Deaths in June 2009
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Deaths in 2009
Deaths in 2009
The following is a list of notable deaths in 2009. A typical entry lists information in the following sequence:* Name, age, country of citizenship and reason for notability, established cause of death, reference.-January 2009:...

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Deaths in December 2008
Deaths in 2008 : ← - January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December- →The following is a list of notable deaths in December 2008.-31:*Premjit Lall, 68, Indian tennis player, after long illness....

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

 - February
Deaths in February 2009
Deaths in 2009 : ← - January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December- →The following is a list of notable deaths in February 2009.-28:...

 - March
Deaths in March 2009
Deaths in 2009 : ← - January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December- →The following is a list of deaths in March 2009.-31:*Raúl Alfonsín, 82, Argentine President , lung cancer....

 - April
Deaths in April 2009
Deaths in 2009 : ← - January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December- →The following is a list of deaths in April 2009.-30:*Amparo Arozamena, 92, Mexican actress, heart attack....

 - May
Deaths in May 2009
Deaths in 2009 : ← - January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December- →The following is a list of deaths in May 2009.-31:*Martin Clemens, 94, British colonial administrator and soldier....

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

 - August
Deaths in August 2009
Deaths in 2009 : ← - January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December- →The following is a list of deaths in August 2009.-31:*John Choi Young-su, 67, South Korean Archbishop of Daegu....

 - September
Deaths in September 2009
Deaths in 2009 : ← - January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December- →The following is a list of deaths in September 2009.-30:* Sir Alastair Aird, 78, British Royal courtier....

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

 - November
Deaths in November 2009
Deaths in 2009 : ← - January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December- →The following is a list of notable deaths in November 2009.-30:* Christopher Anvil, 84, American science fiction writer....

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

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



The following is a list of deaths in June 2009.

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  • Pina Bausch
    Pina Bausch
    Philippina "Pina" Bausch was a German performer of modern dance, choreographer, dance teacher and ballet director...

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

     modern dance
    Modern dance
    Modern dance is a dance form developed in the early 20th century. Although the term Modern dance has also been applied to a category of 20th Century ballroom dances, Modern dance as a term usually refers to 20th century concert dance.-Intro:...

     choreographer, 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.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,,4444691,00.html
  • Paquito Cordero
    Paquito Cordero
    Paquito Cordero , was a comedian and television producer and also one of the pioneers of Puerto Rican television.-Early years:...

    , 77, Puerto Rican
    Puerto Rico
    Puerto Rico , officially the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico , is an unincorporated territory of the United States, located in the northeastern Caribbean, east of the Dominican Republic and west of both the United States Virgin Islands and the British Virgin Islands.Puerto Rico comprises an...

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

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

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

    , respiratory disease
    Respiratory disease
    Respiratory disease is a medical term that encompasses pathological conditions affecting the organs and tissues that make gas exchange possible in higher organisms, and includes conditions of the upper respiratory tract, trachea, bronchi, bronchioles, alveoli, pleura and pleural cavity, and the...

    . http://rbeansrblades.blogspot.com/2009/06/paquito-cordero-puertorrican-tv-pioneer.html
  • Robert DePugh
    Robert DePugh
    Robert Boliver "Bob" DePugh was an American anti-Communist activist who founded the Minutemen militant anti-Communist organization in 1961.-Life and career:...

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

     anti-Communist
    Communism
    Communism is a social, political and economic ideology that aims at the establishment of a classless, moneyless, revolutionary and stateless socialist society structured upon common ownership of the means of production...

     activist. http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/kansascity/obituary.aspx?n=robert-boliver-depugh-bob&pid=129241504
  • Liam Fairhurst
    Liam Fairhurst
    Liam Fairhurst was a British charity fundraiser who had been diagnosed with synovial sarcoma. He was diagnosed with the disease in his leg in 2005, and large portions of his leg muscles had to be removed. The cancer eventually spread to his lungs...

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

     fundraiser
    Fundraiser
    A fundraiser is an event or campaign whose primary purpose is to raise money for a cause. See also: fundraising. A fundraiser can also be an individual or company whose primary job is to raise money for a specific charity or non-profit organization...

    , synovial sarcoma
    Synovial sarcoma
    A synovial sarcoma is a rare form of cancer which usually occurs near to the joints of the arm, neck or leg. It is one of the soft tissue sarcomas....

    . http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-stories/2009/07/02/pride-of-britain-liam-loses-cancer-battle-115875-21487989/
  • James F. McNulty, Jr.
    James F. McNulty, Jr.
    James Francis McNulty, Jr. was a one-term congressman and U.S. politician hailing from the Democratic party....

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

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

    , 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...

     from Arizona
    Arizona
    Arizona ; is a state located in the southwestern region of the United States. It is also part of the western United States and the mountain west. The capital and largest city is Phoenix...

     (1983–1985), Parkinson's disease
    Parkinson's disease
    Parkinson's disease is a degenerative disorder of the central nervous system...

    . http://www.azstarnet.com/metro/299272.php
  • Jan Molander
    Jan Molander
    Jan Göran Gustaf Harald Molander was a Swedish actor and film director who had a decades-long dominant career in his country's film and television industry....

    , 89, 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....

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

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

    . http://hd.se/familj/2009/07/05/skaadespelare-och-regissoer/ (Swedish)
  • Luis Oliva
    Luis Oliva
    Luis Oliva was an Argentine athlete who competed in two Olympic Games in 1932 and 1936. He was born in Córdoba, Argentina and was discovered while fulfilling military service in Argentina...

    , 101, 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...

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

     athlete. http://www.lavoz.com.ar/nota.asp?nota_id=529839 (Spanish)
  • Harve Presnell
    Harve Presnell
    Harve Presnell was an American actor and singer. He began his career in the mid 1950s as a classical baritone, singing with orchestras and opera companies throughout the United States...

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

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

     (Fargo
    Fargo (film)
    Fargo is a 1996 American dark comedy-crime film produced, directed and written by brothers Joel and Ethan Coen. It stars Frances McDormand as a pregnant police chief who investigates a series of homicides, William H...

    , Paint Your Wagon
    Paint Your Wagon (film)
    Paint Your Wagon is a 1969 American musical film starring Lee Marvin and Clint Eastwood. The movie was adapted by Paddy Chayefsky from the 1951 stage musical by Lerner and Loewe, set in a mining camp in Gold Rush-era California.-Plot:...

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

    . http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07/02/AR2009070203698.html
  • Shi Pei Pu
    Shi Pei Pu
    Shi Pei Pu was a Chinese opera singer from Beijing. He became a spy who obtained secrets during a 20-year long sexual affair in which he convinced an employee in the French Embassy that he was a woman, later producing a child that he insisted had been born through their relations. The story made...

    , 70, Chinese
    China
    Chinese civilization may refer to:* China for more general discussion of the country.* Chinese culture* Greater China, the transnational community of ethnic Chinese.* History of China* Sinosphere, the area historically affected by Chinese culture...

     opera singer, gender-bending spy
    SPY
    SPY is a three-letter acronym that may refer to:* SPY , ticker symbol for Standard & Poor's Depositary Receipts* SPY , a satirical monthly, trademarked all-caps* SPY , airport code for San Pédro, Côte d'Ivoire...

     who was basis for M. Butterfly
    M. Butterfly
    M. Butterfly is a 1988 play by David Henry Hwang loosely based on the relationship between French diplomat Bernard Boursicot and Shi Pei Pu, a male Peking opera singer....

    . http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/02/world/asia/02shi.html

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  • Dave Batters
    Dave Batters
    David Batters was a Canadian politician.Born in Estevan, Saskatchewan, Batters was a member of the Conservative Party of Canada in the Canadian House of Commons, representing the riding of Palliser from 2004 to 2008...

    , 39, 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...

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

    , MP
    Canadian House of Commons
    The House of Commons of Canada is a component of the Parliament of Canada, along with the Sovereign and the Senate. The House of Commons is a democratically elected body, consisting of 308 members known as Members of Parliament...

     for Palliser
    Palliser (Saskatchewan electoral district)
    Palliser is a federal electoral district in Saskatchewan, Canada, that has been represented in the Canadian House of Commons since 1997.It is named in honour of John Palliser, a geographer and explorer of the Canadian west.-Geography:...

     (2004–2008), 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.cbc.ca/canada/saskatchewan/story/2009/06/30/batters-dave.html
  • Joe Bowman
    Joe Bowman (marksman)
    Joe Bowman, born Joseph Lee Bowman , was a Houston bootmaker and marksman called "The Straight Shooter", considered to have been a guardian of Texas and western frontier culture. Shortly after his death, Bowman was inducted posthumously into the Texas Heroes Hall of Honor at the Frontier Times...

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

     bootmaker and sharpshooter, heart attack. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/06/us/06bowman.html
  • Mohammad Hoqouqi
    Mohammad Hoqouqi
    Mohammad Hoqouqi was an Iranian poet and critic. Of the more than 30 books he has published one of them Modern Poetry, from Beginning until Today is considered one of the leading encyclopedic sources on modern Iranian poetry....

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

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

    , cirrhosis
    Cirrhosis
    Cirrhosis is a consequence of chronic liver disease characterized by replacement of liver tissue by fibrosis, scar tissue and regenerative nodules , leading to loss of liver function...

    . http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=99422§ionid=351020105
  • Pauline Picard
    Pauline Picard
    Pauline Picard was a Quebec politician. She was the Bloc Québécois Member of Parliament for the riding of Drummond from 1993 to 2008....

    , 62, 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...

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

    , MP
    Canadian House of Commons
    The House of Commons of Canada is a component of the Parliament of Canada, along with the Sovereign and the Senate. The House of Commons is a democratically elected body, consisting of 308 members known as Members of Parliament...

     for Drummond
    Drummond (electoral district)
    Drummond is a federal electoral district in Quebec, Canada, that has been represented in the Canadian House of Commons since 1968.It was created in 1966 from Drummond—Arthabaska, Nicolet—Yamaska and Richmond—Wolfe.-Geography:...

     (1993–2008), 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.radio-canada.ca/regions/mauricie/2009/06/30/001-pauline-picard-deces.shtml (French)
  • Jan Rubes
    Jan Rubes
    Jan Ladislav Rubeš CM was a Czech-Canadian bass opera singer and actor.-Life and career:Rubeš was born in Volyně, Czechoslovakia, the son of Ružena and Jan Rubeš. Not too long after World War II, he graduated from the Prague Conservatoire and joined the Prague Opera House as a bass singer...

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

    -born 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...

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

     (Witness
    Witness (1985 film)
    Witness is a 1985 American thriller film directed by Peter Weir and starring Harrison Ford and Kelly McGillis. The screenplay by William Kelley, Pamela Wallace, and Earl W...

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

    . http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/jan-rubes-brought-a-wide-range-of-talents-to-stage-screen-and-radio/article1202851/
  • Sandra Warfield
    Sandra Warfield
    Sandra Warfield was an American operatic mezzo-soprano who performed with New York City's Metropolitan Opera from the 1950s through the 1970s....

    , 88, American operatic mezzo-soprano
    Mezzo-soprano
    A mezzo-soprano is a type of classical female singing voice whose range lies between the soprano and the contralto singing voices, usually extending from the A below middle C to the A two octaves above...

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

    , http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=39085714

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  • Terry Black
    Terry Black
    Terry Black was a Canadian pop singer and teen idol, born in Vancouver, British Columbia.-Career:Black's debut U.S. single, "Unless You Care", was released in 1964, when Black was 15. The song was written and produced by P.F. Sloan and Steve Barri and featured backing from Glen Campbell and Leon...

    , 62, 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...

     singer, multiple sclerosis
    Multiple sclerosis
    Multiple sclerosis is an inflammatory disease in which the fatty myelin sheaths around the axons of the brain and spinal cord are damaged, leading to demyelination and scarring as well as a broad spectrum of signs and symptoms...

    . http://www.bclocalnews.com/bc_thompson_nicola/kamloopsthisweek/entertainment/49456972.html
  • Joseph Crowdy
    Joseph Crowdy
    Major-General Joseph Porter Crowdy, CB, FRIPH was a British soldier and military doctor, and Commandant of the Royal Army Medical Corps.-Background and education:The son of Lt-Col. Charles R...

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

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

    , Commandant of the Royal Army Medical Corps
    Royal Army Medical Corps
    The Royal Army Medical Corps is a specialist corps in the British Army which provides medical services to all British Army personnel and their families in war and in peace...

    . http://announcements.telegraph.co.uk/deaths/29-Jun-2009/03-Jul-2009/all/12/announcement100946.aspx
  • Josep Maria Guix Ferreres
    Josep Maria Guix Ferreres
    Josep Maria Guix Ferreres was a Catalan, Roman Catholic Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Vic.Guix Ferreres was ordained on May 31, 1952, to the Roman Catholic priesthood, for the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Barcelona...

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

     Roman Catholic
    Roman Catholic Church
    The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the world's largest Christian church, with over a billion members. Led by the Pope, it defines its mission as spreading the gospel of Jesus Christ, administering the sacraments and exercising charity...

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

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

     of Vic (1983–2003). http://www.elmundo.es/elmundo/2009/06/28/barcelona/1246206963.html (Spanish)
  • Rita Keane
    Rita Keane
    Rita Keane was an Irish traditional singer and accordionist. She was a member a well-known Irish musical family, and had a lifelong musical partnership with her older sister, Sarah...

    , 86, 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,...

     traditional singer
    Traditional singer
    A Traditional singer is someone who has learned folk songs in their original context - for example while sailing a ship or working on a farm. Until modern inventions such as the phonograph radio and cinema became common, this was the only way for ordinary people to learn songs.By the time of the...

    . http://www.rte.ie/arts/2009/0629/keaner.html
  • A. K. Lohithadas, 54, India
    India
    India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...

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

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

    , 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://sify.com/movies/malayalam/fullstory.php?id=14896729
  • Billy Mays
    Billy Mays
    William Darrell "Billy" Mays, Jr. was an American television direct-response advertisement salesperson most notable for promoting OxiClean, Orange Glo, and other cleaning, home-based, and maintenance products on the Home Shopping Network, and through his company, Mays Promotions, Inc...

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

     pitchman and television host (Pitchmen
    PitchMen
    PitchMen is a docudrama television program produced for the Discovery Channel in the United States. The show followed infomercial producers and talent Billy Mays and Anthony "Sully" Sullivan as they attempted to sell various inventions through direct-response marketing. The series was narrated by...

    ), hypertensive heart disease
    Hypertensive heart disease
    Hypertensive heart disease is any of a number of complications of arterial hypertension that affects the heart.-Symptoms:* Fatigue* Cardiomegaly* Irregular pulse* Swelling of feet* Weight gain* Nausea* Shortness of breath...

    . http://www.cnn.com/2009/SHOWBIZ/TV/06/29/mays.death/index.html.
  • Jeff Swanagan
    Jeff Swanagan
    Jeffery Scott Swanagan was an American director of several major aquariums and zoos in the United States, including the Florida Aquarium, Zoo Atlanta, the Georgia Aquarium and the Columbus Zoo...

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

     founding executive director
    Executive director
    Executive director is a term sometimes applied to the chief executive officer or managing director of an organization, company, or corporation. It is widely used in North American non-profit organizations, though in recent decades many U.S. nonprofits have adopted the title "President/CEO"...

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

     of the Georgia Aquarium
    Georgia Aquarium
    The Georgia Aquarium, located in Atlanta, Georgia, United States, at Pemberton Place, is the world's largest aquarium with more than of marine and fresh water housing more than 120,000 animals of 500 different species...

    , heart attack. http://www.ajc.com/gwinnett/content/metro/atlanta/stories/2009/06/29/swanagan_aquarium.html
  • Fred Travalena
    Fred Travalena
    Frederick Albert "Fred" Travalena III was an American entertainer, specializing in comedy and impersonations.-Early life:...

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

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

     and impressionist
    Impressionist (entertainment)
    An impressionist or a mimic is a performer whose act consists of imitating the voice and mannerisms of others. The word usually refers to a professional comedian/entertainer who specializes in such performances and has developed a wide repertoire of impressions, including adding to them, often to...

    , non-Hodgkin lymphoma
    Non-Hodgkin lymphoma
    The non-Hodgkin lymphomas are a diverse group of blood cancers that include any kind of lymphoma except Hodgkin's lymphomas. Types of NHL vary significantly in their severity, from indolent to very aggressive....

    . http://www.cnn.com/2009/SHOWBIZ/TV/06/29/fred.travalena.dies/index.html
  • Lucia Lauria Vigna, 113, Italian
    Italy
    Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...

     supercentenarian
    Supercentenarian
    A supercentenarian is someone who has reached the age of 110 years. This age is achieved by about one in a thousand centenarians....

    , oldest person in Europe. http://www.lefigaro.fr/flash-actu/2009/06/28/01011-20090628FILWWW00102-mort-de-la-doyenne-d-europe.php (French)
  • Tom Wilkes
    Tom Wilkes
    Thomas Edward "Tom" Wilkes was an American art director, designer, photographer, illustrator, writer and producer-director....

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

     graphic designer
    Graphic designer
    A graphic designer is a professional within the graphic design and graphic arts industry who assembles together images, typography or motion graphics to create a piece of design. A graphic designer creates the graphics primarily for published, printed or electronic media, such as brochures and...

    . http://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/tom-wilkes-graphic-designer-responsible-for-many-celebrated-album-covers-1746132.html
  • Yu Hyun-mok
    Yu Hyun-mok
    Yu Hyun-mok was a South Korean film director. Born in Sariwon, North Hwanghae, Korea , he made his film debut in 1956 with Gyocharo...

    , 83, South Korea
    South Korea
    The Republic of Korea , , is a sovereign state in East Asia, located on the southern portion of the Korean Peninsula. It is neighbored by the People's Republic of China to the west, Japan to the east, North Korea to the north, and the East China Sea and Republic of China to the south...

    n 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:...

    , cerebral infarction
    Cerebral infarction
    A cerebral infarction is the ischemic kind of stroke due to a disturbance in the blood vessels supplying blood to the brain. It can be atherothrombotic or embolic. Stroke caused by cerebral infarction should be distinguished from two other kinds of stroke: cerebral hemorrhage and subarachnoid...

    . http://www.koreaherald.co.kr/NEWKHSITE/data/html_dir/2009/06/29/200906290059.asp

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  • Ernst Barkmann
    Ernst Barkmann
    Ernst Barkmann was a German Waffen-SS soldier and panzer ace. Barkmann fought and rose to fame during World War II for his actions in command of Panther tanks.-Early life:...

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

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

     Waffen-SS
    Waffen-SS
    The Waffen-SS was a multi-ethnic and multi-national military force of the Third Reich. It constituted the armed wing of the Schutzstaffel or SS, an organ of the Nazi Party. The Waffen-SS saw action throughout World War II and grew from three regiments to over 38 divisions, and served alongside...

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

     and panzer ace
    Panzer
    A Panzer is a German language word that, when used as a noun, means "tank". When it is used as an adjective, it means either tank or "armoured" .- Etymology :...

    . http://saladeguerra.blogspot.com/2009/07/nota-de-falecimento-ernst-barkmann.html (Portuguese)
  • Frank Barlow
    Frank Barlow (historian)
    Frank Barlow CBE FBA FRSL was a British historian, known particularly for biographies of medieval figures.Barlow studied at St John's College, Oxford. He was Professor of History at the University of Exeter from 1953 until he retired in 1976 and became Emeritus Professor...

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

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

    . http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/jul/23/frank-barlow-obituary
  • Victoriano Crémer
    Victoriano Crémer
    Victoriano Crémer was a Spanish poet, journalist and "official chronicler of the city of León, Spain." The Latin American Herald Tribune described Cremer as Spain's "longest lived poet" in 2009....

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

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

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

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

    . http://www.laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=338057&CategoryId=13003
  • Mary Lou Forbes
    Mary Lou Forbes
    Mary Lou "Ludie" Forbes was an American journalist and commentator who spent six decades at the Washington Evening Star and The Washington Times, serving as the commentary editor of the Times until weeks before her death...

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

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

    , Pulitzer Prize
    1959 Pulitzer Prize
    -Journalism awards:*Public Service:** The Utica Observer-Dispatch and the Utica Daily Press, for their successful campaign against corruption, gambling and vice in their home city and the achievement of sweeping civic reforms in the face of political pressure and threats of violence...

     winner (1959), breast cancer
    Breast cancer
    Breast cancer is cancer originating from breast tissue, most commonly from the inner lining of milk ducts or the lobules that supply the ducts with milk. Cancers originating from ducts are known as ductal carcinomas; those originating from lobules are known as lobular carcinomas...

    . http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/06/29/AR2009062903838.html
  • Willy Kyrklund
    Willy Kyrklund
    Paul Wilhelm "Willy" Kyrklund was a Finnish Swedish-speaking author who lived in Uppsala, Sweden....

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

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

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

    . http://www.svd.se/kulturnoje/nyheter/artikel_3129773.svd (Swedish)
  • Nanae Nagata, 53, Japan
    Japan
    Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...

    ese marathon
    Marathon
    The marathon is a long-distance running event with an official distance of 42.195 kilometres , that is usually run as a road race...

     runner, colorectal cancer
    Colorectal cancer
    Colorectal cancer, commonly known as bowel cancer, is a cancer caused by uncontrolled cell growth , in the colon, rectum, or vermiform appendix. Colorectal cancer is clinically distinct from anal cancer, which affects the anus....

    . http://www.japantoday.com/category/sports/view/olympic-marathon-runner-nagata-dies-at-53
  • Fayette Pinkney
    Fayette Pinkney
    Fayette Regina Pinkney was an American singer and one of the original members of musical group The Three Degrees.-Early life and career:...

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

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

     (The Three Degrees
    The Three Degrees
    The Three Degrees are an American female vocal group. Formed in 1963 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,, the group has always been a trio though there have been a number of personnel changes and a total of fourteen women have represented the group so far. The original members were Fayette Pinkney,...

    ), respiratory failure
    Respiratory failure
    The term respiratory failure, in medicine, is used to describe inadequate gas exchange by the respiratory system, with the result that arterial oxygen and/or carbon dioxide levels cannot be maintained within their normal ranges. A drop in blood oxygenation is known as hypoxemia; a rise in arterial...

    . http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2009/jul/07/obituary-fayette-pinkney
  • Gale Storm
    Gale Storm
    Gale Storm was an American actress and singer who starred in two popular television programs of the 1950s, My Little Margie and The Gale Storm Show.-Early life:...

