Deaths in January 2006
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Deaths in 2006
Deaths in 2006
The following is a list of notable deaths in 2006. Names are listed under the date of death and not the date it was announced. Names under each date are listed in alphabetical order by family name....

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Deaths in December 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....

 - January - February
Deaths in February 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 February 2006.-28:*James Ronald "Bunkie" Blackburn, 69, NASCAR driver...

 - March
Deaths in March 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 March 2006.-31:*George L...

 - April
Deaths in April 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 April 2006.-30:* Jay Bernstein, 69, American Hollywood publicist....

 - May
Deaths in May 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 May 2006.- 31 :...

 - June
Deaths in June 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 June 2006.-30:*Dieter Froese, 68, East Prussian-born artist....

 - July
Deaths in July 2006
Deaths in 2005: ← - January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December- →The following is a list of notable deaths in July 2006.- 31 :...

 - August
Deaths in August 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 August 2006.-31:...

 - September
Deaths in September 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 September 2006. See Deaths in 2006 for other months.-30:...

 - October
Deaths in October 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 October 2006. See Deaths in 2006 for other months.-31:...

 - November
Deaths in November 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 November 2006.-30:...

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

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



The following is a list of notable deaths in January 2006.

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  • Owen Abrahams
    Owen Abrahams
    Owen Abrahams was a former Australian rules footballer in the VFL.Abrahams' football career did not start well after he was rejected by Fitzroy's thirds team, but he moved to the amateurs where he played with the Commonwealth Bank team, from which he was selected with the Fitzroy senior team.He...

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

    er, serious illness. http://wapafl.sportal.com.au/default.asp?s=teamnewsdisplay&aid=14448&tid=2
  • Ruairi Brugha
    Ruairi Brugha
    Ruairí Brugha was an Irish Republican and IRA volunteer who became a Fianna Fáil politician, serving as a Teachta Dála , senator and Member of the European Parliament .- Family and early life :...

    , 88, 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...

     Fianna Fáil
    Fianna Fáil
    Fianna Fáil – The Republican Party , more commonly known as Fianna Fáil is a centrist political party in the Republic of Ireland, founded on 23 March 1926. Fianna Fáil's name is traditionally translated into English as Soldiers of Destiny, although a more accurate rendition would be Warriors of Fál...

     politician, son of Cathal Brugha
    Cathal Brugha
    Cathal Brugha was an Irish revolutionary and politician, active in the Easter Rising, Irish War of Independence, and the Irish Civil War and was the first Ceann Comhairle of Dáil Éireann.-Background:...

    . http://www.rte.ie/news/2006/0131/brughar.html
  • Henry S. Coleman
    Henry S. Coleman
    Henry Simmons Coleman was an American educational administrator who was serving as acting dean of Columbia College, Columbia University when he was held hostage in an office for a day by the Students for a Democratic Society during the Columbia University protests of 1968 and later wrote letters...

    , 79, dean at Columbia University
    Columbia University
    Columbia University in the City of New York is a private, Ivy League university in Manhattan, New York City. Columbia is the oldest institution of higher learning in the state of New York, the fifth oldest in the United States, and one of the country's nine Colonial Colleges founded before the...

    . http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/04/nyregion/04coleman.html
  • Boris Kostelanetz
    Boris Kostelanetz
    -Childhood:Boris Kostelanetz born in St. Petersburg, Russia on June 16, 1911, to a wealthy Russian family. Following the Russian Revolution of 1917, Boris and his family moved to New York in 1920.-Career:...

    , 94, tax lawyer. http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/04/business/04kostelanetz.html
  • George Koval, 92, Soviet intelligence agent.
  • Jason Sears
    Jason Sears
    Jason Sears was an American punk rock vocalist from Santa Barbara, California, best known for his work with Rich Kids on LSD , from 1982 to their first breakup in 1990 and again from 1993 to 2006...

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

     punk rock singer (Rich Kids on LSD
    Rich Kids on LSD
    Rich Kids on LSD was a Californian hardcore punk band formed in 1982 in Montecito, California, a suburb of Santa Barbara. They were associated with the "Nardcore" scene that evolved out of nearby Oxnard. Their music expanded over the years from West Coast hardcore to a mix of hardcore with rock...

    ), complications from drug abuse. http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/mexico/tijuana/20060203-9999-2m3detox.html
  • Moira Shearer
    Moira Shearer
    Moira Shearer, Lady Kennedy , was an internationally famous Scottish ballet dancer and actress.-Early life:She was born Moira Shearer King in Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland, the daughter of actor Harold V. King...

    , 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...

     ballerina, actress, and newspaper columnist, married to Sir Ludovic Kennedy
    Ludovic Kennedy
    Sir Ludovic Henry Coverley Kennedy was a British journalist, broadcaster, humanist and author best known for re-examining cases such as the Lindbergh kidnapping and the murder convictions of Timothy Evans and Derek Bentley, and for his role in the abolition of the death penalty in the United...

    , natural causes. http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/02/arts/02shearer.html

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  • Stew Albert
    Stew Albert
    Stewart Edward "Stew" Albert was an early member of the Yippies, an anti-Vietnam War political activist, and an important figure in the New Left movement of the 1960s....

    , 66, 1960s anti-establishment activist, co-founder of the Yippies, liver cancer
    Hepatocellular carcinoma
    Hepatocellular carcinoma is the most common type of liver cancer. Most cases of HCC are secondary to either a viral hepatitide infection or cirrhosis .Compared to other cancers, HCC is quite a rare tumor in the United States...

    . http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/01/nyregion/01albert.html
  • Paul Clinton
    Paul Clinton
    Paul Clinton was an American film critic. He served as CNN.com film critic for 20 years. He was the co-founder of the Broadcast Film Critics Association ....

    , 53, CNN film critic, founder of the Broadcast Film Critics Association
    Broadcast Film Critics Association
    The Broadcast Film Critics Association is the largest film critics organization in the United States and Canada , representing approximately 250 television, radio and online critics....

     (BFCA). http://edition.cnn.com/SHOWBIZ/Movies/reviews.more/clinton.bio.html
  • Seth Fisher
    Seth Fisher
    Seth Fisher was an American comic book artist and penciller.-Career:Seth Fisher first gained attention for his work on DC Comics' Green Lantern: Willworld, and was nominated for an Eisner Award for "Best Penciller/Inker" for Flash: Time Flies and Vertigo Pop! Tokyo.In 2005, Fisher pencilled the...

    , 33, comic book illustrator, fall from a building. http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=6315
  • Arnold Graffi
    Arnold Graffi
    Arnold Graffi was a pioneering German doctor in the area of experimental cancer research.Graffi was born in the Saxon town of Bistritz in Transylvania, then part of Austria-Hungary. He studied medicine at Marburg, Leipzig, and Tübingen before receiving his doctorate at the Charité in Berlin...

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

     Researcher for oncology
    Oncology
    Oncology is a branch of medicine that deals with cancer...

    , long illness. http://www.uni-protokolle.de/nachrichten/id/112705/
  • Coretta Scott King
    Coretta Scott King
    Coretta Scott King was an American author, activist, and civil rights leader. The widow of Martin Luther King, Jr., Coretta Scott King helped lead the African-American Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s.Mrs...

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

     civil rights leader, widow of Martin Luther King, Jr.
    Martin Luther King, Jr.
    Martin Luther King, Jr. was an American clergyman, activist, and prominent leader in the African-American Civil Rights Movement. He is best known for being an iconic figure in the advancement of civil rights in the United States and around the world, using nonviolent methods following the...

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

    . http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/01/national/01king.html
  • Otto Lang
    Otto Lang (film producer)
    Otto Lang , born in Tešanj, Bosnia-Herzegovina, was a skier and pioneer ski instructor in the United States. He founded ski schools on Mount Rainier, Mount Baker and Mount Hood beginning in the 1930s, and as the director of the ski school at Sun Valley became the ski instructor for Hollywood stars...

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

    . http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2002772842_langobit31m.html
  • Irving Rosenwater
    Irving Rosenwater
    Irving Rosenwater was an English cricket researcher and author whose best-known work was Sir Donald Bradman - A Biography ....

    , 73, English
    England
    England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...

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

    . http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,60-2030992.00.html
  • Wendy Wasserstein
    Wendy Wasserstein
    Wendy Wasserstein was an American playwright and an Andrew Dickson White Professor-at-Large at Cornell University...

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

     playwright, 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.nytimes.com/2006/01/31/theater/31wasserstein.html

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  • Andrew Gonzalez
    Andrew Gonzalez
    Brother Andrew Benjamin Gonzalez FSC PhD was a linguist, writer, educator, and a De La Salle Brother. He served as president of De La Salle University from 1979 to 1991 and from 1994 to 1998. From 1998 to 2001 he served as Secretary of the Department of Education, Culture and Sports under the...

    , 65, 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...

     linguist
    Linguistics
    Linguistics is the scientific study of human language. Linguistics can be broadly broken into three categories or subfields of study: language form, language meaning, and language in context....

     and educator, complications from diabetes. http://www.mb.com.ph/issues/2006/02/01/OPED2006020155180.html
  • Emory Hale
    Emory Hale
    Emory Hale was a professional wrestler with World Championship Wrestling in 1998, and then going to the X Wrestling Federation. He was brought into WCW by Jimmy Hart to be the next "big thing," in line for a main event. His WCW matches were highlighted by flashing the "Hail" warning, as his...

    , 36, professional wrestler, complications from kidney failure http://www.wrestleview.com/news2005/1138660726.shtml.
  • Paik Nam-june, 73, South Korea
    South Korea
    The Republic of Korea , , is a sovereign state in East Asia, located on the southern portion of the Korean Peninsula. It is neighbored by the People's Republic of China to the west, Japan to the east, North Korea to the north, and the East China Sea and Republic of China to the south...

    n-born American artist, particularly noted for his video art
    Video art
    Video art is a type of art which relies on moving pictures and comprises video and/or audio data. . Video art came into existence during the 1960s and 1970s, is still widely practiced and has given rise to the widespread use of video installations...

    , natural causes. http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F30F11F8355B0C728FDDA80894DE404482
  • George Psychoundakis
    George Psychoundakis
    George Psychoundakis was a Greek Resistance fighter on Crete during the Second World War. He was a shepherd, a war hero and an author. He served as dispatch runner between Petro Petrakas and Papadakis behind the German lines for the Cretan resistance Movement and later, from 1941 to 1945, for the...

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

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

    . http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml;jsessionid=WRRRR5CBIK4HDQFIQMGCFFWAVCBQUIV0?xml=/news/2006/02/18/db1801.xml&sSheet=/portal/2006/02/18/ixportal.html

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  • Maurice Colclough
    Maurice Colclough
    Maurice John Colclough was an international rugby union player. He was selected for the 1980 British Lions tour to South Africa and the 1983 British Lions tour to New Zealand, playing in all four internationals each tour. He was a member of the England team which won the Grand Slam in 1980...

    , 52, English
    England
    England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...

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

     player, brain tumour. http://www.guardian.co.uk/obituaries/story/0,,1699974,00.html
  • Tana Hoban
    Tana Hoban
    Tana Hoban was an author and photographer.She created children's books out of photos and thereby taught educational concepts such as signs and symbols, the alphabet, numbers, shapes, colors, animals, opposites, sizes and prepositions. Her early books were in black-and-white, but later books are in...

    , 88, photographer of children, author of over 110 children's books http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/04/arts/04hoban.html
  • Phyllis King
    Phyllis Mudford
    Phyllis King was the oldest living Wimbledon champion when she died at age 100.Mudford was born in 1905 in Wallington, Surrey. She won the Wimbledon Ladies' Doubles Championship in 1931 with partner Dorothy Shepherd-Barron.-References:...

