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Rowland Barnes - (64) A Superior Court judge in Georgia since 1998, Judge Barnes was shot and killed, along with his court reporter and a sheriff's deputy. The alleged killer is Brian Nichols, 33, who was the defendant in the rape case the judge was hearing. Died March 11, 2005.
Doris Boshart - (74) Part of the “Wilmar Eight” who gained fame during a labor dispute, who were bank employees at a bank in Wilmar, Minnesota who walked off their jobs for two years in the late 1970s because they claimed the were being paid less than men and that job openings which were made available to the men were never shared with the women, and whose walk-off lasted nearly two years, died in Wilmar, Minnesota on February 9, 2005.
Julie Brandau - (46) Court reporter for nearly 25 years in the courtroom of Fulton County (Georgia) Superior Court Judge Rowland Barnes. Well-loved by her peers, Ms. Brandau baked treats, almost daily, for co-workers and for the jurors serving on the cases she worked. Was shot and killed at work, along with Judge Barnes and a sheriff's deputy, allegedly by Brian Nichols, the defendant in an ongoing rape trial, March 11, 2005.
Joe Carter - (78) A member of the famous Carter Family of country music, Carter was a cornerstone of the preservation of old-time mountain music. Carter was 5 months old when he traveled with his parents, A.P. and Sara Carter, from Maces Springs to Bristol in 1927 for a recording session that has been called "the big bang of country music." It launched the careers of A.P., Sara and her cousin, Maybelle Carter, as the Carter Family trio. Maybelle Carter's daughter was June Carter Cash, the wife of Johnny Cash. Joe died of cancer, on March 2, 2005.
Sergiu Comissiona - (76) Romanian-born symphonic conductor known for the spontaneity and flair that he brought to orchestras in more than 25 countries, who held music directorships with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, the Houston Symphony, and the Vancouver Symphony, and the NYC Opera, was found dead of an apparent heart attack in an Oklahoma City hotel room, hours before he was to serve as guest conductor for the city’s philharmonic on March 5, 2005.
Chris Curtis - (63) Drummer for The Searchers (one of the better-known British bands of the 1960’s), who was born Christopher Crummey, whose band was developed in the same area of Liverpool that spawned the Beatles, whose hits included Needles and Pins, Sugar and Spice and Don’t Thow Your Love Away, was found dead in his home in Liverpool on February 28, 2005.
Martin Denny - (93) Musician who was a pioneer in the musical genre known as “exotica” (a music style known for bird calls, croaking frogs, jazz rhythms, chimes and gongs, which he once described it as a fusion of Asian, South Pacific, American jazz, Latin American and classical styles), who in 1959 was named as the most promising group of the year, died in Honolulu, Hawaii on March 2, 2005. Martin Denny, pioneer in the music genre “exotica”.
Hermann Dornemann - (111) Germany’s oldest person and believed to be the third oldest man in the world, who was often referred to as “the world’s oldest living beer drinker,” who worked as an engineer, who credited his longevity to drinking a beer a day, died of heart failure on March 2, 2005.
Andreas Makris - (74) Composer and violinist who was the composer-in-residence for the National Symphony Orchestra for 28 years, who was the first contemporary composer to be premiered at the Kennedy Center Concert Hall with the National Symphony Orchestra, whose compositions for special events includes piece for Leonard Bernstein's 60th birthday concert, music for the NSO's 50th anniversary, and a composition honoring the 25th anniversary of the Kennedy Center, died of complications from diabetes in Silver Springs, Maryland on February 3, 2005.
Peter Malkin - (77) Jewish guerrilla and Israeli intelligence agent who captured Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann on a street in Buenos Aires, who was an explosives expert and a master of disguises, who worked undercover as a factory worker in Buenos Aires when other operatives made critical mistakes in trying to capture the Nazi fugitive, and then took on the job alone-drawing stained glass church windows as a cover, and on the day that it was scheduled, walked past Eichmann and a small struggle ensued, and who wrote a memoir based on his time interrogating the man called “Eichmann In My Hands”, died in New York City on March 1.
