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The following is a list of notable deaths in 2011.Entries for each day are listed alphabetically by surname. A typical entry lists information in the following sequence:...

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Deaths in December 2010
Deaths in 2010 : ← – January – February – March – April – May – June – July – August – September – October – November – December – →The following is a list of notable deaths in December 2010.-31:...

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Deaths in January 2011
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Deaths in February 2011
Deaths in 2011 : ← - January- February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December - →The following is a list of notable deaths in February 2011.-28:*Netiva Ben-Yehuda, 82, Israeli author and radio personality....

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Deaths in March 2011
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Deaths in April 2011
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Deaths in June 2011
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Deaths in July 2011
Deaths in 2011 : ← - January- February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December - →The following is a list of notable deaths in July 2011.-31:...

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Deaths in August 2011
Deaths in 2011 : ← - January- February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December - →The following is a list of notable deaths in August 2011.-31:...

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Deaths in September 2011
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Deaths in October 2011
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The following is a list of notable deaths in May 2011.

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  • Sergei Bagapsh
    Sergei Bagapsh
    Sergei Uasyl-ipa Bagapsh was the second President of the Republic of Abkhazia. He was Prime Minister from 1997 to 1999 and was later elected as President in 2005. He was re-elected in the 2009 presidential election...

    , 62, Abkhazia
    Abkhazia
    Abkhazia is a disputed political entity on the eastern coast of the Black Sea and the south-western flank of the Caucasus.Abkhazia considers itself an independent state, called the Republic of Abkhazia or Apsny...

    n politician, President (since 2005), complications after surgery. http://www.themoscowtimes.com/news/article/abkhazias-leader-dies-in-moscow/437744.html
  • Jon Blake, 52, Australian actor, pneumonia. http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/entertainment/actor-jon-blake-dies/story-e6fredpu-1226065869720
  • Simon Brint, 60, British musician, suicide. http://www.guardian.co.uk/tv-and-radio/2011/jun/27/simon-brint-obituary
  • Bill Clements
    Bill Clements
    William Perry "Bill" Clements, Jr. was the 42nd and 44th Governor of Texas, serving from 1979 to 1983 and 1987 to 1991. Clements was the first Republican to have served as governor of the U.S. state of Texas since Reconstruction...

    , 94, American politician, Governor of Texas
    Governor of Texas
    The governor of Texas is the head of the executive branch of Texas's government and the commander-in-chief of the state's military forces. The governor has the power to either approve or veto bills passed by the Texas Legislature, and to convene the legislature...

     (1979–1983; 1987–1991). http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/article/Ex-Gov-Bill-Clements-dies-at-94-1401112.php
  • Billy Crook
    Billy Crook (English footballer)
    William Charles "Billy" Crook was an English footballer who spent the majority of his playing career at Wolverhampton Wanderers, with whom he won the 1949 FA Cup.-Career:...

    , 84, English footballer (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://www.expressandstar.com/news/2011/05/31/tributes-to-ex-wolves-fa-cup-star-bill-crook/
  • Wally Jay, 93, American martial arts teacher, founder of Small Circle JuJitsu
    Small Circle JuJitsu
    Small Circle JuJitsu is a style of jujutsu developed by Wally Jay that focuses on smooth transitions.- History :Jay primarily studied Danzan-ryū jujutsu under Seishiro Okazaki in Hawaii. He was awarded a Certificate of Mastery from Okazaki on 1948-02-22. Previously he had studied boxing, judo and...

    , after long illness. http://www.smallcirclejujitsu.com
  • Ferenc Mádl
    Ferenc Mádl
    Ferenc Mádl was the second President of the third Republic of Hungary, having served from 4 August 2000 to 5 August 2005.-University studies and scientific activities:...

    , 80, Hungarian politician, President of the Republic (2000–2005). http://index.hu/belfold/2011/05/29/elhunyt_madl_ferenc/ (Hungarian)
  • Tom Roeser
    Tom Roeser
    Thomas F. Roeser was a Chicago-based conservative writer and broadcaster, who broadcast for many years on WLS 890 AM talk radio...

    , 82, American political commentator. http://www.suntimes.com/5662430-417/political-voice-social-activist-thomas-roeser-dies-at-82.html
  • Bill Roycroft
    Bill Roycroft
    James William "Bill" George Roycroft OBE was an Olympic equestrian champion who competed for Australia in five consecutive Summer Olympic Games: 1960, 1964, 1968, 1972 and 1976.He was born in Flowerdale, Victoria...

    , 96, Australian equestrian, five-time Olympian, gold medallist (1960
    Equestrian at the 1960 Summer Olympics
    The Equestrian Events at the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome included dressage, eventing, and show jumping. Eventing and show jumping presented both individual and team medals, dressage presented only individual medals...

    ). http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2011/05/30/3230315.htm
  • Cosmo Francesco Ruppi
    Cosmo Francesco Ruppi
    Cosmo Francesco Ruppi was the Roman Catholic archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Lecce, Italy.Ordained in 1954, Ruppi was named a bishop and was appointed to the Lecce Archdiocese in 1988. Archbishop Ruppi retired in 2009.-Notes:...

    , 78, Italian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Termoli-Larino
    Roman Catholic Diocese of Termoli-Larino
    The Italian Catholic diocese of Termoli-Larino has existed since 1986. In that year the diocese of Larino was united into the historic diocese of Termoli, in existence since the tenth century...

     (1980–1988) and Archbishop of Lecce
    Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Lecce
    The Italian Catholic archdiocese of Lecce has existed as a diocese since 1057. It has been an archdiocese since 1980, when it became the metropolitan of the archdiocese of Otranto, reversing the previous position.-History:...

     (1988–2009). http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bruppi.html

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  • Mohammed Daud Daud
    Mohammed Daud Daud
    General H.E. Mohammed Daud Daud , also known as General Daud Daud, was the police chief in northern Afghanistan and the commander of the elite 303 Pamir Corps. He was considered one of the most effective and important opponents of the Afghan Taliban.Gen. Daud studied engineering in college...

    , 42, Afghan general, police commander for northern Afghanistan, bombing. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-south-asia-13585242
  • Bill Harris
    Bill Harris (1950s pitcher)
    William Thomas Harris was a Canadian pitcher in Major League Baseball who played for the Brooklyn and the Los Angeles Dodgers teams. Listed at 5' 8", 187 lb., Harris batted left handed and threw right handed...

    , 79, Canadian baseball player (Brooklyn/Los Angeles 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...

    ).
  • Romuald Klim
    Romuald Klim
    Romuald Iosifovich Klim was a Soviet hammer thrower.Klim was born in the village of Khvoevo, Niasviž District, Minsk Province. He trained at VSS Сhervony Stsyag in Vitebsk and later at the Armed Forces sports society in Minsk.He competed for the USSR in the 1964 Summer Olympics held in Tokyo,...

    , 78, Belarussian hammer thrower, Olympic gold medalist (1964
    Athletics at the 1964 Summer Olympics
    At the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, the athletics competition included 36 events, 24 for men and 12 for women. The women's 400 metres and women's pentathlon events were newly introduced at these Games. There were a total number of 1016 participating athletes from 82 countries.-Men's...

    ). http://www.noc.by/news/htnews/1003/ (Russian)
  • Dame Barbara Mills
    Barbara Mills
    Dame Barbara Jean Lyon Mills, DBE, QC was a British barrister. She held various senior public appointments including Director of Public Prosecutions, and was widely seen as a pioneer for women gaining such appointments in the higher echelons of the legal profession...

    , 70, British barrister, Director of Public Prosecutions
    Director of Public Prosecutions (England and Wales)
    The Director of Public Prosecutions of England and Wales is a senior prosecutor, appointed by the Attorney General. First created in 1879, the office was unified with that of the Treasury Solicitor less than a decade later before again becoming independent in 1908...

     (1992–1998), stroke. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/8544161/Dame-Barbara-Mills-former-Director-of-Public-Prosecutions-dies-aged-70.html
  • Leo Rangell
    Leo Rangell
    Leo Rangell was an American psychoanalyst and clinical professor of psychiatry at the University of California. He was also twice president of the International Psychoanalytical Association and the American Psychoanalytic Association, and was accorded the title "Honorary President" in 1997...

    , 97, American psychoanalyst, complications from surgery. http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-leo-rangell-20110601,0,3395289.story
  • Alys Robi, 88, Canadian singer. http://www.windsorstar.com/entertainment/Nightclub+diva+Alys+Robi+dies/4860455/story.html
  • Martha Rommelaere
    Martha Rommelaere
    Martha Rommelaere, Mrs. Manning was a Canadian outfielder who played in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League during the season...

    , 88, Canadian baseball player (All-American Girls Professional Baseball League
    All-American Girls Professional Baseball League
    The All-American Girls Professional Baseball League was a women's professional baseball league founded by Philip K. Wrigley which existed from 1943 to 1954. During the league's history, over 600 women played ball.-History:...

    ).
  • John H. Sinfelt
    John H. Sinfelt
    John H. Sinfelt was an American chemical engineer whose research on catalytic reforming was responsible for the introduction of unleaded gasoline.Sinfelt was working for the Standard Oil Development Company , where he specialized in developing...

    , 80, American chemical engineer in unleaded gasoline, congestive heart failure. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/10/business/10sinfelt.html

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  • Johnny Brewer, 74, American football player (Cleveland Browns
    Cleveland Browns
    The Cleveland Browns are a professional football team based in Cleveland, Ohio. They are currently members of the North Division of the American Football Conference in the National Football League...

    , New Orleans Saints
    New Orleans Saints
    The New Orleans Saints are a professional American football team based in New Orleans, Louisiana. They are members of the South Division of the National Football Conference of the National Football League ....

    ). http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/clarionledger/obituary.aspx?n=john-brewer&pid=151424621
  • Janet Brown, 87, British actress and impersonator, after short illness. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-13574208
  • Jeff Conaway
    Jeff Conaway
    Jeffrey Charles William Michael "Jeff" Conaway was an American actor best known for his roles in the movie Grease and the US television series Taxi and Babylon 5. Conaway was featured on the first season of reality series Celebrity Rehab with Dr. Drew...

    , 60, American actor (Grease
    Grease (film)
    Grease is a 1978 American musical film directed by Randal Kleiser and based on Warren Casey's and Jim Jacobs's 1971 musical of the same name about two lovers in a 1950s high school. The film stars John Travolta, Olivia Newton-John, Stockard Channing, and Jeff Conaway...

    , Taxi
    Taxi (TV series)
    Taxi was an American sitcom that originally aired from 1978 to 1982 on ABC and from 1982 to 1983 on NBC. The series, which won 18 Emmy Awards, including three for "Outstanding Comedy Series", focuses on the everyday lives of a handful of New York City taxi drivers and their abusive dispatcher...

    , Babylon 5
    Babylon 5
    Babylon 5 is an American science fiction television series created, produced and largely written by J. Michael Straczynski. The show centers on a space station named Babylon 5: a focal point for politics, diplomacy, and conflict during the years 2257–2262...

    ). http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/jeff-conaway-star-taxi-grease-190357
  • Margo Dydek
    Margo Dydek
    Małgorzata Dydek , known as Margo Dydek in the United States, was a Polish international professional basketball player. Standing tall, she was famous for being the tallest active professional female basketball player in the world...

    , 37, Polish basketball player (Utah Starzz
    Utah Starzz
    The Utah Starzz were a Women's National Basketball Association team based in Salt Lake City, Utah. They began play in the 1997 WNBA season as one of the league's eight original teams. The Starzz relocated, in 2003, to San Antonio, Texas where the team became the San Antonio Silver Stars...

    , Los Angeles Sparks
    Los Angeles Sparks
    The Los Angeles Sparks is a professional basketball team based in Los Angeles, California, playing in the Western Conference in the Women's National Basketball Association . The team was founded before the league's inaugural 1997 season began...

    ) and coach, heart attack. http://nbcsports.msnbc.com/id/43190352/ns/sports/
  • Johanna Fiedler
    Johanna Fiedler
    Johanna Fiedler was an American writer on music and publicist. Born in Boston, Massachusetts, Fiedler was the daughter of Boston Pops conductor Arthur Fiedler. In 1994 she published a memoir of her father, Arthur Fiedler: Papa, the Pops and Me. She was educated at Sarah Lawrence College...

