Deaths in February 2005
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Deaths in 2005
Deaths in 2005
The following is a list of notable deaths in 2005. Names are listed under the date of death and not the date it was announced. Names under each date are listed in alphabetical order by family name....

 : January
Deaths in January 2005
Deaths in 2005 : ← - January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December- →The following is a list of notable people who died in January 2005.31*Ron Basford, 72, Canadian cabinet minister...

 - February - March
Deaths in March 2005
Deaths in 2005 : January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December- →The following is a list of notable people who died in March 2005.-31:...

 - April
Deaths in April 2005
Deaths in 2005 : January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December- →The following is a list of notable people who died in April 2005.30...

 - May
Deaths in May 2005
Deaths in 2005 : January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December- →The following is a list of notable people who died in May 2005.31*Eduardo Teixeira Coelho, 86, Portuguese comic book artist...

 - June
Deaths in June 2005
Deaths in 2005: January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December- →The following is a list of notable people who died in June 2005.30*Christopher Fry, 97, British playwright....

 - July
Deaths in July 2005
Deaths in 2005 : January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December- →The following is a list of notable people who died in July 2005.31...

 - August
Deaths in August 2005
Deaths in 2005 : January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December- →The following is a list of notable people who died in August 2005.31...

 - September
Deaths in September 2005
Deaths in 2005 : January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December- →The following is a list of notable people who died in September 2005.30...

 - October
Deaths in October 2005
Deaths in 2005 : January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December- →The following is a list of notable deaths in October 2005.31...

 - November
Deaths in November 2005
Deaths in 2005 : January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December- →The following is a list of notable deaths in November 2005.30*Donald Breckenridge, 75, American hotel developer, lung cancer....

 - December
Deaths in December 2005
Deaths in 2005 : January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December- →The following is a list of notable deaths in December 2005.31*Enrico Di Giuseppe, 73, American operatic tenor, cancer....

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



The following is a list of notable people who died in February 2005.

28
  • Chris Curtis
    Chris Curtis
    Chris Curtis was an English drummer and singer with the 1960s pop band, The Searchers. He originated the concept behind Deep Purple and formed the band in its original incarnation of 'Roundabout'.-Early years:...

    , 63, drum
    Drum
    The drum is a member of the percussion group of musical instruments, which is technically classified as the membranophones. Drums consist of at least one membrane, called a drumhead or drum skin, that is stretched over a shell and struck, either directly with the player's hands, or with a...

    mer with The Searchers
    The Searchers (band)
    The Searchers are an English beat group, who emerged as part of the 1960s Merseybeat scene along with The Beatles, The Fourmost, The Merseybeats, The Swinging Blue Jeans, and Gerry & The Pacemakers....

  • Mario Luzi
    Mario Luzi
    - Biography:Mario Luzi was born in Castello, near Sesto Fiorentino; his parents, Ciro Luzi and Margherita Papini hailed from Samprugnano and he spent his youth in Castello, where he started his primary school...

    , 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...

     poet


27
  • Carl Taseff
    Carl Taseff
    Carl N. Taseff was an American football player and assistant coach.-College:Taseff played college football at John Carroll University and was the roommate of Don Shula's. Taseff was the roommate of Don Shula at John Carroll University and they were teammates with the Browns and Colts...

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

     defensive back
    Defensive back
    In American football and Canadian football, defensive backs are the players on the defensive team who take positions somewhat back from the line of scrimmage; they are distinguished from the defensive line players and linebackers, who take positions directly behind or close to the line of...

     and assistant coach


26
  • Max Faulkner
    Max Faulkner
    Herbert Gustavus Max Faulkner, OBE was an English professional golfer who won The Open Championship in 1951 and was renowned for his colourful dress sense....

    , 88, British golfer
  • Henry Grunwald, 82, former managing editor of TIME
    Time
    Time is a part of the measuring system used to sequence events, to compare the durations of events and the intervals between them, and to quantify rates of change such as the motions of objects....

    and U.S. ambassador to 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...

     1988-90
  • Witness Mangwende
    Witness Mangwende
    Witness Pasichigare Magunda Mangwende was a Zimbabwean politician who served as head of several government ministries in the Mugabe administration, and as provincial governor for Harare....

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

    an politician and diplomat, foreign minister from 1981 to 1987.
  • Jef Raskin
    Jef Raskin
    Jef Raskin was an American human-computer interface expert best known for starting the Macintosh project for Apple in the late 1970s.-Early years and education:...

    , 61, creator of the Apple Macintosh, 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...



25
  • Peter Benenson
    Peter Benenson
    Peter Benenson was an English lawyer and the founder of human rights group Amnesty International . In 2001, Benenson received the Pride of Britain Award for Lifetime Achievement.-Biography:...

    , 83, founder of Amnesty International
    Amnesty International
    Amnesty International is an international non-governmental organisation whose stated mission is "to conduct research and generate action to prevent and end grave abuses of human rights, and to demand justice for those whose rights have been violated."Following a publication of Peter Benenson's...

    .
  • Phoebe Hesketh
    Phoebe Hesketh
    Phoebe Hesketh, , was an English poet from Lancashire notable for her poems depicting nature.-Life and writing:...

    , 96, British poet
  • Don LeJohn
    Don LeJohn
    Donald Everett LeJohn was a Major League Baseball third baseman and Minor League Baseball manager during his long career in professional baseball....

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

     third baseman
    Third baseman
    A third baseman, abbreviated 3B, is the player in baseball whose responsibility is to defend the area nearest to third base — the third of four bases a baserunner must touch in succession to score a run...

  • Norberto "Pappo" Napolitano, 54, Argentine blues and rock n' roll guitarist and composer
  • Edward Patten
    Edward Patten
    Edward "Eddie" Roy Patten was an Atlanta, Georgia-born R&B/soul singer, best known as a member of Gladys Knight & the Pips. He was lead singer Gladys Knight's cousin....

