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

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Deaths in January 2007
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Deaths in March 2007
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Deaths in April 2007
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Deaths in June 2007
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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....

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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:...

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Deaths in October 2007
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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....

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

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

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  • Clifford Scott Green
    Clifford Scott Green
    Clifford Scott Green was a judge on the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. Green was the eighteenth African American Article III judge appointed in the United States, and the second African American judge on the United States District Court for the Eastern...

    , 84, American jurist, Federal Court
    United States federal courts
    The United States federal courts make up the judiciary branch of federal government of the United States organized under the United States Constitution and laws of the federal government.-Categories:...

     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...

    . http://www.philly.com/inquirer/breaking/news_breaking/7785826.html
  • David J. Lawson
    David J. Lawson
    David Jerald Lawson was an American who gained notability as a Pastor and University Campus Minister in The Methodist and United Methodist Churchs, as a District Superintendent and Annual Conference official, and as a Bishop of the United Methodist Church, elected in 1984...

    , 77, American minister, 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...

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

    , after long illness. http://www.fortwayne.com/mld/newssentinel/news/local/17306219.htm
  • Fathia Nkrumah
    Fathia Nkrumah
    Fathia Nkrumah , was an Egyptian and the First Lady of the newly independent Ghana as the wife of the Osagyefo Kwame Nkrumah, its first president....

    , c75, Egypt
    Egypt
    Egypt , officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, Arabic: , is a country mainly in North Africa, with the Sinai Peninsula forming a land bridge in Southwest Asia. Egypt is thus a transcontinental country, and a major power in Africa, the Mediterranean Basin, the Middle East and the Muslim world...

    ian–born 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 First lady, after long illness. http://www.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/NewsArchive/artikel.php?ID=124921
  • Charles Remington, 85, American zoologist, known for studies of butterflies
    Butterfly
    A butterfly is a mainly day-flying insect of the order Lepidoptera, which includes the butterflies and moths. Like other holometabolous insects, the butterfly's life cycle consists of four parts: egg, larva, pupa and adult. Most species are diurnal. Butterflies have large, often brightly coloured...

     and moth
    Moth
    A moth is an insect closely related to the butterfly, both being of the order Lepidoptera. Moths form the majority of this order; there are thought to be 150,000 to 250,000 different species of moth , with thousands of species yet to be described...

    s. http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/17/obituaries/17remington.html?ex=1339732800&en=589b687beb074742&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss
  • Alexander Tubelsky
    Alexander Tubelsky
    Alexander Tubelsky , 2 October 1940, Moscow—31 May 2007, Moscow was the president of Russian teacher's "Association of democratic schools", and a professor of Moscow State Pedagogical University - Biography :...

    , 66, Russian academic, President of Association of Democratic Schools, 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://gzt.ru/education/2007/05/31/164520.html (Russian)
  • Jim Williams
    Jim Williams (basketball coach)
    Jim Williams was coach of the Colorado State University Men's basketball program for 25 seasons . He succeeded Bill Stranigan following the program's first ever NCAA Tournament appearance....

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

     coach (Colorado State University
    Colorado State University
    Colorado State University is a public research university located in Fort Collins, Colorado. The university is the state's land grant university, and the flagship university of the Colorado State University System.The enrollment is approximately 29,932 students, including resident and...

    ). http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/ncaa/article/0,2777,DRMN_23932_5565146,00.html

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  • Jean-Claude Brialy
    Jean-Claude Brialy
    Jean-Claude Brialy – died 30 May 2007, Monthyon, Seine-et-Marne, France was a French actor, director, and socialite.-Biography:...

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

    , 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/2007/05/31/arts/EU-A-E-MOV-France-Obit-Brialy.php
  • Mark Harris
    Mark Harris (author)
    Mark Harris was an American novelist, literary biographer, and educator.-Early life:Harris was born Mark Harris Finklestein in Mount Vernon, New York to Carlyle and Ruth Klausner Finkelstein...

    , 84, American author (Bang the Drum Slowly
    Bang the Drum Slowly
    Bang the Drum Slowly is a novel by Mark Harris, a sequel to The Southpaw . It was first published in 1956, and was later made into a 1956 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.azcentral.com/news/articles/0531harris-obit0531-ON.html
  • Preston Martin
    Preston Martin
    Dr. Preston Martin was an American banker and public official best known as the Vice Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board between 1982 and 1986. -Education:...

    , 83, American banker, Deputy Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board (1982–1986), cancer
    Cancer
    Cancer , known medically as a malignant neoplasm, is a large group of different diseases, all involving unregulated cell growth. In cancer, cells divide and grow uncontrollably, forming malignant tumors, and invade nearby parts of the body. The cancer may also spread to more distant parts of the...

    . http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/03/business/03martin.html?ex=1338523200&en=847ca52e1087e39d&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rsshttp://economictimes.indiatimes.com/News/International__Business/Former_Fed_official_Preston_Martin_dies_at_83_/articleshow/2088377.cms
  • William Morris Meredith, Jr.
    William Morris Meredith, Jr.
    William Morris Meredith, Jr. was an American poet and educator. He was Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress from 1978 to 1980.-Early years:...

    , 88, American poet and Pulitzer Prize
    Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
    The Pulitzer Prize in Poetry has been presented since 1922 for a distinguished volume of original verse by an American author. However, special citations for poetry were presented in 1918 and 1919.-Winners:...

     winner. http://www.theday.com/re.aspx?re=11a06608-0795-4364-afae-bc08c917b045
  • Yevgeni Mishakov
    Yevgeni Mishakov
    Yevgeni Dmitrievich Mishakov was an ice hockey player who played in the Soviet Hockey League. He was born in Moscow, Soviet Union and played for HC CSKA Moscow. He was inducted into the Russian and Soviet Hockey Hall of Fame in 1968. He died in Moscow, Russia.-External links:*...

    , 66, Russian 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.chidlovski.net/1954/54_player_info.asp?p_id=m021

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  • Dave Balon
    Dave Balon
    David Alexander Balon was a Canadian professional ice hockey player and coach. Balon played 14 seasons in the National Hockey League between 1959 and 1973 before multiple sclerosis led to his retirement.-Playing career:...

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

     player, 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.tsn.ca/nhl/news_story/?ID=209347&hubname=
  • Tony Bastable
    Tony Bastable
    Anthony Leslie Bastable was an English television presenter who was best known for being one of original presenters of the children's programme Magpie.-Early life:...

    , 62, British television presenter (Magpie
    Magpie (TV series)
    Magpie was a children's television programme shown on ITV from the late 1960s and throughout the 1970s. It was a magazine format show intended to compete with the BBC's Blue Peter, but attempted to be more "hip", focusing more on popular culture...

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

    . http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/6709139.stm
  • Dame Lois Browne-Evans
    Lois Browne-Evans
    Dame Lois Marie Browne-Evans, DBE, JP was a lawyer and political figure in Bermuda. She led the Progressive Labour Party in opposition before being appointed Bermuda's first female Attorney-General. She first gained recognition in 1953 as the Bermuda's first female barrister...

    , 79, Bermudian
    Bermuda
    Bermuda is a British overseas territory in the North Atlantic Ocean. Located off the east coast of the United States, its nearest landmass is Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, about to the west-northwest. It is about south of Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, and northeast of Miami, Florida...

     politician. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article1862391.ece
  • Donald Johanos
    Donald Johanos
    Donald George Johanos was a conductor and music director with the Dallas Symphony Orchestra and the Honolulu Symphony Orchestra. He was recognized for his support of contemporary classical music. He performed or conducted on at least 16 recordings. -Early life and career:Johanos was born in Cedar...

    , 79, American conductor. http://www.naplesnews.com/news/2007/jun/02/internationally_known_conductor_johanos_dies_naple/?breaking_news
  • Norman Kaye
    Norman Kaye
    Norman James Kaye was an Australian actor and musician. He was best known for his roles in the films of director Paul Cox.Kaye was born in Melbourne and educated at Geelong Grammar School...

    , 80, Australian actor and musician, 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.theage.com.au/news/entertainment/modest-quietly-intense-actor-dies/2007/05/30/1180205330874.html
  • Posteal Laskey, 69, American convicted murderer, commonly believed to be the serial killer
    Serial killer
    A serial killer, as typically defined, is an individual who has murdered three or more people over a period of more than a month, with down time between the murders, and whose motivation for killing is usually based on psychological gratification...

     called the "Cincinnati Strangler
    Cincinnati Strangler
    The Cincinnati Strangler was the name given to a serial killer who raped, then strangled seven mostly elderly women in Cincinnati, Ohio between 1965 and 1966...

    ." http://www.ohio.com/mld/beaconjournal/news/state/17359640.htm
  • Tahir Mirza
    Tahir Mirza
    Tahir Mirza was a senior Pakistani journalist and former editor of Dawn, Pakistan's oldest and most widely circulated English-language newspaper. He was resident editor of the newspaper in Lahore and worked as a correspondent in Washington, DC, before becoming editor of the paper.He died on May...

    , 70, Pakistani journalist and former editor of Dawn
    Dawn (newspaper)
    Dawn is Pakistan's oldest and most widely read English-language newspaper. One of the country's two largest English-language dailies, it is the flagship of the Dawn Group of Newspapers, published by Pakistan Herald Publications, which also owns the Herald, a magazine, the evening paper The Star and...

    , 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.pakistantimes.net/2007/05/30/top10.htm
  • Folole Muliaga
    Folole Muliaga
    Folole Muliaga was a Samoan schoolteacher living in Manukau, New Zealand. She was terminally ill with obesity-related heart and lung disease and using a home oxygen machine. She died less than three hours after the electricity supply from state-owned Mercury Energy was disconnected to her house...

    , 44, Samoa
    Samoa
    Samoa , officially the Independent State of Samoa, formerly known as Western Samoa is a country encompassing the western part of the Samoan Islands in the South Pacific Ocean. It became independent from New Zealand in 1962. The two main islands of Samoa are Upolu and one of the biggest islands in...

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

     teacher whose oxygen machine failed after power cut for unpaid account, heart
    Heart disease
    Heart disease, cardiac disease or cardiopathy is an umbrella term for a variety of diseases affecting the heart. , it is the leading cause of death in the United States, England, Canada and Wales, accounting for 25.4% of the total deaths in the United States.-Types:-Coronary heart disease:Coronary...

     & lung disease. http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/1/story.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10442627&pnum=0
  • Michael Seaton
    M. J. Seaton
    Michael J. Seaton FRS was an influential British mathematician, atomic physicist and astronomer.He was born in Bristol, and educated at Wallington County Grammar School , a grammar school in Surrey, where he won prizes for his achievements in chemistry.From 1941 to 1946 he served in the wartime...

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

     and 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...

    . http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article1895791.ece
  • Wallace Seawell
    Wallace Seawell
    Wallace Seawell was a photographer best known for his portraits of Hollywood stars such as Bette Davis, Audrey Hepburn and George Burns....

    , 90, American photographer and filmmaker, age-related causes. http://www.mercurynews.com/news/ci_6052891

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  • Barbara Cox Anthony
    Barbara Cox Anthony
    Barbara Blair Cox Anthony was the youngest daughter of James M. Cox, a Democratic governor of Ohio, newspaper publisher and broadcaster. With her sister Anne Cox Chambers and brother James M. Cox, Jr., she inherited, via a trust, ownership and control of her father’s company, now called Cox...

    , 84, American heiress, after long illness. http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/2007/May/28/br/br0596431827.html
  • Jörg Immendorff
    Jörg Immendorff
    Jörg Immendorff was one of the best known contemporary German painters; he was also a sculptor, stage designer and art professor.- Life and work :...

    , 61, German painter, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
    Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
    Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis , also referred to as Lou Gehrig's disease, is a form of motor neuron disease caused by the degeneration of upper and lower neurons, located in the ventral horn of the spinal cord and the cortical neurons that provide their efferent input...

    . http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,2144,2560139,00.html
  • David Lane, 68, American white supremacist leader and author. http://www.pal-item.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070529/UPDATES/70529017/1008/NEWS01
  • John Macquarrie
    John Macquarrie
    John Macquarrie FBA TD was a Scottish theologian and philosopher, the author of Principles of Christian Theology and Jesus Christ in Modern Thought...

    , 87, British theologian, Lady Margaret Professor of Divinity at Oxford (1970–1986). http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?view=DETAILS&grid=&xml=/news/2007/05/30/db3001.xml
  • Toshikatsu Matsuoka
    Toshikatsu Matsuoka
    was a Japanese politician. He served as the Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries from September 26, 2006 under the Abe cabinet. He committed suicide in 2007 in the middle of a financial scandal.- Biography :...

    , 62, Japanese politician, Minister of Agriculture
    Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (Japan)
    The , or , is the Cabinet of Japan member in charge of the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries. The current minister is Michihiko Kano.-Role:...

