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The Armanious Family: Hossam Armanious (47); his wife, Amal Garas (37); and their daughters, Sylvia (15), and Monica (8) - Immigrants ten years ago from Egypt to Jersey City, New Jersey in order to start a better life, were found on January 14 in their apartment dead-bound with their throats cut-with speculation that the father of the family was active an internet chat board devoted to Coptic Christianity where he made disparaging remarks that were interpreted as insults to Islam (police have downplayed any religious link), there was no forced entry and robbery is considered to be a possible motive.
Parveen Babi - (50) Indian actress who played the siren in dozens of Bollywood films and was famed for her unconventional western looks, who starred in more than 50 Hindi films (mostly in the ?70s and early ?80s) and came to represent the bohemian Indian woman on the screen, unafraid to smoke or drink at a time when those vices were considered taboo, and who was once featured on the cover of Time magazine as the face of the modern Indian woman, was found dead at her Bombay, India home, apparently of natural causes, on January 22, 2005.
Lamont Bentley - (31) Actor who was best known for his role as Hakeem Campbell on the sitcom “Moesha” and who appeared in several movies, including playing Tupak Shakur in the TV movie “Too Legit,” and guest appearances in “The Parkers,” “NYPD Blue,” and “Clueless,” was killed in a car wreck on the San Diego freeway when his car veered off the road on January 18.
Earl Fred Brush - (111) Oldest man in California who drove until he was 100 and purchased his first car in 1913, who had worked as a potato farmer, a mechanic and an electrician and later managed a Montgomery Ward store, who moved to Oakland, California during World War II where he installed elevators in aircraft carriers until his retirement at age 70, and who did a crossword puzzle every day until soon before his death, died on January 10, 2005.
Johnny Carson - (79) Beloved host of NBC-TV's "The Tonight Show" from 1962 to '92. Johnny Carson started in show business as a magician at the age of 14 as "The Great Carsoni". He worked in local radio and TV in Nebraska before moving to L.A. in 1950. By the mid-60s he was one of TV's wealthiest stars, but still retained his Midwestern down-to-earth manner. Carson is credited with launching the careers of countless comedians, including his eventual "Tonight Show" successor Jay Leno and fellow talk host David Letterman. Johnny won four consecutive Emmy awards in the 1970s, and received a Presidential Medal of Freedom -- the nation's highest civilian honor — in '92. He was celebrated with a prestigious Kennedy Center Honor for career achievement in '93. Carson left the game on top, withdrawing into a quiet retirement that suited his private nature, and refusing further involvement in show business. He died in his sleep, of emphysema, January 23, 2005.
Nicole duFresne - (28) An aspiring actress and playwright whose work explored life's darker sides was shot and killed, duFresne, had just left a bar in a trendy section of the Lower East Side with her fiance and another couple early Thursday Jan 27th,when they were approached by four or five men who attempted a robbery. Her movie roles were Prescribed Method, Betty and Pretty and founding member of Present Tense Theater Project (PTTP).
Howard Feuer - (56) Casting director for Hollywood films and Broadway shows, who worked on films like “Hair,” “Arthur,” “The Silence of the Lambs” and “Philadelphia,” and cast Broadway productions like “Oh! Calcutta,” “I Love My Wife,” “The Grand Tour,” “Barnum,” “42nd Street,” “Noises Off,” “Big Deal,” and “Me and My Girl,” died of colon cancer in New Jersey on December 20.
John L. Hess - (87) Journalist, essayist and author whose often provocative, even cranky, opinions on subjects from food to France to the First Amendment appeared in The New York Times, a handful of books, and radio commentary, who as a food and restaurant critic denounced American cuisine, won journalism prizes for a piece on nursing home abuses, and also wrote for United Press, The Associated Press, The New York Daily News, The New York Post, and more recently for The Nation magazine, died of congestive heart failure and pneumonia in Manhattan, New York on January 21, 2005.
