Frances Lasker Brody
Frances Lasker Brody( 1916–2009) was an American arts advocate, collector, and philanthropist who influenced the development of Los Angeles' cultural life as a founding benefactor of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and later as a guiding patron of the Huntington Library, Art Collections and Gardens.
Mrs. Brody, who died on November 12, 2009 at 93, was the wife of Sidney F. Brody, a real estate developer who died in 1983, and the stepdaughter of Mary Lasker, a philanthropist and champion of medical research who died in 1994.
The Brodys lived in a modernist house in the Holmby Hills neighborhood of Los Angeles that was designed by the architect A. Quincy Jones and the decorator William Haines to show off the couple ’s collection.
Robert Bierstedt
Robert Bierstedt( 1913–1998) was an American sociologist who often wrote about sociological theory, culture, and constitutional law.
He was a native of Burlington, Iowa and graduated in philosophy from the University of Iowa in 1934.
He received a master's degree in philosophy in 1935 and a doctorate in sociology in 1946 from Columbia University.
He headed the department of sociology at City College of New York and at New York University before becoming emeritus professor of sociology at the University of Virginia.
He was a student of the Russian- American sociologist Pitirim Sorokin when he was a visiting graduate student at Harvard University during the 1930s.
Bierstedt served as vice- president of the American Sociological Association when Sorokin was elected president.
Bierstedt was a longtime director of the American Civil Liberties Union, serving as chairman of its academic freedom committee and the church- state committee in the 1960s and 1970s.
In addition, he was a former director of the American Council of Learned Societies, a federation of scholarly groups focused on the humanities, and president of the Eastern Sociological Society.
In his 1959 presidential address" Sociology and Humane Learning" to the Eastern Sociological Society he argued for the role of debate in sociology and the importance of what he referred to as the" theoretic bias" in interpreting social phenomena.
He also held Fulbright Senior Lectureships at Edinburgh University and the London School of Economics.
He wrote several books, including" The Social OrderPower and Progress: Essays on Sociological Theory" and" American Sociological Theory" and has published many papers and essays in several sociological, anthropological, and literary journals.
He died on September 8, 1998 at Martha Jefferson Hospital in Charlottesville, Virginia at 85.
Hélène Grenier
Hélène Grenier was a Canadian librarian born in 1900 who died in 1992.
Harold J. Berman
Harold J. Berman( February 13, 1918 – November 13, 2007) was an American legal scholar who was an expert in comparative, international and Soviet/ Russian law as well as legal history, philosophy of law and the intersection of law and religion.
He was a law professor at Harvard Law School and Emory University School of Law for more than sixty years, and held the James Barr Ames Professorship of Law at Harvard before he was appointed as the first Robert W. Woodruff Professor of Law at Emory.
He has been described as" one of the great polymaths of American legal education."
Robert Hugh Willoughby
Robert Hugh Willoughby( June 6, 1921 – March 27, 2018) was an American classical flute player and flute teacher.
He played both Baroque and modern flute.
He has been described by" Flute" magazine as the" American grandmaster of the flute".
Willoughby taught for many years at Oberlin College, where he was the first Robert Wheeler Professor of Performance.
He taught for ten years at the Peabody Institute, and later at the Longy School of Music of Bard College.
He received the Alumni Achievement Award from Eastman School of Music and in 1996 he received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Flute Association.
J. Alex Haller
Jacob Alexander Haller Jr.( May 20, 1927 – June 13, 2018) was an American pediatric surgeon who served as the first Robert Garrett Professor of Pediatric Surgery at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine.
Haller Jr. was born in Pulaski, Virginia, to a family of dentists and physicians originally from York, Pennsylvania.
His father, J. Alex Haller Sr., raised him with the help of two aunts, after his mother, Julia Allison, died.
Haller Jr. contracted scarlet fever as a child, which led him to study medicine.
He played basketball and football at Pulaski High School, graduating in 1944.
Haller considered attending the University of Virginia in his home state, but was accepted at Vanderbilt University, where he had applied at his high school principal's suggestion.
There, Haller met his future wife, Emily Simms, and played for the Vanderbilt Commodores men's basketball team until his senior year of college.
Haller planned to enroll at the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, but applied to the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, having heard from professors that Hopkins specialized in surgery, his field of choice.
After completing his medical degree at Hopkins in 1951, Haller pursued further study in Europe on the advice of Arnold R. Rich.
Haller was trained in pathology under Hans von Meyenburg at the University of Zurich.
Haller was conscripted after his return from Switzerland, Rejected by the United States Navy, he instead joined the Coast Guard, and later transferred to the National Heart Institute.
After completing his residency at Hopkins, Haller began teaching at the University of Louisville in 1959, and later served as chief of cardiac surgery at the Louisville General Hospital.
Haller returned to Johns Hopkins in 1963 as assistant professor of surgery, and led the newly established pediatric surgery division.
He was appointed the first Robert Garrett Professor of Pediatric Surgery in 1967.
Over the course of his career, Haller helped develop the Advanced Pediatric Life Support program, and the Maryland Emergency Medical Services system.
He is the namesake and co-creator of the Haller index.
Haller was a founding member and later president of the American Pediatric Surgical Association.
He retired in 1992.
Haller died at home in Glencoe, Maryland, on June 13, 2018, aged 91.
Marilyn Hacker
Marilyn Hacker( born November 27, 1942) is an American poet, translator and critic.
She is Professor of English emerita at the City College of New York.
Her books of poetry include" Presentation Piece"( 1974), which won the National Book Award," Love, Death, and the Changing of the Seasons"( 1986), and" Going Back to the River"( 1990).
In 2003, Hacker won the Willis Barnstone Translation Prize.
In 2009, she subsequently won the PEN Award for Poetry in Translation for" King of a Hundred Horsemen" by Marie Étienne, which also garnered the first Robert Fagles Translation Prize from the National Poetry Series.
In 2010, she received the PEN/ Voelcker Award for Poetry.
She was shortlisted for the 2013 PEN Award for Poetry in Translation for her translation of" Tales of a Severed Head" by Rachida Madani.
Hermien Dommisse
Hermien Dommisse( 27 October 1915 – 24 March 2010) was a South African actress.
David Scotus
David Scotus was a Gaelic chronicler who died in 1139.
Muiredach Ua hÉnlainge
Muiredach Ua hÉnlainge was a Bishop of Clonfert who died in 1117.

Question: Who died first, Robert Bierstedt or Hermien Dommisse?