Deaths in July 2006
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The following is a list of notable deaths in July 2006.
Deaths in 2005
The following is a list of notable deaths in 2005. Names are listed under the date of death and not the date it was announced. Names under each date are listed in alphabetical order by family name....
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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....
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Deaths in January 2005
Deaths in 2005 : ← - January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December- →The following is a list of notable people who died in January 2005.31*Ron Basford, 72, Canadian cabinet minister...
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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...
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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...
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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....
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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 :...
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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....
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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:...
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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:...
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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:...
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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:...
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Deaths in December 2006
Deaths in 2006 : ← - January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December- →The following is a list of notable deaths in December 2006.-31:...
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Deaths in January 2007
Deaths in 2007 : ← - January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December- →The following is a list of notable deaths in January 2007.-31:...
The following is a list of notable deaths in July 2006.
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- Dugald ChristieDugald ChristieDugald Christie was a Canadian lawyer and political activist. He was based out of the city of Vancouver. He was the grandson of Dr Dugald Christie - a Scottish Presbyterian missionary doctor who founded the Mukden Medical College in Shenyang, China.Christie began his political activities in 1991...
, 65, CanadianCanadaCanada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...
lawyer who fought for equitable access to legal services, bicycle accidentBicycle safetyBicycle safety is the use of practices designed to reduce risk associated with cycling. Some of this subject matter is hotly debated: for example, the discussions as to whether bicycle helmets or cyclepaths really deliver improved safety...
. http://www.lawtimesnews.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=703&Itemid=82 - Paul EellsPaul EellsPaul Eells was an American sportscaster.He was the "Voice of the Razorbacks", broadcasting University of Arkansas basketball games on television and football games on radio. Eells was also sports director at KATV in Little Rock, Arkansas.Eells grew up in Mechanicsville, Iowa and graduated from...
, 70, voice of the Arkansas RazorbacksArkansas RazorbacksThe Razorbacks, also known as the Hogs, are the names of college sports teams at the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville, Arkansas. The term Arkansas Razorbacks properly applies to any of the sports teams at the university. The Razorbacks take their name from the feral pig of the same name...
football and basketball for radio and television, car accident. http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/news/story?id=2536262 - Mario FaustinelliMario FaustinelliMario Faustinelli was an Italian comic book artist and editor.Faustinelli was born in Venice in 1924. After the end of World War II, Faustinelli, along with artists Hugo Pratt, Ivo Pavone, and Dino Battaglia, moved to Argentina in search of work; they became known as the "Venice Group." In 1945...
, 81, Italian comic book artist. http://www.afnews.info/public/afnews/viewnews.pl?newsid1154590334,71370,.htm - Frederick Kilgour, 92, American librarian, founder of OCLCOCLCOCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc. is "a nonprofit, membership, computer library service and research organization dedicated to the public purposes of furthering access to the world’s information and reducing information costs"...
Online Computer Library Center. http://www.oclc.org/news/releases/200631.htm http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/02/us/02kilgour.html
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- Duygu AsenaDuygu AsenaDuygu Asena was a Turkish journalist, best-selling author and activist for women’s rights.-Life and career:...
, 60, TurkishTurkeyTurkey , known officially as the Republic of Turkey , is a Eurasian country located in Western Asia and in East Thrace in Southeastern Europe...
writer and civil-rights advocate, brain tumour. http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/01/world/01asena.html http://www.startribune.com/484/v-print/story/585016.html - Al BaldingAl BaldingAllan George Balding was a Canadian professional golfer, who won four events on the PGA Tour. In 1955 he became the first Canadian to win a PGA Tour event in the United States; Canadians Ken Black and Jules Huot had won PGA Tour events in Canada in the 1930s.Balding was born in Toronto,...
, 82, CanadianCanadaCanada 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...
golfer, cancerCancerCancer , known medically as a malignant neoplasm, is a large group of different diseases, all involving unregulated cell growth. In cancer, cells divide and grow uncontrollably, forming malignant tumors, and invade nearby parts of the body. The cancer may also spread to more distant parts of the...
. http://sports.sympatico.msn.cbc.ca/Home/ContentPosting.aspx?feedname=CBC-SPORTS-V2&newsitemid=al-balding-golf&showbyline=True - Murray BookchinMurray BookchinMurray Bookchin was an American libertarian socialist author, orator, and philosopher. A pioneer in the ecology movement, Bookchin was the founder of the social ecology movement within anarchist, libertarian socialist and ecological thought. He was the author of two dozen books on politics,...
, 85, AmericanUnited StatesThe United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
political essayist, heart failure. http://www.boston.com/news/globe/obituaries/articles/2006/07/31/murray_bookchin_at_85_proponent_of_social_ecology/ - Dr. Philip D’Arcy Hart, 106, famed UK medical researcher. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,60-2314592.html
- Anthony Galla-RiniAnthony Galla-RiniAnthony Galla-Rini was a celebrated American accordionist, arranger, composer, conductor, author, and teacher, and is considered by many to be the first American accordionist to promote the accordion as a "legitimate" concert instrument.-Early life:Galla-Rini was born in Manchester, Connecticut,...
, 102, concert accordionist, heart failure. - Akbar MohammadiAkbar MohammadiAkbar Mohammadi was an Iranian student at Tehran University involved in the 18th of Tir crisis, also known as the July 1999 Iran student protests, Iran's biggest pro-democracy demonstrations since the 1979 Islamic Revolution...
, 34, IranIranIran , officially the Islamic Republic of Iran , is a country in Southern and Western Asia. The name "Iran" has been in use natively since the Sassanian era and came into use internationally in 1935, before which the country was known to the Western world as Persia...
ian student dissident, heart attackMyocardial infarctionMyocardial 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...
following a hunger strikeHunger strikeA hunger strike is a method of non-violent resistance or pressure in which participants fast as an act of political protest, or to provoke feelings of guilt in others, usually with the objective to achieve a specific goal, such as a policy change. Most hunger strikers will take liquids but not...
and tortureTortureTorture is the act of inflicting severe pain as a means of punishment, revenge, forcing information or a confession, or simply as an act of cruelty. Throughout history, torture has often been used as a method of political re-education, interrogation, punishment, and coercion...
. http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,206358,00.html
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- Hani AwijanHani AwijanHani Awijan was an Islamic militant in the Palestinian Islamic Jihad military wing, The Al-Quds brigades. He was reportedly the leader of the Nablus branch in the West Bank....
, 29, leader of Palestinian Islamic Jihad's military wing, The Al-Quds brigadesThe Al-Quds brigadesThe al-Quds Brigades is the armed wing of the Palestinian Islamist organization Palestinian Islamic Jihad...
, in NablusNablusNablus is a Palestinian city in the northern West Bank, approximately north of Jerusalem, with a population of 126,132. Located in a strategic position between Mount Ebal and Mount Gerizim, it is the capital of the Nablus Governorate and a Palestinian commercial and cultural center.Founded by the...
, West BankWest BankThe West Bank ) of the Jordan River is the landlocked geographical eastern part of the Palestinian territories located in Western Asia. To the west, north, and south, the West Bank shares borders with the state of Israel. To the east, across the Jordan River, lies the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan...
, killed by gunfire. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/07/29/AR2006072900535.html - Guido DaccòGuido DaccòGuido Daccò was an Italian race car and motorcycle racer from Limbiate. He began motorcycle racing in 1969 and from 1980-1984 he raced in Formula 2. He then drove in the 1985 24 Hours of Le Mans and began racing in Formula 3000. In 1988 he moved to the United States to drive in the Indy Lights...
, 63, Italian racing driver, who competed in Formula 3000, 24 Hours of Le Mans24 Hours of Le MansThe 24 Hours of Le Mans is the world's oldest sports car race in endurance racing, held annually since near the town of Le Mans, France. Commonly known as the Grand Prix of Endurance and Efficiency, race teams have to balance speed against the cars' ability to run for 24 hours without sustaining...
, & Champ Cars. http://forums.autosport.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=89143 http://www.italiaracing.net/news.asp?id=5893&cat=ALTRE_CATEGORIE&nome=ALTRE&cart=news_altre%20categorie - Jose Lopez RosarioJose Lopez RosarioJose "Coquito" Lopez Rosario was a Puerto Rican who is alleged to have been a drug dealer. Lopez Rosario's death caused a political scandal in Puerto Rico.-Biography:Lopez Rosario grew up in Carolina, Puerto Rico...
, 30, alleged Puerto Rican drug dealer http://www.laraza.com/news.php?nid=35486 - James Olin, 86, member of the United States House of RepresentativesUnited States House of RepresentativesThe United States House of Representatives is one of the two Houses of the United States Congress, the bicameral legislature which also includes the Senate.The composition and powers of the House are established in Article One of the Constitution...
(1982–1992). http://www.wavy.com/Global/story.asp?S=5221184&nav=23ii - Pierre Vidal-NaquetPierre Vidal-NaquetPierre Emmanuel Vidal-Naquet was a French historian who began teaching at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales in 1969....
, 76, FrenchFranceThe French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
historian and activist, cerebral haemorrhage. http://www.lefigaro.fr/france/20060730.WWW000000034_deces_de_pierre_vidal_naquet.html
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- Patrick AllenPatrick AllenJohn Keith Patrick Allen was a British film, television and voice actor.-Life and career:Allen was born in Nyasaland , where his father was a tobacco farmer. After his parents returned to Britain, he was evacuated to Canada during World War II where he remained to finish his education at McGill...
, 79, BritishUnited KingdomThe 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. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,60-2302641,00.html - Rut BrandtRut BrandtRut Brandt was a German writer of Norwegian origin and the second wife of the German Chancellor Willy Brandt.-Life:...
, 86, NorwegianNorwayNorway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...
resistance fighter, second wife of former GermanGermanyGermany , 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...
chancellor Willy BrandtWilly BrandtWilly Brandt, born Herbert Ernst Karl Frahm , was a German politician, Mayor of West Berlin 1957–1966, Chancellor of West Germany 1969–1974, and leader of the Social Democratic Party of Germany 1964–1987....
. - Nigel Cox, 55, New ZealandNew ZealandNew Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses and numerous smaller islands. The country is situated some east of Australia across the Tasman Sea, and roughly south of the Pacific island nations of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga...
novelist, cancer. http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,3746915a11,00.html - Abdallah Isaaq DeerowAbdallah Isaaq Deerow-Political career:Deerow served as Minister of Constitutional Affairs of the Transitional Federal Government of Somalia under the leadership of President Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed.-Assassination:On July 28, 2006, Deerow was shot dead outside a mosque in Baidoa....
, 56, Constitution and Federalism Minister of SomaliaSomaliaSomalia , officially the Somali Republic and formerly known as the Somali Democratic Republic under Socialist rule, is a country located in the Horn of Africa. Since the outbreak of the Somali Civil War in 1991 there has been no central government control over most of the country's territory...
, assassination. http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/28/world/africa/28cnd-somalia.html - Harold Enarson, 87, president of The Ohio State UniversityOhio State UniversityThe Ohio State University, commonly referred to as Ohio State, is a public research university located in Columbus, Ohio. It was originally founded in 1870 as a land-grant university and is currently the third largest university campus in the United States...
(1972–81), fired football coach Woody HayesWoody HayesWayne Woodrow "Woody" Hayes was an American football player and coach. He served as the head coach at Denison University , Miami University , and Ohio State University , compiling a career college football record of 238–72–10.During his 28 seasons as the head coach of the Ohio...
, hydrocephalusHydrocephalusHydrocephalus , also known as "water in the brain," is a medical condition in which there is an abnormal accumulation of cerebrospinal fluid in the ventricles, or cavities, of the brain. This may cause increased intracranial pressure inside the skull and progressive enlargement of the head,...
. http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/01/sports/01enarson.html http://www.columbusdispatch.com/news-story.php?story=202227 - David GemmellDavid GemmellDavid Andrew Gemmell was a bestselling British author of heroic fantasy. A former journalist and newspaper editor, Gemmell had his first work of fiction published in 1984. He went on to write over thirty novels. Best known for his debut, Legend, Gemmell's works display violence, yet also explore...
, 57, BritishUnited KingdomThe 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...
fantasyFantasy literatureFantasy literature is fantasy in written form. Historically speaking, literature has composed the majority of fantasy works. Since the 1950s however, a growing segment of the fantasy genre has taken the form of films, television programs, graphic novels, video games, music, painting, and other...
novelist. http://u.tv/newsroom/indepth.asp?id=10912&pt=e http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/5224868.stm - Dr. Joel HedgpethJoel HedgpethJoel W. Hedgpeth was a marine biologist, environmentalist and author. He was an expert on the marine arthropods known as sea spiders , and on the seashore plant and animal life of southern California...
, 94, American marine biologist and CaliforniaCaliforniaCalifornia is a state located on the West Coast of the United States. It is by far the most populous U.S. state, and the third-largest by land area...
n environmental activist. http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/12/science/12hedgpeth.html - Richard MockRichard MockRichard Mock was a printmaker, painter, sculptor, and editorial cartoonist. Mock was best known for his linocut illustrations that appeared on the Op-Ed page of The New York Times from 1980 through 1996....
, 61, American painter, sculptor, and editorial cartoonist. http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/11/arts/11mock.html - Sep SmithSep SmithSeptimus 'Sep' Smith was an English footballer who played as a creative wing half and originally as an inside forward...
, 94, legendary Leicester City footballer, and oldest living England international player. http://leicestercity.rivals.net/default.asp?sid=889&p=2&stid=8417486 - Billy Walsh, 85, former Manchester CityManchester City F.C.Manchester City Football Club is an English Premier League football club based in Manchester. Founded in 1880 as St. Mark's , they became Ardwick Association Football Club in 1887 and Manchester City in 1894...
footballer & Grimsby TownGrimsby Town F.C.Grimsby Town Football Club is an English football club based in the seaside town of Cleethorpes, in North East Lincolnshire, England, who compete in the Conference National. They were formed in 1878 as Grimsby Pelham and later became Grimsby Town...
manager, who played international football for both Ireland teams, the FAI XIRepublic of Ireland national football teamThe Republic of Ireland national football team represents Ireland in association football. It is run by the Football Association of Ireland and currently plays home fixtures at Aviva Stadium in Dublin, which opened in May 2010....
and the IFA XIIreland national football team (IFA)The Ireland national football team represented Ireland at association football, it was organised by the Irish FA , and is the fourth oldest international team in the world. It mainly played in the British Home Championship against England, Scotland and Wales...
, and New ZealandNew Zealand national soccer teamThe New Zealand national football team, nicknamed the All Whites, is the national association football team of New Zealand and is governed by New Zealand Football . The team plays in an all-white strip rather than the traditional New Zealand sporting black due to a former FIFA regulation that...
. http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/sport/football/manchestercity/s/219/219313_city_legend_walsh_dies_85.html
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- Maryann MahaffeyMaryann MahaffeyMaryann Mahaffey was born in Burlington, Iowa. She served on the Detroit City Council from 1973 until 2005, from 1990 to 1998 and from 2001 to 2005 as council president. She died on July 27, 2006 from leukaemia, aged 81....
, 81, former member of Detroit city council, leukemiaLeukemiaLeukemia 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.wxyz.com/wxyz/nw_local_news/article/0,2132,WXYZ_15924_4873926,00.html - Sir Charles MillsCharles Mills (Royal Navy officer)Vice-Admiral Sir Charles Piercy Mills KCB CBE DSC was a Royal Navy officer who went on to be Governor of Guernsey.-Naval career:Educated at the Royal Naval College, Dartmouth, Mills joined the Royal Navy in 1932....
, 91, British admiral. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article1084381.ece - Carlos RoqueCarlos RoqueCarlos Roque was a Portuguese comics artist.Roque was born in Lisbon. He began publishing in 1959, in the Portuguese comic Camarada...
, 70, Portuguese comic book artist. http://www.afnews.info/public/afnews/viewnews.pl?newsid1154514684,51830,.htm - Alexander Safran, 95, former Chief RabbiChief RabbiChief Rabbi is a title given in several countries to the recognized religious leader of that country's Jewish community, or to a rabbinic leader appointed by the local secular authorities...
of RomaniaRomaniaRomania is a country located at the crossroads of Central and Southeastern Europe, on the Lower Danube, within and outside the Carpathian arch, bordering on the Black Sea...
who tried to stop the deportation of Jews by the pro-Nazi regime during World War IIWorld War IIWorld 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.nytimes.com/2006/07/29/world/29safran.html http://www.seattlepi.com/national/1103AP_Obit_Safran.html - Elisabeth VolkmannElisabeth VolkmannElisabeth Volkmann was a German actress and voice actor, best known for her part in the German absurd comedy series Klimbim , which was watched by millions of viewers in Germany and, later on, as the voice of Marge Simpson in the German dub of The Simpsons...
, 70, German actress, German voice of Marge SimpsonMarge SimpsonMarjorie "Marge" Simpson is a fictional main character in the animated television series The Simpsons and part of the eponymous family. She is voiced by actress Julie Kavner and first appeared on television in The Tracey Ullman Show short "Good Night" on April 19, 1987...
. http://www.heute.de/ZDFheute/inhalt/23/0,3672,3961495,00.html - Johnny Weissmuller Jr.Johnny Weissmuller Jr.Johnny Weissmuller, Jr. was an American actor and longshoreman. He also authored a book about his father, the five-time Olympic Games gold medalist Johnny Weissmuller, who achieved additional fame playing the title role in the Tarzan movies of the 1930s and 1940s.Weissmuller's mother was Beryl...
, 65, American actor, son of Johnny WeissmullerJohnny WeissmullerJohnny Weissmuller was an Austro-Hungarian-born American swimmer and actor best known for playing Tarzan in movies. Weissmuller was one of the world's best swimmers in the 1920s, winning five Olympic gold medals and one bronze medal. He won fifty-two US National Championships and set sixty-seven...
, liver cancerHepatocellular carcinomaHepatocellular 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...
. - Funsho WilliamsFunsho WilliamsFunsho Williams was a Nigerian civil servant and politician.-Early life:Born Anthony Olufunsho Williams in Lagos, he attended the St. Paul's Catholic school at Ebute Metta and later St. Gregory's college, Lagos. In 1968 he started at the University of Lagos, attaining a degree in civil engineering...
, 58, Nigerian politician, strangled. http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-5978069,00.html
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- Emmeline BriceEmmeline BriceEmmeline Frances Brice, née Hastin was the oldest living resident of the UK at age 111, following the death of Judy Ingamells on 1 March 2006, who was 112....
, 111, oldest BritonBritish peopleThe British are citizens of the United Kingdom, of the Isle of Man, any of the Channel Islands, or of any of the British overseas territories, and their descendants...
. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/beds/bucks/herts/5239974.stm - Floyd DixonFloyd DixonFor the American football player see Floyd Dixon Floyd Dixon was an American rhythm and blues pianist and singer.-Biography:...
