Deaths in April 2010
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Deaths in 2010
Deaths in 2010
The following is a list of notable deaths in 2010. A typical entry lists information in the following sequence:* Name, age, country of citizenship and reason for notability, established cause of death, reference, language of reference if not English....

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Deaths in December 2009
Deaths in 2009 : ← - January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December - →The following is a list of notable deaths in December 2009.-31:...

 - January
Deaths in January 2010
Deaths in 2010 : ← - January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December - →The following is a list of notable deaths in January 2010.-31:...

 - February
Deaths in February 2010
Deaths in 2010 : ← - January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December - →The following is a list of notable deaths in February 2010.-28:*Martin Benson, 91, British stage actor....

 - March - April - May
Deaths in May 2010
Deaths in 2010 : ← - January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December - →The following is a list of notable deaths in May 2010.-31:...

 - June
Deaths in June 2010
Deaths in 2010 : ← – January – February – March – April – May – June – July – August – September – October – November – December – →The following is a list of notable deaths in June 2010.-30:* Alf Carretta, 93, British vocalist ....

 - July
Deaths in July 2010
Deaths in 2010 : ← – January – February – March – April – May – June – July – August – September – October – November – December – →The following is a list of notable deaths in July 2010.-31:...

 - August
Deaths in August 2010
Deaths in 2010 : ← – January – February – March – April – May – June – July – August – September – October – November – December – →The following is a list of notable deaths in August 2010.-31:*Vance Bourjaily, 87, American novelist....

 - September
Deaths in September 2010
Deaths in 2010 : ← – January – February – March – April – May – June – July – August – September – October – November – December – →The following is a list of notable deaths in September 2010.-30:...

 - October
Deaths in October 2010
Deaths in 2010 : ← – January – February – March – April – May – June – July – August – September – October – November – December – →The following is a list of notable deaths in October 2010.-31:...

 - November
Deaths in November 2010
Deaths in 2010 : ← – January – February – March – April – May – June – July – August – September – October – November – December – →The following is a list of notable deaths in November 2010.-30:...

 - December
Deaths in December 2010
Deaths in 2010 : ← – January – February – March – April – May – June – July – August – September – October – November – December – →The following is a list of notable deaths in December 2010.-31:...

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Deaths in January 2011
Deaths in 2011 : ← - January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December - →The following is a list of notable deaths in January 2011.-31:...



The following is a list of notable deaths in April 2010.

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  • Tadahiro Ando
    Tadahiro Ando
    was the Governor of Miyazaki Prefecture from 2003 to 2006. In 2009, Ando was convicted of bribe-taking and bid-rigging which were offences that he had committed earlier when he was governor.- References :...

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

    , Governor
    Governor
    A governor is a governing official, usually the executive of a non-sovereign level of government, ranking under the head of state...

     of Miyazaki Prefecture
    Miyazaki Prefecture
    is a prefecture of Japan located on the island of Kyushu. The capital is the city of Miyazaki.- History :Historically, after the Meiji Restoration, Hyūga Province was renamed Miyazaki Prefecture....

     (2003–2006), lymphoma
    Lymphoma
    Lymphoma is a cancer in the lymphatic cells of the immune system. Typically, lymphomas present as a solid tumor of lymphoid cells. Treatment might involve chemotherapy and in some cases radiotherapy and/or bone marrow transplantation, and can be curable depending on the histology, type, and stage...

    . http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nn20100501b1.html
  • Jordi Estadella
    Jordi Estadella
    Jordi Estadella was a Spanish voice actor, journalist, radio and television host and film dubber. Estadella's career spanned more than 40 years. He was best known to Spaniards as the host of the game show, Un, dos, tres.....

    , 61, 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...

     voice actor, radio
    Radio personality
    A radio personality is a person with an on-air position in radio broadcasting. A radio personality can be someone who introduces and discusses various genres of music, hosts a talk radio show that may take calls from listeners, or someone whose primary responsibility is to give news, weather,...

     and television personality (Un, dos, tres... responda otra vez
    Un, dos, tres... responda otra vez
    Un, dos, tres... responda otra vez , often shortened as Un, dos, tres, and named Un, dos, tres... a leer esta vez in the last season, was a Spanish game show created by Narciso Ibáñez Serrador. The show, which ran from 1972 to 2004 spanning ten seasons, became the most famous game show in the...

    ), after long illness. http://www.enmemoria.com/actualidad/20100430/fallece-el-comunicador-jordi-estadella.html (Spanish)
  • Ron Fimrite
    Ron Fimrite
    Ron Fimrite was an American humorist, historian, sportswriter and author who was best known for his writing for Sports Illustrated....

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

     sports journalist
    Sports journalism
    Sports journalism is a form of journalism that reports on sports topics and events.While the sports department within some newspapers has been mockingly called the toy department, because sports journalists do not concern themselves with the 'serious' topics covered by the news desk, sports...

     (Sports Illustrated
    Sports Illustrated
    Sports Illustrated is an American sports media company owned by media conglomerate Time Warner. Its self titled magazine has over 3.5 million subscribers and is read by 23 million adults each week, including over 18 million men. It was the first magazine with circulation over one million to win the...

    ), pancreatic cancer
    Pancreatic cancer
    Pancreatic cancer refers to a malignant neoplasm of the pancreas. The most common type of pancreatic cancer, accounting for 95% of these tumors is adenocarcinoma, which arises within the exocrine component of the pancreas. A minority arises from the islet cells and is classified as a...

    . http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/04/30/MN7I1D597I.DTL
  • José Fragelli
    José Fragelli
    José Manuel Fontanillas Fragelli was a Brazilian politician, lawyer and academic. Fragelli served as the Governor of Mato Grosso from 1970 until 1974 and the President of the Senate of Brazil from 1985 through 1987....

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

    , Governor
    Governor
    A governor is a governing official, usually the executive of a non-sovereign level of government, ranking under the head of state...

     of Mato Grosso
    Mato Grosso
    Mato Grosso is one of the states of Brazil, the third largest in area, located in the western part of the country.Neighboring states are Rondônia, Amazonas, Pará, Tocantins, Goiás and Mato Grosso do Sul. It also borders Bolivia to the southwest...

     (1970–1974) and Senate
    Senate of Brazil
    The Federal Senate of Brazil is the upper house of the National Congress of Brazil. Created by the first Constitution of the Brazilian Empire in 1824, it was inspired by the United Kingdom's House of Lords, but with the Proclamation of the Republic in 1889 it became closer to the United States...

     president
    President
    A president is a leader of an organization, company, trade union, university, or country.Etymologically, a president is one who presides, who sits in leadership...

     (1985–1987). http://www.dgabc.com.br/News/5808187/morre-jose-fragelli-ex-presidente-do-senado.aspx (Portuguese)
  • Carmelita González
    Carmelita González
    Carmelita González was a Mexican lead actress known for her film roles during the Golden Age of Mexican cinema. She appeared in nearly 100 Mexican films during her career, opposite such actors as Mario Moreno Cantinflas, Pedro Infante and Jorge Negrete...

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

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

    . http://www.eluniversal.com.mx/notas/676911.html (Spanish)
  • Antony Grey
    Antony Grey
    Antony Grey was a leading English lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender rights activist. He lived with his partner, Eric Thompson, for 50 years after first meeting in 1960...

    , 82, 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...

     gay rights activist, leukaemia. http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2010/05/04/first-gay-rights-activist-antony-grey-dies-aged-82/
  • Khalid Khawaja
    Khalid Khawaja
    Squadron Leader Khalid Khawaja was a former Air Force officer, and the former Air Force's intelligence officer of the Pakistan's Inter Services Intelligence agency....

    , Pakistan
    Pakistan
    Pakistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan is a sovereign state in South Asia. It has a coastline along the Arabian Sea and the Gulf of Oman in the south and is bordered by Afghanistan and Iran in the west, India in the east and China in the far northeast. In the north, Tajikistan...

    i military
    Officer (armed forces)
    An officer is a member of an armed force or uniformed service who holds a position of authority. Commissioned officers derive authority directly from a sovereign power and, as such, hold a commission charging them with the duties and responsibilities of a specific office or position...

     and intelligence officer
    Intelligence officer
    An intelligence officer is a person employed by an organization to collect, compile and/or analyze information which is of use to that organization...

    , shot
    Ballistic trauma
    The term ballistic trauma refers to a form of physical trauma sustained from the discharge of arms or munitions. The most common forms of ballistic trauma stem from firearms used in armed conflicts, civilian sporting and recreational pursuits, and criminal activity.-Destructive effects:The degree...

    . http://www.tribune.com.pk/story/9971/former-isi-officials-body-found-in-fata/ (body found on this date)
  • Paul Mayer, 98, German
    Germany
    Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

     Roman Catholic prelate and cardinal
    Cardinal (Catholicism)
    A cardinal is a senior ecclesiastical official, usually an ordained bishop, and ecclesiastical prince of the Catholic Church. They are collectively known as the College of Cardinals, which as a body elects a new pope. The duties of the cardinals include attending the meetings of the College and...

    . http://www.montrealgazette.com/life/Oldest+Catholic+cardinal+dies/2974277/story.html
  • Owsley
    Owsley (musician)
    William Reese "Will" Owsley III , known professionally as Owsley, was an American singer-songwriter, best known as for his work as guitarist in Amy Grant's touring band. His solo albums won critical acclaim and one Grammy Award nomination...

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

     musician
    Musician
    A musician is an artist who plays a musical instrument. It may or may not be the person's profession. Musicians can be classified by their roles in performing music and writing music.Also....* A person who makes music a profession....

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

    . http://blogs.tennessean.com/tunein/2010/05/01/musician-will-owsley-dies/
  • Jorma Peltonen
    Jorma Peltonen
    Jorma Kalevi Peltonen was a Finnish professional ice hockey player who played in the SM-liiga. Born in Messukylä, he played for Ilves, Jokerit, and Lukko. He was inducted into the Finnish Hockey Hall of Fame in 1987 and died in 2010 in Tampere.-External links:**...

    , 66, 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...

     ice hockey
    Ice hockey
    Ice hockey, often referred to as hockey, is a team sport played on ice, in which skaters use wooden or composite sticks to shoot a hard rubber puck into their opponent's net. The game is played between two teams of six players each. Five members of each team skate up and down the ice trying to take...

     player. http://www.sm-liiga.fi/arkisto/ilves/jorma-peltonen-in-memoriam.html
  • Gwyn Rowlands
    Gwyn Rowlands
    Dr. Gwyn Rowlands was an English-born rugby union wing, who played international rugby for the Wales national team. At club level he represented London Welsh, Cardiff and the Royal Air Force.-Rugby career:...

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

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

     player for 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...

    . http://www.berkhamstedtoday.co.uk/berkhamsted-news/Popular-former-town-GP-has.6275408.jp
  • Gerry Ryan
    Gerry Ryan
    Gerard "Gerry" Ryan was an Irish presenter of radio and television employed by Raidió Teilifís Éireann...

    , 53, Irish
    Republic of Ireland
    Ireland , described as the Republic of Ireland , is a sovereign state in Europe occupying approximately five-sixths of the island of the same name. Its capital is Dublin. Ireland, which had a population of 4.58 million in 2011, is a constitutional republic governed as a parliamentary democracy,...

     disc jockey
    Disc jockey
    A disc jockey, also known as DJ, is a person who selects and plays recorded music for an audience. Originally, "disc" referred to phonograph records, not the later Compact Discs. Today, the term includes all forms of music playback, no matter the medium.There are several types of disc jockeys...

     and radio/television presenter
    Presenter
    A presenter, or host , is a person or organization responsible for running an event. A museum or university, for example, may be the presenter or host of an exhibit. Likewise, a master of ceremonies is a person that hosts or presents a show...

    . http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/breaking/2010/0430/breaking54.html
  • Steve Strayhorn, 56, American
    United States
    The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

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

     (A Full Moon Consort
    A Full Moon Consort
    A Full Moon Consort was a band in the St. Louis area in the 1970s. When their album was released it was reported to be the best-selling album in the St. Louis area. They have been noted to be "one of the area's top bands" in the mid-1970s....

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

    . http://skyreport.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!D00341BD856ADECB!7224.entry
  • Wendell J. Westcott
    Wendell J. Westcott
    Wendell J. Westcott was the University Carillonneur at Michigan State University from 1941–1987 and the creator and director of the Spartan Bell Ringers, a musical group composed of MSU students. Westcott was the author of Bells and Their Music, published in 1970.-References:**...

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

     carillon
    Carillon
    A carillon is a musical instrument that is typically housed in a free-standing bell tower, or the belfry of a church or other municipal building. The instrument consists of at least 23 cast bronze, cup-shaped bells, which are played serially to play a melody, or sounded together to play a chord...

    eur. http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/lsj/obituary.aspx?n=wendell-westcott&pid=142393683

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  • Avigdor Arikha
    Avigdor Arikha
    Avigdor Arikha was a painter, draughtsman, printmaker, and art historian.-Biography:Avigdor Arikha was born to German-speaking Jewish parents in Rădăuţi, but grew up in Czernowitz , in Bukovina, Romania., His family faced forced deportation in 1941 to the Romanian-run concentration camps of...

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

    i painter
    Painting
    Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a surface . The application of the medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush but other objects can be used. In art, the term painting describes both the act and the result of the action. However, painting is...

    , complication
    Complication (medicine)
    Complication, in medicine, is an unfavorable evolution of a disease, a health condition or a medical treatment. The disease can become worse in its severity or show a higher number of signs, symptoms or new pathological changes, become widespread throughout the body or affect other organ systems. A...

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

    . http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/01/arts/01arikha.html?hpw
  • Damodar Chaudhary
    Damodar Chaudhary
    Damodar Chaudhary was a Nepalese politician from Dang district belonging to the Communist Party of Nepal . He was elected to the Constituent Assembly of Nepal in the 2007 election through the proportional representation vote...

    , 63, Nepal
    Nepal
    Nepal , officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal, is a landlocked sovereign state located in South Asia. It is located in the Himalayas and bordered to the north by the People's Republic of China, and to the south, east, and west by the Republic of India...

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

    , member of the Constituent Assembly
    Nepalese Constituent Assembly
    The Nepalese Constituent Assembly is a unicameral body of 601 members formed as a result of the Constituent Assembly election that was held on April 10, 2008. The Constituent Assembly is tasked with writing a new constitution, and it will act as the interim legislature for a term of two years...

     since 2007. http://www.nepalnews.com/main/index.php/news-archive/2-political/5729-cpn-ml-lawmaker-dies.html
  • Kevin Humphreys, 80, Australia
    Australia
    Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...

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

     administrator, after long illness. http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/sport/former-rugby-league-boss-kevin-humphreys-dead-at-80/story-e6frg7mf-1225860008931
  • Walter Sear
    Walter Sear
    Walter Edmond Sear was an American recording engineer, instrument importer, instrument designer, inventor, composer, tuba player, movie producer, synthesizer pioneer, and vintage recording equipment guru...

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

     recording engineer. http://www.synthtopia.com/content/2010/04/30/walter-sear-synth-pioneer-dead-at-age-79/
  • Audrey Williamson
    Audrey Williamson
    Audrey Doreen Swayne Williamson was a British athlete who competed mainly in the 200 metres....

    , 83, 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...

     athlete
    Track and field
    Track and field is a sport comprising various competitive athletic contests based around the activities of running, jumping and throwing. The name of the sport derives from the venue for the competitions: a stadium which features an oval running track surrounding a grassy area...

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

     silver medalist (1948
    1948 Summer Olympics
    The 1948 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XIV Olympiad, were an international multi-sport event which was held in London, England, United Kingdom. After a 12-year hiatus because of World War II, these were the first Summer Olympics since the 1936 Games in Berlin...

    ). http://announcements.thetimes.co.uk/obituaries/timesonline-uk/obituary-preview.aspx?n=audrey-doreen-swayne-mitchell&pid=142365655&referrer=2282

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  • Evelyn Cunningham
    Evelyn Cunningham
    Evelyn Cunningham was an American journalist and aide to Nelson Rockefeller. Cunningham covered the early civil rights movement and was a reporter and editor for the Pittsburgh Courier...

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

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

    , natural causes
    Death by natural causes
    A death by natural causes, as recorded by coroners and on death certificates and associated documents, is one that is primarily attributed to natural agents: usually an illness or an internal malfunction of the body. For example, a person dying from complications from influenza or a heart attack ...

    . http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/29/obituaries/29cunningham.html?ref=obituaries
  • Stefania Grodzieńska
    Stefania Grodzieńska
    Stefania Grodzieńska was a Polish writer, stage and theatrical actress, and satirist.-Biography:She spent her young years in Łódź, where she attended ballet school. She moved to Warsaw in 1933...

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

     writer
    Writer
    A writer is a person who produces literature, such as novels, short stories, plays, screenplays, poetry, or other literary art. Skilled writers are able to use language to portray ideas and images....

     and actress. http://wiadomosci.gazeta.pl/Wiadomosci/1,80269,7823074,Zmarla_Stefania_Grodzienska.html (Polish)
  • Elma Maua
    Elma Maua
    Elma Ngatokoa Maua was a Cook Islands-born New Zealand journalist and editor. Maua was one of New Zealand's first Pacific Islander journalists....

    , 61, Cook Islands
    Cook Islands
    The Cook Islands is a self-governing parliamentary democracy in the South Pacific Ocean in free association with New Zealand...

    -born New Zealand
    New Zealand
    New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses and numerous smaller islands. The country is situated some east of Australia across the Tasman Sea, and roughly south of the Pacific island nations of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga...

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

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

    , after long illness. http://www.rnzi.com/pages/news.php?op=read&id=53257
  • Pierre-Jean Rémy
    Pierre-Jean Rémy
    Pierre-Jean Rémy is the pen-name of Jean-Pierre Angremy who was a French diplomat, novelist, and essayist. He was elected to the Académie française on 16 June 1988, and won the 1986 Grand Prix du roman de l'Académie française for his novel Une ville immortelle.-Early life:Rémy was born in...

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

     writer
    Writer
    A writer is a person who produces literature, such as novels, short stories, plays, screenplays, poetry, or other literary art. Skilled writers are able to use language to portray ideas and images....

     and diplomat
    Diplomat
    A diplomat is a person appointed by a state to conduct diplomacy with another state or international organization. The main functions of diplomats revolve around the representation and protection of the interests and nationals of the sending state, as well as the promotion of information and...

    . http://www.lefigaro.fr/livres/2010/04/28/03005-20100428ARTFIG00754-pierre-jean-remy-l-homme-presse-.php (French)
  • Furio Scarpelli
    Furio Scarpelli
    Furio Scarpelli , also called Scarpelli, was an Italian screenwriter, famous for his collaboration on numerous Commedia all'italiana films with Agenore Incrocci, forming the duo Age & Scarpelli....

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

     screenwriter
    Screenwriter
    Screenwriters or scriptwriters or scenario writers are people who write/create the short or feature-length screenplays from which mass media such as films, television programs, Comics or video games are based.-Profession:...

     (Big Deal on Madonna Street
    Big Deal on Madonna Street
    Big Deal on Madonna Street is a 1958 Italian criminal-comedy film, directed by Mario Monicelli, and considered to be among the masterpieces of Italian cinema. Its original title translates as "the usual unknown persons", a journalistic and bureaucratic euphemism for "unidentified criminals" or...

    , Casanova 70
    Casanova 70
    Casanova 70 is a 1965 Italian comedy film produced by Carlo Ponti, directed by Mario Monicelli and starring Marcello Mastroianni, Virna Lisi, and Michele Mercier.-Plot:...

    , Il Postino
    Il Postino
    Il Postino is a 1994 Italian film directed by Michael Radford. The film was originally released in the U.S. as The Postman, a straight translation of the Italian title...

    ). http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory?id=10495749
  • Ian Valz
    Ian Valz
    Sir Ian Michael Valz was a Guyanese playwright, award-winning filmmaker, and actor. On April 28, 2010 he lost his battle with cancer and died at St. Maarten Medical Center....

    , 52, Guyanese
    Guyana
    Guyana , officially the Co-operative Republic of Guyana, previously the colony of British Guiana, is a sovereign state on the northern coast of South America that is culturally part of the Anglophone Caribbean. Guyana was a former colony of the Dutch and of the British...

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

     and playwright
    Playwright
    A playwright, also called a dramatist, is a person who writes plays.The term is not a variant spelling of "playwrite", but something quite distinct: the word wright is an archaic English term for a craftsman or builder...

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

    . http://www.thedailyherald.com/islands/1-news/3225-ian-valz-funeral-service-to-be-held-in-ebenezer.html

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

     academic. http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/mycentraljersey/obituary.aspx?n=robert-j-alexander&pid=143630100
  • David Martin Baker
    David Martin Baker
    David Martin Baker was a Republican member of West Virginia State House of Delegates from Cabell County, 1953, 1957–58, with defeats in 1954 and 1958. In 1967 he was the vice-chair of West Virginia Republican Party. He lived in Huntington, Cabell County, West Virginia.-Biographical...

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

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

     and judge
    Judge
    A judge is a person who presides over court proceedings, either alone or as part of a panel of judges. The powers, functions, method of appointment, discipline, and training of judges vary widely across different jurisdictions. The judge is supposed to conduct the trial impartially and in an open...

    , member of the West Virginia House of Delegates
    West Virginia House of Delegates
    The West Virginia House of Delegates is the lower house of the West Virginia Legislature. Only three states—Maryland, Virginia, and West Virginia—refer to their lower house as the House of Delegates.-Historical:-Current:-District organization:...

     (1953–1954, 1957–1958). http://news.herald-dispatch.com/obituaries/index.php?id=36882643
  • Alberta Cariño
    Alberta Cariño
    Alberta "Bety" Cariño Trujillo was the director of CACTUS a community organization in Oaxaca, Mexico. On April 27, 2010, she was killed when paramilitaries ambushed a caravan on its way to the indigenous autonomous community of San Juan Copala...

    , 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...

     humanitarian
    Humanitarianism
    In its most general form, humanitarianism is an ethic of kindness, benevolence and sympathy extended universally and impartially to all human beings. Humanitarianism has been an evolving concept historically but universality is a common element in its evolution...

    , shot
    Ballistic trauma
    The term ballistic trauma refers to a form of physical trauma sustained from the discharge of arms or munitions. The most common forms of ballistic trauma stem from firearms used in armed conflicts, civilian sporting and recreational pursuits, and criminal activity.-Destructive effects:The degree...

    . http://www.frontlinedefenders.org/node/2478
  • Peter Cheeseman
    Peter Cheeseman
    Peter Cheeseman, CBE was a British theatre director who is credited with having pioneered "theatre in the round".-Career:...

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

     theatre director, Parkinson's disease
    Parkinson's disease
    Parkinson's disease is a degenerative disorder of the central nervous system...

    . http://news.bbc.co.uk/local/stoke/hi/people_and_places/arts_and_culture/newsid_8651000/8651792.stm
  • Stanley Greenspan
    Stanley Greenspan
    Stanley Greenspan was a clinical professor of Psychiatry, Behavioral Science, and Pediatrics at George Washington University Medical School and a practicing child psychiatrist...

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

     academic, clinical professor
    Clinical Professor
    Clinical Professor is an academic appointment made to a member of a profession who is associated with a university and engages in practical instruction of professional students. It generally does not offer a "tenure track," but can be either full or part time, and is typically noted for its...

     of psychiatry
    Psychiatry
    Psychiatry is the medical specialty devoted to the study and treatment of mental disorders. These mental disorders include various affective, behavioural, cognitive and perceptual abnormalities...

    . http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/04/28/AR2010042805731.html
  • George Gross
    George Gross (American football)
    George Gross was an American Professional Football defensive tackle in the American Football League. He played five seasons for the AFL's San Diego Chargers. He joined the Chargers' outstanding defensive line, first known as the "Fearsome Foursome", playing with DEs Bob Petrich and Earl Faison...

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

     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 (San Diego Chargers
    San Diego Chargers
    The San Diego Chargers are a professional American football team based in San Diego, California. they were members of the Western Division of the American Football Conference in the National Football League...

    ). http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/signonsandiego/obituary.aspx?page=lifestory&pid=142685028
  • Jyri Jaakkola
    Jyri Jaakkola
    Jyri Antero Jaakkola was a Finnish human rights activist. He was on his way to San Juan Copala, a village of Trique indigenous people that has declared itself autonomous, as a human rights observer when he was shot dead by UBISORT, a paramilitary organization connected to Institutional...

    , 33, 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...

     humanitarian
    Humanitarianism
    In its most general form, humanitarianism is an ethic of kindness, benevolence and sympathy extended universally and impartially to all human beings. Humanitarianism has been an evolving concept historically but universality is a common element in its evolution...

    , shot
    Ballistic trauma
    The term ballistic trauma refers to a form of physical trauma sustained from the discharge of arms or munitions. The most common forms of ballistic trauma stem from firearms used in armed conflicts, civilian sporting and recreational pursuits, and criminal activity.-Destructive effects:The degree...

    . http://www.frontlinedefenders.org/node/2478
  • Tanie Kitabayashi
    Tanie Kitabayashi
    was a Japanese actress.Born Reiko Ando in Tokyo, she began as a stage actress. Early in her career, she became well known for portraying older women. Kitabayashi was a founding member of the famed Mingei Theatre, founded in 1950. In 1960, she won best actress awards at the 10th Blue Ribbon Awards...

    , 98, 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 actress. http://home.kyodo.co.jp/modules/fstStory/index.php?storyid=499302
  • Morris Pert
    Morris Pert
    Morris David Brough Pert was a Scottish composer, drummer/percussionist, and pianist who composed in the fields of both contemporary classical and jazz-rock music...

    , 62, 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...

     musician
    Musician
    A musician is an artist who plays a musical instrument. It may or may not be the person's profession. Musicians can be classified by their roles in performing music and writing music.Also....* A person who makes music a profession....

    . http://news.scotsman.com/obituaries/Obituary-Morris-Pert.6260711.jp
  • Nossrat Peseschkian
    Nossrat Peseschkian
    Nossrat Peseschkian, M.D., Doctor of Medicine , Hon. Professor lived in Germany since 1954. He was a specialist in neurology, psychiatry, psychotherapy and psychosomatic medicine...

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

    ian-born 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...

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

    . http://www.buchmarkt.de/content/42400-nossrat-peseschkian-.htm (German)
  • Armando Sanchez, 57, Filipino
    Philippines
    The Philippines , officially known as the Republic of the Philippines , is a country in Southeast Asia in the western Pacific Ocean. To its north across the Luzon Strait lies Taiwan. West across the South China Sea sits Vietnam...

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

    , Governor
    Governor
    A governor is a governing official, usually the executive of a non-sovereign level of government, ranking under the head of state...

     of Batangas
    Batangas
    Batangas is a first class province of the Philippines located on the southwestern part of Luzon in the CALABARZON region. Its capital is Batangas City and it is bordered by the provinces of Cavite and Laguna to the north and Quezon to the east. Across the Verde Island Passages to the south is the...

     (2004–2007), 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://newsinfo.inquirer.net/inquirerheadlines/nation/view/20100428-266834/Ex-Batangas-gov-dies-NP-to-name-new-candidate

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  • Aminulrasyid Amzah
    Aminulrasyid Amzah
    Aminulrasyid Amzah was a 15 year old Malaysian student from Shah Alam, Selangor who was shot dead by Royal Malaysian Police officers while allegedly fleeing from a crashed car he was driving...

    , 15, Malaysian student
    Student
    A student is a learner, or someone who attends an educational institution. In some nations, the English term is reserved for those who attend university, while a schoolchild under the age of eighteen is called a pupil in English...

     and victim, shot
    Ballistic trauma
    The term ballistic trauma refers to a form of physical trauma sustained from the discharge of arms or munitions. The most common forms of ballistic trauma stem from firearms used in armed conflicts, civilian sporting and recreational pursuits, and criminal activity.-Destructive effects:The degree...

    . http://www.themalaysianinsider.com/malaysia/article/with-young-boys-death-pakatan-seen-pushing-multiracial-platform
  • Bus Boyk
    Bus Boyk
    Norval Newton "Bus" Boyk was a noted fiddler whose career extended from the 1930s to the '90s and who played in many bands during those eras. In the 1930s he was with the Cascade Hillbillies and the Rancho Serenaders. From 1953-1964 he played with the Sons of the Golden West...

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

     fiddle
    Fiddle
    The term fiddle may refer to any bowed string musical instrument, most often the violin. It is also a colloquial term for the instrument used by players in all genres, including classical music...

    r. http://www.genealogybank.com/gbnk/ssdi/doc/ssdi/v1:12F7D05A848A6E08
  • Leslie Buck
    Leslie Buck
    Leslie Buck was an American business executive and Holocaust survivor who designed the Anthora coffee cup, which has become an iconic symbol of New York City since its introduction in the 1960s.-Early life:...

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

     Anthora
    Anthora
    The Anthora is a paper coffee cup design that has become iconic of New York City daily life — its name is a play on the word amphora.The cup was originally designed by Leslie Buck of the Sherri Cup Co. in 1963, to appeal to Greek-owned coffee shops in New York City — and was later copied heavily by...

     coffee cup
    Coffee cup
    A coffee cup may refer to a type of container from which coffee is consumed. Coffee cups are typically made of glazed ceramic, and have a single handle, allowing for portability while still hot...

     designer
    Designer
    A designer is a person who designs. More formally, a designer is an agent that "specifies the structural properties of a design object". In practice, anyone who creates tangible or intangible objects, such as consumer products, processes, laws, games and graphics, is referred to as a...

    , Parkinson's disease
    Parkinson's disease
    Parkinson's disease is a degenerative disorder of the central nervous system...

    . http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/30/nyregion/30buck.html?hp
  • Ljiljana Buttler
    Ljiljana Buttler
    Ljiljana Buttler was a singer born in former Yugoslavia. Her nickname was The Mother of Gypsy Soul.Buttler was born in Belgrade as Ljiljana Petrović, the daughter of a Croatian singer and a Gypsy accordionist. Her father left the family shortly after the birth of his daughter...

    , 65, Yugoslavia
    Yugoslavia
    Yugoslavia refers to three political entities that existed successively on the western part of the Balkans during most of the 20th century....

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

    . http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/culture-obituaries/music-obituaries/7692668/Ljiljana-Buttler.html
  • Daniel of Erie
    Daniel of Erie
    Daniel Alexandrov was an American Russian Orthodox bishop of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia....

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

     Orthodox prelate (ROCOR
    Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia
    The Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia , also called the Russian Orthodox Church Abroad, ROCA, or ROCOR) is a semi-autonomous part of the Russian Orthodox Church....

    ), Titular Bishop
    Titular bishop
    A titular bishop in various churches is a bishop who is not in charge of a diocese.By definition a bishop is an "overseer" of a community of the faithful, so when a priest is ordained a bishop the tradition of the Roman Catholic and Orthodox churches is that he be ordained for a specific place...

     of Erie
    Erie
    Erie is a city in Pennsylvania, United States.Erie may also refer to:*Erie , a tribe of Native Americans-Places:*Lake Erie, one of the five Great Lakes of North America*Erie Canal, a canal running from the Hudson River to Lake Erie...

    , natural causes
    Death by natural causes
    A death by natural causes, as recorded by coroners and on death certificates and associated documents, is one that is primarily attributed to natural agents: usually an illness or an internal malfunction of the body. For example, a person dying from complications from influenza or a heart attack ...

    . http://www.russianorthodoxchurch.ws/synod/eng2010/4enbpdaniil.html
  • Denzil Freeth
    Denzil Freeth
    Denzil Kingston Freeth, MBE was a British Conservative politician.Born in the Paddington, London, Freeth was educated at Sherborne School and then served in the Royal Air Force. In 1946, he went up to Trinity Hall, Cambridge. He was Member of Parliament for Basingstoke from 1955 until he stood...

    , 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...

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

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

     for Basingstoke (1955–1964). http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/politics-obituaries/7647306/Denzil-Freeth.html
  • Luigi Gui
    Luigi Gui
    Luigi Gui was an Italian politician and philosopher.Gui was born in Padua . He graduated in philosophy at The Catholic University in Milan. He was an officer of the Alpini corps of the Italian Army, and fought in USSR during World War II...

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

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

    , Minister of the Interior
    Italian Minister of the Interior
    This is a list of Italian Ministers of the Interior since 1861.-Kingdom of Italy:-Italian Republic:...

     (1974–1976). http://www.corriere.it/notizie-ultima-ora/Politica/Padova-morto-Luigi-Gui-ministro-anni-70/27-04-2010/1-A_000100179.shtml (Italian)
  • Fred Halliday
    Fred Halliday
    Frederick Halliday, FBA was an Irish writer and academic specialising in International Relations and the Middle East, with particular reference to the Cold War, Iran, and the Arabian peninsula.-Biography:Born in Dublin, Ireland in 1946 to an English father, businessman Arthur Halliday, and an...

    , 64, Irish
    Republic of Ireland
    Ireland , described as the Republic of Ireland , is a sovereign state in Europe occupying approximately five-sixths of the island of the same name. Its capital is Dublin. Ireland, which had a population of 4.58 million in 2011, is a constitutional republic governed as a parliamentary democracy,...

     academic, scholar of international relations
    International relations
    International relations is the study of relationships between countries, including the roles of states, inter-governmental organizations , international nongovernmental organizations , non-governmental organizations and multinational corporations...

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

    . http://www.opendemocracy.net/david-hayes/fred-halliday-1946-2010-tribute-0
  • Varkala Radhakrishnan
    Varkala Radhakrishnan
    Varkala V. Radhakrishnan was an Indian politician and member of the 14th Lok Sabha. He also has served as the speaker of Kerala Legislative Assembly. He represented the Chirayinkil constituency of Kerala and was a member of the Communist Party of India political party...

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

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

    , complication
    Complication (medicine)
    Complication, in medicine, is an unfavorable evolution of a disease, a health condition or a medical treatment. The disease can become worse in its severity or show a higher number of signs, symptoms or new pathological changes, become widespread throughout the body or affect other organ systems. A...

    s from a road accident. http://www.centralchronicle.com/viewnews.asp?articleID=33771
  • Prabha Rau
    Prabha Rau
    Prabha Rau was an Indian politician and the Governor of Rajasthan state of India, since December 2009, following the death of previous governor S.K. Singh. She was also the governor of Himachal Pradesh as well as the former president of Maharashtra Pradesh Congress Committee. She hails from Nagpur...

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

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

    , Governor of Rajasthan (since 2009), heart attack
    Myocardial infarction
    Myocardial infarction or acute myocardial infarction , commonly known as a heart attack, results from the interruption of blood supply to a part of the heart, causing heart cells to die...

