Hortense Calisher (97) novelist and short-story writer whose unpredictable turns of phrase, challenging fictional situations, and complex plots captivated and puzzled readers for a half-century. Calisher was known for her dense prose in such works of fiction as False Entry and In Greenwich There Are Many Gravelled Walks. She died in New York City on January 14, 2009.

Dusan Dzamonja (80) renowned Croatian sculptor whose monumental, abstract creations were exhibited around Europe. Dzamonja died of heart failure in Zagreb, Croatia on January 14, 2009.

Shigeo Fukuda (76) Japanese graphic designer known for antiwar and environmental advocacy posters that conveyed complex ideas with images of logo simplicity. Fukuda died of a stroke in Tokyo, Japan on January 11, 2009.

Judith Hoffberg (74) art librarian and curator, a major influence in the emergence of books as an artist's medium who established a global festival of edible books. Since 1978, Hoffberg had edited and published Umbrella, a journal dedicated to artists' books, works of art in book form. Diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia in September 2008, she died of lymphoma in Santa Monica, California on January 16, 2009.

John Mortimer (85) British lawyer and writer, creator of the curmudgeonly criminal lawyer Rumpole of the Bailey, defender of the British criminal classes. Mortimer combined a career as a lawyer with a large literary output that included dozens of screen and stage plays and radio dramas. His most famous creation was Horace Rumpole, a cigar-smoking, wine-loving barrister who appeared in a TV series and a string of novels and stories. Mortimer died in Oxfordshire, England on January 16, 2009.

W. D. Snodgrass (83) Pulitzer Prize-winning poet who had a nearly 40-year teaching career. Snodgrass won the Pulitzer for poetry in 1960 for his first book, Heart's Needle, which grew from heartbreak at losing custody of his daughter in a bitter divorce. He died of inoperable lung cancer, eight days after his 83rd birthday, in Erieville, New York, just east of Syracuse, on January 13, 2009.

Andrew Wyeth (91) artist who portrayed the hidden melancholy of the people and landscapes of Pennsylvania's Brandywine Valley and coastal Maine in works such as Christina's World (1948; shown above). The son of famed painter and book illustrator N. C. Wyeth, Andrew Wyeth gained wealth, acclaim, and tremendous popularity but chafed under criticism from some experts who considered him a facile realist, not an artist but merely an illustrator. The late J. Carter Brown, for many years director of the National Gallery, called such talk "a knee-jerk reaction among intellectuals in this country that if it's popular, it can't be good." Wyeth died in his sleep in the Philadelphia suburb of Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania on January 16, 2009.

Nancy Bird-Walton (93) aviation pioneer who became the first woman in Australia to operate a commercial aircraft. In 1935, Bird-Walton earned a commercial pilot's license and began taking paying passengers for joyrides around the country. She later ran an air ambulance service for remote Outback areas of New South Wales state, becoming known as the "Angel of the Outback." In 1950, she founded the Australian Women Pilots' Association, which mentors female pilots. Named a Living National Treasure by the National Trust of Australia in 1997, she died in Sydney, Australia on January 13, 2009.

Dr. William T. Close (84) American surgeon, father of actress Glenn Close, who in 1976 played an important role in controlling the first epidemic of the deadly Ebola hemorrhagic fever in central Africa and preventing it from spreading. Close made his last house call a month before he died of a heart attack in Big Piney, Wyoming on January 15, 2009.

Trammell Crow (94) prominent Texas real estate developer. A one-time accountant with no real estate experience, Crow built one of the largest real estate development companies in the nation, Trammell Crow Co. It was sold in 2006 for $1.8 billion to CB Richard Ellis Group Inc., attracted by Crow's blue chip corporate clients, including Exxon Mobil and Bank of America. Crow died near Tyler, Texas on January 14, 2009.

Edmund de Rothschild (93) merchant banker from the renowned banking family's British branch who led the development of a major hydroelectric project in Labrador while helping his firm to expand globally and opening it to people outside his family. De Rothschild died, 15 days after his 93rd birthday, near Southampton, England on January 17, 2009.

John F. ("Jack") Gifford (68) electronics industry executive who founded analog chip maker Maxim Integrated Products and was the Silicon Valley company's chief executive until his retirement in 2006. Gifford died of a heart attack on his 68th birthday at his vacation home in Hawaii on January 11, 2009.

Jan Kaplicky (71) award-winning Czech architect. Kaplicky's design of a new media center at the Lord's cricket ground in London was honored with Britain's most prestigious architecture award, the Stirling Prize, in 1999. He collapsed on a street and died just hours after his second wife gave birth to their daughter, in Prague, Czech Republic on January 14, 2009.

