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

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

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

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

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Deaths in April 2007
Deaths in 2007 : ← - January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December- →The following is a list of notable deaths in April 2007.-30:...

 - May
Deaths in May 2007
Deaths in 2007 : ← - January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December- →The following is a list of notable deaths in May 2007.-31:*Clifford Scott Green, 84, American jurist, Federal Court judge....

 - June
Deaths in June 2007
Deaths in 2007 : ← January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December →The following is a list of notable deaths in June 2007.- 30 :...

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Deaths in July 2007
Deaths in 2007 : ← January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December →The following is a list of notable deaths in July 2007.- 31 :*Margaret Avison, 89, Canadian poet....

 - August
Deaths in August 2007
Deaths in 2007 : ← January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December →The following is a list of notable deaths in August 2007.-31:*Gay Brewer, 75, American professional golfer, lung cancer....

 - September
Deaths in September 2007
Deaths in 2007 : ← January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December →The following is a list of notable deaths in September 2007.-30:...

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

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

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Deaths in January 2008
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The following is a list of notable deaths in November 2007.

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  • J. L. Ackrill
    J. L. Ackrill
    John Lloyd Ackrill FBA was a philosopher and classicist who specialized in Ancient Greek philosophy, especially the philosophy of Plato and Aristotle. Ackrill has been said to be, along with Gregory Vlastos and G. E. L...

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

     philosopher. http://www.philosophy.ox.ac.uk/misc/news/ackrill.shtml
  • Engin Arık
    Engin Arik
    Engin Arık was a renowned Turkish particle physicist. She was a professor and head of the Experimental High Energy Physics group at the Boğaziçi University....

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

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

    , plane crash
    Atlasjet Flight 4203
    Atlasjet Flight 4203 was a scheduled flight from Istanbul's Atatürk International Airport to Isparta Süleyman Demirel Airport in Isparta, Turkey. On November 30, 2007 it crashed outside the town of Keçiborlu, 18 km from Isparta at around 01:36 EET...

    . http://edition.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/europe/11/29/turkey.jet/index.html
  • Seymour Benzer
    Seymour Benzer
    Seymour Benzer was an American physicist, molecular biologist and behavioral geneticist. His career began during the molecular biology revolution of the 1950s, and he eventually rose to prominence in the fields of molecular and behavioral genetics. He led a productive genetics research lab both at...

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

     genetic
    Genetics
    Genetics , a discipline of biology, is the science of genes, heredity, and variation in living organisms....

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

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

    . http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/08/science/08benzer.html?_r=1&ref=science&oref=slogin
  • Evel Knievel
    Evel Knievel
    Evel Knievel , born Robert Craig Knievel, was an American daredevil and entertainer. In his career he attempted over 75 ramp-to-ramp motorcycle jumps between 1965 and 1980, and in 1974, a failed jump across Snake River Canyon in the Skycycle X-2, a steam-powered rocket...

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

     stunt performer
    Stunt performer
    A stuntman, or daredevil is someone who performs dangerous stunts, often as a career.These stunts are sometimes rigged so that they look dangerous while still having safety mechanisms, but often they are as dangerous as they appear to be...

    . http://www.evelknievel.com/ http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2007/more/11/30/kneviel.ap/index.html?cnn=yes
  • Ian MacArthur
    Ian MacArthur
    Ian MacArthur was a British Conservative Party politician.MacArthur was educated at Cheltenham College and Queen's College, Oxford. He worked as an associate director of a marketing and advertising company....

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

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

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

     for Perth and East Perthshire
    Perth and East Perthshire (UK Parliament constituency)
    Perth and East Perthshire was a county constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1950 to 1983. It elected one Member of Parliament by the first past the post system of election.- Boundaries :...

     (1959–1974). http://news.independent.co.uk/people/obituaries/article3303620.ece
  • François-Xavier Ortoli
    François-Xavier Ortoli
    François-Xavier Ortoli was a French Gaullist politician and businessman. He served with the Free French Forces during World War II and was decorated with the Croix de guerre, Médaille militaire and Médaille de la Résistance...

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

     President of the European Commission
    President of the European Commission
    The President of the European Commission is the head of the European Commission ― the executive branch of the :European Union ― the most powerful officeholder in the EU. The President is responsible for allocating portfolios to members of the Commission and can reshuffle or dismiss them if needed...

     (1973–1977). http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2007-12/01/content_7177955.htm
  • John Strugnell
    John Strugnell
    John Strugnell, was born in Barnet, Hertfordshire, UK. At the age of 23 he became the youngest member of the team of scholars led by Roland de Vaux, formed in 1954 to edit the Dead Sea Scrolls in Jerusalem...

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

     biblical scholar, complications from an infection. http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/obituaries/articles/2007/12/05/john_strugnell_77_dead_sea_scrolls_expert_who_was_dismissed_after_comments/
  • Sam Vasquez
    Sam Vasquez
    Mixed martial arts in the United States was sanctioned under Unified Rules in the states of New Jersey and Nevada in 2001. By 2011, 45 US states had sanctioned the sport....

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

     mixed martial arts
    Mixed martial arts
    Mixed Martial Arts is a full contact combat sport that allows the use of both striking and grappling techniques, both standing and on the ground, including boxing, wrestling, Brazilian jiu-jitsu, muay Thai, kickboxing, karate, judo and other styles. The roots of modern mixed martial arts can be...

     competitor, brain injury
    Traumatic brain injury
    Traumatic brain injury , also known as intracranial injury, occurs when an external force traumatically injures the brain. TBI can be classified based on severity, mechanism , or other features...

     sustained during fight. http://www.411mania.com/MMA/news/64366/MMA-Fighter-Sam-Vasquez-Passes-Away.htm

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  • James Barber, 84, British
    United Kingdom
    The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...

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

     cooking show
    Cooking show
    A TV cooking show is a television program that presents the preparation of food, in a kitchen on the studio set. The host of the show, often a celebrity chef, prepares one or more dishes over the course of the show, taking the viewing audience through the food's preparation showing all...

     host (The Urban Peasant). http://www.cbc.ca/arts/tv/story/2007/12/02/barber-tvchef-obit.html
  • Ralph Beard
    Ralph Beard
    Ralph Milton Beard Jr. was an American collegiate and professional basketball player. He was born in Hardinsburg, Kentucky. Beard was a member of Adolph Rupp's "Fabulous Five" University of Kentucky basketball team...

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

     college basketball
    College basketball
    College basketball most often refers to the USA basketball competitive governance structure established by the National Collegiate Athletic Association . Basketball in the NCAA is divided into three divisions: Division I, Division II and Division III....

     player for the University of Kentucky
    Kentucky Wildcats men's basketball
    The Kentucky Wildcats men's basketball team, representing the University of Kentucky, is the winningest in the history of college basketball, both in all-time wins and all-time winning percentage. Kentucky's all-time record currently stands at 2058–647...

     involved in point-shaving scandal. http://sports.yahoo.com/ncaab/news?slug=ap-obit-ralphbeard&prov=ap&type=lgns
  • Henry Hyde
    Henry Hyde
    Henry John Hyde , an American politician, was a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from 1975 to 2007, representing the 6th District of Illinois, an area of Chicago's northwestern suburbs which included O'Hare International Airport...

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

     member of the US House of Representatives from Illinois
    Illinois
    Illinois is the fifth-most populous state of the United States of America, and is often noted for being a microcosm of the entire country. With Chicago in the northeast, small industrial cities and great agricultural productivity in central and northern Illinois, and natural resources like coal,...

     (1975–2007). http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071129/ap_on_re_us/obit_hyde_3
  • Jane Lawton
    Jane Lawton
    Jane Lawton was an American politician from Maryland and a member of the Democratic Party. The Jane E. Lawton community center, located in Leland Park in Chevy Chase, MD, was renamed in her memory on June 14, 2009....

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

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

     Maryland
    Maryland House of Delegates
    The Maryland House of Delegates is the lower house of the General Assembly, the state legislature of the U.S. state of Maryland, and is composed of 141 Delegates elected from 47 districts. The House chamber is located in the state capitol building on State Circle in Annapolis...

     politician, heart attack. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/11/29/AR2007112901355.html
  • Jim Nesbitt
    Jim Nesbitt
    Jim Nesbitt was a country music singer. He had his first hit with "Please Mr. Kennedy" in 1961. It was released on Dot Records and became a number one hit on the Billboard charts. His next hit, "New Frontier" reached #11 on Billboard. It was recorded on Rush Records in 1962...

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

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

     singer. http://www.wltx.com/FYI/story.aspx?storyid=56177
  • Roger Bonham Smith
    Roger Bonham Smith
    Roger Bonham Smith was the Chairman and CEO of General Motors Corporation from 1981 to 1990, and is widely known as the main subject of Michael Moore's 1989 documentary film Roger & Me....

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

     chairman and CEO of General Motors
    General Motors
    General Motors Company , commonly known as GM, formerly incorporated as General Motors Corporation, is an American multinational automotive corporation headquartered in Detroit, Michigan and the world's second-largest automaker in 2010...

     (1981–1990). http://www.foxbusiness.com/markets/business-leaders/article/gm-ceo-roger-smith-dies-82_387977_4.html http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071130/BUSINESS01/71130020/0/COL07

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  • Albert Asriyan
    Albert Asriyan
    Albert Asriyan was a Soviet-Armenian violinist, composer, arranger and band leader.- Childhood :Albert Asriyan was born in Baku, Azerbaijan SSR on June 28, 1951 to an Armenian family, as the first of three children. Albert's father, Mikhail Asriyan was a circus administrator and his mother,...

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

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

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

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

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

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

    . http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/brooklyn/2007/12/07/2007-12-07_family_mourns_death_of_albert_asriyan_.html
  • Jeanne Bates
    Jeanne Bates
    Jeanne Bates was an American radio, film and television actress. She signed a contract with Columbia Pictures in 1942 which began her career in films both in bit parts and larger roles.-Career:...

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

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

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

    . http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0060931/
  • Elly Beinhorn
    Elly Beinhorn
    Elly Beinhorn-Rosemeyer was a German pilot.-Early life:She was born in Hannover, Germany on 30 May 1907....

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

     pilot
    Aviator
    An aviator is a person who flies an aircraft. The first recorded use of the term was in 1887, as a variation of 'aviation', from the Latin avis , coined in 1863 by G. de la Landelle in Aviation Ou Navigation Aérienne...

     and author. http://www.motor-klassik.de/aktuell/panorama/hxcms_article_508750_14702.hbs (German)
  • Fred Chichin
    Fred Chichin
    Frédéric "Fred" Chichin was a French musician and songwriter. He was born in Clichy, France.He was the lead member of the band Les Rita Mitsouko, along with Catherine Ringer, whom he met in 1979...

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

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

    , songwriter
    Songwriter
    A songwriter is an individual who writes both the lyrics and music to a song. Someone who solely writes lyrics may be called a lyricist, and someone who only writes music may be called a composer...

     and leader of Les Rita Mitsouko
    Les Rita Mitsouko
    Les Rita Mitsouko was a French pop rock group formed by guitarist Fred Chichin and singer Catherine Ringer. The duo first performed as Rita Mitsouko at Gibus Club, Paris in 1980...

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

    . http://www.france24.com/france24Public/en/news/culture/20071128-rita-mitsouko-pop-group-guitarist-fred-chichin.html
  • Mali Finn
    Mali Finn
    Mali Finn , born Mary Alice Mann, also known as Mally Finn, was an American Hollywood casting director and a former English and drama teacher...

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

     casting agent, (Titanic
    Titanic (1997 film)
    Titanic is a 1997 American epic romance and disaster film directed, written, co-produced, and co-edited by James Cameron. A fictionalized account of the sinking of the RMS Titanic, it stars Leonardo DiCaprio as Jack Dawson, Kate Winslet as Rose DeWitt Bukater and Billy Zane as Rose's fiancé, Cal...

    , L.A. Confidential
    L.A. Confidential
    L.A. Confidential is a 1997 American film based on James Ellroy's 1990 novel of the same title, the third book in his L.A. Quartet. Both the book and the film tell the story of a group of LAPD officers in the 1950s, and the intersection of police corruption and Hollywood celebrity...

    , The Matrix
    The Matrix
    The Matrix is a 1999 science fiction-action film written and directed by Larry and Andy Wachowski, starring Keanu Reeves, Laurence Fishburne, Carrie-Anne Moss, Joe Pantoliano, and Hugo Weaving...

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

    . http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-finn8dec08,0,6733043.story?coll=la-home-obituaries
  • Lonny Heckman
    Lonny Heckman
    Lonny Heckman was an American songwriter and musician.Heckman wrote several songs, but his best-known song was "When I See Beth Smiling," written for radio jock Howard Stern about Stern's fiancée, model Beth Ostrosky. Heckman also played guitar and keyboards, the instruments mainly featured in the...

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

     songwriter
    Songwriter
    A songwriter is an individual who writes both the lyrics and music to a song. Someone who solely writes lyrics may be called a lyricist, and someone who only writes music may be called a composer...

     ("When I See Beth Smiling"), pulmonary embolism
    Pulmonary embolism
    Pulmonary embolism is a blockage of the main artery of the lung or one of its branches by a substance that has travelled from elsewhere in the body through the bloodstream . Usually this is due to embolism of a thrombus from the deep veins in the legs, a process termed venous thromboembolism...

    . http://www.transworldnews.com/NewsStory.aspx?id=29163&cat=16
  • Tony Holland
    Tony Holland
    Anthony John "Tony" Holland was an English television screenwriter best known as a writer and co-creator of the BBC soap opera EastEnders.-Early career:...

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

     co-creator of EastEnders
    EastEnders
    EastEnders is a British television soap opera, first broadcast in the United Kingdom on BBC One on 19 February 1985 and continuing to today. EastEnders storylines examine the domestic and professional lives of the people who live and work in the fictional London Borough of Walford in the East End...

    . http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7118974.stm
  • Bob Simpson
    Bob Simpson (football player)
    Robert L. "Bobby" Simpson was an all-star Canadian football player for the Ottawa Rough Riders, and is a member of the Canadian Football Hall of Fame, where he was elected in 1976. Simpson helped Ottawa to win the 1951 and 1960 Grey Cups...

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

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

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

    . http://www.canada.com/windsorstar/story.html?id=4d153dc4-b18e-4fcb-a4f5-56613f8664e0
  • Petter C.G. Sundt, 62, Norwegian
    Norway
    Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...

     shipping
    Shipping
    Shipping has multiple meanings. It can be a physical process of transporting commodities and merchandise goods and cargo, by land, air, and sea. It also can describe the movement of objects by ship.Land or "ground" shipping can be by train or by truck...

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

    . http://e24.no/boers-og-finans/article2125610.ece (Norwegian)
  • Ashley Titus
    Ashley Titus
    Ashley Titus , better known as Mr Fat, was a South African rapper, musician and television presenter....

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

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

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

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

     ("Mr. Fat"), heart problems. http://www.mg.co.za/articlepage.aspx?area=/breaking_news/breaking_news__national/&articleid=326267
  • James Miles Venne
    James Miles Venne
    James Miles Venne was a northern Saskatchewan First Nations leader. He served as chief of the Lac La Ronge First Nation from 1971 to 1983 and then again from 1985 to 1987. He also served 18 years as a senator of the Federation of Saskatchewan Indian Nations. He died at his home at the age of 89....

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

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

     First Nations
    First Nations
    First Nations is a term that collectively refers to various Aboriginal peoples in Canada who are neither Inuit nor Métis. There are currently over 630 recognised First Nations governments or bands spread across Canada, roughly half of which are in the provinces of Ontario and British Columbia. The...

     leader. http://www.canada.com/reginaleaderpost/news/story.html?id=bdd814f0-b673-468d-91a5-9a6731606b38
  • Gudrun Wagner
    Gudrun Wagner
    Gudrun Wagner was the wife of Wolfgang Wagner, sole director of the Bayreuth Festival since 1967. Her behind-the-scenes influence led her to be considered virtual co-director.-Biography:...

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

     co-organizer of the Bayreuth Festival
    Bayreuth Festival
    The Bayreuth Festival is a music festival held annually in Bayreuth, Germany, at which performances of operas by the 19th century German composer Richard Wagner are presented...

    , wife of Wolfgang Wagner
    Wolfgang Wagner
    Wolfgang Wagner was a German opera director. He is best known as the director of the Bayreuth Festival, a position he initially assumed alongside his brother Wieland in 1951 until the latter's death in 1966...

    . http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5j8HNPVURN23PUO05W9_N2cInqLAg

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  • Philip Allen, Baron Allen of Abbeydale
    Philip Allen, Baron Allen of Abbeydale
    Philip Allen, Baron Allen of Abbeydale, GCB was a British civil servant.-Education and early life:...

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

     civil servant. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/11/29/db2901.xml
  • Bernie Banton
    Bernie Banton
    Bernard Douglas Banton AM was an Australian social justice campaigner. He was the widely-recognised face of the legal and political campaign to achieve compensation for the many sufferers of asbestos-related conditions, which they contracted after working for the company James Hardie.Banton...

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

    n asbestosis
    Asbestosis
    Asbestosis is a chronic inflammatory and fibrotic medical condition affecting the parenchymal tissue of the lungs caused by the inhalation and retention of asbestos fibers...

     compensation
    Damages
    In law, damages is an award, typically of money, to be paid to a person as compensation for loss or injury; grammatically, it is a singular noun, not plural.- Compensatory damages :...

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

    . http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/11/27/2101952.htm?section=australia
  • Robert Cade
    Robert Cade
    James Robert Cade was an American physician, university professor, research scientist and inventor. Cade, a native of Texas, earned his undergraduate and medical degrees, and became a professor of medicine and nephrology at the University of Florida...

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

     doctor
    Physician
    A physician is a health care provider who practices the profession of medicine, which is concerned with promoting, maintaining or restoring human health through the study, diagnosis, and treatment of disease, injury and other physical and mental impairments...

    , inventor of Gatorade
    Gatorade
    Gatorade is a brand of sports-themed food and beverage products, built around its signature product: a line of sports drinks. Gatorade is currently manufactured by PepsiCo, distributed in over 80 countries...

    , kidney failure. http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5jDCxeoCX_Wlu_aI9ph_uaRkmwBdgD8T666DG0
  • Nicodemus Kirima
    Nicodemus Kirima
    Nicodemus Kirima was the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Nyeri. Kirima served as the Bishop of the Diocese of Nyeri since 1988 when he was appointed to succeed the late Bishop Caesar Gatimu.-Early life:...

