Deaths in December 2008
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Deaths in 2008
Deaths in 2008
The following is a list of notable deaths in 2008. 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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Deaths in December 2007
Deaths in 2007 : ← - January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December- →The following is a list of notable deaths in December 2007.-31:...

 - January
Deaths in January 2008
Deaths in 2008 : ← - January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December- →The following is a list of notable deaths in January 2008.-31:...

 - February
Deaths in February 2008
Deaths in 2008 : ← - January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December - →The following is a list of notable deaths in February 2008.-29:...

 - March
Deaths in March 2008
Deaths in 2008 : ← - January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December - →The following is a list of notable deaths in March 2008.-31:...

 - April
Deaths in April 2008
Deaths in 2008 : ← - January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December - →The following is a list of notable deaths in April 2008.-30:...

 - May
Deaths in May 2008
Deaths in 2008 : ← - January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December - →The following is a list of notable deaths in May 2008.-31:*Carlos Alhinho, 59, Portuguese international footballer, fall....

 - June
Deaths in June 2008
Deaths in 2008 : ← - January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December - →The following is a list of notable deaths in June 2008.-30:*Frances Bult, 95, Australian Olympic swimmer....

 - July
Deaths in July 2008
Deaths in 2008 : ← - January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December - →The following is a list of notable deaths in July 2008.-31:...

 - August
Deaths in August 2008
Deaths in 2008 : ← - January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December - →The following is a list of notable deaths in August 2008.-31:*Meir Avizohar, 84, Israeli politician and academic....

 - September
Deaths in September 2008
Deaths in 2008 : ← - January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December - →The following is a list of notable deaths in September 2008.-30:*Henry Adler, 93, American drummer, teacher of Buddy Rich....

 - October
Deaths in October 2008
Deaths in 2008 : ← - January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December - →The following is a list of notable deaths in October 2008.-31:*Jonathan Bates, 68, British sound engineer....

 - November
Deaths in November 2008
Deaths in 2008 : ← - January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December - →The following is a list of notable deaths in November 2008.-30:*Béatrix Beck, 94, Belgian writer....

 - December-
Deaths in January 2009
Deaths in 2009 : ← – January – February – March – April – May – June – July – August – September – October – November – December- →The following is a list of notable deaths in January 2009.-31:...



The following is a list of notable deaths in December 2008.

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  • Premjit Lall
    Premjit Lall
    Premjit Lall was a professional tennis player from India.Lall reached the Junior final at the 1958 Wimbledon Championships. He played on the India Davis Cup team from 1959 until 1973...

    , 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 tennis
    Tennis
    Tennis is a sport usually played between two players or between two teams of two players each . Each player uses a racket that is strung to strike a hollow rubber ball covered with felt over a net into the opponent's court. Tennis is an Olympic sport and is played at all levels of society at all...

     player, after long illness. http://sports.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Tennis/News/Former_Davis_Cup_player_Permjit_Lall_passes_away/articleshow/3920444.cms
  • Kazbek Pagiyev
    Kazbek Pagiyev
    Kazbek Khazbiyevich Pagiyev was the former Deputy Prime Minister of North Ossetia as well as the former mayor of its capital, Vladikavkaz. He was killed by two unknown assailants on December 31, 2008 as he was being driven in his car. Pagiyev had been dismissed as Deputy Prime Minister the week...

    , 49, 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 politician, mayor of Vladikavkaz
    Vladikavkaz
    -Notable structures:In Vladikavkaz, there is a guyed TV mast, tall, built in 1961, which has six crossbars with gangways in two levels running from the mast structure to the guys.-Twin towns/sister cities:...

    , shot
    Ballistic trauma
    The term ballistic trauma refers to a form of physical trauma sustained from the discharge of arms or munitions. The most common forms of ballistic trauma stem from firearms used in armed conflicts, civilian sporting and recreational pursuits, and criminal activity.-Destructive effects:The degree...

    . http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7805750.stm
  • Brad Sullivan
    Brad Sullivan
    Brad Sullivan was an American actor known for character roles in television and on film and stage.-Early life and career:...

    , 77, 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...

      (Slap Shot
    Slap Shot (film)
    Slap Shot is a 1977 film comedy starring Paul Newman and Michael Ontkean directed by George Roy Hill. It depicts a minor league hockey team that resorts to violent play to gain popularity in a declining factory town.- Plot :...

    ), liver cancer
    Liver cancer
    Liver tumors or hepatic tumors are tumors or growths on or in the liver . Several distinct types of tumors can develop in the liver because the liver is made up of various cell types. These growths can be benign or malignant...

    . http://www.backstage.com/bso/news_reviews/nyc/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003927664
  • Vic Washington
    Vic Washington
    Victor Arnold Washington is a former American football running back/safety...

    , 62, 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 (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...

    ). http://obits.lehighvalleylive.com/ETPA/Obituaries.asp?Page=Notice&PersonID=122181750
  • Donald E. Westlake
    Donald E. Westlake
    Donald Edwin Westlake was an American writer, with over a hundred novels and non-fiction books to his credit. He specialized in crime fiction, especially comic capers, with an occasional foray into science fiction or other genres...

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

     mystery writer, 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/2009/01/02/books/02westlake.html?hp

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  • Roy Boehm
    Roy Boehm
    Roy H. Boehm was born in Brooklyn, New York and was a veteran of 30 years of military service in the United States Navy, serving in three wars and various clandestine operations...

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

     Navy SEAL
    United States Navy SEALs
    The United States Navy's Sea, Air and Land Teams, commonly known as Navy SEALs, are the U.S. Navy's principal special operations force and a part of the Naval Special Warfare Command as well as the maritime component of the United States Special Operations Command.The acronym is derived from their...

     commander. http://www.sunnewspapers.net/articles/pnnews.aspx?NewsID=429342&a=newsarchive2/010309/tp1ch1.htm&pnpg=0
  • Stewart Cleveland Cureton
    Stewart Cleveland Cureton
    Dr. Stewart Cleveland Cureton , also known as S.C. Cureton, was President of the National Baptist Convention from March 1999 to September 1999. Cureton, then Vice President-At-Large, took over the leadership of the Convention when his predecessor Henry Lyons was forced to resign. He served the...

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

     pastor, President of the National Baptist Convention
    National Baptist Convention, USA, Inc.
    The National Baptist Convention, USA, Inc. is the largest predominantly African-American Christian denomination in the United States and is the world's second largest Baptist denomination...

     (1999). http://www.greenvilleonline.com/article/20081230/NEWS01/81230025/1004
  • Richard Genelle
    Richard Genelle
    Richard Michael Genelle was an entrepreneur and actor best known for playing Ernie on the children's series Power Rangers....

    , 47, 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...

     (Mighty Morphin Power Rangers
    Mighty Morphin Power Rangers
    Mighty Morphin Power Rangers is an American live-action children's television series based on the 16th installment of the Japanese Super Sentai franchise, Kyōryū Sentai Zyuranger. Both the show and its related merchandise saw unbridled overnight success, catapulting into pop culture in mere months...

    , Power Rangers: Zeo
    Power Rangers: Zeo
    Power Rangers Zeo is an American superhero television series and the second installment of the Power Rangers franchise that is a continuation of Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, that aired in 1996. It is based on the Super Sentai series Chōriki Sentai Ohranger...

    ), 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.instantriverside.com/instant-obits.php?id=10583
  • Bernie Hamilton
    Bernie Hamilton
    Bernie Hamilton was an American actor.Hamilton was born in East Los Angeles and attended Oakland Technical High School, where he first became interested in acting. In films from 1950, he laboured in bit roles for years before getting noticed in the film One Potato, Two Potato , the story of an...

    , 80, 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...

     (Starsky and Hutch
    Starsky and Hutch
    Starsky and Hutch is a 1970s American cop thriller television series that consisted of a 90-minute pilot movie and 92 episodes of 60 minutes each; created by William Blinn, produced by Spelling-Goldberg Productions, and broadcast between April 30, 1975 and May 15, 1979 on the ABC...

    ), 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.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-hamilton1-2009jan01,0,7951858.story
  • Paul Hofmann
    Paul Hofmann
    Paul Hofmann was an author, journalist, linguist, and political activist. The New York Times, for whom he was a foreign correspondent, described him as, fluent in German, Italian, French, and English, having a command of several other languages that was more than passable, as well as "a broad...

    , 96, Austria
    Austria
    Austria , officially the Republic of Austria , is a landlocked country of roughly 8.4 million people in Central Europe. It is bordered by the Czech Republic and Germany to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the...

    n writer
    Writer
    A writer is a person who produces literature, such as novels, short stories, plays, screenplays, poetry, or other literary art. Skilled writers are able to use language to portray ideas and images....

    , informant
    Informant
    An informant is a person who provides privileged information about a person or organization to an agency. The term is usually used within the law enforcement world, where they are officially known as confidential or criminal informants , and can often refer pejoratively to the supply of information...

     against the Nazis. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/01/world/europe/01hofmann.html?ref=obituaries
  • Peter Karmel
    Peter Karmel
    Peter Henry Karmel, AC, CBE was an Australian economist and professor.-Biography:Educated at Caulfield Grammar School, the University of Melbourne and the University of Cambridge where he received a Ph.D., Karmel had served as the Vice-Chancellor of both Flinders University and the Australian...

    , 86, 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 economist
    Economist
    An economist is a professional in the social science discipline of economics. The individual may also study, develop, and apply theories and concepts from economics and write about economic policy...

    . http://www.canberratimes.com.au/news/local/news/general/gentleman-scholar-karmel-dies/1398400.aspx
  • Roy Saari
    Roy Saari
    Roy Allen Saari was a freestyle and medley swimmer from the United States, who won two Olympic medals .-References:* * *...

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

     swimmer, 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...

     gold medalist (1964). http://sports.aol.com/story/_a/bbdp/us-gold-medalist-dies-at-63/292118

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  • Manjit Bawa
    Manjit Bawa
    Manjit Bawa , born in Dhuri, Punjab, India, was an Indian painter .-Biography:Manjit bawa born in 1941 dhuri,Punjab.Bawa's older brothers encouraged him to pursue art. He studied fine arts at the College of Art, New Delhi between 1958 and 1963, where his professors included Somnath Hore, Rakesh...

    , 67, 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 painter
    Artist
    An artist is a person engaged in one or more of any of a broad spectrum of activities related to creating art, practicing the arts and/or demonstrating an art. The common usage in both everyday speech and academic discourse is a practitioner in the visual arts only...

    , after long illness. http://www.ndtv.com/convergence/ndtv/story.aspx?id=NEWEN20080078087&ch=12/29/2008%2010:59:00%20AM
  • William Ellis Green
    William Ellis Green
    William Ellis Green, OAM, who signed his cartoons WEG, was an Australian editorial cartoonist and illustrator who drew the Australian Football League premiers posters from 1954 until his death.-Early life:...

    , 85, 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 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...

    . http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,24852010-2862,00.html
  • Jim Horne
    Jim Horne (model)
    James Wesley Horne Jr. was a male model during the 1950s.-History:James Wesley Horne Jr. was born on March 28, 1917, in Glendale, California. His father, James W. Horne, was a prolific director of both silent films and talkies, best known for his work with Laurel and Hardy, including Big Business...

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

     model
    Model (person)
    A model , sometimes called a mannequin, is a person who is employed to display, advertise and promote commercial products or to serve as a subject of works of art....

    , heart failure. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/25/business/media/25horne.html?_r=1&ref=obituaries
  • Freddie Hubbard
    Freddie Hubbard
    Frederick Dewayne "Freddie" Hubbard was an American jazz trumpeter. He was known primarily for playing in the bebop, hard bop and post bop styles from the early 1960s and on...

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

     jazz trumpeter, complications from a 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.indystar.com/article/20081229/LOCAL/81229048
  • Victor H. Krulak
    Victor H. Krulak
    Victor H. Krulak was a decorated United States Marine Corps officer who saw action in World War II, Korea and Vietnam. He was born in Denver, Colorado to Jewish parents...

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

     Marine Corps
    United States Marine Corps
    The United States Marine Corps is a branch of the United States Armed Forces responsible for providing power projection from the sea, using the mobility of the United States Navy to deliver combined-arms task forces rapidly. It is one of seven uniformed services of the United States...

     officer. http://www.forum.militaryltd.com/tun-tavern/m56626-rip-lt-gen-victor-h-brute-krulak.htm
  • Vladislav Lalicki
    Vladislav Lalicki
    Vladislav Lalicki , was a production designer and costume designer from the former Yugoslavia. He was born Šabac, Serbia Vladislav Lalicki (aka Wladyslaw Lalitzky), (1 June 1935 – 29 December 2008) was a production designer and costume designer from the former Yugoslavia. He was born Šabac,...

    , 73, Serbia
    Serbia
    Serbia , officially the Republic of Serbia , is a landlocked country located at the crossroads of Central and Southeast Europe, covering the southern part of the Carpathian basin and the central part of the Balkans...

    n 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...

    . http://www.rtv.rs/sr/vesti/hronika/in_memoriam/2008_12_29/vest_104856.jsp (Serbian)
  • Ted Lapidus
    Ted Lapidus
    Edmond "Ted" Lapidus was a French fashion designer. He was born in Paris the son of a Russian-Jewish Émigré tailor....

    , 79, 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...

     fashion designer, 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://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5hJ-hmkOVxAEr9OGhXF8439psE-mg
  • Daniel Nagrin
    Daniel Nagrin
    Daniel Nagrin was an American modern dancer, choreographer, teacher, and author. He was born in New York City.Nagrin studied with Martha Graham, Anna Sokolow, Hanya Holm, and Helen Tamiris whom he later married...

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

     choreographer and dancer. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/03/arts/dance/03nagrin.html
  • Harlington Wood Jr.
    Harlington Wood Jr.
    Harlington Wood, Jr. was an American lawyer, jurist, political figure and an amateur actor. He served as a judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit from 1976 until his death in 2008. He was considered one of the country's leading legal historians on the life and legacy...

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

     lawyer
    Lawyer
    A lawyer, according to Black's Law Dictionary, is "a person learned in the law; as an attorney, counsel or solicitor; a person who is practicing law." Law is the system of rules of conduct established by the sovereign government of a society to correct wrongs, maintain the stability of political...

    . http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/11/us/11wood.html?ref=obituaries

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  • Quentin C. Aanenson
    Quentin C. Aanenson
    Quentin C. Aanenson was a World War II veteran fighter pilot and former Captain of the 391st Fighter Squadron, 366th Fighter Group, 9th Air Force, U.S. Army Air Corps...

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

     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...

    , 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.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/12/29/AR2008122902407.html
  • A. O. L. Atkin
    A. O. L. Atkin
    Arthur Oliver Lonsdale Atkin , who published under the name A. O. L. Atkin, was a Professor Emeritus of mathematics at the University of Illinois at Chicago. As an undergraduate during World War II, he worked at Bletchley Park cracking German codes. He received his Ph.D...

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

     mathematician
    Mathematician
    A mathematician is a person whose primary area of study is the field of mathematics. Mathematicians are concerned with quantity, structure, space, and change....

    , complications from a fall
    Falling (accident)
    Falling is a major cause of personal injury, especially for the elderly. Builders, electricians, miners, and painters represent worker categories representing high rates of fall injuries. The WHO estimate that 392,000 people die in falls every year...

    . http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-hed-atkin-d-31dec31,0,6374248.story
  • Vincent Ford
    Vincent Ford
    Vincent Ford , known as "Tata", was a Jamaican songwriter best known for receiving writing credit for "No Woman, No Cry", the reggae song made famous by Bob Marley & The Wailers, as well as three other Bob Marley songs...

    , 68, 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 reggae
    Reggae
    Reggae is a music genre first developed in Jamaica in the late 1960s. While sometimes used in a broader sense to refer to most types of Jamaican music, the term reggae more properly denotes a particular music style that originated following on the development of ska and rocksteady.Reggae is based...

     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...

     ("No Woman, No Cry
    No Woman, No Cry
    "No Woman, No Cry" is a reggae song by Bob Marley & The Wailers. The song first became known in 1974 through the studio album Natty Dread. The live version from the 1975 album Live! is perhaps best known — it was this version which was released on the greatest hits compilation Legend. The original...

    "), complications from diabetes.http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20081231/ford_obit_081231/20081231?hub=Entertainment
  • Donald Gleason
    Donald Gleason
    Donald F. Gleason, M.D., Ph.D. was an American physician and pathologist, best known for devising the "Gleason score" which predicts the aggressiveness of prostate cancer in patients...

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

     physician
    Physician
    A physician is a health care provider who practices the profession of medicine, which is concerned with promoting, maintaining or restoring human health through the study, diagnosis, and treatment of disease, injury and other physical and mental impairments...

    , creator of 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...

     test, 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/2009/01/11/health/11gleason.html
  • Sir Michael Levey
    Michael Levey
    Sir Michael Vincent Levey, LVO was a British art historian and was director of the National Gallery for thirteen years, from 1973 to 1986.-Biography:...

    , 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...

     art historian, Director of the National Gallery (1973–1986). http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/4015722/Sir-Michael-Levey.html
  • Oliver Lincoln Lundquist
    Oliver Lincoln Lundquist
    Oliver Lincoln Lundquist was an American architect and industrial designer who headed the team which was responsible for the design of the United Nations logo and who himself designed the Q-Tip box....

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

     architect
    Architect
    An architect is a person trained in the planning, design and oversight of the construction of buildings. To practice architecture means to offer or render services in connection with the design and construction of a building, or group of buildings and the space within the site surrounding the...

     and industrial designer, created the United Nations
    United Nations
    The United Nations is an international organization whose stated aims are facilitating cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, social progress, human rights, and achievement of world peace...

     logo
    Logo
    A logo is a graphic mark or emblem commonly used by commercial enterprises, organizations and even individuals to aid and promote instant public recognition...

    , 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.nytimes.com/2009/01/04/world/04lundquist.html
  • Haralamb Zincă
    Haralamb Zinca
    Hary Isac Zilberman a.k.a. Haralamb Zincă was a Romanian writer.-Books:* Amintire * Cazul R-16* Ultima toamnă * Popasuri......

    , 85, 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 writer
    Writer
    A writer is a person who produces literature, such as novels, short stories, plays, screenplays, poetry, or other literary art. Skilled writers are able to use language to portray ideas and images....

    , 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.mediafax.ro/cultura-media/haralamb-zinca-a-murit-video.html?1706;3685506 (Romanian)

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  • Arild Andresen
    Arild Andresen
    Arild Andresen was a Norwegian football and ice hockey player who played for Vålerenga in both sports.For the football team, he made his debut in 1948, in the inaugural season of the Norwegian Main League. He was capped once for Norway; in 1950, against Sweden. He retired after the 1954 season.He...

    , 80, 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...

     footballer and 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...

     player (Vålerenga). http://www.vif-fotball.no/article2484871.ece (Norwegian)
  • Rodrigo Arango Velásquez
    Rodrigo Arango Velásquez
    Rodrigo Arango Velásquez was the second Roman Catholic Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Buga, Colombia, South America. He was the first Colombian Bishop of the Sulpician order....

    , 83, Colombia
    Colombia
    Colombia, officially the Republic of Colombia , is a unitary constitutional republic comprising thirty-two departments. The country is located in northwestern South America, bordered to the east by Venezuela and Brazil; to the south by Ecuador and Peru; to the north by the Caribbean Sea; to the...

    n Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop
    Bishop (Catholic Church)
    In the Catholic Church, a bishop is an ordained minister who holds the fullness of the sacrament of Holy Orders and is responsible for teaching the Catholic faith and ruling the Church....

     of the Diocese of Buga. http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/baravel.html
  • Delaney Bramlett
    Delaney Bramlett
    Delaney Bramlett was an American singer, songwriter, musician, and producer. Bramlett's five decade career reached peaks in creativity, performance, and notoriety in partnership with his then wife Bonnie Bramlett, in a revolving troupe of professional musicians and Rock superstars dubbed Delaney...

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

     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...

    , complications from gallbladder
    Gallbladder
    In vertebrates the gallbladder is a small organ that aids mainly in fat digestion and concentrates bile produced by the liver. In humans the loss of the gallbladder is usually easily tolerated....

     surgery. http://www.mercurynews.com/breakingnews/ci_11321069
  • Sailor Brown
    Sailor Brown
    Robert Albert John "Sailor" Brown was an English footballer who played as an inside forward.-Career:Brown was born on 7 November 1915 in Great Yarmouth, Norfolk and was educated at St Peter's and Priory School...

    , 93, 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 and manager
    Coach (sport)
    In sports, a coach is an individual involved in the direction, instruction and training of the operations of a sports team or of individual sportspeople.-Staff:...

    . http://www.charlton-athletic.co.uk/newsview.ink?nid=33502
  • Roque Cordero
    Roque Cordero
    Roque Cordero was a Panamanian composer.-Life:Born in Panama City, he studied composition under Ernst Krenek and conducting under Dimitri Mitropoulos, Stanley Chapple, and Leon Barzin before becoming director of the Institute of Music and Artistic Director and conductor of the National Symphony of...

    , 91, Panama
    Panama
    Panama , officially the Republic of Panama , is the southernmost country of Central America. Situated on the isthmus connecting North and South America, it is bordered by Costa Rica to the northwest, Colombia to the southeast, the Caribbean Sea to the north and the Pacific Ocean to the south. The...

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

     composer
    Composer
    A composer is a person who creates music, either by musical notation or oral tradition, for interpretation and performance, or through direct manipulation of sonic material through electronic media...

    . http://www.daytondailynews.com/n/content/oh/story/news/local/2008/12/29/ddn123008cordero.html
  • Robert Graham
    Robert Graham (sculptor)
    Robert Graham was a sculptor based in the state of California in the United States. His monumental bronzes commemorate the human figure and are featured in public places across America.-Biography:...

    , 70, Mexican
    Mexico
    The United Mexican States , commonly known as Mexico , is a federal constitutional republic in North America. It is bordered on the north by the United States; on the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; on the southeast by Guatemala, Belize, and the Caribbean Sea; and on the east by the Gulf of...

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

     sculptor, husband of actress Anjelica Huston
    Anjelica Huston
    Anjelica Huston is an American actress. Huston became the third generation of her family to win an Academy Award, for her performance in 1985's Prizzi's Honor, joining her father, director John Huston, and grandfather, actor Walter Huston. She later was nominated in 1989 and 1990 for her acting in...

    , after long illness. http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-graham28-2008dec28,0,5808625.story
  • Ian Harland
    Ian Harland
    The Right Reverend Ian Harland was a Church of England cleric, serving as Anglican Bishop of Lancaster then Bishop of Carlisle.-Life:...

    , 76, 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...

     Anglican prelate, Bishop of Carlisle
    Bishop of Carlisle
    The Bishop of Carlisle is the Ordinary of the Church of England Diocese of Carlisle in the Province of York.The diocese covers the County of Cumbria except for Alston Moor and the former Sedbergh Rural District...

     (1989–2000), after long illness. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/cumbria/7803572.stm
  • Lars Hollmer
    Lars Hollmer
    Lars Gustav Gabriel Hollmer was a Swedish accordionist, keyboardist and composer whose work draws on influences ranging from Nordic folk tunes to progressive rock. He has been a member and/or founder of over half a dozen groups, most of whose work has been recorded at The Chickenhouse, his well...

    , 60, 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....

     musician
    Musician
    A musician is an artist who plays a musical instrument. It may or may not be the person's profession. Musicians can be classified by their roles in performing music and writing music.Also....* A person who makes music a profession....

    . http://www.dn.se/DNet/jsp/polopoly.jsp?d=2374&a=868116&rss=1399 (Swedish)
  • Tuanku Ja'afar, 86, Malaysian King
    Yang di-Pertuan Agong
    The Yang di-Pertuan Agong is the head of state of Malaysia. The office was established in 1957 when the Federation of Malaya gained independence....

