Deaths in May 2008
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Deaths in 2008
Deaths in 2008
The following is a list of notable deaths in 2008. Names are listed under the date of death and not the date it was announced. Names under each date are listed in alphabetical order by family name....

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

 - December
Deaths in December 2008
Deaths in 2008 : ← - January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December- →The following is a list of notable deaths in December 2008.-31:*Premjit Lall, 68, Indian tennis player, after long illness....

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



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

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  • Carlos Alhinho
    Carlos Alhinho
    Carlos Alexandre Fortes Alhinho was a Cape Verdean-born Portuguese football central defender and manager....

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

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

    , fall. http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/africa/7430296.stm
  • Joe Axelson
    Joe Axelson
    Joe Axelson was an American sports executive who won the first NBA Executive of the Year Award in 1973 while serving as general manager of the Kansas City-Omaha Kings...

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

     executive and general manager of the NBA
    National Basketball Association
    The National Basketball Association is the pre-eminent men's professional basketball league in North America. It consists of thirty franchised member clubs, of which twenty-nine are located in the United States and one in Canada...

     Sacramento Kings
    Sacramento Kings
    The Sacramento Kings are a professional basketball team based in Sacramento, California, United States. They are currently members of the Western Conference of the National Basketball Association...

    . http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/news/story?id=3421492
  • Nusret Çolpan
    Nusret Çolpan
    Nusret Çolpan was a Turkish painter, architect and miniaturist, renowned for his paintings in Ottoman miniature style depicting cities around the world, particularly Istanbul. He painted over 300 miniatures in his 30 year career.-Lost Years in Bandirma:Çolpan's talent for painting was recognized...

    , 56, Turkish
    Turkey
    Turkey , known officially as the Republic of Turkey , is a Eurasian country located in Western Asia and in East Thrace in Southeastern Europe...

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

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

    . http://sozluk.sourtimes.org/show.asp?t=nusret%20%C3%A7olpan (Turkish)
  • Detlef Gromoll
    Detlef Gromoll
    Detlef Gromoll was a mathematician who studied distortions of shapes in three or more dimensions. In his soul theorem, published in 1972, he and Jeff Cheeger studied the properties of surfaces that have flat regions or curves like the outside of a sphere but not regions shaped liked saddles...

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

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

    , brain hemorrhage. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/19/science/19gromoll.html?_r=1&ref=obituaries&oref=slogin
  • Nelly Láinez
    Nelly Láinez
    Nelly Láinez was an Argentine comedic actress, best known her performances in a string of unusual titled Argentine comedic films and television shows such as Vampires Prefer Fatties in 1974....

    , 88, 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...

     actress, urinary infection. http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117987322.html?categoryid=13&cs=1&nid=2562
  • Per-Erik Larsson
    Per-Erik Larsson
    Per-Erik Larsson , was a former Swedish cross-country skier who competed in the 1950's. He won a bronze medal in the 4 x 10 km relay at the 1956 Winter Olympics in Cortina d'Ampezzo....

    , 79, Swedish
    Sweden
    Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....

     skier
    Skiing
    Skiing is a recreational activity using skis as equipment for traveling over snow. Skis are used in conjunction with boots that connect to the ski with use of a binding....

    . http://www.st.nu/familje/index.php?action=visa_artikel&id=735327 (Swedish)
  • Charles Moskos
    Charles Moskos
    Charles C. Moskos was a sociologist of the United States Military and a professor at Northwestern University...

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

     sociologist
    Sociology
    Sociology is the study of society. It is a social science—a term with which it is sometimes synonymous—which uses various methods of empirical investigation and critical analysis to develop a body of knowledge about human social activity...

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

    . http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/chi-ap-il-obit-moskos,0,6491584.story
  • Paul Thomson
    Paul Thomson (botanist)
    Paul Thomson was an American exotic fruit enthusiast, self taught botanist, fruit farmer and the co-founder of the California Rare Fruit Growers Association, a group of amateur horticulturists which now has more than 3,000 members in approximately 35 countries...

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

     botanist, co-founder of the California Rare Fruit Growers Association
    California Rare Fruit Growers Association
    The California Rare Fruit Growers Association is an organization of rare exotic fruit enthusiasts, hobbyists and amateur horticulturists based in California. The CRFG, founded in 1968, promotes rare fruits in the Southern California marketplace, according to a 1997 article in the Seasonal Chef...

    . http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/06/15/MNGV119I76.DTL

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  • Harry Brautigam
    Harry Brautigam
    Harry Brautigam was a Nicaraguan economist, banker and academic.Dr. Harry Emil Brautigam, son of Harry and Lucille Brautigam, was born and raised in Bluefields, Nicaragua. He received a Bachelors in Business Administration in Guadalajara, Mexico...

    , 59, Nicaragua
    Nicaragua
    Nicaragua is the largest country in the Central American American isthmus, bordered by Honduras to the north and Costa Rica to the south. The country is situated between 11 and 14 degrees north of the Equator in the Northern Hemisphere, which places it entirely within the tropics. The Pacific Ocean...

    n president of the BCIE since 2003, heart problem after air crash. http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5j830-0ZlHLNghGjjOB5NFKla9iKQD9105E3G1
  • Campbell Burnap
    Campbell Burnap
    Campbell Crichton Mackinnon Burnap was a British jazz trombonist, vocalist and broadcaster....

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

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

     trombonist, 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.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/campbell-burnap-jazz-trombonist-and-broadcaster-838218.html
  • Harlan Cleveland
    Harlan Cleveland
    Harlan Cleveland was an American diplomat, educator, and author. He served as Lyndon Johnson's U.S. Ambassador to NATO, 1965–1969, and earlier as U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs, 1961-1965...

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

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

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

    , ambassador to NATO
    United States Permanent Representative to NATO
    The United States Permanent Representative to NATO is the official representative of the United States to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. The Representative has the rank of full ambassador and is appointed by the President and confirmed by the Senate...

     (1965–1969), 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.startribune.com/obituaries/19587364.html
  • Rodney Gordon
    Rodney Gordon
    Rodney Gordon was a British architect. He was the primary architect of the Tricorn centre, Portsmouth. Architecturally, his works were primarily in concrete; he was said to be a Brutalist and his buildings have been described as "dramatic, sculptural and enormous" as well as "futuristic".-...

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

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

    . http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2008/sep/10/architecture
  • Noel Moore
    Noel Moore
    Noel Ernest Ackroyd Moore was a British civil servant who was responsible for running the process leading to the decimalisation of the UK's currency in 1971. He was later principal of the Civil Service College.-Early life:...

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

     civil servant, leader of decimalisation
    Decimal Day
    Decimal Day was the day the United Kingdom and Ireland decimalised their currencies.-Old system:Under the old currency of pounds, shillings and pence, the pound was made up of 240 pence , with 12 pence in a shilling and 20 shillings in a...

     project, brain tumour. http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2008/jul/23/past
  • Chris Morgan
    Chris Morgan (journalist)
    Christopher Morgan , was a Welsh journalist.Morgan was born in Cardiff and educated at Cardiff High School, and the United World College of the Atlantic in the Vale of Glamorgan. He graduated in 1976 in theology from the University of St Andrews, Scotland.Morgan began his media career in...

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

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

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

     in front of a train. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/7432747.stm
  • William Eldridge Odom
    William Eldridge Odom
    William Eldridge Odom was a retired U.S. Army 3-star general, and former Director of the NSA under President Ronald Reagan, which culminated a 31 year career in military intelligence, mainly specializing in matters relating to the Soviet Union...

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

     army
    United States Army
    The United States Army is the main branch of the United States Armed Forces responsible for land-based military operations. It is the largest and oldest established branch of the U.S. military, and is one of seven U.S. uniformed services...

     Lieutenant General
    Lieutenant General
    Lieutenant General is a military rank used in many countries. The rank traces its origins to the Middle Ages where the title of Lieutenant General was held by the second in command on the battlefield, who was normally subordinate to a Captain General....

     and director of the National Security Agency
    National Security Agency
    The National Security Agency/Central Security Service is a cryptologic intelligence agency of the United States Department of Defense responsible for the collection and analysis of foreign communications and foreign signals intelligence, as well as protecting U.S...

    . http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/31/AR2008053102193.html
  • Lorenzo Odone
    Lorenzo Odone
    Lorenzo Michael Murphy Odone was an American adrenoleukodystrophy patient whose parents, Augusto and Michaela Odone, sought a treatment for the disease and invented Lorenzo's oil....

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

     ALD
    Adrenoleukodystrophy
    Adrenoleukodystrophy is a rare, inherited disorder that leads to progressive brain damage, failure of the adrenal glands and eventually death. ALD is a disease in a group of genetic disorders called leukodystrophies, whose chief feature is damage to myelin...

     patient portrayed in the film Lorenzo's Oil
    Lorenzo's Oil
    Lorenzo's Oil is a 1992 drama film directed by George Miller. It is based on a true story of Augusto and Michaela Odone, two parents in a relentless search for a cure for their son Lorenzo's adrenoleukodystrophy...

    . http://www.newscientist.com/channel/health/dn14060-obituary-lorenzo-odone.html
  • Mike Scott
    Mike Scott (television presenter)
    Michael John Christopher Scott was a British television producer and presenter. He is best remembered for his TV talk show, The Time, The Place and his work as a reporter on World in Action....

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

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

     and presenter
    Presenter
    A presenter, or host , is a person or organization responsible for running an event. A museum or university, for example, may be the presenter or host of an exhibit. Likewise, a master of ceremonies is a person that hosts or presents a show...

    . http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2008/jun/02/itv.television1
  • Boris Shakhlin
    Boris Shakhlin
    Boris Anfiyanovich Shakhlin was a Soviet gymnast who was the 1960 Olympic all-around champion and the 1958 all-around World Champion. He won total of 13 medals including seven gold medals at the Summer Olympics, and was the most successful athlete at the 1960 Summer Olympics...

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

    n-born 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...

     gymnast
    Gymnast
    Gymnasts are people who participate in the sports of either artistic gymnastics, trampolining, or rhythmic gymnastics.See gymnasium for the origin of the word gymnast from gymnastikos.-Female artistic:Australia...

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

     gold medals for the Soviet Union
    Soviet Union
    The Soviet Union , officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics , was a constitutionally socialist state that existed in Eurasia between 1922 and 1991....

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

    . http://www.intlgymnast.com/Online-Features/News/360.html
  • Nat Temple
    Nat Temple
    Nat Temple was an English big band leader, and a clarinet and saxophone player.Amongst many others, he worked with Syd Roy, Harry Roy, Geraldo, Ambrose, Joe Daniels, and Lew Stone.-Career:...

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

     bandleader
    Bandleader
    A bandleader is the leader of a band of musicians. The term is most commonly, though not exclusively, used with a group that plays popular music as a small combo or a big band, such as one which plays jazz, blues, rhythm and blues or rock and roll music....

    . http://arts.guardian.co.uk/theatre/obituary/0,,2283760,00.html

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  • Paula Gunn Allen
    Paula Gunn Allen
    Paula Gunn Allen was a Native American poet, literary critic, lesbian activist, and novelist.Born Paula Marie Francis in Albuquerque, Allen grew up in Cubero, New Mexico, a Spanish-Mexican land grant village bordering the Laguna Pueblo reservation...

    , 68, Native American
    Native Americans in the United States
    Native Americans in the United States are the indigenous peoples in North America within the boundaries of the present-day continental United States, parts of Alaska, and the island state of Hawaii. They are composed of numerous, distinct tribes, states, and ethnic groups, many of which survive as...

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

    . http://www.paulagunnallen.net/
  • José Alejandro Bernales
    José Alejandro Bernales
    José Alejandro Bernales Ramírez was the General director of the Carabineros de Chile from November 27, 2005 until his death on May 29, 2008. He was also the first President of Ameripol. He died in a helicopter crash in Panama City along with three other police officials, two spouses, and five...

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

    an director general of Carabineros de Chile
    Carabineros de Chile
    thumb|250px|Carabineros de Chile, patrolling a street in [[Santiago, Chile|Santiago]]The Carabiniers of Chile, are the uniformed Chilean national police force and gendarmerie, created on April 27, 1927. Their mission is to maintain order and create public respect for the laws of the country...

    , helicopter crash. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/7426812.stm
  • Luc Bourdon
    Luc Bourdon
    Luc Bourdon was a Canadian professional Ice Hockey Defenceman who played for the Vancouver Canucks of the National Hockey League and their American Hockey League affiliate, the Manitoba Moose, from 2006 until 2008...

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

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

     player, motorcycle accident. http://www.canada.com/theprovince/news/story.html?id=20dc25c4-cc2f-45af-bfed-70ba438bfd6f
  • Romeo A. Brawner
    Romeo A. Brawner
    Romeo Aliac Brawner was a Filipino public official who served as a Commissioner of the Philippine Commission on Elections from 2005 until his death from a heart attack in May 2008...

    , 72, 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...

     appeals court judge
    Philippine Court of Appeals
    The Court of Appeals of the Philippines is the Philippines' second highest judicial court, just after the Supreme Court. The court consists of 68 Associate Justices and 1 Presiding Justice...

     (1995–2005), election commissioner
    Commission on Elections (Philippines)
    The Commission on Elections, or COMELEC, is one of the three constitutional commissions of the Philippines. Its principal role is to enforce all laws and regulations relative to the conduct of elections, initiatives, referendums, and recalls....

     (2005–2008), 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://newsinfo.inquirer.net/breakingnews/nation/view/20080529-139484/UPDATE-2-Comelecs-Brawner-dies-of-heart-attack
  • Leonard Devine
    Leonard Devine
    Leonard Thomas Devine was an Australian politician.Raised and educated in Sydney he was the Health Inspector for Sydney City Council before serving in World War II from 1942-45. On his return he became a taxi-driver and alderman on Sydney City Council...

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

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

    , MP
    Australian House of Representatives
    The House of Representatives is one of the two houses of the Parliament of Australia; it is the lower house; the upper house is the Senate. Members of Parliament serve for terms of approximately three years....

     for East Sydney
    Division of East Sydney
    The Division of East Sydney was anAustralian Electoral Division in New South Wales. The division was created in 1900 and was one of the original 75 divisions contested at the first federal election. It was abolished in 1969. It was named for the suburb of East Sydney. It was located in the inner...

     (1963–1969).
  • Harvey Korman
    Harvey Korman
    Harvey Herschel Korman was an American comedic actor who performed in television and movie productions beginning in 1960...

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

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

     and 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...

     (Blazing Saddles
    Blazing Saddles
    Blazing Saddles is a 1974 satirical Western comedy film directed by Mel Brooks. Starring Cleavon Little and Gene Wilder, the film was written by Brooks, Andrew Bergman, Richard Pryor, Norman Steinberg, and Al Uger, and was based on Bergman's story and draft. The movie was nominated for three...

    , The Carol Burnett Show
    The Carol Burnett Show
    The Carol Burnett Show is a variety / sketch comedy television show starring Carol Burnett, Harvey Korman, Vicki Lawrence, Lyle Waggoner, and Tim Conway. It originally ran on CBS from September 11, 1967, to March 29, 1978, for 278 episodes and originated from CBS Television City's Studio 33...

    , The Flintstones
    The Flintstones
    The Flintstones is an animated, prime-time American television sitcom that screened from September 30, 1960 to April 1, 1966, on ABC. Produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions, The Flintstones was about a working class Stone Age man's life with his family and his next-door neighbor and best friend. It...

    ), abdominal aortic aneurysm
    Abdominal aortic aneurysm
    Abdominal aortic aneurysm is a localized dilatation of the abdominal aorta exceeding the normal diameter by more than 50 percent, and is the most common form of aortic aneurysm...

    . http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory?id=4959668

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  • Beryl Cook
    Beryl Cook
    Beryl Cook, OBE was an English artist best known for comical paintings of people she encountered in her home city. She had no formal training and did not take up painting until middle age.- Early life :...

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

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

    . http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7423702.stm
  • Sven Davidson
    Sven Davidson
    Sven Davidson was a Swedish tennis player who became the first Swede to win a Grand Slam title when he won the French Championships in 1957...

    , 79, Swedish
    Sweden
    Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....

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

     player. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/07/sports/tennis/07davidson.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
  • Robert H. Justman
    Robert H. Justman
    Robert Harris "Bob" Justman was an American television producer, director and production manager. He worked on many television series including Lassie, The Life of Riley, Adventures of Superman, The Outer Limits, Then Came Bronson and Mission: Impossible.- Career :Bob Justman was one of the...

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

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

     and film producer
    Film producer
    A film producer oversees and delivers a film project to all relevant parties while preserving the integrity, voice and vision of the film. They will also often take on some financial risk by using their own money, especially during the pre-production period, before a film is fully financed.The...

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

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

    . http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/local/articles/0601death0601Justman.html
  • Elinor Lyon
    Elinor Lyon
    Elinor Bruce Lyon was an English children's author.Lyon was born in Guisborough, Yorkshire and educated at Headington School, Oxford. Her father was P. H. B. Lyon. After living for a time in Switzerland, she returned to Oxford to read English at Lady Margaret Hall just as World War II began...

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

     children's writer
    Children's literature
    Children's literature is for readers and listeners up to about age twelve; it is often defined in four different ways: books written by children, books written for children, books chosen by children, or books chosen for children. It is often illustrated. The term is used in senses which sometimes...

    . http://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/elinor-lyon-author-of-camping-and-tramping-adventure-tales-peopled-with-feisty-fearless-girls-and-boys-841356.html
  • Danny Moss
    Danny Moss
    Dennis "Danny" Moss MBE was a British jazz tenor saxophonist. He was known for playing with most of the high profile figures of British jazz, including Vic Lewis, Ted Heath, Johnny Dankworth, Alex Welsh, and Humphrey Lyttelton....

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

     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...

     tenor saxophonist
    Tenor saxophone
    The tenor saxophone is a medium-sized member of the saxophone family, a group of instruments invented by Adolphe Sax in the 1840s. The tenor, with the alto, are the two most common types of saxophones. The tenor is pitched in the key of B, and written as a transposing instrument in the treble...

    . http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/2062628/Obituary-Danny-Moss.html
  • Dianne Odell
    Dianne Odell
    Dianne Odell was a Tennessee woman who spent most of her life in an iron lung. She contracted "bulbo-spinal" polio at age 3 in 1950 and was confined to an iron lung for the rest of her life. Due to a spinal deformity caused by the polio, she was unable to change to a portable breathing device...

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

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

     and polio victim, power failure to iron lung
    Iron lung
    A negative pressure ventilator is a form of medical ventilator that enables a person to breathe when normal muscle control has been lost or the work of breathing exceeds the person's ability....

    . http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/a-lifetime-in-an-iron-lung-courage-in-the-face-of-a-cruel-disease-836775.html
  • Erin Spanevello
    Erin Spanevello
    Erin Jean Maria Spanevello was a Canadian fashion model active in the late 2000s before dying from a drug overdose at the age of 21....

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

     fashion model, drug overdose
    Drug overdose
    The term drug overdose describes the ingestion or application of a drug or other substance in quantities greater than are recommended or generally practiced...

    . http://bc.rcmp.ca/ViewPage.action?siteNodeId=679&languageId=1&contentId=9855

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  • Valmae Beck, 64, Australia
    Australia
    Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...

    n child murder
    Child murder
    The murder of children is considered an abhorrent crime in much of the world; they are perceived within their communities and the state at large as being vulnerable, and therefore especially susceptible to abduction and murder. The protection of children from abuse and possible death often involves...

    er, complications of heart surgery. http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/murderer-takes-her-secrets-to-the-grave/2008/05/27/1211654038506.html
  • Tony Hussein Hinde
    Tony Hussein Hinde
    Anthony Hussein Hinde was an Australian-born Maldivian surfer and surfing pioneer. Hinde is considered to be the "father of surfing in the Maldives." He is co-credited with discovering the surfing potential in the Maldives, along with Australian surfer Mark Scanlon, and kick-starting the nation's...

