Wayne C. Booth (84) prominent literary critic and professor whose books are required reading at many universities, including the The Rhetoric of Fiction (1961), called the single most important American contribution to narrative theory. Booth was a member of the faculty at the University of Chicago for more than 40 years. He died of dementia in Chicago, Illinois on October 9, 2005.

Emile Capouya (80) publisher of such literary giants as Ezra Pound, Tennessee Williams, and James Joyce and later of his own collection of stories recounting his experiences as a young officer in the merchant marines. Capouya worked as literary editor for The Nation (1969-81) and published articles and reviews for the New American Review, the New York Times, and the Saturday Review. He founded New Amsterdam Books, a publisher of literary fiction. He died in East Meredith, New York on October 13, 2005.

Mary Chaney (77) courtroom artist who produced meticulous and vibrant drawings for trials including those of Richard Ramirez, Hollywood Madam Heidi Fleiss, O. J. Simpson (civil trial), and the LAPD officers accused of beating motorist Rodney King, whose sketches, which featured broad strokes from colored markers, were used by ABC, NBC, CNN, Fox, KTTV, Court TV, and other news outlets. Chaney's drawings have appeared at the Museum of Tolerance in Los Angeles and the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History. She died of cancer in Los Angeles, California on October 12, 2005.

Efraim Reuytenberg (91) Israeli painter known for infusing Chinese influences and bold colors into his work. Reuytenberg's paintings, mixing abstract and still-life styles, were exhibited mainly in the Bineth and Givon galleries in Tel Aviv but also appeared in shows at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Baltimore Museum of Art, the Carnegie Institute in Pittsburgh, and the Israel Museum in Jerusalem. He died in Jerusalem, Israel on October 15, 2005.

Edmund N. Bacon (95) father of actor Kevin Bacon and a renowned city planner whose vision transformed postwar Philadelphia. Bacon wrote the book Design of Cities (1967; still a key text for architecture students) and maintained his influence long after his retirement as the city's chief planner in 1970. His work landed him on the cover of a 1964 issue of Time magazine, which called Philadelphia's redevelopment the most thoroughly rounded, skillfully coordinated of all big city programs in the US. Bacon died in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on October 14, 2005.

William O. Garin (84) businessman who operated his California Central Valley family produce business, Garin Co., for 20 years, which at its peak included more than 30,000 acres of farmland in California and Arizona, growing tomatoes, iceberg lettuce, peas, corn, onions, sugar beets, and melons. Garin was instrumental in founding the Western Iceberg League, which evolved into the Iceberg Lettuce Commission. He traveled to Iran, Japan, Singapore, and Hong Kong to promote the exportation of lettuce and worked to export asparagus to South America. He died in Salinas, California on October 9, 2005.

Pamela Vitale (52) wife of prominent defense attorney and TV legal analyst Daniel Horowitz. Vitale was a former high-tech marketing executive who now worked at her husband's law practice, creating and managing databases. She was found bludgeoned to death in the couple's home in Lafayette, California on October 15, 2005. Update: Scott Dyleski (16) was arrested on October 19 and charged with Vitale's murder. On August 28, 2006, he was found guilty and sentenced to life in prison.

Charles ("Chuck") West (90) Alaska tourism pioneer who founded the Seattle-based cruise line Cruise West. West was a World War II veteran who had won a Distinguished Flying Cross in the Army Air Forces. He launched a tour company, Arctic Alaska Tours, and marketed North Country package tours through travel agencies. He died in Haines, Alaska on October 11, 2005.

LeRoy Whitfield (36) writer whose main focus was on the battle against AIDS among Black Americans. Whitfield challenged the convention of taking antiretroviral drugs after being diagnosed with HIV in 1990 (although he had doubts about the decision toward the end of his life). He wrote for HIV Plus magazine and was a frequent contributor to Vibe magazine and other publications. He died after living with the HIV virus and refusing to take medications for 15 years, in New York City on October 9, 2005.

Gerald Adler (81) entertainment executive who helped to pioneer international distribution of films and TV programs. Adler was president of NBC Enterprises and developed distribution of shows throughout Europe, Africa, and Asia. He worked as a lawyer for Penthouse International and Playboy Enterprises, and was vice president of the theatrical and TV division of the Motion Picture Export Association of America. He died of respiratory failure after a brain hemorrhage, in Los Angeles, California on October 11, 2005.

