Art and Literature
Guillermo Cabrera Infante - (75) Cuban-born novelist widely regarded as one of the most original voices in 20th-century Spanish-language literature and lauded for his experimental use of language in novels, essays, and film criticism, who won the 1997 Miguel de Cervantes prize for literature (the most prestigious literary award in the Spanish-speaking world), and who was a harsh critic of the Castro regime, publishing a collection of political writings under the title “Mea Cuba,” died in London of septicemia, a type of blood infection on February 21, 2005.

Karl Weschke - (79) Artist and the last survivor of the most romantic episode in modern British art, the years after the Second World War when the pretty port of St Ives became Britain’s artistic Mecca, who was a German commando once held in Britain’s toughest POW camp, and who worked as a bouncer, gravestone carver, scuba diver, and a lion feeder’s assistant in the circus before he decided to become an artist, for which he received Britain’s Order of Merit, died on February 20, 2005.

Business and Science
David F. Bradford - (66) Princeton University economics professor and former Presidential adviser; who was an authority on taxation and served under Presidents Ford, Reagan, and George H. W. Bush (as a member of Bush’s Council of Economic Advisers and deputy assistant secretary for tax policy in the Treasury Department), who held positions with the National Bureau of Economic Research, the American Institute for Public Policy Research, and the NYU School of Law, died after suffering third degree burns over half his body in a fire caused by Christmas tree lights at his Princeton, NJ home on February 22, 2005.

Johnnie Clifton Burgin - (85) A leading collector and restorer of vintage Harley Davidson and other motorcycles. His widely visited collection of about 50 vintage motorcycles in a barn near  Tacoma includes the 1936-47 Harley-Davidson Knucklehead series, believed to be one of three complete sets in existence. The collection also includes restored military bikes and - the most valuable and rarest of all - an unrestored 1907 FN. He retired in 1970 at age 50 and, several years later, moved to Spanaway, where he opened a motorcycle repair and restoration shop in front of the family home and began building his vintage collection.  Burgin died February 18, 2005.

Muir Dawson - (83) One in a line of Dawsons who ran Los Angeles’s oldest continuously operating bookstore, Dawson’s Book Shop, for more than 50 years, whose bookstore specialized in rare books on the history of printing and its rare books on California history, Western Americana, and photography and was credited with putting LA on an equal footing with NYC and Chicago in the antiquarian book market, and who was also a champion skier as well as a former president of the Book Club of California and the Antiquarian Booksellers Association, died of heart failure in Silver Lake, California on February 21, 2005.

Jef Raskin - Apple Macintosh creator, mathematician, teacher, sculptor, and pioneer in the field of human-computer interactions. As employee number 31 at Apple in the early 1980s, despite strong opposition from Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, Raskin created the Mac as a revolutionary computer interface design. He named the project after his favorite variety of apple, the McIntosh, modifying the spelling for copyright reasons. He invented "click and drag" and many other methods now taken for granted by computer users. His sculptures have been exhibited at New York's Museum of Modern Art, with one piece included in the permanent collection. Died of pancreatic cancer at his home in Pacifica, California February 26, 2005.

Ruth Salzman Adams - (81) Editor who gave voice to scientists concerned about the dangers of nuclear weapons during the Cold War. As editor of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists (1961-68, ‘78-83), she provided a forum for scientists to express their opposition to the deployment and use of nuclear weapons. She was consultant and research associate at the American Academy of Arts & Sciences in Cambridge, Massachusetts (1968-71); executive director of the Illinois American Civil Liberties Union (1971-74). Adams died of cancer in La Jolla, California, February 25, 2005

Politics and Military
Maj. Vanessa Lloyd-Davies - (44) First British female medical officer to head the Household Cavalry, an historic regiment of the British army commonly identified by its mounted ceremonial duties seen at events such as the Queen’s Birthday Parade, who was awarded a military MBE in 1993 for her work in Bosnia, where she attended badly wounded children under mortar fire, and who also suffered from acute depression, committed suicide on February 16, 2005.

Peter Malchin - (77) The Israeli spy who captured Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann. Malchin, who was born Tzvi Milchman, escaped the Holocaust, but dozens of his relatives were among the six million Jews killed by the Nazis during World War II. In his book "Eichmann in My Hands," Malchin described how he told Eichmann during the 10 days the Mossad team held him before smuggling him to Israel on an El Al plane that he was responsible for the death of his nephew in the Holocaust. Malchin joined the Jewish underground in British-ruled Palestine at the age of 12 and became an explosives expert as well as a talented safe cracker before being recruited by the Mossad where he served for 27 years. Among his other achievements was the capture of a Soviet spy who had penetrated the highest levels of the Israeli leadership and an operation against Nazi nuclear rocket scientists who assisted an Egyptian weapons development program after World War II. Milchman died in New York on March 1, 2005.

