Deaths in July 2005
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Deaths in 2005
Deaths in 2005
The following is a list of notable deaths in 2005. 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....

 : January
Deaths in January 2005
Deaths in 2005 : ← - January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December- →The following is a list of notable people who died in January 2005.31*Ron Basford, 72, Canadian cabinet minister...

 - February
Deaths in February 2005
Deaths in 2005 : January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December- →The following is a list of notable people who died in February 2005.28*Chris Curtis, 63, drummer with The Searchers...

 - March
Deaths in March 2005
Deaths in 2005 : January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December- →The following is a list of notable people who died in March 2005.-31:...

 - April
Deaths in April 2005
Deaths in 2005 : January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December- →The following is a list of notable people who died in April 2005.30...

 - May
Deaths in May 2005
Deaths in 2005 : January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December- →The following is a list of notable people who died in May 2005.31*Eduardo Teixeira Coelho, 86, Portuguese comic book artist...

 - June
Deaths in June 2005
Deaths in 2005: January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December- →The following is a list of notable people who died in June 2005.30*Christopher Fry, 97, British playwright....

 - July - August
Deaths in August 2005
Deaths in 2005 : January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December- →The following is a list of notable people who died in August 2005.31...

 - September
Deaths in September 2005
Deaths in 2005 : January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December- →The following is a list of notable people who died in September 2005.30...

 - October
Deaths in October 2005
Deaths in 2005 : January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December- →The following is a list of notable deaths in October 2005.31...

 - November
Deaths in November 2005
Deaths in 2005 : January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December- →The following is a list of notable deaths in November 2005.30*Donald Breckenridge, 75, American hotel developer, lung cancer....

 - December
Deaths in December 2005
Deaths in 2005 : January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December- →The following is a list of notable deaths in December 2005.31*Enrico Di Giuseppe, 73, American operatic tenor, cancer....

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Deaths in January 2006
Deaths in 2006 : ← - January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December- →The following is a list of notable deaths in January 2006.- 31 :...




The following is a list of notable people who died in July 2005.
31
  • Wim Duisenberg
    Wim Duisenberg
    Willem Frederik "Wim" Duisenberg was a Dutch politician of the Labour Party . He was the first President of the European Central Bank from 1 July 1998 until 31 October 2003. He was instrumental in the Introduction of the euro in the European Union in 2002. He was also credited for making numerous...

    , 70, 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...

     banker and politician, suffered a heart attack while swimming and drowned. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/4733483.stm
  • Mantle Hood
    Mantle Hood
    Mantle Hood was an American ethnomusicologist. Among other areas, he specialized in studying gamelan music from Indonesia. Hood pioneered, in the 1950s and 1960s, a new approach to the study of music, and the creation at UCLA of the first American university program devoted to ethnomusicology...

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

     ethnomusicologist.
  • Koji Tano, 43, 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 "Noise artist"
    Noise music
    Noise music is a term used to describe varieties of avant-garde music and sound art that may use elements such as cacophony, dissonance, atonality, noise, indeterminacy, and repetition in their realization. Noise music can feature distortion, various types of acoustically or electronically...

    , colon cancer. http://www.steinklang-records.at/koji-tano.html
  • Lawrence Teeter
    Lawrence Teeter
    Lawrence Teeter was an American lawyer best known for being the attorney of Sirhan Sirhan, the man convicted of assassinating Robert F. Kennedy. Teeter died in Conchitas, Mexico of advanced lymphoma....

    , 56, attempted to have Sirhan Sirhan
    Sirhan Sirhan
    Sirhan Bishara Sirhan is a Jordanian citizen who was convicted for the assassination of United States Senator Robert F. Kennedy. He is serving a life sentence at Pleasant Valley State Prison in Coalinga, California.Sirhan was a Christian Arab born in Jerusalem who strongly opposed Israel...

     retried, saying he did not kill Robert F. Kennedy
    Robert F. Kennedy
    Robert Francis "Bobby" Kennedy , also referred to by his initials RFK, was an American politician, a Democratic senator from New York, and a noted civil rights activist. An icon of modern American liberalism and member of the Kennedy family, he was a younger brother of President John F...

    , lymphoma
    Lymphoma
    Lymphoma is a cancer in the lymphatic cells of the immune system. Typically, lymphomas present as a solid tumor of lymphoid cells. Treatment might involve chemotherapy and in some cases radiotherapy and/or bone marrow transplantation, and can be curable depending on the histology, type, and stage...

    .http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/08/05/AR2005080501661.html?nav=rss_metro/obituaries


30
  • Ray Cunningham
    Ray Cunningham
    Raymond Lee Cunningham was an American third baseman in Major League Baseball who played for the St. Louis Cardinals in 1931 and 1932. He batted and threw right-handed. A native of Mesquite, Texas, Cunningham played briefly for the Cardinals at third base before an injury cut short his career...

    , 100, recognized as the oldest living former Major League Baseball
    Major League Baseball
    Major League Baseball is the highest level of professional baseball in the United States and Canada, consisting of teams that play in the National League and the American League...

     player. http://story.scout.com/a.z?s=228&p=2&c=417242, http://www.baseball-reference.com/c/cunnira01.shtml
  • John Garang
    John Garang
    John Garang de Mabior was a Sudanese politician and rebel leader. From 1983 to 2005, he led the Sudan People's Liberation Army during the Second Sudanese Civil War, and following a peace agreement he briefly served as First Vice President of Sudan from January 2005 until he died in a July 2005...

    , 60, Sudan
    Sudan
    Sudan , officially the Republic of the Sudan , is a country in North Africa, sometimes considered part of the Middle East politically. It is bordered by Egypt to the north, the Red Sea to the northeast, Eritrea and Ethiopia to the east, South Sudan to the south, the Central African Republic to the...

    ese Vice President, helicopter crash. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/2134220.stm, http://today.reuters.com/News/newsArticle.aspx?type=worldNews&storyID=2005-08-01T165844Z_01_L0128099_RTRIDST_0_INTERNATIONAL-SUDAN-DC.XML
  • Lucky Thompson
    Lucky Thompson
    Eli "Lucky" Thompson was a United States jazz tenor and soprano saxophonist...

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

     saxophonist.


29
  • Hermione Hammond
    Hermione Hammond
    Hermione Hammond was an English painter who is most famous for her paintings of London damaged by the Blitz during World War II....

    , 94, English
    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...

     painter and portrait artist. http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4158/is_20050913/ai_n15365689#continue
  • Hildegarde Sell, 99, cabaret singer/chanteuse, natural causes.
  • Pat McCormick
    Pat McCormick (comic)
    Pat McCormick was an American actor and comedy writer known for playing Big Enos Burdette in Smokey and the Bandit and its two sequels. He wrote for a number of performers such as Red Skelton, Phyllis Diller and Johnny Carson as well as for shows including Get Smart...

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

     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...

     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....

     (Johnny Carson
    Johnny Carson
    John William "Johnny" Carson was an American television host and comedian, known as host of The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson for 30 years . Carson received six Emmy Awards including the Governor Award and a 1985 Peabody Award; he was inducted into the Television Academy Hall of Fame in 1987...

    , Phyllis Diller
    Phyllis Diller
    Phyllis Diller is an American actress and comedian. She created a stage persona of a wild-haired, eccentrically dressed housewife who makes jokes about a husband named "Fang" while pretending to smoke from a long cigarette holder...

    , Red Skelton
    Red Skelton
    Richard Bernard "Red" Skelton was an American comedian who is best known as a top radio and television star from 1937 to 1971. Skelton's show business career began in his teens as a circus clown and went on to vaudeville, Broadway, films, radio, TV, night clubs and casinos, all while pursuing...

    ; Candid Camera
    Candid Camera
    Candid Camera is a hidden camera/practical joke reality television series created and produced by Allen Funt, which initially began on radio as Candid Microphone June 28, 1947...

    , Get Smart
    Get Smart
    Get Smart is an American comedy television series that satirizes the secret agent genre. Created by Mel Brooks with Buck Henry, the show starred Don Adams , Barbara Feldon , and Edward Platt...

    , etc.).


