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News and Entertainment
Mulk Raj Anand: (99) Author who wrote English-language
novels about India in the 1930’s whose most famous work, “Untouchable” (which
portrayed the struggles of a child laborer and a lower-caste sweeper) was
initially rejected by 19 publishers, and is now used as a text for schools
and universities in India, died of pneumonia on September 28 in India.
Izora Armstead (Age unknown) Half of the duo The Weather Girls who sang the 1982 #1 hit “It’s Raining Men,” who began her career as a
back-up singer to disco artist Sylvester where she sang on the songs "Dance
(Disco Heat)" and "(You Make Me Feel) Mighty Real,” died
on September 16 in San Leandro, California of heart failure.
Lawrence P. Bachmann: (92) Film writer
and studio executive for RKO, MGM and Paramount, who got his start in film at
age 16 when he worked as an assistant film cutter, who later experienced his
first big success as a writer for “Speed” starring
Jimmy Stewart and later as the writer for many of the Dr. Kildare movie series
scripts, whose production projects included “Village of the Damned," the "Miss
Marple" series with Margaret Rutherford and "Follow the Boys," died
September 7 in Woodland Hills, California.
Martin Banks: (68) Jazz trumpeter who
played with Dizzy Gillespie, Ray Charles, Duke Ellington, B.B. King, Count
Basie, James Brown, who had a long stint with the house band at the Apollo
Theatre in New York City, died September 17 in Austin, Texas after a heart
attack.
Lesley Laura Cootes: (46) Publicist who was known for her fight to get independent
films the mediat attention she believed they deserved, whose clients included
Miramax, Lions Gate Films, Fox Searchlight Pictures and Newmarket Films, who
worked to get the media attention for movies like “Y Tu Mama Tambien''
and documentaries like "A Brief History of Time'' and Eleanor Coppola's "Hearts
of Darkness,'' died September 19 in San Francisco as the result of cancer.
Jean Hay: (87) Disc jockey better known as the voice of “Reveille with
Beverly” to G.I.s during WWII, who got her start after pitching the idea
of playing a softer, friendlier version of reveille to the soldiers (who often
complained that the more abrupt version woke them at 0530 and made them cranky)
to her program director, who gave her a morning show on Denver’s KFEL-AM,
which was later broadcast around the world via Armed Forces Radio Services-making
her the first global disc jockey, died September 18 in Los Angeles after suffering
a stroke while gardening.
Bruce Herbert: (74) Child voice actor who appeared on “The Lone Ranger” and
other radio shows who went on to be a familiar radio voice for WGSM/740 AM
in Long Island, who got his start working with WXYZ in Detroit, Michigan, a
pioneering station there that produced and aired many famous serials and classic
radio dramas of the 1940’s and early 1950’s, died September 13
in Melville, New York of natural causes.
Waldren 'Frog' Joseph Sr: (86) Jazz trombonist who was a long-time member
of the Paul Barbarin's New Orleans Band, with whom he recorded his trademark
song, “Slide, Frog, Slide,” whose two sons, who appears on recordings
with Fats Domino and was part of Earl King's landmark sessions for Imperial Records
between 1960 and 1962 and whose two sons, sousaphonist Kirk Joseph and trombonist
Charles Joseph, are well-known players, died September 19.
Kyle MacDonnell: (82) “Miss Television 1948” whose career in acting and television flourished in the 1940’s and 1950’s in New York, who was on the cover of the May 31, 1948 issue of Time magazine with the headline “TV Ingenue,” who co-hosted NBC's "Today" show in the program's early days and appeared on "For Your Pleasure," "Hold That Camera," "Girl About Town," "ABC Album," "Kraft Television Theater" and "The Ed Sullivan Show," died
September 28 in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Bob Mason: (52) Actor and writer who was best known for his work on “Coronation
Street,” for which he not only wrote 36 episodes but appeared as “Tom
Bradshaw” and who appeared in the movies “The Last Man Out” and “Fatherland,” died
September 21 in Cambridge, England of cancer.
Christer Pettersson: (57) Conviction
for the 1986 killing of Prime Minister Olof Palme was overturned on appeal,
died Sept. 29 at a hospital near Stockholm. He had been in a coma since Sept.
16 and died of a brain hemorrhage and organ failure.
