Patrick Farrow (66) brother of actress Mia Farrow, a professional sculptor for more than 35 years. Patrick Farrow owned and operated the Farrow Gallery, selling jewelry and mixed-media works of art. The Farrow siblings are the children of the late film couple, director John Farrow and his wife, actress Maureen O’Sullivan. Patrick Farrow was found dead at his art gallery in Castleton, Vermont on June 15, 2009. On June 17, his death was ruled a suicide by self-inflicted gunshot wound.

William Hemmerling (66) late-blooming Southern folk artist whose artistic creations using simple pieces of discarded wood and metal won him honors. Since he was discovered in 2003, more than 1,000 people have bought Hemmerling’s work and most were repeat customers, 80% of whom lived out of state. His work began selling for $100 to $500, and now prices range from $3,000 to $20,000. He died of cancer in Ponchatoula, Louisiana on June 15, 2009.

Michael Martin (50) New York grafitti artist known as “Iz the Whiz,” whose signature could be seen all over the city’s subway system. Martin died of a heart attack in Spring Hill, Florida on June 17, 2009.

Antonio Bianco (57) master diamond cutter who created some of the largest, rarest, and most valuable stones of his time—stones important enough to have their own names. The diamonds Bianco cut are owned by some of the world’s most prominent collectors, among them Hollywood film stars and crowned heads of state. Pictured above is the “Dream Diamond,” a rare yellow 100-carat stone he cut in 2006, worth about $20 million. Bianco died of cancer in New York City on June 15, 2009.

Robert A. Derzon (78) first director of the federal agency that manages Medicare and Medicaid. Appointed in 1977 by President Jimmy Carter, Derzon tried to minimize fraud and abuse in the programs and to slow the soaring rate of hospital cost increases. He died of swine flu in Orangeville, Ontario, Canada, where he was visiting a friend, on June 17, 2009.

Ralph F. Hirschmann (87) leader of a team of biochemists who for the first time synthesized an enzyme, one of the master chemicals of life. Along with Robert G. Denkewalter, Hirschmann headed the research team at Merck Laboratories in Rahway, New Jersey that in the late ‘60s designed one of two groundbreaking methods to synthesize the enzyme ribonuclease, a seminal breakthrough in the way new prescription drugs are developed. Hirschmann died of kidney failure in Lansdale, Pennsylvania on June 20, 2009.

Wayne L. Horvitz (88) top labor mediator in the Carter administration who played a significant role in ending or averting major strikes in industries ranging from mining to music. Horvitz died of cancer in Washington, DC on June 17, 2009.

John Joseph Houghtaling (92) inventor of the “Magic Fingers Vibrating Bed,” a coin-operated fixture in American motel rooms in the ‘60s and ‘70s. The kitschy devices found their way into pop culture, celebrated in movies and music: Jimmy Buffet honored them with the song “This Hotel Room.” Houghtaling died of a brain hemorrhage after a recent fall, in Fort Pierce, Florida on June 17, 2009.

Hermien M. Lee (92) Beverly Hills nutritionist who taught her no-nonsense approach to eating right to a variety of stars including Ann-Margret, Joan Lunden, Suzanne Somers, and Robert Wagner. Lee was vital and active—retaining her office and nutritional counseling practice—until a fall on Christmas Eve 2008 in which she broke her hip and elbow. She had traveled to Nashville to spend the holidays with her daughter and remained there after undergoing surgery. She died of heart failure in Nashville, Tennessee on June 18, 2009.

Craig Ruth (78) cofounder of Tooley & Co., a leading Los Angeles commercial real estate development and property management firm whose high-profile projects included the Westin Bonaventure and the Forum arena. Ruth died from a massive brain hemorrhage in Torrance, California on June 19, 2009.

Dr. O. Carl Simonton (66) radiation oncologist who advocated treating the emotional and psychological needs of cancer patients. Simonton founded the Cancer Counseling & Research Center in Fort Worth, Texas in the early ‘70s, then moved it to California in the ‘80s, renaming it the Simonton Cancer Counseling Center. He choked to death during a meal at his home in Agoura Hills, California on June 18, 2009.

