Deaths in April 2007
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Deaths in 2007
Deaths in 2007
The following is a list of notable deaths in 2007. Names are listed under the date of death and not the date it was announced. Names under each date are listed in alphabetical order by family name....

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The following is a list of notable deaths in April 2007.

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  • Edward F. Boyd
    Edward F. Boyd
    Edward Francis "Ed" Boyd was an American business executive who was responsible for the marketing of products specifically to African Americans in an era when racial discrimination was rampant and blacks had either been ridiculed or systematically ignored in advertising...

    , 92, American
    United States
    The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

     marketing
    Marketing
    Marketing is the process used to determine what products or services may be of interest to customers, and the strategy to use in sales, communications and business development. It generates the strategy that underlies sales techniques, business communication, and business developments...

     executive at Pepsi
    Pepsi
    Pepsi is a carbonated soft drink that is produced and manufactured by PepsiCo...

     who shunned racial stereotypes in advertising. http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/06/business/06boyd.html?_r=1&ref=obituaries&oref=slogin
  • Tom Cartwright
    Tom Cartwright
    Thomas William Cartwright MBE was an English cricketer. He played in five Tests for England in 1964 and 1965. His withdrawal from the 1968-69 tour to South Africa, and replacement in the touring team by Basil D'Oliveira, precipitated the sporting isolation of South Africa until apartheid was...

    , 71, British
    United Kingdom
    The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...

     test cricket
    Test cricket
    Test cricket is the longest form of the sport of cricket. Test matches are played between national representative teams with "Test status", as determined by the International Cricket Council , with four innings played between two teams of 11 players over a period of up to a maximum five days...

    er for England, complications of heart attack
    Myocardial infarction
    Myocardial infarction or acute myocardial infarction , commonly known as a heart attack, results from the interruption of blood supply to a part of the heart, causing heart cells to die...

    . http://content-aus.cricinfo.com/ci/content/story/292885.html?CMP=OTC-RSS
  • Grégory Lemarchal
    Grégory Lemarchal
    Grégory Jean-Paul Lemarchal was a French singer who rose to fame by winning the fourth series of the reality TV programme Star Academy France, broadcast on the TF1 television network....

    , 23, French
    France
    The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...

     singer, winner of Star Academy France
    Star Academy France
    Star Academy was a French reality television show produced by the Dutch company Endemol, based on the Spanish format called Operación Triunfo. It consists of a contest of young singers. It spawned an equally successful show in Quebec called Star Académie. It was broadcast on TF1...

    , cystic fibrosis
    Cystic fibrosis
    Cystic fibrosis is a recessive genetic disease affecting most critically the lungs, and also the pancreas, liver, and intestine...

    . http://gregorylemarchal.artistes.universalmusic.fr/
  • Bernard Marszałek, 31, Polish
    Poland
    Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north...

     offshore powerboat racer
    Offshore powerboat racing
    Offshore powerboat racing is racing by large, specially designed ocean-going powerboats, typically point-to-point racing.Probably one of the largest, most dangerous, and most powerful racing machines of all, the extreme expense of the boats and the fuel required to participate make it an expensive...

    , 2003 World Champion, 2004 Euro Championship runner-up, asthma
    Asthma
    Asthma is the common chronic inflammatory disease of the airways characterized by variable and recurring symptoms, reversible airflow obstruction, and bronchospasm. Symptoms include wheezing, coughing, chest tightness, and shortness of breath...

    . http://www.formulaseries.net/main/content/view/109/1/
  • Kevin Mitchell, 36, American
    United States
    The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

     football
    American football
    American football is a sport played between two teams of eleven with the objective of scoring points by advancing the ball into the opposing team's end zone. Known in the United States simply as football, it may also be referred to informally as gridiron football. The ball can be advanced by...

     player for San Francisco 49ers
    San Francisco 49ers
    The San Francisco 49ers are a professional American football team based in San Francisco, California, playing in the West Division of the National Football Conference in the National Football League . The team was founded in 1946 as a charter member of the All-America Football Conference and...

     (Super Bowl XXIX
    Super Bowl XXIX
    Super Bowl XXIX was an American football game played on January 29, 1995 at Joe Robbie Stadium in Miami, Florida to decide the National Football League champion following the 1994 regular season...

    ) and Washington Redskins
    Washington Redskins
    The Washington Redskins are a professional American football team and members of the East Division of the National Football Conference in the National Football League . The team plays at FedExField in Landover, Maryland, while its headquarters and training facility are at Redskin Park in Ashburn,...

    , heart attack
    Myocardial infarction
    Myocardial infarction or acute myocardial infarction , commonly known as a heart attack, results from the interruption of blood supply to a part of the heart, causing heart cells to die...

    . http://www.redskins.com/news/newsDetail.jsp?id=1547
  • Tom Poston
    Tom Poston
    Thomas Gordon "Tom" Poston was an American television and film actor. He starred on television in a career that began in 1950...

    , 85, American
    United States
    The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

     actor (Newhart
    Newhart
    Newhart is a television situation comedy starring comedian Bob Newhart and actress Mary Frann as an author and wife who owned and operated an inn located in a small, rural Vermont town that was home to many eccentric characters. The show aired on the CBS network from October 25, 1982 to May 21, 1990...

    ). http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070501/ap_en_tv/obit_poston;_ylt=AlBHG1zoOOqMKgMM9IcIpztxFb8C
  • Claude Saunders
    Claude Saunders
    Claude "Sandy" Saunders was a Canadian rower who competed in the Olympic games in 1936 in Berlin. He competed in the 1936 Summer Olympics in men's eights, but did not win a medal. He was also a spare at the 1948 Summer Olympics and coached Canada's rowing team at the 1958 British Empire and...

    , 95, Canadian
    Canada
    Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

     rower and second-oldest national Olympic
    Olympic Games
    The Olympic Games is a major international event featuring summer and winter sports, in which thousands of athletes participate in a variety of competitions. The Olympic Games have come to be regarded as the world’s foremost sports competition where more than 200 nations participate...

     competitor. http://www.rowingcanada.org/rowing_news/tribute_page/claude_saunders
  • Gordon Scott
    Gordon Scott
    Gordon Scott was an American film and television actor known for his portrayal of the fictional character Tarzan in five films of the Tarzan film series from 1955 to 1960.-Early life, education and military service:He was born Gordon Merrill Werschkul in Portland,...

    , 79, American
    United States
    The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

     actor
    Actor
    An actor is a person who acts in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio in that capacity...

     who portrayed Tarzan
    Tarzan
    Tarzan is a fictional character, an archetypal feral child raised in the African jungles by the Mangani "great apes"; he later experiences civilization only to largely reject it and return to the wild as a heroic adventurer...

     in six films (1955–1960), complications of surgery. http://www.tarzan.cc/jungledrums.html
  • Zola Taylor
    Zola Taylor
    Zola Taylor, born Zoletta Lynn Taylor was an American singer. She was the original female member of The Platters from 1954 to 1962, when the group produced most of their popular singles....

    , 69, American
    United States
    The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

     singer, member of The Platters
    The Platters
    The Platters were a vocal group of the early rock and roll era. Their distinctive sound was a bridge between the pre-rock Tin Pan Alley tradition and the burgeoning new genre...

     (1954–1964), complications of pneumonia
    Pneumonia
    Pneumonia is an inflammatory condition of the lung—especially affecting the microscopic air sacs —associated with fever, chest symptoms, and a lack of air space on a chest X-ray. Pneumonia is typically caused by an infection but there are a number of other causes...

    . http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2007/05/01/entertainment/e112719D81.DTL

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  • Milt Bocek
    Milt Bocek
    Milton F. Bocek is a former Major League Baseball outfielder. During his playing career, he had an official heights of 6'1", and an official weight of 185 pounds...

    , 94, American
    United States
    The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

     baseball player. http://www.suburbanchicagonews.com/newssun/sports/365006,5_2_WA01_SOX_S1.article
  • Octavio Frias
    Octávio Frias
    Octavio Frias de Oliveira was a Brazilian executive who built Grupo Folha, one of Brazil's largest media empires.Frias was born in Rio de Janeiro, and the family moved to São Paulo in 1918...

    , 94, Brazil
    Brazil
    Brazil , officially the Federative Republic of Brazil , is the largest country in South America. It is the world's fifth largest country, both by geographical area and by population with over 192 million people...

    ian publishing magnate, kidney failure. http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/01/business/worldbusiness/01frias.html?ref=obituaries
  • Josh Hancock
    Josh Hancock
    Joshua Morgan Hancock was a Major League Baseball pitcher who played for the Boston Red Sox, Philadelphia Phillies, Cincinnati Reds and St. Louis Cardinals. Born in Cleveland, Mississippi, he lived in St. Louis during the off-season...

    , 29, American
    United States
    The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

     baseball
    Baseball
    Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each. The aim is to score runs by hitting a thrown ball with a bat and touching a series of four bases arranged at the corners of a ninety-foot diamond...

     relief pitcher
    Relief pitcher
    A relief pitcher or reliever is a baseball or softball pitcher who enters the game after the starting pitcher is removed due to injury, ineffectiveness, fatigue, ejection, or for other strategic reasons, such as being substituted by a pinch hitter...

     for the St. Louis Cardinals
    St. Louis Cardinals
    The St. Louis Cardinals are a professional baseball team based in St. Louis, Missouri. They are members of the Central Division in the National League of Major League Baseball. The Cardinals have won eleven World Series championships, the most of any National League team, and second overall only to...

    , car accident
    Car accident
    A traffic collision, also known as a traffic accident, motor vehicle collision, motor vehicle accident, car accident, automobile accident, Road Traffic Collision or car crash, occurs when a vehicle collides with another vehicle, pedestrian, animal, road debris, or other stationary obstruction,...

    . http://newyork.mets.mlb.com/news/press_releases/press_release.jsp?ymd=20070429&content_id=1936551&vkey=pr_stl&fext=.jsp&c_id=stl
  • Donald P. Lay
    Donald P. Lay
    Donald Pomery Lay was an American jurist who served on the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit for 40 years, including as chief judge from 1979 to 1982....

    , 80, American
    United States
    The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

     judge of the Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit (1966–2006). http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/02/obituaries/02lay.html?ref=obituaries
  • Dick Motz
    Dick Motz
    Richard Charles Motz was a New Zealand cricketer. A right-arm fast bowler and hard-hitting lower order batsman, Motz played 32 Test matches for the New Zealand cricket team between 1961 and 1969....

    , 67, New Zealand
    New Zealand
    New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses and numerous smaller islands. The country is situated some east of Australia across the Tasman Sea, and roughly south of the Pacific island nations of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga...

     Test cricket
    Test cricket
    Test cricket is the longest form of the sport of cricket. Test matches are played between national representative teams with "Test status", as determined by the International Cricket Council , with four innings played between two teams of 11 players over a period of up to a maximum five days...

    er. http://www.smh.com.au/news/Sport/NZ-cricketer-Dick-Motz-dead-at-67/2007/04/30/1177788004373.html
  • Joseph Nérette
    Joseph Nerette
    Joseph Nérette was a Haïtian judge and political figure. He served as the provisional president of Haïti between 1991 and 1992, part of a period in which real political authority rested with the military junta headed by Raoul Cédras and Michel François.He died of lung cancer in Port-au-Prince on...

    , 83, President of Haïti (1991–1992), lung cancer
    Lung cancer
    Lung cancer is a disease characterized by uncontrolled cell growth in tissues of the lung. If left untreated, this growth can spread beyond the lung in a process called metastasis into nearby tissue and, eventually, into other parts of the body. Most cancers that start in lung, known as primary...

    . http://www.haitipressnetwork.com/news.cfm?articleID=8814 (French)
  • Arve Opsahl
    Arve Opsahl
    Arve Opsahl was a Norwegian movie and stage actor, singer and stand-up comedian.Opsahl began his career as a comedian in 1942, and played numerous roles both on stage and in more than forty movies. He was then chosen to be the head of Olsenbanden, Egon Olsen...

    , 85, Norwegian
    Norway
    Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...

     actor, heart failure. http://www.aftenposten.no/english/local/article1763473.ece
  • Ivica Račan
    Ivica Racan
    Ivica Račan was a Croatian career politician, leader of the League of Communists of Croatia and later Social Democratic Party from 1989 to 2007...

    , 63, Croatia
    Croatia
    Croatia , officially the Republic of Croatia , is a unitary democratic parliamentary republic in Europe at the crossroads of the Mitteleuropa, the Balkans, and the Mediterranean. Its capital and largest city is Zagreb. The country is divided into 20 counties and the city of Zagreb. Croatia covers ...

    n prime minister (2000–2003), cancer
    Cancer
    Cancer , known medically as a malignant neoplasm, is a large group of different diseases, all involving unregulated cell growth. In cancer, cells divide and grow uncontrollably, forming malignant tumors, and invade nearby parts of the body. The cancer may also spread to more distant parts of the...

    . http://www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUSL2949361720070429
  • Lee Roberson
    Lee Roberson
    Lee Edward Roberson , was the founder of Tennessee Temple University in Chattanooga, Tennessee, and Camp Joy, in Harrison, Tennessee....

    , 97, American
    United States
    The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

     founder of Tennessee Temple University
    Tennessee Temple University
    Tennessee Temple University is a four-year private Christian university, with its focus on liberal arts education, located in Chattanooga, Tennessee. Operating there, also, is Temple Baptist Seminary, the university's graduate school of Christian theology....

    . http://www.fortwayne.com/mld/newssentinel/17157807.htm

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  • Lloyd Crouse
    Lloyd Crouse
    Lloyd Roseville Crouse, was a businessman, politician and the 27th Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia, Canada....

    , 88, Canadian
    Canada
    Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

     politician
    Politician
    A politician, political leader, or political figure is an individual who is involved in influencing public policy and decision making...

    , Progressive Conservative
    Progressive Conservative Party of Canada
    The Progressive Conservative Party of Canada was a Canadian political party with a centre-right stance on economic issues and, after the 1970s, a centrist stance on social issues....

     MP
    Parliament of Canada
    The Parliament of Canada is the federal legislative branch of Canada, seated at Parliament Hill in the national capital, Ottawa. Formally, the body consists of the Canadian monarch—represented by her governor general—the Senate, and the House of Commons, each element having its own officers and...

     (1957–1988), Lt.Governor of Nova Scotia
    Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia
    The Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia is the viceregal representative in Nova Scotia of the Canadian monarch, Queen Elizabeth II, who operates distinctly within the province but is also shared equally with the ten other jurisdictions of Canada and resides predominantly in her oldest realm, the...

     (1989–1994). http://www.thechronicleherald.ca/NovaScotia/832447.html
  • Luigi Filippo D'Amico
    Luigi Filippo D'Amico
    Luigi Filippo D'Amico was an Italian film director and screenwriter. His 1974 film Il domestico was shown as part of a retrospective on Italian comedy at the 67th Venice International Film Festival....

    , 82, Italian
    Italy
    Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...

     film director
    Film director
    A film director is a person who directs the actors and film crew in filmmaking. They control a film's artistic and dramatic nathan roach, while guiding the technical crew and actors.-Responsibilities:...

    . http://www.ansa.it/site/notizie/regioni/lazio/news/2007-04-28_12866052.html (Italian)
  • Dabbs Greer
    Dabbs Greer
    Robert William "Dabbs" Greer was an American actor who performed many diverse supporting roles in film and television for some fifty years. His distinctive, southern-accented voice fitted well in shows featuring rustic characters, such as westerns...

    , 90, American
    United States
    The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

     actor (Invasion of the Body Snatchers, The Green Mile
    The Green Mile (film)
    The Green Mile is a 1999 American drama film directed by Frank Darabont and adapted by him from the 1996 Stephen King novel of the same name...

    ). http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-greer1may01,0,7564369.story?coll=la-home-obituaries
  • René Mailhot
    René Mailhot
    René Mailhot was a Canadian journalist from the province of Quebec. He began his career at the age of twenty with the French-language newspaper Le Droit, published in Ottawa...

    , 64, Canadian
    Canada
    Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

     journalist
    Journalism
    Journalism is the practice of investigation and reporting of events, issues and trends to a broad audience in a timely fashion. Though there are many variations of journalism, the ideal is to inform the intended audience. Along with covering organizations and institutions such as government and...

     for Radio-Canada
    Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
    The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, commonly known as CBC and officially as CBC/Radio-Canada, is a Canadian crown corporation that serves as the national public radio and television broadcaster...

    , pneumonia
    Pneumonia
    Pneumonia is an inflammatory condition of the lung—especially affecting the microscopic air sacs —associated with fever, chest symptoms, and a lack of air space on a chest X-ray. Pneumonia is typically caused by an infection but there are a number of other causes...

    . http://www.radio-canada.ca/nouvelles/societe/2007/04/29/001-deces-rene-mailhot.shtml (French)
  • Tommy Newsom
    Tommy Newsom
    Thomas Penn "Tommy" Newsom was a saxophone player in the NBC Orchestra on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, for which he later became assistant director. Newsom was frequently the band's substitute director, whenever Doc Severinsen was away from the show or filling in for announcer Ed...

    , 78, American
    United States
    The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

     musician from The Tonight Show
    The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
    The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson is a talk show hosted by Johnny Carson under the Tonight Show franchise from 1962 to 1992. It originally aired during late-night....

    , cancer
    Cancer
    Cancer , known medically as a malignant neoplasm, is a large group of different diseases, all involving unregulated cell growth. In cancer, cells divide and grow uncontrollably, forming malignant tumors, and invade nearby parts of the body. The cancer may also spread to more distant parts of the...

    . http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070430/ap_en_tv/obit_newsom_2
  • Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker
    Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker
    Carl Friedrich Freiherr von Weizsäcker was a German physicist and philosopher. He was the longest-living member of the research team which performed nuclear research in Germany during the Second World War, under Werner Heisenberg's leadership...

    , 94, German
    Germany
    Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

     physicist
    Physics
    Physics is a natural science that involves the study of matter and its motion through spacetime, along with related concepts such as energy and force. More broadly, it is the general analysis of nature, conducted in order to understand how the universe behaves.Physics is one of the oldest academic...

     and philosopher
    Philosophy
    Philosophy is the study of general and fundamental problems, such as those connected with existence, knowledge, values, reason, mind, and language. Philosophy is distinguished from other ways of addressing such problems by its critical, generally systematic approach and its reliance on rational...

    . http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/O/OBIT_WEIZSAECKER?SITE=CAPAD&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT
  • Bertha Wilson
    Bertha Wilson
    Bertha Wernham Wilson, CC was a Canadian jurist and the first woman Puisne Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada.-Early life:...

    , 83, Canadian
    Canada
    Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

     who was the first female Supreme Court
    Supreme Court of Canada
    The Supreme Court of Canada is the highest court of Canada and is the final court of appeals in the Canadian justice system. The court grants permission to between 40 and 75 litigants each year to appeal decisions rendered by provincial, territorial and federal appellate courts, and its decisions...

     judge, Alzheimer's disease
    Alzheimer's disease
    Alzheimer's disease also known in medical literature as Alzheimer disease is the most common form of dementia. There is no cure for the disease, which worsens as it progresses, and eventually leads to death...

    . http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20070430.wobit-wilson0430/BNStory/National/home

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  • Svatopluk Beneš
    Svatopluk Beneš
    Svatopluk Beneš was a Czechoslovak film actor. He appeared in 90 films and television shows between 1934 and 2003.-Selected filmography:* A Kiss from the Stadium * The Secret of Blood...

    , 89, Czech
    Czech Republic
    The Czech Republic is a landlocked country in Central Europe. The country is bordered by Poland to the northeast, Slovakia to the east, Austria to the south, and Germany to the west and northwest....

     actor. http://www.csfd.cz/herec/7363-svatopluk-benes/ (Czech)
  • Karel Dillen
    Karel Dillen
    Karel Cornelia Constentijn Dillen was a Flemish politician and a Flemish nationalist. In 1977 he established the Vlaams Nationale Partij , which became Vlaams Blok at the elections of 1978...

    , 81, Belgian
    Belgium
    Belgium , officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a federal state in Western Europe. It is a founding member of the European Union and hosts the EU's headquarters, and those of several other major international organisations such as NATO.Belgium is also a member of, or affiliated to, many...

     politician, founder of the Flemish Interest
    Vlaams Belang
    Vlaams Belang is a Belgian far-right political party in the Flemish Region and Brussels that advocates the independence of Flanders and strict limits on immigration, whereby immigrants would be obliged to adopt Flemish culture and language...

     party. http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/04/27/europe/EU-GEN-Belgium-Dillen-Obit.php
  • Bill Forester
    Bill Forester
    George William Forester was a professional American football linebacker in the National Football League. He played eleven seasons for the Green Bay Packers and was selected to four Pro Bowls...

    , 74, American
    United States
    The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

     NFL football player. http://www.packersnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070427/PKR01/70427194/1989
  • Kirill Lavrov
    Kirill Lavrov
    Kirill Yuryevich Lavrov was a well-known Soviet and Russian film and theatre actor and director.-Childhood:Kirill Yuryevich Lavrov was born on September 15, 1925, in Leningrad, USSR . He was baptized by the Russian Orthodox Church of St. John the Divine in Lavrushinskoe Podvorie Monastery in...

    , 81, Russia
    Russia
    Russia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...

    n actor, after long illness. http://en.rian.ru/russia/20070427/64549724-print.html
  • Mstislav Rostropovich
    Mstislav Rostropovich
    Mstislav Leopoldovich Rostropovich, KBE , known to close friends as Slava, was a Soviet and Russian cellist and conductor. He was married to the soprano Galina Vishnevskaya. He is widely considered to have been the greatest cellist of the second half of the 20th century, and one of the greatest of...

    , 80, Russia
    Russia
    Russia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...

    n cellist
    Cello
    The cello is a bowed string instrument with four strings tuned in perfect fifths. It is a member of the violin family of musical instruments, which also includes the violin, viola, and double bass. Old forms of the instrument in the Baroque era are baryton and viol .A person who plays a cello is...

     and conductor, intestinal cancer. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/6598895.stm
  • Robert E. Webber
    Robert E. Webber
    Robert Eugene Webber was an American theologian known for his work on worship and the early church. He played a key role in the Convergence Movement, a move among evangelical and charismatic churches in the United States to blend charismatic worship with liturgies from the Book of Common Prayer...