Raymond Mhlaba - (85) African National Congress veteran sentenced with Nelson Mandela to life imprisonment in 1964 for trying to overthrow South Africa’s apartheid regime, who was released in 1989 and later became premier of the newly created province of the Eastern Cape in the first democratic multiracial elections in 1994, and who also served as ambassador to Rwanda and Burundi, died of cancer in Port Elizabeth, South Africa on February 20, 2005.

S. Ernest Vandiver - (86) Former Georgia governor who won office vowing that “no, not one” black child would enter a white classroom in Georgia but later presided over peaceful desegregation, who was elected on an anti-integration platform, but at a critical moment he persuaded lawmakers to repeal a statute requiring schools to be closed rather than desegregated, a stand that was considered political suicide but courageous as it helped set the stage for Georgia’s reputation as a progressive state, died in Lavonia, Georgia on February 21, 2005.

Hans-Juergen Wischnewski - (82) German politician best known as the negotiator in the 1977 hijacking of a Lufthansa airliner by leftist terrorists, who was a lifelong Social Democrat and longtime international troubleshooter for Germany and was used often as a crisis mediator, who mediated the freedom of eight West Germans seized by rebels in Nicaragua in 1986 and the next year sought the release of two German businessmen kidnapped in Lebanon, died of an infection in Cologne, Germany on February 24, 2005.

Ted Powers - (83) Noted photographer and former Marine who was one of the few in his company to survive Iwo Jima, who went on to spend half a century photographing Presidents, natural disasters, sports games, and everything in between for the Associated Press, died in Austin of acute lung disease on February 22, 2005.

Society And Religion
David Bentley-Taylor - (90) One of the most influential missionaries of the 20th century, who participated in the founding of the International Fellowship of Evangelical Students (IFES), which now has a presence in 150 countries, who spent 10 years in east Java working among the Chinese, then among Javanese Muslims converting to Christianity, in addition to writing several books, died on February 10, 2005.

Uli Derickson - (60) Former Trans World Airlines flight attendant honored for saving passengers’ lives in 1985 by both confronting and mollifying Lebanese terrorist hijackers, who took the lead in protecting the 152 passengers and crew members onboard in part by speaking German to the hijackers, singing a German ballad that one requested, and even allowing the use of her own credit card to refuel the plane at one point during the ordeal, and who was still working as a flight attendant for Delta Air Lines when she received a diagnosis of cancer in 2003, died of the disease in Tucson, Arizona on February 18, 2005.

Hugh W. Nibley - (94) Mormon religious scholar, one of the most active and outspoken defenders of Mormon writings and teachings, who was a professor emeritus of ancient scripture at Brigham Young University and was regularly called on by senior church officials to research and respond to questions about or criticisms of Mormon teachings, who had also been the subject of heated debates among Mormons and former church members recently as one of his daughters prepared to publish a memoir in which she accused her father of sexually abusing her as a child (a claim disputed by him and his other children), died after a long illness in Provo, Utah on February 24, 2005.

Gene Scott - (75) Shaggy-haired, cigar-smoking televangelist whose eccentric religious broadcasts were broadcast on radio and TV stations in about 180 countries, who was the longtime pastor of Los Angeles’s University Cathedral, a congregation of more than 15,000 members that raised millions of dollars through round-the-clock Internet and satellite TV broadcasts, who also spoke on current events, sometimes lacing his sermons with profanity and had a lavish lifestyle that included a chauffeured limousine, contact with political bigwigs, and 300 horses, died in Los Angeles, California after suffering stroke on February 21, 2005.

Nathan Wright Jr. - (81) Episcopal minister and scholar, an early and prominent advocate of black power, whose greatest fame came when he was chairman of the National Conference on Black Power in Newark, NJ, which showed a change in the civil rights movement’s tactics toward demanding group rights rather than individual rights (the conference called for the creation of black national holidays, black universities, and advocated looking into the possibility of dividing the US into two countries, one black and one white), and who earned six degrees, including a doctorate in education from Harvard and later traveled the Eastern Seaboard on behalf of the Episcopal Church, preaching his lifelong message of self-reliance, died of kidney disease in East Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania on February 22, 2005.