28
  • Bergur Sigurbjörnsson
    Bergur Sigurbjörnsson
    Bergur Sigurbjörnsson was an Icelandic magazine editor and politician.He studied business in the University of Iceland, and later went on to study economics in Stockholm University. He founded the weekly magazine, Frjáls Þjóð in 1952, and was the magazine's editor until 1967...

    , 88, Iceland
    Iceland
    Iceland , described as the Republic of Iceland, is a Nordic and European island country in the North Atlantic Ocean, on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge. Iceland also refers to the main island of the country, which contains almost all the population and almost all the land area. The country has a population...

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

    .


27
  • Helen Phillips
    Helen Phillips
    Helen L. Phillips was an American dramatic lyric soprano who broke though racial barriers as a concert singer and—almost in passing—on the opera stage....

    , 86, opera singer.
  • Betty Astell
    Betty Astell
    Elizabeth "Betty" Julia Astell was an English actress.Born in Brondesbury, London, she was married to the entertainer Cyril Fletcher for more than 60 years, from 18 May 1941 until his death on 1 January 2005...

    , 93, entertainer and widow of Cyril Fletcher
    Cyril Fletcher
    Cyril Fletcher was an English comedian; his catchphrase was 'Pin back your lugholes'. He was most famous for his Odd Odes, which was a section of the television show That's Life!. Fletcher had first begun performing the Odd Odes in 1937, long before they first appeared on television...

    .
  • Tungia Baker
    Tungia Baker
    Tungia Baker was a Maori actress who's notable film roles include Hira in The Piano.The daughter of noted Ngāti Raukawa elder Matenga Baker of Otaki, she was a National Representative of American Field Service, pioneering marae visits for incoming AFS scholars. She was closely associated with...

    , Māori artist, actress (The Piano
    The Piano
    The Piano is a 1993 New Zealand drama film about a mute pianist and her daughter, set during the mid-19th century in a rainy, muddy frontier backwater on the west coast of New Zealand. The film was written and directed by Jane Campion, and stars Holly Hunter, Harvey Keitel, Sam Neill, and Anna Paquin...

    ).
  • Al Held
    Al Held
    Al Held was an American Abstract expressionist painter. He was particularly well known for his large scale Hard-edge paintings.-Background and education:...

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

     abstract painter.
  • Marten Toonder
    Marten Toonder
    Marten Toonder was a Dutch comic creator, born in Rotterdam. He was probably the most successful comic artist in the Netherlands and had a great influence in the Dutch language by introducing new words and expressions....

    , 93, 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...

     author and cartoonist.
  • Robert Wright
    Robert Wright (writer)
    Robert [Craig] Wright was an American composer-lyricist for Hollywood and the musical theatre best known for the Broadway musical and musical film Kismet, for which he and his professional partner George Forrest adapted themes by Alexander Borodin and added lyrics...

    , 90, musical lyricist
    Lyricist
    A lyricist is a songwriter who specializes in lyrics. A singer who writes the lyrics to songs is a singer-lyricist. This differentiates from a singer-composer, who composes the song's melody.-Collaboration:...

     (team of Wright & Forrest
    George Forrest (author)
    George Forrest was a writer of music and lyrics for musical theatre best known for the show Kismet, adapted from the works of Alexander Borodin.-Biography:...

     – Grand Hotel
    Grand Hotel (musical)
    Grand Hotel is a musical with a book by Luther Davis and music and lyrics by Robert Wright and George Forrest, with additional lyrics and music by Maury Yeston....

    , Kismet
    Kismet (musical)
    Kismet is a musical with lyrics and musical adaptation by Robert Wright and George Forrest, adapted from the music of Alexander Borodin, and a book by Charles Lederer and Luther Davis, based on Kismet, the 1911 play by Edward Knoblock...

    , Song of Norway
    Song of Norway
    Song of Norway is an operetta written in 1944 by Robert Wright and George Forrest, adapted from the music of Edvard Grieg and the book by Milton Lazarus and Homer Curran...

    , etc.).
  • Dom Um Romão
    Dom Um Romão
    Dom Um Romão was a Brazilian jazz drummer and percussionist. Noted for his expressive stylings with the fusion band Weather Report, Romão recorded with varied artists such as Cannonball Adderley, Paul Simon, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Sergio Mendes and Brasil '66 and Tony Bennett...

    , 79, 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 jazz drummer.


26
  • Pierre Broué
    Pierre Broué
    Pierre Broué was a French historian and Trotskyist. His work covers various topics including the history of the Bolshevik Party, the Spanish Revolution and biographical works on Leon Trotsky...

    , 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...

     Trotskyist 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...

    .
  • Alexander Golitzen
    Alexander Golitzen
    Alexander Golitzen, oversaw art direction on more than 300 movies.Prince Alexander Golitzen was born in Moscow, but fled the country with his family during the Russian Revolution. Travelling via Siberia and China, they arrived in Seattle, where Alexander graduated from high school...

    , 97, Oscar
    Academy Awards
    An Academy Award, also known as an Oscar, is an accolade bestowed by the American Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to recognize excellence of professionals in the film industry, including directors, actors, and writers...

    -winning movie art director and production designer.
  • Jack Hirshleifer
    Jack Hirshleifer
    Jack Hirshleifer was an American economist and long-time professor at the University of California, Los Angeles....

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

     economist
  • Danny Simon
    Danny Simon
    Danny Simon was an American television writer and comedy teacher. He was also older brother to acclaimed American playwright Neil Simon....

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

     comedy writer, brother of Neil Simon
    Neil Simon
    Neil Simon is an American playwright and screenwriter. He has written numerous Broadway plays, including Brighton Beach Memoirs, Biloxi Blues, and The Odd Couple. He won the 1991 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for his play Lost In Yonkers. He has written the screenplays for several of his plays that...

    . http://www.playbill.com/news/article/94247.html


25
  • Eddie Crook, Jr.
    Eddie Crook, Jr.
    Edward "Eddie" Crook, Jr. won a gold medal for the United States as a boxing teammate of Muhammad Ali in the 1960 Summer Olympics. Crook was also a member of Omega Psi Phi fraternity.-Amateur career:...

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

     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...

     boxer
    Boxing
    Boxing, also called pugilism, is a combat sport in which two people fight each other using their fists. Boxing is supervised by a referee over a series of between one to three minute intervals called rounds...

     and Vietnam
    Vietnam War
    The Vietnam War was a Cold War-era military conflict that occurred in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from 1 November 1955 to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975. This war followed the First Indochina War and was fought between North Vietnam, supported by its communist allies, and the government of...

     veteran.
  • Maria do Couto Maia-Lopes, 114, oldest person ever documented
    National longevity recordholders
    This is a list of oldest people by nation. It includes the individual, for each given country, who are reported to have had the longest lifespan. Such records can only be determined to the extent that the given country's records are reliable. Comprehensive birth registration largely came into being...

     in Portugal
    Portugal
    Portugal , officially the Portuguese Republic is a country situated in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula. Portugal is the westernmost country of Europe, and is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the West and South and by Spain to the North and East. The Atlantic archipelagos of the...

    .
  • Albert Mangelsdorff
    Albert Mangelsdorff
    Albert Mangelsdorff was one of the most accredited and innovative trombonists of modern jazz who became famous for his distinctive technique of playing multiphonics.-Biography:...

    , 76, 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...

     trombonist.
  • Ford Rainey
    Ford Rainey
    Ford Rainey was an American film, stage and television actor.-Early life:Rainey was born in Mountain Home, Idaho, the son of Vyrna , a teacher, and Archie Coleman Rainey. Rainey graduated from Centralia Junior College in Washington state and the Cornish Drama School in Seattle. He first acted on...

    , 96, 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...

    .


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  • Sir Richard Doll
    Richard Doll
    Sir William Richard Shaboe Doll CH OBE FRS was a British physiologist who became the foremost epidemiologist of the 20th century, turning the subject into a rigorous science. He was a pioneer in research linking smoking to health problems...

    , 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...

     epidemiologist, first person to link cigarette smoking and lung cancer.
  • Pavel Dostál
    Pavel Dostál
    Pavel Dostál was a Minister of Culture in the Czech Republic, known for his dynamic personality and his advocacy of social justice....

