Louise Simone Bennett-Coverly (86) Jamaican poet and folklorist who popularized her country's culture before its independence from Britain. Bennett-Coverly was one of Jamaica's most beloved cultural icons. She died in Toronto, Canada on July 26, 2006.

David Gemmell (57) British fantasy author known for his adventure tales revolving around heroism and leadership. Gemmell wrote 30 novels, starting with Legend (1984), a tale of a fortress under siege. He underwent quadruple heart bypass surgery two weeks before he died in London, England on July 28, 2006.

Richard Mock (61) painter and sculptor whose interest in politics led to a second career as an editorial cartoonist. Mock was best known for the satiric linocut illustrations on social and political issues that appeared on the Op-Ed page of the New York Times (1980-96). He died in Brooklyn, New York on July 28, 2006.

Dr. Charles E. Brady Jr. (54) former space shuttle astronaut and amateur radio enthusiast. Brady flew aboard the shuttle Columbia in 1996 on a 16-day science mission and was one of the first operators of the Shuttle Amateur Radio Experiment, or SAREX, which allowed astronauts to talk with ham radio operators around the world. He died in Oak Harbor, Washington on July 23, 2006.

Nathan Brodsky (89) Manhattan real estate developer who got his start by rehabilitating small, old buildings in the West Village and later dotted the skyline with sleek residential towers. Brodsky founded the Brodsky Organization, which currently owns and manages more than 50 Manhattan buildings, with about 7,000 apartments. He died in New York City on July 27, 2006.

Vincent J. Fuller (75) lawyer best known for defending Reagan shooter John Hinckley Jr., Teamsters boss Jimmy Hoffa, and fighter Mike Tyson. Fuller successfuly defended boxing promoter Don King on income tax evasion charges but lost a 1989 case against his client Michael R. Milken for insider trading. He died of lung cancer in New York City on July 26, 2006.

Mary Starke Harper (86) one of the nation's leading authorities on mental health and aging and the last living health-care team member associated with the US government's infamous Tuskegee Syphilis Study. Harper was an outspoken advocate for patients' rights. She died of cancer in Columbus, Georgia on July 27, 2006.

Joel W. Hedgpeth (94) marine biologist and environmental advocate who became an early voice for the rich diversity of plants and animals living along California's coastline. Hedgpeth studied the biology and distribution of sea spiders, a group of bottom-dwelling organisms found along coastlines and dock pilings. He died in Hillsboro, Oregon on July 28, 2006.

Dr. Jean Baker Miller (78) psychiatrist whose ground-breaking book, Toward a New Psychology of Women (1976), identified as strengths many traits long regarded as flaws in the mental and emotional makeup of women. Miller died of emphysema and postpolio syndrome in Brookline, Massachusetts on July 29, 2006.

Ed O'Herron Jr. (90) former North Carolina statehouse member and gubernatorial candidate who helped to build Eckerd Drugs. O'Herron helped to open nearly 260 Eckerd stores in the Carolinas, Tennessee, and Georgia. He died in Charlotte, North Carolina on July 26, 2006.

Harold Enarson (87) former Ohio State University president (1972-81) who fired Woody Hayes after the football coach slugged an opposing player in a 1978 bowl game. Enarson died in Port Townsend, Washington on July 28, 2006.

Rupert Hodson (50) well-known figure in the British community in Florence, Italy for nearly 30 years. Hodson was a former director of the British Institute in Florence and the author of a book on Michelangelo. He died of a heart attack and stroke in Syracuse, Sicily on July 29, 2006.

Daniel Lev (72) leading Indonesia scholar and longtime University of Washington professor. Lev spent years working with lawyers, scholars, and dissidents to improve the Indonesian legal system. He died of lung cancer in Seattle, Washington on July 29, 2006.

C. Frederick Mosteller (89) founder of Harvard University's statistics department and an early promoter of methodologies that can affect public policy. Mosteller was a leading investigator of the polling fiasco in 1948 that embarrassed the era's pollsters and led many to incorrectly report that Republican Thomas Dewey had defeated President Harry S. Truman. He died of sepsis in Falls Church, Virginia on July 23, 2006.

Dewi Zephaniah Phillips (71) professor of the philosophy of religion at Claremont (Calif.) Graduate University. Phillips was considered an expert on the teachings of Ludwig Wittgenstein, the 20th-century philosopher who explored the foundations of logic. Also a research professor at the University of Wales in Swansea, Phillips died after collapsing in that school's library, where he was doing research, on July 25, 2006.

