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

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Deaths in December 2007
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:...

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

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

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

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

 - May
Deaths in May 2008
Deaths in 2008 : ← - January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December - →The following is a list of notable deaths in May 2008.-31:*Carlos Alhinho, 59, Portuguese international footballer, fall....

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

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

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

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

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

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

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



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

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  • Béatrix Beck
    Béatrix Beck
    Béatrix Beck was a French writer from Belgian origin.She was born at Villars-sur-Ollon, Switzerland, the daughter of the poet Christian Beck. After several jobs, she became the secretary of André Gide, he encouraged her to write about her experiences: her mother's suicide, the war, her poverty, etc...

    , 94, Belgian
    Belgium
    Belgium , officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a federal state in Western Europe. It is a founding member of the European Union and hosts the EU's headquarters, and those of several other major international organisations such as NATO.Belgium is also a member of, or affiliated to, many...

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

    . http://www.lefigaro.fr/culture/2008/11/30/03004-20081130ARTFIG00044-beatrix-beck-s-est-eteinte-.php (French)
  • Thomas S. Crow
    Thomas S. Crow
    Thomas Sherman Crow , fourth Master Chief Petty Officer of the Navy was born in 1934, in McArthur, Ohio, and graduated from McArthur High School in 1952. He died at his home in San Diego, California on November 30, 2008...

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

     military officer, Master Chief Petty Officer of the Navy
    Master Chief Petty Officer of the Navy
    The Master Chief Petty Officer of the Navy is a unique non-commissioned rank in the United States Navy, which has a paygrade of E-9. The holder of this rank and post is the most senior enlisted member of the U.S...

     (1979–1982), 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.military.com/news/article/navy-news/navys-fourth-mcpon-passes-away.html?col=1186032311124
  • Naomi Datta
    Naomi Datta
    Naomi Datta, FRS was a distinguished British geneticist. Working at Hammersmith Hospital in the 1950s and early 1960s she identified horizontal gene transfer as a source of multi-antibiotic resistance in bacteria....

    , 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...

     bacteriologist. http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2008/dec/19/medicalresearch
  • Doris Dungey
    Doris Dungey
    Doris J. Dungey was an American blogger who wrote extensively about the United States housing bubble for the blog Calculated Risk under the pseudonym Tanta.-Early life and work:...

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

     financial
    FINANCIAL
    FINANCIAL is the weekly English-language newspaper with offices in Tbilisi, Georgia and Kiev, Ukraine. Published by Intelligence Group LLC, FINANCIAL is focused on opinion leaders and top business decision-makers; It's about world’s largest companies, investing, careers, and small business. It is...

     blog
    Blog
    A blog is a type of website or part of a website supposed to be updated with new content from time to time. Blogs are usually maintained by an individual with regular entries of commentary, descriptions of events, or other material such as graphics or video. Entries are commonly displayed in...

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

    . http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/01/business/01tanta.html?ref=obituaries
  • Munetaka Higuchi
    Munetaka Higuchi
    was the original drummer of the Japanese heavy metal band, Loudness.Since very young, he was considered a talented drummer. During his high school years, Higuchi played in seven bands. But he was not happy with this situation, wanting to focus his time on only one band...

    , 49, 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 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...

     (Loudness
    Loudness (band)
    is a Japan-based heavy metal band formed in 1981 by guitarist Akira Takasaki and drummer Munetaka Higuchi. They were the first Japanese heavy metal act signed to a major label in the United States, releasing twenty-three studio albums...

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

    . http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=109888
  • Pit Martin
    Pit Martin
    Hubert Jacques "Pit" Martin was a Canadian professional ice hockey centre who served as captain for the Chicago Black Hawks of the National Hockey League from 1975 to 1977...

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

    . http://www.tsn.ca/nhl/story/?id=258056&lid=sublink03&lpos=headlines_nhl
  • Nick George Montos
    Nick George Montos
    Nicholas George Montos was an American criminal and a fugitive. He was the oldest inmate being held in Massachusetts until his death in 2008 at the age of 92....

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

     felon
    Felony
    A felony is a serious crime in the common law countries. The term originates from English common law where felonies were originally crimes which involved the confiscation of a convicted person's land and goods; other crimes were called misdemeanors...

    , oldest inmate
    Incarceration
    Incarceration is the detention of a person in prison, typically as punishment for a crime .People are most commonly incarcerated upon suspicion or conviction of committing a crime, and different jurisdictions have differing laws governing the function of incarceration within a larger system of...

     in Massachusetts
    Massachusetts
    The Commonwealth of Massachusetts is a state in the New England region of the northeastern United States of America. It is bordered by Rhode Island and Connecticut to the south, New York to the west, and Vermont and New Hampshire to the north; at its east lies the Atlantic Ocean. As of the 2010...

    . http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2008/12/03/after_a_life_of_crime_states_oldest_inmate_succumbs_at_92/
  • Peter Rees, Baron Rees, 81, British
    United Kingdom
    The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...

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

    , Chief Secretary to the Treasury
    Chief Secretary to the Treasury
    The Chief Secretary to the Treasury is the third most senior ministerial position in HM Treasury, after the Prime Minister and the Chancellor of the Exchequer . In recent years, the office holder has usually been given a junior position in the British Cabinet...

     (1983–1985). http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/3543440/Lord-Rees.html

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  • Bill Drake
    Bill Drake
    Bill Drake , born Philip Yarbrough, was an American radio programmer who co-developed the Boss Radio format with Gene Chenault via their company Drake-Chenault.-Early career:...

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

     radio programmer
    Radio programming
    Radio programming is the Broadcast programming of a Radio format or content that is organized for Commercial broadcasting and Public broadcasting radio stations....

    . http://twinportsmedia.twinportsbroadcasting.com/2008/11/30/programming-legend-bill-drake-dead-at-71/
  • Ulises Dumont
    Ulises Dumont
    Ulises Dumont was a prolific Argentine film actor, credited with over 80 appearances in film and countless others in theatre and television from 1964 until his death in 2008.-Life and work:...

    , 71, 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
    Actor
    An actor is a person who acts in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio in that capacity...

    , heart problems. http://www.clarin.com/diario/2008/11/30/espectaculos/c-00801.htm (Spanish)
  • Arthur Kantrowitz
    Arthur Kantrowitz
    Arthur Robert Kantrowitz was an American scientist, engineer, and educator.Kantrowitz grew up in The Bronx, and graduated from DeWitt Clinton High School. He earned his B.S., M.A. and, in 1947, his Ph.D. degrees in physics from Columbia University...

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

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

     and engineer
    Engineer
    An engineer is a professional practitioner of engineering, concerned with applying scientific knowledge, mathematics and ingenuity to develop solutions for technical problems. Engineers design materials, structures, machines and systems while considering the limitations imposed by practicality,...

    . http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/09/science/09kantrowitz.html?ref=obituaries
  • Sten Rudholm
    Sten Rudholm
    Sten John Gustaf Rudholm was a Swedish lawyer, member of the Swedish Academy , former Chancellor of Justice, Chief Justice of Appeal and Marshal of the Realm...

    , 90, 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....

     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...

    , member of the Swedish Academy
    Swedish Academy
    The Swedish Academy , founded in 1786 by King Gustav III, is one of the Royal Academies of Sweden.-History:The Swedish Academy was founded in 1786 by King Gustav III. Modelled after the Académie française, it has 18 members. The motto of the Academy is "Talent and Taste"...

    , natural causes. http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/11/30/europe/EU-Sweden-Obit-Rudholm.php
  • Jørn Utzon
    Jørn Utzon
    Jørn Oberg Utzon, , AC was a Danish architect, most notable for designing the Sydney Opera House in Australia. When it was declared a World Heritage Site on 28 June 2007, Utzon became only the second person to have received such recognition for one of his works during his lifetime...

    , 90, 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...

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

     (Sydney Opera House
    Sydney Opera House
    The Sydney Opera House is a multi-venue performing arts centre in the Australian city of Sydney. It was conceived and largely built by Danish architect Jørn Utzon, finally opening in 1973 after a long gestation starting with his competition-winning design in 1957...

    ), 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.smh.com.au/news/world/joern-utzon-dead/2008/11/30/1227979814647.html
  • Georgi Vyun
    Georgi Vyun
    Georgi Ivanovich Vyun was a Soviet football player and a Russian coach.-International career:...

    , 54, 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 football player and coach. http://www.rusteam.permian.ru/players/vyun.html (Russian)
  • Robert Wade
    Robert Wade (chess player)
    Robert Graham Wade OBE , was a British chess player, writer, arbiter, coach, and promoter. He was New Zealand champion three times, British champion twice, and played in seven Chess Olympiads and one Interzonal tournament...

    , 87, 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...

    -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...

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

     champion, 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.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=5043

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  • Bill Finnegan
    Bill Finnegan
    William R. Finnegan was an American television and film producer whose well known credits included The Fabulous Baker Boys, Hawaii Five-O and the cult hit, Reality Bites. he was a five time Emmy Awards nominee....

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

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

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

     (The Fabulous Baker Boys
    The Fabulous Baker Boys
    The Fabulous Baker Boys is a 1989 American romantic drama musical film written and directed by Steve Kloves, and starring real life brothers Jeff Bridges and Beau Bridges as two brothers struggling to make a living as lounge jazz pianists in Seattle...

    , Hawaii Five-O
    Hawaii Five-O
    Hawaii Five-O is an American police procedural drama series produced by CBS Productions and Leonard Freeman. Set in Hawaii, the show originally aired for twelve seasons from 1968 to 1980, and continues in reruns. The show featured a fictional state police unit run by Detective Steve McGarrett,...

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

    . http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117996662.html?categoryId=25&cs=1
  • John Harryson
    John Harryson
    John Harryson was a Swedish actor. He was the father of famous Swedish actor and television host Peter Harryson....

    , 82, 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....

     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 entertainer. http://www.dn.se/DNet/jsp/polopoly.jsp?d=2374&a=859579&rss=2216 (Swedish)
  • Sir Hugh Laddie
    Hugh Laddie
    Sir Hugh Ian Lang Laddie was a British High Court judge, lawyer, professor, and a specialist in intellectual property law. He was considered one the leading English judges and academics in the field of intellectual property law...

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

     intellectual property
    Intellectual property
    Intellectual property is a term referring to a number of distinct types of creations of the mind for which a set of exclusive rights are recognized—and the corresponding fields of law...

     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 High Court
    High Court of Justice
    The High Court of Justice is, together with the Court of Appeal and the Crown Court, one of the Senior Courts of England and Wales...

     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...

    , 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.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601102&sid=aBWDAj0fGFqQ
  • Red Murff
    Red Murff
    John Robert Murff was a relief pitcher in Major League Baseball who played from through for the Milwaukee Braves. Listed at 6' 3", 195 lb., Murff batted and threw right-handed. He attended Gettysburg College....

    , 87, 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 (Milwaukee Braves
    Atlanta Braves
    The Atlanta Braves are a professional baseball club based in Atlanta, Georgia. The Braves are a member of the Eastern Division of Major League Baseball's National League. The Braves have played in Turner Field since 1997....

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

    . http://www.sportingnews.com/yourturn/viewtopic.php?t=491558
  • Victor Nieto
    Victor Nieto
    Víctor Nieto Nuñez was the Colombian founder and director of the Cartagena Film Festival, the oldest film festival in Latin America. Nieto founded the Cartagena Film Festival in 1960 and remained director for the next 48 years. His last film festival was in 2008.Nieto was born in Cartagena,...

    , 92, Colombia
    Colombia
    Colombia, officially the Republic of Colombia , is a unitary constitutional republic comprising thirty-two departments. The country is located in northwestern South America, bordered to the east by Venezuela and Brazil; to the south by Ecuador and Peru; to the north by the Caribbean Sea; to the...

    n founder
    Entrepreneur
    An entrepreneur is an owner or manager of a business enterprise who makes money through risk and initiative.The term was originally a loanword from French and was first defined by the Irish-French economist Richard Cantillon. Entrepreneur in English is a term applied to a person who is willing to...

     and director of the Cartagena Film Festival
    Cartagena Film Festival
    The Cartagena Film Festival, or Festival Internacional de Cine y T.V. de Cartagena de Indias. is a Colombian film festival which focuses on the promotion of Colombian television programs, Latin American films, and videos...

    . http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117996747.html?categoryId=25&cs=1
  • Edoardo Ricci
    Edoardo Ricci
    Edoardo Ricci was an Italian Bishop for the Roman Catholic Church.Born in 1928, Ricci was ordained as a Priest at the age of 23 on October 8, 1950. He was appointed Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of San Miniato, Italy on February 27, 1987, by Pope John Paul II, and ordained Bishop on June 7...

    , 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...

     Bishop
    Bishop (Catholic Church)
    In the Catholic Church, a bishop is an ordained minister who holds the fullness of the sacrament of Holy Orders and is responsible for teaching the Catholic faith and ruling the Church....

     of San Miniato
    Roman Catholic Diocese of San Miniato
    The Italian Catholic diocese of San Miniato is in Tuscany. It is a suffragan of the archdiocese of Florence.-History:In 1248 San Genesio was completely destroyed. In 1397 the town was taken by Florence. From 1248 the chapter was transferred from San Genesio to San Miniato, and in 1526 the head of...

    . http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bricci.html
  • German Skurygin
    German Skurygin
    German Skurygin was a Russian race walker.He originally won a gold medal at the 1999 World Championships, but later lost it due to doping. He was suspended from 1999-2001.He died of a heart attack.-Achievements:-References:*...

    , 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 race walker, 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/2008/12/02/sports/ATH-Obit-Skurygin.php
  • June Vincent
    June Vincent
    June Vincent was an American actress.-Biography:Born Dorothy June Smith in Harrod, Ohio, Vincent began her career in film in the early 1940s. She later became a successful television actress appearing in many television programs throughout the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s...

    , 88, 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...

    . http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0898687/
  • Wo Weihan
    Wo Weihan
    Wo Weihan , a native of Qiqihar, Heilongjiang, was a Chinese scientist and entrepreneur of Daur nationality. He was executed at the age of 58-59 on 28 November 2008, by firing squad, along with missile expert Guo Wanjun, 66, for passing sensitive information to a Taiwanese NGO. Weihan was...

    , 59, Chinese
    People's Republic of China
    China , officially the People's Republic of China , is the most populous country in the world, with over 1.3 billion citizens. Located in East Asia, the country covers approximately 9.6 million square kilometres...

     biochemist
    Biochemist
    Biochemists are scientists who are trained in biochemistry. Typical biochemists study chemical processes and chemical transformations in living organisms. The prefix of "bio" in "biochemist" can be understood as a fusion of "biological chemist."-Role:...

    , executed
    Capital punishment
    Capital punishment, the death penalty, or execution is the sentence of death upon a person by the state as a punishment for an offence. Crimes that can result in a death penalty are known as capital crimes or capital offences. The term capital originates from the Latin capitalis, literally...

    . http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601080&sid=a6s9And6TNmo&refer=asia
  • Helena Wolińska-Brus
    Helena Wolinska-Brus
    Lt. Col. Helena Wolińska-Brus born Fajga Mindla Danielak, was a military prosecutor in Poland with the rank of lieutenant-colonel , involved in Stalinist regime show trials of the 1950s. She has been implicated in the arrest and execution of many Polish anti-Nazi resistance fighters including key...

    , 89, 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...

     military
    Military
    A military is an organization authorized by its greater society to use lethal force, usually including use of weapons, in defending its country by combating actual or perceived threats. The military may have additional functions of use to its greater society, such as advancing a political agenda e.g...

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

    , 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.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/11/29/europe/EU-Britain-Obit-Wolinska.php
  • Robert Zarinsky
    Robert Zarinsky
    Robert Zarinsky was a convicted murderer and suspected serial killer from Linden, New Jersey. He was sentenced to life imprisonment for the 1969 murder of Rosemary Calandriello of Atlantic Highlands, New Jersey. On March 11, 2008, he was indicted for the 1968 murder of Jane Durrua of Keansburg...

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

     serial killer
    Serial killer
    A serial killer, as typically defined, is an individual who has murdered three or more people over a period of more than a month, with down time between the murders, and whose motivation for killing is usually based on psychological gratification...

    , 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.mycentraljersey.com/article/20081129/NEWS04/81129016

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  • Adi Da
    Adi Da
    Adi Da Samraj , born Franklin Albert Jones in Queens, New York, was a spiritual teacher, writer and artist, and the founder of a new religious movement known as Adidam...

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

    -born Fiji
    Fiji
    Fiji , officially the Republic of Fiji , is an island nation in Melanesia in the South Pacific Ocean about northeast of New Zealand's North Island...

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

    . http://www.fijitimes.com/story.aspx?id=107608
  • George MacPherson Docherty
    George MacPherson Docherty
    George MacPherson Docherty was a Scottish-born American Presbyterian minister and principal initiator of the addition of the words "under God" to the Pledge of Allegiance to the Flag of the United States.-Early life:...

    , 97, 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...

     clergy
    Clergy
    Clergy is the generic term used to describe the formal religious leadership within a given religion. A clergyman, churchman or cleric is a member of the clergy, especially one who is a priest, preacher, pastor, or other religious professional....

    man. http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gsPqRkpCUZpCoOOBoe2dND_4z4ogD94OMSV00
  • Armand Fabella
    Armand Fabella
    Armand V. Fabella was a Filipino businessman and educator. He served as Secretary of Education from 1992 to 1994.Fabella was born in Paris, France to Filipino parents. His father, Vicente K. Fabella, was the founder of Jose Rizal College...

    , 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...

     educator, Secretary of Education
    Department of Education (Philippines)
    The Department of Education , is the executive department of the Philippine government responsible for the management and governing of the Philippine system of basic education. It is the chief formulator of Philippine educational policy and is responsible for the Philippine primary and secondary...

