Armand ("Arman") Fernandez (76) French-born sculptor, a leading figure of the New Realism movement, best known for his large assemblage sculptures that turned everyday objects into art, including items found in garbage cans, and destroyed items such as violins and pianos that he cleverly reattached atop pedestals. Fernandez died of cancer in New York City on October 22, 2005.

Jean-Michel Folon (71) Belgium-born artist whose works appeared in galleries, magazines, and subway stations around the world. Folon was a painter, sculptor, and cartoonist admired for his versatility who decorated sets for operas, dabbled in animation, and produced short films. He also participated in poster campaigns for causes close to his heart, such as Amnesty International and UNICEF. His work appeared in such magazines the New Yorker, Esquire, Time, Fortune, and the Atlantic Monthly and in a Brussels subway station and London's Waterloo Station. He died in Monaco on October 20, 2005.

Sidney Geist (81) prolific sculptor, teacher, and art writer who became a leading authority on Romanian sculptor Constantin Brancus and had several solo shows. Geist reached out to different cultures and individuals for inspiration, from American Indian art of the Northwest coast to Picasso. He helped to found the New York Studio School, an alternative atelier for artists on West Eighth Street, and was one of its early directors. He died of a stroke in New York City on October 18, 2005.

Ba Jin (100) one of China's most revered Communist-era writers, who attacked the evils of the prerevolutionary era in novels, short stories, and essays. Ba Jin was best known for his novel Family (1931), the story of a disintegrating feudal household. He died in Shanghai, China on October 17, 2005.

Alvin M. Josephy Jr. (90) popular historian of the American West whose books chronicled the struggles of Native Americans from the frontier era to the present day. Josephy wrote or edited more than a dozen books about the American Indian experience and was a former editor-in-chief of American Heritage.. He was editor of the historical anthology Red Power (1971), one of the first accounts of the contemporary campaign for American Indian rights. He died in Greenwich, Connecticut on October 16, 2005.

Robert H. Johnston (77) archaeologist who helped to develop a way to read ancient texts blackened or faded by time including the Dead Sea Scrolls. Johnston worked in digital imaging to tease out ancient text, often minute fragments of individual characters, that had not been seen for as long as 2,000 years. He died after suffering from numerous ailments in recent months, in Brighton, New York on October 19, 2005.

John Mink (81) widower of long-serving US Rep. Patsy Mink (D-Hawaii; d. 2002), who himself earned respect and renown as a world-class hydrologist and won the Distinguished Flying Cross for service in World War II. Mink's company, Mink & Yuen Inc., specializes in water resource studies, planning, development, and management. He died in Northampton, Massachusetts on October 18, 2005.

Nigel Mobbs (68) long-serving British chairman of Slough Estates, the property company founded by his grandfather, and a forceful nonexecutive director of several other major companies. Mobbs was also senior nonexecutive director of Barclays Bank, chairman of Bovis Homes, and a director of Howard deWalden Estates, which owns 120 acres of central London. He died in Lacey Green, Buckinghamshire, England on October 21, 2005.

Edward R. Telling (86) former chairman and chief executive of Sears, Roebuck & Co. who led the retailer's expansion into financial services in the early '80s, under whose direction the company moved into financial services, acquiring the Coldwell Banker real estate firm and Dean Witter Reynolds and launching the Discover Card. Telling died of cancer in North Palm Beach, Florida on October 19, 2005.

David Citino (58) poet laureate at Ohio State University and an English professor there for more than 30 years. Citino wrote 12 books of poetry and was named poet laureate in 2002. He died of multiple sclerosis in Columbus, Ohio on October 17, 2005.

Marshall Clagett (89) one of the world's preeminent historians on ancient and medieval science and the work of Greek mathematician Archimedes. Clagett worked for the Institute for Advanced Study in New Jersey for the last 40 years and published a five-volume work, entitled Archimedes in the Middle Ages, over a period of 20 years. He taught at Columbia University and the University of Wisconsin before joining the Institute for Advanced Study. He died in Princeton, New Jersey on October 21, 2005.

Barrington Moore Jr. (92) Harvard sociologist (1951-79) whose studies of the contemporary human condition led him to dissect the totalitarian society, particularly as it evolved in the Soviet Union. Moore spent time as a wartime strategic analyst for the OSS, forerunner of the CIA, and wrote the book Social Origins of Dictatorship & Democracy: Lord & Peasant in the Making of the Modern World (1966) and other works. He died in Cambridge, Massachusetts on October 16, 2005.

Robert H. Timme (60) expert on architectural design and history and dean of the University of Southern California School of Architecture for the last nine years. Timme also founded Taft Architects, an award-winning Houston firm, and was dean of the University of Houston College of Architecture for more than 20 years. He won more than 65 design awards, including three consecutive national American Institute or Architects Honor Awards. He died of lung cancer in Century City, California on October 20, 2005.

