Robert Colescott (83) American figurative painter whose canvases lampooned racial and sexual stereotypes. Colescott represented the US at the Venice Biennale in 1997, the first black to do so. He had suffered for several years from Parkinsonian syndrome and died in Tucson, Arizona on June 4, 2009.

Kamala Das (75) Indian poet, memoirist, and short-story writer whose work was known for its open discussion of women’s sexual lives, a daring subject when she began publishing in the mid-20th century. Das died of respiratory failure in Pune, India on May 31, 2009.

David Eddings (77) fantasy writer who wrote more than two dozen novels, including the five books in the Belgariad and five in the Malloreon series of fantasies. Many were written with his wife Leigh, who died in 2007. His last book was The Younger Gods (2006). Eddings died in Carson City, Nevada on June 2, 2009.

Frederick Hammersley (90) critically acclaimed painter who rose to fame in 1959 as one of four Los Angeles-based Abstract Classicists and spent the next 50 years bringing a softer touch to hard-edge abstraction. Hammersley died in Albuquerque, New Mexico, where he had lived and worked since 1968, on May 31, 2009.

Frances Dean Smith (87) Santa Monica poet known as FrancEyE who was inspired by poet Charles Bukowski (d. 1994), lived with him, and had a child with him in the ‘60s. Affectionately called the Bearded Witch of Ocean Park, Smith eventually moved north and died of complications from a broken hip, in Greenbrae, California on June 2, 2009.

Dr. Alan Berkman (63) New York physician, a leader in the coalition that helped to make AIDS medication available to millions in the world’s poorest countries. But in the ‘80s, Berkman, then still a holdover from ‘60s radicalism, began an eight-year prison term for armed robbery and possession of explosives. He died of cancer of the lymph nodes in New York City on June 5, 2009.

Peter L. Bernstein (90) economic historian and a widely read popularizer of the efficient market theory, which changed trading behavior on Wall Street. Instead of just picking stocks because they appeared to be good bets, investors increasingly diversified their portfolios, using sophisticated mathematical equations, developed in academia, with the goal of measuring and managing risk. Bernstein died of pneumonia contracted after he broke a hip, in New York City on June 5, 2009.

Philip C. Bolger (81) boat designer whose hundreds of designs, from classic schooners to sport-fishing yachts to simple dories and dinghies, ranked him among the most versatile recreational boat designers in the world. One of Bolger's most popular designs, his Gloucester light dory, is shown above. His mind had slipped in the last several months, and he wanted to control the end of his life while he was still able. He died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound in Gloucester, Massachusetts, where he had lived nearly all his life, on May 31, 2009.

Brad Clemes (49) Canadian businessman, a longtime marketing executive for the American-based Coca-Cola Co. while living with his family in Belgium and various other countries for several years. Clemes was among 228 people aboard Air France Flight 447 reported missing and presumed dead after the jetliner crashed into the Atlantic Ocean during a violent tropical thunderstorm and severe turbulence off the northeast Brazilian coast of Fernando de Noronha on June 1, 2009.

Arthur Coakley 61) Scottish businessman, a founding member and managing executive director of the Aberdeen-based company Project Design & Management Services Ltd. Coakley had worked as an engineer in the gas industry for more than 30 years and was credited with orchestrating construction of the firm’s recent business projects in Brazil. He had planned to retire later this year. He was among 228 people aboard Air France 447 reported missing and presumed dead after the jetliner crashed into the Atlantic Ocean during a violent tropical thunderstorm and severe turbulence off the northeast Brazilian coast of Fernando de Noronha on June 1, 2009.

Caroline Coffey (28) visiting assistant professor and postdoctoral researcher in biomedicine at Cornell University whose accomplished laboratory experiments as an undergraduate student were documented and published in the American Society for Microbiology, a worldwide peer-reviewed publication. Coffey was found stabbed to death with massive cuts to her throat along a wooded trail in a state park outside Ithaca, New York on June 3, 2009. Police arrested Coffey’s husband, Cornell graduate student Blazej Kot (24), and charged him with murder.

Dr. Jean Dausset (92) French immunologist who shared the Nobel Prize in medicine in 1980 for discoveries about the human immune system that greatly improved the odds of success in organ transplants. Dausset died in Mallorca, Spain on June 6, 2009.

Samuel M. Ehrenhalt (83) former New York regional commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics (1980-95). Ehrenhalt was routinely consulted by the news media on subjects like job prospects and the economic outlook for industries. He died of myelodysplastic syndrome, a bone-marrow disorder, in New York City on May 31, 2009.