     (1992–1994). http://projnex.multiply.com/journal/item/735/Armand_V._Fabella_Filipino_EconomistTechnocratEducator_died_yesterday
  • Gideon Gechtman
    Gideon Gechtman
    Gideon Gechtman was an Israeli artist and sculptor. His art is most noted for holding a dialogue with death, often in relation with his own biography.-Biography:...

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

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

    , heart failure. http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1043688.html
  • Gil Heron
    Gil Heron
    Gil Heron was a Jamaican professional footballer. He was the first black player to play for Scottish club Celtic, and was the father of poet and musician Gil Scott-Heron....

    , 87, 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 football player, father of Gil Scott-Heron
    Gil Scott-Heron
    Gilbert "Gil" Scott-Heron was an American soul and jazz poet, musician, and author known primarily for his work as a spoken word performer in the 1970s and '80s...

    . http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/leagues/scottishpremier/celtic/3537168/Celtics-first-black-player-Gil-Heron-dies-aged-87-Football.html
  • Paul Hibbert
    Paul Hibbert
    Paul Anthony Hibbert was an Australian cricketer who played in one Test in 1977. He was born in Brunswick, Victoria....

    , 56, 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 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://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,24718552-2882,00.html
  • Cullen Hightower
    Cullen Hightower
    Cullen Hightower was a well known quotation and quip writer from the United States. He is often associated with the American conservative political movement....

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

     author of quips and quotes. http://www.nwfdailynews.com/news/hightower-13327-years-mary.html
  • Patricia Marand
    Patricia Marand
    Patricia Marand was an American actress. She was nominated for a 1966 Tony Award for her part as Lois Lane in the musical "It's a Bird ... It's a Plane ... It's Superman". She also appeared in the 1952 musical Wish You Were Here. She was a regular on The Merv Griffin Show.Marand died at the age of...

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

     actress, brain cancer. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081128/ap_en_ot/obit_marand
  • Andrew McKelvey
    Andrew McKelvey
    Andrew McKelvey was an American businessman and former chairman and chief executive of Monster Worldwide...

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

     founder of Monster.com
    Monster.com
    Monster.com is one of the largest employment websites in the world, owned and operated by Monster Worldwide, Inc. Monster is one of the 20 most visited websites out of 100 million worldwide, according to comScore Media Metrics...

    , 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.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5iJJlcaG72A7PBDxuGMm1AIe0mjfAD94NJ4K00
  • Mike Minogue
    Mike Minogue
    Michael John "Mike" Minogue was a National Party politician, lawyer and mayor.He was Mayor of Hamilton, New Zealand between 1968 and 1976, when he resigned to become a Member of Parliament...

    , 85, 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...

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

    , MP (1976–1984), cancer
    Cancer
    Cancer , known medically as a malignant neoplasm, is a large group of different diseases, all involving unregulated cell growth. In cancer, cells divide and grow uncontrollably, forming malignant tumors, and invade nearby parts of the body. The cancer may also spread to more distant parts of the...

    . http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/4776064a6160.html
  • Verne Orr
    Verne Orr
    Verne Orr was the 14th Secretary of the Air Force, appointed by President Ronald Reagan. From California, he was a businessman and educator who served in both state and national government positions.-Early life:Verne Orr was born on November 12, 1916 in Des Moines, Iowa...

    , 92, 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...

    , Secretary of the Air Force (1981–1985). http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-orr29-2008nov29,0,1914377.story
  • Pekka Pohjola
    Pekka Pohjola
    Jussi Pekka Pohjola was a Finnish multi-instrumentalist, composer and producer. Best known as a bass player, Pohjola was also a classically trained pianist and violinist...

    , 56, 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...

     bassist
    Bass guitar
    The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....

     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...

    . http://www.hs.fi/english/article/Pekka+Pohjola+1952-2008/1135241479324
  • Vishwanath Pratap Singh, 77, 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 Prime Minister
    Prime Minister of India
    The Prime Minister of India , as addressed to in the Constitution of India — Prime Minister for the Union, is the chief of government, head of the Council of Ministers and the leader of the majority party in parliament...

     (1989–1990), blood cancer and renal failure
    Renal failure
    Renal failure or kidney failure describes a medical condition in which the kidneys fail to adequately filter toxins and waste products from the blood...

    . http://www.expressindia.com/latest-news/Former-PM-V-P-Singh-passes-away/391407/
  • Andy Tomasic
    Andy Tomasic
    Andrew John Tomasic, Sr. was a Major League Baseball and NFL player. He was born in Hokendauqua, Pennsylvania, a suburb of Allentown, Pennsylvania. He attended Temple University and was inducted into their Hall of Fame.Tomasic was drafted by the Pittsburgh Steelers in the 16th round of the 1942...

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

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

     and 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. http://www.legacy.com/mcall/Obituaries.asp?Page=LifeStory&PersonID=120793441
  • Cornelius Clarkson Vermeule III
    Cornelius Clarkson Vermeule III
    Cornelius Clarkson Vermeule III was a scholar of ancient art and curator of classical art at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, from 1957 to 1996.-Biography:...

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

     scholar of Greek
    Greek art
    Greek art began in the Cycladic and Minoan prehistorical civilization, and gave birth to Western classical art in the ancient period...

     and Roman art
    Roman art
    Roman art has the visual arts made in Ancient Rome, and in the territories of the Roman Empire. Major forms of Roman art are architecture, painting, sculpture and mosaic work...

    , 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/2008/12/09/arts/design/09vermeule.html?ref=obituaries

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  • Bob Blake
    Bob Blake (ice hockey)
    Louis Robert Blake was an American ice hockey player who played with the Boston Bruins in the 1935-1936 National Hockey League season. After three years of hockey in high school, Blake began his professional career at the age of 17 in the Central Hockey League...

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

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

     player. http://www.buffalonews.com/obituaries/story/508122.html
  • Ralph Burkei
    Ralph Burkei
    Ralph Burkei was a German TV producer and co-owner of the Bavarian production company C.A.M.P. TV. He was also active in Bavarian local politics with the Munich CSU party and was its treasurer from 2000 to 2004. At one time, he was vice-president of the TSV 1860 München and president of the VfB...

    , 51, 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...

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

    , fall. http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/content_display/world/news/e3iacfb4ddfa5a1002b40aea0ca93b171e5
  • Christian Fechner
    Christian Fechner
    Christian Fechner, was a French film producer, screenwriter and film director....

    , 64, 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 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.leparisien.fr/loisirs-et-spectacles/le-producteur-christian-fechner-est-mort-26-11-2008-323052.php (French)
  • Loumia Hiridjee
    Loumia Hiridjee
    Loumia Hiridjee was a French businesswoman and co-founder of international lingerie brand Princesse Tam Tam. Hiridjee was born in Antananarivo, Madagascar, where she grew up in a family of wealthy Indian traders. In 1972 she joined her sister Sharma at a boarding school in France...

    , 46, Malagasy
    Madagascar
    The Republic of Madagascar is an island country located in the Indian Ocean off the southeastern coast of Africa...

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

     businesswoman, shot. http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5il5yIccEGad5q0QeWjLcayOcYSQwD94O2LDO0
  • Gavriel Holtzberg
    Gavriel Holtzberg
    Gavriel Noach Holtzberg was an Orthodox rabbi and the Chabad emissary to Mumbai, India, where he and his wife Rivka ran the Mumbai Chabad House. He was also a religious leader and community builder for the local Jewish Indian community, and led the Friday-night Shabbat services at the Knesset...

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

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

     rabbi
    Rabbi
    In Judaism, a rabbi is a teacher of Torah. This title derives from the Hebrew word רבי , meaning "My Master" , which is the way a student would address a master of Torah...

    , shot. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081201/ap_on_re_mi_ea/india_moshe
  • Ashok Kamte
    Ashok Kamte
    Ashok Kamte was the Additional Commissioner of Mumbai Police for the East Region. He was killed in terrorist action during the 2008 Mumbai attacks. His bravery was honoured with the Ashoka Chakra on 26 January 2009....

    , 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 additional commissioner of Mumbai Police
    Mumbai Police
    The Mumbai Police is the police force of the city of Mumbai, India. It has the primary responsibilities of law enforcement and investigation within the limits of Mumbai. The department's motto is ""...

    , shot. http://www.newsline365.com/20083395/terrorist-target-mumbai-in-the-worst-attack-thus-far/
  • Vitaly Karayev
    Vitaly Karayev
    Vitaly Sergeyevich Karayev was the mayor of the North Ossetian capital, Vladikavkaz. He was murdered by an unknown gunman on November 26, 2008. He had been in power for less than a year before being murdered...

    , 46, 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 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 Vladikavkaz
    Vladikavkaz
    -Notable structures:In Vladikavkaz, there is a guyed TV mast, tall, built in 1961, which has six crossbars with gangways in two levels running from the mast structure to the guys.-Twin towns/sister cities:...

    , shot. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/27/world/europe/27russia.html
  • Hemant Karkare
    Hemant Karkare
    Hemant Karkare was the chief of the Mumbai Anti-Terrorist Squad. He was killed during the 2008 Mumbai attacks after being shot three times in the chest...

    , 54, 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 chief of the Mumbai
    Mumbai
    Mumbai , formerly known as Bombay in English, is the capital of the Indian state of Maharashtra. It is the most populous city in India, and the fourth most populous city in the world, with a total metropolitan area population of approximately 20.5 million...

     Anti Terrorist Squad
    Anti Terrorist Squad
    The Anti-Terrorism Squad is a force of about 30 to 35 police officers in Mumbai, India. The ATS, as they are commonly known, also have branches in different states throughout the country. In Maharashtra it was headed by senior IPS officer K.P. Raghuvanshi...

    , shot. http://ibnlive.in.com/news/ats-chief-hemant-karkare-killed--his-last-pics/79133-3.html
  • Andreas Liveras
    Andreas Liveras
    Andreas Dionysiou Liveras was a Cyprus-born British businessman, who rose from modest means to own and run successful bakery and yacht charter companies...

    , 73, Cypriot
    Cyprus
    Cyprus , officially the Republic of Cyprus , is a Eurasian island country, member of the European Union, in the Eastern Mediterranean, east of Greece, south of Turkey, west of Syria and north of Egypt. It is the third largest island in the Mediterranean Sea.The earliest known human activity on the...

    -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...

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

     tycoon, shot. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article5246974.ece
  • Edna Parker
    Edna Parker
    Edna Ruth Parker was an American supercentenarian and, until her death, was recognized as the oldest person in the world following the death of Yone Minagawa of Japan on August 13, 2007. She assumed the title at age 114 years 115 days...

    , 115, Indiana
    Indiana
    Indiana is a US state, admitted to the United States as the 19th on December 11, 1816. It is located in the Midwestern United States and Great Lakes Region. With 6,483,802 residents, the state is ranked 15th in population and 16th in population density. Indiana is ranked 38th in land area and is...

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

    , oldest validated living person. http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/chi-ap-in-oldestpersondies,0,5431712.story
  • Vijay Salaskar
    Vijay Salaskar
    Vijay Salaskar was a Senior Police Inspector and encounter specialist serving with the Mumbai police. He was widely credited with killing 75–80 criminals in encounters — most of these were members of the Arun Gawli gang...

    , 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 encounter specialist with Mumbai Police
    Mumbai Police
    The Mumbai Police is the police force of the city of Mumbai, India. It has the primary responsibilities of law enforcement and investigation within the limits of Mumbai. The department's motto is ""...

    , shot. http://www.newsline365.com/20083395/terrorist-target-mumbai-in-the-worst-attack-thus-far/
  • Edwin Ernest Salpeter
    Edwin Ernest Salpeter
    Edwin Ernest Salpeter FRS was an Austrian-Australian-American astrophysicist. Born to a Jewish family, he emigrated from Austria to Australia while in his teens to escape the Nazis. He attended Sydney University, where he obtained his bachelor's degree in 1944 and his master's degree in 1945...

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

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

     astrophysicist, 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.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/professor-edwin-salpeter-seminal-astrophysicist-who-made-pivotal-contributions-to-the-study-of-the-universe-1637579.html
  • De'Angelo Wilson
    De'Angelo Wilson
    De'Angelo Wilson was an American film and television actor; he was also a hip-hop artist.-Early life and education:He was born De'Angelo Ke'Shine Hill Wilson in Dayton, Ohio...

    , 29, 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...

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

     by hanging. http://celebgalz.com/de%E2%80%99angelo-wilson-de%E2%80%99angelo-wilson-committed-suicide-photo/
  • Yang Jia
    Yang Jia (murderer)
    Yang Jia was a Chinese citizen executed for murdering six Shanghai police officers with a knife.Yang received international media attention for the public sympathy accorded to him in China, where, according to exiled writer Ma Jian, Yang has become "a sort of national hero." Beijing lawyer and...

    , 28, Chinese
    People's Republic of China
    China , officially the People's Republic of China , is the most populous country in the world, with over 1.3 billion citizens. Located in East Asia, the country covers approximately 9.6 million square kilometres...

     mass murder
    Mass murder
    Mass murder is the act of murdering a large number of people , typically at the same time or over a relatively short period of time. According to the FBI, mass murder is defined as four or more murders occurring during a particular event with no cooling-off period between the murders...

    er, executed
    Capital punishment
    Capital punishment, the death penalty, or execution is the sentence of death upon a person by the state as a punishment for an offence. Crimes that can result in a death penalty are known as capital crimes or capital offences. The term capital originates from the Latin capitalis, literally...

    . http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5iL-PTQOchWqJB4O3dibDO0Mzvxbw

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  • William Dowd
    William Dowd
    William Richmond Dowd was an American harpsichord maker and one of the most important pioneers of the historical harpsichord movement....

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

     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...

     maker. http://www.legacy.com/bostonglobe/DeathNotices.asp?Page=LifeStory&PersonID=120859090
  • Beno Eckmann
    Beno Eckmann
    Beno Eckmann was a Swiss mathematician who was a student of Heinz Hopf.Born in Bern, Eckmann received his master's degree from Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich in 1931. Later he studied there under Heinz Hopf, obtaining his Ph.D. in 1941...

    , 91, 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....

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

    . http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Biographies/Eckmann.html
  • Ruth Alice Erickson
    Ruth Alice Erickson
    Captain Ruth Alice Erickson was the Director of the United States Navy Nurse Corps, serving in that position from 1962 to 1966. As a LT in the Navy Nurse Corps, she witnessed the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii on 7 December 1941.-Early life:...

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

     Director of the Navy Nurse Corps
    United States Navy Nurse Corps
    The United States Navy Nurse Corps was officially established by Congress in 1908; however, unofficially, women had been working as nurses aboard Navy ships and in Navy hospitals for nearly 100 years.-Pre-1908:...

     (1962–1966), pneumonia
    Pneumonia
    Pneumonia is an inflammatory condition of the lung—especially affecting the microscopic air sacs —associated with fever, chest symptoms, and a lack of air space on a chest X-ray. Pneumonia is typically caused by an infection but there are a number of other causes...

    . http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/12/22/AR2008122202146.html
  • Helmut Friedlaender
    Helmut Friedlaender
    Helmut Nathan Friedlaender was an American lawyer and financial adviser who collected rare books.Friedlaender was born in 1913 in Berlin, Germany. In 1933 he fled to Lausanne, Switzerland afraid that Hitler was about to seal Germany's borders. It was at Lausanne that he received a doctorate in...

    , 95, 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...

     book collector. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/01/books/01friedlaender.html?ref=obituaries
  • William Gibson
    William Gibson (playwright)
    William Gibson was an American playwright and novelist. He graduated from the City College of New York in 1938.He was of Irish, French, German, Dutch and Russian ancestry...

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

     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...

     (The Miracle Worker
    The Miracle Worker
    The Miracle Worker is a cycle of 20th century dramatic works derived from Helen Keller's autobiography The Story of My Life. Each of the various dramas describes the relationship between Keller—a deafblind and initially almost feral child—and Anne Sullivan, the teacher who introduced her to...

    ). http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/11/27/miracle-worker-playwright-dies/?hp
  • Leonard Goodwin
    Leonard Goodwin
    Leonard George Goodwin CMG FRS was a British protozoologist noted for his work on testing the effectiveness of chemical compounds in treating tropical diseases. He was born in London to a shoe shop manager, and became interested in nature thanks to holidays spent with his grandfather, a...

    , 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...

     pharmacologist. http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2009/feb/24/len-goodwin-obituary
  • Randy Gumpert
    Randy Gumpert
    Randall Pennington Gumpert was a Major League Baseball pitcher, playing for five different teams throughout his career. He was born in Monocacy, Pennsylvania. His pro career began when he was signed by the Philadelphia Athletics as a free agent before the 1936 season, at the age of 18...

    , 90, 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. http://www.legacy.com/LDNews/Obituaries.asp?Page=LifeStory&PersonId=120738495
  • David M. Jones
    David M. Jones
    David M. Jones was a United States Air Force pilot who served with distinction during World War II. He was one of the Doolittle Raiders whose exploits in April 1942 were dramatized in the film Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo. He then flew combat missions over North Africa, where he was shot down...

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

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

    er. http://www.af.mil/news/story.asp?id=123126260
  • Michael Lee
    Michael Lee (musician)
    Michael Lee was an English drummer who toured and recorded with former Led Zeppelin musicians Robert Plant and Jimmy Page....

    , 39, 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...

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

     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...

    , seizure
    Seizure
    An epileptic seizure, occasionally referred to as a fit, is defined as a transient symptom of "abnormal excessive or synchronous neuronal activity in the brain". The outward effect can be as dramatic as a wild thrashing movement or as mild as a brief loss of awareness...

    . http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article5288802.ece
  • Max Oppy
    Max Oppy
    William "Max" Oppy was an Australian rules football player who played in the Victorian Football League between 1942 and 1954 for the Richmond Football Club. He was senior coach of Richmond in 1956....

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

     (Richmond)
    Richmond Football Club
    The Richmond Football Club, nicknamed The Tigers, is an Australian rules football club which competes in the Australian Football League. Richmond shares healthy rivalries with Carlton, Collingwood and Essendon. After winning five premierships between 1967 and 1980, the club hit the depths in 1990,...

