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Oscar Luigi Scalfaro, 93 (1918 - 2012)
COLLEEN BARRY, The Associated PressMILAN, Italy (AP) — Oscar Luigi Scalfaro, a past president of Italy who held the post during the sweeping corruption scandal of the early 1990s that reshaped the country's post-war political landscape, died Sunday in Rome. He was 93.Italian President Giorgio Napolitano paid tribute to his predecessor as "a protagonist in the democratic political life" and an...
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Carlos Escarra (2012)
The Associated PressCARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuela's justice minister says that the attorney general has died of a heart attack.Tareck El Aissami says the death of Carlos Escarra occurred on Wednesday.Lawmakers allied with President Hugo Chavez chose Escarra as attorney general in August 2011.While Escarra was a Chavez loyalist, his brother, Herman, is closely sided with Venezuela's...
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Milos Pojar, 71 (2012)
The Associated PressPRAGUE (AP) — Czech diplomat Milos Pojar, who helped re-establish diplomatic ties with Israel after they had been severed by Czechoslovakia's Communist rulers, has died. He was 71.The Foreign Ministry announced his death Tuesday, but gave no further details. Czech public television said Pojar died Monday in a Prague hospital.Pojar was born in 1940 in the capital Prague, and...
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Sheik Saud Al Nasser Al Sabah, 68 (2012)
The Associated PressKUWAIT CITY (AP) — Sheik Saud Al Nasser Al Sabah, who served as Kuwait's ambassador to the U.S. during Iraq's 1990 invasion of the oil-rich country and the American-led war to oust Saddam Hussein's forces, has died, a government-backed newspaper reported Sunday. He was 68.Al-Qabas said the former diplomat died Saturday. It gave no cause of death.A member of Kuwait's royal...
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Maunel Fraga Iribarne, 89 (1922 - 2012)
DANIEL WOOLLS, The Associated Press MADRID (AP) — Politicians and public figures across Spain on Monday paid tribute to the late Manuel Fraga Iribarne, who founded Spain's ruling conservative party and was the last surviving minister from Gen. Francisco Franco's right-wing regime. The governing Popular Party issued a statement saying his death Sunday at age 89 "constitutes the loss of one...
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Edward Derwinski, 85 (1926 - 2012)
The Associated PressCHICAGO (AP) — Edward Derwinski, who represented Chicago's south side and adjoining suburbs in Congress for nearly a quarter-century before becoming the nation's first secretary...
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Jose Luis Alvarez Enparantza, 84 (1927 - 2012)
The Associated PressMADRID (AP) — One of the founders of Basque separatist group ETA, Jose Luis Alvarez Enparantza, has died at age 84.Alvarez participated in ETA's creation in 1958 and 20 years...
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Rauf Denktash, 87 (1924 - 2012)
MENELAOS HADJICOSTIS, The Associated Press NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — Rauf Denktash, the former Turkish Cypriot leader whose determined pursuit of a separate state for his people and strong...
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Charles Price II, 80 (1931 - 2012)
The Associated Press INDIAN WELLS, Calif. (AP) — Charles Price II, a former U.S. ambassador to Great Britain who coordinated friendly relations between President Ronald Reagan and Prime Minister...
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Bill Janklow, 72 (1939 - 2012)
CHET BROKAW, The Associated Press PIERRE, S.D. (AP) — As governor of South Dakota for 16 years, Bill Janklow was always in a hurry — pushing lawmakers to approve his proposals and racing to...
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Gevork Vartanian, 87 (1924 - 2012)
The Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — Gevork Vartanian, a former Soviet intelligence agent who helped derail a Nazi plot to assassinate allied leaders at a 1943 conference in Tehran, has died. He was...
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Alex DeCroce, 75 (1936 - 2012)
ANGELA DELLI SANTI, The Associated Press TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — New Jersey Republican Assembly leader Alex DeCroce, credited by Gov. Chris Christie with helping him get his start in politics, died...
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Tony Blankley (2012)
The Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Tony Blankley, a conservative author and commentator who served as press secretary to Newt Gingrich during the 1990s, when Republicans took control of...