    , 71, Kenya
    Kenya
    Kenya , officially known as the Republic of Kenya, is a country in East Africa that lies on the equator, with the Indian Ocean to its south-east...

    n Roman Catholic Archbishop
    Archbishop
    An archbishop is a bishop of higher rank, but not of higher sacramental order above that of the three orders of deacon, priest , and bishop...

     of Nyeri
    Nyeri
    Nyeri is a town in situated in the Central Highlands of Kenya Kenya, which was the administrative headquarters of the country's former Central Province...

    , kidney failure. http://www.kbc.co.ke/story.asp?ID=46685
  • Cecil Payne
    Cecil Payne
    Cecil Payne was a jazz baritone saxophonist born in Brooklyn, NY. Payne also played the alto saxophone and flute...

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

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

    . http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/obituaries/articles/2007/12/10/cecil_payne_at_84_master_of_jazz_baritone_saxophone/
  • Jane Rule
    Jane Rule
    Jane Vance Rule, CM, OBC was a Canadian writer of lesbian-themed novels and non-fiction.-Biography:Born in Plainfield, New Jersey, Jane Vance Rule was the oldest daughter of Carlotta Jane and Arthur Richards Rule. She claimed she was a tomboy growing up and felt like an outsider for reaching six...

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

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

     of lesbian
    Lesbian
    Lesbian is a term most widely used in the English language to describe sexual and romantic desire between females. The word may be used as a noun, to refer to women who identify themselves or who are characterized by others as having the primary attribute of female homosexuality, or as an...

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

    . http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/09/arts/09rule.html?_r=1&ref=obituaries&oref=slogin http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20071128.wjanerule1128/BNStory/Entertainment/home
  • Sean Taylor
    Sean Taylor
    Sean Michael Maurice Taylor was an American football free safety who played for the Washington Redskins of the National Football League. Taylor was drafted in the first round of the 2004 NFL Draft by the Redskins...

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

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

     player (Washington Redskins
    Washington Redskins
    The Washington Redskins are a professional American football team and members of the East Division of the National Football Conference in the National Football League . The team plays at FedExField in Landover, Maryland, while its headquarters and training facility are at Redskin Park in Ashburn,...

    ), homicide
    Homicide
    Homicide refers to the act of a human killing another human. Murder, for example, is a type of homicide. It can also describe a person who has committed such an act, though this use is rare in modern English...

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

    . http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/11/27/AR2007112700538.html?hpid=topnews
  • Bill Willis
    Bill Willis
    William Karnet Willis was one of the dominant American football players of the 1940s and 1950s, and is an inductee in the College and Professional Football Halls of Fame. Willis was one of the first African American football players to play professional football...

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

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

     player (Ohio State
    Ohio State Buckeyes football
    The Ohio State Buckeyes football team is an intercollegiate varsity sports team of The Ohio State University. The team is a member of the Big Ten Conference of the NCAA, playing at the Division I Football Bowl Subdivision, formerly Division I-A, level. The team nickname is derived from the state...

    , 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...

    ). http://www.10tv.com/?sec=sports&story=sites/10tv/content/pool/200711/1818572756.html

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  • Marit Allen
    Marit Allen
    Marit Allen was an English fashion journalist and costume designer who specialized in costumes for films. She designed the costumes for several successful Hollywood films, including Mrs. Doubtfire, The Witches, Eyes Wide Shut, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Brokeback Mountain and La Vie en Rose...

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

     film costume designer
    Costume Designer
    A costume designer or costume mistress/master is a person whose responsibility is to design costumes for a film or stage production. He or she is considered an important part of the "production team", working alongside the director, scenic and lighting designers as well as the sound designer. The...

     (Mrs. Doubtfire
    Mrs. Doubtfire
    Mrs. Doubtfire is a 1993 American comedy film starring Robin Williams and Sally Field and based on the novel Madame Doubtfire by Anne Fine. It was directed by Chris Columbus and distributed by 20th Century Fox. It won the Academy Award for Best Makeup...

    , Eyes Wide Shut
    Eyes Wide Shut
    Eyes Wide Shut is a 1999 drama film based upon Arthur Schnitzler's 1926 novella Traumnovelle . The film was directed, produced and co-written by Stanley Kubrick, and was his last film. The story, set in and around New York City, follows the sexually-charged adventures of Dr...

    , Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
    Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (film)
    Dirty Rotten Scoundrels is a 1988 American comedy film directed by Frank Oz. The screenplay by Dale Launer, Stanley Shapiro, and Paul Henning focuses on two con artists who ply their trade on the French Riviera...

    ), brain aneurism. http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117976802.html?categoryId=25&cs=1 http://www.guardian.co.uk/obituaries/story/0,,2220010,00.html
  • George Harris
    George Harris (Carlton President)
    George Harris was a President of Carlton Football Club in the Victorian Football League from 1964 to 1974 and again from 1978 to 1980. He was regarded as a highly significant figure in VFL-AFL history....

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

    n football
    Australian Football League
    The Australian Football League is both the governing body and the major professional competition in the sport of Australian rules football...

     administrator, former Carlton
    Carlton Football Club
    The Carlton Football Club is a professional Australian rules football club based in Melbourne, Victoria. The club competes in the Australian Football League, and was one of the eight founding members of that competition in 1897...

     president. http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,22826870-11088,00.html
  • Bill Hartack
    Bill Hartack
    William John Hartack Jr. was a Hall of Fame jockey. He was born in Ebensburg, Pennsylvania.Referred to by the media as both "Bill" and "Willie" during his racing career, Hartack grew up on his widowed father's farm in the Blacklick...

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

     Hall of Fame
    National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame
    The National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame was founded in 1950 in Saratoga Springs, New York, to honor the achievements of American thoroughbred race horses, jockeys, and trainers...

     jockey
    Jockey
    A jockey is an athlete who rides horses in horse racing or steeplechase racing, primarily as a profession. The word also applies to camel riders in camel racing.-Etymology:...

    , five-time winner of the Kentucky Derby
    Kentucky Derby
    The Kentucky Derby is a Grade I stakes race for three-year-old Thoroughbred horses, held annually in Louisville, Kentucky, United States on the first Saturday in May, capping the two-week-long Kentucky Derby Festival. The race is one and a quarter mile at Churchill Downs. Colts and geldings carry...

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

    . http://www.kentucky.com/232/story/242238.html
  • Silvestre S. Herrera
    Silvestre S. Herrera
    Silvestre Santana Herrera was a member of the United States Army of Hispanic heritage who received the Medal of Honor for his heroic actions during World War II in Mertzwiller, France. His one-man charge on an enemy stronghold resulted in his single-handed capture of eight enemy soldiers...

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

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

     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.azcentral.com/news/articles/1126gl-herrera1126-ON.html
  • Takafumi Isomura
    Takafumi Isomura
    was a Japanese politician. He served as the former mayor of Osaka from 1995 until 2003 and professor emeritus of Osaka City University.Isomura was born in the city of Osaka and graduated from Osaka City University....

    , 76, Japan
    Japan
    Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...

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

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

     of Osaka
    Osaka
    is a city in the Kansai region of Japan's main island of Honshu, a designated city under the Local Autonomy Law, the capital city of Osaka Prefecture and also the biggest part of Keihanshin area, which is represented by three major cities of Japan, Kyoto, Osaka and Kobe...

     (1995–2003), hepatocellular carcinoma
    Hepatocellular carcinoma
    Hepatocellular carcinoma is the most common type of liver cancer. Most cases of HCC are secondary to either a viral hepatitide infection or cirrhosis .Compared to other cancers, HCC is quite a rare tumor in the United States...

    . http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nn20071128b3.html
  • Elaine Lorillard
    Elaine Lorillard
    Elaine Guthrie Lorillard was an American socialite who was a founder of the Newport Jazz Festival. -Early years:...

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

     socialite
    Socialite
    A socialite is a person who participates in social activities and spends a significant amount of time entertaining and being entertained at fashionable upper-class events....

    , helped start Newport Jazz Festival
    Newport Jazz Festival
    The Newport Jazz Festival is a music festival held every summer in Newport, Rhode Island, USA. It was established in 1954 by socialite Elaine Lorillard, who, together with husband Louis Lorillard, financed the festival for many years. The couple hired jazz impresario George Wein to organize the...

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

    . http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/obituaries/articles/2007/12/03/elaine_lorillard_helped_start_newport_jazz_festival/
  • Herb McKenley
    Herb McKenley
    Competitor for JamaicaHerbert Henry "Herb" McKenley OM was a Jamaican athlete, winner of a gold medal in the 4x400 m relay at the 1952 Summer Olympics....

    , 85, Jamaica
    Jamaica
    Jamaica is an island nation of the Greater Antilles, in length, up to in width and 10,990 square kilometres in area. It is situated in the Caribbean Sea, about south of Cuba, and west of Hispaniola, the island harbouring the nation-states Haiti and the Dominican Republic...

    n 400 m relay gold medalist at 1952 Summer Olympics
    Athletics at the 1952 Summer Olympics
    At the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki, 33 athletics events were contested, 24 for men and 9 for women. There were a total number of 963 participating athletes from 57 countries.-Medal table:-Men's events:-Women's events:-References:...

    . http://www.radiojamaica.com/content/view/3318/48/
  • Raleigh Rhodes
    Raleigh Rhodes
    Raleigh Ernest Rhodes , who often went by the nickname of Raleigh "Dusty" Rhodes, was an American World War II combat fighter pilot and the third leader of the Blue Angels flight team.-Pilot:...

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

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

     pilot
    Aviator
    An aviator is a person who flies an aircraft. The first recorded use of the term was in 1887, as a variation of 'aviation', from the Latin avis , coined in 1863 by G. de la Landelle in Aviation Ou Navigation Aérienne...

    , early leader of the Blue Angels
    Blue Angels
    The United States Navy's Navy Flight Demonstration Squadron, popularly known as the Blue Angels, was formed in 1946 and is currently the oldest formal flying aerobatic team...

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

    . http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/obituaries/articles/2007/12/06/raleigh_dusty_rhodes_pow_in_wwii_leader_of_blue_angels/
  • Stanley Thorne
    Stanley Thorne
    Stanley George Thorne was a British Labour Party politician.Thorne was Member of Parliament for Preston South from 1974 to 1983, and, after boundary changes, for Preston from 1983 until his retirement in 1987...

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

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

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

     MP
    Parliament of the United Kingdom
    The Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is the supreme legislative body in the United Kingdom, British Crown dependencies and British overseas territories, located in London...

     for Preston South
    Preston South (UK Parliament constituency)
    Preston South was a parliamentary constituency in the city of Preston in Lancashire. It returned one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom....

     and Preston
    Preston (UK Parliament constituency)
    Preston 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.-Boundaries:...

     (1974–1987). http://www.guardian.co.uk/obituaries/story/0,,2217992,00.html
  • Susan Williams-Ellis
    Susan Williams-Ellis
    Susan Williams-Ellis , a pottery designer and the eldest daughter of Clough Williams-Ellis, was best known for co-founding Portmeirion Pottery.-Background:...

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

     founder of Portmeirion Pottery
    Portmeirion Pottery
    Portmeirion is a British pottery company based in Stoke-on-Trent.-History:Portmeirion Pottery came into being in 1960 when the pottery designer Susan Williams-Ellis and her husband, Euan Cooper-Willis took over a small pottery decorating company in Stoke-on-Trent called A. E. Gray Ltd.. Susan...

    , bronchial pneumonia.http://news.independent.co.uk/people/obituaries/article3204040.ece
  • Mel Tolkin
    Mel Tolkin
    Mel Tolkin, né Shmuel Tolchinsky , was a television comedy writer best known as head writer of the seminal, live TV sketch comedy series Your Show of Shows during the Golden Age of Television. There he presided over a storied staff that at times included Mel Brooks, Neil Simon, Danny Simon, and...

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

     head writer
    Head writer
    A head writer is a person who oversees the team of writers on a television or radio series. The title is common in the soap opera genre, as well as with sketch comedies and talk shows that feature monologues and comedy skits, but in prime time series this function is generally performed by an...

     for Your Show of Shows
    Your Show of Shows
    Your Show of Shows is a live 90-minute variety show that appeared weekly in the United States on NBC , from February 25, 1950, until June 5, 1954, featuring Sid Caesar and Imogene Coca....

    . http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/27/arts/27tolkin.html

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  • Lola Almudevar
    Lola Almudevar
    Lola Almudevar was a British journalist and news reporter. She reported for BBC News.-Early life:Almudevar was born in London, England on 28 June 1978, to a Spanish father and a British mother. She grew up in Nottingham. Almudevar graduated from the University of Leeds in 1999 with a degree in...

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

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

    . http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/7112875.stm
  • Arthur Dimmock
    Arthur Dimmock
    Arthur Frederick Dimmock MBE D.Arts , was an English writer on deaf matters....

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

     campaigner for the deaf. http://news.scotsman.com/obituaries/Arthur--Dimmock.3657405.jp
  • John Drury
    John Drury
    John Drury was an anchorman from Chicago, IL. He appeared on both WGN-TV and WLS-TV. Upon his retirement came the news that he was diagnosed with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, otherwise known as Lou Gehrig's disease...

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

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

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

    , 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://cbs2chicago.com/local/john.drury.CBS.2.595308.html
  • Norm Hacking
    Norm Hacking
    Norm Hacking was a Canadian folk music singer-songwriter.- Early life :Hacking spent his first six years living in a house that used to be his grandparents, in the Gerrard Street and Victoria Park Avenue area of Scarborough, Ontario. When he was six his family "moved out to 'Scarberia'," he would...

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

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

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

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

    . http://www.thestar.com/entertainment/article/280871
  • Peter Houghton
    Peter Houghton
    Peter Houghton , was the longest surviving artificial heart transplant patient in the UK.Houghton was implanted with a Jarvik 2000 heart pump at the John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, England, by professor Stephen Westaby, on 20 June 2000 owing to severe heart failure...

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

     recipient of the first artificial
    Artificial heart
    An artificial heart is a mechanical device that replaces the heart. Artificial hearts are typically used in order to bridge the time to heart transplantation, or to permanently replace the heart in case transplantation is impossible...

     heart transplant, multiple organ failure. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/west_midlands/7125387.stm
  • Peter Lipton
    Peter Lipton
    Peter Lipton was the Hans Rausing Professor and Head of the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at Cambridge University, and a fellow of King's College, until his unexpected death in November 2007...

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

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

    . http://www.admin.cam.ac.uk/news/dp/2007112603
  • Karl Ohs
    Karl Ohs
    Karl Ohs was the Lieutenant Governor of the state of Montana under Judy Martz.-Background:Karl Ohs was born in Malta, Montana and was a Montana rancher and farmer before entering politics...

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

     politician, Lieutenant Governor of Montana
    Lieutenant Governor of Montana
    Lieutenant Governor of Montana is an official in the state of Montana that ranks just below the Governor of Montana. The current lieutenant governor is John Bohlinger.-List of Lieutenant Governors:* John E. Rickards, Republican,...

     (2001–2005), brain cancer. http://www.helenair.com/articles/2007/11/25/ap-state-mt/d8t4upbo0.txt
  • Matt Price
    Matt Price
    Matt Price was a Western Australian journalist and newspaper columnist. He was educated at Newman College, Churchands and the University of Western Australia, from which he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in 1984...

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

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

     (Nine Network
    Nine Network
    The Nine Network , is an Australian television network with headquarters based in Willoughby, a suburb located on the North Shore of Sydney. For 50 years since television's inception in Australia, between 1956 and 2006, it was the most watched television network in Australia...

    , The Australian
    The Australian
    The Australian is a broadsheet newspaper published in Australia from Monday to Saturday each week since 14 July 1964. The editor in chief is Chris Mitchell, the editor is Clive Mathieson and the 'editor-at-large' is Paul Kelly....

    ), brain tumour. http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/11/25/2100609.htm?section=australia

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  • Farid Babayev
    Farid Babayev
    Farid Babayev was a Russian politician with the liberal anti-Kremlin Yabloko party. He was to lead the regional list for the party, but not expected to win a seat in the December 2 elections, as the party may not reach the minimum threshold. He was shot late November 21, 2007 in Makhachkala, the...

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

    n politician with the Yabloko
    Yabloko
    The Russian United Democratic Party "Yabloko" The Russian United Democratic Party "Yabloko" The Russian United Democratic Party "Yabloko" (Russian: Росси́йская объединённая демократи́ческая па́ртия «Я́блоко» Rossiyskaya obyedinyonnaya demokraticheskaya partiya "Yabloko"; is a Russian social...

     party, homicide
    Homicide
    Homicide refers to the act of a human killing another human. Murder, for example, is a type of homicide. It can also describe a person who has committed such an act, though this use is rare in modern English...

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

    . http://www.pr-inside.com/russian-opposition-candidate-dies-of-r315853.htm
  • Casey Calvert, 26, American
    United States
    The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

     guitarist
    Guitarist
    A guitarist is a musician who plays the guitar. Guitarists may play a variety of instruments such as classical guitars, acoustic guitars, electric guitars, and bass guitars. Some guitarists accompany themselves on the guitar while singing.- Versatility :The guitarist controls an extremely...

     (Hawthorne Heights
    Hawthorne Heights
    Hawthorne Heights is an American rock band from Dayton, Ohio, formed in 2001. Their line-up currently consists of lead-singer and rhythm guitarist JT Woodruff, lead-guitarist and vocalist Micah Carli, bassist and backing vocalist Matt Ridenour, and drummer Eron Bucciarelli...

    ), accidental combined drug intoxication
    Combined drug intoxication
    Combined drug intoxication , also known as multiple drug intake or lethal polydrug/polypharmacy intoxication, is an unnatural cause of human death...

    . http://www.absolutepunk.net/showthread.php?t=284494
  • Imil Jarjoui
    Imil Jarjoui
    Imil Musa Basil Jarjoui, MD , a Palestinian Christian who was a member of the Palestinian Legislative Council and the PLO executive committee. Dr...

    , 72, Palestinian
    Palestinian territories
    The Palestinian territories comprise the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. Since the Palestinian Declaration of Independence in 1988, the region is today recognized by three-quarters of the world's countries as the State of Palestine or simply Palestine, although this status is not recognized by the...

     member of the Palestinian Legislative Council
    Palestinian Legislative Council
    The Palestinian Legislative Council, the legislature of the Palestinian Authority, is a unicameral body with 132 members, elected from 16 electoral districts in the West Bank and Gaza...

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

    . http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/11/24/africa/ME-GEN-Palestinians-Obit-Jarjoui.php
  • Antonio Lamer
    Antonio Lamer
    Joseph Antonio Charles Lamer, PC, CC, CD was a Canadian lawyer, jurist and Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada.-Personal life:...

