Frank Cieciorka (69) graphic artist, art director, and watercolorist whose woodcut rendering of a clenched-fist salute was a model for the New Left's most ubiquitous emblem. Cieciorka died of emphysema in Alderpoint, California on November 24, 2008.

Lawrence Fane (75) sculptor known for using steel, bronze, concrete, wood, and other materials to create Expressionistic forms, particularly in his work modeled on the drawings of Italian Renaissance artist and engineer Mariano di Jacopo detto il Taccola, who lived and worked in the 14th and 15th centuries. Fane died of prostate cancer in New York City on November 28, 2008.

Helmut N. Friedlaender (95) Berlin-born book-loving lawyer and financial adviser whose collection of early printed books and illuminated manuscripts caused a stir in book circles when it went to auction. At a two-day sale in April 2001, Christie's auctioned off most of Friedlaender's important collection, which he had assembled over the preceding 30 years. He died in Yarmouth, Maine on November 25, 2008.

Dorothea Rabkin (87) refugee from Nazi Germany who, with her American husband Leo, built a collection of American folk art noted for whirligigs and other sculptures made by anonymous carvers in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Artwork from the Rabkins’ collection has been reproduced widely in books and exhibited around the country; more than 200 of the couple’s pieces are now in the collection of the American Folk Art Museum in New York. Dorothea Rabkin died of complications from Parkinson's disease in New York City on November 25, 2008.

Sten Rudholm (90) the Swedish Academy's oldest member. Established in 1786 by King Gustav III, the Swedish Academy has 18 members and has picked the winner of the Nobel Prize in literature since 1901. Rudholm had held a seat on the academy since 1977. He died in Stockholm, Sweden on November 29, 2008.

Carol Houck Smith (85) editor of generations of the nation's most distinguished poets and authors. Smith spent her entire 60-year publishing career at W. W. Norton & Co., starting as a secretary and working her way up to vice president. She edited three US poets laureate, three National Book Award-winning books, and the Pulitzer Prize-winning book Different Hours (2000) by Stephen Dunn. She died in New York City on November 28, 2008.

Jørn Utzon (90) Danish architect who designed the iconic Sydney (Australia) Opera House. Utzon drew up the design for the opera house in 1957 but quit seven years before it was finished after scandals about cost blowouts and design arguments. Government-appointed architects took over, and the interior was not completed to his original plan. In 2003, Utzon won the prestigious Pritzker Architecture Prize for the sculptural building that the jury singled out as among the most iconic buildings of the 20th century. He died of heart failure in his sleep in Copenhagen, Denmark on November 29, 2008.

Cornelius C. Vermeule 3rd (83) curator of classical antiquities who over 40 years at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston built a reputation for astute acquisitions, scholarship, and eccentricity. Vermeule died of a stroke in Cambridge, Massachusetts on November 27, 2008.

Loumia Hiridjee (46) French businesswoman and founder of the international women's lingerie brand Princesse Tam Tam (named after a 1935 film starring Josephine Baker) with her sister Sharma in 1985. The fashion company now operates 158 outlets in more than 40 countries, mostly in Europe. Hiridjee and her husband Mourad Amarsy (49) were among 24 hostages found shot to death while dining at the Oberoi Trident hotel during a series of terrorist attacks across Mumbai, India on November 26, 2008.

Ashok Kapur (65) prominent banker and nonexecutive chairman of India's fastest-growing bank network, Yes Bank. Kapur was one of the founders of the privately owned bank and held a 12 percent stake in it at the end of September. His long banking career also included commercial and investment ventures in Singapore and the Netherlands, where he was an adviser to India's wealthy Tata family. He was one of at least 165 hostages found shot and killed while dining at the Oberi-Trident Hotel in a series of multiple terror attacks across Mumbai, India on November 26, 2008.

