Elizabeth Orton Jones (94) illustrator and author of books for children. Jones wrote or illustrated more than 20 books, including Twig, her novel for children about a girl who turns over a tomato can and finds a fairy house inside. She died in Peterborough, New Hampshire on May 10, 2005.

Ang Kiukok (74) Philippines’ national artist for visual arts and one of that country’s best-selling painters. Kiukok was a follower of abstract expressionism and noted for his depiction of ugly scenes, such as rabid dogs and wild cocks warped in violence. He won a bronze medal at the First International Art Exhibition in Saigon in 1962, and his work can be found in many major Asian art collections. He died of prostate cancer in Manila, Philippines on May 10, 2005.

Martin Lings (96) widely acclaimed British scholar whose books on Islamic philosophy, mysticism, and art reflected his own deep belief in Sufism, the esoteric, purely spiritual dimension of Islam. Lings wrote influential books on Islamic calligraphy and was keeper of Oriental manuscripts at the British Museum. He died in Westerham, Kent County, England on May 12, 2005.

Jim Love (77) noted sculptor whose work has been displayed in museums across the country, including New York’s Museum of Modern Art and Houston’s Menil Collection & Museum of Fine Arts. Love also had works displayed in Houston’s Herman Park and Hobby Airport besides working as lighting director for Houston’s Alley Theatre. He died of pneumonia after undergoing triple bypass surgery, in Houston, Texas on May 10, 2005.

Dr. Dennis Gath (75) one of the leading British psychiatrists of his generation who made several influential studies of mental disorders and of the psychiatric aspects of gynecological surgery. Gath died in Oxford, England on May 14, 2005.

Thomas T. Huang (66) fluid mechanics expert and chief research scientist for the David W. Taylor Naval Ship Research & Development Center, who also taught at Johns Hopkins University engineering school and became a principal hydrodynamic scientist for Newport News Shipbuilding. Huang died of leukemia in Arlington, Virginia on May 10, 2005.

Rusty Kay (60) award-winning graphics designer widely known for his extensive collection of vintage motorcycles and cars. Kay was founder of Rusty Kay & Associates, an internationally recognized design firm specializing in corporate identity programs and packaging. He died of cancer in Santa Barbara, California on May 8, 2005.

Marc Lappé (62) toxicologist, author, and medical ethicist who fought for public policies that promote a clean and healthy environment. Lappé was dedicated to preventing the use of toxic herbicides, pesticides, and other dangerous substances near vulnerable populations. He was a consultant to the Food & Drug Administration on the safety of silicone-gel breast implants. He died of brain cancer in Gualala, California on May 14, 2005.

Wayne Suttles (87) scholar on Pacific Northwest Indian culture often cited in landmark court rulings. Suttles was an editor, author, and anthropologist who specialized in the Salish peoples’ economies and languages and was known for research that led to the revival of traditions and languages previously thought lost. He died of pancreatic cancer on San Juan Island, Washington on May 9, 2005.

George B. Dantzig (90) mathematician who devised an algorithm that helped to create linear programming, a vital tool in computing, industry, and other fields. Dantzig's work has been applied to utilities, oil refineries, and the steel industry to aid in planning and efficiency under uncertain conditions. He won the National Medal of Science from President Gerald Ford. Dantzig died in Stanford, California on May 13, 2005.

Jere Ayers (91) publisher and owner of the Comer (Ga.) News and the Danielsville (Ga.) Monitor. Ayers grew up in the newspaper business; his parents bought the two papers in 1914, and he learned to set type as a child. He was killed in a car crash in Danielsville, Georgia on May 13, 2005.

Eddie Barclay (84) flamboyant French music producer whose stable of singers included Jacques Brel and Charles Aznavour. Barclay died of a heart attack in Paris, France on May 12, 2005.

Maurice Catarcio (76) former professional wrestler and weight-lifter who gained national fame for his feats of strength after he was diagnosed with prostate cancer in 1991. Catarcio died of cancer in Del Haven, New Jersey on May 12, 2005.

Omer Kavur (61) Turkish filmmaker and screenwriter whose psychological dramas were featured at prominent international festivals. Kavur died of lymph node cancer in Istanbul, Turkey on May 12, 2005.