Erich Heine (41) South African-born businessman, chairman and executive director of the German-based industrial steelmaking giant ThyssenKrupp Steel AG. Heine was also responsible for several major building projects of the conglomerate, including the construction of two business units in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and Mobile County, Alabama. He was among 228 people aboard Air France Flight 447 reported missing and presumed dead after the jetliner crashed into the Atlantic Ocean during a violent tropical thunderstorm and severe turbulence off the northeast Brazilian coast of Fernando de Noronha on June 1, 2009.

Rajeev Motwani (47) Stanford University computer science professor who advised Google cofounder Sergey Brin. Motwani’s work using algorithms to search vast computer databases, like the Internet, played a big role in Brin’s research, education, and professional development. Motwani, who, according to friends, could not swim, was found dead in his swimming pool; he apparently drowned at his home in Atherton, California on June 5, 2009.

Dr. Chris O'Brien (57) Australian oncology surgeon and cancer specialist who achieved national recognition in 1997 as a compassionate and charismatic head and neck surgeon in the medical reality series RPA. O’Brien had led research into head and neck cancer in Australia and operated on hundreds of patients, including Test cricketer Norman O’Neill and Dragon lead singer Marc Hunter. He was diagnosed with a malignant brain tumor in 2006 and died in Sydney, Australia on June 4, 2009.

Emil L. Smith (97) biochemist who pioneered the process of determining the structure of proteins, played a key role in bringing UCLA’s Department of Biological Chemistry to national prominence, and led the first scientific delegation to China in 1973. Smith died from complications of a heart attack he had suffered two months earlier, in Los Angeles, California on May 31, 2009.

Robert R. Sprague (92) former Los Angeles-based leader of the savings and loan industry and a philanthropist, a major donor to the University of California at Irvine. Sprague died of cancer in Corona del Mar, California on June 2, 2009.

Dr. Eithne Walls (29) eye doctor, a former professional dancer who spent a year performing on Broadway as part of the famed Riverdance ensemble. Walls became a part-time member of the award-winning Irish dance troupe after she retired from competitive dancing in 2000 while studying at Northern Ireland’s Trinity University to pursue a career as a certified eye doctor in a Dublin hospital. She was among 228 people aboard Air France Flight 447 reported missing and presumed dead after the jetliner crashed into the Atlantic Ocean during a violent tropical thunderstorm and severe turbulence off the northeast Brazilian coast of Fernando de Noronha on June 1, 2009.

Philip D. Curtin (87) historian whose use of modern statistical methods to determine the extent of the Atlantic slave trade suggested that far fewer slaves were transported from Africa than had previously been thought. Curtin died of pneumonia in West Chester, Pennsylvania on June 4, 2009.

Ernest May (80) Harvard University history professor and former dean (1969-71) who oversaw a major examination of undergraduate education. May died of complications after surgery in Boston, Massachusetts on June 1, 2009.

Bernard Zimmerman (79) architect who helped to found the architecture department at Cal Poly Pomona’s School of Environmental Design and taught there for more than 30 years. Zimmerman died in Los Angeles, California on June 4, 2009.

Anamaria Araya (55) cosmetics saleswoman and elder sister of Chilean-born rock singer-songwriter Tom Araya, best known as bassist and vocalist of the American thrash metal band Slayer. Anamaria Araya was the eldest of seven siblings of the Araya musical-performing arts family and recently became the subject of The Araya Family & Friends Benefit Concert for Anamaria to help fund her cancer treatment. She died after a 13-year battle with ovarian cancer in La Habra, California on June 1, 2009.

Silvio Barbato (50) prominent Italian-born Brazilian operatic conductor and composer who spent many years as director of the Teatro Municipal, the country’s leading opera house in Rio de Janeiro. Barbato had also served twice as longtime artistic musical director of the Brasilia National Theatre Symphony Orchestra in the nation’s capital city (1989-92, ‘99-2006). He was among 228 people aboard Air France Flight 447 reported missing and presumed dead after the jetliner apparently crashed into the Atlantic Ocean during a violent tropical thunderstorm and severe turbulence off the northeast Brazilian coast of Fernando de Noronha on June 1, 2009.

