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

 :
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:...

 - January
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:...

 - February
Deaths in February 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 February 2007.- 28 :...

 - March - April
Deaths in April 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 April 2007.-30:...

 - May
Deaths in May 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 May 2007.-31:*Clifford Scott Green, 84, American jurist, Federal Court judge....

 - June
Deaths in June 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 June 2007.- 30 :...

 - July
Deaths in July 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 July 2007.- 31 :*Margaret Avison, 89, Canadian poet....

 - August
Deaths in August 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 August 2007.-31:*Gay Brewer, 75, American professional golfer, lung cancer....

 - September
Deaths in September 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 September 2007.-30:...

 - October
Deaths in October 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 October 2007.- 31 :...

 - November
Deaths in November 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 November 2007.-30:* J. L. Ackrill, 86, British philosopher....

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

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




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

31

  • Thomas W. Moore
    Thomas W. Moore
    Thomas Waldrop "Tom" Moore was an American television executive who headed ABC in the 1960s.Moore was born in Meridian, Mississippi. He attended Mississippi State University and graduated from University of Missouri, then served in the United States Navy as a pilot through World War II...

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

     producer and president of ABC
    American Broadcasting Company
    The American Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcasting television network. Created in 1943 from the former NBC Blue radio network, ABC is owned by The Walt Disney Company and is part of Disney-ABC Television Group. Its first broadcast on television was in 1948...

    , heart failure. http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-moore5apr05,1,4346266.story?coll=la-news-obituaries
  • Lito Sisnorio
    Lito Sisnorio
    Angelito "Lito" Sisnorio Jr. was a Filipino World Boxing Council youth flyweight champion boxer who died following a controversial boxing match in Thailand in April of 2007. The controversy over the match arose from the fact that Sisnorio's role in the fight was not officially sanctioned by the...

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

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

    , heart failure after surgery following a knockout. http://www.asianjournal.com/?c=194&a=19231
  • Paul Watzlawick
    Paul Watzlawick
    Paul Watzlawick was an Austrian-American psychologist and philosopher. A theoretician in communication theory and radical constructivism, he has commented in the fields of family therapy and general psychotherapy...

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

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

     and philosopher. http://www.eux.tv/article.aspx?articleId=5892

30

  • Basil Catterns
    Basil Catterns
    Basil Catterns, MC was an Australian businessman, citizen soldier and amateur yachtsman. Born as Basil Wilfred Thomas Catterns in Balmain, Sydney, the son of an English merchant seaman, Wilfred Catterns, and Emily . An uncle, Basil G...

     MC
    Military Cross
    The Military Cross is the third-level military decoration awarded to officers and other ranks of the British Armed Forces; and formerly also to officers of other Commonwealth countries....

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

    n WWII
    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...

     Army
    Australian Army
    The Australian Army is Australia's military land force. It is part of the Australian Defence Force along with the Royal Australian Navy and the Royal Australian Air Force. While the Chief of Defence commands the Australian Defence Force , the Army is commanded by the Chief of Army...

     leader of the Kokoda Track campaign
    Kokoda Track campaign
    The Kokoda Track campaign or Kokoda Trail campaign was part of the Pacific War of World War II. The campaign consisted of a series of battles fought between July and November 1942 between Japanese and Allied—primarily Australian—forces in what was then the Australian territory of Papua...

    , father of broadcaster Angela Catterns
    Angela Catterns
    -Early career:Catterns began her radio career at Lismore's local station 2LM, followed by several years in Orange working at CBN8 TV.She then returned to her native Sydney after working as a sound recordist on a documentary shot in Papua New Guinea....

    . http://www.smh.com.au/news/obituaries/a-romantic-hero-in-war-and-peace/2007/04/18/1176696913039.html
  • Chrisye
    Chrisye
    Chrismansyah Rahadi , better known by his stage name Chrisye , was an Indonesian progressive-pop singer and song writer of mixed Chinese-Indonesian descent. He was born in Jakarta on 16 September 1949, and died there on 30 March 2007 following a long battle with lung cancer. He recorded 21 solo...

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

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

    . http://www.bernama.com.my/bernama/v3/news.php?id=254126
  • Fay Coyle
    Fay Coyle
    Francis Coyle , more commonly known as Fay Coyle, was a former Northern Ireland international footballer from Derry, Northern Ireland.-Club career:...

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

     footballer for Derry City
    Derry City F.C.
    Derry City Football Club is a professional football club based in Derry, Northern Ireland. It plays in the League of Ireland Premier Division...

    , Nottingham Forest
    Nottingham Forest F.C.
    Nottingham Forest Football Club is an English Association Football club based in West Bridgford, Nottingham, that plays in the Football League Championship...

     and Northern Ireland
    Northern Ireland national football team
    The Northern Ireland national football team represents Northern Ireland in international association football. Before 1921 all of Ireland was represented by a single side, the Ireland national football team, organised by the Irish Football Association...

    . http://derrycityfc.net/history/legends/fcoyle.php http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/irish/6510881.stm
  • Michael Dibdin
    Michael Dibdin
    Michael Dibdin , was a British crime writer.-Life:Dibdin was born in Wolverhampton, the son of a physicist, and was brought up from the age of seven in Lisburn, Northern Ireland where he attended Friends' School...

    , 60, 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...

     crime writer. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?view=DETAILS&grid=&xml=/news/2007/04/04/db0401.xml
  • María Julia Hernández
    María Julia Hernández
    María Julia Hernández was a prominent human rights advocate who tried to speak for victims of the civil war in El Salvador. She was the founding director of Tutela Legal, the human rights office of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of San Salvador.Hernández was born in San Francisco Morazán,...

    , 68, Salvadoran
    El Salvador
    El Salvador or simply Salvador is the smallest and the most densely populated country in Central America. The country's capital city and largest city is San Salvador; Santa Ana and San Miguel are also important cultural and commercial centers in the country and in all of Central America...

     human rights activist, 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/ap/20070330/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/obit_hernandez
  • Dave Martin
    Dave Martin (screenwriter)
    David Ralph Martin was an accomplished television and film writer. He was born in Handsworth, Birmingham, England and contributed numerous scripts for the Doctor Who television series between 1971 and 1979 including:...

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

     television writer for Doctor Who
    Doctor Who
    Doctor Who is a British science fiction television programme produced by the BBC. The programme depicts the adventures of a time-travelling humanoid alien known as the Doctor who explores the universe in a sentient time machine called the TARDIS that flies through time and space, whose exterior...

    and Z-Cars
    Z-Cars
    Z-Cars is a British television drama series centred on the work of mobile uniformed police in the fictional town of Newtown, based on Kirkby in the outskirts of Liverpool in Merseyside. Produced by the BBC, it debuted in January 1962 and ran until September 1978.-Origins:The series was developed by...

    , 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.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?view=DETAILS&grid=A1&xml=/news/2007/04/17/db1702.xml
  • John Roberts, 74, Canadian
    Canada
    Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

     politician, 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.thestar.com/Unassigned/article/198244

29

  • Adebayo Adefarati
    Adebayo Adefarati
    Adebayo Adefarati was a Nigerian politician and a former governor of Ondo State Nigeria.Prior to becoming Governor of Ondo State, Adebayo Adefarati was appointed twice as commissioner under the late Yoruba and Afenifere Leader Pa. Michael Adekunle Ajasin...

    , 76, Nigeria
    Nigeria
    Nigeria , officially the Federal Republic of Nigeria, is a federal constitutional republic comprising 36 states and its Federal Capital Territory, Abuja. The country is located in West Africa and shares land borders with the Republic of Benin in the west, Chad and Cameroon in the east, and Niger in...

    n presidential candidate for the Alliance for Democracy
    Alliance for Democracy (Nigeria)
    The Alliance for Democracy was a progressive opposition political party in Nigeria. It was formed on September 9th 1998. At the 2003 legislative elections, 12 April 2003, the party won 8.8 % of the popular vote and 34 out of 360 seats in the Nigerian House of Representatives and six out of...

     party. http://www.mg.co.za/articlePage.aspx?articleid=303350&area=/breaking_news/breaking_news__africa/
  • Bangla Bhai
    Bangla Bhai
    Siddique ul-Islam , known popularly as Bangla Bhai , also known as Aziz ur-Rahman Azizur Rôhman, was a Bangladeshi terrorist and the military commander of the Al Qaeda affiliated radical pseudo-Islamist organization Jagrata Muslim Janata Bangladesh , known in popular usage as...

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

    i militant, execution 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.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-6520340,00.html
  • Lloyd Brown
    Lloyd Brown (veteran)
    Lloyd Brown was one of the last surviving American veterans of the First World War and also the last member of the United States Navy to have signed up before the German armistice. Born in Lutie, Missouri, Brown enlisted at age 16, and after the end of the war, he worked at a Washington, D.C...

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

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

     Navy
    Navy
    A navy is the branch of a nation's armed forces principally designated for naval and amphibious warfare; namely, lake- or ocean-borne combat operations and related functions...

     veteran. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070401/ap_on_re_us/obit_brown;_ylt=Anwkc9cXPMsvUKnGIWmG.dzMWM0F
  • Mimi Lerner
    Mimi Lerner
    Mimi Lerner was a Polish-American mezzo-soprano and later head of the voice department at Carnegie Mellon University....

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

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

     operatic mezzo-soprano
    Mezzo-soprano
    A mezzo-soprano is a type of classical female singing voice whose range lies between the soprano and the contralto singing voices, usually extending from the A below middle C to the A two octaves above...

    , complications of a heart tumor
    Primary tumors of the heart
    The primary tumors of the heart are tumors that arise from the normal tissues that make up the heart. This is in contrast to secondary tumors of the heart, which are typically either metastatic from another part of the body, or infiltrate the heart via direct extension from the surrounding...

    . http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/14/obituaries/14lerner.html?_r=1&ref=obituaries&oref=slogin
  • Calvin Lockhart
    Calvin Lockhart
    Calvin Lockhart was a Bahamian-American actor on stage and in film. He was best known for the role of a big time gangster "Biggie Smalls" in the 1975 film Let's Do It Again, not to be confused with the deceased rapper Biggie Smalls...

    , 72, Bahamian actor, 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.eurweb.com/story/eur32559.cfm
  • Myokyo-ni, 86, 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 Buddhist nun, head of the Zen Centre in London. http://www.guardian.co.uk/obituaries/story/0,,2063167,00.html.
  • Tosiwo Nakayama
    Tosiwo Nakayama
    Tosiwo Nakayama was the first President of the Federated States of Micronesia. He served two terms from 1979 until 1987....

    , 75, first President
    President of the Federated States of Micronesia
    The following is a list of the Presidents of the Federated States of Micronesia:-See also:*High Commissioner of the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands...

     of the Federated States of Micronesia
    Federated States of Micronesia
    The Federated States of Micronesia or FSM is an independent, sovereign island nation, made up of four states from west to east: Yap, Chuuk, Pohnpei and Kosrae. It comprises approximately 607 islands with c...

     (1979-87). http://www.fsmpio.fm/PRESS/april07/nakayama.htm
  • Shaykh Abdur Rahman
    Shaykh Abdur Rahman
    Shaykh Abdur Rahman, also known as Abdur Rahman Shaykh, was the spiritual leader and the administrative head of the banned terrorist organization Jagrata Muslim Janata Bangladesh ....

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

    i Islamist militant leader (JMB
    Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh
    Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen was a Islamist organisation operating in Bangladesh...

    ) until his capture by the RAB
    Rapid Action Battalion
    Rapid Action Battalion or RAB is an elite anti-crime and anti-terrorism unit of Bangladesh Police constituted amending the Armed Police Battalion Ordinance, 1979. Under the command of Inspector General of Police it consists of members of Bangladesh Police, Bangladesh Army, Bangladesh Navy,...

    , execution 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.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-6520340,00.html
  • Leslie Waller
    Leslie Waller
    -Biography:He is a son of Ukrainian immigrants and was born in Chicago, Illinois. He suffered from amblyopia and poliomyelitis as a child, but graduated from Hyde Park High School by the age of 16...

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

     author. http://www.guardian.co.uk/obituaries/story/0,,2060325,00.html

28

  • Cha Chi Ming
    Cha Chi Ming
    Cha Chi-ming, GBM, JP was a Hong Kong industrialist, entrepreneur and philanthropist. He was the Chairman of CDW International Limited, The Mingly Corporation Limited, and Hong Kong Resort International Limited.-Life:...

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

     businessman, founder and non-executive chairman of HKR International
    HKR International
    HKR International Limited short for Hong Kong Resort International Limited and commonly referred to as HKRI, is a Hong Kong-listed company best known for the Discovery Bay development on Lantau Island, Hong Kong; a project of its Hong Kong Resort subsidiary...

    . http://www.hkri.com/cms1/hkr/hkr3109.html
  • Abe Coleman
    Abe Coleman
    Abe Coleman, born Abbe Kelmer, was a Polish-American professional wrestler who was, at the time of his death, believed to be the oldest member of his profession in the world. His wife, June Miller, who he married in 1939, died in 1987...

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

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

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

     during the Great Depression
    Great Depression
    The Great Depression was a severe worldwide economic depression in the decade preceding World War II. The timing of the Great Depression varied across nations, but in most countries it started in about 1929 and lasted until the late 1930s or early 1940s...

     era. http://www.wrestlingobserver.com/wo/news/headlines/default.asp?aID=19072
  • Bill Fisk
    Bill Fisk
    William G. Fisk was an American football offensive and defensive end who played in the National Football League and All-America Football Conference from 1940 to 1948. He served as head coach of Mt...

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

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

     player and coach. http://www.legacy.com/Obituaries.asp?Page=APStory&Id=12730
  • Sir Thomas Hetherington
    Thomas Hetherington
    Major Sir Thomas Chalmers Hetherington, KCB, CBE, QC, TD , better known as Sir Tony Hetherington, was a British barrister. He was Director of Public Prosecutions of England and Wales from 1977 to 1987, and was the first head of the Crown Prosecution Service for the year after it was founded in...

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

     lawyer, Director of Public Prosecutions
    Director of Public Prosecutions
    The Director of Public Prosecutions is the officer charged with the prosecution of criminal offences in several criminal jurisdictions around the world...