    . http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Rajasthan-Governor-Prabha-Rau-dies-after-heart-attack-/articleshow/5859235.cms
  • Joseph W. Sarno
    Joseph W. Sarno
    Joseph W. Sarno was an American film director and screenwriter.One of the most prolific and distinctive auteurs to emerge from the proto-pornographic sexploitation film genre of the 1960s, Joe Sarno had written and directed approximately 75 theatrically released feature films in the sexploitation,...

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

     film director
    Film director
    A film director is a person who directs the actors and film crew in filmmaking. They control a film's artistic and dramatic nathan roach, while guiding the technical crew and actors.-Responsibilities:...

     and screenwriter
    Screenwriter
    Screenwriters or scriptwriters or scenario writers are people who write/create the short or feature-length screenplays from which mass media such as films, television programs, Comics or video games are based.-Profession:...

    , after short illness. http://www.avmaniacs.com/forums/showthread.php?t=45307
  • Alberto Vitoria
    Alberto Vitoria
    Alberto Vitoria Soria was a Spanish professional footballer who played as a midfielder for Real Madrid, Burgos, Granada and Rayo Vallecano. Vitoria also represented Spain at the 1976 Summer Olympics.-Honours:Real Madrid...

    , 54, 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...

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

    . http://www.as.com/futbol/articulo/fallece-infarto-ex-jugador-alberto/dasftb/20100426dasdasftb_8/Tes (Spanish)
  • Yuri Vshivtsev
    Yuri Vshivtsev
    Yuri Mikhailovich Vshivtsev was a Russian professional football player. He was born in Kirov.-Honours:* Soviet Top League champion: 1963.* Soviet Top League runner-up: 1962, 1967.* Soviet Cup winner: 1967.-External links:* * -References:...

    , 70, Russia
    Russia
    Russia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...

    n footballer. http://www.fcdinamo.ru/material.php?id=5088 (Russian)
  • Aksel C. Wiin-Nielsen
    Aksel C. Wiin-Nielsen
    Aksel C. Wiin-Nielsen was a Danish professor of meteorology at University of Copenhagen.- Career :Wiin-Nielsen became the first director of the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts in January 1974...

    , 86, Danish
    Denmark
    Denmark is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe. The countries of Denmark and Greenland, as well as the Faroe Islands, constitute the Kingdom of Denmark . It is the southernmost of the Nordic countries, southwest of Sweden and south of Norway, and bordered to the south by Germany. Denmark...

     academic, professor
    Professor
    A professor is a scholarly teacher; the precise meaning of the term varies by country. Literally, professor derives from Latin as a "person who professes" being usually an expert in arts or sciences; a teacher of high rank...

     of meteorology
    Meteorology
    Meteorology is the interdisciplinary scientific study of the atmosphere. Studies in the field stretch back millennia, though significant progress in meteorology did not occur until the 18th century. The 19th century saw breakthroughs occur after observing networks developed across several countries...

    . http://www.talkweather.com/forums/index.php?/topic/54257-wmo-news-wmo-pays-tribute-to-professor-aksel-wiin-nielsen/

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  • Joseph Bessala
    Joseph Bessala
    Joseph Bessala was a welterweight boxer from Cameroon.-Amateur:In 1965, Bessala won the All-Africa Games in Brazzaville, Republic of the Congo...

    , 69, Cameroon
    Cameroon
    Cameroon, officially the Republic of Cameroon , is a country in west Central Africa. It is bordered by Nigeria to the west; Chad to the northeast; the Central African Republic to the east; and Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, and the Republic of the Congo to the south. Cameroon's coastline lies on the...

    ian welterweight
    Welterweight
    Welterweight is a weight class division in combat sports. Originally the term "welterweight" was used only in boxing, but other combat sports like kickboxing, taekwondo and mixed martial arts also began to use it for their own weight division system...

     boxer
    Boxing
    Boxing, also called pugilism, is a combat sport in which two people fight each other using their fists. Boxing is supervised by a referee over a series of between one to three minute intervals called rounds...

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

     silver medal
    Silver medal
    A silver medal is a medal awarded to the second place finisher of contests such as the Olympic Games, Commonwealth Games, and contests with similar formats....

    ist (1968
    Boxing at the 1968 Summer Olympics
    -Medal table:- Light Flyweight :-First Round:* Tahar Aziz def. David Nata , 4:1* Hubert Skrzypczak def. Mohamed Sohem , 5:0* Joseph Donovan def. György Gedó , TKO-2...

    ), after short illness. http://www.crtv.cm/cont/nouvelles/nouvelles_sola_fr.php?idField=6745&table=nouvelles&sub=societe
  • Ian Lawther, 70, Northern Irish
    Northern Ireland
    Northern Ireland is one of the four countries of the United Kingdom. Situated in the north-east of the island of Ireland, it shares a border with the Republic of Ireland to the south and west...

     footballer (Sunderland, Blackburn Rovers
    Blackburn Rovers F.C.
    Blackburn Rovers Football Club is an English professional association football club based in the town of Blackburn, Lancashire. The team currently competes in the Premier League, the top tier of English football....

    ). http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/sport/football/premiership/clubs-mourn-loss-of-striker-ian-lawther-14782514.html
  • Franklin Mieuli
    Franklin Mieuli
    Franklin Mieuli was a San Francisco Bay Area radio and television producer who was best known as the principal owner of the Golden State Warriors from 1962 to 1986. The pinnacle of his twenty-four years with the franchise was its National Basketball Association Championship in 1975...

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

     businessman, owner of the Golden State Warriors
    Golden State Warriors
    The Golden State Warriors are an American professional basketball team based in Oakland, California. They are part of the Pacific Division of the Western Conference in the National Basketball Association...

     (1962–1985), natural causes
    Death by natural causes
    A death by natural causes, as recorded by coroners and on death certificates and associated documents, is one that is primarily attributed to natural agents: usually an illness or an internal malfunction of the body. For example, a person dying from complications from influenza or a heart attack ...

    . http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/04/25/MN9T1D4S4J.DTL&tsp=1
  • Dorothy Provine
    Dorothy Provine
    Dorothy Michelle Provine was an American singer, dancer, actress, and comedienne.-Career:Provine was born in Deadwood, South Dakota, to Virgil and Kathleen Provine. She attended the University of Washington, where she majored in drama. In Washington she handed out prizes for a local television...

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

     actress, (It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
    It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
    It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World is a 1963 American comedy film produced and directed by Stanley Kramer about the madcap pursuit of $350,000 in stolen cash by a diverse and colorful group of strangers...

    ), emphysema
    Emphysema
    Emphysema is a long-term, progressive disease of the lungs that primarily causes shortness of breath. In people with emphysema, the tissues necessary to support the physical shape and function of the lungs are destroyed. It is included in a group of diseases called chronic obstructive pulmonary...

    . http://www.kitsapsun.com/news/2010/apr/27/reclusive-actress-bainbridge-resident-dorothy/
  • Susan Reed
    Susan Reed (singer)
    Susan Reed was a singer, harpist and zitherist. A regular on the New York folk scene, Life magazine dubbed her "the pet of Manhattan nightclubbers" in 1945.-Filmography:...

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

     folk singer
    Folk Singer
    Folk Singer is a 1964 album by Muddy Waters. Waters plays acoustic guitar, backed by Willie Dixon on string bass, Clifton James on drums, and Buddy Guy on acoustic guitar...

     and actress, natural causes. http://www.today.msnbc.msn.com/id/36864071/ns/today-entertainment/
  • Kevin Restani
    Kevin Restani
    Kevin Gilbert "Big Bird" Restani was an American professional basketball player from San Francisco, California....

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

     basketball
    Basketball
    Basketball is a team sport in which two teams of five players try to score points by throwing or "shooting" a ball through the top of a basketball hoop while following a set of rules...

     player (Milwaukee Bucks
    Milwaukee Bucks
    The Milwaukee Bucks are a professional basketball team based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States. They are part of the Central Division of the Eastern Conference in the National Basketball Association . The team was founded in 1968 as an expansion team, and currently plays at the Bradley Center....

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

    . http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/04/26/SPKO1D57SS.DTL
  • Volf Roitman
    Volf Roitman
    Volf Roitman was a painter, sculptor and architect, sometimes referred to as a Renaissance Man, the son of Russian/Romanian parents....

    , 79, Uruguay
    Uruguay
    Uruguay ,officially the Oriental Republic of Uruguay,sometimes the Eastern Republic of Uruguay; ) is a country in the southeastern part of South America. It is home to some 3.5 million people, of whom 1.8 million live in the capital Montevideo and its metropolitan area...

    an-born American
    United States
    The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

     sculptor, painter, novelist, cineaste and poet. http://www.tampabay.com/news/obituaries/artist-volf-roitman-was-quiet-intense-man-of-diverse-interests/1091975
  • Alan Sillitoe
    Alan Sillitoe
    Alan Sillitoe was an English writer and one of the "Angry Young Men" of the 1950s.. He disliked the label, as did most of the other writers to whom it was applied.- Biography :...

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

     writer
    Writer
    A writer is a person who produces literature, such as novels, short stories, plays, screenplays, poetry, or other literary art. Skilled writers are able to use language to portray ideas and images....

     (Saturday Night and Sunday Morning
    Saturday Night and Sunday Morning
    Saturday Night and Sunday Morning is the first novel by British author Alan Sillitoe and won the Author's Club First Novel Award.It was adapted by Sillitoe into a 1960 film starring Albert Finney, directed by Karel Reisz, and in 1964 was adapted by David Brett as a play for the Nottingham...

    ). http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8642720.stm
  • Jeremaia Waqanisau
    Jeremaia Waqanisau
    Brigadier-General Jeremaia Waqanisau OF, MSD, JP, was a Fijian career soldier, civil servant, and diplomat, who had served since April 2004 as his country's Ambassador to China.-Education and early career:...

    , 62, Fiji
    Fiji
    Fiji , officially the Republic of Fiji , is an island nation in Melanesia in the South Pacific Ocean about northeast of New Zealand's North Island...

    an soldier
    Soldier
    A soldier is a member of the land component of national armed forces; whereas a soldier hired for service in a foreign army would be termed a mercenary...

     and diplomat
    Diplomat
    A diplomat is a person appointed by a state to conduct diplomacy with another state or international organization. The main functions of diplomats revolve around the representation and protection of the interests and nationals of the sending state, as well as the promotion of information and...

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

    . http://www.fijitimes.com/story.aspx?id=145341

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  • Harry Conroy
    Harry Conroy
    Harry Conroy was a trade union leader and journalist. He was the leader of the National Union of Journalists from 1985 to 1990....

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

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

     and trade unionist. http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=1&storycode=45352&c=1
  • Denis Guedj
    Denis Guedj
    Denis Guedj was a French novelist and a professor of the History of Science at Paris VIII University. He was born in Setif. He spent many years devising courses and games to teach adults and children math...

    , 70, 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...

     novelist and academic. http://sciencepourvousetmoi.blogs.nouvelobs.com/archive/2010/04/26/denis-guedj-un-homme-libre.html (French)
  • Pierre Hadot
    Pierre Hadot
    Pierre Hadot was a French philosopher and historian of philosophy specializing in ancient philosophy, particularly Neoplatonism. Hadot was ordained in 1944 but following Pope Pius XII's Encyclical "Humani Generis" left the priesthood...

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

     philosopher. http://www.lemonde.fr/carnet/article/2010/04/27/pierre-hadot_1343322_3382.html (French)
  • Bo Hansson
    Bo Hansson
    Bo Hansson was a Swedish musician best known for his four instrumental albums released in the 1970s.-Early life and musical career:...

    , 67, Swedish
    Sweden
    Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....

     keyboardist
    Keyboardist
    A 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...

    . http://svt.se/2.27170/1.1979414/organisten_bo_hansson_avliden (Swedish)
  • Leo Löwenstein
    Leo Löwenstein
    Carl Friedrich, Hereditary Prince of Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rosenberg, better known by his racing alias Leonhard "Leo" Löwenstein was a German prince and endurance race driver participating in the VLN.-Career:...

    , 43, 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...

     racing driver
    VLN
    The VLN, properly the Veranstaltergemeinschaft Langstreckenpokal Nürburgring is an organisation of motorsport clubs of which each hosts one event of a ten-race series held on the Nürburgring Nordschleife, the "VLN Langstreckenmeisterschaft Nürburgring"...

    , race accident
    Car accident
    A traffic collision, also known as a traffic accident, motor vehicle collision, motor vehicle accident, car accident, automobile accident, Road Traffic Collision or car crash, occurs when a vehicle collides with another vehicle, pedestrian, animal, road debris, or other stationary obstruction,...

    . http://www.motorsport-total.com/mehr/news/2010/04/Toedlicher_Unfall_auf_der_Nordschleife_10042409.html (German)
  • Angus Maddison
    Angus Maddison
    Angus Maddison was a British economist and a world scholar on quantitative macroeconomic history, including the measurement and analysis of economic growth and development...

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

     economist
    Economist
    An economist is a professional in the social science discipline of economics. The individual may also study, develop, and apply theories and concepts from economics and write about economic policy...

    . http://www.ggdc.net/maddison/
  • Giuseppe Panza
    Giuseppe Panza
    Giuseppe Panza was one of the world's most prominent collectors of modern art.. He lived in Milan and Varese, Italy.-Life and work:...

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

     art collector. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/02/arts/design/02panza.html?ref=obituaries
  • Elizabeth Post
    Elizabeth Post
    Elizabeth L. Post , was an etiquette writer and the granddaughter-in-law of the etiquette writer Emily Post....

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

     etiquette
    Etiquette
    Etiquette is a code of behavior that delineates expectations for social behavior according to contemporary conventional norms within a society, social class, or group...

     expert. http://www.burlingtonfreepress.com/article/20100426/NEWS02/4260313/Etiquette-expert-Elizabeth-Post-dies-at-89
  • Paul Schäfer
    Paul Schäfer
    Paul Schäfer Schneider was the founder and former leader of a sect and agricultural commune of German immigrants called Colonia Dignidad —later renamed Villa Baviera—located in the south of Chile, about 340 km south of Santiago...

    , 88, 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...

     religious sect
    Sect
    A sect is a group with distinctive religious, political or philosophical beliefs. Although in past it was mostly used to refer to religious groups, it has since expanded and in modern culture can refer to any organization that breaks away from a larger one to follow a different set of rules and...

     founder and former Nazi, heart failure. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8641882.stm
  • Wojciech Siemion
    Wojciech Siemion
    Wojciech Juliusz Siemion was a Polish stage and film actor.He studied law at the Maria Curie-Skłodowska University in Lublin from 1947 to 1950. After graduating from the Theatre Academy in Warsaw in 1951 he began acting in several theatres and cabarets...

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

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

     and film director
    Film director
    A film director is a person who directs the actors and film crew in filmmaking. They control a film's artistic and dramatic nathan roach, while guiding the technical crew and actors.-Responsibilities:...

     (The Promised Land
    The Promised Land
    The Promised Land is a 1975 Polish film directed by Andrzej Wajda, based on a novel by Władysław Reymont. Set in the industrial city of Łódź, The Promised Land tells the story of a Pole, a German, and a Jew struggling to build a factory in the raw world of 19th century capitalism.Wajda presents a...

    , Heroism
    Heroism (film)
    Heroism is a 1958 film by Andrzej Munk. It is composed of two separate film novels, each featuring the Polish concept of heroism and a role of a hero.Eroica won the FIPRESCI Award at the 1959 Mar del Plata Film Festival....

    ), car accident
    Car accident
    A traffic collision, also known as a traffic accident, motor vehicle collision, motor vehicle accident, car accident, automobile accident, Road Traffic Collision or car crash, occurs when a vehicle collides with another vehicle, pedestrian, animal, road debris, or other stationary obstruction,...

    . http://www.filmweb.pl/Aktor+Wojciech+Siemion+nie+%C5%BCyje,News,id=59998 (Polish)
  • W. Willard Wirtz
    W. Willard Wirtz
    William Willard Wirtz was a former U.S. administrator, cabinet officer, attorney, and law professor. He served as the Secretary of Labor between 1962 and 1969 under the administrations of Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson. At the time of his death, he was the last living member of...

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

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

    , Secretary of Labor (1962–1969), last surviving member of the Kennedy Cabinet. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/04/24/AR2010042402358.html

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  • Jan Balabán
    Jan Balabán
    Jan Balabán was a Czech writer, journalist, and translator. He was considered an existentialist whose works often dealt with the wretched and desperate aspects of the human condition.-Partial biography:...

    , 49, Czech
    Czech Republic
    The Czech Republic is a landlocked country in Central Europe. The country is bordered by Poland to the northeast, Slovakia to the east, Austria to the south, and Germany to the west and northwest....

     writer
    Writer
    A writer is a person who produces literature, such as novels, short stories, plays, screenplays, poetry, or other literary art. Skilled writers are able to use language to portray ideas and images....

    , recipient of the Magnesia Litera
    Magnesia Litera
    Magnesia Litera is an annual book award held in the Czech Republic since 2002. The prize covers all literary genres in eight genre categories: prose, poetry, children’s book , non-fiction, essay/journalism , translation, publishing achievement, book debut, and the main prize – one of the genre...

     award. http://www.tyden.cz/rubriky/kultura/literatura/spisovatel-jan-balaban-zemrel-bylo-mu-49-let_166539.html (Czech)
  • Shay Duffin
    Shay Duffin
    Shay Duffin was an Irish-born American character actor of the stage and screen. Was in the 1993 film Leprechaun. He also had a role in the 1997 film Titanic....

    , 79, Irish
    Republic of Ireland
    Ireland , described as the Republic of Ireland , is a sovereign state in Europe occupying approximately five-sixths of the island of the same name. Its capital is Dublin. Ireland, which had a population of 4.58 million in 2011, is a constitutional republic governed as a parliamentary democracy,...

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

     character actor
    Character actor
    A character actor is one who predominantly plays unusual or eccentric characters. The Oxford English Dictionary defines a character actor as "an actor who specializes in character parts", defining character part in turn as "an acting role displaying pronounced or unusual characteristics or...

    , complications from heart surgery
    Cardiac surgery
    Cardiovascular surgery is surgery on the heart or great vessels performed by cardiac surgeons. Frequently, it is done to treat complications of ischemic heart disease , correct congenital heart disease, or treat valvular heart disease from various causes including endocarditis, rheumatic heart...

    . http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/content_display/news/e3i72c63ee9c311def0e4b258065ed44114
  • Natalia Lavrova
    Natalia Lavrova
    Natalia Lavrova was a dual Olympic gold medalist. Lavrova won a gold medal in the rhythmic gymnastics group event at the 2000 and 2004 Summer Olympics.She was born in Penza, Soviet Union...

    , 25, Russia
    Russia
    Russia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...

    n rhythmic gymnast
    Rhythmic gymnastics
    Rhythmic gymnastics is a sport in which individuals or teams of competitors manipulate one or two pieces of apparatus: rope, clubs, hoop, ball, ribbon and Free . An individual athlete only manipulates 1 apparatus at a time...

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

     gold medalist (2000, 2004), car accident
    Car accident
    A traffic collision, also known as a traffic accident, motor vehicle collision, motor vehicle accident, car accident, automobile accident, Road Traffic Collision or car crash, occurs when a vehicle collides with another vehicle, pedestrian, animal, road debris, or other stationary obstruction,...

    . http://in.reuters.com/article/idINIndia-47955620100423
  • Georgia Lee
    Georgia Lee (singer)
    Georgia Lee was a jazz and blues singer from Cairns, Queensland, Australia.Born as Dulcie Rama Pitt, her father was of Jamaican descent and her mother was Indian, Australian Aboriginal, Islander and Scottish. With her sisters Sophie and Heather Pitt, she formed the Harmony Sisters and performed as...

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

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

     and blues
    Blues
    Blues is the name given to both a musical form and a music genre that originated in African-American communities of primarily the "Deep South" of the United States at the end of the 19th century from spirituals, work songs, field hollers, shouts and chants, and rhymed simple narrative ballads...

     singer. http://www.theage.com.au/national/jazz-singer-georgia-lee-dies-20100426-tnce.html
  • Edward Lyons
    Edward Lyons
    Edward Lyons, QC was a British politician.Lyons was educated at Roundhay High School and Leeds University. Following World War II, he worked as a Russian interpreter in Germany attached to the Control commission...

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

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

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

     for Bradford East
    Bradford East (UK Parliament constituency)
    Bradford East is the name of a parliamentary constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. The constituency originally existed from 1885 to 1974 and was recreated for the 2010 general election, electing one Member of Parliament by the first past the post...

     (1966–1974) and Bradford West
    Bradford West (UK Parliament constituency)
    Bradford West is a borough constituency in England which is represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It elects one Member of Parliament by the first past the post system of election....

     (1974–1983). http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/exmp-edward-lyons-dies-1954789.html
  • Peter Porter
    Peter Porter (poet)
    Peter Neville Frederick Porter, OAM was a British-based Australian poet.-Life:Porter was born in Brisbane, Australia, in 1929. His mother, Marion, died of a burst gall-bladder in 1938. He attended the Church of England Grammar School and left school at 18, and went to work as a trainee journalist...

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

    n-born 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...

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

    , liver cancer
    Liver cancer
    Liver tumors or hepatic tumors are tumors or growths on or in the liver . Several distinct types of tumors can develop in the liver because the liver is made up of various cell types. These growths can be benign or malignant...

    . http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/apr/23/poet-peter-porter-dies
  • Alan Rich
    Alan Rich
    Alan Rich was an American music critic who served on the staff of many newspapers and magazines on both coasts. Originally from Brookline, Massachusetts, he first studied medicine at Harvard University before turning to music...

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

     classical
    Classical music
    Classical music is the art music produced in, or rooted in, the traditions of Western liturgical and secular music, encompassing a broad period from roughly the 11th century to present times...

     music critic, natural causes
    Death by natural causes
    A death by natural causes, as recorded by coroners and on death certificates and associated documents, is one that is primarily attributed to natural agents: usually an illness or an internal malfunction of the body. For example, a person dying from complications from influenza or a heart attack ...

    . http://blogs.laweekly.com/ladaily/city-news/critic-alan-rich-dies/
  • Alexander Sliussarev
    Alexander Sliussarev
    Alexander Alexanderovitch Sliussarev was a Russian photographer and translator from Italian.- Biography :...

    , 65, Russia
    Russia
    Russia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...

    n photographer and translator. http://www.homepage.ru/events/246367-a-a-slyusarev-seminar-otpechatok-i-virtualnoe-izobrazhenie (Russian)
  • Sreenath
    Sreenath
    Sreenath was a popular Malayalam film and television actor. He acted in many hit films, including Shalini Ente Koottukari, Ithu Njangalude Katha, Oru CBI Diary Kurippu, and Kireedam....

    , 52, 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...

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

    . http://movies.indiatimes.com/news-gossip/regional-/malayalam/Malayalam-actor-Sreenath-found-dead-in-hotel-room/articleshow/5847901.cms
  • George Townshend, 7th Marquess Townshend
    George Townshend, 7th Marquess Townshend
    George John Patrick Dominic Townshend, 7th Marquess Townshend, DL known as Viscount Raynham until 1921, was a British peer and businessman....

    , 93, 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...

     peer
    Peerage of the United Kingdom
    The Peerage of the United Kingdom comprises most peerages created in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland after the Act of Union in 1801, when it replaced the Peerage of Great Britain...

     and businessman. http://www.edp24.co.uk/content/edp24/news/story.aspx?brand=EDPOnline&category=News&tBrand=EDPOnline&tCategory=xDefault&itemid=NOED26%20Apr%202010%2020%3A40%3A19%3A603

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  • Richard Barrett, 67, American
    United States
    The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

     lawyer
    Lawyer
    A lawyer, according to Black's Law Dictionary, is "a person learned in the law; as an attorney, counsel or solicitor; a person who is practicing law." Law is the system of rules of conduct established by the sovereign government of a society to correct wrongs, maintain the stability of political...

     and white nationalist
    White nationalism
    White nationalism is a political ideology which advocates a racial definition of national identity for white people. White separatism and white supremacism are subgroups within white nationalism. The former seek a separate white nation state, while the latter add ideas from social Darwinism and...

    , stabbed
    Stabbing
    A stabbing is penetration with a sharp or pointed object at close range. Stab connotes purposeful action, as by an assassin or murderer, but it is also possible to accidentally stab oneself or others.Stabbing differs from slashing or cutting in that the motion of the object used in a stabbing...

    . http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2010-04-22-white-supremacist-richard-barrett_N.htm
  • Pete Castiglione
    Pete Castiglione
    Peter Paul "Pete" Castiglione was an infielder in Major League Baseball player for eight seasons from 1947 to 1954...

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

     baseball
    Baseball
    Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each. The aim is to score runs by hitting a thrown ball with a bat and touching a series of four bases arranged at the corners of a ninety-foot diamond...

     player (Pittsburgh Pirates
    Pittsburgh Pirates
    The Pittsburgh Pirates are a Major League Baseball club based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. They play in the Central Division of the National League, and are five-time World Series Champions...

    ). http://sports.outsidethebeltway.com/2010/05/former-pittsburgh-pirate-if-pete-castiglione-dead-at-89/
  • Peter B. Denyer
    Peter B. Denyer
    Peter B. Denyer was a British engineer, scientist, and inventor.From an EE professorship at the University of Edinburgh, he went on to found VLSI Vision Inc.,...

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

     engineer
    Engineer
    An engineer is a professional practitioner of engineering, concerned with applying scientific knowledge, mathematics and ingenuity to develop solutions for technical problems. Engineers design materials, structures, machines and systems while considering the limitations imposed by practicality,...

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

    . http://news.scotsman.com/obituaries/Obituary-Professor-Peter-Denyer.6264093.jp
  • Dick Kenworthy
    Dick Kenworthy
    Richard Lee Kenworthy was a third baseman in Major League Baseball who played for the Chicago White Sox . Listed at 5' 9", 170 lb., Kenworthy batted and threw right-handed. He was born in Red Oak, Iowa, United States.Kenworthy was signed by the White Sox in 1961 out of the University of...

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

     baseball
    Baseball
    Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each. The aim is to score runs by hitting a thrown ball with a bat and touching a series of four bases arranged at the corners of a ninety-foot diamond...

     player. http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/k/kenwodi01.shtml
  • Gene Lees
    Gene Lees
    Frederick Eugene John "Gene" Lees was a Canadian music critic, biographer, lyricist, and former journalist. Lees worked as a newspaper journalist in his native Canada before moving to the United States where he was a music critic and lyricist...

    , 82, Canadian
    Canada
    Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

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

     historian
    Historian
    A historian is a person who studies and writes about the past and is regarded as an authority on it. Historians are concerned with the continuous, methodical narrative and research of past events as relating to the human race; as well as the study of all history in time. If the individual is...

     and critic
    Critic
    A critic is anyone who expresses a value judgement. Informally, criticism is a common aspect of all human expression and need not necessarily imply skilled or accurate expressions of judgement. Critical judgements, good or bad, may be positive , negative , or balanced...

    , 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://articles.latimes.com/2010/apr/24/local/la-me-gene-lees-20100424
  • Lina Marulanda
    Lina Marulanda
    Lina Marulanda was a Colombian television personality and model.-Early life:Marulanda was born Lina María Marulanda Cuartas in Medellín, Colombia. She began her modeling career at age 12...

    , 29, Colombia
    Colombia
    Colombia, officially the Republic of Colombia , is a unitary constitutional republic comprising thirty-two departments. The country is located in northwestern South America, bordered to the east by Venezuela and Brazil; to the south by Ecuador and Peru; to the north by the Caribbean Sea; to the...

    n model
    Model (person)
    A model , sometimes called a mannequin, is a person who is employed to display, advertise and promote commercial products or to serve as a subject of works of art....

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

     by jumping. http://jam.canoe.ca/Television/2010/04/22/13683921-zap.html
  • Victor Nurenberg
    Victor Nurenberg
    Victor Nurenberg was a footballer from Luxembourg. Nurenberg played in France for 13 seasons, representing four different clubs...

    , 79, Luxembourg
    Luxembourg
    Luxembourg , officially the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg , is a landlocked country in western Europe, bordered by Belgium, France, and Germany. It has two principal regions: the Oesling in the North as part of the Ardennes massif, and the Gutland in the south...

    ian footballer. http://www.wort.lu/wort/web/sport/artikel/86385/vic-nurenberg-ist-tot.php (German)
  • Ambrose Olsen
    Ambrose Olsen
    Ambrose Olsen was an American male fashion model known for starring in dozens of ad campaigns for Armani and Hugo Boss.-Early:...

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

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

    . http://www.nymag.com/daily/fashion/2010/04/model_ambrose_olsen_died_kira.html
  • Fred Panopio
    Fred Panopio
    Fred Panopio was a Filipino singer and actor who rose to fame in the 1970s.He is known for having made the yodeling style of music famous in the Philippines. This particular kind of music is evident is many of his hits, such as "Pitong Gatang," "Markado," and "Tatlong Baraha"...

    , 71, Filipino
    Philippines
    The Philippines , officially known as the Republic of the Philippines , is a country in Southeast Asia in the western Pacific Ocean. To its north across the Luzon Strait lies Taiwan. West across the South China Sea sits Vietnam...

     folk singer
    Folk Singer
    Folk Singer is a 1964 album by Muddy Waters. Waters plays acoustic guitar, backed by Willie Dixon on string bass, Clifton James on drums, and Buddy Guy on acoustic guitar...

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

    . http://www.gmanews.tv/story/189173/filipino-folk-singer-fred-panopio-dies-at-71
  • Alicia Parlette
    Alicia Parlette
    Alicia Rose Parlette was a journalist and copy editor who was diagnosed with alveolar soft part sarcoma in 2005 while employed by the San Francisco Chronicle newspaper....

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

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

     and copy editor, alveolar soft part sarcoma
    Alveolar soft part sarcoma
    Alveolar soft part sarcoma, abbreviated ASPS, is a very rare type of soft tissue sarcoma, that grows slowly and whose cell of origin is unknown.It arises mainly in children and young adults...

    . http://www.seattlepi.com/national/418882_parlette22.html
  • Piet Steenbergen
    Piet Steenbergen
    Piet Steenbergen was a Dutch football midfielder who was active as a midfielder. Steenbergen made his debut at Feijenoord and also played for Le Havre AC. At Feijenoord he played a total of 229 matches in which he scored 25 times, divided over eleven seasons. He was born and died in...

    , 81, 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...

     footballer (Feyenoord and The Netherlands
    Netherlands national football team
    The Netherlands National Football Team represents the Netherlands in association football and is controlled by the Royal Dutch Football Association , the governing body for football in the Netherlands...

    ). http://www.feyenoord.nl/pages/newsdetail/s1/10010000036374-999-10010000000003.aspx (Dutch)
  • Jean Vergnes
    Jean Vergnes
    Jean Vergnes was a prominent chef, a co-founder of the famed eatery Le Cirque in the borough of Manhattan in New York City, and an influence on American restaurant culture for more than four decades....

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

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

     chef
    Chef
    A chef is a person who cooks professionally for other people. Although over time the term has come to describe any person who cooks for a living, traditionally it refers to a highly skilled professional who is proficient in all aspects of food preparation.-Etymology:The word "chef" is borrowed ...

    . http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/23/nyregion/23vergnes.html
  • Ann Vervoort, 33, Belgian
    Belgium
    Belgium , officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a federal state in Western Europe. It is a founding member of the European Union and hosts the EU's headquarters, and those of several other major international organisations such as NATO.Belgium is also a member of, or affiliated to, many...

     singer (Milk Inc.
    Milk Inc.
    Milk Inc. is a Euro House band that formed in the commercial house-scene in Belgium in 1996. The Discography of the band includes a total of six studio albums and thirty-four singles In 2006, to celebrate their 10th anniversary, Milk Inc...

    ). http://www.hln.be/hln/nl/946/Muziek/article/detail/1097209/2010/04/24/Voormalige-zangeres-van-Milk-Inc-33-overleden.dhtml (Dutch)
  • Arthur Winograd
    Arthur Winograd
    Arthur Winograd was the music director of the Hartford Symphony Orchestra and the founding cellist of the Juilliard String Quartet....

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

     cellist and music director
    Music director
    A music director may be the director of an orchestra, the director of music for a film, the director of music at a radio station, the head of the music department in a school, the co-ordinator of the musical ensembles in a university or college , the head bandmaster of a military band, the head...

    , complication
    Complication (medicine)
    Complication, in medicine, is an unfavorable evolution of a disease, a health condition or a medical treatment. The disease can become worse in its severity or show a higher number of signs, symptoms or new pathological changes, become widespread throughout the body or affect other organ systems. A...

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

    . http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/28/arts/music/28winograd.html

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  • Sammy Baird
    Sammy Baird
    Stuart Samuel "Sammy" Baird was a Scottish football player and manager.-Career:During his playing career he played for Clyde, Preston North End, Rangers, Hibernian, Third Lanark and Stirling Albion...

    , 79, Scottish
    Scotland
    Scotland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Occupying the northern third of the island of Great Britain, it shares a border with England to the south and is bounded by the North Sea to the east, the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, and the North Channel and Irish Sea to the...

     football player and manager
    Manager (association football)
    In association football, a manager is responsible for running a football club or a national team. The manager of a professional club is responsible directly to the club president. The position of manager is almost exclusively used in British football...

    . http://www.rangers.co.uk/articles/20100421/rangers-saddened-by-baird-loss_2254024_2031244
  • Whitney Robson Harris
    Whitney Robson Harris
    Whitney Robson Harris was an American attorney, and the last surviving prosecutor from the Nuremberg Trials. He died at his home from cancer.-External links:*...

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

     lawyer
    Lawyer
    A lawyer, according to Black's Law Dictionary, is "a person learned in the law; as an attorney, counsel or solicitor; a person who is practicing law." Law is the system of rules of conduct established by the sovereign government of a society to correct wrongs, maintain the stability of political...

    , last surviving American prosecutor
    Prosecutor
    The prosecutor is the chief legal representative of the prosecution in countries with either the common law adversarial system, or the civil law inquisitorial system...

     at the Nuremberg Trials
    Nuremberg Trials
    The Nuremberg Trials were a series of military tribunals, held by the victorious Allied forces of World War II, most notable for the prosecution of prominent members of the political, military, and economic leadership of the defeated Nazi Germany....

    , complication
    Complication (medicine)
    Complication, in medicine, is an unfavorable evolution of a disease, a health condition or a medical treatment. The disease can become worse in its severity or show a higher number of signs, symptoms or new pathological changes, become widespread throughout the body or affect other organ systems. A...

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

    . http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE63L5X320100422?feedType=RSS&feedName=topNews
  • Tony Ingham
    Tony Ingham
    Anthony "Tony" Ingham was an English professional footballer who played more than 500 games in the Football League as a defender for Leeds United and Queens Park Rangers...

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

     footballer, after short illness. http://www.qpr.co.uk/page/NewsDetail/0,,10373~2032103,00.html
  • Manfred Kallenbach
    Manfred Kallenbach
    Manfred Kallenbach was a German goalkeeper and East German Champion. He played for SG Dynamo Dresden and BSG Stahl Riesa.- Literature :...