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

    n-born Maldivian
    Maldives
    The Maldives , , officially Republic of Maldives , also referred to as the Maldive Islands, is an island nation in the Indian Ocean formed by a double chain of twenty-six atolls oriented north-south off India's Lakshadweep islands, between Minicoy Island and...

     surfer, 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.surfermag.com/features/onlineexclusives/tony-hussein-hinde-rip/
  • Franz Künstler
    Franz Künstler
    Franz Künstler was, at age 107, the last known surviving veteran of the First World War who fought for the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Following the death of 110-year-old Ottoman veteran Yakup Satar on April 2, 2008, he was also the last Central Powers veteran of any nationality...

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

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

     veteran, last known surviving veteran of the Central Powers
    Central Powers
    The Central Powers were one of the two warring factions in World War I , composed of the German Empire, the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the Ottoman Empire, and the Kingdom of Bulgaria...

    . http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,555854,00.html
  • Hubert Macey
    Hubert Macey
    Hubert "Hub" Macey was a Canadian professional ice hockey forward who played 30 games in the National Hockey League for the Montreal Canadiens and New York Rangers. He was born in Big River, Saskatchewan.-External links:...

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

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

     player. http://www.hockey-reference.com/players/m/maceyhu01.html
  • Mick Nolan
    Mick Nolan (footballer)
    Mick Nolan was an Australian rules football player for North Melbourne. Because of his weight of 135 kg and height of 194 cm, Nolan was dubbed the "The Galloping Gasometer" by commentator Lou Richards. Until the emergence of Aaron Sandilands in the early 2000s, Nolan was the heaviest...

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

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

    , 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.news.com.au/heraldsun/sport/afl/story/0,26576,23771076-19742,00.html
  • Abram Raselemane
    Abram Raselemane
    Abram Melato "Fire" Raselemane was a South African football striker for Premier Soccer League club Bidvest Wits and South Africa....

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

    . http://www.football365.co.za/story/0,22162,14287_3620834,00.html
  • Alejandro Romualdo
    Alejandro Romualdo
    Alejandro Romualdo is a Peruvian poet of the 20th century. His best known work is the Song of Tupac Amaru, exalting the revolutionary spirit of that 18th century leader. This poem won a Peruvian National Prize for Poetry in 1997...

    , 82, Peru
    Peru
    Peru , officially the Republic of Peru , is a country in western South America. It is bordered on the north by Ecuador and Colombia, on the east by Brazil, on the southeast by Bolivia, on the south by Chile, and on the west by the Pacific Ocean....

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

    . http://www.larepublica.com.pe/content/view/223364/483/ (Spanish)
  • Keith Rosewarne
    Keith Rosewarne
    Keith J. Rosewarne was an Australian rules footballer in the VFL.A local recruit, Rosewarne debuted with the St Kilda Football Club in 1946, winning the best and fairest award in his first season. He played as a rover In 92 games with the club, he scored 150 goals for an otherwise unsuccessful team...

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

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

    . http://saints.com.au/tabid/5315/default.aspx?newsid=60669

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  • Dolly Aglay
    Dolly Aglay
    Dolores “Dolly” Aglay-Elona was a Filipino business and financial journalist who worked for the Manila news bureau of Reuters News Agency and the Philippine Star during her career....

    , 41, 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...

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

    , 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.abs-cbnnews.com/storypage.aspx?StoryId=119575
  • Jerry C. Begay
    Jerry C. Begay
    Jerry ClasChee Begay Sr. was an American World War II veteran and a member of the Navajo Code Talkers.Begay was born on December 8, 1924, in Sheep Springs, New Mexico. His parents were Clauschee Begay and . He was a member of the clan and was born for the...

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

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

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

    . http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/2008/05/29/20080529begayobit.html
  • Earle Hagen
    Earle Hagen
    Earle Harry Hagen was an American composer who created music for movies and television. He is remembered for co-writing and whistling "The Fishin' Hole", the melody of the main theme to The Andy Griffith Show, the instrumental classic "Harlem Nocturne" used as the theme to television's Mickey...

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

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

     of film
    Film
    A film, also called a movie or motion picture, is a series of still or moving images. It is produced by recording photographic images with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or visual effects...

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

     theme music
    Theme music
    Theme music is a piece that is often written specifically for a radio program, television program, video game or movie, and usually played during the title sequence and/or end credits...

     (The Andy Griffith Show
    The Andy Griffith Show
    The Andy Griffith Show is an American sitcom first televised by CBS between October 3, 1960, and April 1, 1968. Andy Griffith portrays a widowed sheriff in the fictional small community of Mayberry, North Carolina...

    , The Mod Squad
    The Mod Squad
    The Mod Squad is a television series that ran on ABC from September 24, 1968, until August 23, 1973. This series starred Michael Cole, Peggy Lipton, Clarence Williams III, and Tige Andrews...

    ). http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24846569/
  • Howlin' Dave
    Howlin' Dave
    Dante David was a Filipino radio disc jockey. Better known by his stage name Howlin' Dave, he is credited with introducing Filipino radio listeners to Pinoy rock music in the early 1970s, and to new wave and punk rock in the 1980s.Howlin' Dave grew up in Pasay City and dropped out of high school...

    , 52, 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...

     radio disc jockey
    Radio personality
    A radio personality is a person with an on-air position in radio broadcasting. A radio personality can be someone who introduces and discusses various genres of music, hosts a talk radio show that may take calls from listeners, or someone whose primary responsibility is to give news, weather,...

     and proponent of Pinoy rock
    Pinoy rock
    Pinoy rock, or Filipino rock, is the brand of rock music produced in the Philippines or by Filipinos. It has become as diverse as the rock music genre itself, and bands adopting this style are now further classified under more specific genres or combinations of genres like alternative rock,...

    , 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://showbizandstyle.inquirer.net/breakingnews/breakingnews/view/20080526-138981/Howlin-Dave-Filipino-rock-icon-dies-at-52
  • Roy Koerner
    Roy Koerner
    Roy Koerner MBE was a Polar explorer who participated in what the then Prime Minister, Harold Wilson described as "a feat of endurance and courage which ranks with any in polar history", and Prince Philip feels "ranks among the greatest triumphs of human skill and endurance".-Early life and...

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

     polar
    Polar region
    Earth's polar regions are the areas of the globe surrounding the poles also known as frigid zones. The North Pole and South Pole being the centers, these regions are dominated by the polar ice caps, resting respectively on the Arctic Ocean and the continent of Antarctica...

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

     and explorer. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article4059829.ece
  • Yuriy Konovalov, 78, Soviet
    Soviet Union
    The Soviet Union , officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics , was a constitutionally socialist state that existed in Eurasia between 1922 and 1991....

    -born Azerbaijan
    Azerbaijan
    Azerbaijan , officially the Republic of Azerbaijan is the largest country in the Caucasus region of Eurasia. Located at the crossroads of Western Asia and Eastern Europe, it is bounded by the Caspian Sea to the east, Russia to the north, Georgia to the northwest, Armenia to the west, and Iran to...

    i 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...

     track athlete, 4 x 100m relay silver medallist
    Athletics at the 1960 Summer Olympics
    At the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome, 34 events in athletics were contested, 24 by men and 10 by women. There were a total number of 1016 participating athletes from 73 countries.-Men's events:-Women's events:-Medal table:-Records broken:...

     (1956
    Athletics at the 1956 Summer Olympics
    At the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, 33 athletics events were contested, 24 for men and 9 for women. There were a total number of 720 participating athletes from 61 countries.-Men's events:-Women's events:-Medal table:-References:**...

     and 1960
    Athletics at the 1960 Summer Olympics
    At the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome, 34 events in athletics were contested, 24 by men and 10 by women. There were a total number of 1016 participating athletes from 73 countries.-Men's events:-Women's events:-Medal table:-Records broken:...

    ). http://www.bakupages.com/blg-list.php?s=1&blg_id=3&id=52065&cmm_id=95&usp_id=0 (Russian)
  • Donald L. Pilling
    Donald L. Pilling
    Donald Lee Pilling was a retired four-star United States Navy admiral who served as Vice Chief of Naval Operations from 1997 to 2000.-Military career:...

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

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

    , Vice Chief of Naval Operations
    Vice Chief of Naval Operations
    The Vice Chief of Naval Operations is the second highest ranking officer in the United States Navy. In the event that the Chief of Naval Operations is absent or is unable to perform his duties, the VCNO assumes the duties and responsibilities of the CNO. The VCNO may also perform other duties...

     (1997–2000), 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.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/03/AR2008060303313.html
  • Sydney Pollack
    Sydney Pollack
    Sydney Irwin Pollack was an American film director, producer and actor. Pollack studied with Sanford Meisner at the Neighborhood Playhouse in New York City, where he later taught acting...

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

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

     (The Firm, Tootsie
    Tootsie
    Tootsie is a 1982 American comedy film that tells the story of a talented but volatile actor whose reputation for being difficult forces him to go to extreme lengths to land a job. The movie stars Dustin Hoffman and Jessica Lange, with a supporting cast that includes Teri Garr, Dabney Coleman,...

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

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

    . http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/26/movies/26cnd-pollack.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin
  • Alan Renouf
    Alan Renouf
    Alan Phillip Renouf was a prominent Australian government official during the 1970s. During 1978 and 1979 he was the Australian Ambassador to the United States...

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

    n head of DFAT
    Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (Australia)
    The Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade is a department of the government of Australia charged with advancing the interests of Australia and its citizens internationally...

    , ambassador to United States (1977–1979), France and Yugoslavia, 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.smh.com.au/news/obituaries/straighttalker-in-diplomatic-ranks/2008/05/28/1211654116394.html
  • Kermit Scott
    Kermit Scott
    Theodore Kermit Scott Jr. , was an American counselor and professor of philosophy, was a childhood friend of Muppets creator Jim Henson and was once believed to be the namesake of Kermit the Frog. -Biography:...

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

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

     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...

    , namesake
    Namesake
    Namesake is a term used to characterize a person, place, thing, quality, action, state, or idea that has the same, or a similar, name to another....

     of Kermit the Frog
    Kermit the Frog
    Kermit the Frog is puppeteer Jim Henson's most famous Muppet creation, first introduced in 1955. He is the protagonist of many Muppet projects, most notably as the host of The Muppet Show, and has appeared in various sketches on Sesame Street, in commercials and in public service announcements over...

    . http://www.newsday.com/services/newspaper/printedition/wednesday/news/ny-kermit185731168jun18,0,2884544.story

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  • Louise Firouz
    Louise Firouz
    Louise Firouz was an American-born, Iranian horse breeder and researcher. As a member of the Iranian Royal family and an Iranian princess, she is known as "Iran's lady of horses"....

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

     horse breeder
    Horse breeding
    Horse breeding is reproduction in horses, and particularly the human-directed process of selective breeding of animals, particularly purebred horses of a given breed. Planned matings can be used to produce specifically desired characteristics in domesticated horses...

    . http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/2055746/Louise-Firouz.html
  • George Garrett
    George Garrett (poet)
    George Palmer Garrett. was an American poet and novelist. He was the Poet Laureate of Virginia from 2002 to 2006. His novels include The Finished Man, Double Vision, and the Elizabethan Trilogy, composed of Death of the Fox, The Succession, and Entered from the Sun...

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

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

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

    . http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/30/books/30garrett.html?ref=obituaries
  • Geremi González
    Geremi González
    Geremis Segundo González Acosta was a Venezuelan right-handed pitcher in Major League Baseball who played for the Chicago Cubs , Tampa Bay Devil Rays , Boston Red Sox , New York Mets and Milwaukee Brewers . In his rookie season he led the Cubs with 11 wins, but he was unable to continue that...

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

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

     player, lightning strike
    Lightning strike
    Lightning strikes are electrical discharges caused by lightning, typically during thunderstorms.Humans can be hit by lightning directly when outdoors. Contrary to popular notion, there is no 'safe' location outdoors. People have been struck in sheds and makeshift shelters...

    . http://www.madison.com/tct/sports/288206
  • James D. Griffin, 78, American
    United States
    The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

     mayor of Buffalo, New York (1978–1994), Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease
    Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease
    Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease or CJD is a degenerative neurological disorder that is incurable and invariably fatal. CJD is at times called a human form of mad cow disease, given that bovine spongiform encephalopathy is believed to be the cause of variant Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease in humans.CJD...

    . http://www.wgrz.com/news/news_article.aspx?storyid=58172
  • Bukhuti Gurgenidze
    Bukhuti Gurgenidze
    Bukhuti Ivanovich Gurgenidze was a Georgian chess Grandmaster, born in Surami.He was a multiple Georgian Champion, and played in eight USSR Chess Championships. He shared first place with Mikhail Tal at Tbilisi in 1969–70 and placed first at Olomouc in 1976. Gurgenidze was a trainer to several...

    , 74, Georgia
    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...

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

     grandmaster. http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=4653
  • Ítalo Argentino Lúder
    Ítalo Argentino Lúder
    Ítalo Argentino Lúder was an Argentinian politician who served as the acting President of Argentina from September 13, 1975 until October 16, 1975, for Isabel Perón....

    , 91, 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...

     acting president (1975). http://www.clarin.com/diario/2008/05/26/um/m-01680366.htm (Spanish)
  • Tom McHale
    Tom McHale (American football)
    Thomas McHale was an American offensive guard in the National Football League. During his career he played for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers , Philadelphia Eagles and Miami Dolphins...

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

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

     player (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://tampabay.com/news/humaninterest/article524718.ece
  • Mitch Mullany
    Mitch Mullany
    Mitch Mullany was an American comedian, actor, and screenwriter.-Career:Born in Oakland, California, Mullany began his career performing stand-up comedy. After a stint on the WB sitcom The Wayans Bros. as "White Mike," he starred in his own series, Nick Freno: Licensed Teacher from 1996 to 1998...

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

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

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

     (Nick Freno: Licensed Teacher
    Nick Freno: Licensed Teacher
    Nick Freno: Licensed Teacher is an American sitcom which aired on the WB from 1996 until 1998. The executive producers of the program, Dennis Rinsler and Marc Warren, drew on their own experiences as former teachers in New York and actually based the character that Mitch Mullany played on their...

    ), diabetes-related 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.variety.com/article/VR1117986641.html?categoryid=14&cs=1
  • J. R. Simplot
    J. R. Simplot
    John Richard Simplot was the founder of the J. R. Simplot Company, an agricultural supplier specializing in potato products, based in Boise, Idaho. In 2007 he was estimated to be the 89th-richest person in America, at $3.6 billion...

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

     businessman
    Businessperson
    A businessperson is someone involved in a particular undertaking of activities for the purpose of generating revenue from a combination of human, financial, or physical capital. An entrepreneur is an example of a business person...

    , original McDonald's
    McDonald's
    McDonald's Corporation is the world's largest chain of hamburger fast food restaurants, serving around 64 million customers daily in 119 countries. Headquartered in the United States, the company began in 1940 as a barbecue restaurant operated by the eponymous Richard and Maurice McDonald; in 1948...

     french fries
    French fries
    French fries , chips, fries, or French-fried potatoes are strips of deep-fried potato. North Americans tend to refer to any pieces of deep-fried potatoes as fries or French fries, while in the United Kingdom, Australia, Ireland and New Zealand, long, thinly cut slices of deep-fried potatoes are...

     supplier. http://www.ktvb.com/news/localnews/stories/ktvbn-may2508-simplot.2ac05cec.html
  • Clémentine Solignac, 113, French
    France
    The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...

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

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

     person. http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5jZiyQOLEvq7jxf0iQeZHl3T0DcPA
  • Ernst Stuhlinger
    Ernst Stuhlinger
    Ernst Stuhlinger was a German-born American atomic, electrical and rocket scientist. After being brought to the United States as part of Operation Paperclip, he developed guidance systems with Wernher von Braun's team at the US Army, and later, NASA...

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

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

     rocket scientist
    Aerospace engineering
    Aerospace engineering is the primary branch of engineering concerned with the design, construction and science of aircraft and spacecraft. It is divided into two major and overlapping branches: aeronautical engineering and astronautical engineering...

    . http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewnews.html?id=1291
  • Camu Tao
    Camu Tao
    Camu Tao was an American rapper and producer who was signed to the Definitive Jux label. He was a member of several groups: S.A...

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

     rapper
    Rapping
    Rapping refers to "spoken or chanted rhyming lyrics". The art form can be broken down into different components, as in the book How to Rap where it is separated into “content”, “flow” , and “delivery”...

    -producer
    Hip hop production
    Hip hop production is the creation of hip hop music. Though the term encompasses all aspects of hip hop music, it's most commonly used to refer to the instrumental, non-lyrical aspects of hip hop. This means that hip hop producers are the instrumentalists involved in a work...

    , 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.hiphopdx.com/index/news/id.6997/title.rapper-camu-tao-dies-from-cancer
  • Kenneth H. Wood
    Kenneth H. Wood
    Kenneth H. Wood, Jr. was a Seventh-day Adventist minister, author, editor, and administrator. Since 1980 he served as chairman of the Ellen G. White Estate board of trustees. By virtue of this position he also served as an ex officio member of the General Conference Executive Committee.- Life and...

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

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

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

     of the Adventist Review, heart failure. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/24/AR2008062401527.html

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  • Adam Baruch
    Adam Baruch
    Baruch Meir Rosenblum , better known by the pen name Adam Baruch, was an Israeli journalist, newspaper editor, writer and art critic.-Biography:...

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

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

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

     and art critic
    Art critic
    An art critic is a person who specializes in evaluating art. Their written critiques, or reviews, are published in newspapers, magazines, books and on web sites...

    , diabetes
    Diabetes mellitus
    Diabetes mellitus, often simply referred to as diabetes, is a group of metabolic diseases in which a person has high blood sugar, either because the body does not produce enough insulin, or because cells do not respond to the insulin that is produced...

     complications. http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/986580.html
  • Bob Beck
    Bob Beck
    Robert E. Beck Jr. was a zoologist and conservationist, who worked to save Guam's indigenous native birds from 1982 to 2003...

    , 63, Guam
    Guam
    Guam is an organized, unincorporated territory of the United States located in the western Pacific Ocean. It is one of five U.S. territories with an established civilian government. Guam is listed as one of 16 Non-Self-Governing Territories by the Special Committee on Decolonization of the United...

    anian zoologist and conservationist
    Conservationist
    Conservationists are proponents or advocates of conservation. They advocate for the protection of all the species in an ecosystem with a strong focus on the natural environment...

    , worked to save Guam Rail
    Guam Rail
    The Guam Rail, Gallirallus owstoni, is a flightless bird, endemic to Guam. The Guam Rail, which is locally known as the Ko'ko' in Chamorro, disappeared from southern Guam in the early 1970s and was extirpated from the entire island by the late 1980s...

     native birds. http://www.guampdn.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080606/NEWS01/806060313/1002
  • Tano Cimarosa
    Tano Cimarosa
    Tano Cimarosa was an Italian actor, screenwriter and film director from Sicily. He participated in more than fifty movies.He played the "Blacksmith" in the Oscar-winning film Cinema Paradiso from 1988....

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

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

    . http://www.corriere.it/ultima_ora/notizie.jsp?id={EB972E7B-7FDA-4BC7-09E3-091159701EA5} (Italian)
  • Reg Flewin
    Reg Flewin
    Reginald "Reg" Flewin was an English footballer who played as a central defender for his hometown club Portsmouth....

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

     footballer. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/reg-flewin-portsmouth-fc-captain-852364.html
  • Rob Knox
    Rob Knox
    Robert Arthur "Rob" Knox was an English actor who portrayed Marcus Belby in the film Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, and had signed to appear in the planned film Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows...

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

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

     (Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
    Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (film)
    Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince is a 2009 fantasy film directed by David Yates and based on the novel of the same name by J. K. Rowling. It is the sixth instalment in the Harry Potter film series, written by Steve Kloves and produced by David Heyman and David Barron...

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

    . http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/2020778/Harry-Potter-actor-killed-in-Sidcup-knife-attack.html
  • Eugenio Garza Lagüera
    Eugenio Garza Lagüera
    Eugenio Garza Lagüera was a Mexican businessman and philanthropist who served as chairman of the board of the Monterrey Institute of Technology and Femsa; Latin America's largest beverage corporation...

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

     businessman
    Businessperson
    A businessperson is someone involved in a particular undertaking of activities for the purpose of generating revenue from a combination of human, financial, or physical capital. An entrepreneur is an example of a business person...