, 77, American R&BRhythm and bluesRhythm and blues, often abbreviated to R&B, is a genre of popular African American music that originated in the 1940s. The term was originally used by record companies to describe recordings marketed predominantly to urban African Americans, at a time when "urbane, rocking, jazz based music with a...
pianist, kidney failure. http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/06/arts/06DIXON.html http://www.jambase.com/headsup.asp?storyID=8873 - Vincent J. FullerVincent J. FullerVincent John Fuller was an American lawyer best known for defending John Hinckley Jr., Jimmy Hoffa and Mike Tyson....
, 75, lawyer who defended John Hinckley, Jr, lung cancerLung cancerLung 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/2006/07/29/us/29fuller.html?ref=obituaries - Jessie GilbertJessie GilbertJessica "Jessie" Gilbert was a British chess player.-Biography:Jessica was the daughter of Angela and Ian Gilbert and was raised in Woldingham, Surrey. She attended Croydon High School. Her father was a career manager with the Royal Bank of Scotland...
, 19, British chess player, youngest Women's World Amateur Championship winner, fall. http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=3258 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/london/5222644.stm - Rolf Arthur HansenRolf Arthur HansenRolf Arthur Hansen was a Norwegian politician for the Labour Party. He was personal secretary to Minister of Social Affairs 1956-1959, Minister of Defense 1976-1979, and Minister of Environmental Affairs 1979-1981, as well as minister of Nordic cooperation 1980-1981.-References:...
, 86, NorwegianNorwayNorway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...
government minister. http://www.stortinget.no/no/Representanter-og-komiteer/Representantene/Representantfordeling/Representant/?perid=ROHN (Norwegian) - Sunil Kumar, 34, Bhopal disasterBhopal disasterThe Bhopal disaster also known as Bhopal Gas Tragedy was a gas leak incident in India, considered one of the world's worst industrial catastrophes. It occurred on the night of December 2–3, 1984 at the Union Carbide India Limited pesticide plant in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India...
campaigner against Union CarbideUnion CarbideUnion Carbide Corporation is a wholly owned subsidiary of The Dow Chemical Company. It currently employs more than 2,400 people. Union Carbide primarily produces chemicals and polymers that undergo one or more further conversions by customers before reaching consumers. Some are high-volume...
and founder of Children Against Carbide, found hanged. http://news.independent.co.uk/world/asia/article1205969.ece - Darrell MartinieDarrell MartinieDarrell Martinie , aka The Cosmic Muffin, was a Boston, Massachusetts-based AFA certified professional astrologer and radio personality....
, 63, astrologer known as "the Cosmic Muffin", cancerCancerCancer , 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.bostonherald.com/localRegional/view.bg?articleid=150329 - Princess Tatiana von Metternich, 91, RussiaRussiaRussia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...
n-born German aristocrat, World War IIWorld War IIWorld 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...
diarist, and arts patron. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?view=DETAILS&grid=&xml=/news/2006/08/19/db1901.xml
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- Carl BrashearCarl BrashearCarl Maxie Brashear was the first African American to become a U.S. Navy Master Diver in 1970.-Early life:...
, 75, first black US Navy diver, portrayed by Cuba Gooding Jr. in the film Men of HonorMen of HonorMen of Honor is a 2000 drama film, starring Robert De Niro and Cuba Gooding, Jr. The film was directed by George Tillman, Jr...
, heart failure. http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/07/25/brashear.obit.ap/index.html - Ezra FleischerEzra FleischerEzra Fleischer was a Romanian-Israeli Hebrew-language poet and philologist.- Biography :...
, 78, RomaniaRomaniaRomania is a country located at the crossroads of Central and Southeastern Europe, on the Lower Danube, within and outside the Carpathian arch, bordering on the Black Sea...
n-born Israeli poet, winner of the Israel PrizeIsrael PrizeThe Israel Prize is an award handed out by the State of Israel and is largely regarded as the state's highest honor. It is presented annually, on Israeli Independence Day, in a state ceremony in Jerusalem, in the presence of the President, the Prime Minister, the Knesset chairperson, and the...
, and professor at Hebrew University. http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/01/arts/01fleischer.html - Hani Mohsin HanafiHani MohsinHani Mohsin was a Malaysian celebrity, actor and host of TV gameshow Roda Impian, the Malaysian version of Wheel of Fortune.Hani was born on 18 June 1965 in Kangar, Perlis....
, 43, Malaysian actor and television game show host, heart attackMyocardial infarctionMyocardial 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.bernama.com.my/bernama/v3/news.php?id=210125 http://thestar.com.my/news/nastory.asp?file=/2006/7/25/nation/20060725121428&sec=nation - Lydia, Duchess of Bedford, 88, second wife of John Russell, 13th Duke of BedfordJohn Russell, 13th Duke of BedfordJohn Ian Robert Russell, 13th Duke of Bedford was a British peer and writer, the son of Hastings Russell, 12th Duke of Bedford. He was named to the International Best Dressed List Hall of Fame in 1985.- Biography :...
. http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/20/world/20bedford.html - Bill MeistrellBill MeistrellBill Meistrell was one of the co-founders of Body Glove Wetsuits. Bill is credited with having helped to invent the modern wetsuit along with his brother Bob Meistrell....
, 77, founder of the Body GloveBody GloveBody Glove International, LLC is a major surf/skateboard/watersports brand started in the United States. Body Glove was founded in 1953 by twin brothers Bill and Bob Meistrell. The brothers invented the very first practical wetsuit in the early 1950s in the back of their Redondo Beach, California...
wet suit company, Parkinson's diseaseParkinson's diseaseParkinson's disease is a degenerative disorder of the central nervous system...
. http://www.kesq.com/global/story.asp?s=5209491&ClientType=Printable - Aldo NotariAldo NotariAldo Notari was the president of the International Baseball Federation from 1993 to 2006.-References:...
, 74, president of the International Baseball FederationInternational Baseball FederationThe International Baseball Federation is the worldwide governing body recognized by the International Olympic Committee as overseeing, deciding and executing the policy of the bat-and-ball sport of baseball at the international level...
. http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/27/sports/27notari.html - Bob Simpson, 61, retired senior BBC correspondent. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/5215240.stm
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- Janka BrylJanka BrylJanka Bryl was a Belarusian writer best known for his short stories.-Early life:Five years after Bryl was born in Odessa, Ukraine, the family moved back to the village of Zahora in his parents' native Kareličy District of Hrodna, then part of Poland .-World War II:Bryl served in the Polish Navy...
, 89, BelarusBelarusBelarus , officially the Republic of Belarus, is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe, bordered clockwise by Russia to the northeast, Ukraine to the south, Poland to the west, and Lithuania and Latvia to the northwest. Its capital is Minsk; other major cities include Brest, Grodno , Gomel ,...
ian writer. http://www.euramost.org/?artc=8806 http://www.tvr.by/eng/news.asp?id=18274&date=25.07.2006%2019:28:00 - Heinrich HollreiserHeinrich HollreiserHeinrich Hollreiser was a German conductor.Born in Munich, he attended the State Academy of Music there, and went on to serve as the conductor at the opera houses in Wiesbaden, Darmstadt, Mannheim, and Duisburg. From 1942-1945 he served as the principal conductor of the Bavarian State Opera, while...
, 93, German conductor. http://www.playbillarts.com/news/article/4953.html - Bill Long, 88, Canadian ice hockey coach. http://lfpress.ca/newsstand/Sports/Hockey/2006/07/26/1702580-sun.html
- Leon MorrisLeon MorrisLeon Lamb Morris was an Australian New Testament scholar.Born in Lithgow, New South Wales, Morris was ordained to the Anglican ministry in 1938. He received his Ph.D. at the University of Cambridge in England on the subject which became his first major book, The Apostolic Preaching of the Cross...
, 92, Australian theologian. http://www.media.anglican.com.au/news/2006/07/LeonMorris_obit.html
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- Charles E. Brady, Jr.Charles E. Brady, Jr.Charles Eldon Brady, Jr. was an American physician and a NASA astronaut.-Personal data:...
, 54, AmericanUnited StatesThe United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
former astronautAstronautAn astronaut or cosmonaut is a person trained by a human spaceflight program to command, pilot, or serve as a crew member of a spacecraft....
. http://www.space.com/news/cs_060727_brady_obit.html - Charles BrayCharles BrayCharles Bray was a prosperous British ribbon manufacturer, social reformer, philanthropist, philosopher, and phrenologist.-Life:...
, 72, American press secretary for the US State DepartmentUnited States Department of StateThe United States Department of State , is the United States federal executive department responsible for international relations of the United States, equivalent to the foreign ministries of other countries...
, deputy director of the USIAUnited States Information AgencyThe United States Information Agency , which existed from 1953 to 1999, was a United States agency devoted to "public diplomacy". In 1999, USIA's broadcasting functions were moved to the newly created Broadcasting Board of Governors, and its exchange and non-broadcasting information functions were...
, and ambassador to SenegalSenegalSenegal , officially the Republic of Senegal , is a country in western Africa. It owes its name to the Sénégal River that borders it to the east and north...
. http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/27/us/27bray.html - Jean-Paul DesbiensJean-Paul DesbiensJean-Paul Desbiens, Frère Pierre-Jérôme, OC was a Quebec writer, journalist, teacher and member of the Catholic order of Marist Brothers.He was born at Métabetchouan in the Lac Saint-Jean region of Quebec in 1927...
, 79, French-Canadian author of Les insolences du Frère UntelLes insolences du Frère UntelLes insolences du Frère Untel is a book first published in Montreal by Les Editions de l'homme in 1960. In a very short time it sold more than 100,000 copies, in a society where a book with a 10,000 copy print run was considered a best seller...
, heart attackMyocardial infarctionMyocardial 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.canada.com/montrealgazette/story.html?id=ab4d9c4f-6bca-46b5-877d-d52f31cc5b02&k=76283 - Lt. Col. Besby HolmesBesby HolmesLieutenant Colonel Besby Frank Holmes, 1917–2006, a World War II fighter pilot who in 1943 took part in the famous—and famously controversial—mission to kill legendary Japanese admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, who planned the attack on Pearl Harbor. Holmes died of a stroke July 23 at Marin General...
, 88, US Air Force fighter pilot, participant in air action that killed Admiral YamamotoDeath of Isoroku YamamotoOperation Vengeance was carried out to assassinate Japanese Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto on April 18, 1943, during the Solomon Islands campaign in the Pacific Theater of World War II. Isoroku Yamamoto, commander of the Combined Fleet of the Imperial Japanese Navy, was killed on Bougainville Island when...
. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/07/26/AR2006072601868.html http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/03/us/03holmes.html - John MackJohn Mack (musician)John Mack was a renowned American oboist.Born in Somerville, New Jersey, Mack attended the Juilliard School of Music, studying oboe with Harold Gomberg and Bruno Labate and then at the Curtis Institute of Music with Marcel Tabuteau, the longtime principal oboe of the Philadelphia Orchestra.His...
, 78, American oboistOboistAn oboist is a musician who plays the oboe or any oboe family instrument, including the cor anglais, oboe d'amore, shawm and oboe musette....
, complications from brain cancer. http://www.cleveland.com/weblogs/entertainment/index.ssf?/mtlogs/cleve_entertainment/archives/2006_07.html - Frederick Mosteller, 89, Harvard professor of statisticsStatisticsStatistics is the study of the collection, organization, analysis, and interpretation of data. It deals with all aspects of this, including the planning of data collection in terms of the design of surveys and experiments....
, founding chair of the department of statistics, sepsisSepsisSepsis is a potentially deadly medical condition that is characterized by a whole-body inflammatory state and the presence of a known or suspected infection. The body may develop this inflammatory response by the immune system to microbes in the blood, urine, lungs, skin, or other tissues...
. http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/27/us/27mosteller.html - Terence OtwayTerence OtwayLieutenant-Colonel Terence Brandram Hastings Otway DSO, was a British soldier, best known for his role as commander of the paratroop assault on the Merville Battery on D-Day.-Early life:...
, 92, BritishUnited KingdomThe United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...
soldier, commander of the assault on the Merville Battery on D-DayD-DayD-Day is a term often used in military parlance to denote the day on which a combat attack or operation is to be initiated. "D-Day" often represents a variable, designating the day upon which some significant event will occur or has occurred; see Military designation of days and hours for similar...
. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?view=DETAILS&grid=&xml=/news/2006/07/25/db2501.xml
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- Heather BrattonHeather BrattonHeather Bratton was an American fashion model, who was known in the mid 2000s as a promising teenage fashion model .-Modeling:...
, 19, American model, car accident. http://news.aol.com/entertainment/articles/_a/fashion-cover-girl-killed-in-crash/20060731071009990001 - Donald Reid CabralDonald Reid CabralJoseph Donald Reid Cabral was a former leader of the Dominican Republic. He chaired the "triumvirate" from December 29, 1963.- Biography :...
, 83, former foreign ministerForeign ministerA Minister of Foreign Affairs, or foreign minister, is a cabinet minister who helps form the foreign policy of a sovereign state. The foreign minister is often regarded as the most senior ministerial position below that of the head of government . It is often granted to the deputy prime minister in...
of the Dominican RepublicDominican RepublicThe 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...
. http://www.rulers.org/2006-07.html - José Antonio DelgadoJosé Antonio DelgadoJosé Antonio Delgado Sucre was the first Venezuelan mountaineer to reach the summit of five eight-thousanders and one of the most experienced climbers in Latin America. Known as el indio , Delgado led the first Venezuelan Everest expedition in 2001...
, 41, first VenezuelaVenezuelaVenezuela , officially called the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela , is a tropical country on the northern coast of South America. It borders Colombia to the west, Guyana to the east, and Brazil to the south...
n to climb Mount EverestMount EverestMount Everest is the world's highest mountain, with a peak at above sea level. It is located in the Mahalangur section of the Himalayas. The international boundary runs across the precise summit point...
, found dead on Nanga ParbatNanga ParbatNanga Parbat is the ninth highest mountain on Earth, the second highest mountain in Pakistan and among the eight-thousanders with a summit elevation of 8,126 meters...
in PakistanPakistanPakistan , 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...
. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/5208234.stm - Gianfrancesco GuarnieriGianfrancesco GuarnieriGianfrancesco Sigfrido Benedetto Marinenghi de Guarnieri was a Brazilian actor and playwright.- External links :...
, 71, Italian-Brazilian actor, complications from kidney disease. http://www1.folha.uol.com.br/folha/ilustrada/ult90u62714.shtml - Jessie Mae HemphillJessie Mae HemphillJessie Mae Hemphill was an American award-winning electric guitarist, songwriter, and vocalist specializing in the primal, northern Mississippi country blues traditions of her family and regional heritage....
, 82, award winning bluesBluesBlues is the name given to both a musical form and a music genre that originated in African-American communities of primarily the "Deep South" of the United States at the end of the 19th century from spirituals, work songs, field hollers, shouts and chants, and rhymed simple narrative ballads...
musician, complications of an infection. http://www.sunherald.com/mld/sunherald/news/state/15106307.htm - Thomas J. MantonThomas J. MantonThomas J. Manton was a Democratic congressman. He represented the 7th Congressional District of New York.-Life and career:...
, 73, longtime DemocraticDemocratic Party (United States)The Democratic Party is one of two major contemporary political parties in the United States, along with the Republican Party. The party's socially liberal and progressive platform is largely considered center-left in the U.S. political spectrum. The party has the lengthiest record of continuous...
leader of QueensQueensQueens is the easternmost of the five boroughs of New York City. The largest borough in area and the second-largest in population, it is coextensive with Queens County, an administrative division of New York state, in the United States....
, NY, former US RepresentativeUnited States House of RepresentativesThe United States House of Representatives is one of the two Houses of the United States Congress, the bicameral legislature which also includes the Senate.The composition and powers of the House are established in Article One of the Constitution...
(1985–99), prostate cancerProstate cancerProstate cancer is a form of cancer that develops in the prostate, a gland in the male reproductive system. Most prostate cancers are slow growing; however, there are cases of aggressive prostate cancers. The cancer cells may metastasize from the prostate to other parts of the body, particularly...
. http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/24/nyregion/24manton.html http://www.ny1.com/ny1/content/index.jsp?stid=1&aid=61226 - Dr. Dika NewlinDika NewlinDika Newlin was a pianist, professor, musicologist, composer and punk rock singer. She received a Ph.D from Columbia University at the age of 22. She was one of the last living students of Arnold Schoenberg, a Schoenberg scholar and a professor at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond from...
, 82, American musician and musicologist, scholar of Arnold SchoenbergArnold SchoenbergArnold Schoenberg was an Austrian composer, associated with the expressionist movement in German poetry and art, and leader of the Second Viennese School...
. http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/28/arts/music/28newlin.html - Charles Knox Robinson IIICharles Knox Robinson IIICharles Knox Robinson III was an actor.-Biography:He was born April 13, 1932, to Charles Knox Robinson II, playwright, and Geraldine O'Loughlin, painter in Orange, New Jersey. Siblings include Judith Kirby Robinson, actress, and Toni Stuart Robinson Thalenberg, former actress/academic. Cousin of...
, 74, American actor, from complications of Parkinson's disease, in Palm Springs, CA. - James E. WestJames E. West (politician)James Elton "Jim" West was an American politician. In 2005, while Mayor of Spokane, Washington, he was the target of allegations of the sexual abuse of boys twenty years earlier. These allegations became public after West became a target of a sting operation conducted by his hometown newspaper,...
, 55, former mayorMayorIn many countries, a Mayor is the highest ranking officer in the municipal government of a town or a large urban city....
of Spokane, WashingtonSpokane, WashingtonSpokane is a city located in the Northwestern United States in the state of Washington. It is the largest city of Spokane County of which it is also the county seat, and the metropolitan center of the Inland Northwest region...
, colorectal cancerColorectal cancerColorectal 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://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060722/ap_on_re_us/obit_west - Russell J. YorkRussell J. YorkRussell J. York a native of Waterville, Maine served in World War II in 1944- 1945 as a combat medic assigned to the 4th Engineer Battalion of the U.S. 4th Infantry Division. He landed at Utah Beach on D-Day under the command of Gen. Theodore Roosevelt, Jr. and with the U.S...
, 84, World War IIWorld War IIWorld 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...
veteran and hero of the battle for the Hurtgen ForestHurtgen ForestThe Hürtgen forest is located along the border between Belgium and Germany in the southwest corner of the German federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia. Scarcely in area, the forest lies within a triangle outlined by Aachen, Monschau, and Düren...
on November 20, 1944. http://www.legacy.com/mainetoday-morningsentinel/Obituaries.asp?Page=LifeStory&PersonID=18695528
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- MakoMako (actor), born , was an Oscar- and Tony-nominated Japanese actor. Many of his acting roles credited him simply as Mako, omitting his surname. -Early life:...
