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• Dieter Froese, 68, East Prussia
  East Prussia
  East Prussia is the main part of the region of Prussia along the southeastern Baltic Coast from the 13th century to the end of World War II in May 1945. From 1772–1829 and 1878–1945, the Province of East Prussia was part of the German state of Prussia. The capital city was Königsberg.East Prussia...
  
  n-born artist. http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/04/arts/desgn/04froese.html
• Robert Gernhardt
  Robert Gernhardt
  Robert Gernhardt was a German writer, painter, caricaturist and poet.-Life:Robert Gernhardt studied Painting and German in Stuttgart and Berlin. He was one of the regular contributors to the satirical magazine Pardon, where he did the section Welt im Spiegel together with F. K. Waechter and F. W...
  
  , 68, German satirist
  Satire
  Satire is primarily a literary genre or form, although in practice it can also be found in the graphic and performing arts. In satire, vices, follies, abuses, and shortcomings are held up to ridicule, ideally with the intent of shaming individuals, and society itself, into improvement...
  
   http://www.sueddeutsche.de/,tt3m2/kultur/artikel/545/79466/
• Edward Hamilton
  Edward Hamilton (officer)
  Edward Smith Hamilton was an American army officer during World War II, and later a Central Intelligence Agency operative in China, East Germany and Turkey....
  
  , 89, highly decorated United States Army
  United States Army
  The United States Army is the main branch of the United States Armed Forces responsible for land-based military operations. It is the largest and oldest established branch of the U.S. military, and is one of seven U.S. uniformed services...
  
   veteran during World War II, 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.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/07/03/AR2006070301005.html
• Dr. Harold Olmo
  Harold Olmo
  Dr. Harold Olmo was a pioneering viticulturalist and professor at the University of California, Davis where he created many new grape varieties known today as Olmo grapes. In the 1950s, he helped to establish California's first quarantine facility on the UC-Davis campus to permit California...
  
  , 96, American grape breeder and geneticist. http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/12/us/12olmo.html
• Albert Sherman, 88, publisher of the Newport Daily News, 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.boston.com/news/local/rhode_island/articles/2006/06/30/former_newport_daily_news_publisher_dies/
• Richard Streeton
  Richard Streeton
  Richard Marsh Streeton was an English sports journalist, concentrating on cricket.Streeton's father was a manager for HMV and the BBC. Streeton was educated at King's School, Canterbury, before leading a distinguished naval career...
  
  , 75, English journalist http://www.acscricket.com/Articles/4/4449.html
• Ross Tompkins
  Ross Tompkins
  Ross Tompkins was an American jazz pianist.Tompkins attended the New England Conservatory of Music, then moved to New York City, where he worked with Kai Winding , Eric Dolphy , Wes Montgomery , Bob Brookmeyer/Clark Terry , Benny Goodman , Bobby Hackett , and Al Cohn and Zoot Sims...
  
  , 68, American Tonight Show pianist. http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/09/arts/09tompkins.html

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• Fabián Bielinsky
  Fabián Bielinsky
  Fabián Bielinsky was an Argentine film director born in Buenos Aires.He started to make films early in his life, while still a high school student in the Colegio Nacional de Buenos Aires, after graduation he started studying psychology, a career he shortly followed and dropped out in favor to...
  
  , 47, 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 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:...
  
  , heart attack. http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=957212006
• Tom Brown, 79, West Texas oilman who founded Brown & Roper. http://www.mywesttexas.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=16871295&BRD=2288&PAG=461&dept_id=475626&rfi=6
• Luis Crisci, 66, Uruguayan
  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...
  
   Minister of Labour (1982–1983). http://www.elpais.com.uy/06/06/30/obituario.asp?mnunot=ciudades+obituario
• Mercedes Quezada de Fox, 87, mother of Mexican President
  President of Mexico
  The President of the United Mexican States is the head of state and government of Mexico. Under the Constitution, the president is also the Supreme Commander of the Mexican armed forces...
  
   Vicente Fox Quezada
  Vicente Fox
  Vicente Fox Quesada is a Mexican former politician who served as President of Mexico from 1 December 2000 to 30 November 2006 and currently serves as co-President of the Centrist Democrat International, an international organization of Christian democratic political parties.Fox was elected...
  
  , respiratory arrest. http://today.reuters.com/News/newsArticle.aspx?type=worldNews&storyID=2006-06-30T034646Z_01_N29301630_RTRUKOC_0_US-MEXICO-FOX.xml
• William Fraser, 100, theology
  Theology
  Theology is the systematic and rational study of religion and its influences and of the nature of religious truths, or the learned profession acquired by completing specialized training in religious studies, usually at a university or school of divinity or seminary.-Definition:Augustine of Hippo...
  
   student at Aberdeen University and oldest student in Scotland
  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...
  
  , 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.theherald.co.uk/features/65257.html
• Joyce Hatto
  Joyce Hatto
  Joyce Hatto was a British pianist and piano teacher. She became famous late in life, when unauthorised copies of commercial recordings made by other pianists were released under her name, earning her high praise from critics. The fraud did not come to light until a few months after her...
  
  , 77, classical pianist who plagiarized more than 100 albums, cancer.http://www.boston.com/news/globe/obituaries/articles/2006/07/04/joyce_hatto_at_77_pianist_was_prolific_recording_artist/
• Ed Hugus, 82, racing driver, possible winner of the Le Mans 24 hour race in 1965. http://www.montereyherald.com/mld/montereyherald/news/local/14994255.htm
• Caroline Kearney, 22, Irish
  Irish people
  The Irish people are an ethnic group who originate in Ireland, an island in northwestern Europe. Ireland has been populated for around 9,000 years , with the Irish people's earliest ancestors recorded having legends of being descended from groups such as the Nemedians, Fomorians, Fir Bolg, Tuatha...
  
   Triathlete, collision with a car while on a training cycle ride in Montpellier http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/other_sports/triathlon/5131742.stm
• Stanley Moskowitz
  Stanley Moskowitz
  Stanley M. Moskowitz was a top official of the Central Intelligence Agency.Moskowitz was born in the Bronx and graduated from Alfred University...
  
  , 68, Central Intelligence Agency
  Central Intelligence Agency
  The Central Intelligence Agency is a civilian intelligence agency of the United States government. It is an executive agency and reports directly to the Director of National Intelligence, responsible for providing national security intelligence assessment to senior United States policymakers...
  
   liaison to Congress, 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.charlotte.com/mld/observer/news/local/14955936.htmlhttp://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06/30/AR2006063001629.html
• Wallace Potts
  Wallace Potts
  Wallace Bean Potts was an American film director, screenwriter, and archivist....
  
  , 59, film archivist for the Rudolf Nureyev
  Rudolf Nureyev
  Rudolf Khametovich Nureyev was a Russian dancer, considered one of the most celebrated ballet dancers of the 20th century. Nureyev's artistic skills explored expressive areas of the dance, providing a new role to the male ballet dancer who once served only as support to the women.In 1961 he...
  
   Foundation, lymphoma
  Lymphoma
  Lymphoma is a cancer in the lymphatic cells of the immune system. Typically, lymphomas present as a solid tumor of lymphoid cells. Treatment might involve chemotherapy and in some cases radiotherapy and/or bone marrow transplantation, and can be curable depending on the histology, type, and stage...
  
  . http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/11/arts/11potts.html
• Glen Renfrew, 77, Australian-born former head of 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...
  
  . http://today.reuters.com/stocks/QuoteCompanyNewsArticle.aspx?view=CN&storyID=2006-07-03T153336Z_01_L03674600_RTRIDST_0_REUTERS-RENFREW-PICTURE.XML&rpc=66 http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/09/business/media/09renfrew.html
• Lloyd Richards
  Lloyd Richards
  Lloyd George Richards was a Canadian-American theatre director, actor, and dean of the Yale School of Drama from 1979 to 1991, and Yale University professor emeritus.- Biography :...
  
  , 87, first Black Broadway
  Broadway theatre
  Broadway theatre, commonly called simply Broadway, refers to theatrical performances presented in one of the 40 professional theatres with 500 or more seats located in the Theatre District centered along Broadway, and in Lincoln Center, in Manhattan in New York City...
  
   director, Tony Award
  Tony Award
  The Antoinette Perry Award for Excellence in Theatre, more commonly known as a Tony Award, recognizes achievement in live Broadway theatre. The awards are presented by the American Theatre Wing and The Broadway League at an annual ceremony in New York City. The awards are given for Broadway...
  
   winner, heart failure. http://www.courant.com/news/local/hc-richards-obit,0,1558018.story?coll=hc-headlines-home
• Heliodoro Rico, 84, American track and field
  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...
  
   administrator. http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/05/sports/othersports/05rico.html
• Pierre Rinfret, 82, Canadian-born economist and Republican candidate for Governor of New York
  Governor of New York
  The Governor of the State of New York is the chief executive of the State of New York. The governor is the head of the executive branch of New York's state government and the commander-in-chief of the state's military and naval forces. The officeholder is afforded the courtesy title of His/Her...
  
   in 1990. http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/06/nyregion/06rinfret.html http://www.nysun.com/article/35447
• Lev Sandakhchiev, 70 Russian biochemist who helped to end the Soviet bioweapons program, heart disease. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06/29/AR2006062902048.html
• Randy Walker
  Randy Walker (football coach)
  Randy J. Walker was an American football player and coach. He served as the head football coach at Miami University from 1990 to 1998 and at Northwestern University from 1999 to 2005, compiling a career college football record of 96–81–5...
  
  , 52, Northwestern University
  Northwestern University
  Northwestern University is a private research university in Evanston and Chicago, Illinois, USA. Northwestern has eleven undergraduate, graduate, and professional schools offering 124 undergraduate degrees and 145 graduate and professional degrees....
  
   football coach, apparent heart attack
  Myocardial infarction
  Myocardial infarction or acute myocardial infarction , commonly known as a heart attack, results from the interruption of blood supply to a part of the heart, causing heart cells to die...
  
   http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/news/story?id=2505033
• F. Mark Wyatt
  F. Mark Wyatt
  Felton Mark Wyatt was a CIA agent. He was raised in Woodland, California and graduated from the University of California, Berkeley in 1942. After his war service in the US Navy he earned a degree in foreign affairs from George Washington University...
  
  , 86, a Central Intelligence Agency
  Central Intelligence Agency
  The Central Intelligence Agency is a civilian intelligence agency of the United States government. It is an executive agency and reports directly to the Director of National Intelligence, responsible for providing national security intelligence assessment to senior United States policymakers...
  
   officer, who delivered bags of money to swing the 1948 Italy election. http://www.legacy.com/Obituaries.asp?Page=APStory&Id=11409 http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/07/09/AR2006070900847.html http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/06/us/06wyatt.html

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• Sedley Alley
  Sedley Alley
  Sedley Alley was convicted of abducting, raping, and murdering 19-year-old United States Marine Corps Lance Corporal Suzanne Marie Collins near Naval Air Station Memphis in Millington, Tennessee.-The crime:...
  
  , 50, American convicted murderer and rapist, executed via lethal injection. http://www.sierratimes.com/rss/newswire.php?article=/news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060628/ap_on_re_us/tennessee_executions&time=1151479064&feed=us
• Jim Baen
  Jim Baen
  James Patrick "Jim" Baen was a noted U.S. science fiction publisher and editor. In 1983 he founded his own publishing house, Baen Books, specializing in the adventure, fantasy, military science fiction and space opera genres...
  
  , 62, 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
  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...
  
   and publisher. http://david-drake.com/baen.html
• Theodore Black, 77, American executive, former CEO of Ingersoll Rand
  Ingersoll Rand
  Ingersoll-Rand plc is a $13 billion global diversified industrial company founded in 1871. The Ingersoll Rand name came into use in 1905 through the combination of Ingersoll-Sergeant Drill Company and Rand Drill Company...
  
  . http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/30/business/30black.html
• Walter Cox, 87, head coach of Clemson Tigers
  Clemson Tigers baseball
  The Clemson baseball team represents Clemson University in NCAA Division I college baseball. The team participates in the Atlantic Division of the Atlantic Coast Conference. The Tigers are currently coached by head coach Jack Leggett and play their home games in Doug Kingsmore Stadium...
  
   from 1948 to 1951 and former president of Clemson University
  Clemson University
  Clemson University is an American public, coeducational, land-grant, sea-grant, research university located in Clemson, South Carolina, United States....
  
  . http://www.clemson.edu/newsroom/articles/2006/june/Cox_death.php5
• Boban Giankovic, 43, Serbia
  Serbia
  Serbia , officially the Republic of Serbia , is a landlocked country located at the crossroads of Central and Southeast Europe, covering the southern part of the Carpathian basin and the central part of the Balkans...
  
  n 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 in Greece, heart attack. http://news.ert.gr/6/240128.asp
• Theodore Levitt
  Theodore Levitt
  Theodore Levitt was an American economist and professor at Harvard Business School. He was also editor of the Harvard Business Review and an editor who was especially noted for increasing the Review's circulation and for popularizing the term globalization...
  
  , 81, German-born former editor of the Harvard Business Review
  Harvard Business Review
  Harvard Business Review is a general management magazine published since 1922 by Harvard Business School Publishing, owned by the Harvard Business School. A monthly research-based magazine written for business practitioners, it claims a high ranking business readership among academics, executives,...
  
  and author of books on marketing, coined the term globalization
  Globalization
  Globalization refers to the increasingly global relationships of culture, people and economic activity. Most often, it refers to economics: the global distribution of the production of goods and services, through reduction of barriers to international trade such as tariffs, export fees, and import...
  
  . http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/06/business/06levitt.html http://www.businessweek.com/bschools/content/jun2006/bs20060629_5211_bs001.htm
• Vance Rudy Martin, 64, founder and former CEO of The Lending Tree, 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.ledger-enquirer.com/mld/ledgerenquirer/business/14988225.htm
• Herman Merinoff, 77, American liquor distributor, co-chair of the Charmer-Sunbelt Group. http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/29/business/29merinoff.html
• Mahmoud Mestiri
  Mahmoud Mestiri
  Mahmoud Mestiri was a Tunisian diplomat and politician who served as the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Tunisia in 1987-1988.-References:...
  
  , 77, former foreign minister
  Foreign minister
  A Minister of Foreign Affairs, or foreign minister, is a cabinet minister who helps form the foreign policy of a sovereign state. The foreign minister is often regarded as the most senior ministerial position below that of the head of government . It is often granted to the deputy prime minister in...
  
   of Tunisia
  Tunisia
  Tunisia , officially the Tunisian RepublicThe long name of Tunisia in other languages used in the country is: , is the northernmost country in Africa. It is a Maghreb country and is bordered by Algeria to the west, Libya to the southeast, and the Mediterranean Sea to the north and east. Its area...
  
   http://www.rulers.org/2006-06.html
• George Page, 71, creator and narrator of the PBS series Nature
  Nature (TV series)
  Nature is a wildlife television program produced by Thirteen/WNET New York. It has been distributed to United States public television stations by the PBS television service since its debut on October 10, 1982. Some episodes may appear in syndication on many PBS member stations around the U.S. and...
  
  . http://www.broadcastingcable.com/article/CA6348527.html?display=Breaking+News
• Peter Rawlinson, Baron Rawlinson of Ewell
  Peter Rawlinson, Baron Rawlinson of Ewell
  Peter Anthony Grayson Rawlinson, Baron Rawlinson of Ewell, PC, QC was an English barrister, politician and author. He was Conservative Member of Parliament for Epsom for 23 years, from 1955 to 1978, and held the offices of Solicitor General and Attorney General for England and Wales and for...
  
  , 87, English barrister, politician and author. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?view=DETAILS&grid=&xml=/news/2006/06/29/db2901.xml
• Fernando Sanchez
  Fernando Sanchez
  Fernando Sánchez was a Spanish fashion designer. He was known for his provocative lingerie collections, which, though designed for elegant boudoirs, were often worn in public. Sanchez was awarded several Coty fashion awards, as well as a Council of Fashion Designers of America Award in...
  
  , 70, Belgian-born fashion designer. http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/03/arts/design/03sanchez.html
• Mickey Sims
  Mickey Sims
  Robert Anderson "Mickey" Sims is a former American football defensive tackle in the National Football League. He was drafted by the Cleveland Browns in the fourth round of the 1977 NFL Draft. He played college football at South Carolina State.Mr...
  
  , 51, former player with the Cleveland Browns
  Cleveland Browns
  The Cleveland Browns are a professional football team based in Cleveland, Ohio. They are currently members of the North Division of the American Football Conference in the National Football League...
  
  , heart attack. http://www.cleveland.com/obituary/plaindealer/index.ssf?/base/news/1150187415278170.xml&coll=2
• Wing Commander
  Wing Commander (rank)
  Wing commander is a commissioned rank in the Royal Air Force and the air forces of many other Commonwealth countries...
  
   George Unwin
  George Unwin
  Wing Commander George Cecil Unwin DSO, DFM & Bar , born in the town of Bolton upon Dearne, near Barnsley, Yorkshire, England. He enlisted in the RAF in 1929 as an Administrative apprentice, and in 1935, was selected for pilot training. Upon completion of training, he was posted to No. 19 Squadron...
  
  , 93, Battle of Britain
  Battle of Britain
  The Battle of Britain is the name given to the World War II air campaign waged by the German Air Force against the United Kingdom during the summer and autumn of 1940...
  
   ace
  Flying ace
  A flying ace or fighter ace is a military aviator credited with shooting down several enemy aircraft during aerial combat. The actual number of aerial victories required to officially qualify as an "ace" has varied, but is usually considered to be five or more...
  
  . http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,60-2247807,00.html
• Lennie Weinrib
  Lennie Weinrib
  Lennie Weinrib was an American actor, voice actor and writer. He is best known for playing the title role in the children's television show H.R...
  
  , 71, American actor. http://news.awn.com/index.php?ltype=top&newsitem_no=17334
• Jean Henri Courcoul, 87, French Resistance fighter and World War II RAF heavy bomber pilot, heart attack.

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• Eileen Barton, 76, American singer, actress, ovarian cancer
  Ovarian cancer
  Ovarian cancer is a cancerous growth arising from the ovary. Symptoms are frequently very subtle early on and may include: bloating, pelvic pain, difficulty eating and frequent urination, and are easily confused with other illnesses....
  
   http://legacy.com/LATimes/Obituaries.asp?Page=Notice&PersonID=18293535
• Robert Carrier
  Robert Carrier (chef)
  Robert Carrier OBE was an American chef, restaurateur and cookery writer, whose success came in England, where he was based from 1953 to 1984, and then from 1994 until his death.-Biography:Born Robert Carrier McMahon in Tarrytown, New York, the third son of an Irish...
  
