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• Tommy Dickson
  Tommy Dickson
  Tommy Dickson was a former Northern Irish international footballer who played with Linfield from 1948 to 1965. He was born in Belfast...
  
  , 78, British
  United Kingdom
  The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...
  
   football
  Football (soccer)
  Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a sport played between two teams of eleven players with a spherical ball...
  
  er (Linfield
  Linfield F.C.
  Linfield F.C. , is a semi-professional, Northern Irish football club, whose home ground is Windsor Park in Belfast, which is also the home of the Northern Ireland international team....
  
  , Northern Ireland
  Northern Ireland national football team
  The Northern Ireland national football team represents Northern Ireland in international association football. Before 1921 all of Ireland was represented by a single side, the Ireland national football team, organised by the Irish Football Association...
  
  ), after long illness. http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/irish/7165703.stm
• Tony Elliott
  Tony Elliott (football player)
  Anthony Robert Elliott was an American football defensive lineman who played seven seasons in the National Football League for the New Orleans Saints. He attended North Texas and Wisconsin.-References:...
  
  , 48, American football
  American football
  American football is a sport played between two teams of eleven with the objective of scoring points by advancing the ball into the opposing team's end zone. Known in the United States simply as football, it may also be referred to informally as gridiron football. The ball can be advanced by...
  
   player (New 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 ....
  
  ), natural causes. http://msn.foxsports.com/nfl/story/7631766?MSNHPHMA
• Ralph Emmerson
  Ralph Emmerson
  Ralph Emmerson was Bishop of Knaresborough from 1972 to 1979. Born in Leeds, West Yorkshire on 7 July 1913 he was educated at Leeds Grammar School and King’s College London. He worked initially in the Youth Employment Department of Leeds Educational Authority before studying for ordination at ...
  
  , 94, British
  United Kingdom
  The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...
  
   Anglican prelate, Bishop of Knaresborough
  Bishop of Knaresborough
  The Bishop of Knaresborough is an episcopal title used by a suffragan bishop of the Church of England Diocese of Ripon and Leeds, in the Province of York, England...
  
   (1972–1979). http://www.riponleeds.anglican.org/pressrelease.php?storyid=286
• Michael Goldberg
  Michael Goldberg
  Michael Goldberg was an American abstract expressionist painter and teacher known for his gestural action paintings, abstractions and still-life paintings. His work was recently seen in September 2007 in a solo exhibition at Knoedler & Company in New York City, as well as several exhibitions at...
  
  , 83, American abstract expressionist 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...
  
  , heart attack. http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/obituaries/articles/2008/01/09/michael_goldberg_abstract_expressionist_painter/
• Bill Idelson
  Bill Idelson
  Bill Idelson was an actor and scriptwriter best known for his teenage role as Rush Gook on the radio comedy Vic and Sade and his later, recurring television role on The Dick Van Dyke Show in the 1960s, before making a distinguished third career as a television writer, director and producer....
  
  , 88, American 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 script writer
  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:...
  
  , complications from a broken hip. http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-idelson6jan06,1,6383688.story?coll=la-news-obituaries
• Kathryn Ish
  Kathryn Ish
  Kathryn Ish was an American Broadway theater, film, television and voiceover actress. She was also a founding member of The Committee political satire improvisational comedy group. Her television credits include Laverne & Shirley.Ish was born in San Jose, California...
  
  , 71, American television
  Television
  Television is a telecommunication medium for transmitting and receiving moving images that can be monochrome or colored, with accompanying sound...
  
  , voiceover
  VoiceOver
  VoiceOver is a screen reader built into Apple Inc.'s Mac OS X, iOS and iPod operating systems. By using VoiceOver, the user can access their Macintosh or iOS device based on spoken descriptions and, in the case of the Mac, the keyboard. The feature is designed to increase accessibility for blind...
  
   and theater actress (Laverne & Shirley
  Laverne & Shirley
  Laverne & Shirley is an American television situation comedy that ran on ABC from January 26, 1976, to May 10, 1983...
  
  ), 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/2008/01/10/america/NA-GEN-US-Obit-Kathryn-Ish.php
• Milton L. Klein
  Milton L. Klein
  Milton Lowen Klein, Q.C. was a Montreal lawyer, a former Member of Parliament and a figure in the Jewish-Canadian community.-Personal life:...
  
  , 97, 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, Member of Parliament
  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 Cartier
  Cartier (electoral district)
  Cartier was a federal electoral district in Quebec, Canada, that was represented in the Canadian House of Commons from 1925 to 1968.It was created in 1924 from parts of George-Étienne Cartier riding....
  
   (1963–1968). http://www.canada.com/montrealgazette/news/insight/story.html?id=31aa4053-676c-46e3-9080-7f61778ba3ec&p=2
• Markku Peltola
  Markku Peltola
  Markku Peltola was a Finnish actor and musician. He was born in Helsinki and grew up there. He was actively involved in founding and acting with the Telakka Theater in Tampere....
  
  , 51, 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...
  
   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 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://uutiset.msn.hs.fi/kulttuuri/artikkeli/Näyttelijä%20Markku%20Peltola%20kuollut/1135232928187?ref=msn (Finnish)
• Muhammad Osman Said
  Muhammad Osman Said
  Mohammed Othman As-said was Prime Minister of Libya from 17 October 1960 to 19 March 1963....
  
  , 85, Libya
  Libya
  Libya is an African country in the Maghreb region of North Africa bordered by the Mediterranean Sea to the north, Egypt to the east, Sudan to the southeast, Chad and Niger to the south, and Algeria and Tunisia to the west....
  
  n Prime Minister (1960–1963). http://rulers.org/2007-12.html
• Ettore Sottsass
  Ettore Sottsass
  Ettore Sottsass was an Italian architect and designer of the late 20th century. His body of designs included furniture, jewellery, glass, lighting and office machine design.-Early career:...
  
  , 90, 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...
  
   designer
  Designer
  A designer is a person who designs. More formally, a designer is an agent that "specifies the structural properties of a design object". In practice, anyone who creates tangible or intangible objects, such as consumer products, processes, laws, games and graphics, is referred to as a...
  
  , heart failure. http://www.observer.com/2007/ettore-sottsass-italian-designer-behind-memphis-group-dies-90

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• Bert Bolin
  Bert Bolin
  Bert Rickard Johannes Bolin was a Swedish meteorologist who served as the first chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change , from 1988 to 1997. He was professor of meteorology at Stockholm University from 1961 until his retirement in 1990....
  
  , 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....
  
   meteorologist, stomach cancer
  Stomach cancer
  Gastric cancer, commonly referred to as stomach cancer, can develop in any part of the stomach and may spread throughout the stomach and to other organs; particularly the esophagus, lungs, lymph nodes, and the liver...
  
  . http://www.thestar.com/News/article/290480
• Kinkri Devi
  Kinkri Devi
  Kinkri Devi was an Indian activist and environmentalist, best known for waging a war on illegal mining and quarrying in her native state of Himachal Pradesh...
  
  , 82, India
  India
  India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...
  
  n environmentalist
  Environmentalist
  An environmentalist broadly supports the goals of the environmental movement, "a political and ethical movement that seeks to improve and protect the quality of the natural environment through changes to environmentally harmful human activities"...
  
  . http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/01/06/asia/obits.php
• Laila Kaland
  Laila Kaland
  Laila Kaland was a Norwegian politician for the Labour Party. She was born in Gloppen.She was elected to the Norwegian Parliament from Møre og Romsdal in 1985, and was re-elected on three occasions...
  
  , 68, Norwegian
  Norway
  Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...
  
   politician
  Politician
  A politician, political leader, or political figure is an individual who is involved in influencing public policy and decision making...
  
  , MP (1985–2001), after long illness. http://www.nrk.no/nyheter/distrikt/more_og_romsdal/1.4402841 (Norwegian)
• Jorge Machiñena
  Jorge Machiñena
  Jorge Machiñena , was an Uruguayan politician. He was born in Montevideo.-Political alignment; Deputy:He was a member of the National Party, in the "Herrerismo" sector, led by Luis Alberto Lacalle...
  
  , 71, Uruguay
  Uruguay
  Uruguay ,officially the Oriental Republic of Uruguay,sometimes the Eastern Republic of Uruguay; ) is a country in the southeastern part of South America. It is home to some 3.5 million people, of whom 1.8 million live in the capital Montevideo and its metropolitan area...
  
  an deputy
  Chamber of Deputies of Uruguay
  The House of Representatives is the lower house of the General Assembly of Uruguay . The Chamber has 99 members, elected for a five year term by proportional representation...
  
   (1985–2000), President of the Chamber
  Chamber of Deputies of Uruguay
  The House of Representatives is the lower house of the General Assembly of Uruguay . The Chamber has 99 members, elected for a five year term by proportional representation...
  
   (1996–1997), 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.montevideo.com.uy/notnoticias_54887_1.html http://www.elpais.com.uy/07/12/31/pnacio_322164.asp (Spanish)
• Leonard B. Meyer
  Leonard B. Meyer
  Leonard B. Meyer was a composer, author, and philosopher. He contributed major works in the fields of aesthetic theory in Music, and compositional analysis.-Career:...
  
  , 89, American musicologist. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/02/arts/02meyer.html?ref=obituaries
• Victor Navarra
  Victor Navarra
  Victor J. Navarra was a retired New York Fire Department lieutenant who coordinated the starts of the last 26 New York City Marathon Races.-Early life and career:...
  
  , 55, American coordinator for New York Marathon, cancer
  Cancer
  Cancer , known medically as a malignant neoplasm, is a large group of different diseases, all involving unregulated cell growth. In cancer, cells divide and grow uncontrollably, forming malignant tumors, and invade nearby parts of the body. The cancer may also spread to more distant parts of the...
  
  . http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/31/sports/othersports/31navarra.html?ref=obituaries.
• Doreen Norton
  Doreen Norton
  Doreen Norton, OBE, FRCN was an English nurse, in the 1950s she used research to show that the best treatment and prevention of bedsores was removing the pressure by turning the patient.A fellow of the Royal College of Nursing, Norton was regarded as instrumental in changing nursing...
  
  , 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...
  
   nursing pioneer. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/doreen-norton-pioneer-in-geriatric-nursing-782520.html
• Willie Robinson
  Willie Robinson
  William Lorenzo Robinson, better known as "Weepin'" Willie Robinson was an America blues singer who began his career in the 1950s, and performed with, among others, Susan Tedeschi, Steven Tyler and Bonnie Raitt....
  
  , 81, American blues
  Blues
  Blues is the name given to both a musical form and a music genre that originated in African-American communities of primarily the "Deep South" of the United States at the end of the 19th century from spirituals, work songs, field hollers, shouts and chants, and rhymed simple narrative ballads...
  
   singer, injuries from a fire. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071231/ap_on_en_mu/obit_robinson
• Ric Williamson
  Ric Williamson
  Richard F. Williamson was the chairman of the Texas Transportation Commission and a former Democrat-turned-Republican member of the Texas House of Representatives...
  
  , 55, American chairman of the Texas Transportation Commission, 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.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/tx/5412028.html
• Louis Wolfson
  Louis Wolfson
  Louis Elwood Wolfson was a Wall Street financier and one of the first modern corporate raiders, labeled by Time Magazine as such in a 1956 article...
  
  , 95, American businessman, bred and raced 1978 U.S. Triple Crown champion Affirmed
  Affirmed
  Affirmed was an American Thoroughbred racehorse who was the eleventh and most recent winner of the United States Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing...
  
  , colon cancer. http://sports.espn.go.com/sports/horse/news/story?id=3175078

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• Olayr Coan
  Olayr Coan
  Olayr José Coan was a Brazilian actor, author and theater director. Coan worked in both television and theater as an actor.-Personal life:...
  
  , 48, 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 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 theater director, car accident
  Car accident
  A traffic collision, also known as a traffic accident, motor vehicle collision, motor vehicle accident, car accident, automobile accident, Road Traffic Collision or car crash, occurs when a vehicle collides with another vehicle, pedestrian, animal, road debris, or other stationary obstruction,...
  
  . http://diversao.terra.com.br/interna/0,,OI2190179-EI3615,00.html (Portuguese)
• Phil Dusenberry
  Phil Dusenberry
  Philip Bernard Dusenberry was an American advertising executive for the BBDO advertising agency.Dusenberry was born in Brooklyn, New York City in 1936, and attended Emory & Henry College in Virginia...
  
  , 71, American advertising executive, lung cancer
  Lung cancer
  Lung cancer is a disease characterized by uncontrolled cell growth in tissues of the lung. If left untreated, this growth can spread beyond the lung in a process called metastasis into nearby tissue and, eventually, into other parts of the body. Most cancers that start in lung, known as primary...
  
  . http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/31/business/media/31dusenberry.html?ref=business
• Kevin Greening
  Kevin Greening
  Kevin Greening was a British radio presenter, who co-hosted the BBC Radio 1 breakfast show with Zoe Ball from 1997 to 1998.-Early career:...
  
  , 44, 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...
  
   former BBC Radio 1
  BBC Radio 1
  BBC Radio 1 is a British national radio station operated by the British Broadcasting Corporation which also broadcasts internationally, specialising in current popular music and chart hits throughout the day. Radio 1 provides alternative genres after 7:00pm including electronic dance, hip hop, rock...
  
   disc jockey
  Disc jockey
  A disc jockey, also known as DJ, is a person who selects and plays recorded music for an audience. Originally, "disc" referred to phonograph records, not the later Compact Discs. Today, the term includes all forms of music playback, no matter the medium.There are several types of disc jockeys...
  
  . http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7165356.stm
• Vincent Gruppuso
  Vincent Gruppuso
  Vincent Gruppuso was an American businessman and former deliveryman, who created and founded Kozy Shack Enterprises, multimillion-dollar company known for its pudding.-Early life:...
  
  , 67, American businessman, founder of Kozy Shack puddings, complications from diabetes. http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/obituaries/articles/2008/01/14/vincent_gruppuso_67_founder_of_kozy_shack_pudding_co/
• Abdullah ibn Husayn al-Ahmar
  Abdullah ibn Husayn al-Ahmar
  Sheikh Abdullah bin Husayn bin Nasser al-Ahmar was a politician and tribe leader of Yemen. He was speaker of the Assembly of Representatives of Yemen from 1993 to 2007 and also was the Sheikh of the Hashid tribal federation and the Al-Islah tribal confederacy.He inherited the position of Sheikh...
  
  , 74, Yemen
  Yemen
  The Republic of Yemen , commonly known as Yemen , is a country located in the Middle East, occupying the southwestern to southern end of the Arabian Peninsula. It is bordered by Saudi Arabia to the north, the Red Sea to the west, and Oman to the east....
  
  i politician
  Politician
  A politician, political leader, or political figure is an individual who is involved in influencing public policy and decision making...
  
  , Parliamentary speaker
  Speaker (politics)
  The term speaker is a title often given to the presiding officer of a deliberative assembly, especially a legislative body. The speaker's official role is to moderate debate, make rulings on procedure, announce the results of votes, and the like. The speaker decides who may speak and has the...
  
   since 1993, 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.sabanews.net/en/news144021.htm
• Joan Ingpen
  Joan Ingpen
  Joan Mary Eileen Ingpen was a well known classical music and opera talent manager and agent. Ingpen is credited with launching the career of the late opera singer, Luciano Pavarotti. She also served as the former artistic administrator of the Royal Opera House in London.-Biography:She was born in...
  
  , 91, British
  United Kingdom
  The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...
  
   classical music
  Classical music
  Classical music is the art music produced in, or rooted in, the traditions of Western liturgical and secular music, encompassing a broad period from roughly the 11th century to present times...
  
   manager (Ingpen & Williams
  Ingpen & Williams
  Ingpen & Williams International Artists' Management, founded in London in 1946, is a British classical music talent management agency. It is named for founders Joan Ingpen and her dog Williams, a dachshund....
  
  ), launched the career of Luciano Pavarotti
  Luciano Pavarotti
  right|thumb|Luciano Pavarotti performing at the opening of the Constantine Palace in [[Strelna]], 31 May 2003. The concert was part of the celebrations for the 300th anniversary of [[St...
  
  . http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/01/09/db0901.xml
• Nonja
  Nonja
  Nonja was a female Sumatran Orangutan who was thought to be the oldest of her species in either the wild or captivity. She was 55 years old when she died in 2007....
  
  , 55, 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 Sumatra
  Sumatra
  Sumatra is an island in western Indonesia, westernmost of the Sunda Islands. It is the largest island entirely in Indonesia , and the sixth largest island in the world at 473,481 km2 with a population of 50,365,538...
  
  n orangutan
  Orangutan
  Orangutans are the only exclusively Asian genus of extant great ape. The largest living arboreal animals, they have proportionally longer arms than the other, more terrestrial, great apes. They are among the most intelligent primates and use a variety of sophisticated tools, also making sleeping...
  
   thought to be world's oldest. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7166338.stm
• Phil O'Donnell, 35, Scottish
  Scotland
  Scotland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Occupying the northern third of the island of Great Britain, it shares a border with England to the south and is bounded by the North Sea to the east, the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, and the North Channel and Irish Sea to the...
  
   football
  Football (soccer)
  Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a sport played between two teams of eleven players with a spherical ball...
  
  er (Motherwell
  Motherwell F.C.
  Motherwell Football & Athletic Club are a Scottish professional football club based in Motherwell, North Lanarkshire. The club compete in the Scottish Premier League and are one of only seven teams to have remained in this league since it was founded in 1998...
  
  ) with one Scotland
  Scotland national football team
  The Scotland national football team represents Scotland in international football and is controlled by the Scottish Football Association. Scotland are the joint oldest national football team in the world, alongside England, whom they played in the world's first international football match in 1872...
  
   cap
  Cap (sport)
  In sports, a cap is a metaphorical term for a player's appearance on a select team, such as a national team. The term dates from the practice in the United Kingdom of awarding a cap to every player in an international match of association football...
  
  , heart failure. http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/m/motherwell/7164150.stm http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/glasgow_and_west/7166784.stm
• H. D. Thoreau, Jr.
  H. D. Thoreau, Jr.
  H. D. Thoreau, Jr. was a track and field authority as well as an Olympic official.-Early life and career:...
  
  , 84, American track-and-field authority and Olympics official, complications from Alzheimer's and stroke
  Stroke
  A stroke, previously known medically as a cerebrovascular accident , is the rapidly developing loss of brain function due to disturbance in the blood supply to the brain. This can be due to ischemia caused by blockage , or a hemorrhage...
  
  . http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/obituaries/articles/2008/01/02/hd_thoreau_jr_was_authority_on_track/
• Shu Uemura
  Shu Uemura
  was a Japanese make-up artist and founder of the Shu Uemura international cosmetics line which bears his name.-Career:A native of Tokyo, Shu Uemura reportedly first became interested in hairstyling and make up as a teenager while recovering from a severe illness which left him bedridden...
  
  , 79, Japanese makeup artist
  Makeup artist
  thumb|[[Michelle Camaclang]], an international-certified professional makeup artistthumb|Special effects makeup techniquesA Make-up artist is an artist whose medium is the human body, applying makeup and prosthetics for theatrical, television, film, fashion, magazines and other similar productions...
  
  , 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.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601101&sid=a4VGFyEX8TqQ&refer=japan

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• Aidin Nikkhah Bahrami
  Aidin Nikkhah Bahrami
  Aidin Nikkhah Bahrami was an Iranian professional basketball player. He was a member of the Iranian national basketball team along with his brother Samad Nikkhah Bahrami.-Career:...
  
  , 25, Iran
  Iran
  Iran , officially the Islamic Republic of Iran , is a country in Southern and Western Asia. The name "Iran" has been in use natively since the Sassanian era and came into use internationally in 1935, before which the country was known to the Western world as Persia...
  
  ian basketball
  Basketball
  Basketball is a team sport in which two teams of five players try to score points by throwing or "shooting" a ball through the top of a basketball hoop while following a set of rules...
  
   player, road accident. http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=36662§ionid=3510211
• Serigne Saliou Mbacké
  Serigne Saliou Mbacke
  Serigne Saliou Mbacké was a Grand Marabout of the Mouride movement in Senegal.Sheikh Salih Mbacké was the fifth caliph of Mouridism and the last surviving son of Cheikh Amadou Bamba, the founder of the Mouride movement...
  
  , 92, Senegal
  Senegal
  Senegal , officially the Republic of Senegal , is a country in western Africa. It owes its name to the Sénégal River that borders it to the east and north...
  
  ese religious leader, fifth caliph of the Mouride
  Mouride
  The Mouride brotherhood is a large Islamic Sufi order most prominent in Senegal and The Gambia, with headquarters in the holy city of Touba, Senegal...
  
   Islamic movement. http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5jCcHuB6UVRJO2hMoj_YvhjBDSfoQ
• Sun Daolin
  Sun Daolin
  Sun Daolin was a Chinese actor and film director.-Biography:Sun Daolin was born in Beijing on November 18, 1921. He was born Sun Yi-liang 孙以亮 in Beijing a family of four children. His father Sun Wen-Yau was educated in engineering in Brussels...
  