     (1994–1999), Great Ruler
    Yang di-Pertuan Besar
    In Malay, Yang di-Pertuan Besar, literally "He Who Is Made Great" or "Great Ruler", is a royal title.-In Malaysia:# Also known as Yamtuan Besar, it is the title of the elected monarch of the state of Negeri Sembilan in Malaysia...

     of Negeri Sembilan
    Negeri Sembilan
    Negeri Sembilan, one of the 13 states that constitutes Malaysia, lies on the western coast of Peninsular Malaysia, just south of Kuala Lumpur and borders Selangor on the north, Pahang in the east, and Malacca and Johor to the south....

     since 1967. http://www.thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2008/12/28/nation/2903990&sec=nation
  • Patricia Kneale
    Patricia Kneale
    Patricia Kneale was a British stage and television actress.-Career:Kneale gained a Meggie Albanesi scholarship to RADA, where she was awarded the Bancroft gold medal. Her acting debut was in 1947, as Olivia in Twelfth Night at Regents Park. In 1952, she played Lady Macbeth at the old Nottingham...

    , 83, 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...

     actress. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article5548643.ece
  • Christine Maggiore
    Christine Maggiore
    Christine Joy Maggiore was an HIV-positive activist who promoted the view that HIV is not the cause of AIDS. She was the founder of Alive & Well AIDS Alternatives, an organization which questions the link between HIV and AIDS and encourages HIV-positive pregnant women to avoid anti-HIV medication...

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

     AIDS denialist. http://www.latimes.com/features/health/medicine/la-me-christine-maggiore30-2008dec30,0,7436635.story
  • Sahu Mewalal
    Sahu Mewalal
    Sahu Mewalal was an Indian Olympian footballer who plied his trade at Kolkata . His playing position was striker and he was known for his excellent fitness, bicycle kicks and goal scoring abilities....

    , 82, 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 footballer, natural causes. http://www.expressbuzz.com/edition/story.aspx?Title=Olympic+footballer+Mewalal+dead&artid=aNojrnNZQu0=&SectionID=xn4%7C2a5/j7o=&MainSectionID=xn4%7C2a5/j7o=&SEO=mewalal,+olympics,+footballer&SectionName=WvdaUAvq4rA=
  • Alfred Pfaff
    Alfred Pfaff
    Alfred Pfaff was a German football player and World Cup winner with West Germany in 1954.- Life :Pfaff was capped seven times between 1953 and 1956 for the West German national team, scoring two goals as an inside forward....

    , 82, 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...

     footballer, 1954 FIFA World Cup
    1954 FIFA World Cup
    The 1954 FIFA World Cup, the fifth staging of the FIFA World Cup, was held in Switzerland from 16 June to 4 July. Switzerland was chosen as hosts in July 1946. The tournament set a number of all-time records for goal-scoring, including the highest average goals scored per game...

     winner. http://www.spiegel.de/sport/fussball/0,1518,598551,00.html (German)

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  • Israel Horowitz
    Israel Horowitz (producer)
    Israel Horowitz was an American record producer who became an editor and columnist on classical music at Billboard magazine....

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

     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...

    . http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/05/arts/music/05horowitz.html?ref=obituaries
  • Gösta Krantz
    Gösta Krantz
    Gösta Clarence Isidor Krantz was a Swedish actor and revue artist.Gösta Krantz was born in Ektorp in Nacka south-east of Stockholm. He started off as a confectioner, but in 1945 turned into acting after having participated in a popular revue named Vi som vill opp...

    , 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....

     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...

    . http://www.dn.se/DNet/jsp/polopoly.jsp?d=2374&a=867734 (Swedish)
  • Mikhail Krichevsky, 111, 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 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....

    . http://www.jta.org/news/article/2009/01/05/1002004/
  • George Miller
    George Miller (Scottish footballer)
    George Miller was a Scottish former football player and manager, most notable for being a member of the first Dunfermline Athletic side to win a major honour, the 1961 Scottish Cup.-Playing career:...

    , 69, 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 and manager
    Coach (sport)
    In sports, a coach is an individual involved in the direction, instruction and training of the operations of a sports team or of individual sportspeople.-Staff:...

     (Falkirk FC, Wolverhampton Wanderers), 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.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/f/falkirk/7801192.stm
  • Ellie Nesler
    Ellie Nesler
    Elena Starr "Ellie" Nesler shot and killed her son's accused molester in a Jamestown, California, courtroom during the preliminary hearing on the charges against him. She served 3 years of a 10-year sentence and was released after an appeal based on jury misconduct...

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

     criminal, 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.news10.net/news/local/story.aspx?storyid=52479&provider=top
  • Sir Kenneth Stoddart
    Kenneth Stoddart
    Wing Commander Sir Kenneth Maxwell Stoddart KCVO, KStJ, AE, JP, LLD was a distinguished Battle of Britain Pilot.Kenneth Stoddart was born in Cressington Park, Liverpool on 26 May 1914. He was educated at Sedbergh School and Clare College, Cambridge...

    , 94, 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...

     Lord Lieutenant of Merseyside
    Lord Lieutenant of Merseyside
    The office of Lord Lieutenant of Merseyside was created on 1 April 1974, taking over some duties from the Lord Lieutenant of Lancashire and Lord Lieutenant of Cheshire.-External links:...

     (1979–1989). http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article5976296.ece
  • J. Lamar Worzel
    J. Lamar Worzel
    J. Lamar Worzel , American geophysicist known for his important contributions to underwater acoustics, underwater photography, and gravity measurements at sea.-Life:...

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

     oceanographer, 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/2009/01/26/nyregion/26worzel.html?ref=obituaries
  • Wyvetter H. Younge
    Wyvetter H. Younge
    Wyvetter H. Younge was a Democratic member of the Illinois House of Representatives, representing the 114th District from 1975 until 2008. She served as the Assistant Majority Leader later in her career. Her district included Alorton, Belleville, Brooklyn, Cahokia, Centreville, East St...

    , 78, 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 Illinois House of Representatives
    Illinois House of Representatives
    The Illinois House of Representatives is the lower house of the Illinois General Assembly, the state legislature of the U.S. state of Illinois. The body was created by the first Illinois Constitution adopted in 1818. The state House of Representatives is made of 118 representatives elected from...

     since 1975, surgical complications. http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/chi-ap-il-obit-younge,0,2358210.story

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  • Edd Cartier
    Edd Cartier
    Edward "Edd" Daniel Cartier , was an American pulp magazine illustrator.Born in North Bergen, New Jersey, Cartier studied at Pratt Institute. Following his 1936 graduation from Pratt, his artwork was published in Street and Smith publications, including The Shadow, to which he contributed many...

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

     illustrator
    Illustrator
    An Illustrator is a narrative artist who specializes in enhancing writing by providing a visual representation that corresponds to the content of the associated text...

     (The Shadow
    The Shadow
    The Shadow is a collection of serialized dramas, originally in pulp magazines, then on 1930s radio and then in a wide variety of media, that follow the exploits of the title character, a crime-fighting vigilante in the pulps, which carried over to the airwaves as a "wealthy, young man about town"...

    ). http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-obit-cartier-bdjan04,0,6923078.story
  • Alvah Chapman, Jr.
    Alvah Chapman, Jr.
    Alvah Herman Chapman, Jr. was an American newspaper publisher who served at the helm of The Miami Herald and as chairman of the Knight Ridder newspaper division.-Biography:...

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

     publisher and philanthropist
    Philanthropist
    A philanthropist is someone who engages in philanthropy; that is, someone who donates his or her time, money, and/or reputation to charitable causes...

    , 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/2008/12/28/business/media/28chapman.html
  • Justin Eilers
    Justin Eilers
    Justin Mark Eilers was an American professional mixed martial artist, formerly with the UFC and WEC. Eilers trained with Miletich Fighting Systems in Bettendorf, Iowa.-Biography:...

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

     mixed martial artist
    Mixed martial arts
    Mixed Martial Arts is a full contact combat sport that allows the use of both striking and grappling techniques, both standing and on the ground, including boxing, wrestling, Brazilian jiu-jitsu, muay Thai, kickboxing, karate, judo and other styles. The roots of modern mixed martial arts can be...

    , shot
    Ballistic trauma
    The term ballistic trauma refers to a form of physical trauma sustained from the discharge of arms or munitions. The most common forms of ballistic trauma stem from firearms used in armed conflicts, civilian sporting and recreational pursuits, and criminal activity.-Destructive effects:The degree...

    . http://www.sherdog.com/news/news/eilers-shot-dead-15598
  • Olívio Aurélio Fazza
    Olívio Aurélio Fazza
    Olívio Aurélio Fazza was a Brazilian Bishop of the Roman Catholic Church.He was born in Juiz de Fora.At the age of 29, Fazza was ordained as a priest. On May 5, 1978 he was appointed as Bishop of Foz do Iguaçu, he was ordained on August 12...

    , 83, 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 Roman Catholic prelate, bishop of the Diocese of Foz do Iguaçu
    Roman Catholic Diocese of Foz do Iguaçu
    The Roman Catholic Diocese of Foz do Iguaçu is a diocese located in the city of Foz do Iguaçu in the Ecclesiastical province of Cascavel in Brazil.-History:* May 10, 1926: Established as Territorial Prelature of Foz do Iguaçu from the Diocese of Curitiba...

    . http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bfazza.html
  • Leo Frankowski
    Leo Frankowski
    Leo Frankowski was an American writer of science fiction novels. He lived in Russia for four years with his now ex-wife and adopted teenage daughter, but...

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

     science fiction author. http://www.leofrankowski.com/content/
  • William Glendon
    William Glendon
    William R. Glendon was an American attorney who specialized in issues relating to the First Amendment to the United States Constitution and represented The Washington Post in the Pentagon Papers case....

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

     attorney. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/04/us/04glendon.html?ref=obituaries
  • Eartha Kitt
    Eartha Kitt
    Eartha Mae Kitt was an American singer, actress, and cabaret star. She was perhaps best known for her highly distinctive singing style and her 1953 hit recordings of "C'est Si Bon" and the enduring Christmas novelty smash "Santa Baby." Orson Welles once called her the "most exciting woman in the...

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

     singer and actress (Batman
    Batman (TV series)
    Batman is an American television series, based on the DC comic book character of the same name. It stars Adam West as Batman and Burt Ward as Robin — two crime-fighting heroes who defend Gotham City. It aired on the American Broadcasting Company network for three seasons from January 12, 1966 to...

    , The Emperor's New Groove
    The Emperor's New Groove
    The Emperor's New Groove is a 2000 American animated film produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios and released by Walt Disney Pictures through Buena Vista Distribution on December 15, 2000. It is the 40th animated feature in the Walt Disney Animated Classics...

    ), colon cancer. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28386832/
  • Ann Savage, 87, American
    United States
    The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

     actress (Detour
    Detour (1945 film)
    Detour is a film noir thriller that stars Tom Neal, Ann Savage, Claudia Drake and Edmund MacDonald. The movie was adapted by Martin Goldsmith and Martin Mooney from Goldsmith's novel of the same name and was directed by Edgar G. Ulmer...

    ), complications from 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.examiner.com/a-1765532~_40s_femme_fatale_star_Ann_Savage_dies_at_87.html
  • Robert Ward
    Robert Ward (blues musician)
    Robert Ward was an American blues and soul guitarist. He was known for founding the Ohio Untouchables, the band that later would become the Ohio Players...

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

     blues
    Blues
    Blues is the name given to both a musical form and a music genre that originated in African-American communities of primarily the "Deep South" of the United States at the end of the 19th century from spirituals, work songs, field hollers, shouts and chants, and rhymed simple narrative ballads...

     singer and guitarist
    Guitarist
    A guitarist is a musician who plays the guitar. Guitarists may play a variety of instruments such as classical guitars, acoustic guitars, electric guitars, and bass guitars. Some guitarists accompany themselves on the guitar while singing.- Versatility :The guitarist controls an extremely...

    . http://www.bluesinthenorthwest.com/index.php/2008/12/26/rip-robert-ward/
  • Colin White
    Colin White (historian)
    Colin Saunders White , was director of the Royal Naval Museum, and was one of Britain's leading experts on Admiral Horatio Nelson and the Battle of Trafalgar....

    , 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...

     naval historian
    Naval historian
    A naval historian is a student of maritime history, who specialises in the sub-discipline of naval history.-References:*Julian Corbett, 'The Teaching of Naval and Military History,' History, New Series, vol. 1 , pp. 12–19....

    , 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.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article5429419.ece

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  • Ian Ballinger
    Ian Ballinger
    Ian Roy Ballinger is a former New Zealand shooter who won a Bronze medal at the 1968 Summer Olympics. Ballinger competed at three consecutive Olympic Games and 2 Commonwealth Games in the 50m Rifle - prone event.-References:**...

    , 83, 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...

     sport shooter, 1968 Olympic medallist
    Shooting at the 1968 Summer Olympics
    Shooting at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City comprised seven events. A second shotgun event, Skeet, was introduced.-Medal count:-Medalists by event:-References:*...

    . http://www.stuff.co.nz/4805344a1823.html
  • Ray Deakin
    Ray Deakin
    Raymond John Deakin was an English footballer, whose playing position was left-back.-Biography:Born in Liverpool, Deakin began his career at Everton, where he signed his first professional contract in 1977. However, he never made any appearances for Everton's first team, and was released in 1981....

    , 49, 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 (Bolton Wanderers
    Bolton Wanderers F.C.
    Bolton Wanderers Football Club is an English professional association football club based in the area of Horwich in the Metropolitan Borough of Bolton, Greater Manchester. They began their current spell in the Premier League in 2001....

    , 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...

    ), brain cancer. http://www.theboltonnews.co.uk/sport/4006353.Former_Wanderers_defender_Ray_Deakin_loses_cancer_battle/
  • Stanley Eveling
    Stanley Eveling
    Stanley Eveling, or Harry Stanley Eveling was an English playwright and academic, based in Scotland. Eveling was educated at Rutherford College and Samuel King's School...

    , 83, 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...

     playwright
    Playwright
    A playwright, also called a dramatist, is a person who writes plays.The term is not a variant spelling of "playwrite", but something quite distinct: the word wright is an archaic English term for a craftsman or builder...

    . http://www.guardian.co.uk/stage/2009/jan/05/stanley-eveling-obituary
  • Gordon Fairweather
    Gordon Fairweather
    Robert Gordon Lee Fairweather, OC, ONB, QC was a lawyer and Canadian politician.Fairweather was born in Rothesay, New Brunswick, the son of J.H.A.L. Fairweather and Agnes C. McKeen. Fairweather was educated at Rothesay Collegiate...

    , 85, 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...

    , Member of Parliament for Royal
    Fundy Royal
    Fundy Royal is a federal electoral district in southern New Brunswick, Canada, that has been represented in the Canadian House of Commons since 1968...

    , New Brunswick
    New Brunswick
    New Brunswick is one of Canada's three Maritime provinces and is the only province in the federation that is constitutionally bilingual . The provincial capital is Fredericton and Saint John is the most populous city. Greater Moncton is the largest Census Metropolitan Area...

     (1962–1977). http://telegraphjournal.canadaeast.com/front/article/522145
  • Samuel P. Huntington
    Samuel P. Huntington
    Samuel Phillips Huntington was an influential American political scientist who wrote highly-regarded books in a half-dozen sub-fields of political science, starting in 1957...

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

     political scientist
    Political science
    Political Science is a social science discipline concerned with the study of the state, government and politics. Aristotle defined it as the study of the state. It deals extensively with the theory and practice of politics, and the analysis of political systems and political behavior...

    , heart failure and complications of diabetes. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/3999461/Samuel-Huntington.html
  • Ai Iijima
    Ai Iijima
    was a Japanese media personality and AV idol. She belonged to the entertainment agency Watanabe Entertainment until her retirement.-Early life:Born as , she described a troubled early life in her autobiography. She was raped in her early teens, and had an abortion...

    , 36, 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 media personality and AIDS
    AIDS
    Acquired immune deficiency syndrome or acquired immunodeficiency syndrome is a disease of the human immune system caused by the human immunodeficiency virus...

     activist, former adult film actress, 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.japantoday.com/category/entertainment/view/former-porn-star-ai-iijima-found-dead-at-tokyo-apartment
  • Harold Pinter
    Harold Pinter
    Harold Pinter, CH, CBE was a Nobel Prize–winning English playwright and screenwriter. One of the most influential modern British dramatists, his writing career spanned more than 50 years. His best-known plays include The Birthday Party , The Homecoming , and Betrayal , each of which he adapted to...

    , 78, 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...

     playwright
    Playwright
    A playwright, also called a dramatist, is a person who writes plays.The term is not a variant spelling of "playwrite", but something quite distinct: the word wright is an archaic English term for a craftsman or builder...

     (The Homecoming
    The Homecoming
    The Homecoming is a two-act play written in 1964 by Nobel laureate Harold Pinter and first published in 1965. The original Broadway production won the 1967 Tony Award for Best Play and its 40th-anniversary Broadway production at the Cort Theatre was nominated for a 2008 Tony Award for "Best Revival...

    ), recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature (2005), throat cancer
    Head and neck cancer
    Head and neck cancer refers to a group of biologically similar cancers that start in the upper aerodigestive tract, including the lip, oral cavity , nasal cavity , paranasal sinuses, pharynx, and larynx. 90% of head and neck cancers are squamous cell carcinomas , originating from the mucosal lining...

    . http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/26/theater/26pinter.html
  • Alf Robertson
    Alf Robertson
    Alf Robertson was a Swedish singer and composer who produced 50 albums and about 150 songs during his lifetime...

    , 67, 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....

     singer and composer
    Composer
    A composer is a person who creates music, either by musical notation or oral tradition, for interpretation and performance, or through direct manipulation of sonic material through electronic media...

    . http://www.dn.se/DNet/jsp/polopoly.jsp?d=147&a=867557&rss=2216 (Swedish)

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  • Clint Ballard, Jr.
    Clint Ballard, Jr.
    Clint Ballard, Jr. was an American songwriter. He wrote two Billboard Hot 100 number one hits. The first was "Game of Love" by Wayne Fontana and The Mindbenders in 1965...

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

     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...

     ("You're No Good
    You're No Good
    "You're No Good" is a song written by Clint Ballard, Jr. which first charted for Betty Everett in 1963 and in 1975 was a #1 hit for Linda Ronstadt....

    "). http://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/clint-ballard-jnr-songwriter-best-known-for-the-game-of-love-and-youre-no-good-1366589.html
  • Manuel Benitez, 39, American
    United States
    The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

     child actor
    Child actor
    The term child actor or child actress is generally applied to a child acting in motion pictures or television, but also to an adult who began his or her acting career as a child; to avoid confusion, the latter is also called a former child actor...

     and FBI fugitive
    Fugitive
    A fugitive is a person who is fleeing from custody, whether it be from private slavery, a government arrest, government or non-government questioning, vigilante violence, or outraged private individuals...

    , shot
    Ballistic trauma
    The term ballistic trauma refers to a form of physical trauma sustained from the discharge of arms or munitions. The most common forms of ballistic trauma stem from firearms used in armed conflicts, civilian sporting and recreational pursuits, and criminal activity.-Destructive effects:The degree...

    . http://www.amw.com/fugitives/capture.cfm?id=28521
  • Narciso Bernardo
    Narciso Bernardo
    Narciso C. Bernardo , also known as Ciso Bernardo, was a Filipino basketball player and coach. Bernardo was born in Manila, Philippines. He played for Mariwasa AC in the Manila Industrial and Commercial Athletic Association. Bernardo also appeared at the Olympic Games as a member of the country's...

    , 71, Filipino
    Philippines
    The Philippines , officially known as the Republic of the Philippines , is a country in Southeast Asia in the western Pacific Ocean. To its north across the Luzon Strait lies Taiwan. West across the South China Sea sits Vietnam...

     basketball
    Basketball
    Basketball is a team sport in which two teams of five players try to score points by throwing or "shooting" a ball through the top of a basketball hoop while following a set of rules...

     player, 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.gmanews.tv/story/140908/Basketball-Olympian-Narciso-Bernardo-passes-away
  • Thomas Congdon
    Thomas Congdon
    Thomas Boss Congdon Jr. was an American book editor who worked on Russell Baker's memoir Growing Up, Peter Benchley's bestselling novel Jaws and David Halberstam's 1986 work The Reckoning, ultimately establishing his own publishing house.Congdon was born on March 17, 1931 in New London,...

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

     editor
    Editing
    Editing is the process of selecting and preparing written, visual, audible, and film media used to convey information through the processes of correction, condensation, organization, and other modifications performed with an intention of producing a correct, consistent, accurate, and complete...

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

     and heart failure. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/25/books/25congdon.html?ref=obituaries
  • Frank Krog
    Frank Krog
    Frank Krog was a Norwegian actor.Krog was born in Bergen. He started his career as a stage worker and extra at the theatre Den Nasjonale Scene, but later attended the Norwegian National Academy of Theatre. He appeared in several Norwegian films, mostly during the 1990s...

    , 54, 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
    Actor
    An actor is a person who acts in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio in that capacity...

    . http://www.kjendis.no/2008/12/25/kjendis/frank_krog/film/dodsfall/2400/4147658/ (Norwegian)
  • Mitsugu Saotome
    Mitsugu Saotome
    , is the pen-name of a Japanese writer of historical fiction in Showa and Heisei period Japan. His real name is Kanegae Hideyoshi.-Biography:...

    , 82, 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 author
    Author
    An author is broadly defined as "the person who originates or gives existence to anything" and that authorship determines responsibility for what is created. Narrowly defined, an author is the originator of any written work.-Legal significance:...

    , 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.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D959N1CG0&show_article=1
  • Thierry de la Villehuchet
    René-Thierry Magon de la Villehuchet
    René-Thierry Magon de la Villehuchet, also known as Thierry de la Villehuchet for short was a French aristocrat, money manager, and businessman, and one of the founders of Access International Advisors .The AIA Group is a research analyst investment agency that specializes in managing hedged and...

    , 65, 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...

     money manager and businessman, apparent 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...

    . http://www.nydailynews.com/news/2008/12/23/2008-12-23_hedge_fund_founder_thierry_de_la_villehu.html
  • Eric Wilson
    Eric Charles Twelves Wilson
    Lieutenant Colonel Eric Charles Twelves Wilson VC was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.-Early life:Wilson was born at Sandown, Isle of Wight, and was...

    , 96, 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...

     recipient of the Victoria Cross
    Victoria Cross
    The Victoria Cross is the highest military decoration awarded for valour "in the face of the enemy" to members of the armed forces of various Commonwealth countries, and previous British Empire territories....

    . http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article5415089.ece
  • Arnold Jacob Wolf
    Arnold Jacob Wolf
    Rabbi Arnold Jacob Wolf was an important American Reform Rabbi, and a longtime champion of peace and progressive politics.-Biography:...

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

     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...

    , 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/2008/12/30/us/30wolf.html

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  • Anand Babla
    Anand Babla
    Anand Babla was a Fijian politician of Indian descent. He was a member of the National Farmers Union and Fiji Labour Party , holding the Tavua Indian Communal Constituency from 1992 to 2006. in the House of Representatives...

    , 54, Fiji
    Fiji
    Fiji , officially the Republic of Fiji , is an island nation in Melanesia in the South Pacific Ocean about northeast of New Zealand's North Island...

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

    , 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,...

     (1992–2006), after long illness. http://www.fijidailypost.com/news.php?section=1&fijidailynews=21026
  • Coy Bacon
    Coy Bacon
    Lander McCoy Bacon was a former professional American football defensive lineman in the National Football League. He was selected to three Pro Bowls during his 14-year career...

    , 66, 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 (Los Angeles Rams
    St. Louis Rams
    The St. Louis Rams are a professional American football team based in St. Louis, Missouri. They are currently members of the West Division of the National Football Conference in the National Football League . The Rams have won three NFL Championships .The Rams began playing in 1936 in Cleveland,...

    , Cincinnati Bengals
    Cincinnati Bengals
    The Cincinnati Bengals are a professional football team based in Cincinnati, Ohio. They are members of the AFC's North Division in the National Football League . The Bengals began play in 1968 as an expansion team in the American Football League , and joined the NFL in 1970 in the AFL-NFL...

