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Dayton Allen - (85) Comedian and actor who was best know as the voice of Deputy Dawg and the grumpy mayor Phineas T. Bluster on “The Howdy Doody Show” and most of the voices on the Terrytoons production “The Deputy Dawg Show,” was a regular on “The Steve Allen Show” and was heard as the voice of cartoon magpies “Heckle and Jeckle,” died of a massive stroke in Hendersonville, Arkansas on November 11.
Charlie Cline - ( 73) former member of Bill Monroe's Bluegrass Boys
and Jimmy Martin's Sunny Mountain Boys; a founder of the Lonsome Pine Fiddlers
with brother Curly Ray Cline. Passed away Saturday 11/20/04 in a Jasper, Alabama
nursing home following a lengthy illness.
Doug Bennett - (53) the lead singer of the Canadian indie band Doug and
the Slugs, died Saturday October 16th, following an undisclosed lengthy illness.
He was 52. Doug and the Slugs released four albums that went gold. Bennett
wrote a number of the band's hits from the early '80s like Day by Day, Too
Bad, Tomcat Prowl and Making It Work. The Toronto-born Bennett moved to Vancouver
in 1973, forming the band in 1977. Born in 1951.
Michel Colombier - (65) Composer who wrote scores for 100 movies (including
including “White Nights,” “Against All Odds” and “Purple Rain”) and television
productions and 20 ballets, who, as an arranger, worked with artists Madonna,
Prince, The Beach Boys, Paul Anka, Barbra Streisand and Earth Wind and Fire,
and who received many film awards throughout his career including two Cesar
Awards, a Golden Globe Nomination, a People's Choice Award and an Ace nomination,
died of cancer in Santa Monica, California on November 14.
Massimo Freccia -
(98) Italo-American conductor who had
an international reputation, but never
held a post as music director of a major
orchestra or opera house; former assistant
to Arturo Toscanini; was one of the last
men known to fight a duel; in 1934 conducted
the Budapest Symphony on an Italian tour
which was attended by Mussolini; after
WWII, returned to London for several
years as guest conductor of the LPO,
Philharmonia, RPO, and BBC Symphony;
his candid views on other conductors
are a major part of his autobiography,
The Sounds of Memory (1990); his last
concert was in 1998; died Nov. 16, 2004.
Fred Hale Sr. - (113) World’s oldest man who was 12 away from his 114th birthday, who at 95, first tried boogie-boarding, at 103 was still shoveling snow off the roof of his home and at 108 was still driving and found slow drivers annoying, died in Dewitt, New York.
Rosalind Hicks - (85) Daughter of Agatha Christie who promoted and upheld the integrity of her mother’s books and did not permit biographies, many of the film and theatrical projects based on the books (and who scrutinized potential Hercule Poirot actors) and who refused to speak of the mysterious eleven-day disappearance of her mother, died on October 28.
Alfred Hudgins - (75) died last week in Crestwood after a battle with cancer. Best known for his long-running overnight blues show on the former WNIB before it was sold in 2000, he most recently hosted a Saturday and Sunday morning blues show on WNDZ-AM (750). He signed off for health reasons last year, died October.
Anna Keaveney - (55) British actress
who appeared in the popular soap opera “Brookside” and starred in numerous
films, including “Shirley Valentine”, and who most recently appeared in the
critically acclaimed movie “Vera Drake”, died on November 20 of lung cancer.
Robin Kenyatta - (62) Jazz saxophonist who was known for his free style, who saxophonists Archie Shepp, Sonny Stitt, trumpeter Bill Dixon, and trombonist Roswell Rudd, who also played tenor saxophone and flute, who recorded three albums in the 1970’s- "Gypsy Man," "Terra Nova" and "Stompin' at the Savoy” and also recorded "Until," "Girl From Martinique," and "Cool Blue," died in his sleep Lausanne, Switzerland on October 26.
Russell T. Jones (Ol’ Dirty Bastard) -
(35) Rap star known as ODB (or Dirt McGirt or Big Baby Jesus) who was a founding
member of the Wu Tang Clan in the early 1990’s who was known for his outlandish skits and antics (he was filmed by MTV going to pick up foodstamps in his limousine,) who then successfully launched a solo career and released several hit singles, including 1999's "Got
Your Money but who was often in trouble with the law for a variety of offenses,
collapsed and died in a Manhattan, New York studio after complaining of chest
pains on November 13.
