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

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

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

 - February
Deaths in February 2006
Deaths in 2006 : ← - January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December- →The following is a list of notable deaths in February 2006.-28:*James Ronald "Bunkie" Blackburn, 69, NASCAR driver...

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

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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
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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
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Deaths in January 2007
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The following is a list of notable deaths in April 2006.

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  • Elma "Pem" Gardner Farnsworth, 98, Philo Farnsworth
    Philo Farnsworth
    Philo Taylor Farnsworth was an American inventor and television pioneer. Although he made many contributions that were crucial to the early development of all-electronic television, he is perhaps best known for inventing the first fully functional all-electronic image pickup device , the "image...

    's widow http://www.local6.com/news/9147910/detail.html
  • Bogdan Hancu, 28, killed by roadside bomb in Iraq
    Iraq
    Iraq ; officially the Republic of Iraq is a country in Western Asia spanning most of the northwestern end of the Zagros mountain range, the eastern part of the Syrian Desert and the northern part of the Arabian Desert....

    , first Romania
    Romania
    Romania is a country located at the crossroads of Central and Southeastern Europe, on the Lower Danube, within and outside the Carpathian arch, bordering on the Black Sea...

    n soldier to die in Iraq http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4949470.stm
  • Pat Marsden
    Pat Marsden
    Patrick Francis Marsden was a Canadian sportscaster and voice of the Canadian Football League play-by-play coverage in the 1970s and 1980s. He also worked as host for the historic 1972 Canada-Soviet Union hockey Summit Series sports telecasts.Marsden was born in Ottawa and attended St...

    , 69, Canadian sportscaster, lung cancer. http://www.tsn.ca/headlines/main_story.asp?id=164034
  • Roy Mogg
    Roy Mogg
    Royston Mogg was an English Methodist preacher and fraternalist.Roy Mogg was a Methodist Preacher and a Past Grand Governor of the Loyal Order of Moose in Great Britain. His sudden death from a suspected heart attack, was announced at the 74th National Convention of Moose International in...

    , 77, English Methodist preacher and fraternalist, announced at the 74th National Convention of the Loyal Order of Moose
  • Strini Moodley
    Strini Moodley
    Strinivasa Rajoo "Strini" Moodley was a founding member of the Black Consciousness Movement in South Africa...

    , 60, founding member of South African Black Consciousness Movement
    Black Consciousness Movement
    The Black Consciousness Movement was a grassroots anti-Apartheid activist movement that emerged in South Africa in the mid-1960s out of the political vacuum created by the jailing and banning of the African National Congress and Pan Africanist Congress leadership after the Sharpeville Massacre in...

     http://www.mg.co.za/articleList.aspx?area=/insight/obituaries/
  • Kay Noble-Bell, 65, American wrestler. http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/03/sports/othersports/03bell.html
  • Julia Thorne
    Julia Thorne
    Julia Stimson Thorne was a writer and the first wife of U.S. Senator John Kerry.-Early life:Thorne was born in New York City. She was the daughter of Alice Smith Barry and Landon Ketchum Thorne, Jr. Her brothers are Landon Ketchum Thorne III of Beaufort, South Carolina and her twin brother David...

    , 61, American author and first wife of John Kerry
    John Kerry
    John Forbes Kerry is the senior United States Senator from Massachusetts, the 10th most senior U.S. Senator and chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. He was the presidential nominee of the Democratic Party in the 2004 presidential election, but lost to former President George W...

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

    . http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/04/28/kerry.ex.wife.obit/index.html
  • Mel Tom
    Mel Tom
    Melvyn Maile Tom was an American football defensive lineman who played nine seasons in the National Football League for the Philadelphia Eagles and the Chicago Bears. Mel is the father of Logan Tom, member of the 2000, 2004 and 2008 American Olympic indoor volleyball teams. He died at age 64 of...

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

     player, heart failure. http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/2006/Apr/28/br/br02p.html
  • Alexander Buel Trowbridge
    Alexander Buel Trowbridge
    Alexander Buel Trowbridge III was the United States Secretary of Commerce from June 14, 1967 to March 1, 1968 in the administration of Lyndon Johnson....

    , 76, Secretary of Commerce under US President Lyndon B. Johnson
    Lyndon B. Johnson
    Lyndon Baines Johnson , often referred to as LBJ, was the 36th President of the United States after his service as the 37th Vice President of the United States...

     from 1967-1968, former president of the National Association of Manufacturers
    National Association of Manufacturers
    The National Association of Manufacturers is an advocacy group headquartered in Washington, D.C. with 10 additional offices across the country...

    .http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/28/us/28trowbridge.html

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  • Rabbi Moshe Halberstam
    Moshe Halberstam
    Rabbi Moshe Halberstam was the son of Grand Rabbi Yaakov Halberstam of Tschakava, a scion of the Sanz dynasty, and of the daughter of Rabbi Sholom Moskowitz of Shotz of London. He was the Rosh Yeshivah of the Tschakava Yeshivah in Jerusalem and one of the most prominent members of the Edah...

    , 74, Jerusalemite Rabbi, Dean of Tshakava Yeshivah and prominent member of the Edah Charedis Rabbinical Court of Jerusalem. http://fr.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1145961231151&pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull
  • Helen Hobbs Jordan, 99, American music teacher whose students included Tony Bennett
    Tony Bennett
    Tony Bennett is an American singer of popular music, standards, show tunes, and jazz....

    , Melissa Manchester
    Melissa Manchester
    Melissa Manchester is an American singer-songwriter and actress. Beginning in the 1970s, she has recorded generally in the adult contemporary genre. She has also appeared as an actress on television, in films, and on stage....

    , Bette Midler
    Bette Midler
    Bette Midler is an American singer, actress, and comedian, also known by her informal stage name, The Divine Miss M. She became famous as a cabaret and concert headliner, and went on to star in successful and acclaimed films such as The Rose, Ruthless People, Beaches, and For The Boys...

    , and Paul Simon
    Paul Simon
    Paul Frederic Simon is an American singer-songwriter and guitarist.Simon is best known for his success, beginning in 1965, as part of the duo Simon & Garfunkel, with musical partner Art Garfunkel. Simon wrote most of the pair's songs, including three that reached number one on the US singles...

    . http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/28/arts/music/28jordan.html
  • Daniel McKenna, 54, former guitarist
    Guitarist
    A guitarist is a musician who plays the guitar. Guitarists may play a variety of instruments such as classical guitars, acoustic guitars, electric guitars, and bass guitars. Some guitarists accompany themselves on the guitar while singing.- Versatility :The guitarist controls an extremely...

     for the band Toby Beau
    Toby Beau (band)
    Toby Beau is a Texas band formed in the early 1970s, best known for the hit single "My Angel Baby" in 1978. Though little is known around the world about this band past this top fifteen single, the band is still in existence today, and continues to perform in the club circuit...

    , apparent suicide http://www.cnn.com/2006/SHOWBIZ/Music/04/27/obit.mckenna.ap/index.html
  • Peter Millard, 34, American programmer and engineer, assisted with development of Jabber/XMPP
    Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol
    Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol is an open-standard communications protocol for message-oriented middleware based on XML . The protocol was originally named Jabber, and was developed by the Jabber open-source community in 1999 for near-real-time, extensible instant messaging , presence...

     and wrote and maintained Exodus. http://www.legacy.com/denver/Obituaries.asp?Page=Lifestory&PersonId=17564479
  • Voldemar Miller, 95, Estonian
    Estonians
    Estonians are a Finnic people closely related to the Finns and inhabiting, primarily, the country of Estonia. They speak a Finnic language known as Estonian...

     historian, archivist, book researcher and author of several books for children. http://www.etv24.ee/index.php?0559736
  • Professor Yuval Ne'eman
    Yuval Ne'eman
    Yuval Ne'eman , was a renowned Israeli theoretical physicist, military scientist, and politician. He was a minister in the Israeli government in the 1980s and early 1990s.-Biography:...