Tony Adams (52) favored producer of director Blake Edwards and a partner in Hello Entertainment, a theatrical producing company, who produced six films in the Pink Panther franchise, including The Return of the Pink Panther, The Pink Panther Strikes Again, and Curse of the Pink Panther. Adams also produced the screen and stage versions of Victor/Victoria. He died of a stroke in New York City on October 22, 2005.

Tara Correa-McMullen (16) teen actress best known for playing Graciela, a former gang member, on the TV series Judging Amy. Correa-McMullen made her film debut in the movie Rebound (2005). She was shot to death in an apparent gang-related shooting in Inglewood, California on October 21, 2005.

Len Dresslar (80) voice behind the most famous tagline in history, "Ho, ho, ho, Green Giant!," who also provided the voices of other advertising icons, including Dig 'Em Frog for Kellogg's Sugar Smacks, and Snap of the Rice Crispies trio Snap, Crackle & Pop. Dresslar died of cancer in Palm Springs, California on October 16, 2005.

Franky Gee (43) Cuban-born dance music artist better known to his European fans as Captain Jack, a former US soldier and one-time German stock broker who later enjoyed a 10-year career in which he sold more than 7 million albums and singles. Gee died of a brain hemorrhage in Palma de Mallorca, Spain on October 22, 2005.

Shirley Horn (71) legendary jazz pianist and vocalist who got her start opening for Miles Davis and became revered as a master interpreter of American standards. Horn was often compared to Sarah Vaughan and Ella Fitzgerald and was considered one of the last great jazz vocalists of her era. She was nominated for multiple Grammys, winning in 1991 for best jazz vocal performance and was honored by the National Endowment for the Arts in 2004 as a jazz master. She died in her native Washington, DC on October 20, 2005.

Gordon Lee (71) former chubby child actor who played Spanky McFarland's little brother Porky in Little Rascals comedies and appeared in more than 40 Our Gang shorts, including "Bored of Education," which won the Oscar for best one-reel short subject in 1937. Lee died after battling lung and brain cancer, in Minneapolis, Minnesota on October 16, 2005.

Saadoun Sughaiyer al-Janabi (??) defense lawyer in Saddam Hussein's mass murder trial who was defending Awad Hamed al-Bandar, former head of Hussein's Revolutionary Court. A day after the trial began, Janabi was found dead, his body dumped near a Baghdad mosque with two gunshots to the head, after being abducted from his office by 10 masked gunmen on the evening of October 20, 2005.

William Evan Allan (106) last surviving Australian veteran to see action in World War I. Allan enlisted in the Royal Australian Navy when he was just 14 at the outbreak of the war and was a seaman on the HMAS Encounter (1915-18). He died in Sydney, Australia on October 17, 2005.

Robert Badham (76) conservative lawmaker, a former US congressman (R-Calif., 1977-89), close friend of President Ronald Reagan, and a ranking member of the House Armed Services Committee. Badham died a day after suffering a heart attack, in Newport Beach, California on October 21, 2005.

Penn Kemble (64) political activist who kept himself in intellectual fighting trim by engaging in policy tilts with adversaries on both the left and the right. Kemble was a former acting director of the US Information Agency and was more recently a senior scholar at Freedom House, a nonpartisan, prodemocracy think tank. He previously was special assistant and speechwriter for Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan (D-NY). Kemble died of brain cancer in Washington, DC on October 16, 2005.

Liam Lawlor (60) former Irish politician and member of the Fianna Fail political party, the most dominant Irish political party since the '30s, who represented suburban west Dublin in parliment, during which time he served three short prison terms for charges including failing to cooperate with a fact-finding tribunal on bribery and corruption. He was killed in a car crash on the main road from Sheremetyevo Airport into Moscow, Russia on October 22, 2005.

Ghulam Nabi Lone (62) education minister of India-controlled Kashmir. Lone was killed by Islamic militants during a brazen raid days after top insurgents ordered a suspension of attacks in the aftermath of South Asia's devastating earthquake, at his home in Srinagar, Kashmir on October 18, 2005.

Endon Mahmood (64) wife of Malaysian Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi (whom he described as his No. 1 supporter), who married the fifth Prime Minister of Malaysia in 1965. Mahmood recently underwent intesive chemotherapy in the US after suffering from breast cancer for four years. She died in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on October 20, 2005.

Yon Hyong Muk (73) former North Korean prime minister and key aide to leader Kim Jong Il. Muk was vice chairman of the powerful National Defense Commission, the Communist North's most powerful organization, which oversees the country's 1.1 million-member armed forces (the world's fifth largest). He headed high-level negotiations with South Korea in the early '90s that produced a 1992 agreement in which the two rivals pledged to work to ease tensions and promote peace (although the deal was little more than symbolic). Muk died of pancreatic cancer in North Korea on October 22, 2005.

Luis Adolfo Siles (80) former Bolivian president who replaced a leader killed in a helicopter crash in 1969 and was later toppled in a military coup. Siles was a founder and leader of Bolivia's Social Democratic Party. He later became a devoted human rights activist and played a key role in the pro-democracy efforts that succeeded in 1982 with the restoration of an elected government. He died of a heart attack in La Paz, Bolivia on October 19, 2005.