Ed Kemmer - (84) Actor who played Cmdr. Buzz Corry on the popular 1950’s children’s program “Space Patrol” and later was a regular on many television soap operas including “The Edge of Night,” “As the World Turns,” “All My Children” and “Guiding Light,” and
who had spent 11 months in a German prisoner of war camp when his plane was
shot down in World War II where he and his fellow POWs staged plays to pass
time, died on November 9, four days after suffering a stroke in New York City.
Malcolm Klein (76) Emmy-winning broadcast executive who pioneered televising
of such cultural events as the Hollywood Bowl concerts and art exhibits, who
was known for innovation in programming throughout his career and won an Emmy
for creating the prototype talk show Tempo, died of prostate cancer on November
1 in Los Altos, CA.
Harry Lampert - (88) Comic book writer who created the DC Comics character “The Flash,” (a character who could defy gravity,) who started drawing cartoons at age 16 for Fleischer Studios in NYC for characters such as “Popeye,” “Betty Boop,” and “KoKo the Clown,” who released his first “The Flash” comic
in 1940, who later became known for his instructional books on playing Bridge,
died of cancer in Boca Raton, Florida on November 13.
Robert Lang - (70) British character actor who was a leading man in Sir
Laurence Olivier’s original National Theatre Co. at the Old Vic, who also appeared in over 100 films-including "Savage Messiah," "Four Weddings and a Funeral," "The House That Dripped Blood," "The Mackintosh Man," but
never found the recognition for them that he did for his on stage performances,
died of cancer in Sutton, Surrey, England on November 6.
Margaret Linstroth - (89) Her childhood image is still featured on Creamette
boxes of macaroni and spaghetti-and has been for sixty years, whose father
bought a Minneapolis macaroni manufacturer in 1908 and began the Creamette
name, and who served on the Creamette Co. board of directors and as a trustee
for the family trust, died in Bloomington, Minnesota on November 14.
Carol Mezzacappa - (47) Dancer and choreographer who served as president of the Charles Weidman Foundation and was artistic and executive director of Dance Consort, studied the Humphrey-Weidman technique with Weidman and brought the style of Weidman to New York City, died of brain cancer in Brooklyn, New York on October 12.
Norman Rose - (87) Actor who was best known as the voice of Juan Valdez,
a fictitious Columbian coffee grower who was known for saying “…only the ripest beans,” who had been featured in several movies as a “radio voice,” who was on the drama faculty at Juliard and recently narrated the 70th annual Academy Awards and who was also narrator of a radio production of “The Greatest Story Ever Told,” died
of pneumonia in Upper Nyack, New York on November 12.
Carlo Rustichelli - (87) Film composer who wrote music for hundreds of
films including Oscar-winning “Divorce, Italian Style” (1961), who often worked
with director Pietro Germi, and who was known for his range of musical styles
for films from light comedies to historical dramas, died in Rome on November
13.
Joe Scherschel (83) Photojournalist whose work appeared in Life and National
Geographic magazines, who spent part of WWII shooting photos from airplanes
to help map the Pacific Islands and covered the White House for Life during
the Kennedy administration, and whose photos were among those featured in The
Great Life Photographers, a book released earlier this year, died on November
11 in Columbus, IN.
Tina (37) young for an elephant.
http://www.elephants.com
Ron Weiskind (54) Longtime entertainment critic and movie editor for
the Pittsburgh (Pa.) Post-Gazette, who began as the newspaper’s TV and radio
critic and wrote about movies, theater, and the arts before being named movie
editor, died on November 11 of liver failure in Pittsburgh, PA
Adam Young - (91) Co-Founder and director of Young Broadcasting Inc., which
is one of the nation’s 25 largest television station groups which included
KRON-TV Channel 4 in San Francisco, along with ten other stations, died of
a stroke in Palm Beach, Florida on November 15.