    , 65, American author, daughter of Arthur Fiedler
    Arthur Fiedler
    Arthur Fiedler was a long-time conductor of the Boston Pops Orchestra, a symphony orchestra that specializes in popular and light classical music. With a combination of musicianship and showmanship, he made the Boston Pops one of the best-known orchestras in the country...

    . http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/04/arts/music/johanna-fiedler-writer-of-music-tell-alls-dies-at-65.html?src=twrhp
  • Regalado Maambong
    Regalado Maambong
    Regalado E. "Dodong" Maambong was a Filipino jurist, politician and member of the 1987 Constitutional Commission, which drafted the Constitution of the Philippines....

    , 72, Filipino jurist, member of 1986 Constitutional Commission. http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/nation/05/30/11/retired-ca-justice-regalado-maambong-dies-72
  • Prince Ali Mirza Qajar
    Ali Mirza Qajar
    Prince Soltan Ali Mirza Kadjar was an Iranian Prince of Qajar Dynasty and the son of Soltan Majid Mirza Qajar and Homadokht Kian and the grandson of Mohammad Ali Shah Qajar. He was the Head of the Qajar Imperial Family...

    , 81, Iranian royal, Head of the Qajar Imperial Family
    Qajar dynasty
    The Qajar dynasty was an Iranian royal family of Turkic descent who ruled Persia from 1785 to 1925....

     (since 1988), after long illness. http://www.tabnak.ir (Persian)
  • Gil Scott-Heron
    Gil Scott-Heron
    Gilbert "Gil" Scott-Heron was an American soul and jazz poet, musician, and author known primarily for his work as a spoken word performer in the 1970s and '80s...

    , 62, American poet, musician and author. http://www.npr.org/blogs/therecord/2011/05/27/136731274/gil-scott-heron-poet-and-musician-has-died
  • Jukka Toivola
    Jukka Toivola
    Jukka Olavi Toivola was a male long-distance runner and teacher of chemistry from Finland.Born in Liperi, North Karelia, Toivola represented his native country at the 1976 Summer Olympics in the men's marathon, finishing in 27th place...

    , 61, Finnish Olympic athlete, 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.hevoskuuri.fi/kestavyysjuoksu/611-maratonin-entinen-se-mies-jukka-toivola-on-kuollut (Finnish)

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  • Lillian Adams
    Lillian Adams
    Lillian Adams was an American stage and television actress with over 100 film and television roles to her credit....

    , 89, American actress (The Suite Life on Deck
    The Suite Life on Deck
    The Suite Life on Deck is an American sitcom that aired on Disney Channel from September 26, 2008 to May 6, 2011. It is a sequel/spin-off of the Disney Channel Original Series The Suite Life of Zack & Cody...

    , Bruce Almighty
    Bruce Almighty
    Bruce Almighty is a 2003 American comedy film directed by Tom Shadyac and written by Steve Koren, Mark O'Keefe and Steve Oedekerk. It stars Jim Carrey as Bruce Nolan, a down-on-his-luck TV reporter who complains to God that He isn't doing His job correctly, and is then offered the chance to try...

    ). http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118037894?refcatid=25&printerfriendly=true
  • Werner Freiherr von Beschwitz
    Werner Freiherr von Beschwitz
    Maximilian Richard Hans Christoph Werner Freiherr von Beschwitz was a highly decorated Major in the Wehrmacht during World War II and an Oberst in the Bundeswehr. He was also a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross. The Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross was awarded to recognise...

    , 96, German military officer. http://www.ww2awards.com/person/2100
  • Nina Leopold Bradley
    Nina Leopold Bradley
    Nina Leopold Bradley was an American conservationist, researcher and writer. Her father was the renowned ecologist Aldo Leopold. She died May 25, 2011 aged 93.- External links :** in the Encyclopedia of Earth...

    , 93, American conservationist. http://host.madison.com/wsj/news/local/article_21c1ac24-8733-11e0-98c6-001cc4c002e0.html
  • Leonora Carrington
    Leonora Carrington
    Leonora Carrington OBE was a British-born Mexican artist, a surrealist painter and a novelist. She lived most of her life in Mexico City.-Early life:...

    , 94, British-born Mexican painter and novelist. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/culture-obituaries/art-obituaries/8539650/Leonora-Carrington.html
  • Luigi Diligenza
    Luigi Diligenza
    Luigi Diligenza was an Italian Prelate of Roman Catholic Church.Luigi Diligenza was born in Arzano, Italy ordained a priest on August 8, 1943. Diligenza was appointed bishop of Archdiocese of Capua March 1, 1978 and ordained bishop on April 23, 1978...

    , 90, Italian Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Capua (1978–1997). http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bdili.html
  • Roger Gautier
    Roger Gautier
    Roger Gautier is a French rower who competed in the 1952 Summer Olympics.In 1952 he was a crew member of the French boat which won the silver medal in the coxless fours event.-References:...

    , 88, French Olympic silver medal-winning (1952
    1952 Summer Olympics
    The 1952 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XV Olympiad, were an international multi-sport event held in Helsinki, Finland in 1952. Helsinki had been earlier given the 1940 Summer Olympics, which were cancelled due to World War II...

    ) rower. http://carnet.lindependant.fr/9791548 (French)
  • Edwin Honig
    Edwin Honig
    Edwin Honig was an American poet, playwright, and translator.-Life:He has published ten books of poetry, eight books of translation, five books of criticism and fiction, three books of plays....

    , 91, American poet and translator, Alzheimer's disease. http://www.projo.com/news/content/HONIG_OBITUARY_05-28-11_12OBDAT_v8.3042612.html
  • Terry Jenner
    Terry Jenner
    Terrence James Jenner was an Australian cricketer who played nine Tests and one ODI from 1970 to 1975. He was primarily a leg-spin bowler and was known for his attacking, loopy style of bowling, but he was also a handy lower-order batsman...

    , 66, Australian Test cricketer and coach. http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2011/05/25/3226763.htm?site=sport§ion=cricket
  • Miroslav Opsenica, 29, Serbian footballer, car accident. http://www.90minut.pl/news/157/news1576485-Miroslav-Opsenica-nie-zyje.html (Polish)
  • Gene Smith
    Gene Smith (Negro leagues pitcher)
    Eugene F. ″Genie″ Smith was an American pitcher who played for several Negro league baseball teams between and . Listed at 6' 1", 185 lb., Smith was a switch-hitter and threw right-handed. He was born in Ansley, Louisiana...

    , 94, American baseball player (Negro Leagues
    Negro league baseball
    The Negro leagues were United States professional baseball leagues comprising teams predominantly made up of African Americans. The term may be used broadly to include professional black teams outside the leagues and it may be used narrowly for the seven relatively successful leagues beginning in...

    ).
  • Paul Splittorff
    Paul Splittorff
    Paul William Splittorff Jr. was a Major League Baseball starting pitcher who spent his entire career with the Kansas City Royals. Listed at 6' 3", Splittorff batted and threw left handed.-Early years:Splittorff was born in Evansville, Indiana...

    , 64, American baseball player and broadcaster (Kansas City Royals
    Kansas City Royals
    The Kansas City Royals are a Major League Baseball team based in Kansas City, Missouri. The Royals are a member of the Central Division of Major League Baseball's American League. From 1973 to the present, the Royals have played in Kauffman Stadium...

    ), complications from melanoma. http://kansascity.royals.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20110525&content_id=19544198&vkey=news_kc&c_id=kc
  • Yannis Varveris
    Yannis Varveris
    Yannis Varveris was an award winning Greek poet, critic and translator.Varveris was born and died in Athens. He read Law at the University of Athens. His first collection of poems was published in 1975...

    , 56, Greek poet, critic and translator, cardiac arrest. http://news.in.gr/culture/article/?aid=1231110397 (Greek)
  • Paul J. Wiedorfer, 90, American soldier, Medal of Honor
    Medal of Honor
    The Medal of Honor is the highest military decoration awarded by the United States government. It is bestowed by the President, in the name of Congress, upon members of the United States Armed Forces who distinguish themselves through "conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of his or her...

     recipient. http://www.webcitation.org/5yxbypTwO

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  • John Delaney
    John Delaney (businessman)
    John Delaney was an Irish businessman and the founder and CEO of the trading exchange website Intrade. He died at the age of 42 while attempting to climb Mount Everest—a lifelong ambition—and came within 50 metres of the summit. He is survived by his wife, two sons, and a daughter who was born...

    , 42, Irish businessman (Intrade
    Intrade
    Intrade is an online trading exchange website. The website's members speculate on the outcomes of non-sports-related future events. Intrade was founded by John Delaney in 2001 and acquired by Tradesports in 2003. Dublin-based owner Trade Exchange Network Limited also operated TradeBetX.com, which...

    ). http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/27/business/27delaney.html?ref=obituaries
  • Irene Gilbert
    Irene Gilbert
    Irene Gilbert was an German-born American actress and school director, who co-founded the Stella Adler Academy in Los Angeles with actress Joanne Linville in 1985. She also served as the Academy's director for approximately 20 years after the school's establishment.Gilbert was born Irene Liebert...

    , 76, American actress and school director, co-founder of Stella Adler Academy of Los Angeles, Alzheimer's disease. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2011/05/31/state/n075254D68.DTL
  • Bill Hunter
    Bill Hunter (actor)
    William John "Bill" Hunter was an Australian actor of film, stage and television. He appeared in more than 60 films and won two Australian Film Institute Awards.-Early life:Hunter was a son of William and Francie Hunter...

    , 71, Australian actor (Muriel's Wedding
    Muriel's Wedding
    Muriel's Wedding is a 1994 Australian-French romantic comedy-drama film written and directed by P. J. Hogan. The film, which stars actresses Toni Collette, Rachel Griffiths, Sophie Lee, and Bill Hunter, focuses on the socially awkward Muriel whose ambition is to have a glamorous wedding and improve...

    ), liver cancer. http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2011/05/21/3223354.htm?section=justin
  • Hiroyuki Nagato
    Hiroyuki Nagato
    was a Japanese actor.Nagato was born in Kyoto. He starred in Season of the Sun, Endless Desire, My Second Brother, Stolen Desire, and Sukeban Deka, and Yo-Yo Girl Cop. He died in Tokyo on May 21, 2011....

    , 77, Japanese actor, cerebrovascular disease. http://www.daily.co.jp/newsflash/2011/05/21/0004090506.shtml (Japanese)
  • Pádraig Kennelly
    Pádraig Kennelly
    Pádraig Kennelly was an Irish journalist, editor, photographer, cameraman and publisher, who co-founded and edited the Kerry's Eye newspaper....

    , 82, Irish publisher, editor and journalist, founder of Kerry's Eye
    Kerry's Eye
    Kerry's Eye is a weekly local newspaper in County Kerry, Ireland. It is published every Thursday, with a circulation of approximately 25,000.Husband and wife, Pádraig Kennelly and Joan Kennelly, founded the newspaper in the basement on their home on Ashe Street in Tralee in 1974. Kerry's Eye was...

    . http://www.rte.ie/news/2011/0522/kennellyp.html
  • Gordon McLennan
    Gordon McLennan
    Gordon McLennan was General Secretary of the Communist Party of Great Britain between 1975 and 1990.Born in Glasgow, McLennan worked as an engineering draughtsperson before taking on various full-time posts within the CPGB...

    , 87, British politician, General Secretary of the Communist Party
    Communist Party of Great Britain
    The Communist Party of Great Britain was the largest communist party in Great Britain, although it never became a mass party like those in France and Italy. It existed from 1920 to 1991.-Formation:...

     (1975–1990), cancer. http://www.guardian.co.uk/theguardian/2011/may/23/gordon-mclennan-obituary
  • Jim Pyburn
    Jim Pyburn
    James Edward Pyburn was an American professional baseball player. An outfielder and third baseman, Pyburn appeared in 158 Major League Baseball games over three seasons for the Baltimore Orioles. Pyburn threw and batted right-handed, stood tall and weighed .Pyburn was born in Birmingham,...