    , 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,...

    ). http://www.irontontribune.com/news/2008/dec/22/coy-bacon-dies-66/
  • Lansana Conté
    Lansana Conté
    Lansana Conté was the second President of Guinea from 3 April 1984 until his death. He was a Muslim and a member of the Susu ethnic group.-Early life:...

    , 74, Guinea
    Guinea
    Guinea , officially the Republic of Guinea , is a country in West Africa. Formerly known as French Guinea , it is today sometimes called Guinea-Conakry to distinguish it from its neighbour Guinea-Bissau. Guinea is divided into eight administrative regions and subdivided into thirty-three prefectures...

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

    , President of Guinea since 1984, after long illness. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7796741.stm
  • Norm Cook
    Norm Cook
    Norman Cook was an American basketball player.A 6'8" forward from Lincoln Community High School in Lincoln, Illinois, Cook played basketball at the University of Kansas from 1973 to 1976. He was named the Big Eight Conference's Freshman of the Year in 1974 after averaging 11.4 points per game and...

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

     basketball
    Basketball
    Basketball is a team sport in which two teams of five players try to score points by throwing or "shooting" a ball through the top of a basketball hoop while following a set of rules...

     player (Kansas Jayhawks
    Kansas Jayhawks
    The sports teams at the University of Kansas are known as the Jayhawks. They are one of three schools in the state of Kansas that participate in NCAA Division I. The Jayhawks are also a member of the Big 12 Conference...

    , Boston Celtics
    Boston Celtics
    The Boston Celtics are a National Basketball Association team based in Boston, Massachusetts. They play in the Atlantic Division of the Eastern Conference. Founded in 1946, the team is currently owned by Boston Basketball Partners LLC. The Celtics play their home games at the TD Garden, which...

    ). http://www.sj-r.com/sports/x1060486002/Lincoln-High-legend-Norman-Cook-dies
  • Ossie Dawson
    Ossie Dawson
    Oswald Charles Dawson MC was a South African cricketer who played in 9 Tests from 1947 to 1949...

    , 89, 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 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. http://content-uk.cricinfo.com/southafrica/content/story/384151.html
  • James Lebon
    James Lebon
    James Lebon was a British film and music video director who taught fashion photography at London College of Fashion. He first came to prominence in the 1980s as a hairdresser.-Notable music videos:...

    , 49, 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...

     music video
    Music video
    A music video or song video is a short film integrating a song and imagery, produced for promotional or artistic purposes. Modern music videos are primarily made and used as a marketing device intended to promote the sale of music recordings...

     director
    Music video director
    A music video director is driven by a given music track. These are called music videos and are then used as promotional tools for popular music singles...

     and hairdresser
    Hairdresser
    Hairdresser is a term referring to anyone whose occupation is to cut or style hair in order to change or maintain a person's image. This is achieved using a combination of hair coloring, haircutting, and hair texturing techniques...

    . http://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/james-lebon-video-director-and-graphic-artist-who-epitomised-fashionable-london-of-the-eighties-and-nineties-1515895.html
  • Jani Lehtonen
    Jani Lehtonen
    Jani Lehtonen was a Finnish pole vaulter.He finished eleventh at the 1990 European Championships, eighth at the 1992 European Indoor Championships and fifth at the 1993 World Indoor Championships,...

    , 40, Finnish
    Finland
    Finland , officially the Republic of Finland, is a Nordic country situated in the Fennoscandian region of Northern Europe. It is bordered by Sweden in the west, Norway in the north and Russia in the east, while Estonia lies to its south across the Gulf of Finland.Around 5.4 million people reside...

     pole vault
    Pole vault
    Pole vaulting is a track and field event in which a person uses a long, flexible pole as an aid to leap over a bar. Pole jumping competitions were known to the ancient Greeks, as well as the Cretans and Celts...

    er. http://yle.fi/urheilu/lajit/yleisurheilu/2009/01/seivashyppaaja_jani_lehtonen_on_kuollut_132937.html (Finnish)
  • Robert J. Marshall
    Robert J. Marshall
    Robert James Marshall was an American clergyman and religious leader who was president of the Lutheran Church in America in the 1970s, at the time the largest Lutheran church in the United States...

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

     minister, president of the Lutheran Church in America
    Lutheran Church in America
    The Lutheran Church in America was a U.S. and Canadian Lutheran church body that existed from 1962 to 1987. It was headquartered in New York City and its publishing house was Fortress Press....

     (1968–1978), heart failure. http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-hed_rmarshalldec24,0,2137832.story
  • Hugh Myers
    Hugh Myers
    Hugh Edward Myers was an American chess master and author. He won or tied for first in the state chess championships of Illinois , Wisconsin , Missouri , and Iowa , as well as the USCF Region VIII championship...

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

     chess
    Chess
    Chess is a two-player board game played on a chessboard, a square-checkered board with 64 squares arranged in an eight-by-eight grid. It is one of the world's most popular games, played by millions of people worldwide at home, in clubs, online, by correspondence, and in tournaments.Each player...

     player and author
    Author
    An author is broadly defined as "the person who originates or gives existence to anything" and that authorship determines responsibility for what is created. Narrowly defined, an author is the originator of any written work.-Legal significance:...

    . http://www.qctimes.com/obits/new/index.php?section=profile&id=128698
  • Alfred Shaheen
    Alfred Shaheen
    right|thumbnail|200px|An Alfred Shaheen shirt on a 1961 [[Elvis Presley]] album cover.Alfred Shaheen was a textile industrialist who is credited with popularizing the Hawaiian shirt....

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

     textile
    Textile
    A textile or cloth is a flexible woven material consisting of a network of natural or artificial fibres often referred to as thread or yarn. Yarn is produced by spinning raw fibres of wool, flax, cotton, or other material to produce long strands...

     manufacturer, popularized the Hawaiian shirt, complications of diabetes. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article5461016.ece
  • Guy Warren
    Guy Warren
    Guy Warren of Ghana or Kofi Ghanaba was a Ghanaian musician, best known as the inventor of Afro-jazz and as a member of The Tempos.- Biography :...

    , 85, Ghana
    Ghana
    Ghana , officially the Republic of Ghana, is a country located in West Africa. It is bordered by Côte d'Ivoire to the west, Burkina Faso to the north, Togo to the east, and the Gulf of Guinea to the south...

    ian 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...

     musician
    Musician
    A musician is an artist who plays a musical instrument. It may or may not be the person's profession. Musicians can be classified by their roles in performing music and writing music.Also....* A person who makes music a profession....

    , illness. http://www.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/NewsArchive/artikel.php?ID=155255

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  • Lady Anne Cavendish-Bentinck
    Lady Anne Cavendish-Bentinck
    Lady Alexandra Margaret Anne Cavendish-Bentinck was a member of the British nobility and one of the richest landowners in the country. Her father was William Cavendish-Bentinck, 7th Duke of Portland, a British Conservative politician. The Duke was also known as "Chopper" for the wooden house he...

    , 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...

     noble
    Nobility
    Nobility is a social class which possesses more acknowledged privileges or eminence than members of most other classes in a society, membership therein typically being hereditary. The privileges associated with nobility may constitute substantial advantages over or relative to non-nobles, or may be...

    . http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-1103339/RICHARD-KAY-The-lost-love-lonely-heiress.html
  • James Fulton, 58, 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...

    , Member of Parliament for Skeena
    Skeena (electoral district)
    Skeena was a federal electoral district in British Columbia, Canada, that was represented in the Canadian House of Commons from 1917 to 2004.-Geography:This was a rural, mostly wilderness, riding in northwestern B.C...

     (1979–1993), colon cancer. http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20081222.wbcfulton22/BNStory/politics/home
  • Teddy Gueritz
    Teddy Gueritz
    Rear Admiral Edward Findlay "Teddy" Gueritz CB OBE DSC & Bar was a long-serving Royal Navy officer.From D-Day, 6 June 1944, he served as beachmaster on Sword Beach, organising the flow of men and materiel into the beachhead, including 30,000 troops on the first day...

    , 89, 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...

     Royal Navy
    Royal Navy
    The Royal Navy is the naval warfare service branch of the British Armed Forces. Founded in the 16th century, it is the oldest service branch and is known as the Senior Service...

     Admiral
    Admiral
    Admiral is the rank, or part of the name of the ranks, of the highest naval officers. It is usually considered a full admiral and above vice admiral and below admiral of the fleet . It is usually abbreviated to "Adm" or "ADM"...

    . http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/4143616/Rear-Admiral-Teddy-Gueritz.html
  • Christopher Hibbert
    Christopher Hibbert
    Christopher Hibbert, MC, FRSL, FRGS was an English writer, historian and biographer. He has been called "a pearl of biographers" and "probably the most widely-read popular historian of our time and undoubtedly one of the most prolific"...

    , 84, 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...

     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...

    . http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/3919354/Christopher-Hibbert.html
  • Ron Hornaday, Sr.
    Ron Hornaday, Sr.
    Ron Hornaday Sr. was an American racer from San Fernando, California. He was the father of NASCAR Camping World Truck Series champion Ron Hornaday, Jr. and the grandfather of Ronnie Hornaday. Hornaday Sr. was inducted in the West Coast Stock Car Hall of Fame in its first class in 2002...

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

     NASCAR
    NASCAR
    The National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing is a family-owned and -operated business venture that sanctions and governs multiple auto racing sports events. It was founded by Bill France Sr. in 1947–48. As of 2009, the CEO for the company is Brian France, grandson of the late Bill France Sr...

     driver
    Auto racing
    Auto racing is a motorsport involving the racing of cars for competition. It is one of the world's most watched televised sports.-The beginning of racing:...

    , 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://weblogs.newsday.com/sports/autoracing/blog/2008/12/ron_hornaday_sr_dies_at_77.html
  • Al Meyerhoff
    Al Meyerhoff
    Albert Henry "Al" Meyerhoff Jr. was an American labor, environmental and civil rights attorney. One of his cases sought to eliminate sweatshop conditions for workers on the island of Saipan, a part of the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands that operates under the jurisdiction of the...

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

     lawyer
    Lawyer
    A lawyer, according to Black's Law Dictionary, is "a person learned in the law; as an attorney, counsel or solicitor; a person who is practicing law." Law is the system of rules of conduct established by the sovereign government of a society to correct wrongs, maintain the stability of political...

    , complications from 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://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/25/business/25meyerhoff.html
  • Carlos Manuel Santiago
    Carlos Manuel Santiago
    Carlos Manuel Santiago was an infielder in Puerto Rico and the Negro Leagues, and a long-time scout and general manager.-Negro League Playing Career:...

    , 82, Puerto Rican
    Puerto Rico
    Puerto Rico , officially the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico , is an unincorporated territory of the United States, located in the northeastern Caribbean, east of the Dominican Republic and west of both the United States Virgin Islands and the British Virgin Islands.Puerto Rico comprises an...

     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...

     player (Negro Leagues), heart failure. http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/12/21/sports/BBO-Puerto-Rico-Obit-Santiago.php
  • Dale Wasserman
    Dale Wasserman
    Dale Wasserman was an American playwright. -Early life:Dale Wasserman was born in Rhinelander, Wisconsin, and was orphaned at the age of nine. He lived in a state orphanage and with an older brother in South Dakota before he "hit the rails". He later said:-Career:Wasserman worked in various...

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

     playwright
    Playwright
    A playwright, also called a dramatist, is a person who writes plays.The term is not a variant spelling of "playwrite", but something quite distinct: the word wright is an archaic English term for a craftsman or builder...

     (Man of La Mancha
    Man of La Mancha
    Man of La Mancha is a musical with a book by Dale Wasserman, lyrics by Joe Darion and music by Mitch Leigh. It is adapted from Wasserman's non-musical 1959 teleplay I, Don Quixote, which was in turn inspired by Miguel de Cervantes's seventeenth century masterpiece Don Quixote...

    ), heart failure. http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117997755.html?categoryid=15&cs=1
  • Maurice Zilber
    Maurice Zilber
    Maurice Zilber was a thoroughbred horse trainer born and raised in Cairo, Egypt to a Turkish mother and a French-Hungarian father...

    , 88, Egypt
    Egypt
    Egypt , officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, Arabic: , is a country mainly in North Africa, with the Sinai Peninsula forming a land bridge in Southwest Asia. Egypt is thus a transcontinental country, and a major power in Africa, the Mediterranean Basin, the Middle East and the Muslim world...

    ian horse trainer
    Horse trainer
    In horse racing, a trainer prepares a horse for races, with responsibility for exercising it, getting it race-ready and determining which races it should enter...

    , 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.bloodhorse.com/article/48520.htm?id=48520

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  • Samuele Bacchiocchi
    Samuele Bacchiocchi
    Samuele R. Bacchiocchi was a Seventh-day Adventist author and theologian, best known for his work on the Sabbath in Christianity, particularly in the historical work From Sabbath to Sunday, based on his doctoral thesis from the Pontifical Gregorian University...

    , 70, 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...

     theologian, liver cancer
    Liver cancer
    Liver tumors or hepatic tumors are tumors or growths on or in the liver . Several distinct types of tumors can develop in the liver because the liver is made up of various cell types. These growths can be benign or malignant...

    . http://www.spectrummagazine.org/blog/2008/12/21/passing_dr_bacchiocchi%E2%80%8F
  • Joseph Conombo
    Joseph Conombo
    Joseph Issoufou Conombo served as Prime Minister of Upper Volta from 7 July 1978 to 25 November 1980...

    , 91, Burkinabé
    Burkina Faso
    Burkina Faso – also known by its short-form name Burkina – is a landlocked country in west Africa. It is surrounded by six countries: Mali to the north, Niger to the east, Benin to the southeast, Togo and Ghana to the south, and Côte d'Ivoire to the southwest.Its size is with an estimated...

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

    , Prime Minister of Upper Volta (1978–1980). http://www.fasozine.com/index.php/SOCIETES/SOCIETES/Necrologie-Deces-de-Issoufou-Joseph-Conombo.html (French)
  • Sahar Daftary
    Sahar Daftary
    Sahar Daftary was a model and Face of Asia 2007 winner. She died in mysterious circumstances after splitting up with her married boyfriend...

    , 24, 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...

     model
    Model (person)
    A model , sometimes called a mannequin, is a person who is employed to display, advertise and promote commercial products or to serve as a subject of works of art....

    , fall. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/3933929/Death-plunge-model-had-reported-sexual-assault.html
  • Jack Kuehler
    Jack Kuehler
    Jack D. Kuehler , was an American electrical engineer who devoted the majority of his career at IBM, where he was the firm's highest ranking technologist, serving as president and later vice chairman of the company....

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

     electrical engineer, president of I.B.M. (1989–1993), Parkinson's disease
    Parkinson's disease
    Parkinson's disease is a degenerative disorder of the central nervous system...

    . http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/01/technology/companies/01kuehler.html
  • Gabriel Larraín Valdivieso
    Gabriel Larraín Valdivieso
    Gabriel Larraín Valdivieso was a Chilean Bishop for the Roman Catholic Church. Larraín Valdivieso was of Basque descent.-Biography:...

    , 83, Chile
    Chile
    Chile ,officially the Republic of Chile , is a country in South America occupying a long, narrow coastal strip between the Andes mountains to the east and the Pacific Ocean to the west. It borders Peru to the north, Bolivia to the northeast, Argentina to the east, and the Drake Passage in the far...

    an Roman Catholic prelate, bishop of the diocese of Santiago de Chile. http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/blava.html
  • Olga Lepeshinskaya
    Olga Lepeshinskaya
    Olga Vasiliyevna Lepeshinskaya was a Soviet ballerina. She was named a People's Artist of the USSR in 1951.-Childhood:Lepeshinskaya was born to an old Polish noble family in Kiev, Russian Empire . Her grandfather, Vasily Pavlovich Lepeshinsky, was arrested as a member of the revolutionary...

    , 92, Ukrainian
    Ukraine
    Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe. It has an area of 603,628 km², making it the second largest contiguous country on the European continent, after Russia...

    -born 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 ballerina
    Ballerina
    A ballerina is a title used to describe a principal female professional ballet dancer in a large company; the male equivalent to this title is danseur or ballerino...

    . http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/3919378/Olga-Lepeshinskaya.html
  • Joel Mandelstam
    Joel Mandelstam
    Joel Mandelstam FRS was a British microbiologist. He was a Professor, at the University of Oxford, and a Fellow of Linacre College, Oxford.-Career:* Lecturer, Queen Elizabeth College, London, 1947-51...

    , 89, 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...

     biochemist
    Biochemist
    Biochemists are scientists who are trained in biochemistry. Typical biochemists study chemical processes and chemical transformations in living organisms. The prefix of "bio" in "biochemist" can be understood as a fusion of "biological chemist."-Role:...

     and microbiologist
    Microbiologist
    A microbiologist is a scientist who works in the field of microbiology. Microbiologists study organisms called microbes. Microbes can take the form of bacteria, viruses, fungi, and protists...

    . http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article5600089.ece
  • Adrian Mitchell
    Adrian Mitchell
    Adrian Mitchell FRSL was an English poet, novelist and playwright. A former journalist, he became a noted figure on the British anti-authoritarian Left. For almost half a century he was the foremost poet of the country's anti-Bomb movement...

    , 76, 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...

     poet
    Poet
    A poet is a person who writes poetry. A poet's work can be literal, meaning that his work is derived from a specific event, or metaphorical, meaning that his work can take on many meanings and forms. Poets have existed since antiquity, in nearly all languages, and have produced works that vary...

    , heart attack. http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/books/article5381267.ece
  • Robert Mulligan
    Robert Mulligan
    Robert Mulligan was an American film and television director best known as the director of humanistic American dramas, including To Kill A Mockingbird , Summer of '42 , The Other , Same Time, Next Year and The Man in the Moon...

    , 83, 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:...

     (To Kill a Mockingbird
    To Kill a Mockingbird (film)
    To Kill a Mockingbird is a 1962 American drama film adaptation of Harper Lee's novel of the same name directed by Robert Mulligan. It stars Mary Badham in the role of Scout and Gregory Peck in the role of Atticus Finch....

    ), heart disease
    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...

    . http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-082120-robert-mulligan-obit,0,215344.story
  • Albin Planinc
    Albin Planinc
    Albin Planinc, also spelled Planinec was a Slovenian chess Grandmaster.He was born in a working-class family in Briše near Zagorje in the Central Sava Valley, in German-occupied Slovenia....

    , 64, Slovenia
    Slovenia
    Slovenia , officially the Republic of Slovenia , is a country in Central and Southeastern Europe touching the Alps and bordering the Mediterranean. Slovenia borders Italy to the west, Croatia to the south and east, Hungary to the northeast, and Austria to the north, and also has a small portion of...

    n chess
    Chess
    Chess is a two-player board game played on a chessboard, a square-checkered board with 64 squares arranged in an eight-by-eight grid. It is one of the world's most popular games, played by millions of people worldwide at home, in clubs, online, by correspondence, and in tournaments.Each player...

     grandmaster, after long illness. http://www.chess.co.uk/twic/twic737.html
  • Dorothy Sarnoff
    Dorothy Sarnoff
    Dorothy Sarnoff was an American operatic soprano, musical theatre actress, and self-help guru. She had an active performing career from the late 1930s through the 1950s, during which time she sang in several operas with the New York City Opera and created several roles on Broadway, most notably...

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

     self-help
    Self-help
    Self-help, or self-improvement, is a self-guided improvement—economically, intellectually, or emotionally—often with a substantial psychological basis. There are many different self-help movements and each has its own focus, techniques, associated beliefs, proponents and in some cases, leaders...

     consultant
    Consultant
    A consultant is a professional who provides professional or expert advice in a particular area such as management, accountancy, the environment, entertainment, technology, law , human resources, marketing, emergency management, food production, medicine, finance, life management, economics, public...

    , opera
    Opera
    Opera is an art form in which singers and musicians perform a dramatic work combining text and musical score, usually in a theatrical setting. Opera incorporates many of the elements of spoken theatre, such as acting, scenery, and costumes and sometimes includes dance...

     singer and actress. http://www.metoperafamily.org/operanews/news/pressrelease.aspx?id=1558
  • Igor Troubetzkoy
    Igor Troubetzkoy
    Prince Igor Nikolayevich Troubetzkoy was the driver of the first Ferrari to ever compete in Grand Prix Motor Racing. He drove a 2-litre Ferrari "Tipo" 166 in Monaco on May 16, 1948. Earlier that year he had won the Targa Florio with the Ferrari 166 Sport Allemano Spyder...

    , 96, 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 auto racer
    Auto racing
    Auto racing is a motorsport involving the racing of cars for competition. It is one of the world's most watched televised sports.-The beginning of racing:...

    . http://www.historicracing.com/index.cfm?fullText=7516

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  • James Bevel
    James Bevel
    James L. Bevel was an American minister and leader of the 1960s Civil Rights Movement who, as the Director of Direct Action and Director of Nonviolent Education of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference initiated, strategized, directed, and developed SCLC's three major successes of the era:...

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

     civil rights leader, 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.examiner.com/a-1755740~Civil_rights_leader_James_Bevel_dies.html
  • Page Cavanaugh
    Page Cavanaugh
    Page Cavanaugh was an American jazz and pop pianist, vocalist, and arranger....

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

     jazz pianist and singer
    Vocal jazz
    Jazz singing can be defined by the instrumental approach to the voice, where the singer can match the instruments in their stylistic approach to the lyrics, improvised or otherwise, or through scat singing; that is, the use of nonsensical meaningless non-morphemic syllables to imitate the sound of...

    , kidney failure. http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20081224/Page_Cavanaugh_081224/20081224?hub=Entertainment
  • Carol Chomsky
    Carol Chomsky
    Carol Chomsky was an American linguist and education specialist who studied language acquisition in children....

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

     linguist, wife of Noam Chomsky
    Noam Chomsky
    Avram Noam Chomsky is an American linguist, philosopher, cognitive scientist, and activist. He is an Institute Professor and Professor in the Department of Linguistics & Philosophy at MIT, where he has worked for over 50 years. Chomsky has been described as the "father of modern linguistics" and...

    , 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/2008/12/21/us/21chomsky-carol.html
  • Michael Connell
    Michael Connell
    Michael Louis Connell was a high-level Republican consultant who was subpoenaed in a case regarding alleged tampering with the 2004 U.S. Presidential election and a case involving thousands of missing emails pertaining to the political firing of U.S. Attorneys...

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

     political strategist, plane crash
    Aviation accidents and incidents
    An aviation accident is defined in the Convention on International Civil Aviation Annex 13 as an occurrence associated with the operation of an aircraft which takes place between the time any person boards the aircraft with the intention of flight and all such persons have disembarked, in which a...

    . http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/3885913/George-Bush-aide-dies-in-plane-crash.html
  • Kenny Cox
    Kenny Cox
    Kenny Cox was a jazz pianist performing in the post bop, hard bop and bebop mediums. Cox was pianist for singer Etta Jones during the 1960s and was also a member of a quintet led by trombonist George Bohannon...

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

     jazz musician, 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.allaboutjazz.com/php/news.php?id=27292
  • Sir Bernard Crick
    Bernard Crick
    Sir Bernard Rowland Crick was a British political theorist and democratic socialist whose views were often summarised as "politics is ethics done in public"...

    , 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...

     political theorist, 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.guardian.co.uk/politics/2008/dec/19/bernard-crick-dies
  • Dock Ellis
    Dock Ellis
    Dock Phillip Ellis, Jr. was a professional baseball player who pitched for the Pittsburgh Pirates, among other teams in Major League Baseball. His best season was 1971, when he won 19 games for the World Series champion Pirates and was the starting pitcher for the National League in the All-Star...

    , 63, 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...

     player, cirrhosis
    Cirrhosis
    Cirrhosis is a consequence of chronic liver disease characterized by replacement of liver tissue by fibrosis, scar tissue and regenerative nodules , leading to loss of liver function...