Andreas Liveras (73) Cypriot-born British businessman who rose from modest means to own and run successful bakery and yacht charter companies. Liveras was ranked 265th on the London Sunday Times Rich List of the wealthiest people in the UK earlier this year. He immigrated with his family to Britain in 1963, got a job as a deliveryman for the small Fleur de Lys bakery, then took over the business in '68 and built an estimated fortune of £300 million. Fleur de Lys became one of the largest manufacturers of frozen cakes in Europe before Liveras sold it in 1985. He then established Liveras Yachts, a privately owned charter yacht company based in Monte Carlo. He died of multiple gunshot wounds at the Taj Palace Hotel during a series of terrorist attacks across Mumbai, India on November 26, 2008.

William Marumoto (73) Japanese-American who grew up in a World War II internment camp and became a White House aide to President Richard M. Nixon. Marumoto founded an executive search firm in the mid-'70s and was known as the dean of Washington headhunters. Since 2005, he had been president and chief executive of the Asian Pacific American Institute for Congressional Studies. He died of a heart attack in Falls Church, Virginia on November 25, 2008.

Andrew McKelvey (74) billionaire founder and former chief executive of Monster Worldwide Inc. In 1967, McKelvey founded a yellow pages advertising business called Telephone Marketing Program. Later known as TMP Worldwide, the company acquired The Monster Board & Online Career Center in 1995, and in '99 the jobs recruitment Web site Monster.com was launched to great success. In 2003, TMP Worldwide became Monster Worldwide; the New York-based company reported 2007 revenue of $1.35 billion, employing 5,200 people across 36 countries. McKelvey left the company in 2006. He died of pancreatic cancer in New York City on November 27, 2008.

Edwin E. Salpeter (83) Austrian-born astrophysicist and a professor emeritus of physical sciences at Cornell University whose work on the "Salpeter-Bethe equation" showed how helium changes to carbon. Salpeter died of leukemia in Ithaca, New York on November 26, 2008.

Alan Scherr (58) former art professor at the University of Maryland who later became a spokesman for and president of the Virginia-based nonprofit Synchronicity Foundation spiritual community and edited several books on transcendental meditation when he and his family joined the organization in 1996. The Scherrs had recently been traveling with a group of about two dozen members from the religious sanctuary to India to host a meditation program during a two-week pilgrimage. Alan Scherr and his daughter Naomi (13) were among four Americans shot and killed while dining at the Hotel Trident-Oberi in a series of terrorist attacks across Mumbai, India on November 26, 2008.

John R. Stallings Jr. (73) UC Berkeley mathematician who found a proof for part of the Poincaré Conjecture, one of the longest-standing problems in mathematics. A professor at UC Berkeley since 1967, Stallings died of prostate cancer in Berkeley, California on November 24, 2008.

Monica Chhabaria (35) sister of famed Bollywood actor and model Ashish Chowdhury, best known for his notable appearances in numerous Indian films, including a minor role in the critically acclaimed feature Fight Club: Members Only (2006). Chhabaria and her husband Ajit (43) were among at least 150 hostages shot and killed while dining at the Trident-Oberoi Hotel in a series of multiple terror attacks across Mumbai, India on November 26, 2008.

Bill Drake (71) California radio programming consultant who set the tone at hundreds of pop stations with a streamlined radio format that placed music—rather than disk jockeys—at the center of the broadcast. Under Drake's guidance, radio stations such as KGB in San Diego, KHJ in Los Angeles, and KFRC in San Francisco shot to the No. 1 slots in their markets by promising more music and less chatter. He died of cancer in the San Fernando Valley, California on November 29, 2008.

William R. Finnegan (80) film and TV producer whose credits include Hawaii Five-O, The Days & Nights of Molly Dodd, and The Fabulous Baker Boys, among many others. Finnegan was nominated for five Emmys. In the late '70s and '80s, Finnegan-Pinchuk Co., the Studio City-based production firm he started with his wife, Patricia, and their partner, Sheldon Pinchuk, was one of the leading suppliers of network and cable TV movies. Finnegan died of complications from Parkinson's disease in Sag Harbor, New York on November 28, 2008.