    , 78, American baseball player (Baltimore Orioles
    Baltimore Orioles
    The Baltimore Orioles are a professional baseball team based in Baltimore, Maryland in the United States. They are a member of the Eastern Division of Major League Baseball's American League. One of the American League's eight charter franchises in 1901, it spent its first year as a major league...

    ), after long illness. http://www.dailyjournal.net/view/story/da253580b16e4e4d9d6e7bc6d7827b83/FBC--Obit-Pyburn/
  • Bill Rechin
    Bill Rechin
    William J. Rechin , better known as Bill Rechin, was an American cartoonist who created the comic strips Out of Bounds and Crock. He received the National Cartoonists Society's Newspaper Panel Cartoon Award for 1992 for his work on Out of Bounds. He was president of the NCS for part of 1988...

    , 80, American cartoonist (Crock), complications from esophageal cancer. http://dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2011/05/23/crock-cartoonist-bill-rechin-passes-at-age-80/
  • Echo Valley, 56, American pornographic actress, car crash. http://news.avn.com/articles/Echo-Valley-Killed-in-Car-Crash-436503.html

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  • Michael Bell
    Michael Bell (Irish politician)
    Michael Bell was an Irish Labour Party politician. He was a Teachta Dála for the Louth constituency. Bell was first elected to Dáil Éireann at the November 1982 general election and retained his seat until losing it at the 2002 general election. He was a trade union official before entering...

    , 74, Irish politician, Teachta Dála
    Teachta Dála
    A Teachta Dála , usually abbreviated as TD in English, is a member of Dáil Éireann, the lower house of the Oireachtas . It is the equivalent of terms such as "Member of Parliament" or "deputy" used in other states. The official translation of the term is "Deputy to the Dáil", though a more literal...

     for Louth
    Louth (Dáil Éireann constituency)
    Louth is a parliamentary constituency represented in Dáil Éireann, the lower house of the Irish parliament or Oireachtas. The constituency elects 5 deputies...

     (1982–2002). http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/breaking/2011/0520/breaking52.html
  • John Cigna
    John Cigna
    Carmine John Cigna was an American radio personality. He spent 28 years at KDKA-AM in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, starting in 1973 until his retirement in 2001.-Early years and career:...

    , 75, American radio personality (KDKA
    KDKA (AM)
    KDKA is a radio station licensed to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. Created by the Westinghouse Electric Corporation on November 2, 1920, it is one of the world's first modern radio stations , a distinction that has also been challenged by other stations, although it has claimed to be the first in...

    ). http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/news/s_738228.html
  • William Elliott, Baron Elliott of Morpeth
    William Elliott, Baron Elliott of Morpeth
    Robert William Elliott, Baron Elliott of Morpeth , known as William Elliott, was a British Conservative Party politician.His father Richard Elliott, known as 'Dick', was a former councillor and mayor of Morpeth....

    , 90, British politician, MP for Newcastle upon Tyne North
    Newcastle upon Tyne North (UK Parliament constituency)
    Newcastle upon Tyne North is a parliamentary constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It elects one Member of Parliament by the first past the post system of election.-Boundaries:...

     (1957–1983). http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/8531665/Lord-Elliott-of-Morpeth.html
  • Arieh Handler
    Arieh Handler
    Arieh Handler was a Zionist leader. He was most famous for the being one of the main founders of the Religious Zionist movement in the UK as well as being the last person alive to have been present at the declaration of the State of Israel.Arieh Handler was born in Bohemia and grew up in Germany...

    , 95, Israeli Zionist leader. http://thejc.com/news/israel-news/49280/arieh-handler-dies-israel
  • Eduard Janota
    Eduard Janota
    Eduard Janota was a Czech economist. Between 2009 and 2010, he served as the Minister of Finance in the caretaker government of Jan Fischer.On 20 May 2011, he died at age 59, while playing tennis.- References :...

    , 59, Czech politician, Finance Minister
    Finance Minister of the Czech Republic
    The Finance Minister of the Czech Republic is a member of the Czech cabinet responsible for matters of finance and the economy.-List of Czech Finance Ministers:*Ivan Kočárník, January 1, 1993-June 2, 1997*Ivan Pilip, June 3, 1997-July 22, 1998...

     (2009–2010), cardiac arrest. http://zpravy.idnes.cz/pri-tenise-zemrel-byvaly-ministr-financi-eduard-janota-pg6-/domaci.asp?c=A110520_142140_domaci_cem (Czech)
  • Donald Krim
    Donald Krim
    Donald Barron Krim was an American film distributor. He bought Kino International in 1977 and thereafter served as the company's president until his death of cancer in Manhattan at the age of 65 in 2011.As the President of Kino International, Krim helped introduce some of the world's most revered...

    , 65, American businessman, president of Kino International, cancer. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/23/movies/donald-krim-film-distributor-dies-at-65.html?_r=1&ref=deathsobituaries
  • Joaquín Pérez
    Joaquin Pérez
    Joaquín Pérez de las Heras was an equestrian from Mexico and Olympic medalist.-References:**...

    , 75, Mexican Olympic double bronze medal-winning (1980) equestrian. http://www.horsetalk.co.nz/news/2011/05/226.shtml
  • Steve Rutt
    Steve Rutt
    Steven Alexander Rutt was a American engineer who in 1972, along with Bill Etra co-created an early video animation synthesizer, the Rutt/Etra synthesizer...

    , 66, American inventor of early video animation, pancreatic cancer. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/29/arts/steve-rutt-an-inventor-behind-early-video-animation-dies-at-66.html?ref=obituaries
  • Randy Savage
    Randy Savage
    Randall Mario Poffo , better known by his ring name "Macho Man" Randy Savage, was an American professional wrestler, best known for his time with the World Wrestling Federation and World Championship Wrestling .Savage held twenty championships during his professional wrestling career and was a...

    , 58, American professional wrestler. http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2011/05/20/136501230/reports-pro-wrestler-macho-man-randy-savage-has-died

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  • Phyllis Avery
    Phyllis Avery
    Phyllis Avery was an American television and film actress.-Early life and career:Avery was born in New York City to Evelyn and author Stephen Morehouse Avery. Her father hailed from Webster Groves, Missouri, near St. Louis. Her first role was as Marjorie in the 1951 film Queen for a Day based on...

    , 88, American actress (Meet Mr. McNutley
    Meet Mr. McNutley
    Meet Mr. McNutley is an American situation comedy which aired on CBS Television from 1953–1955, with Ray Milland in the role of fastidious Professor Ray McNutley, the head of the English Department at the fictitious Lynnhaven College for girls...

    ), heart failure. http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/prolific-tv-actress-phyllis-avery-191168
  • Don H. Barden
    Don H. Barden
    Donald Hamilton Barden was an American casino executive.Barden was the Manager, Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer of The Majestic Star Casino, LLC since its formation, with responsibility for key policy making functions...

    , 67, American businessman, lung cancer. http://www.detnews.com/article/20110519/BIZ/105190443/1409/metro
  • Garret FitzGerald
    Garret FitzGerald
    Garret FitzGerald was an Irish politician who was twice Taoiseach of Ireland, serving in office from July 1981 to February 1982 and again from December 1982 to March 1987. FitzGerald was elected to Seanad Éireann in 1965 and was subsequently elected to Dáil Éireann as a Fine Gael TD in 1969. He...

    , 85, Irish politician, Taoiseach
    Taoiseach
    The Taoiseach is the head of government or prime minister of Ireland. The Taoiseach is appointed by the President upon the nomination of Dáil Éireann, the lower house of the Oireachtas , and must, in order to remain in office, retain the support of a majority in the Dáil.The current Taoiseach is...

     (1981–1982; 1982–1987) and Minister for Foreign Affairs (1973–1977), after short illness. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-13451939
  • Ivan Gibbs
    Ivan Gibbs
    Ivan James Gibbs was an Australian politician, who was a member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly, representing the seat of electoral district of Albert for the National Party of Australia from 1974 to 1989. He held the Health portfolio in the last days of the Bjelke-Petersen...

    , 83, Australian politician, Queensland
    Queensland
    Queensland is a state of Australia, occupying the north-eastern section of the mainland continent. It is bordered by the Northern Territory, South Australia and New South Wales to the west, south-west and south respectively. To the east, Queensland is bordered by the Coral Sea and Pacific Ocean...

     MLA
    Queensland Legislative Assembly
    The Queensland Legislative Assembly is the unicameral chamber of the Parliament of Queensland. Elections are held approximately once every three years. Voting is by the Optional Preferential Voting form of the Alternative Vote system...

     for Albert
    Electoral district of Albert
    The electoral district of Albert is a Legislative Assembly electorate in the state of Queensland. Albert is named for the Albert River, which runs through the electorate and separates Logan City from Gold Coast City...

     (1974–1989), cancer. http://tributes.heraldsun.com.au/obituaries/heraldsun-au/obituary.aspx?n=ivan-j-gibbs&pid=151273476
  • David H. Kelley
    David H. Kelley
    David Humiston Kelley was a Canadian American archaeologist and epigrapher, most noted for his work on the phonetic analysis and major contributions toward the decipherment of the writing system used by the Maya civilization of pre-Columbian Mesoamerica, the Maya script.-Work and interests:From...

    , 87, American-born Canadian archaeologist. http://v1.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/Deaths.20110523.93265489/BDAStory/BDA/deaths
  • Kathy Kirby
    Kathy Kirby
    Kathy Kirby was an English singer who was reportedly the highest-paid female singer of her generation. She is best known for her cover version of Doris Day's "Secret Love" and for representing the United Kingdom in the 1965 Eurovision Song Contest, where she came in second place...

    , 72, British singer, after short illness. http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/entertainment/music/news/sixties-singer-kathy-kirby-dies-16002512.html
  • William Kloefkorn
    William Kloefkorn
    William Charles "Bill" Kloefkorn , was a Nebraska poet and educator based in Lincoln, Nebraska. He was the author of twelve collections of poetry, two short story collections, a collection of children's Christmas stories, and four memoirs...

    , 78, American poet. http://www.omaha.com/article/20110520/NEWS01/705209871/0
  • Alda Noni
    Alda Noni
    Alda Noni was an Italian soprano leggiero, one of the leading soubrette of the immediate postwar period.Born in Trieste, she first studied voice and piano in her native city, and completed her studies in Vienna...

    , 95, Italian coloratura soprano
    Coloratura soprano
    A coloratura soprano is a type of operatic soprano who specializes in music that is distinguished by agile runs and leaps. The term coloratura refers to the elaborate ornamentation of a melody, which is a typical component of the music written for this voice...

    . http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/8534076/Alda-Noni.html
  • Vladimir Ryzhkin
    Vladimir Ryzhkin
    Vladimir Alekseyevich Ryzhkin was a Soviet football player. He was born in Moscow.-Honours:* Olympic champion: 1956.* Soviet Top League winner: 1954, 1955, 1957.* Soviet Cup winner: 1953....

    , 80, Russian Olympic gold medal-winning (1956
    1956 Summer Olympics
    The 1956 Melbourne Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XVI Olympiad, were an international multi-sport event which was held in Melbourne, Australia, in 1956, with the exception of the equestrian events, which could not be held in Australia due to quarantine regulations...

    ) footballer. http://www.sovsport.ru/news/text-item/458667 (Russian)
  • Tom West
    Tom West
    Joseph Thomas "Tom" West III was the protagonist of the Pulitzer Prize winning non-fiction book The Soul of a New Machine. West worked for Data General Corporation as a hardware engineer and vice president, retiring as Chief Technologist in 1998. West died at the age of 71 in his Westport,...

    , 71, American computer hardware engineer, heart attack. http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/obituaries/articles/2011/05/22/tom_west_engineer_was_the_soul_of_data_generals_new_machine/?page=full

18

  • Seiseki Abe
    Seiseki Abe
    was a Japanese shodo and aikido teacher who had a unique relationship with aikido founder Morihei Ueshiba, being both his student in aikido and his teacher in calligraphy.- Early years :...

    , 96, Japanese shodo and aikido teacher. http://aikicosmos.blogspot.com/2011/05/abe-seiseki-sensei-passed-away.html
  • Edward H. Harte
    Edward H. Harte
    Edward Holmead Harte was an American newspaper executive, journalist, philanthropist, and conservationist. The son of Houston Harte, co-founder of the Harte-Hanks newspaper conglomerate, he had a decades long relationship with that organization...