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

     actress (My Little Margie
    My Little Margie
    My Little Margie is an American situation comedy that alternated between CBS and NBC from 1952 to 1955. The series was created by Frank Fox and produced in Los Angeles, California at Hal Roach Studios by Hal Roach, Jr. and Roland D...

    , The Gale Storm Show
    The Gale Storm Show
    The Gale Storm Show is an American sitcom starring Gale Storm. The series premiered on September 29, 1956, and ran until 1960 for 143 half-hour black-and-white episodes, initially on CBS and in its last year on ABC...

    ). http://www.victoriaadvocate.com/news/2009/jun/28/bc-ca-obit-storm1st-ld-writethru/?entertainment&national-entertainment
  • Jackie Washington
    Jackie Washington
    Jackie Washington was a Canadian blues musician.Born and raised in Hamilton, Ontario, Washington became Canada's first black disk jockey in 1948, at CHML in Hamilton....

    , 89, 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...

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

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

    , complications from a heart attack. http://www.cbc.ca/canada/toronto/story/2009/06/30/jackie-washington.html

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  • Jo Amar, 79, Moroccan
    Morocco
    Morocco , officially the Kingdom of Morocco , is a country located in North Africa. It has a population of more than 32 million and an area of 710,850 km², and also primarily administers the disputed region of the Western Sahara...

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

    i singer. http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/Flash.aspx/167090
  • Bernard Ganley
    Bernard Ganley
    William Bernard "The Maestro" Ganley was an English professional rugby league footballer of the 1950s and '60s who at representative level played for Great Britain, and Lancashire, and at club level for Oldham, playing at , i.e...

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

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

     player. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/bernard-ganley-recordbreaking-rugby-league-player-for-oldham-and-great-britain-1741948.html
  • Amnon Kapeliouk
    Amnon Kapeliouk
    Amnon Kapeliouk was a Jewish French-Israeli journalist and author who interviewed Yassar Arafat and reported from the occupied territories...

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

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

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

    . http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1096037.html

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  • Don Coldsmith
    Don Coldsmith
    Don Coldsmith was an American author of primarily Western fiction. A past president of Western Writers of America, Coldsmith wrote more than 40 books, as well as hundreds of newspaper and magazine articles...

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

     western
    Western (genre)
    The Western is a genre of various visual arts, such as film, television, radio, literature, painting and others. Westerns are devoted to telling stories set primarily in the latter half of the 19th century in the American Old West, hence the name. Some Westerns are set as early as the Battle of...

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

    , 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.kansascity.com/news/breaking_news/story/1283807.html/
  • George Ernest
    George Ernest
    George Ernest was an American actor. He appeared in over 60 films between 1930 and 1942.Born George Ruud Hjorth to a Norwegian mother and Danish father, the family moved to California when George was two and a half years old...

    , 87, American film actor. http://www.allmovie.com/artist/george-ernest-22034
  • Farrah Fawcett
    Farrah Fawcett
    Farrah Fawcett was an American actress and artist. A multiple Golden Globe and Emmy Award nominee, Fawcett rose to international fame when she first appeared as private investigator Jill Munroe in the first season of the television series Charlie's Angels, in 1976...

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

     actress (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...

    ), anal cancer
    Anal cancer
    Anal cancer is a type of cancer which arises from the anus, the distal orifice of the gastrointestinal tract. It is a distinct entity from the more common colorectal cancer. The etiology, risk factors, clinical progression, staging, and treatment are all different. Anal cancer is typically a...

    . http://www.cnn.com/2009/SHOWBIZ/TV/06/25/obit.fawcett/index.html
  • Morton Gottlieb
    Morton Gottlieb
    Morton Edgar Gottlieb was an American producer of Broadway theatre whose play Sleuth won the Tony Award for Best Play in 1971, in addition to three of his other plays that were nominated for the same award....

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

     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...

     theatre producer, 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 (1971), natural causes
    Death by natural causes
    A death by natural causes, as recorded by coroners and on death certificates and associated documents, is one that is primarily attributed to natural agents: usually an illness or an internal malfunction of the body. For example, a person dying from complications from influenza or a heart attack ...

    . http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/27/arts/27gottlieb.html
  • James Baker Hall
    James Baker Hall
    James Baker Hall was an American poet, novelist, photographer and teacher.- Biography :James Baker Hall was born in Lexington, Kentucky in 1935. He was raised in a southern family of means and social standing, only to have a family scandal turn tragic when he was eight years old...

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

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

     and academic, Kentucky
    Kentucky
    The Commonwealth of Kentucky is a state located in the East Central United States of America. As classified by the United States Census Bureau, Kentucky is a Southern state, more specifically in the East South Central region. Kentucky is one of four U.S. states constituted as a commonwealth...

     Poet Laureate
    Poet Laureate
    A poet laureate is a poet officially appointed by a government and is often expected to compose poems for state occasions and other government events...

     (2001–2003), natural causes
    Death by natural causes
    A death by natural causes, as recorded by coroners and on death certificates and associated documents, is one that is primarily attributed to natural agents: usually an illness or an internal malfunction of the body. For example, a person dying from complications from influenza or a heart attack ...

    . http://www.kentucky.com/471/story/844051.html
  • Michael Jackson
    Michael Jackson
    Michael Joseph Jackson was an American recording artist, entertainer, and businessman. Referred to as the King of Pop, or by his initials MJ, Jackson is recognized as the most successful entertainer of all time by Guinness World Records...

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

     pop
    Pop music
    Pop music is usually understood to be commercially recorded music, often oriented toward a youth market, usually consisting of relatively short, simple songs utilizing technological innovations to produce new variations on existing themes.- Definitions :David Hatch and Stephen Millward define pop...

     singer–songwriter
    Singer–songwriter
    Singer-songwriters are musicians who write, compose and sing their own musical material including lyrics and melodies. As opposed to contemporary popular music singers who write their own songs, the term singer-songwriter describes a distinct form of artistry, closely associated with the...

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

     (Moonwalker
    Moonwalker
    Moonwalker, also known as Michael Jackson: Moonwalker, is an American anthology film released in 1988 by singer Michael Jackson....

    , Ghosts, The Wiz
    The Wiz (film)
    The Wiz is a 1978 musical film produced by Motown Productions and Universal Pictures, and released by Universal on October 24, 1978. An urbanized retelling of L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz featuring an entirely African-American cast, The Wiz was adapted from the 1975 Broadway musical...

    ), acute propofol
    Propofol
    Propofol is a short-acting, intravenously administered hypnotic agent. Its uses include the induction and maintenance of general anesthesia, sedation for mechanically ventilated adults, and procedural sedation. Propofol is also commonly used in veterinary medicine...

     intoxication
    Drug overdose
    The term drug overdose describes the ingestion or application of a drug or other substance in quantities greater than are recommended or generally practiced...

    . http://www.cnn.com/2009/SHOWBIZ/Music/08/28/jackson.autopsy/index.html
  • Clifton Johnson
    Clifton Johnson
    Clifton E. Johnson was an American jurist who served on the North Carolina Court of Appeals from 1982 through 1996....

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

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

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

     Superior Court
    Superior court
    In common law systems, a superior court is a court of general competence which typically has unlimited jurisdiction with regard to civil and criminal legal cases...

     (1978–1982) and Court of Appeals
    North Carolina Court of Appeals
    The North Carolina Court of Appeals is the only intermediate appellate court in the state of North Carolina. It is composed of fifteen members who sit in rotating groups of three...

     (1982–1996). http://www.thecharlottepost.com/index.php?src=news&srctype=detail&category=News&refno=1798
  • Brian Jones
    Brian Jones (poet)
    Brian Jones was a British poet.Jones' first major collection, Poems , was published in 1966, and proved to be successful...

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

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

    . http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/aug/23/brian-jones-obituary
  • Sylvia Levin
    Sylvia Levin
    Sylvia Levin was an American civic and voter registration activist, who registered more than 47,000 California voters over a span of 36 years from 1973 until 2009...

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

     civic and voter registration activist
    Civics
    Civics is the study of rights and duties of citizenship. In other words, it is the study of government with attention to the role of citizens ― as opposed to external factors ― in the operation and oversight of government....

    , registered 47,000 new voters, stroke
    Stroke
    A stroke, previously known medically as a cerebrovascular accident , is the rapidly developing loss of brain function due to disturbance in the blood supply to the brain. This can be due to ischemia caused by blockage , or a hemorrhage...

    . http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-sylvia-levin28-2009jun28,0,1025723.story
  • Shiv Charan Mathur
    Shiv Charan Mathur
    Shiv Charan Mathur was an Indian politician. A leader of the Indian National Congress, he was Chief Minister of Rajasthan from 1981 to 1985 and again from 1988 to 1989; later, he was Governor of Assam from 2008 to 2009....

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

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

    , Governor of Assam since 2008, Chief Minister of Rajasthan (1988–1989), cardiac arrest
    Cardiac arrest
    Cardiac arrest, is the cessation of normal circulation of the blood due to failure of the heart to contract effectively...

    . http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/holnus/000200906252221.htm
  • Mian Tufail Mohammad
    Mian Tufail Mohammad
    -Early life and education:Mian Tufail Mohammad was born in Kapurthala, Punjab State, India in an Arain family. He received his B.A. in Physics and Mathematics from Government College, Lahore, with distinction in 1935 and completed his LL.B. in 1937 from the University Law College, Lahore,...

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

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

    , cerebral hemorrhage. http://www.geo.tv/6-25-2009/44850.htm
  • Bela Mukhopadhyay
    Bela Mukhopadhyay
    Bela Mukhopadhyay was an Indian singer and widow of composer Hemanta Mukherjee.Mukhopadhyay died in a private hospital in south Kolkatta on June 25, 2009, at the age of 89. She had been admitted to the hospital on June 15, 2009...

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

    n singer, widow
    Widow
    A widow is a woman whose spouse has died, while a widower is a man whose spouse has died. The state of having lost one's spouse to death is termed widowhood or occasionally viduity. The adjective form is widowed...

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

    . http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Cities/Kolkata-/Fast-to-oppose-Sourav-school-/articleshow/4703739.cms
  • Kaleem Omar
    Kaleem Omar
    Kaleem Omar was a Pakistani journalist, and an English language poet.-Life:He attended Sherwood College, Naini Tal.He was associated with the Jang Group's daily The News International, in Karachi for the past many years...

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

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

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

    , heart failure. http://www.dawn.com/wps/wcm/connect/dawn-content-library/dawn/news/pakistan/metropolitan/16-journalist-poet-kaleem-omar-dead-hs-09
  • Sky Saxon
    Sky Saxon
    Sky "Sunlight" Saxon was an American rock and roll musician who was best known as the leader and singer of the 1960s Los Angeles psychedelic garage rock band The Seeds.-Biography:...

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

     rock music
    Rock music
    Rock music is a genre of popular music that developed during and after the 1960s, particularly in the United Kingdom and the United States. It has its roots in 1940s and 1950s rock and roll, itself heavily influenced by rhythm and blues and country music...

    ian (The Seeds
    The Seeds
    The Seeds were an American rock band. The group, whose repertoire spread between garage rock and acid rock, are considered one of the pioneers of punk rock.-History:...

    ), heart failure. http://www.thechronicleherald.ca/NovaScotian/1129605.html
  • Hugh Scaife
    Hugh Scaife
    Hugh Scaife was a British set decorator. He was nominated for three Academy Awards in the category Best Art Direction.-Selected filmography:Scaife was nominated for three Academy Awards for Best Art Direction:...

    , 79, British set decorator
    Set decorator
    A set decorator is in charge of the set dressing on a film set, which includes the furnishings, wallpaper, lighting fixtures, and many of the other objects that will be seen in the film. Props and set dressing often overlap, but are provided by different departments...

    , http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0768728/
  • Anil Wilson
    Anil Wilson
    Anil Wilson was an Indian educationist who served as Principal of St. Stephen's College, Delhi from 1991 to 2007.Anil Wilson's father, M. M. Wilson, was a school Headmaster in Gorton Mission School Kotgarh, Shimla, Himachal Pradesh. Anil Wilson was educated by the Irish Christian Brothers at St...

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

    n educator, Principal of St. Stephen's College, Delhi
    St. Stephen's College, Delhi
    St. Stephen's College is a constituent college of the University of Delhi located in Delhi, India. The college admits both undergraduates and post-graduates, and awards degrees under the purview of the University. Famous for its rich history and many traditions, St...

     (1991–2007), pancreatic cancer
    Pancreatic cancer
    Pancreatic cancer refers to a malignant neoplasm of the pancreas. The most common type of pancreatic cancer, accounting for 95% of these tumors is adenocarcinoma, which arises within the exocrine component of the pancreas. A minority arises from the islet cells and is classified as a...

    . http://www.himachalpr.gov.in/pressreleaseEng.asp?id=3635
  • Yasmine
    Yasmine (singer)
    Hilde Rens , better known by her stage name Yasmine, was a Belgian singer, presenter and television personality.-Music:Rens became known as a singer during the 1980s...

    , 37, Belgian
    Belgium
    Belgium , officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a federal state in Western Europe. It is a founding member of the European Union and hosts the EU's headquarters, and those of several other major international organisations such as NATO.Belgium is also a member of, or affiliated to, many...

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

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

     by hanging. http://www.flanderstoday.eu/content/flemish-tv-personality-yasmine-takes-her-own-life

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  • Irv Homer
    Irv Homer
    Irving "Irv" Homer was an American radio talk show host and television personality, primarily in the Philadelphia, Pennsylvania market.-Biography:...

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

     talk show host
    Talk show
    A talk show or chat show is a television program or radio program where one person discuss various topics put forth by a talk show host....

    , 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://cbs3.com/local/Irv.Homer.Talk.2.1059011.html
  • Olja Ivanjicki
    Olja Ivanjicki
    Olja Ivanjicki was a well-known Serbian contemporary artist, in fields such as sculpture, poetry, costume design, architecture and writing, but was best known for her painting...

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

    . http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/274632,serbias-best-known-painter-olja-ivanjicki-dies.html
  • Tim Krekel
    Tim Krekel
    Tim Krekel was an American rock musician and country music songwriter from Louisville, Kentucky.- Early life :...

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

     guitarist
    Guitarist
    A guitarist is a musician who plays the guitar. Guitarists may play a variety of instruments such as classical guitars, acoustic guitars, electric guitars, and bass guitars. Some guitarists accompany themselves on the guitar while singing.- Versatility :The guitarist controls an extremely...

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

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

    . http://www.reuters.com/article/musicNews/idUSTRE55O4Q620090625
  • Robèrt Lafont
    Robèrt Lafont
    Robèrt Lafont was an Occitan intellectual from Provence. He was a linguist, an author, an historian, an expert in literature and a political theoretician. His name in French reads Robert Lafont....

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

     academic. http://www.ladepeche.fr/article/2009/06/25/629659-Disparition-Robert-Lafont-lo-grand-davancier.html (French)
  • Roméo LeBlanc
    Roméo LeBlanc
    Roméo-Adrien LeBlanc was a Canadian journalist, politician, and statesman who served as Governor General of Canada, the 25th since Canadian Confederation....

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

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

     (1973–1994), Governor General
    Governor General of Canada
    The Governor General of Canada is the federal viceregal representative of the Canadian monarch, Queen Elizabeth II...

     (1995–1999), 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.cbc.ca/canada/new-brunswick/story/2009/06/24/nb-romeo-leblanc-obit-123.html
  • Robert B. Pamplin
    Robert B. Pamplin
    Robert Boisseau Pamplin was an American businessman and later philanthropist. A native of Virginia, he rose through the ranks of Georgia-Pacific where he later served as president and chairman of the board...

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

     executive, President of Georgia-Pacific
    Georgia-Pacific
    Georgia-Pacific LLC is an American pulp and paper company based in Atlanta, Georgia, and is one of the world's leading manufacturers and distributors of tissue, pulp, paper, packaging, building products and related chemicals. As of Fall 2010, the company employed more than 40,000 people at more...

     (1957–1976). http://www.oregonlive.com/business/index.ssf/2009/06/pamplin_sr_former_georgiapacif.html
  • Ed Thomas
    Ed Thomas
    Ed Thomas was the high school football coach for Aplington-Parkersburg High School in Parkersburg, Iowa. On June 24, 2009, Thomas was shot and killed in the football team's weight room. Ed Thomas's killer is Mark Becker, a 2004 Aplington-Parkersburg graduate and one of Thomas' former players...

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

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

     coach
    Coach (sport)
    In sports, a coach is an individual involved in the direction, instruction and training of the operations of a sports team or of individual sportspeople.-Staff:...

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

     High School Football Coach of the Year (2005), shot
    Ballistic trauma
    The term ballistic trauma refers to a form of physical trauma sustained from the discharge of arms or munitions. The most common forms of ballistic trauma stem from firearms used in armed conflicts, civilian sporting and recreational pursuits, and criminal activity.-Destructive effects:The degree...

    . http://www.wcfcourier.com/articles/2009/06/24/news/local/doc4a422b5643a1b304896512.txt
  • Steven Wells
    Steven Wells
    Steven Wells was a British journalist, author, comedian and notable punk poet born in Swindon, Wiltshire. He is best remembered for ranting poetry and his provocative, unapologetic music journalism. In June 2006, he wrote in the Philadelphia Weekly about his treatment for Hodgkin's lymphoma...

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

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

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

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

    . http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2009/jun/29/obituary-steven-wells

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  • Thurman Adams, Jr.
    Thurman Adams, Jr.
    Thurman G. Adams, Jr. was a Democratic member of the Delaware Senate, representing the 19th District.Adams was born in 1928 in Bridgeville, Delaware. He was elected to the Delaware Senate in 1972 and served as the President Pro Tempore of the State Senate from 2003 until his death...

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

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

    , member of the Delaware Senate
    Delaware Senate
    The Delaware Senate is the upper house of the Delaware General Assembly, the state legislature of the U.S. State of Delaware. It is composed of 21 Senators, each of whom is elected to a four-year term, except when reapportionment occurs, at which time Senators may be elected to a two-year term....

     since 1972, pancreatic cancer
    Pancreatic cancer
    Pancreatic cancer refers to a malignant neoplasm of the pancreas. The most common type of pancreatic cancer, accounting for 95% of these tumors is adenocarcinoma, which arises within the exocrine component of the pancreas. A minority arises from the islet cells and is classified as a...

    . http://www.delawareonline.com/article/20090623/NEWS/90623016
  • Raymond Berthiaume
    Raymond Berthiaume
    Raymond Berthiaume was a jazz singer, musician, producer and composer from Québec, Canada.-Biography:...

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

     jazz musician, singer and record producer
    Record producer
    A record producer is an individual working within the music industry, whose job is to oversee and manage the recording of an artist's music...

    , 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.radio-canada.ca/arts-spectacles/musique/2009/06/23/001-raymond-berthiaume-deces.asp (French)
  • Phyllis Busansky
    Phyllis Busansky
    Phyllis Busansky was the Democratic Commissioner of Hillsborough County, Florida from 1989 to 1997. In 1995 she was named a "Public Official of the Year" by Governing magazine, She ran in Florida's 9th congressional district election, 2006, unsuccessfully...

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

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

    , county commission
    County commission
    A county commission is a group of elected officials charged with administering the county government in local government in some states of the United States. County commissions are usually made up of three or more individuals...

    er and supervisor of elections (Hillsborough County, Florida
    Hillsborough County, Florida
    As of the census of 2000, there were 998,948 people, 391,357 households, and 255,164 families residing in the county. The population density was 951 people per square mile . There were 425,962 housing units at an average density of 405 per square mile...

    ). http://www.abcactionnews.com/news/local/story/Phyllis-Busansky-found-dead-in-St-Augustine/XDO3DoVq3UmwxbDV0Un6mA.cspx
  • John Callaway
    John Callaway (journalist)
    John Callaway was an American journalist, who appeared on radio and television as a host, interviewer and moderator...

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

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

     (Chicago Tonight
    Chicago Tonight
    Chicago Tonight is an evening television news program broadcast weeknights on WTTW in Chicago. Chicago Tonight reports primarily on local news and presents features showcasing local artists and events. The show started in 1984 and for 15 years popular Chicago broadcast journalist John Callaway...

    ), 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.wttw.com/main.taf?p=42,8,70
  • Harold H. Carstens
    Harold H. Carstens
    Harold H. Carstens was president of Carstens Publications, publisher of Railfan & Railroad and Railroad Model Craftsman magazines. While attending Fairleigh Dickinson University at night, Carstens joined the staff of Railroad Model Craftsman in 1952...

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

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

     publisher. http://model-railroad-hobbyist.com/node/1264
  • Gegham Ghandilyan
    Gegham Ghandilyan
    Gegham Ghandilyan was a popular Armenian television actor. He died as a result of a car accident on the Ejmiatsin-Armavir highway in Armenia. He was 35. He was not married...

    , 35, Armenia
    Armenia
    Armenia , officially the Republic of Armenia , is a landlocked mountainous country in the Caucasus region of Eurasia...

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

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

    . http://armenianow.com/?action=viewArticle&AID=3844&CID=3676&IID=1240&lng=eng
  • İsmet Güney
    Ismet Güney
    İsmet Vehit Güney , was a Cypriot artist, cartoonist, teacher and painter. He is best known as the designer of the modern flag of the Republic of Cyprus, the country's coat of arms and the original Cyprus lira in 1960...

    , 77, Cypriot
    Cyprus
    Cyprus , officially the Republic of Cyprus , is a Eurasian island country, member of the European Union, in the Eastern Mediterranean, east of Greece, south of Turkey, west of Syria and north of Egypt. It is the third largest island in the Mediterranean Sea.The earliest known human activity on the...

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

     and cartoonist
    Cartoonist
    A cartoonist is a person who specializes in drawing cartoons. This work is usually humorous, mainly created for entertainment, political commentary or advertising...

    , designed flag
    Flag of Cyprus
    The flag of Cyprus came into use on August 16, 1960, under the Zürich and London Agreements, whereby a constitution was drafted and Cyprus was proclaimed an independent state. The flag was designed by Turkish Cypriot art teacher İsmet Güney....

     of the Republic of Cyprus, 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.cosmo.gr/News/Cyprus/242946.html (Greek)
  • Hanne Hiob
    Hanne Hiob
    -Life and career:Hiob was born as Hanne Marianne Brecht in Munich, the daughter of the writer Bertolt Brecht by his wife, opera singer and actress Marianne Zoff . In February 1928, Zoff had a daughter, Ursula Lingen, by German actor Theo Lingen. In September 1928, Brecht and Zoff divorced; Zoff...