    , 100, British Wimbledon-winner. http://www.wimbledon.org/en_GB/news/phyllisking.htmlhttp://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,60-2020440,00.html
  • Carol Lambrino
    Carol Lambrino
    Mircea Grigore Carol Hohenzollern , also known as Mircea Grigore Carol al României according to his amended Romanian birth certificate or as Carol Lambrino according to his original Romanian birth certificate, self-styled HRH Prince Carol of Romania, was the eldest son of King Carol II of Romania, a...

    , 86, elder son of King Carol II of Romania
    Carol II of Romania
    Carol II reigned as King of Romania from 8 June 1930 until 6 September 1940. Eldest son of Ferdinand, King of Romania, and his wife, Queen Marie, a daughter of Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh, the second eldest son of Queen Victoria...

    . http://www.jurnalul.ro/articol_45034/an_innocent_had_gone.html
  • Christopher Lloyd
    Christopher Lloyd (gardener)
    Christopher Hamilton Lloyd, OBE was a British gardener and author. He was the 20th Century chronicler for the heavily planted, labour-intensive, country garden.-Life:...

    , 84, gardening
    Gardening
    Gardening is the practice of growing and cultivating plants. Ornamental plants are normally grown for their flowers, foliage, or overall appearance; useful plants are grown for consumption , for their dyes, or for medicinal or cosmetic use...

     writer, 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.guardian.co.uk/obituaries/story/0,,1697689,00.html
  • Gene McFadden
    Gene McFadden
    Gene McFadden was an American singer, songwriter, and record producer. He is best known as one of the key members of the Philadelphia International record label, and was one-half of the successful team of McFadden & Whitehead with John Whitehead.-Biography:McFadden met John Whitehead as a teenager...

    , 56, 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://news.independent.co.uk/people/obituaries/article342106.ece
  • Johannes Rau
    Johannes Rau
    Johannes Rau was a German politician of the SPD. He was President of Germany from 1 July 1999 until 30 June 2004, and Minister-President of North Rhine-Westphalia from 1978 to 1998.-Education and work:...

    , 75, President of Germany
    President of Germany
    The President of the Federal Republic of Germany is the country's head of state. His official title in German is Bundespräsident . Germany has a parliamentary system of government and so the position of President is largely ceremonial...

     (Bundespräsident) from 1999 - 2004. http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060127/wl_nm/germany_rau_dc_4

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  • Len Carlson
    Len Carlson
    Len Carlson was a Canadian voice actor on many animated television series from the 1960s onward, an occasional live-action TV actor, and a Kraft Canada TV pitchman during the 1970s and 1980s...

    , 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...

     voice actor, heart attack during sleep
  • Dr John Dunwoody
    John Dunwoody
    John Elliot Orr Dunwoody CBE was a British Labour politician.Dunwoody was educated at St Paul's School, then trained as a doctor at King's College London, and Westminster Hospital Medical School...

     CBE
    Order of the British Empire
    The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is an order of chivalry established on 4 June 1917 by George V of the United Kingdom. The Order comprises five classes in civil and military divisions...

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

     Member of Parliament
    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,...

    , effects of an accident. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/cornwall/4655976.stm
  • Morris Silverman
    Morris Silverman
    Morris Silverman was an eminent Conservative rabbi as well as a writer.Silverman was born in Newburgh, New York on November 19, 1894...

    , 93, philanthropist, founder of the Albany Medical Center Prize in Medicine and Biomedical Research. http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/28/nyregion/28silverman.html
  • Dave Tatsuno
    Dave Tatsuno
    Dave Tatsuno was a Japanese American businessman who documented life in his family's internment camp during World War II. His footage was later compiled into the film Topaz...

    , 92, documented the Topaz Japanese internment camp in his film Topaz
    Topaz (1945 film)
    Topaz is a 1945 documentary film, shot illegally , which documented life at the Topaz War Relocation Center in Utah during World War II....

    http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/13/national/13tatsuno.html
  • Khan Wali Khan
    Khan Wali Khan
    Khan Abdul Wali Khan was Pakistani democratic socialist and Pashtun leader who also served as President of National Awami Party. Son of the prominent Pashtun Bacha Khan, Wali Khan was an activist and a writer against the British India like his father.His early years were marked by his involvement...

    , 89, prominent 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 and prominent Pashtun
    Pashtun people
    Pashtuns or Pathans , also known as ethnic Afghans , are an Eastern Iranic ethnic group with populations primarily between the Hindu Kush mountains in Afghanistan and the Indus River in Pakistan...

     leader, 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.hindu.com/2006/01/28/stories/2006012802931800.htm

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  • Marion Dudley
    Marion Dudley
    Marion Butler Dudley was an American murderer who was executed by lethal injection in Huntsville, Texas for a robbery and shooting that resulted in the deaths of four people. He was born in Tuscaloosa County, Alabama....

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

     convicted murderer, executed in Texas
    Texas
    Texas is the second largest U.S. state by both area and population, and the largest state by area in the contiguous United States.The name, based on the Caddo word "Tejas" meaning "friends" or "allies", was applied by the Spanish to the Caddo themselves and to the region of their settlement in...

    . http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060126/ap_on_re_us/texas_execution
  • Luther Green
    Luther Green
    Luther Green was an American basketball player.Green played college basketball at Long Island University and was selected by the Cincinnati Royals in the third round of the 1969 NBA Draft and by the Miami Floridians in the 1969 ABA Draft.Green played for the New York Nets of the American...

    , 59, former NBA player, 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.basketball-reference.com/players/g/greenlu01.html
  • John F. Kerin
    John F. Kerin
    John F. Kerin was a physician, Professor of reproductive medicine, and was a recognized innovator in biomedical technology.Kerin had qualified with a Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery and was Doctor of Medicine...

    , professor, reproductive scientist, gynaecologist
    Obstetrics and gynaecology
    Obstetrics and gynaecology are the two surgical–medical specialties dealing with the female reproductive organs in their pregnant and non-pregnant state, respectively, and as such are often combined to form a single medical specialty and postgraduate training programme...

    , farm accident. .
  • Anna Malle
    Anna Malle
    Anna Malle was an American pornographic actress.- Career :According to IAFD, one of her first appearances was in "Dirty Debutantes", Vol. 37, with Ed Powers. In that video, she says she came up with the name Anna Malle on her own to describe her sexual style...

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

     adult film actress, car accident. http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/nevada/2006/jan/27/012710399.html
  • Herbert Schilder
    Herbert Schilder
    Herbert Schilder was a dental surgeon. Schilder is best known for the improvements he made to root canal therapies in the 1960s, when he taught at the Boston University School of Dental Medicine.Herbert Schilder received his D.D.S...

    , 77, dental surgeon, improved root canal
    Root canal
    A root canal is the space within the root of a tooth. It is part of a naturally occurring space within a tooth that consists of the pulp chamber , the main canal, and more intricate anatomical branches that may connect the root canals to each other or to the surface of the root.-Root canal anatomy:...

     procedures, Lewy body disease. http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/05/national/05schilder.html
  • Sudharmono
    Sudharmono
    Sudharmono was Indonesia's fifth vice president, and was in office during the period 1988 - 1993.-Early life:...

    , 78, Vice President of Indonesia from 1988–1993, 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.accessmylibrary.com/coms2/summary_0286-12458761_ITM
  • Allan Temko
    Allan Temko
    Allan Bernard Temko was a Pulitzer Prize-winning architectural critic and writer based in San Francisco.Born in New York City and raised in Weehawken, New Jersey, Temko served as a U.S...

    , 81, Pulitzer Prize
    Pulitzer Prize for Criticism
    The Pulitzer Prize for Criticism has been presented since 1970 to a newspaper writer who has demonstrated 'distinguished criticism'. Recipients of the award are chosen by an independent board and officially administered by Columbia University...

    -winning architecture critic for the San Francisco Chronicle
    San Francisco Chronicle
    thumb|right|upright|The Chronicle Building following the [[1906 San Francisco earthquake|1906 earthquake]] and fireThe San Francisco Chronicle is a newspaper serving primarily the San Francisco Bay Area of the U.S. state of California, but distributed throughout Northern and Central California,...

    , brief illness. http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/27/arts/design/27temko.html

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  • Zaki Badawi
    Zaki Badawi
    Sheikh Mohammed Aboulkhair Zaki Badawi ,KBE, GCFO was a prominent Egyptian Islamic scholar, community activist, and promoter of interfaith-dialogue. He was the principal of the Muslim College in London, which he founded in 1986...

    , 84, Islam
    Islam
    Islam . The most common are and .   : Arabic pronunciation varies regionally. The first vowel ranges from ~~. The second vowel ranges from ~~~...

    ic religious leader in Britain
    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...

    . http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4644798.stm
  • Schafik Handal
    Schafik Handal
    Schafik Jorge Handal was a Salvadoran politician. Born in Usulután, he was the son of Palestinian Arab immigrants.-Biography:...

    , 75, former Presidential candidate and leader of El Salvador
    El Salvador
    El Salvador or simply Salvador is the smallest and the most densely populated country in Central America. The country's capital city and largest city is San Salvador; Santa Ana and San Miguel are also important cultural and commercial centers in the country and in all of Central America...

    's main political opposition party, the FMLN
    Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front
    The Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front is, since 1992, a left-wing political party in El Salvador and formerly a coalition of five revolutionary guerrilla organizations...

    , 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.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N24205455.htm
  • Peter Ladefoged
    Peter Ladefoged
    Peter Nielsen Ladefoged was an English-American linguist and phonetician who traveled the world to document the distinct sounds of endangered languages and pioneered ways to collect and study data . He was active at the universities of Edinburgh, Scotland and Ibadan, Nigeria 1953–61...

    , 80, phonetician
    Phonetics
    Phonetics is a branch of linguistics that comprises the study of the sounds of human speech, or—in the case of sign languages—the equivalent aspects of sign. It is concerned with the physical properties of speech sounds or signs : their physiological production, acoustic properties, auditory...

    , 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...

    .
  • Carlos (Café) Martínez
    Carlos Martínez (baseball infielder)
    Carlos Alberto Escobar Martínez was a Venezuelan first baseman and third baseman in Major League Baseball. From through 1995, he played for the Chicago White Sox , Cleveland Indians and California Angels...

    , 41, former MLB player, complications from a long illness.
  • Fayard Nicholas
    Fayard Nicholas
    Fayard Antonio Nicholas...

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

     dancer, elder of the renowned Nicholas Brothers
    Nicholas Brothers
    The Nicholas Brothers were a famous African American team of dancing brothers, Fayard and Harold . With their highly acrobatic technique , high level of artistry and daring innovations, they were considered by many the greatest tap dancers of their day...

    , 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...

     and 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.nytimes.com/2006/01/26/arts/26nicholas.html http://www.cnn.com/2006/SHOWBIZ/Music/01/25/obit.fayardnicholas.ap/index.html
  • Chris Penn
    Chris Penn
    Christopher Shannon "Chris" Penn was an American film and television actor known for his roles in such films as The Wild Life, Reservoir Dogs, Footloose, Rush Hour, True Romance, All the Right Moves and Pale Rider.-Early life:Penn was born in Los Angeles, California, the youngest son of Leo Penn,...

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

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

    , brother of Sean Penn
    Sean Penn
    Sean Justin Penn is an American actor, screenwriter and film director, also known for his political and social activism...

    , cardiomyopathy
    Cardiomyopathy
    Cardiomyopathy, which literally means "heart muscle disease," is the deterioration of the function of the myocardium for any reason. People with cardiomyopathy are often at risk of arrhythmia or sudden cardiac death or both. Cardiomyopathy can often go undetected, making it especially dangerous to...

     combined with multiple medication intake. http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory?id=1538153 http://www.montereyherald.com/mld/montereyherald/news/politics/13863722.htm
  • Sir Nicholas Shackleton
    Nicholas Shackleton
    Sir Nicholas John Shackleton FRS was a British geologist and climatologist who specialised in the Quaternary Period...