    , 88, American newspaper executive (Harte-Hanks
    Harte-Hanks
    Harte-Hanks is an advertising and direct marketing company headquartered in San Antonio, Texas. It is particularly associated with the publication of weekly shopper publications, with 13 million circulation weekly in 1100 separate editions of the PennySaver and Flyer each week in California and...

    ). http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/24/business/24harte.html?ref=obituaries
  • Leonard Kastle
    Leonard Kastle
    Leonard Gregory Kastle was an opera composer, librettist, and director, though he is best known as the writer/director of The Honeymoon Killers, his only venture into the cinema, for which he did all his own research. He was educated at the Curtis Institute of Music studying under opera composer...

    , 82, American composer and filmmaker (The Honeymoon Killers
    The Honeymoon Killers
    The Honeymoon Killers is a 1970 American film written and directed by Leonard Kastle, and starring Shirley Stoler and Tony Lo Bianco. It tells the story of Martha Beck and Raymond Fernandez, the notorious "lonely hearts killers" who murdered at least 12 women in the 1940s...

    ). http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118037384?refCatId=13
  • Wlodzimierz Ksiazek
    Wlodzimierz Ksiazek
    Wlodzimierz Ksiazek was a contemporary artist based in New England, and since 2001 worked from a 6000 sq. ft. studio in Rhode Island...

    , 60, Polish-born American painter. http://www.artnet.com/magazineus/news/artnetnews/wlodzimierz-ksiazek-art-hk-steve-martin-5-31-11.asp (body found on this date)
  • Dick Wimmer
    Dick Wimmer
    Richard Samuel "Dick" Wimmer was an American author, editor and creative writing instructor known for his trilogy of fictional novels the Irish Wine Trilogy.-Early life :...

    , 74, American author, heart complications. http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-dick-wimmer-20110523,0,7982819.story

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  • Sean Dunphy
    Sean Dunphy
    Sean Dunphy was an Irish singer who represented Ireland at the 1967 Eurovision Song Contest, achieving second place with "If I Could Choose". He was also the first Irish singer to record in Nashville....

    , 73, Irish entertainer. http://www.oikotimes.com/eurovision/2011/05/18/sean-dunphy-1967-dies-aged-73/
  • Joseph Galibardy
    Joseph Galibardy
    Joseph "Joe" Deville Thomas Galibardy was an Indian field hockey player who competed in the 1936 Summer Olympics.In 1936 he was a member of the Indian field hockey team, which won the gold medal...

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

    ) field hockey player. http://www.fih.ch/en/news-3036-joseph-galibardy-passes-away
  • James M. Hewgley, Jr.
    James M. Hewgley, Jr.
    James Marion Hewgley, Jr. was the Mayor of Tulsa, Oklahoma from 1966 to 1970. He was named to the Oklahoma Hall of Fame in 1984 and the Tulsa Hall of Fame in 1993.-External links:*...

    , 94, American politician, Mayor of Tulsa, Oklahoma (1966–1970). http://www.tulsaworld.com/news/article.aspx?subjectid=11&articleid=20110518_11_A11_CUTLIN325909
  • Harmon Killebrew
    Harmon Killebrew
    Harmon Clayton Killebrew , nicknamed "Killer" and "Hammerin' Harmon", was an American professional baseball first baseman, third baseman, and left fielder. During his 22-year career in Major League Baseball , he played for the Washington Senators, a team which later became the Minnesota Twins, and...

    , 74, American Hall of Fame
    National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum
    The National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum is an American history museum and hall of fame, located at 25 Main Street in Cooperstown, New York, operated by private interests serving as the central point for the study of the history of baseball in the United States and beyond, the display of...

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

    , Kansas City Royals
    Kansas City Royals
    The Kansas City Royals are a Major League Baseball team based in Kansas City, Missouri. The Royals are a member of the Central Division of Major League Baseball's American League. From 1973 to the present, the Royals have played in Kauffman Stadium...

    ), esophageal cancer. http://www.bizjournals.com/twincities/news/2011/05/17/twins-star-killebrew-has-died.html
  • Thomas MacAnna
    Thomas MacAnna
    Thomas MacAnna was a Tony Award winning theatre director and playwright.Born in Dundalk, he was educated at the College of Art in Dublin, worked as a customs officer 1945-47, and then at the Abbey Theatre as a producer of Gaelic plays, subsequently becoming Artistic Adviser to the Board in 1966,...

    , 84, Irish director and actor. http://www.independent.ie/obituaries/tomas-macanna-2654230.html
  • Frank Upton
    Frank Upton
    Frank Upton was an English professional football player and manager.-Playing career:Upton, a hard tackling central defender, began his football career with Nuneaton Borough. He moved to Northampton Town in March 1953, making his league debut the same season...

    , 76, English footballer (Derby County
    Derby County F.C.
    Derby County Football Club is an English football based in Derby. the club play in the Football League Championship and is notable as being one of the twelve founder members of the Football League in 1888 and is, therefore, one of only ten clubs to have competed in every season of the English...

    , Chelsea
    Chelsea F.C.
    Chelsea Football Club are an English football club based in West London. Founded in 1905, they play in the Premier League and have spent most of their history in the top tier of English football. Chelsea have been English champions four times, FA Cup winners six times and League Cup winners four...

    ), after short illness. http://www.burtonmail.co.uk/Sport/Burton-Albion-FC/Former-Brewers-boss-passes-away-after-illness-18052011.htm

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15

  • John Feikens
    John Feikens
    John Feikens was a politician and judge from the U.S. state of Michigan. He was the Senior Judge, U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan . Feikens had the unusual honor of being nominated to the same district court by three presidents.Feikens was born in Clifton, New Jersey. He...

    , 93, American federal judge, after long illness. http://www.thenewsherald.com/articles/2011/05/23/news/doc4dd6be46cb467682215760.txt
  • Bob Flanigan, 84, American singer (The Four Freshmen
    The Four Freshmen
    The Four Freshmen is a multiple Grammy-nominated American male vocal band quartet that blends open-harmony jazz arrangements with the big band vocal group sounds of The Modernaires , The Pied Pipers , and The Mel-Tones , founded in the barbershop tradition...

    ) and musician. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/17/arts/music/bob-flanigan-84-four-freshmen-founder.html?_r=1&ref=obituaries
  • Pete Lovely
    Pete Lovely
    Gerard Carlton "Pete" Lovely , was a racecar driver and businessman from the United States. He was born in Livingston, Montana.-Racing career:...

    , 85, American racecar driver. http://www.autoweek.com/article/20110517/F1/110519858
  • William Pennington
    William Pennington (businessman)
    William Pennington was an American casino industry executive. A pioneer in Nevada’s casino industry, he played a major role in establishing the Circus Circus empire. For many years he was listed on the Forbes 400.-References:...

    , 88, American casino executive (Circus Circus Enterprises), Parkinson's disease. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/21/business/21pennington.html
  • Barbara Stuart
    Barbara Stuart
    Barbara Ann Stuart was an American actress.-Major roles:Stuart portrayed "Miss Bunny", the girlfriend of Sergeant Vincent Carter, played by Frank Sutton, on three seasons of CBS's Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C....

    , 81, American actress (Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.
    Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.
    Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.The show renders the title as Gomer Pyle - USMC. is an American situation comedy that originally aired on CBS from September 25, 1964, to May 2, 1969. The series was a spinoff of The Andy Griffith Show, and the pilot was aired as the finale of the fourth season of The Andy...

    ). http://www.barbarastuart.com/
  • F. Jay Taylor
    F. Jay Taylor
    Foster Jay Taylor, known as F. Jay Taylor , was a historian who served from 1962 to 1987 as the president of Louisiana Tech University in Ruston in Lincoln Parish in north Louisiana...

    , 87, American academic, President of Louisiana Tech University
    Louisiana Tech University
    Louisiana Tech University, often referred to as Louisiana Tech, LA Tech, or Tech, is a coeducational public research university located in Ruston, Louisiana. Louisiana Tech is designated as a Tier 1 school in the national universities category by the 2012 U.S. News & World Report college rankings...

     (1962–1987). http://www.thenewsstar.com/article/DI/20110516/NEWS01/105160301/-1/STATE
  • Mahendra Singh Tikait
    Mahendra Singh Tikait
    Mahendra Singh Tikait was a noted Indian leader of farmers from western Uttar Pradesh state. He was born in 1935 at village Sisauli in Muzaffarnagar District of Uttar Pradesh. He was the President of the 'Bharatiya Kisan Union'. Tikait died in Muzaffarnagar in Uttar Pradesh on 15 May 2011 due to...

    , 76, Indian farming union leader, bone cancer. http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/article2021026.ece?homepage=true
  • Samuel Wanjiru
    Samuel Wanjiru
    Samuel Kamau Wanjiru was a Kenyan athlete, who specialized in long distance running. He became a professional at a young age and broke the world record in the half marathon when he was 18 years old...

    , 24, Kenyan Olympic gold medal-winning (2008) marathon runner, fall from balcony. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-13408162
  • Martin Woodhouse
    Martin Woodhouse
    Martin Charlton Woodhouse was a British author and scriptwriter. He is most famous as a writer for the TV series The Avengers, but he also authored or co-authored eleven novels...

    , 78, British novelist, screenwriter and inventor. http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/jul/05/martin-woodhouse-obituary

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  • Ferial Alibali
    Ferial Alibali
    Ferial Alibali was an Albanian stage actress who performed more than 50 roles during her acting career.-Biography:...

    , 78, Albanian actress. http://www.gazetastart.com/lajme/Aktualitet/36773/ (Albanian)
  • James Richard Cheek
    James Richard Cheek
    James Richard Cheek was an United States diplomat.Born in Decatur, Georgia, Cheek served as United States Ambassador to Sudan in 1989 and later was the United States Ambassador to Argentina from 1993-1996. He lived in Little Rock, Arkansas.-Notes:...

    , 74, American diplomat, Ambassador to Sudan
    United States Ambassador to Sudan
    The following is a list of United States Ambassadors to Sudan. The first chief of mission sent by the United States was Arthur E. Beach, who presented his credentials in March 1956. From 1967 to 1972 the embassy was closed, and a U.S. Interest Section was opened in the Netherlands Embassy. In...

     (1989–1992) and Argentina
    United States Ambassador to Argentina
    The United States Ambassador to Argentina is the official representative of the President of the United States to the head of state of Argentina....

     (1993–1996). http://m24digital.com/en/2011/05/16/former-us-ambassador-to-argentina-james-cheek-passed-away/
  • Murray Handwerker
    Murray Handwerker
    Murray Handwerker was an American businessman who expanded Nathan's Famous, a fast food restaurant specializing in hot dogs, from a family-owned hot dog stand to a nationally franchised chain...

    , 89, American businessman (Nathan's Famous
    Nathan's Famous
    Nathan's Famous is a company that operates a chain of U.S.-based fast food restaurants specializing in hot dogs. The original Nathan's restaurant stands at the corner of Surf and Stillwell Avenues in the Coney Island neighborhood of the New York City borough of Brooklyn.-History:Nathan's began as...

    ). http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/43040675/ns/business-small_business/
  • Teuvo Laukkanen
    Teuvo Laukkanen
    Teuvo Johannes Laukkanen was a Finnish cross-country skier who competed in the 1940's.He was born and died in Pielavesi.He won a silver medal at the 1948 Winter Olympics in St. Moritz in the 4 x 10km relay....

    , 91, Finnish Olympic silver medal-winning (1948
    1948 Winter Olympics
    The 1948 Winter Olympics, officially known as the V Olympic Winter Games, was a winter multi-sport event celebrated in 1948 in St. Moritz, Switzerland. The Games were the first to be celebrated after World War II; it had been twelve years since the last Winter Games in 1936...

    ) cross-country skier. http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/la/teuvo-laukkanen-1.html
  • Michael Onslow, 7th Earl of Onslow
    Michael Onslow, 7th Earl of Onslow
    Michael William Coplestone Dillon Onslow, 7th Earl of Onslow , styled Viscount Cranley from 1945 to 1971, was a British Conservative politician.-Background and education:...