, 72, Japanese-American film, television, and Broadway actor; esophageal cancerEsophageal cancerEsophageal 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.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-mako23jul23,1,2267452.story?coll=la-news-obituaries - Ta MokTa MokTa Mok , which means "Grandfather Mok" in Khmer, was the nom de guerre of Chhit Choeun , a senior figure in the leadership of the Khmer Rouge...
, 80, former Khmer RougeKhmer RougeThe Khmer Rouge literally translated as Red Cambodians was the name given to the followers of the Communist Party of Kampuchea, who were the ruling party in Cambodia from 1975 to 1979, led by Pol Pot, Nuon Chea, Ieng Sary, Son Sen and Khieu Samphan...
commander, known as "The Butcher." http://msnbc.msn.com/id/13960996/ - J. Madison Wright MorrisJ. Madison Wright MorrisJessica Madison Wright was an American actress. Born in Cincinnati, she spent her early years being raised in London, Laurel County, Kentucky.-Early life:...
, 21, former child actress, heart attack. http://www.kentucky.com/mld/kentucky/news/local/15115024.htm - Alexander PetrenkoAlexander PetrenkoAlexander Petrenko was a Russian professional basketball player. He most recently played for BC Khimki in the Russian Super League. He was born in Almaty, Kazakh SSR, and held Russian citizenship. Petrenko died in a car crash near Samara, Russia, on July 21, 2006.- References :*...
, 30, RussiaRussiaRussia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...
n international basketballBasketballBasketball is a team sport in which two teams of five players try to score points by throwing or "shooting" a ball through the top of a basketball hoop while following a set of rules...
er, car crash. http://sport.guardian.co.uk/breakingnews/feedstory/0,,-5968195,00.html - Gianmario RoveraroGianmario RoveraroGianmario Roveraro was an Italian banker who founded Akros Finanziaria. He went missing on July 5, 2006 following an Opus Dei meeting. It is thought that he was kidnapped, although no ransom was made...
, 70, Italian banker and founder of Akros Finanziaria, missing since July 5, murder. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/5203172.stm http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=topNews&storyID=2006-07-21T114416Z_01_L21849340_RTRUKOC_0_UK-ITALY-BANKER.xml - Bert SlaterBert SlaterBert Slater was a professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper.-Life and playing career:...
, 70, Scottish footballer. http://www.theherald.co.uk/features/66518.html
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- Charles BettelheimCharles BettelheimCharles Bettelheim was a French economist and historian, founder of the Center for the Study of Modes of Industrialization at the Sorbonne), economic advisor to the governments of several developing countries during the period of decolonization...
, 92, FrenchFranceThe French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
Marxist economist and historian. http://www.jungewelt.de/2006/07-24/002.php - Philipp von Bismarck, 91, GermanGermanyGermany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...
politician of the CDUChristian Democratic Union (Germany)The Christian Democratic Union of Germany is a Christian democratic and conservative political party in Germany. It is regarded as on the centre-right of the German political spectrum...
party. http://www.presseportal.de/story.htx?nr=851532 - Kevin Brophy, 21, AustraliaAustraliaAustralia , 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 basketballBasketballBasketball is a team sport in which two teams of five players try to score points by throwing or "shooting" a ball through the top of a basketball hoop while following a set of rules...
player at the University of GeorgiaUniversity of GeorgiaThe University of Georgia is a public research university located in Athens, Georgia, United States. Founded in 1785, it is the oldest and largest of the state's institutions of higher learning and is one of multiple schools to claim the title of the oldest public university in the United States...
, automobileAutomobileAn automobile, autocar, motor car or car is a wheeled motor vehicle used for transporting passengers, which also carries its own engine or motor...
accident. http://sports.yahoo.com/ncaab/news;_ylt=AkhBVHj0dLRsYmfoR66mdKXevbYF?slug=ap-georgia-playerkilled&prov=ap&type=lgns http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2006/basketball/ncaa/07/21/bc.bkc.georgia.playerki.ap/index.html - Madonna Castillo, 31, former Secretary-General of the AnakpawisAnakpawisAnakpawis is a party-list in the Philippines. The party-list is the electoral wing of the radical trade union movement Kilusang Mayo Uno.In the 2004 elections for the House of Representatives the party-list obtained 538,396 votes and two seats...
party in the PhilippinesPhilippinesThe 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...
, shot. http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/storypage.aspx?StoryId=45045 - Chung In-yung, 86, founder of Halla Engineering & Construction in South KoreaSouth KoreaThe 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...
. http://english.chosun.com/w21data/html/news/200607/200607200020.html - Robert CornthwaiteRobert O. CornthwaiteRobert O. Cornthwaite was an American film and television character actor who began his acting career in 1937, appearing in a college production of Twelfth Night, while attending Reed College in Portland, Oregon....
, 89, American character actor (Thing From Another WorldThe Thing from Another WorldThe Thing from Another World , is a 1951 science fiction film based on the 1938 novella "Who Goes There?" by John W. Campbell . It tells the story of an Air Force crew and scientists at a remote Arctic research outpost who fight a malevolent plant-based alien being...
). http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/california/la-me-cornthwaite24jul24,1,4439528.story?coll=la-headlines-pe-california - Ted GrantTed GrantEdward "Ted" Grant , 9 July 1913 in Germiston, South Africa – 20 July 2006 in London) was a South African Trotskyist who spent most of his adult life in Britain...
, 93, South AfricaSouth AfricaThe 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-BritishUnited KingdomThe 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...
Trotskyist politician. http://www.marxist.com/ted-grant-obituary.htm - Brandon HedrickBrandon HedrickBrandon Wayne Hedrick was a convicted murderer who was executed by electric chair by the U.S. state of Virginia. He was convicted of the 1997 murder of 23 year-old Lisa Crider, who was kidnapped, robbed, raped, and shot in the face...
, 27, convicted murderer and rapist, execution by electric chairElectric chairExecution by electrocution, usually performed using an electric chair, is an execution method originating in the United States in which the condemned person is strapped to a specially built wooden chair and electrocuted through electrodes placed on the body...
in VirginiaVirginiaThe Commonwealth of Virginia , is a U.S. state on the Atlantic Coast of the Southern United States. Virginia is nicknamed the "Old Dominion" and sometimes the "Mother of Presidents" after the eight U.S. presidents born there...
. http://www.courttv.com/news/2006/0721/electric_chair_ap.html - Tom LarsonTom LarsonTom Larson is a retired Boston sportscaster and television host.Larson came to Boston in after stops in Fulton, Missouri, Bloomington, Illinois, Peoria, Illinois, and Lansing, Michigan...
, 77, former Federal Highway Administrator and Secretary of the PennsylvaniaPennsylvaniaThe Commonwealth of Pennsylvania is a U.S. state that is located in the Northeastern and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States. The state borders Delaware and Maryland to the south, West Virginia to the southwest, Ohio to the west, New York and Ontario, Canada, to the north, and New Jersey to...
Department of Transport. http://www.centredaily.com/mld/centredaily/15087459.htm - Lim Kim SanLim Kim SanLim Kim San ; was a Singaporean politician. He was credited for leading the successful public housing program in the Southeast Asian city-state during the early 1960s, which eased the acute housing shortage problem at that time....
, 89, former cabinet minister of Singapore. http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporelocalnews/view/220326/1/.html - Frank NabarroFrank NabarroFrank Reginald Nunes Nabarro MBE OMS FRS was an English-born South African physicist and one of the pioneers of solid-state physics, which underpins much of 21st century technology.-Education:...
, 90, English-born South African physicist who was a pioneer of solid state physics. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?view=DETAILS&grid=&xml=/news/2006/10/18/db1801.xml - Harry OlivieriHarry OlivieriHarry M. Olivieri was an Italian-American restaurateur. He is credited, along with his brother, Pat Olivieri, as the co-creator of the Philly Cheesesteak in 1933...
, 90, co-inventor of the Philly cheesesteak and co-founder of Pat's King of SteaksPat's SteaksPat's King of Steaks is a Philadelphia restaurant specializing in cheesesteaks, and located at the intersection of South 9th Street, Wharton Street and East Passyunk Avenue in South Philadelphia, directly across the street from rival Geno's Steaks.-History: Pat's King of Steaks was founded by Pat...
cheesesteak emporium. http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2006-07-21-cheesesteak-obit_x.htm - Gérard OuryGérard OuryGérard Oury was a French film director, actor and writer. His real name was Max-Gérard Houry Tannenbaum.- A commercially successful French filmmaker :...
, 87, FrenchFranceThe French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
actorActorAn actor is a person who acts in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio in that capacity...
, screenwriterScreenwriterScreenwriters or scriptwriters or scenario writers are people who write/create the short or feature-length screenplays from which mass media such as films, television programs, Comics or video games are based.-Profession:...
and film directorFilm directorA film director is a person who directs the actors and film crew in filmmaking. They control a film's artistic and dramatic nathan roach, while guiding the technical crew and actors.-Responsibilities:...
. http://www.lefigaro.fr/culture/20060720.WWW000000313_gerard_oury_est_mort.html - Theo Sijthoff, 69, DutchNetherlandsThe 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...
former cyclist and fashion designer. http://www.nu.nl/news/787049/61/Theo_Sijthoff_overleden.html - Romeo Tan Togonon, 55, editorial cartoonist for the Manila TimesManila TimesThe Manila Times is the oldest existing English language newspaper in the Philippines. It is published daily by The Manila Times Publishing Corp. with editorial and administrative offices at 371 A...
. http://www.manilatimes.net/national/2006/july/22/yehey/top_stories/20060722top6.html
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- Rev Robert Baumiller, 75, associate dean of health at Xavier UniversityXavier University (Cincinnati)Xavier University is a co-educational Jesuit university in the United States located in Cincinnati, Ohio. The University is the sixth-oldest Catholic university in the nation and has an undergraduate enrollment of about 4,000 students and graduate enrollment of 2,600 students. Xavier is primarily...
. http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060719/NEWS0104/607190361/1060/NEWS01 - Mauriceo Brown, 31, executed in TexasTexasTexas 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...
for 1996 robbery murder. http://www.courttv.com/news/2006/0719/brown_ctv.html - Troy May, 39, owner of Oshawa DodgersOshawa DodgersThe Oshawa Dodgers were an independent, minor league baseball team of the semi-pro Intercounty Baseball League based in Oshawa, Ontario. They played their home games at Kinsmen Stadium....
Baseball Club, sepsis due to injuries from car accident. http://www.durhamregion.com/dr/regions/top_stories/story/3601433p-4163049c.html - Sam NeelySam NeelySam Neely was an American country musician.Born in Cuero, Texas, Neely began playing guitar at age ten. After moving with his family to Corpus Christi, he began playing in bands, including local group Buckle...
, 58, singer-songwriter, collapsed while mowing his lawn. http://www.dfw.com/mld/startelegram/news/state/15082096.htm - Maulvi Yunis Khalis, 87, mujahideenMujahideenMujahideen are Muslims who struggle in the path of God. The word is from the same Arabic triliteral as jihad .Mujahideen is also transliterated from Arabic as mujahedin, mujahedeen, mudžahedin, mudžahidin, mujahidīn, mujaheddīn and more.-Origin of the concept:The beginnings of Jihad are traced...
leader in AfghanistanAfghanistanAfghanistan , 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...
who met with Ronald ReaganRonald ReaganRonald Wilson Reagan was the 40th President of the United States , the 33rd Governor of California and, prior to that, a radio, film and television actor....
in 1988. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/5211604.stm - Dave Walter, 63, Montana historian, heart attackMyocardial infarctionMyocardial infarction or acute myocardial infarction , commonly known as a heart attack, results from the interruption of blood supply to a part of the heart, causing heart cells to die...
. http://www.boston.com/news/local/connecticut/articles/2006/07/20/montana_historian_dies_after_suffering_heart_attack/ - Jack WardenJack WardenJack Warden was an American character actor.-Early life:Warden was born John Warden Lebzelter in Newark, New Jersey, the son of Laura M. and John Warden Lebzelter, who was an engineer and technician. He was of Irish and Pennsylvania Dutch ancestry...
, 85, Emmy AwardEmmy AwardAn Emmy Award, often referred to simply as the Emmy, is a television production award, similar in nature to the Peabody Awards but more focused on entertainment, and is considered the television equivalent to the Academy Awards and the Grammy Awards .A majority of Emmys are presented in various...
-winning American actor, heart and kidney failure. http://msnbc.msn.com/id/13974886/ - George WetherillGeorge WetherillGeorge Wetherill was the Director Emeritus, Department of Terrestrial Magnetism, Carnegie Institution of Washington, DC, USA....
, 80, American astrophysicist, winner of the National Medal of ScienceNational Medal of ScienceThe National Medal of Science is an honor bestowed by the President of the United States to individuals in science and engineering who have made important contributions to the advancement of knowledge in the fields of behavioral and social sciences, biology, chemistry, engineering, mathematics and...
. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/07/21/AR2006072101558.html - Tudi WigginsTudi WigginsTudi Wiggins , born Mary Susan Wiggins in Victoria, British Columbia, was a Canadian actress best known for her work in television daytime drama....
, 70, CanadaCanadaCanada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...
-born soap operaSoap operaA soap opera, sometimes called "soap" for short, is an ongoing, episodic work of dramatic fiction presented in serial format on radio or as television programming. The name soap opera stems from the original dramatic serials broadcast on radio that had soap manufacturers, such as Procter & Gamble,...
actorActorAn actor is a person who acts in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio in that capacity...
, cancerCancerCancer , 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.wcax.com/Global/story.asp?S=5179906&nav=menu183_1 - Ray Taylor, 67 American former mayor of Burkeville, VA. Member of the Nottoway County Board of Supervisors. Heart attack. http://www.farmvilleherald.com/acrchive_obits/obituaries_60.htm
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- Raul Cortez, 73, Brazilian actor, pancreatic cancerPancreatic cancerPancreatic cancer refers to a malignant neoplasm of the pancreas. The most common type of pancreatic cancer, accounting for 95% of these tumors is adenocarcinoma, which arises within the exocrine component of the pancreas. A minority arises from the islet cells and is classified as a...
. http://www1.folha.uol.com.br/folha/ilustrada/ult90u62575.shtml - Henry HewesHenry HewesHenry Hewes was the Drama Critic for the Saturday Review weekly literary magazine from 1955 to 1979. He was the first major critic to regularly review regional and international theater...
, 89, former Saturday Review theater critic and editor of Best Plays (1960–1964). http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2006/07/19/entertainment/e120930D70.DTL http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/20/theater/20hewes.html - Jimmy LeadbetterJimmy LeadbetterJames Hunter "Jimmy" Leadbetter was a Scottish footballer who is most notable for his achievements as a left-winger with Ipswich Town during the 1950s and 1960s....
, 78, former Ipswich TownIpswich Town F.C.Ipswich Town Football Club are an English professional football team based in Ipswich, Suffolk. As of 2011, they play in the Football League Championship, having last appeared in the Premier League in 2001–02....
footballer. http://news.independent.co.uk/people/obituaries/article1185315.ece http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?view=DETAILS&grid=&xml=/news/2006/07/25/db2503.xml - David MaloneyDavid MaloneyDavid John Lee Maloney was a British television director and producer. He was born in Alvechurch, Worcestershire, was educated at King Edward VI Five Ways and served in the Royal Air Force before becoming an actor in the theatre...
, 72, BritishBritish peopleThe British are citizens of the United Kingdom, of the Isle of Man, any of the Channel Islands, or of any of the British overseas territories, and their descendants...
television director and producer for Doctor WhoDoctor WhoDoctor 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...
and Blake's 7Blake's 7Blake's 7 is a British science fiction television series produced by the BBC for its BBC1 channel. The series was created by Terry Nation, a prolific television writer and creator of the Daleks for the television series Doctor Who. Four series of Blake's 7 were produced and broadcast between 1978...
. http://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/news/cult/news/drwho/2006/07/21/34074.shtml - V.P. Sathyan, 41, former captain of the IndiaIndiaIndia , 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 national football team, apparent suicide. http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/holnus/007200607182110.htm http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/5192694.stm
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- Rev. Amos Bailey, 88, writer of the syndicated column "Our Daily Bread", thyroid cancerThyroid cancerThyroid neoplasm is a neoplasm or tumor of the thyroid. It can be a benign tumor such as thyroid adenoma, or it can be a malignant neoplasm , such as papillary, follicular, medullary or anaplastic thyroid cancer. Most patients are 25 to 65 years of age when first diagnosed; women are more affected...
. – obit-bailey0718jul18,0,6018043.story?coll=dp-headlines-virginia - Billy Firehawk, 40, former professional wrestler, diabetes. http://www.prowrestling.com/news.php?id=1109/articles/news
- Galen FissGalen FissGalen Fiss is a former American football linebacker who played eleven seasons in the National Football League with the Cleveland Browns. Fiss was captain on Cleveland’s NFL championship team in 1964. Fiss, who had Alzheimer's disease, died of cardiac arrest in 2006....
, 75, former Cleveland BrownsCleveland BrownsThe Cleveland Browns are a professional football team based in Cleveland, Ohio. They are currently members of the North Division of the American Football Conference in the National Football League...
linebackerLinebackerA 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...
. http://www2.ljworld.com/news/2006/jul/19/50s_ku_great_fiss_dies_75/ http://cbs.sportsline.com/nfl/story/9563862 - Dr. James Jandl, 80, American hematologist at Harvard UniversityHarvard UniversityHarvard 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...
, author of Blood: Textbook of Hematology. http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/03/us/03jandl.html - Keith LeClairKeith LeClairKeith LeClair was both a star athlete and later head baseball coach at Western Carolina University . During his playing days, LeClair played for current Clemson head baseball coach Jack Leggett at Western Carolina. He was an All-Southern Conference selection in 1988 while earning SoCon Tournament...
, 40, U.S. college baseballBaseballBaseball 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, Lou Gehrig's Disease http://msn.foxsports.com/other/story/5792378 - Mike MacDonald, 65, pioneering Canadian aboriginal video artist. http://www.cbc.ca/canada/nova-scotia/story/2006/07/18/mike-macdonald-obit.html
- Robert MardianRobert MardianRobert Charles Mardian was a former United States Republican party official who served in the administration of Richard Nixon, but was embroiled in the Watergate scandal as one of the Watergate Seven who were indicted by a grand jury for campaign violations...
, 82, attorney for Richard NixonRichard NixonRichard 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...
, figure in the Watergate scandal, lung cancerLung cancerLung 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.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/07/20/AR2006072001997.html - Sam MyersSam MyersSam Myers was an American blues musician and songwriter. He appeared as an accompanist on dozens of recordings for blues artists over five decades. He began his career as a drummer for Elmore James, but was most famous as a blues vocalist and blues harp player...