Aron Arthur Moscona (87) biologist who provided early insights into how cells in the developing embryo find one another and interact. Moscona's experiments from the late '50s to the early '70s looked at how individual embryonic cells form into tissues and organs. He died of heart failure in New York City on January 14, 2009.

Robert Palmer (74) former New York advertising executive who in 1986 started a winery on the North Fork of Long Island that became one of the most popular in the region. Palmer died of a blood infection in Huntington, New York on January 16, 2009.

Dr. Pierce A. Rooney Jr. (85) pioneering Sacramento County (Calif.) pathologist who became the first board-certified forensic pathologist in Sacramento in 1969. Rooney was widely consulted as an expert for his experience performing thousands of autopsies during 20 years at the Sacramento County Coroner's Office, including extensive research into causes of sudden infant death syndrome and autopsies performed on farmworkers slain by mass killer Juan Corona and victims of serial murderer Gerald Gallego. Rooney was also involved behind the scenes in major news stories, including a 1972 plane crash that killed 22 people at Farrell's Ice Cream Parlour, and helped to bring serial killers to justice at sensational trials. He died of liver cancer in Sacramento, California on January 14, 2009.

Victor Vacquier Sr. (101) Scripps Institution of Oceanography geophysicist who developed key instruments for mapping the Earth's magnetic fields and whose research provided an experimental foundation for the now widely accepted theory of plate tectonics. Vacquier died of pneumonia in La Jolla, California on January 11, 2009.

Maurice Albertson (90) architect of the Peace Corps and a Colorado State University professor emeritus. Albertson and fellow CSU researchers Andrew Rice and Pauline Birky-Kreutzer responded to a request in 1960 from the federal government for a model to encourage the nation's youths to serve in Third World countries. The three wrote a book that set up the basic design of the Peace Corps. The program was officially launched in 1961 by President John F. Kennedy and now has more than 190,000 volunteers serving in 139 developing countries. Albertson fell ill after a trip to Indonesia in November and died in Fort Collins, Colorado on January 11, 2009.

Lisa Flaxman (43) founder and president of musiKids, a Washington, DC-area music program for infants and young children that relied on professional musicians and experienced early childhood educators who encouraged children to sing, play, listen, and move with a dynamic teaching approach. Flaxman wrote many articles on early childhood musical development, helped schools and day-care centers to evaluate their early childhood music programs, and provided teacher training and guidance to integrate music into the curriculum. She was named one of Maryland's Top 100 Women in 2007 for founding musiKares, a nonprofit program dedicated to building music libraries and providing musical programs for Georgetown Hospital patients to help relieve their anxiety. She died of breast cancer in Chevy Chase, Maryland on January 14, 2009.

Herbert Hitzeman Jr. (81) Washington University official and alumnus credited with raising more than $1 billion in funds. Before retiring in 1990, Hitzeman led three fund-raising campaigns, including the Alliance for Washington University, which raised $630.5 million when it was completed in '87; the university said that was a record amount at the time. He died of cancer in St. Louis, Missouri on January 16, 2009.

Elise Mudd Marvin (79) founding trustee of Pitzer College and a generous donor to the Los Angeles Philharmonic and other leading cultural institutions in southern California. Marvin's close association to Harvey Mudd College, named for her uncle, led her to donate more than $1 million to the Claremont college from 1969 until her death in Pasadena, California on January 13, 2009.

Arne Naess (96) Norwegian philosopher, writer, and mountaineer best known for launching the concept of "deep ecology." Naess was credited with creating the deep ecology concept, promoting the idea that Earth as a planet has as much right as its inhabitants, such as humans, to survive and flourish. He died in his sleep in Oslo, Norway on January 12, 2009.

Martin Ortiz (89) founding director of Whittier College's Center of Mexican-American Affairs who inspired thousands of Latino students to reach for college and earn degrees. Ortiz, who suffered from Parkinson's disease and pneumonia, died in Whittier, California on January 12, 2009.

Lorene Rogers (94) former president (1974-79) of the University of Texas at Austin, believed to be the first woman to lead a public university in the country. Rogers died in Dallas, Texas on January 11, 2009.