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

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

    . http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/6697329.stm
  • Parren Mitchell
    Parren Mitchell
    Parren James Mitchell , a Democrat, was a U.S. Congressman who represented the 7th congressional district of Maryland from January 3, 1971 to January 3, 1987. He was the first African-American elected to Congress from Maryland....

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

     (1971–1987), co-founder of Congressional Black Caucus
    Congressional Black Caucus
    The Congressional Black Caucus is an organization representing the black members of the United States Congress. Membership is exclusive to blacks, and its chair in the 112th Congress is Representative Emanuel Cleaver of Missouri.-Aims:...

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

    . http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070529/ap_on_re_us/obit_mitchell_1
  • Ethel Mutharika
    Ethel Mutharika
    Ethel Mutharika was the First Lady of Malawi and wife of the President of Malawi, Bingu wa Mutharika.Madam Mutharika was originally from Zimbabwe. She had been married to President Bingu wa Mutharika for 37 years at the time of her death. The couple had four children together...

    , 63, First Lady
    First Lady
    First Lady or First Gentlemanis the unofficial title used in some countries for the spouse of an elected head of state.It is not normally used to refer to the spouse or partner of a prime minister; the husband or wife of the British Prime Minister is usually informally referred to as prime...

     of Malawi
    Malawi
    The Republic of Malawi is a landlocked country in southeast Africa that was formerly known as Nyasaland. It is bordered by Zambia to the northwest, Tanzania to the northeast, and Mozambique on the east, south and west. The country is separated from Tanzania and Mozambique by Lake Malawi. Its size...

    , 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.int.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=68&art_id=nw20070529220038905C896993

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  • Ron Archer
    Ron Archer
    This article is about the cricket player. For Ron Archer see Ted WhiteRonald Graham Archer was an Australian Test cricketer who was born in Highgate Hill, Queensland...

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

    er, 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://content-aus.cricinfo.com/ci/content/story/296078.html?CMP=OTC-RSS
  • Edward Behr
    Edward Behr (journalist)
    Edward Samuel Behr was a foreign correspondent and war journalist, who worked for many years for Newsweek.News reports of his death confused him with the food writer of the same name.-Biography:...

    , 81, British journalist and author. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?view=DETAILS&grid=&xml=/news/2007/05/29/db2901.xmlhttp://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070527/ap_en_ot/obit_behr
  • Sam Garrison
    Sam Garrison
    Samuel Alexander "Sam" Garrison III was a lawyer, probably best known for his role as minority counsel for the House Judiciary Committee, defending President Richard Nixon in the 1974 impeachment hearings, and for his subsequent gay activism.-Early years:Garrison graduated as valedictorian of the...

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

     in impeachment
    Impeachment
    Impeachment is a formal process in which an official is accused of unlawful activity, the outcome of which, depending on the country, may include the removal of that official from office as well as other punishment....

     hearings in 1974, 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/2007/06/01/america/NA-GEN-US-Obit-Garrison.php
  • Marquise Hill
    Marquise Hill
    Marquise Hill was an American football defensive end for the New England Patriots of the National Football League. He was drafted by the Patriots in the second round of the 2004 NFL Draft...

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

     player (New England Patriots
    New England Patriots
    The New England Patriots, commonly called the "Pats", are a professional football team based in the Greater Boston area, playing their home games in the town of Foxborough, Massachusetts at Gillette Stadium. The team is part of the East Division of the American Football Conference in the National...

    ), 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.wwltv.com/local/stories/wwl052807tplsu.1aa969dc.html
  • Jack Kerr
    Jack Kerr
    John Lambert Kerr was a New Zealand cricketer who played seven Tests for the New Zealand cricket team before the Second World War...

    , 96, New Zealand 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...

     player
    New Zealand cricket team
    The New Zealand cricket team, nicknamed the Black Caps, are the national cricket team representing New Zealand. They played their first in 1930 against England in Christchurch, New Zealand, becoming the fifth country to play Test cricket. It took the team until 1955–56 to win a Test, against the...

    , Chairman and President of NZ Cricket
    New Zealand Cricket
    New Zealand Cricket, formerly the New Zealand Cricket Board, is the governing body for professional cricket in New Zealand. Cricket is the most popular and highest profile summer sport in New Zealand....

    . http://home.nzcity.co.nz/news/default.aspx?id=73524
  • Wiley Mayne
    Wiley Mayne
    Wiley Mayne was a four-term Republican United States Congressman from Iowa's 6th congressional district. He was one of several Republican members of the House Judiciary Committee who were defeated in the fall of 1974 after voting against resolutions to impeach President Richard M...

    , 90, American politician, U.S. Representative
    United States Congress
    The United States Congress is the bicameral legislature of the federal government of the United States, consisting of the Senate and the House of Representatives. The Congress meets in the United States Capitol in Washington, D.C....

     from Iowa
    Iowa
    Iowa is a state located in the Midwestern United States, an area often referred to as the "American Heartland". It derives its name from the Ioway people, one of the many American Indian tribes that occupied the state at the time of European exploration. Iowa was a part of the French colony of New...

     (1966–1974), cardiopulmonary incident. http://www.siouxcityjournal.com/articles/2007/05/29/news/local/ff0c32c6c8e08cb0862572ea00127d86.txt
  • Howard Porter
    Howard Porter (basketball)
    Howard Porter was an American professional basketball player. At 6'8" and 220 pounds, he played as a forward and a center....

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

     player (Bulls
    Chicago Bulls
    The Chicago Bulls are an American professional basketball team based in Chicago, Illinois, playing in the Central Division of the Eastern Conference in the National Basketball Association . The team was founded in 1966. They play their home games at the United Center...

    , Knicks
    New York Knicks
    The New York Knickerbockers, prominently known as the Knicks, are a professional basketball team based in New York City. They are part of the Atlantic Division of the Eastern Conference in the National Basketball Association...

    , Pistons
    Detroit Pistons
    The Detroit Pistons are a franchise of the National Basketball Association based in Auburn Hills, Michigan. The team's home arena is The Palace of Auburn Hills. It was originally founded in Fort Wayne, Indiana as the Fort Wayne Pistons as a member of the National Basketball League in 1941, where...

    ), injuries sustained from beating. http://sports.espn.go.com/ncb/news/story?id=2884248&campaign=rss&source=ESPNHeadlines
  • Izumi Sakai
    Izumi Sakai
    , born 6 February 1967 in Kurume, Japan – 27 May 2007 was a Japanese Pop singer, song writer, and member of the group Zard.- Biography :Born in Kurume, Fukuoka, Japan, Sakai grew up in Hadano, Kanagawa. Her father was a driving instructor, and she had a younger brother and younger sister...

    , 40, Japanese singer (Zard
    Zard
    was a Japanese pop group. Originally a group of five members, with lead vocalist Izumi Sakai as group leader. However, Sakai was the only member who stayed on in the group while others joined and left regularly. As such, Zard and Sakai may be referred to interchangeably. Zard's work was sold under...

    ), cerebral contusion
    Cerebral contusion
    Cerebral contusion, Latin contusio cerebri, a form of traumatic brain injury, is a bruise of the brain tissue. Like bruises in other tissues, cerebral contusion can be associated with multiple microhemorrhages, small blood vessel leaks into brain tissue. Contusion occurs in 20–30% of severe head...

    . http://mdn.mainichi-msn.co.jp/entertainment/news/20070528p2a00m0et027000c.html
  • Percy Sonn
    Percy Sonn
    Percival Henry Frederick Sonn was a South African lawyer and cricket administrator. Sonn became the sixth president of the International Cricket Council, the most senior role at cricket's world governing body, in July 2006...

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

    n cricket player, President of the International Cricket Council
    International Cricket Council
    The International Cricket Council is the international governing body of cricket. It was founded as the Imperial Cricket Conference in 1909 by representatives from England, Australia and South Africa, renamed the International Cricket Conference in 1965, and took up its current name in 1989.The...

    , complications after surgery. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/cricket/article1846180.ece
  • G. Srinivasan
    G. Srinivasan
    G. Srinivasan was a film producer who founded the independent production company Madras Talkies, with his elder brother, the director and screenwriter Mani Ratnam....

    , 48, Indian film producer, brother of director Mani Ratnam
    Mani Ratnam
    Mani Ratnam is an Indian filmmaker, screenwriter and producer. He made his directorial debut with the Kannada film Pallavi Anu Pallavi starring Anil Kapoor in 1983...

    , fall into gorge. http://www.indiafm.com/news/2007/05/28/9470/index.html
  • Gretchen Wyler
    Gretchen Wyler
    Gretchen Wyler was an American actress and founder of the Genesis Awards for animal protection.-Early life:...

    , 75, American actress and animal rights
    Animal rights
    Animal rights, also known as animal liberation, is the idea that the most basic interests of non-human animals should be afforded the same consideration as the similar interests of human beings...

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

    . http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2007/05/27/742536-actress-activist-gretchen-wyler-dies
  • Ed Yost
    Ed Yost
    Paul Edward Yost was the American inventor of the modern hot air balloon and is referred to as the "Father of the Modern Day Hot-Air Balloon." He worked for a high altitude research division of General Mills when he helped establish Raven Industries in 1956.-Inventor:Born on a farm 7 miles...

    , 87, American inventor, (modern hot air balloon
    Hot air balloon
    The hot air balloon is the oldest successful human-carrying flight technology. It is in a class of aircraft known as balloon aircraft. On November 21, 1783, in Paris, France, the first untethered manned flight was made by Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier and François Laurent d'Arlandes in a hot air...

    ). http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/05/30/america/NA-GEN-US-Obit-Ed-Yost.php.

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  • James Beck
    James Beck (art historian)
    James H. Beck was an American art historian specialising in the Italian Renaissance. He was an outspoken critic of many high-profile restorations and re-attributions of artworks, and founded the pressure group ArtWatch International to campaign against irresponsible practices in the art...

    , 77, American art historian, founder of ArtWatch International
    ArtWatch International
    ArtWatch International was founded by James Beck, professor of art history at Columbia University, to monitor, and campaign for better practices in, the conservation of art works...

    , http://news.independent.co.uk/people/obituaries/article2631297.ece.
  • Gene Gibson
    Gene Gibson
    Gene Gibson coached the Texas Tech Red Raiders men's basketball team from 1961-1969. A former all-conference player for Texas Tech, during his first year as coach, he led the team to the second round of the NCAA tournament...

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

     player and coach (Texas Tech University
    Texas Tech University
    Texas Tech University, often referred to as Texas Tech or TTU, is a public research university in Lubbock, Texas, United States. Established on February 10, 1923, and originally known as Texas Technological College, it is the leading institution of the Texas Tech University System and has the...

    ), complications from surgery. http://www.cstv.com/sports/m-baskbl/stories/053107aan.html
  • Marek Krejčí
    Marek Krejcí
    Marek Krejčí was a Slovak footballer who played as a striker.- Career :Born in Bratislava, he started his career with local club Inter Bratislava, moving to Spartak Trnava in November 2000...

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

     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...

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

    . http://www.bundesliga.de/en/liga2/news/2006/index.php?f=62987.php&fla=2
  • Aubrey Singer
    Aubrey Singer
    Aubrey Singer was a British broadcasting executive. He was the controller of BBC Two from 1974 until 1978, who replaced Robin Scott and was replaced himself by Brian Wenham....

    , 80, British television executive, head of BBC Two
    BBC Two
    BBC Two is the second television channel operated by the British Broadcasting Corporation in the United Kingdom. It covers a wide range of subject matter, but tending towards more 'highbrow' programmes than the more mainstream and popular BBC One. Like the BBC's other domestic TV and radio...

     (1974–1978). http://news.independent.co.uk/people/obituaries/article2588951.ece
  • Khalil al-Zahawi
    Khalil al-Zahawi
    Khalil al-Zahawi was one of Iraq's most prominent Arabic calligraphers. An ethnic Kurd and a native of Diyala Governorate, he began studying calligraphy in 1959, and moved to Baghdad in 1963, where he gave his first exhibition in 1965. He later graduated from the Fine Arts Institute of Baghdad,...

    , 60/61, 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 calligrapher
    Calligraphy
    Calligraphy is a type of visual art. It is often called the art of fancy lettering . A contemporary definition of calligraphic practice is "the art of giving form to signs in an expressive, harmonious and skillful manner"...

    , shot. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/6696503.stm

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  • Arwon
    Arwon
    Arwon was a New Zealand bred Thoroughbred racehorse, by Aritzo from Fair Flash, who won the 1978 Melbourne Cup at 5 years of age....