Peter A. Fopeano (43) stage and film actor, a frequent performer in the American Heartland Theatre and several other local theater companies across Kansas City. Fopeano also appeared in the feature film All Roads Lead Home (2008), notable for featuring the last screen appearance of the late actor Peter Boyle. Fopeano was found shot to death inside a car with the motor still running in Kansas City, Missouri on November 25, 2008.

William Gibson (94) playwright whose Tony-winning The Miracle Worker has thrilled audiences for nearly 50 years with the true story of deaf-blind Helen Keller's rescue from ignorance. Gibson wrote a dozen plays, including Two for the Seesaw (1958), but was best known for The Miracle Worker. First written for TV, the story of a young Keller forging a relationship with her teacher, Annie Sullivan, opened on Broadway in 1959 starring Anne Bancroft (d. 2005) and a 12-year-old Patty Duke, both of whom later won Oscars for the '62 film version. Gibson died in Stockbridge, Massachusetts on November 25, 2008.

Vera Glaser (92) veteran Washington reporter whose tough question to President Richard M. Nixon at a 1969 news conference about the role of women in his administration led to changes in its recruiting policies. At the time, Glaser was Washington bureau chief for the former North American Newspaper Alliance syndicate of 90 newspapers and national correspondent and syndicated columnist for the old Knight Ridder newspaper chain. She died of complications from Parkinson's disease in Chevy Chase, Maryland on November 26, 2008.

Lorna Hamilton (50) aspiring musician and backup singer best known for her appearance on an album cover for the San Diego, California-based cowpunk band Beat Farmers. Hamilton was a close friend of the band's late lead singer and drummer Country Dick Montana (d. 1995) and became a staunch supporter of local bands in the San Diego music community, where she helped to organize a benefit for a local musician with cancer and often coordinated music tributes. She died of injuries suffered in an all-terrain vehicle accident in Blythe, California on November 27, 2008.

Richard Hickox (60) British conductor who made a mark in opera and choral music with orchestras around the world. Hickox was musical director of Opera Australia, associate guest conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra, founder and music director of the City of London Sinfonia, codirector of the period instrument group Collegium Musicum 90, and conductor emeritus of the BBC National Orchestra of Wales. He had been scheduled to conduct the new English National Opera production of Ralph Vaughan Williams' Riders to the Sea, set to open on Nov. 27. He died of a heart attack in a hotel in Cardiff, Wales on November 23, 2008.

Robert Lucas (46) rock singer known for his barrelhouse vocals. Lucas had two stints as lead singer and harmonica and bottleneck guitar player (1994-2008) for Canned Heat, a Los Angeles-based blues and boogie band that formed in 1965 and had late '60s hits with "Goin' up the Country" and "On the Road Again." The band has had four frontmen in its more-than-40-year history. Lucas recently left to pursue a solo career and wrote and recorded seven solo albums. He died of an apparent drug overdose in Long Beach, California on November 23, 2008.

Mitchell Lurie (86) world-renowned clarinetist and clarinet teacher who taught for many years at USC and the Music Academy of the West in Santa Barbara. Lurie was principal clarinetist for the Pittsburgh Symphony, then the Chicago Symphony in the late '40s, then launched a long career in Hollywood as a top clarinetist for film studios and became a distinguished chamber musician, best known for his numerous performances with the Budapest String Quartet and the Muir String Quartet. He died of pneumonia in Los Angeles, California on November 24, 2008.

Kenny MacLean (52) Scottish musician best known as a former bass player in the '80s multiplatinum-selling rock band Platinum Blonde. MacLean was most recently putting the finishing touches on his third solo album, Completely, to be released in the spring of 2009. He was found dead of a possible heart attack in the bathroom of his apartment in Toronto, Canada on November 24, 2008.

Muriel Manson (??) former big band singer and mother of Scottish-born actress and singer Shirley Manson, best known as lead vocalist of the international multiplatinum-selling hard rock band Garbage. Muriel Manson died in Edinburgh, Scotland on November 26, 2008.