    , 73, American
    United States
    The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

     scholar and author on Christian worship renewal, pancreatic cancer
    Pancreatic cancer
    Pancreatic cancer refers to a malignant neoplasm of the pancreas. The most common type of pancreatic cancer, accounting for 95% of these tumors is adenocarcinoma, which arises within the exocrine component of the pancreas. A minority arises from the islet cells and is classified as a...

    . http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2007/aprilweb-only/118-12.0.html

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  • Florea Dumitrache
    Florea Dumitrache
    Florea Dumitrache was a Romanian football striker. He was considered one of the best Romanian strikers of all time.-Career:...

    , 58, Romania
    Romania
    Romania is a country located at the crossroads of Central and Southeastern Europe, on the Lower Danube, within and outside the Carpathian arch, bordering on the Black Sea...

    n football
    Football (soccer)
    Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a sport played between two teams of eleven players with a spherical ball...

     player, digestive hemorrhage. http://www.onlinesport.ro/stiri/fotbal/fotbal-intern/liga-1/dinamo/17267/florea-dumitrache-a-decedat.htm (Romanian)
  • Wolfgang Gewalt
    Wolfgang Gewalt
    Wolfgang Gewalt was a German zoologist, author and former director of the Duisburg Zoo.-Biography:After the study of zoology, botany, chemistry and anthropology, his main focus was research of the Great Bustard. He recorded his observations in the breeding grounds and his experience with hand...

    , 78, German
    Germany
    Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

     zoologist, director of the Duisburg Zoo
    Duisburg Zoo
    The Duisburg Zoo, founded on May 12, 1934, is one of the largest zoological gardens in Germany. It is especially well known for its dolphinarium and, since 1994, for breeding koalas....

     (1966–1993). http://www.rp-online.de/public/article/regional/niederrheinnord/duisburg/nachrichten/duisburg/434410 (German)
  • Lindsey Hughes
    Lindsey Hughes
    Lindsey Hughes was a British historian who studied seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Russia, especially the reign of Peter the Great. She authored biographies of Peter and his predecessor Sophia Alekseyevna, as well as a more general work, Russia in the Age of Peter the Great...

    , 57, British
    United Kingdom
    The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...

     professor of Russian History at University College London
    University College London
    University College London is a public research university located in London, United Kingdom and the oldest and largest constituent college of the federal University of London...

    , cancer
    Cancer
    Cancer , known medically as a malignant neoplasm, is a large group of different diseases, all involving unregulated cell growth. In cancer, cells divide and grow uncontrollably, forming malignant tumors, and invade nearby parts of the body. The cancer may also spread to more distant parts of the...

    . http://blogsideinn.blogspot.com/2007/04/lindsey-aj-hughes-1949-2007.html
  • Henry LeTang
    Henry LeTang
    Henry LeTang was an American theatre,film, and television choreographer and a dance instructor.-Biography:Born in the Harlem neighbourhood of Manhattan, LeTang was the second son of Clarence, born in Dominica, and his wife Marie, who emigrated from St. Croix. The couple owned and operated a radio...

    , 91, American
    United States
    The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

     choreographer. http://www.guardian.co.uk/obituaries/story/0,,2075108,00.html
  • Jack Valenti
    Jack Valenti
    Jack Joseph Valenti was a long-time president of the Motion Picture Association of America. During his 38-year tenure in the MPAA, he created the MPAA film rating system, and he was generally regarded as one of the most influential pro-copyright lobbyists in the world...

    , 85, American
    United States
    The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

     president of the Motion Picture Association of America
    Motion Picture Association of America
    The Motion Picture Association of America, Inc. , originally the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America , was founded in 1922 and is designed to advance the business interests of its members...

     (1966–2004), complications of stroke
    Stroke
    A stroke, previously known medically as a cerebrovascular accident , is the rapidly developing loss of brain function due to disturbance in the blood supply to the brain. This can be due to ischemia caused by blockage , or a hemorrhage...

    . http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/la-me-valenti27apr27,0,912061.story?coll=la-home-headlines

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  • Alan Ball, 61, British
    United Kingdom
    The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...

     footballer
    Football (soccer)
    Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a sport played between two teams of eleven players with a spherical ball...

    , youngest member of England's 1966 World Cup
    1966 FIFA World Cup
    The 1966 FIFA World Cup, the eighth staging of the World Cup, was held in England from 11 July to 30 July. England beat West Germany 4–2 in the final, winning the World Cup for the first time, so becoming the first host to win the tournament since Italy in 1934.-Host selection:England was chosen as...

    -winning team, heart attack
    Myocardial infarction
    Myocardial infarction or acute myocardial infarction , commonly known as a heart attack, results from the interruption of blood supply to a part of the heart, causing heart cells to die...

    . http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/6590715.stm http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml;jsessionid=IEICCRPMU1Y33QFIQMFCFF4AVCBQYIV0?view=DETAILS&grid=&xml=/news/2007/04/25/db2503.xml
  • Barbara Blida
    Barbara Blida
    Barbara Blida was a Polish political figure who served in the nation's Parliament for 16 years , including a stint as a member of the cabinet, and whose controversial suicide in the midst of an investigation for corruption became front-page news in Poland as well as in a number of news outlets...

    , 57, Polish
    Poland
    Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north...

     politician, suicide
    Suicide
    Suicide is the act of intentionally causing one's own death. Suicide is often committed out of despair or attributed to some underlying mental disorder, such as depression, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, alcoholism, or drug abuse...

     by gunshot
    Gunshot
    A gunshot is the discharge of a firearm, producing a mechanical sound effect and a chemical gunshot residue. The term can also refer to a gunshot wound caused by such a discharge. Multiple discharges of a firearm or firearms are referred to as gunfire. The word can connotate either the sound of a...

    . http://www.seattlepi.com/national/1103AP_Poland_Minister_Suicide.html
  • Polly Hill
    Polly Hill (horticulturist)
    Mary Louise Butcher "Polly" Hill was an American horticulturist best known for testing how well plants could survive in cold climates. She founded the Polly Hill Arboretum on Martha’s Vineyard in Massachusetts....

    , 100, American
    United States
    The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

     horticulturist, founder of Polly Hill Arboretum
    Polly Hill Arboretum
    The Polly Hill Arboretum includes 8 ha under cultivation, with an additional 16 ha of native woodland, located on Martha's Vineyard at 809 State Road, West Tisbury, Massachusetts, USA...

    . http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/30/us/30hill.html
  • Les Jackson
    Les Jackson
    Les Jackson was an English cricketer. A fast or fast-medium bowler renowned for his accurate bowling and particular hostility on uncovered wickets, he played county cricket for Derbyshire from 1947 to 1963, and was regularly at, or near the top of, the English bowling averages...

    , 86, British
    United Kingdom
    The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...

     cricket
    Cricket
    Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of 11 players on an oval-shaped field, at the centre of which is a rectangular 22-yard long pitch. One team bats, trying to score as many runs as possible while the other team bowls and fields, trying to dismiss the batsmen and thus limit the...

    er, fast-medium bowler for Derbyshire
    Derbyshire County Cricket Club
    Derbyshire County Cricket Club is one of the 18 major county clubs which make up the England and Wales domestic cricket structure, representing the historic county of Derbyshire...

     and England
    English cricket team
    The England and Wales cricket team is a cricket team which represents England and Wales. Until 1992 it also represented Scotland. Since 1 January 1997 it has been governed by the England and Wales Cricket Board , having been previously governed by Marylebone Cricket Club from 1903 until the end...

    . http://content-usa.cricinfo.com/england/content/story/292348.html
  • Arthur Milton
    Arthur Milton
    Clement Arthur Milton was an English cricketer and footballer. He played County cricket for Gloucestershire from 1948 to 1974, playing six Test matches for England in 1958 and 1959. He also played domestic football for Arsenal between 1951 and 1955, and then for a brief period for Bristol City...

    , 79, British
    United Kingdom
    The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...

     sportsman, last person to play both football
    England national football team
    The England national football team represents England in association football and is controlled by the Football Association, the governing body for football in England. England is the joint oldest national football team in the world, alongside Scotland, whom they played in the world's first...

     and cricket for England
    England
    England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...

    , heart attack
    Myocardial infarction
    Myocardial infarction or acute myocardial infarction , commonly known as a heart attack, results from the interruption of blood supply to a part of the heart, causing heart cells to die...

    . http://content-usa.cricinfo.com/australia/content/current/story/292360.html.
  • Johnny Perkins
    Johnny Perkins
    John Eugene "Johnny" Perkins was an American football wide receiver in the National Football League who spent his entire career with the New York Giants. Perkins was born in Franklin, Texas. He played college football at Ranger College before transferring to Abilene Christian University...

    , 54, American
    United States
    The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

     National Football League
    National Football League
    The National Football League is the highest level of professional American football in the United States, and is considered the top professional American football league in the world. It was formed by eleven teams in 1920 as the American Professional Football Association, with the league changing...

     player for the New York Giants
    New York Giants
    The New York Giants are a professional American football team based in East Rutherford, New Jersey, representing the New York City metropolitan area. The Giants are currently members of the Eastern Division of the National Football Conference in the National Football League...

    , complications following heart surgery. http://www.wjla.com/news/stories/0407/418603.html
  • Bobby "Boris" Pickett, 69, American
    United States
    The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

     one-hit wonder
    One-hit wonder
    A one-hit wonder is a person or act known mainly for only a single success. The term is most often used to describe music performers with only one hit single.-Characteristics:...

     singer ("Monster Mash
    Monster Mash
    "Monster Mash" is a 1962 novelty song and the best-known song by Bobby "Boris" Pickett. The song was released as a single on Gary S. Paxton's Garpax Records label in August 1962 along with a full-length LP called The Original Monster Mash, which contained several other monster-themed tunes...

    "), leukemia
    Leukemia
    Leukemia or leukaemia is a type of cancer of the blood or bone marrow characterized by an abnormal increase of immature white blood cells called "blasts". Leukemia is a broad term covering a spectrum of diseases...

    . http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070426/ap_en_ot/obit_pickett

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  • Warren Avis
    Warren Avis
    Warren Edward Avis was an American entrepreneur who founded Avis Rent A Car System Inc. in 1946.Born in Bay City, Michigan, Avis graduated from Bay City Central High School in 1933, and served in the United States Army Air Force during the Second World War...

    , 91, American
    United States
    The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

     founder of Avis Rent A Car System
    Avis Rent A Car System
    Avis Rent a Car System, LLC is a car rental company headquartered in Parsippany-Troy Hills Township, New Jersey, United States. Avis, Budget Rent a Car and Budget Truck Rental are all units of Avis Budget Group....

     and real estate developer. http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/25/business/25avis.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
  • Ida R. Hoos
    Ida R. Hoos
    Ida Simone Russakoff Hoos was an American sociologist best known as a critic of systems analysis using mathematical formulae and disregarding social factors, especially when analyzing technology and public policy....

    , 94, American
    United States
    The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

     sociologist and critic of systems analysis
    Systems analysis
    Systems analysis is the study of sets of interacting entities, including computer systems analysis. This field is closely related to requirements analysis or operations research...

    , pneumonia
    Pneumonia
    Pneumonia is an inflammatory condition of the lung—especially affecting the microscopic air sacs —associated with fever, chest symptoms, and a lack of air space on a chest X-ray. Pneumonia is typically caused by an infection but there are a number of other causes...

    . http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/05/us/05hoos.html?ref=obituaries
  • Roy Jenson
    Roy Jenson
    Roy Jenson was a Canadian-born actor.Born in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, he moved to Los Angeles with his family as a child. He joined the U.S. Navy and then graduated from UCLA...

    , 80, Canadian
    Canada
    Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

     actor, cancer
    Cancer
    Cancer , known medically as a malignant neoplasm, is a large group of different diseases, all involving unregulated cell growth. In cancer, cells divide and grow uncontrollably, forming malignant tumors, and invade nearby parts of the body. The cancer may also spread to more distant parts of the...

    . http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117964189.html?categoryId=25&cs=1
  • Jim Moran, 88, American
    United States
    The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

     automotive dealer and philanthropist. http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/27/automobiles/27moran.html
  • James Richards
    James Richards (veterinarian)
    James Robert Richards was an American veterinarian who was a noted expert on cats. He headed the Feline Health Center of the Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine from 1997 until his death....

    , 58, American
    United States
    The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

     veterinarian
    Veterinarian
    A veterinary physician, colloquially called a vet, shortened from veterinarian or veterinary surgeon , is a professional who treats disease, disorder and injury in animals....

     and feline
    Felinae
    Felinae is a subfamily of the family Felidae which includes the genera and species listed below. Most are small to medium-sized cats, although the group does include some larger animals, such as the Cougar and Cheetah....

     expert, motorcycle accident while avoiding a cat. http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/26/obituaries/26richards.html?ex=1335240000&en=17a606f7187e8953&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss
  • Kate Walsh
    Kate Walsh (politician)
    Kate Walsh was an Irish Progressive Democrats politician and community activist from Celbridge, County Kildare...

    , 60, Irish
    Ireland
    Ireland is an island to the northwest of continental Europe. It is the third-largest island in Europe and the twentieth-largest island on Earth...

     Progressive Democrat senator. http://www.rte.ie/news/2007/0424/walshk.html
  • Robert M. Warner
    Robert M. Warner
    Robert M. Warner was an American historian who served as the Sixth Archivist of the United States at the National Archives, from 1980 to 1985....

    , 79, American
    United States
    The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

     archivist
    Archivist of the United States
    The Archivist of the United States is the chief official overseeing the operation of the National Archives and Records Administration. The first Archivist, R.D.W. Connor, began serving in 1934, when the National Archives was established as an independent federal agency by Congress...

     who led the National Archives and Records Administration
    National Archives and Records Administration
    The National Archives and Records Administration is an independent agency of the United States government charged with preserving and documenting government and historical records and with increasing public access to those documents, which comprise the National Archives...

    , heart attack
    Myocardial infarction
    Myocardial infarction or acute myocardial infarction , commonly known as a heart attack, results from the interruption of blood supply to a part of the heart, causing heart cells to die...

    . http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/03/obituaries/03WARNER.html?ref=obituaries

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  • Walter Bareiss
    Walter Bareiss
    Walter Bareiss was a German-American businessman and art collector known for classical, African and contemporary art.Bareiss was born in Tübingen, Germany, in 1919. A lifelong collector, he bought his first Picasso etching in Zurich at age 13...

    , 87, German
    Germany
    Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

    -American
    United States
    The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

     art collector, heart failure. http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/27/arts/design/27bare.html?ref=obituaries
  • Paul Erdman
    Paul Erdman
    Paul Emil Erdman was one of the leading business and financial writers in the United States who became known for writing novels based on monetary trends and historical facts concerning complex matters of international finance.-Early life:Erdman was born in Stratford, Ontario, Canada, on 19 May...

    , 74, American
    United States
    The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

     economist, banker, and writer. http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/04/24/BAGA7PE7OU1.DTL
  • David Halberstam
    David Halberstam
    David Halberstam was an American Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, author and historian, known for his early work on the Vietnam War, his work on politics, history, the Civil Rights Movement, business, media, American culture, and his later sports journalism.-Early life and education:Halberstam...

    , 73, American
    United States
    The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

     Pulitzer Prize
    Pulitzer Prize
    The Pulitzer Prize is a U.S. award for achievements in newspaper and online journalism, literature and musical composition. It was established by American publisher Joseph Pulitzer and is administered by Columbia University in New York City...

    -winning journalist and author, car accident
    Car accident
    A traffic collision, also known as a traffic accident, motor vehicle collision, motor vehicle accident, car accident, automobile accident, Road Traffic Collision or car crash, occurs when a vehicle collides with another vehicle, pedestrian, animal, road debris, or other stationary obstruction,...

    . http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18279135/
  • Axel Madsen
    Axel Madsen
    Axel Madsen was a Danish-American biographer and journalist.Born in Copenhagen and raised in Paris, Madsen turned from music to writing in the early 1950s, initially for the Paris edition of the New York Herald Tribune. In 1956 he moved to Canada and began working for United Press International...

    , 77, American
    United States
    The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

     biographer, pancreatic cancer
    Pancreatic cancer
    Pancreatic cancer refers to a malignant neoplasm of the pancreas. The most common type of pancreatic cancer, accounting for 95% of these tumors is adenocarcinoma, which arises within the exocrine component of the pancreas. A minority arises from the islet cells and is classified as a...

    . http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/california/la-me-madsen29apr29,1,6601093.story?coll=la-headlines-pe-california
  • Michael Smuin
    Michael Smuin
    Michael Smuin was a ballet dancer, choreographer and theatre director. He was co-founder and director of his own dance company, the Smuin Ballet in San Francisco.-Biography:...

    , 68, American
    United States
    The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

     ballet
    Ballet
    Ballet is a type of performance dance, that originated in the Italian Renaissance courts of the 15th century, and which was further developed in France and Russia as a concert dance form. The early portions preceded the invention of the proscenium stage and were presented in large chambers with...

     dancer, choreographer and director, heart attack
    Myocardial infarction
    Myocardial infarction or acute myocardial infarction , commonly known as a heart attack, results from the interruption of blood supply to a part of the heart, causing heart cells to die...

    . http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/04/23/BAGAJPE2T84.DTL
  • Boris Yeltsin
    Boris Yeltsin
    Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin was the first President of the Russian Federation, serving from 1991 to 1999.Originally a supporter of Mikhail Gorbachev, Yeltsin emerged under the perestroika reforms as one of Gorbachev's most powerful political opponents. On 29 May 1990 he was elected the chairman of...

    , 76, first President of the Russian Federation (1991–1999), heart failure. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/6584481.stm http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/europe/04/23/russia.yeltsin.ap/index.html

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  • Sir Raymond Hoffenberg
    Raymond Hoffenberg
    Sir Raymond Hoffenberg KBE was an endocrinologist who specialised in the study of the thyroid. Born in South Africa, he was forced to leave in 1968, and settled in the United Kingdom, where he was President of the Royal College of Physicians from 1983 to 1989, and President of Wolfson College,...

    , 84, South Africa
    South Africa
    The Republic of South Africa is a country in southern Africa. Located at the southern tip of Africa, it is divided into nine provinces, with of coastline on the Atlantic and Indian oceans...

    n-born endocrinologist, President of RCP
    Royal College of Physicians
    The Royal College of Physicians of London was founded in 1518 as the College of Physicians by royal charter of King Henry VIII in 1518 - the first medical institution in England to receive a royal charter...

     (1983–1989) and Chair of the BHF
    British Heart Foundation
    The British Heart Foundation is a charity organisation in Britain that funds research, education, care and awareness campaigns aimed to prevent heart diseases in humans.-Foundation:...

    . http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?view=DETAILS&grid=&xml=/news/2007/05/09/db0902.xml
  • Karl Holzamer
    Karl Holzamer
    Johannes Karl Holzamer was a German philosopher, pedagogue and former director general of the German television station ZDF.- Life :...

    , 100, German
    Germany
    Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

     founder and director-general of TV channel ZDF
    ZDF
    Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen , ZDF, is a public-service German television broadcaster based in Mainz . It is run as an independent non-profit institution, which was founded by the German federal states . The ZDF is financed by television licence fees called GEZ and advertising revenues...

    . http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117963598.html?categoryid=14&cs=1
  • Juanita Millender-McDonald
    Juanita Millender-McDonald
    Juanita Millender-McDonald was an American politician who served as a member of the United States House of Representatives from 1996 until her death in 2007, representing California's 37th congressional district, which includes most of South Central Los Angeles and the city of Long Beach, California...

    , 68, American
    United States
    The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

     Democratic
    Democratic Party (United States)
    The Democratic Party is one of two major contemporary political parties in the United States, along with the Republican Party. The party's socially liberal and progressive platform is largely considered center-left in the U.S. political spectrum. The party has the lengthiest record of continuous...

     Representative
    United States House of Representatives
    The United States House of Representatives is one of the two Houses of the United States Congress, the bicameral legislature which also includes the Senate.The composition and powers of the House are established in Article One of the Constitution...

     (Calif.
    California
    California is a state located on the West Coast of the United States. It is by far the most populous U.S. state, and the third-largest by land area...

    ), Chair of House Administration Committee
    United States House Committee on House Administration
    The United States House Committee on House Administration deals with the general administration matters of the United States House of Representatives.-Jurisdiction:...

    , cancer
    Cancer
    Cancer , known medically as a malignant neoplasm, is a large group of different diseases, all involving unregulated cell growth. In cancer, cells divide and grow uncontrollably, forming malignant tumors, and invade nearby parts of the body. The cancer may also spread to more distant parts of the...

    . http://www.thehill.com/leading-the-news/rep.-millender-mcdonald-dies-aide-says-2007-04-22.html
  • Conchita Montenegro
    Conchita Montenegro
    Conchita Montenegro was a Spanish model, dancer, stage and screen actress. She was educated in a convent in Madrid, Spain. Montenegro had browneyes, wavy black hair, and an olive complexion...

    , 94, Spanish
    Spain
    Spain , officially the Kingdom of Spain languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Spain's official name is as follows:;;;;;;), is a country and member state of the European Union located in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula...

     actress. http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=19180387
  • Anne Pitoniak
    Anne Pitoniak
    Anne Pitoniak was an American actress. She was nominated twice for Broadway's Tony Award: as Best Actress in 1983, for night, Mother, and as Best Actress in 1994, for a revival of William Inge's Picnic.-Early life:Pitoniak was born in Westfield, Massachusetts, the daughter of Sophie and John...

    , 85, American
    United States
    The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

     character actress
    Character actor
    A character actor is one who predominantly plays unusual or eccentric characters. The Oxford English Dictionary defines a character actor as "an actor who specializes in character parts", defining character part in turn as "an acting role displaying pronounced or unusual characteristics or...

