Fran�çoise ("Fifi") Demulder (61) French war photographer who in 1976 became the first woman to win the prestigious World Press Photo award, for a striking black and white photo of a Palestinian woman raising her hands at a masked militiaman in Beirut's war-ravaged La Quarantaine district. Demulder died of a heart attack in the Paris suburb of Levallois-Perret, France on September 3, 2008.

Robert Giroux (94) editor and publisher who introduced and nurtured some of the major authors of the 20th century, from T. S. Eliot and Jack Kerouac to Bernard Malamud and Susan Sontag, and ultimately added his name to one of the nation's most distinguished publishing houses, Farrar, Straus & Giroux. Robert Giroux was also known for having rejected J. D. Salinger's Catcher in the Rye and Kerouac's On the Road. He died in his sleep in Tinton Falls, New Jersey on September 5, 2008.

Alain Jacquet (69) French pop artist known for his reinterpretations of famous paintings. Jacquet's work often reflected pop art, which emerged in Britain and the US in the '50s and '60s and drew on advertising, comics, and other venues of popular culture. He is pictured above with his painting, Disguising the Birth of Venus Noii (1963-64). He died of cancer in New York City on September 4, 2008.

Thomas J. Bata (93) Czech-born head of the worldwide family shoe empire that bears his name. Bata's father, Tomas, founded the shoe empire in Zlin in 1894, and it later became the giant Bata Shoe Organization. Thomas J. Bata died in Toronto, Canada on September 1, 2008.

Calvin L. Beale (85) US Department of Agriculture demographer, among the first to recognize the transformation of America's rural landscape from farms to a mixture of farms, industry, and vacation homes. Beale died of colon cancer in Washington, DC on September 1, 2008.

Helen Galland (83) retail executive who began her career as a sales assistant at Lord & Taylor and became one of the few women of her time to run a fashion-oriented retailer as president of Bonwit Teller. Galland presided over the Bonwit chain (1980-83) when the company, a leading symbol of classic and elegant female style under Mildred Custin (1965-70), had undergone a decline in its image; it went out of business in 1990. Galland died of a heart attack suffered at dinner in a midtown Manhattan restaurant on September 1, 2008.

Michael Hammer (60) coauthor with James Champy of a best-selling book, Reengineering the Corporation (1993), which some business experts say significantly influenced the way many corporations have reorganized their workplaces by focusing on the expertise of their employees. Hammer died of a brain hemorrhage in Boston, Massachusetts on September 3, 2008.

Miroslav Havel (86) glass blower, cutter, engraver, designer, polisher, and sculptor, one of a pair of unlikely Czech immigrants to Ireland who together revived the Waterford glass industry after a century's dormancy. Summoned to Ireland in 1947 by a former employer, Karel Bacik, Havel became chief designer of what is now Waterford Crystal, beginning by designing glassware for local pubs and hotels and recruiting glass cutters and engravers from nearby technical schools. He died of heart failure in Waterford, Ireland on September 5, 2008.

Oded Schramm (46) Israeli-born mathematician who melded ideas from two branches of mathematics into an equation that applies to a multitude of physics problems from the percolation of water through rocks to the tangling of polymers. A member of Microsoft Research's theory group, the avid and experienced hiker was found dead a day after he was killed in a fall at Guye Peak near Snoqualmie Pass in Washington State, on September 1, 2008.

Mila Schön (91) designer whose understated fashions and precisely tailored clothes made her a stalwart of Italian haute couture beginning in the '60s and a leader in high-end ready-to-wear. Schön's clients included Jacqueline Kennedy and her sister, Lee Radziwill, and Marella Agnelli, wife of Italian industrialist Giovanni Agnelli. Schön is pictured above with a suit she designed for fashion icon Diana Vreeland. Schön had been ill for several months and died in Alessandria, southwest of Milan, Italy, on September 4, 2008.

Thubten J. Norbu (86) eldest brother of Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama and himself regarded as a reincarnated saint. Also known as Taktser Rinpoche, Norbu was a former representative of the Dalai Lama in Japan and a former abbot of Kumbum monastery in Amdo, Tibet. After leaving Tibet in the '50s, he taught Tibetan Studies at Indiana University, where he founded the Tibetan Cultural Center in 1979. He died in Bloomington, Indiana on September 5, 2008.

Lucian W. Pye (86) political scientist who used his intellect, psychoanalytic insights, and intuition to develop startling new perspectives on area studies, particularly concerning China and other Asian nations. A longtime professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Pye's health had deteriorated after a fall in July; he died of pneumonia in Boston, Massachusetts on September 5, 2008.

Carol Cafferty (60) wife of controversial CNN commentator and newscaster Jack Cafferty. The couple had been married for 35 years. Carol Cafferty died unexpectedly in New York City on September 5, 2008.

