Michael Ritchie

male, deceased (2001)
Harvard University, film director, American, Berkeley, Berkeley High School, Prostate cancer death
Michael Ritchie (November 28, 1938 Waukesha, Wisconsin - April 16, 2001) was an American film director. He attended Berkeley High School in...
John de Lancie

John de Lancie

male, deceased (2002)
American classical oboist, American, from Berkeley, California, Curtis Institute of Music, Walnut Creek, oboe…Berkeley
John de Lancie (July 26, 1921 - May 17, 2002) was an American musician who served as the principal oboist of the Philadelphia Orchestra for many...
Shelley Jackson

Shelley Jackson

female, 46 years old
James Tiptree, Jr. Award, Saas-Fee, Stanford University, Conjunctions, Grand Street, The Melancholy of Anatomy…Berkeley, Berkeley High School
Shelley Jackson (born 1963) is a writer and artist known for her cross-genre experiments, including important contributions to electronic...
Yau-Man Chan

Yau-Man Chan

male, 57 years old
Asian American, Survivor, University of California, Berkeley, table tennis player, Survivor Fiji, National Collegiate Table Tennis Association…Berkeley
Yau-Man Chan (born August 26, 1952 in Malaysia, raised in North Borneo) was the fourth place finisher in the reality television series "Survivor:...
Garrett Gruener

Garrett Gruener

male
democratic party, California politician, computer specialist, Berkeley, ask.com, United States Democratic Party
Garrett Gruener is founder of Ask.com. He was also a candidate for the 2003 California recall special election from the Democratic Party, finishing...
Richard Lazarus

Richard Lazarus

male, deceased (2002)
University of California, American psychologist, cognition, Berkeley, emotion, stress…University of California, Berkeley
Richard S. Lazarus (born March 3, 1922, in New York) was a psychologist who began rising to prominence in the 1960's, when behaviorists like B. F....
Mona Simpson

Mona Simpson

female, 52 years old
Apple Inc., Simpsons, Syrian, Columbia University alumni, University of California, Berkeley alumni, University of California, Berkeley…Berkeley
Mona Simpson (born June 14, 1957 in Green Bay, Wisconsin) is a novelist and essayist. She was born to an American mother, Joanne Carole Schieble,...
Chris Carmichael

Chris Carmichael

male, 48 years old
Bicycling Hall of Fame, coach, CEO, cyclist, Cyclist at the 1984 Summer Olympics, Berkeley
Chris Carmichael (born October 24, 1961 in Berkeley) is a cycling, triathlon and endurance sports coach and founder and CEO of Carmichael Training...
Wendy Northcutt

Wendy Northcutt

female, 46 years old
Stanford University, biotech startup, Telik, cancer, neuroscience, Berkeley…UC Berkeley
Wendy Northcutt (b. September 17, 1963) is the editor of Darwinawards.com website and author of several books on the Darwin Awards. According to...
Itamar Moses

Itamar Moses

male, 32 years old
Yale University, New York University, Berkeley, Master of Fine Arts, Playwright, American
Itamar Moses (born 1977) is an American playwright and author. Moses grew up in Berkeley, California, earned his bachelor's degree at Yale...