    , cancer
    Cancer
    Cancer , known medically as a malignant neoplasm, is a large group of different diseases, all involving unregulated cell growth. In cancer, cells divide and grow uncontrollably, forming malignant tumors, and invade nearby parts of the body. The cancer may also spread to more distant parts of the...

    . http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/26/obituaries/26pitoniak.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

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  • Boscoe Holder
    Boscoe Holder
    Boscoe Holder , born Arthur Aldwyn Holder in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, of partly Barbadian stock, was Trinidad and Tobago's leading contemporary painter, who also had a celebrated international career spanning six decades as a designer and visual artist, dancer, choreographer and musician...

    , 85, Trinidadian dancer, choreographer and painter. http://news.independent.co.uk/people/obituaries/article2474441.ece
  • James Hamupanda Kauluma
    James Hamupanda Kauluma
    Reverend James Hamupanda Kauluma was a Namibian human rights activist and sixth Bishop of the Anglican Diocese of Namibia. He was the first Namibian Bishop of the Anglican Diocese in the country....

    , 75, Namibia
    Namibia
    Namibia, officially the Republic of Namibia , is a country in southern Africa whose western border is the Atlantic Ocean. It shares land borders with Angola and Zambia to the north, Botswana to the east and South Africa to the south and east. It gained independence from South Africa on 21 March...

    n bishop and freedom fighter, prostate cancer
    Prostate cancer
    Prostate cancer is a form of cancer that develops in the prostate, a gland in the male reproductive system. Most prostate cancers are slow growing; however, there are cases of aggressive prostate cancers. The cancer cells may metastasize from the prostate to other parts of the body, particularly...

    . http://www.guardian.co.uk/obituaries/story/0,,2071932,00.html.
  • Lobby Loyde
    Lobby Loyde
    Lobby Loyde , also known as John Barrie Lyde or Barry Lyde, was an Australian rock music guitarist, songwriter and producer....

    , 65, Australia
    Australia
    Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...

    n rock
    Rock music
    Rock music is a genre of popular music that developed during and after the 1960s, particularly in the United Kingdom and the United States. It has its roots in 1940s and 1950s rock and roll, itself heavily influenced by rhythm and blues and country music...

     guitarist (Billy Thorpe & the Aztecs
    Billy Thorpe & the Aztecs
    Billy Thorpe and the Aztecs were an Australian pop and rock group dating from the mid-sixties. The group enjoyed huge success in the mid-1960s, but split in 1967. They re-emerged in the early seventies to become one of the most popular Australian hard-rock bands of the period...

    ), lung cancer
    Lung cancer
    Lung cancer is a disease characterized by uncontrolled cell growth in tissues of the lung. If left untreated, this growth can spread beyond the lung in a process called metastasis into nearby tissue and, eventually, into other parts of the body. Most cancers that start in lung, known as primary...

    .http://www.news.com.au/sundayheraldsun/story/0,,21600151-5006024,00.html
  • Parry O'Brien
    Parry O'Brien
    William Parry O'Brien, Jr. was an American shot put champion. Born in Santa Monica, California, he competed in four consecutive Summer Olympics where he won two gold medals and one silver medal . In his last Olympic competition he placed fourth. For this, he is inducted in the U.S...

    , 75, American
    United States
    The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

     shot put
    Shot put
    The shot put is a track and field event involving "putting" a heavy metal ball—the shot—as far as possible. It is common to use the term "shot put" to refer to both the shot itself and to the putting action....

     champion at the 1952
    1952 Summer Olympics
    The 1952 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XV Olympiad, were an international multi-sport event held in Helsinki, Finland in 1952. Helsinki had been earlier given the 1940 Summer Olympics, which were cancelled due to World War II...

     and 1956 Olympics
    1956 Summer Olympics
    The 1956 Melbourne Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XVI Olympiad, were an international multi-sport event which was held in Melbourne, Australia, in 1956, with the exception of the equestrian events, which could not be held in Australia due to quarantine regulations...

    , heart attack
    Myocardial infarction
    Myocardial infarction or acute myocardial infarction , commonly known as a heart attack, results from the interruption of blood supply to a part of the heart, causing heart cells to die...

    . http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/23/sports/othersports/23obrien.html?ref=othersports
  • Art Saaf
    Art Saaf
    Arthur "Art" Saaf was an American comic book artist from the Golden Age of Comics who also worked in television. He commonly went by Art or Artie....

    , 85, American
    United States
    The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

     comic book artist
    Comic Book Artist
    Comic Book Artist was an American magazine founded by Jon B. Cooke devoted to anecdotal histories of American comic books, with emphasis on comics published since the 1960s...

     (Sheena, Queen of the Jungle
    Sheena, Queen of the Jungle
    Sheena, Queen of the Jungle is a fictional, American comic book jungle girl heroine, published originally by Fiction House. The female counterpart to Tarzan, Sheena had two things in common with Edgar Rice Burrough's Jungle Lord: Both possessed the ability to communicate with wild animals and were...

    ), Parkinson's disease
    Parkinson's disease
    Parkinson's disease is a degenerative disorder of the central nervous system...

    . http://www.artsaaf.com/
  • Bruce Van Sickle
    Bruce Van Sickle
    Bruce Marion Van Sickle was a United States federal judge.Born in Minot, North Dakota, Van Sickle received a B.S.L. from the University of Minnesota in 1939 and a J.D. from the University of Minnesota Law School in 1941. He was a Captain in the U.S. Marine Corps during World War II, from 1941 to...

    , 90, American
    United States
    The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

     federal judge
    United States federal judge
    In the United States, the title of federal judge usually means a judge appointed by the President of the United States and confirmed by the United States Senate in accordance with Article II of the United States Constitution....

     (1971–2002), Alzheimer's disease
    Alzheimer's disease
    Alzheimer's disease also known in medical literature as Alzheimer disease is the most common form of dementia. There is no cure for the disease, which worsens as it progresses, and eventually leads to death...

    . http://www.court.state.nd.us/court/news/vansickle.htm

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  • Yehuda Meir Abramowicz
    Yehuda Meir Abramowicz
    Yehuda Meir Abramowicz was an Israeli rabbi and politician. He served as general secretary of Agudat Yisrael, which he represented in the Knesset from 1972 until 1981, and as Deputy Speaker of the Knesset between 1977 and 1981...

    , 92, Israel
    Israel
    The State of Israel is a parliamentary republic located in the Middle East, along the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea...

    i General Secretary of Agudat Israel
    Agudat Israel
    Agudat Yisrael began as the original political party representing the ultra-Orthodox population of Israel. It was the umbrella party for almost all ultra-Orthodox Jews in Israel, and before that in the British Mandate of Palestine...

     (1972–1981). http://www.knesset.gov.il/mk/eng/mk_eng.asp?mk_individual_id_t=241
  • Audrey Fagan
    Audrey Fagan
    Audrey Fagan was an Australian police officer, from 2005 holding the rank of Assistant Commissioner and the title of Chief Police Officer for the Australian Capital Territory , which included community policing responsibilities for Canberra and other parts of the ACT. She was awarded the...

    , 44, Irish
    Ireland
    Ireland is an island to the northwest of continental Europe. It is the third-largest island in Europe and the twentieth-largest island on Earth...

    -born Australia
    Australia
    Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...

    n Federal Police
    Australian Capital Territory Police
    ACT Policing is the portfolio of the Australian Federal Police responsible for providing policing services to the Australian Capital Territory...

     assistant commissioner, suspected suicide
    Suicide
    Suicide is the act of intentionally causing one's own death. Suicide is often committed out of despair or attributed to some underlying mental disorder, such as depression, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, alcoholism, or drug abuse...

     by hanging
    Hanging
    Hanging is the lethal suspension of a person by a ligature. The Oxford English Dictionary states that hanging in this sense is "specifically to put to death by suspension by the neck", though it formerly also referred to crucifixion and death by impalement in which the body would remain...

    . http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/story/0,22049,21593718-5006009,00.html http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/act-police-chief-found-hanged-on-holiday-island/2007/04/21/1176697161151.html
  • Fred Fish
    Fred Fish
    Fred Fish was a computer programmer notable for work on the GNU Debugger and his series of Fish disks of freeware for the Amiga. He was a pioneering spirit pervasive in the Amiga community...

    , 54, American
    United States
    The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

     computer programmer known for GNU Debugger
    GNU Debugger
    The GNU Debugger, usually called just GDB and named gdb as an executable file, is the standard debugger for the GNU software system. It is a portable debugger that runs on many Unix-like systems and works for many programming languages, including Ada, C, C++, Objective-C, Free Pascal, Fortran, Java...

    . http://sourceware.org/ml/gdb/2007-04/msg00154.html
  • Michael Fu Tieshan
    Michael Fu Tieshan
    Bishop Michael Fu Tieshan of Beijing was the top leader of the Chinese Patriotic Catholic Association....

    , 75, Chinese
    China
    Chinese civilization may refer to:* China for more general discussion of the country.* Chinese culture* Greater China, the transnational community of ethnic Chinese.* History of China* Sinosphere, the area historically affected by Chinese culture...

     Patriotic Catholic Association
    Chinese Patriotic Catholic Association
    The Chinese Patriotic Catholic Association , abbreviated CPA, CPCA, or CCPA, is an association of people, established in 1957 by the People's Republic of China's Religious Affairs Bureau to exercise state supervision over mainland China's Catholics...

     bishop of Beijing
    Beijing
    Beijing , also known as Peking , is the capital of the People's Republic of China and one of the most populous cities in the world, with a population of 19,612,368 as of 2010. The city is the country's political, cultural, and educational center, and home to the headquarters for most of China's...

    , cancer
    Cancer
    Cancer , known medically as a malignant neoplasm, is a large group of different diseases, all involving unregulated cell growth. In cancer, cells divide and grow uncontrollably, forming malignant tumors, and invade nearby parts of the body. The cancer may also spread to more distant parts of the...

    . http://www.catholicnews.com/data/stories/cns/0702236.htm
  • Andrew Hill
    Andrew Hill
    Andrew Hill was an American jazz pianist and composer.Hill is recognized as one of the most important innovators of jazz piano in the 1960s...

    , 75, American
    United States
    The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

     jazz
    Jazz
    Jazz is a musical style that originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States. It was born out of a mix of African and European music traditions. From its early development until the present, jazz has incorporated music from 19th and 20th...

     pianist and composer, lung cancer
    Lung cancer
    Lung cancer is a disease characterized by uncontrolled cell growth in tissues of the lung. If left untreated, this growth can spread beyond the lung in a process called metastasis into nearby tissue and, eventually, into other parts of the body. Most cancers that start in lung, known as primary...

    . http://www.newsday.com/news/local/wire/newyork/ny-bc-ny--obit-hill0420apr20,0,6538857.story?coll=ny-region-apnewyork
  • Jan Kociniak
    Jan Kociniak
    Jan Kociniak , was a Polish film and theatre actor.Jan Kociniak was born in Stryj, Poland that before the WWII belonged to Poland. He graduated from The Warsaw Higher Theatrical School in 1961 and he most of his professional career acted in The Atheneum Theatre in Warsaw...

    , 69, Polish
    Poland
    Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north...

     actor. http://www.filmpolski.pl/fp/index.php (Polish)
  • William Phillips, 60, American
    United States
    The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

     engineer, Johnson Space Center shooting
    Johnson Space Center shooting
    The Johnson Space Center shooting was an incident of hostage taking that occurred on April 20, 2007 in Building 44, the Communication and Tracking Development Laboratory, at the Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, United States...

     gunman, suicide
    Suicide
    Suicide is the act of intentionally causing one's own death. Suicide is often committed out of despair or attributed to some underlying mental disorder, such as depression, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, alcoholism, or drug abuse...

     by gunshot. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18248153/
  • Robert Rosenthal
    Robert Rosenthal (USAF)
    Lieutenant Colonel Robert "Rosie" Rosenthal was a highly-decorated pilot in the Eighth Air Force of the United States Army Air Forces in World War II, receiving sixteen awards including the Distinguished Service Cross for "extraordinary heroism in connection with military operations against the...

    , 89, American
    United States
    The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

     distinguished World War II
    World War II
    World War II, or the Second World War , was a global conflict lasting from 1939 to 1945, involving most of the world's nations—including all of the great powers—eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis...

     pilot and lawyer, multiple myeloma
    Multiple myeloma
    Multiple myeloma , also known as plasma cell myeloma or Kahler's disease , is a cancer of plasma cells, a type of white blood cell normally responsible for the production of antibodies...

    . http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/04/29/ap/national/main2739695.shtml

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  • Ken Albers
    Ken Albers
    John Kenneth Albers was an American singer who performed with The Four Freshmen from 1956–1982.Albers was born in Woodbury, New Jersey. He served in the U.S. Army during World War II and attended the Philadelphia Conservatory of Music.Albers sang with The Stuarts Quartet prior to joining The Four...

    , 82, American
    United States
    The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

     singer (The Four Freshmen
    The Four Freshmen
    The Four Freshmen is a multiple Grammy-nominated American male vocal band quartet that blends open-harmony jazz arrangements with the big band vocal group sounds of The Modernaires , The Pied Pipers , and The Mel-Tones , founded in the barbershop tradition...

    ). http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/california/la-me-passings21.1apr21,1,7492093.story?coll=la-headlines-pe-california
  • Anthony Brooks
    Anthony Brooks
    Major Anthony Morris "Tony" Brooks was a British undercover agent in World War II. He received the Distinguished Service Order, Military Cross, Croix de Guerre, and Legion d'Honneur for his work as a leader of a group sabotaging German reinforcements prior to and during the Normandy invasion...

    , 85, British
    United Kingdom
    The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...

     agent who led French Resistance
    French Resistance
    The French Resistance is the name used to denote the collection of French resistance movements that fought against the Nazi German occupation of France and against the collaborationist Vichy régime during World War II...

     saboteur
    Saboteur
    A saboteur is someone who commits sabotage.It may also refer to:*Morituri , a 1965 film also known as The Saboteur*Saboteur , a card game by Frederic Moyersoen, published in 2004...

    s after the Normandy Invasion, stomach cancer
    Stomach cancer
    Gastric cancer, commonly referred to as stomach cancer, can develop in any part of the stomach and may spread throughout the stomach and to other organs; particularly the esophagus, lungs, lymph nodes, and the liver...

    . http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/21/world/21brooks.html
  • Jean-Pierre Cassel
    Jean-Pierre Cassel
    Jean-Pierre Cassel was a French actor.-Life and career:Cassel was born Jean-Pierre Crochon in Paris, the son of Louise-Marguerite , an opera singer, and Georges Crochon, a doctor. Cassel was discovered by Gene Kelly as he tap danced on stage, and later cast in the 1957 film The Happy Road...

    , 74, French
    France
    The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...

     actor, cancer
    Cancer
    Cancer , known medically as a malignant neoplasm, is a large group of different diseases, all involving unregulated cell growth. In cancer, cells divide and grow uncontrollably, forming malignant tumors, and invade nearby parts of the body. The cancer may also spread to more distant parts of the...

    . http://www.cbc.ca/arts/film/story/2007/04/20/jeanpierre-cassel-obit.html
  • Marie Hicks
    Marie Hicks
    Marie Hicks was an African American civil rights activist best known for leading thousands of pickets in 1965-1966 around the wall at Girard College. Her efforts led to her sons being enrolled in the formerly all-white school in 1968.She later took a maid job at La Salle University and attended...

    , 83, American
    United States
    The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

     civil rights
    Civil rights
    Civil and political rights are a class of rights that protect individuals' freedom from unwarranted infringement by governments and private organizations, and ensure one's ability to participate in the civil and political life of the state without discrimination or repression.Civil rights include...

     activist, complications from Parkinson's disease
    Parkinson's disease
    Parkinson's disease is a degenerative disorder of the central nervous system...

    . http://www.philly.com/inquirer/local/20070421_Marie_Hicks__83__the_Rosa_Parks_of_Girard_College.html
  • Worth McDougald
    Worth McDougald
    Worth McDougald was an American journalism educator who oversaw the Peabody Awards for nearly 30 years, from 1963-1991....

    , 82, American
    United States
    The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

     journalism educator, Director of the Peabody Award
    Peabody Award
    The George Foster Peabody Awards recognize distinguished and meritorious public service by radio and television stations, networks, producing organizations and individuals. In 1939, the National Association of Broadcasters formed a committee to recognize outstanding achievement in radio broadcasting...

    s (1963–1991), heart failure. http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/23/us/23mcdougald.html?ref=obituaries
  • Bohdan Paczyński
    Bohdan Paczynski
    Bohdan Paczyński or Bohdan Paczynski was a Polish astronomer, a leading scientist in theory of the evolution of stars, accretion discs and gamma ray bursts....

    , 67, Polish
    Poland
    Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north...

     astrophysicist, brain tumor
    Brain tumor
    A brain tumor is an intracranial solid neoplasm, a tumor within the brain or the central spinal canal.Brain tumors include all tumors inside the cranium or in the central spinal canal...

    . http://www.professor-astronomy.com/blog/index.shtml
  • Leszek Suski
    Leszek Suski
    Leszek Suski was a Polish Olympic fencer. He competed in the individual and team sabre events at the 1952 Summer Olympics.-References:...

    , 77, Polish
    Poland
    Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north...

     Olympic
    Olympic Games
    The Olympic Games is a major international event featuring summer and winter sports, in which thousands of athletes participate in a variety of competitions. The Olympic Games have come to be regarded as the world’s foremost sports competition where more than 200 nations participate...

     fencer
    Fencing
    Fencing, which is also known as modern fencing to distinguish it from historical fencing, is a family of combat sports using bladed weapons.Fencing is one of four sports which have been featured at every one of the modern Olympic Games...

    . http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/su/leszek-suski-1.html
  • Helen Walton
    Helen Walton
    Helen Robson Kemper Walton was the wife of Wal-Mart and Sam's Club founder Sam Walton. At one point in her life, she was the eleventh richest American and the richest woman in the world.-Early life:...

    , 87, American
    United States
    The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

     widow of Wal-Mart
    Wal-Mart
    Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. , branded as Walmart since 2008 and Wal-Mart before then, is an American public multinational corporation that runs chains of large discount department stores and warehouse stores. The company is the world's 18th largest public corporation, according to the Forbes Global 2000...

     founder Sam Walton
    Sam Walton
    Samuel Moore "Sam" Wallballs was a businessman, entrepreneur, and Eagle Scout born in Kingfisher, Oklahoma best known for founding the retailers Wal-Mart and Sam's Club.-Early life:...

    , natural causes
    Death by natural causes
    A death by natural causes, as recorded by coroners and on death certificates and associated documents, is one that is primarily attributed to natural agents: usually an illness or an internal malfunction of the body. For example, a person dying from complications from influenza or a heart attack ...

    . http://www.cwarkansas.com/news/local/story.aspx?content_id=4fe0958a-7553-44bf-98c1-513b82c782a2
  • George D. Webster, 61, American
    United States
    The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

     football
    American football
    American football is a sport played between two teams of eleven with the objective of scoring points by advancing the ball into the opposing team's end zone. Known in the United States simply as football, it may also be referred to informally as gridiron football. The ball can be advanced by...

     player. http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/APStories/stories/D8OK0HHG0.html

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  • Josy Gyr-Steiner
    Josy Gyr-Steiner
    Josy Gyr-Steiner was a Swiss politician from the Canton of Schwyz and member of the Swiss National Council ....

    , 57, Swiss
    Switzerland
    Switzerland name of one of the Swiss cantons. ; ; ; or ), in its full name the Swiss Confederation , is a federal republic consisting of 26 cantons, with Bern as the seat of the federal authorities. The country is situated in Western Europe,Or Central Europe depending on the definition....

     politician. http://www.josy-gyr.ch/ (German)
  • Iccho Itoh
    Iccho Itoh
    , born , was the mayor of the Japanese city of Nagasaki; he first took office in 1995. He was a graduate from Waseda University, and majored in political science.-Career:...

    , 61, Japan
    Japan
    Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...

    ese mayor
    Mayor
    In many countries, a Mayor is the highest ranking officer in the municipal government of a town or a large urban city....

     of Nagasaki, homicide
    Homicide
    Homicide refers to the act of a human killing another human. Murder, for example, is a type of homicide. It can also describe a person who has committed such an act, though this use is rare in modern English...

     by shooting. http://www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUST33398520070417 http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070418/ap_on_re_as/japan_mayor_shooting
  • Andrej Kvašňák
    Andrej Kvašnák
    Andrej Kvašňák was a Slovak football player. Born in Košice, he played for Czechoslovakia, for which he played 47 matches and scored 13 goals....

    , 70, Slovak
    Slovakia
    The Slovak Republic is a landlocked state in Central Europe. It has a population of over five million and an area of about . Slovakia is bordered by the Czech Republic and Austria to the west, Poland to the north, Ukraine to the east and Hungary to the south...

     footballer, lung cancer
    Lung cancer
    Lung cancer is a disease characterized by uncontrolled cell growth in tissues of the lung. If left untreated, this growth can spread beyond the lung in a process called metastasis into nearby tissue and, eventually, into other parts of the body. Most cancers that start in lung, known as primary...

    . http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/04/18/sports/EU-SPT-SOC-Obit-Kvasnak.php
  • Alvin Roth
    Alvin Roth
    Alvin L. Roth was an American bridge player, considered one of the greatest of all time. He wrote several books on the game, and invented various bridge conventions that have become commonplace, including five-card majors, negative doubles, forcing notrump, and the unusual notrump.-Biography:Roth...

    , 92, American
    United States
    The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

     contract bridge
    Contract bridge
    Contract bridge, usually known simply as bridge, is a trick-taking card game using a standard deck of 52 playing cards played by four players in two competing partnerships with partners sitting opposite each other around a small table...

     champion. http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/broward/sfl-coroth19apr19,0,7212731.story?coll=sfla-news-broward
  • Donald Stephens
    Donald Stephens
    Donald E. Stephens was the first mayor of Rosemont, Illinois, USA, and a leading Illinois Republican politician....