    . http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=3782859
  • Joe L. Kincheloe
    Joe L. Kincheloe
    Joe Lyons Kincheloe, , was a professor and Canada Research Chair at the Faculty of Education, McGill University in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. He wrote more than 45 books, numerous book-chapters, and hundreds of journal articles on issues including critical pedagogy, educational research, urban...

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

     professor
    Professor
    A professor is a scholarly teacher; the precise meaning of the term varies by country. Literally, professor derives from Latin as a "person who professes" being usually an expert in arts or sciences; a teacher of high rank...

    , 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.dailykos.com/story/2008/12/20/191411/20
  • Matt Kofler
    Matt Kofler
    Matthew Joseph Kofler was an American football player and coach. He was a quarterback in the National Football League from 1982 to 1985, playing for the Buffalo Bills and the Indianapolis Colts. He had been head coach at San Diego Mesa College since 2006.-References:...

    , 49, 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 (Buffalo Bills
    Buffalo Bills
    The Buffalo Bills are a professional football team based in Buffalo, New York. They are currently members of the East Division of the American Football Conference in the National Football League...

    , Indianapolis Colts
    Indianapolis Colts
    The Indianapolis Colts are a professional American football team based in Indianapolis. They are currently members of the South Division of the American Football Conference in the National Football League ....

    ). http://www3.signonsandiego.com/stories/2008/dec/20/1s20kofler001158-ex-aztecs-nfl-quarterback-kofler-/?uniontrib
  • Derek Stanford
    Derek Stanford
    Derek Stanford FRSL was a British writer, known as a biographer, essayist and poet. He was educated at Upper Latymer School, Hammersmith, London.As a conscientious objector during World War II he served in the Non-combatant Corps...

    , 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...

     poet
    Poet
    A poet is a person who writes poetry. A poet's work can be literal, meaning that his work is derived from a specific event, or metaphorical, meaning that his work can take on many meanings and forms. Poets have existed since antiquity, in nearly all languages, and have produced works that vary...

     and critic
    Critic
    A critic is anyone who expresses a value judgement. Informally, criticism is a common aspect of all human expression and need not necessarily imply skilled or accurate expressions of judgement. Critical judgements, good or bad, may be positive , negative , or balanced...

    . http://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/derek-stanford-poet-and-critic-who-became-muriel-sparks-lover-1242501.html
  • Sam Tingle
    Sam Tingle
    Sam Tingle was a racing driver from Rhodesia, now Zimbabwe. He participated in five Formula One World Championship Grands Prix, debuting on 28 December 1963. He scored no championship points...

    , 87, Zimbabwe
    Zimbabwe
    Zimbabwe is a landlocked country located in the southern part of the African continent, between the Zambezi and Limpopo rivers. It is bordered by South Africa to the south, Botswana to the southwest, Zambia and a tip of Namibia to the northwest and Mozambique to the east. Zimbabwe has three...

    an racing driver. http://forums.autosport.com/printthread.php?threadid=105717

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  • Majel Barrett
    Majel Barrett
    Majel Barrett-Roddenberry was an American actress and producer. She is perhaps best known for her role as Nurse Christine Chapel in the original Star Trek series, Lwaxana Troi on Star Trek: The Next Generation, and for being the voice of most onboard computer interfaces throughout the series...

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

     actress (Star Trek
    Star Trek
    Star Trek is an American science fiction entertainment franchise created by Gene Roddenberry. The core of Star Trek is its six television series: The Original Series, The Animated Series, The Next Generation, Deep Space Nine, Voyager, and Enterprise...

    ), widow of science fiction writer Gene Roddenberry
    Gene Roddenberry
    Eugene Wesley "Gene" Roddenberry was an American television screenwriter, producer and futurist, best known for creating the American science fiction series Star Trek. Born in El Paso, Texas, Roddenberry grew up in Los Angeles, California where his father worked as a police officer...

    , 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://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/entertainment/Star-Trek-Majel-Barrett-Roddenberry-Actress-Death.html
  • Peter Malam Brothers
    Peter Malam Brothers
    Air Commodore Peter Malam 'Pete' Brothers, CBE, DSO, DFC & Bar was a famed World War II Royal Air Force fighter pilot during the Battle of Britain...

    , 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...

     Royal Air Force
    Royal Air Force
    The Royal Air Force is the aerial warfare service branch of the British Armed Forces. Formed on 1 April 1918, it is the oldest independent air force in the world...

     pilot, Battle of Britain
    Battle of Britain
    The Battle of Britain is the name given to the World War II air campaign waged by the German Air Force against the United Kingdom during the summer and autumn of 1940...

     ace
    Flying ace
    A flying ace or fighter ace is a military aviator credited with shooting down several enemy aircraft during aerial combat. The actual number of aerial victories required to officially qualify as an "ace" has varied, but is usually considered to be five or more...

    . http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/3884594/Air-Commodore-Pete-Brothers.html
  • Pete Case
    Pete Case
    Ronald Lee "Pete" Case was an American football offensive guard in the National Football League who played for the Philadelphia Eagles and the New York Giants. He played college football at the University of Georgia and was drafted in the second round of the 1962 NFL Draft...

    , 67, 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 (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...

    ), after long illness. http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2008/football/nfl/12/19/bc.fbn.obit.case.ap/
  • John Costelloe
    John Costelloe (actor)
    John A. Costelloe was an American actor best known for his role as Jim "Johnny Cakes" Witowski, the gay fireman lover of Vito Spatafore, in the HBO TV series The Sopranos....

    , 47, 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...

     (The Sopranos
    The Sopranos
    The Sopranos is an American television drama series created by David Chase that revolves around the New Jersey-based Italian-American mobster Tony Soprano and the difficulties he faces as he tries to balance the often conflicting requirements of his home life and the criminal organization he heads...

    ), 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.zap2it.com/celebrities/news/zap-story-johncostelloe-suicicde,0,4112127.story
  • Jack Douglas
    Jack Douglas (actor)
    Jack Douglas, born John Roberton was an English actor most famous for his roles in the Carry On films.- Career :...

    , 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...

     comedy
    Comedy
    Comedy , as a popular meaning, is any humorous discourse or work generally intended to amuse by creating laughter, especially in television, film, and stand-up comedy. This must be carefully distinguished from its academic definition, namely the comic theatre, whose Western origins are found in...

     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...

     (Carry On films
    Carry On films
    The Carry On films are a series of low-budget British comedy films, directed by Gerald Thomas and produced by Peter Rogers. They are an energetic mix of parody, farce, slapstick and double entendres....

    ), 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://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7789813.stm
  • W. Mark Felt
    W. Mark Felt
    William Mark Felt, Sr. was an agent of the Federal Bureau of Investigation , who retired in 1973 as the Bureau's Associate Director...

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

     public official, Deputy Director of the FBI
    Deputy Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation
    The Deputy Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation is a senior United States government position in the Federal Bureau of Investigation. The office is second in command to the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and takes over responsibilities as Director should his/her...

    , "Deep Throat
    Deep Throat
    Deep Throat is the pseudonym given to the secret informant who provided information to Bob Woodward of The Washington Post in 1972 about the involvement of United States President Richard Nixon's administration in what came to be known as the Watergate scandal...

    " in the Watergate scandal
    Watergate scandal
    The Watergate scandal was a political scandal during the 1970s in the United States resulting from the break-in of the Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Watergate office complex in Washington, D.C., and the Nixon administration's attempted cover-up of its involvement...

    , heart failure. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/story/2008/12/19/ST2008121900106.html
  • Hannah Frank
    Hannah Frank
    Hannah Frank was an artist and sculptor from Glasgow, Scotland.Hannah was the daughter of a Jewish Russian refugee, Charles Frank, a notable camera maker, and grew up in the Laurieston district of the Gorbals. She studied art at the University of Glasgow...

    , 100, 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...

     sculptor. http://www.hannahfrank.org.uk/pages/index.htm
  • Nahla Hussain al-Shaly
    Nahla Hussain al-Shaly
    Nahla Hussain al-Shaly was a promoter of women's rights in Iraqi Kurdistan, and the leader of the Kurdistan Women's League, the women's wing of the Kurdistan Communist Party. On December 18, 2008, she was shot and decapitated after gunmen stormed her home in Kirkuk. Hussain, a married mother of...

    , 37, Iraq
    Iraq
    Iraq ; officially the Republic of Iraq is a country in Western Asia spanning most of the northwestern end of the Zagros mountain range, the eastern part of the Syrian Desert and the northern part of the Arabian Desert....

    i women's rights
    Women's rights
    Women's rights are entitlements and freedoms claimed for women and girls of all ages in many societies.In some places these rights are institutionalized or supported by law, local custom, and behaviour, whereas in others they may be ignored or suppressed...

     activist, shot
    Ballistic trauma
    The term ballistic trauma refers to a form of physical trauma sustained from the discharge of arms or munitions. The most common forms of ballistic trauma stem from firearms used in armed conflicts, civilian sporting and recreational pursuits, and criminal activity.-Destructive effects:The degree...

     and decapitated
    Decapitation
    Decapitation is the separation of the head from the body. Beheading typically refers to the act of intentional decapitation, e.g., as a means of murder or execution; it may be accomplished, for example, with an axe, sword, knife, wire, or by other more sophisticated means such as a guillotine...

    . http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/12/18/iraq.arrests/index.html
  • Robert Jonquet
    Robert Jonquet
    Robert Jonquet , was a French former football defender. He played the majority of his professional career for the club Stade de Reims, winning five French championships and appearing in two European Cup finals...

    , 83, 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...

     footballer, after long illness. http://www.uefa.com/memberassociations/association=fra/news/newsid=788631.html
  • Conor Cruise O'Brien
    Conor Cruise O'Brien
    Conor Cruise O'Brien often nicknamed "The Cruiser", was an Irish politician, writer, historian and academic. Although his opinion on the role of Britain in Northern Ireland changed over the course of the 1970s and 1980s, he always acknowledge values of, as he saw, the two irreconcilable traditions...

    , 91, Irish
    Republic of Ireland
    Ireland , described as the Republic of Ireland , is a sovereign state in Europe occupying approximately five-sixths of the island of the same name. Its capital is Dublin. Ireland, which had a population of 4.58 million in 2011, is a constitutional republic governed as a parliamentary democracy,...

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

    , writer
    Writer
    A writer is a person who produces literature, such as novels, short stories, plays, screenplays, poetry, or other literary art. Skilled writers are able to use language to portray ideas and images....

     and academic. http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/breaking/2008/1218/breaking92.htm
  • Ivan Rabuzin
    Ivan Rabuzin
    Ivan Rabuzin was a Croatian naïve artist.Rabuzin's father was a miner, and Ivan was the sixth of his eleven children. Ivan worked as a carpenter for many years, and did not begin painting until 1956, when he was thirty-five years old...

    , 87, 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 painter
    Painting
    Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a surface . The application of the medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush but other objects can be used. In art, the term painting describes both the act and the result of the action. However, painting is...

    . http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/247087,croatian-naive-painter-rabuzin-dies-at-87.html
  • Harold Snyder
    Harold Snyder
    Harold Snyder was an American businessperson who started Biocraft Laboratories, one of the earliest manufacturers of generic drugs.-Early life and education:...

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

     pharmaceuticals magnate
    Magnate
    Magnate, from the Late Latin magnas, a great man, itself from Latin magnus 'great', designates a noble or other man in a high social position, by birth, wealth or other qualities...

    , pioneer of generic drugs, 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://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/14/health/research/14snyder.html
  • Paul Weyrich
    Paul Weyrich
    Paul M. Weyrich was an American conservativepolitical activist and commentator, most notable as a figurehead of the New Right. He co-founded the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank and the Free Congress Foundation, another conservative think tank...

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

     conservative
    Conservatism
    Conservatism is a political and social philosophy that promotes the maintenance of traditional institutions and supports, at the most, minimal and gradual change in society. Some conservatives seek to preserve things as they are, emphasizing stability and continuity, while others oppose modernism...

     activist
    Activism
    Activism consists of intentional efforts to bring about social, political, economic, or environmental change. Activism can take a wide range of forms from writing letters to newspapers or politicians, political campaigning, economic activism such as boycotts or preferentially patronizing...

    , co-founder of the Heritage Foundation
    Heritage Foundation
    The Heritage Foundation is a conservative American think tank based in Washington, D.C. Heritage's stated mission is to "formulate and promote conservative public policies based on the principles of free enterprise, limited government, individual freedom, traditional American values, and a strong...

     think tank, diabetes. http://blog.heritage.org/2008/12/18/conservative-leader-paul-weyrich-dies-first-to-lead-heritage/

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  • Turgun Alimatov
    Turgun Alimatov
    Turgun Alimatov was an Uzbek musician.He was born in Tashkent in 1922 and lived there through the 1990s. He learned music from his father, never having taken formal music lessons, and began performing in 1939, becoming well known to the Uzbek public through musical theater as well as radio...

    , 85, Uzbek
    Uzbekistan
    Uzbekistan , officially the Republic of Uzbekistan is a doubly landlocked country in Central Asia and one of the six independent Turkic states. It shares borders with Kazakhstan to the west and to the north, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan to the east, and Afghanistan and Turkmenistan to the south....

     musician
    Musician
    A musician is an artist who plays a musical instrument. It may or may not be the person's profession. Musicians can be classified by their roles in performing music and writing music.Also....* A person who makes music a profession....

    . http://expat.uz/index.php?/Peoples-artist-Turgun-Alimatov-dies.html
  • Ismet Bajramović
    Ismet Bajramovic
    Ismet "Ćelo" Bajramović was a Bosnian soldier and reputed organized crime figure from Sarajevo. During the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina and specifically the siege of Sarajevo, Bajramović played a key role in the defense of the city in the early days of the war.Bajramović was born in Sarajevo...

    , 42, Bosnian
    Bosnia and Herzegovina
    Bosnia and Herzegovina , sometimes called Bosnia-Herzegovina or simply Bosnia, is a country in Southern Europe, on the Balkan Peninsula. Bordered by Croatia to the north, west and south, Serbia to the east, and Montenegro to the southeast, Bosnia and Herzegovina is almost landlocked, except for the...

     reputed organized crime
    Organized crime
    Organized crime or criminal organizations are transnational, national, or local groupings of highly centralized enterprises run by criminals for the purpose of engaging in illegal activity, most commonly for monetary profit. Some criminal organizations, such as terrorist organizations, are...

     figure and wartime commander, 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.balkaninsight.com/en/main/news/15653/
  • Sammy Baugh
    Sammy Baugh
    Samuel Adrian "Slingin' Sammy" Baugh was an American football player and coach. He played college football for the Horned Frogs at Texas Christian University, where he was a two-time All-American. He then played in the National Football League for the Washington Redskins from 1937 to 1952...

    , 94, 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 (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,...

    ). http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/12/18/sports/BAUGH.php
  • Freddy Breck
    Freddy Breck
    Freddy Breck was a German schlager singer, composer, record producer, and news anchor....

    , 66, 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...

     schlager
    Schlager
    Schlager music is a style of popular music prevalent in Central and Northern Europe and the Balkans and also in France and Poland. In Portugal, it was adapted and became pimba music...

     singer, 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://newsticker.sueddeutsche.de/list/id/340858 (German)
  • Jennifer Gale
    Jennifer Gale
    Jennifer Lauren Gale was an American perennial political candidate in Texas. Gale was a native of Wisconsin and a Democrat. Jennifer claimed to be a veteran of the United States Marine Corps...

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

     transgender
    Transgender
    Transgender is a general term applied to a variety of individuals, behaviors, and groups involving tendencies to vary from culturally conventional gender roles....

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

    , 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.keyetv.com/mostpopular/story/Austin-icon-Jennifer-Gale-found-dead/ibzRyKEbHEGUGuKD6J-2Ow.cspx
  • Ved Prakash Goyal
    Ved Prakash Goyal
    Ved Prakash Goyal was an Indian politician and the Union Minister of shipping in the Atal Bihari Vajpayee government in India from 2001-2003. He was the treasurer of Bharatiya Janata Party for a long time. He was a member of Rajya Sabha, the upper house of the Parliament of India.- Early life :He...

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

    , 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.hindu.com/thehindu/holnus/002200812181031.htm
  • Gregoire
    Gregoire (chimpanzee)
    Gregoire was, up until his death, Africa's oldest known chimpanzee. For the last eleven years of his life, he was a resident of the Tchimpounga Sanctuary in the Republic of the Congo. His special friend was the chimpanzee Clara...

    , 66, Africa
    Africa
    Africa is the world's second largest and second most populous continent, after Asia. At about 30.2 million km² including adjacent islands, it covers 6% of the Earth's total surface area and 20.4% of the total land area...

    n-born primate, oldest known chimpanzee
    Chimpanzee
    Chimpanzee, sometimes colloquially chimp, is the common name for the two extant species of ape in the genus Pan. The Congo River forms the boundary between the native habitat of the two species:...

    . http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2008/12/23/gregoire-oldest-chimp.html
  • Justin Levens
    Justin Levens
    Justin Robert Levens was an American mixed martial artist who fought for the UFC and, later in his career, the Southern California Condors of the International Fight League. Levens was a participant in Ultimate Fighting Championship and World Extreme Cagefighting but had not fought with either...

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

     mixed martial art fighter
    Warrior
    A warrior is a person skilled in combat or warfare, especially within the context of a tribal or clan-based society that recognizes a separate warrior class.-Warrior classes in tribal culture:...

    , possible 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.buddytv.com/articles/ufc/ufc-justin-levens-and-wife-fou-25327.aspx
  • Luis Félix López
    Luis Félix López
    Luis Ramón Félix López was a medical, political and recognized Ecuadorian writer who during his lifetime he held senior positions in public life of their country.- Early Life :...

    , 76, Ecuador
    Ecuador
    Ecuador , officially the Republic of Ecuador is a representative democratic republic in South America, bordered by Colombia on the north, Peru on the east and south, and by the Pacific Ocean to the west. It is one of only two countries in South America, along with Chile, that do not have a border...

    ian writer and politician, Secretary of Government, stabbed
    Stabbing
    A stabbing is penetration with a sharp or pointed object at close range. Stab connotes purposeful action, as by an assassin or murderer, but it is also possible to accidentally stab oneself or others.Stabbing differs from slashing or cutting in that the motion of the object used in a stabbing...

    . http://www.eluniverso.com/2008/12/19/1/1379/66BFE17A25CB4A0D951F9F1EAD12DF26.html (Spanish)
  • Willoughby Sharp
    Willoughby Sharp
    Willoughby Sharp was an internationally known artist, independent curator, independent publisher, gallerist, teacher, author, and telecom activist. In 1968, Sharp co-founded Avalanche magazine with writer/filmmaker Liza Béar...

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

     artist
    Artist
    An artist is a person engaged in one or more of any of a broad spectrum of activities related to creating art, practicing the arts and/or demonstrating an art. The common usage in both everyday speech and academic discourse is a practitioner in the visual arts only...

    , art dealer
    Art dealer
    An art dealer is a person or company that buys and sells works of art. Art dealers' professional associations serve to set high standards for accreditation or membership and to support art exhibitions and shows.-Role:...

    , curator
    Curator
    A curator is a manager or overseer. Traditionally, a curator or keeper of a cultural heritage institution is a content specialist responsible for an institution's collections and involved with the interpretation of heritage material...

     and impresario
    Impresario
    An impresario is a person who organizes and often finances concerts, plays or operas; analogous to a film producer in filmmaking, television production and an angel investor in business...

    , throat cancer
    Head and neck cancer
    Head and neck cancer refers to a group of biologically similar cancers that start in the upper aerodigestive tract, including the lip, oral cavity , nasal cavity , paranasal sinuses, pharynx, and larynx. 90% of head and neck cancers are squamous cell carcinomas , originating from the mucosal lining...

    . http://www.artnet.com/magazineus/features/finch/finch12-18-08.asp
  • Dave Smith, 53, 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...

     pitcher
    Pitcher
    In baseball, the pitcher is the player who throwsthe baseball from the pitcher's mound toward the catcher to begin each play, with the goal of retiring a batter, who attempts to either make contact with the pitched ball or draw a walk. In the numbering system used to record defensive plays, the...

     (Houston Astros
    Houston Astros
    The Houston Astros are a Major League Baseball team located in Houston, Texas. They are a member of the National League Central division. The Astros are expected to join the American League West division in 2013. Since , they have played their home games at Minute Maid Park, known as Enron Field...

    ), 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://mlb.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20081217&content_id=3720365&vkey=news_mlb&fext=.jsp&c_id=mlb
  • Feliciano Vierra Tavares
    Feliciano Vierra Tavares
    Feliciano Vierra "Flash" Tavares Sr. was a Cape Verdean American musician, singer and guitar player based in Massachusetts. He was the patriarch of the musical Tavares family, which included the Tavares Brothers, a successful Grammy-winning 1970s and 1980s R&B band composed of five of Tavares' sons...

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

     musician
    Musician
    A musician is an artist who plays a musical instrument. It may or may not be the person's profession. Musicians can be classified by their roles in performing music and writing music.Also....* A person who makes music a profession....

     and singer, father of the Tavares Brothers, 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.southcoasttoday.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20081219/NEWS/812190341
  • Henry Ashby Turner
    Henry Ashby Turner
    Henry Ashby Turner, Jr. was an American historian of Germany who was a professor at Yale University for over forty years...

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

     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...

    , melanoma
    Melanoma
    Melanoma is a malignant tumor of melanocytes. Melanocytes are cells that produce the dark pigment, melanin, which is responsible for the color of skin. They predominantly occur in skin, but are also found in other parts of the body, including the bowel and the eye...

    . http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/19/books/19turner.html?ref=obituaries
  • Nina Varlamova
    Nina Varlamova
    Nina Varlamova was a Russian politician who served as the Mayor of the northern town of Kandalaksha in Murmansk Oblast. Varlamova was elected Mayor of Kandalaksha in 2007....

    , 54, 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 politician, 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 Kandalaksha
    Kandalaksha
    Kandalaksha is a town in Kandalakshsky District of Murmansk Oblast, Russia, located at the head of Kandalaksha Gulf on the White Sea, beyond the Arctic Circle. Population: 40,564 ; -History:The settlement has existed since the 11th century...

    , stabbed
    Stabbing
    A stabbing is penetration with a sharp or pointed object at close range. Stab connotes purposeful action, as by an assassin or murderer, but it is also possible to accidentally stab oneself or others.Stabbing differs from slashing or cutting in that the motion of the object used in a stabbing...

    . http://www.moscowtimes.ru/article/1010/42/373273.htm

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  • Sam Bottoms
    Sam Bottoms
    Samuel John "Sam" Bottoms was an American actor and producer.-Personal life:Bottoms was born in Santa Barbara, California, the third son of James "Bud" Bottoms and Betty , both of whom survive him...

    , 53, 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...

     (Apocalypse Now
    Apocalypse Now
    Apocalypse Now is a 1979 American war film set during the Vietnam War, produced and directed by Francis Ford Coppola. The central character is US Army special operations officer Captain Benjamin L. Willard , of MACV-SOG, an assassin sent to kill the renegade and presumed insane Special Forces...

    ), glioblastoma multiforme
    Glioblastoma multiforme
    Glioblastoma multiforme is the most common and most aggressive malignant primary brain tumor in humans, involving glial cells and accounting for 52% of all functional tissue brain tumor cases and 20% of all intracranial tumors. Despite being the most prevalent form of primary brain tumor, GBMs...

    . http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-bottoms18-2008dec18,0,6453698.story
  • Richard Coleman
    Richard Coleman
    Richard Coleman was a British television and stage actor.-Early life:He was born Ronald Coleman in Peckham, London in 1930. Coleman was awarded the Leverhulme Scholarship to RADA in 1951, and graduated in 1953 with the Principal’s Medal...

    , 78, 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
    Actor
    An actor is a person who acts in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio in that capacity...

    . http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article5548628.ece
  • George Constantinou
    George Constantinou
    Sir George Constantinou OBE Kt was a Papua New Guinean businessman and builder. Constantinou, who was born in Cyprus, immigrated to Papua New Guinea in the 1950s. He was considered to be one of Papua New Guinea's wealthiest and most successful businessmen. He lived in Papua New Guinea almost his...

