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Patricia Disney, 77 (2012)
The Associated PressLOS ANGELES (AP) — Patricia Disney, who was once married to Walt Disney's late nephew Roy E. Disney and was vice chairwoman of Roy's investment company, died Friday after a long struggle with Alzheimer's disease.She was 77.Patricia Disney died in her Los Angeles home, surrounded by her four children, said family spokesman Clifford Miller.An advocate for higher education,...
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Kazimierz Smolen, 91 (1920 - 2012)
VANESSA GERA, The Associated PressWARSAW, Poland (AP) — Kazimierz Smolen, a 91-year-old Auschwitz survivor — who after World War II became director of the memorial site — died Friday on the 67th anniversary of the camp's liberation.Smolen passed away in a hospital in Oswiecim, the southern Polish town where Nazi Germany operated Auschwitz-Birkenau during World War II, said Pawel Sawicki, a...
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Robert Lee Carter, 94 (1917 - 2012)
DEEPTI HAJELA, The Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Robert Carter, a lawyer who was an integral member of the team led by Thurgood Marshall that turned to the courts to battle segregation, has died. He was 94. Carter, who later spent decades on the federal judiciary, died Tuesday morning at a Manhattan hospital after suffering a stroke last week, said his son, John Carter, who is a judge...
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Mirko Tremaglia, 85 (1926 - 2011)
By FRANCES D'EMILIO, The Associated Press ROME (AP) — Mirko Tremaglia, a right-wing politician who won a decades-long battle for the right of Italian emigres to vote in Italian elections, died on Friday. He was 85. Italian news agencies and Sky TG24 TV said Tremaglia died at home in Bergamo, northern Italy, after a long illness. Tremaglia was a co-founder of the Italian Social Movement...
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Hans Marsalek, 97 (2011)
The Associated PressVIENNA (AP) — The Mauthausen Memorial Committee says Hans Marsalek, a Nazi resister who helped document the history of the former Nazi concentration camp, has died.The committee says Marsalek died on Friday at age 97.Marsalek was arrested and sent to Mauthausen, in Upper Austria, in 1942 for his opposition to the Nazis and survived there until the Allies liberated the camp...
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Sonia Pierre, 48 (2011)
The Associated PressSANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic (AP) — Sonia Pierre, a human rights activist who bravely fought discrimination against poor Dominicans of Haitian descent since she was a child...
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John G. Lawrence, 68 (2011)
The Associated PressHOUSTON (AP) — The Texas man whose case led to a landmark U.S. Supreme Court ruling that granted privacy rights to gay men and lesbians has died at age 68.John G. Lawrence died...
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Axel Axgil, 96 (1915 - 2011)
The Associated PressCOPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Axel Axgil, whose struggle for gay rights helped make Denmark the first country to legalize same-sex partnerships, has died. He was 96.Axgil died in a...
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Elouise Cobell (1946 - 2011)
MATT VOLZ, The Associated Press BROWNING, Mont. (AP) — Elouise Cobell was remembered on Saturday as a warrior whose compassion and grit drove her to dedicate the last 16 years of her life to...
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Laura Pollan, 63 (1948 - 2011)
ANDREA RODRIGUEZ, The Associated PressHAVANA (AP) — Cuban dissident Laura Pollan, who founded the opposition group Ladies in White and for nearly a decade staged weekly protest marches with other...
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Frank Kameny, 86 (1925 - 2011)
BRETT ZONGKER, The Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Frank Kameny was out and proud before people knew what being "gay" meant. Fired from his job as a government astronomer in 1957 for being...
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Paula Ettelbrick, 56 (2011)
The Associated PressNEW YORK (AP) — Attorney Paula Ettelbrick, a pioneering advocate for gay rights, has died.According to the Stonewall Community Foundation, the 56-year-old Ettelbrick died of...
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Rev. Fred L. Shuttlesworth, 89 (1922 - 2011)
JAY REEVES, The Associated Press BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — The Rev. Fred L. Shuttlesworth refused to back down despite huge risks, enduring arrests, beatings and injuries from fire hoses aimed at...
