophy nominee and William M. Jennings Trophy winner and was a silver medalist with the United States at the 2010 Winter Olympics. He won his first Stanley Cup championship with the Kings on June 11, 2012, and his second in 2014, again with the Kings. He was awarded the Conn Smythe Trophy as the Most Valuable Player (MVP) of the 2012 Stanley Cup playoffs, the most recent goaltender to win the award.
- Age: 38
- Birthplace: Milford, Connecticut
- Michael Kendall Flanagan (December 16, 1951 – August 24, 2011) was an American left-handed pitcher, front office executive, and color commentator. With the exception of four years with the Toronto Blue Jays (1987–90), he was with the Baltimore Orioles for his entire career in Major League Baseball (MLB). Flanagan was a starting pitcher for the Orioles from 1975 through 1987. He was named to the American League (AL) All-Star Team once in 1978. The following year, the first of two times he would play on an AL pennant winner, his 23 victories led the circuit and earned him the league's Cy Young Award. He was a member of the Orioles' World Series Championship team in 1983. He returned to Baltimore to close out his playing career as a reliever in 1991 and 1992. During this second tour, he contributed to the most recent no-hitter thrown by the club. He was also the last Orioles pitcher to appear in a major-league contest at Memorial Stadium. In an 18-season career, Flanagan posted a 167–143 record with 1,491 strikeouts and a 3.90 ERA in 2,770 innings pitched. He served in three different positions with the Orioles after his retirement as an active player. He was the pitching coach in 1995 and 1998 and the executive vice president of baseball operations from 2006 through 2008. At the time of his death, he was one of the team's broadcasters, a role he had previously held three times (1994, 1996–97, and 1999–2002).
- Age: Dec. at 59 (1951-2011)
- Birthplace: Manchester, New Hampshire
Eileen Donoghue
PoliticianEileen Donoghue (born 1954 in Holyoke, Massachusetts) is the city manager of Lowell, Massachusetts. She is a former member of the Massachusetts Senate, where she has represented the First Middlesex District from 2011 to 2018, as well as a former city councilor (1996–2008) and mayor (1998–2002) of Lowell. She ran in the Massachusetts' 5th Congressional District special election in 2007 to fill the United States House of Representatives seat vacated by Marty Meehan, narrowly losing the Democratic primary to Niki Tsongas. In the Massachusetts Senate, Donoghue has been a staunch advocate for small businesses, economic development in gateway cities, and public higher education. She has spearheaded efforts to reduce student loan debt and create pathways to stable jobs.- Age: 70
- Birthplace: Holyoke, Massachusetts, USA
- Larry W. Esposito (born April 15, 1951) is an American planetary astronomer and a professor at the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, University of Colorado Boulder. A 1973 graduate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Esposito received his Ph.D in astronomy at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. In 1985, he was awarded the H. C. Urey Prize by the American Astronomical Society. He was also awarded The NASA Medal for Exceptional Scientific Achievement, and the Richtmeyer Lecture Award from the American Association of Physics Teachers and the American Physical Society. His current work involves planetary atmospheres and ring systems. Esposito was the principal investigator for the Ultra-Violet Imaging Spectrograph aboard the NASA Cassini-Huygens unmanned mission to the Saturn system.
- Age: 73
- Myron "Mike" Solberg (1930-July 28, 2001) was an American food scientist who was renowned for his collaboration with academia, government, and industry that better advanced food technology.
- Age: Dec. at 71 (1930-2001)
- Age: 66
- Valerie Martin (born 1948, Missouri) is an American novelist and short story writer. Her novel Property (2003) won the Orange Prize for Fiction. In 2012, The Observer named Property as one of "The 10 best historical novels".
- Age: 76
- Birthplace: Sedalia, Missouri
- Anshuman Jain (born 7 January 1963 in Jaipur, Rajasthan, India) is a British Indian business executive who currently serves as president of Cantor Fitzgerald. Jain formerly served as the Co-CEO of Deutsche Bank from 2012 until July 2015.Jain was a member of Deutsche Bank’s Management Board. He was previously head of the Corporate and Investment Bank, globally responsible for Deutsche Bank’s corporate finance, sales and trading, and transaction banking business. Jain remained a consultant to the bank until January 2016.