Ken Campbell (66) British actor, writer, and director whose career ranged from sitcom roles to a 22-hour stage extravaganza. In 1976 Campbell formed the Science Fiction Theatre of Liverpool, mounting shows including the eight-hour sci-fi play cycle Illuminatus, the 22-hour epic The Warp, and a stage version of Douglas Adams' The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Campbell was found dead at his home in Epping Forest, east of London, England on August 31, 2008.

Albert & Jennie Daigrepont (86, 77) parents of popular New Orleans musician Bruce Daigrepont, best known as the accordionist of the world-renowned traditional Cajun musical troupe The Bruce Daigrepont Cajun Band. Albert and Jennie Daigrepont were killed in a car accident as they evacuated before Hurricane Gustav outside Cary, Mississippi on August 31, 2008.

Arne Domnerus (83) alto saxophonist and orchestra leader, one of Sweden's most influential jazz musicians. Domnerus played with jazz greats such as Charlie Parker, Clark Terry, and Quincy Jones and often performed at the Nalen jazz club in Stockholm, where he led his own orchestra for many years. He underwent heart surgery in 2007, after which he suffered from pneumonia and a brain hemorrhage. He died in Stockholm, Sweden on September 2, 2008.

Edwin O. Guthman (89) Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who made President Richard M. Nixon's infamous "enemies list" and was a former press secretary (1961-65) to Robert F. Kennedy. Guthman won the Pulitzer for national reporting in 1950 for his stories in the Seattle Times on the Washington state Legislature's Un-American Activities Committee; his reporting cleared a University of Washington professor of allegations that he was a Communist supporter. Guthman died of amyloidosis in Los Angeles, California on August 31, 2008.

Mel Harris (65) former top TV executive at Paramount and Sony Pictures Entertainment known as a TV, video, and cable innovator. Harris helped to steer the rise of cable TV's USA Network and the introduction of satellite distribution for first-run programming with the launch of Entertainment Tonight. He was also a pioneer of selling movies directly to the public on videocassettes, which changed the economics of the industry. He died of cancer in Los Angeles, California on September 6, 2008.

Sheldon Keller (85) writer who collaborated with Neil Simon, Woody Allen, Mel Brooks, and Carl Reiner on the '50s sketch comedy show Caesar's Hour, a spinoff of the popular Sid Caesar program Your Show of Shows, and wrote variety shows for Frank Sinatra, Sophia Loren, and other stars. Keller died of complications from Alzheimer's disease in Los Angeles, California on September 1, 2008.

Don LaFontaine (68) man who popularized the catch-phrase "In a world where..." and lent his voice to thousands of movie trailers. LaFontaine made more than 5,000 trailers in his 33-year career while working for the top studios and TV networks. He died from complications of pneumothorax (collapsed lung) in Los Angeles, California on September 1, 2008.

Bill Melendez (91) animator who gave life to Snoopy, Charlie Brown, and other "Peanuts" characters in scores of movies and TV specials. A former Disney animator in the late '30s, Melendez was best known for such TV classics as A Charlie Brown Christmas and It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown. He died in Santa Monica, California on September 2, 2008.

Anita Page (98) former MGM actress who appeared in films with Lon Chaney, Joan Crawford, and Buster Keaton during the transition from silent movies to talkies. Page costarred in the Oscar-winning Broadway Melody (1929), arguably the first true film musical. She died in her sleep in Los Angeles, California on September 6, 2008.

Ike Pappas (75) longtime CBS newsman who on Nov. 24, 1963 was a few feet from Presidential assassin Lee Harvey Oswald when he was fatally shot by Jack Ruby while being transferred from the Dallas Police Station to a jail cell. Pappas reported the chaotic scene live on the air. He died of heart disease in Arlington, Virginia on August 31, 2008.

Michael Pate (88) Australian actor who appeared in more than 50 films and was a regular guest star on American TV shows in the '50s and '60s. Pate spent almost 20 years in the US, guest-starring on various TV Westerns and on several popular shows including Batman, Mission: Impossible, Get Smart, and The Man from UNCLE. Also a screenwriter and director, he had been working on a film script before he died of respiratory failure after being hospitalized with pneumonia, on the central coast of New South Wales, Australia on September 1, 2008.

Jerry Reed (71) country singer and guitarist who became a "good ol' boy" actor in car-chase movies like Smokey & the Bandit (1977). As a singer in the '70s and early '80s, Reed had a string of hits including "Amos Moses," "When You're Hot, You're Hot" (for which he won a 1971 Grammy), "East Bound & Down," "She Got the Goldmine (I Got the Shaft)," and "The Bird." He shared Grammys with guitarist Chet Atkins (d. 2001) for their albums Me & Jerry (1970) and Sneakin' Around (1992). Reed died of emphysema in Nashville, Tennessee on September 1, 2008.