Zhu Qiaomei - (94) China’s oldest surviving sex slave from World War II, one of seven women on Shanghai’s Chongming Island known to have been forced to work as prostitutes for Japanese soldiers during the war who later filed a class action lawsuit against the Japanese government in 2000, died in Shanghai, China on February 20, 2005.

Sports

Allan Rae - (82) A former West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) president and a solid opening batsman in The 1950's. A left-handed batsman, he played 15 Tests in which he scored 1,016 runs at an average of 46.18. He retired from the game to concentrate on a legal career and later served as WICB president from 1981 to 1988. He died in his native Jamaica on Sunday February 27, 2005.

Reggie Roby - (43) One of the finest and most durable punters in NFL history, who spent 16 seasons in the NFL and played for the Miami Dolphins, the Washington Redskins, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, the Houston Oilers, and the San Francisco 49rs in addition to appearin in three Pro Bowl games, and who was the marketing and development director for Backfield in Motion, a nonprofit organization that tries to help inner-city youths through sports and academics, died in Nashville, Tennessee of an apparent heart attack on February 22, 2005.

Dorothy Scharbauer - (73) Co-owner of 1987 Kentucky Derby winner Alysheba and a widely known philanthropist, who came from a family of thoroughbred owners and was known for her financial and personal contributions, especially to the Museum of the Southwest and to Midland College, died of pancreatic cancer in Midland, Texas on February 23, 2005.

Jimmy Young - (56) Former heavyweight boxer who beat George Foreman and fought Muhammad Ali and Ken Norton in the 1970s, who compiled a 35-18-3 record with 12 knockouts and estimated his career purses at nearly $2 million (though he claimed to have taken home far less then that), and who, in later years, had financial, drug, and legal problems, died of heart disease after six days in a Philadelphia hospital on February 20, 2005.

Paul C. Sawyer - (88) Former Richmond International Raceway owner whose vision for a unique motorsports facility helped make the track into one of the most popular stops on the NASCAR circuit. He promoted NASCAR races in Richmond since 1955 and helped modernize Richmond International Raceway with several visionary projects, beginning with paving the once-dirt facility in 1968. As the sport continued to grow and competition increased. In 2003 Sawyer entered the Virginia Motorsports Hall of Fame and the 2002 class of the Virginia Sports Hall of Fame. He was honored with the NASCAR Founder's Award as part of NASCAR's 50th anniversary celebration in Hollywood, CA . He received an honorary doctorate in commercial science from the University of Richmond in 2001. He died in hospital from complications of pneumonia on February 26, 2005 .

To be organized

Ruth Salzman Adams - (81) Editor who gave voice to scientists concerned about the dangers of nuclear weapons during the Cold War. As editor of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists (1961-68, ‘78-83), she provided a forum for scientists to express their opposition to the deployment and use of nuclear weapons. She was consultant and research associate at the American Academy of Arts & Sciences in Cambridge, Massachusetts (1968-71); executive director of the Illinois American Civil Liberties Union (1971-74). Adams died of cancer in La Jolla, California, February 25, 2005

Peter Benenson - (83) British lawyer and founder of Amnesty International. Benenson began his human rights campaigns as a boy in support of Spanish civil war orphans and Jews fleeing Hitler’s Germany. In 1961, at age 40, he set up Amnesty International after reading an article about the arrest and imprisonment of two students in a café in Lisbon, Portugal, who had drunk a toast to liberty. He had initially envisioned A.I. as a one-year campaign, but it later became the world’s largest independent human rights organization. Based in London, it now has more than 1.8 million members and supporters worldwide. Benenson died of pneumonia in London, February 25, 2005

Bierbower, James Joseph - (81) Well-known Washington, DC lawyer who represented Nixon campaign aide Jeb Magruder during the Watergate trials, and EPA official Rita Lavelle during the Superfund inquiry. He practiced law for 49 years in Washington, representing a bevy of capital characters. He was president of the voluntary Bar Association for DC in 1978, and in ‘81 became president of the mandatory DC Bar. He was named lawyer of the year in 1989 by the voluntary association. He was a fellow of the American Bar Foundation and taught trial practice for 25 years as an adjunct professor at Georgetown University Law Center. In recent years he suffered from Alzheimer’s Disease. Bierbower died of pneumonia in a Virginia nursing home, February 5, 2005