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

     minister for cultural affairs.
  • Francis Ona
    Francis Ona
    Francis Ona was a Bougainville secessionist leader who led an uprising against the Government of Papua New Guinea, motivated at least initially by his concerns over the operation of the Panguna mine by Bougainville Copper, a subsidiary of Rio Tinto Group...

    , 50s, Bougainville, Papua New Guinea
    Bougainville Province
    The Autonomous Region of Bougainville, previously known as North Solomons, is an autonomous region in Papua New Guinea. The largest island is Bougainville Island , and the province also includes the island of Buka and assorted outlying islands including the Carterets...

    , rebel leader.


23
  • Ray Crist
    Ray Crist
    Ray Crist was an American chemist. According to a feature that appeared in the Chemistry, Crist was born on a farm near Grantham, Pennsylvania...

    , 105, centenarian
    Centenarian
    A centenarian is a person who is or lives beyond the age of 100 years. Because current average life expectancies across the world are less than 100, the term is invariably associated with longevity. Much rarer, a supercentenarian is a person who has lived to the age of 110 or more, something only...

     chemist
    Chemistry
    Chemistry is the science of matter, especially its chemical reactions, but also its composition, structure and properties. Chemistry is concerned with atoms and their interactions with other atoms, and particularly with the properties of chemical bonds....

    .
  • Myron Floren
    Myron Floren
    Myron Floren was an American musician best known as the accordionist on The Lawrence Welk Show between 1950 and 1982...

    , 85, longtime accordionist/bandleader on The Lawrence Welk Show
    The Lawrence Welk Show
    The Lawrence Welk Show is an American televised musical variety show hosted by big band leader Lawrence Welk. The series aired locally in Los Angeles for four years , then nationally for another 27 years via the ABC network and first-run syndication .In the years since first-run syndication...

    .
  • Ray Oldham
    Ray Oldham
    Donnie Ray Oldham was an American football defensive back in the National Football League for the Baltimore Colts, Pittsburgh Steelers, New York Giants, and Detroit Lions...

    , 54, former NFL cornerback
    Cornerback
    A cornerback is a member of the defensive backfield or secondary in American and Canadian football. Cornerbacks cover receivers, to defend against pass offenses and make tackles. Other members of the defensive backfield include the safeties and occasionally linebackers. The cornerback position...

    , Pittsburgh Steelers
    Pittsburgh Steelers
    The Pittsburgh Steelers are a professional football team based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The team currently belongs to the North Division of the American Football Conference in the National Football League . Founded in , the Steelers are the oldest franchise in the AFC...

    .


22
  • Jerry Marcus
    Jerry Marcus
    Jerry Marcus was a prolific freelance gag cartoonist who also created the syndicated newspaper comic strip, Trudy....

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

     cartoonist (Trudy). http://news.newstimeslive.com/story.php?id=73275&category=Local,
  • Eugene Record
    Eugene Record
    Eugene Record was the American lead vocalist of the Chicago, Illinois based band, The Chi-Lites, during the 1960s and 1970s.He was born Eugene Booker Record in Chicago...

    , 64, lead vocalist for The Chi-Lites
    The Chi-Lites
    The Chi-Lites are a Chicago-based smooth soul vocal quartet from the early 1970s, one of the few from the period not to come from Memphis or Philadelphia...

    .
  • Hinako Sugiura
    Hinako Sugiura
    was a manga artist and researcher in the lifestyles and customs of Japan's Edo period. Born Junko Suzuki in Minato, Tokyo, into a tradition-steeped family of kimono merchants, she studied design and took an increasing interest in old Japan. She attended Nihon University, but gave up her formal...

    , 46, 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 and cartoonist. http://www.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/getarticle.pl5?nn20050726b2.htm
  • George D. Wallace
    George D. Wallace
    George Dewey Wallace was an American stage and screen actor.Wallace co-starred with Mary Martin in the Broadway musical Jennie and was nominated for a New York Drama Critics' Circle Award for playing the male lead in New Girl in Town opposite Gwen Verdon...

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

     actor (Forbidden Planet
    Forbidden Planet
    Forbidden Planet is a 1956 science fiction film directed by Fred M. Wilcox, with a screenplay by Cyril Hume. It stars Leslie Nielsen, Walter Pidgeon, and Anne Francis. The characters and its setting have been compared to those in William Shakespeare's The Tempest, and its plot contains certain...

    , The Pajama Game
    The Pajama Game
    The Pajama Game is a musical based on the novel 7½ Cents by Richard Bissell. It features a score by Richard Adler and Jerry Ross. The story deals with labor troubles in a pajama factory, where worker demands for a seven-and-a-half cents raise are going unheeded...

    ).


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  • Long John Baldry
    Long John Baldry
    John William "Long John" Baldry was an English and Canadian blues singer and a voice actor. He sang with many British musicians, with Rod Stewart and Elton John appearing in bands led by Baldry in the 1960s. He enjoyed pop success in the UK where Let the Heartaches Begin reached No...

    , 64, British 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...

     musician.
  • Bruce Bolt
    Bruce Bolt
    Bruce Bolt was a Professor of Earth and Planetary Science at the University of California, Berkeley. Professor Bolt was a seismologist known as pioneer of engineering seismology...

    , 75, Scientist and earthquake expert.
  • Andrzej Grubba
    Andrzej Grubba
    Andrzej Grubba was a Polish table tennis player.Grubba was born in Brzeźno Wielkie near Starogard Gdański...

    , 47, 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...

     table tennis player.
  • Jair da Rosa Pinto
    Jair da Rosa Pinto
    Jair da Rosa Pinto, or simply Jair, was an association footballer who played offensive midfielder – one of the leading Brazilian footballers of the 1940s and 50s, who is best remembered for his performance in Brazil's 1950 FIFA World Cup campaign.-Pre-1950:Born March 21, 1921 in Quatis, Rio...

    , 84, Brazilian footballer
  • Ian Robertson, Lord Robertson
    Ian Robertson, Lord Robertson
    Ian MacDonald Robertson was a High Court of Justiciary judge who contributed greatly to Scottish law.-Early life:Robertson was the youngest of six children, born in Edinburgh when his father was already 66...

    , 92, Scottish
    Scottish people
    The Scottish people , or Scots, are a nation and ethnic group native to Scotland. Historically they emerged from an amalgamation of the Picts and Gaels, incorporating neighbouring Britons to the south as well as invading Germanic peoples such as the Anglo-Saxons and the Norse.In modern use,...

     judge
  • Shirley Thomas
    Shirley Thomas (USC professor)
    Shirley Thomas Ph.D. , was a radio/television actress/writer/producer, author, and professor in the Master of Professional Writing Program at the University of Southern California.-Background:...

    , 85, Space 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...

    , Hollywood producer, USC
    University of Southern California
    The University of Southern California is a private, not-for-profit, nonsectarian, research university located in Los Angeles, California, United States. USC was founded in 1880, making it California's oldest private research university...

     professor.


20
  • Charles Chibitty
    Charles Chibitty
    Charles Joyce Chibitty was a Comanche Numunu code talker, who spoke in his native language to relay messages for the United States Army during the European Theatre of World War II.-Life:...

    , 83, last surviving Comanche
    Comanche
    The Comanche are a Native American ethnic group whose historic range consisted of present-day eastern New Mexico, southern Colorado, northeastern Arizona, southern Kansas, all of Oklahoma, and most of northwest Texas. Historically, the Comanches were hunter-gatherers, with a typical Plains Indian...

     code talker
    Code talker
    Code talkers was a term used to describe people who talk using a coded language. It is frequently used to describe 400 Native American Marines who served in the United States Marine Corps whose primary job was the transmission of secret tactical messages...

    .
  • James Doohan
    James Doohan
    James Montgomery "Jimmy" Doohan was a Canadian character and voice actor best known for his role as Montgomery "Scotty" Scott in the television and film series Star Trek...