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

     actress, daughter of poet and playwright Bertolt Brecht
    Bertolt Brecht
    Bertolt Brecht was a German poet, playwright, and theatre director.An influential theatre practitioner of the 20th century, Brecht made equally significant contributions to dramaturgy and theatrical production, the latter particularly through the seismic impact of the tours undertaken by the...

    . http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article6596932.ece
  • Johny Joseph
    Johny Joseph (news anchor)
    Johny Joseph was an Haitian academic, journalist and news anchor for Télévision Nationale d'Haiti from 1988 until 1990....

    , 45, Haiti
    Haiti
    Haiti , officially the Republic of Haiti , is a Caribbean country. It occupies the western, smaller portion of the island of Hispaniola, in the Greater Antillean archipelago, which it shares with the Dominican Republic. Ayiti was the indigenous Taíno or Amerindian name for the island...

    an news presenter
    News presenter
    A news presenter is a person who presents news during a news program in the format of a television show, on the radio or the Internet.News presenters can work in a radio studio, television studio and from remote broadcasts in the field especially weather...

     (Télévision Nationale d'Haiti
    Télévision Nationale d'Haiti
    Télévision Nationale d'Haïti is the state television broadcaster of Haiti. Founded December 23, 1979 under the Ministry of Information and Coordination, it was Haiti's second television station after Télé Haïti .In 1987, it was merged with the state-run Radio Nationale into a network called RTNH ...

    ), 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.haitipressnetwork.com/news.cfm?articleID=12061 (French)
  • Thomas M. King
    Thomas M. King
    Thomas Mulvihill King, S.J. was a professor of theology at Georgetown University. King entered the Society of Jesus in 1951 after completing undergraduate studies in English at the University of Pittsburgh...

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

     Roman Catholic
    Roman Catholic Church
    The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the world's largest Christian church, with over a billion members. Led by the Pope, it defines its mission as spreading the gospel of Jesus Christ, administering the sacraments and exercising charity...

     priest and theologian, expert on Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
    Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
    Pierre Teilhard de Chardin SJ was a French philosopher and Jesuit priest who trained as a paleontologist and geologist and took part in the discovery of both Piltdown Man and Peking Man. Teilhard conceived the idea of the Omega Point and developed Vladimir Vernadsky's concept of Noosphere...

    , 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://alumni.georgetown.edu/default.aspx?page=NewsEventsFatherKing20090624
  • Ed McMahon
    Ed McMahon
    Edward Peter "Ed" McMahon, Jr. was an American comedian, game show host and announcer. He is most famous for his work on television as Johnny Carson's sidekick and announcer on The Tonight Show from 1962 to 1992. He also hosted the original version of the talent show Star Search from 1983 to 1995...

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

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

     (Star Search
    Star Search
    Star Search is a television show that was produced from 1983-95, hosted by Ed McMahon, and created by Alfred Masini. A relaunch was produced in 2003-04. The show was originally filmed at the old Earl Carroll Theatre at 6230 Sunset Blvd...

    ) and announcer
    Announcer
    An announcer is a presenter who makes "announcements" in an audio medium or a physical location.-Television and other media:Some announcers work in television production , radio or filmmaking, usually providing narrations, news updates, station identification, or an introduction of a product in...

     (The Tonight Show
    The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
    The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson is a talk show hosted by Johnny Carson under the Tonight Show franchise from 1962 to 1992. It originally aired during late-night....

    ). http://www.cnn.com/2009/SHOWBIZ/TV/06/23/obit.mcmahon/index.html
  • Aram Miskaryan
    Aram Miskaryan
    Aram Miskaryan was an Armenian sportsman and President of the Armenian Tae Kwon Do Federation. Aram Miskaryan was also popular Armenian television actor. He died as a result of a car accident on the Ejmiatsin-Armavir highway in Armenia. He was 36. He was not married...

    , 36, Armenia
    Armenia
    Armenia , officially the Republic of Armenia , is a landlocked mountainous country in the Caucasus region of Eurasia...

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

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

    . http://armenianow.com/?action=viewArticle&AID=3844&CID=3676&IID=1240&lng=eng
  • Jerri Nielsen
    Jerri Nielsen
    Dr. Jerri Lin Nielsen was an American physician with extensive ER experience, who in 1998 was hired to spend a year at the Amundsen–Scott South Pole Station, as the station's only doctor....

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

     physician
    Physician
    A physician is a health care provider who practices the profession of medicine, which is concerned with promoting, maintaining or restoring human health through the study, diagnosis, and treatment of disease, injury and other physical and mental impairments...

    , treated herself for breast cancer
    Breast cancer
    Breast cancer is cancer originating from breast tissue, most commonly from the inner lining of milk ducts or the lobules that supply the ducts with milk. Cancers originating from ducts are known as ductal carcinomas; those originating from lobules are known as lobular carcinomas...

     on Antarctica in 1999, breast cancer
    Breast cancer
    Breast cancer is cancer originating from breast tissue, most commonly from the inner lining of milk ducts or the lobules that supply the ducts with milk. Cancers originating from ducts are known as ductal carcinomas; those originating from lobules are known as lobular carcinomas...

    . http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/06/23/obit.jerri.nielsen/index.html
  • Robin Plackett
    Robin Plackett
    Robin L. Plackett was a statistician best known for his contributions to the history of statistics and to experimental design, most notably the Plackett–Burman designs....

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

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

    . http://www.legacy.com/timesonline-uk/Obituaries.asp?Page=Notice&PersonID=128949562
  • Jackie Swindells
    Jackie Swindells
    Jack "Jackie" Swindells was an English professional footballer who played as an inside forward.-Career:Born in Manchester, Swindells played as an amateur for Manchester City, before turning professional with Blackburn Rovers in 1957...

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

     footballer. http://www.altrinchamfc.co.uk/alty1.htm

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  • Betty Allen
    Betty Allen
    Betty Allen was a renowned American operatic mezzo-soprano who had an active international singing career during the 1950s through the 1970s...

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

     opera
    Opera
    Opera is an art form in which singers and musicians perform a dramatic work combining text and musical score, usually in a theatrical setting. Opera incorporates many of the elements of spoken theatre, such as acting, scenery, and costumes and sometimes includes dance...

    tic mezzo-soprano
    Mezzo-soprano
    A mezzo-soprano is a type of classical female singing voice whose range lies between the soprano and the contralto singing voices, usually extending from the A below middle C to the A two octaves above...

    , kidney disease. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/25/arts/music/25allen.html?ref=obituaries
  • Bert Bank
    Bert Bank
    Bertram "Bert" Bank was an American politician, war hero and radio pioneer who was best known as the founder of the Alabama Football Radio Network...

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

     radio
    Radio
    Radio is the transmission of signals through free space by modulation of electromagnetic waves with frequencies below those of visible light. Electromagnetic radiation travels by means of oscillating electromagnetic fields that pass through the air and the vacuum of space...

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

    , Bataan Death March
    Bataan Death March
    The Bataan Death March was the forcible transfer, by the Imperial Japanese Army, of 75,000 American and Filipino prisoners of war after the three-month Battle of Bataan in the Philippines during World War II, which resulted in the deaths of thousands of prisoners.The march was characterized by...

     survivor. http://www.tuscaloosanews.com/article/20090623/NEWS/906199989/1007?Title=Bert-Bank-dies-at-94
  • Antonio Fernandes de Castro, 111, Portuguese
    Portugal
    Portugal , officially the Portuguese Republic is a country situated in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula. Portugal is the westernmost country of Europe, and is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the West and South and by Spain to the North and East. The Atlantic archipelagos of the...

     supercentenarian
    Supercentenarian
    A supercentenarian is someone who has reached the age of 110 years. This age is achieved by about one in a thousand centenarians....

    . http://www.grg.org/Adams/E.HTM
  • Alec Gallup
    Alec Gallup
    Alec Miller Gallup was an American pollster, who served as chairman of the Gallup Poll, after the 1984 death of his father, George Gallup, who created the poll in 1935....

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

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

    . http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-alec-gallup30-2009jun30,0,4031120.story
  • June Gordon, Marchioness of Aberdeen and Temair
    June Gordon, Marchioness of Aberdeen and Temair
    June Gordon, Marchioness of Aberdeen and Temair, CBE, DL, FRCM, FRSAMD, FRSE known as Lady Aberdeen, was a professional musician and patron of the Aberdeen International Youth Festival and founder and Musical Director of Haddo House Choral & Operatic Society.Trained as a pianist and conductor,...

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

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

     and patron of the arts. http://www.haddochoral.org.uk
  • Maj-Len Grönholm
    Maj-Len Grönholm
    Maj-Len Grönholm was a Finnish politician , councilwoman and a former Miss Finland. As a beauty pageant competitor, she won Miss Finland in 1972 under her maiden name of Eriksson and placed fourth in Miss Scandinavia in 1973...

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

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

     and beauty queen
    Beauty Queen
    "Beauty Queen" is the second song from Roxy Music's second album, For Your Pleasure. The lyrics refer to Ferry's girlfriend, Valerie Leon, one-time UK beauty queen, B-movie actress and model working in the Newcastle area, circa 1973.-Musicians:...

    , councilwoman
    Councillor
    A councillor or councilor is a member of a local government council, such as a city council.Often in the United States, the title is councilman or councilwoman.-United Kingdom:...

    , Miss Finland
    Miss Finland
    -External links:*...

     (1972), 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.iltasanomat.fi/viihde/uutinen.asp?id=1704453 (Finnish)
  • Billy Red Lyons
    Billy Red Lyons
    William Snip was a Canadian professional wrestler, who used the stage name Billy Red Lyons. He was an active wrestler between 1956 and 1984, and won numerous championship throughout his career. He worked for promotions in both Canada and the United States, particularly in Ontario, California,...

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

     professional wrestler, 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://slam.canoe.ca/Slam/Wrestling/2009/06/23/9898076.html
  • Eddie Preston
    Eddie Preston
    Eddie Preston was an American jazz trumpeter.He was born in Dallas, Texas and died in Palm Coast, Florida.Preston began playing in big bands after World War II, and did stints with Lionel Hampton , Ray Charles , Louis Jordan , Duke Ellington , and Count Basie...

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

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

     trumpeter. http://www.news-journalonline.com/NewsJournalOnline/News/Flagler/flaFLAG09062609.htm
  • Steve Race
    Steve Race
    Stephen Russell Race OBE was a British composer, pianist and radio and television presenter.-Biography:Born in Lincoln, the son of a lawyer, Race learned the piano from the age of five...

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

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

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

    . http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/culture-obituaries/tv-radio-obituaries/5604727/Steve-Race.html
  • Philip Simmons
    Philip Simmons
    Philip Simmons was an American artisan and blacksmith specializing in the craft of ironwork. Simmons spent 77 years as a blacksmith, focusing on decorative iron work. When he began his career, blacksmiths in Charleston made practical, everyday household objects, such as horseshoes...

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

     blacksmith
    Blacksmith
    A blacksmith is a person who creates objects from wrought iron or steel by forging the metal; that is, by using tools to hammer, bend, and cut...

    . http://thedigitel.com/features/local-iron-work-legend-passes-away-4700-0623
  • Karel Van Miert
    Karel Van Miert
    Karel Van Miert was a socialist Flemish politician.He was born in Oud-Turnhout. He studied at Ghent University and gained a degree in diplomatic sciences. In 1976 he became adjunct-national secretary of the – at that time – unitary Belgian socialist party...

    , 67, Belgian
    Belgium
    Belgium , officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a federal state in Western Europe. It is a founding member of the European Union and hosts the EU's headquarters, and those of several other major international organisations such as NATO.Belgium is also a member of, or affiliated to, many...

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

    , European Commissioner
    European Commissioner
    A European Commissioner is a member of the 27-member European Commission. Each Member within the college holds a specific portfolio and are led by the President of the European Commission...

     (1989–1999), cardiac arrest
    Cardiac arrest
    Cardiac arrest, is the cessation of normal circulation of the blood due to failure of the heart to contract effectively...

     resulting in fall. http://www.euronews.net/2009/06/23/van-miert-former-commissioner-dies/
  • Sam B. Williams
    Sam B. Williams
    Sam Barlow Williams was an American inventor and founder of Williams International. He was particularly known for his development of the small fan-jet engine...

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

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

     and inventor. http://www.flyingmag.com/news/1596/dr-sam-williams-dead-at-88.html

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  • Gilda Galán
    Gilda Galán
    Gilda Galán was a Puerto Rican actress, dramaticist, comedian, writer, composer, scriptwriter and poet. The veteran actress, whose career spanned decades, enjoyed one of the longest careers in the history of the Puerto Rican entertainment industry.-Life:Gilda Galán was born in Guayama, Puerto...

    , 92, Puerto Rican
    Puerto Rico
    Puerto Rico , officially the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico , is an unincorporated territory of the United States, located in the northeastern Caribbean, east of the Dominican Republic and west of both the United States Virgin Islands and the British Virgin Islands.Puerto Rico comprises an...

     actress. http://www.primerahora.com/diario/noticia/otros_asi/espectaculosasi/fallece_la_actriz_gilda_galan/309906 (Spanish)
  • Lorena Gale
    Lorena Gale
    Lorena Gale was a Canadian actress, director, and writer. She was active onstage and in films and television since the 1980s...

    , 51, 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...

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

    , gastrointestinal cancer
    Gastrointestinal cancer
    Gastrointestinal cancer refers to malignant conditions of the gastrointestinal tract, including the esophagus, stomach, biliary system, pancreas, bowels, and anus. The symptoms relate to the organ affected, and can include obstruction , abnormal bleeding, or other associated problems...

    . http://www.straight.com/article-237335/canadian-actor-lorena-gale-dies-cancer-vancouver
  • José Nicomedes Grossi
    José Nicomedes Grossi
    José Nicomedes Grossi was a Brazilian bishop of the Roman Catholic Church. He was one of oldest bishops in the Catholic Church and one of the oldest Brazilian bishops....

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

    ian Roman Catholic
    Roman Catholic Church
    The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the world's largest Christian church, with over a billion members. Led by the Pope, it defines its mission as spreading the gospel of Jesus Christ, administering the sacraments and exercising charity...

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

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

     of Bom Jesus da Lapa
    Roman Catholic Diocese of Bom Jesus da Lapa
    The Roman Catholic Diocese of Bom Jesus da Lapa is a diocese located in the city of Bom Jesus da Lapa in the Ecclesiastical province of Vitória da Conquista in Brazil.-History:...

     (1962–1990). http://noticias.cancaonova.com/noticia.php?id=273236 (Portuguese)
  • Errol Harris
    Errol Harris
    Errol Eustace Harris was a contemporary South African philosopher. His work focused on developing a systematic and coherent account of the logic, metaphysics, and epistemology implicit in contemporary understanding of the world...

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

    n philosopher. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article6720843.ece
  • Arthur Luft
    Arthur Luft
    Arthur Luft was a former First Deemster and Clerk of the Rolls and a Member of the Legislative Council of the Isle of Man.He first set up practice in the Isle of Man in 1947 and in 1972 was appointed Attorney General and thus sat on the Legislative Council ex officio...

    , 94, Manx
    Isle of Man
    The Isle of Man , otherwise known simply as Mann , is a self-governing British Crown Dependency, located in the Irish Sea between the islands of Great Britain and Ireland, within the British Isles. The head of state is Queen Elizabeth II, who holds the title of Lord of Mann. The Lord of Mann is...

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

     and deemster
    Deemster
    A deemster is a judge in the Isle of Man. The High Court of Justice of the Isle of Man is presided over by a deemster or, in the case of the appeal division of that court, a deemster and the Judge of Appeal...

    . http://www.iomtoday.co.im/news/Former-Deemster-Arthur-Luft-dies.5392078.jp

20

  • Neda Agha-Soltan
    Death of Neda Agha-Soltan
    Footage of the death of Neda Agha-Soltan drew international attention after she was killed during the 2009 Iranian election protests. Her death was captured on video by bystanders and broadcast over the Internet and the video became a rallying point for the opposition...

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

    ian 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...

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

    . http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article6562649.ece
  • Colin Bean
    Colin Bean
    Colin Bean was a British actor best known for his role as Private Sponge in the Second World War sitcom Dad's Army from 1968 to 1977, appearing in76 of Dad’s Army’s 80 episodes....

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

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

     (Dad's Army
    Dad's Army
    Dad's Army is a British sitcom about the Home Guard during the Second World War. It was written by Jimmy Perry and David Croft and broadcast on BBC television between 1968 and 1977. The series ran for 9 series and 80 episodes in total, plus a radio series, a feature film and a stage show...

    ). http://www.wigantoday.net/wigannews/Dads-Army-actor-Colin-Bean.5388095.jp
  • Aldo Gargani
    Aldo Gargani
    Aldo Giorgio Gargani was an Italian philosopher.He studied Philosophy at the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa, Oxford University, and Queen's College. He was professor of Aesthetics and History of Philosophy at the University of Pisa.He is considered to be the most important Italian scholar of...

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

     philosopher. http://sentierinterrotti.wordpress.com/2009/06/20/addio-a-aldo-gargani/ (Italian)
  • Joel Helleny
    Joel Helleny
    Joel Edward Helleny was an American jazz trombonist.Helleny learned piano from his mother as a child but settled on trombone by age seven. He attended the University of Illinois before moving to New York City in 1979...

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

     trombonist, http://jazzlives.wordpress.com/2009/06/22/mourning-joel-helleny-1956-2009/
  • Ralph F. Hirschmann
    Ralph F. Hirschmann
    Ralph Franz Hirschmann was a German American biochemist who led a team that was responsible for the first organic synthesis of an enzyme, a ribonuclease.-Early life and education:...

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

     biochemist
    Biochemist
    Biochemists are scientists who are trained in biochemistry. Typical biochemists study chemical processes and chemical transformations in living organisms. The prefix of "bio" in "biochemist" can be understood as a fusion of "biological chemist."-Role:...

     who led synthesis of the first enzyme, renal failure
    Renal failure
    Renal failure or kidney failure describes a medical condition in which the kidneys fail to adequately filter toxins and waste products from the blood...

    . http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/19/science/19hirschmann.html
  • Nazir Jairazbhoy
    Nazir Jairazbhoy
    Nazir Ali Jairazbhoy was a professor of folk and classical music of South Asia at the University of California at Los Angeles, where he was the founding chair of the Department of Ethnomusicology and Systematic Musicology. He was appointed professor of music at UCLA in 1975, and retired in 1994...

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

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

     ethnomusicologist. http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-passings28-2009jun28,0,4168037.story
  • Patrick Kombayi
    Patrick Kombayi
    Patrick Kombayi was a Zimbabwean businessman, a former mayor of Gweru and an active member of the Movement for Democratic Change-Tsvangirai faction in the Midlands Province...

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

     and businessman, complications from 1990 shooting
    Ballistic trauma
    The term ballistic trauma refers to a form of physical trauma sustained from the discharge of arms or munitions. The most common forms of ballistic trauma stem from firearms used in armed conflicts, civilian sporting and recreational pursuits, and criminal activity.-Destructive effects:The degree...

    . http://www.thezimbabwetimes.com/?p=18499
  • Godfrey Rampling
    Godfrey Rampling
    Godfrey Lionel Rampling was an English athlete and army officer who competed for Great Britain in the 1932 Summer Olympics and in the 1936 Summer Olympics...

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

     athlete, 1936 Olympic relay champion
    Athletics at the 1936 Summer Olympics
    At the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, 29 athletics events were contested, 23 for men and 6 for women. The program of events was unchanged from the previous Games. There was a total of 776 participants from 43 countries competing.-Medal table:...

    , NATO commander, father of actress Charlotte Rampling
    Charlotte Rampling
    Charlotte Rampling, OBE is an English actress. Her career spans four decades in English-language as well as French and Italian cinema.- Early life :...

    . http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/beds/bucks/herts/8123402.stm
  • Kenneth L. Reusser, 89, American
    United States
    The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

     Marine aviator
    United States Marine Corps Aviation
    United States Marine Corps Aviation is the air component of the United States Marine Corps. Marine aviation has a very different mission and operation than its ground counterpart, and thus, has many of its own histories, traditions, terms, and procedures....

    , decorated
    Decorated
    Decorated can have several meanings:*In architecture, the Decorated Period refers to a period and style of mediaeval Gothic architecture....

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

    , Korean
    Korean War
    The Korean War was a conventional war between South Korea, supported by the United Nations, and North Korea, supported by the People's Republic of China , with military material aid from the Soviet Union...

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

    s. http://www.stripes.com/article.asp?section=104&article=63525

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  • Alberto Andrade
    Alberto Andrade
    Alberto Manuel Andrade Carmona was a Peruvian politician, born in Lima and mayor of that city from 1996 to 2002....

    , 65, Peru
    Peru
    Peru , officially the Republic of Peru , is a country in western South America. It is bordered on the north by Ecuador and Colombia, on the east by Brazil, on the southeast by Bolivia, on the south by Chile, and on the west by the Pacific Ocean....

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

    , pulmonary fibrosis
    Pulmonary fibrosis
    Pulmonary fibrosis is the formation or development of excess fibrous connective tissue in the lungs. It is also described as "scarring of the lung".-Symptoms:Symptoms of pulmonary fibrosis are mainly:...

    . http://www.elcomercio.com.pe/noticia/303272/restos-mortales-alberto-andrade-llegan-miercoles-lima-afirma-su-hermano (Spanish)
  • Sir Derrick Bailey
    Derrick Bailey
    Sir Derrick Thomas Louis Bailey, 3rd Baronet, DFC was the son of the South African entrepreneur Sir Abe Bailey and of the pioneer aviator Dame Mary Bailey, and won fame for himself as a decorated Second World War pilot, a cricketer and a businessman...

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

     cricket
    Cricket
    Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of 11 players on an oval-shaped field, at the centre of which is a rectangular 22-yard long pitch. One team bats, trying to score as many runs as possible while the other team bowls and fields, trying to dismiss the batsmen and thus limit the...

    er and baronet
    Baronet
    A baronet or the rare female equivalent, a baronetess , is the holder of a hereditary baronetcy awarded by the British Crown...

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

     Sir Abe Bailey
    Abe Bailey
    Sir Abraham "Abe" Bailey, 1st Baronet, KCMG , was a South African diamond tycoon, politician, financier and cricketer.-Early years:...

    . http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/guernsey/8111677.stm
  • H. A. Boucher
    H. A. Boucher
    Henry Aristide "Red" Boucher, Jr. was the fourth Lieutenant Governor of Alaska from 1970 to 1974. He had also served as mayor of Fairbanks, Alaska from 1966 to 1970, and in the Alaska House of Representatives...

