Deaths in March 2006
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Deaths in 2006
Deaths in 2006
The following is a list of notable deaths in 2006. Names are listed under the date of death and not the date it was announced. Names under each date are listed in alphabetical order by family name....

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Deaths in December 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....

 - January
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 :...

 - February
Deaths in February 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 February 2006.-28:*James Ronald "Bunkie" Blackburn, 69, NASCAR driver...

 - March - April
Deaths in April 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 April 2006.-30:* Jay Bernstein, 69, American Hollywood publicist....

 - May
Deaths in May 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 May 2006.- 31 :...

 - June
Deaths in June 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 June 2006.-30:*Dieter Froese, 68, East Prussian-born artist....

 - July
Deaths in July 2006
Deaths in 2005: ← - January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December- →The following is a list of notable deaths in July 2006.- 31 :...

 - August
Deaths in August 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 August 2006.-31:...

 - September
Deaths in September 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 September 2006. See Deaths in 2006 for other months.-30:...

 - October
Deaths in October 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 October 2006. See Deaths in 2006 for other months.-31:...

 - November
Deaths in November 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 November 2006.-30:...

 - December
Deaths in December 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 December 2006.-31:...

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



The following is a list of notable deaths in March 2006.

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  • Red Hickey
    Red Hickey
    Howard Wayne "Red" Hickey was an American football player and coach who played for two teams and served as head coach for the San Francisco 49ers, where he was most famous for creating the shotgun formation in 1960....

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

    , inventor of shotgun formation
    Shotgun formation
    The shotgun formation is a formation used by the offensive team in American and Canadian football. This formation is used mainly for passing plays, although some teams use it as their base formation. In the shotgun, instead of the quarterback receiving the snap from center at the line of scrimmage,...

    , natural causes. http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/chronicle/archive/2006/03/31/SPGOCI1AUH1.DTL
  • Philip Hyde
    Philip Hyde (photographer)
    Philip Hyde was a pioneer landscape photographer and conservationist. He attended Ansel Adams' photography program at the California School of Fine Arts, now the San Francisco Art Institute, beginning with the Summer Session in 1946 and enrolling in the full-time professional photography training,...

    , 84, American wildlife photographer http://www.newwest.net/index.php/topic/article/7611/C39/L39
  • Manohar Shyam Joshi
    Manohar Shyam Joshi
    Manohar Shyam Joshi was a Hindi writer, journalist and scriptwriter, most well known as the writer of Indian television's first soap opera,Hum Log and its early hits Buniyaad , Kakaji Kahin, a political satire and Kyap, novel which won him the Sahitya Akademi Award.-Biography:Manohar Shyam...

    , 73, 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 Hindi
    Hindi
    Standard Hindi, or more precisely Modern Standard Hindi, also known as Manak Hindi , High Hindi, Nagari Hindi, and Literary Hindi, is a standardized and sanskritized register of the Hindustani language derived from the Khariboli dialect of Delhi...

     novelist and soap opera writer http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/4859796.stm
  • John McGahern
    John McGahern
    John McGahern was one of the most important Irish authors of the latter half of the twentieth century. Before his death in 2006 he was hailed as "the greatest living Irish novelist" by The Observer.-Life:...

    , 71, Irish
    Irish people
    The Irish people are an ethnic group who originate in Ireland, an island in northwestern Europe. Ireland has been populated for around 9,000 years , with the Irish people's earliest ancestors recorded having legends of being descended from groups such as the Nemedians, Fomorians, Fir Bolg, Tuatha...

     novelist and playwright, cancer. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/03/31/db3101.xml&sSheet=/portal/2006/03/31/ixportal.html
  • Gloria Monty
    Gloria Monty
    Gloria Monty was an American TV producer working primarily in the field of daytime drama.She died of cancer at the age of 84.-Education:...

    , 84, executive producer of the soap opera General Hospital
    General Hospital
    General Hospital is an American daytime television drama that is credited by the Guinness Book of World Records as the longest-running American soap opera currently in production and the third longest running drama in television in American history after Guiding Light and As the World Turns....

    , cancer. http://www.upi.com/NewsTrack/view.php?StoryID=20060403-110717-7552r
  • Kathleen Pflueger, 90, American collector of porcelain
    Porcelain
    Porcelain is a ceramic material made by heating raw materials, generally including clay in the form of kaolin, in a kiln to temperatures between and...

    . http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/05/arts/05pflueger_.html

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  • Don Alias
    Don Alias
    Charles 'Don' Alias was an American jazz percussionist.Alias was best known for playing congas and other hand drums...

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

     percussionist. http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/05/arts/music/05alias.html
  • Eric Budd
    Eric Budd
    Eric B Budd was a leading English cricket administrator.Eric Budd was born in Exeter, Devon. He served The Cricket Society and Surrey County Cricket Club with distinction. He joined the Society in 1982 and became Meetings Convenor in 1984. He succeeded Eric Rice as the General Secretary of the...

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

     administrator, the General Secretary (1987–2000) and Vice-Chairman of the Cricket Society
    The Cricket Society
    The Cricket Society is a charitable organisation founded in 1945 as the Society of Cricket Statisticians at Great Scotland Yard, London. It has grown steadily to be the largest body of its kind in the cricket world...

     (2000–2001) http://www.cricketsociety.com
  • Salvador Elizondo
    Salvador Elizondo
    Salvador Elizondo Alcalde was a Mexican writer of the 60s Generation of Mexican literature.Regarded as one of the creators of the most influential cult noirè, experimental, intelligent style literature in Latin America, he wrote as a novelist, poet, critic, playwright, and journalist...

    , 73, 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...

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

    . http://www.jornada.unam.mx/2006/03/30/a04n1cul.php
  • Henry Farrell
    Henry Farrell
    Henry Farrell was an American novelist and screenwriter, best known as the author of the renowned gothic horror story What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?, which was made into a film starring Bette Davis and Joan Crawford.-Life and work:He was born Charles Farrell Myers in California, and grew up in...

    , 85, American author and screenwriter (What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
    What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
    What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? is a suspense novel by author Henry Farrell published in 1960 by Rinehart & Company. The novel has earned a cult following and has been made into several movies.-Plot summary:...

    , Hush… Hush, Sweet Charlotte
    Hush… Hush, Sweet Charlotte
    Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte is a 1964 American thriller film directed and produced by Robert Aldrich, and starring Bette Davis, Olivia de Havilland, Joseph Cotten, and Agnes Moorehead....

    ). http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/04/books/04farrell.html
  • Penny Jay
    Penny Jay
    Penny Jay was an American country music singer and songwriter, who was active from the 1940s to the 1960s. She is best known for "Don't Let Me Cross Over" a song she wrote which reached #1 on the country music charts in late 1962.Jay was born in Knoxville, Tennessee, and began performing with her...

    , 80, American country singer/songwriter ("Don't Let Me Cross Over
    Don't Let Me Cross Over
    "Don't Let Me Cross Over" is a song made famous as a duet by Carl Butler and Pearl, a husband-and-wife country music duo. Originally released in November 1962, the song needed just four weeks to reach the number-one spot on the Billboard Country Singles chart...

    ", "Just Over the Line"), long time companion of William Little guitarist (Even Keel) of California, USA. http://www.knoxnews.com/kns/local_news/article/0,1406,KNS_347_4588858,00.html
  • Gretchen Rau
    Gretchen Rau
    Gretchen Rau was a professional property master, set decorator, and art director in the American film industry...

    , 66, set decorator, winner of 2005 Academy Award for Best Art Direction
    Academy Award for Best Art Direction
    The Academy Awards are the oldest awards ceremony for achievements in motion pictures. The Academy Award for Best Art Direction recognizes achievement in art direction on a film. The films below are listed with their production year, so the Oscar 2000 for best art direction went to a film from 1999...

     for Memoirs of a Geisha
    Memoirs of a Geisha (film)
    Memoirs of a Geisha is a 2005 film adaptation of the novel of the same name, produced by Steven Spielberg's Amblin Entertainment and Spyglass Entertainment and by Douglas Wick's Red Wagon Productions. It was directed by Rob Marshall. It was released in the United States on December 9, 2005 by...

    from a brain tumor http://www.voy.com/60649/28760.html
  • Jacqueline Roumeguere, 78, South African-born French anthropologist. http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/10/world/europe/10eberhardt.html
  • Bob Veith
    Bob Veith
    Bob Veith was an American racecar driver.Veith drove in the AAA and USAC Championship Car series, racing from 1955 to 1968 with 63 starts...

    , 81, former Indianapolis 500
    Indianapolis 500
    The Indianapolis 500-Mile Race, also known as the Indianapolis 500, the 500 Miles at Indianapolis, the Indy 500 or The 500, is an American automobile race, held annually, typically on the last weekend in May at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway in Speedway, Indiana...

     racing driver. http://ilikeracing.com/racing_deaths_news/bob_veith_passes_away_20060402.html

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  • Jerry Brudos
    Jerry Brudos
    Jerome Henry "Jerry" Brudos was an American serial killer and necrophiliac, also known as "The Lust Killer" and "The Shoe Fetish Slayer".-Early life:...

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

     serial killer, natural causes http://www.newsreview.info/article/20060329/NEWS/60329006/-1/rss01
  • Carlos Cat, 75, Uruguayan
    Uruguay
    Uruguay ,officially the Oriental Republic of Uruguay,sometimes the Eastern Republic of Uruguay; ) is a country in the southeastern part of South America. It is home to some 3.5 million people, of whom 1.8 million live in the capital Montevideo and its metropolitan area...

     Minister of Labour (1990–1991) and of Transport (2000–2002). http://www.elpais.com.uy/06/03/29/obituario.asp?mnunot=ciudades+obituario
  • Pro Hart
    Pro Hart
    Kevin Charles "Pro" Hart, MBE , born in Broken Hill, New South Wales, was considered the father of the Australian Outback painting movement and his works are widely admired for capturing the true spirit of the outback...

    , 77, 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 outback painter, motor neurone disease
    Motor neurone disease
    The motor neurone diseases are a group of neurological disorders that selectively affect motor neurones, the cells that control voluntary muscle activity including speaking, walking, breathing, swallowing and general movement of the body. They are generally progressive in nature, and can cause...

     http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,18629738-421,00.html
  • Bansi Lal
    Bansi Lal
    Chaudhary Bansi Lal was an Indian freedom fighter, senior Congress leader, former Chief Minister of Haryana and considered by many to be the architect of modern Haryana. He was born in a Jat family of Golagarh village in Bhiwani district of Haryana. He served three separate terms as Chief...

    , 78, Haryana
    Haryana
    Haryana is a state in India. Historically, it has been a part of the Kuru region in North India. The name Haryana is found mentioned in the 12th century AD by the apabhramsha writer Vibudh Shridhar . It is bordered by Punjab and Himachal Pradesh to the north, and by Rajasthan to the west and south...

    's four time chief minister, and defence minister of 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...

     during Indian Emergency (1975 - 77)
    Indian Emergency (1975 - 77)
    The Indian Emergency of 25 June 1975 – 21 March 1977 was a 21-month period, when President Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed, upon advice by Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, declared a state of emergency under Article 352 of the Constitution of India, effectively bestowing on her the power to rule by decree,...

    . http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/1468212.cms, http://www.ibnlive.com/article.php?id=7449§ion_id=4
  • Charles Schepens
    Charles Schepens
    Charles L. Schepens was an influential Belgian ophthalmologist, regarded by many in the profession as "the father of modern retinal surgery", and member of the French Resistance....

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

     ophthalmologist known as "the father of retinal surgery" and a Nazi resistance movement
    Resistance movement
    A resistance movement is a group or collection of individual groups, dedicated to opposing an invader in an occupied country or the government of a sovereign state. It may seek to achieve its objects through either the use of nonviolent resistance or the use of armed force...

     leader http://www.irishexaminer.com/breaking/story.asp?j=178420320&p=y784zyxz6&n=178421080
  • Caspar Weinberger
    Caspar Weinberger
    Caspar Willard "Cap" Weinberger , was an American politician, vice president and general counsel of Bechtel Corporation, and Secretary of Defense under President Ronald Reagan from January 21, 1981, until November 23, 1987, making him the third longest-serving defense secretary to date, after...

    , 88, U.S. Secretary of Defense
    United States Secretary of Defense
    The Secretary of Defense is the head and chief executive officer of the Department of Defense of the United States of America. This position corresponds to what is generally known as a Defense Minister in other countries...

     1981-1987 under Reagan
    Ronald Reagan
    Ronald Wilson Reagan was the 40th President of the United States , the 33rd Governor of California and, prior to that, a radio, film and television actor....

    ; Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare 1973-1975 under 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...

     and Ford
    Gerald Ford
    Gerald Rudolph "Jerry" Ford, Jr. was the 38th President of the United States, serving from 1974 to 1977, and the 40th Vice President of the United States serving from 1973 to 1974...

    .http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12050783/

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  • Al Alquist
    Al Alquist
    -Biography:Born in Memphis, Tennessee, the son of a Swedish immigrant who worked for the railroads, he was barely a teenager when he started carrying water to railroad work crews. He became a timekeeper, switchman, brakeman and conductor, before serving with the Army Air Forces during World War II...

    , 97, former California state senator http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/03/28/AR2006032800263.html http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/rss/14199297.htm?source=rss&channel=mercurynews_rss
  • Wayne Boden
    Wayne Boden
    Wayne Clifford Boden was a Canadian serial killer and rapist active between 1969 and 1971. He was raised in Dundas, Ontario, near Hamilton. He earned the nickname "The Vampire Rapist" because he had the penchant of biting the breasts of his victims, a modus operandi that led to his conviction due...

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

     serial killer
    Serial killer
    A serial killer, as typically defined, is an individual who has murdered three or more people over a period of more than a month, with down time between the murders, and whose motivation for killing is usually based on psychological gratification...

     and rapist, of natural causes after a lengthy illness http://www.csc-scc.gc.ca/text/releases/ont/06/03-28_e.shtml
  • Dan Curtis
    Dan Curtis
    Dan Curtis was an American director and producer of television and film, probably best known for his miniseries The Winds of War and War and Remembrance, his afternoon TV series Dark Shadows, and the made for TV movie, . Dark Shadows originally aired from 1966 to 1971 and has aired in syndication...

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

     television producer (Dark Shadows
    Dark Shadows
    Dark Shadows is a gothic soap opera that originally aired weekdays on the ABC television network, from June 27, 1966 to April 2, 1971. The show was created by Dan Curtis. The story bible, which was written by Art Wallace, does not mention any supernatural elements...

    , The Winds of War
    The Winds of War
    The Winds of War is Herman Wouk's second book about World War II, the first being The Caine Mutiny . Published in 1971, it was followed up seven years later by War and Remembrance; originally conceived as one volume, Wouk decided to break it in two when he realized it took nearly 1000 pages just to...

    ). http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/29/arts/television/29curtis.html
  • Ian Hamilton Finlay
    Ian Hamilton Finlay
    Ian Hamilton Finlay, CBE, was a Scottish poet, writer, artist and gardener.-Biography:Finlay was born in Nassau, Bahamas of Scottish parents. He was educated in Scotland at Dollar Academy. At the age of 13, with the outbreak of World War II, he was evacuated to family in the countryside...

    , 80, Scottish
    Scotland
    Scotland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Occupying the northern third of the island of Great Britain, it shares a border with England to the south and is bounded by the North Sea to the east, the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, and the North Channel and Irish Sea to the...

     artist. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/03/28/db2801.xml&sSheet=/portal/2006/03/28/ixportal.html
  • Ken Kaess
    Ken Kaess
    Kenneth Richard Kaess Jr. was CEO of advertising agency DDB Worldwide.Born in Waterbury, Connecticut and raised in Watertown, Connecticut, Kaess graduated from Vassar College....

