Charles Parkhurst (95) former museum director in Baltimore and Washington and one of the "monuments men," an Allied Forces team that tracked down art stolen by the Nazis during World War II. Beginning in 1945, the last year of the war, the group found and returned more than five million artifacts and art works to their rightful owners. Parkhurst and a team of more than 30 investigators, operating from the former national headquarters of the Nazi Party in Munich, ultimately identified 1,056 repositories of looted art. He died in Amherst, Massachusetts on June 26, 2008.

Lenka Reinerova (92) last of Prague's circle of authors who wrote in German. Reinerova was one of several German-speaking authors—Franz Kafka, Franz Werfel, and Rainer Maria Rilke were among them—who lived and wrote in Prague before World War II. The city had strong German and Jewish populations and a thriving literary community, but the war changed that. Nearly 120,000 Jews lived in Czech territory before the war, but 80,000 of them did not survive the Holocaust. The country now has a Jewish community of only several thousand. Reinerova died in Prague, Czech Republic on June 27, 2008.

Michael Turner (37) contemporary comic-book artist known for the stylized covers he created for major titles and for drawing curvy female characters. Through Aspen MLT, the Santa Monica publishing company he founded in 2003, Turner created online comic adaptations for the NBC series Heroes and published his own titles, including the best-selling Fathom, a deep-sea story about a female superhero with water-based powers. Since 2000, Turner had battled chondrosarcoma, a bone cancer. He died in Santa Monica, California on June 27, 2008.

Howard L. Bachrach (88) virologist who purified the polio and foot-and-mouth disease viruses and was the first to use genetic engineering to produce a vaccine. Bachrach's work on purification of the polio virus made possible the development of the vaccine against the disease by Dr. Jonas Salk. Bachrach died of heart disease in Atlantis, Florida on June 26, 2008.

Eric Chia (75) former steel tycoon with high political connections, acquitted in 2007 in Malaysia's biggest financial scandal. Chia was managing director of Malaysia's top government-controlled steel company, Perwaja Steel Sdn. Bhd., when it teetered near collapse more than 10 years ago under debts and losses exceeding 10 billion ringgit (US$3 billion). He was charged with criminal breach of trust in February 2004 for allegedly misappropriating 76.4 million ringgit (US$22 million) from Perwaja but was acquitted on June 26, 2007 when the trial judge ruled that government prosecutors failed to mount sufficient evidence against him. He died after developing breathing problems, in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on June 24, 2008.

Dr. John Leedom (74) infectious-disease expert who taught at the University of Southern California's Keck School of Medicine for 40 years (1962-2002). Leedom was also attending physician for medicine and communicable diseases at Los Angeles County-USC Medical Center (1965-2002) and chief of the division of infectious diseases there (1975-2002). He died of a heart attack while visiting Australia, on June 27, 2008.

Kenneth A. Macke (69) former chairman and chief executive of the Dayton Hudson Corp., forerunner of retail giant Target Corp. In a 33-year (1961-94) career with Dayton Hudson, Macke rose from a sales trainee hired right out of college to chairman and CEO of Target, then a division of Dayton Hudson, and on to chairman and CEO of the entire company. He died of complications from Parkinson's disease, in Napa, California on June 28, 2008.

Larry Oakley (80) barber who owned the oldest business in Westwood Village, Calif.—a shop his family opened in 1929—and counted celebrities including Howard Hughes and Bing Crosby among his regular customers. Oakley died of a staph infection in Marina del Rey, California on June 25, 2008.

Robert V. Phillips (91) former general manager and chief engineer of the Los Angeles Department of Water & Power whose novel plan to ration electricity helped the city to survive the Arab oil embargo in the early '70s. Phillips died of heart failure and pneumonia in Pasadena, California on June 28, 2008.

Philip ("Flip") Smith (61) longtime Van Nuys tire dealer who expanded the neighborhood watch concept in Los Angeles to businesses, an innovation that reduced crime along the Sepulveda Boulevard corridor. In the early '90s, Smith formed the Sepulveda Boulevard Business Watch, eventually pulling together about 300 businesses along a seven-mile stretch to clean up and police the thoroughfare. The group was the first of its kind in the area. Smith died of liver cancer in Woodland Hills, California on June 23, 2008.