    , 75, Cypriot
    Cyprus
    Cyprus , officially the Republic of Cyprus , is a Eurasian island country, member of the European Union, in the Eastern Mediterranean, east of Greece, south of Turkey, west of Syria and north of Egypt. It is the third largest island in the Mediterranean Sea.The earliest known human activity on the...

    -born Papua New Guinea
    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...

    n businessman, aggravated assault during carjacking
    Carjacking
    Carjacking is a form of hijacking, where the crime is of stealing a motor vehicle and so also armed assault when the vehicle is occupied. Historically, such as in the rash of semi-trailer truck hijackings during the 1960s, the general term hijacking was used for that type of vehicle abduction,...

    . http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,24815872-12377,00.html
  • Julius Fast
    Julius Fast
    Julius Fast was an American author of both fiction and non-fiction. In 1946 he was the first recipient of the Edgar Award given by the Mystery Writers of America for the best first novel of 1945....

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

     writer
    Writer
    A writer is a person who produces literature, such as novels, short stories, plays, screenplays, poetry, or other literary art. Skilled writers are able to use language to portray ideas and images....

    . http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/21/books/21fast.html?ref=obituaries
  • Harold Gramatges
    Harold Gramatges
    Harold Gramatges was a Cuban composer, pianist, and teacher.Gramatges was born in Santiago, Cuba...

    , 90, Cuba
    Cuba
    The Republic of Cuba is an island nation in the Caribbean. The nation of Cuba consists of the main island of Cuba, the Isla de la Juventud, and several archipelagos. Havana is the largest city in Cuba and the country's capital. Santiago de Cuba is the second largest city...

    n composer
    Composer
    A composer is a person who creates music, either by musical notation or oral tradition, for interpretation and performance, or through direct manipulation of sonic material through electronic media...

     and pianist
    Pianist
    A pianist is a musician who plays the piano. A professional pianist can perform solo pieces, play with an ensemble or orchestra, or accompany one or more singers, solo instrumentalists, or other performers.-Choice of genres:...

    . http://www.solvision.co.cu/english/culture/harold_gramatges_passes_away_018012.html
  • Joe Krol
    Joe Krol
    Joe "King" Krol was a Canadian football quarterback, running back, defensive back, and placekicker/punter from 1942 to 1953 and 1955...

    , 89, 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...

     football player
    Canadian Football League
    The Canadian Football League or CFL is a professional sports league located in Canada. The CFL is the highest level of competition in Canadian football, a form of gridiron football closely related to American football....

     (Toronto Argonauts
    Toronto Argonauts
    The Toronto Argonauts are a professional Canadian football team competing in the East Division of the Canadian Football League. The Toronto, Ontario based team was founded in 1873 and is one of the oldest existing professional sports teams in North America, after the Chicago Cubs and the Atlanta...

    ). http://www.tsn.ca/cfl/story/?id=259951&lid=headline&lpos=secStory_main
  • John E. Sprizzo
    John E. Sprizzo
    John Emilio Sprizzo was a federal judge for the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York.-Early life:...

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

     jurist, organ failure
    Organ failure
    Organ dysfunction is a condition where an organ does not perform its expected function. Organ failure is organ dysfunction to such a degree that normal homeostasis cannot be maintained without external clinical intervention.It is not a diagnosis...

    . http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/18/nyregion/18sprizzo.html
  • Zlatko Šugman
    Zlatko Šugman
    Zlatko Šugman was one of Slovenia's best known theater, television and film actors.Sugman was born in Gorisnica, which is located near Ptuj, in what was then Yugoslavia on August 28, 1932. He was a graduate of the Ljubljana Academy of Acting.He appeared in numerous Slovenian and Yugoslav theater...

    , 76, Slovenia
    Slovenia
    Slovenia , officially the Republic of Slovenia , is a country in Central and Southeastern Europe touching the Alps and bordering the Mediterranean. Slovenia borders Italy to the west, Croatia to the south and east, Hungary to the northeast, and Austria to the north, and also has a small portion of...

    n 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...

    , illness. http://www.ukom.gov.si/eng/slovenia/publications/slovenia-news/7895/7896/

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  • Valentin Berlinsky
    Valentin Berlinsky
    Valentin Berlinsky was a Russian cellist. He was a founding member of the world-famous Borodin Quartet in 1945 and was a member until 2007. He was the only Quartet member to have played in it from the beginning...

    , 83, 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, after long illness. http://www.russia-ic.com/news/show/7552/
  • Mike Blum
    Mike Blum
    Mike Blum was a Canadian football player in the Canadian Football League. He played five seasons for the Toronto Argonauts between 1968 and 1974, and in 1972 earned a Grey Cup ring with the Hamilton Tiger-Cats.He died of a cerebral hemorrhage in Toronto on December 15, 2008-External links:* ...

    , 65, 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...

     football
    Canadian Football League
    The Canadian Football League or CFL is a professional sports league located in Canada. The CFL is the highest level of competition in Canadian football, a form of gridiron football closely related to American football....

     player (Toronto Argonauts
    Toronto Argonauts
    The Toronto Argonauts are a professional Canadian football team competing in the East Division of the Canadian Football League. The Toronto, Ontario based team was founded in 1873 and is one of the oldest existing professional sports teams in North America, after the Chicago Cubs and the Atlanta...

    , Hamilton Tiger-Cats
    Hamilton Tiger-Cats
    The Hamilton Tiger-Cats are a Canadian Football League team based in Hamilton, Ontario, founded in 1950 with the merger of the Hamilton Tigers and the Hamilton Wildcats. The Tiger-Cats play their home games at Ivor Wynne Stadium...

    ), cerebral hemorrhage. http://www.thestar.com/Sports/article/556166
  • Carlo Caracciolo
    Carlo Caracciolo
    Don Carlo Caracciolo di Castagneto was the 9th Principe di Castagneto, 4th duca di Melito and an Italian publisher. He created Gruppo Editoriale L’Espresso, one of Italy's leading publishing groups...

    , 83, 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...

     publisher (La Repubblica
    La Repubblica
    la Repubblica is an Italian daily general-interest newspaper. Founded in 1976 in Rome by the journalist Eugenio Scalfari, as of 2008 is the second largest circulation newspaper, behind the Corriere della Sera.-Foundation:...

    ). http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/17/world/europe/17caracciolo.html?ref=obituaries
  • León Febres Cordero
    León Febres Cordero
    León Esteban Febres-Cordero Ribadeneyra was President of Ecuador for a four-year term from 10 August 1984 to 10 August 1988...

    , 77, Ecuador
    Ecuador
    Ecuador , officially the Republic of Ecuador is a representative democratic republic in South America, bordered by Colombia on the north, Peru on the east and south, and by the Pacific Ocean to the west. It is one of only two countries in South America, along with Chile, that do not have a border...

    ian President
    President
    A president is a leader of an organization, company, trade union, university, or country.Etymologically, a president is one who presides, who sits in leadership...

     (1984–1988), complications from pulmonary emphysema. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/leon-febres-cordero-confrontational-president-of-ecuador-1192737.html
  • Davey Graham
    Davey Graham
    David Michael Gordon "Davey" Graham, originally spelled Davy Graham, , was a British guitarist and one of the most influential figures in the 1960s British folk revival...

    , 68, 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...

     guitarist
    Guitarist
    A guitarist is a musician who plays the guitar. Guitarists may play a variety of instruments such as classical guitars, acoustic guitars, electric guitars, and bass guitars. Some guitarists accompany themselves on the guitar while singing.- Versatility :The guitarist controls an extremely...

    , 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.daveygraham.moonfruit.com/
  • David Lieber
    David Lieber
    Dr. David L. Lieber, rabbi and scholar, was president emeritus of the University of Judaism and the senior editor of the Etz Hayim Humash...

    , 83, 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...

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

     biblical scholar, lung ailment. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/21/us/21lieber.html?ref=obituaries
  • John W. Powell
    John W. Powell
    John William Powell was a journalist and small business proprietor who was most well known for being tried for sedition after publishing an article in 1952 that reported on allegations made by Mainland Chinese officials that the United States and Japan were carrying out germ warfare in the Korean...

    , 89, Chinese
    People's Republic of China
    China , officially the People's Republic of China , is the most populous country in the world, with over 1.3 billion citizens. Located in East Asia, the country covers approximately 9.6 million square kilometres...

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

     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...

     tried for sedition
    Sedition
    In law, sedition is overt conduct, such as speech and organization, that is deemed by the legal authority to tend toward insurrection against the established order. Sedition often includes subversion of a constitution and incitement of discontent to lawful authority. Sedition may include any...

    , complications from 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/2008/12/17/us/17powell.html?ref=obituaries
  • Gian Franco Romagnoli
    Gian Franco Romagnoli
    Gian Franco Romagnoli was an Italian chef, author, and television personality. He hosted The Romagnolis’ Table, an American program about Italian cookery, alongside his wife Margaret, from 1973 to 1975....

    , 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...

     chef
    Chef
    A chef is a person who cooks professionally for other people. Although over time the term has come to describe any person who cooks for a living, traditionally it refers to a highly skilled professional who is proficient in all aspects of food preparation.-Etymology:The word "chef" is borrowed ...

    , author
    Author
    An author is broadly defined as "the person who originates or gives existence to anything" and that authorship determines responsibility for what is created. Narrowly defined, an author is the originator of any written work.-Legal significance:...

    , television personality. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/17/dining/17romagnoli.html?ref=obituaries
  • Clyde Sproat
    Clyde Sproat
    Clyde Halemaumau "Kindy" Sproat is a Hawaiian falsetto musician.- External links :**...

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

     musician
    Musician
    A musician is an artist who plays a musical instrument. It may or may not be the person's profession. Musicians can be classified by their roles in performing music and writing music.Also....* A person who makes music a profession....

    . http://www.hawaii247.com/2008/12/15/renowned-falsetto-singer-clyde-kindy-sproat-has-died/
  • Anne-Catharina Vestly
    Anne-Catharina Vestly
    Anne-Cath. Vestly , was a Norwegian author of children’s literature whose stature in Norwegian society can somewhat be compared to Sweden's famous children's book author Astrid Lindgren among Swedish people....

    , 88, 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...

     children's writer and actress. http://www.vg.no/rampelys/artikkel.php?artid=555385 (Norwegian)
  • Jay E. Welch
    Jay E. Welch
    Jay Evard Welch was an American musician who was a music director of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir, a longtime University of Utah professor, and founder of the Mormon Youth Symphony and Chorus, Jay Welch Chorale and the Salt Lake Repertory Orchestra.Welch was born in Salt Lake City on November 6,...

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

     musician
    Musician
    A musician is an artist who plays a musical instrument. It may or may not be the person's profession. Musicians can be classified by their roles in performing music and writing music.Also....* A person who makes music a profession....

    , founder of the Mormon Youth Symphony and Chorus
    Mormon Youth Symphony and Chorus
    The Mormon Youth Symphony and Chorus was an official musical organization of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from 1969 to 1999, composed of young musicians aged 18 to 33. In its 30 year history, MYSC was credited with many television specials, numerous recordings, concerts, and...

    . http://deseretnews.com/article/0,5143,705270953,00.html

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  • Mike Bell
    Mike Bell (wrestler)
    Michael "Mike" Bell was an American professional wrestler who worked for the World Wrestling Federation and Extreme Championship Wrestling as Mike "Mad Dog" Bell. He is the brother of Mark Bell....

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

     professional wrestler
    Professional wrestling
    Professional wrestling is a mode of spectacle, combining athletics and theatrical performance.Roland Barthes, "The World of Wrestling", Mythologies, 1957 It takes the form of events, held by touring companies, which mimic a title match combat sport...

    . http://www.poughkeepsiejournal.com/article/20081215/SPORTS08/81215001
  • Hank Goldup
    Hank Goldup
    Henry George "Hank" Goldup was a Canadian professional ice hockey player who played 202 games in the National Hockey League with the Toronto Maple Leafs and New York Rangers. He won the Stanley Cup in 1942 with the Toronto Maple Leafs...

    , 90, 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...

     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...

     player. http://mapleleafs.nhl.com/team/app/?service=page&page=NewsPage&articleid=398625
  • William Kaufmann
    William Kaufmann
    William Weed Kaufmann was an American nuclear strategist and adviser to seven defense secretaries, who advocated for a shift from the strategy of massive retaliation against the Soviet Union in the event of a nuclear strike.Kaufmann was born in Manhattan on November 10, 1918 to Charles and...

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

     nuclear strategist
    Nuclear strategy
    Nuclear strategy involves the development of doctrines and strategies for the production and use of nuclear weapons.As a sub-branch of military strategy, nuclear strategy attempts to match nuclear weapons as means to political ends...

    , adviser
    Advice (opinion)
    Advice is a form of relating personal or institutional opinions, belief systems, values, recommendations or guidance about certain situations relayed in some context to another person, group or party often offered as a guide to action and/or conduct...

     to seven Defense Secretaries, 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.nytimes.com/2008/12/22/washington/22kaufmann.html?ref=obituaries
  • Carl Kotchian
    Carl Kotchian
    Archibald Carl Kotchian , known as Carl or A.C., was an American business executive who served as the president of Lockheed Corporation...

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

     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:...

     executive, president
    President
    A president is a leader of an organization, company, trade union, university, or country.Etymologically, a president is one who presides, who sits in leadership...

     of Lockheed
    Lockheed Corporation
    The Lockheed Corporation was an American aerospace company. Lockheed was founded in 1912 and later merged with Martin Marietta to form Lockheed Martin in 1995.-Origins:...

    . http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/23/business/23kotchian.html?ref=obituaries
  • Gastón Parra Luzardo
    Gastón Parra Luzardo
    Gastón Parra Luzardo was a Venezuelan academic, who up until his death was president of the Central Bank of Venezuela. He was appointed to the position in 2005. In 2002 he was briefly chairman of the state-owned oil giant Petróleos de Venezuela S.A....

    , 75, Venezuela
    Venezuela
    Venezuela , officially called the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela , is a tropical country on the northern coast of South America. It borders Colombia to the west, Guyana to the east, and Brazil to the south...

    n academic and banker, after long illness. http://www.laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=323271&CategoryId=10717
  • Candida Tobin
    Candida Tobin
    Candida Tobin, Hon FTCL, LTCL , was the author of the Tobin Method, a music education system for teaching music theory and practice to students of all ages and abilities.-Personal Life:...

    , 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...

     music educator. http://www.guardian.co.uk/theguardian/2009/jan/26/obituary-candida-tobin
  • Nick Willhite
    Nick Willhite
    Jon Nicholas Willhite was an American professional baseball player, a left-handed pitcher. Born in Tulsa, Oklahoma, Willhite grew up in Denver, Colorado and graduated from South High School in 1959...

    , 67, 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...

     pitcher
    Pitcher
    In baseball, the pitcher is the player who throwsthe baseball from the pitcher's mound toward the catcher to begin each play, with the goal of retiring a batter, who attempts to either make contact with the pitched ball or draw a walk. In the numbering system used to record defensive plays, the...

    , 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.latimes.com/sports/baseball/mlb/la-me-passings18-2008dec18,0,2251309.story

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  • Doris Totten Chase
    Doris Totten Chase
    Doris Totten Chase was a painter, teacher, and sculptor, but is best remembered for pioneering in the production of key works in the history of video art. She was a member of the Northwest School .-Sensual Light:...

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

     painter
    Painting
    Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a surface . The application of the medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush but other objects can be used. In art, the term painting describes both the act and the result of the action. However, painting is...

     and sculptor. http://www.legacy.com/SeattlePI/Obituaries.asp?Page=Lifestory&PersonId=121810593
  • Sir David Clutterbuck
    David Clutterbuck
    Vice Admiral Sir David Granville Clutterbuck KBE CB was a Royal Navy officer who became Deputy Supreme Allied Commander Atlantic.-Naval career:Educated at the HMS Conway, Clutterbuck joined the Royal Navy in 1929...

    , 95, 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...

     admiral
    Admiral
    Admiral is the rank, or part of the name of the ranks, of the highest naval officers. It is usually considered a full admiral and above vice admiral and below admiral of the fleet . It is usually abbreviated to "Adm" or "ADM"...

    . http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article5525654.ece
  • John Drake, 49, 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...

     rugby union player
    Rugby union
    Rugby union, often simply referred to as rugby, is a full contact team sport which originated in England in the early 19th century. One of the two codes of rugby football, it is based on running with the ball in hand...

    . http://news.theage.com.au/sport/former-all-black-john-drake-dead-at-49-20081213-6xuv.html
  • Mario Alvarez Dugan
    Mario Alvarez Dugan
    Mario Alvarez Dugan was a Dominican editor and journalist who served as the head editor of Hoy, a newspaper published in Santo Domingo, from 1988 until his death in 2008....

    , 77, Dominican
    Dominican Republic
    The Dominican Republic is a nation on the island of La Hispaniola, part of the Greater Antilles archipelago in the Caribbean region. The western third of the island is occupied by the nation of Haiti, making Hispaniola one of two Caribbean islands that are shared by two countries...

     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 newspaper editor, heart problems. http://www.laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=323289&CategoryId=14092
  • Otto Felix
    Otto Felix
    Otto Felix was a motion picture and television actor, an acting teacher and a still photographer.Raised in Pennsylvania, and a graduate of Fishburne Military School, Waynesboro, Virginia, then he served in the U.S. Army, and worked as a disc jockey in Florida, before beginning an acting career...

    , 65, 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...

    , amyloidosis
    Amyloidosis
    In medicine, amyloidosis refers to a variety of conditions whereby the body produces "bad proteins", denoted as amyloid proteins, which are abnormally deposited in organs and/or tissues and cause harm. A protein is described as being amyloid if, due to an alteration in its secondary structure, it...

    . http://www.malibutimes.com/articles/2008/12/24/obituaries/obit1.txt
  • Vince Karalius
    Vince Karalius
    Vincent Peter Patrick Karalius was an English professional Rugby League World Cup winning and coach who forged a fearsome reputation both as a strong runner of the ball, and as a devastating tackler.-Club career:...

    , 76, 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...

     rugby league player
    Rugby league
    Rugby league football, usually called rugby league, is a full contact sport played by two teams of thirteen players on a rectangular grass field. One of the two codes of rugby football, it originated in England in 1895 by a split from Rugby Football Union over paying players...

    , 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.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article5354363.ece
  • Shan Lloyd
    Shan Lloyd
    Shan Lloyd was a British journalist, writer and reporter. She was the fourth wife and widow of actor Hugh Lloyd....

    , 55, 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...

     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...

    , wife of actor Hugh Lloyd
    Hugh Lloyd
    Hugh Lewis Lloyd, MBE was an English actor who made his name in television and film comedy from the 1960s to the 1980s. He was best known for appearances in Hugh and I and other sitcoms of the 1960s.-Life:...

    . http://www.theargus.co.uk/news/3981550.Actor_s_widow_dies_at_just_55/
  • David Margolis
    David Margolis
    David Israel Margolis was an American industrialist who served as president and chairman of Colt Industries, who was a confidant of former Mayor of New York City Ed Koch....

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

     industrialist, 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.nytimes.com/2008/12/20/business/20margolis.html
  • Kjartan Slettemark
    Kjartan Slettemark
    Kjartan Slettemark was a Norwegian-Swedish artist. Kjartan is a Norwegian corruption of the Gaelic name Muircheartach . His surname consists of the Norwegian words slette and mark...

    , 76, 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...

     political artist
    Artist
    An artist is a person engaged in one or more of any of a broad spectrum of activities related to creating art, practicing the arts and/or demonstrating an art. The common usage in both everyday speech and academic discourse is a practitioner in the visual arts only...

    , heart failure. http://www.dn.se/DNet/jsp/polopoly.jsp?d=2374&a=863682 (Norwegian)
  • Kathy Staff
    Kathy Staff
    Kathy Staff was an English actress, well known for her work on British television...

    , 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...

     actress (Last of the Summer Wine
    Last of the Summer Wine
    Last of the Summer Wine is a British sitcom written by Roy Clarke that was broadcast on BBC One. Last of the Summer Wine premiered as an episode of Comedy Playhouse on 4 January 1973 and the first series of episodes followed on 12 November 1973. From 1983 to 2010, Alan J. W. Bell produced and...

    ), brain tumour. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7782250.stm
  • Horst Tappert
    Horst Tappert
    Horst Tappert was a German movie and television actor who played Inspector Stephan Derrick in the television drama Derrick.-Biography:...

    , 85, 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...

     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...

     (Derrick
    Derrick (TV series)
    Derrick is a German TV series produced by Telenova Film und Fernsehproduktion in association with ZDF, ORF and SRG between 1974 and 1998 about Detective Chief Inspector Stephan Derrick and his loyal assistant Inspector Harry Klein , who solve murder cases in Munich and surroundings Derrick is a...

    ). http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117997610.html?categoryid=14&cs=1

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  • David Charteris, 12th Earl of Wemyss
    David Charteris, 12th Earl of Wemyss
    Francis David Charteris, 12th Earl of Wemyss and 8th Earl of March, KT, DL succeeded his grandfather in the family titles in 1937....

    , 96, 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...

     aristocrat
    Aristocracy
    Aristocracy , is a form of government in which a few elite citizens rule. The term derives from the Greek aristokratia, meaning "rule of the best". In origin in Ancient Greece, it was conceived of as rule by the best qualified citizens, and contrasted with monarchy...

     and public servant. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/3777290/The-Earl-of-Wemyss-and-March.html
  • Avery Dulles, 90, American
    United States
    The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

     Roman Catholic
    Roman Catholic Church
    The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the world's largest Christian church, with over a billion members. Led by the Pope, it defines its mission as spreading the gospel of Jesus Christ, administering the sacraments and exercising charity...

     Jesuit priest, theologian
    Theology
    Theology is the systematic and rational study of religion and its influences and of the nature of religious truths, or the learned profession acquired by completing specialized training in religious studies, usually at a university or school of divinity or seminary.-Definition:Augustine of Hippo...

     and cardinal
    Cardinal (Catholicism)
    A cardinal is a senior ecclesiastical official, usually an ordained bishop, and ecclesiastical prince of the Catholic Church. They are collectively known as the College of Cardinals, which as a body elects a new pope. The duties of the cardinals include attending the meetings of the College and...

    . http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bdulles.html
  • Max Elbin
    Max Elbin
    Carl Max Elbin was an American golf professional who served a three-year term as president of the Professional Golfers' Association of America during a time when professional tournament golfers split away to form the PGA Tour.Elbin started out as a caddy at the Cumberland Country Club in...

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

     golfer
    Professional golfer
    In golf the distinction between amateurs and professionals is rigorously maintained. An amateur who breaches the rules of amateur status may lose his or her amateur status. A golfer who has lost his or her amateur status may not play in amateur competitions until amateur status has been reinstated;...

    , President
    President
    A president is a leader of an organization, company, trade union, university, or country.Etymologically, a president is one who presides, who sits in leadership...

     of the PGA
    Professional Golfers' Association of America
    Founded in 1916, the Professional Golfers' Association of America is headquartered in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, and is made up of more than 28,000 men and women golf professional members...

     (1965−1968), heart failure. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/14/sports/golf/14elbin.html?ref=obituaries
  • Daniel Carleton Gajdusek
    Daniel Carleton Gajdusek
    Daniel Carleton Gajdusek was an American physician and medical researcher who was the co-recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1976 for work on kuru, the first human prion disease demonstrated to be infectious....

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

     virologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine (1976). http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/15/science/15gajdusek.html
  • Sigitas Geda
    Sigitas Geda
    Sigitas Geda was a poet and translator in Lithuania.- Education and career :He studied history and philology at Vilnius University. In 1966 his collection Pedos came out. He was also a leading figure in the Movement for the Support of Perestroika or Sąjūdis...