     (1977–1987). http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?view=DETAILS&grid=&xml=/news/2007/03/30/db3001.xml
  • Tony Scott
    Tony Scott (musician)
    Tony Scott was a jazz clarinetist known for an interest in folk music around the world...

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

     jazz clarinetist. http://www.cbc.ca/arts/music/story/2007/03/31/scott-obit.html

27

  • Hans Hedberg
    Hans Hedberg
    Hans Hedberg was a Swedish sculptor who resided in Biot in southern France until his death. Born in Köpmanholmen, Örnsköldsvik Municipality, Västernorrland County, Sweden, he was mostly known for his gigantic ceramic fruit and has installations in several countries, especially in his native Sweden...

    , 89, 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....

     sculptor, kidney failure. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070330/ap_on_re_eu/obit_hedberg_1
  • Paul Lauterbur
    Paul Lauterbur
    Paul Christian Lauterbur was an American chemist who shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2003 with Peter Mansfield for his work which made the development of magnetic resonance imaging possible.Dr...

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

     chemist and 2003 Nobel Prize
    Nobel Prize
    The Nobel Prizes are annual international awards bestowed by Scandinavian committees in recognition of cultural and scientific advances. The will of the Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite, established the prizes in 1895...

     Laureate. http://mac10.umc.pitt.edu/m/FMPro?-db=ma&-lay=a&-format=d.html&id=2879&-Find
  • Ransom A. Myers
    Ransom A. Myers
    Dr. Ransom Aldrich "Ram" Myers, Jr. was a world-renowned marine biologist and conservationist.He was the son of cotton planter, Ransom Aldrich Myers, Sr. and Fay A. Mitchell Myers...

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

    -born 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...

     fisheries
    Fishery
    Generally, a fishery is an entity engaged in raising or harvesting fish which is determined by some authority to be a fishery. According to the FAO, a fishery is typically defined in terms of the "people involved, species or type of fish, area of water or seabed, method of fishing, class of boats,...

     biologist
    Biologist
    A biologist is a scientist devoted to and producing results in biology through the study of life. Typically biologists study organisms and their relationship to their environment. Biologists involved in basic research attempt to discover underlying mechanisms that govern how organisms work...

    , declining fish stocks expert, brain tumour
    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.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/28/AR2007032802232.html?reload=true
  • Faustino Oramas
    Faustino Oramas
    Faustino Oramas Osorío, El Guayabero, was a Cuban singer, tres guitarist and composer, the last surviving member of the traditional Cuban trova. Most of his repertoire consisted of sons and guaracha-sons, many with double entendres in the lyrics...

    , 95, 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 singer (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...

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

    . http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/03/28/arts/CB-A-E-MUS-Cuba-Obit-Oramas.php
  • Aileen Plant
    Aileen Plant
    Professor Aileen Joy Plant was a leading Australian infectious diseases epidemiologist. She was professor of international health at Curtin University of Technology, Perth, Western Australia....

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

    n authority on infectious disease
    Infectious disease
    Infectious diseases, also known as communicable diseases, contagious diseases or transmissible diseases comprise clinically evident illness resulting from the infection, presence and growth of pathogenic biological agents in an individual host organism...

    s, investigated first official case of SARS in Vietnam. http://www.smh.com.au/news/obituaries/she-fought-disease-despite-risks/2007/04/15/1176575678645.html
  • Joe Sentieri
    Joe Sentieri
    Joe Sentieri was an Italian singer and actor.-Career:His first success was the winning of the competition "Canzonissima" in 1959 with his version of the number one hit "Piove " by Domenico Modugno...

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

     singer and actor. http://www.lastampa.it/redazione/cmsSezioni/spettacoli/200703articoli/19772girata.asp (Italian)
  • Charlotte Winters
    Charlotte Winters
    Charlotte Louise Berry Winters was, at age 109, the last surviving female American veteran of The First World War.-Biography:...

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

     female veteran
    Veteran
    A veteran is a person who has had long service or experience in a particular occupation or field; " A veteran of ..."...

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

    . http://www.knoxnews.com/kns/national/article/0,1406,KNS_350_5447012,00.html

26

  • Beniamino Andreatta
    Beniamino Andreatta
    Beniamino Andreatta was an Italian economist and politician.He was a leftish Christian Democrat and one of the founders of the Italian People's Party in 1994.Andreatta was born in Trento...

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

     economist and politician (Christian Democracy
    Christian Democracy (Italy)
    Christian Democracy was a Christian democratic party in Italy. It was founded in 1943 as the ideological successor of the historical Italian People's Party, which had the same symbol, a crossed shield ....

    , Italian People's Party
    Italian People's Party (1994-2002)
    The Italian People's Party was a Christian democratic political party in Italy-History:The party emerged as the successor to Christian Democracy in January 1994...

    ). http://www.rainews24.rai.it/notizia.asp?newsID=68474 (Italian)
  • Heinz Schiller
    Heinz Schiller
    Heinz Schiller , was a former racing driver from Switzerland. He participated in one Formula One World Championship Grand Prix, on August 5, 1962. He retired from the race, scoring no championship points....

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

     racing driver. http://www.grandprix.com/ns/ns18927.html
  • Sylvia Straus, 94, American
    United States
    The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

     pianist
    Piano
    The piano is a musical instrument played by means of a keyboard. It is one of the most popular instruments in the world. Widely used in classical and jazz music for solo performances, ensemble use, chamber music and accompaniment, the piano is also very popular as an aid to composing and rehearsal...

     and widow of Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel
    Abraham Joshua Heschel
    Abraham Joshua Heschel was a Polish-born American rabbi and one of the leading Jewish theologians and Jewish philosophers of the 20th century.-Biography:...

    . http://www.boston.com/news/local/new_hampshire/articles/2007/03/26/sylvia_straus_heschel_widow_of_jewish_scholar_dies_in_nyc/
  • Mikhail Ulyanov
    Mikhail Ulyanov
    Mikhail Alexandrovich Ulyanov was a Soviet and Russian actor who was one of the most recognizable persons of the post-World War II Soviet theatre and cinema. He was named People's Artist of the USSR in 1969 and received a special prize from the Venice Film Festival in 1982.Mikhail Alexandrovich...

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

    n actor, intestinal disease. http://www.kommersant.com/p-10393/actor_died

25

  • George Kingsley Acquah
    George Kingsley Acquah
    Justice George Kingsley Acquah was the twenty-third Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Ghana. He was appointed as Chief Justice on 4 July 2003 and was the incumbent until his death...

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

    ian Chief Justice
    Supreme Court of Ghana
    The Supreme Court of Ghana is the highest judicial body in Ghana. Ghana's 1992 constitution guarantees the independence and separation of the Judiciary from the Legislative and the Executive arms of government.-History:...

     since July 4, 2003, cancer
    Cancer
    Cancer , known medically as a malignant neoplasm, is a large group of different diseases, all involving unregulated cell growth. In cancer, cells divide and grow uncontrollably, forming malignant tumors, and invade nearby parts of the body. The cancer may also spread to more distant parts of the...

    .http://www.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/NewsArchive/artikel.php?ID=121413
  • Robert Austrian
    Robert Austrian
    Robert Austrian was an American infectious diseases physician and, along with Maxwell Finland, one of the 2 most important researchers into the biology of Streptococcus pneumoniae in the 20th century....

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

     epidemiologist, 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.nytimes.com/2007/03/30/health/30austrian.html?_r=1&ref=obituaries&oref=slogin
  • Jerry Girard
    Jerry Girard
    Jerry Girard was an American radio personality and sports anchor, most notably at WPIX in New York City.Born as Gerard Alfred Suglia in Chicago and raised in The Bronx, New York, where he attended Manhattan College, Jerry Girard went on to work as a radio disc jockey in places like Myrtle Beach,...

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

     sports anchor for WPIX
    WPIX
    WPIX, channel 11, is a television station in New York City built, signed on, and owned by the Tribune Company. WPIX also serves as the flagship station of The CW Television Network...

     television in New York City, esophageal cancer
    Esophageal cancer
    Esophageal cancer is malignancy of the esophagus. There are various subtypes, primarily squamous cell cancer and adenocarcinoma . Squamous cell cancer arises from the cells that line the upper part of the esophagus...

    . http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/27/sports/27girard.html?_r=2&ref=obituaries&oref=slogin&oref=slogin
  • Andranik Margaryan, 55, Armenia
    Armenia
    Armenia , officially the Republic of Armenia , is a landlocked mountainous country in the Caucasus region of Eurasia...

    n Prime Minister
    Prime Minister of Armenia
    The Prime Minister of Armenia is the most senior minister within the Armenian government, and is required by the constitution to "oversee the Government's regular activities and coordinate the work of the Ministers." The Prime Minister is appointed by the President of Armenia, but can be removed by...

     since 2000, 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/1/hi/world/europe/6493229.stm
  • Marshall Rogers
    Marshall Rogers
    Marshall Rogers was an American comic-book artist best known for his work at Marvel and DC Comics in the 1970s, particularly as one of the illustrators of Batman and Silver Surfer...

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

     comic book artist
    Comic book creator
    A comic book creator is someone who creates a comic book or graphic novel.The production of a comic book by one of the major comic book companies in the U.S...

    , 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://forum.newsarama.com/showthread.php?t=106531

24

  • Jun Bernardino
    Jun Bernardino
    Emilio "Jun" Bernardino, Jr. was the fifth commissioner of the Philippine Basketball Association . He was elected as commissioner of the league in the 1993 PBA season and retired in the 2002 PBA season...

    , 59, Philippine Basketball Association
    Philippine Basketball Association
    The Philippine Basketball Association , is a men's professional basketball league in the Philippines composed of 10 company-branded franchised teams. It is the first and oldest professional basketball league in Asia and the second oldest in the world after the NBA...

     commissioner (1993–2002) and sports executive, 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.abs-cbnnews.com/storypage.aspx?StoryId=71236
  • Henson Cargill
    Henson Cargill
    Henson Cargill was an American country music singer best known for the 1968 No. 1 hit, "Skip a Rope". His music career began in Oklahoma in clubs around Oklahoma City and Tulsa...

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

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

     singer, complications from surgery
    Surgery
    Surgery is an ancient medical specialty that uses operative manual and instrumental techniques on a patient to investigate and/or treat a pathological condition such as disease or injury, or to help improve bodily function or appearance.An act of performing surgery may be called a surgical...

    . http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070327/ap_on_en_mu/obit_cargill_2
  • Mary D. Crisp
    Mary D. Crisp
    Mary Dent Crisp was an American Republican leader who was ousted in 1980 for supporting feminism and abortion....

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

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

     leader. http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/17/washington/17crisp.html?ref=obituaries
  • Maurice Flitcroft
    Maurice Flitcroft
    Maurice Gerald Flitcroft was an audacious British amateur golfer and hoaxer.Flitcroft, was commonly referred to as "the world's worst golfer". As well as playing under his own name, he also entered golf competitions, including the Open again under the pseudonyms, Gene Paceky , Gerald Hoppy and...

    , 77, 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...

     amateur golf
    Golf
    Golf is a precision club and ball sport, in which competing players use many types of clubs to hit balls into a series of holes on a golf course using the fewest number of strokes....

    er and hoaxer, lung infection. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article1576926.ece
  • Jean Schwinden, 81, American
    United States
    The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

     former First Lady of Montana
    Montana
    Montana is a state in the Western United States. The western third of Montana contains numerous mountain ranges. Smaller, "island ranges" are found in the central third of the state, for a total of 77 named ranges of the Rocky Mountains. This geographical fact is reflected in the state's name,...

    , wife of Ted Schwinden
    Ted Schwinden
    Theodore "Ted" Schwinden served as the 19th Governor of Montana from 1981 until 1989.Schwinden was Lieutenant Governor under Thomas Judge and defeated his predecessor in the Democratic primary in 1980...

    , 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.greatfallstribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070324/NEWS01/70324011
  • Martin Studach
    Martin Studach
    Martin Andreas Studach was a Swiss rower who competed in the 1964 Summer Olympics and the 1968 Summer Olympics....

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

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

     rower
    Rowing (sport)
    Rowing is a sport in which athletes race against each other on rivers, on lakes or on the ocean, depending upon the type of race and the discipline. The boats are propelled by the reaction forces on the oar blades as they are pushed against the water...

    , heart failure. http://books.google.com/books?id=HEsEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA31&lpg=PA31&dq=%22Martin+Studach%22&source=bl&ots=HJQLgeODWa&sig=prriE56Co3yeMJSXXpmA2dm9fh0&hl=en&ei=B3t4S5-5LIn60wSFhP2wCQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=8&ved=0CB8Q6AEwBw#v=onepage&q=%22Martin%20Studach%22&f=false

23

  • Ed Bailey
    Ed Bailey
    Lonas Edgar Bailey, Jr. was an American professional baseball player who played catcher in the Major Leagues from through . Bailey batted left-handed and threw right-handed. He was born in Strawberry Plains, Tennessee...

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

     baseball player (1953–1966) and Knoxville, Tennessee
    Knoxville, Tennessee
    Founded in 1786, Knoxville is the third-largest city in the U.S. state of Tennessee, U.S.A., behind Memphis and Nashville, and is the county seat of Knox County. It is the largest city in East Tennessee, and the second-largest city in the Appalachia region...

     city councilman (1983–1995), throat cancer
    Esophageal cancer
    Esophageal cancer is malignancy of the esophagus. There are various subtypes, primarily squamous cell cancer and adenocarcinoma . Squamous cell cancer arises from the cells that line the upper part of the esophagus...

    . http://www.knoxnews.com/kns/local_news/article/0,1406,KNS_347_5440010,00.html
  • Paul Cohen
    Paul Cohen (mathematician)
    Paul Joseph Cohen was an American mathematician best known for his proof of the independence of the continuum hypothesis and the axiom of choice from Zermelo–Fraenkel set theory, the most widely accepted axiomatization of set theory.-Early years:Cohen was born in Long Branch, New Jersey, into a...

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

     mathematician, professor of mathematics at Stanford University
    Stanford University
    The Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University or Stanford, is a private research university on an campus located near Palo Alto, California. It is situated in the northwestern Santa Clara Valley on the San Francisco Peninsula, approximately northwest of San...