Sergio Citti (72) Italian film director best known for his work with the late Pier Paolo Pasolini, whose body of work included Accattone (1961), Mamma Roma (1962), and Casotto (1977), starring a young Jodie Foster. Citti died of cardiac problems near Rome, Italy on October 11, 2005.

Martha Nell Hardy (79) former chair of the Department of Communications Studies at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill and a longtime cast member of the outdoor drama Unto These Hills, one of the oldest outdoor historical dramas in the nation that portrays the Cherokees being driven out of the Great Smokey Mountains and marching on the Trail of Tears. Hardy played the role of Mrs. Perkins for 33 years until retiring in 2000. She died of cancer in Chapel Hill, North Carolina on October 14, 2005.

Paul ("Wine") Jones (59) blues singer known for his recordings for the influential Fat Possum label, including the songs "Goin' Back Home" and "Pucker Up Butter Cup." Jones died of cancer in Jackson, Mississippi on October 9, 2005.

Baker Knight (72) songwriter who wrote almost 1,000 songs from the late '50s through the '70s, including the song "Lonesome Town," recorded decades apart by Ricky Nelson and Paul McCartney. Knight also wrote songs that were recorded by Dean Martin, Elvis Presley, Frank Sinatra, Perry Como, Jerry Lee Lewis, Sammy Davis Jr., and Mickey Gilley. He died in Birmingham, Alabama on October 12, 2005.

Marie Lord (100) widow of actor and star of Hawaii 5-O Jack Lord (d. 1998), who remained with her husband in Honolulu after the series ended in 1980. A native of St. Louis, Marie pursued a career as a fashion designer before meeting her husband. She died in Honolulu, Hawaii on October 13, 2005.

Jack Mathis (73) Illinois advertising executive and author, foremost authority on Republic Pictures, the Hollywood studio best known for its B westerns and cliffhanger serials. Mathis published Valley of the Cliffhangers, a complete history of Republic's 66 serials, and founded Jack Mathis Advertising, which designed the logo for the Chicago Bulls, for whom he had been an assistant coach in the '60s. He died in South Barrington, Illinois on October 13, 2005.

Louis Nye (92) comedian best known for his appearances on The Steve Allen Show in the '50s, who started the national catch-phrase, "Hi, ho, Steverino!" and provided voices for the Inspector Gadget cartoon in the '90s. Nye died of lung cancer in Los Angeles, California on October 9, 2005.

Raju Sharad Patel (45) one of the first prominent Indian producers in the US during the '80s. Patel produced such films as Bachelor Party (1984) staring Tom Hanks, The Jungle Book (1994), and The Adventures of Pinocchio (1996) and recently worked with Michael Jackson and Mark Damon to set up Neverland Pictures. He died of colon cancer in Long Beach, California on October 9, 2005.

Steven Peck (76) choreographer, dancer. and actor who performed in more than 100 TV shows and movies. Peck played Sylvester Stallone's father in Rhinestone (1984) and danced the tango in The Godfather: Part II He ran a Los Angeles dance studio from the '50s to the '80s. He died of cancer in Fullerton, California on October 9, 2005.

George Ringwald (81) newspaper reporter whose work exposing the irregularities in the guardianship program of an American Indian tribe in Palm Springs won the Riverside (Calif.) Press-Enterprise a Pulitzer Prize in 1968. Ringwald was also a Japan-based reporter for Business Week magazine for 15 years. He died of cancer in Eureka, California on October 9, 2005.

Philip Robbins (74) former Washington Evening Star metro news editor and George Washington University journalism department professor and chairman. Robbins was also a leading authority on First Amendment rights and worked to establish libel case law precedents and to draft freedom of information statutes. He died of pancreatic cancer in Elkton, Maryland on October 13, 2005.

Jerome Roth (87) oboist in the New York Philharmonic for 31 years and a member of the pioneering New York Woodwind Quintet in the '50s. Roth belonged to a generation of great American oboists who emerged after World War II. He died of Alzheimer's disease in Ridgefield, Connecticut on October 12, 2005.

Mildred Shay (94) '30s Hollywood actress whose social life brimmed with tales of thwarted casting-couch seductions and affairs with famous men, making her a frequent subject of the gossip columns. Shay appeared in more than 30 films and was said to have fought off the advances of actors Errol Flynn and Johnny Weissmuller. She died while visiting her daughter in Glendale, Arizona on October 15, 2005.