  , 86, 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...
  
   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.variety.com/VR1117978249.html
• Tab Thacker
  Tab Thacker
  Talmadge Layne "Tab" Thacker , was a former NCAA wrestler and actor.While at North Carolina State University Thacker won the NCAA heavyweight wrestling championship in 1984, collecting 4 Atlantic Coast Conference titles along with the Wolfpack. He finished his college career 92-11-1, ranking...
  
  , 45, American NCAA wrestling
  Amateur wrestling
  Amateur wrestling is the most widespread form of sport wrestling. There are two international wrestling styles performed in the Olympic Games under the supervision of FILA : Greco-Roman and freestyle. Freestyle is possibly derived from the English Lancashire style...
  
   champion, 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...
  
   (Police Academy films, City Heat
  City Heat
  City Heat is a 1984 American action-comedy film starring Clint Eastwood and Burt Reynolds. The film was released in North America in December 1984. The pairing of Eastwood and Reynolds in a Prohibition-era action-comedy seemed to give the film the potential to be a hit...
  
  , Wildcats
  Wildcats (film)
  Wildcats is a 1986 film starring Goldie Hawn and costarring Jan Hooks and Swoosie Kurtz. It is the film debut of Wesley Snipes and Woody Harrelson. They also appeared together in White Men Can't Jump and Money Train...
  
  ), diabetes complications. http://www.charlotte.com/breaking_news/story/423456.html

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• Kit Ahern
  Kit Ahern
  Catherine Ita "Kit" Ahern was an Irish Fianna Fáil politician from Ballybunion in County Kerry....
  
  , 92, 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,...
  
   politician
  Politician
  A politician, political leader, or political figure is an individual who is involved in influencing public policy and decision making...
  
  . http://www.rte.ie/news/2007/1229/ahernk.html
• Ben D. Altamirano
  Ben D. Altamirano
  Ben D. Altamirano was a New Mexico politician and businessman. He was a Democrat.-Personal life:Altamirano was born in Silver City, New Mexico in 1930. He enlisted in the United States Army in 1946 and served with the European occupation forces after World War II...
  
  , 77, American 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 New Mexico Senate
  New Mexico Senate
  The New Mexico Senate is the upper house of the New Mexico State Legislature. The Senate consists of 42 members, with each senator representing an equal amount of single-member constituent districts across the state. All senatorial districts are divided to contain a population on average of 43,300...
  
   since 1971, heart attack. http://www.lcsun-news.com/news/ci_7833518
• Ben Bamfuchile
  Ben Bamfuchile
  Ben Bamfuchile also known as Ben Pabili was a Zambian football defender and coach. Bamfuchile played for the Nkana Red Devils in the 1980s and later coached the same team, as well as the Zambia national football team from 1998 to 2000, holding the distinction of qualifying Zambia to the 2000...
  
  , 47, 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 coach of the Namibia national football team
  Namibia national football team
  The Namibia national football team, nicknamed the Brave Warriors, is the national team of Namibia and is controlled by the Namibia Football Association...
  
  , after short illness. http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/africa/7162734.stm
• Benazir Bhutto
  Benazir Bhutto
  Benazir Bhutto was a democratic socialist who served as the 11th Prime Minister of Pakistan in two non-consecutive terms from 1988 until 1990 and 1993 until 1996....
  
  , 54, 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 Opposition Leader
  Pakistan Peoples Party
  The Pakistan Peoples Party , is a democratic socialist political party in Pakistan affiliated with Socialist International. Pakistan People's Party is the largest political party of Pakistan...
  
   and former Prime Minister
  Prime Minister of Pakistan
  The Prime Minister of Pakistan , is the Head of Government of Pakistan who is designated to exercise as the country's Chief Executive. By the Constitution of Pakistan, Pakistan has the parliamentary democratic system of government...
  
   (1988–1990, 1993–1996), assassinated
  Assassination of Benazir Bhutto
  The assassination of Benazir Bhutto occurred on 27 December 2007 in Rawalpindi, Pakistan. Bhutto, twice Prime Minister of Pakistan and then-leader of the opposition Pakistan Peoples Party, had been campaigning ahead of elections due in January 2008...
  
  . http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1698466,00.html
• Edward A. Brennan
  Edward A. Brennan
  Edward A. Brennan was a former Chairman of the Board, President and Chief Executive Officer , Sears, Roebuck and Co....
  
  , 73, American businessman, former Chairman of Sears, Roebuck and Company
  Sears, Roebuck and Company
  Sears, officially named Sears, Roebuck and Co., is an American chain of department stores which was founded by Richard Warren Sears and Alvah Curtis Roebuck in the late 19th century...
  
  . http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/01/business/01brennan.html?ref=us
• Sir Howard Colvin
  Howard Colvin
  Sir Howard Montagu Colvin, CVO, CBE , was a British architectural historian who produced two of the most outstanding works of scholarship in his field.-Life and works:...
  
  , 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...
  
   architectural historian
  Historian
  A historian is a person who studies and writes about the past and is regarded as an authority on it. Historians are concerned with the continuous, methodical narrative and research of past events as relating to the human race; as well as the study of all history in time. If the individual is...
  
  . http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article3114648.ece
• Steven Florio
  Steven Florio
  Steven T. "Steve" Florio was an American magazine publisher and conglomerateur, was CEO and President of both Conde Nast Publications and The New Yorker, as well as publisher of GQ....
  
  , 58, American businessman, former CEO of Condé Nast
  Condé Nast Publications
  Condé Nast, a division of Advance Publications, is a magazine publisher. In the U.S., it produces 18 consumer magazines, including Architectural Digest, Bon Appétit, GQ, The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, and Vogue, as well as four business-to-business publications, 27 websites, and more than 50 apps...
  
  , heart attack
  Myocardial infarction
  Myocardial infarction or acute myocardial infarction , commonly known as a heart attack, results from the interruption of blood supply to a part of the heart, causing heart cells to die...
  
  . http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/28/business/media/28florio.html?ref=obituaries
• Jerzy Kawalerowicz, 85, 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...
  
   film director
  Film director
  A film director is a person who directs the actors and film crew in filmmaking. They control a film's artistic and dramatic nathan roach, while guiding the technical crew and actors.-Responsibilities:...
  
  . http://www.wprost.pl/ar/120446/Zmarl-Jerzy-Kawalerowicz/ (Polish)
• Jaan Kross
  Jaan Kross
  -Early life:Born in Tallinn, Estonia, studied Jacob Westholm´s Grammar school, Kross attended the University of Tartu and graduated from its School of Law...
  
  , 87, Estonia
  Estonia
  Estonia , officially the Republic of Estonia , is a state in the Baltic region of Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by the Gulf of Finland, to the west by the Baltic Sea, to the south by Latvia , and to the east by Lake Peipsi and the Russian Federation . Across the Baltic Sea lies...
  
  n 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.etv24.ee/index.php?06101308 (Estonian)
• Ed LaDou
  Ed LaDou
  Ed LaDou was an American pizza chef, who is credited with popularizing gourmet California-style pizzas. Ed LaDou was the first pizza chef at Wolfgang Puck's Spago restaurant in L.A...
  
  , 52, American pizza
  Pizza
  Pizza is an oven-baked, flat, disc-shaped bread typically topped with a tomato sauce, cheese and various toppings.Originating in Italy, from the Neapolitan cuisine, the dish has become popular in many parts of the world. An establishment that makes and sells pizzas is called a "pizzeria"...
  
   chef
  Chef
  A chef is a person who cooks professionally for other people. Although over time the term has come to describe any person who cooks for a living, traditionally it refers to a highly skilled professional who is proficient in all aspects of food preparation.-Etymology:The word "chef" is borrowed ...
  
  , popularized gourmet California-style pizza
  California-style pizza
  California-style pizza is a style of single-serving pizza that combines New York and Italian thin crust with toppings from the California cuisine cooking style. Wolfgang Puck popularized this style of pizza...
  
  s, cancer
  Cancer
  Cancer , known medically as a malignant neoplasm, is a large group of different diseases, all involving unregulated cell growth. In cancer, cells divide and grow uncontrollably, forming malignant tumors, and invade nearby parts of the body. The cancer may also spread to more distant parts of the...
  
  . http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-ladou4jan04,1,7501171.story?coll=la-news-obituaries&ctrack=9&cset=true
• Prince Pedro Gastão of Orléans-Braganza
  Prince Pedro Gastão of Orléans-Braganza
  Prince Pedro Gastão of Orléans-Braganza was one of two claimants to the Brazilian throne and head of the Petrópolis branch of the Brazilian Imperial House.-Biography:Prince Pedro Gastão was the son of Prince Pedro de Alcântara...
  
  , 94, 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 pretender
  Pretender
  A pretender is one who claims entitlement to an unavailable position of honour or rank. Most often it refers to a former monarch, or descendant thereof, whose throne is occupied or claimed by a rival, or has been abolished....
  
   to the title Emperor of Brazil. http://oglobo.globo.com/pais/mat/2007/12/27/327776960.asp (Portuguese)
• Peter Wing
  Peter Wing
  Peter Wing , CM, OBC was a Canadian politician and was the first mayor of Chinese descent in North America. He was born in Kamloops, British Columbia in 1914 and had lived most of his life there...
  
  , 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...
  
   politician
  Politician
  A politician, political leader, or political figure is an individual who is involved in influencing public policy and decision making...
  
  , mayor
  Mayor
  In many countries, a Mayor is the highest ranking officer in the municipal government of a town or a large urban city....
  
   of Kamloops, North America's first mayor of Chinese descent, 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://news.yahoo.com/s/cpress/20071229/ca_pr_on_na/obit_kamloops_mayor

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• Raúl Bernao
  Raúl Bernao
  Raúl Bernao was an Argentine footballer. He played most of his career for Club Atlético Independiente winning a number of major titles, he also played for the Argentina national football team 15 times....
  
  , 66, 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...
  
   football
  Football (soccer)
  Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a sport played between two teams of eleven players with a spherical ball...
  
  er, hepatitis
  Hepatitis
  Hepatitis is a medical condition defined by the inflammation of the liver and characterized by the presence of inflammatory cells in the tissue of the organ. The name is from the Greek hepar , the root being hepat- , meaning liver, and suffix -itis, meaning "inflammation"...
  
  . http://www.fifa.com/worldfootball/news/newsid=665925.html
• Jim Castiglia
  Jim Castiglia
  James Vincent Castiglia was an American football fullback in the National Football League for the Washington Redskins and the Philadelphia Eagles. He also played for the Baltimore Colts of the All America Football Conference...
  
  , 89, American football
  American football
  American football is a sport played between two teams of eleven with the objective of scoring points by advancing the ball into the opposing team's end zone. Known in the United States simply as football, it may also be referred to informally as gridiron football. The ball can be advanced by...
  
   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, 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.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/12/27/AR2007122702185.html?nav=rss_metro/obituaries
• Joe Dolan
  Joe Dolan
  Joseph "Joe" Francis Robert Dolan was an Irish entertainer, recorder and singer of easy listening songs...
  
  , 68, Irish
  Ireland
  Ireland is an island to the northwest of continental Europe. It is the third-largest island in Europe and the twentieth-largest island on Earth...
  
   singer and entertainer, brain haemorrhage. http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/breaking-news/ireland/article3284994.ece http://www.rte.ie/news/2007/1226/dolanj.html?rss
• John A. Garraty
  John A. Garraty
  John Arthur Garraty was an American historian and biographer. He specialized largely in American political and economic history....
  
  , 87, American biographer, heart failure. http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/26/nyregion/26garraty.html?ref=nyregion
• Andrew Grima
  Andrew Grima
  Andrew Grima was an artisan and designer of British Royal jewelry. He became the foremost modern jewelry designer in the West End of London in the 1960s and 1970s, selling designs from his exclusive gallery in Jermyn Street, Mayfair.-External links:**...
  
  , 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...
  
   jeweller. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/12/31/db3101.xml
• Voitto Liukkonen
  Voitto Liukkonen
  Voitto "Vode" Liukkonen was a Finnish sports commentator who worked for Finland's National Broadcasting Company, YLE. He was born in Mikkeli. He was especially known for his minimalistic style of commentating....
  
  , 67, 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...
  
   sports commentator
  Sports commentator
  In sports broadcasting, a commentator gives a running commentary of a game or event in real time, usually during a live broadcast. The comments are normally a voiceover, with the sounds of the action and spectators also heard in the background. In the case of television commentary, the commentator...
  
  . http://www.iltalehti.fi/uutiset/200712287028778_uu.shtml (Finnish)
• Paul D. MacLean, 94, American 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...
  
  , developed triune brain
  Triune brain
  The triune brain is a model of the evolution of the vertebrate forebrain and behavior proposed by the American physician and neuroscientist Paul D. MacLean. MacLean originally formulated his model in the 1960s and propounded it at length in his 1990 book The Triune Brain in Evolution...
  
   concept, heart attack. http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-maclean12jan12,1,1452341.story?coll=la-news-obituaries
• Nina Menshikova
  Nina Menshikova
  Nina Menshikova was a Soviet actress.She was the wife of Stanislav Rostotsky and the mother of Andrey Rostotsky. Nina Menshikova was awarded the title of People's Artist of the RSFSR in 1977 and also have received USSR State Prize in 1970 for her performance in We'll Live Till Monday.- External...
  
  , 79, 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 actress. http://www.vesti.ru/doc.html?id=154672 (Russian)
• Stu Nahan
  Stu Nahan
  Stu Nahan was an American sportscaster best known for his television broadcasting career in Los Angeles from the 1950s through the 1990s. He is also remembered for his role as a boxing commentator in most of the Rocky films. He received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6549 Hollywood Blvd...
  
  , 81, American sportscaster
  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...
  
  , lymphoma
  Lymphoma
  Lymphoma is a cancer in the lymphatic cells of the immune system. Typically, lymphomas present as a solid tumor of lymphoid cells. Treatment might involve chemotherapy and in some cases radiotherapy and/or bone marrow transplantation, and can be curable depending on the histology, type, and stage...
  
  . http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-nahan27dec27,0,2193693.story?coll=la-home-center
• John Pappenheimer
  John Pappenheimer
  Dr. John Richard Pappenheimer was a professor of Physiology at Harvard University and the thirty seventh president of the American Physiological Society from 1964 until 1965....
  
  , 92, American physiologist, 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://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/obituaries/articles/2007/12/27/john_r_pappenheimer_92_taught_physiology_at_harvard/

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• Jim Beauchamp
  Jim Beauchamp
  James Edward Beauchamp was a Major League Baseball first baseman and outfielder who played from to for the St. Louis Cardinals, Houston Colt .45s/Astros, Milwaukee/Atlanta Braves, Cincinnati Reds, and New York Mets. He attended Grove High School in Grove, Oklahoma and Oklahoma State University...
  
  , 68, American Major League Baseball
  Major League Baseball
  Major League Baseball is the highest level of professional baseball in the United States and Canada, consisting of teams that play in the National League and the American League...
  
   player and coach, 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.ajc.com/braves/content/sports/braves/stories/2007/12/27/beauchamp_1228.html
• Tommy Harmer
  Tommy Harmer
  Tommy Harmer was an English footballer who played at inside-forward.Nicknamed "Harmer the Charmer", he signed as an amateur in August 1948 and made his debut against Bolton in September, 1951...
  
  , 79, British
  United Kingdom
  The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...
  
   football
  Football (soccer)
  Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a sport played between two teams of eleven players with a spherical ball...
  
  er (Tottenham Hotspur
  Tottenham Hotspur F.C.
  Tottenham Hotspur Football Club , commonly referred to as Spurs, is an English Premier League football club based in Tottenham, north London. The club's home stadium is White Hart Lane....
  
  , Watford
  Watford F.C.
  Watford Football Club is an English professional football club based in Watford, Hertfordshire. It is often referred to as Watford F.C., Watford, or by the team's nickname The Hornets . Watford Rovers, Founded in 1881, entered the FA Cup for the first time in 1886, and the Southern League a decade...
  
   and Chelsea
  Chelsea F.C.
  Chelsea Football Club are an English football club based in West London. Founded in 1905, they play in the Premier League and have spent most of their history in the top tier of English football. Chelsea have been English champions four times, FA Cup winners six times and League Cup winners four...
  
  ). http://www.tottenhamhotspur.com/news/articles/obituarytommyharmer261207.html
• John Hayes
  John Hayes (cricketer)
  John Arthur "Johnny" Hayes was a cricketer who played 15 Tests for New Zealand. Primarily a fast bowler bowling late away-swingers with a high action, he took 30 wickets in Tests. Perhaps his finest moment was taking 11 wickets for the New Zealanders against MCC at Lord's in 1958.Hayes was born...
  
  , 80, New Zealand
  New Zealand
  New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses and numerous smaller islands. The country is situated some east of Australia across the Tasman Sea, and roughly south of the Pacific island nations of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga...
  
   test
  Test cricket
  Test cricket is the longest form of the sport of cricket. Test matches are played between national representative teams with "Test status", as determined by the International Cricket Council , with four innings played between two teams of 11 players over a period of up to a maximum five days...
  
   cricket
  Cricket
  Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of 11 players on an oval-shaped field, at the centre of which is a rectangular 22-yard long pitch. One team bats, trying to score as many runs as possible while the other team bowls and fields, trying to dismiss the batsmen and thus limit the...
  
  er. http://www.blackcaps.co.nz/content/blackcaps/latestblackcapsnews/10968/johnny-hayes.aspx
• Patricia Kirkwood
  Patricia Kirkwood
  Patricia Kirkwood was a British stage actress who appeared in numerous performances of dramas, cabaret, revues, music hall, variety, and pantomimes. She also performed on radio, television, and movies...
  
  , 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...
  
   actress, Alzheimer's disease
  Alzheimer's disease
  Alzheimer's disease also known in medical literature as Alzheimer disease is the most common form of dementia. There is no cure for the disease, which worsens as it progresses, and eventually leads to death...
  
  . http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/7160134.stm
• Hugh Massingberd
  Hugh Massingberd
  Hugh John Massingberd , also known as Hugh Montgomery-Massingberd, was an English journalist and genealogist....
  
  , 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...
  
   genealogist 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...
  
  , former The Daily Telegraph
  The Daily Telegraph
  The Daily Telegraph is a daily morning broadsheet newspaper distributed throughout the United Kingdom and internationally. The newspaper was founded by Arthur B...
  
  obituary
  Obituary
  An obituary is a news article that reports the recent death of a person, typically along with an account of the person's life and information about the upcoming funeral. In large cities and larger newspapers, obituaries are written only for people considered significant...
  
   editor. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/12/27/db2701.xml http://news.independent.co.uk/people/obituaries/ http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article3100894.ece
• Mighty King Kong
  Mighty King Kong
  Paul Otieno Imbaya , better known for his stage name Mighty King Kong was a reggae musician from Kenya. He was born in Ugenya, Siaya District....
  
  , 34, Kenya
  Kenya
  Kenya , officially known as the Republic of Kenya, is a country in East Africa that lies on the equator, with the Indian Ocean to its south-east...
  
  n reggae
  Reggae
  Reggae is a music genre first developed in Jamaica in the late 1960s. While sometimes used in a broader sense to refer to most types of Jamaican music, the term reggae more properly denotes a particular music style that originated following on the development of ska and rocksteady.Reggae is based...
  
   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.nationmedia.com/dailynation/nmgcontententry.asp?category_id=1&newsid=113372
• Hans Otte
  Hans Otte
  Hans Otte born Hans Günther Franz Otte in Plauen, Germany was a German composer, pianist, radio promoter, and author of many pieces of musical theatre, sound installations, poems, drawings, and art videos. From 1959 to 1984 he served as music director for Radio Bremen...
  
  , 81, German
  Germany
  Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...
  
   avant-garde
  Avant-garde
  Avant-garde means "advance guard" or "vanguard". The adjective form is used in English to refer to people or works that are experimental or innovative, particularly with respect to art, culture, and politics....
  
   composer
  Composer
  A composer is a person who creates music, either by musical notation or oral tradition, for interpretation and performance, or through direct manipulation of sonic material through electronic media...
  
   and pianist
  Pianist
  A pianist is a musician who plays the piano. A professional pianist can perform solo pieces, play with an ensemble or orchestra, or accompany one or more singers, solo instrumentalists, or other performers.-Choice of genres:...
  
  . http://timestranscript.canadaeast.com/lifetimes/article/168042
• G. P. Sippy
  G. P. Sippy
  Gopaldas Parmanand Sippy was a Bollywood movie producer and director. He was of Sindhi Hindu descent...
  
  , 93, 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 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...
  
   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.pr-inside.com/veteran-indian-filmmaker-g-p-sippy-dies-r362194.htm
• Carlos Eduardo Sousa Jr., 17, American student
  Student
  A student is a learner, or someone who attends an educational institution. In some nations, the English term is reserved for those who attend university, while a schoolchild under the age of eighteen is called a pupil in English...
  
  , tiger attack
  Tiger attack
  Tiger attacks on humans occur for various reasons and have claimed more human lives than any other member of the cat family.-Reasons for attacking:Tigers are sometimes intimidated from attacking humans, especially if they are unfamiliar with people...
  