Virginia Mayo - (84) Actress who reached the height of her popularity in the movies of the 1940’s and 1950’s, who starred in the films "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty," "White Heat" and "The Best Years of Our Lives," who starred opposite big names of the day including Danny Kaye, James Cagney and Ronald Reagan, and who appeared in more than 40 films in both the drama and comedy genres, died in Thousand Oaks, California on January 17.
David Nyhan - (64) Influential political reporter and columnist for The Boston Globe; author of a 1988 biography of Michael Dukakis, "The Duke''; most recently a columnist for the Eagle-Tribune; following his 2001 retirement from the Globe, he helped Boston Mayor Thomas Menino with speechwriting and with the proposal that brought the Democratic National Convention to Boston; died of a heart attack after shoveling snow in Brookline, Massachusetts, January 23, 2005.
Peaches - (55) Oldest living elephant in the United States who lived at a zoo in Chicago, who died several months after one of the other elephants at the zoo died and spawned debate about whether keeping elephants at zoos where the weather gets cold is cruel, but who in reality lived almost a decade longer than the life expectancy of African elephants (which is about 42 years) was found on the floor of her cage ill and having extreme difficulty breathing, was put to sleep on January 17, 2005.
Amrish Puri - (72) Bollywood's favorite villain and one of only several Indian actors to find roles in British and American movies, whose best-known works included Naseeb (Fate), Ardh Satya (Half Truth), Andha Kanoon (Blind Law), and Shakti (Strength), who played a small role in Gandhi (1982) and shaved his head for the part of the villain Mola Ram in Indiana Jones & the Temple of Doom (1984), and who for the past 10 months suffered from a disease that, among other complications, prevents blood from clotting, fell at home and suffered a head injury, died of a brain hemorrhage in a Bombay, India hospital on January 12, 2005.
Charlie ("Rocky") Roberts - (66) American soul singer and former boxer who introduced soul music to Italians and became a one-hit sensation in Italy with his 1967 hit "Stasera Mi Butto" ("I Will Try Tonight"), which he sang in Italian, whose song was so successful that a movie by the same title was produced, starring Roberts, and who was a skilled, sunglasses-wearing dancer also set fashion trends for Italian youths and kept up performing until his final show in September 2004, died of lung cancer in Rome, January 14, 2005.
Warren Spears - (50) Dancer with the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater and a modern-dance choreographer, who trained at Julliard and created several critically acclaimed dances for the Alvin Ailey Reperatory Ensemble, the Dayton (Ohio) Contemporary Dance Company Spears, and his own New York City based company, the Spears Collection (including one piece entitle ?On the Wings of Angels,? a tribute to African American fliers the Tuskegee Airman), and who later moved to Denmark, founded the New Danish Dance Theater and was knighted by the Queen of Denmark, died of multiple myeloma in Copenhagen, Denmark on January 8, 2005.
Garnett Stackelberg - (95) Washington DC society writer whose work appeared in newspapers and magazines, including the Washington Star, the Baltimore News-American, Dossier magazine, Washington Life magazine, and the North American edition of L'Official, an international fashion magazinem died in Washington, DC on January 12, 2005.
Edmund Valtman - (90) Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist for the Hartford (Connecticut) Times whose targets ranged from local politicians to Presidents to international leaders, who won the Pulitzer in 1962 for a cartoon showing a Fidel Castro lookalike leading a beleaguered, shackled, and barefoot man labeled Cuba (the Castro type tells another man, in a broken-down cart labeled Brazil: "What You Need, Man, Is a Revolution Like Mine!"), died in Bloomfield, Connecticut on January 12, 2005.
Yan Yanming - (21) Murderer who broke into a Chinese high school dormitory and stabbed nine boys to death less than two months ago and who was convicted of the crime on November 25, 2004, and whose motivations for committing the murders still isn’t clear, even though he claimed the motive was hatred but who was turned in by his mother after attempting suicide the day after the murders, which prompted tighter security at schools through the nation, was executed by being shot in the back of the head in the Henan Province on January, an unusually swift sentence to try and put public fears to rest after a series of school attacks.
