An exchange for dead people (not the zombie kind)

Nominations: May 30 to June 5
Sign-ups: June 6 to June 12
Assignment go out: June 15 at the latest
Assignment deadline: July 10
Story reveal: July 17
Author reveal: July 24

The collection will be here and the tagset here.

I've made one small change to the rules: the cut-off for date of death/last known appearance is now 2000, instead of 1990. Thank you.