  , 82, American celebrity chef
  Celebrity chef
  A celebrity chef is a kitchen chef who has become famous and well known. Today celebrity chefs often become celebrities by presenting cookery advice and demonstrations via mass media, especially television. Historically, celebrity chefs have included Antoine Carême and Martino da Como.-External...
  
  .http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/5121658.stm
• J. Robert Elliott
  J. Robert Elliott
  J. Robert Elliott was an American politician and a federal judge.Elliot was born to a Methodist minister on 1 January 1910 in Gainesville, Georgia. After he graduated from Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia in 1930, he taught school to earn money for his law degree, which he received from Emory...
  
  , 96, US Federal District Judge who overturned the conviction of Lt. William Calley
  William Calley
  William Laws Calley is a convicted American war criminal and a former U.S. Army officer found guilty of murder for his role in the My Lai Massacre on March 16, 1968, during the Vietnam War.-Early life:...
  
  . http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/O/OBIT_ELLIOTT?SITE=FLTAM&SECTION=US
• Michael Fanfalone, 57, aviation union leader, complications of Crohn's disease
  Crohn's disease
  Crohn's disease, also known as regional enteritis, is a type of inflammatory bowel disease that may affect any part of the gastrointestinal tract from mouth to anus, causing a wide variety of symptoms...
  
  . http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/07/03/AR2006070301004.html
• Sir Gerard Mansfield
  Gerard Mansfield
  Vice-Admiral Sir Edward Gerard "Ged" Napier Mansfield KCB CVO was Deputy Supreme Allied Commander, Atlantic, and after leaving the Royal Navy became a fund-raiser for the Queen's Silver Jubilee Trust.-Early life:...
  
  , 84, British admiral. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1524172/Vice-Admiral-Sir-Ged-Mansfield.html
• Ángel Maturino Reséndiz
  Ángel Maturino Reséndiz
  Angel Maturino Reséndiz, aka The Railroad Killer/The Railway Killer , was an itinerant Mexican serial killer responsible for as many as thirty murders across the United States and Mexico during the 1990s. Some also involved sexual assault...
  
  , 46, Mexican convicted serial killer
  Serial killer
  A serial killer, as typically defined, is an individual who has murdered three or more people over a period of more than a month, with down time between the murders, and whose motivation for killing is usually based on psychological gratification...
  
  , execution via lethal injection
  Lethal injection
  Lethal injection is the practice of injecting a person with a fatal dose of drugs for the express purpose of causing the immediate death of the subject. The main application for this procedure is capital punishment, but the term may also be applied in a broad sense to euthanasia and suicide...
  
  . http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/APStories/stories/D8IGSURG1.html
• Virginia Rosenbaum, 63, corporate research analyst and widow of David Rosenbaum
  David Rosenbaum
  David E. Rosenbaum was an American journalist.After his education, Rosenbaum worked for a number of publications including the St. Petersburg Times and the Congressional Quarterly. He worked for the New York Times for thirty-five years beginning in 1968...
  
  , cancer. http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/23/us/23rosenbaum.html
• Don Wright, 97, Canadian composer and lyricist. http://lfpress.ca/newsstand/Today/2006/06/29/1660052.html

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• Bob Allan, 54, former Chief Executive of the Glasgow Housing Association
  Glasgow Housing Association
  Glasgow Housing Association is one of the largest social landlords in the UK, with more than 50,000 tenants and 26,500 factored homeowners across Glasgow....
  
  . http://www.eveningtimes.co.uk/hi/news/5054056.html
• Bear JJ1
  Bear JJ1
  Bear JJ1 was a brown bear whose travels and exploits in Austria and Germany in the first half of 2006 drew international attention...
  
   (Bruno the Bear), the first wild bear in Germany in 170 years, shot to death. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/5116316.stm
• Al Brounstein, 86, Canadian-born American Napa Valley vintner, Parkinson's disease
  Parkinson's disease
  Parkinson's disease is a degenerative disorder of the central nervous system...
  
  . http://www.napavalleyregister.com/articles/2006/06/28/news/local/iq_3495112.txt
• Joe Carter, 57, gospel singer who took his "A Song in the Night" show to five continents playing 300 shows in five continents. http://www.twincities.com/mld/pioneerpress/news/local/14944062.htm
• Donald Halperin, 60, former New York
  New York
  New York is a state in the Northeastern region of the United States. It is the nation's third most populous state. New York is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south, and by Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont to the east...
  
   state senator. http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/30/nyregion/30halperin.html
• Johnny Jenkins
  Johnny Jenkins
  Johnny Edward Jenkins was an American left-handed blues guitarist, who helped launch the career of Otis Redding...
  
  , 67, American blues guitarist who influenced Otis Redding
  Otis Redding
  Otis Ray Redding, Jr. was an American soul singer-songwriter, record producer, arranger and talent scout. He is considered one of the major figures in soul and R&B...
  
   and Jimi Hendrix
  Jimi Hendrix
  James Marshall "Jimi" Hendrix was an American guitarist and singer-songwriter...
  
  , 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.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06/28/AR2006062801937.html http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/30/arts/music/30jenkins.html
• Marlon Kalkai, 33, former professional wrestler best known as Tiger Kahn in Stampede Wrestling
  Stampede Wrestling
  Stampede Wrestling is a Canadian professional wrestling promotion based in Calgary, Alberta and was for nearly 50 years one of the main promotions in western Canada and the Canadian Prairies...
  
  , heart failure
• Lieutenant General Parami Kulatunga
  Parami Kulatunga
  Lieutenant General Parami Sugandika Bandara Kulatunga RSP, VSV, USP, GW was Deputy Chief of Staff of the Sri Lanka Army, its third highest ranking officer....
  
  , Deputy Chief of Staff of the Sri Lanka
  Sri Lanka
  Sri Lanka, officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka is a country off the southern coast of the Indian subcontinent. Known until 1972 as Ceylon , Sri Lanka is an island surrounded by the Indian Ocean, the Gulf of Mannar and the Palk Strait, and lies in the vicinity of India and the...
  
  n Army, bomb blast. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/5115968.stm
• Frederick Mayer
  Frederick Mayer
  Frederick Mayer was an educational scientist and philosopher of the University of Redlands, California and one of the leading creativity experts. One of his most important aims was a global humanism. Until the very last days of his life he was active as an author...
  
  , 84, educational philosopher, creativity expert, author of "History of Educational Thought".
• Marion Mingins, 53, the first female chaplain to Queen Elizabeth II, and pioneer of women's ministry in the Church of England.
• Eric Rofes
  Eric Rofes
  Eric Rofes was a gay activist, feminist, educator, and author who wrote or edited 12 books.-Life and works:Rofes grew up in Commack, New York and he graduated from Harvard University...
  
  , 51, American author and AIDS
  AIDS
  Acquired immune deficiency syndrome or acquired immunodeficiency syndrome is a disease of the human immune system caused by the human immunodeficiency virus...
  
   educator, heart attack
  Myocardial infarction
  Myocardial infarction or acute myocardial infarction , commonly known as a heart attack, results from the interruption of blood supply to a part of the heart, causing heart cells to die...
  
  . http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/29/us/29rofes.html
• Dr. Joseph Schildkraut, 72, American psychiatrist at Harvard University
  Harvard University
  Harvard University is a private Ivy League university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, established in 1636 by the Massachusetts legislature. Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States and the first corporation chartered in the country...
  
  . http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/08/us/08schildkraut.html
• Abbye Stockton, 88, pioneering American woman weightlifter and bodybuilder, Alzheimer's disease
  Alzheimer's disease
  Alzheimer's disease also known in medical literature as Alzheimer disease is the most common form of dementia. There is no cure for the disease, which worsens as it progresses, and eventually leads to death...
  
  . http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/10/sports/10stockton.html http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/local/states/california/northern_california/14942965.htm
• Stephen Tiger, 57, member of Native American band Tiger Tiger
  Tiger Tiger
  Tiger Tiger may refer to:*"The Tyger", a poem by William Blake, c. 1794, from whose opening words the other uses of the title are derived* Tiger Tiger , a British nightclub chain...
  
   who performed with Jimi Hendrix
  Jimi Hendrix
  James Marshall "Jimi" Hendrix was an American guitarist and singer-songwriter...
  
   and Led Zeppelin
  Led Zeppelin
  Led Zeppelin were an English rock band, active in the late 1960s and throughout the 1970s. Formed in 1968, they consisted of guitarist Jimmy Page, singer Robert Plant, bassist/keyboardist John Paul Jones, and drummer John Bonham...
  
  , recipient of a Native American Music Association Lifetime Achievement Award, head injury. http://www.sun-sentinel.com/features/arts/sfl-otiger01jul01,0,7938089.story?coll=sfla-features-arts
• Stan Torgerson
  Stan Torgerson
  Stan Torgerson, , was the voice of the Ole Miss Rebels for a total of 17 years.-References:...
  
  , 82, radio announcer for Ole Miss football and basketball games. http://www.clarionledger.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060626/SPORTS030103/60626024/0/SPORTS
• Jeff Winkless
  Jeff Winkless
  Jeffrey Alan Winkless was an American film and voice actor and music composer. He was born in Springfield, Massachusetts. Two of his younger brothers, Terence H. Winkless and Daniel Owen Winkless, worked with him on The Banana Splits Adventure Hour. He was also credited as Jeffrey Brock...
  
  , 65, Los Angeles voice actor, brain tumor

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• Elkan Allan
  Elkan Allan
  Elkan Allan was a British television producer and print journalist. Allan is best remembered for his creation of the pioneering popular cult 1960s TV rock/pop music show Ready Steady Go!...
  
  , 83, created Ready Steady Go!
  Ready Steady Go!
  Ready Steady Go! or simply RSG! was one of the UK's first rock/pop music TV programmes. It was conceived by Elkan Allan, head of Rediffusion TV. Allan was assisted by record producer/talent manager Vicki Wickham, who became the producer. It was broadcast from August 1963 until December 1966...
  
   and developed the first television listings for the UK in the Sunday Times
  The Sunday Times (UK)
  The Sunday Times is a Sunday broadsheet newspaper, distributed in the United Kingdom. The Sunday Times is published by Times Newspapers Ltd, a subsidiary of News International, which is in turn owned by News Corporation. Times Newspapers also owns The Times, but the two papers were founded...
  
  . http://www.guardian.co.uk/obituaries/story/0,,1809292,00.html
• Eliyahu Asheri
  Eliyahu Asheri
  The murder of Eliyahu Asheri was a terror attack which carried out on June 25, 2006, in which Palestinian Popular Resistance Committees militants kidnapped, and later murdered the 17 year-old Israeli high school student Eliyahu Asheri....
  
  , 18, Israeli civilian kidnapped and murdered by militants in the West Bank
  West Bank
  The West Bank ) of the Jordan River is the landlocked geographical eastern part of the Palestinian territories located in Western Asia. To the west, north, and south, the West Bank shares borders with the state of Israel. To the east, across the Jordan River, lies the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan...
  
   city of Ramallah
  Ramallah
  Ramallah is a Palestinian city in the central West Bank located 10 kilometers north of Jerusalem, adjacent to al-Bireh. It currently serves as the de facto administrative capital of the Palestinian National Authority...
  
  .
• Charles Barrow
  Charles Barrow
  Charles Wallace Barrow was a former Justice of the Texas Supreme Court and a Dean of Baylor University Law School.-Early career:...
  
  , 84, former justice of the Texas Supreme Court
  Texas Supreme Court
  The Supreme Court of Texas is the court of last resort for non-criminal matters in the state of Texas. A different court, the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals, is the court of last resort for criminal matters.The Court is composed of a Chief Justice and eight Associate Justices...
  
  . http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/4006242.html
• B. D. Nag Chowdhury, 89, Indian nuclear scientist, cerebral haemorrhage. http://www.hindu.com/2006/06/26/stories/2006062601130900.htm
• George Whitaker Clarke, 100, Washington state politician. http://www.mi-reporter.com/sited/story/html/260812
• Richard DeVore
  Richard DeVore
  Richard DeVore was an American ceramicist that was born in Toledo, Ohio in 1933. He earned a B.Ed. degree with an art major from the University of Toledo in 1955, and received an M.F.A. from the Cranbrook Academy of Art in 1957. In 1966 DeVore became head of the ceramics department at Cranbrook...
  
  , 73, Colorado
  Colorado
  Colorado is a U.S. state that encompasses much of the Rocky Mountains as well as the northeastern portion of the Colorado Plateau and the western edge of the Great Plains...
  
   sculptor, 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.denverpost.com/obituaries/ci_3987171
• Harry Elliot, 101, former professional wrestling promoter, Natural Causes http://slam.canoe.ca/Slam/Wrestling/2006/06/26/1654927.html
• Alexis Giannoulias, 69, founder of the Broadway Bank
  Broadway Bank (Illinois)
  Broadway Bank was a Chicago bank that existed from 1979 to 2010, and was owned by the Giannoulias family. Its financial situation and history of questionable loans are a factor in the campaign of Alexi Giannoulias in the 2010 U.S. Senate election in Illinois....
  
   in Chicago
  Chicago
  Chicago is the largest city in the US state of Illinois. With nearly 2.7 million residents, it is the most populous city in the Midwestern United States and the third most populous in the US, after New York City and Los Angeles...
  
   and father of Alexi Giannoulias
  Alexi Giannoulias
  Alexander "Alexi" Giannoulias is an American politician who served as Illinois Treasurer from 2007 to 2011. A Democrat, Giannoulias defeated Republican candidate State Senator Christine Radogno in November 2006 with 54 percent of the vote, becoming the first Democrat to hold the office in 12...
  
   a Democrat politician, heart attack. http://www.suntimes.com/output/news/xgiann27.html
• Kenneth Griffith
  Kenneth Griffith
  Kenneth Griffith was a Welsh actor and documentary filmmaker.-Early life:He was born Kenneth Reginald Griffiths in Tenby, Pembrokeshire, Wales. Six months after his birth his parents split up and left Tenby, leaving Kenneth with his paternal grandparents, Emily and Ernest, who immediately adopted...
  
  , 84, Welsh
  Welsh people
  The Welsh people are an ethnic group and nation associated with Wales and the Welsh language.John Davies argues that the origin of the "Welsh nation" can be traced to the late 4th and early 5th centuries, following the Roman departure from Britain, although Brythonic Celtic languages seem to have...
  
   actor and documentary maker, Parkinson's disease
  Parkinson's disease
  Parkinson's disease is a degenerative disorder of the central nervous system...
  
  . http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/5115424.stm
• Akbar Hossain
  Akbar Hossain
  Akbar Hossain was a veteran of the Bangladesh Liberation War and a Minister in three Bangladesh governments.-Military career:...
  
  , 65, Bangladesh
  Bangladesh
  Bangladesh , officially the People's Republic of Bangladesh is a sovereign state located in South Asia. It is bordered by India on all sides except for a small border with Burma to the far southeast and by the Bay of Bengal to the south...
  
  i Minister for Shipping and hero of 1971 Bangladesh Liberation War
  Bangladesh Liberation War
  The Bangladesh Liberation War was an armed conflict pitting East Pakistan and India against West Pakistan. The war resulted in the secession of East Pakistan, which became the independent nation of Bangladesh....
  
  , heart attack http://www.hindustantimes.com/news/7598_1728770,000500020001.htm
• Dr. Irving Kaplansky
  Irving Kaplansky
  Irving Kaplansky was a Canadian mathematician.-Biography:He was born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, after his parents emigrated from Poland and attended the University of Toronto as an undergraduate. After receiving his Ph.D...
  
  , 89, American mathematician at the University of Chicago
  University of Chicago
  The University of Chicago is a private research university in Chicago, Illinois, USA. It was founded by the American Baptist Education Society with a donation from oil magnate and philanthropist John D. Rockefeller and incorporated in 1890...
  
  . http://www.ams.org/dynamic_archive/home-news.html#kaplansky http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/13/us/13kaplansky.html
• Dibya Khaling
  Dibya Khaling
  Dibya Khaling is a famous Nepali musician, composer and lyricist.-Music:Dibya Khaling has rendered music for about 1000 songs, including the famous Ma Ta Laligurans Bhayechhu, Hey Bir Hinda Aghi Sari, Malai Na Sodha Kaha Dukhchha Ghau, Preyasika Yaadharu, Mayako Aadharma, and Bipana Babhaye...
  
  , 56, lyricist and composer of 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...
  
  i music responsible for 1,000 songs, cardiac arrest. http://www.thehimalayantimes.com/fullstory.asp?filename=6a6Qa1a8a.9amal&folder=aHaoamW&Name=Home&dtSiteDate=20060626
• Arif Mardin
  Arif Mardin
  Arif Mardin was a Turkish-American music producer, who worked with hundreds of artists across many different styles of music, including jazz, rock, soul, disco, and country...
  
  , 74, Turkish-American Grammy Award
  Grammy Award
  A Grammy Award — or Grammy — is an accolade by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences of the United States to recognize outstanding achievement in the music industry...
  
   winning music producer, 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/entertainment/5118188.stm http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/27/arts/music/27mardin.html
• Sophie Maslow
  Sophie Maslow
  Sophie Maslow was an American choreographer, modern dancer and teacher, and founding member of New Dance Group. She was a first cousin of the American sculptor Leonard Baskin....
  
  , 95, American choreographer. http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/26/arts/dance/27maslow.html
• Melvin Moss, 83, American anatomist and former dean of Columbia University
  Columbia University
  Columbia University in the City of New York is a private, Ivy League university in Manhattan, New York City. Columbia is the oldest institution of higher learning in the state of New York, the fifth oldest in the United States, and one of the country's nine Colonial Colleges founded before the...
  
  's dental school. http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/29/nyregion/29moss.html
• Gad Navon
  Gad Navon
  Rabbi Gad Navon was the third chief Rabbi of the IDF.-Biography:He was born in Morocco in 1922 with the name Mimun Fahima He was ordained there as Rabbi after completing the whole Talmud and being recognized as an expert...
  
  , 84, Former Chief Israel
  Israel
  The State of Israel is a parliamentary republic located in the Middle East, along the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea...
  
  i Military Rabbi
  Military Rabbinate
  The Military Rabbinate is a corps in the Israel Defense Forces that provides religious services to soldiers, primarily to Jews but also including non-Jews, and makes decisions on issues of religion and military affairs. The Military Rabbinate is headed by the Chief Military Rabbi, who is ranked a...
  
  , cancer. http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3266983,00.html
• Jaap Penraat
  Jaap Penraat
  Jaap Penraat was a Dutch resistance fighter during the Second World War.Penraat was born in Amsterdam, Netherlands. As a child, he helped Jewish neighbors by switching lights for them on Shabbat, which they were forbidden to do...
  