    , president of FEMSA
    FEMSA
    FEMSA is the largest beverage company in Mexico and in Latin America and as of September 2011 also the largest independent Coca-Cola bottler in the world. FEMSA originated as the Cuauhtémoc Brewery in 1890, which, through debt management, was restructured as FEMSA in 1988...

    , 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.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601086&sid=aCpfKAvPqBFI&refer=latin_america
  • Isaac Lipschits
    Isaac Lipschits
    Isaac Lipschits was a Dutch historian and political scientist. Being Jewish, he survived World War II by going under cover. He wrote several works from 1962 to 2004....

    , 77, Dutch
    Netherlands
    The Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...

     political scientist 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...

    , 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.nrc.nl/binnenland/article1105517.ece/Emeritus_hoogleraar_Lipschits_overleden (Dutch)
  • Dick Martin
    Dick Martin (comedian)
    Thomas Richard "Dick" Martin was an American comedian and director, best known for his role as the cohost of the sketch comedy program Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In from 1968 to 1973.-Early life and career:...

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

     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...

     (Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In
    Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In
    Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In is an American sketch comedy television program which ran for 140 episodes from January 22, 1968, to May 14, 1973. It was hosted by comedians Dan Rowan and Dick Martin and was broadcast over NBC...

    ), respiratory complications. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/26/arts/television/26martindick.html
  • Jimmy McGriff
    Jimmy McGriff
    James Harrell McGriff was an American hard bop and soul-jazz organist and organ trio bandleader who developed a distinctive style of playing the Hammond B-3 organ.-Early years and influences:...

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

     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...

     and 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...

     organist
    Organist
    An organist is a musician who plays any type of organ. An organist may play solo organ works, play with an ensemble or orchestra, or accompany one or more singers or instrumental soloists...

    , 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.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/27/AR2008052703078.html
  • Sonny Okosun
    Sonny Okosun
    Sonny Okosun was a musician from Nigeria. His surname is sometimes spelled Okosuns and first name Sunny. He was one of the leading Nigerian musicians from the late 70's to mid 80's....

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

    , colon cancer. http://worldmusiccentral.org/article.php/sonny_okosuns_dies_61

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  • Alan Brien
    Alan Brien
    Alan Brien was a British journalist best known for his novel Lenin. This took the form of a fictional diary charting Lenin's life from the death of his father to shortly before his own demise in 1924....

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

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

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

    . http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article4003723.ece
  • Cornell Capa
    Cornell Capa
    Cornell Capa was a Hungarian American photographer, member of Magnum Photos, and photo curator, and the younger brother of photo-journalist and war photographer Robert Capa. Graduating from Imre Madách Gymnasium in Budapest, he initially intended to study medicine, but instead joined his brother...

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

     photographer
    Photography
    Photography is the art, science and practice of creating durable images by recording light or other electromagnetic radiation, either electronically by means of an image sensor or chemically by means of a light-sensitive material such as photographic film...

    , founder of the International Center of Photography
    International Center of Photography
    The International Center of Photography is a photography museum, school, and research center in Midtown Manhattan in New York City, United States...

    . http://www.icp.org/site/c.dnJGKJNsFqG/b.2291957
  • Roberto Freire
    Roberto Freire (psychiatrist)
    Roberto Freire was a medical psychiatrist and Brazilian writer, who created somatherapy , also referred to as SOMA, an anarchist therapy based on the then radical new ideas of Wilhelm Reich, as well as the Brazilian martial art Capoeira Angola.Brazilian intellectual life is marked by the intense...

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

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

     and 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...

    , created somatherapy
    Somatherapy
    Somatherapy was created by the writer Roberto Freire in the 1970s as a group therapy, based on the research of the psychoanalyst Wilhelm Reich. With the objective of freeing the individual to be more creative, the exercises in Soma work with the relationship between the body and emotions are...

    . http://news.infoshop.org/article.php?story=20080525003041161
  • Dritan Hoxha
    Dritan Hoxha
    Dritan Hoxha, who was born in Kukes, Albania, on 20 September 1968, will be remembered maybe as the most prominent character of the Albanian media of the post-communist era....

    , 39, Albania
    Albania
    Albania , officially known as the Republic of Albania , is a country in Southeastern Europe, in the Balkans region. It is bordered by Montenegro to the northwest, Kosovo to the northeast, the Republic of Macedonia to the east and Greece to the south and southeast. It has a coast on the Adriatic Sea...

    n businessman
    Businessperson
    A businessperson is someone involved in a particular undertaking of activities for the purpose of generating revenue from a combination of human, financial, or physical capital. An entrepreneur is an example of a business person...

    , 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.balkaninsight.com/en/main/news/10421/
  • Thelma Keane
    Thelma Keane
    Thelma "Thel" Keane was the Australian-born American wife of The Family Circus newspaper cartoonist, Bil Keane...

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

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

     who inspired husband Bil
    Bil Keane
    William Aloysius Keane , better known as Bil Keane, was an American cartoonist. He is most notable for his work on the long-running newspaper comic The Family Circus, which began its run in 1960 and continues in syndication, drawn by his son Jeff Keane.-Biography:Born in Philadelphia,...

    's comic strip The Family Circus
    The Family Circus
    The Family Circus is a syndicated comic strip created by cartoonist Bil Keane and currently written, inked, and colored by his son, Jeff Keane. The strip generally uses a single captioned panel with a round border, hence the original name of the series, which was changed following objections from...

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

    . http://canadianpress.google.com/article/ALeqM5j4BW1AyD9j5tUMO-pTq2i6Dr0r-A
  • Heinz Kwiatkowski
    Heinz Kwiatkowski
    Heinrich "Heinz" Kwiatkowski was a German football goalkeeper. He was born in Gelsenkirchen.He was a member of the West German team that won the 1954 FIFA World Cup. He also participated in the 1958 FIFA World Cup. In total he earned four caps for West Germany. During his club career he played for...

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

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

    -winning team. http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/05/25/sports/EU-SPT-SOC-Obit-Kwiatkowski.php
  • Iñaki Ochoa de Olza
    Iñaki Ochoa de Olza
    Iñaki Ochoa de Olza was a Spanish mountaineer, alpinist and climber. Ochoa de Olza had taken part in over thirty separate climbing expeditions in the Himalayas over the course of his career, he was involved in more than 200 expeditions as guide and he climbed 15 moutains of over 8,000 meters...

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

     mountaineer
    Mountaineer
    -Sports:*Mountaineering, the sport, hobby or profession of walking, hiking, trekking and climbing up mountains, also known as alpinism-University athletic teams and mascots:*Appalachian State Mountaineers, the athletic teams of Appalachian State University...

     and alpinist
    Alpinist
    Alpinist is a quarterly American magazine focused on mountaineering ascents worldwide. It was originally published out of Jackson, Wyoming and was founded in 2002...

    , pulmonary edema
    Pulmonary edema
    Pulmonary edema , or oedema , is fluid accumulation in the air spaces and parenchyma of the lungs. It leads to impaired gas exchange and may cause respiratory failure...

     while climbing Annapurna
    Annapurna
    Annapurna is a section of the Himalayas in north-central Nepal that includes Annapurna I, thirteen additional peaks over and 16 more over ....

    . http://www.alpinist.com/doc/web08s/newswire-ochoa-annapurna
  • Jefferson Peres
    Jefferson Peres
    Jefferson Peres was a Brazilian professor and politician, member of the Brazilian Senate from 1995....

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

    ian senator
    Senate of Brazil
    The Federal Senate of Brazil is the upper house of the National Congress of Brazil. Created by the first Constitution of the Brazilian Empire in 1824, it was inspired by the United Kingdom's House of Lords, but with the Proclamation of the Republic in 1889 it became closer to the United States...

     from Amazonas, 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://www1.folha.uol.com.br/folha/brasil/ult96u404648.shtml (Portuguese)
  • Utah Phillips
    Utah Phillips
    Bruce Duncan "Utah" Phillips was a labor organizer, folk singer, storyteller, poet and the "Golden Voice of the Great Southwest". He described the struggles of labor unions and the power of direct action, self-identifying as an anarchist...

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

     folk singer
    Folk Singer
    Folk Singer is a 1964 album by Muddy Waters. Waters plays acoustic guitar, backed by Willie Dixon on string bass, Clifton James on drums, and Buddy Guy on acoustic guitar...

     and political activist, heart failure. http://www.sacbee.com/obituaries/story/964804.html

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  • Robert Asprin
    Robert Asprin
    Robert Lynn Asprin was an American science fiction and fantasy author and active fan, best known for his humorous MythAdventures and Phule's Company series.- Background :...

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

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

     and fantasy
    Fantasy
    Fantasy is a genre of fiction that commonly uses magic and other supernatural phenomena as a primary element of plot, theme, or setting. Many works within the genre take place in imaginary worlds where magic is common...

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

     (MythAdventures
    MythAdventures
    MythAdventures or Myth Adventures is a fantasy series by Robert Lynn Asprin and Jody Lynn Nye. After twelve novels by Asprin, published 1978 to 2002, he and Nye continued the series with seven more books...

    ), 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.mythadventures.net/
  • Charlie Booth
    Charlie Booth
    Charlie Booth was an Australian athlete.In the 1930s, he was a champion runner who participated in several Stawell Gifts, until a victory in 1939. He was also a fitter and turner apprentice...

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

    n athlete, inventor of the starting block. http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/story/0,22049,23740153-5014066,00.html
  • Harry Lange
    Harry Lange (film designer)
    Hans Kurt Lange was a German film production designer and art director.Lange was born in 1930 in Eisenach, Thuringia. After World War II, Thuringia became part of Soviet-controlled East Germany; Lange escaped across the border to West Germany, where he studied art before moving to the United...

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

     astronautical
    Astronautics
    Astronautics, and related astronautical engineering, is the theory and practice of navigation beyond the Earth's atmosphere. In other words, it is the science and technology of space flight....

     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...

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

     (2001: A Space Odyssey
    2001: A Space Odyssey (film)
    2001: A Space Odyssey is a 1968 epic science fiction film produced and directed by Stanley Kubrick, and co-written by Kubrick and Arthur C. Clarke, partially inspired by Clarke's short story The Sentinel...

    ). http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article4250001.ece
  • Jack Mildren
    Jack Mildren
    Larry Jack Mildren a native Texan, was an All-American quarterback at The University of Oklahoma in his college years, and professional football player with the Baltimore Colts and New England Patriots, an oil company owner, was elected as the 13th Lieutenant Governor of Oklahoma, and enjoyed a...

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

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

     player, Oklahoma's lieutenant governor
    Lieutenant Governor of Oklahoma
    The Lieutenant Governor of Oklahoma is the second-highest executive official of the state government of Oklahoma. As first in the gubernatorial line of succession, the Lieutenant Governor becomes the new Governor of Oklahoma upon the death, resignation, or removal of the Governor...

     (1990–1995), stomach cancer
    Stomach cancer
    Gastric cancer, commonly referred to as stomach cancer, can develop in any part of the stomach and may spread throughout the stomach and to other organs; particularly the esophagus, lungs, lymph nodes, and the liver...

    . http://www.tulsaworld.com/sports/article.aspx?articleID=20080522_2__ByGue35833
  • Paul Patrick
    Paul Patrick
    Paul Patrick was an English teacher and leading lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender rights activist...

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

     gay rights activist, chronic lung condition. http://lgbthmuk.blogspot.com/2008/05/paul-patrick-dies.html
  • Hana Maria Pravda
    Hana Maria Pravda
    Hana Maria Pravda was a Czechoslovakian actress.-Personal life:Pravda trained in Leningrad in 1936 under Alexei Dikii. On her return to Prague she married her first husband, Alexander Munk who was a student activist...

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

     actress and Holocaust survivor. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article4331847.ece

21

  • Mel Casson
    Mel Casson
    Mel Casson was an American cartoonist with a 50-year career. He is primarily remembered for his work on the daily comic strips Sparky, Angel, Mixed Singles/Boomer and Redeye, plus numerous magazine cartoons....

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

     cartoonist
    Cartoonist
    A cartoonist is a person who specializes in drawing cartoons. This work is usually humorous, mainly created for entertainment, political commentary or advertising...

     (Redeye
    Redeye (comics)
    Redeye was a comic strip created by cartoonist Gordon Bess that was syndicated by King Features Syndicate to more than 100 newspapers. The strip debuted on September 11, 1967.-Characters and story:...

    ). http://www.kingfeatures.com/pressrm/PR292.htm
  • Brian Keenan
    Brian Keenan (Irish republican)
    Brian Keenan was a former member of the Army Council of the Provisional Irish Republican Army who received an 18-year prison sentence in 1980 for conspiring to cause explosions, and played a key role in the Northern Ireland peace process.-Early life:The son of a member of the Royal Air Force,...

    , 66, Irish
    Northern Ireland
    Northern Ireland is one of the four countries of the United Kingdom. Situated in the north-east of the island of Ireland, it shares a border with the Republic of Ireland to the south and west...

     IRA
    Provisional Irish Republican Army
    The Provisional Irish Republican Army is an Irish republican paramilitary organisation whose aim was to remove Northern Ireland from the United Kingdom and bring about a socialist republic within a united Ireland by force of arms and political persuasion...

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

    . http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article3975466.ece
  • Ted Lanyon
    Ted Lanyon
    Edward George Lanyon was a Canadian professional ice hockey player who played five games in the National Hockey League for the Pittsburgh Penguins. He was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba.-External links:*...

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

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

     player. http://slapshot.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/01/02/in-memoriam-those-who-left-the-ice-in-2008/
  • Michelle Meldrum
    Michelle Meldrum
    Michelle Meldrum-Norum was an American hard rock guitarist known for being a member of the bands Phantom Blue and Meldrum.-Biography:...

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

     rock
    Rock music
    Rock music is a genre of popular music that developed during and after the 1960s, particularly in the United Kingdom and the United States. It has its roots in 1940s and 1950s rock and roll, itself heavily influenced by rhythm and blues and country music...

     guitar
    Guitar
    The guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...

    ist (Phantom Blue
    Phantom blue
    Phantom Blue was an all-female American heavy metal band from Los Angeles, California, formed in 1987. Phantom Blue were the first and only female artists to be signed to Mike Varney's Shrapnel Records, only three months after forming....

    , Meldrum
    Meldrum
    Meldrum is a multi-national Heavy Metal band formed by ex-Phantom Blue guitarist Michelle Meldrum.-History:American guitarist Michelle Meldrum started her first band Wargod with Strapping Young Lad drummer Gene Hoglan, later going on to form Phantom Blue, with whom she released two albums and an EP...

    ), cyst
    Cyst
    A cyst is a closed sac, having a distinct membrane and division on the nearby tissue. It may contain air, fluids, or semi-solid material. A collection of pus is called an abscess, not a cyst. Once formed, a cyst could go away on its own or may have to be removed through surgery.- Locations :* Acne...

    ic growth on the brain. http://www.meldrum.nu
  • John Aloysius Morgan
    John Aloysius Morgan
    John Aloysius Morgan was an Australian prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. At the time of his death he was one of the oldest Catholic bishops....

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

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

     prelate
    Prelate
    A prelate is a high-ranking member of the clergy who is an ordinary or who ranks in precedence with ordinaries. The word derives from the Latin prælatus, the past participle of præferre, which means "carry before", "be set above or over" or "prefer"; hence, a prelate is one set over others.-Related...

    . http://australiaincognita.blogspot.com/2008/05/bishop-john-aloysius-morgan-rip.html
  • Siegmund Nissel
    Siegmund Nissel
    Siegmund "Sigi" Nissel was an German-born British violinist who played second violin in the Amadeus Quartet and served as its administrator....

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

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

     violin
    Violin
    The violin is a string instrument, usually with four strings tuned in perfect fifths. It is the smallest, highest-pitched member of the violin family of string instruments, which includes the viola and cello....

    ist (Amadeus Quartet
    Amadeus Quartet
    The Amadeus Quartet was a world famous string quartet founded in 1947.Because of their Jewish origin, violinists Norbert Brainin, Siegmund Nissel and Peter Schidlof were driven out of Vienna after Hitler's Anschluss of 1938...

    ). http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/24/arts/music/24nissel.html?_r=1&ref=obituaries&oref=slogin
  • Bartolomeu Cid dos Santos
    Bartolomeu Cid dos Santos
    Bartolomeu Cid dos Santos was a Portuguese artist and professor who specialized in the plastic arts, with an emphasis on printmaking and engravings....

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

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

     and engraver, long illness. http://noticias.sapo.pt/lusa/artigo/9e01f2cc634feceeb9bb52.html (Portuguese)
  • Torcato Sepúlveda
    Torcato Sepúlveda
    Torcato Sepúlveda was a Portuguese newspaper journalist. His full name was John Torcato Sepúlveda de Macedo. He was known for his book reviews and cultural journalism for several Portuguese newspapers...

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

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

    . http://ultimahora.publico.clix.pt/noticia.aspx?id=1329617&idCanal=61 (Portuguese)

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  • Iona Banks, 87, British
    United Kingdom
    The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...

     actress (Pobol y Cwm
    Pobol y Cwm
    Pobol y Cwm is a Welsh-language television soap opera which has been produced by the BBC since October 1974. The longest-running television soap opera produced by the BBC, Pobol y Cwm was originally transmitted on BBC Wales television and later transferred to the Welsh-language station S4C when it...

    ). http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/wales/north_east/7412591.stm
  • Crispin Beltran
    Crispin Beltran
    Crispin 'Ka Bel' Beltran was a Filipino politician and a labor leader. A staunch critic of President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, his imprisonment in 2006 and 2007 on disputed charges of rebellion and sedition drew international attention...

    , 75, 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...

     congressman
    13th Congress of the Philippines
    The Thirteenth Congress of the Philippines was the meeting of the national legislature of the Republic of the Philippines, composed of the Philippine Senate and House of Representatives...

     and labor leader, head injuries
    Head injury
    Head injury refers to trauma of the head. This may or may not include injury to the brain. However, the terms traumatic brain injury and head injury are often used interchangeably in medical literature....

     from a fall. http://www.gmanews.tv/story/96284/Ka-Bel-declared-dead-due-to-severe-head-injuries
  • Viktor Bortsov
    Viktor Bortsov
    Viktor Andreyevich Bortsov was a Soviet/Russian theatrical and cinema actor. He was a People's Artist of Russia.Viktor Bortsov was best known as Savva Ignatevich in the 1982 film Pokrov Gates ....

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

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

    , intestinal cancer. http://www.kp.ru/daily/24100/327538/ (Russian)
  • Margot Boyd
    Margot Boyd
    Margot Boyd , born Beryl Billings, was an English stage, television and radio actress. She grew up in Bath and trained as an actor at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art...

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

     actress (Marjorie Antrobus on The Archers
    The Archers
    The Archers is a long-running British soap opera broadcast on the BBC's main spoken-word channel, Radio 4. It was originally billed as "an everyday story of country folk", but is now described on its Radio 4 web site as "contemporary drama in a rural setting"...

    ). http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7411468.stm
  • Thomas Burlison, Baron Burlison
    Thomas Burlison, Baron Burlison
    Thomas Henry Burlison, Baron Burlison, DL was a British footballer, GMB trade unionist and Treasurer of the Labour Party. He was the first professional footballer to take a seat in the House of Lords....

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

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

    ist. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/tees/7413645.stm
  • Joachim Erwin
    Joachim Erwin
    Joachim Erwin was a German politician and the Mayor of Düsseldorf from 1999 until his death in 2008. He was born in Stadtroda, Thuringia, Germany....

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

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

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

    . http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601100&sid=aSyBMez2KG9U&refer=germany
  • Herb Hash
    Herb Hash
    Herbert Howard Hash was an American right-handed pitcher in Major League Baseball who played from 1940 to 1941 for the Boston Red Sox. He was born in Woolwine, Virginia, and attended the University of Richmond; he is a member of the University's Hall of Fame.Hash made his debut for the Red Sox on...

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

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

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

     (Boston Red Sox
    Boston Red Sox
    The Boston Red Sox are a professional baseball team based in Boston, Massachusetts, and a member of Major League Baseball’s American League Eastern Division. Founded in as one of the American League's eight charter franchises, the Red Sox's home ballpark has been Fenway Park since . The "Red Sox"...