- Age: 61
- Birthplace: Jaipur, India
- Gideon E. "Guy" Livingston (1927 - January 1, 2000) was an American food scientist who was responsible for founding Phi Tau Sigma at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He was also well known in food safety for foodservice establishments and for refrigerated foods shelf-life studies.
- Age: Dec. at 73 (1927-2000)
- Brad Norton (born February 13, 1975) is an American former professional ice hockey Defenseman. Norton played for five seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL).
- Age: 49
- Birthplace: Cambridge, Massachusetts
- A former actor and sketch comedy performer, Peter Tolan went behind the camera in the early 1990s, where he served as producer and writer on some of the most acclaimed and groundbreaking television shows of the decade and beyond, including "Murphy Brown" (CBS, 1988-1998), "The Larry Sanders Show" (HBO, 1992-98) and "Rescue Me" (FX, 2004-11). Tolan's heroes were rule-breakers and free thinkers whose discomfort with the status quo occasionally landed them in hot water or worse, but they remained fascinating to audiences as they attempted to make sense of their lives. His frequently fearless work earned him several Emmy nominations, and led to a modestly successful career in feature films, including "Analyze This" (1999) and "America's Sweethearts" (2001). But it was Tolan's unique television work that remained his most enduring, making him one most daring talents on the small screen.
- Age: 66
- Birthplace: Scituate, Massachusetts, USA
- John G. Drosdick is an American businessman who served 8 years as president, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board of Directors of Sunoco Inc. As of 2006, he was the fifteenth-highest-paid chief executive officer in the United States. In 2008, he was replaced by Lynn Laverty Elsenhans.
- Richard McAniff is Corporate Vice President for the Microsoft Office product at Microsoft.
Colin Burns
Colin Burns (born June 30, 1982, in Newark, Delaware) is a retired American soccer goalkeeper who last played for Sandefjord Fotball.- Age: 42
- Birthplace: Newark, Delaware
- Charles Thompson IV (born April 6, 1965) is an American singer, songwriter, and guitarist. He is best known as the frontman of the influential alternative rock band Pixies, with whom he performs under the stage name Black Francis. Following the band's breakup in 1993, he embarked on a solo career under the name Frank Black. After releasing two albums with record label 4AD and one with American Recordings, he left the label and formed a new band, Frank Black and the Catholics. He re-adopted the name Black Francis in 2007. His vocal style has varied from a screaming, yowling delivery as lead vocalist of the Pixies to a more measured and melodic style in his solo career. His cryptic lyrics mostly explore unconventional subjects, such as surrealism, incest, and biblical violence, along with science fiction and surf culture. His use of atypical meter signatures, loud–quiet dynamics, and distinct preference for live-to-two-track recording during his time with the Catholics, give him a distinct style within alternative rock.Thompson regrouped the Pixies in early 2004, but continued to release solo records and tour as a solo artist until 2013, when he declared his solo career to be over.
- Age: 59
- Birthplace: Boston, USA, Massachusetts
Andrew P. Iosue
Andrew Philip Iosue ( OZ-way; born November 7, 1927) is a retired United States Air Force four-star general who served as Commander, Air Training Command (COMATC) from 1983 to 1986.- Age: 97
- Birthplace: Massachusetts
- Charles G. "Chip" Groat (born March 25, 1940 in Westfield, New York) is an American geologist. He is a professional in the earth science community with involvement in geological studies, energy and minerals resource assessment, ground-water occurrence and protection, geomorphic processes and landform evolution in desert areas, and coastal studies.
- Age: 84
- Birthplace: Westfield, New York
Edward D. Shirley
BusinesspersonEdward D. Shirley is an American business man who has over 20 years of management experience at Gillette. He went on to Procter and Gamble and is currently a vice chair at Procter Gamble.- Age: 68
- Birthplace: Lynn, Massachusetts
- Pat Cadigan (born September 10, 1953) is an American science fiction author, whose work is most often identified with the cyberpunk movement. Her novels and short stories all share a common theme of exploring the relationship between the human mind and technology.