, 70, AmericanUnited StatesThe United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
blues musician, who won 9 W.C. Handy awards with his band the Rockets, throat cancerEsophageal cancerEsophageal 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.clarionledger.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060717/FEAT05/60717010 http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/latestnews/stories/071806dnmetmyersob.210d1dc6.html - David Skramstad, 74, twice mayor of Olympia, WashingtonOlympia, WashingtonOlympia is the capital city of the U.S. state of Washington and the county seat of Thurston County. It was incorporated on January 28, 1859. The population was 46,478 at the 2010 census...
and mystery writer, heart failure. http://159.54.227.3/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060719/NEWS01/607190333 - Mickey SpillaneMickey SpillaneFrank Morrison Spillane , better known as Mickey Spillane, was an American author of crime novels, many featuring his signature detective character, Mike Hammer. More than 225 million copies of his books have sold internationally...
, 88, AmericanUnited StatesThe United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
author, creator of Mike HammerMike HammerMichael "Mike" Hammer is a fictional detective created by the American author Mickey Spillane in the 1947 book I, the Jury .-Description:...
detective fiction, pancreatic cancerPancreatic cancerPancreatic cancer refers to a malignant neoplasm of the pancreas. The most common type of pancreatic cancer, accounting for 95% of these tumors is adenocarcinoma, which arises within the exocrine component of the pancreas. A minority arises from the islet cells and is classified as a...
. http://www.cnn.com/2006/SHOWBIZ/books/07/17/spillane.ap/index.html http://people.aol.com/people/article/0,26334,1215428,00.html http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/18/arts/18spillane.html
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- Walter BinaghiWalter BinaghiWalter Binaghi was Council President of the International Civil Aviation Organization ICAO from 1957, when unanimously elected, to his retirement in 1976.-References:...
, 87, former ICAO Council President. http://www.icao.int/cgi/goto_m.pl?icao/en/biog/pres.htm - Peter Chew, 82, author and journalist specialising in horse racing, heart attackMyocardial infarctionMyocardial 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/2006/07/19/AR2006071901976.html - Dr. Keith DeVriesKeith DeVriesKeith Robert DeVries was a prominent archaeologist and expert on the Phrygian city of Gordium, in what is now Turkey. He was born in Grand Rapids, Michigan....
, 69, American archaeologist at the University of PennsylvaniaUniversity of PennsylvaniaThe University of Pennsylvania is a private, Ivy League university located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Penn is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States,Penn is the fourth-oldest using the founding dates claimed by each institution...
, excavated Gordion. http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/29/us/29devries.html - Martin Gallent, 75, American former vice chairman of the New York City Planning Commission. http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/19/nyregion/19gallent.html
- Kevin Hughes, 53, former BritishUnited KingdomThe 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...
LabourLabour 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...
MPMember of ParliamentA 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 Doncaster NorthDoncaster North (UK Parliament constituency)- Sources :* Election results from 1992 to the present* Election results from 1945 to the present* The website of Ed Miliband...
, motor neurone diseaseMotor neurone diseaseThe motor neurone diseases are a group of neurological disorders that selectively affect motor neurones, the cells that control voluntary muscle activity including speaking, walking, breathing, swallowing and general movement of the body. They are generally progressive in nature, and can cause...
. http://politics.guardian.co.uk/labour/story/0,,1822466,00.html http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/south_yorkshire/5195318.stm - Bob Orton, Sr.Bob OrtonRobert Dale "Bob" Orton was an American professional wrestler. He was also known as Bob Orton, Sr. to distinguish him from his son, "Cowboy" Bob Orton, Jr...
, 76, former professional wrestler, heart attackMyocardial infarctionMyocardial 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.wrestling-news.com/artman/publish/article_2543.shtml - Destiny Norton (date disappeared), 5, American child, kidnapped and murdered.
- Ossi ReichertOssi ReichertRosa "Ossi" Reichert was a German Alpine skier. She was born in Sonthofen, Bayern, Germany.Her greatest victory was in the 1956 Winter Olympics giant slalom at Cortina d'Ampezzo, Germany's sole gold medal at these games. After having seriously injured an ankle in 1954, she was not expected to do...
, 80, German alpine skier, Olympic Champion 1956. http://www.fis-ski.com/cms/impression_page.htm?page_id=2400&gab_id=5&id_newsflash=46&URL=/uk/newsinformation/fisnewsflash/newsflash2006&#article2 - Winthrop Paul RockefellerWinthrop Paul RockefellerWinthrop Paul Rockefeller was a Republican politician who served as the 13th Lieutenant Governor of the U.S. state of Arkansas from 1996 until his death.-Early life and parents:...
, 57, American billionaire and Lieutenant Governor of ArkansasArkansasArkansas is a state located in the southern region of the United States. Its name is an Algonquian name of the Quapaw Indians. Arkansas shares borders with six states , and its eastern border is largely defined by the Mississippi River...
since 1996, myeloproliferative disorder. http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/17/us/17rockefeller.html http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060716/ap_on_re_us/obit_rockefeller_1 - Harold Scott Jr., 70, American award-winning actor and playwright, first black artistic director of a major American regional theater. http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/02/arts/02scott.html http://www.playbill.com/news/article/100935.html
- Malachi ThompsonMalachi ThompsonMalachi Richard Thompson , was an American avant-garde jazz trumpet player.- Biography :...
, 56, American jazz trumpeter, lymphomaLymphomaLymphoma 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/2006/07/20/arts/music/20thompson.html http://abclocal.go.com/wls/story?section=local&id=4359793 - Winston Wilson, 63, co-founder of Winston Daniels Ltd of Napa Valley, wine importer, esophageal cancerEsophageal cancerEsophageal 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/2006/07/19/business/19wilson.html
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- Robert H. BrooksRobert H. BrooksRobert H. Brooks was founder of Naturally Fresh, Inc. in 1966 in Atlanta, Georgia, and later created the Hooters of America restaurant chain in the mid-1980s.-Early life and career:...
, 69, chairman of Hooters of AmericaHootersHooters is the trade name of two privately held American restaurant chains: Hooters of America, Incorporated, based in Atlanta, Georgia, and Hooters, Incorporated, based in Clearwater, Florida...
, natural causes. http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/metro/stories/0717brooks.html - Rev. Joseph Boone, 83, United States civil rights activist, diabetes. http://www.accessnorthga.com/news/ap_newfullstory.asp?ID=77740
- John Feild, 83, pioneer of affirmative actionAffirmative actionAffirmative action refers to policies that take factors including "race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation or national origin" into consideration in order to benefit an underrepresented group, usually as a means to counter the effects of a history of discrimination.-Origins:The term...
as executive director of the President's Commission on Equal Employment Opportunity in the administration of John F. KennedyJohn F. KennedyJohn Fitzgerald "Jack" Kennedy , often referred to by his initials JFK, was the 35th President of the United States, serving from 1961 until his assassination in 1963....
, heart attack. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/07/19/AR2006071901964.html - John Joseph FitzpatrickJohn Joseph FitzpatrickBishop John Joseph Fitzpatrick was an Auxiliary Bishop of the Archdiocese of Miami and the third Bishop of the Diocese of Brownsville . He was also the Titular Bishop of Cenae .He was ordained a priest on December 13, 1942 when he was 24 years old...
, 87, Bishop of BrownsvilleBrownsville, TexasBrownsville is a city in the southernmost tip of the state of Texas, in the United States. It is located on the northern bank of the Rio Grande, directly north and across the border from Matamoros, Tamaulipas, Mexico. Brownsville is the 16th largest city in the state of Texas with a population of...
for 20 years. http://www.brownsvilleherald.com/ts_comments.php?id=71704_0_10_0_C - Howdy GrosklossHowdy GrosklossHoward Hoffman "Howdy" Groskloss was an American second baseman in Major League Baseball who played for the Pittsburgh Pirates . Groskloss batted and threw right-handed....
, 100, was the oldest living former major league baseball player. http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/06201/707175-150.stm - Kenneth LochheadKenneth LochheadKenneth Campbell Lochhead, was a Canadian Professor and painter. He was the brother of poet Douglas Lochhead....
, 80, Canadian artist who was a member of the Regina FiveRegina FiveRegina Five is the name given to five abstract painters, Kenneth Lochhead, Arthur McKay, Douglas Morton, Ted Godwin, and Ronald Bloore, who displayed their works in the 1961 National Gallery of Canada's exhibition "Five Painters from Regina".-External links:...
, colorectal cancerColorectal cancerColorectal 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.cbc.ca/arts/story/2006/07/18/lochhead-ken-obit.html - Dr. James Nicholas, 85, American orthopedic surgeon and physician for three NFLNational Football LeagueThe 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...
teams. http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/17/sports/17nicholas.html - Daniel Nickerson, 48, former professional wrestling promoter. http://www.georgiawrestlinghistory.com/phpbb2_gwh/viewtopic.php?p=9163&sid=3cfa0bc800914d1ee37adb00c7ac61ff
- István PálfiIstván PálfiIstván Pálfi was a Hungarian politician and Member of the European Parliament with the Hungarian Civic Party, part of the European People's Party and sit on the European Parliament's Committee on Budgetary Control and its Committee on Regional Development.Pálfi was a substitute for the Committee...
, 39, HungarianHungaryHungary , 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...
Member of the European ParliamentMember of the European ParliamentA Member of the European Parliament is a person who has been elected to the European Parliament. The name of MEPs differ in different languages, with terms such as europarliamentarian or eurodeputy being common in Romance language-speaking areas.When the European Parliament was first established,...
, long illness. http://www.epp-ed.eu/press/peve06/eve025_en.asp - Rupert PoleRupert PoleRupert Pole was a husband of Anaïs Nin, and her literary executor.Pole was born in Los Angeles. His father Reginald was a highly regarded Shakespearean actor...
, 87, AmericanUnited StatesThe United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
actorActorAn actor is a person who acts in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio in that capacity...
, forest ranger, and former co-husband of bigamist Anaïs NinAnaïs NinAnaïs Nin was a French-Cuban author, based at first in France and later in the United States, who published her journals, which span more than 60 years, beginning when she was 11 years old and ending shortly before her death, her erotic literature, and short stories...
. http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-pole26jul26,1,2328401.story?coll=la-news-obituaries - A. C. Krishna Rao, 93, founder of the Stree Seva Mandir charity for destitute women in IndiaIndiaIndia , 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...
. http://www.hindu.com/2006/07/16/stories/2006071618940300.htm - Francis RoseFrancis RoseFrancis Rose MBE was an English field botanist and conservationist. He was an author, researcher and teacher. His ecological interests in Britain and Europe included bryophytes, fungi, higher plants, plant communities and woodlands.Rose was born in south London...
, 84, BritishUnited KingdomThe 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...
botanist. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article694227.ece - Andrée RuellanAndrée RuellanAndrée Ruellan was an American painter, known for her depictions of everyday scenes in New York and the American South....
, 101, American painter. http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/06/arts/06ruellan.html?_r=1&ref=obituaries&oref=slogin - David W. Simpson, 51, AmericanUnited StatesThe United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
MayorMayorIn many countries, a Mayor is the highest ranking officer in the municipal government of a town or a large urban city....
of Bethel, OhioBethel, OhioBethel is a village in Clermont County, Ohio, United States. The population was 2,637 at the 2000 census.Bethel was founded in 1798 by Obed Denham, in what was then the Northwest Territory....
, aneurysmAneurysmAn 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://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060718/NEWS0104/607180349/1060 - Andrew SudduthAndrew SudduthAndrew Hancock Sudduth , was one of the best United States rowers of his generation. He was a fixture on the United States National team throughout the 1980s....
, 44, AmericanUnited StatesThe United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
rowerSport rowingRowing is a sport in which athletes race against each other on rivers, on lakes or on the ocean, depending upon the type of race and the discipline. The boats are propelled by the reaction forces on the oar blades as they are pushed against the water...
who won an Olympic silver medal, pancreatic cancerPancreatic cancerPancreatic cancer refers to a malignant neoplasm of the pancreas. The most common type of pancreatic cancer, accounting for 95% of these tumors is adenocarcinoma, which arises within the exocrine component of the pancreas. A minority arises from the islet cells and is classified as a...
. http://www.boston.com/news/local/new_hampshire/articles/2006/07/19/olympic_rower_andrew_suddeth_dies_at_44/ http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/20/sports/othersports/20sudduth.html
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- Ted Bilkey, 72, former Chief Operating Officer for DP World. http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/19/business/19bilkey.html http://www.presstelegram.com/news/ci_4067934
- Anthony Cave BrownAnthony Cave BrownAnthony Cave Brown was an English-American journalist, espionage non-fiction writer and historian.-Early years:...
, 77, English historian of espionage. http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/02/arts/02brown.html - William DownsWilliam DownsWilliam Downs is a contemporary artist who focuses mainly on painting, drawing and printmaking.Born and raised in Greenville, South Carolina, William lives and works in New York City. He studied at the Atlanta College of Art and Design where he received his BFA in Painting and Printmaking in 1997...
, 39, AmericanUnited StatesThe United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
convicted murderer, executed in South CarolinaSouth CarolinaSouth Carolina is a state in the Deep South of the United States that borders Georgia to the south, North Carolina to the north, and the Atlantic Ocean to the east. Originally part of the Province of Carolina, the Province of South Carolina was one of the 13 colonies that declared independence...
. http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=2194792 - Tom FrameTom FrameTom Frame was a British comics letterer. He created dialogue for the majority of the Judge Dredd strips, as well as other stories including over 300 stories in 2000 AD and Transformers....
, British comic book letterer, cancer. http://www.comicsreporter.com/index.php/tom_frame_rip/ - Heinrich HeidersbergerHeinrich HeidersbergerHeinrich Heidersberger was a German photographer noted for his work on architectural subjects.- References :...
, 100, German photographer :de:Heinrich Heidersberger - William Lash III, 45, former assistant secretary of the United States Department of CommerceUnited States Department of CommerceThe United States Department of Commerce is the Cabinet department of the United States government concerned with promoting economic growth. It was originally created as the United States Department of Commerce and Labor on February 14, 1903...
and professor at George Mason UniversityGeorge Mason UniversityGeorge Mason University is a public university based in unincorporated Fairfax County, Virginia, United States, south of and adjacent to the city of Fairfax. Additional campuses are located nearby in Arlington County, Prince William County, and Loudoun County...
, suicide after killing his 12-year-old autistic son. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/07/14/AR2006071400502.html - Christophe Mérieux, 39, head of research at BioMérieuxBioMérieuxbioMérieux is a multinational biotechnology company founded and headquartered in France and listed on the NYSE Euronext Paris stock exchange. The company specializes in the field of in vitro diagnostics for the medical and industrial sectors...
and intended successor to Alain Mérieux as Chief Executive, heart attackMyocardial infarctionMyocardial 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://msnbc.msn.com/id/13865812/ - Carrie NyeCarrie Nye-Early life:Nye was born Caroline Nye McGeoy in Greenwood, Mississippi; her father was a vice president of a local bank. She attended Stephens College and then went on to the Yale School of Drama.-Career:...
, 69, American actress, lung cancer. http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/17/arts/17nye.html http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117946919?categoryId=25&cs=1 - June Ormond, 94, produced country music and religious films, complications of a stroke. http://www.tennessean.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060716/OBITS/607160370/1090/NEWS
- Eduards Pāvuls, 77, famous Latvian actor http://www.lnak.org/viewarticle.php?id=9117
- Martha Peterson, 90, American president of Barnard CollegeBarnard CollegeBarnard College is a private women's liberal arts college and a member of the Seven Sisters. Founded in 1889, Barnard has been affiliated with Columbia University since 1900. The campus stretches along Broadway between 116th and 120th Streets in the Morningside Heights neighborhood in the borough...
(1967–75). http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/20/nyregion/20peterson.html - Senne Rouffaer, 80, FlemishFlandersFlanders is the community of the Flemings but also one of the institutions in Belgium, and a geographical region located in parts of present-day Belgium, France and the Netherlands. "Flanders" can also refer to the northern part of Belgium that contains Brussels, Bruges, Ghent and Antwerp...
actor. http://www.standaard.be/Artikel/Detail.aspx?artikelid=DMF14072006_063 - Len TeeuwsLen TeeuwsLeonard Teeuws was an American football offensive tackle/defensive tackle in the National Football League. He played two seasons for the Los Angeles Rams and four seasons for the Chicago Cardinals . Teeuws attended Tulane University.-References:* -External links:*...
, 79, former offensive and definsive lineman for the Los Angeles Rams and the Chicago Cardinals. http://www.sportsline.com/nfl/story/9559934 - Maulana Hasan Turrabi, prominent Shia leader in Pakistan, died in bomb blast in KarachiKarachiKarachi is the largest city, main seaport and the main financial centre of Pakistan, as well as the capital of the province of Sindh. The city has an estimated population of 13 to 15 million, while the total metropolitan area has a population of over 18 million...
, PakistanPakistanPakistan , 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...
. http://209.41.165.180/important_events/karachi_blast14jul06/english_news.asp - Aleksander WojtkiewiczAleksander WojtkiewiczAleksander Wojtkiewicz was a Polish International Grandmaster of chess. He was born in Latvia. In his early teens he was already a strong player; a student of ex-world champion Mikhail Tal whom he assisted in the 1979 Interzonal tournament in Riga. He won the Latvian Chess Championship in 1981...
, 43, Polish International GrandmasterInternational GrandmasterThe title Grandmaster is awarded to strong chess players by the world chess organization FIDE. Apart from World Champion, Grandmaster is the highest title a chess player can attain....
of chess, perforated intestine, and massive bleeding. http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/19/arts/19wojtkiewicz.html http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=3234
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- Red Buttons, 87, American comedian, vascular disease. http://www.cnn.com/2006/SHOWBIZ/Movies/07/13/obit.buttons.ap/index.html http://www.smh.com.au/news/people/oscar-winner-comic-red-buttons-dies-at-87/2006/07/14/1152637870325.html http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/5178496.stm
- Pamela CooperPamela CooperPamela Margaret Cooper was a British courtier, campaigner for refugees, and a supporter of the Palestinian people.-Biography:...
, 95, refugeeRefugeeA refugee is a person who outside her country of origin or habitual residence because she has suffered persecution on account of race, religion, nationality, political opinion, or because she is a member of a persecuted 'social group'. Such a person may be referred to as an 'asylum seeker' until...
activist known for her work with the Palestinians. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,60-2269281,00.html - Charles Dakin, 76, British classical composer, car crash. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/shropshire/5180178.stm
- Jürgen Kiessling, 65, FIFA World Cup 2006 official in BerlinBerlinBerlin is the capital city of Germany and is one of the 16 states of Germany. With a population of 3.45 million people, Berlin is Germany's largest city. It is the second most populous city proper and the seventh most populous urban area in the European Union...