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

    i physicist, founder of the Israel Space Agency, and former science minister. http://fr.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1145961232001&pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/27/world/27neeman.html
  • Russ Swan
    Russ Swan
    Russell Howard Swan was a Major League Baseball pitcher from 1989 to 1994 for the San Francisco Giants, Seattle Mariners, and Cleveland Indians...

    , 42, former Major League Baseball
    Major League Baseball
    Major League Baseball is the highest level of professional baseball in the United States and Canada, consisting of teams that play in the National League and the American League...

     pitcher (injuries due to a fall) http://www.seattlepi.com/local/6420AP_BBO_Obit_Swan.html

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  • Jokin Gorostidi, 62, Spanish
    Spain
    Spain , officially the Kingdom of Spain languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Spain's official name is as follows:;;;;;;), is a country and member state of the European Union located in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula...

     leftwing nationalist leader. http://eitb24.com/portal/eitb24/noticia/en/politics/in-come-prominent-leader-of-leftwing-nationalist-hb-dies-at-62?itemId=D27373&cl=%2Feitb24%2Fpolitica&idioma=en
  • Joseph Iseman, 89, American lawyer. http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/01/nyregion/01iseman.html
  • Jane Jacobs
    Jane Jacobs
    Jane Jacobs, was an American-Canadian writer and activist with primary interest in communities and urban planning and decay. She is best known for The Death and Life of Great American Cities , a powerful critique of the urban renewal policies of the 1950s in the United States...

    , 89, American-born Canadian urban activist and author (The Death and Life of Great American Cities
    The Death and Life of Great American Cities
    The Death and Life of Great American Cities, by Jane Jacobs, is a greatly influential book on the subject of urban planning in the 20th century...

    ), stroke
    Stroke
    A stroke, previously known medically as a cerebrovascular accident , is the rapidly developing loss of brain function due to disturbance in the blood supply to the brain. This can be due to ischemia caused by blockage , or a hemorrhage...

    . http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20060425.wjanejacobs0425/BNStory/National/home
  • Peter Law
    Peter Law
    Peter John Law was a Welsh politician.- Labour Co-operative AM and Independent MP :For most of his career Law sat as a Labour Councillor and subsequently Labour Co-operative Assembly Member for Blaenau Gwent...

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

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

    , independent MP
    Member of Parliament
    A Member of Parliament is a representative of the voters to a :parliament. In many countries with bicameral parliaments, the term applies specifically to members of the lower house, as upper houses often have a different title, such as senate, and thus also have different titles for its members,...

     and AM
    National Assembly for Wales
    The National Assembly for Wales is a devolved assembly with power to make legislation in Wales. The Assembly comprises 60 members, who are known as Assembly Members, or AMs...

    , brain tumor
    Brain tumor
    A 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://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/4898824.stm
  • Tabe Slioor
    Tabe Slioor
    Tabe Maria Ingeborg Slioor was a Finnish socialite, reporter, and photographer, living and working in Europe and the USA.-Background:...

    , 79, Finnish
    Finland
    Finland , officially the Republic of Finland, is a Nordic country situated in the Fennoscandian region of Northern Europe. It is bordered by Sweden in the west, Norway in the north and Russia in the east, while Estonia lies to its south across the Gulf of Finland.Around 5.4 million people reside...

     socialite. http://www.hs.fi/kulttuuri/artikkeli/Tabe+Slioor+kuoli+%C3%A4killisesti/1135219677686
  • Colonel James Swindal, 88, American pilot of Air Force One
    Air Force One
    Air Force One is the official air traffic control call sign of any United States Air Force aircraft carrying the President of the United States. In common parlance the term refers to those Air Force aircraft whose primary mission is to transport the president; however, any U.S. Air Force aircraft...

     during the John F. Kennedy assassination
    John F. Kennedy assassination
    John Fitzgerald Kennedy, the thirty-fifth President of the United States, was assassinated at 12:30 p.m. Central Standard Time on Friday, November 22, 1963, in Dealey Plaza, Dallas, Texas...

    . http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/01/us/01swindal.html
  • John Kerr
    John Kerr (Irish Singer)
    John Kerr was an Irish ballad singer from Coolback, Fanad, County Donegal, Ireland.His best known recording is Three Leafed Shamrock which reached number 1 in the singles charts of the Republic of Ireland on 1 April 1972....

    , 81, Irish ballad singer.

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  • Oscar Acosta, 49, manager of the Gulf Coast Yankees
    Gulf Coast Yankees
    The Gulf Coast League Yankees are the Rookie League affiliate of Major League Baseball's New York Yankees. The GCL Yankees play in Tampa, Florida at the Yankee Complex...

    , automobile accident. http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=2415088&campaign=rss&source=ESPNHeadlines
  • Scott Crossfield
    Albert Scott Crossfield
    Albert Scott Crossfield was an American naval officer and test pilot.-Biography:Born in Berkeley, California, Crossfield grew up in California and Washington. He served with the U.S. Navy as a flight instructor and fighter pilot during World War II...

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

     X-15 test pilot, plane crash. http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/04/20/georgia.plane/index.htmlhttp://abclocal.go.com/wabc/story?section=news&id=4100481
  • Bob Dove
    Bob Dove
    Robert Leo Patrick "Grandpappy" Dove served as an All-America end at the University of Notre Dame and went on to play for eight seasons in the National Football League. Following his retirement as a professional player, Dove embarked on a 37-year coaching career at the professional and collegiate...

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

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

    . http://sports.yahoo.com/ncaaf/news;_ylt=AgUFsciD1JTGmfQ5Lcw6pJ0cvrYF?slug=ap-obit-dove&prov=ap&type=lgns
  • Ellen Kuzwayo
    Ellen Kuzwayo
    Nnoseng Ellen Kate Kuzwayo was a women's rights activist and politician in South Africa. She was president of the African National Congress Youth League in the 1960s. In 1994 she was elected to the first post-apartheid South African Parliament...

    , 91, South Africa
    South Africa
    The Republic of South Africa is a country in southern Africa. Located at the southern tip of Africa, it is divided into nine provinces, with of coastline on the Atlantic and Indian oceans...

    n author, anti-apartheid activist, and member of Parliament, diabetes. http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/22/world/africa/22kuzwayo.html http://www.news24.com/News24/South_Africa/News/0,,2-7-1442_1919062,00.html
  • Zola Levitt, 67, Christian
    Christian
    A Christian is a person who adheres to Christianity, an Abrahamic, monotheistic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus of Nazareth as recorded in the Canonical gospels and the letters of the New Testament...

     broadcaster, messianic Jewish preacher, lung cancer. http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=49811
  • Humberto Trejo, 38, New York Yankees
    New York Yankees
    The New York Yankees are a professional baseball team based in the The Bronx, New York. They compete in Major League Baseball in the American League's East Division...

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

    , automobile accident. http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=2415088&campaign=rss&source=ESPNHeadlines

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  • John Lyall
    John Lyall
    John Angus Lyall was an English footballer and manager of Scottish descent. His mother, Catherine, was from the Isle of Lewis, his father, James, was from Kirriemuir. He was born in Ilford, Essex.- Youth team career :...

