News and Entertainment
Lélia Abramo - Brazilian theater, cinema and TV actress, who appeared in such movies as "Veredas da Salvação" and "O Quarto", who was also a well-known political activist and one of the founders of President Lula da Silva's Workers Party, died April 9 of a pulmonary embolism at a hospital in São Paulo, Brazil at the age of 93.
Herb Andress - Austrian-born actor who came to the U.S. in the late 1950's and appeared in TV series and films, often playing Nazis and other stereotypical German roles, whose credits include the TV shows "Combat", "My Favorite Martian" and "Burke's Law" as well as movies like "The Ghost In the Invisible Bikini", who returned to Austria in the late 1960's where he enjoyed a long career in film, working in dozens of films with the likes of Rainer Werner and Fellini, died April 8 of cancer in Grasbrunn, Germany at the age of 69.
Harry Babbitt - Singer and member of the Kay Kyser Orchestra, who appeared in several movies with the band in the 1940's, including "You'll Find Out" co-starring Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, and Peter Lorre, who appeared on the band's popular radio series, "Kyser's College of Musical Knowledge" and with Steve Allen on "Bandstand Review" during television's early days and who was responsible for the laugh on "Woody Woodpecker", Kyser's 1948 hit novelty tune, died on April 9th in Newport Beach, Calif., at the age of 90.
James Hawthorne "Chief" Bey - Jazz percussionist, African folklore expert, and teacher, who recorded with artists like Art Blakey, Herbie Mann and Harry Belafonte, who performed on Broadway in "Raisin" and in an international tour of "Porgy and Bess" with Leontyne Price and Cab Calloway, died of stomach cancer on April 8 in Brooklyn, NY. He was 91 years old.
Juan Valderrama Blanca - Flamenco and folk singer who appeared in seven films in Spain and recorded more than 300 songs including, "The Emigrant," an ode to the millions of Spaniards who fled the ruins of Spain's Civil War, who began singing as a child working as a farmhand and went on to have a career that spanned six decades, died on April 12 of a heart attack at his home in Seville, Spain at the age of 87.
Linda Brigette (real name Georgia Lambert) - Burlesque star known as "the Cupid Doll" who was the last great Bourbon Street stripper from the glory days of burlesque in New Orleans, who performed acts that included dancing in an oversized champagne glass, fire-eating, and using live animals (a monkey and a python) as props, who once was busted on obscenity charges while performing one of her striptease acts and made headlines when the governor granted her a pardon, and whose 1960s marriage was publicized as the first nude wedding ceremony and featured Morganna, the "The Kissing Bandit" as maid-of-honor, died of a massive stroke on April 9 in New Orleans at the age of 64.
Norman Campbell - Emmy-Award winning television director of such programs as "All In the Family", "Mary Tyler Moore Show" and "One Day at a Time", who was a longtime TV producer, director and composer for Canadian TV, including the acclaimed 1956 CBC-TV musical "Anne of Green Gables" and who was named a member of the Royal Canadian Academy in 1975 and an Officer of the Order of Canada in 1978, died April 12 in Toronto from the effects of a stroke at the age of 80.
Zolman "Porky" Cohen - Big band musician best known for his years as trombonist with Roomful of Blues, who played in the bands of such greats as Artie Shaw, Tony Pastor, Jimmy Dorsey and Lucky Millinder, and who recorded his first and only solo album with 1996's acclaimed "Rhythm & Bones" set, died April 14 at a hospital in Providence, Rhode Island at the age of 79.
Ray Condo - Canadian rockabilly legend who was a fixture on Montreal's live music scene and fronted the bands The Hardrock Goners and Ray Condo & The Ricochets, who released their most recent album, "High and Wild" in 2000, was found dead in a Vancouver apartment on April 15. The cause of death has yet to be determined. He was 53 years old.
Ray Dantzler - Broadcaster who was one of the Tampa Bay area's most respected broadcast journalists, best known for his on-air editorials at the end of news broadcasts on WTVT, who also worked for Armed Services radio while serving in the Navy during WWII and the Korean War, died April 8 at in Tampa of complications from congestive heart failure. He was 79 years old.
Phyllis Dillon - Jamaican singing star of the 1960's know as 'Queen of Rock Steady', who was produced by the legendary Duke Reid, among whose numerous hits were the classics "Don't Stay Away", "Rock Steady" and "Perfidia", who moved to New York and retired from music in the 70's, but who had a compilation album released in the U.S. in 2000 called "Midnight Confessions: Classic Rock Steady & Reggae 1967-71", died April 15 of cancer in New York City at the age of 59.