  . http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/nation/5405492.html
• Tatiana, 4, Siberian tiger at San Francisco Zoo
  San Francisco Zoo
  The San Francisco Zoo, housing more than 260 animal species, is a zoo located in the southwestern corner of San Francisco, California, between Lake Merced and the Pacific Ocean along the Great Highway...
  
  , mauled a visitor to death, 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://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/nation/5405492.html

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• Jim Angel
  Jim Angel
  James Bryson Angel was an Australian radio news presenter. During a career spanning more than four decades, he presented the news on Sydney radio stations 2SM, 2UE, 2GB and 2CH, and many affiliated radio stations around Australia. He worked on-air with radio personalities such as John Laws and...
  
  , 67, 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 radio
  Radio
  Radio is the transmission of signals through free space by modulation of electromagnetic waves with frequencies below those of visible light. Electromagnetic radiation travels by means of oscillating electromagnetic fields that pass through the air and the vacuum of space...
  
   newsreader
  News presenter
  A news presenter is a person who presents news during a news program in the format of a television show, on the radio or the Internet.News presenters can work in a radio studio, television studio and from remote broadcasts in the field especially weather...
  
  , 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.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/12/25/2127263.htm
• Cláudio Camunguelo
  Cláudio Camunguelo
  Cláudio Camunguelo , was a Brazilian flautist, dancer, composer and singer/improviser of samba and choro . His compositions were used by several of the more famous sambistas and choro artists including Zeca Pagodinho....
  
  , 60, 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 composer
  Composer
  A composer is a person who creates music, either by musical notation or oral tradition, for interpretation and performance, or through direct manipulation of sonic material through electronic media...
  
   and singer, diabetes. http://g1.globo.com/Noticias/Rio/0,,MUL238537-5606,00.html (Portuguese)
• Reinhard Heß
  Reinhard Heß
  Reinhard Heß was a German ski jumping coach. He was the national team's coach from 1993 until 2003, helping the sport in becoming popular in Germany....
  
  , 62, 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...
  
   ski jumping
  Ski jumping
  Ski jumping is a sport in which skiers go down a take-off ramp, jump and attempt to land as far as possible down the hill below. In addition to the length of the jump, judges give points for style. The skis used for ski jumping are wide and long...
  
   coach, 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.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticleNew.asp?xfile=data/sports/2007/December/sports_December1082.xml§ion=sports&subsection=miscellaneous
• Wilhelmina Jashemski
  Wilhelmina Feemster Jashemski
  Wilhelmina Mary Feemster Jashemski was a noted scholar of the ancient site of Pompeii, where her archaeological investigations focused on the evidence of gardens and horticulture in the ancient city....
  
  , 97, American archaeologist, 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.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/01/13/AR2008011302806.html
• Andreas Matzbacher
  Andreas Matzbacher
  Andreas Matzbacher was an Austrian professional road bicycle racer. On December 24, 2007 Matzbacher was killed in a car crash in southern Austria after he lost control of his car and crashed into an overhead signpost....
  
  , 25, 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 cyclist, car accident
  Car accident
  A traffic collision, also known as a traffic accident, motor vehicle collision, motor vehicle accident, car accident, automobile accident, Road Traffic Collision or car crash, occurs when a vehicle collides with another vehicle, pedestrian, animal, road debris, or other stationary obstruction,...
  
  . http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/12/26/sports/EU-SPT-CYC-Obit-Matzbacher.php
• Nicholas Pumfrey
  Nicholas Pumfrey
  Sir Nicholas Richard Pumfrey, styled The Rt Hon. Lord Justice Pumfrey, was a British barrister. He served as a High Court judge for 10 years, and was promoted to the Court of Appeal little more than a month before his sudden death.- Early life and education :The son of Peter and Maureen Pumfrey,...
  
  , 56, British
  United Kingdom
  The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...
  
   judge
  Judge
  A judge is a person who presides over court proceedings, either alone or as part of a panel of judges. The powers, functions, method of appointment, discipline, and training of judges vary widely across different jurisdictions. The judge is supposed to conduct the trial impartially and in an open...
  
  , 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.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml;jsessionid=NA1ZOYW2WGQYRQFIQMFCFFWAVCBQYIV0?view=DETAILS&grid=&xml=/news/2008/01/01/db0102.xml
• George Warrington
  George Warrington
  George David Warrington was an American transportation official, who served New Jersey Transit for 28 years, latterly in the post of executive director...
  
  , 55, American transportation official, President of Amtrak
  Amtrak
  The National Railroad Passenger Corporation, doing business as Amtrak , is a government-owned corporation that was organized on May 1, 1971, to provide intercity passenger train service in the United States. "Amtrak" is a portmanteau of the words "America" and "track". It is headquartered at Union...
  
   (1998–2002), 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.cleveland.com/news/plaindealer/index.ssf?/base/news-0/1198661424283900.xml&coll=2

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• Dale Baird
  Dale Baird
  Dale Baird was an American thoroughbred horse racing trainer who also won the most races in that sport.- Career :...
  
  , 71, American thoroughbred
  Thoroughbred
  The Thoroughbred is a horse breed best known for its use in horse racing. Although the word thoroughbred is sometimes used to refer to any breed of purebred horse, it technically refers only to the Thoroughbred breed...
  
   horse trainer
  Horse trainer
  In horse racing, a trainer prepares a horse for races, with responsibility for exercising it, getting it race-ready and determining which races it should enter...
  
  , car crash. http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/california/la-me-baird25dec25,1,7940505.story?coll=la-headlines-pe-california&ctrack=1&cset=true
• Evelyn Gandy
  Evelyn Gandy
  Edythe Evelyn Gandy was an American politician who was the first female elected to a statewide office in Mississippi– that of Treasurer for the State of Mississippi...
  
  , 87, American politician, Lieutenant Governor of Mississippi
  Mississippi
  Mississippi is a U.S. state located in the Southern United States. Jackson is the state capital and largest city. The name of the state derives from the Mississippi River, which flows along its western boundary, whose name comes from the Ojibwe word misi-ziibi...
  
   (1976–1980). http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5j92Xe_vr8jiUGs1QhxXfqpzFkWJAD8TNL6K00
• W.F. Ganong, 83, American neuroendocrinologist, 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.nytimes.com/2008/01/12/obituaries/12ganong.html?ref=obituaries
• Michael Kidd
  Michael Kidd
  Michael Kidd was an American film and stage choreographer.-Life and career:Born Milton Greenwald in New York City on the Lower East Side, the son of Abraham Greenwald, an immigrant barber, and his wife Lillian, Michael Kidd moved to Brooklyn with his family and attended New Utrecht High School there...
  
  , 92, American film
  Film
  A film, also called a movie or motion picture, is a series of still or moving images. It is produced by recording photographic images with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or visual effects...
  
   and stage
  Musical theatre
  Musical theatre is a form of theatre combining songs, spoken dialogue, acting, and dance. The emotional content of the piece – humor, pathos, love, anger – as well as the story itself, is communicated through the words, music, movement and technical aspects of the entertainment as an...
  
   choreographer, cancer
  Cancer
  Cancer , known medically as a malignant neoplasm, is a large group of different diseases, all involving unregulated cell growth. In cancer, cells divide and grow uncontrollably, forming malignant tumors, and invade nearby parts of the body. The cancer may also spread to more distant parts of the...
  
  . http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/24/arts/dance/24cnd-kidd.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
• Aloísio Lorscheider
  Aloísio Lorscheider
  Aloísio Leo Arlindo Lorscheider, O.F.M. was a prominent cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church in Brazil during the 1970s and 1980s...
  
  , 83, 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 Roman Catholic prelate and cardinal
  Cardinal (Catholicism)
  A cardinal is a senior ecclesiastical official, usually an ordained bishop, and ecclesiastical prince of the Catholic Church. They are collectively known as the College of Cardinals, which as a body elects a new pope. The duties of the cardinals include attending the meetings of the College and...
  
  , heart failure. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/12/23/AR2007122300638.html
• Tyler MacDuff
  Tyler MacDuff
  Tyler MacDuff, born Tyler Glenn Duff, Jr. , was an American actor, primarily on television westerns and dramas who was cast as Billy the Kid in The Boy from Oklahoma.-Biography:...
  
  , 82, American actor. http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0532057/bio
• Hans Mild
  Hans Mild
  Hans Hjalmar "Tjalle" Mild was a Swedish football, ice hockey and bandy player.-Career:Mild won Allsvenskan two times with Djurgårdens IF and capped 31 times for the national football team...
  
  , 73, 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....
  
   footballer
  Football (soccer)
  Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a sport played between two teams of eleven players with a spherical ball...
  
   and 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.aftonbladet.se/sportbladet/fotboll/allsvenskan/djurgarden/article1527343.ab(Swedish)
• Oscar Peterson
  Oscar Peterson
  Oscar Emmanuel Peterson was a Canadian jazz pianist and composer. He was called the "Maharaja of the keyboard" by Duke Ellington, "O.P." by his friends. He released over 200 recordings, won seven Grammy Awards, and received other numerous awards and honours over the course of his career...
  
  , 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...
  
   jazz pianist, kidney failure and 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.cbc.ca/arts/music/story/2007/12/24/obit-peterson-oscar.html http://news.sympatico.msn.ctv.ca/TopStories/ContentPosting.aspx?feedname=CTV-TOPSTORIES_V2&showbyline=True&newsitemid=CTVNews%2f20071224%2foscar_peterson_071224
• Rhoda Pritzker
  Rhoda Pritzker
  Rhoda Pritzker was a British-American philanthropist. She was a member of the Pritzker family, one of the wealthiest families in Chicago, through her marriage to lawyer and businessman, Jack Pritzker...
  
  , 93, American philanthropist
  Philanthropist
  A philanthropist is someone who engages in philanthropy; that is, someone who donates his or her time, money, and/or reputation to charitable causes...
  
  , member of the Pritzker family
  Pritzker family
  The Pritzker family is one of America's wealthiest families, and has been near the top of Forbes magazine's "America's Richest Families" list since the magazine began in 1982....
  
  . http://www.heraldtribune.com/article/20071230/NEWS/712300563
• Ferreira Queimado, 94, 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...
  
   former chairman of S.L. Benfica, after long illness. http://ultimahora.publico.clix.pt/noticia.aspx?id=1314779 http://dn.sapo.pt/2007/12/24/desporto/ferreira_queimado_morreu_ontem.html (Portuguese)
• Kevin Sinclair
  Kevin Sinclair
  Kevin Sinclair, MBE, was a journalist, author and passionate supporter of Hong Kong. He spent more than 50 years reporting the news and over 40 of those in Hong Kong...
  
  , 65, 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 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...
  
   reporter, 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...
  
   and 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....
  
   for the South China Morning Post
  South China Morning Post
  The South China Morning Post , together with its Sunday edition, the Sunday Morning Post, is an English-language Hong Kong newspaper, published by the SCMP Group with a circulation of 104,000....
  
  , cancer
  Cancer
  Cancer , known medically as a malignant neoplasm, is a large group of different diseases, all involving unregulated cell growth. In cancer, cells divide and grow uncontrollably, forming malignant tumors, and invade nearby parts of the body. The cancer may also spread to more distant parts of the...
  
  . http://news.monstersandcritics.com/asiapacific/news/article_1382933.php/Hong_Kongs_best-known_western_journalist_dies_of_cancer
• Osvaldo Reyes
  Osvaldo Reyes
  Osvaldo Reyes Herrera, was born in Santiago, Chile, the oldest of eight children.At the age of nine Osvaldo went to work as his family's sole provider and once grown, he married in secret so he could stay to care for his family, instead of starting his own household...
  
  , 88, Chile
  Chile
  Chile ,officially the Republic of Chile , is a country in South America occupying a long, narrow coastal strip between the Andes mountains to the east and the Pacific Ocean to the west. It borders Peru to the north, Bolivia to the northeast, Argentina to the east, and the Drake Passage in the far...
  
  an 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...
  
  , 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.emol.com/noticias/cultura_espectaculos/detalle/detallenoticias.asp?idnoticia=286441 (Spanish)
• Frank Swaelen
  Frank Swaelen
  Frank Swaelen was a Belgian Christian Democratic politician and member of the Christian People's Party . He was born in Antwerp. In 1968, he became a member of the Chamber of Representatives...
  
  , 77, 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...
  
   politician
  Politician
  A politician, political leader, or political figure is an individual who is involved in influencing public policy and decision making...
  
  , former President of the Senate and Minister of State. http://destandaard.be/Artikel/Detail.aspx?artikelId=DMF23122007_011 http://www.vrtnieuws.net/cm/vrtnieuws.net/nieuws/politiek/071223_Frank_Swaelen_overleden (Dutch)

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• Joe Ames, 86, American singer (Ames Brothers
  Ames Brothers
  The Ames Brothers were a singing quartet from Malden, Massachusetts, who were particularly famous in the 1950s for their traditional pop music hits.-Biography:The Ames Brothers got their beginning in Malden, where all four were born...
  
  ), heart attack. http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/content_display/features/people/deaths/e3i7658d10c58dc109bc06f07b801bf1064
• Chrysostomos I
  Archbishop Chrysostomos I
  Archbishop Chrysostomos I was the Archbishop of Cyprus from 1977 to 2006. He was born in the village of Statos in Paphos, Cyprus. By the scholarship of Kykkos Monastery, where he served as a monk, he finished the Pancyprian Gymnasium in 1950 and he studied theology and literature in the...
  
  , 80, Cyprian prelate, Archbishop of Cyprus
  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...
  
   (1977–2006). http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/12/22/europe/EU-GEN-Cyprus-Obit-Archbishop.php
• Sir Charles Court
  Charles Court
  Sir Charles Walter Michael Court, was a Western Australian politician, 21st Premier of Western Australia and member for the seat of Nedlands for the Liberal Party for nearly 30 years.-Early life:...
  
  , 96, Australian politician, Premier of Western Australia
  Premier of Western Australia
  The Premier of Western Australia is the head of the executive government in the Australian State of Western Australia. The Premier has similar functions in Western Australia to those performed by the Prime Minister of Australia at the national level, subject to the different Constitutions...
  
   (1974–1982). http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/12/23/2126244.htm
• Sylvan Fox
  Sylvan Fox
  Sylvan Fox was an American journalist and Pulitzer Prize winner. He worked as a reporter at several newspapers in upstate New York before he came to the New York City-based World-Telegram newspaper. He wrote one of the first books critical of the 1964 report by the Warren Commission on the...
  
  , 79, American 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...
  
  , complications from pneumonia
  Pneumonia
  Pneumonia is an inflammatory condition of the lung—especially affecting the microscopic air sacs —associated with fever, chest symptoms, and a lack of air space on a chest X-ray. Pneumonia is typically caused by an infection but there are a number of other causes...
  
  . http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/obituaries/articles/2007/12/25/sylvan_fox_first_rewrite_man_to_win_pulitzer_prize_at_79/
• Andrew Glyn
  Andrew Glyn
  Andrew John Glyn, was a United Kingdom-based economist, University Lecturer in Economics at the University of Oxford and Fellow and Tutor in Economics in Corpus Christi College. A Marxist economist, his research interests focussed on issues of unemployment and inequality.He was Associate Editor:...
  
  , 64, 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...
  
   economist
  Economist
  An economist is a professional in the social science discipline of economics. The individual may also study, develop, and apply theories and concepts from economics and write about economic policy...
  
  . http://www.guardian.co.uk/obituaries/story/0,,2233746,00.html
• Julien Gracq
  Julien Gracq
  Julien Gracq , born Louis Poirier in Saint-Florent-le-Vieil, in the French département of Maine-et-Loire, was a French writer. He wrote novels, critiques, a play, and poetry. His literary works were noted for their Surrealism.Gracq first studied in Paris at the Lycée Henri IV, where he earned his...
  
  , 97, 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....
  
  . http://www.lefigaro.fr/culture/2007/12/23/03004-20071223ARTFIG00024-la-mort-de-julien-gracq.php (French)
• Leila Backman Shull
  Leila Backman Shull
  Bertha Leila Shull was an American supercentenarian, who, at her death aged 113, was the fourth-oldest person in the United States and the seventh-oldest in the world for little over a month since the November 14, 2007 death of fellow 113-year-old compatriot Bertha Fry.Shull was born and lived in...
  
  , 113, American supercentenarian
  Supercentenarian
  A supercentenarian is someone who has reached the age of 110 years. This age is achieved by about one in a thousand centenarians....
  
  , seventh-oldest living person in the world
  Oldest people
  This is a list of tables of the verified oldest people in the world in ordinal rank, such as oldest person or oldest man. In these tables, a supercentenarian is considered 'verified' if his or her claim has been validated by an international body that specifically deals in longevity research, such...
  
  . http://www.wistv.com/Global/story.asp?S=7539639
• Lucien Teisseire
  Lucien Teisseire
  Lucien Teisseire was a French professional road bicycle racer. He was born in Saint-Laurent-du-Var, Alpes-Maritimes. He is most known for his bronze medal in the 1948 Road World Championships.- Palmares :...
  
  , 88, French
  France
  The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
  
   road bicycle racer. http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticleNew.asp?xfile=data/sports/2007/December/sports_December1085.xml§ion=sports&col=
• Marvin Wachman
  Marvin Wachman
  Marvin Wachman , a professor of American history, was president of Lincoln University and Temple University, and served as interim president of Albright College and the Philadelphia College of Textiles and Science....
  
  , 90, American historian
  Historian
  A historian is a person who studies and writes about the past and is regarded as an authority on it. Historians are concerned with the continuous, methodical narrative and research of past events as relating to the human race; as well as the study of all history in time. If the individual is...
  
  , President of Lincoln University
  Lincoln University (Pennsylvania)
  Lincoln University is the United States' first degree-granting historically black university. It is located near the town of Oxford in southern Chester County, Pennsylvania. The university also hosts a Center for Graduate Studies in the City of Philadelphia. Lincoln University provides...
  
   and Temple University
  Temple University
  Temple University is a comprehensive public research university in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Originally founded in 1884 by Dr. Russell Conwell, Temple University is among the nation's largest providers of professional education and prepares the largest body of professional...
  
  , heart failure. http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/31/education/31wachman.html?ref=obituaries
• Ruth Wallis
  Ruth Wallis
  Ruth Wallis was a novelty Popular cabaret singer.-Career:Born Ruth Shirley Wohl in Brooklyn, New York, Wallis began her career singing jazz and cabaret standards - with such bands like Isham Jones and Benny Goodman on road tours for a couple of months; but gained fame in the 1940s and 1950s for...
  
  , 87, American singer-songwriter
  Singer-songwriter
  Singer-songwriters are musicians who write, compose and sing their own musical material including lyrics and melodies. As opposed to contemporary popular music singers who write their own songs, the term singer-songwriter describes a distinct form of artistry, closely associated with the...
  
  , complications of 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/2008/01/03/arts/03wallis.html?ref=obituaries
• Takashi Yamamoto
  Takashi Yamamoto (politician)
  was a Japanese politician of the Democratic Party of Japan, a member of the House of Councillors in the Diet .A native of Osaka, he graduated from Shimizudani High school and Ritsumeikan University, and received a master's degree in sociology of the family from Michigan State University in the...
  
  , 58, Japanese politician
  Politician
  A politician, political leader, or political figure is an individual who is involved in influencing public policy and decision making...
  
  . http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/politics/news/20071223i111.htm?from=navr (Japanese)

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• Carol Bly
  Carol Bly
  Carol Bly was a teacher and an award-winning American author of short stories, essays, and nonfiction works on writing...
  
  , 77, American 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 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...
  
  , 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.startribune.com/entertainment/books/12762077.html
• Kex Gorin
  Kex Gorin
  Kex Gorin , was a British drummer. He was the original drummer for Magnum and played on the bands first four studio albums and one live album...
  
  , 56, 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 (Magnum
  Magnum (band)
  Magnum are a British progressive rock band from Birmingham, England. Formed as a four piece by Tony Clarkin , Bob Catley , Kex Gorin and Bob Doyle in order to appear as the resident band at The Rum Runner night club Birmingham...
  
  ), kidney cancer
  Kidney cancer
  Kidney cancer is a type of cancer that starts in the cells in the kidney.The two most common types of kidney cancer are renal cell carcinoma and urothelial cell carcinoma of the renal pelvis...
  
  . http://www.kexgorin.com/
• Ken Hendricks
  Ken Hendricks
  Kenneth A. Hendricks was a businessman who grew a shingle supply company into a $2.6 billion fortune and a spot on the Forbes 400...
  
  , 66, American contractor and billionaire
  Billionaire
  A billionaire, in countries that use the short scale number naming system, is a person who has a net worth of at least one billion units of a given currency, usually the United States dollar, Euro, or Pound sterling. Forbes magazine updates a complete list of U.S. dollar billionaires around the...
  
  , fall from roof. http://www.wbay.com/Global/story.asp?S=7529964
• Hans Imhoff
  Hans Imhoff
  Hans Imhoff was a German industrialist and businessman. He is founder of the Imhoff-Schokoladenmuseum, which bears his name....
  