Jack White (63) Pulitzer Prize-winning author of a newspaper article detailing then-President Richard Nixon's underpayment of income taxes (which prompted the President to utter the famous line, "I am not a crook!"). White also broke the news in 2001 that former Providence, Rhode Island Mayor Vincent ("Buddy") Cianci had been indicted on federal corruption charges. White died unexpectedly in Cape Cod, Massachusetts on October 12, 2005.

Voit Gilmore (87) former Southern Pines, North Carolina mayor and state senator whose greatest contribution was smoothing over race relations in Southern Pines. Gilmore also founded the Four Seasons Travel Service in 1970 and was appointed by President John F. Kennedy as first director of the US Travel Service, which promotes tourism to America. He died of Parkinson's disease in Southern Pines, North Carolina on October 15, 2005.

Alex Harvin (55) former South Carolina state house majority leader and the longest-serving current member. Harvin was the chief sponsor of a bill to establish an African-American History Monument on the statehouse grounds and to require health insurers to cover 48 hours of hospital stays after women give birth. He died of liver cancer in Columbia, South Carolina on October 11, 2005.

Ghazi Kanaan (63) key Syrian govenment man in Lebanon for over 20 years and powerful interior minister. Kanaan was also one of several figures interrogated by a UN investigator in the deaths of Rafik Hariri and 21 others in Beirut in February. He was found dead of an apparent suicide in his office in Damascus, Syria on October 12, 2005.

David Eliot McGiffert (79) Washington lawyer and former Pentagon official who dealt with domestic security during the antiwar and racial disorders of the late '60s. McGiffert was undersecretary of the Army when protests against the Vietnam War, combined with racial confrontations, prompted the Johnson administration to enlist the military to quell civil disturbances. He later was assistant secretary of defense for international security affairs under Pres. Jimmy Carter and became principal negotiator for the Carter administration's efforts to maintain military security in the Middle East. He died of a heart ailment in Washington, DC on October 12, 2005.

Milton Obote (80) first prime minister of Uganda and a two-term president whose initial term was ended by a coup led by Idi Amin. Obote's second term was overshadowed by its harsh oppression of the citizens of Uganda, and his policies were estimated to be the cause of the deaths of more than 500,000 civilians in the early '80s. He died after a series of illnesses, in South Africa on October 10, 2005.

Arthur Seldon (89) British libertarian economist whose books, pamphlets, and articles supplied much of the intellectual artillery that inspired British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's free-market revolution. Seldon died in Godden Green, Kent County, England on October 11, 2005.

C. DeLores Tucker (78) longtime civil rights activist best known as a fiery antagonist of profanity-laced rap music lyrics that denigrate blacks and women. Tucker chaired the Black Caucus of the Democrat National Convention for 11 years and became the highest-ranking black woman in state government as commonwealth secretary of Pennsylvania in the '70s. She launched a crusade in the '90s against gangsta rap, a battle that gained momentum after she joined forces with former Reagan administration Education Department secretary William J. Bennett. Tucker died of heart failure in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on October 12, 2005.

Zhang Bairen (90) underground Chinese Catholic bishop who served 24 years in prison for his loyalty to the Roman Catholic Pontiff. Bairen was imprisoned (1955-79) because he would not denounce then-Pope John Paul II, a fate common to people who do not follow the Chinese government's church. He died of heart disease in Beijing, China on October 12, 2005.

Giuseppe Cardinal Caprio (90) retired Vatican finance chief who retired in 1990 as head of the Vatican's Prefecture for Economic Affairs, which draws up the Vatican budget. Caprio died in Rome, Italy on October 15, 2005.

Max Dominique (60s) Catholic priest, an outspoken critic of ousted Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide. Dominique was a leading advocate of liberation theology, an expression of Catholic beliefs that seeks to more actively engage the Church in efforts to combat poverty and social injustice. He was also a writer, university professor, and one of Haiti's most respected literary critics. He died of liver failure in Port-au-Prince, Haiti on October 15, 2005.

Vivian Malone Jones (63) civil rights pioneer who with fellow student James Hood enrolled at the University of Alabama in 1963 despite Gov. George Wallace's stand to block blacks from entering. Jones later became the first black to graduate from the school and had a long career serving the government. She died of a stroke in Atlanta, Georgia on October 13, 2005.