    . http://www.ams.org/ams/inmemory.html#cohen
  • Mao Anqing
    Mao Anqing
    Mao Anqing was the last known surviving son of Mao Zedong. He was the second son of Chairman Mao and his wife, Yang Kaihui. He lived his life in the shadow of his father, and suffered from a mental illness...

    , 83, 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...

     author and son of Mao Zedong
    Mao Zedong
    Mao Zedong, also transliterated as Mao Tse-tung , and commonly referred to as Chairman Mao , was a Chinese Communist revolutionary, guerrilla warfare strategist, Marxist political philosopher, and leader of the Chinese Revolution...

    . http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/world/20070324-0605-obit-maosson.html
  • Damian McDonald
    Damian McDonald
    Damian McDonald was an Australian road bicycle racer, who was born in Wangaratta.In 1992 he was a reserve for four-man pursuit team at the Barcelona Olympics, barely missing out on a medal when the team won silver. He won a gold medal at the 1994 Commonwealth Games as part of the road time trial...

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

    n Olympic cyclist, traffic accident. http://www.thewest.com.au/aapstory.aspx?StoryName=367388
  • Eric Medlen
    Eric Medlen
    Eric Medlen , son of John and Mary Medlen and brother of Eryn Medlen, was an NHRA Fuel Funny Car driver...

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

     NHRA
    National Hot Rod Association
    The National Hot Rod Association is a drag racing governing body, which sets rules in drag racing and host events all over the United States and Canada...

     driver, diffuse axonal injury
    Diffuse axonal injury
    Diffuse axonal injury is one of the most common and devastating types of traumatic brain injury, meaning that damage occurs over a more widespread area than in focal brain injury. DAI, which refers to extensive lesions in white matter tracts, is one of the major causes of unconsciousness and...

     from car accident. http://www.nhra.com/content/news/19197.htm
  • Chase Neilsen, 90, American
    United States
    The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

     Air Force officer, participant in the Doolittle raid
    Doolittle Raid
    The Doolittle Raid, on 18 April 1942, was the first air raid by the United States to strike the Japanese Home Islands during World War II. By demonstrating that Japan itself was vulnerable to American air attack, it provided a vital morale boost and opportunity for U.S. retaliation after the...

    . http://www.af.mil/news/story.asp?id=123046197
  • Robert E. Petersen
    Robert E. Petersen
    Robert Einar "Pete" Petersen was an American publisher and founder of the Petersen Automotive Museum in 1994.Petersen was born in East Los Angeles, California and served in the Army Air Corps in World War II...

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

     publisher of auto industry and enthusiast magazines, neuroendocrine cancer
    Neuroendocrine tumors
    Neuroendocrine tumors are neoplasms that arise from cells of the endocrine and nervous systems. Many are benign, while some are cancers...

    . http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-petersen25mar25,0,1026980.story?coll=la-home-headlines
  • Walter Turnbull
    Walter Turnbull
    Dr. Walter Turnbull was an African American musician and the founder of the Boys Choir of Harlem...

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

     founder of the Boys Choir of Harlem
    Boys Choir of Harlem
    The Boys Choir of Harlem was a choir located in Harlem, New York City, United States. Its last performance was in 2007 and the group folded shortly thereafter due to several controversies, a large budget deficit, and the death of its founder.Founded in 1968 by Dr...

    , 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.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/03/23/america/NA-GEN-US-Obit-Walter-Turnbull.php

22

  • Nisar Bazmi
    Nisar Bazmi
    Nisar Bazmi was a composer and music director of Pakistan film industry. Bazmi remained one of the most famous musicians of subcontinent. He also introduced new singers like Alamgir. The duo of composers Laxmikant-Pyarelal were musicians with Bazmi in India before partition...

    , 83, 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 composer, kidney failure. http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2007%5C03%5C23%5Cstory_23-3-2007_pg7_30
  • Don Dennis
    Don Dennis
    Donald Ray Dennis was an American middle relief pitcher in Major League Baseball who played in 1965 and 1966 for the St. Louis Cardinals. Dennis batted and threw right-handed...

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

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

     in the 1960s, cancer. http://www.kansas.com/250/story/28131.html
  • U. G. Krishnamurti
    U. G. Krishnamurti
    Uppaluri Gopala Krishnamurti , known as U.G. Krishnamurti, or just U.G., was an Indian thinker who said that there is no "enlightenment"....

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

    . http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/holnus/004200703241653.htm
  • Daniel Díaz Maynard
    Daniel Díaz Maynard
    Dr. Daniel Díaz Maynard was an Uruguayan lawyer and politician.-Political role:Maynard was a deputy representing the department of Montevideo, from 1990 until 2005)....

    , 73, Uruguay
    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...

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

    , Deputy
    Chamber of Deputies of Uruguay
    The House of Representatives is the lower house of the General Assembly of Uruguay . The Chamber has 99 members, elected for a five year term by proportional representation...

     (1990–2005). http://www.montevideo.com.uy/nnoticias_40914_1.html http://www.espectador.com.uy/nota.php?idNota=91638 (Spanish)
  • Jay Zeamer, Jr.
    Jay Zeamer, Jr.
    Jay Zeamer Jr. was a pilot of the United States Army Air Forces in the South Pacific during World War II, and received the Medal of Honor for valor during an air mission on June 16, 1943. Zeamer is one of only seven known Eagle Scouts who also received the Medal of Honor. The others are Aquilla...

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

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

     veteran and 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. http://www.airforcetimes.com/news/2007/03/ap_medalofhonorrecipientobit_070324/*

21

  • Drew Hayes
    Drew Hayes
    Drew Hayes was a writer and graphic artist who is best known as the creator of the long-running independent comic book series Poison Elves ....

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

     comic book writer/artist
    Comic book creator
    A comic book creator is someone who creates a comic book or graphic novel.The production of a comic book by one of the major comic book companies in the U.S...

     (Poison Elves
    Poison Elves
    Poison Elves is a black-and-white comic book by the late artist/writer Drew Hayes, concerning the life and times of an elf named Lusiphur. Hayes originally self-published the series during the early 90's under his company Mulehide Graphics under the title of I, Lusiphur for the first seven issues...

    ), 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://forum.newsarama.com/showthread.php?t=106297
  • Sven O. Høiby
    Sven O. Høiby
    Sven Olaf Bjarte Høiby was the father of Crown Princess Mette-Marit of Norway. Høiby worked for several years as a journalist in a local newspaper and as a small-scale advertiser and publisher in his hometown...

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

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

     and father of Mette Marit, Crown Princess of Norway, 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.vg.no/pub/vgart.hbs?artid=146538 (Norwegian)
  • Mohd. Ayub Khan, c. 75, 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. http://www.kashmirtimes.com/archive/0703/070324/JRegion.htm
  • Catherine Seipp
    Catherine Seipp
    Catherine Seipp was a Los Angeles freelance writer and media critic. She is best known for writing the weekly "From the Left Coast" column for National Review Online and a monthly column for the Independent Women's Forum and for her early recognition of the potential significance of the...

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

     conservative columnist
    Columnist
    A columnist is a journalist who writes for publication in a series, creating an article that usually offers commentary and opinions. Columns appear in newspapers, magazines and other publications, including blogs....

    , 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.latimes.com/la-me-seipp22mar22,0,6839378.story?coll=la-home-headlines

20

  • Francis Agu
    Francis Agu
    Francis Agu was a Nigerian TV and cinema actor. He was best known for his role on the long-running Nigerian television series Checkmate.- Early life :...

    , 42, Nigeria
    Nigeria
    Nigeria , officially the Federal Republic of Nigeria, is a federal constitutional republic comprising 36 states and its Federal Capital Territory, Abuja. The country is located in West Africa and shares land borders with the Republic of Benin in the west, Chad and Cameroon in the east, and Niger in...

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

    , complications from peptic ulcer
    Peptic ulcer
    A peptic ulcer, also known as PUD or peptic ulcer disease, is the most common ulcer of an area of the gastrointestinal tract that is usually acidic and thus extremely painful. It is defined as mucosal erosions equal to or greater than 0.5 cm...

    . http://www.vanguardngr.com/articles/2002/features/homevideo/hv131032007.html
  • Albert Baez
    Albert Baez
    Albert Vinicio Baez, Ph.D. was a prominent Mexican-American physicist, and the father of singers Joan Baez and Mimi Fariña. He was born in Puebla, Mexico, and his family moved to the United States when he was two years old because his father was a Methodist minister...

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

     physicist
    Physicist
    A physicist is a scientist who studies or practices physics. Physicists study a wide range of physical phenomena in many branches of physics spanning all length scales: from sub-atomic particles of which all ordinary matter is made to the behavior of the material Universe as a whole...

     and father of Joan Baez
    Joan Baez
    Joan Chandos Baez is an American folk singer, songwriter, musician and a prominent activist in the fields of human rights, peace and environmental justice....

     and Mimi Fariña
    Mimi Fariña
    Mimi Baez Fariña was a singer-songwriter and activist, the youngest of three daughters to a Scottish mother and Mexican-American physicist Albert Baez .- Early years:Fariña's father, a physicist affiliated with Stanford University and MIT, moved his family...

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

    . http://www.marinij.com/fastsearchresults/ci_5484248
  • Olcott Deming
    Olcott Deming
    Olcott Hawthorne Deming was an American career diplomat who was the first ambassador of the United States to Uganda.-Early life:...

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

     diplomat
    Diplomacy
    Diplomacy is the art and practice of conducting negotiations between representatives of groups or states...

     and first Ambassador
    Ambassador
    An ambassador is the highest ranking diplomat who represents a nation and is usually accredited to a foreign sovereign or government, or to an international organization....

     to Uganda
    Uganda
    Uganda , officially the Republic of Uganda, is a landlocked country in East Africa. Uganda is also known as the "Pearl of Africa". It is bordered on the east by Kenya, on the north by South Sudan, on the west by the Democratic Republic of the Congo, on the southwest by Rwanda, and on the south by...

    , septicemia. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/22/AR2007032202069.html?nav=hcmodule
  • Raynald Fréchette
    Raynald Fréchette
    -Background:He was born on October 13, 1933 in Asbestos, Quebec, the son of a miner, and studied at the Collège Saint-Aimé there and the Université de Sherbrooke. He was admitted to the Bar of Quebec in 1961 and set up practice in Sherbrooke.-House Speaker:...

    , 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...

     lawyer, Quebec Superior Court
    Quebec Superior Court
    Quebec Superior Court is the highest trial Court in the Province of Quebec, Canada. It consists of 144 judges who are appointed by the federal government.Chief Justices : [partial listing]* Edward Bowen...

     judge, National Assembly of Quebec
    National Assembly of Quebec
    The National Assembly of Quebec is the legislative body of the Province of Quebec. The Lieutenant Governor and the National Assembly compose the Parliament of Quebec, which operates in a fashion similar to those of other British-style parliamentary systems.The National Assembly was formerly the...

     member, 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.radio-canada.ca/nouvelles/regional/modele.asp?page=/regions/estrie/2007/03/20/004-deces_raynald_frechette.shtml (French)
  • Rita Joe
    Rita Joe
    Rita Joe, was a Mi'kmaq-Canadian poet and song writer, called the Poet Laureate of the Mi'kmaq people....

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

     Mi'kmaq
    Mi'kmaq language
    The Mi'kmaq language is an Eastern Algonquian language spoken by nearly 9,100 Mi'kmaq in Canada and the United States out of a total ethnic Mi'kmaq population of roughly 20,000. The word Mi'kmaq is a plural word meaning 'my friends' ; the adjectival form is Míkmaw...

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

    . http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20070321.wpoetobit0321/BNStory/Entertainment/home
  • Gilbert E. Patterson
    Gilbert E. Patterson
    Bishop G. E. Patterson was an American Pentecostal-Holiness, Charismatic minister who served as the international Presiding Bishop and Chief Apostle of the Church of God in Christ , Inc....

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

     bishop of Church of God in Christ
    Church of God in Christ
    The Church of God in Christ is a Pentecostal Holiness Christian denomination with a predominantly African-American membership. With nearly five million members in the United States and 12,000 congregations, it is the largest Pentecostal church and the fifth largest Christian church in the U.S....

    , heart failure. http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/nation/4647607.html
  • Taha Yassin Ramadan
    Taha Yassin Ramadan
    Taha Yasin Ramadan al-Jizrawi was a prominent Iraqi Kurd, serving as Vice President of Iraq from March 1991 to the fall of Saddam Hussein in April 2003....

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

    i vice-president (1991–2003), execution
    Capital punishment
    Capital punishment, the death penalty, or execution is the sentence of death upon a person by the state as a punishment for an offence. Crimes that can result in a death penalty are known as capital crimes or capital offences. The term capital originates from the Latin capitalis, literally...

     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.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/03/19/iraq.main/index.html
  • John P. Ryan
    John P. Ryan (actor)
    John P. Ryan was an American character actor, best known for his role as Warden Ranken in the 1985 film Runaway Train.Ryan died from a stroke in Los Angeles, California in 2007 at the age of 70.-Filmography:...

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

     character actor, stroke. http://www.legacy.com/LATimes/Obituaries.asp?Page=LifeStory&PersonID=86973876
  • Ernie Wright
    Ernie Wright
    Ernest Henry Wright was an American professional football offensive tackle who played for 13 seasons, from 1960 AFL season to 1969 in the American Football League, and 1970-1972 in the NFL...

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

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

     offensive lineman in the 1960s, 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.signonsandiego.com/sports/chargers/20070321-9999-bn21wright.html.
  • Hawa Yakubu
    Hawa Yakubu
    Hawa Yakubu Ogede was a Ghanaian politician. She was a Member of Parliament in the Fourth Republic of Ghana and was also a Minister for Tourism.Hawa Yakubu was born at Tarkwa in the Western Region of Ghana...

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

    ian politician, cancer. http://www.graphicghana.info/article.asp?artid=16058

19

  • Lloyd Best
    Lloyd Best
    The Honorable Lloyd Algernon Best, OCC was a Trinidadian intellectual, columnist, professor, and economist....