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

     lawyer and Chief Justice
    Chief Justice of Canada
    The Chief Justice of Canada, like the eight puisne Justices of the Supreme Court of Canada, is appointed by the Governor-in-Council . All nine are chosen from either sitting judges or barristers who have at least ten years' standing at the bar of a province or territory...

     of the Supreme Court of Canada
    Supreme Court of Canada
    The Supreme Court of Canada is the highest court of Canada and is the final court of appeals in the Canadian justice system. The court grants permission to between 40 and 75 litigants each year to appeal decisions rendered by provincial, territorial and federal appellate courts, and its decisions...

     (1990–2000), heart disease. http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20071125.woblamer1125/BNStory/National/home?cid=al_gam_mostview
  • Joseph Minish
    Joseph Minish
    Joseph George Minish was an American Democratic Party politician from New Jersey who represented in the United States House of Representatives....

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

     member of the US House of Representatives from New Jersey
    New Jersey
    New Jersey is a state in the Northeastern and Middle Atlantic regions of the United States. , its population was 8,791,894. It is bordered on the north and east by the state of New York, on the southeast and south by the Atlantic Ocean, on the west by Pennsylvania and on the southwest by Delaware...

     (1963–1985). http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2007/11/joseph_minish_nj_congressman_o.html
  • William O'Neill
    William O'Neill (Connecticut politician)
    William Atchison O'Neill was a twentieth century U.S. political figure, most notably as the 84th Governor of Connecticut from 1980 to 1991....

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

     politician, Governor of Connecticut (1980–1991), complications of emphysema
    Emphysema
    Emphysema is a long-term, progressive disease of the lungs that primarily causes shortness of breath. In people with emphysema, the tissues necessary to support the physical shape and function of the lungs are destroyed. It is included in a group of diseases called chronic obstructive pulmonary...

    . http://www.courant.com/news/custom/topnews/hcu-woneill-1124,0,3461017.story?coll=hc_news_local_nh_promo
  • Emily Sander, 18, American
    United States
    The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

     murder victim. http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-pornstar_webnov30,1,4919146.story
  • David Sheldon
    David Sheldon
    Later in 1980's Russian assassin #1 was portrayed by Joe Piermatteo, another masked wrestler out of Johnny Rodz StableDavid Sheldon was a professional wrestler, known by his ring name the Angel of Death, who wrestled in North American regional promotions during the 1980s and early 1990s including...

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

     professional wrestler ("Angel of Death"). http://slam.canoe.ca/Slam/Wrestling/2007/11/27/4690551.html
  • David H. Shepard
    David H. Shepard
    David Hammond Shepard was a prolific American inventor, who invented among other things, the first optical character recognition device, first voice recognition system and the Farrington B numeric font used on credit cards.-Life:Shepard was born September 30, 1923 in Milwaukee. His father died...

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

     inventor, bronchiectasis
    Bronchiectasis
    Bronchiectasis is a disease state defined by localized, irreversible dilation of part of the bronchial tree caused by destruction of the muscle and elastic tissue. It is classified as an obstructive lung disease, along with emphysema, bronchitis, asthma, and cystic fibrosis...

    . http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/11/us/11shepard.html?ref=business

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  • Peter Burgstaller
    Peter Burgstaller
    Peter Burgstaller was an Austrian football goalkeeper.-Club career:He played for Favoritner AC , Wacker Innsbruck , Grazer AK , VfB Mödling , Austria Salzburg , SV Ried and finally a second spell at Austria Salzburg before retiring from the game in 1993.-Retirement:After...

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

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

    er, shot. http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/147780.html
  • Patricia M. Byrne
    Patricia M. Byrne
    Patricia Mary Byrne of Ohio served as United States Ambassador to Burma from November 1979 to September 1983.-External links:**...

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

     diplomat, United States Ambassador to Burma (1979–1983), cerebral hemorrhage. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/12/14/AR2007121401940_pf.html
  • Aloysius C. Galvin
    Aloysius C. Galvin
    Aloysius Carroll Galvin, S.J., was an American Jesuit priest, administrator and teacher. He served as academic dean at Loyola College in Baltimore from 1959-1965. He was selected as the 17th president of the University of Scranton, which he led from 1965 until 1970...

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

     Jesuit priest
    Priest
    A priest is a person authorized to perform the sacred rites of a religion, especially as a mediatory agent between humans and deities. They also have the authority or power to administer religious rites; in particular, rites of sacrifice to, and propitiation of, a deity or deities...

    , President of the University of Scranton
    University of Scranton
    The University of Scranton is a private, co-educational Catholic and Jesuit university, located in Scranton, Pennsylvania, in the northeast region of the state. The school was founded in 1888 by Most Rev. William O'Hara, the first Bishop of Scranton, as St. Thomas College. It was elevated to a...

     (1965–1970), cancer
    Cancer
    Cancer , known medically as a malignant neoplasm, is a large group of different diseases, all involving unregulated cell growth. In cancer, cells divide and grow uncontrollably, forming malignant tumors, and invade nearby parts of the body. The cancer may also spread to more distant parts of the...

    . http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/obituaries/bal-md.ob.galvin24nov24,0,4223332.story
  • Frank Guarrera
    Frank Guarrera
    Frank Guarrera was an Italian-American lyric baritone who enjoyed a long and distinguished career at the Metropolitan Opera, singing with the company for a total of 680 performances. He performed 35 different roles at the Met, mostly from the Italian and French repertories, from 1948 through 1976...

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

     baritone
    Baritone
    Baritone is a type of male singing voice that lies between the bass and tenor voices. It is the most common male voice. Originally from the Greek , meaning deep sounding, music for this voice is typically written in the range from the second F below middle C to the F above middle C Baritone (or...

     with the Metropolitan Opera
    Metropolitan Opera
    The Metropolitan Opera is an opera company, located in New York City. Originally founded in 1880, the company gave its first performance on October 22, 1883. The company is operated by the non-profit Metropolitan Opera Association, with Peter Gelb as general manager...

    . http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/obituaries/articles/2007/11/28/other_deaths/
  • Joe Kennedy, 28, American
    United States
    The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

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

     player, hypertensive
    Hypertensive heart disease
    Hypertensive heart disease is any of a number of complications of arterial hypertension that affects the heart.-Symptoms:* Fatigue* Cardiomegaly* Irregular pulse* Swelling of feet* Weight gain* Nausea* Shortness of breath...

     and valvular heart disease
    Valvular heart disease
    Valvular heart disease is any disease process involving one or more of the valves of the heart . Valve problems may be congenital or acquired...

    . http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20071123&content_id=2306777&vkey=news_mlb&fext=.jsp&c_id=mlb http://msn.foxsports.com/mlb/story/7679078?MSNHPHMA
  • Vladimir Kryuchkov
    Vladimir Kryuchkov
    Vladimir Alexandrovich Kryuchkov was a former Soviet politician and Communist Party member, having been in the organization from 1944 until he was dismissed in 1991...

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

    n former KGB
    KGB
    The KGB was the commonly used acronym for the . It was the national security agency of the Soviet Union from 1954 until 1991, and was the premier internal security, intelligence, and secret police organization during that time.The State Security Agency of the Republic of Belarus currently uses the...

     chief, led coup against Mikhail Gorbachev
    Mikhail Gorbachev
    Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev is a former Soviet statesman, having served as General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1985 until 1991, and as the last head of state of the USSR, having served from 1988 until its dissolution in 1991...

    . http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/obituaries/articles/2007/11/27/vladimir_kryuchkov_helped_plot_soviet_coup/
  • Óscar Carmelo Sánchez
    Óscar Carmelo Sánchez
    Óscar Carmelo Sánchez was a Bolivian sweeper who played for the Bolivia national football team in the 1994 FIFA World Cup held in the United States. Born in Cochabamba, he was capped 78 times by Bolivia and scored 6 goals, between 1994 and 2007. He was the captain of the national team several times...

    , 36, Bolivia
    Bolivia
    Bolivia officially known as Plurinational State of Bolivia , is a landlocked country in central South America. It is the poorest country in South America...

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

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

    . http://www.fifa.com/worldfootball/news/newsid=644069.html
  • William Tallon
    William Tallon
    William John Stephenson Tallon, RVM was a steward and extrovert member of the Queen Elizabeth, The Queen Mother's staff at Clarence House.-Early life:Tallon was born in Coventry where he also went to school...

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

     servant to HM Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother
    Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon
    Elizabeth Angela Marguerite Bowes-Lyon was the queen consort of King George VI from 1936 until her husband's death in 1952, after which she was known as Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother, to avoid confusion with her daughter, Queen Elizabeth II...

    . http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/11/26/db2602.xml
  • Francesc Candel Tortajada
    Francesc Candel Tortajada
    Francesc Candel Tortajada , usually known as well as Paco Candel, was a Valencian-born writer and journalist who lived most of his life in Barcelona.- Biography :...

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

     Catalan
    Catalonia
    Catalonia is an autonomous community in northeastern Spain, with the official status of a "nationality" of Spain. Catalonia comprises four provinces: Barcelona, Girona, Lleida, and Tarragona. Its capital and largest city is Barcelona. Catalonia covers an area of 32,114 km² and has an...

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

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

    . http://www.lavanguardia.es/lv24h2007/20071123/53413273763.html (Spanish)
  • Leona Tuttle
    Leona Tuttle
    Leona Wilhelmina Tuttle was an American supercentenarian.Tuttle was born as Leona Wilhelmina Sternberg on April 13, 1896, near the town of Bad Axe, Michigan. Her parents, Karl and Marie Amelia Sternberg, were both immigrants from Germany. She was one of seven children...

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

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

    . http://www.detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071208/OBITUARIES/712080310/1263/OBITUARIES
  • Henrietta Valor
    Henrietta Valor
    Henrietta Valor was an actress and singer who starred on Broadway in, “Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris”. Other Broadway credits include, “Half a Sixpence”, “Applause”, and “Annie”. Off-Broadway she played a leading role in “Fashion”, which she reprised twenty years later at The...

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

     Broadway
    Broadway theatre
    Broadway theatre, commonly called simply Broadway, refers to theatrical performances presented in one of the 40 professional theatres with 500 or more seats located in the Theatre District centered along Broadway, and in Lincoln Center, in Manhattan in New York City...

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

    . http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-passings28nov28,1,3286305.story
  • Robert Vesco
    Robert Vesco
    Robert Lee Vesco was a fugitive United States financier. After several years of high stakes investments and seedy credit dealings, Vesco was alleged guilty of securities fraud. He immediately fled the ensuing U.S...

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

     fugitive financier
    Financier
    Financier is a term for a person who handles typically large sums of money, usually involving money lending, financing projects, large-scale investing, or large-scale money management. The term is French, and derives from finance or payment...

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

    . http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/03/world/americas/03vesco.html?_r=1&th&emc=th&oref=slogin
  • Pat Walsh, 71, New Zealand
    New Zealand
    New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses and numerous smaller islands. The country is situated some east of Australia across the Tasman Sea, and roughly south of the Pacific island nations of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga...

     rugby union
    Rugby union
    Rugby union, often simply referred to as rugby, is a full contact team sport which originated in England in the early 19th century. One of the two codes of rugby football, it is based on running with the ball in hand...

     player and selector, All Black (1955–1964). http://www.nzherald.co.nz/topic/story.cfm?c_id=252&objectid=10478202

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  • Maurice Béjart
    Maurice Béjart
    Maurice Béjart was a French born, Swiss choreographer who ran the Béjart Ballet Lausanne in Switzerland. He was the son of the French philosopher Gaston Berger.- Biography :...

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

     choreographer. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/11/23/db2301.xml
  • Jefferson J. DeBlanc
    Jefferson J. DeBlanc
    Jefferson Joseph DeBlanc was a World War II Marine Corps fighter pilot and ace — shooting down nine Japanese aircraft during two tours of duty in the Pacific at Guadalcanal and Okinawa — and a Medal of Honor recipient.-U.S...

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

     fighter pilot
    Fighter pilot
    A fighter pilot is a military aviator trained in air-to-air combat while piloting a fighter aircraft . Fighter pilots undergo specialized training in aerial warfare and dogfighting...

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

    . http://www.journalgazette.net/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071124/APN/711240735&template=apart
  • Takami Eto
    Takami Eto
    was a Japanese politician and former member of Japan's House of Representatives. He served as the Japanese construction minister during the early 1990s, but resigned in 1995 following controversial comments regarding Japan's treatment of occupied areas during World War II.Takami Etō, a conservative...

    , 82, Japan
    Japan
    Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...

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

    , former member of the House of Representatives
    House of Representatives of Japan
    The is the lower house of the Diet of Japan. The House of Councillors of Japan is the upper house.The House of Representatives has 480 members, elected for a four-year term. Of these, 180 members are elected from 11 multi-member constituencies by a party-list system of proportional representation,...

    , heart failure. http://mainichi.jp/select/person/news/20071122k0000e010082000c.html (Japanese)
  • Verity Lambert
    Verity Lambert
    Verity Ann Lambert, OBE was an English television and film producer. She is best known as the founding producer of the science-fiction series Doctor Who, a programme which has become a part of British popular culture, and for her association with Thames Television...

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

     TV producer, BBC
    BBC
    The British Broadcasting Corporation is a British public service broadcaster. Its headquarters is at Broadcasting House in the City of Westminster, London. It is the largest broadcaster in the world, with about 23,000 staff...

    's first female producer (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://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7109538.stm
  • Richard Nolte
    Richard Nolte
    Richard H. Nolte was an American Middle East expert and diplomat. Nolte was the second director of the Institute of Current World Affairs...

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

     expert on the Middle East
    Middle East
    The Middle East is a region that encompasses Western Asia and Northern Africa. It is often used as a synonym for Near East, in opposition to Far East...

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

    . http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/10/us/10nolte.html?ex=1354942800&en=7b7c632770a2b1c3&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/11/27/AR2007112702493.html
  • Reg Park
    Reg Park
    Roy "Reg" Park from Leeds in West Yorkshire, England, was a bodybuilder, businessman and film actor.-Biography:...

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

     bodybuilder, Mr. Universe
    Universe Championships
    The Universe Championships are an annual bodybuilding event organised by the National Amateur Bodybuilders Association . It has a number of competitions: NABBA Amateur Mr. Universe, Miss Figure, and Miss Toned Figure....

     (1951), skin cancer
    Skin cancer
    Skin neoplasms are skin growths with differing causes and varying degrees of malignancy. The three most common malignant skin cancers are basal cell cancer, squamous cell cancer, and melanoma, each of which is named after the type of skin cell from which it arises...

    . http://www.mg.co.za/articlepage.aspx?area=/breaking_news/breaking_news__national/&articleid=325712

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  • Valda Aveling
    Valda Aveling
    Valda Rose Aveling OBE was an Australian pianist, harpsichordist and clavichordist. Her repertoire was very wide, including composers as diverse as William Byrd, Jan Sweelinck, Sergei Rachmaninoff and Béla Bartók....

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

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

    , harpsichord
    Harpsichord
    A harpsichord is a musical instrument played by means of a keyboard. It produces sound by plucking a string when a key is pressed.In the narrow sense, "harpsichord" designates only the large wing-shaped instruments in which the strings are perpendicular to the keyboard...

    ist and clavichord
    Clavichord
    The clavichord is a European stringed keyboard instrument known from the late Medieval, through the Renaissance, Baroque and Classical eras. Historically, it was widely used as a practice instrument and as an aid to composition, not being loud enough for larger performances. The clavichord produces...

    ist. http://www.smh.com.au/news/obituaries/drama-and-candour-brought-music-depth/2007/12/20/1197740461584.html
  • Fernando Fernán Gómez
    Fernando Fernán Gómez
    Fernando Fernán-Gómez was a Spanish actor and director. He was born in Lima, Peru as his mother, Spanish actress Carola Fernán-Gómez, was making a tour of Latin America. Inheriting his surname as a stage name, he moved to Spain in 1924.After the Spanish Civil War he began a study of Law but...

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

     actor. http://ca.today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=entertainmentNews&storyID=2007-11-21T203149Z_01_L21449560_RTRIDST_0_ENTERTAINMENT-SPAIN-ACTOR-DEATH-COL.XML
  • Andrew Foldi
    Andrew Foldi
    Andrew Foldi was an Hungarian-American bass baritone and educator whose singing career spanned four decades.Born in Budapest, Hungary and raised in Chicago, Illinois, Foldi made his professional debut in 1954, as Biondello in Vittorio Giannini's The Taming of the Shrew at Lyric Opera of Chicago...

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

     opera singer. http://news.independent.co.uk/people/obituaries/article3226381.ece
  • Tom Johnson, 79, Canadian
    Canada
    Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

     Hall of Fame
    Hockey Hall of Fame
    The Hockey Hall of Fame is located in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Dedicated to the history of ice hockey, it is both a museum and a hall of fame. It holds exhibits about players, teams, National Hockey League records, memorabilia and NHL trophies, including the Stanley Cup...

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

     player, heart failure. http://canadianpress.google.com/article/ALeqM5hzRuO1ZVXJ8Kx9nnH8A5aVPT6vEg
  • Richard Leigh
    Richard Leigh (author)
    Richard Harris Leigh was a novelist and short story writer born in New Jersey, USA to a British father and an American mother, who spent most of his life in the UK. Leigh earned a BA from Tufts University, a Master's degree from the University of Chicago, and a Ph.D...

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

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

     (The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail
    The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail
    The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail is a book by Michael Baigent, Richard Leigh, and Henry Lincoln....

    ). http://news.independent.co.uk/people/obituaries/article3204041.ece
  • Noel McGregor
    Noel McGregor
    Spencer Noel McGregor was a Test cricketer who played 25 Test matches for New Zealand between 1954 and 1965. He was the New Zealand Almanack Player of the Year in 1968.McGregor was born in Dunedin, Otago...

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

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

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

    er. http://sportal.co.nz/default.aspx/Cricket-news-display/56er-noel-mcgregor-dies-39189
  • Herbert Saffir
    Herbert Saffir
    Herbert Seymour Saffir was the developer of the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale, for measuring the intensity of hurricanes. As recently as 2005, Saffir was the principal of Saffir Engineering in Coral Gables, Florida...

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

     engineer, co-creator of the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale
    Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale
    The Saffir–Simpson Hurricane Scale , or the Saffir–Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale , classifies hurricanes — Western Hemisphere tropical cyclones that exceed the intensities of tropical depressions and tropical storms — into five categories distinguished by the intensities of their sustained winds...

    ; complications from surgery. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071123/ap_on_re_us/obit_saffir

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  • Nigel Bridge, Baron Bridge of Harwich
    Nigel Bridge, Baron Bridge of Harwich
    Nigel Cyprian Bridge, Baron Bridge of Harwich PC was a British barrister and judge. Bridge was the presiding judge at the trial of the Birmingham six in 1975, the verdict of which was quashed by the Court of Appeal in 1991, and he later served as a Law Lord.-Early and private life:Bridge's father...

