Paul T. Arlt (91) painter and political cartoonist whose work was exhibited at the National Air & Space Museum and galleries nationwide. Arlt was a skilled watercolorist who often depicted Washington landmarks and political life in the nation's capital, where he lived for several decades. His work was displayed in museums and galleries across the country, including the Museum of Modern Art, the National Gallery of Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, and the Kennedy Space Center. He died in Rye, New York on September 20, 2005.

Tobias Schneebaum (83-84) New York writer, artist, and explorer who in the '50s lived among cannibals in the remote Amazon jungle and, by his own account, sampled their traditional cuisine. Schneebaum's 1969 memoir, entitled Keep the River on Your Right, became a cult classic and described how he lived among and had intimate relationships with members of the indigenous cannibalistic Arakmbut people of Peru. His experiences inspired a well-received 2000 documentary and raised controversy about the role of anthropologists and the boundaries between them and their subjects. He died of Parkinson's disease in Great Neck, New York on September 20, 2005.

Borge Bek-Nielsen (79) Danish businessman and former chairman of United Plantations who developed the palm oil industry in Malaysia during a Communist era. Bek-Nielsen was considered the driving force in promoting Malaysian palm oil plantations, an industry that now generates about $8 billion a year. He died in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on September 23, 2005.

Marta Bohn-Meyer (48) precision aerobatic pilot and chief engineer of NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center at Edwards Air Force Base, whose research projects included testing heat-resistant tiles for the space shuttle and using F-16XL aircraft to smooth out airflow over airplane wings with the goal of building faster and larger commercial airliners. Bohn-Meyer won the Arthur S. Flemming Award for science in 1992 and the Aerospace Educator Award from Women in Aerospace in 1998. She was killed in the crash of her private plane as she began routine aerobatic practice, near Yukon, Oklahoma on September 18, 2005.

Leopold B. Felsen (81) expert on the properties of waves who cowrote a standard text on electromagnetics. Felsen published more than 300 articles and several books, including Radiation & Scattering of Waves, considered one of the most important works on electromagnetics, and traveled extensively to lecture on wave physics despite living with muscular dystrophy for 30 years. He died of complications from surgery in Boston, Massachusetts on September 24, 2005.

Harry Heltzer (94) engineer who began at the Minnesota Mining & Manufacturing Co. (3M) as a $12-a-week manual laborer and rose to be its top executive. Heltzer invented a new way of making reflective signs for use on highways that later became a market leader and one of the most profitable products for the company. He became chief executive of 3M (best known for its Scotch tape and Post-It notes) in 1970 and expanded it to 150 countries. He was chairman of the International Road Federation and director of the National Safety Council. He died in Lenoir, North Carolina on September 21, 2005.

Noel Mander (93) prominent British pipe organ builder who salvaged, repaired, and reconstructed organs in London churches damaged during World War II and was best known for restoring the Victorian organ in St. Paul's Cathedral. Mander died in Suffolk, England on September 18, 2005.

William Andrew McCampbell 3rd (60) lawyer who worked on private-sector development in Iraq and Afghanistan and ran for a California congressional seat in the '90s. McCampbell helped to set up nearly 3,000 business ventures in the US and around the world during his 30-year law career and was asked by the Bush administration in 2004 to create a viable business environment for Iraq as deputy adviser for economic reform for the Coalition Provisional Authority. He died of brain cancer in Washington, DC on September 21, 2005.

Macey L. ("Corky") McMillin Jr. (76) third-generation contractor who borrowed against his modest San Diego-area home to launch a company that became a force in southern California real estate. McMillin's mom-and-pop construction business started in 1960 and grew from developing small tracts of homes to building master-planned communities and commercial structures. He became known for his local philanthropy, with donations of $1.5 million to San Diego State to expand its educational real estate program. He died of heart failure in La Jolla, California on September 22, 2005.

Isao Nakauchi (83) founder of the supermarket chain Daiei, Japan's largest retailer in the '70s, who revolutionized the country's retail industry and was praised for bringing US large-scale discount retail methods to a nation long dominated by mom-and-pop stores. Nakauchi stepped down from the board in 2002. He died of a stroke in Tokyo, Japan on September 19, 2005.

Joseph Smagorinsky (88) meteorologist who developed influential methods for predicting weather and climate change and won, along with scientist Norman Phillips, the 2003 Benjamin Franklin Medal in Earth Science for their studies that led to the first computer models of weather and climate. Smagorinsky also was an early leader in using data to predict longer-term climate change, including global warming, and helped to develop a doctoral program in atmospheric and oceanic sciences at Princeton University. He died of Parkinson's disease in Princeton, New Jersey on September 21, 2005.

