Not a "who died", but yesterday was the anniversary of the launching of the battleship USS New Jersey in 1942. Watched a quick video on it yesterday of the amount of materials used in making it. 17.5 tons of blueprint paper were used. Enough paint to paint a 5' tall fence 238 miles long. It's also one of the largest surviving in one piece of
Low-background steel - Wikipedia. Steel poured and rolled before the nukes in Japan were detonated.
Low-background steel is so-called because it does not suffer from such nuclear contamination.