    , 66, former football manager with West Ham United F.C.
    West Ham United F.C.
    West Ham United Football Club is an English professional football club based in Upton Park, Newham, East London. They play in The Football League Championship. The club was founded in 1895 as Thames Ironworks FC and reformed in 1900 as West Ham United. In 1904 the club relocated to their current...

     and Ipswich Town F.C.
    Ipswich 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....

    , heart attack. http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/4922314.stm http://news.independent.co.uk/people/obituaries/article359789.ece
  • Marcia Martin, 82, American children's author. http://groups.google.com/group/alt.obituaries/browse_thread/thread/9b0656f91826f7d6/f08fc6549afc979c?q=Marcia+Martin&rnum=1#f08fc6549afc979c
  • Grady McWhiney
    Grady McWhiney
    Grady McWhiney was a historian of the American south and the Civil War.McWhiney was born in Shreveport, Louisiana, and served in the Marine Corps in 1945. He married in 1947. He attended Centenary College on the G.I. Bill and earned an M.A. in history from Louisiana State University, working with...

    , 77, American historian. http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/30/us/30mcwhiney.html
  • Dick Rockwell
    Dick Rockwell
    Richard Waring Rockwell is an American comic strip and comic book artist best known as Milt Caniff's uncredited art assistant for 35 years on the adventure strip Steve Canyon...

    , 85, American cartoonist, assistant on Steve Canyon
    Steve Canyon
    Steve Canyon was a long-running American adventure comic strip by writer-artist Milton Caniff. Launched shortly after Caniff retired from his previous strip, Terry and the Pirates, Steve Canyon ran from January 13, 1947 until June 4, 1988, shortly after Caniff's death...

    , nephew of Norman Rockwell
    Norman Rockwell
    Norman Percevel Rockwell was a 20th-century American painter and illustrator. His works enjoy a broad popular appeal in the United States for their reflection of American culture. Rockwell is most famous for the cover illustrations of everyday life scenarios he created for The Saturday Evening...

    . http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/departments/syndicates/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1002384702
  • Ken Jones, 84, Wales
    Wales national rugby union team
    The Wales national rugby union team represent Wales in international rugby union tournaments. They compete annually in the Six Nations Championship with England, France, Ireland, Italy and Scotland. Wales have won the Six Nations and its predecessors 24 times outright, second only to England with...

     and British Lion
    British and Irish Lions
    The British and Irish Lions is a rugby union team made up of players from England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales...

     rugby union player and silver medal Olympiad. http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4158/is_20060421/ai_n16151650

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  • Dr. Jean Bernard, 98, French
    France
    The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...

     hematologist. http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/30/world/europe/30bernard.html http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/news/local/states/pennsylvania/counties/philadelphia_county/philadelphia/14413455.htm
  • Scott Brazil
    Scott Brazil
    Scott Brazil was an Emmy and Golden Globe Award-winning American television producer and director.-Early years:...

    , 50, American television producer and director (The Shield
    The Shield
    The Shield is an American television drama series starring Michael Chiklis which premiered on March 12, 2002 on FX in the United States and concluded on November 25, 2008 after seven seasons...

    ), Lou Gehrig's disease. http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/22/obituaries/22brazil.html http://www.zap2it.com/tv/news/zap-shieldproducerdies,0,2633185.story?coll=zap-news-headlines
  • Peter Cadbury
    Peter Cadbury
    Peter Egbert Cadbury was a British entrepreneur.He was the son of Sir Egbert Cadbury, a World War I flying ace and managing director of Cadbury Brothers, the chocolate enterprise...

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

     entrepreneur and one of the founders of commercial TV broadcasting in the UK. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml? http://news.independent.co.uk/people/obituaries/article359077.ece
  • Elford Albin Cederberg
    Elford Albin Cederberg
    Elford Albin "Al" Cederberg was a politician from the U.S. state of Michigan.-Biography:Cederberg was born to dairy farmers Albin and Helen Cederberg in Bay City, Michigan, where he attended the public schools and at Bay City Junior College .He entered the United States Army in April 1941, and...

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

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

     from 1953-1978 and former mayor of Bay City, Michigan
    Bay City, Michigan
    Bay City is a city in the U.S. state of Michigan located near the base of the Saginaw Bay on Lake Huron. As of the 2010 census, the city's population was 34,932, and is the principal city of the Bay City Metropolitan Statistical Area, which is included in the Saginaw-Bay City-Saginaw Township North...

    . http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060420/NEWS08/604200532
  • Alice Fiske, 88, opened her estate Sylvester Manor on Shelter Island
    Shelter Island (town), New York
    Shelter Island is a town and island at the eastern end of Long Island in the U.S. state of New York. It forms the tip of Suffolk County and is separated from the rest of the county by water. The population was 2,228 at the 2000 census.-Geography:...

     to archeological research. http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/28/nyregion/28fiske.html
  • Henderson Forsythe
    Henderson Forsythe
    Henderson Forsythe was an American actor. Forsythe was known for his role as Dr. David Stewart #2 on the soap opera As the World Turns, a role he played for 32 years, and for his work on the New York stage....

    , 88, American actor (As the World Turns
    As the World Turns
    As 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...

    ). http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/20/nyregion/20smaha.html http://www.sunherald.com/mld/sunherald/news/state/14403315.htm
  • Rabbi Arthur Hertzberg
    Arthur Hertzberg
    Arthur Hertzberg was a Conservative rabbi and prominent Jewish-American scholar and activist.-Biography:...

    , 84, scholar of Judaism
    Judaism
    Judaism ) is the "religion, philosophy, and way of life" of the Jewish people...

    . http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/18/nyregion/18hertzberg.html
  • Warren Platner, 86, American modernist
    Modernism
    Modernism, in its broadest definition, is modern thought, character, or practice. More specifically, the term describes the modernist movement, its set of cultural tendencies and array of associated cultural movements, originally arising from wide-scale and far-reaching changes to Western society...

     architect and designer. http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/20/arts/design/20platner.html
  • Rudolf Slánský, Jr., 71, former Czech ambassador to Russia, son of Rudolf Slánský
    Rudolf Slánský
    Rudolf Slánský was a Czech Communist politician. Holding the post of the party's General Secretary after World War II, he was one of the leading creators and organizers of Communist rule in Czechoslovakia...

    . http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/18/world/europe/18slansky.html
  • Rev. Seymour St. John, 94, headmaster of the Choate School for 26 years. http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/20/nyregion/20stjohn.html
  • Vaishnavi
    Vaishnavi (actor)
    Vaishnavi was an Indian televisionactress.Vaishnavi appeared in the serials Anni, Muhurtham, and Malargal. She acted in many TV serials and also acted as Sherin's friend in Whistle...

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

    n Bollywood
    Bollywood
    Bollywood is the informal term popularly used for the Hindi-language film industry based in Mumbai , Maharashtra, India. The term is often incorrectly used to refer to the whole of Indian cinema; it is only a part of the total Indian film industry, which includes other production centers producing...

     actress, suicide. http://www.sundaytimes.co.za/zones/sundaytimesNEW/basket7st/basket7st1145365098.aspx

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  • Francisco Adam
    Francisco Adam
    Francisco Adam was a Portuguese actor, best known for his humorous role as Dino, short for Bernardino Esteves, in the Portuguese youth telenovela Morangos com Açúcar....