- Age: 71
- Birthplace: Schenectady, New York
Robert B. Crooke
BusinesspersonRobert Crooke is vice president and general manager of the Business Client Group (BCG). He is responsible for directing Intels vision for delivering innovative business client solutions and is responsible for the definition, development, and marketing of Intels desktop platform solutions.Christian Hawkey
PoetChristian Hawkey (born 1969, Hackensack, NJ), is an American poet, translator, editor, activist, and educator.- Age: 55
- Birthplace: Pine Island, Florida
- Herbert P. Bix (born 1938) is an American historian. He wrote Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan, an account of the Japanese Emperor and the events which shaped modern Japanese imperialism, which won the Pulitzer Prize for general non-fiction in 2001. Bix was born in Boston and attended the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He earned the Ph.D. in history and Far Eastern languages from Harvard University. He was a founding member of the Committee of Concerned Asian Scholars. For several decades, he has written about modern and contemporary Japanese history in the United States and Japan. He has taught at many universities, including Hosei University in Japan as of 1986 and 1990 and Hitotsubashi University as of 2001. As of 2013 he is Professor Emeritus in History and Sociology at Binghamton University.
- Age: 86
- Birthplace: Boston, Massachusetts
Kenneth Feinberg
LawyerKenneth Roy Feinberg (born October 23, 1945) is a Jewish American attorney, specializing in mediation and alternative dispute resolution. Feinberg was appointed Special Master of the U.S. government's September 11th Victim Compensation Fund and served as the Special Master for TARP Executive Compensation. Additionally, Feinberg served as the government-appointed administrator of the BP Deepwater Horizon Disaster Victim Compensation Fund. Feinberg was appointed by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts to administer the One Fund—the victim assistance fund established in the wake of the 2013 Boston Marathon bombings. Feinberg was also retained by General Motors to assist in their recall response and by Volkswagen to oversee their U.S. compensation of VW diesel owners affected by the Volkswagen emissions scandal. Feinberg was hired by The Boeing Company in July, 2019, to oversee distribution of $50 million to support 737 MAX crash victim families. Feinberg is also an adjunct professor at the Columbia University School of Law, University of Pennsylvania Law School, Georgetown University Law Center, New York University School of Law, the University of Virginia School of Law and at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law.- Age: 79
- Birthplace: Brockton, Massachusetts
Milt Morin
American football playerMilton Denis Morin (October 15, 1942 – July 9, 2010) was a professional American football tight end in the National Football League. Morin attended St. Bernard's High School in Fitchburg, Massachusetts, where he held records in track and field and was elected co-captain of the football team. He also attended Brewster Academy in Wolfeboro, NH before college. After college at the University of Massachusetts, he played for the Cleveland Browns for ten seasons (1966–1975). Morin was drafted in the first round of the 1966 NFL Draft, the first-ever UMass first-round draft pick. He was voted to the Pro Bowl in 1968 and 1971. After he made the team, team owner Art Modell called him into his office and asked Morin what salary he would have made if he became a school teacher; Morin's major was education. He told Modell that $6,000 was the salary. Modell told him that he would pay Morin $6,000 a year as tight end. On May 11, 2010, Morin was elected into the College Football Hall of Fame. On July 9, 2010, he died at Cooley Dickinson Hospital in Northampton, Massachusetts of a heart attack. His induction into the College Football Hall of Fame was scheduled for the following week.- Age: Dec. at 67 (1942-2010)
- Birthplace: Leominster, Massachusetts
Chick Davies
Baseball playerLloyd Garrison "Chick" Davies (March 6, 1892 – September 5, 1973) was a professional baseball player who played for the Philadelphia Athletics (1914–1915) and the New York Giants (1925–1926) as a pitcher and outfielder. He led the National League in saves (6) and games finished (29) in 1926. Davies was an alumnus of the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He died September 5, 1973 in Middletown, Connecticut.- Age: Dec. at 81 (1892-1973)
- Birthplace: Peabody, Massachusetts
Eran Lobel
Film ProducerEran Lobel is a film producer.Timothy George Maden
- Age: 50
- Birthplace: Boston, Massachusetts
- Lydia T. Black is an author and editor.