    , 66, member of Gladys Knight & The Pips
  • Atef Sedki
    Atef Sedki
    Atef Muhammad Naguib Sedki was the Prime Minister of Egypt from 1986 until 1996. He replaced Ali Mahmoud Lutfi on November 10, 1986.-Biography:...

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

  • Sir Glanmor Williams
    Glanmor Williams
    Sir Glanmor Williams was one of Wales's most eminent historians.Sir Glanmor was born in Dowlais, into a working-class family, and was educated at Cyfarthfa Castle School. He studied at Aberystwyth alongside Alun Lewis and Emyr Humphreys, becoming a specialist in the early modern period of Welsh...

    , 84, Welsh historian


24
  • Thadée Cisowski
    Thadée Cisowski
    Thadée Cisowski , originally Tadeusz Cisowski, is a former French footballer who played striker, son of Polish immigrants like Raymond Kopa and one of the best goalscorers in Championnat de France....

    , 78, retired footballer, scored 206 goals in the French top division, making him its 4th highest scorer of all-time
  • Robin Jenkins
    Robin Jenkins (writer)
    Robin Jenkins OBE was a Scottish writer of about thirty novels, the most celebrated being The Cone Gatherers....

    , 92, Scottish novelist, author of "The Cone-Gatherers" and "Fergus Lamont"
  • Hugh Nibley
    Hugh Nibley
    Hugh Winder Nibley was an American author, Mormon apologist, and professor at Brigham Young University...

    , 94, historian primarily concerned with The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
  • Gustavo Vázquez Montes
    Gustavo Vázquez Montes
    Gustavo Alberto Vázquez Montes was a Mexican politician. At the time of his death he was serving as the governor of the western state of Colima, representing the Institutional Revolutionary Party ....

    , 42, incumbent governor of Colima, Mexico
    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...

    , aviation accident
  • Hans-Jürgen Wischnewski
    Hans-Jürgen Wischnewski
    Hans-Jürgen Wischnewski was a German Social Democrat politician....

    , 82, German politician and former cabinet minister


23
  • Tom Patterson, 84, founder of the Stratford Festival of Canada
    Stratford Festival of Canada
    The Stratford Shakespeare Festival is an internationally recognized annual celebration of theatre running from April to November in the Canadian city of Stratford, Ontario...

  • Henk Zeevalking
    Henk Zeevalking
    Hendrik Jan Zeevalking was a Dutch politician. He was co-founder of the political party Democrats 66...

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

     politician


22
  • Zdzisław Beksiński, 75, 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...

     painter and fantasy artist, murder
  • Father Luigi Giussani
    Luigi Giussani
    Monsignor Luigi Giovanni Giussani , Italian Catholic priest, educator, public intellectual and founder of the international Catholic movement Communion and Liberation .-Biography:...

    , 82, founder of the "Communion and Liberation
    Communion and Liberation
    Communion and Liberation, or CL, is a lay ecclesial movement within the Catholic Church.-Overview:CL grew out of the educational and catechetical methods of Msgr. Luigi Giussani, who founded the movement...

    " Catholic youth movement
  • Lee Eun Ju (이은주), 24, Korea
    Korea
    Korea ) is an East Asian geographic region that is currently divided into two separate sovereign states — North Korea and South Korea. Located on the Korean Peninsula, Korea is bordered by the People's Republic of China to the northwest, Russia to the northeast, and is separated from Japan to the...

    n actress, suicide
  • Reggie Roby
    Reggie Roby
    Reginald Henry "Reggie" Roby was an American football punter in the National Football League and a three-time Pro Bowler. He was drafted by the Miami Dolphins in the sixth round of the 1983 NFL Draft out of the University of Iowa...

    , 43, retired NFL punter
    Punter (football position)
    A punter in American or Canadian football is a special teams player who receives the snapped ball directly from the line of scrimmage and then punts the football to the opposing team so as to limit any field position advantage. This generally happens on a fourth down in American football and a...

  • Harry Simeone
    Harry Simeone
    Harry Moses Simeone was a distinguished music arranger, conductor and composer, best known for arranging the famous Christmas song "The Little Drummer Boy", for which he received co-writing credit.-Early years:Harry grew up listening to stars performing at the Metropolitan Opera in New York City,...

    , 94, co-authored Christmas
    Christmas
    Christmas or Christmas Day is an annual holiday generally celebrated on December 25 by billions of people around the world. It is a Christian feast that commemorates the birth of Jesus Christ, liturgically closing the Advent season and initiating the season of Christmastide, which lasts twelve days...

     songs (Little Drummer Boy
    Little Drummer Boy
    "The Little Drummer Boy," originally known as "Carol of the Drum," is a popular Christmas song written by the American classical music composer/teacher Katherine Kennicott Davis in 1941. It was recorded 1955 by the Trapp Family Singers and further popularized by a 1958 recording by the Harry...

    )
  • Simone Simon
    Simone Simon
    Simone Thérèse Fernande Simon was a French film actress who began her film career in 1931.-Early life:Born in Béthune, Pas-de-Calais France, she was the daughter of Henri Louis Firmin Champmoynat, a French engineer, airplane pilot in World War II, who died in a concentration camp, and Erma Maria...

    , 94, 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...

     actress, natural causes


21
  • Ara Berberian
    Ara Berberian
    Ara Berberian was an American operatic bass singer.Berberian made his debut in 1958 with the Turnau Opera in Woodstock, New York, as Don Magnifico in Rossini's La Cenerentola. He made his Metropolitan Opera debut in 1979 as Zacharie in Giacomo Meyerbeer's Le prophète...

    , 74, Bass with the 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...

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

  • Isabelle Goldenson
    Isabelle Goldenson
    Isabelle Charlotte Weinstein Goldenson was the wife of American Broadcasting Company founder and chairman Leonard Goldenson, and a co-founder of the charity United Cerebral Palsy ....