Ed Kelleher (61) offbeat screenwriter, playwright, and film critic who wrote screenplays for horror movies in the '70s and '80s that have become cult classics, including four horror films so outlandish and amateurish that they have become favorites of aficionados-—Invasion of the Blood Farmers (1972), Shriek of the Mutilated (1974), Lurkers, and Prime Evil (both 1988). Kelleher was also associate editor and critic (1986-2002) for the industry magazine Film Journal International. He died of a degenerative brain disease in Annandale, Virginia on May 14, 2005.

Campbell M. Lucas (80) former appellate court justice whose skills as a mediator and arbitrator kept him in demand in retirement as a private judge specializing in entertainment cases involving such Hollywood figures as TV producer Aaron Spelling and actors Elizabeth Taylor, Rip Torn, and Dennis Hopper. Lucas died of melanoma in Long Beach, California on May 10, 2005.

Jay Marshall (85) magician-ventriloquist, dean of the Society of American Magicians, a 14-appearance veteran of The Ed Sullivan Show, and the first entertainer to open for Frank Sinatra in Las Vegas. Marshall had suffered a series of heart attacks and died in Chicago, Illinois on May 10, 2005.

Jimmy Martin (77) pioneering bluegrass singer and guitarist who performed with the Blue Grass Boys and many other musicians. Martin later formed his own band, the Sunny Mountain Boys, and recorded with Decca records for 18 years. He died of bladder cancer in Nashville, Tennessee on May 14, 2005.

Martha Montgomery (84) one of the glamorous dancing Goldwyn Girls who toured nationally and abroad promoting Hollywood in the '40s, making good-will appearances on behalf of the motion picture business and appearing in Goldwyn musicals and other films. Montgomery appeared in a dozen films, many with comedian and song-and-dance man Danny Kaye, with whom she also toured. She later married multi-Oscar-winning composer and longtime head of the 20th Century-Fox music department Alfred Newman (d. 1970). Montgomery died in Pacific Palisades, California on May 9, 2005.

Benjamin Mordecai (60) theater producer long associated with the plays of August Wilson. Mordecai brought Wilson’s The Piano Lesson (1990), Fences (1987), Seven Guitars (1996), King Headley II (2001), and a revival of Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom (2003) to Broadway, besides a production of Jitney to off-Broadway in 2000. He also produced the 2002 revival of Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Flower Drum Song, Angels in America (1993), and Anna Deveare Smith's Twilight: Los Angeles (1992) and was currently represented on Broadway by Brooklyn: The Musical and at the Yale Repertory Theater by the world premiere of Wilson’s Radio Golf, the final work in the playwright’s cycle of dramas chronicling the black experience in America in the 20th century. Mordecai died of cancer in New Haven, Connecticut on May 8, 2005.

Nasrat Paras (36) Afghan singer born in Kabul who had released 10 albums since he started recording in 1989. Paras toured all over the world and had been in Canada for the past month, promoting his collection of soft melodies. He died after being attacked outside his hotel and sustaining a brain injury, in Toronto, Canada on May 8, 2005.

Monica Zetterlund (67) jazz singer who became one of Sweden's best-known artists during a career that spanned 50 years. Zetterlund died in a fire at her apartment in Stockholm, Sweden on May 12, 2005.

Bill Brownell (71) founder of WeTip, a national hotline that helped to pioneer toll-free crime-fighting by requiring callers to remain anonymous. WeTip (which stood for We Turn in Pushers) received more than 420,000 tips leading to 15,000 arrests and 8,000 convictions and was seen as an asset to law enforcement personnel because it was a safe way for people to get involved and still be protected from retribution. Brownell died of emphysema in Rancho Cucamonga, California on May 13, 2005.

Lloyd Cutler (87) former White House counsel to Presidents Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton and cofounder of Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering, one of Washington’s leading law firms. Cutler advised Carter on the Iran hostage crisis and the SALT II arms treaty with the Soviet Union, and advised Clinton on the Whitewater inquiry, for which he received praise. He served on President George H. W. Bush’s commission studying government ethics and pay and most recently served on President George W. Bush’s commission investigating flawed intelligence on weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. Cutler died of complications from a broken hip in Washington, DC on May 8, 2005.