Sandra Feldman (65) advocate for disadvantaged children and a former leader of the 1.7 million-member American Federation of Teachers (AFT), the nation's second-largest teachers' union, which she headed for seven years before retiring in 2004. Feldman advocated for union members to help poor students, supported tough entrance requirements for teachers, and helped to raise teacher salaries. She died of breast cancer in New York City on September 18, 2005.

Victor Futter (86) prominent New York lawyer and professor of law who was, until recently, special counsel to the dean and a professor of law at Hofstra University Law School. Futter previously taught at Columbia University Law School and was general counsel of Fairleigh Dickinson University. He died of congestive heart failure in Manhasset, New York on September 21, 2005.

Thomas ("Tommy") Bond (79) former child actor who played Butch the bully in the Our Gang and Little Rascals serials of the '30s. Bond first played a member of the Gang named Tommy but was dropped from the cast, only to return later in the role of Butch, the archenemy of Alfalfa, who later played Jimmy Olsen in two Superman movies and appeared as Joey Pepper in several installments of the Five Little Peppers serial. Bond died of heart disease in Los Angeles, California on September 24, 2005.

Lord John Brabourne (80) film producer whose movies included A Passage to India, Murder on the Orient Express, and several films based on Agatha Christie's books including Death on the Nile. Brabourne survived an Irish Republican Army attack in 1979 that killed his 14-year-old son and his father-in-law, Lord Louis Mountbatten. He died in London, England on September 22, 2005.

Roger Brierley (70) busy British character actor who appeared often on stage, TV, and occasionally film without becoming a household name. Brierley's height (6 feet 5 inches) made him a natural choice for such authoritative figures as doctors, vicars, and headmasters. He was a vigorous member of the actors' equity union and did voice-overs for the Labour Party in the 1997 and 2001 elections. He died of a heart attack in England on September 23, 2005.

John Bromfield (83) actor best known for starring in the '50s TV series The Sheriff of Cochise as Sheriff Frank Morgan, who later reprised the character for the series US Marshall. Bromfield died of kidney failure in Palm Desert, California on September 18, 2005.

Richard E. Cunha (83) cinematographer who directed the '50s cult horror flicks She Demons, Missile to the Moon, and Frankenstein's Daughter. Cunha worked on the early TV shows The Adventures of Marshal O'Dell and Captain Bob Steele & the Border Patrol and was a director of photography on Death Valley Days and Branded. He died of heart failure after undergoing triple bypass surgery in December 2004, near San Diego, California on September 18, 2005.

Jojo D'Amore (74) actor and former stand-up comedian who played a key role in the 1972 caper movie The Doberman Gang. D'Amore also had small roles on such TV programs as Curb Your Enthusiasm and appeared in the documentary Lenny Bruce: Swear to Tell the Truth, about his good friend Bruce. In recent years D'Amore operated the limousine company Jojo's. He died of emphysema and cancer in Los Angeles, California on September 24, 2005.

Sam Fields (55) disk jockey at jazz radio station KKJZ-FM (88.1) who had been bringing his blues-influenced taste in jazz to the Los Angeles airwaves since 1972. Fields was also heard on other local radio stations, including KROQ, KLAC, and KMET. He was found dead by police at his North Hollywood, California home on September 23, 2005.

Joel Hirschhorn (67) film composer who shared two Oscars with longtime collaborator Al Kasha for theme songs in The Poseidon Adventure and The Towering Inferno. Their songs sold more than 90 million records, were featured in 20 movies, and were recorded by artists including Elvis Presley. Hirschhorn also wrote music for TV shows including Knots Landing and was nominated for two Tony Awards. He died of a heart attack in Thousand Oaks, California on September 18, 2005.

Willie Hutch (59) veteran singer-songwriter-producer best known for his work at Motown who helped to compose several hits for the Jackson 5. Hutch collaborated on such hits as "I’ll Be There," "Never Can Say Goodbye," and "Got to Be There." He also logged production credits on albums by the Miracles, Marvin Gaye, Smokey Robinson, Michael Jackson, and Diana Ross, among others. He later branched out into soundtracks, writing the music for the 1973 blaxploitation movie The Mack. Hutch died in Dallas, Texas on September 19, 2005.

Jerome Hynes (45) administrator who oversaw the Wexford Festival Opera, Ireland's major opera festival, and was deputy of the national Arts Council, which decides how to spend state funding. Hynes died of an apparent heart attack while speaking to staff at the Theater Royal in Wexford, Ireland on September 18, 2005.