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

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

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

     and columnist
    Columnist
    A columnist is a journalist who writes for publication in a series, creating an article that usually offers commentary and opinions. Columns appear in newspapers, magazines and other publications, including blogs....

    , 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.trinidadexpress.com/index.pl/article_news?id=161118290
  • Giampaolo Calanchini
    Giampaolo Calanchini
    Giampaolo Calanchini was an Italian Olympic fencer. He won a bronze medal in the team sabre at the 1960 Summer Olympics and a silver in the same event at the 1964 Summer Olympics.-References:...

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

     Olympic fencer. http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ca/giampaolo-calanchini-1.html
  • Calvert DeForest
    Calvert DeForest
    Calvert Grant DeForest , also known by his character Larry "Bud" Melman, was an American actor and comedian, best known for his appearances on Late Night with David Letterman and the Late Show with David Letterman.-Early life:Little has been published about his early life...

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

     actor, comedian and David Letterman
    David Letterman
    David Michael Letterman is an American television host and comedian. He hosts the late night television talk show, Late Show with David Letterman, broadcast on CBS. Letterman has been a fixture on late night television since the 1982 debut of Late Night with David Letterman on NBC...

     sidekick
    Sidekick
    A sidekick is a close companion who is generally regarded as subordinate to the one he accompanies. Some well-known fictional sidekicks are Don Quixote's Sancho Panza, Sherlock Holmes' Doctor Watson, The Lone Ranger's Tonto, The Green Hornet's Kato and Batman's Robin.-Origins:The origin of the...

     known as Larry "Bud" Melman. http://www.reuters.com/article/peopleNews/idUSN2144404620070322
  • Robert Dickson
    Robert Dickson (writer)
    Robert Dickson was a Canadian poet, translator and academic.Dickson formerly worked as a professor for le Département d'études françaises et de traduction at Laurentian University in Sudbury, Ontario...

    , 62, 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...

     professor, award-winning Franco-Ontarian
    Franco-Ontarian
    Franco-Ontarians are French Canadian or francophone residents of the Canadian province of Ontario. They are sometimes known as "Ontarois"....

     writer and poet, 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.radio-canada.ca/regions/Ontario/2007/03/19/008-deces-Dickson.shtml?ref=rss
  • Luther Ingram
    Luther Ingram
    Luther Ingram was an American R&B and soul singer and songwriter.-Career:Born Luther Thomas Ingram in Jackson, Tennessee, his early interest in music led to him making his first record in 1965 at the age of 28. His first three recordings failed to chart but that changed when he signed for KoKo...

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

     R&B singer and songwriter ("(If Loving You Is Wrong) I Don't Want to Be Right
    (If Loving You Is Wrong) I Don't Want to Be Right
    " I Don't Want to Be Right" is a soul song written by Stax Records songwriters Homer Banks, Carl Hampton and Raymond Jackson. It has been performed by many singers, most notably by Luther Ingram, whose version topped the R&B chart for four weeks and rose to number three on the Billboard Hot 100...

    "), kidney failure. http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/O/OBIT_INGRAM?SITE=MOSTP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,259742,00.html
  • Elaine Shore
    Elaine Shore
    Elaine Shore was an American actress. She was born in Chicago, Illinois on March 4, 1929. After studying at the Goodman Theatre and moving to Washington, D.C...

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

     actress, tongue cancer. http://www.einsiders.com/march-2007/hollywood-obituaries/march-2007-hollywood-obituaries.html
  • Bill Stevenson, 55, Canadian
    Canada
    Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

     football
    Canadian football
    Canadian football is a form of gridiron football played exclusively in Canada in which two teams of 12 players each compete for territorial control of a field of play long and wide attempting to advance a pointed prolate spheroid ball into the opposing team's scoring area...

     player, injuries from a fall. http://www.cbc.ca/news/story/2007/03/20/eskimos-stevenson-death.html
  • Shimon Tzabar
    Shimon Tzabar
    Shimon Tzabar was a member of the editorial board of . He described himself as a "Hebrew-speaking Palestinian".The son of poultry vendors, he was educated at a religious school...

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

    i artist, author, poet and former Haaretz
    Haaretz
    Haaretz is Israel's oldest daily newspaper. It was founded in 1918 and is now published in both Hebrew and English in Berliner format. The English edition is published and sold together with the International Herald Tribune. Both Hebrew and English editions can be read on the Internet...

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

    . http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/840080.html.

18

  • Jim Fung
    Jim Fung
    Jim Fung was a practitioner and teacher of Wing Chun kung fu and founder of the 'International Wing Chun Academy'. He had been training under his master, Tsui Seung Tin , since 1960...

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

     Chinese martial artist and businessman, nasopharyngeal carcinoma
    Carcinoma
    Carcinoma is the medical term for the most common type of cancer occurring in humans. Put simply, a carcinoma is a cancer that begins in a tissue that lines the inner or outer surfaces of the body, and that generally arises from cells originating in the endodermal or ectodermal germ layer during...

    . http://www.smh.com.au/news/obituaries/businessman-and-martial-artist-packed-a-punch/2007/04/01/1175366073663.html
  • John G. (Jack) Samson
    John G. (Jack) Samson
    John G. Samson was an author who wrote books, mostly on saltwater fly fishing.He held the fly-rod world record for roosterfish and was the first known fly fisherman in the world to catch Atlantic sailfish, Pacific sailfish and all five species of marlin on a fly...

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

     author, editor of Field and Stream magazine, complications of 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.freenewmexican.com/news/58906.html
  • Bob Woolmer
    Bob Woolmer
    Robert Andrew Woolmer was an international cricketer, professional cricket coach and also a professional commentator...

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

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

    er for England (1975–1981) and Pakistan cricket team coach, heart failure. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/6714545.stm

17

  • John Backus
    John Backus
    John Warner Backus was an American computer scientist. He directed the team that invented the first widely used high-level programming language and was the inventor of the Backus-Naur form , the almost universally used notation to define formal language syntax.He also did research in...

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

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

     who led the IBM
    IBM
    International Business Machines Corporation or IBM is an American multinational technology and consulting corporation headquartered in Armonk, New York, United States. IBM manufactures and sells computer hardware and software, and it offers infrastructure, hosting and consulting services in areas...

     team that developed Fortran
    Fortran
    Fortran is a general-purpose, procedural, imperative programming language that is especially suited to numeric computation and scientific computing...

    . http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/19/obituaries/20cnd-backus.html?ex=1331956800&en=9ca47a40690462bb&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss
  • Roger Bennett
    Roger Bennett (Southern Gospel performer)
    Roger Bennett was a Southern Gospel pianist, singer, songwriter, and co-founder of the award winning Gospel Quartet Legacy Five. Prior to forming Legacy Five, he served nearly 20 years as pianist for The Cathedrals....

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

     Southern Gospel
    Southern Gospel
    Southern Gospel music—at one time also known as "quartet music"—is music whose lyrics are written to express either personal or a communal faith regarding biblical teachings and Christian life, as well as to give a Christian alternative to mainstream secular music...

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

      (The Cathedrals
    Cathedral Quartet
    The Cathedral Quartet, often known as simply The Cathedrals, was an American southern gospel quartet that lasted from 1964 until their retirement in 1999....

    , Legacy Five
    Legacy Five
    Legacy Five is a Southern Gospel Quartet founded by former Cathedral Quartet members Roger Bennett and Scott Fowler after the owners of the Cathedral Quartet, Glen Payne and George Younce, decided to retire in 1999. Group members attribute their success to the changing face of gospel music and...

    ), complications of 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.chattanoogan.com/articles/article_103767.asp
  • Jim Cronin
    Jim Cronin
    James "Jim" Michael Cronin MBE was the founder in 1987 of Monkey World in Dorset, England, a sanctuary for abused and neglected primates...

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

     conservationist who founded Monkey World
    Monkey World
    Monkey World is a ape and monkey sanctuary and rescue centre near Wool, Dorset, England...

    , 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://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/dorset/6470473.stm
  • Freddie Francis
    Freddie Francis
    Frederick William Francis BSC was an English cinematographer and film director.He achieved his greatest successes as a cinematographer, including winning two Academy Awards, for Sons and Lovers and Glory...

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

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

    , 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.news.com.au/couriermail/story/0,23739,21420173-5003402,00.html
  • Homer Harris
    Homer Harris
    Homer E. Harris Jr. was a groundbreaking African American athlete who became the first black captain of a Big Ten Conference team....

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

     athlete
    Sport
    A Sport is all forms of physical activity which, through casual or organised participation, aim to use, maintain or improve physical fitness and provide entertainment to participants. Sport may be competitive, where a winner or winners can be identified by objective means, and may require a degree...

    , first black captain of a Big Ten Conference
    Big Ten Conference
    The Big Ten Conference is the United States' oldest Division I college athletic conference. Its twelve member institutions are located primarily in the Midwestern United States, stretching from Nebraska in the west to Pennsylvania in the east...

     team, 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.seattlepi.com/othersports/308933_obitharris26.html.
  • Ernst Haefliger
    Ernst Haefliger
    Ernst Haefliger was a Swiss tenor.Haefliger was born in Davos, Switzerland and studied at the Zürich Conservatory. He studied with Fernando Capri in Geneva and Julius Patzak in Vienna....

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

     operatic tenor
    Tenor
    The tenor is a type of male singing voice and is the highest male voice within the modal register. The typical tenor voice lies between C3, the C one octave below middle C, to the A above middle C in choral music, and up to high C in solo work. The low extreme for tenors is roughly B2...

    , heart failure. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070318/ap_en_ot/obit_haefliger
  • Wilford "Crazy Ray" Jones
    Crazy Ray
    Crazy Ray was the unofficial mascot of the Dallas Cowboys. By some accounts, he was also the team's original mascot, who attended almost every home game since the team's inception.-History:...

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

     cheerleading fan of the Dallas Cowboys
    Dallas Cowboys
    The Dallas Cowboys are a professional American football franchise which plays in the Eastern Division of the National Football Conference of the National Football League . They are headquartered in Valley Ranch in Irving, Texas, a suburb of Dallas...

    , diabetes and cardiovascular disease
    Cardiovascular disease
    Heart disease or cardiovascular disease are the class of diseases that involve the heart or blood vessels . While the term technically refers to any disease that affects the cardiovascular system , it is usually used to refer to those related to atherosclerosis...

    . http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=2802745
  • Tanya Reinhart
    Tanya Reinhart
    Tanya Reinhart was an Israeli linguist who wrote frequently on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. She contributed columns to the Israeli newspaper Yediot Aharonot and longer articles to the CounterPunch, Znet, and Israeli Indymedia websites....

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

    i linguist
    Linguistics
    Linguistics is the scientific study of human language. Linguistics can be broadly broken into three categories or subfields of study: language form, language meaning, and language in context....

     and peace activist
    Peace activist
    This list of peace activists includes people who proactively advocate diplomatic, non-military resolution of political disputes, usually through nonviolent means.A peace activist is an activist of the peace movement.*Jane Addams*Martti Ahtisaari...

    , 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.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=07/03/19/1354224
  • Ion Santo, 84, Romania
    Romania
    Romania is a country located at the crossroads of Central and Southeastern Europe, on the Lower Danube, within and outside the Carpathian arch, bordering on the Black Sea...

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

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

    . http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/sa/ion-santo-1.html

16

  • Sajjadul Hasan
    Sajjadul Hasan
    Mohammad Sajjadul Hasan was a Bangladeshi first-class cricketer.Nicknamed 'Setu', he was an opening or top-order batsman for Khulna Division...

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

    i domestic 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, motorcycle accident. http://content-uk.cricinfo.com/bangladesh/content/current/story/285546.html
  • Sir Arthur Marshall, 103, 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...

     aviation engineer
    Engineering
    Engineering is the discipline, art, skill and profession of acquiring and applying scientific, mathematical, economic, social, and practical knowledge, in order to design and build structures, machines, devices, systems, materials and processes that safely realize improvements to the lives of...

    . http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?view=DETAILS&grid=&xml=/news/2007/03/17/db1701.xml
  • Raymond Nasher
    Raymond Nasher
    Raymond Nasher was a Duke University alumnus who was an avid art collector. Together with his wife Patsy, he amassed a substantial number of the world's greatest sculptures and various other important pieces...

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

     art collector, founder of Nasher Sculpture Center
    Nasher Sculpture Center
    Opened in 2003, the Nasher Sculpture Center is a museum in Dallas, Texas that houses a collection of modern and contemporary sculpture. It is located on a site adjacent to the Dallas Museum of Art in the heart of the Dallas Arts District...

    , Nasher Museum of Art  and NorthPark Center
    NorthPark Center
    NorthPark Center is an upscale shopping mall located in Dallas, Texas . The mall is located at the intersection of Loop 12 and US 75 . The center has over 235 stores and restaurants. NorthPark is the first shopping center featured on Vogue Magazine...

    . http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/03/17/america/NA-GEN-US-Obit-Raymond-Nasher.php
  • Manjural Islam Rana
    Manjural Islam Rana
    Manjural Islam Rana , also known as Qazi Manjural Islam, was a Bangladeshi cricketer who played six Tests and 25 One Day Internationals for Bangladesh. Born in Khulna, Rana was a slow left arm orthodox bowler...

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

    i national cricketer, motorcycle accident. http://content-uk.cricinfo.com/bangladesh/content/current/story/285546.html
  • Tupper Saussy
    Tupper Saussy
    Frederick Tupper Saussy III was an American composer, musician, author, and artist. He was born in Statesboro, Georgia; grew up in Tampa, Florida; and graduated from the University of the South at Sewanee, Tennessee, in 1958. His jazz combo there put out a university-subsidized album, Jazz at...

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

     composer, musician, author, and artist, 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://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2007/3/20/apworld/20070320102230&sec=apworld

15

  • Blanquita Amaro
    Blanquita Amaro
    Blanquita Amaro was a Cuban film actress of the 1940s and early 1950s who starred in the "golden age" of Argentina cinema....

    , 83, 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-born actress and dancer, 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.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSlh=1&GRid=18481067&
  • Sally Clark
    Sally Clark
    Sally Clark was a British solicitor who became the victim of an infamous miscarriage of justice when she was wrongly convicted of the murder of two of her sons in 1999...