- Age: Dec. at 81 (1925-2007)
- Birthplace: Kiev, Ukraine
- Joseph A. D'Appolito is best known as the developer of the "D'Appolito Configuration" which was first described in his "A Geometric Approach to Eliminating Lobing Error in Multiway Loudspeakers". This configuration is recognized by loudspeakers which have two midrange or woofer drivers arranged vertically above and below the tweeter and implements the 3rd order crossover allowing the drivers to have similar horizontal dispersion, resulting in absence of any sudden change in directivity with frequency. The loudspeaker configuration is also known as a midwoofer-tweeter-midwoofer configuration. D'Appolito is the author of "Testing Loudspeakers" and a contributing editor to AudioXpress magazine. He is also the owner of a consulting firm, Audio and Acoustics, Ltd. whose clients include Snell Acoustics; HECO/Recoton, GmbH and Usher Audio Technology.
- Gary Thomas DiSarcina (born November 19, 1967) is an American former professional baseball shortstop and current third base coach with the New York Mets. He played his entire Major League Baseball (MLB) career for the California / Anaheim Angels.
- Age: 56
- Birthplace: Malden, Massachusetts
- Emil Igwenagu is a professional football player.
- Age: 35
- Birthplace: Raleigh, North Carolina
- Gregory Paul Landry (born December 18, 1946) is a former American football player and coach who played quarterback in the National Football League (NFL) from 1968 to 1981, and again in 1984. He played for the Detroit Lions, the Baltimore Colts and the Chicago Bears. He also played college football at Massachusetts.
- Age: 77
- Birthplace: Nashua, New Hampshire
R. J. Cobbs
American football playerRobert J. Cobbs (born July 26, 1982 in Parsippany-Troy Hills, New Jersey) is an American football defensive back in the National Football League formerly for the New York Giants. He played college football at the University of Massachusetts Amherst where he was a standout playing running back, wide receiver and defensive back. Cobbs was undrafted, but signed out of college with the Minnesota Vikings. Cobbs is a graduate of Parsippany Hills High School in Parsippany, New Jersey.- Age: 42
- Birthplace: Parsippany-Troy Hills, New Jersey
- Wendi Nix (born September 17, 1974) is an American anchor and sports reporter for ESPN.
- Age: 50
- Birthplace: Murrells Inlet, South Carolina, USA
Josh Samuda
American football playerJosh Samuda is an American football player.- Age: 35
- Birthplace: Birmingham, United Kingdom
- A journeyman character actor, Jere Burns made his initial mark as the ultra-smarmy, unabashedly sexist wolf of the situation comedy "Dear John" (NBC, 1988-92). Burns' angular features and Rasputin-intense gaze led to an early-career niche in unsavory one-off and recurring television roles in the 1980s, but he would put a gleefully lecherous spin on unsavory in his breakthrough role of Kirk Morris on "Dear John." From that success, he would become comic foil on a succession of ultra-short-lived comedies such as "Bob" (CBS, 1992-93), "The Mommies" (NBC, 1994-95) and "Surviving Suburbia" (2009), as well as two seasons of the office ensemble "Good Morning, Miami" (NBC, 2002-04). In 1996, he took a rare lead on the family comedy "Something So Right" (NBC/ABC, 1996-98). Burns worked regularly along the way in dramatic one-off roles. In 2010, he seemed to begin a new phase, breaking away from sitcoms to effect colorful, scene-stealing supporting roles on some of cable's best-regarded dramas: a drug rehab group leader on "Breaking Bad" (AMC, 2009-13), a vicious Southern criminal on "Justified" (FX, 2010-15), and an ever scheming member of a beyond-the-law syndicate on "Burn Notice" (USA, 2007-2013), before returning to his comic roots as the caustic Lieutenant Atkins on the surreal police procedural parody "Angie Tribeca" (TBS 2016- ). Whether playing comic or dramatic roles, Burns showed a chameleon-like penchant for reinventing himself with every new character in a variety of mediums.
