Ray Man, 72, the primary punter to make the Professional Soccer Corridor of Fame, died Thursday. Southern Mississippi, the place Man starred earlier than changing into the primary punter ever taken within the first spherical of the NFL draft, stated he died after a prolonged sickness. He had been receiving care in a hospice within the Hattiesburg, Mississippi, space.

Man was drafted twenty third total by Al Davis’ Raiders in 1973 and performed his total 14-year profession with the staff. He was a three-time All-Professional choice. In 2014, he grew to become the primary participant to make be inducted into the Professional Soccer Corridor of Fame completely for his punting. Man ended his NFL profession in 1986 with a streak of 619 punts with out having one blocked.

John McVay, 91, the chief who helped launch the San Francisco 49ers dynasty and grandfather of Rams coach Sean McVay, died Monday at his residence in Granite Bay, California.

McVay spent 22 seasons with the 49ers beginning in 1979 in varied capacities. He performed an integral function together with coach Invoice Walsh in constructing one of many league’s best dynasties that gained 5 Tremendous Bowl titles in a span of 14 seasons. McVay was inducted into the 49ers Corridor of Fame in 2013, and the staff devoted its draft room because the “John McVay Draft Room” in his honor in 2016.

Patrick Haggerty, 78, the chief of the pioneering Washington queer country-folk musical mission Lavender Nation, died Monday from problems associated to a stroke he had suffered in September.

The lifelong activist and uncompromising singer-songwriter launched what’s broadly thought of the primary gay-themed nation album in 1973. Although his music profession, which he seen as a automobile for his activism, took a decadeslong hiatus shortly after Lavender Nation’s debut album, the Bremerton artist had been steadily gigging all around the nation in recent times, after Haggerty’s music was pulled from the dustbins of time and caught the ear of a brand new technology.

He influenced artists like queer nation star Orville Peck and drag star/singer-songwriter Trixie Mattel, who coated Lavender Nation’s “I Can’t Shake the Stranger Out of You.” Haggerty, a charismatic spitfire and poignant storyteller, appeared to relish the elevated curiosity in Lavender Nation and his music, which he described as “anti-fascist artwork instruments to assist us within the wrestle.”

The Rev. Calvin O. Butts III, 73, the Harlem preacher whose expertise for oratory and political savvy was a pressure for social and racial justice, and who raised $1 billion to remake America’s most storied and influential Black neighborhoods, died Oct. 28 at his Harlem residence. The trigger was pancreatic most cancers.

Butts’ impression prolonged far past his church’s partitions. In 1989, he established the nonprofit Abyssinian Improvement Corp. to develop moderate-income housing, retail, faculties and different tasks within the surrounding neighborhood. Butts helped mobilize church leaders to help applications for AIDS sufferers within the Nineteen Eighties and extra not too long ago arrange a COVID-19 vaccination clinic at Abyssinian to encourage group residents to get immunized in opposition to the coronavirus.

Butts additionally persuaded some report labels and radio stations to reject violent and misogynistic rap lyrics. He advocated that the inventive pressure introduced by rap needs to be formed into “constructive and redemptive manner our younger individuals to proceed our progress in opposition to the evils that attempt to crush us.”

Gerald Stern, 97, one of many nation’s most cherished and revered poets who wrote with spirited melancholy and earthly humor about his childhood, Judaism, mortality and the wonders of the contemplative life, died Oct. 28 in New York. Winner of the 1998 Nationwide E book Award for the anthology “This Time,” the balding, round-eyed Stern was generally mistaken in particular person for Allen Ginsberg and sometimes in comparison with Walt Whitman due to his lyrical and sensual fashion, and his present for wedding ceremony the bodily world to the better cosmos.

Robert F. Horan Jr., 90, who secured a homicide conviction of Washington, D.C., sniper Lee Boyd Malvo throughout his four-decade tenure as the highest prosecutor in Virginia’s largest county, died Oct. 28 in Clifton, Virginia. Malvo was 17 when he and John Allen Muhammad shot and killed 10 individuals within the Washington, D.C., space over a three-week span in October 2002. Malvo was sentenced to life in jail with out parole after a jury convicted him of capital homicide however declined to impose the loss of life penalty. Muhammad was executed in Virginia in 2009.

Julie Powell, 49, the bestselling creator of “Julie & Julia” who famously documented her mission to prepare dinner each recipe in Julia Little one’s ebook “Mastering the Artwork of French Cooking,” died Oct. 26 at her residence in upstate New York. The trigger was cardiac arrest.

Powell rose to prominence within the early 2000s when, unhappy together with her mundane 9-to-5 job within the Large Apple, she resolved to arrange all of the meals in Little one’s cookbook over the course of a yr. She wrote candidly and vividly about her journey by French delicacies in a weblog for the location Salon.com, which quickly amassed lots of of 1000’s of readers left rapt by her ambitiousness and relatability.

In 2005, Powell revealed a ebook concerning the life-altering, whirlwind expertise titled “Julie & Julia: 365 Days, 524 Recipes, 1 Tiny House Kitchen,” which author and director Nora Ephron later tailored into an Oscar-nominated movie starring Meryl Streep as Little one and Amy Adams as Powell.