  , 88, 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...
  
   architect and member of Dutch resistance in World War II. http://fr.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1150885897898&pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull
• Michael Ruane, 78, Massachusetts legislator 1975-2005, cancer. http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2006/06/26/michael_ruane_state_lawmaker_dies_at_78/
• Seema Aissen Weatherwax
  Seema Aissen Weatherwax
  Seema Aissen Weatherwax was a Ukrainian-born American photographer.She was born in Ukraine, then under the Russian Czar, to Avram and Reva Aissen. She was the second of three girls. The family emigrated to England in 1912, then Boston in 1922, where the young Seema Aissen found her first job...
  
  , 100, Ukrainian photographer
• Roberta Weston, 118?, claimed to be the world's oldest woman but no documentary proof of claim. http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/northwest/chi-0606290292jun29,1,169060.story?coll=chi-newslocalnorthwest-hed

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• John Conger, 85, psychologist and former dean of the University of Colorado School of Medicine. http://www.denverpost.com/obituaries/ci_3983464
• Denice Denton
  Denice Denton
  Denice Dee Denton was an American professor of electrical engineering and academic administrator. She was the ninth chancellor of the University of California, Santa Cruz until her suicide in June 2006.-Early years :...
  
  , 46, chancellor of the University of California at Santa Cruz, suicide. http://www.forbes.com/technology/feeds/ap/2006/06/24/ap2838079.html
• Ben Garry, 50, played NFL for the Baltimore Colts
  History of the Indianapolis Colts
  The Indianapolis Colts are a professional football team based in Indianapolis, Indiana. They play in the AFC South division of the National Football League. They have won 3 NFL championships and 2 Super Bowls....
  
  , car crash. http://www.clarionledger.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060627/SPORTS/60627014
• Jeffrey Harbers, 54, Microsoft
  Microsoft
  Microsoft Corporation is an American public multinational corporation headquartered in Redmond, Washington, USA that develops, manufactures, licenses, and supports a wide range of products and services predominantly related to computing through its various product divisions...
  
   executive who worked on developing many software programs including Microsoft Office
  Microsoft Office
  Microsoft Office is a non-free commercial office suite of inter-related desktop applications, servers and services for the Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X operating systems, introduced by Microsoft in August 1, 1989. Initially a marketing term for a bundled set of applications, the first version of...
  
  , plane crash. http://www.macombdaily.com/stories/062706/loc_barton001.shtml
• Tichaona Jokonya
  Tichaona Jokonya
  Dr Tichaona Joseph Benjamin Jokonya was a Zimbabwean politician, civil servant and diplomat.-Early life:Jokonya was born in the Charter District, since renamed Chikomba and attended Lourdes Mission and Kutama Secondary School before training as a primary schoolteacher. After six years he was...
  
  , 67, Information & Publicity Minister in 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...
  
  , cardiac arrest. http://www.zimbabwejournalists.com/story.php?art_id=573&cat=1
• Ígor Medio, 34, and Carlos Redondo, 40, members of Felpeyu folk band, from Asturias
  Asturias
  The Principality of Asturias is an autonomous community of the Kingdom of Spain, coextensive with the former Kingdom of Asturias in the Middle Ages...
  
  , Spain, car accident. http://www.worldmusiccentral.org/article.php/20060624180515384
• John F. Oates, 71, Professor Emeritus of Ancient History and Classics at Duke University
  Duke University
  Duke University is a private research university located in Durham, North Carolina, United States. Founded by Methodists and Quakers in the present day town of Trinity in 1838, the school moved to Durham in 1892. In 1924, tobacco industrialist James B...
  
   and one of America's leading papyrologists. http://www.dukenews.duke.edu/2006/06/oatesobit.html
• Patsy Ramsey
  Patsy Ramsey
  Patricia Ann "Patsy" Ramsey was the mother of JonBenét Ramsey, a 6-year-old American beauty pageant contestant who was murdered on December 25, 1996.-Background:...
  
  , 49, mother of JonBenét Ramsey
  JonBenét Ramsey
  JonBenét Patricia Ramsey was an American child beauty pageant contestant who was murdered in her home in Boulder, Colorado, in 1996. The six-year-old's body was found in the basement of the family home nearly eight hours after she was reported missing. She had been struck on the head and strangled...
  
  , ovarian cancer
  Ovarian cancer
  Ovarian cancer is a cancerous growth arising from the ovary. Symptoms are frequently very subtle early on and may include: bloating, pelvic pain, difficulty eating and frequent urination, and are easily confused with other illnesses....
  
  . http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10892646/, http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/O/OBIT_PATSY_RAMSEY?SITE=NJHAC&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT
• Lyle Stuart
  Lyle Stuart
  Lyle Stuart was an American author and independent publisher of controversial books....
  
  , 83, American journalist and publisher. http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/26/arts/26stuart.html
• Gerald Tomlinson
  Gerald Tomlinson
  Gerald Tomlinson was a crime writer. He was a member of Mystery Writers of America in 1993. He was a member of the the Society for American Baseball Research serving on the publications committee from 1990 through 1991....
  
  , 73, mystery and baseball writer. http://www.stargazettenews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060627/COLUMNIST05/606270310
• Tom Triplett, 71, Savannah, Georgia politician, former Georgia Representative. http://www.charlotte.com/mld/observer/news/local/14895059.htm
• Ric Weiland
  Ric Weiland
  Richard W. 'Ric' Weiland was a computer software pioneer and philanthropist. He was one of the first five employees of Microsoft Corp.- Early life :...
  
  , 53, Microsoft
  Microsoft
  Microsoft Corporation is an American public multinational corporation headquartered in Redmond, Washington, USA that develops, manufactures, licenses, and supports a wide range of products and services predominantly related to computing through its various product divisions...
  
   pioneer, developed BASIC
  BASIC
  BASIC is a family of general-purpose, high-level programming languages whose design philosophy emphasizes ease of use - the name is an acronym from Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code....
  
  , COBOL
  COBOL
  COBOL is one of the oldest programming languages. Its name is an acronym for COmmon Business-Oriented Language, defining its primary domain in business, finance, and administrative systems for companies and governments....
  
   and Microsoft Works
  Microsoft Works
  Microsoft Works is an integrated package software that is produced by Microsoft. Works is smaller, less expensive, and has fewer features than Microsoft Office or other major office suites. Its core functionality includes a word processor, a spreadsheet and a database management system...
  
  , suicide. http://www.seattlepi.com/local/6420AP_WA_Obit_Weiland.html
• David Owen, 38, Topeka Kansas homeless advocate, lobbyist, asphyxiated http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/news/local/15288912.htm

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• Martin Adler
  Martin Adler
  Martin John Lars Adler was a Swedish cameraman and journalist.Martin Adler was born in Stockholm, Sweden, to a Swedish father and a British mother...
  
  , 47, 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....
  
   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 by unknown assailant in Mogadishu
  Mogadishu
  Mogadishu , popularly known as Xamar, is the largest city in Somalia and the nation's capital. Located in the coastal Benadir region on the Indian Ocean, the city has served as an important port for centuries....
  
  , Somalia
  Somalia
  Somalia , officially the Somali Republic and formerly known as the Somali Democratic Republic under Socialist rule, is a country located in the Horn of Africa. Since the outbreak of the Somali Civil War in 1991 there has been no central government control over most of the country's territory...
  
  . http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/africa/06/23/somalia.shooting/index.html
• John William Wentworth Butters, 80, Australian energy pioneer and son of Sir John Butters
  John Butters
  Sir John Henry Butters was an Australian electrical engineer notable for his role in the Tasmanian Hydro-electric Department from 1914 to 1924 and as the head of the Federal Capital Commission which developed Canberra between 1925 and 1930.Butters was born in Hampshire and trained as an electrical...
  
  . http://www.smh.com.au/news/obituaries/engineer-with-a-knack-for-efficient-solutions/2006/11/28/1164476204615.html
• Harriet, 176, Galápagos tortoise
  Galápagos tortoise
  The Galápagos tortoise or Galápagos giant tortoise is the largest living species of tortoise, reaching weights of over and lengths of over . With life spans in the wild of over 100 years, it is one of the longest-lived vertebrates...
  
   believed to be the oldest animal in the world and allegedly owned by Charles Darwin
  Charles Darwin
  Charles Robert Darwin FRS was an English naturalist. He established that all species of life have descended over time from common ancestry, and proposed the scientific theory that this branching pattern of evolution resulted from a process that he called natural selection.He published his theory...
  
  , heart failure. http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200606/s1670600.htm
• Grady Johnson
  Grady Johnson
  James Grady Johnson better known as professional wrestler Crazy Luke Graham, was a member of the Graham family, a storyline family of wrestlers.-Career:...
  
  , 66, former WWF
  World Wrestling Entertainment
  World Wrestling Entertainment, Inc. is an American publicly traded, privately controlled entertainment company dealing primarily in professional wrestling, with major revenue sources also coming from film, music, product licensing, and direct product sales...
  
   wrestler known as "Crazy" Luke Graham; heart failure. http://slam.canoe.ca/Slam/Wrestling/2006/06/24/1650989.html
• Budhi Kunderan
  Budhi Kunderan
  Budhisagar Krishnappa Kunderan was an Indian cricketer...
  
  , 66, former India wicketkeeper/batsman, lung cancer. http://cricket.indiatimes.com/articleshow/1674955.cms
• Aaron Spelling
  Aaron Spelling
  Aaron Spelling was an American film and television producer. As of 2009, Spelling's eponymous production company Spelling Television holds the record as the most prolific television writer, with 218 producer and executive producer credits...
  
  , 83, American television producer (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...
  
  , Starsky and Hutch
  Starsky and Hutch
  Starsky and Hutch is a 1970s American cop thriller television series that consisted of a 90-minute pilot movie and 92 episodes of 60 minutes each; created by William Blinn, produced by Spelling-Goldberg Productions, and broadcast between April 30, 1975 and May 15, 1979 on the ABC...
  
  , Beverly Hills, 90210
  Beverly Hills, 90210
  Beverly Hills, 90210 is an American drama series that originally aired from October 4, 1990 to May 17, 2000 on Fox and was produced by Spelling Television in the United States, and subsequently on various networks around the world. It is the first series in the Beverly Hills, 90210 franchise...
  
  ), complications of stroke. http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/24/arts/television/24spelling.html

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• Heinz Ansbacher
  Heinz Ansbacher
  Heinz Ludwig Ansbacher was a German-American psychologist specializing in the theories of Alfred Adler.-Biography:...
  
  , 101, German-born psychologist and expert in the work of Alfred Adler
  Alfred Adler
  Alfred Adler was an Austrian medical doctor, psychotherapist, and founder of the school of individual psychology. In collaboration with Sigmund Freud and a small group of Freud's colleagues, Adler was among the co-founders of the psychoanalytic movement as a core member of the Vienna...
  
  . http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/24/us/24ansbacher.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
• Anna Castelli Ferrieri, 87, Italian architect and designer. http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/28/arts/design/28ferrieri.html
• Alfred Hopkins Jr, 80, Mayor of Annapolis 1989-1997. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06/22/AR2006062201898.html?nav=rss_politics
• Moose
  Moose (dog actor)
  Moose was a veteran canine actor. He was a Jack Russell Terrier and is most famous for his portrayal of Eddie Crane on the television sitcom Frasier.-Early life:...
  
  , 16, canine star of U.S. sit-com Frasier
  Frasier
  Frasier is an American sitcom that was broadcast on NBC for eleven seasons, from September 16, 1993, to May 13, 2004. The program was created and produced by David Angell, Peter Casey, and David Lee in association with Grammnet and Paramount Network Television.A spin-off of Cheers, Frasier stars...
  
  , played the character Eddie, "Skip" on film "My Dog Skip
  My Dog Skip
  My Dog Skip is a memoir by Willie Morris published by Random House in 1995."My Dog Skip" is the story about nine-year-old Willie Morris growing up in Yazoo City, Mississippi, a tale of a boy and his dog in a small, sleepy Southern town that teaches us about family, friendship, love, devotion and...
  
  ". http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/5124104.stm
• Pinuccia Nava, 86, Italian actress of the 1940s and 1950s on stage (the "Nava Sisters"), screen and TV (clown "Scaramacai"). http://www.iltempo.it/approfondimenti/index.aspx?id=978553
• Chanel Petro Nixon, 16, 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...
  
  , murder
  Murder
  Murder is the unlawful killing, with malice aforethought, of another human being, and generally this state of mind distinguishes murder from other forms of unlawful homicide...
  
   victim in Brooklyn, New York.

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• Theo Bell
  Theo Bell
  Theopolis Bell, Jr. was an American football wide receiver who played nine seasons in the National Football League for the Pittsburgh Steelers and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers....
  
  , 52, National Football League
  National Football League
  The National Football League is the highest level of professional American football in the United States, and is considered the top professional American football league in the world. It was formed by eleven teams in 1920 as the American Professional Football Association, with the league changing...
  
   receiver with the Pittsburgh Steelers
  Pittsburgh Steelers
  The Pittsburgh Steelers are a professional football team based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The team currently belongs to the North Division of the American Football Conference in the National Football League . Founded in , the Steelers are the oldest franchise in the AFC...
  
   and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers
  Tampa Bay Buccaneers
  The Tampa Bay Buccaneers are a professional American football franchise based in Tampa, Florida, U.S. They are currently members of the Southern Division of the National Football Conference in the National Football League – they are the only team in the division not to come from the old NFC West...
  
  , kidney disease and scleroderma
  Scleroderma
  Systemic sclerosis or systemic scleroderma is a systemic autoimmune disease or systemic connective tissue disease that is a subtype of scleroderma.-Skin symptoms:...
  
  . http://slam.canoe.ca/Slam/Football/NFL/2006/06/22/1647736-ap.html
• Vern Leroy Bullough
  Vern Bullough
  Vern Leroy Bullough was an American historian and sexologist.He was a distinguished professor emeritus at the State University of New York , an Outstanding Professor in the California State University, a past president of the Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality, past Dean of natural and...
  
  , 77, medical historian known for his history of nursing, cancer
  Cancer
  Cancer , known medically as a malignant neoplasm, is a large group of different diseases, all involving unregulated cell growth. In cancer, cells divide and grow uncontrollably, forming malignant tumors, and invade nearby parts of the body. The cancer may also spread to more distant parts of the...
  
  . http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/03/us/03bullough.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
• Monsignor Denis Faul
  Denis Faul
  The Right Rev. Monsignor Denis O'Beirne Faul , was an Irish Roman Catholic priest and civil rights campaigner best known for his role in the 1981 Irish Hunger Strike...
  
  , 73, former chaplain at the Maze Prison, outspoken critic of The Troubles
  The Troubles
  The Troubles was a period of ethno-political conflict in Northern Ireland which spilled over at various times into England, the Republic of Ireland, and mainland Europe. The duration of the Troubles is conventionally dated from the late 1960s and considered by many to have ended with the Belfast...
  
   and a key figure in attempts to end the 1981 Irish Hunger Strike
  1981 Irish hunger strike
  The 1981 Irish hunger strike was the culmination of a five-year protest during The Troubles by Irish republican prisoners in Northern Ireland. The protest began as the blanket protest in 1976, when the British government withdrew Special Category Status for convicted paramilitary prisoners...
  
   in Northern Ireland
  Northern Ireland
  Northern Ireland is one of the four countries of the United Kingdom. Situated in the north-east of the island of Ireland, it shares a border with the Republic of Ireland to the south and west...
  
  , cancer. http://www.irishexaminer.com/breaking/story.asp?j=12159824&p=yzy5987x&n=12159912&x=
• Jacques Lanzmann
  Jacques Lanzmann
  Jacques Lanzmann was a French writer, scriptwriter and lyric writer.-Biography:...
  
  , 79, French author, editor and songwriter. http://www.ejpress.org/article/news/9236
• Khamis al-Obeidi
  Khamis al-Obeidi
  Khamis al-Obeidi was a lawyer defending Saddam Hussein and Barzan Ibrahim al-Tikriti, from the time the former leader's trial began in Baghdad on October 19, 2005 until his assassination. He was a Sunni Muslim, was married and had six children...
  
  , 39, defense lawyer for Saddam Hussein
  Saddam Hussein
  Saddam Hussein Abd al-Majid al-Tikriti was the fifth President of Iraq, serving in this capacity from 16 July 1979 until 9 April 2003...
  
  , assassinated. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/06/21/ulawyer21.xml
• David Walton
  David Walton
  David Robert Walton was a British economist, and a member of the Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee from July 2005 until his death in June 2006....
  
  , 43, member of the Bank of England
  Bank of England
  The Bank of England is the central bank of the United Kingdom and the model on which most modern central banks have been based. Established in 1694, it is the second oldest central bank in the world...
  
  's Monetary Policy Committee
  Monetary Policy Committee
  The Monetary Policy Committee is a committee of the Bank of England, which meets for two and a half days every month to decide the official interest rate in the United Kingdom . It is also responsible for directing other aspects of the government's monetary policy framework, such as quantitative...
  
   http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/5105360.stm
• Jonathan Wordsworth
  Jonathan Wordsworth
  Professor Jonathan Fletcher Wordsworth was a great-great-great nephew of William Wordsworth and the great-great-grandson of Christopher Wordsworth, the younger brother of the poet and Master of Trinity College, Cambridge...
  
  , 73, scholar of Romanticism
  Romanticism
  Romanticism was an artistic, literary and intellectual movement that originated in the second half of the 18th century in Europe, and gained strength in reaction to the Industrial Revolution...
  
   and chair of the Wordsworth Trust
  Wordsworth Trust
  The Wordsworth Trust is a living memorial set up to celebrate the works of the poet William Wordsworth and his contemporaries. Wordsworth, conscious of the need for poetry to renew itself within a tradition speaks of writing for 'youthful poets' who 'will be my second self when I am gone.'An...
  
  . http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/5111270.stm?ls

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• Ken Browne, 72, New Zealand steeplechase
  Steeplechase (horse racing)
  The steeplechase is a form of horse racing and derives its name from early races in which orientation of the course was by reference to a church steeple, jumping fences and ditches and generally traversing the many intervening obstacles in the countryside...
  
   jockey and trainer. http://msn.foxsports.com/horseracing/story/5709466
• Bill Daniel
  Bill Daniel
  William Partlow Daniel , was a Governor of Guam and Democratic member of the Texas House of Representatives...
  
  , 90, former Governor of Guam. http://www.honoluluadvertiser.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060622/OBITS01/606220355/1187/NEWS
• Evelyn Dubrow
  Evelyn Dubrow
  Evelyn Dubrow was a legendary labour lobbyist for the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union.Dubrow attended New York University, where she studied journalism....
  
