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News and Entertainment
Borislav Boskovic (87)
Journalist for the Associated Press who covered Yugoslavia during the Cold
War, who joined the AP in 1948 and retired in 1982, who covered the rise of
President Josip Broz Tito and his communist followers following World War II
and the dictator's eventual split with the Soviet Union in 1948 and his death
in 1980, died October 8 in Belgrade, Serbia-Montenegro of emphysema.
Erik Bye (78)
Entertainer and award-winning television and radio personality who often performed
his sailor songs, stories and poems on state radio and television network NRK,
who was also known as a journalist who briefly worked as AP bureau chief in
Oslo, Norway, and who wrote 14 books and recorded 19 albums featuring his songs
and traditional music, died October 13 in Oslo, Norway of cancer.
Anita Bitri-Prapaniku (36): Popular Albanian
singer who came to the United States in 1996 to escape unrest in her home country
and became an in-demand performer at weddings, parties, and festivals in New
York's Albanian-American community, whose distinct musical style was to combine
traditional Albanian music with contemporary American pop, and who was currently
recording two CDs and music videos, was found dead of carbon monoxide poisoning
on October 19, along with her mother and her 7-year old daughter in their Staten
Island, NY apartment.
Phil Harper (64): Radio personality who brought a distinctive voice and
unique, unscripted character to radio gigs ranging from jazz and country music
hosting to commercials, who was also known as the voice of private detective
Harry Nile in nationwide radio broadcasts of the detective drama "The Adventures of Harry Nile" for more than 27 years, and who was currently working weekday afternoons as "Buffalo Phil" on
classic country KYCW-AM in Seattle, died of diabetes and heart disease on October
11 in Seattle, WA.
Jack Rourke (86): TV executive best known for producing and co-hosting former Los Angeles mayor Sam Yorty's TV show, which featured celebrity guests and let audience members ask questions of the mayor (it was billed as the first such TV show by a U.S. mayor), who also produced a variety of fund-raising telethons in the LA market in the 1950s and 1960s, and who himself ran unsuccessfully for mayor in 1969, died on October 14 in Toluca Lake, CA.
Koose Muniswamy Veerappan (60): India's most wanted bandit, a flamboyant but brutal smuggler with a trademark handlebar mustache who murdered police officers, slaughtered elephants, and kidnapped a popular Indian movie star while enjoying a level of celebrity comparable to his country's Bollywood movie idols, who had been on the run since the late 1960s with a $410,000 bounty on his head, aided by local peasants who depended on his pay and even some local politicians that he paid off, was killed in a shootout with a special paramilitary task force in a jungle near Madras, India on October 19, after 30 years, nearly $30 million dollars and thousands of security forces had been put forth to capture him.
Robert Lissauer (87): Music historian who created a 1.2 million word encyclopedia of pop tunes in
America, a tome that weighs six pounds, contains 20,000 entries and included
1,700 pages in its original form focusing on songs from 1888 forward and are
sorted by title, composer, date, performer, and genre (blues, pop standards,
rock, and show tunes, who often sparked debate about the inclusions of some
songs and exclusion of others, died October 14 in the Bronx, New York.
Sports
Ray Boone (81): Two-time Major League Baseball All-Star and the patriarch of the first three-generation family in major league baseball (son Bob and grandsons Bret and Aaron followed him into the big leagues), who played for 12 seasons with 6 teams including the Cleveland Indians, Detroit Tigers, and Boston Red Sox, died on October 17 in San Diego, CA, having been hospitalized for six months with complications after surgery.
Gertrude Dunn(72): Baseball player for the All American
Girls Professional Baseball League where she played on the teams the Battle Creek
Belles and the South Bend Blue Sox-the league made famous by the movie "A League
Of Their Own," who was named "Rookie of the Year" in 1952, who also was an avid
field hockey player and coach and was named to the U.S. Field Hockey Hall of
Fame in 1988, died October 6 in Avondale, Pennsylvania when the airplane she
was solo-piloting crashed shortly after takeoff.
Nick Skorich (83): Head coach of the
Philadelphia Eagles from 1961 to 1963 and who was the offensive line coach for
the 1960's championship team, then head coach of the Cleveland Browns for the
1971 season, who was associated with the NFL as a player, coach or supervisor
of officials for more than 50 years, died October 2 of an apparent infection
following heart-valve surgery.
Douglas Turner Day III (81): Two-time Major League Baseball All-Star and the patriarch of the first three-generation family in major league baseball (son Bob and grandsons Bret and Aaron followed him into the big leagues), who played for 12 seasons with 6 teams including the Cleveland Indians, Detroit Tigers, and Boston Red Sox, died on October 17 in San Diego, CA, having been hospitalized for six months with complications after surgery.