Richard Markley - (45) Opera singer who was with the Lyric Opera of Chicago since 1991, who sang in the chorus of the opera and performed as a character tenor, who made his debut at Lyric as Goro in Puccini’s “Madama Butterfly,” and portrayed the Phrenologist in the 1997-98 world premiere of “Armistad, was found in his home on February murdered by stabbing by coworkers who were worried when he didn’t show up for a performance of Tosca.
Stephen A. Mobley - (39) Convicted murderer who robbed a Domino’s Pizza in Georgia in February 1991, who shot the store manager in the back of the head with a semi-automatic pistol, who continued to rob dry cleaning stores after he committed the murder, but was finally caught with the pistol on his person, who had a tattoo of a domino, kept a domino in his pocket and had a Domino’s Pizza box on the wall of his cell, was executed by lethal injection at a prison in Jackson, Mississippi on March 1, 2005.
Paul Partain - (58) Partain was an actor in horror films. He played charactes as doomed, wheelchair bound Franklin Hardesty in Tobe Hooper's classic 1974 horror film "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. He served his country in Vietnam. He made his film debut in Sidney Lumet's "Loving Molly?" He worked with Peter Fonda twice. First in "Outlaw Blues" and then in the cult classic "Race With the Devil." "William Devane/Tommie Lee Jones revenge thriller "Rolling Thunder." He returned in one of the "Chainsaw" sequels. Mr. Partain joined original "Chainsaw" actors Marilyn Burns and John Dugan in a cameo for "The Return of the Chainsaw Massacre." Paul Partain is an intelligent, thoughtful and talented man. He died of cancer.
Nicolas M. Salgo - (90) Financier and developer whose properties included, at one time, the Watergate commercial and residential properties, who was involved in the concept and construction processes for the structure, who was the chairman of Watergate Cos. Until 1983, who was also named as ambassador to Hungary and later as a State Department special negotiator on property issues, died in Bal Harbor, Florida on February 26, 2005.
Morris Engel - (86) NYC photographer and filmmaker whose 1953 film, “The Little Fugitive,” was nominated for an Oscar and established a model for independent moviemaking that influenced directors like John Cassavetes,, whose work encouraged other young filmmakers to circumvent the Hollywood system and finance their own resolutely personal films, died of cancer in New York City on March 5, 2005.
Debra Hill- (54) Coauthor of the classic 1979 horror movie “Halloween,” who rose through Hollywood’s ranks to become a pioneering woman producer and formed the independent production company that made the films “Adventures in Babysitting,” and “The Fisher King,” who also made “Gross Anatomy” for Walt Disney Pictures, short films for the Walt Disney theme park, and was working on a film about the last two men pulled from the rubble of the Twin Towers after the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, died in Los Angeles after a long battle with cancer on March 7, 2005.
Bubba, Leviathan Lobster -(30ú50, 100?) Giant lobster who was caught off the coast of Nantucket and weighed in at 22 pounds (most lobsters caught and served are a pound)putting its age between 30 and 100 years (most lobsters gain one pound every five to seven years,) who was going to be saved from being someone’s supper by living out the rest of its life in a museum, who spent a week in a tank at a seafood restaurant and then made a trip from Nantucket to a Pittsburgh Zoo, died while in a quarantine area before being put on display at the Ripley’s Believe It Or Not Museum perhaps from the wrong salt mixture in the water or other ailments on March 2, 2005.
Trude Rittmann - (96) Dance and vocal arranger for such Broadway giants as Rodgers and Hammerstein, Lerner and Loewe, Irving Berlin, Jule Styne, Jerome Robbins, and Agnes deMille. During her career, she was entrusted by composers and choreographers to create dance and/or vocal arrangements for such legendary musicals as Carousel, South Pacific, The King & I, My Fair Lady, Brigadoon, Finian's Rainbow, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Peter Pan, Camelot, and The Sound of Music. Rittmann died of respiratory failure in Lexington, Massachusetts, February 22, 2005.
Hoyt Teasley - (44) 19-year Fulton County (Georgia) Sheriff's Department veteran who was shot while attempting to apprehend Brian Nichols, the defendant in a rape trial, outside the Georgia courthouse. Nichols had allegedly just killed the judge in his case, as well as the judge's stenographer, inside the courtroom. Mr. Teasley died March 11, 2005.