  , 95, US women and labor advocate awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom
  Presidential Medal of Freedom
  The Presidential Medal of Freedom is an award bestowed by the President of the United States and is—along with thecomparable Congressional Gold Medal bestowed by an act of U.S. Congress—the highest civilian award in the United States...
  
   in 1999. http://www.forbes.com/business/feeds/ap/2006/06/21/ap2832083.html
• Billy Johnson
  Billy Johnson (baseball player)
  William Russell Johnson was a former third baseman in Major League Baseball who played with the New York Yankees in the 1940s and later with the St. Louis Cardinals. Johnson was born in Montclair, New Jersey on August 30, 1918....
  
  , 87, former New York Yankee and All-Star third baseman, cause not given. http://groups.google.com/group/alt.obituaries/browse_thread/thread/f9a9d7ebe887224b/
• E. Pierce Marshall
  E. Pierce Marshall
  Everett Pierce Marshall was an American businessman and a son of J. Howard Marshall II.According to a Dallas Morning News article, he was a very private man, but became known due to defending the long-running legal dispute from his father's third wife, Anna Nicole Smith.Marshall attended...
  
  , 67, son of J. Howard Marshall
  J. Howard Marshall
  James Howard Marshall II was an American business magnate, university professor, attorney, and federal government official...
  
   and Anna Nicole Smith
  Anna Nicole Smith
  In 1992 Smith was chosen by Hugh Hefner to appear on the cover of the March issue of Playboy, where she was listed as Vickie Smith, wearing a low-cut evening gown. The centerfold was photographed by Stephen Wayda. Smith said she planned to be "the next Marilyn Monroe". Becoming one of Playboys...
  
  's stepson and plaintiff in their inheritance feud, aggressive infection. http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/06/23/obit.marshall.ap/index.html
• Jerome Martin (aka Redd Angel), 29, South African singer, car wreck. http://www.tonight.co.za/index.php?fArticleId=3302979&fSectionId=354&fSetId=204
• Lamont Reese
  Lamont Reese
  Lamont D. "Mont" Reese, a 28-year-old male, was executed by lethal injection at the Texas State Penitentiary in Huntsville, Texas on June 20, 2006. Reese was found guilty of the 1999 murder of three black males: Riki Jackson, 17, Alonzo Stewart, 25, and Anthony Roney, 26...
  
  , 28, American convicted murderer, executed. http://www.cnn.com/2006/LAW/06/21/texas.execution.ap/index.html
• Charles H. Sawyer, 91, birth control
  Birth control
  Birth control is an umbrella term for several techniques and methods used to prevent fertilization or to interrupt pregnancy at various stages. Birth control techniques and methods include contraception , contragestion and abortion...
  
   researcher, Alzheimer's disease
  Alzheimer's disease
  Alzheimer's disease also known in medical literature as Alzheimer disease is the most common form of dementia. There is no cure for the disease, which worsens as it progresses, and eventually leads to death...
  
  . http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/local/states/california/northern_california/14939351.htm
• William Shurcliff
  William Shurcliff
  William Shurcliff was a physicist and Harvard Professor who was a central participant in the Manhattan Project. In the 1940s, he worked for Polaroid Corporation, where "he worked extensively in optics, held more than 20 patents and refined the automatic-focus slide projector." He "went on to play...
  
  , 97, physicist who helped develop the atomic bomb. http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/28/us/28shurcliff.html
• Claydes Charles Smith
  Claydes Charles Smith
  Claydes Charles Smith was an American musician best known as co-founder and lead guitarist of the group Kool & the Gang.Born in Jersey City, New Jersey, he was introduced to jazz guitar by his father in the early 1960s...
  
  , 57, co-founder and lead guitarist of Kool and the Gang. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2006/06/22/entertainment/e125117D41.DTL
• Vincent Usolor, former 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 Senator, died in his sleep. http://allafrica.com/stories/200606220418.html

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• Hugh Baird
  Hugh Baird
  Hugh Baird was a Scottish footballer who played for Airdrieonians, Leeds United and Aberdeen. He also represented the Scotland national football team once....
  
  , 76, footballer for Leeds United, Aberdeen
  Aberdeen
  Aberdeen is Scotland's third most populous city, one of Scotland's 32 local government council areas and the United Kingdom's 25th most populous city, with an official population estimate of ....
  
  , Airdrieonians and Scotland
  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...
  
  . http://www.theherald.co.uk/features/64605.html
• Myldred Jones, 96, California
  California
  California is a state located on the West Coast of the United States. It is by far the most populous U.S. state, and the third-largest by land area...
  
  n social worker who founded youth shelter in Los Alamitos, California
  Los Alamitos, California
  Los Alamitos is a small city in Orange County, California. The city was incorporated in March 1960. The population was 11,449 at the 2010 census, down from 11,536 at the 2000 census...
  
   and helped to launch other youth services. http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-jones24jun24,1,6034099.story?coll=la-news-obituaries
• Priit Kolbre, 50, Estonian diplomat http://www.postimees.ee/200606/esileht/siseuudised/206397.php
• Duane Roland
  Duane Roland
  Duane Roland was an American guitarist for the rock band Molly Hatchet. He was a member of the band from its founding in in the mid 1970s until his departure in 1990. During that time he recorded seven albums with the band. He is credited with co-writing some of the band's biggest hits, including...
  
  , 53, guitarist and a founder of rock band Molly Hatchet
  Molly Hatchet
  Molly Hatchet is an American southern rock band formed in Jacksonville, Florida, in 1975. They are widely known for their hit song "Flirtin' with Disaster" from the album of the same title. The band, founded by Dave Hlubek and Steve Holland, took its name from a prostitute who allegedly mutilated...
  
  . http://www.upi.com/NewsTrack/view.php?StoryID=20060623-065756-4685r
• Howard Shanet
  Howard Shanet
  Howard Shanet was a U.S. conductor and composer. He was also a music professor at Columbia University, and the chairman of its music department from 1972–1978.-Biography:...
  
  , 87, US conductor and composer. http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/22/arts/music/22shanet.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
• István 'Joni' Szulovszky, 55, Hungarian musician, founding member of A.E. Bizottság. http://www.hirado.hu/cikk.php?id=125529 [Hungarian]
• Melvin Watson, 98, American Baptist
  Baptist
  Baptists comprise a group of Christian denominations and churches that subscribe to a doctrine that baptism should be performed only for professing believers , and that it must be done by immersion...
  
   minister who trained Martin Luther King and other civil rights leaders, complications from surgery http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060624/ap_on_re_us/obit_watson
• Arthur Yap
  Arthur Yap
  -Biography:Arthur Yap was born in Singapore, the sixth child of a carpenter and a housewife. Yap attended St Andrew's School and the University of Singapore, after which he won a British Council scholarship to study at the University of Leeds in England...
  
   (Singapore Poet and Artist), 64, Lecturer, English Department, University of Singapore; cancer of the throat.

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• Luke Belton
  Luke Belton
  Luke Belton was an Irish Fine Gael politician.A publican from Rathcline, County Longford, he unsuccessfully contested the 1961 general election and was first elected to Dáil Éireann in the 1965 general election as a TD for Dublin North Central...
  
  , 87, 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,...
  
   politician. http://www.irishexaminer.com/breaking/story.asp?j=3963075&p=3963x9x&n=3963167&x=
• Des Colquhoun, 75, former editor-in-chief and columnist for The Adelaide Advertiser
  The Advertiser (Australia)
  The Advertiser is a daily tabloid-format newspaper published in the city of Adelaide, South Australia. First published as a broadsheet named "The South Australian Advertiser" on 12 July 1858, it is currently printed daily from Monday to Saturday. A Sunday edition exists under the name of the Sunday...
  
  , died in his sleep. http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,19528229-421,00.html
• Nathaniel Neiman Craley, Jr., 78, former Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives
  United States House of Representatives
  The United States House of Representatives is one of the two Houses of the United States Congress, the bicameral legislature which also includes the Senate.The composition and powers of the House are established in Article One of the Constitution...
  
   (1965–67) from Pennsylvania
  Pennsylvania
  The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania is a U.S. state that is located in the Northeastern and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States. The state borders Delaware and Maryland to the south, West Virginia to the southwest, Ohio to the west, New York and Ontario, Canada, to the north, and New Jersey to...
  
  .
• Jesus Fuertes
  Jesus Fuertes
  Jesus Fuertes was a cubist painter also known as the Painter of Blue - an extraordinary artist who has been christened into the world of art by Salvador Dalí, and who Pablo Picasso himself recognized as a true genius....
  
  , 68, Spanish painter and protégé of Pablo Picasso
  Pablo Picasso
  Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Ruiz y Picasso known as Pablo Ruiz Picasso was a Spanish expatriate painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, and stage designer, one of the greatest and most influential artists of the...
  
  , heart attack. http://msnbc.msn.com/id/13467862/
• Chris and Cru Kahui
  Chris and Cru Kahui
  The deaths of brothers Christopher Arepa and Cru Omeka Kahui , two New Zealand infants from a Māori family who died in Auckland's Starship Children's Hospital after being admitted with serious head injuries, highlighted the fact that Māori children are more than twice as likely to die as a result...
  
  , 3-months, New Zealand child homicide
  Child murder
  The murder of children is considered an abhorrent crime in much of the world; they are perceived within their communities and the state at large as being vulnerable, and therefore especially susceptible to abduction and murder. The protection of children from abuse and possible death often involves...
  
   victims.
• Gică Petrescu
  Gica Petrescu
  Gică Petrescu was a prolific Romanian popular music composer and performer. He made his debut at age 18 by joining a student band, having just graduated from the "Gheorghe Şincai" high school in Bucharest. His official debut was made by performing for radio audiences in 1937...
  
  , 91, 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 singer. http://www.mediafax.ro/english/articole-free/Romanian-Singer-Gica-Petrescu-Died-504740-9.html
• Sir David Poole
  David Poole (judge)
  Sir David Anthony Poole was an English barrister and High Court judge. He is perhaps best known for representing Eric Cantona on charges of a "flying kick" assault of an opposition spectator in 1995.-Life and career:...
  
  , 68, British 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...
  
  . http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article608051.ece
• Donald Reilly
  Donald Reilly
  Donald Reilly was a cartoonist best known for his long association with The New Yorker magazine. His style of drawing was to sketch quickly to achieve a feeling of spontaneity and to use his cartoons to make a social commentary on the times.Reilly was born in Scranton, Pennsylvania and began...
  
  , 72, American cartoonist (The New Yorker
  The New Yorker
  The New Yorker is an American magazine of reportage, commentary, criticism, essays, fiction, satire, cartoons and poetry published by Condé Nast...
  
  ), cancer. http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/20/arts/20reilly.html http://www.comicsreporter.com/
• René Renou
  Rene Renou
  René Renou was president of the Institut National des Appellations d'Origine at the time of his death and was "one of the most influential men in French winemaking."....
  
  , 54, French vintner. http://www.decanter.com/news/87087.html
• Vincent Sherman
  Vincent Sherman
  Vincent Sherman was an American director, and actor, who worked in Hollywood. His movies include Mr. Skeffington , Nora Prentiss , and The Young Philadelphians ....
  
  , 99, American 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:...
  
   (Mr. Skeffington
  Mr. Skeffington
  Mr. Skeffington is a 1944 American drama film directed by Vincent Sherman, based on the novel of the same name by Elizabeth von Arnim.The film stars Bette Davis as a beautiful woman whose many suitors, and self-love, distract her from returning the affections of her husband, Job Skeffington...
  
  , The Young Philadelphians
  The Young Philadelphians
  The Young Philadelphians is a 1959 drama film starring Paul Newman, Barbara Rush and Alexis Smith, and directed by Vincent Sherman. Robert Vaughn was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. The film is based on the novel The Philadelphian by Richard P...
  
  ), natural causes. http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/21/movies/21sherman.htmlhttp://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060620/ap_en_ot/obit_sherman_2
• Richard Stahl, 74, American comedy actor, Parkinson's disease. http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/23/movies/23stahl.htmlhttp://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/local/states/california/northern_california/14871363.htm
• Madeleine St John
  Madeleine St John
  Madeleine St John was an Australian writer, the first Australian woman to be shortlisted for the Booker Prize for Fiction .-Biography:...
  
  , 64, Australian novelist who wrote a book shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1997, 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.smh.com.au/news/obituaries/writer-exposed-british-mores/2006/06/28/1151174264401.html?page=fullpage#contentSwap1
• Arthur Wood, 93, executive at Sears, Roebuck & Company responsible for building Sears Tower
  Sears Tower
  Sears' optimistic growth projections were not met. Competition from its traditional rivals continued, with new competition by retailing giants such as Kmart, Kohl's, and Wal-Mart. The fortunes of Sears & Roebuck declined in the 1970s as the company lost market share; its management grew more...
  
  , complications of pneumonia. http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/22/business/22wood.html?adxnnl=1&adxnnlx=1150960292-xEZKPJYi4lfrHgKOFKE2Gw
• Hubert Cornfield
  Hubert Cornfield
  Hubert Cornfield was a film director in Hollywood. He was born in Istanbul, Turkey and died in Los Angeles, California. Billy Wilder, William Wyler and Joseph L. Mankiewicz all signed his Directors Guild of America application.-Films he has completed:*The Night of the Following Day * Les Grandes...
  
  , 77, film director in Hollywood (“The Night of the Following Day
  The Night of the Following Day
  The Night of the Following Day is a 1968 film starring Marlon Brando, Pamela Franklin, Richard Boone and Rita Moreno. Filmed in France, around Le Touquet it tells a simple story: a kidnapped heiress is held hostage in a remote beachhouse on the coast of France.The film starts with Dupont's...
  
  ”, “Les Grandes Moyens” etc.).

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• Norma Becker
  Norma Becker
  Norma Becker was a founder of the Fifth Avenue Vietnam Peace Parade Committee, which drew tens of thousands to protest the Vietnam War, and of the Mobilization for Survival coalition. She served as chairperson of the pacifist War Resisters League from 1977 to 1983.Born in the Bronx in 1930, Becker...
  
  , 76, American anti-war activist, former chair of the War Resisters League
  War Resisters League
  The War Resisters League was formed in 1923 by men and women who had opposed World War I. It is a section of the London-based War Resisters' International.Many of the founders had been jailed during World War I for refusing military service...
  
  . http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/27/nyregion/27becker.html
• Cláudio Besserman Vianna
  Bussunda
  Cláudio Besserman Vianna , commonly known as Bussunda , was a Brazilian humorist and TV comedian, member of the Casseta & Planeta troupe. He was born in Rio de Janeiro, where he lived and worked, having started his career in the 1980s as a writer for satirical magazine Casseta Popular...
  
  , (a.k.a. Bussunda), 43, Brazilian comedian, member of Casseta & Planeta
  Casseta & Planeta
  Casseta & Planeta is a Brazilian group of comedians who run a TV show named Casseta & Planeta Urgente, broadcast by Rede Globo. The humour featured on the show is mostly satirical, relating to religious or ethical groups, and minorities .The group founded a company called...
  
  , 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://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/5091064.stm
• Arthur Franz
  Arthur Franz
  Arthur Franz was a B-movie actor whose most notable role was as Lieutenant, Junior Grade H. Paynter, Jr. in The Caine Mutiny. He also appeared in Roseanna McCoy , Invaders from Mars , Abbott and Costello Meet the Invisible Man and The Unholy Wife , among others...
  
  , 86, American character actor (Sands of Iwo Jima
  Sands of Iwo Jima
  Sands of Iwo Jima is a 1949 war film that follows a group of United States Marines from training to the Battle of Iwo Jima during World War II. It stars John Wayne, John Agar, Adele Mara and Forrest Tucker. The movie was written by Harry Brown and James Edward Grant and directed by Allan Dwan...
  
  , Invaders from Mars
  Invaders from Mars (1953 film)
  Invaders From Mars is a science fiction film directed by William Cameron Menzies, taken from a scenario by Richard Blake, and based on a story treatment by John Tucker Battle who was inspired by a dream recounted by his wife. It was produced independently by Edward L. Alperson Jr. and starred...
  
  ). 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...
  
   and heart disease. http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/21/arts/television/21franz.htmlhttp://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/california/la-me-franz19jun19,1,4841979.story?coll=la-headlines-pe-california
• Mikhail Lapshin
  Mikhail Lapshin
  Mikhail Ivanovich Lapshin was the President of the Altai Republic in Russia from 2002 to 2006.Lapshin was born in Setovka, Altai Krai. He became President of the Altai Republic in January 2002. He defeated incumbent Semyon Zubakin in the December 2001 elections with 68% of the vote...
  
  , 71, Russian politician, leader of the Agrarian Party and former president of the Altai Republic
  Altai Republic
  Altai Republic is a federal subject of Russia . Its capital is the town of Gorno-Altaysk. The area of the republic is . Population: -Geography:...
  
   (2002–2006), cause unknown. http://www.rulers.org/2006-06.html
• Bill Lamb
  Bill Lamb
  The Hon. William Henry Lamb was an Australian politician. He was a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly from 1938 until 1962 and, variously, a member of the Australian Labor Party and the Lang Labor Party...
  
  , 76, American public television executive, co-founder of WNET
  WNET
  WNET, channel 13 is a non-commercial educational public television station licensed to Newark, New Jersey. With its signal covering the New York metropolitan area, WNET is a primary station of the Public Broadcasting Service and a primary provider of PBS programming...
  
   and former chief of KCET
  KCET
  KCET, channel 28, is an independent, non-commercial public television station licensed to Los Angeles, California, USA. KCET's studio is located on West Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood, and its transmitter is atop Mount Wilson. Al Jerome is the current CEO and President, serving since 1996.KCET was...
  
  . http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/20/arts/television/20lamb.html
• Charles Older
  Charles Older
  Charles Herman "Chuck" Older was a member of the American Volunteer Group "The Flying Tigers" and one of its Aces. In his distinguished military career, he served in both World War II and the Korean War...
  
  , 88, Los Angeles Superior Court judge who presided over the Charles Manson
  Charles Manson
  Charles Milles Manson is an American criminal who led what became known as the Manson Family, a quasi-commune that arose in California in the late 1960s. He was found guilty of conspiracy to commit the Tate/LaBianca murders carried out by members of the group at his instruction...
  
   trial, complications of a fall. http://www.nytimes.comhttp://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/local/states/california/northern_california/14859001.htm
• Abdul-Khalim Saydullayev, 38 or 39, Chechen
  Chechen Republic of Ichkeria
  The Chechen Republic of Ichkeria is the unrecognized secessionist government of Chechnya. The republic was proclaimed in late 1991 by Dzokhar Dudayev, and fought two devastating wars between separatists and the Russian Federation which denounced secession...
  
   separatist rebel leader. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/5089942.stm
• Julian Slade
  Julian Slade
  Julian Penkivil Slade was an English writer of musical theatre best known for the show Salad Days, which he wrote in six weeks in 1954 and became the UK's longest-running show of the 1950s with over 2,288 performances....
  