    , 73, British politician. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-13423573
  • Nicholas V. Riasanovsky
    Nicholas V. Riasanovsky
    Nicholas Valentine Riasanovsky was a professor at the University of California, Berkeley and the author of numerous books on Russian history. He was born in Harbin, China to lawyer Valentin A. Riasanovskii and Antonia Riasanovskii, a novelist...

    , 87, Chinese-born American historian and author. http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/sfgate/obituary.aspx?n=Nicholas-Riasanovsky&pid=151112604
  • Diane Sinclair
    Diane Sinclair
    Diane Sinclair was an American actress and dancer from 1939 through the 1950s. -Early life:Sinclair was born Miriam Rosen to Max and Sylvia Rosen...

    , 90, American actress and dancer. http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0801597/
  • Birgitta Trotzig
    Birgitta Trotzig
    Birgitta Trotzig was a Swedish writer who was elected to the Swedish Academy in 1993. She was one of Sweden's most celebrated authors, and wrote prose fiction and non-fiction, as well as prose poetry.-Biography:...

    , 81, Swedish author. http://sverigesradio.se/sida/artikel.aspx?programid=2054&artikel=4505694
  • Ernie Walker
    Ernie Walker (association football)
    Ernest John Munro Walker CBE, known as Ernie Walker, was a Scottish association football administrator who served as the Secretary of the Scottish Football Association from 1977 to 1990. He was also Chairman of UEFA's Stadia Committee for more than a decade.Walker was awarded the OBE in 1988 and...

    , 82, Scottish football administrator. http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/obituaries/Obituary-Ernie-Walker-OBE-CBE.6768825.jp
  • Joseph Wershba
    Joseph Wershba
    Joseph Wershba was a professional journalist who joined the CBS News team in 1944, where he served as a writer, editor and correspondent. He was one of the six original producers of CBS's 60 Minutes from 1968-88....

    , 90, American television producer and reporter. http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/05/16/national/main20063216.shtml

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  • Derek Boogaard
    Derek Boogaard
    Derek Leendert Boogaard was a Canadian professional ice hockey left winger who played for the Minnesota Wild and the New York Rangers of the National Hockey League . He was of Flemish descent. Known primarily as a fighter and enforcer, his nicknames included "Boogeyman" and "The Mountie"...

    , 28, Canadian hockey player (Minnesota Wild
    Minnesota Wild
    The Minnesota Wild are a professional ice hockey team based in St. Paul, Minnesota, United States. They are members of the Northwest Division of the Western Conference of the National Hockey League ....

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

    ), accidental overdose of alcohol and oxycodone. http://www.nhl.com/ice/news.htm?id=563345&navid=mod-rr-headlines
  • Stephen De Staebler
    Stephen De Staebler
    Stephen De Staebler was an internationally celebrated American sculptor best recognized for his work in clay and bronze...

    , 78, American sculptor and printmaker, complications from cancer. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/05/17/BA1S1JGVEN.DTL
  • Pam Gems
    Pam Gems
    Pam Gems was a British playwright. The author of numerous original plays, as well as of adaptations of works by major European playwrights of the past, Gems is best known for the 1978 musical play Piaf.-Personal life:...

    , 85, British playwright. http://www.guardian.co.uk/stage/2011/may/16/pam-gems-obituary
  • Bernard Greenhouse
    Bernard Greenhouse
    Bernard Greenhouse was an American cellist and one of the founding members of the Beaux Arts Trio.-Life:Greenhouse was born in Newark, New Jersey. He started his professional studies with Felix Salmond at the Juilliard School when he was eighteen...

    , 95, American cellist. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/14/arts/music/bernard-greenhouse-cellist-dies-at-95.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
  • Bob Litherland
    Bob Litherland
    Robert Kenneth Litherland, known as Bob Litherland, was a British Labour politician.Litherland was elected Member of Parliament for Manchester Central at a by-election in September 1979, and held the office until he retired at the 1997 general election.- References :*Times Guide to the House of...

    , 80, British politician, MP for Manchester Central
    Manchester Central (UK Parliament constituency)
    Manchester Central is a borough constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It elects one Member of Parliament by the first past the post system of election. The constituency has always been a safe Labour seat...

     (1979–1997), cancer. http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2011/may/18/bob-litherland-obituary
  • Princess Maria Elisabeth of Orléans-Braganza, 96, German noblewoman. http://www.brasilimperial.org.br/layout/layout2.php?cdConteudo=122&codigo=10 (Portuguese)
  • Wallace McCain
    Wallace McCain
    G. Wallace F. McCain, was a Canadian businessman, co-founder of McCain Foods Limited. With an estimated net worth of $US 2.3 billion , McCain was ranked by Forbes as the 13th wealthiest Canadian and 512th in the world.- Background :Born in Florenceville, New Brunswick, he received a Bachelor of...

    , 81, Canadian businessman, co-founder of McCain Foods, pancreatic cancer. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/16/business/global/16mccain.html?ref=obituaries
  • Mel Queen, 69, American baseball player (Cincinnati Reds
    Cincinnati Reds
    The Cincinnati Reds are a Major League Baseball team based in Cincinnati, Ohio. They are members of the National League Central Division. The club was established in 1882 as a charter member of the American Association and joined the National League in 1890....

    , Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim
    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...

    ) and pitching coach (Blue Jays
    Toronto Blue Jays
    The Toronto Blue Jays are a professional baseball team located in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The Blue Jays are a member of the Eastern Division of Major League Baseball 's American League ....

    ). http://www.cbc.ca/sports/baseball/story/2011/05/13/sp-mel-queen-dies.html
  • Jack Richardson
    Jack Richardson (record producer)
    Jack Richardson, CM was a Juno Award-nominated Canadian record producer and Order of Canada recipient. He is perhaps best known for producing the biggest hit records from The Guess Who from 1969 to 1975...

    , 81, Canadian record producer (The Guess Who
    The Guess Who
    The Guess Who are a Canadian rock band from Winnipeg, Manitoba. Initially gaining recognition in Canada, they also found international success from the late 1960s through the mid-1970s with numerous hit singles, including "American Woman", "These Eyes" and "Share the Land"...

    ). http://www.google.com/hostednews/canadianpress/article/ALeqM5grSSfHmOfdihsCxMXAoJNI-pbg2A?docId=6854370
  • Bruce Ricker
    Bruce Ricker
    Bruce Ricker was a jazz and blues documentarian. He is best known for his collaboration with Clint Eastwood on films about jazz and blues legends.-Life and career:...

    , 68, American film documentarian and producer (Thelonious Monk: Straight, No Chaser
    Thelonious Monk: Straight, No Chaser
    Thelonious Monk: Straight, No Chaser is a documentary about the life of Thelonious Monk. Produced by Clint Eastwood, Bruce Ricker, and directed/co-produced by Charlotte Zwerin, it features live performances by Monk and his group, and posthumous interviews with friends and family...

    ). http://www.artsjournal.com/rifftides/2011/05/bruce-ricker-documentarian-rip/
  • Badal Sarkar
    Badal Sarkar
    Badal Sarkar , also known as Badal Sircar, was an influential Indian dramatist and theatre director, most known for his anti-establishment plays during the Naxalite movement in the 1970s and taking theatre out of the proscenium and into public arena, when he founded his own theatre company,...

    , 85, Indian dramatist, colon cancer. http://www.thehindu.com/arts/theatre/article2021192.ece

12

  • Harrison Chongo
    Harrison Chongo
    Harrison "Wawa" Chongo was a Zambia international football player who played in central defence or as a defensive midfielder.-Career:...

    , 41, Zambian football player, malaria. http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/13390539.stm
  • Charles F. Haas
    Charles F. Haas
    Charles Friedman Haas was an American film and television director. He was born in Chicago, Illinois....

    , 97, American television director (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...

    , The Outer Limits
    The Outer Limits (1963 TV series)
    The Outer Limits is an American television series that aired on ABC from 1963 to 1965. The series is similar in style to the earlier The Twilight Zone, but with a greater emphasis on science fiction, rather than fantasy stories...

    , The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
    The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
    The Man from U.N.C.L.E. is an American television series that was broadcast on NBC from September 22, 1964, to January 15, 1968. It follows the exploits of two secret agents, played by Robert Vaughn and David McCallum, who work for a fictitious secret international espionage and law-enforcement...

    ). http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/latimes/obituary.aspx?n=charles-f-haas&pid=151166357
  • Mose Jefferson
    Mose Jefferson
    Mose Oliver Jefferson was a member of the New Orleans family that includes his younger brother, convicted felon and former U.S. Representative William J. Jefferson...

    , 68, American businessman, cancer. http://www.wdsu.com/r/27876111/detail.html
  • Jack Jones
    Jack Jones (journalist)
    John E. Jones, Jr. , better known as Jack Jones, was an American journalist. He was part of a team Los Angeles Times staff whose coverage of the August 1965 Watts Riots and its aftermath won the 1966 Pulitzer Prize in the Local General or Spot News Reporting category.-Biography:John E. Jones, Jr....

    , 86, American Pulitzer Prize
    Pulitzer Prize
    The Pulitzer Prize is a U.S. award for achievements in newspaper and online journalism, literature and musical composition. It was established by American publisher Joseph Pulitzer and is administered by Columbia University in New York City...

    -winning reporter (Los Angeles Times
    Los Angeles Times
    The Los Angeles Times is a daily newspaper published in Los Angeles, California, since 1881. It was the second-largest metropolitan newspaper in circulation in the United States in 2008 and the fourth most widely distributed newspaper in the country....

    ), lung disease. http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-jack-jones-20110515,0,6270801.story
  • Lloyd Knibb
    Lloyd Knibb
    Lloyd Knibb OD was a Jamaican drummer who is primarily known for his contribution to the development of the rhythm of the Ska era. He played for The Skatalites , and for Tommy McCook & The Supersonics...

    , 80, Jamaican drummer (The Skatalites
    The Skatalites
    The Skatalites are a ska band from Jamaica. They played initially between 1963 and 1965, and recorded many of their best known songs in the period, including "Guns of Navarone". They also played on records by Prince Buster and backed many other Jamaican artists who recorded during that period...

    ), liver cancer. http://www.google.com/hostednews/canadianpress/article/ALeqM5j59lYcv4wIKzBSkZsBottRZplceA?docId=6841497
  • Noreen Murray, 76, British geneticist. http://announcements.thetimes.co.uk/obituaries/timesonline-uk/obituary.aspx?n=noreen-murray&pid=151131737
  • David Orton
    David Orton (deep ecology)
    David Keith Orton was a Canadian writer, thinker and environmental activist who played a leading role in developing "left biocentrism" within the philosophy of deep ecology. Orton and his collaborators added the word "left" to biocentrism to indicate their anti-industrial, anti-capitalist...

    , 77, Canadian environmentalist, pancreatic cancer. http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2011/jun/29/david-orton-obituary
  • Carlos Pascual
    Carlos Pascual
    Carlos Alberto Pascual Lus is a former Major League Baseball pitcher. The 5'6", 165 lb. right-hander was signed by the Washington Senators as an amateur free agent before the 1949 season, and he played for the Senators in 1950. Nicknamed "Big Potato" Carlos Alberto Pascual Lus (13 March 1931 – 12...

    , 80, Cuban baseball player (Washington Senators
    1950 Washington Senators season
    The Washington Senators won 67 games, lost 87, and finished in fifth place in the American League. They were managed by Bucky Harris and played home games at Griffith Stadium.- Offseason :...

    ).
  • Luigi del Gallo Roccagiovine
    Luigi del Gallo Roccagiovine
    Luigi del Gallo marquess di Roccagiovine was an Italian Prelate of Catholic Church.Roccagiovine was born in Rome and was ordained a priest on March 19, 1950. He belonged to Italian noble family of the Marquesses of Roccagiovine...

    , 88, Italian nobleman and Roman Catholic prelate, Titular Bishop of Camplum (since 1982). http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bgalroc.html
  • Ron Springs
    Ron Springs
    Ronald Edward "Ron" Springs was a professional American football running back, who played eight seasons in the NFL, for the Dallas Cowboys from 1979–1984, followed by the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in 1985-1986. He is the father of NFL cornerback Shawn Springs...

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

    , 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...