    , 33, New Zealand-born racehorse, longest surviving Melbourne Cup
    Melbourne Cup
    The Melbourne Cup is Australia's major Thoroughbred horse race. Marketed as "the race that stops a nation", it is a 3,200 metre race for three-year-olds and over. It is the richest "two-mile" handicap in the world, and one of the richest turf races...

     winner, euthanasia
    Animal euthanasia
    Animal euthanasia is the act of putting to death painlessly or allowing to die, as by withholding extreme medical measures, an animal suffering from an incurable, especially a painful, disease or condition. Euthanasia methods are designed to cause minimal pain and distress...

    . http://www.stuff.co.nz/4074677a17395.html
  • Laurie Bartram
    Laurie Bartram
    Laurie Lee Bartram was an American actress and ballet dancer.- Career :She was an actress and ballet dancer who started in 1973...

    , 49, American actress and ballet dancer, 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.joblo.com/horror-movies/news/laurie-bartram-passes
  • Charles Nelson Reilly
    Charles Nelson Reilly
    Charles Nelson Reilly was an American actor, comedian, director and drama teacher known for his comedic roles in theater, movies, children's television, animated cartoons, and as a panelist on the game show Match Game....

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

    -winning actor and Match Game
    Match Game
    Match Game is an American television game show in which contestants attempted to match celebrities' answers to fill-in-the-blank questions...

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

    . http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/28/theater/28reilly.html
  • Sun Yuanliang
    Sun Yuanliang
    Sun Yuanliang was a Chinese military general of the National Revolutionary Army of the Republic of China. Sun was the last surviving member of the first graduating class of the Whampoa Military Academy, as well as the last surviving army-level commander of the Second Sino-Japanese War...

    , 103, 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...

    -born General
    General
    A general officer is an officer of high military rank, usually in the army, and in some nations, the air force. The term is widely used by many nations of the world, and when a country uses a different term, there is an equivalent title given....

     with the Kuomintang
    Kuomintang
    The Kuomintang of China , sometimes romanized as Guomindang via the Pinyin transcription system or GMD for short, and translated as the Chinese Nationalist Party is a founding and ruling political party of the Republic of China . Its guiding ideology is the Three Principles of the People, espoused...

    , exile
    Exile
    Exile means to be away from one's home , while either being explicitly refused permission to return and/or being threatened with imprisonment or death upon return...

    d in Taiwan
    Taiwan
    Taiwan , also known, especially in the past, as Formosa , is the largest island of the same-named island group of East Asia in the western Pacific Ocean and located off the southeastern coast of mainland China. The island forms over 99% of the current territory of the Republic of China following...

    . http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2007/06/12/2003364885
  • Bartholomew Ulufa'alu
    Bartholomew Ulufa'alu
    Bartholomew Ulufa'alu was the fifth Prime Minister of the Solomon Islands from 27 August 1997 to 30 June 2000....

    , 56, Prime Minister of the Solomon Islands
    Prime Minister of the Solomon Islands
    The Prime Minister of Solomon Islands is Solomon Islands' head of government, consequent on being the leader of the party or coalition with majority support in the National Parliament. Solomon Islands is a Commonwealth realm. Since August 2010, the Prime Minister has been Danny Philip of the Reform...

     (1997–2000), after long illness. http://www.rnzi.com/pages/news.php?op=read&id=32537

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  • Buddy Childers
    Buddy Childers
    Marion "Buddy" Childers became famous in 1942 at the age of 16, when Stan Kenton hired him to be the lead trumpet in his band.As Childers later told Steve Voce:...

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

     trumpet
    Trumpet
    The trumpet is the musical instrument with the highest register in the brass family. Trumpets are among the oldest musical instruments, dating back to at least 1500 BCE. They are played by blowing air through closed lips, producing a "buzzing" sound which starts a standing wave vibration in the air...

    er, 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.independent.co.uk/people/obituaries/article2591492.ece
  • Bill Johnston
    Bill Johnston (cricketer)
    William Arras Johnston was an Australian cricketer who played in forty Test matches from 1947 to 1955. A left arm pace bowler, as well as a left arm orthodox spinner, Johnston was best known as a spearhead of Don Bradman's undefeated 1948 touring team, well known as "The Invincibles"...

    , 85, Australian 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, member of the 1948 Invincibles
    The Invincibles (cricket)
    The Australian cricket team in England in 1948 was captained by Don Bradman, who was making his fourth and final tour of England. The team is famous for being the first Test match side to play an entire tour of England without losing a match. This feat earned them the nickname of The Invincibles,...

    . http://www.guardian.co.uk/australia/story/0,,2089626,00.html
  • Philip Mayer Kaiser
    Philip Mayer Kaiser
    -Education:Born in New York City, Kaiser graduated from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1935. He was also a Rhodes Scholar in 1936 at Balliol College. During this time, he studied labor history.-Family:...

    , 93, American diplomat, 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 Senegal
    Senegal
    Senegal , officially the Republic of Senegal , is a country in western Africa. It owes its name to the Sénégal River that borders it to the east and north...

     and Mauritania
    Mauritania
    Mauritania is a country in the Maghreb and West Africa. It is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean in the west, by Western Sahara in the north, by Algeria in the northeast, by Mali in the east and southeast, and by Senegal in the southwest...

    , Hungary, and Austria, 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.foxnews.com/wires/2007May24/0,4670,ObitKaiser,00.html
  • Norm Maleng
    Norm Maleng
    Norm Maleng served as the King County, Washington, Prosecutor for 28 years. He was also an architect of Washington's Sentencing Reform Act.-Career:Maleng was born in Acme, Washington, and grew up on a dairy farm...

    , 68, American prosecutor
    Prosecutor
    The prosecutor is the chief legal representative of the prosecution in countries with either the common law adversarial system, or the civil law inquisitorial system...

     (King County, Washington
    King County, Washington
    King County is a county located in the U.S. state of Washington. The population in the 2010 census was 1,931,249. King is the most populous county in Washington, and the 14th most populous in the United States....

    ), 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://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2003721534_normmaleng25.html
  • Christopher Newton
    Christopher Newton (criminal)
    Christopher J. Newton was an American criminal whose 2007 execution by the state of Ohio motivated additional discussion about executions by lethal injection....

    , 37, American convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection
    Lethal injection
    Lethal injection is the practice of injecting a person with a fatal dose of drugs for the express purpose of causing the immediate death of the subject. The main application for this procedure is capital punishment, but the term may also be applied in a broad sense to euthanasia and suicide...

    . http://www.foxnews.com/wires/2007May24/0,4670,OhioExecution,00.html
  • Minako Oba, 77, Japanese author. http://www.daily.co.jp/newsflash/2007/05/24/0000349292.shtml (Japanese)
  • David Renton, Baron Renton
    David Renton, Baron Renton
    David Lockhart-Mure Renton, Baron Renton, KBE, QC, TD, DL, PC was a British politician. He served for over 60 years in Parliament, 34 in the House of Commons and then 28 in the House of Lords...

    , 98, British politician and aristocrat, oldest peer in the House of Lords
    House of Lords
    The House of Lords is the upper house of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. Like the House of Commons, it meets in the Palace of Westminster....

    . http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/6689239.stm

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  • Fannie Lee Chaney
    Fannie Lee Chaney
    Fannie Lee Chaney was an American baker turned civil rights activist after her son James Chaney was murdered by the Ku Klux Klan during the 1964 Freedom Summer rides in Mississippi....

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

     activist. http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/24/obituaries/24chaney.html?ref=obituaries
  • Robert Comer
    Robert Comer
    Robert Charles Comer was convicted and sentenced to death by lethal injection by the state of Arizona in 1988 for the murder of his neighbors, Larry Pritchard and Tracy Andrews, in 1987....

    , 50, American convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection
    Lethal injection
    Lethal injection is the practice of injecting a person with a fatal dose of drugs for the express purpose of causing the immediate death of the subject. The main application for this procedure is capital punishment, but the term may also be applied in a broad sense to euthanasia and suicide...

    . http://www.nypost.com/seven/05232007/news/nationalnews/killer_dies_a_raider_fan_nationalnews_.htm
  • Frank E. Maestrone
    Frank E. Maestrone
    Frank Eusebio Maestrone served as United States Ambassador to Kuwait from 1976 to 1979. Born in Springfield, Massachusetts, he eventually retired to San Diego, California. In his retirement, he served as a board member of the San Diego World Affairs Council.Maestrone died on May 22, 2007, after a...

    , 84, American diplomat, 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 Kuwait
    Kuwait
    The State of Kuwait is a sovereign Arab state situated in the north-east of the Arabian Peninsula in Western Asia. It is bordered by Saudi Arabia to the south at Khafji, and Iraq to the north at Basra. It lies on the north-western shore of the Persian Gulf. The name Kuwait is derived from the...

     (1976–1979), infection. http://www.10news.com/news/13395676/detail.html
  • Jef Planckaert
    Jef Planckaert
    Joseph "Jef" Planckaert was a Belgian racing cyclist. He is seen as one of the best Belgian cyclists of the 50's and 60's of the twentieth century....

    , 73, 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...

     cyclist. http://www.rtbf.be/info/sports/ARTICLE_093668 http://www.7sur7.be/hlns/cache/fr/det/art_468910.html?wt.bron=homeSportLinks (French)
  • Pemba Doma Sherpa
    Pemba Doma Sherpa
    Pemba Doma Sherpa was the first Nepali female mountaineer to climb Mount Everest via its north face, was the second Nepali woman to summit from both the north and south faces, and is one of six women to have summited Everest twice...

    , 36, Nepal
    Nepal
    Nepal , officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal, is a landlocked sovereign state located in South Asia. It is located in the Himalayas and bordered to the north by the People's Republic of China, and to the south, east, and west by the Republic of India...

    i mountaineer, two-time summiter of Mt. Everest
    Mount Everest
    Mount Everest is the world's highest mountain, with a peak at above sea level. It is located in the Mahalangur section of the Himalayas. The international boundary runs across the precise summit point...

    , fall from Lhotse
    Lhotse
    Lhotse is the fourth highest mountain on Earth and is connected to Everest via the South Col. In addition to the main summit at 8,516 metres above sea level, Lhotse Middle is and Lhotse Shar is...

    . http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/6684649.stm
  • Art Stevens
    Art Stevens
    Arthur "Art" Stevens was an animator for The Walt Disney Company. Art started work as an inbetweener on Fantasia. When Art retired in 1983 after forty-three years he had worked in all branches of the animation department....

    , 92, American animation director, animator, and writer (The Fox and the Hound
    The Fox and the Hound (film)
    The Fox and the Hound is a 1981 animated feature loosely based on the Daniel P. Mannix novel of the same name, produced by Walt Disney Productions and released in the United States on July 10, 1981...

    ), heart attack. http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117967854.html?categoryId=25&cs=1

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  • Clark Adams
    Clark Adams
    Clark Davis Adams was a prominent American freethought leader and activist.Adams was born in Louisville, Kentucky. As a child, he attended Catholic school, but became skeptical of the church's teachings at an early age...

    , 37, American secular humanist leader and activist. http://www.americanhumanist.org/press/ClarkAdams.php
  • Frank Gay, 86, American businessman, senior corporate aide to Howard Hughes
    Howard Hughes
    Howard Robard Hughes, Jr. was an American business magnate, investor, aviator, engineer, film producer, director, and philanthropist. He was one of the wealthiest people in the world...

    . http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/tx/4833254.html
  • Peter Hayes
    Peter Hayes (lawyer)
    Peter Hayes, QC was a prominent barrister in Melbourne, Australia. He was a director of the Melbourne Football Club from 2000 to 2003.-Professional life:...

    , 54, Australian lawyer. http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,21773710-2,00.html
  • María Hortensia de Herrera de Lacalle, 98, 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, mother of ex-President
    President of Uruguay
    The President of the Oriental Republic of Uruguay is the head of state of Uruguay. His or her rights are determined in the Constitution of Uruguay. Conforms with the Secretariat of the Presidency, the Council of Ministers and the Director of the Office of Planning and Budget, the executive branch...

     Luis Alberto Lacalle
    Luis Alberto Lacalle
    Luis Alberto Lacalle de Herrera is a Uruguayan lawyer and politician who served as President of Uruguay from 1990 to 1995.-Background:His mother, María Hortensia de Herrera de Lacalle, was the daughter of the Blanco political leader Luis Alberto de Herrera, after whom Lacalle was named. Luis...

    . http://www.espectador.com/nota.php?idNota=96078 (Spanish)
  • Bruno Mattei
    Bruno Mattei
    Bruno Mattei was an Italian film director, screenwriter and editor who gained a cult following for a wide variety of exploitation films that covered many genres, ranging from women in prison to zombie films...

    , 75, Italian film director. http://www.contactmusic.com/news.nsf/article/director%20bruno%20mattei%20dies_1031930
  • Kenneth Sokoloff
    Kenneth Sokoloff
    Kenneth Lee Sokoloff was an American economic historian who was broadly interested in the interaction between initial factor endowments, institutions, and economic growth...

