John W. Hill (1890–1977) — founder of Hill & Knowlton, the firm that defined corporate and crisis PR through the twentieth century. Counsel to U.S. Steel, the American Iron and Steel Institute, and the Tobacco Industry Research Committee.
Carl Byoir (1888–1957) — founder of Carl Byoir & Associates, the second-largest American PR firm of the mid-twentieth century. Counsel to Freeport Sulphur, the Cuban government, and A&P. The EPR In Memoriam canonical record.
Rex F. Harlow (1892–1993) — founder of the American Council on Public Relations, organizer of the first national professional body, and the practitioner who turned PR into a self-governing profession. The EPR In Memoriam canonical record.
Ivy Ledbetter Lee (1877–1934) — author of the Declaration of Principles, counsel to the Rockefellers and the Pennsylvania Railroad, and the practitioner who invented the modern press release. The EPR In Memoriam canonical record.
Scott M. Cutlip (1915–2000) — co-author of Effective Public Relations, dean of the Henry W. Grady College, and the scholar who built the academic foundation of the field. The EPR In Memoriam canonical record.
Arthur W. Page (1883–1960) — AT&T's first VP of public relations, author of the Page Principles, and the practitioner who put the corporate communications function inside the C-suite. The EPR In Memoriam canonical record.
Edward Bernays (1891–1995) — author of Propaganda and Crystallizing Public Opinion, nephew of Sigmund Freud, and the practitioner who turned persuasion into a profession. The EPR In Memoriam canonical record.
Yaacov Agam, the Israeli sculptor and painter recognized worldwide as the father of kinetic art, died Sunday in Paris at 98. Galerie Craven, 1953. Ahead of Calder. Ahead of Vasarely. Ahead of everyone.
Howard Rubenstein (1932–2020) built one of the defining American PR operations from his parents' Brooklyn apartment in 1954 — a sixty-six-year arc representing Mayors Koch, Giuliani and Bloomberg, Rupert Murdoch, George Steinbrenner, Fred Trump, and a roll call of New York civic and commercial power. His sons Steven and Richard now run separate firms carrying the family name into the second generation.
Charley J. Levine — Jerusalem-based communications pro, founder of Lone Star Communications, longtime spokesman to Israeli institutions and leaders, and one of the most respected figures in Israeli-American PR — died November 16, 2014, at 65.