Pierre Cabrol (84) French-born architect with Welton Becket & Associates and lead designer of the Cinerama Dome and other projects. Cabrol worked (1957-87) for Becket, the noted Los Angeles architect whose designs include the Capitol Records building in Hollywood and the Music Center in downtown LA. Cabrol suffered from dementia and died in Los Angeles, California on October 8, 2009.

Jacques Chessex (75) one of French-speaking Switzerland’s leading novelists and the first non-Frenchman to win the prestigious Prix Goncourt. Chessex collapsed while participating in a public discussion about a play adapted from one of his novels and died shortly afterward in Yverdon-les-Bains, Switzerland on October 9, 2009.

Raymond Federman (81) French-born scholar, critic, and avant-garde novelist whose work straddled the boundary between fiction and reality. A friend and scholar of the late Irish playwright Samuel Beckett, Federman was a distinguished professor emeritus of English at the State University of New York at Buffalo, where he had taught for more than 30 years. He died of cancer in San Diego, California on October 6, 2009.

Stuart M. Kaminsky (75) prolific mystery writer whose 70 books included A Cold Red Sunrise, which the Mystery Writers of America deemed the best mystery novel of 1989. Kaminsky had suffered from hepatitis C and moved to St. Louis earlier in the year awaiting a liver transplant, but a stroke shortly after the move made him ineligible for the transplant. He died in St. Louis, Missouri on October 9, 2009.

Irving Penn (92) US fashion and portrait photographer whose work revealed a taste for stark simplicity whether he was shooting celebrity portraits, fashion, still life, or remote places of the world. Penn is shown above flanked by one of his 1943 magazine covers and "Cuzco Children" (1948), a portrait of impoverished Peruvian kids that sold for $529,000, setting a world auction record in 2008. He was the elder brother of filmmaker Arthur Penn, who directed The Miracle Worker and Bonnie & Clyde, among others. Irving Penn died in New York City on October 7, 2009.

Ben Ali (82) Trinidad-born founder of Ben’s Chili Bowl diner, a landmark in Washington, DC’s black business and entertainment district and a frequent stop for politicians and celebrities. Ali opened the restaurant with his wife, Virginia, in an old movie house in 1958; it became a longtime fixture in the black business community, serving up bowls of chili and its trademark chili-covered half-smokes. He died of congestive heart failure in Washington, DC on October 7, 2009.

David Lake (66) pioneering Washington winemaker who made that state’s first vineyard-designated wines and its first wines from the syrah, cabernet franc, and pinot gris grapes. Lake died in Sammamish, Washington on October 5, 2009.

Lionel Pincus (78) founder (in 1966) and chairman of the New York-based private equity firm Warburg Pincus, which he built into a leading Wall Street firm and played a role in changing federal regulations on investing. The firm has invested more than $29 billion in more than 600 companies. Pincus died in New York City on October 10, 2009.

Dr. Fred Wirth (68) physician to America’s first test-tube baby. Wirth won national attention as the neonatologist who cared for Elizabeth Jordan Carr after her birth on Dec. 28, 1981. More than a million test-tube babies have been born since. Wirth died of pancreatic cancer in Carson City, Nevada on October 5, 2009.

Heather Christensen (33) woodwind instructor of Utah’s American Fork High School band and a former member of the award-winning musical troupe that has won the Utah state title at the Pocatello competition for the past 19 years. The school band also performed at President George W. Bush’s 2005 inauguration and marched in the ‘07 Macy’s Thanksgiving Day parade in New York. Christensen was killed in an accident that left several other band members injured when their bus swerved off an interstate road and crashed on its side in McCammon, Idaho on October 10, 2009.

Anne Friedberg (57) University of Southern California professor who broadened the study of cinema by emphasizing its relationship to other visually oriented fields, including architecture, art history, and digital media. Friedberg died of colorectal cancer in the Hollywood Hills, California on October 9, 2009.

Israel Gelfand (96) Russian-born mathematician, one of the giants of 20th-century mathematics, whose work cleared paths for other thinkers in fields as diverse as physics and medical imaging. A visiting professor at Rutgers University, Gelfand died in New Brunswick, New Jersey on October 5, 2009.

Carol Tomlinson-Keasey (66) lifelong educator who saw a Merced, Calif. farm field and envisioned a UC research university. Tomlinson-Keasey was UC Merced’s first chancellor (2005-06) until she stepped down to return to teaching and to write a book about the building of the school. She died of breast cancer in Decatur, Georgia on October 10, 2009.