Jacqueline Speight (62) former art teacher and mother of British children's TV presenter Mark Speight, who committed suicide in April by hanging himself at London's Paddington railway station, five days after an inquest into the suspicious drug-related death of his girlfriend Natasha Collins, found dead in the bathtub at the couple's North London home. Jacqueline Speight was found dead at her home of an apparent stroke in Wolverhampton, West Midlands, England on September 5, 2008.

Géo Voumard (87) Swiss jazz pianist, one of the founders of the Montreux Jazz Festival in 1967 with Claude Nobs and René Langel. Voumard also won the first Eurovision Song Contest in 1956 with the song "Refrain," written with Emile Gardaz. He died in Geneva, Switzerland on September 3, 2008.

Abdel-Halim Abu Ghazala (78) Egypt's former defense minister and a veteran of Arab-Israeli wars, once touted as a possible successor to Pres. Hosni Mubarak. Abu Ghazala died of throat cancer in Cairo, Egypt on September 6, 2008.

Col. Donald Blakeslee (90) one of the most decorated fighter pilots of World War II and commander of the first American fighter squadrons to reach Berlin as the Allies ground down the German Luftwaffe. Blakeslee was awarded two Distinguished Service Crosses, seven Distinguished Flying Crosses, two Silver Stars, six Air Medals, and the British Distinguished Flying Cross. He died of heart failure eight days before his 91st birthday, in Miami, Florida on September 3, 2008.

Matt Garcia (22) popular Fairfield (Calif.) city councilman, one of the youngest elected officials in the state. Garcia was fatally shot in the back of the head by an unknown gunman as he stood outside a friend's house in Fairfield, California on September 1, 2008.

Fon B. Huffman (95) believed to be the last survivor of the 1937 Japanese attack on the gunboat USS Panay outside Nanjing, China. Huffman was a 24-year-old boilerman serving with the US Asiatic Fleet at the time of the attack on the Panay; part of the fleet's mission was to patrol the lawless Yangtze River to protect American interests under a treaty with the Chinese. He died in his sleep in Sierra Vista, Arizona on September 4, 2008.

Victoria ("Vicki") Levin (74) wife of US Congressman Sander Levin (D-Mich.) and an advocate for research on children's mental health issues. Vicki Levin worked for nearly 30 years as a science research officer for several agencies within the US Department of Health & Human Services; her interest in children with mental health challenges prompted her husband to lead an effort to rewrite Michigan's special education laws while he was a state senator. Vicki Levin had struggled for several months with breast cancer and died in Royal Oak, Michigan on September 4, 2008.

Mike Swoboda (69) former mayor of Kirkwood, Missouri who served four terms on the Kirkwood City Council before he first was elected mayor in 2000. Swoboda was reelected in 2004 for another four-year term. He had survived two gunshot wounds to the head during a February 7 shooting rampage at Kirkwood City Hall in which five of the city's public servants and the lone gunman were killed. His survival seemed unlikely, but three weeks after the shootings he was released to a rehabilitation hospital, and a month later he went home. He died after a brief stay in a hospice following a rapid decline in his health, in St. Louis, Missouri on September 6, 2008.

Paul J. Curran (75) New York trial lawyer who pursued mobsters, corrupt public officials, crooked businessmen, and other criminals as state investigation commissioner and as top federal prosecutor in Manhattan in the '60s and '70s. Curran was best known as chairman of the State Commission of Investigation (1969-73), when he battled kickbacks, sweetheart contracts, and other corruption, and as US attorney for the Southern District of New York (1973-75), when he prosecuted Mafia leaders, narcotics detectives, white-collar criminals, and US Rep. Bertram L. Podell in a conflict-of-interest case. Curran died of cancer in New York City on September 4, 2008.

Jenny the Gorilla (55) oldest gorilla in captivity as confirmed by the International Species Information System, which maintains records on animals at 700 institutions around the world. Dallas Zoo officials decided to euthanize Jenny because of an inoperable tumor in her stomach. She had recently stopped eating and drinking, and tests showed she was unlikely to recover. Jenny was euthanized at the Dallas (Texas) Zoo—her home for more than 50 years, on September 4, 2008.

Mel Ignatow (67) Kentucky man acquitted in 1991 for the gruesome '88 rape, torture, and murder of his former fiancée, Brenda Sue Schaefer, whose body was found buried in a shallow grave over a year later. Ignatow finally admitted to the crime several years later after an underdeveloped film was discovered showing him torturing Schaefer the night she was killed. Ignatow had spent the last 11 years in prison on perjury charges and was released for the second time in December 2006 because he could not be retried for the murder under the legal principle of double jeopardy. He was found dead in his apartment after apparently falling on a glass table and bleeding to death, in Louisville, Kentucky on September 1, 2008.