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

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

    , first elected Lieutenant Governor of Alaska (1970–1974). http://www.ktuu.com/Global/story.asp?S=10566144
  • Ron Crocombe
    Ron Crocombe
    Ronald Gordon Crocombe was a Professor of Pacific Studies at the University of the South Pacific.-Biography:Ron Crocombe was born in Auckland, New Zealand, and was raised in Piopio in the King Country, before attending Otahuhu College in Auckland. He later completed a degree from Auckland University...

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

     academic (University of the South Pacific
    University of the South Pacific
    The University of the South Pacific is a public university with a number of locations spread throughout a dozen countries in Oceania. It is an international centre for teaching and research on Pacific culture and environment. USP's academic programmes are recognised worldwide, attracting students...

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

    . http://www.fijitimes.com/story.aspx?id=124053
  • Vicente Ferrer Moncho
    Vicente Ferrer Moncho
    Vicente Ferrer Moncho was a philanthropist who spent his life working to improve the lives of the poor in the mission he founded in Southern India. Today the Vicente Ferrer Foundation carries out humanitarian projects in Andhra Pradesh, bringing aid to over 2.5 million poor people...

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

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

    . http://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/briefly-vicente-ferrer-1712390.html
  • Shelly Gross
    Shelly Gross
    Sheldon Harvey "Shelly" Gross was an American producer and promoter of concerts and theatrical performances, who developed a number of venues in suburban areas outside major cities on the East Coast together with Lee Guber, bringing major stars and diverse entertainment options to local areas that...

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

     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...

     producer
    Theatrical producer
    A theatrical producer is the person ultimately responsible for overseeing all aspects of mounting a theatre production. The independent producer will usually be the originator and finder of the script and starts the whole process...

    , 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.nytimes.com/2009/06/25/arts/25gross.html
  • Jörg Hube
    Jörg Hube
    Jörg Hube was a German actor and director. He died of cancer.- Theatre :Some of Hube's roles:*1973 in Plenzdorf's Die neuen Leiden des jungen W., München*1974 in Brechts Die heilige Johanna der Schlachthöfe...

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

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

    , 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.focus.de/kultur/kino_tv/bayerischer-charakterkopf-trauer-um-joerg-hube_aid_409573.html (German)
  • Arthur W. Lehman
    Arthur W. Lehman
    Arthur W. 'Art' Lehman was a widely recorded American Euphonium virtuoso and soloist. He was noted for having radically changed the way the instrument was technically performed, and was a major influence on Euphonium soloists who followed him.Lehman retired as Euphonium soloist and section leader...

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

     euphonium
    Euphonium
    The euphonium is a conical-bore, tenor-voiced brass instrument. It derives its name from the Greek word euphonos, meaning "well-sounding" or "sweet-voiced"...

     player, pulmonary fibrosis
    Pulmonary fibrosis
    Pulmonary fibrosis is the formation or development of excess fibrous connective tissue in the lungs. It is also described as "scarring of the lung".-Symptoms:Symptoms of pulmonary fibrosis are mainly:...

    . http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/06/27/AR2009062702268.html
  • Peter Newbrook
    Peter Newbrook
    Peter Austin Harley Newbrook BSC was a British born cinematographer, director, producer and writer.Newbrook was born in Chester and educated at the Chester, and Worcester Cathedral schools, and the Ewell Castle School. He began his career as a trainee cameraman and focus puller with Warner...

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

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

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

    . http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/culture-obituaries/film-obituaries/5949229/Peter-Newbrook.html
  • Gary Papa
    Gary Papa
    Gary Papa was a sportscaster with WPVI-TV in Philadelphia from April 1981 to June 2009 and was the 5:30 p.m., 6 p.m., and 11:00 p.m. sportcaster. He joined the station as a weekend sportscaster and was promoted to the 6:00 p.m. and 11:00 p.m. newscasts in 1991, and was named sports director one...

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

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

     sportscaster
    Sportscaster
    In sports broadcasting, a commentator gives a running commentary of a game or event in real time, usually during a live broadcast. The comments are normally a voiceover, with the sounds of the action and spectators also heard in the background. In the case of television commentary, the commentator...

     (WPVI-TV
    WPVI-TV
    WPVI-TV, channel 6, is an owned-and-operated television station of the Walt Disney Company-owned American Broadcasting Company, located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. WPVI has its studios located on the border between Philadelphia and Bala Cynwyd, and its transmitter is located in the...

    ), 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://abclocal.go.com/wpvi/feature?section=news/local&id=6874073
  • Ken Roberts
    Ken Roberts (announcer)
    Ken Roberts was an American radio and television announcer known for his work during the Golden Age of Radio and for his work announcing the daytime television soap operas The Secret Storm, Texas and Love of Life, each for a two-decade span.-Early life and education:Roberts was born on February...

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

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

     and announcer
    Announcer
    An announcer is a presenter who makes "announcements" in an audio medium or a physical location.-Television and other media:Some announcers work in television production , radio or filmmaking, usually providing narrations, news updates, station identification, or an introduction of a product in...

    , 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/2009/06/27/AR2009062702344.html
  • Herschel Rosenthal
    Herschel Rosenthal
    Herschel Rosenthal was an American politician who was a member of the California State Assembly from 1974 to 1982 and the California State Senate from 1982 to 1998. Rosenthal was a Democrat.-References:...

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

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

    , member of the California Senate (1982–1998). http://www.news10.net/news/politics_govt/story.aspx?storyid=61661&catid=13
  • Bob Schuler
    Bob Schuler
    Robert Schuler was a Republican politician who formerly served in the Ohio General Assembly. Schuler first entered politics in the late 1970s as a member of the Deer Park City Council and also spent four years as a Sycamore Township trustee from 1988 to 1992. Initially running for the Ohio House...

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

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

    , member of the Ohio Senate
    Ohio Senate
    The Ohio State Senate is the upper house of the Ohio General Assembly, the legislative body for the U.S. state of Ohio. There are 33 State Senators. The state legislature meets in the state capital, Columbus. The President of the Senate presides over the body when in session, and is currently Tom...

     since 2002, 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.daytondailynews.com/news/ohio-news/state-sen-schuler-dies-after-cancer-fight-171346.html
  • Stan Sismey
    Stan Sismey
    Squadron Leader Stanley George Sismey was an Australian cricketer whose career highlight was commanding officer of the Australian Services XI during the Victory Tests of 1945. Sismey, although commanding officer of the side, was not the on-field captain. That honour was bestowed upon Test...

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

    n cricket
    Cricket
    Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of 11 players on an oval-shaped field, at the centre of which is a rectangular 22-yard long pitch. One team bats, trying to score as many runs as possible while the other team bowls and fields, trying to dismiss the batsmen and thus limit the...

    er. http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/sport/cricket/vale-stan-sismey-wicketkeeper-to-the-best-20090622-csoy.html
  • Tomoji Tanabe, 113, Japan
    Japan
    Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...

    ese supercentenarian
    Supercentenarian
    A supercentenarian is someone who has reached the age of 110 years. This age is achieved by about one in a thousand centenarians....

    , was world's oldest living man
    Oldest people
    This is a list of tables of the verified oldest people in the world in ordinal rank, such as oldest person or oldest man. In these tables, a supercentenarian is considered 'verified' if his or her claim has been validated by an international body that specifically deals in longevity research, such...

    , heart failure. http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-06/19/content_11567841.htm

18

  • Omar Hashi Aden
    Omar Hashi Aden
    Omar Hashi Aden , was a member of the Transitional Federal Government of Somalia, eventually rising to Security Minister. He was assassinated by a suicide bomber on 18 June 2009 in Beledweyne, in the Hiiraan region in central Somalia.Aden was from Hiiraan region...

    , Somali
    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...

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

    , Minister of Security
    Ministry for State Security
    Ministry for State Security or Ministry of State Security may refer to several state security ministries:*Ministry of State Security of the People's Republic of China*Ministry for State Security *Ministry for State Security...

    , suicide bomb attack
    Suicide attack
    A suicide attack is a type of attack in which the attacker expects or intends to die in the process.- Historical :...

    . http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/8106838.stm
  • Giovanni Arrighi
    Giovanni Arrighi
    Giovanni Arrighi was a scholar of political economy and sociology, and as of 1998 a Professor of Sociology at Johns Hopkins University. His work has been translated into over fifteen languages....

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

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

    . http://sitoaurora.splinder.com/post/20804202/E%E2%80%99+morto+Giovanni+Arrighi.+U (Italian)
  • Hortensia Bussi
    Hortensia Bussi
    thumb|Bussi in Brussels in 1984Mercedes Hortensia Bussi Soto de Allende was the widow of Chilean President Salvador Allende. She was married to him from 1940 until he was deposed and assassinated in 1973, serving as First Lady of Chile from 1970 to 1973...

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

    an First Lady
    First Ladies of Chile
    First Lady of Chile is the unofficial title for the wife of the President of Chile. In colonial times the wives of the Royal Governors were known as Presidentas, title that was in use during the first half of the 19th century, but was slowly superseded by the newer of First Lady...

     (1970–1973), widow
    Widow
    A widow is a woman whose spouse has died, while a widower is a man whose spouse has died. The state of having lost one's spouse to death is termed widowhood or occasionally viduity. The adjective form is widowed...

     of President Salvador Allende
    Salvador Allende
    Salvador Allende Gossens was a Chilean physician and politician who is generally considered the first democratically elected Marxist to become president of a country in Latin America....

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

    . http://www.emol.com/noticias/nacional/detalle/detallenoticias.asp?idnoticia=363444 (Spanish)
  • Victor Cosson
    Victor Cosson
    Victor Cosson was a French professional road bicycle racer from 1937 to 1950. In his second year as a professional cyclist, he finished third in the 1938 Tour de France. His biggest victory was the Paris–Camembert edition of 1943. He was born in Lorges.- Palmarès :1938- External links :*-...

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

     road bicycle racer
    Road bicycle racing
    Road bicycle racing is a bicycle racing sport held on roads, using racing bicycles. The term "road racing" is usually applied to events where competing riders start simultaneously with the winner being the first to the line at the end of the course .Historically, the most...

    . http://www.cyclismag.com/article.php?sid=5093 (French)
  • Terry Griffiths
    Terry Griffiths (politician)
    Terence Allan "Terry" Griffiths , a former Australian politician, was a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly representing Georges River from 1988 to 1995 initially for the Liberal Party and then as an independent member...

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

    n politician. http://www.parliament.nsw.gov.au/prod/parlment/members.nsf/1fb6ebed995667c2ca256ea100825164/f66ebdc5ae00afbfca256e31007d82ae?OpenDocument
  • Sir Henry Hodge
    Henry Hodge
    Sir Henry Egar Garfield Hodge, OBE , styled The Hon. Mr Justice Hodge, was an English solicitor and judge of the High Court of England and Wales....

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

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

    , High Court judge
    High Court judge
    A High Court judge is a judge of the High Court of Justice, and represents the third highest level of judge in the courts of England and Wales. High Court judges are referred to as puisne judges...

     since 2004, acute myeloid leukaemia. http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2009/jun/22/sir-henry-hodge-obituary
  • Ali Akbar Khan
    Ali Akbar Khan
    Ali Akbar Khan , often referred to as Khansahib or by the title Ustad , was a Hindustani classical musician of the Maihar gharana, known for his virtuosity in playing the sarod...

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

    n sarod
    Sarod
    The sarod is a stringed musical instrument, used mainly in Indian classical music. Along with the sitar, it is the most popular and prominent instrument in the classical music of Hindustan...

     player, kidney failure. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/06/19/AR2009061902628.html

17

  • Joji Banuve
    Joji Banuve
    Joji Natadra Banuve was a Fijian politician, who served in the Cabinet as Assistant Minister for Local Government, Housing, Squatter Settlement, and the Environment...

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

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

    , Minister for Local Government and the Environment, after short illness. http://fijitv.com.fj/index.cfm?si=main.resources&cmd=forumview&uid=newsnational&cid=17848
  • José Calvário
    José Calvário
    José Carlos Calvário was a Portuguese composer and conductor.He was also a composer, and songwriter, and conducted at many Portuguese festivals....

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

     maestro
    Maestro
    Maestro is a title of extreme respect given to a master musician. The term is most commonly used in the context of Western classical music and opera. This is associated with the ubiquitous use of Italian vocabulary for classical music terms...

     and orchestra
    Orchestra
    An orchestra is a sizable instrumental ensemble that contains sections of string, brass, woodwind, and percussion instruments. The term orchestra derives from the Greek ορχήστρα, the name for the area in front of an ancient Greek stage reserved for the Greek chorus...

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

    . http://www.oikotimes.com/v2/index.php?file=articles&id=5944
  • Ralf Dahrendorf, Baron Dahrendorf
    Ralf Dahrendorf
    Ralf Gustav Dahrendorf, Baron Dahrendorf, KBE, FBA was a German-British sociologist, philosopher, political scientist and liberal politician....

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

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

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

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

    . http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/politics-obituaries/5571140/Lord-Dahrendorf.html
  • Alejandro Doria
    Alejandro Doria
    Alejandro Doria was a noted Argentine cinema and television director.-Life and work:Born in Buenos Aires in 1936, he first worked for Argentine television in 1965 as a writer for a local variety show, Show rambler....

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

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

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

    . http://m24digital.com/en/2009/06/17/movie-director-alejandro-doria-died/
  • Eon
    Eon (musician)
    Ian Loveday, better-known as Eon was a rave pioneer.His tracks made their way to early 1990s pirate radio stations in London, and then out on vinyl through small labels like BAAD and Vinyl Solution...

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

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

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

    . http://www.thedailyswarm.com/swarm/eon-rip/
  • José Ignacio García Hamilton
    José Ignacio García Hamilton
    José Ignacio García Hamilton was an Argentine writer, noted historian, lawyer and politician. He was elected to the Argentine Chamber of Deputies for the Radical Civic Union representing Tucumán Province.- Biography :...

    , 65, 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...

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

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

    . http://www.buenosairesherald.com/BreakingNews/View/4178
  • Jane Aiken Hodge
    Jane Aiken Hodge
    Jane Aiken Hodge was an American-born British writer.-Life:Born near Cambridge, Massachusetts to Pulitzer prize-winning poet Conrad Aiken and his first wife, the writer Jessie McDonald...

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

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

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

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

     by drug overdose. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article6726655.ece
  • Wayne L. Horvitz
    Wayne L. Horvitz
    See Wayne Horvitz for the musician.Wayne Louis Horvitz was an American labor negotiator, who served as director of the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service, where he played a major role in resolving and preventing major strikes in business and industries nationwide.-Early life and...

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

     labor mediator, 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/2009/06/22/business/22horvitz.html
  • John Houghtaling
    John Houghtaling
    John Joseph Houghtaling was an American entrepreneur and inventor who in 1958 invented the Magic Fingers Vibrating Bed, a common feature in mid-priced hotels and motels from the 1960s to 1970s.-Early life:...

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

     businessman and inventor (Magic Fingers vibrating bed
    Bed
    A bed is a large piece of furniture used as a place to sleep, relax, or engage in sexual relations.Most modern beds consist of a mattress on a bed frame, with the mattress resting either on a solid base, often wooden slats, or a sprung base...

    ), complications from a fall
    Falling (accident)
    Falling is a major cause of personal injury, especially for the elderly. Builders, electricians, miners, and painters represent worker categories representing high rates of fall injuries. The WHO estimate that 392,000 people die in falls every year...

    . http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-john-houghtaling20-2009jun20,0,4864789.story
  • IZ the Wiz, 50, American
    United States
    The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

     graffiti artist, 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.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/culture-obituaries/art-obituaries/5614060/Iz-the-Wiz.html
  • Darrell Powers
    Darrell Powers
    -External links:***...

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

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

    , served in the 506th Infantry Regiment (Band of Brothers), natural causes
    Death by natural causes
    A death by natural causes, as recorded by coroners and on death certificates and associated documents, is one that is primarily attributed to natural agents: usually an illness or an internal malfunction of the body. For example, a person dying from complications from influenza or a heart attack ...

    . http://www.roanoke.com/news/roanoke/wb/208832
  • Dusty Rhodes
    Dusty Rhodes (baseball player)
    James Lamar Rhodes was an outfielder with a 7 year career from 1952–1957, 1959. He played for the Giants franchise of the National League ....

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

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

     player (New York Giants
    San Francisco Giants
    The San Francisco Giants are a Major League Baseball team based in San Francisco, California, playing in the National League West Division....

    ), complications from diabetes and 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.nydailynews.com/sports/baseball/2009/06/18/2009-06-18_dusty_rhodes_hero_of_1954_series_dies.html
  • Ali Said
    Ali Said
    Ali Sa'id Sheik Hassan, also referred to as Ali Sa'id Hassan Awale and Ali Said , was the chief of police of Mogadishu and a commander of security forces during the war in Somalia, in which he was killed by sniper fire in June 2009...

    , Somali
    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...

     public servant
    Civil service
    The term civil service has two distinct meanings:* A branch of governmental service in which individuals are employed on the basis of professional merit as proven by competitive examinations....

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

     (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....

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

    . http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/8104504.stm
  • Shacky Tauro
    Shacky Tauro
    Shackman "Shacky" Tauro was a Zimbabwean football player and coach.-Playing career:Tauro, who played as a striker, spent his entire professional career with CAPS United, and also earned international caps for Zimbabwe....

    , 49, 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 footballer, after short illness. http://www.herald.co.zw/inside.aspx?sectid=6062&cat=5
  • Tony Wong, 60, 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...

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

    . http://www.yorkregion.com/article/93300
  • Gordon Wray
    Gordon Wray (politician)
    Gordon Wray is a former territorial level politician from Northern Canada. He served as a member of the Northwest Territories Legislature from 1983 until 1991....

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

    -born 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...

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

    . http://news.scotsman.com/obituaries/Gordon-Wray.5455130.jp

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  • Peter Arundell
    Peter Arundell
    Peter Arundell was a racing driver from England, who raced in Formula One for the Lotus team. He participated in 13 World Championship Grands Prix, scoring 12 championship points....

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

     racing driver
    Auto racing
    Auto racing is a motorsport involving the racing of cars for competition. It is one of the world's most watched televised sports.-The beginning of racing:...

    , pulmonary fibrosis
    Pulmonary fibrosis
    Pulmonary fibrosis is the formation or development of excess fibrous connective tissue in the lungs. It is also described as "scarring of the lung".-Symptoms:Symptoms of pulmonary fibrosis are mainly:...

    . http://www.brdc.co.uk/news.cfm/title/NOTICE%20OF%20DEATH%20%E2%80%93%20PETER%20ARUNDELL/flag/2/id/921
  • Douglas Bunn
    Douglas Bunn
    Douglas Bunn was a British barrister, businessman and founder and chairman of the All England Jumping Course at Hickstead....

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

     barrister
    Barrister
    A barrister is a member of one of the two classes of lawyer found in many common law jurisdictions with split legal professions. Barristers specialise in courtroom advocacy, drafting legal pleadings and giving expert legal opinions...

     and horse breeder, founder and chairman of the All England Jumping Course
    Hickstead
    The All England Jumping Course at Hickstead, known widely as Hickstead is an equestrian sport centre in West Sussex, England, principally known for its showjumping activities, where it hosts two international level competitions, the British Jumping Derby and the Royal International Horse Show...

    . http://www.horseandhound.co.uk/news/397/284658.html
  • Emmanuel Constant
    Emmanuel Constant (bishop)
    For Emmanuel Constant - a Haitian politician see hereBishop Emmanuel Constant . Born in Port-au-Prince he was ordained priest on July 12, 1953. Pope Paul VI appointed him Bishop of Les Gonaïves.He was consecrated by Bishop Antonio Samoré as part of the indigenisation of the Haitian clergy...

    , 81, Haiti
    Haiti
    Haiti , officially the Republic of Haiti , is a Caribbean country. It occupies the western, smaller portion of the island of Hispaniola, in the Greater Antillean archipelago, which it shares with the Dominican Republic. Ayiti was the indigenous Taíno or Amerindian name for the island...

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

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

     of Les Gonaïves
    Roman Catholic Diocese of Les Gonaïves
    The Roman Catholic Diocese of Les Gonaïves is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Cap-Haïtien.-Ordinaries:*Joseph-François-Marie Julliot *Paul-Sanson-Jean-Marie Robert...

     (1966–2003). http://www.radiokiskeya.com/spip.php?article5968 (French)
  • Paul A. Fino
    Paul A. Fino
    Paul Albert Fino was a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from New York....

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

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

    , 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...

     from 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...

     (1953–1968). http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/19/nyregion/19fino.html
  • Celia Fremlin
    Celia Fremlin
    Celia Margaret Fremlin was born in Kingsbury, now part of London, England, the sister of nuclear physicist, John H. Fremlin.-Early life:...

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

     crime novelist. http://www.gregoryandcompany.co.uk/pages/content/index.asp?PageID=18
  • D. Mark Hegsted
    D. Mark Hegsted
    David Mark Hegsted was an American nutritionist who studied the connections between food consumption and heart disease...

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

     nutritionist
    Nutritionist
    A nutritionist is a person who advises on matters of food and nutrition impacts on health. Different professional terms are used in different countries, employment settings and contexts — some examples include: nutrition scientist, public health nutritionist, dietitian-nutritionist, clinical...

    , research led to recommended decrease in dietary saturated fats. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/09/health/09hegsted.html
  • Charlie Mariano
    Charlie Mariano
    Carmine Ugo Mariano was an American jazz alto saxophonist. He was born in Boston, Massachusetts and died in Cologne, Germany.-Biography:Mariano was the son of Italian immigrants....

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

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

     alto saxophonist
    Alto saxophone
    The alto saxophone is a member of the saxophone family of woodwind instruments invented by Belgian instrument designer Adolphe Sax in 1841. It is smaller than the tenor but larger than the soprano, and is the type most used in classical compositions...

    , 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/bostonglobe/obituaries/articles/2009/06/17/charlie_mariano_saxophonist_musical_sojourner/
  • Tina Marsh
    Tina Marsh
    Tina Marsh was a jazz vocalist and composer based in Austin, Texas. Marsh was the creative director of the Creative Opportunity Orchestra , a large jazz ensemble which she founded in 1980. In 2000, the Austin Chronicle inducted Marsh into its Texas Music Hall of Fame...

    , 55, 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...

     vocalist, breast cancer
    Breast cancer
    Breast cancer is cancer originating from breast tissue, most commonly from the inner lining of milk ducts or the lobules that supply the ducts with milk. Cancers originating from ducts are known as ductal carcinomas; those originating from lobules are known as lobular carcinomas...