Sam Butera (81) saxophonist who shared the Las Vegas stage as sidekick of singer and trumpet player Louis Prima (d. 1978) and Prima’s wife, singer Keely Smith, since 1954. Their hits included “Jump Jive an’ Wail,” “Hey Marie,” and “Just a Gigolo/I Ain’t Got Nobody." Butera, who performed until 2004, died of pneumonia in Las Vegas, Nevada on June 3, 2009.

David Carradine (72) star of the ‘70s TV series Kung Fu whose career roared back to life when he played the assassin-turned-victim in Quentin Tarantino’s Kill Bill (2003). Carradine was one of six sons of character actor John Carradine (d. 1988); his brothers Keith, Robert, and Bruce also became actors. David Carradine appeared in more than 100 feature films with such directors as Martin Scorsese, Ingmar Bergman, and Hal Ashby. He was shooting a film in Bangkok, Thailand when he was found dead in his hotel room on June 4, 2009. A suspected suicide at first, his death was later thought to be accidental, caused by autoerotic asphyxiation.

Fleur Cowles (101) writer and editor who created one of the most extravagant and innovative magazines ever published. Fleur Cowles rose from obscurity to become a friend of the powerful and famous. Her short-lived (12 issues) magazine, Flair, featuring cutouts, fold-outs, pop-ups, removable reproductions of artworks, and a variety of paper stocks of different sizes and textures, was published in the early ‘50s during her marriage to Gardner Cowles Jr., publisher of Look magazine. She died in Sussex, England on June 5, 2009.

Juliana de Aquino (29) Brazilian singer and actress who released her debut CD, Primeira Vez, as a solo artist in 2001. De Aquino had also performed in various theater productions in Germany and Brazil, including the German version of The Lion King in Hamburg (2003-07) and most recently the musical Wicked. She was among 228 passengers aboard Air France Flight 447 reported missing and presumed dead after the jetliner crashed into the Atlantic Ocean during a violent tropical thunderstorm and severe turbulence off the northeast Brazilian coast of Fernando de Noronha on June 1, 2009.

Terry Harper (45) executive director of the Society of Professional Journalists since 2002. Harper was credited with pushing the organization to enhance professional development training programs at the local level. He died of brain cancer in Indianapolis, Indiana on June 2, 2009.

James Hoffman (83) former publisher of newspapers in West Virginia and Maine. Hoffman died in Elkins, West Virginia on June 4, 2009.

Ola Hudson (62) costume designer and mother of former Guns N’ Roses lead guitarist Slash (real name Saul Hudson). Ola Hudson tailored outfits for many actors and musicians including John Lennon, David Bowie, Ringo Starr, Diana Ross, and the Pointer Sisters, among others. She died of lung cancer in Los Angeles, California on June 5, 2009.

Shih Kien (96) veteran Hong Kong actor who played Bruce Lee’s archrival, evil martial arts expert Han, in the 1973 movie Enter the Dragon. Shih made his film debut in 1940 and later acted in about 350 films, most notably playing villains in films about Chinese folk hero Wong Fei-hong. He died of kidney failure in Hong Kong on June 3, 2009.

Danny La Rue (81) Ireland-born female impersonator, first man to take the lead role in a major production of Hello, Dolly! La Rue had been suffering from cancer and died in Kent County, south of London, England on May 31, 2009.

George MacPherson (78) theater producer who helped to usher in the big-box-office age of professional national touring companies with high production values and first-rate performers in Broadway shows. MacPherson's approach led to increased subscription sales and a boom for the tour business, which nearly doubled its gross revenues (1988-91). He died of lung cancer in Orangeburg, South Carolina on June 3, 2009.

Del Monroe (73) actor who played Seaman Kowalski in Irwin Allen’s Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (1961) and was the only actor in the movie to recreate his role on the TV series, launched by Allen on ABC in 1964. Monroe also appeared in an episode of Allen’s series The Time Tunnel and on The Virginian, Mission: Impossible, The FBI, Adam-12, Mannix, Gunsmoke, Ironside, The Rockford Files, The Amazing Spider-Man, The New Adventures of Wonder Woman, The Incredible Hulk, and others. He died of leukemia in Burbank, California on June 5, 2009.

Fatma Ceren Necipoglu (37) Turkish harpist considered one of her country’s rising stars of classical music. Necipoglu performed in over 60 concerts at several award-winning international music festivals, including two recitals at the Fourth Rio Harp Festival in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. She was among 228 people aboard Air France Flight 447 reported missing and presumed dead after the jetliner crashed into the Atlantic Ocean during a violent tropical thunderstorm and severe turbulence off the northeast Brazilian coast of Fernando de Noronha on June 1, 2009.