    , 65, Lithuania
    Lithuania
    Lithuania , officially the Republic of Lithuania is a country in Northern Europe, the biggest of the three Baltic states. It is situated along the southeastern shore of the Baltic Sea, whereby to the west lie Sweden and Denmark...

    n poet
    Poet
    A poet is a person who writes poetry. A poet's work can be literal, meaning that his work is derived from a specific event, or metaphorical, meaning that his work can take on many meanings and forms. Poets have existed since antiquity, in nearly all languages, and have produced works that vary...

    . http://www.lrytas.lt/-12291012881227718968-p1-žmonės-mirė-rašytojas-s-geda-papildyta-interviu-su-kūrėju.htm (Lithuanian)
  • Van Johnson
    Van Johnson
    Van Johnson was an American film and television actor and dancer who was a major star at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studios during and after World War II....

    , 92, 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...

     (Battleground, The Caine Mutiny
    The Caine Mutiny (film)
    The Caine Mutiny is a 1954 American drama film set during World War II, directed by Edward Dmytryk and produced by Stanley Kramer. It stars Humphrey Bogart, José Ferrer, Van Johnson and Fred MacMurray, and is based on the 1951 Pulitzer Prize winning novel by Herman Wouk The Caine Mutiny. The film...

    , Brigadoon
    Brigadoon (film)
    Brigadoon is a 1954 MGM musical feature film made in CinemaScope and Ansco Color based on the Broadway musical of the same name by Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe. The film was directed by Vincente Minnelli and stars Gene Kelly, Van Johnson, and Cyd Charisse...

    , Batman
    Batman (TV series)
    Batman is an American television series, based on the DC comic book character of the same name. It stars Adam West as Batman and Burt Ward as Robin — two crime-fighting heroes who defend Gotham City. It aired on the American Broadcasting Company network for three seasons from January 12, 1966 to...

    ), natural causes. http://www.delawareonline.com/article/20081212/ENTERTAINMENT/81212038
  • Emmanuel Kasonde
    Emmanuel Kasonde
    Emmanuel Kasonde was a Zambian economist and politician who served as the Finance permanent secretary or Minister of Finance under three successive Zambian presidential administrations, including Kenneth Kaunda, Frederick Chiluba and Levy Mwanawasa.- Early life :Emmanuel Kasonde was born in Malole...

    , 72, Zambia
    Zambia
    Zambia , officially the Republic of Zambia, is a landlocked country in Southern Africa. The neighbouring countries are the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the north, Tanzania to the north-east, Malawi to the east, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Botswana and Namibia to the south, and Angola to the west....

    n economist
    Economist
    An economist is a professional in the social science discipline of economics. The individual may also study, develop, and apply theories and concepts from economics and write about economic policy...

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

    , Finance Minister
    Finance minister
    The finance minister is a cabinet position in a government.A minister of finance has many different jobs in a government. He or she helps form the government budget, stimulate the economy, and control finances...

     (1967−1971). http://www.times.co.zm/news/viewnews.cgi?category=4&id=1229415801
  • Tassos Papadopoulos
    Tassos Papadopoulos
    Tassos Nikolaou Papadopoulos was a Cypriot politician. He served as the fifth President of the Republic of Cyprus from February 28, 2003 to February 28, 2008.His parents were Nicolas and Aggeliki from Assia. He was the first of three children...

    , 74, Cypriot
    Cyprus
    Cyprus , officially the Republic of Cyprus , is a Eurasian island country, member of the European Union, in the Eastern Mediterranean, east of Greece, south of Turkey, west of Syria and north of Egypt. It is the third largest island in the Mediterranean Sea.The earliest known human activity on the...

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

    , President (2003−2008), small cell lung carcinoma
    Small cell carcinoma
    Small cell carcinoma is a type of highly malignant cancer that most commonly arises within the lung, although it can occasionally arise in other body sites, such as the cervix and prostate....

    . http://www.thelondondailynews.com/former-cypriot-president-tassos-papadopoulos-dies-p-1965.html
  • Maksym Pashayev, 20, Ukrainian
    Ukraine
    Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe. It has an area of 603,628 km², making it the second largest contiguous country on the European continent, after Russia...

     footballer, 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://sports.yahoo.com/sow/news?slug=reu-europeukrainepashayev&prov=reuters&type=lgns
  • Amalia Solórzano
    Amalia Solórzano
    Amalia Solórzano de Cárdenas was the First Lady of Mexico from 1934 to 1940. She was the spouse of president Lázaro Cárdenas, the mother of the thrice ex-presidential candidate and former Head of Government of the Federal District, Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas, and the grandmother of the former Governor of...

    , 97, Mexican
    Mexico
    The United Mexican States , commonly known as Mexico , is a federal constitutional republic in North America. It is bordered on the north by the United States; on the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; on the southeast by Guatemala, Belize, and the Caribbean Sea; and on the east by the Gulf of...

     First Lady
    First Lady of Mexico
    First Lady of Mexico is the unofficial title of the wife of the President of Mexico.The post is highly ceremonial and in fact once caused severe controversy when it was thought that the First Lady took too much involvement in their husband's post....

     (1934–1940), respiratory complications
    Respiratory system
    The respiratory system is the anatomical system of an organism that introduces respiratory gases to the interior and performs gas exchange. In humans and other mammals, the anatomical features of the respiratory system include airways, lungs, and the respiratory muscles...

    . http://www.laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=323199&CategoryId=14091
  • Robin Toner
    Robin Toner
    Roberta 'Robin' Denise Toner was an American journalist. She was the first woman to be national political correspondent for The New York Times....

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

     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...

     (The New York Times
    The New York Times
    The New York Times is an American daily newspaper founded and continuously published in New York City since 1851. The New York Times has won 106 Pulitzer Prizes, the most of any news organization...

    ), colon cancer. http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/12/12/america/12toner.php

11

  • Ali Alatas
    Ali Alatas
    Ali Alatas was an Indonesian diplomat of Hadhrami descent, who served as the country's foreign minister from 1988 to 1999. He was Indonesia's longest serving foreign minister.-Education and early career:...

    , 76, Indonesia
    Indonesia
    Indonesia , officially the Republic of Indonesia , is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania. Indonesia is an archipelago comprising approximately 13,000 islands. It has 33 provinces with over 238 million people, and is the world's fourth most populous country. Indonesia is a republic, with an...

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

    , Foreign Minister
    Foreign minister
    A Minister of Foreign Affairs, or foreign minister, is a cabinet minister who helps form the foreign policy of a sovereign state. The foreign minister is often regarded as the most senior ministerial position below that of the head of government . It is often granted to the deputy prime minister in...

     (1988–1999), 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.thejakartapost.com/news/2008/12/11/former-foreign-minister-ali-alatas-dies-76.html
  • Maddie Blaustein
    Maddie Blaustein
    Madeleine Joan Blaustein was an American voice actress...

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

     voice actress
    Voice acting
    Voice acting is the art of providing voices for animated characters and radio and audio dramas and comedy, as well as doing voice-overs in radio and television commercials, audio dramas, dubbed foreign language films, video games, puppet shows, and amusement rides.Performers are called...

     (Pokémon
    Pokémon
    is a media franchise published and owned by the video game company Nintendo and created by Satoshi Tajiri in 1996. Originally released as a pair of interlinkable Game Boy role-playing video games developed by Game Freak, Pokémon has since become the second most successful and lucrative video...

    ), after an illness. http://www.4kids.tv/buzz/view/2005
  • Ron Carey
    Ron Carey (labor leader)
    Ronald Robert Carey was an American labor leader who served as president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters from 1991 to 1997. He was the first Teamster General President elected by a direct vote of the membership...

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

     labor leader
    Trade union
    A trade union, trades union or labor union is an organization of workers that have banded together to achieve common goals such as better working conditions. The trade union, through its leadership, bargains with the employer on behalf of union members and negotiates labour contracts with...

     (Teamsters
    Teamsters
    The International Brotherhood of Teamsters is a labor union in the United States and Canada. Formed in 1903 by the merger of several local and regional locals of teamsters, the union now represents a diverse membership of blue-collar and professional workers in both the public and private sectors....

    ), 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.nytimes.com/2008/12/13/us/13carey.html
  • Robert Chandler
    Robert Chandler (network executive)
    Robert Chandler was an American television executive who helped create and oversee the television newsmagazine 60 Minutes during his 22-year tenure at CBS News....

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

     CBS
    CBS
    CBS Broadcasting Inc. is a major US commercial broadcasting television network, which started as a radio network. The name is derived from the initials of the network's former name, Columbia Broadcasting System. The network is sometimes referred to as the "Eye Network" in reference to the shape of...

     executive, heart failure. http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1866060,00.html
  • Elie Amsini Kiswaya
    Elie Amsini Kiswaya
    Elie Amsini Kiswaya was a Congolese bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Sakania–Kipushi of the Democratic Republic of the Congo from March 5, 1977 until December 21, 2001. He was succeeded by Bishop Gaston Kashala Ruwezi. Kiswaya died on December 11, 2008 at the age fof 80.- External links :*...

    , 80, Congolese
    Democratic Republic of the Congo
    The Democratic Republic of the Congo is a state located in Central Africa. It is the second largest country in Africa by area and the eleventh largest in the world...

     Roman Catholic prelate, bishop of Sakania-Kipushi. http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bamskis.html
  • Bettie Page
    Bettie Page
    Bettie Mae Page was an American model who became famous in the 1950s for her fetish modeling and pin-up photos. She has often been called the "Queen of Pinups"...

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

     pin-up model
    Pin-up girl
    A pin-up girl, also known as a pin-up model, is a model whose mass-produced pictures see wide appeal as popular culture. Pin-ups are intended for informal display, e.g. meant to be "pinned-up" on a wall...

     and actress, complications from a 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/2008/12/12/arts/12page.html
  • Yeh Shih-tao
    Yeh Shih-tao
    Yeh Shih-tao was a pioneering Taiwanese writer and historian, who specialized in the literary history of Taiwan and the lives of ordinary Taiwanese people. He was considered a seminal figure in Taiwanese literary criticism....

    , 83, Taiwanese
    Republic of China
    The Republic of China , commonly known as Taiwan , is a unitary sovereign state located in East Asia. Originally based in mainland China, the Republic of China currently governs the island of Taiwan , which forms over 99% of its current territory, as well as Penghu, Kinmen, Matsu and other minor...

     writer
    Writer
    A writer is a person who produces literature, such as novels, short stories, plays, screenplays, poetry, or other literary art. Skilled writers are able to use language to portray ideas and images....

    , colorectal 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.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/12/11/asia/AS-Taiwan-Obit-Yeh.php

10

  • Henning Christiansen
    Henning Christiansen
    Henning Christiansen was a Danish composer and an active member of the Fluxus-movement. He worked with artists such as Joseph Beuys and Nam June Paik, as well as with his wife Ursula Reuter Christiansen...

    , 76, 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...

     composer
    Composer
    A composer is a person who creates music, either by musical notation or oral tradition, for interpretation and performance, or through direct manipulation of sonic material through electronic media...

    . http://www.flashartonline.com/interno.php?pagina=news_det&id=307&det=ok&title=Fluxus-member-Henning-Christiansen-passes-away
  • Mildred Constantine
    Mildred Constantine
    Mildred Constantine Bettelheim was an American curator who helped bring attention to the posters and other graphic design in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art in the 1950s and 1960s...

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

     curator
    Curator
    A curator is a manager or overseer. Traditionally, a curator or keeper of a cultural heritage institution is a content specialist responsible for an institution's collections and involved with the interpretation of heritage material...

     (Museum of Modern Art
    Museum of Modern Art
    The Museum of Modern Art is an art museum in Midtown Manhattan in New York City, on 53rd Street, between Fifth and Sixth Avenues. It has been important in developing and collecting modernist art, and is often identified as the most influential museum of modern art in the world...

    ), heart failure. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/14/arts/design/14constantine.htm
  • Munawwar Hasan, 44, 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 politician
    Politician
    A politician, political leader, or political figure is an individual who is involved in influencing public policy and decision making...

    , 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.telegraphindia.com/1081211/jsp/nation/story_10236182.jsp
  • Dorothy Porter
    Dorothy Porter
    Dorothy Featherstone Porter was an Australian poet.-Early life:Porter was born in Sydney. Her father was barrister Chester Porter and her mother, Jean, was a high school chemistry teacher. Porter attended the Queenwood School for Girls...

    , 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 poet
    Poet
    A poet is a person who writes poetry. A poet's work can be literal, meaning that his work is derived from a specific event, or metaphorical, meaning that his work can take on many meanings and forms. Poets have existed since antiquity, in nearly all languages, and have produced works that vary...

     (The Monkey's Mask
    The Monkey's Mask
    The Monkey's Mask is a 2000 thriller film directed by Samantha Lang. It stars Susie Porter and Kelly McGillis. Porter plays a lesbian private detective who falls in love with a suspect in the disappearance of a young woman...

    ), 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.smh.com.au/news/entertainment/books/dorothy-porter-dies/2008/12/10/1228584914257.html
  • Didith Reyes
    Didith Reyes
    Maria Helen Bella Avenila Santamaria , better known as Didith Reyes, was a Filipino actress and singer best known for recording a string of hit love ballads in the 1970s...

    , 60, Filipino
    Philippines
    The Philippines , officially known as the Republic of the Philippines , is a country in Southeast Asia in the western Pacific Ocean. To its north across the Luzon Strait lies Taiwan. West across the South China Sea sits Vietnam...

     singer, 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...

     and rupture of the pancreas
    Pancreas
    The pancreas is a gland organ in the digestive and endocrine system of vertebrates. It is both an endocrine gland producing several important hormones, including insulin, glucagon, and somatostatin, as well as a digestive organ, secreting pancreatic juice containing digestive enzymes that assist...

    . http://showbizandstyle.inquirer.net/breakingnews/breakingnews/view/20081210-177154/Singer-Didith-Reyes-found-dead
  • Chris Richardson
    Chris Richardson (basketball)
    Chris Richardson;also known as Chris "Flash" Richardson was an American basketball player and a member of the Harlem Globetrotters and he died in Japan during the team's tour. He died reportedly of natural causes. The Harlem Globetrotters were at a U.S...

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

     basketball
    Basketball
    Basketball is a team sport in which two teams of five players try to score points by throwing or "shooting" a ball through the top of a basketball hoop while following a set of rules...

     player (Harlem Globetrotters
    Harlem Globetrotters
    The Harlem Globetrotters are an exhibition basketball team that combines athleticism, theater and comedy. The executive offices for the team are currently in downtown Phoenix, Arizona; the team is owned by Shamrock Holdings, which oversees the various investments of the Roy E. Disney family.Over...

    ), natural causes. http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/news/story?id=3763584
  • Sal Yvars
    Sal Yvars
    Salvador Anthony Yvars was a Major League Baseball catcher who played with the New York Giants from to and the St. Louis Cardinals from to . Born in Manhattan's Little Italy to a Spanish gravedigger and an Italian laundress, he was a three-sport star at White Plains High School, playing...

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

     baseball player (New York Giants
    San Francisco Giants
    The San Francisco Giants are a Major League Baseball team based in San Francisco, California, playing in the National League West Division....

    ), amyloidosis
    Amyloidosis
    In medicine, amyloidosis refers to a variety of conditions whereby the body produces "bad proteins", denoted as amyloid proteins, which are abnormally deposited in organs and/or tissues and cause harm. A protein is described as being amyloid if, due to an alteration in its secondary structure, it...

    . http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/12/sports/baseball/12yvars.html

9

  • Jonathan Bailey
    Jonathan Bailey
    Jonathan Sansbury Bailey, KCVO was Bishop of Dunwich from 1992 to 1995, Bishop of Derby from 1995 to 2005, and Clerk of the Closet from 1997 to 2005.-Early life:...

    , 69, 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...

     Angelican prelate, Bishop of Derby
    Bishop of Derby
    The Bishop of Derby is the Ordinary of the Church of England Diocese of Derby in the Province of Canterbury, UK.The diocese was formed from part of the Diocese of Southwell in 1927 under King George V and roughly covers the county of Derbyshire...

     (1995–2005) and Clerk of the Closet
    Clerk of the Closet
    The College of Chaplains of the Ecclesiastical Household of the Sovereign of the United Kingdom is under the Clerk of the Closet, an office dating from 1437. It is normally held by a diocesan bishop, who may however remain in office after leaving his see...

     (1997–2005). http://www.matlockmercury.co.uk/news/Tributes-to-former-Bishop-of.4780038.jp
  • Ibrahim Dossey
    Ibrahim Dossey
    Ibrahim Dossey was a Ghanaian football goalkeeper.-Career:Dossey was born in Accra, Ghana...

    , 36, Ghana
    Ghana
    Ghana , officially the Republic of Ghana, is a country located in West Africa. It is bordered by Côte d'Ivoire to the west, Burkina Faso to the north, Togo to the east, and the Gulf of Guinea to the south...

    ian footballer, 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.prosport.ro/fotbal-intern/liga-1/ibrahim-dossey-a-decedat-3637920
  • James Fergason
    James Fergason
    James L. Fergason was an inventor of an improved Liquid Crystal Display, or LCD.Fergason graduated from Carrollton High School in Carrollton, Missouri...

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

     inventor. http://www.legacy.com/MercuryNews/DeathNotices.asp?Page=LifeStory&PersonId=121449153
  • Yuri Glazkov
    Yuri Glazkov
    Yury Nikolayevich Glazkov was a Soviet Air Force officer and a cosmonaut. Glazkov held the rank of major general in the Russian Air Force....

    , 69, 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 cosmonaut
    Astronaut
    An astronaut or cosmonaut is a person trained by a human spaceflight program to command, pilot, or serve as a crew member of a spacecraft....

    . http://www.collectspace.com/news/news-120908a.html
  • Dražan Jerković, 72, 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 football player and manager
    Coach (sport)
    In sports, a coach is an individual involved in the direction, instruction and training of the operations of a sports team or of individual sportspeople.-Staff:...

    , heart failure. http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=6&click_id=2831&art_id=nw20081210133517782C792495
  • José María Larrauri Lafuente
    José María Larrauri Lafuente
    José María Larrauri Lafuente was a Spanish Bishop of the Roman Catholic Church. At the time of his death, aged 90, he was one of the oldest bishops in the Church and one of oldest bishops of Spain....

    , 90, 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...

     Roman Catholic prelate, bishop of Vitoria. http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/blala.html
  • Brenda Leipsic
    Brenda Leipsic
    Brenda Leipsic was a city councillor and deputy mayor in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.-Background:Born in Winnipeg in 1942, daughter of Olga and William Dennis, she grew up in the city’s North End. Her junior and high school days were spent at St. Mary’s Academy and she graduated from the University...

    , 66, 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, 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.cbc.ca/canada/manitoba/story/2008/12/10/leipsig-death.html
  • Howard Pack
    Howard Pack
    Howard Meade Pack , was a shipping industry executive who served as the chairman and president of Seatrain Lines, an innovator in the way ships carried freight....

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

     businessman, shipping
    Shipping
    Shipping has multiple meanings. It can be a physical process of transporting commodities and merchandise goods and cargo, by land, air, and sea. It also can describe the movement of objects by ship.Land or "ground" shipping can be by train or by truck...

     magnate
    Magnate
    Magnate, from the Late Latin magnas, a great man, itself from Latin magnus 'great', designates a noble or other man in a high social position, by birth, wealth or other qualities...

    , heart failure. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/19/business/19pack.html
  • William Neff Patman
    William Neff Patman
    William Neff "Bill" Patman , was an American politician who served from 1981 to 1985 as a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives from Texas. He was the son of John William Wright Patman, the long-time U.S...

    , 81, 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...

    , 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...

     for Texas
    Texas
    Texas is the second largest U.S. state by both area and population, and the largest state by area in the contiguous United States.The name, based on the Caddo word "Tejas" meaning "friends" or "allies", was applied by the Spanish to the Caddo themselves and to the region of their settlement in...

     (1981–1985), 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.kdbc.com/Global/story.asp?S=9501137&nav=menu608_2_2
  • George Turman
    George Turman
    George Fugett Turman was a former Lieutenant Governor of Montana. Originally a Republican state legislator before becoming a Democrat, he was elected to the position in 1981 on a ticket with fellow Democrat Ted Schwinden. They were re-elected in 1985. Turman relinquished the position in 1988...

    , 80, 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...

    , Lieutenant Governor of Montana
    Lieutenant Governor of Montana
    Lieutenant Governor of Montana is an official in the state of Montana that ranks just below the Governor of Montana. The current lieutenant governor is John Bohlinger.-List of Lieutenant Governors:* John E. Rickards, Republican,...

     (1981–1989), natural causes. http://www.greatfallstribune.com/article/20081210/NEWS01/81210007

8

  • Manzoor Hussain Atif
    Manzoor Hussain Atif
    Brigadier Manzoor Hussain Atif was a former secretary Pakistan Hockey Federation and Olympian. Atif was born in 1928 in Gujrat, Punjab, Pakistan....

    , 81, Pakistan
    Pakistan
    Pakistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan is a sovereign state in South Asia. It has a coastline along the Arabian Sea and the Gulf of Oman in the south and is bordered by Afghanistan and Iran in the west, India in the east and China in the far northeast. In the north, Tajikistan...

    i field hockey
    Field hockey
    Field Hockey, or Hockey, is a team sport in which a team of players attempts to score goals by hitting, pushing or flicking a ball into an opposing team's goal using sticks...

     player and administrator, after long illness. http://www.dawn.net/wps/wcm/connect/Dawn%20Content%20Library/dawn/news/sport/hockey-legend-manzoor-hussain-atif-dies--ha
  • Frank K. Edmondson
    Frank K. Edmondson
    Frank K. Edmondson was an American astronomer.-Life and career:Edmondson was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and grew up in Seymour, Indiana...

    , 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.idsnews.com/news/story.aspx?id=65185&comview=1
  • Kerryn McCann
    Kerryn McCann
    Kerryn McCann was an Australian athlete. She was best known for winning the marathon at the 2002 and 2006 Commonwealth Games.-Personal life:McCann was born Kerryn Hindmarsh in Bulli, New South Wales, in 1967....

    , 41, 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 athlete, 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.illawarramercury.com.au/news/local/news/general/kerryn-mccann-dies-after-cancer-battle/1380174.aspx
  • Xavier Perrot
    Xavier Perrot
    Xavier Roger Perrot was a Swiss racing driver and garage owner, who won the European Hill Climb Championship in 1972...

    , 76, 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....

     auto racer
    Auto racing
    Auto racing is a motorsport involving the racing of cars for competition. It is one of the world's most watched televised sports.-The beginning of racing:...

    . http://www.blick.ch/sport/formel1/frueherer-bergkoenig-von-leiden-erloest-107171 (German)
  • Oliver Postgate
    Oliver Postgate
    Oliver Postgate was an English animator, puppeteer and writer.He was the creator and writer of some of Britain's most popular children's television programmes...

    , 83, 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...

     animator
    Animation
    Animation is the rapid display of a sequence of images of 2-D or 3-D artwork or model positions in order to create an illusion of movement. The effect is an optical illusion of motion due to the phenomenon of persistence of vision, and can be created and demonstrated in several ways...

     (Bagpuss
    Bagpuss
    Bagpuss is a 1974 UK children's television series, made by Peter Firmin and Oliver Postgate through their company Smallfilms. The title character is "an old, saggy cloth cat, baggy, and a bit loose at the seams"...

    , Clangers
    Clangers
    Clangers is a popular British stop-motion animated children's television series of short stories about a family of mouse-like creatures who live on, and in, a small blue planet . They speak in whistles, and eat green soup supplied by the Soup Dragon...

    ). http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7770882.stm
  • Robert Prosky
    Robert Prosky
    Robert Prosky was an American stage, film, and television actor.-Life and career:Prosky, a Polish American, was born Robert Joseph Porzuczek in the Manayunk neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to Helen and Joseph Porzuczek. His father was a grocer and butcher...

    , 77, 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...