Dr. Fyodor Uglov (103) Russian physician who earned an entry in 1994 in the Guinness Book of World Records as the world's oldest practicing surgeon and laid down his scalpel only at age 102. Uglov died in St. Petersburg, Russia on June 23, 2008.

Lyall Watson (69) South African-born maverick scientist and explorer who wrote the best-selling book Supernature and introduced the dubious "100th monkey" theory to explain the sudden and inexplicable transmission of behavior and ideas across social groups. Watson died of a stroke brought on by Lewy body dementia, in Gympie, Australia on June 25, 2008.

Severin Wunderman (69) owner of Corum, the Swiss luxury watch manufacturer, and an art collector and philanthropist. Wunderman built Gucci Timepieces into a multimillion-dollar business called Severin Montres and remained sole manufacturer and distributor of Gucci watches for more than 25 years. He sold his Gucci watch business in the late '90s and bought the Switzerland-based Corum company in 2000. He died of a stroke in Nice, France on June 25, 2008.

John W. F. Dulles (95) professor of Latin American studies at the University of Texas and eldest son of former Secretary of State John Foster Dulles (1953-59). A noted scholar of Brazilian history, the younger Dulles taught at Texas for 45 years. His wife of 68 years, Eleanor Ritter Dulles, died on June 19. John Dulles was preparing for the fall semester when he died in Austin, Texas on June 23, 2008.

Leonid Hurwicz (90) Polish economist who shared the 2007 Nobel Prize in economics for his work on mechanism design theory, which helps to explain the interaction among individuals, markets, and institutions. A former economics professor at the University of Minnesota, Hurwicz was the oldest person ever to win a Nobel Prize. He had been undergoing kidney dialysis and died in Minneapolis, Minnesota on June 24, 2008.

Robert Lewis Shayon (95) voracious reader and self-taught scholar who wrote and produced ground-breaking radio programs in the '40s, including the You Are There series for CBS, and later became a longtime TV critic for the Saturday Review and an Ivy League professor—all without a college education of his own. Shayon died of pneumonia in Frankfort, Kentucky on June 28, 2008.

Sylvinha Araujo (56) Brazilian pop singer known as the "Janis Joplin of Brazil" who launched one of her first No. 1 hit records with Witch Craft of Sprout in 1967. Araujo died of breast cancer in Săo Paulo, Brazil on June 26, 2008.

Irina Baronova (89) international ballet star, last of three celebrated prodigies known as the "baby ballerinas" after George Balanchine discovered them in Paris in the '30s. The others were Tamara Toumanova and Tatiana Riabouchinska. Baronova was one of ballet's most acclaimed stars until she chose to retire at age 27 in 1946 to marry British theatrical agent Cecil Tennant (killed in an auto crash in 1967). She was the mother of actress Victoria Tennant, once married (1986-94) to comic actor and author Steve Martin. Baronova died in her sleep in Byron Bay, New South Wales, Australia on June 28, 2008.

Howard Brandy (79) longtime entertainment publicist who got his start in pop music and eventually moved on to high-profile film campaigns. Brandy also helped to publicize TV shows, including working closely with Rocky & Bullwinkle creator Jay Ward in the '60s to stir up interest in the various TV series that featured the animated characters. Brandy was known as the model for Ward's cartoon character Dudley Do-Right. He died three days after his 79th birthday, in Los Angeles, California on June 23, 2008.

George Carlin (71) stand-up comedian, a counterculture hero famed for his routines about drugs and dirty words. Known for his provocative material, Carlin won status as an anti-Establishment icon in the '70s with stand-up bits full of drug references and a routine called "Seven Words You Can Never Say on Television." A regulatory battle over a radio broadcast of the routine ultimately reached the US Supreme Court, which ruled that the words cited in Carlin's routine were indecent and that the government's broadcast regulator could ban them from being aired at times when children might be listening. Carlin had a history of heart and drug-dependency problems. He died of heart failure after being hospitalized earlier in the afternoon for chest pains, in Santa Monica, California on June 22, 2008.