Jerry Lawrence (93) early radio and TV quiz show host and deejay who promoted the music of a young singer named Frank Sinatra and was an early announcer on The Frank Sinatra Show in 1944. Lawrence hosted CBS's The Spade Cooley Show and was an announcer for TV's popular game show Truth or Consequences (1945-55). He made guest appearances on such TV series as Dragnet and The Donna Reed Show. He died in Los Angeles, California on September 24, 2005.

Tom Leathers (77) Kansas City-area journalist and publisher of The Squire who hosted talk shows on area radio stations and cable TV in Johnson County, Kansas. Leathers was president of The Ad Center, an advertising agency, and publisher of more than 150 books by area and Midwest authors. He also appeared in several movies shot in the Kansas City area including Mr. & Mrs. Bridge, Truman, and Robert Altman's Kansas City. He died of lung cancer in Kansas City, Kansas on September 19, 2005.

Preben Philipsen (95) Danish film producer who made and distributed movies in Denmark and Germany and founded the Copenhagen-based distribution company Rialto in 1933. Philipsen also founded other film companies at home and in Germany and created Denmark's first movie theater chain. He died in Copenhagen, Denmark on September 21, 2005.

William A. Vacchiano (93) classical trumpeter whose musical career started in Maine and took him to the New York Philharmonic and the Juilliard School. Vacchiano was principal trumpet for 31 years at the New York Philharmonic and never missed a performance before leaving in 1973. He continued to teach until 2002 at the Juilliard School, where his students (who numbered over 2,000 during the course of 67 years) included Wynton Marsalis and Miles Davis. Vacchiano died of respiratory failure in New York City on September 19, 2005.

Clint C. Wilson Sr. (90) editorial cartoonist for the Los Angeles Sentinel for more than 45 years who satirized local and national issues such as affirmative action, gang violence, and police brutality using a lean drawing style and often adding shading for atmosphere. Several of Wilson's cartoons were archived at Howard University in Washington, DC, and he was inducted into the Black Press Hall of Fame in 1990. He died of kidney failure in Hawthorne, California on September 18, 2005.

Yegor Yakovlev (75) journalist and editor of the weekly Moscow News, a major newspaper during the reformist years of the '80s that became a flagship of openness during the Gorbachev glasnost era. Yakovlev became editor of the paper in 1986 and managed to steer it away from the control of Soviet censors. He later founded Obshchaya Gazeta, a leading liberal newspaper noted for its critical coverage of the wars in Chechnya that stopped publishing in 2002 because of pressure from the authorities. He died in Moscow, Russia on September 18, 2005.

Hassan Abu Basha (83) former Egyptian interior minister seriously injured in a 1987 assassination attempt by Islamic militants. Basha headed Egypt's State Security Department when late President Anwar Sadat ordered a massive nationwide crackdown on political opponents and Muslim and Christian extremists after sectarian clashes. Basha died of lung cancer in Cairo, Egypt on September 18, 2005.

Dr. Norman Buchanan (42) physician selected to take the seat of Jamaican Prime Minister P. J. Patterson in Parliament when Patterson resigns in 2006. Buchanan studied at UC Berkeley and the Yale School of Medicine. He died of pneumonia in Kingston, Jamaica on September 18, 2005.

Mickey Conroy (77) former Republican Orange County (Calif.) assemblyman whose work assisting military veterans was eclipsed by national notoriety over his proposals to paddle misbehaving youth. In 1996 Conroy proposed an end to a 10-year ban on corporal punishment in schools and later that year introduced a bill allowing judges to order the paddling of juvenile graffiti vandals by their parents or a bailiff (both measures were rejected). He was twice elected president of the Armed Forces Retirees Association of California and was president of the Marine Corps Aviation Reconnaissance Association. He died of a heart attack in Santa Ana, California on September 20, 2005.

Edward Cortez (64) first Latino mayor of Pomona, California, who served on the city's Planning Commission for several years before being elected in 1993. Cortez was founding president of the Latino Chamber of Commerce and president of the Community Action for Peace Committee. He died of cancer in Pomona, California on September 20, 2005.

Apolonio deCarvalho (93) founder of the ruling Workers Party who fought two Brazilian dictatorships and was an icon of political leftists. DeCarvalho was a lifelong Communist and cofounded the Workers Party in 1980 along with union leader Luiz Inacio Lula daSilva, now Brazil's president. DeCarvalho died of a respiratory ailment in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on September 23, 2005.