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

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

    . http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article2942500.ece
  • James Lamond
    James Lamond
    James Alexander Lamond was a British Labour politician. He was a Member of Parliament for 22 years, representing Oldham East from 1970 to 1983 and then Oldham Central and Royton from 1983 until he retired at the 1992 general election.- Biography :Lamond was born in Burrelton, Perthshire...

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

     Lord Provost
    Lord Provost
    A Lord Provost is the figurative and ceremonial head of one of the principal cities of Scotland. Four cities, Aberdeen, Dundee, Edinburgh and Glasgow, have the right to appoint a Lord Provost instead of a provost...

     of Aberdeen
    Aberdeen
    Aberdeen is Scotland's third most populous city, one of Scotland's 32 local government council areas and the United Kingdom's 25th most populous city, with an official population estimate of ....

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

     (Oldham East, Oldham Central and Royton) (1970–1992), pneumonia
    Pneumonia
    Pneumonia is an inflammatory condition of the lung—especially affecting the microscopic air sacs —associated with fever, chest symptoms, and a lack of air space on a chest X-ray. Pneumonia is typically caused by an infection but there are a number of other causes...

    . http://www.thisisnorthscotland.co.uk/displayNode.jsp?nodeId=149235&command=displayContent&sourceNode=149218&contentPK=19026448&moduleName=InternalSearch&formname=sidebarsearch
  • Ernest "Doc" Paulin, 100, American
    United States
    The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

     jazz musician. http://blog.nola.com/times-picayune/2007/11/jazz_pioneer_doc_paulin_100_di.html http://canadianpress.google.com/article/ALeqM5j9YGhi2-EjlexLfnTurzYCIbQx5g
  • Ian Smith
    Ian Smith
    Ian Douglas Smith GCLM ID was a politician active in the government of Southern Rhodesia, the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland, Rhodesia, Zimbabwe Rhodesia and Zimbabwe from 1948 to 1987, most notably serving as Prime Minister of Rhodesia from 13 April 1964 to 1 June 1979...

    , 88, Rhodesia
    Rhodesia
    Rhodesia , officially the Republic of Rhodesia from 1970, was an unrecognised state located in southern Africa that existed between 1965 and 1979 following its Unilateral Declaration of Independence from the United Kingdom on 11 November 1965...

    n politician, Prime Minister
    Prime Minister of Rhodesia
    The Prime Minister of Rhodesia was the head of government in the colony of Rhodesia. Rhodesia's political system was modelled on the Westminster system and the Prime Minister's role was similar to that of the same position in other countries such as the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New...

     (1964–1979). http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/7104552.stm
  • Randy Tallman
    Randy Tallman
    Randolph Tallman was an American voice actor who voiced characters for anime series at Funimation Entertainment...

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

     voice actor
    Voice acting
    Voice acting is the art of providing voices for animated characters and radio and audio dramas and comedy, as well as doing voice-overs in radio and television commercials, audio dramas, dubbed foreign language films, video games, puppet shows, and amusement rides.Performers are called...

    . http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2007-12-10/funimation-voice-actor-randy-tallman-passes-away

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  • André Bettencourt
    André Bettencourt
    André Bettencourt was a French politician. He had been awarded the Croix de Guerre, and is a Chevalier of the Legion of Honor...

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

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

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

    . http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/11/22/db2202.xml
  • Paul Brodie
    Paul Brodie
    Paul Brodie was a Canadian saxophonist. In 1994, he was made an Officer of the Order of Canada, Canada's highest civilian honour, for having "shown true mastery of his art through his ability to reach all ages with his music".Since 1960, he performed over 2500 concerts in Canada, U.S.A., Mexico,...

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

     saxophonist. http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20071120.OBBRODIE20/TPStory/?query=brodie
  • Nyimpine Chissano
    Nyimpine Chissano
    Nyimpine Chissano was the eldest son of former Mozambican president Joaquim Chissano. A Maputo-based businessman, he had been linked to two high-profile murders in Mozambique, both of which are widely reported to have occurred because of their victims' anti-corruption activities.-Carlos...

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

     businessman, son of ex-president
    Heads of state of Mozambique
    -Presidents of Mozambique :-Affiliations:FRELIMO = Frente de Libertação de Moçambique...

     Joaquim Chissano
    Joaquim Chissano
    Joaquim Alberto Chissano served as the second President of Mozambique for nineteen years from 6 November 1986 until 2 February 2005. Since stepping down as president, Chissano has become an elder statesman and is called upon by international bodies, such as the United Nations, to be an envoy or...

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

    . http://www.reuters.com/article/latestCrisis/idUSL19275712
  • Kevin DuBrow
    Kevin DuBrow
    Kevin Mark DuBrow was an American rock singer best known as the lead vocalist of the Heavy Metal band Quiet Riot from 1975 until his death in 2007...

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

     rock singer (Quiet Riot
    Quiet Riot
    Quiet Riot is an American Heavy Metal band. They are best known for their hit singles "Metal Health" and "Cum On Feel the Noize". They were founded in 1973 by guitarist Randy Rhoads and bassist Kelly Garni, under the original name Mach 1, before changing the name to Little Women and finally Quiet...

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

    . http://www.transworldnews.com/NewsStory.aspx?id=28922&cat=16 http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071211/ap_en_mu/people_dubrow_overdose_10
  • Wiera Gran
    Wiera Gran
    Wiera Gran was a Polish singer and actress. Reputedly born as Weronika Grynberg, she was also known as Vera Gran and Mariol....

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

     singer and actress. http://miasta.gazeta.pl/warszawa/1,34889,4694941.html (Polish)
  • Mike Gregory
    Mike Gregory
    Michael Keith "Mike" Gregory , was a rugby league player and later coach; the former head coach of Wigan and player for Warrington and Great Britain.-Playing career:...

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

     Lions
    Great Britain national rugby league team
    The Great Britain national rugby league team represents the United Kingdom in rugby league football. Administered by the Rugby Football League , the team is nicknamed "The Lions" or "Great Britain Lions"....

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

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

    . http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/rugby_league/7102375.stm
  • Peter Haining
    Peter Haining
    Peter Alexander Haining was a British journalist, author and anthologist who lived and worked in Suffolk...

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

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

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

    . http://www.mi6.co.uk/news/index.php?itemid=5592
  • Ken Leek
    Ken Leek
    Kenneth 'Ken' Leek was a Welsh footballer, who played as a centre forward or inside forward for several different clubs and for the Wales national side in a professional career which spanned from 1952 until 1968. He scored 145 goals in the Football League from 396 appearances with five clubs...

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

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

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

    , Birmingham City). http://www.lcfc.premiumtv.co.uk/page/LatestNews/0,,10274~1170859,00.html
  • Laulu Fetauimalemau Mata'afa
    Laulu Fetauimalemau Mata'afa
    Masiofo La'ulu Fetauimalemau Mata'afa also known as Fetaui Mata'afa was an ambassador and a Member of Parliament in Samoa. She was also the wife of Samoa's first Prime Minister Fiame Mata'afa Faumuina Mulinu’u II. Their daughter, Fiame Naomi Mata'afa is a matai high chief and Cabinet Minister in...

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

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

     and former Member of Parliament
    Fono
    The Legislative Assembly is the Parliament of Samoa based in the capital Apia where the country's central administration is situated.In the Samoan language, the Legislative Assembly of Samoa is sometimes referred to as the Samoan Fono while the government of the country is referred to as the...

    . http://www.fijilive.com/news/show/news/2007/11/21/fijilive1.html
  • Channaiah Odeyar
    Channaiah Odeyar
    Channaiah Odeyar was a former Lok Sabha Member of Parliament from Davangere in Karnataka, India.-External links:* from the 10th Lok Sabha*...

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

    n Lok Sabha
    Lok Sabha
    The Lok Sabha or House of the People is the lower house of the Parliament of India. Members of the Lok Sabha are elected by direct election under universal adult suffrage. As of 2009, there have been fifteen Lok Sabhas elected by the people of India...

     Member of Parliament
    Parliament of India
    The Parliament of India is the supreme legislative body in India. Founded in 1919, the Parliament alone possesses legislative supremacy and thereby ultimate power over all political bodies in India. The Parliament of India comprises the President and the two Houses, Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha...

    . http://www.deccanherald.com/Content/Nov202007/state2007112036783.asp?section=scrollingnews
  • Graham Paddon
    Graham Paddon
    Graham Charles Paddon was an English footballer who played as a midfielder.-Career:Paddon made five League appearances for Coventry City, scoring one goal, before signing for Norwich City in October 1969 for £25,000...

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

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

     (Norwich City, West Ham United). http://www.eveningnews24.co.uk/content/sport/story.aspx?brand=ENOnline&category=Sport&tBrand=ENOnline&tCategory=Sport&itemid=NOED19%20Nov%202007%2011%3A43%3A27%3A277
  • Milo Radulovich, 81, American
    United States
    The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

     airman
    Airman
    An airman is a member of the air component of a nation's armed service. In the United States Air Force and the Royal Air Force , it can also refer to a specific enlisted rank...

     threatened by McCarthyism
    McCarthyism
    McCarthyism is the practice of making accusations of disloyalty, subversion, or treason without proper regard for evidence. The term has its origins in the period in the United States known as the Second Red Scare, lasting roughly from the late 1940s to the late 1950s and characterized by...

     and championed by Edward R. Murrow
    Edward R. Murrow
    Edward Roscoe Murrow, KBE was an American broadcast journalist. He first came to prominence with a series of radio news broadcasts during World War II, which were followed by millions of listeners in the United States and Canada.Fellow journalists Eric Sevareid, Ed Bliss, and Alexander Kendrick...

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

    . http://www.mlive.com/newsflash/michigan/index.ssf?/base/news-48/11955767667860.xml&storylist=newsmichigan
  • Jim Ringo
    Jim Ringo
    James Stephen "Jim" Ringo was a professional American football player, a Hall of Fame center and coach. He was a ten time Pro Bowler during his career....

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

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

     player (Green Bay Packers
    Green Bay Packers
    The Green Bay Packers are an American football team based in Green Bay, Wisconsin. They are members of the North Division of the National Football Conference in the National Football League . The Packers are the current NFL champions...

    ). http://www.wbay.com/Global/story.asp?S=7383885
  • John Straffen
    John Straffen
    John Thomas Straffen was a British serial killer who was the longest-serving prisoner in British legal history. Straffen killed two young girls in the summer of 1951. He was found to be unfit to plead and committed to Broadmoor Hospital; during a brief escape in 1952 he killed again. This time he...

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

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

    er, Britain's longest serving prisoner (56 years), natural causes
    Death by natural causes
    A death by natural causes, as recorded by coroners and on death certificates and associated documents, is one that is primarily attributed to natural agents: usually an illness or an internal malfunction of the body. For example, a person dying from complications from influenza or a heart attack ...

    . http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article2901883.ece
  • Magda Szabó
    Magda Szabó
    Magda Szabó was a Hungarian writer, arguably Hungary's foremost woman novelist. She also wrote dramas, essays, studies, memories and poetry....

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

     writer. http://www.reuters.com/article/peopleNews/idUSL2015236920071120
  • Dick Wilson
    Dick Wilson
    Dick Wilson, born Riccardo DiGuglielmo , was a British-born American character actor who played the role of finicky grocery store manager Mr...

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

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

     actor ("Mr. Whipple
    Mr. Whipple
    Mr. George Whipple is a fictional supermarket manager featured in television commercials and print advertisements that ran in the United States and Canada from 1964 to 1985 for Charmin toilet paper...

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

    . http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/news_press_release,227138.shtml http://news.aol.com/entertainment/story/_a/charmins-mr-whipple-actor-dick-wilson/n20071119210009990055

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  • Hollis Alpert
    Hollis Alpert
    Hollis Alpert was an American film critic and author. Alpert was best known as the cofounder of the National Society of Film Critics, which he started in his New York City apartment.-Early life:...

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

     film critic, cofounded National Society of Film Critics
    National Society of Film Critics
    The National Society of Film Critics is an American film critic organization. As of December 2007 the NSFC had approximately 60 members who wrote for a variety of weekly and daily newspapers.-History:...

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

    . http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/obituaries/articles/2007/12/07/hollis_alpert_at_91_author_cofounded_film_critic_society/
  • Peter Cadogan
    Peter Cadogan
    Peter Cadogan was an English writer and political activistCadogan was born into a middle-class family in Newcastle upon Tyne, where his father was employed by a shipping company. He was educated at The King's School, Tynemouth in the 1930s...

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

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

     and anti-nuclear
    Anti-nuclear
    The anti-nuclear movement is a social movement that opposes the use of nuclear technologies. Many direct action groups, environmental groups, and professional organisations have identified themselves with the movement at the local, national, and international level...

     campaigner. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/12/07/db0701.xml http://politics.guardian.co.uk/politicsobituaries/story/0,,2221924,00.html
  • Jim Ford
    Jim Ford
    Jim Ford was an American singer-songwriter originally from Johnson County, Kentucky. After living in New Orleans, Ford moved to Los Angeles, and finally settled in Fort Bragg, CA. His music is a mixture of soul, country and folk. His songs have been recorded by numerous artists, including Aretha...

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

     singer songwriter
    Songwriter
    A songwriter is an individual who writes both the lyrics and music to a song. Someone who solely writes lyrics may be called a lyricist, and someone who only writes music may be called a composer...

    . http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article3046528.ece
  • Ellen Preis
    Ellen Preis
    Ellen Müller-Preis, née Preis, was an Austrian foil fencer. She was born in Berlin, Germany.In 1949, she was named Austrian female athlete of the year.-Fencing career:...

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

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

    , gold medallist at the 1932 Summer Olympics
    Fencing at the 1932 Summer Olympics
    At the 1932 Summer Olympics, seven fencing events were contested, six for men and one for women.-Medal Summary:-Medal table:-Participating nations:A total of 109 fencers from 16 nations competed at the Los Angeles Games:...

    , kidney failure. http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/11/19/sports/EU-SPT-ATH-Obit-Mueller-Preis.php
  • Joe Shaw, 79, British
    United Kingdom
    The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...

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

    er, appearance record holder for Sheffield United. http://www.sufc.premiumtv.co.uk/page/NewsDetail/0,,10418~1170574,00.html
  • Chickie Williams, 88, American
    United States
    The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

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

     singer and wife of Doc Williams. http://www.theintelligencer.net/page/content.detail/id/502570.html

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  • Irving Bluestone
    Irving Bluestone
    Irving Julius Bluestone was chief negotiator for almost a half a million workers at General Motors in the 1970s, and an advocate of worker participation in management...

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

     negotiator for UAW
    United Auto Workers
    The International Union, United Automobile, Aerospace and Agricultural Implement Workers of America, better known as the United Auto Workers , is a labor union which represents workers in the United States and Puerto Rico, and formerly in Canada. Founded as part of the Congress of Industrial...

    , heart failure. http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/obituaries/articles/2007/11/27/irving_bluestone_negotiator_for_uaw_in_70s_gm_strikes/
  • Landis Everson
    Landis Everson
    Landis Everson was an American poet. In the late 1940s, he was a member of the Berkeley Renaissance along with his friends Robert Duncan, Jack Spicer, and Robin Blaser. Everson was the inaugural recipient of the Emily Dickinson Award from the Poetry Foundation.- Overview :Everson was born and grew...

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

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

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

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

    . http://www.marinij.com/marin/ci_7494871
  • Oleg Gazenko
    Oleg Gazenko
    Oleg Georgovitch Gazenko was a Russian scientist and the former director of Institute of Biomedical Problems in Moscow honoured with the Demidov Prize in 1998. One of the leading scientists behind the Soviet animals in space programmes, he selected and trained Laika, the dog who flew on the...

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

    n space scientist. http://www.energia.ru/eng/news/news-2007/news_11-20.html http://www.nasawatch.com/archives/2007/11/oleg_georgovitc.html
  • Hy Lit
    Hy Lit
    Hyman Aaron "Hy" Lit was an American DJ based in the Philadelphia area from the 1950s until 2005. In his 50 year career, Hy Lit broadcast from WIBG-AM, WDAS/WDAS-FM, WKBS-TV, WIFI, WSNI/WPGR, KPOL, WKXW, among many others. His last station was WOGL, where he broadcast from 1989 until his...

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

     radio
    Radio
    Radio is the transmission of signals through free space by modulation of electromagnetic waves with frequencies below those of visible light. Electromagnetic radiation travels by means of oscillating electromagnetic fields that pass through the air and the vacuum of space...

     disc jockey
    Disc jockey
    A disc jockey, also known as DJ, is a person who selects and plays recorded music for an audience. Originally, "disc" referred to phonograph records, not the later Compact Discs. Today, the term includes all forms of music playback, no matter the medium.There are several types of disc jockeys...

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

    . http://abclocal.go.com/wpvi/story?section=local&id=5767800
  • Robert Evander McNair
    Robert Evander McNair
    Robert Evander McNair, Sr. , was the 108th governor of South Carolina, having served from 1965 to 1971.-Biography:...

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

     politician, Governor of South Carolina
    Governor of South Carolina
    The Governor of the State of South Carolina is the head of state for the State of South Carolina. Under the South Carolina Constitution, the Governor is also the head of government, serving as the chief executive of the South Carolina executive branch. The Governor is the ex officio...

     (1965–1971), brain cancer. http://www.charlotte.com/205/story/366990.html
  • Ambroise Noumazalaye
    Ambroise Noumazalaye
    Ambroise Édouard Noumazalaye was a Congolese politician who was Prime Minister of the Republic of the Congo from 1966 to 1968, under President Alphonse Massamba-Débat. Later in life he served as Secretary-General of the Congolese Labour Party and was a supporter of President Denis Sassou Nguesso...

    , 74, Congolese
    Republic of the Congo
    The Republic of the Congo , sometimes known locally as Congo-Brazzaville, is a state in Central Africa. It is bordered by Gabon, Cameroon, the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of the Congo , the Angolan exclave province of Cabinda, and the Gulf of Guinea.The region was dominated by...

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

    , Prime Minister
    Heads of government of the Republic of the Congo
    -List of Heads of Government of the Republic of the Congo :-Affiliations:-See also:*Congo*Republic of the Congo**List of heads of state of the Republic of the Congo...

     (1966–1968). http://www.congopage.com/article5057.html (French)
  • R. S. Pathak
    R. S. Pathak
    Raghunandan Swarup Pathak, best known as R. S. Pathak was a former Chief Justice of India. He was the son of Gopal Swarup Pathak, a former vice-president of India. In November 2005, R. S. Pathak was appointed to enquire into alleged Indian links in the Oil-for-Food Programme...