, suicide. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/5177440.stm - John Rector, Jr, 86, former publisher of the Dallas Morning News, pneumoniaPneumoniaPneumonia 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.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/latestnews/stories/071506dnmetrectorobit.1138c3ef.html - Mark Ryder, 85, American dancer. http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/21/arts/21ryder.html
- Jonathan SolomonJonathan SolomonJonathan Solomon is a former Australian rules footballer who played with the Brisbane Bears in the Australian Football League ....
, 74, Gwich'in tribal leader. http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/18/us/18solomon.html - Ángel Suquía GoicoecheaÁngel Suquía GoicoecheaAngel Suquía Goicoechea was a Roman Catholic Cardinal who served as Archbishop of Madrid from 1983 until 1994....
, 89, retired Metropolitan-Archbishop of MadridMadridMadrid is the capital and largest city of Spain. The population of the city is roughly 3.3 million and the entire population of the Madrid metropolitan area is calculated to be 6.271 million. It is the third largest city in the European Union, after London and Berlin, and its metropolitan...
. http://www.fiu.edu/~mirandas/bios-s.htm#Suquia - Cora T. Walker, 84, African-American lawyer, co-founder and senior partner of Walker & Bailey. http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/20/nyregion/20walker.html
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- Rocky BartonRocky BartonRocky Barton was executed by the State of Ohio on July 12, 2006 for the murder of his wife, 43-year-old Kimbirli Jo Barton, at their home in Waynesville, Ohio...
, 49, AmericanUnited StatesThe United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
convicted murderer, executed in OhioOhioOhio is a Midwestern state in the United States. The 34th largest state by area in the U.S.,it is the 7th‑most populous with over 11.5 million residents, containing several major American cities and seven metropolitan areas with populations of 500,000 or more.The state's capital is Columbus...
. http://www.cnn.com/2006/LAW/07/12/ohio.execution/ - George Creel, Jr., 90, Assistant Secretary in the United States Department of Housing and Urban DevelopmentUnited States Department of Housing and Urban DevelopmentThe United States Department of Housing and Urban Development, also known as HUD, is a Cabinet department in the Executive branch of the United States federal government...
and newspaper columnist. http://www.tcpalm.com/tcp/local_news/article/0,,TCP_16736_4845140,00.html - Kurt KreugerKurt KreugerKurt Kreuger was a Swiss-reared German actor. Kreuger once was the third most requested male actor at 20th Century Fox. He starred with, among others, Ingrid Bergman and Humphrey Bogart.-Life and career:...
, 89, Swiss-German actor (Sahara, The Enemy BelowThe Enemy BelowThe Enemy Below is a 1957 war film which tells the story of the battle between the captain of an American destroyer escort and the commander of a German U-boat during World War II. It stars Robert Mitchum, Curt Jürgens, David Hedison and Theodore Bikel. The movie was directed and produced by Dick...
), strokeStrokeA 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/2006/07/31/arts/31kreuger.html http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/california/la-me-kreuger19jul19,1,6764390.story?coll=la-headlines-pe-california http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117947083?categoryId=25&cs=1 - Hubert LampoHubert LampoHubert Leon Lampo was a Flemish writer, one of the founders of magic realism in Flanders. His most famous book is...
, 85, BelgianBelgiumBelgium , officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a federal state in Western Europe. It is a founding member of the European Union and hosts the EU's headquarters, and those of several other major international organisations such as NATO.Belgium is also a member of, or affiliated to, many...
writer. http://www.expatica.com/source/site_article.asp?subchannel_id=24&story_id=31522&name=Flemish+author+Lampo+dies%2C+aged+85 - Charles H. G. Rees, 84, American media executive, former president of Whitney Communications. http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/18/business/media/18rees.html
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- Kathy AugustineKathy AugustineKathy Marie Alfano Augustine was a U.S. Republican Party politician from Nevada. She served in the Nevada Assembly and in the Nevada Senate...
, 50, State Controller of NevadaNevadaNevada is a state in the western, mountain west, and southwestern regions of the United States. With an area of and a population of about 2.7 million, it is the 7th-largest and 35th-most populous state. Over two-thirds of Nevada's people live in the Las Vegas metropolitan area, which contains its...
who was first NevadaNevadaNevada is a state in the western, mountain west, and southwestern regions of the United States. With an area of and a population of about 2.7 million, it is the 7th-largest and 35th-most populous state. Over two-thirds of Nevada's people live in the Las Vegas metropolitan area, which contains its...
state official to be impeachedImpeachmentImpeachment is a formal process in which an official is accused of unlawful activity, the outcome of which, depending on the country, may include the removal of that official from office as well as other punishment....
in office, death currently under investigation. http://www.kvbc.com/Global/story.asp?S=5138254&nav=menu107_2 http://articles.news.aol.com/news/_a/questions-surround-nevada-officials/20060721144409990004 - Phyllis BakerPhyllis BakerPhyllis J. Baker [Wise] was a pitcher who played from through in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League...
, 69, American baseball player (All-American Girls Professional Baseball LeagueAll-American Girls Professional Baseball LeagueThe All-American Girls Professional Baseball League was a women's professional baseball league founded by Philip K. Wrigley which existed from 1943 to 1954. During the league's history, over 600 women played ball.-History:...
). - Vasant Chavan, 64, Indian politician and former Minister, cardiac arrestCardiac arrestCardiac arrest, is the cessation of normal circulation of the blood due to failure of the heart to contract effectively...
. http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/holnus/001200607111551.htm - John ColettaJohn ColettaJohn Coletta was English music manager and music producer. He managed Deep Purple, Whitesnake and Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow,...
, 74, former manager of Deep PurpleDeep PurpleDeep Purple are an English rock band formed in Hertford in 1968. Along with Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath, they are considered to be among the pioneers of heavy metal and modern hard rock, although some band members believe that their music cannot be categorised as belonging to any one genre...
and WhitesnakeWhitesnakeWhitesnake are an English rock band, founded in 1978 by David Coverdale after his departure from his previous band, Deep Purple. The band's early material has been compared by critics to Deep Purple, but by the mid 1980s they had moved to a more commercial hard rock style...
, due to unspecified illness. http://www.upi.com/NewsTrack/view.php?StoryID=20060711-101940-4071r - Neil CoulbeckNeil CoulbeckNeil Coulbeck was a banker with the Royal Bank of Scotland .Coulbeck was Head of Financial Markets for North America with RBS until June 2001, when he returned to London as Head of Group Treasury. He had been questioned by the FBI in relation to the collapse of Enron, which involved the RBS...
, Royal Bank of ScotlandRoyal Bank of ScotlandThe Royal Bank of Scotland Group is a British banking and insurance holding company in which the UK Government holds an 84% stake. This stake is held and managed through UK Financial Investments Limited, whose voting rights are limited to 75% in order for the bank to retain its listing on the...
executive questioned over EnronEnronEnron Corporation was an American energy, commodities, and services company based in Houston, Texas. Before its bankruptcy on December 2, 2001, Enron employed approximately 22,000 staff and was one of the world's leading electricity, natural gas, communications, and pulp and paper companies, with...
collapse, unexplained. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/5178294.stm - Mary Day, 96, American ballet dancer and co-founder of the Washington School of Ballet. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/07/11/AR2006071101481.html
- Gerald GidwitzGerald GidwitzGerald S. Gidwitz was a co-founder of Helene Curtis Industries.-Early life:Gidwitz was born in Memphis, Tennessee. His father was a cotton farmer and general store owner in Mississippi...
, 99, American cosmetics executive, co-founder of Helene Curtis, congestive heart failure. http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/14/business/14gidwitz.html http://www.belleville.com/mld/belleville/news/state/15023542.htm - Barnard HughesBarnard HughesBernard Aloysius Kiernan “Barnard” Hughes was an American actor of theater and film. Hughes became famous for a variety of roles; his most notable roles came after middle age, and he was often cast as a dithering authority figure or grandfatherly elder.-Personal life:Hughes was born in Bedford...
, 90, American Tony and Emmy Award-winning actor. http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/12/arts/12hughes.html http://www.broadway.com/gen/Buzz_Story.aspx?ci=533348 - Fortunato LibanoriFortunato LibanoriFortunato Libanori was an Italian Grand Prix motorcycle road racer. His best year was in 1956 when he finished fifth in the 125cc world championship.- References :...
, 72, ItalianItalyItaly , 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...
Grand PrixGrand Prix motorcycle racingRoad Racing World Championship Grand Prix is the premier championship of motorcycle road racing currently divided into three distinct classes: 125cc, Moto2 and MotoGP. The 125cc class uses a two-stroke engine while Moto2 and MotoGP use four-stroke engines. In 2010 the 250cc two-stroke was replaced...
motorcycleMotorcycleA 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...
road racerRoad racingRoad racing is a general term for most forms of motor racing held on paved, purpose-built race tracks , as opposed to oval tracks and off-road racing...
. http://www.motorrad-autogrammkarten.de/index.php/halloffame/id_635/Fortunato-Libanori - Bill MillerBill Miller (pianist)Bill Miller was an American jazz pianist, who accompanied Frank Sinatra over fifty years, and for the last eight years of his life, accompanied Frank Sinatra, Jr.....
, 91, American pianist for Frank SinatraFrank SinatraFrancis Albert "Frank" Sinatra was an American singer and actor.Beginning his musical career in the swing era with Harry James and Tommy Dorsey, Sinatra became an unprecedentedly successful solo artist in the early to mid-1940s, after being signed to Columbia Records in 1943. Being the idol of the...
, heart attackMyocardial infarctionMyocardial 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/2006/07/17/arts/music/17mill.html http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-miller16jul16,0,7532008.story?coll=la-story-footer - Paul Morden, 31, American musician (The Brickbats, Memphis Morticians,Snake Charmers Gitane DeMoneGitane DemoneGitane Demone is a singer and musician. She was a member of Christian Death in the 1980s, and is currently a solo artist.-Pompeii 99 and Christian Death:...
, and others), suicideSuicideSuicide 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...
. - Derrick O'Brien, 31, executed for the rape and murder of two teenage girls in TexasTexasTexas 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...
. - Bronwyn Oliver, 47, AustraliaAustraliaAustralia , 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 sculptor, suicideSuicideSuicide 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.smh.com.au/news/arts/solitary-end-to-sculptors-intensely-private-life/2006/07/12/1152637740039.html - William Pryce, 73, United States ambassador to HondurasHondurasHonduras is a republic in Central America. It was previously known as Spanish Honduras to differentiate it from British Honduras, which became the modern-day state of Belize...
from 1993 to 1996, pancreatic cancerPancreatic cancerPancreatic cancer refers to a malignant neoplasm of the pancreas. The most common type of pancreatic cancer, accounting for 95% of these tumors is adenocarcinoma, which arises within the exocrine component of the pancreas. A minority arises from the islet cells and is classified as a...
. http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/california/la-me-passings21.1jul21,1,2572300.story?coll=la-headlines-pe-california - Wilhelm Schippers, 41, DutchNetherlandsThe 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...
murderer, suicide in BijlmerbajesBijlmerbajesThe Bijlmerbajes is a prison complex in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, near the Amsterdam Amstel railway station. The official name is Penitentiaire Inrichting Over-Amstel, although it is also known as Penitentiaire Inrichting De Stadspoort or Penitentiaire Inrichtingen Amsterdam...
prison. http://www.nos.nl/nos/artikelen/2006/07/art000001C6A4DE51ECCE3E.html - Ruth SchonthalRuth SchonthalRuth Schönthal was a pianist and contemporary composer.-Early years:...
, 82, German-born classical pianist and composer. http://news.independent.co.uk/people/obituaries/article1181637.ece http://www.nysun.com/article/36329 http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/19/arts/music/19schonthal.html - John SpencerJohn Spencer (snooker player)John Spencer was an English professional snooker player who won the World Professional title at his first attempt, was the first winner at the Crucible Theatre, was the inaugural winner of the Masters and Irish Masters and was the first player to make a 147 break in competition...
, 71, British former world champion snookerSnookerSnooker is a cue sport that is played on a green baize-covered table with pockets in each of the four corners and in the middle of each of the long side cushions. A regular table is . It is played using a cue and snooker balls: one white , 15 worth one point each, and six balls of different :...
player, stomach cancerStomach cancerGastric cancer, commonly referred to as stomach cancer, can develop in any part of the stomach and may spread throughout the stomach and to other organs; particularly the esophagus, lungs, lymph nodes, and the liver...
. http://www.worldsnooker.com/default.htm http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/other_sports/snooker/5171212.stm http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/16/sports/othersports/16spencer.html - Philippe Takla, 91, former foreign ministerForeign ministerA Minister of Foreign Affairs, or foreign minister, is a cabinet minister who helps form the foreign policy of a sovereign state. The foreign minister is often regarded as the most senior ministerial position below that of the head of government . It is often granted to the deputy prime minister in...
of LebanonLebanonLebanon , officially the Republic of LebanonRepublic of Lebanon is the most common term used by Lebanese government agencies. The term Lebanese Republic, a literal translation of the official Arabic and French names that is not used in today's world. Arabic is the most common language spoken among...
. http://legacy.com/Obituaries.asp?Page=APStory&Id=11439 http://www.rulers.org/2006-07.html - Wiarton WillieWiarton WillieWiarton Willie is a famous albino Canadian groundhog who lived in the community of Wiarton in Bruce County, Ontario. Every February 2, on Groundhog Day, Willie took part in the local Wiarton Willie Festival. His role is to predict whether there will be an early spring...
, 8, Canada's most well-known Groundhog DayGroundhog DayGroundhog Day is a holiday celebrated on February 2 in the United States and Canada. According to folklore, if it is cloudy when a groundhog emerges from its burrow on this day, it will leave the burrow, signifying that winter-like weather will soon end...
prognosticator, following a long illness http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1152612115203&call_pageid=968332188492&col=968793972154&t=TS_Home
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- Shamil BasayevShamil BasayevShamil Salmanovich Basayev was a Chechen militant Islamist and a leader of the Chechen rebel movement.Starting as a field commander in the Transcaucasus, Basayev led guerrilla campaigns against the Russian troops for years, as well as launching mass-hostage takings of civilians, with his goal...
, 41, Chechen rebel leader, terrorist, explosion. http://english.pravda.ru/accidents/21/96/382/14918_basayev.html http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/5165456.stm http://news.sympatico.msn.ctv.ca/TopStories/ContentPosting.aspx?feedname=CTV-TOPSTORIES_V2&newsitemid=CTVNews%2f20060710%2fbasayev_killed_060710&showbyline=True http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/5167768.stm - Tommy BruceTommy BruceTommy Bruce was an English rock 'n' roll singer who had most success in the early 1960s.-Life and career:He was born Thomas Charles Bruce, in Stepney, London...
, 68, British singer ("Ain't Misbehavin'"). http://www.tommybruce.co.uk/ - Robert FumertonRobert FumertonWing Commander Robert Carl 'Moose' Fumerton was the top Canadian night-fighter flying ace during World War II....
, 93, top-scoring Canadian night fighter ace of World War II. http://www.nysun.com/article/36937 - The Very Rev. Dr. Raymond FurnellRaymond FurnellThe Very Reverend Dr Raymond Furnell was the Dean of York Minster from 1994 to 2003.His first ecclesiastical post was as curate at Cannock, in the Diocese of Lichfield, from 1965 to 1969. From there, he moved to become vicar of Clayton part of Newcastle-under-Lyme, a position he held from...
, 71, Dean of YorkYork MinsterYork Minster is a Gothic cathedral in York, England and is one of the largest of its kind in Northern Europe alongside Cologne Cathedral. The minster is the seat of the Archbishop of York, the second-highest office of the Church of England, and is the cathedral for the Diocese of York; it is run by...
from 1994–2003, responsible for introducing charges to visitors at York Minster, cancer http://www.churchnewspaper.com/news.php?read=on&number_key=5828&title=Raymond%20Furnell%20former%20Dean%20of%20York%20dies http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,60-2269280,00.html - Anthony Holliday, 66, South AfricaSouth AfricaThe 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 philosopher and journalist, cancerCancerCancer , 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.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=139&art_id=vn20060711041419232C241852 - Ahmad Nadeem QasimiAhmad Nadeem QasimiAhmad Nadeem Qasmi, PP, SI was a legendary Urdu and English language Pakistani poet, journalist, literary critic, dramatist and short story author. With some 50 books of poetry, fiction, criticism, journalism and art to his credit, Qasmi was a major figure in contemporary Urdu literature...
, 89, UrduUrduUrdu is a register of the Hindustani language that is identified with Muslims in South Asia. It belongs to the Indo-European family. Urdu is the national language and lingua franca of Pakistan. It is also widely spoken in some regions of India, where it is one of the 22 scheduled languages and an...
poet, writer, critic and journalist who published 50 books. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/5166788.stm - Ali Taziyev, Chechen militant. http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-5942564,00.html
- Blanca Torres, 78, Mexican actress. http://www.academiamexicana.com/academia/mh43.htm
- Fred WanderFred WanderFred Wander was an Austrian writer and Holocaust survivor.Wander was born Fritz Rosenblatt in Vienna, he left school at 14 and worked as an apprentice in a textile mill, before travelling around Europe taking whatever jobs were going. He spent quite some time in pre-war Paris and this is where he...
, 89, AustriaAustriaAustria , 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 author and Holocaust survivor. http://fr.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1150885973305&pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull
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- Dr. Fred EpsteinFred EpsteinFred J. Epstein, MD was an internationally renowned pediatric neurosurgeon credited for the development of pioneering neurosurgical techniques to treat children threatened by brain and spinal-cord tumors....
, 68, American pediatric neurosurgeon who developed new ways of operating on tumorTumorA tumor or tumour is commonly used as a synonym for a neoplasm that appears enlarged in size. Tumor is not synonymous with cancer...
s, melanomaMelanomaMelanoma is a malignant tumor of melanocytes. Melanocytes are cells that produce the dark pigment, melanin, which is responsible for the color of skin. They predominantly occur in skin, but are also found in other parts of the body, including the bowel and the eye...
. http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/12/nyregion/12epstein.html - Abdel Moneim MadboulyAbdel Moneim MadboulyAbdel Moneim Madbouly was an Egyptian actor, comedian and playwright.Madbouly was born in Cairo and started acting at seven years old following the death of his father. His family needed the money...
, 84, Egyptian comedian and playwright, congestive heart failure. http://dailystaregypt.com/article.aspx?ArticleID=2219 - Professor John Raeburn, 93, agricultural economist responsible for planning the "Dig for Victory" campaign in the United KingdomUnited KingdomThe 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...
during World War II. http://news.scotsman.com/obituaries.cfm?id=1051572006 - Alan SenittAlan SenittAlan Senitt was a British political activist whose murder in Washington, DC garnered media attention. He had just graduated with an MA in International Studies and Diplomacy from the prestigious School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London.From Pinner, North London, Senitt was a...