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

     solicitor
    Solicitor
    Solicitors are lawyers who traditionally deal with any legal matter including conducting proceedings in courts. In the United Kingdom, a few Australian states and the Republic of Ireland, the legal profession is split between solicitors and barristers , and a lawyer will usually only hold one title...

     wrongly convicted of killing two of her sons. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6460595.stm
  • Charles Harrelson
    Charles Harrelson
    Charles Voyde Harrelson was an American organized crime figure who was convicted of assassinating federal judge John H. Wood, Jr., the first federal judge killed in the 20th century...

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

     convicted murderer, father of actor Woody Harrelson
    Woody Harrelson
    Woodrow Tracy "Woody" Harrelson is an American actor.Harrelson's breakthrough role came in the television sitcom Cheers as bartender Woody Boyd...

    , 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.mysanantonio.com/news/metro/stories/MYSA032107.01A.Harrelson.373a2b6.html
  • Jay Kennedy
    Jay Kennedy
    Jay Malcolm Kennedy was an American editor and writer. He joined King Features Syndicate in 1988 as deputy comics editor and became comics editor one year later. He began as King Features' editor-in-chief in 1997....

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

     editor-in-chief of King Features Syndicate
    King Features Syndicate
    King Features Syndicate, a print syndication company owned by The Hearst Corporation, distributes about 150 comic strips, newspaper columns, editorial cartoons, puzzles and games to nearly 5000 newspapers worldwide...

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

    . http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003559298
  • Bowie Kuhn
    Bowie Kuhn
    Bowie Kent Kuhn was an American lawyer and sports administrator who served as the fifth Commissioner of Major League Baseball from February 4, , to September 30,...

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

     Major League Baseball commissioner
    Commissioner of Baseball
    The Commissioner of Baseball is the chief executive of Major League Baseball and its associated minor leagues. Under the direction of the Commissioner, the Office of the Commissioner of Baseball hires and maintains the sport's umpiring crews, and negotiates marketing, labor, and television contracts...

     (1969–1984), respiratory failure
    Respiratory failure
    The term respiratory failure, in medicine, is used to describe inadequate gas exchange by the respiratory system, with the result that arterial oxygen and/or carbon dioxide levels cannot be maintained within their normal ranges. A drop in blood oxygenation is known as hypoxemia; a rise in arterial...

    . http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=2799887
  • Orlando Martinez, 65, 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-born American
    United States
    The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

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

     player and manager. http://www.fox23.com/news/state/story.aspx?content_id=3eb98a54-d2b3-45c0-9eaf-1cd0004627a3
  • Jack Metcalf
    Jack Metcalf
    Jack Metcalf was an American politician who served as a member of the United States House of Representatives from 1995 to 2001. He represented the 2nd Congressional District of Washington as a Republican....

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

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

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

     from Washington (1995–2001), complications of 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://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2003620723_metcalf16m.html
  • Datuk Wira Poh Ah Tiam
    Poh Ah Tiam
    Datuk Wira Poh Ah Tiam was a Malaysian politician, businessman and community leader of Chinese descent. Poh was born in Kampung Belimbing, near Durian Tunggal, Malacca...

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

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

     and renal failure
    Renal failure
    Renal failure or kidney failure describes a medical condition in which the kidneys fail to adequately filter toxins and waste products from the blood...

    . http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2007/3/16/nation/17164043&sec=nation http://www.thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2007/3/19/nation/17181322&sec=nation
  • Stuart Rosenberg
    Stuart Rosenberg
    Stuart Rosenberg was an American film and television director whose notable works included the movies Cool Hand Luke , Voyage of the Damned , The Amityville Horror , and The Pope of Greenwich Village .-Early life and career:Born in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, Rosenberg studied Irish...

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

     TV and film director (Cool Hand Luke
    Cool Hand Luke
    Cool Hand Luke is a 1967 American prison drama film directed by Stuart Rosenberg and starring Paul Newman. The screenplay was adapted by Donn Pearce and Frank Pierson from Pearce's 1965 novel of the same name. The film features George Kennedy, Strother Martin, J.D...

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

    . http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/california/la-me-rosenberg18mar18,1,1328352.story?coll=la-headlines-pe-california&ctrack=1&cset=true
  • Herman Stein
    Herman Stein
    Herman Stein was an American composer who wrote music for many of the 1950s science-fiction and horror films from Universal Studios...

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

     film and television composer, heart failure. http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117961656.html?categoryid=16&cs=1
  • Jean Talairach
    Jean Talairach
    Jean Talairach was a neurosurgeon who practiced at the Centre Hospitalier Ste. Anne in Paris.-Talairach coordinates:...

    , 96, 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...

     psychiatrist
    Psychiatry
    Psychiatry is the medical specialty devoted to the study and treatment of mental disorders. These mental disorders include various affective, behavioural, cognitive and perceptual abnormalities...

     and neurosurgeon
    Neurosurgery
    Neurosurgery is the medical specialty concerned with the prevention, diagnosis, treatment, and rehabilitation of disorders which affect any portion of the nervous system including the brain, spine, spinal cord, peripheral nerves, and extra-cranial cerebrovascular system.-In the United States:In...

    . http://www.lemonde.fr/web/article/0,1-0@2-3382,36-885505@51-885609,0.html (French)
  • Ivan Welsh
    Ivan Welsh
    Ivan Joseph Welsh was an Australian politician.Born in Newcastle, Welsh attended Newcastle Boys' High School from 1952 to 1955 and served in the army from 1958 to 1967, including periods in Malaya and Vietnam . In 1961, he married Lorraine Gay Cox...

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

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

    , NSW MLA
    Parliament of New South Wales
    The Parliament of New South Wales, located in Parliament House on Macquarie Street, Sydney, is the main legislative body in the Australian state of New South Wales . It is a bicameral parliament elected by the people of the state in general elections. The parliament shares law making powers with...

     (1988–1991). http://www.parliament.nsw.gov.au/prod/parlment/members.nsf/1fb6ebed995667c2ca256ea100825164/77f95e8f431de45aca256e6300140e41!OpenDocument

14

  • Lucie Aubrac
    Lucie Aubrac
    Lucie Samuel born Lucie Bernard , and better known as Lucie Aubrac, was a French history teacher and member of the French Resistance during World War II....

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

     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...

    . http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6452615.stm
  • Roger Beaufrand
    Roger Beaufrand
    Roger Beaufrand was the world's oldest Olympic gold medal winner, following the death of Pakistani Field Hockey player Feroze Khan in 2005 until his own death....

    , 98, 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...

     Olympian
    Cycling at the 1928 Summer Olympics
    The cycling competition at the 1928 Summer Olympics in Amsterdam consisted of two road cycling events and four track cycling events, all for men only...

    , oldest Olympic champion at time of death. http://www.olympic.org/uk/news/olympic_news/week_uk.asp http://www.olympic.org/uk/news/olympic_news/full_story_uk.asp?id=2080
  • Tommy Cavanagh
    Tommy Cavanagh
    Thomas Henry "Tommy" Cavanagh was an English footballer and coach. As a player, he was an inside-forward at six professional clubs, most notably Huddersfield Town and Doncaster Rovers....

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

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

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

    . http://www.scotland-mad.co.uk/news/loadgnrl.asp?id=329594&teamno=104
  • Lloyd Eaton
    Lloyd Eaton
    Lloyd W. Eaton was an American football player, coach, and executive. He served as the head coach at Alma College , Northern Michigan University , and the University of Wyoming , compiling a career college football record of 104–53–4...

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

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

     coach. http://www.alma.edu/athletics/football/archives/2007/03/21/Lloyd_Eaton
  • Sa'dun Hammadi
    Sa'dun Hammadi
    Sa'dun Hammadi was briefly Prime Minister of Iraq under President Saddam Hussein from March until September 1991. He succeeded Hussein, who had previously been prime minister in addition to being president, but was forced out due to his reformist views.Hammadi was born in Karbala and was a...

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

    i Prime Minister
    Prime Minister of Iraq
    The Prime Minister of Iraq is Iraq's head of government. Prime Minister was originally an appointed office, subsidiary to the head of state, and the nominal leader of the Iraqi parliament. Under the newly adopted constitution the Prime Minister is to be the country's active executive authority...

     (1991), 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.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/03/16/africa/ME-GEN-Iraq-Obit-Hammadi.php
  • Fitzgerald "Mighty Terror" Henry
    Mighty Terror
    Fitzgerald Henry , better known as the Mighty Terror, was a Trinidadian calypsonian.-Early career in Trinidad:His career started in 1947 and he first debuted at the Calypso Palace Tent in 1948...

    , 86, Trinidad
    Trinidad
    Trinidad is the larger and more populous of the two major islands and numerous landforms which make up the island nation of Trinidad and Tobago. It is the southernmost island in the Caribbean and lies just off the northeastern coast of Venezuela. With an area of it is also the fifth largest in...

    ian calypso music
    Calypso music
    Calypso is a style of Afro-Caribbean music that originated in Trinidad and Tobago from African and European roots. The roots of the genre lay in the arrival of enslaved Africans, who, not being allowed to speak with each other, communicated through song...

    ian. http://www.trinidadexpress.com/index.pl/article_news?id=161116409
  • Gareth Hunt
    Gareth Hunt
    Alan Leonard Hunt was an English actor, known as Gareth Hunt, best remembered for playing the footman Frederick Norton in Upstairs, Downstairs and Mike Gambit in The New Avengers.-Early life:...

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

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

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

    . http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/15/obituaries/15hunt.html?ref=obituaries
  • Ron McEwin
    Ron McEwin
    Ron McEwin was an Australian rules footballer in the Victorian Football League .Ron McEwin was a member of the Essendon premiership teams in 1949 and 1950.-External links:*-References:**...

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

    n footballer
    Australian rules football
    Australian rules football, officially known as Australian football, also called football, Aussie rules or footy is a sport played between two teams of 22 players on either...

    . http://www.essendonfc.com.au/team/player-past.asp?id=579#profile
  • Birk Sproxton
    Birk Sproxton
    Birk Sproxton was a Canadian poet and novelist who lived in Red Deer, Alberta.Born in Flin Flon, Manitoba, Sproxton studied in Winnipeg before moving west to Alberta. He taught creative writing at Red Deer College for over three decades, while working on his own projects...

    , 63, 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...

     author (Phantom Lake: North of 54) and educator, 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.passagesmb.com/obituary_details.cfm?ObitID=118532

13

  • Herbert Fux
    Herbert Fux
    Herbert Fux was an Austrian film actor. He appeared in over 140 films between 1960 and 2007.He was born in Hallein, Austria and he died with the help of the Swiss euthanasia group Dignitas in Zürich, Switzerland....

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

    . http://www.einsiders.com/march-2007/hollywood-obituaries/march-2007-hollywood-obituaries.html
  • Terry Major-Ball
    Terry Major-Ball
    Terry Major-Ball was the elder brother of the former British Prime Minister Sir John Major, who during his brother's seven-year premiership had a brief career as a television and radio personality and newspaper columnist...

    , 74, 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...

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

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

    , 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/2/hi/uk_news/6577155.stm
  • Wendy Russell Reves
    Wendy Russell Reves
    Wendy Russell Reves was an American philanthropist, socialite, and former fashion model.-Early life and career:She was born Wyn-Nelle Russell in Marshall, Texas, and adopted the name Wendy as an adult....

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

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

    . http://www.legacy.com/Obituaries.asp?Page=APStory&Id=12663
  • John Sinclair
    John McHardy Sinclair
    John McHardy Sinclair , Professor of Modern English Language at Birmingham University, 1965 – 2000. He pioneered work in corpus linguistics, discourse analysis, lexicography, and language teaching....

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

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

    . http://www.guardian.co.uk/obituaries/story/0,,2070990,00.html
  • Arnold Skaaland
    Arnold Skaaland
    Arnold Skaaland was an American professional wrestler and professional wrestling manager.-Career:Skaaland served in the U.S. Marines during World War II. After a short-lived attempt to make a living through boxing, he became a professional wrestler and debuted in 1946 as "Arnold Skaaland"...

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

     professional wrestler. http://www.wrestling-news.com/artman/publish/article_3247.shtml
  • Nicole Stéphane
    Nicole Stéphane
    Nicole Stéphane was a French actress, producer and director. As an actress, she is mostly known for her role in two films by Jean-Pierre Melville, Les Enfants terribles and Le Silence de la mer.The elder of the two daughters of Baron James-Henri de Rothschild and his first wife, Claude Dupont,...

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

     actress (Le Silence de la mer
    Le Silence de la Mer (film)
    Le Silence de la mer is a 1949 film by Jean-Pierre Melville that takes place in 1941 and concerns a Frenchman and his niece's relationship with a German lieutenant who lives in their house during the German occupation of France...

    ). http://www.liberation.fr/culture/cinema/240957.FR.php (French)

12

  • Arnold Drake
    Arnold Drake
    Arnold Drake was an American comic book writer and screenwriter best known for co-creating the DC Comics characters Deadman and the Doom Patrol, and the Marvel Comics characters the Guardians of the Galaxy, among others....

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

     comic book writer
    Comic book creator
    A comic book creator is someone who creates a comic book or graphic novel.The production of a comic book by one of the major comic book companies in the U.S...

     (Doom Patrol
    Doom Patrol
    The Doom Patrol is a superhero team appearing in publications from DC Comics. The original Doom Patrol first appeared in My Greatest Adventure #80...

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

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

    . http://www.comicbookresources.com/news/newsitem.cgi?id=9950
  • Vilma Ebsen
    Vilma Ebsen
    Vilma Ebsen was an American musical theatre and film actress best known for dancing in Broadway shows and MGM musicals in the 1930s with her more famous brother, Buddy Ebsen....

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

     actress, sister and dancing partner of Buddy Ebsen
    Buddy Ebsen
    Buddy Ebsen was an American character actor and dancer. A performer for seven decades, he had starring roles as Jed Clampett in the long-running television series The Beverly Hillbillies and as the title character in the 1970s detective series Barnaby Jones, and played Barnaby Jones in the movie...