    . http://www.austin360.com/search/content/music/stories/2009/06/0617marshobit.html
  • Frank Herbert Mason, 88, American
    United States
    The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

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

     and teacher
    Teacher
    A teacher or schoolteacher is a person who provides education for pupils and students . The role of teacher is often formal and ongoing, carried out at a school or other place of formal education. In many countries, a person who wishes to become a teacher must first obtain specified professional...

    . http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article6611834.ece?FORM=ZZNR5

15

  • George Belotti
    George Belotti
    George D. Belotti was an American football offensive lineman. A center, he played college football at the University of Southern California, and played professionally in the American Football League for the Houston Oilers in 1960 and 1961, and for the San Diego Chargers in 1961...

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

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

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

    . http://www.venturacountystar.com/news/2009/jun/17/former-usc-nfl-player-george-belotti-dies-at-74/
  • Antonio Bianco
    Antonio Bianco
    Antonio Bianco was a South African diamond cutter of Italian ancestry.Bianco, who was born into a family of gemstone cutters, moved to the United States in 1976...

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

    n diamond cutter
    Diamond cutting
    Diamond cutting is the art, skill and, increasingly, science of changing a diamond from a rough stone into a faceted gem. Cutting diamond requires specialized knowledge, tools, equipment, and techniques because of its extreme difficulty....

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

    . http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/5701306/Antonio-Bianco.html
  • Helen Boosalis
    Helen Boosalis
    Helen G. Boosalis was a Nebraska Democratic Party politician.Helen Boosalis was born as Helen Geankoplis in Minneapolis, Minnesota to Greek immigrant parents, where she grew up working in her father's Minneapolis restaurant.In 1945 she married Michael Gus "Mike" Boosalis, a World War II veteran...

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

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

    , Mayor of Lincoln, Nebraska (1975–1983), 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.journalstar.com/articles/2009/06/15/news/local/doc4a367826164e8773709361.txt
  • Allan King
    Allan King
    Allan Winton King, OC was a Canadian film director.-Life:During the Depression, King attended Henry Hudson Elementary School in Kitsilano, Vancouver...

    , 79, 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...

     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:...

     (Warrendale
    Warrendale
    Warrendale is a 1967 documentary film by Canadian filmmaker Allan King. It was originally produced for broadcast on CBC Television, but was never shown due to King's refusal to edit out the copious profanity in the footage....

    , Termini Station
    Termini Station (film)
    Termini Station is a Canadian drama film, released in 1989. It was directed by Allan King, and written by Colleen Murphy.The film stars Colleen Dewhurst and Megan Follows as Molly and Micheline Dushane, a mother and daughter living in a small Northern Ontario town...

    , Silence of the North
    Silence of the North
    Silence of the North is a 1981 Canadian film starring Tom Skerritt, Gordon Pinsent, and Ellen Burstyn. The three main actors were nominated for Genie Awards, as was the director, Allan King....

    ), 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://toronto.ctv.ca/servlet/an/local/CTVNews/20090615/allan_king_090615/20090615/?hub=TorontoNewHome
  • Desmond Moran, 60, Australia
    Australia
    Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...

    n criminal
    Organized crime
    Organized crime or criminal organizations are transnational, national, or local groupings of highly centralized enterprises run by criminals for the purpose of engaging in illegal activity, most commonly for monetary profit. Some criminal organizations, such as terrorist organizations, are...

    , member of Moran family
    Moran family
    The Moran family is an infamous Melbourne-based criminal family, notable for their involvement in the Melbourne gangland killings. Family matriarch Judy Moran lost two sons, Jason and Mark, estranged husband Lewis, and brother-in-law Des to an underworld feud that resulted in the deaths of over 30...

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

    . http://www.smh.com.au/national/fourth-member-of-moran-clan-shot-dead-20090615-c82w.html

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  • Bob Bogle
    Bob Bogle
    Robert Lenard "Bob" Bogle was a founding member of the legendary instrumental combo group The Ventures. He and Don Wilson founded the group in 1958. Bogle was the lead guitarist and later bassist of the group...

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

     guitarist
    Guitarist
    A guitarist is a musician who plays the guitar. Guitarists may play a variety of instruments such as classical guitars, acoustic guitars, electric guitars, and bass guitars. Some guitarists accompany themselves on the guitar while singing.- Versatility :The guitarist controls an extremely...

     (The Ventures
    The Ventures
    The Ventures is an American instrumental rock band formed in 1958 in Tacoma, Washington. Founded by Don Wilson and Bob Bogle, the group in its various incarnations has had an enduring impact on the development of music worldwide. With over 100 million records sold, the group is the best-selling...

    ), non-Hodgkin lymphoma
    Non-Hodgkin lymphoma
    The non-Hodgkin lymphomas are a diverse group of blood cancers that include any kind of lymphoma except Hodgkin's lymphomas. Types of NHL vary significantly in their severity, from indolent to very aggressive....

    . http://www.reuters.com/article/musicNews/idUSTRE55G07Z20090617
  • Angela Coughlan
    Angela Coughlan
    Angela Denise Coughlan, O.Ont. was a Canadian swimmer. At the peak of her competitive swimming career from 1968 to 1971, she was the best Canadian female freestyle specialist, going undefeated in freestyle events at Canadian meets during that time, as well as breaking a world record and 13...

    , 56, 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...

     swimmer, bronze medalist (1968 Summer Olympics
    1968 Summer Olympics
    The 1968 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XIX Olympiad, were an international multi-sport event held in Mexico City, Mexico in October 1968. The 1968 Games were the first Olympic Games hosted by a developing country, and the first Games hosted by a Spanish-speaking country...

    ), 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.burlingtonpost.com/news/article/261402
  • Ivan Della Mea
    Ivan Della Mea
    Ivan Della Mea was an Italian novelist, journalist, singer-songwriter and political activist.-Biography:...

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

     singer–songwriter
    Singer–songwriter
    Singer-songwriters are musicians who write, compose and sing their own musical material including lyrics and melodies. As opposed to contemporary popular music singers who write their own songs, the term singer-songwriter describes a distinct form of artistry, closely associated with the...

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

    , after long illness. http://www.corriere.it/spettacoli/09_giugno_14/della_mea_a3c329da-58d4-11de-903c-00144f02aabc.shtml (Italian)
  • Yasuharu Hasebe
    Yasuharu Hasebe
    was a Japanese film director best known known for his movies in the "Violent pink" subgenre of the Pink film, such as Assault! Jack the Ripper , Rape! , Rape! 13th Hour and Raping!...

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

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

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

    . http://www.asahi.com/obituaries/.../TKY200906200121.html
  • William McIntyre
    William McIntyre
    William Rogers McIntyre, CC was a Canadian Puisne Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada.Born in Lachine, Quebec, the son of Charles Sidney McIntyre and Pauline May Sifton, he moved with his family to Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan when he was young. In 1939, he received a Bachelor of Arts degree from...

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

     jurist, Puisne Justice
    Puisne Justice
    A Puisne Justice or Puisne Judge is the title for a regular member of a Court. This is distinguished from the head of the Court who is known as the Chief Justice or Chief Judge. The term is used almost exclusively in common law jurisdictions such as England, Australia, Kenya, Canada, Sri Lanka,...

     of the Supreme Court of Canada
    Supreme Court of Canada
    The Supreme Court of Canada is the highest court of Canada and is the final court of appeals in the Canadian justice system. The court grants permission to between 40 and 75 litigants each year to appeal decisions rendered by provincial, territorial and federal appellate courts, and its decisions...

     (1979–1989), throat cancer
    Head and neck cancer
    Head and neck cancer refers to a group of biologically similar cancers that start in the upper aerodigestive tract, including the lip, oral cavity , nasal cavity , paranasal sinuses, pharynx, and larynx. 90% of head and neck cancers are squamous cell carcinomas , originating from the mucosal lining...

    . http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/william-mcintyre-was-wrongly-labelled-an-arch-conservative/article1184891/
  • Moumouni Adamou Djermakoye
    Moumouni Adamou Djermakoye
    Moumouni Adamou Djermakoye was a Nigerien politician and the President of the Nigerien Alliance for Democracy and Progress...

    , 70, Niger
    Niger
    Niger , officially named the Republic of Niger, is a landlocked country in Western Africa, named after the Niger River. It borders Nigeria and Benin to the south, Burkina Faso and Mali to the west, Algeria and Libya to the north and Chad to the east...

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

    . http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5jn5Saco_A5fGfIeBnzS6GqiFnWNw
  • Carlos Pardo, 33, Mexican
    Mexico
    The United Mexican States , commonly known as Mexico , is a federal constitutional republic in North America. It is bordered on the north by the United States; on the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; on the southeast by Guatemala, Belize, and the Caribbean Sea; and on the east by the Gulf of...

     NASCAR
    NASCAR
    The National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing is a family-owned and -operated business venture that sanctions and governs multiple auto racing sports events. It was founded by Bill France Sr. in 1947–48. As of 2009, the CEO for the company is Brian France, grandson of the late Bill France Sr...

     race driver, race crash. http://vyous.com/sports//nascar/2009/06/15/nascar-mexico-driver-killed-in-crash---usa-today
  • Edith Ronne
    Edith Ronne
    Edith "Jackie" Ronne was an American explorer of Antarctica and the first woman in the world to be a working member of an Antarctic expedition. She is also the namesake of the Ronne Ice Shelf.-Biography:...

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

     explorer, first American woman to visit Antarctica, 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.examiner.com/a-2075183~Ronne__first_US_woman_to_go_to_Antarctica__dies.html
  • Frederick Sontag
    Frederick Sontag
    Frederick Earl Sontag was a professor of philosophy and author. He taught at Pomona College in Claremont, California from 1952 to 2009, retiring shortly before his death.-Life and academic career:...

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

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

     of philosophy
    Philosophy
    Philosophy is the study of general and fundamental problems, such as those connected with existence, knowledge, values, reason, mind, and language. Philosophy is distinguished from other ways of addressing such problems by its critical, generally systematic approach and its reliance on rational...

     (Pomona College
    Pomona College
    Pomona College is a private, residential, liberal arts college in Claremont, California. Founded in 1887 in Pomona, California by a group of Congregationalists, the college moved to Claremont in 1889 to the site of a hotel, retaining its name. The school enrolls 1,548 students.The founding member...

    ), heart failure. http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-frederick-sontag20-2009jun20,0,6245632.story
  • Abel Tador
    Abel Tador
    Abel Tador was a Nigerian professional footballer.-Career:Tador was captain of club side Bayelsa United, and led his side to the 2008–09 Nigerian Premier League. He formerly played for NPA and Sharks.-Death:...

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

    . http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/africa/8100529.stm
  • Hal Woodeshick
    Hal Woodeshick
    Harold Joseph Woodeshick was an American left-handed pitcher who spent eleven seasons in Major League Baseball with the Detroit Tigers , Cleveland Indians , both Washington Senators , Houston Colt .45s/Astros and St. Louis Cardinals...

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

     baseball player (Houston Colt .45s), after long illness.

13

  • Khalil Abi-Nader
    Khalil Abi-Nader
    Khalil Abi-Nader was the Maronite Catholic bishop of Beirut.Ordained to the priesthood on June 29, 1947, he was appointed bishop on April 4, 1986 and was ordained on May 18, 1986. He retired on June 8, 1996.-Notes:...

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

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

     of Beirut
    Beirut
    Beirut is the capital and largest city of Lebanon, with a population ranging from 1 million to more than 2 million . Located on a peninsula at the midpoint of Lebanon's Mediterranean coastline, it serves as the country's largest and main seaport, and also forms the Beirut Metropolitan...

     (1986–1996). http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/babin.html
  • Bashir Aushev
    Bashir Aushev
    Bashir Magometovich Aushev was a Russian-Ingush politician, who served as the Deputy Prime Minister of Ingushetia from 2002 until 2008.Aushev served as Deputy Prime Minister under former Ingush President Murat Zyazikov. Zyazikov was a former Soviet K.G.B. agent, who was unpopular in Ingushetia...

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

    n public official, Deputy Prime Minister
    Deputy Prime Minister
    A deputy prime minister or vice prime minister is, in some counties, a government minister who can take the position of acting prime minister when the prime minister is temporarily absent. The position is often likened to that of a vice president, but is significantly different, though both...

     of Ingushetia
    Ingushetia
    The Republic of Ingushetia is a federal subject of Russia , located in the North Caucasus region with its capital at Magas. In terms of area, the republic is the smallest of Russia's federal subjects except for the two federal cities, Moscow and Saint Petersburg...

     (2002–2008), shot
    Ballistic trauma
    The term ballistic trauma refers to a form of physical trauma sustained from the discharge of arms or munitions. The most common forms of ballistic trauma stem from firearms used in armed conflicts, civilian sporting and recreational pursuits, and criminal activity.-Destructive effects:The degree...

    . http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/14/world/europe/14ingushetia.html?ref=world
  • Otilio Galíndez
    Otilio Galíndez
    Otilio Galíndez, was a Venezuelan musician and composer.From an early age Galindez demonstrated musical inclinations, and supported by his mother in song and poetry in 1957 he was brought to Caracas where he worked at the Central University of Venezuela, forming part of the University choir, with...

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

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

     and composer
    Composer
    A composer is a person who creates music, either by musical notation or oral tradition, for interpretation and performance, or through direct manipulation of sonic material through electronic media...

    .
  • Mitsuharu Misawa
    Mitsuharu Misawa
    was a Japanese professional wrestler. He made his professional debut on August 21, 1981 for All Japan Pro Wrestling . From 1984 until 1990, Misawa wrestled as the second generation Tiger Mask, as All Japan Pro Wrestling had purchased the rights of the Tiger Mask gimmick from New Japan Pro Wrestling...

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

    ese professional wrestler, spinal cord injury
    Spinal cord injury
    A spinal cord injury refers to any injury to the spinal cord that is caused by trauma instead of disease. Depending on where the spinal cord and nerve roots are damaged, the symptoms can vary widely, from pain to paralysis to incontinence...

    . http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/sport/wrestling/2485720/Mitsuharu-Misawa-probably-died-from-a-cervical-spinal-cord-injury-rather-than-a-heart-attack-police-reports-from-Japan-indicate.html
  • John Saville
    John Saville
    John Saville was a Greek-British Marxist historian, long associated with Hull University. He was one of the most influential writers on British Labour History in the second half of the twentieth century.- Life and career :...

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

     Marxist
    Marxism
    Marxism is an economic and sociopolitical worldview and method of socioeconomic inquiry that centers upon a materialist interpretation of history, a dialectical view of social change, and an analysis and critique of the development of capitalism. Marxism was pioneered in the early to mid 19th...

     economic and social historian. http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/jun/16/obituary-john-saville

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  • Shailaja Acharya
    Shailaja Acharya
    Shailaja Acharya was a Nepalese politician. She was a senior member of the Nepali Congress party. She was the nation's first female Deputy Prime Minister for a brief period in 1998....

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

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

    , Deputy Prime Minister
    Deputy Prime Minister
    A deputy prime minister or vice prime minister is, in some counties, a government minister who can take the position of acting prime minister when the prime minister is temporarily absent. The position is often likened to that of a vice president, but is significantly different, though both...

     (1998), 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...

     and 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.asiantribune.com/?q=node/18421
  • John Crellin
    John Crellin (motorcycle racer)
    John Crellin was a Manx motorcycle racer from Douglas who died during the 2009 Isle of Man TT in the 5th lap of the Senior....

    , 55, Manx
    Isle of Man
    The Isle of Man , otherwise known simply as Mann , is a self-governing British Crown Dependency, located in the Irish Sea between the islands of Great Britain and Ireland, within the British Isles. The head of state is Queen Elizabeth II, who holds the title of Lord of Mann. The Lord of Mann is...

     motorcycle racer and civil engineer
    Civil engineer
    A civil engineer is a person who practices civil engineering; the application of planning, designing, constructing, maintaining, and operating infrastructures while protecting the public and environmental health, as well as improving existing infrastructures that have been neglected.Originally, a...

    , race
    Senior TT
    The Senior Tourist Trophy is a motorcycle road race that takes place during the Isle of Man TT festival; an annual event at the end of May and beginning of June. The Senior TT is the Blue Riband event of the festival and takes place on the Friday of race week. The Marquis de Mouzilly St. Mars...

     accident. http://www.manxradio.com/newsread.aspx?id=36527
  • Annesley Dias
    Annesley Dias
    Annesley Dias was a popular Sri Lankan comedian.- Early life :Annesley Dias had his primary education at St. Francis College, Dalugama, and his secondary education at St. Joseph's College Colombo 10...

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

    , http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0224838/
  • Robinson O. Everett
    Robinson O. Everett
    Robinson O. Everett was an American lawyer, judge and a professor of law at Duke University.Everett was born in Durham, North Carolina, to a family of lawyers: his grandfather and both of his parents being noted North Carolina attorneys...

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

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

    , member of the Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces
    United States Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces
    The United States Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces or CAAF is an Article I court that exercises worldwide appellate jurisdiction over members of the United States armed forces on active duty and other persons subject to the Uniform Code of Military Justice...

     since 1980. http://www.law.duke.edu/news/story?id=3508&u=11
  • Peter Gowan
    Peter Gowan
    Peter Gowan was a Professor of International Relations at London Metropolitan University, activist, published author and public speaker...

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

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

     of politics
    Politics
    Politics is a process by which groups of people make collective decisions. The term is generally applied to the art or science of running governmental or state affairs, including behavior within civil governments, but also applies to institutions, fields, and special interest groups such as the...

    , mesothelioma
    Mesothelioma
    Mesothelioma, more precisely malignant mesothelioma, is a rare form of cancer that develops from the protective lining that covers many of the body's internal organs, the mesothelium...

    . http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2009/jun/17/peter-gowan-obituary
  • Andy Hughes
    Andy Hughes
    Andy Hughes was an English electronic music producer from Harrow, Middlesex . He is most known for his work with The Orb, where he helped mix and produce Orbus Terrarum, Orblivion, and Cydonia, as well as The Orb's singles from this period. Hughes left The Orb during the production of Cydonia,...

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

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

     (The Orb
    The Orb
    Throughout 1989, the Orb, along with Martin Glover, developed the musical genre of ambient house through the use of a diverse array of samples and recordings. The culmination of its musical work came toward the end of the year when the group recorded a session for John Peel on BBC Radio 1...

    ), producer
    Record producer
    A record producer is an individual working within the music industry, whose job is to oversee and manage the recording of an artist's music...

     and DJ. http://www.synthtopia.com/content/2009/06/23/the-orbs-andy-hughes-dead-at-43/
  • Ivan Lichter
    Ivan Lichter
    Ivan Lichter, ONZ, FRCS was a thoracic surgeon and a pioneer in the field of palliative care in New Zealand.He was appointed to the Order of New Zealand on 2 June 1997.Among the organisation that he belonged to:...

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

     physician, pioneer in palliative care
    Palliative care
    Palliative care is a specialized area of healthcare that focuses on relieving and preventing the suffering of patients...

    . http://www.dpmc.govt.nz/honours/lists/onzbio.html
  • Félix Malloum
    Félix Malloum
    General Félix Malloum or Félix Malloum Ngakoutou Bey-Ndi was a Chadian politician from the south. He served as an officer in the Chadian Military and as a member of the ruling Chadian Progressive Party . He later became the Chief of Staff with the rank of colonel...

    , 76, Chad
    Chad
    Chad , officially known as the Republic of Chad, is a landlocked country in Central Africa. It is bordered by Libya to the north, Sudan to the east, the Central African Republic to the south, Cameroon and Nigeria to the southwest, and Niger to the west...

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

    , President (1975–1979), cardiac arrest
    Cardiac arrest
    Cardiac arrest, is the cessation of normal circulation of the blood due to failure of the heart to contract effectively...

    . http://www.jeuneafrique.com/Article/DEPAFP20090612T224242Z/-France-Deces-Jacques-Chirac-Hissene-Habre-Deces-de-l-ex-president-Felix-Malloum.html (French)
  • Rosa Markmann
    Rosa Markmann
    Rosa Markmann Reijer de González Videla was the Chilean First Lady from 1946 to 1952, during the presidency of her husband, Gabriel González Videla...

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

    an First Lady
    First Ladies of Chile
    First Lady of Chile is the unofficial title for the wife of the President of Chile. In colonial times the wives of the Royal Governors were known as Presidentas, title that was in use during the first half of the 19th century, but was slowly superseded by the newer of First Lady...

     (1946–1952). http://www.enmemoria.com/obituarios/rosa-markmann.html (Spanish)
  • Peter Wheeler
    Peter Wheeler (TVR)
    Peter Robert Wheeler was a chemical engineer from Sheffield, Yorkshire, UK, who owned the Blackpool-based TVR sports car company for 23 years....

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

     chemical engineer
    Chemical engineer
    In the field of engineering, a chemical engineer is the profession in which one works principally in the chemical industry to convert basic raw materials into a variety of products, and deals with the design and operation of plants and equipment to perform such work...

     and businessman, owner of TVR
    TVR
    thumb|right|240px|TVR No.2, the oldest surviving TVR, located at [[Lakeland Motor Museum, Newby Bridge, Cumbria]]TVR was an independent British manufacturer of sports cars. Until 2006 it was based in the English seaside town of Blackpool, Lancashire, but has since split up into several smaller...

    , after short illness. http://www.drivers-republic.com/first_look/news/details.cfm?articleid=f0ead39facc146febbc2a8852b77d32c

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  • Viacheslav Aliabiev
    Viacheslav Aliabiev
    Viacheslav Mikhailovich Aliabiev was a Ukrainian professional footballer who won the Soviet Cup in 1961 and 1962 with Shakhtyor Stalino. He died from cancer on 11 June 2009, at the age of 75.-References:...

    , 75, Ukrainian
    Ukraine
    Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe. It has an area of 603,628 km², making it the second largest contiguous country on the European continent, after Russia...

     footballer (Shakhtyor Stalino
    FC Shakhtar Donetsk
    FC Shakhtar Donetsk is a Ukrainian professional football club from the city of Donetsk. Shakhtar has appeared in several European competitions and currently is often a participant of the UEFA Champions League. The club became the first Ukrainian club to win the UEFA Cup in 2009, the last year...

    ), USSR Cup winner (1961, 1962), 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.shakhtar.com/en/news/9778
  • Sidney W. Bijou
    Sidney W. Bijou
    Sidney William Bijou was an American developmental psychologist who developed an approach of treating childhood disorders using behavioral therapy, in which positive actions were rewarded and negative behaviors were largely ignored, rather than punished.-Early life and education:Bijou was born in...