Jack Hasey (88) American captain in the French Foreign Legion during World War II and a senior operations officer with the Central Intelligence Agency. Hasey was one of four Americans (along with Dwight D. Eisenhower) decorated with France's highest WWII honor, the Companion of the Order of the Liberation. He died of a stroke in Arlington, Virginia on May 9, 2005.

Herbert Sasaki (84) World War II veteran who dedicated himself to preserving the legacy of the 442nd Regimental Combat Team, the famed Japanese-American military unit he fought with that became the most decorated military unit during WWII. Sasaki later helped to spearhead efforts to erect monuments to the regiment in Hawaii, Washington, DC, and Camp Shelby, Mississippi, where the unit was formed. He won a Bronze Star in the war. He died during heart surgery in Houston, Texas on May 13, 2005.

Vincent Yano (83) former Hawaiian state senator (1963-70) who played a key role in the legalization of abortion in Hawaii. Yano was chairman of the Senate Ways & Means Committee before moving to the Health Committee. He started the Legal Aid Society of Hawaii and cofounded the Association for Retarded Citizens in 1965. He died in Honolulu, Hawaii on May 11, 2005.

Li Cairong (119) Chinese supercentenarian who claimed to be the oldest person in the world. Li was seeking recognition from The Guinness Book of World Records and was still awaiting certification when she died in Foshan, Guangdong Province, China on May 10, 2005.

Helen Claytor (98) longtime civil rights leader in Grand Rapids and a pivotal figure in the racial desegregation of the YWCA. Claytor was the organization's first black president and worked as its secretary for interracial education. She traveled throughout the South in a campaign to desegregate the local Ys before becoming national president and worked to change the organization’s constitution to require the expulsion of any Y that did not fully integrate. She died in Grand Rapids, Michigan on May 10, 2005.

Horton M. Davies (89) Putnam professor emeritus of religion at Princeton and an author of many books about church history. Davies specialized in the impact of Christianity on the arts. He died in Princeton, New Jersey on May 11, 2005.

David McGowan (44) district attorney's investigator who shot five of his family members in the head as they slept before killing himself. McGowan had no apparent marital or financial problems. He and his wife, mother, and three children were found shot to death in their Riverside County, California home on May 10, 2005.

George James Miller Jr. (37) man convicted of beating and stabbing an Oklahoma City motel clerk, Kent Dodd (25), and pouring acid down his throat during a 1994 robbery. Miller was executed by lethal injection in McAlester, Oklahoma on May 12, 2005.

Rgt. Rev. Hugh Montefiore (85) Jewish-born Anglican archbishop and passionate environmentalist. Born to a prominent Jewish family, Montefiore converted to Christianity as a teenager after, he said, seeing a vision of Christ. He fell ill on May 12Ñhis 85th birthdayÑand died the next day in London, England on May 13, 2005.

Prospero Penados del Barrio (79) archbishop emeritus of the Guatemalan capital. Penados del Barrio died of a heart attack in Guatemala City, Guatemala on May 13, 2005.

Michael Ross (45) serial killer who fought to hasten his own execution and was forced to prove he wasn't insane. In New England's first execution in 45 years, Ross fought off attempts by public defenders, death penalty foes, and his own family to spare his life. After 18 years on Death Row, he was executed by lethal injection in Somers, Connecticut on May 13, 2005.

Hector Enrique Santos (88) former archbishop of the Honduran capital city of Tegucigalpa for 30 years (1962-92). Santos died of emphysema in Tegucigalpa, Honduras on May 10, 2005.

Raymond Smoot (52) inmate in an overcrowded and long-troubled jail who had been in central booking since May 4 on a theft charge and was awaiting trial in June. Smoot was involved in a scuffle with 25-30 jail guards in which he was injured and later died, in Baltimore, Maryland on May 14, 2005.

James ("Jim") Arthur (84) British golf course maintenance advisor. Arthur believed that how a golf course played was more important than its beautiful emerald hue. He published the book Practical Greenkeeping, a classic still in print today, and fought with course committees on behalf of groundskeepers, demanding appropriate equipment and resources. He died on May 14, 2005.

Scott Liao (20) Boston College rower, part of the team that had just won its athletic meet when Liao collapsed and later died, apparently from a heart attack, in Worcester, Massachusetts on May 14, 2005.