Nikolai Dmitriyev - Russian jazz critic who was one of the first in the Soviet Union to promote jazz and jazz artists in the country, who founded the jazz magazine Dalo in the 1980's, presented jazz broadcasts on radio and television stations, founded Long Arms Records, a label specializing in traditional and avant-garde Russian music, wrote jazz music reviews for the Moscow Times, founded the Dom cultural center in Moscow and organized jazz concerts in Moscow clubs, died April 11 in Moscow at the age of 49.
Rebecca Glahn - DJ at Memphis radio station Q107 (WHBQ-FM) who worked under the names Madison and Rebecca Fox, who had recently taken the job at the radio station, moving from Jackson, Mississippi where she had worked at WRXW, was found strangled to death on April 12 at her apartment in Memphis, in an apparent random robbery and murder. She was 24 years old and police have three suspects in custody.
John Goodell - Documentary filmmaker who was nominated for an Academy Award in 1973 for the feature "Always a New Beginning", which included the first film footage to capture the birth of a baby gorilla, who was also an inventor, engineer, and technical director for U.S. Industries Company, despite never graduating from high school, and who was one of the leading U.S. players and tournament organizers of the Oriental board game "Go", helping to popularize the game in the United States in the 1950s, died in St. Paul on April 4. He was 94 years old.
Joseph Iadone - Early-music specialist and recording artist who was among the first in postwar America to popularize the lute, the delicate ancestor of the guitar that was common in Europe into the 18th century but drifted into obscurity by the 20th century, who was largely self taught on the instrument, but went on to teach many accomplished musicians and to work as an accompanist for numerous performers including countertenor Russell Oberlin, died on March 23 in New Haven, Connecticut at the age of 89.
Caron Keating - British television presenter who was best known as host of the children's magazine program "Blue Peter" from 1986 to 1990, died April 11 of breast cancer at her mother's home in Sevenoaks, Kent, England at the age of 41.
Pat McJimsey - Blues guitarist and singer who toured or performed with such acts as Leon Russell, Freddy King, Canned Heat and Spyro Gyra, and whose 1983 album "I Love Girls" was recently remastered and released as a CD, died of a heart attack on April 8 at his home in Wichita, Kansas at the age of 54.
Kelucharan Mohapatra - Famed Indian dancer, choreographer, and teacher who revived the ancient temple-dance style of Odissi, making it a popular classical theater dance form in the 1950s, who continued performing and teaching the art until his death, died on April 7 in Orissa, India at the age of 77.
Marita Napier - Celebrated South African soprano who became an international artist specializing in the music of Wagner and Richard Strauss, won a Grammy award, and performed lead roles at the Vienna State Opera, the Metropolitan Opera in New York and La Scala in Milan, died of cancer on April 10 in Cape Town, South Africa at the age of 65.
Argeo Quadri - Italian opera conductor who led performances in many of the world's leading opera houses, but had especially strong ties to the Vienna State Opera, died April 14 in Milan, Italy at the age of 93.
Julie Rannazzisi - New York bureau chief of CBS Marketwatch and its top market reporter, who wrote the news organization's daily stock-market column Market Snapshot, which was the most read feature on the CBS MarketWatch site on any given day, died April 10 in San Francisco, California after a 1 1/2 year battle of cancer at the age of 35.
Roger B. Sims - News producer at both NBC and CBS on such programs as "Evening News" with Walter Kronkite and "Sunday Morning" with Charles Kuralt, who was twice nominated for Emmy Awards, and who was one of the first three African-American graduates of the United States Air Force Academy, later serving in Vietnam, died Feb. 2 in his sleep at his home in Everett, Washington at the age of 65.
Soundarya - Indian movie star who acted in more than 200 movies in several languages including award-winning performances in films like "Suryavamsham" and "Dweepa", who was one of Bollywood's top stars, and who had recently become involved in the campaigns of the Bharatiya Janata Party, was killed in a plane crash on April 17 (along with her brother and two others) in northern Bangalore at the age of 32.