    . http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/sport/afl/story/0,26576,24712969-19742,00.html
  • Brian Pearce
    Brian Pearce
    Brian Leonard Pearce was a British Marxist politician, historian, and translator.-Biography:Brian Pearce was born in Weymouth, Dorset on 9 May 1915. His father was an upwardly mobile engineer, his mother a domestic servant of Irish extraction. Brian was their only child, a shy and precocious boy,...

    , 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...

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

     and translator
    Translation
    Translation is the communication of the meaning of a source-language text by means of an equivalent target-language text. Whereas interpreting undoubtedly antedates writing, translation began only after the appearance of written literature; there exist partial translations of the Sumerian Epic of...

    . http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2008/dec/11/brian-pearce-obituary-communist-history
  • Dudley Savage
    Dudley Savage
    William Dudley Savage MBE was a British organist and broadcaster who for many years broadcast a hospital request programme from the Royal cinema in Plymouth. He both introduced and played requests on the Royal organ...

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

     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...

     radio presenter. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/cornwall/7747828.stm
  • Gerald Schoenfeld
    Gerald Schoenfeld
    Gerald Schoenfeld was chairman of the Shubert Organization from 1972 until his death....

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

     theater impresario
    Impresario
    An impresario is a person who organizes and often finances concerts, plays or operas; analogous to a film producer in filmmaking, television production and an angel investor in business...

    . http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/26/theater/26schoenfeld.html?_r=1&hp

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  • Tom Burgess
    Tom Burgess (baseball)
    Thomas Roland Burgess was a Canadian baseball player, coach and manager. An outfielder and first baseman, Burgess had two trials in Major League Baseball — a 17-game stint with the St. Louis Cardinals and a full season with the Los Angeles Angels...

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

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

     player and coach, 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://lfpress.ca/newsstand/Sports/OtherSports/2008/11/25/7524391-sun.html
  • Frank Cieciorka
    Frank Cieciorka
    Frank Cieciorka was an American graphic artist, painter, and activist. His best known work, a woodcut rendering of a clenched-fist salute, was a model for the New Left emblem....

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

     graphic artist and anti-war
    Anti-war
    An anti-war movement is a social movement, usually in opposition to a particular nation's decision to start or carry on an armed conflict, unconditional of a maybe-existing just cause. The term can also refer to pacifism, which is the opposition to all use of military force during conflicts. Many...

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

    . http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/28/arts/design/28cieciorka.html?ref=obituaries
  • Francis Grevemberg
    Francis Grevemberg
    Francis Carroll Grevemberg , was the superintendent of the Louisiana State Police from 1952 to 1955, best remembered for his fight against organized crime....

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

     Superintendent of Louisiana State Police
    Louisiana State Police
    The Louisiana State Police is the state police department of Louisiana, which has jurisdiction anywhere in the state, headquartered in Baton Rouge. It was created to protect the lives, property and constitutional rights of people in Louisiana. It falls under the authority of the Louisiana...

     (1952–1956), respiratory problems after hip surgery. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/27/us/27grevemberg.html
  • Bep Guidolin
    Bep Guidolin
    Armand "Bep" Guidolin was a Canadian National Hockey League player. He was born in Thorold, Ontario. He and Eleanor, his wife of 62 years, had four children....

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

     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 and coach. http://www.cbc.ca/sports/hockey/story/2008/11/26/guidolin-obit.html
  • Kenny MacLean
    Kenny MacLean
    Kenneth Irving MacLean was a Scottish-Canadian musician, best known as a former member of the multi-platinum selling band Platinum Blonde....

    , 52, 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...

     bassist
    Bass guitar
    The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....

     (Platinum Blonde
    Platinum Blonde (band)
    Platinum Blonde is a Canadian New Wave group in the mid 1980s-early 1990s. The band originally consisted of Mark Holmes from Scarborough on vocals and bass, Sergio Galli on guitar and Chris Steffler on drums. Scottish musician Kenny MacLean later joined the group as the bassist. The name of the...

    ). http://www.cbc.ca/arts/music/story/2008/11/25/maclean-blonde-obit.html
  • Ray Perrault
    Ray Perrault
    Raymond Joseph Perrault, PC was a Canadian politician. He was a member of the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia and of the Canadian Senate....

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

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

    , Senator (1973–2001), Liberal Leader of Senate
    Leader of the Government in the Senate (Canada)
    The Leader of the Government in the Senate is a Canadian cabinet minister who leads the government side in the Canadian Senate and is chiefly responsible for promoting and defending the government's program in the Upper House. The government leader's counterpart on the Opposition benches is the...

     (1974–1982), Parkinson's disease
    Parkinson's disease
    Parkinson's disease is a degenerative disorder of the central nervous system...

    . http://www.google.com/hostednews/canadianpress/article/ALeqM5jP2vMjUAfgHEWppdaEZvbGpJYH0w
  • John Frederick Powell
    John Frederick Powell
    Air Vice-Marshal John Frederick Powell OBE was a long serving-officer at RAF College Cranwell.Powell was born in Somerset on 12 June 1915. He was educated at Lancing College and King's College, Cambridge...

    , 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...

     air marshal
    Air Marshal
    Air marshal is a three-star air-officer rank which originated in and continues to be used by the Royal Air Force...

    . http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/3543431/Air-Vice-Marshal-John-Powell.html
  • Stefan Schörghuber
    Stefan Schörghuber
    Stefan Schörghuber was a German businessman.Schörghuber was the owner of the Schörghuber Unternehmensgruppe in Munich, Germany. After his father Josef’s death in 1995, he took over the business, restructured it, and expanded it. The business, which is organised under the holding company...

    , 47, 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...

     brewing
    Brewing
    Brewing is the production of beer through steeping a starch source in water and then fermenting with yeast. Brewing has taken place since around the 6th millennium BCE, and archeological evidence suggests that this technique was used in ancient Egypt...

     magnate
    Magnate
    Magnate, from the Late Latin magnas, a great man, itself from Latin magnus 'great', designates a noble or other man in a high social position, by birth, wealth or other qualities...

    , heart failure. http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601100&sid=aDTOLNiMCdm8
  • John R. Stallings
    John R. Stallings
    John Robert Stallings Jr. was a mathematician known for his seminal contributions to geometric group theory and 3-manifold topology. Stallings was a Professor Emeritus in the Department of Mathematics at the University of California at Berkeley where he had been a faculty member since 1967...

    , 73, 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....

    . http://math.berkeley.edu/home.html
  • Cecil H. Underwood
    Cecil H. Underwood
    Cecil Harland Underwood was an American Republican Party politician from West Virginia, known for the length of his career. He was the 25th and 32nd Governor of West Virginia from 1957 until 1961 and from 1997 until 2001. He ran for reelection in 2000 but was defeated by Bob Wise...

    , 86, 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...

    , Governor of West Virginia (1957–1961, 1997–2001). http://www.dailymail.com/News/200811240843

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  • Richey James Edwards
    Richey James Edwards
    Richard James Edwards was a Welsh musician who was rhythm guitarist and lyricist of the alternative rock band Manic Street Preachers. He was known for his politicized and intellectual songwriting which, combined with an enigmatic and eloquent character, has assured him cult status...

    , 27, 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...

     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....

     (Manic Street Preachers
    Manic Street Preachers
    Manic Street Preachers are a Welsh alternative rock band, formed in 1986. They are James Dean Bradfield, Nicky Wire, Richey Edwards and Sean Moore. The band are part of the Cardiff music scene, and were at their most prominent during the 1990s...

    ), declared dead on this date (missing since 1995). http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2008/nov/26/richey-edwards-manic-street-preachers
  • Richard Hickox
    Richard Hickox
    Richard Sidney Hickox CBE was an English conductor of choral, orchestral and operatic music.-Early life:Hickox was born in Stokenchurch in Buckinghamshire into a musical family...

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

     conductor
    Conducting
    Conducting is the art of directing a musical performance by way of visible gestures. The primary duties of the conductor are to unify performers, set the tempo, execute clear preparations and beats, and to listen critically and shape the sound of the ensemble...

    , 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.guardian.co.uk/music/2008/nov/25/obituary-richard-hickox
  • Jean Markale
    Jean Markale
    Jean Bertrand' directs here. You may have been looking for the Haitian politician Jean-Bertrand Aristide.Jean Markale was the pen name of Jean Bertrand, a French writer, poet, radio show host, lecturer and high school French teacher who lived in Brittany.He published numerous books about Celtic...

    , 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...

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

    . http://www.lefigaro.fr/livres/2008/11/24/03005-20081124ARTFIG00381-jean-markale-specialiste-de-la-mythologie-celtique-est-mort-.php (French)
  • Fred McAlister
    Fred McAlister
    Fred Early McAlister was an American minor league baseball player and Major League Baseball scout and front-office executive who spent 63 years in the St. Louis Cardinals organization...

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

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

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

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

    ). http://stlouis.cardinals.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20081124&content_id=3690413&vkey=news_stl&fext=.jsp&c_id=stl

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  • Garnet Bougoure
    Garnet Bougoure
    Garnet Bougoure was an Australian jockey in Thoroughbred horse racing who was highly successful competing in South-East Asia and in Europe....

    , 85, 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 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:...

    . http://www.obits.com.au/notice/Garnet-Bougoure
  • MC Breed
    MC Breed
    Eric Breed better known as MC Breed, was an American rapper best known for his singles "Ain't No Future in Yo Frontin", which peaked at #66 on the Billboard Hot 100, and "Gotta Get Mine", featuring 2Pac, that made it to #6 on the Hot Rap Singles.-Biography:Born in Flint, Michigan, Breed is also...

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

     rapper, kidney failure. http://www.mlive.com/flintjournal/index.ssf/2008/11/flint_rapper_mc_breed_dies_at.html
  • Alan Gordon
    Alan Gordon (songwriter)
    Alan Gordon was an American songwriter best known for songs recorded by The Turtles, Petula Clark, and Barbra Streisand...

    , 64, 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...

     ("Happy Together
    Happy Together (song)
    "Happy Together" is a 1967 song from The Turtles' album of the same name. Released in February 1967, the song knocked The Beatles' "Penny Lane" out of the #1 slot for three weeks on the Billboard Hot 100. It was the group's only chart-topper. "Happy Together" reached #12 on the UK Singles Chart in...

    "). http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-passings29-2008nov29,0,5871980.story
  • Mario Fernando Hernández
    Mario Fernando Hernández
    Mario Fernando Hernández Bonilla was a Liberal Party congressman for the Cortés Department in Honduras from January 2006 until his death. He was secretary for the legislative committee on Industry and Commerce and the legislative committee on Drug Trafficking and Security and was also a member of...

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

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

    , Deputy Speaker of the National Congress
    National Congress of Honduras
    The National Congress is the legislative branch of the government of Honduras.The Honduran Congress is a unicameral legislature. The current President of the National Congress of Honduras is Juan Orlando Hernández. Its members are 128 deputies, who are elected on a proportional representation...

    , shot
    Ballistic trauma
    The term ballistic trauma refers to a form of physical trauma sustained from the discharge of arms or munitions. The most common forms of ballistic trauma stem from firearms used in armed conflicts, civilian sporting and recreational pursuits, and criminal activity.-Destructive effects:The degree...

    . http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/7744368.stm
  • Ibrahim Nasir
    Ibrahim Nasir
    Ibrahim Nasir Rannabandeyri Kilegefan , KCMG, NGIV was a Maldivian politician who served as Prime Minister of the Maldives under Sultan Muhammad Fareed Didi from 1957 to 1968 and succeeded him to become the first President of the Second Republic from...

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

     President
    President of the Maldives
    The President of the Maldives is the Head of State and Head of Government and first citizen of the Republic of Maldives and the Supreme Commander of the Maldivian armed forces.The current President of the Republic of Maldives is Mohamed Nasheed....

     (1968–1978). http://www.minivannews.com/news_detail.php?id=5533
  • Rashid Rauf
    Rashid Rauf
    Rashid Rauf was an alleged Al-Qaeda operative. He was a dual citizen of Britain and Pakistan who was arrested in Bhawalpur, Pakistan in connection with the 2006 transatlantic aircraft plot in August 2006, a day before some arrests were made in Britain...

    , 27, 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 Pakistan
    Pakistan
    Pakistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan is a sovereign state in South Asia. It has a coastline along the Arabian Sea and the Gulf of Oman in the south and is bordered by Afghanistan and Iran in the west, India in the east and China in the far northeast. In the north, Tajikistan...

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

     terrorist, air strike. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/23/world/asia/23rauf.html?ref=asia
  • Sandy Ruby
    Sandy Ruby
    Sandow 'Sandy' Sacks Ruby is an American mathematician and entrepreneur who helped found the electronics retail company Tech HiFi].- Biography :He was born on July 23, 1941 in Orange, New Jersey, to Myron Ruby and Leonore Sacks...

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

     entrepreneur
    Entrepreneur
    An entrepreneur is an owner or manager of a business enterprise who makes money through risk and initiative.The term was originally a loanword from French and was first defined by the Irish-French economist Richard Cantillon. Entrepreneur in English is a term applied to a person who is willing to...

    , founder of Tech Hifi and Computer City
    Computer City
    Computer City was a chain of United States-based computer superstores operated by Tandy Corporation; the retailer was sold to CompUSA in 1998 and liquidated....

    , diabetes. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/27/business/27ruby.html
  • Ted Wykes
    Ted Wykes
    Edgar Frederick Wykes, OAM, was an Australian cricket Test match umpire. His family emigrated from the UK to Australia in 1925 as assisted immigrants....

    , 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 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...

     umpire
    Umpire (cricket)
    In cricket, an umpire is a person who has the authority to make judgements on the cricket field, according to the Laws of Cricket...

    , 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://content-www.cricinfo.com/australia/content/player/8267.html

21

  • Augustus Barber
    Augustus Barber
    Augustus "Gus" Barber was an American businessman and founder of Barber Foods.Born in 1927 to Armenian parents who fled the Armenian genocide, Barber served in the U.S Army during World War II and later became a ship welder at the Portland docks...

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

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

    . http://pressherald.mainetoday.com/story.php?id=223457&ac=PHnws
  • Giacomo Bozzano
    Giacomo Bozzano
    Giacomo "Mino" Bozzano was a former Italian boxer, who won the bronze medal in the Heavyweight division at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, Australia...

    , 75, 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...

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

    . http://ansa.it/site/notizie/awnplus/sport/news/2008-11-21_121284490.html (Italian)
  • Tom Gish
    Tom Gish
    Tom Gish was an American newspaper reporter and editor, best known for his work as the owner and editor of The Mountain Eagle weekly newspaper in Whitesburg, the county seat of Letcher County, Kentucky, where his paper was the first in the eastern part of the state to challenge the damage caused...

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

     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 publisher, kidney failure and heart problems. http://www.kentucky.com/news/state/story/600788.html
  • Andrew Rowe
    Andrew Rowe
    Andrew John Bernard Rowe was a politician in the United Kingdom. He was born in London. He served as Conservative Party Member of Parliament for Mid Kent from 1983 to 1997 and its successor constituency Faversham and Mid Kent from 1997 until he stepped down in 2001 - being replaced by Hugh...

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

     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 Faversham and Mid Kent
    Faversham and Mid Kent
    Faversham and Mid Kent is a county 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:...

     (1983–2001), 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.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article5218751.ece

20

  • Boris Fyodorov, 50, 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
    Politician
    A politician, political leader, or political figure is an individual who is involved in influencing public policy and decision making...

     and banker, 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.reuters.com/article/rbssEnergyNews/idUSLK7655320081120
  • Bennie Gonzales
    Bennie Gonzales
    Bennie M. Gonzales, FAIA was an US architect known for a distinctive style of Southwestern architecture which has since been widely copied. Gonzales designed most of Scottsdale, Arizona's, major municipal buildings including Scottsdale City Hall, the Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts and...

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

     Southwestern-style
    Southwestern United States
    The Southwestern United States is a region defined in different ways by different sources. Broad definitions include nearly a quarter of the United States, including Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas and Utah...

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

     (Heard Museum
    Heard Museum
    The Heard Museum of Native Cultures and Art is a museum located in Phoenix, Arizona, USA. There is also the Heard Museum North Scottsdale branch in Scottsdale and the Heard Museum West branch in Surprise....

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

    . http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/local/articles/2008/12/03/20081203negonzales1203.html
  • Betty James
    Betty James
    Betty M. James , was an American businessperson who came up with the name for the Slinky her husband Richard T. James invented...

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

     businesswoman, co-founder of the Slinky
    Slinky
    Slinky or "Lazy Spring" is a toy consisting of a helical spring that stretches and can bounce up and down. It can perform a number of tricks, including traveling down a flight of steps end-over-end as it stretches and re-forms itself with the aid of gravity and its own momentum.-History:The toy was...

     company, wife of Richard T. James. http://www.kswt.com/Global/story.asp?S=9398697
  • Bob Jeter
    Bob Jeter
    Robert DeLafayette Jeter, Jr. was a former American football cornerback in the National Football League for the Green Bay Packers and the Chicago Bears. He was raised in Weirton, WV where he attended Weir High School...

    , 71, 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 (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...

    , Chicago Bears
    Chicago Bears
    The Chicago Bears are a professional American football team based in Chicago, Illinois. They are members of the North Division of the National Football Conference in the National Football League...

    ), 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.wtov9.com/news/18029081/detail.html
  • Jan Machulski
    Jan Machulski
    Jan Machulski was a Polish theater director, as well as a film and theatrical actor. He appeared in more than 45 film roles and 70 theater roles throughout his career.-Personal life:...

    , 80, 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...

     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...

     (Vabank
    Vabank
    Vabank is a Polish film from 1981; the first film directed by Juliusz Machulski and a popular criminal comedy, set in an unnamed city in interwar Poland.The film received several awards and nominations, among them:...