Dave Carpenter (48) jazz bassist who worked with scores of legendary names, appeared on more than 200 recordings, and was a founding member of the Lounge Art Ensemble. Most recently, Carpenter had been playing in a trio with pianist Alan Pasqua and drummer Peter Erskine and had just released an album called Standards. He died of a heart attack in Burbank, California on June 23, 2008.

Marie Castello (93) Asbury Park fortune-teller known as Madam Marie, who became enshrined in rock 'n' roll mythology thanks to Bruce Springsteen. Billing herself as a psychic reader and adviser, Castello had told fortunes on the Asbury Park Boardwalk since the '30s. In 1973, Springsteen wrote the song "4th of July, Asbury Park (Sandy)"; his lyric "Did you hear the cops finally busted Madame Marie for tellin' fortunes better than they do" made her famous. She died in Asbury Park, New Jersey on June 27, 2008.

Lilyan Chauvin (82) veteran character actress and longtime acting coach in Los Angeles. Chauvin, who had battled breast cancer and congestive heart disease, died in Studio City, California on June 26, 2008.

Hoke Dorough (69) longtime code enforcement supervisor and father of former Backstreet Boys' vocalist Howie Dorough who helped to establish the Dorough Lupus Foundation in memory of Howie's sister, Caroline Dorough-Cochran, who lost her life to the devastating disease. The elder Dorough recently underwent intensive radiation and chemotherapy treatments after being diagnosed with lung and brain cancer earlier in the year. He died in his sleep in Palm Bay, Florida on June 22, 2008.

Dody Goodman (93) daffy comedienne known for her TV appearances on Jack Paar's late-night talk show in the late '50s and as the mother on the soap-opera parody Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman, after which she did guest shots on such shows as Diff'rent Strokes, St. Elsewhere, and Murder, She Wrote. In the '40s and early '50s Goodman performed regularly on the Broadway stage as a chorus member in such musicals as Something for the Boys, One Touch of Venus, Laffing Room Only, Miss Liberty, Call Me Madam, My Darlin' Aida, and Wonderful Town, in which she originated the role of Violet, the streetwalker. She moved easily from stage to TV to movies, appearing in such popular films as Grease and Grease 2, playing Blanche, the principal's assistant, and Splash. In later years, Goodman was a regular in Nunsense and its various sequels, appearing off-Broadway and on tour in Dan Goggin's comic musical celebration of the Little Sisters of Hoboken. She died in Englewood, New Jersey on June 22, 2008.

Klaus Michael Grueber (67) German opera and theater director renowned for lyric elegance. Over the years, Gruber worked with the Berliner Schaubuehne in Germany, Piccolo Teatro in Milan, Italy, and in Zürich, Switzerland, for the Schauspielhaus. His last project was the opera Luci mie traditrici by Sciarrino for this year's Salzburg Festival, which he was unable to finish. Grueber died on the Brittany island resort of Belle-Ile-en-Mer in western France on June 22, 2008.

Judith Holzmeister (88) Austrian stage and film actress who memorably played lead female roles such as Kunigunde in poet Franz Grillparzer's award-winning stage adaptation of König Ottokars Gluck und Ende when the Burg Theater reopened in 1955 after World War II. Holzmeister was an ex-wife (1947-55) of German actor Curd Jürgens (d. 1982). She died in Baden, Austria on June 23, 2008.

Garven F. Hudgins (84) former Associated Press foreign correspondent who covered the trial of Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann, whom Israel pursued, captured, tried, and hanged in 1962. Hudgins died after suffering from dementia for three years, in Potomac, Maryland on June 23, 2008.

Ron Hunter (70) former New Orleans news anchor who worked at TV and radio stations in several other major cities, including stints in Miami, Philadelphia, and Chicago. A native of Bogalusa, La., where his father had been mayor, Hunter started there in newspaper and radio work. He helped to establish CBS affiliate WWL-TV as New Orleans' dominant station (1967-72) and later returned to the city in the '80s to work at WVUE-TV, the ABC affiliate, and to host several radio talk shows. Hunter died in Las Vegas, Nevada on June 24, 2008.