Bayaman Erkinbayev (38) Kyrgyzstan lawmaker and wealthy businessman from the central Asian nation's turbulent south who served in parliament for 10 years and survived an assassination attempt five months earlier. Erkinbayev operated at the turbulent intersection where politics, business, sports, and (sometimes) crime meet in post-Soviet Central Asia. He was attacked by unidentified gunmen after he arrived at home and shot to death, making him the second lawmaker killed since the new government came to power in March, in the capital city of Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan on September 21, 2005.

Alfredo Jordan Morales (55) Cuban agriculture minister who rose from humble beginnings to hold a ministerial post and sit on the ruling politburo of Cuba's Communist Party, Jordan Morales had headed Cuba's Agriculture Ministry since 1993 and was first secretary of the provincial committee for the Communist Party in the eastern province of Las Tunas. He died of cancer in Havana, Cuba on September 21, 2005.

Sue V. Mills (69) former Prince George's County Council member and school board chairman who had a reputation as a fiery orator and flamboyant politician. Mills was known as independent-minded and a lone dissenter on the council and became something of a local fixture, voicing the concerns of the downtrodden while building solid support among her constituents. She died of pancreatitis in Clinton, Maryland on September 23, 2005.

Filiberto Ojeda Rios (72) Puerto Rican nationalist leader and a leader in Los Macheteros, a minority political group that fights for the independence of Puerto Rico and against US colonial rule. Ojeda Rios was wanted in the 1983 robbery of a Connecticut armored truck depot to finance his political movement. He was killed in a shootout with FBI agents after they attempted to arrest him at a farmhouse in Hormigueros, Puerto Rico on September 23, 2005.

Dottie Wasserman Schick (75) longtime northern Virginia Democrat activist who for 38 years used her backyard to host the Mason District Democrat Committee Crab Feast, an annual event that kicked off fall campaigns in northern Virginia and was attended by hundreds of elected officials, candidates, lobbyists, and supporters. Schick's guests ranged from former US Presidents Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton and Presidential contender Michael S. Dukakis to former Governors Charles S. Robb and L. Douglas Wilder and a strong contingent of local officials and hopefuls. She died of respiratory failure in Fairfax, Virginia on September 20, 2005.

George C. Watkins (84) US Navy pilot who set records for speed, altitude, and number of landings on an aircraft carrier and served three US Presidents as a White House social aide. Watkins was the first Navy pilot to exceed 60,000 and 70,000 feet in altitude. He was a social aide at the White House under Presidents John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, and Richard Nixon and helped to plan White House functions, including Kennedy's funeral in 1963. He died of a heart attack in Lompoc, California on September 18, 2005.

Simon Wiesenthal (96) well-known Nazi war criminal hunter and champion in the fight against anti-Semitism and prejudice, who dedicated most of his life to tracking down and gathering information on fugitive Nazis so that they could be brought to justice for war crimes and crimes against humanity. Wiesenthal's 50-year efforts led to some 1,000 Nazi war criminals being brought to justice. He was the namesake of the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Los Angeles. He died in his sleep in Vienna, Austria on September 20, 2005.

Molly Yard (93) longtime liberal activist who led the National Organization for Women (NOW) during the fight over the 1987 nomination of Robert Bork to the US Supreme Court. Yard made the organization more visible and argued that Bork might provide the fifth vote needed to override the high court's 1973 ruling legalizing abortion (Bork's nomination was ultimately rejected). She actively worked for various Democrat candidates, including John F. Kennedy in 1960 and George McGovern in '72. She died in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on September 21, 2005.

Peggy Curlin (65) leader in international women’s health initiatives and a former president of the Center for Development & Population Activities in Washington (1989-2003). Curlin also cofounded what is now known as Concerned Women for Family Development, a grass-roots women’s health cooperative in Dhaka, Bangladesh. She was on the boards of numerous international health and family planning organizations and was named an honorary chief of Nigerian tribes four times. She died of pancreatic cancer in Washington, DC on September 24, 2005.

Franzi Groszmann (100) woman believed to be among the last survivors of the parents who put their London-bound children on trains to escape Nazi persecution in the famed Kindertransport. Groszmann placed her daughter, author Lore Segal, on a train from Germany, Austria, or Czechoslovakia to seek safety in Britain and later appeared with her daughter in the1996 Oscar-winning film My Knees Were Jumping. She died in New York City on September 20, 2005.