George Tsakopoulos (82) Sacramento developer, part of a family that financially supported Democrat candidates. Greek-born Tsakopoulos began investing in northern California real estate with his brothers after coming to the US in 1955. His family built office towers that changed the capital city’s skyline and developed neighborhoods. He died of lung cancer in Sacramento, California on June 15, 2009.

Robert Young (90) pioneering Sonoma County farmer who in the ‘60s changed his crop from prunes to grapes and helped to produce some of the first vineyard-designated wines in California. When Young signed a contract to sell his grapes to Chateau St. Jean, the Sonoma Valley winemaker’s 1975 Robert Young Vineyard Chardonnay became one of the first single-vineyard wines in California, following a tradition of European vintners and establishing a practice now common in the state. Young died in Santa Rosa, California on June 19, 2009.

Sir Ralf Dahrendorf (80) German-British sociologist, a knighted researcher whose work examined social classes in modern society. Dahrendorf taught at numerous schools and universities in Britain and Germany. Also a political scientist and economist, much of his work examined class and integration. He became a British citizen in 1988 and was knighted in ‘93. He died in Cologne, Germany on June 17, 2009.

D. Mark Hegsted (95) Harvard nutritionist whose studies of fats and their role in promoting heart disease led federal officials in the ‘70s to issue influential guidelines intended to improve the food choices of average Americans. Hegsted died in Westwood, Massachusetts on June 16, 2009.

Nazir Ali Jairazbhoy (81) founding chairman and professor emeritus of UCLA’s Department of Ethnomusicology. Jairazbhoy had an international reputation as a researcher, teacher, and administrator with a comprehensive knowledge of India’s folk, classical, and popular music. He died of lung cancer in Van Nuys, California on June 20, 2009.

Frederick E. Sontag (84) professor of philosophy and mentor to three generations of students at Pomona College, where he made headlines in 2000 for forgiving a mentally ill student who had stabbed him in the neck. The college’s longest-serving faculty member, Sontag was to retire this month after 57 years of teaching and nearly 30 books on such topics as the problem of evil and trends in American religious culture. He died of congestive heart failure in Claremont, California on June 14, 2009.

James McNeill Stancill (76) professor at the University of Southern California’s Marshall School of Business who taught more than a third of the its MBA students during his 43-year career. After joining USC in 1964, Stancill became a specialist in doing business in China and pioneered study in the field now known as entrepreneurial finance. He died of pulmonary fibrosis in Pasadena, California on June 17, 2009.

James Young (86) Rutgers University teacher and administrator, first provost at its Newark campus. Young died in Somerset, New Jersey on June 18, 2009.

Karyn de Laine Bennett-Lund (57) American-born Norwegian TV presenter and journalist, best known as chief broadcaster and cofounder of the Norwegian multicultural TV program Migrapolis. Bennett-Lund had also worked on major stories as a longtime CBS journalist across the US and Europe, where she won an Emmy for her coverage of the 1973 Lillehammer murder case. She died of kidney failure in Kristiansand, Norway on June 19, 2009.

Bob Bogle (75) lead guitarist and cofounder of the rock band The Ventures, known for ‘60s instrumental hits including “Walk, Don’t Run.” The band sold millions of albums and heavily influenced other rock guitarists. Among its other hits were “Perfidia” and the theme from Hawaii Five-O. Bogle died of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma in Vancouver, Washington on June 14, 2009.

T. Scott Cunningham (47) off-Broadway actor who originated the role of Todd Duncan, the son who comes home to tell his stuffy family that he has AIDS, in Nicky Silver’s play Pterodactyls (1993) and played several roles in Douglas Carter Beane’s As Bees in Honey Drown (1997). Cunningham died of pneumonia and acute respiratory distress syndrome in New York City on June 20, 2009.