    , 84, co-founder of United Cerebral Palsy
    United Cerebral Palsy
    United Cerebral Palsy is an international nonprofit charitable organization consisting of a network of affiliates. UCP is a leading service provider and advocate for adults and children with disabilities, including cerebral palsy...

  • Guillermo Cabrera Infante
    Guillermo Cabrera Infante
    Guillermo Cabrera Infante was a Cuban novelist, essayist, translator, and critic; in the 1950s he used the pseudonym G. Caín.A one-time supporter of the Castro regime, Cabrera Infante went into exile to London in 1965...

    , 75, exiled 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 writer
  • Josef Metternich
    Josef Metternich
    Josef Metternich was a German operatic baritone.Metternich was born in Hermühlheim, near Cologne, he studied in Cologne and Berlin, and sang with the Cologne and Bonn choruses, before making his solo debut in 1941 with the Berlin State Opera in Lohengrin, but his career was delayed by the war, it...

    , 69, 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...

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

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

  • Dr. Gene Scott, 75, U.S.
    United States
    The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

     televangelist and author
  • Ernest Vandiver
    Ernest Vandiver
    Samuel Ernest Vandiver Jr. was an American politician who was the 73rd Governor of the US state of Georgia from 1959 to 1963.-Early life and career:...

    , 86, former governor of the U.S. state of Georgia
    Georgia (U.S. state)
    Georgia is a state located in the southeastern United States. It was established in 1732, the last of the original Thirteen Colonies. The state is named after King George II of Great Britain. Georgia was the fourth state to ratify the United States Constitution, on January 2, 1788...

     (1959-1963)


20
  • Pam Bricker
    Pam Bricker
    Pamela Carroll Bricker was a jazz singer, and a professor of music at George Washington University. She was a frequent collaborator and guest vocalist with the group Thievery Corporation, and the voice on their track Lebanese Blonde, which was popularised by its inclusion on Zach Braff's Garden...

    , jazz vocalist and music professor, suicide
  • Sandra Dee
    Sandra Dee
    Sandra Dee was an American actress. Dee began her career as a model and progressed to film. Best known for her portrayal of ingenues, Dee won a Golden Globe Award in 1959 as one of the year's most promising newcomers, and over several years her films were popular...

    , 62, American actress, kidney failure and 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...

  • Sir William Gordon Harris
    William Gordon Harris
    Sir William Gordon Harris KBE CB was a British civil engineer.Harris was born in Liverpool on 10 June 1912. He studied the Mechanical Sciences Tripos at Sidney Sussex College, University of Cambridge...

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

     civil engineer
    Civil engineer
    A civil engineer is a person who practices civil engineering; the application of planning, designing, constructing, maintaining, and operating infrastructures while protecting the public and environmental health, as well as improving existing infrastructures that have been neglected.Originally, a...

  • Dalene Matthee
    Dalene Matthee
    Dalene Matthee was a South African author who wrote mainly in Afrikaans, although her books were translated into fourteen other languages, including English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Hebrew and Icelandic....

    , 67, Afrikaans
    Afrikaans
    Afrikaans is a West Germanic language, spoken natively in South Africa and Namibia. It is a daughter language of Dutch, originating in its 17th century dialects, collectively referred to as Cape Dutch .Afrikaans is a daughter language of Dutch; see , , , , , .Afrikaans was historically called Cape...

    -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 author, heart failure
  • Raymond Mhlaba
    Raymond Mhlaba
    Raymond Mhlaba was an anti-apartheid activist and leader of the African National Congress .Mhlaba spent 25 years of his life in prison. Well known for being sentenced, along with Nelson Mandela, in the Rivonia Trial, he was an active member of the ANC and the South African Communist Party all his...

    , 92, South African political leader
  • John Raitt
    John Raitt
    John Emmett Raitt was an American actor and singer best known for his performances in musical theater.-Early years:...

    , 88, classic Broadway star and father of Bonnie Raitt
    Bonnie Raitt
    Bonnie Lynn Raitt is an American blues singer-songwriter and a renowned slide guitar player. During the 1970s, Raitt released a series of acclaimed roots-influenced albums which incorporated elements of blues, rock, folk and country, but she is perhaps best known for her more commercially...

    , 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...

  • Hunter S. Thompson
    Hunter S. Thompson
    Hunter Stockton Thompson was an American journalist and author who wrote The Rum Diary , Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas and Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72 .He is credited as the creator of Gonzo journalism, a style of reporting where reporters involve themselves in the action to...

    , 67, American journalist, 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...

  • Jimmy Young
    Jimmy Young (boxer)
    Jimmy Young was a fast highly skilled Philadelphia heavyweight boxer who had his greatest success during the 1970s, when he most notably beat George Foreman, and many fans felt also Ali . He also fought many top names...

    , 56, American boxer, heart failure


19
  • Kihachi Okamoto
    Kihachi Okamoto
    was a Japanese film director who has worked in several different genres, including jidaigeki.-Career:Born in Yonago, Okamoto attended Meiji University, but was drafted in 1943 and entered World War II during its most difficult hours, an experience that had a profound effect on his later film work,...

     (岡本喜八), 81, Japan
    Japan
    Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...

    ese film director, esophageal cancer
    Esophageal cancer
    Esophageal cancer is malignancy of the esophagus. There are various subtypes, primarily squamous cell cancer and adenocarcinoma . Squamous cell cancer arises from the cells that line the upper part of the esophagus...

  • Giuseppe Piromalli
    Giuseppe Piromalli (born 1921)
    Giuseppe Piromalli , also known as "Peppino", was an Italian criminal known as a member of the 'Ndrangheta in Calabria. A native of Gioia Tauro, Piromalli was one of the most famous of the 'Ndrangheta bosses and headed the Piromalli 'ndrina...