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

     geologist
    Geologist
    A geologist is a scientist who studies the solid and liquid matter that constitutes the Earth as well as the processes and history that has shaped it. Geologists usually engage in studying geology. Geologists, studying more of an applied science than a theoretical one, must approach Geology using...

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

    . http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/12/science/12shackleton.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

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  • Ernie Baron
    Ernie Baron
    Ernesto Baron was a Filipino broadcaster and inventor. He spent more than 40 years in the field of broadcasting. He was best known as the weatherman in the ABS-CBN news program TV Patrol...

    , 65, 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...

     radio/TV host and meteorologist, myocardial infarction
    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...

     brought about by diabetes.
  • Andrea Bronfman
    Andrea Bronfman
    Andrea Brett Morrison Bronfman was a philanthropist and wife of billionaire Charles Bronfman, who was once co-chairman of Seagram's Co. She died from being struck by a car in New York City, where she was a key figure in the Jewish community...

    , 60, philanthropist and wife of Charles Bronfman
    Charles Bronfman
    Charles Rosner Bronfman, is a Canadian businessman and philanthropist. With an estimated net worth of $US 2.0 billion , Bronfman was ranked by Forbes as the 15th wealthiest Canadian and 595th in the world....

    , hit by car. http://www.nj.com/news/ledger/index.ssf?/base/news-4/1138081585114670.xml&coll=1
  • Savino Guglielmetti
    Savino Guglielmetti
    Savino Guglielmetti was an Italian gymnast.He was born and died in Milan.He began competing in Milan in 1920. who won gold at "Vault" in 1932. He also competed in the 1936 and 1948 Olympics. He was "Italian National All-Around Champion" in 1934, 1935, 1937, 1938, and 1939...

    , 94, 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...

     gymnast, 1928 Olympic gold-medalist and oldest surviving 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...

     champion. http://www.ueg-gymnastics.com/news/detail.php?id=2202
  • General Samuel W. Koster
    Samuel W. Koster
    Samuel W. Koster was a United States Army officer accused of war crimes. The highest-ranking officer punished in connection with the My Lai Massacre, Koster was slated for promotion to the rank of Lieutenant General at the time he was charged, but was demoted and ended his military career in mild...

    , 86, highest ranking 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...

     officer charged in My Lai massacre
    My Lai Massacre
    The My Lai Massacre was the Vietnam War mass murder of 347–504 unarmed civilians in South Vietnam on March 16, 1968, by United States Army soldiers of "Charlie" Company of 1st Battalion, 20th Infantry Regiment, 11th Brigade of the Americal Division. Most of the victims were women, children , and...

    , renal cancer http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/11/national/11koster.html
  • Chris McKinstry
    Chris McKinstry
    Kenneth Christopher McKinstry was a researcher in artificial intelligence. He led the development of the MISTIC project which was launched in May 1996. He founded the Mindpixel project in July 2000, and closed it in December 2005...

    , 38, an independent researcher in artificial intelligence
    Artificial intelligence
    Artificial intelligence is the intelligence of machines and the branch of computer science that aims to create it. AI textbooks define the field as "the study and design of intelligent agents" where an intelligent agent is a system that perceives its environment and takes actions that maximize its...

    , suicide.
  • Joseph M. Newman
    Joseph M. Newman
    Joseph M. Newman was an American film director most famous for his 1955 film This Island Earth. His credits include episodes of The Twilight Zone and The Alfred Hitchcock Hour....

    , 96, American Film Director/Producer, This Island Earth. http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0628149/
  • Bill Rice
    Bill Rice
    Wilbur Steven "Bill" Rice is an American country music singer and songwriter. Rice charted six singles between 1971 and 1978, including the Top 40 hit "Travelin' Minstrel Man", but is better known for his songwriting...

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

     artist. http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/29/arts/design/29rice.html
  • Virginia Smith, 94, former Republican
    Republican Party (United States)
    The Republican Party is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States, along with the Democratic Party. Founded by anti-slavery expansion activists in 1854, it is often called the GOP . The party's platform generally reflects American conservatism in the U.S...

     United States Representative from Nebraska
    Nebraska
    Nebraska is a state on the Great Plains of the Midwestern United States. The state's capital is Lincoln and its largest city is Omaha, on the Missouri River....

     (1975–1991).
  • Michael Wharton
    Michael Wharton
    Michael Wharton was a newspaper columnist who wrote under the pseudonym Peter Simple in the British Daily Telegraph. He began work on the "Way of the World" column with illustrator Michael ffolkes three times a week in early 1957...

    , 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...

     humorist ("Peter Simple").

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  • Janette Carter
    Janette Carter
    Janette Carter was the last surviving child of A.P. and Sara Carter, of Carter Family musical fame. In 1976, she and community members built an 880-seat amphitheater, the Carter Family Fold, beside the store her father operated in Southwestern Virginia...

    , 82, last living member of the Carter Family
    Carter Family
    The Carter Family was a traditional American folk music group that recorded between 1927 and 1956. Their music had a profound impact on bluegrass, country, Southern Gospel, pop and rock musicians as well as on the U.S. folk revival of the 1960s. They were the first vocal group to become country...

     country music group. http://web.archive.org/web/20060425072635/http://www.timesnews.net/article.dna?_StoryID=3592980
  • Alec Coxon
    Alec Coxon
    Alexander "Alec" Coxon is a former English cricketer who played for Yorkshire. He also played one Test match for England in 1948. Cricket writer, Colin Bateman stated, "Coxon's Test career was abrupt - much like the man himself...

    , 90, Yorkshire and England 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://ichuddersfield.icnetwork.co.uk/0200sport/0400cricket/tm_objectid=16622567&method=full&siteid=50060&headline=all-rounder-alec-coxon-dies-at-90-name_page.html
  • Sherman Ferguson
    Sherman Ferguson
    Sherman Ferguson was an American jazz drummer.Ferguson first played professionally in the middle of the 1960s, working with Charles Earland and Al Martino that decade. Concomitantly he worked as a child tutor for the Model Cities program in Philadelphia...

    , 61, jazz drummer
    Drummer
    A drummer is a musician who is capable of playing drums, which includes but is not limited to a drum kit and accessory based hardware which includes an assortment of pedals and standing support mechanisms, marching percussion and/or any musical instrument that is struck within the context of a...

     http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/news.php?id=8698
  • Nellie Y. McKay
    Nellie Y. McKay
    Nellie Yvonne McKay was an American academic and author who was the Evjue-Bascom Professor of American and African-American Literature at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, where she also taught in English and women's studies, and is best known as the co-editor of the Norton Anthology of...

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

    . http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/28/national/28mckay.html

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  • Michael Chan, Baron Chan
    Michael Chan, Baron Chan
    Michael Chew Koon Chan, Baron Chan, MBE was a Singaporean-British physician and politician, of Chinese descent....

    , 65, 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...

     paediatrician, second peer
    Peerage
    The Peerage is a legal system of largely hereditary titles in the United Kingdom, which constitute the ranks of British nobility and is part of the British honours system...

     of 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...

     origin. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?view=DETAILS&grid=&xml=/news/2006/01/26/db2603.xml
  • John James Cowperthwaite
    John James Cowperthwaite
    Sir John James Cowperthwaite KBE CMG , was a British civil servant and the Financial Secretary of Hong Kong from 1961 to 1971...

    , 90, British civil servant, Financial Secretary of Hong Kong (1961–1971). http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/01/25/db2501.xml&sSheet=/portal/2006/01/25/ixportal.html
  • Robert Knudson
    Robert Knudson
    Robert Knudson was an American sound engineer. He won three Academy Awards for Best Sound and was nominated for seven more in the same category...

    , 80, American sound engineer, three-time Academy Award winner, supranuclear palsy. http://articles.latimes.com/2006/feb/08/local/me-knudson8
  • Ibrahim Rugova
    Ibrahim Rugova
    Ibrahim Rugova was an Albanian politician who was the first President of Kosovo and of its leading political party, the Democratic League of Kosovo ....

    , 61, President of Kosovo
    President of Kosovo
    The President of the Republic of Kosovo is Head of State of the disputed Republic of Kosovo. The President of Kosovo is elected by the Assembly of Kosovo. The first post-war president, who served until his death in January 2006, was Ibrahim Rugova. His successor was Fatmir Sejdiu. When Sejdiu...

    , lung cancer. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4634562.stm

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  • Andrei Iordan
    Andrei Iordan
    Andrei Iordan served as the State Secretary of Kyrgyzstan and temporarily exercised the duties of Prime Minister from 29 November 1991 to 10 February 1992...

    , 71, former prime minister of Kyrgyzstan
    Kyrgyzstan
    Kyrgyzstan , officially the Kyrgyz Republic is one of the world's six independent Turkic states . Located in Central Asia, landlocked and mountainous, Kyrgyzstan is bordered by Kazakhstan to the north, Uzbekistan to the west, Tajikistan to the southwest and China to the east...

    .
  • David Maust, 51, convicted serial killer, heart failure after a botched 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...

     attempt. http://www.thetimesonline.com/articles/2006/01/21/news/top_news/82cedeef5cb71aff862570fd00044ffa.txt
  • Dave Lepard
    Dave Lepard
    Dave Lepard was the lead singer and guitarist in the Swedish Glam metal band Crashdïet.-Career:...

    , 25, 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 (Crashdïet
    Crashdïet
    CRASHDÏET are a glam metal band from Stockholm, Sweden. They have released three albums: 2005's Rest in Sleaze, 2007's The Unattractive Revolution and 2010's Generation Wild.- Early years :...

    ), suicide.
  • Rose Bouziane Nader, 99, President of the Shafeek Nader Trust for the Community Interest, mother of US Presidential candidate Ralph Nader
    Ralph Nader
    Ralph Nader is an American political activist, as well as an author, lecturer, and attorney. Areas of particular concern to Nader include consumer protection, humanitarianism, environmentalism, and democratic government....

    , 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...

    . http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/25/nyregion/25nader.html
  • Perrie Simpson
    Perrie Simpson
    Perrie Dyon Simpson, was executed by lethal injection at the Central Prison in Raleigh, North Carolina on January 20, 2006. Simpson was found guilty of the 1984 murder of Jean Ernest Darter, a 92-year-old white male...

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

     convicted murderer, executed by lethal injection.
  • Pio Taofinu'u, 82, Samoa
    Samoa
    Samoa , officially the Independent State of Samoa, formerly known as Western Samoa is a country encompassing the western part of the Samoan Islands in the South Pacific Ocean. It became independent from New Zealand in 1962. The two main islands of Samoa are Upolu and one of the biggest islands in...

    n Roman Catholic cardinal. http://www.pacificmagazine.net/news/2006/01/23/american-samoa-cardinal-pio-tributes

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  • Gary Downie
    Gary Downie
    Gary Downie was a production manager on many 1980s episodes of the long running science fiction television series Doctor Who, and partner of its producer John Nathan-Turner. His own analysis of the role of a production manager can be found on the BBC DVD release of The Two Doctors...

    , 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 psychotherapist
    Psychotherapy
    Psychotherapy is a general term referring to any form of therapeutic interaction or treatment contracted between a trained professional and a client or patient; family, couple or group...

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

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

    , Star Cops
    Star Cops
    Star Cops is a British science fiction television series first broadcast on BBC Two in 1987. It was devised by Chris Boucher, a writer who had previously worked on the science fiction television series Doctor Who and Blake's 7 as well as crime dramas such as Juliet Bravo and Bergerac...

    ), 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.rtforum.co.uk/read.php?id=138803
  • Anthony Franciosa
    Anthony Franciosa
    Anthony Franciosa was an American actor, usually billed as Tony Franciosa during the height of his career.-Early life:...

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

     actor, third husband of Shelley Winters
    Shelley Winters
    Shelley Winters was an American actress who appeared in dozens of films, as well as on stage and television; her career spanned over 50 years until her death in 2006...

