My Cats Are Democrats: Jane Goodall, 1934-2025

Wednesday, October 1, 2025

Jane Goodall, 1934-2025

In Monty Python's The Meaning of Life, mortality arrives at the front door in time for a dinner party. ("Well, do get Mr. Death a drink, darling.") We're tired of Mr. Death showing up on wonderful people's Ring Cams — most recently, Jane Goodall's. Maybe he could visit some of the people who are destroying our government and democracy? Meanwhile, we cats salute Dr. Goodall's life well lived, and we PURR.

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Alicia Rhett, 1915-2014
Allan Arbus, 1918-2013
Angela Lansbury, 1925-2022
Ann Rutherford, 1917-2012
Ann Usher McKay, 1920-2009
Anne Meara, 1929-2015
B.B. King, 1925-2015
Barbara Billingsley, 1915-2010
Barbara Cook, 1927-2017
Beatrice Arthur, 1922-2009
Bill Cunningham, 1929-2016
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Bob Edgar, 1943-2013
Bob Hoskins, 1942-2014
Bob Keefe, 1934-2018
Carl Reiner, 1922-2020
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Carrie Fisher, 1956-2016
Celeste Holm, 1917-2012
Cicely Tyson, 1924-2021
Claiborne Pell, 1918-2009
Curt Moffatt, 1951-2018
Dagmar Wilson, 1916-2011
Daniel Inouye, 1924-2012
Dave Brubeck, 1920-2012
David Crosby, 1941-2023
David Hedison, 1927-2019
Debbie Reynolds, 1932-2016
Del Martin, 1921-2008
Diana Rigg, 1938-2020
Dick Gregory, 1932-2017
Dick Kempel, 1920-2013
Dorothy Height, 1912-2010
Dorothy Rodham, 1919-2011
Earl Scruggs, 1924-2012
Eartha Kitt, 1927-2008
Edith Windsor, 1929-2017
Edward Herrmann, 1943-2014
Edward Woodward, 1930-2009
Edwin Newman, 1919-2010
Eleanor Parker, 1922-2013
Elijah Cummings, 1951-2019
Etta James, 1938-2012
Eydie Gorme, 1928-2013
Frank Kameny, 1925-2011
Fred Bondy, 1931-2010
Fred Shuttlesworth, 1922-2011
Garrick Utley, 1939-2014
Gene Barry, 1919-2009
Gene Wilder, 1933-2016
Geoffrey Holder, 1930-2014
George Carlin, 1937-2008
George McGovern, 1922-2012
Gore Vidal, 1925-2012
Gwen Ifill, 1955-2016
Hamilton Jordan, 1944-2008
Harold Ramis, 1944-2014
Harris Wofford, 1926-2019
Harry Morgan, 1915-2011
Irving R. Levine, 1922-2009
Isaac Hayes, 1942-2008
Jack Layton, 1950-2011
James Whitmore, 1921-2009
Janet Reno, 1938-2016
Jo Stafford, 1917-2008
Joan Fontaine, 1917-2013
Joan Mondale, 1930-2014
Jody Powell, 1943-2009
Joe Duffey, 1932-2021
John Culver, 1932-2018
John Dingell, 1926-2019
John Hope Franklin, 1915-2009
John Kempel, 1951-2021
John Lawrence, 1943-2011
John Lewis, 1940-2020
John Paul Stevens, 1920-2019
John Seigenthaler, 1927-2014
Joni Decker, 1945-2011
Joseph Wilson, 1949-2019
Julian Bond, 1940-2015
June Foray, 1917-2017
Ken Howard, 1944-2016
Kevin McCarthy, 1914-2010
Kitty Dukakis, 1936-2025
Kris Kristofferson, 1936-2024
Lauren Bacall, 1924-2014
Lena Horne, 1917-2010
Leonard Nimoy, 1931-2015
Lesley Gore, 1946-2015
Loretta Swit, 1937-2025
Luise Rainer, 1910-2014
Madeleine Sherwood, 1922-2016
Marge Champion, 1919-2020
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Martin Landau, 1928-2017
Marvin Hamlisch, 1944-2012
Mary Rodgers, 1931-2014
Max Cleland, 1942-2021
Maxine Cohen Lando, 1950-2012
Maya Angelou, 1928-2014
Mitzi Gaynor, 1931-2024
Muhammad Ali, 1942-2016
Nanette Fabray, 1920-2018
Natalie Cole, 1950-2015
Natasha Richardson, 1963-2009
Nina Foch, 1924-2008
Norman Lloyd, 1914-2021
Olympia Dukakis, 1931-2021
Patricia Neal, 1926-2010
Paul Newman, 1925-2008
Peg Kempel, 1920-2011
Pete Seeger, 1919-2014
Peter O'Toole, 1932-2013
R. Sargent Shriver, 1915-2011
Ralph Kiner, 1922-2014
Ravi Shankar, 1920-2012
Ray Harryhausen, 1920-2013
Rip Torn, 1931-2019
Robert C. Byrd, 1917-2010
Robert Forster, 1941-2019
Robert Pastor, 1947-2014
Robert Prosky, 1930-2008
Robert Reno, 1939-2012
Robin Chandler Duke, 1923-2016
Roger Mudd, 1928-2021
Rose Marie, 1923-2017
Ruby Dee, 1922-2014
Russell Means, 1939-2012
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Sally Ride, 1951-2012
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Sam Shepard, 1943-2017
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Stephanie Tubbs Jones, 1949-2008
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Terry Jones, 1942-2020
Theodore Sorensen, 1928-2010
Tim Pigott-Smith, 1946-2017
Tom Wicker, 1926-2011
Tommy Smothers, 1937-2023
Toni Morrison, 1931-2019
Vaclav Havel, 1936-2011
Van Johnson, 1916-2008
Vera Lynn, 1917-2020
Walter Cronkite, 1916-2009
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Jane Goodall, 1934-2025

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