Overlooked (obituary feature)

1. Ida B. Wells, (1862 - 1931), "took on racism in the deep south with powerful reporting on lynchings"[7]
2. Qiu Jin, (1875 - 1907), "beheaded by imperial forces, was 'China's Joan of Arc'"[8]
3. Mary Ewing Outerbridge, (1852 - 1886), "helped bring tennis to the United States"[9]
4. Diane Arbus, (1923 - 1971), "a photographer, whose portraits have compelled or repelled generations of viewers"[10]
5. Marsha P. Johnson, (1945 - 2002), "a transgender pioneer and activist"
6. Sylvia Plath, (1932 - 1963), "a postwar poet unafraid to confront her despair"
7. Henrietta Lacks, (1920 - 1951), "whose cells lead to a medical revolution"
8. Madhubala, (1933 - 1969), "a Bollywood legend whose tragic life mirrored Marilyn Monroe's"
9. Emily Warren Roebling, (1843 - 1903), "the woman behind the man who built the Brooklyn Bridge"
10. Nella Larsen, (1891 - 1964), "wrestled with race and sexuality in the Harlem renaissance"
11. Ada Lovelace, (1815 - 1852), "mathematician who wrote the first computer program"
12. Margaret Abbott, (1878 - 1955), "an unwitting olympic trailblazer"
13. Belkis Ayón, (1967 - 1999), "a Cuban printmaker inspired by a secret male society"
14. Charlotte Brontë, (1816 - 1855), "Novelist known for Jane Eyre"
15. Lillias Campbell Davidson, (1853 - 1934), "an early advocate for women's cycling"

During February 2019, in honor of Black History Month, the paper published obituaries for "a prominent group of black men and women" who were not examined at the time of their deaths.[11] Padnani wrote that readers' suggestions about whom to write "have yielded some of the most-read obituaries".[12]

1. Gladys Bentley, (1907 - 1960), "a gender bending blues performer who became 1920s Harlem royalty".
2. Scott Joplin, (1867 - 1917), "a pianist and ragtime master who wrote 'The Entertainer' and the groundbreaking opera 'Treemonisha'.
3. Margaret Garner, (1833 - 1858), "who killed her own daughter rather than return her to the horrors of slavery".
4. Major Taylor, (1878 - 1932), "a world champion bicycle racer whose fame was undermined by prejudice".
5. Zelda Wynn Valdes, (1905 - 2001), "a fashion designer who outfitted the glittery stars of screen and stage".
6. Alfred Hair, (1941 - 1970), "a charismatic businessman who created a movement for Florida’s black artists".
7. Nina Mae McKinney, (1912 - 1957), "an actress who defied the barrier of race to find stardom in Europe".
8. Granville T. Woods, (1856 - 1910), "an inventor known as the 'Black Edison'".
9. Oscar Micheaux, (1884 - 1951), "a pioneering filmmaker prefiguring independent directors like Spike Lee and Tyler Perry".
10. Mary Ellen Pleasant, (1814 - 1907), "born into slavery, she became a Gold Rush-era millionaire and a powerful abolitionist".
11. Elizabeth Jennings Graham, (1827 - 1901), "Life experiences primed her to fight for racial equality. Her moment came on a streetcar ride to church."
12. Philip A. Payton Jr., (1876 - 1917), "a real estate magnate who turned Harlem into a black mecca".
13. Moses Fleetwood Walker, (1857 - 1924), "the first black baseball player in the big leagues, even before Jackie Robinson".