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Wangari Maathai, 71 (1940 - 2011)
JASON STRAZIUSO, The Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Kenya's former president called her a mad woman. Seen as a threat to the rich and powerful, Wangari Maathai was beaten, arrested and...
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Carl Oglesby, 76 (1935 - 2011)
HILLEL ITALIE, The Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Carl Oglesby, a dynamic activist in the 1960s who headed the campus organization Students for a Democratic Society and gave an influential and...
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Vann Nath, 66 (2011)
The Associated PressPHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — Vann Nath, an artist who was among only seven people to survive Cambodia's most notorious prison of the 1970s Khmer Rouge regime and who later...
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Abdulrahman al-Nuaimi, 67 (2011)
The Associated PressMANAMA, Bahrain (AP) — Abdulrahman al-Nuaimi, founder of one of Bahrain's leading opposition groups, died Thursday after more than four years in a coma, political leaders said....
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Stetson Kennedy, 94 (1916 - 2011)
TERRY SPENCER, The Associated Press MIAMI (AP) — Author and folklorist Stetson Kennedy, who infiltrated the Ku Klux Klan six decades ago and exposed its secrets to authorities and the public but...
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Noach Flug, 86 (1925 - 2011)
The Associated PressJERUSALEM (AP) — Noach Flug, a tireless advocate for Holocaust survivors who successfully fought governments to compensate this aging and dwindling population, has died. He was...
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Eleanor Josaitis, 79 (1931 - 2011)
DAVID RUNK, The Associated Press DETROIT (AP) — Eleanor Josaitis, who co-founded the social services organization Focus: HOPE in the wake of Detroit's 1967 riots and worked to fight racism,...
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Carlton J. Roy, Sr., 94 (1917 - 2011)
CAIN BURDEAU, The Associated PressNEW ORLEANS (AP) — Carlton J. Roy Sr., a black businessman who worked against segregation alongside influential New Orleans civil rights leaders such as the Rev....
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Jean-Claude Bajeux, 79 (2011)
TRENTON DANIEL, The Associated Press PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Jean-Claude Bajeux, a former culture minister, scholar and steadfast human rights activist who targeted both Haiti's long-ruling...
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Rudolf Brazda, 98 (1913 - 2011)
GEIR MOULSON, The Associated PressBERLIN (AP) — Rudolf Brazda, believed to be the last surviving person who was sent to a Nazi concentration camp because of his homosexuality, has died, a German...
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Amelia Trice, 75 (2011)
The Associated PressBONNERS FERRY, Idaho (AP) — Amelia Trice, the leader of an American Indian tribe that declared a nonviolent war against the U.S. government in the 1970s, has died at the age of...
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Nelson Lopez Aponte, 50 (2011)
The Associated PressSAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Nelson Lopez Aponte, a Roman Catholic priest who was among the leaders of a campaign that forced the U.S. Navy to close its bombing range on Puerto...
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Betty Ford, 93 (1918 - 2011)
Betty Ford wanted talk of politics at funeral LINDA DEUTSCH, The Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Former first lady Betty Ford, always known for her take charge attitude, chose the people...
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Lawrence R. Newman, 86 (1925 - 2011)
The Associated Press RIVERSIDE, Calif. (AP) — Lawrence R. Newman, who served two terms as president of the National Association of the Deaf, has died in California at age 86. He died Monday...
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Anne LaBastille, 75 (1935 - 2011)
MICHAEL VIRTANEN, The Associated Press ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Anne LaBastille, the environmentalist, sometime hermit and author whose "Woodswoman" autobiographies inspired others to venture into...
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Yelena Bonner, 88 (1923 - 2011)
The Associated PressBOSTON (AP) — A family member says that Yelena Bonner, a Russian rights activist and widow of Nobel Peace Prize winner Andrei Sakharov, has died in Boston.Both were prominent...
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Brian Haw, 62 (1949 - 2011)
SYLVIA HUI, The Associated PressLONDON (AP) — To some, he was a crackpot, an eyesore camped out on prime London real estate. To others he was an inspiration, tirelessly fighting for civil rights...