Sheharbano Sangji (22) research assistant in the Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry at UCLA who suffered from second- and third-degree burns over 40 percent of her body from a December 29 laboratory fire in the Molecular Science building. An unconfirmed description of the accident said that Sangji was drawing tert-butyl lithium (t-BuLi) from a bottle into a syringe when the plunger came out of the syringe barrel and the chemical, which ignites spontaneously in air, splashed onto her sweater and gloves and set them on fire. She was wearing safety glasses but no lab coat. She died from her burns in Sherman Oaks, California on January 16, 2009.

William Randolph ("Randy") Adams (64) former head of the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra who used his business acumen to save it from bankruptcy. Adams was tapped for the symphony by Enterprise Rent-a-Car chairman and chief executive Andy Taylor, whose family had pledged the institution a $40 million matching grant. Adams raised the match, increasing the overall endowment from $18 million to $134 million. He died of pancreatic cancer in St. Louis, Missouri on January 14, 2009.

Pedro ("Cuban Pete") Aguilar (81) one of the leading mambo dancers of the '50s. Aguilar performed for US Presidents and foreign leaders and was hailed as one of the greatest mambo dancers by LIFE magazine. He died of heart failure perhaps related to diabetes, in Miami, Florida on January 13, 2009.

Claude Berri (74) fixture for more than 50 years in contemporary French cinema as an actor, writer, director, and producer. Berri's short film Le Poulet (The Chicken) won an Oscar in 1965. He was in the midst of directing Tresor (Treasure), his 20th directing project, when he died of a "cerebral vascular" problem—language often used to describe a stroke—a day after being hospitalized in Paris, France on January 12, 2009.

Russ Conway (95) actor who appeared in scores of films and on TV shows ('50s-'70s) but was perhaps best known for playing Fenton Hardy, father of Frank and Joe Hardy on "The Hardy Boys," part of Walt Disney's The Mickey Mouse Club TV program. Conway died in Laguna Woods, California on January 12, 2009.

Leroy Cooper (80) jazz musician who played baritone saxophone for Ray Charles ('50s-'70s) and at times was bandleader for the rhythm-and-blues pianist. Cooper later was a bandleader and performer on Main Street USA at Walt Disney World's Magic Kingdom for about 20 years. He died of heart failure in Orlando, Florida on January 15, 2009.

Andy DeMize (25) drummer for the Danish-American psychobilly punk band Nekromantix who replaced the group's previous drummer James Meza and worked on the release of their eighth and latest album Life Is a Grave & Dig It! (2007). DeMize, whose real name was Andrew Martinez, was killed in a car accident caused by a drunk driver in Fullerton, California on January 11, 2009.

Veronika Dudarova (92) Russian conductor who led Moscow orchestras for 60 years. Dudarova became a conductor at the Moscow State Symphony Orchestra in 1947 and in '60 was named chief conductor and artistic director. She left the orchestra in 1989. From 1991 until the end of her life, she headed the Symphony Orchestra of Russia, which she had founded. She died in Moscow, Russia on January 15, 2009.

Gage Bush Englund (77) ballet mistress of ABT II, a former dancer with American Ballet Theater and the Joffrey Ballet, and former ballet mistress of the Joffrey II Dancers. Englund died of cancer in New York City on January 12, 2009.

Susanna Foster (84) singer and '40s leading lady whose most famous role was the terrorized prima donna in the first talking version of Phantom of the Opera. Foster costarred with Claude Rains and Nelson Eddy in the 1943 Oscar-winning remake of the 1925 silent screen version of the macabre melodrama that starred Lon Chaney. It was one of a dozen films Foster made before virtually disappearing from the screen in 1945. She was offered the lead in National Velvet (1944; the role that made a star of young Elizabeth Taylor) but turned it down because she wanted only singing roles. MGM dropped Foster, and she drifted into obscurity. She died of heart failure in Englewood, New Jersey on January 17, 2009.

Gary Kurfirst (61) rock manager, promoter, publisher, producer, and label executive who helped to shape a generation's pop music by handling acts like the Talking Heads and Jane's Addiction. Kurfirst may have been best known for managing a parade of famous rock groups, including Blondie, the Ramones, the B-52s, Big Audio Dynamite, the Eurythmics, and, more recently, the band Live and Shirley Manson of Garbage. He died while vacationing in Nassau, the Bahamas on January 13, 2009.

Malcolm MacPherson (65) former correspondent for Time and Newsweek whose books included Roberts Ridge and Hocus POTUS. MacPherson served in the US Marines during the Vietnam War and later reported on conflicts in Africa, Northern Ireland, and the current war in Iraq. He died of a heart attack during a party in celebration of the impending inauguration of President Barack Obama, in Warrenton, Virginia on January 17, 2009.