    , 79, American
    United States
    The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

     long-serving mayor
    Mayor
    In many countries, a Mayor is the highest ranking officer in the municipal government of a town or a large urban city....

     of Rosemont, Illinois
    Rosemont, Illinois
    Rosemont is a village in Cook County, Illinois, United States located immediately northwest of Chicago. The village was incorporated in 1956, though it had been settled long before that...

    , founder of Hummel figurine museum, stomach cancer
    Stomach cancer
    Gastric cancer, commonly referred to as stomach cancer, can develop in any part of the stomach and may spread throughout the stomach and to other organs; particularly the esophagus, lungs, lymph nodes, and the liver...

    . http://qconline.com/archives/qco/display.php?id=334794
  • Tony Suarez
    Tony Suarez
    Antonio Jose "Tony" Suarez was a Cuban-American soccer forward. He played professionally in the American Soccer League and Major Indoor Soccer League and was the 1981 American Soccer League Rookie of the Year.-Youth:...

    , 51, American
    United States
    The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

     soccer
    American Soccer League
    The American Soccer League has been a name used by three different professional soccer leagues in the United States. The first American Soccer League was established in 1921 by the merger of teams from the National Association Football League and the Southern New England Soccer League. For...

     player (Carolina Lightnin'
    Carolina Lightnin'
    The Carolina Lightnin was an American soccer club based in Charlotte, North Carolina that was a member of the American Soccer League. The Lightnin' played home matches at American Legion Memorial Stadium. Attendance at home games averaged 6,000 spectators...

    , Cleveland Force), 1981 Rookie of the Year. http://www.charlotte.com/456/story/92371.html http://www.legacy.com/Charlotte/DeathNotices.asp?Page=LifeStory&PersonId=87352760
  • Dick Vosburgh
    Dick Vosburgh
    Richard Kennedy "Dick" Vosburgh was an American-born comedy writer and lyricist working chiefly in Britain....

    , 77, American
    United States
    The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

    -born comedy writer and lyricist, cancer
    Cancer
    Cancer , known medically as a malignant neoplasm, is a large group of different diseases, all involving unregulated cell growth. In cancer, cells divide and grow uncontrollably, forming malignant tumors, and invade nearby parts of the body. The cancer may also spread to more distant parts of the...

    . http://arts.guardian.co.uk/theatre/obituary/0,,2063801,00.html

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  • Nair Bello
    Nair Bello
    Nair Bello Sousa Francisco was a Brazilian actress and comedian.- Telenovelas :*2005 - Bang Bang - as Dona Zorra *2003 - Kubanacan - as Dolores...

    , 75, Brazil
    Brazil
    Brazil , officially the Federative Republic of Brazil , is the largest country in South America. It is the world's fifth largest country, both by geographical area and by population with over 192 million people...

    ian actress, heart failure. http://www1.folha.uol.com.br/folha/ilustrada/ult90u70348.shtml http://exclusivo.terra.com.br/interna/0,,OI1554146-EI1118,00.html (Portuguese)
  • James B. Davis
    James B. Davis (musician)
    James Bodie Davis was an American gospel music singer and a founder of The Dixie Hummingbirds, one of the longest-lasting and most influential groups in gospel music....

    , 90, American
    United States
    The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

     founder of The Dixie Hummingbirds
    The Dixie Hummingbirds
    The Dixie Hummingbirds are an influential American gospel music group, spanning more than 80 years from the jubilee quartet style of the 1920s, through the "hard gospel" quartet style of Gospel's golden age in the 1940s and 1950s, to the eclectic pop-tinged songs of today.-History:Formed in 1928 in...

    , heart failure. http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/04/27/america/NA-GEN-US-Obit-James-Davis.php
  • Steven Derounian, 89, Bulgaria
    Bulgaria
    Bulgaria , officially the Republic of Bulgaria , is a parliamentary democracy within a unitary constitutional republic in Southeast Europe. The country borders Romania to the north, Serbia and Macedonia to the west, Greece and Turkey to the south, as well as the Black Sea to the east...

    n-born American
    United States
    The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

     Republican
    Republican Party (United States)
    The Republican Party is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States, along with the Democratic Party. Founded by anti-slavery expansion activists in 1854, it is often called the GOP . The party's platform generally reflects American conservatism in the U.S...

     Representative
    United States House of Representatives
    The United States House of Representatives is one of the two Houses of the United States Congress, the bicameral legislature which also includes the Senate.The composition and powers of the House are established in Article One of the Constitution...

     from New York state
    New York
    New York is a state in the Northeastern region of the United States. It is the nation's third most populous state. New York is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south, and by Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont to the east...

     (1953–1965). http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/20/obituaries/20derounian.html?_r=1&ref=obituaries&oref=slogin
  • Len Fitzgerald
    Len Fitzgerald
    Len Fitzgerald was a former Australian rules footballer of exceptional talent in the VFL and SANFL. At various time he played in the key positions of centre half-forward, centre half-back and ruck-rover.- VFL career :...

    , 76, Australia
    Australia
    Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...

    n footballer, cancer
    Cancer
    Cancer , known medically as a malignant neoplasm, is a large group of different diseases, all involving unregulated cell growth. In cancer, cells divide and grow uncontrollably, forming malignant tumors, and invade nearby parts of the body. The cancer may also spread to more distant parts of the...

    . http://www.news.com.au/adelaidenow/story/0,22606,21571083-5006301,00.html http://www.collingwoodfc.com.au/Default.aspx?tabid=5586&newsId=41365
  • Kitty Carlisle Hart
    Kitty Carlisle Hart
    Kitty Carlisle was an American singer, actress and spokeswoman for the arts. She is best remembered as a regular panelist on the television game show To Tell the Truth. She served 20 years on the New York State Council on the Arts. In 1991, she received the National Medal of Arts from President...

    , 96, American
    United States
    The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

     actress (A Night at the Opera
    A Night at the Opera (film)
    A Night at the Opera is a 1935 American comedy film starring Groucho Marx, Chico Marx and Harpo Marx, and featuring Kitty Carlisle, Allan Jones, Margaret Dumont, Sig Ruman, and Walter Woolf King. It was the first film the Marx Brothers made for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer after their departure from...

    ), TV personality (To Tell the Truth
    To Tell the Truth
    To Tell the Truth is an American television panel game show created by Bob Stewart and produced by Goodson-Todman Productions that has aired in various forms since 1956 both on networks and in syndication...

    ) and singer, heart failure. http://www.townhall.com/News/NewsArticle.aspx?contentGUID=b2ca506a-8ecc-4ce2-bc64-c593635e406b
  • Bruce Haslingden
    Bruce Haslingden
    Edward Bruce Haslingden was an Australian cross country skier who competed in the 1950s. He finished 74th in the 18 km event at the 1952 Winter Olympics in Oslo...

    , 84, Australia
    Australia
    Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...

    n Olympic cross-country skier
    Cross-country skiing
    Cross-country skiing is a winter sport in which participants propel themselves across snow-covered terrain using skis and poles...

    , staphylococcus
    Staphylococcus
    Staphylococcus is a genus of Gram-positive bacteria. Under the microscope they appear round , and form in grape-like clusters....

     infection. http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,21588377-2722,00.html
  • Raymond Kaelbel
    Raymond Kaelbel
    Raymond Kaelbel was a French international footballer who was part of France national football team during 1958 FIFA World Cup....

    , 75, French
    France
    The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...

     international footballer. http://www.uefa.com/footballeurope/news/kind=2/newsid=529287.html
  • Chauncey Starr
    Chauncey Starr
    Chauncey Starr was an American electrical engineer who was an expert in nuclear energy.Born in Newark, New Jersey, Starr received an electrical engineering degree in 1932 and a Ph.D. in physics in 1935 from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.Starr was Vice President of Rockwell International and...

    , 95, American
    United States
    The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

     electrical engineer, pioneer in the field of nuclear energy
    Nuclear power
    Nuclear power is the use of sustained nuclear fission to generate heat and electricity. Nuclear power plants provide about 6% of the world's energy and 13–14% of the world's electricity, with the U.S., France, and Japan together accounting for about 50% of nuclear generated electricity...

    . http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/19/obituaries/19starr.html?ref=obituaries
  • Glenn Sutton
    Glenn Sutton
    Glenn Sutton was a country music songwriter and producer. Born Royce Glenn Sutton in Hodge, Louisiana, he was one of two chief architects of the countrypolitan sound .Sutton wrote or co-wrote many of Tammy Wynette's early hits including, "You're Good Girl's Gonna Go Bad",...

    , 69, American
    United States
    The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

     country
    Country music
    Country music is a popular American musical style that began in the rural Southern United States in the 1920s. It takes its roots from Western cowboy and folk music...

     songwriter
    Songwriter
    A songwriter is an individual who writes both the lyrics and music to a song. Someone who solely writes lyrics may be called a lyricist, and someone who only writes music may be called a composer...

     and record producer
    Record producer
    A record producer is an individual working within the music industry, whose job is to oversee and manage the recording of an artist's music...

    , heart attack
    Myocardial infarction
    Myocardial infarction or acute myocardial infarction , commonly known as a heart attack, results from the interruption of blood supply to a part of the heart, causing heart cells to die...

    . http://www.countryweekly.com/glenn_sutton/scoop/2324

16

  • Frank Bateson
    Frank Bateson
    Frank Bateson, OBE, was a New Zealand astronomer who specialized in the study of variable stars.Frank Maine Bateson was born in Wellington on 31 October 1909 and studied in Australia and New Zealand...

    , 97, New Zealand
    New Zealand
    New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses and numerous smaller islands. The country is situated some east of Australia across the Tasman Sea, and roughly south of the Pacific island nations of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga...

     astronomer
    Astronomer
    An astronomer is a scientist who studies celestial bodies such as planets, stars and galaxies.Historically, astronomy was more concerned with the classification and description of phenomena in the sky, while astrophysics attempted to explain these phenomena and the differences between them using...

     and writer. http://www.thewest.com.au/aapstory.aspx?StoryName=374602
  • Seung-Hui Cho
    Seung-Hui Cho
    Seung-Hui Cho was a senior-level undergraduate student at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University who killed 32 people and wounded 17 others on April 16, 2007, in the shooting rampage which came to be known as the "Virginia Tech massacre." Cho later committed suicide after law...

    , 23, South Korea
    South Korea
    The Republic of Korea , , is a sovereign state in East Asia, located on the southern portion of the Korean Peninsula. It is neighbored by the People's Republic of China to the west, Japan to the east, North Korea to the north, and the East China Sea and Republic of China to the south...

    n Virginia Tech
    Virginia Tech massacre
    The Virginia Tech massacre was a school shooting that took place on April 16, 2007, on the campus of Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in Blacksburg, Virginia, United States. In two separate attacks, approximately two hours apart, the perpetrator, Seung-Hui Cho, killed 32 people...

     mass murder
    Mass murder
    Mass murder is the act of murdering a large number of people , typically at the same time or over a relatively short period of time. According to the FBI, mass murder is defined as four or more murders occurring during a particular event with no cooling-off period between the murders...

    er, suicide
    Suicide
    Suicide is the act of intentionally causing one's own death. Suicide is often committed out of despair or attributed to some underlying mental disorder, such as depression, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, alcoholism, or drug abuse...

     by gunshot. http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/17/us/17virginia.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin
  • Jocelyne Couture-Nowak
    Jocelyne Couture-Nowak
    Jocelyne M. Couture-Nowak was an instructor of French in the Department of Foreign Languages and Literature at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Virginia and was the only Canadian victim of the Virginia Tech massacre...

    , 49, Canadian
    Canada
    Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

     instructor of French
    French language
    French is a Romance language spoken as a first language in France, the Romandy region in Switzerland, Wallonia and Brussels in Belgium, Monaco, the regions of Quebec and Acadia in Canada, and by various communities elsewhere. Second-language speakers of French are distributed throughout many parts...

     at Virginia Tech
    Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
    Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, popularly known as Virginia Tech , is a public land-grant university with the main campus in Blacksburg, Virginia with other research and educational centers throughout the Commonwealth of Virginia, United States, and internationally.Founded in...

    , homicide
    Homicide
    Homicide refers to the act of a human killing another human. Murder, for example, is a type of homicide. It can also describe a person who has committed such an act, though this use is rare in modern English...

    . http://www.cbc.ca/canada/montreal/story/2007/04/17/qc-quebecvictim20070417.html
  • Tran Bach Dang
    Tran Bach Dang
    Tran Bach Dang was a key figure in planning the 1968 Tet offensive during the Vietnam War, and was the leader of Communist forces in Saigon, the South Vietnamese capital, during that offensive...

    , 81, Vietnam
    Vietnam
    Vietnam – sometimes spelled Viet Nam , officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam – is the easternmost country on the Indochina Peninsula in Southeast Asia. It is bordered by China to the north, Laos to the northwest, Cambodia to the southwest, and the South China Sea –...

    ese journalist and politician. http://vietnamnews.vnagency.com.vn/showarticle.php?num=01SOC170407
  • Gaetan Duchesne
    Gaetan Duchesne
    Gaétan Duchesne was a professional Canadian ice hockey player. Born in Quebec City, Quebec, Duchesne was drafted in 1981 by the Washington Capitals. He played six seasons with the Capitals before he was dealt to the Quebec Nordiques in the trade that sent Dale Hunter to the Capitals...

    , 44, Canadian
    Canada
    Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

     NHL
    National Hockey League
    The National Hockey League is an unincorporated not-for-profit association which operates a major professional ice hockey league of 30 franchised member clubs, of which 7 are currently located in Canada and 23 in the United States...

     player (1981–1995), heart attack
    Myocardial infarction
    Myocardial infarction or acute myocardial infarction , commonly known as a heart attack, results from the interruption of blood supply to a part of the heart, causing heart cells to die...

    . http://www.tsn.ca/nhl/news_story/?ID=204403&hubname=
  • Kevin Granata
    Kevin Granata
    Kevin P. Granata was an American professor in multiple departments including the Departments of Engineering, Science and Mechanics and Mechanical Engineering at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University , Blacksburg, Virginia, United States...

    , 45, American
    United States
    The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

     associate professor of engineering at Virginia Tech
    Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
    Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, popularly known as Virginia Tech , is a public land-grant university with the main campus in Blacksburg, Virginia with other research and educational centers throughout the Commonwealth of Virginia, United States, and internationally.Founded in...

    , homicide
    Homicide
    Homicide refers to the act of a human killing another human. Murder, for example, is a type of homicide. It can also describe a person who has committed such an act, though this use is rare in modern English...

    . http://www.columbusdispatch.com/dispatch/content/national_world/stories/2007/04/18/granata.ART_ART_04-18-07_A3_JH6DUGI.html
  • Robert Jones
    Robert Jones (British politician)
    Robert Brannock Jones was a British Conservative Party politician. He was Member of Parliament for West Hertfordshire for its 14-year existence, from its creation in 1983 until it was abolished in 1997. He served as a junior minister in the Department of the Environment from 1994 to 1997.Jones...

    , 56, British
    United Kingdom
    The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...

     Conservative
    Conservative Party (UK)
    The Conservative Party, formally the Conservative and Unionist Party, is a centre-right political party in the United Kingdom that adheres to the philosophies of conservatism and British unionism. It is the largest political party in the UK, and is currently the largest single party in the House...

     politician (MP
    Member of Parliament
    A Member of Parliament is a representative of the voters to a :parliament. In many countries with bicameral parliaments, the term applies specifically to members of the lower house, as upper houses often have a different title, such as senate, and thus also have different titles for its members,...

     1983–1997), minister in the government of John Major
    John Major
    Sir John Major, is a British Conservative politician, who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Leader of the Conservative Party from 1990–1997...

    , liver cancer
    Hepatocellular carcinoma
    Hepatocellular carcinoma is the most common type of liver cancer. Most cases of HCC are secondary to either a viral hepatitide infection or cirrhosis .Compared to other cancers, HCC is quite a rare tumor in the United States...

    . http://www.guardian.co.uk/obituaries/story/0,,2059409,00.html
  • Maria Lenk
    Maria Lenk
    Maria Emma Hulga Lenk was a Brazilian swimmer and to date is considered one of the greatest Brazilian female athletes....

    , 92, Brazil
    Brazil
    Brazil , officially the Federative Republic of Brazil , is the largest country in South America. It is the world's fifth largest country, both by geographical area and by population with over 192 million people...

    ian Olympic
    Olympic Games
    The Olympic Games is a major international event featuring summer and winter sports, in which thousands of athletes participate in a variety of competitions. The Olympic Games have come to be regarded as the world’s foremost sports competition where more than 200 nations participate...

     swimmer (1932
    1932 Summer Olympics
    The 1932 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the X Olympiad, was a major world wide multi-athletic event which was celebrated in 1932 in Los Angeles, California, United States. No other cities made a bid to host these Olympics. Held during the worldwide Great Depression, many nations...

    , 1936
    1936 Summer Olympics
    The 1936 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XI Olympiad, was an international multi-sport event which was held in 1936 in Berlin, Germany. Berlin won the bid to host the Games over Barcelona, Spain on April 26, 1931, at the 29th IOC Session in Barcelona...

    ), rupture of aortic aneurysm
    Aortic aneurysm
    An aortic aneurysm is a general term for any swelling of the aorta to greater than 1.5 times normal, usually representing an underlying weakness in the wall of the aorta at that location...

    . http://abcnews.go.com/Sports/wireStory?id=3046540
  • Liviu Librescu
    Liviu Librescu
    Liviu Librescu was a Romanian-Israeli-American scientist and academic professor whose major research fields were aeroelasticity and aerodynamics...

    , 76, Romania
    Romania
    Romania is a country located at the crossroads of Central and Southeastern Europe, on the Lower Danube, within and outside the Carpathian arch, bordering on the Black Sea...

    n-born professor of engineering at Virginia Tech
    Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
    Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, popularly known as Virginia Tech , is a public land-grant university with the main campus in Blacksburg, Virginia with other research and educational centers throughout the Commonwealth of Virginia, United States, and internationally.Founded in...

    , Holocaust survivor, homicide
    Homicide
    Homicide refers to the act of a human killing another human. Murder, for example, is a type of homicide. It can also describe a person who has committed such an act, though this use is rare in modern English...

    . http://news.bostonherald.com/international/middleEast/view.bg?articleid=195818&srvc=home
  • G. V. Loganathan
    G. V. Loganathan
    Gobichettipalayam Vasudevan "G. V." Loganathan was an Indian-born American professor, whose most recent position was a professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental engineering, part of the College of Engineering at Virginia Tech, United States...

    , 50, India
    India
    India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...

    n-born professor of engineering at Virginia Tech
    Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
    Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, popularly known as Virginia Tech , is a public land-grant university with the main campus in Blacksburg, Virginia with other research and educational centers throughout the Commonwealth of Virginia, United States, and internationally.Founded in...

    , homicide
    Homicide
    Homicide refers to the act of a human killing another human. Murder, for example, is a type of homicide. It can also describe a person who has committed such an act, though this use is rare in modern English...

    . http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070418/LOCAL/704180521/1196/LOCAL
  • Jack Wiebe
    Jack Wiebe
    John E. N. "Jack" Wiebe, was a Canadian farmer and politician. He served as a provincial politician, the 18th Lieutenant Governor of Saskatchewan and also as a Senator....

    , 70, Canadian
    Canada
    Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

     politician, Lieutenant Governor of Saskatchewan
    Lieutenant Governor of Saskatchewan
    The Lieutenant Governor of Saskatchewan is the viceregal representative in Saskatchewan of the Canadian monarch, Queen Elizabeth II, who operates distinctly within the province but is also shared equally with the ten other jurisdictions of Canada and resides predominantly in her oldest realm, the...

     (1994–2000), Senator (2000–2004), lung cancer
    Lung cancer
    Lung cancer is a disease characterized by uncontrolled cell growth in tissues of the lung. If left untreated, this growth can spread beyond the lung in a process called metastasis into nearby tissue and, eventually, into other parts of the body. Most cancers that start in lung, known as primary...

    . http://www.canada.com/saskatoonstarphoenix/news/local/story.html?id=7cf0cebd-c3a8-4483-8d89-495273c8a65a

15

  • Patricia Buckley
    Patricia Buckley
    Patricia Aldyen Austin Taylor "Pat" Buckley was a Canadian socialite, noted for her fundraising activities and her height; she stood just under six feet. She was the wife of conservative writer and activist William F. Buckley, Jr...

    , 80, Canadian
    Canada
    Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

    -born socialite
    Socialite
    A socialite is a person who participates in social activities and spends a significant amount of time entertaining and being entertained at fashionable upper-class events....

     and fundraiser
    Fundraiser
    A fundraiser is an event or campaign whose primary purpose is to raise money for a cause. See also: fundraising. A fundraiser can also be an individual or company whose primary job is to raise money for a specific charity or non-profit organization...

    , wife of William F. Buckley, Jr.
    William F. Buckley, Jr.
    William Frank Buckley, Jr. was an American conservative author and commentator. He founded the political magazine National Review in 1955, hosted 1,429 episodes of the television show Firing Line from 1966 until 1999, and was a nationally syndicated newspaper columnist. His writing was noted for...

    , infection after long illness. http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=ODhhNDliZDhmM2E2MDJkZTJkMjMyMjlmYWZiMTcyYjI
  • Heo Se-uk
    Heo Se-uk
    Heo Se-uk was a 54 year old South Korean labor union member and taxi driver who set himself ablaze on April 1, 2007 in Seoul to protest the U.S.-Korea Free Trade Agreement. He lived for two weeks after the incident, despite serious burns on 63% of his body. He finally succumbed to a septic...