    , 51, American advertising executive, CEO of DDB Worldwide
    DDB Worldwide
    DDB Worldwide Communications Group Inc., known internationally as DDB, is a worldwide marketing communications network. It is owned by Omnicom Group Inc, one of the world's largest advertising holding companies...

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

     http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/29/business/media/29kaess.html
  • Stanisław Lem, 84, 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...

     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, heart failure. http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20060327.wlem0327/BNStory/Entertainment/home http://wiadomosci.onet.pl/1294644,11,item.html
  • Ruari McLean
    Ruari McLean
    John David Ruari McLean CBE, DSC was a leading British typographic designer.-Early life and apprenticeship:Ruari McLean was born in Newton Stewart, Galloway, Scotland and educated at the Dragon School and Eastbourne College. He was apprenticed in the printing trade at the Shakespeare Head Press,...

    , 88, British typographer http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,60-2109849,00.html
  • Lyn Nofziger
    Lyn Nofziger
    Franklyn Curran "Lyn" Nofziger was an American journalist, political consultant and author. He served as press secretary in Ronald Reagan's administration as Governor of California, and as a White House advisor during the Richard Nixon administration and again during the Reagan...

    , 81, press secretary
    Press secretary
    A press secretary or press officer is a senior advisor who provides advice on how to deal with the news media and, using news management techniques, helps their employer to maintain a positive public image and avoid negative media coverage....

     for Ronald Reagan
    Ronald Reagan
    Ronald Wilson Reagan was the 40th President of the United States , the 33rd Governor of California and, prior to that, a radio, film and television actor....

     http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060328/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/obit_nofziger_4
  • Pawel Parniak
    Pawel Parniak
    Paweł Parniak of Wolibórz, Poland claimed to be the world's oldest living person and oldest combat veteran ever...

    , 116?, 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...

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

    , oldest person in Poland and WWI veteran.
  • Ron Schipper
    Ron Schipper
    Ron "Skip" Schipper was an American college football coach at Central College in Pella, Iowa from 1961 to 1996....

    , 77, College Football Hall of Fame
    College Football Hall of Fame
    The College Football Hall of Fame is a hall of fame and museum devoted to college football. Located in South Bend, Indiana, it is connected to a convention center and situated in the city's renovated downtown district, two miles south of the University of Notre Dame campus. It is slated to move...

     Coach http://www.collegefootball.org/news.php?id=820, http://www.mlive.com/news/grpress/index.ssf?/base/news-7/1143560744149240.xml&coll=6
  • Bernard Siegan
    Bernard Siegan
    Bernard H. Siegan was a longtime law professor at the University of San Diego School of Law, libertarian legal theorist and a former federal judicial nominee to the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit...

    , 81, Ronald Reagan
    Ronald Reagan
    Ronald Wilson Reagan was the 40th President of the United States , the 33rd Governor of California and, prior to that, a radio, film and television actor....

     Federal Appellate Court
    Appeal
    An appeal is a petition for review of a case that has been decided by a court of law. The petition is made to a higher court for the purpose of overturning the lower court's decision....

     nominee http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/01/us/01siegan.html
  • Dr. Rudolf Vrba
    Rudolf Vrba
    Rudolf "Rudi" Vrba, born Walter Rosenberg was a Slovak-Canadian professor of pharmacology at the University of British Columbia, who came to public attention during the Second World War when, in April 1944, he escaped from the Auschwitz concentration camp in German-occupied Poland with the first...

    , 82, Canadian pharmacologist, Auschwitz
    Auschwitz concentration camp
    Concentration camp Auschwitz was a network of Nazi concentration and extermination camps built and operated by the Third Reich in Polish areas annexed by Nazi Germany during World War II...

     escapee and contributor to the Auschwitz Protocol
    Vrba-Wetzler report
    The Vrba-Wetzler report, also known as the Vrba-Wetzler statement, the Auschwitz Protocols, and the Auschwitz notebook, is a 32-page document about the German Auschwitz concentration camp in occupied Poland during the Holocaust...

    , cancer. http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/07/world/europe/07vrba.html
  • Peter Wells, 58, guitarist from Australian rock outfit Rose Tattoo
    Rose Tattoo
    Rose Tattoo is an Australian rock and roll band, now led by Angry Anderson, that was formed in Sydney in 1976. Their sound is hard rock mixed with blues rock influences, with songs including "Bad Boy for Love", "Rock 'n' Roll Outlaw", "Nice Boys", "We Can't Be Beaten" and "Scarred for Life"...

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

    . http://www.rosetattoo.com.au/
  • Neil Williams, 43, international Test cricketer for England
    England
    England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...

    .http://content-usa.cricinfo.com/england/content/current/story/242372.html

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  • Angelo d'Arrigo
    Angelo d'Arrigo
    Angelo d'Arrigo was an Italian aviator, of French origin, who held a number of world records in the field of flight, principally with microlights and hang gliders, with or without motors. He has been referred to as the "Human Condor".D'Arrigo was born in Catania, Sicily...

    , 44, 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...

     aviator, air crash. http://www.mounteverest.net/news.php?id=1740
  • Dr. William A. Barnes, 94, American surgeon, co-inventor of the Barnes-Redo button, a feeding tube device. http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/10/nyregion/10barnes.html
  • Anil Biswas (politician), 61, India
    India
    India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...

    n politician, cerebral hemorrhage http://in.news.yahoo.com/060326/43/63615.html.
  • David Cunliffe-Lister, 2nd Earl of Swinton
    David Cunliffe-Lister, 2nd Earl of Swinton
    David Yarburgh Cunliffe-Lister, 2nd Earl of Swinton, JP, DL was a British peer and politician.David Cunliffe-Lister was born to the Hon. John Yarburgh Cunliffe-Lister and his wife Anne Irvine Medlicott. His father died in 1943 of wounds received in action in during the Second World War...

    , 69, British peer, politician & magistrate. http://www.harrogatetoday.co.uk/ViewArticle2.aspx?SectionID=17&ArticleID=1413280
  • Paul Dana
    Paul Dana
    Paul Dana was an American race car driver in the Indy Racing League IndyCar Series.-Early life:Born in St. Louis, Missouri, Dana graduated from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University. Before becoming a race driver, he worked as a mechanic, a private racing coach, a driving...

    , 30, IRL Indy car driver, multiple trauma injuries sustained in accident. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/03/26/AR2006032600304.html
  • Alain Danet, 74, head of Paris
    Paris
    Paris is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...

    ' Olympic Games
    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...

     bid, IOC honorary member and ex field hockey player. http://chicagosports.chicagotribune.com/sports/nationworld/wire/sns-ap-oly-obit-danet,1,2485108.story?coll=sns-ap-sports-headlines
  • Ayako Koshino, 92, 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 fashion designer, mother of Michiko Koshino
    Michiko Koshino
    , born in 1942, is a fashion designer. She has high-end stores in Japan and London.Koshino was the designer for the final runway show of Stardoll's Elite, Kahlen's Next Top Model....

     http://www.vogue.co.uk/vogue_daily/story/story.asp?stid=34046&date=&sid=
  • Manar Maged, 1, 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 girl born with two heads, brain
    Brain
    The brain is the center of the nervous system in all vertebrate and most invertebrate animals—only a few primitive invertebrates such as sponges, jellyfish, sea squirts and starfishes do not have one. It is located in the head, usually close to primary sensory apparatus such as vision, hearing,...

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

     http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/4848164.stm.
  • Ariclê Perez, 62, Brazil
    Brazil
    Brazil , officially the Federative Republic of Brazil , is the largest country in South America. It is the world's fifth largest country, both by geographical area and by population with over 192 million people...

    ian actress. http://www1.folha.uol.com.br/folha/ilustrada/ult90u59138.shtml
  • Prince Abdul Rahman Al-Sudairy, 89, uncle of King Fahd of Saudi Arabia
    Saudi Arabia
    The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia , commonly known in British English as Saudi Arabia and in Arabic as as-Sa‘ūdiyyah , is the largest state in Western Asia by land area, constituting the bulk of the Arabian Peninsula, and the second-largest in the Arab World...

    , former governor of Al-Jouf http://www.arabnews.com/?page=1§ion=0&article=79821&d=27&m=3&y=2006&pix=kingdom.jpg&category=Kingdom
  • Nikki Sudden
    Nikki Sudden
    Nikki Sudden was a prolific English singer-songwriter and guitarist. He co-founded the post-punk band Swell Maps with his brother Epic Soundtracks while attending Solihull School in Solihull.-Career:...

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

     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....

    , punk-blues icon, and co-founder of Swell Maps
    Swell Maps
    Swell Maps were an experimental English rock group of the 1970s from Birmingham that foreshadowed the birth of post-punk.Influenced by the disparate likes of T.Rex and the German progressive outfit, Can, they created a new soundscape that would be heavily mined by others in the post-punk era...

    . http://stinkcheattorture.blogspot.com/2006/03/theres-too-many-girls-and-too-many.html

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  • Erma Ora James Byrd, 88, Wife of US Senator Robert Byrd
    Robert Byrd
    Robert Carlyle Byrd was a United States Senator from West Virginia. A member of the Democratic Party, Byrd served as a U.S. Representative from 1953 until 1959 and as a U.S. Senator from 1959 to 2010...

    . http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/28/national/28byrd.html
  • Bob Carlos Clarke
    Bob Carlos Clarke
    Robert Carlos Clarke was an Irish photographer, known for his highly stylised erotic imagery....

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

    .http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,60-2109836,00.htmlhttp://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?view=DETAILS&grid=&xml=/news/2006/03/30/db3002.
  • Rocío Dúrcal
    Rocío Dúrcal
    Rocío Dúrcal , born as María de los Ángeles de Las Heras Ortíz, was a Spanish singer and actress, known artistically as Rocío Durcal. Spanish is the best selling solo albums with more than 80 million to date...

    , 61, Spanish singer and actress, uterine cancer
    Uterine cancer
    The term uterine cancer may refer to any of several different types of cancer which occur in the uterus, namely:*Uterine sarcomas: sarcomas of the myometrium, or muscular layer of the uterus, are most commonly leiomyosarcomas.*Endometrial cancer:...

    . http://actualidad.terra.es/sociedad/articulo/fallece_rocio_durcal_802076.htm
  • Richard Fleischer
    Richard Fleischer
    -Early life:Fleischer was born in Brooklyn, the son of Essie and animator/producer Max Fleischer. He started in motion pictures as director of animated shorts produced by his father including entries in the Betty Boop, Popeye and Superman series.His live-action film career began in 1942 at the RKO...

    , 89, American film director (Tora! Tora! Tora!
    Tora! Tora! Tora!
    is a 1970 American-Japanese war film that dramatizes the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, to the extent these facts were known at the time of production. The film was directed by Richard Fleischer and stars an all-star cast, including So Yamamura, E.G...

    , 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
    20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954 film)
    20,000 Leagues Under the Sea is a 1954 adventure film starring Kirk Douglas as Ned Land, James Mason as Captain Nemo, Paul Lukas as Professor Pierre Aronnax, and Peter Lorre as Conseil. It was the first science fiction film produced by Walt Disney Productions, as well as the only science-fiction...

    , Soylent Green
    Soylent Green
    Soylent Green is a 1973 American science fiction film directed by Richard Fleischer. Starring Charlton Heston, the film overlays the police procedural and science fiction genres as it depicts the investigation into the murder of a wealthy businessman in a dystopian future suffering from pollution,...

    ) http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/27/movies/27fleischer.html http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/breaking_news/14187521.htm
  • Stephen Charles Gleason, 59, Iowa public health director and health care advisor to U.S. President Bill Clinton http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/03/28/AR2006032800263_3.html
  • Danilo Lazović
    Danilo Lazovic
    Danilo Lazović was a Serbian actor.On March 25, 2006, Danilo died of a heart attack in Belgrade, at the age of 55....

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

    n actor, heart attack. http://www.b92.net/info/vesti/index.php?yyyy=2006&mm=03&dd=25&nav_id=192727
  • Doris Muscatine, 80, travel and food author and writer, complications from a fall http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/30/national/30muscatine.html
  • Buck Owens
    Buck Owens
    Alvis Edgar Owens, Jr. , better known as Buck Owens, was an American singer and guitarist who had 21 No. 1 hits on the Billboard country music charts with his band, the Buckaroos...

    , 76, American country music star, heart attack. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060326/ap_en_tv/obit_owens_25
  • Alfredo Silipigni
    Alfredo Silipigni
    Alfredo Silipigni was a conductor and specialist in lesser-known Italian operas who founded the New Jersey State Opera and ran it for four decades.-Early life:...

    , 72, longtime conductor of the New Jersey State Opera
    New Jersey State Opera
    The New Jersey State Opera is an opera company based in Newark, New Jersey. It was established in 1964 as the Opera Theater of Westfield, and shortly after opening Alfredo Silipigni was hired as Artistic Director. The name was changed to the Opera Theatre of New Jersey in 1965, and in 1968 the...

    , complications of pneumonia http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/29/arts/music/29silipigni.html
  • Mansfield Sprague, 95, Eisenhower
    Dwight D. Eisenhower
    Dwight David "Ike" Eisenhower was the 34th President of the United States, from 1953 until 1961. He was a five-star general in the United States Army...

     administration official.
  • Tom Toelle, 74, German TV director.

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  • Jörg Bastuck
    Jörg Bastuck
    Jörg Bastuck was a German co-driver in the Junior World Rally Championship...

    , 36, 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...

     rally
    Rallying
    Rallying, also known as rally racing, is a form of auto racing that takes place on public or private roads with modified production or specially built road-legal cars...

     car co-driver, accident during the 2006 Rally Catalunya
    Rally Catalunya
    The Rally Catalunya is a rally competition on the World Rally Championship schedule. Now held on the wide, smooth and sweeping asphalt roads around the town of Salou, Catalonia, Spain, it was previously held around the region of Costa Brava...

    . http://www.rallycatalunya.com/2006/ing/news13.html
  • John Glenn Beall, Jr.
    John Glenn Beall, Jr.
    John Glenn Beall, Jr. was a Republican member of the United States Senate, representing the State of Maryland 1971–1977. He was also a member of the Maryland House of Delegates 1962–1968, and the U.S. House of Representatives from the sixth district of Maryland from 1969 to 1971...

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

     United States Senator from Maryland
    Maryland
    Maryland is a U.S. state located in the Mid Atlantic region of the United States, bordering Virginia, West Virginia, and the District of Columbia to its south and west; Pennsylvania to its north; and Delaware to its east...

     from 1971–1977 and United States Representative from 1969 - 1971. http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/local/politics/bal-te.md.ob.beall25mar25,0,4334800.story?track=rss
  • Dr. Jaroslava Moserova
    Jaroslava Moserová
    Jaroslava Moserová, MU Dr.Sc. was a Czech senator, ambassador, presidential candidate, doctor, and translator.-Biography:...

    , 76, 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....

     senator, ambassador, presidential candidate, doctor, and translator. http://www.legacy.com/Obituaries.asp?Page=APStory&Id=10935
  • Lynne Perrie
    Lynne Perrie
    Lynne Perrie was an English actress. She was born Jean Dudley in Rotherham, Yorkshire, and was the sister of comedian Duggie Brown. She was best known for her roles as Mrs. Casper in Ken Loach's 1969 film Kes, and as Ivy Tilsley in Coronation Street from 1971-1994.-Career:After Rotherham Grammar...

