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Willie Mays is widely considered the best baseball player in history. His speed, his hitting and overall understanding of the game. He's shown here at the 2004 Baseball Hall of Fame induction ceremonies in Cooperstown, N.Y. Al Messerschmidt/WireImage / Getty Images hide caption
Mandy Messinger's early memories of her father, Craig, are of the smell of his tobacco pipe and how he taught her to throw a baseball. Craig Messinger, was killed in a flash flood near Philadelphia in 2021. She is still processing his death. Mandy Messinger hide caption
Craig Messinger is one example of the toll climate change is taking on human life
Toby Keith is seen performing April 7, 2014 at ACM Presents an All-Star Salute to the Troops in Las Vegas. Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP hide caption
Charles Osgood who anchored of CBS's Sunday Morning for more than two decades and was host of the long-running radio program The Osgood File, and was referred to as CBS News' poet-in-residence, has died. He was 91. Suzanne Plunkett/AP hide caption
Clockwise from left: Sinéad O'Connor, Tina Turner, Matthew Perry, Wayne Shorter, Paul Reubens and Harry Belafonte Getty Images; Brian Rasic/Getty Images; Getty Images; Christophe Simon/AFP via Getty Images; Danny Moloshok/AP; AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Veteran Chinese AIDS campaigner Doctor Gao Yaojie, right, talks with students about AIDS prevention during a series of university lectures in Shanghai, Nov. 30 2006. Mark Ralston/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Gao Yaojie, a pioneering activist who exposed China's AIDS epidemic, dies at 95
Former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, shown here in 2008, was born on May 27, 1923. Win McNamee/Getty Images hide caption
Henry Kissinger, controversial diplomat and foreign policy scholar, dies at 100
Silvio Berlusconi meets journalists at the Quirinale presidential palace in Rome in 2018. Gregorio Borgia/AP hide caption
Silvio Berlusconi, Italy's former prime minister, has died at the age of 86
This 1976 file photo shows Oakland A's Vida Blue, the hard-throwing left-hander who became one of baseball's biggest draws in the early 1970's and helped lead brash Oakland Athletics to three straight World Series titles. Blue has died. He was 73. The A's said Blue died Saturday, May 6, 2023 but did not give a cause of death. Anonymous/AP hide caption
Yang Bing-Yi started the Din Tai Fung restaurant with his wife in Taipei in 1972. From there, the restaurant grew into a chain of more than 170 locations around the world, known for steamed soup dumplings. Courtesy of Yang family hide caption
Yang Bing-Yi, patriarch of Taiwan's soup dumpling empire, has died
Pope Benedict XVI greets a crowd in Venice's St. Mark's Square in 2011. Marco Secchi/Getty Images hide caption
Joyce Cohen Lashof was the first female dean of UC Berkeley's School of Public Health and a lifelong fighter for social justice. UC Berkeley School of Public Health hide caption
Bilquis Edhi watched over abandoned children in cradles at the Edhi orphanage in Karachi in 2010. Over the years, thousands of children have been left in the network of cradles outside Edhi centers she set up across Pakistan. Behrouz Mehri/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Abdul Alim, one of Pakistan's oldest COVID survivors, died of natural causes on Jan. 27. He was 104 years old. Sohail Ahmed hide caption
Top, from left: Vicente Fernández, bell hooks, Joan Didion; bottom, from left: Vernon Jordan, Petra Mayer and Stephen Sondheim Kevin Winter/Getty Images for LARAS; Karjean Levine/Getty Images; Kathy Willens/AP; Jennifer Law/AFP via Getty Images; Darian Woehr/NPR; R. Jones/Getty Images hide caption
Ed Asner arrives during the 82nd Academy Awards in the Hollywood section of Los Angeles on March 7, 2010. Asner, the blustery but lovable Lou Grant in two successful television series, died at 91. Matt Sayles/AP hide caption
Jane Withers, seen in 2010. Withers was one of the last remaining stars from the 1930s and 1940s, the height of Hollywood studio dominance. Dan Steinberg/AP hide caption
(L to R): Sen. Heherson Alvarez, an environmental lawmaker from the Philippines; Durdana Rizvi, a doctor from Pakistan; Colombian actor Antonio Bolívar; 'Nanī' Nabi, a grandmother from Kashmir; Rocio Choque, a soup kitchen volunteer from Argentina. Eduardo Munoz/Reuters; Andaleeb Rizvi; Lucas Jackson/Reuters; Javaid Iqbal; Anita Pouchard Serra for NPR hide caption
The April 19 edition of The Boston Globe had 16 pages of obituaries. Brian Snyder/Reuters hide caption
Obituary Writer Aims To Show How Coronavirus Impacts 'All People In Our Society'
Actor Irrfan Khan has died at age 54, after an acclaimed film career in India and on the international stage. He's seen here in 2018, during a visit to Park City, Utah. Ray Tamarra/GC Images hide caption
In New York City, 42nd Street stands mostly empty as much of the city is void of cars and pedestrians over fears of spreading the coronavirus. Spencer Platt/Getty Images hide caption
Opinion: Remembering Some Of Those We've Already Lost To The Pandemic
Kobe Bryant and daughter Gianna Bryant attend a basketball game between the Los Angeles Lakers and the Dallas Mavericks on Dec. 29, 2019 in Los Angeles. Allen Berezovsky/Getty Images hide caption