  , 85, 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...
  
   businessman, founder of Imhoff Chocolate Museum in Cologne
  Cologne
  Cologne is Germany's fourth-largest city , and is the largest city both in the Germany Federal State of North Rhine-Westphalia and within the Rhine-Ruhr Metropolitan Area, one of the major European metropolitan areas with more than ten million inhabitants.Cologne is located on both sides of the...
  
  . http://www.ksta.de/html/artikel/1198278216329.shtml (German)
• Jack Lamabe
  Jack Lamabe
  John Alexander Lamabe was a former professional baseball player. He was born in Farmingdale, New York. He was a pitcher over parts of seven seasons with the Pittsburgh Pirates, Boston Red Sox, Houston Astros, Chicago White Sox, New York Mets, St. Louis Cardinals and Chicago Cubs...
  
  , 71, American Major League Baseball
  Major League Baseball
  Major League Baseball is the highest level of professional baseball in the United States and Canada, consisting of teams that play in the National League and the American League...
  
   pitcher. http://www.lsusports.net/ViewArticle.dbml?SPSID=27865&SPID=2173&ATCLID=1355725&DB_OEM_ID=5200
• Ken Lee
  Ken Lee (businessman)
  Ken Lee was a Chinese-Australian businessman who co-founded the Bing Lee chain of electronic stores with his father, Bing Lee. He also served as the company's chairman from 1987 until 2007.-Early life:Ken Lee grew up in a poor rural region of Shandong province in China...
  
  , 75, Chinese
  China
  Chinese civilization may refer to:* China for more general discussion of the country.* Chinese culture* Greater China, the transnational community of ethnic Chinese.* History of China* Sinosphere, the area historically affected by Chinese culture...
  
  -born 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 businessman, owner and co-founder of Bing Lee
  Bing Lee
  Bing Lee is an Australian retailing company, a chain of superstores specializing in consumer electronics, computer and telecommunication goods. Bing Lee is the largest privately-held electrical retail business in New South Wales with 41 stores and a turnover of about $490 million...
  
   superstores, 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/national/face-of-bing-lee-dead/2007/12/21/1198175304610.html
• Saadia Marciano
  Saadia Marciano
  Saadia Marciano was an Israeli social activist and politician, and founder of the Israeli Black Panthers.-Biography:Born in Oujda, Morocco in 1950, Marciano's family immigrated to Israel before his first birthday, where he grew up in the Musrara neighborhood of Jerusalem...
  
  , 57, Israel
  Israel
  The State of Israel is a parliamentary republic located in the Middle East, along the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea...
  
  i Black Panthers leader, member of the Knesset
  Knesset
  The Knesset is the unicameral legislature of Israel, located in Givat Ram, Jerusalem.-Role in Israeli Government :The legislative branch of the Israeli government, the Knesset passes all laws, elects the President and Prime Minister , approves the cabinet, and supervises the work of the government...
  
  . http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=937367&contrassID=1&subContrassID=7
• Norton Nascimento
  Norton Nascimento
  Norton Cândia Nascimento was a Brazilian actor.- Personal life :Nascimento was born in the city of Belém, capital of the state of Pará. His wife was actress Kelly Candia...
  
  , 45, 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 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.estadao.com.br/arteelazer/not_art99538,0.htm (Portuguese)
• Jiří Pauer
  Jirí Pauer
  Jiří Pauer was a Czech composer.Pauer studied first with Otakar Šín, then from 1943 to 1946 at the Prague Conservatory with Alois Hába, and finally with Pavel Bořkovec at the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague. He later taught for many years at the Academy where his pupils included composer...
  
  , 88, Czech
  Czech Republic
  The Czech Republic is a landlocked country in Central Europe. The country is bordered by Poland to the northeast, Slovakia to the east, Austria to the south, and Germany to the west and northwest....
  
   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...
  
  , theatre director and academic. http://www.praguemonitor.com/en/240/arts_in_prague/16399/
• Jeani Read
  Jeani Read
  Jeani Read was a Canadian journalist and columnist and a pioneer in rock music criticism in Canada.-Biography:Read was born in Shanghai to an Estonian mother and English father in 1947. Her family moved to Vancouver when she was a young child and she remained there all her life...
  
  , 60, 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...
  
   journalist
  Journalist
  A journalist collects and distributes news and other information. A journalist's work is referred to as journalism.A reporter is a type of journalist who researchs, writes, and reports on information to be presented in mass media, including print media , electronic media , and digital media A...
  
  , cancer
  Cancer
  Cancer , known medically as a malignant neoplasm, is a large group of different diseases, all involving unregulated cell growth. In cancer, cells divide and grow uncontrollably, forming malignant tumors, and invade nearby parts of the body. The cancer may also spread to more distant parts of the...
  
  . http://groups.google.com/group/alt.obituaries/browse_thread/thread/f41a28887c5b2d3f#783bbea21874ad25
• Battista Serioli
  Battista Serioli
  Battista Serioli was one of the last four Italian veterans of the First World War, although excluded from Italian government lists as it only counts those with more than six months of service. Born in Brescia, Serioli signed up in May 1918. He did his training in Verona and Padova, and fought in...
  
  , 107, 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...
  
   World War I
  World War I
  World War I , which was predominantly called the World War or the Great War from its occurrence until 1939, and the First World War or World War I thereafter, was a major war centred in Europe that began on 28 July 1914 and lasted until 11 November 1918...
  
   veteran. http://www.camunity.it/flash_page.php?id=15523 (Italian)

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• Tommy Byrne
  Tommy Byrne (baseball)
  Thomas Joseph Byrne was an American left-handed starting pitcher in Major League Baseball who played for four American League teams from through , primarily the New York Yankees. He also played for the St. Louis Browns , Chicago White Sox and Washington Senators...
  
  , 87, American 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.wral.com/sports/story/2202988/
• Jeanne Carmen
  Jeanne Carmen
  Jeanne Carmen was an American model, pin-up girl, trick-shot golfer, and B movie actress.-Early life and career:...
  
  , 77, American actress and pin-up girl
  Pin-up girl
  A pin-up girl, also known as a pin-up model, is a model whose mass-produced pictures see wide appeal as popular culture. Pin-ups are intended for informal display, e.g. meant to be "pinned-up" on a wall...
  
  , lymphoma
  Lymphoma
  Lymphoma is a cancer in the lymphatic cells of the immune system. Typically, lymphomas present as a solid tumor of lymphoid cells. Treatment might involve chemotherapy and in some cases radiotherapy and/or bone marrow transplantation, and can be curable depending on the histology, type, and stage...
  
  . http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071226/ap_en_ot/obit_carmen
• Arabella Churchill
  Arabella Churchill (charity founder)
  Arabella Spencer-Churchill was an English charity founder, festival co-founder, and fundraiser.In 1971, Churchill played a major role in the development of the Glastonbury Festival. In 1979, she set up the Children's Area of the Festival and also the Theatre Area. Until her death, she ran the...
  
  , 58, British
  Great Britain
  Great Britain or Britain is an island situated to the northwest of Continental Europe. It is the ninth largest island in the world, and the largest European island, as well as the largest of the British Isles...
  
   founder of Children's World charity, granddaughter of Sir Winston Churchill
  Winston Churchill
  Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill, was a predominantly Conservative British politician and statesman known for his leadership of the United Kingdom during the Second World War. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest wartime leaders of the century and served as Prime Minister twice...
  
  , 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.guardian.co.uk/australia/story/0,,2230914,00.html
• Russell Coffey
  Russell Coffey
  James Russell Coffey, Ed.D. was one of the last three American veterans of the First World War and also the oldest one of them.-Biography:...
  
  , 109, American serviceman, one of three known remaining American veterans of World War I
  World War I
  World War I , which was predominantly called the World War or the Great War from its occurrence until 1939, and the First World War or World War I thereafter, was a major war centred in Europe that began on 28 July 1914 and lasted until 11 November 1918...
  
  . http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,317766,00.html
• Lorne Davis
  Lorne Davis
  Lorne Austin Davis was an ice hockey scout for the National Hockey League's Edmonton Oilers, and a former right winger with four NHL teams...
  
  , 77, Canadian
  Canada
  Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...
  
   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 (Montreal Canadiens
  Montreal Canadiens
  The Montreal Canadiens are a professional ice hockey team based in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. They are members of the Northeast Division of the Eastern Conference of the National Hockey League . The club is officially known as ...
  
  ) and scout (Edmonton Oilers
  Edmonton Oilers
  The Edmonton Oilers are a professional ice hockey team based in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. They are members of the Northwest Division in the Western Conference of the National Hockey League ....
  
  ). http://www.nationalpost.com/sports/story.html?id=191339
• Ted Finn
  Ted Finn
  Thomas D'Arcy "Ted" Finn was the first director of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service , serving from 1984 until 1987. He "resigned in disgrace" after it was revealed that CSIS had filed an "inaccurate and misleading" affidavit to acquire a warrant for a wiretap.Born in Ottawa, he received...
  
  , 68, Canadian
  Canada
  Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...
  
   intelligence official, director of CSIS
  Canadian Security Intelligence Service
  The Canadian Security Intelligence Service is Canada's national intelligence service. It is responsible for collecting, analyzing, reporting and disseminating intelligence on threats to Canada's national security, and conducting operations, covert and overt, within Canada and abroad.Its...
  
   (1984–1987). http://www.canada.com/topics/news/story.html?id=9dc68afe-3230-4b5b-bd27-6f1f7322465a&k=31435
• Peer Hultberg
  Peer Hultberg
  Peer Hultberg was a Danish author and psychoanalyst.Peer Hultberg was born in Vangede north of Copenhagen and lived in Horsens and Viborg during his child and teenage years. From 1953 he studied at the University of Copenhagen...
  
  , 72, 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...
  
   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 psychoanalyst. http://politiken.dk/kultur/article449310.ece (Danish)
• Lydia Mendoza
  Lydia Mendoza
  Lydia Mendoza was an American guitarist and singer of Tejano music. She is known as La Alondra de la Frontera ....
  
  , 91, American Tejano music
  Tejano music
  Tejano music or Tex-Mex music is the name given to various forms of folk and popular music originating among the Mexican-American populations of Central and Southern Texas...
  
   singer and guitarist. http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/tx/5399274.html
• Nataline Sarkisyan
  Nataline Sarkisyan
  Nataline Mary Sarkisyan was an American teenager with recurrent leukemia, first diagnosed at age 14, who received a bone marrow transplant from her brother Bedros, November 27, 2007...
  
  , 17, America
  United States
  The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
  
  n student
  Student
  A student is a learner, or someone who attends an educational institution. In some nations, the English term is reserved for those who attend university, while a schoolchild under the age of eighteen is called a pupil in English...
  
   denied health insurance
  Health insurance
  Health insurance is insurance against the risk of incurring medical expenses among individuals. By estimating the overall risk of health care expenses among a targeted group, an insurer can develop a routine finance structure, such as a monthly premium or payroll tax, to ensure that money is...
  
   claim, 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://articles.latimes.com/2007/dec/22/business/fi-transplant22
• Kazumi Tanaka
  Kazumi Tanaka
  was a male voice actor from Suginami, Tokyo, Japan. He was the younger brother of Ryouichi Tanaka and was affiliated with Aoni Production at the time of his death. He was best known for his roles in Dragon Ball Z , Galaxy Cyclone Braiger and Zawazawamori no Ganko-chan...
  
  , 56, Japanese voice actor, brother of Ryouichi Tanaka, heart failure. http://www.tokyograph.com/news/id-2290
• Robbie Williams
  Robbie Williams (Indigenous Australian)
  Robbie Williams was the first Indigenous Australian councillor to sit on the Brisbane City Council. He had held the role only since October 2007, but had been tipped to win a seat in the council elections in March 2008...
  
  , 45, Australian politician, first Indigenous Australian
  Indigenous Australians
  Indigenous Australians are the original inhabitants of the Australian continent and nearby islands. The Aboriginal Indigenous Australians migrated from the Indian continent around 75,000 to 100,000 years ago....
  
   Brisbane City councillor
  City of Brisbane
  The City of Brisbane is the Local Government Area that has jurisdiction over the inner portion of the metropolitan area of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia...
  
  , former ATSIC commissioner, heart attack. http://www.news.com.au/couriermail/story/0,23739,22954727-3102,00.html http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/news/queensland/hundreds-honour-aboriginal-worrior/2007/12/28/1198778690164.html

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• Frank Capra, Jr.
  Frank Capra, Jr.
  Frank Warner Capra was an American studio executive. He was one of the three children of film director Frank Capra and his second wife, Lucille. His own son, Frank Capra III, is an actor.Capra, Jr...
  
  , 73, American movie studio
  Movie studio
  A movie studio is a term used to describe a major entertainment company or production company that has its own privately owned studio facility or facilities that are used to film movies...
  
   executive, son of 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:...
  
   Frank Capra
  Frank Capra
  Frank Russell Capra was a Sicilian-born American film director. He emigrated to the U.S. when he was six, and eventually became a creative force behind major award-winning films during the 1930s and 1940s...
  
  , 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.wral.com/news/state/story/2200472/ http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-capra21dec21,0,2974503.story
• James Costigan
  James Costigan
  James Costigan was an American television actor and Emmy Award-winning television screenwriter. His writing credited included the Eleanor and Franklin and Love Among the Ruins television movies....
  
  , 81, American 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 television writer (Eleanor and Franklin
  Eleanor and Franklin
  Eleanor and Franklin is a television movie released on January 11, 1976, starring Edward Herrmann as Franklin D. Roosevelt and Jane Alexander as Eleanor Roosevelt. It is the first part in a two-part biopic based on Joseph P. Lash's Pulitzer Prize-winning and best-selling biography with the same...
  
  ), heart failure. http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/obituaries/articles/2008/01/14/james_costigan_81_actor_and_award_winning_tv_writer/
• John A. Garraty
  John A. Garraty
  John Arthur Garraty was an American historian and biographer. He specialized largely in American political and economic history....
  
  , 87, American historian
  Historian
  A historian is a person who studies and writes about the past and is regarded as an authority on it. Historians are concerned with the continuous, methodical narrative and research of past events as relating to the human race; as well as the study of all history in time. If the individual is...
  
  , heart failure. http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/26/nyregion/26garraty.html?ref=nyregion
• Albert L. O'Neil
  Albert L. O'Neil
  Albert L. "Dapper" O'Neil was an American politician who served as a socially conservative member of the Boston City Council for 28 years...
  
  , 87, American politician
  Politician
  A politician, political leader, or political figure is an individual who is involved in influencing public policy and decision making...
  
  , Boston City Council
  Boston City Council
  The Boston City Council is the legislative branch of government for the city of Boston. It is made up of 13 members: 9 district representatives and 4 at-large members. Councilors are elected to two-year terms and there is no limit on the number of terms an individual can serve...
  
   (1971–1999). http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/obituaries/articles/2007/12/20/dapper_oneil_champion_of_personal_politics_dies_at_87/

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• Walter Bowart
  Walter Bowart
  Walter Howard Bowart was an American leader in the counterculture movement of the 1960s, founder and editor of the first underground newspaper in New York City, the East Village Other, and author of the book Operation Mind Control.-Life and career:Born Walter Howard Kirby in Omaha, Nebraska,...
  
  , 68, American co-founder of East Village Other
  East Village Other
  The East Village Other , was an American underground newspaper in New York City, New York, published biweekly during the 1960s. EVO was among the first countercultural newspapers to emerge, following the Los Angeles Free Press, which had begun publishing a few months earlier...
  
  , colon cancer. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/14/arts/14bowart.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=bowart&oref=slogin
• Gerald Le Dain
  Gerald Le Dain
  Gerald Eric Le Dain, CC was a Canadian lawyer and judge, who sat on the Supreme Court of Canada from 1984 to 1988....
  
  , 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...
  
   jurist, Justice of the Supreme Court
  Supreme Court of Canada
  The Supreme Court of Canada is the highest court of Canada and is the final court of appeals in the Canadian justice system. The court grants permission to between 40 and 75 litigants each year to appeal decisions rendered by provincial, territorial and federal appellate courts, and its decisions...
  
  . http://www.thestar.com/News/article/287315
• Carl Graff-Wang
  Carl Graff-Wang
  Carl Georg Graff-Wang was a Norwegian handball player who competed in the 1972 Summer Olympics.He was born in Trondheim and represented the club SK Arild. In 1972 he was part of the Norwegian team which finished ninth in the Olympic tournament. He played four matches and scored five goals. He died...
  
  , 64, 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...
  
   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...
  
   handball
  Team handball
  Handball is a team sport in which two teams of seven players each pass a ball to throw it into the goal of the other team...
  
   player. http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/gr/carl-graff-wang-1.html
• Samuel Karlin
  Samuel Karlin
  Samuel Karlin was an American mathematician at Stanford University in the late 20th century.Karlin was born in Yanova, Poland and immigrated to Chicago as a child...
  
  , 83, American mathematician
  Mathematician
  A mathematician is a person whose primary area of study is the field of mathematics. Mathematicians are concerned with quantity, structure, space, and change....
  
  , heart attack. http://groups.google.co.nz/group/alt.obituaries/browse_thread/thread/636b81774c093c55/3a2273e126a507b6#3a2273e126a507b6
• Jack Linkletter
  Jack Linkletter
  Jack Linkletter was an American game show and television host and entertainer. He was the son of Art Linkletter.-Early life:...
  
  , 70, American television host, son of Art Linkletter
  Art Linkletter
  Arthur Gordon "Art" Linkletter was a Canadian-born American radio and television personality. He was the host of House Party, which ran on CBS radio and television for 25 years, and People Are Funny, on NBC radio-TV for 19 years...
  
  , lymphoma
  Lymphoma
  Lymphoma is a cancer in the lymphatic cells of the immune system. Typically, lymphomas present as a solid tumor of lymphoid cells. Treatment might involve chemotherapy and in some cases radiotherapy and/or bone marrow transplantation, and can be curable depending on the histology, type, and stage...
  
  . http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-linkletter20dec20,0,3111524.story?coll=la-home-obituaries
• Motiur Rahman, 58, 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...
  
  , Rashtriya Janata Dal
  Rashtriya Janata Dal
  The Rashtriya Janata Dal is a political party in India, based in the state of Bihar. The party was founded in 1997 by Laloo Prasad Yadav. The party came about as a result of Lalu Prasad Yadav, ex-president of Janata Dal, being evicted by Sharad Yadav, the then president, on corruption charges ...
  
   member of the Rajya Sabha
  Rajya Sabha
  The Rajya Sabha or Council of States is the upper house of the Parliament of India. Rajya means "state," and Sabha means "assembly hall" in Sanskrit. Membership is limited to 250 members, 12 of whom are chosen by the President of India for their expertise in specific fields of art, literature,...
  
   since 2005, heart attack. http://www.khabrein.info/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=10142&Itemid=88
• Bill Strauss, 60, American 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 satirist, founder of political comedy group Capitol Steps
  Capitol Steps
  The Capitol Steps are an American political satire group. It has been performing since 1981, and has released approximately thirty albums consisting primarily of song parodies. Originally consisting exclusively of Congressional staffers performing around Washington, D.C., the troupe now primarily...
  
  , 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.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/12/21/AR2007122102403.html?sub=AR

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• Don Chevrier
  Don Chevrier
  Don Chevrier was a television and radio sports announcer. He was born in Toronto, Ontario.-Early life and career:...
  
  , 69, 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...
  
   sportscaster
  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...
  
  . http://www.tsn.ca/mlb/news_story/?ID=225457&hubname=
• Joel Dorn
  Joel Dorn
  Joel Dorn was an American jazz and R&B music producer and record label entrepreneur. He worked at Atlantic Records, and later founded the 32 Jazz, Label M, and Hyena Records labels...
  
  , 65, American jazz
  Jazz
  Jazz is a musical style that originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States. It was born out of a mix of African and European music traditions. From its early development until the present, jazz has incorporated music from 19th and 20th...
  
  , pop
  Pop music
  Pop music is usually understood to be commercially recorded music, often oriented toward a youth market, usually consisting of relatively short, simple songs utilizing technological innovations to produce new variations on existing themes.- Definitions :David Hatch and Stephen Millward define pop...
  
   and R&B 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...
  
  , heart attack. http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20071218/people_nm/dorn_dc_2
• Jim Holstein
  Jim Holstein
  James H. Holstein was an American professional basketball player.A 6'3" forward/guard from the University of Cincinnati, Holstein played four seasons in the National Basketball Association as a member of the Minneapolis Lakers and Fort Wayne Pistons...
  
  , 77, American basketball
  Basketball
  Basketball is a team sport in which two teams of five players try to score points by throwing or "shooting" a ball through the top of a basketball hoop while following a set of rules...
  
   player (Minneapolis Lakers
  Los Angeles Lakers
  The Los Angeles Lakers are an American professional basketball team based in Los Angeles, California. They play in the Pacific Division of the Western Conference in the National Basketball Association...
  
