| Obituaries |
| Jeffrey Appiah, 43, a computer specialist with the National Institute of Standards and Technology, died Jan 3 of cancer at George Washington University Hospital He lived in Urbana (more) |
| Paul E. Holton: 1913 - 2007 |
| January 15, 2007 Growing up during the Depression, Paul E Holton saw the devastation that unemployment and poverty could visit on a family But in those hard times, he saw a glimmer that combined with a love of chemistry would expand into his (more) |
| Steve Krantz | TV and movie producer, 83 |
| Steve Krantz, 83, who produced the X rated animated movie Fritz the Cat and created successful TV miniseries out of wife Judith Krantz's novels, died of complications from pneumonia Jan 4 in Los Angeles During his TV career, Mr Krantz wrote for Mi (more) |
| Alice Coltrane, Jazz Artist and Spiritual Leader, Dies at 69 |
| Alice Coltrane, widow of the jazz saxophonist John Coltrane and the pianist in his later bands, extended her musical searches into a vocation as a spiritual leader (more) |
| Alice Coltrane; Musician, Spiritual Guru |
| Alice Coltrane, 69, a jazz pianist harpist composer who was the widow of saxophonist John Coltrane and retired from the world of secular music to become a spiritual leader and guru in the Vedantic philosophic tradition, has died (more) |
| OBITUARY: Nazre Dastgir |
| OBITUARY: Nazre DastgirBy The Daily Star Egypt staff First Published: January 14, 2007Member of the Board and Deputy Managing Director of Piraeus Bank, and Deputy Chairman of Delta Securities, Son of the late Mohamed Golam Dastgir, Former Deputy Gove (more) |
| Dora McDonald: 1925 - 2007 |
| January 15, 2007 ATLANTA From the moment that Dora McDonald became Rev Martin Luther King Jr 's personal secretary in 1960, she was entrusted with his secrets and counted on to look after his family if something happened to him It was Ms (more) |
| Dora E. McDonald, Secretary to Martin Luther King in ?60s, Dies at 81 |
| Dora E McDonald served as secretary and confidante to Dr King in the most turbulent years of the civil rights movement (more) |
| Obituaries |
| Sonja Hillgren Downs, 58, a journalist who covered Washington farm policy for nearly three decades, died of a brain tumor Dec 19 at her home in Philadelphia (more) |
| Obituary: Sir Cecil Walker |
| Sir Cecil Walker, who has died aged 82, was the Ulster Unionist MP for Belfast North for 18 years until he was crushingly defeated in 2001 by Nigel Dodds, of the Democratic Unionist party, as part of Northern Ireland's polarisation between Sinn Fin a (more) |
| Maureen A. Cain: 1936 - 2006 |
| January 15, 2007 Maureen A Cain got a law degree while in her 40s and balanced a real estate practice with a job teaching real estate classes for more than 20 years 'I think her going to school expressed that idea, that it's never too late to st (more) |
| Musician Michael Brecker; Won 11 Grammy Awards |
| Michael Brecker, 57, a bold toned, versatile tenor saxophonist who won 11 Grammy Awards and whose work as a studio and backup musician and leader appears on thousands of recordings, died Jan 13 at a hospital in New York He had leukemia Mr Brecker (more) |
| Yury Golubev, 64, a Founder of Yukos Oil, Dies |
| Yury A Golubev is credited with helping to create Yukos, Russia?s most prominent and successful company until the government began to dismantle it in 2003 (more) |
| Larry Stewart; Handed Out $1.3 Million as 'Secret Santa' |
| Larry Stewart, 58, a millionaire who became known as "Secret Santa" for his habit of roaming the streets of Kansas City, Mo , each December and anonymously handing money to people, died of complications from esophageal cancer Jan 12 at St Luke's H (more) |
| Rev. Alan N. Crowley, 90, chaplain at North Shore mall |
| Thirty years ago, when he was 60, the Rev Alan Norbert Crowley took on a ministry unlike any other in his career: the North Shore Shopping Center, home of the St Therese Carmelite Chapel on the Mall 'When I was ordained, in 1941, there was no such (more) |
| A. I. Bezzerides, 98, Creator of World-Weary Characters, Dies |
| A I Bezzerides?s gritty, often savage depictions of the American proletariat appeared in novels and movies inhabited by the likes of Humphrey Bogart (more) |
| Martin D. Kruskal Dies; Mathematician Was 81 |
| Martin D Kruskal was a mathematician whose wide ranging research touched on astrophysics, nuclear fusion and the soliton, a unique form of wave that he helped describe in the 1960s (more) |
| Jane Bolin | Black judicial pioneer, 98 |
| Jane Bolin, 98, the nation's first black female judge and the first black woman to graduate from Yale Law School, died Monday, said Matthew Kovary, spokesman for the New York City Bar Association The cause of death was not announced Ms Bolin was s (more) |
| Obituaries |
| Frances McMillan Benson, 90, a native Washingtonian who became a member of St John's Episcopal Church in Olney, died Jan 8 at Brooke Grove Rehabilitation and Nursing Center in Sandy Spring She had complications from ovarian cancer (more) |
| Michael Brecker Dies at 57; Prolific Jazz Saxophonist |
| Michael Brecker was a saxophonist who won 11 Grammy Awards and was among the most influential musicians in jazz since the 1960s (more) |
| Gloria Connors, 82, Who Fueled Son?s Tennis Drive, Is Dead |
| Gloria Connors forged the competitive fire and honed the skills that made her son Jimmy Connors one of the greatest players in tennis history (more) |
| Robert Anton Wilson, 74, Who Wrote Mind-Twisting Novels, Dies |
