William Gordon (diplomat)
Sir William Gordon( 1726–1798) was a British diplomat and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1777 to 1783.
William Gordon (Royal Navy officer, born 1784)
Vice- Admiral William Gordon( 18 December 1784 – 3 February 1858) was a Scottish naval commander and Tory politician.
William Gordon (New Hampshire politician)
William Gordon( April 12, 1763 – May 8, 1802) was an American politician and a United States Representative from the state of New Hampshire.
William Gordon (bishop of Leeds)
William Gordon (24 September 1831 - 7 June 1911) was an English prelate of the Roman Catholic Church.
He was the second Bishop of Leeds.
Lord William Gordon
Lord William Gordon( 1744–1823) was a Scottish nobleman.
William Gordon (Ohio politician)
William Gordon (December 15, 1862 – January 16, 1942) was a lawyer, politician, businessman, and three-term U.S. Representative from Ohio.
William Gordon (Royal Navy officer, born 1705)
Rear Admiral William Gordon( 1705 – 17 April 1769) was a Royal Navy officer who became Commander- in- Chief, The Nore.
William Gordon Mackendrick
William Gordon Mackendrick( 23 August 1864 – 22 September 1959) was a Canadian soldier and author.
William Gordon Harris
Sir William Gordon Harris( 10 June 1912 – 20 February 2005) was a British civil engineer.
His early career was with the London, Midland and Scottish Railway and in the Sudanese Irrigation Department before he began a 26- year spell with the Admiralty Civil Engineers Department.
Harris rose to become Civil Engineer in Chief in 1959 and was responsible for building facilities to cope with the change in focus of the Royal Navy from gunnery ships to aircraft carriers and submarines, including the nuclear submarine docks at Faslane.
Harris was later made director- general of highways in the Ministry of Transport during which time he was responsible for the construction of the 650 miles of motorway, a focus on ground investigation at pre-tender stage and the development of new motorway signalling and telecommunications systems.
He later entered private practice as a consulting engineer and was chairman of the Port of Dover.
Harris also served as president of the Institution of Civil Engineers and of the Smeatonian Society of Civil Engineers.
Ruth Ryon
Ruth E. Ryon (July 16, 1944 - March 28, 2014) was a celebrity real estate columnist for the "Los Angeles Times", who retired in April 2008 after more than 23 years of writing the paper's popular "Hot Property" celebrity real estate column.
Ryon is widely credited with having created the celebrity real estate journalism genre.

Question: Who died earlier, Ruth Ryon or William Gordon Harris?
Answer: William Gordon Harris