    , 83, 'Ndrangheta boss


18
  • Uli Derickson
    Uli Derickson
    Ulrike Patzelt , better known as Uli Derickson, was a flight attendant during the June 14, 1985 hijacking of TWA Flight 847 by Organization of the Oppressed on Earth terrorists, a group with alleged links to Hezbollah...

    , 60, airline stewardess, protagonist in 1985 airplane hijacking
  • Robert R. Merhige, Jr.
    Robert R. Merhige, Jr.
    Robert R. Merhige Jr. , was a federal judge for the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia who is known for his rulings on desegregation in the 1970s....

    , 86, U.S. district court judge


17
  • F. M. Busby
    F. M. Busby
    Francis Marion Busby was a science fiction writer and figure in science fiction fandom. In 1960 he was a co-winner of the Hugo Award for Best Fanzine....

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

     writer
  • Peter Foy
    Peter Foy
    Peter Foy was the stage flying effects specialist who founded "Flying by Foy", most widely known for its work flying actors in the play Peter Pan....

    , 79, American, theatrical flying effects specialist
  • Jens Martin Knudsen
    Jens Martin Knudsen
    Jens Martin Knudsen was a Danish astrophysicist. During his scientific career Knudsen authored or co-authored more than 100 scientific articles, and was a long time advisor to NASA.-Early years:...

    , 74, Danish astrophysicist
  • César Marcelak
    César Marcelak
    César Marcelak was a French road racing cyclist. In 1952 he won the Grand Prix d'Isbergues.-External links:...

    , 92, French cycling
    Cycling
    Cycling, also called bicycling or biking, is the use of bicycles for transport, recreation, or for sport. Persons engaged in cycling are cyclists or bicyclists...

     champion
  • Dan O'Herlihy
    Dan O'Herlihy
    Daniel O'Herlihy was an Oscar nominated Irish film actor.-Early life:O'Herlihy was born in Wexford, Ireland in 1919. His family moved to Dublin at a young age...

    , 85, Irish film actor
  • Omar Sivori
    Omar Sivori
    Enrique Omar Sívori was an Italian Argentine football striker and manager. He is known for his time with the successful Juventus side during the late 1950s and early 1960s. At club level he also played for River Plate and Napoli.On the international level, he first appeared for the Argentine...

    , 69, Argentinian and Italian footballer
  • Harald Szeemann
    Harald Szeemann
    Harald Szeemann was a Swiss curator and art historian.-Life:Szeemann was born in Bern. He studied art history, archaeology and journalism in Bern and Paris, and in 1956 he began working as an actor, stage designer and painter, as well as doing one-man shows. He started creating exhibitions in 1957...

    , 71, Swiss curator
    Curator
    A curator is a manager or overseer. Traditionally, a curator or keeper of a cultural heritage institution is a content specialist responsible for an institution's collections and involved with the interpretation of heritage material...

     and art historian


16
  • Nicole DeHuff
    Nicole DeHuff
    Nicole Renee DeHuff was an American actress.-Early life:DeHuff was born in Antlers, Oklahoma and raised in Rattan, Stringtown and Gillham, Arkansas. She began her acting career by earning a bachelor's degree in drama from Carnegie Mellon University...

    , 31, American actress, Meet the Parents
    Meet the Parents
    Meet the Parents is a 2000 American comedy film written by Jim Herzfeld and John Hamburg and directed by Jay Roach. Starring Robert De Niro and Ben Stiller, the film chronicles a series of unfortunate events that befall a good-hearted but hapless male nurse while visiting his girlfriend's parents...

    , pneumonia.
  • Narriman Sadek
    Narriman Sadek
    Narriman Sadek was the daughter of Hussain Fahmi Sadiq Bey, a high-ranking official in the Egyptian government, and his wife Asila Kamil; she was the second wife of King Farouk and the last Queen of Egypt.-Meeting Farouk:Farouk divorced his first wife, Queen Farida, in 1948, after a ten-year...

     (Nariman Sadeq), 70, ex-wife of King Farouk
    Farouk of Egypt
    Farouk I of Egypt , was the tenth ruler from the Muhammad Ali Dynasty and the penultimate King of Egypt and Sudan, succeeding his father, Fuad I, in 1936....

    , last queen of Egypt
  • Marcello Viotti
    Marcello Viotti
    Marcello Viotti was a Swiss classical music conductor, best known for opera.Viotti was born in Vallorbe, in the French-speaking region of Switzerland, to Italian parents. He studied cello, piano and singing at the Conservatory of Lausanne. Wolfgang Sawallisch was a mentor to Viotti and encouraged...

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

  • Gerry Wolff
    Gerry Wolff
    Gerry Wolff was a German actor.Wolff was born in Bremen, Germany and died in Oranienburg, Brandenburg, Germany.-Selected filmography:* Bärenburger Schnurre * Naked Among Wolves...

    , 84, German 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...

  • Cecilia Cubas
    Cecilia Cubas
    Cecilia Cubas, the daughter of former Paraguayan President Raúl Cubas, was found dead on February 16, 2005, underneath a house near Asunción, nearly five months after she was kidnapped....

    , 32, daughter of former President of Paraguay Raúl Cubas Grau
    Raúl Cubas Grau
    Raúl Alberto Cubas Grau is a Paraguayan politician. He served as the President of Paraguay from 1998 until 1999. He was a member of the Colorado Party...

    , kidnap victim (body found)


15
  • Paul Lacy, 81, U.S.
    United States
    The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

     research scientist, father of islet cell transplantation for treatment of Type I diabetes
  • Pierre Bachelet
    Pierre Bachelet
    Pierre Bachelet was a French singer-songwriter with a gentle romantic voice.Bachelet spent part of his childhood in Calais and developed a lifelong appreciation of the North of France, which inspired his hit song "Les corons" .His other hit songs include "Elle est d'ailleurs" , "Écris-moi" ,...