Patrick McGoohan (80) British TV star in the '50s and '60s best known for two shows that crossed over to American TV, Secret Agent and The Prisoner. McGoohan won two Emmys for his guest appearances as a villain on the TV detective series Columbo and gave a memorable performance as ruthless King Edward "Longshanks" in the Oscar-winning film Braveheart, starring Mel Gibson. He died suddenly after a brief illness, in Los Angeles, California on January 13, 2009.

Ricardo Montalban (88) actor best known as the debonair and mysterious Mr. Roarke on the popular TV series Fantasy Island. Mexican-born Montalban had a long career in Hollywood but found broad fame as the star of ABC-TV's Fantasy Island (1978-84), in which he fulfilled the dreams of his guests with the help of his sidekick, Tattoo. In 1982, Montalban starred as arch-villain Khan Noonien Singh in Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan, reprising a role he had played on a single episode of the TV show in 1967. He died in Los Angeles, California on January 14, 2009.

Jack Nakano (75) educator who launched the nonprofit Youth Theatre Productions in Santa Barbara in the early '60s and later founded and was artistic director of the Hollywood-based California Youth Theatre and YouTHeatre-America! Nakano's long career as a youth-oriented theater arts leader spanned 50 years and touched the lives of performers such as Jack Black, Eric Stoltz, and America Ferrera. He died of heart failure in West Los Angeles, California on January 15, 2009.

Tom O'Horgan (84) leader on New York's experimental theater scene in the '60s who later directed the original Broadway productions of Hair and Jesus Christ Superstar. O'Horgan died in Venice, Florida on January 11, 2009.

Mansour Rahbani (83) prominent Arab composer and lyricist who with his late brother Assi wrote music and plays for one of Lebanon's top divas. In 1955, Assi married singer Nuhad Haddad, who later became famous under the name Fairouz and performed with the brothers. The Rahbani Brothers & Fairouz later became Lebanon's most famous trio, performing there and around the world. Mansour Rahbani was hospitalized two weeks ago suffering from severe flu and died in Beirut, Lebanon on January 13, 2009.

Jennie Ridarelli (91) mother of '60s pop singer and teen idol Bobby Rydell who reportedly lived with the entertainer in his Penn Valley (Pa.) home throughout the last years of her life. Ridarelli died in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on January 13, 2009.

Eileen Winters (84) wife of Grammy-winning stand-up comedian and actor Jonathan Winters. The couple had been married for more than 60 years. Eileen Winters died of breast cancer in Santa Barbara, California on January 11, 2009.

Allen Zwerdling (86) cofounder of Back Stage, a weekly theater newspaper widely considered the casting bible for performers. Zwerdling died in Rosendale, New York on January 12, 2009.

Mary Ejercito (103) mother of former Philippines president Joseph Estrada. Ejercito's health began to decline during the six-year incarceration of her son and was cited among the reasons for the withdrawal of the appeal of his conviction on criminal plunder charges in 2007. Estrada was immediately pardoned by his successor and has kept a low-profile ever since. Ejercito died of heart seizures and a stomach aneurysm in San Juan City, Philippines on January 13, 2009.

Robert G. Ferry (85) retired US Air Force helicopter test pilot who set a record for a nonstop solo helicopter flight across the country without refueling. In 1966, Ferry flew 2,213 miles from Culver City, Calif. to Ormond Beach, Fla. in a Hughes Aircraft YOH-6A helicopter in 15 hours and 8 minutes; the helicopter carried an extra fuel tank. That record still stands. In 1997, Ferry became the first helicopter pilot inducted into the Aerospace Walk of Honor. He died in Lake San Marcos, California on January 15, 2009.

Lt. Gen. Stanley M. Heng (71) retired former commander of the Nebraska National Guard (1987-2000). Heng died in Lincoln, Nebraska on January 12, 2009.

Umar S. Israilov (27) Chechen who had formally accused the president of Chechnya of participating in kidnappings and torture sessions. In late 2006, Israilov filed a complaint against Russia in the European Court of Human Rights that detailed his claims of the systematic use of abductions and torture by President Ramzan A. Kadyrov. and indigenous security forces under his command, to punish suspected insurgents and their families. In what appeared to be another politically motivated killing of a Russian citizen who had criticized government conduct, Israilov was shot to death as he walked out of a grocery store in Vienna, Austria on January 13, 2009.

