Colin Cantwell, who worked on 2001: A Space Odyssey and helped design ships for Star Wars, is pictured here in a 2017 photo in Boulder, Colorado. RJ Sangosti/The Denver Post via Getty Images hide caption
Obituaries NPR remembrances of remarkable individuals.
Obituaries
Rosemary Radford Ruether was among the first scholars to think deeply about the role of women in Christianity. She died Saturday at the age of 85. Garrett–Evangelical Theological Seminary hide caption
Rosemary Radford Ruether, a founding mother of feminist theology, has died at age 85
The popular composer died in a hospital in Paris of heart failure. Georges Bendrihem/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Urvashi Vaid, then-executive director of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, protests at then-President George H.W. Bush's address on AIDS in March 1990 in Arlington, Virginia. The pioneering LGBTQ activist and attorney died last week at age 63. Dennis Cook/Associated Press hide caption
Actor Fred Ward seen in 1994. Michael Grecco/MGP, Inc. hide caption
Playwright Terrence McNally pictured at a Tony Awards function in 2019. Ilya S. Savenok/Getty Images for Tony Awards Pro hide caption
Randy Weaver, the object of the Ruby Ridge siege, visits with the media at the main FBI roadblock outside the Freemen compound in Montana on April 27, 1996. Weaver, who served as a spark for the growth of anti-government extremists, has died at the age of 74. Jim Mone/AP hide caption
The Milwaukee Bucks' Bob Lanier (16) moves for the basket as Philadelphia 76ers Darryl Dawkins defends during an NBA playoff game on April 13, 1981, in Milwaukee. Lanier died on Tuesday at age 73. Steve Pyle/AP hide caption
Former Ukrainian President Leonid Kravchuk speaks during a campaign rally in Kyiv, on Jan. 22, 2019. Kravchuk, who led Ukraine to independence amid the collapse of the Soviet Union and served as its first president, has died. He was 88. Efrem Lukatsky/AP hide caption
George Pérez, a celebrated comic book writer and artist, died at age 67 on Friday. Here, the artist is seen in 2019 at Excelsior! A Celebration of the Amazing, Fantastic, Incredible & Uncanny Life of Stan Lee, at the TCL Chinese Theatre in Los Angeles. Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP hide caption
Singer Mickey Gilley in 2015 at the 50th Academy of Country Music Awards. Jason Merritt/TERM/Getty Images hide caption
Kevin Samuels' dating advice was often fodder for heated discussion about marriage and dating. Instagram hide caption
As a child, former Secretary of Transportation Norman Mineta, seen here in 2004, spent two years of his life in a World War II internment camp after the Pearl Harbor attack. Al Messerschmidt/WireImage hide caption
Neal Adams revitalized popular comic book characters including Batman, the Green Lantern, Superman and the X-Men, by reimagining them in a more realistic style. Warner Bros. hide caption