    . http://www.belleville.com/mld/belleville/news/local/16938293.htm
  • Preah Maha Ghosananda
    Preah Maha Ghosananda
    Maha Ghosananda, , was a highly revered Cambodian Buddhist monk in the Theravada tradition, who served as the Patriarch of Cambodian Buddhism during the Khmer Rouge period and post-communist transition period of Cambodian history...

    , 77, Cambodia
    Cambodia
    Cambodia , officially known as the Kingdom of Cambodia, is a country located in the southern portion of the Indochina Peninsula in Southeast Asia...

    n Buddhist
    Buddhism
    Buddhism is a religion and philosophy encompassing a variety of traditions, beliefs and practices, largely based on teachings attributed to Siddhartha Gautama, commonly known as the Buddha . The Buddha lived and taught in the northeastern Indian subcontinent some time between the 6th and 4th...

     Sangharaja
    Sangharaja
    Sangharaja is the title given in many Theravada Buddhist countries to a senior monk who is the titular head either of a monastic fraternity , or of the Sangha throughout the country...

     and Nobel Peace Prize
    Nobel Peace Prize
    The Nobel Peace Prize is one of the five Nobel Prizes bequeathed by the Swedish industrialist and inventor Alfred Nobel.-Background:According to Nobel's will, the Peace Prize shall be awarded to the person who...

     nominee. http://www.eyewitnessnewstv.com/Global/story.asp?S=6222005&nav=F2DO
  • Antonio Ortiz Mena
    Antonio Ortiz Mena
    Antonio Ortiz Mena was a Mexican economist who served as President of the Inter-American Development Bank and as Mexico's Secretary of Finance during the administrations of Adolfo López Mateos and Gustavo Díaz Ordaz .According to Pedro Aspe —who served as Secretary of Finance almost two decades...

    , 99, 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...

     Finance Secretary
    Secretariat of Finance and Public Credit
    The Secretariat of Finance and Public Credit is Mexico's finance ministry. The Secretary of Finance and Public Credit is a member of the federal executive cabinet and is appointed by the President of the Republic.In Mexico the Secretary of Finance is the head of the Secretariat of Finance and...

     (1958–70), IDB
    Inter-American Development Bank
    The Inter-American Development Bank is the largest source of development financing for Latin America and the Caribbean...

     President (1971–87), complications from a fall. http://www.eluniversal.com.mx/notas/411919.html (Spanish)
  • Yeap Ghim Guan
    Yeap Ghim Guan
    Yeap Ghim Guan is a Malaysian British-trained lawyer and politician. His political career began in Penang in the 1960s; Yeap served as state assemblyman for Kelawei for one term from 1969 to 1974. He was one of the founder members of the Democratic Action Party , and served as the party's chairman...

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

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

    , founding member of the DAP
    Democratic Action Party
    The Democratic Action Party, or DAP is a secular, multi-racial, social democratic Malaysian political party.The DAP is one of the three major opposition parties in Malaysia, along with the PKR and PAS, that are seen as electable alternatives to the Barisan Nasional coalition of parties...

    , complications from 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://www.thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2007/3/14/nation/17135865&sec=nation

11

  • Dave Creedon
    Dave Creedon
    Dave Creedon was an Irish sportsperson. A dual player at the highest levels, he played hurling with his local club Glen Rovers and was a member of the Cork senior inter-county team from at various intervals from 1940 until 1955. Creedon also played Gaelic football with his local club St...

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

     hurler
    Hurling
    Hurling is an outdoor team game of ancient Gaelic origin, administered by the Gaelic Athletic Association, and played with sticks called hurleys and a ball called a sliotar. Hurling is the national game of Ireland. The game has prehistoric origins, has been played for at least 3,000 years, and...

     (Cork), All-Ireland Champions
    All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship
    The GAA Hurling All-Ireland Senior Championship is an annual hurling competition organised by the Gaelic Athletic Association since 1887 for the top hurling teams in Ireland....

     (1952–1954), natural causes. http://www.hoganstand.com/Cork/ArticleForm.aspx?ID=74084
  • Betty Hutton
    Betty Hutton
    Betty Hutton was an American stage, film, and television actress, comedienne and singer.-Early life:Hutton was born Elizabeth June Thornburg, daughter of a railroad foreman, Percy E. Thornburg and his wife, the former Mabel Lum . While she was very young, her father abandoned the family for...

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

     singer/actress (The Miracle of Morgan's Creek
    The Miracle of Morgan's Creek
    The Miracle of Morgan's Creek is a 1944 screwball comedy film written and directed by Preston Sturges, starring Eddie Bracken and Betty Hutton, and featuring Diana Lynn, William Demarest and Porter Hall...

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

    . http://www.thestar.com/artsentertainment/article/191364
  • Martha Sosman, 56, American
    United States
    The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

     judge, member of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
    Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
    The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court is the highest court in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. The SJC has the distinction of being the oldest continuously functioning appellate court in the Western Hemisphere.-History:...

    , 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://localnewsleader.com/jackson/stories/index.php?action=fullnews&id=81795

10

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

     golf
    Golf
    Golf is a precision club and ball sport, in which competing players use many types of clubs to hit balls into a series of holes on a golf course using the fewest number of strokes....

    er, winner of five PGA Tour
    PGA Tour
    The PGA Tour is the organizer of the main men's professional golf tours in the United States and North America...

     events, 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://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2007/03/12/sports/s145726D10.DTL
  • Richard Jeni
    Richard Jeni
    Richard John Colangelo , better known by the stage name of Richard Jeni, was an American stand-up comedian and actor.-Early life:...

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

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

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

    . http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/03/12/ap/entertainment/main2561591.shtml
  • Ernie Ladd
    Ernie Ladd
    Ernest "Ernie" Ladd , nicknamed "The Big Cat" was an American collegiate and professional football player and a professional wrestler.-Pro Football career:...

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

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

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

    , 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.thenewsstar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070311/UPDATES02/70311008/1006/SPORTS
  • Lanna Saunders
    Lanna Saunders
    Lanna Saunders was an American actress, best known for her role as Marie Horton on the television soap opera Days of our Lives, on which she appeared from 1979 to 1985...

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

     soap opera
    Soap opera
    A soap opera, sometimes called "soap" for short, is an ongoing, episodic work of dramatic fiction presented in serial format on radio or as television programming. The name soap opera stems from the original dramatic serials broadcast on radio that had soap manufacturers, such as Procter & Gamble,...

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

    ), multiple sclerosis
    Multiple sclerosis
    Multiple sclerosis is an inflammatory disease in which the fatty myelin sheaths around the axons of the brain and spinal cord are damaged, leading to demyelination and scarring as well as a broad spectrum of signs and symptoms...

    . http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-passings15.3mar15,1,3423057.story?track=rss
  • Angela Webber
    Angela Webber
    Angela Webber was an Australian author, TV writer, producer and comedian.-Early life:Webber was born in 1954 to Bruce Webber, the head of light entertainment for ABC radio, and Nan, a journalist...

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

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

    , 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.smh.com.au/news/obituaries/a-comic-delighted-by-the-absurdities-of-life/2007/03/21/1174153155683.html

9

  • Rosy Afsari
    Rosy Afsari
    Rosy Afsari , also known as Rosy Samad, was an actress in the Bangladeshi film industry. She appeared in over 200 films.-External links:* in The Daily Star...

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

    i film actress, kidney failure. http://www.thedailystar.net/2007/03/11/d703111401121.htm
  • Brad Delp
    Brad Delp
    Bradley E. Delp was an American musician, best known as the lead vocalist of the rock band Boston. Delp was known for his vocal histrionics, and especially his high range.-Early life:...

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

     lead singer of 1970s
    1970s
    File:1970s decade montage.png|From left, clockwise: US President Richard Nixon doing the V for Victory sign after his resignation from office after the Watergate scandal in 1974; Refugees aboard a US naval boat after the Fall of Saigon, leading to the end of the Vietnam War in 1975; The 1973 oil...

     AOR
    Album-oriented rock
    Album-oriented rock is an American FM radio format focusing on album tracks by rock artists.-Music played:Most radio formats are based on a select, tight rotation of hit singles...

     band Boston
    Boston (band)
    Boston is an American rock band from Boston, Massachusetts that achieved its most notable successes during the 1970s and 1980s. Centered on guitarist, keyboardist, songwriter, and producer Tom Scholz, the band is a staple of classic rock radio playlists...

    , 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 carbon monoxide poisoning
    Carbon monoxide poisoning
    Carbon monoxide poisoning occurs after enough inhalation of carbon monoxide . Carbon monoxide is a toxic gas, but, being colorless, odorless, tasteless, and initially non-irritating, it is very difficult for people to detect...

    . http://www.thebostonchannel.com/entertainment/11215914/detail.html http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070314/ap_en_mu/delp_death_1 http://www.boston.com/news/local/new_hampshire/articles/2007/03/14/family_rocker_brad_delps_death_was_suicide/
  • Ron Evans, 67, 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 chairman of the AFL
    Australian Football League
    The Australian Football League is both the governing body and the major professional competition in the sport of Australian rules football...

     Commission, former Essendon
    Essendon Football Club
    The Essendon Football Club, nicknamed The Bombers, is an Australian rules football club which plays in the Australian Football League...

     chairman and player, abdominal 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.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200703/s1867481.htm
  • Glen Harmon
    Glen Harmon
    David Glen Harmon was a Canadian ice hockey defenceman who played for the Montreal Canadiens from 1942 to 1951...

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

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

     player. http://www.mbhockeyhalloffame.ca/honoured/players.html?category=9&id=99
  • Jeanne Hopkins Lucas
    Jeanne Hopkins Lucas
    Jeanne Hopkins Lucas born December 25, 1935, was the first Black woman elected to serve in North Carolina's state Senate, represented the state's twentieth Senatorial district, including constituents in Durham County...

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

     politician, first black woman to serve in the Senate of North Carolina. http://www.wlos.com/template/inews_wire/wires.regional.nc/32c7e6be-www.wlos.com.shtml
  • Thomas B. Mason, 88, American
    United States
    The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

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

    . http://www.accessmylibrary.com/coms2/summary_0286-29916198_ITM
  • Ulpio Minucci
    Ulpio Minucci
    Ulpio Minucci was an Italian-born composer and musician.Minucci wrote a number of popular hits in the 1950s, including "Domani," "A Thousand Thoughts of You," and "Felicia." He was nominated for two Emmy Awards for his work on ABC's Saga of Western Man in 1964 and 1965...

    , 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...

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

     best known for work on Robotech
    Robotech
    Robotech is an 85-episode science fiction anime adaptation produced by Harmony Gold USA in association with Tatsunoko Production Co., Ltd. and first released in the United States in 1985...

    , natural causes. http://www.robotech.com/news/viewarticle.php?id=308
  • Tom Moldvay
    Tom Moldvay
    Tom Moldvay was a game designer and author most notable for his work on early materials for the fantasy role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons .-Career:...

    , game designer and author.
  • Juan Carlos Portantiero
    Juan Carlos Portantiero
    Juan Carlos Portantiero was an Argentine sociologist, specialized in the study of the works of Antonio Gramsci....

    , 73, 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...

     sociologist, renal failure
    Renal failure
    Renal failure or kidney failure describes a medical condition in which the kidneys fail to adequately filter toxins and waste products from the blood...

    . http://www.eluniversal.com.mx/notas/411595.html http://www.clarin.com/diario/2007/03/10/elpais/p-01410.htm (Spanish).
  • Malaetasi Togafau
    Malaetasi Togafau
    Sialega Malaetasi Togafau was Attorney General of the American Samoa, serving in the early 1990s and again since 2005. He died in 2007 due to complications of cancer.-External links:*...

    , American Samoa
    American Samoa
    American Samoa is an unincorporated territory of the United States located in the South Pacific Ocean, southeast of the sovereign state of Samoa...

    n Attorney General
    Attorney General
    In most common law jurisdictions, the attorney general, or attorney-general, is the main legal advisor to the government, and in some jurisdictions he or she may also have executive responsibility for law enforcement or responsibility for public prosecutions.The term is used to refer to any person...

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

     and legislator
    Legislator
    A legislator is a person who writes and passes laws, especially someone who is a member of a legislature. Legislators are usually politicians and are often elected by the people...

    , 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://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/2007/Mar/10/br/br9018453267.html

8

  • Alejandro Cruz
    Alejandro Cruz (wrestler)
    Alejandro Cruz Ortiz was a Mexican Luchador , known worldwide as Black Shadow. Cruz's mask vs. mask match against El Santo in 1953 is generally considered one of the most important matches in the history of Lucha Libre...

    , 82, 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...

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

    . http://www.wrestlingobserver.com/wo/news/headlines/default.asp?aID=18887
  • Cruz Hernández
    Cruz Hernández
    Cruz Hernández Rivas of San Agustín, Usulután in El Salvador is a claimant to the title of world's oldest person...

    , 128?, Salvadoran
    El Salvador
    El Salvador or simply Salvador is the smallest and the most densely populated country in Central America. The country's capital city and largest city is San Salvador; Santa Ana and San Miguel are also important cultural and commercial centers in the country and in all of Central America...

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

    . http://uk.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUKN0930262820070310
  • John Inman
    John Inman
    Frederick John Inman was an English actor best known for his role as Mr. Humphries in Are You Being Served?, a British sitcom in the 1970s and 1980s. Inman was also well known in the United Kingdom as a pantomime dame....

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

     actor (Are You Being Served?
    Are You Being Served?
    Are You Being Served? is a British sitcom broadcast from 1972 to 1985. It was set in the ladies' and gentlemen's clothing departments of Grace Brothers, a large, fictional London department store. It was written mainly by Jeremy Lloyd and David Croft, with contributions by Michael Knowles and John...

    ), liver disease
    Liver disease
    Liver disease is a broad term describing any single number of diseases affecting the liver.-Diseases:* Hepatitis, inflammation of the liver, caused mainly by various viruses but also by some poisons , autoimmunity or hereditary conditions...

    . http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30000-1254767,00.html http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/6429425.stm
  • Tom Moldvay
    Tom Moldvay
    Tom Moldvay was a game designer and author most notable for his work on early materials for the fantasy role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons .-Career:...