    ), complications from surgery. http://www.dispatch.com/live/content/local_news/stories/2011/05/12/Ron_Springs.html?sid=101
  • Bill Summers
    Bill Summers (car builder)
    William Ray "Bill" Summers was an American car builder. He and his brother Bob designed and built the Goldenrod, a streamliner car which held the wheel-driven land speed record from 1965 to 1991.-References:...

    , 75, American car builder (Goldenrod). http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/21/sports/autoracing/bill-summers-car-builder-who-set-a-speed-record-dies-at-75.html?ref=obituaries
  • Miyu Uehara
    Miyu Uehara
    , better known as , was a Japanese gravure idol and TV personality, who gained popularity as a "poverty idol".-Life:Uehara was born on the island of Tanegashima in Kagoshima Prefecture, the youngest of 10 siblings. She attended high school in Kagoshima for a brief time before dropping out...

    , 24, Japanese glamour model, apparent suicide by hanging. http://www.japantoday.com/category/entertainment/view/miyu-uehara-found-dead-at-home-after-apparently-hanging-herself
  • Jack Wolf, 76, American information theorist, cancer. http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/news/article/25570

11

  • Maurice Goldhaber
    Maurice Goldhaber
    Maurice Goldhaber was an Austrian-born American physicist, who in 1957 established that neutrinos have negative helicity.-Early Life and Childhood:...

    , 100, American physicist. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/18/science/18goldhaber.html&OQ=Q5fQ72Q3dQ31
  • Leo Kahn
    Leo Kahn (entrepreneur)
    Leo Kahn was an American businessman and entrepreneur who is credited as the co-founder of Staples Inc.. Kahn is also considered a pioneer of the natural and health food supermarket industry, founding the Fresh Fields and Nature's Heartland chains, which are now part of Whole Foods Market.-Early...

    , 94, American entrepreneur, co-founder of Staples, complications from a series of strokes. http://www.boston.com/news/local/breaking_news/2011/05/leo_kahn_co-fou.html
  • Albert Kanene Obiefuna
    Albert Kanene Obiefuna
    Albert Kanene Obiefuna was the Roman Catholic archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Onitsha, Nigeria.Ordained to the priesthood in 1963, Obiefuna became bishop in 1977 and retired in 2003.-Notes:...

    , 81, Nigerian Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Onitsha (1995–2003). http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bobiefuna.html
  • Reach Sambath
    Reach Sambath
    Reach Sambath was a Cambodian journalist and a spokesperson and Chief of Public Affairs of the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia...

    , 47, Cambodian journalist, stroke. http://www.voanews.com/khmer-english/news/Reach-Sambath-Revered-Journalism-Mentor-Dies-121699674.html
  • Elisabeth Svendsen
    Elisabeth Svendsen
    Elisabeth Doreen Svendsen MBE was a British animal welfare advocate and former hotelier. Svendsen founded The Donkey Sanctuary, an animal sanctuary headquartered in Sidmouth, England, in 1969 to help abused or homeless donkeys...

    , 81, British hotelier and animal welfare campaigner, founder of The Donkey Sanctuary
    The Donkey Sanctuary
    The Donkey Sanctuary is a British charitable organization devoted to the welfare of donkeys. The charity, which is based near Sidmouth in Devon, England, was founded in 1969. It is one of the largest equine charities in the world with an annual income and expenditure of £22 million.- History...

    . http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-devon-13376700
  • Robert Traylor
    Robert Traylor
    Robert DeShaun "Tractor" Traylor was an American professional basketball player.-High school and college:...

    , 34, American basketball player (Milwaukee Bucks
    Milwaukee Bucks
    The Milwaukee Bucks are a professional basketball team based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States. They are part of the Central Division of the Eastern Conference in the National Basketball Association . The team was founded in 1968 as an expansion team, and currently plays at the Bradley Center....

    , Cleveland Cavaliers
    Cleveland Cavaliers
    The Cleveland Cavaliers are a professional basketball team based in Cleveland, Ohio. They began playing in the National Basketball Association in 1970 as an expansion team...

    , New Orleans Hornets), suspected heart attack. http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/news/story?id=6527372
  • Snooky Young
    Snooky Young
    Eugene Edward "Snooky" Young was an American jazz trumpeter. He was known for his mastery of the plunger mute, with which he was able to create a wide range of sounds.-Biography:...

    , 92, American jazz trumpeter, complications of a lung ailment. http://www.artsjournal.com/rifftides/2011/05/snooky-young-1919-2011/

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9

  • David Cairns
    David Cairns (politician)
    John David Cairns was a Scottish Labour Party politician, who was a Member of Parliament from 2001 until his death. He represented the constituency of Inverclyde. He was the Minister of State at the Scotland Office until he resigned on 16 September 2008...

    , 44, British politician, MP for Greenock and Inverclyde
    Greenock and Inverclyde (UK Parliament constituency)
    Greenock and Inverclyde was a burgh constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1997 until 2005, when was replaced by the Inverclyde constituency...

     (2001–2005) and Inverclyde
    Inverclyde (UK Parliament constituency)
    Inverclyde is a parliamentary constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It replaced Greenock and Inverclyde and the Port Glasgow and Kilmacolm areas from West Renfrewshire for the 2005 general election....

     (since 2005), acute pancreatitis. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-politics-13347288
  • Robert Ellsworth, 84, American politician and diplomat, Representative
    United States House of Representatives
    The United States House of Representatives is one of the two Houses of the United States Congress, the bicameral legislature which also includes the Senate.The composition and powers of the House are established in Article One of the Constitution...

     from Kansas
    United States Congressional Delegations from Kansas
    These are tables of congressional delegations from Kansas to the United States Senate and United States House of Representatives. -United States Senate:- Delegates from Kansas Territory :-United States House of Representatives:-1859 - 1873: 1 seat at-large:...

     (1961–1967), 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...

     (1969–1971), complications from pneumonia. http://www.mercurynews.com/news/ci_18041250
  • Epiphanios of Vryoula
    Epiphanios of Vryoula
    Epiphanios of Vryoula was an archbishop of the Greek Orthodox Church.Born Constantine Perialis in Ithaca, New York, he taught high school and college, until his ordaination to the priesthood in 1984. He became the first archbishop of Spain and Portugal until his retirement in 2007.-Notes:...

    , 76. American Greek Orthodox Archbishop of Spain and Portugal. http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/theithacajournal/obituary.aspx?n=constantine-perialas&pid=150972394&fhid=7263
  • Henry Feffer
    Henry Feffer
    Henry Leon Feffer of Bethesda, Maryland, was an American neurosurgeon. In the mid-1950s, he was one of the first doctors to systematically test whether low-back pain could be relieved with epidural injections of hydrocortisone. Today, physicians routinely give such injections before resorting to...

    , 93, American professor and spine surgeon, treated Saddam Hussein
    Saddam Hussein
    Saddam Hussein Abd al-Majid al-Tikriti was the fifth President of Iraq, serving in this capacity from 16 July 1979 until 9 April 2003...

    , heart failure. http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/henry-feffer-back-surgeon-who-treated-dc-notables-and-gorilla-dies-at-93/2011/05/11/AF7ytNtG_story.html
  • Dolores Fuller
    Dolores Fuller
    Dolores Agnes Fuller was an American actress and songwriter best known as the one-time girlfriend of the low-budget film director Edward D. Wood, Jr. She played the protagonist's girlfriend in Glen or Glenda, co-starred in Wood's Jail Bait, and had a minor role in Bride of the Monster...

    , 88, American actress (Glen or Glenda), and songwriter ("Rock-A-Hula Baby
    Rock-A-Hula Baby
    "Rock-A-Hula Baby" is a song performed by Elvis Presley for the 1961 movie Blue Hawaii. Written by Ben Weisman, Fred Wise, Dolores Fuller, it is a genre mix of Hawaiian folk and rock n' roll. It was Dolores' first published song, and she would eventually co-write a dozen songs for Elvis Presley...

    "). http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-dolores-fuller-20110511,0,5525788.story
  • Jeff Gralnick
    Jeff Gralnick
    Jeff Gralnick was a television journalist with 47 years of experience, as well as a professor of new media at Columbia University and Fairfield University.-Overview:...

    , 72, American television news producer. http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/news-producer-jeff-gralnick-dies-187104
  • Lidia Gueiler Tejada
    Lidia Gueiler Tejada
    Lidia Gueiler Tejada was the first female President of Bolivia, serving in an interim capacity from 1979 to 1980...

    , 89, Bolivian politician, acting President
    President of Bolivia
    The President of Bolivia is head of state and head of government of Bolivia. According to the current Constitution, the president is elected by popular vote to a five year term, renewable once...

     (1979–1980), after a long illness. http://world.globaltimes.cn/americas/2011-05/653331.html
  • Doug Leeds
    Doug Leeds
    Douglas B. "Doug" Leeds was an advertising/media executive who is the founder and current Chairman/CEO of Storeboard Media LLC...

    , 63, American executive, vice-chairman of American Theatre Wing, cancer. http://www.playbill.com/news/article/151105-Douglas-B-Leeds-American-Theatre-Wing-Executive-Dies-at-63
  • Ivo Pešák
    Ivo Pešák
    Ivo Pešák was a Czech singer, dancer, and comic performer. He is perhaps best known for his work with Ivan Mládek, in the latter's Banjo Band, and particularly for his high-spirited performance in the viral video phenomenon, Jožin z Bažin.Pešák was born at Jaroměř, then in the Protectorate of...

    , 66, Czech singer, dancer and comic performer. http://muzyka.onet.pl/0,2266951,newsy.html (Polish)
  • Newton Thornburg
    Newton Thornburg
    -Early life:Born in Harvey, Illinois, Thornburg graduated from the University of Iowa with a Fine Arts degree. He worked in a variety of jobs before devoting himself to writing full-time in 1973.-Writing:...

    , 81, American novelist. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/newton-thornburg-novelist-whose-cutter-and-bone-was-a-key-text-of-the-usrsquos-vietnam-era-2334865.html
  • Shailendra Kumar Upadhyaya
    Shailendra Kumar Upadhyaya
    Shailendra Kumar Upadhyaya was a Nepali politician. He was Minister of Foreign Affairs for Nepal from 1986 to 1990. He was Nepal's Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the United Nations from 1972 to 1978....

    , 82, Nepali politician, Foreign Minister
    Foreign minister
    A Minister of Foreign Affairs, or foreign minister, is a cabinet minister who helps form the foreign policy of a sovereign state. The foreign minister is often regarded as the most senior ministerial position below that of the head of government . It is often granted to the deputy prime minister in...

     (1986–1990), altitude sickness. http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5ioSoO_Ea8-30WLXmKAdzPvMSq1SA?docId=CNG.83211e693aa6f655ec3ce4f4b80eb637.1a1
  • Wouter Weylandt
    Wouter Weylandt
    Wouter Weylandt was a Belgian professional cyclist for UCI ProTeam and later for . His first major win was the 17th stage of the 2008 Vuelta a España. He also won the 3rd stage of the 2010 Giro d'Italia...

    , 26, Belgian road bicycle racer, race crash. http://www.espn.co.uk/cycling/sport/story/89674.html

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6

  • Barry Connolly, 72, Australian football player. http://www.onlinetributes.com.au/Barry_Connolly/about/92o5q696kglmoh/
  • Oniroku Dan
    Oniroku Dan
    was a Japanese author who had been called, "the most celebrated writer of popular SM novels in Japan." Many of his stories have been filmed, most notably by Nikkatsu studio in their Roman Porno series. Dan had a close professional association with actress Naomi Tani throughout her career...

    , 80, Japanese author, esophageal cancer. http://cinephilia101.blogspot.com/2011/05/oniroku-dan-79-rip-video-nsfw.html
  • Lawrence Johnson
    Lawrence Johnson (inventor)
    Lawrence Nels Johnson was an American inventor and manufacturer of boat trailers.Born in Spokane, Washington, Johnson held 14 patents on boat trailer design and founded EZ Loader Boat Trailers, Inc, the largest boat trailer manufacturing company in the world. He repaired vehicles for the...