Donna Hanson (65) Catholic lay leader and former director of the Diocese of the Catholic Charities organization in Spokane, Washington, who once advised Pope John Paul II to reach out to women, minorities, homosexuals, and divorced people. Hanson was recognized with the US Catholic Award as the woman who had done the most to further the cause of women in the Catholic Church. She received a lifetime achievement medal from the Pope himself. She died of cancer in Spokane, Washington on September 23, 2005.

Betty Leslie-Melville (78) unconventional conservationist known as the Giraffe Lady who dedicated much of her life to protecting the once-imperiled Rothschild's giraffe. Leslie-Melville founded the African Fund for Endangered Wildlife USA after settling in Kenya. Along with her husband, she was the subject of a TV movie based loosely on their book, Raising Daisy Rothschild. She died of dementia in Baltimore, Maryland on September 23, 2005.

John W. Peoples Jr. (48) Alabama man convicted of killing a family of three and driving off in their vintage sports car in 1983. Peoples reportedly killed the family for their 1968 red Corvette, which he attempted to sell shortly after stealing it, leading to his arrest. At his execution, he did not look at or offer an apology to relatives of his victims but thanked his own family for their support. He was executed by lethal injection at Holman Prison near Atmore, Alabama on September 22, 2005.

Albert ("Caesar") Tocco (77) reputed mob boss sentenced to 200 years in prison after his wife took the unusual step of testifying against him. Tocco allegedly oversaw organized crime operations in many of Chicago's southern suburbs before he was arrested in Greece, and his wife, Betty, testified that in 1986 she drove him from an Indiana cornfield where he told her he had just buried Tony ("The Ant") Spilotro (whose story was the subject of the 1995 Martin Scorsese movie Casino). Tocco died of a stroke in the federal penitentiary at Terre Haute, Indiana on September 21, 2005.

Joe Bauman (83) former baseball player whose 72 minor-league home runs in 1954 stood as a professional baseball record until Barry Bonds hit 73 in 2001. Bauman played first base for the Roswell Rockets and hit .400 over 138 games. Hospitalized since August 11 after a fall he took in which he broke his pelvis, during a ceremony to rename the old Fair Park Joe Bauman Stadium, Bauman died of pneumonia in Roswell, New Mexico on September 20, 2005.

George Croonenberghs (87) fly-fishing adviser on the 1992 movie A River Runs Through It who taught the art of fly fishing to the film's actors Brad Pitt and Craig Scheffer and helped director Robert Redford to keep his promise to Rev. John Maclean that the movie about his family, fly fishing, and the murder of his brother Paul would be accurate. Croonenberghs moved to a retirement community in 2004, where he taught residents and staff how to tie flies and fly-fish. He was still tying flies in the hours before he collapsed and died in Missoula, Montana on September 23, 2005.

Edgar Haber (93) golf enthusiast and one of the developers of the posh Quail Lodge in Monterey County, California, who eventually became sole owner of the lodge, originally known as the Carmel Valley Golf & Country Club. Haber remained active in the Carmel Valley community after selling the club in 1997. He died in Carmel Valley, California on September 19, 2005.

Byron ("Mex") Johnson (94) former shortstop for the Kansas City Monarchs of the Negro leagues and Satchel Paige's traveling team, who played for the Monarchs (1937-38), when blacks were barred from the National and American leagues. Johnson joined the traveling team of legendary pitcher Paige in 1939 and later traveled with baseball researcher Jay Sanford, giving speeches about black baseball. He was the subject of a recently published biography called Legacy of a Monarch. He died of prostate cancer in Denver, Colorado on September 24, 2005.

Leavander Johnson (35) professional boxer with a 16-year career that culminated in an International Boxing Federation Lightweight Title defense September 17 against Jesus Chavez. Johnson collapsed while walking to his dressing room after the fight and was rushed to a hospital. He died after being removed from life support in Las Vegas, Nevada on September 22, 2005.

Dreamfair Kogel (4) racehorse competing for the Triple Crown leg of the $569,032 Little Brown Jug. Dreamfair Kogel came into the race riding a four-race winning streak, but completed this race far off the pace. He collapsed suddenly after the race and died of undetermined causes at the Delaware County Fairgrounds in Delaware, Ohio on September 22, 2005.

Eric Langmuir (74) well-known Scottish climber, ski instructor, orienteer, and author of the 1969 book Mountaincraft & Leadership, still regarded as required reading for anyone wanting to venture safely into the hills. Langmuir was deeply involved in the issue of mountain safety and became chairman of the Mountain Rescue Committee for Scotland. He climbed Mont Blanc when he was 70. He died in Aviemore, Scotland on September 18, 2005.