- Age: 70
- Birthplace: Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
Warren Norris
Warren Norris (born (1974-09-19)19 September 1974 in St. John's, Newfoundland) is a Canadian professional ice hockey centre who currently plays for EC KAC in the Austrian Hockey League. He has previously played in the American Hockey League (AHL) and the International Hockey League (IHL) in North America and in the British Ice Hockey Superleague, the Slovak Extraliga and the Swiss Nationalliga A. He has also played two seasons with the touring Canadian national ice hockey team.- Age: 50
- Birthplace: St. John's, Canada
Bruce Kimball
American football playerBruce Michael Kimball (born August 19, 1956 in Beverly, Massachusetts) is a former American football offensive lineman in the National Football League for the New York Giants and the Washington Redskins.He played college football at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and was drafted in the seventh round of the 1979 NFL Draft. He also played for two seasons in the Canadian Football League before playing in the NFL. He was inducted in the UMass Athletic Hall of Fame in 2000.- Age: 68
- Birthplace: Beverly, Massachusetts
- Xu Xi is the name of: Xu Xi (painter) (died before 976), Southern Tang painter Xu Xi (writer) (born 1954), Hong Kong writer
- Age: 70
- Edward P. "Ed" McAleney (born September 21, 1953 in South Portland, Maine) is a former American football defensive lineman who played one season in the National Football League for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. He was drafted in the 1976 NFL Draft by the Pittsburgh Steelers. He later played in the Canadian Football League for the Calgary Stampeders where he was named Western All-Star in 1980, and he finished his pro career with the Orlando Renegades of the USFL in 1985. McAleney played college football at University of Massachusetts Amherst.
- Age: 71
- Birthplace: South Portland, Maine
- Michael A. Dirr, Ph.D is a horticulturist and a professor of horticulture at the University of Georgia. He is an expert on woody plants.
- David E. Poisson (born September 3, 1951) is an American politician. He served in the Virginia House of Delegates 2006-10, representing the 32nd district in Loudoun County. He is a member of the Democratic Party. Poisson served on the House committees on Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources (2006–07), Counties, Cities and Towns (2008–2009), and Militia, Police and Public Safety (2006–2009).
- Age: 73
- Birthplace: Fall River, Massachusetts
Steve Baylark
American football playerSteve Ray Baylark (born July 28, 1983) is a former American football running back. He was signed by the Arizona Cardinals as an undrafted free agent in 2007. He went to high school at Apopka High School He played college football at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Baylark was also a member of the Denver Broncos and Sacramento Mountain Lions.- Age: 41
- As a Managing Director of General Catalyst Partners, Larry invests in both new and existing technology businesses. Areas of special interest include: open source, information technology; systems; and software on-demand business models. Larry is a board member of Advanced Electron Beams; Black Duck Software; ChoiceStream; Demandware; HubSpot; Optaros; QUMAS and VisibleMeasures, which are all active General Catalyst investments. Larry also served on the Board of Venetica, a General Catalyst investment that was acquired by IBM in October 2004.Prior to joining General Catalyst, Larry was the chairman, president and CEO of NetGenesis, a market leading software and analytic solutions provider. Larry led NetGenesis from 1997 to 2001, overseeing the company’s business, product strategy and direction. During this time, NetGenesis was a two-time Deloitte Touche Fast 50 award winner and was included among the Inc 500. In February 2000, Larry took the company public (NTGX) and in December 2001, NetGenesis was acquired by SPSS, Inc. (SPSS).Prior to his role as CEO and president of NetGenesis, Larry was president of PC DOCS, Inc. (DOCSF), a leading developer of document management software for enterprise networks. Under his leadership, PC DOCS’ product advanced to the number one market position. He also led the company's public offering in 1998. Prior to joining PC DOCS, Larry was senior vice president of marketing and business development at Interleaf, Inc. (LEAF), where he defined and implemented the corporate strategy that put its electronic publishing solutions in a top market position and helped grow the business to more than $120 million in revenue. An acknowledged thought leader, Larry has spoken at leading industry events and has been a guest lecturer at Harvard, Stanford, and the Amos Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth. He was also a founder and the first president of OASIS, the industry consortium promoting XML adoption. Larry is an honors graduate of the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and holds a masters of arts degree in Linguistics from Clark University.
