Sports
Dan Allen - Head football coach at Holy Cross since 1996, who led the team from a wheelchair all of last season, who previously was the head coach at Boston University and was selected as Division I-AA coach of the year in 1993 after an 11-0 season, died on May 16 in Westboro, Massachusetts of complications from multiple chemical sensitivity, an illness that left him immobile from the neck down. He was 48 years old.
Jim Colclough - Football player in the AFL for the Boston Patriots (now New England Patriots), who was an original member when the team joined the league in 1960, who played 9 seasons with the team becoming one of the teams top receivers, and who ranks seventh all time in receptions with 283 and third in yards per catch at 17.7, died May 16 at a hospital in Boston from hepatitis C complications at age 68.
Ania Dolinska - Georgia State senior tennis player and native of Warsaw, Poland, who had a 9-8 record in her singles matches at the school, who was one of four people aboard a private plane on the evening of May 15 destined for the Las Vegas wedding of two other passengers, died as a result of the small plane crashing over the Grand Canyon from unknown causes in a rocky, isolated area known as Vulcan Thrown. She was 22.
Edgar "Special Delivery" Jones - Running back who played for the Cleveland Browns from 1945 to 1949 after starring as a college player at the University of Pittsburgh, who once pitched several innings with the Cleveland Indians baseball team, who went on to coach football at Pitt and with the Pittsburgh Steelers, and who was later named to the Pennsylvania Sports Hall of Fame, died on May 18 in Scranton, Pennsylvania at the age of 84.
Doug Pappas - Influential baseball writer and founding member of the Society for American Baseball Research (SABR), who was considered one of baseball's top authorities on the business of baseball, who wrote numerous articles fro publications such as "Baseball Prospectus", "The National Pastime" and articles for ESPN.com, and who edited SABR's newsletter "Outside the Lines", died May 20 of heat prostration while hiking in Big Bend National Park in Texas. He was 43 years old.
John Patterson - Horse harness racing trainer and driver who was inducted in the sport's Hall of Fame in 1993 and trained and raced world-record-winning horses, including Overtrick and Merrie Annabelle, died on May 16 in Atlanta after a long battle with leukemia. He was 83 years old.
Bert Wolstein - Real estate magnate who last year signed a letter of intent to bring an major league soccer team to Cleveland in 2005, who owned the Cleveland Force indoor soccer team during the 1980s and made a bid for the Cleveland Browns expansion franchise, and who was listed among the 60 most generous donors by the Chronicle of Philanthrope, having made more than $25 million in donations to Cleveland area hospitals and universities, died of natural causes on May 18 in Pepper Pike, Ohio, having recently made a full recovery from prostate cancer. He was 77 years old.

Art and Literature
Gloria Anzaldua - One of the first openly lesbian Hispanic writers and cultural theorists, who was best known for her two books "This Bridge Called My Back: Writings of Radical Women of Culture" and "Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza," but who also published several bilingual children's books, died May 15 from complications relating to diabetes at the age of 61.
Jack Bradbury - Disney animator and comic book artist who briefly drew 'Bugs Bunny' cartoons for Warner Brothers and whose work was featured in "Pinocchio", "Fantasia" and "Bambi", who went on to enjoy a long career with Western Publishing, where he illustrated hundreds of children's books, was the main artist on the "Pluto" stories, and drew comics with nearly every Disney character, died on May 15 of renal failure at the age of 89.
Ford Bryan - Research engineer who worked in the labs of Ford Motor Company for 33 years and went on to write a string of books between 1989 and 2002 about the life and times of Henry Ford including "The Fords of Dearborn" and "Beyond the Model T: The Other Ventures of Henry Ford", died on May 21 in Dearborn at the age of 92.
Gill Fox - Two-time Pulitzer Prize-nominated cartoonist who worked on "Betty Boop", "Muppet Babies" and "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles", animations, as well as comic strips like "Popeye" and "Hi and Lois" with Dik Browne, died May 15 in Redding, Connecticut at the age of 88.
Thomas Gerald Holly - Photojournalist whose work included photos of early civil rights demonstrations, a photo of James Earl Ray, Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassin, a week before he fled from Brushy Mountain State Penitentiary and which appeared on the cover of Time, and a photo of the scene of country music star Patsy Cline's fatal plane crash, whose other work has appeared in magazines such as National Geographic, Life, Newsweek, and Forbes magazines, died May 19 of Parkinson's disease at his Nashville home at the age of 87.
Jack Leigh - Photographer and author best known for his photo of The Bird Girl statue on the cover of John Berendt's 1993 best-seller "Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil", who published five books of photography including "The Ogeechee: A River and Its People" and "The Land I'm Bound To", died May 19 of cancer in Savannah, Georgia at the age of 55.
Joergen Nash - Provocative Danish painter known more for staging disruptive and shocking events in Denmark than for his artwork, who in 1963 beheaded the famed Little Mermaid statue in Copenhagen (he only recently admitted culpability for this), and who pulled "artistic" stunts like releasing hundreds of white mice during a meeting of the Danish Literature Academy and tossing firecrackers on stage during a performance of "Madame Butterfly" at the Copenhagen Royal Theatre, died May 17 of undisclosed causes in Copenhagen at the age of 84.