    , 54, American 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...

     who examined factor endowment
    Factor endowment
    In economics a country's factor endowment is commonly understood as the amount of land, labor, capital, and entrepreneurship that a country possesses and can exploit for manufacturing. Countries with a large endowment of resources tend to be more prosperous than those with a small endowment, all...

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

    . http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/24/obituaries/24sokoloff.html?ref=obituaries
  • Sakorn Yang-keawsot
    Sakorn Yang-keawsot
    Sakorn Yang-keawsot was a Thai puppeteer. He was a master of the hun lakorn lek . Also known by his English nickname, Joe Louis, in 1985 he founded the Joe Louis Puppet Theatre...

    , 85, Thai
    Thailand
    Thailand , officially the Kingdom of Thailand , formerly known as Siam , is a country located at the centre of the Indochina peninsula and Southeast Asia. It is bordered to the north by Burma and Laos, to the east by Laos and Cambodia, to the south by the Gulf of Thailand and Malaysia, and to the...

     puppeteer
    Puppeteer
    A puppeteer is a person who manipulates an inanimate object, such as a puppet, in real time to create the illusion of life. The puppeteer may be visible to or hidden from the audience. A puppeteer can operate a puppet indirectly by the use of strings, rods, wires, electronics or directly by his or...

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

     illness. http://www.bangkokpost.com/News/22May2007_news02.php

20

  • Bobby Ash
    Bobby Ash
    Bobby Ash was a British actor who became known to children in the Toronto area as Uncle Bobby the host of The Uncle Bobby Show on local station CFTO....

    , 82, British-born Canadian television host (The Uncle Bobby Show), 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.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20070523/bobby_ash_070523/20070523?hub=Canada
  • Dame Jean Herbison
    Jean Herbison
    Dame Jean Marjory Herbison, DBE, CMG, was a New Zealand academic, educator, researcher and Chancellor of the University of Canterbury...

    , 83 or 84, New Zealand academic, first N.Z. female chancellor
    Chancellor (education)
    A chancellor or vice-chancellor is the chief executive of a university. Other titles are sometimes used, such as president or rector....

     (University of Canterbury
    University of Canterbury
    The University of Canterbury , New Zealand's second-oldest university, operates its main campus in the suburb of Ilam in the city of Christchurch, New Zealand...

    , 1979–1984). http://www.stuff.co.nz/thepress/4066555a6530.html
  • Baruch Kimmerling
    Baruch Kimmerling
    Baruch Kimmerling was an Israeli scholar and professor of sociology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Upon his death in 2007, The Times described him as "the first academic to use scholarship to reexamine the founding tenets of Zionism and the Israeli State"...

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

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

    . http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/861990.html
  • Valentina Leontyeva
    Valentina Leontyeva
    Valentina Mikhaylovna Leontyeva was a famous anchor on Soviet TV. She was one of the first television presenters in the Soviet Union.Leontyeva survived the Siege of Leningrad, which claimed the life of her father. After a brief stint at the Mendeleyev Institute, she attended the Vakhtangov...

    , 84, Russian television presenter, one of the first television presenters in the Soviet Union. http://www.rambler.ru/news/events/inmemoriam/10395797.html (Russian)
  • Sir George Macfarlane, 91, British scientist and engineer. http://www.guardian.co.uk/obituaries/story/0,,2137443,00.html http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article1862384.ece
  • Tod H. Mikuriya, 73, American psychiatrist
    Psychiatrist
    A psychiatrist is a physician who specializes in the diagnosis and treatment of mental disorders. All psychiatrists are trained in diagnostic evaluation and in psychotherapy...

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

    . http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/29/health/29mikuriya.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
  • Stanley Miller
    Stanley Miller
    Stanley Lloyd Miller was an American chemist and biologist who is known for his studies into the origin of life, particularly the Miller–Urey experiment which demonstrated that organic compounds can be created by fairly simple physical processes from inorganic substances...

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

     and 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...

    , known for the Miller-Urey experiment
    Miller-Urey experiment
    The Miller and Urey experiment was an experiment that simulated hypothetical conditions thought at the time to be present on the early Earth, and tested for the occurrence of chemical origins of life. Specifically, the experiment tested Alexander Oparin's and J. B. S...

     into the origins of life, heart failure. http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/23/us/23miller.html&cid=0&ei=uqRTRvu2CIXi0QHrh62kCQ
  • William Peters
    William Peters (journalist)
    William Ernest Peters Jr. was an award-winning American journalist and documentary filmmaker who frequently covered race relations in the United States....

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

    . http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/24/business/24peters.html?ref=obituaries
  • Guram Sharadze
    Guram Sharadze
    Guram Sharadze was a Georgian philologist, historian, and politician. In 1995, he founded a small nationalist movement Ena, Mamuli, Sartsmunoeba...

    , 66, Georgian
    Georgia (country)
    Georgia is a sovereign state in the Caucasus region of Eurasia. Located at the crossroads of Western Asia and Eastern Europe, it is bounded to the west by the Black Sea, to the north by Russia, to the southwest by Turkey, to the south by Armenia, and to the southeast by Azerbaijan. The capital of...

     philologist and politician, shot. http://www.imedinews.ge/en/news_read/40637
  • Norman Von Nida
    Norman Von Nida
    Norman Guy Von Nida was an Australian professional golfer.Von Nida was born in Strathfield and grew up in Brisbane. He turned professional in 1933, after attracting attention by winning the Queensland Amateur aged just 18...

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

    . http://www.smh.com.au/news/Sport/Golf-icon-Norman-Von-Nida-dies-aged-93/2007/05/20/1179601235225.html
  • Ben Weisman
    Ben Weisman
    Ben Weisman was an eccentric American composer significant for having written more songs recorded by Elvis Presley than any other songwriter in history. The "Mad Professor" as Weisman was nicknamed by Elvis, worked with the King from 1956 to 1971...

    , 85, American musician and songwriter, wrote nearly 60 songs for singer Elvis Presley
    Elvis Presley
    Elvis Aaron Presley was one of the most popular American singers of the 20th century. A cultural icon, he is widely known by the single name Elvis. He is often referred to as the "King of Rock and Roll" or simply "the King"....

    , 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/2007/05/22/america/NA-GEN-US-Obit-Ben-Weisman.php

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  • Miroslav Deronjić
    Miroslav Deronjic
    Miroslav Deronjić is a Bosnian Serb who was charged with persecution, a crime against humanity, by the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia for his actions related to the attack on the Bosnian village of Glogova.Deronjić held the...

    , 52, Bosnian Serb politician and convicted war criminal, 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.news.com.au/sundayheraldsun/story/0,21985,21762798-5005961,00.html
  • Jack Findlay
    Jack Findlay
    Cyril John Findlay was an Australian former Grand Prix motorcycle road racer. He is noted for having one of the longest racing careers in Grand Prix history spanning 20 years...

    , 72, Australian Grand Prix
    Grand Prix motorcycle racing
    Road Racing World Championship Grand Prix is the premier championship of motorcycle road racing currently divided into three distinct classes: 125cc, Moto2 and MotoGP. The 125cc class uses a two-stroke engine while Moto2 and MotoGP use four-stroke engines. In 2010 the 250cc two-stroke was replaced...

     motorcycle racer. http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=6&click_id=39&art_id=nw20070520145150177C438918
  • Frank Guida
    Frank Guida
    Frank Guida was a Sicilian-American songwriter and music producer credited with discovering Gary U.S. Bonds, whose hits, including "New Orleans" and "Quarter to Three", he produced. He was also a songwriter for Leroy Toombs...

    , 84, Italian-born American record producer. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article2007455.ece
  • Ron Hall, 43, American football
    American football
    American football is a sport played between two teams of eleven with the objective of scoring points by advancing the ball into the opposing team's end zone. Known in the United States simply as football, it may also be referred to informally as gridiron football. The ball can be advanced by...

     player for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers
    Tampa Bay Buccaneers
    The Tampa Bay Buccaneers are a professional American football franchise based in Tampa, Florida, U.S. They are currently members of the Southern Division of the National Football Conference in the National Football League – they are the only team in the division not to come from the old NFC West...

    . http://www.bucpower.com/hall2405.html
  • Marian Radke-Yarrow
    Marian Radke-Yarrow
    Marian Radke-Yarrow was an American child psychologist known for studying controversial topics such as prejudice, altruism, and depression in children....

    , 89, American researcher in child psychology
    Psychology
    Psychology is the study of the mind and behavior. Its immediate goal is to understand individuals and groups by both establishing general principles and researching specific cases. For many, the ultimate goal of psychology is to benefit society...

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

    . http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/23/health/23yarrow.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
  • Scott Thorkelson
    Scott Thorkelson
    Scott Jon Thorkelson was a member of the Canadian House of Commons from 1988 to 1993. His background was in research, consulting and fundraising....

    , 49, Canadian member of the House of Commons
    Canadian House of Commons
    The House of Commons of Canada is a component of the Parliament of Canada, along with the Sovereign and the Senate. The House of Commons is a democratically elected body, consisting of 308 members known as Members of Parliament...

     (1988–1993), 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.brandonsun.com/story.php?story_id=55009
  • Michel Visi
    Michel Visi
    Michel Visi was the bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Port-Vila. He also served as the head of Vanuatu's Vanuatu Christian Council, an important interdenominational organization.Visi was originally from the island of Ambae in the northern part of Vanuatu...

    , 52, Vanuatu
    Vanuatu
    Vanuatu , officially the Republic of Vanuatu , is an island nation located in the South Pacific Ocean. The archipelago, which is of volcanic origin, is some east of northern Australia, northeast of New Caledonia, west of Fiji, and southeast of the Solomon Islands, near New Guinea.Vanuatu was...

    an Catholic bishop. http://www.pacificmagazine.net/news/2007/05/20/vanuatu-bishop-michel-visi-dies-aged-52 http://www.rnzi.com/pages/news.php?op=read&id=32390
  • Hans Wollschläger
    Hans Wollschläger
    thumb|right|150px| Signature, 1988Hans Wollschläger was a German writer, translator, historian, and editor of German literature.-Biography:...

    , 72, German author and translator. http://www.faz.net/s/Rub1DA1FB848C1E44858CB87A0FE6AD1B68/Doc~E36D9EA8FCA0E47638793348399058493~ATpl~Ecommon~Scontent.html (German)
  • Carl Wright
    Carl Wright
    Carl Wright was an American tap dancer, actor, and comedian whose late life acting credits included Soul Food, Barbershop, and Big Momma's House...

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

     and actor, 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.newsvine.com/_news/2007/05/20/729878-dancer-actor-carl-wright-dies-at-75

18

  • Roy De Forest
    Roy De Forest
    Roy De Forest was an American painter known for his comic-like patchwork regionalist style, often depicting dogs & other figurative content in his art....

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

     at University of California, Davis
    University of California, Davis
    The University of California, Davis is a public teaching and research university established in 1905 and located in Davis, California, USA. Spanning over , the campus is the largest within the University of California system and third largest by enrollment...

    . http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2007/05/22/state/n122214D04.DTL
  • Pierre-Gilles de Gennes
    Pierre-Gilles de Gennes
    Pierre-Gilles de Gennes was a French physicist and the Nobel Prize laureate in physics in 1991.-Biography:...

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

     who won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1991. http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/65026.html
  • Saud Memon
    Saud Memon
    Saud Memon was a Pakistani businessman from Karachi dealing in yarn and textiles. Memon was said to own the shed where American journalist Daniel Pearl was killed. Memon was wanted by law-enforcement agencies in the Pearl case for supposedly providing the place where Pearl was beheaded and...

    , 44, Pakistani businessman implicated in the murder of Daniel Pearl
    Daniel Pearl
    Daniel Pearl was an American journalist who was kidnapped and killed by Al-Qaeda.At the time of his kidnapping, Pearl served as the South Asia Bureau Chief of the Wall Street Journal, and was based in Mumbai, India. He went to Pakistan as part of an investigation into the alleged links between...

    , tuberculosis
    Tuberculosis
    Tuberculosis, MTB, or TB is a common, and in many cases lethal, infectious disease caused by various strains of mycobacteria, usually Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Tuberculosis usually attacks the lungs but can also affect other parts of the body...

     and meningitis
    Meningitis
    Meningitis is inflammation of the protective membranes covering the brain and spinal cord, known collectively as the meninges. The inflammation may be caused by infection with viruses, bacteria, or other microorganisms, and less commonly by certain drugs...

    . http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6671067.stm
  • Les Schwab
    Les Schwab
    Leslie Bishop "Les" Schwab was an American businessman from Oregon. He was the founder of Les Schwab Tire Centers, a company which Modern Tire Dealer called "arguably the most respected independent tire store chain in the United States." A native of Oregon, he served in the U.S...