Tommy Vance - (born Richard Anthony Crispian Francis Prew Hope-Weston) (64) British heavy metal disc jockey who was also in demand for voiceovers for commercials and TV programs. He worked in American radio, in Los Angeles and Seattle, during the mid-1960s before returning to England. From 1978 to '93, he presented Radio One's Friday Rock Show and was a regular presenter of Top of the Pops on TV. In 1982, he also took over as presenter of Sunday afternoon's Top 40 countdown. In recent years, Vance enjoyed something of a revival, bringing the Friday Rock Show to VH1, presenting a show for Virgin Radio from 1993, setting up the station Total Rock, and appearing as a replacement for Roger Cook on Gordon Ramsey's Hell's Kitchen. Vance died of a stroke in Kent, England, March 6, 2005.
David Wilhelm (40) - Assistant special agent-in-charge in Atlanta with the Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, formerly known as the U.S. Customs Service. Was shot to death later in the day following the Atlanta (Georgia) courthouse shooting. March 11, 2005.
Teresa Wright - (86) Willowy actress who starred opposite Gary Cooper and Marlon Brando, and won a supporting Oscar in 1942. Her first film, The Little Foxes, brought her an Oscar nomination as best supporting actress of 1941. In '42 she was honored with two nominations: lead actress as the wife of Lou Gehrig in The Pride of the Yankees, and supporting actress as Greer Garson's daughter in Mrs. Miniver. She also starred in three other classics: Alfred Hitchcock's Shadow of a Doubt (1943); Brando's first film, The Men (1950); and the multiple Oscar winner The Best Years of Our Lives (1946). Later generations saw her in the 1997 film of John Grisham's The Rainmaker, starring Matt Damon, and in The Good Mother (1988), with Diane Keaton and Liam Neeson. The Hollywood producer Sam Goldwyn fired Wright in 1948, claiming she was "uncooperative" for refusing to go to NYC to publicize one of her films. For her part, the actress -- claiming illness -- expressed no regret about losing her $5,000-a-week contract. Wright died of a heart attack in New Haven, Connecticut, March 6, 2005.
Joseph Martin - (70) Original member of the Willows, the Œ50s doo-wop group that hit the national charts with "Church Bells May Ring" in 1956. The group was made up of Baritone Joe and his twin brother, second tenor Ralph, plus Richie Davis, Tony Middleton, and John Thomas („Scooter‰) Steele. After regional success with "My Dear Dearest Darling‰, they signed with Melba Records in early '56, and brought "Church Bells May Ring" to their first session. Budding songwriter Neil Sedaka overdubbed chimes on the doo-wop rocker, which sold over 4,000 copies around NYC in the first two days after it was released. The song peaked at #14 on the R&B chart and #62 on Billboard's pop chart. Martin suffered a stroke in 2004. One week after his 70th birthday, he died in New York City, February 19, 2005.
Henry ("Juggy") Murray Jr. - (81) 1950s record label owner, producer and artist who was first to record Ike and Tina Turner on his Sue Records, one of the first and most successful black-owned popular music labels, founded in 1957. Later that year the label scored its first regional hit with the Matadors‚ "Vengeance," followed in '58 by Bobby Hendricks‚ national Top 40 hit "Itchy Twitchy Feeling," with backing from the Coasters. Recordings by the Ray Bryant Combo, Ernestine Anderson, and Jimmy McGriff established the company as a jazz hotbed, but the company's most important releases were in an R&B vein. In 1960, Sue Records launched the collaboration of Ike and Tina Turner with "A Fool Too Long". The duo issued a series of national hits on the label, including "I Idolize You," "It's Gonna Work Out Fine," "Poor Fool," "Tra La La La La," and "You Shoulda Treated Me Right‰. Murray's biggest hit, Inez Foxx's 1963 Top-10 smash "Mockingbird," was issued on the Symbol subsidiary label. Murray died of Parkinson's disease in New York City, February 8, 2005.