Shelly Gross (88) cofounder of summer stock “music fairs” who with his childhood friend Lee Guber (d. 1988) brought Broadway entertainment to suburban theaters along the East Coast and produced more than a dozen Broadway shows. Gross died of bladder cancer in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida on June 19, 2009.

Ali Akbar Khan (87) India-born musician who helped to introduce North Indian classical music to the US. Khan played the sarode, a stringed lutelike instrument that is part of the Hindustani music tradition, a genre made famous in the West by his brother-in-law, sitarist Ravi Shankar. Khan died of kidney failure in San Anselmo, California on June 18, 2009.

Charlie Mariano (85) Boston-born alto saxophonist best known for his association with Stan Kenton’s big band in the ‘50s, his playing on two albums with Charles Mingus in the ‘60s, and his later stint in Europe with Eberhard Weber’s jazz-rock group Colours. Mariano died of cancer in Cologne, Germany on June 16, 2009.

Anne Roberts Nelson (86) pioneering TV executive with CBS who negotiated contracts for long-running hits such as I Love Lucy and Gunsmoke. Hired in 1945, Nelson was the longest-serving CBS employee, with 64 years at the network. She was promoted to vice president of business affairs for CBS Entertainment in 1999 and remained on the job until January 2009, a month after she was laid off in a round of network cuts. She died in Baldwin Hills, California on June 20, 2009.

Ken Roberts (99) announcer who introduced the long-running TV soap operas Love of Life (1951-71) and The Secret Storm (1954-74) and memorably parodied his dramatic delivery in a sketch on the ‘70s children’s show The Electric Company. Roberts was the father of stage and film actor Tony Roberts, often seen in Woody Allen movies. Ken Roberts died of pneumonia in New York City on June 19, 2009.

Neda Agha-Soltani (26) Iranian student shot and killed by an unidentified Basija paramilitary sniper as she and her father were standing on the sidelines in the streets at an antigovernment rally captured on a video widely circulated on the Internet. Soltani, whose first name means “voice” or “calling” in Farsi, had been referred to as the “voice of Iran” and became a symbol of prodemocracy protestors battling the Islamic regime during Iran’s June 2009 presidential election crisis. She died at the scene in Tehran, Iran on June 20, 2009.

Helen Boosalis (89) first female president of the US Conference of Mayors and the first woman elected mayor of Lincoln, Neb. (1975-83). A Democrat, Boosalis defeated two-term Mayor Sam Schwartzkopf in 1975 to become the city’s first female mayor. In 1981, she became the first woman president of the US Conference of Mayors. In 1986, she was defeated by Republican Kay Orr in the nation’s first gubernatorial election with two female candidates. Boosalis died in Lincoln, Nebraska on June 15, 2009.

H. A. (Red) Boucher (88) Alaska’s first elected lieutenant governor, under Gov. William Egan (1970-74). Boucher arrived in Fairbanks in 1958—a year before Alaska became a state—after serving 20 years in the US Navy. In 1960 he founded and managed the Fairbanks Goldpanners baseball team under the sponsorship of the sporting goods store he owned. He entered politics by way of the Fairbanks City Council, then was mayor in 1966. Boucher died in Anchorage, Alaska on June 19, 2009.

Hortensia Bussi (94) widow of former Chilean President Salvador Allende (d. 1973) who helped to lead opposition to the military dictatorship that ousted her Socialist husband in a bloody coup. An avowed Marxist, Allende was elected president in 1970 and was toppled three years later in a military uprising led by Gen. Augusto Pinochet. He killed himself while under air and ground attack at the presidential palace, rather than surrender. Bussi died while taking a morning nap, in Santiago, Chile on June 18, 2009.

Paul A. Fino (95) former US congressman (R-NY) from the Bronx who maintained a long-running feud with New York Mayor (1966-73) John V. Lindsay (d. 2000) in the late ‘60s. Over a long political career, Fino was a state senator, a State Supreme Court justice, and an eight-term member of the House of Representatives. He died in North Woodmere, New York on June 16, 2009.

