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Mihajlo Mihajlov (2010)
(Associated Press) BELGRADE, Serbia A prominent former Yugoslav dissident Mihajlo Mihajlov who was jailed during communism for his articles and essays before he emigrated to the West, has died. He was 76. Mihajlov died Sunday at his home in Belgrade, Serbia's state TV said. The cause of death was not made public. Mihajlov left the former Yugoslavia at 1978, after spending a total...
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Dr. Edgar Wayburn, 103 (1906 - 2010)
SAN FRANCISCO Dr. Edgar Wayburn, a five-term president of the Sierra Club who received the Presidential Medal of Freedom for working to preserve vast tracts of U.S. wilderness, has died. He was 103. Wayburn died Friday at his home in San Francisco, surrounded by family, the Sierra Club said. Wayburn, a physician who conducted his conservation work under the radar and largely in his...
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Carlos Montemayor, 62 (1947 - 2010)
(Associated Press) MEXICO CITY Mexican author and guerrilla movement scholar Carlos Montemayor died Sunday, his publisher said. He was 62. A historian and linguist whose academic work centered on indigenous culture and rebels, Montemayor was sympathetic to the armed Zapatista uprising in 1994 in the southern state of Chiapas. Montemayor, who had been battling stomach cancer, ...
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Ken Gosting (2010)
(Associated Press) MERCED, Calif. A former adviser to former Gov. Jerry Brown who became an activist on transportation issues has died in what California authorities believe was a suicide. Mariposa Sheriff Brian Muller says Ken Gosting's cause of death was drowning, and that suicide will be listed on the death certificate. Sheriff's deputies found the body of the 62-year-old in...
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Ivan Vranetic (1927 - 2010)
The Associated Press JERUSALEM Ivan Vranetic, a Yugoslav partisan who saved Jews during the Holocaust and went on to head the organization that honors non-Jews who saved Jews from the Nazis, has died in Israel. He was 84. Israel's Holocaust memorial Yad Vashem recognized Vranetic in 1970 as a "Righteous Among the Nations" for helping Jews find hiding places in Croatia during World War...
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Howard Zinn, 87 (1922 - 2010)
By HILLEL ITALIE, AP National Writer Howard Zinn, an author, teacher and political activist whose leftist "A People's History of the United States" sold a million copies and became an...
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Miep Gies, 100 (1909 - 2010)
By ARTHUR MAX, Associated Press Writer AMSTERDAM, Netherlands Without Miep Gies, the story of Anne Frank might never have been known. The former office secretary who helped hide the Jewish...
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Tsutomu Yamaguchi, 93 (1916 - 2010)
By JAY ALABASTER, Associated Press Writer TOKYO Tsutomu Yamaguchi, the only person officially recognized as a survivor of both the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombings at the end of World...
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Freya von Moltke, 98 (1911 - 2010)
The Associated Press NORWICH, Vt. - Freya von Moltke, a prominent member of the anti-Nazi resistance in World War II, has died at the age of 98, her son said. Von Moltke, who was born in...
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Esther Chavez (2009)
(Associated Press) By OLIVIA TORRES Associated Press Writer CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico - Esther Chavez, a women's rights activist who first drew attention to the brutal slayings of women in...
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Dennis Brutus (2009)
(Associated Press) BY HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer NEW YORK - South African poet and former political prisoner Dennis Brutus, who fought apartheid in words and deeds and remained an...
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Stefanie Spielman (1968 - 2009)
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - Stefanie Spielman, the wife of NFL and Ohio State star Chris Spielman who led a public fight against breast cancer, died Thursday after a lengthy battle with the disease. She...
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James Armstrong, 86 (1923 - 2009)
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (Associated Press) - Birmingham barber and civil rights foot soldier James Armstrong has died. He was 86. Armstrong died Wednesday. The Birmingham News first reported Armstrong...
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Elizabeth Bell (2009)
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) - Elizabeth "Budd" Bell, who helped draft the Baker Act that's designed to protect the rights of people with mental illness, has died. She was 94. The retired human...