    , 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...

     actor (best-known for his role as Scotty
    Montgomery Scott
    Montgomery "Scotty" Scott is a Scottish engineer in the Star Trek media franchise. First portrayed by James Doohan in the original Star Trek series, Scotty also appears in the animated Star Trek series, seven Star Trek movies, the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "Relics", and in numerous...

     on the original Star Trek
    Star Trek: The Original Series
    Star Trek is an American science fiction television series created by Gene Roddenberry, produced by Desilu Productions . Star Trek was telecast on NBC from September 8, 1966, through June 3, 1969...

    ), pneumonia and Alzheimer's disease.
  • Finn Gustavsen
    Finn Gustavsen
    Finn Gustavsen was a Norwegian socialist politician active from 1945 to the late 1970s. He was noted for his uncompromising style and willingness to take contrarian stands....

    , 79, 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...

     politician.
  • Kayo Hatta
    Kayo Hatta
    Kayo Hatta was an Asian American filmmaker, writer, and community activist. She directed and co-wrote the independent dramatic feature-length film Picture Bride, which won the Sundance Film Festival Audience Award in 1995 for Best Dramatic Film.-Early Life:Born in Honolulu, Hawaii, Hatta grew up...

    , 47, film director (Picture Bride
    Picture Bride (film)
    Picture Bride is a 1995 feature-length independent film directed by Kayo Hatta from a screenplay she co-wrote with Mari Hatta, and co-produced by Diane Mei Lin Mark and Lisa Onodera. It follows Riyo, who arrives in Hawaii as a "picture bride" for a man she has never met before. The story is based...

    ).
  • Alfred Hayes, 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...

     Wrestler/ Wrestling Announcer (most notably with the WWF
    World Wrestling Entertainment
    World Wrestling Entertainment, Inc. is an American publicly traded, privately controlled entertainment company dealing primarily in professional wrestling, with major revenue sources also coming from film, music, product licensing, and direct product sales...

    ).


19
  • Jim Aparo
    Jim Aparo
    James N. "Jim" Aparo was an American comic book artist best known for his 1960s and 1970s DC Comics work, including on the characters Batman, Aquaman and the Spectre....

    , 72, comic book artist (Batman
    Batman
    Batman is a fictional character created by the artist Bob Kane and writer Bill Finger. A comic book superhero, Batman first appeared in Detective Comics #27 , and since then has appeared primarily in publications by DC Comics...

    , the Phantom Stranger
    Phantom Stranger
    The Phantom Stranger is a fictional character of unspecified paranormal origins who battles mysterious and occult forces in various titles published by DC Comics, sometimes under their Vertigo imprint.-Publication history:...

    , the Spectre
    Spectre (comics)
    The Spectre is a fictional character and superhero who has appeared in numerous comic books published by DC Comics. The character first appeared in a next issue ad in More Fun Comics #51 and received his first story the following month, #52...

    ). http://comicbookbin.com/jimaparorip001.html
  • Alain Bombard
    Alain Bombard
    Alain Bombard was a French biologist, physician and politician famous for sailing across the Atlantic Ocean in a small boat.Alain Bombard was born in Paris...

    , 80, 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...

     biologist and physician.
  • Edward Bunker
    Edward Bunker
    Edward Heward Bunker was an American author of crime fiction, a screenwriter, and an actor. He wrote numerous books, some of which have been adapted into films....

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

     author, screenwriter, and actor (Mr. Blue in Reservoir Dogs
    Reservoir Dogs
    Reservoir Dogs is an American crime film marking debut of director and writer Quentin Tarantino. It depicts the events before and after a botched diamond heist, but not the heist itself. Reservoir Dogs stars an ensemble cast: Harvey Keitel, Steve Buscemi, Tim Roth, Michael Madsen, Chris Penn, and...

    ).
  • John Herald
    John Herald
    John Herald was an American folk and bluegrass songwriter, solo and studio musician, and one-time member of The Greenbriar Boys trio.-Biography:...

    , 66, folk musician, recording artist, member of The Greenbriar Boys Vanguard Records
    Vanguard Records
    Vanguard Records is a record label set up in 1950 by brothers Maynard and Seymour Solomon in New York. It started as a classical label, but is perhaps best known for its catalogue of recordings by a number of pivotal folk and blues artists from the 1960s; the Bach Guild was a subsidiary...

  • Hastings Keith
    Hastings Keith
    Hastings Keith was a United States Representative from Massachusetts. Keith was born in Brockton, Massachusetts on November 22, 1915. He graduated from Brockton High School, Deerfield Academy, and the University of Vermont at Burlington in 1938. He performed graduate work at Harvard University...

    , 89, United States Representative from Massachusetts
    Massachusetts
    The Commonwealth of Massachusetts is a state in the New England region of the northeastern United States of America. It is bordered by Rhode Island and Connecticut to the south, New York to the west, and Vermont and New Hampshire to the north; at its east lies the Atlantic Ocean. As of the 2010...

    , served 1959–1973, as a member of the Republican Party.
  • John Tyndall
    John Tyndall (politician)
    John Hutchyns Tyndall was a British politician who was prominently associated with several fascist/neo-Nazi sects. However, he is best known for leading the National Front in the 1970s and founding the contemporary British National Party in 1982.The most prominent figure in British nationalism...

    , 71, founder of the British National Party
    British National Party
    The British National Party is a British far-right political party formed as a splinter group from the National Front by John Tyndall in 1982...

    .


18
  • Paul Duke
    Paul Duke
    Paul Duke was an American newspaper, radio and television journalist, best known for his 20-year stint as moderator of Washington Week in Review on PBS....

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

     political journalist.
  • Amy Gillett
    Amy Gillett
    Amy Gillett was an Australian track cyclist and rower who represented Australia in both sports before her death in a training accident when a motorist crashed into the Australian squad of cyclists with whom she was training....

    , 29, Australian rower and cyclist.
  • Jim Parker
    Jim Parker (American football)
    James Thomas "Jim" Parker was a college and professional American football player in the 1950s and '60s. He is a member of the College and Professional Football Halls of Fame.-College career:...

    , 71, offensive tackle for the Baltimore Colts
    History of the Indianapolis Colts
    The Indianapolis Colts are a professional football team based in Indianapolis, Indiana. They play in the AFC South division of the National Football League. They have won 3 NFL championships and 2 Super Bowls....

     and member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame
    Pro Football Hall of Fame
    The Pro Football Hall of Fame is the hall of fame of professional football in the United States with an emphasis on the National Football League . It opened in Canton, Ohio, on September 7, 1963, with 17 charter inductees...

    .
  • Gerry Thomas
    Gerry Thomas
    Gerry Thomas was an American salesman sometimes credited with inventing the TV Dinner in 1952. Thomas, who worked for the Swanson food company in the 1950s and went public with his account decades later, said he designed the company's famous three-compartment aluminum tray after seeing a similar...

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

     innovator, inventor of the TV dinner
    TV dinner
    A TV dinner is a prepackaged frozen or chilled meal that usually comes as an individual portion...

    , 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...

    .
  • William Westmoreland
    William Westmoreland
    William Childs Westmoreland was a United States Army General, who commanded US military operations in the Vietnam War at its peak , during the Tet Offensive. He adopted a strategy of attrition against the National Liberation Front of South Vietnam and the North Vietnamese Army. He later served as...

    , 91, U.S. Army General who commanded American military operations in the Vietnam War
    Vietnam War
    The Vietnam War was a Cold War-era military conflict that occurred in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from 1 November 1955 to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975. This war followed the First Indochina War and was fought between North Vietnam, supported by its communist allies, and the government of...

     from 1964 to 1968.


17
  • Laurel Aitken
    Laurel Aitken
    Lorenzo Aitken , better known as Laurel Aitken, was a singer and one of the originators of Jamaican ska music. He is often referred to as the "Godfather of ska".-Career:...

    , 77, 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 musician.
  • Biplab Dasgupta
    Biplab Dasgupta
    Dr. Biplab Dasgupta was a Marxist economist, former member of Rajya Sabha and the Bengal state committee of the CPI. He was the author of several books on the agrarian economy of India.-Biography:...

    , 66, 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 economist
  • Geraldine Fitzgerald
    Geraldine Fitzgerald
    Geraldine Fitzgerald, Lady Lindsay-Hogg was an Irish-American actress and a member of the American Theatre Hall of Fame.-Early life:...