- Loretta Mae Long (née Moore) (born October 4, 1938) is an American actress, voice artist, singer, media personality, and educator. She has played the character of Susan Robinson on Sesame Street since its debut in 1969. Long earned her Ph.D. in urban education in 1973 from the University of Massachusetts Amherst while she was starring on Sesame Street. She has acted in musicals (such as Guys and Dolls) and appeared on the Flip Wilson Show with other Sesame Street cast members during its first season. As of October 2018, Long's character, Susan, is one of only two remaining characters who are still played by the actors who originated the roles. (The other is Bob (Bob McGrath).) In the early years, she voiced a few female Muppet voices including Roosevelt Franklin's mother Suzetta and other Muppets where a female voice was needed. In addition to starring on Sesame Street, Long is a consultant and public speaker on issues of multiculturalism and education.
- Age: 86
- Birthplace: Michigan, USA, Paw Paw
- James Ugochu Ihedigbo ( ee-HED-ee-boh; born December 3, 1983) is a former American football safety. He was signed by the New York Jets as an undrafted free agent in 2007. He played college football at Massachusetts.
- Age: 40
- Birthplace: Northampton, Massachusetts
- Pumla Makaziwe "Maki" Mandela-Amuah (born 1954) is the daughter of Nelson Mandela and his first wife Evelyn Mase.
- Age: 70
- Birthplace: Johannesburg, South Africa
David Pakman
JournalistDavid Pakman (born February 2, 1984) is an Argentinian-American political pundit and academic. He is the host of the internationally syndicated political television and talk radio program The David Pakman Show. A naturalized U.S. citizen, Pakman was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and was raised from age 5 in the United States. In addition to hosting The David Pakman Show, Pakman has appeared on numerous national, regional, local, and international media outlets providing political commentary. Pakman is an adjunct professor at Boston College. Pakman also works as a new media consultant, often working with independent programs and broadcast platforms. Pakman has appeared on Fox News, CNN, HLN's Nancy Grace program, and HLN's Dr Drew on Call, and was featured in Mother Jones, the Boston Herald, The New York Times, and Wired.- Age: 40
- Birthplace: Buenos Aires, Argentina
Jeffrey Welch
Politician- Age: 47
- Mark E. Russell is vice president of Engineering, Technology and Mission Assurance for Raytheon Company. Outside of Raytheon, Russell provides leadership on the Board of Directors of the National Action Council for Minorities in Engineering and Valeo Raytheon Systems.
- Hau Lung-pin (Chinese: 郝龍斌; pinyin: Hǎo Lóngbīn; born 22 August 1952) is a Taiwanese politician. Elected to the Legislative Yuan in 1995, he resigned his seat to lead the Environmental Protection Administration in 2001. Hau stepped down in 2003 and served as Mayor of Taipei from 2006 to 2014. He is a member of the Kuomintang (KMT) and has served as vice chairman of the party in 2014 and since 2016.
- Age: 72
- Birthplace: Taipei, Taiwan
- Kembrew McLeod is an American artist, activist, and professor of Communication Studies at the University of Iowa. He is best known as a performance artist or "media prankster" who filed an application in 1997 to register the phrase "Freedom of Expression" as a trademark in the United States. This phrase was the name of his zine/artist book series, and on January 6, 1998, McLeod was granted registration no. 2127381 in Class 16 (for "booklets in the field of creative writing"). McLeod received his PhD from University of Massachusetts Amherst, an MA from the University of Virginia, and a BS from James Madison University.