Mary Lundby (60) member of the Iowa State Senate since 1995 and the first and only woman to serve as party floor leader in the state Legislature. A Republican from Marion, Iowa who represented the 18th District, Lundby was known for working across party lines and putting the people above politics while working on several committees despite her three-year battle with terminal cervical cancer. She died in Cedar Rapids, Iowa on January 17, 2009.

James T. Newman (73) Vietnam War helicopter pilot whose rescues of downed airmen won him the Distinguished Service Cross, the nation's second-highest award for combat valor, plus the Silver Star, four Distinguished Flying Crosses, the Bronze Star, Purple Heart, and 23 Air Medals, among others. Newman died of lung cancer in Chapel Hill, North Carolinia on January 11, 2009.

James B. Pearson (88) former US senator (R-Kans., 1962-79), a progressive Republican who represented Kansas in the US Senate for nearly 17 years. Pearson championed causes including deregulating natural gas, expanding international trade, and reducing the number of votes required to end a filibuster from 67 to 60. He had been on kidney dialysis for several years and died in Gloucester, Massachusetts on January 13, 2009.

Nicholas Rey (70) former director of two Wall Street firms who fled Poland as a toddler after German troops invaded in 1939 and later returned to Warsaw as US ambassador. Former President Bill Clinton appointed Rey ambassador to Poland in 1993. He was there when Poland, a former member of the Soviet bloc, was chosen to join NATO. Rey died of lung cancer in the Georgetown district of Washington, DC on January 14, 2009.

Leon Ritzenthaler (70) half-brother of former US President Bill Clinton who had a brief brush with fame in June 1993 when a Washington Post reporter discovered that the newly elected then-President had a half-brother living in a small town in northern California. Ritzenthalter found himself suddenly and unexpectedly caught up in a month-long media frenzy and whirlwind tour that took him from California to New York, Washington, DC, and back again, but said he hadn't heard from Clinton in the 11 years since the story erupted. He died from a heart attack in Arkansas on January 12, 2009.

Nellie Arnett (105) survivor of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. Born to Scandinavian immigrant parents in San Francisco on New Year's Day 1904, Arnett said one of her earliest memories was riding in her family's horse-drawn coal wagon and surveying the devastation of the great quake that destroyed much of the city. She died in Santa Rosa, California on January 15, 2009.

Darrel Brown (22) UPS worker shot and wounded by police after he pulled out a semiautomatic rifle and opened fire through the rear window of a taxicab transporting him from Connecticut to Albany in a nearly hour-long gunfight on Interstate 90. A New York state trooper had pulled over the taxi for speeding during a routine traffic stop. Police said Brown pleaded with police to "Shoot me! Kill me!" as he sprayed 28 shots at law enforcers along the highway, but no one else suffered serious injuries, although the highway was shut down temporarily. Brown was removed from life support and died from his wounds in East Greenbush, New York on January 12, 2009.

James Harvey Callahan (62) Alabama man sentenced to death for the 1982 abduction, rape, and murder of Jacksonville State University student Rebecca Suzanne Howell (26), whose body was found nearly two weeks later underneath a bridge in a creek. Callahan became one of five inmate set to die in first months of this year, an unusual group of scheduled executions for Alabama, which had none in 2008 while federal courts handled challenges to lethal injection and upheld it as a method of execution. He was executed by lethal injection in Atmore, Alabama on January 15, 2009.

Peter E. Fleming Jr. (79) criminal-defense lawyer whose client list over more than 30 years included high-ranking politicians, flamboyant celebrities, and a cast of characters from outbreaks of corporate crime. Among Fleming's clients were former US attorney John N. Mitchell, boxing promoter Don King, and companies operated by commodities trader Marc Rich, who received a controversial pardon from President Bill Clinton. Fleming died of complications from lung surgery in New York City on January 14, 2009.

Myrtle Jones (111) supercentenarian, believed to be Australia's oldest validated person. Jones spent most of her adult life as a housewife but continued to live in her own home as a widow until she was 109. She also proudly boasted to friends on occasion that she had seen Halley's Comet twice, once in 1910 and again in '86. She died in Adelaide, Australia on January 12, 2009.

Jean Keene (85) Alaskan woman known as the "Eagle Lady" who gained national acclaim for feeding hundreds of eagles at her home in the winter. Keene suffered from breast cancer, heart troubles, and lung problems and died in Homer, Alaska on January 12, 2009.