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

     child psychologist
    Developmental psychology
    Developmental psychology, also known as human development, is the scientific study of systematic psychological changes, emotional changes, and perception changes that occur in human beings over the course of their life span. Originally concerned with infants and children, the field has expanded to...

    . http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/22/science/22bijou.html
  • Marian Goliński, 59, 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...

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

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

    . http://wiadomosci.gazeta.pl/Wiadomosci/1,80273,6710726,Posel_PiS_Marian_Golinski_zginal_w_wypadku_samochodowym.html (Polish)
  • Jakob Kjersem
    Jakob Kjersem
    Jakob Kjersem was a Norwegian long-distance runner who specialized in the 10,000 metres. He represented Tresfjord IL....

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

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

     athlete. http://www.smp.no/article/20090612/NYHETER/462425381/1002 (Norwegian)
  • Frank J. Low
    Frank J. Low
    Frank James Low was a solid state physicist who became a leader in the new field of infrared astronomy, after inventing the gallium doped germanium bolometer in 1961...

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

     physicist
    Physicist
    A physicist is a scientist who studies or practices physics. Physicists study a wide range of physical phenomena in many branches of physics spanning all length scales: from sub-atomic particles of which all ordinary matter is made to the behavior of the material Universe as a whole...

     and astronomer
    Astronomer
    An astronomer is a scientist who studies celestial bodies such as planets, stars and galaxies.Historically, astronomy was more concerned with the classification and description of phenomena in the sky, while astrophysics attempted to explain these phenomena and the differences between them using...

    . http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2009/6/21/745270/-An-Astronomy-Pioneer-Dies
  • Christel Peters
    Christel Peters
    Christel Peters was a German TV and stage-actress.- Biography :Peters was born in Swinemünde, Germany as a child of an actor's family and started to appear on a stage in the age of four....

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

     actress. http://www.tagesschau.de/kultur/christelpeters102.html (German)
  • Carl Pursell
    Carl Pursell
    Carl Duane Pursell was a politician from the U.S. state of Michigan.Pursell was born in Imlay City, Michigan and graduated from Plymouth High School, Plymouth, Michigan, in 1951. He worked in his father's business and served in the United States Army from 1957 to 1959...

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

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

    , U.S. Representative from Michigan
    United States Congressional Delegations from Michigan
    This is a complete listing of all historical congressional delegations from Michigan to the United States Senate and United States House of Representatives.-United States Senate:-Delegates from Michigan Territory:-Members from Michigan:-Notes:...

     (1977–1993), heart disease
    Heart disease
    Heart disease, cardiac disease or cardiopathy is an umbrella term for a variety of diseases affecting the heart. , it is the leading cause of death in the United States, England, Canada and Wales, accounting for 25.4% of the total deaths in the United States.-Types:-Coronary heart disease:Coronary...

    . http://www.detnews.com/article/20090611/METRO/906110490/1361/Former-U.S.-Rep.-Pursell-dies
  • Ricardo Rangel
    Ricardo Rangel
    Ricardo Achiles Rangel was a Mozambican photojournalist and photographer.-Early life:Rangel was born in the city of Lourenço Marques, now known as Maputo, Portuguese East Africa in February 1924. His father was a Greek businessman and Rangel was of African, European and Chinese descent...

    , 85, Mozambican
    Mozambique
    Mozambique, officially the Republic of Mozambique , is a country in southeastern Africa bordered by the Indian Ocean to the east, Tanzania to the north, Malawi and Zambia to the northwest, Zimbabwe to the west and Swaziland and South Africa to the southwest...

     photojournalist. http://allafrica.com/stories/200906120679.html
  • Sumire
    Sumire (model)
    , better known by her genjina ', was a Japanese hostess and fashion model, who was known as a featured model on the popular gal fashion magazine Koakuma Ageha.-Early life:...

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

    ese fashion model, brain hemorrhage. http://topics.jp.msn.com/wadai/rocketnews24/column.aspx?articleid=79978 (Japanese)
  • Roger Terry
    Roger Terry
    Lt. Roger "Bill" Terry was one of the Tuskegee Airmen. He served in the U.S. Army Air Corps in World War II. In 1945 he was stationed at Freeman Field, Indiana, where he was excluded from the "whites only" officers club, PX and theatre, which German POWs were allowed to attend...

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

     airman
    Airman
    An airman is a member of the air component of a nation's armed service. In the United States Air Force and the Royal Air Force , it can also refer to a specific enlisted rank...

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

    ), heart failure. http://www.examiner.com/a-2065843~Tuskegee_Airman_Roger_Terry_dies_in_Los_Angeles.html?cid=rss-California_Headlines

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  • Barry Beckett
    Barry Beckett
    Barry Edward Beckett was a keyboardist who worked as a session musician with several notable artists on their studio albums...

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

     record producer
    Record producer
    A record producer is an individual working within the music industry, whose job is to oversee and manage the recording of an artist's music...

    , session musician
    Session musician
    Session musicians are instrumental and vocal performers, musicians, who are available to work with others at live performances or recording sessions. Usually such musicians are not permanent members of a musical ensemble and often do not achieve fame in their own right as soloists or bandleaders...

    , keyboardist
    Keyboardist
    A keyboardist is a musician who plays keyboard instruments. Until the early 1960s musicians who played keyboards were generally classified as either pianists or organists. Since the mid-1960s, a plethora of new musical instruments with keyboards have come into common usage, requiring a more...

     (Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section
    Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section
    The Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section, also known as The Swampers, are a group of American soul, R&B, and country studio musicians based in the town of Muscle Shoals, Alabama...

    ), natural causes. http://www.cmt.com/news/news-in-brief/1613741/legendary-record-producer-barry-beckett-dies.jhtml
  • Andrew Wendell Bogue
    Andrew Wendell Bogue
    Andrew Wendell Bogue was a United States federal judge.Born in Yankton, South Dakota, Bogue received a B.S. from South Dakota State College in 1941 and was in the United States Army, Signal Corps during World War II, from 1943 to 1946. He received an LL.B...

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

     federal judge
    United States federal judge
    In the United States, the title of federal judge usually means a judge appointed by the President of the United States and confirmed by the United States Senate in accordance with Article II of the United States Constitution....

    . http://www.rapidcityjournal.com/news/local/article_845bde93-3654-5b34-b6f5-cc315d4f7283.html
  • John A. Eddy, 78, American
    United States
    The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

     astronomer
    Astronomer
    An astronomer is a scientist who studies celestial bodies such as planets, stars and galaxies.Historically, astronomy was more concerned with the classification and description of phenomena in the sky, while astrophysics attempted to explain these phenomena and the differences between them using...

    , 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.dailycamera.com/obits/2009/jun/14/john-eddy/?partner=RSS
  • Tenniel Evans
    Tenniel Evans
    -Family:Walter Tenniel Evans was born in Nairobi, Kenya. His middle name derived from the illustrator Sir John Tenniel, a distant relation. His daughter, Serena Evans, is an actress, and his son, Matthew, is a television director....

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

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

    . http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2009/jun/12/obituary-tenniel-evans
  • Xaver Frick
    Xaver Frick
    Xavier Frick was a Liechtensteinian Olympic athlete and cross-country skier. He was born in Balzers, Liechtenstein. He competed as an athlete in the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin and the 1948 Winter Olympics in St. Moritz...

    , 96, Liechtenstein
    Liechtenstein
    The Principality of Liechtenstein is a doubly landlocked alpine country in Central Europe, bordered by Switzerland to the west and south and by Austria to the east. Its area is just over , and it has an estimated population of 35,000. Its capital is Vaduz. The biggest town is Schaan...

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

     athlete and cross-country skier
    Cross-country skiing
    Cross-country skiing is a winter sport in which participants propel themselves across snow-covered terrain using skis and poles...

    . http://www.european-athletics.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=7399&Itemid=2
  • Aza Gazgireeva, Russia
    Russia
    Russia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...

    n jurist, senior 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...

     in Ingushetia
    Ingushetia
    The Republic of Ingushetia is a federal subject of Russia , located in the North Caucasus region with its capital at Magas. In terms of area, the republic is the smallest of Russia's federal subjects except for the two federal cities, Moscow and Saint Petersburg...

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

    . http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2009/06/10/judge-russia-killed986.html?ref=rss&loomia_si=t0:a16:g2:r4:c0.116991:b25123726
  • Woodie Held
    Woodie Held
    Woodson George "Woodie" Held was a shortstop/outfielder in Major League Baseball who played for the New York Yankees, Kansas City Athletics, Cleveland Indians, Washington Senators, Baltimore Orioles, California Angels and Chicago White Sox. He batted and threw right-handed...

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

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

     player (Cleveland Indians
    Cleveland Indians
    The Cleveland Indians are a professional baseball team based in Cleveland, Ohio. They are in the Central Division of Major League Baseball's American League. Since , they have played in Progressive Field. The team's spring training facility is in Goodyear, Arizona...

    ), brain cancer. http://www.cleveland.com/tribe/index.ssf/2009/06/former_cleveland_indians_short.html
  • Huey Long
    Huey Long (singer)
    Huey Long was an African American singer and musician and was the last living member of the Ink Spots....

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

     singer (The Ink Spots
    The Ink Spots
    The Ink Spots were a popular vocal group in the 1930s and 1940s that helped define the musical genre that led to rhythm and blues and rock and roll, and the subgenre doo-wop...

    ). http://www.khou.com/news/local/stories/khou090611_tnt_huey-long-obit.6dc282d9.html
  • Michel Nguyên Khác Ngu
    Michel Nguyên Khác Ngu
    Michel Nguyễn Khắc Ngư was the third oldest living bishop of the Roman Catholic Church.Ngư was born in Vạn Đồn, Vietnam, in 1909, and was ordained as a priest on June 29, 1934. He was appointed bishop of the newly created Diocese of Long Xuyên on November 24, 1960, and received his episcopal...

    , 100, Vietnam
    Vietnam
    Vietnam – sometimes spelled Viet Nam , officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam – is the easternmost country on the Indochina Peninsula in Southeast Asia. It is bordered by China to the north, Laos to the northwest, Cambodia to the southwest, and the South China Sea –...

    ese Roman Catholic
    Roman Catholic Church
    The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the world's largest Christian church, with over a billion members. Led by the Pope, it defines its mission as spreading the gospel of Jesus Christ, administering the sacraments and exercising charity...

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

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

     of Long Xuyen (1960–1997). http://www.asianews.it/index.php?l=en&art=15485&size=A
  • Jack Nimitz
    Jack Nimitz
    Jack Nimitz was an American jazz baritone saxophonist.He played in a variety of genres including jazz and rock...

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

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

     baritone saxophonist
    Baritone saxophone
    The baritone saxophone, often called "bari sax" , is one of the largest and lowest pitched members of the saxophone family. It was invented by Adolphe Sax. The baritone is distinguished from smaller sizes of saxophone by the extra loop near its mouthpiece...

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

    . http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/news.php?id=37645
  • Richard Quick
    Richard Quick
    Richard Walter Quick was the head coach of the women's swim team at Stanford University, California, U.S. from 1988 through 2005. He has been a coach for the US Olympic team for six Olympics - 1984, 1988, 1992, 1996, 2000 and 2004...

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

     swimming
    Swimming (sport)
    Swimming is a sport governed by the Fédération Internationale de Natation .-History: Competitive swimming in Europe began around 1800 BCE, mostly in the form of the freestyle. In 1873 Steve Bowyer introduced the trudgen to Western swimming competitions, after copying the front crawl used by Native...

     and diving
    Diving
    Diving is the sport of jumping or falling into water from a platform or springboard, sometimes while performing acrobatics. Diving is an internationally-recognized sport that is part of the Olympic Games. In addition, unstructured and non-competitive diving is a recreational pastime.Diving is one...

     coach
    Coach (sport)
    In sports, a coach is an individual involved in the direction, instruction and training of the operations of a sports team or of individual sportspeople.-Staff:...

    , 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.wrbl.com/rbl/sports/college/article/richard_quick_passes_away/75792/
  • Stelios Skevofilakas
    Stelios Skevofilakas
    Stelios Skevofilakas was a Greek footballer who played for AEK Athens and Atromitos. He also earned 15 caps for the Greek national team, playing in qualifying matches for the 1966 FIFA World Cup and UEFA Euro 1968.-External links:...

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

     footballer (AEK Athens), stomach cancer
    Stomach cancer
    Gastric cancer, commonly referred to as stomach cancer, can develop in any part of the stomach and may spread throughout the stomach and to other organs; particularly the esophagus, lungs, lymph nodes, and the liver...

    . http://www.sport-fm.gr/article/180427 (Greek)
  • Helle Virkner
    Helle Virkner
    Helle Genie Virkner was a Danish actress. She was married three times, including to then Danish Prime Minister Jens Otto Krag....

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

     actress, 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://politiken.dk/newsinenglish/article728994.ece

9

  • Duke Bainum
    Duke Bainum
    Mark Edmund "Duke" Bainum was an American politician and physician. Bainum served in the Hawaii State House of Representatives as a member of the Hawaii Democratic Party and was elected in a nonpartisan race to the Honolulu City Council and held various committee chairmanships during his tenure...

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

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

     (Hawaii House of Representatives
    Hawaii House of Representatives
    The Hawaii House of Representatives is the lower house of the Hawaii State Legislature. Accord to Article III, Section 3 of the Hawaii Constitution, amended during the 1978 constitutional convention, the House of Representatives consists of 51 members representing an equal amount of districts...

    , Honolulu City Council
    Honolulu City Council
    The Honolulu City Council is the legislative branch of the City & County of Honolulu and is considered the second most powerful parliamentary body in the State of Hawaii, following the Hawaii State Legislature...

    ), aortic aneurysm
    Aortic aneurysm
    An aortic aneurysm is a general term for any swelling of the aorta to greater than 1.5 times normal, usually representing an underlying weakness in the wall of the aorta at that location...

    . http://www.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/20090611/NEWS01/906110345
  • Norman E. Brinker
    Norman E. Brinker
    Norman Eugene Brinker was a prominent restaurateur who was responsible for the creation of new business concepts within the restaurant field, such as the salad bar.-Biography:He was born on June 3, 1931...

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

     restaurateur
    Restaurateur
    A restaurateur is a person who opens and runs restaurants professionally. Although over time the term has come to describe any person who owns a restaurant, traditionally it refers to a highly skilled professional who is proficient in all aspects of the restaurant business.-Etymology:The word...

     (Brinker International
    Brinker International
    Brinker International, Inc. , is the parent company of Chili's and Maggiano's Little Italy.-History:It was founded in 1975 as Chili's Bar and Grill, purchased by restaurateur Norman E. Brinker in 1983 and rechristened Brinker International in 1990; it now has more than 1,500 restaurants worldwide...

    ), aspiration pneumonia
    Aspiration pneumonia
    Aspiration pneumonia is bronchopneumonia that develops due to the entrance of foreign materials into the bronchial tree, usually oral or gastric contents...

    . http://www.wfaa.com/sharedcontent/dws/wfaa/latestnews/stories/wfaa090609_ac_brinkerobit.6300d72b.html
  • Edward Hanrahan
    Edward Hanrahan
    Edward Vincent Hanrahan was a Cook County, Illinois State's Attorney who had been groomed as a prospective successor to Mayor of Chicago Richard J...

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

     lawyer, State's Attorney
    State's Attorney
    In the United States, the State's Attorney is, most commonly, an elected official who represents the State in criminal prosecutions and is often the chief law enforcement officer of their respective county, circuit...

     (Cook County, Illinois
    Cook County, Illinois
    Cook County is a county in the U.S. state of Illinois, with its county seat in Chicago. It is the second most populous county in the United States after Los Angeles County. The county has 5,194,675 residents, which is 40.5 percent of all Illinois residents. Cook County's population is larger than...

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

    . http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/12/us/12hanrahan.html
  • Jean Hugel
    Jean Hugel
    Jean "Johnny" Frederic Hugel was an Alsatian wine producer, described by wine expert Tom Stevenson as "the single most important person in the development of Alsace wine industry throughout the 20th century."...

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

     winemaker
    Winemaker
    A winemaker or vintner is a person engaged in winemaking. They are generally employed by wineries or wine companies, where their work includes:*Cooperating with viticulturists...

     (Alsace wine
    Alsace wine
    Alsace wine or Alsatian wine is produced in the Alsace region in France and is primarily white. These wines, which for historical reasons have a strong Germanic influence, are produced under three different Appellations d'Origine Contrôlées : Alsace AOC for white, rosé and red wines, Alsace Grand...

    ), 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/lifeandstyle/2009/jun/15/obituary-jean-hugel
  • Bill Lillard
    Bill Lillard
    William "Bill" Beverly Lillard started his career in the minors in 1938 with the San Francisco Seals and after hitting .335 that season moved up to Major League Baseball playing shortstop from through for the Philadelphia Athletics of the American League. Listed at 5' 10", 170 lb., Lillard...

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

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

     player (Philadelphia Athletics
    Oakland Athletics
    The Oakland Athletics are a Major League Baseball team based in Oakland, California. The Athletics are a member of the Western Division of Major League Baseball's American League. From to the present, the Athletics have played in the O.co Coliseum....

    ).
  • Jack Littrell
    Jack Littrell
    Jack Napier Littrell was a Major League Baseball shortstop in the 1950s.Born in Louisville, Kentucky in 1929, Littrell played with the Philadelphia and Kansas City Athletics and the Chicago Cubs....

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

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

     player, 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.legacy.com/obituaries/louisville/obituary.aspx?n=jack-napier-littrell&pid=128281988
  • Dick May
    Dick May
    Dick May was a NASCAR driver who competed in 185 races in the NASCAR Grand National/Winston Cup between 1967 and 1985....

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

     racing driver
    Auto racing
    Auto racing is a motorsport involving the racing of cars for competition. It is one of the world's most watched televised sports.-The beginning of racing:...

    , after long illness. http://www.watertowndailytimes.com/article/20090611/SPORTS01/306119979/-1/SPORTS
  • Michael Roof
    Michael Roof
    Michael Roof was an American television and film actor.Roof was born at an Air Force hospital in Tampa, Florida to Michael Roof, Sr. and Jean...

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

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

     (xXx
    XXX
    XXX may refer to:* The number 30 in Roman numerals* The year 30 AD* Games of the XXX Olympiad, the 2012 Summer Olympic Games in London, England* Super Bowl XXX, held on January 28, 1996* A mark indicating "extra strong"* Alcoholic beverages...

    , Black Hawk Down, The Dukes of Hazzard
    The Dukes of Hazzard (film)
    The Dukes of Hazzard is a 2005 comedy film based on the American television series of the same name. The film was directed by Jay Chandrasekhar and released on August 5, 2005 by Warner Bros. Pictures...

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

     by hanging. http://www.ocala.com/article/20090611/ARTICLES/906119980/0/VIDEO=Actor-Michael-Roof-dies-in-Georgia-father-in-Dunnellon-confirms-death
  • Dave Simons
    Dave Simons
    Dave Simons was an American comic book artist known for his work on Conan, Ghost Rider, Red Sonja, and Spider-Man for Marvel Comics and Forgotten Realms for DC Comics...

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

     comic book artist
    Comic Book Artist
    Comic Book Artist was an American magazine founded by Jon B. Cooke devoted to anecdotal histories of American comic books, with emphasis on comics published since the 1960s...

    , 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.newsfromme.com/archives/2009_06_10.html#017246
  • Arne Tovik
    Arne Tovik
    Arne Olsen Tovik was a Norwegian journalist.He was active in the Workers' Youth League in his younger days. He worked for the Labour Party from 1984, and was a campaign secretary for the Norwegian elections of 1987....

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

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

    . http://www.ta.no/nyheter/article4389415.ece (Norwegian)
  • Karl Michael Vogler
    Karl Michael Vogler
    Karl Michael Vogler was a German actor probably best known for his appearances in several big-budget English-language films of the 1960s and 1970s, including The Blue Max where he co-starred with George Peppard and Ursula Andress followed a few years later by Patton, in which he portrayed Erwin...

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

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

    . http://www.rp-online.de/public/article/remscheid/718343/Schauspieler-Karl-Michael-Vogler-gestorben.html (German)

8

  • Omar Bongo
    Omar Bongo
    El Hadj Omar Bongo Ondimba , born as Albert-Bernard Bongo, was a Gabonese politician who was President of Gabon for 42 years from 1967 until his death in office in 2009....

    , 73, Gabon
    Gabon
    Gabon , officially the Gabonese Republic is a state in west central Africa sharing borders with Equatorial Guinea to the northwest, Cameroon to the north, and with the Republic of the Congo curving around the east and south. The Gulf of Guinea, an arm of the Atlantic Ocean is to the west...

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

    , President (1967–2009), heart attack
    Myocardial infarction
    Myocardial infarction or acute myocardial infarction , commonly known as a heart attack, results from the interruption of blood supply to a part of the heart, causing heart cells to die...

    . http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/8090056.stm
  • Frank Dasso
    Frank Dasso
    Frank Joseph Nicholas Dasso was a pitcher in Major League Baseball who played for the Cincinnati Reds during the 1945 and 1946 seasons.-Early life:Dasso was born on August 31, 1917 in Chicago, Illinois...

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

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

     player. http://www.legacy.com/wenworld/Obituaries.asp?Page=Lifestory&PersonId=128490996
  • Sheila Finestone
    Sheila Finestone
    Sheila Finestone, PC was a Canadian Member of Parliament and Senator.-Early life:Born in Montreal, Quebec, the daughter of Minnie Cummings Abbey and Monroe Abbey, her father was a president of the Canadian Jewish Congress. Finestone received a Bachelor of Science degree from McGill University in...

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

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

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

     for Mount Royal
    Mount Royal (electoral district)
    Mount Royal is a federal electoral district in Quebec, Canada, that has been represented in the Canadian House of Commons since 1925. Its population in 2006 was 98,888....

     (1984–1999) and Senator (1999–2002), 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.canada.com/Retired+senator+Sheila+Finestone+dies/1677019/story.html
  • Aage Rou Jensen
    Aage Rou Jensen
    Aage Rou Jensen was a Danish international footballer player who played over 400 times for AGF. He was a reserve member of the Danish squad at the 1952 Summer Olympics. He later became manager of AGF.-Honours:Club...

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

     footballer. http://www.agffodbold.dk/news.asp?id=6690 (Danish)
  • Nathan Marsters
    Nathan Marsters
    Nathan Marsters was a professional ice hockey goaltender.Marsters was initially drafted by the Los Angeles Kings 165th overall in the 2000 NHL entry draft but signed as a free agent by the Anaheim Ducks in November 2005. He never managed to play in the NHL however...