Keith Summers - Expert of traditional English song and music-making, best known as publisher of 'Musical Traditions' magazine and more recently the same-named website, who captured some of the finest performances of Northern Irish folk-song ever, and who in 2004 released a 2-CD set of some of these performances entitled "The Hardy Sons of Dan", died of cancer on March 30 at Southend-on-Sea, Essex, England at the age of 55.
Jack Toney - Gospel vocalist who was known for his "fill-in" roles with some of gospels greatest groups, who was a member at one time or another of groups like the Florida Boys, the Speers, the Dixie Echos, the Statesman and the Stamps Quartet, who worked solo with Jerry Falwell's ministry for many years, and who was inducted into the Gospel Music Hall of Fame, died April 15 at his home in Boaz, Alabama at the age of 70.
Daria Trafankowska - Polish actress of film and television, best known in her native country for her role in the soap opera "Na dobre i na zle", who appeared in several international films including 1984's "The Year of the Quiet Sun" and 1987's "The Young Magician", died April 9 of pancreatic cancer in Warsaw at the age of 51.
Ulysses "Jabo" Ward - Highly revered and beloved figure on the Northwest jazz scene for over 60 years, and a central figure in Seattle's Jackson Street music world, died April 10 in Seattle at age 85.
Mitsuteru Yokoyama - Legendary Japanese animator best known in North America for the magna cartoon Gigantor (known in England as Ironman 28), which he first started drawing in 1956 in Shonen Magazine, who also drew such works as Giant Robo, Otenba Tenshi, Babel II, and Magical Witch Sally, died April 15 at a hospital in Tokyo after suffering severe burns in a fire at his home. He was 69 years old.
Sports
Lou Berberet - Major league catcher during the 1950's who played for the Yankees, Senators, Red Sox and Tigers, who was known as an excellent defensive catcher and is one of only four regular catchers to field a perfect 1.000 for a full season, died April 13 in Las Vegas of unknown causes at the age of 74.
Sam Fox - Football player who was an All American at Ohio State and played in the NFL for one season with the New York Giants, becoming one of only a few Jewish players in the NFL at that time, who coached in the Canadian Football League and taught basketball in Thailand, Greece, India, Turkey and Mexico, and who served as a consultant to the Peace Corps under President Kennedy, died of a heart attack on April 11 in Kendall, FL. He was 86 years old.
Hy Gotkin - 5-foot-8 guard who helped the St. John's University basketball team win National Invitation Tournament titles in 1943 and 1944 (the only team to win back-to-back NIT championships - then the premier tournament that determined the national championship), who was elected to the New York City Basketball Hall of Fame and the St. John's Athletic Hall of Fame, died April 10 of heart and kidney failure at a hospice in Boca Raton, Florida at the age of 81.
Nathan Rettig - Young Late Model car racer who had successfully competed at venues in Southeast Missouri, Illinois, Kentucky, Tennessee and Arkansas, including 3 wins on the circuit, who had developed a fan following in the Midwest and even had his own website, www.nathanrettig.com , died April 9 at a hospital in Sikeston, Missouri of head and neck injuries suffered after an ATV accident. He was 13 years old.
Bernie Scherer - NFL player who was part of the Green Bay Packers' world championship team in 1936, who also played for the Pittsburgh Steelers and was inducted into the University of Nebraska sports hall of fame, died on March 17 near Phoenix at the age of 91.
Art and Literature
Ursula Bentley - Acclaimed British author of such books as "The Natural Order", "The Angel of Twickenham" and "The Sloping Experience", who in 1983 was listed among the young novelists first selected by Granta as among the most promising in Britain, along with such notables as Martin Amis, Julian Barnes and Salman Rushdie, died April 7 after a brief illness at a hospital in Ditchingham, England at the age of 58.
Chester Commodore - Editorial cartoonist who lampooned politicians and public figures during a 33 year career with the Chicago Defender, America's first (and currently only) daily African American newspaper, whose cartoons gave a visual voice to the conditions of African-Americans, and who was nominated 12 times for the Pulitzer Prize, died of a heart attack hours after eye surgery on April 10 in Colorado Springs. He was 89 years old.
Eileen Darby - Photographer whose pictures of more than 500 Broadway shows, including "A Streetcar Named Desire" and "Death of a Salesman", were widely published and helped immortalize theatrical productions, and whose celebrity subjects included stars such as Laurence Olivier, Marlon Brando, Katherine Hepburn and Gregory Peck, died on March 30 in Long Beach, N.Y., after failing to recover from a fall she suffered in November. She was 87 years old.
