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Gene Baylos - (98) Nightclub comic and a contemporary of Alan King and Milton Berle, who was a favorite of maNew York celebrity comedians even though he was not widely known by the general public, and who had modest success in television, performing his stand-up routine on variety shows, including "The Hollywood Palace" and with small roles on "The Dick Van Dyke Show" and "Car 54, Where Are You?", died in Manhattan of natural causes on January 10, 2005.
Victoria de los Angeles - (81) Spanish soprano and musical prodigy who performed at the Paris Opera, London's Covent Garden, and the Metropolitan Opera in New York City during her 50-year career, whose acclaimed opera roles included "Carmen," "Madama Butterfly," and "La Boheme", and who sang at the closing ceremonies of the 1992 Olympics in Barcelona near the end of her career, died of heart and respiratory complications on January 15, 2005.
Spencer Dryden - (66) Drummer for the Jefferson Airplane in the rock band's glory years (who some say often used his romantic relationship with the group's singer, Grace Slick, to exert more influence in the band), who was inducted with the band into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1996 and later played for the Grateful Dead's sideline country rock band, New Riders of the Purple Sage and for a Bay-area group of psychedelic rock veterans called the Dinosaurs, died of cancer in Petaluma, California on January 10, 2005.
Ofelia Guilmain - (83) Spanish actress who fled to Mexico amid the Spanish civil war and created an illustrious career on stage, screen, and TV, appearing in at about 100 stage plays and 50 films ranging from classics to low comedy, and who was due to appear posthumously in a TV soap opera, "My Truth", to be broadcast later in 2005, died after being released from a hospital after treatment for severe bronchitis in Mexico City on January 14, 2005.
Joanne Grant - (74) Author and civil rights activist who documented the grass-roots civil rights movement in print and film, whose books include 1968's "Black Protest," one of the first to detail the origins of the civil rights movement and a required reading in maNew York African American history classes, and who made an award-winning PBS film and wrote a biography of a little-known civil rights matriarch named Ella Baker, died of heart failure in Manhattan, New York on January 8, 2005.
Elizabeth Janeway - (91) Critic, novelist, and early feminist, who began her career as a best-selling novelist in the '40s and later distinguished herself as a critic, a lecturer, and an early advocate of the women's movement, who reviewed books for the New York Times and other newspapers and was credited for helping to introduce English writers like Anthony Powell to an American audience and for defending the artistic merits of "Lolita" by Victor Nabokov, and who, in the '70s, began to write nonfiction books about feminist issues, died in Rye, New York on January 15, 2005.
Richard Feilden - (54) British architect who promoted environmentally friendly design and urban regeneration and co-founded the firm Feilden Clegg Bradley, which now has 20 partners and 90 staff and is renowned for its university buildings and workplace design, died after being crushed by a tree that he was attempting to cut down at his home in Warleigh, England on January 3, 2005.
Rex Hardesty - (67) Director of Information and chief spokesman for the AFL-CIO during the '80s and early '90s, who later served as a special assistant to the president of the International Union of Electronic, Electrical, Salaried, Machine & Furniture Workers and as an editorial consultant to the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, died of leukemia in Bethesda, Maryland on January 9, 2005.
Dennis Flanagan - (85) Editor and a major force behind the revival of "Scientific American" magazine whose editing and humor made him a celebrated figure in the magazine trade, who worked for the magazine for 30 years and who helped to foster science writing for the general reader (he also helped circulation of the magazine increase from less than 40,000 to over 600,000), and who early in his career wrote articles on the dropping of the atomic bomb in Hiroshima and attempted to bring the dangers of nuclear proliferation to the public, which resulted in his being one of only a handful of journalists in the US ever to be prohibited from publishing under the threat of the death penalty, died of prostate cancer in New York City on January 14, 2005.
Rinat Mardanshin - (41) a four-times Russian Speedway motorcycle Champion, Mardanshin developed a blood clot during a routine operation to remove a metal plate from his injured collar-bone in a hospital in his home town of Oktyabrsky. Mardanshin, who rode for Lukoil Oktyabrsky in the Russian League, missed most of last season because of the troublesome shoulder injury. He was Russian Champion in 1989, 1996, 1997 and 1998, died January 19, 2005.