    ), 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.polskieradio.pl/thenews/culture/?id=96303
  • Jim Mattox
    Jim Mattox
    James Albon Mattox was a Dallas lawyer and Texas Democratic politician who served three terms in the United States House of Representatives and two four-year terms as state Attorney General, but lost high profile races for Governor in 1990, the U.S. Senate in 1994, and again as attorney general...

    , 65, 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 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...

     (1977–1983), Texas Attorney General
    Texas Attorney General
    The Texas Attorney General is the chief legal officer of the State of Texas.The department has offices at the William P. Clements State Office Building at 300 West 15th Street in Austin.-History:...

     (1983–1991). http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/politics/6123286.html

19

  • Farah Weheliye Addo
    Farah Weheliye Addo
    Farah Weheliye Addo , also known as Sindiko , was a prominent Somali sports administrator.-Biography:Addo hailed from the Harti Abgaal clan. He spent many years in a leadership role in international sports...

    , 68, Somali
    Somalia
    Somalia , officially the Somali Republic and formerly known as the Somali Democratic Republic under Socialist rule, is a country located in the Horn of Africa. Since the outbreak of the Somali Civil War in 1991 there has been no central government control over most of the country's territory...

     sports administrator, 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/sport2/hi/football/africa/7741495.stm
  • Clive Barnes
    Clive Barnes (critic)
    Clive Alexander Barnes, CBE was a British-born American writer and critic. From 1965 to 1977 he was the dance and theater critic for the New York Times, the most powerful position he had held, since its theater critics' reviews historically have had great influence on the success or failure of...

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

     theatre
    Theatre
    Theatre is a collaborative form of fine art that uses live performers to present the experience of a real or imagined event before a live audience in a specific place. The performers may communicate this experience to the audience through combinations of gesture, speech, song, music or dance...

     and dance
    Dance
    Dance is an art form that generally refers to movement of the body, usually rhythmic and to music, used as a form of expression, social interaction or presented in a spiritual or performance setting....

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

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

    . http://www.broadway.com/Veteran-Theater-and-Dance-Critic-Clive-Barnes-Dies-at-81/broadway_news/5015739
  • Karl Bissinger
    Karl Bissinger
    Karl Bissinger was an American photographer best known for his portraits of notable figures in the world of art following World War II.-Early years:Karl Bissinger was born in Cincinnati, Ohio in 1914...

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

     photographer. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/25/arts/design/25bissinger.html?ref=obituaries
  • Gregory Bryant-Bey
    Gregory Bryant-Bey
    Gregory Bryant-Bey was convicted in the robbery and stabbing murders of two business owners in 1992, and executed by the state of Ohio.-Childhood:...

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

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

  • Carole Caldwell Graebner
    Carole Caldwell Graebner
    Carole Caldwell Graebner was an American tennis player. According to Lance Tingay of The Daily Telegraph and the Daily Mail, Graebner was ranked in the world top ten in 1964 and 1965, reaching a career high of World No. 4 in those rankings in 1964...

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

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

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

    . http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/11/20/sports/TEN-Obit-Caldwell-Graebner.php
  • John Michael Hayes
    John Michael Hayes
    John Michael Hayes was an American screenwriter, who scripted several of Alfred Hitchcock's films in the 1950s, and subject of the book "" by Steven DeRosa.-Early life:...

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

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

     (Rear Window
    Rear Window
    Rear Window is a 1954 American suspense film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, written by John Michael Hayes and based on Cornell Woolrich's 1942 short story "It Had to Be Murder"...

    ), natural causes. http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0371088/
  • M. N. Nambiar
    M. N. Nambiar
    M. N. Nambiar M. N. Nambiar M. N. Nambiar ( (born Manjeri Narayanan Nambiar 7 March 1919 — 19 November 2008) was a film actor in Tamil cinema and had been in the film industry for more than 50 years.-Biography:...

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

    n 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...

    , after short illness. http://www.contactmusic.com/news.nsf/article/indian%20movie%20villain%20nambiar%20dies_1087065

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  • Manuel Castro Ruiz
    Manuel Castro Ruiz
    Manuel Castro Ruiz was a Mexican Bishop of the Roman Catholic Church.He was born in Morelia, Michoacán, where he was ordained a priest on June 19, 1943. He was appointed Auxiliary Bishop of the Archdiocese of Yucatán on July 21, 1965, along with Titular Bishop of Cincari and was ordained a bishop...

    , 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...

     Bishop
    Bishop (Catholic Church)
    In the Catholic Church, a bishop is an ordained minister who holds the fullness of the sacrament of Holy Orders and is responsible for teaching the Catholic faith and ruling the Church....

     of Yucatán. http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bcastro.html
  • George C. Chesbro
    George C. Chesbro
    George C. Chesbro was an American author of detective fiction. His most notable works feature Dr. Robert "Mongo the Magnificent" Fredrickson. He also wrote the novelisation of The Golden Child, a movie of the same name starring Eddie Murphy.Chesbro was born in Washington, D.C....

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

     novelist, heart failure. http://www.timesunion.com/AspStories/story.asp?storyID=742150&category=REGION
  • Paul H. Todd, Jr.
    Paul H. Todd, Jr.
    Paul Harold Todd, Jr. was a politician, soldier and business executive from the U.S. state of Michigan.Todd was born in Kalamazoo, Michigan, the son of Paul H. Todd, mayor of Kalamazoo in 1937, and the grandson of Albert M. Todd, former U.S. Representative and the "Peppermint King" founder of the...

    , 87, 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 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 Michigan
    Michigan
    Michigan is a U.S. state located in the Great Lakes Region of the United States of America. The name Michigan is the French form of the Ojibwa word mishigamaa, meaning "large water" or "large lake"....

     (1965–1967). http://www.mlive.com/kzgazette/news/index.ssf/2008/11/paul_h_todd_jr_former_congress.html

17

  • Peter Aldis
    Peter Aldis
    Peter Aldis was an English footballer who played at full-back and appeared in 294 games for Aston Villa in League and Cup.He worked for local chocolate firm...

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

     footballer. http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/a/aston_villa/7733918.stm
  • Yaakov Alperon
    Yaakov Alperon
    Yaakov Alperon , was an Israeli mobster who was murdered in a car bomb attack. He was reputed to have run Tel Aviv's third-largest crime family, the Alperon crime family.-Biography:...

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

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

     mobster, car bomb
    Car bomb
    A car bomb, or truck bomb also known as a Vehicle Borne Improvised Explosive Device , is an improvised explosive device placed in a car or other vehicle and then detonated. It is commonly used as a weapon of assassination, terrorism, or guerrilla warfare, to kill the occupants of the vehicle,...

    . http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7733818.stm
  • Irving Brecher
    Irving Brecher
    Irving Brecher enjoyed early success as a screenwriter for the Marx Brothers; he was the only writer to get sole credit on a Marx Brothers film including At the Circus in 1939 and Go West in 1940...

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

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

    . http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/19/movies/19brecher.html?ref=obituaries
  • Ennio de Concini
    Ennio de Concini
    Ennio De Concini was an Italian screenwriter and film director, winning the Academy Award in 1962 for the "Best Original Screenplay" for Divorce, Italian Style.-Life and career:...

    , 84, 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...

     Academy Award–winning 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.contactmusic.com/news.nsf/article/screenwriter%20de%20concini%20dies_1088183
  • Debby
    Debby (polar bear)
    Debby was the world's oldest polar bear. She lived in the Assiniboine Park Zoo in Winnipeg. In August 2008, the Guinness Book of World Records certified her as not only the oldest polar bear, but one of the three oldest individuals ever recorded of all bear species.Debby was born in the Soviet...

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

    -born 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...

     oldest living polar bear
    Polar Bear
    The polar bear is a bear native largely within the Arctic Circle encompassing the Arctic Ocean, its surrounding seas and surrounding land masses. It is the world's largest land carnivore and also the largest bear, together with the omnivorous Kodiak Bear, which is approximately the same size...

    , third-oldest known bear
    Bear
    Bears are mammals of the family Ursidae. Bears are classified as caniforms, or doglike carnivorans, with the pinnipeds being their closest living relatives. Although there are only eight living species of bear, they are widespread, appearing in a wide variety of habitats throughout the Northern...

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

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

    . http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2008/11/18/debby-bear.html
  • Jean-Marie Demange
    Jean-Marie Demange
    Jean-Marie Demange was a French member of Parliament. A member of the UMP he Mayor of Thionville for 13 years, serving in that capacity from June 25, 1995 to March 21, 2008...

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

     member of the National Assembly
    French National Assembly
    The French National Assembly is the lower house of the bicameral Parliament of France under the Fifth Republic. The upper house is the Senate ....

    , Mayor of Thionville
    Thionville
    Thionville , is a commune in the Moselle department in Lorraine in north-eastern France. The city is located on the left bank of the river Moselle, opposite its suburb Yutz.-Demographics:...

     (1995–2008), suicide
    Suicide
    Suicide is the act of intentionally causing one's own death. Suicide is often committed out of despair or attributed to some underlying mental disorder, such as depression, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, alcoholism, or drug abuse...

    . http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/france/3474080/French-MP-kills-mistress-then-himself.html
  • Jay Katz
    Jay Katz
    Jay Katz may refer to:* Jay Katz , American medical ethicist* A nickname for Jaimie Leonarder* A pseudonym for Jim Keith...

    , 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...

     physician
    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...

     and medical ethicist
    Ethicist
    An ethicist is one whose judgment on ethics and ethical codes has come to be trusted by a specific community, and is expressed in some way that makes it possible for others to mimic or approximate that judgement...

    , heart failure. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/20/nyregion/20katz.html?ref=obituaries
  • Tafadzwa Madondo
    Tafadzwa Madondo
    Tafadzwa Madondo was a Zimbabwean cricketer. He was a right-handed batsman and right-arm off-break bowler and wicketkeeper who played for Manicaland. Born in Bindura, he was the brother of Test player Trevor Madondo....

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

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

    er, motorcycle accident. http://content-aus.cricinfo.com/zimbabwe/content/story/378704.html
  • George Stephen Morrison
    George Stephen Morrison
    George Stephen Morrison was a Rear Admiral and naval aviator in the United States Navy. Morrison was commander of the U.S. naval forces in the Gulf of Tonkin during the Gulf of Tonkin Incident of August 1964...

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

     admiral
    Admiral (United States)
    In the United States Navy, the United States Coast Guard and the United States Public Health Service Commissioned Corps, admiral is a four-star flag officer rank, with the pay grade of O-10. Admiral ranks above vice admiral and below Fleet Admiral in the Navy; the Coast Guard and the Public Health...

    , father of Jim Morrison
    Jim Morrison
    James Douglas "Jim" Morrison was an American musician, singer, and poet, best known as the lead singer and lyricist of the rock band The Doors...

    . http://www.3news.co.nz/News/Jim-Morrisons-dad-dies-aged-89/tabid/418/articleID/82500/cat/55/Default.aspx
  • Pete Newell
    Pete Newell
    Peter Francis Newell was an American college men's basketball coach and basketball instructional coach. He coached for 15 years at the University of San Francisco, Michigan State University and the University of California, Berkeley, compiling an overall record of 234 wins and 123 losses...

    , 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...

    -born 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...

     coach. http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gNZeYSpqZFMqHVxF383f52JVZ7rgD94GUPOO0
  • Guy Peellaert
    Guy Peellaert
    Guy Peellaert was a Belgian artist, painter, illustrator, comic artist and photographer, most famous for the book Rock Dreams, and his album covers for rock artists like David Bowie and The Rolling Stones ...

    , 74, Belgian
    Belgium
    Belgium , officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a federal state in Western Europe. It is a founding member of the European Union and hosts the EU's headquarters, and those of several other major international organisations such as NATO.Belgium is also a member of, or affiliated to, many...

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

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

     and photographer, 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.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5gLaPdBRDjSuUSFPamQh0vuxLfuZg
  • Floyd Weaver
    Floyd Weaver
    David Floyd Weaver was a Major League Baseball pitcher who was born in Ben Franklin, Texas. He attended Paris Junior College in Paris, Texas, where he excelled in baseball and basketball. On May 10, , Weaver struck out 21 batters in a nine-inning game at Grand Junction, Colorado, still a...

    , 67, 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. http://www.daylife.com/article/0cqw8lefEQ7dV

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  • Salah al-Deen Hafez
    Salah al-Deen Hafez
    Salah Eddin Hafez, Arabic: صلاح الدين حافظ , b. 1938, died 16 November 2008, was an Egyptian writer and journalist. At the time of his death of cancer, he was the General Secretary of the Union of Arab Journalists....

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

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

    . http://www.legacy.com/Obituaries.asp?Page=APStory&Id=15000
  • Bruno Maldaner
    Bruno Maldaner
    Bruno Maldaner was a Brazilian Bishop for the Roman Catholic Church.Maldaner was ordained a Priest at the age of 26 and appointed Auxiliary Bishop of São Paulo, Brazil and Titular Bishop of Aquae in Mauretania on April 15, 1966. He was later appointed Bishop of Frederico Westphalen, Brazil on May...

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

    ian Bishop
    Bishop (Catholic Church)
    In the Catholic Church, a bishop is an ordained minister who holds the fullness of the sacrament of Holy Orders and is responsible for teaching the Catholic faith and ruling the Church....

     of Frederico Westphalen
    Roman Catholic Diocese of Frederico Westphalen
    The Roman Catholic Diocese of Frederico Westphalen is a diocese located in the city of Frederico Westphalen in the ecclesiastical province of Passo Fundo in Brazil.-History:...

    . http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bmaldaner.html
  • Tony Reedus
    Tony Reedus
    Tony Reedus was an American jazz drummer.Reedus first gained notice playing in Woody Shaw's band in the 1980s...

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

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

     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...

    . []
  • Reg Varney
    Reg Varney
    Reginald Alfred "Reg" Varney was an English actor, most notable for his role as Stan Butler in 1970s TV sitcom On the Buses.-Early life:...

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

     comedy
    Comedy
    Comedy , as a popular meaning, is any humorous discourse or work generally intended to amuse by creating laughter, especially in television, film, and stand-up comedy. This must be carefully distinguished from its academic definition, namely the comic theatre, whose Western origins are found in...

     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...

     (On the Buses
    On The Buses
    On the Buses was a British situation comedy created by Ronald Wolfe and Ronald Chesney which was broadcast in the UK from 1969 to 1973. The writers' previous successes with The Rag Trade and Meet the Wife were for the BBC, but the Corporation rejected On the Buses, not seeing much comedy potential...

    )
    . http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article1936202.ece

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  • Glen Brand
    Glen Brand
    Glen Brand was an American wrestler and Olympic champion in Freestyle wrestling. He was a graduate of Clarion, Iowa and Iowa State University. He was a three-time All-American for the Cyclones with an overall record of 54-3, earning a reputation as a fierce competitor and pinner...

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

     wrestler, Olympic gold medalist
    Wrestling at the 1948 Summer Olympics
    At the 1948 Summer Olympics, 16 wrestling events were contested, for all men. There were eight weight classes in Greco-Roman wrestling and eight classes in freestyle wrestling...

     (1948). http://www.desmoinesregister.com/article/20081117/SPORTS020603/81117009/-1/ENT06
  • Matthew Cianciulli
    Matthew Cianciulli
    Matthew J. Cianciulli, Jr. was a former Democratic member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives.-References:...

    , 66, American politician, member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives
    Pennsylvania House of Representatives
    The Pennsylvania House of Representatives is the lower house of the bicameral Pennsylvania General Assembly, the legislature of the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. There are 203 members, elected for two year terms from single member districts....

     (1977–1979), heart failure. http://www.tributes.com/show/Matthew-Cianciulli-84582579
  • Donald Finkel
    Donald Finkel
    Donald Alexander Finkel was an American poet best known for his unorthodox styles and "curious juxtapositions".-Life:...

    , 79, 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...

    , 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.nytimes.com/2008/11/21/books/21finkel.html?ref=obituaries
  • Christel Goltz
    Christel Goltz
    Christel Goltz was a German operatic soprano. One of the leading dramatic sopranos of her generation, she possessed a rich voice with a brilliant range and intensity...

    , 96, 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...

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

    . http://iht.com/articles/ap/2008/11/15/europe/EU-Austria-Obit-Goltz.php
  • Grace Hartigan
    Grace Hartigan
    Grace Hartigan was an American Abstract Expressionist painter of the New York School in the 1950s.-Biography and early career:...

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

     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...

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

    . http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/18/arts/design/18hartigan.html?_r=1
  • Louis Ormont
    Louis Ormont
    Dr. Louis Ormont, one of the earliest practitioners of group psychotherapy based on a psychoanalytic model, died on Saturday, Nov. 15, 2008. During his long career, Dr. Ormont was passionate about developing, practicing, teaching, and speaking and writing about Group Therapy...

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

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

    . http://www.boston.com/news/local/new_hampshire/articles/2008/11/24/louis_ormont_expert_in_group_therapy_dies_at_90/
  • Ivan Southall
    Ivan Southall
    Ivan Francis Southall AM, DFC was an award-winning Australian writer of young-adult fiction and non-fiction. He was the first and still the only Australian to win the Carnegie Medal in Literature for children's literature. His books include Hills End, Ash Road, Josh, and Let the Balloon Go...

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

    . http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/11/15/2420715.htm

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  • Knut Bjørnsen
    Knut Bjørnsen
    Knut Bjørnsen was a former sports commentator and journalist for the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation.In his youth, Bjørnsen was a promising speed skater. He was junior Norwegian champion in 1951...

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

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

     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...

    , 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.vg.no/rampelys/artikkel.php?artid=533893 (Norwegian)
  • Michael Ugwu Eneja
    Michael Ugwu Eneja
    Michael Ugwu Eneja was an Nigerian prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. Until his death he was one of oldest Nigerian Catholic bishops....