Antje Weisgerber: (82) German theatre and television actress who was perhaps
best known for playing Olga in the German television series “Der Landarzt” and
who was also in movies such as “Schmetterlinge weinen nicht” died
September 29 in Dortmond of a brain tumor.
Charles R. Wood: (90) Amusement park creator and founder of Storytown, USA
which was based on Mother Goose nursery rhymes (which later became The Great
Escape & Splashwater Kingdom in Queensbury, N.Y) which opened in 1954-one year
before Disneyland opened, died September 30 in Glens Falls, New York-ten years
after doctors ordered him to stop riding his own roller coasters.
Sports
Pete Cutino: (71) Water Polo coach for the University of California who lead
his team to eight national championships and a total of 519-172-10 during his
28 years as head coach, who coached 68 All-Americans, six Pac-10 and NCAA Players
of the Year, and five Olympians, who served as head coach of the U.S. National
Team (1972-76), the U.S.A. Olympic Team (1976), and the U.S. team at the World
University Games in Yugoslavia (1987), died September 19 in Monterrey, California
of heart failure.
Henry Engdal: (93) Mountaineer who was one of the first members of The Mountainers
and who was known for climbing Mt. Rainier and skiing down, died September
26 in Seattle.
Line Oestvold: (26) Snowboarder who who finished first and second in Snowboard
Cross World Cup events in the previous season was training near Santiago, Chile
when she fell while negotiating a difficult course, suffering head and neck
injuries, and died of those injuries on September 19.
Larry Phillips: (62) Stock car racer whose 2,500 wins included five Winston
Racing Series championships, who entered the NASCAR circuit as a teenager and
only quit in his late fifties when illness forced his retirement, and who in
one season won 38 of the 40 Winston Racing Series events, died in Springfield,
Missouri on September 21 as the result of lung cancer.
Lewis "Lew" Roney: (83) Basketball player and member of the 1943 NCAA championship team for Wyoming, who later went on to coach football, basketball and track in Wyoming, died Septmember 28 in Cheyenne, Wyoming.
Nordin ben Salah: (32) Boxer known as “Fighting Nordin” who
first became successful as a kick boxer before launching a boxing career, who
recaptured his intercontinental WBA super-middleweight title in 2003 and was
training in Amsterdam to defend that position when he was confronted on September
30 after a training session by assailants on motor scooters and shot to death.
Art and Literature
Kyohei Fujita: (83) Glass artist who was best known for his ornamental “dream” boxes,
who received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the U.S. Glass Art Society
in 1998 and the Order of Culture, Japan's most prestigious honor in the
field of culture and science, in 2002, died on September 18 in Tokyo of pneumonia.
Nedra Harrison: (88) Model for Milt Caniff’s “Dragon Lady” in
the “Terry and the Pirates” cartoon and model for Salvador Dali’s
painting “Madonna Of The Sea,” who moved to New York in the 1930’s
looking for work as a model and was first drawn as the “Dragon Lady” in
1939, died on September 20 in San Francisco.
Arthur Karger: (90)
Co-author (with Henry Cohen) of the text “"The Powers of the New
York Court of Appeals” and adjunct associate professor at the New
York University Law School, who later served as served as chairman of
the New York State Board of Law Examiners from 1969 to 1986, and was
also chairman for the national Conference of bar Examiners from 1976
to 1977, died September 3.
Politics and Military
Social and Religion
Earl Wells: (75) Retired director of the Fort Wayne (Indiana) Children’s
Zoo who in his 30 years as director, took the zoo from a petting zoo to one
of the most highly-respected children’s zoos in the United States
and who served as a consultant to the development of several other zoos, was
cleaning windows at his home on September 12 when he fell into a nest of European
yellow jackets (bees) and was stung by more than 1,000 times, leading to his
death on September 21 in a Fort Wayne hospital.
Joel Phillips: (52) Coordinator of many national disaster relief efforts as
the national off-site coordinator for Southern Baptist Relief Southern Baptist
church, who sent many volunteers to assist in relief efforts for people devastated
by hurricanes, tornadoes, fires, earthquakes and even the 9/11 crisis and coordinated
delivery of water, supplies and workers, died September 29 in Conyers, Georgia
of a heart attack.
Business and Science
Haloli Q. Richter: (64) Astrologer who was the first and only astrologer to
lecture at the Smithsonian Institution who also translated books on astrological
psychology from German to English, died September 11.
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