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Cindy Brandt - (44) editor of the Wisconsin Herald/Times Reporter of Manitowoc. As well as the Lakeshore Chronicle. Under Brandt’s leadership, the Register Star won the 2003 Best in Business award from the Society of American Business Writers & Editors. Brandt died after battling a serious un named illness February 14, 2005.
Jack L. Chalker - (60) author of more than 60 sci-fi and fantasy novels; Chalker won numerous awards during a career that began in his early teens; his novel Midnight at the Well of Souls (1977) sold hundreds of thousands of copies; as a teen, Chalker also launched a literary magazine, Mirage, that he produced on an electric mimeograph machine and assembled with friends in his home. The magazine earned 14-year-old Chalker a nomination for the Hugo Award, the genre’s highest honor, presented by the World Science Fiction Society. Chalker co-founded the Baltimore Science Fiction Society, Chalker later organized the society’s first Balticon, an annual conference, now in its 39th year. Chalker wrote many books about writer H. P. Lovecraft and owned a publishing company, Mirage Press; Chalker died of kidney failure in Baltimore, Maryland on February 11, 2005.
Cecilia Cubas - (32) Daughter of former Paraguay president Raul Cubas (who was president from 1998-1999) who was kidnapped in September 2004 at gunpoint not far from her home in Aucension (the capital city) and riddled her car with bullets, a kidnapping that sparked public outcry and spawned a massive search, and whose father paid an ransom for her release in November, was found dead underneath a home in an underground chamber which is connected to tunnels, who was believed to have been kidnapped several suspects including the leader of a local left-wing group that is suspected of having ties to Colombia’s FARC guerrillas.
Sandra Dee - (62) Actress and married to Bobby Darin for a few years. She was best known for her roles in movies in the late ‘50s such as “The Reluctant Debutante,” “Gidget” and “A Summer Place,” where she was known for her wholesome, perky and sexy image that made her one of the biggest teen idols of her time, but whose later attempts at films were met with mediocre success, died from complications due to kidney disease on February 20, 2005 in Los Angeles, California.
Beverly Dennis (née Beverly Maxine Omensky) - (79) actress who played on Broadway, in films, and on TV, most notably on CBS as Red Buttons’ wife on The Red Buttons Show. Dennis became a psychotherapy and attended NYU for her bachelor’s degree and Columbia U for a master's; in 1977 she moved her practice to Beverly Hills, where her patients included studio heads, directors, screenwriters, and performers. Dennis died of multiple myeloma in Beverly Hills, Calif. January 20, 2005.
Sixten Ehrling - (86) Swedish symphonic conductor who conducted at the Royal Opera in Stockholm during the 50s. Ehrling graduated from the Royal Academy of Music in Stockholm, where he studied piano and violin; after conducting Sweden’s Royal Opera, he joined the Dresden State Opera in Germany. While in the USA, Ehrling joined the Detroit Symphony Orchestra as musical director in 1963. Ehrling left the Detroit Symphony in 1973 and began teaching conducting at the Juilliard School in NYC; Sixten died in New York City, on February 13, 2005.
Lee Eun-ju - (25) South Korean actress, star of one of the country's highest grossing films. Eun-Ju was found hanged in her dressing room. A suicide note was found written in blood. She graduated from Danguk University several days before her death on February 23, 2005.
Gerry Glaister - (89) British TV drama producer who developed classic shows like Colditz, The Brothers, Secret Army, and Howards’ Way. Colditz ( the story about British prisoners of war.) drew audiences of18.5 million, The Brothers ran for seven years, and Howards' Way had replaced Dynasty at the top of the ratings by its third episode. Gerry flew bombers during the second world war for the RAF. Glaister, who's show Maigret (1960-63), won a BAFTA for best series, Glaister was also known for his marrage to actress Anne Pichon. Glaister died on February 5, 2005
Brian Kelly - (73) Actor who was best known for his role as Porter Ricks on the 1960’s NBC television series “Flipper,” who was given the role after several guest appearances on "The Beverly Hillbillies," and "The Rifleman," and who appeared in 1966 in the underwater film, "Around the World Under the Sea," and who became a Hollywood executive after a motorcycle wreck left him partially paralyzed, died of pneumonia in Voorhees, New Jersey on February 12.
Kumba - (35) first gorilla ever born at Chicago’s Lincoln Park Zoo; Kumba’s birth in 1970 marked a turning point in how gorillas were handled in US zoos. Kumba apparently suffered from kidney failure; keepers decided to euthanize her February 12, 2005.