Ruth Warrick - (88) Actress who is perhaps best known for her role on ABC’s “All My Children” as Phoebe Tyler Wallingford, a role she played for 35 years, who also had an extensive movie career including playing the wife of publisher Charles Foster Kane in “Citizen Kane” (she was the last surviving member of that cast,) who was twice nominated for an Emmy for her work as Wallingford and was given an Emmy for lifetime achievement in 2004, died of pneumonia on in New York City on January 15.
Marjorie Williams- (47) Washington Post columnist and contributing editor for Vanity Fair, known for sharp observations on the political elite, whose column was syndicated in July 2001, the same week her fourth-stage cancer was diagnosed, died of liver cancer in Washington, DC on January 16, 2005.
Peter Zeisler - (81) Co-founder of the Guthrie Theatre in Minneapolis who became a Broadway stage manager at age 26, but left after becoming disenfranchised with the limitations of Broadway and thought that there was a desired there was a need for classical and contemporary theatre other places in the United States, who served as the director from 1962 to 1970, and in 1972 became executive director of the Theater Communications Group, the national advocacy and service organization for nonprofit Theaters, died of heart failure in Dobbs Ferry, New York on January 16, 2005.
Felix Aprahamian - (90) Self-taught music critic who kept detailed diaries and journals of his wide flung visits to see amateur musicians, who wrote for 41 years for the Sunday Times (London), who was an expert in organ repertoire and who got his start as the concert director for the London Philharmonic, who was a translator and writer of many program notes and editor of several books, died in London on January 15.
Eugene Walker Leake Jr - (93) Landscape painter who was credited with
reviving the Maryland Institute College of Art after taking on the role of president, who was named Johns Hopkins University’s first artist in residence and eventually inspired a completely new undergraduate program called Homewood Art Workshops, and who painted up until a few years before his death,in Monkton, Maryland, died on January 14, 2005 .
Charlotte MacLeod - (82) Canadian writer whose "cozy mystery" protagonists were often amateur sleuths, who wrote more than 30 novels which sold over one million copies in the US and eschewed graphic violence, sex, and vulgar language, who was best known for her "Peter Shandy" and "Sarah Kelling & Max Bittersohn" mysteries and also wrote under the pen name Alisa Craig, died in Lewiston, Maine on January 14, 2005.
Conroy Maddox - (92) Last surviving painter from Surrealism in Britain before WWII, who was one of the motley bunch that formed the English wing of the movement and one of the movement's strongest and most unreformed aficionados, whose last one-man exhibition, at Whitford Fine Art in 2002, was exclusively of collages on paper and showed that his inspiration was as sprightly as ever, died in London on January 14, 2005.
Bernard Meadows - (89) British sculptor who broke free of the overwhelming influence of his mentor, Henry Moore, to become a leading figure in the surge of British sculpture in the post-WWII era, who belonged to a loose-knit group of expressionistic sculptors who won prominence at the Venice Biennale in 1952, and who was an apostle of a movement popularly known as "the geometry of fear school", died in England on January 12, 2005.
Ernie Pepion - (61) Artist who refused to let quadriplegia restrain him and became known for his paintings about the lives of Native Americans and people with disabilities, who was a member of the Blackfeet Indian Tribe and winner of the 2005 Montana Governor's Award for the Arts; he lost the use of his arms and legs in a 1971 car wreck, and while recovering at a veterans' hospital learned to paint before he could even feed himself, using a motorized easel and a brace for his hand and forearm, steadily building a reputation as an artist, died in Great Falls, Montana on January 13, 2005.
Nell Rankin - (80) Mezzo-soprano who sung with the Metropolitan Opera for more than 20 years and was known for her roles as Carmen and Amneris if Vivaldi’s “Aida,” who made her opera debut in 1949 as Ortrud in Wagner's "Lohengrin" in Zurich, Switzerland and became known as a star when she became the the first American singer to win first prize at the Concours de Musique, a contest in Geneva, in 1950, died of a rare bone marrow disease on January 12, 2005 in New York City.