Pierre Vidal-Naquet (76) eminent French historian of the ancient world who became widely known for exposing wartime atrocities of the modern one. A leading scholar of Greek antiquity, Vidal-Naquet became known to a broad general readership as an outspoken opponent of those who deny that the Holocaust happened. He died of a cerebral hemorrhage six days after his 76th birthday, in Nice, France on July 29, 2006.

James Harvey Young (90) social historian of American medicine who wrote engaging studies of fraud, dubious cures, and health quackery and later chronicled the birth of federal food regulation. Young died of a stroke in Atlanta, Georgia on July 29, 2006.

Patrick Allen (79) dashing British actor on stage and screen, perhaps even better known for his resonant voice, a feature of many TV advertising campaigns from the ’60—at one time Allen was known as “The King of the Voice-Over.’’ He died in London, England on July 28, 2006.

Floyd Dixon (77) singer and jump-blues pianist who dubbed himself "Mr. Magnificent" and became an influential figure in the burgeoning rhythm-and-blues scene of '50s southern California. Dixon died of cancer in Orange, California on July 26, 2006.

Heinrich Hollreiser (93) symphonic conductor whose musical career was linked to the postwar musical rebirth in Austria and Germany. After World War II began, Hollreiser appeared in most of Germany's major opera houses but steered clear of Nazi politics. He died in Secheffau, near the Tyrollean town of Kufstein in the Austrian Alps, on July 24, 2006.

Chen Jinlang (45) popular Chinese-language pop singer. Chen was famous for songs in the Hokkien dialect about bad luck or personal difficulties. He died of colon cancer in Singapore on July 25, 2006.

Charles E. Knoblock (89) Associated Press photographer whose images captured presidents, celebrities, sports heroes, and even frolicking polar bears during a 52-year career. Knoblock died in Charlotte, North Carolina on July 28, 2006.

John Mack (78) former principal oboist of the Cleveland Orchestra (1965-2001) who reigned as dean of American oboists for several decades. Mack died of brain cancer in Cleveland, Ohio on July 23, 2006.

Robert ("Bob") Simpson (61) down-to-earth British radio journalist who filed crisp, authoritative reports more than 30 times a day to the BBC's multiple outlets from the world's trouble spots. Simpson died suddenly and unexpectedly in London, England on July 25, 2006.

Elisabeth Volkmann (70) German actress best known as the voice of Marge Simpson in the German version of The Simpsons. (American actress Julie Kavner voices Marge in the USA.) Volkmann died of natural causes in Munich, Germany on July 25, 2006.

Johnny Weissmuller Jr. (65) son of Tarzan film star and five-time Olympic gold medalist swimmer Johnny Weissmuller (d. 1984). Weissmuller Jr. was an underwater demolition specialist in the Navy who later worked as a stage actor and longshoreman in San Francisco in the '70s. He died of liver cancer in San Francisco, California on July 27, 2006.

Hani Awijan (29) leader of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad's military wing the Al-Quds brigades in the West Bank city of Nablus, Israel. Awijan was killed in a gunfight there on July 26, 2006.

Rut Brandt (86) Norwegian author, resistance fighter, and second wife of former German chancellor Willy Brandt (d. 1992), to whom she was married 1948-80. Rut Brandt died in Berlin, Germany on July 28, 2006.

Carl M. Brashear (75) first black US Navy diver, portrayed by Cuba Gooding Jr. in the film Men of Honor (2000). Brashear was the first Navy diver to be restored to full active duty as an amputee, the result of a leg injury he sustained during a salvage operation. He died of respiratory and heart failure in Portsmouth, Virginia on July 25, 2006.

Charles W. Bray (72) former press spokesman for Secretary of State William P. Rogers during tumultuous times in the Nixon administration. Bray resigned when Henry Kissinger replaced Rogers in 1973. Bray died of pneumonia in Milwaukee, Wisconsin on July 23, 2006.

J. Palmer Gaillard Jr. (86) former World War II Navy pilot who served 16 years as mayor of Charleston and helped to upgrade the city. Gaillard was killed in a traffic accident when he pulled out in front of a pickup truck, in Charleston, South Carolina on July 28, 2006.

Lt. Col. Besby Frank Holmes (88) World War II fighter pilot who took part in the successful 1943 mission to kill the Japanese admiral who planned the Pearl Harbor attack. Holmes’s was among the 16 fighter planes that ambushed Adm. Isoroku Yamamoto. Holmes died of a stroke in Greenbrae, California on July 23, 2006.

Jerris Leonard (75) former assistant attorney general for civil rights during the Nixon administration. Leonard oversaw the federal government's efforts to enforce court-ordered desegregation of Southern schools. He died of cancer in Washington, DC on July 27, 2006.