  ). http://www.nba.com/lakers/news/071218holstein.html
• Tom Murphy, 83, American politician
  Politician
  A politician, political leader, or political figure is an individual who is involved in influencing public policy and decision making...
  
  , speaker of the Georgia House of Representatives
  Georgia House of Representatives
  The Georgia House of Representatives is the lower house of the Georgia General Assembly of the U.S. state of Georgia.-Composition:...
  
   (1973–2002), complications of 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.ajc.com/metro/content/metro/obits/stories/2007/12/17/murphyobit_1218.html
• Jack Zander
  Jack Zander
  Jack Zander was an American animator whose career lasted from the "golden age" of theatrical animation into the 1980s.-Biography:Jack Zander was born in Kalamazoo, Michigan...
  
  , 99, American animator
  Animator
  An animator is an artist who creates multiple images that give an illusion of movement called animation when displayed in rapid sequence; the images are called frames and key frames. Animators can work in a variety of fields including film, television, video games, and the internet. Usually, an...
  
   (Tom and Jerry
  Tom and Jerry
  Tom and Jerry are the cat and mouse cartoon characters that were evolved starting in 1939.Tom and Jerry also may refer to:Cartoon works featuring the cat and mouse so named:* The Tom and Jerry Show...
  
  ). http://news.awn.com/index.php?ltype=top&newsitem_no=21779

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• Dan Fogelberg
  Dan Fogelberg
  Daniel Grayling "Dan" Fogelberg was an American singer-songwriter, composer, and multi-instrumentalist, whose music was inspired by sources as diverse as folk, pop, rock, classical, jazz, and bluegrass music...
  
  , 56, American singer-songwriter
  Singer-songwriter
  Singer-songwriters are musicians who write, compose and sing their own musical material including lyrics and melodies. As opposed to contemporary popular music singers who write their own songs, the term singer-songwriter describes a distinct form of artistry, closely associated with the...
  
   ("Same Old Lang Syne
  Same Old Lang Syne
  "Same Old Lang Syne" is a song sung by Dan Fogelberg released as a single in 1980. It was also included on his 1981 album The Innocent Age. The song is a narrative ballad told in the first person and tells the story of two long-ago lovers meeting by chance in a supermarket on Christmas Eve...
  
  "), 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.usatoday.com/life/music/news/2007-12-16-fogelberg-obit_N.htm
• Harald Genzmer
  Harald Genzmer
  Harald Genzmer was a German composer of contemporary classical music.-Biography:Born in Blumenthal, near Bremen, Germany, he studied composition with Paul Hindemith at the Berlin Hochschule für Music beginning in 1928.From 1938 he taught at the Volksmusikschule Berlin-Neukölln...
  
  , 98, 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...
  
   composer
  Composer
  A composer is a person who creates music, either by musical notation or oral tradition, for interpretation and performance, or through direct manipulation of sonic material through electronic media...
  
   of classical music
  Classical music
  Classical music is the art music produced in, or rooted in, the traditions of Western liturgical and secular music, encompassing a broad period from roughly the 11th century to present times...
  
  . http://www.monstersandcritics.de/artikel/200751/article_48161.php/Komponist-Harald-Genzmer-gestorben (German)
• Ismail Gulgee
  Ismail Gulgee
  Ismail Gulgee - The Gulgeez Pride of Performance, Sitara-e-Imtiaz , Hilal-e-Imtiaz, was an award-winning, globally famous Pakistani artist born in Peshawar. He was a qualified engineer in the U.S. and self-taught abstract painter and portrait painter. Before 1959, as portraitist, he painted the...
  
  , 81, 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 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...
  
  , homicide
  Homicide
  Homicide refers to the act of a human killing another human. Murder, for example, is a type of homicide. It can also describe a person who has committed such an act, though this use is rare in modern English...
  
   by strangulation. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7151914.stm
• Serge Vinçon
  Serge Vinçon
  Serge Vinçon , was a French politician of the UMP party.Born in Bourges, Cher, he was a college professor before a politician. He was elected senator of Cher on 24 September 1989 and re-elected on 27 September 1998...
  
  , 58, 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...
  
   politician
  Politician
  A politician, political leader, or political figure is an individual who is involved in influencing public policy and decision making...
  
  . http://secretdefense.blogs.liberation.fr/defense/2007/12/le-snateur-serg.html (French)

15

• John Berg
  John Berg (actor)
  -Life and career:He appeared in several television roles, including Law & Order, The Practice, Passions, The Bold and the Beautiful, House, Boston Legal, NCIS, Monk and others...
  
  , 58, American 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 carbon monoxide poisoning
  Carbon monoxide poisoning
  Carbon monoxide poisoning occurs after enough inhalation of carbon monoxide . Carbon monoxide is a toxic gas, but, being colorless, odorless, tasteless, and initially non-irritating, it is very difficult for people to detect...
  
  . http://www.dailynews.com/ci_7750618?source=rss_viewed
• Jean Bottéro
  Jean Bottéro
  Jean Bottéro was a French historian. He was a major Assyriologist and a renowned expert on the Ancient Near East...
  
  , 93, 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...
  
   historian
  Historian
  A historian is a person who studies and writes about the past and is regarded as an authority on it. Historians are concerned with the continuous, methodical narrative and research of past events as relating to the human race; as well as the study of all history in time. If the individual is...
  
  . http://www.awilum.com/?p=468 (French)
• St. Clair Bourne
  St. Clair Bourne
  St. Clair Bourne was an American documentary filmmaker, who focused on African American social issues and themes. He also developed projects which explored African American cultural figures, such as Langston Hughes and Paul Robeson.Born in Harlem, he moved to Brooklyn when he was two years old...
  
  , 64, American documentary
  Documentary film
  Documentary films constitute a broad category of nonfictional motion pictures intended to document some aspect of reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction or maintaining a historical record...
  
   filmmaker (Half Past Autumn), 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.boston.com/bostonglobe/obituaries/articles/2007/12/20/st_clair_bourne_captured_the_black_experience_on_film/
• Julia Carson
  Julia Carson
  Julia May Carson , born Julia May Porter, was a member of the United States House of Representatives for from 1997 until her death in 2007 . Carson was the first woman and first African American to represent the 7th District...
  
  , 69, American 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 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...
  
   since 1997, 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.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071215/SPECIAL21/71215001
• Gerard Fairtlough
  Gerard Fairtlough
  Gerard Fairtlough CBE was an English author, speaker and management thinker.Born on Hayling Island, Hampshire, Fairtlough trained initially as a biochemist at Cambridge University...
  
  , 77, British
  United Kingdom
  The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...
  
   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:...
  
   and 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...
  
  . http://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/gerard-fairtlough-entrepreneur-in-biotechnology-780242.html
• Andrzeja Górska
  Andrzeja Górska
  Andrzeja Górska, whose birth name was Maria Stefania Górska was a Polish Roman Catholic nun. She was born in Łódź. Gorska served as the abbess, or Mother Superior, of the Congregation of the Ursulines of the Agonizing Heart of Jesus, who are more commonly known as the Grey Ursulines...
  
  , 91, Polish
  Poland
  Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north...
  
   nun, abbess
  Abbess
  An abbess is the female superior, or mother superior, of a community of nuns, often an abbey....
  
   of the Grey Ursulines
  Congregation of the Ursulines of the Agonizing Heart of Jesus (Grey Ursulines)
  The Congregation of the Ursulines of the Agonizing Heart of Jesus, also known as the Grey Ursulines, is a Catholic order founded by Saint Ursula Julia Ledochowska in Poland. At present the Congregation consists of over 900 sisters in 12 countries...
  
  . http://info.wiara.pl/index.php?grupa=4&art=1197828969 (Polish)
• Ryan Gracie
  Ryan Gracie
  Ryan Gracie , was a Brazilian mixed martial artist with a black belt in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu. He was a member of the Gracie family, and the grandson of Carlos Gracie, one of the founders of Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu...
  
  , 33, 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 martial artist. http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/12/15/america/LA-GEN-Brazil-Jiu-Jitsu-Death.php
• Clem Jones
  Clem Jones
  Clem Jones AO a surveyor by profession, was the longest serving Lord Mayor of the city of Brisbane, Australia, representing the Australian Labor Party from 1961 to 1975.-Public life:...
  
  , 89, Australia
  Australia
  Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
  
  n Lord Mayor of Brisbane (1961–1975), 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.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/12/15/2119687.htm http://news.theage.com.au/tributes-flow-for-mr-brisbane-jones/20071215-1h8y.html
• Diane Middlebrook
  Diane Middlebrook
  Diane Helen Wood Middlebrook was an American biographer, poet, and teacher. She taught feminist studies for many years at Stanford University. She is best known for critically acclaimed biographies of poets Anne Sexton and Sylvia Plath , and jazz musician Billy Tipton...
  
  , 68, American biographer and poet
  Poet
  A poet is a person who writes poetry. A poet's work can be literal, meaning that his work is derived from a specific event, or metaphorical, meaning that his work can take on many meanings and forms. Poets have existed since antiquity, in nearly all languages, and have produced works that vary...
  
  , cancer
  Cancer
  Cancer , known medically as a malignant neoplasm, is a large group of different diseases, all involving unregulated cell growth. In cancer, cells divide and grow uncontrollably, forming malignant tumors, and invade nearby parts of the body. The cancer may also spread to more distant parts of the...
  
  . http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/12/15/MNCUTUE7U.DTL
• Tejeshwar Singh
  Tejeshwar Singh
  Tejeshwar Singh was an Indian publisher, journalist, newscaster and theater activist.Singh was the son of Indian diplomat Gurbachan Singh, who served as an envoy to Switzerland, Bhutan and Pakistan....
  
  , 60, 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 publisher, newsreader
  News presenter
  A news presenter is a person who presents news during a news program in the format of a television show, on the radio or the Internet.News presenters can work in a radio studio, television studio and from remote broadcasts in the field especially weather...
  
   and theatre activist, 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.business-standard.com/lifeleisure/storypage.php?leftnm=lmnu4&subLeft=1&autono=307739&tab=r
• Ace Vergel
  Ace Vergel
  Ace Vergel, born Ace York Aguilar , was a Filipino actor dubbed "The Original Bad Boy of Philippine Movies". He was the son of the late Alicia Vergel and César Ramírez, and the brother of Beverly Vergel....
  
  , 55, 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...
  
   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...
  
  , 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.abs-cbnnews.com/topofthehour.aspx?StoryId=102521
• Jonathan Witchell
  Jonathan Witchell
  Jonathan Witchell was a BBC reporter who worked for Radio Kent from 1998 until his death. He was a two time Shepherd Neame Kent Journalist of the Year, in 2004 and 2006....
  
  , 33, 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...
  
   reporter for Radio Kent. http://www.kentnews.co.uk/kent-news/Tributes-to-late-BBC-reporter-Jonathan-Witchell-newsinkent8021.aspx

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• Issam al-Zaim
  Issam al-Zaim
  Issam al-Zaim was a Syrian economist and former government Cabinet minister. He served separately as both Syria's Minister of Industry and Minister of State Planning....
  
  , 67, Syria
  Syria
  Syria , officially the Syrian Arab Republic , is a country in Western Asia, bordering Lebanon and the Mediterranean Sea to the West, Turkey to the north, Iraq to the east, Jordan to the south, and Israel to the southwest....
  
  n economist
  Economist
  An economist is a professional in the social science discipline of economics. The individual may also study, develop, and apply theories and concepts from economics and write about economic policy...
  
  , heart attack. http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/12/15/africa/ME-GEN-Syria-Obit-Al-Zaim.php
• Hank Kaplan
  Hank Kaplan
  Hank Kaplan was an American boxing historian and writer. Always wearing one of many of his prized boxing baseball caps, and smoking a pipe, he is widely regarded as the nation's foremost boxing historian, and was known and respected worldwide...
  
  , 87, American boxing
  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...
  
   historian, 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.espn.go.com/sports/boxing/news/story?id=3154776
• Maria Lauterbach, 20, American marine
  United States Marine Corps
  The United States Marine Corps is a branch of the United States Armed Forces responsible for providing power projection from the sea, using the mobility of the United States Navy to deliver combined-arms task forces rapidly. It is one of seven uniformed services of the United States...
  
   and murder victim. http://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/01/23/missing.marine/index.html
• Clarence Marshall, 82, American Major League Baseball
  Major League Baseball
  Major League Baseball is the highest level of professional baseball in the United States and Canada, consisting of teams that play in the National League and the American League...
  
   pitcher
  Pitcher
  In baseball, the pitcher is the player who throwsthe baseball from the pitcher's mound toward the catcher to begin each play, with the goal of retiring a batter, who attempts to either make contact with the pitched ball or draw a walk. In the numbering system used to record defensive plays, the...
  
   (New York Yankees
  New York Yankees
  The New York Yankees are a professional baseball team based in the The Bronx, New York. They compete in Major League Baseball in the American League's East Division...
  
  ). http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/othersports/2004077234_peep17.html
• Frank Morgan
  Frank Morgan (musician)
  Frank Morgan was a jazz saxophonist with a career spanning more than 50 years. He mainly played alto saxophone but also played soprano saxophone. During the 1950s he was known as a Charlie Parker successor and recorded several bebop albums.Morgan's father was a guitarist with the vocal group The...
  
  , 73, American saxophonist. http://news.independent.co.uk/people/obituaries/article3258043.ece
• Hryhoriy Nestor
  Hryhoriy Nestor
  Hryhoriy Nestor claimed to be the oldest man in the world. As the time of his death, he would have been 116 years old, if his age were verified, an age that has never been scientifically proven to be reached by a male .Nestor claimed to have been born on 15 March 1891 in Western Ukraine,...
  
  , 116?, 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...
  
   who claimed to be the oldest person in the world. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7147254.stm
• Emory Sekaquaptewa
  Emory Sekaquaptewa
  Emory Sekaquaptewa was a Hopi leader and scholar, best known for his role in compiling the first dictionary of the Hopi language....
  
  , 78, American indigenous Hopi
  Hopi
  The Hopi are a federally recognized tribe of indigenous Native American people, who primarily live on the Hopi Reservation in northeastern Arizona. The Hopi area according to the 2000 census has a population of 6,946 people. Their Hopi language is one of the 30 of the Uto-Aztecan language...
  
   anthropologist. http://news.independent.co.uk/people/obituaries/article3310071.ece

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• Philippe Clay
  Philippe Clay
  Philippe Clay, born Philippe Mathevet, was a French mime artist, singer and actor.He was known for his tall and slim silhouette and for his interpretations of songs by Charles Aznavour, Claude Nougaro, Jean-Roger Caussimon, Boris Vian, Serge Gainsbourg, Jean Yanne, Léo Ferré, Jacques Datin,...
  
  , 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...
  
   singer and actor
  Actor
  An actor is a person who acts in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio in that capacity...
  
  . http://www.tv5.org/TV5Site/cinema/afp_article.php?idArticle=071213170530.o62pzw46.xml
• Fuat Deniz
  Fuat Deniz
  Fuat Deniz was a Swedish sociologist and writer of Assyrian descent. Until his murder in 2007, he worked as a lecturer in sociology at the Department of Social and Political Sciences at Örebro University....
  
  , 40, 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....
  
  -Assyrian
  Assyrian people
  The Assyrian people are a distinct ethnic group whose origins lie in ancient Mesopotamia...
  
   sociologist
  Sociology
  Sociology is the study of society. It is a social science—a term with which it is sometimes synonymous—which uses various methods of empirical investigation and critical analysis to develop a body of knowledge about human social activity...
  
  , homicide
  Homicide
  Homicide refers to the act of a human killing another human. Murder, for example, is a type of homicide. It can also describe a person who has committed such an act, though this use is rare in modern English...
  
   by stabbing
  Stabbing
  A stabbing is penetration with a sharp or pointed object at close range. Stab connotes purposeful action, as by an assassin or murderer, but it is also possible to accidentally stab oneself or others.Stabbing differs from slashing or cutting in that the motion of the object used in a stabbing...
  
  . http://news.monstersandcritics.com/europe/news/article_1381236.php/Killing_of_university_teacher_feared_to_be_linked_to_research
• Wiggo Hanssen
  Wiggo Hanssen
  Wiggo Kay Hanssen was a Norwegian speed skater who competed in the 1952 Winter Olympics.He was born in Tromøy and died in Arendal.In 1952 he finished ninth in the 5000 metres competition.-External links:*...
  
  , 84, 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...
  
   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/ha/wiggo-hanssen-1.html
• Laura Huxley
  Laura Huxley
  Laura Huxley was a musician, author, psychological counselor and lecturer.-Life and work:...
  
  , 96, American musician
  Musician
  A musician is an artist who plays a musical instrument. It may or may not be the person's profession. Musicians can be classified by their roles in performing music and writing music.Also....* A person who makes music a profession....
  
   and author
  Author
  An author is broadly defined as "the person who originates or gives existence to anything" and that authorship determines responsibility for what is created. Narrowly defined, an author is the originator of any written work.-Legal significance:...
  
  , widow of Aldous Huxley
  Aldous Huxley
  Aldous Leonard Huxley was an English writer and one of the most prominent members of the famous Huxley family. Best known for his novels including Brave New World and a wide-ranging output of essays, Huxley also edited the magazine Oxford Poetry, and published short stories, poetry, travel...
  
  , 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-huxley15dec15,0,3825593.story?coll=la-headlines-pe-california
• Alain Payet
  Alain Payet
  Alain Payet , also known under the pseudonyms John Love, John Pardaillan, John and Frederick Brasil Amor, James Gardner, James Gartner, Alain Garnier was a film director of French porn movies and erotica.- Biography :He began his career in 70s and for a decade served as an assistant director on...
  
  , 60, 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...
  
   adult film director
  Film director
  A film director is a person who directs the actors and film crew in filmmaking. They control a film's artistic and dramatic nathan roach, while guiding the technical crew and actors.-Responsibilities:...
  
  . http://www.dhnet.be/culture/people/article/192977/mort-de-john-love-realisateur-de-x-francais.html (French)
• Robert Russin
  Robert Russin
  Robert Isaiah Russin was an American sculptor, artist and University of Wyoming professor. He was best known for a number of public sculptures throughout the United States, including the "Spirit of Life" fountain sculpture located at the City of Hope National Medical Center in California and a...
  
  , 93, American sculptor. http://www.uwyo.edu/news/showrelease.asp?id=19341
• Floyd Red Crow Westerman
  Floyd Red Crow Westerman
  Floyd "Red Crow" Westerman, also known as Kanghi Duta was a Sioux musician, political activist and actor. After establishing a career as a country music singer, later in his life, he became a leading actor depicting Native Americans in American films and television. He is sometimes credited simply...
  
  , 71, American 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....
  
  , 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...
  
   (Dances With Wolves
  Dances with Wolves
  Dances with Wolves is a 1990 epic western film directed by and starring Kevin Costner. It is a film adaptation of the 1988 book of the same name by Michael Blake and tells the story of a Union Army Lieutenant who travels to the American frontier to find a military post, and his dealings with a...
  
  ) and Native American
  Native Americans in the United States
  Native Americans in the United States are the indigenous peoples in North America within the boundaries of the present-day continental United States, parts of Alaska, and the island state of Hawaii. They are composed of numerous, distinct tribes, states, and ethnic groups, many of which survive as...
  
   activist, 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.nativetimes.com/index.asp?action=displayarticle&article_id=9182

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• Basuki
  Basuki
  Basuki was an Indonesian actor and comedian. He was born in Surakarta, Central Java. He was a member of the Indonesian comedy troupe, Srimulat. However, he became famous after appearing in the program, Si Doel Anak Sekolahan in 1996...
  
  , 51, 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 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...
  
  . http://www.metrotvnews.com/indonesiathismorning/berita.asp?id=661
• Ted Corbitt
  Ted Corbitt
  Ted Corbitt was an American long-distance runner and an official of running organizations. Corbitt is often called "the father of long distance running." He was an ultramarathon pioneer, helping to revive interest in the sport in the United States in the 1960s and 70s...
  
  , 88, American ultramarathon
  Ultramarathon
  An ultramarathon is any sporting event involving running longer than the traditional marathon length of .There are two types of ultramarathon events: those that cover a specified distance, and events that take place during specified time...
  
   runner, respiratory complications. http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/13/sports/othersports/13corbitt.html?em&ex=1197694800&en=90757816c310b65e&ei=5087%0A
• Shawn Eckardt, 40, American bodyguard
  Bodyguard
  A bodyguard is a type of security operative or government agent who protects a person—usually a famous, wealthy, or politically important figure—from assault, kidnapping, assassination, stalking, loss of confidential information, terrorist attack or other threats.Most important public figures such...
  
   and businessman, conspired to assault Nancy Kerrigan
  Nancy Kerrigan
  Nancy Ann Kerrigan is a two-time American Olympic figure skating medalist and 1993 U.S. champion.-Early life and skating career:...
  
  , natural causes. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071215/ap_on_re_us/obit_griffith
• Josep Guinovart
  Josep Guinovart
  Josep Guinovart was a Spanish Catalan painter most famous for his informalist or abstract expressionist work.In 1941, he began to work as a decorator...
  