Luis Aguile (73) Argentine-born singer-songwriter whose career blossomed after he moved to Spain. Aguile was best known for the worldwide hit song “Cuando Sali de Cuba” (“When I Left Cuba”). He died of stomach cancer in Madrid, Spain on October 10, 2009.

Pamela Blake (94) B-movie actress known for her roles in such late ‘40s action serials as Chick Carter, Detective and Ghost of Zorro. Blake appeared in about 50 films (1934-54) and had a minor breakthrough in the classic 1942 film noir This Gun for Hire with Alan Ladd. She died in Las Vegas, Nevada on October 6, 2009.

Steve Ferguson (60) cofounder in 1967 of the rock ’n’ roll band NRBQ (New Rhythm & Blues Quartet). Ferguson died of cancer in Louisville, Kentucky, his birthplace, on October 7, 2009.

Suzanne Fiol (49) impresario of avant-garde culture in New York who founded the performance space Issue Project Room and was its artistic director. Fiol died of lung and brain cancer in New York City on October 5, 2009.

Stephen Gately (33) singer with the Irish boy band Boyzone who made headlines when he came out as gay in 1999. Boyzone was a UK hitmaker in the ‘90s and announced a comeback tour at the end of 2008. Gately also had released several solo singles and appeared in stage musicals, including Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Joseph & the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. An autopsy found that he died of pulmonary edema (fluid in the lungs) while on vacation in Port d’Andratx, Mallorca, Balearic Islands, Spain on October 10, 2009.

Ruth McGinnis (52) violinist and recording artist known for her contemporary folk/classical crossover style who performed and recorded with numerous artists, including Amy Grant, Michael W. Smith, Chet Atkins, Vince Gill, and the late bluegrass icon John Hartford. McGinnis’s collaborations with singer-songrwriter Grant included performances as a guest soloist with the Nashville Symphony and a Mother’s Day Special on The Oprah Winfrey Show. She died of ovarian cancer in Nashville, Tennessee on October 6, 2009.

Jules Power (87) TV producer who helped to break the mold of cartoonish children’s shows in the early days of TV by producing programs that entranced youngsters with basic science and allowed them to roam the world from their living rooms. Power was a coproducer of the long-running Mr. Wizard on NBC, then executive producer of Discovery on ABC. He died of complications from Alzheimer’s disease, 10 days before his 88th birthday, in Baltimore, Maryland on October 9, 2009.

Bevery (B. J.) Race (60) wife of retired World Wide Entertainment Hall of Fame pro wrestling legend Harley Race who became a staunch supporter of the pro wrestling fraternal organization Cauliflower Alley Club and was recently honored with an Above & Beyond award for her dedication to the CAC and the Wrestling world. Beverly Race died of pneumonia in Lake Ozark, Missouri on October 9, 2009.

Shelby Singleton (77) music producer whose biggest hit was Jeannie C. Riley’s crossover “Harper Valley PTA” (1968) in a career that spanned country and rhythm and blues. Singleton was legendary for probably being the only producer to record three No. 1 songs in one day with three different artists—Ray Stevens, LeRoy van Dyke, and Joe Dowell. He died of brain cancer in Nashville, Tennessee on October 7, 2009.

Mercedes Sosa (74) Argentine folk singer, the “voice of Latin America” whose music inspired opponents of South America’s brutal military regimes and led to her forced exile in Europe. Sosa had been hospitalized for more than two weeks with liver problems and had since been suffering from progressive kidney failure and cardiac arrest. She died in Buenos Aires, Argentina on October 4, 2009.

Abu Talib (70) blues guitarist who recorded and toured with Ray Charles and Little Walter under his given name, Freddy Robinson, then became Abu Talib in the ‘70s when he converted to Islam. Talib played with Charles, Howlin’ Wolf, and pianist Monk Higgins and recorded and wrote several songs including “Black Fox,” “At the Drive-In,” “Bluesology,” and the blues instrumental, “After Hours." He died of cancer in Lancaster, California, about 70 miles north of Los Angeles, on October 8, 2009.

Cleo Trumbo (93) widow of Oscar-winning screenwriter Dalton Trumbo (d. 1976), blacklisted for more than 10 years as a member of the Hollywood 10. In 1993, Cleo Trumbo accepted an Oscar on behalf of her late husband for best motion picture story for the film Roman Holiday (1953), which he wrote under the name of a friend, screenwriter Ian McLellan Hunter.

 Cleo Trumbo died of age-related causes in the Bay Area city of Los Altos, California on October 9, 2009.