    ), 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.boston.com/bostonglobe/obituaries/articles/2008/05/21/herbert_hash_97_pitched_for_red_sox/
  • Harald Hein
    Harald Hein
    Harald Hein was a German fencer. He won a gold medal in the team foil event at the 1976 and a silver in the same event at the 1984 Summer Olympics.-References:...

    , 58, German Olympic fencer. http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/he/harald-hein-1.html
  • Zelma Henderson
    Zelma Henderson
    Zelma Henderson was the last surviving plaintiff in the 1954 landmark federal school desegregation case, Brown v. Board of Education. The case outlawed segregation nationwide in all of the United States' public schools...

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

     last surviving plaintiff
    Plaintiff
    A plaintiff , also known as a claimant or complainant, is the term used in some jurisdictions for the party who initiates a lawsuit before a court...

     in Brown v. Board of Education
    Brown v. Board of Education
    Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, 347 U.S. 483 , was a landmark decision of the United States Supreme Court that declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students unconstitutional. The decision overturned the Plessy v. Ferguson decision of 1896 which...

    , 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.twincities.com/national/ci_9333780
  • Hamilton Jordan
    Hamilton Jordan
    William Hamilton McWhorter Jordan was Chief of Staff to President of the United States Jimmy Carter.-Early life:...

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

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

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

    's White House chief of staff
    White House Chief of Staff
    The White House Chief of Staff is the highest ranking member of the Executive Office of the President of the United States and a senior aide to the President.The current White House Chief of Staff is Bill Daley.-History:...

     (1979–1980), mesothelioma
    Mesothelioma
    Mesothelioma, more precisely malignant mesothelioma, is a rare form of cancer that develops from the protective lining that covers many of the body's internal organs, the mesothelium...

    . http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/metro/stories/2008/05/20/hamilton_jordan_obituary_carter.html
  • Cy Leonard
    Cy Leonard
    Cy Leonard was a Canadian entertainer who was the first ventriloquist to perform on Canadian television. He also appeared on The Adventures of Tugboat Annie, the first Canadian-made situation comedy...

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

     ventriloquist
    Ventriloquism
    Ventriloquism, or ventriloquy, is an act of stagecraft in which a person manipulates his or her voice so that it appears that the voice is coming from elsewhere, usually a puppeteered "dummy"...

    . http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2008/05/20/cyleonard-obit.html
  • Ali Sadikin
    Ali Sadikin
    Ali Sadikin was an Indonesian politician. He was often called Bang Ali. He served as the governor of Jakarta, the country's capital, from 1966 to 1977. Appointed by a weak Sukarno, he likely had the full approval of Suharto. A former marine, he saw the city as a battlefield...

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

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

    , governor of Jakarta (1966–1977), liver cancer
    Liver cancer
    Liver tumors or hepatic tumors are tumors or growths on or in the liver . Several distinct types of tumors can develop in the liver because the liver is made up of various cell types. These growths can be benign or malignant...

    . http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2008/05/20/former-governor-ali-sadikin-dies-singapore.html
  • Jeheskel Shoshani
    Jeheskel Shoshani
    Professor Jeheskel "Hezy" Shoshani was an evolutionary biologist and a world-renowned elephant specialist who studied the family for over 35 years....

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

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

     elephant
    Elephant
    Elephants are large land mammals in two extant genera of the family Elephantidae: Elephas and Loxodonta, with the third genus Mammuthus extinct...

     expert, bus explosion. http://www.detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2008805230359
  • S. K. Trimurti
    S. K. Trimurti
    Soerastri Karma Trimurti , who was known as S. K. Trimuti, was an Indonesian journalist and teacher, who took part in the Indonesian independence movement against colonial rule by the Netherlands. She later served as Indonesia's first labor minister from 1947 until 1948 under Indonesian Prime...

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

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

    , first minister of labor and employment, 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.kompas.com/index.php/read/xml/2008/05/20/20101343/wartawan.tiga.zaman.sk.trimurti.meninggal.dunia (Indonesian)

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  • Randy Acord
    Randy Acord
    Randall Keith "Randy" Acord was a historian of American aviation who in 1992 founded the Alaska Air Pioneer Museum at Pioneer Park in Fairbanks, Alaska....

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

     aviation
    Aviation
    Aviation is the design, development, production, operation, and use of aircraft, especially heavier-than-air aircraft. Aviation is derived from avis, the Latin word for bird.-History:...

     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://juneauempire.com/stories/052208/sta_281800276.shtml
  • Nigel Cassidy
    Nigel Cassidy
    Nigel Cassidy was an English footballer.-Career:Cassidy started his career with non-league side Lowestoft Town in the Eastern Counties League, where he played until joining Norwich City in Second Division in July 1967. He managed to make three league appearances for the team before making a move...

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

     footballer. http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/teams/o/oxford_utd/7411270.stm
  • Larry Coutre
    Larry Coutre
    Lawrence Edward "Larry" Coutre was a halfback in the National Football League.-Biography:Coutre was born on April 11, 1928 in Chicago, Illinois.Coutre died May 19, 2008 due to a heart aneurism in Boca Raton, Florida....

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

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

     player. http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/chicagotribune/access/1481972261.html?dids=1481972261:1481972261&FMT=CITE&FMTS=CITE:FT&type=current&date=May+21%2C+2008&author=Anonymous&pub=Chicago+Tribune&desc=Death+Notice%3A+LARRY+COUTRE&pqatl=google
  • Jack Duffy
    Jack Duffy
    Jack Duffy was a Canadian singer, comedian and actor.-Biography:Born in Montreal, Duffy grew up in Toronto, dropping out of Central Technical School to become a singer...

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

     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...

    , 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.thestar.com/article/427513
  • Chaim Flom
    Chaim Flom
    Rabbi Chaim Flom was a rabbi, scholar and Rosh Yeshiva of Yeshivat Ohr David in Jerusalem, Israel. He studied at Yeshivas Chofetz Chaim: Rabbinical Seminary of America ....

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

    i scholar and rosh yeshiva
    Rosh yeshiva
    Rosh yeshiva, , , is the title given to the dean of a Talmudical academy . It is made up of the Hebrew words rosh — meaning head, and yeshiva — a school of religious Jewish education...

    . http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/article.php?p=18460
  • Huntington Hartford
    Huntington Hartford
    George Huntington Hartford II was an American businessman, philanthropist, filmmaker, and art collector. The heir to the A&P supermarket fortune, he owned Paradise Island in the Bahamas, and had numerous other business and real estate interests over his lifetime including the Oil Shale Corporation...

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

     business
    Business
    A business is an organization engaged in the trade of goods, services, or both to consumers. Businesses are predominant in capitalist economies, where most of them are privately owned and administered to earn profit to increase the wealth of their owners. Businesses may also be not-for-profit...

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

    . http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/20/arts/19cnd-hartford.html?hp
  • Rimma Kazakova
    Rimma Kazakova
    Rimma Fyodorovna Kazakova was a Soviet/Russian poet. She was known as an author of many popular songs of the Soviet era.She graduated from the history department of Leningrad State University. She worked as a lecturer in Khabarovsk....

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

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

    . http://www.itar-tass.com/eng/level2.html?NewsID=12694043&PageNum=0
  • Mariam McGlone
    Mariam McGlone
    Mariam McGlone was a dancer, dance critic and educator who died Monday 19 May 2008 at her home in Guilford, Connecticut, where she had lived for twenty five years....

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

     dancer and choreographer. http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9E01E5DB1E3AF932A15756C0A96E9C8B63
  • Kjell Kristian Rike
    Kjell Kristian Rike
    Kjell Kristian Rike was a Norwegian sports commentator, originally from Byglandsfjord. He reported on biathlon events for NRK starting in 1977, and also on cross-country skiing from 1985....

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

     sports commentator
    Sports commentator
    In sports broadcasting, a commentator gives a running commentary of a game or event in real time, usually during a live broadcast. The comments are normally a voiceover, with the sounds of the action and spectators also heard in the background. In the case of television commentary, the commentator...

    . http://www.aftenposten.no/english/sports/article2434544.ece
  • Vijay Tendulkar
    Vijay Tendulkar
    Vijay Tendulkar was a leading Indian playwright, movie and television writer, literary essayist, political journalist, and social commentator primarily in Marāthi...

    , 80, India
    India
    India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...

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

    , myasthenia gravis
    Myasthenia gravis
    Myasthenia gravis is an autoimmune neuromuscular disease leading to fluctuating muscle weakness and fatiguability...

    . http://www.ibnlive.com/news/veteran-marathi-playwright-vijay-tendulkar-passes-away/65528-19.html

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  • Pietro Cascella
    Pietro Cascella
    Pietro Cascella was an Italian painter and sculptor.Cascella was born at Pescara into a family of ceramics artists. In 1938 he moved to Rome where he frequented the Accademia di Belle Arti...

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

     contemporary art
    Contemporary art
    Contemporary art can be defined variously as art produced at this present point in time or art produced since World War II. The definition of the word contemporary would support the first view, but museums of contemporary art commonly define their collections as consisting of art produced...

    ist. http://www.artdaily.com/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=24310
  • Irma Córdoba
    Irma Córdoba
    Irma Córdoba was an Argentine film actress of the classic era.She entered the film industry in 1932 and appeared in over 30 films, spanning 65 years of Argentine film. She appeared in films such as Fuera de la ley 1937 and Atorrante . She retired in 1997.-Filmography:*Mundo contra mí, El *Eva...

    , 94, 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...

     actress, 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.lanacion.com.ar/EdicionImpresa/informaciongeneral/nota.asp?nota_id=1013744 (Spanish)
  • Lloyd Moore
    Lloyd Moore
    Lloyd D. Moore was a NASCAR Grand National Series driver from 1949 to 1955, recording 13 top-5 and 23 top-10 finishes. He was born in Frewsburg, New York, USA. At the time of his death, he was the oldest living former NASCAR driver.In 1950, Moore was a teammate of NASCAR champion Bill Rexford...

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

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

     driver (1949–1955). http://www.jayski.com/pages/sadnews2008.htm
  • Elemore Morgan, Jr.
    Elemore Morgan, Jr.
    Elemore Morgan, Jr. was recognized among the South's landscape artists. His paintings of rice farms in Vermilion Parish have been widely exhibited from Paris to Los Angeles. Elemore Morgan Jr...

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

     landscape art
    Landscape art
    Landscape art is a term that covers the depiction of natural scenery such as mountains, valleys, trees, rivers, and forests, and especially art where the main subject is a wide view, with its elements arranged into a coherent composition. In other works landscape backgrounds for figures can still...

    ist. http://www.thenewsstar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080520/UPDATES01/80520022/-1/UPDATES04
  • Joseph Pevney
    Joseph Pevney
    Joseph Pevney was an American film and television director.-Biography:Pevney was born on September 15, 1911 in New York City, New York.He made his debut in vaudeville as a boy soprano in 1924...

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

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

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

     (Bonanza
    Bonanza
    Bonanza is an American western television series that both ran on and was a production of NBC from September 12, 1959 to January 16, 1973. Lasting 14 seasons and 430 episodes, it ranks as the second longest running western series and still continues to air in syndication. It centers on the...

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

    , The Paper Chase
    The Paper Chase (TV series)
    The Paper Chase is a television series based on a 1970 novel by John Jay Osborn, Jr., as well as a 1973 film based on the novel. It follows the lives of law student James T. Hart and his classmates at Harvard Law School.-Production:...

    , Trapper John, M.D.
    Trapper John, M.D.
    Trapper John, M.D. is an American television medical drama and spin-off of the film MASH, concerning a lovable surgeon who became a mentor and father figure in San Francisco, California. The show ran on CBS from September 23, 1979, to September 4, 1986....

    ). http://www.legacy.com/TheDesertSun/Obituaries.asp?Page=LifeStory&PersonId=110273305

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  • Jolyon Brettingham Smith
    Jolyon Brettingham Smith
    Jolyon Brettingham Smith was a British composer, conductor, performer, author, and radio presenter, and a university teacher at the Berlin University of the Arts.-Life and work:...

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

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

    , musicologist
    Musicology
    Musicology is the scholarly study of music. The word is used in narrow, broad and intermediate senses. In the narrow sense, musicology is confined to the music history of Western culture...

     and radio presenter
    Presenter
    A presenter, or host , is a person or organization responsible for running an event. A museum or university, for example, may be the presenter or host of an exhibit. Likewise, a master of ceremonies is a person that hosts or presents a show...

    . http://www.tagesspiegel.de/medien-news/;art15532,2536757 (German)
  • John Fitzsimmons
    John Fitzsimmons
    The Reverend John Fitzsimmons was a Scottish Roman Catholic priest and radio presenter who presented The Greetings radio program on BBC Radio Scotland for many years....

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

     Roman Catholic priest and broadcaster
    Presenter
    A presenter, or host , is a person or organization responsible for running an event. A museum or university, for example, may be the presenter or host of an exhibit. Likewise, a master of ceremonies is a person that hosts or presents a show...

    , after long illness. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/7408170.stm
  • Thomas Flatley
    Thomas Flatley
    Thomas J. Flatley was a Boston real estate tycoon and philanthropist. He immigrated from Ireland in 1950 with a net worth of US$32; at the time of his death his fortune was estimated at $1.3 billion...

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

     real estate
    Real estate
    In general use, esp. North American, 'real estate' is taken to mean "Property consisting of land and the buildings on it, along with its natural resources such as crops, minerals, or water; immovable property of this nature; an interest vested in this; an item of real property; buildings or...

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

    , 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.boston.com/bostonglobe/obituaries/articles/2008/05/18/thomas_flatley_hub_real_estate_icon_dies_at_76/
  • Zélia Gattai
    Zélia Gattai
    Zélia Gattai was a Brazilian photographer, memoirist, novelist and author of children's literature, as well as a member of the Brazilian Academy of Letters. She was married to internationally famous writer Jorge Amado from 1945 until his death in 2001.Gattai was born in São Paulo city, state of...

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

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

     and novelist, wife of Jorge Amado
    Jorge Amado
    Jorge Leal Amado de Faria was a Brazilian writer of the Modernist school. He was the best-known of modern Brazilian writers, his work having been translated into some 49 languages and popularized in film, notably Dona Flor and her Two Husbands in 1978...

    . http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/05/17/america/LA-GEN-Brazil-Obit-Gattai.php
  • Wilfrid Mellers
    Wilfrid Mellers
    Wilfrid Howard Mellers OBE was an English music critic, musicologist and composer.-Early life:Born in Leamington, Warwickshire, Mellers was educated at the local Leamington College and later won a scholarship to Downing College, Cambridge, where he read English. At Cambridge, he formed a...

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

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

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

    . http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article3963044.ece?token=null&offset=12
  • D. Aubrey Moodie
    D. Aubrey Moodie
    Douglas Aubrey Moodie was reeve of Nepean Township, Ontario from 1954 to 1969 and was known as the "Father of Nepean". He was born in Bells Corners, Nepean Township, Ontario ....

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

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

    . http://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/news/story.html?id=51dcab63-d4f7-4c7e-ade7-62b5d3a90b5d
  • Jack Rayner
    Jack Rayner
    Jack Rayner was an Australian state and national representative rugby league player and NSWRFL coach. His club playing career was with the South Sydney Rabbitohs from 1946 to 1957 and he also represented New South Wales on eleven occasions and played in five Test matches for the Australian...

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

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

     player. http://www.smh.com.au/news/obituaries/he-fought-for-every-yard/2008/05/23/1211183094618.html
  • Sophan Sophiaan
    Sophan Sophiaan
    Sophan Sophiaan was an Indonesian film actor and politician. He was a member of the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle .Sophiaan was born in the city of Makassar, South Sulawesi, on April 26, 1944...

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

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

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

    , motorcycle accident. http://www.antara.co.id/en/arc/2008/5/17/sophan-sophiaan-killed-in-motorcycle-accident-in-central-java/
  • Joyce Trimmer
    Joyce Trimmer
    Joyce Trimmer was a Canadian politician. She was the first woman mayor of Scarborough, Ontario.Born in London, England, Trimmer emigrated to Toronto with her husband Douglas in 1954, where they settled on the Toronto Islands.Working as a secretary and then a business and typing teacher at...

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

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

    , mayor
    Mayor
    In many countries, a Mayor is the highest ranking officer in the municipal government of a town or a large urban city....

     of Scarborough, Ontario
    Scarborough, Ontario
    Scarborough is a dissolved municipality within the city of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Geographically, it comprises the eastern part of Toronto. It is bordered on the south by Lake Ontario, on the west by Victoria Park Avenue, on the north by Steeles Avenue East, and on the east by the Rouge River...

     (1988–1994), 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.thestar.com/News/GTA/article/428046
  • Lionel Van Deerlin
    Lionel Van Deerlin
    Lionel Van Deerlin was an American politician who served as a Democratic United States Representative from California from 1963 to 1981, representing a San Diego area district.-Biography:...

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

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

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

    , representative from California
    United States Congressional Delegations from California
    These are tables of congressional delegations from California in the United States Senate and United States House of Representatives.-United States Senate:- Mid-term changes :-United States House of Representatives:...

     (1963–1981).http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/obituaries/20080517-9999-bn17van.html

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  • William Blease, Baron Blease
    William Blease, Baron Blease
    William John Blease, Baron Blease JP was a British politician.Blease, the son of William John Blease and Sarah Watts, was educated at McClure Public Elementary School and Belfast Technical College, the National Council Labour Colleges and then the Workers' Educational Association.Blease worked...

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

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

    . http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/northern_ireland/7405652.stm
  • Henry Canoy
    Henry Canoy
    Don Henry Canoy was a Filipino businessman and founder of Radio Mindanao Network.Canoy was born in Cagayan de Oro City into a family of teachers and traders....

    , 84, 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...

     businessman, founder of Radio Mindanao Network
    Radio Mindanao Network
    RMN is the largest radio network in the Philippines with almost 60 company-owned AM & FM radio stations located around the Philippines. Radio Mindanao Network remains the legal name of the radio network, while Radyo Mo Nationwide is the slogan of the network. The network's first radio station was...

    . http://www.gmanews.tv/story/95905/Arroyo-lauds-late-RMN-founder
  • Sandy Howard
    Sandy Howard
    Sandy Howard was an American film producer and television producer. A native of the Bronx, New York City, Howard wrote short stories for publication in magazines like Liberty, and worked as a publicist for Broadway shows until he became a director for the Howdy Doody show at the age of nineteen;...

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

     film
    Film producer
    A film producer oversees and delivers a film project to all relevant parties while preserving the integrity, voice and vision of the film. They will also often take on some financial risk by using their own money, especially during the pre-production period, before a film is fully financed.The...

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

     (A Man Called Horse
    A Man Called Horse (1970 film)
    A Man Called Horse is a 1970 American Western film starring Richard Harris and directed by Elliot Silverstein.-Plot:The film is based on a short story, "A Man Called Horse", published in 1968 in the book Indian Country by Dorothy M. Johnson...

    ), 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.cbc.ca/arts/film/story/2008/05/17/howard-obit-horse.html
  • David Mitton
    David Mitton
    David Nelson Godfrey Mitton was a British television producer and director, and an experienced model maker and author, best known for directing and producing the children's television shows TUGS and Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends...

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

     animation director
    Animation director
    An animation director is the director in charge of all aspects of the animation process during the production of an animated film or animated segment for a live-action film...

    , 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.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/2085767/David-Mitton.html
  • Robert Mondavi
    Robert Mondavi
    Robert Gerald Mondavi was a leading California vineyard operator whose technical improvements and marketing strategies brought worldwide recognition for the wines of the Napa Valley in California. From an early period, Mondavi aggressively promoted labeling wines varietally rather than...

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

     winemaker
    Winemaker
    A winemaker or vintner is a person engaged in winemaking. They are generally employed by wineries or wine companies, where their work includes:*Cooperating with viticulturists...

    , benefactor of the Mondavi Center
    Mondavi Center
    The Mondavi Center, or Robert and Margrit Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts, is a performing arts venue located on the UC Davis campus in Davis, California...

    , member of the California Hall of Fame
    California Hall of Fame
    Conceived by First Lady Maria Shriver, the California Hall of Fame was established at The California Museum for History, Women and the Arts to honor individuals and families who embody California’s innovative spirit and have made their mark on history...