Heyward Isham (82) career Foreign Service officer who helped to negotiate the American peace accord with North Vietnam in 1973 and later became ambassador to Haiti. Isham died of heart failure in Southampton, New York on June 18, 2009.

Darrell (Shifty) Powers (86) sharpshooter of the famed E Company/2nd Battalion/506 PIR/101st Airborne Division, whose World War II exploits were made famous in the Stephen Ambrose book Band of Brothers (1992) and the award-winning 2001 HBO miniseries of the same title. Powers was renowned for his sniper skills and for his uncanny ability to detect enemy activity. He died of cancer in Bristol, Tennessee on June 17.

Col. Kenneth L. Reusser (89) retired Marine Corps officer, a highly decorated aviator shot down in three wars. Reusser flew 253 combat missions in World War II, Korea, and Vietnam and was shot down in all three, five times in all. His 59 medals included two Navy Crosses, four Purple Hearts, and two Legions of Merit. He died in Clackamas, Oregon on June 20, 2009.

Herschel Rosenthal (91) veteran of the California Legislature, a loyalist to the state’s Democrat establishment. Rosenthal served in the Legislature for 24 years, mostly from the West side of Los Angeles, Beverly Hills, Hollywood, and the San Fernando Valley. He was first elected to the Assembly in 1974, moved to the state Senate in ‘82, and served there until ‘98. He died of pneumonia in Hollywood, California on June 19, 2009.

Robert Schuler (66) Ohio state senator. A Republican, Schuler had served in the Ohio Senate since 2003. He represented the Senate’s 7th District, which includes all of Warren County and parts of Hamilton County. He died of cancer in suburban Cincinnati, Ohio on June 19, 2009.

Christopher Davis (37) South Carolina man who became an international celebrity at age 16 in 1988 when he reported the first sighting of the legendary Lizard Man in Lee County’s swampland area. Davis gained fame as the first and only witness interviewed by the media after he was said to have encountered the mysterious bipedal reptilian creature while driving home from work on a road bordering Scape Ore Swamp on June 30, 1988. He was shot and killed in an apparent drug-related incident in Bishopville, South Carolina on June 17, 2009.

Vicente Ferrer (89) Spanish humanist who founded a network of schools, clinics, and other programs to help destitute people in India. Ferrer and his Rural Development Trust operated in the southeastern Indian state of Andrah Pradesh. The former Jesuit suffered a blood clot on the brain in March, had been ill ever since, and died of cardiorespiratory failure in Anantapur, the Indian city where he had lived for the past 40 years, on June 19, 2009.

Frank Garrison (74) former Michigan AFL-CIO president (1986-99), a union activist for more than 40 years. Garrison died in Lansing, Michigan on June 17, 2009.

Desmond Moran (60) younger brother of slain Australian criminal patriarch Lewis Moran and the last living active member of the infamous Moran crime family notorious for their involvement in the Melbourne gangland killings that resulted in the deaths of over 30 criminal figures during a series of underworld feuds in the past 10 years. Desmond Moran had publicly claimed to be out of the crime business and recently was the target of an unsuccessful assassination attempt outside his suburban Melbourne home earlier this year. The family’s gang-related activities are the primary plot of the controversial TV series Underbelly. Moran was shot and killed execution-style as he sat in his car outside a popular café in Melbourne, Australia on June 15, 2009. Authorities arrested three suspects, including Moran family matriarch Judy Moran, Lewis’s widow, charged with Desmond’s murder.

Richard Robert Sanchez (43) New Mexico man accused of the 2001 abduction of his three sons, Richard (12), Daniel (9), and Christopher (2), during a weekend custody visit. Sanchez had gone through a bitter divorce with his estranged wife at the time of the disappearance and was set to stand trial for an unrelated 2000 kidnapping and rape of his sister-in-law, just days after the children went missing with their noncustodial father on Aug. 13, 2001. Sanchez and his sons were found dead inside a car submerged under a lake near Albuquerque, New Mexico on June 18, 2009.