    , 54, South Korea
    South Korea
    The Republic of Korea , , is a sovereign state in East Asia, located on the southern portion of the Korean Peninsula. It is neighbored by the People's Republic of China to the west, Japan to the east, North Korea to the north, and the East China Sea and Republic of China to the south...

    n protester against U.S.-Korea Free Trade Agreement
    U.S.-Korea Free Trade Agreement
    The Republic of Korea-United States Free Trade Agreement is a trade agreement between the United States and the Republic of Korea. Negotiations were announced on February 2, 2006, and concluded on April 1, 2007. The treaty was first signed on June 30, 2007, with a renegotiated version signed in...

    , septic shock
    Septic shock
    Septic shock is a medical emergency caused by decreased tissue perfusion and oxygen delivery as a result of severe infection and sepsis, though the microbe may be systemic or localized to a particular site. It can cause multiple organ dysfunction syndrome and death...

     following self-immolation
    Self-immolation
    Self-immolation refers to setting oneself on fire, often as a form of protest or for the purposes of martyrdom or suicide. It has centuries-long traditions in some cultures, while in modern times it has become a type of radical political protest...

     burns. http://english.hani.co.kr/arti/english_edition/e_national/203235.html
  • Brant Parker, 86, American
    United States
    The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

     cartoonist
    Cartoonist
    A cartoonist is a person who specializes in drawing cartoons. This work is usually humorous, mainly created for entertainment, political commentary or advertising...

     who co-created The Wizard of Id
    The Wizard of Id
    The Wizard of Id is a daily newspaper comic strip created by American cartoonists Brant Parker and Johnny Hart. Beginning in 1964, the strip follows the antics of a large cast of characters in a shabby medieval kingdom called "Id". From time to time, the king refers to his subjects as "Idiots"...

    . http://www.mediainfo.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003572154
  • Justine Saunders
    Justine Saunders
    Justine Florence Saunders, OAM was an Australian stage, film and television actress. She was a member of the Woppaburra indigenous people, from the Kanomie clan of Keppel Island in Queensland. She was born next to a railway track. At the age of 11, she was removed from her mother Heather, and...

    , 54, Australia
    Australia
    Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...

    n actress, cancer
    Cancer
    Cancer , known medically as a malignant neoplasm, is a large group of different diseases, all involving unregulated cell growth. In cancer, cells divide and grow uncontrollably, forming malignant tumors, and invade nearby parts of the body. The cancer may also spread to more distant parts of the...

    . http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,21565438-5005961,00.html http://www.theage.com.au/news/people/actress-justine-saunders-dies-after-illness/2007/04/16/1176696753397.html
  • Peter Tsiamalili
    Peter Tsiamalili
    Peter Sobby Tsiamalili was the Papua New Guinean civil servant who served as the first chief administrator of the Autonomous Region of Bougainville following successful elections in June 2005...

    , 54, Papuan
    Papua New Guinea
    Papua New Guinea , officially the Independent State of Papua New Guinea, is a country in Oceania, occupying the eastern half of the island of New Guinea and numerous offshore islands...

     first administrator of the Autonomous Region of Bougainville. http://pidp.eastwestcenter.org/pireport/2007/April/04-17-13.htm http://www.pacificmagazine.net/news/2007/04/15/bougainville-govt-administrator-peter-tsiamalili-has-died
  • Donald Tuzin
    Donald Tuzin
    Donald F. Tuzin was a social anthropologist best known for his ethnographic work on the Ilahita Arapesh, a horticultural people living in northeast lowland New Guinea, and for comparative studies of gender and sexuality within Melanesia. Tuzin was born in Chicago, Illinois, grew up in Winona,...

    , 62, American
    United States
    The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

     anthropologist and leading authority on Melanesia
    Melanesia
    Melanesia is a subregion of Oceania extending from the western end of the Pacific Ocean to the Arafura Sea, and eastward to Fiji. The region comprises most of the islands immediately north and northeast of Australia...

    n culture, pulmonary hypertension
    Pulmonary hypertension
    In medicine, pulmonary hypertension is an increase in blood pressure in the pulmonary artery, pulmonary vein, or pulmonary capillaries, together known as the lung vasculature, leading to shortness of breath, dizziness, fainting, and other symptoms, all of which are exacerbated by exertion...

    . http://www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20070420/news_1m20tuzin.html

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  • Ladislav Adamec
    Ladislav Adamec
    Ladislav Adamec was a Czechoslovak Communist political figure. Upon the retirement of Prime Minister Lubomír Štrougal in October 1988, Adamec assumed the role, thus serving as the last Communist leader of Czechoslovakia. He served from October 12, 1988 to December 7, 1989...

    , 80, Czech
    Czech Republic
    The Czech Republic is a landlocked country in Central Europe. The country is bordered by Poland to the northeast, Slovakia to the east, Austria to the south, and Germany to the west and northwest....

     communist
    Communism
    Communism is a social, political and economic ideology that aims at the establishment of a classless, moneyless, revolutionary and stateless socialist society structured upon common ownership of the means of production...

     politician, Prime Minister of the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic
    Czechoslovak Socialist Republic
    The Czechoslovak Socialist Republic was the official name of Czechoslovakia from 1960 until end of 1989 , a Soviet satellite state of the Eastern Bloc....

     (1988–1989). http://www.ctk.cz/zpravy/vseobecne_view.php?id=247099 (Czech)
  • Robert Buck, 93, American
    United States
    The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

     aviator who set several aviation
    Aviation
    Aviation is the design, development, production, operation, and use of aircraft, especially heavier-than-air aircraft. Aviation is derived from avis, the Latin word for bird.-History:...

     records in his teens, complications from a fall. http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/20/us/20buck.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
  • June Callwood
    June Callwood
    June Rose Callwood, was a Canadian journalist, author and social activist. She was born in Chatham, Ontario and grew up in nearby Belle River.-Early life and career:...

    , 82, Canadian
    Canada
    Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

     journalist
    Journalist
    A journalist collects and distributes news and other information. A journalist's work is referred to as journalism.A reporter is a type of journalist who researchs, writes, and reports on information to be presented in mass media, including print media , electronic media , and digital media A...

     and activist, cancer
    Cancer
    Cancer , known medically as a malignant neoplasm, is a large group of different diseases, all involving unregulated cell growth. In cancer, cells divide and grow uncontrollably, forming malignant tumors, and invade nearby parts of the body. The cancer may also spread to more distant parts of the...

    . http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20070414.wcallwoodobit/BNStory/National/home
  • Bobby Cram
    Bobby Cram
    Robert Cram was an English professional footballer.Born in Hetton-le-Hole, County Durham, Cram joined West Bromwich Albion as an amateur in September 1955, at the age of 15. He turned professional in January 1957, but did not make his debut until October 1959, in a 0-0 draw against Bolton Wanderers...

    , 67, British
    United Kingdom
    The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...

     footballer
    Football (soccer)
    Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a sport played between two teams of eleven players with a spherical ball...

     for West Bromwich Albion and Colchester United
    Colchester United F.C.
    Colchester United Football Club is an English football club based in Colchester. The club was formed in 1937, and briefly shared their old Layer Road home with now defunct side Colchester Town who had previously used the ground from 1910....

    . http://news.independent.co.uk/people/obituaries/article2469294.ece
  • Don Ho
    Don Ho
    Donald Tai Loy "Don" Ho was a Hawaiian and traditional pop musician, singer and entertainer.-Life and career:Ho, of Chinese, Hawaiian, Portuguese, Dutch, and German descent, was born in the small Honolulu neighborhood of Kakaako, but he grew up in Kāneohe on the windward side of the island of Oahu...

    , 76, American
    United States
    The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

     Hawaii
    Hawaii
    Hawaii is the newest of the 50 U.S. states , and is the only U.S. state made up entirely of islands. It is the northernmost island group in Polynesia, occupying most of an archipelago in the central Pacific Ocean, southwest of the continental United States, southeast of Japan, and northeast of...

    an music
    Music
    Music is an art form whose medium is sound and silence. Its common elements are pitch , rhythm , dynamics, and the sonic qualities of timbre and texture...

    ian and entertainer, heart failure. http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-ho15apr15,0,2498420.story?coll=la-home-headlines
  • Jim Jontz
    Jim Jontz
    James Prather Jontz was an American politician from Indianapolis, who represented the 5th Congressional District in the United States House of Representatives from 1987 to 1995...

    , 55, American
    United States
    The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

     congressman
    United States Congress
    The United States Congress is the bicameral legislature of the federal government of the United States, consisting of the Senate and the House of Representatives. The Congress meets in the United States Capitol in Washington, D.C....

     from Indiana
    Indiana
    Indiana is a US state, admitted to the United States as the 19th on December 11, 1816. It is located in the Midwestern United States and Great Lakes Region. With 6,483,802 residents, the state is ranked 15th in population and 16th in population density. Indiana is ranked 38th in land area and is...

     (1987–1993), colon cancer
    Colorectal cancer
    Colorectal cancer, commonly known as bowel cancer, is a cancer caused by uncontrolled cell growth , in the colon, rectum, or vermiform appendix. Colorectal cancer is clinically distinct from anal cancer, which affects the anus....

    . http://www.thetimesonline.com/articles/2007/04/14/ap-state-in/d8ogo2g80.txt
  • William Menster
    William Menster
    Father William J. Menster was a Roman Catholic priest of the Archdiocese of Dubuque. Menster was best known as the first member of the clergy to visit Antarctica....

    , 94, American
    United States
    The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

     Catholic priest
    Priest
    A priest is a person authorized to perform the sacred rites of a religion, especially as a mediatory agent between humans and deities. They also have the authority or power to administer religious rites; in particular, rites of sacrifice to, and propitiation of, a deity or deities...

    , first member of the clergy to visit Antarctica. http://www.wqad.com/Global/story.asp?S=6374377&nav=menu132_3
  • René Rémond
    René Rémond
    -Biography:Born in Lons-le-Saunier, Rémond was the Secretary General of Jeunesses étudiantes Catholiques and a member of the International YCS Center of Documentation and Information in Paris, presently the International Secretariat of International Young Catholic Students The author of books on...

    , 88, French
    France
    The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...

     historian
    Historian
    A historian is a person who studies and writes about the past and is regarded as an authority on it. Historians are concerned with the continuous, methodical narrative and research of past events as relating to the human race; as well as the study of all history in time. If the individual is...

     and academician. http://www.lemonde.fr (French)
  • Herman Riley
    Herman Riley
    Herman Riley was a tenor saxophone jazz performer. Born in New Orleans, Louisiana, he was noted for his performances with, among others, Count Basie, Etta James and Jimmy Smith.-As Sideman:With Bobby Hutcherson...

    , 73, American
    United States
    The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

     tenor saxophone
    Tenor saxophone
    The tenor saxophone is a medium-sized member of the saxophone family, a group of instruments invented by Adolphe Sax in the 1840s. The tenor, with the alto, are the two most common types of saxophones. The tenor is pitched in the key of B, and written as a transposing instrument in the treble...

     jazz
    Jazz
    Jazz is a musical style that originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States. It was born out of a mix of African and European music traditions. From its early development until the present, jazz has incorporated music from 19th and 20th...

     performer, heart failure. http://www.contactmusic.com/news.nsf/article/saxophonist%20herman%20riley%20dies_1029149
  • Audrey Santo
    Audrey Santo
    Audrey Marie Santo , often referred to as Little Audrey by pilgrims to her home, was an American young woman from Worcester, Massachusetts through whom miracles were said to have happened during her lifetime....

    , 23, American
    United States
    The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

     brain-injured girl claimed to have performed miracle
    Miracle
    A miracle often denotes an event attributed to divine intervention. Alternatively, it may be an event attributed to a miracle worker, saint, or religious leader. A miracle is sometimes thought of as a perceptible interruption of the laws of nature. Others suggest that a god may work with the laws...

    s, cardio-respiratory failure. http://www.telegram.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070415/ALERT01/70415001
  • Jim Thurman
    Jim Thurman
    James George Thurman , was an Emmy-winning American writer, actor, photographer, director, cartoonist, and producer...

    , 72, American
    United States
    The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

     children's television
    Television
    Television is a telecommunication medium for transmitting and receiving moving images that can be monochrome or colored, with accompanying sound...

     writer and voice of Sesame Street
    Sesame Street
    Sesame Street has undergone significant changes in its history. According to writer Michael Davis, by the mid-1970s the show had become "an American institution". The cast and crew expanded during this time, including the hiring of women in the crew and additional minorities in the cast. The...

    's "Teeny Little Super Guy
    Teeny Little Super Guy
    Teeny Little Super Guy was an animated short featured on PBS's Sesame Street. The shorts featured a small animated man, the Teeny Little Super Guy, who resides in a live-action, regular-sized kitchen. Robert W...

    ," illness. http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117963501.html?categoryid=14&cs=1
  • Frank Westheimer
    Frank Westheimer
    Frank Henry Westheimer was an American chemist. He was the Morris Loeb Professor of Chemistry Emeritus at Harvard University, and the Westheimer medal is named in his honour....

    , 95, American
    United States
    The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

     chemist
    Chemist
    A chemist is a scientist trained in the study of chemistry. Chemists study the composition of matter and its properties such as density and acidity. Chemists carefully describe the properties they study in terms of quantities, with detail on the level of molecules and their component atoms...

    . http://pubs.acs.org/cen/news/85/i17/8517news3.html

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  • Birgitta Arman
    Birgitta Arman
    Birgitta Arman was a Swedish actress, best known for her roles in the 1940s, including her role as Gretta in the 1945 film Blood and Fire.-References:...

    , 86, Swedish actress. http://www.sfi.se/sv/svensk-filmdatabas/Item/?type=PERSON&itemid=60778 (Swedish)
  • Marie Clay
    Marie Clay
    Dame Marie Mildred Irwin Clay, DBE, FRSNZ was a distinguished researcher from New Zealand known for her work in global educational literacy. She was committed to the idea that children who struggle to learn to read and write can be helped with early intervention.-Life and career:She was born in...

    , 81, New Zealand
    New Zealand
    New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses and numerous smaller islands. The country is situated some east of Australia across the Tasman Sea, and roughly south of the Pacific island nations of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga...

     world-renowned reading expert, after short illness. http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/1/story.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10434122
  • Nathan Heffernan
    Nathan Heffernan
    Nathan Stewart Heffernan was an American judge who served as a justice on the Wisconsin Supreme Court from 1964 to 1995, and as Chief Justice of that court from 1983 to 1995.-Biography:...

    , 86, American
    United States
    The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

     judge
    Judge
    A judge is a person who presides over court proceedings, either alone or as part of a panel of judges. The powers, functions, method of appointment, discipline, and training of judges vary widely across different jurisdictions. The judge is supposed to conduct the trial impartially and in an open...

    , Chief Justice
    Chief Justice
    The Chief Justice in many countries is the name for the presiding member of a Supreme Court in Commonwealth or other countries with an Anglo-Saxon justice system based on English common law, such as the Supreme Court of Canada, the Constitutional Court of South Africa, the Court of Final Appeal of...

     of the Wisconsin Supreme Court
    Wisconsin Supreme Court
    The Wisconsin Supreme Court is the highest appellate court in the state of Wisconsin. The Supreme Court has jurisdiction over original actions, appeals from lower courts, and regulation or administration of the practice of law in Wisconsin.-Location:...

     (1983–1995). http://www.journaltimes.com/nucleus/index.php?itemid=12209
  • Hans Koning
    Hans Koning
    Hans Koning , author of over 40 fiction and non-fiction books, was also a prolific journalist, contributing for almost 60 years to many periodicals including The New York Times, International Herald Tribune, Atlantic Monthly, The Nation, Harper's, The New Yorker, and De Groene Amsterdammer.-...

    , 85, Dutch
    Netherlands
    The Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...

    -born writer and journalist. http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/04/17/news/obits.php
  • Joe Lane, 80, Australia
    Australia
    Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...

    n bebop
    Bebop
    Bebop differed drastically from the straightforward compositions of the swing era, and was instead characterized by fast tempos, asymmetrical phrasing, intricate melodies, and rhythm sections that expanded on their role as tempo-keepers...

     jazz singer. http://www.jazz.org.au/news/
  • Wilma Elizabeth McDaniel
    Wilma Elizabeth McDaniel
    Wilma Elizabeth McDaniel was a long-time resident of California's Central Valley. Wilma was one of thousands who emigrated from Oklahoma to California during the Dust Bowl years of the mid-1930s....

    , 88, American
    United States
    The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

     poet who wrote about the Dust Bowl
    Dust Bowl
    The Dust Bowl, or the Dirty Thirties, was a period of severe dust storms causing major ecological and agricultural damage to American and Canadian prairie lands from 1930 to 1936...

    . http://www.upi.com/NewsTrack/Entertainment/2007/04/20/dust_bowl_poet_wilma_mcdaniel_dies/
  • Neil Pickard
    Neil Pickard
    Neil Edward William Pickard was a New South Wales politician and Minister of the Crown in the cabinets of Sir Eric Willis and Nick Greiner...

    , 78, Australia
    Australia
    Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...

    n politician. http://www.parliament.nsw.gov.au/prod/parlment/members.nsf/1fb6ebed995667c2ca256ea100825164/9f4934e0f2fe64c1ca256a9900024335?OpenDocument
  • Capil Rampersad
    Capil Rampersad
    Capil Rabin Rampersad was a West Indies cricketer who played for Trinidad and Tobago in the 1980s....

    , 46, Trinidad and Tobago
    Trinidad and Tobago
    Trinidad and Tobago officially the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago is an archipelagic state in the southern Caribbean, lying just off the coast of northeastern Venezuela and south of Grenada in the Lesser Antilles...

     cricketer. http://content-www.cricinfo.com/ci/content/player/52831.html
  • Joie Ray
    Joie Ray
    Joseph Reynolds "Joie" Ray Jr. was an American open-wheel and stock-car racer.Ray was born in Louisville, Kentucky. In 1947, Ray was the first African American licensed by the American Automobile Association...

    , 83, American
    United States
    The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

     open-wheel and stock car race driver, respiratory failure
    Respiratory failure
    The term respiratory failure, in medicine, is used to describe inadequate gas exchange by the respiratory system, with the result that arterial oxygen and/or carbon dioxide levels cannot be maintained within their normal ranges. A drop in blood oxygenation is known as hypoxemia; a rise in arterial...

    . http://sports.espn.go.com/rpm/news/story?seriesId=2&id=2841760
  • Don Selwyn
    Don Selwyn
    Don C. Selwyn was a Maori actor and film director from New Zealand. He was a founding member of the New Zealand Maori Theatre Trust and directed the 2002 film The Merchant of Venice, the first Maori language feature film with English subtitles.Born of Ngati Kuri and Te Aupouri descent, Selwyn grew...

    , 71, New Zealand
    New Zealand
    New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses and numerous smaller islands. The country is situated some east of Australia across the Tasman Sea, and roughly south of the Pacific island nations of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga...

     actor
    Actor
    An actor is a person who acts in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio in that capacity...

     and director
    Film director
    A film director is a person who directs the actors and film crew in filmmaking. They control a film's artistic and dramatic nathan roach, while guiding the technical crew and actors.-Responsibilities:...

    , complications from a kidney
    Kidney
    The kidneys, organs with several functions, serve essential regulatory roles in most animals, including vertebrates and some invertebrates. They are essential in the urinary system and also serve homeostatic functions such as the regulation of electrolytes, maintenance of acid–base balance, and...

     infection
    Infection
    An infection is the colonization of a host organism by parasite species. Infecting parasites seek to use the host's resources to reproduce, often resulting in disease...

    . http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/1501119/story.cfm?c_id=1501119&objectid=10434094
  • Marion Yorck von Wartenburg
    Marion Yorck von Wartenburg
    Marion Gräfin Yorck von Wartenburg was a German jurist and judge. She was a resistance fighter against the Nazis and member of the Kreisau Circle.Yorck was born Marion Winter in Berlin, Province of Brandenburg...

    , 102, German
    Germany
    Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

     World War II
    World War II
    World War II, or the Second World War , was a global conflict lasting from 1939 to 1945, involving most of the world's nations—including all of the great powers—eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis...

     resistance fighter. http://www.kreisau.de/kib/Kreis/Mitglieder/marion_yorck/marion_yorck.htm (German)

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  • Kelsie B. Harder
    Kelsie B. Harder
    Kelsie Brown Harder was an American professor and onomastician .-Biography:Harder was born in Perry County, Tennessee. After serving in the United States Army after World War II, he earned a bachelor's degree and master's degree in English from Vanderbilt University, then a Ph.D. from University...

    , 84, American
    United States
    The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

     name expert, congestive heart failure
    Congestive heart failure
    Heart failure often called congestive heart failure is generally defined as the inability of the heart to supply sufficient blood flow to meet the needs of the body. Heart failure can cause a number of symptoms including shortness of breath, leg swelling, and exercise intolerance. The condition...

    . http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/22/nyregion/22harder.html?ref=obituaries
  • Len Hill
    Len Hill
    Lenard Winston Hill , was a Welsh sportsman, who played first-class cricket for Glamorgan, league football for Swansea Town and Newport County and was also a talented tennis player.-Early sporting career:...

    , 65, British
    United Kingdom
    The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...

     cricket
    Cricket
    Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of 11 players on an oval-shaped field, at the centre of which is a rectangular 22-yard long pitch. One team bats, trying to score as many runs as possible while the other team bowls and fields, trying to dismiss the batsmen and thus limit the...

    er for Glamorgan
    Glamorgan County Cricket Club
    Glamorgan County Cricket Club is one of the 18 major county clubs which make up the English and Welsh national cricket structure, representing the historic county of Glamorgan aka Glamorganshire . Glamorgan CCC is the only Welsh first-class cricket club. Glamorgan CCC have won the English County...

     and footballer
    Football (soccer)
    Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a sport played between two teams of eleven players with a spherical ball...

     for Newport County
    Newport County A.F.C.
    Newport County Association Football Club are a professional football club based in the city of Newport, south Wales, who currently play in the Conference National, the highest level of the National League System and fifth highest of the overall English football league system...

    . http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/cricket/counties/glamorgan/6547863.stm
  • James Lyons
    James Lyons (film)
    James K. Lyons , aka Jim, was an American film editor and actor who frequently collaborated with Todd Haynes...