    , 68, 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...

     footballer, heart failure. http://www.dynamo-dresden.de/aktuell/news-ansicht/archiv/2010/april/artikel/sg-dynamo-dresden-trauert-um-manfred-kallenbach/ (German)
  • Gustav Lorentzen
    Gustav Lorentzen
    Gustav Lorentzen , also known by his stage name Ludvigsen, was a Norwegian singer-songwriter, best known from being half of the successful duo Knutsen & Ludvigsen, alongside Øystein "Knutsen" Dolmen...

    , 62, Norwegian
    Norway
    Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...

     singer and entertainer (Knutsen & Ludvigsen
    Knutsen & Ludvigsen
    Knutsen & Ludvigsen was a Norwegian singing duo consisting of Øystein Dolmen and Gustav Lorentzen .Writing and performing various songs mostly aimed at children, they released seven albums, two of which received Spellemannprisen - the Norwegian Grammy. They had several #1 hits, including "Grevling...

    ). http://www.dagbladet.no/2010/04/21/nyheter/gustav_lorentzen/dodsfall/11392322/ (Norwegian)
  • Sir Laurence Muir
    Laurence Muir
    Sir Laurence Macdonald Muir, VRD, FSIA, FAIM was an Australian philanthropist and businessman.- Early life :Laurence Muir was born in Victoria and educated at Scotch College , and the University of Melbourne...

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

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

     and businessman. http://www.bakeridi.edu.au/Page.aspx?ID=553
  • Deborah Remington
    Deborah Remington
    Deborah Remington was an American painter. She lived and worked in New York City and Pennsylvania. Remington was a veteran of more than 30 solo exhibitions and hundreds of group exhibitions including 3 Whitney Museum of American Art annuals...

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

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

    . http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/18/obituaries/18remington.html
  • Juan Antonio Samaranch
    Juan Antonio Samaranch
    Don Juan Antonio Samaranch y Torelló, 1st Marquis of Samaranch, Grandee of Spain , known in Catalan as Joan Antoni Samaranch i Torelló , was a Catalan Spanish sports administrator who served as the seventh President of the International Olympic Committee from 1980 to 2001...

    , 89, 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...

     Olympic official, President
    President
    A president is a leader of an organization, company, trade union, university, or country.Etymologically, a president is one who presides, who sits in leadership...

     of the International Olympic Committee
    International Olympic Committee
    The International Olympic Committee is an international corporation based in Lausanne, Switzerland, created by Pierre de Coubertin on 23 June 1894 with Demetrios Vikelas as its first president...

     (1980–2001), heart failure. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/22/sports/22samaranch.html

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  • Floyd Dominy
    Floyd Dominy
    Floyd E. Dominy was the Nebraska-born Bureau of Reclamation Commissioner from May 1, 1959 to December 1, 1969. Dominy joined the Bureau in 1946. He was the Assistant Commissioner from 1957 to 1958.- References :*...

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

     public servant, commissioner of the Bureau of Reclamation
    United States Bureau of Reclamation
    The United States Bureau of Reclamation , and formerly the United States Reclamation Service , is an agency under the U.S...

     (1959–1969). http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/washingtonpost/obituary.aspx?n=floyd-dominy&pid=142123170
  • Sanford Friedman
    Sanford Friedman
    Sanford Friedman was an American novelist.Friedman's Totempole features an army love affair between its protagonist and a North Korean doctor war prisoner...

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

     novel
    Novel
    A novel is a book of long narrative in literary prose. The genre has historical roots both in the fields of the medieval and early modern romance and in the tradition of the novella. The latter supplied the present generic term in the late 18th century....

    ist. http://blogs.forward.com/the-arty-semite/127712/
  • Heinz Gappmayr
    Heinz Gappmayr
    Heinz Gappmayr was an Austrian artist who created works of visual poetry.-Publications:* auswahl. Mit einem Nachwort von Markus Klammer. Folio Verlag, Wien, Bozen 2009. ISBN 978-3-85256-488-3....

    , 84, Austria
    Austria
    Austria , officially the Republic of Austria , is a landlocked country of roughly 8.4 million people in Central Europe. It is bordered by the Czech Republic and Germany to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the...

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

    . http://oe1.orf.at/artikel/243022 (German)
  • Dorothy Height
    Dorothy Height
    Dorothy Irene Height was an American administrator, educator, and social activist. She was the president of the National Council of Negro Women for forty years, and was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1994, and the Congressional Gold Medal in 2004.-Early life:Height was born in...

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

     civil rights
    Civil rights
    Civil and political rights are a class of rights that protect individuals' freedom from unwarranted infringement by governments and private organizations, and ensure one's ability to participate in the civil and political life of the state without discrimination or repression.Civil rights include...

     activist
    Activism
    Activism consists of intentional efforts to bring about social, political, economic, or environmental change. Activism can take a wide range of forms from writing letters to newspapers or politicians, political campaigning, economic activism such as boycotts or preferentially patronizing...

    . http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/21/us/21height.html
  • Mr. Hito, 67, 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 professional wrestler, diabetes
    Diabetes mellitus
    Diabetes mellitus, often simply referred to as diabetes, is a group of metabolic diseases in which a person has high blood sugar, either because the body does not produce enough insulin, or because cells do not respond to the insulin that is produced...

    . http://osaka.puroresufan.com/?p=6315
  • M. K. Kamalam
    M. K. Kamalam
    M. K. Kamalam was an Indian actress in Malayalam cinema. She was the heroine in the first Malayalam talkie film, Balan .-Personal life:...

    , 86, 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 actress. http://movies.ndtv.com/movie_story.aspx?Section=Movies&ID=ENTEN20100138965&subcatg=MOVIESINDIA&keyword=regional
  • Keli McGregor
    Keli McGregor
    Keli McGregor was a professional football player in the NFL and was president of the Colorado Rockies from 2001 until his death.-School sport:...

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

     baseball
    Baseball
    Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each. The aim is to score runs by hitting a thrown ball with a bat and touching a series of four bases arranged at the corners of a ninety-foot diamond...

     executive (Colorado Rockies
    Colorado Rockies
    The Colorado Rockies are a Major League Baseball team based in Denver, Colorado. Established in 1991, they started play in 1993 and are in the West Division of the National League. The team is named after the Rocky Mountains...

    ), viral myocarditis. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/21/sports/21bats.html
  • Walter F. Murphy
    Walter F. Murphy
    Walter Francis Murphy, Jr. was a 20th century American political scientist and writer.-Biography:Born in Charleston, South Carolina, he won a Distinguished Service Cross for his service as a Marine in Korea, eventually retiring with the rank of colonel. He held the chair of McCormick Professor of...

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

     political scientist and author
    Author
    An author is broadly defined as "the person who originates or gives existence to anything" and that authorship determines responsibility for what is created. Narrowly defined, an author is the originator of any written work.-Legal significance:...

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

    . http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/02/us/02murphy.html?ref=obituaries
  • Robert Natkin
    Robert Natkin
    Robert Natkin was an American born abstract painter whose work is associated with Abstract expressionism, Color field painting, and Lyrical Abstraction....

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

     abstract painter
    Abstract art
    Abstract art uses a visual language of form, color and line to create a composition which may exist with a degree of independence from visual references in the world. Western art had been, from the Renaissance up to the middle of the 19th century, underpinned by the logic of perspective and an...

    , bacterial blood infection. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/28/arts/28natkin.html
  • Georgino Orellana
    Georgino Orellana
    Jorge Alberto "Georgino" Orellana was a Honduran journalist, television producer and presenter for Televisión de Honduras, a private television station...

    , 48, Honduran
    Honduras
    Honduras 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...

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

    , shot
    Ballistic trauma
    The term ballistic trauma refers to a form of physical trauma sustained from the discharge of arms or munitions. The most common forms of ballistic trauma stem from firearms used in armed conflicts, civilian sporting and recreational pursuits, and criminal activity.-Destructive effects:The degree...

    . http://www.hondurasweekly.com/press-releases/TV-Journalist-Georgino-Orellano-Killed-in-San-Pedro-Sula.html
  • Ahmad Sa'd
    Ahmad Sa'd
    Dr. Ahmad Sa'd was an Israeli Arab journalist and politician who served as a member of the Knesset for Hadash between 1996 and 1999. He later served as editor of the Israeli-Arab newspaper Al-Ittihad.-Biography:...

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

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

    , Member of Knesset (1996–1999). http://www.knesset.gov.il/mk/eng/mk_eng.asp?mk_individual_id_t=95
  • George Torode
    George Torode
    George Torode was a Guernsey author, comedian and radio host. He was best known for his series of writings called the Donkey books. Mr Torode also co-hosted a radio program with Fred Hewlett on BBC Guernsey....

    , 63, Guernsey
    Guernsey
    Guernsey, officially the Bailiwick of Guernsey is a British Crown dependency in the English Channel off the coast of Normandy.The Bailiwick, as a governing entity, embraces not only all 10 parishes on the Island of Guernsey, but also the islands of Herm, Jethou, Burhou, and Lihou and their islet...

    an author
    Author
    An author is broadly defined as "the person who originates or gives existence to anything" and that authorship determines responsibility for what is created. Narrowly defined, an author is the originator of any written work.-Legal significance:...

    . http://www.thisisguernsey.com/2010/04/22/donkey-author-dies/
  • Andrea West
    Andrea West
    Andrea Gail West was an Australian Liberal Party politician who served as Member for Bowman in the Australian House of Representatives from 1996 until she was defeated at the 1998 general election....

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

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

    , member of the House of Representatives
    Australian House of Representatives
    The House of Representatives is one of the two houses of the Parliament of Australia; it is the lower house; the upper house is the Senate. Members of Parliament serve for terms of approximately three years....

     (1996–1998), breast cancer
    Breast cancer
    Breast 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.baysidebulletin.com.au/news/local/news/general/former-mp-remembered/1819025.aspx
  • Myles Wilder
    Myles Wilder
    Myles Wilder was a television comedy writer and producer.His father was director-producer W. Lee Wilder , and his uncle was Oscar-winning director Billy Wilder .-External links:...

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

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

     comedy writer, diverticulitis
    Diverticulitis
    Diverticulitis is a common digestive disease particularly found in the large intestine. Diverticulitis develops from diverticulosis, which involves the formation of pouches on the outside of the colon...

    . http://groups.google.com/group/alt.obituaries/browse_thread/thread/c96c2950f2b06b12
  • Lorette Wood
    Lorette Wood
    Lorette M. Wood was an American politician. Wood was the first woman to be elected to the city council of Santa Cruz, California, in 1967...

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

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

    , first female mayor of Santa Cruz, California
    Santa Cruz, California
    Santa Cruz is the county seat and largest city of Santa Cruz County, California in the US. As of the 2010 U.S. Census, Santa Cruz had a total population of 59,946...

     (1971–1972). http://www.santacruzsentinel.com/ci_14942901
  • Purvis Young
    Purvis Young
    Purvis Young was an American artist from the Overtown neighborhood of Miami, Florida. Young's work, often a blend of collage and painting, utilizes found objects and the experience of African Americans in the south...

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

     painter
    Painting
    Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a surface . The application of the medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush but other objects can be used. In art, the term painting describes both the act and the result of the action. However, painting is...

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

     and pulmonary edema
    Pulmonary edema
    Pulmonary edema , or oedema , is fluid accumulation in the air spaces and parenchyma of the lungs. It leads to impaired gas exchange and may cause respiratory failure...

    . http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/24/arts/24young.html

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  • José Bernal
    José Bernal
    José Bernal was a Cuban-American artist. He was born in Santa Clara, Cuba, in the former province of Las Villas and became a naturalized U.S.A. citizen in 1980....

    , 85, Cuba
    Cuba
    The Republic of Cuba is an island nation in the Caribbean. The nation of Cuba consists of the main island of Cuba, the Isla de la Juventud, and several archipelagos. Havana is the largest city in Cuba and the country's capital. Santiago de Cuba is the second largest city...

    n 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...

    , complications from Parkinson's disease
    Parkinson's disease
    Parkinson's disease is a degenerative disorder of the central nervous system...

    . http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2010-04-25/news/ct-met-0426-bernal-obit-20100425_1_latin-american-art-art-institute-artist-and-teacher
  • William Donald Borders
    William Donald Borders
    William Donald Borders was an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He was the 13th Archbishop of Baltimore from 1974 to 1989, having previously served as the first Bishop of Orlando from 1968 to 1974...

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

     Roman Catholic prelate
    Prelate
    A prelate is a high-ranking member of the clergy who is an ordinary or who ranks in precedence with ordinaries. The word derives from the Latin prælatus, the past participle of præferre, which means "carry before", "be set above or over" or "prefer"; hence, a prelate is one set over others.-Related...

    , Archbishop
    Archbishop
    An archbishop is a bishop of higher rank, but not of higher sacramental order above that of the three orders of deacon, priest , and bishop...

     of Baltimore
    Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Baltimore
    The Metropolitan Archdiocese of Baltimore is a particular church of the Roman Catholic Church in the United States. The archdiocese comprises the City of Baltimore as well as Allegany, Anne Arundel, Baltimore, Carroll, Frederick, Garrett, Harford, Howard, and Washington Counties in Maryland...

     (1974–1989). http://www.catholicreview.org/subpages/storyworldnew-new.aspx?action=7994
  • Guru
    Guru (rapper)
    Keith Edward Elam , better known by his stage name Guru, was an American emcee and member of the hip-hop duo Gang Starr, along with DJ Premier. He was born in Roxbury, Massachusetts...

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

     rapper (Gang Starr
    Gang Starr
    Gang Starr was an influential East Coast hip hop duo that consisted of the late MC Guru and DJ/producer DJ Premier. Their style combined elements of New York jazz and hip hop.-Background:...

    ), multiple myeloma
    Multiple myeloma
    Multiple 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.nytimes.com/2010/04/21/arts/music/21guru.html
  • Hamideh Kheirabadi
    Hamideh Kheirabadi
    Hamideh Kheirābādi was a celebrated Iranian film and theatre actress. She played in more than 200 feature films and in over 20 television series. Inside Iran, she is affectionately referred to as Nādereh and Mother of the Iranian Cinema...

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

    ian actress, 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.tehrantimes.com/index_View.asp?code=218004
  • Dylan Meier
    Dylan Meier
    Dylan Meier was a quarterback for the Kansas State Wildcats football team. He played in college from 2002 to 2006.From 2007 to 2009 he played in Europe for the German and Italian Football Leagues.-Early life:...

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

     college football
    College football
    College football refers to American football played by teams of student athletes fielded by American universities, colleges, and military academies, or Canadian football played by teams of student athletes fielded by Canadian universities...

     player, climbing
    Climbing
    Climbing 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...

     accident. http://www.thaindian.com/newsportal/sports/dylan-meier-dies-while-hiking-with-family_100350980.html
  • György Schwajda
    György Schwajda
    György Schwajda was a Hungarian dramatist and theater director. Schwajda wrote several dramas and was the theater director of the city theater in Kaposvar.He died after a long serious illness in Kaposvar, Hungary....

    , 67, Hungarian
    Hungary
    Hungary , officially the Republic of Hungary , is a landlocked country in Central Europe. It is situated in the Carpathian Basin and is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine and Romania to the east, Serbia and Croatia to the south, Slovenia to the southwest and Austria to the west. The...

     drama
    Drama
    Drama is the specific mode of fiction represented in performance. The term comes from a Greek word meaning "action" , which is derived from "to do","to act" . The enactment of drama in theatre, performed by actors on a stage before an audience, presupposes collaborative modes of production and a...

    tist and theatre director, after long illness. http://www.schwaebische.de/deutschland+welt/kultur/theaterwelt_artikel,-Ungarischer-Theatermacher-Schwajda-gestorben-_arid,4085543.html (German)
  • George H. Scithers
    George H. Scithers
    George H. Scithers was a science fiction fan, author, and Hugo Award winning editor.A long-time member of the World Science Fiction Society, he published a fanzine starting in the '50s, wrote short stories, and moved on to edit several prominent science fiction magazines, as well as a number of...

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

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

     editor, Hugo Award
    Hugo Award
    The Hugo Awards are given annually for the best science fiction or fantasy works and achievements of the previous year. The award is named after Hugo Gernsback, the founder of the pioneering science fiction magazine Amazing Stories, and was officially named the Science Fiction Achievement Awards...

     winner, heart attack. http://www.sfsite.com/news/2010/04/19/obituary-george-h-scithers/
  • Edwin Valero
    Edwin Valero
    Edwin Valero was a Venezuelan professional boxer. He was born in Bolero Alto, and raised in El Vigía ....

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

    n boxer
    Boxing
    Boxing, also called pugilism, is a combat sport in which two people fight each other using their fists. Boxing is supervised by a referee over a series of between one to three minute intervals called rounds...

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

     by hanging. http://sports.espn.go.com/sports/boxing/news/story?id=5112471
  • Carl Williams, 39, Australia
    Australia
    Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...

    n criminal, prison assault
    Assault
    In law, assault is a crime causing a victim to fear violence. The term is often confused with battery, which involves physical contact. The specific meaning of assault varies between countries, but can refer to an act that causes another to apprehend immediate and personal violence, or in the more...

    . http://www.smh.com.au/victoria/carl-williams-dies-in-prison-20100419-soab.html?autostart=1
  • Burkhard Ziese
    Burkhard Ziese
    Burkhard Ziese was a German football manager.- References :...

    , 66, 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...

     football manager. http://www.general-anzeiger-bonn.de/index.php?k=spor&itemid=10068&detailid=727841 (German)
  • Dick Zimmer
    Dick Zimmer (Ohio politician)
    Richard A. "Dick" Zimmer was an American politician of the Democratic Party.Zimmer served as a commissioner on Dayton, Ohio's City Commission from 1978 to 1985, and from 1987 to 1996. Upon urging from the community to run in a general election again, he served a third term from 2002 to 2006...

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

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

    , City Commissioner (Dayton, Ohio
    Dayton, Ohio
    Dayton is the 6th largest city in the U.S. state of Ohio and the county seat of Montgomery County, the fifth most populous county in the state. The population was 141,527 at the 2010 census. The Dayton Metropolitan Statistical Area had a population of 841,502 in the 2010 census...

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

    . http://www.legacy.com/Dayton/Obituaries.asp?Page=LifeStory&PersonId=142051977

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  • Michael Adams
    Michael Adams (stunt performer)
    Michael Adams was an actor, stunt performer and stunt coordinator.-External links:*...

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

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

     and stunt coordinator
    Stunt coordinator
    A stunt coordinator, usually an experienced stunt performer, is hired by a TV, film or theatre director or production company to arrange the casting and performance of stunts for a film, television programme or a live audience...

    , 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.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-passings-20100501,0,2646777.story
  • Abu Abdullah al-Rashid al-Baghdadi
    Abu Abdullah al-Rashid al-Baghdadi
    Hamid Dawud Mohamed Khalil al Zawi, most commonly known as Abu Abdullah al-Rashid al-Baghdadi , and also known as Abu Hamza al-Baghdadi and Abu Omar al-Qurashi al-Baghdadi, was the nom de guerre of the person purported to be the leader of the former Mujahideen Shura Council Hamid Dawud Mohamed...

    , Iraq
    Iraq
    Iraq ; officially the Republic of Iraq is a country in Western Asia spanning most of the northwestern end of the Zagros mountain range, the eastern part of the Syrian Desert and the northern part of the Arabian Desert....

    i terrorist (Al-Qaeda
    Al-Qaeda
    Al-Qaeda is a global broad-based militant Islamist terrorist organization founded by Osama bin Laden sometime between August 1988 and late 1989. It operates as a network comprising both a multinational, stateless army and a radical Sunni Muslim movement calling for global Jihad...

    ), airstrike
    Airstrike
    An air strike is an attack on a specific objective by military aircraft during an offensive mission. Air strikes are commonly delivered from aircraft such as fighters, bombers, ground attack aircraft, attack helicopters, and others...

    . http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/04/19/AR2010041901693.html
  • Abu Ayyub al-Masri
    Abu Ayyub al-Masri
    Abu Ayyub al-Masri , also known as Abu Hamza al-Muhajir and other aliases , was an active combattant of al-Qaeda and at least a senior aide to former leader of Al-Qaeda in Iraq, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. When Zarqawi was killed in a U.S. airstrike on 7 June 2006, U.S...

    , 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 terrorist (Al-Qaeda
    Al-Qaeda
    Al-Qaeda is a global broad-based militant Islamist terrorist organization founded by Osama bin Laden sometime between August 1988 and late 1989. It operates as a network comprising both a multinational, stateless army and a radical Sunni Muslim movement calling for global Jihad...

    ), airstrike
    Airstrike
    An air strike is an attack on a specific objective by military aircraft during an offensive mission. Air strikes are commonly delivered from aircraft such as fighters, bombers, ground attack aircraft, attack helicopters, and others...

    . http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/04/19/AR2010041901693.html
  • William Grant Bangerter
    William Grant Bangerter
    William Grant Bangerter was a general authority of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from 1975 until his death. In 1989, he was given general authority emeritus status and released from active duties....

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

     Mormon leader, President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. http://www.deseretnews.com/article/print/700025740/Elder-William-Grant-Bangerter-dies-at-91.html
  • Paul Bisciglia
    Paul Bisciglia
    -Career:Throughout his acting career, Bisciglia appeared in more than one-hundred feature films. He made his debut in the 1950 film Trois télégrammes. What followed was several uncredited roles, before landing a much larger part in drama Clara de Montargis...

    , 81, 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...

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

    . http://coinducinephage.canalblog.com/archives/2010/04/22/17651015.html (French)
  • Mieczysław Cieślar
    Mieczysław Cieślar
    Mieczysław Cieślar was a Lutheran theologian and bishop of the diocese of the Evangelical Augsburg Church in Poland in Warsaw...

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

     Lutheran
    Lutheranism
    Lutheranism is a major branch of Western Christianity that identifies with the theology of Martin Luther, a German reformer. Luther's efforts to reform the theology and practice of the church launched the Protestant Reformation...

     bishop
    Bishop
    A bishop is an ordained or consecrated member of the Christian clergy who is generally entrusted with a position of authority and oversight. Within the Catholic Church, Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox Churches, in the Assyrian Church of the East, in the Independent Catholic Churches, and in the...

    , car accident
    Car accident
    A traffic collision, also known as a traffic accident, motor vehicle collision, motor vehicle accident, car accident, automobile accident, Road Traffic Collision or car crash, occurs when a vehicle collides with another vehicle, pedestrian, animal, road debris, or other stationary obstruction,...

    . http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/319516,bishop-dies-on-way-home-from-polish-plane-crash-commemorations.html
  • Devon Clifford, 30, Canadian
    Canada
    Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

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

     (You Say Party! We Say Die!
    You Say Party! We Say Die!
    You Say Party was a Canadian five piece dance-punk band from Abbotsford, British Columbia. Their album Hit the Floor! was released in September 2005, and the band recently completed their second Canadian tour, an appearance at South by Southwest and a tour of the United States, before touring the...

    ), cerebral hemorrhage. http://www.spinner.com/2010/04/18/you-say-party-we-say-die-drummer-devon-clifford-dies/
  • Ambrose D'Mello
    Ambrose D'Mello
    Ambrose D'Mello , was an Indian Jesuit priest, who served as the first Jesuit Provincial of India.D'Mello was born in Puthur, Mangalore, British India in 1922...

    , 87, 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 Jesuit priest, first Jesuit Provincial
    Provincial superior
    A Provincial Superior is a major superior of a religious order acting under the order's Superior General and exercising a general supervision over all the members of that order in a territorial division of the order called a province--similar to but not to be confused with an ecclesiastical...

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

    . http://www.cathnewsindia.com/2010/04/19/jesuits-mourn-pioneer-missioner/
  • Tom Fleming, 82, Scottish
    Scotland
    Scotland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Occupying the northern third of the island of Great Britain, it shares a border with England to the south and is bounded by the North Sea to the east, the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, and the North Channel and Irish Sea to the...

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

    . http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/edinburgh_and_east/8630795.stm
  • Noel Hall
    Noel Hall
    Major Noel William Hall OAM was an Australian soldier and Olympic shooting competitor. At the time of his death he was Australia's oldest Olympian.-Background:...

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

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

     sport shooter
    Shooting sports
    A shooting sport is a competitive sport involving tests of proficiency using various types of guns such as firearms and airguns . Hunting is also a shooting sport, and indeed shooting live pigeons was an Olympic event...

    . http://www.olympics.com.au/news.cfm?ArticleID=10662
  • Allen Swift
    Allen Swift
    Ira Stadlen , known professionally as Allen Swift, was an American voice actor, known for playing characters including Simon Bar Sinister and Riff-Raff on the Underdog cartoon show...

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

     voice actor (Underdog, Howdy Doody
    Howdy Doody
    Howdy Doody is an American children's television program that was created and produced by E. Roger Muir and telecast on NBC in the United States from 1947 until 1960. It was a pioneer in children's television programming and set the pattern for many similar shows...

    ), natural causes
    Death by natural causes
    A death by natural causes, as recorded by coroners and on death certificates and associated documents, is one that is primarily attributed to natural agents: usually an illness or an internal malfunction of the body. For example, a person dying from complications from influenza or a heart attack ...

    . http://www.cartoonbrew.com/classic/allan-swift-1924-2010.html
  • Viewed
    Viewed
    Viewed was an Australian Thoroughbred racehorse who won the 148th Melbourne Cup on 4 November 2008. Prior to the Cup, Viewed won the AJC JRA Plate and qualified by winning the Brisbane Cup on 9 June 2008....

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

    n Thoroughbred
    Thoroughbred
    The Thoroughbred is a horse breed best known for its use in horse racing. Although the word thoroughbred is sometimes used to refer to any breed of purebred horse, it technically refers only to the Thoroughbred breed...

     racehorse, euthanised
    Animal euthanasia
    Animal euthanasia is the act of putting to death painlessly or allowing to die, as by withholding extreme medical measures, an animal suffering from an incurable, especially a painful, disease or condition. Euthanasia methods are designed to cause minimal pain and distress...

     following a twisted bowel
    Bowel infarction
    Bowel infarction or "bowel death" results from a severely restricted blood supply to part of the bowel; this can in turn be due to an uncorrected bowel twist or bowel strangulation, or to occlusion of one of the mesenteric arteries....

    . http://www.theage.com.au/sport/horseracing/cup-winner-viewed-dies-20100418-smkf.html
  • William Yates, 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...

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

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

    . http://www.news.com.au/breaking-news/bill-yates-beekeeper-who-brought-down-a-prime-minister-dies/story-e6frfku0-1225855691716

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  • Dede Allen
    Dede Allen
    Dorothea Carothers "Dede" Allen was an American film editor, well-known "film editing doctor" to the major American movie studios, and one of cinema's all-time celebrated 'auteur' film editors....

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

     film editor (Bonnie and Clyde
    Bonnie and Clyde (film)
    The film was originally offered to François Truffaut, the best-known director of the New Wave movement, who made contributions to the script. He passed on the project to make Fahrenheit 451. The producers approached Jean-Luc Godard next...

    , Dog Day Afternoon
    Dog Day Afternoon
    Dog Day Afternoon is a 1975 drama film directed by Sidney Lumet, written by Frank Pierson, and produced by Martin Bregman. The film stars Al Pacino, John Cazale, Charles Durning, Chris Sarandon, Penny Allen, James Broderick, and Carol Kane. The title refers to the "dog days of summer".The film was...

    ), 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.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-dede-allen18-2010apr18,0,3471234.story
  • Abdul Rahman Ahmed Jibril Baroud
    Abdul Rahman Ahmed Jibril Baroud
    Abdulrahman Ahmed Jibril Baroud , born 1937 in Bayt Daras, British Mandate of Palestine - 17 April 2010 ) was a well-known Palestinian poet.-Biography:...

    , c.63, Palestinian
    Palestinian territories
    The Palestinian territories comprise the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. Since the Palestinian Declaration of Independence in 1988, the region is today recognized by three-quarters of the world's countries as the State of Palestine or simply Palestine, although this status is not recognized by the...

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

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

    . http://www.felesteen.ps/index.php?page=details&nid=4436 (Arabic)
  • Edmund Fitzgibbon, 85, Irish
    Republic of Ireland
    Ireland , described as the Republic of Ireland , is a sovereign state in Europe occupying approximately five-sixths of the island of the same name. Its capital is Dublin. Ireland, which had a population of 4.58 million in 2011, is a constitutional republic governed as a parliamentary democracy,...

    -born Nigeria
    Nigeria
    Nigeria , officially the Federal Republic of Nigeria, is a federal constitutional republic comprising 36 states and its Federal Capital Territory, Abuja. The country is located in West Africa and shares land borders with the Republic of Benin in the west, Chad and Cameroon in the east, and Niger in...

    n Roman Catholic prelate
    Prelate
    A prelate is a high-ranking member of the clergy who is an ordinary or who ranks in precedence with ordinaries. The word derives from the Latin prælatus, the past participle of præferre, which means "carry before", "be set above or over" or "prefer"; hence, a prelate is one set over others.-Related...

    , Bishop
    Bishop (Catholic Church)
    In the Catholic Church, a bishop is an ordained minister who holds the fullness of the sacrament of Holy Orders and is responsible for teaching the Catholic faith and ruling the Church....

     of Warri (1991–1997). http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bfitzg.html
  • Josef W. Janker
    Josef W. Janker
    Josef Wilhelm Janker was a German author and World War II veteran.-Life:Janker was the son of a shoemaker and grew up in Oberschwaben. After a carpenter apprenticeship, he was called up for military service in World War II. During the German invasion of the Soviet Union he was seriously wounded...

    , 87, 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...

     author
    Author
    An author is broadly defined as "the person who originates or gives existence to anything" and that authorship determines responsibility for what is created. Narrowly defined, an author is the originator of any written work.-Legal significance:...

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

     and 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...

     veteran
    Veteran
    A veteran is a person who has had long service or experience in a particular occupation or field; " A veteran of ..."...

    . http://www.stimberg-zeitung.de/freizeit/buecher/Schriftsteller-Josef-Janker-gestorben;art251,187468 (German)
  • Sotigui Kouyaté
    Sotigui Kouyaté
    Sotigui Kouyaté was one of the first Burkinabé actors. He was the father of film director Dani Kouyatéand was a member of the Mandinka ethnic group....

    , 74, Mali
    Mali
    Mali , officially the Republic of Mali , is a landlocked country in Western Africa. Mali borders Algeria on the north, Niger on the east, Burkina Faso and the Côte d'Ivoire on the south, Guinea on the south-west, and Senegal and Mauritania on the west. Its size is just over 1,240,000 km² with...

    an-born Burkinabé
    Burkina Faso
    Burkina Faso – also known by its short-form name Burkina – is a landlocked country in west Africa. It is surrounded by six countries: Mali to the north, Niger to the east, Benin to the southeast, Togo and Ghana to the south, and Côte d'Ivoire to the southwest.Its size is with an estimated...

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

    . http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/8628204.stm
  • Carl Macek
    Carl Macek
    Carl F. Macek was an American writer and controversial anime pioneer and producer of the 1980s and 1990s.-Robotech and Harmony Gold USA:...

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

     anime
    Anime
    is the Japanese abbreviated pronunciation of "animation". The definition sometimes changes depending on the context. In English-speaking countries, the term most commonly refers to Japanese animated cartoons....

     writer and producer (Robotech
    Robotech
    Robotech is an 85-episode science fiction anime adaptation produced by Harmony Gold USA in association with Tatsunoko Production Co., Ltd. and first released in the United States in 1985...

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

    . http://www.cartoonbrew.com/anime/carl-macek-1951-2010.html
  • Thomas Mikolajcik
    Thomas Mikolajcik
    Brigadier General Thomas R. Mikolajcik was director of transportation, Office of the Deputy Chief of Staff, logistics, Headquarters United States Air Force, Washington, D.C. He provided guidance and direction to Air Force activities on transportation plans, policy and programs...

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

     air force
    United States Air Force
    The United States Air Force is the aerial warfare service branch of the United States Armed Forces and one of the American uniformed services. Initially part of the United States Army, the USAF was formed as a separate branch of the military on September 18, 1947 under the National Security Act of...

     general
    General
    A general officer is an officer of high military rank, usually in the army, and in some nations, the air force. The term is widely used by many nations of the world, and when a country uses a different term, there is an equivalent title given....

     (1992–1996), amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
    Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
    Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis , also referred to as Lou Gehrig's disease, is a form of motor neuron disease caused by the degeneration of upper and lower neurons, located in the ventral horn of the spinal cord and the cortical neurons that provide their efferent input...

    . http://www.wciv.com/news/stories/0410/726844.html
  • Alexandru Neagu
    Alexandru Neagu
    Alexandru "Sandu" Neagu was a Romanian footballer.-Career:He made his debut in 1965 and two years later he won the national championship . He won the Romanian Cup twice in 1972 and 1975...

    , 61, 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 footballer (FC Rapid Bucureşti). http://www.gsp.ro/fotbal/liga-1/drama-in-fotbalul-romanesc-sandu-neagu-a-incetat-din-viata-la-61-de-ani-186065.html (Romanian)
  • Alejandro Robaina
    Alejandro Robaina
    Alejandro Robaina was a Cuban tobacco grower.-Biography:Robaina was born in Alquízar in La Habana Province of Cuba but he grew up and lived most of his life in the renowned tobacco-growing Vuelta Abajo district of Pinar del Río Province where his family had been growing tobacco since 1845...

    , 91, Cuba
    Cuba
    The Republic of Cuba is an island nation in the Caribbean. The nation of Cuba consists of the main island of Cuba, the Isla de la Juventud, and several archipelagos. Havana is the largest city in Cuba and the country's capital. Santiago de Cuba is the second largest city...

    n tobacco
    Tobacco
    Tobacco is an agricultural product processed from the leaves of plants in the genus Nicotiana. It can be consumed, used as a pesticide and, in the form of nicotine tartrate, used in some medicines...

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

    . http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/americas/04/17/obit.alejandro.robaina/index.html
  • John Carl Warnecke
    John Carl Warnecke
    John Carl Warnecke was an architect based in San Francisco, California, who designed numerous notable monuments and structures in the Modernist, Bauhaus, and other similar styles. He was an early proponent of contextual architecture. Among his more notable buildings and projects are the Hawaii...

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

     architect
    Architect
    An architect is a person trained in the planning, design and oversight of the construction of buildings. To practice architecture means to offer or render services in connection with the design and construction of a building, or group of buildings and the space within the site surrounding the...

     (John F. Kennedy Eternal Flame
    John F. Kennedy Eternal Flame
    The John F. Kennedy Eternal Flame is a presidential memorial at the gravesite of U.S. President John F. Kennedy, in Arlington National Cemetery. The permanent site replaced a temporary grave and eternal flame used during President Kennedy's funeral on November 25, 1963. The site was designed by...