    , 97, American boat trailer inventor and manufacturer, natural causes. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/14/business/14johnson.html?ref=todayspaper
  • Horace Freeland Judson
    Horace Freeland Judson
    Horace Freeland Judson was a historian of molecular biology and the author of several books, including The Eighth Day of Creation, a history of molecular biology, and The Great Betrayal: Fraud In Science, an examination of the deliberate manipulation of scientific data.-Life and career:The Eighth...

    , 80, American science historian (The Great Betrayal: Fraud In Science
    The Great Betrayal: Fraud In Science
    The Great Betrayal: Fraud In Science is a 2004 book by Horace Freeland Judson. The book explains that science as a discipline is not immune to fraud, and the book surveys many cases where scientific misconduct by aberrant scientists have threatened the reliability and foundations of the scientific...

    ), complications of a stroke. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/11/science/11judson.html?src=twrhp
  • Quazi Nuruzzaman
    Quazi Nuruzzaman
    Quazi Nuruzzaman was a Bangladeshi military officer who was a key commander of the Mukti Bahini during the Bangladesh Liberation War. Bangladesh was divided into eleven sectors and each of those sectors had a Sector Commander who would direct the guerrilla warfare...

    , 86, Bangladeshi veteran of the Liberation War
    Bangladesh Liberation War
    The Bangladesh Liberation War was an armed conflict pitting East Pakistan and India against West Pakistan. The war resulted in the secession of East Pakistan, which became the independent nation of Bangladesh....

    , natural causes. http://www.thedailystar.net/newDesign/latest_news.php?nid=29676
  • Duane Pillette
    Duane Pillette
    Duane Xavier Pillette [″Dee″] was a professional baseball pitcher. He played all or part of eight seasons in Major League Baseball for four different teams from 1949 through 1956. Listed at 6' 3", 195 lb., Pillette batted and threw right handed...

    , 88, American baseball player (New York Yankees
    New York Yankees
    The New York Yankees are a professional baseball team based in the The Bronx, New York. They compete in Major League Baseball in the American League's East Division...

    , Philadelphia Phillies
    Philadelphia Phillies
    The Philadelphia Phillies are a Major League Baseball team. They are the oldest continuous, one-name, one-city franchise in all of professional American sports, dating to 1883. The Phillies are a member of the Eastern Division of Major League Baseball's National League...

    ). http://sports.groups.yahoo.com/group/BaseballNecrology/
  • Dick Walsh, 85, American baseball executive, first commissioner of the North American Soccer League
    North American Soccer League
    North American Soccer League was a professional soccer league with teams in the United States and Canada that operated from 1968 to 1984.-History:...

    . http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5isQc6KI4K61PvLNoGNM6BTASrDgg?docId=465df7facd2248c482e9564d373566c5
  • Yoon Ki-Won
    Yoon Ki-Won
    Yoon Ki-won was a South Korean football Goalkeeper, who played for Incheon United FC in the K-League. Yoon committed suicide in May 2011.-Club career:...

    , 24, South Korean football player, suicide by inhaling toxic fumes. http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/nation/2011/05/113_86565.html

5

  • Leslie Audus
    Leslie Audus
    Leslie John Audus was a British botanist and Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve survivor of the Japanese internment camps of World War II. He cultured yeast to feed and save the lives of his fellow POW's...

    , 99, British botany professor (University of London
    University of London
    -20th century:Shortly after 6 Burlington Gardens was vacated, the University went through a period of rapid expansion. Bedford College, Royal Holloway and the London School of Economics all joined in 1900, Regent's Park College, which had affiliated in 1841 became an official divinity school of the...

    ), expert on plant growth hormones. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/science-obituaries/8513051/Professor-Leslie-Audus.html
  • Alice Bridges
    Alice Bridges
    Alice W. Bridges was an American swimmer, who at age 20, competed in the 1936 Summer Olympics at Berlin. It first appeared that Bridges, who originally was a back-up contestant, had actually won her event...

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

    ) swimmer. http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/milforddailynews/obituary.aspx?n=alice-b-roche&pid=150841879
  • Claude Choules
    Claude Choules
    Claude Stanley Choules was the last World War I combat veteran, and was the last military witness to the scuttling of the German fleet in Scapa Flow. He was also the last veteran to have served in both world wars, and the last seaman from the First World War...

    , 110, British-born Australian veteran, last combat veteran of World War I. http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2011/05/05/3208495.htm
  • J. Donald Crump
    J. Donald Crump
    John Donald Crump was Commissioner of the Canadian Football League from January 1990 to December 1991. During the previous two decades he had worked for Harold Ballard as an executive of the Hamilton Tiger-Cats and financial officer of Maple Leaf Gardens.He was a chartered accountant by training...

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

     (1990–1991). http://www.torontosun.com/2011/05/06/excfl-commish-gardens-exec-donald--crump-dies
  • Oliver Elmes
    Oliver Elmes
    Oliver Elmes was a British graphic designer. He designed a number of logos for the BBC, but is probably best known for devising the Doctor Who title sequence and logo used from Time and the Rani until Survival ....

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

    ). http://www.doctorwhonews.net/2011/05/dwn050511142612-oliver-elmes.html (death reported on this date)
  • Salomón Hakim
    Salomón Hakim
    Salomón Hakim Dow was a Colombian neurosurgeon, researcher, and inventor. A descendent of Lebanese immigrants, he is known for his work on neurosurgery and for the precursor of the modern valve treatment for hydrocephalus....

    , 81, Colombian neurosurgeon, researcher and inventor. http://colombiareports.com/colombia-news/culture/16060-colombian-brain-surgeon-passes-away-age-81.html
  • Arthur Laurents
    Arthur Laurents
    Arthur Laurents was an American playwright, stage director and screenwriter.After writing scripts for radio shows after college and then training films for the U.S...

    , 93, American playwright, librettist, stage director, and screenwriter (Anastasia
    Anastasia (1956 film)
    Anastasia is a 1956 American historical drama film directed by Anatole Litvak for 20th Century Fox. The film stars Ingrid Bergman, Yul Brynner, and Helen Hayes. Supporting players include Akim Tamiroff, Martita Hunt, and, in a small role, Natalie Schafer...

    , Rope
    Rope (film)
    Rope is a 1948 American thriller film based on the play Rope by Patrick Hamilton and adapted by Hume Cronyn and Arthur Laurents, directed by Alfred Hitchcock and produced by Sidney Bernstein and Hitchcock as the first of their Transatlantic Pictures productions...

    , West Side Story
    West Side Story (film)
    West Side Story is a 1961 musical film directed by Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins. The film is an adaptation of the 1957 Broadway musical of the same name, which in turn was adapted from William Shakespeare's play Romeo and Juliet. It stars Natalie Wood, Richard Beymer, Russ Tamblyn, Rita Moreno,...

    ). http://broadwayworld.com/article/Legendary-Writer-Director-Arthur-Laurents-Dies-at-93-20110505
  • Dougie McCracken
    Dougie McCracken
    Dougie McCracken was a Scottish professional footballer who played as both a defender and a forward.-Career:...

    , 46, Scottish football player (Ayr United
    Ayr United F.C.
    Ayr United Football Club are a Scottish association football team based in Ayr, South Ayrshire, that plays in the First Division of the Scottish Football League. Formed in 1910 after the merger of former clubs Ayr Parkhouse F.C. and Ayr F.C...

    ), suspected suicide. http://www.ayrunitedfc.co.uk/news.asp?int_news_id=2442
  • Yosef Merimovich, 86, Israeli football player and manager. http://www.one.co.il/Article/179198.html (Hebrew).
  • Rolo Puente
    Rolo Puente
    Rolo Puente was an Argentine comedian and actor. Puente was born Rolando Pardo Dominguez in Buenos Aires on August 13, 1939, but adopted Rolo Puente as his stage name....

    , 71, Argentine actor, pulmonary emphysema. http://m24digital.com/en/2011/05/06/rolo-puente-died-71-years-old/
  • Tommy Wright
    Tommy Wright (footballer born 1928)
    Tommy Wright was a Scottish footballer who played for Sunderland and the Scotland national football team as a midfielder.-Club career:...

    , 83, Scottish footballer. http://news.scotsman.com/obituaries/Obituary-Tommy-Wright-footballer.6773807.jp
  • Dana Wynter
    Dana Wynter
    Dana Wynter was a German-born British actress, who was brought up in England and Southern Africa. She appeared in film and television for more than forty years beginning in the 1950s, most notably in the original version of Invasion of the Body Snatchers.-Early life:Wynter was born as Dagmar...

    , 79, German-born British actress (Invasion of the Body Snatchers), heart failure. http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-dana-wynter-20110508,0,4958981.story

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  • Lázaro Blanco
    Lázaro Blanco
    Lázaro Blanco Fuentes , was a Mexican photographer.Blanco was born in Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, Mexico. He directed the Casa del Lago Photography Workshop in Mexico City from 1968 until his death....

    , 73, Mexican photographer, cancer. http://ar.noticias.yahoo.com/muere-fot%C3%B3grafo-mexicano-l%C3%A1zaro-blanco-015400561.html (Spanish)
  • Frans de Kok
    Frans de Kok
    Frans de Kok taught himself to play the piano, the accordion and the bass. In the 1940s and 1950s he played and arranged music for the Joe Andy Orchestra, which toured the Netherlands, West Germany and Switzerland with considerable success. From 1957 onwards he worked in various capacities for...

    , 87, Dutch conductor. http://www.omroepbrabant.nl/?news/1548191143/Tilburgse+dirigent+Frans+de+Kok+overleden.aspx (Dutch)
  • Jacques Georges Habib Hafouri
    Jacques Georges Habib Hafouri
    Jacques Georges Habib Hafouri was a Syrian Bishop of the Roman Catholic Church. He was the oldest Syrian Roman Catholic bishop....

    , 94, Syrian Catholic
    Syriac Catholic Church
    The Syriac Catholic Church is a Christian church in the Levant having practices and rites in common with the Syriac Orthodox Church. They are one of the Eastern Catholic Churches following the Antiochene rite, the Syriac tradition of Antioch, along with the Maronites and Syro-Malankara Christians...

     hierarch, Archbishop of Hassaké-Nisibi (1982–1996). http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bhafouri.html
  • Sammy McCrory
    Sammy McCrory
    Samuel McKee McCrory was a former Northern Ireland international footballer.McCrory was born in Belfast. During his career he played as a centre forward for Ipswich Town for whom he was top scorer in their 1950–51 season....

    , 86, Northern Irish footballer. http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/13280728.stm
  • Mary Murphy
    Mary Murphy (actress)
    Mary Murphy was an American film actress of the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s. She was born in Washington, D.C. and spent most of her early childhood in Cleveland, Ohio. Her father, James Victor Murphy, died in 1940. Shortly afterwards, she and her mother moved to Southern California...

    , 80, American actress (The Wild One
    The Wild One
    The Wild One is a 1953 outlaw biker film directed by László Benedek and produced by Stanley Kramer. It is famed for Marlon Brando's iconic portrayal of the gang leader Johnny Strabler.-Basis:...

    ). http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-mary-murphy-20110516,0,1724744.story
  • Thomas G. Nelson
    Thomas G. Nelson (Idaho judge)
    Thomas G. Nelson was a United States federal judge.Nelson was born in Idaho Falls, Idaho. He received an LL.B. from University of Idaho College of Law in 1962. He served as Assistant state attorney general and chief deputy state attorney general of Idaho Office of the State Attorney General, from...

    , 74, American federal judge, complications from declining health. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2011/05/06/state/n143701D39.DTL
  • Françoise Olivier-Coupeau
    Françoise Olivier-Coupeau
    Françoise Olivier-Coupeau was a member of the National Assembly of France.Olivier-Coupeau was born in Laval, Mayenne. She represented the Morbihan department , and was a member of the Socialiste, radical, citoyen et divers gauche. She was a member of the National Defence and Armed Forces...

    , 51, French politician, cancer. http://www.lefigaro.fr/flash-actu/2011/05/04/97001-20110504FILWWW00536-deces-de-la-deputee-olivier-coupeau.php (French)
  • Acacio Valbuena Rodríguez
    Acacio Valbuena Rodríguez
    Fr. Acacio Valbuena Rodríguez was the Roman Catholic Prefect for Western Sahara. He was a priest in the Oblates of Mary Immaculate. Fr. Rodríguez had an audience with Pope Benedict XVI in Rome on 8 June 2007. Fr. Rodríguez has also attended the Assembly of the Conference of Bishops of North...