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

     actress (Coronation Street
    Coronation Street
    Coronation Street is a British soap opera set in Weatherfield, a fictional town in Greater Manchester based on Salford. Created by Tony Warren, Coronation Street was first broadcast on 9 December 1960...

    , Kes
    Kes (film)
    Kes is a 1969 British film from director Ken Loach and producer Tony Garnett. The film is based on the novel A Kestrel for a Knave, written by the Barnsley-born author Barry Hines in 1968...

    ), stroke. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/4844998.stm
  • Norman Pounds, 94, British historian and author.
  • Carl Seiberlich, 82, retired Rear Admiral of US Navy http://www.uss-hornet.org/posters/seiberlich/index.html
  • Lin Yud, 49, child trafficker executed by gunshot in Fujian, China
    Fujian
    ' , formerly romanised as Fukien or Huguing or Foukien, is a province on the southeast coast of mainland China. Fujian is bordered by Zhejiang to the north, Jiangxi to the west, and Guangdong to the south. Taiwan lies to the east, across the Taiwan Strait...

    . http://ca.today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=topNews&storyID=2006-03-24T093259Z_01_PEK350597_RTRIDST_0_NEWS-CHINA-TRAFFICKING-COL.XML&archived=False

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  • Adwaita
    Adwaita
    Adwaita was the name of a male Aldabra giant tortoise in the Alipore Zoological Gardens of Kolkata, India...

    , 255 (approximate age), tortoise claimant for world's oldest animal, reputedly a former pet of General Clive
    Robert Clive, 1st Baron Clive
    Major-General Robert Clive, 1st Baron Clive, KB , also known as Clive of India, was a British officer who established the military and political supremacy of the East India Company in Bengal. He is credited with securing India, and the wealth that followed, for the British crown...

    , liver
    Liver
    The liver is a vital organ present in vertebrates and some other animals. It has a wide range of functions, including detoxification, protein synthesis, and production of biochemicals necessary for digestion...

     failure. http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060323/india_nm/india241890
  • David B. Bleak
    David B. Bleak
    David Bruce Bleak was an Idaho native who enlisted in the Army in 1950. During his service in the Korean War he engaged in hand-to-hand combat for which he received the Medal of Honor. His actions saved the life of at least one of his comrades...

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

    . http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/03/26/AR2006032601081.html
  • Sarah Caldwell
    Sarah Caldwell
    Sarah Caldwell was a notable American opera conductor, impresario, and stage director of opera.- Life :Caldwell was born in Maryville, Missouri, and grew up in Fayetteville, Arkansas. She was a child prodigy and gave public performances on the violin by the time she was ten years old...

    , 82, longtime conductor of the Opera Company of Boston
    Opera Company of Boston
    The Opera Company of Boston was an American opera company located in Boston, Massachusetts that was active during the late 1950s through the early 1990s. The company was founded by American conductor Sarah Caldwell in 1958 under the name Boston Opera Group. At one time, the touring arm of the...

     http://www.cnn.com/2006/SHOWBIZ/Music/03/24/obit.caldwell.ap/index.html
  • René-Philippe Dawant, 64, 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...

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

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

    . http://www.lesoir.be/sites_sat/leguide/tele/page_6069_420518.shtml
  • Desmond Doss
    Desmond Doss
    Desmond Thomas Doss was the first conscientious objector to receive the Medal of Honor and one of only three so honored . He was a Corporal in the U.S...

    , 87, 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 and conscientious objector
    Conscientious objector
    A conscientious objector is an "individual who has claimed the right to refuse to perform military service" on the grounds of freedom of thought, conscience, and/or religion....

    . http://news.mywebpal.com/news_tool_v2.cfm?show=localnews&pnpID=722&NewsID=706189&CategoryID=3388&on=0
  • Gerry "Tex" Ehman
    Gerry Ehman
    Gerald Joseph Ehman was a former NHL player and scout.Ehman played in the National Hockey League for the Boston Bruins, Detroit Red Wings, Toronto Maple Leafs and the Oakland Seals/California Golden Seals. He played 429 regular season games in the NHL, scoring 96 goals and 118 assists for 214...

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

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

    . http://www.newyorkislanders.com/pressbox/archive.asp?id=806
  • Edythe Gaines, 83, executive director of the New York City Board of Education
    New York City Board of Education
    The New York City Board of Education is the governing body of the New York City Department of Education. The members of the board are appointed by the mayor and by the five borough presidents.-Rise, fall and return of Mayoral Control:...

    's Office of Educational Planning and Support http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/01/us/01leonard.html
  • John W. Griffin
    John W. Griffin
    John William Griffin was an Ohio farmer and a perennial candidate over the last forty years for various local, state, and federal offices in Ohio. While he lost far more political races than he won, at the time of his death he was a duly-elected member of the Ohio State Board of Education...

    , 78, perennial candidate
    Perennial candidate
    A perennial candidate is one who frequently runs for public office with a record of success that is infrequent, if existent at all. Perennial candidates are often either members of minority political parties or have political opinions that are not mainstream. They may run without any serious hope...

     in Ohio
    Ohio
    Ohio is a Midwestern state in the United States. The 34th largest state by area in the U.S.,it is the 7th‑most populous with over 11.5 million residents, containing several major American cities and seven metropolitan areas with populations of 500,000 or more.The state's capital is Columbus...

     and member of the Ohio State Board of Education
    Ohio State Board of Education
    The Ohio Department of Education is the state education agency of Ohio, headquartered in Columbus. The Ohio State Board of Education is the governing body of the department....

    .
  • Eloy de la Iglesia
    Eloy de la Iglesia
    Eloy de la Iglesia was a Spanish screenwriter and film director.De la Iglesia was an outspoken gay socialist filmmaker who is relatively unknown outside of Spain despite a prolific and successful career in his native country...

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

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

    . http://www.vistazoalaprensa.com/frmlink.asp?sec=not&id=39269.
  • Pío Leyva
    Pío Leyva
    Pío Leyva was a Cuban singer and the author of the well-known guaracha El Mentiroso . Leyva was part of the Buena Vista Social Club, and composed some of Cuba’s best known standards....

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

    n musician (Buena Vista Social Club
    Buena Vista Social Club
    The Buena Vista Social Club was a members club in Havana, Cuba that held dances and musical activities, becoming a popular location for musicians to meet and play during the 1940s...

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

    . http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060323/en_nm/cuba_leyva_dc
  • Rolf Myller, 79, German
    Germany
    Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

     born architect and writer of children's and puzzle books. http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/25/obituaries/25myller.html
  • Peter Shand Kydd
    Peter Shand Kydd
    Peter Shand Kydd was the former stepfather of Diana, Princess of Wales and an heir to the wallpaper fortune built by his father Norman Shand Kydd. He was half-brother to the former champion amateur jockey William Shand Kydd....

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

     wallpaper heir and stepfather of Diana, Princess of Wales
    Diana, Princess of Wales
    Diana, Princess of Wales was the first wife of Charles, Prince of Wales, whom she married on 29 July 1981, and an international charity and fundraising figure, as well as a preeminent celebrity of the late 20th century...

    . http://www.eadt.co.uk/content/eadt/news/story.aspx?brand=EADOnline&category=News&tBrand=EADOnline&tCategory=znews&itemid=IPED30%20Mar%202006%2022%3A33%3A34%3A657
  • Cindy Walker
    Cindy Walker
    Cindy Walker was a prolific American songwriter, as well as a country music singer and dancer. As a songwriter Walker was responsible for a large number of popular and enduring songs recorded by many different artists. She adopted a craftsman-like approach to her songwriting, often tailoring...

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

     country-western songwriter, (Dream Baby) for Roy Orbison
    Roy Orbison
    Roy Kelton Orbison was an American singer-songwriter, well known for his distinctive, powerful voice, complex compositions, and dark emotional ballads. Orbison grew up in Texas and began singing in a rockabilly/country & western band in high school until he was signed by Sun Records in Memphis...

     et al. http://www.austin360.com/music/content/music/stories/2006/03/25walker.html

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  • Ria Beckers
    Ria Beckers
    Maria Brigitta Catherina Beckers-de Bruijn was a Dutch Green politician. She was the political leader of the progressive Christian party PPR and its successor GreenLeft....

    , 67, former political leader of the 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...

     political parties Politieke Partij Radicalen and GroenLinks. http://www.volkskrant.nl/den_haag/article258758.ece
  • James Chikerema
    James Chikerema
    James Robert Dambaza Chikerema served as the President of the Front for the Liberation of Zimbabwe. He changed his views on militant struggle in the late 1970s and supported the 'internal settlement', serving in the attempted power-sharing governments.-Early life:Chikerema was born at Kutama...

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

    an nationalist, co-founder of ZAPU and government co-minister in the internal settlement government of Rhodesia
    Rhodesia
    Rhodesia , officially the Republic of Rhodesia from 1970, was an unrecognised state located in southern Africa that existed between 1965 and 1979 following its Unilateral Declaration of Independence from the United Kingdom on 11 November 1965...

    . http://www.newzimbabwe.com/pages/zvobgo17.13943.html
  • Pierre Clostermann
    Pierre Clostermann
    Pierre Clostermann was a French flying ace, author, engineer, politician and sporting fisherman. Over his flying career he was awarded the Grand-Croix of the French Légion d'Honneur, French Croix de Guerre, British DFC and bar, Distinguished Service Cross , Silver Star , and the Air Medal .-Early...

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

     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...

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

    . http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20060322/en_afp/francehistorywwii_060322225410;_ylt=AlMqKqsJfaP2c.VHLTZtFI0mncUF;_ylu=X3oDMTA5aHJvMDdwBHNlYwN5bmNhdA--
  • DJ Swing, 39, MOBO
    Mobo
    Mobo can refer to:*Shorthand for the motherboard in computers and other electronic equipment*Shorthand for a mobile [network] operator or MNO *Shorthand for a mobile bohemian, a person who embraces mobile technology...

     award winning 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...

     DJ. http://www.guardian.co.uk/obituaries/story/0,,1750440,00.html
  • Matt Kennedy
    Matt Kennedy
    Matt Kennedy is a retired American soccer goalkeeper who played in the North American Soccer League, American Soccer League and Major Indoor Soccer Leaggue....

    , 101, Coney Island
    Coney Island
    Coney Island is a peninsula and beach on the Atlantic Ocean in southern Brooklyn, New York, United States. The site was formerly an outer barrier island, but became partially connected to the mainland by landfill....

     booster http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/02/nyregion/02kennedy.html
  • Eugene Landy
    Eugene Landy
    Eugene Ellsworth Landy, Ph.D. was a controversial American psychologist and therapist known for his unconventional treatment and eventual exploitation of composer/musician Brian Wilson...

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

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

    , famous for treating Brian Wilson
    Brian Wilson
    Brian Douglas Wilson is an American musician, best known as the leader and chief songwriter of the group The Beach Boys. Within the band, Wilson played bass and keyboards, also providing part-time lead vocals and, more often, backing vocals, harmonizing in falsetto with the group...

    , lung cancer http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/local/states/california/northern_california/14212276.htm
  • Britt Lomond
    Britt Lomond
    Britt Lomond was an American actor and television producer.Born in Chicago, Illinois, Lomond is best known for his role as Capitán Monastario in the first season of the 1957 TV series Zorro....

    , 80, American actor (Zorro
    Zorro (TV series)
    Zorro is an American action/adventure drama series produced by Walt Disney Productions. Based on the well-known Zorro character, the series premiered on October 10, 1957 on ABC. The final network broadcast was June 2, 1959...

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

     veteran.
  • Giuseppe Longoni, 63, 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...

     footballer, neuronic cerebral illness. http://www.fiorentina.it/notizia.asp?IDNotizia=39161&IDCategoria=1
  • Gergely András Molnár
    Gergely András Molnár
    Gergely András Molnár was, at age 108, the last Hungarian World War I veteran.-References:...

    , 108, the last Hungarian veteran of the First World War http://www.delmagyar.hu/cikk.php?id=70&cid=120905
  • Brian Parkyn
    Brian Parkyn
    Brian Stewart Parkyn was a British Labour Party politician.Parkyn was educated at King Edward VI Grammar School, Chelmsford and technical college. He was a conscientious objector in the Second World War...

    , 82, British Labour
    Labour Party (UK)
    The Labour Party is a centre-left democratic socialist party in the United Kingdom. It surpassed the Liberal Party in general elections during the early 1920s, forming minority governments under Ramsay MacDonald in 1924 and 1929-1931. The party was in a wartime coalition from 1940 to 1945, after...

     MP for Bedford
    Bedford (UK Parliament constituency)
    Bedford is a parliamentary constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. The seat was established in its current form in 1997, restoring a centuries old name. It elects one Member of Parliament by the first-past-the-post system of election...

     1966-70 http://news.independent.co.uk/people/obituaries/article354769.ece.
  • Robert Salazar, Jr., 27, American
    United States
    The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

     convicted murder
    Murder
    Murder is the unlawful killing, with malice aforethought, of another human being, and generally this state of mind distinguishes murder from other forms of unlawful homicide...

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

    . http://www.cnn.com/2006/LAW/03/23/texas.execution.ap/
  • Stig Wennerström, 99, Swedish Air Force Colonel convicted of spying for the USSR. http://www.sr.se/cgi-bin/International/nyhetssidor/artikel.asp?ProgramID=2054&Nyheter=&artikel=825475 http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/03/30/AR2006033002028.html

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  • Lord Ackner
    Desmond Ackner, Baron Ackner
    Desmond James Conrad Ackner, Baron Ackner, PC, QC was a British judge and Lord of Appeal in Ordinary.-Early life:...

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

     Lord of Appeal
    Judicial functions of the House of Lords
    The House of Lords, in addition to having a legislative function, historically also had a judicial function. It functioned as a court of first instance for the trials of peers, for impeachment cases, and as a court of last resort within the United Kingdom. In the latter case the House's...

    . http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,60-2098758,00.html
  • Bob Delegall
    Bob Delegall
    Bob Delegall was an American actor, television director and producer. He has guest starred in number of notable television series namely Adam-12, Good Times, The Six Million Dollar Man, Knots Landing and among other series.-Life and career:Delegall was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania...

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

    . http://people.monstersandcritics.com/article_1151680.php/Actor_Bob_Delegall_dead_at_age_60
  • Margaret Ewing
    Margaret Ewing
    Margaret Anne Ewing was a Scottish National Party politician who served as a Member of Parliament and as a Member of the Scottish Parliament...

    , 60, Scottish
    Scotland
    Scotland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Occupying the northern third of the island of Great Britain, it shares a border with England to the south and is bounded by the North Sea to the east, the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, and the North Channel and Irish Sea to the...

     nationalist
    Scottish National Party
    The Scottish National Party is a social-democratic political party in Scotland which campaigns for Scottish independence from the United Kingdom....

     politician, breast cancer
    Breast cancer
    Breast cancer is cancer originating from breast tissue, most commonly from the inner lining of milk ducts or the lobules that supply the ducts with milk. Cancers originating from ducts are known as ductal carcinomas; those originating from lobules are known as lobular carcinomas...

    . http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,60-2097313,00.html
  • James O. Freedman
    James O. Freedman
    James Oliver Freedman was a university president. A graduate of Harvard College and Yale Law School, he served briefly as Dean of the University of Pennsylvania Law School; as the sixteenth president of the University of Iowa from 1982 to 1987; and as the fifteenth president of Dartmouth College,...