    , 89, 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 Bishop
    Bishop (Catholic Church)
    In the Catholic Church, a bishop is an ordained minister who holds the fullness of the sacrament of Holy Orders and is responsible for teaching the Catholic faith and ruling the Church....

     of Enugu. http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/beneja.html
  • Sir Bernard Feilden
    Bernard Feilden
    Sir Bernard Feilden, CBE, FRIBA was a conservation architect whose work encompassed cathedrals, the Great Wall of China and the Taj Mahal.Feilden was born in Hampstead, London...

    , 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...

     conservation
    Habitat conservation
    Habitat conservation is a land management practice that seeks to conserve, protect and restore, habitat areas for wild plants and animals, especially conservation reliant species, and prevent their extinction, fragmentation or reduction in range...

     activist and restoration
    Building restoration
    Building restoration describes a particular treatment approach and philosophy within the field of architectural conservation. According the U.S...

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

    . http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/3469706/Sir-Bernard-Feilden.html
  • Lung Fong
    Lung Fong
    Jimmy Lung Fong was a former Hong Kong actor, film director, and action choreographer. Lung was best known to moviegoers for his frequent portrayal of villains in various Hong Kong films, most notably in films made by Wong Jing. Lung retired from the film industry, and died from lung cancer in...

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

     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...

    , 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://mihk2002.wordpress.com/2008/11/22/obituary-lung-fong/
  • Irving Gertz
    Irving Gertz
    Irving Gertz is an American composer recognized for his compositions for many fantasy and horror B-movies and TV series of the 1950s and 1960s....

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

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

    . http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117996093.html?categoryid=25&cs=1
  • Adrian Kantrowitz
    Adrian Kantrowitz
    Adrian Kantrowitz was an American cardiac surgeon who performed the world's first pediatric heart transplant at Maimonides Medical Center in Brooklyn on December 6, 1967...

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

     physician
    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...

    , performed the first pediatric heart transplant, heart failure. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/19/us/19kantrowiztz.html?ref=obituaries
  • Tsvetanka Khristova
    Tsvetanka Khristova
    Tsvetanka Mincheva Khristova was a Bulgarian discus thrower who competed from the early 1980s to the mid 2000s, with a career break for a drugs ban....

    , 46, Bulgaria
    Bulgaria
    Bulgaria , officially the Republic of Bulgaria , is a parliamentary democracy within a unitary constitutional republic in Southeast Europe. The country borders Romania to the north, Serbia and Macedonia to the west, Greece and Turkey to the south, as well as the Black Sea to the east...

    n athlete, 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...

     dual medallist in discus throw
    Discus throw
    The discus throw is an event in track and field athletics competition, in which an athlete throws a heavy disc—called a discus—in an attempt to mark a farther distance than his or her competitors. It is an ancient sport, as evidenced by the 5th century BC Myron statue, Discobolus...

    , 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://paper.standartnews.com/en/article.php?d=2008-11-15&article=25795
  • Charles Le Quintrec
    Charles Le Quintrec
    Charles Le Quintrec was a French poet. He was born in Plescop and died in Lorient.He was a literary critic for Ouest-France .-Awards:* Chevalier des Arts et Lettres* Officer of the Ordre national du Mérite...

    , 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...

     poet
    Poetry
    Poetry is a form of literary art in which language is used for its aesthetic and evocative qualities in addition to, or in lieu of, its apparent meaning...

    . http://bibliobs.nouvelobs.com/20081125/8889/charles-le-quintrec-est-mort-a-82-ans (French)
  • Shaukat Hussein Mazari, 60, Pakistan
    Pakistan
    Pakistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan is a sovereign state in South Asia. It has a coastline along the Arabian Sea and the Gulf of Oman in the south and is bordered by Afghanistan and Iran in the west, India in the east and China in the far northeast. In the north, Tajikistan...

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

    , 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.app.com.pk/en_/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=59175&Itemid=2
  • Ajit Kumar Panja
    Ajit Kumar Panja
    Ajit Kumar Panja was a former Union minister of state in the Government of India. He was a member of Congress party but left it to join Trinamool Congress. He was born in Calcutta and studied law at the Scottish Church College, Calcutta and at the Lincoln's Inn. A lawyer by profession, he...

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

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

    , oral cancer
    Oral cancer
    Oral cancer is a subtype of head and neck cancer, is any cancerous tissue growth located in the oral cavity. It may arise as a primary lesion originating in any of the oral tissues, by metastasis from a distant site of origin, or by extension from a neighboring anatomic structure, such as the...

    . http://ibnlive.in.com/news/former-union-minister-ajit-panja-passes-away/78126-3.html

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  • Marcello Fondato
    Marcello Fondato
    Marcello Fondato was an Italian screenwriter and film director. He wrote for 46 films between 1958 and 1986. He also directed nine films between 1968 and 1986...

    , 84, 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:...

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

    . http://www.film.it/news/news.php?nid=2079755&srctxt=&siteid=3&ptlid=57001 (Italian)
  • Bette Garber
    Bette Garber
    Bette S. Garber was an American photojournalists known for her pictures of customized semi-trucks. She worked for Heavy Duty Trucking Magazine and published several books....

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

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

    . http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/23/arts/design/23garber.html
  • Mustapha Oukacha
    Mustapha Oukacha
    Mustapha Oukacha was a Moroccan politician who served as the President of the Assembly of Councillors of the Parliament of Morocco beginning in October 2000....

    , 75, Moroccan
    Morocco
    Morocco , officially the Kingdom of Morocco , is a country located in North Africa. It has a population of more than 32 million and an area of 710,850 km², and also primarily administers the disputed region of the Western Sahara...

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

    , president of the Assembly of Councillors
    Assembly of Councillors
    The Assembly of Councillors is the upper house of the Parliament of Morocco and has 270 members, elected for a nine year term, elected by local councils , professional chambers and wage-earners ....

    . http://www.afriquenligne.fr/news/africa-news/morocco:-moroccan-lower-parliamentary-chamber-president-dies-at-75-2008111315922.html
  • Ian Ridley
    Ian Ridley
    Ian Ridley was an Australian rules footballer who played for Melbourne in the VFL.Ridley was a rover who was handy around goals and a 5 time premiership player with Melbourne. He topped Melbourne's goalkicking in 1960 with 38 goals and went on to coach the club during the 1970s...

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

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

     (Melbourne Demons
    Melbourne Football Club
    The Melbourne Football Club, nicknamed The Demons, is an Australian rules football club playing in the Australian Football League , based in Melbourne, Victoria....

    ), 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://news.theage.com.au/sport/demons-mourning-club-legend-ian-ridley-20081113-663u.html
  • Paco Ignacio Taibo I
    Paco Ignacio Taibo I
    Paco Ignacio Taibo I , birth name Francisco Ignacio Taibo Lavilla González Nava Suárez Vich Manjón, was a prolific Spanish/Mexican writer and journalist....

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

     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 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...

    , 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.laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=320301&CategoryId=14091

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  • Richard Rhys, 9th Baron Dynevor
    Richard Rhys, 9th Baron Dynevor
    Richard Charles Uryan Rhys, 9th Baron Dynevor was a British peer.He was educated at Eton and at Magdalene College, Cambridge....

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

     aristocrat
    Aristocracy
    Aristocracy , is a form of government in which a few elite citizens rule. The term derives from the Greek aristokratia, meaning "rule of the best". In origin in Ancient Greece, it was conceived of as rule by the best qualified citizens, and contrasted with monarchy...

     and patron
    Patrón
    Patrón is a luxury brand of tequila produced in Mexico and sold in hand-blown, individually numbered bottles.Made entirely from Blue Agave "piñas" , Patrón comes in five varieties: Silver, Añejo, Reposado, Gran Patrón Platinum and Gran Patrón Burdeos. Patrón also sells a tequila-coffee blend known...

     of the 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....

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

    . http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article5360793.ece
  • Catherine Baker Knoll
    Catherine Baker Knoll
    Catherine Baker Knoll was an American politician and member of the Democratic Party. She was the 30th Lieutenant Governor of Pennsylvania, serving under Governor Ed Rendell from 2003 to 2008.-Background:...

    , 78, 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...

    , Lieutenant Governor of Pennsylvania
    Lieutenant Governor of Pennsylvania
    The Lieutenant Governor is a constitutional officer of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. The Lieutenant Governor is elected every four years along with the Governor. Jim Cawley of Bucks County is the incumbent Lieutenant Governor...

     since 2003, neuroendocrine cancer. http://www.bizjournals.com/pittsburgh/stories/2008/11/10/daily32.html
  • Vladas Michelevičius
    Vladas Michelevicius
    Vladislovas Michelevičius was a Lithuanian bishop for the Roman Catholic Church.Born in 1924 he was ordained as a priest on October 31, 1948. On November 13, 1986 he was appointed as the Auxiliary Bishop of Kaunas, Titular Bishop of Thapsus, and Auxiliary Bishop of Vilkaviškis. Michelevičius...

    , 84, Lithuania
    Lithuania
    Lithuania , officially the Republic of Lithuania is a country in Northern Europe, the biggest of the three Baltic states. It is situated along the southeastern shore of the Baltic Sea, whereby to the west lie Sweden and Denmark...

    n 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 Vilkaviškis. http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bmicv.html
  • Mitch Mitchell
    Mitch Mitchell
    John Ronald "Mitch" Mitchell was an English drummer, best known for his work in The Jimi Hendrix Experience.-Early life and the Jimi Hendrix Experience:...

    , 61, 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...

     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...

     (The Jimi Hendrix Experience
    The Jimi Hendrix Experience
    The Jimi Hendrix Experience were an English-American psychedelic rock band that formed in London in October 1966. Comprising eponymous singer-songwriter and guitarist Jimi Hendrix, bassist and backing vocalist Noel Redding and drummer Mitch Mitchell, the band was active until June 1969, in which...

    ), natural causes. http://www.oregonlive.com/news/index.ssf/2008/11/jimi_hendrixs_drummer_mitch_mi.html
  • Margaret Moncrieff
    Margaret Moncrieff
    Margaret Moncrieff was a Scottish cellist and author writing under the pseudonym Helen McClelland and writing novels in the Chalet School series.She was also professor of cello at the Royal College of Music...

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

     cellist. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article5295050.ece
  • George Morrison, 59, 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, brain tumour. http://www.dailygazette.com/news/2008/nov/13/morrison/
  • Serge Nigg
    Serge Nigg
    -Biography:After initial studies with Ginette Martenot, Nigg entered the Paris Conservatory in 1941 and studied harmony with Olivier Messiaen and counterpoint with Simone Plé-Caussade. In 1945, he met René Leibowitz, who introduced him to the twelve-tone technique of composition...

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

     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...

    . http://www.resmusica.com/actu_presse/article.php3?id_article=535 (French)
  • Raymond Routledge
    Raymond Routledge
    Raymond Routledge was an American amateur and professional bodybuilder. He was crowned AAU Mr. America in 1961. He held the title of Amateur Mr. Universe the same year. He died at the age of 77 in San Bernardino, California....

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

     bodybuilder, AAU Mr. America
    AAU Mr. America
    AAU Mr. America was a bodybuilding competition started by the Amateur Athletic Union . It was first held on 4 July 1939 and the winner was named "America's Best Built Man". In 1940 this was changed to what is now known as the Mr. America contest....

     (1961). http://groups.google.com/group/alt.obituaries/browse_thread/thread/58a90c9937496f1a

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  • Mustafa Şekip Birgöl
    Mustafa Sekip Birgöl
    Mustafa Şekip Birgöl , a retired Turkish colonel, was the last veteran of the Turkish War of Independence .-Biography:...

    , 105, 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...

     last veteran of the Turkish War of Independence
    Turkish War of Independence
    The Turkish War of Independence was a war of independence waged by Turkish nationalists against the Allies, after the country was partitioned by the Allies following the Ottoman Empire's defeat in World War I...

    . http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/241088,turkeys-last-soldier-from-independence-war-dies-in-istanbul.html
  • C. Harmon Brown
    C. Harmon Brown
    C. Harmon Brown was an American endocrinologist who was a pioneer in the field of sports medicine. Dr. Brown's research studied the effects of rigorous exercise on women....

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

     physician
    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...

    , pioneer
    Innovator
    An innovator in a general sense, is a person or an organization who is one of the first to introduce into reality something better than before. That often opens up a new area for others and achieves an innovation.-History:...

     of sports medicine
    Sports medicine
    Sports medicine is a branch of medicine that deals with physical fitness, treatment and prevention of injuries related to sports and exercise...

    , 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/printedition/california/la-me-brown15-2008nov15,0,4957937.story
  • Tom Hunt
    Tom Hunt
    Thomas Myers "Tom" Hunt , was an American petroleum industry executive who was chairman of Hunt Petroleum and an advisor to his uncle H. L. Hunt, the founder of the family dynasty....

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

     chairman of Hunt Petroleum
    Hunt Petroleum
    Hunt Petroleum Corporation was an oil and gas exploration and production company formed in 1950. The company was originally called Petrol Production Co. and was later renamed Hunt Petroleum Corporation. The company was a Delaware corporation owned 52.84% by the Margaret Hunt Trust Estate and...

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

    . http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/12/business/12hunt.html
  • Ľubomír Kadnár
    Ľubomír Kadnár
    Ľubomír Kadnár was a Czechoslovak sprint canoer who competed in the early 1970s. He finished ninth in the K-4 1000 m event at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich.-References:**...

    , 67, Czechoslovak
    Czechoslovakia
    Czechoslovakia or Czecho-Slovakia was a sovereign state in Central Europe which existed from October 1918, when it declared its independence from the Austro-Hungarian Empire, until 1992...

     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...

     sprint canoer
    Canoe racing
    This article discusses canoe sprint and canoe marathon, competitive forms of canoeing and kayaking on more or less flat water. Both sports are governed by the International Canoe Federation ....

     http://www.sme.sk/c/4176274/lubomir-kadnar-oblubeny-burlivak.html (Slovak)
  • Alessandro Maggiolini
    Alessandro Maggiolini
    Alessandro Maggiolini was the Roman Catholic Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Como, Italy.Born in Bareggio, Italy, Maggiolini was ordained a Roman Catholic priest for the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Milan on July 26, 1955. On April 7...

    , 77, 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...

     Bishop
    Bishop (Catholic Church)
    In the Catholic Church, a bishop is an ordained minister who holds the fullness of the sacrament of Holy Orders and is responsible for teaching the Catholic faith and ruling the Church....

     of Como
    Roman Catholic Diocese of Como
    The Catholic diocese of Como, in northern Italy, has existed since the fourth century. It is a suffragan of the archdiocese of Milan. The bishops' seat is in Como Cathedral....

    , 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.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bmagg.html
  • María Elena Marqués
    María Elena Marqués
    María Elena Marqués was a Mexican actress who was a star of Golden Age of Mexican cinema in the 1940s and 1950s.In her best-known role, Marqués starred in the 1947 film La perla ; she played the wife of a fisherman who finds the ill-fated pearl. The film was based on John Steinbeck's book The Pearl...

    , 83, 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...

     actress, heart failure. http://www.legacy.com/Obituaries.asp?Page=APStory&Id=14991
  • Howard Reig
    Howard Reig
    Howard Reig was an American radio and television announcer. His last name was pronounced "reeg."-Personal life:...

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

     television announcer. http://www.mediabistro.com/tvnewser/nbc/longtime_nbc_nightly_news_announcer_howard_reig_dies_100491.asp?c=rss
  • Lasse Sandberg
    Inger and Lasse Sandberg
    Inger and Lasse Sandberg are Swedish authors of children's books. They have created many characters, among them the most famous, The Little Ghost Godfrey ....

    , 84, 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....

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

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

    . http://www.svd.se/nyheter/inrikes/artikel_2031665.svd (Swedish)
  • Herb Score
    Herb Score
    Herbert Jude Score was a Major League Baseball pitcher and announcer.-Athletic career:Score came up as a rookie in with the Cleveland Indians...

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

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

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

    ), after long illness. http://wtam.com/cc-common/news/sections/newsarticle.html?feed=&article=4562929
  • Jack Scott
    Jack Scott (meteorologist)
    John 'Jack' Scott was a British television weatherman who appeared for the BBC, ITV and Channel 4 during a 20 year broadcasting career.-Early life:...

    , 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...

     weather forecaster
    Weather forecasting
    Weather forecasting is the application of science and technology to predict the state of the atmosphere for a given location. Human beings have attempted to predict the weather informally for millennia, and formally since the nineteenth century...

    , 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.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/3454639/Jack-Scott.html

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  • Sarah Blacher Cohen
    Sarah Blacher Cohen
    Sarah Blacher Cohen was a writer, scholar, and playwright, and a professor at SUNY Albany for 30 years. Her area of specialty is Jewish American Fictions...

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

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

     of Jewish literature
    Jewish literature
    Jewish Literature refers to works written by Jews on Jewish themes, literary works of various themes written in Jewish languages, or literary works in other languages written by Jewish writers. Ancient Jewish literature includes Biblical literature and rabbinic literature...

    , complications of Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease
    Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease
    Charcot–Marie–Tooth disease- , known also as Morbus Charcot-Marie-Tooth, Charcot-Marie-Tooth neuropathy, hereditary motor and sensory neuropathy , hereditary sensorimotor neuropathy , or peroneal muscular atrophy, is an inherited disorder of nerves that takes different forms...

    . http://timesunion.com/AspStories/story.asp?storyID=739708
  • Kiyoshi Itō
    Kiyoshi Ito
    was a Japanese mathematician whose work is now called Itō calculus. The basic concept of this calculus is the Itō integral, and among the most important results is Itō's lemma. The Itō calculus facilitates mathematical understanding of random events...

    , 93, 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 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....

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

    . http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nn20081115a9.html
  • Nikola Kavaja
    Nikola Kavaja
    Nikola Kavaja was a Montenegrin Serb nationalist and anti-communist known for his 1979 bombing of a Yugoslav consul’s home and the American Airlines Flight 293 hijacking.-Youth:...