    , 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.forbes.com/technology/feeds/ap/2006/01/20/ap2465153.html
  • Tom Nugent
    Tom Nugent
    Thomas N. "Tom" Nugent was an American college football coach and innovator, sportscaster, public relations man. He served as the head football coach at the Virginia Military Institute, Florida State University, and the University of Maryland. His career record was 89–80–3...

    , 92, football coach, member of the College Football Hall of Fame
    College Football Hall of Fame
    The College Football Hall of Fame is a hall of fame and museum devoted to college football. Located in South Bend, Indiana, it is connected to a convention center and situated in the city's renovated downtown district, two miles south of the University of Notre Dame campus. It is slated to move...

    , 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...

    . http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/21/sports/ncaafootball/21nugent.html
  • Wilson Pickett
    Wilson Pickett
    Wilson Pickett was an American R&B/Soul singer and songwriter.A major figure in the development of American soul music, Pickett recorded over 50 songs which made the US R&B charts, and frequently crossed over to the US Billboard Hot 100...

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

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

    . http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/20/arts/music/20pickett.html
  • Awn Alsharif Qasim
    Awn Alsharif Qasim
    Awn Al-Sharif Qasim - * - was a prolific Sudanese writer, encyclopedist, a prominent scholar, a powerful community leader, a man of charity and one of Sudan's leading experts on Arabic language and literature....

    , 73, Sudanese writer, educator and Islamic scholar
  • Geoff Rabone
    Geoff Rabone
    Geoffrey Osborne Rabone was a cricketer who captained New Zealand in five Test matches in 1953-54 and 1954-55....

    , 84, New Zealand
    New Zealand cricket team
    The New Zealand cricket team, nicknamed the Black Caps, are the national cricket team representing New Zealand. They played their first in 1930 against England in Christchurch, New Zealand, becoming the fifth country to play Test cricket. It took the team until 1955–56 to win a Test, against the...

     cricketer.
  • Franz Seitz
    Franz Seitz, Jr.
    Franz Seitz, Jr. was a German film producer, screenwriter and film director. He produced 74 films between 1951 and 2006. In 1983, he was a member of the jury at the 33rd Berlin International Film Festival. In 1991, his film Success was entered into the 41st Berlin International Film Festival.His...

    , 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...

     film director.

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  • Norman McCabe
    Norman McCabe
    Norman McCabe was an American animator who enjoyed a long career which lasted into the 1990s.-Early career:...

    , 94, animator and director, famous for Tokio Jokio and The Ducktators shorts from his Termite Terrace tenure at Warner Bros.
    Warner Bros.
    Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc., also known as Warner Bros. Pictures or simply Warner Bros. , is an American producer of film and television entertainment.One of the major film studios, it is a subsidiary of Time Warner, with its headquarters in Burbank,...

  • Thomas Murphy, 90, former CEO of General Motors. http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/19/business/19murphy.html
  • Anton Rupert
    Anton Rupert
    Dr. Anthony Edward Rupert was an Afrikaner South African billionaire entrepreneur, businessman and conservationist. He was born and raised in the small town of Graaff-Reinet in the Eastern Cape. He studied in Pretoria and ultimately moved to Stellenbosch, where he established the Rembrandt Group ...

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

     and founding member of World Wide Fund for Nature
    World Wide Fund for Nature
    The World Wide Fund for Nature is an international non-governmental organization working on issues regarding the conservation, research and restoration of the environment, formerly named the World Wildlife Fund, which remains its official name in Canada and the United States...

    , natural causes. http://www.busrep.co.za/index.php?fArticleId=3072774
  • Jan Twardowski
    Jan Twardowski
    Jan Jakub Twardowski was a famous Polish poet, but, as he said of himself, he was a priest first of all. He was a chief Polish representative of contemporary religious lyrics. He wrote short, simple poems, humorous, sometimes with colloquialisms...

    , 90, 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...

     priest and poet. http://www.warsawvoice.pl/view/10542/

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  • Clarence Ray Allen
    Clarence Ray Allen
    Clarence Ray Allen was an American murderer who was executed by lethal injection at San Quentin State Prison in California for the murders of three people. At age 76 in 2006, he became the second-oldest inmate to be executed in the United States since 1976, after John B. Nixon of Mississippi who...

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

     convicted murderer, executed by lethal injection. http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/01/16/national/main1210069.shtml
  • Harold R. Collier
    Harold R. Côllier
    Harold Reginald Collier was a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from Illinois....

    , 90, former Republican
    Republican Party (United States)
    The Republican Party is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States, along with the Democratic Party. Founded by anti-slavery expansion activists in 1854, it is often called the GOP . The party's platform generally reflects American conservatism in the U.S...

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

     from 1957–1975
  • Wallace Mercer
    Wallace Mercer
    Wallace Mercer was chairman of the Scottish football club Heart of Midlothian from 1981 to 1994.-Hearts:He is remembered mainly for improving the fortunes of Hearts during the early 1980s...

    , 59, former chairman of Heart of Midlothian F.C.
    Heart of Midlothian F.C.
    Heart of Midlothian Football Club are a Scottish professional football club based in Gorgie, in the west of Edinburgh. They currently play in the Scottish Premier League and are one of the two principal clubs in the city, the other being Hibernian...

    , 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://sport.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=83372006
  • Giles Worsley
    Giles Worsley
    Dr Giles Arthington Worsley MA, PhD, FSA was an English architectural historian, author, editor, journalist and critic, specialising in British country houses...

    , 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...

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

    . http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?view=DETAILS&grid=&xml=/news/2006/01/19/db1901.xml

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  • Stanley Biber
    Stanley Biber
    Stanley H. Biber was an American physician who was a pioneer in sex reassignment surgery, performing thousands of procedures during his long career.-Early life:...

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

     physician and pioneer in sex reassignment surgery
    Sex reassignment surgery
    Sex reassignment surgery is a term for the surgical procedures by which a person's physical appearance and function of their existing sexual characteristics are altered to resemble...

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

    .
  • Richard P. McCormick
    Richard P. McCormick
    Richard Patrick McCormick was a historian, former University Professor of History, administrator, professor emeritus at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey and President of the New Jersey Historical Society. Dr...

    , 89, professor at Rutgers University
    Rutgers University
    Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey , is the largest institution for higher education in New Jersey, United States. It was originally chartered as Queen's College in 1766. It is the eighth-oldest college in the United States and one of the nine Colonial colleges founded before the American...

    , expert on early American political history and New Jersey history
    History of New Jersey
    The history of New Jersey began at the end of the Younger Dryas climate, about 10 millennia ago. Native Americans moved into New Jersey soon after the reversal of the Younger Dryas, which had made the area uninhabitable and, during the preceding ice age, unreachable.European contact began with the...

    , illness.http://www.historians.org/Perspectives/NewsBriefs/2006/0601/0601bri2.cfm

15

  • Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah
    Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah
    Jaber III al-Ahmad al-Jaber al-Sabah, GCB , GCMG of the al-Sabah dynasty, was the Emir and thirteenth Sheikh of Kuwait, serving from December 31, 1977 until his death on January 15, 2006...

    , 79, Emir
    Emir
    Emir , meaning "commander", "general", or "prince"; also transliterated as Amir, Aamir or Ameer) is a title of high office, used throughout the Muslim world...

     of Kuwait
    Kuwait
    The State of Kuwait is a sovereign Arab state situated in the north-east of the Arabian Peninsula in Western Asia. It is bordered by Saudi Arabia to the south at Khafji, and Iraq to the north at Basra. It lies on the north-western shore of the Persian Gulf. The name Kuwait is derived from the...

    , brain hemorrhage. http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/16/international/middleeast/16emir.htmlhttp://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/01/15/AR2006011501058.html
  • Glyn Berry
    Glyn Berry
    Glyn Berry was a Canadian diplomat killed in a car bomb attack in Afghanistan. He was the first Canadian diplomat to be killed while on duty in Afghanistan. Two other civilians were killed in the incident and ten people were wounded, including three Canadian soldiers, MCpl. Paul Franklin, Pte....

    , 59, Welsh
    Wales
    Wales is a country that is part of the United Kingdom and the island of Great Britain, bordered by England to its east and the Atlantic Ocean and Irish Sea to its west. It has a population of three million, and a total area of 20,779 km²...

    -born Canadian diplomat in Afghanistan
    Afghanistan
    Afghanistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, is a landlocked country located in the centre of Asia, forming South Asia, Central Asia and the Middle East. With a population of about 29 million, it has an area of , making it the 42nd most populous and 41st largest nation in the world...

    .
  • Hilma Contreras
    Hilma Contreras
    Hilma Contreras Castillo was a Dominican writer, born in San Francisco de Macorís.Educated in Paris, where she studied French and English, as well as literature and archaeology. She returned to the Dominican Republic in 1933...

    , 95, Dominican
    Dominican Republic
    The Dominican Republic is a nation on the island of La Hispaniola, part of the Greater Antilles archipelago in the Caribbean region. The western third of the island is occupied by the nation of Haiti, making Hispaniola one of two Caribbean islands that are shared by two countries...

     writer. http://www.listin.com.do/antes/enero06/160106/cuerpos/ciudades/ciu6.htm
  • Edward N. Hall
    Edward N. Hall
    Edward N Hall born in New York CityHe received a Bachelor in engineering from College of the City of New York in 1935 and a professional degree in chemical engineering in 1936. In 1948, earned a Master of Science in aeronautical engineering from California Institute of Technology.Hall entered the...

    , 91, U.S. Air Force rocket expert, father of the Minuteman intercontinental ballistic missile
    Intercontinental ballistic missile
    An intercontinental ballistic missile is a ballistic missile with a long range typically designed for nuclear weapons delivery...

     program. http://www.latimes.com/news/science/la-me-hall18jan18,0,4976069.storyhttp://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/18/national/18hall.html
  • George Worth
    George Worth
    George V. Worth was an American sabre fencer.-US Championship:In 1954, Worth was the U.S. national sabre champion, and he was a 5-time medalist.-Olympics:...

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

     Olympic fencer. http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/wo/george-worth-1.html

14

  • Henri Colpi
    Henri Colpi
    Henri Colpi was a French film editor and film director.Colpi directed the 1961 film Une aussi longue absence, which is well-known for sharing the Palme d'Or at the 1961 Cannes Film Festival with Viridiana, which was directed by Luis Buñuel...

    , 84, Swiss
    Switzerland
    Switzerland name of one of the Swiss cantons. ; ; ; or ), in its full name the Swiss Confederation , is a federal republic consisting of 26 cantons, with Bern as the seat of the federal authorities. The country is situated in Western Europe,Or Central Europe depending on the definition....

     film director and cinematographer
    Cinematographer
    A cinematographer is one photographing with a motion picture camera . The title is generally equivalent to director of photography , used to designate a chief over the camera and lighting crews working on a film, responsible for achieving artistic and technical decisions related to the image...

    .
  • Jim Gary
    Jim Gary
    Jim Gary was an American sculptor popularly known for his large, colorful creations of dinosaurs made from discarded automobile parts...

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

     sculptor, complications from a cerebral hemorrhage. http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/19/arts/design/19gary.html
  • Conrad Hendricks
    Conrad Hendricks
    Conrad Hendricks was a South African football player last playing as goalkeeper for Moroka Swallows....

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

     player, car crash. http://www.kickoff.com/stories/story6439.html
  • Mark Philo
    Mark Philo
    Mark William Philo was an English professional footballer. He was born in Bracknell, Berkshire and spent his whole professional career at Wycombe Wanderers. He died on 14 January 2006 in a road traffic collision.- Career :...

    , 21, English
    England
    England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...

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

     player, injuries from a car crash. http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2006/soccer/01/14/bc.eu.spt.soc.wycombe.player.ap/
  • Bob Weinstock
    Bob Weinstock
    Bob Weinstock was an American record producer best known for his label Prestige Records, established in 1949, which was responsible for many significant jazz recordings during his more than two decades operating the firm.-Early life:As an 8-year-old, Weinstock bought "armfuls of records" by jazz...