Hans A. Adler - (83) Economist for the World Bank who was a refugee from Nazi Germany, who in 1951 joined the Office of Management and Budget as an economist, who in 1961 joined the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, one of five constituent bodies of the World Bank, who wrote two books "Sector and Project Planning in Transportation" (1967) and "Economic Appraisal of Transport Projects" (1971), died of pneumonia while on vacation in Captiva, Florida on January 29, 2005.
Leo Brewer - (85) UC Berkeley professor who worked on The Manhattan Project in 1942 that created an atomic bomb during WWII and who was given the task of creating crucibles to hold molten plutonium without contaminating it, who studied the high temperature properties of plutonium, who joined the faculty of UC Berkeley and became a full professor in 1955, who was known for his imagination and ability to keep theory and experimentation a useful combination in research, died after suffering from failing health for several months in Lafayette, California on February 22, 2005.
James Cassily - (60) Record producer who used music based programs to try and treat attention and hyperactivity deficit disorder, autism, and cerebral palsy, but who first mixed records for Bob Segar and Janis Joplin and then moved to other fields after being disillusioned by the disco and heavy metal music of the late 1970’s, where he created the Interactive Metronome-which resembles the traditional metronome but helps improve neutral timing, rhythm and attention, died in Holland, Michigan on March 1, 2005.
Dr. George Crikelair - (84) Plastic surgeon turned activist who became a leading advocate of fire-resistant coating for childrens’ sleepwear, who noticed a trend in the 1950’s of children who were burned from untreated cotton clothing, who was named to a national advisory committee that helped draft and promote the federal Flammable Fabrics Act, which was ratified in 1972 and set safety standards for certain fabrics, died of a stroke on February 24, 2005 in Fort Worth, Texas.
Dr. J. Donald M. Gass - (76) Ophthalmologist who was known for his observation skills that lead to the diagnosis of several previously undiagnosed retinal diseases, particularly those of the macula, that part of the retina that allows for central vision (as opposed to peripheral), who developed a test using florescein angiography, and who helped to describe the most common cause of vision impairment that may follow cataract surgery, a type of macular swelling now known as Irvine-Gass syndrom, died of pancreatic cancer in Nashville, Tennessee on February 26, 2005.
Dr. J. William Littler - (89) Surgeon who developed techniques to reattach hands and retain sensation and function to fingers and wrists, who started his career as a young surgeon who worked on maimed soldiers during WWII, who worked on ways to reconstruct thumbs-including replacing them with other fingers, who worked to develop a technique known as sensory neurovascular island transfer-transplanting healthy bundles of nerves and arteries to areas that had lost feeling, and other significant developments for the process of reattaching hands, died from a head injury suffered in a fall in Providence, Rhode Island on February 27, 2005.
Hans Bethe-(98) Giant of 20th-century physics who played a central role in the building of the atomic bomb and won a Nobel Prize for discovering the process that powers the sun and the stars, who was head of the Manhattan Project’s theoretical physics division at Los Alamos, NM during WWII, and who played key roles in the 1963 nuclear test ban treaty and the 1972 antiballistic missile treaty, died in Ithaca, New York on March 6, 2005.
Barbara Finberg- (76) Business executive whose management of the Carnegie Corporation of New York, where she worked for more than 20 years, helped to introduce educational programs for early childhood including “Sesame Street,” who oversaw at least $100 million in grants given by the foundation and helped plan the Children’s Television Workshop, and who later became VP of MEM Associates Inc., a consulting firm for philanthropic and nonprofit groups, died of respiratory failure in New York City on March 5, 2005.
Tillie Fowler - (62) Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Florida and a Republican, who was dedicated to defense issues, who became one of the highest ranking women in the party when she was vice chairwoman of the House Republican Conference, who had been chairwoman of the Defense Policy Board Advisory Committee, which advises Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and chairwoman of the committee that investigated alleged sexual assaults at the USAF Academy, died of a brain hemorrhage in Jacksonville, Florida on March 2, 2005.
Norman B. Houston - (81) Assistant secretary in the US Department of Health, Education & Welfare from 1971 to 1973, who was a member of member of the LA Human Relations Commission, who served as president of the Los Angeles chapter of the NAACP, and was treasurer of the Los Angeles Urban League, died in Los Angeles on January 13, 2005.