Brown, Andrew H(utton) - (92) Retired National Geographic writer, editor, and photographer who traveled the far corners of the world from the 1930s to the ‘90s. His adventures included chronicling Adm. Richard Byrd’s final expedition to Antarctica in 1956, and editing the works Jane Goodall and Dian Fossey as they wrote about their experiences with chimpanzees and mountain gorillas. Brown wrote 20 articles under his own by-line, most illustrated with his own photos. A member of National Geographic Society’s research and exploration committee, he was involved in one of the Society’s most famous expeditions, the 1963 mission that put Americans on top of Mt. Everest. This resulted in Geographic’s first TV documentary. Brown retired as the magazine’s assistant editor in 1977 but continued working part-time until ’90. He died of colon cancer in Rockville, Maryland, February 4, 2005

Eugene Corr - (82) Retired federal marshal who, the late 1960s and early ‘70s, led an internal revolt to end Seattle police corruption. He also led an effort to increase the number of blacks and women on the police force, and worked to improve communication between police and the city’s minority communities. Corr joined the police force in 1947 and received a series of promotions. Later he graduated from the FBI Academy and earned a master’s degree in public administration from the U of Washington. He was named US marshal for western Washington by Pres. Reagan in 1983, and retired in ’88. He made his final arrest in 2003, detaining and interrogating a prowler at his home. Corr died from recently-diagnosed lung cancer in Seattle, February 20, 2005

John Ebstein - (92) Industrial designer instrumental in creation of the famed Studebaker Avanti sports car, and influencing the look of many products such as Lucky Strike cigarettes and Greyhound buses. Ebstein contributed to the design of space capsules, Pennsylvania Railroad locomotives, and Air Force One. Born in Germany, Ebstein began his architectural studies in Stuttgart, then fled the country by motorcycle with his possessions strapped to his back when Hitler assumed power in 1933. He continued his studies in Paris and Prague, then came to the U.S. in 1938 and joined Loewy Associates. He retired in 1977. Ebstein died of a heart attack in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, February 18, 2005

Peter Foy - (79) Known as the master of stage flight, he operated the ropes, wires, and pulleys that sent Mary Martin soaring over a Broadway stage in the 1954 musical version of Peter Pan. Founder of Flying by Foy, a 48-year-old company that specializes in theatrical flying effects. He also worked in TV and film, rigging up the aerial antics of stars such as Dean Martin, Bob Hope, Jack Benny, Lucille Ball, and Jerry Lewis. He launched Sally Field on TV’s "The Flying Nun", as well as hosts of angels in the annual Christmas pageant at the Crystal Cathedral. He even flew Liberace and his piano onto a stage. The transplanted Englishman died in Las Vegas, February 17, 2005

Henry A. Grunwald - (82) Time magazine editor who led the publication’s shift from conservatism to a more centrist view, and was later appointed United States ambassador to Austria (1988-90). During his tenure as managing editor, he began to award bylines and introduced new departments including Behavior, Energy, the Sexes, Economy and Dance. During the Watergate scandal, he personally wrote Time’s editorial asking President Nixon to resign. After serving 11 years as managing editor, he served as editor-in-chief of all Time Inc. publications until retirement in 1987. Grunwald died of heart failure at his Manhattan home, February 26, 2005.

Roger W. Johnson - (70) One of the highest-ranking Republicans in the Clinton administration before defecting to the Democratic Party. Once a regular contributor to GOP candidates, Johnson became head of the General Services Administration for nearly three years in Pres. Clinton’s first term, then switched parties to help Clinton win re-election. Before joining the government, he spent nearly ten years as president and chairman of Western Digital, a manufacturer of storage devices such as disk drives. Died of lung cancer in Laguna Beach, California, February 25, 2005

Robert Kearns - (77) Inventor of intermittent windshield wipers, who won multimillion-dollar judgments against Ford and Chrysler for their use of his idea. Kearns was a member of the OSS, forerunner of the CIA, during World War II. In 1967, he patented his invention and demonstrated the system to Ford Motor Co., which introduced cars with intermittent wipers in 1978. Kearns filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Ford and collected $10-million in 1990; in ‘95, the US Supreme Court also let him collect about $21 million from Chrysler for using his design. Died of cancer in suburban Baltimore, Maryland, February 9, 2005

Gwendolyn Knight - (91) Painter and sculptor who emerged from the shadow of her husband, painter Jacob Lawrence (d. 2000), late in her life. Although Knight did not begin to exhibit formally until the 1970s and was long known as the wife of Lawrence, who was a leading visual chronicler of the black experience, she began painting when she was young and was still setting out in new directions in her old age. Having devoted most of her career to oil portraits of friends, figure studies of dancers, and watercolor and gouache landscapes that seemed to be companion pieces to her husband’s work, in the 1990s she suddenly began to draw scenes and figures from memory. Gwendolyn Knight died in Seattle, Washington, February 18, 2005

