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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 Habash died of a stroke on Sunday. The Fatah-led Palestinian Authority issued a statement mourning his death. Habash helped form Fatah in 1965 and served as a close military aide to the movement...
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Betty Gallagher, 93 (1916 - 2009)
Betty Gallagher, the wife of a former Associated Press general manager and president who helped him run the Berlin bureau after World War II, died Thursday. She was 93. She died at her home in a Montecito retirement community, said her son, Brian Gallagher, the editorial page editor at USA Today. She suffered a stroke on Monday. She was an actress who played bit parts on Broadway when...
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Maurizio Montalbini, 56 (1953 - 2009)
The following story courtesy of The Wall Street Journal By Stephen Miller and Davide Berretta In the name of science, Maurizio Montalbini lived for months all alone in a cave. Mr. Montalbini, who died Sept. 19 at 56 of a stroke apparently unrelated to his unorthodox experiments, became his own best research subject for studying the effects of isolation on circadian rhythms, the...
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Linda C. Black (2009)
ATASCADERO, Calif. (Associated Press) - Syndicated columnist and astrologer Linda C. Black, who wrote daily horoscopes for Tribune Media Services and whose forecasts were read in newspapers across the world, has died. She was 65. Black's daughter, Nancy, said her mother died Thursday of ovarian cancer at a hospital in Atascadero. Linda Black wrote before her death that she was ...
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Princess Felicitas von Preussen, 75 (1934 - 2009)
BERLIN — Princess Felicitas von Preussen, the great-granddaughter of the last German emperor, has died, her family said Tuesday. She was 75. Von Preussen died Saturday in Wohltorf, near Hamburg, the family said on its Web site, http://www.preussen.de. It did not give a cause of death. Von Preussen was born in 1934 in Bonn to Prince Wilhelm von Preussen and his wife, Dorothea von...
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Scott Kurtis, 38 (1970 - 2009)
SEDAN, Kan. - The 38-year-old son of journalist and television personality Bill Kurtis has been found dead in a small home in southeast Kansas. Chautauqua (chaw-TAW'-kwuh) County Sheriff Perry...
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Christian Albin (2009)
NEW YORK — Christian "Hitsch" Albin, who fed the world's luminaries for decades as executive chef of The Four Seasons—a restaurant that invented the "power lunch"—has died. He was 61. ...
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Leroy Hill, 76 (1933 - 2009)
MOBILE, Ala. - Leroy Hill, the founder of the Leroy Hill Coffee Co. in Mobile, died Friday. He was 76. A company spokesman said Leroy Hill died at Mobile Infirmary after a bout of pneumonia. ...
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Millvina Dean, 97 (1912 - 2009)
By MEERA SELVA and JILL LAWLESS LONDON - Millvina Dean was the youngest passenger on RMS Titanic, just nine weeks old when she was wrapped in a sack and lowered from the sinking ship into a...
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Exodus Tyson (2009)
PHOENIX (AP) -- The death of Mike Tyson's 4-year-old daughter in a bizarre accident adds an awful chapter to the boxer's troubled life. Exodus Tyson died at a hospital Tuesday, a day after her...
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Elizabeth Perkins Prothro, 89 (1919 - 2009)
WICHITA FALLS, Texas - Elizabeth Perkins Prothro, a philanthropist and longtime benefactor of Southern Methodist University, has died. She was 89. Prothro died at her Wichita Falls home...
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Sam Maloof, 93 (1916 - 2009)
RANCHO CUCAMONGA, Calif. - Sam Maloof, whose simple, practical handmade wooden furniture sits in the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the White House, has died. He was 93. Maloof died Thursday...
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Yehoshua Zettler, 91 (1917 - 2009)
JERUSALEM - Yehoshua Zettler, one of the founding members of a violent pre-state Jewish movement and mastermind of the assassination of a top U.N. envoy in 1948, has died in Israel. He was 91. ...
