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Fort Hood Shooting Victims (2009)
By CARYN ROUSSEAU and ROBERT IMRIE, Associated Press Writers Caryn Rousseau And Robert Imrie, Associated Press Writers The 13 people killed when an Army psychiatrist allegedly opened fire on fellow soldiers at Fort Hood, Texas, included a pregnant woman who was preparing to return home, a man who quit a furniture company job to join the military about a year ago, a newlywed who had...
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Claude Levi-Strauss, 100 (1908 - 2009)
The Associated Press By ANGELA DOLAND PARIS—Claude Levi-Strauss, widely considered the father of modern anthropology for work that included theories about commonalities between tribal and industrial societies, has died. He was 100. The French intellectual was regarded as having reshaped the field of anthropology, introducing structuralism—concepts about common patterns of behavior...
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Francisco Ayala, 103 (1906 - 2009)
By CIARAN GILES Associated Press Writer MADRID—Francisco Ayala, a novelist, sociologist and one of Spain's leading scholars, died Tuesday at age 103 after outliving the dictatorship that led him to flee into exile. Ayala's foundation said he died of natural causes at his home in Madrid. Ayala won many prestigious prizes in Spain, from the Cervantes award—considered the Spanish...
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Nick Counter (2009)
Nick Counter, a longtime negotiator for Hollywood producers who led the studios through two grueling writers' strikes last year and in 1988, has died. He was 69. The Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers says Counter died at a Los Angeles hospital on Friday. Counter served as the group's president for 27 years and negotiated more than 300 collective bargaining agreements...
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Dr. Donald Baim (2009)
NATICK, Mass (Associated Press) - Dr. Donald Baim, a renowned cardiologist and medical device executive, died Friday following surgery to treat a form of cancer, his family said in a statement. He was 60. Baim had undergone recent surgery to remove diseased tissue caused by adrenal cancer, a rare form of the disease that attacks the adrenal glands. Baim, a former Harvard medical school...
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Qian Xuesen, 97 (1911 - 2009)
The following article courtesy of The Wall Street Journal By JASON DEAN and STEPHEN MILLER Known in China as the "Father of Chinese Aerospace" or simply the "Rocket King," Qian Xuesen helped...
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Soupy Sales, 83 (1926 - 2009)
DETROIT Soupy Sales, the rubber-faced comedian whose anything-for-a-chuckle career was built on 20,000 pies to the face and 5,000 live TV appearances across a half-century of laughs, died...
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Don Lane (2009)
By ROHAN SULLIVAN, Associated Press Writer SYDNEY Don Lane, an American song-and-dance man who became an enduring television celebrity in Australia known as "The Lanky Yank," died Thursday....
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Jack Nelson (2009)
By DOUGLASS K. DANIEL, Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON Jack Nelson, a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter who covered the civil rights movement and the Watergate scandal for the...
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Jasper Howard, 20 (1989 - 2009)
By PAT EATON-ROBB (Associated Press ) STORRS, Conn. — A Connecticut football player who was an expectant father was stabbed to death early Sunday after an on-campus dance, just hours after...
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Kazuhiko Kato (2009)
By SHINO YUASA (Associated Press Writer) TOKYO Police say Japanese musician Kazuhiko Kato, founder of the Sadistic Mika Band, has been found dead in a hotel room in an apparent suicide. He...
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Manuel Solis, 91 (1917 - 2009)
PANAMA CITY Manuel Solis, who served briefly as president during Manuel Noriega's military regime, died Friday. He was 91. Solis died at his home from respiratory failure, said Mitchell...
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Otomar Krejca, 87 (1921 - 2009)
PRAGUE -- Otomar Krejca, a renowned theater director in the Czech Republic, has died at the age of 87. Prague's National Theater says Krejca died Friday in Prague. The cause of death was not...
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Lou Filippo (2009)
LOS ANGELES — Lou Filippo, a World Boxing Hall of Famer who judged 85 world champion fights and had small roles in the "Rocky" movies, has died. He was 83. Hall of Fame Treasurer Josie Mejia ...
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Sheldon Dorf (2009)
SAN DIEGO (AP) - Sheldon Dorf, who founded the world famous Comic-Con International comic book convention, has died. He was 76. A longtime friend, Greg Koudoulian, says the Ocean Beach resident...
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Win Aung (2009)
YANGON, Myanmar —Win Aung, foreign minister in Myanmar's military government in 1998-2004, has died in prison while serving a seven-year term for corruption. Family members said he died early...
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Bernard Harding (2009)
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) - Bernerd Harding, a World War II pilot from New Hampshire who went on a quest to find his buried pilot's wings in Germany 65 years after his B-24 bomber was shot down, died...
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Robert H. Rines (1922 - 2009)
Boston (AP) - Robert H. Rines, a composer, inventor and physicist whose discoveries led to sharper resolution in radar, sonar and ultrasound imaging and who claimed to have seen the Loch Ness...
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Alan Ogg, 42 (1967 - 2009)
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) _ Alan Ogg, a 7-foot-2 shotblocker who played for the University of Alabama at Birmingham and spent parts of three seasons in the NBA, died Sunday. He was 42. University...
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Roy DeCarava, 89 (1919 - 2009)
NEW YORK (Associated Press) -Roy DeCarava, a photographer whose black and white images captured Harlem's everyday life and the jazz greats who performed there, has died. He was 89. DeCarava...
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Sakher Habash (2009)
RAMALLAH, West Bank (Associated Press) - One of the founding members of the long-ruling Palestinian Fatah movement has died in the West Bank at the age of 70. Palestinian officials say Sakher...