Ben Jones - (80) Former Prime Minister of Grenada, who held a seat on the Parliament from 1984 to 1990, who worked as a farmer who entered politics in 1967, who became PM in December 1989 and lost March 1990 parliamentary elections to the National Democratic Congress party led by Nicholas Brathwait, died in St. George’s, Grenada on February 10, 2005.
Barwez Mohammed Mahmoud al-Merwani* & Aryan Barwez al-Merwani - (Ages unknown) Judge (and his son, a lawyer) who were involved in the special tribunal that will try Saddam Hussein and his regieme, which was set up in 2003 when the regime was toppled, over 100 judges are working on the tribunal, many of whom have been threatened and over half the budget for the tribunal has gone to security to protect them, were shot and killed outside their home as they were getting into their vehicle by someone in a car speeding past the home, a day after the secret court referred five of the ousted dictator's aides to trial for alleged crimes against humanity.
John Tsu - (80) Advocate for Asian Americans who served as the chairman for President George W. Bush’s Advisory Commission on Asian-American & Pacific Islanders, who taught at Duquesne University, Seton Hall, and the University of San Francisco before becoming a visiting scholar at the Hoover Institute at Stanford, who worked towards the goal of having more Asian Americans involved in government for more than 30 years, died in Daly City, California on February 26, 2005.
Helen White Williams -(81) Personal household assistant to Lyndon B. Johnson whose duties included cooking, scheduling, travel coordinator, surrogate mother to the children and confidante, who, along with her husband, went to work for the family in 1950 and lived with the family until 1961 and continued to work for the family until they left the White House in 1969, whose oral history of her time with the family included a story about taking the LBJ children to a movie theatre and then having to explain to them why they were turned away because she was black, and whose family LBJ often told stories about in his political career and works with civil rights, died of a heart attack in Washington, DC on February 25, 2005.
Bill Bankhead-(64) Politician who spent 20 years as a state legislator and five years as secretary of the Department of Juvenile Justice in the Jeb Bush administration, whose department took heavy criticism after the 2003 death of a 17-year-old at the Miami-Dade County detention center which led to dramatic reforms at the agency, died of cancer in Ponte Vedra, Florida on March 6, 2005.
John Allen Gable- (62) The executive director of the 85-year-old Theodore Roosevelt Association and the world's foremost authority on the life of Roosevelt, who served as consultant for numerous authors on Roosevelt books, founded the Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal, and wrote "The Bull Moose Years: Theodore Roosevelt and the Progressive Party," died of cancer in Glen Cove, Long Island, New York on February 18.
Aubelin Jolicoeur(80) Diminutive, squeaky-voiced gossip columnist and rumored political fixer who called himself “Mr. Haiti” and was best known as the model for the prying journalist and police informer Petit Pierre in Graham Greene's 1966 novel "The Comedians," who was his country's best-known character and first public relations man, and a former government minister, died in Jacmel, Haiti of respiratory failure resulting from Parkinson_s disease on February 14, 2005.
Col. Mary A. Hallaren- (97) Former director of the Women’s Army Corps when it was officially integrated as part of the regular Army in 1948 (making her one of the first women to be sworn in with the regular Army), who was a tough-minded leader despite standing less then 5 feet tall which earned her the nickname "The Little Colonel", who led the first battalion of women to serve in Europe during World War II and the women’s Army units in the Korean War, and who was awarded the Legion of Merit, the Bronze Star, two Army Commendation Medals and elected to the National Women's Hall of Fame, died of complications from a stroke in McLean, Virginia on February 13, 2005.
Gladys Marin - (63) Combative leader of the Chilean Communist Party who became a symbol of resistance against the dictatorship (1973-90) of General Augusto Pinochet. After she went into hiding, the party ordered Marin to seek asylum at the Dutch Embassy. While there, she saw her husband, Jorge Munoz, for the last time as he walked slowly in front of the embassy; months later, Munoz was arrested by Pinochet's security service and was never seen again. In 1998, Marin filed a lawsuit against Pinochet for human rights violations during his regime. This was the start of the former dictator's legal troubles, which include two indictments and house arrest. Marin was elected to congress for three consecutive terms before the 1973 coup in which Pinochet toppled Marxist President Salvador Allende. She died in Santiago, Chile after suffering from brain cancer for more than a year. March 6, 2005.