  , 80, Spanish
  Spain
  Spain , officially the Kingdom of Spain languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Spain's official name is as follows:;;;;;;), is a country and member state of the European Union located in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula...
  
   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.elmundo.es/elmundo/2007/12/12/barcelona/1197456481.html (Spanish)
• François al-Hajj
  François al-Hajj
  General François al-Hajj was born in the southern Lebanese town of Rmaich. He was assassinated by a car bomb on December 12, 2007.-Military career:...
  
  , 54, Lebanese
  Lebanon
  Lebanon , officially the Republic of LebanonRepublic of Lebanon is the most common term used by Lebanese government agencies. The term Lebanese Republic, a literal translation of the official Arabic and French names that is not used in today's world. Arabic is the most common language spoken among...
  
   Army
  Lebanese Armed Forces
  The Lebanese Armed Forces or Forces Armées Libanaises in French, also known as the Lebanese Army according to its official Website The Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF) (Arabic: القوات المسلحة اللبنانية | Al-Quwwāt al-Musallaḥa al-Lubnāniyya) or Forces Armées Libanaises in French, also known as the...
  
   general
  Army General
  For the army rank of General, as opposed to the specific rank of Army General, see General officer.Army General is a title used in many countries to denote the rank of General nominally commanding an army in the field...
  
  , roadside bomb. http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5g3m6swZF24n1EFhBo0Zs7iBl83Ew http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/7139809.stm
• Alfons Maria Stickler
  Alfons Maria Stickler
  Alfons Maria Stickler, SDB, JCD was an Austrian Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Archivist and Librarian of the Holy Roman Church from 1985 to 1988. Stickler was elevated to the cardinalate in 1985, and was the oldest member of the College of Cardinals...
  
  , 97, 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 prelate
  Prelate
  A prelate is a high-ranking member of the clergy who is an ordinary or who ranks in precedence with ordinaries. The word derives from the Latin prælatus, the past participle of præferre, which means "carry before", "be set above or over" or "prefer"; hence, a prelate is one set over others.-Related...
  
   of the Roman Catholic Church
  Roman Catholic Church
  The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the world's largest Christian church, with over a billion members. Led by the Pope, it defines its mission as spreading the gospel of Jesus Christ, administering the sacraments and exercising charity...
  
  . http://www.kurier.at/nachrichten/oesterreich/126720.php (German)
• Jim Nevill
  Jim Nevill
  James Francis "Jim" Nevill was the head of the Scotland Yard Bomb Squad. He was Detective Chief Superintendent in 1975 at the height of a Provisional Irish Republican Army bombing campaign in London, the police cornered four IRA gunmen in a flat in Balcombe Street where they took a middle aged...
  
  , 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...
  
   government official, former head of Scotland Yard
  Scotland Yard
  Scotland Yard is a metonym for the headquarters of the Metropolitan Police Service of London, UK. It derives from the location of the original Metropolitan Police headquarters at 4 Whitehall Place, which had a rear entrance on a street called Great Scotland Yard. The Scotland Yard entrance became...
  
   bomb squad. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article3385541.ece
• Ike Turner
  Ike Turner
  Isaac Wister Turner was an American musician, bandleader, songwriter, arranger, talent scout, and record producer. In a career that lasted more than half a century, his repertoire included blues, soul, rock, and funk...
  
  , 76, American R&B
  Rhythm and blues
  Rhythm and blues, often abbreviated to R&B, is a genre of popular African American music that originated in the 1940s. The term was originally used by record companies to describe recordings marketed predominantly to urban African Americans, at a time when "urbane, rocking, jazz based music with a...
  
   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...
  
  , ex-husband of singer Tina Turner
  Tina Turner
  Tina Turner is an American singer and actress whose career has spanned more than 50 years. She has won numerous awards and her achievements in the rock music genre have led many to call her the "Queen of Rock 'n' Roll".Turner started out her music career with husband Ike Turner as a member of the...
  
  , cocaine
  Cocaine
  Cocaine is a crystalline tropane alkaloid that is obtained from the leaves of the coca plant. The name comes from "coca" in addition to the alkaloid suffix -ine, forming cocaine. It is a stimulant of the central nervous system, an appetite suppressant, and a topical anesthetic...
  
   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://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080116/ap_en_mu/ike_turner_death http://www.usatoday.com/life/people/2007-12-12-ike-turner-obit_N.htm
• Schuster Vance
  Schuster Vance
  Schuster Vance was an American television and film actor. His birth name was Henry Schuster Vance III...
  
  , 47, American 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.cinematical.com/2007/12/17/rip-reel-important-people-december-17-2007/
• Lee Vincent
  Lee Vincent
  Lee Vincent was an American musician, orchestra leader, talent agent, radio sales manager.-Biography:Born as Vincent Lee Cerreta in Shickshinny, Pennsylvania, Lee Vincent started learning music early...
  
  , 91, American bassist
  Bassist
  A bass player, or bassist is a musician who plays a bass instrument such as a double bass, bass guitar, keyboard bass or a low brass instrument such as a tuba or sousaphone. Different musical genres tend to be associated with one or more of these instruments...
  
   and radio personality
  Radio personality
  A radio personality is a person with an on-air position in radio broadcasting. A radio personality can be someone who introduces and discusses various genres of music, hosts a talk radio show that may take calls from listeners, or someone whose primary responsibility is to give news, weather,...
  
   (WILK
  WILK (AM)
  WILK is also known as Northeast Pennsylvania's Newsradio and owned by Entercom Communications.-History:WILK originally signed on the air in 1947. The station's original broadcast frequency was 1450 kHz during its early years before moving to the present 980 kHz dial position...
  
  ), heart failure. http://www.thetimes-tribune.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=19110501&BRD=2185&PAG=461&dept_id=416046&rfi=6
• Yuli Mikhailovich Vorontsov
  Yuli Mikhailovich Vorontsov
  Yuli Mikhailovich Vorontsov was a Russian diplomat, President of International Centre of the Roerichs . In the mid 1970s he was Chargé d'Affaires at the Soviet embassy in Washington, under Ambassador Dobrynin. He served as the Soviet Union's ambassador to Afghanistan in the late 1980s...
  
  , 78, Russia
  Russia
  Russia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...
  
  n 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...
  
  , former ambassador to the United Nations
  United Nations
  The United Nations is an international organization whose stated aims are facilitating cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, social progress, human rights, and achievement of world peace...
  
   and United States
  United States
  The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
  
  . http://in.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idINIndia-30979220071213

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• Ashleigh Aston Moore
  Ashleigh Aston Moore
  Ashleigh Aston Moore was a Canadian child actress, who played Chrissy in the 1995 film Now and Then.-Career:Born Ashley Rogers in Sunnyvale, California, Moore began acting at the age of four...
  
  , 26, American-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...
  
   actress, accidental heroin overdose. http://www.tv.com/ashleigh-aston-moore/person/60101/biography.html
• Allan Berube
  Allan Berube
  Allan Ronald Bérubé was an American historian, activist, independent scholar, self-described "community-based" researcher and college drop-out, and award-winning author, best known for his research and writing about homosexual members of the American Armed Forces during World War II...
  
  , 61, American gay
  Gay
  Gay is a word that refers to a homosexual person, especially a homosexual male. For homosexual women the specific term is "lesbian"....
  
   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 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....
  
  , complications from stomach ulcers. http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/obituaries/articles/2007/12/17/allan_berube_gay_historian_chronicled_roles_in_wwii/
• José Luis Calva
  José Luis Calva
  José Luis Calva Zepeda was a Mexican writer and serial killer. Calva has been accused of murder in up to eight separate cases, all involving women. Calva had also confessed to cannibalism.- Early life :...
  
  , 38, 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....
  
  , 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...
  
   and cannibal, apparent suicide
  Suicide
  Suicide is the act of intentionally causing one's own death. Suicide is often committed out of despair or attributed to some underlying mental disorder, such as depression, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, alcoholism, or drug abuse...
  
  . http://edition.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/americas/12/11/mexico.suicide.ap/
• Freddie Fields
  Freddie Fields
  Freddie Fields , born Fred Feldman, was an American theatrical agent and film producer who was instrumental in the careers of such stars as Judy Garland, Woody Allen, Henry Fonda, Marilyn Monroe, Robert Redford, Peter Sellers, and Steve McQueen. He was the brother of band leader Shep Fields...
  
  , 84, American Hollywood agent
  Talent agent
  A talent agent, or booking agent, is a person who finds jobs for actors, authors, film directors, musicians, models, producers, professional athletes, writers and other people in various entertainment businesses. Having an agent is not required, but does help the artist in getting jobs...
  
  , 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...
  
   and studio executive, 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/ALeqM5iJzQaGzyDvH2QkJ7B0jj1AZmiB1QD8TGCC2G0
• Pat Hannigan
  Pat Hannigan
  Patrick Edward "Hopalong" Hannigan was a Canadian professional ice hockey left winger who played five seasons in the National Hockey League with the Toronto Maple Leafs, New York Rangers and Philadelphia Flyers...
  
  , 71, 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...
  
   NHL
  National Hockey League
  The National Hockey League is an unincorporated not-for-profit association which operates a major professional ice hockey league of 30 franchised member clubs, of which 7 are currently located in Canada and 23 in the United States...
  
   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.timminspress.com/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=818046&auth=Brandon+Walker
• Christie Hennessy
  Christie Hennessy
  Christie Hennessy was an Irish folk singer-songwriter.-Early life:...
  
  , 62, Irish
  Ireland
  Ireland is an island to the northwest of continental Europe. It is the third-largest island in Europe and the twentieth-largest island on Earth...
  
   singer and 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...
  
  , cancer
  Cancer
  Cancer , known medically as a malignant neoplasm, is a large group of different diseases, all involving unregulated cell growth. In cancer, cells divide and grow uncontrollably, forming malignant tumors, and invade nearby parts of the body. The cancer may also spread to more distant parts of the...
  
  . http://www.independent.ie/breaking-news/national-news/singer-christie-hennessy-dies-after-battle-with-cancer-1244276.html
• Nicholas Kao Se Tseien
  Nicholas Kao Se Tseien
  Nicholas Kao Se Tseien, was a Chinese Catholic priest living in Hong Kong who was both the oldest Catholic priest in modern times and the oldest ever person to have had a cataract operation....
  
  , 110, 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...
  
   supercentenarian
  Supercentenarian
  A supercentenarian is someone who has reached the age of 110 years. This age is achieved by about one in a thousand centenarians....
  
  , world's oldest Catholic priest
  Priesthood (Catholic Church)
  The ministerial orders of the Catholic Church include the orders of bishops, deacons and presbyters, which in Latin is sacerdos. The ordained priesthood and common priesthood are different in function and essence....
  
  . http://www.theindiancatholic.com/report.asp?nid=9624
• Karl Ludwig, Archduke of Austria, 89, 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 son of Emperor Charles I of Austria. http://kurier.at/nachrichten/114023.php http://wien.orf.at/stories/242892/ (German).
• Ottomar Pinto
  Ottomar Pinto
  Ottomar de Sousa Pinto was a Brazilian politician, who was Governor of the state of Roraima from November 2004 until his death in December 2007. He was a member of the Brazilian Social Democracy Party....
  
  , 76 , Brazil
  Brazil
  Brazil , officially the Federative Republic of Brazil , is the largest country in South America. It is the world's fifth largest country, both by geographical area and by population with over 192 million people...
  
  ian politician
  Politician
  A politician, political leader, or political figure is an individual who is involved in influencing public policy and decision making...
  
  , Governor of Roraima
  Roraima
  Roraima is the northernmost and least populated state of Brazil, located in the Amazon region. It borders the states of Amazonas and Pará, as well as the nations of Venezuela and Guyana. The population is 400,000 and the capital is Boa Vista...
  
   (2004–2007), heart attack. http://www.emtemporeal.com.br/index.asp?area=2&dia=14&mes=12&ano=2007&idnoticia=42293
• Tatsuzō Shimaoka
  Tatsuzo Shimaoka
  was a Japanese mingei potter who studied under Hamada Shoji and later became the second Living National Treasure of Mashiko, Japan. He was best known for his unique Jōmon zogan style of pottery, and was a master of many slip decorating and firing techniques for pottery...
  
  , 88, Japanese potter
  Pottery
  Pottery is the material from which the potteryware is made, of which major types include earthenware, stoneware and porcelain. The place where such wares are made is also called a pottery . Pottery also refers to the art or craft of the potter or the manufacture of pottery...
  
  , living national treasure
  Living National Treasure (Japan)
  is a Japanese popular term for those individuals certified as by the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology as based on Japan's...
  
  , acute liver failure. http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/national/20071213TDY02305.htm
• Terry Yates
  Terry Yates
  Terry Lamon Yates was an American biologist and academic who is credited with discovering the source of the hantavirus in the American Southwest in 1993. Yates' specialty as a biologist was the study of rodents and other small mammals....
  
  , 57, American biologist
  Biologist
  A biologist is a scientist devoted to and producing results in biology through the study of life. Typically biologists study organisms and their relationship to their environment. Biologists involved in basic research attempt to discover underlying mechanisms that govern how organisms work...
  
  , discovered source of hantavirus
  Hantavirus
  Hantaviruses are negative sense RNA viruses in the Bunyaviridae family. Humans may be infected with hantaviruses through rodent bites, urine, saliva or contact with rodent waste products...
  
  , brain cancer. http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/obituaries/articles/2007/12/24/terry_yates_57_biologist_found_source_of_hantavirus/

10

• George Morris
  George Morris (football player)
  George Augustus Morris, Jr. was an American football player. Born in Vicksburg, Mississippi, he played college football for the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets and professionally for the San Francisco 49ers for one season in 1956. He was elected to the College Football Hall of Fame in 1981...
  
  , 76, American football
  American football
  American football is a sport played between two teams of eleven with the objective of scoring points by advancing the ball into the opposing team's end zone. Known in the United States simply as football, it may also be referred to informally as gridiron football. The ball can be advanced by...
  
   player (Georgia Tech
  Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets
  The Yellow Jackets is the name used for all of the intercollegiate athletic teams that play for the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, Georgia. The teams have also been nicknamed the Ramblin' Wreck, Engineers, Blacksmiths, and Golden Tornado. There are 8 men's and 7 women's teams that...
  
  , San Francisco 49ers
  San Francisco 49ers
  The San Francisco 49ers are a professional American football team based in San Francisco, California, playing in the West Division of the National Football Conference in the National Football League . The team was founded in 1946 as a charter member of the All-America Football Conference and...
  
  ), apparent heart attack. http://www.ajc.com/gatech/content/sports/gatech/stories/2007/12/10/morris_1211.html
• Aqsa Parvez
  Aqsa Parvez
  Aqsa "Axa" Parvez was the victim of an honour killing in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada. During the murder trial, Superior Court Justice Bruce Durno acknowledged the slaying as an honour killing, stating, "that he found it "profoundly disturbing that a 16-year-old could be murdered by a father and...
  
  , 16, 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...
  
   allegedly killed for refusing to wear hijab
  Hijab
  The word "hijab" or "'" refers to both the head covering traditionally worn by Muslim women and modest Muslim styles of dress in general....
  
  , strangled. http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20071211/muslim_dad_071212/20071212?hub=TopStories
• Jerry Ricks
  Jerry Ricks
  Jerry Ricks was an American blues guitarist.Ricks was born and grew up in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, playing trumpet as a child; he started playing guitar in local coffee shops in the late 1950s...
  
  , 67, American blues
  Blues
  Blues is the name given to both a musical form and a music genre that originated in African-American communities of primarily the "Deep South" of the United States at the end of the 19th century from spirituals, work songs, field hollers, shouts and chants, and rhymed simple narrative ballads...
  
   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...
  
  . http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5gg0PNIOmeGrBjaLtqZ1Ojph74iXQ
• Gordon Samuels
  Gordon Samuels
  Gordon Jacob Samuels AC, CVO, QC , was a British-Australian lawyer, Judge and Governor of New South Wales from 1996 to 2001. Born in London in 1923, Samuels was educated at University College School and Balliol College, Oxford. After serving in the Second World War, he was called to the bar and...
  
  , 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 Governor of New South Wales (1996–2001). http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/funeral-service-today-for-samuels/2007/12/12/1197135558297.html http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/tributes-for-gordon-samuels/2007/12/12/1197135532636.html
• Henrietta Yurchenko, 91, American folklorist. http://music.guardian.co.uk/folk/story/0,,2255645,00.html

9

• Wayne Howard
  Wayne Howard
  Wayne Wright Howard was an African-American comic book artist best known for his 1970s work at Charlton Comics, where he became American comic books' first known cover-credited series creator, with the horror anthology Midnight Tales blurbing "Created by Wayne Howard" on each issue — "a...
  
  , 58, American comic book artist
  Comic Book Artist
  Comic Book Artist was an American magazine founded by Jon B. Cooke devoted to anecdotal histories of American comic books, with emphasis on comics published since the 1960s...
  
   (Charlton Comics
  Charlton Comics
  Charlton Comics was an American comic book publishing company that existed from 1946 to 1985, having begun under a different name in 1944. It was based in Derby, Connecticut...
  
  ), heart attack. http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2007/12/10/aw-man-wayne-howard-died/
• Jim Langley
  Jim Langley
  Ernest James "Jim" Langley , was an English association football player noted for his pacey, rampaging runs from the left fullback position and his long throw-ins...
  
  , 78, British
  United Kingdom
  The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...
  
   football
  Football (soccer)
  Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a sport played between two teams of eleven players with a spherical ball...
  
  er for England
  England national football team
  The England national football team represents England in association football and is controlled by the Football Association, the governing body for football in England. England is the joint oldest national football team in the world, alongside Scotland, whom they played in the world's first...
  
  , Fulham
  Fulham F.C.
  Fulham Football Club is a professional English Premier League club based in southwest London Fulham, in the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham. Founded in 1879, they play in the Premier League, their 11th current season...
  
  , and QPR
  Queens Park Rangers F.C.
  Queens Park Rangers Football Club is an English professional football club, based in White City, Hammersmith and Fulham, west London. As the 2010-11 Football League Championship champions, they now play in the top tier of English football the Premier League, for the first time in 15 years...
  
  , heart attack. http://www.qpr.premiumtv.co.uk/page/NewsDetail/0,,10373~1189334,00.html
• Matthew J. Murray, 24, American spree killer
  Spree killer
  A spree killer is someone who embarks on a murderous assault on two or more victims in a short time in multiple locations. The U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics defines a spree killing as "killings at two or more locations with almost no time break between murders."-Definition:According to the...
  
  , 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.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D8TFEJO00&show_article=1
• Elspeth Rostow
  Elspeth Rostow
  Elspeth Rostow was born as Elspeth Vaughan Davies in Manhattan. She graduated from Barnard College in 1938...
  
  , 90, American academic, University of Texas dean
  Dean (education)
  In academic administration, a dean is a person with significant authority over a specific academic unit, or over a specific area of concern, or both...
  
  , widow of Walt Whitman Rostow
  Walt Whitman Rostow
  Walt Whitman Rostow was a United States economist and political theorist who served as Special Assistant for National Security Affairs to U.S. President Lyndon B...
  
  , heart attack. http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/tx/5364644.html
• Kurt Schmied
  Kurt Schmied
  Kurt Schmied was a goalkeeper for First Vienna FC and Austria national football team.-International career:...
  
  , 81, 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 football
  Football (soccer)
  Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a sport played between two teams of eleven players with a spherical ball...
  
  er, former member of the national team
  Austria national football team
  The Austria national football team is the association football team that represents the country of Austria in international competition and is controlled by the Austrian Football Association ....
  
  . http://www.nachrichten.at/sport/mehrsport/624095?PHPSESSID=d50cc0bde3b65128154cd4349451d8df (German)
• Thore Skogman
  Thore Skogman
  Thore Skogman was a Swedish entertainer.Skogman was born in Hallstahammar, Sweden. He made his debut recording in 1955 and came third in Sweden's national song contest Melodifestivalen in 1963. In the 1960s he wrote "Fröken Fräken" that became one of his most successful hits...
  
  , 76, 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....
  
   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://www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/article1432148.ab (Swedish)
• Rafael Sperafico
  Rafael Sperafico
  Rafael Sperafico was a Brazilian racing driver. He was the cousin of fellow racing drivers Ricardo and Rodrigo, and also related to Alexandre...
  
  , 26, 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 racing driver
  Auto racing
  Auto racing is a motorsport involving the racing of cars for competition. It is one of the world's most watched televised sports.-The beginning of racing:...
  
  , race crash. http://canadianpress.google.com/article/ALeqM5hmrESqWbo4DwM4OKD625PNg3VD3g
• J. Fife Symington Jr.
  J. Fife Symington Jr.
  John Fife Symington, Jr. was the United States diplomat to Trinidad and Tobago and an airline pioneer.-Early life:...
  
  , 97, American 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...
  
   to Trinidad and Tobago
  Trinidad and Tobago
  Trinidad and Tobago officially the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago is an archipelagic state in the southern Caribbean, lying just off the coast of northeastern Venezuela and south of Grenada in the Lesser Antilles...
  