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

    n jurist
    Jurist
    A jurist or jurisconsult is a professional who studies, develops, applies, or otherwise deals with the law. The term is widely used in American English, but in the United Kingdom and many Commonwealth countries it has only historical and specialist usage...

    , former Chief Justice of India
    Chief Justice of India
    The Chief Justice of India is the highest-ranking judge in the Supreme Court of India, and thus holds the highest judicial position in India. As well as presiding in the Supreme Court, the Chief Justice also head its administrative functions....

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

    . http://www.zeenews.com/znnew/articles.asp?rep=2&aid=408129&sid=NAT&sname=&news=Former%20CJI%20R%20S%20Pathak%20passes%20away
  • Vernon Scannell
    Vernon Scannell
    Vernon Scannell was a British poet and author. He was at one time a professional boxer, and wrote novels about the sport.-Personal life:Vernon Scannell was born in 1922 in Spilsby, Lincolnshire...

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

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

    , after long illness. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7099849.stm
  • Gail Sheridan
    Gail Sheridan (actress)
    Gail Sheridan was an American film actress whose career spanned the 1930s. Sheridan was known for her role in the 1930s westerns Hopalong Cassidy Returns and Hills of Old Wyoming. She starred opposite actor William Boyd in both pictures...

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

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

    . http://www.cinematical.com/2007/12/03/rip-reel-important-people-december-3-2007/

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  • Harold Alfond
    Harold Alfond
    Harold Alfond was an American businessman who founded the Dexter Shoe Company and established the first factory outlet store.-Early life:...

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

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

    . http://bangornews.com/news/t/news.aspx?articleid=156613&zoneid=583
  • Gene H. Golub
    Gene H. Golub
    Gene Howard Golub , Fletcher Jones Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University, was one of the preeminent numerical analysts of his generation....

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

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

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

    , myeloid leukemia
    Myeloid leukemia
    Myeloid leukemia is a type of leukemia affecting myeloid tissue.Types include:* Acute myeloid leukemia* Chronic myelogenous leukemia...

    . http://icme.stanford.edu
  • Pierre Granier-Deferre
    Pierre Granier-Deferre
    Pierre Granier-Deferre was a French film director. His 1971 film Le Chat won the Best Actor and Best Actress awards at the 21st Berlin International Film Festival....

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

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

    . http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117976278.html?categoryid=13&cs=1
  • Grethe Kausland
    Grethe Kausland
    Grethe Kausland was a Norwegian singer, performer and actress. As a child star she was one of Norway's most popular singers , and she participated in several films as a child. She represented Norway in the European Song Contest 1972 singing Småting with Benny Borg...

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

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

    . http://www.esctoday.com/news/read/9634
  • Trond Kirkvaag
    Trond Kirkvaag
    “”Trond Georg Kirkvaag was a Norwegian comedian, actor, impressionist, screenwriter, author, director and television host. During his 39 years at the Norwegian TV network, NRK, he produced numerous comedy television series. After his death he was widely hailed by his colleagues as possibly the...

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

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

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

    . http://www.vg.no/pub/vgart.hbs?artid=185847 (Norwegian)
  • Don Metz, 91, Canadian
    Canada
    Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

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

     player (Toronto Maple Leafs
    Toronto Maple Leafs
    The Toronto Maple Leafs are a professional ice hockey team based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. They are members of the Northeast Division of the Eastern Conference of the National Hockey League...

    ). http://www.thehockeynews.com/articles/11195-Don-Metz-passes-away-at-91.html
  • James Daniel Niedergeses
    James Daniel Niedergeses
    James Daniel Niedergeses was an American Roman Catholic bishop. He was the ninth bishop of Nashville serving from 1975 to 1992....

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

     Roman Catholic Bishop of Nashville
    Roman Catholic Diocese of Nashville
    The Roman Catholic Diocese of Nashville is a Roman Catholic diocese in Tennessee. It was founded on July 28, 1837 by the Dominican Bishop Richard Pius Miles. The Cathedral Church of the Incarnation is the seat of the Bishops of Nashville....

     (1975–1992), hemorrhage. http://www.tennessean.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071116/NEWS01/71116047
  • Victor Rabinowitz
    Victor Rabinowitz
    Victor Rabinowitz was an American lawyer known for representing high-profile leftist clients and causes.-Biography:He was born in Brooklyn, New York, the son of a factory owner who had emigrated from Lithuania...

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

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

     for left-wing clients and causes http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/20/nyregion/20rabinowitz.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
  • Andrea Stretton
    Andrea Stretton
    Andrea Stretton was an Australian arts journalist and television presenter. She was known as a major advocate for the arts in Australia.-Career:...

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

    n arts
    ARts
    aRts, which stands for analog Real time synthesizer, is an audio framework that is no longer under development. It is best known for previously being used in KDE to simulate an analog synthesizer....

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

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

    . http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2007/11/17/1194767020221.html
  • Sir Arthur Watts, 76, British
    United Kingdom
    The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...

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

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

    . http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1571409/Sir-Arthur-Watts.html

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  • John Cross Jr
    John Cross Jr
    John H. Cross Jr. was an American pastor and Civil Rights activist. He was best known as the pastor of the 16th Street Baptist Church, an African American Baptist congregation in Birmingham, Alabama, at the time of church's racially motivated bombing in 1963...

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

     pastor
    Pastor
    The word pastor usually refers to an ordained leader of a Christian congregation. When used as an ecclesiastical styling or title, this role may be abbreviated to "Pr." or often "Ps"....

     of the 16th Street Baptist Church
    16th Street Baptist Church
    Sixteenth Street Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Birmingham, Alabama which is frequented predominately by African Americans. In September 1963, it was the target of the racially motivated 16th Street Baptist Church bombing that killed four girls in the midst of the American Civil Rights...

    , Birmingham, Alabama
    Birmingham, Alabama
    Birmingham is the largest city in Alabama. The city is the county seat of Jefferson County. According to the 2010 United States Census, Birmingham had a population of 212,237. The Birmingham-Hoover Metropolitan Area, in estimate by the U.S...

     when bombed
    16th Street Baptist Church bombing
    The 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama was bombed on Sunday, September 15, 1963. The explosion at the African-American church, which killed four girls, marked a turning point in the U.S...

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

    . http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/obituaries/articles/2007/11/18/john_cross_jr_pastor_of_church_bombed_in_civil_rights_clashes/
  • Sergio del Valle Jiménez
    Sergio del Valle Jiménez
    Sergio del Valle Jiménez was a high-ranking Cuban military and government official who served as army chief of staff during the 1962 Missile Crisis and headed various cabinet ministries during the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s....

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

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

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

    , former army chief of staff and minister
    Minister (government)
    A minister is a politician who holds significant public office in a national or regional government. Senior ministers are members of the cabinet....

    . http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/17/world/americas/16cnd-delvalle.html?ref=world
  • Domokos Kosáry
    Domokos Kosáry
    Domokos Kosáry was a Hungarian historian and writer who served as president of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences from 1990 until 1996....

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

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

    , president of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
    Hungarian Academy of Sciences
    The Hungarian Academy of Sciences is the most important and prestigious learned society of Hungary. Its seat is at the bank of the Danube in Budapest.-History:...

     (1990–1996). http://www.mta.hu/index.php?id=858&no_cache=1&backPid=406&tt_news=7375&cHash=61453f764c
  • Audrey McCall, 92, American
    United States
    The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

     widow of former Governor of Oregon
    Governor of Oregon
    The Governor of Oregon is the top executive of the government of the U.S. state of Oregon. The title of governor was also applied to the office of Oregon's chief executive during the provisional and U.S. territorial governments....

     Tom McCall
    Tom McCall
    Thomas Lawson McCall was an American politician and journalist in the state of Oregon. A Republican, he was the 30th Governor of Oregon from 1967 to 1975. A native of Massachusetts, he grew up there and in Central Oregon before attending the University of Oregon...

    . http://blog.oregonlive.com/breakingnews/2007/11/audrey_mccall_governors_widow.html
  • Joe Nuxhall
    Joe Nuxhall
    Joseph Henry Nuxhall was an American left-handed pitcher in Major League Baseball, mostly for the Cincinnati Reds. Immediately after retiring as a player, he became a radio broadcaster for the Reds from 1967 through 2004, and continued part-time up until his death in 2007...

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

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

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

     and broadcaster
    Broadcasting
    Broadcasting is the distribution of audio and video content to a dispersed audience via any audio visual medium. Receiving parties may include the general public or a relatively large subset of thereof...

     for the 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....

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

    . http://www.fox19.com/Global/story.asp?S=7369767

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  • Michael Blodgett
    Michael Blodgett
    Michael Blodgett was an American actor, novelist, and screenwriter. Of his many film and television appearances he is best known for his performance as gigolo Lance Rocke in Russ Meyer's 1970 cult classic Beyond the Valley of the Dolls...

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

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

     and screenwriter
    Screenwriter
    Screenwriters or scriptwriters or scenario writers are people who write/create the short or feature-length screenplays from which mass media such as films, television programs, Comics or video games are based.-Profession:...

     (Beyond the Valley of the Dolls
    Beyond the Valley of the Dolls
    Beyond the Valley of the Dolls is a 1970 American schlock melodrama film starring Dolly Read, Cynthia Myers, Marcia McBroom, John LaZar, Michael Blodgett and David Gurian...

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

    . http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/california/la-me-blodgett22nov22,1,7858955.story?coll=la-headlines-pe-california&ctrack=2&cset=true
  • Ronnie Burns
    Ronnie Burns (actor)
    Ronald Jon "Ronnie" Burns worked briefly as a television actor, but is primarily remembered as the adopted son of comedians George Burns and Gracie Allen.-Early life:...

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

     actor, adopted son of George Burns
    George Burns
    George Burns , born Nathan Birnbaum, was an American comedian, actor, and writer.He was one of the few entertainers whose career successfully spanned vaudeville, film, radio, television and movies, with and without his wife, Gracie Allen. His arched eyebrow and cigar smoke punctuation became...

     and Gracie Allen
    Gracie Allen
    Grace Ethel Cecile Rosalie Allen , known as Gracie Allen, was an American comedian who became internationally famous as the zany partner and comic foil of husband George Burns...

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

    . http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5jj4yj37U9DWYfLMh8iNpt2MokknAD8SUHC6O0
  • Hila Elmalich
    Hila Elmalich
    Hila Elmalich was an Israeli fashion model who died in 2007. Represented by the Israeli branch of the Elite Model Management modeling agency, she was once a famous fashion model in the country....

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

    i fashion model, anorexia nervosa
    Anorexia nervosa
    Anorexia nervosa is an eating disorder characterized by refusal to maintain a healthy body weight and an obsessive fear of gaining weight. Although commonly called "anorexia", that term on its own denotes any symptomatic loss of appetite and is not strictly accurate...

    . http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/Health/story?id=3883944&page=1.
  • Bertha Fry
    Bertha Fry
    Bertha Fry née Vanosdol was an American supercentenarian. She was age 113 years 348 days old at the time of her death. She lived in Muncie, Indiana....

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

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

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

    . http://www.wthitv.com/Global/story.asp?S=7364437&nav=menu593_2
  • Yadav Pant
    Yadav Pant
    Yadav Prasad Pant was a prominent Nepalese economist and politician. Throughout his career he held several high level positions including senior economist at the UN ESCAP in Bangkok, Thailand; Governor of the Nepal Rastra Bank; Ambassador to Japan; and Minister for Commerce, Supplies, Finance and...

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

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

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

    . http://www.gorkhapatra.org.np/content.php?nid=30228
  • Pablo Antonio Vega Mantilla
    Pablo Antonio Vega Mantilla
    Pablo Antonio Vega Mantilla was the Roman Catholic Bishop of Juigalpa, Nicaragua, from April 30, 1991 until October 29, 1993. He then served as the Bishop Emeritus of the Diocese of Juigalpa until his death on November 14, 2007.-External links:*...

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

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

     of Juigalpa. http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bvega.html

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  • Wahab Akbar
    Wahab Akbar
    Ustadz Wahab M. Akbar was a Filipino politician who served three terms as governor of Basilan, during which time he was known for his "eye for an eye, tooth for a tooth" policy for dealing with kidnappers and terrorists in the province...

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

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

    , representative for Basilan
    House of Representatives of the Philippines
    The House of Representatives of the Philippines is the lower chamber of the...

     province, explosion. http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/breakingnews/nation/view_article.php?article_id=100700
  • Harold J. Berman
    Harold J. Berman
    Harold J. Berman was an American legal scholar who was an expert in comparative, international and Soviet/Russian law as well as legal history, philosophy of law and the intersection of law and religion...

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

     Harvard Law School
    Harvard Law School
    Harvard Law School is one of the professional graduate schools of Harvard University. Located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, it is the oldest continually-operating law school in the United States and is home to the largest academic law library in the world. The school is routinely ranked by the U.S...

     professor (1948–1985). http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/obituaries/articles/2007/11/22/harold_j_berman_authority_on_origins_of_western_law/
  • Alec Cooke, Baron Cooke of Islandreagh
    Alec Cooke, Baron Cooke of Islandreagh
    Victor Alexander Cooke, Baron Cooke of Islandreagh, OBE, DL was a politician in Northern Ireland.The son of Victor and Alice Cooke, he was educated in Marlborough College and graduated from Trinity College in Cambridge with a Master of Arts in mechanical science...

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

     Senator
    Senate of Northern Ireland
    The Senate of Northern Ireland was the upper house of the Parliament of Northern Ireland created by the Government of Ireland Act 1920. It was abolished with the passing of the Northern Ireland Constitution Act 1973.-Powers:...

    . http://uuptoday.org/newsroom/2007/11/15/statement-from-the-officers-of-the-ulster-unionist-party-on-the-death-of-lord-cooke-of-islandreagh/
  • John Doherty
    John Doherty (footballer)
    John Peter Doherty was an English football player. His regular position was at inside right.Born in Manchester, Doherty started his professional career with Manchester United in 1952. He was part of the United squad that won the 1955-56 league title and scored seven goals in 26 appearances...

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

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

     player for Manchester United (1952–1957) and Busby Babe
    Busby Babes
    The Busby Babes were a group of Manchester United players, recruited and trained by the club's chief scout Joe Armstrong and assistant manager Jimmy Murphy, who progressed from the club's youth team into the first team under the management of the eponymous Matt Busby.The Busby Babes were notable...

    . http://www.skysports.com/story/0,19528,11661_2880832,00.html
  • Hugh Gibbons
    Hugh Gibbons
    Hugh Gibbons was an Irish Fianna Fáil party politician who sat in Dáil Éireann as a TD for twelve years, from 1965–1977....

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

     parliamentarian
    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...

     and Gaelic football
    Gaelic football
    Gaelic football , commonly referred to as "football" or "Gaelic", or "Gah" is a form of football played mainly in Ireland...

     player. http://www.rte.ie/news/2007/1115/gibbonsh.html
  • Tony Harris, 36, American
    United States
    The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

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

     player (Washington State Cougars
    Washington State Cougars
    The Washington State Cougars are the athletic teams at Washington State University; the term applies to any of the school's varsity teams. Washington State University is a member of the Pacific-12 Conference, which participates in the NCAA Division I...

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

    . http://msn.foxsports.com/cbk/story/7466276?MSNHPHCP>1=10637
  • Kazuhisa Inao
    Kazuhisa Inao
    was a Japanese professional baseball pitcher. In 1957, he won 20 consecutive games. In 1958 Japan Series, he pitched six games and won 4 consecutive games after his team lost 3 games. He even made a home run in fifth game of Japan Series. He was the Pacific League's Most Valuable Player in 1957 and...

    , 70, Japan
    Japan
    Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...

    ese Hall of Fame
    Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame
    The Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum is a Museum which includes a library, reference rooms and Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame ....

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

     player for the Nishitetsu Lions
    Seibu Lions
    The are a professional baseball team in Japan's Pacific League based west of Tokyo in Tokorozawa, Saitama. Before 1979, they were based in Fukuoka in Kyushu. The team is owned by a subsidiary of Prince Hotels, which in turn is owned by the Seibu Group...

     (1956–1969), cancer
    Cancer
    Cancer , known medically as a malignant neoplasm, is a large group of different diseases, all involving unregulated cell growth. In cancer, cells divide and grow uncontrollably, forming malignant tumors, and invade nearby parts of the body. The cancer may also spread to more distant parts of the...

    . http://www.japantoday.com/jp/news/421443
  • Erik Kurmangaliev
    Erik Kurmangaliev
    Erik Kurmangaliev was a Russian-Kazakh opera singer, actor and a leading public figure in Russia's perestroika music scene.-Early life:...

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

    n-Kazakh
    Kazakhstan
    Kazakhstan , officially the Republic of Kazakhstan, is a transcontinental country in Central Asia and Eastern Europe. Ranked as the ninth largest country in the world, it is also the world's largest landlocked country; its territory of is greater than Western Europe...

     opera
    Opera
    Opera is an art form in which singers and musicians perform a dramatic work combining text and musical score, usually in a theatrical setting. Opera incorporates many of the elements of spoken theatre, such as acting, scenery, and costumes and sometimes includes dance...

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

    . http://www.gazeta.kz/art.asp?aid=99510 (Russian)
  • John Loveridge
    John Loveridge
    Sir John Warren Loveridge was a British Conservative Party Member of Parliament for 13 years, from 1970 to 1983...

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

     Member of Parliament
    British House of Commons
    The House of Commons is the lower house of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, which also comprises the Sovereign and the House of Lords . Both Commons and Lords meet in the Palace of Westminster. The Commons is a democratically elected body, consisting of 650 members , who are known as Members...

     (1970–1983). http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article2909574.ece
  • Robert Taylor
    Robert Taylor (athlete)
    Robert Taylor was a former American athlete, winner of gold medal in 4x100 m relay at the 1972 Summer Olympics. He is the father of NFL player Bobby Taylor....

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

     4x100 m relay gold medallist at the 1972 Summer Olympics
    Athletics at the 1972 Summer Olympics
    At the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, 38 events in athletics were contested, 24 for men and 14 for women. There were a total number of 1324 participating athletes from 104 countries.-Men's events:-Women's events:-Medal table:-References:*...

    , cardiac arrhythmia. http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/wire?section=oly&id=3111194
  • Monty Westmore
    Monty Westmore
    Montague George "Monty" Westmore was part of the third generation of the Westmore family of American make-up artists in film and television who worked on over 75 films and television shows since 1950...

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

     Academy Award-nominated makeup artist
    Makeup artist
    thumb|[[Michelle Camaclang]], an international-certified professional makeup artistthumb|Special effects makeup techniquesA Make-up artist is an artist whose medium is the human body, applying makeup and prosthetics for theatrical, television, film, fashion, magazines and other similar productions...