Maryann Mahaffey (81) Detroit city councilwoman for 31 years, known as an advocate for the disenfranchised and for her dedication to improving the quality of life in the city. Mahaffey retired in 2005 after being diagnosed with chronic, nonfatal T-cell leukemia. She died in Detroit, Michigan on July 27, 2006.

Funsho Williams (58) Nigerian civil servant and politician, a former Permanent Secretary of Lagos State (1974-91) who won the 2003 elections under the leadership of President Olusegun Obasango for the People's Democratic Party and had stood twice before in the Lagos State Governorship (Gubernatorial) election. He was found strangled at his home, an apparent homicide in Lagos, Nigeria on July 27, 2006.

Lydia, Duchess of Bedford (88) second wife of the 13th Duke of Bedford who in the '50s helped to turn his ancestral home, Woburn Abbey, into a successful tourist attraction. The Duchess died in Chertsey, Surrey, England after a fall on July 25, 2006.

Emmeline Brice (111) oldest living person and resident of the United Kingdom after the death of Edith Ingamells in March 2006. Brice was said to have attended Queen Victoria's funeral in 1901. Her 85-year-old daughter died in June 2006. Brice died in Leighton Buzzard, England on July 26, 2006.

William Goggins (43) former editor of Wired magazine. In the first fatality of the San Francisco Marathon's 29-year history, Goggins collapsed and died of apparent heart failure as he approached the 23-mile mark of the 26.2-mile race in San Francisco, California on July 30, 2006.

Ken Hansen (53) Native American who spent 30 years trying to convince the US government that the Samish Indian Nation wasn't extinct and deserved treaty fishing rights. In January 2005, a federal appeals court panel cleared the way for the tribe to acquire a share of the Washington state salmon catch. Hansen had diabetes, heart disease, and other chronic illnesses. He died in Seattle, Washington on July 26, 2006.

Michael Lenz (42) Virginia convict who stabbed a fellow inmate to death during a pagan religious ceremony. Lenz said victim Brent Parker (41) was not taking the Nordic pagan religion, Asatru, seriously. Lenz was executed in Jarratt, Virginia on July 27, 2006.

Alexander Safran (95) former chief rabbi of Romania who tried to prevent the deportation of Jews by his country's pro-Nazi regime during World War II. After leaving his homeland for Switzerland, Safran became chief rabbi of Geneva in 1948. He died in Geneva, Switzerland on July 27, 2006.

Sunil Kumar Verma (34) survivor of the 1984 Union Carbide gas leak—and a victim, suffering serious mental illness in the years since the disaster. Verma felt strongly that people responsible for the gas disaster should be punished, but no one had faced trial for the leak by the time he hanged himself in Bhopal, India on July 26, 2006.

Tatiana von Metternich (91) widow of Prince Paul Alfons, the last Prince von Metternich-Winneburg. Princess Tatiana was close to those German aristocrats and princes involved in the unsuccessful plot to kill Hitler in 1944. She died at Schloss Johannisberg, Germany on July 26, 2006.

Louis Winnick (85) economist who played a major role in guiding the investments of the Ford Foundation and promoted low-income home ownership from the late '60s through the '80s. Winnick died of mesothelioma, a type of lung cancer attributed to asbestos exposure, in Manhasset, New York on July 29, 2006.

Jessie Gilbert (19) British chess player who became well known when she won the Women's World Amateur Chess Championship in 1999. Gilbert represented England in every major chess competition. She was killed in a fall from her eighth-floor hotel room in Pardubice, Czech Republic on July 26, 2006.

Bill Meistrell (77) dive-shop owner in the '50s whose synthetic Body Glove wet suits transformed surfing and deep sea diving. Meistrell saw a market for wet suits more flexible and lighter than the rigid rubber skins available at the time. He died of Parkinson's disease in Rancho Palos Verdes, California on July 25, 2006.

Aldo Notari (74) president of the International Baseball Federation. The first European to hold the post, Notari was in office when the International Olympic Committee voted in 2005 to drop baseball and softball from the Olympics after the '08 Beijing Games and lobbied unsuccessfully to have baseball reinstated. He died of stomach cancer in Parma, Italy on July 25, 2006.

Sergio Santander (80) former Chilean Olympic Committee president expelled from the International Olympic Committee in 1999 for corruption. Santander was one of six members of the IOC expelled for taking thousands of dollars and gifts from officials who bid successfully for the 2002 Winter Games in Salt Lake City, Utah. He died of a heart attack in Santiago, Chile on July 25, 2006.