, 27, British political activist, stabbed to death. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/5164356.stm - Milan WilliamsMilan WilliamsMilan B. Williams was an American keyboardist and a founding member of the Commodores band.Williams was born in Okolona, Mississippi and began playing the piano after being inspired by his older brother Earl, who was a multi-instrumentalist...
, 58, keyboardistKeyboardistA keyboardist is a musician who plays keyboard instruments. Until the early 1960s musicians who played keyboards were generally classified as either pianists or organists. Since the mid-1960s, a plethora of new musical instruments with keyboards have come into common usage, requiring a more...
, founding member of R&B/funkFunkFunk is a music genre that originated in the mid-late 1960s when African American musicians blended soul music, jazz and R&B into a rhythmic, danceable new form of music. Funk de-emphasizes melody and harmony and brings a strong rhythmic groove of electric bass and drums to the foreground...
band the CommodoresCommodoresThe Commodores are an American funk/soul band of the 1970s and 1980s. The members of the group met as mostly freshmen at Tuskegee Institute in 1968, and signed with Motown in November 1972, having first caught the public eye opening for The Jackson 5 while on tour...
, cancerCancerCancer , 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.billboard.com/bbcom/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1002802610 http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/5169798.stm - Michael ZinzunMichael ZinzunMichael Zinzun was an American ex-Black Panther and anti-police brutality activist of African American and Apache descent.-Early life:...
, 57, ex-Black Panthers and anti-police activist, died in his sleep. http://cbs2.com/topstories/local_story_192115941.html
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- George AlbeeGeorge AlbeeGeorge Wilson Albee was a pioneer in clinical psychology, who believed societal factors were the major cause of mental illness. He was one of the leading figures in the development of community psychology.-Career:...
, 84, American psychologist and former head of the American Psychological AssociationAmerican Psychological AssociationThe American Psychological Association is the largest scientific and professional organization of psychologists in the United States. It is the world's largest association of psychologists with around 154,000 members including scientists, educators, clinicians, consultants and students. The APA...
, argued that social problems contributed to mental illness. http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/15/us/15albee.html http://www.boston.com/news/local/vermont/articles/2006/07/11/nationally_known_retired_uvm_psychologist_albee_dies/ - June AllysonJune AllysonJune Allyson was an American film and television actress, popular in the 1940s and 1950s. She was a major MGM contract star. Allyson won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress for her performance in Too Young to Kiss . From 1959–1961, she hosted and occasionally starred in her own CBS anthology...
, 88, Hollywood actress, pulmonary respiratory failure and acute bronchitis after a long illness. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060710/ap_en_mo/obit_june_allyson_1 - Eric BedfordEric BedfordEric Lance Bedford was an Australian politician, affiliated with the Australian Labor Party and elected as a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly....
, 78, former member of the WranNeville WranNeville Kenneth Wran, AC, CNZM, QC was the Premier of New South Wales from 1976 until 1986. He was National President of the Australian Labor Party from 1980 to 1986 and Chairman of both the Lionel Murphy Foundation and the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation from 1986...
Government ministry 1976-1985 in New South WalesNew South WalesNew South Wales is a state of :Australia, located in the east of the country. It is bordered by Queensland, Victoria and South Australia to the north, south and west respectively. To the east, the state is bordered by the Tasman Sea, which forms part of the Pacific Ocean. New South Wales...
. http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,19726959-29277,00.html - Franco Belgiorno-NettisFranco Belgiorno-NettisFranco Belgiorno-Nettis, AC was an Australian industrialist and patron of the arts. He founded the construction and engineering company Transfield and also helped establish the Biennale of Sydney....
, 91, founder of Transfield Holdings Australia's largest engineering and construction firm, died after a fall. http://finance.news.com.au/story/0,10166,19733366-31037,00.html - Rolf Braun, 77, German Fastnacht and TV personality http://www.zeit.de/dpa/generatedSite/iptc-bdt-20060709-325-dpa_12153594.xml
- David BrightDavid BrightDavid Bright was a professional wreck diver. He was the president of the Nautical Research Group, which he founded in 2003, and an avid contributor to documentaries on shipwrecks.- Early life :...
, 49, American researcher into underwater exploration and shipwrecks, cardiac arrestCardiac arrestCardiac arrest, is the cessation of normal circulation of the blood due to failure of the heart to contract effectively...
stemming from decompression sicknessDecompression sicknessDecompression sickness describes a condition arising from dissolved gases coming out of solution into bubbles inside the body on depressurization...
. http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/11/us/11bright.html http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060711/ap_on_re_us/obit_bright - Ana María CampoyAna María CampoyAna María Campoy was an Argentine actress of Colombian origin. She was born in Bogotá, the child of a couple of actors who had a theatre company in Spain. She began acting at the age of 4, and at 17 she formed her own company....
, 80, ArgentineArgentinaArgentina , 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...
actress, pneumoniaPneumoniaPneumonia 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.lanacion.com.ar/entretenimientos/nota.asp?nota_id=821763 - Peter HawkinsPeter HawkinsPeter John Hawkins was an English actor and voice artist.- Career :Born in London and a native of Brixton, Hawkins' long association with British children's television began in 1952 when he voiced both Bill and Ben, the Flower Pot Men. In 1955–1956, He voiced Big Ears & Mr. Plod from The...
, 82, British actor and voice artist - voice of the Flowerpot Men, Captain Pugwash and the Daleks. http://news.independent.co.uk/people/obituaries/article1178593.ece - Catherine LeroyCatherine LeroyCatherine Leroy was a French-born photojournalist and war photographer, whose stark images of battle illustrated the story of the Vietnam War in the pages of Life magazine and other publications.-Life:...
, 60, French photojournalist known for her coverage of the Vietnam WarVietnam WarThe 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...
in LifeLife (magazine)Life generally refers to three American magazines:*A humor and general interest magazine published from 1883 to 1936. Time founder Henry Luce bought the magazine in 1936 solely so that he could acquire the rights to its name....
, lung cancerLung cancerLung 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/2006/07/12/arts/12leroy.html http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/local/states/california/northern_california/15002235.htm - Lajos Polgar, 89, accused of involvement in genocide in World War IIWorld War IIWorld 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...
as a member of the HungarianHungaryHungary , 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...
Arrow CrossArrow CrossA cross whose arms end in arrowheads is called a "cross barby" or "cross barbee" in the traditional terminology of heraldry. In Christian use, the ends of this cross resemble the barbs of fish hooks, or fish spears...
. http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,19773951-29277,00.html - Raja RaoRaja RaoRaja Rao was an Indian writer of English language novels and short stories, whose works are deeply rooted in Hinduism. Raja Rao's semi-autobiographical novel, The Serpent and the Rope , is a story of a search for spiritual truth in Europe and India...
, 97, Indian novelist (Kanthapura). http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/holnus/218200607081962.htm http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/15/arts/15rao.html - Jesse SimonsJesse SimonsJesse Simons was an American labor arbitrator, who helped set in place a system of collective bargaining between New York City and its employees.-Early life:...
, 88, American labor arbitrator, heart failure. http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/12/nyregion/12simons.html - Dorothy UhnakDorothy UhnakDorothy Uhnak was an American novelist.-Biography:Uhnak was born in New York City. She attended City College of New York and the John Jay College of Criminal Justice....
, 76, American policewoman turned novelist. http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/12/arts/12uhnak.html - Sabine DünserSabine DünserSabine Michaela Dünser grew up in Schaan with her family, consisting of her parents and her younger sister Petra. Her musical talent was discovered at an early age. She started with basic listening skills. Four years later in practice flute...
, 29, singer for gothic metal band ElisElis (band)Elis is a gothic metal band from Liechtenstein, formed by Sabine Dünser and Pete Streit in 2003 after the split of Erben der Schöpfung in 2002.-God's Silence, Devil's Temptation:...
, Cerebral hemorrhage. http://www.Elis.li
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- Luis BarraganLuis Barragan (executive)Luis Barragan was an American businessman and philanthropist. He was president of 1-800-Mattress at the time of his death....
, 34, president of 1-800-Mattress1-800-Mattress1800Mattress.com is an American bedding retailer famous for its ads that used the slogan "leave off the last S for savings" .It is the nation’s leading bedding tele-retailer where customers can select from a variety of mattresses, box springs and...
, drowned. http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/08/business/08barragan.html http://www.boston.com/news/local/connecticut/articles/2006/07/07/bedding_company_president_luis_barragan_dead_at_34/ - Syd BarrettSyd BarrettSyd Barrett , born Roger Keith Barrett, was an English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and painter, best remembered as a founding member of the band Pink Floyd. He was the lead vocalist, guitarist and primary songwriter during the band's psychedelic years, providing major musical and stylistic...
, 60, founding member of Pink FloydPink FloydPink Floyd were an English rock band that achieved worldwide success with their progressive and psychedelic rock music. Their work is marked by the use of philosophical lyrics, sonic experimentation, innovative album art, and elaborate live shows. Pink Floyd are one of the most commercially...
, diabetes. http://www.nndb.com/people/443/000026365/ - Irene Buri-Nelson, 84, first female member of the Wisconsin Broadcasters Hall of Fame, car crash. http://www.webelements.com/webelements/elements/text/Se/index.html
- Reinhold Carlson, 100, former mayor of Des Moines, IowaDes Moines, IowaDes Moines is the capital and the most populous city in the US state of Iowa. It is also the county seat of Polk County. A small portion of the city extends into Warren County. It was incorporated on September 22, 1851, as Fort Des Moines which was shortened to "Des Moines" in 1857...
and IowaIowaIowa is a state located in the Midwestern United States, an area often referred to as the "American Heartland". It derives its name from the Ioway people, one of the many American Indian tribes that occupied the state at the time of European exploration. Iowa was a part of the French colony of New...
State Senator. http://desmoinesregister.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060708/NEWS08/307090003/1001&lead=1 - Rudi CarrellRudi CarrellRudi Carrell , born Rudolf Wijbrand Kesselaar, was a Dutch entertainer. Along with famous entertainers such as Johannes Heesters, Linda de Mol and Sylvie van der Vaart, Carrell was one of the most successful Dutch personalities active in Germany.He worked as a television entertainer and hosted his...
, 71, Dutch-born TV entertainer most active in Germany, lung cancerLung cancerLung 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://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=1007342006 - Dorothea ChurchDorothea ChurchDorothea Towles Church was the first successful black fashion model in Paris.-Early life:Church was born in Texarkana, Texas. She was the seventh of eight children in a farming family....
, 83, African-American model, first successful black model in ParisParisParis is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...
. http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/23/nyregion/23church.html?ex=1153800000&en=9874420d82d7fcbc&ei=5087%0A - John Warner FitzgeraldJohn Warner FitzgeraldJohn Warner Fitzgerald was a lawyer, member of the Michigan Senate, and chief justice of the Michigan Supreme Court....
, 81, former Chief Justice of the Michigan Supreme CourtMichigan Supreme CourtThe Michigan Supreme Court is the highest court in the U.S. state of Michigan. It is known as Michigan's "court of last resort" and consists of seven justices who are elected to eight-year terms. Candidates are nominated by political parties and are elected on a nonpartisan ballot...
. http://www.detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060708/UPDATE/607080417 - Elias HrawiElias HrawiElias Hrawi was a President of Lebanon, whose term of office ran from 1989 to 1998.He was a native of the Beqaa valley. He was elected on 24 November 1989, two days after the assassination of René Moawad, who had held office for just seventeen days...
, 79, former President of Lebanon (1989–98), cancerCancerCancer , 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.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticleNew.asp?xfile=data/middleeast/2006/July/middleeast_July127.xml§ion=middleeast&col= - Dina KaminskayaDina KaminskayaDina Isaakovna Kaminskaya was a lawyer and human rights activist in the Soviet Union who was forced to emigrate in 1977 to avoid arrest. She and her husband moved to the United States...
, 87, Russian lawyer who defended Soviet dissidents. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/07/14/AR2006071401598.html - Shana Leaupepe, 21, New Mexico State UniversityNew Mexico State UniversityNew Mexico State University at Las Cruces , is a major land-grant university in Las Cruces, New Mexico, United States...
American footballAmerican footballAmerican football is a sport played between two teams of eleven with the objective of scoring points by advancing the ball into the opposing team's end zone. Known in the United States simply as football, it may also be referred to informally as gridiron football. The ball can be advanced by...
player, drive-by shooting. http://sports.yahoo.com/ncaaf/news;_ylt=AhAHhNlo8q.8Is3_SisCbWk5nYcB?slug=ap-newmexicostate-leaupepe&prov=ap&type=lgns - Dolores Lescure, 89, former chair of the Woodrow WilsonWoodrow WilsonThomas Woodrow Wilson was the 28th President of the United States, from 1913 to 1921. A leader of the Progressive Movement, he served as President of Princeton University from 1902 to 1910, and then as the Governor of New Jersey from 1911 to 1913...
Birthplace Foundation and former mayor of Staunton, VirginiaStaunton, VirginiaStaunton is an independent city within the confines of Augusta County in the commonwealth of Virginia. The population was 23,746 as of 2010. It is the county seat of Augusta County....
. – obit-lescure0707jul07,0,3475935.story?coll=dp-headlines-virginia - Gilbert Mason, 77, MississippiMississippiMississippi is a U.S. state located in the Southern United States. Jackson is the state capital and largest city. The name of the state derives from the Mississippi River, which flows along its western boundary, whose name comes from the Ojibwe word misi-ziibi...
civil rights campaigner. http://www.sunherald.com/mld/sunherald/14998325.htm - Dr. John MoneyJohn MoneyJohn William Money was a psychologist, sexologist and author, specializing in research into sexual identity and biology of gender...
, 84, New ZealandNew ZealandNew Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses and numerous smaller islands. The country is situated some east of Australia across the Tasman Sea, and roughly south of the Pacific island nations of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga...
-born psychologist and sex researcher at Johns Hopkins UniversityJohns Hopkins UniversityThe Johns Hopkins University, commonly referred to as Johns Hopkins, JHU, or simply Hopkins, is a private research university based in Baltimore, Maryland, United States...
, Parkinson's diseaseParkinson's diseaseParkinson's disease is a degenerative disorder of the central nervous system...
. http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/11/us/11money.html http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/obituaries/bal-md.ob.money09jul09,0,7145990.story?page=1&coll=bal-local-headlines - Mícheál Ó DomhnaillMícheál Ó DomhnaillMícheál Ó Domhnaill was an Irish singer, guitarist, and composer, who was a major influence on Irish traditional music in the second half of the twentieth century...
, 53, Irish musician with the Bothy BandBothy bandA bothy band is a musical group which comes from the farming culture of nineteenth century Scotland. At that time agriculture was relatively labour-intensive. As a result large farms often had a small community associated with them, the farm toun. This was made up of married couples who lived in...
. http://www.theherald.co.uk/features/65897.html - Robert Payne, 62, University of IowaUniversity of IowaThe University of Iowa is a public state-supported research university located in Iowa City, Iowa, United States. It is the oldest public university in the state. The university is organized into eleven colleges granting undergraduate, graduate, and professional degrees...
administrator, Lung CancerLung cancerLung 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.funeralquestions.com/obits/lensing/memorial.asp?listing_id=61401 - Eric SchoplerEric SchoplerEric Schopler was an American psychologist whose pioneering research into autism led to the foundation of the TEACCH program.-Early life:...
, 79, psychologist known for his pioneering work in autismAutismAutism is a disorder of neural development characterized by impaired social interaction and communication, and by restricted and repetitive behavior. These signs all begin before a child is three years old. Autism affects information processing in the brain by altering how nerve cells and their...
treatment, cancerCancerCancer , 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.charlotte.com/mld/observer/news/local/14996281.htm - Frank P. ZeidlerFrank P. ZeidlerFrank Paul Zeidler was an American Socialist politician and Mayor of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, serving three terms from April 20, 1948 to April 18, 1960. He was the most recent Socialist mayor of any major American city, although U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders was the mayor of Burlington, the largest...
, 93, Mayor of MilwaukeeMilwaukee, WisconsinMilwaukee is the largest city in the U.S. state of Wisconsin, the 28th most populous city in the United States and 39th most populous region in the United States. It is the county seat of Milwaukee County and is located on the southwestern shore of Lake Michigan. According to 2010 census data, the...
(1948–1960) and last Socialist Party of AmericaSocialist Party of AmericaThe Socialist Party of America was a multi-tendency democratic-socialist political party in the United States, formed in 1901 by a merger between the three-year-old Social Democratic Party of America and disaffected elements of the Socialist Labor Party which had split from the main organization...
mayor of a major city, died in his sleep. http://www.jsonline.com/watch/?watch=1&date=7/8/2006&id=8253
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- Poul AndersenPoul AndersenPoul Dalby Andersen was a printer who served in the Danish resistance movement during World War II and later published one of the remaining two Danish-language newspapers in the United States-Background:...
, 84, Danish-born publisher of BienBien (newspaper)Bien is the only weekly Danish-language newspaper published in the United States. Bien is one of two Danish-language newspapers published in the United States. The other is a biweekly, Den Danske Pioneer, a unit of Bertelsen Publishing Co., based in Hoffman Estates, Illinois.Bien, which is Danish...
, the only weekly Danish newspaper in the US, Alzheimer's diseaseAlzheimer's diseaseAlzheimer'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.startribune.com/484/v-print/story/538274.html - Juan de ÁvalosJuan de ÁvalosJuan de Ávalos y García-Taborda was a Spanish sculptor....
, 94, SpanishSpainSpain , officially the Kingdom of Spain languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Spain's official name is as follows:;;;;;;), is a country and member state of the European Union located in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula...
sculptorSculptureSculpture is three-dimensional artwork created by shaping or combining hard materials—typically stone such as marble—or metal, glass, or wood. Softer materials can also be used, such as clay, textiles, plastics, polymers and softer metals...
, heart attackMyocardial infarctionMyocardial 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.elmundo.es/elmundo/2006/07/07/cultura/1152266581.html - Teddy Craft, 22, U.S.United StatesThe United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
college footballAmerican footballAmerican football is a sport played between two teams of eleven with the objective of scoring points by advancing the ball into the opposing team's end zone. Known in the United States simply as football, it may also be referred to informally as gridiron football. The ball can be advanced by...
player for Georgia Southern, motorcycle accident http://sports.yahoo.com/ncaaf/news;_ylt=AgkG2h21gHtqgqpwfND6nrg5nYcB?slug=ap-georgiasoutherndeath&prov=ap&type=lgns - Ralph GinzburgRalph GinzburgRalph Ginzburg was an American author, editor, publisher and photo-journalist. He was best known for publishing books and magazines on erotica and art and for his conviction in 1963 for violating federal obscenity laws....