  , complications of old age
  Old age
  Old age consists of ages nearing or surpassing the average life span of human beings, and thus the end of the human life cycle...
  
  . http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/obituaries/bal-md.ob.symington11dec11,0,2215929.story
• Gordon Zahn, 84, American Catholic peace activist
  Peace activist
  This list of peace activists includes people who proactively advocate diplomatic, non-military resolution of political disputes, usually through nonviolent means.A peace activist is an activist of the peace movement.*Jane Addams*Martti Ahtisaari...
  
  , co-founder of Pax Christi
  Pax Christi
  -History:Pax Christi was established in France in 1945 as a reconciliation work between the French and the Germans after the Second World War. In 2007, it existed in more than 60 countries...
  
   USA, complications of 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.jsonline.com/story/index.aspx?id=694792

8

• Donald Burton
  Donald Burton
  Donald Burton was an English theatre and television actor. Burton was the husband of actress Carroll Baker....
  
  , 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...
  
   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...
  
  , husband of actress Carroll Baker
  Carroll Baker
  Carroll Baker is a former American actress who has enjoyed popularity as both a serious dramatic actress and, particularly in the 1960s, as a movie sex symbol...
  
  , 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.mercurynews.com/news/ci_7949840?nclick_check=1
• Ioan Fiscuteanu, 70, Romania
  Romania
  Romania is a country located at the crossroads of Central and Southeastern Europe, on the Lower Danube, within and outside the Carpathian arch, bordering on the Black Sea...
  
  n actor, colon cancer. http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/10/arts/10ficuteanu.html?ref=obituaries
• Dmitry Grigorieff
  Dmitry Grigorieff
  Archpriest Dmitry Grigorieff was the dean emeritus of the Saint Nicholas Russian Orthodox Cathedral of Washington D.C.. Grigorieff was also an academic scholar and was a retired Professor of Russian language and literature at Georgetown University.-Early life:Dmitry Grigorieff was born in London...
  
  , 89, American Episcoplian prelate, dean
  Dean (religion)
  A dean, in a church context, is a cleric holding certain positions of authority within a religious hierarchy. The title is used mainly in the Anglican Communion and the Roman Catholic Church.-Anglican Communion:...
  
   emeritus
  Emeritus
  Emeritus is a post-positive adjective that is used to designate a retired professor, bishop, or other professional or as a title. The female equivalent emerita is also sometimes used.-History:...
  
   of Saint Nicholas Cathedral in Washington D.C., 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.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/12/13/AR2007121302028.html
• Roger King
  Roger King (producer)
  Roger Monroe King was an American television and media executive for King World Productions and CBS. He was inducted into the Broadcasting & Cable Hall of Fame in 1992 and the National Association of Broadcasters Hall of Fame in 2004 and is credited with launching the careers of such top...
  
  , 63, American TV executive (King World
  King World Productions
  King World Productions, Inc. was a production company and a syndicator of television programming in the United States until its eventual 2007 incorporation into CBS Television Distribution...
  
  , CBS
  CBS
  CBS Broadcasting Inc. is a major US commercial broadcasting television network, which started as a radio network. The name is derived from the initials of the network's former name, Columbia Broadcasting System. The network is sometimes referred to as the "Eye Network" in reference to the shape of...
  
  ), developed Wheel of Fortune, Jeopardy!
  Jeopardy!
  Griffin's first conception of the game used a board comprising ten categories with ten clues each, but after finding that this board could not be shown on camera easily, he reduced it to two rounds of thirty clues each, with five clues in each of six categories...
  
  and Oprah Winfrey Show, stroke
  Stroke
  A stroke, previously known medically as a cerebrovascular accident , is the rapidly developing loss of brain function due to disturbance in the blood supply to the brain. This can be due to ischemia caused by blockage , or a hemorrhage...
  
  . http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/10/business/media/10king.html?_r=1&ref=business&oref=slogin
• Gerardo García Pimentel
  Gerardo García Pimentel
  Gerardo Israel García Pimentel was a Mexican journalist and crime reporter.He was shot dead outside his home in Uruapan, Michoacán, after a high-speed car chase....
  
  , 24, 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...
  
   crime reporter
  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...
  
  , homicide
  Homicide
  Homicide refers to the act of a human killing another human. Murder, for example, is a type of homicide. It can also describe a person who has committed such an act, though this use is rare in modern English...
  
   by gunshot
  Gunshot
  A gunshot is the discharge of a firearm, producing a mechanical sound effect and a chemical gunshot residue. The term can also refer to a gunshot wound caused by such a discharge. Multiple discharges of a firearm or firearms are referred to as gunfire. The word can connotate either the sound of a...
  
  . http://uk.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUKN0836248320071209
• Al Scaduto, 79, American cartoonist
  Cartoonist
  A cartoonist is a person who specializes in drawing cartoons. This work is usually humorous, mainly created for entertainment, political commentary or advertising...
  
   (They'll Do It Every Time
  They'll Do It Every Time
  They'll Do It Every Time was a single-panel newspaper comic strip, created by Jimmy Hatlo, which had a long run over eight decades. It first appeared on February 5, 1929 and continued until February 2, 2008. The title of the strip became a popular catchphrase, still used today by many people who...
  
  ). http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/departments/syndicates/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003683300

7

• Noel Forster
  Noel Forster
  Noel Armstrong Forster was a British artist who trained at King's College Newcastle a part of Durham University, graduating in 1957.He was born in Seaton Delaval, Northumberland and attended to Gosforth Grammar School....
  
  , 75, British
  United Kingdom
  The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...
  
   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://news.independent.co.uk/people/obituaries/article3301004.ece
• Fuad Hassan
  Fuad Hassan
  Fuad Hassan was an Indonesian politician.Hassan was born in Semarang, Indonesia and was graduated from the University of Indonesia with a PhD in psychology....
  
  , 78, 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 Minister of Education (1985–1993), 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.antara.co.id/en/arc/2007/12/8/former-education-minister-fuad-hassan-passes-away
• John Hollowbread
  John Hollowbread
  John Frederick Hollowbread was a football goalkeeper who played for Tottenham Hotspur and Southampton.-Playing career:...
  
  , 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...
  
   football
  Football (soccer)
  Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a sport played between two teams of eleven players with a spherical ball...
  
   goalkeeper (Tottenham Hotspur
  Tottenham Hotspur F.C.
  Tottenham Hotspur Football Club , commonly referred to as Spurs, is an English Premier League football club based in Tottenham, north London. The club's home stadium is White Hart Lane....
  
  , Southampton
  Southampton F.C.
  Southampton Football Club is an English football team, nicknamed The Saints, based in the city of Southampton, Hampshire. The club gained promotion to the Championship from League One in the 2010–2011 season after being relegated in 2009. Their home ground is the St Mary's Stadium, where the club...
  
  ). http://www.tottenhamhotspur.com/news/articles/obitjohnhollowbread.html

6

• Wolfgang Assbrock
  Wolfgang Assbrock
  Wolfgang Assbrock was a German politician. He was a member of the CDU, and sat in the Landtag of North Rhine-Westphalia....
  
  , 55, German
  Germany
  Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...
  
   politician
  Politician
  A politician, political leader, or political figure is an individual who is involved in influencing public policy and decision making...
  
  , member of the CDU
  Christian Democratic Union (Germany)
  The Christian Democratic Union of Germany is a Christian democratic and conservative political party in Germany. It is regarded as on the centre-right of the German political spectrum...
  
   and Landtag
  Landtag
  A Landtag is a representative assembly or parliament in German-speaking countries with some legislative authority.- Name :...
  
   of North Rhine-Westphalia
  North Rhine-Westphalia
  North Rhine-Westphalia is the most populous state of Germany, with four of the country's ten largest cities. The state was formed in 1946 as a merger of the northern Rhineland and Westphalia, both formerly part of Prussia. Its capital is Düsseldorf. The state is currently run by a coalition of the...
  
  . http://www.ad-hoc-news.de/Politik-News/de/14521916/Landtagsabgeordneter-Aßuebrock-gestorben (German)
• George Bednar
  George Bednar
  George John Bednar was a National Football League player for the St. Louis Cardinals from 1964 to 1965. He was also the inventor of the Harvey Wallbanger cocktail....
  
  , 65, American football player and Harvey Wallbanger
  Harvey Wallbanger
  The Harvey Wallbanger is an alcoholic beverage or cocktail made with vodka, Galliano, and orange juice.-History:The Harvey Wallbanger is reported to have been invented in 1952 by three-time world champion mixologist Donato 'Duke' Antone , the brother-in-law of New York state Senator Carlo Lanzillotti...
  
   cocktail
  Cocktail
  A cocktail is an alcoholic mixed drink that contains two or more ingredients—at least one of the ingredients must be a spirit.Cocktails were originally a mixture of spirits, sugar, water, and bitters. The word has come to mean almost any mixed drink that contains alcohol...
  
   promoter. http://www.timesleader.com/news/20071209_09Bednar_ART.html
• Mike Donkin
  Mike Donkin
  Michael Charles Donkin was an English reporter and journalist for BBC News.Donkin was born in Southend-on-Sea, Essex in 1951. He went to school at the Northern Grammar School for Boys, in North End, Portsmouth. He landed his first job with the East Anglian Daily Times in Ipswich. In 1975, he...
  
  , 56, 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...
  
   reporter 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...
  
   (BBC News
  BBC News
  BBC News is the department of the British Broadcasting Corporation responsible for the gathering and broadcasting of news and current affairs. The department is the world's largest broadcast news organisation and generates about 120 hours of radio and television output each day, as well as online...
  
  ), 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.guardian.co.uk/obituaries/story/0,,2226392,00.html
• Katy French
  Katy French
  Katy Ellen French was an Irish socialite, model, writer, television personality and charity worker. According to the BBC, "in the space of less than two years, she had become one of Ireland's best-known models and socialites." She collapsed at a friend's house on 2 December 2007 and died on 6...
  
  , 24, Irish
  Ireland
  Ireland is an island to the northwest of continental Europe. It is the third-largest island in Europe and the twentieth-largest island on Earth...
  
   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....
  
  , suspected overdose. http://www.rte.ie/news/2007/1206/frenchk.html http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2007/12/07/1196812980103.html
• Jacques Hébert
  Jacques Hébert (Canadian politician)
  Jacques Hébert, OC was a Canadian author, journalist, publisher, Senator, and world traveler having visited more than 130 countries.-History:...
  
  , 84, 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, Senator (1983–1998). http://www.upi.com/NewsTrack/Top_News/2007/12/07/jacques_hebert_canadian_senator_dies/1326/
• John Hill, 95, British
  United Kingdom
  The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...
  
   politician
  Politician
  A politician, political leader, or political figure is an individual who is involved in influencing public policy and decision making...
  
  , Conservative
  Conservative Party (UK)
  The Conservative Party, formally the Conservative and Unionist Party, is a centre-right political party in the United Kingdom that adheres to the philosophies of conservatism and British unionism. It is the largest political party in the UK, and is currently the largest single party in the House...
  
   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 South Norfolk
  South Norfolk (UK Parliament constituency)
  South Norfolk is a county constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. From 1868 until 1885 it returned two members but thereafter elected one Member of Parliament by the first past the post system of election....
  
   (1955–1974). http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?view=DETAILS&grid=&xml=/news/2007/12/20/db2002.xml
• Murray Klein
  Murray Klein
  Murray Klein was a Jewish American entrepreneur who helped transform New York City's famous Zabar's speciality food emporium from a small Jewish delicatessen based on Manhattan's Upper West Side into one of the city's premier culinary destinations. Klein was a part owner of Zabar's for more than...
  
  , 84, American businessman, co-owner of New York City
  New York City
  New York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. New York exerts a significant impact upon global commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and...
  
  's Zabar's
  Zabar's
  Zabar's is a specialty food store at 2245 Broadway and 80th Street, on the Upper West Side of Manhattan in New York City, founded by Louis Zabar. It is one of the best known commercial landmarks of the neighborhood, and is known for its selection of bagels, smoked fish, olives, and cheeses...
  
   food emporium, lung cancer
  Lung cancer
  Lung cancer is a disease characterized by uncontrolled cell growth in tissues of the lung. If left untreated, this growth can spread beyond the lung in a process called metastasis into nearby tissue and, eventually, into other parts of the body. Most cancers that start in lung, known as primary...
  
  . http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/07/nyregion/07klein.html?_r=1&oref=sloginhttp://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article3199307.ece
• Shelley Rohde
  Shelley Rohde
  Gillian Shelley Mary Rohde was a British journalist and author. She was best known in the North West of England as a reporter and presenter on Granada Reports, but she is more widely remembered as the biographer of the artist L. S...
  
  , 74, British
  United Kingdom
  The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...
  
   journalist
  Journalist
  A journalist collects and distributes news and other information. A journalist's work is referred to as journalism.A reporter is a type of journalist who researchs, writes, and reports on information to be presented in mass media, including print media , electronic media , and digital media A...
  
   and author
  Author
  An author is broadly defined as "the person who originates or gives existence to anything" and that authorship determines responsibility for what is created. Narrowly defined, an author is the originator of any written work.-Legal significance:...
  
  . http://www.guardian.co.uk/obituaries/story/0,,2240768,00.html
• Ken Southworth
  Ken Southworth
  Ken Southworth was a veteran English cartoon animator and instructor who worked for a number of major animation studios throughout his career, including Walt Disney Studios, Hanna-Barbera, Filmation, Warner Bros., MGM, Walter Lantz and Clokey Productions...
  
  , 89, American cartoon animator
  Animator
  An animator is an artist who creates multiple images that give an illusion of movement called animation when displayed in rapid sequence; the images are called frames and key frames. Animators can work in a variety of fields including film, television, video games, and the internet. Usually, an...
  
   (Hanna-Barbera
  Hanna-Barbera
  Hanna-Barbera Productions, Inc. was an American animation studio that dominated North American television animation during the second half of the 20th century...
  
  , Walt Disney Animation Studios), 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.animationmagazine.net/article/7689
• András Szöllősy
  András Szőllősy
  András Szőllősy was the creator of the Szőllősy index , a frequently used index for the works of Hungarian composer Béla Bartók, was born at Szászváros in Transylvania on February 27, 1921. He studied composition under Zoltán Kodály at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music where he was a professor of...
  
  , 86, Hungarian
  Hungary
  Hungary , officially the Republic of Hungary , is a landlocked country in Central Europe. It is situated in the Carpathian Basin and is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine and Romania to the east, Serbia and Croatia to the south, Slovenia to the southwest and Austria to the west. The...
  
   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.caboodle.hu/nc/news/news_archive/single_page/article/11/hungarian_co-14/?cHash=3135789a09

5

• M. V. Dhond
  M. V. Dhond
  Madhukar Vasudev Dhond was a literary and art critic from Maharashtra, India....
  
  , 93, 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 literary and art critic
  Art critic
  An art critic is a person who specializes in evaluating art. Their written critiques, or reviews, are published in newspapers, magazines, books and on web sites...
  
  . http://loksatta.com/daily/20071206/mp02.htm (Marathi)
• Robin Gloag
  Robin Gloag
  Robin Nicol Gloag was one of the founders, with Brian Souter and Ann Gloag, of Stagecoach Group, one of the United Kingdom's largest transport businesses.-Career:...
  
  , 64, British
  United Kingdom
  The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...
  
   co-founder of Stagecoach Group
  Stagecoach Group
  Stagecoach Group plc is an international transport group operating buses, trains, trams, express coaches and ferries. The group was founded in 1980 by the current chairman, Sir Brian Souter, his sister, Ann Gloag, and her former husband Robin...
  
  , car accident
  Car accident
  A traffic collision, also known as a traffic accident, motor vehicle collision, motor vehicle accident, car accident, automobile accident, Road Traffic Collision or car crash, occurs when a vehicle collides with another vehicle, pedestrian, animal, road debris, or other stationary obstruction,...
  
  . http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/tayside_and_central/7130178.stm
• Arnold Hardy
  Arnold Hardy
  Arnold Hardy was an American amateur photographer who won the 1947 Pulitzer Prize for Photography.His 1947 award-winning photo of a woman plunging from a window of the burning Winecoff Hotel in Atlanta, Georgia on December 7, 1946, became the defining image of the fire that killed 119 people...
  
  , 85, American Pulitzer Prize
  1947 Pulitzer Prize
  -Journalism awards:*Public Service:** The Baltimore Sun for its series of articles by Howard M. Norton dealing with the administration of unemployment compensation in Maryland, resulting in convictions and pleas of guilty in criminal court of 93 persons....
  
  -winning photographer, complications from hip surgery. http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/251/story/194225.html
• Andrew Imbrie
  Andrew Imbrie
  Andrew Welsh Imbrie was an American composer of contemporary classical music.-Career:Imbrie was born in New York on April 6, 1921, and began his musical training as a pianist when he was 4. In 1937, he went to Paris to study briefly with Nadia Boulanger...
  
  , 86, American 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.nytimes.com/2007/12/09/arts/09imbrie.html?ref=obituaries
• Dan Iosif
  Dan Iosif
  Dan Iosif was a Romanian politician, who was a leading figure in the 1989 Romanian revolution, leading protests in Bucharest in the final days of Nicolae Ceauşescu's 25-year rule....
  
  , 57, Romania
  Romania
  Romania is a country located at the crossroads of Central and Southeastern Europe, on the Lower Danube, within and outside the Carpathian arch, bordering on the Black Sea...
  
  n revolutionary
  Revolutionary
  A revolutionary is a person who either actively participates in, or advocates revolution. Also, when used as an adjective, the term revolutionary refers to something that has a major, sudden impact on society or on some aspect of human endeavor.-Definition:...
  
  , lung cancer
  Lung cancer
  Lung cancer is a disease characterized by uncontrolled cell growth in tissues of the lung. If left untreated, this growth can spread beyond the lung in a process called metastasis into nearby tissue and, eventually, into other parts of the body. Most cancers that start in lung, known as primary...
  
  . http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/obituaries/articles/2007/12/07/dan_iosif_figure_in_romania_revolt/
• Jillian Kesner-Graver
  Jillian Kesner-Graver
  Jillian Kesner-Graver was an American actress and historian who worked with her late husband, Gary Graver, to preserve the work and legacy of director Orson Welles. She was best known as an actress for playing Fonzie's girlfriend, Lorraine, on Happy Days.-Early life:Kesner-Graver was born in...
  
  , 58, American actress (Happy Days
  Happy Days
  Happy Days is an American television sitcom that originally aired from January 15, 1974, to September 24, 1984, on ABC. Created by Garry Marshall, the series presents an idealized vision of life in mid-1950s to mid-1960s America....
  
  ), Orson Welles
  Orson Welles
  George Orson Welles , best known as Orson Welles, was an American film director, actor, theatre director, screenwriter, and producer, who worked extensively in film, theatre, television and radio...
  
   historian, staph infection. http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/content_display/features/people/deaths/e3i3b664324ba4ea5c0306b1433e213a8e5
• Alois Kracher
  Alois Kracher
  Alois Kracher Jr., was one of the most successful winemakers of Austria, and was known under the nickname "Luis". The wines from his vineyard Weinlaubenhof Kracher reached a world reputation and high acclaim from international wine critics such as Robert M...
  
  , 48, 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 winemaker
  Winemaker
  A winemaker or vintner is a person engaged in winemaking. They are generally employed by wineries or wine companies, where their work includes:*Cooperating with viticulturists...
  
  , 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.canada.com/saskatoonstarphoenix/news/business/story.html?id=5193ccae-e947-4158-a44d-b8187b8feb6a
• George Paraskevaides
  George Paraskevaides
  George Paraskevaides was a Cypriot philanthropist and businessman who focused on the construction business in Europe and the Middle East...
  
  , 91, 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...
  
   businessman (Joannou & Paraskevaides
  Joannou & Paraskevaides
  -North Africa and the Middle East:Joannou & Paraskevaides Limited was established in 1961 in Guernsey, Channel Islands...
  
  ) and philanthropist
  Philanthropist
  A philanthropist is someone who engages in philanthropy; that is, someone who donates his or her time, money, and/or reputation to charitable causes...
  
  . http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/12/05/europe/EU-GEN-Cyprus-Obit-Paraskevaides.php
• Karlheinz Stockhausen
  Karlheinz Stockhausen
  Karlheinz Stockhausen was a German composer, widely acknowledged by critics as one of the most important but also controversial composers of the 20th and early 21st centuries. Another critic calls him "one of the great visionaries of 20th-century music"...
  
  , 79, 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...
  
   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.guardian.co.uk/germany/article/0,,2224071,00.html
• Tony Tenser
  Tony Tenser
  Tony Tenser was an English-born film producer of Lithuanian-Jewish descent. He specialised in producing Exploitation film movies and founded his own production company Tigon British Film Productions in 1966, which also made more mainstream films such as Witchfinder General and other horror films...
  
  , 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...
  
   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://news.independent.co.uk/people/obituaries/article3266541.ece
• Rene Villanueva
  Rene Villanueva
  Rene O. Villanueva was a Filipino playwright and author. He is famed for his deep involvement in theater and television and in children's literature, whether it be on television, in books or on stage.-Awards:...
  
