R.I.P. 2009: From Mercedes Sosa to Frank McCourt
Lists: We said goodbye to writers, adventurers, musicians -- people who had an impact on travel and the way we see the world
12.30.09 | 10:46 AM ET
Mercedes Sosa (REUTERS/La Gaceta/Files)
R.I.P.:
- Claude Levi-Strauss, anthropologist
- Mercedes Sosa, musician
- Patrick Swayze, actor
- John Hughes, screenwriter and director
- Sandy van Ginkel, architect
- Frank McCourt, writer
- Julius Shulman, photographer
- Michael Jackson, musician and pop icon
- Farrah Fawcett, actress
- Ali Akbar Khan, musician
- Jerri Nielsen Fitzgerald, physician and polar traveler
- Neda Agha-Soltan, Iranian student
- John Joseph Houghtaling, inventor
- Edith “Jackie” Ronne, Antarctic explorer
- Millvina Dean, Titanic survivor
- Paul Harvey, radio broadcaster
- Conchita Cintron, matador
- Leila Hadley, writer
- John Updike, writer
- Alfred Shaheen, Aloha shirt revolutionary