Tim Wheatley (48) journalist and business editor of the Baltimore Sun who began his career at the newspaper in 2006 as assistant managing sports editor after having held that same position at the Indianapolis Star for six years. Wheatley’s 26-year career in journalism also included editorial positions at the Minneapolis Star Tribune, the Florida Times-Union in Jacksonville, and the Spartanburg (SC) Herald-Journal. He was killed in a car accident in Monkton, Maryland on October 5, 2009.

Gilberto Zaldívar (75) cofounder of the Repertorio Español, New York’s premiere Spanish-language theater company. Over the more than 40 years since it was founded, Repertorio Español has produced more than 250 plays, ranging from 17th-century Spanish-language classics to original, commissioned works by emerging American-born Hispanic playwrights. Zaldívar died of Lewy body disease, a form of dementia, in New York City on October 6, 2009.

Paul L. Bloom (70) lawyer in the Carter administration’s energy department who pursued oil companies for overcharging and won billions of dollars in refunds for customers, the government, and others. Bloom died of pancreatic and colon cancer in Chevy Chase, Maryland on October 10, 2009.

Shoichi Nakagawa (56) former Japanese finance minister who stepped down after appearing to be drunk at an overseas news conference in February. Nakagawa was lying face down in bed when his wife found him dead at their home in Tokyo, Japan on October 4, 2009.

Günther Rall (91) one of the few outstanding German fighter leaders to survive World War II. By the end of the conflict Rall was the third-highest-scoring fighter ace of all time with 275 aerial victories. In postwar years he was one of the founding fathers of the modern German Air Force and rose to become its chief. He died two days after suffering a heart attack, in Germany on October 4, 2009.

Lili Smith (15) political activist and daughter of leading Democrat political consultant Averell (“Ace”) Smith whose refusal to accept the bounds of physical disability won her the admiration of some of the nation’s top political leaders. Smith was born with Apert’s syndrome, a rare congenital condition characterized by malformations of the skull, hands, and feet, and became an energetic advocate of social and political issues, working with her father in Texas on Sen. Hillary Clinton’s behalf during the 2008 Presidential campaign. Lili Smith died unexpectedly in her sleep in West Branch, Iowa on October 10, 2009.

Richard W. Sonnenfeldt (86) German who fled Nazi Germany as a teenager, became chief interpreter for American prosecutors at the Nuremberg war crimes trials, and interrogated some of the most notorious Nazi leaders of World War II. Sonnenfeldt died of a stroke in Port Washington, New York on October 9, 2009.

Keighley Ann Alyea (18) Kansas City teen reported missing for nearly a week after she was last seen at her home around midnight on Sept. 29. Alyea was a victim of domestic violence after she intervened in a violent argument between her ex-boyfriend and his sister on the night of her disappearance. Her body was later found in a field in Cass County, Missouri on October 5, 2009. Three suspects, including Alyea’s ex-boyfriend Dustin Hilt (18), were charged with her murder.

Raymond A. Brown (94) veteran New Jersey defense lawyer whose high-profile clients included former boxer Rubin (“Hurricane”) Carter, convicted along with another man of murdering three people in a Paterson bar in 1966. A Montclair resident, Brown had practiced law for 59 years. He died of pulmonary disease in New Jersey on October 9, 2009.

Sister Margaret Mary Dolan (75) longtime director (1974-2006) of campus ministry and alumni chaplain at Loyola Marymount University, her alma mater. Dolan died of cancer in Orange, California on October 6, 2009.

Patrick Drake (55) former corrections officer fired and arrested on a charge of sexual assault when allegations surfaced that he and another guard had made inappropriate sexual contact with female inmates at the Miller County (Ark.) jail in November 2008. Drake had maintained his innocence at earlier court hearings, but his attorneys said he was prepared to take the case to trial. He was found dead outside a tire store of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound in Bowie County, Texas on October 6, 2009.

Aengus Finucane (77) Roman Catholic missionary and Irish aid pioneer, a priest in the Spiritan Fathers order in Nigeria during its 1967-70 civil war with Biafra. Finucane worked with Dublin-based workers to channel aid to Biafra through its bombed airstrip and by cargo ship; that effort, first known as Concern Africa, shortened its name to Concern in 1970 as it began to provide food, medical support, and education to many of the world’s poorest countries. Today the charity is one of Ireland’s biggest, with operations in 18 countries in Africa and 10 in Asia, including Afghanistan and North Korea. Finucane died in Dublin, Ireland on October 6, 2009.