Muff Singer - (62) Children’s author who was a former political activist
who had worked in an penal colony in the Philippines while in the peace corps, who had worked in the Democratic party as a campaign coordinator and worked on the campaign of Robert F. Kennedy, but left politics to write children’s books such as "What Does Kitty See?" and "Little Duck's Friends” (many of her books for smaller children came with stuffed versions of the book’s lead characters) and "The World's Greatest Toe Show," written for older children, died of ovarian cancer on January 16, 2005 in Los Angeles.
Alton S. Tobey - (90) Painter who was well-known for his historical murals who created several murals for the Smithsonian Institution and who was the founder of the Curvilinear school of painting, who got his start as an illustrator for Life Magazine and created more than 350 paintings for the Golden Books of History of the United States and who was also known for his portraits of Albert Einstein, Ronald Reagan, Golda Meir and the Apollo II astronauts, died after a long illness in Mamaroneck, New York on January 4.
Arthur Walworth - (101) Author who won a Pulitzer Prize for his biography of Woodrow Wilson,a two-part series called “Woodrow Wilson: American Prophet” and “Woodrow Wilson: World Prophet” which he published in 1958 and won the prize in 1959, who spent more than two decades working in the education department of the publishing house Hougton-Mifflin, died January 10, 2005 in Needham, Massachusetts.
Dr. Marshall Edelson - (76) Yale psychiatrist who was an expert in the field of individual and group therapies, who wrote nine books on the subject including “Ego Psychology, Group Dynamics, and the Therapeutic Community,” “Sociotherapy and Psychotherapy” and “The Practice of Sociotherapy: A Case Study,” died in Woodbridge, Connecticut on January 16, 2005.
H(iram) Bentley Glass - (98) Biologist and geneticist who made dire predictions about scientific advances, including the effect of nuclear testing on genetics, how genetic characteristics spread among races and how future technology would make possible the prenatal identification of physical and mental defects in children, who wrote hundreds of articles for both the scientific and public reading audiences, and who predicted that taxes would be levied against those in the future who did not help lower population problems and mandatory abortions for those with extreme handicaps (not a popular prediction, not surprisingly,) died of pneumonia in Boulder, Colorado on January 16 2005.
Walter B. Wriston - (85) Citicorp chairman who was elected president in 1967 and served as chairman from 1970 to 1984 who spearheaded the company into developing the automated teller systems, the explosion of the widespread use of credit cards and the globalization of the company, who served as the chairman of President Ronald Reagan’s Economic Policy Advisory Board, died of pancreatic cancer in New York City on January 19, 2005.
Anthony Bull - (96) Executive with London Transport whose interest in trains and timetables led to a modernization of the city’s underground in the 1960’s, posted to the Transport Directorate of the War Office; in 1942 he went to Africa as one of a team of four involved in preparing a 4,000-mile route (by road, rail, and river) for the movement of military supplies from the mouth of the Congo in West Africa to the 8th Army in Egypt, who was instrumental in bringing the automated ticket machine to the Underground, and who advised on many systems worldwide, died in London on December 23, 2004.
Genevieve ?Vieve? Gore - (91) Cofounder of W.L. Gore & Associates, the company that invented the Gore-Tex fabric used for waterproofing clothing, who worked with her husband to help build the company into a successful global corporation (other products including insulated computer cable that was used on the first moon landing), died after a brief illness in Newark, Delaware on January 20, 2005.
Ira Gorman - (59) Forensic psychologist who specialized in child custody matters, testifying in more than 250 criminal, civil, juvenile, and family law cases, who helped judges and juries to rule on child abuse, spousal battery, custody, and wrote widely on the subject for such publications as the American Journal of Forensic Psychology, and who was sought out by news media for his views on dysfunctional families and their connections to crimes, died of pancreatic cancer in Long Beach, California on January 22, 2005.