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

     actor, car accident. http://jn.sapo.pt/2006/04/16/ultimas/Despiste_mata_actor_de_Morangos.html
  • Richard Eckersley, 65, graphic designer. http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/19/arts/design/19eckersley.html
  • Morton Freedgood
    Morton Freedgood
    Morton Freedgood was an American author who wrote The Taking of Pelham One Two Three and many other detective and mystery novels under the pen name John Godey.-Biography:...

    , 93, American author (The Taking of Pelham One Two Three) under the pseudonym
    Pseudonym
    A pseudonym is a name that a person assumes for a particular purpose and that differs from his or her original orthonym...

     of John Godey. http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/22/obituaries/22freedgood.html http://www.nj.com/newsflash/jersey/index.ssf?/base/news-19/1145509716185380.xml&storylist=jersey
  • Brett Goldin
    Brett Goldin
    Brett Goldin was a South African actor and part of the Crazy Monkey comedy troupe.-Early life:Brett Goldin was educated at the King David School, Victory Park, in Johannesburg and at Crawford College High School before moving to the University of Cape Town.In 2004, Goldin wrote his first stage...

    , 27, South African actor, killed by a head shot together with friend, fashion designer Richard Bloom, 27. http://tonight.co.za/index.php?fArticleId=3206528&fSectionId=449&fSetId=251
  • Dimitri Hadzi, 85, American sculptor and professor at Harvard University
    Harvard University
    Harvard University is a private Ivy League university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, established in 1636 by the Massachusetts legislature. Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States and the first corporation chartered in the country...

    . http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/01/arts/design/01hadzi.html
  • Harold Horwood
    Harold Horwood
    Harold Andrew Horwood, CM was a Newfoundland and Labrador novelist and non-fiction writer and onetime politician. He was a Member of the Order of Canada.-Early life:...

    , 82, writer and former Newfoundland
    Newfoundland and Labrador
    Newfoundland and Labrador is the easternmost province of Canada. Situated in the country's Atlantic region, it incorporates the island of Newfoundland and mainland Labrador with a combined area of . As of April 2011, the province's estimated population is 508,400...

     politician, cancer. http://www.nupge.ca/news_2006/n19ap06b.htm
  • Daniel Schaefer
    Daniel Schaefer
    Daniel "Dan" Schaefer was a Republican U.S. Representative from Colorado from 1983 to 1999. He represented a suburban district that stretched from Denver to the southwest....

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

     United States Representative from Colorado
    Colorado
    Colorado is a U.S. state that encompasses much of the Rocky Mountains as well as the northeastern portion of the Colorado Plateau and the western edge of the Great Plains...

     served 1983-1999, cancer. http://www.woi-tv.com/Global/story.asp?S=4783000&nav=1LFX

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14

  • Mahmut Bakalli
    Mahmut Bakalli
    Mahmut Bakalli was a Kosovar Albanian politician.Bakalli's political career started in the youth organization of the League of Communists of Kosovo, eventually becoming its leader in 1961. In 1967, he became head of the party's Prishtina chapter...

    , 70, Kosovo
    Kosovo
    Kosovo is a region in southeastern Europe. Part of the Ottoman Empire for more than five centuries, later the Autonomous Province of Kosovo and Metohija within Serbia...

     ethnic Albanian politician. http://www.rulers.org/2006-04.html
  • Edward Broida, 72, American art collector. http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/06/obituaries/06broida.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
  • Dr. Tom Ferguson
    Thomas William Ferguson
    Thomas William "Tom" Ferguson, M.D. was an American medical doctor, educator, and author. He was an early advocate for patient empowerment, urging patients to educate themselves, to assume control of their own health care, and to use the Internet as a way of accomplishing those goals.-Personal...

    , 62, American medical doctor and author. http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/24/us/24ferguson.html
  • Raúl Quijano, 82, former foreign minister of Argentina
    Argentina
    Argentina , officially the Argentine Republic , is the second largest country in South America by land area, after Brazil. It is constituted as a federation of 23 provinces and an autonomous city, Buenos Aires...

     http://www.rulers.org/2006-04.html
  • Miguel Reale
    Miguel Reale
    Miguel Reale was a Brazilian jurist, philosopher, academic, politician and poet. Known as one of the most important jurists of Brazil....

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

    ian philosopher of law, heart attack. http://www.seattlepi.com/national/1102AP_Obit_Reale.html
  • Dr. Eberhardt Rechtin
    Eberhardt Rechtin
    Eberhardt Rechtin was an American systems engineer and respected authority in aerospace systems and systems architecture.- Biography :...

    , 80, American electrical engineer and telecommunications expert. http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/21/us/21rechtin.html
  • Dr. Lynn Smaha, 63, American cardiologist and former president of the American Heart Association
    American Heart Association
    The American Heart Association is a non-profit organization in the United States that fosters appropriate cardiac care in an effort to reduce disability and deaths caused by cardiovascular disease and stroke. It is headquartered in Dallas, Texas...

    , heart attack. http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/20/nyregion/20smaha.html

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  • Sir Michael Cobham, 79, chairman of aerospace company Cobham plc
    Cobham plc
    Cobham plc is a British manufacturing company based in Wimborne Minster, Dorset, England. It is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE 250 Index...

    , son of founder Sir Alan Cobham
    Alan Cobham
    Sir Alan John Cobham, KBE, AFC was an English aviation pioneer.A member of the Royal Flying Corps in World War I, Alan Cobham became famous as a pioneer of long distance aviation. After the war he became a test pilot for the de Havilland aircraft company, and was the first pilot for the newly...

    . http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?view=DETAILS&grid=&xml=/news/2006/04/24/db2402.xml http://www.cobham.com/news.asp?pageID=11&menuID=2_4&articleID=136&type=
  • Ed Corbett, 74, American actor.
  • Peter Karches, 54, American executive at Morgan Stanley
    Morgan Stanley
    Morgan Stanley is a global financial services firm headquartered in New York City serving a diversified group of corporations, governments, financial institutions, and individuals. Morgan Stanley also operates in 36 countries around the world, with over 600 offices and a workforce of over 60,000....

    , lymphocytic leukemia. http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/17/business/17Karches.html
  • Ronald B. Rogers, 80, American concert singer and actor. http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117941576?categoryid=25&cs=1&nid=2562
  • Michael Shir, 83, Israel
    Israel
    The State of Israel is a parliamentary republic located in the Middle East, along the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea...

    i writer, founder of children's magazine
    Magazine
    Magazines, periodicals, glossies or serials are publications, generally published on a regular schedule, containing a variety of articles. They are generally financed by advertising, by a purchase price, by pre-paid magazine subscriptions, or all three...

     Ezbeoni. http://www.haaretz.co.il/hasite/pages/ShArtPE.jhtml?itemNo=705799&contrassID=2&subContrassID=21&sbSubContrassID=0
  • Dame Muriel Spark
    Muriel Spark
    Dame Muriel Spark, DBE was an award-winning Scottish novelist. In 2008 The Times newspaper named Spark in its list of "the 50 greatest British writers since 1945".-Early life:...

    , 88, British novelist, best known for The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1962). http://edition.cnn.com/2006/SHOWBIZ/books/04/15/italy.spark.ap/
  • Keo Viphakone, 89, Laos
    Laos
    Laos Lao: ສາທາລະນະລັດ ປະຊາທິປະໄຕ ປະຊາຊົນລາວ Sathalanalat Paxathipatai Paxaxon Lao, officially the Lao People's Democratic Republic, is a landlocked country in Southeast Asia, bordered by Burma and China to the northwest, Vietnam to the east, Cambodia to the south and Thailand to the west...