     (Mrs. Doubtfire
    Mrs. Doubtfire
    Mrs. Doubtfire is a 1993 American comedy film starring Robin Williams and Sally Field and based on the novel Madame Doubtfire by Anne Fine. It was directed by Chris Columbus and distributed by 20th Century Fox. It won the Academy Award for Best Makeup...

    , Broadcast News
    Broadcast News (film)
    Broadcast News is a 1987 romantic comedy-drama film written, produced and directed by James L. Brooks. The film concerns a virtuoso television news producer , who has daily emotional breakdowns, a brilliant yet prickly reporter and his charismatic but far less seasoned rival...

    , Last Action Hero
    Last Action Hero
    Last Action Hero is a 1993 American action-comedy-fantasy film directed and produced by John McTiernan. It is a satire of the action genre and its clichés, containing several parodies of action films in the form of films within the film....

    ), complications from a heart
    Heart
    The heart is a myogenic muscular organ found in all animals with a circulatory system , that is responsible for pumping blood throughout the blood vessels by repeated, rhythmic contractions...

     procedure. http://www.wtop.com/?nid=114&sid=1543536
  • Bob Spiers
    Bob Spiers
    Bob Spiers was a director. He is particularly noted as the director of the early series of Absolutely Fabulous , the musical comedy Spiceworld, and of the second series of Fawlty Towers . He also worked with Steven Moffat on Press Gang and Joking Apart...

    , 63, 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...

     television director
    Television director
    A television director directs the activities involved in making a television program and is part of a television crew.-Duties:The duties of a television director vary depending on whether the production is live or recorded to video tape or video server .In both types of productions, the...

     (Absolutely Fabulous
    Absolutely Fabulous
    Absolutely Fabulous, also known as Ab Fab, is a British sitcom created by Jennifer Saunders, based on an original idea by her and Dawn French, and written by Saunders, who plays the leading character. It also stars Joanna Lumley and Julia Sawalha, along with June Whitfield and Jane Horrocks...

    , Fawlty Towers
    Fawlty Towers
    Fawlty Towers is a British sitcom produced by BBC Television and first broadcast on BBC2 in 1975. Twelve television program episodes were produced . The show was written by John Cleese and his then wife Connie Booth, both of whom played major characters...

    ), after long illness. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7763437.stm
  • William S. Stevens
    William S. Stevens
    William Stanley Stevens was an American lawyer best known for his June 1975 law review article The Common Law Origins of the Infield Fly Rule, which treated the development of one of baseball's most-misunderstood rules as if it were a legal matter.-Early life and Education:Stevens was born in...

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

     lawyer
    Lawyer
    A lawyer, according to Black's Law Dictionary, is "a person learned in the law; as an attorney, counsel or solicitor; a person who is practicing law." Law is the system of rules of conduct established by the sovereign government of a society to correct wrongs, maintain the stability of political...

    , 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/2008/12/12/us/12stevens.html?ref=obituaries
  • Hillary Waugh
    Hillary Waugh
    Hillary Baldwin Waugh was a pioneering American mystery novelist. In 1989, Waugh was named a Grand Master by the Mystery Writers of America.-Career:...

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

     mystery writer. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/27/books/27waugh.html?ref=obituaries

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  • Abul Ahsan
    Abul Ahsan
    Abul Ahsan was a Bangladeshi diplomat.Ahsan secured first class in M.A in Economics from the Dhaka University and M.A in International Relations from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy...

    , 71, Bangladesh
    Bangladesh
    Bangladesh , officially the People's Republic of Bangladesh is a sovereign state located in South Asia. It is bordered by India on all sides except for a small border with Burma to the far southeast and by the Bay of Bengal to the south...

    i diplomat
    Diplomat
    A diplomat is a person appointed by a state to conduct diplomacy with another state or international organization. The main functions of diplomats revolve around the representation and protection of the interests and nationals of the sending state, as well as the promotion of information and...

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

    , 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.app.com.pk/en_/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=61526&Itemid=2
  • Marky Cielo
    Marky Cielo
    Mark Angelo Cadaweng Cielo , better known as Marky Cielo, was a Filipino actor, dancer, and the first known Igorot in Philippine showbiz. He is notable for his win in the reality talent competition StarStruck...

    , 20, Filipino
    Philippines
    The Philippines , officially known as the Republic of the Philippines , is a country in Southeast Asia in the western Pacific Ocean. To its north across the Luzon Strait lies Taiwan. West across the South China Sea sits Vietnam...

     Igorot
    Igorot
    Cordillerans are the people of the Cordillera region, in the Philippines island of Luzon. The word, Igorot is a misnomer term invented by the Spaniards in mockery against the Nortnern Luzon tribes. The word ‘Igorot’ also as coined and applied by the Spaniards means a savage, head-hunting 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...

    , suspected acute pancreatitis
    Acute pancreatitis
    Acute pancreatitis or acute pancreatic necrosis is a sudden inflammation of the pancreas. It can have severe complications and high mortality despite treatment...

    . http://www.pep.ph/news/20148/Young-actor-Marky-Cielo-dies-in-his-sleep
  • Jimmy Gourley
    Jimmy Gourley
    James Pasco Gourley, Jr. was an American jazz guitarist, active from the 1950s to the 2000s.Gourley was born in St...

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

     jazz guitarist
    Jazz guitarist
    Jazz guitarists are guitar players who play jazz music on the guitar using an approach to playing chords, melodies, and improvised solo lines which is called jazz guitar playing. The guitar has fulfilled the roles of accompanist and soloist in small and large ensembles and also as an unaccompanied...

    . http://www.lemonde.fr/carnet/article/2008/12/15/jimmy-gourley-guitariste-compositeur-et-chanteur-de-jazz_1131298_3382.html (French)
  • Herbert Hutner
    Herbert Hutner
    Herbert Loeb Hutner was an American private investment banker and attorney, and the fourth husband of Zsa Zsa Gabor....

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

     chairman of the Presidential
    President of the United States
    The President of the United States of America is the head of state and head of government of the United States. The president leads the executive branch of the federal government and is the commander-in-chief of the United States Armed Forces....

     Advisory Committee on the Arts (1982–1990). http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/20/washington/20hutner.html?_r=1&ref=obituaries
  • George Kuzma
    George Kuzma
    George Martin Kuzma was an American Bishop for the Roman Catholic Church.At the age of 30, Kuzma was ordained as a Priest. He was appointed Auxiliary Bishop of Passaic, New Jersey on November 11, 1986. He was later appointed Bishop of Van Nuys, California on October 23, 1990. He retired from the...

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

     Roman Catholic prelate, bishop of the Byzantine Catholic Eparchy of Van Nuys
    Byzantine Catholic Eparchy of Van Nuys
    The Holy Protection of Mary Byzantine Catholic Eparchy of Phoenix is the Catholic eparchy governing most Byzantine Ruthenian Catholics in the western United States. Its headquarters are at 8131 North 16th Street, Phoenix, Arizona...

    . http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bkuzma.html
  • Georges Nguyen Van Loc
    Georges Nguyen Van Loc
    Georges Nguyen Van Loc was a French policeman, actor and author. Nguyen Van Loc worked as a policeman, police inspector and commissioner in his native Marseille for years...

    , 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...

     police officer, writer
    Writer
    A writer is a person who produces literature, such as novels, short stories, plays, screenplays, poetry, or other literary art. Skilled writers are able to use language to portray ideas and images....

     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...

    . http://www.lefigaro.fr/flash-actu/2008/12/07/01011-20081207FILWWW00069-celebre-policier-le-chinois-est-mort.php (French)
  • James H. Pomerene
    James H. Pomerene
    James Herbert Pomerene was an electrical engineer and computer pioneer.-Biography:Pomerene was born June 22, 1920 in Yonkers, New York. His father was Joel Pomerene and mother was Elsie Bower...

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

     electrical engineer
    Electrical engineering
    Electrical engineering is a field of engineering that generally deals with the study and application of electricity, electronics and electromagnetism. The field first became an identifiable occupation in the late nineteenth century after commercialization of the electric telegraph and electrical...

    . http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B07E2D6113AF93AA35751C1A96E9C8B63
  • Roger Sonnabend
    Roger Sonnabend
    Roger P. Sonnabend was an American hotelier and businessman. He was the head of Sonesta International Hotels Corporation....

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

     hotel
    Hotel
    A hotel is an establishment that provides paid lodging on a short-term basis. The provision of basic accommodation, in times past, consisting only of a room with a bed, a cupboard, a small table and a washstand has largely been replaced by rooms with modern facilities, including en-suite bathrooms...

    ier. http://www.bostonherald.com/business/general/view.bg?articleid=1137718&srvc=business&position=recent
  • John Ellis Williams
    John Ellis Williams
    John Ellis Williams was a novelist and writer, writing in both English and Welsh.-Life:Williams was born in Llanddeiniolen, Caernarfonshire, on 20 August 1924, and was from a farming family....

    , 84, 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...

     author
    Author
    An author is broadly defined as "the person who originates or gives existence to anything" and that authorship determines responsibility for what is created. Narrowly defined, an author is the originator of any written work.-Legal significance:...

    . http://www.guardian.co.uk/theguardian/2009/apr/16/obituary-john-ellis-williams
  • Dennis Yost, 65, American
    United States
    The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

     singer (Classics IV
    Classics IV
    The Classics IV were a band formed in Jacksonville, Florida, United States, in 1965, given credit for beginning the "soft southern rock" sound...

    ), 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://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/10/arts/music/10yost.html
  • Mahbub Jamal Zahedi
    Mahbub Jamal Zahedi
    Mahbub Jamal Zahedi was a veteran journalist and philatelist from Pakistan. During a career of nearly fifty years he served as editor of the Khaleej Times, Dubai, UAE as well the news editor and senior assistant editor of Dawn, Karachi, Pakistan. -Early and personal life:Mahbub Jamal Zahedi was...

    , 79, Pakistan
    Pakistan
    Pakistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan is a sovereign state in South Asia. It has a coastline along the Arabian Sea and the Gulf of Oman in the south and is bordered by Afghanistan and Iran in the west, India in the east and China in the far northeast. In the north, Tajikistan...

    i 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 philatelist, paralysis
    Paralysis
    Paralysis is loss of muscle function for one or more muscles. Paralysis can be accompanied by a loss of feeling in the affected area if there is sensory damage as well as motor. A study conducted by the Christopher & Dana Reeve Foundation, suggests that about 1 in 50 people have been diagnosed...

    . http://www.dawn.com/2008/12/08/top12.htm

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  • John Cumming
    John Cumming (footballer)
    John "Darkie" Cumming was a Scottish international footballer who spent his whole club career with Heart of Midlothian during which he made 612 appearances and scored 58 goals....

    , 78, 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. http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/h/heart_of_midlothian/7771527.stm
  • Larry Devlin
    Larry Devlin
    Lawrence Devlin , known as Larry Devlin, was a Central Intelligence Agency field officer. Stationed for many years in Africa, he was Station Chief in the Democratic Republic of the Congo when Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba was assassinated on 17 January 1961.-Biography:Devlin was raised in...

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

     CIA agent, emphysema
    Emphysema
    Emphysema is a long-term, progressive disease of the lungs that primarily causes shortness of breath. In people with emphysema, the tissues necessary to support the physical shape and function of the lungs are destroyed. It is included in a group of diseases called chronic obstructive pulmonary...

    . http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-devlin24-2008dec24,0,2784777.story
  • Catherine Hagel
    Catherine Hagel
    Catherine Helen Hagel née Dahlheimer was an American supercentenarian.She was born in Dayton, Minnesota, and was, at the time of her death, the third-oldest validated person in the world...

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

     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....

    , third oldest validated living person
    Oldest people
    This is a list of tables of the verified oldest people in the world in ordinal rank, such as oldest person or oldest man. In these tables, a supercentenarian is considered 'verified' if his or her claim has been validated by an international body that specifically deals in longevity research, such...

    . http://www.startribune.com/local/west/35693309.html?elr=KArksD:aDyaEP:kD:aU2EkP7K_t:aDyaEP:kD:aUiD3aPc:_Yyc:aUU
  • Gérard Lauzier
    Gérard Lauzier
    Gérard Lauzier was a French comics author and movie director, best known as one of the leading authors in the more adult-oriented French comics scene of the 1970s and 1980s.-Biography:...

    , 76, 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...

     cartoon
    Cartoon
    A cartoon is a form of two-dimensional illustrated visual art. While the specific definition has changed over time, modern usage refers to a typically non-realistic or semi-realistic drawing or painting intended for satire, caricature, or humor, or to the artistic style of such works...

    ist 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:...

    , after long illness. http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/12/08/2440138.htm?section=entertainment
  • Elliot Manyika
    Elliot Manyika
    Elliot Tapfumaneyi Manyika was a Zimbabwean politician, who served as Minister without Portfolio and the National political Commissar for ZANU-PF....

    , 53, Zimbabwe
    Zimbabwe
    Zimbabwe is a landlocked country located in the southern part of the African continent, between the Zambezi and Limpopo rivers. It is bordered by South Africa to the south, Botswana to the southwest, Zambia and a tip of Namibia to the northwest and Mozambique to the east. Zimbabwe has three...

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

    , road accident. http://www.zimdaily.com/news/manyika27.6654.html
  • Richard Marsland
    Richard Marsland
    Richard Kemble Marsland was an Australian comedy writer, actor, comedian and radio personality.-Radio:...

    , 32, 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 radio host, apparent 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...

    . http://www.smh.com.au/news/entertainment/tv--radio/triple-m-radio-host-found-dead/2008/12/06/1228257392742.html
  • Lloyd Ohlin
    Lloyd Ohlin
    Lloyd Edgar Ohlin was an American sociologist and criminologist who taught at Harvard Law School, Columbia University, and the University of Chicago over his career where he studied the causes and effects of crime and punishment, especially as it related to youthful offenders and delinquents.Ohlin...

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

     criminologist, complications of Shy-Drager syndrome. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/04/us/04ohlin.html?ref=obituaries
  • Ivan Semedi
    Ivan Semedi
    Ivan Semedi was bishop of the Eparchy of Mukacheve from 1983 to 2002.-Life:Ivan Semedi was born in Mala Kopanya on 21 June 1921. He was ordained a Priest at the age of 26. On August 24, 1978 he was consecrated bishop of Mukacheve, Ukraine. He held the post for 24 years until he retired in 2002. He...

    , 87, Ukrainian
    Ukraine
    Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe. It has an area of 603,628 km², making it the second largest contiguous country on the European continent, after Russia...

     Roman Catholic prelate, bishop of Mukacheve
    Mukacheve
    Mukachevo or Mukacheve is a city located in the valley of the Latorica river in the Zakarpattia Oblast , in southwestern Ukraine. Serving as the administrative center of the Mukachivskyi Raion , the city itself is also designated as a separate raion within the oblast...

    . http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bsemedi.html
  • Sunny von Bülow
    Sunny von Bülow
    Martha Sharp Crawford von Bülow , known as Sunny von Bülow, was an American heiress and socialite. Her husband, Claus von Bülow, was convicted of attempting her murder by insulin overdose, but the conviction was overturned on appeal...

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

     heiress
    Beneficiary
    A beneficiary in the broadest sense is a natural person or other legal entity who receives money or other benefits from a benefactor. For example: The beneficiary of a life insurance policy, is the person who receives the payment of the amount of insurance after the death of the insured...

    , cardiopulmonary arrest. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/07/nyregion/07vonbulow.html?hp

5

  • A. Bernard Ackerman
    A. Bernard Ackerman
    ----Albert Bernard Ackerman was an American physician described by The New York Times as "a founding figure in the field of dermatopathology"....

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

     dermatopathologist, heart failure. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/11/health/11ackerman.html
  • Alexy II, 79, Estonia
    Estonia
    Estonia , officially the Republic of Estonia , is a state in the Baltic region of Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by the Gulf of Finland, to the west by the Baltic Sea, to the south by Latvia , and to the east by Lake Peipsi and the Russian Federation . Across the Baltic Sea lies...

    n-born 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 primate
    Primate (religion)
    Primate is a title or rank bestowed on some bishops in certain Christian churches. Depending on the particular tradition, it can denote either jurisdictional authority or ceremonial precedence ....

     of the Russian Orthodox Church
    Russian Orthodox Church
    The Russian Orthodox Church or, alternatively, the Moscow Patriarchate The ROC is often said to be the largest of the Eastern Orthodox churches in the world; including all the autocephalous churches under its umbrella, its adherents number over 150 million worldwide—about half of the 300 million...

     since 1990, heart failure. http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/12/05/2439464.htm
  • Jimmy Anderson
    Jimmy Anderson (rodeo clown)
    Jimmy D. "Jungle" Anderson was an American bullfighter.Born in Fort Worth, Texas Anderson originally raced horses until he grew past the size of the average jockey. He later became a bullfighter and rodeo clown and took part in his first rodeo in 1975...

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

     rodeo clown
    Rodeo clown
    A rodeo clown, also known as a bullfighter or rodeo protection athlete, is a rodeo performer who works in bull riding competitions. The primary job of the rodeo clown is to protect a fallen rider from the bull, whether the rider has been bucked off or has jumped off of the animal...

    , heart disease
    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...

    . http://www.rodeoattitude.com/spur/eventnews/bullfighting/jimmy-anderson-obituary-1805.shtml
  • George Brecht
    George Brecht
    George Brecht , born George Ellis MacDiarmid, was an American conceptual artist and avant-garde composer as well as a professional chemist who worked as a consultant for companies including Pfizer, Johnson & Johnson, and Mobil Oil...

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

     artist
    Artist
    An artist is a person engaged in one or more of any of a broad spectrum of activities related to creating art, practicing the arts and/or demonstrating an art. The common usage in both everyday speech and academic discourse is a practitioner in the visual arts only...

     (Fluxus
    Fluxus
    Fluxus—a name taken from a Latin word meaning "to flow"—is an international network of artists, composers and designers noted for blending different artistic media and disciplines in the 1960s. They have been active in Neo-Dada noise music and visual art as well as literature, urban planning,...

    ), 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.iht.com/articles/2008/12/15/europe/obits.php
  • Martyn Crook
    Martyn Crook
    Martyn Crook was a British-born Australian soccer coach and former representative player.-Biography:...

    , 52, 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 and coach, 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.sportal.com.au/football-news-display/crook-dies-suddenly-61596
  • Constantin Ticu Dumitrescu
    Constantin Ticu Dumitrescu
    Constantin-Grigore Dumitrescu, also known as Constantin Ticu Dumitrescu or Ticu Dumitrescu , Olari, Prahova, was a Romanian politician and president of the Association of Romanian Former Political Prisoners....

    , 80, 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 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.iht.com/articles/2008/12/07/europe/dissident.php
  • Nina Foch
    Nina Foch
    Nina Foch was a Dutch-born American actress and leading lady in many 1940s and 1950s films.- Personal life :...

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

     actress (Executive Suite
    Executive Suite
    Executive Suite is a 1954 MGM drama film depicting the transfer of power in a corporation in trouble. The film stars William Holden, Barbara Stanwyck, Fredric March, and Walter Pidgeon. It was directed by Robert Wise and produced by John Houseman from a screenplay by Ernest Lehman based on the...

    ), myelodysplasia. http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-foch7-2008dec07,0,533502.story
  • Beverly Garland
    Beverly Garland
    Beverly Garland was an American film and television actress, businesswoman, and hotel owner. Garland gained prominence for her role as Fred MacMurray's second wife, "Barbara Harper Douglas", in the 1960s sitcom My Three Sons...

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

     actress (My Three Sons
    My Three Sons
    My Three Sons is an American situation comedy. The series ran from 1960 to 1965 on ABC, and moved to CBS until its end on August 24, 1972. My Three Sons chronicles the life of a widower and aeronautical engineer named Steven Douglas , raising his three sons.The series was a cornerstone of the CBS...

    ), after long illness. http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-garland7-2008dec07,0,3405510.story
  • Paris Herouni
    Paris Herouni
    Paris M. Herouni is an Armenian professor and scientist, member of National Academy of Sciences of Republic of Armenia in the fields of radio-physics, radio-engineering, and radio-astronomy...

    , 75, Armenia
    Armenia
    Armenia , officially the Republic of Armenia , is a landlocked mountainous country in the Caucasus region of Eurasia...

    n scientist and professor. http://www.panorama.am/en/society/2008/12/08/uxerdz/
  • Sir Basil Kelly
    Basil Kelly
    Sir John William Basil Kelly, QC, PC, PC was a Northern Irish barrister, judge and politician.He was born in Belfast and was educated at Methodist College Belfast and Trinity College, Dublin. He was called to the Northern Irish Bar in 1944 and took silk in 1958. He served as senior Crown Counsel...

    , 88, 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...

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

     and jurist, after short illness. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/7768345.stm
  • Rawson Macharia
    Rawson Macharia
    Rawson Mbugua Macharia was the key prosecution witness at the trial of the Kapenguria Six, Kenyan nationalists amongst whom Jomo Kenyatta was prominent...

    , 96, Kenya
    Kenya
    Kenya , officially known as the Republic of Kenya, is a country in East Africa that lies on the equator, with the Indian Ocean to its south-east...

    n perjurer against Jomo Kenyatta
    Jomo Kenyatta
    Jomo Kenyattapron.] served as the first Prime Minister and President of Kenya. He is considered the founding father of the Kenyan nation....

    , traffic accident. http://www.eastandard.net/InsidePage.php?id=1144001565&cid=4
  • Jean-Pierre Nguema
    Jean-Pierre Nguema
    Jean Pierre Nzoghé Nguema was a Gabonese deputy, senator and physicist. Nguema had been a top opposition leader against longtime Gabonese President Omar Bongo for much of his political career. However, he joined the ruling Gabonese Democratic Party in his later years...

    , 76, Gabon
    Gabon
    Gabon , officially the Gabonese Republic is a state in west central Africa sharing borders with Equatorial Guinea to the northwest, Cameroon to the north, and with the Republic of the Congo curving around the east and south. The Gulf of Guinea, an arm of the Atlantic Ocean is to the west...

    ese 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 Senate of Gabon
    Senate of Gabon
    The Senate is the upper house of the Parliament of Gabon. It has 102 members, elected for a six year term in single-seat constituencies by local and départemental councillors...

    . http://www.afriquenligne.fr/news/africa-news/gabon%27s-top-opposition-leader-jean%11pierre-nguema-dies-2008120617693.html
  • Anca Parghel
    Anca Parghel
    Anca Parghel , Romanian jazz artist, was a singer who excelled in scat, improvisation and vocal percussion...

    , 51, 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 singer, 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.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/12/05/europe/EU-Romania-Obit-Parghel.php
  • Richard Topus
    Richard Topus
    Richard Topus was an American pigeon enthusiast and business executive. During World War II he trained war pigeons for the United States Army.-Biography:...

    , 84, 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...

     messenger pigeon trainer
    Animal training
    Animal training refers to teaching animals specific responses to specific conditions or stimuli. Training may be for the purpose of companionship, detection, protection, entertainment or all of the above....

     and business executive, kidney failure. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/14/us/14topus.html
  • Dick Vertlieb
    Dick Vertlieb
    Richard "Dick" Harvey Vertlieb was an American sports executive. He was the winner of the 1975 NBA Executive of the Year Award after serving as general manager for the NBA Champion Golden State Warriors. He also served as general manager for the Seattle SuperSonics and Indiana Pacers, as well as...

    , 78, 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...

     and basketball
    Basketball
    Basketball is a team sport in which two teams of five players try to score points by throwing or "shooting" a ball through the top of a basketball hoop while following a set of rules...

     executive. http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2008480648_vertliebobit08m.html

4

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

     science fiction expert
    Science fiction fandom
    Science fiction fandom or SF fandom is a community or "fandom" of people actively interested in science fiction and fantasy and in contact with one another based upon that interest...

    , heart failure. http://www.examiner.com/a-1728156~Sci_fi_s_grand_old_man__Forrest_J_Ackerman__dies.html
  • Steve Bradley
    Steve Bradley
    Steven Richard Bisson was an American professional wrestler who had competed on North American independent promotions throughout the 1990s including East Coast Wrestling Association, IWA Puerto Rico and the National Wrestling Alliance as well as spending over three years in World Wrestling...