Will Fowler - Author and journalist who was the first reporter on the scene of the famous Black Dahlia murder in Los Angeles in 1947, who found the body of 22-year-old Elizabeth Short, severed at the waist and drained of blood (he claimed her eyes were open and he closed them) and who was the son of legendary author and screenwriter Gene Fowler, for whom he wrote the biography "The Young Man From Denver", died of prostate cancer on April 13 in Los Angeles at the age of 81.
Milt Machlin - Writer, adventurer and editor of the adventure magazine Argosy, who wrote more than a dozen books on subjects like accused California murderer Caryl Chessman ("Ninth Life"), the mysterious disappearance of oil heir Michael Rockefeller ("The Search for Michael Rockefeller") and his friendship with Ernest Hemingway ("The Private Hell of Hemingway"), died April 3 of the effects of diabetes in New York City at the age of 79.
Ben Pimlott - Historian and biographer best known for his highly-acclaimed biography of the Queen Elizabeth II, entitled "The Queen", which focused on the Queen's position and performance in the political process instead of on scandals and gossip, who chronicled the British Labor movement in his book "Labor and the Left" and became a political columnist and prolific essayist for numerous publications including The New Statesman, and who attended Oxford University with fellow student Bill Clinton, died on April 10 of leukemia. He was 58 years old.
Beatrice Riese - Abstract painter known for her geometric paintings with finely worked calligraphic lines, whose work is in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art, among others, and whose important collection of African Art is now owned by the Brooklyn Museum, died April 2 of abdominal cancer at a hospice in New York City at the age of 86.
Tom Rost Jr. - Illustrator known for the impeccable detail and accuracy in his drawings of wildlife, which appeared in Field and Stream and numerous other wildlife magazines, who began his career as a staff illustrator at the Milwaukee Journal and created many of the maps used to describe the progress of World War II, and who worked in his later years as a commercial artist for companies including Harley Davidson, died of pancreatic cancer on April 12 in Milwaukee at the age of 95.
Politics and Military
Raoul Aglion - Author, U.N. representative and diplomat, who was a jurist in Paris and wrote numerous books, including legal dictionaries and a book on Anglo-Saxon trust law, who served as a diplomat from France to the U.S. and Egypt, who wrote numerous historical books including "War in the Desert", "The Fighting French" and "Roosevelt and de Gaulle", and among whose many medals and honors are Officier de la Legion d' Honneur of France, died March 14 of natural causes in Seattle. He was in his 90's.
David Morales Bello - Controversial Venezuelan political figure, lawyer and writer who was a leader of the Accion Democratica (AD) Party in that country, who was president of the Venezuelan Congress, during the coup d'etat led by Hugo Chávez in 1992, died April 13 of cancer in Caracas at the age of 83.
Ben DeFelice - Chief of the casualty affairs branch of the CIA, who served as liaison between CIA agents and their families, who for 40 years had the delicate assignment of consoling relatives of CIA employees who were missing, captured or killed in the line of duty, died April 5 of cancer at a hospital in Arlington, Virginia at the age of 79.
Emanuel Goldberg - Civil rights activist and press secretary for former Mass. Governor Christian Herter, who served as a speechwriter for Republican presidential candidate Dwight D. Eisenhower and wrote for the Boston Globe, Associated Press, and Newsweek, and who was awarded a Bronze Star during WWII, died of natural causes in Harwich, MA on April 9 at the age of 83.
Jeremiah Gumbs - Hotel keeper known as the 'Father of Anguilla's secessionist movement', who became a hero when he led the push, going before the U.N. in 1967, to make the British-controlled Caribbean island a self-governing territory, died on April 8 in Anguilla, Lesser Antilles at the age of 91.
Philippe Jutras - United States Army veteran of the Normandy campaign who paid tribute to the American paratroopers of D-Day for the past three decades as curator of the Airborne Museum in Ste.-Mère-Église, the first French town liberated in World War II, and who appears as an elderly veteran in the opening scene of the movie "Saving Private Ryan," died April 4 in Valognes, France after suffering a fall at his home. He was 87 years old.
A. Ludlow "Lud" Kramer - Influential Washington state politician who served as Secretary of State from 1964 to 1975, who transformed politics and culture by insisting on help and social justice for racial minorities, and who unsuccessfully ran for U.S. Congress in 1974, died on April 9 of lung cancer in Spokane, Washington at the age of 71.