    ), complication
    Complication (medicine)
    Complication, in medicine, is an unfavorable evolution of a disease, a health condition or a medical treatment. The disease can become worse in its severity or show a higher number of signs, symptoms or new pathological changes, become widespread throughout the body or affect other organ systems. A...

    s of pancreatic cancer
    Pancreatic cancer
    Pancreatic cancer refers to a malignant neoplasm of the pancreas. The most common type of pancreatic cancer, accounting for 95% of these tumors is adenocarcinoma, which arises within the exocrine component of the pancreas. A minority arises from the islet cells and is classified as a...

    . http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/23/arts/design/23warnecke.html
  • Axel Weishaupt
    Axel Weishaupt
    Dr. jur. Axel Weishaupt was a German diplomat and ambassador to Chad , chargé d'affaires at the embassy in Sudan , chargé d'affaires at the embassy of Kazakhstan , consul general in Karachi, Pakistan , consul general in Saratov, Russia , head of branch in Herat, Afghanistan...

    , 64, 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...

     diplomat, ambassador
    Ambassador
    An ambassador is the highest ranking diplomat who represents a nation and is usually accredited to a foreign sovereign or government, or to an international organization....

     to the Democratic Republic of the Congo
    Democratic Republic of the Congo
    The Democratic Republic of the Congo is a state located in Central Africa. It is the second largest country in Africa by area and the eleventh largest in the world...

     (2007–2010), heart failure. http://www.kinshasa.diplo.de/Vertretung/kinshasa/de/Startseite.html (German)

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  • Sid Conrad
    Sid Conrad
    Sid Levington Conrad was an American television character actor with credits from 1969 to 2009, including occasional feature film roles.-External links:...

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

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

     (The Young and the Restless
    The Young and the Restless
    The Young and the Restless is an American television soap opera created by William J. Bell and Lee Phillip Bell for CBS. The show is set in a fictional Wisconsin town called Genoa City, which is unlike and unrelated to the real life village of the same name, Genoa City, Wisconsin...

    ). http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/dailypress/obituary.aspx?page=lifestory&pid=141921836
  • Balthasar Burkhard
    Balthasar Burkhard
    Balthasar Burkhard was a Swiss photographer who received international recognition for his large-format monochromatic photographic series.-Life:Born in Bern in 1944, Burkhard was apprenticed to photographer Kurt Blum...

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

     photographer. http://www.derbund.ch/kultur/kunst/Balthasar-Burkhard-65jaehrig-gestorben/story/18094701 (German)
  • Rasim Delić
    Rasim Delić
    Rasim Delić was the Chief of Staff of the Army of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina. He was a career officer in the Yugoslav National Army but left the army when Yugoslavia dissolved.- Yugoslavian National Army :...

    , 61, Bosnian
    Bosnia and Herzegovina
    Bosnia and Herzegovina , sometimes called Bosnia-Herzegovina or simply Bosnia, is a country in Southern Europe, on the Balkan Peninsula. Bordered by Croatia to the north, west and south, Serbia to the east, and Montenegro to the southeast, Bosnia and Herzegovina is almost landlocked, except for the...

     army officer and Chief of Staff, probable heart attack
    Myocardial infarction
    Myocardial infarction or acute myocardial infarction , commonly known as a heart attack, results from the interruption of blood supply to a part of the heart, causing heart cells to die...

    . http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/18/world/europe/18delic.html
  • Shirlee Emmons
    Shirlee Emmons
    Shirlee Emmons was an American classical soprano, voice teacher, and author on vocal pedagogy. She began her career in the early 1940s as a concert soprano, eventually becoming one of the original singers in the Robert Shaw Chorale in 1948. She branched out into opera in the 1950s; performing...

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

     soprano
    Soprano
    A soprano is a voice type with a vocal range from approximately middle C to "high A" in choral music, or to "soprano C" or higher in operatic music. In four-part chorale style harmony, the soprano takes the highest part, which usually encompasses the melody...

    , voice teacher
    Voice teacher
    A voice teacher or singing teacher is a musical instructor who trains adults and children in the art of singing. This generally involves training in breath control and support, proper tone production, pitch control and musical intonation, proper formation of vowels and consonants as well as...

    , and writer on music. http://www.pcgazette.com/obits/2010/apr10/baldwin4-16.htm
  • Ibrahima Fofana
    Ibrahima Fofana
    Ibrahima Fofana was a Guinean trade unionist.Fofana was elected as the leader of the United Trade Union of Guinean Workers by 1995. He played a key role in the January–February 2007 general strike, during which he was injured...

    , 57, Guinea
    Guinea
    Guinea , officially the Republic of Guinea , is a country in West Africa. Formerly known as French Guinea , it is today sometimes called Guinea-Conakry to distinguish it from its neighbour Guinea-Bissau. Guinea is divided into eight administrative regions and subdivided into thirty-three prefectures...

    n trade unionist, car accident
    Car accident
    A traffic collision, also known as a traffic accident, motor vehicle collision, motor vehicle accident, car accident, automobile accident, Road Traffic Collision or car crash, occurs when a vehicle collides with another vehicle, pedestrian, animal, road debris, or other stationary obstruction,...

    . http://www.bbc.co.uk/french/news/story/2010/04/100417_guinea_fofana.shtml (French)
  • Carlos Franqui
    Carlos Franqui
    Carlos Franqui was a Cuban writer, poet, journalist, art critic, and political activist. After the Fulgencio Batista coup in 1952, he became involved with the "Movimiento 26 de Julio" which was directed by Fidel Castro. Upon the success of the Cuban Revolution in 1959, he was placed in charge of...

    , 89, Cuba
    Cuba
    The Republic of Cuba is an island nation in the Caribbean. The nation of Cuba consists of the main island of Cuba, the Isla de la Juventud, and several archipelagos. Havana is the largest city in Cuba and the country's capital. Santiago de Cuba is the second largest city...

    n writer
    Writer
    A writer is a person who produces literature, such as novels, short stories, plays, screenplays, poetry, or other literary art. Skilled writers are able to use language to portray ideas and images....

     and activist. http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/entertainment/2011632393_apcbobitcarlosfranqui.html
  • Daryl Gates
    Daryl Gates
    Daryl Gates was the Chief of the Los Angeles Police Department from 1978 to 1992.-Early life:...

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

     police official, chief of police
    Chief of police
    A Chief of Police is the title typically given to the top official in the chain of command of a police department, particularly in North America. Alternate titles for this position include Commissioner, Superintendent, and Chief constable...

     of the Los Angeles Police Department
    Los Angeles Police Department
    The Los Angeles Police Department is the police department of the city of Los Angeles, California. With just under 10,000 officers and more than 3,000 civilian staff, covering an area of with a population of more than 4.1 million people, it is the third largest local law enforcement agency in...

     (1978–1992), 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.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/04/16/AR2010041604655.html
  • Bryn Knowelden
    Bryn Knowelden
    Brindle "Bryn" Knowelden was an English professional rugby league and association football player of the 1940s and '50s who played for Great Britain, and England, and at club level for Barrow, Warrington, and Hull Kingston Rovers. He played at , i.e. number 2 or 5...

    , 90, 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...

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

     player. http://www.warringtonguardian.co.uk/news/whereilive/8114230.Challenge_Cup_winner_dies_at_the_age_of_90/
  • Marion Ladewig
    Marion Ladewig
    Marion Ladewig was an American ten-pin bowler. She was named Female Bowler of the Year by the Bowling Writers Association of America a record nine times between 1950 and 1963...

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

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

    . http://www.mlive.com/sports/grand-rapids/index.ssf/2010/04/greatest_female_bowler_marion.html
  • Norman Francis McFarland
    Norman Francis McFarland
    Norman Francis McFarland, D.D., J.C.D., was the second Roman Catholic Bishop of the Diocese of Orange and Apostolic Administrator of the Diocese of Reno.-Early life and pastoral appointments:...

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

     Roman Catholic prelate
    Prelate
    A prelate is a high-ranking member of the clergy who is an ordinary or who ranks in precedence with ordinaries. The word derives from the Latin prælatus, the past participle of præferre, which means "carry before", "be set above or over" or "prefer"; hence, a prelate is one set over others.-Related...

    , Bishop
    Bishop (Catholic Church)
    In the Catholic Church, a bishop is an ordained minister who holds the fullness of the sacrament of Holy Orders and is responsible for teaching the Catholic faith and ruling the Church....

     of Reno
    Roman Catholic Diocese of Reno
    The Roman Catholic Diocese of Reno is an ecclesiastical territory of the Roman Catholic Church in the northern Nevada region of the United States, centered on the city of Reno. With the urging of Cardinal George Mundelein, Archbishop of Chicago, Pope Pius XI established the Diocese on March 27, 1931...

     (1976–1986) and Orange
    Roman Catholic Diocese of Orange
    The Roman Catholic Diocese of Orange is a particular church of the Latin Rite of the Roman Catholic Church whose territory comprises the whole of Orange County, California, in the United States...

     (1986–1998). http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-norman-mcfarland17-2010apr17,0,4677355.story
  • Grigorijs Ņemcovs
    Grigorijs Ņemcovs
    Grigorijs Ņemcovs died 16 April 2010, Daugavpils, Latvia) was a Latvian journalist, businessman and politician . He began his career in Daugavpils city council. He published a regional newspaper and owned a local television station.Nemtsov founded Latvia's largest regional Russian-language...

    , 61, Latvia
    Latvia
    Latvia , officially the Republic of Latvia , is a country in the Baltic region of Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by Estonia , to the south by Lithuania , to the east by the Russian Federation , to the southeast by Belarus and shares maritime borders to the west with Sweden...

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

    , Vice Mayor of Daugavpils
    Daugavpils
    Daugavpils is a city in southeastern Latvia, located on the banks of the Daugava River, from which the city gets its name. Daugavpils literally means "Daugava Castle". With a population of over 100,000, it is the second largest city in the country after the capital Riga, which is located some...

    , shot
    Ballistic trauma
    The term ballistic trauma refers to a form of physical trauma sustained from the discharge of arms or munitions. The most common forms of ballistic trauma stem from firearms used in armed conflicts, civilian sporting and recreational pursuits, and criminal activity.-Destructive effects:The degree...

    . http://en.rsf.org/latvia-newspaper-owner-gunned-down-in-18-04-2010,37062.html
  • Muhammad Noer
    Muhammad Noer
    Raden Panji Mohammad Noer was the Indonesian Governor of East Java from 1967 to 1976. He was also ambassador to France from 1976 to 1980.-References:...

    , 92, Indonesia
    Indonesia
    Indonesia , officially the Republic of Indonesia , is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania. Indonesia is an archipelago comprising approximately 13,000 islands. It has 33 provinces with over 238 million people, and is the world's fourth most populous country. Indonesia is a republic, with an...

    n politician, Governor
    Governor
    A governor is a governing official, usually the executive of a non-sovereign level of government, ranking under the head of state...

     of East Java
    East Java
    East Java is a province of Indonesia. It is located on the eastern part of the island of Java and includes neighboring Madura and islands to its east and to its north East Java is a province of Indonesia. It is located on the eastern part of the island of Java and includes neighboring Madura and...

     (1967–1976), complication
    Complication (medicine)
    Complication, in medicine, is an unfavorable evolution of a disease, a health condition or a medical treatment. The disease can become worse in its severity or show a higher number of signs, symptoms or new pathological changes, become widespread throughout the body or affect other organ systems. A...

    s during a medical procedure
    Medical procedure
    A medical procedure is a course of action intended to achieve a result in the care of persons with health problems.A medical procedure with the intention of determining, measuring or diagnosing a patient condition or parameter is also called a medical test...

    . http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2010/04/17/muhammad-noer-dies.html
  • C. K. Prahalad
    C. K. Prahalad
    Coimbatore Krishnarao Prahalad was the Paul and Ruth McCracken Distinguished University Professor of Corporate Strategy at the Stephen M...

    , 68, 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 business consultant and management theorist, natural causes
    Death by natural causes
    A death by natural causes, as recorded by coroners and on death certificates and associated documents, is one that is primarily attributed to natural agents: usually an illness or an internal malfunction of the body. For example, a person dying from complications from influenza or a heart attack ...

    . http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/22/business/22prahalad.html
  • C. P. Rele
    C. P. Rele
    Dr. C.P. Rele was a Hindustani classical musician who specialized in singing, teaching, and composing khyal....

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

    n classical
    Hindustani classical music
    Hindustani classical music is the Hindustani or North Indian style of Indian classical music found throughout the northern Indian subcontinent. The style is sometimes called North Indian Classical Music or Shāstriya Sangeet...

     singer. http://www.ilmortodelmese.com/2010/05/c-p-rele-1928-2010.html (Italian)
  • Arturo Rodríguez Fernández
    Arturo Rodriguez Fernandez
    Arturo Rodríguez Fernández was an author, film critic, and playwright.Born in Santo Domingo, he attended high school in Spain, and went on to receive a law degree from National University Pedro Henríquez Ureña and from universities in Strasbourg, France and Italy...

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

     author
    Author
    An author is broadly defined as "the person who originates or gives existence to anything" and that authorship determines responsibility for what is created. Narrowly defined, an author is the originator of any written work.-Legal significance:...

    , film critic and playwright
    Playwright
    A playwright, also called a dramatist, is a person who writes plays.The term is not a variant spelling of "playwrite", but something quite distinct: the word wright is an archaic English term for a craftsman or builder...

    , heart failure. http://www.hoy.com.do/alegria/2010/4/16/321883/ (Spanish)
  • Tomáš Špidlík
    Tomás Spidlik
    Tomáš Špidlík, SJ was made a Cardinal by Pope John Paul II in 2003. He was ordained a priest of the Society of Jesus on 22 August 1949 in Maastricht. On 21 October 2003, at the age of 83, he was created Cardinal Deacon of the titular church of Sant'Agata dei Goti...

    , 90, Czech
    Czech Republic
    The Czech Republic is a landlocked country in Central Europe. The country is bordered by Poland to the northeast, Slovakia to the east, Austria to the south, and Germany to the west and northwest....

     Roman Catholic prelate and Cardinal
    Cardinal (Catholicism)
    A cardinal is a senior ecclesiastical official, usually an ordained bishop, and ecclesiastical prince of the Catholic Church. They are collectively known as the College of Cardinals, which as a body elects a new pope. The duties of the cardinals include attending the meetings of the College and...

    . http://www.radio.cz/en/article/127081
  • John W. Vogt, Jr.
    John W. Vogt, Jr.
    General John William Vogt, Jr. was commander, Allied Air Forces Central Europe, and commander in chief, U.S. Air Forces in Europe at Ramstein Air Base, Germany.-Biography:...

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

     Air Force
    United States Air Force
    The United States Air Force is the aerial warfare service branch of the United States Armed Forces and one of the American uniformed services. Initially part of the United States Army, the USAF was formed as a separate branch of the military on September 18, 1947 under the National Security Act of...

     general. http://www.af.mil/information/bios/bio.asp?bioID=7480

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  • Joseph Azzolina
    Joseph Azzolina
    Joseph Azzolina was a Republican who served in the New Jersey General Assembly from 1992 to 2006 where he represented the 13th legislative district....

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

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

    , member of the New Jersey General Assembly
    New Jersey General Assembly
    The New Jersey General Assembly is the lower house of the New Jersey Legislature.Since the election of 1967 , the Assembly has consisted of 80 members. Two members are elected from each of New Jersey's 40 legislative districts for a term of two years, each representing districts with average...

     (1992–2006), pancreatic cancer
    Pancreatic cancer
    Pancreatic cancer refers to a malignant neoplasm of the pancreas. The most common type of pancreatic cancer, accounting for 95% of these tumors is adenocarcinoma, which arises within the exocrine component of the pancreas. A minority arises from the islet cells and is classified as a...

    . http://www.app.com/article/20100415/NEWS/100415106/1004/NEWS01/Former-Assemblyman-Azzolina-dies-at-age-84
  • Ian Brewer
    Ian Brewer
    Ian Brewer was an Australian rules footballer with a distinguished career between 1956 and 1970, in the three major leagues of his era: the Victorian Football League , West Australian National Football League and South Australian National Football League...

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

    n football player
    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...

    . http://www.collingwoodfc.com.au/tabid/5586/default.aspx?newsid=92422
  • Robert Brubaker
    Robert Brubaker
    Robert Brubaker was an American character actor best known for his roles in television and movie westerns, including as Gunsmoke and 40 Guns to Apache Pass. Brubaker was the only actor to have two recurring roles on the television series, Gunsmoke, portraying both a bartender named Floyd and a...

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

     character actor
    Character actor
    A character actor is one who predominantly plays unusual or eccentric characters. The Oxford English Dictionary defines a character actor as "an actor who specializes in character parts", defining character part in turn as "an acting role displaying pronounced or unusual characteristics or...

     (Gunsmoke
    Gunsmoke
    Gunsmoke is an American radio and television Western drama series created by director Norman MacDonnell and writer John Meston. The stories take place in and around Dodge City, Kansas, during the settlement of the American West....

    ). http://www.westernclippings.com/
  • Bill DuBay, 62, American
    United States
    The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

     comic book
    Comic book
    A comic book or comicbook is a magazine made up of comics, narrative artwork in the form of separate panels that represent individual scenes, often accompanied by dialog as well as including...

     editor
    Editing
    Editing is the process of selecting and preparing written, visual, audible, and film media used to convey information through the processes of correction, condensation, organization, and other modifications performed with an intention of producing a correct, consistent, accurate, and complete...

    , writer
    Writer
    A writer is a person who produces literature, such as novels, short stories, plays, screenplays, poetry, or other literary art. Skilled writers are able to use language to portray ideas and images....

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

    . http://www.anewtradition.com/obituaries/2010/04/william-bryan-dubay/
  • Jack Herer
    Jack Herer
    Jack Herer was an American cannabis activist and the author of The Emperor Wears No Clothes, a book which has been used in efforts to decriminalize cannabis.-Biography:...

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

     cannabis
    Cannabis
    Cannabis is a genus of flowering plants that includes three putative species, Cannabis sativa, Cannabis indica, and Cannabis ruderalis. These three taxa are indigenous to Central Asia, and South Asia. Cannabis has long been used for fibre , for seed and seed oils, for medicinal purposes, and as a...

     activist, complications
    Complication (medicine)
    Complication, in medicine, is an unfavorable evolution of a disease, a health condition or a medical treatment. The disease can become worse in its severity or show a higher number of signs, symptoms or new pathological changes, become widespread throughout the body or affect other organ systems. A...

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

    . http://www.salem-news.com/articles/april152010/jack_herer_died.php
  • Benjamin Hooks
    Benjamin Hooks
    Benjamin Lawson Hooks was an American civil rights leader. A Baptist minister and practicing attorney, he served as executive director of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People from 1977 to 1992, and throughout his career was a vocal campaigner for civil rights in the...

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

     civil rights
    Civil rights
    Civil and political rights are a class of rights that protect individuals' freedom from unwarranted infringement by governments and private organizations, and ensure one's ability to participate in the civil and political life of the state without discrimination or repression.Civil rights include...

     leader, executive director of the NAACP (1977–1992), after long illness. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/04/15/AR2010041505771.html
  • Wilhelm Huxhorn
    Wilhelm Huxhorn
    Wilhelm Huxhorn was a German goalkeeper and record holder. He played 221 matches for SV Darmstadt 98. In 1985 he scored a goal from 102 meters away which earned him an entry in the Book of Records.He died after years of struggle of leukemia....

    , 54, 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...

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

    . http://www.echo-online.de/sport/svdarmstadt98/Unvergessen-Ziiieh-Willem-ziiiiiieh;art1168,813508 (German)
  • Michael Pataki
    Michael Pataki
    Michael Pataki was an American character actor.-Early life:Pataki born in Youngstown, Ohio. He attended the University of Southern California with a double major in Political Science and Drama...

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

     character actor
    Character actor
    A character actor is one who predominantly plays unusual or eccentric characters. The Oxford English Dictionary defines a character actor as "an actor who specializes in character parts", defining character part in turn as "an acting role displaying pronounced or unusual characteristics or...

     and voice actor (George Liquor
    George Liquor
    George Liquor , most famous for his appearances on The Ren and Stimpy Show, is a cartoon character created by John Kricfalusi and is a mascot for Kricfalusi's defunct animation studio, Spümcø. Kricfalusi portrayed George Liquor as a patriotic, outspoken, politically conservative blowhard...

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

    . http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118018051.html?categoryId=25&cs=1
  • Peter-Josef Schallberger
    Peter-Josef Schallberger
    Peter-Josef Schallberger was a Swiss politician of the CVP and farmer.- Life :Schallberger was the son of Eduard Schallberger, the mayor of Ennetmoos. He attended the agricultural school in Altdorf. In 1959 he took over his father's farm in Rotzberg. Since 1960, he was active in politics.-...

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

     farmer
    Farmer
    A farmer is a person engaged in agriculture, who raises living organisms for food or raw materials, generally including livestock husbandry and growing crops, such as produce and grain...

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

    . http://www.zisch.ch/navigation/top_main_nav/nachrichten/zentralschweiz/nidwalden/detail.htm?client_request_className=NewsItem&client_request_contentOID=334206 (German)
  • Raimondo Vianello
    Raimondo Vianello
    Raimondo Vianello was an Italian film actor, comedian, and television host. He was a well-known Italian television personality.- Biography :...

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

     comedian
    Comedian
    A comedian or comic is a person who seeks to entertain an audience, primarily by making them laugh. This might be through jokes or amusing situations, or acting a fool, as in slapstick, or employing prop comedy...

     and television personality. http://www.corriere.it/spettacoli/10_aprile_15/morto-raimondo-vianello_a603aaa4-4865-11df-8e1e-00144f02aabe.shtml (Italian)
  • Spann Watson
    Spann Watson
    Lt. Col Spann Watson was a Tuskegee Airman serving in World War II. He flew over 30 missions for the famed squadron over North Africa, Italy and Southern Europe. On March 2007, Watson attended a ceremony in the U.S...

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

     airman (Tuskegee Airmen
    Tuskegee Airmen
    The Tuskegee Airmen is the popular name of a group of African American pilots who fought in World War II. Formally, they were the 332nd Fighter Group and the 477th Bombardment Group of the U.S. Army Air Corps....

    ) and civil rights
    Civil rights
    Civil and political rights are a class of rights that protect individuals' freedom from unwarranted infringement by governments and private organizations, and ensure one's ability to participate in the civil and political life of the state without discrimination or repression.Civil rights include...

     advocate
    Advocacy
    Advocacy is a political process by an individual or a large group which normally aims to influence public-policy and resource allocation decisions within political, economic, and social systems and institutions; it may be motivated from moral, ethical or faith principles or simply to protect an...

    . http://www.antonnews.com/westburytimes/news/7428-tuskegee-airman-spann-watson-passes-away-at-age-93.html
  • Sir Edward Woodward, 81, Australia
    Australia
    Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...

    n jurist
    Jurist
    A jurist or jurisconsult is a professional who studies, develops, applies, or otherwise deals with the law. The term is widely used in American English, but in the United Kingdom and many Commonwealth countries it has only historical and specialist usage...

    . http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/opinion/a-land-rights-leader/story-e6frg71x-1225854283211

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  • Israr Ahmed
    Israr Ahmed
    Israr Ahmed was a Pakistani Islamic theologian followed particularly in South Asia and also among the South Asian diaspora in the Middle East, Western Europe, and North America. Born in Hissar, in India, the second son of a government servant, he is the founder of the Tanzeem-e-islami, an...

    , 77, 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-born Pakistan
    Pakistan
    Pakistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan is a sovereign state in South Asia. It has a coastline along the Arabian Sea and the Gulf of Oman in the south and is bordered by Afghanistan and Iran in the west, India in the east and China in the far northeast. In the north, Tajikistan...

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

    . http://www.grandestrategy.com/2010/04/dr-israr-ahmed.html
  • René Brunelle
    René Brunelle
    René Joseph Napoléon Brunelle was a Canadian politician, who represented Cochrane North in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1958 to 1981 as a Progressive Conservative member....

    , 90, Canadian politician. http://v1.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/Deaths.20100417.93228736/BDAStory/BDA/deaths
  • Erika Burkart
    Erika Burkart
    Erika Burkart was a Swiss writer and poet. She was the recipient of many awards, among them the Conrad-Ferdinand-Meyer-Preis, the Gottfried-Keller-Preis, the Joseph-Breitbach-Preis, and the Wolfgang-Amadeus-Mozart-Preis.She was born in Aarau in 1922 and died in Muri in 2010.-Poetry books:* Der...

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

     author
    Author
    An author is broadly defined as "the person who originates or gives existence to anything" and that authorship determines responsibility for what is created. Narrowly defined, an author is the originator of any written work.-Legal significance:...

    . http://derstandard.at/1269449727095/Erika-Burkart-88-jaehrig-gestorben (German)
  • Aubrey Cummings
    Aubrey Cummings
    Aubrey Cummings was a renowned Guyanese musician. He was born in 1947 and grew up in the Alberttown/Queenstown neighborhoods of Georgetown...

    , 62, Guyanese
    Guyana
    Guyana , officially the Co-operative Republic of Guyana, previously the colony of British Guiana, is a sovereign state on the northern coast of South America that is culturally part of the Anglophone Caribbean. Guyana was a former colony of the Dutch and of the British...

     musician, heart
    Heart
    The heart is a myogenic muscular organ found in all animals with a circulatory system , that is responsible for pumping blood throughout the blood vessels by repeated, rhythmic contractions...

     problems. http://www.guyanachronicleonline.com/site/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=12119:guyanese-singer-aubrey-cummings-succumbs-to-heart-problems&catid=2:news&Itemid=2
  • Tom Ellis
    Tom Ellis (politician)
    Robert Thomas Ellis, , commonly known as Tom Ellis, was a British politician who was elected several times as a Labour Member of Parliament, and later defected to the Social Democratic Party ....

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

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

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

     for Wrexham
    Wrexham (UK Parliament constituency)
    Wrexham is a parliamentary constituency in North Wales which is represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom...

     (1970–1983), founding member of the SDP
    Social Democratic Party (UK)
    The Social Democratic Party was a political party in the United Kingdom that was created on 26 March 1981 and existed until 1988. It was founded by four senior Labour Party 'moderates', dubbed the 'Gang of Four': Roy Jenkins, David Owen, Bill Rodgers and Shirley Williams...

    . http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/8619935.stm
  • Gene Kiniski
    Gene Kiniski
    Eugene Nicholas "Gene" Kiniski was a Canadian professional wrestler and the father of wrestlers Nick Kiniski and Kelly Kiniski. "Canada's Greatest Athlete" as he billed himself for promotional purposes was born outside of Edmonton, Alberta...

    , 81, Canadian
    Canada
    Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

     professional wrestler
    Professional wrestling
    Professional wrestling is a mode of spectacle, combining athletics and theatrical performance.Roland Barthes, "The World of Wrestling", Mythologies, 1957 It takes the form of events, held by touring companies, which mimic a title match combat sport...

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

    . http://www.cbc.ca/canada/edmonton/story/2010/04/14/edmonton-gene-kiniski-dies.html
  • Lars-Jacob Krogh
    Lars-Jacob Krogh
    Lars-Jacob Krogh was a Norwegian anchorman and television presenter. Krogh started working for the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation in 1965, where he covered, among other things, the European Community membership referendum in 1972. In 2008 he received The King's Medal of Merit in gold.Krogh...

    , 71, Norwegian
    Norway
    Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...

     anchorman and television presenter, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
    Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
    Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis , also referred to as Lou Gehrig's disease, is a form of motor neuron disease caused by the degeneration of upper and lower neurons, located in the ventral horn of the spinal cord and the cortical neurons that provide their efferent input...

    . http://www.side2.no/livsstil/article2882907.ece (Norwegian)
  • Alice Miller
    Alice Miller (psychologist)
    Alice Miller née Rostovski was a psychologist and world renowned author, who is noted for her books on child abuse by their own parents, translated in several languages...

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

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

     author
    Author
    An author is broadly defined as "the person who originates or gives existence to anything" and that authorship determines responsibility for what is created. Narrowly defined, an author is the originator of any written work.-Legal significance:...

     and psychologist
    Psychologist
    Psychologist is a professional or academic title used by individuals who are either:* Clinical professionals who work with patients in a variety of therapeutic contexts .* Scientists conducting psychological research or teaching psychology in a college...

    . http://www.alice-miller.com/readersmail_en.php
  • Russell Olson
    Russell Olson
    Russell A. Olson was a Wisconsin politician. He was born in Chicago, Illinois in 1924; he served in the Marines from 1942 until 1946. After World War II, he moved to rural Kenosha County, Wisconsin where he raised cattle. He was elected to the Wisconsin State Assembly for the first time in 1960,...

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

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

    , Lieutenant Governor of Wisconsin
    Lieutenant Governor of Wisconsin
    The Lieutenant Governor of Wisconsin is the first person in the order of succession of Wisconsin's executive branch, thus serving as governor in the event of the death, resignation, removal, impeachment, absence from the state, or incapacity due to illness of the Governor of Wisconsin...

     (1979–1983). http://www.kenoshanews.com/news/exlieutenant_governor_86_dies_7772926.html
  • Baruch Poupko
    Baruch Poupko
    Rabbi Dr. Baruch A. Poupko, born in Velizh, Russia, to Rabbi Eliezer and Pesha Poupko, was an American multi-lingual scholar, author, and lecturer....

    , 92, Russia
    Russia
    Russia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...

    n-born American
    United States
    The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

     rabbi
    Rabbi
    In Judaism, a rabbi is a teacher of Torah. This title derives from the Hebrew word רבי , meaning "My Master" , which is the way a student would address a master of Torah...

    . http://thejewishchronicle.net/view/full_story/7069512/article-Baruch-Poupko-dies?instance=lead_story_left_column
  • Stefan Schmitt
    Stefan Schmitt (politician)
    Stefan Schmitt was a German jurist and politician. He was a member of the SDP. Schmitt died of leukemia.-Reference:*...

    , 46, 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...

     jurist
    Jurist
    A jurist or jurisconsult is a professional who studies, develops, applies, or otherwise deals with the law. The term is widely used in American English, but in the United Kingdom and many Commonwealth countries it has only historical and specialist usage...

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

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

    . http://www.spd-fraktion-hamburg.de/no_cache/wir-ueber-uns/abgeordnete/hamburg/g/123.html (German)
  • Mississippi Slim
    Mississippi Slim (blues musician)
    Walter Horn Jr. , known by the stage name Mississippi Slim, was an American blues singer and performer.Horn was born in Shelby and grew up in Greenville, Mississippi. In the early 1960s he worked as a tractor driver while singing in local clubs, and in 1968 moved to Chicago to pursue a singing...

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

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

    . http://www.myfoxchicago.com/dpp/news/metro/20100414-Chicago-blues-Mississippi-Slim-dies
  • Greville Starkey
    Greville Starkey
    Greville Starkey was an English jockey who rode almost 2,000 winners during a 33-year career on the flat.Starkey scaled the heights of his profession during his 33-year career in which he rode 1,989 winners on the Flat...

    , 70, 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...

     jockey
    Jockey
    A jockey is an athlete who rides horses in horse racing or steeplechase racing, primarily as a profession. The word also applies to camel riders in camel racing.-Etymology:...

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

    . http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/racing/article-1266081/Legendary-Classic-winning-star-flat-Greville-Starkey-dies-age-70.html
  • Peter Steele
    Peter Steele
    Peter Thomas Ratajczyk , better known by his stage name Peter Steele, was the lead singer, bassist, and composer for the gothic metal band Type O Negative...

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

     rock
    Rock music
    Rock 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...

     singer and bassist
    Bassist
    A bass player, or bassist is a musician who plays a bass instrument such as a double bass, bass guitar, keyboard bass or a low brass instrument such as a tuba or sousaphone. Different musical genres tend to be associated with one or more of these instruments...

     (Type O Negative
    Type O Negative
    Type O Negative was a gothic metal band from Brooklyn, New York City. The band also incorporated elements of doom metal and thrash metal. Their dramatic lyrical emphasis on themes of romance, depression, and death resulted in the nickname "The Drab Four"...

    ), heart failure. http://www.vh1.com/artists/news/1637106/20100415/type_o_negative.jhtml
  • Gerhard Zemann
    Gerhard Zemann
    Gerhard Zemann was an Austrian actor. He appeared in many television series and films through his career, becoming best known for playing forensic pathologist Leo Graf on the series Inspector Rex from 1994 until 2004. He died of a heart attack in 2010, aged 70.-Reference:*...

    , 70, Austria
    Austria
    Austria , officially the Republic of Austria , is a landlocked country of roughly 8.4 million people in Central Europe. It is bordered by the Czech Republic and Germany to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the...

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

    , heart attack. http://salzburg.orf.at/stories/436173/ (German)

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  • André Bedoglouyan
    André Bedoglouyan
    André Bedoglouyan, was a Lebanese-Armenian prelate of the Roman Catholic Church.Bedoglouyan was born in Zahlé, Lebanon and was ordained a priest on December 25, 1945 from the religious order Institut du Clergé Patriarcal de Bzommar...

    , 90, Lebanese
    Lebanon
    Lebanon , officially the Republic of LebanonRepublic of Lebanon is the most common term used by Lebanese government agencies. The term Lebanese Republic, a literal translation of the official Arabic and French names that is not used in today's world. Arabic is the most common language spoken among...

     Eastern Catholic
    Armenian Catholic Church
    |- |The Armenian Catholic Church is an Eastern Catholic Church sui juris in union with the other Eastern Rite, Oriental Rite and Latin Rite Catholics who accept the Bishop of Rome as spiritual leader of the Church. It is regulated by Eastern canon law...

     prelate
    Prelate
    A prelate is a high-ranking member of the clergy who is an ordinary or who ranks in precedence with ordinaries. The word derives from the Latin prælatus, the past participle of præferre, which means "carry before", "be set above or over" or "prefer"; hence, a prelate is one set over others.-Related...

    , Bishop
    Bishop
    A bishop is an ordained or consecrated member of the Christian clergy who is generally entrusted with a position of authority and oversight. Within the Catholic Church, Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox Churches, in the Assyrian Church of the East, in the Independent Catholic Churches, and in the...

     of Comana Armeniae (1971–1994). http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bbedo.html
  • Alexander Bernstein, Baron Bernstein of Craigweil
    Alexander Bernstein, Baron Bernstein of Craigweil
    Alexander Bernstein, Baron Bernstein of Craigweil was a British television executive and a Labour member of the House of Lords....

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

     television executive and life peer
    Life peer
    In the United Kingdom, life peers are appointed members of the Peerage whose titles cannot be inherited. Nowadays life peerages, always of baronial rank, are created under the Life Peerages Act 1958 and entitle the holders to seats in the House of Lords, presuming they meet qualifications such as...