    , 76, Serbia
    Serbia
    Serbia , officially the Republic of Serbia , is a landlocked country located at the crossroads of Central and Southeast Europe, covering the southern part of the Carpathian basin and the central part of the Balkans...

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

     activist and aircraft hijacker
    Aircraft hijacking
    Aircraft hijacking is the unlawful seizure of an aircraft by an individual or a group. In most cases, the pilot is forced to fly according to the orders of the hijackers. Occasionally, however, the hijackers have flown the aircraft themselves, such as the September 11 attacks of 2001...

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

    . http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5g23BfraY59soobsDY45skIaUwrcgD94CRHG80
  • Li Ximing
    Li Ximing
    Li Ximing was the Communist Party boss in Beijing during the 1989 crackdown on pro-democracy protests in the capital and across the country.Li was elected to the 13th Politburo of the Communist Party of China on November 2, 1987 by the 13th Central Committee of the Communist Party of...

    , 82, Chinese
    China
    Chinese civilization may refer to:* China for more general discussion of the country.* Chinese culture* Greater China, the transnational community of ethnic Chinese.* History of China* Sinosphere, the area historically affected by Chinese culture...

     leader of Beijing
    Beijing
    Beijing , also known as Peking , is the capital of the People's Republic of China and one of the most populous cities in the world, with a population of 19,612,368 as of 2010. The city is the country's political, cultural, and educational center, and home to the headquarters for most of China's...

     Communist Party
    Communist Party of China
    The Communist Party of China , also known as the Chinese Communist Party , is the founding and ruling political party of the People's Republic of China...

    . http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/12/world/asia/12li.html?_r=1&ref=asia
  • Miriam Makeba
    Miriam Makeba
    Miriam Makeba , nicknamed Mama Africa, was a Grammy Award winning South African singer and civil rights activist....

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

    . http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/7719056.stm
  • Arthur Shawcross
    Arthur Shawcross
    Arthur John Shawcross was an American serial killer, also known as The Genesee River Killer in Rochester, New York...

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

     serial killer
    Serial killer
    A serial killer, as typically defined, is an individual who has murdered three or more people over a period of more than a month, with down time between the murders, and whose motivation for killing is usually based on psychological gratification...

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

    . http://www.whec.com/article/stories/S656175.shtml?cat=566
  • Wannes Van de Velde
    Wannes Van de Velde
    Wannes Van de Velde , born in Antwerp as Willy Cecile Johannes Van de Velde was a Flemish singer, musician, poet and artist....

    , 71, Belgian
    Belgium
    Belgium , officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a federal state in Western Europe. It is a founding member of the European Union and hosts the EU's headquarters, and those of several other major international organisations such as NATO.Belgium is also a member of, or affiliated to, many...

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

    , 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.deredactie.be/cm/de.redactie.english/flanders_today/1.414328

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  • Fernand Goux
    Fernand Goux
    Fernand Goux was, at age 108, the penultimate French World War I veteran, with Pierre Picault being the last. Born in Sceaux-du-Gâtinais, Loiret, Goux was called up for service on April 19, 1918. Goux was deployed behind the front lines with the 85th Infantry Regiment, supplying the troops and...

    , 108, 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...

     penultimate veteran of World War I. http://dersdesders.free.fr/bio_veterans/goux.html (French)
  • Huda bin Abdul Haq
    Huda bin Abdul Haq
    Huda bin Abdul Haq was an Indonesian who was convicted and executed for his role in the 2002 Bali bombings...

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

    n terrorist in 2002 Bali bombings, execution by firing squad
    Execution by firing squad
    Execution by firing squad, sometimes called fusillading , is a method of capital punishment, particularly common in the military and in times of war.Execution by shooting is a fairly old practice...

    . http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/7717819.stm
  • Anton Huiskes
    Anton Huiskes
    Antonius "Anton" Albertus Jozef Huiskes was a Dutch speed skater who competed in the 1948 Winter Olympics and in the 1952 Winter Olympics.He was born in Wierden, Overijssel and died in Coux-et-Bigaroque, France....

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

     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...

     speed skater
    Long track speed skating
    Speed skating is an Olympic sport where competitors are timed while crossing a set distance. It is also a sport for leisure. Sports such as short track speedskating, inline speedskating, and quad speed skating are also called speed skating...

    . http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/hu/anton-huiskes-1.html
  • Hok Lundy
    Hok Lundy
    General Hok Lundy ​ , also transliterated as Hok Lundi and Hoc Lundy, was the National Police Commissioner of Cambodia from 1994 to 2008; he had previously been the governor of Svay Rieng Province...

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

    n National Police Commissioner
    Chief of police
    A Chief of Police is the title typically given to the top official in the chain of command of a police department, particularly in North America. Alternate titles for this position include Commissioner, Superintendent, and Chief constable...

    , helicopter crash. http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,24627517-5005961,00.html
  • Carl D. Keith
    Carl D. Keith
    Carl Donald Keith was a chemist who was co-inventor of the three-way catalytic converter, which has played a dramatic role in reducing pollution from motor vehicles since their introduction in the mid-1970s....

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

     co-inventor of the catalytic converter
    Catalytic converter
    A catalytic converter is a device used to convert toxic exhaust emissions from an internal combustion engine into non-toxic substances. Inside a catalytic converter, a catalyst stimulates a chemical reaction in which noxious byproducts of combustion are converted to less toxic substances by dint...

    . http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/15/us/15keith.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
  • John Milsum
    John Milsum
    John H. Milsum was a Canadian control engineer who was Professor and first Director at the Biomedical Engineering Department of the McGill University in Montreal, and a Professor at the University of British Columbia...

    , 83, 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...

     control engineer
    Control engineering
    Control engineering or Control systems engineering is the engineering discipline that applies control theory to design systems with predictable behaviors...

    . http://www.med.ubc.ca/__shared/assets/Faclulty_Executive_Feb17__2009_Minutes10492.pdf
  • Amrozi bin Nurhasyim
    Amrozi bin Nurhasyim
    Ali Amrozi bin Haji Nurhasyim was an Indonesian executed for his part in the 2002 Bali bombings.-Early life:...

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

    n terrorist in 2002 Bali bombings, execution by firing squad
    Execution by firing squad
    Execution by firing squad, sometimes called fusillading , is a method of capital punishment, particularly common in the military and in times of war.Execution by shooting is a fairly old practice...

    . http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/7717819.stm
  • Preacher Roe
    Preacher Roe
    Elwin Charles Roe was a Major League Baseball pitcher for the St. Louis Cardinals , Pittsburgh Pirates , and Brooklyn Dodgers .-Early years:...

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

     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...

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

    , Pittsburgh Pirates
    Pittsburgh Pirates
    The Pittsburgh Pirates are a Major League Baseball club based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. They play in the Central Division of the National League, and are five-time World Series Champions...

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

    ), colon cancer. http://www.ky3.com/news/local/34186324.html
  • Imam Samudra, 38, Indonesia
    Indonesia
    Indonesia , officially the Republic of Indonesia , is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania. Indonesia is an archipelago comprising approximately 13,000 islands. It has 33 provinces with over 238 million people, and is the world's fourth most populous country. Indonesia is a republic, with an...

    n terrorist in 2002 Bali bombings, execution by firing squad
    Execution by firing squad
    Execution by firing squad, sometimes called fusillading , is a method of capital punishment, particularly common in the military and in times of war.Execution by shooting is a fairly old practice...

    . http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/7717819.stm

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  • Richard Fortman
    Richard Fortman
    Richard Lee Fortman was a champion checkers player and authority on the game.Richard Lee Fortman was born on February 8, 1915 in Springfield, Illinois, which was his home throughout his life...

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

     checkers champion
    Champion
    A champion is the victor in a challenge, contest or competition.There can be a territorial pyramid of championships, e.g. local, regional / provincial, state, national, continental and world championships, and even further divisions at one or more of these levels, as in soccer. Their champions...

    . http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/30/us/30fortman.html?ref=obituaries
  • Régis Genaux
    Régis Genaux
    Régis Hervé Genaux was a Belgian footballer who played as a right defender, and later a coach.During his career, he represented three teams in three countries, namely Standard Liège and Udinese Calcio; he died at only 35 in November 2008.-Club career:After having started playing football with R...

    , 35, Belgian
    Belgium
    Belgium , officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a federal state in Western Europe. It is a founding member of the European Union and hosts the EU's headquarters, and those of several other major international organisations such as NATO.Belgium is also a member of, or affiliated to, many...

     footballer, heart failure due to 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.coventrytelegraph.net/coventry-city-fc/coventry-city-fc-news/2008/11/10/former-coventry-city-defender-dies-aged-35-92746-22218803/
  • Joe Hyams
    Joe Hyams
    Joe Hyams was an American Hollywood columnist and author of bestselling biographies of Hollywood stars.- Career :...

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

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

     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:...

    , coronary artery disease. http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-hyams12-2008nov12,0,6624967.story
  • Mieczysław Rakowski, 81, 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...

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

    , Prime Minister
    Prime Minister of the Republic of Poland
    The Prime Minister of Poland heads the Polish Council of Ministers and directs their work, supervises territorial self-government within the guidelines and in ways described in the Constitution and other legislation, and acts as the superior for all government administration workers...

     (1988–1989), Workers' Party
    Polish United Workers' Party
    The Polish United Workers' Party was the Communist party which governed the People's Republic of Poland from 1948 to 1989. Ideologically it was based on the theories of Marxism-Leninism.- The Party's Program and Goals :...

     Chairman (1989–1990), 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/ALeqM5jj4yj37U9DWYfLMh8iNpt2MokknAD94B5C903
  • Florence Wald
    Florence Wald
    Florence Wald was an American nurse, former Dean of Yale School of Nursing, and largely credited as "the mother of the American hospice movement".-Biography:...

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

     nurse, hospice
    Hospice
    Hospice is a type of care and a philosophy of care which focuses on the palliation of a terminally ill patient's symptoms.In the United States and Canada:*Gentiva Health Services, national provider of hospice and home health services...

     pioneer. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/11/12/AR2008111202953.html

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  • James Byrne
    James Byrne (musician)
    James Byrne was a Donegal sheep herder, farmer and fiddle playing icon. He has been called one of Ireland's leading fiddle players.-Biography:...

    , 62, 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,...

     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....

    . http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2009/feb/11/obituary-james-byrne
  • Tetsuya Chikushi
    Tetsuya Chikushi
    was a Japanese journalist, TV presenter and news anchor.- Career :Chikushi was born in Hita, Ōita Prefecture on 23 June 1935. He graduated from Waseda University's school of political science and economics, and joined the Asahi Shimbun newspaper in 1959 as a reporter.He worked for the Asahi...

    , 73, 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 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 news anchor, 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://mdn.mainichi.jp/perspectives/times/news/20081119p2a00m0na007000c.html
  • José Bezerra Coutinho
    José Bezerra Coutinho
    José Bezerra Coutinho was a Brazilian bishop of the Roman Catholic Church. At the age of 98, he was the sixth-oldest bishop in the Catholic Church and oldest Brazilian bishop....

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

    ian 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 Estância
    Roman Catholic Diocese of Estância
    The Roman Catholic Diocese of Estância is a diocese located in the city of Estância in the Ecclesiastical province of Aracajú in Brazil.-Leadership:* Bishops of Estância ** Bishop Marco Eugênio Galrão Leite de Almeida...

    . http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bbezcou.html
  • Heiko Engelkes
    Heiko Engelkes
    Heiko Engelkes was a German journalist.Born in Norden, he studied law, political science and journalism in Wilhelmshaven, Hamburg and Berlin...

    , 75, 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...

     television journalist (ARD
    ARD (broadcaster)
    ARD is a joint organization of Germany's regional public-service broadcasters...

    ), 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.faz.net/s/Rub475F682E3FC24868A8A5276D4FB916D7/Doc~EB185F80F92744DAEBFB115C3C795F9D0~ATpl~Ecommon~Scontent.html (German)
  • Hedley Howarth
    Hedley Howarth
    Hedley John Howarth was a former international cricketer who played 30 Tests and nine One Day Internationals for New Zealand. The elder brother of Geoff Howarth, former New Zealand captain, he was born and died in Auckland.-Biography:Howarth was an orthodox left-arm bowler who made his first class...

    , 64, 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...

     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://content-aus.cricinfo.com/newzealand/content/current/story/377401.html
  • Wik Jongsma
    Wik Jongsma
    Wik Jongsma was a Dutch film and television actor.-Career:Jongsma appeared in various television productions between 1976 and 2005, including appearing as Govert Harmsen in 82 episodes of the soap-opera television series Goede Tijden, Slechte Tijden .He also appeared in two...

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

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

    , 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.telegraaf.nl/prive/2414026/__GTST-sterren_reageren_geschokt_op_overlijden_Wik_Jongsma__.html (Dutch)
  • Hidetaka Nishiyama
    Hidetaka Nishiyama
    was a prominent Japanese master of Shotokan karate. He was an internationally recognized instructor, author, and administrator, and helped to establish the Japan Karate Association. Nishiyama was one of the last surviving students of Gichin Funakoshi, founder of Shotokan karate...

    , 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 karate
    Karate
    is a martial art developed in the Ryukyu Islands in what is now Okinawa, Japan. It was developed from indigenous fighting methods called and Chinese kenpō. Karate is a striking art using punching, kicking, knee and elbow strikes, and open-handed techniques such as knife-hands. Grappling, locks,...

     master, 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.shotokanway.net/pages/nishiyama.htm
  • Heather Pick
    Heather Pick
    Heather Pick was an Americantelevision news anchor as well as an activist on behalf of breast cancer awareness and juvenile diabetes...

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

     newscaster (WBNS-TV
    WBNS-TV
    WBNS-TV, channel 10, is a television station in Columbus, Ohio, USA. The station is an affiliate of the CBS Television Network and is owned by the Dispatch Broadcast Group, a subsidiary of the Columbus Dispatch, along with WBNS radio...

    ), 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.columbusdispatch.com/live/content/local_news/stories/2008/11/07/Heather_Pick_.html
  • Jody Reynolds
    Jody Reynolds
    Jody Reynolds was an American singer and guitarist. His biggest hit single was "Endless Sleep", which reached #5 in the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart on July 7, 1958. He wrote it in a single afternoon in 1956 in Yuma, Arizona...

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

     singer and 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...

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

    . http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-reynolds14-2008nov14,0,3704687.story
  • Lyle Williams
    Lyle Williams
    Lyle Williams was a U.S. Representative from Ohio.Born in Philippi, he attended the public schools of North Bloomfield, Ohio. He served in the United States Army Reserve from 1960 to 1968, and then worked as a barber...

    , 66, 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 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...

     for Ohio
    Ohio
    Ohio is a Midwestern state in the United States. The 34th largest state by area in the U.S.,it is the 7th‑most populous with over 11.5 million residents, containing several major American cities and seven metropolitan areas with populations of 500,000 or more.The state's capital is Columbus...

     (1979–1985), 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.vindy.com/news/2008/nov/08/ex-valley-us-rep-williams-dies-at-66/
  • Abraham Woods
    Abraham Woods
    Abraham Woods was an American civil rights leader, who helped coordinate the 1963 March on Washington, D.C. and stood behind Martin Luther King, Jr. during his historic speech....

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

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

     leader, 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.montgomeryadvertiser.com/article/20081109/NEWS02/811090347

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  • Ronald Davis
    Ronald Davis (doctor)
    Ronald Mark Davis was an American physician who specialized in preventive medicine and was a public health and anti-tobacco advocate. Davis served a one-year term as president of the American Medical Association from 2006 to June 2007.Davis was born in Chicago on June 18, 1956, to George and Alice...

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

     health advocate
    Health Advocacy
    Health advocacy encompasses direct service to the individual or family as well as activities that promote health and access to health care in communities and the larger public. Advocates support and promote the rights of the patient in the health care arena, help build capacity to improve...

    , president of the AMA
    American Medical Association
    The American Medical Association , founded in 1847 and incorporated in 1897, is the largest association of medical doctors and medical students in the United States.-Scope and operations:...

     (2007–2008), 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.legacy.com/obituaries.asp?Page=APStory&Id=14977
  • Sir John Hermon
    John Hermon
    Sir John Hermon, OBE, QPM was the Chief Constable of the Royal Ulster Constabulary from 1980-89.John Charles "Jack" Hermon, was born in Castletown, Islandmagee, County Antrim. He had a grammar school education and gave up an early career in accountancy to join the Royal Ulster Constabulary in 1950...

    , 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...

     police officer
    Police officer
    A police officer is a warranted employee of a police force...

    , Chief Constable
    Chief Constable
    Chief constable is the rank used by the chief police officer of every territorial police force in the United Kingdom except for the City of London Police and the Metropolitan Police, as well as the chief officers of the three 'special' national police forces, the British Transport Police, Ministry...

     of the Royal Ulster Constabulary
    Royal Ulster Constabulary
    The Royal Ulster Constabulary was the name of the police force in Northern Ireland from 1922 to 2000. Following the awarding of the George Cross in 2000, it was subsequently known as the Royal Ulster Constabulary GC. It was founded on 1 June 1922 out of the Royal Irish Constabulary...

     (1980–1989), 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://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/7715122.stm
  • Larry James
    Larry James
    George Lawrence "Larry" James was an American track athlete.-Biography:James was born on November 6, 1947, in Mount Pleasant, New York, and took up track in seventh grade...

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

     track athlete and Olympic gold medalist
    Athletics at the 1968 Summer Olympics
    At the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City, 36 athletics events were contested, 24 for men and 12 for women. There were a total number of 1031 participating athletes from 93 countries....

     (1968
    1968 Summer Olympics
    The 1968 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XIX Olympiad, were an international multi-sport event held in Mexico City, Mexico in October 1968. The 1968 Games were the first Olympic Games hosted by a developing country, and the first Games hosted by a Spanish-speaking country...