    , 70, former president of Dartmouth College
    Dartmouth College
    Dartmouth College is a private, Ivy League university in Hanover, New Hampshire, United States. The institution comprises a liberal arts college, Dartmouth Medical School, Thayer School of Engineering, and the Tuck School of Business, as well as 19 graduate programs in the arts and sciences...

     and the University of Iowa
    University of Iowa
    The University of Iowa is a public state-supported research university located in Iowa City, Iowa, United States. It is the oldest public university in the state. The university is organized into eleven colleges granting undergraduate, graduate, and professional degrees...

    , non-Hodgkin lymphoma
    Non-Hodgkin lymphoma
    The non-Hodgkin lymphomas are a diverse group of blood cancers that include any kind of lymphoma except Hodgkin's lymphomas. Types of NHL vary significantly in their severity, from indolent to very aggressive....

    . http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/22/national/22freedman.html
  • Bert Isaac, 83, Welsh
    Wales
    Wales is a country that is part of the United Kingdom and the island of Great Britain, bordered by England to its east and the Atlantic Ocean and Irish Sea to its west. It has a population of three million, and a total area of 20,779 km²...

     painter.
  • Philip B. Kundhardt Jr., 78, Life Magazine managing editor
    Managing editor
    A managing editor is a senior member of a publication's management team.In the United States, a managing editor oversees and coordinates the publication's editorial activities...

    , documentary producer, writer http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/24/arts/24kunhardt.html
  • Doris Jones, 92, African-American ballet
    Ballet
    Ballet is a type of performance dance, that originated in the Italian Renaissance courts of the 15th century, and which was further developed in France and Russia as a concert dance form. The early portions preceded the invention of the proscenium stage and were presented in large chambers with...

     dancer, co-founder of the Jones-Haywood School of Ballet. http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/04/arts/dance/04jones.html
  • Bernard Lacoste
    Bernard Lacoste
    Bernard Lacoste was a French fashion designer and businessman.- Biography :Lacoste was the son of René Lacoste, the founder of the fashion company Lacoste. He attended high school in France and earned the Bachelor of Science at Princeton University in the USA...

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

     clothing magnate of Lacoste
    Lacoste (company)
    Lacoste is a French apparel company founded in 1933 that sells high-end clothing, footwear, perfume, leather goods, watches, eyewear, and most famously tennis shirts. In recent years, Lacoste has introduced a home line of sheeting and towels...

    , unspecified illness. http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/23/business/23lacoste.html?ex=1143954000&en=181dbf954283b375&ei=5070
  • Leslie MacMitchell
    Leslie MacMitchell
    Thomas Leslie MacMitchell was an American athlete who competed in several events in the late 1930s and 1940s, including the mile run. He won numerous races while attending New York University and earned the James E. Sullivan Award, the top U.S. award for amateur athletes, in 1941...

    , 85, American runner, James E. Sullivan Award
    James E. Sullivan Award
    The James E. Sullivan Award, presented by the American Amateur Athletic Union , is awarded annually in April to "the outstanding amateur athlete in the United States". Often referred to as the Oscar of sports awards, it was first presented in 1930. The award is named for the AAU's founder and past...

     winner http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/29/sports/othersports/29macmitchell.html

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  • Bhrigu Kumar Phukan, 49, 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...

     politician http://www.newkerala.com/news2.php?action=fullnews&id=28737
  • Gene Scott
    Gene Scott (tennis)
    Eugene Lytton Scott was an American tennis player of the 1960s.Scott was the grandson of Dr. Eugene C. Sullivan, one of the inventors of Pyrex and chair and president of Corning Glass Works. He graduated with a BA in history from Yale University in 1960, where he was a member of Skull and Bones...

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

     player and publisher of Tennis Week
    Tennis Week
    Tennis Week was an American sports magazine owned by media conglomerate IMG covering the world of tennis.-History:Founded in 1974 by Eugene L. Scott, a former US Davis Cup player who was ranked within the world top 15....

    . http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/23/sports/tennis/23scott.html

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  • Dick Addis, 74, former South Bend, Indiana
    South Bend, Indiana
    The city of South Bend is the county seat of St. Joseph County, Indiana, United States, on the St. Joseph River near its southernmost bend, from which it derives its name. As of the 2010 Census, the city had a total of 101,168 residents; its Metropolitan Statistical Area had a population of 316,663...

     news weatherman and longtime WNDU-TV
    WNDU-TV
    WNDU-TV is a television station in South Bend, Indiana. The station is an affiliate of the NBC television network. Its transmitter is located in South Bend. WNDU-TV broadcasts in HDTV on Channel 42, additionally simulcasting a local Doppler radar image...

     personality, natural causes http://www.wndu.com/news/032006/news_48681.php
  • Mohammad Ali
    Mohammad Ali (actor)
    Mohammad Ali was a Pakistani actor. He was known as Shahenshah-e-Jazbaat , means The Emperor of Emotions. He had starred in over 250 movies playing roles as hero and villain. He was included among 25 greatest actors of Asia by CNN survey...

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

    i actor, cardiac arrest. http://www.onlinenews.com.pk/details.php?id=94677
  • Anselmo Colzani
    Anselmo Colzani
    Anselmo Colzani was an Italian operatic baritone who had an international opera career from the late 1940s through 1980. He particularly excelled in the Italian repertory and was most associated with the works of Giuseppe Verdi and Giacomo Puccini...

    , 87, 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...

     operatic baritone http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/24/arts/music/24colzani.html
  • Nicholas R. Cozzarelli, 67, molecular and cell biologist, science journal editor, Burkitt's lymphoma
    Burkitt's lymphoma
    Burkitt's lymphoma is a cancer of the lymphatic system...

    . http://www.pnas.org/cgi/content/full/103/16/6077 http://www.pnas.org/cgi/content/full/103/16/6078 http://www.the-scientist.com/news/display/23328/
  • Leon Daniel
    Leon Daniel
    Leon Daniel was a reporter, manager, and senior editor of United Press International . He is most well known for his reporting during the Vietnam War and his coverage of the United States civil rights movement during the 1960s.Daniel wrote one of his more notable pieces, published on June 12,...

    , 74, American correspondent and editor for United Press International
    United Press International
    United Press International is a once-major international news agency, whose newswires, photo, news film and audio services provided news material to thousands of newspapers, magazines and radio and television stations for most of the twentieth century...

     http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/26/nyregion/26daniel.html
  • Kevin Payne
    Kevin Payne (boxer)
    Kevin Payne was a professional boxer. He died as a result of injuries sustained in a bout against Ryan Maraldo on March 18, 2006...

    , 34, professional boxer, injuries sustained during fight. http://sports.espn.go.com/sports/boxing/news/story?id=2376342
  • Channing Pollock
    Channing Pollock (magician)
    Channing Pollock was an American magician and film actor.-Magician:As one of the most sophisticated and charismatic practitioners of his craft; strikingly handsome with an enigmatic stage presence, he was best known for an act in which he would elegantly produce doves out of thin air and he was...

    , 79, magician, complications of cancer.http://www.upi.com/NewsTrack/view.php?StoryID=20060321-025944-9431r
  • Dr. Richard Root
    Richard Root
    Richard K. Root was a clinical teacher at the University of Washington Medical Center and former chief of medicine at Harborview Medical Center in Seattle, Washington...

    , 68, American epidemiologist, crocodile
    Crocodile
    A crocodile is any species belonging to the family Crocodylidae . The term can also be used more loosely to include all extant members of the order Crocodilia: i.e...

     attack. http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/21/national/21ROOT.html

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  • Michael Attwell
    Michael Attwell
    Michael John Attwell was an English actor.He is possibly best known for his role as Kenny Beale in the television soap opera EastEnders....

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

     actor. http://news.independent.co.uk/people/obituaries/article353507.ece
  • Bill Beutel, 75, WABC-TV
    WABC-TV
    WABC-TV, channel 7, is the flagship station of the Disney-owned American Broadcasting Company located in New York City. The station's studios and offices are located on the Upper West Side section of Manhattan, adjacent to ABC's corporate headquarters, and its transmitter is atop the Empire State...

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

    . http://www.wkyt.com/Global/story.asp?S=4651982&nav=4CAL
  • Nelson Dantas
    Nelson Dantas
    Nelson Dantas was a Brazilian actor in film and television. He began in 1949, but his peak period began in 1962. In 1981 he won an award at the Festival de Gramado.- External links :*...

    , 78, 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 actor, lung cancer. http://www1.folha.uol.com.br/folha/ilustrada/ult90u58920.shtml
  • Fernando Gil, 69, Portuguese
    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...

     philosopher and college professor, unknown illness. http://jn.sapo.pt/2006/03/20/primeiro_plano/Morreu_Fernando_Gil.html
  • Anatoliy Puzach
    Anatoliy Puzach
    Anatoliy Kyrylovych Puzach was a Soviet football player and Ukrainian coach...

    , 65, former Soviet World Cup
    FIFA World Cup
    The FIFA World Cup, often simply the World Cup, is an international association football competition contested by the senior men's national teams of the members of Fédération Internationale de Football Association , the sport's global governing body...

     footballer & title-winning coach for Dynamo Kievhttp://www.uefa.com/footballeurope/news/Kind=2/newsId=405559.html
  • Sir Wallace Rae
    Wallace Rae
    Sir Wallace "Wally" Alexander Ramsay Rae was a member of the Queensland Parliament and served in various State Government ministries. Rae worked as a stock and station agent before serving as a bomber pilot in World War II...

    , 92, Queensland (Australia) politician http://www.parliament.qld.gov.au/view/historical/records1860.asp?SubArea=register_R&SubNav=register_A
  • Stella Snead, 96, British surrealist painter http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/01/obituaries/01snead.html
  • Drexel Sprecher, 92, American prosecutor at the Nuremberg Trials
    Nuremberg Trials
    The Nuremberg Trials were a series of military tribunals, held by the victorious Allied forces of World War II, most notable for the prosecution of prominent members of the political, military, and economic leadership of the defeated Nazi Germany....

    . http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/08/us/08sprecher.html
  • Belle Zeck, 87, American lawyer, US Treasury Lawyer 1942-1948, Nuremberg
    Nuremberg Trials
    The Nuremberg Trials were a series of military tribunals, held by the victorious Allied forces of World War II, most notable for the prosecution of prominent members of the political, military, and economic leadership of the defeated Nazi Germany....

     prosecutor http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/05/nyregion/05zeck.html

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  • Yuan Baojing
    Yuan Baojing
    Yuan Baojing was the president of the Jianhao Group and Beijing's wealthiest multi-millionaire. In March 2006, he and two accomplices were sentenced to death by a Liaoyang court for the October 2003 murder of Wang Xing, a hitman he had hired to kill a rival businessman in Sichuan, who had caused...

    , 39 or 40, Chinese
    China
    Chinese civilization may refer to:* China for more general discussion of the country.* Chinese culture* Greater China, the transnational community of ethnic Chinese.* History of China* Sinosphere, the area historically affected by Chinese culture...

     multi-millionaire
    Millionaire
    A millionaire is an individual whose net worth or wealth is equal to or exceeds one million units of currency. It can also be a person who owns one million units of currency in a bank account or savings account...

    , executed by lethal injection for ordering a contract killing
    Contract killing
    Contract killing is a form of murder, in which one party hires another party to kill a target individual or group of people. It involves an illegal agreement between two parties in which one party agrees to kill the target in exchange for consideration, monetary, or otherwise. The hiring party may...

    .
  • Lumumba Carson, 49, American
    United States
    The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

     hip-hop
    Hip hop music
    Hip hop music, also called hip-hop, rap music or hip-hop music, is a musical genre consisting of a stylized rhythmic music that commonly accompanies rapping, a rhythmic and rhyming speech that is chanted...

     emcee (as Professor X of X-Clan
    X-Clan
    X-Clan is a hip hop group from Brooklyn, New York, originally consisting of Grand Verbalizer Funkin' Lesson Brother J, Professor X The Overseer, Paradise the Architect, and Sugar Shaft the Rhythm Provider...

    ) and political activist-leader of the Blackwatch movement, spinal meningitis. http://odeo.com/audio/904888/view http://www.allhiphop.com/hiphopnews/?ID=5479
  • Oleg Cassini
    Oleg Cassini
    Oleg Cassini was a French-born American fashion designer noted for being chosen by Jacqueline Kennedy to design her state wardrobe in the 1960s....

    , 92, fashion designer. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/03/20/db2002.xml&sSheet=/portal/2006/03/20/ixportal.html http://www.theherald.co.uk/58338.shtml
  • Narvin Kimball
    Narvin Kimball
    Narvin Kimball was a jazz musician who played banjo and string bass and was also known for his fine singing voice....

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

     banjo
    Banjo
    In the 1830s Sweeney became the first white man to play the banjo on stage. His version of the instrument replaced the gourd with a drum-like sound box and included four full-length strings alongside a short fifth-string. There is no proof, however, that Sweeney invented either innovation. This new...

     player, founding member of the Preservation Hall Jazz Band
    Preservation Hall Jazz Band
    Preservation Hall Jazz Band is the name for numerous groups of Dixieland Jazz and traditional jazz bands at Preservation Hall in New Orleans, Louisiana, and on tours as organized by the Preservation Hall...

     and the Gentlemen of Jazz. http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/21/arts/music/21kimball.html
  • Ray Meyer
    Ray Meyer
    Raymond Joseph Meyer was an American men's collegiate basketball coach from Chicago, Illinois. He was well-known for coaching at DePaul University from 1942 to 1984, compiling a 724–354 record...

    , 92, former DePaul
    DePaul University
    DePaul University is a private institution of higher education and research in Chicago, Illinois. Founded by the Vincentians in 1898, the university takes its name from the 17th century French priest Saint Vincent de Paul...

     basketball coach and member of the Basketball Hall of Fame
    Basketball Hall of Fame
    The Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame, located in Springfield, Massachusetts, United States, honors exceptional basketball players, coaches, referees, executives, and other major contributors to the game of basketball worldwide...

    , natural causes. http://www.thestate.com/mld/thestate/sports/14125531.htm
  • G. William Miller
    G. William Miller
    George William Miller served as the 65th United States Secretary of the Treasury under President Carter from August 6, 1979 to January 20, 1981...

    , 81, United States Secretary of Treasury from 1979 - 1981 under Jimmy Carter
    Jimmy Carter
    James Earl "Jimmy" Carter, Jr. is an American politician who served as the 39th President of the United States and was the recipient of the 2002 Nobel Peace Prize, the only U.S. President to have received the Prize after leaving office...

    , idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis
    Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis
    Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis is a chronic, progressive form of lung disease characterized by fibrosis of the supporting framework of the lungs...

    . http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/03/19/AR2006031901108.html
  • Patrick Moody
    Patrick Moody
    Patrick Lane Moody was a convicted killer, put to death by lethal injection in Raleigh's Central Prison.On September 16, 1994, Moody, who was of marginal intelligence, shot and killed his girlfriend's husband...

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

     convicted murder
    Murder
    Murder is the unlawful killing, with malice aforethought, of another human being, and generally this state of mind distinguishes murder from other forms of unlawful homicide...

    er, executed in North Carolina
    North Carolina
    North Carolina is a state located in the southeastern United States. The state borders South Carolina and Georgia to the south, Tennessee to the west and Virginia to the north. North Carolina contains 100 counties. Its capital is Raleigh, and its largest city is Charlotte...

    . http://www.cnn.com/2006/LAW/03/17/carolina.execution.ap/index.html
  • Marc Moret, 82, Swiss pharmaceutical executive, honorary chairman of Novartis
    Novartis
    Novartis International AG is a multinational pharmaceutical company based in Basel, Switzerland, ranking number three in sales among the world-wide industry...