Sir Dai Llewellyn (62) British socialite who (with his younger brother, landscape gardener Roddy Llewellyn, best known for his eight-year affair with Princess Margaret) became a well-known media personality from the '60s onward because of highly publicized relationships with writer Tessa Dahl (daughter of US actress Patricia Neal and the late author Roald Dahl) and actor Orson Welles's youngest daughter Beatrice. Sir Dai died of bone cancer in London, England on January 13, 2009.

Roberto Lopez Jr. (4) Los Angeles boy fatally struck by a stray bullet in the upper torso when he was caught in the crossfire of an apparent gang-related drive-by shooting on the sidewalk near his home in the downtown Echo Park neighborhood. Police said occupants of a passing car were involved in a violent confrontation with a local gang member standing on the street when several shots were fired from about 100 yards away. The bullet that hit the child likely was intended for someone in the car. Lopez died in Los Angeles, California on January 13, 2009.

Curtis Moore (40) Texas man who became the first inmate executed in the nation's most active capital punishment state in 2009 for the capital murders of Roderick Moore (24) and LaTanya Boone (21), both found shot to death in a roadside ditch across from a Forth Worth elementary school during a series of drug-related robberies in 1995. That same night, Moore and his then-teenage nephew drove to another part of town, where they carried out the abduction, robbery, and shooting of Darrel Hoyle (21) and Henry Truevillian Jr. (20) before setting their car on fire and leaving them to die. Hoyle miraculously survived. Moore was executed by lethal injection in Huntsville, Texas on January 14, 2009.

Russ Craft (89) member of the Philadelphia Eagles' 1948-49 championship teams who shared the NFL record of four interceptions in a game with 17 other players. Craft was a defensive back and halfback who played for the Eagles (1946-53) and for the Pittsburgh Steelers (1953-55). His record four interceptions came against the Chicago Cardinals in September 1950. He died in Wellsburg, West Virginia on January 13, 2009.

Albino Friaca Cordoso (84) Brazilian soccer star who scored for Brazil in its 2-1 loss to Uruguay in the final game of the 1950 World Cup. Friaca was known for his speed and ability to play any attacking position. He had been hospitalized for six weeks with pneumonia but died of organ failure in Itaperuna, Brazil on January 12, 2009.

Preston Gomez (86) longtime Los Angeles Angels scouting consultant, a former third-base coach for the Dodgers when they won the 1965 World Series. Gomez became the second big-league manager born in Latin America when he was hired by the expansion San Diego Padres in 1969 and later managed the Chicago Cubs and Houston Astros. He died nine months after being seriously injured in a freak accident at a Blythe, California gas station, in Fullerton, California on January 13, 2009.

Tommy Jones (54) first-base coach for the Arizona Diamondbacks for parts of the 2004 season and the team's player development director (1998-2004). A former minor league player and manager, Jones worked as director of baseball operations for the fall league in 2008. He died of brain cancer in Phoenix, Arizona on January 15, 2009.

Dave Mahan (61) member of an investors' group that owned 2003 Kentucky Derby winner Funny Cide. Mahan was a Waterbury caterer and a principal of Sackatoga Stable. He owned a 20% interest in Funny Cide, the first New York-bred horse to win the Kentucky Derby—and the first gelding since Clyde van Dusen in 1929. Mahan suffered from a brain tumor and had been hospitalized since Dec. 26. He died in Waterbury, Connecticut on January 14, 2009.

Claudio Milar (34) Uruguayan professional football player, a striker/forward on Brazil's top third-division football (soccer) league Brasil de Pelotas, scoring over 100 goals in just over 200 games in recent years. Before joining the team in 2002, Milar began his career on the national youth teams of professional clubs in Montevideo, Brazil, Israel, Tunisia, and Poland. He was killed in a bus accident along with another teammate and a coach in Cangucu, Brazil on January 16, 2009.

Wresley ("Red") Rush (81) versatile sportscaster who called games for the Oakland As and other major league baseball organizations and college and professional basketball teams. As the voice of Loyola University of Chicago in the '60s, Rush delivered the memorable "We won! We won! We won the ballgame!" radio call when the Ramblers basketball team defeated two-time defending champion Cincinnati in overtime in the 1963 NCAA championship game. He died of complications from Alzheimer's disease in Moraga, California on January 11, 2009.

Daryl K. ("Doc") Seaman (86) co-owner of the Calgary Flames and part of the original group that brought the team from Atlanta. Seaman was one of six businessmen who helped to bring the Flames to Calgary in 1980. He also was a prominent figure in Canada's oil and gas industry. He was invested as an Officer of the Order of Canada in 1993. He died in Calgary, Alberta, Canada on January 11, 2009.