    , 77, founded independent 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...

     record label
    Record label
    In the music industry, a record label is a brand and a trademark associated with the marketing of music recordings and music videos. Most commonly, a record label is the company that manages such brands and trademarks, coordinates the production, manufacture, distribution, marketing and promotion,...

     Prestige Records
    Prestige Records
    Prestige Records was a jazz record label founded in 1949 by Bob Weinstock. The company was located at 203 South Washington Avenue in Bergenfield, New Jersey, and recorded hundreds of albums by many of the leading jazz musicians of the day, sometimes issuing them under the names of several...

    , complications of diabetes. http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/16/arts/16weinstock.html
  • Shelley Winters
    Shelley Winters
    Shelley Winters was an American actress who appeared in dozens of films, as well as on stage and television; her career spanned over 50 years until her death in 2006...

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

     actress (Lolita
    Lolita (1962 film)
    Lolita is a 1962 comedy-drama film by Stanley Kubrick based on the classic novel of the same title by Vladimir Nabokov. The film stars James Mason as Humbert Humbert, Sue Lyon as Dolores Haze and Shelley Winters as Charlotte Haze with Peter Sellers as Clare Quilty.Due to the MPAA's restrictions at...

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

    . http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/15/movies/15winters.htmlhttp://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/01/14/AR2006011400648.htmlhttp://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/01/14/AR2006011401166.html

13

  • Raúl Anguiano
    Raúl Anguiano
    José Raúl Anguiano Valadez was a Mexican critical realist painter, draftsman, muralist, and engraver, as well as a member of the second generation of the so-called "Mexican School of Painting" in Mexican art, along with Juan O'Gorman, Judith Gutierrez, Jorge González Camarena, José Chávez Morado,...

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

     engraver and painter. http://www.eluniversal.com.mx/notas/325422.html
  • Richard Dalitz
    Richard Dalitz
    Richard Henry Dalitz was an Australian physicist known for his work in particle physics.Born Dimboola, Victoria near Melbourne, Dalitz studied physics and mathematics at Melbourne University before moving to the United Kingdom in 1946, starting his PhD research at the University of Cambridge...

    , 80, 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 physicist, expert in exotic particles, studied quark
    Quark
    A quark is an elementary particle and a fundamental constituent of matter. Quarks combine to form composite particles called hadrons, the most stable of which are protons and neutrons, the components of atomic nuclei. Due to a phenomenon known as color confinement, quarks are never directly...

    s.
  • Frank Fixaris
    Frank Fixaris
    Frank Fixaris was an American sportscaster, anchor, and reporter, spending the majority of his career at WGME-TV in Portland, Maine. He also co-hosted a morning radio show on WJAB after his television run.Fixaris attended college in Boston, Massachusetts and graduated from Emerson College in 1956...

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

     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...

    , house fire. http://www.tvjobs.com/obits/obit1028.htm
  • Ron Jessie
    Ron Jessie
    Ron Ray Jessie was a professional American football wide receiver in the National Football League from 1971 through 1981. His best season came in 1976 with the Los Angeles Rams, when he was named to the Pro Bowl. Jessie died after suffering a heart attack in his Huntington Beach home.-External...

    , 57, former NFL wide receiver
    Wide receiver
    A wide receiver is an offensive position in American and Canadian football, and is the key player in most of the passing plays. Only players in the backfield or the ends on the line are eligible to catch a forward pass. The two players who begin play at the ends of the offensive line are eligible...

    , 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://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=2295067
  • Marc Potvin
    Marc Potvin
    Marc Potvin was a Canadian professional ice hockey player in the National Hockey League. He was the cousin of Denis Potvin and Jean Potvin.- Playing career :...

    , 38, former NHL player, found dead in his hotel room in Michigan
    Michigan
    Michigan is a U.S. state located in the Great Lakes Region of the United States of America. The name Michigan is the French form of the Ojibwa word mishigamaa, meaning "large water" or "large lake"....

    , suicide.
  • Joan Root
    Joan Root
    Joan Root was a Kenyan-born conservationist, ecological activist and Oscar-nominated filmmaker....

    , 69, wildlife conservationist, shot to death. http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/17/international/17root.html

12

  • William Matthew Byrne, Jr., 75, presiding judge in the trial of Daniel Ellsberg
    Daniel Ellsberg
    Daniel Ellsberg, PhD, is a former United States military analyst who, while employed by the RAND Corporation, precipitated a national political controversy in 1971 when he released the Pentagon Papers, a top-secret Pentagon study of U.S. government decision-making in relation to the Vietnam War,...

    , 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.nytimes.com/2006/01/15/national/15byrne.htmlhttp://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/01/14/AR2006011401165.html
  • Brendan Cauldwell
    Brendan Cauldwell
    Brendan Cauldwell was an Irish radio, film and television actor.-Career:Brendan Cauldwell was born in Fairview, North Dublin. He was educated at O'Connell's Irish Christian Brothers School and went on to work in the insurance industry before becoming a full time actor...

    , 83, 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...

     actor, died in sleep.
  • Eldon Dedini
    Eldon Dedini
    Eldon Dedini was an American cartoonist whose work has appeared in Esquire, The New Yorker, Playboy and elsewhere....

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

    . http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/14/arts/14dedini.html
  • Shaikh Faisal bin Hamad Al Khalifa, 15, Bahrain
    Bahrain
    ' , officially the Kingdom of Bahrain , is a small island state near the western shores of the Persian Gulf. It is ruled by the Al Khalifa royal family. The population in 2010 stood at 1,214,705, including 235,108 non-nationals. Formerly an emirate, Bahrain was declared a kingdom in 2002.Bahrain is...

    i prince, injuries from a car crash.
  • Günther Landgraf
    Günther Landgraf
    Günther Landgraf was a German physicist and former President of Technische Universität Dresden ....

    , 77, 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...

     physicist and former President of Technische Universität Dresden. http://tu-dresden.de/aktuelles/news/landgraf/newsarticle_view
  • Stewart Linder, 74 American
    United States
    The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

     Oscar
    Academy Awards
    An Academy Award, also known as an Oscar, is an accolade bestowed by the American Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to recognize excellence of professionals in the film industry, including directors, actors, and writers...

    -winning film editor.
  • Anne Meacham
    Anne Meacham
    Mary Anne Meacham was a noted American actress of stage, film and soap opera.Born and raised in Chicago, Meacham left to study drama at Yale University, graduating with a degree in 1947.-New York stage:...

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

     stage (Suddenly, Last Summer
    Suddenly, Last Summer
    Suddenly, Last Summer is a one-act play by Tennessee Williams. It opened off Broadway on January 7, 1958, as part of a double bill with another of Williams's one-acts, Something Unspoken. The presentation of the two plays was given the overall title Garden District, but Suddenly, Last Summer is...

    ) and television actress (Another World
    Another World (TV series)
    Another World is an American television soap opera that ran on NBC from May 4, 1964 to June 25, 1999. It ran for a total of 35 years. It was created by Irna Phillips along with William J...

    ). http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/17/arts/17meacham.html
  • Meinrad Schütter
    Meinrad Schütter
    Meinrad Schütter was a Swiss composer. He studied with Willy Burkhard during World War II and with Paul Hindemith from 1950 to 1954....

    , 95, Swiss
    Switzerland
    Switzerland name of one of the Swiss cantons. ; ; ; or ), in its full name the Swiss Confederation , is a federal republic consisting of 26 cantons, with Bern as the seat of the federal authorities. The country is situated in Western Europe,Or Central Europe depending on the definition....

     composer. http://www.espace.ch/artikel_168262.html

11

  • Eric Namesnik
    Eric Namesnik
    Eric John Namesnik was an Olympic swimmer for the United States.-Biography:He was born and raised in the town of Butler, Pennsylvania. Namesnik won silver medals in the 400-meter individual medley at both the 1992 Summer Olympics and 1996 Summer Olympics...

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

     Olympic
    Olympic Games
    The Olympic Games is a major international event featuring summer and winter sports, in which thousands of athletes participate in a variety of competitions. The Olympic Games have come to be regarded as the world’s foremost sports competition where more than 200 nations participate...

     swimmer, injuries from a car crash.
  • Mark Spoon, 39, 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...

     DJ
    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...

     and prominent figure in trance music
    Trance music
    Trance is a genre of electronic dance music that developed in the 1990s.:251 It is generally characterized by a tempo of between 125 and 150 bpm,:252 repeating melodic synthesizer phrases, and a musical form that builds up and breaks down throughout a track...

    , 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.spiegel.de/kultur/musik/0,1518,394770,00.html

10

  • Ira B. Black, 64, neuroscientist, founder of the Stem Cell Institute of New Jersey, infection related to a tumor
    Tumor
    A tumor or tumour is commonly used as a synonym for a neoplasm that appears enlarged in size. Tumor is not synonymous with cancer...

    . http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/12/nyregion/12black.html
  • Dave Brown, 52, former National Football League
    National Football League
    The National Football League is the highest level of professional American football in the United States, and is considered the top professional American football league in the world. It was formed by eleven teams in 1920 as the American Professional Football Association, with the league changing...

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

    . http://www.seattlepi.com/football/255235_brown11.html
  • Elliot Forbes
    Elliot Forbes
    Elliot Forbes , known as "El", was an American conductor and musicologist noted for his Beethoven scholarship.-Life and career:...

    , 88, Harvard University
    Harvard University
    Harvard University is a private Ivy League university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, established in 1636 by the Massachusetts legislature. Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States and the first corporation chartered in the country...

     professor and Beethoven
    Ludwig van Beethoven
    Ludwig van Beethoven was a German composer and pianist. A crucial figure in the transition between the Classical and Romantic eras in Western art music, he remains one of the most famous and influential composers of all time.Born in Bonn, then the capital of the Electorate of Cologne and part of...

     scholar. http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/14/arts/14forbes.html
  • Sidney Frank
    Sidney Frank
    Sidney E. Frank was an American businessman who became a billionaire through his promotion of Grey Goose vodka and Jägermeister.-Early life, family, education:...

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

     businessman and philanthropist, heart failure. http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/12/business/12frank.html
  • Alethea Hayter, 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...

     writer. http://news.independent.co.uk/people/obituaries/article337760.ece
  • Dennis Marks
    Dennis Marks
    Dennis Marks was an American screen writer, producer and voice actor, mainly for children's animations. Marks wrote for several big production companies during the 1960s through to the 1990s, including Hanna-Barbera, DC and Marvel...

    , 73, animation writer-producer. http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-passings19.2jan19,0,3864538.story?coll=la-news-obituaries

9

  • Andy Caldecott
    Andy Caldecott
    Andy Caldecott was an off road motorcycle racer born in Keith, South Australia. He won the Australian Safari Rally four times consecutively and was a competitor in the Dakar Rally in 2004 , 2005 , and 2006....

    , 41, 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 Dakar Rally
    Dakar Rally
    The Dakar Rally is an annual rally raid type of off-road automobile race, organised by the Amaury Sport Organisation...

     motorcycle
    Motorcycle
    A motorcycle is a single-track, two-wheeled motor vehicle. Motorcycles vary considerably depending on the task for which they are designed, such as long distance travel, navigating congested urban traffic, cruising, sport and racing, or off-road conditions.Motorcycles are one of the most...

     rider, fatal neck injury sustained in an accident in Mauritania
    Mauritania
    Mauritania is a country in the Maghreb and West Africa. It is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean in the west, by Western Sahara in the north, by Algeria in the northeast, by Mali in the east and southeast, and by Senegal in the southwest...

    . http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200601/s1544387.htm
  • Patricia Hitt
    Patricia Hitt
    Patricia Hitt was the Assistant Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare under President Richard Nixon. She died of natural causes on June 9, 2005, at her home in Balboa Island. Hitt was 87 years old. It was noted that she had died on the date that would have been the late president's 93rd...