    , 60, French singer
  • Samuel T. Francis, 57, U.S.
    United States
    The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

     political columnist
  • Dudu Geva, 54, Israeli 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...

  • João Santos
    João Santos
    João Pedro Gomes Santos is a Portuguese basketball player, currently playing for Portuguese side SL Benfica. He measures 2.03 metres and plays as a power forward....

    , 90, former president of S.L. Benfica


14
  • Ron Burgess
    Ron Burgess (footballer)
    William Arthur Ronald Burgess Burgess was a Wales international footballer, who played at wing-half. Burgess worked as a miner before joining Tottenham Hotspur from his local team Cwm Villa...

    , 87, former footballer with 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....

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

  • Tatiana Gritsi-Milliex
    Tatiana Gritsi-Milliex
    Tatiana Gritsi-Milliex was a Greek novelist and journalist.She was born in Athens and studied at the University of Athens, but quit her studies after a short time...

    , 85, Greek
    Greece
    Greece , officially the Hellenic Republic , and historically Hellas or the Republic of Greece in English, is a country in southeastern Europe....

     novelist and journalist
  • Rafik Hariri
    Rafik Hariri
    Rafic Baha El Deen Al-Hariri , was a business tycoon and the Prime Minister of Lebanon from 1992 to 1998 and again from 2000 until his resignation, 20 October 2004.He headed five cabinets during his tenure...

    , 60, twice Prime Minister of Lebanon, car bomb
  • Aubelin Jolicoeur
    Aubelin Jolicoeur
    Aubelin Jolicoeur was a columnist who frequented Haïti's Hotel Oloffson for 40 years.He once played piano with Bobby Short at the Oloffson "La Belle Epoque Créole", of the 1970s. He was the inspiration to Graham Greene's Petit Pierre in The Comedians....

    , 81, Haiti
    Haiti
    Haiti , officially the Republic of Haiti , is a Caribbean country. It occupies the western, smaller portion of the island of Hispaniola, in the Greater Antillean archipelago, which it shares with the Dominican Republic. Ayiti was the indigenous Taíno or Amerindian name for the island...

    an journalist 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....

  • Otto Plaschkes
    Otto Plaschkes
    Otto Plaschkes was a British-Jewish film producer.-Early life:Plaschkes was born in Vienna. His father, a butcher, was from Bratislava and his mother from Budapest...

    , 75, British movie producer, including Georgy Girl
    Georgy Girl
    Georgy Girl is a 1966 British film based on a novel by Margaret Forster. The film was directed by Silvio Narizzano and starred Lynn Redgrave as Georgy, Alan Bates, James Mason, Charlotte Rampling and Bill Owen....

  • Najai Turpin
    Najai Turpin
    Najai Turpin was a professional boxer born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.He was a contestant on reality TV show The Contender...

    , 23, boxer, participant in 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...

     reality show "The Contender", suicide
  • Dick Weber
    Dick Weber
    Dick Weber was a famous bowling professional and a founding member of the Professional Bowlers Association...

    , 75, professional bowler
    Bowling
    Bowling Bowling Bowling (1375–1425; late Middle English bowle, variant of boule Bowling (1375–1425; late Middle English bowle, variant of boule...

    , father of Pete Weber
    Pete Weber
    Peter David "Pete" Weber, nicknamed “PDW”, , is a famous bowling professional on the Professional Bowlers Association Tour. Weber is one of the sport's most popular active players and is well known for his maverick, rebellious personality...



13
  • Nelson Briles
    Nelson Briles
    Nelson Kelley "Nellie" Briles was a pitcher in Major League Baseball who played for the St. Louis Cardinals , Pittsburgh Pirates , Kansas City Royals , Texas Rangers and Baltimore Orioles...

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

     baseball 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...

  • Sixten Ehrling
    Sixten Ehrling
    Sixten Ehrling, , was a Swedish conductor who, during a long career, served as the music director of the Royal Swedish Opera and the principal conductor of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, amongst others....

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

  • Mary Hallaren
    Mary Hallaren
    Mary Agnes Hallaren was an American soldier, the director of the Women's Army Corps at the time that it became a part of the United States Army. As the director of the WAC, she was the first woman to officially join the U.S. Army. Mary Agnes Hallaren (May 4, 1907 – February 13, 2005) was an...

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

  • Lúcia dos Santos, 97, Portuguese nun, last survivor of the three shepherd children of the Fatima
    Our Lady of Fatima
    Our Lady of Fátima is a famous title given to the Blessed Virgin Mary as she appeared in apparitions reported by three shepherd children at Fátima in Portugal. These occurred on the 13th day of six consecutive months in 1917, starting on May 13...

     apparition in 1917
  • Maurice Trintignant
    Maurice Trintignant
    Maurice Bienvenu Jean Paul Trintignant was a motor racing driver and vintner from France. He competed in the Formula One World Championship for fourteen years, between 1950 and 1964, one of the longest careers in the early years of F1...

    , 87, French racing driver, twice winner of the Monaco Grand Prix
  • Peter White
    Peter White (Australian politician)
    Peter Nicholson Duckett White was an Australian politician. Born in Brisbane, he was educated at Duntroon Military College and the Australian National University in Canberra before serving in the military from 1954 to 1975. In 1977, he was elected to the Queensland Legislative Assembly as the...

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

    n politician


12
  • Marinus van der Goes van Naters
    Marinus van der Goes van Naters
    Jonkheer Marinus van der Goes van Naters was a Dutch nobleman and politician. He was born in Nijmegen. He was a member of the House of Representatives from 1937 to 1967 and in-parliament chairman of the Social Democratic parties SDAP and its successor the Dutch Labour Party from 1945 to 1951...

