American economist.
Born February 13th, 1922 in Rockford. [ref]
Died November 3rd, 2014 at 92 years old in Des Moines.
Life is so beautiful that death has fallen in love with it, a jealous, possessive love that grabs at what it can. But life leaps over oblivion lightly, losing only a thing or two of no importance, and gloom is just a passing shadow of a cloud. Yann Martel