    , 87, Assistant United States Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare under President Nixon
    Richard Nixon
    Richard Milhous Nixon was the 37th President of the United States, serving from 1969 to 1974. The only president to resign the office, Nixon had previously served as a US representative and senator from California and as the 36th Vice President of the United States from 1953 to 1961 under...

    , natural causes. http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/17/national/17hitt.html
  • Selwyn Hughes
    Selwyn Hughes
    Selwyn Hughes was a Welsh Christian minister best known for writing the daily devotional Every Day with Jesus. He founded the Christian ministry Crusade for World Revival and wrote over fifty Christian books...

    , 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...

     fundamentalist evangelical
    Evangelism
    Evangelism refers to the practice of relaying information about a particular set of beliefs to others who do not hold those beliefs. The term is often used in reference to Christianity....

     who founded Crusade for World Revival
  • Mikk Mikiver
    Mikk Mikiver
    Mikk Mikiver was a prominent Estonian stage and film actor and theater director....

    , 68, 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 stage director and actor.
  • W. Cleon Skousen, 92, BYU
    BYU
    -Education:* Brigham Young University, a university located in Provo, Utah, USA administered by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.**BYU Salt Lake Center, a satellite center in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA...

     professor and prominent Latter-day Saint author and lecturer.
  • Jack Snow
    Jack Snow (football)
    Jack Thomas Snow was an American football player who played wide receiver at the University of Notre Dame from 1962 through 1964 and with the Los Angeles Rams of the NFL from 1965 to 1975.-Early years:...

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

     player and radio announcer, complications from a staph infection. http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/11/sports/football/11snow.html
  • Don Stewart
    Don Stewart (actor)
    Donald Bruce Stewart was an American actor best known for his long-running role as attorney Mike Bauer on Guiding Light. Stewart appeared on Guiding Light from 1968 to 1984, with a brief return appearance in 1997....

    , 70, actor (Michael Bauer on The Guiding Light), 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/2006/01/21/arts/21stewart.html

8

  • Tony Banks, Baron Stratford
    Tony Banks, Baron Stratford
    Anthony Louis Banks, Baron Stratford was a British Labour Party politician, who was a Member of Parliament from 1983 to 2005, before being made a Member of the House of Lords. In government, he served for two years as Minister for Sport...

    , 62, former 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...

     Minister for Sport
    Sport
    A Sport is all forms of physical activity which, through casual or organised participation, aim to use, maintain or improve physical fitness and provide entertainment to participants. Sport may be competitive, where a winner or winners can be identified by objective means, and may require a degree...

    , 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...

     and cerebral hemorrhage. http://www.guardian.co.uk/obituaries/story/0,,1682322,00.html
  • Elson Becerra
    Elson Becerra
    Elson Evelio Becerra Vaca was a Colombian footballer.A national team player, Becerra participated in the 2001 Copa America as well as the 2003 Confederations Cup, where he became noted for trying to save the life of the collapsed Marc-Vivien Foé...

    , 27, Colombia
    Colombia national football team
    The Colombian national football team represents Colombia in international football competitions and is controlled by the Colombian Football Federation. It is a member of the CONMEBOL...

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

     player, shot. http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/internationals/4597700.stm
  • Alex Elmsley
    Alex Elmsley
    Alex Elmsley was a British Magician and Computer programmer. He was notable for his invention of the Ghost Count or Elmsley Count, creating mathematical card tricks, and for publishing the mathematics of playing card shuffling.He began practicing magic in 1946, as a teenager...

    , 76, English
    England
    England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...

     magician, 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...

    .
  • Georg Wilhelm, Prince of Hanover, 90, educator and Olympian. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?view=DETAILS&grid=&xml=/news/2006/01/17/db1701.xml
  • David Rosenbaum
    David Rosenbaum
    David E. Rosenbaum was an American journalist.After his education, Rosenbaum worked for a number of publications including the St. Petersburg Times and the Congressional Quarterly. He worked for the New York Times for thirty-five years beginning in 1968...

    , 63, New York Times reporter, head injury during mugging. http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/09/national/09rosenbaum.html
  • Mimmo Rotella
    Mimmo Rotella
    Domenico "Mimmo" Rotella, , was an Italian artist and poet best known for his works of décollage and psychogeographics, made from torn advertising posters.Rotella was born in Catanzaro, Calabria....

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

     artist, illness. http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/13/arts/design/13rotella.html
  • Raatbek Sanatbayev
    Raatbek Sanatbayev
    Raatbek Sanatbayev was a Kyrgyz Greco-Roman wrestler who competed in the Men's Greco-Roman 82 kg at the 1996 Summer Olympics and the Men's Greco-Roman 85 kg at the 2000 Summer Olympics...

    , 36, Kyrgyz
    Kyrgyzstan
    Kyrgyzstan , officially the Kyrgyz Republic is one of the world's six independent Turkic states . Located in Central Asia, landlocked and mountainous, Kyrgyzstan is bordered by Kazakhstan to the north, Uzbekistan to the west, Tajikistan to the southwest and China to the east...

     Olympic Greco-Roman wrestler
    Greco-Roman wrestling
    Greco-Roman wrestling is a style of wrestling that is practised worldwide. It was contested at the first modern Olympic Games in 1896 and has been included in every edition of the summer Olympics held since 1908. Two wrestlers are scored for their performance in three two-minute periods, which can...

     and candidate for National Olympic Committee
    National Olympic Committee
    National Olympic Committees are the national constituents of the worldwide Olympic movement. Subject to the controls of the International Olympic Committee, they are responsible for organizing their people's participation in the Olympic Games...

     president, shot http://newsfromrussia.com/cis/2006/01/10/70956.html
  • José Luis Sánchez, 31, 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 (soccer) player, from injuries sustained in a biking accident.

7

  • Urano Teixeira da Matta Bacellar
    Urano Teixeira da Matta Bacellar
    Lieutenant-General Urano Teixeira da Matta Bacellar was a Brazilian soldier. He was born in Bagé in the state of Rio Grande do Sul. He served for 39 years in the Brazilian Army and eventually rose to the rank of Lieutenant-General...

    , 58, Head of the UN
    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...

     peacekeeping
    Peacekeeping
    Peacekeeping is an activity that aims to create the conditions for lasting peace. It is distinguished from both peacebuilding and peacemaking....

     force in 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...

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

    . http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/americas/01/07/un.haiti.ap/index.html
  • Heinrich Harrer
    Heinrich Harrer
    Heinrich Harrer was an Austrian mountaineer, sportsman, geographer, and author.He is best known for his books Seven Years in Tibet and The White Spider .-Athletics:...

    , 93, 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 mountaineer, sportsman, geographer and author. http://www.heute.de/ZDFheute/inhalt/0/0,3672,3267392,00.htmlhttp://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/10/obituaries/10harrer.html
  • Jim Zulevic
    Jim Zulevic
    Jim Zulevic was an American actor, improvisational comedian, television writer, and radio host. He died suddenly, possibly due to a heart attack, at age 40.- Early life :...

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

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

    , heart 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.variety.com/article/VR1117936265.html?categoryid=25&cs=1

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  • Allaire du Pont
    Allaire du Pont
    Allaire du Pont was an American sportswoman and a member of the prominent French-American Du Pont family of chemical manufacturers who is most remembered as the owner of the Thoroughbred horse racing Hall of Fame champion, Kelso....

    , 92, 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...

     enthusiast, owner of Kelso
    Kelso (horse)
    Kelso was an American thoroughbred race horse considered among the best racehorses of the 20th century. In the list of the top 100 U.S. thoroughbred champions of the 20th Century by The Blood-Horse magazine Kelso ranks 4th, behind only Man o' War , Secretariat and Citation...

    , natural causes. http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/10/sports/10du-pont.html
  • Roshan Khan
    Roshan Khan
    Roshan Khan was a squash player from Pakistan. He was one of the leading players in the game in the 1950s and early-1960s, and won the British Open title in 1957...

    , 76, 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 squash player, father of Jahangir Khan
    Jahangir Khan
    Jahangir Khan, HI, is a former World No. 1 professional squash player from Pakistan, who is considered by many to be the greatest player in the history of the game. During his career he won the World Open six times and the British Open a record ten times...

     complications from a 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...

     and coma
    Coma
    In medicine, a coma is a state of unconsciousness, lasting more than 6 hours in which a person cannot be awakened, fails to respond normally to painful stimuli, light or sound, lacks a normal sleep-wake cycle and does not initiate voluntary actions. A person in a state of coma is described as...

    . http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/other_sports/squash/4590024.stm
  • Alf McMichael
    Alf McMichael
    Alfred "Alf" McMichael was a footballer who played as a left-back.Belfast-born "Alf" McMichael began his career at Linfield, before signing for Newcastle United in 1949. He remained at Newcastle until 1962, appearing 431 times and scoring once for the club...

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

     & Newcastle United.
  • Józef Milik
    Józef Milik
    Józef Tadeusz Milik was a Polish biblical scholar and a former Catholic priest. Fluent in Polish, Russian, Italian, French, German, and English plus many ancient languages Hebrew, Greek, Latin, Aramaic, Syriac, Old Church Slavonic, Arabic, Georgian, Ugaritic, Akkadian, Sumerian, Egyptian, and...

    , 83, 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...

     Catholic priest and Dead Sea Scrolls
    Dead Sea scrolls
    The Dead Sea Scrolls are a collection of 972 texts from the Hebrew Bible and extra-biblical documents found between 1947 and 1956 on the northwest shore of the Dead Sea, from which they derive their name...

     scholar.
  • Comandante Ramona
    Comandante Ramona
    Comandante Ramona was the nom de guerre of an officer of the Zapatista Army of National Liberation , a revolutionary indigenous autonomist organization based in the southern Mexican state of Chiapas. She was perhaps the most famous female Zapatista figure for her role early in the uprising...

    , 47, Tzotzil Indian Zapatista
    Zapatista Army of National Liberation
    The Zapatista Army of National Liberation is a revolutionary leftist group based in Chiapas, the southernmost state of Mexico....

     rebel leader and women's rights advocate, kidney disease and tuberculosis
    Tuberculosis
    Tuberculosis, MTB, or TB is a common, and in many cases lethal, infectious disease caused by various strains of mycobacteria, usually Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Tuberculosis usually attacks the lungs but can also affect other parts of the body...

    . http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/10/obituaries/10ramona.html
  • Lou Rawls
    Lou Rawls
    Louis Allen "Lou" Rawls was an American soul, jazz, and blues singer. He was known for his smooth vocal style: Frank Sinatra once said that Rawls had "the classiest singing and silkiest chops in the singing game"...

    , 72, 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...

     and blues singer, lung and brain 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.breitbart.com/news/2006/01/06/D8EV971O0.htmlhttp://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/06/arts/music/06cnd-rawls.html?ex=1294203600&en=37f048c5aae7aa16&ei=5090http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/07/arts/music/07rawls.html?ex=1294290000&en=4989727aad1ee85f&ei=5090http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/01/06/AR2006010600588.html
  • Hugh Thompson, Jr.
    Hugh Thompson, Jr.
    Hugh Clowers Thompson, Jr., DFC, BSM, PH, AM was a United States Army helicopter pilot during the Vietnam War. He is most well known for his role in stopping the My Lai Massacre, in which a group of US Army soldiers tortured and killed several hundred unarmed Vietnamese civilians, mutilating their...

    , 62, Vietnam War
    Vietnam War
    The Vietnam War was a Cold War-era military conflict that occurred in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from 1 November 1955 to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975. This war followed the First Indochina War and was fought between North Vietnam, supported by its communist allies, and the government of...

     helicopter
    Helicopter
    A helicopter is a type of rotorcraft in which lift and thrust are supplied by one or more engine-driven rotors. This allows the helicopter to take off and land vertically, to hover, and to fly forwards, backwards, and laterally...

