06/12/2026
Women have always created wonderful legacies, yet not all received obituaries. This article looks back at gender disparity within obituary archives, and shares 12 remarkable women's stories, who never had obituaries at the time of their death. Read this article, and gain a new outlook on obituaries.
The poet Sylvia Plath and the novelist Charlotte Brontë. Ida B. Wells, the anti-lynching activist. These extraordinary people — and so many others — did not have obituaries in The New York Times. Until now.