James E. Kenney Jr. - (92) Longtime executive at Pacific Telephone & Telegraph who started the company in the mailroom of its LA headquarters, who was also active in community affairs, heading the Committee for Quality Schools, a citizens? group supporting the LA school district?s bond and tax measures and later becoming the head of LA?s United Way in 1974, died in Torrance, California on January 19, 2005.
Augustine R. Marusi - (91) Former chairman and CEO of Borden who steered the company beyond milk and ice cream and into chemicals, an approach that ended the decline of the company?s profits in the ?70s, whose encouragement of this change led to a change in logo that reflected research and development and relegated longtime logo Elsie the Cow to the dairy division, and whose leadership led to a 9% increase in earnings, died of cancer in Lake Wales, Florida on Dec. 24, 2004.
Achille Maramotti - (78) Chairman and founder, in 1951, of Max Mara Fashion Group, an Italian maker of women's clothing which has about 1,200 stores worldwide, who was also vice chairman of Credito Emiliano SpA, an Italian regional bank in which his family owns the largest stake, director of UniCredito Italiano SpA, Italy's second-largest lender by assets, and director of Mediobanca SpA, the country's biggest investment bank, died following a long illness on January 12, 2005.
Mary Rettig Irish - (59) Philanthropist and wife of Hearst Newspapers President George B. Irish, who devoted herself to her family and philanthropy, focusing particularly upon education, died in Plano, Texas after a lengthy battle with cancer on January 23, 2005.
Jay Schulberg - (65) Advertising executive who created the "Got Milk" campaign while Chief Creative Officer at the Bozell Worldwide agency, who is also credited with creating American Express Traveler's Checks ads in the 70s that featured actor Karl Malden, as well as the campaign for Excedrin that termed the worst kind of headaches "Excedrin headaches", died of pancreatic cancer in Doylestown, Pennsylvania on January 12, 2005.
Garrard Smock Jr. - (86) Member of a clan of Pullman porters dating back to the early 20th century, who traveled on such legendary trains as the 20th Century Limited and served the likes of President Franklin Roosevelt during a career spanning nearly 25 years, died of pneumonia in Glendale, California on January 8, 2005.
Roland ?Milt? Trafton - (85) Former CEO of Seattle-based insurance company Safeco Corporation and a corporate art collector who assembled a nationally recognized art collection and founded ArtsFund, then known as Corporate Council for the Arts, which seeks to foster budget stability for nonprofit arts groups, and who was a founder and chairman of the Fifth Avenue Theater, Seattle?s leading venue for traveling Broadway musicals, died in Seattle after being hospitalized with complications from pneumonia, on January 15, 2005.
Lester Gamble Sr. - (87) Decorated Navy veteran who served in Hawaii during WWII, who later founded L.H. Gamble Co., a major food brokerage that represented the makers of Spam, Hormel Foods Corp., among others, and who was credited with popularizing Spam in the Hawaiian Islands by promoting the luncheon meat so that it became a mainstay of popular local meals (today, Hawaii residents consume nearly 7 million cans of Spam), died in Kailua-Kona, Hawii on January 12, 2005.
Shigeya Kihara - (90) Last surviving original instructor of the Fourth Army Intelligence School, the first U.S. Army language school, which was founded just prior to World War II to teach Japanese to American soldiers, and later evolved into the Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center at the Presidio of Monterey, CA, died of natural causes in Castro Valley, having suffered from Parkinson?s disease for many years, on January 16, 2005.
Jan Nowak-Jezioranski - (91) Noted Polish patriot who fought in the brief 1939 campaign after Nazi Germany?s invasion of Poland, risking his life as a wartime courier for the Polish anti-Nazi resistance and who was director of the Polish service of Radio Free Europe, the US-funded station that broadcast to countries behind the Iron Curtain during the Cold War, who later was a consultant to the U.S. National Security Council and was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation?s highest civilian honor, by President Bill Clinton, died in Warsaw, Poland on January 20, 2005.