Leo Meidlinger - (61) an award-winning Washington-based senior producer for ABC News who worked for “World News Tonight With Peter Jennings. Meidlinger joined ABC News in 1972, working in the Los Angeles bureau. Arriving in Washington six years later, he went on to produce White House coverage for the network during the Ronald Reagan, George H.W.Bush and Bill Clinton presidencies. He also was Sam Donaldson’s producer at “PrimeTimeLive.He traveled for his assignments, including Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan in recent years. He was in the Middle East during the Persian Gulf War and spent time in Belgrade and Somalia during periods of turmoil. After the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, Mr. Meidlinger was ABC’s lead producer at the World Trade Center site. He was part of an ABC News team that received Emmy and Peabody awards for coverage of those events. Meidlinger died of cancer January 28 at Georgetown University Hospital.
Daniel O’Herlihy - (85) Oscar-nominated character actor whose 50-year career extended from the Irish stage to television and Hollywood movies including “Fail-Safe” and “RoboCop,” who was nominated for a best actor Oscar for his starring role in “The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe” in 1954 and appeared on the ‘90s cult series “Twin Peaks,” and whose last role was as Joseph Kennedy in the1998 TV movie “The Rat Pack,” died after suffering from an illness for a year in Malibu, Calif. on February 17, 2005.
Eleanor Gould Packard - (87) editor known for her proofreading, copyediting, and probing of the language of thousands of articles in the New Yorker. Packard was noted for her intricate attention to vocabulary, syntax, grammar, flow, and even punctuation of many nonfiction writers who have contributed to the New Yorker. Packard died in NYC February 13, 2005.
Otto Plaschkes - (75) British producer of films that explored identity and sized up society, including the spy thriller “Hopscotch” and the dark comedy “Georgy Girl,” who was head of European production for the American Film Theater and the CEO of the British Film & Television Producers Association in the 1980s, died of heart failure in London, England on February 14, 2005.
John Raitt - (88) Powerful baritone and legendary stage actor who created the role of Billy Bigelow in the original New York production of “Carousel” and sang with Doris Day in the movie “Pajama Game,” who was perhaps best known as the original Curly in the touring company of “Oklahoma!,” who was also the father of singer Bonnie Raitt, with whom he often appeared in concert, and who continued touring into his 80s with his one man show “An Evening with John Raitt,” died of pneumonia in Pacific Palisades, Calif. February 20, 2005.
Steve Susskind - (62) Movie and television actor who appeared on numerous sitcoms including “Friends,” “Frasier,” “Scrubs,” “Seinfeld” “The Jeffersons,” and “Married with Children,” who was also a voice-over specialist and provided voices for characters in “The Emperor’s New Groove,” and “Monsters Inc.,” died in Mission Hills, Calif. of injuries caused when the limousine he was driving was struck by another vehicle on Jan. 21, 2005.
Hunter S. Thompson - (67) Acerbic counterculture icon and author of numerous books including the 1972 drug-hazed classic “Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas,” who popularized “gonzo journalism,” a form of fictional journalism in which the writer made himself an essential component of the story, who was a writer for Rolling Stone magazine and the model for the character of “Uncle Duke,” in the comic strip “Doonesbury,” died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound at his home near Aspen, Colorado on February 20, 2005.
Warren Vaché Sr. - (90) Bassist, author, historian, and longtime mainstay of the New Jersey jazz scene, who was an accomplished musician and played with many famed musicians in New York and New Jersey in addition to leading his own group, the Syncopatin’ Seven, and who was also a jazz writer and the father of two jazz musicians, jazz cornetist Warren Vaché Jr. and clarinet player Allan Vaché, died of pneumonia and prostate cancer in Rahway, New Jersey on February 4, 2005.
Marcello Viotti - (50) Symphonic conductor and the music director of Venice’s La Fenice Theater since 2002, who previously conducted the Berlin Philharmonic, the English Champer Orchestra, as well at opera houses such as Milan’s La Scala and New York’s Metropolitan Opera House, died after apparently suffering a stroke resulting in a coma lasting several days in Munich, Germany on February 16, 2005.
Mattiebelle Woods - (102) Journalist with the “Milwaukee Courier” dubbed the “first lady of Milwaukee’s black press,” who was believed to be both the oldest working reporter in the country as well as the oldest poll worker in Milwaukee (she last worked the polls on February 15), died in Milwaukee on February 17, 2005.
Zdzislaw Beksinski - (75) Polish contemporary artist, famed for his haunting fantasy paintings.The artist became famous around Europe and Japan in the 1970s and 80s for his paintings that depicted disfigured objects or people against a background of hazy romantic light. "He was one of the best known artists of Poland. Beksinski has been found murdered at his home in Warsaw neighbourhood on February 21, 2005.