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

     actress, Alzheimer's disease.
  • Sir Edward Heath
    Edward Heath
    Sir Edward Richard George "Ted" Heath, KG, MBE, PC was a British Conservative politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and as Leader of the Conservative Party ....

    , 89, Prime Minister
    Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
    The Prime Minister of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is the Head of Her Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom. The Prime Minister and Cabinet are collectively accountable for their policies and actions to the Sovereign, to Parliament, to their political party and...

     of the United Kingdom
    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...

     1970 – 74, natural causes.
  • Gavin Lambert
    Gavin Lambert
    Gavin Lambert was a British-born screenwriter, novelist and biographer who lived for part of his life in Hollywood...

    , 80, novelist, screenwriter (Inside Daisy Clover
    Inside Daisy Clover
    Inside Daisy Clover is a 1965 American drama film based on the 1963 novel by Gavin Lambert. It stars Natalie Wood, Christopher Plummer, Robert Redford, Roddy McDowall and Ruth Gordon in her Academy Award nominated role.- Plot :...

    , Sons and Lovers
    Sons and Lovers (1960 film)
    Sons and Lovers is a British 1960 film adaptation of the D. H. Lawrence novel Sons and Lovers. It was adapted by T. E. B. Clarke and Gavin Lambert and directed by Jack Cardiff...

    ).
  • Joe Vialls
    Joe Vialls
    Joe Vialls was a conspiracy theorist and internet journalist based in Perth, Western Australia. His claims that major incidents such as the Port Arthur massacre, terror attacks in Bali and Jakarta and the 2004 Asian Tsunami were the work of Israeli and American secret agents gained a measure of...

    , 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 writer.


16
  • Pietro Consagra
    Pietro Consagra
    Pietro Consagra was one of Italy's leading postwar sculptors. Consagra was born in Mazara del Vallo, a town in western Sicily, on October 4. His father, a traveling salesman, did not register his birth until October 6. Consagra attended the Accademia delle Belle Arti in Palermo...

    , 84, 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...

     sculptor.
  • W. Fox McKeithen
    W. Fox McKeithen
    Walter Fox McKeithen served five terms as Secretary of State of Louisiana between 1988 and 2005. He is best remembered for merging the state's election divisions into one department and for the promotion of historical preservation.-Son of a governor:He was born Walter Fox McKeithen in Columbia in...

    , 58, 5-time Louisiana
    Louisiana
    Louisiana is a state located in the southern region of the United States of America. Its capital is Baton Rouge and largest city is New Orleans. Louisiana is the only state in the U.S. with political subdivisions termed parishes, which are local governments equivalent to counties...

     Secretary of State
    Secretary of State
    Secretary of State or State Secretary is a commonly used title for a senior or mid-level post in governments around the world. The role varies between countries, and in some cases there are multiple Secretaries of State in the Government....

    .
  • John Ostrom
    John Ostrom
    John H. Ostrom was an American paleontologist who revolutionized modern understanding of dinosaurs in the 1960s, when he demonstrated that dinosaurs are more like big non-flying birds than they are like lizards , an idea first proposed by Thomas Henry Huxley in the 1860s, but which had garnered...

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

     paleontologist who revolutionized understanding of dinosaur
    Dinosaur
    Dinosaurs are a diverse group of animals of the clade and superorder Dinosauria. They were the dominant terrestrial vertebrates for over 160 million years, from the late Triassic period until the end of the Cretaceous , when the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event led to the extinction of...

    s.
  • Helen Bonchek Schneyer
    Helen Bonchek Schneyer
    Helen Bonchek Schneyer was an American folk musician. She was raised Jewish in New York City. While a student at Columbia University, she was introduced to American folk music. She also sang Baptist spirituals.Over a sixty year career, Schneyer worked with such influential artists as Pete Seeger...

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

     folk musician.


15
  • Anne Drungis
    Anne Drungis
    Anne Drungis was an American fencer. She competed in the women's team foil event at the 1964 Summer Olympics.-References:...

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

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

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

    . http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/dr/anne-drungis-1.html
  • Sir Ronald Wilson
    Ronald Wilson
    Sir Ronald Darling Wilson, AC, KBE, CMG, QC was a distinguished Australian lawyer, judge and social activist serving on the High Court of Australia between 1979 and 1989 and as the President of the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission between 1990 and 1997.Wilson is probably best known as...

    , 82, 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 High Court justice.
  • Michael Gibson, 60, Tony
    Tony Award
    The Antoinette Perry Award for Excellence in Theatre, more commonly known as a Tony Award, recognizes achievement in live Broadway theatre. The awards are presented by the American Theatre Wing and The Broadway League at an annual ceremony in New York City. The awards are given for Broadway...

    -nominated orchestrator and 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....

    .


14
  • Mark Carlisle, Baron Carlisle of Bucklow
    Mark Carlisle
    Mark Carlisle, Baron Carlisle of Bucklow QC DL PC was a Conservative British politician and was Member of Parliament for Runcorn 1964-1983 and Warrington South 1983-1987...

    , 76, British politician.
  • Richard Leiterman
    Richard Leiterman
    Richard Leiterman was a well-known Canadian cinematographer, best known for documentary and feature film work in the 1960s and 1970s...

    , 70, award-winning 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...

     cinematographer
    Cinematographer
    A cinematographer is one photographing with a motion picture camera . The title is generally equivalent to director of photography , used to designate a chief over the camera and lighting crews working on a film, responsible for achieving artistic and technical decisions related to the image...

    .
  • Jacques Roche
    Jacques Roche
    Jacques Roche was a prominent journalist and poet of Haiti. He was kidnapped on July 11, 2005, and was found dead on July 14, 2005. Television footage showed him tied to a chair and mutilated. Police say he was tortured, his tongue cut out, then shot....

    , early 40s, Haiti
    Haiti
    Haiti , officially the Republic of Haiti , is a Caribbean country. It occupies the western, smaller portion of the island of Hispaniola, in the Greater Antillean archipelago, which it shares with the Dominican Republic. Ayiti was the indigenous Taíno or Amerindian name for the island...

    an journalist.
  • Dame Cicely Saunders
    Cicely Saunders
    Dame Cicely Mary Saunders, was a prominent Anglican, nurse, physician and writer, involved with many international universities...

    , 87, British palliative care activist; founded St. Christopher's Hospice (where she herself died), 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...

    .


13
  • Robert P. Abelson
    Robert P. Abelson
    Robert Paul Abelson was a Yale University psychologist and political scientist with special interests in statistics and logic....

    , 76, American psychologist and political scientist.


12
  • Piero Cappuccilli
    Piero Cappuccilli
    Piero Cappuccilli was an Italian operatic baritone, particularly associated with Verdi roles, especiallyMacbeth and Simon Boccanegra; he was renowned for his extraordinary breath control and smooth legato, and is widely regarded as one of the finest Italian baritones of the second half of the 20th...

    , 78, 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...

     opera singer.
  • Joseph Delaney
    Joseph Delaney
    Joseph Henry Delaney is a British former educator and currently an author of science fiction and fantasy books.-Life and career:On first leaving school, Delaney started work as an apprentice engineer. Upon the completion of his schooling, he went on to become an English instructor, with his initial...

    , 70, Roman Catholic bishop of the diocese of Fort Worth, Texas
    Fort Worth, Texas
    Fort Worth is the 16th-largest city in the United States of America and the fifth-largest city in the state of Texas. Located in North Central Texas, just southeast of the Texas Panhandle, the city is a cultural gateway into the American West and covers nearly in Tarrant, Parker, Denton, and...

     for many years.
  • Arthur Fletcher
    Arthur Fletcher
    Arthur Fletcher was an American government official, widely referred to as the "father of affirmative action" as he was largely responsible for the Revised Philadelphia Plan....

    , 80, Assistant Labor Secretary under US President Richard Nixon
    Richard Nixon
    Richard Milhous Nixon was the 37th President of the United States, serving from 1969 to 1974. The only president to resign the office, Nixon had previously served as a US representative and senator from California and as the 36th Vice President of the United States from 1953 to 1961 under...