    . http://www.caycompass.com/cgi-bin/CFPnews.cgi?ID=1011826 http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/21/business/21moret.html :de:Marc Moret
  • Eric Ottens, 23, College basketball
    College basketball
    College basketball most often refers to the USA basketball competitive governance structure established by the National Collegiate Athletic Association . Basketball in the NCAA is divided into three divisions: Division I, Division II and Division III....

     player for Evansville, automobile accident. http://sports.espn.go.com/ncb/news/story?id=2374324
  • Bob Papenbrook
    Bob Papenbrook
    Robert DeWayne "Bob" Papenbrook was an American voice actor. Fellow voice actors often nicknamed him "Pappy". He was very well known in the worlds of anime and video game voice-overs for his voice acting of "gruff" characters...

    , 50, Los Angeles
    Los Ángeles
    Los Ángeles is the capital of the province of Biobío, in the commune of the same name, in Region VIII , in the center-south of Chile. It is located between the Laja and Biobío rivers. The population is 123,445 inhabitants...

     voice actor, lung complications. http://news.awn.com/index.php?ltype=top&newsitem_no=16513

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  • Jonathan Delisle
    Jonathan Delisle
    Jonathan Delisle was a Canadian professional ice hockey right winger. He was drafted in the fourth round, 86th overall, of the 1995 NHL Entry Draft by the Montreal Canadiens. He played just one game in the National Hockey League, with the Canadiens during the 1998–99 season, going scoreless. He...

    , 28, AHL
    American Hockey League
    The American Hockey League is a 30-team professional ice hockey league based in the United States and Canada that serves as the primary developmental circuit for the National Hockey League...

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

     hockey player, automobile accident. http://www.theahl.com/AHL/News/2006/03/16/1491457.html
  • David Feintuch
    David Feintuch
    David Feintuch was a science fiction and fantasy author and attorney. He was the 1996 winner of the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer in Science Fiction...

    , 61, American science fiction author, following cardiac
    Heart
    The heart is a myogenic muscular organ found in all animals with a circulatory system , that is responsible for pumping blood throughout the blood vessels by repeated, rhythmic contractions...

     trouble. http://www.lsj.com/apps/pbcs.dll/classifieds?category=obits
  • Paul Flaherty
    Paul Flaherty
    Paul Andrew Flaherty was an American computer scientist. He was a renowned specialist for internet protocols and the inventor of the AltaVista search engine.-Biography:...

    , 42, web indexing pioneer http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/24/technology/24flaherty.html?_r=1&oref=slogin, heart attack http://news.yahoo.com/s/cmp/20060325/tc_cmp/183702830
  • James Hill
    James Hill (soldier)
    Brigadier Stanley James Ledger Hill DSO & Two Bars, MC was an officer in the British Army who served as commander of the 3rd Parachute Brigade of 6th Airborne Division during the Second World War...

    , 95, legendary British soldier who commanded the Canadian paratroopers who dropped into France on D-Day, natural causes
  • K. Leroy Irvis
    K. Leroy Irvis
    K. Leroy Irvis was the first African American to serve as a speaker of the house in any state legislature in the United States since Reconstruction. John Roy Lynch of Mississippi was the first African American to hold that position. Mr...

    , 86, Speaker of Pennsylvania House of Representatives
    Pennsylvania House of Representatives
    The Pennsylvania House of Representatives is the lower house of the bicameral Pennsylvania General Assembly, the legislature of the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. There are 203 members, elected for two year terms from single member districts....

     (first African-American Speaker in any U.S. state government), cancer
    Cancer
    Cancer , known medically as a malignant neoplasm, is a large group of different diseases, all involving unregulated cell growth. In cancer, cells divide and grow uncontrollably, forming malignant tumors, and invade nearby parts of the body. The cancer may also spread to more distant parts of the...

    . http://www.pennlive.com/news/patriotnews/index.ssf?/base/news/11425911443280.xml&coll=1
  • Coen Ooft, 85, Surinam politician and jurist.
  • Archbishop Romeo Panciroli, 82, Italian Catholic Archbishop, former Director of the Vatican Press Office. http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/california/la-me-passings18.2mar18,1,3293198.story?coll=la-headlines-pe-california http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-5693219,00.html
  • Stephen Procuniar, 60, American artist http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/02/arts/design/01procuniar.html
  • Moira Redmond
    Moira Redmond
    Moira Redmond was a British actress.She was born in Bognor Regis, England, the daughter of the actress Molly Redmond and her husband who was a stage manager...

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

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

    . http://www.guardian.co.uk/obituaries/story/0,,1735438,00.html
  • Jade Snow Wong
    Jade Snow Wong
    Jade Snow Wong was an American ceramic artist and author of two autobiographical volumes.- Biography :Wong was born in San Francisco and brought her family that maintained traditional Chinese customs...

    , 84, Chinese author and ceramicist, natural causes.http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/03/19/BAGNDHQOO31.DTL

15

  • Ken Brewer
    Ken Brewer
    Kenneth Wayne Brewer was an American poet and longtime scholar who resided in Utah, where he served as Poet Laureate. Born in Indianapolis, Indiana, he attended Butler University and Western New Mexico University in the 1960s, then earned a master's degree in English literature from New Mexico...

    , 64, Poet Laureate
    Poet Laureate
    A poet laureate is a poet officially appointed by a government and is often expected to compose poems for state occasions and other government events...

     of Utah
    Utah
    Utah is a state in the Western United States. It was the 45th state to join the Union, on January 4, 1896. Approximately 80% of Utah's 2,763,885 people live along the Wasatch Front, centering on Salt Lake City. This leaves vast expanses of the state nearly uninhabited, making the population the...

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

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

    . http://www.sltrib.com/nationworld/ci_3608976
  • Estelle Busch, 91, American actress, helped establish equity-waiver theatres. http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/california/la-me-passings27.1mar27,1,3031053.story?coll=la-headlines-pe-california
  • Humphrey
    Humphrey (cat)
    Humphrey was a cat employed as the Chief Mouser to the Cabinet Office at 10 Downing Street, the official residence of the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, from October 1989 to 13 November 1997...

     (exact date unknown), c. 17, Chief Mouser to the Cabinet Office, 1989 - 1997. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/4823834.stm
  • René Lasserre
    René Lasserre
    Félix "René" Lasserre was a French rugby union player who competed in the 1924 Summer Olympics.He was born in Bayonne and died in Saint-Avold.In 1924 he won the silver medal as member of the French team....

    , 93, Paris restaurateur. http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/17/obituaries/17lasserre.html
  • George Mackey
    George Mackey
    George Whitelaw Mackey was an American mathematician. Mackey earned his bachelor of arts at Rice University in 1938 and obtained his Ph.D. at Harvard University in 1942 under the direction of Marshall H. Stone...

    , 90, formerly Landon T. Clay Professor of mathematics
    Mathematics
    Mathematics is the study of quantity, space, structure, and change. Mathematicians seek out patterns and formulate new conjectures. Mathematicians resolve the truth or falsity of conjectures by mathematical proofs, which are arguments sufficient to convince other mathematicians of their validity...

    , Harvard University
    Harvard University
    Harvard University is a private Ivy League university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, established in 1636 by the Massachusetts legislature. Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States and the first corporation chartered in the country...

    . http://www.math.harvard.edu/history/mackey/
  • Charles Newman
    Charles Newman
    Charles Newman may refer to:* Charles Newman * Charles Newman * Charles M. Newman, mathematician...

    , 67, American novelist (White Jazz
    White Jazz
    White Jazz is a 1992 crime fiction novel by James Ellroy. It is the fourth in his L.A. Quartet, preceded by The Black Dahlia, The Big Nowhere, and L.A. Confidential....

    , The Promisekeeper: A Tephramancy) and editor (TriQuarterly
    TriQuarterly
    TriQuarterly Online is a not-for-profit American literary magazine published twice a year at Northwestern University that features fiction, nonfiction, poetry, drama, literary essays, reviews, a blog, and graphic art....

    ) http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/22/national/22newman.html
  • George Rallis
    George Rallis
    Georgios Ioannou Rallis , Greek politician, was Prime Minister of Greece from 1980 to 1981.- Ancestors in politics :Rallis was descended from an old political family. Before Greek independence, Alexander Rallis was a prominent Phanariote . In 1849 his son George Rallis became Chief Justice of the...

    , 87, former Prime Minister of Greece
    Greece
    Greece , officially the Hellenic Republic , and historically Hellas or the Republic of Greece in English, is a country in southeastern Europe....

    , 1980–81, heart failure. http://www.theherald.co.uk/features/58518.html
  • Mark Southern, 45, professor of linguistics, Middlebury College
    Middlebury College
    Middlebury College is a private liberal arts college located in Middlebury, Vermont, USA. Founded in 1800, it is one of the oldest liberal arts colleges in the United States. Drawing 2,400 undergraduates from all 50 United States and over 70 countries, Middlebury offers 44 majors in the arts,...

     
  • Red Storey
    Red Storey
    Roy Alvin "Red" Storey, CM was a Canadian football player and National Hockey League referee.-Early life and career:...

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

     player and NHL referee. http://www.tsn.ca/cfl/news_story.asp?ID=158682

14

  • E.S. Anderson, 94, British microbiologist http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/01/world/europe/01anderson.html
  • Ann Calvello
    Ann Calvello
    Ann Theresa Calvello was a U.S. athlete and notable personality in the sport of roller derby.Ann Calvello graduated from Presentation High School in San Francisco, CA in June 1947....

    , 76, roller derby
    Roller derby
    Roller derby is a contact sport played by two teams of five members roller skating in the same direction around a track. Game play consists of a series of short matchups in which both teams designate a scoring player who scores points by lapping members of the opposing team...

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

    . http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/14102956.htm
  • Hamish Gray, Baron Gray of Contin
    Hamish Gray, Baron Gray of Contin
    James Hector Northey Gray, Baron Gray of Contin, PC, DL, , known as Hamish Gray, was a Scottish politician and life peer....

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

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

     government minister. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/03/17/db1702.xml&sSheet=/portal/2006/03/17/ixportal.html
  • Lennart Meri
    Lennart Meri
    Lennart Georg Meri was a writer, film director and statesman who served as the second President of Estonia from 1992 to 2001. Meri was a leader of the Estonian independence movement.-Early life:...

    , 76, former President of Estonia
    Estonia
    Estonia , officially the Republic of Estonia , is a state in the Baltic region of Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by the Gulf of Finland, to the west by the Baltic Sea, to the south by Latvia , and to the east by Lake Peipsi and the Russian Federation . Across the Baltic Sea lies...

    . http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060314/ap_on_re_eu/obit_meri_2
  • Art Michaluk
    Art Michaluk
    Arthur Michaluk was a Canadian professional ice hockey defenceman. He was born in Canmore, Alberta.He served in the Royal Canadian Air Force during World War II. Michaluk spent most of his career with the Providence Reds of the AHL. He also played with the Chicago Black Hawks of the NHL during the...

    , 82, former AHL
    American Hockey League
    The American Hockey League is a 30-team professional ice hockey league based in the United States and Canada that serves as the primary developmental circuit for the National Hockey League...

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

     veteran. http://www.theahl.com/AHL/News/2006/03/16/1491602.html
  • Herb Tobman, 81, former president of the Stardust Hotel on the Las Vegas Strip
    Las Vegas Strip
    The Las Vegas Strip is an approximately stretch of Las Vegas Boulevard in Clark County, Nevada; adjacent to, but outside the city limits of Las Vegas proper. The Strip lies within the unincorporated townships of Paradise and Winchester...

     http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/20/national/20tobman.html

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  • Robert C. Baker
    Robert C. Baker
    Robert C. Baker was an inventor and Cornell University professor who invented the chicken nugget as well as many other poultry related inventions...

    , 84, American agricultural scientist, developed chicken products and processes. http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/16/nyregion/16baker.html
  • Roy Clarke
    Roy Clarke (footballer)
    Royston James Clarke was a Welsh footballer who played for Cardiff City, Manchester City, Stockport County and Wales as a winger....

    , 80, footballer for Manchester City
    Manchester City F.C.
    Manchester City Football Club is an English Premier League football club based in Manchester. Founded in 1880 as St. Mark's , they became Ardwick Association Football Club in 1887 and Manchester City in 1894...

     & Wales
    Wales national football team
    The Wales national football team represents Wales in international football. It is controlled by the Football Association of Wales , the governing body for football in Wales, and the third oldest national football association in the world. The team have only qualified for a major international...

    . http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/m/man_city/4803466.stm
  • Jimmy Johnstone
    Jimmy Johnstone
    James Connolly "Jimmy" Johnstone was a Scottish football player. Johnstone was best known for his time with Celtic, and was voted their best ever player by the club's fans in 2002...

    , 61, Scottish
    Scotland
    Scotland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Occupying the northern third of the island of Great Britain, it shares a border with England to the south and is bounded by the North Sea to the east, the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, and the North Channel and Irish Sea to the...

     football player, voted Celtic
    Celtic F.C.
    Celtic Football Club is a Scottish football club based in the Parkhead area of Glasgow, which currently plays in the Scottish Premier League. The club was established in 1887, and played its first game in 1888. Celtic have won the Scottish League Championship on 42 occasions, most recently in the...

    's best ever, motor neurone disease
    Motor neurone disease
    The motor neurone diseases are a group of neurological disorders that selectively affect motor neurones, the cells that control voluntary muscle activity including speaking, walking, breathing, swallowing and general movement of the body. They are generally progressive in nature, and can cause...

    . http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/c/celtic/4800766.stm
  • Tara Rose McAvoy, 18, reigning Miss Deaf Texas, killed by train while walking on tracks. http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/03/14/beauty.queen.death.ap/index.html http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/4806852.stm
  • Charles Newman (author)
    Charles Newman (author)
    Charles Newman was an American novelist and critic. Newman authored several experimental novels including White Jazz , The Promisekeeper: A Tephramancy , A Child's History of America , New Axis , and The Post-Modern Aura: The Act of Fiction in an Age of Inflation and his work has been compared to...

    , 67, American novelist and founding editor of TriQuarterly
    TriQuarterly
    TriQuarterly Online is a not-for-profit American literary magazine published twice a year at Northwestern University that features fiction, nonfiction, poetry, drama, literary essays, reviews, a blog, and graphic art....

    . http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/22/national/22newman.html
  • Dr. James Schwartz, 73, Columbia University
    Columbia University
    Columbia University in the City of New York is a private, Ivy League university in Manhattan, New York City. Columbia is the oldest institution of higher learning in the state of New York, the fifth oldest in the United States, and one of the country's nine Colonial Colleges founded before the...

     neurobiologist .http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/24/nyregion/24schwartz.html
  • Maureen Stapleton
    Maureen Stapleton
    Maureen Stapleton was an American actress in film, theater and television.-Early life:Stapleton was born Lois Maureen Stapleton in Troy, New York, the daughter of Irene and John P. Stapleton, and grew up in a strict Irish American Catholic family...

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

     actress, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
    Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
    Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease , also known as chronic obstructive lung disease , chronic obstructive airway disease , chronic airflow limitation and chronic obstructive respiratory disease , is the co-occurrence of chronic bronchitis and emphysema, a pair of commonly co-existing diseases...

    .
  • Oscar Stiegler, 102, expert on repair, inspection and construction of naval vessels. http://www.legacy.com/washingtonpost/DeathNotices.asp?Page=LifeStory&PersonID=17109175
  • Peter Tomarken
    Peter Tomarken
    Peter David Tomarken was an American television personality primarily known as the host of Press Your Luck.-Early life:...