Ara Berberian - (74) sang for 20 years at the Metropolitan Opera. His operatic repertory included more than 100 roles, from Pimen and Varlaam in Mussorgsky's "Boris Godunov" to Don Basilio in "The Barber of Seville." He sang everywhere from New York to Tel Aviv, San Francisco to Japan. Other notable credits included the 1964 studio recording of "Oklahoma!," in which he sang Jud Fry to John Raitt's Curly; and a performance of the national anthem before a World Series game in 1984. Ara died in his sleep at his winter home in Boynton Beach, Florida of heart failure, early Monday February 21, 2005.
Harald Szeemann - (71) Swiss art critic and exhibit organizer renowned for his works at such shows as the Biennale in Venice and the Documenta, the world’s biggest contemporary art show in Germany, who made his name in the ‘60s when he was director of the Kunsthalle in Bern, an institution that he turned into an obligatory stopping-off place for new generations of European and American artists; in 1972, died of a pulmonary illness in Switzerland on February 17, 2005.
Tom Bostelle - (83) Painter and sculptor who was best known for his portrait of black artist Horace Pippin that hangs in the National Portrait Gallery, who was self-taught and quit school at the age of 17 to devote his time to his work and in 1947, completed the first of his “shadow'” paintings, in which he distorted shadows of people to express emotions, and who has permanent collections at the Delaware Art Museum, the Chester County Historical Society, West Chester University, died in Pocopson, Pennsylvania on February 17, 2005 .
Henry Wolf - (80) graphic designer and photographer who, as art director of Esquire, Harper’s Bazaar, and Show magazines in the 50s and 60s. One of the most creative typography and surreal photography, Wolf was often outspoken on the state of magazines in general, and quick to note that good content was neutralized when editorial material and design were not in sync. Some of his clients were Saks Fifth Avenue and I. Magnin, and advertisements for Xerox, IBM, Revlon, and DeBeers. Wolf's Valentine's Day cover in 1963 was a high-contrast photograph of a naked woman with an X-ray machine over her breast, revealing a graphic red heart; Wolf was found dead in his NYC apartment; date is that of discovery February 14, 2005.
Dr. Sonja Buckley (86) a Yale microbiologist who helped identify the potentially deadly Lassa virus, Moving to the United States in 1947, she worked at Johns Hopkins University and the Sloan-Kettering Institute before joining the Rockefeller Foundation virus laboratories in 1957. Buckley’s breakthrough research occurred in 1969. The virus she helped discover is named for the Nigerian village where two missionary nurses died. Buckley died in a Baltimore nursing home after a series of strokes, on February 2, 2005.
Prof. Sir John Dacie - (92) Physician who was one of the pioneering figures in the area of hemotology-the study of diseases in blood and blood itself and London University’s Royal Postgraduate Medical School after World War II, who was appointed chair of that department in 1956, died in England on February 12, 2005
Daniel Goodwin - (57) Director of the Smithsonian Institute Press from 1994 to 1998 who, in his time at the Press was responsible for developing the Smithsonian Series in Ethnographic Inquiry-which no includes more than 40 titles-and the Smithsonian Series in Archaeological Inquiry, which has more than 20, died of cancer in Chevy Chase, Maryland on February 6, 2005.
Howard Ernest Gruber - (82) scholar of cognitive psychology, also noted for his writings on the development of Charles Darwin’s theories on evolution; Gruber dedicated his life to the study of cognition, a process of knowing that includes awareness and judgment. Gruber moved to Rutgers U and founded a cognitive institute, which later blended into what is now the Rutgers Center for Molecular & Behavioral Neuroscience; Gruber held a chair at the U of Geneva in 1983 and later returned to NYC as a visiting professor at Teachers College; also held teaching positions at Cornell U and MIT; died of pneumonia in New York City on January 25, 2005.
Dr. Paul Lacy – (81) Diabetics pioneer who created a treatment for type 1 diabetes more than 30 years ago that successfully infused cells from a healthy pancreas into animals with diabetes, a process known as islet transplantation-a concept that may lead to a successful treatment and cure of the disease and is still being tested in the United States by the FDA, died of pulmonary fibrosis on February 14.
Dr. William Laupus - (83) former leader of the East Carolina U School of Medicine in Greenville, NC for 13 years; Laupus went to ECU in 1975, In 1988 he left his job as dean . was also a vice chancellor (1982-89). In 1993, the health sciences library at ECU was renamed in his honor; Laupus won the O. Max Gardner Award, the highest honor given by the U of NC Board of Governors. Laupas died in Greenville February 15, 2005.