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

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

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

    . http://blog.timesunion.com/hockey/former-rpi-goalie-killed-in-auto-accident/1994
  • Harold Norse
    Harold Norse
    Harold Norse was an American writer who created a body of work using the American idiom of everyday language and images. One of the expatriate artists of the Beat generation, Norse was widely published and anthologized.- Life :Born Harold Rosen to an unmarried Lithuanian Jewish immigrant in Brooklyn...

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

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

    . http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/06/14/BABV183SHI.DTL
  • Johnny Palermo
    Johnny Palermo
    John Joseph "Johnny" Palermo was an American television actor.A native of Rochester, New York, Palermo graduated from Webster High School in 2000. He is the son of John M. Palermo and Patricia A. Crawford and brother to Jennifer M. Alma and Rick F. Palermo. While there, he played football and...

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

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

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

    . http://www.reuters.com/article/entertainmentNews/idUSTRE55A0GO20090611
  • Habib Tanvir
    Habib Tanvir
    Habib Tanvir was one of the most popular Indian Urdu, Hindi playwrights, a theatre director, poet and actor. He is the writer of plays such as, Agra Bazar and Charandas Chor...

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

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

     and theatre director, after short illness. http://sify.com/news/fullstory.php?a=jginEzajhga&title=Noted_playwright_Habib_Tanvir_passes_away&?vsv=smm/

7

  • Roy Boe
    Roy Boe
    Roy Lars Magnus Boe was an owner of the New Jersey Nets, New York Islanders, and several other professional sports teams....

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

     businessman
    Businessperson
    A businessperson is someone involved in a particular undertaking of activities for the purpose of generating revenue from a combination of human, financial, or physical capital. An entrepreneur is an example of a business person...

    , owner of New Jersey Nets
    New Jersey Nets
    The New Jersey Nets are a professional basketball team based in Newark, New Jersey. They are members of the Atlantic Division of the Eastern Conference in the National Basketball Association...

     (1969–1978), New York Islanders
    New York Islanders
    The New York Islanders are a professional ice hockey team based in Uniondale, New York. They are members of the Atlantic Division of the Eastern Conference of the National Hockey League...

     (1972–1979), heart failure. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/09/sports/09boe.html
  • Hugh Hopper
    Hugh Hopper
    Hugh Colin Hopper was a progressive rock and jazz fusion bass guitarist. He was a prominent member of the Canterbury scene, as a member of Soft Machine and various other related bands.-Early career:...

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

     progressive rock
    Progressive rock
    Progressive rock is a subgenre of rock music that developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s as part of a "mostly British attempt to elevate rock music to new levels of artistic credibility." John Covach, in Contemporary Music Review, says that many thought it would not just "succeed the pop of...

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

     and composer
    Composer
    A composer is a person who creates music, either by musical notation or oral tradition, for interpretation and performance, or through direct manipulation of sonic material through electronic media...

     (Soft Machine
    Soft Machine
    Soft Machine were an English rock band from Canterbury, named after the book The Soft Machine by William S. Burroughs. They were one of the central bands in the Canterbury scene, and helped pioneer the progressive rock genre...

    ), leukaemia. http://www.jazzwisemagazine.com/component/content/10854?task=view
  • Willie Kilmarnock
    Willie Kilmarnock
    Willie Kilmarnock was a Scottish football player who most notably captained Motherwell's 1952 Scottish Cup winning team. He also played for Airdrie and Irvine Meadow XI.- References :...

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

     footballer (Motherwell F.C.
    Motherwell F.C.
    Motherwell Football & Athletic Club are a Scottish professional football club based in Motherwell, North Lanarkshire. The club compete in the Scottish Premier League and are one of only seven teams to have remained in this league since it was founded in 1998...

    ). http://news.scotsman.com/obituaries/Willie-Kilmarnock-Footballer-and-publican.5399279.jp
  • Gordon Lennon
    Gordon Lennon
    Gordon Lennon was a Northern Irish association football player. Starting his career at Albion Rovers, he signed for Partick Thistle in 2007, though he made no appearances for the first team and spent most of his season with the club on loan to Stenhousemuir...

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

     footballer (Dumbarton F.C.
    Dumbarton F.C.
    Dumbarton Football Club is Scotland's 4th oldest football club – founded in 1872, just after Queen's Park , Kilmarnock and Stranraer...

    ), car crash. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/glasgow_and_west/8089017.stm
  • Kenny Rankin
    Kenny Rankin
    Kenny Rankin was an American pop and jazz singer and songwriter, originally from the Washington Heights neighborhood of New York City, New York.-Biography:...

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

     singer-songwriter
    Singer-songwriter
    Singer-songwriters are musicians who write, compose and sing their own musical material including lyrics and melodies. As opposed to contemporary popular music singers who write their own songs, the term singer-songwriter describes a distinct form of artistry, closely associated with the...

    , 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.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-kenny-rankin9-2009jun09,0,5347669.story
  • Peter Townsend, 81, British
    United Kingdom
    The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...

     sociologist, 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.bristol.ac.uk/news/2009/6397.html
  • Baron Vaea, 88, Tonga
    Tonga
    Tonga, officially the Kingdom of Tonga , is a state and an archipelago in the South Pacific Ocean, comprising 176 islands scattered over of ocean in the South Pacific...

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

    , Prime Minister
    Prime Minister of Tonga
    This is a list of Prime Ministers of Tonga from the establishment of that office in 1876 until the present day.-List of Premiers/Prime Ministers of Tonga :-External links:*...

     (1991–2000), after short illness. http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/06/08/2592317.htm?section=world

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  • Charles Arnold-Baker
    Charles Arnold-Baker
    Charles Arnold-Baker, OBE, born Wolfgang Charles Werner von Blumenthal was an English barrister , an academic and a historian. He was the author of the Companion to British History...

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

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

    . http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article6465131.ece
  • Jean Dausset
    Jean Dausset
    Jean-Baptiste-Gabriel-Joachim Dausset was a French immunologist born in Toulouse, France. He married Rose Mayoral in 1963, with whom he had two children, Henri and Irène...

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

     immunologist
    Immunology
    Immunology is a broad branch of biomedical science that covers the study of all aspects of the immune system in all organisms. It deals with the physiological functioning of the immune system in states of both health and diseases; malfunctions of the immune system in immunological disorders ; the...

    , Nobel Prize in Medicine
    Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
    The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine administered by the Nobel Foundation, is awarded once a year for outstanding discoveries in the field of life science and medicine. It is one of five Nobel Prizes established in 1895 by Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite, in his will...

     (1980). http://www.lemonde.fr/carnet/article/2009/06/06/deces-du-prix-nobel-de-medecine-jean-dausset_1203493_3382.html (French)
  • Mary Howard de Liagre
    Mary Howard de Liagre
    Mary Howard de Liagre, née Rogers was an American actress usually credited as Mary Howard....

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

     actress (Abe Lincoln in Illinois
    Abe Lincoln in Illinois (film)
    Abe Lincoln in Illinois is a 1940 biographical film which tells the story of the life of Abraham Lincoln from his departure from Kentucky until his election as President of the United States....

    , Swamp Water
    Swamp Water
    Swamp Water is a 1941 film directed by Jean Renoir, starring Walter Brennan, produced at 20th Century Fox, and based on the novel by Vereen Bell. The drama was shot on location at Okefenokee Swamp, Waycross, Georgia, USA. This was Renoir's first American film...

    ). http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118004676.html?categoryId=25&cs=1
  • Jim Owens
    Jim Owens
    -External links:...

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

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

     (Washington Huskies
    Washington Huskies
    Washington Huskies is the nickname of the University of Washington's athletic teams. The school is a member of the Pacific-12 Conference. The athletic program is made up of 9 men's sports and 10 women's sports Washington Huskies is the nickname of the University of Washington's athletic teams. The...

    ), complications from hypertension
    Hypertension
    Hypertension or high blood pressure is a cardiac chronic medical condition in which the systemic arterial blood pressure is elevated. What that means is that the heart is having to work harder than it should to pump the blood around the body. Blood pressure involves two measurements, systolic and...

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

     problems. http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/collegesports/2009308687_webjimowens06.html
  • Pio Sagapolutele
    Pio Sagapolutele
    Pio Alika Sagapolutele was an American football defensive lineman who played seven seasons in the National Football League for the Cleveland Browns, the New England Patriots, and the New Orleans Saints. He started in Super Bowl XXXI for the New England Patriots...

    , 39, American Samoa
    American Samoa
    American Samoa is an unincorporated territory of the United States located in the South Pacific Ocean, southeast of the sovereign state of Samoa...

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

     (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...

    , New England Patriots
    New England Patriots
    The New England Patriots, commonly called the "Pats", are a professional football team based in the Greater Boston area, playing their home games in the town of Foxborough, Massachusetts at Gillette Stadium. The team is part of the East Division of the American Football Conference in the National...

    ), 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://msn.foxsports.com/nfl/story/9662458/Sagapolutele,-Pats-Super-Bowl-team-starter,-dead

5

  • Bernard Barker
    Bernard Barker
    Bernard Leon Barker , known as "Macho" or by his mother's maiden name, "Terry", was a Watergate burglar, and burglar of Daniel Ellsberg's psychiatrist's office....

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

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

     intelligence operative
    Espionage
    Espionage or spying involves an individual obtaining information that is considered secret or confidential without the permission of the holder of the information. Espionage is inherently clandestine, lest the legitimate holder of the information change plans or take other countermeasures once it...

    , Watergate burglar
    Watergate scandal
    The Watergate scandal was a political scandal during the 1970s in the United States resulting from the break-in of the Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Watergate office complex in Washington, D.C., and the Nixon administration's attempted cover-up of its involvement...

    , 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.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-bernard-barker6-2009jun06,0,6871098.story
  • Peter L. Bernstein
    Peter L. Bernstein
    Peter Lewyn Bernstein was an American financial historian, economist and educator whose development and refinement of the efficient-market hypothesis made him one of the country's best known authorities in popularizing and presenting investment economics to the general public.-Education and...

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

     economic historian, 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.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601088&sid=ajK0UJLVkLDI&refer=muse
  • Alan Berkman
    Alan Berkman
    Alan Berkman was an American physician and activist in the Students for a Democratic Society and Weather Underground who went to prison for his involvement in a number of robberies staged by the organizations and their offshoots. Released after eight years in prison for armed robbery and...

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

     physician
    Physician
    A physician is a health care provider who practices the profession of medicine, which is concerned with promoting, maintaining or restoring human health through the study, diagnosis, and treatment of disease, injury and other physical and mental impairments...

     and activist, 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/2009/06/15/nyregion/15berkman.html?_r=1
  • Fleur Cowles
    Fleur Cowles
    Fleur Fenton Cowles was an American writer, editor and artist best known as the creative force behind the short-lived Flair magazine.-Personal:...

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

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

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

    . http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/08/business/media/08cowles.html?ref=obituaries
  • Baciro Dabó
    Baciro Dabó
    Major Baciro Dabó was a Guinea-Bissauan politician. Considered to have been a close ally of President João Bernardo "Nino" Vieira, he served as Minister of Territorial Administration and was standing as a candidate in the June 2009 presidential election when he was killed by security forces,...

    , 51, Guinea-Bissau
    Guinea-Bissau
    The Republic of Guinea-Bissau is a country in West Africa. It is bordered by Senegal to the north, and Guinea to the south and east, with the Atlantic Ocean to its west....

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

    . http://in.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idINIndia-40107620090605
  • Jeff Hanson
    Jeff Hanson
    Jeff Hanson was a singer-songwriter, guitarist, and multi-instrumentalist whose voice was described in a 2005 Paste review as an "angelic falsetto, a cross between Alison Krauss and Art Garfunkel that is often mistaken for a female contralto."-Biography:Hanson was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin...

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

     singer–songwriter
    Singer–songwriter
    Singer-songwriters are musicians who write, compose and sing their own musical material including lyrics and melodies. As opposed to contemporary popular music singers who write their own songs, the term singer-songwriter describes a distinct form of artistry, closely associated with the...

    , fall
    Falling (accident)
    Falling is a major cause of personal injury, especially for the elderly. Builders, electricians, miners, and painters represent worker categories representing high rates of fall injuries. The WHO estimate that 392,000 people die in falls every year...

    . http://www.startribune.com/entertainment/47108762.html
  • Richard Jacobs, 83, American
    United States
    The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

     real estate developer, owner of the Cleveland Indians
    Cleveland Indians
    The Cleveland Indians are a professional baseball team based in Cleveland, Ohio. They are in the Central Division of Major League Baseball's American League. Since , they have played in Progressive Field. The team's spring training facility is in Goodyear, Arizona...

     (1986–2001), after long illness. http://www.newsnet5.com/sports/19666391/detail.html
  • Luo Jing
    Luo Jing
    Luo Jing was a prominent news anchor for China Central Television , the main state broadcaster of the People's Republic of China. He was known all over China as an announcer for the 7:00pm CCTV News program Xinwen Lianbo. As one of China's most well-known TV personalities, Luo's voice was very...

    , 48, Chinese
    People's Republic of China
    China , officially the People's Republic of China , is the most populous country in the world, with over 1.3 billion citizens. Located in East Asia, the country covers approximately 9.6 million square kilometres...

     news presenter
    News presenter
    A news presenter is a person who presents news during a news program in the format of a television show, on the radio or the Internet.News presenters can work in a radio studio, television studio and from remote broadcasts in the field especially weather...

    , 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.danwei.org/state_media/news_anchor_luo_jing_dies_at_4.php
  • Adilgerei Magomedtagirov
    Adilgerei Magomedtagirov
    Adilgerei Magomedtagirov was a Russian politician and general, who served as the Interior Minister of Dagestan, a Russian Republic....

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

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

    , Interior Minister
    Interior minister
    An interior ministry is a government ministry typically responsible for policing, national security, and immigration matters. The ministry is often headed by a minister of the interior or minister of home affairs...

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

    . http://in.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idINIndia-40111820090605
  • Rajeev Motwani
    Rajeev Motwani
    Rajeev Motwani was a professor of Computer Science at Stanford University whose research focused on theoretical computer science. He was an early advisor and supporter of companies including Google and PayPal, and a special advisor to Sequoia Capital. He was a winner of the Gödel Prize in...

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

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

     academic, advisor
    Commodity trading advisor
    A commodity trading advisor is an asset manager who follows a set of systematic investment strategies in futures contracts and options on futures contracts. The advisors originally operated predominantly in commodities markets, but today they invest in any liquid futures market. They are...

     for Google, Inc.
    Google
    Google Inc. is an American multinational public corporation invested in Internet search, cloud computing, and advertising technologies. Google hosts and develops a number of Internet-based services and products, and generates profit primarily from advertising through its AdWords program...

    . http://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/stories/2009/06/01/daily84.html
  • Boris Pokrovsky
    Boris Pokrovsky
    Boris Alexandrovich Pokrovsky was the operatic stage director of the Bolshoi Theatre between 1943 and 1982...

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

    n opera director, People's Artist of the USSR
    People's Artist of the USSR
    People's Artist of the USSR, also sometimes translated as National Artist of the USSR, was an honorary title granted to citizens of the Soviet Union.- Nomenclature and significance :...

    . http://www.bolshoi.ru/ru/theatre/people/detail.php?act26=info&id26=894 (Russian)
  • Helder Proença
    Helder Proença
    Helder Proença was a Guinea-Bissauan politician who served as the country's former Minister of Defense during the administration of former President João Bernardo Vieira...

    , Guinea-Bissau
    Guinea-Bissau
    The Republic of Guinea-Bissau is a country in West Africa. It is bordered by Senegal to the north, and Guinea to the south and east, with the Atlantic Ocean to its west....

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

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

    . http://english.aljazeera.net/news/africa/2009/06/20096573958404550.html
  • Haydn Tanner
    Haydn Tanner
    Haydn Tanner was a Welsh international rugby union player who also played for the British and Irish Lions and the Barbarians....

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

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

     player. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/rugbyunion/international/wales/5486595/Oldest-Wales-and-Lions-player-Haydn-Tanner-dies-aged-92.html
  • George Edward Wahlen
    George Edward Wahlen
    George E. Wahlen was a United States Army major who previously served with the United States Navy and was awarded the U.S...

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

     soldier, Medal of Honor
    Medal of Honor
    The Medal of Honor is the highest military decoration awarded by the United States government. It is bestowed by the President, in the name of Congress, upon members of the United States Armed Forces who distinguish themselves through "conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of his or her...

     recipient, after long illness. http://www.standard.net/live/news/175190/

4

  • Mojisola Adekunle-Obasanjo
    Mojisola Adekunle-Obasanjo
    Mojisola Adekunle-Obasanjo was a retired Major of the Nigerian army who ran for the Presidency under the Masses Movement of Nigeria in 2003, and was on the ballot as the only female contender for the 2007 presidential elections....

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

    . http://www.thisdayonline.com/nview.php?id=145373
  • Lev Brovarskyi, 60, Ukrainian
    Ukraine
    Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe. It has an area of 603,628 km², making it the second largest contiguous country on the European continent, after Russia...

     Soviet-era footballer and coach. http://www.gazeta.ru/sport/2009/06/kz_3206933.shtml (Russian)
  • Robert Colescott
    Robert Colescott
    Robert H. Colescott, was an American painter. He is known for satirical genre and crowd subjects, often conveying his exuberant, comical, or bitter reflections on being African-American. He studied with Fernand Léger in Paris...

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

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

    , U.S. representative to Venice Biennale
    Venice Biennale
    The Venice Biennale is a major contemporary art exhibition that takes place once every two years in Venice, Italy. The Venice Film Festival is part of it. So too is the Venice Biennale of Architecture, which is held in even years...

     (1997). http://www.oregonlive.com/art/index.ssf/2009/06/robert_colescott_19252009.html
  • Ward Costello
    Ward Costello
    Edward "Ward" Costello was an American actor, composer and lyricist. He composed and wrote the lyrics to the theme for The Gallant Hours....

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

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

     and composer
    Composer
    A composer is a person who creates music, either by musical notation or oral tradition, for interpretation and performance, or through direct manipulation of sonic material through electronic media...

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

    . http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118004981.html?categoryId=25&cs=1
  • Philip D. Curtin
    Philip D. Curtin
    Philip De Armind Curtin was a Professor Emeritus at Johns Hopkins University and historian on Africa and the Atlantic slave trade...

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

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

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

    . http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/16/us/16curtin.html
  • Luc Alfons de Hovre
    Luc Alfons de Hovre
    Bishop Luc Alfons de Hovre, S.J., was Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Mechelen-Brussel and Titular Bishop of Born on 27 February 1926 in Nederbrakel, he was ordained a Jesuit priest on 10 May 1958 at the age of 32. On 15 February 1982, aged 56, he was appointed as Auxiliary Bishop of Mechelen-Brussel...

    , 83, Belgian
    Belgium
    Belgium , officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a federal state in Western Europe. It is a founding member of the European Union and hosts the EU's headquarters, and those of several other major international organisations such as NATO.Belgium is also a member of, or affiliated to, many...

     Roman Catholic
    Roman Catholic Church
    The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the world's largest Christian church, with over a billion members. Led by the Pope, it defines its mission as spreading the gospel of Jesus Christ, administering the sacraments and exercising charity...

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

    , Auxiliary Bishop
    Auxiliary bishop
    An auxiliary bishop, in the Roman Catholic Church, is an additional bishop assigned to a diocese because the diocesan bishop is unable to perform his functions, the diocese is so extensive that it requires more than one bishop to administer, or the diocese is attached to a royal or imperial office...

     Emeritus
    Emeritus
    Emeritus is a post-positive adjective that is used to designate a retired professor, bishop, or other professional or as a title. The female equivalent emerita is also sometimes used.-History:...

     of Mechelen-Brussels (1982–2002). http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bdehovre.html
  • John F. Henning
    John F. Henning
    John Francis "Jack" Henning was a U.S. labor leader, civil servant, and a former U.S. Ambassador to New Zealand and Under Secretary of Labor...

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

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

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

    , United States Ambassador to New Zealand
    United States Ambassador to New Zealand
    The United States has maintained a consular presence in New Zealand since 1838. The first consul was James Reddy Clendon. Born in England, Clendon was a ship owner and merchant who bought land and settled in the Bay of Islands, New Zealand. In 1838 he was appointed by the federal government of the...

     (1967–1969). http://www.sacbee.com/static/weblogs/capitolalertlatest/022839.html
  • Dorothy Layton
    Dorothy Layton
    Dorothy Layton was an American film actress of the early 1930s.Born as Dorothy Ann Wannenwetsch in Cincinnati, Ohio, Layton was selected as one of the "WAMPAS Baby Stars" for 1932. Layton had a promising acting career and starred in eight films in 1932 and 1933, notably appearing several times...

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

     actress (County Hospital
    County Hospital (1932 film)
    County Hospital is a Laurel and Hardy short film made in 1932. It was directed by James Parrott, produced by Hal Roach and distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Ollie is in hospital with a broken leg, Stan comes to visit and ends up getting Ollie kicked out; on the way home Stan crashes the...

    )
    . http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/obituaries/bal-md.ob.taylor09jun09,0,7556492.story
  • Chris O'Brien
    Chris O'Brien (surgeon)
    Christopher John "Chris" O'Brien AO was an Australian head and neck surgeon. He achieved national recognition as a compassionate surgeon in the reality television series RPA.-Early life:...

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

    n oncologist
    Oncology
    Oncology is a branch of medicine that deals with cancer...

    , surgeon
    Surgeon
    In medicine, a surgeon is a specialist in surgery. Surgery is a broad category of invasive medical treatment that involves the cutting of a body, whether human or animal, for a specific reason such as the removal of diseased tissue or to repair a tear or breakage...

     on the reality television
    Reality television
    Reality television is a genre of television programming that presents purportedly unscripted dramatic or humorous situations, documents actual events, and usually features ordinary people instead of professional actors, sometimes in a contest or other situation where a prize is awarded...

     program RPA
    RPA (TV series)
    RPA is an Australian reality television show that is filmed at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital and shows the everyday workings of this major hospital in Sydney, Australia...

    , brain tumour. http://www.smh.com.au/national/tumour-claims-cancer-specialist-20090605-bxc6.html
  • Randy Smith
    Randy Smith (basketball)
    Randolph "Randy" Smith was an American professional basketball player who set the NBA record for consecutive games played. From 1972-1982, Smith played in every regular season game, en route to a then-record of 906 straight games...