  , 76, English composer and lyricist of Salad Days, 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.guardian.co.uk/obituaries/story/0,,1801374,00.html
• Bob Weaver
  Bob Weaver
  Bob Weaver was one of the USA's first TV weathermen.-Biography:Weaver was born in New York City. He moved to Florida to attend the University of Miami...
  
  , 77, Miami, Florida-based weatherman known as "Weaver the Weatherman" on WTVJ
  WTVJ
  WTVJ, virtual channel 6 , is an owned-and-operated television station of the NBC television network, located in Broward County. WTVJ shares its TV studio and office facility with co-owned Telemundo station WSCV in Miramar, Florida, and its transmitter is located near Sun Life Stadium in north...
  
  , cancer. http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/southflorida/sfl-oweaver18jun18,0,6549395.story?coll=sfla-news-sfla
• William Yallup Sr, 79, Yakama
  Yakama
  The Confederated Tribes and Bands of the Yakama Nation, or simply Yakama Nation , is a Native American group with nearly 10,000 enrolled members, living in Washington. Their reservation, along the Yakima River, covers an area of approximately 1.2 million acres...
  
   Nation elder. http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2003073887_webobityallup20.html

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• Jimmy Allison, 77, Scottish unionist and Scottish organiser for the Labour Party
  Labour Party (UK)
  The Labour Party is a centre-left democratic socialist party in the United Kingdom. It surpassed the Liberal Party in general elections during the early 1920s, forming minority governments under Ramsay MacDonald in 1924 and 1929-1931. The party was in a wartime coalition from 1940 to 1945, after...
  
   between 1977 and 1990. http://icdumfries.icnetwork.co.uk/othernews/news/tm_objectid=17244056&method=full&siteid=77296&headline=ex-labour-head-allison-dies-aged-77-name_page.html http://news.scotsman.com/politics.cfm?id=888422006
• Irving Berk, 100, Romania-born American founder of Berk Trade and Business School
  Berk Trade and Business School
  Berk Trade and Business School, founded in 1940, is one of the oldest trade and vocational schools in New York City. The school’s founder, Irving Berk, was committed to trade and vocational education...
  
  . http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/29/nyregion/29berk.html
• Roland Boyes
  Roland Boyes
  Roland Boyes was a British Labour Party politician, amateur photographer and, in retirement, a fundraiser for research into Alzheimer's disease.- Early years :...
  
  , 69, Former Labour
  Labour Party (UK)
  The Labour Party is a centre-left democratic socialist party in the United Kingdom. It surpassed the Liberal Party in general elections during the early 1920s, forming minority governments under Ramsay MacDonald in 1924 and 1929-1931. The party was in a wartime coalition from 1940 to 1945, after...
  
   politician and photographer. Alzheimer's disease
  Alzheimer's disease
  Alzheimer's disease also known in medical literature as Alzheimer disease is the most common form of dementia. There is no cure for the disease, which worsens as it progresses, and eventually leads to death...
  
  . http://news.independent.co.uk/people/obituaries/article1093478.ece
• Barbara Epstein
  Barbara Epstein
  Barbara Epstein was a literary editor and a founding co-editor of the New York Review of Books.Epstein, née Zimmerman, was born in Boston, Massachusetts, United States, to a Jewish-American family, and graduated from Radcliffe College in 1949.Ms...
  
  , 76, co-founder of the New York Review of Books, 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.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06/16/AR2006061601997.html
• Robert Hatch, 75, American public relations
  Public relations
  Public relations is the actions of a corporation, store, government, individual, etc., in promoting goodwill between itself and the public, the community, employees, customers, etc....
  
   executive for Children's Television Workshop and the Peace Corps
  Peace Corps
  The Peace Corps is an American volunteer program run by the United States Government, as well as a government agency of the same name. The mission of the Peace Corps includes three goals: providing technical assistance, helping people outside the United States to understand US culture, and helping...
  
  . http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/23/arts/television/23hatch.html
• Tsuyoshi Kakefuda, 77, 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...
  
   researcher, liver disease. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06/30/AR2006063001632.html
• Arthur Malvin, 83, Emmy award winning composer and lyricist, after a long illness. http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/local/states/california/northern_california/14904207.htm
• Robert W. Mann, 81, American mechanical engineer and designer. http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/24/us/24mann.html
• Scott Manning
  Scott Manning
  Scott Manning was a Canadian athlete and aerobatic pilot of the world's smallest jet, the BD-5J.He grew up in Kitchener, Ontario, and earned a degree in Environmental Studies at the University of Waterloo in 1985...
  
  , 48, builder and pilot of the world's smallest jet, crash landing. http://www.cbc.ca/ottawa/story/ot-crash20060616.html
• Igor Śmiałowski, 88, Polish actor, http://fakty.interia.pl/news?inf=760701
• Judy Wolpe, 62, cabinet member in two states and wife of former U.S. representative
  United States House of Representatives
  The United States House of Representatives is one of the two Houses of the United States Congress, the bicameral legislature which also includes the Senate.The composition and powers of the House are established in Article One of the Constitution...
  
   Howard Wolpe
  Howard Wolpe
  Howard Eliot Wolpe III was a seven-term U.S. Representative from Michigan and Presidential Special Envoy to the African Great Lakes Region in the Clinton Administration, where he led the United States delegation to the Arusha and Lusaka peace talks, which aimed to end civil wars in Burundi and the...
  
  , drowning. http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060619/NEWS06/606190416 http://www.mlive.com/news/kzgazette/index.ssf?/base/news-18/1150730452148430.xml&coll=7

15

• Betty Curtis
  Betty Curtis
  Betty Curtis was an Italian singer active from 1957 to 2004.The song "Al di là" performed by her with Luciano Tajoli won the Sanremo Music Festival in 1961...
  
  , 70, Italian singer, winner of Sanremo Music Festival in 1961 with Luciano Tajoli
  Luciano Tajoli
  Luciano Tajoli – Italian singer and actor.Luciano Tajoli participated several times in the Sanremo Music Festival, winning in 1961 with the song Al di là. It is estimated that he sold over 45 million records.- Personal life :Luciano came from a poor family and was a self-taught singer...
  
  . http://www.ansa.it/main/notizie/fdg/200606161253246014/200606161253246014.html
• Rabi Das, 34, leader of Communist Party of India (Marxist)
  Communist Party of India (Marxist)
  The Communist Party of India is a political party in India. It has a strong presence in the states of Kerala, West Bengal and Tripura. As of 2011, CPI is leading the state government in Tripura. It leads the Left Front coalition of leftist parties in various states and the national parliament of...
  
   in West Bengal
  West Bengal
  West Bengal is a state in the eastern region of India and is the nation's fourth-most populous. It is also the seventh-most populous sub-national entity in the world, with over 91 million inhabitants. A major agricultural producer, West Bengal is the sixth-largest contributor to India's GDP...
  
  , shot dead by suspected Maoists. http://news.monstersandcritics.com/india/article_1172855.php/CPI-M_leader_in_Bengal_shot_dead
• Raymond Devos
  Raymond Devos
  Raymond Devos was a Belgian-French humorist, stand-up comedian and clown. He is best known for his sophisticated puns and surreal humour.- Early life :...
  
  , 83, French humorist. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/5084600.stm
• Ján Langoš
  Ján Langoš
  Ján Langoš was a Slovak politician associated with the Democratic Party...
  
  , 59, Slovak
  Slovakia
  The Slovak Republic is a landlocked state in Central Europe. It has a population of over five million and an area of about . Slovakia is bordered by the Czech Republic and Austria to the west, Poland to the north, Ukraine to the east and Hungary to the south...
  
   politician, head of the Nation's Memory Institute of Slovakia http://www.leaders.sk/index.php?id=426 (Slovak)
• Jabu Sithole, 34, Zulu weatherman on the South African Broadcasting Corporation
  South African Broadcasting Corporation
  The South African Broadcasting Corporation is the state-owned broadcaster in South Africa and provides 18 radio stations as well as 3 television broadcasts to the general public.-Early years:Radio broadcasting began in South Africa in 1923...
  
  , AIDS
  AIDS
  Acquired immune deficiency syndrome or acquired immunodeficiency syndrome is a disease of the human immune system caused by the human immunodeficiency virus...
  
  . http://edition.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/africa/06/15/AIDS.safrica.reut/
• Grand Rabbi Israel Dan Taub, 78, Modzitz
  Modzitz (Hasidic dynasty)
  Modzitz or Modzhitz is the name of a Hasidic group within Orthodox Judaism that derives its name from Modrzyce, one of the boroughs of the town of Dęblin, Poland, located on the Vistula River...
  
  er Rebbe of Bnei Brak, Israel. http://www.modzitz.org/

14

• Samuel Ackerman, 58, Chairman and CEO of Panacos Pharmaceuticals
  Panacos Pharmaceuticals
  Panacos Pharmaceuticals is a Delaware based pharmaceutical corporation founded in 1999. Panacos is engaged in the discovery and development of inventive therapeutics and technologies to help fight major viral illnesses. As of now, their focus is on Human Immunodeficiency Virus anti-infectives,...
  
  , 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.marketwatch.com/News/Story/Story.aspx?guid=%7BF7E91D1E-CA0B-4D3D-A2BF-2598D6D94C61%7D&siteid=google
• Josiah Beeman, 70, former US 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 New Zealand and Western Samoa, campaign manager for Jerry Brown
  Jerry Brown
  Edmund Gerald "Jerry" Brown, Jr. is an American politician. Brown served as the 34th Governor of California , and is currently serving as the 39th California Governor...
  
  , kidney failure.
• Monty Berman
  Monty Berman
  Nestor Montague Berman was a British cinematographer and film and television producer.-Early career:...
  
  , 94, British B-movie producer. http://www.contactmusic.com/news.nsf/article/b-movie%20giant%20dies_1004416
• H. Monroe Browne, 89, former US 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 New Zealand. http://www.smh.com.au/news/World/US-envoy-at-centre-of-NZ-nuke-row-dies/2006/06/15/1149964640576.html
• Khurshid Zahan Hoque, 69, Bangladesh
  Bangladesh
  Bangladesh , officially the People's Republic of Bangladesh is a sovereign state located in South Asia. It is bordered by India on all sides except for a small border with Burma to the far southeast and by the Bay of Bengal to the south...
  
  's Minister for Women and Children, cirrhosis of the liver. http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2006%5C06%5C15%5Cstory_15-6-2006_pg4_20
• Surinder Kaur
  Surinder Kaur
  Surinder Kaur , was an Indian singer and songwriter. She sang mainly Punjabi folk-songs, where she is credited for pioneering and popularising the genre and later was known as the ‘Nightingale of Punjab’; she also sang some Hindi movie songs, between 1948-1952.In an illustrious spanning nearly six...
  
  , 77, Punjabi
  Punjabi people
  The Punjabi people , ਪੰਜਾਬੀ ), also Panjabi people, are an Indo-Aryan group from South Asia. They are the second largest of the many ethnic groups in South Asia. They originate in the Punjab region, which has been been the location of some of the oldest civilizations in the world including, the...
  
   folk and classical singer known as the "nightingale of Punjab". http://www.zeenews.com/znnew/articles.asp?aid=302639&ssid=2&sid=ENT
• Craig Morris, 66, American pre-Columbian archaeologist at the American Museum of Natural History
  American Museum of Natural History
  The American Museum of Natural History , located on the Upper West Side of Manhattan in New York City, United States, is one of the largest and most celebrated museums in the world...
  
  . http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/16/nyregion/16morris.html
• Jean Roba
  Jean Roba
  Jean Roba was a Belgian comics author from the Marcinelle school. His best-known work is Boule et Bill.-Biography:...
  
  , 75, Belgian comics writer http://www.actuabd.com/article.php3?id_article=3839
• Ndabezinhle Sigogo, 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 novelist and poet. http://www.sundaynews.co.zw/inside.aspx?sectid=2076&cat=3
• Irving Sunshine, 90, leader in forensic toxicology, 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.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06/29/AR2006062902025.html
• Klaas Verboom, 58, Canadian artist, liver cancer
  Hepatocellular carcinoma
  Hepatocellular carcinoma is the most common type of liver cancer. Most cases of HCC are secondary to either a viral hepatitide infection or cirrhosis .Compared to other cancers, HCC is quite a rare tumor in the United States...
  
  . http://lfpress.ca/newsstand/Today/2006/06/14/1632703.html

13

• Roy Clarke, 79, convicted sex attacker who abused children over a 60 year period, natural causes.http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/lincolnshire/5078310.stm
• Freddie Gorman, 77, US songwriter. http://eurweb.com/story/eur26929.cfm
• Patricia Guiver, 76, animal welfare advocate and mystery novelist, complications of heart surgery. http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/local/states/california/northern_california/14852877.htm
• Charles Haughey
  Charles Haughey
  Charles James "Charlie" Haughey was Taoiseach of Ireland, serving three terms in office . He was also the fourth leader of Fianna Fáil...
  
  , 80, former Taoiseach
  Taoiseach
  The Taoiseach is the head of government or prime minister of Ireland. The Taoiseach is appointed by the President upon the nomination of Dáil Éireann, the lower house of the Oireachtas , and must, in order to remain in office, retain the support of a majority in the Dáil.The current Taoiseach is...
  
   of the Republic of Ireland
  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,...
  
  , prostate cancer. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/3001775.stm
• Hiroyuki Iwaki
  Hiroyuki Iwaki
  was a Japanese conductor and percussionist.-Biography:Iwaki was born in Tokyo in 1932. Shortly after he entered an elementary school, he moved to Kyoto due to his father's transference. He came to play the xylophone at nine years old...
  
  , 73, Japanese conductor
  Conducting
  Conducting is the art of directing a musical performance by way of visible gestures. The primary duties of the conductor are to unify performers, set the tempo, execute clear preparations and beats, and to listen critically and shape the sound of the ensemble...
  
  , congestive heart failure
  Congestive heart failure
  Heart failure often called congestive heart failure is generally defined as the inability of the heart to supply sufficient blood flow to meet the needs of the body. Heart failure can cause a number of symptoms including shortness of breath, leg swelling, and exercise intolerance. The condition...
  
  . http://www.cnn.com/2006/SHOWBIZ/Music/06/13/obit.iwaki.ap/
• Luis Jiménez
  Luis Jiménez (sculptor)
  Luis Jimenez or Luis Jiménez was an American sculptor of Mexican descent. He was born in El Paso, Texas and died in New Mexico. He studied art and architecture at the University of Texas in Austin and El Paso, earning a bachelor's degree in 1964...
  
  , 65, American sculptor, crushed by a statue. http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/3967629.html
• Burke Riley
  Burke Riley
  Burke Riley was an American legislator, lawyer and public official on territorial, state and national levels.He was a signer of the Alaska Constitution, elected as one of seven at-large delegates from the First Division....
  
  , 92, American lawyer and politician, Alzheimer's disease
  Alzheimer's disease
  Alzheimer's disease also known in medical literature as Alzheimer disease is the most common form of dementia. There is no cure for the disease, which worsens as it progresses, and eventually leads to death...
  
  . http://www.adn.com/news/alaska/story/7856562p-7750329c.html
• Dennis Shepherd
  Dennis Shepherd
  Dennis Shepherd was a South African boxer who won the silver medal in the featherweight division at the 1948 Summer Olympics in London. Shepherd died at age 79 in Johannesburg.-Olympic results:...
  
  , 79, South African Olympic 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.superboxing.co.za/default.asp?id=182119&des=article&scat=superboxing/amateur

12

• Anna Lee Aldred
  Anna Lee Aldred
  Anna Lee Aldred was the first woman in the United States to receive a jockey's license.She was born Anna Lee Mills in Montrose, Colorado in 1921. After officials at Agua Caliente Racetrack in Mexico were unable to find a rule that would bar women jockeys, she was given a license in 1939...
  
  , 85, American jockey and first woman in US to receive a 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:...
  
  's licence, member of the National Cowgirl Hall of Fame. http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/05/sports/othersports/05aldred.html http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/local/articles/0704death0704.html
• Andrew William "Nicky" Barr
  Nicky Barr
  Andrew William "Nicky" Barr, OBE, MC, DFC & Bar was a member of the Australian national rugby union team who became a fighter ace in the Royal Australian Air Force during World War II. He was credited with twelve aerial victories, all scored flying the Curtiss P-40...
  
  , 90, Australian rugby union player and World War II fighter pilot http://www.planet-rugby.com/Teams/Australia/story_51825.shtml
• Chakufwa Chihana
  Chakufwa Chihana
  Chakufwa Chihana was a Malawia human rights activist, pro-democracy advocate, trade unionist and later, politician. He served as the Second Vice President in Malawi. He is credited as the 'father of Malawian democracy' in Malawi...
  
  , 67, veteran Malawi
  Malawi
  The Republic of Malawi is a landlocked country in southeast Africa that was formerly known as Nyasaland. It is bordered by Zambia to the northwest, Tanzania to the northeast, and Mozambique on the east, south and west. The country is separated from Tanzania and Mozambique by Lake Malawi. Its size...
  
   opposition figure who ran unsuccessfully for President losing to Bakili Muluzi
  Bakili Muluzi
  Elson Bakili Muluzi is a Malawian politician. He was the President of Malawi from 1994 to 2004 and was Chairman of the United Democratic Front until 2009.-Presidency:...
  
  , brain tumour. http://www.mg.co.za/articlePage.aspx?articleid=274303&area=/breaking_news/breaking_news__africa/
• Michael Dornheim, 51, award-winning journalist with Aviation Week, car crash. http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/breaking_news/14803402.htm
• Michael Fajans, 58, American painter, motorcycle accident. http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/24/arts/24fajans.html http://www.seattlepi.com/local/6420AP_WA_Obit_Fajans.html
• Wes Hill, 76, Niagara River
  Niagara River
  The Niagara River flows north from Lake Erie to Lake Ontario. It forms part of the border between the Province of Ontario in Canada and New York State in the United States. There are differing theories as to the origin of the name of the river...
  
   expert. http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/17/world/17hill.html
• Clifford Hocking, 74, Australian entrepreneur http://www.theage.com.au/news/national/farewell-to-an-artistic-explorer/2006/06/13/1149964534802.html
• György Ligeti
  György Ligeti
  György Sándor Ligeti was a composer of contemporary classical music. Born in a Hungarian Jewish family in Transylvania, Romania, he briefly lived in Hungary before becoming an Austrian citizen.-Early life:...
  