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Gordon Hirabayashi, 87 (1918 - 2012)
The Associated Press EDMONTON, Alberta (AP) — A sociologist who refused to be sent to internment camps that kept more than 100,000 Japanese-Americans captive during World War II has died in the...
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Kiro Gligorov, 94 (1917 - 2012)
KONSTANTIN TESTORIDES, The Associated PressSKOPJE, Macedonia (AP) — Kiro Gligorov, the first democratically elected president of Macedonia who shepherded his nation through a bloodless secession...
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Carlos Soria, 62 (1949 - 2012)
The Associated PressBUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Carlos Soria, a career Argentine politician who for 21 days realized his dream of governing the western Argentine province of Rio Negro, died...
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Rep. Ed Jenkins, 78 (1933 - 2012)
The Associated PressATLANTA (AP) — Former U.S. Rep. Ed Jenkins, a Democrat who represented north Georgia in Congress from 1977 to 1993, died Sunday after a long illness. He was 78.His daughter,...
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Vaclav Havel, 75 (1936 - 2011)
KAREL JANICEK, The Associated Press PRAGUE (AP) — The end of Czechoslovakia's totalitarian regime was called the Velvet Revolution because of how smooth the transition seemed: Communism dead in a...
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Kim Jong Il, 69 (1942 - 2011)
North Korea mourns Kim Jong Il; son is 'successor' RAFAEL WOBER, The Associated Press PYONGYANG, North Korea (AP) — North Koreans marched by the thousands Monday to their capital's landmarks...
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Roy Ash, 93 (1918 - 2011)
The Associated PressLOS ANGELES (AP) — Former Office of Management and Budget director Roy Ash has died at his Los Angeles home at 93.The co-founder and former president of Litton Industries served...
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Hector Silva, 64 (2011)
The Associated PressSAN SALVADOR (AP) — A Boston-born Salvadoran physician who helped the Central American nation recover from its 12-year civil war has died of a heart attack. Hector Silva was 64...
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Leka Zogu, 72 (1939 - 2011)
LLAZAR SEMINI, The Associated Press TIRANA, Albania (AP) — Leka Zogu, whose father served as Albania's king until it was occupied by fascist Italy, and who twice returned home from exile to try...
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William Waller, Sr., 85 (1926 - 2011)
HOLBROOK MOHR, The Associated PressJACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Former Mississippi Gov. William Waller Sr., who as a district attorney twice unsuccessfully prosecuted the man eventually convicted of...
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Ante Markovic, 87 (1924 - 2011)
DARKO BANDIC, The Associated PressZAGREB, Croatia (AP) — Yugoslavia's last Prime Minister Ante Markovic, who tried to prevent the former country's bloody breakup in the 1990s, has died at the age...
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Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu, 78 (1933 - 2011)
JON GAMBRELL, The Associated PressLAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu passionately believed his homeland in eastern Nigeria deserved to be its own country, a new nation free of the...
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Maggie Daley, 68 (2011)
The Associated PressCHICAGO (AP) — Maggie Daley, the wife of former Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley and a gracious promoter of the city's cultural and educational programs, has died. She was 68.The...
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Lana Peters, 85 (1926 - 2011)
SCOTT BAUER, The Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Soviet dictator Josef Stalin's daughter, whose defection to the West during the Cold War embarrassed the ruling communists and made her a...
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Danielle Mitterrand, 87 (1924 - 2011)
JAMEY KEATEN, The Associated Press PARIS (AP) — Well before the Occupy movement took on Wall Street, the former first lady of France, Danielle Mitterrand, was leading the charge against...
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Vitaly Shlykov, 77 (2011)
VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV, The Associated PressMOSCOW (AP) — Vitaly Shlykov, a former Soviet intelligence agent who spent years in a Swiss prison after being convicted of espionage and later became an...
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David Coore (2011)
The Associated PressKINGSTON, Jamaica (AP) — Former Jamaican Deputy Prime Minister David Coore has died in the Dominican Republic. He was 86.One of his three sons, Ivan, says Coore died early...