, 76, U.S.United StatesThe United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
publisher who fought two First AmendmentFirst Amendment to the United States ConstitutionThe First Amendment to the United States Constitution is part of the Bill of Rights. The amendment prohibits the making of any law respecting an establishment of religion, impeding the free exercise of religion, abridging the freedom of speech, infringing on the freedom of the press, interfering...
battles during the 1960s, multiple myelomaMultiple myelomaMultiple myeloma , also known as plasma cell myeloma or Kahler's disease , is a cancer of plasma cells, a type of white blood cell normally responsible for the production of antibodies...
, http://www.seattlepi.com/national/1110AP_Obit_Ginzburg.html - Al HodgeAl Hodge (rock musician)For the actor Al Hodge of Captain Video and Green Hornet fame, see Al Hodge).Al Hodge was a guitarist and songwriter, who has had success with "Rock N Roll Mercenaries", a song that was recorded by Meat Loaf and John Parr in 1986...
, 55, CornishCornish peopleThe Cornish are a people associated with Cornwall, a county and Duchy in the south-west of the United Kingdom that is seen in some respects as distinct from England, having more in common with the other Celtic parts of the United Kingdom such as Wales, as well as with other Celtic nations in Europe...
rockRock musicRock music is a genre of popular music that developed during and after the 1960s, particularly in the United Kingdom and the United States. It has its roots in 1940s and 1950s rock and roll, itself heavily influenced by rhythm and blues and country music...
guitarist and songwriter, cancerCancerCancer , 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.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/cornwall/5157422.stm. - John Manos, 83, US and Ohio judge for 43 years. http://www.startribune.com/484/v-print/story/538274.html
- George Prugh, 86 United States ArmyUnited States ArmyThe 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...
General and military lawyer who organised Prisoner of WarPrisoner of warA prisoner of war or enemy prisoner of war is a person, whether civilian or combatant, who is held in custody by an enemy power during or immediately after an armed conflict...
status for combatants in the Vietnam WarVietnam WarThe 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...
, complications from Parkinson's diseaseParkinson's diseaseParkinson's disease is a degenerative disorder of the central nervous system...
. http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/california/la-me-passings14.4jul14,1,4800531.story?coll=la-headlines-pe-california - Juan Pablo RebellaJuan Pablo RebellaJuan Pablo Rebella was an Uruguayan film director and screenwriter.He attended the Catholic University of Uruguay where he studied social communication, it was here that he started to direct short films and his collaboration with fellow student Pablo Stoll first began.After graduating in 1999 he...
, 32, UruguayUruguayUruguay ,officially the Oriental Republic of Uruguay,sometimes the Eastern Republic of Uruguay; ) is a country in the southeastern part of South America. It is home to some 3.5 million people, of whom 1.8 million live in the capital Montevideo and its metropolitan area...
an film directorFilm directorA film director is a person who directs the actors and film crew in filmmaking. They control a film's artistic and dramatic nathan roach, while guiding the technical crew and actors.-Responsibilities:...
, suicide. http://www.pagina12.com.ar/diario/suplementos/espectaculos/2-3045-2006-07-07.html http://www.elmundo.es/elmundo/2006/07/06/obituarios/1152206147.html - Kasey RogersKasey RogersKasey Rogers was an American actress, best known for playing the second Louise Tate on the popular U.S. television sitcom Bewitched.-Career:...
, 80, AmericanUnited StatesThe United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
actress (BewitchedBewitchedBewitched is an American situation comedy originally broadcast for eight seasons on ABC from 1964 to 1972, starring Elizabeth Montgomery, Dick York and Dick Sargent , Agnes Moorehead, and David White. The show is about a witch who marries a mortal and tries to lead the life of a typical suburban...
) and motocross racer, stroke. - E.S. Turner, 96, English historianHistorianA historian is a person who studies and writes about the past and is regarded as an authority on it. Historians are concerned with the continuous, methodical narrative and research of past events as relating to the human race; as well as the study of all history in time. If the individual is...
and journalistJournalistA journalist collects and distributes news and other information. A journalist's work is referred to as journalism.A reporter is a type of journalist who researchs, writes, and reports on information to be presented in mass media, including print media , electronic media , and digital media A...
. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml;jsessionid=SDRCDT23WYEKXQFIQMFCFFOAVCBQYIV0?view=DETAILS&grid=&xml=/news/2006/07/17/db1701.xml - Tom WeirTom WeirThomas Weir MBE, better known as Tom was a Scottish climber, author and broadcaster. He was best known for his long-running television series Weir's Way and his trademark woolly bunnet.-Early life and career:...
, 91, ScottishScotlandScotland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Occupying the northern third of the island of Great Britain, it shares a border with England to the south and is bounded by the North Sea to the east, the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, and the North Channel and Irish Sea to the...
climberClimbingClimbing is the activity of using one's hands and feet to ascend a steep object. It is done both for recreation and professionally, as part of activities such as maintenance of a structure, or military operations.Climbing activities include:* Bouldering: Ascending boulders or small...
, authorAuthorAn 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 broadcasterPresenterA 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...
. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/5157692.stm?ls http://www.scotlandtoday.tv/content/default.asp?page=s1_1_1&newsid=12138 - Waseem Rashid Malik, 48, Engineer at Pakistan International Airlines, PIA, died due to Meningitis and lake of care of the Authorities.
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- Barbara AlbrightBarbara AlbrightBarbara Albright was an American author of about 25 food and knitting books. She was also former editor-in-chief of The Chocolatier magazine, a food editor as Redbook and Woman's World and a freelance writer for the Associated Press.Albright graduated from Fremont High School in Fremont, Nebraska...
, 51, prolific U.S.United StatesThe United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
author of food and knitting books, brain tumorBrain tumorA brain tumor is an intracranial solid neoplasm, a tumor within the brain or the central spinal canal.Brain tumors include all tumors inside the cranium or in the central spinal canal...
. http://www.boston.com/news/local/connecticut/articles/2006/07/06/barbara_albright_prolific_writer_dies_in_hospice/ - Lucien Crump, 71, Philadelphia artist and art gallery owner, cancerCancerCancer , 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.philly.com/mld/inquirer/news/local/14991601.htm - Lou Dantzler, 69, founder of Challengers Boys & Girls Club in Los AngelesLos ÁngelesLos Ángeles is the capital of the province of Biobío, in the commune of the same name, in Region VIII , in the center-south of Chile. It is located between the Laja and Biobío rivers. The population is 123,445 inhabitants...
, strokeStrokeA 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.latimes.com/news/printedition/california/la-me-dantzler9jul09,1,7668152.story?coll=la-headlines-pe-california - Gert FredrikssonGert FredrikssonGert Fridolf Fredriksson was a Swedish sprint canoer who competed from 1942 to 1964...
, 86, SwedishSwedenSweden , 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....
canoeistCanoe racingThis article discusses canoe sprint and canoe marathon, competitive forms of canoeing and kayaking on more or less flat water. Both sports are governed by the International Canoe Federation ....
and SwedenSwedenSweden , 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....
's most successful OlympianOlympic GamesThe 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...
, cancerCancerCancer , 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://slam.canoe.ca/Slam/OtherSports/2006/07/06/1671278-ap.html - Lewis GlucksmanLewis GlucksmanLewis L. Glucksman was a former Lehman Brothers trader and former chief executive officer and chairman of Lehman Brothers, Kuhn, Loeb Inc.-Life:...
, 80, former head of U.S.United StatesThe United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
-based financial giant Lehman BrothersLehman BrothersLehman Brothers Holdings Inc. was a global financial services firm. Before declaring bankruptcy in 2008, Lehman was the fourth largest investment bank in the USA , doing business in investment banking, equity and fixed-income sales and trading Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. (former NYSE ticker...
. http://today.reuters.com/investing/financeArticle.aspx?type=bondsNews&storyID=2006-07-06T202947Z_01_N06428623_RTRIDST_0_PEOPLE-GLUCKSMAN.XML - Hans GmoserHans GmoserJohann Wolfgang "Hans" Gmoser, CM is a founder of modern mountaineering in Canada. Born in Austria in 1932, he came to Canada in 1951, and since then has been a major driving force behind the growing popularity of climbing, skiing and guiding.In the 1950s he pioneered new rock climbs, most...
, 73, AustriaAustriaAustria , officially the Republic of Austria , is a landlocked country of roughly 8.4 million people in Central Europe. It is bordered by the Czech Republic and Germany to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the...
n-born founder heli-skiing business. http://www.skipressworld.com/us/en/daily_news/2006/07/helipioneer_gmoser_dies_after_cycling_accident.html?cat=Adventure - Kevin Herlihy, 58, New ZealandNew ZealandNew Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses and numerous smaller islands. The country is situated some east of Australia across the Tasman Sea, and roughly south of the Pacific island nations of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga...
softballSoftballSoftball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of 10 to 14 players. It is a direct descendant of baseball although there are some key differences: softballs are larger than baseballs, and the pitches are thrown underhand rather than overhand...
pitcher played in two teams that won world titles and inaugural member of the New Zealand Sports Hall of Fame, heart attackMyocardial infarctionMyocardial 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.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,3723324a1823,00.html - Kenneth LayKenneth LayKenneth Lee "Ken" Lay was an American businessman, best known for his role in the widely reported corruption scandal that led to the downfall of Enron Corporation. Lay and Enron became synonymous with corporate abuse and accounting fraud when the scandal broke in 2001...
, 64, former CEO of U.S.United StatesThe United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
energy firm EnronEnronEnron Corporation was an American energy, commodities, and services company based in Houston, Texas. Before its bankruptcy on December 2, 2001, Enron employed approximately 22,000 staff and was one of the world's leading electricity, natural gas, communications, and pulp and paper companies, with...
, later convicted of fraud, heart attackMyocardial infarctionMyocardial 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://money.cnn.com/2006/07/05/news/newsmakers/lay_death/index.htm?cnn=yes - Don LusherDon LusherDon Lusher OBE was a jazz and big band trombonist best known for his association with the Ted Heath Big Band...
, 82, British jazz trombonist and band leader. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/5151280.stm - Paul NelsonPaul Nelson (critic)Paul Nelson was a folk and rock music critic who wrote for Sing Out! and Rolling Stone. He was instrumental in launching and supporting the careers of Bob Dylan, The New York Dolls, Elliott Murphy, Bruce Springsteen, Jackson Browne and Warren Zevon...
, 69, American rock critic who worked for Rolling StoneRolling StoneRolling Stone is a US-based magazine devoted to music, liberal politics, and popular culture that is published every two weeks. Rolling Stone was founded in San Francisco in 1967 by Jann Wenner and music critic Ralph J...
and who signed the New York DollsNew York DollsThe New York Dolls is an American rock band, formed in New York in 1971. The band's protopunk sound prefigured much of what was to come in the punk rock era; their visual style influenced the look of many new wave and 1980s-era glam metal groups, and they began the local New York scene that later...
while working for Mercury RecordsMercury RecordsMercury Records is a record label operating as a standalone company in the UK and as part of the Island Def Jam Motown Music Group in the US; both are subsidiaries of Universal Music Group. There is also a Mercury Records in Australia, which is a local artist and repertoire division of Universal...
. http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/10/arts/music/10nelson.html - Amzie StricklandAmzie StricklandAmzie Strickland was an American character actor who began in radio, made some 650 television appearances, had roles in two dozen films, appeared in numerous television movies and also worked in TV commercials...
, 87, American actress - Hugh Stubbins Jr.Hugh Stubbins Jr.Hugh Asher Stubbins Jr. was an architect who designed several high profile buildings around the world.-Biography:...
, 94, American architect of ManhattanManhattanManhattan is the oldest and the most densely populated of the five boroughs of New York City. Located primarily on the island of Manhattan at the mouth of the Hudson River, the boundaries of the borough are identical to those of New York County, an original county of the state of New York...
's Citicorp Centre, pneumoniaPneumoniaPneumonia is an inflammatory condition of the lung—especially affecting the microscopic air sacs —associated with fever, chest symptoms, and a lack of air space on a chest X-ray. Pneumonia is typically caused by an infection but there are a number of other causes...
. http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/11/arts/design/11stubbins.html http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2006/07/10/architect_of_nys_citicorp_center_bostons_federal_reserve_dies/ - TongaTongaTonga, officially the Kingdom of Tonga , is a state and an archipelago in the South Pacific Ocean, comprising 176 islands scattered over of ocean in the South Pacific...
n prince Sione ʻUluvalu Ngū Takeivūlai TukuʻahoTu'ipelehake ('Uluvalu)Sione ʻUluvalu Ngū Takeivūlai Tukuaho became the Tui Pelehake, an hereditary title in the kingdom of Tonga, after the death of his father in 1999....
, 56, and princess KaimanaKaimanaKaimana is a small port town in West Papua, Indonesia and capital of the Kaimana Regency.It is served by Kaimana Airport. Kaimana is part of a Sea Conservation Area in West Papua.Butterflies in the surrounding forest of Karora are reported to be on the brink of extinction due to logging in the...
, 46, car crash in Menlo Park, CaliforniaMenlo Park, CaliforniaMenlo Park, California is a city at the eastern edge of San Mateo County, in the San Francisco Bay Area of California, in the United States. It is bordered by San Francisco Bay on the north and east; East Palo Alto, Palo Alto, and Stanford to the south; Atherton, North Fair Oaks, and Redwood City...
. http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/story.cfm?c_id=2&ObjectID=10390171 http://edition.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/asiapcf/07/06/tonga.royal.ap/ http://msnbc.msn.com/id/13758716/
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- Zelda Foster, 71, American social worker and hospice pioneer. http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/13/nyregion/13foster.html
- Dean Goodman, 86, American actor, husband of Maria RivaMaria RivaMaria Riva is a German-American actress who primarily worked on television in the 1950s. She is the daughter of the actress Marlene Dietrich, about whom she wrote a memoir published in 1994.-Early life:...
, the daughter of Marlene DietrichMarlene DietrichMarlene Dietrich was a German-American actress and singer.Dietrich remained popular throughout her long career by continually re-inventing herself, professionally and characteristically. In the Berlin of the 1920s, she acted on the stage and in silent films...
. - John HindeJohn HindeJohn Hamilton Hinde AM was an Australian broadcaster and film reviewer. He worked for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation for more than fifty years, in both television and radio....
, 92, Australian film reviewer and journalist. – radio/whimsical-john-hinde-dies/2006/07/05/1151778981347.html - Bobby Joe Mason, 70, member of the Harlem GlobetrottersHarlem GlobetrottersThe Harlem Globetrotters are an exhibition basketball team that combines athleticism, theater and comedy. The executive offices for the team are currently in downtown Phoenix, Arizona; the team is owned by Shamrock Holdings, which oversees the various investments of the Roy E. Disney family.Over...
for 15 years and member of the Bradley UniversityBradley UniversityBradley University, founded in 1897, is a private, co-educational university located in Peoria, Illinois. It is a small institution with an enrollment of approximately 6,100 undergraduate and postgraduate students and a full-time faculty of approximately 350....
team of the century, cardiac arrest. http://www.pjstar.com/stories/070606/BRA_BAA69DME.075.shtml - Jack Sameth, 79, American television producer and director. http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/10/arts/television/10sameth.html
- Sir Leslie Smith, 87, industrialist behind the growth of The BOC GroupThe BOC GroupThe BOC Group plc was the official name of the multinational industrial gas and British based company more commonly known as BOC, and now a part of The Linde Group. In September 2004, BOC had over 30,000 employees on six continents, with sales of over £4.6 billion. BOC was a constituent of the...
. http://www.guardian.co.uk/obituaries/story/0,,1839261,00.html - Dorothy Hayden TruscottDorothy Hayden TruscottDorothy Hayden Truscott was the top-ranked woman in bridge for many years and authored or co-authored books on the game.-Career:...
, 80, American world champion bridgeContract bridgeContract bridge, usually known simply as bridge, is a trick-taking card game using a standard deck of 52 playing cards played by four players in two competing partnerships with partners sitting opposite each other around a small table...
player and author, complications of Parkinson's DiseaseParkinson's diseaseParkinson's disease is a degenerative disorder of the central nervous system...
. http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/07/arts/07truscott.html
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- Bashir Al-Mogherbi, 83, first president of LibyaLibyaLibya is an African country in the Maghreb region of North Africa bordered by the Mediterranean Sea to the north, Egypt to the east, Sudan to the southeast, Chad and Niger to the south, and Algeria and Tunisia to the west....
n football club Al Ahly BenghaziAl Ahly BenghaziAl-Ahly Benghazi is a Libyan football club based in Benghazi, Libya. Mohammed Bashir Al-Mogherbi was the first president of the club. Al-Ahly Benghazi has its roots in a political party, the Omar al Mukhtar society....
. - Hans Bierbrauer (alias Oskar), 84, GermanGermanyGermany , 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...
caricaturist. http://www.spiegel.de/kultur/gesellschaft/0,1518,424836,00.html - Mark Aubrey Tennyson, 5th Baron Tennyson, 86, great-grandson of poet Lord Tennyson.
- Francis CammaertsFrancis CammaertsFrancis Charles Albert Cammaerts DSO was an outstanding Special Operations Executive agent who organised French Resistance groups to sabotage German communications in occupied France.-Early life:...
, 90, led 30,000 French ResistanceFrench ResistanceThe French Resistance is the name used to denote the collection of French resistance movements that fought against the Nazi German occupation of France and against the collaborationist Vichy régime during World War II...
fighters while with the Special Operations ExecutiveSpecial Operations ExecutiveThe Special Operations Executive was a World War II organisation of the United Kingdom. It was officially formed by Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Minister of Economic Warfare Hugh Dalton on 22 July 1940, to conduct guerrilla warfare against the Axis powers and to instruct and aid local...
. http://www.guardian.co.uk/obituaries/story/0,,1814442,00.html - Dick DickeyDick DickeyRichard Lea "Dick" Dickey was an American professional basketball player for the National Professional Basketball League's Anderson Packers and National Basketball Association's Boston Celtics, although he is best remembered for his college career while playing at NC State.-Early life:Dickey was...
, 79, former player with the Boston CelticsBoston CelticsThe Boston Celtics are a National Basketball Association team based in Boston, Massachusetts. They play in the Atlantic Division of the Eastern Conference. Founded in 1946, the team is currently owned by Boston Basketball Partners LLC. The Celtics play their home games at the TD Garden, which...
and North Carolina State UniversityNorth Carolina State UniversityNorth Carolina State University at Raleigh is a public, coeducational, extensive research university located in Raleigh, North Carolina, United States. Commonly known as NC State, the university is part of the University of North Carolina system and is a land, sea, and space grant institution...
. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/07/05/AR2006070500235.html - Edgar Ewing, 93, Californian artist, coronary artery disease leading to cardiac arrest. http://www.montereyherald.com/mld/montereyherald/news/15045973.htm
- Joseph GoguenJoseph GoguenJoseph Amadee Goguen was a computer science professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of California, San Diego, USA, who helped develop the OBJ family of programming languages. He was author of A Categorical Manifesto and founder and Editor-in-Chief of the...