Alla Kazanskaya (88) Russian stage and film actress best known for her leading role as Lidiya Stepanovna in director Nikita Mikhaolkov's Oscar-winning film Utomlyonnye solntsem (1994). Kazanskaya had been a longtime member of the Vakhtangov theatrical troupe; her last stage performances were in such roles as Arina Galchikha in director Petr Fomenko's classic play adaptation, Bez viny vinovatye (1993), and as Mother Folan in McDonaugh's production, Koroleva Krasoty (The Beauty Queen), premiered in September 2006. She died in Moscow, Russia on June 25, 2008.

Ruslana Korshunova (20) Kazakhstani fashion model discovered in 2003 at age 16 by Debbie Jones of London-based Models One. Korshunova appeared on the covers of European editions of Elle and Vogue magazines and was featured in ads for designers Vera Wang, Marc Jacobs, and Christian Dior. She was later represented by IMG modeling agency in Paris, London, New York, Milan, and Moscow alongside supermodels Kate Moss and Heidi Klum. She fell to her death from her ninth-floor apartment in an apparent suicide, in New York City on June 28, 2008.

Ronnie Mathews (72) jazz pianist whose credits as a sideman with stars of jazz were well known. Matthews was highly valued by many noted fellow musicians for his harmonic acuity, his imagination as an improviser, and his sensitivity as an accompanist. He died of pancreatic cancer in Brooklyn, New York on June 28, 2008.

Ary Moleon (82) Argentine-born journalist who spent 40 years covering diplomacy and politics in Washington, DC for the Associated Press's Latin American service. Moleon died in his sleep in Broward County, Florida on June 24, 2008.

David Nicholls (58) British film, TV, and stage actor who had roles in blockbuster films including Gladiator (2000) and Gangs of New York (2002). After contracting asbestos-linked cancer as a teenager, Nicholls first served in the British Army and then later worked as a police officer before pursuing his acting career. His wide range of TV credits also included Emmerdale, Coronation Street, Waitin for God, ad The Commander. He died of mesothelioma in Armley, Leeds, England on June 23, 2008.

Matthew Odietus (40) guitarist of the legendary punk band The Candy Snatchers. Odietus had traveled many times from coast to coast with the band and appeared in several music magazines but had spent 17 days in jail for narcotics possession in November 2006. He died in Virginia Beach, Virginia on June 28, 2008.

Daihachi Oguchi (84) master Japanese drummer who led the spread of the art of taiko drumming to the US and throughout Japan. Oguchi helped to found top US taiko groups, including San Francisco Taiko Dojo, which has performed in Hollywood movies and on international tours since its founding in 1968. A former jazz musician, Oguchi was one of the first to elevate the traditional folk sounds of taiko to modern music played in concert halls. After being struck by a car while crossing the street on June 26, he died of excessive bleeding the next day in Tokyo, Japan on June 27, 2008.

Stig Olin (87) Swedish actor, director, and composer who appeared in many early Ingmar Bergman films and was the father of actress Lena Olin. Stig Olin died near Stockholm, Sweden on June 28, 2008.

Leonard Pennario (83) popular classical pianist known for his enthusiastic public performances and recordings of the more melodic modern composers. A best-selling recording artist, Pennario made his concert debut with the Dallas Symphony at age 12 after learning Grieg's Piano Concerto in a week so he could play it from memory. Beginning in the ‘60s, he also played in trios with violinist Jascha Heifetz and cellist Gregor Piatigorsky. Pennario died from complications of Parkinson's disease in La Jolla, California on June 27, 2008.

Józef Szajna (86) Polish playwright, set designer, and theater director who through often nearly silent productions evoked the beastliness of humanity, the suffocation of individuality, and the oppression of dictatorship, winning acclaim even during the Communist era. Szajna was a Roman Catholic who survived five years in the Auschwitz and Buchenwald concentration camps. He died in Warsaw, Poland on June 24, 2008.

Chanda Taylor (35) TV news producer who worked at CNN and WSB-TV in Atlanta. Taylor died of brain cancer in Newnan, Georgia on June 26, 2008.