Chuck Hiller Former Major League Baseball second
baseman who hit the National League's first grand slam in the World Series in
1962, who played for 8 seasons for four teams including the New York Mets and
Pittsburgh Pirates, and who worked in the Mets organization for the past 24 seasons
as a major league coach and a minor league manager and adviser died of leukemia
on October 20 in St. Pete Beach, FL.
Richie Lemos(84): Former world featherweight boxing champion known as the "Plaza Mexican" and the "Mexican Tiger" who became the second Los Angeles born fighter of the modern era to win a world title when he defeated Petey Scalzo in 1941, and who was inducted into the World Boxing Hall of Fame in 1989, died on October 18 in Covina, CA.
Bernice Rubens (76) Author and filmmaker whose novels focused on the more
disturbing aspects of human nature, who drew on her own experiences growing
up Jewish, whose book, "The Elected Member" won her a Booker Prize in 1970,
and whose "Madame Souzatzka" was made into a movie in 1962, directed by John
Schlesinger and starring Shirley MacLaine, died on October 13 in London after
recently suffering a stroke.
Johnny Sturm (88)
New York Yankees first-basemen in the 1941 World Series (his one and only season
in major league baseball,) whose baseball career was cut short when he was driving
a tractor (after he entered the Air Force) to clear land for an Army baseball
field, and the index finger on Sturm's right hand -- his glove hand -- was mangled
and the top of the finger amputated, who later managed the Yankees' Class C team
in Joplin, Mo., in 1948-49 during which he got a phone call from Mickey Mantle's
father who asked him to give Mantle a try-out, after which Sturm quickly brought
to the attention of the Yankees, which led to Mantle signing with the Yankees,
died October 8 of congestive heart failure.
Art and Literature
Nicholas Duke Biddle (83) Grandson of the founders of Duke University and humanitarian
who helped families escape Cuba and other Caribbean countries, who went to Cuba
shortly after Castro took power to help families who wanted to escape, who served
for many years on the board of the International Rescue Committee, died October
11 in Madrid, Spain of a heart attack.
Jane Meyerhoff (80): Philanthropist, collector and major donor of modern art (mostly by American masters) for nearly 50 years, who donated her and her husband's $300 million art collection to the National Gallery of Art, becoming one of the Gallery's largest single gift donors, who also established the Meyerhoff Scholar Program at the University of Maryland Baltimore campus (now a leading science-education initiative for African Americans), and who ranked last year with her husband in the top 20 of Business Week magazine's most generous philanthropists, died following heart surgery in Baltimore on October 16.
Dame Rosemary Murray (91) First female chancellor of Cambridge University
who also founded the all female New Hall college in 1954, who took over the
role of chancellor at Cambridge as the first woman to do so since the office
was created in 1412, where she was responsible for allowing students to become
more involved in the administration of colleges and faculties, and who was
created a dame in 1977 for her contribution to education, died October 7 in
Oxford, England.
Isadore ("Izzy") Parker (84): Humorist and
cartoonist who satirized life in Greenbelt, Md., the car-pool culture of the
'40s, the plight of the ordinary man, and local and national politics for the "Greenbelt News Review", the "Washington Post" and
other publications during a 60 year career as an editorial cartoonist, died
of diabetes in Lanham, MD on October 11.
Politics and Military
William Geary (105): Former superintendent with the Irish Garda Siochana police who left Ireland after he was accused of taking a $180 bribe from the Irish Republican Army and fired in 1929, who maintained his innocence and spent the next 70 years trying to clear his name with a letter writing campaign to numerous Irish justice ministers, and who was finally granted a pardon in 1999 and given $75,000 restitution, died of heart failure on October 14 in Queens, NY at the age of 105.
Herbert Kundler (77): Writer and radio broadcaster who helped to direct a US-financed radio station (called Radio in the American Sector) in former West Berlin during most of the Cold War, a station that played a critical role in informing an anxious public in the divided German capital when Communist East Germany sealed off West Berlin and began building the Berlin Wall (the station began a new show after the wall went up that broadcast music dedicated by West Berliners to friends and relatives in the East), died in Berlin on October 19.
Paul H. Nitze (97): Influential Pentagon official who helped shape U.S. diplomatic and military strategy during the Cold War and enjoyed a long and successful career as a senior State Department official, assistant defense secretary, Navy secretary and deputy defense secretary, who served under eight presidents, was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Reagan, and had a warship named for him in April (making him only the eighth living person after whom a Navy warship was named), and who co-founded The Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies in Washington, died on October 19 in Washington, D.C.