Hisham Sharabi - (72) Palestinian-American intellectual and political activist who spent much of his adult life teaching in the US, who became active in politics at an early age, joining the Syrian Social Nationalist Party in Lebanon in the late 1940s before the Lebanese government cracked down on the party, forcing him to flee to Jordan and from there to the US, who resumed his studies and began teaching history at Georgetown U, where he co-founded the Center for Contemporary Arab Studies and stayed on as a professor of European intellectual history and political science until he retired in '98, died of cancer in Beirut on January 13, 2005.
Zhao Ziyang - (85) Former Chinese Communist Party leader who helped to pioneer reforms that launched China's economic boom in the 1980s, bringing the country new prosperity and flinging open its doors to the outside world, who was ousted and lived under house arrest following the 1989 Tiananmen Square pro-democracy protests, died of multiple ailments of the respiratory and cardiovascular systems in Beijing on January 17, 2005.
Rose Mary Woods - (87) The devoted secretary to President Nixon who said she inadvertently erased part of a crucial Watergate tape that had an 18 1/2-minute gap, died January 22, 2005.
Col. Eugene J. Holmes - (88) Army colonel who broke the story of how Bill Clinton avoided the draft during the Vietnam conflict who was a survivor of the Bataan Death March, who was the director for the ROTC program at the University of Arkansas during the time Clinton was a Rhodes Scholar
at Oxford University in England, where he filled out an application for an ROTC slot at the U of A (which would exempt him from the draft,) then when Clinton drew a high draft number (making him unlikely to gain the ROTC slot) he decided to stay in England and dropped out of the ROTC, who owned a letter stating these facts during the 1992 election (which Clinton went on to win,) and who spent four years as a prisoner of war, died on January 15 2005 in Fayetteville, Arkansas.
George Millar - (94) World War II hero who orchestrated an unlikely escape in 1943 from the Germans in enemy occupied France after his plattoon was captured by making his escape from a train lavatory, living in the underworld of a cafe and then mouting a resistence movement (and worked as a waiter while pretending to be deaf and dumb) and eventually returned to England, where he was de-briefed by military organizations that called his escape nothing short of miraculous, and who was later awarded the Croix de Guerre avec Palmes and made a Chevalier de la Legion daHonneur by the French Government, died January 15, 2005.
Rev. Harold Ridley - (65) President of Loyola University since 1994, during which the undergraduate numbers at the college nearly doubled and record capital campaign numbers were gained, establishing Loyola as a
leading Jesuit institution, who was ordained as a priest in 1969 after teaching English and Latin for a number of years, was found dead in his home in his home on the Loyola campus on January 19, 2005.
Don Poier - (53) Longtime radio voice of the NBA?s Memphis Grizzlies who had been with the team since their inception in 1995 when they played in Vancouver, Washington and moved with the team to Memphis, who was the radio play-by-play announcer before moving to TV in the 2004-05 season, and who had previously been an announcer on Pac-10 Conference football and basketball games for 20 years, died suddenly in Denver of an apparent heart attack, hours before the team was to play the Denver Nuggets, on January 21, 2005.
Malcolm Brachman - (78) Oilman and former nuclear physicist who was well known in the bridge community as a proficient tournament player, who taught physics at Southern Methodist University and the University of Chicago before quitting academia to join his family’s variety of businesses with included life insurance and tool companies, whose bridge team won 8 national championships as recently as 2003, and who eventually went on to found the Northwest Oil Company, died of pancreatic cancer on Chapel Hill, North Carolina on January 11, 2005.
Bob Moch - (90) Member of the legendary University of Washington crew team that won an Olympic gold medal in 1936 by beating heavily favored German and Italian teams-in front of Adolph Hitler and after missing hearing the starting and beginning in last place, who pushed the team as the coxswain to 44 strokes per minute (up from their normal 35) in order to win the race, and who went on to coach crew at MIT while he attended law school at Harvard, died of a stroke on in Seattle, Washington, January 7, 2005.