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Maria Amelia Lopez, 97 (1911 - 2009)
MADRID - A Spanish great-grandmother who described herself as the world's oldest blogger - and became a Web sensation as she mused on events current and past - has died at the age of 97. ...
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Lee Solters, 89 (1919 - 2009)
Longtime Hollywood publicist Lee Solters has died. He was 89. Solters' namesake public relations firm says the New York native died at his West Hollywood, Calif. home on Monday morning. ...
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Krishna Pattabhi Jois, 93 (1915 - 2009)
NEW DELHI -- Krishna Pattabhi Jois, a yoga teacher and practitioner famous for popularizing Ashtanga yoga in the West, has died. He was 93. Jois died in the southern Indian city of Mysore on...
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Achille Compagnoni, 94 (1914 - 2009)
ROME- (AP) - Italian climber Achille Compagnoni, a member of the first team to reach the summit of the world's second-highest peak, died Wednesday. He was 94. Compagnoni died at the hospital in...
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Angel Arce Torres (2009)
HARTFORD, Conn. A Hartford man has died a year after he was left paralyzed and mute in a hit-and-run accident that was mostly ignored by witnesses and inspired a debate about the city's...
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Clement Freud, 84 (1924 - 2009)
By ROBERT BARR, Associated Press Writer LONDON -- Clement Freud, a grandson of Sigmund Freud who became a well-known writer, politician and urbane regular on British radio, has died. He was 84....
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David L. Arneson, 61 (1947 - 2009)
Dave Arneson, one of the co-creators of the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy game and a pioneer of role-playing entertainment, died after a two-year battle with cancer, his family said Thursday. He was...
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Sir Sacheverell Reresby Sitwell, 81 (1927 - 2009)
By ROBERT BARR, Associated Press Writer LONDON -- Sir Sacheverell Reresby Sitwell, who restored the stately home of his famously eccentric family to its former glory, has died at age 81. ...
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Frederic J. Gaynor, 74 (1935 - 2009)
TAMPA, Fla. - Frederic J. Gaynor, whose childhood image adorned posters and magazine advertisements for Daisy air rifles in the 1940s, has died. He was 74. Gaynor died from cancer at his home...
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Larry Glick, 87 (1922 - 2009)
BOSTON - Larry Glick, whose late-night talk show from Boston made listeners laugh from coast to coast, died Thursday. He was 87. According to WBZ-AM, where Glick spent nearly 20 years, he died...
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Altovise Joanne Gore Davis, 65 (1943 - 2009)
Altovise Joanne Gore Davis, a dancer and actress and the widow of Sammy Davis Jr., has died. She was 65. Davis died Saturday at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center after suffering a stroke, said Amy...
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Maria Antonietta Berlusconi (2009)
MILAN, Italy - Maria Antonietta Berlusconi Beretta, the sister of Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi died Thursday at age 65, rescue officials said. The rescue service in the northern city of...
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David S. Phelps (2009)
NAGS HEAD, N.C. - David S. Phelps, the archaeologist who unearthed a 16th-century gold signet ring while exploring ties between native people and the doomed English colonists who first tried to...
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Walter Pipp, 74 (1934 - 2009)
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. - Walter Pipp, the son of the baseball player whom New York Yankees great Lou Gehrig famously replaced at first base, died Wednesday. He was 74. Thomas Pipp, of...
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Carl Venne (1947 - 2009)
Hardin, Mont. - Crow Tribal Chairman Carl Venne, praised by President Barack Obama as a leader who engaged in a "fervent quest for a better life for his people," has died. He was 62. Venne...
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Nancy Bird-Walton, 93 (1915 - 2009)
By KRISTEN GELINEAU, Associated Press Writer SYDNEY, Australia -- Aviation pioneer Nancy Bird-Walton, who became the first woman in Australia to operate a commercial aircraft, died Tuesday. She...
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Gaston Lenotre, 88 (1920 - 2009)
PARIS - Gaston Lenotre, considered one of France's best-ever pastry-makers, died Thursday. He was 88. Lenotre died at his home in the Sologne region, south of Paris, after a long...
