List of Famous people who died at 95

Eric Thompson

First Name Eric
Last Name Thompson
Born on November 4, 1919
Died on August 22, 2015 (aged 95)

Eric David Thompson was a British motor racing driver, book dealer and insurance broker. He participated in sports car racing between 1949 and 1955 taking his greatest success by finishing third in the 1951 Les 24 Heures du Mans and took part in the 1952 RAC British Grand Prix.

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Vladimir Bushin

First Name Vladimir
Last Name Bushin
Born on January 24, 1924
Died on December 25, 2019 (aged 95)

Vladimir Sergeyevich Bushin was a Russian writer, essayist, literary critic, columnist and social activist. Bushin was born in Glukhovo, Bogorodsky Uyezd, Moscow Governorate, RSFSR, USSR, and was a member of the Union of Soviet Writers and Communist.

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Argentina Santos

First Name Argentina
Last Name Santos
Born on February 6, 1924
Died on November 18, 2019 (aged 95)
Born in Portugal, Lisboa

Argentina Santos or Maria Argentina Pinto dos Santos was a Portuguese singer considered one of the last great Fado singers.

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Catherine Small Long

First Name Catherine
Last Name Long
Born on February 7, 1924
Died on November 23, 2019 (aged 95)

Mary Catherine Small Long was an American politician who served as the U.S. representative for Louisiana's 8th congressional district, which she filled from 1985 to 1987, the remainder of the term left by the death of her husband, Gillis William Long. Until it was disbanded in 1993, the 8th district was based in Central Louisiana about Alexandria. She was the first female military veteran elected to Congress, having served as a WAVE in the United States Navy.

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Isabella Karle

Isabella Helen
First Name Isabella
Last Name Karle
Born on December 2, 1921
Died on October 3, 2017 (aged 95)

Isabella Karle was an American chemist who was instrumental in developing techniques to extract plutonium chloride from a mixture containing plutonium oxide. For her scientific work, Karle received the Garvan–Olin Medal, Gregori Aminoff Prize, Bower Award, National Medal of Science, and the Navy Distinguished Civilian Service Award.

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Mundell Lowe

James Mundell Lowe
First Name Mundell
Last Name Lowe
Born on April 21, 1922
Died on December 2, 2017 (aged 95)

James Mundell Lowe was an American jazz guitarist who worked often in radio, television, and film, and as a session musician.

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Emil Wolf

First Name Emil
Born on July 30, 1922
Died on June 2, 2018 (aged 95)
Born in Czech Republic

Emil Wolf was a Czech-born American physicist who made advancements in physical optics, including diffraction, coherence properties of optical fields, spectroscopy of partially coherent radiation, and the theory of direct scattering and inverse scattering. He was also the author of numerous other contributions to optics.

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Oswaldo Louzada

First Name Oswaldo
Born on April 12, 1912
Died on February 22, 2008 (aged 95)

Oswaldo Louzada was a Brazilian actor. He was also known as Louzadinha.

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Frederick Sanger

First Name Frederick
Last Name Sanger
Born on August 13, 1918
Died on November 19, 2013 (aged 95)

Frederick Sanger was a British biochemist who twice won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, one of only two people to have done so in the same category, the fourth person overall with two Nobel Prizes, and the third person overall with two Nobel Prizes in the sciences. In 1958, he was awarded a Nobel Prize in Chemistry "for his work on the structure of proteins, especially that of insulin". In 1980, Walter Gilbert and Sanger shared half of the chemistry prize "for their contributions concerning the determination of base sequences in nucleic acids". The other half was awarded to Paul Berg "for his fundamental studies of the biochemistry of nucleic acids, with particular regard to recombinant DNA".

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Nathan Glazer

First Name Nathan
Last Name Glazer
Born on February 25, 1923
Died on January 19, 2019 (aged 95)

Nathan Glazer was an American sociologist who taught at the University of California, Berkeley, and for several decades at Harvard University. He was a co-editor of the now-defunct policy journal The Public Interest.

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