    . http://www.thejc.com/news/uk-news/30336/labour-peer-lord-bernstein-dies
  • Jorge Bontemps
    Jorge Bontemps
    Jorge Alberto Bontemps was an Argentine football defender.-Club career:Bontemps started his career in 1999 with Colón de Santa Fe before moving to Club Atlético Huracán in 2004.-Illness and death:...

    , 32, Argentine
    Argentina
    Argentina , officially the Argentine Republic , is the second largest country in South America by land area, after Brazil. It is constituted as a federation of 23 provinces and an autonomous city, Buenos Aires...

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

    . http://www.unoentrerios.com.ar/contenidos/2010/04/13/Muri%C3%B3-el-futbolista-Jorge-Bontemps-0023.html (Spanish)
  • Luis Antonio Chavez
    Luis Antonio Chavez
    Luis Antonio Chavez was a Honduran journalist and host of a children's radio program. Chavez was shot and killed on April 13, 2010, aged 22, becoming the sixth Honduran journalist to be killed in the country since March 1st, 2010....

    , 22, Honduran
    Honduras
    Honduras 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...

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

     and children's radio host, shot
    Ballistic trauma
    The term ballistic trauma refers to a form of physical trauma sustained from the discharge of arms or munitions. The most common forms of ballistic trauma stem from firearms used in armed conflicts, civilian sporting and recreational pursuits, and criminal activity.-Destructive effects:The degree...

    . http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/04/23/AR2010042304800_2.html
  • Billy Gore
    Billy Gore
    William "Billy" Gore was a Welsh rugby union and professional rugby league footballer of the 1940s who at representative level played rugby union for Wales, and at club level for Newbridge RFC, playing at Hooker, i.e. number 2, and at club level played rugby league for Warrington, playing at , i.e...

    , 90, 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...

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

     player. http://www.scrum.com/wales/rugby/player/4936.html
  • Santhosh Jogi
    Santhosh Jogi
    Santhosh Jogi was a Malayalee film actor and singer who acted in more than 30 films. He marked his debut in a 2004 Malayalam movie, Two Wheeler...

    , 35, 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...

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

     by hanging. http://www.mathrubhumi.com/english/news.php?id=90033
  • Bernie Kilgariff
    Bernie Kilgariff
    Bernard Francis "Bernie" Kilgariff AM was an Australian politician. He was one of the founders of the Country Liberal Party and served as a member of the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly before being elected to the Australian Senate.-Early life:Kilgariff was born in Adelaide, South...

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

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

    , Senator
    Australian Senate
    The Senate is the upper house of the bicameral Parliament of Australia, the lower house being the House of Representatives. Senators are popularly elected under a system of proportional representation. Senators are elected for a term that is usually six years; after a double dissolution, however,...

     (1975–1987). http://www.abc.net.au/local/stories/2010/04/14/2872401.htm
  • David C. Knapp
    David C. Knapp
    David C. Knapp was an American educational administrator.Knapp was born in Syracuse, New York, in 1927, and received his B.A. in political science from Syracuse University in 1947. He entered the University of Chicago; earning his M.A. in 1948. Knapp served in the U.S. Army's Second Armored...

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

     educator. http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/obituaries/articles/2010/04/15/david_knapp_umass_president_grew_school_to_5_campuses/
  • Nahid al-Rayyis
    Nahid al-Rayyis
    Nahid Munir al-Rayyis was a Palestinian politician and poet. He had also formerly served as the Justice Minister of the Palestinian National Authority.-Biography:...

    , 73, Palestinian
    Palestinian territories
    The Palestinian territories comprise the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. Since the Palestinian Declaration of Independence in 1988, the region is today recognized by three-quarters of the world's countries as the State of Palestine or simply Palestine, although this status is not recognized by the...

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

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

    . http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=276181
  • Steve Reid
    Steve Reid
    Steve Reid was an American jazz drummer who played with a wide range of artists including Miles Davis, Ornette Coleman, James Brown, Fela Kuti and Sun Ra, and as a session drummer for Motown.- Biography :...

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

     jazz drummer, throat cancer. http://www.gigwise.com/news/55774/Steve-Reid-Dies-In-New-York-Aged-66
  • Gerald Stapleton
    Gerald Stapleton
    Squadron Leader Basil Gerald "Stapme" Stapleton DFC was a Royal Air Force officer and fighter ace who flew Spitfires and Typhoons during World War II. He preferred the name Gerald and was nicknamed 'Stapme' after a phrase used in his favourite cartoon strip Just Jake published in The Daily Mirror...

    , 89, 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...

     airman, RAF
    Royal Air Force
    The 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...

     fighter ace
    Fighter Ace
    Fighter Ace was a massively multiplayer online computer game in which one flies World War II fighter and bomber planes in combat against other players and virtual pilots...

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

    . http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/military-obituaries/air-force-obituaries/7620215/Squadron-Leader-Stapme-Stapleton.html
  • Charlie Timmins
    Charlie Timmins
    Charles "Charlie" Timmins was an English former footballer.Born in Birmingham, Timmins signed for Birmingham City before the Second World War. However, his registration papers were lost after heavy bombing in the Birmingham area...

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

     footballer (Coventry City
    Coventry City F.C.
    Coventry City Football Club, otherwise known as the Sky Blues owing to the traditional colour of their strip, are a professional English Football league club based in Coventry...

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

    . http://www.coventrytelegraph.net/coventry-city-fc/coventry-city-fc-news/2010/04/17/jim-brown-column-sad-death-of-city-old-boy-charlie-timmins-92746-26260311/

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  • Alper Balaban
    Alper Balaban
    Alper Balaban was a Turkish-German footballer who started his career with Fenerbahçe.- Career :...

    , 22, 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...

    -born Turkish
    Turkey
    Turkey , known officially as the Republic of Turkey , is a Eurasian country located in Western Asia and in East Thrace in Southeastern Europe...

     footballer, car accident
    Car accident
    A traffic collision, also known as a traffic accident, motor vehicle collision, motor vehicle accident, car accident, automobile accident, Road Traffic Collision or car crash, occurs when a vehicle collides with another vehicle, pedestrian, animal, road debris, or other stationary obstruction,...

    . http://www.cnnturk.com/2010/spor/futbol/04/13/eski.fenerli.alper.yasam.savasini.kaybetti/571893.0/ (Turkish)
  • María Aurelia Bisutti
    María Aurelia Bisutti
    María Aurelia Bisutti was an Argentine film and TV actress, with over 50 Argentine cinema and television credits between 1948 and 1993, as well as numerous roles in the theatre.-Biography:...

    , 79, Argentine
    Argentina
    Argentina , officially the Argentine Republic , is the second largest country in South America by land area, after Brazil. It is constituted as a federation of 23 provinces and an autonomous city, Buenos Aires...

     actress, dementia
    Dementia
    Dementia is a serious loss of cognitive ability in a previously unimpaired person, beyond what might be expected from normal aging...

    . http://www.pagina12.com.ar/diario/ultimas/20-143822-2010-04-13.html (Spanish)
  • Andrea Cassone
    Andrea Cassone
    Andrea Cassone was the Roman Catholic archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Rossano-Cariati, Italy....

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

     Roman Catholic prelate
    Prelate
    A prelate is a high-ranking member of the clergy who is an ordinary or who ranks in precedence with ordinaries. The word derives from the Latin prælatus, the past participle of præferre, which means "carry before", "be set above or over" or "prefer"; hence, a prelate is one set over others.-Related...

    , Archbishop
    Archbishop
    An archbishop is a bishop of higher rank, but not of higher sacramental order above that of the three orders of deacon, priest , and bishop...

     of Rossano-Cariati
    Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Rossano-Cariati
    The Italian Catholic archdiocese of Rossano-Cariati, in Calabria, has existed under that name since 1986. It is a suffragan of the archdiocese of Cosenza-Bisignano.The diocese of Rossano became an archdiocese in 1460, without suffragans...

     (1992–2006). http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bcassone.html
  • Michel Chartrand
    Michel Chartrand
    Michel Chartrand was an union activist and leader from Quebec.Born in Outremont and trained as a typography and print worker, Chartrand become involved in union activism in the 1940s...

    , 93, Canadian
    Canada
    Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

     activist, kidney cancer
    Kidney cancer
    Kidney cancer is a type of cancer that starts in the cells in the kidney.The two most common types of kidney cancer are renal cell carcinoma and urothelial cell carcinoma of the renal pelvis...

    . http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/18/world/americas/18chartrand.html
  • Miguel Cinches
    Miguel Cinches
    Miguel Cinches was the Roman Catholic bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Surigao, Philippines.Ordained to the priesthood on October 22, 1961, Cinches was named bishop on January 10, 1973 and was ordained on March 24, 1973 resigning on April 21, 2001.-Notes:...

    , 78, Filipino
    Philippines
    The Philippines , officially known as the Republic of the Philippines , is a country in Southeast Asia in the western Pacific Ocean. To its north across the Luzon Strait lies Taiwan. West across the South China Sea sits Vietnam...

     Roman Catholic prelate
    Prelate
    A prelate is a high-ranking member of the clergy who is an ordinary or who ranks in precedence with ordinaries. The word derives from the Latin prælatus, the past participle of præferre, which means "carry before", "be set above or over" or "prefer"; hence, a prelate is one set over others.-Related...

    , Bishop
    Bishop
    A bishop is an ordained or consecrated member of the Christian clergy who is generally entrusted with a position of authority and oversight. Within the Catholic Church, Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox Churches, in the Assyrian Church of the East, in the Independent Catholic Churches, and in the...

     of Surigao
    Roman Catholic Diocese of Surigao
    The Roman Catholic Diocese of Surigao is a diocese of the Latin Rite of the Roman Catholic Church in the Philippines....

     (1973–2001). http://www.gmanews.tv/story/188270/retired-surigao-bishop-dies
  • Ambrosius Eßer
    Ambrosius Eßer
    Ambrosius Eßer OP was a German church historian and member of the Dominican Order. He was a recipient of both the Federal Cross of Merit and the Decoration for Services to the Republic of Austria. He died of a pulmonary embolism.-Reference:*...

    , 76, 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...

     Dominican
    Dominican Order
    The Order of Preachers , after the 15th century more commonly known as the Dominican Order or Dominicans, is a Catholic religious order founded by Saint Dominic and approved by Pope Honorius III on 22 December 1216 in France...

     clergy
    Clergy
    Clergy is the generic term used to describe the formal religious leadership within a given religion. A clergyman, churchman or cleric is a member of the clergy, especially one who is a priest, preacher, pastor, or other religious professional....

     and church historian
    Historian
    A historian is a person who studies and writes about the past and is regarded as an authority on it. Historians are concerned with the continuous, methodical narrative and research of past events as relating to the human race; as well as the study of all history in time. If the individual is...

    , pulmonary disease. http://www.liborius.de/nachrichten/ansicht/artikel/dominikanerp.html (German)
  • Wolfgang Graßl
    Wolfgang Graßl
    Wolfgang Graßl was a German skier, coach and businessman, who represented Germany on the junior level in the 1980s. He died of heart failure.-Reference:*...

    , 40, 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...

     skier
    Skiing
    Skiing is a recreational activity using skis as equipment for traveling over snow. Skis are used in conjunction with boots that connect to the ski with use of a binding....

     and coach
    Coaching
    Coaching, with a professional coach, is the practice of supporting an individual, referred to as the client or mentee or coachee, through the process of achieving a specific personal or professional result....

    , heart failure. http://www.merkur-online.de/sport/ski-star-hilde-gerg-trauert-ihren-mann-mm-712729.html (German)
  • Peter Haskell
    Peter Haskell
    Peter Abraham Haskell was an American actor who worked primarily in television.-Early years:Haskell was born in Boston, Massachusetts, the son of Rose Veronica Golden and geophysicist Norman Abraham Haskell...

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

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

     (Child's Play 2
    Child's Play 2
    Child's Play 2 is a 1990 American horror film, the sequel to Child's Play, written by Don Mancini and directed by John Lafia . It was released on November 9, 1990. Veteran actors Gerrit Graham and Emmy and BAFTA-winner Jenny Agutter, star as Andy's foster parents...

    ). http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-passings16-2010apr16,0,3124038.story
  • Edward Huniehu
    Edward Huniehu
    Edward Huniehu was a Solomon Islander politician and government minister. He served in Parliament during nonconsecutive terms from 1992 until 2010. Huniehu was one of the longest-serving members of parliament at the time of his death in 2010.Huniehu was first elected to the National Parliament of...

    , Solomon Islander
    Solomon Islands
    Solomon Islands is a sovereign state in Oceania, east of Papua New Guinea, consisting of nearly one thousand islands. It covers a land mass of . The capital, Honiara, is located on the island of Guadalcanal...

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

    , after long illness. http://www.onetelevision.com.sb/index.php/national-news/government/12869-mps-pay-tribute-to-the-late-edward-huniehu
  • Běla Kolářová
    Bela Kolárová
    Běla Kolářová née Helclová was a Czech artist and photographer.Běla Kolářová belongs to the generation which touched off an iconoclastic revolution and "rearmament" in Czech art during the 1960s...

    , 87, Czech
    Czech Republic
    The Czech Republic is a landlocked country in Central Europe. The country is bordered by Poland to the northeast, Slovakia to the east, Austria to the south, and Germany to the west and northwest....

     photographer. http://kultura.ihned.cz/c1-42489120-vytvarnice-bela-kolarova-zemrela-vetsinu-zivota-tvorila-ve-stinu-manzela-jiriho (Czech)
  • James F. Masterson
    James F. Masterson
    James F. Masterson was a prominent American psychiatrist.James Francis Masterson was born March 25, 1926, in Elkins Park, Pennsylvania. He was an internationally recognized psychiatrist who helped inaugurate a new approach to the study and treatment of personality disorders including borderline...

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

     psychiatrist
    Psychiatrist
    A psychiatrist is a physician who specializes in the diagnosis and treatment of mental disorders. All psychiatrists are trained in diagnostic evaluation and in psychotherapy...

    , complication
    Complication (medicine)
    Complication, in medicine, is an unfavorable evolution of a disease, a health condition or a medical treatment. The disease can become worse in its severity or show a higher number of signs, symptoms or new pathological changes, become widespread throughout the body or affect other organ systems. A...

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

    . http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/19/us/19masterson.html
  • Palito
    Palito
    Palito was a veteran Filipino slapstick comedian and actor who was at the height of his career in the 1970s and 80s...

    , 75, Filipino
    Philippines
    The Philippines , officially known as the Republic of the Philippines , is a country in Southeast Asia in the western Pacific Ocean. To its north across the Luzon Strait lies Taiwan. West across the South China Sea sits Vietnam...

     comedian
    Comedian
    A comedian or comic is a person who seeks to entertain an audience, primarily by making them laugh. This might be through jokes or amusing situations, or acting a fool, as in slapstick, or employing prop comedy...

    , respiratory disease
    Respiratory disease
    Respiratory disease is a medical term that encompasses pathological conditions affecting the organs and tissues that make gas exchange possible in higher organisms, and includes conditions of the upper respiratory tract, trachea, bronchi, bronchioles, alveoli, pleura and pleural cavity, and the...

    . http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/entertainment/04/12/10/palito-passes-away-age-76
  • Robert Pound
    Robert Pound
    Robert Vivian Pound was an American physicist who helped discover nuclear magnetic resonance and who devised the famous Pound-Rebka experiment supporting general relativity .Pound was born in Ridgeway, Ontario....

    , 90, Canadian
    Canada
    Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

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

     physicist
    Physicist
    A physicist is a scientist who studies or practices physics. Physicists study a wide range of physical phenomena in many branches of physics spanning all length scales: from sub-atomic particles of which all ordinary matter is made to the behavior of the material Universe as a whole...

    . http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/20/us/20pound.html
  • Stuart Robbins
    Stuart Robbins
    Stuart Robbins was a British basketball player from Neath in South Wales, who played at centre for the London Towers and Thames Valley in the British Basketball League and professionally in Germany, Belgium and in Limerick, Ireland. He had also played college basketball at Saint Joseph's...

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

     basketball
    Basketball
    Basketball is a team sport in which two teams of five players try to score points by throwing or "shooting" a ball through the top of a basketball hoop while following a set of rules...

     player. http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/other_sports/basketball/8617675.stm (body discovered on this date)
  • Werner Schroeter
    Werner Schroeter
    Werner Schroeter was a German film director and screenwriter, who some consider among the most important German writer-directors of the post-war period.-Biography:...

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

     film director
    Film director
    A film director is a person who directs the actors and film crew in filmmaking. They control a film's artistic and dramatic nathan roach, while guiding the technical crew and actors.-Responsibilities:...

    , after long illness. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/21/arts/artsspecial/21schroeter.html
  • Arnold Spohr
    Arnold Spohr
    Arnold Theodore Spohr, was a Canadian ballet dancer, choreographer, and artistic director.Spohr was born in Rhein, Saskatchewan...

    , 86, Canadian
    Canada
    Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

     artistic director
    Artistic director
    An artistic director is the executive of an arts organization, particularly in a theatre company, that handles the organization's artistic direction. He or she is generally a producer and director, but not in the sense of a mogul, since the organization is generally a non-profit organization...

     (Royal Winnipeg Ballet
    Royal Winnipeg Ballet
    The Royal Winnipeg Ballet, based in Winnipeg, Manitoba, is Canada's oldest ballet company and the longest continuously operating ballet company in North America....

    ), chronic kidney disease. http://www.thestar.com/entertainment/theatre/article/793881--arnold-spohr-86-helped-make-winnipeg-ballet-world-class
  • David B. Stone
    David B. Stone
    David Barnes Stone was an American businessman who led an investment firm called the North American Management Corp...

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

     businessman, principal founder of the New England Aquarium
    New England Aquarium
    The New England Aquarium is an aquarium located in Boston, Massachusetts.In addition to the main aquarium building, attractions at the New England Aquarium include the Simons IMAX Theatre and the New England Aquarium Whale Watch, which operates from April through November...

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

    . http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/obituaries/articles/2010/04/28/david_b_stone_helped_found_ne_aquarium/
  • Dale N. Van Vyven
    Dale N. Van Vyven
    Dale Van Vyven was a member of the Ohio House of Representatives from 1978-2000. His district consisted of a portion of Hamilton County, Ohio. He was succeeded by Wayne Coates. Van Vyven died on 12 April 2010 at the age of 74....

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

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

    , member of the Ohio House of Representatives
    Ohio House of Representatives
    The Ohio House of Representatives is the lower house of the Ohio General Assembly, the state legislature of the U.S. state of Ohio; the other house of the bicameral legislature being the Ohio Senate....

     (1978–2000). http://www.alec.org/Content/NavigationMenu/ALECNEWS/PressReleases/default.htm

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  • John Batchelor
    John Batchelor (racing)
    William John Batchelor , more commonly known as John Batchelor, was an English racing driver, businessman, political activist, and football investor. He was chairman of York City F.C...

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

     racing driver
    Auto racing
    Auto racing is a motorsport involving the racing of cars for competition. It is one of the world's most watched televised sports.-The beginning of racing:...

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

    , liver disease
    Liver disease
    Liver disease is a broad term describing any single number of diseases affecting the liver.-Diseases:* Hepatitis, inflammation of the liver, caused mainly by various viruses but also by some poisons , autoimmunity or hereditary conditions...

    . http://www.yorkpress.co.uk/news/8104098.Ex_York_City_chairman_has_died/
  • Jean Boiteux
    Jean Boiteux
    Jean Boiteux was a French swimmer and Olympic champion.He was born in Marseilles.He competed at the 1952 Olympic Games in Helsinki, where he received a gold medal in 400 m freestyle...

    , 76, 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...

     swimmer
    Swimming (sport)
    Swimming is a sport governed by the Fédération Internationale de Natation .-History: Competitive swimming in Europe began around 1800 BCE, mostly in the form of the freestyle. In 1873 Steve Bowyer introduced the trudgen to Western swimming competitions, after copying the front crawl used by Native...

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

     gold
    Gold medal
    A gold medal is typically the medal awarded for highest achievement in a non-military field. Its name derives from the use of at least a fraction of gold in form of plating or alloying in its manufacture...

     and bronze
    Bronze medal
    A bronze medal is a medal awarded to the third place finisher of contests such as the Olympic Games, Commonwealth Games, etc. The practice of awarding bronze third place medals began at the 1904 Olympic Games in St...

     medalist (1952
    Swimming at the 1952 Summer Olympics
    At the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki, a total number of eleven swimming events were contested, six for men and five for women. The events were held at the Swimming Stadium. There was a total of 319 participants from 48 countries competing.-Medal table:...

    ), fall
    Falling (accident)
    Falling is a major cause of personal injury, especially for the elderly. Builders, electricians, miners, and painters represent worker categories representing high rates of fall injuries. The WHO estimate that 392,000 people die in falls every year...

     from a tree. http://www.monstersandcritics.com/news/europe/news/article_1547519.php/French-Olympic-swimming-champion-Boiteux-dies-at-76
  • James Brody
    James Brody
    James Brody was an American composer, born in Clearfield, Pennsylvania. Frank J. Oteri of the American Music Center's New Music Box called Brody "an important figure in the development of electronic music in the Midwest"....

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

     composer
    Composer
    A composer is a person who creates music, either by musical notation or oral tradition, for interpretation and performance, or through direct manipulation of sonic material through electronic media...

    , traffic collision. http://www.newmusicbox.org/article.nmbx?id=6336
  • Rosa Roberto Carter
    Rosa Roberto Carter
    Rosa Roberto Carter, Ph.D., was a Guamanian educator who served as the President of the University of Guam from 1977 to 1983. Carter was inducted into the Guam Educator’s Hall of Fame though a legislative resolution. She died at her home in Yona, Guam, at the age of 80.-References:...

    , 80, Guam
    Guam
    Guam is an organized, unincorporated territory of the United States located in the western Pacific Ocean. It is one of five U.S. territories with an established civilian government. Guam is listed as one of 16 Non-Self-Governing Territories by the Special Committee on Decolonization of the United...

    anian educator, President
    President
    A president is a leader of an organization, company, trade union, university, or country.Etymologically, a president is one who presides, who sits in leadership...

     of the University of Guam
    University of Guam
    University of Guam is a four-year land-grant institution, located in the village of Mangilao on the island of Guam in the Western Pacific Ocean...

     (1977–1983). http://www.pacificnewscenter.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=4332:former-uog-president-carter-dies&catid=45:guam-news&Itemid=156
  • Vicki Draves, 85, American
    United States
    The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

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

     diver
    Diving
    Diving is the sport of jumping or falling into water from a platform or springboard, sometimes while performing acrobatics. Diving is an internationally-recognized sport that is part of the Olympic Games. In addition, unstructured and non-competitive diving is a recreational pastime.Diving is one...

    , pancreatic cancer
    Pancreatic cancer
    Pancreatic cancer refers to a malignant neoplasm of the pancreas. The most common type of pancreatic cancer, accounting for 95% of these tumors is adenocarcinoma, which arises within the exocrine component of the pancreas. A minority arises from the islet cells and is classified as a...

    . http://www.mydesert.com/article/20100423/NEWS01/4230307/1006/news01/Olympic+diver+Victoria+Draves+dies
  • Gerhard Geise
    Gerhard Geise
    Gerhard Paul Geise was a German mathematician and professor of pure mathematics.He died after a long serious illness in Dresden.-Works :* 1961: Über ähnlich-veränderliche ebene Systeme...

    , 80, 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...

     mathematician
    Mathematician
    A mathematician is a person whose primary area of study is the field of mathematics. Mathematicians are concerned with quantity, structure, space, and change....

    , after long illness. http://tu-dresden.de/die_tu_dresden/fakultaeten/fakultaet_mathematik_und_naturwissenschaften/fachrichtung_mathematik (German)
  • Hans-Joachim Göring
    Hans-Joachim Göring
    Hans-Joachim "Hansi" Göring was an East German footballer, coach and teacher. He played for BSG Turbine Weimar in the DDR-Liga. After his career, he studied sports and taught for 26 years in Erfurt. He also was a skilled decorator. He was married and had three children.- Reference :*...

    , 86, 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...

     footballer and coach
    Coaching
    Coaching, with a professional coach, is the practice of supporting an individual, referred to as the client or mentee or coachee, through the process of achieving a specific personal or professional result....

    . http://www.zcontent.de/eznews.php?news=1120045709&nummer=1271906405 (German)
  • Gert Haller
    Gert Haller
    Gert Haller was a German manager, politician and controversial lobbyist of the Austrian financial group Wüstenrot & Württembergische AG. He died after a long serious illness aged 65.-References:...

    , 65, 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...

     business manager
    Management
    Management in all business and organizational activities is the act of getting people together to accomplish desired goals and objectives using available resources efficiently and effectively...

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

    , after long illness. http://www.welt.de/die-welt/wirtschaft/article7159031/Staatssekretaer-Gert-Haller-gestorben.html (German)
  • Theodor Homann
    Theodor Homann
    Theodor Homann was a German footballer, coach and businessman. He played for 1. FC Nuremberg, VfR Mannheim, Westfalia Herne and Wuppertaler SV. He died unexpectedly of heart failure. He was married and had a daughter. He was born and died in Werne.- References :* * *...

    , 61, 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...

     footballer, heart failure. http://www.ruhrnachrichten.de/lokales/werne/sport/Sport-in-Werne-Sportszene-geschockt-Theo-Homann-ist-tot;art945,875111 (German)
  • Egon Hugenschmidt
    Egon Hugenschmidt
    Egon Hugenschmidt was a German jurist and mayor of Lörrach, Baden-Württemberg . He was a prisoner of war, created the twintown relation of Lörrach with Sens and was awarded with the Federal Cross of Merit.-Literature:* Gerhard Moehring: Vögte und Bürgermeister von Lörrach. in: Walter Jung, Gerhard...

    , 84, 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...

     jurist
    Jurist
    A jurist or jurisconsult is a professional who studies, develops, applies, or otherwise deals with the law. The term is widely used in American English, but in the United Kingdom and many Commonwealth countries it has only historical and specialist usage...

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

    . http://www.suedkurier.de/region/hochrhein/loerrach/Trauer-um-Egon-Hugenschmidt;art372612,4246328 (German)
  • Franz Kamin
    Franz Kamin
    Franz Kamin was a prolific American author, composer, and pianist whose works were modelled on topology, general systems theory, meditational processes, and chance operations....

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

     composer
    Composer
    A composer is a person who creates music, either by musical notation or oral tradition, for interpretation and performance, or through direct manipulation of sonic material through electronic media...

    , traffic collision. http://www.newmusicbox.org/article.nmbx?id=6336
  • Alby Linton
    Alby Linton
    Alby Linton was an Australian rules footballer who played for Footscray in the VFL.A rover, Linton was recruited from Footscray locally and made his debut in 1947...

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

    n footballer
    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...

    . http://www.meltonexpress.com.au/news/local/news/general/vale-alby-a-sporting-gent/1813694.aspx
  • Ruben Mendoza
    Ruben Mendoza
    Ruben Mendoza was an American soccer forward who was a dominant player in the St. Louis leagues during the 1950s and 1960s. He earned four caps with the U.S. national team and was a member of both the 1952 U.S. Olympic and 1956 U.S. Olympic teams.-Youth:Although he was born in St...

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

     soccer player, cerebral hemorrhage. http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/stories.nsf/deathsobituaries/story/BAD343798675B886862577040080F567?OpenDocument
  • Julia Tsenova
    Julia Tsenova
    Julia Tsenova , born in Sofia, Bulgaria, was an award-winning Bulgarian composer, pianist and musical pedagogue. She died of cancer at the age of 61.-Life and career:...

    , 61, Bulgaria
    Bulgaria
    Bulgaria , officially the Republic of Bulgaria , is a parliamentary democracy within a unitary constitutional republic in Southeast Europe. The country borders Romania to the north, Serbia and Macedonia to the west, Greece and Turkey to the south, as well as the Black Sea to the east...

    n composer
    Composer
    A composer is a person who creates music, either by musical notation or oral tradition, for interpretation and performance, or through direct manipulation of sonic material through electronic media...

     and musician
    Musician
    A musician is an artist who plays a musical instrument. It may or may not be the person's profession. Musicians can be classified by their roles in performing music and writing music.Also....* A person who makes music a profession....

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

    . http://www.kultura.bg/bg/article/view/16861 (Bulgarian)
  • Paz Yrarrázaval
    Paz Yrarrázaval
    Paz Eufrasia Yrarrázaval Donoso was a Chilean actress, best known for her work in television series during the 1980s and 1990s...

    , 78, 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 actress, rheumatoid arthritis
    Rheumatoid arthritis
    Rheumatoid arthritis is a chronic, systemic inflammatory disorder that may affect many tissues and organs, but principally attacks synovial joints. The process produces an inflammatory response of the synovium secondary to hyperplasia of synovial cells, excess synovial fluid, and the development...

    . http://latercera.com/contenido/1453_250445_9.shtml (Spanish)

10

  • Dixie Carter
    Dixie Carter
    Dixie Virginia Carter was an American film, television and stage actress, best known for her role as Julia Sugarbaker in the CBS sitcom Designing Women...

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

     actress (Designing Women
    Designing Women
    Designing Women is an American television sitcom that centered on the working and personal lives of four Southern women and one man in an interior design firm in Atlanta, Georgia. It aired on the CBS television network from September 29, 1986 until May 24, 1993. The show was created by head writer...

    , Diff'rent Strokes
    Diff'rent Strokes
    Diff'rent Strokes is an American television sitcom that aired on NBC from November 3, 1978 to May 4, 1985, and on ABC from September 27, 1985 to March 7, 1986...

    ), endometrial cancer
    Endometrial cancer
    Endometrial cancer refers to several types of malignancies that arise from the endometrium, or lining, of the uterus. Endometrial cancers are the most common gynecologic cancers in the United States, with over 35,000 women diagnosed each year. The incidence is on a slow rise secondary to the...

    . http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/12/arts/television/12carter.html
  • Arnold Kanter
    Arnold Kanter
    Arnold Kanter served as Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs from 1991 to 1993. He also held a position on the White House staff from 1989 to 1991 as Special Assistant to the President and served in a variety of capacities in the State Department from 1977 to 1985...

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

     diplomat
    Diplomacy
    Diplomacy is the art and practice of conducting negotiations between representatives of groups or states...

    , acute myelogenous leukemia. http://www.connectionnewspapers.com/article.asp?article=339570&paper=68&cat=104
  • Charles Meade
    Charles Meade
    Charles Meade was the leader of an end-of-times Christian church based in Lake City, Florida.Meade was born to a farming family in Oil Springs, Kentucky , the ninth child of his mother...

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

     pastor
    Pastor
    The word pastor usually refers to an ordained leader of a Christian congregation. When used as an ecclesiastical styling or title, this role may be abbreviated to "Pr." or often "Ps"....

    , founder of Meade Ministries
    Meade Ministries
    Meade Ministries is a cult church group located in Columbia County, Florida just south of Lake City, Florida. Their founder was Charles Meade , who relocated his ministry from South Dakota and Indiana to Lake City, Florida in 1984.Meade Ministries' current worship center was built in the mid-1990s...

    . http://www.firstcoastnews.com/news/topstories/news-article.aspx?storyid=154643&catid=3
  • Arthur Mercante, Sr., 90, American
    United States
    The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

     boxing referee
    Referee (boxing)
    The referee in the boxing is the individual charged with enforcing the rules of that sport during a match.-The role of the referee:Referees have the following roles:*Gives instructions to both boxers before the fight...

    . http://www.cbc.ca/sports/story/2010/04/10/sp-boxing-ref.html
  • Hiro Muramoto
    Hiro Muramoto
    was a Japanese cameraman and journalist, who worked for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation in Tokyo in the 1990s, and who reported for Reuters television for more than 15 years. Muramoto was based in Reuters' Tokyo bureau.-Career:...

    , 43, 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 news cameraman
    Camera operator
    A camera operator or cameraman is a professional operator of a film or video camera. In filmmaking, the leading cameraman is usually called a cinematographer, while a cameraman in a video production may be known as a television camera operator, video camera operator, or videographer, depending on...

     (Reuters
    Reuters
    Reuters is a news agency headquartered in New York City. Until 2008 the Reuters news agency formed part of a British independent company, Reuters Group plc, which was also a provider of financial market data...

    ), shot
    Ballistic trauma
    The term ballistic trauma refers to a form of physical trauma sustained from the discharge of arms or munitions. The most common forms of ballistic trauma stem from firearms used in armed conflicts, civilian sporting and recreational pursuits, and criminal activity.-Destructive effects:The degree...

    . http://www.webcitation.org/5oxJHAImi
  • Martin Ostwald
    Martin Ostwald
    Martin Ostwald was a German-American classical scholar, who taught until 1992 at Swarthmore College and the University of Pennsylvania...

    , 88, 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...

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

     classics
    Classics
    Classics is the branch of the Humanities comprising the languages, literature, philosophy, history, art, archaeology and other culture of the ancient Mediterranean world ; especially Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome during Classical Antiquity Classics (sometimes encompassing Classical Studies or...

     scholar. http://pennpress.typepad.com/pennpresslog/2010/04/martin-ostwald-19222010.html
  • Manfred Reichert
    Manfred Reichert
    Manfred „Manni“ Reichert was a German football defender. He played for Wuppertaler SV.-Literature:...

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

     footballer, after long illness. http://www.wz-wuppertal.de/?redid=804048 (German)
  • Sir Gordon Shattock
    Gordon Shattock
    Sir Gordon Shattock was a British Conservative Party's Western-area Chairman, who survived the 1984 Brighton bombing, which claimed the life of his first wife, Jeanne. He suffered sensory damage, particularly to his hearing.A native of Exeter, Shattock was educated at Hele's School...

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

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

    , survivor of the Brighton hotel bombing
    Brighton hotel bombing
    The Brighton hotel bombing happened on 12 October 1984 at the Grand Hotel in Brighton, England. The bomb was planted by Provisional Irish Republican Army member Patrick Magee, with the intention of assassinating Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and her cabinet who were staying at the hotel for the...

    . http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/politics-obituaries/7669698/Sir-Gordon-Shattock.html
  • William Walker
    William Walker (baritone)
    William Sterling Walker was a baritone with the Metropolitan Opera whose singing career included performances at the White House, at Carnegie Hall and other concert venues across North America and Europe, and some 60 appearances on The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson...

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

     opera singer. http://www.newsday.com/long-island/obituaries/william-walker-opera-baritone-dies-at-78-1.1860976
  • Notable Polish people
    Poland
    Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north...

     killed in the Polish Air Force Tu-154 plane crash
    2010 Polish Air Force Tu-154 crash
    The 2010 Polish Air Force Tu-154 crash occurred on 10 April 2010, when a Tupolev Tu-154M aircraft of the Polish Air Force crashed near the city of Smolensk, Russia, killing all 96 people on board...