- Peter Gerard Torkildsen (born January 28, 1958) is a former chairman of the Massachusetts Republican State Committee and a former member of the United States House of Representatives. Torkildsen and colleague Peter I. Blute remain the last Republicans elected to serve in the United States House delegation from Massachusetts.
- Age: 66
- Birthplace: Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
Paul Harding
Musician, Novelist, AuthorPaul Harding (born 1967) is an American musician and author, best known for his debut novel Tinkers (2009), which won the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the 2010 PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize among other honors. Harding was the drummer in the band Cold Water Flat throughout its existence from 1990 to 1996.- Age: 57
- Carlton E. Brown is retired former president of Clark Atlanta University in Atlanta, Georgia, a position he assumed on August 1, 2008. He served as president of Savannah State University from July 1, 1997 until December 31, 2006.
- Birthplace: Macon, Georgia
Suzanne Gardinier
PoetSuzanne Gardinier (born 1961 in New Bedford, Massachusetts) is an American poet. She is a recipient of the Lannan Literary Award for Poetry.- Age: 63
- Birthplace: New Bedford, Massachusetts
Lou Roe
Basketball playerLouis Marquel "Lou" Roe (born July 14, 1972) is an American former professional basketball player.- Age: 52
- Birthplace: Atlantic City, New Jersey
Brad Witt
Bradley "Brad" Witt (born 1952) is an American Democratic politician who is a current member of the Oregon House of Representatives for District 31, representing most of Columbia and parts of Clatsop and Multnomah counties, since his appointment in January 2005. Witt was a candidate for the Democratic nomination for the special election in Oregon's 1st congressional district to replace David Wu, who resigned from Congress before the end of his term due to allegations of sexual misconduct. Witt lost in the Democratic primary to state senator Suzanne Bonamici.- Age: 72
- Birthplace: Ware, Massachusetts
- Juliet Schor (born 1955) is Professor of sociology at Boston College. She has studied trends in working time, consumerism, the relationship between work and family, women's issues and Economic inequality, and the environment and concerns about climate change. From 2010 to 2017 she studied the sharing economy under a large research project funded by the MacArthur Foundation.
- Age: 68
- Rebecca Wolff (born 1967 New York City) is a poet, fiction writer, and the editor and creator of both Fence Magazine and Fence Books. She is a fellow at the New York State Writers Institute. Wolff has won the 2001 National Poetry Series Award and 2003 Barnard Women Poets Prize for her literature.
- Age: 57
- Birthplace: New York City, New York
- Norman L. "Norm" Abram (born October 3, 1949) is an American carpenter known for his work on the PBS television programs This Old House and The New Yankee Workshop. He is referred to on these shows as a "master carpenter".
- Age: 75
- Birthplace: Woonsocket, Rhode Island, USA
Panio Gianopoulos
Book editor, WriterPanio Gianopoulos (born July 7, 1975) is an American writer and editor in chief.- Age: 49
- Shahid H. Bokhari (born 17 January 1952 in Lahore, Pakistan ) is a highly cited Pakistani researcher in the field of parallel and distributed computing. He is a fellow of both IEEE and ACM. Bokhari's ACM Fellow citation states that he received the award for his "research contributions to automatic load balancing and partitioning of distributed processes", while his IEEE Fellow award recognises his "contributions to the mapping problem in parallel and distributed computing".At the time of his retirement in 2005, Bokhari was the only IEEE/ACM Fellow and the only Pakistani ISI Highly Cited Researcher resident in Pakistan. Bokhari's resignation led to a letter-writing campaign by several of his former students who were dismayed at what they claimed to be mismanagement at the state-run Pakistani universities.