Edgar Vincent (90) veteran press representative for a roster of opera singers dating to Ezio Pinza, notably as publicity agent and close adviser to Plácido Domingo for more than 25 years. Vincent also represented Beverly Sills, Mikhail Baryshnikov, and a bevy of stars in classical music during a 60-year career. He died of a blood clot while recuperating from a partial hip replacement in New York City on June 26, 2008.

Jay Votel (52) editor for the Washington Times. Votel spent nearly 40 years in the news business, getting his first by-line for covering a high school basketball game when he was 14. After working for other papers in Maryland, he joined the Times more than seven years ago. He died of cancer in Sterling, Virginia on June 25, 2008.

Craig Yerkes (40) lead guitarist and founding member of the San Diego-based acoustic rock band The Grams. The group released its second full-length CD in April and won multiple honors at the San Diego Music Awards. Yerkes was killed in a single-car accident in San Diego, California on June 28, 2008.

Lt. Col. Charles ("Chuck") Dryden (87) one of the first of the pioneering black World War II pilots known as the Tuskegee Airmen. Dryden's 21-year military career included combat missions in Korea and assignments in Japan, Germany, and US bases. He retired from the US Air Force in 1962. In March 2007, Dryden and some 300 surviving members of the Tuskegee Airmen gathered in Washington to receive the Congressional Gold Medal. He died in Atlanta, Georgia on June 24, 2008.

Bryan Baptiste (52) mayor of Kauai, Hawaii who championed affordable housing and opposed gated communities. A former county councilman, Baptiste was first elected mayor in 2002. He championed the building of more affordable housing, put together programs to fight drug abuse, and supported legislation to protect public beach access. He was recovering from heart bypass surgery earlier in the month when he went into cardiac arrest. Paramedics tried to revive him, but he was pronounced dead at a hospital in Lihue, Hawaii on June 22, 2008.

Ruth Cardoso (77) Brazilian anthropologist who built a career as one of her country's most respected intellectuals and feminists before reluctantly becoming its first lady. In 1952 she married sociologist Fernando Cardoso, who was elected president of Brazil in '94 and served eight years. Ruth Cardoso died of a heart attack in Săo Paulo, Brazil on June 24, 2008.

Francesco Domenico Chiarello (109) one of the last two surviving veterans of World War I in Italy. Chiarello enlisted in the Italian army in 1918 and spent three months in training, then served as an infantryman before he was sent to the front lines by sea from the port of Taranto to Albania. He died in Cirň Marina, Italy on June 27, 2008.

Arthur Raymond Chung (90) first president of Guyana who helped to usher in a Socialist government in the South American republic. A former high court judge, Chung was president in Prime Minister Forbes Burnham's administration until 1980, when Guyana's constitution was changed to make the top political post into an executive job. He was titular president when the tiny English-speaking country switched to socialism in 1974, strengthening ties with China, North Korea, and regional Communist nations. Chung died in Georgetown, Guyana on June 23, 2008.

Douglas Dollarhide (85) first black mayor of Compton, California whose election in 1969 signaled the demographic transformation of what was once a predominantly white area. Dollarhide oversaw the construction of a City Hall and a community center later named the Dollarhide Neighborhood Center. He was on life support for three years before his family chose to take him off. He died in Compton, California on June 28, 2008.

Joseph Dwyer (31) former US Army medic made famous by a photograph reprinted in international newspapers of him carrying a wounded Iraqi boy to a makeshift military hospital through a heavy battle zone between the US Army's 7th Cavalry Regiment and Iraqi forces during the first week of the Iraq war on March 25, 2003 near the village of Al Faysaliyah, Iraq. After returning from Iraq, Dwyer struggled with posttraumatic stress for some time. He was hospitalized with an apparent overdose on prescription pills and an aerosol duster and died in Pinehurst, Georgia on June 28, 2008.

George B. Hartzog Jr. (88) former director (1964-72) of the National Park Service who expanded the nation's system of parks, wildlife refuges, and historic sites and helped to secure passage of the National Historic Preservation Act in 1966. Hartzog died of complications from diabetes and kidney disease in Arlington, Virginia on June 27, 2008.

