Welcome! Check out today's deaths, recent deaths, or our deaths stats.

Feeling experimental? Head on over to our newest (and darkest) feature: Next-2-Die™ predictions

James A. Van Allen

American astrophysicist (1914–2006).

Born September 7th, 1914 in Mount Pleasant.

Died August 9th, 2006 at 91 years old in Iowa City (heart failure). [ref]

Occupations
astronomer, earth scientist, nuclear physicist, physicist, university teacher
Wikipedia

Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them. George Eliot