Isabelle Goldenson - (84) Founder of United Cerebral Palsy and wife of ABC network founder Leonard H. Goldenson, who founded the UCP after their first daughter was born with the disease, which 50 years after its founding is one of the largest health charities in the US, providing assistance to 30,000 persons daily, who also co-founded the United Cerebral Palsy Research and Educational Foundation, which is the principal non-government agency in the United States sponsoring research to prevent cerebral palsy and to improve the quality of life of individuals with cerebral palsy and related developmental disabilities, died of natural causes in Sarasota, Florida on February 21, 2005.
Harold Brooks-Baker-(71) British publisher of the aristocratic genealogy guide “Burke’s Peerage” and an authority on British royalty, who was quoted extensively in the British and foreign press (most recently providing comment on the forthcoming marriage of Prince Charles and Camilla Parker Bowles and the royal ancestry of Democrat Presidential candidate John Kerry), and who was a lifelong sufferer of polio who never fully recovered from a fall in 2004, died in London on March 5, 2005.
Yury Kravchenko - (53) Ukraine's former interior minister. Kravchenko was involved in the 2000 slaying of an investigative journalist, that could also implicate former President Leonid Kuchma. Yuriy Kravchenko had been implicated in organizing the killing of Heorhiy Gongadze, who wrote about top-level corruption under Kuchma. Kravchenko's death is the second mysterious death of a former senior government official since Yushchenko's election. The former transport minister was found dead in December near his country house outside Kiev in an apparent suicide. Yury also was found dead of an apparent suicide Friday March 4, 2005.
Amelia Limpert - (101) Missouri centenarian who lost her husband of 82 years in 2004. Amelia and George met while they were doing factory work following World War I. Seven sons and daughters survive, along with 40 grandchildren, 117 great-grandchildren, 43 great-great-grandchildren, and 13 great-great-great-grandchildren. The couple remarked on their time together in 2003: "You have to cooperate with one another," George said. Responded Amelia: "You can‚t disagree about everything; it would never work." Amelia Limpert died in St. Louis, Missouri, at the retirement center where the couple closed out their golden years, March 3, 2005.
Max Faulkner -(88) Winner of the 1951 British Open (the only year it was held off the mainland), who was known for his colorful wardrobe and antics, who was also a member of the winning 1957 British and Irish Ryder Cup team, who was as so confident of victory at the 1951 Open that when asked for his signature ahead of the final round, he wrote: "Max Faulkner, 1951 Open champion”, died of a heart attack on February 26, 2005.
Brian Luckhurst - (66) Kent County Cricket Club’s President, who joined the club when he was 15, 335 first team matches from 1958 to 1976 before retiring to become Captain of the 2 nd XI, Club Coach and later Manager of the Ames Levett Sports Centre, who returned to the team in 1985 when the team found themselves one player short for a game, died of cancer on March 1, 2005.
\ Rick Mahler - (51):Baseball pitcher who was a fixture on the Atlanta Braves team through the 1980’s, who won almost 100 games in his 13 year career, who was currently a pitching coach for the New York Mets, who had a record of 96-111 with a 3.99 ERA. His best season came in 1985, when he went 17-15 with a 3.48 ERA for the Braves, died of a heart attack on March 2, 2005 in Jupiter, Florida.
Louis John Sutter - (73) Father of six sons who played in the National Hockey League, who celebrated the 25th year he’d watched his sons play in 2000-2001, who had combined for 1,320 goals, 1,615 assists and 7,224 penalty minutes, whose son Brian is now the coach for the Chicago Blackhawks and Darryl took the Calgary Flames to the Stanley Cup Finals in the 2003-2004 season, Duane, 44, is director of player development for the Florida Panthers. Brent, 42, is the general manager and coach of the WHL's Red Deer Rebels and twins Rich and Ron, 41, are both pro scouts -- Rich for the Minnesota Wild and Ron for the Flames, died following a lengthy illness in Viking, Alberta, Canada on February 10, 2005.