Pierre Salinger (79): Press secretary for Presidents
John F. Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson who became the youngest person to hold that
position and was known for his wit and casual demeanor, who also enjoyed a long
career as a television reporter with ABC News, working as the network's Paris
bureau chief, chief foreign correspondent and senior editor in London, and who
was awarded the Chevalier of the Legion, France's highest civilian honor, for
increasing understanding between the United States and France, died of a heart
attack in France on October 16.
Alfred H. Song (85) Politician who was the first Asian to be elected to California
state legislature who was elected to the post in 1966, but whose career was tainted
by allegations he had used his influence to help the leader of an illegal ambulance-chasing
ring in exchange for lavish gifts (the attorney general's office eventually dropped
the case,) who later was appointed to a number of state boards and served as
a state deputy attorney general after leaving the Legislature, died October 11
in Irvine, California of natural causes.
Social and Religion
Greg Ball (60): Outdoorsman who gave up a career as a banking executive to create a volunteer trail maintenance program for the Washington Trails Association, a non-profit advocacy group that became the largest state-based program of its kind in the country, with 1,800 volunteers who work nearly 70,000 hours a year to keep trails open, died of prostate cancer on October 17 in Seattle, WA.
Adremy Dennis (28) Convicted murderer who, when he was 18, killed Kurt Kyle
in Akron, Ohio in a 1994 robbery attempt, in which he netted $15, who later
said he held Kyle partially responsible for his own death for not recognizing
that Dennis was high and drunk and going along with the robbery, was executed
by lethal injection on October 13, the 935th execution in the United States
since the death penalty was reinstated in 1971 and the 7th inmate executed
in Ohio this year, which put it in second place for total executions this year
behind Texas.
Cardinal Juan Francisco Fresno .(90): Cardinal who played a key role in efforts to restore democracy in Chile during the military dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet, who led Santiago Catholics for six years during which time he hosted a visit by Pope John Paul II and promoted the first contacts between the Pinochet regime and the opposition seeking to restore civilian rule, died of kidney failure on October 15 in Santiago, Chile.
Ricky Morrow (53): Texas death row inmate convicted for the killings of a savings and loan office worker during a robbery in 1982, who became the 17th Texas prisoner executed in 2004 and the fourth in October, was executed by lethal injection in Huntsville, TX on October 20.
Richard Schmidt Jr. (80): Communications lawyer and general counsel to the American Society of Newspaper Editors who was involved in several significant First Amendment cases, including a landmark case in which the court ruled that the government had no right to tell a newspaper what to print, died of congestive heart failure on October 17 in Washington, DC.
Business and Science
Thomas M. Donahue (83): Pioneering space scientist who was an experimenter or participating scientist on missions sent to Venus, Jupiter, and Saturn, as well as investigations of the Moon and Earth's atmosphere, who studied the destruction of the Earth's ozone layer, served on committees that guided the efforts of NASA, studied the effects of radiation on the atmosphere, and served as chairman of the influential Space Science Board of the National Academy of Science's National Research Council, died of complications from heart surgery on October 16 in Ann Arbor, MI.
Dr. Lawrence Z. Freedman (85): Pioneering forensic psychiatrist who gained attention for his work on insanity and the law and his investigations into killers' psychological backgrounds, which he used to build psychological profiles of would-be Presidential assassins for the Secret Service, whose work involved him with some of the most notorious criminals of recent times (he testified for the defense in the murder trial of mass murderer John Wayne Gacy), died of a stroke on October 6 in Chicago.
Lynn Manulis (85) Retailer of luxury fashion who dressed prominent women in
a classic style and promoted up-and-coming designer to a younger crowd, who was
the former head of Martha, Inc. which was a chain of stores founded by her mother,
Martha Phillips, died of lung cancer on October 10.
Linda Maurer Collins (65): First person to wear the "Medic Alert" bracelet, whose teenage experience of going in to allergic shock after she was treated for a cut led her parents to design a bracelet a medical bracelet that would alert medical professionals about a person's serious health conditions in cases of emergency (they also created the Medic Alert Foundation, which as grown to more than 4 million members), whose original Medic Alert bracelet is now housed in the Smithsonian, and who went on to become a champion golfer and golf teacher, died of breast cancer on October 13 in Turlock, CA.
James Moore (63)
Plaintiff in the IBM lawsuit that claimed IBM (a company he'd worked for since
the 1960's) exposed him and other employees to cancer causing chemicals (he lost
in April), whose case is credited for bringing light to various chemicals that
can cause harmful side-effects, died on October 8 after a nine-year battle with
non-Hodgkins lymphoma.
Peter L. Picknelly (73)
Businessman who steered the Peter Pan Bus Lines company that his father created
into United State's largest privately owned bus line, which operates more than
400 busses and employs over 1,500 employees, died October 4 of an apparent
stroke while vacationing in Portugal.