    , called the "father of affirmative action
    Affirmative action
    Affirmative action refers to policies that take factors including "race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation or national origin" into consideration in order to benefit an underrepresented group, usually as a means to counter the effects of a history of discrimination.-Origins:The term...

    ". http://www.seattlepi.com/local/232336_obitfletcher13.html
  • John Leonard King, Baron King of Wartnaby, 87, businessman and chairman of British Airways
    British Airways
    British Airways is the flag carrier airline of the United Kingdom, based in Waterside, near its main hub at London Heathrow Airport. British Airways is the largest airline in the UK based on fleet size, international flights and international destinations...

     from 1981 to 1993.
  • Scott Paul
    Scott Paul
    Scott Paul was an American actor with roles in Wyatt Earp and Street Vengeance.He died in 2005 from swelling of the brain....

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

     actor (Wyatt Earp
    Wyatt Earp
    Wyatt Berry Stapp Earp was an American gambler, investor, and law enforcement officer who served in several Western frontier towns. He was also at different times a farmer, teamster, bouncer, saloon-keeper, miner and boxing referee. However, he was never a drover or cowboy. He is most well known...

    ). http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?s_hidethis=no&p_product=AJOB&p_theme=ajob&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_field_label-0=title&p_text_label-0=scott%20paul&p_field_label-1=Topics&p_bool_label-1=AND&p_text_label-1=All&s_dispstring=headlin


11
  • Gretchen Franklin
    Gretchen Franklin
    Gretchen Franklin was an English actress with a career in showbusiness that spanned over eighty years.She was born in Covent Garden, west London, a cousin of the actor Clive Dunn. She was best known for playing the character of Ethel Skinner in the long running BBC One, soap opera, EastEnders...

    , 94, television actress, best known as "Ethel Skinner
    Ethel Skinner
    Ethel May Skinner is a fictional character from the British soap opera EastEnders, played by the late Gretchen Franklin. Ethel Skinner also features in a 1988 EastEnders special, entitled Civvy Street, set on Albert Square during the Second World War, where the character is played by Alison...

    " in EastEnders
    EastEnders
    EastEnders is a British television soap opera, first broadcast in the United Kingdom on BBC One on 19 February 1985 and continuing to today. EastEnders storylines examine the domestic and professional lives of the people who live and work in the fictional London Borough of Walford in the East End...

    .
  • Shinya Hashimoto
    Shinya Hashimoto
    , was a Japanese professional wrestler. Along with Masahiro Chono and Keiji Mutoh, Hashimoto was dubbed one of the "Three Musketeers" that began competing in New Japan Pro Wrestling in the mid 1980s and dominated the promotion in the 1990s....

    , 40, Japanese professional wrestler
    Professional wrestling in Japan
    Puroresu is the popular term for the predominant style or genre of professional wrestling that has developed in Japan. The term comes from the Japanese pronunciation of "professional wrestling" , which is shortened to puroresu . The term became popular among English-speaking fans due to Hisaharu...

    .
  • Jesus Ricardo Iglesias, 83, Grand Prix
    Formula One
    Formula One, also known as Formula 1 or F1 and referred to officially as the FIA Formula One World Championship, is the highest class of single seater auto racing sanctioned by the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile . The "formula" designation in the name refers to a set of rules with which...

     racing driver.
  • Frances Langford
    Frances Langford
    Julia Frances Langford was an American singer and entertainer who was popular during the Golden Age of Radio and also made film appearances over two decades.-Birth:...

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

     singer/actress.
  • Mickey Owen
    Mickey Owen
    Arnold Malcolm "Mickey" Owen was a catcher for St. Louis Cardinals in Major League Baseball. Between 1937 and 1954, Owen played for the St. Louis Cardinals , Brooklyn Dodgers , Chicago Cubs and Boston Red Sox...

    , 89, former MLB player for the Brooklyn Dodgers.


10
  • Frank Moores
    Frank Moores
    Frank Duff Moores served as the 2nd Premier of Newfoundland. He served as leader of the Progressive Conservatives from 1972 until his retirement in 1979.-Early life:...

    , 72, former Newfoundland
    Newfoundland and Labrador
    Newfoundland and Labrador is the easternmost province of Canada. Situated in the country's Atlantic region, it incorporates the island of Newfoundland and mainland Labrador with a combined area of . As of April 2011, the province's estimated population is 508,400...

     Premier.
  • A.J. Quinnell, 65, writer, Man on Fire.
  • Dick Sabot
    Dick Sabot
    Richard "Dick" Sabot was an economist, scholar, farmer, and Internet pioneer who was co-founder of Tripod.com, one of the first and most successful dot-coms, in 1992...

    , 61, 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...

    , Internet entrepreneur, co-founder of tripod.com
    Tripod.com
    Tripod.com is a web hosting service owned by Lycos. Originally aiming its services to college students and young adults, it was one of several sites trying to build online communities during the dot-com bubble...

    .
  • Freda Wright-Sorce
    Freda Wright-Sorce
    Freda Wright-Sorce was the wife of Don Geronimo, half of the duo of the Don and Mike Show, a syndicated radio program in the United States...

    , 50, wife of Don Geronimo
    Don Geronimo
    Michael Sorce , better known by his stage name Don Geronimo, is an American radio personality formerly featured on the nationally syndicated radio talk show Don and Mike Show...

     of the Don and Mike Show
    Don and Mike
    The Don and Mike Show was an American nationally syndicated radio talk show hosted by the shock jocks Don Geronimo and Mike O'Meara, which aired from December 1985 through April 2008, when Geronimo retired in order to focus on his personal life. After Geronimo's retirement, the remaining cast...

    .
  • Jack Tripp
    Jack Tripp
    Jack Tripp MBE was an English comic actor, singer and dancer who appeared in seaside variety shows and revues and became best-known for his many performances as a pantomime dame....

    , 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...

     pantomime dame
    Pantomime dame
    A pantomime dame is a traditional character in British pantomime. It is a continuation of en travesti portrayal of female characters by male actors in drag. They are often played either in an extremely camp style, or else by men acting 'butch' in women's clothing...

    .
  • Freddy Soto
    Freddy Soto
    Alfred Soto, Jr. was an American comedian, writer and actor. His stand-up comedy act focused primarily on his upbringing in a Mexican American household...

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

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

    .


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  • Chuck Cadman
    Chuck Cadman
    Charles "Chuck" Cadman was a Canadian politician and Member of Parliament from 1997 to 2005, representing the riding of Surrey North in Surrey, British Columbia.- Early life :...

    , 57, Canadian Member of Parliament
    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,...

    .
  • Yevgenij Grishin, 74, 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 speed skater, first speed skater under 40 seconds on 500 metres.
  • Kevin Hagen, 77, actor on Little House on the Prairie
    Little House on the Prairie (TV series)
    Little House on the Prairie is an American Western drama television series, starring Michael Landon and Melissa Gilbert, about a family living on a farm in Walnut Grove, Minnesota, in the 1870s and 1880s. The show was an adaptation of Laura Ingalls Wilder's best-selling series of Little House books...

    .
  • Byron Preiss
    Byron Preiss
    Byron Preiss was an American writer, editor, and publisher. He founded and served as president of Byron Preiss Visual Publications, and later of iBooks.-Early life and career:...

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

     writer/editor/publisher. http://www.comicon.com/cgi-bin/pulse.cgi?http%3A//www.comicon.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi%3Fubb%3Dget_topic%3Bf%3D36%3Bt%3D003970
  • Alex Shibicky
    Alex Shibicky
    Alex Shibicky was an ice hockey forward who played for the New York Rangers of the National Hockey League from 1935 to 1946....

    , 91, 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 who made first slapshot
    Slapshot
    A slapshot in ice hockey is the hardest shot. It has four stages which are executed in one fluid motion:# The player winds up his hockey stick by raising it behind his body, sometimes raising the blade to shoulder height or higher.# Next the player violently "slaps" the ice slightly behind the...

    .
  • Rafique Zakaria, 79, 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 Islam
    Islam
    Islam . The most common are and .   : Arabic pronunciation varies regionally. The first vowel ranges from ~~. The second vowel ranges from ~~~...

    ic scholar.