     Secretary of State for Social Welfare and Commissioner of Rural Affairs, Ramon Magsaysay Award
    Ramon Magsaysay Award
    The Ramon Magsaysay Award is an annual award established to perpetuate former Philippine President Ramon Magsaysay's example of integrity in government, courageous service to the people, and pragmatic idealism within a democratic society. The Ramon Magsaysay Award is often considered Asia's Nobel...

     recipient. http://www.rmaf.org.ph/enewsletter/index.php?_arrNewsid=10&currid=7
  • Bruce Weber
    Bruce Weber (administrator)
    Bruce Weber was a former Australian rules football administrator....

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

     executive who was president of the Port Adelaide Football Club
    Port Adelaide Football Club
    The Port Adelaide Football Club is an Australian rules football club based in Alberton, South Australia, which plays in the Australian Football League and the South Australian National Football League...

  • Arthur Winston
    Arthur Winston
    Arthur Winston was a Los Angeles Metro employee for 76 years. He is best known for being honored as the "Employee of the Century" because he was never late to work and only took one day off during his entire career .-Biography:As a boy Winston was born and grew up in Oklahoma before it became a...

    , 100, Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority
    Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority
    The Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority is the California state-chartered regional transportation planning agency and public transportation operating agency for the County of Los Angeles formed in 1993 out of a merger of the Southern California Rapid Transit District and the...

     employee famous for serving for 76 years and retiring at age 100. http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-041406winston_lat,0,3104356.story?coll=la-home-headlines

12

  • Mushin Musa Matwalli Atwah
    Mushin Musa Matwalli Atwah
    Muhsin Musa Matwalli Atwah was an Egyptian national wanted by the United States government.Also known as Abdul Rahman, Abdul Rahman Al-Muhajir, Abdel Rahman, and Mohammed K.A., he was wanted by the United States government in connection to the August 7, 1998 American embassy bombings in Dar es...

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

    ian militant, killed by Pakistani forces. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,25689-2133879,00.html
  • William Sloane Coffin
    William Sloane Coffin
    William Sloane Coffin, Jr. was an American liberal Christian clergyman and long-time peace activist. He was ordained in the Presbyterian church and later received ministerial standing in the United Church of Christ....

    , 81, American minister
    Minister of religion
    In Christian churches, a minister is someone who is authorized by a church or religious organization to perform functions such as teaching of beliefs; leading services such as weddings, baptisms or funerals; or otherwise providing spiritual guidance to the community...

     and peace activist
    Peace activist
    This list of peace activists includes people who proactively advocate diplomatic, non-military resolution of political disputes, usually through nonviolent means.A peace activist is an activist of the peace movement.*Jane Addams*Martti Ahtisaari...

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

    . http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/obit_coffin;_ylt=ApKaIxgH.IpmlvasgOir8V.s0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTA2Z2szazkxBHNlYwN0bQ--.
  • Dr. Paulina Kernberg
    Paulina Kernberg
    Dr. Paulina F. Kernberg was a Chilean American child psychiatrist, an authority on personality disorders, and a professor at Cornell University....

    , 71, Chile
    Chile
    Chile ,officially the Republic of Chile , is a country in South America occupying a long, narrow coastal strip between the Andes mountains to the east and the Pacific Ocean to the west. It borders Peru to the north, Bolivia to the northeast, Argentina to the east, and the Drake Passage in the far...

    an-born American child psychiatrist, professor at Cornell University
    Cornell University
    Cornell University is an Ivy League university located in Ithaca, New York, United States. It is a private land-grant university, receiving annual funding from the State of New York for certain educational missions...

    . http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/15/nyregion/15kernberg.html
  • Kazuo Kuroki
    Kazuo Kuroki
    -Filmography:* Silence Has No Wings * Preparation for the Festival * Yūgure made * The Bridge of Tears * Tomorrow * Pickpocket * The Face of Jizo * The Blossoming of Kamiya Etsuko...

    , 75, Japanese film director
  • Christiane Maybach, 74, German actress
  • Shekhar Mehta
    Shekhar Mehta
    Chandrashekhar "Shekhar" Mehta was a Ugandan-born Kenyan rally driver. He won the Safari Rally a record five times , including four consecutively, and in 1981 finished fifth in the World Rally Championship...

    , 60, Kenya
    Kenya
    Kenya , officially known as the Republic of Kenya, is a country in East Africa that lies on the equator, with the Indian Ocean to its south-east...

    n rally
    Rallying
    Rallying, also known as rally racing, is a form of auto racing that takes place on public or private roads with modified production or specially built road-legal cars...

     driver, five-time winner of the Safari Rally
    Safari Rally
    The Safari Rally is considered by many to be the world's toughest rally. It was first held from 27 May to 1 June 1953 as the East African Coronation Safari in Kenya, Uganda and Tanganyika, as a celebration of the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II...

     & president of the FIA's
    Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile
    The Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile is a non-profit association established as the Association Internationale des Automobile Clubs Reconnus on 20 June 1904 to represent the interests of motoring organisations and motor car users...

     World Rally Championship
    World Rally Championship
    The World Rally Championship is a rallying series organised by the FIA, culminating with a champion driver and manufacturer. The driver's world championship and manufacturer's world championship are separate championships, but based on the same point system. The series currently consists of 13...

     commission, illness relating to complications from an old injury. http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=motorSportsNews&storyID=2006-04-12T170059Z_01_L12199592_RTRIDST_0_SPORT-RALLYING-MEHTA.XML
  • Howard Newman, 85, American executive and investor. http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/28/business/28newman.html
  • Puggy Pearson
    Puggy Pearson
    Walter Clyde Pearson was an American professional poker player. He is best known as the 1973 World Series of Poker World Champion.-Early years:...

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

     poker
    Poker
    Poker is a family of card games that share betting rules and usually hand rankings. Poker games differ in how the cards are dealt, how hands may be formed, whether the high or low hand wins the pot in a showdown , limits on bet sizes, and how many rounds of betting are allowed.In most modern poker...

     player. http://www.pokernews.com/news/2006/4/legend-poker-puggy-pearson.htm
  • Albert E. Radford, 88, American
    United States
    The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

     botanist, senior author of Manual of the Vascular Flora of the Carolinas, a landmark flora
    Flora
    Flora is the plant life occurring in a particular region or time, generally the naturally occurring or indigenous—native plant life. The corresponding term for animals is fauna.-Etymology:...

     for North Carolina
    North Carolina
    North Carolina is a state located in the southeastern United States. The state borders South Carolina and Georgia to the south, Tennessee to the west and Virginia to the north. North Carolina contains 100 counties. Its capital is Raleigh, and its largest city is Charlotte...

     and South Carolina
    South Carolina
    South 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...

    , which is still the definitive guide, nearly forty years after its publication. http://columbiamissourian.com/obits/obit.php?ID=2452
  • Rajkumar
    Rajkumar
    Rajkumar , born as Singanalluru Puttaswamayya Muthuraju was a popular actor and singer in the Kannada film industry...

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

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

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

    . http://sify.com/movies/kannada/fullstory.php?id=14183224
  • William Woo
    William Woo
    William Franklin Woo was the first Chinese American to become editor of a major U.S. daily newspaper....

    , 69, first Asian-American to be editor of a major American daily newspaper, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch
    St. Louis Post-Dispatch
    The St. Louis Post-Dispatch is the major city-wide newspaper in St. Louis, Missouri. Although written to serve Greater St. Louis, the Post-Dispatch is one of the largest newspapers in the Midwestern United States, and is available and read as far west as Kansas City, Missouri, as far south as...