Boris Pokrovsky (97) internationally renowned Russian theater director who for decades during the Soviet era staged nearly every production the Bolshoi Opera presented. Pokrovsky died in Moscow, Russia on June 5, 2009.

Bosko Radisic (29) Bosnian rock musician and a pioneer on the former Yugoslavian country’s heavy metal scene, best known as the frontman and lead vocalist of the Serbian thrash metal band Space Eaters. Radisic performed with the controversial band on several three-demo tracks, heavily influenced by a handful of traditional German thrash metal bands such as Sodom and Destruction. He died in a house fire along with his sister Marija in Belgrade, Serbia on June 2, 2009.

Donald Troy Skiff (34) drummer for the Wilkes Barre, Pa.-based glam hard rock band Wicked Sins. The band had performed in numerous National Acts gigs for the past several years and recently released their self-titled debut album. Skiff was reported missing after a fishing trip on April 27 and was found beaten to death in the woods in Jenkins Township, Pennsylvania on June 4, 2009. Two men were later arrested and charged with his murder.

Stan Strick (68) retired executive editor of The Herald in Everett, Wash. Strick rose through the ranks at the newspaper, serving as assistant city editor, city editor, and managing editor before being promoted to executive editor in January 1992 and retiring in 2007. He died of complications from cancer treatment in Everett, Washington on June 4, 2009.

Koko Taylor (80) Grammy-winning blues singer, the “Queen of the Blues” who belted out her signature hit, “Wang Dang Doodle,” at hundreds of concerts. Taylor died after intestinal surgery in Chicago, Illinois on June 3, 2009.

Bernard Leon Barker (92) one of the five Watergate burglars whose break-in led to America’s biggest political scandal. The Cuban-born former CIA operative also participated in the Bay of Pigs invasion. Barker was one of five men who broke into the Watergate building in Washington on June 17, 1972. He served a little more than a year in prison and later worked for the city of Miami. He died of lung cancer and heart problems in suburban Miami, Florida on June 5, 2009.

Willie Begay (88) Navajo Code Talker, part of the original group recruited to develop what became an unbreakable code that confounded the Japanese during World War II. The elite group of Navajo Marines transmitted messages in their native language. Begay served with the 3rd Marine Division and was overseas for 11 months. In 2001, he received a Congressional Silver Medal in recognition of his service. He died of cancer in Pinon, Arizona on June 1, 2009.

Vice Adm. James F. Calvert (88) retired submarine pioneer and author who served in the Navy during World War II before becoming superintendent of the US Naval Academy. Calvert died of heart failure in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania on June 3, 2009.

Ralph Clark (92) former Orange County (Calif.) supervisor who advocated mass transit in the ‘70s, then angered Los Angeles with his successful push to move the Rams football team to Anaheim in 1978. Clark died of heart failure in Anaheim, California on June 6, 2009.

Baciro Dabo (51) Guinea-Bissaun politician considered a close ally of the tiny west African country’s recently assassinated President Joao (“Nino”) Bernardo Viera. Dabo was minister of Territorial Administration and a standing candidate in the June 2009 presidential election when he was shot and killed by security forces, allegedly because he was involved in a coup plot, outside Bissau, Guinea-Bissau on June 5, 2009.

Prince Pedro Luis de Orleans-Braganza (26) Brazilian prince and a member of Brazil’s nonreigning royal family, considered third in the line of succession or a possible pretender to inherit the country’s extinct imperial throne currently held by his childless uncle Prince Luis. Prince Pedro Luis was the eldest son of Prince Antonio de Orleans-Braganza and a direct descendant of Dom Pedro II, the nation’s last emperor. He was among 228 passengers aboard Air France Flight 447 reported missing and presumed dead after the jetliner crashed into the Atlantic Ocean during a violent tropical thunderstorm and severe turbulence off the northeast Brazilian coast of Fernando de Noronha on June 1, 2009.

Thomas Gill (87) one-term US congressman (D-Hawaii, 1963-65) and Hawaii’s third lieutenant governor who helped to promote civil rights. Gill died in Honolulu, Hawaii, where he had been hospitalized for the last two years after suffering several minor strokes, on June 3, 2009.