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

     politician
  • Brian Kelly
    Brian Kelly (actor)
    Brian Kelly was an American actor best known for his role as Porter Ricks, the widowed father of two sons on the NBC television series Flipper, and as Scott Ross in the ABC advernture series Straightaway, with co-star John Ashley.-Early years:Born in Detroit, Michigan, Kelly was the son of former...

    , 72, American actor, 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...

  • Sammi Smith
    Sammi Smith
    Sammi Smith was an American country music singer and songwriter. Born Jewel Faye Smith, she is best known for her 1971 country/pop crossover hit, "Help Me Make It Through the Night", which was written by Kris Kristofferson...

    , 61, US country singer, won Grammy for Help Me Make It Through the Night
    Help Me Make It Through the Night
    "Help Me Make It Through the Night" is a country music ballad composed by Kris Kristofferson and released on his 1970 album Kristofferson.Kristofferson said that he got the inspiration for the song from an Esquire magazine interview with Frank Sinatra...

  • Dorothy Stang
    Dorothy Stang
    Sister Dorothy Mae Stang, S.N.D., was an American-born, Brazilian member of the Congregation of the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur. She was murdered in Anapu, a city in the state of Pará, in the Amazon Basin of Brazil...

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

     nun, murdered in Anapu
    Anapu
    Anapu is a city in Pará, Brazil. It is located at .Its population in 2004 was 7,271 inhabitants. The territorial area of Anapu is 11951.79 km².Anapu's rain forests are subject to massive clearcutting....

    , 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...

  • Rafael Vidal
    Rafael Vidal
    Rafael Antonio Vidal Castro was a Venezuelan international swimmer and sports commentator.Vidal was born in Caracas, Venezuela in 1964. At age 19, he became the first Venezuelan swimmer to win an Olympic medal in the 200-meter butterfly competition at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles,...

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

    n 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...

     medalist, car crash


11
  • Samuel W. Alderson
    Samuel W. Alderson
    Samuel W. Alderson was an inventor best known for his development of the crash test dummy, a device that, during the last half of the twentieth century, was widely used by automobile manufacturers to test the reliability of automobile seat belts and other safety protocols.Alderson was raised in...

    , 90, inventor of crash test dummies
    Crash Test Dummies
    The Crash Test Dummies is a Canadian folk rock/alternative rock band from Winnipeg, Manitoba, widely known for their 1993 single "Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm".The band is most identifiable through Brad Roberts and his distinctive bass-baritone voice...

     http://news.com.com/Crash-test+dummy+inventor+dies+at+90/2100-1041_3-5583291.html?tag=st_lh
  • Jack L. Chalker
    Jack L. Chalker
    Jack Laurence Chalker was an American science fiction author. Chalker was also a Baltimore City Schools history teacher in Maryland for 12 years, retiring in 1978 to write full-time...

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

     writer
  • Raymond Hermantier
    Raymond Hermantier
    Raymond Hermantier was a French actor.Raymond Hermantier aspired to acting since the age of 17. His training was interrupted by WWII during which he served in the Free French Forces, until the liberation of Paris. Decorated by General Charles de Gaulle, he resumed his acting career immediately...

    , 81, French actor
  • Stan Richards
    Stan Richards
    For the Wales international footballer see Stan Richards Stanley "Stan" Richards was an English television actor, best known for his portrayal of the lovable rogue and ex-poacher turned gamekeeper, Seth Armstrong, in ITV soap operaEmmerdale .-Career:He played the role of Seth Armstrong from May...

    , 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


10
  • Humbert Balsan
    Humbert Balsan
    Humbert Balsan, born Humbert Jean René Balsan was a French film producer and chairman of the European Film Academy. He was renowned for securing financing and distribution for diverse and often challenging films.In February 2005, Balsan was found dead in the offices of his production company,...

    , 50, French 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...

  • D. Allan Bromley
    D. Allan Bromley
    David Allan Bromley was a Canadian–American physicist, academic administrator and Science Advisor to American president George H. W. Bush. At the time of his death, he had over 500 publications.-Life:...

    , 79, physicist, presidential advisor
  • Jean Cayrol
    Jean Cayrol
    Jean Cayrol was a French poet, publisher, and member of the Académie Goncourt. He is perhaps best known for writing the narration in Alain Resnais's 1955 documentary film, Night and Fog...

    , 93, French author
  • Dave Goodman
    Dave Goodman
    Dave Goodman was a record producer and musician, perhaps best known as the live sound engineer for Sex Pistols, and the producer of three of their studio demo sessions.-Sex Pistols:...

    , 53, British music producer
  • Ben Jones
    Ben Jones (Grenada)
    Ben Joseph Jones was a Grenadian politician. He was a lawyer before being elected to Parliament as a member of the New National Party in 1984. In 1984 he began serving as foreign minister in the government of his party's leader, Herbert Blaize. When Blaize died in December 1989, Jones became prime...

    , 80, former prime minister and foreign minister of Grenada
    Grenada
    Grenada is an island country and Commonwealth Realm consisting of the island of Grenada and six smaller islands at the southern end of the Grenadines in the southeastern Caribbean Sea...

  • Arthur Miller
    Arthur Miller
    Arthur Asher Miller was an American playwright and essayist. He was a prominent figure in American theatre, writing dramas that include plays such as All My Sons , Death of a Salesman , The Crucible , and A View from the Bridge .Miller was often in the public eye,...

    , 89, American playwright, congestive heart failure
    Congestive heart failure
    Heart failure often called congestive heart failure is generally defined as the inability of the heart to supply sufficient blood flow to meet the needs of the body. Heart failure can cause a number of symptoms including shortness of breath, leg swelling, and exercise intolerance. The condition...

  • Sylvia Rafael
    Sylvia Rafael
    Sylvia Rafael Schjødt was a South African-born Israeli Mossad operative....