    , professor at Stanford University
    Stanford University
    The Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University or Stanford, is a private research university on an campus located near Palo Alto, California. It is situated in the northwestern Santa Clara Valley on the San Francisco Peninsula, approximately northwest of San...

    . http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/15/us/15woo.html


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  • Leonard Dommett
    Leonard Dommett
    Leonard Bertram Dommett OBE was an Australian violinist, conductor and teacher.-Biography:Leonard Dommett was born in Toowoomba, Queensland, where his father ran a general store...

    , 77, Australian violinist and conductor
  • Les Foote
    Les Foote
    Leslie Roy Foote was an Australian rules footballer in the Victorian Football League.-Football career:A local lad, and recruited from the North Melbourne Colts, Foote played his first match with the North Melbourne Football Club in 1941 at just 16 years of age.He was able to kick equally well with...

    , 81, Australian Football Hall of Fame
    Australian Football Hall of Fame
    The Australian Football Hall of Fame was established in 1996, the Centenary year of the Australian Football League, to help recognise the contributions made to the sport of Australian rules football by players, umpires, media personalities, coaches and administrators. It was initially established...

     member. http://www.bigfooty.com/forum/showthread.php?p=4870633
  • DeShaun Holton
    Proof (rapper)
    DeShaun Dupree Holton better known as Proof his stage name, was an American rapper from Detroit, Michigan. During his career, he was a member of the groups Goon Squad, 5 Elementz, Promatic, and most notably D12...

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

     rapper
    Rapping
    Rapping refers to "spoken or chanted rhyming lyrics". The art form can be broken down into different components, as in the book How to Rap where it is separated into “content”, “flow” , and “delivery”...

     better known as Proof of D-12, homicide. http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1002315197 http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060411/ap_on_en_mu/rapper_killed;_ylt=ApngNNbgcfJTUW7QiGRrmdys0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTA3b2NibDltBHNlYwM3MTY- http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/4900690.stm
  • Siobhán O'Hanlon
    Siobhán O'Hanlon
    Siobhán O`Hanlon was a Provisional Irish Republican Army member and Sinn Féin official who routinely assisted Sinn Féin president and Member of Parliament Gerry Adams.-Family:...

    , 43, Sinn Féin
    Sinn Féin
    Sinn Féin is a left wing, Irish republican political party in Ireland. The name is Irish for "ourselves" or "we ourselves", although it is frequently mistranslated as "ourselves alone". Originating in the Sinn Féin organisation founded in 1905 by Arthur Griffith, it took its current form in 1970...

     politician, cancer. http://sinnfein.ie/news/detail/13832
  • June Pointer
    June Pointer
    June Antoinette Pointer Whitmore was an American Pop/R&B singer and was a founding member/and lead vocalist of the vocal group The Pointer Sisters.-Early life and career:...

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

    . http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060412/ap_en_mu/obit_pointer
  • Shin Sang-ok, 80, Korean
    South Korea
    The Republic of Korea , , is a sovereign state in East Asia, located on the southern portion of the Korean Peninsula. It is neighbored by the People's Republic of China to the west, Japan to the east, North Korea to the north, and the East China Sea and Republic of China to the south...

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

    , liver problems.http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=filmNews&storyid=2006-04-12T082410Z_01_SEO345664_RTRIDST_0_FILM-KOREA-SHIN-DC.XML
  • Naoki Tominaga, 92, Japanese sculptor http://www.crisscross.com/jp/news/369699
  • Logan Young Jr., 65, central figure in the University of Alabama
    University of Alabama athletics
    The University of Alabama features 19 varsity sports teams. Both the male and female athletic teams are called the Crimson Tide. They participate in the NCAA's Division I as a member of the Southeastern Conference Western Division. In 2002, Sports Illustrated named Alabama the #26 best collegiate...

     recruiting scandal. http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/news/story?id=2407631

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  • Joe Faragalli
    Joe Faragalli
    Joe Faragalli was a football player and coach who had most of his success in the Canadian Football League....

    , 76, CFL
    Canadian Football League
    The Canadian Football League or CFL is a professional sports league located in Canada. The CFL is the highest level of competition in Canadian football, a form of gridiron football closely related to American football....

     head coach with the Saskatchewan Roughriders
    Saskatchewan Roughriders
    The Saskatchewan Roughriders are a Canadian Football League team based in Regina, Saskatchewan. They were founded in 1910. They play their home games at 2940 10th Avenue in Regina, which has been the team's home base for its entire history, even prior to the construction of Mosaic Stadium at Taylor...

     and Edmonton Eskimos
    Edmonton Eskimos
    The Edmonton Eskimos are a Canadian football team based in Edmonton, Alberta. They currently play in the West Division of the Canadian Football League . Edmonton is currently the third-youngest franchise in the CFL, although there were clubs with the name Edmonton Eskimos as early as 1895...

    , unspecified illness. http://www.cbc.ca/sports/story/2006/04/10/faragalli060410.html
  • Bonaya Godana
    Bonaya Godana
    Bonaya Adhi Godana was the foreign minister of Kenya from January 1998 until 2001....

    , 54, Kenya
    Kenya
    Kenya , officially known as the Republic of Kenya, is a country in East Africa that lies on the equator, with the Indian Ocean to its south-east...

    n politician, plane crash. http://eastandard.net/hm_news/news.php?articleid=1143950846
  • Bishop Charles Henderson
    Charles Henderson (bishop)
    Charles Joseph Henderson, KC*HS was born in County Waterford, Ireland on 14 April 1924, where he was ordained as a priest on 6 June 1948.Based in England, Henderson was appointed vicar general of the new diocese Diocese of Arundel and Brighton, which was created out of Southwark in 1965. He was...

     KC*HS
    Order of the Holy Sepulchre
    The Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem is a Roman Catholic order of knighthood under the protection of the pope. It traces its roots to Duke Godfrey of Bouillon, principal leader of the First Crusade...

    , 81, retired Catholic Auxiliary Bishop of Southwark
    Archdiocese of Southwark
    The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Southwark is a Latin Rite Roman Catholic archdiocese in England. The Archepiscopal see is St. George's Cathedral, Southwark and is headed by the Archbishop of Southwark...

    , England, cancer. http://www.catholic-ew.org.uk/cn/06/060410b.htm
  • Mirugi Kariuki, 53, Kenya
    Kenya
    Kenya , officially known as the Republic of Kenya, is a country in East Africa that lies on the equator, with the Indian Ocean to its south-east...

    n politician and lawyer, plane crash. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/4898558.stm
  • Kleitos Kyrou, 85, Greek
    Greece
    Greece , officially the Hellenic Republic , and historically Hellas or the Republic of Greece in English, is a country in southeastern Europe....

     poet, unspecified respiratory illness. http://www.in.gr/news/article.asp?lngEntityID=698195&lngDtrID=253

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  • Alain de Boissieu
    Alain de Boissieu
    Alain de Boissieu was a French general, Free French, Compagnon de la Libération, Army chief of staff and son-in-law of general Charles de Gaulle.-Life:...

    , 92, French General and son-in-law of Charles De Gaulle
    Charles de Gaulle
    Charles André Joseph Marie de Gaulle was a French general and statesman who led the Free French Forces during World War II. He later founded the French Fifth Republic in 1958 and served as its first President from 1959 to 1969....

     http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,60-2129854,00.html
  • J.B. Fuqua, 87, American entrepreneur and philanthropist. http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/09/business/09fuqua.html
  • George Savalla Gomes
    George Savalla Gomes
    George Savalla Gomes was a Brazilian clown known as Carequinha, or "Baldy", the clown, born in a circus to a circus family. He had a thick head of hair, but wore a bald wig, starting from five years old - he was a clown in Circus Ocidental until the age of twelve...