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

     who helped stop the My Lai Massacre
    My Lai Massacre
    The My Lai Massacre was the Vietnam War mass murder of 347–504 unarmed civilians in South Vietnam on March 16, 1968, by United States Army soldiers of "Charlie" Company of 1st Battalion, 20th Infantry Regiment, 11th Brigade of the Americal Division. Most of the victims were women, children , and...

    , removed from life support
    Life support
    Life support, in medicine is a broad term that applies to any therapy used to sustain a patient's life while they are critically ill or injured. There are many therapies and techniques that may be used by clinicians to achieve the goal of sustaining life...

    . http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/07/national/07thompson.html?ex=1294290000&en=8704597229a070d3&ei=5090http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/01/06/AR2006010601911.html
  • Stanley Roger Tupper, 84, former Republican
    Republican Party (United States)
    The Republican Party is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States, along with the Democratic Party. Founded by anti-slavery expansion activists in 1854, it is often called the GOP . The party's platform generally reflects American conservatism in the U.S...

     United States Representative from Maine
    Maine
    Maine is a state in the New England region of the northeastern United States, bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the east and south, New Hampshire to the west, and the Canadian provinces of Quebec to the northwest and New Brunswick to the northeast. Maine is both the northernmost and easternmost...

     from 1961 - 1967.
  • Gábor Zavadszky, 31, 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...

     footballer (soccer player), probably 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.uefa.com/footballeurope/news/Kind=2/newsId=383409.html

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  • Ramona Bell, 47, wife of broadcaster
    Presenter
    A presenter, or host , is a person or organization responsible for running an event. A museum or university, for example, may be the presenter or host of an exhibit. Likewise, a master of ceremonies is a person that hosts or presents a show...

     Art Bell
    Art Bell
    Arthur W. "Art" Bell, III is an American broadcaster and author, known primarily as one of the founders and the original host of the paranormal-themed radio program Coast to Coast AM. He also created and formerly hosted its companion show, Dreamland...

    , asthma attack. http://www.unknowncountry.com/news/?id=5103
  • Rod Dedeaux
    Rod Dedeaux
    Raoul Martial "Rod" Dedeaux was an American college baseball coach who compiled what is arguably the greatest record of any coach in the sport's amateur history....

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

     college 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...

     coach, 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.kcal9.com/local/local_story_005220250.htmlhttp://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/07/sports/baseball/07Dedeaux.html?ex=1294290000&en=3c876f8c139d0e8c&ei=5090
  • Sophie Heathcote
    Sophie Heathcote
    Sophie Heathcote was an Australian actress.Heathcote was born in Melbourne. She began her acting career with a role in medical drama series A Country Practice as Stephanie "Steve" Brennan from 1990 to 1991...

    , 35, 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 actress and founder of skin care range Ki
    KI
    Ki or KI may refer to:* .ki, the ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code top level domain for Kiribati*Ki., an abbreviation for the Book of Kings in Judaeo-Christian religious texts* Ki * Ki , a Japanese syllabic character...

    , aneurysm
    Aneurysm
    An aneurysm or aneurism is a localized, blood-filled balloon-like bulge in the wall of a blood vessel. Aneurysms can commonly occur in arteries at the base of the brain and an aortic aneurysm occurs in the main artery carrying blood from the left ventricle of the heart...

    . http://www.theage.com.au/news/people/sophie-heathcote-dies-in-us/2006/01/05/1136387572379.html
  • Keizo Miura
    Keizo Miura
    was a Japanese skiing legend. He was a skiing teacher and photographer of mountain landscapes. He was notable for his fitness and outdoor-sport undertakings at advanced age; he was the oldest person to climb the Kilimanjaro, at age 77 and descended a Gletscher of the Mont Blanc at age 99 together...

    , 101, 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 mountaineer. http://mdn.mainichi-msn.co.jp/national/news/20060105p2a00m0na029000c.html
  • Lord Merlyn-Rees, 85, former 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...

     Home Secretary
    Home Secretary
    The Secretary of State for the Home Department, commonly known as the Home Secretary, is the minister in charge of the Home Office of the United Kingdom, and one of the country's four Great Offices of State...

    , following a number of falls.
  • Ken Mosdell
    Ken Mosdell
    Kenneth "Kenny" Mosdell was a Canadian ice hockey forward.Ken played in the National Hockey League from 1941 to 1942, and 1944 to 1959. He played his career with the Montreal Canadiens, Brooklyn Americans, and Chicago Black Hawks...

    , 83 Former 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 ...

     Hockey player
  • Simon Shanks
    Simon Shanks
    Simon Shanks was a National Football League player for the Arizona Cardinals in 1995. An alumnus of Tennessee State University, he played linebacker in his sole professional season, leading the Cardinals defense with 27 tackles. Shanks was killed in a robbery at his home in Phoenix on January 5,...

    , 34, linebacker
    Linebacker
    A linebacker is a position in American football that was invented by football coach Fielding H. Yost of the University of Michigan. Linebackers are members of the defensive team, and line up approximately three to five yards behind the line of scrimmage, behind the defensive linemen...

     for the Arizona Cardinals
    Arizona Cardinals
    The Arizona Cardinals are a professional American football team based in Glendale, Arizona, a suburb of Phoenix. They are currently members of the Western Division of the National Football Conference in the National Football League...

     in 1995, murdered by home intruder. http://cbs.sportsline.com/nfl/story/9148818/rss
  • Rachel Squire
    Rachel Squire
    Rachel Anne Squire was a British Labour Party politician in Scotland. She was the Member of Parliament for Dunfermline West from 1992 to 2005, and then for Dunfermline and West Fife from 2005 until her death after a long series of illnesses.-Background:Squire was born in Carshalton, Surrey, England...

    , 51, 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...

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

     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 Dunfermline and West Fife, 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.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/4586808.stm
  • Alex St. Clair
    Alex St. Clair
    Alex St. Clair , was an American musician.Twice guitarist for Captain Beefheart, St. Clair was a contemporary of Frank Zappa at Antelope Valley High School in Lancaster, California, where St. Clair played trumpet and Zappa played drums. They bought their first guitars within days of each other.St...

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

     musician, primarily with Captain Beefheart
    Captain Beefheart
    Don Van Vliet January 15, 1941 December 17, 2010) was an American musician, singer-songwriter and artist best known by the stage name Captain Beefheart. His musical work was conducted with a rotating ensemble of musicians called The Magic Band, active between 1965 and 1982, with whom he recorded 12...

    .
  • Vajramuni
    Vajramuni
    Vajramuni was an actor in the Kannada film industry who acted in more than 300 movies. He died at the age of 62.. He had been suffering from protracted kidney-related illness and was on dialysis for a couple of years...

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

    n actor.

4

  • John Hahn-Petersen
    John Hahn-Petersen
    John Hahn-Petersen was a Danish theatre, TV and movie actor.He made his debut in 1955 and starred in a number of productions including:* Matador* Landsbyen* Taxa...

    , 75, 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...

     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 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://nyhederne.tv2.dk/article.php?id=3438699
  • Milton Himmelfarb
    Milton Himmelfarb
    Milton Himmelfarb was an American sociographer of the American Jewish community.Himmelfarb worked for four decades at the American Jewish Committee where he was director of information and research services. He edited various versions of the American Jewish Yearbook...

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

     essayist. http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/15/nyregion/15himmelfarb.html
  • Stan Hunt
    Stan Hunt
    Stanley Richard Hunt was an American newspaper cartoonist.Born in Williston Park, New York, Hunt served in the Korean War with the 1st Infantry Division of the U.S. Army. After the war, Hunt attended the New York School of Art. He created cartoons for various newspapers including the New York...

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

     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...

    . http://www.thepilot.com/news/010606Hunt.html
  • Irving Layton
    Irving Layton
    Irving Peter Layton, OC was a Romanian-born Canadian poet. He was known for his "tell it like it is" style which won him a wide following but also made enemies. As T...

    , 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...

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

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

    . http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/13/books/13layton.html
  • Maria de Lourdes Pereira dos Santos Van-Dúnem
    Maria de Lourdes Pereira dos Santos Van-Dúnem
    Lourdes Van-Dúnem, born Maria de Lourdes Pereira dos Santos Van-Dúnem on was an Angolan singer.Usually called Lourdes Van-Dúnem, she was born in Luanda, and rose to stardom in the 1960s with the group Ngola Ritmos. She recorded her first album, Monami, with this group...

    , 70, Angola
    Angola
    Angola, officially the Republic of Angola , is a country in south-central Africa bordered by Namibia on the south, the Democratic Republic of the Congo on the north, and Zambia on the east; its west coast is on the Atlantic Ocean with Luanda as its capital city...

    n singer, typhoid fever
    Typhoid fever
    Typhoid fever, also known as Typhoid, is a common worldwide bacterial disease, transmitted by the ingestion of food or water contaminated with the feces of an infected person, which contain the bacterium Salmonella enterica, serovar Typhi...

    . http://www.trueknowledge.com/q/conductors_who_died_of_typhoid_fever
  • Sheikh
    Sheikh
    Not to be confused with sikhSheikh — also spelled Sheik or Shaikh, or transliterated as Shaykh — is an honorific in the Arabic language that literally means "elder" and carries the meaning "leader and/or governor"...

     Maktoum bin Rashid Al Maktoum
    Maktoum bin Rashid Al Maktoum
    Maktoum bin Rashid Al Maktoum , also referred to as Sheikh Maktoum was the Vice President and Prime Minister of the United Arab Emirates and the emir of Dubai.-Biography:...

    , 62, Ruler of Dubai
    Dubai
    Dubai is a city and emirate in the United Arab Emirates . The emirate is located south of the Persian Gulf on the Arabian Peninsula and has the largest population with the second-largest land territory by area of all the emirates, after Abu Dhabi...

     and Prime Minister of the United Arab Emirates, 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.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/01/04/AR2006010401988.html
  • Gretl Schörg
    Gretl Schörg
    Gretl Schörg was an Austrian operatic soprano and actress. She was particularly known for her performances in operettas...

    , 91, 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...

     actress. http://hosting.triboni.com/triboni/exec?method=com.operissimo.artist.webDisplay&id=ffcyoieagxaaaaabnjxs&xsl=webDisplay&searchStr=Gretl (German)
  • Nel van Vliet
    Nel van Vliet
    Petronella van Vliet was a breaststroke swimmer from the Netherlands, who represented her native country at the 1948 Summer Olympics in London, United Kingdom. There she won the gold medal in the women's 200 m breaststroke.-References:...

    , 79, Dutch swimmer. http://www.nrc.nl/anp/sport/article122688.ece

3

  • Urbano Lazzaro
    Urbano Lazzaro
    Urbano Lazzaro was an Italian resistance fighter who played an important role in capturing Benito Mussolini near the end of World War II....

    , 81, 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...

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

    . http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/05/international/europe/05lazzaro.html
  • Steve Rogers
    Steve Rogers (rugby league footballer)
    Steve Rogers was an Australian rugby league footballer of the 1970s and 80s. He played for the Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks and St. George Dragons teams in the New South Wales Rugby League premiership competition and for Widnes in the English competition, usually in the position of centre...

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

     player, apparent suicide. http://www.theaustralian.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,17719304%255E1702,00.html
  • Sir William Skate
    Bill Skate
    Sir William Jack Skate KCMG was a Papua New Guinea politician and statesman. He was the son of an Australian father and a native PNG mother...

    , 52, Papua New Guinea
    Papua New Guinea
    Papua New Guinea , officially the Independent State of Papua New Guinea, is a country in Oceania, occupying the eastern half of the island of New Guinea and numerous offshore islands...

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

    , Prime Minister
    Prime Minister of Papua New Guinea
    The Prime Minister of Papua New Guinea, is Papua New Guinea's head of government, consequent on being the leader of the party or coalition with majority support in the National Parliament. Since 2 August 2011, the Prime Minister has been Peter O’Neill of the People's National Congress Party.-List...

