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National Humanities Medal

American award for contributions to Humanities

Memorial Pages

63 memorial pages

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Gordon S. Wood

11/27/1933 – 06/07/2026

92 years

American historian

Concord

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Robert Coles

10/12/1929 – 06/04/2026

96 years

American psychiatrist

Lincoln

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Lewis Lehrman

08/15/1938 – 03/11/2026

87 years

American investment banker

Greenwich

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Gabor Boritt

01/01/1940 – 02/02/2026

86 years

American historian (born 1940)

Budapest

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John Searle

07/31/1932 – 09/17/2025

93 years

American philosopher

Tampa

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Wallis Annenberg

07/15/1939 – 07/28/2025

86 years

Los Angeles

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Martin E. Marty

02/05/1928 – 02/25/2025

97 years

Minneapolis

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Bernice Johnson Reagon

10/04/1942 – 07/16/2024

81 years

Washington, D.C.

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Family Tree

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Louise Glück

04/22/1943 – 10/13/2023

80 years

U.S. poet and Nobel laureate

Cambridge

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Thomas A. Saunders III

06/01/1936 – 09/09/2022

86 years

Palm Beach

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David McCullough

07/07/1933 – 08/07/2022

89 years

American historian and author

Hingham

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Family Tree

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Midge Decter

07/25/1927 – 05/09/2022

94 years

Manhattan

Family Tree

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Joan Didion

12/05/1934 – 12/23/2021

87 years

American writer

Manhattan

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Nickolas Davatzes

03/14/1942 – 08/21/2021

79 years

United States

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Donald Kagan

05/01/1932 – 08/06/2021

89 years

American historian

Washington, D.C.

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Vartan Gregorian

04/08/1934 – 04/15/2021

87 years

Iran

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Larry McMurtry

06/03/1936 – 03/25/2021

84 years

American novelist, essayist, bookseller and screenwriter

Archer City

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Teresa Lozano Long

01/01/1928 – 03/21/2021

93 years

Premont

Family Tree

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Hal Holbrook

02/17/1925 – 01/23/2021

95 years

American actor

Beverly Hills

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Richard Gilder

05/31/1932 – 05/12/2020

87 years

Charlottesville

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Ernest J. Gaines

01/15/1933 – 11/05/2019

86 years

Oscar

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Family Tree

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Toni Morrison

02/18/1931 – 08/05/2019

88 years

African American novelist, essayist, and academic

The Bronx

Family Tree

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David Brion Davis

02/16/1927 – 04/14/2019

92 years

Guilford

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Ann Firor Scott

04/24/1921 – 02/05/2019

97 years

United States

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