    . http://www.winespectator.com/Wine/Features/0,1197,3817,00.html
  • Igor Polyakov
    Igor Polyakov
    Igor Nikolayevich Polyakov was a Russian rower who competed in the 1952 Summer Olympics for the Soviet Union.He died in Moscow in 2008.In 1952 he won the silver medal as coxswain of the Soviet boat in the eights event.-External links:* *...

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

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

    , 1952 Olympic silver medalist
    Rowing at the 1952 Summer Olympics
    Rowing at the 1952 Summer Olympics featured 7 events, for men only. The competitions were held from July 20, 1952 to July 23, 1952.-Medal summary:-Medal table:-References:*...

    . http://www.rowingru.com/rowing+view+762-.htm (Russian)
  • Jimmy Slyde
    Jimmy Slyde
    Jimmy Slyde known as the King of Slides, was a world-renowned tap dancer, especially famous for his innovative tap style mixed with jazz....

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

     tap dancer. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/17/arts/dance/17slyde.html?ref=arts

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  • Del Ankers
    Del Ankers
    Frank Lafayette "Del" Ankers was an American cinematographer, director, photographer and documentary producer. His career, which spanned photography and television, lasted for more than 50 years....

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

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

     and photographer (Muppets commercials). http://www.cinematical.com/2008/05/27/rip-reel-important-people-may-27-2008/
  • Henry Austin
    Henry Austin (politician)
    Henry Austin was an Indian politician, diplomat, and former state and federal government minister. He was also a veteran leader in the Indian National Congress, which is also known simply as the Congress Party....

    , 88, India
    India
    India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...

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

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

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

    . http://www.gulf-times.com/site/topics/article.asp?cu_no=2&item_no=218807&version=1&template_id=40&parent_id=22
  • Tommy Burns, 51, Scottish
    Scotland
    Scotland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Occupying the northern third of the island of Great Britain, it shares a border with England to the south and is bounded by the North Sea to the east, the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, and the North Channel and Irish Sea to the...

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

    , Kilmarnock
    Kilmarnock F.C.
    Kilmarnock Football Club is a Scottish football team based in the town of Kilmarnock, Ayrshire. Founded in 1869, "Killie" is the oldest club currently in the Scottish Premier League. Home matches are played at Rugby Park...

    , Reading
    Reading F.C.
    Reading Football Club is an English association football club based in the town of Reading, Berkshire who currently play in the Championship...

    ), 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://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/c/celtic/7402185.stm
  • Tove Billington Bye
    Tove Billington Bye
    Tove Billington Bye was a Norwegian politician for the Centre Party.She served as a deputy representative to the Norwegian Parliament from Akershus during the terms 1973–1977 and 1977–1981....

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

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

    . http://www.budstikka.no/sec_nyheter/article180158.ece (Norwegian)
  • Alexander Courage
    Alexander Courage
    Alexander "Sandy" Mair Courage Jr. was an American orchestrator, arranger, and composer of music, primarily for television and film.-Biography:...

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

     orchestrator
    Orchestration
    Orchestration is the study or practice of writing music for an orchestra or of adapting for orchestra music composed for another medium...

     and film composer
    Film score
    A film score is original music written specifically to accompany a film, forming part of the film's soundtrack, which also usually includes dialogue and sound effects...

    . http://www.filmmusicsociety.org/news_events/features/2008/052808.html
  • Walt Dickerson
    Walt Dickerson
    Walter Roland Dickerson was an American jazz vibraphone player, most associated with post-bop....

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

     vibraphonist
    Vibraphone
    The vibraphone, sometimes called the vibraharp or simply the vibes, is a musical instrument in the struck idiophone subfamily of the percussion family....

    , 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://nightlights.blogs.wfiu.org/2008/05/17/vibes-for-walt-walt-dickerson-rip/
  • Robert Dunlop
    Robert Dunlop
    Robert Dunlop was a Northern Irish motorcycle racer, the younger brother of fellow road racer, the late Joey Dunlop, and like Joey he died after a crash while racing.-Biography:...

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

     motorcycle racer, chest injuries
    Chest trauma
    Chest trauma is a serious injury of the chest. Thoracic trauma is a common cause of significant disability and mortality, the leading cause of death from physical trauma after head and spinal cord injury. Blunt thoracic injuries are the primary or a contributing cause of about a quarter of all...

    . http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/motorsport/motorbikes/7403931.stm
  • Will Elder
    Will Elder
    William Elder was an American illustrator and comic book artist who worked in numerous areas of commercial art, but is best known for a zany cartoon style that helped launch Harvey Kurtzman's Mad comic book in 1952....

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

     comic book artist
    Comic Book Artist
    Comic Book Artist was an American magazine founded by Jon B. Cooke devoted to anecdotal histories of American comic books, with emphasis on comics published since the 1960s...

     (Mad, Little Annie Fanny
    Little Annie Fanny
    Little Annie Fanny was a comic strip created by Harvey Kurtzman and Will Elder for Playboy in October 1962. The inspiration for the comic strip was Harold Gray's Little Orphan Annie. The comic follows the escapades of Annie Fanny, a tall, blonde, amply breasted, round buttocked, curly-haired young...

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

    . http://www.boingboing.net/2008/05/15/will-elder-rip.html http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-elder17-2008may17,0,932513.story
  • Bob Florence
    Bob Florence
    Bob Florence was an American jazz arranger and pianist. He began taking piano lessons at five and initially intended to be a concert pianist. However, on taking classes with Bob McDonald he changed direction toward jazz.At the beginning of his career Florence worked as a pianist and arranger with...

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

      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...

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

     and arranger
    Arranger
    In investment banking, an arranger is a provider of funds in the syndication of a debt. They are entitled to syndicate the loan or bond issue, and may be referred to as the "lead underwriter". This is because this entity bears the risk of being able to sell the underlying securities/debt or the...

    , 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.allaboutjazz.com/php/news.php?id=18531
  • Youssef Idilbi
    Youssef Idilbi
    Youssef Sjoerd Idilbi was a Dutch actor.Idilbi studied theater in Groningen and Amsterdam. His television debut came in 1999, with the role of Abdullah Yildirem in the series Westenwind...

    , 32, Dutch
    Netherlands
    The Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...

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

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

    . http://www.elsevier.nl/nieuws/cultuur_en_televisie/artikel/asp/artnr/205895/ (Dutch)
  • Willis Lamb
    Willis Lamb
    Willis Eugene Lamb, Jr. was an American physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1955 together with Polykarp Kusch "for his discoveries concerning the fine structure of the hydrogen spectrum". Lamb and Kusch were able to precisely determine certain electromagnetic properties of the electron...

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

     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...

    , Nobel laureate in physics
    Nobel Prize in Physics
    The Nobel Prize in Physics is awarded once a year by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. It is one of the five Nobel Prizes established by the will of Alfred Nobel in 1895 and awarded since 1901; the others are the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Nobel Prize in Literature, Nobel Peace Prize, and...

     (1955), complications of gallstone
    Gallstone
    A gallstone is a crystalline concretion formed within the gallbladder by accretion of bile components. These calculi are formed in the gallbladder, but may pass distally into other parts of the biliary tract such as the cystic duct, common bile duct, pancreatic duct, or the ampulla of...

     disorder. http://www.azstarnet.com/allheadlines/239390
  • Earl Leggett
    Earl Leggett
    Earl Franklin Leggett was an American football defensive lineman in the NFL for the Chicago Bears, Los Angeles Rams, and the New Orleans Saints. He played college football at Louisiana State University...

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

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

     player and coach. http://www.raiders.com/Common/Article.aspx?id=44172

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  • Frith Banbury
    Frith Banbury
    Frith Banbury, MBE was a British theatre actor and stage director.- Biography :Frith Banbury was born in Plymouth, Devon, on 4 May 1912. He was the son of Rear Admiral Frederick Arthur Frith Banbury and his wife Winifred...

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

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

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

    . http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article3941001.ece
  • Arthur Burks
    Arthur Burks
    Arthur Walter Burks was an American mathematician who in the 1940s as a senior engineer on the project contributed to the design of the ENIAC, the first general-purpose electronic digital computer. Decades later, Burks and his wife Alice Burks outlined their case for the subject matter of the...

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

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

     and computer pioneer, 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://blog.mlive.com/annarbornews/2008/05/arthur_burks_early_computer_pi.html
  • Warren Cowan
    Warren Cowan
    Warren Cowan was a prominent American film industry publicist. He was born in New York City and attended Townsend Harris High School, a school for boys on the educational fast track. A fellow classmate was Variety columnist Army Archerd...

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

     publicist
    Publicist
    A publicist is a person whose job is to generate and manage publicity for a public figure, especially a celebrity, a business, or for a work such as a book, film or album...

    , 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.forbes.com/feeds/ap/2008/05/15/ap5016836.html
  • John Forbes-Robertson
    John Forbes-Robertson (actor)
    John Forbes-Robertson was a British actor best-known for being the only actor other than Christopher Lee to play the title role in the Hammer horror series of Dracula films....

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

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

    . http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2008/jun/30/obituaries.culture
  • Derek Goodwin
    Derek Goodwin
    Derek Goodwin was a British ornithologist who wrote a series of what The Times called "definitive works" on estrildid finches, crows and pigeons. He was considered to be an expert on bird behaviour....

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

     ornithologist. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article3993719.ece
  • Roy Heath
    Roy Heath
    Roy A K Heath was a Guyanese writer, most noted for his "Georgetown Trilogy" of novels , consisting of From the Heat of the Day , One Generation , and Genetha...

    , 81, Guyanese
    Guyana
    Guyana , officially the Co-operative Republic of Guyana, previously the colony of British Guiana, is a sovereign state on the northern coast of South America that is culturally part of the Anglophone Caribbean. Guyana was a former colony of the Dutch and of the British...

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

    . http://books.guardian.co.uk/obituaries/story/0,,2281037,00.html
  • Jay Morago
    Jay Morago
    Jay R. Morago Jr. was an American Native American activist who served as the first Governor of the Gila River Indian Community and helped to draft the reservation's first constitution in 1960. Morago served as the Governor of the Gila River Indian Community from 1954 until 1960.Jay Morago was born...

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

     governor of the Gila River Indian Community
    Gila River Indian Community
    The Gila River Indian Community is an Indian reservation in the U.S. state of Arizona, lying adjacent to the south side of the city of Phoenix, within the Phoenix Metropolitan Area in Pinal and Maricopa Counties. It was established in 1859, and formally established by Congress in 1939...

     (1954–1960), 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.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/local/articles/0520gilagovernor0520.html
  • Tonderai Ndira
    Tonderai Ndira
    Tonderai Ndira was a Zimbabwean political dissident murdered in May 2008.Ndira lived in the township of Mabvuku and Tafara, east of the capital, Harare, and was a "prominent activist" member of the Movement for Democratic Change...

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

    an political dissident, murdered. http://www.thetimes.co.za/News/Article.aspx?id=776706
  • Astrid Zachrison
    Astrid Zachrison
    Elin Astrid Sofia Zachrison was a Swedish supercentenarian. She became Sweden's oldest person ever on 6 October 2007, surpassing the age attained by Elsa Moberg. She is the second oldest Nordic person on record, after Christian Mortensen of Denmark.Zachrison was born in Åby in Fliseryd, west of...

    , 112, Swedish
    Sweden
    Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....

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

    , oldest Swede ever. http://www.thelocal.se/11776/20080515/
  • Yuri Rytkheu
    Yuri Rytkheu
    Yuri Sergeyevich Rytkheu was a Chukchi writer, who wrote in both his native Chukchi and in Russian. He is considered to be the father of Chukchi literature.- Biography :Yuri Rytkheu was born March 8, 1930 to a family of trappers and hunters...

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

    n Chukchi language
    Chukchi language
    The Chukchi language is a Palaeosiberian language spoken by Chukchi people in the easternmost extremity of Siberia, mainly in Chukotka Autonomous Okrug...

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

    . http://www.survival-international.org/news/3315
  • Mário Schoemberger
    Mário Schoemberger
    Mário Schoemberger was a Brazilian film, television and theater actor.In his last film role, Schoemberger was personally cast in the 2007 film, O Cheiro do Ralo, by its director, Heitor Dhalia. He appeared in the film opposite actor Selton Mello...

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

    ian film
    Film
    A film, also called a movie or motion picture, is a series of still or moving images. It is produced by recording photographic images with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or visual effects...

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

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

    , 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://portal.rpc.com.br/gazetadopovo/cadernog/conteudo.phtml?tl=1&id=765956&tit=Aos-56-anos-morre-o-ator-curitibano-Mario-Schoemberger (Portuguese)
  • Richard David Vine
    Richard David Vine
    Richard David Vine was a career diplomat, US Ambassador to Switzerland from 1979 to 1981, and later Director General of the Atlantic Institute for International Affairs.-Education and diplomatic career:...

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

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

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

     (1979–1981). http://www.genevalunch.com/genevalunchrethink/2008/05/obituary-former.html

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  • Saad Al-Abdullah Al-Salim Al-Sabah
    Saad Al-Abdullah Al-Salim Al-Sabah
    Sheikh Saad Al-Abdullah Al-Salim Al-Sabah, KCMG was the Emir of Kuwait during a short reign of nine days , succeeding the late Sheikh Jaber....

    , 78, 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...

    i emir (2006). http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7399438.stm
  • Jill Adams
    Jill Adams
    Jill Adams was an English actress artist and fashion model. She featured or starred in over 25 films during the 1950s and 1960s....

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

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

    . http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article4425231.ece
  • Lucius D. Battle
    Lucius D. Battle
    Lucius Durham Battle , known as Luke Battle, was a career Foreign Service officer who served with distinction in Washington, Europe and the Middle East.-Early life:...

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

     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 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...

     (1964–1967), Parkinson's disease
    Parkinson's disease
    Parkinson's disease is a degenerative disorder of the central nervous system...

    . http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/18/us/18battle.html?ref=us
  • Bernardin Gantin, 86, Benin
    Benin
    Benin , officially the Republic of Benin, is a country in West Africa. It borders Togo to the west, Nigeria to the east and Burkina Faso and Niger to the north. Its small southern coastline on the Bight of Benin is where a majority of the population is located...

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

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

    . http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/global/article3932927.ece
  • John Phillip Law
    John Phillip Law
    John Phillip Law was an American film actor with over one hundred movie roles to his credit. He was born in Los Angeles, California, the son of actress Phyllis Sallee and the brother of actor Thomas Augustus Law .He was best known for his roles as the blind angel Pygar in the science fiction cult...

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

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

     (Barbarella
    Barbarella
    Barbarella is a female given name, variant of Barbara. It may also refer to:* Barbarella by Jean-Claude Forest; the origin of the story** Barbarella , based on the comic book; starring Jane Fonda...

    ). http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-law15-2008may15,0,4156367.story
  • Larry McKeon
    Larry McKeon
    Larry McKeon was an American politician who served as a member of the Illinois House of Representatives from Chicago. Serving from January 1997 to January 2007, he was the first-ever openly gay member of the Illinois General Assembly and was also HIV-positive.McKeon died at the age of 63 in...

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

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

    , first openly gay member of the Illinois General Assembly
    Illinois General Assembly
    The Illinois General Assembly is the state legislature of the U.S. state of Illinois and comprises the Illinois House of Representatives and the Illinois Senate. The General Assembly was created by the first state constitution adopted in 1818. Illinois has 59 legislative districts, with two...

    , 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.chicagotribune.com/services/newspaper/printedition/thursday/metro/chi-hed-mckeon-15-may15,0,423017.story
  • Colea Răutu
    Colea Rautu
    Colea Răutu was a Romanian actor, born in Bălţi . He participated in more than fifty movies and TV series, among other the western film Apachen, the Romanian TV series Toate pînzele sus, and the prize-winning film Răscoala.- Selected filmography :* La 'Moara cu noroc Nominated for the "Golden...

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

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

    . http://english.hotnews.ro/stiri-top_news-3002953-romanian-actor-colea-rautu-dies-aged-95.htm
  • Ron Stone
    Ron Stone (reporter)
    Ron Stone was an American news anchor at KPRC-TV in Houston, Texas for 20 years from 1972 to 1992. He was called "the most popular and revered news anchor the city has ever known" by...

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

     news anchor (KHOU
    KHOU-TV
    KHOU is the CBS affiliate television station in Houston, Texas. Serving Greater Houston, it is owned by the Belo Corporation and broadcasts on digital and PSIP channel 11...

    , KPRC
    KPRC-TV
    KPRC-TV is the NBC affiliated television station based in Houston, Texas, and serving the Greater Houston television market. It has studios located in the Sharpstown district on the Southwest portion of the city, and has a transmitter site in unincorporated Fort Bend County near Missouri City...

     in Houston), 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.click2houston.com/news/15925957/detail.html
  • Costică Toma
    Costica Toma
    Costică Toma was a Romanian international football goalkeeper and later manager.- Player career :Toma began his football career in 1940, when he played for FC Suter as a striker. After a period when he played as a youth for Capşa Bucureşti, he moved to Iaşi...

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

    n football goalkeeper (Romania
    Romania national football team
    The Romania national football team is the national football team of Romania and is controlled by the Romanian Football Federation.Romania is one of only four national teams, the other three being Brazil, France, and Belgium, that took part in the first three World Cups.However, after that...

    , Steaua Bucureşti). http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/05/14/sports/EU-SPT-SOC-Obit-Toma.php

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  • Penny Banner
    Penny Banner
    Mary Ann Kostecki , better know by her stage name Penny Banner, was a professional wrestler. She was best known for her time spent in the American Wrestling Association...

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

     professional wrestler, 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://slam.canoe.ca/Slam/Wrestling/2008/05/13/5551371.html
  • David Daniels
    David Daniels (poet)
    The visual poet David Daniels was born in Beth Israel Hospital, Newark, New Jersey and grew up in Maplewood, New Jersey. He made words out of pictures and pictures out of words for over 60 years. Visual Poetry: The Shape Poem: Shapes tell the words what to say and words tell the shapes what to form...

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

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

    . http://hyperex.co.uk/reviewdaniels.php
  • Oakley Hall
    Oakley Hall
    Oakley Maxwell Hall was an American novelist. He was born in San Diego, California, graduated from the University of California, Berkeley, and served in the Marines during World War II. Some of his mysteries were published under the pen names "O.M...

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

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

    . http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/05/14/DDR510L1D0.DTL
  • Lidiya Masterkova
    Lidiya Masterkova
    Lidia Masterkova - was a Russian-born French painter, non-conformist artist in USSR.Masterkova graduated from the Surikov Art Academy in 1950. A dedicated abstractionist, Masterkova was associated with the Lianozovo Circle along with Oscar Rabin, Vladimir Nemukhin, a diverse group of artists and...

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

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

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

    . http://www.kommersant.ru/doc-y.aspx?DocsID=890945 (Russian)
  • Robert Rauschenberg
    Robert Rauschenberg
    Robert Rauschenberg was an American artist who came to prominence in the 1950s transition from Abstract Expressionism to Pop Art. Rauschenberg is well-known for his "Combines" of the 1950s, in which non-traditional materials and objects were employed in innovative combinations...

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

     pop artist, heart failure. http://www.boston.com/ae/theater_arts/articles/2008/05/14/robert_rauschenberg_arts_eclectic_master_dies_at_82/
  • Irena Sendler
    Irena Sendler
    Irena Sendler was a Polish Catholic social worker who served in the Polish Underground and the Żegota resistance organization in German-occupied Warsaw during World War II...

    , 98, 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...

     humanitarian, saved 2500 Jewish children from the Warsaw Ghetto
    Warsaw Ghetto
    The Warsaw Ghetto was the largest of all Jewish Ghettos in Nazi-occupied Europe during World War II. It was established in the Polish capital between October and November 15, 1940, in the territory of General Government of the German-occupied Poland, with over 400,000 Jews from the vicinity...

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

    . http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/05/12/europe/EU-GEN-Poland-Obit-Sendler.php

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  • Sam Dauya
    Sam Dauya
    Sam Dauya was the Zimbabwean founder of the Dynamos F.C. football team, which was founded in 1963 and is based in Harare....