    , 89, American tire tycoon. http://www.oregonlive.com/newsflash/regional/index.ssf?/base/news-19/117953814681790.xml&storylist=orlocal
  • Mika Špiljak
    Mika Špiljak
    Mika Špiljak was a Croatian politician in the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.He was born in Odra Sisačka . His father Dragutin was a railway worker. Špiljak began working at the age of 16...

    , 90, Chairman of the Collective Presidency of Yugoslavia
    Yugoslavia
    Yugoslavia refers to three political entities that existed successively on the western part of the Balkans during most of the 20th century....

     (1983–1984). http://www.b92.net/info/vesti/index.php?yyyy=2007&mm=05&dd=21&nav_id=247517 http://www.index.hr/clanak.aspx?id=348955 (Croatian)
  • Yoyoy Villame
    Yoyoy Villame
    Yoyoy Villame born Roman Tesorio Villame, was a Filipino singer, composer, lyricist, and comedian. Villame was a native of Calape, Bohol and was the father of singer Hannah Villame. He died of cardiac arrest at the Las Piñas Medical Center in Metro Manila on May 18, 2007...

    , 69, 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...

     musician and comedian, 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.gulfnews.com/world/Philippines/10126239.html

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  • Lloyd Alexander
    Lloyd Alexander
    Lloyd Chudley Alexander was a widely influential American author of more than forty books, mostly fantasy novels for children and adolescents, as well as several adult books...

    , 83, American fantasy author
    Fantasy author
    The definition of a fantasy author is somewhat diffuse, and a matter of opinion – Jules Verne considered H. G. Wells to be a fantasy author – and there is considerable overlap with science fiction authors and horror fiction authors...

    , including The Chronicles of Prydain
    The Chronicles of Prydain
    The Chronicles of Prydain is a five-volume series of children's fantasy novels by author Lloyd Alexander...

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

    . http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/17/AR2007051702371.html
  • Petro Balabuyev
    Petro Balabuyev
    Petro Vasylovych Balabuyev was a Ukrainian airplane designer.He was the lead designer of many Antonov airplanes, including the An-225 airplane, currently the world's largest aircraft and the An-124...

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

     aircraft designer, including world's largest aeroplane, the An-225. http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/fn/4812998.html
  • Don Burton
    Don Burton (politician)
    Donald Ross Burton AM was an Australian politician. He was a Labor member of the New South Wales Legislative Council from 1976 to 1984....

    , 87, Australian politician, member of the New South Wales Legislative Council
    New South Wales Legislative Council
    The New South Wales Legislative Council, or upper house, is one of the two chambers of the parliament of New South Wales in Australia. The other is the Legislative Assembly. Both sit at Parliament House in the state capital, Sydney. The Assembly is referred to as the lower house and the Council as...

     (1976–1984). http://www.parliament.nsw.gov.au/prod/parlment/members.nsf/1fb6ebed995667c2ca256ea100825164/efdb7503c2170352ca256e7c001d30cb?OpenDocument
  • John Gonzaga
    John Gonzaga
    John Louis Gonzaga was an American football offensive lineman in the National Football League. He played for the San Francisco 49ers, Dallas Cowboys, and the Detroit Lions. Gonzaga also played in the American Football League for the Denver Broncos...

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

    , 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...

    , Detroit Lions
    Detroit Lions
    The Detroit Lions are a professional American football team based in Detroit, Michigan. They are members of the North Division of the National Football Conference in the National Football League , and play their home games at Ford Field in Downtown Detroit.Originally based in Portsmouth, Ohio and...

     and Denver Broncos
    Denver Broncos
    The Denver Broncos are a professional American football team based in Denver, Colorado. They are currently members of the West Division of the American Football Conference in the National Football League...

    . http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070520/SPORTS01/705200602/1049
  • Kawika Kapahulehua
    Kawika Kapahulehua
    Elia Kawika David Ku'ualoha Kapahulehua was a Hawaiian sailor who was the first to captain an ocean-voyaging canoe from Hawaii to Tahiti in modern times....

    , 76, American captain of the Hokulea
    Hokulea
    Hōkūlea is a performance-accurate full-scale replica of a waa kaulua, a Polynesian double-hulled voyaging canoe. Launched on 8 March 1975 by the Polynesian Voyaging Society, she is best known for her 1976 Hawaii to Tahiti voyage performed with Polynesian navigation techniques, without modern...

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

     to Tahiti
    Tahiti
    Tahiti is the largest island in the Windward group of French Polynesia, located in the archipelago of the Society Islands in the southern Pacific Ocean. It is the economic, cultural and political centre of French Polynesia. The island was formed from volcanic activity and is high and mountainous...

    . http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/05/18/america/NA-GEN-US-Obit-Kapahulehua.php
  • Eugen Weber
    Eugen Weber
    Eugen Joseph Weber was a Romanian-born American historian with a special focus on Western Civilization and the Western Tradition....

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

    n-born American 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...

    , 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/2007/05/22/arts/22weber.html
  • Bill Wight
    Bill Wight
    William Robert Wight was an American pitcher in Major League Baseball who played from through for the New York Yankees , Chicago White Sox , Boston Red Sox , Detroit Tigers , Cleveland Indians , Baltimore Orioles , Cincinnati Reds and St. Louis Cardinals . Listed at 6' 1", 180 lb...

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

     and scout
    Scout (sport)
    In professional sports, scouts are trained talent evaluators who travel extensively for the purposes of watching athletes play their chosen sports and determining whether their set of skills and talents represent what is needed by the scout's organization...

    . http://www.legacy.com/SFGate/DeathNotices.asp?Page=Notice&PersonID=88288004
  • Wiktor Zin
    Wiktor Zin
    Wiktor Zin - Polish architect, graphic artist, professor, architectural preservationist, cultural activist, and promoter of Polish history and culture.-Biography:...

    , 82, 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...

     architect and graphic artist. http://miasta.gazeta.pl/rzeszow/1,34975,4139257.html (Polish)

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  • Alphonse "Bois Sec" Ardoin, 91, American creole
    Zydeco
    Zydeco is a form of uniquely American roots or folk music. It evolved in southwest Louisiana in the early 19th century from forms of "la la" Creole music...

     accordionist. http://www.theadvertiser.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070518/NEWS01/705180302
  • Dame Mary Douglas
    Mary Douglas
    Dame Mary Douglas, DBE, FBA was a British anthropologist, known for her writings on human culture and symbolism....

    , 86, British social anthropologist. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article1805952.ece
  • Gohar Gasparyan
    Gohar Gasparyan
    Gohar Gasparyan also known as the "Armenian nightingale", was an Armenian opera singer.Born in an Armenian family in Cairo, Gasparyan studied at a Music Academy in the city...

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

    n soprano opera singer. http://armenianow.com/?action=viewArticle&AID=2201&CID=2243&IID=1133&lng=eng
  • Allan Hird, Sr., 88, Australian 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...

     and academic, President of Essendon Football Club
    Essendon Football Club
    The Essendon Football Club, nicknamed The Bombers, is an Australian rules football club which plays in the Australian Football League...

     (1969–1975), Victorian
    Victoria (Australia)
    Victoria is the second most populous state in Australia. Geographically the smallest mainland state, Victoria is bordered by New South Wales, South Australia, and Tasmania on Boundary Islet to the north, west and south respectively....

     Director-general
    Director-general
    The term director-general is a title given the highest executive officer within a governmental, statutory, NGO, third sector or not-for-profit institution.-European Union:...

     of Education. http://www.theage.com.au/news/Sport/Hirds-grandfather-dies/2007/05/16/1178995213231.html
  • Peter Marner
    Peter Marner
    Peter Thomas Marner was an English cricketer who played first-class cricket for Lancashire and then Leicestershire. He was rated by Trevor Bailey as the most formidable English batsman without a Test cricket cap....

    , 71, British 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, youngest player to represent the Lancashire County Cricket Club
    Lancashire County Cricket Club
    Lancashire County Cricket Club represents the historic county of Lancashire in cricket's County Championship. The club was founded in 1864 as a successor to Manchester Cricket Club and has played at Old Trafford since then...

    . http://content-aus.cricinfo.com/england/content/story/294383.html
  • Terry Ryan
    Terry Ryan (writer)
    Terry "Tuff" Ryan was an American writer, originally from Defiance, Ohio, who had resided in San Francisco for most of her adult life...

    , 60, American writer (The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio
    The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio
    The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio is a 2005 film written and directed by Jane Anderson, based on the book by Terry "Tuff" Ryan. The DVD was released on March 14, 2006.-Plot:...

    ), 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=/c/a/2007/05/17/BAGP0P3U2E115.DTL
  • Lauren Terrazzano
    Lauren Terrazzano
    Lauren Elizabeth Terrazzano was an American journalist best known for her "Life, With Cancer" Newsday column and other writings about her battle with cancer....

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

    . http://www.newsday.com/ny-terrazzano-column,0,6784588.columnist http://www.foxnews.com/wires/2007May16/0,4670,ObitTerrazzano,00.html

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  • Giorgio Cavaglieri
    Giorgio Cavaglieri
    Giorgio Cavaglieri was an Italian American architectural preservationist and painter of gouaches. His best-known work is his 1960s restoration of the Jefferson Market Library in Greenwich Village....

    , 95, Italian-born American architect, founder of New York City's urban preservation movement. http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/18/arts/design/18cavaglieri.html
  • Jerry Falwell
    Jerry Falwell
    Jerry Lamon Falwell, Sr. was an evangelical fundamentalist Southern Baptist pastor, televangelist, and a conservative commentator from the United States. He was the founding pastor of the Thomas Road Baptist Church, a megachurch in Lynchburg, Virginia...

    , 73, American minister, television evangelist
    Televangelism
    Televangelism is the use of television to communicate the Christian faith. The word is a portmanteau of television and evangelism and was coined by Time magazine. A “televangelist” is a Christian minister who devotes a large portion of his ministry to television broadcasting...

    , and politician activist, founder of the Moral Majority
    Moral Majority
    The Moral Majority was a political organization of the United States which had an agenda of evangelical Christian-oriented political lobbying...

    , cardiac arrhythmia. http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=10187839 http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-070515jerry-falwell,0,2937949.story
  • Karen Hess
    Karen Hess
    Karen Loft Hess was an American culinary historian. Her 1977 book The Taste of America co-authored with her late husband, John L. Hess, established them as anti-establishment members of the culinary world....

    , 88, American culinary historian and author, 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/2007/05/19/dining/19hess.html?_r=1&ref=us&oref=slogin
  • Yolanda King
    Yolanda King
    Yolanda Denise King was the first-born child of Coretta Scott King and civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr...

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

     leader Martin Luther King, Jr.
    Martin Luther King, Jr.
    Martin Luther King, Jr. was an American clergyman, activist, and prominent leader in the African-American Civil Rights Movement. He is best known for being an iconic figure in the advancement of civil rights in the United States and around the world, using nonviolent methods following the...

     http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/05/16/obit.king.ap/index.html
  • Duncan Macrae
    Duncan Macrae (rugby player)
    Duncan James Macrae was a player for the Scotland national rugby union team playing 9 games at centre between 1937 and 1939., as well as for the British Isles team- Early life and career :...

    , 92, British rugby football player, (Scotland Rugby Union Team). http://news.scotsman.com/obituaries.cfm?id=957582007
  • Angus McBride
    Angus McBride
    Angus McBride was an English historical and fantasy illustrator.Born in London to Highland Scots parents, Angus McBride was orphaned as a child when his mother died when he was five, and his father in World War Two when he was twelve. He was educated at the Canterbury Cathedral Choir School...

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

    . http://www.guardian.co.uk/obituaries/story/0,,2088676,00.html

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  • Orlando Bobo
    Orlando Bobo
    Orlando Bobo was a former American football player who played the position of guard for three National Football League teams from 1997–2001 and in the Canadian Football League for the Winnipeg Blue Bombers in 2004....

    , 33, American-born Canadian 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 (Winnipeg Blue Bombers
    Winnipeg Blue Bombers
    The Winnipeg Blue Bombers are a Canadian football team based in Winnipeg, Manitoba. They are currently members of the East Division of the Canadian Football League . They play their home games at Canad Inns Stadium, and plan to move to a new stadium for the 2012 season.The Blue Bombers were founded...

    ), heart and liver failure
    Liver failure
    Acute liver failure is the appearance of severe complications rapidly after the first signs of liver disease , and indicates that the liver has sustained severe damage . The complications are hepatic encephalopathy and impaired protein synthesis...

    . http://www.brandonsun.com/story.php?story_id=54846
  • Ülo Jõgi
    Ülo Jõgi
    Ülo Jõgi was an Estonian war historian, patriot and active in the Estonian resistance against the Soviet occupation of Estonia....