Patricia Marand (74) actress and singer who played Lois Lane in the Broadway musical It's a Bird ... It's a Plane ... It's Superman (1966), for which she was nominated for a Tony. Marand also appeared on Broadway in Wish You Were Here, the hit 1952 musical set at a Catskill resort; the show was best known for its on-stage swimming pool and its popular title song. Marand was a regular in summer stock and on TV's Merv Griffin Show and often performed with symphony orchestras and at New York night spots. She died of brain cancer in New York City on November 27, 2008.

Hugh A. Mulligan (83) journalist who in 50 years with the Associated Press covered everyone from presidents and popes to astronauts and combat soldiers, reporting the news in dispatches from all over the world laced with wry humor. Mulligan died of pancreatic cancer in Danbury, Connecticut on November 26, 2008.

Gerald Schoenfeld (84) longtime head of the Shubert Organization who helped to bring numerous hit shows to Broadway, including A Chorus Line, Cats, and Amadeus. As chairman of Broadway's biggest landlord since 1972, Schoenfeld brought many plays and musicals to the Broadway stage and beyond. The Shubert Organization owns or operates 17 Broadway theaters, one off-Broadway playhouse, and theaters in Boston, Philadelphia, and Washington, DC. Schoenfeld died of a heart attack in New York City on November 24, 2008.

Otto Spoerri (75) dubbed "the ultimate arbiter of industry power" because he determined seating at the Oscars. Spoerri was the academy's controller (1978-2002). Although he oversaw accounting, he was better known for seating scores of movie stars and industry executives at the Academy Awards. He died in Zürich, Switzerland on November 29, 2008.

De'Angelo Wilson (29) film and TV actor probably best known for his role as DJ Iz in rapper Eminem's semiautobiopic debut movie 8 Mile (2002). Wilson also appeared in a half dozen other films and TV shows during his career, including Antwone Fisher (2002) alongside Denzel Washington, and most recently The Salon (2005) and Mercy Street (2006). He was found hanged in the back room of a business in an apparent suicide, in Los Angeles, California on November 26, 2008.

Ethel Bradley (89) widow of Tom Bradley (d. 1998), Los Angeles's first black mayor (1973-93). Ethel Bradley organized a women's group called Las Angelenas and cofounded the Black Women's Forum. She died of pneumonia in Los Angeles, California on November 25, 2008.

David M. Jones and Edwin W. Horton Jr. (94, 92) two former members of the famed Doolittle's Raiders. Lt. Col. James H. ("Jimmy") Doolittle (d. 1993) orchestrated the secret attack by the bombers launched from the Navy carrier USS Hornet on April 18, 1942, in retaliation for the surprise attack by Japanese naval forces on Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941. A captain at the time, Jones was the pilot of plane No. 5, while Horton was a gunner and flight engineer on plane No. 10; 16 B-25 bombers took part in the raid. There are now only nine survivors of the 80 men who made that daring raid that gave Americans the first good news of World War II. Jones died of heart failure in Tucson, Arizona on November 26, 2008; Horton died of injuries suffered in a September auto accident, in Fort Walton Beach, Florida on November 25, 2008.

Hemant Karkare (54) chief of the Mumbai Anti-Terrorist Squad who headed the team investigating the politically sensitive 2006 Malegoan serial bomb blasts that killed at least 37 people and injured more than 125 others outside the Mumbai district. Karkare had also been receiving death threats recently, including a threat to bomb his residence. He was among six senior policemen shot and killed while on duty during a series of multiple terror attacks across Mumbai, India on November 26, 2008.

Joseph M. Margiotta (81) former chairman of the Nassau County (NY) Republican Party (1967-83), once one of the most powerful political organizations in New York state. Margiotta was forced to resign in 1983 and served 14 months in prison after he was convicted of federal mail fraud and conspiracy charges in a municipal insurance kickback scheme. He was hospitalized for six days before he died in Roslyn, New York on November 28, 2008.

Verne Orr (92) former director of the California Department of Motor Vehicles and Air Force secretary during the Reagan administration who reactivated the B-1 bomber program, canceled by President Jimmy Carter, and was a crew member when the first of 100 planes were delivered ahead of schedule in 1981. Orr died in Pasadena, California on November 27, 2008.