Robert Grossman (41) veteran New York police officer, among the hundreds of policemen, firefighters, and volunteers who worked at Ground Zero in the days and weeks after the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. Family members and advocates urged lawmakers to act on a bill that would help to pay medical care for policemen and firefighters exposed to the toxins released into the air after the twin towers collapsed. Grossman died of a brain tumor in New York City on October 9, 2009.

Meleanie Hain (31) gun-toting soccer mom thrust into the national spotlight when she took a loaded gun in plain view holstered on her hip to her daughter’s soccer game at a park in southwestern Ohio on Sept. 11, 2008. Hain later filed a $1 million lawsuit against the Lebanon County sheriff who revoked her permit (later restored) to carry a gun, seeking reimbursement of attorneys’ fees, but the hearing was postponed in May after one of the attorneys was involved in a traffic accident. Hain was found shot to death along with her husband Scott (33) in an apparent murder-suicide at their home in Lebanon, Ohio on October 7, 2009.

Vyacheslav Ivankov (69) Russian crime boss who spent nearly 10 years in a US prison for trying to extort millions of dollars from an investment firm run by Russian emigres in New York. He was shot in the abdomen on July 28 by a sniper rifle fired from inside a minivan parked across the street as he was leaving a Thai restaurant in Moscow. He had undergone several operations since the shooting but was never well enough to leave the hospital. He died in Moscow, Russia on October 9, 2009.

John Daido Loori (78) photographer who found that snapping a picture reflected the instant of spiritual enlightenment, inspiring him to start an influential Zen monastery in the Catskills. Besides being abbot of his monastery, Loori founded a worldwide Zen order, was a respected photographer and teacher, and wrote 20 books on Buddhism and art. He died of lung cancer in Mount Tremper, New York on October 9, 2009.

Max Landon Payne (38) Alabama man on death row for more than 15 years for the 1992 murder of store owner Braxton Brown (58), who was abducted, robbed, and shot twice in the face during a hold-up. Payne was executed by lethal injection in Atmore, Alabama on October 8, 2009.

Sylvia Utz (110) supercentenarian considered the oldest person in Ohio and one of the state’s last living links to the 19th century. For the past six months, Utz was part of an elite group whose members are 110 years or older. Only 89 oldest-known people alive worldwide were verified by the Gerontology Research Group this year. Utz also once held the Guinness World Record for the longest marriage at 83 years until her husband’s death in 2001 at age 103. She died in Greenville, Ohio on October 5, 2009.

Leon Clarke (76) two-time Pro Bowl wide receiver in the NFL who played for USC in the 1955 Rose Bowl. Clarke was a second-round pick in the 1956 NFL draft by the Los Angeles Rams and played with them for four seasons, twice selected for the Pro Bowl. He died of pancreatitis in suburban Los Alamitos, California on October 5, 2009.

Tony Fein (27) Iraq war veteran and NFL rookie linebacker who played with the Baltimore Ravens during the preseason, then was released by the Ravens in their last major round of roster cuts on Sept. 5. Fein died of unexplained causes after collapsing at a friend’s house on the Kitsap Peninsula of Washington state on October 6, 2009.

Larry Jansen (89) winning pitcher for the New York Giants in the 1951 playoff game decided by Bobby Thomson’s “Shot Heard ‘Round the World." Jansen spent nine years in the major leagues, making his biggest mark with the Giants during their pennant-winning season. He died in Verboort, Oregon on October 10, 2009.

Erno Kolczonay (56) former Hungarian fencer who won two silver medals in the platform fencing competition at the 1980 Olympics in Moscow and the ‘92 Barcelona Games. Kolczonay died of liver failure in Budapest, Hungary on October 4, 2009.

Donna Mae Mims (82) first woman to win a Sports Car Club of America national championship in 1963. Known as the “Pink Lady” because of her preferred color for cars, Mims worked for Yenko Chevrolet and the company’s sports car division and started racing in 1958. She died of a stroke in Bridgeville, Pennsylvania on October 6, 2009.

Brian Powell (35) former major league pitcher. Powell was 7-18 with a 5.94 ERA in 59 games for Detroit, Houston, San Francisco, and Philadelphia. He last pitched in the majors with the Phillies in 2004 and spent ‘05 in Triple-A for Washington. He died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound in Tallahassee, Florida on October 5, 2009.

Peter Wilkes (18) freshman back-up punter at the University of Southern Mississippi in Hattiesburg. Wilkes had not played this season. He was home in Union City, Tenn. to help pick out a headstone for his father’s grave; the elder Wilkes died of a heart attack over the summer. Peter Wilkes died a day after shooting himself, in Memphis, Tennessee on October 10, 2009.