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

     game show host (Press Your Luck
    Press Your Luck
    Press Your Luck is an American television daytime game show created by Bill Carruthers and Jan McCormack. It premiered on September 19, 1983 on CBS and ended on September 26, 1986. In the show, contestants collected "spins" by answering trivia questions and then used the spins on an 18-space game...

    ), plane crash. http://insider.tv.yahoo.com/news/3870/

12

  • Nick Barone
    Nick Barone
    Carmine "Nick" Barone was an American boxer, a ranked contender in the light heavyweight division and heavyweight divisions during the late 1940s and 1950s. He was known as the "Fighting Marine." He is best known for his 1950 title fight against the world heavyweight champion Ezzard Charles...

    , 79, American heavyweight
    Heavyweight
    Heavyweight is a division, or weight class, in boxing. Fighters who weigh over 200 pounds are considered heavyweights by the major professional boxing organizations: the International Boxing Federation, the World Boxing Association, the World Boxing Council, and the World Boxing...

     and light heavyweight
    Light heavyweight
    In boxing, the light heavyweight is a weight division above 168 pounds [12 Stone or 76.204 kilograms] and up to 175 pounds [12.5 stone or 79.38 kilograms]), falling between super middleweight and cruiserweight...

     boxer http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/16/sports/othersports/16barone.html
  • Joseph Bova
    Joseph Bova
    Joseph Bova worked in early television, having a children's show on WABC-TV in New York . He played Prince Dauntless in Once Upon A Mattress. Bova died of emphysema on March 12, 2006 at the Actor's Fund retirement home in Englewood, New Jersey. He was 81 years old.-External links:...

    , 81, American actor (Once Upon a Mattress
    Once Upon a Mattress
    Once Upon a Mattress is a musical comedy with music by Mary Rodgers, lyrics by Marshall Barer and book by Jay Thompson, Dean Fuller, and Marshall Barer. It opened off-Broadway in May 1959, and then moved to Broadway...

    ) http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/21/theater/21bova.html
  • Jurij Brězan
    Jurij Brezan
    Jurij Brězan was a Sorbian writer. He lived in East Germany.- Life and work :Brězan was born in Räckelwitz near Kamenz. He attended school in Bautzen and then studied political economics. After 1933, he worked illegally for Domowina and was active in a Sorbian resistance group. In 1937-38, he...

    , 89, Sorbian
    Sorbian
    Sorbian may refer to more than one article:* Sorbs, a Slavic people in modern day Germany* Sorbian languages, a group of closely related West Slavic languages-See also:...

    -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...

     writer.
  • Massimo Della Pergola, 93, 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...

     journalist who founded Sisal, Totocalcio, and Totip. http://ilgiorno.quotidiano.net/art/2006/03/13/5407326
  • István Gyulai
    István Gyulai
    István Gyulai was a former Hungarian television commentator and General Secretary of the IAAF....

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

     journalist, General Secretary of the IAAF. http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/athletics/4798620.stm
  • Jonatan Johansson
    Jonatan Johansson (snowboarder)
    Jonatan Johansson was a Swedish Olympic snowboarder from Sollentuna, Stockholm County.Johansson died following a failed jump landing during training for the International Ski Federation World Cup competition....

    , 26, 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....

     snowboarder, accident during training. http://www.capitalnews9.com/content/headlines/?SecID=33&ArID=171704
  • Victor Sokolov
    Victor Sokolov
    The Very Reverend Archpriest Victor Sokolov was a Russian-American former dissident Soviet journalist and an Eastern Orthodox priest....

    , 59, dissident ex-Soviet
    Soviet Union
    The Soviet Union , officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics , was a constitutionally socialist state that existed in Eurasia between 1922 and 1991....

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

     priest, 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...

    .

11

  • Jean Cuq, 78, French general. Former chief of Staff of the FINUL.
  • John Falotico, 82, NYPD detective who arrested David Berkowitz
    David Berkowitz
    David Richard Berkowitz , also known as Son of Sam and the .44 Caliber Killer, is an American serial killer and arsonist whose crimes terrorized New York City from July 1976 until his arrest in August 1977.Shortly after his arrest in August 1977, Berkowitz confessed to killing six people and...

    . http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/15/nyregion/15falotico.html
  • General
    General
    A general officer is an officer of high military rank, usually in the army, and in some nations, the air force. The term is widely used by many nations of the world, and when a country uses a different term, there is an equivalent title given....

     Sir Anthony Farrar-Hockley
    Anthony Farrar-Hockley
    General Sir Anthony Heritage Farrar-Hockley GBE, KCB, DSO & Bar, MC , affectionately known as 'Farrar the Para' , was a British soldier and a military historian who distinguished himself in a number of British conflicts...

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

     soldier and military historian. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,60-2084087,00.html
  • Bernie "Boom Boom" Geoffrion
    Bernie Geoffrion
    Joseph André Bernard Geoffrion , nicknamed Boom Boom, was a Canadian professional ice hockey player and coach. Generally considered as one of the innovators of the slapshot, he was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1972 following a 16-year career with the Montreal Canadiens and New York...

    , 75, NHL player with the Montreal Canadiens
    Montreal Canadiens
    The Montreal Canadiens are a professional ice hockey team based in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. They are members of the Northeast Division of the Eastern Conference of the National Hockey League . The club is officially known as ...

     and New York Rangers
    New York Rangers
    The New York Rangers are a professional ice hockey team based in the borough of Manhattan in New York, New York, USA. They are members of the Atlantic Division of the Eastern Conference of the National Hockey League . Playing their home games at Madison Square Garden, the Rangers are one of the...

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

    . http://www.tsn.ca/nhl/news_story/?ID=158150&hubname=
  • Pauline Gregg
    Pauline Gregg
    -Works:Her published works concentrated on the period of the English Civil Wars of the 17th century and the history of social life in Britain.Among her published titles are:*King Charles I: Biography of Charles I....

    , 96, author, historian and biographer.
  • Kim Hyung-gon
    Kim Hyung-Gon
    Kim Hyung-Gon was one of the most influential and famous comedians by the time of his death in South Korea. He debuted in 1980, and enjoyed success since then. His comedy routine depicted political figures and corruptions during the time when free speech and other human rights were denied in...

    , 48, Korean 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...

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

    . http://www.koreaherald.co.kr/SITE/data/html_dir/2006/03/14/200603140032.asp
  • Slobodan Milošević
    Slobodan Milošević
    Slobodan Milošević was President of Serbia and Yugoslavia. He served as the President of Socialist Republic of Serbia and Republic of Serbia from 1989 until 1997 in three terms and as President of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia from 1997 to 2000...

    , 64, former President of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia standing trial for war crimes, heart attack
    Myocardial infarction
    Myocardial infarction or acute myocardial infarction , commonly known as a heart attack, results from the interruption of blood supply to a part of the heart, causing heart cells to die...

    . http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4796470.stm http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-2081301,00.html
  • Glenn Olds, 85, president of Kent State University
    Kent State University
    Kent State University is a public research university located in Kent, Ohio, United States. The university has eight campuses around the northeast Ohio region with the main campus in Kent being the largest...

     (1971–1977) http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/20/national/20olds.html
  • Andrall Pearson, 80, former president of PepsiCo
    PepsiCo
    PepsiCo Inc. is an American multinational corporation headquartered in Purchase, New York, United States, with interests in the manufacturing, marketing and distribution of grain-based snack foods, beverages, and other products. PepsiCo was formed in 1965 with the merger of the Pepsi-Cola Company...

    . http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/15/business/15pearson.html
  • Jesús Rollán, 37, Spanish
    Spain
    Spain , officially the Kingdom of Spain languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Spain's official name is as follows:;;;;;;), is a country and member state of the European Union located in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula...

     former water polo
    Water polo
    Water polo is a team water sport. The playing team consists of six field players and one goalkeeper. The winner of the game is the team that scores more goals. Game play involves swimming, treading water , players passing the ball while being defended by opponents, and scoring by throwing into a...

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

    . http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060312/ap_on_sp_ol/obit_rollan
  • Lindsay Shonteff
    Lindsay Shonteff
    Lindsay Craig Shonteff was a Canadian born film director, film producer and screenwriter who achieved fame for low budget films produced in England.-Biography:...

    , 70, British horror film director of the 1960s. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,60-1573643,00.html
  • Charles M. Tanner
    Charles M. Tanner
    Charles M. Tanner was a screenwriter, playwright, and founder and director of Covenant Players.-External links:*...

    , age?, founder of Covenant Players
    Covenant Players
    Covenant Players is a professional theater company, fielding touring troupes throughout the world.Founded in 1963, CP presents original Christian themed plays written by founder, the late Charles M...

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

    . http://www.covenantplayers.org

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  • Lara Heymann, 18, German
    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...

     professional martial artist and freerunner.
  • Craig Huebing, 77, American actor (General Hospital
    General Hospital
    General Hospital is an American daytime television drama that is credited by the Guinness Book of World Records as the longest-running American soap opera currently in production and the third longest running drama in television in American history after Guiding Light and As the World Turns....

    ) http://www.registerguard.com/news/2006/03/17/printable/c1.cr.drpetertaylor.0317.cKU2rG99.phtml?section=cityregion
  • Mary MacIsaac
    Mary MacIsaac
    Mary MacIsaac was Saskatchewan's oldest person, second oldest in Canada, and 19th in the world at her death, aged 112....

    , 112, Saskatchewan
    Saskatchewan
    Saskatchewan is a prairie province in Canada, which has an area of . Saskatchewan is bordered on the west by Alberta, on the north by the Northwest Territories, on the east by Manitoba, and on the south by the U.S. states of Montana and North Dakota....

    's oldest person.
  • Alberto Migré
    Alberto Migré
    Alberto Migré, pseudonime of "Felipe Alberto Milletari Miagro" was an Argentine TV screenwriter and producer, specialized on telenovelas.-Family Background:...

    , 74, Argentine
    Argentina
    Argentina , officially the Argentine Republic , is the second largest country in South America by land area, after Brazil. It is constituted as a federation of 23 provinces and an autonomous city, Buenos Aires...

     TV 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:...

     and producer
    Television producer
    The primary role of a television Producer is to allow all aspects of video production, ranging from show idea development and cast hiring to shoot supervision and fact-checking...

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

    . http://www.clarin.com/diario/2006/03/10/um/m-01156059.htm
  • Hans Oberndorfer, 80, 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...

     astronomer and author, cancer.

9

  • Dominic Baranello, 83, Democratic
    Democratic Party (United States)
    The Democratic Party is one of two major contemporary political parties in the United States, along with the Republican Party. The party's socially liberal and progressive platform is largely considered center-left in the U.S. political spectrum. The party has the lengthiest record of continuous...

     leader 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...

     State. http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/14/nyregion/14baranello.html
  • Hanka Bielicka, 90, 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...

     singer and actress.
  • Dennis Brookes
    Dennis Brookes
    Dennis Brookes was an English cricketer who played for Northamptonshire between 1934 and 1959 . He also played in one Test match for England against West Indies in 1948. Brookes was President of Northamptonshire from 1982 to 1984...

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

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

    er. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/03/24/db2401.xml&sSheet=/portal/2006/03/24/ixportal.html
  • Péter Halász
    Péter Halász
    Péter Halász was a Hungarian actor and director. In 1993 he won the Hungarian Film Critics award for Best Actor. As an actor he appeared in The Breed among others. In February, 2006 his terminal liver cancer led to his final performance, which involved lying in an open coffin in a Budapest art...

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

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

    . http://squattheatre.com/peterhalasz.html http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/17/theater/17halasz.html
  • Doug Hamilton, 43, general manager
    General manager
    General manager is a descriptive term for certain executives in a business operation. It is also a formal title held by some business executives, most commonly in the hospitality industry.-Generic usage:...

     for the Los Angeles Galaxy
    Los Angeles Galaxy
    The Los Angeles Galaxy are an American professional soccer team, based in the Los Angeles suburb of Carson, California, which competes in Major League Soccer , the top professional soccer league in the United States and Canada. It is one of the ten charter clubs of MLS, and the league's second...

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

     aboard aircraft. http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2006/soccer/03/09/obit.hamilton.ap/index.html
  • Colin Ingleby-Mackenzie
    Colin Ingleby-Mackenzie
    Alexander Colin David Ingleby-Mackenzie OBE was an English cricketer: a left-handed batsman who played for Hampshire between 1951 and 1966, captaining the county from 1958 to 1965 as Hampshire's last amateur captain and leading his side to their first County Championship in the 1961 season...

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

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

    . http://www.guardian.co.uk/obituaries/story/0,,1731642,00.html
  • Anna Moffo
    Anna Moffo
    Anna Moffo was an Italian-American opera singer and one of the leading lyric-coloratura sopranos of her generation...

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

     singer and operatic soprano
    Soprano
    A soprano is a voice type with a vocal range from approximately middle C to "high A" in choral music, or to "soprano C" or higher in operatic music. In four-part chorale style harmony, the soprano takes the highest part, which usually encompasses the melody...

    , 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...

     following decade long battle with breast cancer
    Breast cancer
    Breast cancer is cancer originating from breast tissue, most commonly from the inner lining of milk ducts or the lobules that supply the ducts with milk. Cancers originating from ducts are known as ductal carcinomas; those originating from lobules are known as lobular carcinomas...

     http://www.metoperafamily.org/operanews/news/pressrelease.aspx?id=1132
  • Nena O'Neill, 82, American writer, co-author of Open Marriage: A New Life Style for Couples (1972) http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/26/books/25oneill.html
  • John Profumo
    John Profumo
    Brigadier John Dennis Profumo, 5th Baron Profumo CBE , informally known as Jack Profumo , was a British politician. His title, 5th Baron, which he did not use, was Italian. Although Profumo held an increasingly responsible series of political posts in the 1950s, he is best known today for his...

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

     politician, complications following 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...

    . http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/4792066.stm
  • Harry Seidler
    Harry Seidler
    Harry Seidler, AC OBE was an Austrian-born Australian architect who is considered to be one of the leading exponents of Modernism's methodology in Australia and the first architect to fully express the principles of the Bauhaus in Australia.Harry Seidler designed more than 180 buildings and he...

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

     of the Modernism
    Modernism
    Modernism, in its broadest definition, is modern thought, character, or practice. More specifically, the term describes the modernist movement, its set of cultural tendencies and array of associated cultural movements, originally arising from wide-scale and far-reaching changes to Western society...

     movement. http://www.smh.com.au/news/National/Architect-Harry-Seidler-dies-at-82/2006/03/09/1141701613343.html
  • John Wilde
    John Wilde
    John Wilde was a painter, draughtsman and printmaker of fantastic imagery. Born near Milwaukee, Wilde lived most of his life in Wisconsin, save for service in the U.S. Army during World War II. He received bachelor and master degrees in art from the University of Wisconsin–Madison, where he taught...

    , 86, American surrealist painter http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/18/arts/design/18wilde.html

8

  • Sir
    Knight
    A knight was a member of a class of lower nobility in the High Middle Ages.By the Late Middle Ages, the rank had become associated with the ideals of chivalry, a code of conduct for the perfect courtly Christian warrior....

     Brian Barratt-Boyes
    Brian Barratt-Boyes
    Sir Brian Gerald Barratt-Boyes, KBE was a pioneering heart surgeon from New Zealand.Barratt-Boyes went to Victoria University before study medicine at Otago's Medical School, graduating in 1946. He continued his training as a surgeon, initially in New Zealand, and later at the Mayo Clinic and as...