Donald K. Tucker (67) civil rights activist and the longest-serving councilman in New Jersey's largest city, Newark. Tucker was involved in efforts to desegregate Newark's public housing projects and was chairman of the New Jersey Black Issues Convention. He was known for his sometimes fiery temper and his colorful dashikis and served continuously for 31 years. He died after suffering from several ailments, including a stroke, in Newark, New Jersey on October 17, 2005.

Alexander N. Yakovlev (81) key architect of former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev's political reforms of perestroika and glasnost that shook the last years of the Soviet Union. Yakovlev joined the Soviet Communist Party's ruling Politburo in the mid-'80s and was known as the Godfather of Glasnost for spearheading Gorbachev's policy of openness that gradually lifted the heavy hand of the state off the press and individual speech. Yakovlev played a key role in encouraging media freedom. He died in Moscow, Russia on October 18, 2005.

Luis Ramirez (42) convicted murderer who in April 1998 hired a man to kill his ex-wife's boyfriend after he and his wife divorced in '95 (Ramirez had sexually and physically abused her while they were married). Ramirez was executed by lethal injection in Huntsville, Texas on October 20, 2005.

Debbie Runions (55) prominent AIDS activist and patient who called for governmental response to the spread of the disease after being declared HIV-positive in 1992. Runions spent her life promoting AIDS awareness and prevention and started the Tennessee Department of Education HIV Prevention Program in 1994. She served on President Bill Clinton's HIV/AIDS Advisory Council and appeared before the 1996 Democrat National Convention to ask the delegates to lead the fight against the spread of AIDS. She died of AIDS-related complications in Nashville, Tennessee on October 16, 2005.

Louise Hermey Stanford (62) volunteer who sounded the alarm when three civil rights workers went missing in Mississippi in a case that shocked the US. The deaths of Michael Schwerner, James Chaney, and Andrew Goodman were dramatized in the movie Mississippi Burning (1988). Stanford died of breast cancer in Lampasas, Texas on October 18, 2005.

Ted Bonda (88) former Cleveland Indians owner who hired the first black manager in baseball, Frank Robinson. Bonda also led a coalition of business owners to buy the Indians club, allowing the team to remain in Cleveland. He died of Alzheimer's disease in Lyndhurst, Ohio on October 22, 2005.

Dick Galiette (72) play-by-play announcer who spent 33 seasons as the voice of Yale football and was an anchor at ESPN in the early '80s. Galiette's final broadcast was Yale's 28-21 loss to Lehigh earlier in the month. He was also director of the National High School Athletic Coaches Association. He died in New Haven, Connecticut on October 21, 2005.

Johnny Haynes (71) former World Cup captain and one of England's most respected soccer midfielders. Haynes played in the 1958 and '62 World Cups and was known for his defense-splitting passes during his 18-year career. He died of injuries suffered in a car accident on his 71st birthday, in Edinburgh, Scotland on October 18, 2005.

Bill King (78) longtime Oakland Athletics radio voice whose signature call, "Holy Toledo!" was a household phrase for decades in the San Francisco Bay Area. King was lead radio broadcaster for the Golden State Warriors and Oakland Raiders and worked for a time on the San Francisco Giants' broadcast team. He died three days after undergoing hip surgery for an injury suffered earlier in the year, in San Leandro, California on October 18, 2005.

Hal Lebovitz (89) longtime sportswriter and award-winning columnist, a fixture on Cleveland's sports scene for more than 60 years. Lebovitz was sports editor at the Cleveland Plain Dealer for 20 years and wrote the popular "Ask Hal" column for The Sporting News, in which he answered readers' questions about sports rules. He was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 2000. He died of cancer in Cleveland, Ohio on October 18, 2005.

Reggie Lisowski (79) 40-year veteran of professional wrestling who wrestled at a time when steriod use was unheard of and it was common for Lisowski to relax before a match drinking a beer and smoking a cigar. He was inducted into the Professional Wrestling Hall of Fame with his tag-team partner, Dick ("The Bruiser") Afflis earlier in the year. Lisowski died of a brain tumor in Milwaukee, Wisconsin on October 22, 2005.

Lou Rossini (84) former New York University basketball coach (1959-71) who led the school to four NIT appearances, including the finals in 1966, and to three appearances at the NCAA including the '60 Final Four. Rossini also coached the Puerto Rican national team at the 1964 Olympics and St. Francis College( 1975-79). He was inducted into NYU's Hall of Fame in 1990 and the New York City Hall of Fame in '97. He died of Alzheimer's disease in New York City on October 21, 2005.

Charles Yates (92) former British Amateur champion who learned the game from US golf legend Bobby Jones and played in the first Masters tournament. Yates had been a member of the Augusta (Ga.) National Golf Club since 1940. He won the NCAA title in 1934 at Georgia Tech. He died of Parkinson's disease in Atlanta, Georgia on October 17, 2005.