I Two Step Too - (11) One of 10 horses that portrayed Seabiscuit in the 2003 Oscar nominated movie "(The Story of) Seabiscuit", was euthanized because of a tumor in his nasal cavity and buried at one of the cemeteries at the Kentucky Horse Park in Lexington, Kentucky on March 7, 2005.
Rinus Michels - (77) Dutch soccer coach known as "the General" for his strict discipline and tactical insight. Michels helped bring a fluid, attacking style to the game and coached his country to its only international title in the 1988 European Championships. He also coached the team at the 1974 World Cup, in which the Dutch lost to West Germany in the final. Michels retired from the national team for the third time after Euro Œ92. He died of complications from heart surgery March 3, 2005.
Luis Sanchez (51) Former relief pitcher with the California Angels in the 1980s. In five seasons in the majors (1981-85), he posted a 28-21 record with 27 saves in 194 games, pitched 369.2 innings, struck out 216 batters, and had a career ERA of 3.75. He signed with the Houston Astros in 1971 as an amateur free agent and pitched in the minor league systems of Houston and Cincinnati. He made his debut with the Angels in '81. Sanchez died of a vascular brain disease in La Guaira, Venezuela, February 4, 2005.
Chuck Thompson (83) Hall of Fame broadcaster whose deep voice and enthusiasm entertained Baltimore sports fans for more than 50 years. Thompson called Baltimore Orioles games for nearly 50 years, and served 30 years as the play-by-play announcer of the Baltimore Colts. He never apologized for an obvious bias toward the home team; when the Orioles hit a clutch home run or the Colts scored a pivotal touchdown, Thompson would often exclaim on the air, "Ain‚t the beer cold!" That phrase became the title of his autobiography, published in 1996. He suffered a massive stroke on March 5; died in his sleep in Towson, Maryland, March 6, 2005.
Arthur E. Tokle (82) Norwegian-born ski jumper who competed in the Olympics for the US and coached ski jumpers for decades. Tokle carried the flag for the US team at the 1958 world championships in Finland. He also competed in the Œ52 Olympics, placing 18th off the large hill. He was an Olympic coach (1964 and ‚68), and a technical director at the 1980 Winter Games at Lake Placid. Interestingly, his death came 60 years to the day after his brother, Torger Tokle, was killed in action while serving with the US Army Ski Troops in Italy. Arthur Tokle was inducted into the US Ski Hall of Fame in 1970. He died in Dover, New Jersey, March 3, 2005.
Rafael Vidal - (41) Venezuelan Olympic bronze medal swimmer who retired from swimming shortly after returning from the 1984 Olympic Games in LA with the bronze medal. He later became a well-known TV personality and sports commentator. He died instantly when a Hummer, which was involved in a drag race, hit Vidal's car. February 12, 2005.
Nadine Hata - (63) Educator who was a professor of history at El Camino College who worked to include both sexes and all races and ethnic groups in the field of history, who, along with her husband, wrote a series of works on Asian-American history, who was the only Asian-American on the 12-member governing council of the American Historical Association, died of cancer in Redondo Beach, California on February 25, 2005.
Jan Gangelhoff - (56) The former office manager who revealed academic fraud in the University of Minnesota men's basketball program. Gangelhoff came forward in 1999 to say she had done academic course work for 18 Gopher basketball players. The revelation eventually led to coach Clem Haskins and several top officials leaving the university, and the school was put on probation. Gangelhoff herself pleaded guilty to felony fraud.Eventually, the Justice Department decided not to prosecute Gangelhoff. Gangelhoff, 56, died at home in Danbury, Wisconsin, February 28, 2005.
Joyce Gregory - ( ? ) School Bus Driver in Cumberland City, Tenn. was shot by a 14 year old boy. Gregory had reported the boy a day earlier for using smokeless tobacco on the bus. With 24 students on the bus, ranging from kindergarten to the 12th grade, the bus crashed into a utility pole after driver Joyce Gregory was shot. She died in the drivers seat on March 3, 2005.