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

     cardiologist, complications during heart valve
    Heart valve
    A heart valve normally allows blood flow in only one direction through the heart. The four valves commonly represented in a mammalian heart determine the pathway of blood flow through the heart...

     replacement. http://www.radionz.co.nz/news/bulletins/radionz/200603082046/3d0e8b14
  • Dr. Lawrence Brass, 49, Yale University
    Yale University
    Yale University is a private, Ivy League university located in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Founded in 1701 in the Colony of Connecticut, the university is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States...

     neurologist
    Neurologist
    A neurologist is a physician who specializes in neurology, and is trained to investigate, or diagnose and treat neurological disorders.Neurology is the medical specialty related to the human nervous system. The nervous system encompasses the brain, spinal cord, and peripheral nerves. A specialist...

     http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/20/nyregion/20brass.html
  • Dr. Joseph Burchenal, 93, American oncologist, worked on leukemia
    Leukemia
    Leukemia or leukaemia is a type of cancer of the blood or bone marrow characterized by an abnormal increase of immature white blood cells called "blasts". Leukemia is a broad term covering a spectrum of diseases...

     treatments http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/16/nyregion/16burchenal.html
  • Teresa Ciepły, 69, Polish
    Poland
    Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north...

     athlete, 1964 Olympic
    1964 Summer Olympics
    The 1964 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XVIII Olympiad, was an international multi-sport event held in Tokyo, Japan in 1964. Tokyo had been awarded with the organization of the 1940 Summer Olympics, but this honor was subsequently passed to Helsinki because of Japan's...

     track champion.
  • Giordano Cottur
    Giordano Cottur
    Giordano Cottur was an Italian cyclist. He was born in Trieste.His palmarés include three 3rd places overall at the Giro d'Italia and an 8th overall at the 1947 Tour de France....

    , 91, 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...

     Giro d'Italia
    Giro d'Italia
    The Giro d'Italia , also simply known as The Giro, is a long distance road bicycle racing stage race for professional cyclists held over three weeks in May/early June in and around Italy. The Giro is one of the three Grand Tours , and is part of the UCI World Ranking calendar...

    -Champion. http://www.trieste.com/citta/celebri/cottur.html, http://www.milansanremo.co.uk/1948story.htm, http://www.tuttotrieste.net/prsng/cottur.htm
  • John T. Kramer, 68, American
    United States
    The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

     legal scholar. http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/10/national/10kramer.html
  • George Sassoon
    George Sassoon
    George Thornycroft Sassoon was a British scientist, electronic engineer, linguist, translator and author.-Early life:...

    , 69, scientist, author and radio amateur, cancer. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?view=DETAILS&grid=&xml=/news/2006/03/17/db1701.xml

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  • Floyd Gass
    Floyd Gass
    -External links:*...

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

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

     coach (Oklahoma State University). http://sports.espn.go.com/ncaa/news/story?id=2357863
  • Howard Jackson, 54, American
    United States
    The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

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

    . http://www.variety.com/index.asp?layout=upsell_article&articleID=VR1117939650&cs=1
  • John Junkin
    John Junkin
    John Francis Junkin was an English radio, television and film performer and scriptwriter.In 1960 Junkin joined Joan Littlewood's Stratford East Theatre Workshop, and played the lead in the original production of Sparrows Can't Sing...

    , 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...

     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...

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

    . http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/4781654.stm
  • Norman Leonard, 92, American lawyer for left-wing causes http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/01/us/01leonard.html
  • Ludwik Margules
    Ludwik Margules
    Ludwik Margules Cobes was a Mexican theatre, opera and film director. Being an active member of the Mexican theatre circuit for more than fifty years, Margules taught acting and directing methods in several institutions, eventually founding his own acting academy, the Foro Teatro Contemporáneo...

    , 72, 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...

     theatre
    Theatre
    Theatre is a collaborative form of fine art that uses live performers to present the experience of a real or imagined event before a live audience in a specific place. The performers may communicate this experience to the audience through combinations of gesture, speech, song, music or dance...

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

    . http://www.jornada.unam.mx/2006/03/09/a05n1cul.php
  • John Joseph McFall, 88, former Democratic
    Democratic Party (United States)
    The Democratic Party is one of two major contemporary political parties in the United States, along with the Republican Party. The party's socially liberal and progressive platform is largely considered center-left in the U.S. political spectrum. The party has the lengthiest record of continuous...

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

     (1956 — 1978). http://www.modbee.com/local/v-rssxml/story/11909695p-12678404c.html
  • Gordon Parks
    Gordon Parks
    Gordon Roger Alexander Buchanan Parks was a groundbreaking American photographer, musician, poet, novelist, journalist, activist and film director...

    , 93, photographer, 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:...

     (Shaft
    Shaft (1971 film)
    Shaft is a 1971 American blaxploitation film directed by Gordon Parks, released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. An action film with elements of film noir, Shaft tells the story of a black private detective, John Shaft, who travels through Harlem and to the Italian mob neighborhoods in order to find the...

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

    . http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/4784944.stm
  • Jesse "Guitar" Taylor
    Jesse Taylor
    Jesse Marcus Taylor is an American professional mixed martial arts fighter. He was a cast member of SpikeTV's The Ultimate Fighter 7, winning his entry, preliminary, quarterfinal and semi-final matches, and then became the only fighter to ever be removed from finals due to events that occurred...

    , 55, 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...

     guitarist. http://www.austin360.com/music/content/music/stories/2006/03/9jessetaylor_ls.html
  • Ali Farka Touré
    Ali Farka Touré
    Ali Ibrahim “Farka” Touré was a Malian singer and guitarist, and one of the African continent’s most internationally renowned musicians. His music is widely regarded as representing a point of intersection of traditional Malian music and its North American cousin, the blues...

    , 66, Mali
    Mali
    Mali , officially the Republic of Mali , is a landlocked country in Western Africa. Mali borders Algeria on the north, Niger on the east, Burkina Faso and the Côte d'Ivoire on the south, Guinea on the south-west, and Senegal and Mauritania on the west. Its size is just over 1,240,000 km² with...

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

    . http://www.cnn.com/2006/SHOWBIZ/Music/03/07/toure.obit.ap/

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  • Anne Braden
    Anne Braden
    Anne McCarty Braden was an American advocate of racial equality. Born in Louisville, Kentucky, and raised in rigidly segregated Anniston, Alabama, Braden grew up in a white middle-class family that accepted southern racial morals wholeheartedly...

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

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

     activist. http://www.myrtlebeachonline.com/mld/kentucky/news/state/14035676.htm
  • Lily Dumont, 94, Classical concert pianist http://www.mg.co.za/articlePage.aspx?articleid=266068&area=/obituaries/
  • King Floyd
    King Floyd
    King Floyd was a New Orleans soul singer and songwriter, best known for his Top 10 hit from 1970, "Groove Me".-Early career:...

    , 61, 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...

     singer. http://www.nola.com/obituaries/t-p/index.ssf?/base/obits-33/114266771631840.xml
  • Mubdar Hatim al-Dulaimi
    Mubdar Hatim al-Dulaimi
    Major General Mubdar Hatim al-Dulaimi was the top general of all Iraqi Army forces in Baghdad. According to police sources he was shot and killed by a sniper as he drove through western Baghdad....

    , 55, Major General
    Major General
    Major general or major-general is a military rank used in many countries. It is derived from the older rank of sergeant major general. A major general is a high-ranking officer, normally subordinate to the rank of lieutenant general and senior to the ranks of brigadier and brigadier general...

     in the Iraqi Army
    Iraqi Army
    The Iraqi Army is the land component of the Iraqi military, active in various forms since being formed by the British during their mandate over the country after World War I....

    , shot by a sniper
    Sniper
    A sniper is a marksman who shoots targets from concealed positions or distances exceeding the capabilities of regular personnel. Snipers typically have specialized training and distinct high-precision rifles....

    . http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060306/ts_nm/iraq_general_dc
  • Margaret Muse, 91, American
    United States
    The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

     stage and film actress. http://www.legacy.com/latimes/Obituaries.asp?Page=LifeStory&PersonId=17000143
  • Mortimo Planno, 85, Rastafarian
    Rastafari movement
    The Rastafari movement or Rasta is a new religious movement that arose in the 1930s in Jamaica, which at the time was a country with a predominantly Christian culture where 98% of the people were the black descendants of slaves. Its adherents worship Haile Selassie I, Emperor of Ethiopia , as God...

     philosopher. http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/10/obituaries/10planno.html
  • Kirby Puckett
    Kirby Puckett
    Kirby Puckett was a Major League Baseball center fielder. He played his entire 12-year baseball career with the Minnesota Twins and he is the Twins franchise's all-time leader in career hits, runs, doubles, and total bases...

    , 45, Hall of Fame MLB
    Major League Baseball
    Major League Baseball is the highest level of professional baseball in the United States and Canada, consisting of teams that play in the National League and the American League...

     player for the Minnesota Twins
    Minnesota Twins
    The Minnesota Twins are a professional baseball team based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. They play in the Central Division of Major League Baseball's American League. The team is named after the Twin Cities area of Minneapolis and St. Paul. They played in Metropolitan Stadium from 1961 to 1981 and the...

    , 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...

     complications. http://www.startribune.com/10017/story/287541.html
  • Dana Reeve
    Dana Reeve
    Dana Reeve was an American actress, singer, and activist for disability causes. She was the widow of actor Christopher Reeve.-Early life and family:...

    , 45, activist, widow of Christopher Reeve
    Christopher Reeve
    Christopher D'Olier Reeve was an American actor, film director, producer, screenwriter, author and activist...

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

    . http://www.cnn.com/2006/SHOWBIZ/03/07/obit.reeve.ap/index.html
  • Hans-Dieter Söling, 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...

     biochemist. http://idw-online.de/pages/de/news150383
  • Simon Ungers
    Simon Ungers
    Simon Ungers was a German architect and artist.Simon Ungers was born in 1957 as the son of the architect Oswald Mathias Ungers and Liselotte Gable. In 1969, his family moved to the United States. From 1975 to 1980, he studied architecture at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York...

    , 49, 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...

    -based 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...

     architect and artist.
  • Ruth Weiss
    Ruth Weiss
    Ruth F. Weiss, also known as Wèi Lùshī 魏璐诗, was a Jewish-born Austrian-Chinese educator, journalist, and lecturer...

    , 97, (also: Wèi Lùshī 魏璐诗) Austria
    Austria
    Austria , officially the Republic of Austria , is a landlocked country of roughly 8.4 million people in Central Europe. It is bordered by the Czech Republic and Germany to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the...

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

     journalist and member of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference
    Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference
    The Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference [], shortened as 人民政协, Rénmín Zhèngxié, i.e. "People's PCC"; or just 政协, Zhèngxié, i.e. "The PCC"), abbreviated CPPCC, is a political advisory body in the People's Republic of China...

    . http://www.welt.de/data/2006/03/07/855984.html
  • Abou Yacoubou, 54, Director of Political Affairs of the Economic Community of West African States
    Economic Community of West African States
    The Economic Community of West African States is a regional group of fifteen West African countries. Founded on 28 May 1975, with the signing of the Treaty of Lagos, its mission is to promote economic integration across the region....

    . http://www.ghananewstoday.com/portal/index.php?option=content&task=view&id=3415
  • Francis Zimbeaux, 93, French
    France
    The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...

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

     landscape artist. http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,635189863,00.html

5

  • Milan Babić
    Milan Babic
    Milan Babić was from 1991 to 1995 the first President of the Republic of Serbian Krajina, a Croatian region at the time of the war largely populated by a Serbs of Croatia that wished to break away from Croatia.He was indicted for war crimes by the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former...

    , 50, former leader of the Republic of Serbian Krajina
    Republic of Serbian Krajina
    The Republic of Serbian Krajina was a self-proclaimed Serb entity within Croatia. Established in 1991, it was not recognized internationally. It formally existed from 1991 to 1995, having been initiated a year earlier via smaller separatist regions. The name Krajina means "frontier"...

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

    . http://www.un.org/icty/pressreal/2006/p1046-e.htm
  • Reba Hancock, 72, sister of Johnny Cash
    Johnny Cash
    John R. "Johnny" Cash was an American singer-songwriter, actor, and author, who has been called one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century...

    . http://www.ashlandcitytimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060308/MTCN0504/303080028/1319
  • Richard Kuklinski
    Richard Kuklinski
    Richard Leonard "The Iceman" Kuklinski was an American contract killer. The 6'5" , 300 pound Kuklinski worked for Newark's DeCavalcante crime family and New York City's Five Families. He claimed to have murdered over 250 men between 1948 and 1986...

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

     mafia
    Mafia
    The Mafia is a criminal syndicate that emerged in the mid-nineteenth century in Sicily, Italy. It is a loose association of criminal groups that share a common organizational structure and code of conduct, and whose common enterprise is protection racketeering...

     hitman
    Hitman
    A hitman is a person hired to kill another person.- Hitmen in organized crime :Hitmen are largely linked to the world of organized crime. Hitmen are hired people who kill people for money. Notable examples include Murder, Inc., Mafia hitmen and Richard Kuklinski.- Other cases involving hitmen...

    , natural causes. http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/09/nyregion/09kuklinski.html
  • Josh Rehm, 27, American
    United States
    The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

     Grand-Am racing driver, car accident. http://www.motorsport.com/news/article.asp?ID=211360&FS=OBITUARIES
  • John Sandusky
    John Sandusky
    John Thomas Sandusky, Jr. was an American football offensive and defensive tackle in the National Football League. He played for the Cleveland Browns and the Green Bay Packers ....

    , 80, former NFL player and assistant coach, complications from internal bleeding. http://www.usatoday.com/sports/football/nfl/2006-03-06-sandusky-obit_x.htm
  • Rodney Strong, 78, American
    United States
    The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

     ballet dancer and vintner. http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/09/national/09strong.html

4

  • Caleb Foote, 88, Boalt School of Law Professor, pacifist activist http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/03/us/03foote.html
  • John Reynolds Gardiner
    John Reynolds Gardiner
    John Reynolds Gardiner was an American author and engineer. He is famous for writing Stone Fox in 1980 which was later adapted to an NBC movie. He has also edited children's stories for television.-Biography:...

    , 61, American children's author, pancreatitis
    Pancreatitis
    Pancreatitis is inflammation of the pancreas. It occurs when pancreatic enzymes that digest food are activated in the pancreas instead of the small intestine. It may be acute – beginning suddenly and lasting a few days, or chronic – occurring over many years...

     http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/breaking_news/14113417.htm
  • Roman Ogaza
    Roman Ogaza
    Roman Grzegorz Ogaza was a Polish football player.-Life and work:Roman Ogaza was born 17 November in Katowice. He was a striker...

    , 54, 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...

     football player. http://www.playerhistory.com/soccerplayer_statistics.asp?PLAYID=48546
  • David Rose, 95, American
    United States
    The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

     courtroom artist. http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060312/NEWS06/603120433/1012
  • Edgar Valter
    Edgar Valter
    Edgar Valter was an Estonian writer and illustrator of children's books, with over 250 books to his name, through 55 years of activity . His most famous creation is the .- Life :...

    , 76, Estonia
    Estonia
    Estonia , officially the Republic of Estonia , is a state in the Baltic region of Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by the Gulf of Finland, to the west by the Baltic Sea, to the south by Latvia , and to the east by Lake Peipsi and the Russian Federation . Across the Baltic Sea lies...

    n children's book illustrator and cartoonist. http://www.epl.ee/artikkel.php?ID=314673

3

  • Ivor Cutler
    Ivor Cutler
    Ivor Cutler was a Scottish poet, songwriter and humorist. He became known for his regular performances on BBC radio, and in particular his numerous sessions recorded for John Peel's influential radio programme, and later for Andy Kershaw's programme...