    , 67, Mossad
    Mossad
    The Mossad , short for HaMossad leModi'in uleTafkidim Meyuchadim , is the national intelligence agency of Israel....

     agent convicted of 1973 Lillehammer murder
    Lillehammer affair
    The Lillehammer affair was the killing by Mossad agents of a Moroccan waiter, Ahmed Bouchiki, in Lillehammer, Norway on July 21, 1973. The Israeli agents had mistaken their victim for Ali Hassan Salameh, the chief of operations for Black September...



9
  • William L. Campbell
    William L. Campbell (Canadian film editor)
    William L. Campbell was a Canadian film editor who is best known for his work on David Winning's first feature film Storm....

    , 59, Canadian film editor.
  • Tyrone Davis
    Tyrone Davis
    Tyrone Davis , born Tyrone Fettson, was a leading American soul singer with a distinctive style, recording a long list of hit records over a period of more than 20 years. He had three no...

    , 66, R&B singer (Turn Back The Hands Of Time), complications of a stroke
  • Robert Kearns
    Robert Kearns
    Robert William Kearns was the inventor of the intermittent windshield wiper systems used on most automobiles from 1969 to the present. His first patent for the invention was filed on December 1, 1964....

    , 77, inventor of intermittent windshield wipers http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/26/obituaries/26kearns.html
  • Kate Peyton
    Kate Peyton
    Katherine Mary Peyton was Senior Producer for the BBC Johannesburg Bureau 2002-05...

    , 39, 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...

     producer, shot in Mogadishu
    Mogadishu
    Mogadishu , popularly known as Xamar, is the largest city in Somalia and the nation's capital. Located in the coastal Benadir region on the Indian Ocean, the city has served as an important port for centuries....

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

     (BBC)


8
  • Helmut Eder
    Helmut Eder
    Helmut Eder was an Austrian composer.Eder studied until 1948 at the Linz Conservatory, later studying with Johann Nepomuk David in Stuttgart and Carl Orff in Munich. Returning to Linz, he became a teacher at the Linz Conservatory, accepting a position as full professor in 1962...

    , 88, 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 composer
  • George Herman, 85, 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 moderator of 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...

    ' Face the Nation
    Face the Nation
    Face the Nation with Bob Schieffer is an American Sunday-morning political interview show which premiered on the CBS television network on November 7, 1954. It is one of the longest-running news programs in the history of television...

    for 15 years
  • Keith Knudsen
    Keith Knudsen
    Keith Knudsen was an American rock drummer, vocalist and songwriter.-Career:Knudsen was born in Le Mars, Iowa. He began drumming while attending Princeton High School in Princeton, Illinois, where he graduated from in 1966...

    , 56, drummer for American rock band Doobie Brothers, pneumonia
  • Gaston Rahier
    Gaston Rahier
    Gaston Rahier was a motocross racer from Belgium. He was three-time FIM World Champion in the 125cc division, claiming the title in 1975, 1976 and 1977 . He later went on to race in and win the famous Paris-Dakar rally for BMW motorcycles, in 1984 and 1985...

    , 58, 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...

     125cc Motocross
    Motocross
    Motocross is a form of motorcycle sport or all-terrain vehicle racing held on enclosed off road circuits. It evolved from trials, and was called scrambles, and later motocross, combining the French moto with cross-country...

     World Champion (1975-1977)
  • Jimmy Smith
    Jimmy Smith (musician)
    Jimmy Smith was a jazz musician whose performances on the Hammond B-3 electric organ helped to popularize this instrument...

    , 76, 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...

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



7
  • Penelope Aitken
    Penelope Aitken
    Penelope Loader, Lady Aitken, MBE , styled The Honorable Lady Aitken and nicknamed 'Pempe', was an English socialite.-Biography:...

    , 94, socialite and political hostess, 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...

  • Atli Dam
    Atli Dam
    Atli Pæturssonur Dam was Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands on five separate occasions....

    , 72, former Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands
    Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands
    This is a list of Prime Ministers of the Faroe Islands.The Faroese term for the function, Løgmaður literally means "Lawman".-First Ministers :-First Ministers :-See also:...

  • Vinod Chandra Pande
    Vinod Chandra Pande
    Vinod Chandra Pande was an Indian Civil Servant of the Rajasthan Cadre, and was, notably, Cabinet Secretary in 1989-1990.He was born to a family which contributed two other Cabinet Secretaries ....

    , 72, political figure in 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...

    , former governor of three states
  • John Patterson, 64, television
    Television director
    A television director directs the activities involved in making a television program and is part of a television crew.-Duties:The duties of a television director vary depending on whether the production is live or recorded to video tape or video server .In both types of productions, the...

     and film director
  • Madeleine Rebérioux
    Madeleine Rebérioux
    Madeleine Rebérioux was a French historian whose specialty was the French Third Republic. She is also a historian of the Labour movement. From 1991 to 1995 she was President of the Ligue des droits de l'homme and had been a signatory to the Manifesto of the 121. She was an officer of the Légion...

    , 84, French historian
  • Paul Rebeyrolle
    Paul Rebeyrolle
    Paul Rebeyrolle was a French painter.-Life and works:As a child he had tuberculosis of the bone, which caused for long periods of immobility. Later he studied in Limoges and joined the French Communist Party...

    , 78, French 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...

  • Jeremy Swan
    Jeremy Swan
    H.J.C. "Jeremy" Swan was an Irish cardiologist, originally from Sligo, who co-invented the Swan-Ganz catheter with William Ganz at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in 1970....

    , 82, cardiologist, co-inventor of the Swan-Ganz heart catheter


6
  • Lazar Berman
    Lazar Berman
    Lazar Naumovich Berman was a Soviet Russian classical pianist. As a technician, Berman was extraordinary in terms of sheer evenness, control, and rhythmic panache, yet he always channeled his considerable craft toward musical ends....

    , 74, classical 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:...