    . http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/california/la-me-westmore15nov15,0,5944656.story?coll=la-headlines-pe-california
  • Georgiana Young, 84, American
    United States
    The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

     actress. http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0949567/bio
  • Peter Zinner
    Peter Zinner
    Peter Zinner was an Austrian-born American filmmaker who worked as a film editor, sound editor, and producer...

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

     Academy Award-winning film editor (The Deer Hunter
    The Deer Hunter
    The Deer Hunter is a 1978 drama film co-written and directed by Michael Cimino about a trio of Russian American steel worker friends and their infantry service in the Vietnam War. The film stars Robert De Niro, Christopher Walken, Meryl Streep, John Savage, John Cazale, and George Dzundza...

    ). http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-zinner16nov16,1,4614204.story?coll=la-news-obituaries

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  • Ferdinando Baldi
    Ferdinando Baldi
    Ferdinando Baldi was an Italian film director, film producer and screenwriter. He was born on 19 May 1927 in Cava dei Tirreni, in the Province of Salerno.-Career:...

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

     screenwriter
    Screenwriter
    Screenwriters or scriptwriters or scenario writers are people who write/create the short or feature-length screenplays from which mass media such as films, television programs, Comics or video games are based.-Profession:...

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

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

    . http://www.film.it/news/news.php?nid=2070118&srctxt=&siteid=3&ptlid=57001 (Italian)
  • Louis Galen
    Louis Galen
    Louis "Lou" J. Galen was an American philanthropist. Before he retired he was a successful banker and CEO of Golden West Financial Corporation....

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

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

     and banker, heart failure. http://www.mydesert.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071112/OBITUARIES/71112032
  • Ying Hope
    Ying Hope
    Ying L.K. Hope , P. Eng., was a Chinese Canadian politician, Toronto Public School Board trustee and Metro Toronto Councillor and Toronto Alderman....

    , 84, Chinese Canadian
    Chinese Canadian
    Chinese Canadians are Canadians of Chinese descent. They constitute the second-largest visible minority group in Canada, after South Asian Canadians...

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

    . http://www.thestar.com/News/Obituary/article/276238
  • Khanmohammed Ibrahim
    Khanmohammed Ibrahim
    Khanmohammad Cassumbhoy Ibrahim was a former Indian cricketer who played in four Tests from 1948 to 1949....

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

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

    er. http://www.expressindia.com/news/cricket/fulliestory.php?content_id=238417
  • Vijay Kumar Khandelwal, 71, India
    India
    India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...

    n parliamentarian
    Lok Sabha
    The Lok Sabha or House of the People is the lower house of the Parliament of India. Members of the Lok Sabha are elected by direct election under universal adult suffrage. As of 2009, there have been fifteen Lok Sabhas elected by the people of India...

    . http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/holnus/002200711130940.htm
  • Piet Koornhof
    Piet Koornhof
    Pieter G. J. Koornhof was a South African politician. As an apartheid-era National Party cabinet minister, he held various portfolios in the cabinets of B.J. Vorster and P.W. Botha, and was later appointed ambassador to the United States...

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

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

    , former minister
    Minister (government)
    A minister is a politician who holds significant public office in a national or regional government. Senior ministers are members of the cabinet....

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

    . http://www.mg.co.za/articlepage.aspx?area=/breaking_news/breaking_news__national/&articleid=324834
  • Ira Levin
    Ira Levin
    Ira Levin was an American author, dramatist and songwriter.-Professional life:Levin attended Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa...

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

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

     (Rosemary's Baby
    Rosemary's Baby
    Rosemary's Baby is a 1967 best-selling horror novel by Ira Levin, his second published book. Major elements of the story were inspired by the publicity surrounding the Church of Satan of Anton LaVey which had been founded in 1966.-Plot summary:...

    , The Stepford Wives
    The Stepford Wives
    The Stepford Wives is a 1972 satirical thriller novel by Ira Levin. The story concerns Joanna Eberhart, a photographer and young mother who begins to suspect that the frighteningly submissive housewives in her new idyllic Connecticut neighborhood may be robots created by their husbands.Two films of...

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

     (Deathtrap
    Deathtrap (play)
    Deathtrap is a play by Ira Levin in 1978 which encompasses many plot twists and is essentially a play within a play. It is a play in two acts with one set and five characters. It holds the record for the longest running comedy-thriller on Broadway and was also nominated for the Tony Award for Best...

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

    . http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5io_3GrS6dYN0LoPJXtsbUd56MNjAD8ST1DM80
  • Tinius Nagell-Erichsen
    Tinius Nagell-Erichsen
    Einar Fredrik Åke Tinius Nagell-Erichsen was a Norwegian publisher, noted for his leadership of the Schibsted media conglomerate which includes the broadsheet newspaper Aftenposten and the tabloid Verdens gang....

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

     publisher (Schibsted
    Schibsted
    Schibsted is a Norwegian media conglomerate with operations in 20 countries, the most important being Norway and Sweden. The company has its headquarters in Oslo, Norway and is listed on Oslo Stock Exchange....

     group, inc. Aftenposten
    Aftenposten
    Aftenposten is Norway's largest newspaper. It retook this position in 2010, taking it from the tabloid Verdens Gang which had been the largest newspaper for several decades. It is based in Oslo. The morning edition, which is distributed across all of Norway, had a circulation of 250,179 in 2007...

     and Verdens Gang
    Verdens Gang
    Verdens Gang , generally known under the abbreviation VG, is a Norwegian tabloid newspaper...

    ). http://www.abnnewswire.net/press/en/44582/Schibsted.html
  • Janlavyn Narantsatsralt
    Janlavyn Narantsatsralt
    Janlavyn Narantsatsralt was a Mongol politician. He served as Prime Minister of Mongolia from 1998-12-09 until 1999-07-22.- Life :...

    , 50, Mongolia
    Mongolia
    Mongolia is a landlocked country in East and Central Asia. It is bordered by Russia to the north and China to the south, east and west. Although Mongolia does not share a border with Kazakhstan, its western-most point is only from Kazakhstan's eastern tip. Ulan Bator, the capital and largest...

    n Prime Minister
    Prime Minister of Mongolia
    The Prime Minister of Mongolia is the highest member of the Mongolian government's executive arm, and heads the Mongolian cabinet. The Prime Minister is appointed by Parliament, and can be removed by a vote of no confidence.-Powers:...

     (1998–1999), car crash. http://english.people.com.cn/90001/90777/6301873.html
  • A. Palanisamy
    A. Palanisamy
    A. Palanisamy was a volleyball player from Tamilnadu, India. He represented the country in the Asian Games in early 60's. He hailed from Kallampatti near Melur, Madurai district, Tamilnadu. He was nicknamed as Black Panther because of his ferocious attacks in 1962 Asian games held in Jakarta. He...

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

    n volleyball
    Volleyball
    Volleyball is a team sport in which two teams of six players are separated by a net. Each team tries to score points by grounding a ball on the other team's court under organized rules.The complete rules are extensive...

     player. http://www.hindu.com/2007/11/15/stories/2007111562452400.htm
  • Peter "Cool Man" Steiner, 90, Swiss
    Switzerland
    Switzerland name of one of the Swiss cantons. ; ; ; or ), in its full name the Swiss Confederation , is a federal republic consisting of 26 cantons, with Bern as the seat of the federal authorities. The country is situated in Western Europe,Or Central Europe depending on the definition....

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

     and entertainer, fall. http://www.blick.ch/people/cool-man-steiner-ist-gestorben-75964 (German)
  • Lester Ziffren
    Lester Ziffren
    Lester Ziffren was an American reporter and Hollywood screenwriter.Born in Rock Island, Illinois, Ziffren became a reporter for United Press. He was among the first to report on the Spanish Civil War in 1936. He met Ernest Hemingway in Spain, and the two became good friends. Ziffren used a cipher...

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

     reporter during Spanish Civil War
    Spanish Civil War
    The Spanish Civil WarAlso known as The Crusade among Nationalists, the Fourth Carlist War among Carlists, and The Rebellion or Uprising among Republicans. was a major conflict fought in Spain from 17 July 1936 to 1 April 1939...

    , screenwriter
    Screenwriter
    Screenwriters or scriptwriters or scenario writers are people who write/create the short or feature-length screenplays from which mass media such as films, television programs, Comics or video games are based.-Profession:...

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

    , heart failure. http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/obituaries/articles/2007/11/21/lester_ziffren_101_spanish_civil_war_reporter_movie_writer_diplomat/

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  • Anders Hald
    Anders Hald
    Anders Hald was a Danish statistician who made contributions to the history of statistics.He was a professor at the University of Copenhagen from 1960 to 1982.- Bibliography :...

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

     statistician
    Statistician
    A statistician is someone who works with theoretical or applied statistics. The profession exists in both the private and public sectors. The core of that work is to measure, interpret, and describe the world and human activity patterns within it...

    . http://www.kristeligt-dagblad.dk/artikel/269957:Mennesker--Doede (Danish)
  • Yukio Hayashida
    Yukio Hayashida
    was a Japanese politician and former member of the House of Councillors. Hayashida served as the governor of Kyoto from April 16, 1978 until April 15, 1986. He later became the Minister of Justice from November 6, 1987 to December 27, 1988....

    , 91, Japan
    Japan
    Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...

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

     (House of Councillors
    House of Councillors
    The is the upper house of the Diet of Japan. The House of Representatives is the lower house. The House of Councillors is the successor to the pre-war House of Peers. If the two houses disagree on matters of the budget, treaties, or designation of the prime minister, the House of Representatives...

    ), governor
    Governor
    A governor is a governing official, usually the executive of a non-sovereign level of government, ranking under the head of state...

     of Kyoto
    Kyoto Prefecture
    is a prefecture of Japan located in the Kansai region of the island of Honshu. The capital is the city of Kyoto.- History :Until the Meiji Restoration, the area of Kyoto prefecture was known as Yamashiro....

    , Minister of Justice
    Minister of Justice (Japan)
    The is the member of the Cabinet of Japan in charge of the Ministry of Justice. The post has been held by Hideo Hiraoka since 2 September 2011.- Ministers of Justice :...

    , heart failure. http://www.nishinippon.co.jp/nnp/national/obituaries/20071111/20071111_004.shtml (Japanese)
  • Kojiro Kusanagi
    Kojiro Kusanagi
    was a Japanese actor.He made his film debut in 1956 in Darkness at Noon, which was based on the true story of an innocent man arrested, tried and executed for a crime he didn't commit...

    , 78, Japan
    Japan
    Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...

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

    , interstitial lung disease. http://www.tokyograph.com/news/id-2054
  • Berkeley Lent
    Berkeley Lent
    Berkeley "Bud" Lent was an American politician and jurist in the state of Oregon. He was the 38th Chief Justice of the Oregon Supreme Court, serving from 1982 to 1983. Elected to the court in 1976, Lent remained until 1988...

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

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

     on the Oregon Supreme Court
    Oregon Supreme Court
    The Oregon Supreme Court is the highest state court in the U.S. state of Oregon. The only court that may reverse or modify a decision of the Oregon Supreme Court is the Supreme Court of the United States. The OSC holds court at the Oregon Supreme Court Building in Salem, Oregon, near the capitol...

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

    . http://www.oregonlive.com/news/oregonian/index.ssf?/base/news/1195008918166260.xml&coll=7
  • Delbert Mann
    Delbert Mann
    Delbert Martin Mann, Jr. was an American television and film director. He won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival and the Academy Award for Best Director for the film Marty...

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

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

     (Marty
    Marty (film)
    Marty is a 1955 American film directed by Delbert Mann. The screenplay was written by Paddy Chayefsky, expanding upon his 1953 teleplay of the same name. The film stars Ernest Borgnine and Betsy Blair. The film enjoyed international success, winning the 1955 Academy Award for Best Picture and...

    , Separate Tables
    Separate Tables (film)
    Separate Tables is a 1958 American drama film based on two one-act plays by Terence Rattigan that were collectively known by this name. It was directed by Delbert Mann, and adapted by Rattigan, John Gay and an uncredited John Michael Hayes. Mary Grant designed the film's costumes.The film took the...

    , The Bachelor Party
    The Bachelor Party
    The Bachelor Party is a 1953 teleplay by Paddy Chayefsky which was adapted by Chayefsky for a 1957 film.-Television:Chayefsky's teleplay was produced by Fred Coe for The Philco Television Playhouse on October 11, 1953...

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

    . http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071112/ap_on_en_mo/obit_mann_1
  • Dick Nolan, 75, American
    United States
    The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

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

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

    , 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 ....

    ), father of 49ers coach Mike Nolan
    Mike Nolan
    Mike Nolan is an American football coach and the current defensive coordinator of the Miami Dolphins...

    . http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=3105819
  • Omwony Ojwok
    Omwony Ojwok
    Omwony Ojwok was a Ugandan politician. He served as director of the Ugandan AIDS Commission , Minister for Northern Rehabilitation and State Minister for Economic Monitoring . He died of heart failure at the age of 60.-References:...

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

    n politician, former minister, heart failure. http://allafrica.com/stories/200711140043.html
  • Tadahiro Sekimoto
    Tadahiro Sekimoto
    Tadahiro Sekimoto was a Japanese electronics engineer, a recipient of the IEEE Medal of Honor , chairman of Japan's Institute for International Socio-Economic Studies , and former chairman of the Board of Councilors of the Japan Federation of Economic Organizations who served as president and...

    , 80, Japan
    Japan
    Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...

    ese electronics engineer and business executive, former president and chairman of NEC
    NEC
    , a Japanese multinational IT company, has its headquarters in Minato, Tokyo, Japan. NEC, part of the Sumitomo Group, provides information technology and network solutions to business enterprises, communications services providers and government....

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

    . http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/16/business/worldbusiness/16sekimoto.html?ref=business
  • Trish Williamson
    Trish Williamson
    Patricia 'Trish' Williamson was an English TV presenter, producer, and filmmaker, best known for her stint as a "weathergirl" on the ITV breakfast television programme Good Morning Britain on TV-am throughout the 1980s.The daughter of journalist Harold Williamson, who notably worked on the BBC...

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

     TV-am
    TV-am
    TV-am was a breakfast television station that broadcast to the United Kingdom from 1 February 1983 to 31 December 1992. It made history by being the first national operator of a commercial television franchise at breakfast-time , and broadcast every day of the week for most or all of the period...

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

    , car crash. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=493218&in_page_id=1770&ICO=NEWS&ICL=TOPART

10

  • Laraine Day
    Laraine Day
    Laraine Day was an American actress and a former MGM contract star.-Career:Born La Raine Johnson in Roosevelt, Utah, to an affluent Mormon family, she later moved to California where she began her acting career with the Long Beach Players...

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

     actress (Foreign Correspondent
    Foreign Correspondent (film)
    Foreign Correspondent is a 1940 American spy thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock which tells the story of an American reporter who tries to expose enemy spies in Britain, a series of events involving a continent-wide conspiracy that eventually leads to the events of a fictionalized World War...

    , The High and the Mighty
    The High and the Mighty (film)
    The High and the Mighty is a 1954 American "disaster" film directed by William A. Wellman and written by Ernest K. Gann who also wrote the novel on which his screenplay was based. The film's cast was headlined by John Wayne, who was also the project's co-producer...

    ). http://www.ksby.com/Global/story.asp?S=7344904
  • John Fee
    John Fee
    John Fitzgerald Fee was an Irish nationalist politician from County Armagh who served in the Northern Ireland Assembly.-Career:...

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

     nationalist
    Irish nationalism
    Irish nationalism manifests itself in political and social movements and in sentiment inspired by a love for Irish culture, language and history, and as a sense of pride in Ireland and in the Irish people...

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

    , brain tumour. http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/breaking/2007/1111/breaking32.htm
  • Augustus F. Hawkins
    Augustus F. Hawkins
    Augustus Freeman "Gus" Hawkins was a prominent African American Democratic Party politician and a figure in the history of Civil Rights and organized labor. He served as the first African American from California in the United States Congress, where he sponsored the Humphrey-Hawkins Full...

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

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

     (1963–1991). http://www.latimes.com/news/la-me-hawkins13nov13,1,6539743.story?ctrack=1&cset=true
  • Norman Mailer
    Norman Mailer
    Norman Kingsley Mailer was an American novelist, journalist, essayist, poet, playwright, screenwriter, and film director.Along with Truman Capote, Joan Didion, Hunter S...

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

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

     (The Naked and the Dead
    The Naked and the Dead
    The Naked and the Dead is a 1948 novel by Norman Mailer. It was based on his experiences with the 112th Cavalry Regiment during the Philippines Campaign in World War II...

    , The Executioner's Song
    The Executioner's Song
    The Executioner's Song is a 1980 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Norman Mailer that depicts the events surrounding the execution of Gary Gilmore by the state of Utah for murder. The title of the book may be a play on "The Lord High Executioner's Song" from Gilbert and Sullivan's The Mikado...

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

    . http://apnews.myway.com/article/20071110/D8SQQRI80.html
  • John H. Noble
    John H. Noble
    John H. Noble was an American survivor of the Soviet Gulag system, who wrote two books relating to his experiences after being permitted to leave the Soviet Union and return to his native United States....

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

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

     gulag
    Gulag
    The Gulag was the government agency that administered the main Soviet forced labor camp systems. While the camps housed a wide range of convicts, from petty criminals to political prisoners, large numbers were convicted by simplified procedures, such as NKVD troikas and other instruments of...

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

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

    . http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/obituaries/articles/2007/11/18/john_h_noble_84_chronicled_his_10_year_ordeal_in_a_gulag/
  • John Wilfred Stanier, 82, British
    United Kingdom
    The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...

     Army
    British Army
    The British Army is the land warfare branch of Her Majesty's Armed Forces in the United Kingdom. It came into being with the unification of the Kingdom of England and Scotland into the Kingdom of Great Britain in 1707. The new British Army incorporated Regiments that had already existed in England...

     field marshal
    Field Marshal
    Field Marshal is a military rank. Traditionally, it is the highest military rank in an army.-Etymology:The origin of the rank of field marshal dates to the early Middle Ages, originally meaning the keeper of the king's horses , from the time of the early Frankish kings.-Usage and hierarchical...

    , retired Chief of the General Staff
    Chief of the General Staff (United Kingdom)
    Chief of the General Staff has been the title of the professional head of the British Army since 1964. The CGS is a member of both the Chiefs of Staff Committee and the Army Board...

    . http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article2858878.ece

9

  • Luis Herrera Campins
    Luis Herrera Campins
    Luis Antonio Herrera Campins was President of Venezuela from 1979 to 1984. He was elected to one five-year term in 1978. He was a member of the COPEI party.- Early Life and career:...