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  • Julian Letterlough
    Julian Letterlough
    Julian Letterlough, in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, was an American boxer. Known as "Mr. KO", Letterlough was boxer who was often featured on ESPN.-Pro career:...

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

     boxer
    Boxing
    Boxing, also called pugilism, is a combat sport in which two people fight each other using their fists. Boxing is supervised by a referee over a series of between one to three minute intervals called rounds...

  • Judy Mann
    Judy Mann
    Judy Mann was a correspondent for the Washington Post. She died from breast cancer.-Awards:Mann won many awards from institutions including:*Washington-Baltimore Newspaper Guild...

    , 61, longtime columnist for the Washington Post.


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  • Ihab al-Sherif
    Ihab al-Sherif
    Ihab el-Sherif served as Egypt's ambassador to Iraq until Iraqi kidnappers murdered him in July 2005. He previously served as Egypt's chargé d'affaires to Israel.-Kidnapping and death:...

    , 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 envoy in Iraq.
  • Gustaf Sobin
    Gustaf Sobin
    Gustaf Sobin was a U.S.-born poet and author who spent most of his adult life in France. Originally from Boston, Sobin attended the Choate School, Brown University, and moved to Paris in 1962...

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

    -born poet and novelist.


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  • Paul Deliège
    Paul Deliège
    Paul Deliège was a Belgian artist and writer of comics, and was married with two children.-Biography:Deliège was born in Olne. He started in the daily Le Soir with Père Bricole et Félicien et les Romanis. In 1959, he got into éditions Dupuis where he launched les aventures de Théophile et...

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

     comic book writer/artist. http://www.actuabd.com/article.php3?id_article=2662
  • L. Patrick Gray
    L. Patrick Gray
    Louis Patrick Gray III was acting Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation from May 2, 1972 to April 27, 1973. During this time, the FBI was in charge of the initial investigation into the burglaries that sparked the Watergate scandal, which eventually led to the resignation of President...

    , 88, former Director of the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation
    Federal Bureau of Investigation
    The Federal Bureau of Investigation is an agency of the United States Department of Justice that serves as both a federal criminal investigative body and an internal intelligence agency . The FBI has investigative jurisdiction over violations of more than 200 categories of federal crime...

    , 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...

    .
  • James Haskins
    James Haskins
    James Haskins was a prolific and award-winning author with more than one hundred books for both adults and children. Many of his books highlight the achievements of African Americans and cover the history and culture of Africa and the African American experience...

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

     professor, biographer, and author.
  • Evan Hunter
    Evan Hunter
    Evan Hunter was an American author and screenwriter. Born Salvatore Albert Lombino, he legally adopted the name Evan Hunter in 1952...

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

     mystery novel writer, wrote under numerous pseudonym
    Pseudonym
    A pseudonym is a name that a person assumes for a particular purpose and that differs from his or her original orthonym...

    s (Ed McBain), cancer of the larynx
    Cancer of the larynx
    Laryngeal cancer may also be called cancer of the larynx or laryngeal carcinoma. Most laryngeal cancers are squamous cell carcinomas, reflecting their origin from the squamous cells which form the majority of the laryngeal epithelium....

    .
  • Claude Simon
    Claude Simon
    Claude Simon was a French novelist and the 1985 Nobel Laureate in Literature. He was born in Antananarivo, Madagascar, and died in Paris, France....

    , 91, 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...

     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 Nobel Prize
    Nobel Prize
    The Nobel Prizes are annual international awards bestowed by Scandinavian committees in recognition of cultural and scientific advances. The will of the Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite, established the prizes in 1895...

     winner.
  • Grace Thaxton, 114, oldest resident of Kentucky
    Kentucky
    The Commonwealth of Kentucky is a state located in the East Central United States of America. As classified by the United States Census Bureau, Kentucky is a Southern state, more specifically in the East South Central region. Kentucky is one of four U.S. states constituted as a commonwealth...

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

    .


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  • Baloo Gupte
    Baloo Gupte
    Balkrishna Pandharinath 'Baloo' Gupte was a former Indian cricketer. He was a leg-spinner. He made his debut under Nari Contractor in 1960-61 against Pakistan led by Fazal Mahmood at the Corporation Stadium in Madras . He played three Tests for India between 1960-61 and 1964-65...

    , 70, former Indian Test cricketer
    Cricketer
    A cricketer is a person who plays the sport of cricket. Official and long-established cricket publications prefer the traditional word "cricketer" over the rarely used term "cricket player"....

    .
  • James Stockdale
    James Stockdale
    Vice Admiral James Bond Stockdale was one of the most highly decorated officers in the history of the United States Navy.Stockdale led aerial attacks from the carrier during the 1964 Gulf of Tonkin Incident...

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

     Vice Admiral
    Vice Admiral
    Vice admiral is a senior naval rank of a three-star flag officer, which is equivalent to lieutenant general in the other uniformed services. A vice admiral is typically senior to a rear admiral and junior to an admiral...

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

     recipient, ex-Prisoner of War
    Prisoner of war
    A prisoner of war or enemy prisoner of war is a person, whether civilian or combatant, who is held in custody by an enemy power during or immediately after an armed conflict...

     and independent VP Candidate in 1992.
  • Ray Davis
    Ray Davis (musician)
    Raymond "Ray" Davis was the original bass singer and one of the founding members of The Parliaments, Parliament, and Funkadelic. His regular nickname while he was with those groups was "Sting Ray Davis". Aside from George Clinton, he was the only original member of the Parliaments not to leave the...

    , 65, founding member of Parliament/Funkadelic.
  • Shirley Goodman-Pixley, 69, of Shirley & Lee & Shirley & Company
    Shirley & Company
    Shirley & Company was an American disco group, consisting of Shirley Goodman , Jesus Alvarez, Walter Morris, Bernadette Randle, Seldon Powell, Jonathan Williams and Clarence Oliver....

     in Los Angeles from complications from a stroke.


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  • Chris Bunch
    Chris Bunch
    Christopher R. "Chris" Bunch was an American science fiction, fantasy and television writer, who wrote and co-wrote about thirty novels....

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

     science fiction
    Science fiction
    Science fiction is a genre of fiction dealing with imaginary but more or less plausible content such as future settings, futuristic science and technology, space travel, aliens, and paranormal abilities...

     writer, lung
    Lung
    The lung is the essential respiration organ in many air-breathing animals, including most tetrapods, a few fish and a few snails. In mammals and the more complex life forms, the two lungs are located near the backbone on either side of the heart...

     ailment.
  • Al Downing
    Al Downing (musician)
    Al Downing , later known as Big Al Downing, was an entertainer, singer, songwriter, and pianist. He received the Billboard's New Artist of the Year and the Single of the Year Award in 1979. He was inducted into the Rockabilly Hall of Fame and was a frequent performer at the Grand Ole Opry...

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

     R&B and country & western 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....

    , leukaemia.
  • June Haver
    June Haver
    June Haver , was an American film actress. She is most well known as a popular star of 20th Century-Fox musicals in the late 1940s, most notably The Dolly Sisters with Betty Grable and John Payne and also for playing the 1920s Broadway actress Marilyn Miller in Look for the Silver Lining...

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

     film actress, widow of Fred MacMurray
    Fred MacMurray
    Frederick Martin "Fred" MacMurray was an American actor who appeared in more than 100 movies and a successful television series during a career that spanned nearly a half-century, from 1930 to the 1970s....

    .
  • Marga López
    Marga López
    Marga López , born Catalina Margarita López Ramos, was an Argentine-born Mexican actress. Born in Argentina, she later acquired Mexican nationality.-Biography:...

    , 81, 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...

     screen and television actress, heart failure
  • Hank Stram
    Hank Stram
    Henry Louis "Hank" Stram was an American football coach. He is best known for his 15-year tenure with the American Football League's Dallas Texans/Kansas City Chiefs and the Chiefs of the NFL. Stram won three AFL Championships and Super Bowl IV with the Chiefs...