Yang Shen-sum - Chinese artist who was a master of the Lingnan school of painting, which combines traditional techniques with Japanese and western realist approaches, whose 2002 giant pine tree painting "Evergreen Forever" is displayed in Beijing's Great Hall of the People, died in Hong Kong on May 15 of an apparent heart attack at the age of 92.
Reginald Zelnik - Scholar of Soviet and Russian history who distinguished himself in the field of Russian labor history, who produced numerous books including "Labor and Society in Tsarist Russia: The Factory Workers of St. Petersburg, 1855- 1870", and who was known as a staunch defender of student free speech as a professor at the University of California during the Free Speech Movement in the 1960's, died May 17 when he was hit by a delivery truck on the campus at Berkeley, California. He was 68 years old.

Politics and Military
Lu Fuyuan - First minister in charge of China's newly created capitalist-style Commerce Ministry, who was one of China's key economic figures and oversaw its surging trade and World Trade Organization obligations, and who also held several Communist Party posts and was a former vice minister of education, of industry, and of foreign affairs, died on undisclosed causes in Beijing on May 18. He was 59 years old.
Stephen Montanarelli - Maryland state prosecutor who for the past 20 years handled hundreds high-profile corruption cases involving Maryland politicians and their friends, and who gained national attention as the investigator of Linda Tripp's wiretapping of Monica Lewinsky, died of multiple myeloma on May 14 in Baltimore, Maryland at the age of 75.
James A. Richardson - Canadian cabinet minister who served in Pierre Trudeau's Liberal government for 10 years, who was also a prominent Canadian businessman and served as chairman and CEO of James Richardson and Sons, his family's grain company, and who later devoted his life to charitable causes, died on May 17 in Winnipeg, Canada at the age of 82.
Izzedine Salim - President of the Iraqi Governing Council, whose leadership rotates on a monthly basis, who had been the head of an Islamic party in Basra and the editor of several Iraqi newspapers and magazines, who was a member of the Governing Council since its formation in July, 2003, and who was also known as Abdel-Zahraa Othman, was killed on May 17 along with 7 other people, when a suicide bomber attacked a convoy in Baghdad. He was either 61 or 64 years old.

Social and Religion
Coolah - Last known Tasmanian devil living outside Australia, who was born at the Cincinnati Zoo, but came to the Fort Wayne Children's Zoo through a loan agreement with the Toronto Zoo, whose fame peaked when the sole remaining female Tasmanian devil outside Australia died at the San Diego Zoo, but who was diagnosed last month with inoperable cancer (which is common to Tasmanian Devils both in captivity and in the wild), was euthanized at the Children's Zoo in Fort Wayne, Indiana on May 18 at the age of 7.
Dessi Espana - Circus performer with Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus, who performed aerial acrobatics with twirling chiffon cloth at 35 feet in the air without a net, who once held the world record for twirling 75 hula hoops while appearing on the TV show "Live With Regis & Kathie Lee", fell to her death on May 22 in front of a horrified audience in St. Paul, Minnesota while performing her act. She was 32 years old and the cause of the accident is under investigation.
Gladys Hawley - Great Britain's oldest citizen, who won her place in the Guinness Book in July, 2003, died May 16 at her home in Chesterfield, England at the age of 112.
Damon Huskey - Colorful North Carolina county sheriff, who was in the news in 1979 when three Rutherford County law enforcement officers, including his brother, were gunned down by James Hutchens after a domestic call, who despite other forces, avenged their deaths without violating his own oath to uphold the law, and whose story was told in the 1985 movie "Rutherford County Line" starring actor/producer Earl Owensby as Huskey, died May 17 at his home in Forest City, North Carolina at the age of 80.
Kubi - Male silverback gorilla who lived at the San Francisco Zoo, who underwent an extremely risky unique surgery to remove one of his lungs following a battle with pneumonia and chronic infections, who lived his whole life at the zoo and was the patriarch of the zoo's Gorilla World, and was the brother of Koko, the world-famous gorilla that learned to talk using sign language, died May 18 at age 29 (a gorilla's normal life span is 35 years) from internal bleeding that caused infection 11 days after surgery.
Kelsey Patterson - Texas man diagnosed as paranoid schizophrenic, who was condemned for the 1992 shootings of Dorothy Harris, 41, a secretary at an oil company office in Palestine, Texas, and her boss, Louis Oates, 63, who was arrested a short time later walking naked in the street near his home, whose death sentence was recommended for commutation by the Texas parole board because of his mental health status but was rejected by Texas Governor Rick Perry, was executed by lethal injection on May 18 at the state prison in Huntsville, Texas at the age of 50.
Billy, Anita and Koby Ann Post - Evergreen, Colorado family who in 2003 moved from New York to Colorado seeking a safer place to raise a family, were killed on May 15 while driving on I-70 near Denver when a temporary girder set up to widen an overpass collapsed on their car as they drove underneath, crushing the vehicle. Killed were Billy Post, 34, his wife Anita, 36, who was pregnant, and their 2-year-old daughter Koby.