Dr. Henry Lucas (77) Republican activist, one of the first blacks to serve on the Republican National Committee. A Bay Area dentist for 50 years, Lucas believed it was important to raise the national profile of conservative blacks and provide an alternative to the “old-line black leadership” dominated by liberals. He died after suffering a stroke, in San Francisco, California on June 2, 2009.

George E. Wahlen (84) Congressional Medal of Honor recipient wounded during the battle of Iwo Jima. Wahlen was a World War II medic hit by enemy fire three times over a week in 1945 while advancing ahead of the front lines to aid other wounded Marines. He stayed in battle even after his third wounding. He died of lung cancer at the US Veterans Affairs Medical Center named for him in 2004, in Salt Lake City, Utah on June 5, 2009.

Thomas Berry (94) Roman Catholic priest who called himself a “geologian,” whose writings were a call to humanity to save nature so as to save itself. Berry's books and lectures inspired academicians and environmentalists to explore the interactions of religion, human nature, and ecology. He died at his birthplace, Greensboro, North Carolina, on June 1, 2009.

Nevaeh Buchanan (5) Michigan girl reported missing on May 24 after she was last seen in the parking lot of her apartment complex. Authorities named two men, registered sex offenders George Kennedy (39) and Roy Lee Smith (48), as "persons of interest” in a possible connection with the girl’s disappearance. Buchanan’s body was found buried under a block of cement near a river bank in Monroe, Michigan on June 5, 2009.

Luke Cole (46) leading theorist and practitioner of environmental justice law, who battled toxic waste facilities, megadairies, mining companies, and other pollution threats in poor and minority communities in California and Alaska. Cole was vacationing in rural western Uganda when he was killed in a head-on collision with a truck, on June 6, 2009.

Sgt. Maj. Manuel Curry (84) New Orleans police officer for more than 60 years, believed to be the longest-serving full-time law enforcement officer in the nation. Curry died in New Orleans, Louisiana on June 4, 2009.

Millvina Dean (97) last survivor of the 1912 sinking of the RMS Titanic. Dean was just over 2 months old when the Titanic hit an iceberg on the night of April 14, 1912. The ship sank in less than three hours. Dean was one of 706 people—mostly women and children—who survived. Her father was among the 1,517 who died. Dean died in her sleep in Southampton, England on May 31, 2009, the 98th anniversary of the launch of the ship billed as “practically unsinkable."

Pablo Dreyfus (38) Argentinean antiviolence activist known for campaigning to end the illegal weapons and drug trade prevalent in South America. Dreyfus made key contributions to Brazil’s gun law, known as the Disarmament Statute, enacted in 2003 and credited with lowering the rate of firearms-related deaths in the nation and saving 6,000 lives this past year. His accomplishments include encouraging better accounting of combat weapons to prevent them from falling into the hands of criminal organizations. Dreyfus, his wife Ana Carolina Rodrigues (28), and a friend, diplomat Ronald Dreyer, were among 228 people aboard Air France 447 reported missing and presumed dead after the jetliner crashed into the Atlantic Ocean during a violent tropical thunderstorm and severe turbulence off the northeast Brazilian coast of Fernando de Noronha on June 1, 2009.

Terry Lee Hankins (34) Texas man condemned to die for the 2001 shooting death of his estranged wife Tammy Hankins (34) and his stepchildren, Kevin Galley (12) and Ashley Mason (10), during a break-in at their Fort Worth trailer home. Hankins had used all remaining appeals while on death row and confessed to the 2000 double murder of his father Ernie Hankins (55) and his half-sister Pearl Stevenstar (20). He was executed by lethal injection in Huntsville, Texas on June 2, 2009.

Jack Henning (93) pioneering leader of California’s labor movement who served under Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson. Henning served for 26 years as executive secretary-treasurer of the California Labor Federation, AFL-CIO, which represents more than 2 million workers. Before that he was undersecretary of labor under Kennedy and later was appointed by Johnson as US ambassador to New Zealand. He died in San Francisco, California on June 3, 2009.

Burch Millsap (85) retired Fairfax County (Va.) Circuit Court judge who presided over the 1976 murder trial of James L. Breeden, convicted of killing four people inside a walk-in freezer at a Roy Rogers restaurant during a robbery. Millsap died of a lung disease in Silver Spring, Virginia on June 6, 2009.

Richard K. Overton (81) defendant in one of Orange County’s most sensational trials, convicted of murdering his wife, Janet L. Overton (46), a popular school board member, by slowly poisoning her with cyanide and selenium in 1988. Richard Overton died of advanced dementia and complications from diabetes, after being transferred from Folsom State Prison, where he was serving a life sentence, to a northern California hospice, on June 6, 2009.