Gustave H. Shubert (79) executive who expanded the Rand Corp.'s research mission from military studies to analyses of education policy, crime-fighting, and other domestic issues. Shubert was associated with Rand for more than 40 years, beginning in 1959 when he joined the Santa Monica-based think tank to conduct research on national security matters, including American policy in Southeast Asia. He died in Los Angeles, California on November 25, 2008.

V. P. Singh (77) former prime minister of India (1989-90) considered the father of coalition politics there who stirred controversy by championing the rights of the country's poorest citizens. Singh gained wide notoriety by moving to carry out long-forgotten recommendations by the Bindheshwari Prasad Mandal Commission to reserve a fixed number of all jobs in the public sector for the lower and backward classes. His government lasted less than a year. He died of blood cancer and renal failure in New Delhi, India on November 27, 2008.

Cecil Underwood (86) former high school teacher who became West Virginia's youngest governor when he won his first term in 1956 at age 34; 40 years later, Underwood won his second term on his 74th birthday in '96 and became the state's oldest governor. He died in Charleston, West Virginia on November 24, 2008.

Helena Wolinska (89) Communist-era prosecutor charged in Poland with the wrongful prosecution of the nation's World War II heroes. A longtime London resident, Wolinska was accused of fabricating charges against some of Poland's underground leaders, specifically masterminding the wrongful arrest and execution in the '50s of Gen. Emil Fieldorf, deputy head of the wartime resistance Home Army, and of Col. Bernard Adamecki, the Home Army's air force commander. She died of pneumonia in England on November 27, 2008.

Myrtle Bunting (109) supercentenarian, believed to be one of the oldest living residents in South Dakota. Bunting spent most of her childhood in New York before she moved back to her native South Dakota, married a farmer, and lived on her own as a childless widow until age 102 in a retirement community, where she received the 2008 Centenarian of the Year Award. She died in Milbank, South Dakota on November 26, 2008.

Rev. George M. Docherty (97) Scottish-born clergyman credited with helping to push Congress to insert the phrase "under God" into the US Pledge of Allegiance. Then pastor of the New York Avenue Presbyterian Church in Washington, DC, just blocks from the White House, Docherty in 1954 repeated a two-year-old sermon saying the pledge should acknowledge God, when President Dwight D. Eisenhower was in attendance. It became law four months later. Docherty died in Alexandria, Pennsylvania on November 27, 2008.

Pearl Gartrell (120?) Florida woman who recently acknowledged that she was perhaps the oldest living person in the world until her death. Gartrell claimed to be born on April 1, 1888 (and would therefore be 120 years old, if accurate) and said she did not have a copy of her birth certificate because she was not born in a hospital, but her birth date was recorded in a family Bible. Her Florida State ID card did not show the exact year of her documents because the computer could not activate the year 1888. She died in Jacksonville, Florida on November 23, 2008.

Francis Grevemberg (94) former state police superintendent who led a crackdown against illegal gambling in Louisiana in the '50s. Grevemberg was credited with leading raids that resulted in troopers smashing around 7,000 slot machines when he served under then-Gov. Robert Kennon (1952-56). After Hurricane Katrina in 2005, Grevemberg relocated from Louisiana to Conyers, Georgia, where he died of respiratory problems a week after surgery for a broken hip, on November 24, 2008.

Gunda Harangen (109) supercentenarian, believed to be the oldest verified person in Norway. In a 2006 interview, Harangen attributed the secret of her longevity to being a lifelong virgin and drinking one glass of cognac every day. She died in her sleep in Oslo, Norway on November 25, 2008.

Gavriel and Rivka Holtzberg (29, 28) Israeli-born American religious leader and founding member of the Hasidic Jewish outreach center Nariman House who had helped to establish the Chabad house in Mumbai, India in 2003 and became a missionary activist for the local Jewish Indian community, where he managed a synagogue, led religious classes, performed marriages, and presided over many other social and outreach activities. Holtzberg and his wife Rivka were among six hostages found shot to death inside the Chabad house in a series of terrorist attacks across Mumbai, India on November 26, 2008.

