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Noel Godin, who made powerful people nervous around cream pies, dies at 80

NPR | By Connor Donevan,

Jeffrey Pierre, Joel Rose

Published August 30, 2026 at 4:01 PM CDT

For more than 50 years, Noel Godin went after famous and powerful people with cream pies. His targets included politicians, philosophers, filmmakers and, famously, Bill Gates.

Connor Donevan

Jeffrey Pierre

Jeffrey Pierre is an editor and producer on the Education Desk.

Joel Rose

Joel Rose is a correspondent on NPR's National Desk. As the network’s transportation correspondent since 2023, Rose’s reporting focuses on roadway and pedestrian safety, an air travel system under stress and how emerging technologies are changing the ways we get around.