This article goes well together with the Overlooked[1] series by New York Times, which prints obituaries for the people overlooked by NYT at the time of their passing.

The one that appeared on HN a while ago was for Alan Turing.

This profile of the obituary writer gives a better impression of how and why some of those people could have been overlooked.

[1]https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/obituaries/overlook...