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

    n President (1979–1984), after long illness. http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/11/09/america/LA-GEN-Venezuela-Obit-Herrera.php
  • Bill Hosokawa
    Bill Hosokawa
    William Kumpai Hosokawa was a Japanese American author and journalist who worked for 38 years at The Denver Post, before retiring as the editorial page editor from that particular paper in 1984. Hosokawa retired from the newspaper industry in 1992.Hosokawa was also a prolific author...

    , 92, Japanese American
    Japanese American
    are American people of Japanese heritage. Japanese Americans have historically been among the three largest Asian American communities, but in recent decades have become the sixth largest group at roughly 1,204,205, including those of mixed-race or mixed-ethnicity...

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

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

    . http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5ilYoKzngkOoSDw_XJL0MtQlqt2CQD8SRA4G80
  • Ilya Zbarsky
    Ilya Zbarsky
    Ilya B. Zbarsky was the Russian head of Lenin's Mausoleum in Moscow, Russia. Zbarsky worked as the director of the Vladimir Lenin's Mausoleum from 1956 until 1989...

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

    n head of Lenin's Mausoleum
    Lenin's Mausoleum
    Lenin's Mausoleum also known as Lenin's Tomb, situated in Red Square in the center of Moscow, is the mausoleum that serves as the current resting place of Vladimir Lenin. His embalmed body has been on public display there since shortly after his death in 1924...

    . http://idbras.comcor.ru/personal/ZBARSKY.HTM (Russian)

8

  • John Arpin
    John Arpin
    John Francis Oscar Arpin was a Canadian composer, recording artist and entertainer, best known for his work as a virtuoso ragtime pianist....

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

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

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

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

    . http://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/news/arts/story.html?id=330f07f0-beb3-4a0f-ae29-70173376582a
  • Stephen Fumio Hamao, 77, Japan
    Japan
    Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...

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

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

     of Yokohama
    Yokohama
    is the capital city of Kanagawa Prefecture and the second largest city in Japan by population after Tokyo and most populous municipality of Japan. It lies on Tokyo Bay, south of Tokyo, in the Kantō region of the main island of Honshu...

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

    . http://www.catholicnews.com/data/stories/cns/0706395.htm
  • Bobby Harrop
    Bobby Harrop
    Robert Harrop was an English footballer. His regular position was at half back. He was born in Manchester. He played for Manchester United and Tranmere Rovers....

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

     footballer. http://manunitedfans.blogspot.com/2009/01/bobby-harrop-tribute-by-tom-clare.html
  • Francine Parker
    Francine Parker
    Francine Parker was an American television and film director, who was one of the first female members of the Directors Guild of America. Parker was best known for her controversial documentary, FTA, which chronicled the antiwar entertainers tour, Free The Army tour , during the Vietnam War...

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

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

     (FTA
    Free The Army tour
    The FTA Tour , a play on the troop expression "Fuck The Army", which in turn was a play on the army slogan "Fun, Travel and Adventure") was an anti-Vietnam War road show designed as a response to Bob Hope's USO tour....

    ), heart failure. http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/obituaries/articles/2007/11/20/francine_parker_directed_controversial_fta/
  • Dulce Saguisag
    Dulce Saguisag
    Dulce Quintans-Saguisag was a Filipino politician and former Secretary of the Department of Social Welfare and Development under the administration of former President Joseph Estrada...

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

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

    , former Secretary of Department of Social Welfare and Development, car accident
    Car accident
    A traffic collision, also known as a traffic accident, motor vehicle collision, motor vehicle accident, car accident, automobile accident, Road Traffic Collision or car crash, occurs when a vehicle collides with another vehicle, pedestrian, animal, road debris, or other stationary obstruction,...

    . http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/breakingnews/metro/view_article.php?article_id=99662
  • Bungo Tsuda
    Bungo Tsuda
    was a Japanese politician. He served as governor of Kanagawa Prefecture from April 23, 1967 until April 22, 1975.Tsuda was born in Kosugi, Toyama and died at the age of 89 of colorectal cancer in Yokohama.- External links :* - References :...

    , 89, Japan
    Japan
    Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...

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

    , former governor
    Governor
    A governor is a governing official, usually the executive of a non-sovereign level of government, ranking under the head of state...

     of Kanagawa Prefecture
    Kanagawa Prefecture
    is a prefecture located in the southern Kantō region of Japan. The capital is Yokohama. Kanagawa is part of the Greater Tokyo Area.-History:The prefecture has some archaeological sites going back to the Jōmon period...

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

    . http://www.nishinippon.co.jp/nnp/national/obituaries/20071108/20071108_003.shtml (Japanese)
  • Chad Varah
    Chad Varah
    Reverend Prebendary Edward Chad Varah, CH, CBE was a British Anglican priest. He is best remembered as the founder of The Samaritans, established in 1953 as the world's first crisis hotline organisation, offering non-religious telephone support to those contemplating suicide.-Life:Varah was born...

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

     Anglican priest
    Priest
    A priest is a person authorized to perform the sacred rites of a religion, especially as a mediatory agent between humans and deities. They also have the authority or power to administer religious rites; in particular, rites of sacrifice to, and propitiation of, a deity or deities...

    , founder of the Samaritans
    Samaritans (charity)
    Samaritans is a registered charity aimed at providing emotional support to anyone in emotional distress or at risk of suicide throughout the United Kingdom and Ireland, often through their telephone helpline. The name comes from the Biblical parable of the Good Samaritan, though the organisation...

    . http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7086109.stm http://www.samaritans.org/media_centre/latest_press_releases/chad_biography.aspx

7

  • Pekka-Eric Auvinen, 18, Finnish
    Finland
    Finland , officially the Republic of Finland, is a Nordic country situated in the Fennoscandian region of Northern Europe. It is bordered by Sweden in the west, Norway in the north and Russia in the east, while Estonia lies to its south across the Gulf of Finland.Around 5.4 million people reside...

     mass murderer
    Jokela school shooting
    The Jokela school massacre was a school shooting that occurred on November 7, 2007, at Jokela High School in Jokela, a town in the municipality of Tuusula, Finland. The gunman, 18-year-old student Pekka-Eric Auvinen, entered the school on that morning armed with a semi-automatic pistol. He killed...

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

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

    . http://www.theage.com.au/news/world/nine-dead-after-high-school-massacre/2007/11/08/1194329351154.html
  • Hobart Brown
    Hobart Brown
    Hobart Ray Brown, was an American sculptor and the founder of Kinetic Sculpture Racing.-Early years:...

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

     sculptor, founder of the Kinetic Sculpture Race
    Kinetic sculpture race
    Kinetic sculpture races are organized contests of human-powered amphibious all-terrain works of art. The original event, the Kinetic Grand Championship in Humboldt County, California, is also called the "Triathlon of the Art World" because art and engineering are combined with physical endurance...

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

    . http://www.kten.com/Global/story.asp?S=7331643
  • Earl Dodge
    Earl Dodge
    Earl Farwell Dodge, Jr. was a long-time temperance movement leader and a politician of the Prohibition Party, from the U.S. state of Colorado.-Biography:...

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

     presidential candidate (Prohibition Party
    Prohibition Party
    The Prohibition Party is a political party in the United States best known for its historic opposition to the sale or consumption of alcoholic beverages. It is the oldest existing third party in the US. The party was an integral part of the temperance movement...

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

    . http://www.bizjournals.com/denver/stories/2007/11/05/daily40.html
  • Paul Dojack
    Paul Dojack
    Paul Dojack was a Canadian CFL referee.He officiated in 546 CFL games including 15 Grey Cup finals....

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

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

     referee
    Official (American football)
    In American football, an official is a person who has responsibility in enforcing the rules and maintaining the order of the game.During professional and college football games, seven officials operate on the field...

    . http://slam.canoe.ca/Slam/Football/CFL/News/2007/11/07/4637794-cp.html
  • George W. George
    George W. George
    George W. George was an American theater, Broadway and film producer. His credits included the 1981 film My Dinner With Andre and several hit Broadway productions....

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

     Broadway
    Broadway theatre
    Broadway theatre, commonly called simply Broadway, refers to theatrical performances presented in one of the 40 professional theatres with 500 or more seats located in the Theatre District centered along Broadway, and in Lincoln Center, in Manhattan in New York City...

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

     (My Dinner With Andre
    My Dinner with Andre
    My Dinner with Andre is a 1981 film starring Andre Gregory and Wallace Shawn, written by Gregory and Shawn, and directed by Louis Malle.-Plot:...

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

    . http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/obituaries/articles/2007/11/20/george_w_george_at_87_writer_producer_of_films_and_broadway_plays/
  • Salome Gluecksohn-Waelsch
    Salome Gluecksohn-Waelsch
    Salome Gluecksohn-Waelsch was a German-born U.S. geneticist and co-founder of developmental genetics.- Life and scientific career :...

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

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

     geneticist
    Geneticist
    A geneticist is a biologist who studies genetics, the science of genes, heredity, and variation of organisms. A geneticist can be employed as a researcher or lecturer. Some geneticists perform experiments and analyze data to interpret the inheritance of skills. A geneticist is also a Consultant or...

    . http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/15/science/15waelsch.html
  • Arthur Hezlet
    Arthur Hezlet
    Vice-Admiral Sir Arthur Richard "Baldy" Hezlet, KBE, CB, DSO and Bar, DSC, Legion of Merit was a decorated Royal Navy submariner...

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

     Royal Navy
    Royal Navy
    The Royal Navy is the naval warfare service branch of the British Armed Forces. Founded in the 16th century, it is the oldest service branch and is known as the Senior Service...

     Vice-Admiral, submarine
    Submarine
    A submarine is a watercraft capable of independent operation below the surface of the water. It differs from a submersible, which has more limited underwater capability...

    r and naval historian
    Naval historian
    A naval historian is a student of maritime history, who specialises in the sub-discipline of naval history.-References:*Julian Corbett, 'The Teaching of Naval and Military History,' History, New Series, vol. 1 , pp. 12–19....

    . http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article2834675.ece
  • Lidia Ivanova
    Lidia Ivanova
    Lidia Mikhailovna Ivanova was a Russian print and television journalist, television announcer and writer. She died of complications from diabetes on November 7, 2007.-External links:* *...

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

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

    , announcer
    Announcer
    An announcer is a presenter who makes "announcements" in an audio medium or a physical location.-Television and other media:Some announcers work in television production , radio or filmmaking, usually providing narrations, news updates, station identification, or an introduction of a product in...

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

    , diabetes. http://www.rian.ru/spravka/20071107/87022718.html (Russian)
  • Alejandra Meyer
    Alejandra Meyer
    Martha Alejandra Meyer was a Mexican telenovela actress. Additionally, she appeared in over 90 films throughout her career and many telenovelas, including Serafín and Niña amada mía . She first gained fame in Mexican television programs such as Cándido Pérez, where she appeared opposite actor...

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

     telenovela
    Telenovela
    A telenovela is a limited-run serial dramatic programming popular in Latin American, Portuguese, and Spanish television programming. The word combines tele, short for televisión or televisão , and novela, a Spanish or Portuguese word for "novel"...

     actress, heart failure. http://www.esmas.com/noticierostelevisa/mexico/675505.html (Spanish)

6

  • Enzo Biagi
    Enzo Biagi
    Enzo Biagi was an Italian journalist and writer.-Biography:Biagi was born in Lizzano in Belvedere, and began his career as a journalist in Bologna. Active in journalism for six decades and author of some eighty books, Biagi won numerous awards, among which the 1979 Saint Vincent prize and the...

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

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

    . http://uk.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUKL0661439320071106
  • Hilda Braid
    Hilda Braid
    Hilda Braid was an English actress who had a long career on British television and became well known in her later years for playing Victoria "Nana" Moon in the BBC One soap opera EastEnders....

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

     actress (EastEnders
    EastEnders
    EastEnders is a British television soap opera, first broadcast in the United Kingdom on BBC One on 19 February 1985 and continuing to today. EastEnders storylines examine the domestic and professional lives of the people who live and work in the fictional London Borough of Walford in the East End...

    , Citizen Smith
    Citizen Smith
    Citizen Smith is a British television sitcom. The show was written by John Sullivan, who later wrote Only Fools and Horses. The pilot was transmitted on 12 April 1977 in the Comedy Special series of one-off plays, and the series proper ran from 3 November 1977 to 31 December 1980.Citizen Smith...

    ). http://www.theargus.co.uk/news/localnews/display.var.1812894.0.eastenders_star_dies_in_brighton.php
  • John Grenier
    John Grenier
    John Edward Grenier was a Birmingham attorney and a pioneer in the development of the modern Republican Party in the U.S. state of Alabama. Grenier was a former litigator for Lange Simpson Robinson & Somerville, one of the oldest and most distinguished law firms in Birmingham. He was Alabama state...

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

     politician, former executive director of the Republican National Committee
    Republican National Committee
    The Republican National Committee is an American political committee that provides national leadership for the Republican Party of the United States. It is responsible for developing and promoting the Republican political platform, as well as coordinating fundraising and election strategy. It is...

    . http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/10/us/10grenier.html?ref=obituaries
  • George Grljusich
    George Grljusich
    George Ned Grljusich was a sports journalist, commentator and former Australian rules footballer from Western Australia.-Education:...

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

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

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

    . http://www.thewest.com.au/default.aspx?MenuID=77&ContentID=45975
  • Sayed Mustafa Kazemi
    Sayed Mustafa Kazemi
    Sayed Mustafa Kazemi from Parwan was a prominent Afghan politician. He was one of the leaders and the spokesmen for the opposition movement known as the United National Front. He was a former minister of commerce in the Afghan Transitional Government...

    , c.45, Afghan
    Afghanistan
    Afghanistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, is a landlocked country located in the centre of Asia, forming South Asia, Central Asia and the Middle East. With a population of about 29 million, it has an area of , making it the 42nd most populous and 41st largest nation in the world...

     politician, former commerce minister, bomb blast
    2007 Baghlan sugar factory bombing
    The 2007 Baghlan sugar factory bombing occurred on November 6, 2007 when a bomb exploded in the centre of Baghlan, Afghanistan, while a delegation of parliamentarians was visiting, killing dozens including several lawmakers.- The event :...

     injuries. http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/07/world/asia/07afghan.html?em&ex=1194498000&en=ff22dbb94c1f0a5a&ei=5087%0A
  • Fred W. McDarrah
    Fred W. McDarrah
    Frederick William "Fred" McDarrah was an American staff photographer for the Village Voice. He became famous for documenting the cultural phenomenon known as the Beat Generation from its inception in the 1950s. In his book The Artist's World in Pictures, co-authored with Thomas B...

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

     photographer (Village Voice), documented the rise of the Beat Generation
    Beat generation
    The Beat Generation refers to a group of American post-WWII writers who came to prominence in the 1950s, as well as the cultural phenomena that they both documented and inspired...

    . http://www.villagevoice.com/news/0745,robbins,78255,2.html
  • George Osmond
    George Osmond
    George Virl Osmond was the patriarch of the Osmond family.George Virl Osmond was born in Etna, Wyoming, the son of Agnes Laverna and Rulon Osmond. Rulon died at age 24 on November 24, 1917 shortly after George was born...

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

     patriarch of the Osmond
    The Osmonds
    The Osmonds are an American family music group with a long and varied career—a career that took them from singing barbershop music as children, to achieving success as teen-music idols, to producing a hit television show, and to continued success as solo and group performers...

     singing family. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21659054/
  • Jimmy Staggs
    Jimmy Staggs
    Jimmy Pearson Staggs was an American disc jockey and record store owner in Chicago, Illinois.- Early life :...

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

     radio
    Radio
    Radio is the transmission of signals through free space by modulation of electromagnetic waves with frequencies below those of visible light. Electromagnetic radiation travels by means of oscillating electromagnetic fields that pass through the air and the vacuum of space...

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

    . http://obits.eons.com/national/feature/national_music/22206
  • Hank Thompson
    Hank Thompson (music)
    Henry William Thompson , known professionally as Hank Thompson, was an American country music entertainer whose career spanned seven decades...

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

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

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

    . http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/08/arts/08thompson.html?_r=1&ref=obituaries&oref=slogin http://www.cbc.ca/arts/music/story/2007/11/07/hank-thompson-obit.html
  • Hajji Muhammad Arif Zarif
    Hajji Muhammad Arif Zarif
    Hajji Muhammad Arif Zarif was a prominent Afghan politician and businessman. He graduated from Afghanistan's military academy...

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

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

     and businessman, bomb blast injuries
    2007 Baghlan sugar factory bombing
    The 2007 Baghlan sugar factory bombing occurred on November 6, 2007 when a bomb exploded in the centre of Baghlan, Afghanistan, while a delegation of parliamentarians was visiting, killing dozens including several lawmakers.- The event :...

    . http://www.8km.de/category/afghanistan/

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  • Roberto Bortoluzzi
    Roberto Bortoluzzi
    Roberto Bortoluzzi was an Italian sports journalist and radio broadcaster. He was best known as the host of Tutto il calcio minuto per minuto, a live radio show covering Italian football .-Biography:...

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

     sports journalist and radio broadcaster. http://www.agi.it/engsport/news/200711052124-spr-ren0100-art.html
  • James Brabazon
    James Brabazon
    Leslie James Seth-Smith , known as James Brabazon, was a screenwriter and the author of two well-received biographies of Albert Schweitzer and Dorothy L. Sayers...

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

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

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

    . http://www.seth-smith.org.uk/jamescelebration.html
  • Thelma Buchholdt
    Thelma Buchholdt
    Thelma Garcia Buchholdt was a Filipino American community activist, politician, historian, public speaker, cultural worker, and author. She was elected to the Alaska House of Representatives for four consecutive terms, from 1974 through 1982...

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

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

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

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

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

    . http://www.gov.state.ak.us/archive-27938.html
  • Nils Liedholm
    Nils Liedholm
    Nils Liedholm was a Swedish football midfielder and coach. Il Barone , as he is affectionately known in Italy, was renowned for being part of Sweden's "Gre-No-Li" trio of strikers along with Gunnar Gren and Gunnar Nordahl at A.C. Milan and the Swedish national team...

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

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

     midfielder
    Midfielder
    A midfielder is an association football position. Some midfielders play a more defensive role, while others blur the boundaries between midfielders and forwards. The number of midfielders a team uses during a match may vary, depending on the team's formation and each individual player's role...

     and coach. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/11/07/db0702.xml
  • Marie-Rose Mueller
    Marie-Rose Mueller
    Marie-Rose 'Muzzy' Schleret Mueller was an American supercentenarian and, at age 111, she was one of the 50 oldest verified living people in the world, having been the second-oldest person in Connecticut until she died .-Early life:When she was born to...