  , 83, influential Hungarian composer. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06/12/AR2006061200438.html?nav=rss_artsandliving/entertainmentnews
• José Leite Lopes
  José Leite Lopes
  José Leite Lopes , noted Brazilian theoretical physicist in the field of quantum field theory and particle physics.-Life:...
  
  , 87, Brazilian physicist. http://www.abc.org.br/gina/curriculo.asp?lingua=P&consulta=llopes
• Evan Settle, 93, former University of Kentucky
  University of Kentucky
  The University of Kentucky, also known as UK, is a public co-educational university and is one of the state's two land-grant universities, located in Lexington, Kentucky...
  
   basketballer. http://www.courier-journal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060613/SPORTS03/606130430/1002/SPORTS
• Frank Streeter, 88, American philanthropist and book collector. http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/17/nyregion/17washington.html
• Mel Streeter, 75, architect and University of Oregon
  University of Oregon
  -Colleges and schools:The University of Oregon is organized into eight schools and colleges—six professional schools and colleges, an Arts and Sciences College and an Honors College.- School of Architecture and Allied Arts :...
  
   basketball player, amyloidosis
  Amyloidosis
  In medicine, amyloidosis refers to a variety of conditions whereby the body produces "bad proteins", denoted as amyloid proteins, which are abnormally deposited in organs and/or tissues and cause harm. A protein is described as being amyloid if, due to an alteration in its secondary structure, it...
  
  . http://www.seattlepi.com/local/273807_streeter13ww.html
• Kenneth Thomson, 2nd Baron Thomson of Fleet
  Kenneth Thomson, 2nd Baron Thomson of Fleet
  Kenneth Thomson, 2nd Baron Thomson of Fleet , in Canada known as Ken Thomson, was a Canadian businessman and art collector who, at the time of his death, was the richest person in Canada, and the ninth richest person in the world, according to Forbes.com, with assets of approximately US $17.9...
  
  , 82, billionaire Canadian media mogul and art collector. Possible heart attack. http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20060612/kenneth_thomson_060612/20060612?hub=Canada
• Nijiro Tokuda
  Nijiro Tokuda
  was the oldest man in Japan and, at his death, aged 111 years 2 days, was the sixth oldest verified man in the world. He was believed to have become the "doyen" of Japan following the death of Kohachi Shigetaka almost one year before at age 110....
  
  , 111, oldest man in Japan http://mdn.mainichi-msn.co.jp/national/news/20060613p2a00m0na032000c.html
• Paul Xanthos, 85, tennis coach at Los Angeles Pierce College
  Los Angeles Pierce College
  Los Angeles Pierce College, also known as Pierce College, Pierce, is a community college that serves more than 23,000 students in the northern Chalk Hills of Woodland Hills, a community within the San Fernando Valley region of the city of Los Angeles, California.The college began with 70 students...
  
   for three decades winning 23 Conference titles, died in his sleep. http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2006/06/14/sports/s124448D37.DTL

11

• Michael Bartosh
  Michael Bartosh
  Michael Bartosh was president and CTO of , an Apple Certified Trainer, certified member of the Apple Consultants Network, published author and former systems engineer for Apple Computer. Previous to joining Apple fulltime he had worked as an Apple campus rep and had the opportunity to meet Steve...
  
  , 28, Mac OS X Server
  Mac OS X Server
  Mac OS X Server is a Unix server operating system from Apple Inc. The server edition of Mac OS X is architecturally identical to its desktop counterpart, except that it includes work group management and administration software tools...
  
   expert, injuries from a fall. http://www.macworld.com/news/2006/06/12/bartosh/index.php
• James Cameron
  James Cameron (civil-rights activist)
  James Cameron , not to be confused with the film director of the same name, was an American civil rights activist. In the 1940s, he founded three chapters of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People . He also served as Indiana's State Director of the Office of Civil...
  
  , 92, founder of America's Black Holocaust Museum
  America's Black Holocaust Museum
  America's Black Holocaust Museum located in Milwaukee, Wisconsin was the only memorial dedicated specifically to the victims of the enslavement of Africans in the United States...
  
  , 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://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060611/ap_on_re_us/obit_cameron
• Pierre Clerdent, 97, Belgian politician (Liège), and holder of the Grand-Croix de la Légion d'honneur. http://www.lalibre.be/article.phtml?id=10&subid=87&art_id=291180
• Neroli Fairhall
  Neroli Fairhall
  Neroli Susan Fairhall MBE was a New Zealand athlete, who was the first paraplegic competitor in the Olympic Games....
  
  , 61, New Zealand paraplegic archer and Olympic competitor. http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/story.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10386306
• Rolande Falcinelli
  Rolande Falcinelli
  Rolande Falcinelli was a French organist, pianist, composer, and pedagogue.-Biography:Rolande Falcinelli entered the Paris Conservatory in 1932, where her teachers were noted pianist and pedagogue Isidor Philipp and Abel Estyle , Marcel Samuel-Rousseau , Simone Plé Caussade , Henri Büsser , and...
  
  , 86, French organist and composer.
• Tim Hildebrandt, 67, American artist. Complications of diabetes. http://www.comicbookresources.com/news/newsitem.cgi?id=7540
• William Hundley, 80, American lawyer. http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/13/us/13hundley.html
• Hugh Latimer
  Hugh Latimer (actor)
  Hugh Alexander Forbes Latimer was an English actor and toy maker.He was educated at Oundle and Caius College, Cambridge, where he joined Footlights...
  
  , 93, English actor and toy maker. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml;jsessionid=QDQV4IFWXC2JLQFIQMFCFFWAVCBQYIV0?view=DETAILS&grid=&xml=/news/2006/06/24/db2402.xml
• Mike Quarry
  Mike Quarry
  Mike Quarry born in Bakersfield, California, was a light heavyweight boxer. He had a record of 63-13-6 including 17 knockouts during his career, which began in 1969 and ended in 1982....
  
  , 55, light heavyweight boxer who challenged Bob Foster for the title, pugilistic dementia
  Dementia pugilistica
  Dementia pugilistica is a type of neurodegenerative disease or dementia, which may affect amateur or professional boxers as well as athletes in other sports who suffer concussions...
  
  . http://sports.espn.go.com/sports/boxing/news/story?id=2481478
• Major Bruce Shand
  Bruce Shand
  Major Bruce Middleton Hope Shand, MC and bar, DL, was an officer in the British Army. He is best known as the father of Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, the second wife of Charles, Prince of Wales.-Early life:...
  
  , 89, father of Camilla, The Duchess of Cornwall
  Camilla, The Duchess of Cornwall
  Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall is the second wife of Charles, Prince of Wales, and is the current holder of the titles of Princess of Wales, Duchess of Cornwall, Duchess of Rothesay and Countess of Chester...
  
  , and father-in-law of Charles, Prince of Wales
  Charles, Prince of Wales
  Prince Charles, Prince of Wales is the heir apparent and eldest son of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh. Since 1958 his major title has been His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales. In Scotland he is additionally known as The Duke of Rothesay...
  
  , cancer. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/5069520.stm
• Daniel Steiner
  Daniel Steiner
  Daniel Steiner is an Austrian actor and film director.- Biography :In the 90s Daniel Steiner visited the University of Leeds, where he finished his Broadcasting study with a Bachelor's degree...
  
  , 72, American president of the New England Conservatory, lung disease. http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/19/arts/music/19steiner.html http://www.playbillarts.com/news/article/4729.html
• John Udeh, 50, prolific writer on development issues and former Federal Commissioner representing Enugu State
  Enugu State
  Enugu State is a mainland state in southeastern Nigeria. Its capital is Enugu, from which the state - created in 1991 from the old Anambra State - derives its name. The principal cities in the state are Enugu, Agbani, Awgu, Udi, Oji, and Nsukka....
  
   1999-2003. http://allafrica.com/stories/200606140151.html
• George Washington, 76, American boxing trainer. http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/17/nyregion/17washington.html

10

• Qadi Abdul Karim Abdullah Al-Arashi, 72, former President of North Yemen
  North Yemen
  North Yemen is a term currently used to designate the Yemen Arab Republic , its predecessor, the Mutawakkilite Kingdom of Yemen , and their predecessors that exercised sovereignty over the territory that is now the north-western part of the state of Yemen in southern Arabia.Neither state ever...
  
  . http://yementimes.com/article.shtml?i=954&p=front&a=2
• Hubertus Czernin
  Hubertus Czernin
  Hubertus Czernin was an Austrian investigative journalist....
  
  , 50, Austrian journalist who helped return paintings looted by the Nazis. Mastocytosis
  Mastocytosis
  Mastocytosis is a group of rare disorders of both children and adults caused by the presence of too many mast cells and CD34+ mast cell precursors in a person's body.- Classification :Mastocytosis can occur in a variety of forms:...
  
  .http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/16/arts/16czernin.html http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/california/la-me-czernin15jun15,1,7485284.story?coll=la-headlines-pe-california
• Moe Drabowsky
  Moe Drabowsky
  Myron Walter Drabowsky was a Polish-American right-handed relief pitcher in Major League Baseball who played for the Chicago Cubs , Milwaukee Braves , Cincinnati Reds , Kansas City Athletics , Baltimore Orioles , Kansas City Royals , St...
  
  , 70, Polish-born American 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, 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.baltimoresun.com/sports/baseball/bal-sp.drabowsky11jun11,0,5099498.story?coll=bal-sports-headlines
• German Goldenshteyn
  German Goldenshteyn
  German Goldenshteyn, or Goldenshtayn was born in the Bessarabian shtetl of Otaci, then in Romania, now in Moldova. He was a clarinetist and musicologist who brought his native region's klezmer tradition to the USA. In 1994 he arrived with nearly a thousand klezmer tunes that he had transcribed...
  
  , 71, Bessarabia
  Bessarabia
  Bessarabia is a historical term for the geographic region in Eastern Europe bounded by the Dniester River on the east and the Prut River on the west....
  
  n-born clarinet
  Clarinet
  The clarinet is a musical instrument of woodwind type. The name derives from adding the suffix -et to the Italian word clarino , as the first clarinets had a strident tone similar to that of a trumpet. The instrument has an approximately cylindrical bore, and uses a single reed...
  
  ist and klezmer
  Klezmer
  Klezmer is a musical tradition of the Ashkenazic Jews of Eastern Europe. Played by professional musicians called klezmorim, the genre originally consisted largely of dance tunes and instrumental display pieces for weddings and other celebrations...
  
   musician. http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/16/arts/16goldenshteyn.html
• Wulff-Dieter Heintz, 76, German astronomer at Swarthmore College
  Swarthmore College
  Swarthmore College is a private, independent, liberal arts college in the United States with an enrollment of about 1,500 students. The college is located in the borough of Swarthmore, Pennsylvania, 11 miles southwest of Philadelphia....
  
  . http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/18/us/18heintz.html
• Kenneth Jack
  Kenneth Jack
  Kenneth Jack AM MBE RWS, was an Australian watercolour artist who specialised in painting the images of an almost forgotten outback life; old mine workings, abandoned ghost towns, decaying farm buildings...
  
  , 81, Australian artist. http://news.independent.co.uk/people/obituaries/article1090389.ece
• Charles Johnson
  Charles Johnson (Negro League)
  Charles Johnson was a baseball player in the Negro League who later pushed major league baseball to offer pensions to former Negro League players....
  
  , 96, Negro League baseballer for the Chicago American Giants
  Chicago American Giants
  Chicago American Giants were a Chicago-based Negro league baseball team, owned and managed from 1911 to 1926 by player-manager Andrew "Rube" Foster. From 1910 until the mid-1930s, the American Giants were the most dominant team in black baseball...
  
  , complications of 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://slam.canoe.ca/Slam/Baseball/MLB/2006/06/16/1637227-ap.html
• Philip Merrill
  Philip Merrill
  Philip Merrill was an American diplomat, publisher, banker, and philanthropist who committed suicide while traveling alone on his boat in the Chesapeake Bay.- Career and philanthropy :...
  
  , 72, publisher and diplomat, suicide. http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/local/bal-te.md.merrill21jun21,0,2066264.story?coll=bal-local-headlines
• Ruddy Thomas
  Ruddy Thomas
  Ruddy Thomas was a Jamaican reggae singer, musician, and recording engineer, who had his greatest successes as a singer in the late 1970s and early 1980s with lovers rock songs.-Biography:...
  
  , 54, Jamaica
  Jamaica
  Jamaica is an island nation of the Greater Antilles, in length, up to in width and 10,990 square kilometres in area. It is situated in the Caribbean Sea, about south of Cuba, and west of Hispaniola, the island harbouring the nation-states Haiti and the Dominican Republic...
  
  n 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.jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20060612/ent/ent2.html

9

• Kinga Choszcz
  Kinga Choszcz
  Kinga Choszcz, better known as Kinga Freespirit , was a well-known Polish traveler and travel writer....
  
   aka "Freespirit", 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...
  
   author (Led By Destiny: Hitchhiking Around the World), cerebral malaria
  Malaria
  Malaria is a mosquito-borne infectious disease of humans and other animals caused by eukaryotic protists of the genus Plasmodium. The disease results from the multiplication of Plasmodium parasites within red blood cells, causing symptoms that typically include fever and headache, in severe cases...
  
  . http://www.kingafreespirit.pl/kingaen/index.php?option=com_frontpage&Itemid=1
• Drafi Deutscher
  Drafi Deutscher
  Drafi Deutscher was a German singer and composer of Sinti origin.-Biography:He was born Drafi Franz Richard Deutscher in Berlin. His best known song was the 1965 Schlager "Marmor, Stein und Eisen bricht" which sold over one million copies, and was awarded a gold disc...
  
  , 60, German singer. [de]
• Michael Forrestall
  Michael Forrestall
  John Michael William Curphey Forrestall was a Canadian Senator and Member of Parliament.A Nova Scotia journalist and businessman, Forrestall was first elected to the Canadian House of Commons in the 1965 federal election as the Progressive Conservative Member of Parliament for Halifax, Nova Scotia...
  
  , 73, 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...
  
   senator, died following hospitalization for breathing problems. http://www.cbc.ca/ns/story/ns-forrestall20060609.html
• Patricia Janus
  Patricia Janus
  Patricia "Pat" Janus was an American poet.Born Patricia O'Brien to Thomas and Rose O'Brien, she was raised in New York City where she worked for a brokerage firm. She met John "Jack" Janus , whom she married in the early 1950s...
  
  , 74, American poet, 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...
  
   brought on by liver cancer
  Hepatocellular carcinoma
  Hepatocellular carcinoma is the most common type of liver cancer. Most cases of HCC are secondary to either a viral hepatitide infection or cirrhosis .Compared to other cancers, HCC is quite a rare tumor in the United States...
  
  .
• Gloria Jones, 78, American socialite, widow of James Jones
  James Jones (author)
  James Jones was an American author known for his explorations of World War II and its aftermath.-Life and work:...
  
   and mother of Kaylie Jones
  Kaylie Jones
  Kaylie Jones is an American novelist. She was raised in Paris.- Background :Kaylie Jones is an American writer, memoirist and novelist...
  
  . http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/15/arts/15jones.html
• Mary Lutz, 55, director of competitive riding for the physically challenged at the United States Equestrian Federation
  United States Equestrian Federation
  The United States Equestrian Federation is the national governing body for most equestrian sports in the United States. It began on January 20, 1917 as the Association of American Horse Shows, later changed in 1933 to the American Horse Shows Association...
  
  . http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/13/sports/13lutz.html
• Enzo Siciliano
  Enzo Siciliano
  Enzo Siciliano was an Italian writer, playwright, literary critic and intellectual.Siciliano was born in Rome. He was collaborator of Alberto Moravia, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Elsa Morante and many other famous writers in the 1950s and 1960s.From 1996 to 1998 he was President of RAI...
  
  , 72, Italian writer, diabetes mellitus
  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://www.corriere.it/Primo_Piano/Cronache/2006/06_Giugno/09/siciliano.shtml
• Vern Williams
  Vern Williams
  Vern Williams is generally accepted as the father of bluegrass music on the West Coast of the United States....
  
  , 76, Bluegrass
  Bluegrass music
  Bluegrass music is a form of American roots music, and a sub-genre of country music. It has mixed roots in Scottish, English, Welsh and Irish traditional music...
  
   mandolin player and singer. http://www.cybergrass.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1953

8

• Thomas G. Arthur, 84, caterer who developed the Dodger Dog
  Dodger Dog
  The Dodger Dog is a hot dog named after the Major League Baseball franchise that sells them . This 10 inch ballpark frankfurter wrapped in a steamed bun is consumed by the millions over the course of the baseball season. The hot dog is sold at Dodger Stadium located in Los Angeles, CA. They...
  
  , 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.latimes.com/sports/la-me-arthur27jun27,1,3158389.story?coll=la-headlines-sports&track=crosspromo http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/28/us/28arthur.html
• Will Baxter, 99, first professor of accounting in the UK. http://news.scotsman.com/obituaries.cfm?id=940742006
• Audrey Campbell, 76, actress best known for playing "Olga" in an infamous sexploitation
  Sexploitation
  Sexploitation, or "sex-exploitation", describes a class of independently produced, low-budget feature films generally associated with the 1960s and serving largely as a vehicle for the exhibition of non-explicit sexual situations and gratuitous nudity. The genre is a subgenre of exploitation films...
  
   film trilogy, undisclosed causes http://www.cinematical.com/2006/06/13/r-i-p-reel-important-people/
• Jake Copass
  Jake Copass
  Jake Copass was a cowboy poet who lived in the Santa Ynez Valley. He had been working as a wrangler at the Alisal Guest Ranch in Solvang, California since 1946....
  
  , 86, American cowboy poet, 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.lompocrecord.com/articles/2006/06/11/news/news05.txt
• Robert Donner
  Robert Donner
  Robert Donner was an American actor who made many appearances in television series and films in a career spanning more than 40 years.-Early life and career:...
  
  , 75, American character actor probably best known for playing Exidor on Mork and Mindy
  Mork and Mindy
  Mork & Mindy is an American science fiction sitcom broadcast from 1978 until 1982 on ABC. The series starred Robin Williams as Mork, an alien who comes to Earth from the planet Ork in a small, one-man egg-shaped spaceship. Pam Dawber co-starred as Mindy McConnell, his human friend and roommate...
  
  , aneurysm
  Aneurysm
  An aneurysm or aneurism is a localized, blood-filled balloon-like bulge in the wall of a blood vessel. Aneurysms can commonly occur in arteries at the base of the brain and an aortic aneurysm occurs in the main artery carrying blood from the left ventricle of the heart...
  