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

     basketball
    National Basketball Association
    The National Basketball Association is the pre-eminent men's professional basketball league in North America. It consists of thirty franchised member clubs, of which twenty-nine are located in the United States and one in Canada...

     player (Buffalo Braves
    Los Angeles Clippers
    The Los Angeles Clippers are a professional basketball team based in Los Angeles, California, United States. They play in the Pacific Division of the Western Conference of the National Basketball Association...

    ), 1978 NBA All-Star Game
    1978 NBA All-Star Game
    GAME 28: at Atlanta, Feb. 5, 1978MVP: Randy SmithCoaches: East: Billy Cunningham, West: Jack Ramsay.-Western Conference: -Eastern Conference: -Score by periods: *Halftime— West, 66-57*Third Quarter— West, 100-92...

     MVP, 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.buffalonews.com/sports/story/693131.html

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  • Geoffrey Bingham
    Geoffrey Bingham
    Reverend Geoffrey Cyril Bingham AM, MM, was an Australian author and Minister in the Anglican Church of Australia.Geoff Bingham was born in Goulburn, New South Wales...

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

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

    . http://www.newcreation.org.au/
  • David Bromige
    David Bromige
    David Mansfield Bromige is a Canadian poet who resided in northern California from 1962 onward. Bromige published thirty books, each one so different from the others as to seem to be the work of a different author...

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

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

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

     and academic, winner of the Pushcart Prize
    Pushcart Prize
    The Pushcart Prize is an American literary prize by Pushcart Press that honors the best "poetry, short fiction, essays or literary whatnot" published in the small presses over the previous year. Magazine and small book press editors are invited to nominate up to 6 works they have featured....

    , complications from diabetes. http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/pressdemocrat/obituary.aspx?page=lifestory&pid=128089932
  • Sam Butera
    Sam Butera
    Sam Butera was a tenor saxophone player best noted for his collaborations with Louis Prima and Keely Smith. Butera is frequently regarded as a crossover artist who performed with equal ease in both R & B and the post-big band pop style of jazz that permeated the early Vegas nightclub...

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

     saxophonist
    Saxophone
    The saxophone is a conical-bore transposing musical instrument that is a member of the woodwind family. Saxophones are usually made of brass and played with a single-reed mouthpiece similar to that of the clarinet. The saxophone was invented by the Belgian instrument maker Adolphe Sax in 1846...

    , 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.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-sam-butera5-2009jun05,0,3281584.story
  • James F. Calvert
    James F. Calvert
    James Francis Calvert served in the United States Navy, where he commanded the , the third nuclear submarine commissioned and the second submarine to reach the North Pole, which became the first to surface at the pole when it did so on August 11, 1958...

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

     naval officer, 46th Superintendent of the U.S. Naval Academy, heart failure. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/16/us/16calvert.html?_r=1
  • David Carradine
    David Carradine
    David Carradine was an American actor and martial artist, best known for his role as a warrior monk, Kwai Chang Caine, in the 1970s television series, Kung Fu, which later had a 1990s sequel series, Kung Fu: The Legend Continues...

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

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

     (Kung Fu
    Kung Fu (TV series)
    Kung Fu is an American television series that starred David Carradine. It was created by Ed Spielman, directed and produced by Jerry Thorpe, and developed by Herman Miller, who was also a writer for, and co-producer of, the series...

    , Kill Bill
    Kill Bill
    Kill Bill Volume 1 is a 2003 action thriller film written and directed by Quentin Tarantino. It is the first of two volumes that were theatrically released several months apart, the second volume being Kill Bill Volume 2....

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

    , accidental suicide by hanging
    Hanging
    Hanging is the lethal suspension of a person by a ligature. The Oxford English Dictionary states that hanging in this sense is "specifically to put to death by suspension by the neck", though it formerly also referred to crucifixion and death by impalement in which the body would remain...

    . http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/5450564/Hollywood-star-died-in-sex-act-admits-Thai-police.html
  • Do Kum-bong
    Do Kum-bong
    Do Kum-bong was a South Korean actress whose fame peaked in the 1950s and 1960s. She starred in more than 283 films.- Filmography :- Awards :* 1963 2nd Grand Bell Awards : Best Actress for New Wife...

    , 79, South Korea
    South Korea
    The Republic of Korea , , is a sovereign state in East Asia, located on the southern portion of the Korean Peninsula. It is neighbored by the People's Republic of China to the west, Japan to the east, North Korea to the north, and the East China Sea and Republic of China to the south...

    n actress. http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/special/2009/06/178_46370.html
  • Sam George, 56, Canadian
    Canada
    Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

     activist, native rights campaigner involved with the Ipperwash Crisis
    Ipperwash Crisis
    The Ipperwash Crisis was an Indigenous land dispute that took place in Ipperwash Provincial Park, Ontario in 1995. Several members of the Stoney Point Ojibway band occupied the park in order to assert their claim to nearby land which had been expropriated from them during World War II...

    , pancreatic
    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...

     and 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.thestar.com/news/ontario/article/644710
  • Thomas Gill, 87, American
    United States
    The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

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

    , 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...

     from Hawaii
    Hawaii
    Hawaii is the newest of the 50 U.S. states , and is the only U.S. state made up entirely of islands. It is the northernmost island group in Polynesia, occupying most of an archipelago in the central Pacific Ocean, southwest of the continental United States, southeast of Japan, and northeast of...

     (1963–1965), after long illness. http://www.bizjournals.com/pacific/stories/2009/06/01/daily36.html
  • Frank G. Harrison
    Frank G. Harrison
    Frank Girard Harrison was a one-term Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.-Biography:...

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

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

    , 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...

     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...

     (1983–1985), natural causes
    Death by natural causes
    A death by natural causes, as recorded by coroners and on death certificates and associated documents, is one that is primarily attributed to natural agents: usually an illness or an internal malfunction of the body. For example, a person dying from complications from influenza or a heart attack ...

    . http://www.timesleader.com/news/Ex-congressman_mourned_06-04-2009.html
  • Geir Høgsnes
    Geir Høgsnes
    Geir Lennart Høgsnes was a Norwegian sociologist. He did research on labor and wages, and spent the better part of his academic career at the Norwegian Institute for Social Research and the University of Oslo. He was a professor until 2009, when he was found dead in his home under uncertain...

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

     sociologist
    Sociology
    Sociology is the study of society. It is a social science—a term with which it is sometimes synonymous—which uses various methods of empirical investigation and critical analysis to develop a body of knowledge about human social activity...

    . http://www.vg.no/nyheter/innenriks/artikkel.php?artid=544237 (Norwegian)
  • Peter J. Landin
    Peter J. Landin
    Peter John Landin was a British computer scientist. He was one of the first to realize that the lambda calculus could be used to model a programming language, an insight that is essential to development of both functional programming and denotational semantics.- Academic :Landin was born in...

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

     computer scientist
    Computer scientist
    A computer scientist is a scientist who has acquired knowledge of computer science, the study of the theoretical foundations of information and computation and their application in computer systems....

    , prostate cancer
    Prostate cancer
    Prostate cancer is a form of cancer that develops in the prostate, a gland in the male reproductive system. Most prostate cancers are slow growing; however, there are cases of aggressive prostate cancers. The cancer cells may metastasize from the prostate to other parts of the body, particularly...

    . http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/sep/22/peter-landin-obituary
  • John Campbell Ross
    John Campbell Ross
    John Campbell Ross was at the time of his death Australia's oldest man and the last Australian veteran of the First World War ....

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

    n supercentenarian
    Supercentenarian
    A supercentenarian is someone who has reached the age of 110 years. This age is achieved by about one in a thousand centenarians....

    , last surviving Australian veteran of World War I
    World War I
    World War I , which was predominantly called the World War or the Great War from its occurrence until 1939, and the First World War or World War I thereafter, was a major war centred in Europe that began on 28 July 1914 and lasted until 11 November 1918...

    . http://www.theage.com.au/national/australias-oldest-man-soldier-dies-aged-110-20090603-buy4.html
  • Shih Kien
    Shih Kien
    Shek Wing-cheung , better known as Shih Kien, was a Chinese actor from Hong Kong. He is sometimes credited as Shek Kin or Kien Shih...

    , 96, Hong Kong
    Hong Kong
    Hong Kong is one of two Special Administrative Regions of the People's Republic of China , the other being Macau. A city-state situated on China's south coast and enclosed by the Pearl River Delta and South China Sea, it is renowned for its expansive skyline and deep natural harbour...

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

     (Enter the Dragon
    Enter the Dragon
    Enter the Dragon is a 1973 Hong Kong martial arts co-production with Golden Harvest and Warner Bros. studios, directed by Robert Clouse; starring Bruce Lee, Jim Kelly and John Saxon. This is Bruce Lee's final film appearance before his death on July 20, 1973...

    ). http://www.kungfucinema.com/martial-arts-actor-shek-ki-dead-at-96-7734
  • Koko Taylor
    Koko Taylor
    Koko Taylor sometimes spelled KoKo Taylor was an American Chicago blues musician, popularly known as the "Queen of the Blues." She was known primarily for her rough, powerful vocals and traditional blues stylings....

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

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

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

    , complications from gastrointestinal
    Gastrointestinal tract
    The human gastrointestinal tract refers to the stomach and intestine, and sometimes to all the structures from the mouth to the anus. ....

     surgery. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/06/03/koko-taylor-legendary-blu_n_211074.html
  • Moloko Temo
    Moloko Temo
    "Koko" Moloko Temo was a South African woman who claimed to be the oldest living person in the world at 134 years of age...

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

    n centenarian, claimant to the world's oldest person title
    Oldest people
    This is a list of tables of the verified oldest people in the world in ordinal rank, such as oldest person or oldest man. In these tables, a supercentenarian is considered 'verified' if his or her claim has been validated by an international body that specifically deals in longevity research, such...

    . http://news.iafrica.com/sa/1493523.htm

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  • Kai Lai Chung
    Kai Lai Chung
    Chung Kai-lai , was a Chinese American mathematician famous for his significant contributions to modern probability theory.-Biography:...

    , 92, Chinese
    Republic of China
    The Republic of China , commonly known as Taiwan , is a unitary sovereign state located in East Asia. Originally based in mainland China, the Republic of China currently governs the island of Taiwan , which forms over 99% of its current territory, as well as Penghu, Kinmen, Matsu and other minor...

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

     mathematician
    Mathematician
    A mathematician is a person whose primary area of study is the field of mathematics. Mathematicians are concerned with quantity, structure, space, and change....

    . http://bulletin.imstat.org/pdf/38/6
  • David Eddings
    David Eddings
    David Eddings was an American author who wrote several best-selling series of epic fantasy novels.-Biography:...

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

     fantasy author
    Fantasy author
    The definition of a fantasy author is somewhat diffuse, and a matter of opinion – Jules Verne considered H. G. Wells to be a fantasy author – and there is considerable overlap with science fiction authors and horror fiction authors...

    . http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/arts_and_culture/8085289.stm
  • John Ernsting
    John Ernsting
    Air Vice-Marshal John "JE" Ernsting CB, OBE FRCP FFOM FRAeS was a senior British military commander and renowned researcher.-Early life:He was educated at Chislehurst and Sidcup Grammar School for Boys...

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

     Air Vice-Marshal
    Air Vice-Marshal
    Air vice-marshal is a two-star air-officer rank which originated in and continues to be used by the Royal Air Force. The rank is also used by the air forces of many countries which have historical British influence and it is sometimes used as the English translation of an equivalent rank in...

    , expert in aviation medicine
    Aviation medicine
    Aviation medicine, also called flight medicine or aerospace medicine, is a preventive or occupational medicine in which the patients/subjects are pilots, aircrews, or persons involved in spaceflight...

    . http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/military-obituaries/air-force-obituaries/5701286/Air-Vice-Marshal-Professor-John-Ernsting.html
  • FrancEyE
    FrancEyE
    -Biography:Frances Dean Smith was born Frances Elizabeth Dean, in San Rafael, California, on March 19, 1922. During her childhood her family moved to the East Coast, where she grew up....

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

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

    , complications from a hip fracture
    Hip fracture
    A hip fracture is a femoral fracture that occurs in the proximal end of the femur , near the hip.The term "hip fracture" is commonly used to refer to four different fracture patterns and is often due to osteoporosis; in the vast majority of cases, a hip fracture is a fragility fracture due to a...

    . http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-franceye21-2009jun21,0,1368352.story
  • Alfred Kern
    Alfred Kern
    Alfred Kern was an American novelist and professor.He served as the Frederick F. Seely Professor of English at Allegheny College in Meadville, Pennsylvania, from the 1950s until his retirement in the mid-1980s....

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

     novelist and academic. http://groups.google.com/group/alt.obituaries/browse_thread/thread/3fd4c37c67f7d7de
  • Tony Maggs
    Tony Maggs
    Anthony Francis O'Connell "Tony" Maggs was a racing driver from South Africa. He participated in 27 Formula One World Championship Grands Prix, debuting on July 15, 1961...

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

    n racing driver, 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.grandprix.com/ns/ns21525.html
  • Palghat R. Raghu
    Palghat R. Raghu
    Palghat R. Raghu was a famous Carnatic musician and percussionist.- Early life :Palghat R. Raghu was born on January 9, 1928 in Rangoon, Burma . He died of cardiac arrest on June 2, 2009. As a child, he was immensely talented and inducted into mridangam lessons very early in his life...

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

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

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

    . http://www.hindu.com/2009/06/03/stories/2009060358910800.htm
  • Kidane-Mariam Teklehaimanot
    Kidane-Mariam Teklehaimanot
    Kidane-Mariam Teklehaimanot was an Ethiopian Roman Catholic prelate. Teklehaimanot served as the Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Adigrat, in the northern Tigray region, from his ordination on 12 October 1984, until his retirement on 16 November 2001...

    , 75, Ethiopia
    Ethiopia
    Ethiopia , officially known as the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, is a country located in the Horn of Africa. It is the second-most populous nation in Africa, with over 82 million inhabitants, and the tenth-largest by area, occupying 1,100,000 km2...

    n Roman Catholic
    Roman Catholic Church
    The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the world's largest Christian church, with over a billion members. Led by the Pope, it defines its mission as spreading the gospel of Jesus Christ, administering the sacraments and exercising charity...

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

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

     of Adigrat
    Adigrat
    Adigrat is a city in the Tigray Region of Ethiopia. Located in the Misraqawi Zone at longitude and latitude with an elevation of 2457 meters above sea level, below a high ridge to the west, Adigrat is the last important Ethiopian city south of the border with Eritrea, and is considered to be a...

     (1985–2001). http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/btekl.html
  • Paul O. Williams
    Paul O. Williams
    Paul O. Williams was an American science fiction writer and haiku poet. Williams was professor emeritus of English at Principia College in Elsah, Illinois....

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

     science fiction author, aortic dissection
    Aortic dissection
    Aortic dissection occurs when a tear in the inner wall of the aorta causes blood to flow between the layers of the wall of the aorta and force the layers apart. The dissection typically extends anterograde, but can extend retrograde from the site of the intimal tear. Aortic dissection is a medical...

    . http://www.sfwa.org/news/2009/powilliams.htm

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  • Silvio Barbato
    Silvio Barbato
    Silvio Sergio Bonaccorsi Barbato was an Italian-Brazilian opera conductor and composer. He died on board Air France Flight 447.-Life and career:...

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

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

    ian 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...

     and composer
    Composer
    A composer is a person who creates music, either by musical notation or oral tradition, for interpretation and performance, or through direct manipulation of sonic material through electronic media...

    , plane crash
    Air France Flight 447
    Air France Flight 447 was a scheduled airline flight from Rio de Janeiro-Galeão to Paris-Roissy involving an Airbus A330-200 aircraft that crashed into the Atlantic Ocean on 1 June 2009, killing all 216 passengers and 12 aircrew. The investigation is still ongoing, and the cause of the...

    . http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/culture-obituaries/5454383/Silvio-Barbato.html
  • Thomas Berry
    Thomas Berry
    Thomas Berry, C.P. was a Catholic priest of the Passionist order, cultural historian and ecotheologian ....

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

     cultural historian
    Cultural history
    The term cultural history refers both to an academic discipline and to its subject matter.Cultural history, as a discipline, at least in its common definition since the 1970s, often combines the approaches of anthropology and history to look at popular cultural traditions and cultural...

     and ecotheologian
    Ecotheology
    Ecotheology is a form of constructive theology that focuses on the interrelationships of religion and nature, particularly in the light of environmental concerns. Ecotheology generally starts from the premise that a relationship exists between human religious/spiritual worldviews and the...

    . http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/04/us/04berry.html?_r=1&ref=obituaries
  • Bob Christie
    Bob Christie
    Bob Christie was an American racecar driver.Christie raced in the USAC Championship Car series in the 1956-1963 seasons, with 15 career starts, including every Indianapolis 500 race in that span...

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

     racing driver. http://www.usatoday.com/sports/motor/2009-06-03-2367786393_x.htm
  • Ken Clark
    Ken Clark (actor)
    Kenneth Donovan "Ken" Clark was an American B-movie actor. He appeared in movies in America and Europe, including the Secret Agent 077 trilogy....

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

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

    . http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0164153/Ģ
  • Ernest May
    Ernest May (historian)
    Ernest Richard May was an American historian of international relations whose 14 published books include analyses of American involvement in World War I and the causes of the Fall of France during World War II...

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

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

     (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...

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

     surgery. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/07/us/07may.html
  • Fatma Ceren Necipoğlu
    Fatma Ceren Necipoğlu
    Fatma Ceren Necipoğlu was a Turkish harpist and university lecturer for piano and harp. She was aboard Air France Flight 447 from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil to Paris, France, which disappeared over the Atlantic Ocean on 1 June 2009....

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

     classical harp
    Harp
    The harp is a multi-stringed instrument which has the plane of its strings positioned perpendicularly to the soundboard. Organologically, it is in the general category of chordophones and has its own sub category . All harps have a neck, resonator and strings...

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

     (Anadolu University
    Anadolu University
    Anadolu University is a public university in Eskişehir, Turkey and the fourth largest university in the world by enrollment.- History :...

     in Eskişehir
    Eskisehir
    Eskişehir is a city in northwestern Turkey and the capital of the Eskişehir Province. According to the 2009 census, the population of the city is 631,905. The city is located on the banks of the Porsuk River, 792 m above sea level, where it overlooks the fertile Phrygian Valley. In the nearby...

    ), plane crash
    Air France Flight 447
    Air France Flight 447 was a scheduled airline flight from Rio de Janeiro-Galeão to Paris-Roissy involving an Airbus A330-200 aircraft that crashed into the Atlantic Ocean on 1 June 2009, killing all 216 passengers and 12 aircrew. The investigation is still ongoing, and the cause of the...

    . http://www.heraldtimesonline.com/stories/2009/06/02/news.qp-0940158.sto
  • Vincent O'Brien
    Vincent O'Brien
    Dr. Michael Vincent O'Brien was an Irish race horse trainer from Churchtown, County Cork, Ireland. In 2003 he was voted the greatest influence in horse racing history, according to a worldwide vote hosted by the Racing Post newspaper...

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

     race horse trainer
    Horse trainer
    In horse racing, a trainer prepares a horse for races, with responsibility for exercising it, getting it race-ready and determining which races it should enter...

    . http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/other_sports/horse_racing/8077305.stm
  • Prince Pedro Luís of Orléans-Braganza
    Prince Pedro Luís of Orléans-Braganza
    Prince Pedro Luís of Orléans-Braganza was the son of Prince Antônio of Orléans-Braganza, and was expected, on the deaths of his father and childless uncles, to eventually become a pretender to the former imperial crown of Brazil....

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

    ian prince
    Prince
    Prince is a general term for a ruler, monarch or member of a monarch's or former monarch's family, and is a hereditary title in the nobility of some European states. The feminine equivalent is a princess...

    , plane crash
    Air France Flight 447
    Air France Flight 447 was a scheduled airline flight from Rio de Janeiro-Galeão to Paris-Roissy involving an Airbus A330-200 aircraft that crashed into the Atlantic Ocean on 1 June 2009, killing all 216 passengers and 12 aircrew. The investigation is still ongoing, and the cause of the...

    . http://www.etaiwannews.com/etn/news_content.php?id=966999&lang=eng_news
  • Alexander S. Potupa
    Alexander S. Potupa
    Potupa Alexander Sergeevich was a Belarusian philosopher, writer, scientist and human rights activist.‎-Biography:Alexander Sergeevich Potupa was born in Sevastopol, Russia on March 21, 1945, eventually moving to Yeysk, where he went to school. He also became a chess master...

    , 64, Belarus
    Belarus
    Belarus , officially the Republic of Belarus, is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe, bordered clockwise by Russia to the northeast, Ukraine to the south, Poland to the west, and Lithuania and Latvia to the northwest. Its capital is Minsk; other major cities include Brest, Grodno , Gomel ,...

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

    , physicist
    Physicist
    A physicist is a scientist who studies or practices physics. Physicists study a wide range of physical phenomena in many branches of physics spanning all length scales: from sub-atomic particles of which all ordinary matter is made to the behavior of the material Universe as a whole...

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

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

    . http://news.yahoo.com/s/prweb/20090604/bs_prweb/prweb2498544
  • Jerry Rosenberg
    Jerry Rosenberg
    Jerome "Jerry" Rosenberg was a jailhouse lawyer. He was incarcerated for 46 years, longer than any other prisoner in New York State history. Rosenberg was sentenced to death for his involvement in a double homicide of two New York City police officers...

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

     jailhouse lawyer
    Jailhouse lawyer
    Jailhouse lawyer is a colloquial term in North American English to refer to an inmate in a jail or other prison who, though usually never having practiced law nor having any formal legal training, informally assists other inmates in legal matters relating to their sentence or to their conditions...

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

    . http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/02/nyregion/02rosenberg.html?_r=1
  • Parvin Soleimani
    Parvin Soleimani
    Parvin Soleimani was an Iranian actress of theater and cinema, who dedicated over 60 years of her life to Iranian art and cinema. She died at the age of 87 in Tehran.-Career:...

    , 86, Persian actress, 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.tehrantimes.com/index_View.asp?code=196027
  • Dirk du Toit
    Dirk du Toit
    Dirk Cornelis du Toit was the Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Land Affairs of the Republic of South Africa from 1999 to 2009....

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

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

    , suspected heart failure. http://www.news24.com/Content/Africa/News/965/39a46af35fdc43b0a23acda6751a383e/Dirk_du_Toit_dies
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