Tomoji Tanabe (113) the world’s oldest man. Born Sept. 18, 1895, Tanabe, a former city land surveyor, had eight children—five sons and three daughters—25 grandchildren, 53 great-grandchildren, and six great-great-grandchildren. He was certified by the Guinness Book of World Records as the world’s oldest man when he was 111. Tanabe died in his sleep of heart failure in Miyakonojo, on Japan’s southern island of Kyushu, on June 19, 2009.

Rev. Tim Vakoc (49) Minnesota priest gravely wounded by a roadside bomb in Iraq in 2004 and believed to be the first military chaplain wounded in Iraq. Vakoc was a parish priest before becoming an Army chaplain in 1996 and serving in Germany and Bosnia. On May 29, 2004, the blast cost him an eye and severely damaged his brain as he was returning from celebrating Mass with troops near Mosul. He died in New Hope, Minnesota on June 20, 2009.

Dennis Collins (63) executive director of the 10-school North Coast Athletic Conference. Collins became executive director of the NCAA Division III conference when it began play in 1984. He suffered a heart attack June 13 and died the next day, in Cleveland, Ohio on June 14, 2009.

Angela Coughlan (56) Canadian champion swimmer who won a bronze medal as a member of the national 4x100-meter freestyle swimming team at the 1968 Summer Olympic Games in Mexico City, Mexico. Coughlan also won a gold medal, three silver medals, and a bronze at the Commonwealth Games in 1970 in Scotland. She died of multiple myeloma in Ottawa, Canada on June 14, 2009.

Nic Fiore (88) one of America’s most influential ski instructors and a legendary figure at Yosemite’s Badger Pass ski area, where he taught skiing for more than 50 years. The Canadian-born Fiore was said to have taught more than 100,000 people to ski at Badger Pass, one of California’s top ski and snowboard resorts for families. Fiore, who underwent heart surgery in 2004 and had a stroke in May, died in Fresno, California on June 16, 2009.

Gary Papa (54) longtime Philadelphia TV sports anchor. Papa joined Action News in 1981 as weekend sportscaster and weekday sports reporter. In 1983, he became host of Prime Time, the station’s magazine format program. He was named sports director in 1990. Papa died of prostate cancer in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on June 19, 2009.

Godfrey Rampling (100) Britain’s oldest living Olympian and the father of actress Charlotte Rampling. Godfrey Rampling won a gold medal running the second leg of the 4x400-meter relay at the Berlin Olympics in 1936. He was also on the British team that won a silver medal in the same event at the 1932 Games in Los Angeles. He died in his sleep in Bushey, Hertfordshire, northwest of London, England on June 20, 2009.

John Lamar (Dusty) Rhodes (82) outfielder who helped the New York Giants to win their last World Series title in 1954. Rhodes played left field with the NY Giants (1952-57), then appeared in 54 games for the San Francisco Giants in 1959. He had a .253 career average, 54 homers, and 207 RBIs. He was 4 for 6 with two home runs in the 1954 World Series, when the Giants swept the Cleveland Indians. He died of cardiopulmonary arrest in Las Vegas, Nevada on June 17, 2009.

Isabel Warren (14) Canadian diver who might have competed in the 2016 Olympics. While taking a break during a gym class, Warren sat down on a wall that collapsed, striking her with heavy chunks of concrete. She died at a hospital in Guelph, Ontario, Canada on June 16, 2009.

Hal Woodeshick (76) former pitcher for the expansion Houston Colt .45s during an 11-year career in which he was an All-Star and part of a World Series championship team. Known as a durable reliever, Woodeshick went 44-62 with 61 saves and a 3.56 ERA with Houston, Detroit, Cleveland, Washington, and St. Louis. He posted the second victory in Houston history and later led the National League with 23 saves in 1964. He died in Houston, Texas on June 14, 2009.