    ), 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://sports.aol.com/story/_a/bbdp/the-mighty-burner-dies-at-61/240915?icid=100214839x1212823169x1200759887
  • Phil Reed
    Phil Reed
    Phil Reed was a New York City Council Member from 1998 to 2005, when term limits forced him out of office. He represented Council District 8, encompassing Manhattan neighborhoods of East Harlem and Manhattan Valley, and a portion of the South Bronx, as well as Randall's Island / Wards Island and...

    , 59, 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 New York City Council
    New York City Council
    The New York City Council is the lawmaking body of the City of New York. It has 51 members from 51 council districts throughout the five boroughs. The Council serves as a check against the mayor in a "strong" mayor-council government model. The council monitors performance of city agencies and...

     (1998–2005), complications of 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...

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

    . http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/08/nyregion/08reed.html
  • Joe Wendryhoski
    Joe Wendryhoski
    Joseph Stanley "Joe" Wendryhoski was a professional American football player who played guard for five seasons in the National Football League....

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

     football player
    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...

     (Los Angeles Rams, 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 ....

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

     and 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://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/news?slug=txobitwendryhoski&prov=st&type=lgns
  • George Winterton
    George Winterton
    George Graham Winterton was Professor of Constitutional Law at the University of Sydney. Prior to his appointment to Sydney University in 2004, he taught for over 28 years at the University of 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 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 professor of constitutional law
    Constitutional law
    Constitutional law is the body of law which defines the relationship of different entities within a state, namely, the executive, the legislature and the judiciary....

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

    . http://www.smh.com.au/news/obituaries/fighting-for-laws-golden-thread/2008/11/13/1226318834850.html

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  • Baldev Raj Chopra
    Baldev Raj Chopra
    Baldev Raj Chopra was an Indian director and producer of Bollywood movies and television serials...

    , 94, 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 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:...

    , after long illness. http://www.thaindian.com/newsportal/uncategorized/filmmaker-br-chopra-dead_100115182.html
  • Sofron Dmyterko
    Sofron Dmyterko
    Sofron Dmyterko, O.S.B.M. was a Ukrainian Bishop of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church.Dmyterko was born in Petlykiwci Stari, Ukraine, ordained a priest in the Religious Order of Saint Basil the Great on May 14, 1942, and ordained a bishop on November 30, 1968...

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

     Greek Catholic
    Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church
    The Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church , Ukrainska Hreko-Katolytska Tserkva), is the largest Eastern Rite Catholic sui juris particular church in full communion with the Holy See, and is directly subject to the Pope...

     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 Ivano-Frankivsk
    Ivano-Frankivsk
    Ivano-Frankivsk is a historic city located in the western Ukraine. It is the administrative centre of the Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast , and is designated as its own separate raion within the oblast, municipality....

    . http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bdmyterko.html
  • Sir Paul Greening
    Paul Greening
    Rear Admiral Sir Paul Woollven Greening GCVO was a Royal Navy officer who became Naval Secretary.-Naval career:...

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

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

     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...

    . http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article5191664.ece
  • Michael Higgins
    Michael Higgins (actor)
    Michael Patrick Higgins was an American actor who appeared in film and on stage, and was best known for his role in the original Broadway production of Equus.-Early life:...

    , 88, 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...

    , heart failure. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/11/theater/11higgins.html
  • Joza Karas
    Joza Karas
    Josef "Joža" Karas was a Polish-born, Czech-American musician and teacher who located and made public music composed by inmates who worked at the Nazi concentration camp Theresienstadt during World War II....

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

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

     musicologist. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/03/arts/music/03karas.html?ref=obituaries
  • John Leonard, 69, American
    United States
    The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

     media
    Mass media
    Mass media refers collectively to all media technologies which are intended to reach a large audience via mass communication. Broadcast media transmit their information electronically and comprise of television, film and radio, movies, CDs, DVDs and some other gadgets like cameras or video consoles...

     and cultural critic
    Cultural critic
    A cultural critic is a critic of a given culture, usually as a whole and typically on a radical basis. There is significant overlap with social and cultural theory.-Terminology:...

    , complications from 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://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5iAtKCG-pdmlYOyaHSMxmIDbjj5IAD949L9UG0
  • Norm Marshall
    Norm Marshall
    Norm Marshall was a Canadian radio and television broadcaster. He and Larry O'Brien were commentators for the first telecast of a Grey Cup football game 29 November 1952 on CBLT Toronto. CBC paid both Marshall and O'Brien CAD$250 for this inaugural broadcast.-Biography:Marshall's radio...

    , 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...

     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...

    . http://www.thespec.com/news/article/462130
  • Clark Miller
    Clark Miller
    Franklin Clark Miller was a professional American football player in the National Football League who played defensive end for nine seasons for the San Francisco 49ers, the Washington Redskins, and the Los Angeles Rams. He played college football at Utah State University and was drafted in the...

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

     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, 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.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/11/07/SPEL140JA0.DTL
  • John Odom, 26, American
    United States
    The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

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

    . http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gTkO15m2l6Wv_mtaQ4684BT9j-hgD96MRUUO0

4

  • Khertek Anchimaa-Toka
    Khertek Anchimaa-Toka
    Khertek Amyrbitovna Anchimaa-Toka was a Tuvinian/Soviet politician who in 1940-1944 was a chairman of Little Khural of Tuvan People's Republic, and the first elected or appointed female head of state in the modern world.-Biography:Khertek Anchimaa was born in what is now Bay-Tayginsky...

    , 96, 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
    Politician
    A politician, political leader, or political figure is an individual who is involved in influencing public policy and decision making...

    , chairman of Tuvan Parliament (1940–1944), world's first female head of state
    Head of State
    A head of state is the individual that serves as the chief public representative of a monarchy, republic, federation, commonwealth or other kind of state. His or her role generally includes legitimizing the state and exercising the political powers, functions, and duties granted to the head of...

    . http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article5269130.ece
  • Lennart Bergelin
    Lennart Bergelin
    Lennart Bergelin was a Swedish tennis player and coach. As a player, for AIK, Bergelin won nine Swedish championship singles titles between 1945 and 1955, and the French Open doubles title in 1948. Bergelin is best known for his work with Björn Borg, whom he trained between 1971 and 1983, helping...

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

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

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

    , heart failure. http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=6&click_id=30&art_id=nw20081104180850258C627242
  • Jheryl Busby
    Jheryl Busby
    Jheryl Busby was a recording company executive who was the former President and Chief Executive Officer of Motown Records.Busby grew up in South Central Los Angeles and attended John C. Fremont High School there...

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

     record executive. http://www.urbannetwork.com/cms/index.php?news=1599
  • Gérald Coppenrath
    Gérald Coppenrath
    Gérald Coppenrath was a French senator and journalist. Coppenrath was the French senator for Tahiti between 1958 and 1962....

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

     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 Senator
    French Senate
    The Senate is the upper house of the Parliament of France, presided over by a president.The Senate enjoys less prominence than the lower house, the directly elected National Assembly; debates in the Senate tend to be less tense and generally enjoy less media coverage.-History:France's first...

     (1958–1962) for Tahiti
    Tahiti
    Tahiti is the largest island in the Windward group of French Polynesia, located in the archipelago of the Society Islands in the southern Pacific Ocean. It is the economic, cultural and political centre of French Polynesia. The island was formed from volcanic activity and is high and mountainous...

    , brother of Hubert
    Hubert Coppenrath
    Archbishop Hubert Coppenrath is the emeritus Archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Papeete....

     and Michel Coppenrath. http://www.tahitipresse.pf/index.cfm?snav=see&presse=25836 (French)
  • Michael Crichton
    Michael Crichton
    John Michael Crichton , best known as Michael Crichton, was an American best-selling author, producer, director, and screenwriter, best known for his work in the science fiction, medical fiction, and thriller genres. His books have sold over 200 million copies worldwide, and many have been adapted...

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

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

     (Jurassic Park, The Andromeda Strain
    The Andromeda Strain
    The Andromeda Strain , by Michael Crichton, is a techno-thriller novel documenting the efforts of a team of scientists investigating a deadly extraterrestrial microorganism that rapidly and fatally clots human blood, while in other people inducing insanity...

    , ER
    ER (TV series)
    ER is an American medical drama television series created by novelist Michael Crichton that aired on NBC from September 19, 1994 to April 2, 2009. It was produced by Constant c Productions and Amblin Entertainment, in association with Warner Bros. Television...

    ), throat cancer
    Head and neck cancer
    Head and neck cancer refers to a group of biologically similar cancers that start in the upper aerodigestive tract, including the lip, oral cavity , nasal cavity , paranasal sinuses, pharynx, and larynx. 90% of head and neck cancers are squamous cell carcinomas , originating from the mucosal lining...

    . http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/11/05/print/main4575403.shtml
  • Marshall Fritz
    Marshall Fritz
    Marshall Fritz was an American libertarian activist. A native of Inglewood, California, Fritz was chairman, founder, and former president of the Alliance for the Separation of School and State. Prior to founding that organization, he founded the Advocates for Self-Government, a non-profit,...

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

     libertarian
    Libertarianism
    Libertarianism, in the strictest sense, is the political philosophy that holds individual liberty as the basic moral principle of society. In the broadest sense, it is any political philosophy which approximates this view...

     (World's Smallest Political Quiz
    World's Smallest Political Quiz
    The World's Smallest Political Quiz is a 10-question educational quiz designed by the libertarian Advocates for Self Government, created by Marshall Fritz...

    , Advocates for Self Government
    Advocates for Self Government
    The Advocates for Self-Government is a non-profit, non-partisan libertarian educational organization. It was founded in 1985 by Marshall Fritz and the current president is Sharon Harris....

    ), 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.lewrockwell.com/paul/paul496.html
  • Rosella Hightower
    Rosella Hightower
    Rosella Hightower was an American ballerina who achieved fame in both the United States and Europe.-Biography:...

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

     ballerina
    Ballerina
    A ballerina is a title used to describe a principal female professional ballet dancer in a large company; the male equivalent to this title is danseur or ballerino...

    , 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.straitstimes.com/Breaking%2BNews/Lifestyle/Story/STIStory_298337.html
  • Byron Lee
    Byron Lee
    Byron Lee OD, OJ was a musician, record producer, and entrepreneur, best known for his work as leader of Byron Lee and the Dragonaires.-Biography:Lee was born in Christiana in Manchester Parish to an Afro-Jamaican mother and a Chinese father Byron Lee OD, OJ (born Byron Aloysius St. Elmo Lee, 27...

    , 73, 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 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 record producer
    Record producer
    A record producer is an individual working within the music industry, whose job is to oversee and manage the recording of an artist's music...

    , bladder cancer
    Bladder cancer
    Bladder cancer is any of several types of malignant growths of the urinary bladder. It is a disease in which abnormal cells multiply without control in the bladder. The bladder is a hollow, muscular organ that stores urine; it is located in the pelvis...

    . http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/11/04/news/CB-Jamaica-Obit-Byron-Lee.php
  • Syd Lucas, 108, British
    United Kingdom
    The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...

     World War I veteran. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/3385719/British-First-World-War-Veteran-dies-days-before-90th-anniversary.html
  • Juan Camilo Mouriño
    Juan Camilo Mouriño
    Juan Camilo Mouriño Terrazo was a Mexican politician affiliated to the National Action Party and the Secretary of the Interior in the cabinet of President Felipe Calderón...

    , 37, 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...

     Secretary of the Interior
    Secretary of the Interior (Mexico)
    The Mexican Secretary of the Interior is the head of the Secretariat of the Interior, concerned with the country's internal affairs, the presentation of the president's bills to Congress, their publication and certain issues of national security. The country's main intelligence agency, CISEN,...

     since 2008, plane crash
    2008 Mexico City plane crash
    An official Mexican Interior Ministry aircraft crashed in central Mexico City at around 18:45 local time on November 4, 2008. Mexican Secretary of the Interior Juan Camilo Mouriño, who was aboard the plane, was killed in the crash, along with the other seven people on board and at least six people...

    . http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/7709877.stm
  • Orlando Owoh
    Orlando Owoh
    Orlando Owoh was a highlife musician and band leader. He was a member of the Yoruba ethnic grOwoh was born Oladipupo Owomoyela in Osogbo, Nigeria, but he later became known to his fans as Chief Dr. Orlando Owoh...

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

    n 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....

    , 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://combandrazor.blogspot.com/2008/11/dr-orlando-owoh-1934-2008.html
  • José Luis Santiago Vasconcelos
    José Luis Santiago Vasconcelos
    José Luis Santiago Vasconcelos was a Mexican lawyer and civil servant.Santiago Vasconcelos, a native of Mexico City, earned a law degree at the National Autonomous University of Mexico . In 1993 he began working for the office of the federal Attorney-General , in the drug-trafficking control area...

    , 51, 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...

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

    , plane crash
    2008 Mexico City plane crash
    An official Mexican Interior Ministry aircraft crashed in central Mexico City at around 18:45 local time on November 4, 2008. Mexican Secretary of the Interior Juan Camilo Mouriño, who was aboard the plane, was killed in the crash, along with the other seven people on board and at least six people...

    . http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/7709877.stm

3

  • John Adams, 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...

     rear admiral
    Rear Admiral
    Rear admiral is a naval commissioned officer rank above that of a commodore and captain, and below that of a vice admiral. It is generally regarded as the lowest of the "admiral" ranks, which are also sometimes referred to as "flag officers" or "flag ranks"...

    . http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/3412630/Rear-Admiral-John-Adams.html
  • Charles T. Cross
    Charles T. Cross
    Charles T. "Chuck" Cross was an American career diplomat and ambassador who held many positions in American government around the world. He served as the U.S. Consul General in Hong Kong, 1974-77, and was the second United States Ambassador to Singapore, serving from 1969 to 1972...

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

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

    , Ambassador to Singapore (1969–1972), Consul General in Hong Kong
    Consulate-General of the United States in Hong Kong
    The Consulate General of the United States of America Hong Kong and Macau has been located on 26, Garden Road, Mid-levels, Hong Kong Island since the late 1950s. The current Consul General is Stephen M. Young, since March, 2010....

     (1974–1977). http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2008389305_crossobit14m.html
  • Mike Davis
    Mike Davis (boat builder)
    Mike Davis was a boat builder who was a hands-on advocate for making recreational boat usage available on the Hudson River from New York City and New Jersey....

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

     boating
    Boating
    Boating is the leisurely activity of travelling by boat, or the recreational use of a boat whether powerboats, sailboats, or man-powered vessels , focused on the travel itself, as well as sports activities, such as fishing or water skiing...

     advocate. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/09/nyregion/09davis.html
  • Alan Ford
    Alan Ford (swimmer)
    Alan Ford was an American swimmer who was a silver medalist at the 1948 Summer Olympics and was the first to swim the 100-yard freestyle in under 50 seconds.-Biography:...

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

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

    . http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/17/sports/othersports/17ford.html?ref=obituaries
  • Jean Fournet
    Jean Fournet
    Jean Fournet was a French conductor.Fournet’s father was a flutist who gave him some instruction on the flute and music theory. Fournet was then trained at the Conservatoire de Paris in flute by Gaston Blanquart and Marcel Moyse, and conducting by Philippe Gaubert...

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

     conductor
    Conducting
    Conducting is the art of directing a musical performance by way of visible gestures. The primary duties of the conductor are to unify performers, set the tempo, execute clear preparations and beats, and to listen critically and shape the sound of the ensemble...

    . http://en.radiofilharmonischorkest.nl/mco_page/detail/20348
  • Edward Scott McMichael
    Edward Scott McMichael
    Edward Scott McMichael , also known as the Tuba Man, was an American tubist who became well known in Seattle for busking outside of the city's various sports and performing arts venues during the 1990s and 2000s...

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

     tuba
    Tuba
    The tuba is the largest and lowest-pitched brass instrument. Sound is produced by vibrating or "buzzing" the lips into a large cupped mouthpiece. It is one of the most recent additions to the modern symphony orchestra, first appearing in the mid-19th century, when it largely replaced the...

     player, bludgeoned
    Battery (crime)
    Battery is a criminal offense involving unlawful physical contact, distinct from assault which is the fear of such contact.In the United States, criminal battery, or simply battery, is the use of force against another, resulting in harmful or offensive contact...

    . http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/14/us/14tubaman.html?ref=obituaries
  • Brooks Mileson
    Brooks Mileson
    Brooks John Joseph Mileson was an English businessman and the former owner of Scottish football club Gretna as well as being a philanthropist to 70 non-league clubs.-Early life:...

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

     football club owner (Gretna F.C.
    Gretna F.C.
    Gretna Football Club was a Scottish football club that represented the town of Gretna, Dumfries and Galloway, close to the border between England and Scotland...

    ), complications from chronic fatigue syndrome
    Chronic fatigue syndrome
    Chronic fatigue syndrome is the most common name used to designate a significantly debilitating medical disorder or group of disorders generally defined by persistent fatigue accompanied by other specific symptoms for a minimum of six months, not due to ongoing exertion, not substantially...

     and brain 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.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/2008/11/03/former-gretna-fc-owner-brooks-mileson-dies-86908-20867115/
  • Lalit Mohan Sharma
    Lalit Mohan Sharma
    Lalit Mohan Sharma was the son of L.N. Sinha, former Attorney General of India, and was a reputed legal scholar and former Chief Justice of India.He was born on February 12, 1928 at Gaya ....

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

    n 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...

    , Chief Justice
    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....

     (1992–1993). http://bihartimes.com/Newsbihar/2008/Nov/Newsbihar03Nov3.html
  • Edward Sheehan
    Edward Sheehan
    Edward Richard Fulton Sheehan was an American author and foreign correspondent who reported from the Middle East, Africa and Central America as a freelance journalist in the pages of newspapers, magazines and the many books he authored.-Life and family:Growing up in Newton, Massachusetts, Sheehan...