    , 90, Brazilian entertainer who performed as "Carequinha" the clown.http://www.legacy.com/Obituaries.asp?Page=APStory&Id=10987
  • Allan Kaprow
    Allan Kaprow
    Allan Kaprow was an American painter, assemblagist and a pioneer in establishing the concepts of performance art. He helped to develop the "Environment" and "Happening" in the late 1950s and 1960s, as well as their theory. His Happenings - some 200 of them - evolved over the years...

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

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

     and art theorist, natural causes. http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/local/states/california/northern_california/14281267.htm
  • Ray Krzoska, 87, American
    United States
    The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

     men's basketball coach at UW-Milwaukee Star star athlete, natural causes. http://www.jsonline.com/story/index.aspx?id=413625&date=4/5/2006

http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4196/is_20060408/ai_n16187141
  • Armando Labra
    Armando Labra
    Armando Labra was a Mexican economist, and the technical secretary for the Planification Counsel of the UNAM.-Biography:...

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

     economist. http://www.jornada.unam.mx/2006/04/06/022n1pol.php
  • Archbishop Pasquale Macchi
    Pasquale Macchi
    Pasquale Macchi was a Roman Catholic archbishop and the private secretary to Pope Paul VI.Born in Varese, Italy, Pasquale Macchi was ordained to the Roman Catholic priesthood on 15 June 1946...

    , 82, former private secretary to Pope Paul VI
    Pope Paul VI
    Paul VI , born Giovanni Battista Enrico Antonio Maria Montini , reigned as Pope of the Catholic Church from 21 June 1963 until his death on 6 August 1978. Succeeding Pope John XXIII, who had convened the Second Vatican Council, he decided to continue it...

    . http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bmacchi.html http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/04/06/AR2006040600812.html
  • Abdul-Salam Ojeili
    Abdul-Salam Ojeili
    Abdul-Salam Ojeili , or Abd al-Salam Ujayli, was a Syrian novelist and politician.Born in Ar-Raqqah. A lesson in Ar-Raqqah and Aleppo and Damascus University, in and out of doctors in 1945. Elected deputy of Ar-Raqqah in 1947...

    , 88, Syria
    Syria
    Syria , officially the Syrian Arab Republic , is a country in Western Asia, bordering Lebanon and the Mediterranean Sea to the West, Turkey to the north, Iraq to the east, Jordan to the south, and Israel to the southwest....

    n novelist. http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/07/books/07ojeili.html
  • Ellinor Piipuu, 92, Estonian ceramist. http://ilm.ee/?inf=16&ID=3106
  • Gene Pitney
    Gene Pitney
    Eugene Francis Alan Pitney, known as Gene Pitney , was an American singer-songwriter, musician and sound engineer. Through the mid-1960s, he enjoyed success as a recording artist on both sides of the Atlantic and was among the group of early 1960s American acts who continued to enjoy hits after the...

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

     singer and songwriter
    Songwriter
    A songwriter is an individual who writes both the lyrics and music to a song. Someone who solely writes lyrics may be called a lyricist, and someone who only writes music may be called a composer...

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

    . http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/wales/4891990.stm http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/4878926.stm
  • Marcelo Real, 48, Argentine sportscaster. http://www.diariobuenosaires.com.ar/nota2.asp?IDNoticia=14647

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  • Mary Boyce
    Mary Boyce
    Nora Elisabeth Mary Boyce was a British scholar of Iranian languages, and an authority on Zoroastrianism...

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

     authority on Iran
    Iran
    Iran , officially the Islamic Republic of Iran , is a country in Southern and Western Asia. The name "Iran" has been in use natively since the Sassanian era and came into use internationally in 1935, before which the country was known to the Western world as Persia...

    . http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1516828/Prof-Mary-Boyce.html
  • Colonel Fred Christensen, 84, American fighter ace in World War II
    World War II
    World War II, or the Second World War , was a global conflict lasting from 1939 to 1945, involving most of the world's nations—including all of the great powers—eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis...

    . http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/04/13/AR2006041302091.html
  • Eckhard Dagge
    Eckhard Dagge
    Eckhard Dagge , was a professional boxer in the super welterweight division....

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

     WBC junior middleweight boxer. http://msn.foxsports.com/boxing/story/5472056
  • Denis Donaldson
    Denis Donaldson
    Denis Martin Donaldson was a volunteer in the Provisional Irish Republican Army and a member of Sinn Féin who was exposed in December 2005 as an informer in the employment of MI5 and the Special Branch of the Police Service of Northern Ireland Denis Martin Donaldson (Short Strand, Belfast,...

    , 55/56, former head of Sinn Féin
    Sinn Féin
    Sinn Féin is a left wing, Irish republican political party in Ireland. The name is Irish for "ourselves" or "we ourselves", although it is frequently mistranslated as "ourselves alone". Originating in the Sinn Féin organisation founded in 1905 by Arthur Griffith, it took its current form in 1970...

     at Stormont, and British double-agent, found shot dead at his home. http://www.irishexaminer.com/breaking/story.asp?j=11622452&p=yy6zz498&n=11622540&x=
  • Gary Gray, 69, American child actor of the 1940s,from cancer.http://www.voy.com/60649/28843.html
  • John de Courcy Ireland
    John de Courcy Ireland
    John de Courcy Ireland was an Irish maritime historian and political activist.-Biography:Born in Lucknow, India, where his County Kildare native father served in the British Army, he was educated at Marlborough College, Oxford University and Trinity College Dublin, where he was awarded a PhD in 1951...

    , 94, Irish maritime historian
    Maritime history
    Maritime history is the study of human activity at sea. It covers a broad thematic element of history that often uses a global approach, although national and regional histories remain predominant...

     and political activist. http://scripts.ireland.com/newspaper/breaking/printable.cfm?id=151133
  • Jürgen Thorwald
    Jürgen Thorwald
    Jürgen Thorwald was a German writer, journalist and historian known for his great works describing history of Forensic medicine and Second World War....

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

     writer. http://www.spiegel.de/kultur/literatur/0,1518,410153,00.html
  • Vickery Turner
    Vickery Turner
    Vickery Turner was a British actress, playwright, author and stage director. She started out on stage and her first breakthrough role was in the first production of The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie opposite Vanessa Redgrave...

    , 66, British actress of the 60's. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,60-1573643_2,00.html
  • Charles Wilcox GC, won the George Cross
    George Cross
    The George Cross is the highest civil decoration of the United Kingdom, and also holds, or has held, that status in many of the other countries of the Commonwealth of Nations...

     for helping rescue a man trapped high on a building in Birmingham
    Birmingham
    Birmingham is a city and metropolitan borough in the West Midlands of England. It is the most populous British city outside the capital London, with a population of 1,036,900 , and lies at the heart of the West Midlands conurbation, the second most populous urban area in the United Kingdom with a...

     http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?view=DETAILS&grid=&xml=/news/2006/04/06/db0603.xml
  • Canon Frederick B. Williams
    Frederick B. Williams
    Frederick Boyd Williams was a religious leader of national importance in the United States. As Canon of the Church of the Intercession in Harlem, New York from 1971 to 2005, he led an influential congregation, the first in the nation to establish a programmatic response to AIDS. A patron of the...

    , 66, minister of the Church of the Intercession in Harlem
    Harlem
    Harlem is a neighborhood in the New York City borough of Manhattan, which since the 1920s has been a major African-American residential, cultural and business center. Originally a Dutch village, formally organized in 1658, it is named after the city of Haarlem in the Netherlands...