  . http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117945129?categoryId=25&cs=1
• Jack Jackson
  Jaxon
  Jaxon was the pen name of Jack Jackson , an American cartoonist. Many consider him the first underground comix artist. He co-founded the seminal Rip Off Press.-Career:Jack Jackson was born in 1941 in Pandora, Texas...
  
   (nom de plume Jaxon), 65, American comic book artist and co-founder of Rip Off Press
  Rip Off Press
  Rip Off Press, Inc. is a seminal publishing company that specializes in adult-themed literature and graphic novels, mostly in a specific comic book format known as underground comix.-Overview:...
  
  . http://www.comicsreporter.com/index.php/jack_jackson_1941_2006/
• Mykola Kolessa
  Mykola Kolessa
  Mykola Kolessa was a prominent Ukrainian composer and conductor, born in the village of Sambir near Lviv and died in Lviv....
  
  , 102, Ukrainian composer and conductor. http://www.ukrainianstudies.org/aaus-list/0606/msg00008.html
• Abouna Matta El Meskeen, 87, Spiritual Father of St. Macarius' Monastery in the Wilderness of Scetis, 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...
  
  . http://www.ahram.org.eg/Index.asp?CurFN=fron11.htm&DID=8877
• Mary Martin McLaughlin, 87, American scholar of the Middle Ages
  Middle Ages
  The Middle Ages is a periodization of European history from the 5th century to the 15th century. The Middle Ages follows the fall of the Western Roman Empire in 476 and precedes the Early Modern Era. It is the middle period of a three-period division of Western history: Classic, Medieval and Modern...
  
  . http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/26/nyregion/26mclaughlin.html
• John C. Roberts
  John Roberts (businessman)
  John Charles Roberts AO was an Australian businessman who was the founding chairman and an executive director of construction company Multiplex.-Early life and career:...
  
  , 72, founder of Australian construction company Brookfield Multiplex. Complications of diabetes. http://www.theage.com.au/news/Business/Multiplex-founder-John-Roberts-dies/2006/06/08/1149359869353.html
• Jamal Abu Samhadana, leader of PA / Hamas
  Hamas
  Hamas is the Palestinian Sunni Islamic or Islamist political party that governs the Gaza Strip. Hamas also has a military wing, the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades...
  
   forces in Gaza Strip and PRC
  Popular Resistance Committees
  The Popular Resistance Committees are a coalition of various armed Palestinian factions that oppose the conciliatory approach adopted by the Palestinian Authority and Fatah towards Israel...
  
  . Killed by Israeli air strike. http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3260670,00.html
• Talcott Seelye, 84, former United States ambassador to Tunisia
  Tunisia
  Tunisia , officially the Tunisian RepublicThe long name of Tunisia in other languages used in the country is: , is the northernmost country in Africa. It is a Maghreb country and is bordered by Algeria to the west, Libya to the southeast, and the Mediterranean Sea to the north and east. Its area...
  
   and Syria
  Syria
  Syria , officially the Syrian Arab Republic , is a country in Western Asia, bordering Lebanon and the Mediterranean Sea to the West, Turkey to the north, Iraq to the east, Jordan to the south, and Israel to the southwest....
  
  . http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/15/us/15seelye.html
• Sir Peter Smithers
  Peter Smithers
  Sir Peter Henry Berry Otway Smithers was a United Kingdom Conservative Party politician. He was a Member of Parliament for Winchester for 14 years, and a junior Minister in the early 1960s...
  
  , 92, British politician, 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 Winchester and Secretary General of the Council of Europe
  Secretary General of the Council of Europe
  The Secretary General of the Council of Europe is appointed by the Parliamentary Assembly on the recommendation of the Committee of Ministers for a period of five years...
  
  . http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?view=DETAILS&grid=&xml=/news/2006/06/10/db1001.xml

7

• Abu Musab al-Zarqawi
  Abu Musab al-Zarqawi
  Abu Musab al-Zarqawi ; October 30, 1966 – June 7, 2006), born Ahmad Fadeel al-Nazal al-Khalayleh was a Jordanian militant Islamist who ran a paramilitary training camp in Afghanistan...
  
  , 39, leader of Al-Qaeda in Iraq
  Al-Qaeda in Iraq
  Al-Qaeda in Iraq is a popular name for the Iraqi division of the international Salafi jihadi militant organization al-Qaeda. It is recognized as a part of the greater Iraqi insurgency....
  
  , US military strike. http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/06/08/iraq.al.zarqawi/index.html
• Sheik Abd-Al-Rahman
  Sheik Abd-Al-Rahman
  Sheik Abd-Al-Rahman , also Shaykh Abd Al-Rahman or Sheik Abd Al-Rahman, was the spiritual advisor to al-Qaeda in Iraq until his death in June 2006.-Death:...
  
  , spiritual adviser for Al-Qaeda in Iraq
  Al-Qaeda in Iraq
  Al-Qaeda in Iraq is a popular name for the Iraqi division of the international Salafi jihadi militant organization al-Qaeda. It is recognized as a part of the greater Iraqi insurgency....
  
  , US military strike. http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,,1793028,00.html
• Betty Beale, 94, Washington, D.C.
  Washington, D.C.
  Washington, D.C., formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington, "the District", or simply D.C., is the capital of the United States. On July 16, 1790, the United States Congress approved the creation of a permanent national capital as permitted by the U.S. Constitution....
  
   society columnist. http://www.forbes.com/home/feeds/ap/2006/06/08/ap2803925.html
• Carl Dengler, 91, blind Rochester, New York
  Rochester, New York
  Rochester is a city in Monroe County, New York, south of Lake Ontario in the United States. Known as The World's Image Centre, it was also once known as The Flour City, and more recently as The Flower City...
  
   bandleader and percussionist. http://www.democratandchronicle.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060609/NEWS01/606090387/1002/NEWS
• Joseph Dorfman, 65, Russian-Israeli composer of new music
  Contemporary classical music
  Contemporary classical music can be understood as belonging to the period that started in the mid-1970s with the retreat of modernism. However, the term may also be employed in a broader sense to refer to all post-1945 modern musical forms.-Categorization:...
  
   and a Shostakovich
  Dmitri Shostakovich
  Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich was a Soviet Russian composer and one of the most celebrated composers of the 20th century....
  
   scholar.http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/california/la-me-dorfman16jun16,1,3688781.story?coll=la-headlines-pe-california
• Dr. Morton Kligerman, 88, American cancer researcher and professor of oncology
  Oncology
  Oncology is a branch of medicine that deals with cancer...
  
   and radiology
  Radiology
  Radiology is a medical specialty that employs the use of imaging to both diagnose and treat disease visualized within the human body. Radiologists use an array of imaging technologies to diagnose or treat diseases...
  
  . http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/19/health/19kligerman.html
• Terry McCann, 74, Olympic gold medalist in freestyle wrestling
  Freestyle wrestling
  Freestyle wrestling is a style of amateur wrestling that is practised throughout the world. Along with Greco-Roman, it is one of the two styles of wrestling contested in the Olympic games. It is, along with track and field, one of the oldest organized sports in history...
  
   and helped found USA Wrestling
  USA Wrestling
  USA Wrestling is the organization that currently governs freestyle wrestling and Greco-Roman wrestling in the United States...
  
  , and retired Executive Director of Toastmasters International
  Toastmasters International
  Toastmasters International is a nonprofit educational organization that operates clubs worldwide for the purpose of helping members improve their communication, public speaking and leadership skills...
  
  , cancer (see http://sport.monstersandcritics.com/othersport/article_1171262.php/Olympic_wrestling_gold_medalist_dies).
• Scott Palmer, 38, bassist for the reggae band John Brown's Body
  John Brown's Body (band)
  John Brown's Body is a reggae band from Boston, MA and Ithaca, NY that tours the world performing what the group calls “Future Roots Music”. The sound is rooted in reggae rhythms and blended with a variety of other styles including dub, electronic, funk, ska, hip-hop, and dubstep.Originally...
  
  , 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...
  
   of the gall bladder. http://www.cmj.com/articles/display_article.php?id=14047241
• Ingo Preminger
  Ingo Preminger
  Ingwald "Ingo" Preminger was a film producer. He was also the literary agent for several writers, including Dalton Trumbo and Ring Lardner Jr., both of whom were blacklisted in the McCarthy era...
  
  , 95, Hollywood talent agent and producer (M*A*S*H), brother of Otto Preminger
  Otto Preminger
  Otto Ludwig Preminger was an Austro–Hungarian-American theatre and film director.After moving from the theatre to Hollywood, he directed over 35 feature films in a five-decade career. He rose to prominence for stylish film noir mysteries such as Laura and Fallen Angel...
  
  . http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/14/arts/14preminger.html http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/breaking_news/14798472.htm
• Louis B. Sohn
  Louis B. Sohn
  Louis B. Sohn was born in Lemberg, in what was then Austria-Hungary, later Poland and now Ukraine. He earned his first law degree at John Casimir University in Lwow in 1939, escaping to the United States two weeks before the Nazi invasion of Poland...
  
  , 92, Lviv
  Lviv
  Lviv is a city in western Ukraine. The city is regarded as one of the main cultural centres of today's Ukraine and historically has also been a major Polish and Jewish cultural center, as Poles and Jews were the two main ethnicities of the city until the outbreak of World War II and the following...
  
  -born scholar of international law
  International law
  Public international law concerns the structure and conduct of sovereign states; analogous entities, such as the Holy See; and intergovernmental organizations. To a lesser degree, international law also may affect multinational corporations and individuals, an impact increasingly evolving beyond...
  
  , helped draft the UN Charter. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06/13/AR2006061301542.html
• John Tenta
  John Tenta
  John Anthony Tenta was a Canadian professional wrestler known for his work in the World Wrestling Federation as Earthquake and later Golga, and in World Championship Wrestling as Avalanche and The Shark.-Early life:John Tenta was born in Surrey, British Columbia...
  
   (aka Earthquake), 42, Canadian professional wrestler for the World Wrestling Federation
  World Wrestling Entertainment
  World Wrestling Entertainment, Inc. is an American publicly traded, privately controlled entertainment company dealing primarily in professional wrestling, with major revenue sources also coming from film, music, product licensing, and direct product sales...
  
  , 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.wwe.com/inside/news/tenta

6

• Professor Leslie Alcock
  Leslie Alcock
  Leslie Alcock was Professor of Archaeology at the University of Glasgow, and one of the leading archaeologists of Early Mediaeval Britain. His major excavations included Dinas Powys hill fort in Wales, Cadbury Castle, South Cadbury in Somerset and a series of major hillforts in Scotland.-Early...
  
  , 81, pioneer of Dark Age archaeology
  Archaeology
  Archaeology, or archeology , is the study of human society, primarily through the recovery and analysis of the material culture and environmental data that they have left behind, which includes artifacts, architecture, biofacts and cultural landscapes...
  
  , led the team that excavated Cadbury Castle
  Cadbury Castle
  Cadbury Castle may refer to:*Cadbury Castle, Devon, an Iron Age hill fort*Cadbury Castle, Somerset, an Iron Age hill fort...
  
  . http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?view=DETAILS&grid=&xml=/news/2006/06/15/db1501.xml
• Scobey Hartley, 74, Alberta
  Alberta
  Alberta is a province of Canada. It had an estimated population of 3.7 million in 2010 making it the most populous of Canada's three prairie provinces...
  
   oilman, heart attack http://calsun.canoe.ca/News/Alberta/2006/06/07/1618538-sun.htmlhttp://www.loodusajakiri.ee/eesti_loodus/artikkel1574_1547.html
• Frank Lanza, 74, Chairman and CEO of L-3 Communications
  L-3 Communications
  L-3 Communications Holdings, Inc. is a company that supplies command and control, communications, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance systems and products, avionics, ocean products, training devices and services, instrumentation, space, and navigation products. Its customers include...
  
   following surgery. http://today.reuters.com/stocks/QuoteCompanyNewsArticle.aspx?view=CN&storyID=2006-06-07T041706Z_01_WEN9053_RTRIDST_0_MANUFACTURING-L3COMMUNICATIONS-URGENT.XML&rpc=66
• Arnold Newman
  Arnold Newman
  Arnold Abner Newman was an American photographer, noted for his "environmental portraits" of artists and politicians...
  
  , 88, American photographer who pioneered "environmental portraiture". http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/07/arts/07newman.html http://today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=entertainmentNews&storyID=2006-06-07T045343Z_01_N07448625_RTRUKOC_0_US-PHOTOGRAPHER-NEWMAN.xml&archived=False.
• Reathel Odum, 97, White House
  White House
  The White House is the official residence and principal workplace of the president of the United States. Located at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW in Washington, D.C., the house was designed by Irish-born James Hoban, and built between 1792 and 1800 of white-painted Aquia sandstone in the Neoclassical...
  
   personal secretary to Bess Truman
  Bess Truman
  Bess Truman , was the wife of Harry S. Truman and First Lady of the United States from 1945 to 1953.-Early life:...
  
  . http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/24/us/24odum.html
• Billy Preston
  Billy Preston
  William Everett "Billy" Preston was a musician who gained notoriety and fame, first as a session musician for the likes of Sam Cooke, Ray Charles and The Beatles, and later finding fame as a solo artist with hits such as "Space Race", "Will It Go Round in Circles" and "Nothing from...
  
  , 59, American musician ("You Are So Beautiful", "Nothing from Nothing") known for his work with the Beatles
  The Beatles
  The Beatles were an English rock band, active throughout the 1960s and one of the most commercially successful and critically acclaimed acts in the history of popular music. Formed in Liverpool, by 1962 the group consisted of John Lennon , Paul McCartney , George Harrison and Ringo Starr...
  
  , malignant hypertension
  Malignant hypertension
  Malignant hypertension or hypertensive emergency is severe hypertension with acute impairment of an organ system and the possibility of irreversible organ-damage...
  
   leading to kidney 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/2006/06/07/arts/07preston.html
• Hilton Ruiz
  Hilton Ruiz
  Hilton Ruiz was a Puerto Rican American jazz pianist in the Afro-Cuban jazz mold, but was also a talented bebop player....
  
  , 54, American 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...
  
   pianist
  Piano
  The piano is a musical instrument played by means of a keyboard. It is one of the most popular instruments in the world. Widely used in classical and jazz music for solo performances, ensemble use, chamber music and accompaniment, the piano is also very popular as an aid to composing and rehearsal...
  
  , injuries from a fall. http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/07/arts/music/07ruiz.html http://www.nola.com/newsflash/louisiana/index.ssf?/base/news-25/1149617697251510.xml&storylist=louisiana
• Léon Weil
  Léon Weil
  Léon Roger Weil was one of the last two surviving veterans of the battle of Val-de-Marne in the First World War...
  
  , 109, French World War I veteran. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060607/ap_on_re_eu/obit_weil
• Jason Moss, 31, Attorney and author of the book "The Last Victim
  The Last Victim
  The Last Victim: A True-Life Journey into the Mind of the Serial Killer is a non-fiction work by author Jason Moss in which he details his fascination and subsequent correspondence with several notorious American serial killers. It was published in 1999....
  
  " http://www.reviewjournal.com/lvrj_home/2006/Jun-13-Tue-2006/news/7920651.html

5

• Ray Cale
  Ray Cale
  William Raymond "Ray" Cale was a dual code rugby international for Wales with the international rugby union and rugby league teams.-Rugby union:...
  
  , 83, Dual international for Wales
  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...
  
   in rugby union
  Rugby union
  Rugby union, often simply referred to as rugby, is a full contact team sport which originated in England in the early 19th century. One of the two codes of rugby football, it is based on running with the ball in hand...
  
   and 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...
  
  . http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/rugby_union/welsh/5055052.stm http://www.wru.co.uk/2_7266.php
• Frederick Franck
  Frederick Franck
  Frederick Franck was a painter, sculptor, and author of more than 30 books on Buddhism and other subjects who was known for his interest in human spirituality. He was a native of The Netherlands and became a US citizen in 1945. He was a dental surgeon by trade, and worked with Dr...
  
  , 97, Dutch artist, author, and dentist. http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/18/nyregion/18franck.html
• Eric Gregg
  Eric Gregg
  Eric Eugene Gregg was an American umpire in Major League Baseball who worked in the National League from 1975 to 1999...
  
  , 55, American former Major League Baseball
  Major League Baseball
  Major League Baseball is the highest level of professional baseball in the United States and Canada, consisting of teams that play in the National League and the American League...
  
   umpire
  Umpire (baseball)
  In baseball, the umpire is the person charged with officiating the game, including beginning and ending the game, enforcing the rules of the game and the grounds, making judgment calls on plays, and handling the disciplinary actions. The term is often shortened to the colloquial form ump...
  
  , stroke. http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/06/sports/06gregg.html http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/news;_ylt=AtDCFwdffDo3TBwHmbpj7Lo5nYcB?slug=ap-obit-gregg&prov=ap&type=lgnshttp://mlb.mlb.com/NASApp/mlb/news/article.jsp?ymd=20060605&content_id=1489135&vkey=news_mlb&fext=.jsp&c_id=mlb
• Wayne Hage, 69, American cattle rancher who sued the US National Forest Service over grazing rights. http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/08/us/08hage.html
• Caleb Hammond, 90, American president of C. S. Hammond & Co. mapmakers. http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/09/business/09hammond.html
• Carlene Lewis, 51, American lawyer who sued Merck
  Merck & Co.
  Merck & Co., Inc. , also known as Merck Sharp & Dohme or MSD outside the United States and Canada, is one of the largest pharmaceutical companies in the world. The Merck headquarters is located in Whitehouse Station, New Jersey, an unincorporated area in Readington Township...
  
   over the drug Vioxx. http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/08/business/08lewis.html
• Henri Magne, 53, French rally
  Rallying
  Rallying, also known as rally racing, is a form of auto racing that takes place on public or private roads with modified production or specially built road-legal cars...
  
   co-driver (navigator) http://www.paddocktalk.com/news/html/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=34395 http://www.rallye1.de/web/marathon/artikel.php?newsID=6888&sid=___nicht_eingeloggt___
• Jorge Melendez
  Jorge Meléndez
  Jorge Meléndez Ramírez was born in San Salvador, El Salvador to Rafael Meléndez and Mercedes Ramírez. His wife was Tula Mazzini, and they had three children: Jorge , María de los Angeles, and Ricardo.He served as President of El Salvador from 1 March 1919 to 1 March 1923....
  
  , unknown age, involved in professional wrestling, committed suicide
• Robert Ross
  Robert Ross (CEO)
  Robert Ross was the founder and leader of the Muscular Dystrophy Association in 1950. Ross served as CEO for 44 years until his death in 2006...
  