Shao Hua (69) Chinese photographer and daughter-in-law of the late Chinese Communist leader Mao Zedong. Shao was married to Mao's last surviving second son, Mao Anquing (d. 2007). She began taking photographs in the '50s and traveled throughout China shooting old revulotionary bases, factories, impoverished villages, schools, and army units after the country's civil war before she became a major general in the People's Liberation Army. She died in Beijing, China on June 24, 2008.

Terry Hyman (56) Democrat serving his second term in the Oklahoma state House. Hyman was killed in a tractor accident on his southern Oklahoma farm. He was apparently standing beside his tractor when it lunged forward and knocked him down; then a mower rolled over him. He was found dead at his farm near Leon, Oklahoma on June 27, 2008.

Sam Manekshaw (94) India's most celebrated army chief. Manekshaw was commissioned into the Indian army in 1934 when the country was still ruled by Britain and served in Myanmar, then called Burma, during World War II. He became chief of the Indian army in 1969 and later led troops to victory in a '71 war against neighboring Pakistan that led to the creation of an independent Bangladesh. He rose to the rank of field marshal in 1973, one of only two Indian army generals to have reached that position. Manekshaw had been in a military hospital in the southern Indian town of Wellington for some time because of a progressive lung disease and died there on June 27, 2008.

Erik Nunn (37) chief financial officer of the construction firm American Underground Contractor Inc. and political candidate who had just finished second in Contra Costa County's (Calif.) District 5 supervisor's race in June 2008 but was set to face incumbent Federal Glover in a November run-off election. A licensed pilot, Nunn was one of four people, including his wife Tanya and another couple, killed in a small plane crash outside Las Vegas, Nevada on June 28, 2008.

Frank Powers (67) retired Wall Street executive, a millionaire endorsed by Republican leaders as their candidate for the New York congressional seat being vacated by Rep. Vito Fossella. Republicans have held Fossella's seat for almost 30 years, and Democrat leaders have targeted it. Fossella was arrested in May on drunken-driving charges, later admitted to fathering a child out of wedlock, and decided not to run for reelection. Powers helped to run New York City's bus and subway systems. He died in his sleep in New York City on June 22, 2008.

Marilyn Ryan (75) cofounder and first mayor (1973-76) of Rancho Palos Verdes who later became a Republican assemblywoman (1976-82), then was appointed director of the California Arts Council. Ryan died of congestive heart failure in Laguna Woods, California on June 22, 2008.

Robert C. Seamans Jr. (89) NASA's manager of the Apollo moon-landing program who later was secretary of the Air Force, then first administrator of the federal energy research agency. Seamans died of a heart attack in Beverly Farms, Massachusetts on June 28, 2008.

Kent Snyder (49) manager of Ron Paul's unsuccessful 1988 Presidential bid as a Libertarian. Snyder died of viral pneumonia in Clute, Texas on June 26, 2008.

Umoja Bakari (28) inmate with a laundry list of drug-related crimes, arrested without incident in an Atlanta hotel room on June 24 and taken into custody after police received information that the accused Ohio drug kingpin was featured on America's Most Wanted fugitives web site. Bakari was found hanged in his prison cell, an apparent suicide, in Dekalb County, Georgia on June 28, 2008.

James A. Baker (77) former Texas Supreme Court Justice. Then-Gov. George W. Bush appointed Baker to the Texas Supreme Court in 1995, and he was elected to a full six-year term in '96. He was a partner at K&L Gates's Dallas office, working on appellate matters, arbitration, and mediation. Baker, who had been battling cancer, died in his sleep in Dallas, Texas on June 22, 2008.

Ray Bartlett (88) longtime Pasadena civic leader and a childhood friend and college teammate of baseball great Jackie Robinson (d. 1972). In 1938, Bartlett and Robinson led the football team at what is now Pasadena City College to a state championship; at UCLA, they were among only four black players on the football team in 1939. The same year that Robinson broke the color barrier in major league baseball by joining the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947, Bartlett became only the second black to join the Pasadena Police Department, where he had a 20-year career. He died of complications from outpatient surgery, in Lynwood, California on June 22, 2008.