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Lester Pritchard, 60 (1949 - 2009)
URBANA, Ill. (AP) - Lester Pritchard, a nationally known advocate for people with disabilities, has died. He was 60. Pritchard, who had cerebral palsy, died Monday at Carle Foundation Hospital...
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Margaret Taylor Harper, 92 (1917 - 2009)
DURHAM, N.C. (Associated Press) - Margaret Taylor Harper, a former candidate for lieutenant governor as the women's movement burgeoned in North Carolina who also made marks in journalism, business...
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Marek Edelman, 90 (1919 - 2009)
WARSAW, Poland - Marek Edelman, the last surviving leader of the ill-fated 1943 Warsaw ghetto revolt against the Nazis, died Friday at the age of 90. Edelman died of old age at the family home...
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Homer Edgeworth (2009)
JACKSON, Miss. (Associated Press) - Homer Edgeworth, whose long life took him from a run-in with gangster George "Machine Gun" Kelly in 1932 to a judgeship in a case involving the man who...
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Elizabeth Rickey, 53 (1956 - 2009)
NEW ORLEANS (Associated Press) - Elizabeth "Beth" Rickey, who helped refute former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke's claims that he had renounced neo-Nazi ties, died Saturday. She was 53. ...
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Crystal Lee Sutton, 68 (1940 - 2009)
By EMERY P. DALESIO, Associated Press Writer RALEIGH, N.C. -- Crystal Lee Sutton, whose fight to unionize Southern textile plants with low pay and poor conditions was dramatized in the film ...
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Richard F. Cunningham, Jr., 32 (1976 - 2009)
NEWARK, N.J. -- Richard F. Cunningham Jr., a dynamic New Jersey labor leader who helped found an organization for low-wage, immigrant workers and started a punk rock record label, died Friday. He...
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Robert Schindler, 71 (1937 - 2009)
By KELLI KENNEDY - Associated Press Writer MIAMI - The father of Terri Schiavo, who became a national symbol in a closely watched right-to-die fight, has died, his son said Saturday. Robert...
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Guy von Dardel (2009)
Guy von Dardel, a particle physicist who sought for years to find his half-brother Raoul Wallenberg in Soviet imprisonment, died Friday at his home in Geneva. He was 90. Von Dardel...
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Larry Frankel (2009)
PHILADELPHIA - Larry Frankel, a longtime lobbyist for the American Civil Liberties Union, had died. He was 54. His body was discovered Friday in a park in Washington, where he had been working...
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Muriel Duckworth, 100 (1908 - 2009)
HALIFAX, Nova Scotia Canadian activist Muriel Duckworth, a passionate pacifist who for decades was an advocate for women's rights and social justice, has died. She was 100. Duckworth died...
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Marilyn Clement, 74 (1935 - 2009)
NEW YORK - Marilyn Clement, a social activist who advocated tirelessly for a national health care program and who rallied for civil rights alongside Martin Luther King Jr., died Monday. She was 74...
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Sidney Zion, 75 (1933 - 2009)
NEW YORK - Sidney Zion, a journalist whose family tragedy helped lead to changes in how many hours medical residents work, has died. He was 75. Zion, who had written for The New York Times, the...
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Leszek Kolakowski, 81 (1927 - 2009)
By VANESSA GERA, Associated Press Writer WARSAW, Poland — Leszek Kolakowski, a Polish philosopher and historian whose decision to disavow Marxism pushed him into exile and made him an...
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Clarence "Curly Bear" Wagner, 64 (1944 - 2009)
HELENA, Mont. - Clarence "Curly Bear" Wagner, an American Indian historian who pressed for repatriation of ancestral remains to tribes, died Thursday. He was 64. Wagner died of cancer Thursday...
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Sam Church, 72 (1936 - 2009)
BRISTOL, Va. Sam Church, former leader of the United Mine Workers of America, died early Tuesday after a long illness, the union announced. Church, 72, lived in Pennington Gap in...