    , 46, American
    United States
    The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

     film editor, squamous cell carcinoma
    Squamous cell carcinoma
    Squamous cell carcinoma , occasionally rendered as "squamous-cell carcinoma", is a histologically distinct form of cancer. It arises from the uncontrolled multiplication of malignant cells deriving from epithelium, or showing particular cytological or tissue architectural characteristics of...

    . http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/16/arts/16lyons.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
  • Pierre Probst
    Pierre Probst
    Pierre Probst was a French cartoonist. He was known for his creation of the Caroline character, a heroine for children books....

    , 93, French
    France
    The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...

     children's book author and illustrator. http://cultureetloisirs.france3.fr/culture/29971078-fr.php (French)
  • Little Sonny Warner
    Little Sonny Warner
    Little Sonny Warner was an American blues singer.Haywood S. Warner was born in 1930 in Falls Church, Virginia, and in the early 1950s, Warner sang as a backing vocalist for Van Walls on the Atlantic Records releases "After Midnight" and "Open the Door"...

    , 77, American
    United States
    The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

     singer who earned a gold record with "There’s Something on Your Mind". http://www.fcnp.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1152&Itemid=33

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  • Roscoe Lee Browne
    Roscoe Lee Browne
    Roscoe Lee Browne was an American actor and director, known for his rich voice and dignified bearing.-Biography:Browne was the fourth son of a Baptist minister, Sylvanus S. Browne, and his wife Lovie...

    , 81, American
    United States
    The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

     Emmy Award
    Emmy Award
    An Emmy Award, often referred to simply as the Emmy, is a television production award, similar in nature to the Peabody Awards but more focused on entertainment, and is considered the television equivalent to the Academy Awards and the Grammy Awards .A majority of Emmys are presented in various...

    -winning actor
    Actor
    An actor is a person who acts in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio in that capacity...

     (The Cosby Show
    The Cosby Show
    The Cosby Show is an American television situation comedy starring Bill Cosby, which aired for eight seasons on NBC from September 20, 1984 until April 30, 1992...

    , Soap
    Soap (TV series)
    Soap is an American sitcom that originally ran on ABC from 1977 to 1981.The show was created as a parody of daytime soap operas, presented as a weekly half-hour prime time comedy. Similar to a soap opera, the show's story was presented in a serial format and included melodramatic plot elements such...

    ), cancer
    Cancer
    Cancer , known medically as a malignant neoplasm, is a large group of different diseases, all involving unregulated cell growth. In cancer, cells divide and grow uncontrollably, forming malignant tumors, and invade nearby parts of the body. The cancer may also spread to more distant parts of the...

    . http://www.macon.com/231/story/16286.html
  • Loïc Leferme
    Loïc Leferme
    Loïc Leferme was a French diver who was the world free diving record holder until 2 October 2005, when he was surpassed by Herbert Nitsch. Loic was also a founder of AIDA in 1990 with Roland Specker and Claude Chapuis in Nice. In 2002 he set the world free diving record without any breathing...

    , 36, French
    France
    The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...

     free diver
    Free-diving
    Freediving is any of various aquatic activities that share the practice of breath-hold underwater diving. Examples include breathhold spear fishing, freedive photography, apnea competitions and, to a degree, snorkeling...

    , drowning
    Drowning
    Drowning is death from asphyxia due to suffocation caused by water entering the lungs and preventing the absorption of oxygen leading to cerebral hypoxia....

    . http://uk.reuters.com/article/sportsNews/idUKL1116311320070411
  • Warren E. Preece
    Warren E. Preece
    Warren Eversleigh Preece was editor of Encyclopædia Britannica from 1964 to 1975, during the development of "Britannica 3"...

    , 85, American
    United States
    The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

     editor of Encyclopædia Britannica
    Encyclopædia Britannica
    The Encyclopædia Britannica , published by Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc., is a general knowledge English-language encyclopaedia that is available in print, as a DVD, and on the Internet. It is written and continuously updated by about 100 full-time editors and more than 4,000 expert...

    (1964–1975), heart failure. http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/14/us/14preece.html
  • Ronald Speirs
    Ronald Speirs
    Lieutenant Colonel Ronald C. Speirs was a United States Army officer who served in the U.S. 101st Airborne Division during World War II. He was initially a platoon leader in Company either "C" or "B" of the 2nd Battalion of the 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment...

    , 86, American
    United States
    The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

     World War II
    World War II
    World War II, or the Second World War , was a global conflict lasting from 1939 to 1945, involving most of the world's nations—including all of the great powers—eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis...

     commanding officer of Easy Company (Band of Brothers)
    Easy Company (Band of Brothers)
    Easy Company, 2nd Battalion of the 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment of the 101st Airborne Division, the "Screaming Eagles", is one of the most well-known companies in the United States Army. Their experiences in World War II are the subject of the HBO miniseries Band of Brothers based on the book...

    . http://members.chello.nl/~p.vandewal/pagina.html
  • Warren Strelow
    Warren Strelow
    Warren A. Strelow was a hockey goaltending coach. He coached goaltending for the United States Olympic Ice Hockey Team during the 1980 Miracle on Ice, and also coached for the New Jersey Devils, Washington Capitals, and San Jose Sharks of the National Hockey League.Current NHL goaltenders that...

    , 73, American
    United States
    The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

     ice hockey
    Ice hockey
    Ice hockey, often referred to as hockey, is a team sport played on ice, in which skaters use wooden or composite sticks to shoot a hard rubber puck into their opponent's net. The game is played between two teams of six players each. Five members of each team skate up and down the ice trying to take...

     goaltending
    Goaltending
    In basketball, goaltending is the violation of interfering with the ball when it is on its way to the basket and it is in its downward flight, entirely above the rim and has the possibility of entering the basket, and not touching the rim...

     coach for 1980 Winter Olympics
    1980 Winter Olympics
    The 1980 Winter Olympics, officially known as the XIII Olympic Winter Games, was a multi-sport event which was celebrated from 13 February through 24 February 1980 in Lake Placid, New York, United States of America. This was the second time the Upstate New York village hosted the Games, after 1932...

     gold medal team (Miracle on Ice
    Miracle on Ice
    The "Miracle on Ice" is the name in American popular culture for a medal-round men's ice hockey game during the 1980 Winter Olympics at Lake Placid, New York, on Friday, February 22...

    ). http://www.sjsharks.com/news/news.asp?story_id=3365.
  • Kurt Vonnegut
    Kurt Vonnegut
    Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. was a 20th century American writer. His works such as Cat's Cradle , Slaughterhouse-Five and Breakfast of Champions blend satire, gallows humor and science fiction. He was known for his humanist beliefs and was honorary president of the American Humanist Association.-Early...

    , 84, American
    United States
    The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

     novel
    Novel
    A novel is a book of long narrative in literary prose. The genre has historical roots both in the fields of the medieval and early modern romance and in the tradition of the novella. The latter supplied the present generic term in the late 18th century....

    ist and social critic, brain injury
    Traumatic brain injury
    Traumatic brain injury , also known as intracranial injury, occurs when an external force traumatically injures the brain. TBI can be classified based on severity, mechanism , or other features...

     from a fall. http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/11/books/11cnd-vonnegut.html?_r=2&hp&oref=slogin&oref=slogin

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  • Kevin Crease
    Kevin Crease
    Kevin John Crease was a South Australian television presenter and news presenter. He was most noted for presenting South Australian edition of the Nine Network's National Nine News with Rob Kelvin between 1987 and 2007....

    , 70, Australia
    Australia
    Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...

    n television newsreader
    News presenter
    A news presenter is a person who presents news during a news program in the format of a television show, on the radio or the Internet.News presenters can work in a radio studio, television studio and from remote broadcasts in the field especially weather...

    , cancer
    Cancer
    Cancer , known medically as a malignant neoplasm, is a large group of different diseases, all involving unregulated cell growth. In cancer, cells divide and grow uncontrollably, forming malignant tumors, and invade nearby parts of the body. The cancer may also spread to more distant parts of the...

    . http://www.news.com.au/adelaidenow/story/0,22606,21537661-5006301,00.html
  • Mary Ewen
    Mary Ewen
    Mary Ewen claimed to be Jamaica's oldest person and the oldest person in the Western hemisphere, since the death of Cruz Hernández...

    , 128?, Jamaica
    Jamaica
    Jamaica is an island nation of the Greater Antilles, in length, up to in width and 10,990 square kilometres in area. It is situated in the Caribbean Sea, about south of Cuba, and west of Hispaniola, the island harbouring the nation-states Haiti and the Dominican Republic...

    n claimed to be oldest person in the Western hemisphere
    Western Hemisphere
    The Western Hemisphere or western hemisphere is mainly used as a geographical term for the half of the Earth that lies west of the Prime Meridian and east of the Antimeridian , the other half being called the Eastern Hemisphere.In this sense, the western hemisphere consists of the western portions...

    . http://www.jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20070501/lead/lead10.html
  • Florence Finch
    Florence Finch
    Florence Finch was a British born New Zealand supercentenarian. She moved to New Zealand permanently in 1969.She holds the longevity record for New Zealand....

    , 113, British
    United Kingdom
    The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...

    -born New Zealand
    New Zealand
    New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses and numerous smaller islands. The country is situated some east of Australia across the Tasman Sea, and roughly south of the Pacific island nations of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga...

     supercentenarian
    Supercentenarian
    A supercentenarian is someone who has reached the age of 110 years. This age is achieved by about one in a thousand centenarians....

    , world's sixth-oldest person, cardio-respiratory failure. http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/1/story.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10433639
  • Walter Hendl
    Walter Hendl
    Walter Hendl was an American conductor, composer and pianist.-Biography:Hendl was born in West New York, New Jersey, and later went on to study with Fritz Reiner at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia. From 1939 to 1941 he taught at Sarah Lawrence College in New York City...

    , 90, American
    United States
    The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

     conductor, heart
    Heart disease
    Heart disease, cardiac disease or cardiopathy is an umbrella term for a variety of diseases affecting the heart. , it is the leading cause of death in the United States, England, Canada and Wales, accounting for 25.4% of the total deaths in the United States.-Types:-Coronary heart disease:Coronary...

     and lung disease. http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/16/arts/16hendl.html
  • Ralph Heywood
    Ralph Heywood
    Ralph Alvin Heywood was an American football player. He was the only National Football League player to serve in World War II, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War, serving as a Marine Corps officer for 32 years. Born in Los Angeles, California, he was an All-American for USC in 1943.Heywood died...

    , 85, American
    United States
    The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

     football
    American football
    American football is a sport played between two teams of eleven with the objective of scoring points by advancing the ball into the opposing team's end zone. Known in the United States simply as football, it may also be referred to informally as gridiron football. The ball can be advanced by...

     player. http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2007/football/ncaa/04/11/hawood.obit.ap/
  • Awdy Kulyýew
    Awdy Kulyýew
    Awdy Kulyýew served as the first Foreign Minister of Turkmenistan. He resigned in 1992 and left the country, opposing the government of President Saparmurat Niyazov...

    , 70, Turkmen
    Turkmenistan
    Turkmenistan , formerly also known as Turkmenia is one of the Turkic states in Central Asia. Until 1991, it was a constituent republic of the Soviet Union, the Turkmen Soviet Socialist Republic . Turkmenistan is one of the six independent Turkic states...

     exiled politician and Foreign Minister (1990–1992), complications from stomach surgery. http://www.rferl.org/featuresarticle/2007/4/D70CA47E-28CF-449D-84DC-C534F67160BD.html
  • Salvatore Scarpitta
    Salvatore Scarpitta
    Salvatore Scarpitta was an American artist best known for his sculptural studies of motion.Scarpitta was born in New York City and grew up in Los Angeles graduating from Hollywood High School. He then attended the premier art university in Europe, the Academia di Belle Arte in Rome...

    , 88, American
    United States
    The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

     sculptor, complications from diabetes. http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/16/arts/16scarpitta.html?ref=obituaries
  • Dakota Staton
    Dakota Staton
    Dakota Staton , also known by the Muslim name Aliyah Rabia for a period, was an American jazz vocalist who found international acclaim with the 1957 No...

    , 76, American
    United States
    The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

     jazz
    Jazz
    Jazz is a musical style that originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States. It was born out of a mix of African and European music traditions. From its early development until the present, jazz has incorporated music from 19th and 20th...

     vocalist, after long illness. http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-staton20apr20,0,7321816.story?coll=la-home-obituaries http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/07102/777427-100.stm

9

  • Florence Arrowsmith
    Percy and Florence Arrowsmith
    Percy Arrowsmith and Florence Arrowsmith were, until Percy's death, a married couple residing in Hereford, England. On June 1, 2005 they erroneously made it into the Guinness Book of Records for the longest marriage for a living couple and the oldest aggregate age of a married couple...

    , 102, British
    United Kingdom
    The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...

     marital recordholder. http://archive.ledburyreporter.co.uk/2007/4/12/84327.html
  • Egon Bondy
    Egon Bondy
    Egon Bondy, born Zbyněk Fišer, was a Czech philosopher, writer, and poet, one of the main personalities of the Prague underground.In the late 1940s, Bondy was active in a surrealistic group...

    , 77, Czech
    Czech Republic
    The Czech Republic is a landlocked country in Central Europe. The country is bordered by Poland to the northeast, Slovakia to the east, Austria to the south, and Germany to the west and northwest....

     philosopher and poet. http://www.canada.com/topics/entertainment/story.html?id=f219db5e-e627-441e-a0d7-4ce61fa5e7f5&k=87449
  • AJ Carothers
    AJ Carothers
    AJ Carothers was an American playwright and television writer, best known for his work with Walt Disney, who was a very close friend. So much so in fact that Carothers gave a eulogy at Disney's funeral. Disney's daughter later spoke at Mr. Carothers' funeral...

    , 75, American
    United States
    The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

     playwright and television
    Television
    Television is a telecommunication medium for transmitting and receiving moving images that can be monochrome or colored, with accompanying sound...

     writer, cancer
    Cancer
    Cancer , known medically as a malignant neoplasm, is a large group of different diseases, all involving unregulated cell growth. In cancer, cells divide and grow uncontrollably, forming malignant tumors, and invade nearby parts of the body. The cancer may also spread to more distant parts of the...

    . http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2007/04/11/state/n150759D46.DTL
  • Alain Etchegoyen
    Alain Etchegoyen
    Alain Etchegoyen , was a philosopher and novelist. He was the last Plan Commissionner before that Commission was abrogated...

    , 55, French
    France
    The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...

     philosopher, cancer
    Cancer
    Cancer , known medically as a malignant neoplasm, is a large group of different diseases, all involving unregulated cell growth. In cancer, cells divide and grow uncontrollably, forming malignant tumors, and invade nearby parts of the body. The cancer may also spread to more distant parts of the...

    . http://www.lefigaro.fr/france/20070410.WWW000000354_le_philosophe_alain_etchegoyen_est_decede.html (French)
  • Sir Michael Fox
    Michael Fox (judge)
    Sir Michael John Fox was a British barrister and judge. He was a High Court judge from 1975 to 1981 and a Lord Justice of Appeal from 1981 until 1992....

    , 85, British
    United Kingdom
    The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...

     judge, Lord Justice of Appeal
    Lord Justice of Appeal
    A Lord Justice of Appeal is an ordinary judge of the Court of Appeal of England and Wales, the court that hears appeals from the High Court of Justice, and represents the second highest level of judge in the courts of England and Wales-Appointment:...

     (1981–1992). http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article1690256.ece
  • Dorrit Hoffleit
    Dorrit Hoffleit
    Ellen Dorrit Hoffleit was an American senior research astronomer at Yale University.Hoffleit was born in Florence, Alabama and earned her Ph.D. in astronomy from Radcliffe College in 1938. Starting as a research assistant at the Harvard College Observatory in 1929, she was hired as an astronomer...

    , 100, American
    United States
    The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

     research astronomer, brief illness. http://www.aavso.org/aavso/membership/dhoffleit.shtml
  • Mark Langford, 42, British
    United Kingdom
    The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...

     businessman, former head of The Accident Group
    The Accident Group
    The Accident Group was a Manchester based personal injury claims management company that went into administration in May 2003. The firm gained notoriety for informing its 2,400 workers of their redundancy by text message, which, according to BBC reports, led to the firm's offices being emptied of...

    , car accident
    Car accident
    A traffic collision, also known as a traffic accident, motor vehicle collision, motor vehicle accident, car accident, automobile accident, Road Traffic Collision or car crash, occurs when a vehicle collides with another vehicle, pedestrian, animal, road debris, or other stationary obstruction,...

    . http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/manchester/6541131.stm
  • Philip Mayne
    Philip Mayne
    Philip Mayne is thought to have been the last surviving British officer of the First World War. He is also thought to have been the oldest surviving member of Christ's Hospital, of the University of Cambridge Engineering Department, of King's College, Cambridge and indeed of the whole University...

    , 107, last surviving British
    United Kingdom
    The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...

     officer of World War I
    World War I
    World War I , which was predominantly called the World War or the Great War from its occurrence until 1939, and the First World War or World War I thereafter, was a major war centred in Europe that began on 28 July 1914 and lasted until 11 November 1918...

    . http://www.crikey.com.au/Media/20070410-Vale-Philip-Mayne-the-worlds-oldest-columnist.html
  • Harry Rasky
    Harry Rasky
    Harry Rasky, CM, O.Ont was a Canadian documentary film producer.He was born in Toronto into a Jewish family, where he completed studies at University College. He participated in CBC Television's first four years writing and producing CBC Newsmagazine . He also produced a documentary for the 1961...

    , 78, Canadian
    Canada
    Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

     documentary film
    Documentary film
    Documentary films constitute a broad category of nonfictional motion pictures intended to document some aspect of reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction or maintaining a historical record...

     producer, heart failure. http://www.cbc.ca/arts/tv/story/2007/04/10/harry-rasky-obit.html

8

  • Natalia Clare
    Natalia Clare
    Natalia Clare was an American ballet dancer and instructor who performed with Ballets Russes and opened her own Los Angeles studio in 1956....

    , 87, American
    United States
    The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

     ballet dancer and instructor, complications of stroke
    Stroke
    A stroke, previously known medically as a cerebrovascular accident , is the rapidly developing loss of brain function due to disturbance in the blood supply to the brain. This can be due to ischemia caused by blockage , or a hemorrhage...

    s. http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-clare17apr17,0,2183503.story?coll=la-home-obituaries
  • Victor Kneale
    Victor Kneale
    George Victor Harris Kneale CBE MA SHK, was a Manx politician and former Speaker of the House of Keys and Education Minister....

    , 89, Manx
    Isle of Man
    The Isle of Man , otherwise known simply as Mann , is a self-governing British Crown Dependency, located in the Irish Sea between the islands of Great Britain and Ireland, within the British Isles. The head of state is Queen Elizabeth II, who holds the title of Lord of Mann. The Lord of Mann is...

     Speaker of the House of Keys
    Speaker of the House of Keys
    The Speaker of the House of Keys is the principal officer of the House of Keys, the lower house of the Isle of Man legislature. The Speaker is elected from the membership of the house at its first sitting after an election. He is responsible for controlling the procedure of the House and for...

     (1990–1991). http://www.iomonline.co.im/ViewArticle2.aspx?SectionID=870&ArticleID=2678831
  • Sol LeWitt
    Sol LeWitt
    Solomon "Sol" LeWitt was an American artist linked to various movements, including Conceptual art and Minimalism....

    , 78, American
    United States
    The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

     artist known for his role in the Conceptualism
    Conceptualism
    Conceptualism is a philosophical theory that explains universality of particulars as conceptualized frameworks situated within the thinking mind. Intermediate between Nominalism and Realism, the conceptualist view approaches the metaphysical concept of universals from a perspective that denies...

     and Minimalism
    Minimalism
    Minimalism describes movements in various forms of art and design, especially visual art and music, where the work is set out to expose the essence, essentials or identity of a subject through eliminating all non-essential forms, features or concepts...

     movements, cancer
    Cancer
    Cancer , known medically as a malignant neoplasm, is a large group of different diseases, all involving unregulated cell growth. In cancer, cells divide and grow uncontrollably, forming malignant tumors, and invade nearby parts of the body. The cancer may also spread to more distant parts of the...

    . http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/09/arts/design/09lewitt.html?ex=1333771200&en=322bf3b728a306f2&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss
  • Bill Mescher
    Bill Mescher
    William C. "Bill" Mescher was a Republican politician from South Carolina. He was born in Belknap, Illinois. Mescher served in South Carolina Senate, representing Berkeley County, SC, from 1993 until his death in 2007....

    , 79, American
    United States
    The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

     politician
    Politician
    A politician, political leader, or political figure is an individual who is involved in influencing public policy and decision making...

    ; member of the South Carolina Senate
    South Carolina Senate
    The South Carolina Senate is the upper house of the South Carolina General Assembly, the lower house being the South Carolina House of Representatives...

     from 1993 until his death, stroke
    Stroke
    A stroke, previously known medically as a cerebrovascular accident , is the rapidly developing loss of brain function due to disturbance in the blood supply to the brain. This can be due to ischemia caused by blockage , or a hemorrhage...

    . http://www.wcbd.com/midatlantic/cbd/news.apx.-content-articles-CBD-2007-04-08-0001.html

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  • Neville Duke
    Neville Duke
    Squadron Leader Neville Frederick Duke DSO, OBE, DFC & Two Bars, AFC, FRAeS,Czech War Cross was a British Second World War fighter pilot. He was the top Allied flying ace in the Mediterranean Theatre, having shot down at least 27 enemy aircraft, and was acknowledged as one of the world's foremost...

    , 85, British
    United Kingdom
    The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...

     World War II
    World War II
    World War II, or the Second World War , was a global conflict lasting from 1939 to 1945, involving most of the world's nations—including all of the great powers—eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis...

     fighter pilot
    Fighter pilot
    A fighter pilot is a military aviator trained in air-to-air combat while piloting a fighter aircraft . Fighter pilots undergo specialized training in aerial warfare and dogfighting...