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

     foreign correspondent
    Foreign correspondent
    Foreign Correspondent may refer to:*Foreign correspondent *Foreign Correspondent , an Alfred Hitchcock film*Foreign Correspondent , an Australian current affairs programme...

    , allergic reaction to medication. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/16/us/16sheehan.html
  • Cecil W. Stoughton
    Cecil W. Stoughton
    Cecil William Stoughton was an American photographer. Born in Oskaloosa, Iowa, Stoughton is best known for being President John F. Kennedy's photographer during his White House years....

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

     Presidential
    President of the United States
    The President of the United States of America is the head of state and head of government of the United States. The president leads the executive branch of the federal government and is the commander-in-chief of the United States Armed Forces....

     photographer (Kennedy
    John F. Kennedy
    John Fitzgerald "Jack" Kennedy , often referred to by his initials JFK, was the 35th President of the United States, serving from 1961 until his assassination in 1963....

    , Johnson), complications from hip replacement
    Hip replacement
    Hip replacement is a surgical procedure in which the hip joint is replaced by a prosthetic implant. Hip replacement surgery can be performed as a total replacement or a hemi replacement. Such joint replacement orthopaedic surgery generally is conducted to relieve arthritis pain or fix severe...

    . http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/06/arts/design/06stoughton.html?n=Top/Reference/Times%20Topics/People/K/Kennedy,%20John%20Fitzgerald
  • John Trudeau
    John Trudeau
    S. John Trudeau was an American musician who expanded the music department at Portland State University and helped co-found the outdoor Britt Festival of performing arts in Jacksonville, Oregon, the first of its kind in the Pacific Northwest.In 1951, Trudeau came to Portland, Oregon to join the...

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

     music promoter, founder of the Britt Festival
    Britt Festival
    Britt is a non-profit performing arts festival located in Jacksonville, Oregon. Since its creation it has been among the premier performing arts festivals in the Northwest, and has managed to attract high-profile and local acts in music for decades. Britt also sponsors a number of educational...

    , heart failure. http://www.oregonlive.com/music/oregonian/index.ssf?/base/entertainment/122609490668000.xml&coll=7
  • I. Bernard Weinstein
    I. Bernard Weinstein
    I. Bernard Weinstein was an American physician and researcher who studied the effect of pollutants and other environmental factors in causing cancer and headed the Comprehensive Cancer Center at Columbia University...

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

     cancer research
    Cancer research
    Cancer research is basic research into cancer in order to identify causes and develop strategies for prevention, diagnosis, treatments and cure....

    er, kidney disease. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/16/health/16weinstein.htm

2

  • Ahmed al-Mirghani
    Ahmed al-Mirghani
    Ahmad Ali Al-Mirghani was the President of Sudan from May 6, 1986 to June 30, 1989, when the democratically elected government was toppled by a military coup led by the current President Omar al-Bashir.-Early life:...

    , 67, Sudan
    Sudan
    Sudan , officially the Republic of the Sudan , is a country in North Africa, sometimes considered part of the Middle East politically. It is bordered by Egypt to the north, the Red Sea to the northeast, Eritrea and Ethiopia to the east, South Sudan to the south, the Central African Republic to the...

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

    , President (1986–1989). http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20081102/wl_africa_afp/sudanpoliticsmirghani_081102202313
  • Joseph Alliluyev
    Joseph Alliluyev
    Iosif Grigor'evich Alliluyev was a Russian cardiologist and the grandson of Joseph Stalin.The son of Stalin's daughter Svetlana Alliluyeva, Iosif was seven-years-old when his father and famous grandfather died, both in 1953. Although he kept a low profile, he did take part in a television...

    , 63, 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 cardiologist, grandson of Joseph Stalin
    Joseph Stalin
    Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin was the Premier of the Soviet Union from 6 May 1941 to 5 March 1953. He was among the Bolshevik revolutionaries who brought about the October Revolution and had held the position of first General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union's Central Committee...

    . http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/apdetailspage.php?id=68cf0b3efb480765e686a905e87635f17e2838c
  • James Armsey
    James Armsey
    James W. Armsey was an American who served as an executive at the Ford Foundation where he oversaw the distribution of nearly a half billion dollars in grants...

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

     automotive executive
    Executive officer
    An executive officer is generally a person responsible for running an organization, although the exact nature of the role varies depending on the organization.-Administrative law:...

    , director of the Ford Foundation
    Ford Foundation
    The Ford Foundation is a private foundation incorporated in Michigan and based in New York City created to fund programs that were chartered in 1936 by Edsel Ford and Henry Ford....

     (1960–1967). http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/19/education/19armsey.html?ref=obituaries
  • Madelyn Dunham, 86, American
    United States
    The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

     maternal grandmother of Barack Obama
    Barack Obama
    Barack Hussein Obama II is the 44th and current President of the United States. He is the first African American to hold the office. Obama previously served as a United States Senator from Illinois, from January 2005 until he resigned following his victory in the 2008 presidential election.Born in...

    , 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.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/11/03/obama.grandma/index.html
  • George F. Grant
    George F. Grant
    George F. Grant was an angler, author and conservationist from Butte, Montana. He was active for many years on the Big Hole River.-Biography:...

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

     angler
    Fisherman
    A fisherman or fisher is someone who captures fish and other animals from a body of water, or gathers shellfish. Worldwide, there are about 38 million commercial and subsistence fishermen and fish farmers. The term can also be applied to recreational fishermen and may be used to describe both men...

    , 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 conservationist
    Conservation movement
    The conservation movement, also known as nature conservation, is a political, environmental and a social movement that seeks to protect natural resources including animal, fungus and plant species as well as their habitat for the future....

    , 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.montanasnewsstation.com/Global/story.asp?S=9286545
  • Kenneth P. Johnson
    Kenneth P. Johnson
    Kenneth Parker Johnson was an American newspaper editor. Johnson was best known for his efforts in the 1970s and 1980s to build the Dallas Times Herald into one of the nation's most respected newspapers, which ultimately failed when the paper was purchased by its rival The Dallas Morning News in...

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

     newspaper editor (Dallas Times Herald
    Dallas Times Herald
    The Dallas Times Herald, founded in 1888 by a merger of the Dallas Times and the Dallas Herald, was once one of two major daily newspapers serving the Dallas, Texas area. It won three Pulitzer Prizes, all for photography, and two George Polk Awards, for local and regional reporting...

    ), heart 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.nytimes.com/2008/11/07/business/media/07johnson.html
  • Jim Koleff
    Jim Koleff
    Jim Koleff was a Canadian hockey player and coach who spent three decades playing hockey and coaching and managing hockey teams in Europe....

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

     hockey
    Hockey
    Hockey is a family of sports in which two teams play against each other by trying to maneuver a ball or a puck into the opponent's goal using a hockey stick.-Etymology:...

     player and coach, 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.eurohockey.net/news/story.html?id=20081102183427_jim_koleff_passes_away
  • Domenico Leccisi
    Domenico Leccisi
    Domenico Leccisi was an Italian politician best known for stealing the corpse of the fascist dictator Benito Mussolini from an unmarked grave....

    , 88, 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...

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

    , stole corpse of Benito Mussolini
    Benito Mussolini
    Benito Amilcare Andrea Mussolini was an Italian politician who led the National Fascist Party and is credited with being one of the key figures in the creation of Fascism....

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

     and respiratory disease
    Respiratory disease
    Respiratory disease is a medical term that encompasses pathological conditions affecting the organs and tissues that make gas exchange possible in higher organisms, and includes conditions of the upper respiratory tract, trachea, bronchi, bronchioles, alveoli, pleura and pleural cavity, and the...

    . http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/06/world/europe/06leccisi.html
  • Henry Loomis
    Henry Loomis
    Henry Loomis was appointed director of the Voice of America in 1958 by President Dwight D. Eisenhower, resigning from the post in 1965 after policy conflicts with President Lyndon B...

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

     Director of Voice of America
    Voice of America
    Voice of America is the official external broadcast institution of the United States federal government. It is one of five civilian U.S. international broadcasters working under the umbrella of the Broadcasting Board of Governors . VOA provides a wide range of programming for broadcast on radio...

     (1958–1965), Alzheimer's
    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...

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

     and Pick's disease
    Pick's disease
    Pick's disease, is a rare neurodegenerative disease that causes progressive destruction of nerve cells in the brain. Symptoms include loss of speech , and dementia. While some of the symptoms can initially be alleviated, the disease progresses and patients often die within two to ten years...

    s. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/14/us/14loomis.html
  • Jacques Lunis
    Jacques Lunis
    Jacques Lunis was a French athlete who competed mainly in the 400 metres.He competed for a France in the 1948 Summer Olympics held in London, Great Britain in the 4 x 400 metre relay where he won the silver medal with his team mates Jean Kerebel, Francis Schewetta and Robert Chef...

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

     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...

     silver medal-winning (1948
    1948 Summer Olympics
    The 1948 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XIV Olympiad, were an international multi-sport event which was held in London, England, United Kingdom. After a 12-year hiatus because of World War II, these were the first Summer Olympics since the 1936 Games in Berlin...

    ) athlete. http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/lu/jacques-lunis-1.html
  • Elijah Mudenda
    Elijah Mudenda
    Elijah Mudenda was a Zambian politician. He served as Prime Minister of Zambia from 27 May 1975 to 20 July 1977....

    , 81, Zambia
    Zambia
    Zambia , officially the Republic of Zambia, is a landlocked country in Southern Africa. The neighbouring countries are the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the north, Tanzania to the north-east, Malawi to the east, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Botswana and Namibia to the south, and Angola to the west....

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

    , Prime Minister
    Prime Minister of Zambia
    -Prime Ministers of Zambia :-External links:*...

     (1975–1977). http://allafrica.com/stories/200811070848.html
  • Joe Rollins
    Joe Rollins
    Joseph Guy Rollins, Jr., known as Joe Rollins , was a prominent Texas attorney and civic leader, perhaps best known for his successful fight against a lawsuit in regard to cost overruns and construction delays in the establishment of what became Bush Intercontinental Airport in Houston.The...

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

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

     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.dailycamera.com/obits/2008/nov/05/joseph-rollins/
  • Bill Stall
    Bill Stall
    William R. "Bill" Stall was a reporter and staff member of the Los Angeles Times who was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 2004.-Biography:...

    , 71, 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 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...

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

    ), complications from pulmonary disease. http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-stall3-2008nov03,0,4281781.story
  • Terence Tolbert
    Terence Tolbert
    Terence D. Tolbert was an American political operative who was the Nevada state director for Barack Obama's 2008 presidential campaign and an aide to Joel Klein, the New York City School Chancellor. Tolbert's death came two days before the 2008 presidential election, and the same day as Obama's...

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

     political campaign
    Political campaign
    A political campaign is an organized effort which seeks to influence the decision making process within a specific group. In democracies, political campaigns often refer to electoral campaigns, wherein representatives are chosen or referendums are decided...

     director for Barack Obama
    Barack Obama
    Barack Hussein Obama II is the 44th and current President of the United States. He is the first African American to hold the office. Obama previously served as a United States Senator from Illinois, from January 2005 until he resigned following his victory in the 2008 presidential election.Born in...

     in Nevada
    Nevada
    Nevada is a state in the western, mountain west, and southwestern regions of the United States. With an area of and a population of about 2.7 million, it is the 7th-largest and 35th-most populous state. Over two-thirds of Nevada's people live in the Las Vegas metropolitan area, which contains its...

    , 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.mercurynews.com/ci_10887303

1

  • Badaró
    Badaró
    Manlio Hedair Badaró was a Portuguese actor and comedian.Born in Brazil, Badaró moved to Portugal in 1957. He came over as part of the comedy group "Brasileira Fogo no Pandeiro." Once he restarted his career in Portugal he started to appear in several plays including "Empresta-me o teu...

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

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

     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://quiosque.aeiou.pt/gen.pl?p=stories&op=view&fokey=ae.stories/12670 (Portuguese)
  • Jimmy Carl Black
    Jimmy Carl Black
    Jimmy Carl Black , born James Inkanish, Jr., was a drummer and vocalist for The Mothers of Invention.-Career: 1960s-1990s:Born in El Paso, Texas, Black was of Cheyenne heritage...

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

     Cheyenne
    Cheyenne
    Cheyenne are a Native American people of the Great Plains, who are of the Algonquian language family. The Cheyenne Nation is composed of two united tribes, the Só'taeo'o and the Tsétsêhéstâhese .The Cheyenne are thought to have branched off other tribes of Algonquian stock inhabiting lands...

     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...

     and vocalist (The Mothers of Invention
    The Mothers of Invention
    The Mothers of Invention were an American band active from 1964 to 1969, and again from 1970 to 1975.They mainly performed works by, and were the original recording group of, US composer and guitarist Frank Zappa , although other members have had the occasional writing credit...

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

    . http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-black6-2008nov06,0,4496764.story
  • Dermot Curtis
    Dermot Curtis
    Dermot Curtis was a former Irish international footballer. He represented his country 17 times, playing at centre-forward.Curtis was playing in the League of Ireland for Shelbourne when he first hit the headlines...

    , 76, 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,...

     footballer and manager
    Manager (Gaelic games)
    In Gaelic games, a manager or coach is an individual involved in the direction and instruction of the on-field operations of a team. Managing, or coaching, entails the application of sport tactics and strategies during the game itself, and usually entails substitution of players and other such...

    , after long illness. http://www.independent.ie/obituaries/dermot-curtis-1541425.html
  • David DeCaires
    David DeCaires
    David de Caires was a Guyanese solicitor. He was also the founder and Editor-in-Chief of Stabroek News.Trained as a solicitor, de Caires founded Stabroek News in 1986 with the help of his wife and Ken Gordon of the Trinidad and Tobago Express...

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

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

    , founder of Stabroek News
    Stabroek News
    The Stabroek News is a privately owned newspaper published in Guyana.It was first published in November 1986, first as a weekly but it later changed to a daily print...

    , complications from 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.stabroeknews.com/breaking-news/david-de-caires-passes-away/
  • Oscar Lathlin
    Oscar Lathlin
    Oscar Lathlin was a politician in Manitoba, Canada, and was a cabinet minister in the New Democratic Party government of Gary Doer.-Life and career:...

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

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

    , member of the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba
    Legislative Assembly of Manitoba
    The Legislative Assembly of Manitoba and the lieutenant governor form the Legislature of Manitoba, the legislature of the Canadian province of Manitoba. Fifty-seven members are elected to this assembly in provincial general elections, all in single-member constituencies with first-past-the-post...

     since 1990. http://winnipeg.ctv.ca/servlet/an/local/CTVNews/20081102/wpg_oscar_lathlin_081102/20081102/?hub=WinnipegHome
  • Nathaniel Mayer
    Nathaniel Mayer
    Nathaniel Mayer was a rhythm & blues singer who started his career in the early 1960s at Fortune Records in Detroit...

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

     rhythm & blues singer, 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.billboard.com/bbcom/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003886842
  • Jacques Piccard
    Jacques Piccard
    Jacques Piccard was a Swiss oceanographer and engineer, known for having developed underwater vehicles for studying ocean currents. He was one of only two people, along with Lt...

    , 86, Belgian
    Belgium
    Belgium , officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a federal state in Western Europe. It is a founding member of the European Union and hosts the EU's headquarters, and those of several other major international organisations such as NATO.Belgium is also a member of, or affiliated to, many...

    -born 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....

     oceanologist and explorer. http://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/news_digest/Deep_sea_adventurer_Jacques_Piccard_is_dead.html?siteSect=104&sid=9917799&cKey=1225554764000&ty=nd
  • Rosetta Reitz
    Rosetta Reitz
    Rosetta Reitz was an American feminist and jazz historian who searched for and established a record label producing 18 albums of the music of the early women of jazz and the blues....

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

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

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

     and record company founder, cardiopulmonary disease. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/15/arts/music/15reitz.html?ref=obituaries
  • Jack Reno
    Jack Reno
    Jack Reno was an American country singer.-Career:Born in Bloomfield, Iowa, Reno appeared at the Grand Ole Opry in the 1960s and played with Waylon Jennings and Dolly Parton...

    , 72, 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, brain cancer. http://nky.cincinnati.com/article/C2/20081111/NEWS/811110310/-1/recorder
  • Tiffany Sloan, 35, American
    United States
    The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

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

     (Playboy
    Playboy
    Playboy is an American men's magazine that features photographs of nude women as well as journalism and fiction. It was founded in Chicago in 1953 by Hugh Hefner and his associates, and funded in part by a $1,000 loan from Hefner's mother. The magazine has grown into Playboy Enterprises, Inc., with...

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

    . http://www.reviewjournal.com/obituaries/individual_display.jsp?obitID=4669427
  • Shakir Stewart
    Shakir Stewart
    Shakir Stewart , a native of Oakland, California, was a US record executive in a number of companies, the latest being Def Jam...

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

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

     of Def Jam Recordings
    Def Jam Recordings
    Def Jam Recordings is an American record label, focused primarily on hip hop and urban music, owned by Universal Music Group, and operates as a part of The Island Def Jam Motown Music Group...

    , 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.billboard.com/bbcom/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003886223
  • Yma Sumac
    Yma Súmac
    Yma Sumac was a noted Peruvian soprano. In the 1950s, she was one of the most famous proponents of exotica music. She became an international success based on her extreme vocal range, which was said to be "well over four octaves" and was sometimes claimed to span even five octaves at her peak.Yma...

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

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

    , cancer
    Cancer
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    . http://yma-sumac.com/news.htm
  • Tan Jiazhen, 99, Chinese
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     geneticist
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    , multiple organ dysfunction syndrome
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  • Tony Tarracino
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    , 92, American
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     saloon keeper and politician
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    , heart and lung ailments. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/11/15/AR2008111502324.html

See also

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

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Deaths in December 2007
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:...

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

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

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

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

 - May
Deaths in May 2008
Deaths in 2008 : ← - January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December - →The following is a list of notable deaths in May 2008.-31:*Carlos Alhinho, 59, Portuguese international footballer, fall....

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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