    : http://www.krakowpost.com/article/2007
    • Joanna Agacka-Indecka
      Joanna Agacka-Indecka
      Joanna Agacka-Indecka was a Polish attorney, President of the Polish Bar Council from 2007 until 2010.-Biography:...

      , 45, attorney, President of the Bar Council (since 2007).
    • Andrzej Błasik
      Andrzej Błasik
      Andrzej Eugeniusz Błasik was a Lieutenant General in the Polish Armed Forces and a Commander of the Polish Air Force.Błasik was born in Poddębice, People's Republic of Poland...

      , 47, general, Chief of the Air Force
      Polish Air Force
      The Polish Air Force is the military Air Force wing of the Polish Armed Forces. Until July 2004 it was officially known as Wojska Lotnicze i Obrony Powietrznej...

       (since 2007).
    • Krystyna Bochenek
      Krystyna Bochenek
      Krystyna Maria Bochenek, née Neuman was a Polish politician, Vice-Marshal of the Senate of the Republic of Poland representing Civic Platform...

      , 56, senator, vice president of Senate.
    • Tadeusz Buk
      Tadeusz Buk
      Tadeusz Buk , was a Polish military figure. He received numerous military and civil awards, including the Order of Polonia Restituta....

      , 49, general, head of Land Forces
      Polish Land Forces
      The Polish Land Forces are a branch of Poland's Armed Forces. They currently contain some 65,000 active personnel and form many components of EU and NATO deployments around the world.-History:...

      .
    • Miron Chodakowski
      Miron Chodakowski
      Archbishop Miron , was a Polish religious figure.Chodakowski was born in Białystok. He served as Orthodox Ordinary of the Polish Army until being killed in the 2010 Polish Air Force Tu-154 crash near Smolensk.He entered the Orthodox Seminary of the Holy Spirit in Warsaw in 1972...

      , 52, Orthodox
      Polish Orthodox Church
      The Polish Autocephalous Orthodox Church, commonly known as the Polish Orthodox Church, , is one of the autocephalous Eastern Orthodox Churches in full communion...

       prelate
      Prelate
      A prelate is a high-ranking member of the clergy who is an ordinary or who ranks in precedence with ordinaries. The word derives from the Latin prælatus, the past participle of præferre, which means "carry before", "be set above or over" or "prefer"; hence, a prelate is one set over others.-Related...

      , Archbishop
      Archbishop
      An archbishop is a bishop of higher rank, but not of higher sacramental order above that of the three orders of deacon, priest , and bishop...

       of Military ordinariate of Poland
      Military ordinariate
      A military ordinariate is an ecclesiastical jurisdiction of the Roman Catholic Church, of Latin or Eastern Rite, responsible for the pastoral care of Catholics serving in the armed forces of a nation....

       (since 1998).
    • Czesław Cywiński
      Czesław Cywiński
      Czesław Justyn Cywiński was the President of the Association of Armia Krajowa Soldiers. He was among those killed in the 2010 Polish Air Force Tu-154 crash.-Honours and awards: Polonia Restituta 1st Class...

      , 84, President of the Association of Armia Krajowa
      Armia Krajowa
      The Armia Krajowa , or Home Army, was the dominant Polish resistance movement in World War II German-occupied Poland. It was formed in February 1942 from the Związek Walki Zbrojnej . Over the next two years, it absorbed most other Polish underground forces...

       Soldiers.
    • Leszek Deptuła
      Leszek Deptuła
      Leszek Roman Deptuła was a Polish veterinarian and politician, member of the Sejm. He was born in Żagań.Deptulas was listed on the flight manifest of the Tupolev Tu-154 of the 36th Special Aviation Regiment carrying the President of Poland Lech Kaczyński which crashed near Smolensk-North airport...

      , 57, member of the Sejm.
    • Grzegorz Dolniak
      Grzegorz Dolniak
      Grzegorz Maciej Dolniak was a Polish politician. He was elected to Sejm on 25 September 2005, getting 12,151 votes in the 32nd Sosnowiec district as a candidate from the Platforma Obywatelska list.He was listed on the flight manifest of the Tupolev Tu-154 of the 36th Special Aviation Regiment...

      , 50, member of the Sejm.
    • Janina Fetlińska
      Janina Fetlińska
      Janina Fetlińska was a member of the Polish Senate representing the Law and Justice party, a nurse....

      , 57, senator.
    • Franciszek Gągor
      Franciszek Gągor
      Franciszek Gągor was a Polish general, Chief of the General Staff of the Polish Armed Forces between 2006 and 2010....

      , 58, general, Chief of the General Staff (since 2006).
    • Grażyna Gęsicka
      Grazyna Gesicka
      Grażyna Gęsicka was a Polish sociologist and politician and a former Minister of Regional Development in Jarosław Kaczyński's government. From 2009 until her death she was the leader of Law and Justice parliamentary caucus.She was born in Warsaw...

      , 58, politician, Minister of Regional Development (2006–2007).
    • Kazimierz Gilarski
      Kazimierz Gilarski
      Brigadier General Kazimierz Gilarski was a Polish military figure, Commander of the Warsaw Garrison...

      , 54, Commander of the Warsaw Garrison.
    • Przemysław Gosiewski, 45, member of the Sejm, Deputy Prime Minister
      Deputy Prime Minister of the Republic of Poland
      Deputy Prime Minister of the Republic of Poland is the deputy of the Prime Minister of the Republic of Poland and member of the Council of Ministers of the Republic of Poland. He can also be one of the ministers of Poland.-People's Poland :...

       (2007).
    • Mariusz Handzlik
      Mariusz Handzlik
      Mariusz Handzlik was a Polish diplomat, the Undersecretary of State in the Office of the President of the Republic of Poland and since October, 2008 in charge of foreign policy....

      , 44, diplomat
      Diplomat
      A diplomat is a person appointed by a state to conduct diplomacy with another state or international organization. The main functions of diplomats revolve around the representation and protection of the interests and nationals of the sending state, as well as the promotion of information and...

      , Undersecretary of State in the Office of the President.
    • Izabela Jaruga-Nowacka
      Izabela Jaruga-Nowacka
      Izabela Jaruga-Nowacka was a Polish political figure who had served in the national Parliament since 1993 and, in May 2004, rose to become Deputy Prime Minister under Prime Minister Marek Belka, serving until October 2005, while also, concurrently, filling in his cabinet, from November 2004 to...

      , 59, member of the Sejm, Deputy Prime Minister (2004–2005).
    • Ryszard Kaczorowski
      Ryszard Kaczorowski
      Ryszard Kaczorowski was a Polish statesman. Between 1989 and 1990 he served as the last President of Poland in exile. He succeeded Kazimierz Sabbat and resigned his post following Poland's regaining independence from the Soviet sphere of influence and election of Lech Wałęsa as the first ...

      , 90, politician, President
      President of the Republic of Poland
      The President of the Republic of Poland is the Polish head of state. His or her rights and obligations are determined in the Constitution of Poland....

       in exile
      Polish government in Exile
      The Polish government-in-exile, formally known as the Government of the Republic of Poland in Exile , was the government in exile of Poland formed in the aftermath of the Invasion of Poland of September 1939, and the subsequent occupation of Poland by Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union, which...

       (1989–1990).
    • Maria Kaczyńska
      Maria Kaczynska
      Maria Kaczyńska was the First Lady of Poland from 2005-10 as the wife of Lech Kaczyński, late President of Poland.-Early and personal life:Born as Maria Helena Mackiewicz in Machowo to Lidia and Czesław Mackiewicz. Her father fought in the Vilnius Armia Krajowa , while an uncle fought in the...

      , 67, First Lady of Poland
      First Lady of Poland
      First Lady of the Republic of Poland is a title of the wife of the President of the Republic of Poland .The First Lady is currently Anna Komorowska....

       (since 2005), wife of Lech Kaczyński
      Lech Kaczynski
      Lech Aleksander Kaczyński was Polish lawyer and politician who served as the President of Poland from 2005 until 2010 and as Mayor of Warsaw from 2002 until 22 December 2005. Before he became a president, he was also a member of the party Prawo i Sprawiedliwość...

      .
    • Lech Kaczyński
      Lech Kaczynski
      Lech Aleksander Kaczyński was Polish lawyer and politician who served as the President of Poland from 2005 until 2010 and as Mayor of Warsaw from 2002 until 22 December 2005. Before he became a president, he was also a member of the party Prawo i Sprawiedliwość...

      , 60, President of Poland (since 2005).
    • Sebastian Karpiniuk
      Sebastian Karpiniuk
      Sebastian Marek Karpiniuk was a Polish politician.- Political career :Karpiniuk was an assistant to President of Kolobrzeg, Henryk Bienowski before becoming politically independent....

      , 37, member of the Sejm.
    • Andrzej Karweta
      Andrzej Karweta
      Andrzej Karweta was Vice Admiral of the Polish Navy and its commander-in-chief from November 2007 until his death in April 2010 in the Smolensk air crash..-Biography:...

      , 51, Vice Admiral
      Vice Admiral
      Vice admiral is a senior naval rank of a three-star flag officer, which is equivalent to lieutenant general in the other uniformed services. A vice admiral is typically senior to a rear admiral and junior to an admiral...

      , commander-in-chief
      Commander-in-Chief
      A commander-in-chief is the commander of a nation's military forces or significant element of those forces. In the latter case, the force element may be defined as those forces within a particular region or those forces which are associated by function. As a practical term it refers to the military...

       of the Navy
      Polish Navy
      The Marynarka Wojenna Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej - MW RP Polish Navy, is the branch of Republic of Poland Armed Forces responsible for naval operations...

      .
    • Mariusz Kazana
      Mariusz Kazana
      Mariusz Kazana was a Polish diplomat and political figure.Kazana was born in Bydgoszcz. He served as Director of Diplomatic Protocol in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs until his death in the 2010 Polish Air Force Tu-154 crash near Smolensk.-Honours and awards:Mariusz Kazana was a Polish diplomat...

      , 49, diplomat
      Diplomat
      A diplomat is a person appointed by a state to conduct diplomacy with another state or international organization. The main functions of diplomats revolve around the representation and protection of the interests and nationals of the sending state, as well as the promotion of information and...

      , Director of Diplomatic Protocol in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
    • Janusz Kochanowski
      Janusz Kochanowski
      Janusz Bogumił Kochanowski was a Polish lawyer, diplomat, and the Commissioner for Civil Rights Protection of the Republic of Poland .-Life and career:...

      , 69, lawyer and diplomat, Commissioner for Civil Rights Protection (Ombudsman)
      Polish Ombudsman
      The Polish Ombudsman is an independent central office of the Republic of Poland. The office was first established on January 1, 1988. Its functioning is regulated by the Constitution and an act of Polish parliament from July 15, 1987...

       (since 2006).
    • Stanisław Komornicki
      Stanisław Komornicki
      Stanisław Komornicki was a Brigadier General in the Polish Army and the Chancellor of the Order Virtuti Militari.He was born in Warsaw...

      , 85, general, Chancellor of the Order Virtuti Militari
      Virtuti Militari
      The Order Wojenny Virtuti Militari is Poland's highest military decoration for heroism and courage in the face of the enemy at war...

      .
    • Stanisław Komorowski
      Stanisław Komorowski
      Stanisław Jerzy Komorowski was a Polish diplomat and physicist. Komorowski was long-term Polish Ambassador to Great Britain and Holland, the Deputy Minister of National Defence and Deputy Foreign Affairs Minister...

      , 56, Deputy Defense Minister (since 2007), Ambassador to Holland (1994–1998) and UK
      Republic of Poland Ambassador to the United Kingdom
      The first permanent Polish diplomatic mission was created in late 18th century by the last king of Poland, Stanisław August Poniatowski. After partitions of Poland, there was over a century gap in diplomatic relations...

       (1999–2004).
    • Andrzej Kremer
      Andrzej Kremer
      Andrzej Kremer was a Polish lawyer and diplomat, the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Poland.He was listed on the flight manifest of the Tupolev Tu-154 of the 36th Special Aviation Regiment carrying the President of Poland Lech Kaczyński which crashed near Smolensk-North airport near Pechersk...

      , 48, lawyer and diplomat, Deputy Foreign Minister (since 2008).
    • Janusz Kurtyka
      Janusz Kurtyka
      Janusz Marek Kurtyka was a Polish historian, and from December 2005 until his death in the 2010 Polish Air Force Tu-154 crash, the second president of the Instytut Pamięci Narodowej ....

      , 49, historian
      Historian
      A historian is a person who studies and writes about the past and is regarded as an authority on it. Historians are concerned with the continuous, methodical narrative and research of past events as relating to the human race; as well as the study of all history in time. If the individual is...

      , president of the Institute of National Remembrance
      Institute of National Remembrance
      Institute of National Remembrance — Commission for the Prosecution of Crimes against the Polish Nation is a Polish government-affiliated research institute with lustration prerogatives and prosecution powers founded by specific legislation. It specialises in the legal and historical sciences and...

      .
    • Bronisław Kwiatkowski
      Bronisław Kwiatkowski
      Lieutenant General Bronisław Kwiatkowski was a Polish military figure, Commander of the Polish Armed Forces Operational Command...

      , 59, general, Commander of the Armed Forces Operational Command.
    • Tomasz Merta
      Tomasz Merta
      Tomasz Merta was a Polish historian and Polish Undersecretary of State from 2005-2010...

      , 44, Deputy Minister of Culture and National Heritage
      Ministry of Culture and National Heritage of the Republic of Poland
      Ministry of Culture and National Heritage of the Republic of Poland was formed on 31 October 2005, from transformation of Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Poland.The ministry is concerned with various aspects of Polish culture....

      .
    • Aleksandra Natalli-Świat
      Aleksandra Natalli-Swiat
      Aleksandra Natalli-Świat was a Polish economist and politician. She was elected to Sejm on September 25, 2005 getting 5068 votes in 3 Wrocław district, from the Law and Justice candidate list....

      , 51, member of the Sejm.
    • Piotr Nurowski
      Piotr Nurowski
      Piotr Nurowski was a Polish tennis player and the chief of the Polish Olympic Committee.Nurowski was born in Sandomierz. He died in Smolensk, Russia in the 2010 Polish Air Force Tu-154 crash....

      , 64, sports administrator
      Sport governing body
      A sport governing body is a sports organization that has a regulatory or sanctioning function. Sport governing bodies come in various forms, and have a variety of regulatory functions. Examples of this can include disciplinary action for rule infractions and deciding on rule changes in the sport...

      , head of the Polish Olympic Committee
      Polish Olympic Committee
      -List of presidents:* Stefan Lubomirski * Kazimierz Lubomirski * Kazimierz Glabisz * Alfred Loth * Włodzimierz Reczek * Bolesław Kapitan * Marian Renke * Bolesław Kapitan...

       (since 2005).
    • Maciej Płażyński, 52, member of the Sejm.
    • Tadeusz Płoski
      Tadeusz Płoski
      Tadeusz Płoski D.Sc., Ph.D. was a Polish military bishop and Major General. He was born in Lidzbark Warmiński....

      , 54, Roman Catholic
      Roman Catholicism in Poland
      Ever since Poland officially adopted Latin Christianity in 966, the Catholic Church has played an important religious, cultural and political role in the country....

       prelate
      Prelate
      A prelate is a high-ranking member of the clergy who is an ordinary or who ranks in precedence with ordinaries. The word derives from the Latin prælatus, the past participle of præferre, which means "carry before", "be set above or over" or "prefer"; hence, a prelate is one set over others.-Related...

      , Bishop
      Bishop (Catholic Church)
      In the Catholic Church, a bishop is an ordained minister who holds the fullness of the sacrament of Holy Orders and is responsible for teaching the Catholic faith and ruling the Church....

       of Military ordinariate of Poland
      Military ordinariate
      A military ordinariate is an ecclesiastical jurisdiction of the Roman Catholic Church, of Latin or Eastern Rite, responsible for the pastoral care of Catholics serving in the armed forces of a nation....

       (since 2004).
    • Włodzimierz Potasiński
      Włodzimierz Potasiński
      Włodzimierz Potasiński was a Polish military figure, commander-in-chief of the Polish Special Forces.Potasiński was born at Czeladź...

      , 53, Commander of the Special Forces.
    • Andrzej Przewoźnik
      Andrzej Przewoźnik
      Andrzej Przewoźnik was a Polish historian, Secretary of the Council for the Protection of Struggle and Martyrdom Sites....

      , 46, Secretary-General of the Council for the Protection of Struggle and Martyrdom Sites
      Council for the Protection of Struggle and Martyrdom Sites
      The Council for the Protection of Struggle and Martyrdom Sites is a Polish government body charged with the preservation of historical sites associated with the Polish nation...

      .
    • Krzysztof Putra
      Krzysztof Putra
      Krzysztof Jakub Putra was a Polish politician, a member of the Law and Justice . He served as a Deputy of the Senate Marshal from October 27, 2005 until November 4, 2007. He later became a Sejm member and PiS candidate for Sejm Marshal.Putra was born in Józefowo, Suwałki County...

      , 52, politician, Vice-Marshal of the Sejm
      Vice-Marshal of the Sejm of the Republic of Poland
      Deputy Marshal of the Sejm of the Republic of Poland is a person elected to preside over Sejm sessions when the Sejm Marshal is not presiding...

       (since 2007).
    • Ryszard Rumianek
      Ryszard Rumianek
      Ryszard Rumianek was the rector of Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University in Warsaw. He died in the 2010 Polish Air Force Tu-154 crash in Smolensk....

      , 62, rector
      Rector
      The word rector has a number of different meanings; it is widely used to refer to an academic, religious or political administrator...

       of the Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University in Warsaw
      Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski University in Warsaw
      Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University in Warsaw is a state university in Warsaw. It was founded 1999 and is named after Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński.- History :...

      .
    • Arkadiusz Rybicki
      Arkadiusz Rybicki
      Arkadiusz Czesław Rybicki was a Polish politician.-Biography:Rybicki was born in Gdynia. In the 1980s he was active in the Solidarity movement...

      , 57, member of the Sejm.
    • Wojciech Seweryn
      Wojciech Seweryn
      Wojciech Seweryn was a Polish-born sculptor and longtime resident of the United States.Seweryn was born in Tarnów, graduated from the School of Fine Arts in Tarnów, and studied at the Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts. He immigrated to Chicago in the mid-1970s...

      , 70, Polish-born American
      United States
      The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

       sculptor.
    • Sławomir Skrzypek
      Sławomir Skrzypek
      Sławomir Stanisław Skrzypek was the President of the National Bank of Poland from 2007 until his death in 2010...

      , 46, banker, President of National Bank of Poland
      National Bank of Poland
      Narodowy Bank Polski is the central bank of Poland. It controls the issuing of Poland's currency, the złoty. The Bank is headquartered in Warsaw, and has branches in every major Polish town...

      .
    • Władysław Stasiak, 44, Chief of the Office of the President.
    • Aleksander Szczygło, 46, politician, Minister of Defence (2007), chief of the National Security Bureau
      National Security Bureau (Poland)
      National Security Bureau is a Polish government agency executing the tasks given by the President of the Republic of Poland regarding national security. Bureau serves as the organizational support to the National Security Council....

       (since 2009).
    • Jerzy Szmajdziński
      Jerzy Szmajdzinski
      Jerzy Andrzej Szmajdziński was a Polish politician who was a Vice-Marshal of Polish Sejm and previously served as Minister of Defence. He was a candidate for President of Poland in the 2010 election....

      , 58, politician, Minister of Defence (2001–2005), Vice-Marshal of the Sejm
      Vice-Marshal of the Sejm of the Republic of Poland
      Deputy Marshal of the Sejm of the Republic of Poland is a person elected to preside over Sejm sessions when the Sejm Marshal is not presiding...

       (since 2007).
    • Jolanta Szymanek-Deresz
      Jolanta Szymanek-Deresz
      Jolanta Dorota Szymanek-Deresz was a Polish lawyer and politician.Szymanek-Deresz was born in Przedbórz. She was elected to Sejm on September 25, 2005, getting 9,723 votes in 16 Płock district, as a candidate for the Democratic Left Alliance....

      , 55, member of the Sejm.
    • Anna Walentynowicz
      Anna Walentynowicz
      Anna Walentynowicz was a Polish free trade union activist. Her firing in August 1980 was the event that ignited the strike at the Lenin Shipyard in Gdańsk that very quickly paralyzed the Baltic coast and a giant wave of strikes in Poland...

      , 80, trade unionist whose 1980 firing led to the creation of the Solidarity movement.
    • Zbigniew Wassermann
      Zbigniew Wassermann
      Zbigniew Wassermann was a Polish politician. He was an MP representing Law and Justice .Wassermann was born in Kraków...

      , 60, member of the Sejm.
    • Wiesław Woda, 63, member of the Sejm.
    • Edward Wojtas
      Edward Wojtas
      Edward Wojtas was a member of the Polish Sejm and a politician active in the Polish People's Party ....

      , 55, member of the Sejm.
    • Paweł Wypych
      Paweł Wypych
      Paweł Wypych was a Polish politician, former Deputy Minister of Labor and Social Insurance president, and from 2009 the Secretary of State in the Chancellery of the President of Poland.Wypych was born in Otwock...

      , 42, politician, Secretary of State (since 2009).
    • Stanisław Zając, 60, senator.
    • Janusz Zakrzeński
      Janusz Zakrzeński
      Janusz Zakrzeński was a Polish film and theatrical actor.Zakrzeński was born at Przededworze. He graduated from high school III LO in Wrocław, Poland, in 1953. He was an actor in the Juliusz Słowacki Theatre of Kraków , the Polski , the Nowy , and the Narodowy theatres of Warsaw...

      , 74, 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...

      .

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  • Bob Franks
    Bob Franks
    Robert Douglas "Bob" Franks was a Republican politician. He was a former U.S. Representative from New Jersey.-Biography:...

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

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

    , member of the House of Representatives from New Jersey
    New Jersey
    New Jersey is a state in the Northeastern and Middle Atlantic regions of the United States. , its population was 8,791,894. It is bordered on the north and east by the state of New York, on the southeast and south by the Atlantic Ocean, on the west by Pennsylvania and on the southwest by Delaware...

     (1993–2001), cancer
    Cancer
    Cancer , known medically as a malignant neoplasm, is a large group of different diseases, all involving unregulated cell growth. In cancer, cells divide and grow uncontrollably, forming malignant tumors, and invade nearby parts of the body. The cancer may also spread to more distant parts of the...

    . http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/04/11/AR2010041103622.html
  • Alastair Dowell
    Alastair Dowell
    Alastair McQueen Dowell was a Scottish cricketer. Dowell was a right-handed batsman who bowled right-arm fast-medium....

    , 89, Scottish
    Scotland
    Scotland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Occupying the northern third of the island of Great Britain, it shares a border with England to the south and is bounded by the North Sea to the east, the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, and the North Channel and Irish Sea to the...

     cricket
    Cricket
    Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of 11 players on an oval-shaped field, at the centre of which is a rectangular 22-yard long pitch. One team bats, trying to score as many runs as possible while the other team bowls and fields, trying to dismiss the batsmen and thus limit the...

    er. http://www.cover-point.com/post/Obituary-Alastair-McQueen-DOWELL.aspx
  • Hisashi Inoue, 75, 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 pacifist playwright
    Playwright
    A playwright, also called a dramatist, is a person who writes plays.The term is not a variant spelling of "playwrite", but something quite distinct: the word wright is an archaic English term for a craftsman or builder...

    , 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://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/fl20100418rp.html
  • Meir Just
    Meir Just
    Meir Just was the Chief Rabbi of Amsterdam. Just served as a spiritual leader for the Dutch Jewish community for more than 45 years, until his death in 2010....

    , 101, 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...

     rabbi, Chief Rabbi
    Chief Rabbi
    Chief 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 the Netherlands. http://www.rnw.nl/english/article/dutch-chief-rabbi-meir-just-dies-aged-101
  • Robert Lau Hoi Chew
    Robert Lau Hoi Chew
    Datuk Robert Lau Hoi Chew was a Malaysian politician. He represented Sibu in the Parliament of Malaysia from 1990 until his death in 2010, and served as Deputy Minister for Transport from April 2009 until his death...

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

    , Deputy Minister for Transport, liver cancer
    Liver cancer
    Liver tumors or hepatic tumors are tumors or growths on or in the liver . Several distinct types of tumors can develop in the liver because the liver is made up of various cell types. These growths can be benign or malignant...

    . http://www.thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2010/4/9/nation/20100409124155&sec=nation
  • Gisela Karau
    Gisela Karau
    Gisela Karau was an East German journalist and author of children's literature. Born in Berlin, she was married and had two children.- Life :...

    , 78, 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...

     author
    Author
    An author is broadly defined as "the person who originates or gives existence to anything" and that authorship determines responsibility for what is created. Narrowly defined, an author is the originator of any written work.-Legal significance:...

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

     and columnist
    Columnist
    A columnist is a journalist who writes for publication in a series, creating an article that usually offers commentary and opinions. Columns appear in newspapers, magazines and other publications, including blogs....

    , after long illness. http://www.neues-deutschland.de/artikel/168831.talent-zur-ermutigung.html (German)
  • Dario Mangiarotti
    Dario Mangiarotti
    Dario Mangiarotti was an Italian fencer who competed at the 1948 and 1952 Summer Olympics and medaled in seven World Championships. He was born in Milan, the son of Giuseppe Mangiarotti, a fencer at the 1908 Summer Olympics in London...

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

     fencer
    Fencing
    Fencing, which is also known as modern fencing to distinguish it from historical fencing, is a family of combat sports using bladed weapons.Fencing is one of four sports which have been featured at every one of the modern Olympic Games...

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

     gold
    Gold medal
    A gold medal is typically the medal awarded for highest achievement in a non-military field. Its name derives from the use of at least a fraction of gold in form of plating or alloying in its manufacture...

     (1952
    Fencing at the 1952 Summer Olympics
    At the 1952 Summer Olympics, seven fencing events were contested, six for men and one for women.-Medal summary:-Medal table:-Participating nations:A total of 286 fencers from 32 nations competed at the Helsikni Games:...

    ) and silver
    Silver medal
    A silver medal is a medal awarded to the second place finisher of contests such as the Olympic Games, Commonwealth Games, and contests with similar formats....

     (1948
    Fencing at the 1948 Summer Olympics
    At the 1948 Summer Olympics, seven fencing events were contested, six for men and one for women.-Medal summary:-Medal table:-Participating nations:A total of 294 fencers from 30 nations competed at the London Games:...

    , 1952) medalist. http://quotidianonet.ilsole24ore.com/sport/2010/04/09/316297-scherma_morto_dario_mangiarotti.shtml (Italian)
  • Kenneth McKellar
    Kenneth McKellar (singer)
    Kenneth McKellar was a Scottish tenor.-Career:McKellar studied forestry at the University of Aberdeen, after graduation working for the Scottish Forestry Commission. He later trained at the Royal College of Music as an opera singer...

    , 82, Scottish
    Scotland
    Scotland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Occupying the northern third of the island of Great Britain, it shares a border with England to the south and is bounded by the North Sea to the east, the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, and the North Channel and Irish Sea to the...

     singer, pancreatic cancer
    Pancreatic cancer
    Pancreatic cancer refers to a malignant neoplasm of the pancreas. The most common type of pancreatic cancer, accounting for 95% of these tumors is adenocarcinoma, which arises within the exocrine component of the pancreas. A minority arises from the islet cells and is classified as a...

    . http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/glasgow_and_west/8612398.stm
  • Jacob O. Meyer
    Jacob O. Meyer
    Jacob Owen Meyer was the founder and directing elder of the Assemblies of Yahweh and its institutions, the Obadiah School of the Bible and Dalet School...

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

     religious sect leader (Assemblies of Yahweh
    Assemblies of Yahweh
    The Assemblies of Yahweh is a nonprofit religious organization with its international headquarters in Bethel, Pennsylvania. The organization developed independently out of a radio ministry begun by Elder Jacob O. Meyer in 1966...

    ). http://www.assembliesofyahweh.com/
  • Meinhardt Raabe
    Meinhardt Raabe
    Meinhardt Frank Raabe was an American actor. He was one of the last surviving Munchkin-actors in The Wizard of Oz, and was also the last surviving cast member with any dialogue in the film...

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

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

     (The Wizard of Oz
    The Wizard of Oz (1939 film)
    The Wizard of Oz is a 1939 American musical fantasy film produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. It was directed primarily by Victor Fleming. Noel Langley, Florence Ryerson and Edgar Allan Woolf received credit for the screenplay, but there were uncredited contributions by others. The lyrics for the songs...

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

    . http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/10/movies/10raabe.html
  • Peter Ramsbotham, 3rd Viscount Soulbury, 90, 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...

     diplomat
    Diplomat
    A diplomat is a person appointed by a state to conduct diplomacy with another state or international organization. The main functions of diplomats revolve around the representation and protection of the interests and nationals of the sending state, as well as the promotion of information and...

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

    , Governor of Bermuda
    Governor of Bermuda
    The Governor of Bermuda is the representative of the British monarch in the British overseas territory of Bermuda. The Governor is appointed by the monarch on the advice of the British government...

     (1977–1980). http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/7572020/Former-British-ambassador-to-Iran-and-US-dies.html
  • Lou Ritter
    Lou Ritter
    Louis Hampton "Lou" Ritter was an American politician and lobbyist. He served as mayor of Jacksonville, Florida from 1965 until 1967. A Democrat, he assumed office when W. Haydon Burns, mayor since 1949, resigned to become Governor of Florida...

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

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

    , Mayor of Jacksonville, Florida
    Jacksonville, Florida
    Jacksonville is the largest city in the U.S. state of Florida in terms of both population and land area, and the largest city by area in the contiguous United States. It is the county seat of Duval County, with which the city government consolidated in 1968...

     (1965–1967), cancer
    Cancer
    Cancer , known medically as a malignant neoplasm, is a large group of different diseases, all involving unregulated cell growth. In cancer, cells divide and grow uncontrollably, forming malignant tumors, and invade nearby parts of the body. The cancer may also spread to more distant parts of the...

    . http://jacksonville.com/news/metro/2010-04-10/story/louis-ritter-former-jacksonville-mayor-dies-84
  • Guyford Stever
    Guyford Stever
    Horton Guyford Stever was an American administrator, physicist, educator, and engineer.-Biography:Stever was raised in Corning, New York, principally by his maternal grandmother. He played football in high school...

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

     educator and science adviser, President of Carnegie Mellon University
    Carnegie Mellon University
    Carnegie Mellon University is a private research university in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States....

     (1965–1972). http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/14/science/space/14stever.html
  • Kerstin Thorvall
    Kerstin Thorvall
    Kerstin Thorvall was a Swedish author of fictional works.She died after a long illness in an elderly care facility.-References:...

    , 84, Swedish
    Sweden
    Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....

     author
    Author
    An author is broadly defined as "the person who originates or gives existence to anything" and that authorship determines responsibility for what is created. Narrowly defined, an author is the originator of any written work.-Legal significance:...

    , illustrator
    Illustrator
    An Illustrator is a narrative artist who specializes in enhancing writing by providing a visual representation that corresponds to the content of the associated text...

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

    , after long illness. http://www.thelocal.se/25998/20100410/
  • Zoltán Varga
    Zoltán Varga (footballer)
    Zoltán Varga was a Hungarian football player who played in the 1960s and 1970s.He was an Olympic gold medalist at the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo. He played for Ferencváros when they won the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup in 1965, beating Juventus 1-0 in the final...

    , 65, Hungarian
    Hungary
    Hungary , officially the Republic of Hungary , is a landlocked country in Central Europe. It is situated in the Carpathian Basin and is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine and Romania to the east, Serbia and Croatia to the south, Slovenia to the southwest and Austria to the west. The...

     footballer. http://sport.scotsman.com/football/Aberdeen-legend-Zoltan-Varga-65.6217465.jp

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  • Jack Agnew
    Jack Agnew
    Private First Class John J. "Jack" Agnew, USA was a United States Army private first class in World War II, a member of the Filthy Thirteen, whose exploits inspired the novel and movie The Dirty Dozen.-Biography:...

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

     soldier
    Soldier
    A soldier is a member of the land component of national armed forces; whereas a soldier hired for service in a foreign army would be termed a mercenary...

    , member of the Filthy Thirteen
    Filthy Thirteen
    The Filthy Thirteen was the name given to a sub-unit of the regimental headquarters of the 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division, of the United States Army, which fought in the European campaign in World War II. This unit was selected and trained to demolish enemy targets...

    , inspiration for The Dirty Dozen
    The Dirty Dozen
    The Dirty Dozen is a 1967 film directed by Robert Aldrich and released by MGM. It was filmed in England and features an ensemble cast, including Lee Marvin, Ernest Borgnine, Charles Bronson, Jim Brown, John Cassavetes, Telly Savalas, and Robert Webber. The film is based on E. M...

    . http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/obituaries/articles/2010/04/13/john_agnew_served_in_unit_that_inspired_dirty_dozen/
  • Mark Colville, 4th Viscount Colville of Culross, 76, British
    United Kingdom
    The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...

     judge
    Judge
    A judge is a person who presides over court proceedings, either alone or as part of a panel of judges. The powers, functions, method of appointment, discipline, and training of judges vary widely across different jurisdictions. The judge is supposed to conduct the trial impartially and in an open...

     and hereditary peer
    Hereditary peer
    Hereditary peers form part of the Peerage in the United Kingdom. There are over seven hundred peers who hold titles that may be inherited. Formerly, most of them were entitled to sit in the House of Lords, but since the House of Lords Act 1999 only ninety-two are permitted to do so...

    . http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/timesonline-uk/obituary.aspx?n=mark-colville&pid=141796190
  • Antony Flew
    Antony Flew
    Antony Garrard Newton Flew was a British philosopher. Belonging to the analytic and evidentialist schools of thought, he was notable for his works on the philosophy of religion....

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

     philosopher, after long illness. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/17/arts/17flew.html
  • Guy Kewney
    Guy Kewney
    Guy Kewney was a South African-born British journalist, regarded by some as the first UK technology journalist. He was best known as a personal computing pundit, starting with Personal Computer World writing a monthly column for the magazine from its launch in 1978 until its closure in June 2009...

    , 63, 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...

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

     (Personal Computer World
    Personal Computer World
    Personal Computer World was a long-running British Computer magazine.Although for at least the last decade it contained a high proportion of Windows PC content , the magazine's title was not intended as a specific reference to this...

    ), colorectal cancer
    Colorectal cancer
    Colorectal cancer, commonly known as bowel cancer, is a cancer caused by uncontrolled cell growth , in the colon, rectum, or vermiform appendix. Colorectal cancer is clinically distinct from anal cancer, which affects the anus....