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

     Kansas City Chiefs
    Kansas City Chiefs
    The Kansas City Chiefs are a professional American football team based in Kansas City, Missouri. They are a member of the Western Division of the American Football Conference in the National Football League . Originally named the Dallas Texans, the club was founded by Lamar Hunt in 1960 as a...

    .


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  • Scott Byrne, 44, American Drummer
    Drummer
    A drummer is a musician who is capable of playing drums, which includes but is not limited to a drum kit and accessory based hardware which includes an assortment of pedals and standing support mechanisms, marching percussion and/or any musical instrument that is struck within the context of a...

     of duo Instant Death
    Instant Death
    Instant Death was a rock duo, with members Dave Dreiwitz and Scott Byrne .Byrne and Dreiwitz met in New Brunswick, NJ in the fall of 1986. Shortly after their meeting, they discovered they were neighbors when Byrne was loading his drums into his apartment and Dreiwitz was walking down the street...

    .
  • Siv Ericks
    Siv Ericks
    Siv Ericks , born in Oxelösund, Sörmland, was a Swedish actress who performed in 66 Swedish films over a 53-year career.She began her film career with a leading role in the 1939 film Rosor varje kväll...

    , 87, 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....

     character actress.
  • Nan Kempner
    Nan Kempner
    Nan Kempner was a New York City socialite, famous for dominating society events, shopping, charity work and fashion.She was born as Nan Field Schlesinger in San Francisco, an only child from a wealthy family...

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

     society hostess.
  • Alberto Lattuada
    Alberto Lattuada
    Alberto Lattuada was an Italian film director.Lattuada was born in Milan, the son of composer Felice Lattuada...

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

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

    .
  • Pierre Michelot
    Pierre Michelot
    Pierre Michelot was a French bebop and hard bop double bass player.Born in Saint-Denis, Seine-Saint-Denis, Paris, Michelot studied piano from 1936 until 1938, but switched to playing bass at the age of sixteen...

    , 77, 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...

     jazz bassist
    Bassist
    A bass player, or bassist is a musician who plays a bass instrument such as a double bass, bass guitar, keyboard bass or a low brass instrument such as a tuba or sousaphone. Different musical genres tend to be associated with one or more of these instruments...

    , played with Miles Davis
    Miles Davis
    Miles Dewey Davis III was an American jazz musician, trumpeter, bandleader, and composer. Widely considered one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century, Miles Davis was, with his musical groups, at the forefront of several major developments in jazz music, including bebop, cool jazz,...

    .
  • Gaylord Nelson
    Gaylord Nelson
    Gaylord Anton Nelson was an American politician from Wisconsin who served as a United States Senator and governor. A Democrat, he was the principal founder of Earth Day.-Public service and leadership:...

    , 89, former Governor of Wisconsin
    Governor of Wisconsin
    The Governor of Wisconsin is the highest executive authority in the government of the U.S. state of Wisconsin. The position was first filled by Nelson Dewey on June 7, 1848, the year Wisconsin became a state...

    , U.S. Senator
    United States Senate
    The United States Senate is the upper house of the bicameral legislature of the United States, and together with the United States House of Representatives comprises the United States Congress. The composition and powers of the Senate are established in Article One of the U.S. Constitution. Each...

     from Wisconsin
    Wisconsin
    Wisconsin is a U.S. state located in the north-central United States and is part of the Midwest. It is bordered by Minnesota to the west, Iowa to the southwest, Illinois to the south, Lake Michigan to the east, Michigan to the northeast, and Lake Superior to the north. Wisconsin's capital is...

     and founder of Earth Day
    Earth Day
    Earth Day is a day that is intended to inspire awareness and appreciation for the Earth's natural environment. The name and concept of Earth Day was allegedly pioneered by John McConnell in 1969 at a UNESCO Conference in San Francisco. The first Proclamation of Earth Day was by San Francisco, the...

    .
  • Wenten Rubuntja
    Wenten Rubuntja
    W. Rubuntja was an Australian artist and Aboriginal rights activist. He belonged to the Arrernte indigenous people of Central Australia. His works were painted in acrylic or watercolours and influenced by themes from Dreamtime myths. His paintings are to be found in Australia's Parliament House,...

    , 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 artist and indigenous activist.
  • Kohachi Shigetaka
    Kohachi Shigetaka
    was a supercentenarian and the oldest male in Japan from July 2004 until his death from pneumonia, aged 110 years 54 days old. Japan's oldest man on record is Yukichi Chuganji , 114 years 189 days old.-External links:*...

    , 110, 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...

    's oldest man, 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...

    .
  • Hedy West
    Hedy West
    Hedy West was an American folksinger and songwriter.West was of the same generation as Joan Baez, Judy Collins, and others of the American folk music revival. Her most famous song "500 Miles" is one of America's best loved and best known folk songs...

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

     folksinger.


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

     classical 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:...

    .
  • Ernest Lehman
    Ernest Lehman
    Ernest Lehman was an American screenwriter. He received 6 Academy Award nominations during his screenwriting career...

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

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

     (Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf, North by Northwest
    North by Northwest
    North by Northwest is a 1959 American thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starring Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint and James Mason, and featuring Leo G. Carroll and Martin Landau...

    ).
  • Kenneth Pinyan
    Kenneth Pinyan
    The Enumclaw horse sex case was a 2005 incident in which Kenneth Pinyan , an American Boeing engineer residing in Gig Harbor, died from receiving anal sex with a stallion at a farm in an unincorporated area in King County, Washington, near the city of Enumclaw...

    , 45, perforated colon after having sex with a horse http://www.wmtw.com/news/5450440/detail.html.
  • Norm Prescott
    Norm Prescott
    Norman "Norm" Prescott was co-founder and executive producer at Filmation Studios. Born in Boston, Massachusetts, he began his radio career in the Hub, becoming program director at station WORL in the late 1940s. He went to work for Joseph E. Levine's Embassy Pictures Corp. in 1959, serving as...

    , 78, co-founder of Filmation
    Filmation
    Filmation Associates was an American production company that produced animation and live action programming for television during the latter half of the 20th century. Located in Reseda, California, the animation studio was founded in 1963...

     animation studios. http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117925521?categoryId=25&cs=1
  • Martin Sanchez
    Martin Sanchez
    Martín Sánchez , aka The Fireman , was a Mexican super featherweight boxer. He died of the injuries sustained in a boxing fight at the Orleans Hotel and Casino in Clark County, Nevada....

    , 26, 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...

     boxer
    Boxing
    Boxing, also called pugilism, is a combat sport in which two people fight each other using their fists. Boxing is supervised by a referee over a series of between one to three minute intervals called rounds...

    , of injuries sustained in July 1 bout.


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  • Renaldo "Obie" Benson, 69, American
    United States
    The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

     soul
    Soul music
    Soul music is a music genre originating in the United States combining elements of gospel music and rhythm and blues. According to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, soul is "music that arose out of the black experience in America through the transmutation of gospel and rhythm & blues into a form of...

    /R&B
    Rhythm and blues
    Rhythm and blues, often abbreviated to R&B, is a genre of popular African American music that originated in the 1940s. The term was originally used by record companies to describe recordings marketed predominantly to urban African Americans, at a time when "urbane, rocking, jazz based music with a...

     singer and member of The Four Tops, 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...

    .
  • Arvo Ojala
    Arvo Ojala
    Arvo Ojala was a Hollywood technical advisor on the subject of quick-draw with a revolver. He also worked as an actor; his most famous role was that of the unnamed man shot by Marshal Matt Dillon in the opening sequences of the long-running television series Gunsmoke...

    , 85, Hollywood technical advisor and actor, gun accident.
  • Luther Vandross
    Luther Vandross
    Luther Ronzoni Vandross was an American singer-songwriter and record producer. During his career, Vandross sold over twenty-five million albums and won eight Grammy Awards including Best Male R&B Vocal Performance four times...

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

     R&B
    Rhythm and blues
    Rhythm and blues, often abbreviated to R&B, is a genre of popular African American music that originated in the 1940s. The term was originally used by record companies to describe recordings marketed predominantly to urban African Americans, at a time when "urbane, rocking, jazz based music with a...

     singer, complications of a 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...

    .
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