  , 53, 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...
  
   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...
  
   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:...
  
  , 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.gmanews.tv/story/71604/Playwright-Rene-O-Villanueva-passes-away http://www.inquirer.net/specialfeatures/makatistandoff/view.php?db=1&article=20071208-105567
• John Winter, 83, Australia
  Australia
  Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
  
  n athlete, 1948 Olympics
  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...
  
   high jump
  High jump
  The high jump is a track and field athletics event in which competitors must jump over a horizontal bar placed at measured heights without the aid of certain devices in its modern most practiced format; auxiliary weights and mounds have been used for assistance; rules have changed over the years....
  
   gold medalist
  Athletics at the 1948 Summer Olympics
  At the 1948 Summer Olympics in London, 33 athletics events were contested, 24 for men and 9 for women. Three events made their Olympic debut at these Games: women's 200 metres, women's long jump and women's shot put...
  
  . http://www.athletics.com.au/community/news/vale_john_winter

4

• Chad "Pimp C" Butler
  Pimp C
  Chad Lamont Butler , better known by his stage name Pimp C, was an American rapper, singer, and producer...
  
  , 33, American rap artist (UGK
  UGK
  UGK was an American hip hop duo from Port Arthur, Texas formed in 1987 by the late Chad "Pimp C" Butler . He then joined with Bernard "Bun B" Freeman, who became his longtime partner...
  
  ), sleep apnea
  Sleep apnea
  Sleep apnea is a sleep disorder characterized by abnormal pauses in breathing or instances of abnormally low breathing, during sleep. Each pause in breathing, called an apnea, can last from a few seconds to minutes, and may occur 5 to 30 times or more an hour. Similarly, each abnormally low...
  
   and accidental overdose. http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/alex_stein/2007/12/death_of_a_pimp.html http://www.tmz.com/2008/02/04/coroner-pimp-c-died-from-sleep-apnea-and-codeine/
• Jake Gaudaur
  Jake Gaudaur
  For the former world champion sculler see Jake Gaudaur Snr.Jacob Gill "Jake" Gaudaur, Jr., OC was a Canadian Football League player, executive, and commissioner...
  
  , 87, Canadian
  Canada
  Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...
  
   Commissioner
  Commissioner
  Commissioner is in principle the title given to a member of a commission or to an individual who has been given a commission ....
  
   of the CFL
  Canadian Football League
  The Canadian Football League or CFL is a professional sports league located in Canada. The CFL is the highest level of competition in Canadian football, a form of gridiron football closely related to American football....
  
   (1968–1984), 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.thestar.com/Sports/article/282447 http://www.ticats.ca/index.php?module=newser&func=display&nid=22144
• Jay H. Gordon
  Jay H. Gordon
  Jay H. Gordon was a Vermont Democratic politician who served as Auditor of Accounts from 1965 until 1969....
  
  , 77, American politician, Vermont
  Vermont
  Vermont is a state in the New England region of the northeastern United States of America. The state ranks 43rd in land area, , and 45th in total area. Its population according to the 2010 census, 630,337, is the second smallest in the country, larger only than Wyoming. It is the only New England...
  
   Auditor of Accounts
  Vermont Auditor of Accounts
  The Vermont State Auditor of Accounts is one of five constitutional officers in Vermont, elected statewide every two years. The Office provides an independent and objective assessment of Vermont's governmental operations....
  
   (1965–1969), smoke inhalation
  Smoke inhalation
  Smoke inhalation is the primary cause of death in victims of indoor fires.Smoke inhalation injury refers to injury due to inhalation or exposure to hot gaseous products of combustion. This can cause serious respiratory complications....
  
  . http://www.timesargus.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071211/OBITUARIES/712110332 http://www.timesargus.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071214/NEWS02/712140344
• Norval Morrisseau
  Norval Morrisseau
  Norval Morrisseau, CM , also known as Copper Thunderbird, was an Aboriginal Canadian artist. Known as the "Picasso of the North", Morrisseau created works depicting the legends of his people, the cultural and political tensions between native Canadian and European traditions, his existential...
  
  , 75, 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...
  
   Ojibwe artist, founder of the Woodlands Style
  Woodlands Style
  The Woodland School Of Art, also named Woodlands style, Woodlands School, or Anishnabe painting, is a genre of painting among First Nations and Native American artists from the Great Lakes area - including northern Ontario and southwestern Manitoba...
  
  , Parkinson's disease
  Parkinson's disease
  Parkinson's disease is a degenerative disorder of the central nervous system...
  
  . http://www.thestar.com/News/article/282555
• David "Chip" Reese
  Chip Reese
  David Edward Reese , more commonly known as Chip Reese, was an American professional poker player and gambler from Centerville, Ohio...
  
  , 56, American professional poker
  Poker
  Poker is a family of card games that share betting rules and usually hand rankings. Poker games differ in how the cards are dealt, how hands may be formed, whether the high or low hand wins the pot in a showdown , limits on bet sizes, and how many rounds of betting are allowed.In most modern poker...
  
   player, heart attack. http://www.cardplayer.com/poker-news/article/10365/chip-reese-1951-2007
• Herman Rose
  Herman Rose
  Herman Rose was the professional pseudonym of Herman Rappaport , an American painter and artist. He was best known for his depictions of cityscapes, including his painting “74th Street Rooftops From Studio."...
  
  , 98, American cityscape
  Cityscape
  A cityscape is the urban equivalent of a landscape. Townscape is roughly synonymous with cityscape, though it implies the same difference in urban size and density implicit in the difference between the words city and town. In urban design the terms refer to the configuration of built forms and...
  
   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...
  
  , cancer
  Cancer
  Cancer , known medically as a malignant neoplasm, is a large group of different diseases, all involving unregulated cell growth. In cancer, cells divide and grow uncontrollably, forming malignant tumors, and invade nearby parts of the body. The cancer may also spread to more distant parts of the...
  
  . http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/28/arts/28rose.html?ref=obituaries
• Carlos Valdes
  Carlos Valdes
  Carlos Valdes was a Cuban-born American conga player. In 1955 he emigrated from Cuba to New York City where he played with Willie Bobo in Harlem. He was also known by the name "Patato". He invented and patented the tunable conga drum which revolutionized use of the instrument...
  
  , 81, Cuba
  Cuba
  The Republic of Cuba is an island nation in the Caribbean. The nation of Cuba consists of the main island of Cuba, the Isla de la Juventud, and several archipelagos. Havana is the largest city in Cuba and the country's capital. Santiago de Cuba is the second largest city...
  
  n conga
  Conga
  The conga, or more properly the tumbadora, is a tall, narrow, single-headed Cuban drum with African antecedents. It is thought to be derived from the Makuta drums or similar drums associated with Afro-Cubans of Central African descent. A person who plays conga is called a conguero...
  
   player, 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://thedeadrockstarsclub.com/2007b.html

3

• Art Arfons
  Art Arfons
  Arthur Eugene "Art" Arfons was the world land speed record holder three times in 1964 – 1965 with his Green Monster series of jet-powered cars, after a series of Green Monster piston-engine and jet-engined dragsters...
  
  , 81, American jet-car
  Green Monster (car)
  The Green Monster was the name of several vehicles built by Art Arfons and his half brother Walt Arfons. These ranged from dragsters to a turbojet-powered car which briefly held the land speed record three times during 1964 and 1965....
  
   driver and drag racer, three-time world land speed record
  Land speed record
  The land speed record is the highest speed achieved by a wheeled vehicle on land. There is no single body for validation and regulation; in practice the Category C flying start regulations are used, officiated by regional or national organizations under the auspices of the Fédération...
  
   holder. http://www.autoweek.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071204/FREE/71204009/1024/FREE
• John Belgrave
  John Belgrave
  Maurice "John" Belgrave, DCNZM , was a senior public servant and Chief Ombudsman of New Zealand.-Education:...
  
  , 67, 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...
  
   public servant, Chief Ombudsman
  New Zealand Chief Ombudsman
  New Zealand's Chief Ombudsman is appointed by the Governor-General of New Zealand on recommendation of the House of Representatives to oversee investigation of complaints against government departments, and report, with recommendations, to Parliament.The post of Ombudsman was established in New...
  
   (2003–2007), 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.nzherald.co.nz/category/story.cfm?c_id=280&objectid=10480215
• Jaime Fuster
  Jaime Fuster
  Jaime B. Fuster Berlingeri was a politician who served as an Associate Justice to the Supreme Court of Puerto Rico...
  
  , 66, Puerto Rican
  Puerto Rico
  Puerto Rico , officially the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico , is an unincorporated territory of the United States, located in the northeastern Caribbean, east of the Dominican Republic and west of both the United States Virgin Islands and the British Virgin Islands.Puerto Rico comprises an...
  
   politician
  Politician
  A politician, political leader, or political figure is an individual who is involved in influencing public policy and decision making...
  
   and 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...
  
  , Resident Commissioner
  Resident Commissioner of Puerto Rico
  The Resident Commissioner of Puerto Rico is a non-voting member of the United States House of Representatives elected by the voters of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico every four years...
  
   (1985–1992), heart attack. http://www.elnuevodia.com/diario/noticia/puertoricohoy/noticias/muere_juez_supremo_fuster/324822 (Spanish)
• Susumu Katsumata
  Susumu Katsumata
  was an award-winning Japanese manga artist. He debuted in 1966 in the alternative manga magazine Garo, and in 2006 won the 35th Award Grand prize of 500,000 yen for Red Snow....
  
  , 63, Japanese manga artist
  Mangaka
  is the Japanese word for a comic artist or cartoonist. Outside of Japan, manga usually refers to a Japanese comic book and mangaka refers to the author of the manga, who is usually Japanese...
  
   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...
  
  , melanoma
  Melanoma
  Melanoma is a malignant tumor of melanocytes. Melanocytes are cells that produce the dark pigment, melanin, which is responsible for the color of skin. They predominantly occur in skin, but are also found in other parts of the body, including the bowel and the eye...
  
  . http://www.nishinippon.co.jp/nnp/national/obituaries/20071206/20071206_001.shtml (Japanese)
• James Kemsley
  James Kemsley
  James Lawrence Kemsley OAM was an Australian cartoonist who drew Jimmy Bancks' original creation, Ginger Meggs.-Childhood:...
  
  , 59, 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 cartoonist
  Cartoonist
  A cartoonist is a person who specializes in drawing cartoons. This work is usually humorous, mainly created for entertainment, political commentary or advertising...
  
   (Ginger Meggs
  Ginger Meggs
  Ginger Meggs, a popular long-run Australian comic strip, was created in the early 1920s by Jimmy Bancks. The strip follows the escapades of a red-haired prepubescent mischief-maker who lives in an inner suburban working-class household....
  
  ), motor neurone disease
  Motor neurone disease
  The motor neurone diseases are a group of neurological disorders that selectively affect motor neurones, the cells that control voluntary muscle activity including speaking, walking, breathing, swallowing and general movement of the body. They are generally progressive in nature, and can cause...
  
  . http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/tributes-flow-in-for-ginger-meggs-cartoonist/2007/12/04/1196530651231.html
• Liliana Macellari
  Liliana Macellari
  Liliana "Liana" Macellari was born at Porto Civitanova, Marche, Italy, and was the daughter of photographer and actor Gilberto Macellari and Contessa Lucrezia Pasi della Pergola....
  
  , 78, 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...
  
   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...
  
   and literary agent
  Literary agent
  A literary agent is an agent who represents writers and their written works to publishers, theatrical producers and film producers and assists in the sale and deal negotiation of the same. Literary agents most often represent novelists, screenwriters and major non-fiction writers...
  
  , widow of Anthony Burgess
  Anthony Burgess
  John Burgess Wilson  – who published under the pen name Anthony Burgess – was an English author, poet, playwright, composer, linguist, translator and critic. The dystopian satire A Clockwork Orange is Burgess's most famous novel, though he dismissed it as one of his lesser works...
  
  . http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?view=DETAILS&grid=&xml=/news/2007/12/05/db0501.xml
• Keshav Meshram
  Keshav Meshram
  Keshav Tanaji Meshram was a Marathi dalit poet, critic, novelist, and short-story writer from Maharashtra, India. He wrote about 40 books.-Early life:...
  
  , 70, 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 writer and critic, 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.merinews.com/article/keshav-meshram-great-dalit-poet-and-novelist-passes-away-in-mumbai/128286.shtml
• Lord Bloody Wog Rolo
  Lord Bloody Wog Rolo
  Rolo Mestman Tapier otherwise known as Lord Bloody Wog Rolo was a colourful eccentric Sydney identity and one of the founding members of BUGAUP . A highly intelligent and articulate man, Rolo spoke five languages fluently - English, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese and French...
  
  , 62, 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 activist, renal cell carcinoma
  Renal cell carcinoma
  Renal cell carcinoma is a kidney cancer that originates in the lining of the proximal convoluted tubule, the very small tubes in the kidney that filter the blood and remove waste products. RCC is the most common type of kidney cancer in adults, responsible for approximately 80% of cases...
  
  . http://www.smh.com.au/news/obituaries/activist-used-humour-as-his-best-defence/2008/01/16/1200419882255.html

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• Jennifer Alexander
  Jennifer Alexander
  Jennifer Carrie Alexander was a Canadian ballet dancer....
  
  , 35, 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 ballet dancer, car accident
  Car accident
  A traffic collision, also known as a traffic accident, motor vehicle collision, motor vehicle accident, car accident, automobile accident, Road Traffic Collision or car crash, occurs when a vehicle collides with another vehicle, pedestrian, animal, road debris, or other stationary obstruction,...
  
  . http://calsun.canoe.ca/News/Alberta/2007/12/05/4708434-sun.html
• Robert O. Anderson
  Robert O. Anderson
  Robert Orville Anderson was an American business leader, legendary wildcatter and philanthropist who founded Atlantic Richfield Oil Co. through the 1966 merger of the Atlantic and Richfield oil companies and was Arco's chairman for two decades...
  
  , 90, American founder and former CEO of ARCO
  ARCO
  Atlantic Richfield Company is an oil company with operations in the United States as well as in Indonesia, the North Sea, and the South China Sea. It has more than 1,300 gas stations in the western part of the United States. ARCO was originally formed by the merger of East Coast-based Atlantic...
  
  . http://www.legacy.com/Obituaries.asp?Page=APStory&Id=13755
• Elizabeth Hardwick, 91, American co-founder of The New York Review of Books
  The New York Review of Books
  The New York Review of Books is a fortnightly magazine with articles on literature, culture and current affairs. Published in New York City, it takes as its point of departure that the discussion of important books is itself an indispensable literary activity...
  
  . http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/04/obituaries/04cnd-hardwick.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
• David Maybury-Lewis
  David Maybury-Lewis
  David Henry Peter Maybury-Lewis was an anthropologist, ethnologist of lowland South America, activist for indigenous peoples' human rights and professor emeritus of Harvard University....
  
  , 78, British
  United Kingdom
  The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...
  
   anthropologist. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article3114613.ece
• Eleonora Rossi Drago
  Eleonora Rossi Drago
  Eleonora Rossi Drago, born Palmira Omiccioli, was an Italian film actress. She was born in Quinto al Mare, Genoa, Italy....
  
  , 82, Italian
  Italy
  Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...
  
   actress, cerebral haemorrhage. http://www.ilmessaggero.it/articolo.php?id=14322&sez=HOME_SPETTACOLO (Italian)
• Les Shannon
  Les Shannon
  Leslie "Les" Shannon was an English football player and manager.-Playing career:Shannon was born in Liverpool; a centre-forward, he started his playing career with his hometown club of Liverpool in November 1944...
  
  , 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...
  
   football
  Football (soccer)
  Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a sport played between two teams of eleven players with a spherical ball...
  
  er and manager
  Coach (sport)
  In sports, a coach is an individual involved in the direction, instruction and training of the operations of a sports team or of individual sportspeople.-Staff:...
  
  . http://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/les-shannon-feisty-footballer-and-coach-764842.html
• Thomas Torrance
  Thomas Torrance
  Thomas Forsyth Torrance was a 20th century Protestant Christian theologian who served for 27 years as Professor of Christian Dogmatics at New College, Edinburgh in the University of Edinburgh, during which time he was a leader in Protestant Christian theology...
  
  , 94, British
  United Kingdom
  The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...
  
   theologian. http://edinburghnews.scotsman.com/opinion.cfm?id=1904452007

1

• Rassim al-Jumaili
  Rassim al-Jumaili
  Rassim al-Jumaili was a well known Iraqi comedian and actor.He was born in 1938 in a poor neighborhood in Baghdad, Iraq. He attended and graduated from Baghdad's College of Fine Arts in 1964. Al-Jumaili joined the Iraq military following his graduation as an officer. He became an active member of...
  
  , 69, Iraq
  Iraq
  Iraq ; officially the Republic of Iraq is a country in Western Asia spanning most of the northwestern end of the Zagros mountain range, the eastern part of the Syrian Desert and the northern part of the Arabian Desert....
  
  i actor
  Actor
  An actor is a person who acts in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio in that capacity...
  
   and comedian
  Comedian
  A comedian or comic is a person who seeks to entertain an audience, primarily by making them laugh. This might be through jokes or amusing situations, or acting a fool, as in slapstick, or employing prop comedy...
  
  , kidney failure. http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/12/01/africa/ME-GEN-Iraq-Obit-al-Jumaili.php#end_main
• Jennifer Davidson
  Jennifer Davidson (executive)
  Jennifer Davidson was an American businesswoman and Vice President of Cartoon Network until her death in 2007.-Early life:...
  
  , 38, American executive, senior 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 programming and scheduling for Cartoon Network
  Cartoon Network
  Cartoon Network is a name of television channels worldwide created by Turner Broadcasting which used to primarily show animated programming. The channel began broadcasting on October 1, 1992 in the United States....
  
  . http://www.tvweek.com/news/2007/12/cartoon_networks_davidson_dies.php
• Elisabeth Eybers
  Elisabeth Eybers
  Elisabeth Françoise Eybers , was a South African poet. Her poetry was mainly in Afrikaans, although she has translated some of her own work into English....
  
  , 92, 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-born poet. http://www.litnet.co.za/cgi-bin/giga.cgi?cmd=cause_dir_news_item&cause_id=1270&news_id=29077&cat_id=293 (Afrikaans)
• Tony Fall
  Tony Fall
  Richard Anthony Fall was a British rally driver. He was born in Bradford. He began his rallying career as a club rally driver in a Mini. He was considerably better than his peers, however, and was soon spotted by the BMC team; this led to a drive in their works team alongside Paddy Hopkirk, Timo...
  
  , 67, British
  United Kingdom
  The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...
  
   rally driver
  Rallying
  Rallying, also known as rally racing, is a form of auto racing that takes place on public or private roads with modified production or specially built road-legal cars...
  
   and Opel
  Opel
  Adam Opel AG, generally shortened to Opel, is a German automobile company founded by Adam Opel in 1862. Opel has been building automobiles since 1899, and became an Aktiengesellschaft in 1929...
  
   Motorsport Team director, 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.octane-magazine.com/news.php?seenews=420
• Ken McGregor
  Ken McGregor
  Kenneth Bruce McGregor was a former tennis player from Australia who won the Men's Singles title at the Australian Championships in 1952. He and his longtime doubles partner, Frank Sedgman, are generally considered to be one of the greatest men's doubles teams of all time...
  
  , 78, 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 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, stomach cancer
  Stomach cancer
  Gastric cancer, commonly referred to as stomach cancer, can develop in any part of the stomach and may spread throughout the stomach and to other organs; particularly the esophagus, lungs, lymph nodes, and the liver...
  
  . http://www.news.com.au/adelaidenow/story/0,22606,22852902-5006301,00.html
• Danny Newman
  Danny Newman
  Danny Newman was the long-time press agent for the Lyric Opera of Chicago from its founding in 1954 until his retirement in 2002...
  
  , 88, American publicist
  Publicist
  A publicist is a person whose job is to generate and manage publicity for a public figure, especially a celebrity, a business, or for a work such as a book, film or album...
  
   for the Lyric Opera of Chicago
  Lyric Opera of Chicago
  Lyric Opera of Chicago is one of the leading opera companies in the United States. It was founded in Chicago in 1952, under the name 'Lyric Theatre of Chicago' by Carol Fox, Nicolà Rescigno and Lawrence Kelly, with a season that included Maria Callas's American debut in Norma...
  
  , pulmonary fibrosis
  Pulmonary fibrosis
  Pulmonary fibrosis is the formation or development of excess fibrous connective tissue in the lungs. It is also described as "scarring of the lung".-Symptoms:Symptoms of pulmonary fibrosis are mainly:...
  
  . http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/chi-1202newmanobit,1,1799600.story?ctrack=1&cset=true
• Anton Rodgers
  Anton Rodgers
  Anton Rodgers was an English actor and occasional director. He performed on stage, in film and in television dramas and sitcoms.-Life and career:...
  
  , 74, British
  United Kingdom
  The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...
  
   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.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?view=DETAILS&grid=&xml=/news/2007/12/03/db0301a.xml

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