    , 83, humorist, author, singer, and poet. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,60-2072691,00.html
  • William Herskovic
    William Herskovic
    William Herskovic was a Holocaust survivor and humanitarian. His escape from Auschwitz in 1942 and early eyewitness testimony inspired Belgium's opposition to Nazi Germany during World War II, and alerted the Resistance to the atrocities that were taking place in the concentration camps...

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

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

    . http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/california/la-me-herskovic7mar07,1,6263146.story?coll=la-headlines-pe-california
  • Charlie Hodge
    Charlie Hodge (guitarist)
    Charles Franklin Hodge , better known as Charlie Hodge, was an American singer, vocal coach and musician who was a confidant and associate of Elvis Presley.- Early music career :...

    , 71, guitarist and backup singer for Elvis Presley
    Elvis Presley
    Elvis Aaron Presley was one of the most popular American singers of the 20th century. A cultural icon, he is widely known by the single name Elvis. He is often referred to as the "King of Rock and Roll" or simply "the King"....

     and Graceland
    Graceland
    Graceland is a large white-columned mansion and estate that was home to Elvis Presley in Memphis, Tennessee. It is located at 3764 Elvis Presley Boulevard in the vast Whitehaven community about 9 miles from Downtown and less than four miles north of the Mississippi border. It currently serves as...

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

    . http://www.decaturdaily.com/decaturdaily/news/060305/hodge.shtml
  • Lily Lambert McCarthy, 91, an American millionairess and collector of Nelsonia
    Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson
    Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson, 1st Duke of Bronté, KB was a flag officer famous for his service in the Royal Navy, particularly during the Napoleonic Wars. He was noted for his inspirational leadership and superb grasp of strategy and unconventional tactics, which resulted in a number of...

    , decorated by the British for her war work, and also a generous benefactress of museums and libraries in England and the United States. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?view=DETAILS&grid=&xml=/news/2006/04/22/db2202.xml http://www.towntopics.com/mar1506/obits.html
  • Richard VanderVeen
    Richard VanderVeen
    Richard Franklin Vander Veen was a politician from the U.S. state of Michigan.-Early life and education:...

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

     United States Representative from Michigan
    Michigan
    Michigan is a U.S. state located in the Great Lakes Region of the United States of America. The name Michigan is the French form of the Ojibwa word mishigamaa, meaning "large water" or "large lake"....

     (1973 — 1977), prostate cancer
    Prostate cancer
    Prostate cancer is a form of cancer that develops in the prostate, a gland in the male reproductive system. Most prostate cancers are slow growing; however, there are cases of aggressive prostate cancers. The cancer cells may metastasize from the prostate to other parts of the body, particularly...

    . http://www.upi.com/NewsTrack/view.php?StoryID=20060303-125739-9445r

2

  • Madeleine Cosman
    Madeleine Cosman
    Madeleine Pelner Cosman was a scholar, a policy analyst, an advocate, a prolific author, and a faculty member at City College of New York...

    , 68, American scholar of medieval Europe http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/19/nyregion/19cosman.html
  • Robert Dryfoos, 63, former New York City Council
    New York City Council
    The New York City Council is the lawmaking body of the City of New York. It has 51 members from 51 council districts throughout the five boroughs. The Council serves as a check against the mayor in a "strong" mayor-council government model. The council monitors performance of city agencies and...

    man. http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/09/nyregion/09dryfoos.html
  • Leopold Gratz
    Leopold Gratz
    ----Leopold Gratz was an Austrian politician.Born in Vienna, Gratz was a law graduate and a member of the Austrian Social Democratic Party . From 1963 to 1966 he was a member of the Bundesrat, from 1970 to 1971 Federal Minister of Education and the Arts...

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

    n politician, former Mayor of Vienna
    Vienna
    Vienna is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Austria and one of the nine states of Austria. Vienna is Austria's primary city, with a population of about 1.723 million , and is by far the largest city in Austria, as well as its cultural, economic, and political centre...

    . http://www.wienerzeitung.at/DesktopDefault.aspx?TabID=4082&Alias=wzo&cob=221771
  • Bill Hays
    Bill Hays (director)
    Bill Hays was a British television director who is best remembered for the award-winning Orde Wingate and Rock Follies, a BBC adaptation of A Month in the Country, the acclaimed The Tale of Beatrix Potter and the musical Close the Coalhouse Door.Hays also helmed the second and third series of the...

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

     director of stage and television. http://arts.guardian.co.uk/news/obituary/0,,1730451,00.html
  • Valter Heuer, 77, Estonia
    Estonia
    Estonia , officially the Republic of Estonia , is a state in the Baltic region of Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by the Gulf of Finland, to the west by the Baltic Sea, to the south by Latvia , and to the east by Lake Peipsi and the Russian Federation . Across the Baltic Sea lies...

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

     champion and chess historian. http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessplayer?pid=45195
  • Marion Higgins (supercentenarian), 112, California
    California
    California is a state located on the West Coast of the United States. It is by far the most populous U.S. state, and the third-largest by land area...

    's oldest person. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11668372/&cid=1104774577&sig2=44kiqX79Z5Yoo__vbgqvgw
  • Phyllis Huffman
    Phyllis Huffman
    Phyllis Huffman was a casting director for film and television. She received numerous award nominations from the Casting Society of America throughout her career, winning twice....

    , 61, award-winning casting director. http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-huffman5mar05,1,6121540.story
  • Willie Kent
    Willie Kent
    Willie Kent was an American blues singer, bassist and songwriter.-Career:Kent was born in Inverness, Sunflower County, Mississippi....

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

    . http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/custom/newsroom/chi-060302kentobit,0,2673477.story&cid=1104769093&sig2=_XAlueiXbJykcXA5qbH8vA
  • Tommaso Onofri, 1, kidnapped toddler, murdered http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060402/wl_nm/crime_italy_child_dc;_ylt=Alus_1fYMegvDjn3K9tYFN10bBAF;_ylu=X3oDMTBjMHVqMTQ4BHNlYwN5bnN1YmNhdA--.
  • Harold Ostroff, 82, builder of nonprofit cooperative housing complexes in New York City
    New York City
    New York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. New York exerts a significant impact upon global commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and...

    . http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/06/obituaries/06ostroff.html
  • Sylvia Schofield, 89, British newspaper columnist, novelist, WWII spy
  • Garrett Scott, 37, American
    United States
    The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

     documentary filmmaker (Occupation: Dreamland
    Occupation: Dreamland
    Occupation: Dreamland is a "grunt's-eye view," 2005 documentary film focused on a company of the 1/505 of the 82nd Airborne Division in Fallujah, Iraq, in early 2004. It is directed by Ian Olds and Garrett Scott....

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

    . http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/10/arts/10scott.html http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/03/07/BAGSHHJMFJ1.DTL&feed=rss.bayarea
  • Peter Snow
    Peter Snow (doctor)
    Dr Peter Snow was a general practitioner who served the New Zealand rural community of Tapanui for over 30 years. He was president of the Royal New Zealand College of GPs from 1998–99 and received their highest honour, Distinguished Fellowship, in 2001...

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

     doctor who discovered "Tapanui
    Tapanui
    Tapanui is a picturesque town in West Otago in New Zealand's South Island, close to the boundary with Southland region . A forestry town, it lies between the foot of the Blue Mountains and the Pomahaka River. Deer stalking and trout fishing are popular pastimes of the area...

     flu" (chronic fatigue syndrome
    Chronic fatigue syndrome
    Chronic fatigue syndrome is the most common name used to designate a significantly debilitating medical disorder or group of disorders generally defined by persistent fatigue accompanied by other specific symptoms for a minimum of six months, not due to ongoing exertion, not substantially...

    ). http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/GE0603/S00010.htm
  • Rachel Mellon Walton
    Rachel Mellon Walton
    Rachel Mellon Walton was an American philanthropist.-Life:Walton was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania the daughter of William Larimer Mellon , of the banking family, and himself a founder of Gulf Oil. Her mother was Mary "May" Taylor Mellon. Walton was educated at the Dobbs Ferry School in Dobbs...

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

     philanthropist. http://pittsburghlive.com/x/tribune-review/trib/pittsburgh/s_429849.html
  • Jack Wild
    Jack Wild
    Jack Wild was a British actor who is best remembered for his performances in both stage and screen productions of the Lionel Bart musical Oliver! with Ron Moody, Shani Wallis, and Oliver Reed. He received an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor at the age of 16 for the role of the...

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

     actor (Oliver!
    Oliver! (film)
    Oliver! is a 1968 British musical film directed by Carol Reed. The film is based on the stage musical Oliver!, with book, music and lyrics written by Lionel Bart. The screenplay was written by Vernon Harris....

    , H.R. Pufnstuf
    H.R. Pufnstuf
    H.R. Pufnstuf was a children's television series produced by Sid and Marty Krofft in the United States. It was the first Krofft live-action, life-size puppet program. The seventeen episodes were originally broadcast September 6, 1969 to September 4, 1971...

    ), oral cancer
    Oral cancer
    Oral cancer is a subtype of head and neck cancer, is any cancerous tissue growth located in the oral cavity. It may arise as a primary lesion originating in any of the oral tissues, by metastasis from a distant site of origin, or by extension from a neighboring anatomic structure, such as the...

    . http://news.independent.co.uk/people/obituaries/article348900.ece

1

  • Laura Allen Williams Edwards, 48, Garland, Texas
    Garland, Texas
    -Climate:* The average warmest month is July.* The highest recorded temperature was in 2000.* On average, the coolest month is January.* The lowest recorded temperature was in 1989.* The maximum average precipitation occurs in May....

     Massage Therapist.
  • Annette von Aretin
    Annette von Aretin
    Annette von Aretin was christened Marie Adelheid Kunigunde Felicitas Elisabeth, Freiin von Aretin.She was the first Bavarian television announcer...

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

     TV personality.
  • Joëlle Aubron
    Joëlle Aubron
    Joëlle Aubron was a militant in the French group Action directe.-Early life and education:Joëlle Aubron was born in Neuilly-sur-Seine to a middle class family. She made two failed attempts to attain her baccalauréat. She began to alternate between temporary jobs and squatting in Paris, where she...

    , 46, 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...

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

    . http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20060301/en_afp/franceprisonaction_060301193138
  • Harry Browne
    Harry Browne
    Harry Browne was an American libertarian writer, politician, and free-market investment analyst. He ran for President of the United States as the nominee of the Libertarian Party in 1996 and 2000....

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

     libertarian
    Libertarianism
    Libertarianism, in the strictest sense, is the political philosophy that holds individual liberty as the basic moral principle of society. In the broadest sense, it is any political philosophy which approximates this view...

     writer and presidential candidate for the United States Libertarian Party, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
    Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
    Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis , also referred to as Lou Gehrig's disease, is a form of motor neuron disease caused by the degeneration of upper and lower neurons, located in the ventral horn of the spinal cord and the cortical neurons that provide their efferent input...

    . http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,186686,00.html
  • Mack Easley
    Mack Easley
    Mack Easley was an American politician and judge in New MexicoBorn in Tahlequah, Oklahoma, he moved to Hobbs, New Mexico in 1947, after graduating from the University of Oklahoma Law School...

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

     lieutenant governor of New Mexico
    New Mexico
    New Mexico is a state located in the southwest and western regions of the United States. New Mexico is also usually considered one of the Mountain States. With a population density of 16 per square mile, New Mexico is the sixth-most sparsely inhabited U.S...

     (1963 — 1966). http://www.legacy.com/Obituaries.asp?Page=APStory&Id=10837
  • Alexander Fol
    Alexander Fol
    Alexander Fol was a Bulgarian historian and Thracologist. In 1957, he studied history at the University of St. Kliment Ohridski in Sofia and earned a PhD in 1966. He worked as a university lecturer from 1972 and became a professor in 1975...

    , 72, Bulgaria
    Bulgaria
    Bulgaria , officially the Republic of Bulgaria , is a parliamentary democracy within a unitary constitutional republic in Southeast Europe. The country borders Romania to the north, Serbia and Macedonia to the west, Greece and Turkey to the south, as well as the Black Sea to the east...

    n historian of ancient Greece
    Greece
    Greece , officially the Hellenic Republic , and historically Hellas or the Republic of Greece in English, is a country in southeastern Europe....

    , former Minister of Education. http://www.legacy.com/Obituaries.asp?Page=APStory&Id=10834
  • Joseph H. Gardner, 78, American
    United States
    The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

     real estate developer. http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/10/nyregion/10gardner.html
  • O. Milton Gossett
    O. Milton Gossett
    Oscar Milton Gossett was an advertising executive with Compton Advertising and Saatchi & Saatchi. He married Anna C. Scheid in 1949 and had five children: Susanne, Michael, Thomas, Lorraine, and James.-Biography:...

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

     advertising executive, former CEO Saatchi & Saatchi Compton Worldwide http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/20/obituaries/20gossett.html
  • Edith "Judy" Ingamells, 112, oldest Briton
    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...

    . http://www.enfieldindependent.co.uk/news/localnews/display.var.707184.0.uks_oldest_woman_dies_aged_112.php
  • Johnny Jackson, 54, former drummer for The Jackson 5
    The Jackson 5
    The Jackson 5 , later known as The Jacksons, were an American popular music family group from Gary, Indiana...

    , stabbing. http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chicago/chi-0603030265mar03,1,558703.story?coll=chi-newslocalchicago-hed&ctrack=1&cset=true
  • Anna De Lisle Wells, 23, top amateur jockey, suicide
    Suicide
    Suicide is the act of intentionally causing one's own death. Suicide is often committed out of despair or attributed to some underlying mental disorder, such as depression, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, alcoholism, or drug abuse...

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

    . http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-2076881,00.html
  • Peter Osgood
    Peter Osgood
    Peter Leslie Osgood was an English footballer who was active during the 1960s and 1970s. He is best remembered for representing Chelsea and Southampton at club level, and was also capped four times by England in the early 1970s.-Chelsea:Born in a small road named Kentons Lane in Windsor, Osgood...

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

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

    . http://in.today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=sportsNews&storyID=2006-03-02T034815Z_01_NOOTR_RTRJONC_0_India-238858-2.xml&archived=False
  • John Parkinson, 99, President of the Belfast Titanic Society, former Harland and Wolff
    Harland and Wolff
    Harland and Wolff Heavy Industries is a Northern Irish heavy industrial company, specialising in shipbuilding and offshore construction, located in Belfast, Northern Ireland....

     shipyard worker, witnessed departure of the RMS Titanic as a child. http://www.newsletter.co.uk/story/26391
  • Pierre Pasquini, 85, former 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...

     Minister of Veterans and War Victims. http://www.nicerendezvous.com/FR/actu-1327.html
  • Jan Raniecki, 70, chairman of Polonia Warszawa
    Polonia Warszawa
    Polonia Warsaw is a Polish sports club with football and basketball teams, founded in 1911, and is the oldest such club in Warsaw, where it is based.- History :...

    . http://www.zw.com.pl/apps/a/tekst.jsp?place=zw2_a_ListNews1&news_cat_id=13&news_id=81810
  • Gilbert Steiner, 81, Brookings Institute scholar. http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/13/national/13steiner.html
  • Jenny Tamburi, 53, 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...

    actress 1970s B-movies and casting director TV-series. http://www.iltempo.it/approfondimenti/index.aspx?id=882485
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