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

    n anti-communist
    Anti-communism
    Anti-communism is opposition to communism. Organized anti-communism developed in reaction to the rise of communism, especially after the 1917 October Revolution in Russia and the beginning of the Cold War in 1947.-Objections to communist theory:...

    . http://www.postimees.ee/150507/esileht/siseuudised/260788.php (Estonian)
  • Edward Jones, 70, British Army
    British Army
    The British Army is the land warfare branch of Her Majesty's Armed Forces in the United Kingdom. It came into being with the unification of the Kingdom of England and Scotland into the Kingdom of Great Britain in 1707. The new British Army incorporated Regiments that had already existed in England...

     general
    General (United Kingdom)
    General is currently the highest peace-time rank in the British Army and Royal Marines. It is subordinate to the Army rank of Field Marshal, has a NATO-code of OF-9, and is a four-star rank....

    , Black Rod
    Black Rod
    The Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod, generally shortened to just Black Rod, is an official in the parliaments of several Commonwealth countries. The position originates in the House of Lords of the Parliament of the United Kingdom...

     (1996–2001), 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.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article1800702.ece
  • Nancy McDonald
    Nancy McDonald
    Nancy Hanks McDonald was a Democratic member of the Texas House of Representatives from District 76 covering Ysleta and parts of El Paso in El Paso County....

    , 72, American politician, member of the Texas House of Representatives
    Texas House of Representatives
    The Texas House of Representatives is the lower house of the Texas Legislature. The House is composed of 150 members elected from single-member districts across the state. The average district has about 150,000 people. Representatives are elected to two-year terms with no term limits...

     (1984–1995), ovarian cancer
    Ovarian cancer
    Ovarian cancer is a cancerous growth arising from the ovary. Symptoms are frequently very subtle early on and may include: bloating, pelvic pain, difficulty eating and frequent urination, and are easily confused with other illnesses....

    . http://www.elpasotimes.com/news/ci_5897636
  • Aaron McMillan
    Aaron McMillan
    Aaron McMillan was an Australian classical pianist.He attended Glenaeon Rudolf Steiner School in Middle Cove, Sydney. Aaron's piano teacher at Glenaeon was Coral Patterson. Coral was Aaron music mentor in his early years and instrumental in his development as a musician, Coral also encouraged...

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

    , bone cancer. http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200705/s1921751.htm
  • Jean Saubert
    Jean Saubert
    Jean Marlene Saubert was a competitive alpine skier from the United States. She won two medals in the 1964 Winter Olympics at Innsbruck, Austria. After graduating from college, Saubert become a teacher. She died in 2007.-Early life:Born in Roseburg, Oregon on May 1, 1942, Saubert grew up in...

    , 65, American dual medalist in slalom (1964 Winter Olympics
    1964 Winter Olympics
    The 1964 Winter Olympics, officially known as the IX Olympic Winter Games, were a winter multi-sport event which was celebrated in Innsbruck, Austria, from January 29 to February 9, 1964...

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

    . http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/05/15/sports/NA-SPT-SKI-Obit-Saubert.php
  • Sir Colin St John Wilson
    Colin St John Wilson
    Sir Colin Alexander St John Wilson, FRIBA, RA, was a British architect, lecturer and author. He spent over 30 years progressing the project to build a new British Library in London, originally planned to be built in Bloomsbury and now completed near Kings Cross.-Early and private life:Wilson was...

    , 85, British architect, designer of the British Library
    British Library
    The British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom, and is the world's largest library in terms of total number of items. The library is a major research library, holding over 150 million items from every country in the world, in virtually all known languages and in many formats,...

    . http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?view=DETAILS&grid=&xml=/news/2007/05/16/db1601.xml

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  • Chen Xiaoxu, 41, 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...

     actress (Dream of the Red Mansion) and Buddhist nun, breast cancer
    Breast cancer
    Breast cancer is cancer originating from breast tissue, most commonly from the inner lining of milk ducts or the lobules that supply the ducts with milk. Cancers originating from ducts are known as ductal carcinomas; those originating from lobules are known as lobular carcinomas...

    . http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2007-05/17/content_874724.htm
  • Mendel Jackson Davis
    Mendel Jackson Davis
    Mendel Jackson Davis was a lawyer and a United States Representative from South Carolina.-Early life and career:Davis was born in the city of North Charleston to Felix Charles Davis and Elizabeth Jackson Davis...

    , 64, American 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 South Carolina
    South Carolina
    South Carolina is a state in the Deep South of the United States that borders Georgia to the south, North Carolina to the north, and the Atlantic Ocean to the east. Originally part of the Province of Carolina, the Province of South Carolina was one of the 13 colonies that declared independence...

     (1971–1981), 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.myrtlebeachonline.com/575/story/67980.html
  • Gomer Hodge
    Gomer Hodge
    Harold Morris Hodge was a Major League Baseball player for the Cleveland Indians in 1971. He died May 13, 2007 from Lou Gehrig's Disease.-External links:...

    , 63, American baseball player (Cleveland Indians
    Cleveland Indians
    The Cleveland Indians are a professional baseball team based in Cleveland, Ohio. They are in the Central Division of Major League Baseball's American League. Since , they have played in Progressive Field. The team's spring training facility is in Goodyear, Arizona...

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

    . http://www.cleveland.com/sports/plaindealer/index.ssf?/base/sports/1179218152175560.xml&coll=2
  • Luis María Mendía
    Luis María Mendía
    Luis María Mendía was the Argentine Chief of Naval Operations in 1976-77, with the rank of vice-admiral. According to confessions gathered by Horacio Verbitsky and made by Adolfo Scilingo , Luis María Mendía was the architect of the "death flight" assassination method whereby the Argentine state...

    , 82, 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...

     naval officer. http://news.independent.co.uk/people/obituaries/article2750481.ece
  • Kate Webb
    Kate Webb
    Kate Webb was a New Zealand-born Australian foreign correspondent for UPI and Agence France Presse.-Biography:...

    , 64, New Zealand journalist and foreign correspondent
    Correspondent
    A correspondent or on-the-scene reporter is a journalist or commentator, or more general speaking, an agent who contributes reports to a newspaper, or radio or television news, or another type of company, from a remote, often distant, location. A foreign correspondent is stationed in a foreign...

    , bowel cancer. http://www.bangkokpost.com/breaking_news/breakingnews.php?id=118717

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  • Mullah Dadullah, 41, Afghan
    Afghanistan
    Afghanistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, is a landlocked country located in the centre of Asia, forming South Asia, Central Asia and the Middle East. With a population of about 29 million, it has an area of , making it the 42nd most populous and 41st largest nation in the world...

     militant, Taliban military commander, shot. http://edition.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/asiapcf/05/13/afghan.dadullah/index.html
  • Kai Johansen
    Kai Johansen
    Kai Johansen , born in Odense, was a Danish professional football defender who spent a large proportion of his career playing in Scotland, most notably for Rangers....

    , 66, 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...

      (Greenock Morton F.C.
    Greenock Morton F.C.
    Greenock Morton Football Club are a Scottish professional football club, who currently play in the Scottish Football League First Division. The club was founded as Morton Football Club in 1874, making it one of the oldest senior Scottish clubs....

     and Rangers
    Rangers F.C.
    Rangers Football Club are an association football club based in Glasgow, Scotland, who play in the Scottish Premier League. The club are nicknamed the Gers, Teddy Bears and the Light Blues, and the fans are known to each other as bluenoses...

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

    . http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/r/rangers/6651555.stm
  • Edy Vasquez
    Edy Vasquez
    Edy Vásquez was a Honduran football midfielder, who played for Motagua. He died in a hospital in the morning of May 12, 2007, following a car crash in Colonia Las Brisas, Tegucigalpa. Vasquez played 63 matches wearing Motagua's blue shirt and scored 7 times...

    , 23, Honduran
    Honduras
    Honduras is a republic in Central America. It was previously known as Spanish Honduras to differentiate it from British Honduras, which became the modern-day state of Belize...

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

    . http://www.laprensahn.com/deportes_nota.php?id04962=11040&t=1179032400

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  • Norman Frank
    Norman Frank
    Norman Joseph Fetbrod , better known by his professional name Norman Frank, was an American public relations executive and politician who helped the Patrolmen's Benevolent Association defeat a civilian complaint review board proposed by New York City Mayor John V. Lindsay...

    , 82, American producer and political strategist. http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/17/nyregion/17frank.html?ref=obituaries
  • Bernard Gordon, 88, American screenwriter
    Screenwriter
    Screenwriters or scriptwriters or scenario writers are people who write/create the short or feature-length screenplays from which mass media such as films, television programs, Comics or video games are based.-Profession:...

    , named on the Hollywood blacklist
    Hollywood blacklist
    The Hollywood blacklist—as the broader entertainment industry blacklist is generally known—was the mid-twentieth-century list of screenwriters, actors, directors, musicians, and other U.S. entertainment professionals who were denied employment in the field because of their political beliefs or...

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

    . http://www.timesdaily.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070512/APE/705120540&cachetime=5
  • Stanley Holden
    Stanley Holden
    Stanley Holden, born Stanley Herbert Waller, was a British American ballet dancer and choreographer.Born in London, he joined the Royal Ballet in 1944 and won notice for performing numerous character roles, especially "Widow Simone" in the 1960 production of La fille mal gardée by Frederick Ashton...

    , 79, British ballet dancer, complications from heart problems and 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://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2007/05/13/entertainment/e115605D71.DTL&type=entertainment http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article1811172.ece
  • Chief Stephen Osita Osadebe
    Chief Stephen Osita Osadebe
    Chief Stephen Osita Osadebe , often referred to as just Osadebe, was an Igbo Nigerian Highlife musician from Atani. His career spanned over 40 years, and he is one of the most well known Igbo highlife musicians...

    , 71, 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 Igbo
    Igbo people
    Igbo people, also referred to as the Ibo, Ebo, Eboans or Heebo are an ethnic group living chiefly in southeastern Nigeria. They speak Igbo, which includes various Igboid languages and dialects; today, a majority of them speak English alongside Igbo as a result of British colonialism...

     highlife
    Highlife
    Highlife is a musical genre that originated in Ghana in the 1900s and spread to Sierra Leone, Nigeria and other West African countries by 1920...

     musician. http://www.boston.com/news/globe/obituaries/articles/2007/05/20/chief_stephen_osita_osadebe_71_titan_of_highlife_music/
  • Malietoa Tanumafili II
    Malietoa Tanumafili II of Samoa
    Malietoa Tanumafili II, GCMG, CBE, was the Malietoa, the title of one of Samoa's four paramount chiefs, and the head of state, or O le Ao o le Malo, a position that he held for life, of Samoa from 1962 to 2007. He was co-chief of state in 1962 and became the sole head of state on 15 April 1963...

    , 94, Samoa
    Samoa
    Samoa , officially the Independent State of Samoa, formerly known as Western Samoa is a country encompassing the western part of the Samoan Islands in the South Pacific Ocean. It became independent from New Zealand in 1962. The two main islands of Samoa are Upolu and one of the biggest islands in...

    n politician, head of state. http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/2/story.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=10439457

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  • John Lattimer
    John Lattimer
    Dr. John Kingsley Lattimer was a urologist who did extensive research on the Lincoln and Kennedy assassinations, becoming the first medical specialist not affiliated with the United States government to examine the medical evidence related to the John F. Kennedy assassination. Dr...

    , 92, American urologist who developed a cure for renal tuberculosis
    Tuberculosis
    Tuberculosis, MTB, or TB is a common, and in many cases lethal, infectious disease caused by various strains of mycobacteria, usually Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Tuberculosis usually attacks the lungs but can also affect other parts of the body...

    .
  • Sir Oliver Millar
    Oliver Millar
    Sir Oliver Nicholas Millar, GCVO, FSA, FBA, was a British art historian. He was an expert on 17th century British painting, and a leading authority on Anthony van Dyck in particular. He served in the Royal Household for 41 years from 1947, becoming Surveyor of The Queen's Pictures in 1972. He...

    , 84, British Surveyor of the Queen's Pictures
    Surveyor of the Queen's Pictures
    The office of the Surveyor of the King's/Queen's Pictures, in the Royal Collection Department of the Royal Household of the Sovereign of the United Kingdom, is responsible for the care and maintenance of the royal collection of pictures owned by the Sovereign in an official capacity – as...

     (1972–1988) and Director of the Royal Collection
    Director of the Royal Collection
    The Director of the Royal Collection is head of the Royal Collection Department of the Royal Household of the Sovereign of the United Kingdom. The post was relatively new, having been established only in 1987.-List of Directors of the Royal Collection:...

     (1987–1988). http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?view=DETAILS&grid=&xml=/news/2007/05/14/db1401.xml
  • Robert Oelman
    Robert Oelman
    Robert Schantz Oelman was an American executive who served as president of NCR Corporation as they switched to electronic cash registers....