    , New York City
    New York City
    New York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. New York exerts a significant impact upon global commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and...

     http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/08/nyregion/08williams.html
  • Tommy Wilson
    Tommy Wilson
    Thomas Lee “Tommy” Wilson is a former professional American football player.-Pro career:Wilson played running back for eight seasons in the NFL.-Personal:...

    , 72, ex-Reading F.C.
    Reading F.C.
    Reading Football Club is an English association football club based in the town of Reading, Berkshire who currently play in the Championship...

     & Exeter City F.C.
    Exeter City F.C.
    Exeter City Football Club is an English football club, based in Exeter, which is owned by its fans through the Exeter City Supporters Trust.The club was a member of the Football League from 1920 to 2003...

     player, and notable figure in Bridgwater
    Bridgwater
    Bridgwater is a market town and civil parish in Somerset, England. It is the administrative centre of the Sedgemoor district, and a major industrial centre. Bridgwater is located on the major communication routes through South West England...

    , Somerset
    Somerset
    The ceremonial and non-metropolitan county of Somerset in South West England borders Bristol and Gloucestershire to the north, Wiltshire to the east, Dorset to the south-east, and Devon to the south-west. It is partly bounded to the north and west by the Bristol Channel and the estuary of the...

    . http://www.bridgwatermercury.co.uk/display.var.741040.0.extown_manager_dies_aged_72.php

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  • Tom Abercrombie, 75, National Geographic photographer, complications from open-heart surgery. http://www.hometownannapolis.com/cgi-bin/read/2006/04_04-20/TOP
  • William E. Bennett, 63, professor of political science
    Political science
    Political Science is a social science discipline concerned with the study of the state, government and politics. Aristotle defined it as the study of the state. It deals extensively with the theory and practice of politics, and the analysis of political systems and political behavior...

     at Campbellsville University
    Campbellsville University
    Campbellsville University, also known as CU, is a private university in Campbellsville, Kentucky, the seat of Taylor County. Founded as Russell Creek Academy, a Baptist institution, the university currently enrolls more than 3,000 students and is open to students of all denominations...

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

    .
  • Barry Bingham, Jr.
    Barry Bingham, Jr.
    George Barry Bingham, Jr. was an American newspaper publisher and television and radio executive...

    , 72, former editor and publisher of the Louisville Courier-Journal and the Louisville Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/04/business/media/04bingham.html
  • Lou Carrol
    Lou Carrol
    Louis Leon Carrol was an American businessman who is best known for giving then-U.S. Senator Richard Nixon a puppy in 1952 that was used as the subject of the Checkers speech, which kept Nixon on the Republican ticket as the vice presidential candidate in that year's presidential election.Carrol...

    , 83, American traveling salesman, gave Checkers to Richard Nixon
    Richard Nixon
    Richard Milhous Nixon was the 37th President of the United States, serving from 1969 to 1974. The only president to resign the office, Nixon had previously served as a US representative and senator from California and as the 36th Vice President of the United States from 1953 to 1961 under...

    . http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/17/us/17carrol.html
  • Doug Coombs
    Doug Coombs
    Doug Coombs was an American alpine skier and mountaineer who helped to pioneer the sport of extreme skiing, both in North America and worldwide.- Biography :...

    , 48, American extreme skier
    Extreme skiing
    Extreme skiing is skiing performed on long, steep slopes in dangerous terrain. The sport is performed off-piste.The French coined the term 'Le Ski Extreme' in the 1970s...

    , ski accident in the French Alps
    French Alps
    The French Alps are those portions of the Alps mountain range which stand within France, located in the Rhône-Alpes and Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur regions....

    . http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/09/sports/othersports/09coombs.html
  • Martin Gilks
    Martin Gilks
    Martin Richard Gilks was an English musician. He was a founder member and original drummer for The Wonder Stuff, based in Stourbridge ....

    , 41, former drummer with The Wonder Stuff
    The Wonder Stuff
    The Wonder Stuff are a British alternative rock band, originally based in Stourbridge, West Midlands, in the Black Country, England.-Origins:...

    , motorcycle accident. http://www.furtive-mts.com/martin.php http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/4877120.stm
  • Marshall Goldberg
    Marshall Goldberg
    Marshall Goldberg was an American football halfback with the Chicago Cardinals in the National Football League.- Football career :Goldberg was born in Elkins, West Virginia...

    , 88, former NFL running back
    Running back
    A running back is a gridiron football position, who is typically lined up in the offensive backfield. The primary roles of a running back are to receive handoffs from the quarterback for a rushing play, to catch passes from out of the backfield, and to block.There are usually one or two running...

     of the Chicago Cardinals, complications due to a head injury. http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/07/sports/football/07goldberg.html http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/news;_ylt=AuXagStaddYTdI12mk0Jbf9DubYF?slug=ap-obit-goldberg&prov=ap&type=lgns
  • Peter Hadhazy, 62, longtime NFL official, former general manager of the Cleveland Browns
    Cleveland Browns
    The 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...

    . http://www.nfl.com/news/story/9355384 http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060403/ap_on_sp_fo_ne/fbn_obit_hadhazy_1
  • Albert Harker, 95, last surviving member of the US 1934 FIFA World Cup
    1934 FIFA World Cup
    The 1934 FIFA World Cup was the second FIFA World Cup, the world championship for men's national association football teams. It took place in Italy from 27 May to 10 June 1934....

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

     team. http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/09/sports/soccer/09harker.html
  • Frédérique Huydts, 38, Dutch
    Netherlands
    The Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...

     actress, colon cancer. http://www.vipspotting.nl/vips/frederique_huydts.html
  • Gwin Kolb, 86, American professor at the University of Chicago
    University of Chicago
    The University of Chicago is a private research university in Chicago, Illinois, USA. It was founded by the American Baptist Education Society with a donation from oil magnate and philanthropist John D. Rockefeller and incorporated in 1890...

     and scholar of Samuel Johnson
    Samuel Johnson
    Samuel Johnson , often referred to as Dr. Johnson, was an English author who made lasting contributions to English literature as a poet, essayist, moralist, literary critic, biographer, editor and lexicographer...

    . http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/14/arts/14kolb.html
  • Antonia Morgan 91, fled the U.S. with granddaughter in Elizabeth Morgan custody battle http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/04/20/AR2006042002023.html
  • Genzo Murakami
    Genzo Murakami
    was a Japanese novelist who was born in Korea during its occupation by the Empire of Japan. He is known for his historical novels as well as his influence on Japanese literature following the Second World War....

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

    ese novelist. http://www3.cjad.com/content/cp_article.asp?id=/global_feeds/CanadianPress/EntertainmentNews/e040427A.htm
  • Walter Ristow
    Walter Ristow
    Walter William Ristow was the head librarian of the map library at the New York Public Library and later the Library of Congress....

    , 97, American map librarian at the New York Public Library
    New York Public Library
    The New York Public Library is the largest public library in North America and is one of the United States' most significant research libraries...

     and the Library of Congress
    Library of Congress
    The Library of Congress is the research library of the United States Congress, de facto national library of the United States, and the oldest federal cultural institution in the United States. Located in three buildings in Washington, D.C., it is the largest library in the world by shelf space and...

     http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/17/us/17ristow.html
  • Ida Vos
    Ida Vos
    Ida Vos was a Dutch author. She wrote books for adults and children. In most of her books, Vos wrote about her experiences as a Jewish girl during the Second World War...

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

     writer. http://www.idavos.nl/

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