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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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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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Jean-Francois Bergier, 77 (1931 - 2009)
By ELIANE ENGELER, Associated Press Writer GENEVA — Swiss historian Jean-Francois Bergier, who led a highly critical probe of Switzerland's conduct during World War II, has died. He was 77. Bergier received wide renown for leading an international panel in a major study that in 2001 concluded Switzerland "got involved in (Nazi) crimes by abandoning refugees to their persecutors" even...
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Ray Browne, 87 (1922 - 2009)
TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) - Ray Browne, an Ohio university professor credited with coining the phrase "popular culture" and pioneering the study of things such as bumper stickers and cartoons, died Thursday. He was 87. Browne died at his home, according to his family and officials at Bowling Green State university. He developed the first academic department devoted to studying what he...
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Theodore Ryland Sizer, 77 (1932 - 2009)
BOSTON - Theodore Ryland Sizer, a passionate leader in education reform who led Ivy League education departments and progressive high schools, has died after a long battle with colon cancer. He was 77. His wife, Nancy Sizer, said on Thursday that the author and educator died at home in Harvard, Mass., on Wednesday night, surrounded by his family. Sizer was born in New Haven, Conn. He...
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Stephen Barnett, 73 (1935 - 2009)
BERKELEY, Calif. (AP) -- Stephen Barnett, a First Amendment professor emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley School of Law and prominent critic of the state court system, has died. He...
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Carol Tomlinson-Keasey (2009)
FRESNO, Calif. (Associated Press) - Carol Tomlinson-Keasey, a lifelong educator who looked at a Merced farm field and envisioned a University of California research university, died Saturday....
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Joe Al Howell (2009)
FAYETTE, Mo. (Associated Press) - Joe Al Howell, president emeritus of Central Methodist University, died Wednesday. He was 78. The university announced Howell's death. No other details were...
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Robert Schnabel (2009)
VALPARAISO, Ind. - Robert Schnabel, the former president of Valparaiso University, died Tuesday. He was 86. He died in Angola, where he had lived in recent years, said the university. ...
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Virginia Ramo, 93 (1916 - 2009)
LOS ANGELES - Virginia Ramo (RAYE'-moh), a University of Southern California alumnus and patron who once funded a music building because she wanted it to bear her husband's name, died Wednesday....
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Joseph Stephen Kimani Nganga Maruge (2009)
By TOM MALITI, Associated Press Writer NAIROBI, Kenya — A Kenyan man who was believed to be the world's oldest pupil has died at the age of 89, five years after he entered primary school so...
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Takeo Doi (1920 - 2009)
By YURI KAGEYAMA, Associated Press Writer TOKYO — Takeo Doi, a scholar who wrote that the Japanese psyche thrived on a love-hungry dependence on authority figures, has died, his family said...
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Dr. John L. Blackburn, 84 (1924 - 2009)
TUSCALOOSA, Ala. - John L. Blackburn, a University of Alabama administrator credited with bringing groups together to desegregate the school in 1963, died Friday. He was 84. Blackburn died...
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Gordon B. Olson, 84 (1924 - 2009)
MINOT, N.D. - Gordon B. Olson, the longest-serving president of Minot State University, died Tuesday. He was 84. A funeral home notice said Olson died at a Minot nursing home. The school...
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Ralf Dahrendorf, 80 (1929 - 2009)
BERLIN — German-British sociologist Ralf Dahrendorf, a leading scholar of class divisions in modern society, has died. He was 80. The Social Science Research Center in Berlin, where...
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Rajeev Mowani, 47 (1962 - 2009)
ATHERTON, Calif. - Rajeev Motwani, a Stanford University computer science professor who advised one of Google's creators, was found dead in his swimming pool. He was 47. Stanford University...
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Ernest May, 80 (1928 - 2009)
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - Harvard University history professor and former dean Ernest May died Monday. He was 80. The Faculty of Arts and Sciences said May died at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical...
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Marcus Alexis (2009)
CHICAGO - Marcus Alexis, a former chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago and a Northwestern University professor, has died. He was 77. Alexis died May 27 of complications from surgery,...
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Nathan Friedman, 96 (1912 - 2009)
LOS ANGELES - Nathan Friedman, a dentist whose comforting rapport with patients drew celebrities such as Danny Kaye and Lucille Ball to his Beverly Hills practice, has died. He was 97. Friedman...
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Clive W.J. Granger (1934 - 2009)
SAN DIEGO - Economist Clive W.J. Granger, who shared a Nobel Prize for work that changed how analysts look at financial data, died May 26. He was 74. A news release from the University of...
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Ronald Takaki, 70 (1939 - 2009)
Berkeley, Ca. - Ronald Takaki, a pioneer in the field of ethnic studies who taught the University of California system's first black history course, has died. He was 70. Takaki killed...
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Horace Fleming, Jr., 65 (1944 - 2009)
HATTIESBURG, Miss. - Horace Fleming Jr., the seventh president of the University of Southern Mississippi, has died at 65. Fleming died Friday at his home in Macon, Ga., the university...
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Irving John "Jack" Good, 92 (1916 - 2009)
RADFORD, Virginia - Irving John "Jack" Good, a retired Virginia Tech statistician who helped break the Nazi Enigma code for his native England during World War II, has died. He was 92. Good...
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Constantine Papadakis, 63 (1946 - 2009)
PHILADELPHIA - Constantine Papadakis, the Drexel University president who is credited with raising the endowment, enrollment and profile of the one-time commuter school, has died. He was 63. ...
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John Hope Franklin, 94 (1915 - 2009)
RALEIGH, N.C. In his early days as a young academic, researching his pioneering book on the black experience in the U.S. and setting the foundation for a life's work chronicling African-American...
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Blair Helman (2009)
NORTH MANCHESTER, Ind. - A. Blair Helman, the former Manchester College President who invited the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. to the campus in 1968, died Sunday. He was 88. Helman died at a...
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Edmund Hlawka, 92 (1916 - 2009)
Acclaimed Austrian mathematician Edmund Hlawka, a major influence in modern number theory, has died at age 92. Hlawka's family says the renowned mathematician died on Feb. 19 in Vienna. A cause...
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Thomas Clifford, 87 (1921 - 2009)
GRAND FORKS, N.D. - Thomas Clifford, who came to the University of North Dakota as a student and went on to be an instructor and then its president for 21 years, has died. He was 87. A...
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Thomas E. Corts, 67 (1941 - 2009)
MONTGOMERY, Ala. - Thomas E. Corts, who led Samford University through tremendous growth during 23 years as the school's president, died Wednesday. He was 67. Samford officials said Corts died...
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Mary Crist Fleming (1910 - 2009)
MONTAGNOLA, Switzerland Mary Crist Fleming, founder of American schools abroad, has died. She was 98. Fleming died peacefully Tuesday at her home on the campus of The American School in...