    , 88, Spanish Roman Catholic prelate, Prefect for Western Sahara
    Roman Catholicism in Western Sahara
    The Roman Catholic Church in Western Sahara is part of the worldwide Roman Catholic Church, under the spiritual leadership of the Pope and curia in Rome....

     (1994–2009). http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bvalbr.html
  • Frans Sammut
    Frans Sammut
    Frans Sammut was a Maltese novelist and non-fiction writer.-Life:Sammut was born in Zebbug, Malta. He studied at the Zebbug Primary School, St Aloysius' College, St Michael's Teacher Training College, the University of Malta Rome University and Perugia University Frans Sammut (November 19, 1945 –...

    , 66, Maltese writer, natural causes. http://www.independent.com.mt/news.asp?newsitemid=124627
  • Bernard Stasi
    Bernard Stasi
    Bernard Stasi was a French politician. He is the son of Italo-Mexican immigrants. Stasi served as Minister for Overseas Departments and Territories from 2 April 1973 to 27 February 1974....

    , 80, French politician, Minister for Overseas Departments and Territories
    Minister of Overseas France
    The Minister of Overseas France is a cabinet member in the Government of France responsible for overseeing French overseas departments and territories .The position is currently held by Brice Hortefeux, who is also the Minister of the Interior...

     (1973–1974), Alzheimer's disease. http://www.lexpress.fr/actualite/politique/l-ancien-ministre-bernard-stasi-est-decede_989105.html (French)
  • Richard Steinheimer
    Richard Steinheimer
    Richard Virgil Dean Steinheimer was an American railroad photographer, often called the "Ansel Adams of railroad photography." His work has been published in Trains Magazine, Railfan, Locomotive and Railway Preservation, and Vintage Rail, and more than seventy books. He lived in Sacramento,...

    , 81, American railroad photographer, Alzheimer's disease. http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-richard-steinheimer-20110522,0,1878831.story
  • Sada Thompson
    Sada Thompson
    Sada Carolyn Thompson was an American stage, film, and television actress.-Life and career:Born in Des Moines, Iowa in 1927 to Hugh Woodruff Thompson and his wife Corlyss , and raised in New Jersey, Thompson earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Theatre at the Carnegie Institute of Technology, after...

    , 83, American actress (Family
    Family (TV series)
    Family is an American television drama series that aired on ABC from 1976 to 1980. Creative control of the show was split between executive producers Leonard Goldberg, Aaron Spelling and Mike Nichols...

    ), lung disease. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/06/arts/sada-thompson-actress-known-for-maternal-roles-dies-at-83.html

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  • Paul Ackerley
    Paul Ackerley
    Paul Douglas Ackerley was a field hockey player from New Zealand. He was a member of the national team that won the gold medal at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal. He was selected for the 1980 Summer Olympics, but most sports in New Zealand boycotted the Moscow games so he did not compete...

    , 61, New Zealand hockey player and coach, skin cancer. http://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/other-sports/4957937/Shock-as-Olympian-dies-before-goodbyes
  • Bob Balog
    Bob Balog
    Robert Steven "Bob" Balog is a former professional American football offensive lineman and linebacker in the National Football League.-References:...

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

    ). http://www.tributes.com/show/Robert-Balog-91437276
  • Robert Brout
    Robert Brout
    Robert Brout was an American-Belgian theoretical physicist who has made significant contributions in elementary particle physics...

    , 82, American-born Belgian theoretical physicist. http://www.ulb.ac.be/actulb/ws/getfile.php5?filter=databox6-art-attach-46.pdf (French)
  • Odell Brown
    Odell Brown
    Odell Elliott Brown Jr. was an American jazz organist. Brown was born in Louisville, Kentucky. He was mainly active in the late 1960s and early 1970s, playing in a soul jazz and jazz funk vein, and was often billed with his backing band as Odell Brown & the Organ-Izers. The band was originally...

    , 70, American jazz organist and songwriter ("Sexual Healing
    Sexual Healing
    "Sexual Healing" is a 1982 song recorded by American soul singer Marvin Gaye on the Columbia Records label. It was his first single since his exit from his long-term record label Motown earlier in the year, following the release of the In Our Lifetime album the previous year...

    "). http://www.startribune.com/local/121885254.html
  • Jackie Cooper
    Jackie Cooper
    Jackie Cooper was an American actor, television director, producer and executive. He was a child actor who managed to make the transition to an adult career. Cooper was the first child actor to receive an Academy Award nomination...

    , 88, American actor (Skippy, Our Gang
    Our Gang
    Our Gang, also known as The Little Rascals or Hal Roach's Rascals, was a series of American comedy short films about a group of poor neighborhood children and the adventures they had together. Created by comedy producer Hal Roach, the series is noted for showing children behaving in a relatively...

    , Superman) and director (M*A*S*H). http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-jackie-cooper-20110505-3,0,2190249.story
  • Sergo Kotrikadze, 74, Georgian football player and coach, heart attack. http://football.ua/countrieselse/news/128940.html (Russian)
  • Mildred Robbins Leet
    Mildred Robbins Leet
    Mildred Robbins Leet was an American entrepreneur and philanthropist. She was a co-founder and Chair Emerita of the Board of Directors of Trickle Up, a New York-based international Non-governmental organization dedicated to alleviating poverty.Trickle Up was established in 1979 to help the...

    , 88, American philanthropist, co-founder of Trickle Up
    Trickle Up
    Trickle Up is a nonprofit international development organization that empowers people living on less than $1.25 a day to take their first steps out of poverty by providing them with resources to build microenterprises for a better quality of life. Trickle Up is unique among microfinance agencies in...

    , complications of a fall. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/09/nyregion/mildred-robbins-leet-philanthropist-dies-at-88.html?ref=obituaries
  • Patrick Roy
    Patrick Roy (politician)
    Patrick Roy was a French politician, a member of the National Assembly. He represented the 19th constituency of the Nord département, and was a member of the French Socialist Party...

    , 53, French politician, pancreatic cancer. http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5j26FGnfiUyfcYOeG0udALZYvANvA?docId=CNG.2ad530340fd96f4852c78aa0828c966c.421 (French)
  • Thanasis Veggos, 83, Greek actor, stroke. http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/_w_articles_wsite1_1_03/05/2011_389352

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  • Leonid Abalkin
    Leonid Abalkin
    Leonid Ivanovich Abalkin was a Russian economist. He was born in Moscow and became director of the Institute of Economics of the USSR Academy of Sciences in 1986. A member of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR with special responsibility for economic affairs...

    , 80, Russian economist. http://www.rbc.ru/rbcfreenews.shtml?/20110502150411.shtml (Russian)
  • Abu Ahmed al-Kuwaiti
    Abu Ahmed al-Kuwaiti
    Sheikh Abu Ahmed al-Kuwaiti , also known as Shaykh Abu Ahmed, Arshad Khan and Mohammed Arshad, was a Kuwait-born Pakistani al-Qaeda member and courier for Osama bin Laden. According to secret documents, al-Kuwaiti was one of the few men Osama bin Laden completely trusted and was said to be his...

    , 46, Kuwaiti Al-Qaeda
    Al-Qaeda
    Al-Qaeda is a global broad-based militant Islamist terrorist organization founded by Osama bin Laden sometime between August 1988 and late 1989. It operates as a network comprising both a multinational, stateless army and a radical Sunni Muslim movement calling for global Jihad...

     computer expert, shot
    Death of Osama bin Laden
    Osama bin Laden, then head of the Islamist militant group al-Qaeda, was killed in Pakistan on May 2, 2011, shortly after 1 a.m. local time by a United States special forces military unit....

    . http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/al-qaeda/8490886/Osama-bin-Laden-dead-trusted-courier-led-US-special-forces-to-hideout.html
  • Robert W. Clower
    Robert W. Clower
    Robert Wayne Clower was an American economist. He is credited with having largely created the field of stock-flow analysis in economics and with seminal works on the microfoundations of monetary theory and macroeconomics....

    , 85, American economist. http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/thestate/obituary.aspx?n=robert-w-clower&pid=150770992&fhid=5564
  • Danny Kassap
    Danny Kassap
    Danny Tshindind Kassap was a Congolese-Canadian long-distance runner who specialized in the marathon.He competed at the 2001 Jeux de la Francophonie in Canada, and subsequently settled in Toronto. Kassap worked in a fish and chips shop while pursuing a career in running...

    , 28, Congolese-born Canadian long-distance runner. http://sports.espn.go.com/oly/trackandfield/news/story?id=6467426
  • Osama bin Laden
    Osama bin Laden
    Osama bin Mohammed bin Awad bin Laden was the founder of the militant Islamist organization Al-Qaeda, the jihadist organization responsible for the September 11 attacks on the United States and numerous other mass-casualty attacks against civilian and military targets...

    , 54, Saudi founder of Al-Qaeda
    Al-Qaeda
    Al-Qaeda is a global broad-based militant Islamist terrorist organization founded by Osama bin Laden sometime between August 1988 and late 1989. It operates as a network comprising both a multinational, stateless army and a radical Sunni Muslim movement calling for global Jihad...

    , planned September 11 attacks, shot
    Death of Osama bin Laden
    Osama bin Laden, then head of the Islamist militant group al-Qaeda, was killed in Pakistan on May 2, 2011, shortly after 1 a.m. local time by a United States special forces military unit....

    . http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-13256676
  • Alexander Lazarev
    Alexander Lazarev (actor)
    Alexander Sergeevich Lazarev was a Soviet and Russian theater and film actor. In 1977 Alexander Lazarev was assignated People's Artist of Russia and received the USSR State Prize, for his work in Moscow Mayakovsky Theater. Throughout his career spanning fifty years he's had more than 50 roles...

    , 73, Russian actor. http://echo.msk.ru/news/771246-echo.html (Russian)
  • Eddie Lewis
    Eddie Lewis (English footballer)
    Edward "Eddie" Lewis was an English footballer who played as a centre-forward and later as a full-back. Born in Manchester, he played for Goslings before joining the now-famous Manchester United Junior Athletic Club...

    , 76, English footballer (Manchester United
    Manchester United F.C.
    Manchester United Football Club is an English professional football club, based in Old Trafford, Greater Manchester, that plays in the Premier League. Founded as Newton Heath LYR Football Club in 1878, the club changed its name to Manchester United in 1902 and moved to Old Trafford in 1910.The 1958...

    , West Ham United
    West Ham United F.C.
    West Ham United Football Club is an English professional football club based in Upton Park, Newham, East London. They play in The Football League Championship. The club was founded in 1895 as Thames Ironworks FC and reformed in 1900 as West Ham United. In 1904 the club relocated to their current...

    ), cancer. http://www.kickoff.com/news/21512/rip-eddie-lewis.php (death announced on this date)
  • René Emilio Ponce
    René Emilio Ponce
    René Emilio Ponce was a senior military officer in the Salvadoran Army during the nation's civil war, and minister of defense from 1990 to 1993. As head of the army’s joint chiefs of staff he was linked to the killing of six Jesuit priests in 1989, known as the murdered scholars of UCA. Ponce...

    , 64, Salvadoran general and defence minister, army chief of staff during the Civil War. http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-rene-emilio-ponce-20110503,0,7852885.story
  • David Sencer
    David Sencer
    David Judson Sencer was an American public health official who orchestrated the 1976 immunization program against swine flu. Between 1966 and 1977, he was the longest serving director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention...

    , 86, American public health official, director of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
    Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
    The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are a United States federal agency under the Department of Health and Human Services headquartered in Druid Hills, unincorporated DeKalb County, Georgia, in Greater Atlanta...

     (1966–1977), heart disease. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/04/us/04sencer.html?ref=obituaries
  • Shigeo Yaegashi
    Shigeo Yaegashi
    , was a Japanese football player.Yaegashi was born in Daejeon, Japan but raised in Iwate. He won a bronze medal in the team competition at the 1968 Summer Olympics. He died in Tama, Tokyo.-Awards:...

    , 78, Japanese footballer. http://www.nikkansports.com/soccer/news/f-sc-tp0-20110503-770305.html (Japanese)

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