Sports
Bill “Bridman” Bennett - (73) Hang-glider who helped develop what we know as the modern hang-glider and introduced it to the United States in 1969, who was the first hang-glider to try and fly higher than a mile, who was the first to fly 200 miles with a tow, he first to pilot a motorized hang glider and the first to build and fly a hang glider tricycle, who also set several records for longest unassisted free-flight (6.2 miles,) died in a gliding accident during take-off at the airport at Lake Havasu City, Arizona, when the motorized hang glider he was piloting lost power and crashed on October 7.
Chandler Harper (90) Golfer who won the 1950 PGA championship and was
a major figure in Virginia golf for more than 70 years, who won 10 other
PGA Tour events, played on the 1955 Ryder Cup team and was elected to the
PGA of America Hall of Fame, died of pneumonia on November 8 in Portsmouth,
Va.
Art and Literature
Thomas B. Allen (76) Commercial artist who helped to originate a post-Norman
Rockwell style of moodily impressionistic illustration and was best known
for his colorful portraits of country and western, bluegrass, and jazz musicians
for album covers, who also did editorial, advertising, and children’s book illustration and work that appeared in Esquire, Seventeen, and Sports Illustrated, who also did advertising work for NBC and was chair of the illustration department at the Ringling School of Art & Design
in Florida, died of complications from heart surgery on November 8 in Sarasota,
FL.
Iris Chang (36) Best-selling author who chronicled the Japanese occupation
of China and the history of Chinese immigrants in the US, winning critical
acclaim for her books The Rape of Nanking and The Chinese in America, who
suffered a breakdown and was hospitalized during a recent trip researching
her fourth book (about US soldiers who fought the Japanese in the Philippines
during WWII) and continued to suffer from depression after she was released
from the hospital, was found dead in her car of a self-inflicted gunshot
wound on November 9 in Los Gatos, CA.
Ellen Meloy (58) Naturalist and nonfiction author whose book The Anthropology
of Turquoise Meditations on Landscape, Art & Spirit was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize in 2003, who used the Southwest as the setting and subject for what she referred to as “land-based literature”,
died suddenly on November 4 in Bluff, Utah of what appeared to have been
a heart attack or an aneurysm.
Robert Perine (81) Painter, graphic designer and writer who spearheaded
the creation of an new art school based on LA’s historic Chouinard Art Institute
(the free-wheeling art school was transformed into the Walt Disney-financed
California Institute of the Arts), and whose watercolors and other artworks
are in more than 200 permanent collections throughout the country, including
those of the Riverside Art Center and the San Diego Museum of Art, died on
November 6 in Pasadena, CA.
Willo Davis Roberts -
(76) Prolific and award-winning mystery
writer and children’s author and one
of the first to confront difficult issues
for youngsters, who sold about 100 books
and won three Edgar Awards, a Mark Twain
Award, and a Washington State Governor’s
Writers Award, and whose books for children
include “The View from the Cherry Tree” about
a boy who witnesses a murder became a
hit and “Don’t Hurt Laurie!” about child
abuse, died of congestive heart failure
in Granite Falls, WA on November 19,
2004.
Arthur H. Robinson: - (89) Geographer and cartographer who developed an improvement on the Mercator projection for drawing the round Earth on a flat map by developing a more elliptical style, eliminating what was called the “Greenland problem” (so named because Greenland appeared so much larger than it actually was,) who was known for bringing an artistic touch to his maps, died after a brief illness in Madison, Wisconsin on October 10.
Erna Rosenstein (91) Surrealist painter and poet who published a book
of memoirs and several volumes of poetry that evoked her experience as a
Jew in Nazi-occupied Poland, who survived the war in Poland by using fake
documents and an assumed Christian name, and who, before and after WWII,
belonged to an avant-garde group of artists that became known as the “Krakow Group”,
died on November 10 of arterial sclerosis in Warsaw, Poland.
Kristin Smedvig (83) Violin instructor, soloist, and member of the Seattle
Symphony Orchestra for 33 years, who presided over a highly musical family
whose members included husband Egil, a well-known Seattle music teacher and
composer, and son Rolf, an internationally renowned trumpet soloist, who
herself played in chamber groups until the onset of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
(also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease) two years ago, died of the disease on
November 4 in Seattle, WA
Zachary Solov (81) Dancer and former chief choreographer for the Metropolitan
Opera in the 1950s who created dances for such productions as Carmen and
Aïda,
who appeared on such TV shows as Your Show of Shows and The Fred Allen Show,
and who choreographed and danced in 35 Army revues in the US and Asia after
being drafted into the army, died on November 6 of heart failure in New York
City.