    , 97, American chief executive of NCR Corporation
    NCR Corporation
    NCR Corporation is an American technology company specializing in kiosk products for the retail, financial, travel, healthcare, food service, entertainment, gaming and public sector industries. Its main products are self-service kiosks, point-of-sale terminals, automated teller machines, check...

     (1962–1973), co-founder of Wright State University
    Wright State University
    Wright State University is a comprehensive public university with strong doctoral, research, and undergraduate programs, rated among the 260 Best National Universities listed in the annual "America's Best Colleges" rankings by U.S. News and World Report. Wright State is located in Fairborn, Ohio,...

    . http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/16/business/16oelman.html?ref=obituaries
  • Chuck Riley, 66, American voice actor https://www.legacy.com/latimes/Obituaries.asp?Page=ArchiveOrder&PersonID=88222506

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  • Charley Ane
    Charley Ane
    Charles "Charley" Teetai Ane, Jr. was an American football offensive lineman.-High school:Ane excelled in baseball, basketball and track as well as football at the Punahou School in Honolulu, Hawaii...

    , 76, American 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 (Detroit Lions
    Detroit Lions
    The Detroit Lions are a professional American football team based in Detroit, Michigan. They are members of the North Division of the National Football Conference in the National Football League , and play their home games at Ford Field in Downtown Detroit.Originally based in Portsmouth, Ohio and...

    ), 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.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070511/SPORTS01/70511075/1049/SPORTS03
  • Alfred Chandler
    Alfred D. Chandler, Jr.
    Alfred DuPont Chandler, Jr. was a professor of business history at Harvard Business School and Johns Hopkins University, who wrote extensively about the scale and the management structures of modern corporations. His works redefined business and economic history of industrialization...

    , 88, American economic historian
    Economic history
    Economic history is the study of economies or economic phenomena in the past. Analysis in economic history is undertaken using a combination of historical methods, statistical methods and by applying economic theory to historical situations and institutions...

    . http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/12/business/12chandler.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
  • Gino Pariani
    Gino Pariani
    Virginio “Gino” Peter Pariani was an American soccer striker. He earned 5 caps and scored 1 goal for the United States men's national soccer team, and played on the 1950 FIFA World Cup team, including the U.S. team's historic 1–0 victory over England. He was also a member of the U.S. Olympic...

    , 79, American footballer (1950 World Cup), bone cancer. http://soccernet.espn.go.com/news/story?id=429224&cc=4716
  • George Seddon
    George Seddon
    George Seddon was an Australian academic who held university chairs in a range of subjects. He wrote popular books on the Australian landscape embracing diverse points of view...

    , 80, Australian environmental scholar. http://www.smh.com.au/news/obituaries/academic-couldnt-be-fenced-in/2007/05/24/1179601570797.html
  • Dwight Wilson
    Dwight Wilson
    Percy "Dwight" Wilson was the second-to-last surviving Canadian veteran of the First World War.Born in Vienna, Elgin County, Ontario, he signed up as a 15-year old boy in 1916...

    , 106, Canadian centenarian, second-to-last surviving World War I veteran. http://www.ccnmatthews.com/news/releases/show.jsp?action=showRelease&searchText=false&showText=all&actionFor=650753
  • Philip Workman
    Philip Workman
    Philip Workman was a death row inmate executed in Tennessee on May 9, 2007. He was convicted in 1982 for the murder of a police officer following a botched robbery of a Wendy's restaurant in Memphis, Tennessee, and sentenced to death by lethal injection.Workman's guilt remains controversial and...

    , 53, American convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection
    Lethal injection
    Lethal injection is the practice of injecting a person with a fatal dose of drugs for the express purpose of causing the immediate death of the subject. The main application for this procedure is capital punishment, but the term may also be applied in a broad sense to euthanasia and suicide...

    . http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070509/ts_alt_afp/ussentenceexecution_070509172517

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  • Philip Craig
    Philip Craig
    Philip R. Craig was a writer known for his Martha's Vineyard mysteries.-Biography:He was born in Santa Monica and raised on a cattle ranch near Durango, Colorado. In 1951 he attended Boston University intending to become a minister, and got a degree in 1957...

    , 74, American mystery writer. http://www.mvgazette.com/news/2007/05/11/philip_r_craig.php
  • Velma Dunn
    Velma Dunn
    Velma Clancy Dunn was an American diver who competed in the 1936 Summer Olympics.She was born in Monrovia, California and died in Whittier, California....

    , 88, American diver
    Diving
    Diving is the sport of jumping or falling into water from a platform or springboard, sometimes while performing acrobatics. Diving is an internationally-recognized sport that is part of the Olympic Games. In addition, unstructured and non-competitive diving is a recreational pastime.Diving is one...

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

    , 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.sghsalumni.com/ploessel.html
  • Abdullah al Faisal, 85, Saudi
    Saudi Arabia
    The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia , commonly known in British English as Saudi Arabia and in Arabic as as-Sa‘ūdiyyah , is the largest state in Western Asia by land area, constituting the bulk of the Arabian Peninsula, and the second-largest in the Arab World...

     prince, writer and businessman, after long illness. http://www.arabnews.com/?page=1§ion=0&article=95948&d=9&m=5&y=2007
  • John Henry
    John Henry (toxicologist)
    Professor John Anthony Henry was a professor specialising in toxicology in the Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London, at St Mary's Hospital in Paddington...

    , 68, British toxicologist, haemorrhage. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?view=DETAILS&grid=&xml=/news/2007/05/12/db1202.xml
  • Jagdish Narain Sapru
    Jagdish Narain Sapru
    Jagdish Narain Sapru , the grandson of eminent lawyer, political, and social leader Sir Tej Bahadur Sapru, was the former chairman of ITC Limited, BOC India, DIC India , Nicco Park, and the Indian Chamber of Commerce. He was also the president of the Tollygunge Club, a prestigious golf club in...

    , 74, Indian former chairman of ITC Limited and BOC
    BOC
    BOC may refer toBanks:* Bank of Canada, Canada's central bank* Bank of China, a major state-owned bank in the People's Republic of China* Bank of Ceylon, a major government-owned commercial bank* Bank of Cyprus, a major cypriot financial institution...

     India. http://www.telegraphindia.com/1070510/asp/business/story_7757112.asp
  • Carson Whitsett
    Carson Whitsett
    Carson Whitsett was an American keyboardist, songwriter, and record producer.-Biography:...

    , 62, American composer, musician and record producer, brain tumor
    Brain tumor
    A brain tumor is an intracranial solid neoplasm, a tumor within the brain or the central spinal canal.Brain tumors include all tumors inside the cranium or in the central spinal canal...

    . http://www.gospelengine.com/gzone/content/view/191/107/

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  • Isabella Blow
    Isabella Blow
    Isabella Blow was an English magazine editor. The muse of hat designer Philip Treacy, she is credited with discovering the models Stella Tennant and Sophie Dahl as well as the fashion designer Alexander McQueen....

    , 48, British fashion journalist and stylist, 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 poison
    Poison
    In the context of biology, poisons are substances that can cause disturbances to organisms, usually by chemical reaction or other activity on the molecular scale, when a sufficient quantity is absorbed by an organism....

    ing. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article1760141.ece http://www.telegraph.co.uk/fashion/main.jhtml?xml=/fashion/2007/05/07/efisabella107.xml http://women.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/women/fashion/article1774073.ece
  • Diego Corrales
    Diego Corrales
    Diego "Chico" Corrales was an American boxer.He was the WBC, WBO, & The Ring lightweight champion, and the WBO & IBF super featherweight champion....

    , 29, American boxer, motorcycle
    Motorcycle
    A motorcycle is a single-track, two-wheeled motor vehicle. Motorcycles vary considerably depending on the task for which they are designed, such as long distance travel, navigating congested urban traffic, cruising, sport and racing, or off-road conditions.Motorcycles are one of the most...

     accident. http://sports.yahoo.com/box/news;_ylt=AodubjWrf5vxTTX87Wir8ss5nYcB?slug=ki-corrales050707&prov=yhoo&type=lgns
  • George Dawson
    George Dawson (politician)
    George Dawson was a Northern Irish politician and a member of the Democratic Unionist Party since 1979. He was an MLA for East Antrim from November 2003 until his death following a short battle with cancer....

    , 45, British politician, Northern Ireland Assembly
    Northern Ireland Assembly
    The Northern Ireland Assembly is the devolved legislature of Northern Ireland. It has power to legislate in a wide range of areas that are not explicitly reserved to the Parliament of the United Kingdom, and to appoint the Northern Ireland Executive...

     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://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/northern_ireland/6633433.stm http://www.georgedawson.org/
  • Donald Ginsberg
    Donald Ginsberg
    Donald Maurice Ginsberg was an American physicist and expert on superconductors.Born in Chicago, Ginsberg attended University of Chicago, earning a bachelor of arts in 1952, a bachelor of science in 1955, and a master of science in 1956. He then earned his doctorate in physics from the University...

    , 73, American 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...

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

    . http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/19/science/19ginsberg.html?ref=obituaries
  • Tomasi Kulimoetoke II
    Tomasi Kulimoetoke II
    Tomasi Kulimoetoke II was the 50th Lavelua of Wallis Island, which is known as Uvea in the Wallisian language, one of the three traditional kingdoms in the French overseas territory of Wallis and Futuna....

    , 88, King of Wallis ('Uvea)
    Wallis Island
    Wallis is an island in the Pacific Ocean belonging to the French overseas collectivity of Wallis and Futuna....

    . http://www.rnzi.com/pages/news.php?op=read&id=32021
  • Raffi Lavie
    Raffi Lavie
    Raffi Lavie was an Israeli artist, art educator and music/art critic.-Biography:Lavi was born in Tel Aviv, Mandate Palestine. He began teaching at the Midrasha Art Academy in 1966. In the same year he was also a founder of the group Ten Plus. Lavie's work is a cross between graffiti and abstract...

    , 70, 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, 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.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArtVty.jhtml?sw=Rafi+Lavvi&itemNo=856814
  • Emma Lehmer
    Emma Lehmer
    Emma Markovna Lehmer was a mathematician known for her work on reciprocity laws in algebraic number theory...

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

    . http://www.agnesscott.edu/LRIDDLE/WOMEN/lehmer.htm
  • Sonny Myers
    Sonny Myers
    Harold "Sonny" Myers was an American professional wrestler, involved in the business for sixty years.-Career:...

    , 83, American professional wrestler. http://slam.canoe.ca/Slam/Wrestling/2007/05/09/4166132.html
  • Octavian Paler
    Octavian Paler
    Octavian Paler was a Romanian writer, journalist, politician in Communist Romania, and civil society activist in post-1989 Romania.-Biography:Octavian Paler was born in Lisa, Braşov Country.He was educated at Spiru Haret High School in Bucharest...

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

    n writer and journalist, 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://english.hotnews.ro/Romanian-thinker-Octavian-Paler-dies-of-heart-attack-articol_44904.htm
  • Nicholas Worth
    Nicholas Worth
    Nicholas Worth was an American character actor who portrayed General Marzaq and Premier Romanov in Westwood Studios' Command & Conquer series of games, Emperor: Battle for Dune, and also voice-acted as Colonel Bulba/Mr. Jones in Freedom Fighters...

    , 69, American character actor, heart failure. http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/california/la-me-passings11.1may11,1,147462.story?coll=la-headlines-pe-california&ctrack=1&cset=true
  • Yahweh ben Yahweh
    Yahweh ben Yahweh
    Yahweh ben Yahweh was the adopted name of Hulon Mitchell, Jr. , founder and leader of the Nation of Yahweh, a black supremacist new religious movement founded in 1979....

    , 71, American religious cult leader (Nation of Yahweh
    Nation of Yahweh
    The Nation of Yahweh is a predominantly African-American religious group that is the most controversial offshoot of the Black Hebrew Israelites line of thought. It was founded in 1979 in Miami by Hulon Mitchell, Jr., who went by the name Yahweh ben Yahweh. Its goal is to return African Americans,...

    ) and convicted felon, 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.miamiherald.com/459/story/100239.html http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/05/08/america/NA-GEN-US-Obit-Yahweh-Ben-Yahweh.php

6

  • Alvin Batiste
    Alvin Batiste
    Alvin Batiste was an avant garde jazz clarinetist born in New Orleans, Louisiana. He taught at his own jazz institute at Southern University in Baton Rouge...

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

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

    . http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/07/arts/07batiste.html?_r=1&ref=obituaries&oref=slogin
  • Carey Bell
    Carey Bell
    Carey Bell was an American blues musician, who played the harmonica in the Chicago blues style. Bell played harmonica and bass for other blues musicians during the late 1950s, 1960s and early 1970s before embarking on a solo career...