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

    an founder of Dynamos F.C. football team. http://allafrica.com/stories/200805140460.html
  • Alema Leota
    Alema Leota
    Alema Leota was an alleged Hawaiian organized crime boss during the 1960s and 1970s, who led an unsuccessful nonpartisan campaign for the Governor of Hawaii during the 1978 election...

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

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

     leader, 1978 candidate for governor of Hawaii
    Governor of Hawaii
    The Governor of Hawaii is the chief executive of the state of Hawaii and its various agencies and departments, as provided in the Hawaii State Constitution Article V, Sections 1 through 6. It is a directly elected position, votes being cast by popular suffrage of residents of the state...

    , injuries from 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.honoluluadvertiser.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080515/NEWS01/805150342/1001/LOCALNEWSFRONT
  • Raymattja Marika
    Raymattja Marika
    Raymattja Marika was an Australian Yolngu aboriginal leader, scholar, educator, translator, linguist, grandmother and cultural advocate. She was a Director of Reconciliation Australia and a member of the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies...

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

    n Yolngu
    Yolngu
    The Yolngu or Yolŋu are an Indigenous Australian people inhabiting north-eastern Arnhem Land in the Northern Territory of Australia. Yolngu means “person” in the Yolŋu languages.-Yolŋu law:...

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

    . http://news.theage.com.au/national/tributes-for-aboriginal-leader-20080512-2dap.html
  • Bruno Neves
    Bruno Neves
    Bruno Neves was a Portuguese professional road racing cyclist born in Oliveira de Azeméis. He was one of the best sprinters of the Portuguese peloton, having won one stage in the Volta a Portugal...

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

     cyclist
    Road bicycle racing
    Road bicycle racing is a bicycle racing sport held on roads, using racing bicycles. The term "road racing" is usually applied to events where competing riders start simultaneously with the winner being the first to the line at the end of the course .Historically, the most...

    , crash during race. http://www.bikeradar.com/news/article/police-raid-la-mss-headquarters-16574
  • Dottie Rambo
    Dottie Rambo
    Dottie Rambo was an American gospel singer and songwriter. She was a Grammy and multiple Dove Award-winning artist. Rambo, along with husband Buck and daughter Reba, formed the award-winning southern Gospel group, The Rambos...

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

     gospel singer, bus crash
    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.dottierambo.net/index2.htm
  • John Rutsey
    John Rutsey
    John Howard Rutsey from Ontario, Canada was a former drummer, most recognized for being a co-founding member of Rush along with Alex Lifeson and Jeff Jones, and performing on the band's debut album.-History:...

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

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

     (Rush
    Rush (band)
    Rush is a Canadian rock band formed in August 1968, in the Willowdale neighbourhood of Toronto, Ontario. The band is composed of bassist, keyboardist, and lead vocalist Geddy Lee, guitarist Alex Lifeson, and drummer and lyricist Neil Peart...

    ), 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.canada.com/montrealgazette/news/story.html?id=fd8ff6b3-6828-471c-9c51-6b3579ba6d65
  • Heather Stohler
    Heather Stohler
    Heather Stohler was an American model. Born as Heather Arrick she changed her name when she entered modeling. During her short career she worked on photoshoots with Kate Moss for Calvin Klein and also appeared on the covers of Italy's version of Vogue and Germany's version of Marie Claire...

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

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

     for Calvin Klein
    Calvin Klein
    Calvin Richard Klein is an American fashion designer who launched the company that would later become Calvin Klein Inc. in 1968. In addition to clothing, Klein has also given his name to a range of perfumes, watches, and jewelry....

    , fire
    Fire
    Fire is the rapid oxidation of a material in the chemical process of combustion, releasing heat, light, and various reaction products. Slower oxidative processes like rusting or digestion are not included by this definition....

    . http://www.tmz.com/2008/05/14/calvin-klein-model-dies-in-fire/
  • Dick Sutcliffe
    Dick Sutcliffe
    Richard Towne Sutcliffe was an American animator and one of the creators of the 1960s stop motion religious animated series, Davey and Goliath....

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

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

    , creator of Davey and Goliath
    Davey and Goliath
    Davey and Goliath is a 1960s stop-motion animated children's Christian television series. The programs, produced by the Lutheran Church in America , were produced by Art Clokey after the success of his Gumby series.Each 15-minute episode features the adventures of Davey Hansen and his "talking"...

    , 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/2008/05/25/arts/design/25sutcliffe.html?_r=1&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss&oref=slogin
  • Jeff Torrington
    Jeff Torrington
    Jeff Torrington was a novelist from Glasgow in Scotland.His novels draw on the changing face of modern Scotland. Swing Hammer Swing was set during the demolition of the old Gorbals. It took 30 years to write. The Devil's Carousel drew on the decline of a fictionalised version of the...

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

     novel
    Novel
    A novel is a book of long narrative in literary prose. The genre has historical roots both in the fields of the medieval and early modern romance and in the tradition of the novella. The latter supplied the present generic term in the late 18th century....

    ist (Swing Hammer Swing), Parkinson's disease
    Parkinson's disease
    Parkinson's disease is a degenerative disorder of the central nervous system...

    . http://www.theherald.co.uk/news/news/display.var.2265867.0.Tributes_paid_to_awardwinning_writer_Jeff_Torrington.php
  • Curtis Whitley
    Curtis Whitley
    Curtis Wayne Whitley was an American football center in the National Football League. He played six seasons for the San Diego Chargers , the Carolina Panthers , and the Oakland Raiders . Born in Smithfield, North Carolina, he graduated from Smithfield-Selma High School before attending Clemson...

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

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

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

    , Carolina Panthers
    Carolina Panthers
    The Carolina Panthers are a professional American football team based in Charlotte, North Carolina. They are currently members of the South Division of the National Football Conference in the National Football League . The Panthers, along with the Jacksonville Jaguars, joined the NFL as expansion...

    , Oakland Raiders
    Oakland Raiders
    The Oakland Raiders are a professional American football team based in Oakland, California. They currently play in the Western Division of the American Football Conference in the National Football League...

    ). http://www.ncnn.com/content/view/2701/27/ http://blogs.charlotte.com/panthers/2008/05/curtis-whitley.html

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  • Leyla Gencer
    Leyla Gencer
    Leyla Gencer, or Ayşe Leyla Çeyrekgil was a world-renowned Turkish operatic soprano.Known as "La Diva Turca" and "La Regina" in the opera world, Gencer was a notable bel canto soprano who spent most of her career in Italy, from the early 1950s through the mid-1980s, and had a repertoire...

    , 79, Turkish
    Turkey
    Turkey , known officially as the Republic of Turkey , is a Eurasian country located in Western Asia and in East Thrace in Southeastern Europe...

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

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

     and cardiac failure. http://www.hurriyet.com.tr/english/turkey/8909784.asp?gid=231&sz=60347
  • Paul Haeberlin
    Paul Haeberlin (chef)
    Paul Haeberlin was a French chef and restaurateur. He was the owner of Auberge de l’Ill, classical French restaurant, which was first awarded a 3-star Michelin Rating in 1967 and continues to be one of the oldest 3-star establishments in France...

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

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

     and restaurateur
    Restaurant
    A restaurant is an establishment which prepares and serves food and drink to customers in return for money. Meals are generally served and eaten on premises, but many restaurants also offer take-out and food delivery services...

     (L'Auberge de l'Ill). http://canadianpress.google.com/article/ALeqM5jTTT6254NGAJC7X2gCnBJIGwtRBg
  • Jessica Jacobs
    Jessica Jacobs
    Jessica Madison "Jessie" Jacobs was an Australian actress and singer. She was known for her roles in children's television series in Australia including The Saddle Club, Fergus McPhail, and Holly's Heroes....

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

    n actress and singer, fell under train. http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,,23703129-2702,00.html http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/05/15/2245717.htm
  • Liao Feng-Teh
    Liao Feng-teh
    Liao Feng-teh was a Taiwanese politician who held leadership positions in the Kuomintang. Liao was chosen to become the Interior Minister designate in 2008 under Republic of China President Ma Ying-jeou, following Ma's victory in the Taiwanese Presidential Election of 2008...

    , 57, 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...

    ese incoming interior minister
    Interior minister
    An interior ministry is a government ministry typically responsible for policing, national security, and immigration matters. The ministry is often headed by a minister of the interior or minister of home affairs...

    , 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.monstersandcritics.com/news/asiapacific/news/article_1404620.php
  • Eusebio Ríos, 73, Spanish
    Spain
    Spain , officially the Kingdom of Spain languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Spain's official name is as follows:;;;;;;), is a country and member state of the European Union located in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula...

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

    . http://www.elpais.com/articulo/deportes/Fallece/Eusebio/Rios/ex/futbolista/ex/tecnico/Betis/elpepudep/20080511elpepudep_6/Tes (Spanish)
  • Mario Schiano
    Mario Schiano
    Mario Schiano was an Italian alto saxophonist and soprano saxophonist associated with avant-garde/free jazz.He was born in Naples...

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

     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...

     saxophonist
    Saxophone
    The saxophone is a conical-bore transposing musical instrument that is a member of the woodwind family. Saxophones are usually made of brass and played with a single-reed mouthpiece similar to that of the clarinet. The saxophone was invented by the Belgian instrument maker Adolphe Sax in 1846...

    , after long Illness. http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/news.php?id=18419
  • Peter Thurnham
    Peter Thurnham
    Peter Giles Thurnham was a British politician. He was Member of Parliament for Bolton North East from 1983 to 1997, originally as a Conservative before resigning to become an independent in February 1996 and then a Liberal Democrat in October 1996.-Biography:Thurnham was born in Staines, Middlesex...

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

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

     for Bolton North East (1983–1997), 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.theboltonnews.co.uk/display.var.2271282.0.former_bolton_mp_loses_cancer_battle.php

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  • James Atkinson
    James Atkinson (physicist)
    James Robert Atkinson, MA, FInstP, FRSE, FRMetS, radar pioneer 1938-45, reader in Natural Philosophy at Glasgow University 1945-58, deputy-director of research at the nuclear establishment at Dounreay 1958-66, deputy-director of the British Shipping Research Association 1966-76, and deputy-director...

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

     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/article4242838.ece
  • Firoz Dastur
    Firoz Dastur
    -Career:Dastur was part of Indian Film Industry in 1930s, acting in a few films by Wadia Movietone and other film banners. But his first love was Indian Classical Music....

    , 89, India
    India
    India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...

    n Hindustani classical musician
    Hindustani classical music
    Hindustani classical music is the Hindustani or North Indian style of Indian classical music found throughout the northern Indian subcontinent. The style is sometimes called North Indian Classical Music or Shāstriya Sangeet...

     (Kirana Gharana
    Kirana Gharana
    Kirana Gharana is one of the most prolific Hindustani khyal gharanas.-History:The name of this school of music derives from Kirana or Kairana, a town and tehsil of Muzzafarnagar District in Uttar Pradesh...

    ), anaemia. http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/India/Vocalist_Firoz_Dastur_dies_at_89/articleshow/3028845.cms
  • Jack Gibson
    Jack Gibson (rugby league)
    Jack Arthur Gibson OAM was an Australian rugby league identity – a player, commentator and most notably a coach...

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

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

     player and coach, selected as "Coach of the Century"
    Australian Rugby League's Team of the Century
    In late 2007, the Australian Rugby League and National Rugby League commissioned a college of 130 experts to select the 100 best rugby league players in the game's 100-year history in Australia...

    . http://www.leaguehq.com.au/news/news/gibson-passes-away/2008/05/09/1210131260680.html
  • Judy Grable
    Judy Grable
    Nellya Baughman was an American professional wrestler who was best known by her ring name Judy Grable. She was an active wrestler during the 1950s and 1960s...

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

     female professional wrestler. http://www.1wrestling.com/news/newsline.asp?news=32218
  • Shmuel Katz, 93, Israel
    Israel
    The State of Israel is a parliamentary republic located in the Middle East, along the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea...

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

    , 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...

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

    . http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/Flash.aspx/146272
  • Arthur Kroeger
    Arthur Kroeger
    Arthur Kroeger, was a Canadian academic and civil servant, who is referred to as the "dean of deputy ministers"....

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

     civil servant
    Civil service
    The term civil service has two distinct meanings:* A branch of governmental service in which individuals are employed on the basis of professional merit as proven by competitive examinations....

     (1958–1992), academic
    Academia
    Academia is the community of students and scholars engaged in higher education and research.-Etymology:The word comes from the akademeia in ancient Greece. Outside the city walls of Athens, the gymnasium was made famous by Plato as a center of learning...

     and 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....

     of Carleton University
    Carleton University
    Carleton University is a comprehensive university located in the capital of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario. The enabling legislation is The Carleton University Act, 1952, S.O. 1952. Founded as a small college in 1942, Carleton now offers over 65 programs in a diverse range of disciplines. Carleton has...

     (1993–2002). http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Politics/2008/05/11/5530371-cp.html
  • Nuala O'Faolain
    Nuala O'Faolain
    Nuala O'Faolain was an Irish journalist, TV producer, book reviewer, teacher and author. She became internationally well-known for her two volumes of memoir, Are You Somebody? and Almost There; a novel, My Dream of You; and a history with commentary, The Story of Chicago May...

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

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

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

    , 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.rte.ie/news/2008/0510/ofaolainn.html http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/breaking/2008/0510/breaking6.htm
  • Ronald A. Parise
    Ronald A. Parise
    Ronald Anthony Parise, Ph.D. was an Italian American scientist who flew aboard two NASA Space Shuttle missions as a payload specialist....

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

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

    , 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.tribune-chronicle.com/page/content.detail/id/505209.html?nav=5021
  • Esteban Robles Espinosa
    Esteban Robles Espinosa
    Esteban Robles Espinosa was the commander of Mexico City's Investigative Police Force. He headed Mexico City's anti-kidnapping unit until 2003 and served on the internal affairs commission...

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

     police commander, shot. http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/americas/05/09/mexico.violence/index.html
  • Pascal Sevran
    Pascal Sevran
    Pascal Sevran was a French TV presenter and author.-Biography:Son of a communist taxi driver, and a Spanish tailor, Pascal Sevran was born on 16 October 1945 in Paris. His real name was Jean-Claude Jouhaud. He worked as a song-writer, a singer, a TV presenter, and an author. He was openly gay...

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

     television presenter
    Presenter
    A presenter, or host , is a person or organization responsible for running an event. A museum or university, for example, may be the presenter or host of an exhibit. Likewise, a master of ceremonies is a person that hosts or presents a show...

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

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

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

    , 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.esctoday.com/news/read/11323
  • Sinan Sofuoğlu
    Sinan Sofuoglu
    Sinan Sofuoğlu was a Turkish motorcycle racer.-Biography:Part of the motorcycle racing Sofuoğlu family, he started racing at 15, and became drag champion in 1998. He continued his victories with championships won in Group B in 1999, and in Group A in the years 2001, 2002 and 2004. He finished the...

    , 25, Turkish
    Turkey
    Turkey , known officially as the Republic of Turkey , is a Eurasian country located in Western Asia and in East Thrace in Southeastern Europe...

     motorcycle racer, training crash. http://www.todayszaman.com/tz-web/detaylar.do?load=detay&link=142143&bolum=127
  • Artur da Távola
    Artur da Távola
    Artur da Távola was a Brazilian politician, former Senator, journalist and writer. His real name was Paulo Alberto Moretzsohn Monteiro de Barros as he used Artur da Távola as a pseudonym.Távola began his career as a journalist and writer. He authored twenty-three books during the course of his...

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

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

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

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

    , heart disease
    Heart disease
    Heart disease, cardiac disease or cardiopathy is an umbrella term for a variety of diseases affecting the heart. , it is the leading cause of death in the United States, England, Canada and Wales, accounting for 25.4% of the total deaths in the United States.-Types:-Coronary heart disease:Coronary...

    . http://noticias.terra.com.br/brasil/interna/0,,OI2876692-EI306,00.html (Portuguese)

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  • Eddy Arnold
    Eddy Arnold
    Richard Edward Arnold , known professionally as Eddy Arnold, was an American country music singer who performed for six decades. He was a so-called Nashville sound innovator of the late 1950s, and scored 147 songs on the Billboard country music charts, second only to George Jones. He sold more...

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

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

     singer. http://www.wbir.com/life/programming/local/liveatfive/story.aspx?storyid=57750&catid=8
  • Willem Brakman
    Willem Brakman
    Willem Pieter Jacobus Brakman was a Dutch writer. His made his literary debut with the novel Een winterreis in 1961. Brakman received the P. C...

    , 85, Dutch
    Netherlands
    The Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...

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

    . http://www.telegraaf.nl/binnenland/3955387/_Willem_Brakman_overleden__.html?cid=rss (Dutch)
  • Ian Brodie
    Ian Brodie (journalist)
    Ian Ellery Brodie, OBE was a British journalist, foreign correspondent and author. From 1986 to 2001 he worked in the Washington bureaux of The Daily Telegraph and then The Times.-Career :...

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

     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...

     (The Daily Telegraph
    The Daily Telegraph
    The Daily Telegraph is a daily morning broadsheet newspaper distributed throughout the United Kingdom and internationally. The newspaper was founded by Arthur B...

    ). http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article3896512.ece
  • Jose Feria
    Jose Feria
    Jose Y. Feria was a Filipino lawyer and jurist who served as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines from 1986 to 1987. He was among the first appointees to the Supreme Court of President Corazon Aquino....

    , 91, 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...

     supreme court
    Supreme Court of the Philippines
    The Supreme Court of the Philippines is the Philippines' highest judicial court, as well as the court of last resort. The court consists of 14 Associate Justices and 1 Chief Justice...

     justice (1986–1987). http://elibrary.supremecourt.gov.ph/index3.php?justicetype=Associate%20Justice&justiceid=a45475a11ec72b843d74959b60fd7bd64564cef75b8db
  • Murray Jarvik
    Murray Jarvik
    Murray Elias Jarvik was an American psychopharmacologist and academic who was among the first scientists to study d-lysergic acid, the precursor to LSD, and later became the co-inventor of the nicotine patch...

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

     academic
    Academia
    Academia is the community of students and scholars engaged in higher education and research.-Etymology:The word comes from the akademeia in ancient Greece. Outside the city walls of Athens, the gymnasium was made famous by Plato as a center of learning...

     and co-inventor of the nicotine patch
    Nicotine patch
    A nicotine patch is a transdermal patch that releases nicotine into the body through the skin. It is used as an aid in nicotine replacement therapy , a process for smoking cessation. The first published study of the pharmacokinetics of a transdermal nicotine patch in humans was authored by Jed E....

    , heart failure. http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5jDdrigSu4_gRhO4T70Zhf5Ooeo_Q
  • Larry Levine
    Larry Levine
    Larry Levine was an American audio engineer, known for his cooperation with Phil Spector on the Wall of Sound recording technique....

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

     Grammy-winning audio engineer
    Audio engineering
    An audio engineer, also called audio technician, audio technologist or sound technician, is a specialist in a skilled trade that deals with the use of machinery and equipment for the recording, mixing and reproduction of sounds. The field draws on many artistic and vocational areas, including...

     (Wall of Sound
    Wall of Sound
    The Wall of Sound is a music production technique for pop and rock music recordings developed by record producer Phil Spector at Gold Star Studios in Los Angeles, California, during the early 1960s...

    ), 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.nytimes.com/2008/05/15/business/15levine.html?ref=technology
  • Luigi Malerba
    Luigi Malerba
    Luigi Malerba was an Italian author who wrote short stories , historical novels, and screenplays, and who co-founded the Gruppo 63, based on Marxism and Structuralism...

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

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

    . http://www.eurotopics.net/en/presseschau/archiv/article/ARTICLE27395-Luigi-Malerba-has-died
  • Édgar Eusebio Millán Gómez
    Édgar Eusebio Millán Gómez
    Édgar Eusebio Millán Gómez was a third-ranking member of Mexico's Secretariat of Public Security and acting commissioner of the Federal Preventive Police. Born in Mexico City, he received a law degree from the Universidad del Valle de México. After graduating he started his career in the Mexican...

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

     federal police
    Federal Preventive Police
    The Federal Police , formerly known as the Policía Federal Preventiva , are the uniformed federal police force of Mexico...

     anti-drug coordinator, shot. http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-mexico9-2008may09,0,7074614.story
  • François Sterchele
    François Sterchele
    François Sterchele was a Belgian footballer who played for Club Brugge. The striker was the top scorer of the Jupiler League in 2006-07. Sterchele died in a single-person car accident on May 8, 2008.-Club career:...