Yang Jia (28) Chinese man convicted of killing six policemen in a stabbing spree who drew public sympathy with allegations that he lashed out to avenge torture while in police custody. Yang was executed after China's highest court upheld his death sentence, despite late appeals both inside and outside the country for the government to reexamine his case, in Shanghai, China on November 26, 2008.

Daiquin L. Jones (17) teen shot and fatally wounded by an unidentified assailant in a brief shooting that also left another teen critically wounded inside a suburban Seattle shopping mall packed with thousands of pre-Thanksgiving shoppers. The gunman fired multiple shots after getting into an altercation with the two juveniles, before apparently slipping away in a crowd of panicked shoppers. Police said the shootings stemmed from a fight between two groups of about half a dozen people and may have been gang-related, but no other injuries were reported. Jones died in Tukwila, Washington on November 23, 2008.

Joza M. Karas (82) musician and teacher who searched for 25 years for the music and stories of composers who did masterly work while imprisoned in a Nazi concentration camp. In 1985, Karas published Music in Terezin, 1941-1945. The book chronicled the thriving musical life in the disease-ridden and notoriously lethal concentration camp at Terezin, in what is now the Czech Republic. Karas died in Bloomfield, Connecticut on November 28, 2008.

Edna Parker (115) former Indiana schoolteacher who became the world's oldest person in 2007. Parker was born April 20, 1893, in central Indiana's Morgan County and had been recognized by Guinness World Records as the world's oldest person since the 2007 death in Japan of Yone Minagawa, four months her senior. Parker died in Shelbyville, Indiana on November 26, 2008.

Robert Zarinsky (68) suspected serial killer serving a life sentence since 1975 for the '69 abduction and murder of 17-year-old Rosemary Calandriello, whose body has never been found. Zarinsky became the first person in New Jersey to be convicted of murder without a body as evidence. He was also considered a prime suspect in a string of unsolved murders of three other teenage girls in the state. In 2001 he was acquitted of the 1958 murder of Rahway police officer Charles Bernoskie during a botched burglary at a car dealership but was indicted in March this year in the death of 13-year-old Jane Durrua, found murdered in a Keansburg field the morning after leaving a football game in 1968. Zarinsky died of cancer at South Woods State Prison in Bridgeton, New Jersey on November 28, 2008.

Tom Burgess (81) Canadian-born first baseman and outfielder who played for the Los Angeles Angels in the early '60s and later coached in baseball's minor and major leagues. Burgess played mainly in the minor leagues (1946-62); in 1954, he joined the St. Louis Cardinals for a season and spent a season with the Angels in '62. He died of cancer in London, Ontario, Canada on November 24, 2008.

Armand ("Bep") Guidolin (82) Canadian hockey player who at 16 became the youngest player to skate in an NHL game and later coached Hall of Famer Bobby Orr. Guidolin made his NHL debut with the Boston Bruins on Nov. 12, 1942 because of players serving in World War II. He later played nine seasons in the NHL, recording 107 goals and 171 assists in 519 games with Boston, Detroit, and Chicago. After his playing career ended in 1961, he turned to coaching and was behind the Oshawa Generals' bench when Orr starred for the junior club. Guidolin died in Barrie, Ontario, Canada on November 24, 2008.

Red Murff (87) New York Mets scout who discovered Hall of Fame pitcher Nolan Ryan. Murff played for the Milwaukee Braves (1956-57), going 2-2 with three saves and a 4.65 ERA in 26 games. He helped to start the baseball program at the University of Mary Hardin-Baylor in Belton, Texas, and in 1994 the school's ballpark was named Red Murff Field. Murff died in Tyler, Texas on November 28, 2008.

German Skurygin (45) former champion race walker. Skurygin won the silver medal in the 50-kilometer race at the 2003 World Championships in Paris. He won the gold in the 50-kilometer event at the 1999 worlds in Seville, Spain but was later stripped of the medal after failing a doping test. He died of a heart attack in Izhevsk, Russia on November 28, 2008.