Katherine Bogdanovich Loker (92) philanthropist, heir to the StarKist tuna fortune who along with her husband donated millions of dollars to Harvard University, USC, and other institutions. Loker was the daughter of a fishing boat captain who in 1917 founded a fishing cannery that became StarKist Foods, now owned by Del Monte Foods Co. She died of a stroke in Oceanside, California on June 26, 2008.

Warren Ferguson (87) judge for more than 40 years who helped to pave the way for teenage basketball players to join the NBA. Ferguson was a federal judge in 1971 when he ruled in an antitrust case brought by Spencer Haywood, who wanted to sign with the Seattle SuperSonics. Ferguson declared illegal an NBA rule that forbade the signing of players until four years after they had completed high school. In another ‘70s case, involving the Sony Betamax recorder, Ferguson ruled that VCR manufacturers were not liable for copyright infringement committed by people who used the machines to tape TV shows. He died of congestive heart failure in Fullerton, California on June 25, 2008.

Asia Leeshawn Ferguson 4th (17) Springfield, South Carolina teen reportedly struck and decapitated by the Batman: The Ride roller coaster at Six Flags Over Georgia while he was visiting the theme park with a church group. Reports indicate Ferguson climbed over two six-foot fences into a restricted area under the roller coaster to retrieve a hat he lost from the ride. None of the riders were injured. He died in Austell, Georgia on June 28, 2008.

Muriel Gluck (97) philanthropist who gave millions of dollars to support the arts and education, primarily in Los Angeles and San Diego. Muriel and Maxwell H. Gluck (d. 1984), a retail magnate and racehorse breeder, established the Maxwell H. Gluck Foundation, and Muriel continued giving after her husband's death. She died of a stroke in Beverly Hills, California on June 27, 2008.

Christopher ("Crip") McWilliams (44) convicted murderer and member of Northern Ireland's National Liberation Army (INLA) during the paramilitary criminal activities of the '90s. McWilliams served only two years in prison for the capital murder of Loyalist Volunteer Force leader Billy Wright, shot and killed as he sat in a prison van inside the walls of the jail in December 1997. McWilliams was released in 2000 after a public inquiry of his conviction. He died of cancer in Newry, Ireland on June 28, 2008.

Hilda Newson (109) believed to be the third-oldest person in the United Kingdom. After celebrating her 109th birthday in December 2007, Newson told journalists she took no pills or drugs but had given up smoking at age 85. She died in her sleep in Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, England on June 27, 2008.

Revius Ortique Jr. (84) former civil rights attorney who became the first black justice on the Louisiana Supreme Court. As a civil rights attorney in the '50s and '60s, Ortique led efforts in the state to integrate labor unions and represented black workers in lawsuits seeking pay equal to that of their white counterparts. He died from complications of a stroke suffered June 14, in Baton Rouge, Louisiana on June 22, 2008.

Enriqueta Rodriguez (90) maternal grandmother of Spain's Princess Letizia. Rodriguez lived a private life in the Spanish coastal city of Alicante where she moved with her husband, former cab driver Francisco Rocasolano, after his retirement. Rodriguez died in Madrid, Spain on June 22, 2008.

Nicole Sesker (39) troubled stepdaughter of former Baltimore police commissioner Leonard D. Hamm whose story was told in a 2005 New York Times article that described the toll of drugs on Sesker and her stepfather. Sesker had been working as a prostitute to pay for her heroin addiction over the past few years in one of the most dangerous neighborhoods in Baltimore, a city with one of the highest homicide rates in the country. She was found strangled to death in Baltimore, Maryland on June 27, 2008.

Vlado Taneski (56) Macedonian journalist charged with the murders of at least two elderly women. Taneski was being investigated in the disappearance of another woman and the murder of Zivana Temelkoska (65), whose body was found earlier this year. Police became suspicious after Taneski published articles about the crimes in a national daily newspaper that contained details not released to the public. A court ordered him held for 30 days pending the conclusion of the investigation. He was found dead with his head in a bucket of water in his cell in Skopje, Macedonia on June 23, 2008.