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

     writer of Dungeons & Dragons
    Dungeons & Dragons
    Dungeons & Dragons is a fantasy role-playing game originally designed by Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson, and first published in 1974 by Tactical Studies Rules, Inc. . The game has been published by Wizards of the Coast since 1997...

    books and modules (revised version of Palace of the Silver Princess
    Palace of the Silver Princess
    Palace of the Silver Princess is an adventure module for the Dungeons & Dragons Basic Set. It was written in 1980 by Jean Wells, and published in 1981 with an orange cover. Palace of the Silver Princess contains a single adventure laid out in a format suitable for a single gaming session...

    ). http://www.creativemountaingames.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=2&mode=&order=0&thold=0
  • Harold M. Ryan
    Harold M. Ryan
    Harold Martin Ryan was a politician and judge from the U.S. state of Michigan.Ryan was born in Detroit, Michigan. He graduated from St. Joseph’s High School in 1929...

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

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

     from 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"....

     (1961-1965), congestive heart failure
    Congestive heart failure
    Heart failure often called congestive heart failure is generally defined as the inability of the heart to supply sufficient blood flow to meet the needs of the body. Heart failure can cause a number of symptoms including shortness of breath, leg swelling, and exercise intolerance. The condition...

    . http://www.law.udmercy.edu/alumni/memoriam/harold_ryan.php
  • Richard Trexler
    Richard Trexler
    Richard Trexler was a professor of History at the Binghamton University, State University of New York. A specialist of the Renaissance, Reformation, Italy and Behaviorist History, Trexler had over fifty published works. He was best known for revolutionizing the field of public life as...

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

     historian of the Florentine Renaissance, complications from a kidney transplant. http://inside.binghamton.edu/news/nn.cgi?issue=2007mar22.
  • Viky Vanita
    Viky Vanita
    -Life:She was known for her participation in several Greek movies and television series . She appeared in the 1968 movie Thiella sto spiti ton anemon and up to 1984 she co-starred in productions such as O trelopenintaris , Paraggelia and Rebetiko by Costas Ferris...

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

     actress. http://www.in.gr/news/article.asp?lngEntityID=785728&lngDtrID=253 (Greek)
  • John Vukovich
    John Vukovich
    John Christopher Vukovich was an American third baseman and coach in Major League Baseball best known for his years of service with the Philadelphia Phillies. He played in parts of ten seasons from 1970 to 1981 for the Phillies, Cincinnati Reds, and Milwaukee Brewers...

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

     baseball player and coach, 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...

     complications. http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20070308&content_id=1833387&vkey=news_mlb&fext=.jsp&c_id=mlb

7

  • Bill Chinnock
    Bill Chinnock
    Bill Chinnock , also referred to as Billy Chinnock, was an American singer-songwriter and guitarist. Born and raised in Newark, New Jersey, he was a prominent member of the Jersey Shore music scene during the late 1960s, leading bands that included future members of the E Street Band...

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

     singer-songwriter
    Singer-songwriter
    Singer-songwriters are musicians who write, compose and sing their own musical material including lyrics and melodies. As opposed to contemporary popular music singers who write their own songs, the term singer-songwriter describes a distinct form of artistry, closely associated with the...

    . http://www.sunjournal.com/story/202468-3/LewistonAuburn/Legend_of_North_Country_Bill_Chinnock_dies_at_59/
  • Paul deLay
    Paul deLay
    Paul Joseph deLay , was an American blues vocalist and harmonicist from Portland, Oregon.-Life and career:Paul deLay was born January 31, 1952 in Portland, Oregon....

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

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

     harmonica
    Harmonica
    The harmonica, also called harp, French harp, blues harp, and mouth organ, is a free reed wind instrument used primarily in blues and American folk music, jazz, country, and rock and roll. It is played by blowing air into it or drawing air out by placing lips over individual holes or multiple holes...

     player, 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.seattlepi.com/local/306602_delay08.html
  • Frigyes Hidas
    Frigyes Hidas
    Frigyes Hidas was a Hungarian composer.Hidas studied composition at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest with János Visky...

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

     composer. http://www.stormworks-europe.com/stormworkseurope/VirtualClass/hidas.php
  • Emil Mailho
    Emil Mailho
    Emil Pierre Mailho was a professional baseball player. He played part of one season in Major League Baseball in 1936 for the Philadelphia Athletics...

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

     baseball player. http://www.insidebayarea.com/sports/ci_5406538
  • Morgan Mellish
    Morgan Mellish
    Henry Morgan Saxon Mellish , better known as Morgan Mellish, was an Australian journalist.Mellish was educated at Shore School in North Sydney...

    , 36, 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 Walkley Award-winning journalist for the Australian Financial Review, plane crash
    Garuda Indonesia Flight 200
    Garuda Indonesia Flight 200 was the scheduled domestic passenger flight of a Boeing 737-497 operated by Garuda Indonesia between Jakarta and Yogyakarta, Indonesia. The aircraft crashed and burst into flames while landing at Adisucipto International Airport on March 7, 2007...

    . http://www.smh.com.au/news/obituaries/head-up-goals-achieved/2007/03/09/1173166982933.html
  • Neil North
    Neil North
    Neil North was a British actor, best known for his role in the 1948 film adaptation of Terence Rattigan's play The Winslow Boy. North appeared in four other films released between 1948 and 1951, but did not make acting a full-time career...

    , 74, 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://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/neil-north-440884.html
  • Andy Sidaris
    Andy Sidaris
    Andrew W. "Andy" Sidaris was an American television and film director, film producer, actor, and screenwriter.-Early life:...

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

     film director, throat cancer
    Esophageal cancer
    Esophageal cancer is malignancy of the esophagus. There are various subtypes, primarily squamous cell cancer and adenocarcinoma . Squamous cell cancer arises from the cells that line the upper part of the esophagus...

    . http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/08/AR2007030802038.html
  • Carla Thorneycroft, Baroness Thorneycroft
    Carla Thorneycroft, Baroness Thorneycroft
    Carla Thorneycroft, Baroness Thorneycroft, DBE, OM , , was the wife of Conservative Party politician and Chancellor of the Exchequer Peter Thorneycroft...

    , 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...

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

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

    . http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?view=DETAILS&grid=&xml=/news/2007/03/15/db1502.xml
  • Billy Walkabout
    Billy Walkabout
    Billy Walkabout is thought to be the most decorated Native American soldier of the Vietnam War. He received the Distinguished Service Cross, five Silver Stars , ten Bronze Star five with Valor device, one Army Commendation Medals , and six Purple...

    , 57, Cherokee
    Cherokee
    The Cherokee are a Native American people historically settled in the Southeastern United States . Linguistically, they are part of the Iroquoian language family...

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

     highly decorated veteran
    Veteran
    A veteran is a person who has had long service or experience in a particular occupation or field; " A veteran of ..."...

     of the Vietnam War
    Awards and decorations of the Vietnam War
    Awards and decorations of the Vietnam War were military decorations which were bestowed by the major warring parties during the years of the Vietnam War. North Vietnam, South Vietnam and the United States all issued awards and decorations during the conflict....

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

     and renal failure
    Renal failure
    Renal failure or kidney failure describes a medical condition in which the kidneys fail to adequately filter toxins and waste products from the blood...

    . http://www.armytimes.com/news/2007/03/apwalkabout070312/ http://nativeblog.typepad.com/the_potawatomitracks_blog/2007/03/war_hero_billy_.html

6

  • Jean Baudrillard
    Jean Baudrillard
    Jean Baudrillard was a French sociologist, philosopher, cultural theorist, political commentator, and photographer. His work is frequently associated with postmodernism and post-structuralism.-Life:...

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

     postmodernist
    Postmodernism
    Postmodernism is a philosophical movement evolved in reaction to modernism, the tendency in contemporary culture to accept only objective truth and to be inherently suspicious towards a global cultural narrative or meta-narrative. Postmodernist thought is an intentional departure from the...

     philosopher and sociologist. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6425389.stm
  • Allen Coage
    Allen Coage
    Allen James Coage was an American professional wrestler with the WWF and Stampede Wrestling among many other companies, better known by his ring names Bad News Brown and Bad News Allen. He was also the 1976 Olympic bronze medal winner in judo, in the heavyweight division...

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

    -born Olympic judo
    Judo
    is a modern martial art and combat sport created in Japan in 1882 by Jigoro Kano. Its most prominent feature is its competitive element, where the object is to either throw or takedown one's opponent to the ground, immobilize or otherwise subdue one's opponent with a grappling maneuver, or force an...

     bronze medalist and professional wrestler known as "Bad News Brown". http://slam.canoe.ca/Slam/Wrestling/2007/03/06/3704792.html http://www.411mania.com/wrestling/news/51553/Bad-News-Brown-Passes-Away.htm
  • Ernest Gallo
    Ernest Gallo
    Ernest Gallo was the American co-founder of the E & J Gallo Winery. He was ranked 297th on the 2006 Forbes 400 list of billionaires. With his brother they founded the E.&J...

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

     co-founder of E & J Gallo Winery
    E & J Gallo Winery
    E & J Gallo Winery was founded in 1933 by Ernest Gallo and Julio Gallo in Modesto, California. E & J Gallo Winery is the largest exporter of California wines and is a large promoter of wines from Sonoma County.-History:...

    . http://www.news10.net/display_story.aspx?storyid=25147
  • Pierre Moinot
    Pierre Moinot
    Pierre Moinot was a French novelist. He was elected to the Académie française on 21 January 1982.-Bibliography:*Armes et Bagages, roman...

    , 86, 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...

     novelist elected to Académie française
    Académie française
    L'Académie française , also called the French Academy, is the pre-eminent French learned body on matters pertaining to the French language. The Académie was officially established in 1635 by Cardinal Richelieu, the chief minister to King Louis XIII. Suppressed in 1793 during the French Revolution,...

    . http://tempsreel.nouvelobs.com/actualites/culture/20070307.OBS5696/quatre_candidats_en_lice.html (French)
  • Ray Stern
    Ray Stern
    Ray "Thunder" Stern, born Walter Bookbinder, was an American professional wrestler, bodybuilder and entrepreneur....

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

     professional wrestler, complications from heart surgery. http://slam.canoe.ca/Slam/Wrestling/2007/03/06/3704134.html

5

  • Wilfred Baker
    Wilfred Baker (veteran)
    Wilfred J. Baker was a British First World War-era veteran and veteran of the Second World War. At the time of his death he was the second-oldest man in Scotland....

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

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

     veteran believed to be second oldest man in Scotland
    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...

    . http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/edinburgh_and_east/6425261.stm
  • Yvan Delporte
    Yvan Delporte
    Yvan Delporte was a Belgian comics writer, and was editor-in-chief of Spirou magazine between 1955 and 1968 during a period considered by many the golden age of Franco-Belgian comics...

    , 78, 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...

     editor-in-chief of Spirou
    Spirou (magazine)
    Spirou magazine is a weekly Belgian comics magazine published by the Dupuis company...

    magazine (1956–1968). http://www.lalibre.be/article.phtml?id=5&subid=103&art_id=335623 (French)
  • Ivo Lorscheiter
    Ivo Lorscheiter
    Bishop José Ivo Lorscheiter was a Brazilian clergyman in the Roman Catholic church. He was a bishop for over 38 years, from 1965 to his retirement in 2004...

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

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

     Bishop
    Bishop
    A bishop is an ordained or consecrated member of the Christian clergy who is generally entrusted with a position of authority and oversight. Within the Catholic Church, Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox Churches, in the Assyrian Church of the East, in the Independent Catholic Churches, and in the...

     and advocate of liberation theology
    Liberation theology
    Liberation theology is a Christian movement in political theology which interprets the teachings of Jesus Christ in terms of a liberation from unjust economic, political, or social conditions...

    , multiple organ failure
    Multiple organ dysfunction syndrome
    Multiple organ dysfunction syndrome ', previously known as multiple organ failure or multisystem organ failure , is altered organ function in an acutely ill patient requiring medical intervention to achieve homeostasis...

    . http://www.seattlepi.com/national/1102AP_Obit_Lorscheiter.html http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/blorj.html
  • Ivan Supek
    Ivan Supek
    Ivan Supek was a Croatian physicist, philosopher, writer, playwright, peace activist and humanist.-Early years and education:Supek was born on April 8, 1915 in Zagreb, Croatia...

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

    n scientist
    Scientist
    A scientist in a broad sense is one engaging in a systematic activity to acquire knowledge. In a more restricted sense, a scientist is an individual who uses the scientific method. The person may be an expert in one or more areas of science. This article focuses on the more restricted use of the word...

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

    . http://websrv.hina.hr/nws-bin/gnews.cgi?TOP=hot&NID=hot/kultura/H3079300.4yk (Croatian)

4

  • Natalie Bodanya
    Natalie Bodanya
    Natalie Bodanya was an American operatic soprano who had an active international career from the late 1920s through the 1940s...

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

     operatic soprano. http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/10/obituaries/10bodanya.html?_r=1&ref=obituaries&oref=slogin
  • Thomas Eagleton
    Thomas Eagleton
    Thomas Francis Eagleton was a United States Senator from Missouri, serving from 1968–1987. He is best remembered for briefly being the Democratic vice presidential nominee under George McGovern in 1972...

    , 77, United States Senator for Missouri
    Missouri
    Missouri is a US state located in the Midwestern United States, bordered by Iowa, Illinois, Kentucky, Tennessee, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Kansas and Nebraska. With a 2010 population of 5,988,927, Missouri is the 18th most populous state in the nation and the fifth most populous in the Midwest. It...

     (1969–1987), heart and respiratory complications. http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/stories.nsf/missouristatenews/story/AD9D8F788E573862862572940064A176?OpenDocument
  • Bob Hattoy
    Bob Hattoy
    Bob Hattoy was an American activist on issues related to gay rights, AIDS and the environment.Hattoy worked in the White House under American President Bill Clinton from 1993 to 1999. He also served as chairman of the research committee of the Presidential Commission on HIV/AIDS, having himself...