Politics and Military
Elmer Lee Andersen (95) Former Republican Governor of Minnesota (from
1961 to 1963) who was also well-known for his works outside of public office,
including as president and CEO of H. B. Fuller Co., which he bought and helped
to turn into a Fortune 500
firm, who at age 67 created ECM, a company that published newspapers in small
cities and suburbs, died after checking himself into a hospital after feeling
lethargic on November 15 in St. Paul, Minnesota.
Dick Broeker (62) Top aide to former
St. Paul, Minnesota mayor George Latimer, who directed the Minnesota Planning
agency and helped to engineer a citywide makeover that included Energy Park,
Town Square, the World Trade Center and the cooperative downtown district
heating and cooling system, who was also an agriculturalist who planted 400
apple and cherry trees and was practicing sustainable agriculture using organic
methods, died of a heart attack on October 26 in Lake City, MN.
John Joseph Burns - (83) Leader of the New York State Democratic party
who helped Robert F. Kennedy win election as a U.S. Senator in who also served
as mayor of Binghamton (1958 to 1965,) who was an influential member of the
New York Democratic party for forty years, died of heart failure in Ithaca,
New York on November 17.
Charles Cherry - (76) Civil rights advocate who was elected in 1977 to
the NAACP’s national board and served for 12 years, whose college classmate was Martin Luther King, Jr., and who participating in sit-ins and other actions in the ‘60s
to help bring about integration, died of cancer in Daytona Beach, Florida on
November 16.
Forrest W. Faight - (106) Former Army sergeant major and World War I veteran
who was honored by the French with the National Order of the French Legion
of Honor-the highest honor the French give-and was the last surviving member
of the group of World War I honorees, who served with the 143rd Artillery of
the 40th Armored Division in the American Expeditionary Force in the Bordeaux
area, died of natural causes in Stockton, California on November 11-the anniversary
of Armistice Day (now known as Veteran’s Day)-which marked the end of World
War I 86 years earlier
Ellen Fairclough - (99) First woman to serve on a Canadian Cabinet when
she was appointed Secretary of State by Prime Minister Diefenbaker in 1957
and acted as citizenship minister from 1958 to 1962, who was an avid activist
for equal pay, who was named an Officer of the Order of Canada in 1978 and
a Companion of that order – the highest level – in 1995, died of an apparent
stroke in Hamilton, Ontario on November 13.
Thomas Michael Foglietta (75) United
States Representative from Pennsylvania from January 3, 1981-November 11,
1997. He was elected as an Independant in his first term but ran as a democrat
in all later terms. He was U. S. Ambassador to Italy from 1997-2001. He was
born December 3, 1928 and died November 13, 2004.
Janine Haines (59) – Pioneering Australian senator who became the first woman to lead an Australian political party when she took over the Australian Democrats, who was a popular and respected leader of the party and a role model for women in her country, died on November 20 from a neurological illness in Adelaide, Australia.
William Hammond (80) Decorated WWII US Army veteran who fought in the
Battle of the Bulge and spoke at schools about Veteran’s Day, who was still an avid motorcyclist and completed a road trip around Canada and the US well into his 70s, died on November 11 in Whitman, MA, after being run over by a van (driven by a close friend) as he prepared to march in a Veteran’s
Day parade.
Andrew Hauk (91) Controversial federal judge who during his years of
decision-making in the Central District repeatedly made controversial comments
from the bench about women, homosexuals, environmentalists and others that
were often considered insensitive or demeaning, who enjoyed a 40-year judicial
career, died on November 9 in Pasadena, CA.
Robert B. Krupansky (93) Federal judge who ordered the state of Ohio
to take over the operation of Cleveland public schools after deciding there
was internal dissension, fiscal irresponsibility, and lack of leadership
by the elected school board, who led a grand jury investigation of the Kent
State University shootings by Ohio National Guard troops in 1970, died on
November 8 in Cleveland, OH.