  , 86, leader of the Muscular Dystrophy Association
  Muscular Dystrophy Association
  The Muscular Dystrophy Association is an American organization which combats muscular dystrophy and diseases of the nervous system and muscular system in general by funding research, providing medical and community services, and educating health professionals and the general public...
  
   for 44 years and persuaded Jerry Lewis
  Jerry Lewis
  Jerry Lewis is an American comedian, actor, singer, film producer, screenwriter and film director. He is best known for his slapstick humor in film, television, stage and radio. He was originally paired up with Dean Martin in 1946, forming the famed comedy team of Martin and Lewis...
  
   to undertake a yearly telethon to raise money for muscular dystrophy, complications of broken hip. http://www.azstarnet.com/sn/hourlyupdate/132482.php
• Elizabeth Fretwell
  Elizabeth Fretwell
  Elizabeth Fretwell OBE was an Australian soprano. She was the prima donna at London's Sadler's Wells Opera through much of the 1950s and 1960s.- Early life and career :...
  
  , 85, Australian opera singer best known for her performances with the Sadler's Wells company. http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,19557284-16947,00.html

4

• Alec Bregonzi
  Alec Bregonzi
  Alec Bregonzi was an English actor who appeared in a number of stage and television roles.Bregonzi began his career as a professional actor in 1955 in repertory theatre in Farnham, then in York, Bromley and Leatherhead, amongst other places...
  
  , 76, British actor
• Bill Fleming
  Bill Fleming
  Leslie Fletchard Fleming was a pitcher in Major League Baseball who played for the Boston Red Sox and Chicago Cubs . Fleming batted and threw right-handed...
  
  , 92, former MLB pitcher for the 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"...
  
   and Chicago Cubs
  Chicago Cubs
  The Chicago Cubs are a professional baseball team located in Chicago, Illinois. They are members of the Central Division of Major League Baseball's National League. They are one of two Major League clubs based in Chicago . The Cubs are also one of the two remaining charter members of the National...
  
   http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=14563421
• Peter Greenwell, 76, British composer and pianist known for his work with Noel Coward
  Noël Coward
  Sir Noël Peirce Coward was an English playwright, composer, director, actor and singer, known for his wit, flamboyance, and what Time magazine called "a sense of personal style, a combination of cheek and chic, pose and poise".Born in Teddington, a suburb of London, Coward attended a dance academy...
  
   who later developed a tribute show described by Alan Jay Lerner
  Alan Jay Lerner
  Alan Jay Lerner was an American lyricist and librettist. In collaboration with Frederick Loewe, he created some of the world's most popular and enduring works of musical theatre for both the stage and on film...
  
   as "the best Noel Coward since Noel Coward.http://news.independent.co.uk/people/obituaries/article1090908.ece
• Raul Indipwo, 72, Portuguese singer, member of Duo Ouro Negro band, born in Angola
  Angola
  Angola, officially the Republic of Angola , is a country in south-central Africa bordered by Namibia on the south, the Democratic Republic of the Congo on the north, and Zambia on the east; its west coast is on the Atlantic Ocean with Luanda as its capital city...
  
  , 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://allafrica.com/stories/200606051590.html
• Ron Jones
  Ron Jones (baseball)
  Ronald Glen Jones was a promising baseball player for the Philadelphia Phillies during the late 1980s.Born Ronald Glen Jones in Seguin, Texas, Jones went undrafted in 1984, but signed with the Phillies' farm system. His power at the plate and good defense eventually earned him a spot with the big...
  
  , 41, former Major League Baseball player, brain hemorrhage http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/sports/14796440.htm
• Richard Kapp
  Richard Kapp
  Richard Kapp was an American conductor.Richard Kapp was born in Chicago, Illinois. He was a child piano prodigy. However, he studied German political history at Johns Hopkins University. He received his BA in 1957...
  
  , 69, American conductor and founder of the Philharmonia Virtuosi
  Philharmonia Virtuosi
  The Philharmonia Virtuosi is a chamber orchestra that first performed in 1974. It was founded by Richard Kapp, who conducted the orchestra until the time of his death in 2006....
  
  . http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/06/arts/music/06kapp.html
• Anthony Marreco
  Anthony Marreco
  Anthony Freire Marreco was a British barrister. He was Junior Counsel at the Nuremberg Trials, and later a founding director of Amnesty International. He was also known for his romantic liaisons, marrying four times and having numerous other affairs.Marreco was the only son of Geoffrey Marreco...
  
  , 90, junior British prosecutor 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....
  
   and founding member of Amnesty International
  Amnesty International
  Amnesty International is an international non-governmental organisation whose stated mission is "to conduct research and generate action to prevent and end grave abuses of human rights, and to demand justice for those whose rights have been violated."Following a publication of Peter Benenson's...
  
  . http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,172-2213985,00.html
• Eric Molobi, 58, South African anti-apartheid activist and businessman, 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.sabcnews.com/economy/business/0,2172,128763,00.html
• William M. Steger
  William Steger
  William Merritt "Bill" Steger handled some 15,000 cases in a career spanning 35 years as a U.S. District Court judge for the Eastern District of Texas, based in Tyler. U.S. President Richard M. Nixon appointed Steger to the bench in 1970...
  
  , 85, United States district court
  United States district court
  The United States district courts are the general trial courts of the United States federal court system. Both civil and criminal cases are filed in the district court, which is a court of law, equity, and admiralty. There is a United States bankruptcy court associated with each United States...
  
   judge and Republican
  Republican Party (United States)
  The Republican Party is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States, along with the Democratic Party. Founded by anti-slavery expansion activists in 1854, it is often called the GOP . The party's platform generally reflects American conservatism in the U.S...
  
   candidate for Governor of Texas
  Governor of Texas
  The governor of Texas is the head of the executive branch of Texas's government and the commander-in-chief of the state's military forces. The governor has the power to either approve or veto bills passed by the Texas Legislature, and to convene the legislature...
  
   in 1960. http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/3928456.html
• Robert Taylor, 68, former New York Giants
  New York Giants
  The New York Giants are a professional American football team based in East Rutherford, New Jersey, representing the New York City metropolitan area. The Giants are currently members of the Eastern Division of the National Football Conference in the National Football League...
  
   defensive end
  Defensive end
  Defensive end is the name of a defensive position in the sport of American and Canadian football.This position has designated the players at each end of the defensive line, but changes in formations have substantially changed how the position is played over the years...
  
   who played in the 1963 NFL championship game, complications following surgery for colon cancer
  Colorectal cancer
  Colorectal cancer, commonly known as bowel cancer, is a cancer caused by uncontrolled cell growth , in the colon, rectum, or vermiform appendix. Colorectal cancer is clinically distinct from anal cancer, which affects the anus....
  
  . http://www.nfl.com/teams/story/NYG/9482888

3

• Dick Anderson, 73, scuba diver. http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/12/sports/othersports/12Anderson.html
• Leo Clarke
  Leo Clarke (bishop)
  Bishop Leo Clarke was Bishop of the Roman Catholic diocese of Maitland-Newcastle, Australia from 1976-1995. Bishop Clarke was ordained the sixth bishop of the Newcastle diocese in June 1976, after 27 years of service in the Archdiocese of Melbourne, where he served as priest and Master of...
  
  , 82, Roman Catholic Bishop of Maitland
  Maitland, New South Wales
  Maitland is a city in the Lower Hunter Valley of New South Wales, Australia and the seat of Maitland City Council, situated on the Hunter River approximately by road north of Sydney and north-west of Newcastle...
  
  –Newcastle
  Newcastle, New South Wales
  The Newcastle metropolitan area is the second most populated area in the Australian state of New South Wales and includes most of the Newcastle and Lake Macquarie Local Government Areas...
  
  , Australia, 1976-1995. http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200606/s1655916.htm
• William Dimitr Jr., 76, Rhode Island Superior Court
  Rhode Island Superior Court
  The Rhode Island Superior Court is the state trial court of general jurisdiction in Rhode Island.-Jurisdiction:It has original jurisdiction in all felony proceedings, civil matters with an amount in controversy in excess of $10,000, and all matters of equity...
  
   judge, 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.boston.com/news/local/rhode_island/articles/2006/06/04/william_dimitri_jr_long_serving_judge_dies_of_cancer/
• Karmveer Nakwhal, 17, rising American rap artist and founder of KarmFarm Kids, a children's organization in Yuba City, California, murdered http://www.karmfarmkids.org/history/3.htm
• Brian Duke
  Brian Duke
  Brian Dudiak OBE CBE was an expert in tropical diseases who extensively studied River Blindness and other parasitic diseases...
  
  , 79, tropical disease expert who helped to save millions from river blindness. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,60-2247839,00.html
• Johnny Grande
  Johnny Grande
  John A. Grande , better known as Johnny Grande, was a member of Bill Haley's backing band, The Comets.-Life and Career:...
  
  , 76, pianist, member of Bill Haley
  Bill Haley
  Bill Haley was one of the first American rock and roll musicians. He is credited by many with first popularizing this form of music in the early 1950s with his group Bill Haley & His Comets and their hit song "Rock Around the Clock".-Early life and career:...
  
  's backing band, The Comets. Complications arising from cancer. http://news.independent.co.uk/people/obituaries/article625633.ece
• George Kashdan
  George Kashdan
  George Kashdan was an American comic book writer and editor, primarily for DC Comics, who co-created such characters as Tommy Tomorrow, Mysto, Magician Detective, and others...
  
  , 78, American comic book writer and editor for DC Comics
  DC Comics
  DC Comics, Inc. is one of the largest and most successful companies operating in the market for American comic books and related media. It is the publishing unit of DC Entertainment a company of Warner Bros. Entertainment, which itself is owned by Time Warner...
  
  . http://www.newsfromme.com/archives/2006_06_08.html#011611
• Janet Sandell, 70, South African social activist, ovarian cancer
  Ovarian cancer
  Ovarian cancer is a cancerous growth arising from the ovary. Symptoms are frequently very subtle early on and may include: bloating, pelvic pain, difficulty eating and frequent urination, and are easily confused with other illnesses....
  
  . http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=6&art_id=vn20060607020555341C259452
• Doug Serrurier
  Doug Serrurier
  Louis Douglas Serrurier was a racing driver and racing car constructor from South Africa. He participated in 3 Formula One World Championship Grands Prix in the 1960s, only racing in the South African Grand Prix event, debuting on December 29, 1962...
  
  , 85, former Grand Prix racing driver and constructor. http://motoring.co.za/index.php?fArticleId=3279528&fSectionId=&fSetId=381
• Prudence Watson, Canadian lawyer, 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.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/Deaths.20060607.93046660/BDAStory/BDA/
• Ni Wen-ya, 105, former President of the Legislative Yuan
  Legislative Yuan
  The Legislative Yuan is the unicameral legislature of the Republic of China .The Legislative Yuan is one of the five branches of government stipulated by the Constitution of the Republic of China, which follows Sun Yat-sen's Three Principles of the People...
  
  . http://english.www.gov.tw/TaiwanHeadlines/index.jsp?print=1&categid=10&recordid=95464
• Robin Williams Jr., 91, American sociologist and former president of the American Sociological Association
  American Sociological Association
  The American Sociological Association , founded in 1905 as the American Sociological Society , is a non-profit organization dedicated to advancing the discipline and profession of sociology by serving sociologists in their work and promoting their contributions to serve society.The ASA holds its...
  
  . http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/10/us/10williams.html

2

• Sol Cantor, 95, American discount store pioneer. http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/06/business/06cantor.html
• Ronald Cass
  Ronald Cass
  Ronald Cass was a screenwriter and a composer. He co-wrote the films Summer Holiday and The Young Ones.-Biography:Cass was born in Llanelli, Wales to Saul and Rachel Cass, the second of five sons...
  
  , 83, British film score composer.
• Jennifer Eley, 44, prize-winning American classical concert pianist. http://www.newsday.com/news/local/wire/newyork/ny-bc-ny--obit-pianist0605jun05,0,5652452.story?coll=ny-region-apnewyork
• Barbara Furrer Goodman, 74, American educator, former chair of the board of trustees of the Teachers College
  Teachers College, Columbia University
  Teachers College, Columbia University is a graduate school of education located in New York City, New York...
  
   at Columbia University
  Columbia University
  Columbia University in the City of New York is a private, Ivy League university in Manhattan, New York City. Columbia is the oldest institution of higher learning in the state of New York, the fifth oldest in the United States, and one of the country's nine Colonial Colleges founded before the...
  
  . http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/04/nyregion/04goodman.html
• Bernard Loomis
  Bernard Loomis
  Bernard Loomis was an American toy developer and marketer who introduced to some of the world's most notable brands including "Chatty Cathy", "Barbie", "Hot Wheels", "Baby Alive", and "Strawberry Shortcake", but perhaps his biggest marketing success was bringing a then-unknown film property called...
  
  , 82, American toymaker responsible for Strawberry Shortcake
  Strawberry Shortcake
  Strawberry Shortcake is a licensed character owned by American Greetings, originally used in greeting cards and expanded to include dolls, posters, and other products...
  
   and Star Wars
  Star Wars
  Star Wars is an American epic space opera film series created by George Lucas. The first film in the series was originally released on May 25, 1977, under the title Star Wars, by 20th Century Fox, and became a worldwide pop culture phenomenon, followed by two sequels, released at three-year...
  
  action figures, heart disease. http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/06/business/06loomis.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
• Vivek Maitra, Indian politician, possible foul play. http://www.financialexpress.com/latest_full_story.php?content_id=129207&pn=0
• Leon Pownall
  Leon Pownall
  Leon Pownall was a Welsh Canadian actor and director.He was born in Wrexham in Wales and came to Hamilton, Ontario with his family in 1957...
  
  , 63, Canadian actor, cancer.
• Frank Spencer, 87, FBI agent who investigated the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing
  16th Street Baptist Church bombing
  The 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama was bombed on Sunday, September 15, 1963. The explosion at the African-American church, which killed four girls, marked a turning point in the U.S...
  
  . http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/08/us/08spencer.html
• Vince Welnick
  Vince Welnick
  Vince Welnick was an American keyboardist, best known for playing with the band The Tubes during the 1970s and 1980s and with the Grateful Dead in the 1990s.-Music career:...
  
  , 55, member of The Grateful Dead, 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.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/breaking_news/14732260.htm
• Edward Yates
  Edward Yates
  Edward J. Yates was an American television director who was the director of the ABC television program American Bandstand from 1952 until 1969....
  
  , 87, director of American Bandstand
  American Bandstand
  American Bandstand is an American music-performance show that aired in various versions from 1952 to 1989 and was hosted from 1956 until its final season by Dick Clark, who also served as producer...
  
  (1952–1969). http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060606/ap_en_tv/obit_yates_1
• Vyacheslav Klykov
  Vyacheslav Klykov
  Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Klykov was a Russian sculptor who specialized in public monuments to key figures of national history and culture....
  
  , 66, Russian sculptor and nationalist politician.http://www.lenta.ru/news/2006/06/02/klykov/

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• Perry Bass, 91, Texas oilman and philanthropist. http://www.businessweek.com/ap/financialnews/D8HVN9NG1.htm?sub=apn_home_down&chan=db
• Dr. Charles Brush III, 83, American archaeologist and former president of the Explorers Club. http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/11/nyregion/11brush.html
• Arthur Espenet Carpenter, 86, American furniture craftsman. http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/05/arts/design/05carpenter.html
• Shokichi Iyanaga
  Shokichi Iyanaga
  was a Japanese mathematician.-Early life:Iyanaga was born in Tokyo, Japan on April 2, 1906. He studied at the University of Tokyo from 1926 to 1929. He studied under Teiji Takagi. As an undergraduate, he published two papers in the Japanese Journal of Mathematics and the Proceedings of the Imperial...
  
  , 100, influential Japanese mathematician http://www.mathforum.org/kb/thread.jspa?threadID=1397642&tstart=0
• Rocío Jurado
  Rocío Jurado
  María del Rocío Trinidad Mohedano Jurado , was a Spanish singer and actress. She was born in Chipiona, Cádiz, Spain and was nicknamed "La más grande" . Jurado was once married to boxer Pedro Carrasco, with whom she had a daughter, Rocío Carrasco...
  
  , 61, Spanish singer and actress, 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://in.today.reuters.com/news/NewsArticle.aspx?type=entertainmentNews&storyID=2006-06-01T135953Z_01_NOOTR_RTRJONC_0_India-252270-1.xml
• Allan Prior
  Allan Prior
  Allan Prior was an English television scriptwriter and novelist, who wrote over 300 television episodes from the 1950s onwards....
  
  , 84, British television scriptwriter (Z-Cars
  Z-Cars
  Z-Cars is a British television drama series centred on the work of mobile uniformed police in the fictional town of Newtown, based on Kirkby in the outskirts of Liverpool in Merseyside. Produced by the BBC, it debuted in January 1962 and ran until September 1978.-Origins:The series was developed by...
  
  , Howards' Way
  Howards' Way
  Howards' Way is a television drama series produced by BBC Birmingham and transmitted on BBC One between 1 September 1985 and 25 November 1990. The series deals with the personal and professional lives of the yachting and business communities in the fictional town of Tarrant on the South Coast of...
  
  , The Charmer
  The Charmer (TV series)
  The Charmer was a 1987 British television serial set in the 1930s, and starring Nigel Havers as Ralph Ernest Gorse, a seducing conman and murderer, Rosemary Leach as Joan Plumleigh-Bruce, the smitten victim widow and Bernard Hepton as Donald Stimpson, Plumleigh-Bruce's would-be beau, who vengefully...
  
  ), father of folk singer Maddy Prior
  Maddy Prior
  Maddy Prior is an English folk singer, best known as the lead vocalist of Steeleye Span.-Early life:...
  
  . http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,171-2212111,00.html
• Calvin Pullins, Prince, 74, US-wrestler
• Abdul Latif Sharif
  Abdul Latif Sharif
  Abdul Latif Sharif , was an Egyptian chemist and chief suspect in the Juárez killings, a decade-long murder spree that began in the Mexican city of Ciudad Juárez in the early 1990s....
  
  . 59, Egyptian, suspect in the femicides in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, officially of natural causes, rumored poisoning.
• Claude Terrail, 88, owner of the restaurant La Tour d'Argent. http://www.seattlepi.com/national/1103AP_Obit_Terrail.html
• William D. Winn, 59, professor of education at the University of Washington
  University of Washington
  University of Washington is a public research university, founded in 1861 in Seattle, Washington, United States. The UW is the largest university in the Northwest and the oldest public university on the West Coast. The university has three campuses, with its largest campus in the University...
  
  . http://depts.washington.edu/coe/calendar/event_detail.php?month=06&year=2006&id=410