    . http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/04/08/guy_kewney/
  • Aladár Kovácsi
    Aladár Kovácsi
    Aladár Kovácsi was a Hungarian modern pentathlete and Olympic champion.-Olympics:Kovácsi received a gold medal in modern pentathlon at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki with the Hungarian team....

    , 77, Hungarian
    Hungary
    Hungary , officially the Republic of Hungary , is a landlocked country in Central Europe. It is situated in the Carpathian Basin and is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine and Romania to the east, Serbia and Croatia to the south, Slovenia to the southwest and Austria to the west. The...

     modern pentathlete
    Modern pentathlon
    The modern pentathlon is a sports contest that includes five events: pistol shooting, épée fencing, 200 m freestyle swimming, show jumping, and a 3 km cross-country run...

    , Olympic gold medalist (Helsinki 1952
    Modern pentathlon at the 1952 Summer Olympics
    At the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki, two events in modern pentathlon were contested. For the first time, a team event was part of the Olympic program.-Medal summary:-Medal table:...

    ). http://www.mob.hu/engine.aspx?page=showcontent&content=memoriam_kovacsialadar (Hungarian)
  • Andreas Kunze
    Andreas Kunze
    Andreas Kunze was a German actor and photographer.-References:*...

    , 57, 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...

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

    , heart failure. http://www.jutta-schafmeister.de/andreas-kunze/ (German)
  • Malcolm McLaren
    Malcolm McLaren
    Malcolm Robert Andrew McLaren was an English performer, impresario, self-publicist and manager of the Sex Pistols and the New York Dolls...

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

     musician
    Musician
    A musician is an artist who plays a musical instrument. It may or may not be the person's profession. Musicians can be classified by their roles in performing music and writing music.Also....* A person who makes music a profession....

     and band manager (Sex Pistols
    Sex Pistols
    The Sex Pistols were an English punk rock band that formed in London in 1975. They were responsible for initiating the punk movement in the United Kingdom and inspiring many later punk and alternative rock musicians...

    , New York Dolls
    New York Dolls
    The 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...

    , Bow Wow Wow
    Bow Wow Wow
    Bow Wow Wow were an English 1980s New Wave band created by Malcolm McLaren to promote his and business partner Vivienne Westwood's New Romantic fashion lines.The group's music is described as having an "African-derived drum sound".-History:...

    ), mesothelioma
    Mesothelioma
    Mesothelioma, more precisely malignant mesothelioma, is a rare form of cancer that develops from the protective lining that covers many of the body's internal organs, the mesothelium...

    . http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/news/malcolm-mclaren-dies-aged-64-1939621.html
  • Abel Muzorewa
    Abel Muzorewa
    Bishop Abel Tendekayi Muzorewa served as Prime Minister of Zimbabwe Rhodesia from the Internal Settlement to the Lancaster House Agreement in 1979...

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

    an Methodist bishop
    Bishop
    A bishop is an ordained or consecrated member of the Christian clergy who is generally entrusted with a position of authority and oversight. Within the Catholic Church, Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox Churches, in the Assyrian Church of the East, in the Independent Catholic Churches, and in the...

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

    , Prime Minister of Zimbabwe Rhodesia
    Prime Minister of Zimbabwe Rhodesia
    Prime Minister of Zimbabwe Rhodesia was a short-lived office in the Republic of Zimbabwe Rhodesia. It was never internationally recognized.The only Prime Minister of Zimbabwe Rhodesia was Abel Muzorewa who ruled from 1 June 1979 until 12 December 1979 when the country was taken into...

     (1979). http://allafrica.com/stories/201004090030.html
  • Richard Olasz
    Richard Olasz
    Richard D. Olasz is a former Democratic member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives.-References:...

    , 79, American politician, member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives
    Pennsylvania House of Representatives
    The Pennsylvania House of Representatives is the lower house of the bicameral Pennsylvania General Assembly, the legislature of the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. There are 203 members, elected for two year terms from single member districts....

     (1981–1998). http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10100/1049330-122.stm
  • Personal Ensign
    Personal Ensign
    Personal Ensign was an American champion Thoroughbred racehorse.A bay filly by Private Account out of Grecian Banner , she was the undefeated winner of 13 races and won $1,679,880 in the United States from 1986 to 1988...

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

     Thoroughbred
    Thoroughbred
    The Thoroughbred is a horse breed best known for its use in horse racing. Although the word thoroughbred is sometimes used to refer to any breed of purebred horse, it technically refers only to the Thoroughbred breed...

     racehorse, Hall of Famer
    National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame
    The National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame was founded in 1950 in Saratoga Springs, New York, to honor the achievements of American thoroughbred race horses, jockeys, and trainers...

    , natural causes
    Death by natural causes
    A death by natural causes, as recorded by coroners and on death certificates and associated documents, is one that is primarily attributed to natural agents: usually an illness or an internal malfunction of the body. For example, a person dying from complications from influenza or a heart attack ...

    . http://sports.espn.go.com/sports/horse/news/story?id=5071142
  • Al Prince
    Al Prince
    Al Prince was an American-born French Polynesian journalist and tourism expert. Prince was regarded as one of French Polynesia's leading experts on tourism for more than 39 years....

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

    -born French Polynesia
    French Polynesia
    French Polynesia is an overseas country of the French Republic . It is made up of several groups of Polynesian islands, the most famous island being Tahiti in the Society Islands group, which is also the most populous island and the seat of the capital of the territory...

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

     and tourism
    Tourism
    Tourism is travel for recreational, leisure or business purposes. The World Tourism Organization defines tourists as people "traveling to and staying in places outside their usual environment for not more than one consecutive year for leisure, business and other purposes".Tourism has become a...

     expert, after long illness. http://en.tahitipresse.pf/2010/04/senior-journalist-al-prince-dies-in-tahiti/
  • Jean-Paul Proust
    Jean-Paul Proust
    Jean-Paul Proust was the Minister of State of Monaco. He held that position from 1 June 2005 until 29 March 2010, having been appointed three months earlier by the prince and the French government...

    , 70, Monégasque
    Monaco
    Monaco , officially the Principality of Monaco , is a sovereign city state on the French Riviera. It is bordered on three sides by its neighbour, France, and its centre is about from Italy. Its area is with a population of 35,986 as of 2011 and is the most densely populated country in the...

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

    , Minister of State
    Minister of State (Monaco)
    The Minister of State is the head of the government of Monaco, though he is appointed by and subordinate to the Prince or Princess of Monaco. During his term, he is responsible for leading the government's action and is in charge of foreign relations...

     (2005–2010). http://mediterranee.france3.fr/info/cote-d-azur/jean-paul-proust-est-decede-62400600.html (French)
  • John Schoenherr
    John Schoenherr
    John Schoenherr was an American illustrator.Schoenherr may be best known as the original illustrator for Dune by Frank Herbert, creating the canonical images for elements such as sandworms. However, he is also very well known as a wildlife artist and children's book illustrator, with over forty...

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

     illustrator
    Illustrator
    An Illustrator is a narrative artist who specializes in enhancing writing by providing a visual representation that corresponds to the content of the associated text...

    , Caldecott Medal
    Caldecott Medal
    The Caldecott Medal is awarded annually by the Association for Library Service to Children , a division of the American Library Association, to the artist of the most distinguished American picture book for children published that year. The award was named in honor of nineteenth-century English...

     winner, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
    Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
    Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease , also known as chronic obstructive lung disease , chronic obstructive airway disease , chronic airflow limitation and chronic obstructive respiratory disease , is the co-occurrence of chronic bronchitis and emphysema, a pair of commonly co-existing diseases...

    . http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/obituaries/articles/2010/04/16/john_schoenherr_illustrated_dune_childrens_books/
  • Teddy Scholten
    Teddy Scholten
    Dorothea Margaretha "Teddy" Scholten was a Dutch singer from Rijswijk, close to The Hague, Netherlands....

    , 83, 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...

     singer. http://www.oikotimes.com/v2/index.php?file=articles&id=7861
  • Ramchandra Siras
    Ramchandra Siras
    Shrinivas Ramchandra Siras was an Indian linguist and author.- Life :After school in Nagpur Siras studied psychology and linguistics at Nagpur University in India. In 1985 he got his PhD in Marathi and a master in psychology. He finished university studies and became a professor at Aligarh Muslim...

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

    n linguist and author
    Author
    An author is broadly defined as "the person who originates or gives existence to anything" and that authorship determines responsibility for what is created. Narrowly defined, an author is the originator of any written work.-Legal significance:...

    . http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/lucknow/Gay-prof-was-known-as-a-literary-genius/articleshow/5775959.cms

7

  • Christopher Cazenove
    Christopher Cazenove
    Christopher Cazenove was an English cinema, television and stage actor.-Early life and career:He was born Christopher de Lerisson Cazenove, the son of Arnold de Lerisson Cazenove and Elizabeth Laura in Winchester, Hampshire, but was brought up in Bowlish, Somerset...

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

     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...

     (Dynasty
    Dynasty (TV series)
    Dynasty is an American prime time television soap opera that aired on ABC from January 12, 1981 to May 11, 1989. It was created by Richard & Esther Shapiro and produced by Aaron Spelling, and revolved around the Carringtons, a wealthy oil family living in Denver, Colorado...

    ), sepsis
    Sepsis
    Sepsis 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://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8608520.stm
  • Dixieland Band
    Dixieland Band
    Dixieland Band is an American Thoroughbred racehorse. He was bred by Bayard Sharp, a prominent and highly respected Delaware horseman and president of The Blood-Horse Inc. Out of the Sharp-owned multiple stakes winning mare, Mississippi Mud, he was a son of the 20th century's most influential...

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

     Thoroughbred
    Thoroughbred
    The Thoroughbred is a horse breed best known for its use in horse racing. Although the word thoroughbred is sometimes used to refer to any breed of purebred horse, it technically refers only to the Thoroughbred breed...

     racehorse
    Horse racing
    Horse racing is an equestrian sport that has a long history. Archaeological records indicate that horse racing occurred in ancient Babylon, Syria, and Egypt. Both chariot and mounted horse racing were events in the ancient Greek Olympics by 648 BC...

    , euthanized
    Animal euthanasia
    Animal euthanasia is the act of putting to death painlessly or allowing to die, as by withholding extreme medical measures, an animal suffering from an incurable, especially a painful, disease or condition. Euthanasia methods are designed to cause minimal pain and distress...

    . https://www.bloodhorse.com/horse-racing/articles/56332/dixieland-band-euthanized-at-age-30
  • Graciela
    Graciela
    Graciela was a Cuban-American singer of Latin Jazz, known as The First Lady of Latin Jazz.-Biography:Graciela Pérez-Gutiérrez was born in Havana, Cuba and raised in the Afro-Cuban Jesús María neighborhood. A pioneer in music, as a black Cuban woman, in a so-called man's world, she opened doors for...

    , 94, Cuba
    Cuba
    The Republic of Cuba is an island nation in the Caribbean. The nation of Cuba consists of the main island of Cuba, the Isla de la Juventud, and several archipelagos. Havana is the largest city in Cuba and the country's capital. Santiago de Cuba is the second largest city...

    n singer, renal
    Renal failure
    Renal failure or kidney failure describes a medical condition in which the kidneys fail to adequately filter toxins and waste products from the blood...

     and pulmonary failure. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/09/arts/music/09graciela.html
  • Eddie Johnson
    Eddie Johnson (musician)
    Edwin Lawrence "Eddie" Johnson was an American jazz and blues tenor saxophonist. He was born in Napoleonville, Louisiana, United States....

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

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

     musician
    Musician
    A musician is an artist who plays a musical instrument. It may or may not be the person's profession. Musicians can be classified by their roles in performing music and writing music.Also....* A person who makes music a profession....

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

    . http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/music/ct-live-0408-johnson-20100408,0,646149.column?page=1
  • Takuya Kimura
    Takuya Kimura (baseball)
    was a Japanese baseball player for the Yomiuri Giants. He previously played for the Hiroshima Toyo Carp before being traded to the Giants in 2006. He played for the Giants through the 2009 season before retiring as a player, returning to the Giants for 2010 in a coaching capacity.Kimura was born in...

    , 37, 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 baseball
    Baseball
    Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each. The aim is to score runs by hitting a thrown ball with a bat and touching a series of four bases arranged at the corners of a ninety-foot diamond...

     player and coach
    Coach (baseball)
    In baseball, a number of coaches assist in the smooth functioning of a team. They are assistants to the manager, or head coach, who determines the lineup and decides how to substitute players during the game...

    , subarachnoid hemorrhage
    Subarachnoid hemorrhage
    A subarachnoid hemorrhage , or subarachnoid haemorrhage in British English, is bleeding into the subarachnoid space—the area between the arachnoid membrane and the pia mater surrounding the brain...

    . http://jp.newses.net/news/article/id/aeca3c435726a4bc51a9395db8a7d4a0/
  • Oscar Kramer
    Oscar Kramer
    Oscar Kramer was an Argentine film producer. He was born in Buenos Aires. He worked in the cinema of Argentina.-Filmography:* Eversmile, New Jersey * Alambrado aka Barbed Wire...

    , 72, Argentine
    Argentina
    Argentina , officially the Argentine Republic , is the second largest country in South America by land area, after Brazil. It is constituted as a federation of 23 provinces and an autonomous city, Buenos Aires...

     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...

    , after long illness. http://westernboothill.blogspot.com/2010/04/rip-oscar-kramer.html
  • Chris Limahelu
    Chris Limahelu
    Chris Limahelu was place kicker for the USC Trojans football team during the 1973 and 1974 seasons when John McKay was the head coach.Only and during his playing career, he is remembered for setting new team records...

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

     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...

     place kicker (USC
    University of Southern California
    The University of Southern California is a private, not-for-profit, nonsectarian, research university located in Los Angeles, California, United States. USC was founded in 1880, making it California's oldest private research university...

    ), prostate cancer
    Prostate cancer
    Prostate cancer is a form of cancer that develops in the prostate, a gland in the male reproductive system. Most prostate cancers are slow growing; however, there are cases of aggressive prostate cancers. The cancer cells may metastasize from the prostate to other parts of the body, particularly...

    . http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-passings8-2010apr08,0,3940387.story
  • J. Bruce Llewellyn
    J. Bruce Llewellyn
    J. Bruce Llewellyn was a prominent American businessman. His personal wealth has been estimated to exceed $160 million. In 1963 he joined others to found 100 Black Men of America, a social and philanthropic organization...

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

     businessman and activist, a founder of 100 Black Men of America
    100 Black Men of America
    100 Black Men Of America is a men's civic organization and service club whose stated goal is to educate and empower African American children and teens. As of 2009 the organization has 110 chapters and over 10,000 members in different cities in the United States and throughout the world...

    , renal failure
    Renal failure
    Renal failure or kidney failure describes a medical condition in which the kidneys fail to adequately filter toxins and waste products from the blood...

    . http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/10/business/10llewellyn.html
  • George Nissen
    George Nissen
    George P. Nissen was an American gymnast and inventor who developed the modern trampoline and made trampolining a worldwide sport.-Background:...

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

     gymnast
    Gymnast
    Gymnasts are people who participate in the sports of either artistic gymnastics, trampolining, or rhythmic gymnastics.See gymnasium for the origin of the word gymnast from gymnastikos.-Female artistic:Australia...

    , co-inventor of the trampoline
    Trampoline
    A trampoline is a device consisting of a piece of taut, strong fabric stretched over a steel frame using many coiled springs. People bounce on trampolines for recreational and competitive purposes....

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

    . http://www.usa-gymnastics.org/post.php?PostID=5168&prog=t.
  • Betty Paraskevas
    Betty Paraskevas
    Betty Paraskevas was a New York writer and lyricist best known for her work on Maggie and the Ferocious Beast. She is partnered with her son, illustrator Michael Paraskevas. Born in New Jersey, Betty Paraskevas moved to Southampton in the mid 1980s...

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

     writer
    Writer
    A writer is a person who produces literature, such as novels, short stories, plays, screenplays, poetry, or other literary art. Skilled writers are able to use language to portray ideas and images....

     and lyricist
    Lyricist
    A lyricist is a songwriter who specializes in lyrics. A singer who writes the lyrics to songs is a singer-lyricist. This differentiates from a singer-composer, who composes the song's melody.-Collaboration:...

    , pancreatic cancer
    Pancreatic cancer
    Pancreatic cancer refers to a malignant neoplasm of the pancreas. The most common type of pancreatic cancer, accounting for 95% of these tumors is adenocarcinoma, which arises within the exocrine component of the pancreas. A minority arises from the islet cells and is classified as a...

    . http://www.awn.com/news/people/pre-school-vet-betty-paraskevas-dies
  • Tom Ray
    Tom Ray
    Thomas Archer Ray was an American animator.-Career:Ray was born in Williams, Arizona. He began work at Warner Bros. Cartoons in 1937. Over the first two decades of his career, he was a junior animator who received no screen credit until Destination Earth in 1956. In 1958, he became a master...

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

     animation
    Animation
    Animation is the rapid display of a sequence of images of 2-D or 3-D artwork or model positions in order to create an illusion of movement. The effect is an optical illusion of motion due to the phenomenon of persistence of vision, and can be created and demonstrated in several ways...

     cartoonist
    Cartoonist
    A cartoonist is a person who specializes in drawing cartoons. This work is usually humorous, mainly created for entertainment, political commentary or advertising...

     (Warner Bros. Cartoons
    Warner Bros. Cartoons
    Warner Bros. Cartoons, Inc. was the in-house division of Warner Bros. Pictures during the Golden Age of American animation. One of the most successful animation studios in American media history, Warner Bros. Cartoons was primarily responsible for the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies theatrical...

    ). http://animationguildblog.blogspot.com/2010/04/tom-ray-1919-2010.html
  • Valentin Turchin
    Valentin Turchin
    Valentin Fyodorovich Turchin was a Soviet and American cybernetician and computer scientist. He developed the Refal programming language, the theory of metasystem transitions and the notion of supercompilation...

    , 79, Russia
    Russia
    Russia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...

    n-born American
    United States
    The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

     computer scientist
    Computer scientist
    A computer scientist is a scientist who has acquired knowledge of computer science, the study of the theoretical foundations of information and computation and their application in computer systems....

     and human rights activist. http://asf.prime-task.com/cgi/ASFdbs.pl?&action=Linkview&pass=&link_name=doc&link_type_doc=file&main_page=http://asf.prime-task.com/&main_page_title=ASF+Home+Page&layout=frame&database=asfdocs_n_first_sprivat&link_res_doc=turchin-kline.1271258936.html
  • Aubrey W. Young
    Aubrey W. Young
    Aubrey Walsworth Young was a public official in the U.S. state of Louisiana, who between 1965 and 1999 established multiple drug and alcohol treatment programs through the Department of Health and Hospitals. A political activist, Young organized his contacts from Alcoholics Anonymous to support...

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

     public official. http://www.thenewsstar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/dclassifieds?Dato=20100411&Kategori=OBITUARY&Class=30&Type=CAT30200&Lopenr=100400145&Selected=1

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  • James Aubrey
    James Aubrey (actor)
    James Aubrey was an English stage and screen actor. He trained for the stage at the Drama Centre London. He made his professional acting debut in a 1962 production of Isle of Children. Aubrey made his screen acting debut in the 1963 adaptation of Lord of the Flies. Aubrey performed with the Royal...

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

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

     (Lord of the Flies
    Lord of the Flies (1963 film)
    Lord of the Flies is a 1963 film adaptation of William Golding's novel of the same name. It was directed by Peter Brook and produced by Lewis M. Allen, known since for producing films based on modern-classic novels. The film was in production for much of 1961 though the film was not released until...

    , Bouquet of Barbed Wire
    Bouquet of Barbed Wire
    Bouquet of Barbed Wire is a British television series based on a 1969 novel by Andrea Newman. The series – whose title comes from an incident that occurred to Newman and her mother while on a walk – was made by London Weekend Television for ITV in 1976...

    ), pancreatitis
    Pancreatitis
    Pancreatitis is inflammation of the pancreas. It occurs when pancreatic enzymes that digest food are activated in the pancreas instead of the small intestine. It may be acute – beginning suddenly and lasting a few days, or chronic – occurring over many years...

    . http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/18/movies/18aubrey.html
  • Eddie Carroll
    Eddie Carroll
    Eddie Carroll was a Canadian voice actor who moved to Hollywood in the 1950s to become an actor. He took over the role of Jiminy Cricket in 1973 after the death of original voice Cliff Edwards in 1971.-Filmography:...

    , 76, Canadian
    Canada
    Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

     voice actor (Jiminy Cricket
    Jiminy Cricket
    Jiminy Cricket is the Walt Disney version of "The Talking Cricket" , a fictional character created by Carlo Collodi for his children's book Pinocchio, which was adapted into an animated film by Disney in 1940...

    ). http://www.cbc.ca/arts/film/story/2010/04/11/carroll-obit-jiminy.html
  • Anatoly Dobrynin
    Anatoly Dobrynin
    Anatoly Fyodorovich Dobrynin was a Russian statesman and a former Soviet diplomat and politician. He was Soviet Ambassador to the United States, serving from 1962 to 1986 and most notably during the Cuban Missile Crisis. He was appointed by Nikita Khrushchev....

    , 90, Russia
    Russia
    Russia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...

    n diplomat
    Diplomat
    A diplomat is a person appointed by a state to conduct diplomacy with another state or international organization. The main functions of diplomats revolve around the representation and protection of the interests and nationals of the sending state, as well as the promotion of information and...

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

    , Soviet Ambassador to the United States (1962–1986). http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/politics-obituaries/7568616/Anatoly-Dobrynin.html
  • Jack Flannery
    Jack Flannery
    Jack Flannery was an American off-road racing driver who was active in the 1980s and 1990s. Flannery won six short course off-road championships in Short-course Off-road Drivers Association and one in Championship Off-Road Racing . He had over 150 event wins in his career...

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

     off-road racer
    Off-road racing
    Off-road racing is a format of racing where various classes of specially modified vehicles compete in races through off-road environments.-North America:...

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

    . http://www.rhinelanderdailynews.com/articles/2010/04/09/obituaries/doc4bbf298f6919d609385202.txt
  • Ricardo Lavié
    Ricardo Lavié
    Ricardo Eloy Machado was an Argentine actor. Born in Buenos Aires, he acted in radio, movies, theater and TV. He died in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on April 6, 2010. He was married to actress Noemí Laserre and their daughter is the actress Estela Molly.-Filmography:* La increíble historia de...

    , 87, Argentine
    Argentina
    Argentina , officially the Argentine Republic , is the second largest country in South America by land area, after Brazil. It is constituted as a federation of 23 provinces and an autonomous city, Buenos Aires...

     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...

    , after long illness. http://www.lagaceta.com.ar/nota/372907/Espectaculos/los_87_a%C3%B1os_murio_actor_Ricardo_Lavie.html (Spanish)
  • Guillermo Luca de Tena
    Guillermo Luca de Tena
    Don Guillermo Luca de Tena y Brunet, 1st Marquis of the Tena Valley, Grandee of Spain was a Spanish journalist. Honorary president of Grupo Vocento and former president of Prensa Española, he was editor of the daily newspaper ABC. He was the son of Juan Ignacio Luca de Tena, and nephew of...

    , 82, 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...

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

    . http://www.abc.es/20100406/medios-redes-prensa/muerto-madrid-guillermo-luca-20100406.html (Spanish)
  • Tony MacGibbon
    Tony MacGibbon
    Anthony Roy MacGibbon, was a cricketer who played 26 Tests for New Zealand.MacGibbon was a useful lower-order right-hand batsman and a right-arm fast-medium bowler who led the attack for his country for most of the 1950s...

    , 85, New Zealand
    New Zealand
    New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses and numerous smaller islands. The country is situated some east of Australia across the Tasman Sea, and roughly south of the Pacific island nations of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga...

     cricket
    Cricket
    Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of 11 players on an oval-shaped field, at the centre of which is a rectangular 22-yard long pitch. One team bats, trying to score as many runs as possible while the other team bowls and fields, trying to dismiss the batsmen and thus limit the...

    er. http://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/cricket/3563468/History-making-team-man-dies
  • Wilma Mankiller
    Wilma Mankiller
    Wilma Pearl Mankiller was the first female Chief of the Cherokee Nation. She served as principal chief for ten years from 1985 to 1995.-Early life:...

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

     activist, first female Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation
    Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation
    Principal Chief is today the title of the chief executives of the Cherokee Nation, of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, and of the United Keetoowah Band of Cherokee Indians, the three federally recognized tribes of Cherokee. In the eighteenth century, when the people were organized by clans and...

     (1985–1995), pancreatic cancer
    Pancreatic cancer
    Pancreatic cancer refers to a malignant neoplasm of the pancreas. The most common type of pancreatic cancer, accounting for 95% of these tumors is adenocarcinoma, which arises within the exocrine component of the pancreas. A minority arises from the islet cells and is classified as a...

    . http://www.tulsaworld.com/news/article.aspx?subjectid=11&articleid=20100406_11_0_WlaMni820448
  • Neva Morris
    Neva Morris
    Neva Morris was an American supercentenarian. At the age of 114 years, 246 days, she was the oldest verified living person in the United States following the death of 114-year-old Mary Josephine Ray and the last known American born surviving from 1895...

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

     supercentenarian
    Supercentenarian
    A supercentenarian is someone who has reached the age of 110 years. This age is achieved by about one in a thousand centenarians....

    , oldest person in the United States. http://wcfcourier.com/news/local/article_c8c3e85c-41ac-11df-82e9-001cc4c002e0.html
  • Katsumi Nishikawa
    Katsumi Nishikawa
    was a Japanese film director most famous for his youth films . Graduating from Nihon University, he started out at the Shochiku studio in 1939 and directed his first film in 1952...

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

    ese film director
    Film director
    A film director is a person who directs the actors and film crew in filmmaking. They control a film's artistic and dramatic nathan roach, while guiding the technical crew and actors.-Responsibilities:...

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

    . http://bionicbong.com/japan/only-in-japan/movies/veteran-filmmaker-katsumi-nishikawa-dies-pneumonia/
  • Grete Olsen
    Grete Olsen
    Grete Olsen was a Danish fencer. She competed in the women's individual foil event at the 1932, 1936 and 1948 Summer Olympics.-References:...

    , 98, Danish
    Denmark
    Denmark is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe. The countries of Denmark and Greenland, as well as the Faroe Islands, constitute the Kingdom of Denmark . It is the southernmost of the Nordic countries, southwest of Sweden and south of Norway, and bordered to the south by Germany. Denmark...

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

     fencer
    Fencing
    Fencing, which is also known as modern fencing to distinguish it from historical fencing, is a family of combat sports using bladed weapons.Fencing is one of four sports which have been featured at every one of the modern Olympic Games...

    . http://www.mahaut.info/Salle%20d%27Armes%20Mahaut/Grete/Images/Grete%20.pdf (Danish)
  • Anthony Perici
    Anthony Perici
    Anthony "Tony" A. Perici was a Maltese-born American politician and engineer. Perici served as the first full-time Mayor of Twinsburg, Ohio, from 1976 until 1987.-Personal life:Perici was born in Senglea, Malta, in 1920...

    , 89, Maltese
    Malta
    Malta , officially known as the Republic of Malta , is a Southern European country consisting of an archipelago situated in the centre of the Mediterranean, south of Sicily, east of Tunisia and north of Libya, with Gibraltar to the west and Alexandria to the east.Malta covers just over in...

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

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

    , Mayor
    Mayor
    In many countries, a Mayor is the highest ranking officer in the municipal government of a town or a large urban city....

     of Twinsburg, Ohio
    Twinsburg, Ohio
    As of the census of 2000, there were 17,006 people, 6,641 households, and 4,695 families residing in the city. The population density was 1,366.7 people per square mile . There were 6,871 housing units at an average density of 552.2 per square mile...

     (1976–1987), cancer
    Cancer
    Cancer , known medically as a malignant neoplasm, is a large group of different diseases, all involving unregulated cell growth. In cancer, cells divide and grow uncontrollably, forming malignant tumors, and invade nearby parts of the body. The cancer may also spread to more distant parts of the...

    . http://www.webcitation.org/5p5nmSvQb
  • David Quayle
    David Quayle
    David Andrew Quayle was probably best known for his part in starting the UK chain B&Q. He worked in the Marley Tile company in the 1960s and together with his brother-in-law Richard Block started the B&Q chain in 1969...

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

     businessman (B&Q
    B&Q
    B&Q plc is a multinational DIY and home improvement retailer headquartered in Eastleigh, United Kingdom. It was founded in 1969 and is a wholly owned subsidiary of Kingfisher plc, which is listed on the London Stock Exchange....

    ). http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article7098872.ece
  • Corin Redgrave
    Corin Redgrave
    Corin William Redgrave was an English actor and political activist.-Early life:Redgrave was born in Marylebone, London, the only son and middle child of actors Michael Redgrave and Rachel Kempson...

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

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

     and political activist
    Activism
    Activism consists of intentional efforts to bring about social, political, economic, or environmental change. Activism can take a wide range of forms from writing letters to newspapers or politicians, political campaigning, economic activism such as boycotts or preferentially patronizing...

    , after short illness. http://www.guardian.co.uk/stage/2010/apr/06/corin-redgrave-dies
  • Hans Schröder
    Hans Schröder
    Hans Schröder was a German sculptor and painter.-Awards:*1953 Auszeichnung des Hanauer Goldschmiedehauses*1958 Ehrenpreis der École Française...

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

     sculptor and painter
    Painting
    Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a surface . The application of the medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush but other objects can be used. In art, the term painting describes both the act and the result of the action. However, painting is...

    . http://www.saarbruecker-zeitung.de/aufmacher/lokalnews/ticker-Hans-Schroeder-tot-gestorben-Bildhauer-Nachruf;art27857,3255892 (German)
  • Sid Storey
    Sid Storey
    Sidney "Sid" Storey was an English footballer who played as an inside forward.Storey played for Ardsley Welfare and Grimethorpe Athletic in non-League football while working as a miner, before joining Huddersfield Town in 1943. After leaving them he played for Wombwell Athletic before moving to...

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

     footballer. http://www.yorkpress.co.uk/sport/yorkcityfc/7990760.York_City_footballing_great_Sid_Storey_dies_at_90/
  • Dimitris Tsiogkas
    Dimitris Tsiogkas
    Dimitris Tsiogkas was a Greek politician.In 1975 he became member of the Communist Youth of Greece. He was member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Greece since its 18th Congress in 2008....

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

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

    , member of Parliament
    Hellenic Parliament
    The Hellenic Parliament , also the Parliament of the Hellenes, is the Parliament of Greece, located in the Parliament House , overlooking Syntagma Square in Athens, Greece....

     (2001–2008), cancer
    Cancer
    Cancer , known medically as a malignant neoplasm, is a large group of different diseases, all involving unregulated cell growth. In cancer, cells divide and grow uncontrollably, forming malignant tumors, and invade nearby parts of the body. The cancer may also spread to more distant parts of the...

    . http://www.kosmoslarissa.gr/article/6034/ (Greek)
  • Luigi Waites
    Luigi Waites
    Luigi Waites was a jazz drummer and vibraphonist from Omaha, Nebraska. He performed weekly gigs in the Omaha area both solo and with ensembles such as Luigi, Inc. He served the Omaha music community for over 60 years. He toured Europe twice and performed with jazz legends such as Sarah Vaughan,...

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

     jazz drummer and vibraphonist
    Vibraphonist
    Notable players of the vibraphone include:* Peter Appleyard* Roy Ayers* Karl Berger* Jeff Berman* Jack Brokensha* Larry Bunker* Christian Burchard* Rusty Burge* Gary Burton* Joe Chambers* Teddy Charles* Salem Chiles* John Cocuzzi* Monte Croft...

    . http://www.omaha.com/article/20100406/NEWS01/100409772

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  • Vinnie Chas
    Vinnie Chas
    Vinnie Chas was the first bassist from Pretty Boy Floyd, a hard rock band from Hollywood, California, formed in 1987. He died on April 6, 2010.-With Pretty Boy Floyd:*Leather Boyz With Electric Toyz - *The Vault -...

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

     bassist
    Bass guitar
    The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....

     (Pretty Boy Floyd
    Pretty Boy Floyd (American band)
    Pretty Boy Floyd is a glam metal band from Hollywood, California formed in 1987. They are most famous for their 1989 debut album Leather Boyz With Electric Toyz and the two singles from it; "Rock and Roll" and "I Wanna Be With You"...

    ). http://www.sleazeroxx.com/news10/0415vin.shtml (found on this date)
  • Jerry Elliott
    Jerry Elliott
    Jerry G. Elliott was a judge on the Kansas Court of Appeals. Elliot served on this court from 1987 until his death.-Biography:...

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

     jurist
    Jurist
    A jurist or jurisconsult is a professional who studies, develops, applies, or otherwise deals with the law. The term is widely used in American English, but in the United Kingdom and many Commonwealth countries it has only historical and specialist usage...

    , Kansas Court of Appeals
    Kansas Court of Appeals
    The Kansas Court of Appeals is the intermediate-level appellate court for the U.S. state of Kansas.-History:The Kansas Legislature crated the first Kansas Court of Appeals in 1895, to help the Kansas Supreme Court with an increasingly heavy caseload. The original statute that created the court...

     (since 1987), cancer
    Cancer
    Cancer , known medically as a malignant neoplasm, is a large group of different diseases, all involving unregulated cell growth. In cancer, cells divide and grow uncontrollably, forming malignant tumors, and invade nearby parts of the body. The cancer may also spread to more distant parts of the...

    . http://www.koamtv.com/Global/story.asp?S=12265706
  • Günther C. Kirchberger
    Günther C. Kirchberger
    thumb|Günther C. Kirchberger 2008Günther C. Kirchberger was a German painter and professor. He was a German Hard Edge painter.-Literature:...

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

     academic and painter
    Painting
    Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a surface . The application of the medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush but other objects can be used. In art, the term painting describes both the act and the result of the action. However, painting is...

    . http://www.stuttgarter-zeitung.de/stz/page/2444762_0_9223_-in-der-kunst-stets-mutig-neugierig-und-radikal.html (German)
  • William Neill, 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...

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

    . http://news.scotsman.com/obituaries/Obituary-William-Neill.6240920.jp
  • Helen Ranney
    Helen Ranney
    Helen Ranney was an American doctor and hematologist that researched Sickle Cell Anemia. Ranney was a faculty member, and the first female head of the department of medicine at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine. She attended medical school at Columbia University.-References:...

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

     hematologist. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/15/us/15ranney.html
  • Molefi Sefularo
    Molefi Sefularo
    Molefi Sefularo was the Deputy Minister of Health of South Africa from September 25, 2008 until his death. The position of Deputy Minister of Health had been vacant since Nozizwe Madlala-Routledge was dismissed from the post on August 8, 2007...