    . http://www.buzzle.com/articles/134079.html
  • Marià Gonzalvo
    Marià Gonzalvo
    Mariano Gonzalvo Falcón , also referred to as Gonzalvo III or – especially as of late – by the Catalan rendition of his given name, Marià Gonzalvo, was a Spanish footballer who spent most of his career at FC Barcelona. Gonzalvo was regarded as one of the most talented midfielders in La Liga during...

    , 85, Spanish
    Spain
    Spain , officially the Kingdom of Spain languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Spain's official name is as follows:;;;;;;), is a country and member state of the European Union located in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula...

     captain of FC Barcelona
    FC Barcelona
    Futbol Club Barcelona , also known as Barcelona and familiarly as Barça, is a professional football club, based in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain....

     and international footballer for Spain
    Spain national football team
    The Spain national football team represents Spain in international association football and is controlled by the Royal Spanish Football Federation, the governing body for football in Spain. The current head coach is Vicente del Bosque...

    . http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,21525430-23215,00.html
  • Johnny Hart
    Johnny Hart
    Johnny Hart was an American cartoonist noted as the creator of the comic strip B.C. and co-creator of the strip The Wizard of Id. Hart was recognized with several awards, including the Swedish Adamson Award and five from the National Cartoonists Society...

    , 76, American
    United States
    The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

     cartoonist
    Cartoonist
    A cartoonist is a person who specializes in drawing cartoons. This work is usually humorous, mainly created for entertainment, political commentary or advertising...

     (B.C.
    B.C. (comic strip)
    B.C. is a daily American comic strip created by cartoonist Johnny Hart. Set in prehistoric times, it features a group of cavemen and anthropomorphic animals from various geologic eras...

    , The Wizard of Id
    The Wizard of Id
    The Wizard of Id is a daily newspaper comic strip created by American cartoonists Brant Parker and Johnny Hart. Beginning in 1964, the strip follows the antics of a large cast of characters in a shabby medieval kingdom called "Id". From time to time, the king refers to his subjects as "Idiots"...

    ), stroke
    Stroke
    A stroke, previously known medically as a cerebrovascular accident , is the rapidly developing loss of brain function due to disturbance in the blood supply to the brain. This can be due to ischemia caused by blockage , or a hemorrhage...

    . http://www.pressconnects.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070408/NEWS01/70408001
  • Brian Miller
    Brian Miller (footballer)
    Brian George Miller was a former professional footballer and England international who played as a wing back....

    , 70, British
    United Kingdom
    The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...

     footballer
    Football (soccer)
    Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a sport played between two teams of eleven players with a spherical ball...

     for Burnley
    Burnley F.C.
    Burnley Football Club are a professional English Football League club based in Burnley, Lancashire. Nicknamed the Clarets, due to the dominant colour of their home shirts, they were founder members of the Football League in 1888...

     and England
    England national football team
    The England national football team represents England in association football and is controlled by the Football Association, the governing body for football in England. England is the joint oldest national football team in the world, alongside Scotland, whom they played in the world's first...

    . http://www.burnleycitizen.co.uk/news/newsheadlines/display.var.1315047.0.clarets_legend_brian_miller_dies.php
  • Otto Natzler
    Otto Natzler
    Otto Natzler was an Austrian–born ceramicist. With his wife Gertrud Natzler, he produced what were considered some of the most admired ceramic pieces of the 20th century.- Personal life :The son of Dr...

    , 99, American
    United States
    The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

     ceramics
    Ceramic art
    In art history, ceramics and ceramic art mean art objects such as figures, tiles, and tableware made from clay and other raw materials by the process of pottery. Some ceramic products are regarded as fine art, while others are regarded as decorative, industrial or applied art objects, or as...

     and glazing
    Glazing
    Glazing, which derives from the Middle English for 'glass', is a part of a wall or window, made of glass. Glazing also describes the work done by a professional "glazier"...

     master, cancer
    Cancer
    Cancer , known medically as a malignant neoplasm, is a large group of different diseases, all involving unregulated cell growth. In cancer, cells divide and grow uncontrollably, forming malignant tumors, and invade nearby parts of the body. The cancer may also spread to more distant parts of the...

    . http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2003676334_potterobit22.html
  • Barry Nelson
    Barry Nelson
    Barry Nelson was an American actor, noted as the first actor to portray Ian Fleming's secret agent James Bond.-Early life:...

    , 89, American
    United States
    The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

     actor (The Shining
    The Shining (film)
    The Shining is a 1980 psychological horror film produced and directed by Stanley Kubrick, co-written with novelist Diane Johnson, and starring Jack Nicholson, Shelley Duvall, and Danny Lloyd. The film is based on the novel of the same name by Stephen King. A writer, Jack Torrance, takes a job as an...

    ), first to play James Bond
    James Bond
    James Bond, code name 007, is a fictional character created in 1953 by writer Ian Fleming, who featured him in twelve novels and two short story collections. There have been a six other authors who wrote authorised Bond novels or novelizations after Fleming's death in 1964: Kingsley Amis,...

     on screen. http://film.guardian.co.uk/apnews/story/0,,-6556111,00.html

6

  • Emma Bodie Begay
    Emma Bodie Begay
    Emma Bodie Begay of Prewitt, McKinley County, New Mexico was a Navajo tribal member and purported supercentenarian....

    , 119?, American
    United States
    The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

     Navajo
    Navajo people
    The Navajo of the Southwestern United States are the largest single federally recognized tribe of the United States of America. The Navajo Nation has 300,048 enrolled tribal members. The Navajo Nation constitutes an independent governmental body which manages the Navajo Indian reservation in the...

     woman who claimed to be the world's oldest person. http://www.9news.com/news/local/article.aspx?storyid=67676
  • Luigi Comencini
    Luigi Comencini
    Luigi Comencini was an Italian film director. Together with Dino Risi, Ettore Scola and Mario Monicelli, he was considered among the masters of the commedia all'italiana genre....

    , 90, Italian
    Italy
    Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...

     film director
    Film director
    A film director is a person who directs the actors and film crew in filmmaking. They control a film's artistic and dramatic nathan roach, while guiding the technical crew and actors.-Responsibilities:...

    . http://www.guardian.co.uk/obituaries/story/0,,2052743,00.html
  • Stan Daniels
    Stan Daniels
    Stanley Edwin Daniels was a Canadian-American screenwriter, producer and director, who won eight Emmy Awards for his work on The Mary Tyler Moore Show and Taxi.-Early life:...

    , 72, Canadian
    Canada
    Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

     writer and producer (Taxi
    Taxi (TV series)
    Taxi was an American sitcom that originally aired from 1978 to 1982 on ABC and from 1982 to 1983 on NBC. The series, which won 18 Emmy Awards, including three for "Outstanding Comedy Series", focuses on the everyday lives of a handful of New York City taxi drivers and their abusive dispatcher...

    , The Mary Tyler Moore Show
    The Mary Tyler Moore Show
    The Mary Tyler Moore Show is an American television sitcom created by James L. Brooks and Allan Burns that aired on CBS from 1970 to 1977...

    ), heart failure. http://www.canada.com/topics/entertainment/story.html?id=a1b84a91-9c63-4e79-b81b-ce0e72546e23&k=57969
  • Colin Graham
    Colin Graham
    Colin Graham, OBE was a British-born stage director of opera, theater, and television.Graham was educated at Northaw School , Stowe School and RADA...

    , 75, British
    United Kingdom
    The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...

     opera, theatre and television director, cardiac arrest
    Cardiac arrest
    Cardiac arrest, is the cessation of normal circulation of the blood due to failure of the heart to contract effectively...

    . http://www.legacy.com/Obituaries.asp?Page=APStory&Id=12763
  • George Jenkins
    George Jenkins
    George Clarke Jenkins was an American production designer and three-time Tony Award nominee.Born in Baltimore, Maryland, he studied architecture at University of Pennsylvania before leaving to build sets...

    , 98, American
    United States
    The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

     Academy Award-winning production designer
    Production designer
    In film and television, a production designer is the person responsible for the overall look of a filmed event such as films, TV programs, music videos or adverts. Production designers have one of the key creative roles in the creation of motion pictures and television. Working directly with the...

     (All the President's Men
    All the President's Men (film)
    All the President's Men is a 1976 Academy Award-winning political thriller film based on the 1974 non-fiction book of the same name by Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, the two journalists investigating the Watergate scandal for The Washington Post...

    ), heart failure. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2007/04/12/entertainment/e112025D06.DTL
  • Józef Kos
    Józef Kos
    Józef Kos was one of the last surviving veterans of the First World War and one of the oldest people in Poland at the time of his death. He was an ethnic Kashubian...

    , 106, one of the last six World War I
    World War I
    World War I , which was predominantly called the World War or the Great War from its occurrence until 1939, and the First World War or World War I thereafter, was a major war centred in Europe that began on 28 July 1914 and lasted until 11 November 1918...

     veterans from Germany
    Germany
    Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

    . http://expresskaszubski.pl/o-tym-sie-mowi/2007/04/najstarszy-sierakowiczanin-nie-zyje (Polish)
  • Jill McGown
    Jill McGown
    Jill McGown was a British writer of mystery novels. She was best known for her mystery series featuring Inspector Lloyd and Judy Hill, one of which was made into a television series...

    , 59, British
    United Kingdom
    The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...

     mystery writer. http://news.independent.co.uk/people/obituaries/article2488791.ece
  • James McGuinness
    James McGuinness (Roman Catholic Bishop)
    James Joseph McGuinness was Bishop of the Diocese of Nottingham.He was born in Derry City, Northern Ireland, and was ordained a priest on 3 June 1950, aged 24, for the Diocese of Nottingham, by Bishop Edward Ellis....

    , 81, British
    United Kingdom
    The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...

     priest, Bishop of Nottingham
    Bishop of Nottingham (Roman Catholic)
    The Bishop of Nottingham is the Ordinary of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Nottingham in the Province of Westminster.The diocese covers an area of and spans the counties of Derbyshire , Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, Nottinghamshire and North Lincolnshire...

     (1974–2000). http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article1867864.ece
  • Raymond G. Murphy
    Raymond G. Murphy
    -External links:...

    , 77, American
    United States
    The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

     Medal of Honor
    Medal of Honor
    The Medal of Honor is the highest military decoration awarded by the United States government. It is bestowed by the President, in the name of Congress, upon members of the United States Armed Forces who distinguish themselves through "conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of his or her...

     recipient during the Korean War
    Korean War
    The Korean War was a conventional war between South Korea, supported by the United Nations, and North Korea, supported by the People's Republic of China , with military material aid from the Soviet Union...

    . http://www.kktv.com/home/headlines/6918797.html
  • Jimmy Lee Smith
    Jimmy Lee Smith
    Jimmy Lee Smith is a retired heavyweight professional boxer from Minneapolis, Minnesota.-Professional career:Smith made his professional debut on July 27, 1989 with a third-round knockout win against Randy Ramman, who was also appearing in his first professional fight...

    , 76, American
    United States
    The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

     murderer whose story inspired the book and movie The Onion Field
    The Onion Field
    The Onion Field is a 1973 nonfiction book by Joseph Wambaugh, a sergeant for the Los Angeles Police Department, chronicling the kidnapping of two plainclothes LAPD officers by a pair of criminals during an evening traffic stop and the subsequent murder of Officer Ian James Campbell.- Crime :On the...

    . http://apnews.myway.com//article/20070408/D8OC6DSO0.html

5

  • Maria Gripe
    Maria Gripe
    Maria Gripe, born Maja Stina Walter , was a Swedish author of books for children and young people, often written in a magical and mystical tone.-Biography:...

    , 83, Swedish
    Sweden
    Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....

     author. http://daphne.blogs.com/books/2007/04/maria_gripe_192.html
  • Thomas Stoltz Harvey
    Thomas Stoltz Harvey
    Thomas Stoltz Harvey was a pathologist who conducted the autopsy on Albert Einstein in 1955. Harvey studied at Yale University as an undergraduate and later as a medical student under Dr. Harry Zimmerman...

    , 94, American
    United States
    The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

     pathologist. http://www.wwpinfo.com/default.asp?sourceid=&smenu=81&twindow=Default&mad=No&sdetail=2365&wpage=1&skeyword=&sidate=&ccat=&ccatm=&restate=&restatus=&reoption=&retype=&repmin=&repmax=&rebed=&rebath=&subname=&pform=&sc=1108&hn=wwpinfo&he=.com
  • Leela Majumdar
    Leela Majumdar
    Leela Majumdar , was a Bengali writer.-Early life:Born to Surama Devi and Pramada Ranjan Ray , Leela spent her childhood days at Shillong, where she studied at the Loreto Convent. Surama Devi had been adopted by Upendra Kishor Ray Choudhuri...

    , 99, India
    India
    India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...

    n Bengali language
    Bengali language
    Bengali or Bangla is an eastern Indo-Aryan language. It is native to the region of eastern South Asia known as Bengal, which comprises present day Bangladesh, the Indian state of West Bengal, and parts of the Indian states of Tripura and Assam. It is written with the Bengali script...

     children's author. http://www.playfuls.com/news_10_22826-Bengali-Childrens-Writer-Leela-Majumdar-Dies.html
  • Mark St. John
    Mark St. John
    Mark Leslie Norton , better known as Mark St. John, was a guitarist known for his brief work with the rock band Kiss.-Prior to Kiss:...

    , 51, American
    United States
    The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

     guitar
    Guitar
    The guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...

    ist (KISS
    KISS (band)
    Kiss is an American rock band formed in New York City in January 1973. Well-known for its members' face paint and flamboyant stage outfits, the group rose to prominence in the mid to late 1970s on the basis of their elaborate live performances, which featured fire breathing, blood spitting,...

    , White Tiger
    White Tiger (Band)
    White Tiger was an American glam metal band.-Biography:The band was formed by former Kiss guitarist Mark St. John. St. John wanted to start a project with musicians who were previously unheard of in the music business and along with St...

    ), brain hemorrhage. http://www.antimusic.com/dayinrock/07/april/06/02.shtml
  • Ali Sriti
    Ali Sriti
    Ali Sriti was a Tunisian oudist, composer, and music teacher.-Biography:He learned music at a young age from his father, who encouraged him to listen to classical Arabic music including Egyptians Sayed Darwich, Mohammed Abdel Wahab, Riadh Sombati, and Zakaria Ahmed.Sriti was influenced by the...

    , 88, Tunisia
    Tunisia
    Tunisia , officially the Tunisian RepublicThe long name of Tunisia in other languages used in the country is: , is the northernmost country in Africa. It is a Maghreb country and is bordered by Algeria to the west, Libya to the southeast, and the Mediterranean Sea to the north and east. Its area...

    n oud
    Oud
    The oud is a pear-shaped stringed instrument commonly used in North African and Middle Eastern music. The modern oud and the European lute both descend from a common ancestor via diverging paths...

    ist. http://www.tap.info.tn/fr/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=25409&Itemid=222 (French)
  • Darryl Stingley
    Darryl Stingley
    Darryl Floyd Stingley was an American professional football wide receiver whose career was cut short by an injury. He played his entire career with the New England Patriots of the National Football League. He died from heart disease and pneumonia complicated by quadriplegia.-Early life:Stingley...

    , 55, American
    United States
    The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

     football
    American football
    American football is a sport played between two teams of eleven with the objective of scoring points by advancing the ball into the opposing team's end zone. Known in the United States simply as football, it may also be referred to informally as gridiron football. The ball can be advanced by...

     player, bronchial pneumonia
    Pneumonia
    Pneumonia is an inflammatory condition of the lung—especially affecting the microscopic air sacs —associated with fever, chest symptoms, and a lack of air space on a chest X-ray. Pneumonia is typically caused by an infection but there are a number of other causes...

    . http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=2826562
  • Poornachandra Tejaswi
    Poornachandra Tejaswi
    Kuppali Puttappa Poornachandra Tejaswi was a prominent Kannada writer and novelist who has made a great impession in "Navya" period of Kannada literature and inaugurated the bandaya or "protest literature" with his short-story collection Abachoorina Post Offisu.At early stages of his writing...

    , 68, India
    India
    India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...

    n writer and novelist in the Kannada language
    Kannada language
    Kannada or , is a language spoken in India predominantly in the state of Karnataka. Kannada, whose native speakers are called Kannadigas and number roughly 50 million, is one of the 30 most spoken languages in the world...

    , cardiac arrest
    Cardiac arrest
    Cardiac arrest, is the cessation of normal circulation of the blood due to failure of the heart to contract effectively...

    . http://mangalorean.com/news.php?newstype=local&newsid=41718
  • John Winter
    John Winter (meteorologist)
    John Winter was a meteorologist for NBC affiliate WFLA-TV in Tampa, Florida.A native of Seminole, Florida and an alum of Seminole Senior High School, Winter was a Bachelor of Arts graduate in the field of meteorology at the University of Kansas...

    , 39, American
    United States
    The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

     meteorologist for WFLA-TV
    WFLA-TV
    WFLA-TV, virtual channel 8, is the NBC-affiliated television station in Tampa/St. Petersburg, Florida. The station is the flagship station of its owner and operator, Media General. Its transmitter is located in Riverview, Hillsborough County, Florida. WFLA is the only station in the market to be...

    , suicide
    Suicide
    Suicide is the act of intentionally causing one's own death. Suicide is often committed out of despair or attributed to some underlying mental disorder, such as depression, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, alcoholism, or drug abuse...

     by gunshot. http://news.tbo.com/news/metro/MGBT6HHS50F.html

4

  • Jagjit Singh Chauhan
    Jagjit Singh Chauhan
    Dr. Jagjit Singh Chauhan was the original founder of the Khalistan movement that sought to create an independent Sikh state.Chohan, a Sikh Rajput from the Chauhan clan, grew up in Tanda in Punjab's Hoshiarpur district, about 180 km from Chandigarh. A medical practitioner, Dr...

    , 80, India
    India
    India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...

    n Sikh
    Sikh
    A Sikh is a follower of Sikhism. It primarily originated in the 15th century in the Punjab region of South Asia. The term "Sikh" has its origin in Sanskrit term शिष्य , meaning "disciple, student" or शिक्ष , meaning "instruction"...

     separatist leader, heart attack
    Myocardial infarction
    Myocardial infarction or acute myocardial infarction , commonly known as a heart attack, results from the interruption of blood supply to a part of the heart, causing heart cells to die...

    . http://www.legacy.com/Obituaries.asp?Page=APStory&Id=12752
  • Bob Clark
    Bob Clark
    Benjamin "Bob" Clark was an American actor, director, screenwriter and producer best known for directing and writing the script with Jean Shepherd to the 1983 Christmas film A Christmas Story...

    , 67, American
    United States
    The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

     film director
    Film director
    A film director is a person who directs the actors and film crew in filmmaking. They control a film's artistic and dramatic nathan roach, while guiding the technical crew and actors.-Responsibilities:...

     (A Christmas Story
    A Christmas Story
    A Christmas Story is a 1983 American Christmas comedy film based on the short stories and semi-fictional anecdotes of author and raconteur Jean Shepherd, including material from his books In God We Trust, All Others Pay Cash, and Wanda Hickey's Night of Golden Memories. It was directed by Bob Clark...

    , Porky's
    Porky's
    Porky's is a 1982 comedy film about the escapades of teenagers at the fictional Angel Beach High School in Florida in 1954. It was released in the United States in 1982, and spawned two sequels: Porky's II: The Next Day and Porky's Revenge! and influenced many writers in the teen film genre...

    ), car accident
    Car accident
    A traffic collision, also known as a traffic accident, motor vehicle collision, motor vehicle accident, car accident, automobile accident, Road Traffic Collision or car crash, occurs when a vehicle collides with another vehicle, pedestrian, animal, road debris, or other stationary obstruction,...

    . http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/celebrity/la-ex-crash4mar04,1,4759212.story?coll=la-headlines-entnews&track=crosspromo
  • Reginald H. Fuller
    Reginald H. Fuller
    Reginald Horace Fuller was an Anglo-American Biblical scholar, ecumenist, and Anglican priest...

    , 92, British
    United Kingdom
    The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...

    -born biblical scholar and Anglican priest, complications of a broken hip. http://www.timesdispatch.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=RTD/MGArticle/RTD_BasicArticle&c=MGArticle&cid=1173350603405
  • Terry Hall
    Terry Hall (ventriloquist)
    Terry Hall , born Terence Hall, was an English ventriloquist. He appeared regularly on television with his puppet, Lenny the Lion, whose catchphrase was "Aw, don't embawass me!" Hall is credited as being one of the first ventriloquists to use a non-human puppet.Hall was born in Chadderton,...

    , 80, British
    United Kingdom
    The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...

     ventriloquist
    Ventriloquism
    Ventriloquism, or ventriloquy, is an act of stagecraft in which a person manipulates his or her voice so that it appears that the voice is coming from elsewhere, usually a puppeteered "dummy"...

     and children's television presenter. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/coventry_warwickshire/6544083.stm
  • Edward Mallory
    Edward Mallory
    Edward Mallory was an American actor, best known for his role as Dr...

    , 76, American
    United States
    The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

     television
    Television
    Television is a telecommunication medium for transmitting and receiving moving images that can be monochrome or colored, with accompanying sound...

     actor
    Actor
    An actor is a person who acts in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio in that capacity...

     (Days of our Lives
    Days of our Lives
    Days of our Lives is a long running daytime soap opera broadcast on the NBC television network. It is one of the longest-running scripted television programs in the world, airing nearly every weekday in the United States since November 8, 1965. It has since been syndicated to many countries around...

    ). http://www.wfmj.com/Global/story.asp?S=6335873
  • Datuk
    Malay titles
    The Malay language has a complex system of titles and honorifics, which are still used extensively in Malaysia and Brunei. Singapore, whose Malay royalty was abolished by the British colonial government in 1891, has adopted civic titles for its leaders....