Leo Labine - ("The Lion") (73) Former Boston Bruin and Detroit Red Wing, he played 12 years in the National Hockey League, with 128 goals and 321 points in 643 games. He was the Bruins’ leading scorer (1954-55), when he had 24 goals and 18 assists. His career best 47 points came in the 1956-57 season. Labine died in North Bay, Ontario, Canada, February 25, 2005

Palazzo, Peter - (78) Editorial art director who redesigned the New York Herald Tribune in 1963. His innovations brought the paper from its former rigid, bland, archaic design, to an elegant graphic and typographic format that would distinguish it from its competitors. He helped to start the typographically elegant "Book World" and the original "New York Magazine" as regular Sunday supplements. Despite an increase in circulation, the new Tribune did not last long. In 1963 a crippling newspaper strike forced a merger of three papers – the Tribune, the NY World, and the Journal American – creating the World Journal Tribune, which failed to garner a sizable audience. In 1994 he designed a family of fonts called Palazzo for the Cleveland Plain Dealer. Three days before his 79th birthday, Palazzo died of cancer in Glens Falls, New York, Jan. 30, 2005

In the picture, Rodriguez is on the RIGHT. Raquel Rodriguez - (Age Unknown) Maternal grandmother of young Cuban castaway Elian Gonzalez. Rodriguez was the mother of Elian’s mother, Elisabeth Brotons, who perished along with 10 other adults in a November 1999 attempt to reach Florida by sea. Elian and two other people survived. Then 5, Elian was found floating on an inner tube off south Florida; his rescue set off a seven-month international custody battle by the boy’s relatives in Miami, who fought to keep the child in the U.S. Elian was reunited with his father, Juan Miguel Gonzalez, in the U.S. in June 2000, after an armed federal raid on the Miami relatives’ home. Father and son later returned to a hero’s welcome in Cuba. Rodriguez died in Havana, Cuba, February 25, 2005

Israel Stollman - (82) Urban planner and former executive director of the American Planning Assoc. in Washington, DC (1978-93), after which he remained a consultant. The 32,000-member association brings together professionals in all aspects of planning, public and private; it functions as a clearinghouse and assists planners with research, workshops, conferences, and publications. In 1968, Stollman was asked to head the American Society of Planning Officials. He was credited with bringing blacks onto its all-white board and recruiting minority members into the planning profession. He died following a fall in Christchurch, New Zealand, February 2, 2005

Javier Tusell - (59) Spanish historian and philosopher who negotiated the 1981 return to Spain of Pablo Picasso’s anti-war masterpiece, "Guernica", which had hung in New York’s Museum of Modern Art since 1939. Picasso went into exile after the 1936-39 Spanish Civil War to oppose the dictatorship of Francisco Franco, and had insisted the painting not hang in Spain until democracy was restored. This finally occurred after Franco’s death in 1975. Tusell wrote more than 30 books on subjects ranging from discourses on Spanish politics to collections of literary essays. He also was a history professor at universities in Madrid and Barcelona. He died of leukemia in Barcelona, Spain, February 8, 2005

Lisa & Jayden Underwood - ( (34, 7) Fort Worth, Texas mother, seven-months-pregnant, and her young son. The unborn baby girl’s father, 37-year-old Stephen Dale Barbee, has confessed to murdering them and burying their bodies in a shallow grave, following an argument over his refusal to leave his wife. Lisa and Jayden had been reported missing on February 19, 2005; this is the probable date of their deaths.

Raiedah Mohammed Wageh Wazan - (Age Unknown) Iraqi TV presenter who had been kidnapped by masked gunmen February 20 in the northern city of Mosul. Her TV station had been attacked earlier that week with mortar rounds that wounded three technicians. An Arabic-language Internet bulletin board carried a statement from al-Qaida’s Iraq affiliate claiming responsibility for the mortar strike, but there was no way to verify the claim. Wazan had been shot in the head. Date is that of her body’s discovery, February 25, 2005.

Josephine ver Brugge Zeitlin - (90) Owner of the Zeitlin & Ver Brugge rare books store in West Hollywood with her late husband, Jake, from the late 1940s through the 80s. Josephine also had a full-time job with the Haynes Foundation, an L.A. philanthropic organization. For some years she also operated a division within the bookstore, buying and selling textbooks for technical libraries. She died of respiratory failure in Los Angeles February 16, 2005.

Education