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

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

    . http://www.connpost.com/localnews/ci_7403953
  • Paul Norris
    Paul Norris
    Paul Leroy Norris was an American comic book artist best known as co-creator of the DC Comics superhero Aquaman, and for a 35-year run as artist of the newspaper comic strip Brick Bradford.-Early life and career:...

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

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

    , co-creator of Aquaman
    Aquaman
    Aquaman is a fictional superhero who appears in comic books published by DC Comics. Created by Paul Norris and Mort Weisinger, the character debuted in More Fun Comics #73 . Initially a backup feature in DC's anthology titles, Aquaman later starred in several volumes of a solo title...

    . http://www.newsfromme.com/archives/2007_11_06.html#014315
  • Paul Soloway
    Paul Soloway
    Paul Soloway was a world champion American bridge player. He won the Bermuda Bowl world team championship five times and won 30 national championships. Soloway was inducted into the American Contract Bridge League's Hall of Fame in 2002...

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

     five-time world bridge
    Contract bridge
    Contract bridge, usually known simply as bridge, is a trick-taking card game using a standard deck of 52 playing cards played by four players in two competing partnerships with partners sitting opposite each other around a small table...

     champion, complications of infection. http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/08/arts/08soloway.html

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  • Cyprian Ekwensi
    Cyprian Ekwensi
    Cyprian Ekwensi, MFR was a Nigerian short story writer and author of children's books.-Early life, education and family:Ekwensi, an Igbo, was born in Minna, Niger State...

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

    n author. http://www.guardiannewsngr.com/news/article05
  • Swami Gahanananda, 91, Bangladesh
    Bangladesh
    Bangladesh , officially the People's Republic of Bangladesh is a sovereign state located in South Asia. It is bordered by India on all sides except for a small border with Burma to the far southeast and by the Bay of Bengal to the south...

    i religious leader, 14th President of the Ramakrishna Order
    Ramakrishna Order
    The Ramakrishna Order is the monastic organization founded by Sri Ramakrishna and his disciple Swami Vivekananda. It encompasses the twin organizations Ramakrishna Math and Ramakrishna Mission, both headquartered at Belur Math near Kolkata, India....

    . http://www.expressindia.com/latest-news/Swami-Gahanananda-passes-away/236189/
  • Hideo Hagiwara
    Hideo Hagiwara
    was a Japanese artist who worked mainly with woodblock prints. He was born in Kōfu, Yamanashi. Between 1921 and 1929 he lived in Korea and Manchuria. He studied at the Tokyo School of Fine Arts, where he graduated at the Oil Painting Section in 1938...

    , 94, Japan
    Japan
    Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...

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

    . http://mainichi.jp/select/person/news/20071105k0000e060023000c.html (Japanese)
  • Dorothy LaBostrie
    Dorothy LaBostrie
    Dorothy LaBostrie , alternatively La Bostrie or Labostrie, later Dorothy LaBostrie Black, was an American songwriter, best known for co-writing Little Richard's 1955 hit "Tutti Frutti"....

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

     songwriter
    Songwriter
    A songwriter is an individual who writes both the lyrics and music to a song. Someone who solely writes lyrics may be called a lyricist, and someone who only writes music may be called a composer...

     ("Tutti Frutti
    Tutti Frutti (song)
    "Tutti Frutti" is a 1955 song by Little Richard, which became his first hit record. With its opening cry of "A-wop-bop-a-loo-bop-a-lop-bop-bop!" and its hard-driving sound and wild lyrics, it became not only a model for many future Little Richard songs, but also one of the...

    "). http://files.usgwarchives.org/la/orleans/obits/2007/2007-11.txt
  • Lennart Rönnback
    Lennart Rönnback
    Lennart Rönnback was a Finnish White Guard veteran of the Finnish Civil War of 1918. Rönnback died on 4 November 2007, at the age of 102. He was considered the last White Guard veteran of the Finnish Civil War at the time of his death, but later Lauri Nurminen was discovered. See Last Red Guard...

    , 102, Finnish
    Finland
    Finland , officially the Republic of Finland, is a Nordic country situated in the Fennoscandian region of Northern Europe. It is bordered by Sweden in the west, Norway in the north and Russia in the east, while Estonia lies to its south across the Gulf of Finland.Around 5.4 million people reside...

     veteran of the Finnish Civil War
    Finnish Civil War
    The Finnish Civil War was a part of the national, political and social turmoil caused by World War I in Europe. The Civil War concerned control and leadership of The Grand Duchy of Finland as it achieved independence from Russia after the October Revolution in Petrograd...

    , last of the White Guard. http://www.uusisuomi.fi/kotimaa/3944-viimeinen-vapaussoturi-lennart-ronnback-kuoli-102-vuotiaana (Finnish)
  • Peter Viertel
    Peter Viertel
    Peter Viertel was an author and screenwriter.-Biography:He was born to Jewish parents in Dresden, Germany, the writer and actress Salka Viertel and the writer Berthold Viertel. In 1928, his parents moved to Santa Monica, California where Viertel grew up with his brothers, Hans and Thomas...

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

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

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

     and screenwriter
    Screenwriter
    Screenwriters or scriptwriters or scenario writers are people who write/create the short or feature-length screenplays from which mass media such as films, television programs, Comics or video games are based.-Profession:...

    . http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/245456/Scriptwriter_Peter_Viertel_dies_at_86

3

  • Peter Andren
    Peter Andren
    Peter James Andren AM was an Australian politician. He was an independent member of the Australian House of Representatives from March 1996 until October 2007, representing the electorate of Calare, New South Wales....

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

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

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

    . http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/11/03/2080811.htm http://www.news.com.au/adelaidenow/story/0,22606,22695534-5007060,00.html
  • Maurice Noël Léon Couve de Murville
    Maurice Noël Léon Couve de Murville
    Maurice Noël Léon Couve de Murville was the seventh Roman Catholic Archbishop of Birmingham from 25 March 1982 until his retirement on 12 June 1999, having formerly been a priest of the Diocese of Arundel and Brighton and chaplain of Fisher House, Cambridge.-Early career and priesthood:Maurice...

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

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

     Roman Catholic Archbishop of Birmingham
    Archbishop of Birmingham
    The Archbishop of Birmingham heads the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Birmingham in England. As such he is the Metropolitan Archbishop of the Province of Birmingham....

     (1982–1999). http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/west_midlands/7076637.stm
  • Aleksandr Dedyushko
    Aleksandr Dedyushko
    Aleksandr Viktorovich Dedyushko was a Russian television actor, best known for war dramas and the Russian version of "Dancing with the Stars"....

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

    n actor, car crash. http://lenta.ru/news/2007/11/04/rip/ (Russian)
  • Marilyn Martinez
    Marilyn Martinez
    Marilyn Martinez was a Hispanic American stand up comedian and actress. She was a regular performer at The Comedy Store in Hollywood....

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

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

    . http://www.backstage.com/bso/news_reviews/la/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003670409
  • Donald Matthews
    Donald Matthews (political scientist)
    Donald R. Matthews was a University of Washington political scientist. He was best known for his landmark 1960 book on the United States Senate, U.S. Senators and Their World, which was reissued six times and used as a textbook in some university courses. U.S. President Lyndon B...

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

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

    . http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/obituaries/articles/2007/11/14/other_deaths/
  • Martin Meehan
    Martin Meehan (Irish republican)
    Martin Meehan was a Sinn Féin politician and former volunteer in the Provisional Irish Republican Army . Meehan was the first person to be convicted of membership of the Provisional IRA, and he spent eighteen years in prison during the Troubles.-Background and IRA activity:Meehan was born in 1945...

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

     Sinn Féin
    Sinn Féin
    Sinn Féin is a left wing, Irish republican political party in Ireland. The name is Irish for "ourselves" or "we ourselves", although it is frequently mistranslated as "ourselves alone". Originating in the Sinn Féin organisation founded in 1905 by Arthur Griffith, it took its current form in 1970...

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

    . http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/northern_ireland/7076786.stm
  • Mary Walker Phillips
    Mary Walker Phillips
    Mary Walker Phillips was an American artist, author and teacher. Born in Fresno, California, she earned an MFA at the Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan and in 1962 moved to Greenwich Village, New York City.Jack Lenor Larsen wrote in the forward to Phillips' book, Step by Step...

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

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

    . http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/20/arts/20phillips.html?8br
  • George Ratterman
    George Ratterman
    George William Ratterman was an American Football player in the All-America Football Conference and the National Football League.-Early life:...

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

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

     player (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...

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

    . http://www.wtol.com/Global/story.asp?S=7310075
  • Ryan Shay
    Ryan Shay
    Ryan Shay was an American professional long-distance runner. He was born in Ypsilanti, Michigan, and attended the University of Notre Dame. He was married to Alicia Craig, also an American distance runner...

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

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

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

     marathon
    Marathon
    The marathon is a long-distance running event with an official distance of 42.195 kilometres , that is usually run as a road race...

     trials.

2

  • Oreste Benzi
    Oreste Benzi
    Oreste Benzi was an Italian Catholic priest famous for having founded the "Pope John XXIII community."...

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

     Roman Catholic priest
    Priest
    A priest is a person authorized to perform the sacred rites of a religion, especially as a mediatory agent between humans and deities. They also have the authority or power to administer religious rites; in particular, rites of sacrifice to, and propitiation of, a deity or deities...

    . http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article2842874.ece
  • Henry Cele
    Henry Cele
    Henry Cele was a South African actor famous for his chilling performance as Shaka Zulu in SABC's Shaka Zulu miniseries. Born in Durban, South Africa, he landed the role of Shaka in the miniseries after acting out the same role in a South African stage production of Shaka Zulu.Henry also had a...

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

    n actor (Shaka Zulu
    Shaka Zulu (TV Series)
    Shaka Zulu was a 1986 television serial directed by William C. Faure and written by Joshua Sinclair for the South African Broadcasting Corporation . It is based on the story of Shaka, king of the Zulu nation from 1816 to 1828, and the writings of the British traders who dealt with him...

    ) and soccer player. http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=13&art_id=nw20071102175937939C777165
  • Charmaine Dragun
    Charmaine Dragun
    Charmaine Dragun was an Australian broadcast journalist and presenter. She was, with Tim Webster, the regular presenter of Ten News Perth's 5pm bulletin, which was broadcast at the time from the TEN-10 Sydney studios at Pyrmont...

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

    n television news presenter
    News presenter
    A news presenter is a person who presents news during a news program in the format of a television show, on the radio or the Internet.News presenters can work in a radio studio, television studio and from remote broadcasts in the field especially weather...

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

     by jumping. http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,22694565-601,00.html
  • Lillian Ellison
    The Fabulous Moolah
    Mary Lillian Ellison , better known by her ring name The Fabulous Moolah, was an American female professional wrestler. She began her career working with promoter Billy Wolfe and his wife, wrestler and trainer Mildred Burke, as well as working alongside professional wrestler "Nature Boy" Buddy...

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

     ("The Fabulous Moolah"). http://www.wwe.com/inside/news/fabulousmoolahpasseshttp://www.cnn.com/2007/US/11/04/obit.ellison.ap/
  • Lord Michael Fitzalan-Howard, 91, British
    United Kingdom
    The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...

     soldier
    Soldier
    A soldier is a member of the land component of national armed forces; whereas a soldier hired for service in a foreign army would be termed a mercenary...

     and courtier
    Courtier
    A courtier is a person who is often in attendance at the court of a king or other royal personage. Historically the court was the centre of government as well as the residence of the monarch, and social and political life were often completely mixed together...

    , Marshal of the Diplomatic Corps
    Marshal of the Diplomatic Corps
    Her Majesty's Marshal of the Diplomatic Corps is a senior member of the Royal Household of the Sovereign of the United Kingdom. He is the Queen's link with the diplomatic community in London, arranges the annual Diplomatic Corps Reception by the Sovereign, organises the regular presentation of...

     (1972–1981). http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/11/05/db0501.xml
  • Don Freeland
    Don Freeland
    Don Freeland was an American racecar driver who is best known for competing in the Indianapolis 500 eight times....

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

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

    ). http://www.indianapolismotorspeedway.com/news/story.php?story_id=10169
  • Witold "Vitek" Kiełtyka, 23, Polish
    Poland
    Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north...

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

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

    . http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=84001.
  • Igor Moiseyev
    Igor Moiseyev
    Igor Alexandrovich Moiseyev has been widely acclaimed as the greatest 20th-century choreographer of character dance, a dance style similar to folk dance but with more professionalism and theatrics....

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

    n choreographer, heart failure. http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/11/02/europe/EU-GEN-Russia-Obit-Moiseyev.php
  • Jean Pierre Reguerraz
    Jean Pierre Reguerraz
    Jean-Pierre Reguerraz was an Argentine stage and film actor noted for his deep bass voice. Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 1939 of French parents, he studied acting in Europe before returning to Argentina in 1960 for various stage roles...

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

     actor. http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117975701.html?categoryid=25&cs=1
  • Reay Tannahill
    Reay Tannahill
    Reay Tannahill was a Scottish historian and novelist, best known perhaps for two non-fiction bestsellers: Food in History and Sex in History.-Non-fiction works:* Regency England: The Great Age of the Colour Print...

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

     food historian and novelist. http://news.independent.co.uk/people/obituaries/article3198905.ece
  • S.P. Thamilselvan, 40, Sri Lanka
    Sri Lanka
    Sri Lanka, officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka is a country off the southern coast of the Indian subcontinent. Known until 1972 as Ceylon , Sri Lanka is an island surrounded by the Indian Ocean, the Gulf of Mannar and the Palk Strait, and lies in the vicinity of India and the...

    n leader of Tamil Tigers, air strike. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/7074450.stm

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  • Sonny Bupp
    Sonny Bupp
    Sonny Bupp was an American child film actor and businessman.Born as Moyer MacClaren Bupp in New York City, "Sonny" Bupp appeared in over 60 films during his career, including two Our Gang comedies, 1935's Our Gang Follies of 1936 and 1938's Men in Fright.He appeared in Citizen Kane and was the...

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

     child actor
    Child actor
    The term child actor or child actress is generally applied to a child acting in motion pictures or television, but also to an adult who began his or her acting career as a child; to avoid confusion, the latter is also called a former child actor...

     (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...

    , Citizen Kane
    Citizen Kane
    Citizen Kane is a 1941 American drama film, directed by and starring Orson Welles. Many critics consider it the greatest American film of all time, especially for its innovative cinematography, music and narrative structure. Citizen Kane was Welles' first feature film...

    ), last surviving credited cast member
    Cast member
    A cast member is:* An actor who performs in a theatrical production, motion picture, or television program. The actors who perform in the show are collectively referred to as the cast....

     of Citizen Kane
    Citizen Kane
    Citizen Kane is a 1941 American drama film, directed by and starring Orson Welles. Many critics consider it the greatest American film of all time, especially for its innovative cinematography, music and narrative structure. Citizen Kane was Welles' first feature film...

    .
    http://www.cinematical.com/2007/11/09/last-surviving-cast-member-of-citizen-kane-dies/
  • Troy Lee James
    Troy Lee James
    Troy Lee James was a Democratic politician who formerly served in the Ohio House of Representatives. A former laborer and union leader, James initially ran for the Ohio House of Representatives in 1966, following the Voting Rights Act of 1965. He won, and was seated on January 3, 1967...

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

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

    , member of the Ohio House of Representatives
    Ohio House of Representatives
    The Ohio House of Representatives is the lower house of the Ohio General Assembly, the state legislature of the U.S. state of Ohio; the other house of the bicameral legislature being the Ohio Senate....

     (1967–2000). http://obit-obits.com/d20091101zp18
  • Meredith Kercher, 21, British
    United Kingdom
    The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...

     murder victim, stabbed. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article2821154.ece
  • Edith Motridge
    Edith Motridge
    Edith Motridge Segal was an American backstroke swimmer who competed in the 1936 Summer Olympics.She was born in San Francisco and died in Rancho Santa Fe, California....

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

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

     backstroke
    Backstroke
    The backstroke, also sometimes called the back crawl, is one of the four swimming styles regulated by FINA, and the only regulated style swum on the back. This has the advantage of easy breathing, but the disadvantage of swimmers not being able to see where they are going. It is also the only...

     swimmer
    Swimming (sport)
    Swimming is a sport governed by the Fédération Internationale de Natation .-History: Competitive swimming in Europe began around 1800 BCE, mostly in the form of the freestyle. In 1873 Steve Bowyer introduced the trudgen to Western swimming competitions, after copying the front crawl used by Native...

    . http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/mo/edith-motridge-1.html
  • S. Ali Raza
    S. Ali Raza
    S. Ali Raza was an Indian film screenwriter and director associated with writing the script for hit films such as Aan, Andaz, Mother India, Reshma Aur Shera, Raja Jani and Dus Numbri....

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

    n Bollywood
    Bollywood
    Bollywood is the informal term popularly used for the Hindi-language film industry based in Mumbai , Maharashtra, India. The term is often incorrectly used to refer to the whole of Indian cinema; it is only a part of the total Indian film industry, which includes other production centers producing...

     screenwriter
    Screenwriter
    Screenwriters or scriptwriters or scenario writers are people who write/create the short or feature-length screenplays from which mass media such as films, television programs, Comics or video games are based.-Profession:...

    , heart failure. http://www.businessofcinema.com/boc/?file=story&id=5718
  • Paul Tibbets
    Paul Tibbets
    Paul Warfield Tibbets, Jr. was a brigadier general in the United States Air Force, best known for being the pilot of the Enola Gay, the first aircraft to drop an atomic bomb in the history of warfare. The bomb, code-named Little Boy, was dropped on the Japanese city of Hiroshima...

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

     pilot of the Enola Gay
    Enola Gay
    Enola Gay is a Boeing B-29 Superfortress bomber, named after Enola Gay Tibbets, mother of the pilot, then-Colonel Paul Tibbets. On August 6, 1945, during the final stages of World War II, it became the first aircraft to drop an atomic bomb as a weapon of war...

    which dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima
    Hiroshima
    is the capital of Hiroshima Prefecture, and the largest city in the Chūgoku region of western Honshu, the largest island of Japan. It became best known as the first city in history to be destroyed by a nuclear weapon when the United States Army Air Forces dropped an atomic bomb on it at 8:15 A.M...

    , heart failure. http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/01/obituaries/01cnd-tibbets.html
  • Paul Woods, 57, British
    United Kingdom
    The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...

     rugby union
    Rugby union
    Rugby union, often simply referred to as rugby, is a full contact team sport which originated in England in the early 19th century. One of the two codes of rugby football, it is based on running with the ball in hand...

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

    player. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/paul-woods-hardest-man-in-rugby-league-765308.html
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