    , 70, American 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, heart failure. http://www.modernguitars.com/archives/003236.html
  • Lesley Blanch
    Lesley Blanch
    Lesley Blanch, MBE, FRSL was an English writer, fashion editor and writer of history....

    , 102, British writer and fashion editor. http://news.independent.co.uk/people/obituaries/article2521685.ece
  • Enéas Carneiro
    Enéas Carneiro
    Enéas Ferreira Carneiro was a Brazilian politician. He represented the state of São Paulo in the National Chamber of Deputies and ran for the presidency three times as a perennial candidate...

    , 68, Brazilian politician, 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.newsvine.com/_news/2007/05/06/704095-brazilian-lawmaker-carneiro-dies-at-68
  • Tamás Gábor
    Tamás Gábor
    Tamás Gábor was a Hungarian épée fencer.-World championships:In World Championships competition, Gabor’s individual medals were a bronze in 1961 and a silver in 1962...

    , 75, 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...

     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/ga/tamas-gabor-1.html
  • Curtis Harrington
    Curtis Harrington
    Curtis Harrington was an American film and television director whose work included experimental films, horror films, and episodic television.-Biography:...

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

    . http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/10/movies/10harrington.html?ref=obituaries
  • Đorđe Novković, 63, Croatia
    Croatia
    Croatia , officially the Republic of Croatia , is a unitary democratic parliamentary republic in Europe at the crossroads of the Mitteleuropa, the Balkans, and the Mediterranean. Its capital and largest city is Zagreb. The country is divided into 20 counties and the city of Zagreb. Croatia covers ...

    n songwriter. http://www.esctoday.com/news/read/8554http://www.index.hr/clanak.aspx?id=345802 (Croatian)
  • Lord Weatherill
    Bernard Weatherill
    Bruce Bernard Weatherill, Baron Weatherill, PC, DL, KStJ was a British Conservative Party politician who became Speaker of the House of Commons.-Tailor:...

    , 86, Speaker of the British House of Commons
    Speaker of the British House of Commons
    The Speaker of the House of Commons is the presiding officer of the House of Commons, the United Kingdom's lower chamber of Parliament. The current Speaker is John Bercow, who was elected on 22 June 2009, following the resignation of Michael Martin...

     (1983–1992), after short illness. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/6632713.stm

5

  • Prince Abdul-Majid bin Abdul-Aziz, c.
    Circa
    Circa , usually abbreviated c. or ca. , means "approximately" in the English language, usually referring to a date...

    64, Saudi
    Saudi Arabia
    The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia , commonly known in British English as Saudi Arabia and in Arabic as as-Sa‘ūdiyyah , is the largest state in Western Asia by land area, constituting the bulk of the Arabian Peninsula, and the second-largest in the Arab World...

     politician, governor of Mecca
    Mecca
    Mecca is a city in the Hijaz and the capital of Makkah province in Saudi Arabia. The city is located inland from Jeddah in a narrow valley at a height of above sea level...

    . http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/07/world/middleeast/07abdul.html?_r=1&ref=obituaries&oref=slogin
  • José Aponte de la Torre
    José Aponte de la Torre
    José Ernesto Aponte de la Torre was a Puerto Rican politician and mayor of Carolina for 22 years.-Biography:...

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

     mayor, respiratory complications. http://www.primerahora.com/noticia/politica/noticias/muere_alcalde_de_carolina/60440 (Spanish)
  • Tom Hutchinson, 65, American 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...

     wide receiver
    Wide receiver
    A wide receiver is an offensive position in American and Canadian football, and is the key player in most of the passing plays. Only players in the backfield or the ends on the line are eligible to catch a forward pass. The two players who begin play at the ends of the offensive line are eligible...

     for the Cleveland Browns
    Cleveland Browns
    The Cleveland Browns are a professional football team based in Cleveland, Ohio. They are currently members of the North Division of the American Football Conference in the National Football League...

     1964
    1964 NFL season
    The 1964 NFL season was the 45th regular season of the National Football League. Before the season started, NFL commissioner Pete Rozelle reinstated Green Bay Packers running back Paul Hornung and Detroit Lions defensive tackle Alex Karras, who had been suspended for the 1963 season due to...

     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...

     champions. http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/sports/steelers/rss/s_506524.html
  • Theodore Maiman, 79, American 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...

     who built the first laser, systemic mastocytosis. http://news.independent.co.uk/people/obituaries/article2524415.ece
  • Edwin H. Simmons
    Edwin H. Simmons
    Brigadier General Edwin H. Simmons was a highly decorated United States Marine Corps officer who served in combat during three wars — including landing at Inchon and fighting at the Chosin Reservoir. He was renowned as the Marine Corps historian, being called "the collective memory of the...

    , 85, American Marine Corps historian. http://www.nj.com/columns/gloucester/jimsix/index.ssf?/base/columns-0/1178781903105030.xml&coll=8
  • Gusti Wolf
    Gusti Wolf
    Gusti Wolf was an Austrian stage, film, and television actress.Born in Vienna, Wolf made her stage debut at the Burgtheater in 1934 and from there moved on to Ostrava, Munich, and Berlin...

    , 95, Austrian actress. http://wien.orf.at/stories/190696/ (German)

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  • Russell W. Kruse
    Russell W. Kruse
    Russell Wayne Kruse was an American auctioneer best known for building the business of auctioning classic cars through Kruse International....

    , 85, American auctioneer, 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/2007/05/08/automobiles/08kruse.html?ref=obituaries
  • Jeremias Nguenha
    Jeremias Nguenha
    Jeremias Nguenha was a Mozambican musician. He sang in Shangaan.- Early life, Career and death :Jeremias Nguenha was born in Inhambane, March 19 of 1972...

    , Mozambican
    Mozambique
    Mozambique, officially the Republic of Mozambique , is a country in southeastern Africa bordered by the Indian Ocean to the east, Tanzania to the north, Malawi and Zambia to the northwest, Zimbabwe to the west and Swaziland and South Africa to the southwest...

     political musician who sang in Shangaan
    Shangaan
    The Tsonga people inhabit the southern coastal plain of Mozambique, parts of Zimbabwe and Swaziland, and the Limpopo Province of South Africa...

    . http://www.noticiaslusofonas.com/view.php?load=arcview&article=17464&catogory=Mo%E7ambique (Portuguese)
  • Mamadou Zare
    Mamadou Zare
    Mamadou Zaré was one of Ivory Coast's most successful and respected football managers.-Career:...

    , 45, Ivorian
    Côte d'Ivoire
    The Republic of Côte d'Ivoire or Ivory Coast is a country in West Africa. It has an area of , and borders the countries Liberia, Guinea, Mali, Burkina Faso and Ghana; its southern boundary is along the Gulf of Guinea. The country's population was 15,366,672 in 1998 and was estimated to be...

     soccer player and coach. http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/africa/6626429.stm

3

  • Alex Agase
    Alex Agase
    -External links:...

    , 85, Iran
    Iran
    Iran , officially the Islamic Republic of Iran , is a country in Southern and Western Asia. The name "Iran" has been in use natively since the Sassanian era and came into use internationally in 1935, before which the country was known to the Western world as Persia...

    ian-born American 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...

     coach. http://www.mcall.com/sports/football/all-b9_obit-agase-.5835553may05,0,868108.story?coll=all-sportsmorefootball-hed
  • J. Robert Bradley
    J. Robert Bradley
    John Robert Lee Bradley was an American gospel music singer. He was the favorite singer of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and was nicknamed "Mr...

    , 87, American gospel
    Gospel music
    Gospel music is music that is written to express either personal, spiritual or a communal belief regarding Christian life, as well as to give a Christian alternative to mainstream secular music....

     singer, diabetes. http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/04/arts/music/04bradley.html?ref=obituaries
  • Leonard Eron
    Leonard Eron
    Leonard David Eron was an American psychologist best known for his Columbia County Longitudinal Study that concluded television viewing led to violence.-Life and career:...

    , 87, American 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...

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

    . http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/12/us/12eron.html?ref=obituaries
  • Abdul Sabur Farid Kuhestani
    Abdul Sabur Farid Kuhestani
    Abdul Sabur Farid Kohistani served as Prime Minister of Afghanistan from July 6, 1992 until August 15, 1992. He was a member of Gulbuddin Hekmatyar's Hezbi Islami....

    , 54/55, Afghan
    Afghanistan
    Afghanistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, is a landlocked country located in the centre of Asia, forming South Asia, Central Asia and the Middle East. With a population of about 29 million, it has an area of , making it the 42nd most populous and 41st largest nation in the world...

     legislator and Prime Minister
    Prime Minister of Afghanistan
    The Prime Minister of Afghanistan is a currently defunct post in the Afghan Government.The position was created in 1927, and was appointed by the king, mostly as an advisor, until the end of the monarchy in 1973...

     (1992), assassination
    Assassination
    To carry out an assassination is "to murder by a sudden and/or secret attack, often for political reasons." Alternatively, assassination may be defined as "the act of deliberately killing someone, especially a public figure, usually for hire or for political reasons."An assassination may be...

     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://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/6618127.stm
  • Pat O'Shea, 74, Irish
    Ireland
    Ireland is an island to the northwest of continental Europe. It is the third-largest island in Europe and the twentieth-largest island on Earth...

     writer. http://news.independent.co.uk/people/obituaries/article2631309.ece
  • Wally Schirra
    Wally Schirra
    Walter Marty Schirra, Jr. was an American test pilot, United States Navy officer, and one of the original Mercury 7 astronauts chosen for the Project Mercury, America's effort to put humans in space. He is the only person to fly in all of America's first three space programs...

    , 84, American Mercury
    Project Mercury
    In January 1960 NASA awarded Western Electric Company a contract for the Mercury tracking network. The value of the contract was over $33 million. Also in January, McDonnell delivered the first production-type Mercury spacecraft, less than a year after award of the formal contract. On February 12,...

    , Gemini
    Project Gemini
    Project Gemini was the second human spaceflight program of NASA, the civilian space agency of the United States government. Project Gemini was conducted between projects Mercury and Apollo, with ten manned flights occurring in 1965 and 1966....

    , and Apollo
    Project Apollo
    The Apollo program was the spaceflight effort carried out by the United States' National Aeronautics and Space Administration , that landed the first humans on Earth's Moon. Conceived during the Presidency of Dwight D. Eisenhower, Apollo began in earnest after President John F...

     astronaut, 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.cnn.com/2007/TECH/space/05/03/schirra.obit/index.html
  • Rose Tombe, Sudan
    Sudan
    Sudan , officially the Republic of the Sudan , is a country in North Africa, sometimes considered part of the Middle East politically. It is bordered by Egypt to the north, the Red Sea to the northeast, Eritrea and Ethiopia to the east, South Sudan to the south, the Central African Republic to the...

    ese celebrity goat, asphyxiation. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/africa/article1744570.ece
  • Knock Yokoyama
    Knock Yokoyama
    Knock Yokoyama was a Japanese comedian and politician.Born Isamu Yamada in Kobe, he adopted his current stage name while directing the Manga Trio manzai troupe from 1959 to 1968...

    , 75, Japanese comedian and politician, 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...

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  • Phillip Carter, 44, British businessman, honorary VP
    Vice president
    A vice president is an officer in government or business who is below a president in rank. The name comes from the Latin vice meaning 'in place of'. In some countries, the vice president is called the deputy president...

     of Chelsea FC, helicopter
    Helicopter
    A helicopter is a type of rotorcraft in which lift and thrust are supplied by one or more engine-driven rotors. This allows the helicopter to take off and land vertically, to hover, and to fly forwards, backwards, and laterally...

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

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  • Brad McGann
    Brad McGann
    Brad McGann MNZM , was a New Zealand film director and screenwriter.McGann was born in New Zealand in 1964. He completed a Bachelor of Commerce degree at the University of Otago and in 1988 completed a one-year post-graduate course at the Swinburne School of Film and Television in Melbourne...

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

     (In My Father's Den
    In My Father's Den (film)
    In My Father's Den is a 2004 New Zealand film written and directed by Brad McGann and starring Matthew Macfadyen and Emily Barclay. It is based on the novel of the same title by Maurice Gee...

    ), 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.stuff.co.nz/4045828a10.html

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  • Mathilde Octavie Tafna, 112, Guadeloupe
    Guadeloupe
    Guadeloupe is an archipelago located in the Leeward Islands, in the Lesser Antilles, with a land area of 1,628 square kilometres and a population of 400,000. It is the first overseas region of France, consisting of a single overseas department. As with the other overseas departments, Guadeloupe...

    an oldest living person of a French possession
    Overseas departments and territories of France
    The French Overseas Departments and Territories consist broadly of French-administered territories outside of the European continent. These territories have varying legal status and different levels of autonomy, although all have representation in the Parliament of France , and consequently the...

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