Lawrence G. Rawl - (76) petroleum engineer who rose to become chairman and CEO of Exxon Corp. and led the company's response to criticism after the Exxon Valdez oil spill in Alaska. Rawl graduated from the U of Oklahoma in 1952 with a degree in petroleum engineering, Rawl joined Humble Oil & Refining Co., a predecessor to Exxon, as a drilling engineer in south Texas. He was named president; in 1987, he was elected chairman and CEO; increased thecompany’s energy reserves, partly by focusing on expanding production in Africa, and expanded chemical operations; also moved the company's headquarters from NYC to Irving, Texas; retired in 1993; died in Fort Worth, Texas February 13, 2005.
Rafik al-Hariri - (60) former Lebanese PM, a self-made billionaire who led Lebanon for most of the period after the end of that country’s civil war in 1990; since leaving office in October 2004, he had been considered in the opposition party. Al-Hariri, was targeted in a massive bomb explosion that ravaged his motorcade on a Beirut street in front of the famous St. George Hotel. Reports where varied, but if al-Hariri was not killed in the blast, he was burnt to death in the twisted remains of the car. He and his staff died February 14, 2005.
Rear Adm. John Harllee - (91) decorated veteran of WWII and former chairman of the Federal Maritime Commission. Harllee was a lieutenant stationed at Pearl Harbor at the time of the Japanese attack. He also was chief staff officer of a PT boat group of 200 boats with 10,000 officers and men,including Lt. John F. Kennedy; Harllee returned from the war with a SilverStar and a Legion of Merit with Combat V. Retiring from the Navy in 1959 Harllee became chairman of Citizens for Kennedy & Johnson in northern California; in1961, Pres. Kennedy appointed Harllee to the newly created Federal Maritime Commission. In 1963; Harllee was reconfirmed by Pres. Lyndon B. Johnson in 1965, and retired from the commission, Harllee died of pneumonia in Bethesda, Md. February 5, 2005.
Willie Junior - (62) Florida county commissioner (Escambia County ) whose political career was ruined by scandal in which he was accused of trying to bribe local businessmen who sought county contracts (a scandal which also caused three other commissioners to lose their seats), who had plead guilty to the charges against him but disappeared on November 9, 2004 one day before his sentencing, was found on December 9 underneath a house of a former employee of his funeral home with an empty pill bottle and three empty Heineken beer bottles nearby, and toxicology reports revealed he’d ingested anti-freeze and the death was ruled a suicide.
Robert Kearns - (77) the inventor of intermittent windshield. He was a member of the Office of Strategic Services, the forerunner of the Central Intelligence Agency, during World War II. After the war, he earned engineering degrees from the University of Detroit and Wayne State University and a doctorate from Case Western Reserve University. In 1967, Kearns patented the intermittent wipers he invented. He demonstrated the system to Ford Motor Co., which introduced cars with intermittent wipers in 1978. Kearns died of cancer at home in Baltimore on February 9, 2005.
Robert R. Merhige Jr. - (86) Former federal judge who was known for his rulings on desegregation, some of which were so unpopular at the time that he required 24 hour bodyguard service by U.S. Marshalls, who ordered many of Virginia’s schools to desegregate and whose dog was shot to death and who was the victim of arson after his ruling to consolidate schools in the Richmond area, died following open heart surgery on February 18, 2005 in Richmond, Virginia.
Queen Nariman Sadeq (al-Naquib) - (70) Former queen of Egypt and the ex-wife of the late King Farouk, whose family fled to Italy after the monarch was overthrown in 1952, died after suffering a brain hemorrhage near Cairo, Egypt on February 16, 2005.
Mustafa Zanibar - (35) A suspected Islamic extremist believed linked to groups that planned attacks on targets in Madrid was found dead in his prison cell in Zaragossa, Spain. An apparent suicide by hanging on February 23, 2005.
Corrado Cardinal Bafile - (101) Italian RC Cardinal, oldest member of the College of Cardinals; Bafile served for 15 years as papal envoy to Germany until he returned to the Vatican in 1975 to head the Congregation for the Causes of Saints; Pope Paul VI elevated him to cardinal in 1976; Bafile died of influenza in Rome on February 3, 2005.