    , 26, 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...

     footballer (Belgium, Club Brugge
    Club Brugge
    Club Brugge Koninklijke Voetbalvereniging is a football club from Bruges in Belgium. It was founded in 1891 and is one of the top clubs in Belgium. Its home ground is the Jan Breydel Stadium, which has a capacity of 29,472....

    ), 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.uefa.com/footballeurope/news/kind=2/newsid=693153.html

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  • William Douglas Allen
    William Douglas Allen
    William Douglas Allen was a physicist and electrical engineer.Allen was born 27 July 1914 in Mussooree, Uttar Pradesh, India. He was educated in South Australia at Prince Alfred College and the University of Adelaide . In 1937 was awarded a Rhodes Scholarship to New College, Oxford where he...

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

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

     and electrical engineer. http://www.physicstoday.org/obits/notice_291.shtml
  • Neeraj Grover, 26, India
    India
    India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...

    n television executive and producer (Kya Aap Paanchvi Pass Se Tez Hain?
    Kya Aap Paanchvi Pass Se Tez Hain?
    Kya Aap Paanchvi Pass Se Tez Hain? was a game show hosted by leading Bollywood actor, Shahrukh Khan. It is the Indian version of the popular American game show, Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader? and was telecast on Indian Television channel STAR Plus...

    ), beaten. http://www.parinda.com/news/crime/20080521/4036/neeraj-grover-creative-head-synergy-adlabs-found-murdered-kannada-starlet-m
  • Clifford Jones
    Clifford Jones
    Clifford L. Jones was an American politician and Pennsylvania Republican Party chairman. During his career he worked as secretary of commerce, labor and industry and environmental resources, and also chaired the Public Utility Commission.On 7 May 2008 he died of prostate cancer.-References:...

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

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

    , Pennsylvania Republican Party
    Republican State Committee of Pennsylvania
    The Republican Party of Pennsylvania is based in Harrisburg in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. It is affiliated with the Republican Party of the United States.-Founding:...

     chairman, 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.pennlive.com/midstate/index.ssf/2008/05/midstate_leader_cliff_jones_pa.html
  • Thijs Wöltgens
    Thijs Wöltgens
    Mathias Andreas Marie Wöltgens was a Dutch politician. He served as the mayor of the Kerkrade, a town on the German border in the southeast of the Netherlands, from 1994 until 2000. Wöltgens was also a Senator from 1995 until 2005.Thijs Wöltgens died in Kerkrade on 7 May 2008, at the age of 64 of...

    , 64, Dutch
    Netherlands
    The Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...

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

    , mayor of Kerkrade
    Kerkrade
    Kerkrade is a town and a municipality in the southeastern Netherlands.It is the western half of the divided region and de facto city, taken together with the eastern half, the German town of Herzogenrath...

     (1994–2000), senator (1995–2005). http://www.depers.nl/binnenland/199560/Thijs-Woltgens-64-overleden.html (Dutch)
  • Gernot Zippe
    Gernot Zippe
    Gernot Zippe , was a Austrian-German mechanical engineer who is widely held responsible for leading the team which developed the Zippe-type centrifuge, a centrifuge machine for the collection of 235U in Soviet Union....

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

    n engineer
    Engineer
    An engineer is a professional practitioner of engineering, concerned with applying scientific knowledge, mathematics and ingenuity to develop solutions for technical problems. Engineers design materials, structures, machines and systems while considering the limitations imposed by practicality,...

    . http://www.urenco.com/AboutU_Summer08_(Final)_l0dlU.pdf.file

6

  • John Jay Iselin
    John Jay Iselin
    John Jay Iselin , great-great-great-great-grandson of John Jay, was president of the Marconi fellowship foundation at Columbia University. He was also an adjunct faculty member of the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.Iselin was a graduate of St...

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

     public television innovator, descendent of John Jay
    John Jay
    John Jay was an American politician, statesman, revolutionary, diplomat, a Founding Father of the United States, and the first Chief Justice of the United States ....

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

    . http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/07/arts/television/07iselin.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rss
  • Franz Jackson
    Franz Jackson
    Franz Jackson was a saxophonist and clarinetist of the Chicago jazz school.Notable as one of the last surviving jazz artists to have recorded pre-1940, Jackson was still active well into his 90s in various jazz clubs of Chicago...

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

     saxophonist. http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/reviews/critics/chi-hed-franz-jackson-08-may08,0,4557807.story
  • Harvey Karman
    Harvey Karman
    Harvey Karman was a psychologist and the inventor of the Karman cannula, a flexible suction cannula used for early abortion...

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

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

     and women's reproductive health
    Reproductive health
    Within the framework of the World Health Organization's definition of health as a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being, and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity, reproductive health, or sexual health/hygiene, addresses the reproductive processes, functions and system...

     advocate, inventor of the Karman cannula, 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.latimes.com/features/health/medicine/la-me-karman18-2008may18,0,1592536.story
  • Ray Michie, Baroness Michie of Gallanach
    Ray Michie, Baroness Michie of Gallanach
    Janet Ray Michie, Baroness Michie of Gallanach was a British speech therapist and Liberal Democrat politician. She served as Member of Parliament for Argyll and Bute for 14 years, from 1987 to 2001, and then became a life peer in the House of Lords...

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

     Liberal Democrat
    Liberal Democrats
    The Liberal Democrats are a social liberal political party in the United Kingdom which supports constitutional and electoral reform, progressive taxation, wealth taxation, human rights laws, cultural liberalism, banking reform and civil liberties .The party was formed in 1988 by a merger of the...

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

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

    . http://news.scotsman.com/obituaries/Former-Liberal-Democrat-MP-for.4066787.jp
  • D.C. Minner
    D.C. Minner
    D.C. Minner was an American blues musician, teacher, and philosopher who was known for sharing music with children and adults alike throughout Oklahoma and beyond....

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

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

     musician. http://www.tulsaworld.com/news/article.aspx?articleID=20080508_1_A13_hHean81828
  • John Reames
    John Reames
    Keith John Reames was an English football manager and administrator who was chairman of Lincoln City from 1985 to 2000...

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

     football manager and administrator, 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/sport2/hi/football/teams/l/lincoln_city/7389865.stm

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  • Sam Aubrey
    Sam Aubrey
    Sam Aubrey was the head coach of the Oklahoma State University men's basketball team between 1970 and 1973. Aubrey was the starting forward for the 1946 NCAA men's basketball champions, Oklahoma State University under Coach Henry Iba.-External links:*...

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

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

     player and coach (Oklahoma State Cowboys
    Oklahoma State Cowboys men's basketball
    The Oklahoma State Cowboys basketball team represents Oklahoma State University in Stillwater, Oklahoma, United States in NCAA Division I men's basketball competition. The Cowboys currently compete in the Big 12 Conference.Since 1938, the team has played its home games in Gallagher-Iba Arena...

    ). http://sports.espn.go.com/ncb/news/story?id=3384163
  • Thomas Boggs, 63, American
    United States
    The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

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

     (Box Tops
    Box Tops
    The Box Tops were a Memphis rock group of the second half of the 1960s. They are best known for the hits "The Letter," "Neon Rainbow," "Soul Deep," "I Met Her in Church," and "Cry Like A Baby," and are considered a major blue-eyed soul group of the period...

    ), owner of Huey's Restaurants. http://www.wmcstations.com/Global/story.asp?S=8272704
  • Hugh Bradner
    Hugh Bradner
    Hugh Bradner was an American physicist at the University of California who is credited with inventing the neoprene wetsuit, which helped to revolutionize scuba diving.-Early life:...

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

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

     credited with inventing the wetsuit
    Wetsuit
    A wetsuit is a garment, usually made of foamed neoprene, which is worn by surfers, divers, windsurfers, canoeists, and others engaged in water sports, providing thermal insulation, abrasion resistance and buoyancy. The insulation properties depend on bubbles of gas enclosed within the material,...

    . http://blogs.usatoday.com/ondeadline/2008/05/wetsuit-invento.html
  • Park Kyung-ni
    Park Kyung-ni
    Park Kyung-ni or Pak Kyong Ni was a prominent South Korean novelist. She was born in Tongyeong, in Gyeongsangnam-do Province, and later lived in Wonju in Gangwon-do Province. Park made her literary debut in 1955, with Gyesan...

    , 82, South Korea
    South Korea
    The Republic of Korea , , is a sovereign state in East Asia, located on the southern portion of the Korean Peninsula. It is neighbored by the People's Republic of China to the west, Japan to the east, North Korea to the north, and the East China Sea and Republic of China to the south...

    n novel
    Novel
    A novel is a book of long narrative in literary prose. The genre has historical roots both in the fields of the medieval and early modern romance and in the tradition of the novella. The latter supplied the present generic term in the late 18th century....

    ist, 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.iht.com/articles/2008/05/06/asia/obits.php
  • Irv Robbins
    Irv Robbins
    Irvine "Irv" Robbins was a Canadian born American businessman. He co-founded the Baskin-Robbins ice cream parlor chain in 1945 with his partner and brother-in-law Burt Baskin.-Early life:...

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

     business
    Business
    A business is an organization engaged in the trade of goods, services, or both to consumers. Businesses are predominant in capitalist economies, where most of them are privately owned and administered to earn profit to increase the wealth of their owners. Businesses may also be not-for-profit...

    man, co-founder of the Baskin-Robbins
    Baskin-Robbins
    Baskin-Robbins is a global chain of ice cream parlors founded by Burt Baskin and Irvine Robbins in 1953, from the merging of their respective ice cream parlors, in Glendale, California. It claims to be the world's largest ice cream franchise, with more than 5,800 locations, 2,800 of which are...

     ice cream
    Ice cream
    Ice cream is a frozen dessert usually made from dairy products, such as milk and cream, and often combined with fruits or other ingredients and flavours. Most varieties contain sugar, although some are made with other sweeteners...

     chain. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2008/05/06/state/n115403D74.DTL http://www.legacy.com/thedesertsun/Obituaries.asp?Page=Lifestory&PersonId=109159880
  • Alma Hogan Snell
    Alma Hogan Snell
    Alma Hogan Snell was an American Crow tribal historian, educator, and herbalist. She was the granddaughter of Pretty Shield....

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

     Crow tribal nation
    Crow Nation
    The Crow, also called the Absaroka or Apsáalooke, are a Siouan people of Native Americans who historically lived in the Yellowstone River valley, which extends from present-day Wyoming, through Montana and into North Dakota. They now live on a reservation south of Billings, Montana and in several...

     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...

    , herbalist
    Herbalist
    An herbalist is:#A person whose life is dedicated to the economic or medicinal uses of plants.#One skilled in the harvesting and collection of medicinal plants ....

    , granddaughter of Pretty Shield
    Pretty Shield
    Pretty Shield was a medicine woman of the Crow Nation. Her autobiography was written with the help of Frank B. Linderman, who interviewed her using an interpreter and sign language. This book was perhaps the first record of the women’s side of Native American life...

    . http://www.greatfallstribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080507/NEWS01/80507013
  • Jerry Wallace
    Jerry Wallace
    Jerry Wallace was an American country and pop singer. Between 1958 and 1964, Wallace charted nine hits on the Billboard Hot 100, including the #8 "Primrose Lane." He made his debut on the country music charts in 1965, entering it thirty-five times between then and 1980. In that timespan, Wallace...

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

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

     singer, heart failure. http://www.cmt.com/news/news-in-brief/1587133/singer-jerry-wallace-dies-in-california.jhtml
  • Witold Woyda
    Witold Woyda
    Witold Woyda was a Polish fencer who won four Olympic medals in the foil between 1964 and 1972, including two gold medals at the 1972 Summer Olympics. He was named the Polish Sportspersonality of the Year for 1972 by readers of Przegląd Sportowy...

    , 68, 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...

     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...

    , double gold medallist at the 1972 Summer Olympics
    1972 Summer Olympics
    The 1972 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XX Olympiad, were an international multi-sport event held in Munich, West Germany, from August 26 to September 11, 1972....

    , 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.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/05/06/sports/NA-SPT-FEN-Obit-Woyda.php

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  • John Altieri
    John Altieri
    John F. Altieri was an American singer and stage actor.Altieri was born in Brockton, Massachusetts. He graduated from Cardinal Spellman High School in 1987, where he became involved in school plays and acting. Altieri went on to receive his bachelor's degree in dramatic literature from Duke...

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

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

     (Jersey Boys
    Jersey Boys
    Jersey Boys is a jukebox musical with music by Bob Gaudio, lyrics by Bob Crewe and book by Marshall Brickman and Rick Elice. It is a documentary-style musical, based on one of the most successful 1960s rock 'n roll groups, the Four Seasons...

    ), 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.playbill.com/news/article/117565.html
  • Fred Baur
    Fred Baur
    Fredric John Baur was a United States chemist and food storage technician notable for designing and patenting the Pringles packaging. Baur filed for a patent for the tubular Pringles container and for the method of packaging the curved, stacked chips in the container in 1966, and it was granted in...

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

     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...

    , inventor of the Pringles
    Pringles
    Pringles is a brand of potato and wheat based snacks originally developed by Procter & Gamble. Pringles are sold in more than 140 countries and have yearly sales of more than...

     can. http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080531/NEWS0104/805310357/1060/NEWS01?fever_for_the_flavor_os_a_pringle
  • Alvin Colt
    Alvin Colt
    Alvin Colt was an American costume designer. Colt worked on over 50 Broadway shows.His first job was in a theatrical fabric house, he also worked on painting scenery during the summer. On the Town was the first Broadway show he worked on in 1944...

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

     Tony Award
    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 costume designer
    Costume Designer
    A costume designer or costume mistress/master is a person whose responsibility is to design costumes for a film or stage production. He or she is considered an important part of the "production team", working alongside the director, scenic and lighting designers as well as the sound designer. The...

     (On the Town, Guys and Dolls, Pipe Dream
    Pipe Dream (musical)
    Pipe Dream is the seventh stage musical by the team of Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II; it premiered on Broadway on November 30, 1955. The work is based on John Steinbeck's short novel Sweet Thursday—Steinbeck wrote the novel, a sequel to Cannery Row, in the hope of having it adapted into...

    , Li'l Abner
    Li'l Abner (musical)
    Li'l Abner is a musical with a book by Norman Panama and Melvin Frank, music by Gene De Paul, and lyrics by Johnny Mercer.Based on the comic strip Li'l Abner by Al Capp, the show is, on the surface, a broad spoof of hillbillies but is also a pointed satire taking on any number of topics, ranging...

    ). http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5iIqEH62yzvEQ93QlsDORrZe4CWBwD90FOKVO2
  • John Greenwood
    John Greenwood (executive)
    John Robert Greenwood was a British businessman and catering executive. He was chief executive of the RoadChef chain of motorway service stations from 2001 to 2004....

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

     businessman
    Businessperson
    A businessperson is someone involved in a particular undertaking of activities for the purpose of generating revenue from a combination of human, financial, or physical capital. An entrepreneur is an example of a business person...

     and catering
    Catering
    Catering is the business of providing foodservice at a remote site or a site such as a hotel, public house , or other location.-Mobile catering:A mobile caterer serves food directly from a vehicle or cart that is designed for the purpose...

     executive
    Senior management
    Senior management, executive management, or management team is generally a team of individuals at the highest level of organizational management who have the day-to-day responsibilities of managing a company or corporation, they hold specific executive powers conferred onto them with and by...

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

    . http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article4045024.ece
  • Fred Haines
    Fred Haines
    Fred Haines was an American screenwriter and film director.-Early life:Haines was born in Los Angeles, California in 1936, and later moved to Tucson, Arizona with his family. He joined the United States Navy in 1953, and served until 1956 when he received an honorable discharge...

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

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

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

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

    . http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/california/la-me-haines22-2008may22,0,2518131.story
  • Richard Holme, Baron Holme of Cheltenham
    Richard Holme, Baron Holme of Cheltenham
    Richard Gordon Holme, Baron Holme of Cheltenham PC was a British Liberal Democrat politician.Educated at University of Oxford and Harvard Business School, Holme joined the Liberal Party in 1959, and was elected as the party's President in 1980 and 1981...

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

     Liberal Democrat
    Liberal Democrats
    The Liberal Democrats are a social liberal political party in the United Kingdom which supports constitutional and electoral reform, progressive taxation, wealth taxation, human rights laws, cultural liberalism, banking reform and civil liberties .The party was formed in 1988 by a merger of the...

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

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

    . http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7384196.stm
  • Kishan Maharaj
    Kishan Maharaj
    Pandit Kishan Maharaj was an Indian tabla player who belonged to the Benares gharana of Hindustani classical music.-Early life and background:...

    , 84, India
    India
    India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...

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

    , leading exponent of the Benares gharana
    Benares gharana
    Benares gharānā is one of the six most common styles of playing of the Indian tabla.-History:The Benares tabla gharana was developed a little over 200 years ago by Pandit Ram Sahai . Ram Sahai began studying the tabla with his father from the age of five. At the age of nine, he moved to Lucknow to...

     tabla
    Tabla
    The tabla is a popular Indian percussion instrument used in Hindustani classical music and in popular and devotional music of the Indian subcontinent. The instrument consists of a pair of hand drums of contrasting sizes and timbres...

    , 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.ibnlive.com/news/tabla-maestro-pt-kishan-maharaj-dead/64554-19.html
  • Colin Murdoch
    Colin Murdoch
    Colin Albert Murdoch MNZM was a New Zealand pharmacist and veterinarian who made a number of significant inventions, in particular the tranquilliser gun, the disposable hypodermic syringe and the child-proof medicine container...

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

     inventor of the disposable hypodermic syringe and the tranquilizer gun, 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/stuff/4509803a11.html
  • F. R. Wallace, Jr.
    F. R. Wallace, Jr.
    Frank Richard "Cappy" Wallace Jr. was an American politician.-Biography:He was born on October 25, 1916.Wallace served as the Mayor of Chesterfield Township, New Jersey, a small rural community in Burlington County, New Jersey from 1975 until 1981...

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

     mayor
    Mayor
    In many countries, a Mayor is the highest ranking officer in the municipal government of a town or a large urban city....

     of Chesterfield
    Chesterfield Township, New Jersey
    -Demographics:As of the census of 2000, there were 5,955 people, 899 households, and 744 families residing in the township. The population density was 278.1 people per square mile . There were 924 housing units at an average density of 43.1 per square mile...

    , New Jersey
    New Jersey
    New Jersey is a state in the Northeastern and Middle Atlantic regions of the United States. , its population was 8,791,894. It is bordered on the north and east by the state of New York, on the southeast and south by the Atlantic Ocean, on the west by Pennsylvania and on the southwest by Delaware...

     (1975–1981), 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.philly.com/inquirer/obituaries/20080508_F__R__Wallace_Jr___91__former_Chesterfield_mayor.html

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  • Charles Caccia
    Charles Caccia
    Charles L. Caccia, PC was a Canadian politician.Caccia was a Liberal member of the Canadian House of Commons. He represented the Toronto riding of Davenport between 1968 and 2004.Caccia was born in 1930 in Milan, Italy...

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

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

    , environmentalist
    Environmentalism
    Environmentalism is a broad philosophy, ideology and social movement regarding concerns for environmental conservation and improvement of the health of the environment, particularly as the measure for this health seeks to incorporate the concerns of non-human elements...

    , Liberal
    Liberal Party of Canada
    The Liberal Party of Canada , colloquially known as the Grits, is the oldest federally registered party in Canada. In the conventional political spectrum, the party sits between the centre and the centre-left. Historically the Liberal Party has positioned itself to the left of the Conservative...

     MP for Davenport
    Davenport (electoral district)
    Davenport is a federal electoral district in Ontario, Canada, that has been represented in the Canadian House of Commons since 1935. Its population in 2001 was 111,705.-Geography:...

     (1968–2004), complications of 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.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20080504/charles_caccia_080504/20080504?hub=Politics
  • Leopoldo Calvo Sotelo
    Leopoldo Calvo Sotelo
    Leopoldo Calvo-Sotelo y Bustelo, 1st Marquis of the Ría of Ribadeo and Grandee of Spain was a Spanish political figure and prime minister during the period of transition after the end of Francisco Franco's regime.-Biography:...