Jerry Rosenberg (72) convicted cop killer who became a jailhouse lawyer and a negotiator during the Attica prison riot in 1971. Rosenberg was New York's longest-serving inmate, spending 46 years in state prisons for a botched 1962 stickup at Brooklyn’s Boro Park Tobacco Co. that left two police detectives dead. He died at the Wende Correctional Facility in Alden, New York on June 1, 2009.

John (Jack) Ross (110) Australia’s oldest man and the last remaining Australian to serve in World War I. Ross died in his sleep in the Victoria state city of Bendigo, Australia on June 3, 2009.

Koko Moloko Temo (134?) South African woman, possibly the world’s oldest person at 134, five years older than any other living claimant and the last person claiming to have been born in the 1870s. Temo claimed to have been born on July 4, 1874, but her age was never formally verified by the Guinness Book of World Records. She died in Limpopo Province, South Africa on June 3, 2009.

Dr. George Tiller (67) one of the US’s few late-term abortion providers. Tiller's clinic, Women’s Health Care Services, was one of just three in the nation that perform abortions after 21 weeks of pregnancy, when the fetus is considered viable. He was killed by a gunman while attending church in Wichita, Kansas on May 31, 2009. Police later arrested Scott Roeder (51) and charged him with first-degree murder.

Carol Whitehead (60) woman who helped to found the Rutherford Institute with her husband, John, president of the organization, which focuses on First Amendment and religious freedom issues. Carol Whitehead died at the organization’s office in Charlottesville, Virginia on June 3, 2009.

Carmen D. Williams (47) mother of Megan Williams, a young black woman from West Virginia who was kidnapped, raped, beaten, and tortured for a week in a trailer in 2007. Seven people were convicted for their involvement in the incident, including one convicted of a hate crime. The racially motivated crime later received national attention. Carmen D. Williams died in Charleston, West Virginia on May 31, 2009.

Daniel Wilson (39) Ohio man who burned a woman alive in the trunk of her car. Wilson was sentenced to death for the 1991 slaying of acquaintance Carol Lutz (24). He was executed in Ohio’s first death by lethal injection since the state revised its protocol on the procedure, in Lucasville, Ohio on June 3, 2009.

Ronald (Tex) Cauthen (77) Hall of Fame racetrack farrier and father of three sons prominent in the thoroughbred business. Cauthen was a specialist in shoeing horses and continued consulting after he retired, working for owners of top horses. He died in his sleep in Walton, Kentucky on June 1, 2009.

Bob Christie (85) former Indianapolis 500 driver. Christie began racing stock cars in AAA and the US Auto Club and started at Indianapolis each year (1956-63). His best finish at Indy was 10th in 1960, and he finished 13th in three other races. He died in his hometown of Grants Pass, Oregon on June 1, 2009.

Richard E. Jacobs (83) former Cleveland Indians owner (1986-2001) and commercial real estate developer. Progressive Field, the Indians’ ball park, was known as Jacobs Field from the time it opened in 1994 until it was renamed in 2008. He died in Lakewood, Ohio on June 5, 2009.

Vincent O'Brien (92) Irish racehorse trainer who won 16 English and 27 Irish classics. O’Brien also had 25 victories at Royal Ascot and 23 wins at the Cheltenham Festival. He began training in 1943 and masterminded the career of three-time Champion Hurdle winner Hatton’s Grace. He won straight Grand National steeplechases with Early Mist, Royal Tan, and Quare Times, retiring from training in 1994. He died in Straffan, County Kildare, Ireland on June 1, 2009.

Jim Owens (82) All-American end at the University of Oklahoma under legendary football coach Bud Wilkinson who later coached at the University of Washington for 18 seasons (1957-74) until his retirement. Owens’ accomplishments were honored in 2003 when the university dedicated a statue of him outside one of the entrances to Husky Stadium. He died in Bigfork, Montana on June 6, 2009.

Randy Smith (60) former NBA player who starred for the Buffalo Braves in the ‘70s. Smith played 13 years in the NBA and set a record for playing in 906 consecutive games (1972-83). He suffered a heart attack while on a treadmill at the Mohegan Sun Casino in Uncasville, Conn., where he worked in promotion, and died at a hospital in Norwich, Connecticut on June 4, 2009.