Dr. Marjorie Braude - (80) Former chair of the Los Angeles Domestic Violence Task Force and wife of Marvin Braude, who served on the Los Angeles city council from 1965 to 1997, who was the force behind a 1994 conference on domestic violence that was attended by more than 450 police officers, social workers, judges, doctors and victims advocates, who was a psychiatrist who practiced up until her death, and who worked hard to curb violence against women, died of abdominal infection following surgery on February 7, 2005 in Santa Monica, California.
Sister Lucia deJesus dos Santos - (97) Last of three children who claimed to have seen the Virgin Mary in a series of 1917 apparitions in the town of Fatima, Portugal. Lucia and two of her cousins, said in 1917 that the Virgin Mary had been appearing to them once a month and predicting events, such as world wars, the emergence of Christianity in Russia, and the 1981 attempted assassination of Pope John Paul II; the appearances took place on the 13th day of each month in Fatima, The first sighting was May 13, and the appearances continued for another five months, ending abruptly in October; shortly after, the cousins died .Lucia became a nun and wrote two memoirs while living in convents. Lucia, an Roman Catholic nun, had been ill for the past three months and died at the Convent of Carmelitas in Coimbra, 120 miles north of Lisbon February 13, 2005.
Nelson Briles - (“Nellie”) (61) former St. Louis Cardinal baseball player who won two World Series titles during his 14-year career as a major league pitcher. Briles helped the Cardinals to a championship in 1967, also played a key role in Pittsburgh’s 1971 title run. Briles died suddenly while at a Pirates alumni golf tournament in Orlando, Fla. February 13, 2005.
Thadee Cisowski - (78) Former France international soccer player. Polish-born Cisowski, whose career had been plagued with injuries, made 13 appearances for France and scored 11 goals between 1951 and 1958. The powerful forward scored 206 goals in the French first division between 1948 and 1961 with FC Metz (48-52), Racing Club de Paris (53-60) and Valenciennes US (1961). Finishing as the league's top scorer three times (1956, 57, 59) with RC Paris. He died after a long illness on February 24, 2005.
Norman Gale - (65) Welsh Rugby international as a hooker, who captained his country on two occasions; Gale was later a successful coach at Llanelli and worked as assistant to Carwyn James in the club’s historic victory over the visiting New Zealand All Blacks in 1972. Gale made his first international appearance at 20, against Ireland. Gale played briefly for Swansea, Gale assisted Wales to successive championship victories (1965-66) Gale died two days after watching his beloved Scarlets win against Munster in the Celtic League January 31, 2005.
Enrique Omar Sivori - (69) Famed former Argentina soccer player who helped lead Argentinean team River Plate and Italian team Juventus to numerous titles and was voted the best European soccer player of 1961, died of pancreatic cancer in San Nicolas, Argentina on February 17, 2005.
Najai Turpin - (“Nitro”) (23) middleweight boxer from Philadelphia, a contestant on the new NBC-TV reality series TheContender; a show about boxing. Turpin, who entered the series as a well-regarded young fighter with a 13-1 record. NBC executives said the s how would go on with the show as planned, starting March 7, 2005. Turpin committed suicide in Philadelphia by fatally shooting himself in the head on February 14 . NBC thought it had nothing to do with events on the TV show, February 14 ,2005.
Dick Weber - (75) pro bowler known as “bowling's good will ambassador” and “the old smoothie,” Weber was a founding member of the Professional Bowlers Assoc. and one of its first stars when ABC televised PBA tournament finals on Saturdays in the 60s and 70s He was probably the best-known bowler worldwide. Weber was three times bowler of the year (1961, ’63, ’65) and PBA player of the year in 1965; before there was a US Open. He was elected to both the PBA and ABC halls of fame; bowled 14 perfect games in competition. The cause of death was not immediately known February 13, 2005.
Jimmy Young - (56) Former heavyweight contender who came close to beating Muhammad Ali in 1976, His career peaked on 30 April 1976 when he went the distance with Ali, dominating the early rounds before controversially losing on points. Young Also Faught George Foreman and the contest was dubbed "Fight of the Year" by Ring Magazine.Young suffered the fatal attack at a Philadelphia hospital on Sunday February 20, 2005.
John S. Zink - (74) industrialist whose cars won the Indianapolis 500 in 1955 with driver Bob Sweikert and 1956 with driver Pat Flaherty.Zink, who was inducted into the Auto Racing Hall of Fame at a dinner in May 2004 in Indianapolis, Only 23 years old when he entered a car in the “500” for the first time, “Jack” Zink had at least one car in the lineup every year between 1952 and 1967. John Zink Specials won 13 National Championship races between 1955 and 1966, died in a Tulsa hospital on February 5, 2005.
