- Cassandra Tate, a 1977 Nieman Fellow, died on June 10, 2021, at her home in Seattle, Washington, after a lengthy battle with fallopian tube cancer.
- Ebrahim Raisi (en.wikiquote.org)
Sayyid Ebrahim Raisi (Persian: سید ابراهیم رئیسالساداتی; 14 December 1960 – 19 May 2024), commonly known as Ebrahim Raisi (Persian: ابراهیم رئیسی), was an Iranian hardline, ultra conservative Islamist, principlist politician, Muslim jurist, and the eighth president of Iran since 3 August 2021, having been elected to the presidency in the 2021 Iranian presidential election. President Raisi was killed in the Varzaqan helicopter crash.