| Robert Anton Wilson was an author of ?The Illuminatus! Trilogy? ? a mind twisting science fiction series about a secret global society that has been a cult classic for more than 30 years (more) |
| Bong Soo Han, 73, Orchestrator of Martial Arts Scenes in Movies, Dies |
| Bong Soo Han helped revolutionize Hollywood?s understanding of martial arts by creating fight sequences for modern American films (more) |
| Larry Stewart | 'Secret Santa,' 58 |
| Larry Stewart, 58, a millionaire who became known as Secret Santa for his habit of roaming the streets of Kansas City, Mo , each December and anonymously handing money to people, died of complications from esophageal cancer Friday Mr Stewart, who s (more) |
| Michael Brecker |
| January 15, 2007 Michael Brecker, a saxophonist who won 11 Grammy Awards and was among the most influential musicians in jazz since the 1960s, has died in New York City Mr Brecker, 57, died Saturday of leukemia, said Darryl Pitt, his manager Hav (more) |
| Musician Michael Brecker; Won 11 Grammy Awards |
| Michael Brecker, 57, a bold toned, versatile tenor saxophonist who won 11 Grammy Awards and whose work as a studio and backup musician and leader appears on thousands of recordings, died Jan 13 at a hospital in New York He had leukemia (more) |
| Alice Coltrane: 1937 - 2007 |
| January 15, 2007 LOS ANGELES Alice Coltrane, the jazz performer and composer who was inextricably linked with the adventurous musical improvisations of her late husband, the legendary saxophonist John Coltrane, has died Ms Coltrane, 69, died o (more) |
| Dora McDonald, 81, was trusted King aide |
| ATLANTA Dora McDonald, secretary for the Rev Dr Martin Luther King Jr , died just days before the national holiday that honors her former boss She was 81 Miss McDonald died Saturday of complications from cancer at Emory Crawford Long Hospital, (more) |
| Obituary: Momofuku Ando |
| Momofuku Ando, who has died at the age of 96, was middle aged when he invented instant chicken noodles, a Japanese concoction that has arguably worked its way into more stomachs worldwide than sushi, tempura and tofu combined His invention catapulted (more) |
| W. Wilson Hulme II, 60; Leading Historian, Collector of Postage Stamps |
| W Wilson Hulme II, a leading collector and historian of postage stamps, who became the first curator of philately at the National Postal Museum, died Jan 10 of a heart attack while on museum business in Fort Lauderdale, Fla He was 60 (more) |
| A.I. Bezzerides |
| A I Bezzerides, 98, a novelist turned Hollywood screenwriter best known for post World War II film noir classics, such as Kiss Me Deadly, On Dangerous Ground and Thieves' Highway, has died He died Jan 1 at the Motion Picture & Television Hospital (more) |
| Larry Stewart; Handed Out $1.3 Million as 'Secret Santa' |
| Larry Stewart, 58, a millionaire who became known as 'Secret Santa' for his habit of roaming the streets of Kansas City, Mo , each December and anonymously handing money to people, died of complications from esophageal cancer Jan 12 at St Luke's (more) |
| Keba Mbaye, 82, Olympics Official, Is Dead |
| Keba Mbaye was a Senegalese judge who held several high ranking positions in the International Olympic Committee (more) |
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| Dora McDonald, 81; Secretary For Martin Luther King Jr. |
| Dora McDonald, 81, a onetime secretary for Martin Luther King Jr who handled a variety of administrative duties and later divulged little about her front line perspective on the civil rights movement, died Jan 13 at Emory Crawford Long Hospital in (more) |
| Dick Wetmore, 79; was adventurous player of jazz violin |
| A pioneer of jazz violin, Dick Wetmore took his instrument to places it had rarely ventured and took his audience along for the ride 'What he could do with that violin would blow you away He would pluck it and get sounds out of the violin that peop (more) |
| Maryasha Garelik |
| Maryasha Garelik, 106, who survived the pogroms of czarist Russia, Soviet anti Semitism, and Nazi terror, died Wednesday in New York City Members of the Lubavitch Jewish community announced the death of 'Bubbe Maryasha'; bubbe means 'grandmother' in (more) |
| Michael Brecker, 57; was leading tenor saxophonist |
| WASHINGTON Michael Brecker, a bold toned, versatile tenor saxophonist who won 11 Grammy Awards and whose work, as a studio and backup musician and leader, appears on thousands of recordings, died Saturday at a hospital in New York He had leukemi (more) |
| Wilson Hulme, 60, a Curator and Passionate Stamp Collector, Is Dead |
| Wilson Hulme was an energetic promoter of the stamp collecting hobby and philatelic curator of the Smithsonian?s National Postal Museum in Washington (more) |
| Allan Stone, 74, art patron, expert |
| PURCHASE, N Y Allan Stone, who used his Manhattan gallery, his obsessive collecting, and his exuberant personality to encourage emerging artists while becoming an expert in Abstract Expressionism died Dec 15 at his home in Purchase, said his (more) |
| Larry Stewart, a Businessman Known for a Santa-Size Generosity, Dies at 58 |
| Larry Stewart became known as Secret Santa for roaming the streets each December and anonymously handing money to people (more) |
| Art World Luminaries Recall Marcia Tucker |
| The influential curator and founder of the New Museum was remembered at a memorial service (more) |
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