General Sein Lwin - Burmese military leader who earned the tag "Butcher of Rangoon" for his reputation as the brutal henchman of dictator general Ne Win, who became president of Myanmar (formerly Burma) in 1988 where he was responsible for reportedly killing hundreds of pro-democracy student protesters during his short time in office, died April 9 of a stomach ailment at a hospital in Yangon, Myanmar at the age of 81.
Clayton B. Lyle - Head of the Army Corps of Engineers on November 24, 1963 who was called upon to create the eternal flame for John F. Kennedy's grave on the very day he was assassinated, and who rigged a luau lamp with a propane gas system and had his flame in place and working by that evening, died April 14 of natural causes at a nursing home in Austin, Texas at the age of 90.
Elizabeth Magid - Pilot who flew for the U.S. military during World War II and was among 1,074 women who became pilots in the short-lived program Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP's), and whose poem "Celestial Flight" became a fixture at funerals for female pilots, died March 23 of cancer at the age of 86.
Yvonne "Pat" Pateman - Member of the Women Service Pilots (WASP's) during World War II, who was one of only 1,074 female pilots in the WASP program who flew in supporting (non-combat) roles during the war, who retired as a U.S. Air Force lieutenant colonel after serving in the Vietnam War, who was featured in Deborah Douglas's book "American Women in Flight Since 1940" and who wrote her own book in 1996, "Women Who Dared", the first history of American women test pilots, died April 4 after a stroke in a nursing home in Laguna Woods, California at the age of 84.
Abdel Aziz Rantisi - Outspoken leader of the violent Palestinian militant group Hamas, who took over the leadership in March, 2004 after the assassination of Hamas founder Sheik Ahmed Yassin by Israeli forces, who rejected any accommodation in the peace process with Israel stating "there is no one left who believes in something called the peace process", was assassinated on April 17 in an Israeli airstrike on his vehicle in the Gaza Strip. He was 56 years old.
Helen M. Smith - Former White House press secretary and trusted aide to first lady Pat Nixon during the Watergate years, who traveled with the first lady, serving as her top spokeswoman and counseling her on public appearances, who also worked briefly for Betty Ford after President's Nixon's resignation while remaining a point of contact for the Nixon family, died of vascular disease on April 9 in Washington at the age of 84.
Social and Religion
Lonel Bass - 54-year-old Linden, North Carolina man who stepped out of his home on April 14 to have a soda pop with his friends at a local gas station, and then went to feed his animals on his hunting property, was run down and killed by deranged driver Abdullah El-amin Shareef. Shareef drove a pair of stolen vehicles across three North Carolina counties intentionally hitting six pedestrians along the way (Bass was the lone fatality).
Kathy - Beluga whale believed to be the oldest such animal in captivity, who in 1981 became the first Beluga whale known to give birth in captivity, and who was a popular attraction at the New York Aquarium, died April 9 of a bacterial infection at the age of 34. Beluga whales normally don't live beyond 30 years.
Anna Grudziecke - Six-year old Texas girl who was the first child to receive the revolutionary DeBakey heart pump, surviving for 16 days with the pump implanted in her tiny body, died of multiple organ failure on April 11 in Houston.
Rabbi Jay Litvin - A leader in the rescue organization Children of Chernobyl, an international aid group that lifted children out of the area of the 1986 nuclear disaster in the Ukraine, who worked as medical liaison, coordinating the immigration of children to foreign countries for their medical treatment, and who despite having no medical background, became an expert on cancer through his work with the Ukrainian children, died in Jerusalem on April 15 of cancer. He was 60 years old.
Henry Viscardi Jr. - Leader in integrating disabled people into America's work force, who was associated with or personally started some of the most important programs to emphasize that the disabled are in fact people with abilities, including the National Center for Disability Services, who advised every president from FDR to Jimmy Carter about the disabled, and who wrote eight books about the subject including 1959's "Give Us The Tools", died April 13 in Roslyn, New York at the age of 93.
Lee Walker - Activist and lawyer who led important efforts during the late 1970s and 1980s to protect the rights of gays and lesbians in the workplace, who was the driving force behind the 1979 executive order barring discrimination against gay state employees, and whose efforts helped pave the way in 1984 for an amendment to the state's hate crimes law to include gays and lesbians under its protections, died April 5 of an apparent heart attack at his West Hollywood apartment at the age of 63.