Elizabeth Parisi (24) young mother of two whose battered body was found amid the mansions and millionaires of Sands Point, Long Island, New York that inspired F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby. Parisi died after apparently being beaten on the head with a blunt instrument and dumped in thick underbrush near an intersection. Her body was discovered on October 15, 2005.

Robert Montgomery Scott (76) arts and civic leader and the stylish scion of two prominent families, once dubbed The Quintessential Philadelphian. Scott's father was heir to the Pennsylvania Railroad fortune, and his mother was the model for Tracy Samantha Lord, lead character in the Philip Barry play The Philadelphia Story, played onscreen by Katharine Hepburn in 1940 and by Grace Kelly in the musical version, High Society (1956). Scott worked as a law partner in Philadelphia and as a diplomatic aide in Britain but was perhaps best known for running the Philadelphia Museum of Art (1982-96), when the museum's endowment grew from less than $20 million to $100 million and its annual attendance from 400,000 to 950,000. He died of liver failure in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania on October 13, 2005.

Bishop Aloysius J. Wycislo (97) retired head of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Green Bay, Wisconsin, a council father during the Second Vatican Council who became friends with Karol Wojtyla, later Pope John Paul II. Wycislo died of pneumonia in Green Bay, Wisconsin on October 11, 2005.

Angelo Argea (75) caddy for golfer Jack Nicklaus for 20 years, who was by the side of the legendary golfer as he won about 40 tournaments, including the US Open, British Open, and PGA Championship. Argea died of liver cancer in Canton, Ohio on October 10, 2005.

Tom Cheek (66) legendary Canadian broadcaster who called every game in the history of the Toronto Blue Jays until 2004. Cheek's streak lasted for 4,306 consecutive regular season games and 41 postseason games over 27.5 years. He died of brain cancer in Oldsmar, Florida on October 9, 2005.

Sonji Clay-Glover (59) first wife of boxing great Muhammad Ali, introduced to Ali by his manager while the champion was still named Cassius Clay and married him 41 days later (they later divorced in 1966 because of increasing devotion to the Nation of Islam on the part of Ali). Sonji later recorded singles for Aries Record Productions. She was found dead of natural causes in her home in Chicago, Illinois on October 11, 2005.

Jason Collier (28) Atlanta Hawks center. a part-time starter the last two seasons after playing mostly as a backup in three years at Houston. Collier was drafted by Milwaukee in 2000 in the first round as the 15th pick overall before being traded to Houston. He died in an ambulance on the way to a hospital after he began having trouble breathing, in Atlanta, Georgia on October 15, 2005.

Ralph M. Graham (95) '30s football star at Kansas State University known as Rammin' Ralph. Graham was a three-time all-conference choice in the Big Six at Kansas State, where he also played basketball and tennis. He later coached football at Wichita State in its first bowl game and was an assistant coach with the Indiana basketball team that won the Big 10 and NCAA championships in 1940. He died in Newton, Kansas on October 14, 2005.

Larry Moore (56) surfing photographer who revolutionized the industry and the sport with his Larrylight photography technique. Moore's bright, front-lighted photos of surf action showed surfers as athletes, an image that helped to make the sport more popular. He was a former photo editor of Surfing magazine. He died after a nearly three-year battle with brain cancer, in Dana Point, California on October 10, 2005.

Joseph P. Pons Sr. (83) patriarch of the family that owns one of the country's oldest commercial thoroughbred racehorse breeding farms. Pons raised Cigar, 1995-96 Horse of the Year and North America's all-time money leader at $9,999,815. Pons died of a heart attack in Bel Air, Maryland on October 12, 2005.

Margaret Russo (56) professional tennis player who won more than 25 national senior tournaments. Russo had been the eighth-ranked junior (under 18) tennis player in her native Australia before coming to the US, where she later won more than 100 singles and doubles tennis championships in the mid-Atlantic section of tournaments sponsored by the US Tennis Association. She was ranked No. 1 in the US senior rankings on several occasions and represented the US in international senior team competition four times. She died of brain cancer in Vienna, Virginia on October 11, 2005.

Al Widmar (80) pitching coach for the Toronto Blue Jays for 10 seasons, promoted to special assistant to the vice president and general manager in 1991. Widmar was a former player with the Boston Red Sox, the St. Louis Browns, and the Chicago White Sox. He died of colon cancer in Tulsa, Oklahoma on October 15, 2005.