Ruth Grace Moulon (74) "Ruthie the Duck Girl," colorful New Orleans character, an eccentric who zoomed from bar to bar on roller skates, often wearing a ratty fur coat or wedding gown and trailed by a string of her beloved ducks. Born in New Orleans, Ruthie became a French Quarter fixture, achieving legendary status in a city that treasures people who live outside the mainstream. She died of mouth and lung cancer in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, where she had been evacuated because of Hurricane Gustav, on September 6, 2008.

Starlena Pratt (28) woman who suffered severe burns over 40 percent of her body after she was allegedly set on fire by her boyfriend during a violent domestic dispute at their home on August 2. Police believed Pratt's live-in boyfriend, Farley Allen Rhodes (31), initially charged with two counts of first-degree arson and one count of arson causing serious bodily injury, threw flammable liquid on Pratt and set his own apartment ablaze after Pratt planned to leave him and went inside to retrieve her things. She died of complications resulting from the burns in South Charleston, West Virginia on September 3, 2008.

Ron Rivera (60) Bronx-born Peace Corps volunteer who spent much of his life as a development worker in Central and South America. For 25 years Rivera traveled to poor villages throughout Latin America, Africa, and Asia teaching local potters to make an ingenious device for purifying water. A recent study in Cambodia found that the ceramic filters cut in half the incidence of diarrhea, a leading cause of death in the third world, especially among children. Rivera died after contracting falciparum malaria, the most dangerous form, while setting up a water-filter factory in Nigeria, in Managua, Nicaragua on September 3, 2008.

Cecilia Ruppert (110) supercentenarian, believed to be one of the oldest residents in southern Illinois. Ruppert recently celebrated her 110th birthday. She had lived in Memphis, Tennessee for many years after retiring from bookkeeping at age 65, but was never married nor had any children. She died in Pinckneyville, Illinois on August 31, 2008.

Todd Cruz (52) infielder with the 1983 world champion Baltimore Orioles. Cruz played with six major league teams (1978-84). He broke into the big leagues with the Philadelphia Phillies, then played with Kansas City, the California Angels, and Chicago White Sox. He died while swimming at the apartment complex where he lived in Bullhead City, Arizona on September 2, 2008.

Dr. Anthony F. Daly (74) longtime team physician for the Los Angeles Clippers and director of sports medicine at the Diagnostic & Interventional Sports Care & Orthopedics Center in Marina del Rey, Calif. Daly was the Clippers' team physician since the club moved to LA in 1984. He had been medical director or team physician for numerous sporting events and athletic teams, including head physician at the 1980 Winter Olympics and the US "Miracle on Ice" gold medal hockey team, and medical director for the '94 World Cup Soccer. He also was team physician for the 1973-74 US national basketball team and the USA-USSR national basketball teams' tour in '73. He died of prostate cancer in Beverly Hills, California on September 5, 2008.

Mary Dunn (66) yoga teacher who guided thousands of students into the discipline known as Iyengar yoga beginning in Berkeley, California in 1974. The Iyengar method is based on the teachings of B.K.S. Iyengar, often credited with bringing yoga to the West. Dunn died of peritoneal cancer in Scarsdale, New York on September 4, 2008.

Dick Enderle (60) former Atlanta Falcons football player, an offensive lineman who played eight seasons in the NFL after starring at the University of Minnesota in the '60s. Enderle was found dead in his Manhattan apartment on September 4, 2008.

Joey Giardello (78) former middleweight boxing champion who won a decision over Rubin Carter in 1964, then sued over how the fight was depicted in the '99 film The Hurricane. Giardello had a 101-25-7 record with 33 knockouts while fighting (1948-67). He died of congestive heart failure in Cherry Hill, New Jersey on September 4, 2008.

Doyle Parrack (86) former player on a national championship basketball team who later coached at three NCAA Division I schools in Oklahoma. Parrack started for Oklahoma A&M—now Oklahoma State—when the Cowboys won the 1945 national championship under Hall of Fame coach Henry Iba. He had suffered from Parkinson's disease in recent years and developed pneumonia during the last two weeks. He died in Perkins, Oklahoma on September 5, 2008.

Luis Santibanez (72) soccer coach who guided Chile at the 1982 World Cup in Spain and led the national team for five years. Santibanez was a sports commentator turned professional coach who won four league championships in Chile in the '70s—three with Union Espanola and one with Union San Felipe. He left the Chilean national team after it finished last in its group at the 1982 World Cup, losing all three games against West Germany, Austria, and Algeria. He had been hospitalized for 10 days before he died of a kidney condition in Santiago, Chile on September 5, 2008.