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

    , car crash. http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=13&art_id=nw20100405151646351C684416
  • Vitaly Sevastyanov, 74, Russia
    Russia
    Russia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...

    n Soviet
    Soviet Union
    The Soviet Union , officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics , was a constitutionally socialist state that existed in Eurasia between 1922 and 1991....

     cosmonaut. http://echo.msk.ru/news/669701-echo.html (Russian)
  • Gisela Trowe
    Gisela Trowe
    Gisela Trowe was a German actress.-Filmography:* 1948: Straßenbekanntschaft* 1948: Grube Morgenrot* 1948: Affaire Blum* 1951: Der Verlorene* 1952: Unter den Tausend Laternen...

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

     actress. http://www.abendblatt.de/hamburg/article1452669/Hamburger-Schauspielerin-Gisela-Trowe-gestorben.html (German)

4

  • Lajos Bálint
    Lajos Bálint
    Lajos Bálint was a Roman Catholic archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Alba Iulia, Romania.Ordained to the priesthood on April 28, 1958, Bálint was named a bishop for the Alba Iulia archdiocese on July 9, 1981 and was ordained on September 29, 1981. He resigned on November 29,...

    , 80, Hungarian
    Hungary
    Hungary , officially the Republic of Hungary , is a landlocked country in Central Europe. It is situated in the Carpathian Basin and is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine and Romania to the east, Serbia and Croatia to the south, Slovenia to the southwest and Austria to the west. The...

    -born 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 Roman Catholic prelate
    Prelate
    A prelate is a high-ranking member of the clergy who is an ordinary or who ranks in precedence with ordinaries. The word derives from the Latin prælatus, the past participle of præferre, which means "carry before", "be set above or over" or "prefer"; hence, a prelate is one set over others.-Related...

    , Archbishop
    Archbishop
    An archbishop is a bishop of higher rank, but not of higher sacramental order above that of the three orders of deacon, priest , and bishop...

     of Alba Iulia
    Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Alba Iulia
    The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Alba Iulia is an archdiocese in Transylvania, Romania. It was established as the Diocese of Transylvania in 1009 by Stephen I of Hungary and was renamed as the Diocese of Alba Iulia on 22 March 1932...

     (1990–1993). http://internetfigyelo.wordpress.com/2010/04/05/elhunyt-balint-lajos-nyugalmazott-gyulafehervari-ersek/ (Hungarian)
  • Sir Alec Bedser
    Alec Bedser
    Sir Alec Victor Bedser, CBE was a professional English cricketer. He was the chairman of selectors for the English national cricket team, and the president of Surrey County Cricket Club...

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

     cricket
    Cricket
    Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of 11 players on an oval-shaped field, at the centre of which is a rectangular 22-yard long pitch. One team bats, trying to score as many runs as possible while the other team bowls and fields, trying to dismiss the batsmen and thus limit the...

    er. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/cricket/international/england/7554648/England-bowler-Sir-Alec-Bedser-dies-aged-91.html
  • Matt Cook
    Matt Cook (ice sledge hockey)
    Matthew Cook was a Canadian ice sledge hockey player.Before the age of 18, Cook played Junior A for the Bonnyville Pontiacs of the Alberta Junior Hockey League. He had his leg amputated below the knee in 2006, at the age of 18, after unsuccessful chemotherapy when doctors discovered cancer on his...

    , 22, Canadian
    Canada
    Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

     ice sledge hockey player, bone cancer. http://www.theglobeandmail.com/sports/more-sports/influential-sledge-hockey-player-dies/article1525590/
  • Clifford M. Hardin
    Clifford M. Hardin
    Clifford Morris Hardin served as United States Secretary of Agriculture from 1969 to 1971.Hardin was born near Knightstown, Indiana, to J. Alvin Hardin and Mabel Hardin. He earned a B.S. , an M.S. and a Ph.D...

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

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

    , Secretary of Agriculture
    United States Secretary of Agriculture
    The United States Secretary of Agriculture is the head of the United States Department of Agriculture. The current secretary is Tom Vilsack, who was confirmed by the U.S. Senate on 20 January 2009. The position carries similar responsibilities to those of agriculture ministers in other...

     (1969–1971), natural causes
    Death by natural causes
    A death by natural causes, as recorded by coroners and on death certificates and associated documents, is one that is primarily attributed to natural agents: usually an illness or an internal malfunction of the body. For example, a person dying from complications from influenza or a heart attack ...

    . http://journalstar.com/news/local/article_db540a50-404f-11df-a7d5-001cc4c03286.html
  • Rudy Kousbroek
    Rudy Kousbroek
    Herman Rudolf Kousbroek was a Dutch poet, translator, writer and first of all essayist. He was a prominent figure in Dutch cultural life between 1950 and 2010 and one of the most outspoken atheists in the Netherlands. In 1975 he was awarded the P.C...

    , 80, 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...

     essayist. http://nos.nl/artikel/148478-essayist-rudy-kousbroek-overleden.html (Dutch)
  • Lori Martin
    Lori Martin
    Lori Martin was an American actress, born as Dawn Catherine Menzer.-Early career:...

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

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

     (Cape Fear
    Cape Fear (1962 film)
    Cape Fear is a 1962 film starring Gregory Peck, Robert Mitchum and Polly Bergen. It was adapted by James R. Webb from the novel The Executioners by John D. MacDonald. It was directed by J. Lee Thompson, and released on April 12, 1962...

    ). http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=53272328
  • John B. McCoy
    John B. McCoy
    John B. McCoy is an American businessman. He served as Chairman from November 1999 and Chief Executive Officer from October 1998 of Bank One Corporation until his retirement in December 1999, and Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of its predecessor, Banc One Corporation, from 1987 to 1998....

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

     banker (Bank One Corporation
    Bank One Corporation
    Some of the banks that were merged into these banks include:*Bank One**Security National Bank & Trust **Affiliated Bankshares of Colorado **American Fletcher Corp. **City National Bank and Trust Co...

    ). http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/06/business/06mccoy.html
  • Kelly Moran
    Kelly Moran
    Kelly Moran was a professional speedway rider who rode for a number of British clubs and also represented USA....

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

     motorcycle speedway
    Motorcycle speedway
    Motorcycle speedway, usually referred to as speedway, is a motorcycle sport involving four and sometimes up to six riders competing over four anti-clockwise laps of an oval circuit. Speedway motorcycles use only one gear and have no brakes and racing takes place on a flat oval track usually...

     racer, complication
    Complication (medicine)
    Complication, in medicine, is an unfavorable evolution of a disease, a health condition or a medical treatment. The disease can become worse in its severity or show a higher number of signs, symptoms or new pathological changes, become widespread throughout the body or affect other organ systems. A...

    s from emphysema
    Emphysema
    Emphysema is a long-term, progressive disease of the lungs that primarily causes shortness of breath. In people with emphysema, the tissues necessary to support the physical shape and function of the lungs are destroyed. It is included in a group of diseases called chronic obstructive pulmonary...

    . http://www.ocregister.com/news/moran-242624-kelly-fans.html
  • Abubakar Rimi
    Abubakar Rimi
    Alhaji Muhammadu Abubakar Rimi was a Nigerian politician, who was the governor of Kano State during the Nigerian Second Republic. He died following an attack by armed robbers.- Background :...

    , 70, Nigeria
    Nigeria
    Nigeria , officially the Federal Republic of Nigeria, is a federal constitutional republic comprising 36 states and its Federal Capital Territory, Abuja. The country is located in West Africa and shares land borders with the Republic of Benin in the west, Chad and Cameroon in the east, and Niger in...

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

    . http://234next.com/csp/cms/sites/Next/Home/5550368-146/abubakar_rimi_dies_at_70_.csp
  • Shio Satō
    Shio Sato
    was a Japanese manga artist. Satō was a member of the Post Year 24 Group, a group of female manga artists considered influential in the development of shōjo manga. She also wrote under the pen name . She made her professional debut in 1977 with the publication of Koi wa Ajinomono!? in Bessatsu...

    , 59, 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 manga artist, 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://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2010-04-06/the-changeling-shojo-manga-shio-sato-passes-away
  • Henry Scarpelli
    Henry Scarpelli
    Henry Scarpelli was an American comic book artist who has worked in comics. His work in comics has won him recognition from the industry, including the Shazam Award for Best Inker in 1970, for his work on Date With Debbi, Leave It to Binky, and other DC comics...

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

     comic book artist
    Comic Book Artist
    Comic Book Artist was an American magazine founded by Jon B. Cooke devoted to anecdotal histories of American comic books, with emphasis on comics published since the 1960s...

     (Archie
    Archie Comics
    Archie Comics is an American comic book publisher headquartered in the Village of Mamaroneck, Town of Mamaroneck, New York, known for its many series featuring the fictional teenagers Archie Andrews, Betty Cooper, Veronica Lodge, Reggie Mantle and Jughead Jones. The characters were created by...

    ), after long illness. http://blog.newsok.com/nerdage/2010/04/06/rip-henry-scarpelli/
  • Friedrich Wilhelm Schäfke
    Friedrich Wilhelm Schäfke
    Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich Schäfke was a German mathematician and professor of geometry.-Writings:...

    , 87, 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...

     mathematician
    Mathematician
    A mathematician is a person whose primary area of study is the field of mathematics. Mathematicians are concerned with quantity, structure, space, and change....

     and academic. http://www.suedkurier.de/anzeigen/traueranzeigen/detail.html?&aid=3114608 (German)
  • Erich Zenger
    Erich Zenger
    Erich Zenger was a German Roman Catholic priest and theologian. Ordained in 1964, Zenger studied in Rome. He was a scholar in studying the Old Testament and wrote books and papers.- Notes :...

    , 70, 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...

     Roman Catholic theologian and Bible scholar
    Biblical criticism
    Biblical criticism is the scholarly "study and investigation of Biblical writings that seeks to make discerning judgments about these writings." It asks when and where a particular text originated; how, why, by whom, for whom, and in what circumstances it was produced; what influences were at work...

    . http://www.domradio.de/news/artikel_62930.html (German)

3

  • Crosaire
    Crosaire
    John Derek Crozier , under the pseudonym "Crosaire", was the compiler of the "Irish Times crossword" from its inception in 1943 until his death. Since he has been the sole compiler, the crossword is often called "the Crosaire" by metonymy. It is a cryptic crossword, in contrast to the "Simplex...

    , 92, Irish
    Republic of Ireland
    Ireland , described as the Republic of Ireland , is a sovereign state in Europe occupying approximately five-sixths of the island of the same name. Its capital is Dublin. Ireland, which had a population of 4.58 million in 2011, is a constitutional republic governed as a parliamentary democracy,...

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

    an compiler of the Irish Times
    The Irish Times
    The Irish Times is an Irish daily broadsheet newspaper launched on 29 March 1859. The editor is Kevin O'Sullivan who succeeded Geraldine Kennedy in 2011; the deputy editor is Paul O'Neill. The Irish Times is considered to be Ireland's newspaper of record, and is published every day except Sundays...

    crossword since 1943. http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/breaking/2010/0407/breaking29.html
  • Oleg Kopayev
    Oleg Kopayev
    Oleg Pavlovich Kopayev was a Soviet football player.-Honours:* Soviet Top League runner-up: 1966.* Grigory Fedotov club member.* Soviet Top League top scorer: 1963 , 1965 ....

    , 72, Russia
    Russia
    Russia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...

    n footballer, Soviet Top League
    Soviet Top League
    The Soviet Top League since 1970 was officially known as the Supreme League serving as the top division of Soviet Union football since 1936.It was one of the best football leagues in Europe ranking second among the UEFA members in 1988-1989 seasons...

     top scorer (1963, 1965). http://www.fc-rostov.ru/press/news/news/4315/ (Russian)
  • Roland MacLeod
    Roland MacLeod
    Roland MacLeod was an English actor of film and television.He appeared as a vicar in John Cleese's film A Fish Called Wanda and The Last Remake of Beau Geste....

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

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

     (Coronation Street
    Coronation Street
    Coronation Street is a British soap opera set in Weatherfield, a fictional town in Greater Manchester based on Salford. Created by Tony Warren, Coronation Street was first broadcast on 9 December 1960...

    , The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin
    The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin
    The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin is a series of novels which developed into a British sitcom starring Leonard Rossiter in the title role...

    ). http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/timesonline-uk/obituary.aspx?n=roland-macleod&pid=141884527
  • Ian McKay
    Ian McKay (footballer)
    Ian McKay was an Australian rules footballer who played with North Adelaide in the SANFL. He played a total of 164 games for North Adelaide....

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

    n footballer
    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...

    . http://www.nafc.com.au/news/2010/p3032.aspx
  • Craig Noel
    Craig Noel
    Craig Noel was an American theatre producer. He was the founding director of the Old Globe Theatre in San Diego, California and led it for more than 60 years...

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

     theatre producer, director and administrator of the Old Globe Theatre
    Old Globe Theatre
    The Old Globe is a professional theatre company located in Balboa Park in San Diego, California. It produces about 15 plays and musicals annually in summer and winter seasons...

    , natural causes
    Death by natural causes
    A death by natural causes, as recorded by coroners and on death certificates and associated documents, is one that is primarily attributed to natural agents: usually an illness or an internal malfunction of the body. For example, a person dying from complications from influenza or a heart attack ...

    . http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/2010/apr/05/founder-of-san-diegos-old-globe-theater-dies
  • Jim Pagliaroni
    Jim Pagliaroni
    James Vincent Pagliaroni was an American professional baseball player. He played in Major League Baseball as a catcher from 1955-1969 for the Boston Red Sox, Pittsburgh Pirates, Oakland Athletics and the Seattle Pilots....

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

     baseball
    Baseball
    Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each. The aim is to score runs by hitting a thrown ball with a bat and touching a series of four bases arranged at the corners of a ninety-foot diamond...

     player (Boston Red Sox
    Boston Red Sox
    The Boston Red Sox are a professional baseball team based in Boston, Massachusetts, and a member of Major League Baseball’s American League Eastern Division. Founded in as one of the American League's eight charter franchises, the Red Sox's home ballpark has been Fenway Park since . The "Red Sox"...

    , Oakland Athletics
    Oakland Athletics
    The Oakland Athletics are a Major League Baseball team based in Oakland, California. The Athletics are a member of the Western Division of Major League Baseball's American League. From to the present, the Athletics have played in the O.co Coliseum....

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

    . http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-passings8-2010apr08,0,3940387.story
  • Ferdinand Simoneit
    Ferdinand Simoneit
    Ferdinand Simoneit was a German journalist, author, professor and World War II veteran.-Life:...

    , 84, 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...

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

    , author
    Author
    An author is broadly defined as "the person who originates or gives existence to anything" and that authorship determines responsibility for what is created. Narrowly defined, an author is the originator of any written work.-Legal significance:...

     and 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...

     veteran
    Veteran
    A veteran is a person who has had long service or experience in a particular occupation or field; " A veteran of ..."...

    . http://www.sueddeutsche.de/medien/93/508241/text/ (German)
  • Eugène Terre'Blanche
    Eugène Terre'Blanche
    Eugène Ney Terre'Blanche was a former member of South Africa's Herstigte Nasionale Party who founded the Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging during the apartheid era...

    , 69, 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 white separatist leader, beating
    Assault
    In law, assault is a crime causing a victim to fear violence. The term is often confused with battery, which involves physical contact. The specific meaning of assault varies between countries, but can refer to an act that causes another to apprehend immediate and personal violence, or in the more...

    . http://www.aolnews.com/story/white-supremacist-leader-killed-in-south/973774
  • Jesús Vásquez
    Jesús Vásquez
    María de Jesús Vásquez Vásquez , known by the pseudonym La Reina y Señora de la Canción Criolla was a virtuoso Peruvian singer.She was daughter of Pedro Vásquez Chávez and María Jesús Vásquez Vásquez...

    , 89, Peru
    Peru
    Peru , officially the Republic of Peru , is a country in western South America. It is bordered on the north by Ecuador and Colombia, on the east by Brazil, on the southeast by Bolivia, on the south by Chile, and on the west by the Pacific Ocean....

    vian singer. http://www.larepublica.pe/sociedad/03/04/2010/los-89-anos-fallecio-la-cantante-criolla-jesus-vasquez (Spanish)
  • Yasunori Watanabe
    Yasunori Watanabe
    was a former Japanese rugby player, who played for Japan in three Rugby World Cups from 1999 to 2007.-Career:Watanabe was born in Hokkaido, and joined the team Toshiba Brave Lupus in Tokyo in 1997 after graduating from Nippon Sport Science University...

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

    , hit by train. http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2010/apr/05/japan-rugby-yasunori-watanabe-killed

2

  • Roman Bannwart
    Roman Bannwart
    Wilhelm "Roman" Bannwart was a Swiss theologian, priest and musician.-Works:*Best of Gregorianik, Berlin: Universal Music, 2004...

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

     theologian and musician
    Musician
    A musician is an artist who plays a musical instrument. It may or may not be the person's profession. Musicians can be classified by their roles in performing music and writing music.Also....* A person who makes music a profession....

    . http://dsb.z-online.ch/DSB_News_03_Shw.asp?PublisherID=Kloster-Einsiedeln&NwsID=235772 (German)
  • Edward Bayda
    Edward Bayda
    Edward Dmytro Bayda was the Chief Justice of Saskatchewan, Canada and Chief Justice of the Province's Court of Appeal....

    , 78, Canadian
    Canada
    Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

     jurist
    Jurist
    A jurist or jurisconsult is a professional who studies, develops, applies, or otherwise deals with the law. The term is widely used in American English, but in the United Kingdom and many Commonwealth countries it has only historical and specialist usage...

    , Chief Justice
    Chief Justice
    The Chief Justice in many countries is the name for the presiding member of a Supreme Court in Commonwealth or other countries with an Anglo-Saxon justice system based on English common law, such as the Supreme Court of Canada, the Constitutional Court of South Africa, the Court of Final Appeal of...

     of Saskatchewan
    Saskatchewan
    Saskatchewan is a prairie province in Canada, which has an area of . Saskatchewan is bordered on the west by Alberta, on the north by the Northwest Territories, on the east by Manitoba, and on the south by the U.S. states of Montana and North Dakota....

     (1981–2006). http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/article/789853--former-saskatchewan-chief-justice-edward-bayda-dies-in-turkey
  • Din Beramboi
    Din Beramboi
    Din Beramboi was a Malaysian comedian, actor and radio DJ. His real name was Mior Ahmad Fuad Mior Badri, and he was widely known as a talented impersonator and stand-up comic who was very apt at improvisation...

    , 43, Malaysian comedian
    Comedy
    Comedy , as a popular meaning, is any humorous discourse or work generally intended to amuse by creating laughter, especially in television, film, and stand-up comedy. This must be carefully distinguished from its academic definition, namely the comic theatre, whose Western origins are found in...

    , actor
    Acting
    Acting is the work of an actor or actress, which is a person in theatre, television, film, or any other storytelling medium who tells the story by portraying a character and, usually, speaking or singing the written text or play....

     and radio DJ, hemorrhagic dengue fever
    Dengue fever
    Dengue fever , also known as breakbone fever, is an infectious tropical disease caused by the dengue virus. Symptoms include fever, headache, muscle and joint pains, and a characteristic skin rash that is similar to measles...

    . http://www.mmail.com.my/content/32148-din-beramboi-passed-away-selayang-hospital
  • Mike Cuellar
    Mike Cuellar
    Miguel Ángel Cuellar Santana [KWAY-ar] was a Cuban left-handed starting pitcher who spent fifteen seasons in Major League Baseball with the Cincinnati Reds, St. Louis Cardinals, Houston Astros, Baltimore Orioles and California Angels...

    , 72, Cuba
    Cuba
    The Republic of Cuba is an island nation in the Caribbean. The nation of Cuba consists of the main island of Cuba, the Isla de la Juventud, and several archipelagos. Havana is the largest city in Cuba and the country's capital. Santiago de Cuba is the second largest city...

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

     player
    Player (game)
    A player of a game is a participant therein. The term 'player' is used with this same meaning both in game theory and in ordinary recreational games....

    , stomach cancer
    Stomach cancer
    Gastric cancer, commonly referred to as stomach cancer, can develop in any part of the stomach and may spread throughout the stomach and to other organs; particularly the esophagus, lungs, lymph nodes, and the liver...

    . http://www.baltimoresun.com/sports/orioles/bal-former-orioles-pitcher-mike-cuellar-dies-0402,0,3059478,full.story
  • Dávid Daróczi
    Dávid Daróczi
    Dávid Daróczi was a coach and spokesman for former Hungarian Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsány and the government from June 2007 to April 2009.-Life:...

    , 37, Hungarian
    Hungary
    Hungary , officially the Republic of Hungary , is a landlocked country in Central Europe. It is situated in the Carpathian Basin and is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine and Romania to the east, Serbia and Croatia to the south, Slovenia to the southwest and Austria to the west. The...

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

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

    . http://www.politics.hu/20100406/former-government-spokesman-daroczi-takes-own-life-at-37
  • David Halliday
    David Halliday (physics)
    David Halliday was an American physicist widely known for his physics textbooks, Physics and Fundamentals of Physics, which he wrote with Robert Resnick...

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

     physicist
    Physicist
    A physicist is a scientist who studies or practices physics. Physicists study a wide range of physical phenomena in many branches of physics spanning all length scales: from sub-atomic particles of which all ordinary matter is made to the behavior of the material Universe as a whole...

    . http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/bellinghamherald/obituary.aspx?n=david-halliday&pid=141565766
  • Arne Høyer
    Arne Høyer
    Arne Høyer is a Danish sprint canoer who competed in early 1960s. He won a bronze medal in the K-1 4 x 500 m event at the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome.-References:**...

    , 81, Danish
    Denmark
    Denmark is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe. The countries of Denmark and Greenland, as well as the Faroe Islands, constitute the Kingdom of Denmark . It is the southernmost of the Nordic countries, southwest of Sweden and south of Norway, and bordered to the south by Germany. Denmark...

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

     bronze medal-winning (1960
    1960 Summer Olympics
    The 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...

    ) sprint canoer
    Canoe racing
    This 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 ....

    . http://www.afdoede.dk/index.php?page=visannonce&id=1051927296 (Danish)
  • Chris Kanyon
    Chris Kanyon
    Christopher Klucsarits was an American professional wrestler, best known for his work in World Championship Wrestling and the World Wrestling Federation, under the ring names Chris Kanyon and Mortis.-Early career:After college, he began training under Pete McKay Gonzalez, Ismael Gerena and Bobby...

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

     professional wrestler
    Professional wrestling
    Professional wrestling is a mode of spectacle, combining athletics and theatrical performance.Roland Barthes, "The World of Wrestling", Mythologies, 1957 It takes the form of events, held by touring companies, which mimic a title match combat sport...

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

     by overdose of prescription painkillers. http://www.f4wonline.com/content/view/12867/
  • Sonia McMahon (Lady McMahon)
    Sonia McMahon
    Sonia McMahon, known from 1977 as Lady McMahon , was the wife of Sir William McMahon, Prime Minister of Australia, and a philanthropist and Sydney socialite.-Biography:...

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

    n socialite
    Socialite
    A socialite is a person who participates in social activities and spends a significant amount of time entertaining and being entertained at fashionable upper-class events....

    , widow of former Prime Minister
    Prime Minister of Australia
    The Prime Minister of the Commonwealth of Australia is the highest minister of the Crown, leader of the Cabinet and Head of Her Majesty's Australian Government, holding office on commission from the Governor-General of Australia. The office of Prime Minister is, in practice, the most powerful...

     Sir William McMahon
    William McMahon
    Sir William "Billy" McMahon, GCMG, CH , was an Australian Liberal politician and the 20th Prime Minister of Australia...

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

    . http://www.smh.com.au/national/lady-sonia-mcmahon-dies-in-sydney-hospital-20100403-rkcn.html
  • Thomas J. Moyer
    Thomas J. Moyer
    Thomas Joseph Moyer was an American jurist and the chief justice of the Ohio Supreme Court from 1987 to 2010. A member of the Republican Party, he died suddenly on April 2, 2010, at age 70.-Pre-Supreme Court:...

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

     jurist
    Jurist
    A jurist or jurisconsult is a professional who studies, develops, applies, or otherwise deals with the law. The term is widely used in American English, but in the United Kingdom and many Commonwealth countries it has only historical and specialist usage...

    , Chief Justice
    Chief Justice
    The Chief Justice in many countries is the name for the presiding member of a Supreme Court in Commonwealth or other countries with an Anglo-Saxon justice system based on English common law, such as the Supreme Court of Canada, the Constitutional Court of South Africa, the Court of Final Appeal of...

     of the Ohio Supreme Court (1987–2010). http://www.dispatch.com/live/content/local_news/stories/2010/04/02/moyer-dies.html?sid=101
  • Carolyn Rodgers
    Carolyn Rodgers
    Carolyn Marie Rodgers was a Chicago-based American poet and a founder of one of America’s oldest and largest black presses, Third World Press...

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

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

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

    . http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/19/books/19rodgers.html
  • William Soeryadjaya
    William Soeryadjaya
    William Soeryadjaya , born in Majalengka, was an Indonesian businessman who co-founded Astra International, Indonesia's largest automobile retailer....

    , 87, Indonesia
    Indonesia
    Indonesia , officially the Republic of Indonesia , is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania. Indonesia is an archipelago comprising approximately 13,000 islands. It has 33 provinces with over 238 million people, and is the world's fourth most populous country. Indonesia is a republic, with an...

    n businessman, founder of Astra International
    Astra International
    Astra International was founded in 1957, based on a small trading business operated by brothers Tjia Kian Tie and William Soeryadjaya. The family had begun its trading activities by the 1940s, initially operated as a distributor of fruit juices and other agricultural and grocery goods, before...

    . http://www.businessweek.com/news/2010-04-03/william-soeryadjaya-astra-founder-dies-at-age-87-update1-.html
  • Frances Claudia Wright
    Frances Claudia Wright
    Frances Claudia Wright, OBE was a prominent Sierra Leonean lawyer during the 20th century. Known as "West Africa's Portia", in 1943 Wright was the first Sierra Leonean woman to pass the bar in Great Britain and to practice law in her country.-Life:Frances Claudia Wright was born in Freetown,...

    , 91, Sierra Leonian
    Sierra Leone
    Sierra Leone , officially the Republic of Sierra Leone, is a country in West Africa. It is bordered by Guinea to the north and east, Liberia to the southeast, and the Atlantic Ocean to the west and southwest. Sierra Leone covers a total area of and has an estimated population between 5.4 and 6.4...

     barrister
    Barrister
    A barrister is a member of one of the two classes of lawyer found in many common law jurisdictions with split legal professions. Barristers specialise in courtroom advocacy, drafting legal pleadings and giving expert legal opinions...

    . http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/law-obituaries/7636155/Frances-Wright.html
  • Mike Zwerin
    Mike Zwerin
    Mike Zwerin was an American cool jazz musician and author. Zwerin as a musician played the trombone and bass trumpet within various jazz ensembles. He was active within the jazz and prog. jazz musical community as a session musician...

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

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

     musician
    Musician
    A musician is an artist who plays a musical instrument. It may or may not be the person's profession. Musicians can be classified by their roles in performing music and writing music.Also....* A person who makes music a profession....

     and jazz critic
    Critic
    A critic is anyone who expresses a value judgement. Informally, criticism is a common aspect of all human expression and need not necessarily imply skilled or accurate expressions of judgement. Critical judgements, good or bad, may be positive , negative , or balanced...

    , after long illness. http://www.cbc.ca/arts/music/story/2010/04/03/zwerin-obit-jazz.html

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  • Morag Beaton
    Morag Beaton
    Morag Beaton was a Scottish-Australian dramatic soprano who established her reputation as Turandot, a role she sang in Australia more than any other soprano to date. She also sang Tatiana , Venus , Abigaille , Eboli Santuzza and many other roles...

    , 83, Scottish
    Scotland
    Scotland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Occupying the northern third of the island of Great Britain, it shares a border with England to the south and is bounded by the North Sea to the east, the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, and the North Channel and Irish Sea to the...

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

    n operatic soprano
    Soprano
    A soprano is a voice type with a vocal range from approximately middle C to "high A" in choral music, or to "soprano C" or higher in operatic music. In four-part chorale style harmony, the soprano takes the highest part, which usually encompasses the melody...

    . http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/arts/dream-role-launched-diva-morag-beaton-on-world-stage/story-e6frg8n6-1225851579391
  • Vito De Grisantis
    Vito De Grisantis
    Vito De Grisantis was an Italian Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Ugento-Santa Maria di Leuca from his appointment by Pope John Paul II on 26 June 2000, until his death on 1 April 2010....

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

     Roman Catholic prelate
    Prelate
    A prelate is a high-ranking member of the clergy who is an ordinary or who ranks in precedence with ordinaries. The word derives from the Latin prælatus, the past participle of præferre, which means "carry before", "be set above or over" or "prefer"; hence, a prelate is one set over others.-Related...

    , Bishop
    Bishop (Catholic Church)
    In the Catholic Church, a bishop is an ordained minister who holds the fullness of the sacrament of Holy Orders and is responsible for teaching the Catholic faith and ruling the Church....

     of Ugento-Santa Maria di Leuca
    Roman Catholic Diocese of Ugento-Santa Maria di Leuca
    The Italian Catholic diocese of Ugento-Santa Maria di Leuca, in Apulia, has existed under this name since 1959. It is a suffragan of the archdiocese of Lecce. The historic diocese of Ugento has existed since the thirteenth century.-History:...

     (2000–2010). http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bgrisa.html
  • Anders Eklund
    Anders Eklund
    Anders Eklund was a Swedish boxer. He was nicknamed Lillen , but later chose the nickname "Viking"....

    , 52, Swedish
    Sweden
    Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....

     boxer
    Boxing
    Boxing, also called pugilism, is a combat sport in which two people fight each other using their fists. Boxing is supervised by a referee over a series of between one to three minute intervals called rounds...

    . http://www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/article6886668.ab (Swedish)
  • John Forsythe
    John Forsythe
    John Forsythe was an American stage, television and film actor. Forsythe starred in three television series, spanning four decades and three genres: as single playboy father Bentley Gregg in the sitcom Bachelor Father ; as the unseen millionaire Charles Townsend on the crime drama Charlie's...

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

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

     (Bachelor Father, Charlie's Angels
    Charlie's Angels
    Charlie's Angels is a television series about three women who work for a private investigation agency, and is one of the first shows to showcase women in roles traditionally reserved for men...

    , Dynasty
    Dynasty (TV series)
    Dynasty is an American prime time television soap opera that aired on ABC from January 12, 1981 to May 11, 1989. It was created by Richard & Esther Shapiro and produced by Aaron Spelling, and revolved around the Carringtons, a wealthy oil family living in Denver, Colorado...

    ), complication
    Complication (medicine)
    Complication, in medicine, is an unfavorable evolution of a disease, a health condition or a medical treatment. The disease can become worse in its severity or show a higher number of signs, symptoms or new pathological changes, become widespread throughout the body or affect other organ systems. A...

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

    . http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/03/arts/television/03forsythe.html
  • Buddy Gorman
    Buddy Gorman
    Charles J. "Buddy" Gorman is an American stage and movie actor who became famous for portraying a member of the comedy teams, The East Side Kids and The Bowery Boys. Prior to acting he tried out for the Brooklyn Dodgers farm team, the Montreal Royals, as a shortstop...

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

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

     (Bowery Boys
    Bowery Boys
    The Bowery Boys were a nativist, anti-Catholic, and anti-Irish gang based north of the Five Points district of New York City in the mid-19th century. They were primarily stationed in the Bowery section of New York, which was, at the time, extended north of the Five Points...

    , Dead End Kids
    Dead End Kids
    The Dead End Kids were a group of young actors from New York who appeared in Sidney Kingsley's Broadway play Dead End in 1935. In 1937 producer Samuel Goldwyn brought all of them to Hollywood and turned the play into a film...

    ), natural causes. http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/democratandchronicle/obituary.aspx?n=charles-j-gorman&pid=141563005
  • Yuri Maslyukov
    Yuri Maslyukov
    Yuri Dmitriyevich Maslyukov was a Russian politician who was in charge of the Gosplan for three years preceding the demise of the Soviet Union.-Early life:...

    , 72, Russia
    Russia
    Russia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...

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

    , Vice Premier of Soviet Union
    Premier of the Soviet Union
    The office of Premier of the Soviet Union was synonymous with head of government of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics . Twelve individuals have been premier...

     (1988–1990) and Russia
    Prime Minister of Russia
    The Chairman of the Government of the Russian Federation The use of the term "Prime Minister" is strictly informal and is not allowed for by the Russian Constitution and other laws....

     (1998–1999). http://lenta.ru/news/2010/04/02/maslyukov/ (Russian)
  • Lek Nana
    Lek Nana
    Lek Nana was a Thai businessman and politician. One of the founders of Thailand's Democrat Party at the end of World War II, he served as Deputy Foreign Minister and as Minister of Science, Technology, and Energy. A Muslim of Gujarati ancestry, he was a senior member of the Central Islamic...

    , 85, Thai
    Thailand
    Thailand , officially the Kingdom of Thailand , formerly known as Siam , is a country located at the centre of the Indochina peninsula and Southeast Asia. It is bordered to the north by Burma and Laos, to the east by Laos and Cambodia, to the south by the Gulf of Thailand and Malaysia, and to the...

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

    , heart failure. http://www.nationmultimedia.com/home/Land-tycoon-Lek-passes-away-30126108.html
  • Ed Roberts, 68, American
    United States
    The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

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

    . http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/03/business/03roberts.html
  • Tzannis Tzannetakis
    Tzannis Tzannetakis
    Tzannis Tzannetakis was a Greek politician who was briefly Prime Minister of Greece during the political crisis of 1989.-Biography:Tzannetakis was born in Gytheio in the region of Mani in 1927...

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

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

    , Prime Minister (1989). http://article.wn.com/view/2010/04/01/Former_Greek_prime_minister_Tzannis_Tzannetakis_dies_at_82_p/
  • Beryl Whiteley, 93, Australia
    Australia
    Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...

    n arts
    ARts
    aRts, which stands for analog Real time synthesizer, is an audio framework that is no longer under development. It is best known for previously being used in KDE to simulate an analog synthesizer....

     patron
    Patrón
    Patrón is a luxury brand of tequila produced in Mexico and sold in hand-blown, individually numbered bottles.Made entirely from Blue Agave "piñas" , Patrón comes in five varieties: Silver, Añejo, Reposado, Gran Patrón Platinum and Gran Patrón Burdeos. Patrón also sells a tequila-coffee blend known...

    , mother of Brett Whiteley
    Brett Whiteley
    Brett Whiteley, AO was an Australian artist. He is represented in the collections of all the large Australian galleries, and was twice winner of the Archibald Prize...

    . http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/04/01/2863082.htm
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