     (1997–1999), 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.pacificmagazine.net/news/2006/01/04/png-former-prime-minister-sir-william-skate-dies-at-52
  • Bruce Wilson
    Bruce Wilson (journalist)
    Bruce Wilson was an Australian journalist.He was known mostly for his sports journalism, throughout his lengthy five-decade career writing articles on cricket and rugby events with the Herald Sun, mostly as a foreign correspondent...

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

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

    , 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.heraldsun.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5478,17726261%5E662,00.html

2

  • Raul Davila
    Raul Davila
    Raúl Dávila was an actor, who is best remembered for his role of Hector Santos in the American soap opera All My Children.-Early years:...

    , 74, 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...

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

    , 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.soapcentral.com/amc/news/2006/0109-davila.php
  • Ofelia Fox
    Ofelia Fox
    Ofelia Fox , born Ofelia Suárez in Havana, Cuba, was a poet, lecturer and radio personality whose life as the wife of a Havana nightclub owner was chronicled in the book Tropicana Nights: the Life and Times of the Legendary Cuban Nightclub. .Ofelia Suárez grew up in Cuba with three siblings...

    , 82, 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 nightclub owner
    Nightclub
    A nightclub is an entertainment venue which usually operates late into the night...

     (Tropicana Club
    Tropicana Club
    Tropicana is a world known cabaret and club in Havana, Cuba. It was launched in 1939 at Villa Mina, a six-acre suburban estate with lush tropical gardens in Havana's Marianao neighborhood.-Influence:...

    )
    , 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/2006/01/11/arts/11fox.html
  • Osa Massen
    Osa Massen
    -Background and early career:Born Aase Madsen, she began her career as a newspaper photographer before becoming an actress. Massen notably appeared as Melvyn Douglas' unfaithful wife dealing with blackmailer Joan Crawford in A Woman's Face ....

    , 91, 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...

     actress. http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117939842.html?categoryid=25&cs=1
  • Michael S. Smith
    Michael S. Smith
    Michael Scott Smith was an American jazz drummer and percussionist.-Career:Based in the Washington D.C...

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

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

     drummer
    Drummer
    A drummer is a musician who is capable of playing drums, which includes but is not limited to a drum kit and accessory based hardware which includes an assortment of pedals and standing support mechanisms, marching percussion and/or any musical instrument that is struck within the context of a...

    . http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/washingtonpost/access/959539041.html?dids=959539041:959539041&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&fmac=&date=Jan+9%2C+2006&author=&desc=Obituaries
  • Francis Steinmetz
    Francis Steinmetz
    Francis Steinmetz was an officer in the Royal Netherlands Navy who escaped from Oflag IV-C, Colditz Castle, a German POW camp, during World War II....

    , 91 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...

     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 Colditz Castle
    Colditz Castle
    Colditz Castle is a Renaissance castle in the town of Colditz near Leipzig, Dresden, and Chemnitz in the state of Saxony in Germany. Used as a workhouse for the indigent and a mental institution for over 100 years, it gained international fame as a prisoner-of-war camp during World War II for...

     escapee. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/02/25/db2501.xml&sSheet=/portal/2006/02/26/ixportal.html
  • Frank Wilkinson
    Frank Wilkinson
    Frank Wilkinson was a civil liberties activist, Executive Director of the National Committee Against Repressive Legislation and Executive Director of the First Amendment Foundation....

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

     civil liberties
    Civil liberties
    Civil liberties are rights and freedoms that provide an individual specific rights such as the freedom from slavery and forced labour, freedom from torture and death, the right to liberty and security, right to a fair trial, the right to defend one's self, the right to own and bear arms, the right...

     activist, natural causes. http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/04/national/04wilkinson.html
  • John Wojtowicz
    John Wojtowicz
    John Stanley Wojtowicz was an American bank robber whose story inspired the 1975 film Dog Day Afternoon.-Background:...

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

     bankrobber
    Bankrobber
    "Bankrobber" is a song, and single by The Clash. The song was not released on any of their studio albums, instead appearing on their compilation Black Market Clash...

    , 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.nydailynews.com/news/crime_file/story/411166p-347832c.html
  • John Woodnutt
    John Woodnutt
    John Woodnutt was a British actor.He was born in London, and at the age of 18 made his acting debut at the Oxford Playhouse....

    , 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...

     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://news.independent.co.uk/people/obituaries/article342104.ece
  • Lidia Wysocka
    Lidia Wysocka
    Lidia Wysocka was a Polish stage, film and voice actress, singer, cabaret performer and creative director, theatre director and costume designer, editorialist.-Filmography:...

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

     actress. http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0944123/

1

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

     businessman, chairman of IBM
    IBM
    International Business Machines Corporation or IBM is an American multinational technology and consulting corporation headquartered in Armonk, New York, United States. IBM manufactures and sells computer hardware and software, and it offers infrastructure, hosting and consulting services in areas...

     (1973–1981), natural causes. http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/06/business/06cary.html?ex=1294203600&en=2c6e3e44b801ad4c&ei=5090
  • Mapita Cortés
    Mapita Cortés
    Mapita Cortés , was an actress of telenovelas and the cinema of Mexico. She is the mother of Mexican actor Luis Gatica, the wife of Lucho Gatica, the niece of Puerto Rican actress Mapy Cortés, and the niece in law of Mexican actor Fernando Cortés...

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

     actress, 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.imdb.com/name/nm0181558/
  • Bryan Harvey
    Bryan Harvey (musician)
    Bryan Harvey was an American musician noted for his fronting role in House of Freaks. He was murdered with his wife Kathryn and their two daughters Stella and Ruby on January 1, 2006....

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

     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....

     (House of Freaks
    House of Freaks
    House of Freaks was a two-man band formed in Richmond, Virginia in the mid 1980s. Bryan Harvey played guitar and sang, and Johnny Hott played percussion...

    , Gutterball)
    , murdered. http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/_/id/9101924
  • Dawn Lake
    Dawn Lake
    Dawn Lake was an Australian television comedian, singer, entertainer and actor, whose career spanned more than four decades. Bert Newton described her as "our greatest comedienne - Australia's Lucille Ball"...

    , 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 entertainer, widow of Bobby Limb
    Bobby Limb
    Bobby Limb AO OBE was an Australian pioneering radio and television entertainer of the 1960s and 1970s.-Career:...

    . http://www.smh.com.au/news/obituaries/one-out-of-the-box-radio-stage/2006/01/20/1137734145475.html
  • John Latham
    John Latham (artist)
    John Aubrey Clarendon Latham, was a British conceptual artist who lived for many years in England. He believed that violence and conflict between the people of the world is the result of ideological differences...

    , 84, 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 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...

    , natural causes. http://arts.guardian.co.uk/news/obituary/0,,1681201,00.html
  • Paul Lindblad
    Paul Lindblad
    Paul Aaron Lindblad was an American Major League Baseball left-handed middle-relief pitcher. During his career, he pitched primarily for the Kansas City and Oakland Athletics. At the time of his retirement in , he had recorded the seventh-most appearances of any left-hander in history.Lindblad...

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

     baseball player, 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.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/01/13/AR2006011301777.html
  • Dragan Lukić
    Dragan Lukic
    Dragan Lukić , was a Serbian children's writer.He was born in Belgrade. His mother's name was Tomanija, and his father, Aleksandar, was a pressman, so young Dragan acquired affection for books since earliest age.In 1946 he started to publish, and during the 1950s he became a known children's poet...

    , 77, Serbian
    Serbs
    The Serbs are a South Slavic ethnic group of the Balkans and southern Central Europe. Serbs are located mainly in Serbia, Montenegro and Bosnia and Herzegovina, and form a sizable minority in Croatia, the Republic of Macedonia and Slovenia. Likewise, Serbs are an officially recognized minority in...

     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....

    , after long illness. http://www.evri.com/person/dragan-lukic-0x4d617
  • Harry Magdoff
    Harry Magdoff
    Henry Samuel Magdoff , was a prominent American socialist commentator. He held several administrative positions in government during the presidency of Franklin D. Roosevelt and later became co-editor of the Marxist publication, Monthly Review.-Early years:A child of poor Russian-Jewish immigrants,...

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

     socialist and editor
    Editor
    The term editor may refer to:As a person who does editing:* Editor in chief, having final responsibility for a publication's operations and policies* Copy editing, making formatting changes and other improvements to text...

    , natural causes. http://www.thenation.com/doc/20060123/obit1
  • Charles O. Porter
    Charles O. Porter
    Charles Orlando Porter was a politician from the U.S. state of Oregon.-Early life:Born in Klamath Falls, Oregon, to Frank Porter and Ruth Peterson, he graduated from high school in Eugene, Oregon and then went on to graduate from Harvard University with a B.S. in 1941...

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

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

    , Representative from Oregon
    Oregon
    Oregon is a state in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States. It is located on the Pacific coast, with Washington to the north, California to the south, Nevada on the southeast and Idaho to the east. The Columbia and Snake rivers delineate much of Oregon's northern and eastern...

     (1957–1961), 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.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/01/05/AR2006010502166.html
  • Gideon Rodan
    Gideon Rodan
    Dr. Gideon Alfred Rodan was an American biochemist and Doctor of Medicine.Rodan was born in Bucharest, Romania. He completed an MD at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem and a PhD at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel.He researched the deformation of bone cells. His most notable...

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

     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:...

    , 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/2006/01/20/science/20rodan.html?ex=1295413200&en=96a6ac97b7d11e04&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss
  • Hubert Schoemaker
    Hubert Schoemaker
    Hubert J. P. Schoemaker was a Dutch-American chemist and biotechnological pioneer. Schoemaker was a co-founder and the president of the Bio-tech company Centocor. He helped develop Remicade, a drug to treat auto-immune disorders like Crohn's disease and rheumatoid arthritis...

    , 55, 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...

     chemist
    Chemist
    A chemist is a scientist trained in the study of chemistry. Chemists study the composition of matter and its properties such as density and acidity. Chemists carefully describe the properties they study in terms of quantities, with detail on the level of molecules and their component atoms...

    , co-founder of Centocor
    Centocor
    Janssen Biotech, Inc., formerly Centocor Biotech, Inc., is a biotechnology company that was founded in Philadelphia in 1979 with an initial goal of developing new diagnostic assays using monoclonal antibody technology....

    , brain cancer. http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/13/business/13schoemaker.html?ex=1294808400&en=6861e2bfd8448475&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss
  • Charles Steen
    Charles Steen
    Charles A. Steen , was a geologist who made and lost a fortune after discovering a rich uranium deposit in Utah during the Uranium boom of the early 1950s.-Early years:Steen was born in Caddo, Texas and attended high school in Houston...

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

     geologist
    Geologist
    A geologist is a scientist who studies the solid and liquid matter that constitutes the Earth as well as the processes and history that has shaped it. Geologists usually engage in studying geology. Geologists, studying more of an applied science than a theoretical one, must approach Geology using...

     and businessman. http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/news_columnists/article/0,1299,DRMN_86_4545659,00.html

See also

Deaths in 2006
Deaths in 2006
The following is a list of notable deaths in 2006. 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....

 :
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....

 - January - February
Deaths in February 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 February 2006.-28:*James Ronald "Bunkie" Blackburn, 69, NASCAR driver...

 - March
Deaths in March 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 March 2006.-31:*George L...

 - April
Deaths in April 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 April 2006.-30:* Jay Bernstein, 69, American Hollywood publicist....

 - May
Deaths in May 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 May 2006.- 31 :...

 - June
Deaths in June 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 June 2006.-30:*Dieter Froese, 68, East Prussian-born artist....

 - July
Deaths in July 2006
Deaths in 2005: ← - January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December- →The following is a list of notable deaths in July 2006.- 31 :...

 - August
Deaths in August 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 August 2006.-31:...

 - September
Deaths in September 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 September 2006. See Deaths in 2006 for other months.-30:...

 - October
Deaths in October 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 October 2006. See Deaths in 2006 for other months.-31:...

 - November
Deaths in November 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 November 2006.-30:...

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

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

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