Wesley Wehr - Artist, composer, writer and paleobotanist, who is best known as a collector of both artwork and fossilized plants which he would then donate to museums in the Pacific Northwest, who became a crusader of keeping artwork in museums and away from private collectors, and who wrote two books, "The Eighth Lively Art: Conversations With Painters, Poets, Musicians, and the Wicked Witch of the West" and the upcoming "The Accidental Collector: Art, Fossils, Friendships", died of a heart attack on April 12 in Seattle at the age of 74.
Business and Science
Micheline Charest - Co-founder of the Canadian children's production company Cinar, which produced the Emmy Award-winning series "Arthur" and "Zoboomafoo" as well as top-rated "Wimzie's House", "Caillou" and "The Adventures of Paddington Bear", who was ranked as the 19th most powerful woman in television in 1997 by the Hollywood Reporter, but who was ousted from the company in 1999 after scandalous allegations of tax fraud and misappropriation of funds came to light, died April 14 at a hospital in Montreal from complications after face lift, liposuction and breast reduction surgery. She was 51 years old.
Carlos Cisneros - Miami business and cultural leader, who was president of Cisneros Television Group, a company that owned Latin American pay-TV channels and developed programming for them, who was the nephew of Venezuelan media mogul Gustavo Cisneros, and who was a previous honoree as Miami's 'Citizen of the Year' award, was found dead on April 10 at his Miami home. He was 38 and his death is being investigated as either a drug overdose or suicide.
Dr. John T. Dunn - International leader in efforts to eliminate iodine deficiency and its accompanying disorders and co-founder of the Council for Control of Iodine Deficiency Disorders, who advocated that iodine deficiency is leading cause of preventable mental deficiency in children which can be solved by increasing amount of iodine into a child's diet, primarily through iodized salt, which can raise IQ's by up to 12 points, died April 9 of a heart attack at his home in Charlottesville, Virginia at the age of 71.
Ed Gregory - Well-known country music show promoter and owner of United Shows, which operates dozens of carnivals and state fairs, who owned the royalty rights to songs by the late country singers Jim Reeves and Faron Young, but who may be best known for receiving a pardon on a bank fraud conviction from out-going President Bill Clinton in 2000, which prompted a congressional investigation (Gregory had paid Hillary's brother Tony $240,000 in "consulting fees"), died April 11 of pulmonary disease at his home in Brentwood, Tennessee at the age of 66.
Paocheng Tao Jen - Teacher and Chinese community leader who played a central role in improving scientific and cultural exchanges between China and the United States along with her husband, Johns Hopkins University physicist Chih-Kung Jen, who led the first delegation of scientists living in the United States back to China following President Nixon's 1972 trip to China and nurtured blooming relationships among the scientists of both countries both by making numerous trips to China and by hosting dignitaries in their U.S. home, and who was also among the first women to study at Qinghua University in Beijing, died April 8 in Brookline, Massachusetts at the age of 92.
Sakip Sabanci - Turkish businessman ranked as the 147th wealthiest person in the world by Forbes magazine with $3.2 billion, who was president of the board of Sabanci Holding, one of the two largest family owned industrial holdings in Turkey, died April 10 of cancer at a hospital in Istanbul at the age of 71.
Phil Sokolof - Founder and president of the National Heart Savers Association, an organization that campaigns against fat and cholesterol, who waged war on McDonald's and other fast-food restaurants who he said were poisoning America with high-cholesterol menus, who spent $15 million of his own money to bring the dangers of cholesterol to the public eye, promote cholesterol screening and create legislation to require nutritional labels on all processed foods, and who wrote the 2002 book "Add Years to Your Life", died April 15 of heart failure in Omaha, Nebraska at the age of 82.
John B. Whyte - Real estate developer and former magazine model who helped develop The Pines, a community on famed Fire Island, New York, into one of the most popular and exclusive gay resort areas in America, and who founded Pines With Love, which enlisted celebrities to perform to raise money for AIDS research, died of prostate cancer on March 22 in Dana Point, California at the age of 75.
Alwyn Williams - Noted geologist, paleontologist and university administrator at the University of Glasgow in Scotland, who carried out major research on the geology of the Southern Uplands of Scotland, who was the author or co-author of 23 publications on brachiopods, and who edited the mammoth American publication "Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, part H: Brachiopoda", died April 4 of lung cancer in Glasgow at the age of 82.
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