- Age: 72
- Birthplace: Lahore, Pakistan
Harold Goldstein
PsychologistHarold Goldstein is a psychologist, in independent practice, and Director, Program Evaluation and Special Projects at the American Psychiatric Institute for Research and Education, American Psychiatric Association. He previously served as Chief Psychologist, Westfield, Massachusetts Child Guidance Center, and at various positions at the National Institute of Mental Health, including Special Assistant to the Director, Chief, Community Mental Health Services Support Branch, Associate Director, Division of Mental Health Services, Training Director, Depression Awareness and Recognition Program, and as Clinical Director, Eating Disorders Program. With Dr. Margaret Singer, Dr. Goldstein served on the APA Task Force on Deceptive and Indirect Methods of Persuasion and Control, from 1983 to 1986.- Age: 94
Winthrop E. Stone
Winthrop Ellsworth Stone (June 12, 1862 – July 17, 1921) was a professor of chemistry and served as the president of Purdue University from 1900–1921.- Age: Dec. at 59 (1862-1921)
- Birthplace: Chesterfield, New Hampshire
Douglas Cliggott
EconomistDouglas "Doug" Cliggott (born 1956) is the U.S. equity strategist at Credit Suisse. He was appointed to that position in 2009. Formerly he was the CIO of Dover Management LLC. He joined the Greenwich, CT based firm in December 2006. Cliggott was a managing director and chief investment strategist at J.P. Morgan & Company and JPMorgan Chase between September 1996 and February 2002. In 2002 he left JP Morgan to head the U.S. office of Swedish asset management firm Brummer & Partners, a J.P. Morgan client. Cliggott holds a BA in Economics from the University of Massachusetts Amherst and an MA from The New School.- Age: 68
- Joan Bray (born September 16, 1945) is a former teacher, journalist, and union leader. She was a Democratic member of both the Missouri House of Representatives (1993–2002) and Missouri State Senate (2003–2010). She resides with her husband, Carl Hoagland, in St. Louis, Missouri. She has two children, Noel and Kolby. Bray was born in Lubbock, Texas, and graduated from Southwestern University with a B.A. in English, and from the University of Massachusetts Amherst with a C.A.G.S.. She was a teacher in Colorado and Massachusetts. She has also was a journalist with the San Antonio Express-News and St. Louis Post-Dispatch, during which time she served as vice-president of the Newspaper Guild's Local 49. Bray was first elected to the Missouri House of Representatives in 1992, and served in that body through 2002, when she was elected to the Missouri State Senate. She was term-limited out in 2010, when she was replaced by Republican John Lamping. In the Senate, she served on the following committees: Appropriations Commerce, Consumer Protection, Energy and the Environment Rules, Joint Rules, Resolutions and Ethics Transportation Ways and Means Joint Committee on MO Health Net Joint Committee on Transportation Oversight Joint Committee on Tax PolicyBray was appointed interim executive director of Consumers Council of Missouri in March 2013.
- Age: 79
- Birthplace: Lubbock, Texas, USA
- Jack Canfield (born August 19, 1944) is an American author, motivational speaker, corporate trainer, and entrepreneur. He is the co-author of the Chicken Soup for the Soul series, which has more than 250 titles and 500 million copies in print in over 40 languages. In 2005 Canfield co-authored with Janet Switzer The Success Principles: How to Get From Where You Are to Where You Want to Be.
- Age: 80
- Birthplace: Texas, Fort Worth, USA
- Mr. Sanghi was named the President of Microchip in August 1990, Chief Executive Officer in October 1991 and the Chairman of the Board of Directors in October 1993. Before joining the Company, Mr. Sanghi was Vice President of Operations at Waferscale Integration, Inc., a semiconductor company, from 1988 to 1990. Mr. Sanghi was employed by Intel Corporation from 1978 to 1988, where he held various positions in management and engineering, the most recent serving as General Manager of Programmable Memory Operations. Mr. Sanghi holds a Masters of Science degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Massachusetts and a Bachelor of Science degree in Electronics and Communication from Punjab University, India.
Richard Phillips
WriterRichard Phillips is the captain of the Maersk Alabama, a cargo ship hijacked by Somali pirates in April 2009.- Age: 69
- Birthplace: Winchester, Massachusetts