     K. Sivalingam
    K. Sivalingam
    Datuk K. Sivalingam was a Malaysian politician of Indian descent. He was aligned to the Malaysian Indian Congress , a major component party of the incumbent Barisan Nasional coalition, and was the Selangor state MIC deputy chairman.Prior to entering politics, Sivalingam was involved in journalism...

    , 59, Malaysian politician
    Politician
    A politician, political leader, or political figure is an individual who is involved in influencing public policy and decision making...

    , heart attack
    Myocardial infarction
    Myocardial infarction or acute myocardial infarction , commonly known as a heart attack, results from the interruption of blood supply to a part of the heart, causing heart cells to die...

    . http://www.malaysiakini.com/news/65471 http://www.thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2007/4/5/nation/17356894&sec=nation
  • Karen Spärck Jones
    Karen Spärck Jones
    Karen Spärck Jones FBA was a British computer scientist.Karen Spärck Jones was born in Huddersfield, Yorkshire, England. Her father was Owen Jones, a lecturer in chemistry, and her mother was Ida Spärck, a Norwegian who moved to Britain during World War II...

    , 71, British
    United Kingdom
    The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...

     professor emeritus
    Emeritus
    Emeritus is a post-positive adjective that is used to designate a retired professor, bishop, or other professional or as a title. The female equivalent emerita is also sometimes used.-History:...

     of Computers and Information at the University of Cambridge
    University of Cambridge
    The University of Cambridge is a public research university located in Cambridge, United Kingdom. It is the second-oldest university in both the United Kingdom and the English-speaking world , and the seventh-oldest globally...

    , cancer
    Cancer
    Cancer , known medically as a malignant neoplasm, is a large group of different diseases, all involving unregulated cell growth. In cancer, cells divide and grow uncontrollably, forming malignant tumors, and invade nearby parts of the body. The cancer may also spread to more distant parts of the...

    . http://www.admin.cam.ac.uk/news/dp/2007040403

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  • Marion Eames
    Marion Eames
    Marion Eames was a Welsh novelist.Marion was born in Birkenhead, Cheshire, of Welsh parents, but was brought up at Dolgellau from the age of 4, where she attended Dr Williams's School...

    , 85, British
    United Kingdom
    The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...

     novelist (The Secret Room
    The Secret Room
    Y Stafell Ddirgel is a novel by Marion Eames written in the Welsh language and first published in 1969. An English translation was published in 1975 under the title The Secret Room...

    ). http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/north_west/6525953.stm
  • Robin Montgomerie-Charrington
    Robin Montgomerie-Charrington
    Robin "Monty" Montgomerie-Charrington was a British racing driver from England. He took up 500cc Formula 3 in 1950, achieving modest results through '50 and '51. He participated in one Formula One World Championship Grand Prix, the European Grand Prix at Spa, Belgium, on 22 June 1952...

    , 91, British
    United Kingdom
    The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...

     1952 Grand Prix
    Formula One
    Formula One, also known as Formula 1 or F1 and referred to officially as the FIA Formula One World Championship, is the highest class of single seater auto racing sanctioned by the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile . The "formula" designation in the name refers to a set of rules with which...

     driver. http://www.brdc.co.uk/news.cfm/title/ROBIN%20MONTGOMERIE-CHARRINGTON/flag/2/id/524
  • Walter Nicks
    Walter Nicks
    Walter Nicks was an African-American modern dancer, choreographer, and teacher of jazz and modern dance. He was a certified master teacher of Katherine Dunham technique. He was professionally active for nearly 60 years....

    , 81, American
    United States
    The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

     dancer and choreographer. http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/07/obituaries/07nicks.html?ref=obituaries
  • Thomas Hal Phillips
    Thomas Hal Phillips
    Thomas Hal Phillips was an American actor and screenwriter.-Biography:Born in Corinth, Mississippi, he graduated with a bachelor of science degree from Mississippi State College in 1943. He served in the United States Navy during World War II. He earned a master's degree in writing at University...

    , 84, American
    United States
    The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

     novelist and screenwriter. http://www.djournal.com/pages/story.asp?ID=240351&pub=1&div=News
  • Zoltán Pongrácz
    Zoltán Pongrácz
    Zoltán Pongrácz was a Hungarian composer.Pongrácz studied composition from 1930 to 1935 with Zoltán Kodály at the Budapest Academy of Music...

    , 95, Hungarian
    Hungary
    Hungary , officially the Republic of Hungary , is a landlocked country in Central Europe. It is situated in the Carpathian Basin and is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine and Romania to the east, Serbia and Croatia to the south, Slovenia to the southwest and Austria to the west. The...

     composer and conductor. http://www.muvesz-vilag.hu/muzsika/hirek/4564 (Hungarian)
  • Eddie Robinson, 88, American
    United States
    The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

     college football
    College football
    College football refers to American football played by teams of student athletes fielded by American universities, colleges, and military academies, or Canadian football played by teams of student athletes fielded by Canadian universities...

     coach at Grambling State University
    Grambling State University
    Grambling State University is a historically black , public, coeducational university, located in Grambling, Louisiana. The university is the home of legendary football coach Eddie Robinson and is on the Louisiana African American Heritage Trail.-Academics:Grambling State University provides over...

    , Alzheimer's disease
    Alzheimer's disease
    Alzheimer's disease also known in medical literature as Alzheimer disease is the most common form of dementia. There is no cure for the disease, which worsens as it progresses, and eventually leads to death...

    . http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/news/story?id=2825016
  • Burt Topper
    Burt Topper
    Burt Topper was an American film director and screenwriter best known for cult films aimed at teenagers.Born in Coney Island, New York, Topper moved to Los Angeles at the age of 8, and served in the United States Navy during World War II...

    , 78, American
    United States
    The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

     screenwriter
    Screenwriter
    Screenwriters or scriptwriters or scenario writers are people who write/create the short or feature-length screenplays from which mass media such as films, television programs, Comics or video games are based.-Profession:...

    , film director
    Film director
    A film director is a person who directs the actors and film crew in filmmaking. They control a film's artistic and dramatic nathan roach, while guiding the technical crew and actors.-Responsibilities:...

     and film producer
    Film producer
    A film producer oversees and delivers a film project to all relevant parties while preserving the integrity, voice and vision of the film. They will also often take on some financial risk by using their own money, especially during the pre-production period, before a film is fully financed.The...

    , pulmonary failure
    Pulmonary edema
    Pulmonary edema , or oedema , is fluid accumulation in the air spaces and parenchyma of the lungs. It leads to impaired gas exchange and may cause respiratory failure...

    . http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117962505.html?categoryId=25&cs=1
  • Nina Wang
    Nina Wang
    Neena Wang or Kung Yu Sum was Asia's richest woman, with a recent estimated net worth of US$4.2 billion at the time of her death...

    , 69, Hong Kong
    Hong Kong
    Hong Kong is one of two Special Administrative Regions of the People's Republic of China , the other being Macau. A city-state situated on China's south coast and enclosed by the Pearl River Delta and South China Sea, it is renowned for its expansive skyline and deep natural harbour...

     businesswoman and Asia
    Asia
    Asia is the world's largest and most populous continent, located primarily in the eastern and northern hemispheres. It covers 8.7% of the Earth's total surface area and with approximately 3.879 billion people, it hosts 60% of the world's current human population...

    's richest woman. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/6524861.stm

2

  • William W. Becker
    William W. Becker
    William Walter Becker was an American entrepreneur best known for creating the Motel 6 concept of inexpensive motel rooms....

    , 85, American
    United States
    The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

     co-founder of the Motel 6
    Motel 6
    Motel 6 is a major chain of budget motels with more than 1,000 locations in the United States and Canada, and is the largest owned and operated hotel chain in North America. It is owned and operated by Accor Hotels.-History:...

     chain, heart attack
    Myocardial infarction
    Myocardial infarction or acute myocardial infarction , commonly known as a heart attack, results from the interruption of blood supply to a part of the heart, causing heart cells to die...

    . http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/california/la-me-becker12may12,1,2083686.story?coll=la-headlines-pe-california
  • Janet Bloomfield
    Janet Bloomfield
    Janet Bloomfield was a peace and disarmament campaigner who was chair of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament from 1993 to 1996....

    , 53, British
    United Kingdom
    The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...

     campaigner, Chair of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament
    Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament
    The Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament is an anti-nuclear organisation that advocates unilateral nuclear disarmament by the United Kingdom, international nuclear disarmament and tighter international arms regulation through agreements such as the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty...

     (1993–1996), septic shock
    Septic shock
    Septic shock is a medical emergency caused by decreased tissue perfusion and oxygen delivery as a result of severe infection and sepsis, though the microbe may be systemic or localized to a particular site. It can cause multiple organ dysfunction syndrome and death...

    . http://www.guardian.co.uk/obituaries/story/0,,2068309,00.html.
  • Jeannie Ferris
    Jeannie Ferris
    Jeannie Margaret Ferris was an Australian politician, lobbyist, journalist, and Liberal Senator for South Australia. She was educated at Monash University, where she graduated in agricultural economics....

    , 66, Australia
    Australia
    Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...

    n Senator
    Australian Senate
    The Senate is the upper house of the bicameral Parliament of Australia, the lower house being the House of Representatives. Senators are popularly elected under a system of proportional representation. Senators are elected for a term that is usually six years; after a double dissolution, however,...

    , ovarian cancer
    Ovarian cancer
    Ovarian cancer is a cancerous growth arising from the ovary. Symptoms are frequently very subtle early on and may include: bloating, pelvic pain, difficulty eating and frequent urination, and are easily confused with other illnesses....

    . http://www.news.com.au/adelaidenow/story/0,22606,21488485-5006301,00.html
  • Henry Lee Giclas
    Henry L. Giclas
    Henry Lee Giclas was an American astronomer.He worked at Lowell Observatory using the blink comparator, and hired Robert Burnham, Jr. to work there.He discovered a number of comets, including periodic comet 84P/Giclas....

    , 96, American
    United States
    The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

     astronomer
    Astronomy
    Astronomy is a natural science that deals with the study of celestial objects and phenomena that originate outside the atmosphere of Earth...

    . http://www.azdailysun.com/articles/2007/04/03/news/20070403_front%20page_6.txt
  • Paul Reed
    Paul Reed (actor)
    Paul Reed was born Sidney Kahn and was an American actor known for his trademark "slow burn", which he made famous in his role as Captain Paul Block on Car 54, Where Are You?....

    , 97, American
    United States
    The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

     comedian
    Comedian
    A comedian or comic is a person who seeks to entertain an audience, primarily by making them laugh. This might be through jokes or amusing situations, or acting a fool, as in slapstick, or employing prop comedy...

     and actor
    Actor
    An actor is a person who acts in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio in that capacity...

     (Car 54, Where Are You?
    Car 54, Where Are You?
    Car 54, Where Are You? is an American sitcom that ran on NBC from 1961 to 1963. Episodes had various directors, the most recognized being Al De Caprio. Stanley Prager and Nat Hiken also directed several episodes. Most of its filming was on location in The Bronx, and at Biograph...

    ), heart failure. http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0715628/bio
  • Tadjou Salou
    Tadjou Salou
    Tadjou Salou was a Togolese football player who captained the national side. In his club career he played in both Africa and Europe. It was announced on 4 April 2007 that Tadjou had died following a long illness at the age of 32.-External links:*...

    , 32, Togo
    Togo
    Togo, officially the Togolese Republic , is a country in West Africa bordered by Ghana to the west, Benin to the east and Burkina Faso to the north. It extends south to the Gulf of Guinea, on which the capital Lomé is located. Togo covers an area of approximately with a population of approximately...

    lese international footballer
    Football (soccer)
    Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a sport played between two teams of eleven players with a spherical ball...

    , after long illness. http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/africa/6526759.stm

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  • Laurie Baker
    Laurie Baker
    Laurence Wilfred "Laurie" Baker was an award-winning British-born Indian architect, renowned for his initiatives in cost-effective energy-efficient architecture and for his unique space utilisation and simple but beautiful aesthetic sensibility...

    , 90, British
    United Kingdom
    The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...

    -born India
    India
    India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...

    n architect. http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/holnus/004200704011322.htm
  • John Billings
    John Billings
    John Billings, was an Australian physician who pioneered the natural method of family planning known variously as the Billings Ovulation Method, the Ovulation Method, or the Billings Method....

    , 89, Australia
    Australia
    Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...

    n co-developer of the Billings ovulation method
    Billings ovulation method
    The Billings Ovulation Method is a method which women use to monitor their fertility, by identifying when they are fertile and when they are infertile during each menstrual cycle. Users pay attention to the sensation at their vulva, and the appearance of any vaginal discharge...

    . http://www.theage.com.au/news/National/Father-of-Billings-Method-dies/2007/04/03/1175366203150.html
  • Herb Carneal
    Herb Carneal
    Herb Carneal was an American Major League Baseball sportscaster. From 1962 through 2006, he was a play-by-play voice of Minnesota Twins radio broadcasts, becoming the lead announcer in 1967 after Ray Scott left to work exclusively with CBS...

    , 83, American
    United States
    The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

     sportscaster
    Sportscaster
    In sports broadcasting, a commentator gives a running commentary of a game or event in real time, usually during a live broadcast. The comments are normally a voiceover, with the sounds of the action and spectators also heard in the background. In the case of television commentary, the commentator...

    , radio broadcaster for Minnesota Twins
    Minnesota Twins
    The Minnesota Twins are a professional baseball team based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. They play in the Central Division of Major League Baseball's American League. The team is named after the Twin Cities area of Minneapolis and St. Paul. They played in Metropolitan Stadium from 1961 to 1981 and the...

     MLB
    Major League Baseball
    Major League Baseball is the highest level of professional baseball in the United States and Canada, consisting of teams that play in the National League and the American League...

     team, congestive heart failure
    Congestive heart failure
    Heart failure often called congestive heart failure is generally defined as the inability of the heart to supply sufficient blood flow to meet the needs of the body. Heart failure can cause a number of symptoms including shortness of breath, leg swelling, and exercise intolerance. The condition...

    . http://www.startribune.com/509/story/1093520.html
  • Driss Chraibi
    Driss Chraïbi
    Driss Chraïbi was a Moroccan author whose novels deal with colonialism, culture clashes, generational conflict and the treatment of women and are often semi-autobiographical....

    , 80, Moroccan
    Morocco
    Morocco , officially the Kingdom of Morocco , is a country located in North Africa. It has a population of more than 32 million and an area of 710,850 km², and also primarily administers the disputed region of the Western Sahara...

     writer. http://www.legacy.com/Obituaries.asp?Page=APStory&Id=12743
  • Myrna "Screechy Peach" Crenshaw, 47, American
    United States
    The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

     singer & songwriter
    Songwriter
    A songwriter is an individual who writes both the lyrics and music to a song. Someone who solely writes lyrics may be called a lyricist, and someone who only writes music may be called a composer...

    , breast cancer
    Breast cancer
    Breast cancer is cancer originating from breast tissue, most commonly from the inner lining of milk ducts or the lobules that supply the ducts with milk. Cancers originating from ducts are known as ductal carcinomas; those originating from lobules are known as lobular carcinomas...

    . http://www.dorkmag.com/archives/people/index.html
  • Joseph Hirsch Dunner, 94, German
    Germany
    Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

    -born British
    United Kingdom
    The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...

     Orthodox
    Orthodox Judaism
    Orthodox Judaism , is the approach to Judaism which adheres to the traditional interpretation and application of the laws and ethics of the Torah as legislated in the Talmudic texts by the Sanhedrin and subsequently developed and applied by the later authorities known as the Gaonim, Rishonim, and...

     rabbi
    Rabbi
    In Judaism, a rabbi is a teacher of Torah. This title derives from the Hebrew word רבי , meaning "My Master" , which is the way a student would address a master of Torah...

    . http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/04/10/db1002.xml
  • Hans Karl Filbinger
    Hans Filbinger
    Hans Karl Filbinger was a conservative German politician and a leading member of the centre-right Christian Democratic Union in the 1960s and 1970s, serving as the first chairman of the CDU Baden-Württemberg and vice chairman of the federal CDU...

    , 93, German
    Germany
    Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

     jurist and right-wing politician. http://www.heute.de/ZDFheute/inhalt/4/0,3672,5260036,00.html (German)
  • Char Fontane
    Char Fontane
    Char "Kaci" Fontane was an American actress and singer.Born as Kerry Charae Fontane in Los Angeles, to singer Tony Fontane and his wife, actress Kerry Vaughn Fontane....

    , 55, American
    United States
    The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

     actress and singer, daughter of Tony Fontane
    Tony Fontane
    Tony Fontane was a popular recording artist in the 1940s and 1950s who, following a near-fatal car accident in 1957, gave up his popular career to pursue one as a gospel singer...

    , breast cancer
    Breast cancer
    Breast cancer is cancer originating from breast tissue, most commonly from the inner lining of milk ducts or the lobules that supply the ducts with milk. Cancers originating from ducts are known as ductal carcinomas; those originating from lobules are known as lobular carcinomas...

    . http://www.legacy.com/VenturaCountyStar/Obituaries.asp?Page=LifeStory&PersonId=87072970
  • Lou Limmer
    Lou Limmer
    Louis Limmer, known as Lou was a Major League Baseball player in 1951 and 1954 for the Philadelphia Athletics....

    , 82, American
    United States
    The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

     Major League Baseball
    Major League Baseball
    Major League Baseball is the highest level of professional baseball in the United States and Canada, consisting of teams that play in the National League and the American League...

     player for the Philadelphia Athletics. http://www.clevelandjewishnews.com/articles/2007/04/05/news/world/limmer0406.txt
  • Salem Ludwig
    Salem Ludwig
    Salem Ludwig was an American character actor and acting instructor.Born in Brooklyn, New York, Ludwig was blacklisted in 1957 and could only find minimal stage work. He had many film and television credits and remained active, even after his 90th birthday, until his death at age 91...

    , 91, American
    United States
    The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

     character actor
    Character actor
    A character actor is one who predominantly plays unusual or eccentric characters. The Oxford English Dictionary defines a character actor as "an actor who specializes in character parts", defining character part in turn as "an acting role displaying pronounced or unusual characteristics or...

    . http://www.playbill.com/news/article/107054.html
  • Sally Merchant
    Sally Merchant
    Maria Margharita "Sally" Merchant was a Saskatchewan television personality and political figure. She represented Saskatoon in the Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan from 1964 to 1967....

    , 88, Canadian
    Canada
    Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

     broadcaster
    Presenter
    A presenter, or host , is a person or organization responsible for running an event. A museum or university, for example, may be the presenter or host of an exhibit. Likewise, a master of ceremonies is a person that hosts or presents a show...

     and politician
    Politician
    A politician, political leader, or political figure is an individual who is involved in influencing public policy and decision making...

    , cancer
    Cancer
    Cancer , known medically as a malignant neoplasm, is a large group of different diseases, all involving unregulated cell growth. In cancer, cells divide and grow uncontrollably, forming malignant tumors, and invade nearby parts of the body. The cancer may also spread to more distant parts of the...

    . http://www.cbc.ca/canada/saskatchewan/story/2007/04/03/merchant.html http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/03042007/3/canada-broadcaster-politician-sally-merchant-dead-88.html&printer=1
  • Hannah Nydahl, 61, Danish
    Denmark
    Denmark is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe. The countries of Denmark and Greenland, as well as the Faroe Islands, constitute the Kingdom of Denmark . It is the southernmost of the Nordic countries, southwest of Sweden and south of Norway, and bordered to the south by Germany. Denmark...

     teacher of Tibetan Buddhism
    Tibetan Buddhism
    Tibetan Buddhism is the body of Buddhist religious doctrine and institutions characteristic of Tibet and certain regions of the Himalayas, including northern Nepal, Bhutan, and India . It is the state religion of Bhutan...

    , translator for her husband Ole Nydahl
    Ole Nydahl
    Ole Nydahl is a lama in the Karma Kagyu school of Tibetan Buddhism under guidance of Trinley Thaye Dorje. Since the early 1970s, Nydahl has toured the world giving lectures and meditation courses. With his wife, Hannah Nydahl, he founded Diamond Way Buddhism, a worldwide lay organization of Karma...

    , lung
    Lung cancer
    Lung cancer is a disease characterized by uncontrolled cell growth in tissues of the lung. If left untreated, this growth can spread beyond the lung in a process called metastasis into nearby tissue and, eventually, into other parts of the body. Most cancers that start in lung, known as primary...

     and brain cancer. http://www.diamondway-buddhism.org/pdf/Hannah.pdf
  • Ladislav Rychman
    Ladislav Rychman
    Ladislav Rychman was a Czech film director who filmed famous Czechoslovak musical comedies Starci na chmelu and Dáma na kolejích .-Filmography:Selected movies...

    , 84, Czech
    Czech Republic
    The Czech Republic is a landlocked country in Central Europe. The country is bordered by Poland to the northeast, Slovakia to the east, Austria to the south, and Germany to the west and northwest....

     film director, heart attack
    Myocardial infarction
    Myocardial infarction or acute myocardial infarction , commonly known as a heart attack, results from the interruption of blood supply to a part of the heart, causing heart cells to die...

    . http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117962807.html?categoryId=25&cs=1
  • George Sewell
    George Sewell
    George Sewell was an English actor.-Early life and early career:The son of a Hoxton printer and a florist; Sewell left school at age 14 and worked briefly in the printing trade before switching to building work, specifically the repair of bomb-damaged houses...

    , 82, British
    United Kingdom
    The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...

     actor, cancer
    Cancer
    Cancer , known medically as a malignant neoplasm, is a large group of different diseases, all involving unregulated cell growth. In cancer, cells divide and grow uncontrollably, forming malignant tumors, and invade nearby parts of the body. The cancer may also spread to more distant parts of the...

    . http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?view=DETAILS&grid=&xml=/news/2007/04/05/db0503.xml
  • Elliott Skinner‎, 82, American
    United States
    The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

     scholar and former ambassador, heart failure. http://www.columbia.edu/cu/news/07/04/skinner_obit.html http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/01/us/01skinner.html?ref=obituaries
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