John Runnings - Peace activist who was a fixture in anti-war protests and demonstrations against nuclear weapons and became known as the ``Wall Walker'' for his numerous climbs atop the Berlin Wall in political protest, who was the first person to chip off a part of the Berlin Wall (his piece is housed in the Checkpoint Charlie museum), who fought for a world law that would outlaw war and make passports obsolete, a cause he promoted by traveling around the world without a passport (including a trip to Baghdad during the first Gulf War), and who engaged in numerous attention-getting antics that resulted in his arrest 32 times, died on April 25 on Vancouver Island after suffering from senile dementia. He was 86 years old.
Raymond Tassinari - Carpenter for a Massachusetts construction company, who on May 17 was operating an air-powered nail gun on a construction site in Plymouth, Massachusetts, was killed when a nail from the gun went astray and pierced his heart in a bizarre accident. He was 22 years old.
Cardinal Hyacinthe Thiandoum - Leading figure of the Roman Catholic Church in Africa, who served as archbishop of Dakar, Senegal from 1976 to 2001, died May 18 at a clinic in Marseilles, France at the age of 83.

Business and Science
Arnold O. Beckman - Chemist and inventor whose efforts to measure the sourness of lemons led to his development of the first pH meter, a device which provided laboratories with a simple and speedy device to measure acidity and alkalinity and which marked the beginning of a lucrative career developing accurate and easy-to-use scientific instruments, who was the biggest private benefactor of American scientific research in the mid-1980s and was chairman emeritus of the board of trustees at California Institute of Technology, died on May 18 in San Diego at the age of 104.
Marjorie Courtenay-Latimer - Internationally renowned ichthyologist and the first museum curator at the East London Museum, who was best known for her discovery in 1938 of the coelacanth, a prehistoric "fossil fish" previously thought to have been extinct for 70 million years, in the sea off South Africa (the fish was given the scientific name Latimeria-chalumnae in her honor), and who secured what is possibly the only Dodo egg in the world, died of pneumonia on May 17in East London at the age of 97.
Jack Eckerd - Highly motivated businessman, who in 1952 bought three run-down drugstores and created the pharmacy empire that bears his name, who later served as head of the General Services Administration, the federal government's housekeeping agency, during the Ford and Carter administrations, and who used his fortune to back several causes, including Eckard College in St. Petersburg, Florida and many charities for troubled teens, died on May 19 in Clearwater, Florida at the age of 91 of pneumonia.
F. Sheridan Garrison - Businessman who founded the American Freightways trucking line in 1982, building it from a small Arkansas based company into the nation's fourth-largest less-than-truckload motor carrier, which was named one of America's 400 best big companies and the number one trucking company by Forbes magazine in 2001 (it was acquired by FedEx Corporation that same year and rename FedEx Freight), was found dead on May 19 in a northern Arkansas lake. He suffered from Parkinson's disease and it is believed that he fell from his boat. He was 69 years old.
Arnold Gridley - Entrepreneur who invented and popularized the motorized cable car, the iconic symbols of San Francisco, whose cars which had been used in at least 10 movies, all the Rice-A-Roni commercials, the Super Bowl championship parades of the San Francisco 49ers, and were supplied to Democratic Party politicians to use in their campaigns, died May 8 in San Francisco of kidney failure at the age of 92. At his funeral his casket was taken to the cemetery in a procession of motorized cable cars.
Samuel C. Johnson - Longtime chairman of consumer products giant SC Johnson, who expanded the wax company (Johnson Wax) started by his great-grandfather, into four global companies that now employ more than 28,000 people, making furniture polishes, waxes and other household cleaning products, who was ranked by Forbes magazine as the world's 51st richest man and the wealthiest in Wisconsin with net worth of $7.4 billion, and who in recent years appeared in his company's commercials touting SC Johnson as a "family company", died May 22 of cancer at his home in Racine, Wisconsin at the age of 76.
Dr. Eugene Mallove - Science writer and leading advocate for Cold Fusion research, who persuaded the U.S. Department of Energy to give the phenomenon a second look after 15 years of denial and stonewalling, who left his MIT faculty position in protest over what he considered to be rigged data intended to discredit Cold Fusion, and who was president of the nonprofit New Energy Foundation and editor-in-chief of the organization's magazine Infinite Energy, was brutally killed during a suspected robbery on May 14 in Norwich, Connecticut. He was 56 years old.
Marilyn Reece - Award-winning civil engineer who designed the San Diego-Santa Monica freeway interchange in Los Angeles in which opened in 1964, who in 1954 became California's first registered female civil engineer, died May 15 at her home in Hacienda Heights, California after a long illness at age 77.
Dr. Paul Wehrle - Pediatrician and an expert in communicable and infectious diseases, who was chairman of the USC department of pediatrics for more than 25 years, who worked to eradicate smallpox and helped with clinical trials of the Salk polio vaccine and was also known for his research into diseases and environmental hazards such as air pollution, died on May 11 in San Clemente, California of complications from a prolonged illness. He was 82 years old.