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

     prime minister
    Prime Minister of Spain
    The President of the Government of Spain , sometimes known in English as the Prime Minister of Spain, is the head of Government of Spain. The current office is established under the Constitution of 1978...

     (1981–1982), natural causes
    Death by natural causes
    A death by natural causes, as recorded by coroners and on death certificates and associated documents, is one that is primarily attributed to natural agents: usually an illness or an internal malfunction of the body. For example, a person dying from complications from influenza or a heart attack ...

    . http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/05/04/europe/EU-GEN-Spain-Calvo-Sotelo-Funeral.php
  • Eight Belles
    Eight Belles
    Eight Belles was a thoroughbred racehorse owned by Rick Porter's Fox Hill Farms. She finished second to winner Big Brown in the 134th running of the Kentucky Derby held at Churchill Downs, a race run by only thirty-nine fillies in the past...

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

     racehorse, 2008 Kentucky Derby
    2008 Kentucky Derby
    The 2008 Kentucky Derby was the 134th running of the Kentucky Derby. The race took place on May 3, 2008 with 157,770 in attendance, the second largest in Derby history. Post time was 6:15 p.m. EDT and was televised in the United States on the NBC television network.Big Brown won the race by nearly...

     2nd place finisher, euthanized
    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://sports.aol.com/fanhouse/2008/05/03/filly-eight-belles-breaks-both-front-legs-euthanized-after-kent/
  • Martin Finnegan
    Martin Finnegan
    Martin Finnegan was an Irish motorcycle racer.-Career:Born in Lusk, County Dublin, Finnegan took up riding from a young age. At first he went grass track racing where he tasted success. In his later teens his boss at the time, Tony Carton, offered Martin the lend of a bike to try his hand at...

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

     motorbike racer, race crash. http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/motorsport/motorbikes/7382870.stm
  • Fay Gale
    Fay Gale
    Fay Gale AO was an Australian cultural geographer and an emeritus professor. She was a passionate advocate of equal opportunity for women and Aboriginal people.-Background:...

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

    n cultural geographer. http://www.smh.com.au/news/obituaries/woman-of-spirit-and-many-firsts/2008/06/03/1212258822941.html
  • Lynne Cooper Harvey
    Lynne Cooper Harvey
    Lynne "Angel" Harvey was the producer for The Rest of the Story, and the first producer to enter the Radio Hall of Fame. Dubbed the "First Lady of Radio," Harvey's sixty year career in radio transformed American radio and television news format.Harvey was born in St. Louis, Missouri, and...

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

     radio producer
    Radio producer
    A radio producer oversees the making of a radio show. There are two main types of producer. An audio or creative producer and a content producer. Audio producers create sounds and audio specifically, content producers oversee and orchestrate a radio show or feature...

    , Radio Hall of Fame
    Radio Hall of Fame
    The National Radio Hall of Fame is a project of the Museum of Broadcast Communications.Although no physical building currently exists to house it, the National Radio Hall of Fame is a project of Bruce DuMont, CEO of the currently homeless Museum of Broadcast Communications, and is purported to be a...

     member, wife of Paul Harvey
    Paul Harvey
    Paul Harvey Aurandt , better known as Paul Harvey, was an American radio broadcaster for the ABC Radio Networks. He broadcast News and Comment on weekday mornings and mid-days, and at noon on Saturdays, as well as his famous The Rest of the Story segments. His listening audience was estimated, at...

    , 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://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=4780941&page=1
  • Ted Key
    Ted Key
    Ted Key, born Theodore Keyser , was an American cartoonist and writer. He is best known as the creator of the cartoon series Hazel.-College to cartoons:...

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

     cartoonist
    Cartoonist
    A cartoonist is a person who specializes in drawing cartoons. This work is usually humorous, mainly created for entertainment, political commentary or advertising...

     (Hazel), bladder cancer
    Bladder cancer
    Bladder cancer is any of several types of malignant growths of the urinary bladder. It is a disease in which abnormal cells multiply without control in the bladder. The bladder is a hollow, muscular organ that stores urine; it is located in the pelvis...

     and 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.bizjournals.com/philadelphia/stories/2008/05/05/daily10.html
  • Morgan Sparks
    Morgan Sparks
    Morgan Sparks was an American scientist and engineer who helped develop the microwatt bipolar junction transistor in 1951, which was a critical step in making transistors usable for every-day electronics...

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

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

    , inventor of the first practical bipolar junction transistor
    Bipolar junction transistor
    |- align = "center"| || PNP|- align = "center"| || NPNA bipolar transistor is a three-terminal electronic device constructed of doped semiconductor material and may be used in amplifying or switching applications. Bipolar transistors are so named because their operation involves both electrons...

    . http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2008/05/07/tech-sparks-transistor.html
  • Ngugi wa Mirii
    Ngugi wa Mirii
    Ngugi wa Mirii was a Kenyan playwright. He was known for his play, I Will Marry When I Want, which he co-authored with fellow Gikuyu writer Ngugi wa Thiongo....

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

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

    , 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.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article4091190.ece

2

  • Robert Brachtenbach
    Robert Brachtenbach
    Robert Francis Brachtenbach was an American politician and jurist from the state of Washington.-Early life and education:...

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

     jurist
    Jurist
    A jurist or jurisconsult is a professional who studies, develops, applies, or otherwise deals with the law. The term is widely used in American English, but in the United Kingdom and many Commonwealth countries it has only historical and specialist usage...

    , Washington State Supreme Court justice
    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...

     (1972–1994), throat cancer
    Head and neck cancer
    Head and neck cancer refers to a group of biologically similar cancers that start in the upper aerodigestive tract, including the lip, oral cavity , nasal cavity , paranasal sinuses, pharynx, and larynx. 90% of head and neck cancers are squamous cell carcinomas , originating from the mucosal lining...

    . http://www.yakima-herald.com/stories/3704
  • Carole Dekeijser
    Carole Dekeijser
    Carole Dekeijser was a Belgian painter, mainly known for her monumental figurative paintings, for example : Hypnos and Thanathos, Yin-Yang the Global Change or the Sacring of Jeanne d'Arc. She was also the creator of many abstract paintings....

    , 48, 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...

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

    , 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.walloniepresse.be/communiques/805/80589.html (French)
  • Dominic Dim Deng
    Dominic Dim Deng
    Dominic Dim Deng was a senior member of Sudan People's Liberation Army/Movement, a prominent military General and the first Defence Minister in the Government of Southern Sudan who lost his life alongside his wife Madam Josephine Apieu Jenaro Aken, senior politician Dr...

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

    , defence minister for Southern Sudan, plane crash. http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5hf5WoN6Br3JcvYtlzOECItjfn6gQ
  • Robert M. Isaac
    Robert M. Isaac
    Robert Michael "Bob" Isaac was the Republican Mayor of Colorado Springs, Colorado. Elected in April 1979, he was the first popularly elected mayor in the history of Colorado Springs, serving five four-year terms through 1997...

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

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

    , mayor
    Mayor
    In many countries, a Mayor is the highest ranking officer in the municipal government of a town or a large urban city....

     of Colorado Springs, Colorado
    Colorado Springs, Colorado
    Colorado Springs is a Home Rule Municipality that is the county seat and most populous city of El Paso County, Colorado, United States. Colorado Springs is located in South-Central Colorado, in the southern portion of the state. It is situated on Fountain Creek and is located south of the Colorado...

     (1979–1997), 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.gazette.com/articles/isaac_35920___article.html/mayor_springs.html
  • Mildred Loving
    Mildred Loving
    Mildred Delores Jeter Loving and her husband Richard Perry Loving were plaintiffs in the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case Loving v. Virginia ....

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

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

     pioneer, challenged Virginia
    Virginia
    The Commonwealth of Virginia , is a U.S. state on the Atlantic Coast of the Southern United States. Virginia is nicknamed the "Old Dominion" and sometimes the "Mother of Presidents" after the eight U.S. presidents born there...

     interracial marriage
    Interracial marriage
    Interracial marriage occurs when two people of differing racial groups marry. This is a form of exogamy and can be seen in the broader context of miscegenation .-Legality of interracial marriage:In the Western world certain jurisdictions have had regulations...

     law (Loving v. Virginia
    Loving v. Virginia
    Loving v. Virginia, , was a landmark civil rights case in which the United States Supreme Court, in a unanimous decision, declared Virginia's anti-miscegenation statute, the "Racial Integrity Act of 1924", unconstitutional, thereby overturning Pace v...

    ). http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080505/ap_on_re_us/obit_loving_1
  • Ilyas Malayev
    Ilyas Malayev
    Ilyas Malayev was an Uzbekistani musician and poet.Malayev was born in Mary to Efraim and Yelizaveta Malayev, a Bukharian Jewish family and raised in the Uzbek town of Katta-Kurgan near Bukhara...

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

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

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

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

    . http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/07/arts/music/07malayev.html?ref=music
  • Beverlee McKinsey
    Beverlee McKinsey
    Beverlee McKinsey was an American actress.Beverlee McKinsey was born as Beverlee Magruder in McAlester, Oklahoma on August 9, 1935. She was the daughter of Warren and Jewell Magruder of McAlester, Oklahoma....

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

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

     actress (Another World
    Another World (TV series)
    Another World is an American television soap opera that ran on NBC from May 4, 1964 to June 25, 1999. It ran for a total of 35 years. It was created by Irna Phillips along with William J...

    , Guiding Light
    Guiding Light
    Guiding Light is an American daytime television drama that is credited by the Guinness Book of World Records as the longest running drama in television and radio history, running from 1937 until 2009...

    ), complications from kidney transplant. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/09/arts/09mckinsey.html
  • Izold Pustylnik
    Izold Pustylnik
    Izold Pustylnik was an eminent Estonian astronomer who authored numerous scientific publications and served as editor of the Central European Journal of Physics and vice-chairman of the non-profit organization Euroscience Estonia.A native of the Ukrainian port city of Odessa , Izold Pustylnik...

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

    -born 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 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...

    . http://stan-pustylnik.smugmug.com/
  • Daniel Sekhoto
    Daniel Sekhoto
    Daniel Sekhoto was a football player from South Africa.Having played for several clubs in the Premier Soccer League, he had retired in 2001, and ran a tavern in Harrismith.-References:* - Kick Off 6 May 2008...

    , 37, 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 football player. http://www.kickoff.com/static/news/article.php?id=2845
  • Mike Titcomb
    Mike Titcomb
    Michael Herbert Titcomb was a rugby union referee. He became the youngest referee to officiate an international game when Wales faced Scotland in 1966....

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

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

     referee, kidney failure. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article3882185.ece
  • Frank Y. Whiteley, Jr.
    Frank Y. Whiteley, Jr.
    Frank Yewell Whiteley, Jr. was a Hall of Fame Thoroughbred racehorse trainer.Born and raised on a farm in Centreville, Maryland, Whiteley grew up around horses and from a very early age was intent on racing them. Developing his skills, by age twenty-one he had embarked on a professional training...

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

     thoroughbred
    Thoroughbred
    The Thoroughbred is a horse breed best known for its use in horse racing. Although the word thoroughbred is sometimes used to refer to any breed of purebred horse, it technically refers only to the Thoroughbred breed...

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

     (Ruffian
    Ruffian (horse)
    Ruffian was an American champion thoroughbred racehorse. Ruffian is considered by many to be the greatest female racehorse in history. Ruffian is among the greatest U.S. racehorses of all time. Her story was told in 2007 film Ruffian.- Career :An almost coal black filly of 16 and a half hands,...

    ). http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/04/sports/othersports/04whiteley.html?ref=sports
  • Justin Yak
    Justin Yak
    Chirag Yak was a Southern Sudan minister for cabinet affairs who died in a plane crash that killed 21 other people 375 km west of Juba, Sudan on May 2, 2008. Bad weather is believed to have been the cause of the plane crash.-External links:*...

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

    , minister for cabinet affairs for Southern Sudan (2006–2007), plane crash. http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5hf5WoN6Br3JcvYtlzOECItjfn6gQ

1

  • Nasimuddin Amin
    Nasimuddin Amin
    Tan Sri SM Nasimuddin SM Amin was the founder, chairman and chief executive officer of the Naza Group of Malaysia....

    , 54, Malaysian entrepreneur
    Entrepreneur
    An entrepreneur is an owner or manager of a business enterprise who makes money through risk and initiative.The term was originally a loanword from French and was first defined by the Irish-French economist Richard Cantillon. Entrepreneur in English is a term applied to a person who is willing to...

     and founder of Naza
    Naza
    Naza Group of Companies is a Malaysian business conglomerate associated with motor trading, automotive franchises and property development, which began operations in 1974...

    , 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://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2008/5/2/nation/20080502094328&sec=nation
  • Bernard Archard
    Bernard Archard
    Bernard Joseph Archard was an English actor.Born in Fulham, London, he was a tall, imposing actor with a distinctive face. He was a conscientious objector in the Second World War and worked on the land...

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

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

    . http://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/bernard-archard-star-of-the-tv-series-spycatcher-821630.html
  • Buzzie Bavasi
    Buzzie Bavasi
    Emil Joseph "Buzzie" Bavasi was an American executive in Major League Baseball who played a major role in the operation of three franchises from the late 1940s through the mid-1980s....

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

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

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

    , Angels
    Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim
    The Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim are a professional baseball team based in Anaheim, California, United States. The Angels are a member of the Western Division of Major League Baseball's American League. The "Angels" name originates from the city in which the team started, Los Angeles...

    , Padres
    San Diego Padres
    The San Diego Padres are a Major League Baseball team based in San Diego, California. They play in the National League Western Division. Founded in 1969, the Padres have won the National League Pennant twice, in 1984 and 1998, losing in the World Series both times...

    ). http://mlb.mlb.com/news/press_releases/press_release.jsp?ymd=20080501&content_id=2623358&vkey=pr_mlb&fext=.jsp&c_id=mlb
  • Mary Berry, 90, British
    United Kingdom
    The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...

     musicologist and nun
    Nun
    A nun is a woman who has taken vows committing her to live a spiritual life. She may be an ascetic who voluntarily chooses to leave mainstream society and live her life in prayer and contemplation in a monastery or convent...

    . http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article3882191.ece
  • Philipp von Boeselager
    Philipp von Boeselager
    Oberstleutnant Philipp Freiherr von Boeselager was the second-to-last surviving member of the July 20 Plot, a conspiracy among high-ranking Wehrmacht officers to assassinate German dictator Adolf Hitler in 1944....

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

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

     anti-Hitler conspirator
    July 20 Plot
    On 20 July 1944, an attempt was made to assassinate Adolf Hitler, Führer of the Third Reich, inside his Wolf's Lair field headquarters near Rastenburg, East Prussia. The plot was the culmination of the efforts of several groups in the German Resistance to overthrow the Nazi-led German government...

    . http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/03/world/europe/03boeselager.html?hp
  • Nirmala Deshpande
    Nirmala Deshpande
    Nirmala Deshpande was a noted Indian social activist who had embraced Gandhian philosophy...

    , 78, India
    India
    India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...

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

    , after brief illness. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article3957618.ece
  • Elaine Dundy
    Elaine Dundy
    Elaine Dundy was an American novelist, biographer, journalist, actress and playwright.-Early life:Born Elaine Rita Brimberg in New York City, of Latvian maternal descent, her Polish father was an office furniture manufacturer and a violent bully...

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

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

     and actress. http://www.elvisnews.com/Presentation/Functional/Page/news.aspx?command=show&item=10603
  • Aden Hashi Farah
    Aden Hashi Farah
    Aden Hashi Farah "Ayrow" was a leader of the Hizbul Shabaab, the armed wing of the Somali Islamic Courts Union . He was from the Ayr sub-clan, part of the Habar Gidir, which is a branch of the Hawiye clan. He was reportedly married to Halima Abdi Issa Yusuf. He was among several militants killed...

    , Somali
    Somalia
    Somalia , officially the Somali Republic and formerly known as the Somali Democratic Republic under Socialist rule, is a country located in the Horn of Africa. Since the outbreak of the Somali Civil War in 1991 there has been no central government control over most of the country's territory...

     leader of Al-Shabab
    Al-Shabaab (Somalia)
    Harakat al-Shabaab al-Mujahideen , more commonly known as al-Shabaab , is a terrorist group of militants fighting to overthrow the government of Somalia. As of 2011, the group controls large swathes of the southern parts of Somalia, where it is said to have imposed its own strict form of Sharia law...

     insurgent
    Insurgency
    An insurgency is an armed rebellion against a constituted authority when those taking part in the rebellion are not recognized as belligerents...

     group, air strike. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7376760.stm
  • Jim Hager
    Hager Twins
    The Hager Twins, also known as the Hager Brothers and The Hagers, were a duo of American country music singers and comedians who first gained fame on the TV series Hee Haw...

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

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

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

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

     (Hee Haw
    Hee Haw
    Hee Haw is an American television variety show featuring country music and humor with fictional rural Kornfield Kounty as a backdrop. It aired on CBS-TV from 1969–1971 before a 20-year run in local syndication. The show was inspired by Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In, the major difference being...

    ), 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/2008/SHOWBIZ/TV/05/02/obit.jimhager.ap/index.html
  • Mark Kendall
    Mark Kendall
    Mark Kendall was a Welsh footballer who played as a goalkeeper. He represented his country at schoolboy, youth and Under-21 level.-Biography:...

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

     footballer (Tottenham Hotspur
    Tottenham Hotspur F.C.
    Tottenham Hotspur Football Club , commonly referred to as Spurs, is an English Premier League football club based in Tottenham, north London. The club's home stadium is White Hart Lane....

    , Newport County
    Newport County A.F.C.
    Newport County Association Football Club are a professional football club based in the city of Newport, south Wales, who currently play in the Conference National, the highest level of the National League System and fifth highest of the overall English football league system...

    , Wolverhampton Wanderers
    Wolverhampton Wanderers F.C.
    Wolverhampton Wanderers Football Club is an English professional association football club that represents the city of Wolverhampton in the West Midlands region. They are members of the Premier League, the highest level of English football. The club was founded in 1877 and since 1889 has played at...

    ). http://icwales.icnetwork.co.uk/footballnation/swansea-city-fc/2008/05/02/former-keeper-kendall-dies-91466-20853983/
  • Sir Anthony Mamo
    Anthony Mamo
    Sir Anthony Joseph Mamo, OBE, QC was the first President of Malta and previously served as the last Governor-General, representing Elizabeth II as Queen of Malta, when the country was a Commonwealth realm...

    , 99, Maltese
    Malta
    Malta , officially known as the Republic of Malta , is a Southern European country consisting of an archipelago situated in the centre of the Mediterranean, south of Sicily, east of Tunisia and north of Libya, with Gibraltar to the west and Alexandria to the east.Malta covers just over in...

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

    , first president
    President of Malta
    The President of Malta is the constitutional head of state of Malta.The President is appointed by a resolution of the House of Representatives of Malta for a five year term, taking an oath to "preserve, protect and defend" the Constitution....

     of the Republic of Malta. http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20080501/local/sir-anthony-mamo-dies
  • Alberto Estima de Oliveira
    Alberto Estima de Oliveira
    Alberto Estima de Oliveira was a Portuguese poet. He was born in Lisbon, moved to Benguela, Angola in 1957, and later to Guinea Bissau...

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

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

    . http://noticias.sapo.pt/lusa/artigo/89405cd8d11a4afe47bfc4.html (Portuguese)
  • Deborah Jeane Palfrey
    Deborah Jeane Palfrey
    Deborah Jeane Palfrey operated Pamela Martin and Associates, an escort agency in Washington, D.C. Although she argued that the company's services were legal, she was convicted on April 15, 2008 of racketeering, using the mail for illegal purposes, and money laundering...

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

     escort agency
    Escort agency
    Escort agencies are companies that provide escorts for the agency's clients. The agency typically arranges a meeting between one of its escorts and the client at the customer's house or hotel room , or at the escort's residence . Some agencies also provide escorts for longer durations, who may stay...

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

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

    . http://www.abcnews.go.com/Blotter/story?id=4658013&page=1 http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/05/01/dc.madam/index.html
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