David Mazzone (76) Federal judge who guided the $3.8 billion cleanup
of Boston Harbor in 1985 (at a time when the harbor was widely regarded as
an open sewer) after he ruled that wastewater discharges into the Boston
Harbor by the state Massachusetts Water Resources Authority violated the
federal Clean Water Act, who also was a former vice chairman of the US Sentencing
Commission, which developed federal sentencing guidelines; died on November
1 of cancer in Wakefield, MA.
Clay Myers (77) Former Oregon Secretary of State who helped to build
the state's maverick reputation for reform in the ‘60s and ‘70s, who worked
with the governor on some of Oregon's most innovative reforms, from its groundbreaking
land-use laws to its requirement that 1% of transportation spending go to
bicycle and pedestrian paths, died on October 29 of cancer in Tubac, AZ.
Sue Robbins - (48) HIGH-profile Gold Coast City Councillor, nickname Blue Heeler for her tenacity in chasing up complaints from the community after she was elected to the Albert Shire Council in 1994. She died suddenly November 12, at her hinterland home, from a heart attack.
Gen. Stanislaw Skalski - (89) Poland’s most successful fighter pilot during
World War II who shot down at least 22 enemy aircraft, who was decorated for
gallantry four times by the British and six times by the Polish government,
died in Warsaw, Poland on November 12.
Helen Tew - (92) Brave Brit who, in her late 80’s, crossed the Atlantic in her 64-year-old, 26-ft vintage gaff cutter, the “Mary Helen”-probably
the oldest person to do so in the smallest boat, who even though she was accompanied
by her eldest son, Donald, she played a full part in the crossing, including
sharing the watches, four hours on and four off, who crossed in 26 days, 23
hours, and 50 min and endured a 36-hour storm and celebrated her 89th birthday
on the island of St. Martin, died on November 9.
Peter Torigian (68) – Former mayor of Peabody, MA who was a lifelong champion
of his city as well as local government throughout Massachusetts during his
23 years as mayor, who was the longest serving mayor in the state, and who
represented strong values such as community pride and the celebration of
diversity, starting such traditions as the Peabody International Festival,
an annual celebration of diverse cultural traditions, died of cancer at his
home on Sept. 11 at age 68.
Social and Religion
Samuel Billison - (78) Navaho code talker who served on the Navajo Nation Council and was the longtime president of the Code Talker Association, who served with the Navajo Marines-a group known as the Code Talkers-who used native language to confound enemy troups during WWII, died of a heart problem in Window Rock, Arizona on November 17.
Frank Chandler (32) North Carolina man sentenced to death for impulsively killing a 90-year old woman who surprised him when he broke into her house on a misguided search for drugs in 1992, but whose death sentence was opposed even by some capital punishment supporters, was executed by lethal injection on November 12 in Raleigh, NC.
Reed Irvine - (82) Founder of the conservative watchdog group Accuracy in Media, a group that tried to spotlight media’s bias in a time when the biases of media went largely unchallenged, who took on many news organizations and high-profile people in what he felt to be the overly-liberal press, mounting cases against the New York Times, CNN, NBC and The Washington Post, died of a stroke in Washington, D.C. on November 16.
Frederick McWilliams (30) Texas killer sentenced to death for the 1996 fatal shooting of a man during a car theft, who was the 22nd prisoner executed in 2004 in Texas and the second in as many nights, was executed by lethal injection on November 10 in Huntsville, Texas
Louise Seger (age unknown) Houston housewife who was considered the number one fan of country singer Patsy Cline and became a close friend of the singer’s, who was interviewed for Ellis Nassour’s biography of Cline, Honky Tonk Angel and whose friendship with Cline was the basis for a two-woman musical entitled Always…Patsy Cline (her character was played by Sally Struthers in one production), died on October 28 in Houston.
Business and Science
Robert E. Akins (58) Professor of physics at Washington & Lee U and an expert on wind power, who was widely published on wind-related design and construction and served on an Energy Department panel assessing a federal wind energy program, died of cancer on November 3 in Lexington, VA.
John Frederick Davis (75) Longtime Shell Oil chemical engineer who helped
to develop the lightweight plastic polypropylene, a polymer with uses ranging
from dishwasher-safe plastic food containers to fiber for the indoor-outdoor
carpeting found at swimming pools and miniature golf courses, died on November
4 in Edmonds, WA after a long decline caused by dementia.