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

     President of California Fish & Game Commission, AIDS
    AIDS
    Acquired immune deficiency syndrome or acquired immunodeficiency syndrome is a disease of the human immune system caused by the human immunodeficiency virus...

     activist, complications from AIDS. http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/california/la-me-hattoy6mar06,1,432714.story?coll=la-headlines-pe-california
  • Richard Joseph
    Richard Joseph
    Richard Joseph was a British computer game composer, musician and sound specialist. He had a career spanning some 20 years starting in the early days of gaming on the C64 and the Amiga and onto succeeding formats through to the present day.After being diagnosed with lung cancer, he died on 4 March...

    , 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...

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

    . http://www.eurogamer.net/article.php?article_id=73696
  • Sunil Kumar Mahato
    Sunil Kumar Mahato
    Sunil Kumar Mahato was a member of the 14th Lok Sabha of India. A member of the Jharkhand Mukti Morcha political party, he represented the constituency of Jamshedpur in the eastern state of Jharkhand....

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

    , shot. http://www.hindu.com/2007/03/05/stories/2007030513330100.htm
  • Tadeusz Nalepa
    Tadeusz Nalepa
    Tadeusz Nalepa – was a Polish composer, guitar player, vocalist and lyricist.-Career:Nalepa graduated from the Music Academy in Rzeszów in the departments of violin, clarinet and contrabass...

    , 63, 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...

     blues and rock singer, after long illness. http://fakty.interia.pl/fakty_dnia/news/tadeusz-nalepa-nie-zyje,878556,2943 (Polish)
  • Renee Williams
    Renee Williams (person)
    Renee Williams was an American woman believed to be the fattest woman in the world at the time of her death in 2007 from complications following her surgery for morbid obesity. Williams was also one of the heaviest people to ever live.By the age of 12, Renee was already in the category of...

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

     heaviest woman in the world, heart attack. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-505198/The-half-ton-mum-Tragic-story-worlds-heaviest-woman.html
  • Ian Wooldridge
    Ian Wooldridge
    Ian Wooldridge, OBE was a British sports journalist. He was with the Daily Mail for nearly 50 years. He died from cancer...

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

     sports journalist, 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/uk/6418435.stm

3

  • Osvaldo Cavandoli
    Osvaldo Cavandoli
    Osvaldo Cavandoli , also known by his pen name Cava, was an Italian cartoonist. His most famous work is his series of short animated cartoons, La Linea ....

    , 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...

     cartoonist. http://archivio.corriere.it/archiveDocumentServlet.jsp?url=/documenti_globnet/corsera/2007/03/co_9_070304165.xml (Italian)
  • Jim Kaldis
    Jim Kaldis
    James "Jim" Kaldis was a Greek-born Australian politician. He was a Labor member of the New South Wales Legislative Council from 1978 to 1999....

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

    n politician. http://www.parliament.nsw.gov.au/prod/parlment/members.nsf/1fb6ebed995667c2ca256ea100825164/16c01710b64174614a25672e0002e1c1?OpenDocument
  • Benito Lorenzi
    Benito Lorenzi
    Benito "Veleno" Lorenzi was an Italian football player born in Borgo a Buggiano, province of Pistoia. He played as a striker....

    , 81, 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...

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

     striker
    Striker
    Forwards, also known as strikers, are the players on a team in association football who play nearest to the opposing team's goal, and are therefore principally responsible for scoring goals...

     (Italy
    Italy national football team
    The Italy National Football Team , represents Italy in association football and is controlled by the Italian Football Federation , the governing body for football in Italy. Italy is the second most successful national team in the history of the World Cup having won four titles , just one fewer than...

    , Inter Milan
    F.C. Internazionale Milano
    Football Club Internazionale Milano, often referred to as Internazionale or simply Inter, is a professional Italian football club based in Milan, Italy. Outside Italy, the club is often called Inter Milan. They are the reigning FIFA Club World champions and Coppa Italia holders.Inter have always...

    ). http://www.inter.it/aas/news/reader?N=25714&L=en
  • Gene Oliver
    Gene Oliver
    Eugene George Oliver was an American catcher and first baseman in Major League Baseball. From through , Oliver played for the St. Louis Cardinals , Milwaukee & Atlanta Braves , Philadelphia Phillies , Boston Red Sox and Chicago Cubs...

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

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

     player in the 1960s, complications from lung surgery. http://qconline.com/archives/qco/display.php?id=329201
  • Saul Swimmer
    Saul Swimmer
    Saul Swimmer was an American documentary film director and producer best known for the movie The Concert for Bangladesh , the George Harrison-led Madison Square Garden show that was one of the first all-star benefits in rock music...

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

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

     filmmaker (The Concert for Bangladesh
    The Concert for Bangladesh
    The Concert for Bangladesh was the name for two benefit concerts organised by George Harrison and Ravi Shankar, held at noon and at 7 PM on August 1, 1971, playing to a total of 40,000 people at Madison Square Garden in New York City...

    ), heart failure. http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/03/20/america/NA-GEN-US-Obit-Saul-Swimmer.php
  • Marjabelle Young Stewart
    Marjabelle Young Stewart
    Marjabelle Young Stewart was an American writer and expert on etiquette.Marjabelle Young Stewart was born in Council Bluffs, Iowa to Marie and Clarence Cullen Bryant . She, and her three sisters lived in an orphanage after her parents divorced, where her youngest sister died of a mastoid infection...

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

     etiquette
    Etiquette
    Etiquette is a code of behavior that delineates expectations for social behavior according to contemporary conventional norms within a society, social class, or group...

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

    . http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/04/AR2007030400325.html

2

  • Doris Anderson
    Doris Anderson
    Doris Hilda Anderson, was a Canadian author, journalist and women's rights activist.She was born in Calgary, Alberta as Hilda Doris Buck. She attended Crescent Heights High School and received a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Alberta in 1945...

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

     feminist
    Feminism
    Feminism is a collection of movements aimed at defining, establishing, and defending equal political, economic, and social rights and equal opportunities for women. Its concepts overlap with those of women's rights...

    , writer and editor of Chatelaine
    Chatelaine (magazine)
    Chatelaine is an English-language Canadian magazine of women's lifestyles. Both Chatelaine and its French-language version, Châtelaine, are published monthly by Rogers Media, Inc., a division of Rogers Communications, Inc...

    , pulmonary fibrosis. http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20070302.wdorisandersonobit0302/BNStory/Entertainment/home
  • Thomas Kleppe, 87, American
    United States
    The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

     Secretary of Interior (1975–1977), Representative
    United States House of Representatives
    The United States House of Representatives is one of the two Houses of the United States Congress, the bicameral legislature which also includes the Senate.The composition and powers of the House are established in Article One of the Constitution...

     from North Dakota
    North Dakota
    North Dakota is a state located in the Midwestern region of the United States of America, along the Canadian border. The state is bordered by Canada to the north, Minnesota to the east, South Dakota to the south and Montana to the west. North Dakota is the 19th-largest state by area in the U.S....

    , 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.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/03/AR2007030301196.html
  • Clem Labine
    Clem Labine
    Clement Walter Labine was an American right-handed relief pitcher in Major League Baseball best known for his years with the Brooklyn & Los Angeles Dodgers from 1950 to 1960...

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

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

     pitcher (Brooklyn and LA Dodgers
    Los Angeles Dodgers
    The Los Angeles Dodgers are a professional baseball team based in Los Angeles, California. The Dodgers are members of Major League Baseball's National League West Division. Established in 1883, the team originated in Brooklyn, New York, where it was known by a number of nicknames before becoming...

    ), complications of brain surgery. http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2007/baseball/mlb/wires/03/02/2010.ap.bbo.obit.labine.2nd.ld.writethru.0894/ http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20070302&content_id=1822395&vkey=news_mlb&fext=.jsp&c_id=mlb
  • Harold Michelson
    Harold Michelson
    Harold Michelson was an American production designer and art director. In addition, he worked as an illustrator and/or storyboard artist on numerous films from the 1940s through the 1990s.-Biography:...

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

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

     twice nominated for an Academy Award. http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/content_display/features/people/deaths/e3i90ce0735a3e2db47cc290d534f03bf3d
  • Mike Mooney
    Mike Mooney (American football)
    Michael Paul Mooney was a National Football League player for the San Diego Chargers and the Houston Oilers. Mooney, who played collegiately at Georgia Tech and appeared in one game for the Chargers as an offensive tackle.-External links:...

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

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

     player with Georgia Tech
    Georgia Institute of Technology
    The Georgia Institute of Technology is a public research university in Atlanta, Georgia, in the United States...

     and the 1993 San Diego Chargers
    San Diego Chargers
    The San Diego Chargers are a professional American football team based in San Diego, California. they were members of the Western Division of the American Football Conference in the National Football League...

    . http://www.ajc.com/gatech/content/sports/gatech/stories/2007/03/06/0306mooney.html
  • Ivan Safronov
    Ivan Safronov
    Ivan Ivanovich Safronov was a Russian journalist and columnist who covered military affairs for the daily newspaper Kommersant. He died after falling from the fifth floor of his Moscow apartment building. His apartment was on the third floor...

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

    n defence correspondent for Kommersant
    Kommersant
    Kommersant is a commerce-oriented newspaper published in Russia. , the circulation was 131,000.- History :The newspaper was initially published in 1909, and it was closed down following the Bolshevik seizure of power and the introduction of censorship in 1917.In 1989, with the onset of press...

    , fall from building. http://www.smh.com.au/news/world/did-he-jump-or-was-he-pushed/2007/03/06/1173166696138.html
  • William C. Sturtevant
    William C. Sturtevant
    Dr. William C. Sturtevant was an anthropologist and ethnologist.He is best known as the general editor of the 20-volume Handbook of North American Indians....

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

     Smithsonian Institution
    Smithsonian Institution
    The Smithsonian Institution is an educational and research institute and associated museum complex, administered and funded by the government of the United States and by funds from its endowment, contributions, and profits from its retail operations, concessions, licensing activities, and magazines...

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

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

    . http://www.boston.com/news/globe/obituaries/articles/2007/03/18/william_sturtevant_curator_and_scholar_at_the_smithsonian/
  • Henri Troyat
    Henri Troyat
    Henri Troyat was a Russian born French author, biographer, historian and novelist.-Biography:Troyat was born Lev Aslanovich Tarasov, in Moscow to parents of mixed heritage, including Armenian, Russian, German and Georgian...

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

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

    , member of the Académie française
    Académie française
    L'Académie française , also called the French Academy, is the pre-eminent French learned body on matters pertaining to the French language. The Académie was officially established in 1635 by Cardinal Richelieu, the chief minister to King Louis XIII. Suppressed in 1793 during the French Revolution,...

    . http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6418301.stm http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-6458509,00.html

1

  • Manuel Bento, 58, 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...

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

     goalkeeper
    Goalkeeper (football)
    In association football, the goalkeeper occupies a position that represents the last line of defence between the opponent's offence and his own team's goal. The primary role of the goalkeeper is to defend his team's goal and prevent the opposition from scoring a goal...

     (Portugal
    Portugal national football team
    The Portugal national football team represents Portugal in association football and is controlled by the Portuguese Football Federation, the governing body for football in Portugal. Portugal's home ground is Estádio Nacional in Oeiras, and their head coach is Paulo Bento...

    , SL Benfica
    SL Benfica
    Sport Lisboa e Benfica , commonly known as simply Benfica or occasionally as Benfica Lisbon, is a Portuguese multi-sports club based in Lisbon. Although they successfully compete in a number of different sports, Benfica is mostly known for its association football team...

    ), 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.uefa.com/footballeurope/news/kind=2/newsid=511898.html
  • Otto Brandenburg
    Otto Brandenburg
    Otto Herman Max Brandenburg was a Danish musician, singer and actor and film score composer.-Filmography:*Styrmand Karlsen *Sømand i knibe *Mine tossede drenge *Prinsesse for en dag...

    , 72, Danish
    Denmark
    Denmark is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe. The countries of Denmark and Greenland, as well as the Faroe Islands, constitute the Kingdom of Denmark . It is the southernmost of the Nordic countries, southwest of Sweden and south of Norway, and bordered to the south by Germany. Denmark...

     singer and actor. http://politiken.dk/kultur/article254994.ece (Danish)
  • Colette Brosset
    Colette Brosset
    Colette Marie Claudette Brosset was a French actress, writer and choreographer.She was once married to actor Robert Dhéry, with whom she appeared onstage in La Plume de Ma Tante....

    , 85, 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...

     actress. http://www.liberation.fr/culture/cinema/238456.FR.php (French)
  • George Gabb
    George Gabb
    George Seymour Gabb, M.B.E. was a Belizean artist, sculptor, writer and entertainer.-Career:Gabb was born in Belize City and educated no further than primary school. At age 13, he began to take up the arts and soon gained a following as a sculptor...

    , 79, Belize
    Belize
    Belize is a constitutional monarchy and the northernmost country in Central America. Belize has a diverse society, comprising many cultures and languages. Even though Kriol and Spanish are spoken among the population, Belize is the only country in Central America where English is the official...

    an artist, sculptor and writer, 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.channel5belize.com/archive_detail_story.php?story_id=18091
  • Sir Sydney Gun-Munro
    Sydney Gun-Munro
    Sir Sydney Douglas Gun-Munro GCMG, FRCS was Governor-General of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines...

    , 90, Governor-General
    Governor-General
    A Governor-General, is a vice-regal person of a monarch in an independent realm or a major colonial circonscription. Depending on the political arrangement of the territory, a Governor General can be a governor of high rank, or a principal governor ranking above "ordinary" governors.- Current uses...

     of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
    Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
    Saint Vincent and the Grenadines is an island country in the Lesser Antilles chain, namely in the southern portion of the Windward Islands, which lie at the southern end of the eastern border of the Caribbean Sea where the latter meets the Atlantic Ocean....

     (1979–1985), after long illness. http://www.gov.vc/govt/News/Article.asp?articleid=4700
  • Tinos Rusere
    Tinos Rusere
    Tinos Rusere was a Zimbabwean miner and trade union activist. During the Second Chimurenga he recruited members of ZANLA and he was later elected as a Zimbabwe African National Union - Patriotic Front member to the Parliament of Zimbabwe...

    , 61, 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 Deputy Minister for Mines and Environment, kidney failure. http://www.newzimbabwe.com/pages/minister4.16060.html
The source of this article is wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.  The text of this article is licensed under the GFDL.
 
x
OK