are part of a 3-day festival that remembers the lives of those who passed before us. Here is a short list of notable Americans who were
(honored on Nov 1, All Saints Day) or died (remembered Nov 2, All Souls Day) during the year. Try to think about the civics questions associated with each person. While wating for year's quiz, check out the previous years'
Nov 14, 2025 Alice Wong, 51, American disability rights activist, complications from an infection.
Dec 30, 2025 Ben Nighthorse Campbell, 92, American politician, member of the U.S. Senate (1993–2005) and House of Representatives (1987–1993).
January 7, 2026, Renée Nicole Macklin Good, a 37-year-old American woman, was shot by ICE in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
January 20 Louva Dahozy, 99, American Navajo rights activist in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
January 24, Alex Pretti, 37, American nurse, shot by ICE
Feb 5 Troy Poteete, 70, American Cherokee politician.
Feb 17 Jesse Jackson, 84, American civil rights activist and politician, founder of Rainbow/PUSH.
Feb 19 Joanne Bland, 72, American civil rights activist, co-founder of the National Voting Rights Museum.
Mar 6 Lolo Matalasi Moliga, 78, American Samoan politician, governor of American Samoa (2013–2021).
Apr 26 Dirk Kempthorne, 74, American politician, member of the U.S. Senate (1993–1999), governor of Idaho (1999–2006) and secretary of the interior (2006–2009), colon cancer.
May 17 Brenda Travis, 81, American civil rights campaigner
May 19 Barney Frank, 86, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1981–2013), heart failure.
Jun 7 Gordon S. Wood, 92, American historian (The Radicalism of the American Revolution, Empire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic, 1789–1815), Pulitzer Prize winner (1993), traffic collision.
Jun 14 Beatrice Lumpkin, 107, American union organizer, activist and writer
June 18 declared venerable Mother Mary Teresa Tallon, foundress of the Parish Visitors of Mary Immaculate
July 11 Lindsey Graham, 71, American politician, member of the U.S. Senate (since 2003) and House of Representatives (1995–2003), aortic dissection complicated by arteriosclerotic cardiovascular disease
Aug 25 Dolly Parton, 80, American Hall of Fame singer-songwriter ("Jolene", "I Will Always Love You") and actress (9 to 5), eleven-time Grammy winner, cancer.
Aug 31 Wendell Berry, 92, American novelist and essayist (The Unsettling of America)
Sept 2 Gloria Steinem, 92, American feminist and journalist (New York, Ms.), co-founder of the Women's Media Center.
Sept 5 Robin Morgan, 85, American poet, writer (Sisterhood Is Powerful) and feminist, co-founder of the Women's Media Center, complications from Parkinson's disease.
Sept 15 Annie Dillard, 81, American writer (Tickets for a Prayer Wheel, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, The Maytrees), Pulitzer Prize winner (1975).
Sept 16 Peter Max, 88, German-American pop artist, complications from dementia
Sept 24 beatification of Bishop Fulton Sheen, Catholic radio/TV evangelist.
Oct 28 Dolores Huerta, 96, American labor leader and activist, co-founder of United Farm Workers, cancer.
Oct 31 beatification of Pedro de Corpa and 4 Companions (Georgia Martyrs)
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