Ira Tucker (83) little man with a big vocal range and acrobatic stage antics who as lead singer of the Dixie Hummingbirds helped to propel gospel music toward a more emotive style. Tucker joined what became one of the longest-lasting groups in gospel music when he was 13 or 14 and never left. He had already survived two major heart attacks when he died of heart failure in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on June 24, 2008.

Robert Stacy Yarbrough (30) Virginia man who killed a store owner by sawing at his neck with a pocketknife during a 1997 robbery. Yarbrough was sentenced to death for the murder of 77-year-old Cyril Hugh Hamby. He was executed by lethal injection in Jarratt, Virginia on June 25, 2008.

Uga VI the Bulldog (9) English bulldog, mascot of the University of Georgia. Uga VI became the mascot in 1999 for the school's teams, known as the Bulldogs. He was a regular on the sidelines at home football games in a shirt stitched with the letter G. Uga's owner found the mascot breathing heavily at home on June 27. The dog died of congestive heart failure after being taken to a veterinarian, in Athens, Georgia on June 28, 2008.

Charles Dempsey (86) veteran soccer administrator who once abstained from a vote that cost South Africa hosting rights for the 2006 World Cup. Dempsey was best remembered for not casting a vote at a 2000 meeting of the Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA; the sport's world governing body) to decide which country hosted the 2006 World Cup. His decision not to vote resulted in Germany winning the rights; his inaction earned the ire of sections of the world soccer community, particularly South Africa, and he never disclosed his reasons. He died in Auckland, New Zealand on June 24, 2008.

Vic Hershkowitz (89) retired New York City fireman who learned handball on the playgrounds of Brooklyn and was considered the sport's most brilliant player. Competing from the early '40s to the early '60s, Hershkowitz captured 23 national amateur titles, including a record nine consecutive three-wall singles championships (1950-58). He swept the one-, three-, and four-wall singles championships in 1952, later won 12 Masters events, and played recreationally in south Florida into his 80s. He died of complications from heart and lung diseases in Plantation, Florida on June 23, 2008.

Viktor Kuzkin (67) three-time Olympic champion in ice hockey. A defenseman born in Moscow, Kuzkin won gold medals with the Soviet Union teams at three Winter Olympics (1964-72) and at eight world championships. He played 169 times for the USSR, scoring 18 goals, and was inducted into the International Ice Hockey Federation Hall of Fame in 2005. He died of a heart attack after a diving accident earlier in the week at the Russian Black Sea resort of Sochi, where the 2014 Winter Olympics will be held, on June 24, 2008.

Nicolae Linca (79) Romanian boxer who won the welterweight gold medal at the 1956 Olympics while fighting with a broken wrist. Linca was Romania's only Olympic gold medalist boxer. He won the final at the Melbourne Games by beating Ireland's Frederick Tiedt. Linca had been ailing for several years with Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases. He died in his hometown of Feisa, Transylvania on June 28, 2008.

Jane McGrath (42) British-born wife of former Australian cricket champion Glenn McGrath who had battled breast, hip, and brain cancer over the past 10 years and had undergone further surgery earlier this year. The couple founded the McGrath Foundation, which aims to raise breast cancer awareness and money to fund more breast-care nurses in hospitals, particularly in remote rural and regional areas throughout Australia. Jane McGrath died after complications from surgery, in Sydney, Australia on June 22, 2008.

Jim Plummer (56) baseball executive who had been with the New York Mets organization since he was Nolan Ryan's minor league bat boy in 1965. Plummer started with the Mets in Marion, Va. and moved up to the major league team in 1976. At his death, he was director of corporate sales. He underwent a liver and kidney transplant last weekend and died of a heart attack in New York City on June 24, 2008.

Polk Robison (96) former Texas Tech basketball coach whose success helped the school to break into the Southwest Conference in 1956. Robison coached Texas Tech (1942-61) and was its athletic director (1961-69). As a coach, he had a career record of 248-195, the second-most wins in school history. His teams won three consecutive Border Conference titles. Five years after entering the Southwest Conference, the Red Raiders won the league championship. Robison died in Lubbock, Texas on June 27, 2008.