, 65, American computer scientist from UCSD. http://www.cse.ucsd.edu/csepeople/other/goguenobit.html - Arthur Haggerty, 74, American dog trainer. http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/18/us/18haggerty.html
- Benjamin HendricksonBenjamin HendricksonBenjamin Hendrickson was an American actor known for playing Harold "Hal" Munson, Jr., the Chief of Detectives for the mythical town of Oakdale on the daytime soap opera, As the World Turns.- Theater and film :...
, 55, American actor (As the World TurnsAs the World TurnsAs the World Turns is an American television soap opera that aired on CBS from April 2, 1956 to September 17, 2010. Irna Phillips created As the World Turns as a sister show to her other soap opera Guiding Light...
), suicide by gunshot. http://www.tvweek.com/news.cms?newsId=10310 http://et.tv.yahoo.com/newslink/15149/ - Wilbert HopperWilbert HopperWilbert Hill Hopper, was a Canadian civil servant and business executive. He was the president, chief executive officer, and chairman of Petro-Canada, a Canadian oil and gas firm....
, 73, former president, CEO and chairman of Petro-CanadaPetro-CanadaPetro-Canada was a crown corporation of Canada in the field of oil and natural gas. It was headquartered in the Petro-Canada Centre in Calgary, Alberta. In August, 2009, Petro-Canada merged with Suncor Energy, a deal in which Suncor investors received approximately 60 per cent ownership of the...
. http://money.canoe.ca/News/Sectors/Energy/PetroCanada/2006/07/06/1671790-cp.html - Lorraine Hunt LiebersonLorraine Hunt LiebersonLorraine Hunt Lieberson was an American mezzo-soprano, known for the dramatic power of her vocal artistry as well as her commitment to performing infrequently-heard Baroque era and contemporary works...
, 52, American mezzo-sopranoMezzo-sopranoA mezzo-soprano is a type of classical female singing voice whose range lies between the soprano and the contralto singing voices, usually extending from the A below middle C to the A two octaves above...
opera singer, breast cancerBreast cancerBreast cancer is cancer originating from breast tissue, most commonly from the inner lining of milk ducts or the lobules that supply the ducts with milk. Cancers originating from ducts are known as ductal carcinomas; those originating from lobules are known as lobular carcinomas...
. http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/05/arts/music/05hunt.html http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601088&sid=ayHyDEQkfCvM&refer=home - Lars KorvaldLars Korvaldwas a Norwegian politician from the Christian Democratic Party. He was Prime Minister of Norway from 1972 to 1973, leading the cabinet that took over when Trygve Bratteli resigned in the wake of the first referendum over Norway's membership in the European Economic Community.-Early life and...
, 90, former Prime Minister of NorwayPrime Minister of NorwayThe Prime Minister of Norway is the political leader of Norway and the Head of His Majesty's Government. The Prime Minister and Cabinet are collectively accountable for their policies and actions to the Sovereign, to Stortinget , to their political party, and ultimately the...
. http://www.seattlepi.com/national/1103AP_Obit_Korvald.html - Sir Carol MatherCarol MatherSir David Carol MacDonnell Mather MC , known as Carol Mather, was a British Army officer and Conservative MP, and senior government whip....
, 87, former British ConservativeConservative Party (UK)The Conservative Party, formally the Conservative and Unionist Party, is a centre-right political party in the United Kingdom that adheres to the philosophies of conservatism and British unionism. It is the largest political party in the UK, and is currently the largest single party in the House...
MP. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,172-2256088,00.html - Nimrod PingNimrod PingNimrod Ping was a British architect and politician. After attending the Royal Grammar School, High Wycombe from 1964-66 he studied architecture at Cardiff University...
, 46, BrightonBrightonBrighton is the major part of the city of Brighton and Hove in East Sussex, England on the south coast of Great Britain...
city councillor. Complications of liver disease, caused by Hepatitis CHepatitis CHepatitis C is an infectious disease primarily affecting the liver, caused by the hepatitis C virus . The infection is often asymptomatic, but chronic infection can lead to scarring of the liver and ultimately to cirrhosis, which is generally apparent after many years...
. http://www.pinknews.co.uk/news/articles/2005-1891.html - Jack Smith, 92, musician and former host of You Asked for It, leukemiaLeukemiaLeukemia 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/2006/07/11/arts/television/11smith.html http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/local/states/california/northern_california/15004447.htm - Lynn Stanley, 58, chairwoman of the Protect Marriage Arizona Coalition and activist against gay marriage, car accident. http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/local/articles/0704initiative-death0704.html
- Mpozi Tolbert, 34, award winning press photographer. http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060703/NEWS01/607030429
- Joe WeaverJoe WeaverJoe Weaver was an American Detroit blues, electric blues and R&B pianist, singer and bandleader. His best known recording was "Baby I Love You So" , and he was a founding member of both The Blue Note Orchestra and The Motor City Rhythm & Blues Pioneers...
, 71, leader of the Blue Note Orchestra and musician on early TamlaMotown RecordsMotown is a record label originally founded by Berry Gordy, Jr. and incorporated as Motown Record Corporation in Detroit, Michigan, United States, on April 14, 1960. The name, a portmanteau of motor and town, is also a nickname for Detroit...
sessions, strokeStrokeA 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.cleveland.com/news/plaindealer/index.ssf?/base/news/1152362049285550.xml&coll=2
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- L. Thomas Appleby, 82, American president of the United Nations Development CorporationUnited Nations Development CorporationThe United Nations Development Corporation is a public benefit corporation in New York State that helps the United Nations with its real estate and development needs....
and New York CityNew York CityNew York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. New York exerts a significant impact upon global commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and...
housing commissioner. http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/06/nyregion/06appleby.html - Maurice Fox-Strangways, 9th Earl of IlchesterMaurice Fox-Strangways, 9th Earl of IlchesterGroup Captain Maurice Vivian de Touffreville Fox-Strangways, 9th Earl of Ilchester served in the Royal Air Force for 40 years, from 1936 to 1976. From 1955, he concentrated mainly as an engineer involved with nuclear weapons...
, 86, former member House of LordsHouse of LordsThe House of Lords is the upper house of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. Like the House of Commons, it meets in the Palace of Westminster....
and RAFRoyal Air ForceThe Royal Air Force is the aerial warfare service branch of the British Armed Forces. Formed on 1 April 1918, it is the oldest independent air force in the world...
Group CaptainGroup CaptainGroup captain is a senior commissioned rank in the Royal Air Force and the air forces of many other Commonwealth countries. It ranks above wing commander and immediately below air commodore...
. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?view=DETAILS&grid=&xml=/news/2006/07/31/db3101.xml - Balázs HorváthBalázs HorváthBalázs Horváth was a former Interior minister of Hungary. He was a member of the Hungarian Democratic Forum....
, 64, HungarianHungaryHungary , 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...
politician, former Interior Minister, lung cancer http://english.mti.hu/default.asp?menu=1&theme=2&cat=25&newsid=222378 - Herty LewitesHerty LewitesHerty Lewites Rodríguez was a Nicaraguan politician of Jewish descent.Lewites was born in the San Felipe barrio of Jinotepe, the son of a Jewish immigrant from Poland. He joined the struggle against the Somoza dictatorship in 1958 and went into exile in Brazil in 1960...
, 65, NicaraguaNicaraguaNicaragua is the largest country in the Central American American isthmus, bordered by Honduras to the north and Costa Rica to the south. The country is situated between 11 and 14 degrees north of the Equator in the Northern Hemisphere, which places it entirely within the tropics. The Pacific Ocean...
n presidential candidate. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/5139566.stm - Jan MurrayJan MurrayJan Murray was an American stand-up comedian, actor, and game show host who made his name on the Borscht Belt.-Early life:Murray was born Murray Janofsky in The Bronx, New York City...
, 89, AmericanUnited StatesThe United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
Borscht BeltBorscht BeltBorscht Belt, or Jewish Alps, is a colloquial term for the mostly defunct summer resorts of the Catskill Mountains in parts of Sullivan, Orange and Ulster counties in upstate New York that were a popular vacation spot for New York City Jews from the 1920s through the 1960s.-Name:The name comes from...
comedian http://www.cnn.com/2006/SHOWBIZ/TV/07/03/obit.murray.ap/index.html http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/03/nyregion/03murray.html - Tihomir OgnjanovTihomir OgnjanovTihomir "Bata" Ognjanov was a Serban footballer who was part of Yugoslavia national football team at the 1950 and 1954 FIFA World Cup. He later became a manager. He played for Spartak Subotica , Partizan and Red Star...
, 79, former footballer for YugoslaviaYugoslaviaYugoslavia refers to three political entities that existed successively on the western part of the Balkans during most of the 20th century....
, played in the 1950 FIFA World Cup1950 FIFA World CupThe 1950 FIFA World Cup, held in Brazil from 24 June to 16 July, was the fourth FIFA World Cup. It was the first World Cup since 1938, the planned 1942 and 1946 competitions having been canceled owing to World War II...
http://www.reprezentacija.rs/cgi-bin/index.pl?str=igraci&menu=show3&strana=Ognjanov_Tihomir - Joan QuennellJoan QuennellJoan Mary Quennell was Conservative Member of Parliament for Petersfield.Quennell was educated at Bedales School, Petersfield and served with the Women's Land Army during World War II. She was the manager of a mixed dairy and arable farm and served as a West Sussex County Councillor 1951-61...
, 82, British ConservativeConservative Party (UK)The Conservative Party, formally the Conservative and Unionist Party, is a centre-right political party in the United Kingdom that adheres to the philosophies of conservatism and British unionism. It is the largest political party in the UK, and is currently the largest single party in the House...
Member of ParliamentMember of ParliamentA 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 PetersfieldPetersfield (UK Parliament constituency)Petersfield was an English Parliamentary constituency centred on the town of Petersfield in Hampshire. It existed for several hundred years until its abolition for the 1983 general election....
1960–1974. http://www.petersfieldtoday.co.uk/ViewArticle2.aspx?SectionID=469&ArticleID=1636733 - Roland Remmel, 88, American businessman and fundraiser for waterfowlWaterfowlWaterfowl are certain wildfowl of the order Anseriformes, especially members of the family Anatidae, which includes ducks, geese, and swans....
charities, cancerCancerCancer , 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/2006/07/05/sports/othersports/05remmel.html - Anatole ShubAnatole ShubAnatole Shub was an American author, journalist, researcher, editor, news director and Russian public opinion analyst....
, 78, American journalist and author on Russia. Complications of pneumoniaPneumoniaPneumonia 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 a stroke. http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/08/us/08shub.html - Jeffrey WassermanJeffrey WassermanJeffrey Wasserman was an Abstract artist who became known in New York in the 1980s for his colorful and expressive oil paintings....
, 59, American painter. http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/07/arts/07wasserman.html
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- Umberto AbronzinoUmberto AbronzinoUmberto Abronzino was inducted into the National Soccer Hall of Fame in 1971 for his lifelong dedication to building the sport of soccer...
, 85, member of US National Soccer Hall of Fame as an administrator. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/07/05/AR2006070500235.html - Michael BartonMichael Barton (cricketer)Michael Richard Barton was an English cricketer. A right-handed batsman, in a first-class career lasting from 1935 to 1955, he scored 5965 runs at 25.82, with 7 hundreds and a highest score of 192.He appeared for Oxford University from 1935 to 1937, winning a Blue in the latter two years...
, 91, Surrey cricketer and president. http://www.surreycricket.com/news/archive/former-surrey-president-michael-barton,5221,NS.html - Edwin BroderickEdwin Broderick-External links:*...
, 89, former Roman Catholic Bishop of Albany, NY, USA, and director of Catholic Relief ServicesCatholic Relief ServicesCatholic Relief Services is the international humanitarian agency of the Catholic community in the United States. Founded in 1943 by the U.S. bishops, the agency provides assistance to 130 million people in more than 90 countries and territories in Africa, Asia, Latin America, the Middle East and...
. http://www.nydailynews.com/news/local/story/432216p-364219c.html - Jaye Michael Davis, 62, veteran U.S.United StatesThe United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
radio deejayDeejayA deejay is a reggae or dancehall musician who sings and toasts to an instrumental riddim .Deejays are not to be confused with disc jockeys from other music genres like hip-hop, where they select and play music. Dancehall/reggae DJs who select riddims to play are called selectors...
, motorcycle accident. http://www.wreg.com/Global/story.asp?S=5107010&nav=menu93_2 - Willie DensonWillie DensonWillie Denson was an American singer and songwriter. He wrote a 5 songs for the Shirelles, including "Mama Said," "Stop the Music," "The Things I Want to Hear ," "Love Is a Swingin' Thing," and "Blue Holiday." In 2001, Willie won $3M in the Georgia lottery.He died on 1 July 2006 after a long...
, 69, AmericanUnited StatesThe United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
singer and songwriter ("Mama Said"), lung cancerLung cancerLung 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://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060704/ap_en_mu/obit_denson_2 - Irving GreenIrving GreenIrving B. Green was an American record industry executive, and founder and president of Mercury Records....
, 90, co-founder of Mercury RecordsMercury RecordsMercury Records is a record label operating as a standalone company in the UK and as part of the Island Def Jam Motown Music Group in the US; both are subsidiaries of Universal Music Group. There is also a Mercury Records in Australia, which is a local artist and repertoire division of Universal...
. http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/03/arts/music/03greenobit.html http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2006/07/01/state/n172727D30.DTL - Ryutaro HashimotoRyutaro Hashimotowas a Japanese politician who served as the 82nd and 83rd Prime Minister of Japan from January 11, 1996 to July 30, 1998. He was the leader of one of the largest factions within the ruling LDP through most of the 1990s and remained a powerful back-room player in Japanese politics until scandal...
, 68, former Prime Minister of JapanPrime Minister of JapanThe is the head of government of Japan. He is appointed by the Emperor of Japan after being designated by the Diet from among its members, and must enjoy the confidence of the House of Representatives to remain in office...
(1996–98). http://edition.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/asiapcf/07/01/japan.hashimoto.reut/ - Jabron HashmiJabron HashmiLance-Corporal Jabron Hashmi or Jibran Hashmi was a British soldier who died.Hashmi was born in Peshawar, Pakistan, and moved to Britain with his family when he was 12. He joined the army in 2004...
, 24, British soldier, first British Muslim to die in "War on TerrorWar on TerrorThe War on Terror is a term commonly applied to an international military campaign led by the United States and the United Kingdom with the support of other North Atlantic Treaty Organisation as well as non-NATO countries...
." http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/07/04/nafg04.xml&sSheet=/news/2006/07/04/ixuknews.html - Rabbi Louis JacobsLouis JacobsRabbi Dr. Louis Jacobs was a Masorti rabbi, the first leader of Masorti Judaism in the United Kingdom, and a leading writer and thinker on Judaism...
, 85, founder of the British MasortiMasortiThe Masorti Movement is the name given to Conservative Judaism in Israel and other countries outside Canada and U.S. Masorti means "traditional" in Hebrew...
movement. http://news.independent.co.uk/people/obituaries/article1171399.ece - Israel Kantor, 56, member of Tropicana All Stars, cancerCancerCancer , known medically as a malignant neoplasm, is a large group of different diseases, all involving unregulated cell growth. In cancer, cells divide and grow uncontrollably, forming malignant tumors, and invade nearby parts of the body. The cancer may also spread to more distant parts of the...
. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2006/07/02/entertainment/e195225D68.DTL - Yousuf Khan, 70, represented IndiaIndiaIndia , 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...
in soccer at 1960 Summer Olympics1960 Summer OlympicsThe 1960 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XVII Olympiad, was an international multi-sport event held from August 25 to September 11, 1960 in Rome, Italy...
, heart attackMyocardial infarctionMyocardial 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/2006/07/02/stories/2006070206451600.htm - Robert LepiksonRobert LepiksonRobert Lepikson was an Estonian politician, businessman and rally driver.As a rally driver, he was the Estonian champion three times, winner of the Baltic Cup and was the head of the Estonian motosport league....
, 54, Estonian businessman and politician. http://www.postimees.ee/010706/esileht/siseuudised/207849.php?r - Roderick MacLeishRoderick MacLeishRoderick MacLeish was an American journalist and writer. Born in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, he grew up in the Chicago suburbs and graduated from the University of Chicago...
, 80, U.S.United StatesThe United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
journalist, author and filmmaker. http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2006/07/02/journalist_author_macleish_dies_at_80/ - Michael Parman, 61, editor and publisher of The Press Democrat, pancreatic cancerPancreatic cancerPancreatic cancer refers to a malignant neoplasm of the pancreas. The most common type of pancreatic cancer, accounting for 95% of these tumors is adenocarcinoma, which arises within the exocrine component of the pancreas. A minority arises from the islet cells and is classified as a...
. http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/04/business/media/04parman.html?_r=1&oref=slogin - Dr. Philip RieffPhilip RieffPhilip Rieff was an American sociologist and cultural critic, who taught sociology at the University of Pennsylvania from 1961 until 1992. He was the author of a number of books on Sigmund Freud and his legacy, including Freud: The Mind of the Moralist and The Triumph of the Therapeutic: Uses of...
, 83, AmericanUnited StatesThe United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
sociologist and author. http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/04/us/04rieff.html - Samir Sarhan, 65, EgyptEgyptEgypt , officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, Arabic: , is a country mainly in North Africa, with the Sinai Peninsula forming a land bridge in Southwest Asia. Egypt is thus a transcontinental country, and a major power in Africa, the Mediterranean Basin, the Middle East and the Muslim world...
ian writer, critic and organiser of the Cairo International Book Fair, heart failure. http://www.canada.com/topics/entertainment/story.html?id=2637de77-3468-4c11-8cea-1a3de84bc67c&k=28386 - Fred TruemanFred TruemanFrederick Sewards Trueman OBE was an English cricketer, generally acknowledged as one of the greatest fast bowlers in history. A bowler of genuinely fast pace who was widely known as Fiery Fred, Trueman played first-class cricket for Yorkshire County Cricket Club from 1949 until he retired in 1968...
, 75, YorkshireYorkshireYorkshire is a historic county of northern England and the largest in the United Kingdom. Because of its great size in comparison to other English counties, functions have been increasingly undertaken over time by its subdivisions, which have also been subject to periodic reform...
and EnglandEnglandEngland 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...
cricketCricketCricket 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, lung cancerLung cancerLung 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://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/cricket/5136580.stm - Juliette Galano, 72, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- Robbie "Rocket" Watts, 47, AustraliaAustraliaAustralia , 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 guitarist for the Cosmic PsychosCosmic PsychosThe Cosmic Psychos are a punk rock band based in Melbourne and rural Victoria in Australia. An underground band that has only ever achieved limited recognition.-Description:...
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