  • Elbert N. Carvel
    Elbert N. Carvel
    Elbert Nostrand "Bert" Carvel was an American businessman and politician from Laurel, in Sussex County, Delaware...

    , 94, American politician, former governor of Delaware
  • Hubert Curien
    Hubert Curien
    Hubert Curien was a French physicist and a key figure in European science politics, as the President of CERN , the first chairman of the European Space Agency , and second President of the Academia Europæa and a President of Fondation de France.-Biography:Born in Cornimont, Vosges in Lorraine,...

    , 80, French researcher, first president of European Space Agency
    European Space Agency
    The European Space Agency , established in 1975, is an intergovernmental organisation dedicated to the exploration of space, currently with 18 member states...

  • Camilo Delgado
    Camilo Delgado
    Camilo Delgado, a Puerto Rican man, was born on May 29, 1927 and died peacefully in his sleep on February 8, 2005 at the age of 78 of natural causes. He pioneered television in Puerto Rico and appeared regularly as an actor, announcer, MC, talk show host, and producer...

    , 75?, 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...

     television show host
  • Karl Haas
    Karl Haas
    Karl Haas was a German-American classical music radio host, whose distinctively sonorous voice and humanistic approach to making music appreciation contagious made him well-received by many...

    , 91, US classical music radio program host
  • Merle Kilgore
    Merle Kilgore
    Wyatt Merle Kilgore was an American singer, songwriter, and manager.-Early life:Although born in Chickasha, Oklahoma, Merle Kilgore was raised in Shreveport, Louisiana. He was the son of Wyatt and Gladys B. Kilgore...

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

     manager and songwriter


5
  • Laurie Aarons
    Laurie Aarons
    Laurence "Laurie" Aarons , Australian Communist leader, was National Secretary of the Communist Party of Australia from 1965 to 1976. He was born in Sydney, son of Sam Aarons, a leading member of the Communist Party and a veteran of the Spanish Civil War. The Aarons family was of German-Jewish...

    , 87, Australian politician
  • Gnassingbé Eyadéma
    Gnassingbé Eyadéma
    General Gnassingbé Eyadéma , was the President of Togo from 1967 until his death in 2005. He participated in two successful military coups, in January 1963 and January 1967, and became President on April 14, 1967...

    , 67, president of Togo since 1967
  • Bob McAdorey
    Bob McAdorey
    Robert Joseph McAdorey was a Canadian television and radio broadcaster.Robert McAdorey was born and raised in Niagara Falls. In the 1960s, McAdorey was one of Canada's most influential radio DJs, as the afternoon 1300-1600 and later drivetime, weekdays 1600-1900 host on 1050 CHUM...

    , 69, Canadian television and radio broadcaster
  • Günter Reimann
    Günter Reimann
    Günter Reimann was an expert on finance and currencies as founder & editor of International Reports, a New York based weekly publication he sold to the London Financial Times in 1983...

    , 100, German 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...

  • Michalina Wisłocka
    Michalina Wislocka
    Michalina Wisłocka was a Polish gynecologist, sexologist, and author of Sztuka kochania , the first guide to sexual life in Communist countries...

    , 84, Polish sexologist


4
  • Sir Rupert Clarke, 3rd Baronet
    Sir Rupert Clarke, 3rd Baronet
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    , 85, Australian soldier and businessman
  • Ossie Davis
    Ossie Davis
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    , 87, actor
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     and activist, natural causes
  • Nils Egerbrandt
    Nils Egerbrandt
    Nils Egerbrandt was a Swedish comic creator who created a few children's comics in the 1950s, such as Olli, about an adventurous eskimo boy....

    , 78, Swedish cartoonist
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  • Luis Sánchez
    Luis Sánchez
    This article is about a baseball player; for other people with the same name, see Luis Sanchez Luis Mercedes Escobar Sánchez , nicknamed "Escoba" , was a relief pitcher in Major League Baseball who played for the California Angels. He also played in Japan for the Yomiuri Giants...

    , 51, former major league
    Major League Baseball
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     closer
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     for the Angels
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     http://espndeportes.espn.go.com/story?id=299027


3
  • Corrado Bafile, 101, Italian
    Italian people
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     cardinal
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  • Adriano Cerqueira, 66, Portuguese
    Portugal
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     journalist
    Journalist
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     and former news anchor at RTP, cancer
    Cancer
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  • Joseph Anthony De Palma, 91, Bishop of De Aar, South Africa
  • David Hönigsberg
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    , 45, composer and conductor
  • Ernst Mayr
    Ernst Mayr
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    , 100, evolutionary biologist
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  • Rosie Sturgess, 84, Australian TV comedienne
  • Raul Usupov
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    , Georgia
    Georgia (country)
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    n politician and deputy governor of the Kvemo Kartli region
  • Zurab Zhvania
    Zurab Zhvania
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    , 41, Prime Minister of Georgia
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2
  • Yvon DesRochers, 59, head of the organizing committee of the 2005 World Aquatics Championships in Montreal, suicide
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  • Birgitte Federspiel
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    , 79, Swedish
    Sweden
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     actress (Babette's Feast
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    , 1988)
  • Svein Kvia
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    , 57, retired Norwegian
    Norway
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     footballer
  • Goffredo Lombardo, 83, Italian
    Italy
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     film producer
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  • Magomed Omarov
    Magomed Omarov
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    , deputy Interior Minister of Dagestan
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  • Max Schmeling
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    , 99, German
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     world heavyweight boxing
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     champion


1
  • Edward D. Freis
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    , 92, physician
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  • Anderl Heckmair, 98, Austrian mountaineer, made first ascent of the Eiger
    Eiger
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     north face
  • Franco Mannino
    Franco Mannino
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    , 80, prolific Italian film and classical composer
  • John Vernon
    John Vernon
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    , 72, Canadian-born American based film and TV actor
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    , following heart surgery
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