May 23, 2015: Mathematician John Nash, who became famous after the movie A Beautiful Mind was based on his life, passed away in a car crash. Nash, 86, and his wife Alicia, 82, were riding in a taxi in New Jersey when they were killed.

Nash won the Nobel Prize for Economics in 1994 thanks to his groundbreaking work on Game Theory, but his struggle with schizophrenia marred his success. A Beautiful Mind, which starred Russel Crowe as Nash, premiered in 2001 and chronicled his genius work and his mental illness. As his health deteriorated, his wife had him committed to an psychiatric institution and the two divorced in 1962. But by the 1980s, Nash's condition had improved, and the they remarried in 2001.