• Bessie Coleman, "the first black woman in the United States to earn a pilot’s license, then barnstormed around the country thrilling audiences and inspiring later generations.", published December 11, 2019[13]
• Pauline Boty, "With her daring feminist art and freewheeling lifestyle, Boty personified the cultural scene known as Swinging London", published November 20, 2019[14]
• Mabel Grammer, "whose brown baby plan found homes for hundreds", published February 6, 2019 [15]
• Forough Farrokhzad, "Iranian poet, who broke barriers of sex and society", published January 30, 2019 [16]
• Mabel Stark, "fearless tiger trainer", published January 23, 2019 [17]
• Isabelle Kelley, "developed a food stamp program to feed millions", published January 16, 2019 [18]
• Laura De Force Gordon, "suffragist, journalist and lawyer", published January 9, 2019 [19]
• Karen Spärck Jones, "established the basis for search engines", published January 2, 2019 [20]
• Gertrude Beasley, "wrote an uncompromising memoir, then vanished", published December 19, 2018
• Elizabeth Keckly, "dressmaker and confidante to Mary Todd Lincoln", published December 12, 2018
• Charley Parkhurst, "gold rush legend with a hidden identity", published December 5, 2018 [21]
• Noor Inayat Khan, "Indian princess and British spy", published November 28, 2018
• Lilian Jeannette Rice, "architect who lifted a style in California", published November 21, 2018
• Pandita Ramabai, "Indian scholar, feminist and educator", published November 14, 2018
• Jackie Mitchell, "fanned two of the baseball's greats", published November 7, 2018
• Miki Gorman, "the unlikely winner of the marathon", published October 31, 2018
• Rose Zar, "a holocaust survivor who hid in plain sight", published October 24, 2018
• Kin Yamei, "the Chinese doctor who introduced tofu to the West", published October 17, 2018
• Annemarie Schwarzenbach, "author, photographer, and 'ravaged angel'", published October 10, 2018
• Minnie Mae Freeman Penney, "Nebraska's fearless maid", published October 3, 2018
• Voltairine de Cleyre, "America's 'greatest woman anarchist'", published September 26, 2018
• Ana Mendieta, "a Cuban artist who pushed boundaries", published September 19, 2018
• Marthe McKenna, "nurse who spied for the British in World War I", published September 12, 2018
• Melitta Bentz, "invented the coffee filter", published September 5, 2018
• Ruby Payne-Scott, "explored space with radio waves", published August 29, 2018
• Doria Shafik, "led Egypt's women liberation movement", published August 22, 2018
• Matilda Sissieretta Joyner Jones, "a soprano that shattered racial barriers", published August 15, 2018
• Julia Sand, "whose letters inspired a president", published August 8, 2018
• Clara Lemlich, "crusading leader of labor rights", published August 1, 2018
• Edmonia Lewis, "sculptor or worldwide acclaim", published July 25, 2018
• Beatrice Tinsley, "astronomer who saw the course of the universe", published July 18, 2018
• Bette Nesmith Graham, "invented liquid paper", published July 11, 2018
• Emma Gatewood, "first woman to conquer the Appalachian trail alone", published June 27, 2018
• Amrita Sher-Gil, "a pioneer of Indian art", published June 21, 2018
• Fannie Farmer, "modern cookery's pioneer", published June 14, 2018
• Mary Ann Shadd, "shook up the abolitionist movement", published June 7, 2018
• Sophia Perovskaya, "the Russian icon who was hanged for killing a czar", published May 31, 2018
• Esther Hobart Morris, "she followed a trail to Wyoming. Then she blazed one.", published May 24, 2018
• Margarita Xirgu, "theater radical who staged Lorca's plays", published May 17, 2018
• Leticia Ramos-Shahani, "a Philippine women's rights pioneer", published May 10, 2018
• Julia de Burgos, "a poet who helped shape Puerto Rico's identity", published May 3, 2018
• Maria Bochkareva, "led women into battle in WWI", published April 26, 2018
• Harriot Daley, "the Capitol's first telephone operator", published April 17, 2018
• Lin Huiyin and Liang Sicheng, "chroniclers of Chinese architecture", published April 11, 2018
• Bessie Stringfield, "the motorcycle queen of Miami", published April 4, 2018
• Yu Gwan-Sun, "a Korean independence activist who defied Japanese rule", published March 29, 2018
• Ruth Wakefield, "invented the chocolate chip cookie", published March 22, 2018
• Alison Hargreaves, "conquered Everest solo and without bottled oxygen", published March 15, 2018
• Alan Turing, "condemned code breaker and computer visionary", published June 5, 2019[22]
• Alice Guy Blaché, ""Even before women had the right to vote, Blaché, in her actions and in her films, expressed female drives, desires and self-determination", published September 6, 2019[23]
• Sanmao, "Wandering Writer, who found her voice in the desert", published October 23, 2019[24]
• Annie Londonderry, "traveled the world by bicycle", published November 11, 2019[25]