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

     wrestler
    Professional wrestling
    Professional wrestling is a mode of spectacle, combining athletics and theatrical performance.Roland Barthes, "The World of Wrestling", Mythologies, 1957 It takes the form of events, held by touring companies, which mimic a title match combat sport...

    . http://www.ifight365.com/2008/12/former-wwf-developmental-wrestler-found-dead/
  • Jan Kemp
    Jan Kemp
    Jan Kemp was an American academic and English tutor who exposed the bias in passing college football players and filed a lawsuit against the University of Georgia....

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

     academic, exposed bias in passing 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...

     players, complications from 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.nytimes.com/2008/12/12/education/12kemp.html
  • Party Arty
    Party Arty
    Arthur Sheridan , better know by his stage name Party Arty was an American rapper . He died of undisclosed health complications. He was part of the rap group Ghetto Dwellas alongside partner D-Flow and signed with Get Dirty Productions.Party Arty appeared on various projects including D.I.T.C...

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

     rapper. http://www.rapreviews.com/news/View.php?ArticleID=719
  • Warren M. Robbins
    Warren M. Robbins
    Warren Murray Robbins was an American art collector, whose collection of African art led to the formation of the National Museum of African Art at the Smithsonian Institution....

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

     art collector, complications from a fall
    Falling (accident)
    Falling is a major cause of personal injury, especially for the elderly. Builders, electricians, miners, and painters represent worker categories representing high rates of fall injuries. The WHO estimate that 392,000 people die in falls every year...

    . http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/12/04/AR2008120404003.html
  • Richard Van Allan
    Richard Van Allan
    Richard Van Allan CBE was a versatile British operatic bass singer who had a lengthy career.He sang varied repertoire at Covent Garden and English National Opera, as well as at numerous important houses worldwide...

    , 73, 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 singer, 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.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article5309150.ece

3

  • William Pierson, Jr.
    William Pierson, Jr.
    William Harvey Pierson, Jr. was an American painter and art historian. He was the first person to receive a master’s degree in painting from Yale....

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

     art historian. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/12/arts/design/12pierson.html?ref=obituaries
  • Oliver Selfridge
    Oliver Selfridge
    Oliver Gordon Selfridge , grandson of Harry Gordon Selfridge, the founder of Selfridges' department stores, was a pioneer of artificial intelligence. He has been called the "Father of Machine Perception."...

    , 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...

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

     computer scientist
    Computer scientist
    A computer scientist is a scientist who has acquired knowledge of computer science, the study of the theoretical foundations of information and computation and their application in computer systems....

    , pioneer
    Innovator
    An innovator in a general sense, is a person or an organization who is one of the first to introduce into reality something better than before. That often opens up a new area for others and achieves an innovation.-History:...

     of artificial intelligence
    Artificial intelligence
    Artificial intelligence is the intelligence of machines and the branch of computer science that aims to create it. AI textbooks define the field as "the study and design of intelligent agents" where an intelligent agent is a system that perceives its environment and takes actions that maximize its...

    , injuries from a fall
    Falling (accident)
    Falling is a major cause of personal injury, especially for the elderly. Builders, electricians, miners, and painters represent worker categories representing high rates of fall injuries. The WHO estimate that 392,000 people die in falls every year...

    . http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/04/us/04selfridge.html
  • William Spoelhof
    William Spoelhof
    William Spoelhof was the President of Calvin College, and President Emeritus of the Grand Rapids, Michigan school.-Biography:...

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

     academic, President of Calvin College
    President of Calvin College
    The President of Calvin College is the chief executive officer of the school. The office is not as old as Calvin College, which had no need for such a position when it was founded in 1876. When the Theological School of the Christian Reformed Church opened in 1876, it had one instructor...

     (1951–1976), complications from a fall
    Falling (accident)
    Falling is a major cause of personal injury, especially for the elderly. Builders, electricians, miners, and painters represent worker categories representing high rates of fall injuries. The WHO estimate that 392,000 people die in falls every year...

    . http://www.mlive.com/grpress/news/index.ssf/2008/12/longtime_calvin_college_presid.html
  • Ignacio Uria Mendizabal
    Ignacio Uria Mendizabal
    Ignacio Uría Mendizábal was a Spanish Basque businessman and head of construction company, Altuna y Uría.Uría was shot dead on December 3, 2008 outside of a restaurant. The attack was blamed on ETA. He had received threats from ETA. Uría had been working on a high-speed train route between the...

    , 71, 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...

     businessman, shot
    Ballistic trauma
    The term ballistic trauma refers to a form of physical trauma sustained from the discharge of arms or munitions. The most common forms of ballistic trauma stem from firearms used in armed conflicts, civilian sporting and recreational pursuits, and criminal activity.-Destructive effects:The degree...

    . http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article5280323.ece
  • Elmer Valentine
    Elmer Valentine
    Elmer Valentine was the co-founder of two famous nightclubs on the Sunset Strip in West Hollywood, California: the Whisky a Go Go and The Roxy Theatre.-Early life:Elmer Valentine was born in Chicago on June 16, 1923...

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

     nightclub
    Nightclub
    A nightclub is an entertainment venue which usually operates late into the night...

     owner. http://laist.com/2008/12/05/sunset_strip_icon_elmer_valentine_d.php
  • Derek Wadsworth
    Derek Wadsworth
    Derek Wadsworth was a British jazz trombonist, session musician, composer and arranger....

    , 69, 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...

     composer
    Composer
    A composer is a person who creates music, either by musical notation or oral tradition, for interpretation and performance, or through direct manipulation of sonic material through electronic media...

     and 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...

     trombonist
    Trombone
    The trombone is a musical instrument in the brass family. Like all brass instruments, sound is produced when the player’s vibrating lips cause the air column inside the instrument to vibrate...

    . http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/3777198/Derek-Wadsworth.html
  • Alex Widmer
    Alex Widmer
    Alex W. Widmer was a Swiss banker who had been the chief executive officer of the Julius Baer Group, one of the world's largest providers of private banking services....

    , 52, 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....

     executive, CEO
    Chief executive officer
    A chief executive officer , managing director , Executive Director for non-profit organizations, or chief executive is the highest-ranking corporate officer or administrator in charge of total management of an organization...

     of Julius Baer bank. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122847407047582625.html
  • Robert Zajonc
    Robert Zajonc
    Robert Bolesław Zajonc was a Polish-born American social psychologist who is known for his decades of work on a wide range of social and cognitive processes.-Mere Exposure Effect:...

    , 85, 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...

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

     psychologist
    Psychologist
    Psychologist is a professional or academic title used by individuals who are either:* Clinical professionals who work with patients in a variety of therapeutic contexts .* Scientists conducting psychological research or teaching psychology in a college...

    , 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.nytimes.com/2008/12/07/education/07zajonc.html?ref=obituaries

2

  • Carlos María Abascal Carranza
    Carlos María Abascal Carranza
    Carlos María Abascal Carranza was a Mexican lawyer and the Secretary of the Interior in the cabinet of Vicente Fox...

    , 59, Mexican
    Mexico
    The United Mexican States , commonly known as Mexico , is a federal constitutional republic in North America. It is bordered on the north by the United States; on the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; on the southeast by Guatemala, Belize, and the Caribbean Sea; and on the east by the Gulf of...

     public official, Secretary of the Interior
    Secretary of the Interior (Mexico)
    The Mexican Secretary of the Interior is the head of the Secretariat of the Interior, concerned with the country's internal affairs, the presentation of the president's bills to Congress, their publication and certain issues of national security. The country's main intelligence agency, CISEN,...

     (2005–2006), 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.boston.com/bostonglobe/obituaries/articles/2008/12/09/carlos_abascal_59_sought_to_instill_christianity_into_politics_of_mexico/
  • Kathleen Baskin-Ball
    Kathleen Baskin-Ball
    Kathleen Baskin-Ball was an ordained elder in the United Methodist Church. She was ordained as deacon and probationary member of the North Texas Conference in 1983 and as elder and full member of the North Texas Conference in 1988. She received national recognition for her preaching, especially...

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

     minister (United Methodist Church
    United Methodist Church
    The United Methodist Church is a Methodist Christian denomination which is both mainline Protestant and evangelical. Founded in 1968 by the union of The Methodist Church and the Evangelical United Brethren Church, the UMC traces its roots back to the revival movement of John and Charles Wesley...

    ), 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.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/obituaries/stories/DN-ballob_03met.ART.State.Edition1.4a1d4dc.html
  • Frank Crean
    Frank Crean
    Frank Crean was a senior minister in the Australian Labor Party government of Gough Whitlam from 1972 to 1975, and was Deputy Prime Minister for the last six months of the government's term....

    , 92, 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
    Politician
    A politician, political leader, or political figure is an individual who is involved in influencing public policy and decision making...

    , Treasurer
    Treasurer of Australia
    The Treasurer of Australia is the minister in the Government of Australia responsible for government expenditure and revenue raising. He is the head of the Department of the Treasury. The Treasurer plays a key role in the economic policy of the government...

     (1972–1974), Deputy Prime Minister
    Deputy Prime Minister of Australia
    The Deputy Prime Minister of the Commonwealth of Australia is the second-most senior officer in the Government of Australia. The Deputy Prime Ministership has been a ministerial portfolio since 1968, and the Deputy Prime Minister is appointed by the Governor-General on the advice of the Prime...

     (1975), after short illness. http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,24741031-12377,00.html
  • Elizabeth Warnock Fernea
    Elizabeth Warnock Fernea
    Elizabeth Warnock Fernea was an influential writer, filmmaker, and anthropologist who spent much of her life in the field producing numerous ethnographies and films that capture the struggles and turmoil of African and Middle Eastern cultures. Her husband, the anthropologist Robert A. Fernea, was...

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

     writer
    Writer
    A writer is a person who produces literature, such as novels, short stories, plays, screenplays, poetry, or other literary art. Skilled writers are able to use language to portray ideas and images....

    , filmmaker and scholar, after long illness. http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-fernea8-2008dec08,0,5829335.story
  • Leïla Karam
    Leïla Karam
    Leila Karam was a Lebanese actress. Her major contributions were in the 1970s and 1980s in many Lebanese and Egyptian movies, plays and TV series of Tele Liban.-Career:Karam began her career in broadcast media in 1956, at Near East Radio...

    , Lebanese
    Lebanon
    Lebanon , officially the Republic of LebanonRepublic of Lebanon is the most common term used by Lebanese government agencies. The term Lebanese Republic, a literal translation of the official Arabic and French names that is not used in today's world. Arabic is the most common language spoken among...

     actress, after long illness. http://www.fanoos.com/society/layla_karam.html
  • Margarita Karapanou
    Margarita Karapanou
    Margarita Karapanou was a Greek novelist. Daughter of the renowned novelist Margarita Limberaki, she grew up in Athens and Paris. She studied Philosophy and Cinema in Paris, and Nursery in London. Her novels have been translated in many European languages.-Works:*Kassandra and the Wolf, tr. N. C...

    , 62, Greek
    Greece
    Greece , officially the Hellenic Republic , and historically Hellas or the Republic of Greece in English, is a country in southeastern Europe....

     author
    Author
    An author is broadly defined as "the person who originates or gives existence to anything" and that authorship determines responsibility for what is created. Narrowly defined, an author is the originator of any written work.-Legal significance:...

    , respiratory problems
    Respiratory system
    The respiratory system is the anatomical system of an organism that introduces respiratory gases to the interior and performs gas exchange. In humans and other mammals, the anatomical features of the respiratory system include airways, lungs, and the respiratory muscles...

    . http://www.ana.gr/anaweb/user/showplain?maindoc=7095635&service=142
  • Pyotr Latyshev
    Pyotr Latyshev
    Pyotr Mikhaylovich Latyshev was the Presidential Envoy to Urals Federal District, Russia.Latyshev was born in 1948 in Proskurov , Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic...

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

    , presidential envoy to Urals Federal District
    Urals Federal District
    Ural Federal District is one of the eight federal districts of Russia. The district was established on 13 May 2000 by a decree of the President of Russia. The district is mostly located in the geographical region of Ural, but also includes some parts of the Volga Region; its extent is different...

    . http://en.rian.ru/russia/20081202/118637303.html
  • Patrick Maitland, 17th Earl of Lauderdale
    Patrick Maitland, 17th Earl of Lauderdale
    Patrick Francis Maitland, 17th Earl of Lauderdale FRGS , styled Hon. Patrick Maitland from 1953 to 1968, was a British Conservative politician.-Early life:...

    , 97, 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...

     aristocrat
    Aristocracy
    Aristocracy , is a form of government in which a few elite citizens rule. The term derives from the Greek aristokratia, meaning "rule of the best". In origin in Ancient Greece, it was conceived of as rule by the best qualified citizens, and contrasted with monarchy...

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

    . http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/3568514/The-Earl-of-Lauderdale.html
  • Henry Molaison
    HM (patient)
    Henry Gustav Molaison , famously known as HM or H.M., was an American memory disorder patient who was widely studied from late 1957 until his death...

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

     amnesia
    Amnesia
    Amnesia is a condition in which one's memory is lost. The causes of amnesia have traditionally been divided into categories. Memory appears to be stored in several parts of the limbic system of the brain, and any condition that interferes with the function of this system can cause amnesia...

    c, subject of brain science study, 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://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/05/us/05hm.html
  • Odetta
    Odetta
    Odetta Holmes, known as Odetta, was an American singer, actress, guitarist, songwriter, and a human rights activist, often referred to as "The Voice of the Civil Rights Movement". Her musical repertoire consisted largely of American folk music, blues, jazz, and spirituals...

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

     folk singer
    Folk Singer
    Folk Singer is a 1964 album by Muddy Waters. Waters plays acoustic guitar, backed by Willie Dixon on string bass, Clifton James on drums, and Buddy Guy on acoustic guitar...

     and human rights activist, heart disease
    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...

    . http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/03/arts/music/03odetta.html
  • Ted Rogers
    Edward Samuel Rogers
    Edward Samuel "Ted" Rogers, Jr., OC was the President and CEO of Rogers Communications Inc., and the fifth richest person in Canada in terms of net worth. His father Edward S. Rogers, Sr...

    , 75, 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...

     businessman, CEO of Rogers Communications
    Rogers Communications
    Rogers Communications Inc. is one of Canada's largest communications companies, particularly in the field of wireless communications, cable television, home phone and internet with additional telecommunications and mass media assets...

     and owner of the Toronto Blue Jays
    Toronto Blue Jays
    The Toronto Blue Jays are a professional baseball team located in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The Blue Jays are a member of the Eastern Division of Major League Baseball 's American League ....

    , heart failure. http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2008/12/02/rogers-obit.html

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  • Paul Benedict
    Paul Benedict
    Paul Benedict was an American actor who made numerous appearances in television and movies beginning in the 1960s...

    , 70, 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...

     (The Jeffersons
    The Jeffersons
    The Jeffersons is an American sitcom that was broadcast on CBS from January 18, 1975, through June 25, 1985, lasting 11 seasons and a total of 253 episodes. The show was produced by the T.A.T. Communications Company from 1975–1982 and by Embassy Television from 1982-1985...

    ). http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/obituaries/articles/2008/12/04/paul_benedict_70_actor_at_home_in_tv_sitcoms_modern_and_classical_dramas/
  • James Bree
    James Bree
    James Bree was a British actor who played many supporting roles in both film and television.Bree was educated at Radley College and during World War II served in the RAF. He later trained at the Central School of Speech and Drama...

    , 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...

     film and television actor, illness. http://www.mi6.co.uk/news/index.php?itemid=7361&t=mi6&s=news
  • Betty Goodwin
    Betty Goodwin
    Betty Roodish Goodwin, OC was a Canadian printmaker, sculptor, painter, and installation artist.- Early life :...

    , 85, 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...

     artist
    Artist
    An artist is a person engaged in one or more of any of a broad spectrum of activities related to creating art, practicing the arts and/or demonstrating an art. The common usage in both everyday speech and academic discourse is a practitioner in the visual arts only...

    . http://www.cbc.ca/arts/artdesign/story/2008/12/02/obit-goodwin-betty.html
  • Tom Kirby
    Tom Kirby (darts player)
    Tom Kirby was an Irish darts player.Kirby was the first Irishman man to join the Professional Darts Corporation and entered its inaugural World Championship in 1994, where he won Group 7 by leg difference to reach the quarter finals, losing to eventual winner Dennis Priestley...

    , 61, Irish
    Republic of Ireland
    Ireland , described as the Republic of Ireland , is a sovereign state in Europe occupying approximately five-sixths of the island of the same name. Its capital is Dublin. Ireland, which had a population of 4.58 million in 2011, is a constitutional republic governed as a parliamentary democracy,...

     darts
    Darts
    Darts is a form of throwing game where darts are thrown at a circular target fixed to a wall. Though various boards and games have been used in the past, the term "darts" usually now refers to a standardised game involving a specific board design and set of rules...

     player, 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.planetdarts.tv/page/LatestDetail/0,,10180~1474300,00.html
  • Siegfried Knappe
    Siegfried Knappe
    Siegfried Knappe was an officer in the German Army during World War II. Towards the end of the war, Knappe was stationed in Berlin, where he gave daily briefings at the Führerbunker.- Biography :...

    , 91, 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...

     Wehrmacht
    Wehrmacht
    The Wehrmacht – from , to defend and , the might/power) were the unified armed forces of Nazi Germany from 1935 to 1945. It consisted of the Heer , the Kriegsmarine and the Luftwaffe .-Origin and use of the term:...

     artillery
    Artillery
    Originally applied to any group of infantry primarily armed with projectile weapons, artillery has over time become limited in meaning to refer only to those engines of war that operate by projection of munitions far beyond the range of effect of personal weapons...

     and General Staff
    General Staff
    A military staff, often referred to as General Staff, Army Staff, Navy Staff or Air Staff within the individual services, is a group of officers and enlisted personnel that provides a bi-directional flow of information between a commanding officer and subordinate military units...

     officer
    Officer (armed forces)
    An officer is a member of an armed force or uniformed service who holds a position of authority. Commissioned officers derive authority directly from a sovereign power and, as such, hold a commission charging them with the duties and responsibilities of a specific office or position...

    , author
    Author
    An author is broadly defined as "the person who originates or gives existence to anything" and that authorship determines responsibility for what is created. Narrowly defined, an author is the originator of any written work.-Legal significance:...

     (Soldat
    Soldat
    Soldat is a Polish 2D multiplayer game for Windows. It is a side-scroller inspired by Liero and Scorched Earth, combined with elements from Counter-Strike and Worms. The game is shareware...

    ). http://www.legacy.com/Dayton/Obituaries.asp?Page=LifeStory&PersonID=120995955
  • Mikel Laboa
    Mikel Laboa
    Mikel Laboa Mancisidor was one of the Basque Country's most important singer-songwriters.Considered the patriarch of Basque music, his music has had an influence on younger generations...

    , 74, 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...

     Basque
    Basque people
    The Basques as an ethnic group, primarily inhabit an area traditionally known as the Basque Country , a region that is located around the western end of the Pyrenees on the coast of the Bay of Biscay and straddles parts of north-central Spain and south-western France.The Basques are known in the...

     singer and 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...

    . http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2008/dec/09/mikel-laboa-obituary
  • Raymond F. Lederer
    Raymond F. Lederer
    Raymond Lederer was a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives, representing Pennsylvania's Third Congressional District from 1977 to 1981....

    , 70, 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...

    , 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 Pennsylvania
    Pennsylvania
    The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania is a U.S. state that is located in the Northeastern and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States. The state borders Delaware and Maryland to the south, West Virginia to the southwest, Ohio to the west, New York and Ontario, Canada, to the north, and New Jersey to...

     (1977–1981), 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.philly.com/philly/obituaries/20081202_Raymond_F__Lederer_dies_at_70.html
  • Emanuel Rackman
    Emanuel Rackman
    Rabbi Emanuel Rackman was an American Modern Orthodox Rabbi, who held pulpits in major congregations and helped draw attention to the plight of Refuseniks in the then-Soviet Union and attempted to resolve the dilemma of the Agunah, a woman who cannot remarry because her husband will not grant a...

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

     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://jta.org/news/article/2008/12/03/1001326/emanuel-rackman-leading-orthodox-thinker-dies-at-98
  • H. Sridhar
    H. Sridhar
    H. Sridhar, was a sound engineer from India and known for his work with the Indian Musician A R Rahman.Sridhar was the Chief Audio Engineer at Media Artists. A mathematics graduate, with keen interest in electronics and formal music training, he started a professional sound engineering career in...

    , 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 sound engineer
    Audio engineering
    An audio engineer, also called audio technician, audio technologist or sound technician, is a specialist in a skilled trade that deals with the use of machinery and equipment for the recording, mixing and reproduction of sounds. The field draws on many artistic and vocational areas, including...

    , 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.sify.com/movies/fullstory.php?id=14809510
  • Dorothy Sterling
    Dorothy Sterling
    Dorothy Sterling was a Jewish-American writer and historian.- Biography :She was born and grew up in New York City, attended Wellesley College and graduated from Barnard College in 1934. After college, she worked as a journalist and writer in New York for several years. In 1937 she married Philip...

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

     writer
    Writer
    A writer is a person who produces literature, such as novels, short stories, plays, screenplays, poetry, or other literary art. Skilled writers are able to use language to portray ideas and images....

     and 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...

    . http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/05/arts/05sterling.html
  • Joseph B. Wirthlin
    Joseph B. Wirthlin
    Joseph Bitner Wirthlin was an American businessman, religious leader and member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints . He was sustained to the Quorum on October 4, 1986, and ordained an apostle on October 9, 1986 by Thomas S. Monson, following the...

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

     Mormon prelate, Apostle of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, natural causes. http://www.deseretnews.com/article/1,5143,705267532,00.html

See also

Deaths in 2008
Deaths in 2008
The following is a list of notable deaths in 2008. 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....

 :
Deaths in December 2007
Deaths in 2007 : ← - January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December- →The following is a list of notable deaths in December 2007.-31:...

 - January
Deaths in January 2008
Deaths in 2008 : ← - January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December- →The following is a list of notable deaths in January 2008.-31:...

 - February
Deaths in February 2008
Deaths in 2008 : ← - January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December - →The following is a list of notable deaths in February 2008.-29:...

 - March
Deaths in March 2008
Deaths in 2008 : ← - January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December - →The following is a list of notable deaths in March 2008.-31:...

 - April
Deaths in April 2008
Deaths in 2008 : ← - January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December - →The following is a list of notable deaths in April 2008.-30:...

 - May
Deaths in May 2008
Deaths in 2008 : ← - January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December - →The following is a list of notable deaths in May 2008.-31:*Carlos Alhinho, 59, Portuguese international footballer, fall....

 - June
Deaths in June 2008
Deaths in 2008 : ← - January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December - →The following is a list of notable deaths in June 2008.-30:*Frances Bult, 95, Australian Olympic swimmer....

 - July
Deaths in July 2008
Deaths in 2008 : ← - January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December - →The following is a list of notable deaths in July 2008.-31:...

 - August
Deaths in August 2008
Deaths in 2008 : ← - January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December - →The following is a list of notable deaths in August 2008.-31:*Meir Avizohar, 84, Israeli politician and academic....

 - September
Deaths in September 2008
Deaths in 2008 : ← - January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December - →The following is a list of notable deaths in September 2008.-30:*Henry Adler, 93, American drummer, teacher of Buddy Rich....

 - October
Deaths in October 2008
Deaths in 2008 : ← - January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December - →The following is a list of notable deaths in October 2008.-31:*Jonathan Bates, 68, British sound engineer....

 - November
Deaths in November 2008
Deaths in 2008 : ← - January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December - →The following is a list of notable deaths in November 2008.-30:*Béatrix Beck, 94, Belgian writer....

 - December-
Deaths in January 2009
Deaths in 2009 : ← – January – February – March – April – May – June – July – August – September – October – November – December- →The following is a list of notable deaths in January 2009.-31:...

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