Dr. Sidney Goldring - (81) Neurosurgeon who was an early advocate for a brain operation that he helped to develop for patients with severe epilepsy-he believed that believed that electrodes could be placed on the brain to determine precise areas involved in setting off seizures; once that was done, the patient was put under general anesthesia and the tissue could be cut out without damaging the surrounding brain (the procedure remains in use today) and developed a technique that allows the brain to be mapped while the patient is awake, enabling the procedure to be used with children, died of Alzheimer’s Disease in St. Louis, Missouri on November 3.
George Gross (70) Lawyer, lobbyist, and municipal executive who reorganized New York City’s troubled Human Resources Administration (the city’s social services agency) as its commissioner in the mid-‘80s and tried to reduce homelessness by shifting funds to organized shelters, who went on to work for the Department of Housing & Urban Development and become a federal lobbyist for the Magazine Publishers of America, and who came out of retirement in 2003 to become chief administrator of Bridgeport, CT, his childhood home, died after surgery to remove part of his lung, after suffering from lung cancer for some time on November 10 in Washington, DC .
Michel Thomas Halbouty - (95) Geoscientist and “wildcatter” who predicted the oil shortages of the 1970’s (he predicted the 1973 oil embargo in 1960-and predicts future crisis and counseled energy self-sufficiency,) who discovered more than 50 oil and gas fields between Louisiana and Alaska, who was author of four books and more than 300 articles on geology and petroleum engineering, died of cancer in Houston, Texas on November 6.
Dr. Martin D. Kaplan - (89) Health researcher and international public health official who spent most of his career trying to stop the spread of viral diseases and who later was an avid activist in the fight against the spread of nuclear, biological and chemical weapons, who was an official of the World Health Organization where he also helped develop a safer rabies vaccine, and who was a member of the Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs, which works for disarmament, died of cancer in Geneva on October 16.
Joseph B. Koepfli - (100) Professor of chemistry at CalTech who helped to launch the L.A. County Museum of Art who served on many boards for or was a benefactor of cultural attractions including Southern California Symphony-Hollywood Bowl Assoc., L.A. County Museum of History, Science & Art (now the Natural History Museum,) who served on several governmental organizations including serving as scientific attaché to the American Embassy in London (1947–48), science advisor to the Department of State (1951–53), and chair of the NATO task force on science and technology in 1957; later advised the National Science Foundation, UNESCO, died in Santa Barbara, California on October 30.
Shannon McGowan - (61) Cancer survivor who founded a nationally famous support system called “The Wellness Community” (which eventually spread internationally,) who co-founded The Wellness Community in 1982 in Santa Monica with Harold Benjamin, providing free psychological services for cancer patients, their families and friends, and who developed a program called “Return To Wellness” with her daughter- a program that assists women with the physical and emotional effects of cancer after treatment, died of lung cancer in Richmond, California on November 7.
Melba Phillips - (97) Physicist who lost two jobs during the McCarthy era for refusing to testify before a U.S. Senate subcommittee, who trained under J. Robert Oppenheimer, who led a team that created the first atomic bomb and who dedicated most of her life to teaching, died of coronary artery disease in Petersburg, Indiana on November 8.
Ellmore C. Patterson (90) Former chairman and CEO of J. P. Morgan & Co. who helped to mold the financial community’s response to the city’s economic crisis of the ‘70s and avert bankruptcy for the city, who created a business leadership coalition called the Partnership for NYC in 1979, died on November 5 in Locust Valley, NY.
John E. Reilly - (77) Auto executive who lobbied for the United States sale of imported cars including Volkswagen, Porsche, Audi, and Isuzu, who started American Isuzu Motors in 1980 with five employees, who successfully lobbied against measures to limit car imports in the 1980's and early 1990's, who, with Isuzu, launched the Isuzu Trooper in 1984-the first S.U.V. to be marketed in the United States, died of lung disease in Dana Point, California on November 12.
Dr. Joseph Weiss - (80) Psychoanalyst who developed influential theory involving ways that patients confront psychological trauma and how psychoanalysis worked, who thought that the therapist is used by the patient to test and disprove ideas-called pathogenic beliefs-that may have blocked the patient’s development and behavior, died of lung cancer in San Francisco on November 7.
